I adore rare pairs so feel free to surprise me with a combo of my requested Beholderites, one of them plus someone from my 'regular' character list below. Have fun mixing it up in some new and exciting way (e.g. Trelawney/Moody, Xeno/Andromeda, Tonks/Stan)
Characters I love: Tonks, Bill, Charlie, Luna, Ron, Neville, Ginny, Fred & George, Sirius, Kingsley, Pansy, Lavender, either Patil twin (or both), so inclusion of one (or more) would be grand.
I also love assertive female characters, threesomes, bisexuality, angst, humour, banter, UST, sexual exploration, happy endings, EWE, true love, light bondage/discipline, spanking, seduction, romance, kissing, shower/bath!sex, frottage, voyeurism, and plotty stories vs. PWP. Exploration of the Wizarding world makes me very happy. So does the use of magic in a sexual setting. Ditto first times or courtship – I love to know how and why a relationship ticks vs. a schmoopy established relationship with no explanation.
Molly/Arthur or Andromeda/Ted: If you want to write them for me, please don't split them up or have either cheating. If you feel the need to explore one or both with another character, then as long as they're not married yet, or married and having consensual polyamoury or a threesome would be just fine.
However, I'm okay with Andromeda/someone else post-war in an canon-ish setting as long as Ted doesn't die in the fic itself. Please keep Ted's memory alive and their previous relationship as something positive. Also feel free to keep Ted and/or Nymphadora alive if you want.
I really dislike: Next Gen characters or completely canon compliant stories. I hate female character bashing so if you can't write someone nicely, then please don't include them. If you need to break up a relationship, just have it not work out vs. painful, horrible death or deceit, or just ignore them completely. I also dislike stories with characters who only appear in the books briefly or not at all (i.e. Morag MacDougal or Stephen Cornfoot).
Bestiality (including Animagi forms and humanoids – centaurs, merpeople etc.), Death Eaters, vampires, werewolves (esp. Werewolf!Bill or Lavender), cutsey non-canon nicknames, obsession with Muggle pop culture by Wizards (i.e. listening to current bands, reading non-Wizarding comic books or manga, watching 'Star Wars' etc.), Americanisms, piercings, anachronisms, gender fuck, body/gender swapping and Tonks-with-a-dick are all turn offs too. So are fanon cliches like angsty Lavender-with-scars or Tonks-changing-her-hair/eye colour-uncontrollably. Please stick to canon descriptions of characters wherever possible (e.g. Charlie is short and stocky, Millicent is a big brunette, Tonks' eyes are dark, Viktor is not a male model.)
Caveats:
Character death: basically, I do not want anyone to die or have any reference to it. If it's a canon character who dies in the books, then please don't kill him/her within the story or make it some kind of memorial flashback. That said, if you want to explore Andromeda making a new life for herself after Ted's murder, or Xeno coping as a single dad after his wife's death, then that's fine. I just like happy endings and positive fics, not doom and gloom, or reminders that person X will be dead by the time the story is over. (I hope that makes sense!) Making it a/u and keeping them alive? Even better.