Libby

Hi! First of all, thanks for taking a look at my letter! I’ve tried to give a few ideas and guidelines as to what I like here, but please don’t feel the need to stick rigidly to anything. If you have a story you just feel I’ll like, please go ahead with it!

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Likes

General

For content, I’m absolutely fine with tooth-rotting fluff up to quite considerable angst, though if possible I’d prefer to have a bittersweet or vaguely hopeful ending. I’m fine with angst and darker themes (and have a few prompts which would work with that) but I’m not really looking for darkfic for this exchange.

This is a list of themes/tropes I really love, which may not be at all relevant to your fic (they’re not really related to smut) but may help you out in some capacity: characters fighting against/changing fate, everything about survival (what it means, how it changes you, the lengths you went to), the pressures and struggles of leadership, two people against the world together, found family anything, harsh/beautiful (or harshly beautiful) physical landscapes, gifts or gestures with intense or very personal meanings, anything where characters just get one another, characters who grapple with becoming evil or doing evil deeds, villains who believe they’re in the right, villains who just don’t care about morality, characters who are determined hope will prevail above all else, characters who really feel the weight of their heritage/someone's legacy and a pressure to live up to that.

Relationship Themed Trope Likes

Seemingly Unrequited Pining, Friends to Lovers, Fake Dating/Fake Marriage Accidentally Turns Into Feelings, Battle Couple, Everyone Can See It, Like An Old Married Couple

Porn Likes

I really love porn that’s about the characters and centres their relationship. Emotionally charged, desperate, I-need-you-it-can’t-wait sex is fantastic! Sex that’s the culmination of a slow burn and/or a really intense bout of UST is my absolute jam. I’m pretty vanilla when it comes to things like BDSM, so anything beyond blindfolds and tying up wrists is a no-go for me. I’m not really into dom/sub dynamics, but a bit of dirty talk is great. A bit of rough sex – hair-pulling, pushing up against walls, scratching/biting, not being 100% gentle all the time is also very good ;) Also, anything I’ve listed as a kink in that particular ship’s section is of course up for grabs; combine and use as you like.

DNWs

Scat + watersports, excessive gore (injuries happening is fine, injuries dwelt on in loving detail is not), incest, underage, character-bashing, non-con, dub-con (excluding things like sex pollen/X made them do it scenarios), strict BDSM relationships, de-aging, humiliation

Fandoms

Critical Role

Fjord/Caleb Widogast:

Accidental Magic During Sex, Anal Sex, Casual sex leading to feelings, Comfort Sex, Competence Kink, Courtship/Wooing, Desk/Table Sex, Desperate Sex, Fake/Pretend Relationship, Friends to Lovers, Hair-pulling, Height Differences, Ice Play, Magic Made Them Do It, Magical Experimentation, Praise Kink, Mysteriously Appearing Shop Full Of Magic Sexual Enhancements And Naughty Spellbooks, Rough Sex, Sex After Fighting/Battle, sex in a cabin, Sex Magic, Sex Pollen, Sex while injured, Sharing a Bed, Sharing Body Heat, sparring leads to sex, Thank God We're Alive Sex, Undercover as a Couple, Wall Sex

Anything about these two getting into shenanigans (or getting dragged into shenanigans), their growing attraction, or just the culmination of that growing attraction! Some of these obviously go together quite well – e.g., ‘magical experimentation’ and ‘ice play’ – using an ice spell in bed? ‘sharing body heat’ ‘sharing a bed’ and ‘sex in a cabin’ – classic ‘Canadian shack’ fic? (Who knows what the Exandrian equivalent of Canada is!). ‘sex while injured’ ‘thank god we’re alive sex’ and ‘sex after a battle’ would all fit together for some angsty, I-can’t-believe-we-survived-that-I-need-to-admit-my-feelings type sex. Essentially I threw a load of my favourite freeform tags from the list on here and I’d love to see something about them admitting their feelings, getting into trouble (and out of it), or just simply getting it on!

Sylas Briarwood/Delilah Briarwood

Blindfolds, Blood Magic, Codependency, Cunnilingus, Desk/Table Sex, fang kink, Hair-pulling, Handcuffs, Ice Play, Magical Experimentation, Manhandling/Shows of Athleticism During Sex, Pegging, Possessive Behavior, Rough Sex, Sex After Fighting/Battle, Sex Magic, Wall Sex

I want these two be their evil, ambitious selves while also being 100% in love with each other. There’s several tags about magic in there, so a fic where they experiment with what magic can do during sex would be amazing (Delilah learning and testing out new spells? Vampire powers?) (Also I can’t remember if blood magic is really a thing in DnD but, hey, this is fic, go wild xD). Maybe what sex is like after becoming a vampire? What’s new and different? Celebration sex after something goes right/they fuck someone over? Pegging in any capacity?

Zahra Hydris/Kashaw Vesh

Accidental Magic During Sex, Blindfolds, Competence Kink, Courtship/Wooing, Desk/Table Sex, Cunnilingus, Friends to Lovers, Ice Play, Pegging, Sex After Fighting/Battle, Magical Experimentation, Manhandling/Shows of Athleticism During Sex, Sex Magic, Sex while injured, Spanking, sparring leads to sex, Wall Sex

Most of these tags, in my mind, lend themselves to PWP, so go wild with that if that’s your thing, author. All of the magical experimentation/sex magic/accidental magic your mind can make up, if that’s where you’d like to go. Honestly I’d love to see anything where these two enjoy themselves and each other (especially you Kash. Crack a smile hun xD). And like. Spanking. Zahra’s tail. I’m just saying ;) I’d also love something that involved the courtship/wooing + friends to lovers tags, since they must have had many moments alone that VM didn’t see. Falling in love fic, anyone? xD

Star Wars: The Clone Wars

CT-7567 | Rex/Ahsoka Tano

Competence Kink, Cunnilingus, Desk/Table Sex, Desperate Sex, Friends to Lovers, Manhandling/Shows of Athleticism During Sex, Pegging, Reunion Sex, Sex After Fighting/Battle, Sex Pollen, Sex while injured, sparring leads to sex, Thank God We're Alive Sex, Undercover as a Couple, Wall Sex

I just love these two together. I love them being badasses together in any capacity, and respecting each other because of their badassery (competence kink is a huge one here). Perhaps sex after coming back from a really dangerous mission? Admitting to feelings after thinking one or the other was dead? Getting hit with sex pollen while on a mission? Going on a mission where they have to pose as a couple? Also I’m eternally sad we didn’t get to see the Siege of Mandalore arc on screen, so reunion sex there perhaps? Or admitting their feelings after everything goes down with the birth of the Empire? An AU where they run off together to fight the Empire?

Re: my underage DNW: I don’t mind if you want to disregard that here, I’d prefer you just be vague about how old anyone is. I’d also strongly prefer if fic was set towards the end of the series and beyond, or at least after Ahsoka changed to the older-looking model.

Star Wars Prequel Trilogy

Obi-Wan Kenobi/Anakin Skywalker

Anal Sex, Angry Sex, Casual sex leading to feelings, Codependency, Comfort Sex, Competence Kink, Desk/Table Sex, Desperate Sex, Forbidden/Secret Relationships, Hair-pulling, Height Differences, Possessive Behavior, Praise Kink, Rough Sex, Sex After Fighting/Battle, Sex Pollen, Sex while injured, Sexual Fantasy, sparring leads to sex, Thank God We're Alive Sex, Undercover as a Couple, Wall Sex

These two are awful and I love them, honestly. I love how they feel so deeply for each other but god, they just can not effectively communicate. Angst about being Jedi while still having feelings/sex is A++. ‘Possessive Behavior’ was a tag made for Anakin Skywalker, especially if he doesn’t really realize he’s doing it/has good intentions behind it. ‘Codependency’ is just…their entire messy relationship, really. Fic where Obi-Wan is aware this is probably not the best way of going about things, but fuck, the war is fucking up everything, he’ll deal with it later, is amazing. Mission fic is great, as is sex post- or during-mission fic. ‘Praise kink’ is on there because damn, someone needs to tell Anakin Skywalker that he’s doing a good job, okay? Someone needs to tell him. Feel free to get tropey with ‘undercover as a couple’ and ‘sex pollen’ – or have ‘casual sex leading to feelings’ get combined with ‘sex pollen’? Anything you like. Also an optional prompt: I love the idea of a canon divergence AU where the Republic becomes the Empire and yet Anakin doesn’t fall to the dark side, and he and Obi-Wan go off somewhere together, so play with that if you’d like! (Might be perfect for the ‘comfort sex’ tag).

Re: Padmé: I really like her, so I’d her not to be vilified/be the bad guy in any way. I’d love it if she and Anakin were friends, whether they had a previous relationship or not.

A Song of Ice and Fire

Alys Karstark/Sigorn of Thenn

Courtship/Wooing, Cunnilingus, First Time, Wedding Night is Their First Time, Wedding Night Sex

This is a pretty simple request: what is their first night like? First time nerves? Cultural differences? Anything about cultural differences and/or looking past/getting over previous hatreds from their cultures on both sides would be awesome.

Re: my underage DNW: you can disregard it in this particular instance.

Jaime Lannister/Brienne of Tarth

Competence Kink, Cunnilingus, Desk/Table Sex, Desperate Sex, Enemies to Friends to Lovers, Forbidden/Secret Relationships, Loyalty Kink, Religious Guilt During Sex, Reunion Sex, Sex After Fighting/Battle, Sex while injured, Sharing a Bed, sparring leads to sex, Thank God We're Alive Sex

So Enemies to Friends to Lovers is a big Thing for me and I love that at least the Enemies to Friends part is essentially canon for these two. Their journey from antagonistic prisoner and jailor to Jaime dropping everything to just follow Brienne into the night is like catnip for me. I’d really like for fic to be set post where we’re currently up to in canon. I don’t mind how you’d like that to look – obviously there’s the question of whatever Brienne’s up to, lying to Jaime about finding Sansa, but I’d like to think she’s not betraying him to Lady Stoneheart (please. My heart can’t take it ;_;) Feel free to deal with what happens right after Jaime goes off with her, or have the fic set further into the future – feel free to handwave some things if you want to and set it as far into the future as you want, basically. Optional idea, but I’d be really into a fic where they end up across the Narrow Sea, either because they’re running from everything, or maybe they’re somehow looking for Arya, whatever you think might get them there. The ‘sharing a bed’ tag I mostly put in for that scenario, assuming they’d be dealing with limited resources. I’ll admit I put desk/table sex in there thinking about that table in the Kingsguard tower, though I realize that might be a hard place to set it post-current canon xD Competence kink because Brienne can fight well and I think Jaime Appreciates That. For the ‘religious guilt’ tag, I think that’s mostly from Brienne’s POV, and might feed into the ‘secret relationship’ tag, though that tag might be instead because premarital sex is looked down upon in Westeros (I’m assuming they’re not married, because I don’t really see it happening, at least not in a ‘Happy Ever After get married and live in a castle somewhere’ way. A secret marriage, on the other hand? I could be down for that. A marriage where it’s just them and a priest, after they’ve fled the burning wreckage of Westeros? Definitely). Reunion sex assumes they’ve been apart for [insert reason here] – I don’t really need the details (though if you want to provide a long, detailed plot, I would be so down for it), sex after a long time apart is just my jam. Post-battle/injured/celebratory sex is also awesome, and there’s of course lots of opportunity for it in ASOIAF. ‘Sparring leads to sex’ was me specifically thinking of Brienne helping Jaime learn to fight with his left hand, which I would love to see.

Jon Connington/Rhaegar Targaryen

Anal Sex, Desk/Table Sex, Desperate Sex, Fealty, Hair Braiding, Hair Kink, Forbidden/Secret Relationships, Loyalty Kink, Manhandling/Shows of Athleticism During Sex, Religious Guilt During Sex, Sex After Fighting/Battle, Sex while injured, Sexual Fantasy, Shame in Sexual Desires, Titles/Honorifics Kink, Wall Sex

Essentially all the loyalty kink, prince/loyal knight tropes here (and hair kink, because Rhaegar’s nice hair). I like the interpretation that Rhaegar did care about the people around him, though had a tendency to obsess over something to the detriment of those people, and make bad, morally questionable decisions (see: Lyanna). Basically, I want a realistic but not entirely-an-asshole interpretation of Rhaegar. The view we get of him is often through rose-tinted glasses (at least from Jon and Dany’s POVs), but equally there must have been reasons he was well-liked, imo. I don’t really mind at what point in canon you set this. I’m basically here for all the forbidden/secret relationship tropes combined with the loyalty kink; these two putting up a façade of being nothing more than friends while fucking behind closed doors, essentially. For ‘shame in sexual desires’ I was thinking mostly of the shame of desiring someone you’re supposed to have a professional relationship with, though I wouldn’t be opposed to religious guilt being combined with it. I included ‘sexual fantasy’ because honestly if the entire fic was Jon having a very vivid fantasy/dream about Rhaegar (and feeling ashamed about it), that would be more than enough for me (and I know I said I wanted bittersweet endings, but you can pretty much disregard that for this prompt – all the unfulfilled, tragic love for this ship, I want it).

Stand Still Stay Silent

Sigrun Eide/Emil Västerström

Competence Kink, Cunnilingus, Hair-pulling, Pegging, Mentor/Protégé, Praise Kink

I see this as a relationship that matures from and builds on the mentor/protégé thing they’ve started in canon. Doesn’t necessarily have to have All The Romantic Feelings; for this ship I’m perfectly happy with them being Friends With Benefits who just have fun, enthusiastic, enjoyable sex every so often. I’d love pegging (though you don’t have to go there!), especially combined with hair-pulling, kinking off being mentor and protégé/Emil learning from older, more experienced Sigrun.

Spirited Away

Haku/Chihiro

Courtship/Wooing, Cunnilingus, Hair Braiding, Reunion Sex, Size Kink, Wall Sex, Xeno

I’d love a fic where they meet again – whether it’s Haku coming to the mortal world or Chihiro returning to the spirit world. Maybe Chihiro being some kind of go-between, between the mortal and spirit worlds? Basically I’d just love a fic with these two grown-up, meeting again (reunion sex, anyone?). I included ‘hair-braiding’ because I was thinking about the significance of Chihiro’s friends making her the hairtie, and how that could be thematically included in fic (and also obvs because I love hair braiding!).

I included the ‘size kink’ and ‘xeno’ tags because y’know, Haku is technically a dragon. If you wanted to go there…I would definitely not be opposed to that. (Sex while in dragon form? Half-dragon form? Whatever other spirit-related weirdness? Go there. Go wild). I will be equally absolutely happy with smut where Haku is in human form, so please don’t feel like you have to use the xeno prompt if you don’t want to.



And that's it! I hope this gives you something to work with, and I hope you enjoy writing your fic!