soveryaverageme | Dear Creator: Seasons of Anime Exchange

(Updated: June 4th, 2018)

Hi Creator!

Thank you so much for spending time creating something for me. I’ve broken this letter down into general likes/dislikes, and then a short section on each fandom I’ve requested.

The letter doesn’t cover everything that I like (My AO3 bookmarks may give you more ideas, but I’ve been meaning to update them because they’re currently a mess) and don’t feel pressured to fit your creation to what I like!

Thanks so much again for creating something for me! I'm so excited to see what you create!

(Note: Most of this letter was copied from previous exchanges I’ve participated in.)

General Themes I Like:

Platonic Relationships – I love friendship. Gen fics are my jam. I’m always a sucker for platonic cuddling, hair ruffling, and just people being protective/supportive of each other. Hair ruffling and forehead kisses are like my ultimate weakness.

Families of Choice – This is pretty much my favorite trope of all time. People choosing to be each other’s families and just platonically loving each other is my favorite thing in the entire world.

Trust – I love fics that focus on the trust and building of trust between two (or more) characters. People accepting the unconditional love and trust of another person and realizing it’s real is one of my favorite things.

Communication – I really love this theme. People talking out their issues and trusting each other with their entire being, just gives me the all the feels. I especially love when people have to deal with their (and each other’s) insecurities and have to be vulnerable to each other.

Happy Endings – I just want them to be happy in the end. I can take angst (and I especially love Emotional Hurt/Comfort), but I really need happy endings for the characters.

AUs/Tropes I Like:

Breakfast Club AUs – I feel like I’ve read every Breakfast Club AU in every fandom that I’m in (and even a couple in fandoms I’m not in). (For context, Breakfast Club is a 1980s movies about 5 very different kids that get detention and by the end of the day become friends with each other) I love this for the same reason I love the “families of choice” theme – a bunch of misfit kids finding family in each other. This is my favorite AU at the moment.

Famous/Not Famous AUs – I really love when one person is famous/rich and the other isn’t and they have to navigate their relationship amongst this. This connects into the theme of trust and communication that I mentioned earlier.

Protective/Supportive Friends – I love friends defending each other and supporting each other no matter what. Characters finding, building, and accepting unconditional friendship is wonderful.

DNWs:

I feel like most of these are pretty self-explanatory:

Rape/Non-con
Incest
Character Death
PWP/Explicit Sex
Graphic Violence
Unhappy Endings (Feel free to include some angst, but please, please let the fic end happy).

Fandom Specific:

Below are the fandom specific remarks for each fandom. (Which are, coincidentally, every eligible fandom with an exclamation point in its name).

Haikyuu!!:

Haikyuu!! might be my favorite anime of the moment. I honestly love pretty much every single character in Haikyuu!! I don’t even have an OTP because I think that almost every ship is great and wonderful on their own merits. Trying to chose three characters was ridiculously impossible to do.

I love Captain Squad and Setter Squad and every single team dynamic in the show. Honestly, every character/relationship dynamic in the series is gold. Some other favorite groups of mine are the Karasuno First Years (who are my favorite!) and the Second Gen Captain Squad. If you chose to write about any of these characters/groups, I’d be happy.

In fact, I couldn’t decide who to chose, so I cheated a little and went with Karasuno Volleyball Club. My favorite character is Tsukishima (or really, any of the first years), but I love every single character on the team (even Kinoshita and Narita!) I’d love to see something exploring their friendships with each other. (I especially love the supportive/protective friends trope with Karasuno!)

Yuri!!! On Ice:

One of my favorite relationships to explore is friendship/familial bonds between Yuuri Katsuki and Yuri Plisetsky. I’m literally always looking for platonic Yuri(s) fic. I think that they have such an interesting relation within canon that can be expanded upon (or riffed on in AUs.) I really like them talking to each other, understanding each other, and becoming close.

(Feel free to add Victor in too!).

Free!:

Nitori has been my favorite Free! character since his first scene in the show. I’d love something that explored his relationship(s) with the rest of the characters in the show (especially Samezuka, but also Iwatobi).