Recursive Exchange
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fencesit
Hi! Thanks for creating for me, or for otherwise taking a look at my letter. I’m fencesit on AO3! I'm requesting all fic for this exchange, and I would really just be so pleased with anything that this letter is 90% just DNW clarification and likes list!
DNW:
- unrequested AUs
- canon divergence is okay
- cannibalism or vore
- necrophilia (ghost sex is fine)
- PWP
- sounding
- rimming
- bodily waste
- suicide/suicidal ideation
- it's fine for a time looping character to kill themself to start a new loop, if that's a mechanic you want to include, as long as they're doing it to deliberately reset the loop rather than in hopes of dying for good.
- vehicle accidents
- detailed or graphic descriptions/depictions of wounds, medical procedures, torture, etc.
- unrequested explicit noncon
- Implied/referenced is fine! It's fine as a source of hurt, I just don't want noncon porn unless I ask for it.
- anal tearing or other serious injury during sex
- incest (mentions of canonical incest are fine)
- sex scenes with underage (under 18) characters or adults being attracted to minors
- feel free to fudge timelines or just not mention ages specifically, though
- permanent noncanonical character death of major canon characters (except villains)
- dissociation, which includes:
- derealization — An alteration in the perception or experience of the external world so that it seems unreal.
- depersonalization — The persistent feeling of observing oneself from outside one’s body or having a sense that one’s surroundings/body aren't real.
- Typically dissociation shows up as reaction to stress or trauma where the character experiencing it feels disconnected in some way from their emotions, their body, reality, etc; sometimes the character acts on autopilot.
- If you're writing/drawing a character who's literally having an out of body experience (like, because they're a ghost and something else has taken over their body) or dealing with an actual fake world (like, because they're trapped in a magical illusion) then that's okay.
- magically preserved non-rotting undead like vampires or skeletons are fine
- please see SVSSS section for clarification notes.
- including using characters from other canons as stand-ins for OCs, even if the character or their appearance in the fic is very minor.
- including borrowing worldbuilding/magic systems/artifacts/alien races/etc.
- definitely fine for characters to know about or reference anything you think it's reasonable for them to have consumed as media, e.g. modern mundane characters have probably heard of Star Wars.
Likes
Fic likes:
- Canon divergence
- slice of life, canon-compliant fic, missing scenes from canon
- time travel
- especially peggy sue/with a fix-it focus
- time loops
- (see much longer list below in its own section!)
- fake/fantasy politics/science and explorations of systems/relationships (eg magic systems, fictional governments or economies, the local gossip network)
- character backstory, noodle incidents, references to past canon or noncanon events, a sense of history between two (or more) characters
- vivid/specific details that relate to things like where a character is, what that location is used for, why, and how the character feels about it
- casefic/missionfic
- investigations/mysteries
- characters with specific goals or problems to solve (finding some treasure, getting a glass of water, murdering their nemesis)
- monster/murder/crime-of-the-week type plots
- the enemy of my enemy is my friend
- making friends under unusual circumstances
- A being uncertain of or surprised by how deep B's loyalty runs
- found family
- friends reconnecting after being out of contact for a long time
- signs of familiarity/intimacy, like knowing each other's habits really well or feeling comfortable touching them/being touched in a society where that's notable
- in terms of physical hurt: sprained ankles, dislocated shoulders, concussions, bruised/broken ribs, broken bones where the bone isn't sticking out, blood loss....pretty much anything non-permanent and not too gorey or with the gore skimmed over. special mention for Naruto-esque eye loss where it's traumatic and bad but the eye can just be put back in if they find a good medic.
- also as implied by my DNWs I'm not a big fan of sickfic but I love huddling for warmth and hypothermia fic!
- poisonings and venom are also good — I like a good spout of dizziness or swooning or confusion!
- in terms of emotional hurt: self esteem issues and unexpected mercy! Special mention for everything below.
- character convinced no one would help even if they asked (but someone does help!)
- character convinced there will be no rescue (but there is a rescue!)
- usually powerful character is helpless due to drugs (and at the mercy of someone they don't trust? :D)
- cynical/pessimistic/distrustful characters being proven wrong by things turning out better than they could have hoped for — for example: "I could never be loved!" -> Is absolutely loved, "We could never have peace." -> Peace is had
- aftermath of captivity, torture, rape, isolation, etc.
- injured character can't complete rescue mission without help from unlikely source
- lying so that the other will accept comfort or help
- hands too shaky to complete task
- forcing exhausted character to get some sleep
- characters who have to work hard to function in the same space and also characters who don't like each other — see my Hate Exchange letter!
- handcuffed together
- sharing a bed because they're safer together than apart
- captured together, working together in enemy territory
- 5+1
- drabble series
- outsider POV
- second person POV, especially if it's thematically relevant
- I'm not really into letters or social media fics, but articles, essays, textbooks, mission/case records, and wikipedia entries are all great.
- I've never received interactive fiction/CYOA before but I'm down to try it!
- I'm open to a mix of text and images and I view works with the creator's skin enabled. I do sometimes download my gifts or read them on mobile, however, so I appreciate when unconventional works use tricks like display:none (explained in this tutorial in the "What do I do if the Creator's Style is hidden?" section) which also makes works with HTML/embedded pictures more accessible!
- curses
- garbage-tier magical items
- extra senses
- worldbuilding around learning/doing magic
Ship likes:
- Anything on my general likes list is excellent in shipfic too of course. Also, I am a pretty big fan of understated shipfic — if you just put the characters together and show that they care about each other then I don't even need kissing or anything, really, which I think can work well for fandoms where characters are frequently in life-or-death situations or need to be professional. Not that kissing isn't welcome! Just, I am extremely easy to please on the "Is this shippy enough?" front.
- Slow burn, friends to lovers, enemies-to-friends-to-lovers — The slower the better. FWB-to-lovers is also great.
- Characters who have history with each other — established relationships are good, but what I really love is feeling like the characters know each other well and think about each other often. In characters who are already friends, that probably looks like, say, knowing what kind of coffee the other person likes. In characters who were enemies, they probably know each other’s weaknesses and faults really well.
- Arguments where each person thinks the conversation is about something subtly different — I mean, misunderstandings in general are great for tension, but I like it when characters are trying to communicate but they’re coming from perspectives so different that they can’t even argue without clarification.
- Casual physical affection — a lot of my ships involve people who have massive or very specific personal bubbles, so seeing the way the characters touch each other when they’re not already in Kissing Mode is really great.
- Pining, especially longstanding they-could-never-want-me pining — the id wants what the id wants and what the id wants is characters with low self-worth. Bonus points if it's tied up in some kind of misunderstanding about their relationship (eg, "They hate me!" or "I'm ugly!") or their differing rank/species/wealth/etc.
- When their hands touch and other very understated moments of romantic or sexual tension — aaaaaaa I don't even have words for how much I love this, if you include it I will wail happily at you about it in my comment, possibly at length.
Smut likes
I don't usually request smut but if you want to include it then I don't mind. I know that that's kind of an extremely bland and unenthusiastic way to start out but it's, uh, really honest, at least? I'm usually after character interaction, plot, or worldbuilding with my requests, but getting a sex scene along with other stuff definitely wouldn't ruin a gift. Overall, I want you to feel free to write sex if you would enjoy doing so/if you think the fic will be better with it! I'm generally just enthused by my writer getting to have fun writing something they're proud of, you know?
There are obviously some things I do like, and I know some folks really enjoy tailoring their fic (i'm one of them!) so:
- Extremely emotionally charged sex — No matter what kind of sex acts they do, I really love when the sex has a lot of feelings involved, especially if it's sad emotions or desperation or part of some hurt/comfort or whump.
- Sex that's very directly relevant to the plot or character arcs — I love sex scenes where I learn more about a character or relationship. Is 'character driven smut' a thing? Because if so, that's my favorite. And also porn with plot.
- anal and pegging, PIV, frottage, intercural, handjobs, all kinds of fingering, strapons, toys
- overstimulation and edging, orgasm delay/denial
- bondage — handcuffs, spreader bars, honor bondage, and honestly pretty much anything in the general category of restricting someone's movement during sex
- praise kink, loyalty kink, hurt/comfort, trust and sex otherwise overloaded with emotion
- magic/super powers being used in fun and inventive ways
- clothing/uniform kink, half-clothed sex, one naked and the other not.
- hair petting, cuddling, lazy mornings in bed, touch starvation
- size difference, size kink, come inflation, large insertions
- pregnancy, including mpreg — impregnation porn and pregnant sex welcome, eggpreg and het mpreg are also fine. And while we're talking about it, narratively speaking I love a fic where being pregnant/mpregnant is upsetting because the character didn't plan for it, thinks their partner doesn't want it, conceived in a nonconsensual or dubiously consensual way, can't afford it, etc, all of which could be comforted away with or without sex. I'm not much for birthing scenes.
- probably other things that I'm forgetting! I'm pretty open to a bunch of things that aren't on the above list or mentioned in my DNWs, and if you're unsure if you should include something please feel free to ask through the mods.
Marriage likes!
(sorry these are mostly Capitalized Like That they're mostly freeforms!
- Misunderstandings and surprises!
- Accidental Marriage due to Misunderstanding the Norms of Another Culture
- Accidental/unexpected soulbond is cultural equivalent of marriage
- Both Spouses Are In Love But Believe The Other Is In The Marriage Out Of Obligation
- Character Thinks Their Spouse is Trying to Kill Them (but they aren't! or not anymore at least lol)
- Deathbed Wedding And Unexpected Survival
- Proposal recipient thought they were just a fling
- Mistakenly Thinking Your Spouse Hates You
- Accidentally Married Someone You Hate
- Arranged marriage to end conflict
- Forced Marriage Leads to Genuine Feelings
- Marrying an Enemy to Keep Them Close
- Marrying Someone You Don't Like to Save Them From a Worse Fate
- Marriage Arranged by Third Party With Dubious Motives
- Marriage As Clemency At Public Execution
- Suspected or Confirmed Traitor Forced To Marry Spouse Who'll Monitor Them For Further Treachery
- Spouses mutually help each other gain status from the marriage
- Long-Time Betrothed Couple Adds Third To Marriage For Political Reasons And Falls In Love
- Divorced Arranged Marriage Spouse must Marry Back Into The Family
- Second Marriage for Someone whose First Marriage was Abusive
- Character A Not As Over Traumatic First Marriage As They Thought
- Marriage Makes It Impossible to Keep Trauma Secret
- Marriage of Convenience - Divorcing Terrible Spouse Requires Support From Prospective New Spouse
- Character Entering Into M/M Marriage Invents Mpreg In Hopes Of Pleasing Their Spouse With An Heir
- Getting Married to Avoid Otherwise-Likely Marriage to Unbearable Third Party
- Marriage to Satisfy Life-Debt / Life-Debt is Considered Marriage
- Character Agrees To Seemingly Terrible Marriage Believing It's The Only Proposal They'll Ever Get
- Family Won't Pay Bride Price/Dowry So They Have To Find Someone Who Will Marry Them For Free
- If A Fight Ends In A Knock Out The Winner Can Take Your Ring And Marry Your Spouse
- If Character A Can't Have Their Loved One They'll Marry Younger Sibling B (& Fall In Love With B)
Horror Likes!
(sorry these are mostly Capitalized Like That they're mostly freeforms!
- A pervasive yet unidentifiable sense that something is terribly wrong
- Aftermath of Torture
- Being Polite About Eldritch Genitals Which Are Too Much For Human Eyes To Behold
- Belated Realization That Your Jerk "Friends" Tricked You Into This Horrifying Situation
- Betraying Someone to Save Them from a Worse Fate
- Building layout changes sometimes
- character convinced no one would help even if they asked
- character convinced there will be no rescue
- Character(s) are totally done with this ghost bullshit
- Characters are all alone in the middle of nowhere with no one able to help
- Fucking around with the Ouija Board was a bad idea
- Garbage-Tier Magical Item Which Is Regrettably Undeniably Dangerous In Its Mediocrity
- Garbage-Tier Magical Item Which Some Poor Demon Or Ghost Has Possessed
- Mannequins That Move When a Character Looks Away
- People Suddenly Start Mysteriously Disappearing
- Physically impossible spaces/buildings
- Principle of object permanence is violated
- Seemingly Mundane Object Is Surprisingly the Wrong Texture
- Seen only out of the corner of your eye
- Sharing a bed because they're safer together than apart
- The Setting Wants You to Stay; Slowly You Do Too
- Time Loop - Character Keeps Looping The Day of Their Death
- Time Loop - Friends and/or Loved One(s) Die Again and Again
- Time Loop - Looping Character Keeps Dying
- Time Travel - Character(s) Learn Dark Secret They Didn't Know at the Time
- Two Characters Who Don't Like Each Other Grudgingly Hunt A Ghost Together
- Two Characters Who Don't Like Each Other Grudgingly Save Each Other From Horrific Fates
- Two Characters Who Don't Like Each Other Grudgingly Solve Gruesome Murder(s) Together
- Usually Powerful Character is Helpless Due to Drugs and at the Mercy of Someone They Don't Trust
Time travel Likes!
(sorry these are all Capitalized Like That they're mostly freeforms!
- Time Travel Fix-It
- Peggy Sue (Mental Time Travel to Past - Replacing Past Self)
- Altering Canon or Backstory
- Altering Non-Canonical Disaster
- Dimension Hopping to Find a Timeline That's Not Doomed
- fixing one's own mistakes
- Time travel to save a friend or loved one
- Trying To Change The Timeline By Saving Someone
- Character’s Suspicious Actions Get Them In Trouble With The One(s) They’re Trying To Help
- Character Travels Back to When They Were Still a Massive Jackass
- Time Traveling To A Different Time Than The One You Meant To Travel To
- Attempted Time Travel Sends Character To Another World Instead
- Time Travel Fix-It - Time Traveler Fixes Things By Accident
- Time travel inadvertently reveals past secret
- Accidental Time Travel To The Past
- One character likes other character's past self way more than they expected
- Falling in love/making friends with a past version of an enemy
- Enemies Travel Back In Time Together
- Fixing the Timeline Requires Saving An Enemy
- Character From Future Tries To Convince Current Enemy They Will Be Friends/Allies In Future
- Character From Future Tries To Convince Current Enemy To Work Together
- Unexpectedly Living With The Consequences Of Actions During Final Loop
- Groundhog Peggy Sue
- Strangers Meet During Shared Time Loop
- Enemies Have To Work Together To Solve The Loop
- Looping character trying to save another character's life
- Time loop where character makes things worse before making them better
- Character(s) Remain in Alternate Timeline They Created
- Time Travel To The Past Destroys Original Timeline
- Can't Time Travel To A Time You're Already Alive In
- Adjusting to a Different Era
- Outsider POV Of Strange Events Caused By Time Travel
- Outsider POV Of Time Traveler(s)
- Redeemed Villain Travels to Before Their Redemption
- Introducing Advanced Technology/Medicine/Sanitation to the Past
Naruto
Tavina: Silk and Steel (fic series)
- I want recursive fanwork about the main pairing in this fanwork (shipfic)
- I want recursive fanwork about one or more of the main characters in this fanwork (gen)
- I want recursive fanwork about minor or background characters in this fanwork (gen)
I love Hisa and Izuna and I'm extremely enthused at the idea of anything about them or about the setting in general! I really love worldbuilding and all of the OCs in this fic, too. If possible, I would like something that takes place during or in place of the events in the series, instead of something set after what's been published.
Some ideas:
- Things go a little differently when Hisa and Izuna flee the capital and go to the Uchiha. Something something [handwaves] Hisa is compromised and she has to either marry Izuna or ruin her family.
- Izuna gets injured and Hisa gets a new Uchiha guard for awhile.
- Anything with Izuna and the Kawaguchi staff/employees — trying to feed Izuna up, giving him tours when he first arrives, outside POV on him and Hisa.
- AU where Mito intervenes earlier.
- Something where Hisa meets Hashirama for the first time under better circumstances.
- Izuna travels back in time and saves all those men who died right before the start of the fic.
The Scum Villain's Self-Saving System
Asymptotical: Be Careful and Be Faithful (fic)
- I want recursive fanwork about one or more of the main characters in this fanwork (gen)
- I want recursive fanwork about minor or background ships in this fanwork (shipfic)
I love this fic so much. I would love LBH POV, or more An Ding worldbuilding, or some Mobei-jun/Shang Qinghua because it's briefly hinted at in this fic and I would love to see how Shang Qinghua and Mobei-jun's relationship would play out differently — especially considering SQH is LBH's shizun now!
Asymptotical: Where Nothing Green Grows (fic)
- I want recursive fanwork about the main pairing in this fanwork (shipfic)
- I want recursive fanwork about one or more of the main characters in this fanwork (gen)
- I want recursive fanwork about minor or background characters in this fanwork (gen)
The LQG POV in this fic is so delicious and I am just really into any fic that further explores LQG thinking that Shen Yuan is something extremely Other that has taken over Shen QIngqiu's body. I would also be really into something with the other Peak Lords!
tuesday: A Political Match (fic)
- I want recursive fanwork about the main pairing in this fanwork (shipfic)
- I want recursive fanwork about one or more of the main characters in this fanwork (gen)
- I want recursive fanwork about minor or background characters in this fanwork (gen)
This is the marriage fic of my dreams and the universe is FASCINATING. I would obviously love more MBH/SQH content — either from their backstory in this fic or taking place after they get married, and MBJ POV or outside POV would be very welcome! — but I'm just as fascinated by the world around the ship as I am with the ship itself. What's going on with Tianlang-jun and Su Xiyan? How are Shen Qingqiu and Yue Qingyuan doing? I love that Cang Qiong Mountain Sect and Huan Hua Palace are at war and would love more on that subject, too. Also, as always, I am fascinated by SVSSS logistics and economics, so if you can work more of that in it'd be rad.
The Witcher (TV)
dsudis: Starting from Zero (fic)
- I want recursive fanwork about the main pairing in this fanwork (shipfic)
- I want recursive fanwork about one or more of the main characters in this fanwork (gen)
I really love the slow growth of Jaskier and Geralt's relationship in this fic and I am really, REALLY into that scene where they misunderstand each other in the bookshop. What could be better than two people who like each other having a conversation where they're both talking about different things? Nothing! Nothing could be better. Except maybe more fic in this verse.
- I'm cool with more pre-slash and with more Geralt/Eskel content as well.
- Would love Jaskier POV, especially of the fight in the bookshop and the following winter in Oxenfurt.
- Would love a post-canon scene of Jaskier looking for historical records about what happened to Kaer Morhen and, if he cannot find records, using his Master-of-the-Seven-Liberal-Arts abilities to make one.
- If you like time travel, I'd be very into time travel! Jaskier or Geralt reliving their first meeting with the other, maybe, or a time loop!
- Also shippy fic would be lovely, but I don't have any particular prompts for that!
(I nominated this under The Witcher (TV) because that is the version of this canon I am most familiar with, but please feel free to draw from the books or the games or to just make stuff up!)
bachaboska: The Djinn (vid)
This is my new favorite romcom and it's a crime that it's only 2 minutes long. And yet so delightful! I love Geralt as a bodyguard for Jaskier's virtue and Geralt wanting Jaskier too and thinking it's the wish influencing him but no it's TRUE LOVE which is EVEN WORSE. Poor Geralt. Also, I love that sexy bath time is still a thing. It's perfect, is what I'm saying!
bachaboska: The Dragon (vid)
I'm that delighted "Beyonce???" meme but "Dragon!Jaskier????" instead. I love non-human Jaskier, I love the way this vid reimagines the dragon hunt and an alternate meeting for Geralt and Jaskier, I love Borch being his dad, I love Geralt being protective, I love Geralt agreeing to the dragon hunt because he's horny for Jaskier...I have rewatched this fake trailer like 20 times.
Doctor Who/Lilo & Stitch
xslytherclawx: all kinds (or: an alien sighting in hawaii) (fic)
- I want recursive fanwork about one or more of the main characters in this fanwork (gen)
I did not know that Donna & Stitch was a combination I needed until I read this fic during noms, but here we are. My fondest, wildest dream is for Donna (and the Doctor) to run into each other again in space when Stitch is in trouble and help him, or for them to help each other. But Donna and Stitch hanging out on the beach in Hawaii would also be a wonderful fun time!
Chronicles of Narnia/Game of Thrones
Silver_Queen_DoS: Kings And Queens (fic)
- I want recursive fanwork about one or more of the main characters in this fanwork (gen)
I almost always find Sansa compelling but I especially find her compelling in this fic. I would love more about her teaching the Pevensies about running a castle and not getting totally fucked by their royal neighbors, and I would love to see her slowly relax with all of the siblings! Does Peter come to trust Lady? Does Sansa sound the alarm about Prince Rabadash long before the Pevensies would have noticed something wrong in canon? Do the Pevensies learn about the absolute mess Sansa came from?
If you want to timeskip or cover a good deal of time, I would be interested in Sansa/Any Pevensie, but only if they're not children — everyone above 16 years old is good enough for me.
