General likes: I love poly (or otherwise ethically nonmonogamous) relationships, F/F pairings (though I read and enjoy M/M and het too), complicated gender stuff, stories that talk about how we write history and how we tell stories, and documentation!fic. My AO3 bookmarks give a pretty representative idea of my tastes.

NSFW likes: I read explicit fic, and I would be happy to receive porny or otherwise not-worksafe podfic, but I also read and listen to plenty of G and T rated things (they make up more than half of my AO3 bookmarks, even accounting for the iddy porn which I don't make public!) so there's no need to go NSFW if you're not comfortable there. If you do want to go there, my porn tastes tend towards the kinky, especially complicated and possibly not super healthy power dynamics. I like my sex to have some sort of psychological component, rather than purely focusing on the physical. I love genderplay, especially when the dynamic is not simply "feminise a man against his will as a source of humiliation".

Do not wants: Graphic descriptions of medical procedures. Vomit or scat as a kink. I'm generally completely uninterested in kidfic or pregnancy fic. I tend not to read ABO or soulbond fic but I'm willing to be convinced if it's very good.

Fandom-specific notes:

The Locked Tomb: My main fannish obsession for the past few years. I ship basically everyone/everyone here. I love Camilla Hect being terrifyingly competent, and Abigail Pent being the team mom to a bunch of weird gremlin children. Feel free to run with the chaos potential inherent in canon-compliant canon divergence AUs as a concept. I've read both Gideon and Harrow, as well as the short stories.

The Goblin Emperor: Maia/Csethiro/Csevet is my main ship. I love anything featuring Maia and Csethiro in a mutually supportive marriage, whether they actually love one another or are in a political marriage where they agree to fuck other people. Anything about Maia encouraging his dav to break out of the roles they are assigned by courtly etiquette (e.g. encouraging Csethiro to fence and take an active role in politics, enabling Vedero to remain unmarried and cultivate a circle of lesbian scholars, supporting Kiru as a female nohecharis). I also love courtly etiquette and tradition, so anything about e.g. formal dances, the subtle political signals sent by who one associates with at court functions, how choices of clothing or accessories send particular signals... I will eat it up. I haven't read Witness for the Dead (though I have read "Min Zemerin's Plan").

The Mechanisms: Among the crew, I like Mechs Crew Polycule fic, general Mechs Crew being chaos gremlins, any combination of Aurora/Nastya/Raphaella/Ivy, and the Toy Soldier being Toy Soldierish. Outside the crew, I ship Rose/Cinders/Briar Rose from Once Upon a Time (In Space), and I love the idea that Inspector Lyf from The Bifrost Incident is nonbinary. (Also, though I don't think fic for any of it currently exists, I have listened to various of the Mechs-adjacent albums – Jessica Law's stuff, Lolina: Origins, some of Dr. Carmilla's stuff – and I would be happy to receive something related to one of those instead!)

Fandom – Fandom: This is a broad church, and I'll take anything you think fits into it, even if it isn't strictly under that AO3 tag. Examples might include anything under any of the various Yuletide tags, the Ghost Soup Infidel tags (Fanlore), or fics related to a meme like Spiders Georg or tumblr's Ea-Nasir obsession.

So the nominees for the 2019 Hugo Awards were announced the other day – the official list is here. Various people have already posted their thoughts on the nominees (and JJ at File770 has compiled an extremely useful Where to Find the Hugo Award Finalists for Free Online post), but here are mine:

The novel and novella selections are both extremely unsurprising to me. In novel, three nominees are sequels/prequels to previously-nominated works, the other three are all by authors who have previous Hugo fiction nominations. Three are double Nebula/Hugo nominations. Perhaps the most surprising is Valente, whose only previous Hugo fiction nom was way back in 2010, and who doesn't seem to have had Space Opera recognised by any other awards yet. In novella, the main question was which of Martha Wells' Murderbot Diaries works would be nominated – we now know it is Artificial Condition (I think to some people's surprise, though it's good news for me because it saves me reading 80,000-odd words to catch up to Exit Strategy. The only novella on the shortlist which I have read so far is The Tea Master and the Detective (essentially Sherlock Holmes In Space!), which I highly recommend (and it's nice to see that one of the nominees from that category isn't from Tor.com!)

Like novella, I have read one of the novelettes (Conolly's "Last Banquet of Temporal Confections") and, like Tea Master, it made my nominating ballot. Though almost all of the eligible fiction I read last year is from the short story and novella categories, I believe that Zen Cho and Simone Heller's works have both entirely passed me by – and though I was aware of the other three, I don't believe I have read any of them. On the other hand, I have read and enjoyed all six of the short story nominees, though none of them made my shortlist – again, there were so many good eligible works in the category!

In Related Work, I was very happy to see AO3 nominated, though there will inevitably be debate about how to compare such different things as a fan fiction archive and a non-fiction book like Nevala-Lee's Astounding; I have already seen discussion about whether the changes the Archive has made this year are significant enough for it to be eligible for the award at all. With a documentary in three parts and the Mexicanx Initiative also on the ballot, this is really a grab-bag category even by Best Related's usual standards.

I was slightly surprised The Books of Earthsea: The Complete Illustrated Edition was deemed eligible for Best Art Book, but I was pleased to see that the illustrator, Charles Vess, was nominated for Pro Artist.