Likes
You're likely to hit my taste with the following things.
- adventure, travel, roadtrips
- life-changing trips/treks through hostile environmental conditions
- casefic, plot-heavy fic
- missing scenes
- canon divergence AU
- deserts, mountains, polar regions, forest regions
- specific descriptions
- exploration of faith and religious themes (various religions, real or fictional)
- historically accurate technology
- family in all its complexity
- found family
- friendship, especially focus on friends as main relationships for a character
- cross-generational friendship
- good mentors
- queer themes
- genderbent characters, i.e. writing a character as a different gender than in canon
- aromantic characters
- queerplatonic relationships
- queerness as part of life without special focus on it
- use of period-typical queer terminology and conceptualisation
- coming out later in life
- genderqueer characters of of any couleur
- focus on female characters
- worldbuilding-focused crossovers
- focus on worldbuilding in general: logistics, infrastructure, culture, anthropology, ...
- utopias, imagining and writing about a better past/present/future
- linguistics, conlangs
- other cultures that are different from ours (on a superficial level, but also under the surface, the things one takes for granted, the underlying world views, the implicit beliefs)
- magical realism
- unreliable narrators
- epistolary fiction
- outsider POV
- exploration of masculinity
- yearning for other things than romance
- exploration of a vast range of emotions (take me on an emotional journey)
- fake dating, both staying fake dating and leading to real dating
- smut
Do Not Want
things that make me enjoy the fic less, and might make me stop reading
all unless requested otherwise
- treating friendship as "lesser" than romance
- AUs that change the setting (coffee/flower shop, highschool/college AU)
- AUs that change a character's backstory
- on page rape/noncon
- stories that are thematically about childrearing and parenthood
- sickfic
- unrequested crossovers and fandom fusions
- dystopias
- presenting the world as the best world it could possibly be (and thus eschewing any progress)
- climate nihilism
- (tbc)
things that will make me stop reading a fic
- (tbc)