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Candy Hearts 2024 Letter
Jan. 2nd, 2024 05:52 pm Dear Candy Heart Sexer,
Thank you so much for writing for me! If you're here for treats, I'd be thrilled to get fic or art treats for current or past Candy Hearts/Chocolate Box requests. This letter is under construction!
Stuff I love:
- Shipping! I am a ridiculous shipper at heart, so my favorite thing would be ship fic for the pairings I request; I love sexual tension, slow burn, pining, and lots of other stuff. Porn or no porn are both great--it's the ship more than the smut I'm into. I also love characters falling for others that they never would have expected, as is probably obvious from my ships. I love pining and hurt/comfort and cuddling to avoid hypothermia and all those wonderful fanfic tropes. Shippy pre-relationship stuff is also great!
- Identity porn! As defined by Fanlore, it's focusing on people who have secret identities which focus on the consequences of using multiple personas". So Character A is in disguise, interacting with Character B, who may or may not know who Character A really is, and there may be kissing. This has obvious implications for secret identities (bonus points if it's hero/villain), but anywhere you can fit it in I will love it. Relatedly, I'm always up for mask kink and identity reveals. I feel like this is nigh-impossible for any Shade ship but if you manage it, I'd be really impressed!
- Bad guys turning good! I love villains who discover that their worldview is wrong, especially by getting to know one of the good guys. I also love villains who aren't entirely bad, and good guys who can learn from them too.
- Dramatic reunions! I love seeing characters brought back from the dead (or not actually dead, or whatever plot device works) reunited with someone who's been mourning them. I really love if the living person had feelings for the other and regrets never confessing them.
- Lots of story types--adventure, what-ifs, canon continuations, everyone is mysteriously alive somehow, etc. Both happy and bittersweet/sad fics are great, as long as the angst isn't from the pairing's relationship not working out. Scenes or snippets from any of these are also great.
- Your own prompts! I throw out a few specific story prompts for each pairing, but I will be thrilled to read any ideas you have! My prompts tend to lean towards longer stories, but please don't feel like you have to follow them.
- Interactive fiction! (This is more relevant for longer minimum exchanges, but I keep this in just in case.) I like choice, parser, or any combination; my secret wish is dating sims for every canon. Character death, AU, and other pairings are fine for different endings in IF.
DNWs:
- Non-con. Dub-con is great. The non-con line for me is one character forcing another into sex acts; dub-con examples I like are sex pollen, aliens make them do it, fighting turning into sex (even if they're still trying to kill each other), a villain sexually teasing a hero who is trying not to respond but is into it. Verbal consent is not needed. Canon past non-con and repercussions are fine.
- Character bashing, including canon love interests.
- Unrequested current ships or crushes for characters I request.
- Non-canon permanent major character death (except that Jack/Shade prompt).
- AUs of the setting instead of plot (mundane AUs, everyone is ponies, etc.)
- Unrequited love (one or both parties incorrectly thinking it's unrequited is great) & shooting down pairings I requested.
- Outsider POV.
- Non-requested crossovers (e.g. outside of DC universes). References to anything vaguely DC-related is great, especially throwing in comic details for TV fic and vice-versa.
Don't Like but not DNW-level:
- Established relationship fic. This isn't as set in stone as the others, but I love seeing my OTPs get together and/or have UST.
