[ JOE GOLDBERG VOICE ] Hello, you.

'Sup! This is my general exchange letter that details my likes and dislikes for fic, art and podfic. I update it regularly to reflect any changes in my interests. (Please go with the DNWs in my sign-up if you find any contradictions between my sign-up and letter.)

I have treats enabled on my account and am happy to receive treats (fic, art and podfic). Thank you if you want to treat me!

You can find me at

buries and

finnicks. You can find me on the AO3 app here if you'd like to find my previous requests. Feel free to use any prompts from them. :)

For Marvel/DC comics that I'm familiar with, please see this post.

If you have any questions, I'm happy to answer them via the mods. c:

Lastly, have fun creating!

Last updated 6 June 2025.

NAVIGATION

GENERAL NOTES

LIKES
General likes • Smut likes • Dubcon likes • Art likes • Podfic likes

DO NOT WANTS
DNWs for fic and art (I don't really have anything for podfic!).

RELEVANT LINKS
Previous letters • Me on the AO3 app

GENERAL NOTES

I'm pretty easy to please! If it doesn't hit a DNW, then please go for it.

I like works of all ratings—Gen to Explicit. (Explicit doesn't need to be for explicit smut.)

I love drabbles (100, 200, 300 words) and drabble series. If they work within the guidelines of the exchange, go for it.

I'm open to any length of work—just a little over the minimum to three times over the minimum. Write the length that best suits the story you want to tell.

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LIKES

What ifs
- What if someone made a different decision?
- What if this thing in canon didn't happen? (i.e. Character A didn't die. Character B didn't obtain an object and so now there's an opportunity to explore a relationship with Character A. Character C didn't come to town, so Character A and Character B were able to form a relationship. Character A decided to stick with Character B. Character A decided to pursue Character B. Character A and Character B are thrown together in a situation that was avoided in canon.)
- What if X person didn't die? What if one of the requested characters saved the other?
- What if it was a different character in that position? (i.e. Requested character was involved in the scene instead of X. Requested character was in danger instead of Y.) What would they have done differently?

Filling in the blanks
- What happened between episode X and episode Y?
- What happened between seasons/ books?
- What happened after the canon ended?
- What happened after this pivotal plot point was dropped?
- How did two characters get together?
- Did two characters talk more about their disagreement?

Fixing up canon's mistakes.
- What happens when Character A doesn't die?
- What happens when Character B isn't character assassinated?
- What happens when you don't remove Character A from the narrative?
- What happens when you don't drop this piece of world building and bringing requested character back to life/ back into the foray?

Future fics/ post-canon.
- What happens a year later? 2 years? 5 years? 10 years?
- Are the requested characters still together? Do they get together? What are they doing in the future?

Apocalypses — zombies, explosions, aliens invade, it just happens ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

Time travel (going forward in time, going backward in time), time loops, Groundhog days

Soulmates (name on wrists, empathy bond, soulbond, you just know, Hanahaki style where you get sick if you're far away from your soulmate), we're not each other's soulmates even though we should be

Character studies. Deep dives into characters psyches. What makes a character tick? Unpacking their trauma. Letting them cope realistically to a situation rather than have it brushed under the rug.

In line with this: let villains be villains! Some of the characters I request are villains, and I like them for their cunning, intelligence and knack for manipulation. Lean in hard on how they believe their own shit and how they're so unapologetic about it. On the other side of this: let heroes be heroes. Let them be self-righteous and believe their own shit. Are they trying to overcompensate for something? What drives them—is it their need to be right and applauded? Their need for control?

Cheating/ infidelity where the cheating happens between the two characters requested. (I actually like it when the partner being cheated on isn't a piece of shit as it leads to more complex characterisation of the requested characters.)

Exploration of coping with and recovering from trauma—more the psychological side than anything else.

Emotional and physical vulnerability and intimacy. Consent when touching.

Epistolary of any kind!

Established relationships like friendships, romantic relationships, sexual relationships between the requested characters. I also love budding relationships and ones where they like one another but are too scared and/or stupid to act on it or they believe the other person so doesn't like them.

I'm also a big fan of sexual relationships where the feelings are the slowburn component.

Fake dating. Fake marriage.

First time having sex, dating, kissing.

Hurt/comfort. Helping recovery from trauma whether it's mental, emotional or physical. Grief. (I do love grief stories where grief isn't completely gone by the end of the story.) PTSD. (Nightmares. Being triggered. Breathing hard. Losing focus. Feeling unsafe. Fight or flight reflex.)

Miscommunication. Characters speaking around what they mean. Words having double meanings. Characters misinterpret one another due to their own insecurities or personal baggage. One character is too blunt or the other one tries to beat around the bush which leads to misunderstandings.

Casefic. Mission fic. Picking up an artefact. Robbing someone. Ocean's 11 kind of heist. The Mummy-type object hunting and curse activating. (I do not need the focus to be on the mission but if you like writing that, go for it!)

Pining. A pines for B who has no idea. A pines for B and B pines for A. I prefer it to be resolved by the end of the fic, but also love the journey and tropes it encourages.

Female pregnancy, including abortion (chosen by the character, not forced upon them) and miscarriage as long as it's dealt with sensitively. Women who long for pregnancy, women who don't wish to be pregnant. Discomfort in pregnancy. Enjoying it. What I love about this is the bodily changes and the way a relationship with oneself and your partner can change. (I'm not so interested in the child itself, but more so the experience.)

Sharing a bed. Cuddling for warmth. The bed's only suited for one person. Comforting during nightmares. Someone sleeps naked. Sharing body heat.

I love my slowburn!

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SMUT LIKES

Age difference (i.e. 16yo with 21yo; 23yo with 45yo; etc.). The youngest age is 16.

Anal, female receiving (except when a male is being pegged). Anal fingering, anal penetration.

Barebacking. Condoms.

Bathing.

Begging.

Biting.

Bloodplay with vampires. Menstrual sex (doesn't have to be with vampires). Blood drinking with vampires. Using blood as lube with vampires. Using blood as lube with non-vampire characters (go wild, get nasty). If characters are beaten up, having sex covered in blood.

Body worship.

Breast worship. Tit fucking.

Choking—consensual or dubiously consensual. Can include choking while giving a blowjob.

Clothed sex. One person clothed, the other person naked. Both clothed. Half-clothed. Costume kink, uniform kink. Lingerie. Using ties for binds. Scarves for blindfolds. Using silks for teasing.

Cockwarming—anal, vagina, mouth.

Come as lube. Facials. Coming in pants. Coming on someone. Creampie.

Consent. Seeking consent during a scene. Consent kink. Consent being the focus between characters who have trauma from nonconsensual acts.

Dirty talk.

Dubious consent. Someone in power manipulating the other person into saying yes. Someone's emotionally distraught. Misleading someone without correcting them on the truth.

Edging.

Fail sex where people stumble. Someone comes too early. The woman can't come from penetration. Someone isn't as confident as they wish to be and it results in poor dirty talk.

Hair pulling during sex. Playing with hair.

Hands. Holding hands, kissing fingers. Gentle hands, rough hands. Big hands, small hands. Rough fingers.

Inexperienced partner with experienced parter. Experienced woman with inexperienced woman. Experienced woman with inexperienced man. Experienced man with inexperienced woman. Virginity loss, although I'd prefer that virginity isn't seen as a defining character trait of a character unless it's set in a dubcon situation where it's used to manipulate or goad the inexperienced partner on.

Masturbation. Mutual masturbation. Instructing someone on getting off. Masturbating together. Trying to get someone off through masturbation. Showing someone how to masturbate.

Non-penetrative sex. Dry humping, frottage, grinding, coming in pants. Pillow humping. Grinding on thighs. Handjobs. Scissoring.

Oral sex: Blowjobs, cunnilingus, deepthroating (consensual and dubiously consensual), face fucking (consensual and dubiously consensual).

Orgasm control and denial. Multiple orgasms. Coming over and over. Magically inclined to keep coming. Exhaustion and soreness from coming. You don't need to portray this with 100% realism.

Overstimulation. Clit sensitivity. Nipple sensitivity. Cock sensitivity.

Pegging. Woman pegging man. Woman pegging a woman—anal or vaginal.

Penetration. Vaginal penetration. Anal penetration. Penetration in two holes. Double penetration in one hole. Double penetration in two holes. Triple penetration. Object penetration.

Power imbalance, including in experience.

Pregnancy sex. Risk of pregnancy. Belly kink associated with pregnant belly.

Public sex or semi-public sex. Fingering under the table. Giving head underneath the table. Fucking in alleyways or back of shops. Car sex including giving head and fingering.

Roleplay: power imbalance scenarios, pretending situations are dubiously consensual, playing out fantasies, etc.

Rough sex. Hair pulling, biting, eager sex. Fighting/sparring as foreplay.

Sex in places such as shower, car, classroom. Against walls, chair sex, table sex.

Sex pollen! Losing control of themselves due to desire. Being overcome with the need to fuck. One character is hit with a huge dose of it and the other one is unaffected. Unable to experience any relief from the need to fuck until they've come. Unable to come until partner has come and perhaps partner doesn't orgasm easily. Unable to break the pollen until a specific sex act has been performed. Characters are so consumed with the idea they need to fuck even though the pollen's a lite version. Pollen wears off when the partner's come multiple times. Or characters believe it's sex pollen but really they're just finally giving into being horny fuckers.

Size differences. Strength differences. Height differences. Big cocks, large breasts, etc.

Somnophilia. Consensual somnophilia. Dubiously consensual somnophilia. Woken up via oral sex or being fucked. Pretending to be asleep while partner fucks them. Sex while half-asleep.

Spanking. Spanking with hand. Spanking with an object. Bent over a table, bent over a knee. Spanking for punishment.

Tenderness during sex. Hand holding. Kissing. Kissing cunt/cock.

Threesomes and moresomes. Gangbang (preference is woman in the centre). Spitroasting. Sloppy seconds (preference is woman being in this role).

Vocal sex. Unable to stay quiet. One person wants to try and stay quiet while the other disregards that and wants them to be loud.

Voyeurism. Inviting someone to watch. A third party watches on and instructs. Cuckolding.

Women taking charge. Men being dominant. Women topping from the bottom, especially women who aren't as sexually confident.

DUBCON LIKES

Aggressive sex followed by aftercare.

Anal penetration as an act of dominance.

Coming inside of someone when they don't want it. Locking legs around partner to ensure that they come inside of them.

Being mind controlled, struggling with the ramifications of mind control. False memories. Character A mind controls Character B into believing that they are Character C who they would consensually have sex with. Amnesia and someone taking advantage of the memory gaps.

Sex magic. Cursed to want cock or cunt. Cursed with constant need for sex. Obedience curses.

Sex rituals. Needing to have sex to create or break a curse. Whether the curse actually exists is up to you.

Unwilling arousal.

Tapping into a character's more darker tendencies.

Using sex as a bargaining chip. Character feels as though they owe their captor sex. Captor not dissuading victim from not bargaining with sex. Sex to save someone's life, even if that life isn't actually in danger.

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ART LIKES

★ I'm not an artist, so I've done my best to collate some things I really enjoy seeing in art.

Bright colours. Bold colours. Soft colours. Bold lines. I like warm colours, cool colours, colours that belong in the same colour palette/tone, colours that clash together.

Greyscale. Grey with a colour or two as an accent.

Black and white. Black and white with a colour as an accent.

Digital art. Charcoal. Ink. Marker. Colour pencils. Pencil/ink sketching. Painting. Watercolour.

Comics.

Character portrait.

Tarot cards. (I read tarot so I really enjoy looking at the elements and use of colour in the cards.)

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PODFIC LIKES

I have a general Dear Podficcer letter with fandom information, if that helps you determine my likes etc. (I wrote it for podfic-centric events like Summer Swap and Voiceteam.)

You are more than welcome to pod anything I've written! I have popped the "Podfic Welcome" tag onto the fics of mine that I like. That said, if a story that I haven't tagged as that is one you'd like to record, please go ahead and do so. I appreciate any recordings of my work, and like knowing that someone enjoys a story that I may not appreciate in its entirety.

If you pod anything I've written and need to correct some of the grammar because my eyeballs failed me when I proofed it, feel free to do so. I won't be offended. (I think my super old stuff will have things I cringe at, like "nods her head".) If you spy any continuity errors, feel free to let me know because I most likely read what I wanted to read when I was proofing.

You are more than welcome to pod any of my gifts as long as the author has given permission.

My bookmarks are of fics I've enjoyed. (I use the "Mark For Later" button for my TBR.) I am very particular with my bookmarks, so you will not go wrong in podding anything there (as long as the author gives permission!). There are some fandoms that I have fallen out of; if they're of interest to you, pod them and it'll fill me with nostalgia. (I remove bookmarks of stories I wouldn't be interested in revisiting.) (Sorry that my bookmarker's tags currently really suck!)

If you want to pod another author's fic that isn't in my bookmarks or a gift for me, this letter/my sign-up will give you the best indication of what I'm interested in trope-wise.

You're more than welcome to gift me repods, whether it be of a fic another podficcer has podded or a fic that I have podded. (I very much encourage the latter!) More cake :).

If your pod fulfils another challenge (or bingo), and if the challenge we're both in allows it, you're more than welcome to use my gift as a fill.

I like music and SFX! I like SFX used when it amplifies the story being told. (I think this is really cool!) I'm not a big fan of music playing while you're reading as it can sometimes be distracting.

Multivoices are a-okay with me! (I also don't care if an American voices a Brit and a Brit voices an American. I'm here to enjoy the reading and energy, and I'll most likely be amused by the accent swap. I'm Australian; I don't sound American to my ears and I read a lot of American characters.)

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DO NOT WANTS

First person POV unless it's requested Joe Goldberg or epistolary. I'd like to avoid receiving it as the primary narrative POV.

Animal abuse or cruelty. Brief references are fine if it's needed for the story. I'd like to opt out of receiving a gift that details how the abuse happened.

The following AUs:
- Setting changes such as space, regency, and medieval that aren't created from time travelling. I'm interested in canon settings staying put unless requested to be changed.
- Permanently changing a character's species.
- Mundane AUs such as coffee shop (or any shop), everyone's in high school, everyone is a musician, superpowered characters were never given their superpowers and thus don't exist in a superpower canon.
- Different first-meets (unless you want to give someone amnesia).
- Genderswaps and sexuality headcanons.

Character bashing where the focus on a particular character is only extremely negative, i.e. they're consistently put down to advance the requested relationship with it made very clear that they have no redeeming qualities whatsoever.

I'm happy for character studies on these characters and for negative traits and decisions to be mentioned/discussed and those be the reasons why a relationship breakdown happens (some people do make shitty decisions, after all!), but I'd prefer that they be nuanced and fair and not be passionate putdowns. (For instance, if X lies to Requested Character and Requested Character feels they can never trust them again, that's fine!)

Deathfic where a requested character dies and it's an unhappy ending.

I'm okay with secondary characters who aren't a part of my requested characters dying. I'm okay with a requested character who has died being dead and exploring death. (Exploring purgatory/what comes after death is fine.) I'm okay with canonically dead characters being dead as long as the story's central point isn't about the actual act of killing them. (Exploring how they died, their guilt, their need to move on, etc. is fine.) Essentially: I want to opt out of receiving a gift where the story's sole purpose is to see the character die with no resolution/closure. (Give me resolution/closure!)

I include a note in my sign-up when this is excepted considering I do request canonically dead characters.

Underage unless requested, or it's canon.

Unrequested ships being the main focus. Acknowledgement of canon ships or past ships is fine. Background ships are A-OK. If the ship isn't one of my requested ships or a canon ship, please don't include it.

ART DNWS

I'm not the biggest fan of pixel art.

SMUT DNWS

A/B/O.

Mpreg.

Mutilation, vore.

Infantilism. Adult baby. Wearing diapers, being fed like a baby, etc.

Scat. Vomit.

Tentacles.

Violent noncon where it gives the impression or is outright domestic violence. (Slapping/hitting.)

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