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summer of horror 2023
Soon, sorry! Fandoms are tagged for previous letters in the meantime.
Hello friend, it is time for horror and I am so excited to see what you will write for me! If you want inspiration beyond this letter I am also![[archiveofourown.org profile]](https://p.dreamwidth.org/b164c54b26e4/-/archiveofourown.org/favicon.ico)
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I love these canons for the 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, 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. Though I've loads of specific dark- & smut-focussed likes, don't feel obliged to pull from those lists. That being said, I'm extremely not into plotless/conflictless fluff, and would prefer you avoid it.
I love everything from short introspection bits to long plotty missionfic to sex scenes as ways to explore character/setting/worldbuilding. I'm here for the horror and while I'm generally open to any f/f in the background or foreground of fics and have some shippy prompts, I'm not really expecting it here! Where it is prompted for, I don't need a lot of romance in my ships: sex for power, manipulation, on the weird platonic-romantic-maybe-I-just-want-to-be-you line, or between friends who want to have fun is great.
General: CtL is the tabletop game of my whole entire heart and I just want to live in that world a bit more! I have a slight preference for stories set in Arcadia or the Hedge, but absolutely will not say no to Earth-set ones. Sourcebook-wise, I am most familiar with Dancers in the Dusk, Winter Masques, and Night Horrors. I especially love oneiromancy and am super weak for stories that contrast the deep sense of place/setting with changelings' very tenuous sense of self. I'm always here for body horror, but for this canon especially - when in doubt, lovingly cut someone's eyes out and replace them with flowers and/or gems. Adhere as strictly or loosely to game mechanics as feels right for your story.
Requested Ships/Characters:
General: Codependent teenage best friends AND not-not sexual obsession with #unavailable older women in positions of authority, I am immensely catered to. I'd love something that leans into the fever-dream horror of consumption of it all. All the obsession, all the clinical-sensual interest in what bodies can do, all the levels of genuinely caring (or genuinely hateful!) mentorship that ultimately can't do anything but fail. I love ladies and noir and glitter and murder, you can't disappoint me! For this request, I'd love something that picks up on the dark inherent in the book and magnifies it, especially including making my requested faves the cause of the horror (e.g. Addy/Beth on a serial killing spree). I'm open to any femslash ships between girls in the squad, as well as Addy/Colette and Beth/Colette. I've seen and enjoyed the show, and am open to fusions of book and show canon if you like. Bonus musical inspiration: Lana Del Rey - She's not Me, The Amazing Devil - Battle Cries.
Requested Ships/Characters:
Body Horror: There's a lot of body horror inherent to cheerleading, in the book, from the eating disorders to the injuries to the constant threat of falling during a stunt and snapping your neck. So something that leans into that - the transformation and the pain of transformation, manipulating each other's broken bones to turn them into something Else. I also enjoy that this is a type of horror that works well with other requested types - killer horror that leans into guro, paranormal (vampire) horror that lingers over descriptions of turning/feeding, gothic horror with girls who pass into/out of ghostliness in ways that shouldn't be possible.
Cosmic Horror: The girls discover something awful when stargazing at Lanvers. Colette comes to Sutton Grove and finds it's basically a cheerleader-led cult and has to decide whether to join them or destroy them (or maybe Beth or Addy makes that choice for her). Colette comes to Sutton Grove to start a cheerleader cult to some elder god (and Beth and Addy disagree over whether to join her or take over from her).
Folk Horror: Sure, the dying industrial town isn't quite as isolated as some of the traditional folk horror settings — but there's no reason you can't isolate them even further in fic! Or lean into the girls as the isolated community (cheerleading squad as agent of horror!), set apart from everyone else in town. Psychogeography and Sutton Grove: something about the contrast between the industrial ruins and places like Lanvers and the gorge. Something about cheerleading legends/folklore — a girl, maybe the Flyer having to be sacrificed to ensure success at States? The Sutton Grove town leaders want Colette to save the town via taking the squad to championships, but the girls have darker plans for how to use Colette. A straightforward Blood on Satan's Claw AU would delight me.
Killer Horror: Serial killer AUs!! Beth and Addy as killers being mentored by Colette, Beth murdering her way through the Marines, the girls finding out about Colette's past as a killer, Addy or Colette turning on the squad.
Paranormal Horror: GHOSTS! Beth dies after her jump from the pyramid and haunts Addy and/or Colette. The ghost of a dead cheerleader possess someone on the squad. Something about the St Reggie's girl who killed herself in the woods. Colette as a supernatural creature - I'm fond of vampires, but go wild! - especially if she's feeding on the girls/their energy in some way. Spin out the decaying industrial town setting and send the characters to explore a haunted/abandoned place in Sutton Grove.
Psychological Horror: Anything magnifying the fucked-up Beth-Addy-Colette relationships, all the manipulation and possessiveness leading to a point where they're not sure what the world outside each other looks like. Something about Beth's vaguely-prophetic dreams - does she slip further and further into them until she doubts what reality is? Changeling: The Lost was #formational for me in terms of psychological horror, so I'm thinking about a C:TL AU (Colette as a member of the Gentry and the squad as changelings she collects?), but then again, I'm always thinking about C:TL AUs, so.
Violent Horror: Love is a kind of killing and cheerleading is a type of violence! Take all the body horror stuff I loved above to the extreme - the girls literally picking each other apart to see how they work, maybe killing Emily after she breaks her leg? Or combine with killer horror, Will and Kurtz and the rest of the Marines being tortured/killed by the girls (and then they have sex in the blood of their enemies :D).
General: Oh this SHOW. 'Ghost' rewired my brain on a fundamental level when I was like 14 and ever since then I have been in this pit. Sorry not sorry. Will never recommend this show to people but I love and and I love you if you're in the pit with me. I'm more of an early-seasons fan, but happy for fics set at any point in the timeline! SVU has a really particular sort of mood, a cold comfort that's not quite bleak and not quite hopeful, and I'm really interested in the ways in which the female lawyers & judges negotiate their particular vocabularies of justice and care. I've seen Conviction but didn't really like it, so feel free to ignore it.
Dark Fantasy: I love magical realism and New York as a living or semiliving character.
Folk Horror: The casefic/scenes-from-a-casefic request! Olivia should investigate a cult, that's it, that's all I've got.
Paranormal Horror: Ghosts are now canon in the L&Overse, thank you Elliot Stabler of less-than-a-month ago for following Kathy's ghost into that interrogation room, and yknow ... what is a Detective Benson but a miserable pile of ghosts? Olivia should be haunted. Extremely, extremely haunted, my her mother, and Kathy, and Alex who's not dead but just as unreachable (or is she?)
Psychological Horror: I'm not necessarily gonna say 'Olivia's entire life' but honestly? Kinda Liv's entire life.
Supernatural Horror: I'm thinking vampire AU. (Vampire: The Requiem AU if you wanna get real specific). I know I'm always thinking about vampire AUs, but this is just a very good canon for it.
General: Clockwork Fairyland! What is there not to love? This weird little book snuck into my life and ruined me in the best way possible and I would love to be further ruined by any fic you write! I really, really loved the Changeling!Cathy faux-reveal and was a bit put out by its last-chapter reversal (all books can do with more weird changelings, lbr), so any Changeling!Cathy fic - or fic where she's human but grappling with the fact that she enjoyed elements of the time when she thought she was a soulless creature - is always adored. I ship all requested & combinations, and am always happy for background Cathy/Laon. here are the tags I requested for all these ships in Femslash Kink last year.
Requested Ships/Characters:
Body Horror: I would be delighted by either body horror that leans into the clockwork/steampunk side of things or body horror that leans into the animal/nature side. Living tattoos, needleplay and wound fingering during sex, anything about the creation of changelings or interactions between changelings and the people they replace.
Dark Fantasy: This is probably fairly close to canon tone - I'd love something post-canon, exploring Cathy & Laon's lives in Pivot
Folk Horror: Arcadian cults! Mab isn't the only queen, and who knows what Cathy and Laon might stumble into if they leave her city (or get kicked out?). Or just canon-but-a-different-setting - listen, I do quite love Laon, but in terms of people who would end up in a giant Wicker Man? Yeah, he'd end up there, and I'd delight in reading Cathy's attempts to save him or how she helps Mab put him there equally. Arcadian regional or urban horror: what do Changelings and Fae scare each other with? I was very much not sold on the Arcadia = Literal Hell ending, even though it's obvious why Cathy would make that assumption, but what does Arcadian history and legend feel like to the people who live there?
Gothic Horror: Is this where I mention how much I'd love creepy Fae arranged marriages? For any combination of my requested characters. Arcadia has plenty of big crumbling houses with secrets, and add in marriages and forced companionship and it's even more perfect.
Killer Horror: I LOVED the Hunt, and would love to see more of it/them - a Hunt that finds its targets already killed by something else, maybe? Ariel come back to life and looking for revenge? A killer stalking Pivot that Cathy gets caught up trying to stop?
Paranormal Horror: Ghosts! Do ghosts exist in Arcadia? Can changelings become ghosts? I would love Ariel haunting Cathy or Mab, or Mab giving Cathy and Laon a place to stay that's filled with ghosts. This would also be a really fun way to play with Kasdaye's fortune telling - things she's spoken into existence, things that don't really exist that hover at the edges of her awareness...
Psychological Horror: Well, Mab is pretty much the definition of this! Any of her manipulating Cathy or Ariel, whether that's controlling Cathy in Pivot post-canon or calling Ariel back from the mortal world pre-canon. Also, again, really great for Kasdaye and creepy dreams. Also a really great opportunity for pre-canon stuff set back in the regular world, like Ariel setting traps for Cathy to lead her to Mab or Changeling!Cathy reckoning with mortal!Cathy. Arcadia's reality is malleable - what gets changed and rewritten as Cathy negotiates life in Pivot?
Supernatural Horror: Changelings and Fae are generally considered supernatural to us, so what do Changelings and Fae consider to be supernatural? Any in-depth exploration of the way witchcraft and magic functions in Arcadia - yes, it kind of just exists, but how are people trained in its use? Also please consider fae vampires. I just love the concept. I am placing it gently into your hand and asking you to consider how horrifying and excellent it would be.
Survival Horror: Again, anything from the Hunt(s) - Ariel's perspective, maybe, or an original target in a Hunt Mab manipulates Cathy into leading. Or, Cathy stranded somewhere in Arcadia trying to make her way back to the questionable safety of Pivot or Gethsemane.
Violent Horror: I know I keep prompting for more Hunts but really truly they are good for so many types of horror!
Hello friend, it is time for horror and I am so excited to see what you will write for me! If you want inspiration beyond this letter I am also
I love these canons for the 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, 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. Though I've loads of specific dark- & smut-focussed likes, don't feel obliged to pull from those lists. That being said, I'm extremely not into plotless/conflictless fluff, and would prefer you avoid it.
I love everything from short introspection bits to long plotty missionfic to sex scenes as ways to explore character/setting/worldbuilding. I'm here for the horror and while I'm generally open to any f/f in the background or foreground of fics and have some shippy prompts, I'm not really expecting it here! Where it is prompted for, I don't need a lot of romance in my ships: sex for power, manipulation, on the weird platonic-romantic-maybe-I-just-want-to-be-you line, or between friends who want to have fun is great.
- Arranged marriages, marriages of convenience, married by a technicality
- Canon-divergent/what-if AUs, Vampire: The Requiem, Changeling: The Lost, Scandinoir, Morrowind, and Star Wars Sith AUs
- Conflicted loyalties, moral ambiguity, hero/villain and villain/villain relationships, 'I am the only one allowed to hurt you' hero/villain relationships
- Conversations in mundane liminal spaces, conversations in liminal spaces on the border between one world and another
- Darkfic
- Femslash and female friendship in both the foreground and the background
- Flirting, domesticity, sensuality, friends-and-lovers
- Mentorship and loyalty dynamics, including ladies' suicidal world-saving or world-breaking devotion to other ladies, #unavailable older women in positions of authority
- Nature and cities and houses and spacecraft as characters (especially when they would like to eat you because they love you), architectural horror
- Vampires, magic, witchcraft, rituals, eldritch things, fey things, eerie things, cosmic horrors
- Feelings about embodiment and iconography, body horror (especially flowers growing out of people's bodies)
- Epistolary fics, IF, poems for poetry canons, song lyrics for song/album canons
- First- and second-person pov, unreliable narrators
- Politics, worldbuilding
- Philosophical, legal, and academic debates
- Relationships negotiated around characters' different vocabularies of trust and care
- 'I hate you I love you I would like to wear your skin as a sign of my devotion' types of relationships
- 'Look what I can make you do to me' kinds of emotional manipulation in relationships
- 'You don't get to save me but you will kill me' types of relationships, especially when the killing doesn't actually happen and they both have to live with that
- Getting back together after messy breakups
- Reunions with former lovers in general, no matter what they look like - casual/platonic over coffee, ill-advised one-night stands, etc
- Desire, women who aren't afraid of desire, women who lean too far into desire, women who desire to kill and eat their gods
- Porn as character work.
- Time loops with both characters trapped, time loops while one character is trapped and the other is there to help or hinder but can leave whenever they want.
- Accidental apotheosis, non-consensual apotheosis
- Arousal from killing, sex in the blood of their enemies
- Blood magic, blood kink, blood rituals, blood as art medium
- Body horror
- Conflicted loyalties, abuse of loyalties, loyalty leading people into really bad decisionmaking
- Died and came back wrong, died multiple times and comes back wronger each time
- Doomed ships, ghost ships, ships that should be abandoned but aren't, cursed ships (spaceships/airships/sailing ships all good!)
- Eerily pristine abandoned places, ruined castles/fortresses/villages, other eldritch places
- Flowers growing out of people's bodies, flowers growing out of people's empty eye sockets
- Folk horror
- Ghosts
- Human sacrifice, ritual scarification, what happens when sacrifices to higher powers aren't accepted
- Identity Issues, especially those stemming from close bonds with another person
- In-universe regional horror, myths, (urban) legends, and folklore
- Killing and eating your gods as a form of worship
- Memory loss
- Nature that wants to crawl inside you and never come out, nature that wants to eat you, sentient malevolent nature
- Necromancy, the unpleasant aftereffects/costs of necromancy
- Non-fatal and oddly romantic vivisection
- Not recognising your own reflection
- One character dressing another up to die
- Oneiromancy, dreamsharing, dreams that bleed into reality, cursed dreams, prophetic dreams
- Repeatedly killed and resurrected
- Ritual gone wrong
- 'That's not Character A (oh no)'
- 'There's something dangerous about the boredom of teenage girls' trope
- Unhealthy Coping Mechanisms
- Unintended consequences of having your future told
- Bathing, washing, bath/shower sex
- Biting, marking
- Bloodplay, knifeplay, wax play, edgeplay, edgeplay to the edge of death
- Bondage, shibari/kinbaku, suspension, honour bondage, blindfolds, gags, D/s dynamics (though not 24/7 bdsm lifestyle setups)
- Consent play
- Dressing or undressing each other
- First time with each other
- Fucked with the hilt of a weapon/barrel of a gun
- Hair braiding, hair pulling
- Jewellery and clothes kink
- Mirror sex, identity porn
- Mutual masturbation
- Needleplay, sewing pretty patterns into people's skin, sewing a partner to the bed
- One person in a threesome directing the other two and getting off watching them
- One person sitting between their partner's legs/in their partner's lap and getting fingered
- One person trying to read, their partner getting more and more distracting until they put their book away & then they fuck
- Oral sex
- Overstimulation
- Painplay, manipulating broken bones, wound fingering
- Praise kink, loyalty kink, competency kink
- Semi-public sex (especially under-desk cunnilingus), having to stay quiet
- Sex for manipulation/political gain/conversion to the other political-military side (success optional)
- Sex that does not fix problems but is nice anyway
- Sex that does not fix problems and in fact actively makes some problems worse
- Somnophilia
- Spanking, especially as a show of forgiveness or as penance for fucking up at work
- Temperature play
- Thigh riding, especially if the one riding her partner is wearing a skirt with her underwear pulled aside.
- Omegaverse, any type of biologically determined heats/'must fuck now' situations including sex pollen
- Apocalypse & post-apocalypse AUs (exploration of canon-typical ruins of past civilisations fine).
- Bodyswap fic, crackfic
- Breeding, pregnancy including unconventional forms like fpreg/oviposition, age-regression, ageplay
- Characters under 13 unless requested (mentions of childhood happenings are fine), de-aging
- Characters magically conjuring themselves dicks/being given dicks/giving other people dicks (sex toys like strap-ons are fine)
- Fictional police forces having the same history/current issues/social norms as real-world American police forces.
- Food in/on genitalia or used as sex toys, weight gain/stuffing kink (fantasy body horror and metaphors are fine)
- 'I am too old to be loved' angst.
- Issuefic, non-canonical trans or ace interpretations of characters unless requested, fic focussing on characters' romantic/sexual/gender identities, characters describing themselves with canon-atypical or anachronistic romantic/sexual/gender identity terms
- 'It was all a dream' / 'none of that actually happened' sort of endings (dreams as part of the story are excellent).
- Mentions of/references to Brexit (explicit Remain-won AUs welcome but not necessary, just let me pretend)
- 'Only one destined true love' AUs like soulmates or hanahaki disease, single-target sexuality where the characters have never been and will never be sexually/romantically attracted to anyone else (you don't need to explicitly reference past relationships, just no 'Now I finally know what romantic love is and I will never feel it for anyone else ever' sort of things.)
- Unrequested m/m or m/f ships, unless specified.
- Rape/noncon (dubcon is fine)
- Permanent death of female characters unless otherwise specified (ghosts fine unless otherwise specified, references to pre-canon dead female characters fine).
- Permanent amputation of body parts unless otherwise requested (limbs removed + put back together as part of body horror scenes fine, limbs being replaced with plants as part of body horror scenes fine).
- Safeword/colour checkins, extensive kink/relationship negotiation.
- Scat, watersports, emetophilia, enemas.
- Sex involving under-16s.
General: CtL is the tabletop game of my whole entire heart and I just want to live in that world a bit more! I have a slight preference for stories set in Arcadia or the Hedge, but absolutely will not say no to Earth-set ones. Sourcebook-wise, I am most familiar with Dancers in the Dusk, Winter Masques, and Night Horrors. I especially love oneiromancy and am super weak for stories that contrast the deep sense of place/setting with changelings' very tenuous sense of self. I'm always here for body horror, but for this canon especially - when in doubt, lovingly cut someone's eyes out and replace them with flowers and/or gems. Adhere as strictly or loosely to game mechanics as feels right for your story.
Requested Ships/Characters:
- Ambrosia (+ her wiki page for reference)
- Liz Malloy (+ her wiki page for reference
General: Codependent teenage best friends AND not-not sexual obsession with #unavailable older women in positions of authority, I am immensely catered to. I'd love something that leans into the fever-dream horror of consumption of it all. All the obsession, all the clinical-sensual interest in what bodies can do, all the levels of genuinely caring (or genuinely hateful!) mentorship that ultimately can't do anything but fail. I love ladies and noir and glitter and murder, you can't disappoint me! For this request, I'd love something that picks up on the dark inherent in the book and magnifies it, especially including making my requested faves the cause of the horror (e.g. Addy/Beth on a serial killing spree). I'm open to any femslash ships between girls in the squad, as well as Addy/Colette and Beth/Colette. I've seen and enjoyed the show, and am open to fusions of book and show canon if you like. Bonus musical inspiration: Lana Del Rey - She's not Me, The Amazing Devil - Battle Cries.
Requested Ships/Characters:
- Beth Cassidy & Addy Hanlon
- Colette French
Body Horror: There's a lot of body horror inherent to cheerleading, in the book, from the eating disorders to the injuries to the constant threat of falling during a stunt and snapping your neck. So something that leans into that - the transformation and the pain of transformation, manipulating each other's broken bones to turn them into something Else. I also enjoy that this is a type of horror that works well with other requested types - killer horror that leans into guro, paranormal (vampire) horror that lingers over descriptions of turning/feeding, gothic horror with girls who pass into/out of ghostliness in ways that shouldn't be possible.
Cosmic Horror: The girls discover something awful when stargazing at Lanvers. Colette comes to Sutton Grove and finds it's basically a cheerleader-led cult and has to decide whether to join them or destroy them (or maybe Beth or Addy makes that choice for her). Colette comes to Sutton Grove to start a cheerleader cult to some elder god (and Beth and Addy disagree over whether to join her or take over from her).
Folk Horror: Sure, the dying industrial town isn't quite as isolated as some of the traditional folk horror settings — but there's no reason you can't isolate them even further in fic! Or lean into the girls as the isolated community (cheerleading squad as agent of horror!), set apart from everyone else in town. Psychogeography and Sutton Grove: something about the contrast between the industrial ruins and places like Lanvers and the gorge. Something about cheerleading legends/folklore — a girl, maybe the Flyer having to be sacrificed to ensure success at States? The Sutton Grove town leaders want Colette to save the town via taking the squad to championships, but the girls have darker plans for how to use Colette. A straightforward Blood on Satan's Claw AU would delight me.
Killer Horror: Serial killer AUs!! Beth and Addy as killers being mentored by Colette, Beth murdering her way through the Marines, the girls finding out about Colette's past as a killer, Addy or Colette turning on the squad.
Paranormal Horror: GHOSTS! Beth dies after her jump from the pyramid and haunts Addy and/or Colette. The ghost of a dead cheerleader possess someone on the squad. Something about the St Reggie's girl who killed herself in the woods. Colette as a supernatural creature - I'm fond of vampires, but go wild! - especially if she's feeding on the girls/their energy in some way. Spin out the decaying industrial town setting and send the characters to explore a haunted/abandoned place in Sutton Grove.
Psychological Horror: Anything magnifying the fucked-up Beth-Addy-Colette relationships, all the manipulation and possessiveness leading to a point where they're not sure what the world outside each other looks like. Something about Beth's vaguely-prophetic dreams - does she slip further and further into them until she doubts what reality is? Changeling: The Lost was #formational for me in terms of psychological horror, so I'm thinking about a C:TL AU (Colette as a member of the Gentry and the squad as changelings she collects?), but then again, I'm always thinking about C:TL AUs, so.
Violent Horror: Love is a kind of killing and cheerleading is a type of violence! Take all the body horror stuff I loved above to the extreme - the girls literally picking each other apart to see how they work, maybe killing Emily after she breaks her leg? Or combine with killer horror, Will and Kurtz and the rest of the Marines being tortured/killed by the girls (and then they have sex in the blood of their enemies :D).
General: Oh this SHOW. 'Ghost' rewired my brain on a fundamental level when I was like 14 and ever since then I have been in this pit. Sorry not sorry. Will never recommend this show to people but I love and and I love you if you're in the pit with me. I'm more of an early-seasons fan, but happy for fics set at any point in the timeline! SVU has a really particular sort of mood, a cold comfort that's not quite bleak and not quite hopeful, and I'm really interested in the ways in which the female lawyers & judges negotiate their particular vocabularies of justice and care. I've seen Conviction but didn't really like it, so feel free to ignore it.
- Olivia Benson
- Olivia Benson & Alexandra Cabot
- Olivia Benson & Serena Benson
- Olivia Benson & Kathy Stabler
Dark Fantasy: I love magical realism and New York as a living or semiliving character.
Folk Horror: The casefic/scenes-from-a-casefic request! Olivia should investigate a cult, that's it, that's all I've got.
Paranormal Horror: Ghosts are now canon in the L&Overse, thank you Elliot Stabler of less-than-a-month ago for following Kathy's ghost into that interrogation room, and yknow ... what is a Detective Benson but a miserable pile of ghosts? Olivia should be haunted. Extremely, extremely haunted, my her mother, and Kathy, and Alex who's not dead but just as unreachable (or is she?)
Psychological Horror: I'm not necessarily gonna say 'Olivia's entire life' but honestly? Kinda Liv's entire life.
Supernatural Horror: I'm thinking vampire AU. (Vampire: The Requiem AU if you wanna get real specific). I know I'm always thinking about vampire AUs, but this is just a very good canon for it.
General: Clockwork Fairyland! What is there not to love? This weird little book snuck into my life and ruined me in the best way possible and I would love to be further ruined by any fic you write! I really, really loved the Changeling!Cathy faux-reveal and was a bit put out by its last-chapter reversal (all books can do with more weird changelings, lbr), so any Changeling!Cathy fic - or fic where she's human but grappling with the fact that she enjoyed elements of the time when she thought she was a soulless creature - is always adored. I ship all requested & combinations, and am always happy for background Cathy/Laon. here are the tags I requested for all these ships in Femslash Kink last year.
Requested Ships/Characters:
- Ariel Davenport
- Catherine Helstone & Mab | The Pale Queen
- Ariel Davenport & Mab | The Pale Queen
- Kasdaye & Mab | The Pale Queen
- Kasdaye & Catherine Helstone
- Ariel Davenport & Catherine Helstone
Body Horror: I would be delighted by either body horror that leans into the clockwork/steampunk side of things or body horror that leans into the animal/nature side. Living tattoos, needleplay and wound fingering during sex, anything about the creation of changelings or interactions between changelings and the people they replace.
Dark Fantasy: This is probably fairly close to canon tone - I'd love something post-canon, exploring Cathy & Laon's lives in Pivot
Folk Horror: Arcadian cults! Mab isn't the only queen, and who knows what Cathy and Laon might stumble into if they leave her city (or get kicked out?). Or just canon-but-a-different-setting - listen, I do quite love Laon, but in terms of people who would end up in a giant Wicker Man? Yeah, he'd end up there, and I'd delight in reading Cathy's attempts to save him or how she helps Mab put him there equally. Arcadian regional or urban horror: what do Changelings and Fae scare each other with? I was very much not sold on the Arcadia = Literal Hell ending, even though it's obvious why Cathy would make that assumption, but what does Arcadian history and legend feel like to the people who live there?
Gothic Horror: Is this where I mention how much I'd love creepy Fae arranged marriages? For any combination of my requested characters. Arcadia has plenty of big crumbling houses with secrets, and add in marriages and forced companionship and it's even more perfect.
Killer Horror: I LOVED the Hunt, and would love to see more of it/them - a Hunt that finds its targets already killed by something else, maybe? Ariel come back to life and looking for revenge? A killer stalking Pivot that Cathy gets caught up trying to stop?
Paranormal Horror: Ghosts! Do ghosts exist in Arcadia? Can changelings become ghosts? I would love Ariel haunting Cathy or Mab, or Mab giving Cathy and Laon a place to stay that's filled with ghosts. This would also be a really fun way to play with Kasdaye's fortune telling - things she's spoken into existence, things that don't really exist that hover at the edges of her awareness...
Psychological Horror: Well, Mab is pretty much the definition of this! Any of her manipulating Cathy or Ariel, whether that's controlling Cathy in Pivot post-canon or calling Ariel back from the mortal world pre-canon. Also, again, really great for Kasdaye and creepy dreams. Also a really great opportunity for pre-canon stuff set back in the regular world, like Ariel setting traps for Cathy to lead her to Mab or Changeling!Cathy reckoning with mortal!Cathy. Arcadia's reality is malleable - what gets changed and rewritten as Cathy negotiates life in Pivot?
Supernatural Horror: Changelings and Fae are generally considered supernatural to us, so what do Changelings and Fae consider to be supernatural? Any in-depth exploration of the way witchcraft and magic functions in Arcadia - yes, it kind of just exists, but how are people trained in its use? Also please consider fae vampires. I just love the concept. I am placing it gently into your hand and asking you to consider how horrifying and excellent it would be.
Survival Horror: Again, anything from the Hunt(s) - Ariel's perspective, maybe, or an original target in a Hunt Mab manipulates Cathy into leading. Or, Cathy stranded somewhere in Arcadia trying to make her way back to the questionable safety of Pivot or Gethsemane.
Violent Horror: I know I keep prompting for more Hunts but really truly they are good for so many types of horror!