holly_polly letter

[krytella]

Hello dear fanperson and thanks for creating a gift for me! I'm writing this to add more non-fandom-specific information about what I like. All of this is just more information for you; if it doesn't line up with what you're happy creating, feel free to go a different direction.

Things I especially like, general:

• Groups of characters that contain at least one woman
• Everyone in a canon team/group is a big happy family. Chosen families.
• Explicit sex
• BDSM
• Anything that the author kinks on, even if it's unusual or viewed as "extreme"

Things I especially like in stories (fic and podfic):

• Characters who identify as poly, if it's appropriate to the setting of the fandom
• Relationship configurations where not everyone is involved romantically or sexually with everyone else: open relationships where characters can date or have sex separately, poly "vee" or network poly
• There's jealousy but the characters work through it
• Characters being excited about non-monogamy: voyeurism, taking joy in a partner's joy, organizing an orgy for a partner
• Characters screwing up non-monogamy and making mistakes, but then fixing them
• If there's sex, the sex telling an important part of the emotional story for the characters. I don't believe in PWP, porn is a plot!
• One character's desire for a particular relationship style or kink that they've always been ashamed of or afraid they're never going to get being revealed to other characters, who are supportive and make things happen
• Omega-verse and D/s AUs as social commentary on gender
• Less represented sexual orientations: bisexuality, asexuality, aromanticism
• "Genderswap" (AUs that change cisgender characters to the other gender, transgender and genderqueer characters)
• Blurring the lines between which relationships are "romantic" and which aren't

Things I especially like in visual art:

• Imagining alternate versions of characters by changing their gender presentation, race/ethnicity, etc
• Art that has an in-universe reason to exist, like fake "snapshots"

Unfavorite tropes:

• Amnesia
• Soulbonding and soulmates, when played straight (the characters end up giving in to the social norms)
• De-aging
• Sex work AUs where the characters end up quitting their jobs to be monogamous
• Incest
• Chan (pre-pubescent characters involved in romance or sex)
   

Anon comments on, if anyone wants clarification.