Dear Jukebox Exchange Creator

[firecat]

Dear Jukebox Exchange creator: Thank you for making something 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
  • Art Likes
  • Opt-ins
• DNWs
  • General DNWs
  • Smut DNWs
• Fandom-specific notes & prompts (optional)
  • A Thousand Kisses Deep - Leonard Cohen (Song)
  • Dance With the Devil - Prince (Song)
  • Fish & Bird - Tom Waits (Song)

Likes

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

• Angst
• AUs: Animals, Fantasy, Future/Past, Science fiction, Space/Space opera, Supernatural, Vampires, Werewolves
• 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
• Mission fic
• 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
• Sex pollen
• Sexual tension
• Shapeshifting, transformation
• Superpowers: godlike, mutant, supernatural, high-tech
• There was only one bed!!!
• Slow burn
• Whump
• Wings

Smut likes

• Alternate genitalia, multiple types of genitalia on one body
• Any gender with any gender
• Bestiality, one or more participants partially or fully shapeshifted
• Bloodplay, knifeplay
• Body hair, fur
• Body size diversity
• Body appreciation, body worship (of bodies that are conventionally attractive or not; fat/chubby, older, scarred, disabled, or otherwise not conventionally attractive bodies definitely welcome)
• 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
• Oral sex
• Multiple orgasms, improbably long orgasms, improbably short refractory periods
• Pain play, masochism, sadism (prefer recipient of pain to get some pleasure out of it)
• Penetration
• Pet play
• Porn without plot; porn with feelings (friendly and/or romantic)
• 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
• Somnophilia (consensual or dub/noncon)
• Teasing, orgasm delay (let them come eventually, please)
• Tentacles, xeno,
• Threesomes and moresomes
• Xeno

Art likes

I know that I like art of physical interactions between characters (cuddly or tender or sexy or smutty). Otherwise I am essentially a complete idiot about art. However, I am a fairly easy-to-please idiot. Please create whatever images inspire you, and use my prompts if they help.

Opt-ins

These are tropes/content that often appear in DNW lists. I don't consider them likes per se, but I'm fine with them.

• A/B/O
• Art: renders
• Graphic violence
• Incest (except parent/child incest, unless canon)
• Major injury

DNWs

General DNWs

• 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
• Infidelity or monogamy as major focus
• Jealousy portrayed as proof of love
• Nonsentient animal suffering
• Permanent maiming of requested characters, unless canon
• Permanent death of named characters, unless canon
  • Ghosts, undead, 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

Smut DNWs

• Body shaming, fat hate
• Emetophilia
• Feeding, stuffing, deliberate weight change kinks
• Humans aged 15 and under having sex
• Parent/child incest
• Scat

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Fandom-specific Notes & Prompts

Fandom-specific notes & prompts are entirely optional; take or leave, mix and match as you please.

A Thousand Kisses Deep - Leonard Cohen (Song) (fic or art)

• Link (YouTube, etc): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n7aJTb0OBrs
• Lyrics link: https://genius.com/Leonard-cohen-a-thousand-kisses-deep-lyrics

Thoughts:

This song makes me think of sexuality and touching as an expression of love, but not so much romantic love. More the kind of love expressed by Charles Bukowski in this quote: "We're all going to die, all of us, what a circus! That alone should make us love each other but it doesn't." ("The Captain is Out to Lunch and the Sailors have taken over the Ship") A love that comes out of shared humanity, shared embodiment, being a species that makes social and personal bonds, and how we try to shield ourselves from the emptiness and apathy of the universe through those things.

According to the Genius Lyrics link, Leonard Cohen had this to say about the song:

“You live your life as if it’s real.” Even though the dreamy aspect of it begins to prevail, and the sense of having no control begins to be apparent. The evidence accumulates that you’re not running the show. You still have to make choices as if you were running the show. But you make your choices with the intuitive understanding that it’s unfolding as it must.

Cohen also uses the line “Back on Boogie Street” in another song on the same album. Between the two songs, to my mind, the line "Back on Boogie Street" refers to being reincarnated.

There is so much imagery in these lyrics to draw from for a story—gambling, sex work and drugs, oceans and shipwreck.

Art incorporating the ocean/shipwreck imagery or giving me what you think Boogie Street looks like would be especially welcome. (I also love art portraying physical affection, smutty or not.)

I first heard this song in the film A Good Thief (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Good_Thief_(film)). You're welcome to include elements from the film in your story. (But I haven't seen the film A Thousand Kisses Deep.)

Dance With the Devil - Prince (Song) (fic or art)

• Link (YouTube, etc): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=udVFCpg5OnU
• Lyrics link: https://genius.com/Prince-dance-with-the-devil-lyrics (Content note: death, violent imagery)

Thoughts:

Now that I look at them side by side, I'm struck by background similarities in the lyrics between "A Thousand Kisses Deep" (see above) and "Dance With the Devil," even though on the surface the moods of the songs are different. They can both be seen to be about surrender, but in different ways.

I like the way death imagery and romantic imagery blend in this song.

One way to avoid a hopeless ending in a story for this song would be perspective flip. So, the Devil and/or the Joker could be the one(s) to get a hopeful ending.

I'd love to see art of the dance.

I understand Prince wrote this song for the 1989 film Batman (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Batman_(1989_film)), and then decided the song was too dark for the movie. You're welcome to include elements from the movie in your story.

Fish & Bird - Tom Waits (Song) (fic or art)

• Link (YouTube, etc): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=95YrS4tKNhc
• Lyrics link: https://genius.com/Tom-waits-fish-and-bird-lyrics

Thoughts:

Ahhh, I love how this story is so sad and hopeless and hopeful and ridiculous and sublime at the same time. I mean, how ridiculous is it that a bird and a whale love each other, when they can't be together physically? I feel like that says something profound about the nature of love.

I also think it ties pretty deeply into the kind of love some folks feel as fans. We can't be physically with the characters we love, but we can express our love through other things (in the song — mirrors and pictures on the moon, and pretending that they're ours, and letting them live in our hearts).

I'd love art for this (visual or textual or both). So much great imagery in the lyrics. The sailor telling the tale. The sea turning into a mirror. A whale in the moon. A bird on the tide. The bird and whale being together in each other's hearts, or pining, or drying each other's eyes.