va'esse deireádh aep eigean, va'esse eigh faidh'ar

Hello friend, it is time for fic about ladies 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 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, 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.

Changeling: The Lost || Elder Scrolls Online || Exandria Unlimited || Law & Order: Criminal Intent || Marianne || The Good Wife || Shetland


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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.

( Ambrosia, Dove Knife-Dancer )


General: I am several years late BUT I love this terrible demon lady who just wants to be (re)written into existence so she can do terrible things. This is extremely fun pretty horror told non-linearly and partially-fictionally. I love almost all of it, ending excepted, and I want more! I'm happy with unhappy/not-together-by-the-end/one-sided/closer-to-& takes on any of these ships, and my character death DNW is waived for everyone except Marianne.

Note: I'm fine with references to canon noncon, but if you end up writing about the end, I would like a canon divergence so Emma doesn't end up pregnant.

( Marianne Basselin )


General: I've not seen the latest season, and may or may not have seen it by the time this reveals, but as it's not got Rhona and I'm only asking for Rhona, I'm not too fussed about it. I like selkie!Rhona AUs, fics that explore the challenges of Shetland life vs mainland life, gratuitous digs at Calmac ferries, and Scottish mythology. Explicit Remain-won AUs are delightful, but not necessary as long as I can pretend Remain won and there's no Brexit. Fic in Scottish Gaelic super welcome if you speak it. Background/mentioned Jimmy/Duncan welcome.

Fandom-specific DNW: Rhona permanently moving away from Shetland.

( Rhona )


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.

Fandom-specific DNW: Cary or Cary/Kalinda even as mentions, season 7 canon.

( Kalinda )

Hello friend, it is time for fics and possibly fanmixes in boxes 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 || Opt-ins || Changeling: The Lost || Clique || Gemini (2017) || Hannibal (TV) || Law & Order: Special Victims Unit || Lost Girl || Overwatch || Tidelands || The Basic Eight - Daniel Handler || The Raven Cycle - Maggie Stiefvater


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I am requesting the same four opt-ins for all my fandoms. I've talked a bit about what I like about all of them here, but, as with my fandom prompts, feel free to use or disregard as you see fit.

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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. Adhere as strictly or loosely to game mechanics as feels right for your story. I have some specific freeform tags for this in my Darkest Night letter if you want to use those for inspiration.

( Ambrosia, Dove Knife-Dancer, Liz Malloy, Naamah, Original Female Darkling, Original Female Elemental, The Rogue Sister )


General: Overall I liked series 1 a lot more than series 2, so I have a slight preference for fics set in that time period. Character death DNW waived for canon deaths. References to canon rapes fine but I would prefer no on-screen rape.

( Fay & Rachel & Phoebe & Louise, Georgia/Holly, Jude/Holly, Rachel/Holly )


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.

( Heather & Jamie, Heather & or / Jill, Heather & or / Sierra, Heather/Tracy, Jamie & or / Jill, Jill & or / Tracy )


General: I love this gorgeous dark dreamy murder show and I love all the ladies. 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.

( Abigail/Freddie, Alana/Abigail, Alana/Bedelia, Alana/Beverly, Alana/Freddie, Bedelia/Abigail, Beverly/Freddie )


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.

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


General: I love the Fae politics and the potential for pretty body horror (and, just, horror in general) - it's what the show lured me in with and then, well, they turned Evony human and I got sad >.> Less of that and more Fae shenanigans please. Feel free to bring in more elements of traditional Irish Mythology Morrigan if you want.

( Bo/Evony, Lauren/Evony )


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/Ashe, Ana/Brigitte, Ana/Hana, Ana/Mercy, Ana/Mina, Ana/Sombra, Ana/Symmetra, Hana/Sombra )


General: This is an eight-episode Netflix show about Australian half-mermaids who smuggle drugs and are contemplating ending the world and are just ridiculously pretty. There's small-town weirdness, cult weirdness, WITCH MERMAIDS, prophecies, and murder. And I love it. You should watch it, it delights me and I want so much more of them. When I've requested both & and / versions of a pairing, I will 100% love whichever direction you chose to take the prompts. Combining any of these women into F/F/F threesomes welcome.

( Adrielle/Cal, Adrielle/Leandra, Adrielle/Violca, Adrielle & Dylan, Cal & or / Leandra, Cal & Rosa, Cal & or / Violca )


General: More high school experiences would be improved by absinthe and murder, tbqh. I love the black comedy of the book, and Flan is one of my favourite unreliable narrators, and I just want more, especially post-canon stuff.

( Flannery/Natasha )


General: I love these witchy ladies SO MUCH I allow this series its ridiculous mythology opinions. It makes no sense! It's fun and I don't care! Here for magic, survival, and a slightly more complex take on 'love' than the books had.

( Persephone/Blue, Helen/Blue, Helen/Orla, Calla/Persephone/Maura )

Hello friend, it is Samhain and time for spooky things 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 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 you're shipfic-inclined, happy couples murdering their enemies also definitely counts as a trick for me >:)

I love everything from atmospheric character studies to 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 || Dark Likes || Smut Likes || DNWs || An Enchantment of Ravens - Margaret Rogerson || Aniara - Harry Martinsson || Changeling: The Lost || Dare Me - Megan Abbott || Goblin Market - Christina Rossetti || The Haunting of Hill House - Shirley Jackson || The Southern Reach Trilogy - Jeff Vandermeer || Under the Pendulum Sun - Jeanette Ng


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General: I adore the worldbuilding madly and would love something that gets into all the Craft and glamour and politics of the world, or something with one of the fairy characters that explores their lives and relationships before Isobel started working with/for them. Shipwise I love Isobel/Hemlock, Isobel/Lark, Isobel/Gadfly, and Isobel/Rook, and any gen combinations of the four requested characters + any other character.

( Gadfly, Hemlock, Isobel, Lark )


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 want to bring in things from pre-existing adaptations, I am most familiar with Seventh Wonder's 'The Great Escape' (youtube, lyrics), Andreas Kleerup's Aniara which is on Spotify, and the movie. 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.

Fandom-specific DNW: Male narrator.

( Isagel, The Mima, The Blind Poetess )


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. Adhere as strictly or loosely to game mechanics as feels right for your story.

( Ambrosia, Liz Malloy, Original Female Darkling, Original Female Elemental, Rogue Sister )


General: Man this is sort of my ur-obsession book, isn't it? 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 mentorship that ultimately can't do anything but fail. I ship any/all of the girls with each other, as well as Addy/Colette and Beth/Colette. Sex involving under 16s DNW waived for this fandom.

( Addy, Beth, Colette, Emily, RiRi, Tacy )


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 last year's Darkest Night letter are fair game, including the setting-change AU ones. I am fine with permadeath of any of the requested characters here.

( Jeanie, Lizzie, Laura )


General: Haunted house story of my dreams! I love spooky things about the house as character, and possession, and characters slowly becoming the House/the house's allies without quite realising it. Fic that leans into the ghost/not ghost ambiguity is fantastic, especially when contrasted with how the book itself seems to be so clear-eyed about what's actually happening without ever letting us know what it sees. I ship awful dysfunctional Eleanor/Theo and (as awful as you like, as dysfunctional as you like) Theo/her friend that she was living with.

( The Companion, Eleanor, Hill House, Mrs Montague, Theo )


General: I love these books 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. The canon 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. I love the journal style of Annihilation and epistolary fic is especially welcome for this fandom. Canon-compliant deathfic for any of these characters is fine.

( The Anthropologist, The Biologist, Ghost Bird, Grace Stevenson, The Psychologist, Original F!Expedition Member )


General: 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. I ship any femslash as well as Cathy/Laon and Kasdaye/Penemue. Loads of ship prompts in previous requests for this book

( Ariel, Cathy, Kasdaye, Laon, Mab, The Salamander )