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'Tis me, the arsehole who apparently only makes public posts for exchange letters and love meme threads. I'm a Leo, what can I say.

holiday love meme 2020
my thread here

in progress, see here for previous critical role requests.

Hello friend, it is time for Critical Role fic and I am so excited to see what you will write for me! If you want inspiration beyond this letter I am also kimaracretak, where I have a small but reflective-of-things-I-like set of bookmarks, and kimaracretak on 8tracks if you want #aesthetic musical inspiration.

I love this show 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 (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. A lot of my prompts are very horror-slanted, but if your muse is inclined to things less murderous, feel free! That being said, I'm extremely not into plotless/conflictless fluff or 'soft' takes on these characters/relationships, and would prefer you avoid them.

I love everything from short introspection bits to long plotty missionfic to sex scenes as ways to explore character/setting/worldbuilding, and 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.

Likes || Art Likes|| Dark Likes || Smut Likes || DNWs || General Canon Notes


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• M/M and M/F ships I am happy to see as secondary pairings: Vax/Gilmore, Vax/Allura, Vax/Kash, Keyleth/Kash, Keyleth/Kash/Vax, Keyleth/Vax/Allura, Keyleth/Vax/The Raven Queen, Keyleth/Vax/Vex, Delilah/Sylas.


• I consider the campaign guides, artbook, and anything said on Talks Machina nebulously canon at best (and I don't watch Talks) so feel free to ignore them.


• I interpret Vax's ending in Campaign 1 as 'became a weird eldritch immortal' rather than 'dead' and prefer that interpretation in fics.


• I like fics that take into account mechanical D&D limitations (e.g. characters saying they need to rest before doing any more magic) but DNW characters using the actual real-world terms (e.g. characters saying they're 'out of spell slots').


• I'm familiar with pretty much all D&D lore/sourcebooks/mechanics from 3.5e onwards, including 5e's unearthed arcana, if you want inspiration for additional worldbuilding/plotting. That being said I know and love 4E the best, and love fic that merges Matt's Exandria with 4E's Shadowfell/Feywild/Astral Sea/etc.


• Speaking of, I adore 4e's epic destinies and would love it if you incorporated relevant ones for the requested characters. Special love for World Tree Guardian!Keyleth, Master of the Eternal Hunt!Vex, and Archspell!Delilah with Finger of Death, but, yknow, go wild!


• I have loads of darkfic prompts, many worldbuilding prompts, and a slightly smaller number of marriage prompts for some of these ships in previous requests.


• I am always and forever interested in AUs where Ripley succeeded in killing King Dwendal at some point during Campaign One, and how that changes the world of Campaign Two. Let the demon gun lady kill the authoritarian monarch, what could possibly go wrong.

Anna Ripley/Delilah Briarwood/Raishan: Raishan should get to collect all the witchy ladies tbh. There's so many fascinating dimensions of trust and magic to work with here and I want to know everything about them

• The three of them working towards some kind of cure for Raishan. Between Ripley's arcane disease research and Delilah's deep familiarity with undeath, I believe in their success!


• Ripley makes a deal with Raishan instead of Orthax, and Raishan gets involved in the rule of Whitestone.


• Ripley and Delilah manage to kill King Dwendel. Maybe the Conclave takes advantage of that to attack in Rexxentrum or Zadash instead?


• Queens-of-Whitestone Anna and Delilah making friends with the dragon who lives in the forest nearby.

Anna Ripley/Keyleth: I love dark Keyleth and slowly-turning darker Keyleth and slowly made darker Keyleth and I love disinterested scientist Ripley who's all the more horrifying because she's a disinterested scientist.

• AU where Percy dies for real on Glintshore, and Keyleth hunts her down + forces her to continue Percy's legacy.


• The two of them stranded together in the Shadowfell after/during the ziggurat fight, forced to work together to find a way back. Who or what do they encounter?


• Keyleth succumbs to Whitestone's corruption and turns to fight alongside the Briarwoods and Ripley. Something lovely and grim about Keyleth's nature connection vs Ripley's more mechanical bent?

Cassandra de Rolo/Delilah Briarwood/Raishan: All the glorious fucked-up politics and queens and dragons and gods! I especially like AUs where Cassandra was supposed to be the quarry in the Grey Hunt for her family, and how that affects her relationship with the Briarwoods.

• Delilah and Cassandra as co-queens and their loyal dragon living in the Alabaster Sierras.


• Delilah sending Cassandra on a hunt to kill Raishan, and Cass betraying Delilah to team up with Raishan.


• A Briarwoods-come-later AU where Delilah has to deal with both Queen Cassandra and her secretly-a-dragon advisor.


• Delilah deciding it was more important to keep Cassandra than to please Vecna, and joining the fight against Thordak.


• Raishan bringing Cassandra Delilah as a present to prove her loyalty.

Delilah Briarwood/Keyleth: There's so many murdered lovers between them that you know it's fair they get the chance to be each other's lover and/or attempted murderer!

• I am highkey in denial about Delilah's last death and would love for Keyleth to find another of her clones, anywhere from a year to several hundred years in the future.


• I am also forever weak for stories about them stranded in the Shadowfell for reasons and stories where Delilah succeeds in turning Vex into her undead servant and Keyleth becomes Delilah's lover to watch over her friend.


• Dark!Keyleth in stories where she's the one who succumbs to the Whitestone corruption effect. Some plant-based body horror stemming from her connection to the Sun Tree? Delilah killing her and turning her into a vampire?

Delilah Briarwood/Sylas Briarwood & Vecna: They broke the world for each other and their lich god!! Sure Delilah and Sylas are terrible for the general world around them, but they love each other so much and I'm emo about them.

• First meetings! How much did Delilah already know about Vecna when she met Sylas?


• What were they up to during the time between their Whitestone deaths and Marquet? How did they build the cult in Marquet? Did they look for a new Cassandra-surrogate? How do you build an empire for a god?


• Pre-canon in Whitestone! Feel free to combine with some Delilah/Cassandra too.


• Conspiracy AU: Delilah always wanted a vampire husband (and/or was already somewhat involved with Vecna) so she killed him just to make the deal to bring him back. Big 'no one can kill you but me' vibes.


• Feel free to make Delilah a vampire too. More vampires are always good.

Delilah Briarwood/Vex'ahlia: Delilah used Finger of Death so specifically and so consistently on Vex and I have all sorts of feelings about how death loves Vex and Delilah is just its instrument!

• Anything inspired by Cellar Darling's 'The Spell' [youtube link, lyrics in description].


• Vex as part of a Syngorn diplomatic mission to Whitestone, before or instead of meeting VM. Does she get turned? Does she find out what Delilah's up to and initially agree to hurt her father, before realising how over her head she is? Delilah/Vex/Cassandra threesomes extremely good in this situation.


• Marquesian adventures - what if they found her while looking for the cloak?


• Dark AU where Delilah succeeds in turning Vex into her undead servant.

Velora Vessar & Vesh: Was 'you don't feel evil, do you?' probably 97% a joke? Yes. Do I want Velora to grow up to have a weird fraught terrimazing relationship with the creature who brought her back to life? Oh ABSOLUTELY yes.

• Velora making some kind of deal with Vesh while she's dead. She's growing up a powerful diplomat's daughter in the Feywild, she's got to have some sense of bargains with powerful creatures.


• Velora continuing to write to/pray to Vesh over the years. Sure her friends say Vesh is evil, but how evil could someone who saved her be?


• Velora grows up to be a ranger. Vesh gifts her her first companion - an owlbear who would like to murder. Velora, now a terrible goth teenager, is into it.

Vesh/Vilya: Use Campaign 2 canon for Vilya or not as you like! More of my prompts don't incorporate it, just because I shipped them for ages before the Viridian reveal, but either is seriously good.

• You may have noticed I really like a Vesh that incorporates tempest/storm elements! What if she came from the elemental plane of air? Vilya, pre-Aramante, meeting Vilya on one of her trips through the Zephrah gate and bringing her back.


• Alternatively, Siren!Vesh from the Water Plane! I have a lot of affection for the idea of Vesh as the kraken, or a similar creature that Vilya fought and lost to on her Aramante - what does that meeting, fight, aftermath look like?


• Potential aftermath: Vilya as some kind of wandering Vesh-prophet, who dimly remembers her home but knows that travelling, bringing Vesh's song to the world, is more important.


• Pre-canon, Vesh infiltrates Zephrah (a la Raishan in Pyrah) and ends up marrying Vilya.


• Rumblecusp AU where it isn't Vokodo who's causing the cult and the memory loss, it's Vesh - wholly subsumed into the sea around the island and taking the villagers with her one by one.

Vesh/The Raven Queen: These two are my favourite of the divine/semi-divine that we meet in campaign 1, and so I want them together!

• I am absolutely in love with the idea of Vesh possibly playing a version of Nerull to this version of the Raven Queen. Did the Raven Queen marry and then displace Vesh? Were they mortal lovers/wives before the ascension to godhood forced them apart (was their marriage originally an attempt by one to save the other, with godhood as an unexpected side effect?) Vesh has a habit of marrying her chosen, and the Raven Queen was and is desperately lonely, I absolutely see her trying to take advantage of that loneliness.


• Or, flipped: Vesh as (attempted) usurper of the Raven Queen's domain. They overlap in their connection to death, and I see a lot of the tempest/storm side of winter to Vesh (in contrast to the Raven Queen's stillness/silence side) and it fascinates me.


• A Vesh whose connection to the Raven Queen only becomes evident after she ascends - maybe in an AU where she, rather than Vecna, was the main opponent of Campaign 1 and the final battle went differently.


• Any of these songs used as inspiration.


• The two of them as Winter Court leaders in a Changeling: The Lost AU.

General: Feel free to mix and match these ships, including in ways that involve twincest. Combining any of these ships with an AU where Vex takes Saundor's deal in the Feywild is also extremely good.

Keyleth / or & The Raven Queen: Hey so Keyleth is a thousand years of life and the Raven Queen is the very specific moment of death and I HAVE FEELINGS. For this one, honestly, I'd prefer Keyleth/Vax as a co-existing ship.

• AU where Keyleth is the one to offer herself to the Raven Queen in the Sunken Tomb, before Vax gets there.


• Post-canon, Keyleth visits Vax in the Shadowfell and slowly falls in love with his Lady as well as him.


• Violent summer storm Keyleth who does not overmuch love the stillness of winter's snow but who nevertheless loves gods through their work and their champions above all, sitting by the blood pool in the Raven's Crest and realising what it means to build a love consciously.


• Optional song prompts, if you are into that sort of thing! The Birthday Massacre, 'The Other Side' (in summer i drowned you / in winter i found you) or Cellar Darling, 'Redemption' (take me there to the moor, to the end / will i be innocent again?)

The Raven Queen/Vax: Whole damn lot of feelings over here about how Vax spent most of his life in love with death but only after dedicating himself to a death goddess did he develop a love for life AND a healthy relationship with death!

The Raven Queen/Vex: Literally anything about the messy knots of hate and love and service and devotion they're tied in is excellent!

• I would like any and all Raven Queen Champion Vex fics please and thank you. She was already a champion in most everything but name in canon and I'm really interested to see how she might make that explicit.


• Maybe she does go kill Orcus, post-canon - what does the Raven Queen think about that?


• Resurrection rituals after Vax dies in the Elemental Plane of Water where Vex pledges herself to the Raven Queen the same way Vax did for her.


• Maybe she visits Vax in the Shadowfell and slowly learns more about who exactly his Lady is. Weird picnics at liminal crossroads inns! Especially good if Keyleth comes along.

The Raven Queen & Her First Priestess: So I am in love with any and all takes on ascension to godhood in Exandria (esp with what we're seeing with Artagan in campaign 2) and I want to know alll about how the Raven Queen ascended. A Drow priestess would be cool, because Shadowfell, but I don't have any real preferences. Some possibilities:

• In 4th Edition lore, the Raven Queen was a mortal sorcer-queen who gained her portfolio by just straight-up murdering Nerull, the previous god. So: sorcerer-queen and cleric making plans to kill a god. I have a lot of affection for the version of this where Vesh is the one she deposes, but you can go with Nerull or someone else.

Melora & Original Female Age of Arcanum Necromancer: I like powerful ladies picking fights with gods. It is maybe-sorta a theme in my requests. Also: necromancy. You can never go wrong with necromancy.


Avantika: I am extremely not picky, I just want Avantika to win things! I've prompted some specific ships & genships as well, but here are some other thoughts.

• Post-death (or post-second death?) Avantika lands with the Water Ashari. Plans to turn them to Uk'otoa worship may go well, but I am also really enamoured of the idea of Avantika being absolutely baffled and a little bit terrified by people who like her and have a healthy relationship with the sea. Avantika accidentally helping save the city from a Water Plane incursion?


• Also really in love with the idea of Avantika landing in Raishan's new lair. Sexy new patron who will give her a sexy new body and indulge her plans for pirate domination? Yes good.


• Avantika pre-canon. How she fell in love with the sea, how she met her crew, how she ascended through the Darktow hierarchy.


• AU where the Darktow confrontation goes differently and she gets to kill the Plank King and take over. What does she do with the M9? What does rule look like?


• Avantika/Vesh, because bloody sirens and pirates go together perfectly.


• I actually do ship Avantika/Fjord, in the terrible cultists in terrible not-love way, so anything with them (esp in an Avantika-wins-Darktow AU) is great.

Avantika & Uk'otoa: In NO universe was 'pirate queen witch of a drowned god' not going to be my PRECISE THING and oh man more of them please.

• Any wonderful creepy dreams like Fjord had. Did she start having them before she knew what Uk'otoa was? After?


• Plank King Avantika converting others to Uk'otoa worship, whether he's already been freed or not.


• Previous adventures to find crystals, and how Avantika collected her crew.

Avantika/Jester: Cults to not-quite-gods, and also chaos, and other things I love dearly.

• Rival cult leaders AU! Avantika leads an Uk'otoa cult out of Darktow, Jester is establishing a Traveler cult in Nicodranas, politicking and/or trickery and/or sex ensue.


• The Traveler convinces Jester it would be great fun to do an extremely unauthorised Raise Dead on Avantika after she dies in Darktow (I know she didn't have the spell then, just go with it). Avantika with a deeply inconvenient life debt to Jester? Excellent.


• Jester as the one who seduces Avantika.


• Instead of meeting the M9, Jester sneaks onboard the Squall-Eater when it docks in Nicodranas and becomes part of Avantika's crew - with all of the theological archfey vs buried demigod chaos that entails.

General: Jester "I want to open wounds that never close and poison people and maybe turn them into candy" Lavorre is just. SO incredibly delightful, and I would like all the creepyfluff.

Jester/Astrid:

Jester/The Traveler: Prettyboy archfey Artagan surprising himself with how into getting absolutely emotionally/mentally/physically wrecked by Jester he is? Yes, absolutely yes. I love everything this relationship has to say about the power of belief and the fragility of divinity in Exandria

• AUs where Artagan takes Jester into the Feywild - when she's a little kid or when she first leaves Nicodranas, either is good!


• Jester finds a ghost ship while the M9 are at sea and tries to convert the ghosts to worship the Traveler. Artagan is extremely panicked when this actually works.


• Straight-up horror! Jester finds a ruined castle and turns it into TRAVELER HEADQUARTERS and witch-in-the-woods style lures people to her happy fun castle carnival (of death) (it's probably an accident).


• In-universe folk horror. Jester leads the Traveler cult on Rumblecusp, someone (Beau? Avantika?) stumbles onto it and gets drawn in. I'm thinking more along the lines of Penda's Fen but it's girls or Blood on Satan's Claw but the cult wins, but folk horror is vast, surprise me with something else!


• Post-canon Rune Maker Jester, clawing out her own astral domain alongside that of the creature she catapulted into divinity? Extremely good and cool.


• Fun sex, especially fun sex that plays with themes of consumption/creation, especially-especially fun sex that involves breathplay and edgeplay-to-death and back.

General: What it says on the tin! Happy for gen, also happy for any femslash that strikes your fancy.

Jourrael: Love a good murderghost. Love this particular greymoral murderghost EVEN MORE. I am, not gonna lie, mostly interested in Age of Arcanum fic for her, and not so much into post-canon/Inevitable Friend type scenarios, but, yknow, feel free to convince me otherwise.

• Pre-exaltation assassination missions. How was she chosen? Who did she kill? All the worldbuilding and Drow society lore!


• What does being exalted by Lolth and Asmodeus consist of? Did she know what she was being chosen for? What do the rituals look like? How did it change her relationships with other assassins/priestesses, her lover(s) and friend(s)?


• Calamity era fic/her sundering story. Who finally broke her? What did she destroy along the way?


• Jourrael and the Bright Queen. Leylas is easily old enough to've been around (in a previous life) while Jourrael was, and all of the tension between the Most Chosen of Lolth and the leader of the Drow who reject Lolth (even if that was still in Leylas' future)? Beautiful perfect tell me ALL those stories.


• Jourrael's already tenuous relationship with corporeality was nonexistent while her skull and heart were separated, but what about her soul? Lost somewhere in the Shadowfell? Drifting in the Astral Sea? Battering itself against the gates of the Hells?

Vess DeRogna: So she [Jester voice]technically[/Jester voice] uhhhh died between me nominating her and me signing up, which is awkward but you know what I have never and will never let that stop me. She's fine.

• Vess' clone wakes up. In Rexxentrum, to barge into her colleagues' offices like 'guess who murdered me'? In Nicodranas, because dying sucks and she deserves some R&R? In Rosohna, because resurrecting behind enemy lines is the ultimate power move? Somewhere else?


• Vess and Delilah! Was Delilah getting kicked out of the Assembly Vess' plan the whole time? Did they have a grudging respect? A relationship built entirely around hatesex? Alll the politics and


• Vess yeets herself into Mollucien's body when her own body dies. Pretty tiefling costume is all hers now, and she's got gods to kill.


• Vess wants to kill a god and she should get to kill a god! Personally I would deeply enjoy her killing Pelor, since I didn't like him in campaign one, but you've got choices!


• Vess/Astrid, especially if it involves her manipulating/seducing Astrid away from Trent. How might that colour the ways/reasons she appoaches the M9?


• I would DEEPLY love Vess/Jester. I don't have super specific prompts for it beyond Jester going "this is my evil girlfriend, Vess, and my boyfriend Fjord, and his evil girlfriend, Avantika", but ... Vess/Jester.

Allura/Keyleth:

Allura/Raishan:

Allura/Cassandra/Kima:

• Something in Whitestone during the Conclave arc - older marrieds bringing a third younger partner in to teach/comfort her is a very good trope.


• Vampire!Cassandra capturing + turning the two other most powerful people in the city is also a very good option.

Allura/Keyleth/Kima:

Allura/Keyleth/Raishan: Best beloved witches! This is an excellent OT3 for exploring worldbuilding around spellcraft and godhood, and I encourage that even if it means shippiness takes a backseat. Apotheosis, accidental or not. Dark!Keyleth and Dark!Allura (and fics where either/both of them slowly turn darker over the course of the story) are great.

• Raishan was obsessed with Keyleth and Allura during the fight in Opash's lair - Allura was unconscious twice and a lot of Allura's support was directly to Keyleth - and I would die for the AU where she succeeds in capturing them and having them to help her with whatever ritual she was planning, especially if it involves Keyleth and Allura comfort!sex with voyeur!Raishan.


• I love alternate-meeting ideas: Allura falling in with Raishan while looking for ways to raise her friends who died fighting Thordak, Raishan picking Keyleth up early in her Aramente and Allura fighting to get her protege back. Keyleth being torn between two mentors, Raishan being obsessed with Allura's hoard of knowledge and Keyleth's life.


• Anything that gets into how gloriously fucked-up Raishan in search of godhood with two of the most godless characters in the show as her means of ascension is, because, fuck, I love.


• I love Changeling: The Lost AUs always, and am super interested in the AU where Raishan was Keyleth's Keeper and Allura is trying to rescue her.

Allura/Keyleth/Vax: OT3 or Vax/Keyleth + Keyleth/Allura V-shape equally welcome.

• Vax 'useless devotional sub' ildan on his knees for two of the most powerful women in his life, yes please.


• I especially like Allura teaching Keyleth how to properly dom Vax (magic restraints a huge plus).


• Non-smutty: early-canon or pre-canon adventures/casefic, especially right around the Brimscythe reveal or any dealings with the Clasp.


• Established Keyleth/Allura + Allura encouraging her to explore what a Thing with Vax would be like.

Allura/Kima/Pike: They spent a lot of time together, by virtue of handling Ashley's various absences, and I'd love to see them growing closer through the war and the rebuilding. This doesn't have to be OT3 endgame - I'm perfectly happy for Pike to just be an occasional friend-with-sex-benefits.

• Pike being welcomed into established Kima/Allura, where it starts out all 'oh I'm just staying at my friends' house' and then Allura and Kima have to sit her down like 'Pike please we have been trying to ask you to sleep with us for months'.


• Pike and Kima start hooking up in Vasselheim, and it actually makes the Kima/Allura reunion/getting-back-together easier.


• Size difference means this is a VERY good OT3 for fisting in smutfic, just saying.


• I like fics that don't shy away from Pike's darkness, and how that might play out in sexual situations - e.g. I think she's very much a person who would like to try to dom her friends, but also someone who would be extremely bad at domming her friends - and I'd love to see how that plays out.

Keyleth/Raishan: I'm obsessed with these vicious near-immortal sorceresses. There's the potential for anything, from hatesex to philosophical arguments, to the reluctant '.....shit we grew old together and you're the only one left who knows everything about me' realisation.

• Roleswap AU! Neutral evil ancient druid Keyleth happening upon youngish true neutral dragon Raishan?


• Any kind of alternate meeting AUs, or AUs where Raishan chose to infiltrate the Air Ashari in addition to/instead of the Fire Ashari.
Polymorph/shapeshifting/wildshape sex is good. I like Keyleth domming Raishan if you're playing with D/s elements. There's so much to play with here with obsession and similarity and mirroring (either Keyleth or Raishan turning into each other during sex is um. The Best.) and honestly, feel free to go anywhere with this. I like Keyleth's anger and the amount of pleasure Raishan takes in winding her up. Raishan redemption arcs are fun. Neutral evil ancient dragon luring young true neutral durid into her lair is fun, . Raishan-survives AUs are also excellent, whether she survives as herself or as a dracolich/demigod/etc. Raishan using murder to flirt with Keyleth. Raishan coming back from the dead cured of her disease but Wrong(tm) in some other way. Keyleth helping Raishan become a god (questionably on purpose). Keyleth and Raishan take a trip to the Feywild for Reasons. Anything about their mutually complicated relationships with Melora. Loyalty kink stemming from obsession - once every couple decades they try, genuinely, to kill each other, but somehow never quite manage to do it.

Keyleth/Melora/Raishan:

Keyleth/Raishan/The Raven Queen: I have Feelings(tm) about druids and fate and how Keyleth canonically ended campaign 1 as a weird semi-immortal semi-in love with the Raven Queen, and how druidic interpretations of curses and lifecycles come up against the realities of the world.

• I'd love something that works with the 'winter' aspect of the Raven Queen's portfolio - fate and death get a lot of attention but that much less so, and it goes wonderfully with Keyleth and her summer storms and Raishan's slow autumnal decay.


• The one bit of campaign guide canon I am incredibly wedded to is the 'familiar spirit' flying back to her forest lair and oh my gods do I wanna know what happened between Raishan and the Raven Queen to make that possible. What bargain did she make, what (who?) did she promise, how was she changed? How does Keyleth react?


• In a world where Raishan won, does she try to convince the Raven Queen to heal/spare her? Does Keyleth plead Raishan's case to the Raven Queen?


• What if Raishan succeeded in forcing Keyleth to help her ascend to godhood - how does the Raven Queen feel about that?

Hey y'all, the Mighty Nein keep killing everyone I love and I am really, really tired of the new 'if the party doesn't kill and mutilate the corpse of every morally questionable woman who's ever been mean to a dude NPC they're evil and I hate them' flavour of misogyny that campaign 2 fandom has. I have a whoooole lot of thoughts on how Matt's ladyvillains are often coming from a fundamental place of wanting to live and how that gets them called The Ultimate Evil, but that is for another time. It's Samhain so let's talk resurrection!

If you're pleased Avantika and/or Vess are dead do us both a favour and keep scrolling xo.

I! Have! A lot of feelings! About How to Get Away with Murder! And elasticella let me indulge all of them in Flash FuckAround, the infidelity-themed flash exchange. And I also have a lot of feelings about Big Little Lies and FFA allowed me to indulge all of them as well, and, y'all, I was kinda ehhhh about the concept of flash exchanges when they first started but they are consistently so much fun, goddamn.

Title: only the bravest girl
Fandom: How to Get Away with Murder
Characters: Annalise/Michaela
Rating/Warnings: T, infidelity, minor exhibitionism, minor references to Annalise's alcoholism
Summary: Tonight, Michaela feels too real, too close, and all the parts of Annalise that want to be good want to tell Michaela to leave, go home, study for another class and prove that she's smart like that, too, because god knows someone in this house has to be.

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AND in return I got absolutely stunning Big Little Lies fic intoxicatelou — see the bruise, see the truth , Celeste/Amanda Reisman, rated M. Sharp gorgeous canon divergence and everything I could ever want from Celeste fic.

It occurs to me, long past my bedtime and partway through HTGAWM 2x01, that if no one has yet done the Annalise+Bonnie+Frank+Sam vid to 'Dead in this House', someone should really get on that.

#i mean they use so much iamx in the show #not always correctly #and i don't vid so i just wanna encourage this #any chance you get – destroy #take everything back to the start #kick down the door #kick through the pain #you've been crawling up the wall #everybody is dead in this house

Anyway what a glorious fucked-up weird square.

(ETA: Annalise's if you screw up again you're gonna be the next dead body in this house to Bonnie in 2x02? I WIN.)

(Update 13/9: OH DREAMWIDTH SURE ATE MY LAST UPDATE AND DIDN'T TELL ME, HUH. Letter finished now, I'm so sorry.)

Hello friend, it is time for longfic and I am so excited to see what you will write for me! If you want inspiration beyond this letter I am also kimaracretak, where I have a small but reflective-of-things-I-like set of bookmarks, and kimaracretak on 8tracks if you want #aesthetic musical inspiration.

I love all 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 (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. A lot of my prompts are very horror-slanted, but if your muse is inclined to things less murderous, feel free! That being said, I'm extremely not into plotless/conflictless fluff or 'soft' takes on these characters/canons, and would prefer you avoid them.

I love everything from short introspection bits to long plotty missionfic to sex scenes as ways to explore character/setting/worldbuilding, and 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.

Likes || Art Likes|| Dark Likes || Smut Likes || DNWs || Gemini (2017) || Hannibal (TV) || Jordskott || Law & Order: Special Victims Unit || Nikita || Overwatch || Pretty Little Liars || The Good Wife || UnREAL || Zone Blanche (Black Spot)


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General: Gemini is a quiet, neon-soaked neo-noir movie about an actress, her personal assistant, and her murder. It's also about mirrors, and long motorcycle rides through a very empty Southern California, and how nothing in that first sentence is really true. It's streaming on Hulu and it's REALLY GOOD and you should watch it kthx. Prompts contain movie-destroying spoilers.

Note: Character death DNW waived for the canon one.

( Jaime, Jill, Heather, Tracy, Sierra )


General: I love this gorgeous dark dreamy murder show and I love all the ladies. I haven't seen s3 as of writing prompts, but I'll be caught up by reveals, so if you have a s3 idea that you want to run with, please do! I have some freeforms in this year's Darkest Night letter that I'd love to see in any of these requests.

Note: Character death DNW waived for casefic OFCs and all canon characters except Alana, Bedelia, Freddie, and Beverly.

( Freddie, Alana/Abigail, Alana/Bedelia )


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, Eva/Laila, Eva/Zara, Laila/Zara, Esme/Linus, and Esme/Maja, if you want to write something shippy. I headcanon Linus as nonbinary, but don't feel beholden to that if you involve him in fics. You don't have to resurrect Klara/ignore her death if you're writing late/post-s2 fic, but I'd rather it not be dwelt on.

I would prefer not to see: Eva/Bahar, Bahar being married to a man, romantic/sexual ships involving Ida, Josefine, or Kalem

( Esmeralda, Eva, Ida, Laila, Ylva )


General: I dropped out of the active fandom for this ages ago, and am definitely more of an early-seasons fan (up through the end of season 9, though I've seen through the end of 13), but if you want to set it somewhere more recent in the timeline, that's cool too! 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. If you want to combine any of these into an OT3, feel absolutely free.

( Dani Beck, Alex/Casey, Alex/Liz, Alex/Olivia, Alex & Lena )


General: I know it's been years since it ended but this is still the spy show of my heart and I love all these sad glamorous dubiously-moral assassins. Before Amanda's backstory reveal I spent some time headcanoning her as a Russian agent - feel free to run with that background if it speaks more to you than her canon one! I also love canon-divergence AUs where Nikita was Cassandra's Belarus handler, even in fics that aren't strictly about Nikita/Cassandra.

( Jaden, Kathleen, Amanda/Nikita, Amanda/Madeline, Nikita/Alex )


General: I am up to date with canon, but am happy for you to cherry-pick bits and pieces, or treat most of the specifics as a suggestion. I am equally happy with pre-Fall and post-Fall fics. For Amélie ships, I have no preference if fic is set when she's Amélie or Widowmaker or both, and I also don't have a preference for never-married-to-Gerard!AUs vs pining/infidelity/open marriage. If Mercy's relevant to your fic, I am happy to see dark!Mercy as well as Overwatch!Mercy. Leaning into the body horror aspects around Ana's missing eye encouraged (I have a special love for flowers growing in the empty eye socket, because, well, I'm me) but not required. Any AU based off any skins for the requested characters (e.g. witch!Mercy, pirate!Ana, comtesse!Amélie) is welcome even if I haven't specified the general version of that AU in my likes. If you want to address the age gaps in Ana ships, I really love how comfortable Ana is in her own skin, with her own age (even/especially her missing eye) and how that contrasts with her mixed feelings about what she's done, so anything that highlights that would be lovely.

( Ana/Amelie, Ana/Hana, Ana/Mercy, Ana/Mina, Ana/Sombra, Hana/Sombra )


General: I have a lot of affection for this ridiculous show and all of its 'attempted murder because spy shenanigans as a sign of deep love' girls! At its best it was a glorious feminist noir-horror pastiche, it was ... oh, nevermind, this is about things that I like! I like the noir-horror pastiche, more of that with more kissing please. I have fewer specific prompts for these, because it's really just me gesturing at early-seasons canon and going yes more, but it doesn't mean I want them any less!

Fandom-specific DNW: Fic set post-timeskip, including The Perfectionists canon. Character death DNW waived for this fandom.

( Alison/Emily, Alison/Spencer, Hanna/Mona, Spencer/Mona )


General: I much preferred TGW doing legal stories to political stories (the endless identical campaigns were honestly starting to bore me by the end, sorry) and if you do casefic/plotty things I'd prefer legal ones to political ones. I only vaguely paid attention to season 7, and would prefer nothing that relies too heavily on it's canon. I have no strong feelings one way or the other on you integrating The Good Fight canon.

( Rayna, Kalinda, Diane/Kalinda, Lana/Kalinda, Sophia/Kalinda )


General: Shows I did not expect to ruin me: this. Shows that have ruined me: also this. I didn't love season 4 except the very end, and in general would prefer something where Quinn and Rachel are unambiguously on the same side - massive intra-ship dysfunctionality encouraged, but I like their us-against-everything vibe. Mary's canon death can be referenced/included, but if you feel like bringing her back as a vampire I'm not gonna say no (I never say no to vampires).

( Rachel/Quinn )


General: I have a deep love for half-dead half-forest women and this show has truly left me spoiled for choice amongst them! Sad cops? Tired medical examiners? Girls with disturbing archery skills? Old bartenders possibly as old as time itself? I love them all! Gimme creepy things in the forest and I'm in love. I have a slight preference for came-back-wrong/never died Marion & Camille over pre-death/dead Marion & Camille, but it's truly slight, I will love anything you write me even if they stay dead!

( Camille, Laurène, Leila, Marion, Sabine )

Work's been a horrorshow recently and I have compensated by, uh, reading/watching a lot of horror? And then looking for fanworks and being disappointed that so little of it actually leans into the horror! Like, do you know how many Magnus Archives fics I backbuttoned out of even after filtering out the 'Fluff' tag because it was all soft girlfriends in no-apocalypse AUs? It makes me sad, friends.

So: some f/f recs, alphabetical by fandom. Mix of fics tagged for horror and fic for horror canons. Mind the AO3 tags even more than usual, I suppose.

Black and White and Red All Over. black swan (2010), lily/nina. 1.6k words, rated e. by scioscribe

Lily has trouble taking on the role of the White Swan.

Beautiful and strange post-canon fic.

life, starring you. dare me (tv + book), tacy cassidy. 2.4k words, rated m. by ODed_on_jingle_jangle

Beth almost died. That’s what she has to compete with. It’s a pretty tall order.
The more Tacy thinks about it, the more she realizes it can’t actually be topped. Not with any of her conventional ideas, like screwing an older guy, or driving drunk, or twisting an ankle during a routine.
The more Tacy thinks about it, the more she realizes if she cannot top Beth, she has to match her. Tit for tat.

It's a mix of book and show canon (keeping Beth and Tacy as siblings but picking up after the end of the book). Pitch-perfect character study of Tacy as she tries to take Beth's place once more.

Golden Ticket. hannibal (tv), abigail/beverly. 7.1k words, rated m. by Selden

Abigail Hobbs can raise the dead.
One person from the dead, to be precise.
She brings back Beverly Katz.

Combination come-back-wrong AND women-shaping-other-women-into-a-weapon fic? Yes excellent.

pale purple petals and strangling fruit. star wars sequel trilogy, amilyn/leia. 700ish words, rated t.

On the flower moon of Endor, everything is changing. The expedition is lost and only Leia remains intact.

Southern Reach fusion with the prettiest of plant based body horror and so much joy.

[ART] Little Red Riding Hood. the magnus archives, basira/daisy. rated t. by fandom_The_Magnus_Archives_2020

what are you doing in the woods?

Hunt!Daisy, Red Riding Hood!Basira, absolutely stunning body horror and wolves and flowers and ahhhh it's so pretty.

holding darkness in. the silmarillion & other histories of middle-earth, aredhel/thuringwethil. 1.7k words, rated t. by Ias

Unsavory things thrive in the absence of light. Something darker comes to inhabit the lonely house in Nan Elmoth.

Spoilers: Eol gets chomped.

Hello friend, it is time for incest/selfcest fic and I am so excited to see what you will write for me! If you want inspiration beyond this letter I am also kimaracretak, where I have a small but reflective-of-things-I-like set of bookmarks, and kimaracretak on 8tracks if you want #aesthetic musical inspiration.

I love all 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 (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. A lot of my prompts are very horror-slanted, but if your muse is inclined to things less murderous, feel free! That being said, I'm extremely not into plotless/conflictless fluff or 'soft' takes on these characters/canons, and would prefer you avoid them.

I love everything from short introspection bits to long plotty missionfic to sex scenes as ways to explore character/setting/worldbuilding, and 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.

Likes || Art Likes|| Dark Likes || Smut Likes || DNWs || A Song of Ice and Fire - George R. R. Martin || Chilling Adventures of Sabrina || Dare Me (TV) || Fringe || Goblin Market - Christina Rossetti || Star Trek: Deep Space 9 || Succession || The Magnus Archives || The Secret History || Under the Pendulum Sun - Jeanette Ng


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General: I'm fine with permadeath for Cersei if it's a murder-suicide dying-in-each-other's-arms deal with Jaime. I love the vast worldbuilding of the books, everything from the wild witchy bits up north to the more mundane aspects of King's Landing courtly life, so feel free to lean into either aspect as much as you like!

Fandom-specific DNW: Show canon, valonqar!Tyrion, Cersei dying while Jaime lives/Jaime dying while Cersei lives.

( Cersei/Jaime )


General: I like worldbuiling and pre-canon stories, especially stories about Lilith slowly siphoning witches away from Satan, stories where witches sign their name over to Lilith directly rather than into the Book of the Beast, and stories about centuries of history and the distinctly inhuman perceptions and desires of witches and demons. There's so many levels of glorious fucked-up obsessive mentorship here along with, you know, the gore and the deification-via-cannibalism and I love all of them. Murder + in-fic resurrection/came back wrong is fine for any of these prompts.

Fandom-specific DNW: Referring to Lilith as 'Madam Satan', season 3 plot canon. That being said, if you want to bring Marie in as a side/background character, I love her so feel free.

( Edward/Zelda, Edward/Zelda/Lilith )


General: I'd love something that leans into the fever-dream horror of consumption of this 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 and all the times Beth looked at her sister and went 'nah'. Basically, I love ladies and noir and glitter and murder, you can't disappoint me!

Notes: While I'm lifting my 'sex involving under-16s' DNW for this request, I don't kink on the underage aspect, and I'd prefer nothing that emphasises how young Tacy is/their ages in general if you do write smut. I've read and loved the book, so if you want to take elements from it in terms of order of cheer competitions, Beth jumping from the pyramid at the end, &c feel free (hopefully goes without saying but uh don't the part where they're not related.)

( Beth/Tacy )


General: Old favourite? Yes. Forever favourite? Also yes. I strongly prefer pre-timeskip fics, but it's not a requirement; similarly, I prefer mild worldbuildy AUs where importance remains with Olivia (either/both Olivias!) rather than any possible children of hers, but if you have to mention Etta or Henry that's fine and wouldn't hit my Peter/Olivia DNW.

Fandom-specific DNW: Any combination of prime/alternate Peter/Olivia

( Oliva/Alt!Olivia )


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 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! I have some freeforms in last year's Darkest Night letter that are fair game, including the setting-change AU ones.

Note: Character death DNW does not apply to this request - deaths canon-compliant & not are fine & encouraged

( Lizzie/Laura, Jeanie/Lizzie/Laura )


General: I prefer fics that don't make such a strong connection between mirrorverse sexualities and evil like the show did. I love, love, love canon-divergent AUs for DS9, especially where Bajor discovers the wormhole (and its possibilities for inter-universe travel earlier). Whether that's Kira's 'The Federation will be gone in a week and so will you' prediction coming true, or maybe Bajor has known about the mirrorverse for forever and have been getting secret help against the Cardassians from various mirrorverse factions or something else entirely, have fun with the what-ifs! I've read most of the season 8 novels, including the mirrorverse ones, and I'm overall lukewarm on them - feel free to use/ignore relevant bits as you want. I'm also kinda :/ at mirror versions of characters being killed off so frequently, it closes so many interesting storylines, so feel free to ignore any of those deaths.

Fandom-specific DNW: Prime or Mirror!Bashir, Prime!Dukat, post-series fic where prime!Bajor has joined the Federation/Kira has joined Starfleet for real (fic set when she's temporarily commissioned during s7 is okay).

( Kira/Iliana Ghemor, Kira/Mirror Kira, Winn Adami/Mirror Winn Adami )


General: I love this show about terrible people doing terrible things, what can I say. Vampires are especially good for this canon, whether it's an 'everything's the same except also vampires' one or a full Requiem/Masquerade AU.

( Marcia/Shiv )


General: I love horror canons and eldritch things and unconventional formatting and pretty much everything about this story! I read rather than listen, so anything overly-reliant on the audio will be a bit lost on me, but I am caught up and will probably still be caught up by the time of reveals. That being said, don't feel you have to integrate new canon - early-show stuff is great!

Note: Character death DNW does not apply to this request - deaths canon-compliant & not are fine & encouraged

( Sasha/Not Sasha )


General: I have a slight preference for pre-canon or during-canon fic, but if you want to write post-canon, go for it! I like the ridiculousness of the group like ... re-creating Victoriana boarding school tropes at a 1980s university, and really love fics that delve into the sort of person one has to be to cultivate that sense of deliberate earnest pretentiousness. I like fics about the mundane academic and the weird mythology equally, so lean into whichever you prefer. Feel free to include the rest of the group and Julian, but I'd prefer no OT3s for the twins this time.

( Camilla/Charles )


General: Oh hey this weird book about fucked-up missionary siblings in clockwork Fairyland snuck into my life and ruined me 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. Canon-compliant deathfic for Ariel is fine - especially if it leads to Mab further manipulating/fucking with Cathy, and Cathy continuing to spiral about her identity, but I am also thrilled by any AU you come up with where she survives or is brought back.

( Cathy/Laon, Ariel/Cathy/Laon, Cathy/Laon/Mab )

I mean, literally every day is Kalida Sharma Deserved Better Day but today is also [a] a Thursday, which is (my reading list informs me) rec things day, and [b] a day when I actually have the brain + time for a reclist. So. Mostly femslash. A fair amount of Kalinda/Lana, because goddamn does Lana also deserve better, but not entirely. Not in any real order.

where two lines meet. kalinda/lana. 5k words, rated m. by feartown

"Maybe we should just leave, Kalinda."

For a moment the idea hangs in the air, absurd, but then Kalinda starts to wonder if Lana might be right. Chicago has dragged her down for years. Chicago is a place of death and cracks that can’t seem to be patched up. She shrugs her free shoulder. “We could.”

The summary says "Set post 6x09", but, really, it's a story about their entire relationship, in flashbacks - the way coming together means something different every time, how Kalinda starts to believe she was telling the truth when she said I take you seriously, and how they prove to each other that the future exists.

existent. kalinda/lana. 700 words, rated m. by PoeticallyIrritating

Kalinda doesn't seem real.

Lana, on Kalinda, appearances, and reality. A really interesting look at how Lana always saw more than Kalinda strictly meant to show her, but never found the will to use it against her.

dreaming gives one such bad luck. kalinda/lana. 2.3k words, rated t. by summerstorm

It kills time, leaving a question in the air. At least it helps Lana stop thinking about what a waste of it Kalinda's relatively irregular middle-of-the-night appearances on Lana's floor at the FBI are.

Kalinda visits Lana, Lana finds all of the knives she's carrying.

ladies who lunch. kalinda/diane. 1.4k words, rated g. by kathryne

Here's to the girls on the go / Everybody tries / Look into their eyes and you'll see what they know / Everybody dies. Diane, Kalinda, and a power lunch.

Pre-canon, Diane interviews Kalinda for the in-house job. Really excellent getting-to-know-you power games and understated not-flirting and wardrobe details.

at the border. kalinda/sophia. 6.5k words, rated m. by lunchinanelevator

Kalinda and Sophia before, during, and after.

Weird domesticity and genuine affection set against a whole lot of politics, and one of my favourite examples of the sort of - comfort that's doesn't permanently fix things but that matters and is important.

in pieces, quietly. kalinda & alicia, will, cary. 1.4k words, rated g. by fiftymissioncap

Kalinda spends the Christmas holidays alone. Post Battle of the Proxies.

Kalinda opens presents, deals with the fallout from Nick, survives.

something to think about. kalinda &/ will, diane, cary, eli, alicia. 1.1k words, rated t. by Vampire_Penguin

Kalinda's mind wanders, when she gets bored...

Specifically, wanders to the ways she might seduce or kill her coworkers. Kalinda picking people apart is always one of my favourite Kalindas.

Do Not like being reminded how to close to summer it is, suppose I can deal with it momentarily if it comes with the bribe of elasticella's femslash drabbletag! Fill a prompt, leave three more, etc. I have had A Goddamn Week at work and 100 words is about exactly what I can manage

Title: lovers of the evidence
Fandom: Killing Eve
Characters/Ships: Carolyn/Elena
Rating: G
Prompt: 'Momentary', via humanveil
Summary: Elena watches.

( for the lovers of the evidence and in the name of every heretic )