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Trick or Treat 2020 Letter
Sep. 11th, 2020 10:53 pmThanks for checking out my letter.
Overview: I welcome works of any rating, with any AO3 content warning. I do not have general DNWs, but for some fandoms I have some specific preferences, detailed below. At the end of the letter is my Big List Of Stuff I Like--feel free to take your inspiration from that rather than the fandom-specific prompts.
Additionally, I really love all things Halloween/Autumn. The changing of the seasons, the harvest, spooky stuff, supernatural, magic, and monsters. Feel free to embrace the season in any response to my prompts!
I'm opting in to the Battle of the Bands challenge, and while I've requested 3 specific songs, go ahead and feel free to draw on whatever music inspires you from the tagset.
FANDOM: Africa - Toto (Song)
Last year I prompted this song and received two great fics riffing off the viral twitter post that suggested the song lyrics reference a lovesick werewolf. (Link here: https://twitter.com/hradzka/status/954767458769883136)
Feel free to take whatever inspiration in word or art you might from this song, however! The werewolf angle is delightful, but so would be a more general love story (what's the "a lot" that could "take me away from you"?), or something about magic (Why are we blessing the rains down in Africa?)
FANDOM: Work Song - Hozier (Music Video)
I love Hozier generally and this song is one of my favorites. I'm game for a take on the lyrics directly (themes of death and rebirth, redemption, whump or hurt/comfort, pining all suggest themselves rather strongly-like, that's good shit!) or the video's visuals of deeply intimate, incredibly hot dancing. (The redheaded dancer biting their partner's jaw at about 0.58 always makes me feel Some Kind Of Way when I watch the video, whew.)
FANDOM: Werewolves of London - Warren Zevon (Song)
I love Werewolves, and I tend to prefer them as a mix of urbane and feral, just like this song plays with. It's always been a favorite of mine, it's fun and playful, and art or fic about a man-about-town werewolf would be an utter blast.
FANDOM: The Man From U.N.C.L.E. (2015)
Characters: Napoleon Solo (MUNCLE 2015) Illya Kuryakin (MUNCLE 2015) Gaby Teller (MUNCLE 2015) Alexander Waverly (MUNCLE 2015)
DNW: Modern AU (Fantasy, magic, or other setting AUs are fine, but not "generic modern era", please.)
I love my disaster bisexual spies and their snarky boss. I ship Napoleon/Illya/Gaby primarily, as well as every pairing subset of the OT3, and I also ship each of them with Waverly, if you're interested. I would also absolutely be game for fic focused on any one of them or gen team fic!
Treat fodder: Solo cooking for the others, Illya offering his couture opinions on Napoleon's suits and/or Gaby's outfits, Gaby enjoying her freedom and ability to travel outside of East Berlin, Waverly pulling his team's fat out of the fryer in the nick of time. All of them as werewolves, or vampires, or magic users, or mix and match! (I received some fun little fics in this vein last year that I loved, but I'm always game for more.)
Trick fodder: A mission gone wrong (I love whump, torture, and hurt/comfort), the team separated or enemies due to circumstances beyond their control, an uncomfortable undercover situation (maybe they have to fight or even pretend to betray one another), making hard decisions that result in losses (perhaps necessary, but hard).
FANDOM: The Witcher (TV)
Characters: Triss Merigold (The Witcher TV), Yennefer of Vengerberg (The Witcher TV), Jaskier (The Witcher TV), Geralt of Rivia (The Witcher TV), Renfri (The Witcher TV), Ciri (The Witcher TV)
I really enjoyed this show, far more than I expected, and I'm looking forward to S2. I'm not familiar with the books or game, but if you want to incorporate worldbuilding or plot for them (I'm fairly thoroughly spoiled for major plot points) go ahead!
I ship...well, pretty much anything and everything. Triss/Yennefer, Geralt/Yennefer, Geralt/Jaskier, Geralt/Yennefer/Jaskier, Geralt/Renfri. Ciri & Geralt, and Ciri & Any Other Solid Parental or Fun Uncle or Vodka Aunt figure.
In the spirit of the season, something focusing on a harvest festival would be fun - as would particularly spooky or undead monsters. Post-S1 speculation is always welcome for any character. Character studies, slice of life, or moments of levity or despair.
Triss: What's her relationship with other sorceresses like? What does she do after Sodden Hill?
Yennefer: Treat - As a change of pace, Yen is happy about something, perhaps surprised by a simple pleasure. Trick - Yen considers her own mortality, or wrestles with jealousy.
Jaskier: Treat - A young Jaskier makes his name as a bard writing about Geralt - how does that change his fortunes or experiences? Trick - As always, the argument in ep 6 leaves a lot of room for exploring the angst of a troubled relationship with Geralt, and maybe some regrets on his part.
Geralt: Treat - Reluctantly enjoying doing something fun with Ciri. (Dad!Geralt having a heart of solid marshmallow for his child surprise.) Trick - Geralt is haunted (literally or metaphorically, your call) by an old decision.
Renfri: AU where she gets to murder Stregobor, or becomes a different sort of power than the one prophesized for her.
Ciri: Getting to be a child again for 5 seconds. Meeting any of Geralt's friends for the first time and latching on to a weird found family.
FANDOM: The Old Guard (Movie 2020)
Characters: Booker | Sebastien le Livre (TOG 2020) Nile Freeman (TOG 2020)
Somehow I came out of this film loving all the characters but most in love with tired-of-life sadsack Booker and queen of everything Nile more than the rest. I feel like as the youngest immortals, both dogged by feelings about their families that the others don't seem to have, they share something. I found it absolutely intriguing that Nile was most ready to forgive Booker for his betrayal.
Honestly, this is a new enough fandom for me that I'm not sure exactly what I want out of fic for them, only that I want it! Anything exploring Booker's history, his post-canon exile, or canon divergence that lets him stay with the team and make amends differently is good. For Nile, adjusting to immortality, or following through and making contact with her family, or trying to test her own limits would be interesting.
General Likes and Preferences
Setting tropes and AU premises I Love:
Overview: I welcome works of any rating, with any AO3 content warning. I do not have general DNWs, but for some fandoms I have some specific preferences, detailed below. At the end of the letter is my Big List Of Stuff I Like--feel free to take your inspiration from that rather than the fandom-specific prompts.
Additionally, I really love all things Halloween/Autumn. The changing of the seasons, the harvest, spooky stuff, supernatural, magic, and monsters. Feel free to embrace the season in any response to my prompts!
I'm opting in to the Battle of the Bands challenge, and while I've requested 3 specific songs, go ahead and feel free to draw on whatever music inspires you from the tagset.
FANDOM: Africa - Toto (Song)
Last year I prompted this song and received two great fics riffing off the viral twitter post that suggested the song lyrics reference a lovesick werewolf. (Link here: https://twitter.com/hradzka/status/954767458769883136)
Feel free to take whatever inspiration in word or art you might from this song, however! The werewolf angle is delightful, but so would be a more general love story (what's the "a lot" that could "take me away from you"?), or something about magic (Why are we blessing the rains down in Africa?)
FANDOM: Work Song - Hozier (Music Video)
I love Hozier generally and this song is one of my favorites. I'm game for a take on the lyrics directly (themes of death and rebirth, redemption, whump or hurt/comfort, pining all suggest themselves rather strongly-like, that's good shit!) or the video's visuals of deeply intimate, incredibly hot dancing. (The redheaded dancer biting their partner's jaw at about 0.58 always makes me feel Some Kind Of Way when I watch the video, whew.)
FANDOM: Werewolves of London - Warren Zevon (Song)
I love Werewolves, and I tend to prefer them as a mix of urbane and feral, just like this song plays with. It's always been a favorite of mine, it's fun and playful, and art or fic about a man-about-town werewolf would be an utter blast.
FANDOM: The Man From U.N.C.L.E. (2015)
Characters: Napoleon Solo (MUNCLE 2015) Illya Kuryakin (MUNCLE 2015) Gaby Teller (MUNCLE 2015) Alexander Waverly (MUNCLE 2015)
DNW: Modern AU (Fantasy, magic, or other setting AUs are fine, but not "generic modern era", please.)
I love my disaster bisexual spies and their snarky boss. I ship Napoleon/Illya/Gaby primarily, as well as every pairing subset of the OT3, and I also ship each of them with Waverly, if you're interested. I would also absolutely be game for fic focused on any one of them or gen team fic!
Treat fodder: Solo cooking for the others, Illya offering his couture opinions on Napoleon's suits and/or Gaby's outfits, Gaby enjoying her freedom and ability to travel outside of East Berlin, Waverly pulling his team's fat out of the fryer in the nick of time. All of them as werewolves, or vampires, or magic users, or mix and match! (I received some fun little fics in this vein last year that I loved, but I'm always game for more.)
Trick fodder: A mission gone wrong (I love whump, torture, and hurt/comfort), the team separated or enemies due to circumstances beyond their control, an uncomfortable undercover situation (maybe they have to fight or even pretend to betray one another), making hard decisions that result in losses (perhaps necessary, but hard).
FANDOM: The Witcher (TV)
Characters: Triss Merigold (The Witcher TV), Yennefer of Vengerberg (The Witcher TV), Jaskier (The Witcher TV), Geralt of Rivia (The Witcher TV), Renfri (The Witcher TV), Ciri (The Witcher TV)
I really enjoyed this show, far more than I expected, and I'm looking forward to S2. I'm not familiar with the books or game, but if you want to incorporate worldbuilding or plot for them (I'm fairly thoroughly spoiled for major plot points) go ahead!
I ship...well, pretty much anything and everything. Triss/Yennefer, Geralt/Yennefer, Geralt/Jaskier, Geralt/Yennefer/Jaskier, Geralt/Renfri. Ciri & Geralt, and Ciri & Any Other Solid Parental or Fun Uncle or Vodka Aunt figure.
In the spirit of the season, something focusing on a harvest festival would be fun - as would particularly spooky or undead monsters. Post-S1 speculation is always welcome for any character. Character studies, slice of life, or moments of levity or despair.
Triss: What's her relationship with other sorceresses like? What does she do after Sodden Hill?
Yennefer: Treat - As a change of pace, Yen is happy about something, perhaps surprised by a simple pleasure. Trick - Yen considers her own mortality, or wrestles with jealousy.
Jaskier: Treat - A young Jaskier makes his name as a bard writing about Geralt - how does that change his fortunes or experiences? Trick - As always, the argument in ep 6 leaves a lot of room for exploring the angst of a troubled relationship with Geralt, and maybe some regrets on his part.
Geralt: Treat - Reluctantly enjoying doing something fun with Ciri. (Dad!Geralt having a heart of solid marshmallow for his child surprise.) Trick - Geralt is haunted (literally or metaphorically, your call) by an old decision.
Renfri: AU where she gets to murder Stregobor, or becomes a different sort of power than the one prophesized for her.
Ciri: Getting to be a child again for 5 seconds. Meeting any of Geralt's friends for the first time and latching on to a weird found family.
FANDOM: The Old Guard (Movie 2020)
Characters: Booker | Sebastien le Livre (TOG 2020) Nile Freeman (TOG 2020)
Somehow I came out of this film loving all the characters but most in love with tired-of-life sadsack Booker and queen of everything Nile more than the rest. I feel like as the youngest immortals, both dogged by feelings about their families that the others don't seem to have, they share something. I found it absolutely intriguing that Nile was most ready to forgive Booker for his betrayal.
Honestly, this is a new enough fandom for me that I'm not sure exactly what I want out of fic for them, only that I want it! Anything exploring Booker's history, his post-canon exile, or canon divergence that lets him stay with the team and make amends differently is good. For Nile, adjusting to immortality, or following through and making contact with her family, or trying to test her own limits would be interesting.
General Likes and Preferences
Setting tropes and AU premises I Love:
- canon divergence/"what if" AUs - I love butterfly effect, "change one thing" AUs especially!
- soulmates and soul bonds - and soulmate subversion, and soulmates played dark or strange - feel free to play it straight but I also love characters choosing someone(s) other than a soulmate, or the notion of soulmates being as much trouble as they are a joy. The worldbuilding would be wild in a world where soulmates are A Thing - I love exploring the effects of that, and the ambiguous bits of such an AU.
- battle couples/trios - ties neatly into competency kink and loyalty kink sexual likes, but non-sexual love and romance among folks who fight together is A+ also
- magical aus (give non-magical characters/canons magic - telepathy, mind magic, arcane magic, spellcasting. Though many of the canons I tend to like have magic of some kind, feel free to go on a worldbuilding dive into what any of my non-magical canon requests might look like if magic was real.)
- alternate magical system AUs (keep the canon magic, but make it different somehow)
- time loops/Groundhog Day premise (via magic or weird science or no explanation whatsoever)
- undercover antics and/or identity porn - undercover fake married, partners or lovers undercover as enemies, or characters having overlapping complex arrangements of fake identities are all good
- future fic and "next gen" fic (about children of canonical characters as older teens or adults)
- ghosts, communicating with the dead (via magic or weird science)
- enemies to lovers
- werewolves and other were-creatures/animal shapeshifters - tying into magical AUs, I like "everyone's a werewolf" or some kind of magical critter AUs, or just one particular character being "other"
- sharing a bed (sexual, romantic, or platonic) - enforced intimacy!
- huddling for warmth - more enforced intimacy!
- trapped in a cabin in a blizzard - are you seeing the trend about enforced intimacy?!
- Hurt/Comfort - see the whole section on this trope below
The thing I really like the most about h/c and whump is the intimacy of it all. The deeply intimate nature of caring for another person in h/c, and/or the headspace/emotional rollercoaster of pain the whumped character goes through are absolutely my personal catnip.
Hurt and Whump Preferences:
- torture - I'm generally interested in the emotions and sensory elements more than the gore here. Torture that leads to chronic injury/pain, mild-to-moderate debilitation over time or permanently, or psychological trauma are the sorts of things I want to see for this kind of hurt. I'm less interested in super-severe injury, amputation, or mindbreak-levels of torture.
- sleep deprivation/exhaustion
- noble self-sacrifice - risking harm or death (by performing a noble last stand, or being a distraction, or playing the honeypot, or offering yourself up for torture/assault) to spare others punishment or to allow them to escape
- drugging
- hallucinations
- characters forced to watch others being hurt
Comfort Preferences:
- hair touching/running fingers through hair
- helping others with personal care - hair washing, injury tending, etc
- small acts of intimacy/care - preparing food, standing guard while the hurt one sleeps, etc
- sex (with reasonable consideration for the seriousness of the hurt!)
Sex tropes I Love:
- dubcon - specifically in situations when both/all parties are consenting under duress due to outside forces, such as "sex pollen", "bad guys made them do it", or character(s) consenting to spare another character from having to do so. This can lead to a positive outcome - admitting feelings, strengthening a relationship after such a difficult experience - or a negative outcome - angst, the end of a relationship/partnership, tragedy - or something ambiguous.
- bondage - particularly of stoic or restrained characters getting tied up and absolutely wrecked
- first time sex - both first time sex ever or first time performing a particular sex act for a character if there's a reasonable characterization of said character as inexperienced, and also first time sex with a particular partner - I tend to prefer getting together over established relationship unless otherwise requested
- sex magic
- pegging (both f/m and f/f)
- praise kink - particularly of stoic and/or damaged characters unused to and undone by praise
- casual physical intimacy between partners - falling asleep on partner's shoulder, cuddling, spooning, etc., especially of characters not used to casual physical intimacy becoming comfortable with it - this could include both characters who have lots of casual sex but not much casual cuddling, or characters who are touch starved or anything in between
- begging during sex ("please!")
- sex as an emotional outlet in the wake of tragedy or grief - friends grieving the loss of a mutual friend or loved one or getting over a shared bad experience
- Dominance/submission (if it's f/m I generally prefer the female character be dominant unless otherwise requested)
- sex between platonic friends
- competence kink
- threesomes
- loyalty kink
