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Lira ([personal profile] catlarks) wrote2021-02-25 07:04 pm

Smut4Smut: Dear Author Letter

Hello, mystery creator!

Thank you so much for writing for me. I am very excited to see what you choose to do with the original fiction ship tags in combination with my additional tags! I feel that the ships + kinks in combination serve as prompts unto themselves, so if you have a direction for your story in mind with no further prompting, please do follow your id! But if you'd like further guidance, I am always happy to expand on my likes and dislikes and to give a few more fleshed-out prompt ideas.


General Information

Overall, this year's signup is very much the dubcon, age gaps, and power imbalance show. But I do have a few more equal and consenting requests, and I did tag "no archive warnings apply" onto all of them, so if you aren't comfortable with the themes implied by the major tags, I will equally enjoy a work that excludes that content.

For my general likes and dislikes: Try Here

For many of my thoughts on noncon and related porn scenarios: My 2019 Nonconathon Letter

The Likes & Dislikes post is five years old, but what's in it still largely holds true. The only real exceptions are: my dislike for pregnancy and rape related content really only applies to fanfiction. For original fiction, I'm down for both if it's suitably nasty and horny and complicated. My nonconathon letter was a HELL of a testament to how much I like both of those things in erotica, when it's from a good angle.


My General Do Not Wants:

-first or second person POV
-gratuitous angst for angst's sake
-serious illness, injury, and/or hospital scenes
-racism, homophobia, transphobia, ableism, or any other bigotry as a major focus
-issuefic/soapboxing
-major character death
-scat; all other bodily fluids (including piss and vomit) in sexual situations are fine by me
-rape recovery arcs or taking revenge on a rapist
-extreme violence, gore, and/or amputation (other body horror is good and loved)


I think these are largely self-explanatory. My only clarifications are, while I have requests with breeding kink and oviposition tags on them, and am down for pregnancy content in those scenarios, I am very disinterested in kidfic. I figured there wasn't a huge likelihood I would receive that in a porn exchange, but here's to covering my bases.

As far as extreme violence and gore goes, I would specifically prefer not to read anything involving extreme bodily injury that a character cannot recover from in-universe. I love body horror and robogore, and am down for things like wound-fucking and heavy pain kinks specifically when the damage can be repaired by magic or mad science. Basically, ask yourself two things. Is the gore horny? Can the character be made (mostly) good as new in the story world? If the answer to both is "yes," follow your dreams.

Regarding gender in ship tags, I would generally prefer if the characters you write identify as the genders listed in the tags. That said, I am happy to read about trans or nonbinary or genderless characters if you choose to write one. My requests span just about every gender and genital combination you can come up with so honestly, if you want to play fast and loose with what parts characters have, I am totally down for it.


Request 1: Alpha Diplomat/Omega Prince

Ships:
-Alpha Foreign Diplomat from Traditionalist Country/Omega Prince Who Acts Slutty But is a Virgin

Major Tags: no archive warnings apply, underage

Additional Tags: A/B/O - Male omega has vagina, A/B/O - Omegas are dominant and being chosen as stud alpha is a great honor, A/B/O – Omegas can piss on their alphas to mark them, Dual Genitalia - Character With Both Cock And Cunt, Orgasm Delay, Orgasm Control, Overstimulation, BDSM - Bratty Sub, Breeding Kink, Breathplay, Choking, Desperate Arousal, Manhandling, Marathon Sex, Markings - Hickeys/Bite Marks

Prompts and Thoughts:

-For this one, I intended the additional tags as suggestions for several directions you could take the ship in, rather than as tags to describe one concrete fic. If you have the ability and desire to combine ALL of them, I'll love it, but I'm definitely not expecting it.

-I love worldbuilding and would LOVE to see your take on what the "traditionalist country" and the prince's country are like and how they differ, or worldbuilding of the omegaverse universe in general. I don't read a lot of omegaverse fic so while I'm not looking for Omegaverse 101 in fic form, I will appreciate it very much if you make it clear to me in the writing how YOUR version of the omegaverse concepts works.

-I would prefer if you can avoid heteronormative gender roles, I.E. alphas are the men and omegas are the women and their universe includes fantasy sexism exactly like real-world sexism. I love best when these stories include weird and different and complicated concepts of gender in the universe.

-I'd love a teen prince (14+ years old) if you're down for that, but if you aren't comfy with adult/minor pairs and would rather write the prince of age, I'd extra love if the diplomat is still measurably older than him (I love... age gaps).

-I love breeding kink and characters getting off on the risk/possibility of pregnancy, but if there's going to be actual impregnation, the prince needs to have a vagina. Otherwise I just can't stop obsessing over how they get the baby out of his body and I hate all of the possibilities.

-More than anything I would love a fic where the prince takes the lead in public, being pushy and flirty and confident in comparison to a more straight-laced, reserved diplomat, but where eventually the diplomat cracks and breaks and just absolutely wrecks the prince in the bedroom. Extra bonus points for the prince being wholly unprepared for the intensity of the experience and getting in way over his head.

-Virginity kink! I love virginity kink!! I will love it any way you choose to play it, but I especially love the thought of the diplomat not realizing the prince was a virgin until they're mid-intercourse because he was just so convincingly confident in his sexuality.

-Re: omegas choosing stud alphas, if you'd like to include this concept, I love the thought of the prince choosing the diplomat partially for political reasons but just as much because He Thought That One Was Hot, and I extra love the thought of the diplomat being personally reluctant at first, but unable to say no due to the conferred political advantages.

-Re: omegas pissing on their alphas, suuuuuper optional but I do love all variety of piss kink and would extra love if it's... Cute? Less a show of dominance, more a show of affection, and the hornier they are about it, the better.



Request 2: Monsters in Disguise

Ships:
-Would-be Rapist/"Beautiful Youth" Who Is Really The Lure Of A Giant Carnivorous Plant
-Would-be Rapist/"Beautiful Youth" Who Is Really The Lure Of An Aquatic Monster

Major Tags: no archive warnings apply, rape/noncon

Additional Tags: Aphrodisiacs, Body Modification - Body Is Altered To Be Better Able To Sexually Pleasure A Different Species, Body Horror, Bondage with Living Plants/Vines, Different Expectations About Sex Due To Differing Biology/Gender Systems, Dub/Noncon - Aggressor Tries to Arouse Victim, Dubcon - victim doesn't want it but starts to enjoy it during the act, Figging, Oviposition - Incubation Period is Very Pleasurable, Oviposition - Is Very Pleasurable, Oviposition

Prompts and Thoughts:

-These were the xeno ships that spoke to me the most, but if you'd like to mix and match concepts, I did also like these two: "Genetically-Engineered Plant/Nature-Loving Scientist Who Realizes Things Got Out of Hand" and "Human Man/Ovipositing Slime Monster He Found While Vacationing At A Remote Location."

-What I like most about this concept is the disguise element, and specifically using the disguise to lure a very specific type of prey who is most "deserving" of the ensuing punishment. So if you'd like to mix-and-match concepts, I think I'd prefer if the human receiving the xeno dicking down is still framed by the narrative as having done something wrong, and where being ravished is their arguably-deserved comeuppance.

-I have no preference between rapist POV and victim POV, so choose whichever best serves your story!

-I did tag both "no archive warnings apply" and "rape/noncon" because, while I imagine there just isn't an execution of this ship that can be 100% consensual, if you'd like to make it more dubcon where the victim decides they wanted it, or whatever, I am down for that.

-I adore xeno and the weirder, the better, so if you have any super preposterous ideas for how the sex could go down and start thinking "no, this is too much, I can't give this to a stranger" please: just go for it, I'm sure I'll love it.

-Re: carnivorous plant, I'm fine with the monster eating parts of the victim if you're really excited to go that route, but I need it to be survivable injuries and not big enough chunks of the victim to be equivalent to amputation.

-Re: the lure concept, because what I like most about these ships is the disguise / victim was expecting one thing but is bait-and-switched for another element, I'd also love a version where the "beautiful youth" lure is more of a shell for the monster, rather than a lure attached to it externally. I just love the image of the ~beautiful youth~ splitting apart and a just unreal number of vines or tentacles or other assorted monstrous body parts spilling out of it.



Request 3: Clinical Sex Demonstrations

Ships:
-Man Used as a Tool to Teach Sex/Woman Teaching Sex
-Psychiatrist that believes in prostate stimulation as treatment/Teenage Male patient

Major Tags: no archive warnings apply, rape/noncon, underage

Additional Tags: Clinical Dirty Talk, Clothing - Clothed/Naked, Exhibitionism, Degrading Praise, Dehumanization, Sexual Grooming, Objectification

Prompts and Thoughts:

-The underage tag is optional for the first ship / intended to apply more in the case that you set the woman up as teaching sex to teenagers in high school sex ed, but less optional for the second ship, where the patient is explicitly a teen and I'd prefer he stay teenaged.

-For the "woman using the man as a tool to teach sex" ship, the thing I love most about the concept is the inherent objectification and dehumanization of this man. I'd love to see that played up, or see how he feels about the situation -- is this just normal to him? Extremely arousing and kinky? Kind of uncomfortable and humiliating but for some reason he has to do it anyway? However you choose to explore this element will be DELIGHTFUL to me.

-For the "psychiatrist treating her teen patient via prostate stimulation" ship, what I love most is the idea that this is initially presented to him as something normal and routine and where her teen patient just doesn't know enough to question her, the resident expert. But where, as she continues administering the "treatment," he increasingly begins to question her motives and manner in handling him.

-For both, I absolutely adore clinical dirty talk, especially in the form of the woman narrating the actions she's taking with the man's body as she does it, from the angle of it being informative/educational/instructive, with extra bonus points for her clearly getting off not just on what she's doing but specifically over the act of DESCRIBING what she's doing to the recipient.

-Re: the rape/noncon angle, I would prefer more of a dubcon slant and/or a situation where the recipient was initially consenting but may not have fully understood what he was consenting to, rather than any scenario where the victim is explicitly forced.

-Re: the sexual grooming tag, my two ideas there are either "the psychiatrist grooming her teen patient to accept more and more sexual behavior as 'treatment'" or "the woman teaching sex is instructing high schoolers and uses the demonstration as a vehicle to make overtures at the students" but if you have something else in mind and are interested in exploring an interpretation of this tag, have at it.



Request 4: Young Prodigy/Older Veteran

Ships:
-Older little-known male rock singer/His younger #1 fan who is a famous male actor
-Sports Rookie With Daddy Issues/The Veteran He Fixates On

Major Tags: no archive warnings apply, underage

Additional Tags: Accidental Stimulation, Antagonism Leads to Sex, Body Worship - Worship Of Older Character By Younger, Body Worship as Possessiveness, Clothing - Glove Kink, Clothing - Suit Kink, Desperate Arousal, Hand and Finger Kink, Competence Kink, Manhandling, Marathon Sex, Oral Fixation, Overstimulation, Orgasm Delay, Orgasm Denial, Power Imbalance

Prompts and Thoughts:

-For the "rock singer/famous actor" pair, it's pretty explicit that the younger party is significantly more talented, but if you choose to write the "sports rookie/veteran athlete" pair, I would extra love it if the rookie is a super promising new talent who's clearly going places. I really love the element where the veteran (singer or athlete) might have way more experience, but even at his peak, he couldn't match the newcomer's raw talent, and he knows it.

-Underage is optional and might not work so well with the sports rookie one, since I can't imagine someone being drafted under eighteen, but for this one I'd prefer if the younger party isn't any younger than sixteen or seventeen. Mostly, I just really love age gaps and would love if the older half of the ship is literally twice the younger's age.

-Re: power imbalance, I would extra love any situation where one would PRESUME the older half of the ship is the one with power over the younger, because he's older and more established and probably has authority within his field, but where the younger party's raw talent and greater success makes it so HE is actually the one who could majorly fuck up the veteran's life with little effort. I'm here for the older party feeling guilty over whether he's taking advantage of the rookie's youth/inexperience/adoration for him, but also SUPER here for him simultaneously feeling trepiditious and like he cannot say no to the rookie's increasing sexual demands of him, due to the thing where the rookie is the one with leverage to ruin his career, if he so chose.

-My preferred dynamic for either ship is definitely "persistent younger party doggedly pursues the reluctant older party, until the veteran crumbles and gives in to the rookie's desire for him." Bonus points for the younger one being incredibly thirsty and desperate and having a ton of youthful stamina, only for the older one to force him to take it slow or otherwise work out how to draw out and intensify the experience so the younger one is utterly wrecked while the older is still at least a LITTLE composed.

-Re: body worship, I would love to see this tied into the characters' professions, I.E. worship of hands because they're what the rock singer uses to play his guitar and make the beautiful music the actor loves, or of the veteran athelete's because these are the hands that shot the game-winning three pointer in a decisive match-up. In general I really love to see exactly WHY one character admires another, and this prompt is full of opportunity for that.

-Re: suit kink, I just really love formalwear so if you have a reason for the characters to dress up fancy for some sort of black-tie event, I will fucking eat that shit up.



Request 5: Femslash Royalty Grab-bag

Ships:
-Princess/Female Knight
-Sorceress/Princess with a crush
-Wicked Queen/Her Human Princess Bride
-Wicked Queen/Loyal Knight
-Female Knight/Queen she is oathbound to
-Space Empress/Space Pirate Queen

Major Tags: no archive warnings apply, underage

Additional Tags: Loyalty Kink, Loyalty Kink - Loyal Character Hates Self For Having Sexual Feelings, Oaths of Loyalty, Offering Sex as Show of Loyalty, Competence Kink, Consensual Mind Control, Dancing as Foreplay, Danger/Adrenaline Kink, Devotion, Clothing - Suit Kink, Clothing - Uniform Kink, Body Worship, Body Worship as Possessiveness, Being Woken Up By Sex, Hand and Finger Kink, Hand Feeding, Getting off on how much partner trusts them, Nipple/Breast Play, Overstimulation

Prompts and Thoughts:

-This prompt is just my "I love girls and I love loyalty kink!!!!" grab-bag. I really love knight/lord dynamics and anything you want to do with that will be adored by me. I love when the knight is willing to die for their lord without a thought but I EXTRA love when the lord does a "how dare you throw your life away, your life is MINE and I demand that you live it FOR ME" instead.

-I cannot overstate how much I adore breast play, especially in combination with overstimulation and (more mild, or at least enthusiastically enjoyed) pain kink and body worship. Someone getting off solely from having her nipples played with? Amazing.

-I know knights and royalty usually make people think "fantasy" and especially medieval fantasy but I'm a big sci-fi fan, so I would love to see a sci-fi twist on ANY of these ships. Tangential from that: I love worldbuilding and if you're someone who enjoys fleshing out the setting, I will love getting a peek into whatever sort of world you create for the story. I love unexpected and novel settings!

-Re: genders, I think this is the prompt that would best lend itself to writing one of the characters as a trans girl or nonbinary person, if that's something you like to do. I'm equally happy with two cis girls, but I do love stories that talk about Gender from authors who Have Shit To Say.

-Re: the kink tags in general, a number of these are personal favorites that didn't work with my other requests and which I just chose to throw onto this prompt, because it's my most flexible prompt. Some of them (consensual mind control, somnophilia, and hand feeding in particular) I really don't have any specific executions for in mind, but if you have an idea you'd like to run with, I'd love to read it! Very excited to see which of these tags you might choose to mix-and-match with.

-re: underage tag, I just really love age and experience gaps in general, so if you're someone who isn't comfortable writing adult/minor pairs but who is comfy with age differences in an adult relationship, I would love if that is an element you choose to include.



Final Thoughts

Annnnnnd that's the letter! Thank you so, so very much for writing for me, and for your patience as I finished up writing this thing. I really needed the weekend to get it done, because I did my SIGN-UP on the final day they were open, so if you opened this shortly after assignments went out and saw the placeholder... I appreciate you coming back and reading what I've had to say.

More than anything, I want you to write a story you will be happy writing. As long as it includes one of these ships and kinks and doesn't bring in any of my do-not-wants, I'm sure to adore whatever you make for me. Everything here is simply to give you ideas and an understanding of what I like in fiction and what I'm in the mood for currently. I attempted to reproduce all the information that was in my AO3 signup, in case you want to use this as a sole reference when writing and not get stuck pulling up this AND AO3 depending on what info you wanted to check. My AO3 handle is "inelegantly (Lir)" if it helps to have that here as well!

Once again, thank you very much for writing for me, I look forward to reading what you create!