Blanket permission: You can copy, steal, remix, or riff off any of my wording in this letter in any way you like.
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<img src="/icons/conversation_yellow.svg" alt="/icons/conversation_yellow.svg" width="40px" /> Hello! As per my signup, this is just some extra information to help you if you’d like it. Please feel free to ignore my letter entirely and just go off my abridged likes & DNWs in my individual requests!!
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<img src="/icons/subtitles_orange.svg" alt="/icons/subtitles_orange.svg" width="40px" /> General disclaimer that my DNWs in this letter come with the caveat of “it’s just not my thing, but I support your right to enjoy it in fiction” - no moral judgments here.
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<img src="/icons/subtitles_red.svg" alt="/icons/subtitles_red.svg" width="40px" /> In the event that I include detailed prompts or suggestions in my letter, please know that they’re there to give you options, and I do not expect you to write to them or even adjacent to them. I know that some people like having detailed prompts to work off in letters, so they’re there to help that crowd; in the same vein, they’re completely optional and can be ignored by anyone who prefers to follow their own heart and write vaguely in the direction of my list of likes!
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general DNWs
- pregnancy-centric fic; POV pregnant character; background mentions OK <3
- trans athlete discourse or mentions thereof, however background —
- unless specifically requested, because sometimes i want to get in my feels about it !!
- cisswaps of only one character in a pairing that would turn a non-het ship into a het one
- for example, if canon has “cis man wei wuxian/cis man lan wangji”:
- mentions of incest, unless I explicitly requested an incest pairing
- soulmate AUs that in some way subvert the central fantasy/conceit of the soulmate trope (that there is a person, or perhaps multiple people, who is/are in some way perfect for you/made for you/etc etc etc)
- this doesn’t include things like soulmates tragically being on opposite sides of a war; it also doesn’t include (a) platonic soulmates or (b) multiple soulmates, both of which are tropes i love
- i’m more talking about things like characters deliberately not playing into the soulmate trope, being like “i hate the idea of being destined for a specific person/forced to love them/etc”
- trope subversion writers i love you so much, keep doing what you do — it’s just that when i personally read soulmate AUs it’s for the comforting simplicity at the core of it and the fantasy of finding Your Person(/People)
- hanahaki
- high school AUs for non-high school-aged characters, college/university AUs for non-university-aged characters (unless they’re mature age students or whatever in which case i’d probably fuck with that lol)
- body horror, unless specifically requested
- infidelity, unless specifically requested
- exclusively chatfic (interludes of texted conversations are fine)
- hurt-no-comfort as a main gift/angst with an unhappy ending/etc. I’m okay with bittersweet endings, but I prefer there to be at least a glimmer of hope! If this is an extra gift or a treat, I am okay with hurt-no-comfort.
- suicide or self-harm in a mental health context, unless canonical
- examples of things that are ok/not covered by this DNW: self-sacrifice / blood sacrifice required to activate fantasy portal / giving yourself a scar for each crossing of the Fold / etc
- omegaverse
- royalty AUs