Fandom 5K 2021 Letter
Apr. 6th, 2021 06:19 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
somethingdarkerThe thing I want most is a story that the writer had fun writing and that respects my DNWs.
I'm in my 50s, and that skews my perceptions of fandoms and characters. It means that I'm actually very interested in Tsunade and Charlene and Josie at their canon ages and in the characters who're younger in canon getting stories even when they're older. It also means that I look at a lot of canons and think that everyone needs another decade before they should think about longterm romantic relationships.
Quite apart from that, I'm mostly ship agnostic. If I ask for it, I do want it, but I'm not starting from any sort of OTP assumption. I'm also mostly interested in established relationships and, further, in those as a secondary or tertiary aspect of the story.
I like time travel fix-its, missing scenes, backstory, post-canon, canon divergent AUs, character development, worldbuilding, canon typical plots, humor, hopeful endings, open endings, exploration of dark implications in otherwise cheerful canons. I like seeing female characters centered and interacting with other female characters. I like adults interacting with other adults.
I'm fine with OCs as long as the focus is on the requested character(s). I'm also fine with characters encountering a portal to another world and having to deal with what's on the other side (or what comes through) as long as it's interstitial to canon or post-canon or diverging from canon well after the characters and their relationships, skills, etc. have been established.
I like crossovers but am unfamiliar with broad swathes of currently popular stuff. If you can write a crossover without anything depending on me knowing the second canon involved, I won't mind particularly. I'm just likely to miss nuance.
A lot of my DNWs are things that I can handle if they're done exactly right, but trying to explain that 'exactly right' is difficult, and I'd rather not ask my writer to try to read my mind or to risk stumbling on some variant of me realizing I put the lines in the wrong places. Either one is likely to make the exchange less fun for all concerned.
DNW: PWP; Underage sex (under 18); Incest; Cancer; Child harm (beyond canonical levels); Graphic violence/gore (beyond canonical levels); Drowning or risk of drowning; Unicorns; Vampires; Werewolves; Zombies; Setting change AUs; Mundane AUs; Female characters as sexual victims or as sexually submissive; Trans characters as sexual victims or as sexually submissive; Unhappy/hopeless endings; Death of requested characters; Suicidal ideation; Chronic pain; Mentor/protege sex or romance; Soulmates; Fusions; Bestiality; Focus on homophobia or transphobia or racism or ablism or similar prejudice; Body horror; Grimdark
I'm in my 50s, and that skews my perceptions of fandoms and characters. It means that I'm actually very interested in Tsunade and Charlene and Josie at their canon ages and in the characters who're younger in canon getting stories even when they're older. It also means that I look at a lot of canons and think that everyone needs another decade before they should think about longterm romantic relationships.
Quite apart from that, I'm mostly ship agnostic. If I ask for it, I do want it, but I'm not starting from any sort of OTP assumption. I'm also mostly interested in established relationships and, further, in those as a secondary or tertiary aspect of the story.
I like time travel fix-its, missing scenes, backstory, post-canon, canon divergent AUs, character development, worldbuilding, canon typical plots, humor, hopeful endings, open endings, exploration of dark implications in otherwise cheerful canons. I like seeing female characters centered and interacting with other female characters. I like adults interacting with other adults.
I'm fine with OCs as long as the focus is on the requested character(s). I'm also fine with characters encountering a portal to another world and having to deal with what's on the other side (or what comes through) as long as it's interstitial to canon or post-canon or diverging from canon well after the characters and their relationships, skills, etc. have been established.
I like crossovers but am unfamiliar with broad swathes of currently popular stuff. If you can write a crossover without anything depending on me knowing the second canon involved, I won't mind particularly. I'm just likely to miss nuance.
A lot of my DNWs are things that I can handle if they're done exactly right, but trying to explain that 'exactly right' is difficult, and I'd rather not ask my writer to try to read my mind or to risk stumbling on some variant of me realizing I put the lines in the wrong places. Either one is likely to make the exchange less fun for all concerned.
DNW: PWP; Underage sex (under 18); Incest; Cancer; Child harm (beyond canonical levels); Graphic violence/gore (beyond canonical levels); Drowning or risk of drowning; Unicorns; Vampires; Werewolves; Zombies; Setting change AUs; Mundane AUs; Female characters as sexual victims or as sexually submissive; Trans characters as sexual victims or as sexually submissive; Unhappy/hopeless endings; Death of requested characters; Suicidal ideation; Chronic pain; Mentor/protege sex or romance; Soulmates; Fusions; Bestiality; Focus on homophobia or transphobia or racism or ablism or similar prejudice; Body horror; Grimdark
