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Sep. 12th, 2018 09:50 pm
trick or treat 2018
Hello friend, I am so excited to see what you will write for me! If you want inspiration beyond this, I am also @kimaracretak on tumblr (where I am only intermittently active but may have some thoughts on some of these canons/ships), 8tracks and playmoss (for #aesthetic takes on some of these canons/ships), and AO3, where I have a small but reflective of things I like collection of bookmarks.
I've by and large chosen canons I love for their worldbuilding and mytharcs as well as their characters and relationships, and I am easy to please as long as you stay away from my DNWs (both general and canon-specific), so don't feel like you Have to write any of my specific prompts. Don't read anything into relative lengths of sections, I am equally happy to get something for anything in this letter! Some of these prompts are reused from old letters, and if you have written them for me before, rest assured that I loved your fic, I am simply greedy and would like to see every possible take on my favourite scenarios.
If you are writing shipfic, I like everything from pre-ship feelings navigation to PWP, so for / relationships don't worry about whether they're shippy 'enough'. I don't need a lot of romance in my ships, sex for power, manipulation, or just between friends who want to have fun is also great. Please no unrequested ships unless specifically allowed for, but feel free to combine any compatible ones from my requested ones.
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Things what I like, smut edition;
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Aniara - Harry Martinson
General: The full text in English translation is here, for reference or if you're just curious. I love that it's a poem about beauty in emptiness, about connection and perception and ways to make the void meaningful. If you are poetry-writing-inclined I would absolutely die of delight to get an epic-or-otherwise poem in Martinson's style in response to this request, but it's super not a requirement so don't worry if you're not. If you want to bring in things from pre-existing adaptations, I am most familiar with Seventh Wonder's 'The Great Escape' (youtube, lyrics) and Andreas Kleerup's Aniara which is on Spotify. I lowkey ship Isagel/The Blind Poetess and Isagel/f!narrator, but gen is also great. In the most optional of optional lands, if you feel like extra Scandi-lit nerdery and looking for further reading, Eric O. Johannesson's 'Aniara: Poetry and the Poet in the Modern World' [google drive link] has more on Martinson's life and other poetry.
( Isagel, The Mima, The Blind Poetess )
Goblin Market - Christina Rossetti
General: The poem is relatively short and here for easy reference, or if you are feeling unenthused about the request of mine you initially matched on and want to do something different. I love the way the poem plays with obsession and adoration and change and how people are dragged into and out of the weird spaces between life and death. I have a slight preference for gen here, but I'm open to any ships between the requested characters or requested character/OFC ships. I am also 100% here for an IN SPACE AU for this poem, so if you too would like a goblin market IN SPACE feel free to run with that! Any of the prompts in the Goblin Market section of my Darkest Night letter this year are fair game, including the setting-change AU ones. I am fine with permadeath of any of the requested characters here.
Fandom-specific DNW: Explicit sex.
( Jeanie, Lizzie, Laura )
General: Witchy murderforest of my whole entire heart and all the women and girls it loves, ahhhh. This show has so many beautiful things to say about love and care and loss and obsession and it's eaten me as surely as Silverhojd has eaten Josefine. Tell me stories about witches and women and love and life and forests and I will be so, so happy. I would be totally happy with gen, but I ship Eva/Jeanette, Eva/Klara, Esme/Linus, and Esme/Maja, if you want to write something shippy. I also headcanon Linus as nonbinary, but don't feel totally beholden to that.
Fandom-specific DNW: Eva/Bahar, Bahar being married to a man, romance for the kids (Ida, Josefine, Kalem).
( Bahar, Esmeralda, Klara, Ylva, Eva, Ida )
General: This show has a thesis of 'why be a girl when you could be an eldritch horror instead' because it loves me, it really loves me. I love the bonds and the backstabbing and the love-through-horror, I love the changeling girls and the amount of respect it gives stories of self-creation. Any of the prompts in the PaHR section of my Darkest Night letter this year are fair game, including setting-change AUs (if you don't feel like clicking through: I would especially love vampire, Sith Academy, and Changeling: the Lost AUs). I'm not requesting Irma or Marion because I'm less interested in them on their own, but feel free to add them in. I ship ... honestly any combination of Hester, Dianne, Miranda, Marion, Irma, and Greta (in varying degrees of fucked-up-ness -- this fandom is a trick request so I'm not really looking for fluff) but am totally happy with genfic. Deathfic for Hester and Sara is fine (though I encourage came-back-wrong scenarios!), but I DNW deathfic for Dianne and Miranda. Ambiguous/show-consistent 'explanations' for what happened at the Rock don't count as deathfic.
( Hester, Dianne, Miranda, Sara )
General: I love the lush expansiveness of Tolkien's work, the history and the care and the sheer amount of space characters are allowed to take up and that we are able to fill in. I am up for any and all femslash with the requested female characters (including the requested characters shipped with OFCs or textual ghosts); I am also up for Melian/Thingol. I requested tricks for this fandom, but don't feel that your fic has to be all doom and gloom - moments of levity, happy couples dealing with supernatural things (happy couples murdering other things :D) are also excellent!
( Melian, Thuringwethil, Haleth of the Haladin, The Mewlips )
Southern Reach Trilogy - Jeff VanderMeer
General: Yoooo these books. I love them as a changeling story, I love them as a story of nature-as-entity, I love them as a story of how desolation is never bleak and usually alive. I would prefer you use the characters' professions to describe them (eg "the psychologist" ) in narration, rather than their names. I am fine with canon-consistent 'being eaten by Area X' for either of the requested characters but DNW them to die in any other way. I requested only tricks for this fandom as it by nature is playing with some pretty dark questions about embodiment and environmental catastrophes and death, but there's plenty of potential for light and joy - there is plenty of light and joy for both the requested characters as they give themselves back over to Area X, so don't be afraid to lean into that. I've read all three books and my prompts do get kinda spoilery, but if you've only read Annihilation, I welcome fic based only off that.
Fandom-specific DNW: Movie canon.
( The Biologist, The Psychologist )
General: Lyrics, including character dialogue tags, can be found here, full album (about an hour and a half long) song-by-song on youtube here. My only ship from the album is The Counselor/The Biologist (based mostly off their duet in 'All That Was'), I would prefer gen otherwise. Feel free to bring in any of the non-requested characters as supporting characters in any fic (if you bring in The President, consider Magali Luyten's Ayreon Universe performance as absolute permission for a Rule 63'd president). Fic doesn't have to be consistent with the rest of the Ayreon universe beyond this album but if you want to tie in other elements, go for it - I'm familiar with everything. My general apocalypse/post-apocalpyse DNW is, obviously, lifted for this fandom.
( The Biologist, The Counselor, The Opposition Leader, The Preacher )
Star Wars Legends: The Old Republic
General: I'm not actually requesting the Inquisitor, because Inquisitors vary so widely, but if you want to include a female Inquisitor in any fic about the requested characters, feel free! I play a female cyborg Sith Inquisitor named Nevrasa; you can read more about her here if you want to write about her specifically, or you can use a generic inquisitor/your own/etc, I'm not picky and love meeting other peoples' PCs (and Nevrasa suffers a bit from 'first OC in this fandom' syndrome and isn't that fleshed out of a character).
Fandom-specifc DNW: Male Inquisitor.
( Ragate, Zash )
General: I am happy for any book details to be used for extra worldbuilding, but where the books and games differ go with the games. I follow the Scoia'tael path in Witcher 1 and Iorveth's in Witcher 2 and ask that you take the events of those paths as canon for your fic's worldstate. I ship just about any femslash as well as Geralt/Yen, Geralt/Yen/Triss, Geralt/Iorveth, and Geralt/Yaevinn.
Fandom-specific DNW: Dandelion, sorceress-bashing, the events of non-Scoia'tael paths.
( Sabrina, Ida, Yaevinn, Sheala, Saskia, Philippa )
I've by and large chosen canons I love for their worldbuilding and mytharcs as well as their characters and relationships, and I am easy to please as long as you stay away from my DNWs (both general and canon-specific), so don't feel like you Have to write any of my specific prompts. Don't read anything into relative lengths of sections, I am equally happy to get something for anything in this letter! Some of these prompts are reused from old letters, and if you have written them for me before, rest assured that I loved your fic, I am simply greedy and would like to see every possible take on my favourite scenarios.
If you are writing shipfic, I like everything from pre-ship feelings navigation to PWP, so for / relationships don't worry about whether they're shippy 'enough'. I don't need a lot of romance in my ships, sex for power, manipulation, or just between friends who want to have fun is also great. Please no unrequested ships unless specifically allowed for, but feel free to combine any compatible ones from my requested ones.
Things what I like;
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Things what I like, smut edition;
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Things what I do not want;
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Aniara - Harry Martinson
General: The full text in English translation is here, for reference or if you're just curious. I love that it's a poem about beauty in emptiness, about connection and perception and ways to make the void meaningful. If you are poetry-writing-inclined I would absolutely die of delight to get an epic-or-otherwise poem in Martinson's style in response to this request, but it's super not a requirement so don't worry if you're not. If you want to bring in things from pre-existing adaptations, I am most familiar with Seventh Wonder's 'The Great Escape' (youtube, lyrics) and Andreas Kleerup's Aniara which is on Spotify. I lowkey ship Isagel/The Blind Poetess and Isagel/f!narrator, but gen is also great. In the most optional of optional lands, if you feel like extra Scandi-lit nerdery and looking for further reading, Eric O. Johannesson's 'Aniara: Poetry and the Poet in the Modern World' [google drive link] has more on Martinson's life and other poetry.
( Isagel, The Mima, The Blind Poetess )
Goblin Market - Christina Rossetti
General: The poem is relatively short and here for easy reference, or if you are feeling unenthused about the request of mine you initially matched on and want to do something different. I love the way the poem plays with obsession and adoration and change and how people are dragged into and out of the weird spaces between life and death. I have a slight preference for gen here, but I'm open to any ships between the requested characters or requested character/OFC ships. I am also 100% here for an IN SPACE AU for this poem, so if you too would like a goblin market IN SPACE feel free to run with that! Any of the prompts in the Goblin Market section of my Darkest Night letter this year are fair game, including the setting-change AU ones. I am fine with permadeath of any of the requested characters here.
Fandom-specific DNW: Explicit sex.
( Jeanie, Lizzie, Laura )
Jordskott
General: Witchy murderforest of my whole entire heart and all the women and girls it loves, ahhhh. This show has so many beautiful things to say about love and care and loss and obsession and it's eaten me as surely as Silverhojd has eaten Josefine. Tell me stories about witches and women and love and life and forests and I will be so, so happy. I would be totally happy with gen, but I ship Eva/Jeanette, Eva/Klara, Esme/Linus, and Esme/Maja, if you want to write something shippy. I also headcanon Linus as nonbinary, but don't feel totally beholden to that.
Fandom-specific DNW: Eva/Bahar, Bahar being married to a man, romance for the kids (Ida, Josefine, Kalem).
( Bahar, Esmeralda, Klara, Ylva, Eva, Ida )
Picnic at Hanging Rock (TV 2018)
General: This show has a thesis of 'why be a girl when you could be an eldritch horror instead' because it loves me, it really loves me. I love the bonds and the backstabbing and the love-through-horror, I love the changeling girls and the amount of respect it gives stories of self-creation. Any of the prompts in the PaHR section of my Darkest Night letter this year are fair game, including setting-change AUs (if you don't feel like clicking through: I would especially love vampire, Sith Academy, and Changeling: the Lost AUs). I'm not requesting Irma or Marion because I'm less interested in them on their own, but feel free to add them in. I ship ... honestly any combination of Hester, Dianne, Miranda, Marion, Irma, and Greta (in varying degrees of fucked-up-ness -- this fandom is a trick request so I'm not really looking for fluff) but am totally happy with genfic. Deathfic for Hester and Sara is fine (though I encourage came-back-wrong scenarios!), but I DNW deathfic for Dianne and Miranda. Ambiguous/show-consistent 'explanations' for what happened at the Rock don't count as deathfic.
( Hester, Dianne, Miranda, Sara )
The Silmarillion & Other Histories of Middle-Earth
General: I love the lush expansiveness of Tolkien's work, the history and the care and the sheer amount of space characters are allowed to take up and that we are able to fill in. I am up for any and all femslash with the requested female characters (including the requested characters shipped with OFCs or textual ghosts); I am also up for Melian/Thingol. I requested tricks for this fandom, but don't feel that your fic has to be all doom and gloom - moments of levity, happy couples dealing with supernatural things (happy couples murdering other things :D) are also excellent!
( Melian, Thuringwethil, Haleth of the Haladin, The Mewlips )
Southern Reach Trilogy - Jeff VanderMeer
General: Yoooo these books. I love them as a changeling story, I love them as a story of nature-as-entity, I love them as a story of how desolation is never bleak and usually alive. I would prefer you use the characters' professions to describe them (eg "the psychologist" ) in narration, rather than their names. I am fine with canon-consistent 'being eaten by Area X' for either of the requested characters but DNW them to die in any other way. I requested only tricks for this fandom as it by nature is playing with some pretty dark questions about embodiment and environmental catastrophes and death, but there's plenty of potential for light and joy - there is plenty of light and joy for both the requested characters as they give themselves back over to Area X, so don't be afraid to lean into that. I've read all three books and my prompts do get kinda spoilery, but if you've only read Annihilation, I welcome fic based only off that.
Fandom-specific DNW: Movie canon.
( The Biologist, The Psychologist )
The Source (Ayreon Album)
General: Lyrics, including character dialogue tags, can be found here, full album (about an hour and a half long) song-by-song on youtube here. My only ship from the album is The Counselor/The Biologist (based mostly off their duet in 'All That Was'), I would prefer gen otherwise. Feel free to bring in any of the non-requested characters as supporting characters in any fic (if you bring in The President, consider Magali Luyten's Ayreon Universe performance as absolute permission for a Rule 63'd president). Fic doesn't have to be consistent with the rest of the Ayreon universe beyond this album but if you want to tie in other elements, go for it - I'm familiar with everything. My general apocalypse/post-apocalpyse DNW is, obviously, lifted for this fandom.
( The Biologist, The Counselor, The Opposition Leader, The Preacher )
Star Wars Legends: The Old Republic
General: I'm not actually requesting the Inquisitor, because Inquisitors vary so widely, but if you want to include a female Inquisitor in any fic about the requested characters, feel free! I play a female cyborg Sith Inquisitor named Nevrasa; you can read more about her here if you want to write about her specifically, or you can use a generic inquisitor/your own/etc, I'm not picky and love meeting other peoples' PCs (and Nevrasa suffers a bit from 'first OC in this fandom' syndrome and isn't that fleshed out of a character).
Fandom-specifc DNW: Male Inquisitor.
( Ragate, Zash )
The Witcher
General: I am happy for any book details to be used for extra worldbuilding, but where the books and games differ go with the games. I follow the Scoia'tael path in Witcher 1 and Iorveth's in Witcher 2 and ask that you take the events of those paths as canon for your fic's worldstate. I ship just about any femslash as well as Geralt/Yen, Geralt/Yen/Triss, Geralt/Iorveth, and Geralt/Yaevinn.
Fandom-specific DNW: Dandelion, sorceress-bashing, the events of non-Scoia'tael paths.
( Sabrina, Ida, Yaevinn, Sheala, Saskia, Philippa )