Hey there! I'm tentacledicks over on AO3 as well. A lot of pieces of this letter have been cannablized from previous letters, and if none of the prompts here grab you, I’m always happy to get something based on prompts from past letters too. Go nuts!

DNWs -
- Permanent major character death in main pairings
- Unrequited feelings
- Memory loss/memory wipes
- Suicide
- Incest
- Explicit underage
- CG/L, daddykink, age play

Index

General Likes/Smut Likes
Watch Dogs
Mass Effect: Andromeda
Dragon Age
Black Jewels

Likes-
- Anything that involves kink, especially kink as a way to process trauma and other strong emotions (exceptions: no caregiver/little, daddy anything is an instant nope for me)
- Chronic conditions (mental or physical) focused on as a grind that wears people down until they can't go it alone anymore, hurt/comfort
- Politics, especially the sort of politics that show up in small, tight-knit organizations with all the jockeying for position and careful diplomacy that entails
- Action! Danger! Fighting!
- Worldbuilding, especially worldbuilding focused on cultural notes like fashion, food, and architecture
- Complex etiquette and rules for social interaction, D/s-adjacent interpersonal expectations, outlandish concepts taken seriously when it comes to how people would create rules to handle them (i.e., "murder is legal" in BJT-verse not meaning that you're free of social consequences for murdering someone, just that legal recourse is limited)
- Alternate universes! Canon divergences, setting swaps, role swaps…
- Mpreg, as magicky handwaving, a/b/o, or attempting to be medically accurate in the most horrifying way possible—all variations are good

Smut likes
- D/s dynamics, kinking on D/s dynamics in a nonformalized setting, undernegotiated D/s
- Alpha/Beta/Omega dynamics, especially alpha/omega and alpha/alpha pairings (heat/rut sex and breeding kink are both great!)
- Bondage, with things like ropes and straps or spur-of-the-moment tie and clothing usage for getting someone bound down
- Oral of any type (rimming, blowjobs, cunnilingus) especially as a precursor to penetrative sex
- Multiple orgasms leaving characters as absolute wrecks
- Body worship
- Rough sex, violent sex, unsafe and dangerous sex with knives and guns in the bedroom, bloodplay, biting, choking, the whole lot
- Wireplay
- Xeno for aliens, especially in the form of Bad Dragon dicks
- No strong opinions on top/bottom roles for anyone; switching is fine, strict top/bottom roles are fine, just mash them together in whatever configuration you like because I enjoy them all!

Watch Dogs

AU - Canon Divergence, AU - Genre Shift, Darkfic, Getting Together, Hurt/Comfort

Likes:
- That one Barbara Kruger artpiece that goes "You construct intricate rituals which allow you to touch the skin of other men"
- Trauma and the exploration thereof
- Genuinely well-researched cybersecurity and hacking fic, especially if it comes with a side order of well researched financial crimes and social engineering
- Handwavey computer nonsense for the purpose of moving the plot forward and/or making something funny happen
- Comedy of errors fic where everything just goes wrong all the way up until the minute it goes right
- Sex jokes

Ships:
Aiden/Jordi: Jordi is such an asshole, and Aiden is also such an asshole, so letting them be assholes together is always fun. I love how much Jordi snarks and pokes and jabs at Aiden, along with his usual rambling humor over the comms when he’s sniping, and I love that Aiden just… takes it all in stride. It’s funny, because Jordi’s the one person Aiden seems to let his guard down around because Jordi’s predictable in all his sociopathy. Which is probably why his betrayal didn’t shock Aiden as badly as it should’ve; there was big money on the table, and Jordi warned him there was big money on the table, so eventually he should’ve expected Jordi to come after him.

I love post-canon fic that dances around that betrayal, Jordi and Aiden working themselves back into each other’s good graces through jobs together until they just sort of fall into bed. I also really love pining on Aiden’s behalf, especially pining while actively fucking Jordi, because Jordi made it abundantly clear that he doesn’t do feelings or love or anything like that (and if there’s one character flaw Aiden definitely has, it’s feeling too much, too deeply, too intensely to handle sometimes.)

I’m also into AUs, any AUs, but especially AUs which deal with the supernatural. Jordi just feels like he could be something unknowable and inhuman, a vampire or a fae or an old god, and it’s really fun to consider how Aiden stumbling into that world could go. Jordi as a guide or Jordi as an opposing force and then there’s Aiden, who’s really good at ferreting his way into situations he absolutely should not be in and then toppling all the power structures on his way—there’s a great urban fantasy AU to be had there, is what I’m saying.

Marcus/Jordi: Confession time: I played WD2 first, and Jordi’s introduction in Human Conditions is exactly what drove me to play WD1. Because he is fucking hilarious, and he’s such a dick to Marcus, who is even less patient with him than he is with Lenni. Marcus has enough room in his life for one murderous weirdo with distinctive fashion tastes, and Wrench at least watches the same movies. And yet! Nothing would bring me more joy than to see Marcus, appalled by his own bad taste, drawn into Jordi’s sphere of attraction.

So enemies to lovers is like, 100% my jam with these two, in basically any shape. I like it as a canon ‘verse thing, where Jordi’s come back to San Fran for whatever reason and decides that he needs Marcus’s help (Marcus’s opinion on the matter be damned) and because Jordi is Jordi, he’s also like, “What if I flirt relentlessly now that I’m in a better mood, huh?” And if Marcus is feeling particularly stupid and/or self-destructive, he looks at that and goes, “I mean sure, I guess, why not,” and ends up offended and dismayed by how much he enjoys it. Maybe even by how much he enjoys being around Jordi once the fear of dying isn’t on the table anymore.

Or! AUs! Total setting swap AUs, where Marcus is some kind of freedom fighter or resistance member in a magical kingdom and Jordi is the assassin that runs across him while targeting a particularly nasty noble, or Marcus is a cyborg with implants fighting against the corporate regime in a more far-flung-future cyberpunk/sci fi setting and Jordi is genetically engineered hitman who works for himself and no other, or Marcus is the Chosen One and Jordi’s the Big Bad who’s just loving the chance to fuck with him… I think that antagonistic relationship between them is really fun and I’d love to see it in other ways.

If you really wanted to hit me in the funnybone, Jordi and Marcus meet on Fetlife and then realize who the other guy is and everything is terrible (wonderful) and Marcus can never let Wrench know he accidentally seduced the fixer from the Anton job into domming him.

Mass Effect: Andromeda

Action/Adventure, Character Development, Hurt/Comfort, Mystery/Procedural, Worldbuilding

Likes:
- Angaran worldbuilding! Customs, other hidden worlds, languages, history (both lost and found), relationship dynamics...
- Whumping the absolute shit out of Ryder
- Focus on exploring alien worlds, ancient ruins and technology, uncovering secrets that were never meant to be hidden
- Established relationships
- Slowburn get togethers
- Interplanetary politics

If M!Ryder features, I strongly prefer default Scott’s appearance and name. But if you want to feature his sister (either as the Pathfinder or just as an important character) I don’t care much what her name and appearance is! Go hogwild, F!Ryder is a freespace.

Ships:
Avitus/Kaetus: Now here’s two deeply loyal turians who fall apart the second the object of their loyalty is killed! Avitus’s grief is very real and something we get to see unfold as the search for the turian ark carries on, but I think Kaetus’s response to Sloane’s death is really interesting as a parallel to that. He has the potential to lose a woman he is deeply devoted to, even if it’s not romantic, even though she’s not a good person, and it happens after someone deliberately sets out to remove him from her side—that has to fuck Kaetus up, just as much as Macen dying to make sure Avitus lives has to fuck him up.

So a really fun direction to explore this from is mercenary!Avitus and a Kaetus living on Kadara after Reyes wins. Both of them have so many reasons to be embittered towards the Pathfinder, and both of them would be in the same spaces. How does that shake out?

Alternatively, Pathfinder Avitus has to negotiate with Sloane’s second-in-command to set up a more permanent turian outpost on an Outcast-controlled Kadara. He knows going into it that he’s probably not going to succeed, given her feelings about the Nexus, but Kaetus is attractive and willing enough to stay polite (if not overly friendly.) Maybe it starts with bargaining over things like water rights and then turns into getting drinks with each other and then...

Evfra/OMC: Evfra had a family before he was a Resistance leader! We never find out anything about them, and I’ve always wondered what his life was like before the kett ruined it all. Was he a house husband? Was he always semi-affiliated with the militia and the pieces of the Resistance before he reforged them? Did his family focus on science, or art, or a trade of some kind? I don’t know! I’d love to see some Evfra history with the husband he lost, especially if that’s tied into a new relationship that’s he’s moving into.

Speaking of, Evfra’s kind of a big deal! Does he get flirted with on occasion, or is he something of an unapproachable figure? After they’ve won against the kett, does he end up looking more approachable? Or is he even more of an object for hero worship? I don’t know! I think there’s a lot of avenues you can take with an OMC (angara? or maybe an alien instead?) and I enjoy basically all of them. He’s such a regal and tragic figure on his own, there’s bound to be a few dudes desperate to show him love again.

(And I do love OCs a lot in general, so feel free to deep dive into the OMC’s backstory and personality too!)

Jaal/Evfra: God, I love Evfra. I love that he’s firm, that he’s not as openly emotive as most of the other angara, and that he’s this charismatic force that you can really see shaping the Resistance. And I especially love all of that in contrast to Jaal—who, despite coming off as smooth and confident sometimes, is more uncertain of his footing, still hasn’t found his place, and feels things so deeply and so openly all the time. You can tell that he admires Evfra, and Evfra himself tells you that Jaal is one of his best, and I love all the ways that mutual admiration can turn to mutual pining.

Pre-canon or during-canon fic that revolves around Evfra and Jaal in the Resistance, taking what seems like a hopeless endeavor and transforming it as the tables turn would be awesome. Getting together fic, especially with just heaps and heaps of mutual pining and slow burn is great, especially if there’s a heart-stopping moment or two where one thinks they’ve lost the other (the Pathfinder letting Akksul take a shot at Jaal, and Evfra’s reaction to that, come to mind.) Pouring some hurt/comfort into that and giving a chance for some tender woundcaring, maybe some confessions over bullet wounds?? I’ll eat it all up.

Or post-canon fic where the Resistance is taking on a different shape as the kett are slowly driven out of the galaxy. Destroying the Archon and most of his soldiers struck a blow, but they’re not completely gone yet; how does the Resistance re-orient with their enemy crippled? How do Evfra’s plans change, now that he’s no longer fighting an unwinnable war? What kind of shape would their relationship (either established as romantic/sexual or still platonic with heaps of UST) change when both of them realized that someday, maybe even someday in their lifetimes, they might look out over an angaran world without any kett presence at all? Jaal has had hope, I think, but it feels like Evfra abandoned hope for pragmatism and stubbornness a long time ago, so I’d love to have anything that explores Evfra getting that dream for the future back.

M!Ryder/Jaal: I had a couple false starts the first time I tried to play Andromeda, but that just meant that coming back to it later gave me the chance to romance Jaal and holy shit, what a good idea that was. I love the way he flirts with everyone but he gives his heart, without hesitation, to Scott when they fall in love. I also love just how dorky Scott in love is in return, and I love how earnestly both of them try to learn each other’s culture.

So, post-canon fic is always fun. I like mysteries and alien planets, especially when it comes to the Pathfinder team trying to figure out some kind of alien ruin, or Jaardan technology, or hunting up ancient angaran ruins while running across pre-Scourge hints of culture that had been lost. I love worldbuilding a ton, and the Pathfinder team is in a unique position to go zipping across the stars at a given moment, all other responsibilities be damned, just because there’s something sending up a beacon on the other side of the galaxy. (Also, alien horror is great. Some of my favorite Mass Effect missions have been the ones that lean in on the horror of being trapped in space with an unknown enemy, knowing there’s no escape but the vacuum. So playing with that is always enjoyable!)

Alternatively, some straight up whump. Jaal getting injured when they’re far away from an angaran settlement, so the medbay beds that Lexi repurposed for angaran physiology are being put to the test and Scott is worrying himself to pieces over it because he has not, historically, had a good time with loved ones being trapped in the medbay. Or Scott experiencing complications with his SAM implant (or complications from the THREE heart attacks he’s had so far, oh my god, Scott, stop dying) and Jaal being worried sick but not sure if he can show it, because angara are so close-lipped about sickness and careful when it comes to navigating the waters of social convention when illness is on the table. Or anything with angaran bioelectric fields and touch telepathy becoming a plotpoint that saves one, or both, of their lives.

Speaking of angaran biology, and the smutty, smutty purposes to which it could be applied: I’ve always loved the idea of Scott needing a place to fall to pieces, Jaal thoroughly enjoying the concept of sexual domination even if he hasn’t been able to put it into practice, and those two desires intersecting in very sexy way. Petplay, D/s, maybe just some bondage or sadomasochism—I like the idea of Jaal being able to sense some of the emotions of people, even aliens, that he touches, and I really like the idea of him kinking on that absolute submission.

M!Ryder/Jaal/Evfra: I love all three of them, so much. And I love their individual dynamics enough that I want to see how those dynamics play out around each other; I go into the Jaal/Evfra and Jaal/Scott a bit above and below, but Evfra/Scott’s got some great moments, especially if you play the Pathfinder as doing his best to be courteous and not an asshole. He still gets some snark in, but you can see Evfra slowly and begrudgingly deciding that this specific alien may not be entirely terrible. And I love that, almost as much as I love how incredulous he is when he finds out the Pathfinder let Akksul take a shot at Jaal—he expected better of you, Scott! You were supposed to be the one good one!

So, post-canon fic is probably where it works best, but the direction of that post-canon is pretty variable. Scott and Jaal end up taking on a more active role in the Resistance, now that Meridian has been established, because they’ve got some of the most experience with beating the kett at their own game; Evfra becoming more of an ambassadorial figure towards the Nexus and the Initiative planets, especially as the other Pathfinders start working towards finding appropriate golden worlds, so he’s typically taking the Tempest to and from the places he needs to go; all of them getting dragged in seperate directions now that there’s not a single Big Bad to defeat and fighting to make sure they’re all on Aya at the same time so they can catch those stolen moments of intimacy.

But if heavy plotty stuff isn’t what you’re feeling, I’m going to be honest: I would eat 10k of PWP threesome smut up with a spoon. What better way to get over those cultural misconceptions and little misunderstandings than through a sex marathon, I ask you?

Dragon Age

AU - Canon Divergence, AU - Modern/Mundane, Darkfic, Fantasy, Hurt/Comfort, Slice of Life

Likes:
- Trauma exploration, especially as different people with trauma intersect for good or ill
- Mutual pining!
- Chronic pain/disability being a lasting thing even with magic (but magic can help a lot!)
- KINKY MAGIC SEX USE
- Modern-with-magic setting change AUs
- Post-Trespasser exploration

Ships:
Cullen/Dorian/Iron Bull: I love the concept of the Iron Bull and Dorian being an established couple that invites Cullen in as a third, either during the events of Inquisition or in that period before Trespasser, when Dorian is in and out of Tevinter for a bit. Especially if it happens as the Inquisition is making that transition from a mostly military organization to an almost purely political one, which is bound to cause some stress and headaches in need of comfort for all three of them.

Dorian and Bull being established as a couple is good in AUs too, so something like a Modern AU where they find Cullen on a dating site and he actually seems interested, and he's got a good personality mesh for both of them online. Cullen's deciding to try this whole 'online dating' thing on hardmode, or more of a spacefuture AU where Bull is the captain of a mercenary/pseudo-pirate ship and Dorian is his resident pretty diplomat, and Cullen is a burnt out veteran of the losing side in a colony war looking for a new start could be a lot of fun. Or, for a grimmer take, post-apocalypse AU where the Chargers are a roving band that helps escort people between settlements (for a fee) and Dorian's their current charge (and Bull's current bedmate). Cullen is a lone survivor who didn't realize a small, thriving community has built up around these trade routes, and these are the first people he's met in years.

There’s just a lot of really good ways all three of them play off each other, especially since they have their own combination of issues and sexual tension between them individually. And I’m certainly never going to say no to 5k words of PWP, if that takes your fancy.

Cullen/Iron Bull: Cullen and the Iron Bull both being career military men who've done terrible things in the name of duty is always a lot of fun to explore, especially because the ways they both manifest PTSD are very different. Bull compartmentalizes, but Cullen's trauma boxes are starting to crack open. Cullen left the order and quit the lyrium when he couldn't agree with what was happening, but Bull had to be forced out by the Qun's decision to play games with the Chargers' lives. Also I think kink-as-coping is very sexy for both of them, in either a dominant or submissive role.

Modern-with-magic AU where both Bull and Cullen are part of rival football teams for veterans? I just think it would be absolutely hilarious to have this sports rivalmance where everyone goes and gets drinks afterwards and absolutely does not talk about the horrifying shit they've seen around the civilians. Alternatively, Modern AU where Cullen gives something like Fetlife or Grindr a try, probably on a dare or potentially on accident thinking it was something else entirely, and Bull is the guy he matches to that he decides to maybe a give a shot because it makes him feel things (in his dick)

I just really love BDSM being a way for Cullen to process a lot of the trauma he went through, and doing it with Bull because he’s got the best combination of experience (both as a dom and in the warzone himself) and distance (as an outside observer into everything Cullen struggles with, since his experiences aren’t exactly the same.)

Black Jewels

Character Development, Established Relationship, Getting Together, Interpersonal Drama, Slice of Life

Likes:
- The intricacies of aristo politics as they intersect with caste and gender politics
- Social events, court functions, enforced politeness with knives in the dark
- SaDiablo Family Dynamics
- Sex jokes
- Worldbuilding
- Surreal getting to stab people for fun and profit

Ships:
Karla/Wilhelmina: Listen, I’m just saying, Karla needs a girlfriend, Wilhelmina NEEDS a girlfriend, and I think it would be amazing if they kissed. A lot. On the mouth.

More specifically, I’d be super into anything that really sort of showcases the way the Dark Court develops after the events of Queen of the Darkness. Wilhelmina and Karla both kind of fade out of view after that book, and we don’t get to see a whole ton of how Jaenelle’s extended adoptive family grows older—so a story that touches on those relationships as they grow closer (or further apart), maybe with how Karla feels about so many of her friends having married and now starting new families, while Morton is dead and her court is still struggling to recover from the corruption that tried to take hold? Especially if that comes hand in hand with Wilhelmina feeling adrift and at loose ends, now that all the worst is over and Jaenelle is getting the happy, relatively sedate life she’s always wanted.

Alternatively, something set during the third book and the war, where the two of them end up hooking up while tensions are on the rise and everyone else is gearing up to fight. Or! Wilhelmina being one of the ones helping Karla recover and heal after she’s poisoned, especially since she’s a new enough friend that it doesn’t hurt Karla’s pride as much to accept the help from her.

Rainier & Surreal: Tangled Webs is probably my favorite book in the entire Black Jewels ‘verse, both for the horror house plot and for the absolutely fantastic dynamic between these two. Surreal’s friendship with Rainier is one of those things I absolutely loved seeing grow over time in the series, and I’d be more than happy with anything that dug into that deeper. Slice of life stuff with them hanging out, maybe sharing domestic chores when they’re also sharing living spaces, both of them navigating the fraught waters of romance and sex when neither of them has been very happy with their prospects for a while..

(Yes, I’m saying I would be happy with 5k words of them arguing about boys. Genuinely. I think it could be hilarious.)

But plottier stuff has a lot of room for potential too, especially anything involving the court politics that neither of them are technically involved in. Daemon’s a fairly absent ruler, I’ve always thought, especially when he’s wrapped up in Jaenelle; with Surreal and Rainier as functionally his right hand men, how do they handle situations before they become problems? What sort of authority do they have with the Queens under Daemon’s rule? How dangerous do court politics get for both of them, especially when they’re both underestimated by a lot of people for various reasons?

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