Smut Swap 2019 Letter

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Howdy, smut swapper! I've tried to trim my customary tl;dr commentary with minimal success, but the short version is that I'm really happy you're writing for me and I'm hyped to see what you'll come up with. If I don't list a prompt accompanying a certain tag or if I elaborate on a certain tag going one way and not another, I promise I want it just as much as the others and would be happy to read it with the kink flowing the other direction as well. I have no set-in-stone topping preferences, so feel free to write whatever's the most fun for you.

Likes:

- historical details, material culture, pop culture
- allegiances and loyalty (especially loyalty kink!)
- dreams and nightmares (dream sex is a+)
- psychological horror
- body horror (surprise new orifices, involuntarily changing bodies, parasites, viral transformations, losing control over your own body and mind, etc.)
- gothic horror (mystery, wonder, and the macabre, decaying old houses, ancestral curses, family secrets, etc.)
- noir (doubles! identity trouble! perversity, pessimism, fatalism, and menace!)
- claustrophobia, doubt, guilt, decay
- trauma and PTSD, memory and personal baggage
- friends-to-lovers, allies-to-friends-to-lovers, enemies-to-lovers-while-remaining-enemies
- agonized pining both reciprocated and unreciprocated
- hurt/comfort -- one or more parties getting tragically roughed up or whumped to hell and back and needing stoic ministrations, h/c where a rough or unpleasant person is the recipient of the comfort whether they like it or not, h/c where a villain is doing the comforting (for mindfucky sinister reasons or otherwise)
- sex happening before feelings and then feelings show up to the party and make everything weird
- characters who just can't stay away from each other

Smut-specific likes (feel free to mix and match with any exchange tags!)

- size differences
- age differences
- aggressive inexperienced characters
- body worship
- blowjobs and cunnilingus
- handjobs
- frottage and non-penetrative sex
- clothed/semi-clothed sex
- fancy clothes, uniforms, layers, dressing and undressing
- hatesex and fighting-turned-fucking
- erectile dysfunction
- breathplay
- inhibitions and interpersonal baggage in the bedroom
- anonymous or pseudo-anonymous hookups
- painful/clumsy but fun and tender sex, OR, tragically clumsy fail sex
- wound fingering/wound fucking
- sexy use/misuse of magic powers
- rope bondage
- caning and flogging
- characters with physical imperfections (scars, bad joints, body parts that won't necessarily cooperate)
- characters seeking sex for comfort
- characters having sad sex while thinking of other people (especially if it's two people thinking about the same person!)
- sadomasochism
- rough body play -- grabbing/shoving/yanking/hitting/punching/etc.
- smoking/sharing cigarettes/cigarette burns
- drug and alcohol use (relaxation and altered states of consciousness during sex as well as substance abuse and dependency)
- time-period-specific sexual practices and meeting places.
- head-shaving or hair-cutting, especially nonconsensual/dubiously consensual or degrading/clinical hair-cutting -- I don't know how to work this into any of my fandoms this year but if you'd like to write it I'd love to read it.
- noncon and dubcon -- especially fucked-up sexual bargaining, villains menacing protagonists, dark!protagonists menacing villains, antagonistic characters mutually attempting to dubcon one another

In general I love noncon and dubcon, especially antagonistic or psychologically muddled angles and characters making difficult bargains using sex. I appreciate a focus on difficult/complicated emotions and experiences and the conflicted side of dubcon -- a character having sex they don't uncomplicatedly desire but that they believe will help them achieve some goal, or a character agreeing to sex with someone they hate who doesn't know that that character is planning to undermine them, or a character being attracted to the other character(s) but only consenting to sex due to despair or their usual inhibitions being compromised, for instance. For noncon I especially like to read about horror, discomfort, resistance, self-disgust, and anger on the victim's side -- for perpetrator attitudes I like reading about hatred, mixed feelings, obsessive love, contempt, or anything else that might fit the character/scenario. I'm less into ravishment tropes where the rape is a pretext to initiate sex the victim really wants, or scenarios where afterward the rape is a non-issue.

DNWs: Self-harm, eating disorders, child sexual abuse, unrequested incest. I'd rather not read explicit sex with characters under 16.

Dislikes: I don't care for unrequested teacher/student ships or teacher/student AUs, characters overhearing others masturbating or having sex, spanking, characters faux-platonically breaking someone in for sex with someone else, "no, no, yes yes yes!"-type ravishment noncon, fic incorporating contemporary real-life tragedies or modern political snafus, pregnancy kink/expansion kink/oviposition, omegaverse/BDSMverse AUs, urban fantasy werewolf tropes like packs and alphas, unrequested trans characters for this exchange, daddy kink, scat. (Piss is fine and dandy.)



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AMC The Terror
Francis Crozier/Cornelius Hickey

Blackmail/Sexual Coercion | Bootblacking | Breathplay | Character Is Former Sex Worker | Clothed Sex | Clothed/Naked | Cock & Ball Torture | Consensual But Not Safe Or Sane | Dick Stepping | Degrading Praise | Dominance Struggle | Forced To Kneel | Forced Intoxication | Prostitution | Soft Cock | Getting Stepped On | Cigarette Kink

- AU where Crozier pays Hickey for sex -- I love the milieu of all the different kinds of historical sex work and how that might play out between them, on land or in a shipboard context, but if you're down to write a modern AU with as much baked-in tumult and drama as the canon setting, I'd love that too. I'd love a blackmail AU set on land too, with Hickey leveraging what he knows to try and get ahead.
- smut where Hickey has a past with sex work and it comes up one way or another, either coloring his relationship with Crozier or as the elephant in the room (does Hickey deny it? lay an open and unashamed claim on that part of his history? not get wtf the big deal is?)
- Hickey blackmailing Crozier in the Arctic -- I'd love this in conjunction with dubcon or noncon going either way, since it seems like it could pretty neatly facilitate dubcon/noncon in its own right but it would also give a great excuse for Hickey to push back on Crozier's own power plays -- or Crozier exploiting Hickey with knowledge of his purported misdeeds.
- Hickey harassing Crozier with his tiny cigarettes -- blowing smoke in his face, shotgunning smoke into his mouth, putting cigarettes out on him
- anything where class/rank/age differences come into play during sex or where either party consciously invokes that difference
- erectile dysfunction -- anything kinking on it or where it gets a good description along with anything else. bonus points for Crozier humiliation or it exacerbating the tension in their encounter, double secret bonus points if Crozier gets off on the humiliation in a deeply self-loathing way, quadruple secret bonus points if he fucks Hickey some other way/with something else for revenge or if the hurt-factor of Hickey's surprise and scorn gets followed with a chaser of Hickey manipulatively soothing Crozier's bruised ego
- improvised cock & ball torture -- especially stepping on/squeezing/ballbusting
- Crozier gets Hickey drunk with the intent to do dubious things, Hickey knows exactly what he's going for and tries to wriggle out of it with limited success. (Or vice versa! Twisting the knife with Crozier's canon substance abuse issues is welcome.)

(Fandom-specific squick: all the terrible pageantry and fallout from Hickey's flogging is delicious and feel free to evoke it as explicitly as you like, but I'd prefer nothing where the crew of both ships are enlisted into a voyeuristic role for this pairing, or where other characters besides Hickey and Crozier themselves blur the lines between shipboard corporal punishment and sex.)


Wolf Hall
Henry VIII/Thomas Cromwell

Both Partners Are Thinking Of Someone Else | Fur Kink | Glove Kink | Hand & Finger Kink | Historical Underclothes | Jealousy Leads to Possessive Sex | Clothed Sex | Clothed/Naked | Service Top | Sex In Luxurious Surroundings | Sex Pollen | Under-Negotiated Kink | Wrestling | Dominant Bottom | Droit de Seigneur

- Henry can't get it up (too drunk, too nervous, too stressed, whatever) and Crom has to be very very delicate about it while still getting him off
- any kind of shagging set against the backdrop of Henry's mania for hunting -- outdoor banging, extended politically-loaded hunting metaphors, impromptu bedsharing frottage where Henry VIII is a horny monster and in the morning he's guilt-wracked and self-righteous about it while Cromwell is mostly trying to pretend it didn't happen
- AU where they meet when they're both younger, Henry is taken with this punched-faced Putney mercenary and Cromwell is down to be seduced a little bit if the price is right
- banging while they mutually think of other people (especially but not exclusively Boleyns)
- any kind of size kink playing on their respective sturdiness -- if you want to roll with show!Cromwell's slightness I'd be really into that but I'd also love anything that goes with the book's descriptions
- fully or partially-clothed sex where it's partially clothed because nobody wants to take off all that damn fur and wool (on that note, any kind of Tudor dressing/undressing porn, I will love you forever, or anything kinking on the feeling of fur and leather)
- TUDOR SEX POLLEN(™) strikes, Cromwell grudgingly gets Henry off; alternately, Cromwell gets Tudor Sex Pollen(™)'ed and struggles to keep his head.


Mad Men (TV)
Michael Ginsberg/Sal Romano

Anonymous Sex | Cruising | Blow Jobs | Bondage | Body Worship | BDSM | Clothed/Naked | Crying During Sex | Experienced/Inexperienced | First Time With A Man | Gentle Dom | Honor Bondage | Infidelity | Loss Of Virginity | Restraints | Sharing Sexual Fantasies | Shower Sex

- If you've ever wanted to write the early-1970s leather AU for Mad Men fandom, follow your dreams -- all the protocol and meeting-places and fetishization of materials are super hot and I love the thought of exploring canon's themes of shadowy pursuits and secret desires in the context of gettin' dicked.
- Sal Romano illustrates gay porn, Michael Ginsberg is his biggest fan. Alternately, Michael Ginsberg is writing smutty gay pulps for a living and Sal Romano is his biggest fan.
- I'm always intrigued by Ginsberg's Cinderella pitch, which seems so shadowy and fraught and full of subtext about sex and fear and pursuit -- anything incorporating that kind of dark hunted motif even with consensual sex and someone incredibly hunky would be super hot.
- On the flipside, the context we see Sal cruising in is really dark and fraught with themes of infidelity/the disconnect between his closeted daytime life and what he'd really rather be doing, and I'd love anything where that's central to the filth.
- Sal Romano domming the fuck out of Ginsberg or being dommed with squirrelly intensity and great care
- The two of them discussing sexual fantasies, whether extremely specific/loaded with era-specific detail/dark/explicit/innocent-seeming.


Black Mirror: Bandersnatch
Stefan Butler/Colin Ritman

Drug Use | Too Tight For Penetration | Under-Negotiated Kink | Virginity | Bad Ending | Barebacking | Consensual But Not Safe Or Sane | Comfort Sex | Crying During Sex | Death Kink | Experimental Substance Has Weird Sexual Side Effects | Fuckbuddies To Lovers | Head Shaving | Infidelity | Mentor/Protégé | Mind Manipulation | Mutual Masturbation | Panic Attack During Sex | Snuff | Dissociating During Sex

- Experimental Substance Has Weird Sexual Side Effects -- I know this is typically a SF/F trope but I'd love something that explores Colin being way more knowledgeable about controlled substances than Stefan is. Alternately, throw some Black Mirror shit at me, I'm game.
- I'm super into how blasé Colin becomes about death and being murdered, so I'd love anything that kinks on that, either him using the prospect of dying as a hard-restart option basically or remembering all the times he's bit the dust while he and Stefan are boning down.
- Stefan feeling his reality starting to blur a little during sex and freaking out as a result
- You might have heard about the cut ending where instead of stabbing Colin, Stefan has the option to drop the knife and have Colin embrace him -- that, but with fucking. Yes, with Stefan's dad right there. They're living life on the edge.
- Sex set in any of the various scenarios the game presents would be grand, but I'm for mind manipulation-related sex I'd especially love to see something where Colin is imposing his cockeyed view of reality (literally or figuratively) on Stefan during sex by telling him about all his weird paranoid suspicions.
- Any fic where one/both of them die during/after sex and then get a do-over, or where having sex brings up memories (murky or crystal-clear) of past deaths.


The Servant (1963)
Tony/Hugo Barrett

Bathing/Washing | Forced Intoxication | Bootblacking | Boot Worship | Boss/Employee Relationship | Character Is Former Sex Worker | Clothed/Naked | Forced To Kneel | Hate Sex | Humiliation | Jealous Sex | Keeping Socks On During Otherwise Nude Sex | Masochistic Top | Orgy | Psychological Grooming | Public Humiliation | Caning | Cigarette Kink

- I love all the ways Hugo uses Tony's vices against him, and I'd love something where that leads to sex -- either as one of several dubious comforts that keep Tony coming back, or as more of a blunt instrument to keep him compliant.
- Tony puts Hugo in his place in front of company, with or without a private comeuppance; alternately, Hugo subtly or not-so-subtly cutting his master down to size.
- Anything that plays with their mutual acquaintance with punishment and role-related humiliation, especially anything summoning up the specter of schoolboy caning
- Really, any kind of dirty dirty porn for this film is bound to brush up against lots of the things that are potentially sexy about this pairing and their dynamic.
- Good old Barrett used to do sex work back in his military days and it's the SUPER WEIRD VERY SEXY elephant in the room
- Postcanon role reversal with Tony serving (and servicing) Barrett


Fright Night 1985
Jerry Dandridge/Charley Brewster

Internalized Homophobia | Licking Over Underwear | Marking - Bruises & Bite Marks | Power Play | Rape As Torture | Rape Aftermath | Rape As Punishment | Role Reversal | Seduction to the Dark Side | Sex as an Assertion of Dominance | Villain Raping The Hero | Virginity | Vampire Sex | Voyeurism | Forced Eye Contact | Emotional Manipulation

- Voyeurism: super canon! Charley watching Jerry or vice versa (with someone else? just going about his daily/nightly business?) as the prelude to Jerry/Charley sex. Canon-flavor fearful-yet-fascinated window peeping, or a fucked-up prelude to noncon/dubcon, or something else.
- Anything tapping into Jerry's canonical love of inappropriate mindgames and mindfucks -- whether mystical vampire mindfucks or just straight-up manipulative behavior.
- Internalized Homophobia: Something Jerry's clearly aware of as an immortal suburban perv (especially in light of how deftly he appeals to Ed's insecurities… woof) but Charley is likely swimming in, both internalized and otherwise. Jerry enjoying steamrollering Charley's circa-1985 high-school sexual mores and making him uncomfortable and angry as well as hot and bothered; Charley calling Jerry nasty things during sex and Jerry not being especially fazed.
- Jerry keeping Charley around for sex (whether as a newly-made vampire or as a mortal thrall) and casually breaking him down piece by piece. Futile struggle or exhausted emotionally-deadened surrender optional. Or on the flipside, Charley keeping Jerry around as a furious vampire hostage and Jerry trying to fuck his way out of it/Charley doing nasty things to Jerry and Jerry being a mouthy indignant asshole about it. I'd love fic with torture (psychological, physical) but I'm more into the whumpy effects on the victim and the psychological toll than the specific acts.
- Role Reversal: Charley as the slutty hypnotism-prone vampire next door and Jerry as the genteel newcomer who just can't look away? Same vampire-human dynamic but reversed ages? Or straight-up just Charley turning the tables on Jerry, I'd love anything you can come up with.


Crossover Pairings
Travis Bickle/Col. Kurtz

Head-Shaving | Abduction As Seduction | Age Difference | Authority Kink | Bathing/Washing | Body Contrast Kink | Boot Worship | Brainwashing | Cigarette Kink | Consensual Drug Use | Corruption | Dissociating During Sex | Experienced/Inexperienced | Facial Shaving | Fever Sex | Gun Kink | Inexperienced Top | Interrogation | Internalized Homophobia

- Anything with the two of them going off the rails and losing their shit -- warrior poet (in the classic sense!) meets white-knight vigilante wannabe with disastrous (and sexy) results. Something where Bickle's Special Forces background lands him in Kurtz's compound smack-dab in the middle of the war? (It already doesn't take much to set Bickle off on a creepy internal monologue, so in that respect at least he seems like a man after Kurtz's own heart.) Or something set before (or in the middle of) Kurtz's full-on break with the military and with Western society -- I can see that eliciting fascination or repulsion out of Bickle, or a little of both.
- Scary monologues about the nature of warfare between the sheets, hero worship leveling up into pagan idolatry, or murderous obsession getting deflected into crazy-sublimated sexual desire, remaking your much younger and much more squirrelly captive/recruit/disciple/etc. in your own image… yeah.
- Both these canons are pretty harsh, so if you want to leverage the ways Travis' psychological differences make him vulnerable in that context and not just open to persuasion, go for it. Or regular ol' Kurtz-level mindfucks/torture/cult of personality stuff. Darkfic is my biggest narrative kink and I'm fine with something that's bleak as well as smutty.
- SIZE DIFFERENCES SIZE DIFFERENCES SIZE DIFFERENCES. (Brando and De Niro are just about the same height, but Brando's Kurtz is famously hefty and it's hard to imagine Travis being less wiry as a younger man.)
- Semi-lucid sex, either with organic illness-related origins (on either party's part) or a psychological/drug-related origin.
- Travis being an extraordinarily tightly-wound virgin, Kurtz has some Deep Thoughts about his deflowering.