dear seasonsofdrabbles writer

[aphrodite_mine]

Dear author,

Thank you for being here and for writing for me! Obviously, the rules of the specific fest or exchange apply, but I'm generally a multi shipper, and love romantic fic but also solo, character-driven stuff, explorations, and even a little adventure fic. Whether you want to use this exchange as your opportunity to try something new with style, pairing, dialogue, taboo elements, or employ all of your favorite tried-and-trues, I'm so excited to read what you create!

General Likes:

• Domesticity: married life, the chaos of raising kids, work/life balance, the real work of staying together, working on trauma together, mutual long-term healing, partnerships, cooking and caring
• Shared Space Tropes: fake relationship turns real, snowed in, forced to share a hotel room/bed, double date fails (into same sex coupling, or poly), source of irritation becomes source of desire, arranged marriages, marriage of convenience,
• AUs: character meets x instead of y, y never existed, character lives/escapes, characters die but meet on another plane of existence, 10 years after canon, pre-canon, how would characters meet if x had happened instead of y, any apocalypse or post-apocalypse other than COVID-19
• Poetic Language: stream of consciousness, experiments with phrasing, alliteration as emphasis, attention to minor details, parentheticals, confusingly-reliable narrators, reality-bending
• Honesty: frank, truthful depictions of physical and mental disabilities, not seeing situations or memories with rose-colored glasses (if character x was maligned or hurt by character y, that shouldn't be ignored unless working in an AU)
• Bisexuality/Polyamory: preferred over cheating, though cheating isn't a DNW

"Adult" Likes:

• Darker Themes: body horror, wound play (inflicted or re-opened), exploration of pain (inflicted or tested), recovery from trauma, architectural/ecological horror, consumption/cannibalism images (probably not literally)
• Animal/Xeno: tentacles are great if/when they make sense, but please no a/b/o/knotting
• Kinky Themes: blissful sub, trying something new, explicit consent, use of safewords, rope and restriction play, withholding permission/orgasm/any release, mild discomfort-to-sharp temporary pain, stretching of openings
• Pornographic Images: fingers/hands in mouths, dressing and undressing, spanking, lap sitting, grinding
• Taboo: sibling, step-sibling, and cousin incest are okay unless fandom-specific DNW

General Dislikes:

• Dwelling on dead children
• Use of fanon (or canon) pairings to bash another character, even a character I hate
• Fetishized mental illness, including over-the-top descriptions thereof
• Detailed description of scat or cum (whereas blood and spit are okay, including menstrual blood)
• Tropes: character x knew character y was queer/kinky/in love before character y themself knew, most tumblr AUs (bakery, high school - note that pre-canon setting is okay, but please don't throw everyone into the same high school when they didn't attend together, soulmate), modern/out-of-time AUs seldom work for me
• Out of character or period-appropriate dwelling on sexual identity or labels

DNWs: detailed rape/non-consensual sex, underage sex (under 16), explicit violence/torture, explicit violent or sexually violent child abuse, newly-permanent death of requested characters, A/B/O, knotting, soul bonds, mpreg, details about the real children of historical-fictionalized characters.

For this exchange I'm requesting: [NB. I'm coming back to actually sign up and to add fandom-specific details]

Fingersmith - Sarah Waters
Maud Lilly (Fingersmith)
Susan Trinder (Fingersmith)

Maud, Sue, Maud/Sue, Maud/OFC, Sue/OFC all welcome.

Hangsaman - Shirley Jackson
Elizabeth Langdon (Hangsaman)
Natalie Waite (Hangsaman)
Tony (Hangsaman)

Elizabeth, Natalie, Tony, Natalie/Tony, Elizabeth/Natalie welcome. 
DNW: Mr. Langdon/Natalie

We Have Always Lived in the Castle - Shirley Jackson
Constance Blackwood (Castle - Jackson)
Merricat Blackwood (Castle - Jackson)

Constance, Merricat, Constance/Merricat welcome.
DNW: Romance or sex involving Charlie

Professor Marston and the Wonder Women (2017) [*safety]
Elizabeth Marston (PM and the WW)
Olive Byrne (PM and the WW)

Elizabeth, Olive, Elizabeth/Olive, Elizabeth/Olive/William, Elizabeth/OFC, Olive/OFC welcome.

Shirley (2020) [*safety]
Rose Nemser (Shirley 2020)
Shirley Jackson (Shirley 2020)

Rose, Shirley, Rose/Shirley welcome. 
DNW: Romance or sex between Rose & Stanley

The Haunting of Bly Manor (TV)
Jamie Taylor (The Haunting of Bly Manor)

Jamie, Jamie/OFC, Jamie/Dani, Jamie/Any Female Ghost, Jamie/Any Female Character welcome.
DNW: Jamie/Any Male

The Nevers (TV 2021)
Amalia True | Zephyr Alexis Navine (The Nevers)
Harriet Kaur (The Nevers)
Myrtle Haplisch (The Nevers)
Original Molly True (The Nevers)

Amalia, Zephyr, Harriet, Myrtle, Original Molly, Amalia/Penance, Zephyr/Knitter, Harriet/Desiree, Harriet/Aneel, Myrtle/Primrose welcome.
DNW: Explicit F/M sex

Nine Perfect Strangers (TV)
Glory (Nine Perfect Strangers)
Jessica Chandler (Nine Perfect Strangers)
Glory, Jessica, Glory/Any Female Character, Jessica/Any Female Character, Glory/Jessica (post canon) welcome.

Allison Ponthier Music Videos [*safety]
Al Bones (Harshest Critic Music Video - Allison Ponthier)
Al Bones' Partner (Harshest Critic Music Video - Allison Ponthier)
Alien (Cowboy Music Video - Allison Ponthier)
Buzz Newton (Faking My Own Death Music Video - Allison Ponthier)
Cameraman (Harshest Critic Music Video - Allison Ponthier)
Cowboy (Cowboy Music Video - Allison Ponthier)

Gen, Al Bones/Al Bones' Partner, Al Bones/OMC, Alien/Cowboy, Alien/OFC, Cowboy/OFC, Buzz Newton/Any, Cameraman/Any welcome.

The Pull of the Stars - Emma Donoghue
Bridie (The Pull of the Stars)
Dr. Lynn (The Pull of the Stars)
Julia Power (The Pull of the Stars)
Tim Power (The Pull of the Stars)

Bridie, Dr. Lynn, Julia, Tim, Bridie/Julia, Bridie/OFC, Julia/OFC, Dr. Lynn/Ms. Ffrench-Mullen, Tim/OMC welcome.
DNW: Julia/Tim