Book Club Exchange Letter 2024

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Dear creator,

Thank you so much for creating a fanwork for me! I'm sure I will love it anyways, but here are some details about what I like/dislike, in case you like to do your research.

First off, I would rather receive a work that the creator was enthusiastic about than one that fulfilled every detail of my request. Prompts can be altered, combined, twisted, and bent as you see fit.

I am happy to receive a fanwork of any rating and welcome treats. I love fanwork in canon setting, a missing moment, canon divergent AU, story set in the past or future of canon.

For romance, I love first time, established relationship, as well as a work that a couple goes on adventure/solve problems/enjoys themselves together.

Table of Content:

General Section

• General Like
• General DNW
• Darkfic/Horror Preference
• Hurt/Comfort tropes
• Romance tropes
• Smut/Porn Trope Preference

General like:

I like stories with: action/adventure, banter, capture and rescue, competence, the edge between civilization and the unknown, formation of friendship, history affecting the present, humour, hurt/comfort, longing, love or friendship expressed in atypical ways, moral ambiguity, attraction between opposites, outsider POV, people telling stories, people who have each other's backs, people who flat out like each other's company, people suffering stoically, power exchange, people being resolute, secret identity (or lack of it), strong and competent characters, sense memory, time travel, traveling, slow burn, missing scenes, friends to lovers, fixing failed relationships, changing fate, things going wrong and navigating the outcomes, intense long term patient genuinely selfless physical comfort

Though it seems unlikely, if you have not yet given up on my rambling and want to research me more, I've told more about what I like here.

Narrative style opt-in:

epistolary fic, diary entries, nonlinear storytelling, in-universe social media posts, or more experimental writing modes,

DNW:

• Major character death, Rape/noncon


• on screen graphic violence/torture. [Depiction of aftermath of violence is fine. (eg: character dealing with their injuries/covered with blood/etc)]


• Animal harm (Descriptions of hunting, monster killing or characters eating meat is fine)


• Fixation on racism, sexism, ableism, homophobia, or transphobia as the main theme of a fic, Severe homophobia or transphobia being portrayed as a cultural norm in fictional societies that aren't canonically shown to have it.
• Real life tragedy/serial killers/pandemic, Non-canonical long term/life threatening illness (e.g. Covid, cancer or AIDS), Self-harm


• Pregnancy/mpreg/kidfic, requested pairing cheating on/break up with each other, sexuality/gender/neurodivergence headcanons, poly conventions,
  unrequested mundane AU


• For porn: underage (character under 16)*, scat/watersports, vore, body fluids besides blood or sexual fluid, bestiality(*Aging up or not specifying age is okay.)
  


• characters discussing whether it's good or bad to practice current/rl religion (mentioning their canonical religious beliefs or practice in the story is fine)

Trope/Genre Preference

Darkfic Trope Preference:

- emotional manipulation/emotional vulnerability, kidnapping/captivity/stockholm and lima syndromes, unhealthy relationships, fucked-up society/dystopias, satisfying acts of revenge, there are no good guys, characters willing to do morally ambiguous things presented as the sympathetic ones | characters who "only do what's 'right'" presented as unsympathetic/fake/hypocritical, evil is sexy, the lure of corruption, obsession, possessiveness


Horror Trope Preference

• Memory control/Mind occupation & sharing, Psychological horror, nightmare, the feeling of being stalked/watched, unreliable narrator, hallucinations/nightmare, hidden horror in seemingly ordinary situation, claustrophobia
• Supernatural creatures, Ghost and what happens when people die, people who are dead don't realize they have and continue to go about as if they're alive, come back wrong, Cursed artifact
• Dream realm, characters abducted to another realm, creepy locations, atmospheric descriptions
• folk horror/folklores/old wives' tales, existential horror, cosmic/eldritch horror, dark fairy tales, dark fantasy

Hurt/Comfort Trope Preference:

• noble self sacrifice,
• stoic character revealing their secret weakness because of feverish dream/nightmare/hallucination/etc to friends/loved one and get comforted,
• bandaging wounds
• hypothermia and cuddling for warmth•
• characters adapting to loss with help •
• skin hunger

Romance Trope Preference:

• Pining and the feeling ends up requited
• incredible level of trust and loyalty,
• battle couple
• one character rising above the challenge to help someone they love
• characters appreciating the sight of the other at work
• characters touching a lot

Smut/Porn Trope Preference

In case you're inspired to write anything more smut based as well, here are some ideas:

• Bondage and restraint
• sensory deprivation e.g. blindfolds
• Teasing, edging, orgasm denial/control
• Biting/marking, leaving small reminders that someone is theirs
• Characters wearing luxury jewellery, with or without clothing.
• Cuddling, slow and sweet sex, wanting to create better memory of sex for their partner
• Rough sex, celebration sex, manhandling
• quickies, wall sex, semi-public sex
• First times, kink exploration, focus on the sensory details,
• Body worship, praise kink, consensual foot kissing/massage as a sign of worship/adoration
• Non-penetrative sex: intergluteal / intercrural sex, frottage, etc (I love penetrative sex too, but I also like variety in my smut)
• Humour, laughter and banter during sex, awkward sex