the_wavesinger | Fandom Giftbox - General Likes and DNWs

General DNWs:

Body horror/ gore/guro (and violence more than canon level).
Anything more than mild horror, for fic, and horror at all, for art.
Bestiality, necrophilia (this doesn’t include Ungoliant, by the way).
Parent/child or full sibling/full sibling incest, unless specified..
Underage character/legal character. Either both participants are underaged, or both are legal, in terms of the society they’re living in. And please no large age gaps. Even if it's just vague romantic attraction, twenty-five-year-olds express desire for fourteen-year-olds is a big DNW (although the fourteen-year-old having a hero-worship crush on the twenty-five-year-old might be OK? I guess?).
Graphic descriptions of nausea/vomiting for fic, and for art, no nausea/vomiting at all, please.
(Fic) Reader inserts.
(Fic) PWP.
(Fic) A/B/O.
(Fic)Cis men becoming pregnant.
(Art) Sex. (Nekkid people are fine. Nekkid people having sex is not. Not even nekkid person with tentacles.)
Suicide/suicidal thoughts as the focus of the fic (passing mentions are fine; subplots are fine; the entire fic being about suicide isn't). Art featuring suicide is fine.
Crossovers/fusions between fandoms I've neither written for in the past nor have included in my signup. I do adore crossovers and fusions; I just don't want, for example, daemons in Middle-earth or Harry Potter-style magic in a galaxy far, far away. (If in doubt, ask! I'm just saying this because there are some fandoms I'd rather not see, but those are relatively few, but I'd adore, for example, Star Wars AUs in almost any fandom).
(Fic.) I’d prefer not to see explicit sex, but if your plot needs sex, no insert-tab-A-into-slot-B or graphic anatomical descriptions, please. Sensuality would be better.
(Fic) Fics which are all fluff are very difficult for me to stomach—a limit to the cuteness would be good. (Which isn't to say I don't like fluff; I just like fluff in moderation, and with a dose of conflict!)
Love at first sight is not my favourite thing. It's mostly to do with the fluff limit, so if you add complications, then I'm more than fine with it!
(Fic) AUs with modern settings are no-no’s unless there’s a reasonable canon explanation (eg-: a Tolkien couple cursed to be reborn again and again into mortal forms) and that only in Tolkien. Even then, please no high school or coffee shop AUs.
Please no age regression, or AUs in which one character is suddenly older than a previously older-than-them character [ageswap?].
Please no explicit rape/non-con, although if it's non-explicit that's fine. This also applies to conditioning (in the context of abusive relationships/torture/etc.) and abuse.
Also, although I don’t mind infidelity, please don’t let anyone walk in on someone with their other half(s) unless it's absolutely necessary to the plot.
(Fic) H/C fics centering on characters with depression and/or anxiety, and/or characters who self-harm or have eating disorders are not my favourite thing. (All of these things are more than fine in art and non-H/C fic, but not as the main focus of piece, please, and not as things which can be kissed better.)
(Fic) Same for torture as the main focus of a fic, although I don't mind PTSD with flashbacks to torture.
No torture in art.

General Likes:

Angst. Drama. Politics. Tragedy.
Philosophical ponderings!
Female-centric and F/F works always have my love. You can never go wrong with this.
I love canon divergence AUs, and other ‘what-if’ scenarios.
All the hard questions with no answers, characters trapped in unsolvable dilemmas, loss and grief and moving on.
Obscure bits of canon, worldbuilding (and the two together).
I love the whole mythological aspect of both Tolkien and Star Wars, and whatever you may choose to do with that.
Cultural differences and clashes that occur due to that.
I adore OFCs and textual ghosts, for many, many reasons. Also femslash. Did I mention femslash?
I'm more than fine with most side relationships, although I'd like them not to be the focus of a gift.
I won't repeat this in the fandom sections unless I have specific likes for the OFC, but I'dd adore any female character/OFC.
Genderbending! I always love Rule 63'd characters.
Stories featuring bi, pan, aro, and/or ace characters are lovely! (Aro but not ace characters I don't see at all, so extra love for that.)
Open relationships! Threesomes! Moresomes! (Non-explicit) orgies!
Transgender characters would be amazing, as would non-binary characters and just genderfuckery in general.

In fic:

I have zero problems with fics dealing with misogyny, homophobia, transphobia, racism etc. I like realism, but not overly-depressing fics or fics centered on issues at the expense of characterization. (I define 'overly-depressing' as continuous angst focusing on Issues and Only Issues.)
I like relationships that are fated to end in tragedy, but I also like a pinch of humor with my angst.
Canon divergence AUs, and For Want Of A Nail and what-if scenarios. I'd love both longer fic and drabble snapshots of what could have been.
For longer works, [lotty fics are always welcome!
I like all kinds of fic, so go wild—linear narrative, flashbacks, epistolary…whatever you think of is lovely, the more daring the better.
I love characters with flaws and unpleasant qualities! Awesome ladies can be awesome and flawed :).
On soulmate AUs: I love them when it's messy and complicated (for example, one or both of them in love with someone else, soulmarks somehow blurred or removed on one person, circumstances which prevent them from getting together), but love at first sight is, again, not my thing, sorry. Also, I love timers, and soulmarks, red strings etc. are also fine, but please no variations of seeing color.
Iddy whump fic! (In general, bittersweet fics with lots of hurt (and not necessary comfort) and doom and gloom and/or politics and drama and plot hit my id very hard)
I don’t mind any type of POV (including second person!). In fact, POV switches and outside POVs on relationships would be lovely.
Tropes! I especially adore tropey F/F (other than my DNW tropes). Tropes I love include time travel and general messing with time, forced apart by circumstances/evil overlords/insert reason here, and general inevitability.

In art:

I adore all kinds of jewellery—the more elaborate the better!
And elaborate hairdos! And elaborate costumes!
I do, however, also enjoy seeing characters in their workaday attire, doing everyday things.
For relationships, I prefer seeing characters casually intimate with each other over very deep kissing, fondling etc.
Court settings with pomp and circumstance or everyday life are both things I enjoy seeing.
Characters of color! (Racebending is awesome, too.) I'd especially love South Asian characters.
Non-traditional art mediums would be welcome.
Characters will include art prompts, but pairings sometimes not have specific prompts. General things I like for pairings include characters in a private moment, casually intimate gestures, kneeling and hand-kissing for pairings where I specify loyalty kink, characters together in public and/or doing something they love, day-to-day activities (eating, bathing, morning rituals etc.), characters together during a ceremony, characters arguing or debating, characters passionate with each other and about things they love, characters being cheesy or tender or dorky or awkward with each other (or all or some of these!).

In vid:

I like all kinds of vids—character-focused, relationship-focused, vids encompassing the canon or playing on a specific theme in the canon.
For music accompanying the vid, I'm fine with any genre except EDM.
I like both fast-paced vids and vids with a gentler atmosphere.
In general, I prefer vids which use a number of scenes to vids which use one or two specific themes.
Vid prompts generally don't appear much, and when they do, they're probably very brief; please feel free to interpret any fic- or art- specific prompts you want, or go wild.

Other:

For fandom-themed icons, wallpapers, and graphics, likes and dislikes as for art. Please only requested characters and pairings.
For fic rec lists, likes and dislikes as for fic.
I'd adore both meta and meta recs!
Podfic is always lovely!

Fandom-specific likes for Tolkien:

There aren't enough fics based on the Myths Transformed version of Middle-earth, and if that's something you'd like to explore, I'd love that, especially a more scientifically accurate (and sometimes, to my mind, a more tragic-and-dark-but-beautiful) vision of Middle-earth. (Other versions would also be wonderful, of course! This is just a specific thing I don't see much of.)
I love the fact that Tolkien's canon is a patchwork of different stories and mythologies, both in the Doylist and Watsonian sense, and fic exploring that would be wonderful.
Linked with the points above, I'm interested in lived vs. written stories, and Those Pesky Historians, and how unseen forces affect history.
The mortals and Elves/free will and destiny debate and the role of the Valar would be a wonderful thing to read about—I'd love exploration of any of the philosophical questions of Tolkien's world, really, but especially this, as detailed in the Athrabeth and writings about the role of the Valar.
I love the way magic and power operate in Tolkien's world—the work he's done to make it believable is wonderful. Writing a green sun, indeed! Anything you can write about this would be welcome and much-adored.
I especially love the Ñoldor and Númenor, although every Age of Middle-earth holds my heart.

And Star Wars:

I'm more than fine with the EU (there's a reason I'm asking for Legends!), both the new EU and the old. I confess I'm not very familiar with it, but I love obscure EU details and characters nevertheless—if there's anything I don't know, I'll look it up on Wookiepedia. So go wild! (I know I've propounded upon my dislike of Rebels, but don't take it to heart—I dislike the show itself, but I'll love your interpretation as long as my requested character plays the main role, and Kanan and Ezra stay out of sight, and preferably far, far away.)
I'm interested in the way the Jedi fail. If the attachment thing is what you love, then go with it, but I'd also love to see a different take. Being brought up in a Theravada Buddhist household (although I'm currently agnostic), I've always wondered why the Jedi—a religious order which you could leave if you wanted to—are considered wrong for the non-attachment thing (and I admit that the demonization of my culture isn't my favourite thing!). I'd love a take on the Jedi where the Jedi's failings are that it's not made more explicit that leaving is OK, that they get too bogged down in politics instead of doing what's right, and that they encourage attachment in the form of the (very close) Master/Padawan relationship (and whatever else faults, I'm sure there are many!). A respectful take on so-called 'Eastern' religions would be much appreciated!
Regarding Anakin—I understand his position, and where he's coming from, but 'it's all Obi-Wan's/Yoda's/Padmé's/Qui-Gon's fault' is not my thing, and I have zero sympathy for the fact that he killed little children. Reluctantly, but he killed little children, and I don't really like that. At all. What I would enjoy is an AU where Anakin left the Jedi because he realized that he wanted attachments.
Or just ignoring the attachments things in favour of all the ships is fine as well!