yelp

WIP, last updated 2021/12/11.

Thank you for creating for me! My AO3 account is yelp. I wanted to give a sense of what I tend to enjoy, but I ask you to only use it if it's helpful to you—I'm quite easy to please, and tend to only request fandoms and characters that I really love, so don't be afraid to stray from this list.

General likes:

power dynamics and power imbalance
kindness, especially from an unexpected source
fear, begging, desperation
loyalty, familiarity, intimacy, unspoken understanding and communication
devotion, worship, hero worship, gratitude
competence, skill
hurt/comfort
prickly characters actually being nice
prickly characters attempting to be nice but not knowing how and fucking it up but their intentions still come through
characters that can put their feelings aside
characters resigned to their fate
forced to work together
plot
character studies
relationship studies, romantic or otherwise
asexual characters
outsider POV
showing someone your world and seeing it through their POV
supernatural elements
characters from vastly different cultures/biologies/contexts trying to interact and make sense of their differences
what-if/canon-divergence AUs
exotic wild settings AUs (fantasy creatures! space opera! cyberpunk!) that still somehow manage to highlight the characters' personalities

Cheat code:
My optional and not-so-secret kink: fear returned with unexpected kindness. Character A expects the worst from B, anything ranging from being scolded to being abused/murdered, but receives mercy instead. B can be gentle, harsh, begrudging, actually terrible until a last-minute change of heart, it's all good, I love it all. I especially appreciate focus on A's terror, desperation, and later relief and disbelief—seriously, I'll eat that up with a spoon!

Art Likes:
You know when people are holding hands and you can see the faint dimples where their fingers press into each others' skin? I love that kind of detail, the physicality and interaction. I also love casual intimacy in general, just being in someone else's space, leaning on each other, or going about your daily routines in close proximity with another. Other things I find fascinating include elaborate and uncharacteristic costumes, interesting facial expressions and body language, and physical imperfection.

I'm not very good at making art requests in general, since I don't have the first clue about what goes into making it - but I do love to receive it, for that same reason!

General Dislikes:

MPreg
Omegaverse
Focus on characters under age ~15
Mental incapacitation due to drugs or sickness
- e.g., DNW sickfic, sex pollen, other forms of intoxication/loss of a character's normal mental faculties, especially of POV character.
- Mentions of drugs/sickness are fine.
- Physical incapacitation/injury (e.g. getting knocked out or tied up) is fine.

Other notes:
Feel free to replace any / with &, or vice versa.