Battleship 2024

[vanishresponse]

Dear Battleship creator,

Thank you for checking out this letter! I am vanishresponse on AO3.My DNWs are in the sign-up box; this letter is just to gather generic likes in one place.

I've provided prompts in the signup box (some of which are just an excuse to ramble about how much I love a character or a ship), but of course, feel free to ignore them -- I would love to receive anything that works with the tags! And in general, if there's something opt-in that you think will make your work stronger, consider me opted-in unless it contradicts a DNW!

Likes:

• Adventures
• Angst
• Animal acquisition
• Characters who are happy in an imperfect world, or after not getting everything they want
• Bittersweetness
• Cats
• Character studies
• Characters who understand each other really well!
• Competence
• Complicated relationships
• Conflicted loyalty
• Connectedness to or appreciation of nature
• Epistolary
• Hand kink
• Hopeful endings
• Humor
• In-universe documents
• Loyalty
• Monster on a leash
• Moral dilemmas
• Murderous or mean women. Woobieness optional -- even if they are not woobie, I will love them anyway.
• Nature
• People becoming better or finding hope as a result of love
• Pining, in all forms! Especially when the characters feel unworthy or hold themselves back.
• Politics
• Post-breakups and post-breakup get-togethers, in which everyone is having complicated feelings but still 100% hung-up
• Protectiveness
• Redemption arcs
• Repression
• Secret identities (and pretty much all forms of dramatic irony)
• Small details/actions that indicate understanding, feelings or intimacy
• Self-loathing
• Stoic or repressed characters and the one person they become emotionally vulnerable for (or are willing to burn down the world for)
• Stories about myth and history
• Stories focusing on women (and stories in which women get what they want!)
• Trust Kink

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:

My biggest smut like is sex that is charged with feelings. I love intensity, and when the sex or kink is an expression or an outlet for the characters' feelings -- whether that's love, attraction, or something else entirely. I like repressed sex, too, and sex as a terrible coping mechanism, and sex that explores a character's relationship with vulnerability or connection!

I also really love power dynamics being explored through sex -- whether the playful taking and ceding of power in a happy relationship or the sex mirroring (or contradicting?) something something darker or angstier. Power struggles are excellent, too, playful or otherwise!

For m/f ships in particular, I very much prefer the power dynamic to be skewed in favor of the woman, and a lot of focus on her pleasure. And if all that involves kneeling cunnilingus or a man who is more interested in her pleasure than his own, all the better!

For some specific likes:

• Blowjobs
• Bondage
• Characters getting off on their partners' pleasure or desire
• Collars and leashes
• Couples who know each other's preferences very well
• Cunnilingus
• Desperation
• Edging
• Fantasizing (especially with masturbation!)
• Femdom
• First times
• Hickeys and other displays of possessiveness, especially if the receiver is kinking on it
• Kneeling
• Lots of little kisses and touches during sex (especially shoulder kisses and hand kisses!)
• m/m anal sex
• Masturbation
• Petplay with a focus on spoiling/rewarding the pet (or punishing them with orgasm denial or orgasms)
• Pining while fucking
• Playfulness, laughter, and humor, especially as a way of showing intimacy!
• Tenderness