Hello! I'm Sath on AO3 and sathindetection on Twitter. I hope you're having a lovely Yuletide!
General LikesGeneral Do Not WantsCan Ci PinKaleidoscope of DeathThe Earth is OnlineGeneral LikesFeel free to write just towards my general likes instead of my prompts. I’m not super married to any of the prompts – I just thought they might be helpful.
- Canon divergences are always fun! Canon-typical plots in general are my jam. Wanna write post-canon fic? I love it!
- I also enjoy hurt/comfort – and characters getting injured in general. I don't like hurt/comfort when it's stuff like, a character has a cold and gets pampered. Whump is great, especially when the whumped character is grimly carrying on. In general, I love when a character gets bloody, hehehehe. Here are some tags I asked for in the H/C Exchange: Blood Loss, coughing up blood, field medicine, Hurt can only be resolved with Sex for some reason, and Trapped Together While One Is Injured.
- I absolutely adore horror. However, I don't like bad or unhappy endings, though you're free to kill off all the side characters or OCs that you want. Here's some tags I asked for in the Jump Scare exchange: Horror Comedy, Blood and Gore, Competently handling the horrifying thing, Creeping Horror, folk horror, The kind of 'scary' that could be described as 'haunting', Tending to injury incurred by horror situation.
- I like scenarios where a couple is isolated from others and have to work together to survive.
- Missing scenes are always fun! I also like humor and fic that's just exploring a character or relationship.
- I love established relationship fic. Feel free to write alternate get-togethers if the translation hasn't gotten there yet, though!
- Smut is always excellent and PWP is welcome. The sex I best like to read has a lot of enthusiasm from both sides. Maybe the sex is funny, maybe it's just sexy, but everyone is having fun. Anal sex is definitely a big like for me, but if you'd rather write oral or handjobs because that's what you feel more comfortable with or more inspired to write, please go for those instead! Don't feel tied to the butt! If you want some more specific inspiration, here are some tags I asked for in Smut 4 Smut:
- Desperate Sex, Consensual Drunk Sex, Awkward Sex
- Jealousy leads to possessive sex (standard gong vinegar style, not actually controlling behavior)
- Dirty Talk (I prefer praise/general enjoyment/sharing fantasies to degrading/threatening talk - it's also really nice when it's customized to the character rather than being generic)
- Roleplaying (the more unique to the characters the better)
ROMANCE. Give me my OTP being loving in whatever way they tend to show their love and I'll be so happy.
I enjoy fic of any rating. I know explicit fic covers a large part of my output and some of my prompts, but that's just how my brain goes for ideas and doesn't reflect all the things that I like reading.
Feel free to go for whatever length of story you want - minimum word count, 2k, 5k, 10k - go for what you enjoy!General Do Not Wants- Permanent injury of requested characters.
- Major character death. Canonical deaths and OC deaths are fine.
- Alternate universe fics (e.g., setting changes, role reversal, gender changes, A/B/O, etc.), except for canon divergence and where specifically requested.
- Time travel and time loops.
- Pregnancy of any sort in anyone, including mentions. Kids. Deaging. Babies. Infantilization. Lactation.
- Breaking up canon pairings or making it so canon pairings never happened.
- Crossovers and fusions.
- Gender and identity headcanons. Changing character pronouns from canon.
- Cancer.
- Negotiation about consent or kinks. I want everyone to be on the same page, but discussion is not needed.
- Noncon/rape or rape play. Dubcon. Underage. Domestic abuse. Slavery.
- BDSM and D/s.
- Polyamory/OT3s/open relationships. Unrequested non-canon side pairings. Infidelity.
- Focus on M/F relationships/heterosexuality.
- Fic focusing on gender dysphoria, misogyny, racism, homophobia, transphobia, mental illness, self-care, or self-harm.
- Cat harm.
Sex-related Do Not Wants:rough nipple play, anal sex without lube, rimming, humiliation, foot kink, frottage, ass to mouth, pee, anal bleeding/tearing, daddy kink, fisting, vomit, scat, belly bulges/stuffing/inflation/feeder kink, enemas, boypussy/cuntboys, sounding, and vore
Can Ci PinLin Jingheng, Lu Bixing WHERE DO I START WITH SPACE GAYS I LOVE IT SO MUCH. I love how it starts out small-scale and then spreads across multiple galaxies. I LOVE LULIN I LOVE THEM TOGETHER! CCP asks so many interesting questions about human nature and the role of technology, and I love the concept of mental networks and how mechs are controlled. Normally I have a favorite character within a CP, but I honestly can't pick whether I love Lu Bixing or Lin Jingheng more? They're just both so compelling!
Lu Bixing has such great development over the course of the novel. He starts out so naive and optimistic (yet there was still the childhood incident with the snake girl - Lu Bixing never had the luxury of TRUE innocence), but then becoming Prime Minister, the 16 years of separation... really tempered him and gave harder (toppier? lol) edges to his sunshine.
Lin Jingheng - where do I start? What a badass. I love his wicked sense of humor and talent (passion?) for insults. BUT HE HAS A HEART UNDERNEATH IT ALL... even if it took Lu Bixing to find it. Every time he actually cracks a smile I'm like, ahhhhhh! Also I'm a sucker for the stern military type who gets nicely disheveled (and topped).
LULIN IS SUCH A POWER COUPLE WOW REQUESTING THE HECK OUT OF THIS PAIRING. Their dynamic has so much great give and take and I love how they had to learn each other all over again after the 16 years. Their love is so epic...
If you write anal, I have a slight preference for Lu Bixing topping, but if you have an idea for Lu Bixing REALLY ENTHUSIASTICALLY bottoming, I'm all for it.
Some prompts:
- What if they ended up marooned on a strange planet? Lost on an abandoned space station? They can only rely on each other and their wits to survive!
- I'd be interested in reading an exploration of any of the fade to black scenes...
- Whump either of them. Maybe some bad relaxant abuse side effects. Maybe Lu Bixing has problems with the biochip.
- Extended shenanigans with Lu Bixing and Lin Jingheng going undercover in other galaxies.
- Kaleidoscope of Death or The Earth is Online AU where they have to survive a door scenario or a black tower game.
Kaleidoscope of DeathLin Qiushi, Ruan Nanzhu*screams into hands* I love them so much! I love KoD in general - all the gore! The peril! The creepiness!
I love crossdressing gongs and Ruan Nanzhu sure as hell does it well and with clear zest. He's so wonderfully protective without being smothering, and I find him so interesting in how he acts differently inside and outside the door. How inside the door he's so quick to play the damsel in distress for Linlin, how affectionate he is, ALL THE BEDSHARING AND CUDDLING, and then outside the door he acts so cold and distant (when he's not flirting). His flirtatiousness is great. Also, Chestnut approves of him, so he's clearly a keeper for Lin Qiushi. Wah Ruan-ge you're so cool~
As for Lin Qiushi, I identify so much with his love for cats. THIS MAN IS SO DENSE THOUGH. Linlin you are killing me!!! He's great in that he's not just around to be rescued by Ruan Nanzhu - he's very independent and clever and fearless. I like how he acts protective/physically affectionate with Ruan Nanzhu in the doors, without separating "Zhu Meng" and Ruan Nanzhu in his head at all. He loves (and wants to bone) Ruan Nanzhu regardless of whether he's wearing a skirt or not! Lin Qiushi's just so accepting of his quick intimacy with Ruan Nanzhu...
I ship Nanqiu like burning with how absolutely loving and supportive they are, so consider it requested. THEY GO THROUGH SO MUCH TOGETHER AND THEY'RE BOTH SO BRAVE... FOR EACH OTHER!!! Like, out of the many BL novels I've read, I'd consider Nanqiu one of the most romantic couples *sobs*
If you write anal, I'd rather Ruan Nanzhu top.
It's fine to mention Lin Qiushi's cancer; I just don't want a focus on it.
I'm keeping up with the English TL, but I've also MTLed the whole thing with the extras.
Prompts:
- A door scenario would be awesome! Possible inspirations could be r/nosleep stories, folklore, horror movies - maybe even the Dyatlov Pass Incident? Throw some gore at me!! Bathe the 25th of December in blood!!
- Nanqiu go on a date awwww.
- Wuxia or gufeng AU.
- More Ruan Nanzhu whump, maybe? He could get really injured in one of the doors...
- Nanqiu screw. That's it that's my prompt.
- Post-canon humor fic.
The Earth is OnlineFu Wenduo, Tang MoThis novel was just such a delight! I devoured it, despite the length. The puzzles were so innovative, even though I could never solve them and was always surprised by the solution. I also really like how well the story wrapped up! It was such a hopeful ending after the endless battles that preceded it. But my favorite part of the novel was Tang Mo and Fu Wenduo's slow burn romance, so consider the pairing requested! THEY'RE SO SWEET TO EACH OTHER. Love how these fumbling virgins (THE HANDSHAKE??? WHEN THEY CAME OUT TO EACH OTHER??? WHAT WAS THAT!!!!) managed to get together. Hope they can get over the disagreement over coriander/cilantro, though! Try it a few more times Tang Tang!!!
Tang Mo was such a delightful MC. I love how he took no shit from the start to the end of the novel. He takes everything in stride and never gives in to despair (though he does vent his anger). It was so great how he just accepted his love for Victor without ever angsting over it, and despite my furious tweeting to the contrary, I really liked how he took his time to advance his relationship with Fu Wenduo (and how Tang Mo set the pace in general). They got together on their own terms, rather than as a power up.
Fu Wenduo! Can I gave him an award for 'most considerate'? He's so good to Tang Mo, even though he is a MEAN BULLY to Xiao Fu hahaha. I love how badly he fails at jokes. He's so decisive without being foolish or impulsive. When he was first introduced and we only got occasional appearances from him I was very ARGH because he's very magnetic.
If you write anal, I'd prefer that Fu Wenduo top.
Prompts:
- More black tower games! Perhaps you could go for some of the more obscure fairytales. What about Bluebeard? Maybe some inspiration from movies that hit pop culture really hard. Don't worry about making the puzzle particularly clever - I will NOT guess it regardless.
- I know I've prompted this for other pairings but... a... date???? WITH CILANTRO.
- Post-canon road trip!
- A peek at their bomb sex life. Tang Mo bottoming but acting toppy is a plus.
- You could set stuff in the canon mundane AU because it was cute as hell.