Candy Hearts Exchange

Hello there, Candy Hearts creator (assigned or a treater)!

Whether you're already aware of my existence or have no idea who I am, rest assured that I'm pretty easy to please so don't worry too much! I read and enjoy various styles, so go for the one that you feel fits best. Lighthearted and funny, or darker and angsty, or anything in between. I would prefer at least a hopeful ending to one that's bleak and miserable.

All tenses, all POVs (as long as 'you' is a requested character), all ratings (sexual content or violence) welcome! For smut, I generally have no top/bottom preferences and often prefer switching.

I'm Mimm on AO3 as well.

My Candy Hearts 2024 sign-up on the app (for prompts): Here

My request history on the app (for any previous prompts/thoughts for many of these fandoms): Here



DNW:
Noncon between ship characters, unrequested permanent ship character death (afterlife prompts = requested and welcome), focus on children/pregnancy, focus on pets, highschool/band/coffeeshop/etc. AUs that drastically change the setting, crossovers or fusions, omegaverse, bestiality, scat, daddy/mommy kink, smoking weed, focus on food/cooking, unrequested poly, ship characters as asexual or aromantic, trans/neurodivergence headcanons

If anything's unclear or it feels like I'm contradicting myself (sorry!), you can always ask through mods and I'll try to clarify.


LIKES:

I think of my likes list as general prompts, and you honestly can't go wrong with picking one or more of those even if I've added fandom-specific prompts. Any prompts I give are just possible ideas, not something I feel I must receive. I love to be surprised instead of dictating exactly how a story must go, beat by beat. Just don't try to force all of my likes into the same story, maybe?

This list is mostly the same as what I used in 2023, but I have added some new things in 2024. And yeah, I'm aware that a lot of these can be hard or impossible to fit into a 300-word work, but you can definitely do just a snapshot or a moment from something larger and that'd be great.

Getting together, first times, new experiences, new feelings

Complicated feelings/relationships, inner conflict, internalized homophobia, themes of guilt or shame, esp. when met with trust and reassurance

Friends to lovers, enemies (to friends) to lovers, enemies joining forces to fight a common enemy, falling for someone who's unavailable (either taken or not into character's gender, or so they think) and pining, UST that gets resolved

Older characters pining for younger ones or vice versa thinking they wouldn't have a chance

Road trips, camping/hiking, movie night, working late together, helping the other move in to a place, attending the same party, casual everyday bonding moments

Missions gone wrong like a shooting, hostage situation, shuttle crash, getting caught by the enemy, lost communication, on the run from bad guys, stranded or injured in wilderness

Tropey things like amnesia, snowed/caved in, undercover as a couple, having to share a bed/room, being imprisoned together or separately

All the afterlife stuff (actual afterlife or reincarnation, waiting for the other/watching them/picking them up when it's time)

Feelings reveal (and/or hitting on the other character) due to pain/intoxication/truth serum/sex pollen/whatever, esp. when the other one's desperately trying to keep things normal, thinking it's just the drugs and not real and they'll regret when they're clearheaded again etc.

A gay-for-pay situation (for undercover reasons or as a means to get money) with a feelings realization (esp. when they try to fight it)

Emotional and physical hurt/comfort, e.g. having to watch the other be hurt, or being forced to lie/hurt to save the other, wounds and cuts, broken bones, dizziness, nausea, fever due to poisoning etc., helping character with addiction (less into period cramps, stomach bugs and runny noses as main hurt)

Forced closeness, casual intimacy, invading the other's personal space

Touching, esp. if it's not intended as sexual/romantic at first, intentional or accidental (esp. neck and lower back)

All imaginable time travel tropes (loops and groundhog days, visits to past or future, fixing things, getting stuck in wrong time, distorted pass of time, correspondence between people separated by time, ending up/visiting in alternate timelines...)

For time loops and time travel: Having to witness the other one die (and all the angst and helplessness) and finding out a way to stop it

Canon divergence AUs, roads not taken, what-ifs, fix-its, break-its (that get fixed), missing scenes, reinterpreted scenes, post-canon, pre-canon

Different first meetings, only one character remembers they've already met before (and maybe even hooked up)

Horror elements like ghosts, possessions, haunted places and items, curses, exorcism, creepy doppelgängers, things living in one's home

Scifi elements like dimension travel, alternate realities, telepathic links, being in the other character's dreams/nightmares, devices that make a character live in a reality that turns out to be fake/simulation, planted false memories and finding out they're false