HP Rare Pair Letter
Nov. 5th, 2021 06:36 pmThank you, Writer, for sharing the love of my rare pairs!
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Things I love, in general:
- Tropes: aliens made us do it, cooking, dress uniforms/suiting up, glasses (and/or glasses!kink), goddesses/gods, goth or punk AUs
- Archetypes: antisocial geniuses, boys in eyeliner, chaotic neutral or similar characters, double agents, found families, geeks and geekery, spies, spunky chicks, team-as-family, tomboys, tough-on-the-outside bishies, tricks and tricksters
- Animals: animal sidekicks/pets, dragons, kitties, being adopted by the pet/familiar in question, other mythological creatures
- Dark: angst, apocalypses, bittersweet endings, blood, dark themes, death, dub-con, dystopias, evil cliffhanger endings, hurt/comfort, illness, insanity, unhappy endings, whump
- Light: comedy, fluff, happy endings, hijinks, shenanigans, shiny things, snark, sneaking, sparkly things, squee
- Queers: bi- or pansexuality, drag queens, established pairs bringing in a mutual third, OT3s, rainbow representation in all forms
- Relationships: gen, femslash, slash, het, multi
- Style: drabbles, drabble series, episoliary, IF, meta, ploty things, random little life/death snippets, worldbuilding
Things I DNW, in general:
- Subjects: animal cruelty, bashing requested characters (though they can be a general part of the "the world" in "us against the world"), dentistry (seriously, no teeth pulling, dentist visits, those drill noises, none of it! I realize that Hermione's parents are dentists, and that's fine, just don't talk about their jobs in detail, please), infidelity
- Kink: coprophilia/watersports/focus on bodily waste, explicit sex scenes/pwp, non-con
- Real Life: COVID, current events, glorified gay bashing(wizards don't approve of queerness/poly leading to "us against the world" is fine, as long as the homophobes don't win), politics (HP political/societal worldbuilding and intrigue is great as long as it doesn't mirror the US dumpster fire I'm living in)
- Style: 2nd Person POV, reader insert
HP Rare Pair General likes:
- Handwaving the war so everyone lives
- Time-travel fix its for any part of the war or even all of Harry's years at Hogwarts/the Dursleys
- Requested characters joining the dark side together or forming their own side against Dumbles
- Domestic fluffy times with animals/plants/wheezes, cuddling, holidays/seasonal
- Established Relationships
- Getting Together fics (especially when Harry is too oblivious/messed up by the Dursleys/other to realize he's being pursued)
- Someone realizing what a bad home Privet Drive is and rescuing Harry for good
- Snarky Harry
- Soulmates, either of the "everyone finds their mate by their matching mark" variety, or the "this is so rare!" variety or anywhere in between. Matching marks pre- or post- bond, mental connections, magical connections, and all the other related tropes are welcome.
- H/C and whump
- Creature inheritance, especially if it gives someone wings. Can also include the soulmate variants
- Manipulative and/or evil Dumbledore is great, though I'm also down for 'oblivious to human nature re: the Dursleys and all the bullying at Hogwarts'
General note about ages: I'm fine with hogwarts age/hogwarts age, and also hogwarts age(14+)/young adult. When wizards can live to be 150 years old, a ten year age difference at 130/140 is nothing. So 15/25 is fine here. Harry/Bill is the biggest gap I have, I believe, and that's 10 or 11 years. If they're going to be having sex, I'd prefer the younger partner to be at least 14.
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