Id Pro Quo 2026 Creator Letter

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Hello, I'm Q! This is my Creator Letter for the 2026 Id Pro Quo Exchange. First, thank you for your interest! Whether you're my assigned giftor or thinking of making a treat, I appreciate you so very much :)

This letter has my general DNWs and Likes, and then I have individual sections for each of my fandom requests for this year's exchange (and I don't have a preference between any of them, so don't think if one's section is longer than the other that I want it more!). I hope my provided details will give you some inspiration! I really look forward to whatever y'all create, I know I'm gonna love it <3


GUIDE

• DNWs


• General Likes


• Dark Likes


• Smut Likes


• Alternate Universe Likes


• Critical Role: Aramán (Web Series)


• DCU (Comics)


• The Night Manager (TV 2016)


• Marvel Cinematic Universe


• The Following (TV)

DNWs

• Genderbends (but trans welcome!)


• Scat


• Crackfic or Pure Fluff


• Reader Insert


• First Person POV

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GENERAL LIKES

• Angst and Hurt/Comfort of all kinds


• Time Travel/Loop


• Role Reversal


• "What If" stories, like "What if Character had done X instead of Y?"


• Rescue Missions


• Rare Pairings


• Second Person POV (can be fun as long as it's not readerfic!)


• Trauma Recovery


• Touch-Starved Characters


• Trust Issues


• Power Dynamics & Imbalance


• Identity Porn


• Amnesia & Memory Alteration


• Fix-Its


• Missing Scenes


• Undercover


• Found Family & Deep Bonds Between Characters


• Drug Use


• Pre- and Post-Canon


• Alternate Universes (favorites listed below!)


• Outsider POV


• All Kinds of Endings

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DARK LIKES

I'm a huge fan of darkfic, whether that's serious Dead Dove: Do Not Eat or whump or simple hurt/comfort (with a healthy dose of hurt XD). This can mean physical, mental, or sexual (absolutely a fan of noncon!). I also really enjoy the aftermath of these events, having characters deal with what's happened to them. Some more great things are:

• Manipulation (emotional, mental, etc.)


• Mind Control & Demon Possession & Hypnosis


• Codependency


• Trauma Exploration


• Gaslighting


• Brainwashing/Conditioning


• Worse-Its


• Kidnapping & Captivity


• War Prize


• Addiction and all the things that go with it


• Forced Pregnancy


• Droit Du Seigneur/The Lord’s Right


• Betrayal


• Sensory Deprivation


• Stockholm & Lima Syndrome


• Drugged Sex


• Auction


• Forced Consent


• Extreme Possessiveness


• Torture (waterboarding, electrocution, etc)


• Ignored Safeword


• "Take me instead" situations


• Abuse


• Earn Your Keep


• and just about everything 😆

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SMUT LIKES

These really are non-exhaustive, as I’m down for basically everything other than scat! These also can be used with any level of consent (including the complete lack thereof XD) and make me super happy.

• Weapon Play - Gunplay is definitely top of the list, but I love all kinds! If you can think it I guarantee I’ll like it


• Bondage - The regular kind for sure, along with Predicament Bondage and Honor Bondage


• Messy Blowjobs, Face-Fucking, Deepthroating, Face-Sitting


• Boot Worship - One character licking another’s shoes or kissing them....great great shit


• Fingers in Mouth. Tbh anything in mouth; oral fixation FTW! This includes Gags for sure


• Humiliation, Degradation, Objectification, Begging


• Biting - Neck, thighs, everywhere is good. Love bruises being left behind


• Breathplay/Choking - Whether by hand or belt or suffocation or whatever you like, it’s all damn good


• Praise Kink, Loyalty Kink, Competence Kink


• Impact Play - Spanking, Belting, Whipping, Etc.


• Manhandling/Strength Kink - It’s great when one partner is much larger/stronger than the other, and can really manhandle them around. Love one character being held down during sex or grabbed roughly


• Desk Sex, Wall Sex, Car Sex, Semi-Public Sex


• Non-Penetrative Sex - Thigh Fucking, Asscheek Fucking, Breast Fucking


• Glove Kink - Being fingered with gloves on, sucking on gloved fingers, descriptions of the gloves on skin, etc.


• Somnophilia (especially the noncon variety)


• Tentacle Porn (both by creature and by plant), Oviposition, Bestiality (both monster & regular animals)


• Forced Feminization - A male character being put in lingerie or skirts or panties; being called things like “babygirl”; having their genitals referred to with a feminine slant (such as their asshole being called a pussy/boypussy, their cock being call a girlcock, their pecs called tits, etc.) (Though I'm NOT a fan of makeup!)


• Cock Warming, Glory Hole


• Womb/Cervix Fucking (yea I know, physically impossible, idgaf it's sexy)


• Breeding Kink - Whether being bred is actually possible or not, I love one character really kinking on the idea, especially if they’re not on the receiving end


• Object Insertion/Regular Items Used in Sexual Ways - Neckties used for bondage, something normal filling the role of a buttplug, etc.


• Watersports, Omorashi


• Necrophilia - Read a fic where this was a main aspect and suddenly had a discovery about myself. Love how dark and terrible this is. Whether someone's fucking a dead body or near one or on top of one, I am game


• Rape Roleplay - Both violent and gentle

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ALTERNTE UNIVERSE LIKES

I can get behind just about every AU, but my favorites are:

General AUs

• Royalty


• Pirate


• Criminal (mafia, assassin, thief, etc.)


• Bounty Hunter


• Teacher/Student


• Law Enforcement/Military


• Prison


• Single Parent

Fandom AUs

• Star Wars


• Hogwarts/Wizarding World


• Bender (ATLA)


• Supernatural (TV show)


• The Magicians


• Hunger Games


• Percy Jackson


• X-Men/Mutant

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CRITICAL ROLE

Halandil Fang & Azune Nayar
Halandil Fang & Bolaire Lathalia

TBA soon!

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DC COMICS

Dick Grayson/Slade Wilson

This is probably my #1 ship. I love the complicated as fuck history these two have, love the fact that Slade's first ever appearance was up against Dick (& the rest of the Teen Titans). I'm perfectly happy with a wide range of characterization for Slade, from complete and utter bastard to easy-going frenemy. I figure if DC itself can't settle on a characterization (swinging rapidly from good father who loves to listen to his son sing, to dude so emotionally constipated he can barely say one nice word to anyone, to man who blows up an entire city to get back at Dick for petty reasons) then I might as well reap the benefits.

So you're welcome to do whatever interpretation of their relationship you like! Maybe some intense anger and hatred, considering all Slade's put Dick through. Maybe they're in one of their more amiable time periods. Maybe one of them has no idea where they stand with the other, or it's a middle ground that still puts them on unstable terms. Hell, maybe they're in an established relationship already! The sheer depth of history these two have makes everything about them complicated, and I'm certainly a huge fan of complicated relationships XD These two were made for angst and a deep, fucked up understanding no one but them will ever get.

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THE NIGHT MANAGER

Jonathan Pine/Richard Roper

The thing that really makes the series is the dynamic between Jonathan and Roper, which is sheer perfection. I was already predisposed to like it since I like both actors, but still my breath was taken away by it. By the multiple levels and the secrecy and betrayal and genuine affection and respect buried amongst it all. Jonathan is with Roper to avenge someone he loved, but still he found himself falling for Roper's charms, at least a little bit. He might've hated himself for it, but it went both ways!! Roper saying "It's a rare thing, Jonathan Pine, for me to trust a person. But you were special. Knew it the first time I saw you" ripped my heart out because of how much he means it. Roper doesn't trust people, but Jonathan slid right in like he was a missing puzzle piece finally returning. Roper wanted to give everything to Jonathan, wanted him to be a goddamn emperor of Rome with him, even gave Jonathan a chance to join him for real when he knew Jonathan was betraying him!!

And nothing, nothing, will ever compare to the moment when Jonathan blew all of Roper's shit up, thoroughly destroying his empire and costing him billions of dollars, and Roper looked at him and smiled and said "Oh, you beauty." I'm sorry but, like, how can anyone stay sane after seeing that??? Jonathan destroyed everything and Roper just thought he was spectacular!!!! Even winks at him later when they're taking him away!!

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MCU

Clint Barton/Natasha Romanov

TBA

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THE FOLLOWING

Joe Carroll/Ryan Hardy

What is it about the dynamic between a violent criminal and the person hunting them that has me in a chokehold? No idea, but this show gives me that in spades and I thank them for it! Holy fuck is this show a good time—so eerie, so fucked up, so well acted. I love the way they slowly reveal the history between the characters and the way it impacts the now, and shit they just portray obsession so damn well. All of the characters have it, good and bad—obviously Joe's followers are obsessed with him, and Joe with Ryan, but Ryan's equally obsessed, and Mike & all the rest become that way too. They're all such complicated, fun characters and I love this show to pieces.

And god the Joe/Ryan relationship! Is! Everything! These two have such gigantic divorced energy from the very first moment, which is wild to see portrayed while they're sitting across from each other in an interrogation cell 😂 As I said before these two are o b s e s s e d with each other, even if Ryan likes to pretend he's not as invested as Joe is. Watching their relationship develop over the course of the show from bitterness and self-loathing to severe attachment (and self-loathing lol) was fantastic. Ryan spending all of season 2 hunting Joe down despite everyone calling him crazy, and then oh my god can I even talk about season 3 without losing my shit? The fucked up bond between them reaches insane, amazing new heights. Ryan dreaming about them playing pool and Joe holding him and teaching him to kill I JUST CANNOT HANDLE THIS RATIONALLY. Then because apparently they didn't destroy me enough, they had to have Ryan hallucinating Joe and that is just...fuck am I ever obsessed

I want to thank you for reading my Letter, and I hope you have a good time writing! I'm so looking forward to whatever you lovely folks come up with :) <3

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