Dear Original 5K Writer

[firecat]

Dear Original 5K Participant: Thank you for writing for me!

My AO3 name is firecat

My number one want: I hope you create something you enjoy, and have fun. I've included some prompts and likes in case you want something to start from, but it's absolutely fine with me if you want to go in a different direction.

Contents

• Likes
  • General Likes
  • Smut Likes
• Opt-ins
• DNWs
  • General DNWs
  • Smut DNWs
• Specific requests & prompts
  • Original Other Ships
  • Original Solo Ships
  • Original Mixed Ships
  • Original M/M Ships
  • Original F/M Ships
  • Original F/F Ships

Likes

Note: If something you want to write isn't in my likes, then as long as it's not in my DNWs, go right ahead.

General likes

• Animal AUs
• Body horror
• Characters:
  • Angsty characters
  • Badass characters
  • Competent characters
  • Canon characters
  • Original characters
  • "Reader" characters
• Developing/shifting relationships:
  • Enemies-to-friends-to-lovers
  • Fear-to-respect/liking/trust
  • Competitiveness-to-cooperation
  • Tribe/found family formation
• Dominance/power/toughness combined with tenderness
• Flirting
• Hurt/comfort
• Inner conflicts
• Loyalty
• Magic use
• Monsters, vampires, & hunters thereof
• Non-mainstream relationship structures:
  • Dom/sub
  • Friends with benefits
  • Non-sexual romance
  • Polyamory
• Queer, gender-variant, ace/aro characters
• Pining
• POVs:
  • 1st, 2nd, or 3rd person
  • Alternating
  • Multiple
  • Omniscient
• Sexual tension
• Shapeshifting, transformation
• Superpowers: godlike, mutant, supernatural, high-tech
• There was only one bed!!!
• Slow burn
• Whump
• Wings

Smut likes

• Any gender with any gender
• Bestiality
• Bloodplay, knifeplay
• Body hair, fur
• Body size diversity
• Body worship (of attractive characters and also characters who are fat/chubby, older, scarred, disabled, or otherwise not conventionally attractive)
• Bondage, restraint, chains, pillories, ropes, shackles
• Breast & nipple play
• Competitions, games, wrestling
• Consent:
  • Dubcon, reluctance, ambivalence (prefer sexual pleasure to be involved)
  • Enthusiastic consent, consent fetish
  • Noncon (someone needs to be getting sexual pleasure out of it)
• Dirty talk
• Fighting leads to sex
• First times
• Gang bangs
• Hate sex
• Healing sex
• Human–alien or alien–alien sex
• Impact play, especially with implements
• Kneeling
• Masochism, sadism (especially combining pain+pleasure)
• Oral sex
• Orgasm delay, multiple orgasms, improbably long orgasms
• Penetration
• Porn without plot; porn with feelings
• Power dynamics:
  • Dom/sub
  • Domming/topping from the bottom
  • Formal or information negotiation
  • Switching
  • Undernegotiation, with or without consequences
• Powered, godlike, or supernatural sexual abilities
• Public sex
• Sex magic, sex as part of ritual
• Sex pollen; fuck or die
• Sex with strangers
• Sexwork
• Silliness, laughter
• Teasing, orgasm delay (let them come eventually, please
• Tentacles
• Threesomes and moresomes
• Xeno

Opt-ins

These are tropes/content that often appear in DNW lists, but I'm fine with them.

• A/B/O
• Characters with alternate and/or "both" genitalia
• Graphic violence
• Incest (except parent/child incest, unless canon)
• Major injury

DNWs

General DNWs

(Note: I sometimes opt in to a DNW for a specific fandom. I intend to note those in the fandom-specific section. If I mess up, what's in the box on my signup is official.)

• Body/appearance negativity
• Children (15 and under) as major focus
• Homophobia
  • Period-typical attitudes OK, if not the focus
• Hopeless endings
• Incompatible sexual orientations as major focus
• Jealousy portrayed as proof of love
• Nonsentient animal harm or suffering
  • OK to describe predators hunting, but don't dwell on suffering of the prey
• Permanent maiming of named characters, unless canon
• Permanent death of named characters, unless canon
  • Ghosts, undead, or characters experiencing some other kind of afterlife are OK
• Pregnancy/childbirth as major focus
• Racism of humans against other humans
  • Human fear-driven negativity about extraterrestrials or humans with extra powers is OK
  • Aliens or fantasy races having negative attitudes about other aliens or fantasy races is OK
• Soulmate / soulbond AUs that are universally dyadic, heterosexual, mutual, and monogamous
  • Other types of soulmate / soulbond tropes are OK

Smut DNWs

• Body shaming, fat hate
• Emetophilia
• Feeding, stuffing, deliberate weight change kinks
• Humans aged 15 and under having sex
• Necrophilia
• Parent/child incest
• Scat
• Urine ("squirting" is OK)
• The words "slut" and "whore" applied to characters with vaginas by characters without vaginas

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Specific Requests & Prompts

This is a list of my requests, along with brief thoughts/suggestions for each. You don't need to follow the suggestions. If you have some other idea you like better for the requested ship, I hope you follow your muse.

Original Other Ships

Genders of the characters (including alien characters) can be anything you like. I've noted which ones I specifically requested smut for, vs. the ones where I'm also open to non-smut.

• Archaeologist/A Demon They Accidentally Summoned (smut pls)
• The archeologist's life wasn't going quite right. The demon might be able to help turn things around.
• Death Deity/Death Deity of Rival Religion Who Constantly Argues With Them (smut or non)
• What do they argue about? Do they have a disputed territory? Are they fighting over who gets to be in charge of certain souls? Do they disagree what experience the souls should have? Are these friendly arguments? Silly arguments? Serious ones? Do the arguments or their resolution affect humans, living or dead?
• Dolphin Researcher/Space Alien Disguised as a Dolphin (smut or non)
• I'm fascinated by the story of dolphin researcher Margaret Howe Lovatt. I would love a consensual-sex version of this story with a happier ending. See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Margaret_Howe_Lovatt (warning for activity which some might term bestiality, and animal death which some might term suicide).
• Explorer/Forgotten Deity of a Long Lost Shrine (smut pls)
• The explorer and the deity have something in common that causes them to find each other. Perhaps the explorer also feels "forgotten" and "long lost."
• Gladiator close to earning freedom/mistreated monster they're pitted against (smut pls)
• The gladiator thinks the monster has been mistreated. Does the monster know that? What do the other gladiators and monsters think?
• Human Pet Owner in Petplay Relationship/Their Sentient Alien Pet (smut pls)
• The human and pet belong to a community of humans and sentient alien pets. They have a web forum, and a curated list of retailers that offer their favorite equipment and costumes. They get together at munches and dungeons.
• Selkie/Marooned Person (smut pls)
• I requested several "sea creature/human" ships. I like it to be a little bit poignant, longing for someone who can't ever truly come home with you and vice versa. You can leave it poignant or have them figure out a way to be together.
• Shy Tentacle Monster Just Discovering Their Human Kink/Shameless Monsterfucker Human (smut pls)
• I can't decide if I want them to meet on the monster/monsterfucker version of Tinder or in the monsterfucking area of the local library.
• Sphinx/Adventurer who keeps getting riddles wrong (smut or non)
• No no. She does not "kill and eat" those who can't answer her riddles. That is a mistranslation of what actually happens.
• Sex Worker Who Specializes in First Experiences/Inexperienced Client (smut pls)
• The sex worker has freely chosen the work, in an AU where sex work is not maligned/illegal.
• Uber Driver/Space Alien(s) They Picked Up (smut or non)
• The driver posted about it on an Uber driver web forum. Perhaps a special subforum about sexual encounters between Uber drivers and clients.

Original Solo Ships

Gender(s) of the character can be anything you like. Smut or non-smut as you please.

• Death Deity Sick of Arguing With People Who Don't Want to Die
• I love the "O Death / Conversations With Death" folk song: https://www.metrolyrics.com/o-death-lyrics-ralph-stanley.html
• Professional Poker Player Who Has Just Acquired Cat Ears and a Tail
• How does one deal with new emotion-revealing body parts in a situation where revealing emotions can be a disadvantage?

Original Mixed Gen & Ship

Gender(s) of characters with no gender specified can be anything you like. Smut please.

• Female High School Student/Male Student Assigned Partner & Teacher of Hands on Sex Ed
• I'd like this story be mostly consensual, except for the skepticism that high school students have about everything they're expected to do at school.
• Long-suffering Cat Familiar that can Telepathically Communicate & Owner/Owner's Reluctant Soulmate
• Pining Neighbor/Pining Neighbor & cat who they both think is theirs
• Trainee witch/Her older female crush & Her exasperated matchmaking magical cat
• For the three prompts involving a cat, I'd love to have the POV of the cat, in first person or third person.

Original M/M Ships

Smut please.

• Dutiful slave trainer/War hero turned sex slave
• Well, something's gotta give here. Will the slave trainer question his duty? Will the former war hero find he enjoys aspects of his new role?
• Extremely Well-Endowed Manservant/Hostage Catboy Prince from Enemy Kingdom
• Mmm, size kink. Mmm, barbs.
• Human Owner/Catboy Slave He Acquired Unintentionally
• I really want to know how he acquired him "unintentionally."
• Sailor/Merman Who Rescues Him
• I requested several "sea creature/human" ships. I like it to be a little bit poignant, longing for someone who can't ever truly come home with you and vice versa. You can leave it poignant or have them figure out a way to be together.
• Scarred Warrior Working As A Bodyguard/Sarcastic Noble He's Assigned To Protect
• The nobleman is surprised to find out the bodyguard can give as good as he gets. And not only on the sarcasm.
• Selkie/Sailor
• I requested several "sea creature/human" ships. I like it to be a little bit poignant, longing for someone who can't ever truly come home with you and vice versa. You can leave it poignant or have them figure out a way to be together.
• Vampire/Werewolf that bond over being hunted by the same irritating hunter
• I'm dragging "fucking in the blood of your enemies" over from the latest smut exchange for this. (But they could express their irritation in other ways.)

Original F/M Ships

Smut please.

• Male Teachers/Female Student Sentenced to Public Use Detention
• Feel free to lean into the noncon/dubcon dirtybadwrong of this one. Although a consensual version would be intriguing too.
• Noblewoman/New Husband Who Is Secretly A Hereditary Werewolf
• Bring on the shapeshifting smut.
• Presumed Widow/Sailor Lost at Sea/Male Sea Creature Who Rescued Him
• I'm into the idea of their having a hot threesome, and finding a way to stay at least partially connected.
• Victorian bareknuckle fighter/Victorian gentleman who frequents her fights
• Mmm, competence porn

Original F/F Ships

Smut please.

• Angel Fascinated by Evil/Demon Who Wants to Be Good
• But how are good and evil defined, anyway?
• Female Viking Warrior/Conquered Woman Taken as Bride
• The conquered woman is from a culture where women are a lot more restricted.
• Homesteader/Mail-Order Bride
• Western or Western-in-space genre
• Librarian Skeptical About Romance/Regency Lady From The Latest Hit Harlequin Novel
• When I first read this prompt, I thought the librarian was skeptical about romance as a genre, and then I realized the creator probably intended the librarian to be skeptical about romance as a concept, or as something that might be expected to happen to her. I find both ideas appealing.
• Low-ranking Demoness/Fae Tithed to Hell
• The demoness is not happy with her lot.
• Pirate(s)/Young Stowaway
• They all lived happily ever after.
• Scarred Warrior Working As A Bodyguard/Sarcastic Noble She's Assigned To Protect
• That noblewoman needs to learn a thing or two, and thank her educator afterward.
• Wandering Female Gunslinger/Woman She Saves From Bandits
• Gunslingers gotta wander, but she'll be back around in a season or two.
• Woman who is Growing Feathery Wings/Her Wife Who Is Into That
• I normally DNW body shaming, but for this story I'm opting in to the woman growing the wings being a little conflicted about them at the beginning.
• WW2 Soldier Who is Disguised as a Man/Honeypot Spy Sent to Seduce Her
• Honeypot spy is delighted when the soldier's gender is revealed.