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General DNWs: Underage (sexual activity that would be Explicit/Mature rated under 16, any sexual/romantic interaction under 13), snakes, kid fic, facial injuries particularly burns,

Smut DNWs: Scat, Watersports, Bestiality

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General dislikes:

• Fluff
• Incest
• Infidelity where it is treated as justified or positive
• Sexual/romantic relationships between teachers and pupils
• Significant power or knowledge imbalances in romantic relationships
• Happy conflict free relationships
• The cis straight white everyman protagonist. In general I am far less likely to engage with or be interested in a male character but the everyman character always falls flat for me.

Smut dislikes:

• Use of safewords or the traffic light system in vanilla sex or where no/stop have not been established to not mean no/stop
• Penetration as necessary for sex to be real or intimate,

General likes:

• Genres: Character studies, mystery/procedural, horror - particularly psychological and body horror, sci-fi/fantasy
• Gen, femslash,
• Unhappy endings
• Major character death
• Works focused on women and their relationships with other women whether those be romantic, antagonistic or friendly
• Similar levels of respect and affection between people in romantic relationships. If they both hate or disrespect each other it’s awesome but when one party respects/likes the other and other party disrespects/dislikes them it’s squicky to me.
• Main or POV characters to be in their late twenties at least.
• Fantasy worlds based on areas other than the USA or medieval Western Europe
• Settings other than the USA

Smut likes: I’m honestly open to every kink that isn’t mentioned in my DNW list including noncon/dubcon but a few things I really like are listed below

• Tentacles (animal, alien or plant), 
• Interesting anatomy and detailed descriptions of that anatomy in xeno or monster sex
• Incompatible bodies in xeno or monster sex 
• Scars/wrinkles/stretch marks/the evidence of life lived on women’s bodies
• Imperfect bodies
• Sex that is awkward or not perfect but is enjoyable and fun

My eternal wish is for genre works - sci-fi, fantasy and crime - with a female lead and lesbian relationships that aren’t subtext but that aren’t the focus of the work just like the thousand canons out there with a male lead and canon het. In keeping with that I would be happy to receive pre-relationship, getting together or established relationships but want a plot and stakes separate to the relationship.

Female Cryptid(s)/Female Cryptozoologist

I love the idea of cryptids just generally going about their lives and not really getting all the fuss and why Crytozoologists are so interested in them or enjoying creating hoaxes and screwing with the Crytozoologist. I love comedy, particularly of a surrealist or absurdist bent.

I would love to see non-US Cryptids explored.

Female Supernatural Investigator/Female Werewolf Who Helps Her With Cases Sometimes

Urban fantasy in the original sense of fantasy in a world close to our modern world is my favourite genre and this pairing seems ripe for it. I would love to see the Supernatural Investigator and Werewolf working a case together.

Female Human Starship Captain/Female Alien Second-in-Command

As you possibly guessed from my smut likes, I like my aliens to not just be humans with weird shaped foreheads but to differ significantly in either their anatomy or their thought processes from humans. I would prefer the aliens weren’t based too heavily on reptiles or particularly snakes unless you are taking a horror route with these pairings.

To me this pairing begs the questions:

• What is the mission of the starship?
• Is it just one ship in a fleet or an independent ship struggling to make ends met?
• Are they part of some melting pot Alliance/Empire/Federation/etc or are the different species separately govern and rarely work together?

Female Sci-Fi Cop/Her Female Alien Partner

I love sci-fi and police procedurals so this pairing speaks to my id. I would love to see them working a case. I would be happy with anything ranging from near future planet based setting to completely space based.

Confused Female Gardener/Earth Goddess Who Is Flirting By Making Her Garden Grow Like Crazy

I exclusively asked for smut for this pairing because all I have wanted since this first started to come up in tag sets is for the Goddess to use the Gardener’s garden to fuck her. Lots of ambulatory plants, leaves stimulating skin and vine tendrils would make me very happy. I would prefer for the Gardener not to be a young or insecure woman but instead woman confident in herself and her abilities.