captaingondolin | General likes - PERPETUAL WORK IN PROGRESS

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Tropes

Taking care of each other
Fix it fics
Time travel/dimension jumping/meeting selves from another universe or timeline
Angst with a happy ending (LOTS of angst is fine)
Characters going through a lot of self doubt, insecurity, shifting worldview/values
follow up from previous point: identity issues (characters finding out their place in the world, discovering something new about themselves - a Star Wars example would be someone discovering late in life they are Force-sensitive and dealing with what it means for them, things like that. Clones finding an identity outside their role as soldiers is always cool too!)
World building with exploration of specific cultural mores (I wrote this thinking of Star Wars species/planets, but pretty much anything works)
Friendship
Platonic intimacy (full on koala cuddles a bonus. Clones cuddle piles always welcome)
Fluff
Banter ♥
Kid fic/curtain fic
Battle couples ♥♥♥
Adventure/fighting
Someone getting injured and still trying to fight/protect others ♥
Characters being protective of each other
Competence kink ♥
Proposals/weddings & the otp (or polycule! gimme all the 2+ weddings!) calling each other husbands/wife a lot
Getting old together

Hurt/comfort with tons of comfort, working through issues with someone supportive (friend or partner)
Bed sharing (either completely platonic or as a get together device)
Fake relationship
Role reversals or swaps
Wings
Self-sacrificing characters

Cooking for someone as a form of love

NSFW/kink stuff

Rough sex ♥
Spanking ♥
Sparring that turns into sex ♥
Weapon kink
Breathplay
Rope bondage ♥
D/s
Nipple piercings
Dirty talk
Rimming
Wing!king with oil glands and the works

Boot worship ♥

DNW (most of these are not hard DNW, it's mostly on how a lot of tropes are handled)

Death fics. If someone dies it's fine, I just don’t enjoy fics that are solely about mourning and sadness.
Jealousy
Accidental/involuntary voyeurism and similarly embarrassing moments
Misunderstandings and miscommunication as driving plot points. A and B are fucking but both are convinced to be just a booty call for the other when they are actually secretly in love and don't talk about it for absolutely no reason? Thanks but no thanks. A and B were about to discuss feelings but were called away by an emergency and angst ensues? That's totally fine. Just as long as the characters aren't idiots about it.

Excessive mutual pining

Shipping

I like getting back together stories, which is something I don't see often enough, as well as enjoying everything from slow burn to tumbling into bed together on the first meeting.

Although what I’d like to see every now and then is characters /not/ having sex as soon as they’ve declared their feelings, especially if it’s taken them a long time and they had reasons to be hesitant. Give me the weeks of kissing and hugging!

I appreciate exes who part amiably and dislike character bashing for shipping.

Polyamory is always good, be it in ot3 (or more) form or in the way of having open couples/polycules, V shaped relationship (with two people dating one person but not each other) and many other combinations.

Consent

No non-con between the main pairing. Background/offscreen and fallout from it is okay, though not my favourite thing. Dub-con situations are fine as long as there isn't malicious intent (not sure how to explain this in a way that makes sense). For example: Character A is drunk off their ass/high/hallucinating, Character B doesn't realise it, makes a move and they fuck: fine, perfect! Maybe it was okay, maybe it was a bad idea and they deal with the consequences. In any case, okay for me. But if Character B knows full well and wants to take advantage: please don't. This includes things like sex pollens/heat fics/ABO/someone made them do it or whatever. Basically, as long as the parts of the OTP aren't shitheads towards each other, anything goes.