Dear Creator

[fishdip]

Hello! I'm Rhizophora on AO3 and this is my generic letter for exchanges. I'm new to exchanges, so feel free to comment and let me know if I've gotten anything wrong, or if anything is unclear. I'm quite excited to be participating, and I'm looking forward to creating and reading some fun content. Thank you for taking the time to read this!


General likes

I'm easy to please, honestly. Just gimme that juicy stuff, the stuff we all want to see. Tropes! Nonsense! Fluff! Angst! Smut! Hurt/comfort! Yeah! Here are some specifics.

• Any rating
• Any pairing
• Tropey romance (there's only one X! huddle to survive! mistaken identity! etc)
• Found families
• Wholesome siblings/friends/sibling rivalries
• Married/partnered couples doing cute stuff and generally adoring each other
• Best gal pals
• Characters guided by faith and belief in any religion/spirituality/lack of religion (this is absolutely not necessary, it's just a neat character touch)
• Fluff and general light-hearted fun
• Smut
• Rivals/enemies-to-friends
• Rivals/enemies-to-lovers
• Slowly learning to trust one another leads to romance
• Star-crossed lovers
• I didn't realize we were flirting
• Best friends with quiet mutual pining leads to romance
• Hatesex leads to romance
• Struggling to deny their feelings until they just can't anymore
• Oppressor falling for the rebel (preferably in a fantasy or scifi context)
• Missing scenes that could fit into canon
• Canon AUs
• Hurt/comfort (physical or emotional to any degree is fine, as long as they can recover from the damage)
• Angst
• No don't look at me/don't touch me/I'm awful/etc
• Feelings of shame/degradation/humiliation over being attracted to This Inappropriate Partner (...and eventually they get over their hang-ups and the relationship takes a more wholesome turn)
• Characters going through the misery and horror wringer and succeeding despite the odds
• Ships that start out d i r t y and end up wholesome :')
• Finding love in a dark place
• Non-human/alien characters and speculative biology
• Xeno dicks :')
• Human x alien (or other sentient creature/monster) romance and/or smut
• Clueless human courted by alien/creature/monster
• Accidentally married/mated
• Dub-con of the "X made them do it" style ending in romance, particularly in a scifi or fantasy context 
• Hopeful endings (even if bittersweet), or happy ones!

Things I am fine with

I've seen some/a lot of these as DNWs. These aren't particular requests of mine, but I don't mind if they're mentioned or included.

• Pregnancy
• Childbirth (non-kinky & non-graphic pls)
• Abortion
• Characters with kids
• Mpreg in non-humans/part-humans (most alien fandoms are made for it tbh)
• Natural human body functions (non-kinky & non-graphic pls)
• Animal/human death
• Homophobia/bigotry (DNW fic PROMOTING bigotry, but if you're writing an AU historical fic or something, feel free to be realistic about what characters are dealing with)
• Canon-level violence in any fandom, and graphic violence in OW

General DNWs

Overall, I would say that while I don't at all mind darker plot points and I love hurt/comfort and angst, I prefer happy or at least hopeful endings. Feel free to rain misery on characters as long as they rise above it and overcome it. I would also prefer to avoid stories that focus heavily on kink or porn without plot, unless ofc the kink/porn drives the plot/angst/deep emotional turmoil. Smut is great, I just want to dip into the characters' emotions and motives as well as describing their bits!

• Child abuse/death, unless it's part of established canon
• Sex scenes involving minors (romance between two minors is fine as long as it's cute and PG)
• Sex scenes involving animals
• On-screen domestic violence (referring to it having happened is fine)
• On-screen sexual violence against women (referring to it having happened is fine, as long as it's not the main plot driver, and I'm fine with it in general as long as it's portrayed as an act of violence and not romantic)
• Noncon/sexual violence where the victim learns to love the abuser, or where the perpetrator is portrayed as a hero/misunderstood ("X made them do it"-style dubcon ending in romance, especially in a sci-fi/fantasy setting, is fine!)
• Dom/sub or BDSM dynamics (unless the kink drives the eMoTiOnS and deep inner turmoil, that's fine!)
• A/B/O dynamics in humans (non-human species are fine; speculative biology is A-OK!)
• Women submissive to men in bed
• Vomit/scat in a sexy context
• Permanent mutilation/amputation, unless it's part of established canon
• Main character death
• No-hope endings
• Poetry (snippets for flavor are great, just not entire poems as fic)
• 1st or 2nd person POV
• Wildly OOC smut—feel free to smut it up, just give them some reason to be doing it!