Transfic Exchange Letter 2025

[harlow_turner_chaotic_ace]

Dear Transfic Exchange Creator:

Thank you for creating for me! Here you will find my likes and DNW.

General Likes

• Setting change AUs! I'm not huge on some of the really common mundane AUs (like coffee shop, high school, etc...unless they aren't written as mundane!) but I love stuff like dystopian/apocalyptic AUs, vampire AUs, werewolf AUs, military AUs, scientist AUs, medical/hospital AUs, military AUs, and high fantasy AUs.
• Some romance tropes I love: getting together, idiots in love/idiots to lovers, 'love spells' that turn out to be truth spells, cuddling together, old married couple (either literally or just acting like one), marriage proposals, enemies/rivals to lovers, one partner taking care of the other when they're sick, battle couple/throuple, playful banter/snark, friends to lovers, enemies to friends to lovers.
• I love polyamorous ships! Here are some of my favorite ships for OT3s/polycules/etc! Cuddling together in one big bed, polycule that is all a team/works together (like a monster hunting squad or the crew of a spaceship), battle throuple/polycule (yes I mentioned it before but I love this trope so much!), bringing someone new into the polycule/relationship, poly marriage.
• Plotty fics! Whether gen/ensemble or shippy, plotty fics, casefic, mystery, etc are all beloved by me!
• I also love me a good gen fic! Casefic, ensemble fics, monster of the week plots... I love them all!
• Art likes: Generally I like a more realistic style as opposed to cartoony but honestly I'm good with both, bold bright colors, black and white with just one color accent.

Trans/Gender Likes:

• I am such a huge fan of exploration of transness (especially for nonbinary, genderqueer, genderfluid, and other NB identities ) where the character doesn't want to medically transition, and maybe only "passes" as their AGAB. I feel like I don't see a ton of it in fic but and I would love to see more of it. 
• Trans joy, gender euphoria, characters having fun and embracing their identities, stories with hope.
• That trope where a chacters gets kidnapped or otherwise whumped and the kidnapper/whumper may be evil but like. They aren't transphobic. And they support the other character being trans. Heck, maybe they are trans themself!
• For pronouns like... seriously do whatever. "Gendered" pronouns, they/them, neo-pronouns, changing pronouns for genderfluid characters... it's all good. The only one I personally don't really want to read it is "it/its" (see my DNW).

Smut likes:

• Blood drinking/biting/bloodplay (in ships involving vampires)
• Bondage
• Dom/sub. For m/f I prefer the woman be the dominant and the male the submissive.
• Urethral sounding
• Uniform kink: Scientist, medical, military, lab coats, nitrile exam gloves.
• Impact play/pain play
• Petplay, especially kitten play
• Mommykink (as long as it doesn't go into full on age play)
• Sex pollen, sex magic, ritual sex, fuck or die
• Zero G/levitating sex/sex in space
• Wax play
• Mirror sex
• Temperature play
• Ice play
• Roleplay
• Scientist kink
• Medical kink
• Military kink
• Gun kink
• Characters having fun during sex
• Healthy kink/BDSM, characters having safewords, checking in on each other during sex, etc
• Dubcon
• Threesomes/foursomes/moresomes/orgy
• Very niche thing I love. Scientist/doctor x immortal/someone with a healing factor who will survive/heal: consensual vivisection. It's a great mix of sexy/sexual and "I need to study you and find out how you work!" Goes great with some scientist kink. Also on a more general note: getting horny about surgery in general.

Canon specific likes: Buffyverse

• S4 plots involving the Initiative
• High school/college years (S1-4)

Buffyverse Ship/Character Likes:

• Spike/Angel: I love about anything for them! The history! The banter and snark! I love them! Feel free to write Spike as genderqueer/gnc as well if you like.
• Genderfluid!Angel: Angel reads very genderfluid to me. Would love anything incorporating this HC. Prophecies/spells/magic involving gender, the AI crew supporting trans!Angel, anything really.
• Lindsey/Lilah: I think they would be very fun together, and I kinda vibe with FTM!Lindsey.
• Buffy/Riley: I love them, your honor. They are soooo underrated. I like them cute and fluffy, I like whump for them, and I love a happy ending for them. I am also down for the two tags to be sorta combined into NB!Buffy/FTM!Riley (I'm also down for genderqueer!Buffy as well)
  
• Buffy/Maggie: I am. Unwell about them in the best way possible. Student/teacher stuff, kidnapping, maybe some shady science experiments... oh yeah. Also please feel free to go for fluffy romance if you want, I do like that for them. Or whumpier, weirder stuff. It's all great! I especially like "gender affirming mad science" or "Trans character is kidnapped; kidnapper may be evil but they're not transphobic" for them, or even "two characters realizing the other is trans like spiderman pointing meme" for them.
• Maggie: I love her so so so much she is blorbo. You understand. Anything Maggie-centric I will love love love
• Riley & Agender!Dawn: They could have such a cute friendship. Just. Riley and Dawn as friends. Background Briley is nice but not required by any means.
• I have a preference for AFAB!Buffy Summers and AFAB!Non-op!Maggie, but that's just a preference so feel free to not do that if you like something else better.

Canon specific likes: The Sims

• I prefer TS2 and TS3 canon to TS4. Strangetown is my favorite TS2 neighborhood, in TS2 I love Lunar Lakes, Sunset Valley, Moonlight Falls, and Bridgeport. In TS4 I like Strangerville, Moonwood Mill, and Forgotten Hollow.
• Occult Sims (vampires, ghosts, aliens, werewolves, etc)

Sims Ship Likes: 

• Circe/Loki: I love the most sickeningly cute yet evil stuff. They are such an evil power couple. And they are cute. Also, I love to see bisexual!Circe Beaker.

Canon Specific Likes: Star Trek (TOS and TNG)

• Canon typical shenanigans
• Gen/ensemble plots that feel like episodes
• Team as family is especially welcome for these fandoms
• Honestly I am not that picky with these fandoms. My general likes are a good place to start.
• Trans specific things I like: advanced tech and how that effects transitioning, alien ideas of gender and sexuality 

ST: TOS Ship likes

• McSpirk: Honestly I'm very much not picky when it comes to these three. I like getting together plots or established relationship, shenanigans, banter, and of course hurt/comfort 
• Spones: See above, except like. Probably more banter.
• McCoy/Chapel: I love them as coworkers to lovers, I love hurt/comfort for them... once again not very picky. I'll love it all.
• I do have a preference for AMAB!Non-op!Spock but that's just a preference, if you vibe with something different then by all means, do that instead.
• I am very down for asexuality/ace-spectrum headcanons for Kirk, Spock, and McCoy. I'm especially partial to any of them written as asexual or demisexual. 

ST: TNG Ship Likes

• Deanna/Tasha/Beverly and all the sub-pairs within (the throuple is my fav but I love all the ships): I am (unsurprisingly) not picky! I really like them as coworkers to lovers, flirting, shenanigans, hurt/comfort, all of that.
• Tasha: Tasha is very Gender to me. I love demigirl or genderfluid interpretations of her, and vibe most with AFAB!Tasha (i also vibe most with AFAB!Deanna too). I also love lesbian!Tasha too. 

Crossover Ship: Buffy/Kirk

• Ah yes, my weird crossover ship. However you want to get them in the same universe/time period works. AUs, time travel... whatever.  I just think they're cute. Also down for NB!Buffy or genderqueer!Buffy for this request.

General DNW

• Specifically for this exchange: Unrequested trans/Nonbinary/etc characters. Transphobia/queerphobia, purposeful/malicious misgendering (accidental is fine), hate crimes. It/its pronouns used for trans character. 
• hurt/no comfort (hurt/comfort with a focus on the hurt is very welcome, as long as there's some comfort/a hopeful ending)
• Violent noncon (dubcon via "no, no, yes", sex pollen, fuck or die etc are all fine.)
• permanent character death, unhappy/tragic endings, breakup fics, cheating/infidelity.
• Extreme underage sex (under 15). Characters under 15 being paired with adults. (Characters who are under 15 being paired with other children/teens is fine, I love childhood crush type stuff. Aged up characters are also A-OK with me!)
• Jellyfish, bugs, spiders, and other creepy-crawlies,
• Ageplay, ABDL, diapers, age regression ("magically turned into a child temporarily" plots are fine, but please no age regression in a coping mechanism/trauma related or kinky way)
• Raceplay
• Watersports, scat, vomit, body fluids other than blood and sexual fluids
• Cock worship
• Weight gain kink, feederism, feeder/eater relationships
• Bashing of any character/ship
• real world politics/political issues, homophobia/transphobia/queerphobia, unrequested transgender/nonbinary headcanons (canon trans/enby characters or OCs are fine), mental health issues, issues with body image, chronic/terminal illness/cancer and COVID-19 (sickfic with cold, flu, etc is welcome, including plots revolving around finding a cure for an illness or poison).
• unrequested ships (exceptions are background ships that were canon, as long as they aren't the main focus of the work)
• weight headcanons (characters who are fat in canon being written/drawn as thin, or vice versa), 
• animal harm/cruelty/abuse/death
• Cakeverse AUs, cannibalism (blood drinking in the context of vampires, whether it be canon vampires or a vampire AU, is welcome.), vore.
• Unhealthy relationships that enter abusive territory (beating the partner, gaslighting, etc) (unhealthy relationships are welcome, including unequal power dynamics, under-negotiated BDSM, teacher/student, boss/employee, that's all fine).
• Excessive sexual humor (a few sexual jokes/innuendos are alright, as is characters laughing and having fun during sex, but please no works where all the humor revolves around jokes about sex and/or genitalia).
• Explicit 'onscreen' BDSM/kink negotiations. I'm fine with characters practicing safe BDSM and healthy kink, using safewords, checking in on each other during play, etc (in fact I like this a lot!) as long as the actual pre-play negotiation is kept 'offscreen'.
• BDSM contracts. Related to the above, but I'd prefer if these didn't come up at all.

Canon Specific DNW: Buffyverse

• NOTPs: Riley/Harmony, Riley/Forrest, any shipping fic for Anya, Tara, or Xander unless specifically requested (canon background ships are fine, such as Xander/Anya and Tara/Willow. For Xander specifically I do like Xander/Drusilla), Angel/Cordelia, Angel/Wesley, Buffy/Spike. 
• Soulless vampires being overly moral or good.
• Maggie Walsh as a villain/antagonist. It's fine if she does some shady things in the name of science but I don't want her written as a complete sadist or an abusive partner.

Canon Specific DNW: The Sims

• NOTPs: Pascal Curious/Nervous Subject
• Nervous Subject being written as very nice or sweet (he has zero nice points)
• The Beakers as villains/antagonists. It's fine if they do some evil science though.

Canon Specific DNW: Star Trek TOS

• Explicit sexual content (fade-to-black is fine)