Smut Swap 2019 Dear Creator Letter

Hello, dear writer or artist (I love both forms of fanwork equally)! Thank you for being willing to create for me. The prompts below are suggestions that I hope might inspire your creativity but feel free to adapt or change things and add other elements as well if the story or art seems to require it. As long as you stay away from my hard DNWs and include some of what I do like (though of course you don’t need to include absolutely everything), you’re golden! Though some prompts may seem longer than others, I love the fandoms all just as much as each other and would be equally delighted to receive any one of them as my gift.

I know we’re only guaranteed to match on one kink, but if others I’ve suggested seem to fit your creation as well, feel free to use them too! :D

Things I do like in a story or artwork: fluff, romance, the deepening of emotional ties between characters, friendship becoming love, overcoming and healing from trauma with the help of a loved one (or loved ones), hurt/comfort, angsty scenarios that wind up with a happy or hopeful ending, strengthening of comradeship bonds and characters being willing to go the extra mile to help someone they care about, lovers experimenting with new kinks and pleasures, playful and even funny elements, mischief and humor, curiosity about differences, getting wet and messy during sex, former outcasts finding a place to belong where they are valued and loved.

My hard Do Not Wants are: outright non-con, sex without love, homophobia, child or animal abuse graphically depicted (though allusions to this happening in the past are fine), non-human characters being transformed into humans or AUs where they were always human, character death of requested characters, unhappy endings and complete and pure angst with no hope in sight, female characters being submissive to male ones in any way. Also please no extreme underage – 16 and up is fine as that’s the age of consent in my country (or the equivalent for non-human characters would be that they must be recognizably adult, I guess). Please do not even include mentions of these DNWs!

If you’re an artist I’m not fussy about art styles, or colour choices, or colour vs black and white, and am extremely curious to see what you come up with, and for Original Works, where there is no visual representation of the characters existing, how you interpret their physical forms.

If you are a writer and we match on Original Work or include original characters in a fandom story: I’m fine with either “standard” names for original characters, or made-up ones. If you make up names, however, I only ask that they be easy to pronounce – for example, names like “Kessi” and “Lyrilla” are fine. “Xzyquiertzopil” – not so much!!! And either a long and plotty fic with lots of worldbuilding or a shorter porny scene will be equally loved and welcomed! Or maybe it’ll be something in between those two – I’ll totally adore that as well! <3

For both writers and artists who match on Original Work - re visual and written descriptions of human characters - I like a diverse range of body types and appearances, but would prefer for human characters not to look like conventional "Hollywood hotties", or looking or dressing like a bodybuilder or supermodel when that isn't realistic for the occupation that they have.

Now, onto optional details and some possible prompts that I hope might inspire you!

I’m going to try and keep this short, as I don’t want this to be exhausting to read and too constraining for you as a creator. As I said earlier, whatever we match on and you choose to use, I’m sure to love it as long as you avoid any DNWs! If there’s something I haven’t mentioned in here that might fit for your creation and it’s in line with my general likes, then go for it! :D

(And yes, I admit it at long last – I do have a thing for fictional, highly intelligent ape characters so that’s the theme I’m going with this year! <3)

( Requests - NSFW )