A non-exhaustive list of things I like:
- Emotional vulnerability is hard, but they're Trying Their Best
- Secret relationships
- Fake dating
- Groundhog day/time loop. (Totally fine if this includes temporary character death!)
- Time travel as a fix-it or as characters meeting their younger selves
- Yearning
- Angst with a happy ending
- Origin stories and character studies
- Humor and banter
- I love canon divergence/altered canon/what-if stories, but I don't like full AUs (so no coffeeshop AU, vampire AU, high school AU, etc)
- Robots, robot/human relationships, robots developing emotions because we can't help but make them in our own image
Do not wants:
- Pregnancy fic or kid fic
- Curtain fic (I like fluff, but not without some plot or character study or a little something else going on emotionally too)
- Heavy secondhand embarrassment
- Unrequited love
- Infidelity (exception for Hannibal)
- Permanent character death (exception for Rogue One)
- Hazing i.e. anything a person has to do when joining a group/organization that doesn't have a purpose beyond hurting, embarrassing, inconveniencing, or shaming them. The power dynamic of new person vs established group and any implicit institutional support of it is what makes this bad for me. Teammates who have been together a long time playing pranks on each other is fine.
Other notes:
- Generally the maximum amount of violence I like in fic is proportional to the maximum amount of violence in the source canon
- Not very interested in crossovers
- I'm happy to receive podfic of any rating, including explicit!
- My own podfic is generally very self indulgent and recorded for me, so my own work is a good indicator of what I like.
- I'm totally welcoming of music and sound effects
Fandom-specific interests:
Heated Rivalry:
Hello yes, along with many others I have been completely eaten by this fandom. My brain hasn't been this buzzy in a WHILE. There are so many fics to have the luxury of being picky, so I have a lot of things I don't want here, but hopefully it's not too overwhelming and helps you filter down <3
- Please pay attention to the hazing Do Not Want. Brief mentions of it as a thing that exists can be fine, but please nothing with any descriptive detail
- Shane/Ilya
- I haven't read the books but have learned basically everything about them via fic osmosis. So feel free to pick something that includes The Long Game characters, but I have very few emotional feelings about them and would prefer for them not to be the focus
- No retirement or career ending injuries
- No non-hockey AUs or AUs where they're not evenly matched players
- No unhappy endings, with an exception for angsty fic set in the situationship era where it ends with them still pining but we know they're going to get together eventually
- Explicit tropes/kinks that I love: First time barebacking; sex tapes/nudes; consensual non-consent; size kink but the kink is that they're the same size; being weird and horny for hockey injuries, especially TEETH <333
- I've got A LOT of bookmarks for this fandom and would totally welcome anything from that list
The Pitt:
- I haven't actually watched season 2 yet (see above, too busy being eaten by HR fandom), so no S2 spoilers
- I love Jack/Samira, Jack/Robby, and Jack/Robby/Samira, particularly if they're partially character studies focused around Samira
- Fic that you can tell has a real love for Pittsburgh
- Dennis & Santos friendship <3
- Not especially interested in Mel/Frank, but it's totally chill as a background ship
- No Robby/Dennis
Nancy Drew Video Games:
- This isn't a very fic-heavy fandom, it's more of a 'tumblr nonsense posting' fandom, soooo there isn't a ton of fic to choose from but I wanted to put it on here anyway
- (I'm over at henrikvanderhussy.tumblr.com if you're interested in the tumblr nonsense posting)
- I enjoy basically any ship except Nancy/Scott Varnell, but if you really want some specific ships, I love Nancy/Frank and Nancy/Deirdre. I also like gen fic!
- Because it's not a big fic fandom, non-traditional formats would be fabulous! Meta, notfic and oral notfic, retell the plot of a game you don't remember well, tell me about your favorite side characters, etc, etc
- I've played and enjoyed Mystery of the Seven Keys, so content for it is fair game!
The Locked Tomb:
- I LOVE NONA SO MUCH
- Everything about Cam and Pal and Paul (life is too short and love is too long ahhhhh)
- This series is great because you can have fic with fucky body horror or humor or moments that rip your heart out or ALL OF THEM at the same time
- Our girl Gideon is so annoying when we're not in her POV. Bless, love that for her. Tell me about wtf her and Ianthe have been up to during Nona the Ninth
- Gideon/Harrow, obviously
- Mercymorn is terrible and I love her.
- Deep dives into any and all side characters
- Literally, all of the side characters, I mean it
- Is there any fic about The Angel?? I would love to know more about The Angel
- Truly, there are so many more things I could put down, don't feel restricted by this list. If it's a good fic, I'm going to be into it
- (definitely no modern/mundane AUs though)
Star Wars Rogue One:
- For shipping, I'm only interested in Cassian/K2, but I'm also into gen fic with the whole crew!
- I have watched Andor and liked a lot of things about it, but I feel like they did the Cassian and K2 backstory dirty (their relationship seemed much more developed in Rogue One than would make sense for where Andor ends??). So feel free to pick something that includes Andor canon, but don't feel beholden to it
- Fic that ends where the movie ends. Aka everyone dying, but it's hopeful and their sacrifice isn't in vain.
- Everybody lives AUs. Celebratory or dealing with the trauma of their experience are both great.
- No thank you to "some die, some live" or grief-focused stories
- K2-focused fic about what are emotions, when is a robot a person, etc
Thrilling Adventure Hour:
- Beyond Belief is my favorite segment and I love Frank/Sadie SO MUCH.
- Captain Laserbeam or Sparks Nevada content would also be top tier
- For Sparks Nevada shipping, I'm fond of Croach/Sparks/Red and Sparks/Ginny
Hannibal:
- Hannibal/Will and all that fucked up murder husbands stuff
- Dubcon is totally fine in this fandom, and so is infidelity
- Some of my favorite side characters are Freddie, Abigail, Beverly, and Chilton
Wolf 359:
- This podcast. It was made for me.
- Doug/Hera please please please please. AI/human relationships are my EVERYTHING
- If you're going to do finale or post-finale, make it a fix-it fic <333