General Exchange Letter (2025)
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hekaterasGeneral likes
- whump and hurt/comfort. I prefer action-heavy whump and badass whumpees over whump that leans heavily into victimisation and helplessness
- Relationships forged in fire, bonding over trauma, codependency, friendships and romantic/sexual relationships hard to categorise in terms of whether they're a good thing or not. Relationships as questionable coping mechanisms. When characters can't quite say what they are to each other except "someone important"!
- Relationships turning on a dime: When strangers turn to allies, or the person you can barely stand becomes the only one you can trust, or when circumstances change dramatically and you see someone in a brand new context, in a brand new light, or something changes and you question whether you ever really knew this person at all.
- Dramatic, adrenaline-fuelled, high-stakes action. Characters in danger!
- plotty Gen fic, missionfic, casefic, pre-slash or pre-relationship, slow-burn vibes
- sex scenes: not quite explicit but all about the vulnerability/emotions
- UST-ridden scenes that are only metaphorically sexual (e.g. reaching inside someone's mechanical parts to repair them...!)
- The Eroticism of the Machine(TM), wireplay, robots, androids, cyborgs, etc...
- non-sexual intimacy
- intimacy that is sexual but not directly about sex (e.g. pillow talk, lazy mornings after)
- competency kink, identity kink, trust kink
- fluff with a touch of grimness or bittersweetness
- cloak-and-dagger, cat-and-mouse, spies, secrets
- wild nature, birds, rats, creepy crawlies, Cool Plants
- the aesthetic of ruin and tangled industrial locales
General DNWs
Gore, noncon, heavy crying in the context of physical whump, kidfic, noncanonical incest or underage, pregnancy of POV characters, focus on needles or surgery (especially cutting and IVs), focus on IRL modern era geopolitics, eye horror/trauma
NSFW DNWs
Omegaverse, scat, watersports, bloodplay, rimming, fisting, stuffing, noncon (dubcon A-okay!), most kinks that would fall under degradation or humiliation (I would not consider light submissive behaviour to be this), bottoming angst as a major part of the story
Art likes
I like all kinds of different art styles, from realistic to stylised to pixel art. I love dramatic poses, contrasting colours, hair, flying cloaks and coattails, wings...
Art DNWs
Explicit rating, eye horror, needles and things going into skin
NSFW likes
I prefer levels of explicit detail typical for the M rating!
I am less interested in specific kinks and more interested in whatever makes for a scene that is sensual, emotional, and/or full of vulnerability for the given set of characters! I also really enjoy it when characters are conflicted about what they're doing or who they're doing it with! :) I also love delayed gratification, tension being drawn out, and things getting interrupted just as they're getting heavy! :) I love light BDSM dynamics, preferably not very formalised, or only formalised if it's in-character and fits the setting (I leave this to your judgement!). I enjoy characters having very incomplete or imperfect understandings of sex or their own preferences, and sex scenes that are in great part about exploration. I also like the "consensual but not safe or sane" trope.
DNW clarifications
- Graphic violence: I welcome actiony whump and beating the characters up, putting them within an inch of death, etc. I just don't want movie R-rated Tarantino-style gore.
- Kidfic: Flashbacks are fine, characters thinking about their time as kids is fine, characters thinking about being or having children is fine. What I don't want is the fairly specific fic type where adult characters are turned into kids (transformation or "what if all the blorbos were toddlers"-type AUs), or fics that are about acquiring a child and taking care of them. Baby goats are fine and absolutely encouraged within the bounds of plot-appropriateness. (/Battleship joke)
- Focus on surgery and needles: Needles or surgery appearing in the story are fine (and often hard to avoid given I sometimes request doctors, etc.!) Mentions of people getting shots or being dosed with something are fine. Someone being threatened with a needle or surgery is fine. I just don't want detailed descriptions of *shudder* needles sliding into skin, plungers depressing, skin being cut open, tattoos being applied, things like that. It may be helpful to think of this DNW as DNW Detailed Descriptions of Invasive Things Happening to Skin On-Page.
- Focus on IRL modern era geopolitics: Having it be in the backdrop or part of the setting is fine. What I don't want is having it be a driving force of the plot.
- Noncon: I don't currently want unrequested noncon for these requests, but you're welcome to throw in some dubcon. For dubcon, I especially like unequal power dynamics, when one or both parties are under the influence, manipulation, etc.
- whump and hurt/comfort. I prefer action-heavy whump and badass whumpees over whump that leans heavily into victimisation and helplessness
- Relationships forged in fire, bonding over trauma, codependency, friendships and romantic/sexual relationships hard to categorise in terms of whether they're a good thing or not. Relationships as questionable coping mechanisms. When characters can't quite say what they are to each other except "someone important"!
- Relationships turning on a dime: When strangers turn to allies, or the person you can barely stand becomes the only one you can trust, or when circumstances change dramatically and you see someone in a brand new context, in a brand new light, or something changes and you question whether you ever really knew this person at all.
- Dramatic, adrenaline-fuelled, high-stakes action. Characters in danger!
- plotty Gen fic, missionfic, casefic, pre-slash or pre-relationship, slow-burn vibes
- sex scenes: not quite explicit but all about the vulnerability/emotions
- UST-ridden scenes that are only metaphorically sexual (e.g. reaching inside someone's mechanical parts to repair them...!)
- The Eroticism of the Machine(TM), wireplay, robots, androids, cyborgs, etc...
- non-sexual intimacy
- intimacy that is sexual but not directly about sex (e.g. pillow talk, lazy mornings after)
- competency kink, identity kink, trust kink
- fluff with a touch of grimness or bittersweetness
- cloak-and-dagger, cat-and-mouse, spies, secrets
- wild nature, birds, rats, creepy crawlies, Cool Plants
- the aesthetic of ruin and tangled industrial locales
General DNWs
Gore, noncon, heavy crying in the context of physical whump, kidfic, noncanonical incest or underage, pregnancy of POV characters, focus on needles or surgery (especially cutting and IVs), focus on IRL modern era geopolitics, eye horror/trauma
NSFW DNWs
Omegaverse, scat, watersports, bloodplay, rimming, fisting, stuffing, noncon (dubcon A-okay!), most kinks that would fall under degradation or humiliation (I would not consider light submissive behaviour to be this), bottoming angst as a major part of the story
Art likes
I like all kinds of different art styles, from realistic to stylised to pixel art. I love dramatic poses, contrasting colours, hair, flying cloaks and coattails, wings...
Art DNWs
Explicit rating, eye horror, needles and things going into skin
NSFW likes
I prefer levels of explicit detail typical for the M rating!
I am less interested in specific kinks and more interested in whatever makes for a scene that is sensual, emotional, and/or full of vulnerability for the given set of characters! I also really enjoy it when characters are conflicted about what they're doing or who they're doing it with! :) I also love delayed gratification, tension being drawn out, and things getting interrupted just as they're getting heavy! :) I love light BDSM dynamics, preferably not very formalised, or only formalised if it's in-character and fits the setting (I leave this to your judgement!). I enjoy characters having very incomplete or imperfect understandings of sex or their own preferences, and sex scenes that are in great part about exploration. I also like the "consensual but not safe or sane" trope.
DNW clarifications
- Graphic violence: I welcome actiony whump and beating the characters up, putting them within an inch of death, etc. I just don't want movie R-rated Tarantino-style gore.
- Kidfic: Flashbacks are fine, characters thinking about their time as kids is fine, characters thinking about being or having children is fine. What I don't want is the fairly specific fic type where adult characters are turned into kids (transformation or "what if all the blorbos were toddlers"-type AUs), or fics that are about acquiring a child and taking care of them. Baby goats are fine and absolutely encouraged within the bounds of plot-appropriateness. (/Battleship joke)
- Focus on surgery and needles: Needles or surgery appearing in the story are fine (and often hard to avoid given I sometimes request doctors, etc.!) Mentions of people getting shots or being dosed with something are fine. Someone being threatened with a needle or surgery is fine. I just don't want detailed descriptions of *shudder* needles sliding into skin, plungers depressing, skin being cut open, tattoos being applied, things like that. It may be helpful to think of this DNW as DNW Detailed Descriptions of Invasive Things Happening to Skin On-Page.
- Focus on IRL modern era geopolitics: Having it be in the backdrop or part of the setting is fine. What I don't want is having it be a driving force of the plot.
- Noncon: I don't currently want unrequested noncon for these requests, but you're welcome to throw in some dubcon. For dubcon, I especially like unequal power dynamics, when one or both parties are under the influence, manipulation, etc.
