Dear Rarepairexchange creator
Jun. 2nd, 2023 09:21 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
kindkitDear creator,
Thank you for writing for me! I'm about to tell you a bit about things I generally like and generally don't like in stories. But before I get to that: please write a story that you think is interesting and worth telling, even if it doesn't match what I say here, or the prompts I offered in my sign-up. My prompts aren't recipes, they're suggestions to help get your ideas flowing.
And so here are some things I like or don't much care for.
In general, I'm not a plot-focused reader. If you love to write plot, awesome! If you don't, I'm very happy with a relationship study, a vignettte, a meander. What I do love to read is detail. Little character quirks, clothes, objects, worldbuilding, small important moments--it's my jam. I love to be immersed in a world, a character, or a relationship.
For several of my requests I've asked for happy or at least not-tragic endings, but that doesn't mean things need to be all joy and puppies. I like a little melancholy in the mix. I'm drawn to characters who've Been Through Stuff and carry the scars of it, and I don't think a happy story has to gloss that over. And for requests where I say I'm okay with darkness, sadness, grief, etc., I mean it.
Any level of sexual explicitness--including none--is fine. Some stories don't need a sex scene. If you do want to include one, I love a sex scene that explores, reveals, or develops the relationship in some way. I'm not especially into PWPs or porn for porn's sake. And I've listed kink as a DNW; it's not that I'm anti-kink as such, but my taste in kink fic is idiosyncratic and you can't be expected to read my mind.
Finally, I like stories that take a warts-and-all approach to the characters. If somebody's canonically a bit of a shit sometimes, they can be a bit of a shit in the story you write (within the limits of the DNWs, of course). Or maybe they're struggling to not be a shit, which can be even more interesting. Warts-and-all extends to the characters' physical selves, too. Most of the characters I've requested aren't conventionally hot, and I'd like them to stay that way. Please, no huge glow-ups. A change of style is fine--in one case I've included a prompt for it--but it shouldn't be the equivalent of Clark Kent whipping off his glasses and becoming Superman. And if a character is canonically fat, I'd prefer that it was treated as just . . . no big deal. Not a focus of disgust or self-disgust, and not a fetish either. Just part of who they are. (To be clear: it's great if the character's partner finds them beautiful. I'm just not into major changes to the characters' appearance.)
Thank you again, and I can't wait to read your story!
Thank you for writing for me! I'm about to tell you a bit about things I generally like and generally don't like in stories. But before I get to that: please write a story that you think is interesting and worth telling, even if it doesn't match what I say here, or the prompts I offered in my sign-up. My prompts aren't recipes, they're suggestions to help get your ideas flowing.
And so here are some things I like or don't much care for.
In general, I'm not a plot-focused reader. If you love to write plot, awesome! If you don't, I'm very happy with a relationship study, a vignettte, a meander. What I do love to read is detail. Little character quirks, clothes, objects, worldbuilding, small important moments--it's my jam. I love to be immersed in a world, a character, or a relationship.
For several of my requests I've asked for happy or at least not-tragic endings, but that doesn't mean things need to be all joy and puppies. I like a little melancholy in the mix. I'm drawn to characters who've Been Through Stuff and carry the scars of it, and I don't think a happy story has to gloss that over. And for requests where I say I'm okay with darkness, sadness, grief, etc., I mean it.
Any level of sexual explicitness--including none--is fine. Some stories don't need a sex scene. If you do want to include one, I love a sex scene that explores, reveals, or develops the relationship in some way. I'm not especially into PWPs or porn for porn's sake. And I've listed kink as a DNW; it's not that I'm anti-kink as such, but my taste in kink fic is idiosyncratic and you can't be expected to read my mind.
Finally, I like stories that take a warts-and-all approach to the characters. If somebody's canonically a bit of a shit sometimes, they can be a bit of a shit in the story you write (within the limits of the DNWs, of course). Or maybe they're struggling to not be a shit, which can be even more interesting. Warts-and-all extends to the characters' physical selves, too. Most of the characters I've requested aren't conventionally hot, and I'd like them to stay that way. Please, no huge glow-ups. A change of style is fine--in one case I've included a prompt for it--but it shouldn't be the equivalent of Clark Kent whipping off his glasses and becoming Superman. And if a character is canonically fat, I'd prefer that it was treated as just . . . no big deal. Not a focus of disgust or self-disgust, and not a fetish either. Just part of who they are. (To be clear: it's great if the character's partner finds them beautiful. I'm just not into major changes to the characters' appearance.)
Thank you again, and I can't wait to read your story!
