Thank you so much for writing a story or making art about my favorite characters - I created a Dreamwidth account just for this, haha
My general Likes/Loves/DNWs/Tropes/etc are available below as well as fandom specific ones, but details/suggestions are just that - suggestions! Feel free to take what you need/want, but if you have your own ideas, go for it as long as you respect my DNWs!
Treats are more than welcome from anyone and I would be so stoked - the more the merrier!
Some of the following notes may be specific to fic writers vs artists, but if there is any confusion or if you need to ask questions/check in about anything, you are more than welcome to reach out to me through a mod! <3
General Likes/Loves:I particularly love getting together fics, but I also enjoy an established relationship as long as it's got something to drive the story forward! Basically, I love some conflict - as long as there's a happy ending (this doesn't have to mean everything is perfect for everyone involved, but as long as my ship has a happy ending/is together/things end in a good place for them, I'm happy!). As for ratings, anything is fine - smut is welcome, but is not required. Third person POV is the one thing I'm firm on - I really don't care for first/second person in fanfiction.
As for specific content that I enjoy: Yearning. My soul for yearning. Mutual Pining. Incredible. I love banter/witty dialogue - generally my favorite characters tend to have that about them so when it gets incorporated in fics I really love it. I also love an ensemble story so if there's other characters/ships featured in the background, that's always fun, but is not a requirement by any means. I really love when a character who has a lot of pressure on them - either from those around them or that they put on themselves - is made to rest/let someone else take care of them for awhile. I also enjoy when characters are made to question concepts and/or parts of their identities in ways that could drastically alter the trajectory of their lives. Love kissing/cuddling and if you want to write/draw smut, it can be tender or kinky or both - whatever you desire as long as my DNWs are kept out of it. Love road trip fics. I know it's losing favor for understandable reasons but I do love a miscommunication/poor communication causing problems kind of fics. For established relationships, I love seeing people learning how to be together in new ways like moving in together for example, or foraying into polyamory and learning how to be a good and loving partner to more than one person.
I feel like I'm rambling now so I'll stop, haha, it's just difficult to say "what I like" in fan content because
I'm generally pretty easy to please - I like most things outside of my DNWs. So just because I don't mention it specifically here or in the fandom/ship specific notes, that doesn't mean it's not something I'm interested in! Feel free to reach out to ask!
Favorite Tropes (in no particular order):This is another one that just because it's not listed here doesn't mean I don't like it! Feel free to ask if you're unsure about something that's not on the list! But for now here's a list to start with:
- Slow burn
- Friends to lovers
- Enemies to lovers
- Annoyances to lovers
- Fake relationship turns real
- And there was only one bed!
- Miscommunication/poor communication forcing a conflict to come to a head
- "Let me take care of you" someone who needs it being forced to rest/take a break
- Time loops
- Road trip fics
- Person A sees Person B kissing/hooking up with/etc someone else and is forced to the uncomfortable realization of how into Person B they are/how they can't keep hiding from themself if they're repressed/etc.
- Huddling for warmth turning into cuddling into kissing and maybe into more if you'd like!
- Hurt/Comfort (as long as there's plenty of comfort + a happy ending!)
- Relationship dynamics growing/developing
- Genderfuckery
- Sex Pollen (though I'd prefer there be an at least semi-plausible within canon explanation behind it)
General Do Not Wants:This is everything I can think of for now, though I may come back to this and edit it if I think of others.
- Modern/Mundane AUs or AUs that leave the canon setting entirely - Canon divergence is fine, but all of the fandoms I've requested are ones that I prefer in the general canon universe.
- Character bashing where undeserved / overly comedic characterizations / etc. Fandom/ship notes may have specifics on this.
- Unhappy endings
- Hurt w/ no comfort
- Major Character Death
- Gen Fic
- Unrequited/one-sided love between chosen ship characters (side/background characters are fine)
- First or Second POV or Reader inserts
- Non-Con (dub-con okay, but if it's particularly dubious maybe check in with me first)
- A/B/O (I don't hate this inherently but I'm incredibly picky about it so I'd prefer not to receive it from a stranger/someone anonymous)
- Mpreg
- Genderbending (making a character trans/nonbinary is totally fine, but I do not want "has always been x gender" type of gender bending.
- Abuse / Violence / Gore (with the exception that canon typical blood/violence/etc is fine)
- Smut involving bodily waste/fluids
- Outsider POV
- Dark Fic / Hopeless Endings
Fandom/Ship Specific Notes: (might make new posts and link to them from this post for each fandom since I can't put cuts within cuts apparently but i'll deal w that tomorrow)I have many M*A*S*H ships and while I don't have specific thoughts about every single one, here are some M*A*S*H specific likes/loves and DNWs, as well as some specifics about some of the ships included in my request!
General M*A*S*H Likes/Loves:All from general + two grown ass dudes sharing a single person army cot, R&R together, secret relationships, Hawktrap and/or Swamp Rats shenanigans, Mutual Pining, keeping things generally believable to the time period, though pre-war (for some ships), during canon (for all), and post-war (for most) are all fine! Genderfuckery specifically wrt Hawkeye is loved but not required. The whole "Forcing person A (cough, hawkeye, cough) to let Person B take care of them" trope is a big one for me in this fandom. Found family is a huge part of why I love M*A*S*H so that being included is always a plus.
Unsure if this should be in likes or do not wants haha, it's kind of an in between note, so I'll put it here: If you're going to have a Peg or Louise be included in the story but not as a part of a polyamorous relationship, I prefer that they be allowed to have agency/a personality over handwaving any conflict away, so either let things be messy on screen or off (whether things between her and her husband end amicably or not) or don't make her part of the story at all. Happy to elaborate on this if you have questions, though there are some more specific notes further down when I talk about the poly ships including Peg or Louise!
General M*A*S*H Do Not Wants:
- Everything from main DNW list
- Character bashing (with the exception of Frank) and villainizing characters for the benefit of others (specifically: Trapper. As someone who genuinely likes both Traphawk and Hunnihawk, it really bothers me when people villainize him or paint him as someone who didn't really care for Hawkeye just to make BJ look good/like a knight in shining armor to Hawkeye's damsel in distress. It's one thing for that to be BJ's perception/mental image of Trapper before meeting him, but it should be clear in the narrative that that's just his perception and not reality).
- Intense physical whump beyond exhaustion/fatigue/types of things that happen in canon. Someone getting injured in the line of duty (but ending up fine) is fine. Torture/gore/extreme direct violence/etc is not fine.
- (I may add more later but this is what I can think of now)
Favorite Episodes:
I saw some people mention this and thought it was a good idea, but because I included so many ship options in my request, it felt a bit impractical to compile a full list for every ship haha. That said, feel free to reach out to me through a mod if you'd like to ask about my fav episodes for any particular ship! I'd be happy to send you a list!
Kinks (feel free to Ignore if you don't want to write smut):
- Pregnancy kink/breeding kink for Hawkeye specifically, for obvious reasons
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- TO BE CONTINUED I'M GOING TO SLEEP
Even if the end goal is a polyamorous ship (unless the marriage was open/polyamorous to begin with), I don't want it to feel like a bandaid solution to make the husband and his new partner (probably Hawkeye, lets be real) feel better about it, especially if they got together before telling her/her husband was essentially cheating on her.
Thank you again! I can't wait to see what you come up with <3
NOT DONE YET, POSTING UNFINISHED TO LINK IN MY SUBMISSIONS!