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Dear Creator Letter--Dihua Exchange 2024
Jun. 10th, 2024 05:19 pmDear Dihua Exchange Creator:
Thanks so much for making a gift for me!
My favorite things about Dihua, likes, do-not-wants, and optional prompts are below. I hope they help!
Any rating level is fine for fic! (But I’d prefer it if the art were SFW.)
Happy creating!
(Treats are welcome and appreciated!)
Favorite Things about Dihua:
I love how well they know each other, specifically the way they can sometimes communicate without words and can drop the masks they show to the world when they’re with each other, but I’m equally fascinated by all the things they didn’t understand about each other. Anything that explores those gaps and works through these misunderstandings would be catnip for me!
I love how controlled DFS is, especially compared with how deeply he feels things, and I love things that test that self-control, and I would especially love to see LLH learning to accept (or having accepted) just how much DFS loves him and that he deserves to live and to be happy.
Likes (for fic and visual art):
- Intimacy: hand-holding, cuddling, spooning, hair combing, forehead touches, face touches, kissing, etc.
- Hurt/comfort with lots of comfort
- Slice of life/domesticity: cooking, lotus tower chores, going to the market together, etc.
- Sickfic and Caretaking: wound tending, illness/nightmare/trauma recovery
- Only one bed
- Huddling for warmth
- Angst with happy endings
- Banter/snark/humor
- Fluff
- Missing scenes during canon
- Post-canon
- Fix-it fic
- Character study
- Canon divergence AU
- Sci fi or modern AU
- Competence porn
- Loyalty/devotion
- Found family (this includes FDB!)
- Time travel fix-it
- Getting together/first time fic
- Characters learning to trust and communicate with each other
- Reveals (of feelings, secrets, etc; related to characters learning to trust)
- Characters learning how to move forward after huge life changes (freedom, disability, revelations about past, etc.)
- Stoic/controlled characters being vulnerable and trusting
Also, for art, if you did an illustration for “What’s Sealed Away” or any of my WIP Wednesday Dihua-focused bits, I would love you forever. <3
NSFW likes: (only for fic, please! Not visual art!)
- Enthusiastic consent
- Porn with feelings
- Switching
- Overstimulation
- Anal sex, frottage, hand jobs, blow jobs
- Banter during sex
- Sex as expression of love/devotion
Dislikes/DNWs:
- Major character death (including LLH)
- Hurt/no comfort
- High school AUs
- Rape/non-con (it’s ok if it’s part of a character’s backstory but please don’t show/describe it on the page)
- Incest
- Ageplay, breathplay, impact play, dubcon, CNC, degradation/humiliation, gags
- Underage characters
- Teacher/student, master/slave and other power imbalances
- Jealousy/possessiveness
Prompts:
I’m sure I’ll love whatever you make, but if you want suggestions, here are some that spring to mind!
Pre-canon prompts:
- How and where did Dihua first meet?
- Dihua missing scenes during the peace treaty creation and signing (who suggested it? How long did it take them? Where did they meet to write it? Did they spar to settle disagreements about logistics? What did they do during breaks?)
- Dihua dates at the Sigumen waterfall (sparring? Falling in love? Both? Both is good!)
Canon prompts:
- What happened between Dihua in the newly wed room?
- Battle couple! (have them kick ass together, probably during the palace fight)
Post-canon: (Bonus points for LLH living and being happy but not being fully healed from Bicha damage! #disabilityrepresentation!)
- If LLH is still poisoned with Bicha, how does DFS help with a Bicha attack? (Or, if he’s cured but still dealing with the damage, how does DFS help him on days when the pain and other symptoms are flaring?)
- How does LLH adjust to living and having a future with DFS after a decade of assuming he’d die?
- How does DFS adjust to/struggle with his newfound freedom (from the mind control bug, JLQ, and the fear of LLH dying of Bicha)?
- If LLH can’t spar or sword dance anymore, what do he and DFS do together instead that serves the same function?
- How do Dihua celebrate the 11 year anniversary of the donghai battle?
- How does DFS help LLH cope with the trauma of killing SGD and/or the revelations about his heritage/his brother? and/or how does LLH help DFS cope with the aftermath of being tortured and imprisoned by JLQ? (soothing nightmares/caretaking, etc.)
Canon Divergence:
- Di Shixiong: DFS and not SGD was brought to Yunyin mountain with LLH; how does that change the future?
- Time travel: DFS travels in time to stop LXY from being poisoned
- LLH finds out about DFS’s mind control bug earlier (any point in the timeline) and LLH joins him in freeing the Di fortress kids (and DFS isn’t caught by JLQ). (Basically, DFS has feelings about his freedom/freeing the kids and LLH comforts him)
- DFS stays after delivering the wangchuan flower
Thanks again!
