Battleship 2023

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Hello Battleship Creator,

Thank you for reading my letter! I am vanishresponse on AO3.

For Battleship, I've opted to provide a letter just to keep likes in one place; I'll be listing DNWs individually for each signups. For anything that isn't a DNW, if you aren't sure if something is opt-in and you think adding it will make your work stronger, go for it!

Likes:

Loyalty, conflicted loyalty, repression, secret identities (and pretty much all forms of dramatic irony), pining, complicated relationships, politics, adventures, animal acquisition, cats, competence, protectiveness, nature, trust, hand kink, redemption arcs, angst, hopeful endings, stories about myth and history, epistolary, murderous woobie women, stories focusing on women (and stories in which women get what they want!), moral dilemmas, humor, character studies, monster on a leash

For likes that are easier to explain on a separate line:

• Small details/actions that indicate understanding, feelings or intimacy
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• Stories involving a strong sense of connectedness or appreciation of the world or nature


• Characters choosing to become better people or finding hope as a result of love


• Stoic characters who find a person they want to be emotionally vulnerable for
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• Characters who don't get everything they want, but figure out how to be happy or at peace anyway

Art Likes

Cats, birds, animals in general, landscapes, trees, flowers, tarot, symbolism, long hair, physical intimacy, swords, peaceful or melancholy atmospheres, humor, fluff

Smut Likes:

Emotionally charged sex, power dynamics, women taking charge, sex as coping mechanism, pining while fucking, fantasizing, masturbation, desperation, lots of little kisses and touches during sex (especially shoulder kisses!), first times, couples who know each other's preferences very well, playfulness and humor, cunnilingus, m/m anal, blowjobs