Dear Creator (Seasons of Anime exchange, June 2018)

my dearest creator!

hi! first of all, thank you in advance for whatever you end up gifting me in this exchange! i promise i will love it! 

I know it can be helpful to have more than a few guidelines, so I'll try to be as transparent as I can! For fic and art, I love both canon and aus, and I'm not sure I have a preference, as long as the character dynamics and stuff are there! So be as out there as you like! I'm okay with any rating from G to R18, but I don't seek out fic or art that is all sex unless there's some kind of porn-as-plot thing happening (the sex is being used to convey information about the characters or to lead to something new in the understanding between two characters.)

 

For fic, genre-wise, I don't really enjoy melodrama unless it's resolved with a happy ending. I tend to avoid character death, any kind of terminal illness in the main characters, and, for sports anime especially, injuries that specifically prevent athletes from playing the sport they love unless the story is about them overcoming that sort of thing. I cry really ugly so pls help me out with that happy ending! 

For art, genre-wise, go WILD! i love all kinds of different things! i think i love quiet introspective pieces the most though, so if you get stuck, something soff would be nice ;;;;

 

I'm super into sports (hockey, baseball, f1, sailing, really i just love SPORTS) and boybands and murder mysteries, as well as the Indiana Jones-ian archeology and adventures, so if you're looking for aus... I also love bugs (especially beetles) and Dragon Age and korean and japanese folk/traditional music and gardening and cooking, if you're au-searching.

 

Favorite romantic tropes of mine for fic include woke up in an alternate reality, "oh, we're dating? i hadn't noticed but now i want to kiss you and is that okay?", friends-to-lovers, denial-that-makes-sharing-a-bed-super-uncomfortable, "we should just be friends for the good of the team but i can't stop thinking about you", etc. Handholding is my fav thing. Ever. And sloppy kisses. And fic about best friends being there for each other ;;;; I really like fic where one character's disadvantageous idiosyncrasies don't prevent them from making friends. fake dating?????? is always 200%. fake married???? even better. secretly dating and fake not-dating???? best.

i'm pretty relaxed about tropey stuff: I am horrified by body-swaps though, i have no idea why they just make me weirdly uncomfortable and i really, really can't. actually, I have a list of things I like and don't like in fic and art, here on my listography if you'd like/need! in general, if you'd need to find me/spy on me, my listography is the place to be!

 

thank you so much ;;;; <3

 

 

Most sincerely,

Kitten