- Third or first person POV; past or present tense
- Canon-typical genre stuff, whether that's humor, fantasy, or horror!
- Pining and culmination of pining: getting together, kissing, romantic tension/UST being resolved, mutual pining or initially one-sided pining, pining that lasts for weeks or even years
- Flirting, confident or awkward or just fuckin disastrous
- Descriptions of making out tbh
- Extreme loyalty
- TRUST
- Intense relationships and general intensity
- Hurt/comfort! Fics with a balance on both or ones that lean towards more comfort than hurt are faves; feel free to get deep in the hurt but I love a sizeable focus on the comfort!
- Happy or at least hopeful/somewhat upbeat endings
- Fluff, snapshot moments of what's going on in their lives
- DANCING TOGETHER
- Canon divergent AUs, change one thing about a canon and maybe other things happen differently
- Crossdressing, drag, and gender play
- Trans headcanons where it's not A Thing in the fic: No coming out or explanations necessary, or it's just accepted and not super dwelled on, no Having To Deal With Bigotry or issuefic or anything, just character(s) happen(s) to be trans
- Trans characters having gender realizations, and/or getting gender euphoria, due to crossdressing or drag
- Trans characters having gender realizations, and/or getting gender euphoria, during sex
- PIV in trans smut (if applicable) is fine; oral, PIA, and frot are super welcome; alternatives are also loved
- First times and milestones (sexual and/or romantic)
- Frot, scissoring, intercrural, grinding against ass, basically all that stuff
- Handjobs, fingering, oral
- Clothed sex, partially clothed sex, and clothing kink
- Inexperience, awkward, clumsy but eager and enjoyable sex
- BDSM, either just vibes and trappings or more formal
- Orgasm delay (though not total denial), edging
- Romantic smut, lots of touching, focus on touching/wanting to touch and sensations and body parts, loving descriptions of partner's body (description of both stereotypically attractive and not stereotypically attractive features welcome so long as they're INTO it!), kissing during sex, hand-holding during sex, eye contact during sex, all that stuff!
- XENO. Xeno xeno xeno I am so into xeno; play around with any nonhuman characters not having normal human genitalia and I am here for it; tentacles, cloacas, both sets of genitalia at the same time, genitals resembling flowers or wet pinecone dick, nothing there but touching can still get them off, even freakier (positive) things like possession being sexual somehow, legit whatever you can think of just g o f o r i t ~
- Strap-on sex in general, and also when it's treated like a dick (including handjobs/blowjobs)
- Manhandling, hair pulling, love bites and scratches, rough but not outright painful (or only pleasantly painful) sex
- Multiple orgasms, "forced" orgasms that are still enjoyable
- E n t h u s i a s m and detailed descriptions of sex, just go for it

In general, for smut, I prefer the terms: penis, cock, dick, length; vagina, vulva, cunt, or pussy; nipples, ass, and testicles/balls can just be called those things; come or cum are both fine spellings (just not "cumming")