Candy Hearts 2025

[embraidery]

 Hello potential creator! 

I’m embraidery on ao3 and dreamwidth.

I really just want to read something you loved to write, but if you’d like some pointers:
 

• For what I request, I use / in a very flexible way. As long as at least one person involved had sexual and/or romantic feelings during the fic or before the fic was set, I am happy! Pre-relationship, getting together, established, during or post-breakup; casual sex or FWB or romo relationship; ambiguous feelings, unrequited love, unresolved sexual tension, banging because they both have feelings for the same third party, whatever. Someone wrote me a fic where A had feelings for B, who knew about it but didn’t return the feelings. B offered to let A jerk him off. The fic was the bomb dot com! 
• If I request multiple pairings for one fandom, you can absolutely combine them in the same fic. You can also include canon pairings. Whether that’s as a former relationship (mentioning Thomas/Flint in a Flint/Gates fic), current feelings for (or a relationship with) someone else (like if Hickey still has feelings for Gibson in a Hickey/Silver fic), or combining ships that have a character in common into a polycule, I love people having complicated feelings and relationships. I am a big fan of a fic focusing on their current relationship feeling like it fits into their story as a whole.
• (All that said, these are all rare pairs and I will also be delighted with a fic where they are together romantically and sexually and none of their other relationships are mentioned! Just letting you know that I am open to a wide variety of situations.)
• I adore AUs! Could be genderswap (please don’t swap F/F or M/M to M/F, but otherwise have fun, including with genderqueer characters), creature AUs like selkie/vampire/ghost (I love human/nonhuman relationships and nonhuman genitalia), setting AUs… For modern and mundane I prefer if the setting has some kind of stakes, like spies or politicians, but otherwise the world is your oyster. Historical, different location, magic or no magic, in space, on a submarine… Also feel free to write a story inspired by another one, whether a folk tale or myth, or the plot of another canon.
• Format: First person POV if the canon is in first person; I love second person (as long as the person being addressed is a character, not a reader insert), non-linear narrative, interactive fiction, epistolary and in-universe documents…
• Some beloved tropes: caretaking (especially wound care and anything related to hair), something forcing characters together physically or emotionally (only one bed, in a jail cell together, truth potion…), conflicted feelings (whether inward, like guilt or internalised homophobia, or towards the other person, like love and resentment), sparring, cooking together…but seriously, there are so many things I could put here. If you really want more info, you can look at my other letters on my dreamwidth (embraidery) or at my other signups on the app.
• I love horror and darkfic! Don’t hesitate to include (if it feels appropriate for the canon or au) minor character death (major character death I’ll specify per fandom), violence and injuries and amputations, body horror, imprisonment and abduction…or a gently spooky ghost story!