Dear Stork Swap 2023 Creator

General Fic Likes:

I'm a huge sucker for hurt/comfort, especially emotional but physical as well. Characters helping each other through feelings is my absolute jam, and major bonus points for good h/c after a sexual assault scenario.

I'm truly happy with any rating, but I do like smut to have at least a tiny bit of plot or character development. I appreciate well-written fluff across the spectrum from snuggles to sexytimes.

Magic that requires intense intimacy is a trope I adore, whether a spell needs emotional vulnerability or full-blown sex magic to execute it. I especially like this trope when it requires two characters who wouldn’t normally engage in such a level of intimacy to perform it, and I love seeing them deal with the feelings the experience unearths after the fact.

I like dubious consent when it comes to love spells, sex pollen, and love potion situations. I like noncon and ravishment quite a lot as well, as long as the victim is aroused and especially when sexy villains are the perpetrators.

 

General Art Likes:

Bright colors and grayscale are both wins for me. I really like Art Nouveau style. I'm also a big fan of tarot imagery and love interpretations of cards with characters from pop culture.

Recursive works or illustrations of my fic are the fastest way to my heart. I love seeing how artists envision the scenes that I’ve written!

Nudity is fine, but I do like female characters to have somewhat realistically proportioned bodies rather than a Barbie-esque or comic book heroine physique. I lean a bit more toward liking implied nudity when it comes to smut rather than explicit sexuality.

Do Not Wants:

I'm not interested in mundane AUs for magical universes or modern AUs for historical fandoms. Fic doesn't have to be canon compliant, but I do prefer plausibility within canon. ABDL, watersports, scat, emeto.

Other than that, there isn't much I don't like, so feel free to take a risk and get messy if you're inclined.



Now for the Fandoms!

House of the Dragon

--Aemond/Helaena: These two together melt my heart, whether in a canon setting where Helaena and Aegon are married or in an AU where Helaena married Aemond instead. I love the possibility that Aemond is the real father of her children, whether conceived in secret as part of an illicit love affair or with Aegon's blessing since he seems to find bedding his wife a chore-- or maybe Allicent suspects that Aegon is unable to sire any heirs and puts Aemond up to doing the honors? Perhaps Aegon *is* the father of his heirs, but the trauma Helaena experienced during their conception sent her to Aemond for love and comfort, and Aemond wishes the babies were his. I'd love to see some imaginings of Westerosi or Valyrian pregnancy rituals, and a family introduction of the babies to Dreamfyre or Vhagar would be beyond adorable.


Stranger Things

--Chrissy/Eddie: These two got far too little time together in canon, so I'm happy to devour anything and everything where they get to be together. I'm not particular about whether Chrissy gets pregnant with Eddie or Jason as the father; I love the idea of her escaping Jason's abuse with Eddie's help and Eddie treating the baby as if it were his own, whether it is or not. I also love the idea of Eddie taking care of Chrissy as she goes through a miscarriage or an abortion and the aftercare of the procedure. This fandom is my exception to my no-mundane-AUs DNW-- I'm happy with no-Vecna or no-Upside-Down AUs, or AUs where Chrissy and Eddie remain blissfully unaware of the weirdness around them. That being said, I'm also delighted with Chrissy-lives AUs where she joins the gang in their Vecna-fighting adventures or post-canon apocalypses.


Tortall-- Tamora Pierce

--Alanna/George: This pairing is my first ever OTP, and I still love them dearly. I'd love to see what shenanigans they got up to after Song of the Lioness canon ended and before Tricksters began. How much of a hot mess was Alanna when she was pregnant with any of her children? What were they like as parents when Alianne was teeny? Bring on the snark and the battle couple dynamics; I live for those with these two. I'm also curious to see some explorations of Alanna's complicated feelings about how being pregnant might affect her knighthood and ability to participate in combat-- maybe she seeks the Great Mother Goddess's help procuring an abortion, but is convinced by the end of their interaction that she'll be a better mother than she realizes? Or maybe it's not until she loses an unplanned pregnancy that she realizes that she wants to be a mother more than she previously believed, and George or the Goddess give her all the comfort she needs in the aftermath.