Dear author, I'm so excited you're writing something for me!
LikesI am generally pretty flexible with the things I like. Character-driven stories are awesome, plot-driven stories are awesome, explicit porn is awesome, angst and bleakness are awesome, happy endings are awesome, humor is awesome! Etc.
Canon divergence AUs are one of my all time favourite things, so to have a whole exchange about AUs is extremely exciting! I just love seeing fics that explore the ramifications of a change - whether that's fix-it fic, a character study that looks at how a character might change under different circumstances from what they experienced in canon, or one of those "for want of a nail AUs" that explores how one little change might have enormous ripples affecting the entire canon plot and characters.
Don't feel as if you have to go all out - I love small slice-of-life fics that show you just a glimpse of a different universe just as much as I love the massive, shake-up-every-canon-event style changes. Basically, even if it doesn't match any of my other requested tags, pretty much any canon divergence AU is going to thrill me, so go wild!
Other favourite things:-Time travel shenanigans, particularly characters going back in time to change their own past (I always love a good Peggy Sue!)
-Politics, history and worldbuilding
-Road trips (or spaceship trips, actual ship trips, etc)
-Stoic women with repressed feelings
-Female antiheroes or villains with complex motivations
-Enemies forced to work together by circumstance
-Unexpected and unconventional happy endings
-Bittersweet endings
-Tragedies that are more-or-less inevitable given the nature of the individuals involved
-People living in less-than-ideal or even actively hostile situations who manage to carve out some kind of happiness despite that.
Porn likes include rough/frantic sex, emphasising nonhuman strengths/capabilities/anatomy for nonhuman or superpowered characters, dirty talk, mild D/s, and bondage/restraints.
I am generally okay with violence, noncon, character death, etc - provided that it is warned for up front - though I would prefer that stories do not focus solely on trauma/horror/violence, and if these do come up as part of the story, I am more interested in the lead up and the aftermath than in dragging out the details of the act itself.
If you want to write shipfic and need to work your way around a canon relationship (or just like writing it), I do enjoy poly! Also, I would be happy to see any of the gen relationships I requested as pairing/romance fic instead, and conversely I would be happy to see any of the ships I requested as gen relationships. (Just don't have the characters go on about how they could never imagine themselves in a relationship with each other, or pair one of the characters off with someone else in an unrequested pairing, or anything else a bit dickish like that.) Some of the romantic pairings I've requested are a bit unusual, and if you're struggling to get them together, I'd honestly rather read a gen fic about the requested characters than one where the romance is slapped on hastily at the end. Just go with whatever you'd most enjoy writing!
General DNWs:-Modern/mundane and genre-shift AUs - basically anything that takes the requested characters/pairings out of their canon setting
-Soulmates and soulmark universes
-Lengthy descriptions of violence/horror/noncon/major character death (as noted above)
-Noncon between requested characters (dubcon of the "don't want to want it, but I do" variety is fine)
-Non-canon character death of requested characters (and if a requested character's canon character death is averted, please don't then kill them off in a different way!)
-M/f D/s
-Unrequested kinks
-Unrequested, non-canon incest (except for ASOIAF/GOT – however even in ASOIAF/GOT I don’t want parent/child incest)
-Explicit underage (I'm fine with teenagers having sex with each other, and with mention of teenagers getting married to adults in ASOIAF/GOT, I just don't want explicit adult/child sex)
-Unrequested gender or sexuality headcanons for requested canon characters.
Fandom-specific DNWs:-Geralt/Jaskier, or Jaskier as a major character
-Yennefer finding a cure for her infertility and having a biological child
-Ned/Ashara, or romantic Rhaegar/Lyanna (mentioning it happened is fine, but I wouldn't enjoy a romance between them)
-Tyrion Lannister
-Missandei-focused stories that end in or foreshadow her death (unless you are writing a story where she comes back!).
As for the fandoms, pairings and AUs, I requested:
The SilmarillionNerdanel (Silmarillion - JRRT)
Group: Fëanor/Nerdanel (Silmarillion - JRRT)
Group: Annatar/Celebrimbor (Silmarillion - JRRT)
Group: Beleg Cúthalion/Túrin Turambar (Silmarillion - JRRT)
Group: Finduilas Faelivrin/Gwindor/Túrin Turambar (Silmarillion - JRRT)
Group: Finduilas Faelivrin/Niënor Níniel (Silmarillion - JRRT)
Group: Niënor Níniel/Túrin Turambar (Silmarillion - JRRT)
Tolkien: Feanor lives and allies with Fingolfin against Morgoth
Tolkien: Nerdanel goes to Middle-Earth with Feanor and their sons
Tolkien: Turin goes back to Menegroth when Beleg asks
Tolkien: Turin is the one to get amnesia and Nienor looks after him
ALL: Canon Divergence AU
All: Character deals with a canonical difficult situation better than in canon
ALL: Character and enemy must work together to save the world
ALL: Main character goes back in time to the body of their younger self and changes what happened
ALL: Multiple Characters Travel Back in Time
All: Time Travel Fix-It
All: Role-reversal AU( Silmarillion request details )The WitcherGroup: Yennefer of Vengerberg/Tissaia de Vries (Witcher TV)
Group: Yennefer of Vengerberg/Fringilla Vigo (Witcher TV)
Group: Marilka & Renfri (Witcher TV)
Marilka (Witcher TV)
Renfri (Witcher TV)
Witcher: Yennefer goes back with Tissaia to Aretuza when she asks
Witcher: Yennefer goes to Nilfgaard and Fringilla goes to Aedirn
Witcher: Renfri lives
Witcher: Renfri survives
Witcher: Renfri convinces Marilka to help her instead of Geralt
ALL: Canon Divergence AU
All: Character deals with a canonical difficult situation better than in canon
ALL: Enemies forced to work together
ALL: Main character goes back in time to the body of their younger self and changes what happened
ALL: Multiple Characters Travel Back in Time
All: Time Travel Fix-It( The Witcher request details )A Song of Ice and FireGroup: Cersei Lannister/Jaime Lannister/Ned Stark (ASOIAF)
Group: Cersei Lannister/Ned Stark (ASoIaF)
Group: Elia Martell/Lyanna Stark (ASOIAF)
Group: Ashara Dayne/Lyanna Stark (ASOIAF)
Group: Elia Martell & Ned Stark (ASOIAF)
Group: Elia Martell/Ned Stark (ASOIAF)
Group: Oberyn Martell/Ned Stark (ASOIAF)
Group: Oberyn Martell/Catelyn Stark (ASOIAF)
Group: Robb Stark/Rhaenys Targaryen (ASOIAF)
Rhaenys Targaryen (Daughter of Elia) (ASOIAF)
ASOIAF: Elia & Lyanna & their children all survived
ASOIAF: Ned got to King's Landing first
ASOIAF: King Ned
ASOIAF: No Tully/Stark and Tully/Arryn double wedding; everyone involved married different people
ASOIAF: Robert killed at Trident but his side still wins
ALL: Canon Divergence AU
All: Arranged Marriage AU
All: Arranged marriage to resolve enmity/rivalry actually works leading to understanding/feelings
All: Forced marriage to resolve enmity/rivalry actually works leading to understanding/feelings
All: character marries a different person
All: canon character death didn't happen AU
ALL: Canon Character Death Evaded( ASOIAF request details )Game of ThronesMissandei & Daenerys Targaryen
Missandei/Grey Worm
Daenerys Targaryen & Missandei & Grey Worm
GoT: Daenerys chooses to try and rebuild Valyria instead of going to Westeros
GoT: Daenerys stays in Meereen
GoT: Missandei as Daenerys's Hand
GoT: Daenerys arrives in Westeros while Robb Stark is warring with the Lannisters
GoT: Sansa went to Dragonstone to meet Daenerys instead of Jon
ALL: Canon Divergence AU
All: Character deals with a canonical difficult situation better than in canon
ALL: Different Side Wins
ALL: Main character goes back in time to the body of their younger self and changes what happened
ALL: Multiple Characters Travel Back in Time
All: Time Travel Fix-It( Game of Thrones request details )Avatar: the Last AirbenderGroup: Azula/Katara (AtLA)
Group: Katara/Mai (AtLA)
Group: Katara/Mai/Zuko (AtLA)
ATLA: Azula was exiled instead of Zuko
ATLA: Mai comes with Zuko and joins the Gaang after saving his life at Boiling Rock
ALL: Canon Divergence AU
All: Arranged Marriage AU
All: Arranged marriage to resolve enmity/rivalry actually works leading to understanding/feelings
All: Forced marriage to resolve enmity/rivalry actually works leading to understanding/feelings
All: Arranged marriage to bring peace between two countries/species on the verge of a war
ALL: Character and enemy must work together to save the world
ALL: Enemies forced to work together
ALL: Different Side Wins( Avatar: the Last Airbender request details )Thank you so much for writing for me!