Battleship Exchange 2025: Specific Likes

[gremdark]

(In Progress)

Hi there! If you're reading this, you're probably a Battleship creator looking for some more information before filling one of my prompts. I salute you! Thanks for creating for me.

Other than my DNWs, feel free to disregard any and all information in this post. If you've written something you're excited about, I will be happy to receive it even if I'm not familiar with the fandom. Unrequested tags that don't violate a DNW and seem in line with what I'd like are 100% fine!

My Absolute Favorite Battleship Tags:

Art Likes: 
If you're putting in the time to make me art, I'm going to love it. Consider everything below to be a suggestion, and thank you!

• I love the colored pencil-like look of O Human Star and Circuits and Veins.
• I love the art deco look and associated colors and patterns. Black, gold, crimson, cream, rich blue...
• I love comics, including superheroes and magical girls.
• I like in-universe advertisements, pinups, erotic art, and/or propaganda posters.
• I love transformation sequences like the Animorphs covers and magical girl transformations.
• I like outfit or aesthetic swaps or drawn AUs where, for instance, a werewolf character is human and a human character is a werewolf.
• I enjoy warm colors and botanicals such as the ones Sergle incorporates in her art. Marigolds, violets, poppies, and ivy are my favorites.
• I like fat characters, disabled characters, and trans characters, including characters not portrayed as such in canon.
• I LOVE art that imagines what it would look like if characters survived to old age and/or canonically dead characters alive with scars/disability from the things that killed them.

On Podfics:
Podfics absolutely delight me! I would love to receive podfic of my work, your work, or others' work. It would especially tickle me to receive podfic of other works you created for Battleship, either this year or in previous years. All of my work is under blanket permission. 

• My SFW fanfiction can be found at Emmalylis. Most of these are Miraculous Ladybug oneshots in the 1-3K range. My favorites are listed here, with wordcounts. 
• I would also love podfic of this short epistolary Chrestomanci fic (570 words) or any of the short fics in this Leverage/White Collar crossover series (three fics, 600-900 words).
• My NSFW fanfiction can be found at gremdark. These are Miraculous Ladybug and Dungeon Meshi oneshots in the 1-5K range. The fics with fewer hits tend to be my favorites. I've written for an array of kinks, so tag matching odds are pretty good. The fic of mine I would most love to see podficced is this one (angsty T4T porn, 1.4k)
• All of my friend Cochrane's fics are under blanket permission, and many are in the 500 word range. He writes SFW fics, primarily for Miraculous Ladybug, as well as a smattering of anime and video game fandoms.
• My friend Gil has written 67 SFW and NSFW fics across a great variety of fandoms, many of them quite short. All their work is under blanket permission and ranges in length from 100 to 8K words. Their most common fandoms are Wooden Overcoats, Suits, Gravity Falls, and Blue Mountain State. My absolute favorite work of theirs is this one (toxic yaoi jerkoff instruction, 1.2k)
• My friend Erseac has written 49 NSFW fics, most of them Miraculous Ladybug. They are all under blanket permission and several are quite short, ranging in length from 400 to 11k. He's a Rare Kink Buffet and ML Kink Meme participant, so his tags are quite varied. My absolute favorite work of his is this one (toxic yuri genital piercing, 2.5k)
• My friend River has written 538 fics across a variety of fandoms, all under blanket permission. A good portion of these are quite short. Most of River's work is SFW, and xe has written the most for Miraculous Ladybug, RWBY, Professor Layton, and Ace Attorney.

General Likes:
I tend to have favorite characters and dynamics rather than favorite ships. Noncanon, out-there, and crack ships are all fine. I am also always excited to recieve non romance-centric fics. Original work is welcome, especially if you're writing me porn.
Unusual fanfiction formats and meta, especially meta that elevates minor characters or background arcs
Epistolary and "found text" works

• Canon couples breaking up and/or divorcing 
• Characters are non-consensually cursed or transformed and then have to live with those changes to their minds, bodies, and/or abilities.
• Characters cooking together
• Characters who die in canon surviving with disabilities related to the thing that killed them
• Divorced characters who stay divorced (sex between divorced/broken up characters is fine and encouraged)
• Identity porn, with or without an identity reveal and including non-superhero identity porn like "doesn't know X is a famous chef"
• Identity reveals (especially ones that focus on the dissonance between various sides of characters' identities)
• Mind control in and out of kink context
• Robot characters, and complicated relationships with humanity.
• Secret friendships, romances, or sexual relationships between characters who don't seem to get along
• Shapeshifters with complex relationships to "default" forms and identity.
• The moment when a character drops a ruse.
• Time loops, especially the way they alter dynamics between characters. 
• Time travel making things unfixably different and/or worse
• Toxic female friendships
• Transformed characters growing to identify with/appreciate their new bodies.
• Transformation in and out of kink context
• Unhappy, bad, or bleak endings
• Unresolved mutual pining (including "only one bed" where they lust all night and don't do anything about it)
• Weight gain as a sign of recovery from canon events or backstory

Sexual Likes:

I write things I'd like to read! Any kink or trope I've written is welcome. As a blanket statement, if you write about a kink I'll have to look up to understand, I'd be delighted to receive fic about it. I enjoy reading a top or dominant's perspective, though all perspectives are welcome.

• Accidental sexting
• Body control, consensual or non-consensual, in which the controlled party is conscious but cannot communicate.
• Body modification, especially permanent. Consensual or non-consensual.
• Characters developing kinks related to things that happened in canon/backstory, or roleplay related to canon events.
• Characters without penises acquiring them, on purpose or accidentally, and using them. Strap-ons the user can feel count!
• Collaring
• Fleshlights that work like portals to a specific person's vagina or ass
• Hate Sex
• Magic or sci-fi sex toys that wouldn't be possible in real life
• Masturbation, especially to things the character feels complicated about getting off on.
• Mind control in and out of kink context
• Non-consensual sex in a fuck-or-die context, especially if the non-consenting party is the one whose life is in danger.
• Non-romantic sex. Maybe one or both characters feel obliged in some way. Maybe there's a deep bond, but not a romantic one.
• Penetrative sex in which the recipient is dominant.
• Permanent or temporary changes to one or  both parties' mindset, including gender or orientation play and mind control
• Pining while fucking
• Robotfucking in which the sex doesn't look anything like sex organic lifeforms would have
• Sex that's consensual, but a bad idea for all involved
• Sex toy use in public, with or without a partner
• Transformation in and out of kink context
• Vibrators
• Weird elements of canon lore being repurposed for kink or sexual practices that wouldn't be possible IRL.

List of Favorite Fandoms:

• The Chronicles of Chrestomanci - Diana Wynne Jones
• DC Animated Universe
• Discworld
• Dumbing of Age (Webcomic)
• Dungeon Meshi
• Elementary
• El Goonish Shive (Webcomic)
• Father Brown
• Fire and Hemlock - Diana Wynne Jones
• Jeeves - P. G. Wodehouse
• Leverage
• Merlin
• Miraculous Ladybug
• October Daye - Seanan McGuire
• The Once and Future King - T. H. White
• Paint Your Wagon
• White Collar
• Widdershins (Webcomic)
• Young Justice

Fandom-Specific Likes:

The Chronicles of Chrestomanci - Diana Wynne Jones
I love this series most for the way it engages with complex familial dynamics. My favorite characters are Christopher, Conrad, Millie, Cat, and Tacroy, roughly in that order.
Christopher/Conrad/Millie is a beautiful ship, one that lends itself well to epistolary. I'd love them as adults or something from their wild teenage years. Sex between any pair of them or all three would be wonderful.
I'd love to read adult imaginings of Cat, Janet, Roger, and Julia. Maybe Cat's leaning on them as he adjusts to being Chrestomanci. Roger/Joe, or queer interpretations of Roger in general, would be lovely.
I'd also like explorations of Cat and Gwendolyn's dynamic, whether or not she actually appears in the fic. Cat interacting with Mrs. Sharp as he grows up would be fun too.
I LOVE Tacroy and would enjoy fic that explores how it feels to be separate from one's soul. Tacroy/Flavian would delight me.

DC Animated Universe
Any character, dynamic, or ship I list in the Young Justice section applies here, and vice versa.
**I will devour any and all Superbat identity porn you put in front of me. Any continuity, any degree of enemies, friends, boyfriends, or lovers.**
My other favorite DC characters are Batwoman (Kate Kane), Batgirl/Oracle (Barbara Gordon), Dick Grayson, Barry Allen, Wally West, Martian Manhunter (and his various associates), John Stewart, and Roy Harper.
My pet rarepair is Booster Gold/Guy Gardner.
I enjoy complex mentor/mentee dynamics, with or without sex or romance.
I'm not particularly a fan of the "Batfamily" pool of tropes.

Discworld
My greatest soft spot is for the Vimes/Vetinari dynamic (Sybil and Drumknott being, of course, very relevant) but I'm enthusiastic about all the characters in this series. Who do you love? Show me why.


Dumbing of Age (Webcomic)
Dungeon Meshi
Elementary
El Goonish Shive (Webcomic)
Father Brown
Fire and Hemlock - Diana Wynne Jones
Jeeves - P. G. Wodehouse
Leverage
Merlin
Miraculous Ladybug
October Daye - Seanan McGuire
The Once and Future King - T. H. White
Paint Your Wagon
White Collar
Widdershins (Webcomic)



Young Justice
Aqualad/Clone Roy Harper. Birdflash. Red Tornado. Dick Grayson. Miss Martian. Artemis. Transfem readings of Miss Martian. Dick?Artemis, esp. Blue Beetle/Impulse if they date and/or hook up pre identity reveal.
The Will, Artemis, Jade, Lian, and Wally family.

Kitty Noir/Scarabella. DJWIFI. Identity porn.


Battleship Tag DNWs:


Other DNWs:

• Harry Potter and associated fandoms
• South Park
• Vomit, piss or shit in characters' mouths
• Waterboarding, water non-consensually poured on characters, or characters' heads being held under water
• Extended discussion/celebration of Christian holidays (other holidays fine)
• Plotless fluff (If someone wants something, makes a decision, or experiences sadness or worry, it's probably got enough plot. Don't worry too much about this one)