Smut4Smut 2025 Exchange Letter
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skazkaAs usual, lots and lots of consent issues-related prompts follow; if that's not your bag, steer clear. I talk way too much in these letters and you can disregard this commentary/these prompts as needed.
General Likes:
- historical details, material culture, pop culture for the era the fic is set in
- allegiances and loyalty (especially loyalty kink!)
- dreams and nightmares (dream sex is a+)
- psychological horror, erotic horror
- gothic horror (mystery, wonder, and the macabre, decaying old houses, ancestral curses, family secrets, etc.)
- 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
- clothes-sharing and historical/quasihistorical clothes porn
- 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)
- characters who just can't stay away from each other
- praise, quiet verbal intimacies, affectionate terms of address
- characters forced to rely on one another or to experience emotional honesty
- reluctant emotional bonding; trauma bonding between victim and perpetrator
- enforced physical closeness (cohabitation, forced bed-sharing, traveling together)
Smut Likes:
(feel free to mix and match with any exchange tags!)
- size differences
- age differences
- sexually inexperienced characters making the first move
- conversely, virginity loss/deflowering
- body worship
- big dicks and painful penetration
- consensual but not safe or sane encounters
- mouthy victims (including in CNC/roleplayed scenarios)
- blowjobs and cunnilingus, handjobs, frottage and non-penetrative sex
- clothed/semi-clothed sex, or where only one party is naked
- fancy clothes, uniforms, layers, dressing and undressing
- inhibitions and interpersonal baggage in the bedroom
- anonymous or pseudo-anonymous hookups
- internalized homophobia
- painful/clumsy but fun and tender sex, OR, tragically clumsy fail sex
- characters with physical imperfections (scars, bad joints, body parts that won't necessarily cooperate)
- bad coping mechanisms; sex for comfort
- sex in luxurious settings
- time-period-specific sexual practices and meeting places.
- sex happening before feelings and then feelings show up to the party and make everything weird
- hatesex and fighting-turned-fucking, arguments, verbal abuse, insults, physical roughhousing and wrestling (playful or serious or in between)
- erectile dysfunction
- breathplay
- wound fingering/wound fucking/kinking on the pain and power involved in historical medicine
- sexy use/misuse of magic powers
- rope bondage
- caning and flogging
- sadomasochism, pain, rough body play -- grabbing/shoving/yanking/hitting/punching/etc.
- cigarette kink — smoking, being horny for watching someone else smoke, shotgunning, smoking in someone's face, sharing cigarettes, cigarette burns (as consensual kink or noncon cruelty)
- dominant masochism
- characters who usually top bottoming and vice-versa
- drug and alcohol use (relaxation and altered states of consciousness during sex as well as substance abuse and dependency)
- 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.
- having to stay quiet during sex (consensual or dubcon/noncon) to avoid discovery.
- noncon and dubcon -- especially manipulation, fucked-up sexual bargaining, villains menacing protagonists, dark!protagonists menacing villains, antagonistic characters mutually attempting to dubcon one another
DNW:
- systematized slavery (one character as another character’s captive is fine, but not slavery as an institution where characters can be formally bought and sold)
- unrequested incest/child sexual abuse
- self-harm via cutting
- eating disorders
- actual pregnancy/oviposition
- belly stuffing
- bestiality
- omegaverse, BDSMverse, or other kinds of predetermined role AUs
- ageplay/age regression
- ravishment-style noncon with no hurt feelings or negative consequences
- high school teacher/student pairings
- unrequested permanent body mods or permanent mind control
- transmasc characters bottoming for PIV sex
- scat; piss drinking
- detailed descriptions of needles piercing skin
- fanwork created with generative AI
- smut involving characters younger than 16
On the flipside, for stuff that’s frequently DNW’ed that I’m okay with receiving, I’m down for fic that includes:
- spit as lube
- intoxication and drug use (the noncon/dubcon kind and the consensual fun kind)
- underlubricated or painful anal
- xcon watersports other than piss-drinking (pissing on/in someone, fear-wetting, etc., all good)
- urethral sounding
- background/additional relationships
- infidelity
- betrayal
- demeaning dirty talk, homophobic dirty talk, feminizing dirty talk, "if you were a woman I'd [xyz]"-type dirty hypotheticals
- involuntary vomiting (as a response to shock/rough oral sex/intoxication/etc.)
- threats of gang rape/noncon public use
- unaroused victims in dubcon/noncon
- consensual sex where not everyone involved has an orgasm and that’s fine.
- age differences where either party is kinking on that difference
- general canon-typical dark themes for each of these canons
I’m into daddy/boy dynamics but I’m hornier for the “daddy (often but not necessarily the older partner) taking his boy in hand” aspects than the actual word “daddy”.
As ever, my settings are enabled for treats, and I’m down for fic with any combination of the archive warnings I selected or none at all/CNTW! All my prompts are for fic, but if you have a hankering to make smutty art as the accompaniment to a fic or as a treat I would be thrilled to receive it.
*
Slow West (2015)
- Payne/Jay Cavendish
This is freely just one of those villain/hero badtouch pairings I hold so dear — I really enjoy the way Payne saunters into Jay’s life like some kind of randomly-encountered benefactor or new friend when in fact his plans for him and Silas (and ultimately for Rose and her father) are perfectly ruthless. He’s Silas’ own creepy former mentor, a dark parallel of what Silas could allow himself to become, and he’s only a half-step above an outlaw himself in a way that contrasts with Jay’s much more humane bravery. A lot of my tags skew more dubcon-to-noncon but if you want to write something less dysfunctional with these two or have them encounter one another on better terms, absolutely feel free.
Something where Payne’s gang hang on to Jay once they’ve encountered him (rip-roaringly drunk and disoriented) in the woods, using him as a tool against the Rosses or a guide to where they’re hiding out? Something where it’s Payne in the first place who takes Jay under his wing for not-very-altruistic purposes, teasing his youthful inexperience and fucking him silly in the process, or where he rounds Jay up with intent to return him to his parents for a price? Jay as a hostage or a new recruit to the bounty-hunter gang, Payne exploiting his naivete or growing reluctantly fond of this courageous little rich boy, Jay getting the upper hand or getting revenge…
Fandom-specific DNW note: I love Silas/Jay as a pairing but for this exchange I’d prefer the story focus and smut to center on the requested pairing. Other background pairings, including past pairings and speculation about who's fucking who, are fine.
*
Kraven The Hunter (2024)
- Foreigner/Dmitri
(WRT Foreigner’s canonical fate, feel free to canon-diverge that or just have him come back via handwavey comic book means.)
A lot of my tags lend themselves to noncon/dubcon or to consensual kink riffing on real life power dynamics — I’m always super easy for a scenario where Dmitri is Foreigner’s hostage/human shield/captive or otherwise at a serious disadvantage to him. Canon divergence with Dmitri encountering Foreigner in his capacity as Nikolai’s underwhelming heir — or as his post-film newly minted supervillain self? Or an AU with a consensual relationship where Dmitri’s exploring some fraught kinks with a big bad scary man who shares his love of turtlenecks?
For the freeform Dubcon - Coerced into Honeypot Missions by Employer - for “employer” here, read Nikolai, whether he’s consciously and deliberately using Dmitri as bad-guy bait on a regular basis or if it’s the first time he’s setting him up for strategic purposes. Does Foreigner know? Does Foreigner find it titillating or offensive? Most importantly, does Foreigner tease him kinda meanly about getting pimped out by his dad?
If you’d like to write porn for a somewhat lighter take on this pairing, I’d love anything with the two of these guys being wildly attracted to each other and exploring the horny version of their respective gimmicks (Foreigner being a cold-blooded assassin with ten-second mindfuck powers, Dmitri being a gilded-cage daddy’s boy on his track to a little light supervillainy). Erotic LARP getting bogged down in the worldbuilding, CNC dialled into the characters' kinks, consensual fearplay, consensual (or dubiously-consensual) misuse of all of Foreigner’s weird supervillainous assassin tech including all those mindfucky poisons that make you hallucinate spiders…
For the Object Insertion freeform, bottles are a classic but feel to dovetail with Gunplay/other kinds of weapon insertion.
Fandom-specific DNW: mundane AUs where they’re uninvolved in crime/supervillainy
*
House Of The Dragon
- Larys Strong/Aegon II Targaryen
I really enjoy how their bedside chats after Aegon’s catastrophic injuries waver on the knife’s edge between seemingly genuine reflections of Larys’ own personal resentments as a disabled man in a society as dire as Westeros and a masterful manipulative gambit — anything exploring their strange-bedfellows alliance/funky little road trip together, or canon-divergent scenarios where Larys gets his hooks into Aegon sooner. One or both of them developing feelings despite himself? A pet sociopath situation where Larys does his fratboy king’s dirty work, or where he maneuvers Aegon into a more favorable position for a price?
Anything on the spectrum from bleakest noncon to enthusiastically consensual sex between two deeply messy people is welcome here; I’m a huge fan of Larys being a real control-freak chessmaster spotting Aegon’s massive emotional open wounds and immediately getting his fingers in there.
For the Pet Sociopath Barely Kept In Check Via Sex tag, Larys is definitely the more obvious candidate for the pet sociopath role, but I’m also down for a riff on this where he’s the one blatantly controlling Aegon by skillfully granting and denying him his favorite hedonistic treats. (Villainous clicker training?)
Weird malicious power plays… Larys privately perving on Aegon’s resemblance to his mother… Larys slowly methodically gaining Aegon’s confidences and fucking him silly along the way while calling him a plump and comely maiden and talking about knocking him up… Aegon baffled and humiliated and turned on anyway... Aegon getting his prostate absolutely blasted… the world is their oyster.
I’m completely agnostic to Team Black vs. Team Green allegiances and I’m just here for various varieties of filth. Feel free to include additional background pairings and canon pairings in any/all combinations, canon divergences, and Targaryen-typical royal family incest going every which way.
Fandom-specific DNW note: For the "permanent body mods" DNW, penectomy/orchiectomy and similar reconstructive procedures as part of Aegon's post-burnination cock situation are welcome here.
*
The Brutalist (2024)
- Harrison Van Buren/László Tóth
Harrison is so genuinely frightening to me as a petty tyrant, but he’s also so ridiculous and insecure, desperate for external approval — I’d love anything that explores the uneasy balance between his pitiable yearning and his personal unpleasantness, the ways his relationship to art and beauty crystallizes into this weird handsy sexual acquisitiveness. He really seems to want to possess every part of this poor bastard, starting with his mind, and I'd be really interested in anything with him futilely trying to pry his way into László's heart and soul like somebody trying to open an oyster.
Likewise I’m really interested in László’s own withdrawn, dissociated relationship to sexuality and intimacy (this poor bastard gets manhandled a lot, even by people who like him) and how it intersects with beauty and art. Unpleasant, raw, emotionally explosive encounters or quietly seething, weird, tense emotions under the surface of some midcentury sucking and fucking. László loathing his monstrous benefactor but needing his help, Harrison struggling with his attraction (to men? To László specifically?) and making that László’s problem… I’m really interested in the dynamic of László having to manage Harrison’s emotions/needs (as a client and as a volatile rich guy) while viewing him with completely locked-down horrified fascination (or perhaps pity, confusion, contempt — what is wrong with this guy, seriously) and while having to repress his own frustration — or failing to do so.
Is there a version of their relationship where they become sexually involved before László has a fuller understanding of the rot in Harrison’s soul — where that’s something he only finds out when it’s much too late? Or where a sexual relationship only begins after the rape in Carrara? (Whether that’s in the context of repeated assaults or some grim effort to relitigate that act of violence/recover some semblance of control.)
“More awful things happening to László Tóth” is fully welcome here, as are fucked-up power games from the subtle to the overt. One-sided riffs on this ship like sexual fantasies/dreams and nightmares are also very welcome, as well as freaky triangulations with Erzsébet.
Fandom-specific DNW: fluff; uncomplicatedly reciprocal and consensual Laszlo/Harrison. (Van Buren fantasizing about having his own grateful and pliantatticwife live-in architect is a-okay.)
General Likes:
- historical details, material culture, pop culture for the era the fic is set in
- allegiances and loyalty (especially loyalty kink!)
- dreams and nightmares (dream sex is a+)
- psychological horror, erotic horror
- gothic horror (mystery, wonder, and the macabre, decaying old houses, ancestral curses, family secrets, etc.)
- 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
- clothes-sharing and historical/quasihistorical clothes porn
- 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)
- characters who just can't stay away from each other
- praise, quiet verbal intimacies, affectionate terms of address
- characters forced to rely on one another or to experience emotional honesty
- reluctant emotional bonding; trauma bonding between victim and perpetrator
- enforced physical closeness (cohabitation, forced bed-sharing, traveling together)
Smut Likes:
(feel free to mix and match with any exchange tags!)
- size differences
- age differences
- sexually inexperienced characters making the first move
- conversely, virginity loss/deflowering
- body worship
- big dicks and painful penetration
- consensual but not safe or sane encounters
- mouthy victims (including in CNC/roleplayed scenarios)
- blowjobs and cunnilingus, handjobs, frottage and non-penetrative sex
- clothed/semi-clothed sex, or where only one party is naked
- fancy clothes, uniforms, layers, dressing and undressing
- inhibitions and interpersonal baggage in the bedroom
- anonymous or pseudo-anonymous hookups
- internalized homophobia
- painful/clumsy but fun and tender sex, OR, tragically clumsy fail sex
- characters with physical imperfections (scars, bad joints, body parts that won't necessarily cooperate)
- bad coping mechanisms; sex for comfort
- sex in luxurious settings
- time-period-specific sexual practices and meeting places.
- sex happening before feelings and then feelings show up to the party and make everything weird
- hatesex and fighting-turned-fucking, arguments, verbal abuse, insults, physical roughhousing and wrestling (playful or serious or in between)
- erectile dysfunction
- breathplay
- wound fingering/wound fucking/kinking on the pain and power involved in historical medicine
- sexy use/misuse of magic powers
- rope bondage
- caning and flogging
- sadomasochism, pain, rough body play -- grabbing/shoving/yanking/hitting/punching/etc.
- cigarette kink — smoking, being horny for watching someone else smoke, shotgunning, smoking in someone's face, sharing cigarettes, cigarette burns (as consensual kink or noncon cruelty)
- dominant masochism
- characters who usually top bottoming and vice-versa
- drug and alcohol use (relaxation and altered states of consciousness during sex as well as substance abuse and dependency)
- 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.
- having to stay quiet during sex (consensual or dubcon/noncon) to avoid discovery.
- noncon and dubcon -- especially manipulation, fucked-up sexual bargaining, villains menacing protagonists, dark!protagonists menacing villains, antagonistic characters mutually attempting to dubcon one another
DNW:
- systematized slavery (one character as another character’s captive is fine, but not slavery as an institution where characters can be formally bought and sold)
- unrequested incest/child sexual abuse
- self-harm via cutting
- eating disorders
- actual pregnancy/oviposition
- belly stuffing
- bestiality
- omegaverse, BDSMverse, or other kinds of predetermined role AUs
- ageplay/age regression
- ravishment-style noncon with no hurt feelings or negative consequences
- high school teacher/student pairings
- unrequested permanent body mods or permanent mind control
- transmasc characters bottoming for PIV sex
- scat; piss drinking
- detailed descriptions of needles piercing skin
- fanwork created with generative AI
- smut involving characters younger than 16
On the flipside, for stuff that’s frequently DNW’ed that I’m okay with receiving, I’m down for fic that includes:
- spit as lube
- intoxication and drug use (the noncon/dubcon kind and the consensual fun kind)
- underlubricated or painful anal
- xcon watersports other than piss-drinking (pissing on/in someone, fear-wetting, etc., all good)
- urethral sounding
- background/additional relationships
- infidelity
- betrayal
- demeaning dirty talk, homophobic dirty talk, feminizing dirty talk, "if you were a woman I'd [xyz]"-type dirty hypotheticals
- involuntary vomiting (as a response to shock/rough oral sex/intoxication/etc.)
- threats of gang rape/noncon public use
- unaroused victims in dubcon/noncon
- consensual sex where not everyone involved has an orgasm and that’s fine.
- age differences where either party is kinking on that difference
- general canon-typical dark themes for each of these canons
I’m into daddy/boy dynamics but I’m hornier for the “daddy (often but not necessarily the older partner) taking his boy in hand” aspects than the actual word “daddy”.
As ever, my settings are enabled for treats, and I’m down for fic with any combination of the archive warnings I selected or none at all/CNTW! All my prompts are for fic, but if you have a hankering to make smutty art as the accompaniment to a fic or as a treat I would be thrilled to receive it.
*
Slow West (2015)
- Payne/Jay Cavendish
This is freely just one of those villain/hero badtouch pairings I hold so dear — I really enjoy the way Payne saunters into Jay’s life like some kind of randomly-encountered benefactor or new friend when in fact his plans for him and Silas (and ultimately for Rose and her father) are perfectly ruthless. He’s Silas’ own creepy former mentor, a dark parallel of what Silas could allow himself to become, and he’s only a half-step above an outlaw himself in a way that contrasts with Jay’s much more humane bravery. A lot of my tags skew more dubcon-to-noncon but if you want to write something less dysfunctional with these two or have them encounter one another on better terms, absolutely feel free.
Something where Payne’s gang hang on to Jay once they’ve encountered him (rip-roaringly drunk and disoriented) in the woods, using him as a tool against the Rosses or a guide to where they’re hiding out? Something where it’s Payne in the first place who takes Jay under his wing for not-very-altruistic purposes, teasing his youthful inexperience and fucking him silly in the process, or where he rounds Jay up with intent to return him to his parents for a price? Jay as a hostage or a new recruit to the bounty-hunter gang, Payne exploiting his naivete or growing reluctantly fond of this courageous little rich boy, Jay getting the upper hand or getting revenge…
Fandom-specific DNW note: I love Silas/Jay as a pairing but for this exchange I’d prefer the story focus and smut to center on the requested pairing. Other background pairings, including past pairings and speculation about who's fucking who, are fine.
*
Kraven The Hunter (2024)
- Foreigner/Dmitri
(WRT Foreigner’s canonical fate, feel free to canon-diverge that or just have him come back via handwavey comic book means.)
A lot of my tags lend themselves to noncon/dubcon or to consensual kink riffing on real life power dynamics — I’m always super easy for a scenario where Dmitri is Foreigner’s hostage/human shield/captive or otherwise at a serious disadvantage to him. Canon divergence with Dmitri encountering Foreigner in his capacity as Nikolai’s underwhelming heir — or as his post-film newly minted supervillain self? Or an AU with a consensual relationship where Dmitri’s exploring some fraught kinks with a big bad scary man who shares his love of turtlenecks?
For the freeform Dubcon - Coerced into Honeypot Missions by Employer - for “employer” here, read Nikolai, whether he’s consciously and deliberately using Dmitri as bad-guy bait on a regular basis or if it’s the first time he’s setting him up for strategic purposes. Does Foreigner know? Does Foreigner find it titillating or offensive? Most importantly, does Foreigner tease him kinda meanly about getting pimped out by his dad?
If you’d like to write porn for a somewhat lighter take on this pairing, I’d love anything with the two of these guys being wildly attracted to each other and exploring the horny version of their respective gimmicks (Foreigner being a cold-blooded assassin with ten-second mindfuck powers, Dmitri being a gilded-cage daddy’s boy on his track to a little light supervillainy). Erotic LARP getting bogged down in the worldbuilding, CNC dialled into the characters' kinks, consensual fearplay, consensual (or dubiously-consensual) misuse of all of Foreigner’s weird supervillainous assassin tech including all those mindfucky poisons that make you hallucinate spiders…
For the Object Insertion freeform, bottles are a classic but feel to dovetail with Gunplay/other kinds of weapon insertion.
Fandom-specific DNW: mundane AUs where they’re uninvolved in crime/supervillainy
*
House Of The Dragon
- Larys Strong/Aegon II Targaryen
I really enjoy how their bedside chats after Aegon’s catastrophic injuries waver on the knife’s edge between seemingly genuine reflections of Larys’ own personal resentments as a disabled man in a society as dire as Westeros and a masterful manipulative gambit — anything exploring their strange-bedfellows alliance/funky little road trip together, or canon-divergent scenarios where Larys gets his hooks into Aegon sooner. One or both of them developing feelings despite himself? A pet sociopath situation where Larys does his fratboy king’s dirty work, or where he maneuvers Aegon into a more favorable position for a price?
Anything on the spectrum from bleakest noncon to enthusiastically consensual sex between two deeply messy people is welcome here; I’m a huge fan of Larys being a real control-freak chessmaster spotting Aegon’s massive emotional open wounds and immediately getting his fingers in there.
For the Pet Sociopath Barely Kept In Check Via Sex tag, Larys is definitely the more obvious candidate for the pet sociopath role, but I’m also down for a riff on this where he’s the one blatantly controlling Aegon by skillfully granting and denying him his favorite hedonistic treats. (Villainous clicker training?)
Weird malicious power plays… Larys privately perving on Aegon’s resemblance to his mother… Larys slowly methodically gaining Aegon’s confidences and fucking him silly along the way while calling him a plump and comely maiden and talking about knocking him up… Aegon baffled and humiliated and turned on anyway... Aegon getting his prostate absolutely blasted… the world is their oyster.
I’m completely agnostic to Team Black vs. Team Green allegiances and I’m just here for various varieties of filth. Feel free to include additional background pairings and canon pairings in any/all combinations, canon divergences, and Targaryen-typical royal family incest going every which way.
Fandom-specific DNW note: For the "permanent body mods" DNW, penectomy/orchiectomy and similar reconstructive procedures as part of Aegon's post-burnination cock situation are welcome here.
*
The Brutalist (2024)
- Harrison Van Buren/László Tóth
Harrison is so genuinely frightening to me as a petty tyrant, but he’s also so ridiculous and insecure, desperate for external approval — I’d love anything that explores the uneasy balance between his pitiable yearning and his personal unpleasantness, the ways his relationship to art and beauty crystallizes into this weird handsy sexual acquisitiveness. He really seems to want to possess every part of this poor bastard, starting with his mind, and I'd be really interested in anything with him futilely trying to pry his way into László's heart and soul like somebody trying to open an oyster.
Likewise I’m really interested in László’s own withdrawn, dissociated relationship to sexuality and intimacy (this poor bastard gets manhandled a lot, even by people who like him) and how it intersects with beauty and art. Unpleasant, raw, emotionally explosive encounters or quietly seething, weird, tense emotions under the surface of some midcentury sucking and fucking. László loathing his monstrous benefactor but needing his help, Harrison struggling with his attraction (to men? To László specifically?) and making that László’s problem… I’m really interested in the dynamic of László having to manage Harrison’s emotions/needs (as a client and as a volatile rich guy) while viewing him with completely locked-down horrified fascination (or perhaps pity, confusion, contempt — what is wrong with this guy, seriously) and while having to repress his own frustration — or failing to do so.
Is there a version of their relationship where they become sexually involved before László has a fuller understanding of the rot in Harrison’s soul — where that’s something he only finds out when it’s much too late? Or where a sexual relationship only begins after the rape in Carrara? (Whether that’s in the context of repeated assaults or some grim effort to relitigate that act of violence/recover some semblance of control.)
“More awful things happening to László Tóth” is fully welcome here, as are fucked-up power games from the subtle to the overt. One-sided riffs on this ship like sexual fantasies/dreams and nightmares are also very welcome, as well as freaky triangulations with Erzsébet.
Fandom-specific DNW: fluff; uncomplicatedly reciprocal and consensual Laszlo/Harrison. (Van Buren fantasizing about having his own grateful and pliant
