Trick or Treat Exchange letter

[magistrate]

Hello, Trick-or-Treat creator! Thank you so much for making something for me. This is my first time in this exchange, and I have no idea what to expect, so I'm looking forward to the surprise!

I'm going to spitball some things to give you an idea of what I like, and I hope you can use them as a jumping-off point. Don't feel too leashed to anything I say if you're not feeling it.

Things I love (in general):

* Thinky intricate gen

* Gen which showcases powerful / intimate non-romantic and non-sexual relationships between characters

* Tangled (or fucked-up) power dynamics

* Snark and banter

* Heavy angst with a light (or sardonic, or cynical) narrative touch, with happy or at least trending-upward ending

* Tender hopeful things in the midst of disaster

* Rollicking fun adventure times

* Characters relying on each other, or on each other's diverse strengths

* Unhealthy coping mechanisms

* Characters who display affection in different ways, especially when they're hopeless at using words for emotions

* ...characters who are hopeless at using words for emotions

* Characters who are disinclined to admit their own mental/emotional states, or who have actual trouble understanding or recognizing or admitting their own mental/emotional states

* Worldbuilding porn, scenery porn, food-description porn, backgrounded slice-of-life porn, sense-of-history-in-the-world-and-character-relationships porn...

* Whump



Things I'm not into (in general):

* I tend away from romance and sexual content, just 'cause I'm aroace myself and I tend to be saturated with it through other media. There's no need to scrub out canon relationships or anything, but I like to focus on other forms of relationships.

* Body horror, injury gorn

* Non-canon major character death

* Humiliation