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[illusionnistes]

This journal is an exchange letter repository for illusionniste.

Here are some general likes/dislikes to refer to if you'd like. I'll make request-specific elaborations & exceptions in the specific exchange signup.

Likes
↪ Themes & Tropes
↪ Smut

Dislikes
↪ Hard DNWs
↪ General dislikes (with occasional exceptions)

Likes

Themes & Tropes

• Morally grey, complex, and/or conflicted characters


• Worldbuilding & backstories


• Dark themes


• Horror
  
  ↪ Cosmic horror, psychological horror, apocalypses, ecological horror, hauntings


• Plotty fic and casefic


• Atmospheric fic & pastiches


• 2^nd and 3^rd person POV


• Interactive fiction


• Both gen & shipfic


• Enemies to lovers


• Soulbonding & soulmate AUs with messy or unwanted relationships


• Obsessive mutual loyalty (in both gen and shipfic)


• Codependent relationships


• Fusions with the following: Rivers of London, Raven Cycle, Altered Carbon, Snow Crash, the Diamond Age, Dark Tower, House of Leaves, Southern Reach

Smut

• Detailed descriptions using all senses, especially touch & taste (or psychic, if that applies)


• Dom/sub dynamics and power play
  
  ↪ I can be interested in just about any kink not in my DNW list if it has elements of D/s


• Semi-public sex and kink


• Kink used as therapy or to work through issues


• Under-negotiated kink


• Begging/sexual humiliation/dirty talk/praise kink


• Painplay/edgeplay/weapon play/bloodplay/needles


• Sadomasochism


• Overstimulation and forced orgasms


• Vaginal penetration for female characters, regardless of their dom/sub role


• Characters losing control, especially if they are usually buttoned-up and controlled


• Biting/bruising/marking, tattoos and branding as a mark of ownership


• Noncon and dubcon, unless I specifically opt out
  ↪ Noncon-specific: phrases like "please no, stop, it's too big," and other clichés


• Consensual non-consent/rape roleplay

Dislikes

Hard DNWs

Things I never, ever want to see.

• Permanent injury, disfigurement, or mutilation in a sexual context


• Unaroused characters in smut


• Stories focused on characters being pregnant or having kids


• Explicit sex with prepubescent characters


• Animal cruelty or animal abuse (animal death in context of food or natural processes is OK)


• Scat or vomit


• Belly kink, weight gain, feederism


• Issuefic or "after-school specials" fic

General Dislikes

Depending on the exchange and requests, I may give exceptions for some of these. I'll be specific in my sign-up.

• Mundane AUs (e.g. coffeeshop, college, etc.) for SF/F canons


• Watersports


• Trans characters unless requested


• Ace characters in shipfic


• Anal sex as the main sex act in smut