FAVORITE TROPES/KINKS.

[amor_remanet]

Idea lovingly stolen from wolfgenes, and list adapted/pruned from the one available at homebrewbingo, which was, in turn, adapted from this list.

KEY
♥ - I like this kink.
♥♥ - I like this kink a good deal.
♥♥♥ - I like this kink A LOT.
♥♥♥♥ - I love this kink.
♥♥♥♥♥ - I love this kink A LOT.
♥♥♥♥♥♥+ - kfkgdfgkfg GUH YES PLEASE.

• Abuse (sexual, emotional, and/or violent childhood abuse; past abusive relationships; character A's abuse drives character B into arms of character C; the wounded child as an adult archetype) - when it's played for angst? Yes. Love it. ♥
• Accidental stimulation (proximity and friction; involuntary arousal; situations of adrenaline and reflexes) ♥♥
• Adrenaline and crises (speed-freaks or adrenaline junkies; near-death experiences; the shadow of impending death--hours, minutes, or moments) ♥♥
• Alpha males (alpha/beta male pairings; alpha/alpha pairings; het alpha males - see, Derek Hale/Dean Winchester) ♥♥
• Alpha/beta/omega societies ♥♥♥♥♥
• Amazons and strong women (warrior women; women as soldiers, law enforcement figures, or leaders; goddesses; tough, butch, or muscled women; lesbians or dykes; quasi-masculine characteristics in general, such as a boyish body type: slim, athletic, and small-breasted; forcefulness or brusqueness) - ♥♥♥♥♥
• Angst (see Emotional themes) ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥
• Animalistic behaviors and characteristics, dominant (snarling; sniffing; scent-marking or biting; other claiming acts; territoriality; predatory stalking; cuffing; forcing the partner's neck down; claws and other features) ♥♥♥♥
• Animalistic behaviors and characteristics, submissive (feral characters or behavior; domesticated pet behavior such as sitting at owner's foot and cheeking their thigh; purring; licking; characters objectified as animals, e.g., ponyboys) ♥♥♥♥
• Animal themes or fetishization (physical transformation, e.g., animagi or werewolves; animalistic features; hirsutism as a fetish; tentacle sex; quasi animal forms such as centaurs, merfolk, intelligent dragons; pets, wild or domesticated; familiars; men showing affection toward animals, e.g., holding kittens, or nuzzling their horses; see also Otherness) ♥♥♥♥
• Anti-heroes (sympathetic villains; villains with principles; noble demons; enemies who keep their word - again, see Derek Hale/Dean Winchester) ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥
• Aristocracy (aristocratic behaviors, characteristics, and/or identity; chivalry and noblesse oblige; royal blood; elegance or effeteness; dignity; royal courts or castles; imperial cultures; Greco-Roman classicism; dynastic families; gentlemen; aristocrat pairings with houseboys, stable-boys, or secretaries) ♥♥♥
• Asexuality ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥
• AUs ♥♥♥♥♥
• Bad boys (punks, rebels; see also Rogues) ♥♥♥♥♥
• Bad girls (dirty girls; naughty schoolgirls; femme fatales) ♥♥♥♥♥
• BDSM ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥
• Begging or offering (begging or pleading for mercy, for sexual release, to be taken; a character offering himself; neediness) ♥
• Beloved enemies ♥♥
• Big men (prefer chubby guys, Robo!Sam, Vernon Boyd, or Derek Hale) ♥♥♥
• Biological imperative (pon farr or mating drive; being in heat) ♥♥
• Bisexuality ♥♥♥
• Biting (marking, nipping, chewing) ♥♥♥♥
• Body fetishes not listed elsewhere (fatness, plumpness, softness) ♥♥♥♥♥♥
• Body modification (geek-to-jock makeovers; physical enhancements such as wetwear; alien transformations; scarification and piercing; forced feminization or castration; see also Otherness) ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥
  
• Bondage ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥
• Boys (pretty boys; bishounen/bishonen; boyish types; pocket-sized cuties; puppies; Persian Boy characters; houseboys or stable-boys; toyboys) ♥♥♥
• Breath (as a caress; hitching or ragged; indrawn breath or gasps; sighs) ♥♥
• Closeted partner(s) (see also Orientation issues; Society) ♥
• Clothes fetishization (of any kind, e.g., uniforms; leather gear; worn blue jeans; thigh-highs; stilettos; leather jackets; tuxedos or GQ wear; constricting or modest clothes) ♥♥♥♥♥
• Clumsiness (awkwardness; overeagerness; during sex or in general) ♥♥♥
• Collars (slave) ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥
• Coming out of the closet (see also Gayness; Orientation issues; Witnesses) ♥
• Confessions (revelation of love/desire; of other secrets; truth or dare games. deathbed confessions; revealing truths when feverish) ♥♥♥♥♥♥
• Cross-dressing (forced or voluntary; drag queens or transvestites; see also Gender themes) ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥
• Crossovers ♥♥♥
• Crush or unrequited love ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥
• Crying, sobbing (erotic and non-erotic) ♥♥♥
• Cuddling (see Touch) ♥♥♥♥
• Cunnilingus ♥♥♥♥
• Dancing ♥♥
• Death (fatal illnesses; heroic death; character death in general; survivor guilt and grief; ghosts and haunting; vampires; Thanatos as the personification of death; Thanatos as the death wish; death orgasms; gothic aesthetics; immortality or aging as it relates to death; reincarnation) ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥
• Discipline or punishment ♥♥♥♥♥
• Discomfort during sex (rough edge of a table as counterpoint to pleasure; cold stone versus hot flesh; position is uncomfortable at first but then becomes perfect; penetration is painful, then pleasurable) ♥♥♥
• Disorders (phobias; neuroses; eating disorders; obsessive-compulsive disorder; see also Insanity; Emotional themes) ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥
• Dominance and submission ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥
• Drugs (recreational drug use; Viagra; self-destructive addictions; addiction as a by-product of pain management; alcoholism and sobriety) ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥
• Emotional themes (angst; wallows; darkfic; emotional damage; psychological trauma; tragic pasts; broken characters; guilt and shame; mental instability; sadness and grief; abandonment or fear of same; characters who can't go home again; fear in general; nightmares; loneliness; broken-heartedness; failure; insecurity; self-hatred; self-mutilation such as secret cutting; suicide; see also Insanity) ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥
• Exhibitionism ♥♥
• Exposure (with or without eroticism; feeling physically exposed, such as with legs open; a woman's shirt being opened to expose her breasts; characters being forced to undress in public; someone opening a door on people having sex) ♥♥
• Falling (falling from grace; going bad; turning to the Dark Side; Faustian deals; succumbing to temptation or addiction; degradation and descent in general) ♥♥♥♥♥
• Fantasies (shared or solitary; role-playing) ♥♥♥♥
• Femmes (effeminacy) ♥♥♥♥
• Flirting (conscious or unconscious; with glances or touches; banter) ♥♥♥
• Food (feeding one's partner; romantic dinners; food as foreplay or flirting; food used during sex, such as whipped cream or chocolate) ♥♥♥♥♥
• Forbidden pleasures (love affairs or trysts; in general, wanting someone or something that's expressly forbidden) ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥
• Fuck or die ♥
• Gayness (self-identification as gay; gay pride; queer culture; homophobia; see also Orientation issues) ♥
• Geeks and nebbishes (Peter Parker or Clark Kent characters; computer geeks; lab rats; nerds; intellectuals; personal secretaries; beta males; sidekicks; men in glasses; oddballs and eccentrics) ♥♥♥
• Geek/jock pairings ♥♥♥
• Gender themes (gender confusion; genderfuck; cross-dressing or other forms of genderbending; drag queens and transvestites; androgyny; butch/femme; tomboys and femme guys; non-binary genders and the exploration thereof) ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥
• Gentleness (tenderness; kindness; concern; gentle natures; characters who display sensitivity to fearful children, animals, the weak, etc; gentle responses at unexpected moments) ♥♥
• Girls (dancing girls; cat-girls; schoolgirls; bishoujo; magical girls; cheerleaders; see also Bad Girls; Good girls) ♥♥♥
• Good boys (law enforcement figures; gentlemen; characters who prompt a desire to corrupt or provoke them, or to get them dirty; priests; prim schoolteachers; angels; nice guys; virtue and nobility in general) ♥
• Good girls (nice girls; daddy's girls; schoolmarms; nuns) ♥
• Guro (body horror, grotesque eroticization) ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥
• Hero/sidekick pairings ♥♥
• Heroes (knights and champions; superheroes; samurai or ronin; super-soldiers; ordinary characters becoming heroes and characters overcoming fear with bravery; rebel/underground heroes; saviors and liberators; avengers; see also Heroic gestures; Good boys) ♥♥
• Homosocial environments (i.e., all-male or all-female) ♥♥
• Human furniture ♥♥
• Humiliation (erotic or non-erotic) ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥
• Humor (funny banter, screwball comedy, etc) ♥♥♥
• Humor as a mask (characters who hide pain behind humor) ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥
• Hurt/comfort (emotional and/or physical, including torture of all kinds and degrees, and any form of caretaking) ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥
• Ice princesses, snow queens (cold characters who may or may not succumb to melting; need not be female) ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥
• Incest (…and yet, Sam/Dean is one of my least favorite SPN ships that I still like (as in, it's on my list, but it's sort of low on the totem pole and I'm really picky about how and when I like it). …but making Stiles and Derek related to each other would make me subscribe to that newsletter faster than anything. and I would like to talk to you about Blaine/Cooper, Kate/Allison, Ken Randall/Darius Parker, River Song/Amy Pond, and Dean/Cas incest AUs. …this is all temporalranger's fault). ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥
• Intimacy ♥♥♥♥
• Intoxication and altered states (aphrodisiacs; drugs or alcohol; sex pollen/spores; substances or devices that create arousal, affection, or dependency; speaking or showing the truth while intoxicated; visionary states) ♥♥♥♥♥
• Kissing, necking ♥♥♥♥♥♥
• Knives and knife-play ♥♥♥
• Knotting (also barbing and just generally, "weird animalistic genitals on humans" things) ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥
• Loss of control (emotional, physical, situational, erotic, etc) ♥♥♥
• Love and passion (falling in love; love at first sight; one true love; eternal love; unconditional love; star-crossed lovers; tempestuous passions) ♥♥♥
• Love/hate relationship ♥♥♥♥♥♥
• Magical themes (love spells; magical characters or creatures; magical lands or settings; predictions; curses; possession; fairytales; magical girls; see also Special powers and skills) ♥♥♥
• Make-overs ♥♥
• Make-up and/or nail polish on men (see also Gender themes) ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥
• Make-up sex or reunions ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥
• Masochism ♥♥♥♥♥
• Masquerade (a character pretends to be someone else, or something he's not, e.g., a nebbishy nerd must convince goons he's a ruthless arms dealer or assassin; a cop goes undercover in prison; a spy infiltrates an agency; a good guy pretends to be his AU evil twin; Cyrano scenarios) ♥♥♥♥♥♥
• Master and slave (erotic or romantic slavery) ♥♥♥
• Mindfuck, mindgames ♥♥♥♥♥♥
• Mirrors (especially mirror!universes) ♥♥
• Multiple partners (sequential/serial sexual encounters; orgies, gang-bangs, or group sex; puppy-pile cuddling; see also Sexual appetite or excess) ♥♥
• Music (singing; playing an instrument such as guitar or piano; composers; rock stars or bands; groupies; song lyrics) ♥♥
• Names and address (endearments: sweetheart, honey, mine; nicknames: chief, kid, sport; terms that assert power: boy, cunt; insulting terms that may hide some affection: monkey-boy, Your Worshipfulness, you big furry oaf; using someone's name as a sign of intimacy; using only formal modes of address: Sir, Major) ♥♥♥♥♥♥
• Noise (screaming or yelling during sex; whimpering or sobbing; purring, growling; slurping or moaning enthusiastically during blow-jobs) ♥
• Orgasm denial ♥♥
• Orientation issues (confusion; discovery and coming out; self-hatred; two-beer queers; homosexual panic) ♥♥♥♥♥♥
• Otherness and outsiders (alien identity or transformation; mutants; demons and angels; hermaphrodites; eccentrics; elves and other magical beings; exoticism; half-human hybrids, e.g., the offspring of humans with demons, vampires, aliens, elves; racial difference in general; clones; twins; see also Secret identity; Special powers; Exoticism) ♥♥
• Pain (with or without pleasure/endorphins) ♥♥♥♥♥
• Penance or reform (bad boy turns good; evil seeks to change; performing acts of atonement or restitution; self-mortification; martyrdom; selflessness; apologies or apology sex) ♥♥
• Physical imperfections (scars or burns; acne pits; heaviness; outsized features such as ears or nose; jolie-laide/ugly-beautiful characters) ♥♥♥♥
• Physical responses (face or ears burning; little hairs lifting on the scalp or neck; gut tightening; pulse quickening or missing a beat; lashes fluttering or lids growing heavy; mouth coming open; dick or pussy throbbing) ♥♥♥♥♥
• Possession (by alien entity, spirits, or another person) ♥♥♥
• Possessiveness or jealousy ♥♥♥♥♥
• Power issues (inequities in beauty, rank, or class; power games; BDSM; power reversals; teacher/student pairings (at the university level, or as long as everyone is over the age of consent); issues of respect; sexual scenarios such as a dominant character giving his partner to others to use, or a character kneeling beneath a desk and blowing someone who's on the phone) ♥♥
• Predator/prey pairings ♥♥
• Preferential treatment (e.g., making a point of showing respect towards someone when no one else does; showing a soft side only to them) ♥
• Prostitutes (call-girls and hookers; rent boys and hustlers; escorts; paying one's way through school with sideline hooking; juvenile past on the streets) ♥
• Protectiveness (physically or verbally defending someone; caretaking in general) ♥♥♥
• Religion (sin; faith and lack of faith; priests, monks, nuns, etc; shamans; biblical characters; angels and demons; gods and goddesses; saints; monastic or convent culture) ♥♥♥♥♥♥
• Restraint (pinning someone down; pushing someone's arm up behind their back during sex; covering or clasping someone's hands to prevent movement) ♥♥♥♥♥♥
• Restraints (handcuffs, leather ties, chains, etc) ♥♥♥♥♥♥
• Rogues (outlaws, highwaymen, mercenaries, pirates, gangsters, hitmen, etc; black sheep and royal bastards; Han Solo characters; tricksters; see also Violent and dark natures and Rough behavior) ♥♥♥
• Romance (see Love and passion; Courting; Seduction; "the touch of the fingertips is as sexy as it gets") ♥♥♥
• Rough sex (quick and dirty sex; hate or grudge sex; angry sex; fighting/wrestling; jackhammer fucking; sex with no or little lube) ♥♥
• Sadism or sadomasochism ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥
• Scars or scarification ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥
• Scent as an erotic element ♥♥
• School themes and fetishization (boarding schools; scholarly gowns and uniforms; sailor fuku; prep school chic; teacher/student pairings; donnish or professorial characters; prefects/head boys; caning; schoolboy hijinks or sexual discovery) ♥♥♥♥♥♥
• Secret identity (superheroes, slayers, immortals, mutants, etc; disguised gender; spies) ♥♥
• Secrets, other (dark or criminal past; double lives; previous marriage and/or children; unspoken feelings) ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥
• Seduction (one-on-one; two-on-one; verbal or physical; intense erotic courtship or teasing; see also Courting) ♥
• Sensory overload or enhancement ♥♥
• Sex with aliens (xenophilia; basically all of my Trekkie ships, or a lot of them anyway… Kirk/Spock/McCoy, Garak/Bashir/Ziyal, Jadzia Dax/Worf, any Dax/Kira, Jadzia Dax/Tavana, Sisko/Curzon Dax, Dukat/Weyoun, Dukat/Adami, Beverly Crusher/Deanna Troi, … the list goes on) ♥♥♥♥♥
• Sexual discovery (of one's orientation; of new kinds of pleasure; of one's partner) ♥♥♥♥
• Shyness (embarrassment; blushing or stammering; body shyness or dysmorphic disorder; cultural modesty) ♥♥♥♥♥
• Silence (slave silence; silence as an erotic element in sex; trying to be silent during semi-public sex; going nonverbal or speechless with arousal; traumatic mutism; selective mutism; sign language; gestures used to convey feelings rather than words; see also Clams) ♥♥
• Sleep and bedding themes (sharing a bed by necessity, such as in a hotel with only one room left; sharing a sleeping bag for warmth; sex while drowsy or sleeping; sex as a sleep aid; autonomic arousal from proximity; morning wake-up sex, falling asleep against someone's shoulder; watching someone sleep; dreams; nightmares; dream lovers, e.g., succubi; exotic or romantic beds, e.g., canopied; furs as bedding; silk sheets) ♥♥
• Snark ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥
• Society (social mores and morality; laws; institutional regulations such as Don't Ask Don't Tell; elaborate rituals or ceremonies; social events such as feasts and parties; decorum; formal or deferential modes of address; see also Witnesses) ♥♥
• Special powers and skills (superhero powers; magical powers; telekinesis; shapeshifting; hyperdeveloped senses; combat expertise; sharpshooting; eidetic memory; computer hacking skills; thief skills; temporary gifts of power from drugs, alien devices, etc, repercussions of which could include delusions of godhood, dangerous physical or mental overload, and so on) ♥♥
• Submission (obedience; submissive behaviors such as boot kissing, crawling, keeping one's eyes lowered, or kneeling for master; believing in cultural dictates of submissive behavior; abasement in general) ♥♥♥
• Talking and communication issues (dirty talk or verbal seduction; sweet talking; reciting poetry; talking someone to orgasm; talking during sex; pillow talk; phone sex; speech becoming broken as one is aroused or upset; being inarticulate or articulate; aphasia; talking fast; miscommunication and misunderstandings in general; lack of a shared language; see also Silence; Clams; Voice fetishization) ♥♥♥
• Taste as an erotic element ♥♥♥
• Tattoos (decorative, symbolic, or slave; barcodes) ♥
• Teasing or tickling ♥
• Techno (technophilic themes; artificial humans; character is copied or downloaded into mechanical host body; other ghost in the machine scenarios; androids and cyborgs as sexual partners; wetwear enhancements; cyberpunk aesthetic) ♥♥
• Temperamental personalities (driven or obsessed; hot-tempered or testy; moody; misanthropic or bitter; abrasive) ♥♥
• Tentacle sex ♥♥♥
• Threesomes (M/F/M, M/M/M, etc) ♥♥♥♥♥
• Touching (stroking and caressing; cuddling or nuzzling; huddling for warmth; hugging; holding hands in public; touching as UST; brief brushes of contact either deliberate or accidental; PDAs; thighs brushing under a table; comic physical entanglements; someone gripping a wounded character's hand) ♥♥♥
• Tragic flaws ♥♥♥
• Trapped or stranded together (on another world; on a desert island; in a cave-in; in a cabin during a snowstorm; in an elevator) ♥♥♥
• Triangulation of desire (two men express their desire for each other through a female intermediary; sexual rivalry for a woman is actually homoerotic interest - hi, my name is Kassie and I'm here today to talk to you about Scott McCall/Jackson Whittemore and why they should have all the hate!sex) ♥♥♥♥♥♥
• Trust and vows (promises are kept or broken; loyalty or betrayal; absolute trust or doubt; fidelity or infidelity; blindfolds or bondage as trust symbols; commitment or fear of commitment; acts of devotion; marriage vows; unconditional love; blood brothers and oaths; showing trust/faith in someone's abilities) ♥♥♥
• Undressing (undressing in front of someone for the first time; one character undressing another; fumbling clumsily to get undressed; stripteases) ♥♥
• UST (unresolved sexual tension) ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥
• Vampires ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥
• Violence (see Conflict; Death) ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥
• Violent feelings (hatred; murderous rage; need for revenge) ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥
• Violent and dark natures (sadists; assassins and murderers; sociopaths who make twisted, scary displays of affection, conflating love and violence; criminals and villains in general; characters who are ruthless, merciless, casually vengeful; soulless demons or vampires; monsters in general) ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥
• Vulnerability ♥♥♥
• Warriors (see Heroes; Amazons and strong women; Toughness; Primitivism; Rogues; Military fetishization - I'm mostly here for the Klingons, but dude, when my warriors!kink turns on? it really, REALLY turns on. …I'd also like to talk to you about Martok/Sirella and Kor/Koloth, because Klingons are awesome and I love them) ♥♥♥♥♥
• Weapon fetishization ♥♥
• Wings (wingfic) ♥♥
• Worry (one character worrying anxiously about another; going crazy with worry) ♥♥

…incidentally, the extent to which I love secrets, confessions, and hurt/comfort explains a lot about my "22 Weeks" 'verse, which I'm going to just refer to henceforth with a riff on Mary Shelley: "I bid my hideous progeny go forth and prosper." Because it's perfect for that 'verse.