Smut4Smut 2023

[graiai]

Dear creator,

Thank you for taking the time to look at this letter! We* don’t have a lot of specific prompts for this exchange (beyond the tags themselves), for the most part, but we do have over 1000 words on our likes list, and at the end of the day, we’re very easy to please. Hopefully you find something to inspire you!

*Plural pronouns in this letter are because graiai is a shared account we use for exchanges: if you write for us, don’t be surprised to get two comments!

General Likes

• messy relationships; unhealthy aspects of relationships not being brushed over (but the characters also not trying to fix them); relationships that by modern western standards (and maybe the standards of a large portion of the cast) would be considered unacceptable; social mores that don’t match the modern western world, and characters whose social mores don’t match each others’
• “us against the world” narratives; “we were always going to end up here” narratives; “no one understands you like i do” narratives; characters making the best of their situations, not unhappy, but not living Happily Ever After, either
• father/child and sibling incest (portrayed romantically), pseudo-incest between unrelated characters, mentor/protégé relationships and big-p Platonic teacher/student relationships, erastes/eromenos and dominus/deliciae relationships; age difference, size difference, experience difference, power imbalance, underage (adult/minor and minor/minor)
• ideas about sex, sexuality, marriage, gender identity, etc that may differ wildly from our own ideas and between characters; historical or dated constructs of gender/sexuality; arranged marriages considered normal/not inherently abusive
• medical realism and its consequences: persistent and permanent injuries, realistic and semi-realistic recovery, healing magic having limitations (and exploring what those are); not shying away from less pretty parts of sex, pregnancy, birth, or having a body in general
• emphasis on character voice, characterization, motive, morals, ethics; culture clash; worldbuilding (especially specific medical and legal worldbuilding); character studies; unreliable narrators; limited POVs, outsider POVs, POVs missing context that would recontextualize events considerably
• feel free to look at our unconventional fanworks exchange letter for weird format likes!

Domestic/Fluff Likes

• romance: established relationships, courting, letter-writing, wedding plans, elopement, family planning; helping pregnant partner give birth, being stuck anxiously/excitedly in the waiting room while pregnant partner gives birth
• domesticity: dancing together, playing instruments together/performing duets, doing arts and crafts together, playing chess together, doing tarot spreads, cooking together, helping each other dress or do makeup; tired mornings and late nights, not putting on airs for each other
• slice of life: teaching partner how to dance/play an instrument/draw/paint/cook/play chess/etc; taking turns with household responsibilities (chores, childcare, etc); new/first time parents trying their best and maybe doing an okay job of it; (consensual and appropriate) public displays of affection, between lovers or friends
• emotionally significant friendships and close friends/confidants; characters having people they can/do go to other than their lover (friends or supportive family); close relationships between female characters and an emphasis on the friendships of female characters; positive sibling relationships and mother/child relationships

Darker Likes

• consent issues: noncon (where requested), dubcon, consensual but a bad idea, consensual but it shouldn’t be, and messy/unclear combinations of several of these; power/experience/age imbalances; somnophilia (including comatose characters), necrophilia, and possession
• manipulation: gaslighting, mutual manipulation, seduction, “you’re so mature for your age” and similar ploys; unclear lines between victims and aggressors, victims manipulating their abusers/assailants back; stockholm syndrome, lima syndrome, trauma bonding; chess as a mind game/power play, specifically, and chess moves portrayed as acts of violence between the players
• forced intimacy: playing at domesticity, nonconsensual PDA, nonconsensual kissing, sleeping beside each other/spooning, rapists performing oral, rapists comforting victims, victims forced to comfort rapists
• pain and fear kink: crying/dacryphilia, screaming, uncomfortably detailed loving descriptions of both or either, painful sex, characters in pain kinking on it, characters in pain not kinking on it (their loss!)
• injuries or physical trauma: lovingly described acts of violence (consensual and otherwise), genital trauma or mutilation (perineal tearing, episiotomy, castration, fgm/c, tearing from sex, sharp object insertion), amount of blood/injury exaggerated for kink purposes, eye trauma, broken limbs, internal bleeding, childbirth related injuries and medical complications (symphysiotomy or breaking the pelvis for childbirth, broken clavicle or limbs in newborns, emergency hysterectomy, congenital birth defects, low APGAR, etc), short- and long-term medical care and aftermath of injury, trauma, or disability
• dark pregnancy-related kinks/topics: (threat of) traumatic miscarriage, forced abortion, unsafe abortions (coathangers, ingesting poisons, trying to induce miscarriage through injury to self)
• trouble at home: abusive, controlling, or disapproving (grand)parents, tense home environments, arguments about arranged marriages, inheritance, keeping the baby, childrearing (between parents/children or between coparents or partners)
• harm to children: characters who are underage depicted in fic with appropriate neurological development for their ages and developing trauma appropriate to the events of the canon and/or the fic; child soldiers, CSA victims, etc normalizing what they’ve been through, not having the neurological development to understand the impact of events, not understanding their own feelings, enacting their trauma on other children or adults
• aftermath: of rape or CSA, of abuse, of wartime or other nonsexual trauma, of injury; impact of trauma on mental and physical health; medical treatment, being forced to deal with the authorities, trying to hide trauma or ‘go back to normal’

Smut Likes

• oral fixations: smoking, making out, lip biting, hickies, biting in general, finger sucking, cunnilingus, cockwarming, emetophilia (gag reflexes! morning sickness!)
• hand and finger kink: manual stimulation, calluses, pinching breasts, fingering after fucking, weaponizing fingernails, fingers in mouths
• intercrural, incomplete penetration/“just the tip”, eunuchs/castration, soft cock kink, small or soft cock handjobs, sex you might have the impulse to call “sex*” or “sex(?)” - where coming isn’t necessarily the goal, where the people involved may not have bodies in the traditional sense, where the people involved may not have sex drives or even understand what sex is
• marking/possessiveness: bruising, comeplay, breeding kink, postpartum sex (and kinking on the physical affects of childbirth), gaping, somnophilia
• blood and injury: bloody hands, bloody teeth, nosebleeds, tearing from sex or birth, menstrual blood, spotting, episiotomies, postpartum bleeding, amount of blood and injury exaggerated or (bordering) dangerous for kink purposes
• romantic incest kink, dd/lg, sibcon, characters who aren’t related acting like they are for horny reasons; kinking on a character’s youth or presumed youth and physical markers typically associated with it (virginity, flat/small breasts, small cock, etc); kinking on a character’s sexual inexperience (in general, with a specific act, with another character’s gender, etc)
• medfet: take everything from the general likes list about medical accuracy and apply it to pornography! partners being possessively horny at the OB-GYN, nobody but the reader being horny over lovingly detailed descriptions of medical exams, realistic birthing (but being horny about it), weirdly detailed interludes about period birth control methods? you name it, we’re probably into it

Art Likes

• mediums and styles/movements: pen, pencil, charcoal, etching, woodcut, watercolor, oils, digital art, sequential art, mosaic, tapestry; art deco, art nouveau, baroque, expressionism, fauvism, precisionism/cubist realism, surrealism
• color and shading: black & white, spot color, limited palettes, flat color, black-figure (greek technique); hatching, line contouring, stippling
• imagery: symbolism, occult imagery (tarot, etc), historical composition techniques, pastiches of saints’ iconography for canons that play with christian imagery
• subjects: (see domestic, darker, & smut likes) — technically nonsexual art that still feels kinky somehow, in your bones; hands and fingers and dynamic hand positions (playing instruments, smoking, fingers in mouths, etc); artistic and heavily stylized violence

DNWs

• DNW any on-screen, referenced, or implied
  • skin-related mutilation like flaying, burning, or branding
  • harm to animals including meat-eating (just not mentioning what a character is eating is fine)
  • shower/bath/rain sex, one character washing or grooming another non-infant character (even consensual aftercare), or onscreen bathing of any kind
  • petting, brushing, or playing with hair as a form of intimacy (touching or pulling on it during sex is fine; doing someone’s hair without intimate subtext is fine)
  • maternal incest or mommykink
  in any capacity. If you think 'surely this isn't enough to count for the DNW', it is.
• unrequested romantic relationships; unrequested rape/non-con; unrequested trans headcanons or rule 63; cis mpreg and futanari
• AUs that drastically change the setting or the core rules of the setting (modern AUs, A/B/O, soulmark AUs, etc… canon divergence AUs including pre-canon divergence points are fine)
• “bad ends” (no chance at escape, mindbreak, etc); scat kink (changing a baby’s diaper is fine); onscreen, explicit sexual contact under age 10 (implied or fade to black is fine)
• altered states (drugged, drunk, sex pollen, etc)
• art dnws: furries and candy gore; exaggerated breast size, OTT ahegao (stuff like heart shaped pupils or gasping open-mouthed is fine), graphic depiction of unclothed erections (soft cocks ok - nonsexual nudity, castration, HRT all welcome!)

Requests:

[Assassin’s Creed] Alexios/Kassandra, Aspasia/Kassandra, Kassandra/Roxana, Kassandra/Xenia (FIC)

[No Archive Warnings Apply, Graphic Depictions of Violence] Cunnilingus as the Main Event · Danger/Adrenaline Kink · Escalating Kinky Pain Contest · Oral - Menstrual Cunnilingus · Sex While Covered In The Blood of Their Enemies · Sex While Covered In Their Own Blood

Look, this is a simple request. Let Kassandra have a good, albeit potentially incredibly violent time, either with another morally ambiguous lesbian or with her long-lost brother. Let your id run free— and by no means feel limited to these particular tags for your inspiration.

No request-specific DNWs here, but it’s worth noting we are not requesting noncon for these ships! Dubcon or other messy consent issues is always great, though!

[Professional Chess RPF] Magnus Carlsen/Hikaru Nakamura (FIC)

[No Archive Warnings Apply] Clearly The Fact That We Keep Having Sex Is A Series of Unrelated Bad Decisions · Competence Kink - Rivals Are Incredibly Turned On By Each Other's Talent · Competitiveness in Bed · dubcon - character offers sex to bargain or for a bet; doesn't expect to actually have to pay up · Reluctant attraction - sexual attraction to someone they (should) dislike · Strip Games

Sooooooooo, maybe it’s just me, but every time one of them mentions that six-hour 40-game blitz match in interviews, the one Hikaru always calls ‘the worst mistake of [his] career’, I make the vibrating eyeballs emoji from discord in real life. They need to fuck, Your Honor.

Maybe it’s That Night™ (as some of these tags lend themselves to), maybe it’s at any one of the events where they were fighting for #1 and #2, maybe it’s at the recent Fischer Random Chess Championship where Hikaru defeated Magnus, or, hell—maybe somewhere in your imagined behind-the-scenes of the Niemann v. Carlsen lawsuit (either how it’s going in the real world, or some potential future where it actually goes to trial) Magnus and Hikaru get… close, y’know? Or something else entirely! I would never seek to unreasonably restrict the creation of Art. Background Fabi/Cristian is also great, LOL.

Request-specific DNW: confirmation that any characters, whether part of the ship or no, have cheated in any OTB games unless admitted or proven IRL (but other characters believing, even testifying to that belief is fine—just no legit photos surfacing of Ding Liren using an engine in the bathroom stall or similar, please!)

[Final Fantasy XIV] Leveva Byrde/Jannequinard de Durendaire (FIC)

[No Archive Warnings Apply, Underage] Character with Low Self-Esteem has Self-Worth Affirmed Through Tender Sex · Clothing - Wearing Nothing but Jewelry · Cunnilingus After Coming Inside · Experience - Inexperienced character asks experienced friend to help them 'practice' · Fucked While Time Is Stopped · sex under the stars · Size Kink - "It Won't Fit!" (It Fits) · Size kink - very small girl filled with very big dick · Soul Bond - Sharing Physical Pleasure Through Soul Bond · Vaginal fingering while wearing rings · Wedding Night

Please, please, I beg of you, let them fuck. We are desperate for any and all content for this pairing. It can be as romantic and sappy or as ‘no thoughts, only horny’ as you want. Have fun with AST artifact gear (all that jewelry!), or the size/age/experience difference, or Janne’s history with Leveva’s father, or even the horny potential of the AST skills themselves? Sex under the effects of the now-removed Time Dilation, or the still-extant Lightspeed, would be incredible for the freeform “Fucked While Time is Stopped”, and the “Sharing Physical Pleasure Through Soul Bond” tag was picked with Synastry in mind. “Generate an aetheric bond with target”? Don’t mind if I do.

No request-specific DNWs.

[Final Fantasy XIV] Rufin Byrde/Jannequinard de Durendaire (FIC)

[No Archive Warnings Apply, Underage, Major Character Death] Aroused by Partner's Scholarly Accomplishments · Fucked While Time Is Stopped · One-Sided - Character A gets off to thoughts/memories of Character B · Size - Size Difference · Soul Bond - Sharing Physical Pleasure Through Soul Bond

That stuff we said in the request above about Synastry, Time Dilation, etc? Apply it all to these requests, too!

Once again, really, we’d love to see anything for this ship, honestly. Their slow-burn flirtation when Janne was put to work copying tomes for Mace, and their first time? Rufin getting incredibly horny over Jannequinard successfully defending his dissertation? We’d love to see either early-relationship stuff for this ship (the fact Janne must have still been a teacup elf when they started dating, and might even have still been when Rufin passed, is absolutely worth exploring) or Jannequinard mourning Rufin years later equally—you can also feel free to combine this request with the Janne/Leveva one! We absolutely believe that Rufin was the love of Janne’s early life and Leveva the love of his adult one.

No request-specific DNWs, but one request-specific DNW waiver: Leveva’s mom being brought up is fine! We prefer Jannequinard and Rufin’s affair to be one all three of them were fine with, Rufin and his wife’s marriage being arranged and friendly but not particularly more than that, but if there’s a story you want to tell that doesn’t quite adhere to that, that’s totally fine, too!

[Final Fantasy XIV] Themis/Lahabrea (FIC)

[No Archive Warnings Apply, Underage] Clothing - mask kink · Dubcon - Sleeping With Mentors/Trainers Socially Expected To Show Appreciation For Their Teaching · Experience - Acquiring a Body & Discovering Sex · First Time - Has Never Been Aroused Before · Pederasty

We like our Ascians best as weenwoons who can choose to take bodies (of potentially only dubious similarity to what we're used to) when it would be useful to them, but aren’t naturally in those forms, and whose social norms bear a striking similarity to…oh, I don’t know, say…ancient Athens. Elidibus the ephebe as Lahabrea’s eromenos, oh my! In Pandaemonium, the line “Then say my name,” changed something in us irrevocably.

No request-specific DNWs.

[Final Fantasy XIV] Lyon rem Helsos/Menenius sas Lanatus (FIC)

[No Archive Warnings Apply, Underage, Major Character Death] bickering as foreplay · Calling character(s) by their title or rank in bed · Character Embarrassedly Asks For First Time Kinky Sex · Dubcon sexual relationship develops feelings · Face-Fucking as an Act of Trust · One-Sided - Character A gets off to thoughts/memories of Character B · Size - Character Embarrassed to Admit to Size Kink; Partner Happy to Indulge Them · Size Kink - "It Won't Fit!" (It Fits)

God. Where to even begin with these two. We have a lot of weird headcanons about their relationship beginning as a weird dubcon situation where Garlean social customs led to Lyon being more or less given teenage, teacup elf Menenius to do with as he saw fit and eventually turning into Twu Wuv™ (you can read more about this in our S4S letter from last year), but we’re also just invested in their adult dynamic and the kinky sex they are definitely having—and in the emotional devastation of your lover dying in your arms, of course! These tags run the gamut, and we’d love any of them (or many of them!) equally, from the plottiest, most worldbuilding heavy ship content you could think of, to nothing but some old men doing the nasty. Let your id lead you where it will!

No request-specific DNWs.

[Final Fantasy XIV] Alfonse/Gaius van Baelsar (FIC)

[Underage] Character raised to obey male authority figures · Experience - First Ever Orgasm · Incest - A convincing their partner B to sleep with their sibling (while A watches) · Masturbation - Character's masturbation is guided/instructed by another · Position - Character A sits in Character B's lap and they make out

If only there was something Alfonse could do to show Father how grateful he is!

Look, this isn’t a complex request, LOL. We’re interpreting here ‘Incest - A convincing their partner B to sleep with their sibling (while A watches)’ to mean A (Gaius) convinces B (Alfonse) to sleep with B’s sibling; we’re most interested in the sibling in question being Livia or Allie, but we won’t stop you if you have other ideas.

Request-specific DNW: diminishing the family relationships of the characters (aka, “they’re adopted, so it’s not really incest”), Gaius/Livia being depicted or referred to as nonconsensual.

[Final Fantasy XIV] Gaius van Baelsar/Livia sas Junius (FIC)

[No Archive Warnings Apply, Underage] Breeding Kink - as dirty talk without risk · Character raised to obey male authority figures · Cunnilingus After Coming Inside · Experience - First Ever Orgasm · Incest - A convincing their partner B to sleep with their sibling (while A watches) · Incest - outsiders think they're being kinky but they really are related · Masturbation - Character's masturbation is guided/instructed by another · Position - Character A sits in Character B's lap and they make out · Size kink - very small girl filled with very big dick · Somnophilia - A feigns sleep to let B explore · Soulmates - Incestuous

Haha anyway so about the wall of tags. Um. Yeah. A lot of these were picked with the underage archive warning in mind, but if you’re interested in writing the dynamic but not necessarily prepared to actually write extremely underage father-daughter incest, that’s totally fine, too! Just, y’know, maybe “Character’s First Ever Orgasm” shouldn’t be at age 23, LOL.

This is another one of those ‘really we’d love anything’ ships, be it anywhere from Livia’s early childhood to literally after her death (if you let her climb out of the Palace of the Dead to find her dad, I might legally be required to give you my firstborn child). The “Breeding Kink - dirty talk without risk” tag does not mean we’re not up for actual impregnation kink, we just think that Livia being very irritated Gaius will dirty talk about knocking her up but insists upon using protection is cute. We’re interpreting “A convinces B to sleep with their sibling (while A watches)” as A (Gaius) convincing B (Livia) to sleep with her sibling, specifically, and for that tag we’d prefer Livia/Alfonse. As for the “Incestuous Soulmates” tag… yeah. Straight up red string of fate soulmate AUs are totally fine for this request. I think it’d be incredibly fun especially if Garleans, due to their inability to sense or manipulate aether, don’t necessarily know they’re living in a soulmate AU.

Request-specific DNWs: diminishing the family relationships of the characters (aka, “they’re adopted, so it’s not really incest”), Gaius/Livia being depicted or referred to as nonconsensual.

Thanks again for reading, and happy S4S!

With love,
graiai