FAQ
What even is this? Write a fic of at least 500 words about animal sex characteristics, get a fic of at least 500 words about animal sex characteristics! Unless you mean existentially, in which case we have no idea.
Do fics need to be explicit? No, as long as the animal sex influences the story. It could be about societal expectations around relationships based on reproductive needs, or pre-sex conversation about sexual needs, or marketing copy for a dating app.
Is this about literal animals having sex? Possibly, but not necessarily! You’re welcome to express a preference in your request for the characters as literal animals, or as humans with the reproductive characteristics of your requested animal tags, or anywhere in between. If you do not want literal animals, a literal animal having sex with a literal human, or any other specific combination, please put this in your DNWs as well as carefully considering which freeform tags you request.
Are mythical animals allowed? Yes, as long as the sex is relatively unlike human sex. Were-bear that shifts to hairy-but-human to have sex: nah. Centaur with both human and horse organs that need to be simultaneously stimulated: definitely.
Deets on DNWs Due to the nature of the exchange, the kind of DNWs (do not wants) you might usually use could become confusing. Please be as specific as possible about DNWs, and please do not kinkshame.
Examples of DNWs that are NOT enforceable: “gross slimy animals”, mpreg when requesting animals that don’t fall into a male/female binary, underage without specifying an age or level of development.
Examples of enforceable DNW: spiders, relationships between an entirely human character and an entirely animal character, waste fluids involved in sex, sexual relationship between canon characters A and B.
Example DNWs that probably need more specificity in this exchange:
Bestiality: are two sentient animals ok? A human and a sentient animal? A sentient animal and a non sentient animal? Animals that are sentient but can’t communicate consent?
Underage: Under a specific time-based age, or developmental stage? What about animals that are fully developmentally mature but only a few months or years old?
Gender-based DNWs: are you requesting animals with more than two genders, or sexual characteristics that don’t match with gendered human sexual characteristics?
Opt-out only, nothing is opt-in; if you don’t want it, you gotta list it as a DNW.
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