&

Dear hqhols author,

First of all, thank you so much for participating! Rest assured that I'll love your fic no matter what you write, so please don't feel pressured :) I've written some prompts, and a list of tropes/narrative devices I enjoy, but by no means do you have to include all or any of them - if you have a particular idea you're burning to write, go for it. The most important thing is that you have fun!

General likes:

• unusual or experimental prose styles
• worldbuilding
• histories (whether canonical or not), and a strong sense of setting
• inclusion of minor characters/ensemble casts
• mentor-mentee dynamics
• the presence of female characters
• ideological clashes
• the exploration of unorthodox relationships between characters, especially if they are not shown interacting much in canon
• relationship dynamics that are difficult to define, especially if non-romantic
• allusions to mythology
• physicality and nonverbal communication
• polyamory negotiations
• the transition from teenager to adult/the process of growing up (relatedly, transitions and liminal spaces in general)
• legacies

Things I have no preference on:

• content rating implied and background pairings, unless specifically mentioned (you can find a complete list of my haikyuu ships here!)
• multishipping
• genre plot/lack thereof and endings

General dislikes:

• pwp
• excessive fluff or angst
• graphically described eye horror
• excising other influential relationships the characters in the main ship have experienced
• noncon, A/B/O, watersports, and other heavy kinks
• kids, pregnancy or marriage as the main focus of the fic
• bullying played for laughs
• soulmate aus played straight (ie all soulmates are romantic, everyone has One True Soulmate, all the biologically imperative stuff, the implication that you need a romantic 'other half' to be complete, etc)
• over-westernisation (eg the characters going to prom, westernised nicknames/non-canon shortened names) describing characters as a 'mum' or as 'trash'

Tropes/AUs I love:

• magical realism/mundane superpower au
• pacific rim au (especially with unconventional jaeger teams!)
• fake dating
• HDM daemon au
• canon divergences enemies to friends (to lovers optional)
• while still retaining some form of legitimate rivalry/resentment
• espionage au
• post-apocalypse roadtrip au
• domesticity and slice-of-life

Some more specific prompts below:

( Read more... )