Aug. 1st, 2019 12:39 pm
darkest night 2019
Hello friend, it is time for darkfic 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've by and large chosen canons I love for their worldbuilding and mytharcs as well as their characters and relationships, and I am easy to please as long as you stay away from my DNWs (both general and canon-specific), so don't feel like you Have to write any of my specific prompts. Don't read anything into relative lengths of sections, I am equally happy to get something for anything in this letter! Some of these prompts are reused from old letters, and if you have written them for me before, rest assured that I loved your fic, I am simply greedy and would like to see every possible take on my favourite scenarios.
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 || Smut Likes || DNWs || Changeling: The Lost || Critical Role || Crossovers || Once Upon A Fearytale - Snow White Bllod (Album) || The Lord of the Rings - J. R. R. Tolkien || The Magnus Archives || The Southern Reach Trilogy - Jeff Vandermeer || Under the Pendulum Sun - Jeanette Ng
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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.
( Requested Tags )
( Ambrosia, Liz Malloy, Original Female Darkling, Original Female Elemental, Rogue Sister )
General: I consider the campaign guide, artbook, and anything said on Talks Machina nebulously canon at best (and don't know much of what's said on Talks, because I can neither watch live nor afford Alpha) so feel free to conform to/depart from what they say as you wish. I'm familiar with most wider D&D lore/sourcebooks/mechanics from 3.5e onwards, including 5e's unearthed arcana, if you want inspiration for additional worldbuilding/plotting (though I know 4e best). 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 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!). Canonverse Vampire!Cassandra and fey!Vex are welcome AUs for any of these ships. Campaign 1 requests are fairly focussed on dark versions of the protagonists, Campaign 2 requests are fairly focussed on the pirate arc and weird gods.
Tal'Dorei Campaign DNW: Scanlan, Percy, Percy/Vex even as a mention/background, ace!Keyleth
Wildemount Campaign DNW: Nott, Mollymauk, Avantika's E43 ending being treated as a permanent death.
( Requested Tags: Tal'Dorei Campaign )
( Allura, Cassandra, Cassandra/Raishan, Delilah/Cassandra, Delilah/Keyleth, Delilah/Vex, Keyleth/Raishan, Keyleth/Raishan/Allura, Vesh/The Raven Queen, Vex )
( Requested Tags: Wildemount Campaign )
( Avantika, Avantika/Beau, Avantika/Jester, Beau/Ophelia, Beau/Dashilla, Jester & The Traveler )
General:
( Requested Tags )
( Metal Videos Crossovers, Witch Edition )
( Tolkien Crossovers )
General: This album is basically 'fairytales, but more weird and more symphonic metal, so if any of those things sppeal to you you should check it out! I've provided youtube and lyric links for the songs in which my requested characters appear below, but the whole album is on the usual iTunes/Spotify/etc.
DNW Note: The age of the brother & sister is super vague, I'd be happy for them to be anywhere in the 10-18 range and that wouldn't hit my kidfic DNW.
( Requested Tags )
( The Brother & The Sister, The Sleeper/The Wicked Fairy )
General: I love the lush expansiveness of Tolkien's work, the history and the care and the sheer amount of space characters are allowed to take up and that we are able to fill in. My favourite bits are the horror and the weird fey things, but moments of levity and happy couples dealing with supernatural things (happy couples murdering other things :D) are also excellent! Feel free to play pick-and-choose with various bits of history from the Silm/Unfinished Tales/etc as you like - I'm familiar with everything.
( Requested Tags )
( Galadriel, Goldberry, Old Man Willow )
General: I love horror canons and eldritch things and unconventional formatting and pretty much everything about this story! I read rather than listen and am only up to 115 where the official transcripts end so I'd prefer something set before then. Permanent death for anyone is totally fine here.
( Requested Tags )
( Melanie & Helen, Sasha/Helen )
General: I love them as a changeling story, I love them as a story of nature-as-entity, I love them as a story of how desolation is never bleak and usually alive. I would prefer you use the characters' professions to describe them (eg "the psychologist" ) in narration, rather than their names. I am fine with canon-consistent 'being eaten by Area X' for either of the requested characters but DNW them to die in any other way. 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.
( Requested Tags )
( Original F!Expedition Member/Original F!Expedition Member, The Biologist / or & The Psychologist, The Biologist & Ghost Bird, The Biologist & The Surveyor, The Biologist, The Surveryor )
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. Feel free to combine any of these requests to make an OT3. Basically, just lean into the WEIRD and I will be super happy!
( Requested Tags )
( Ariel/Cathy, Ariel/Mab, Cathy/Kasdaye, Cathy/Laon, Cathy/Mab )
I've by and large chosen canons I love for their worldbuilding and mytharcs as well as their characters and relationships, and I am easy to please as long as you stay away from my DNWs (both general and canon-specific), so don't feel like you Have to write any of my specific prompts. Don't read anything into relative lengths of sections, I am equally happy to get something for anything in this letter! Some of these prompts are reused from old letters, and if you have written them for me before, rest assured that I loved your fic, I am simply greedy and would like to see every possible take on my favourite scenarios.
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 || Smut Likes || DNWs || Changeling: The Lost || Critical Role || Crossovers || Once Upon A Fearytale - Snow White Bllod (Album) || The Lord of the Rings - J. R. R. Tolkien || The Magnus Archives || The Southern Reach Trilogy - Jeff Vandermeer || Under the Pendulum Sun - Jeanette Ng
( Read more... )
( Read more... )
( Read more... )
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.
( Requested Tags )
( Ambrosia, Liz Malloy, Original Female Darkling, Original Female Elemental, Rogue Sister )
General: I consider the campaign guide, artbook, and anything said on Talks Machina nebulously canon at best (and don't know much of what's said on Talks, because I can neither watch live nor afford Alpha) so feel free to conform to/depart from what they say as you wish. I'm familiar with most wider D&D lore/sourcebooks/mechanics from 3.5e onwards, including 5e's unearthed arcana, if you want inspiration for additional worldbuilding/plotting (though I know 4e best). 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 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!). Canonverse Vampire!Cassandra and fey!Vex are welcome AUs for any of these ships. Campaign 1 requests are fairly focussed on dark versions of the protagonists, Campaign 2 requests are fairly focussed on the pirate arc and weird gods.
Tal'Dorei Campaign DNW: Scanlan, Percy, Percy/Vex even as a mention/background, ace!Keyleth
Wildemount Campaign DNW: Nott, Mollymauk, Avantika's E43 ending being treated as a permanent death.
( Requested Tags: Tal'Dorei Campaign )
( Allura, Cassandra, Cassandra/Raishan, Delilah/Cassandra, Delilah/Keyleth, Delilah/Vex, Keyleth/Raishan, Keyleth/Raishan/Allura, Vesh/The Raven Queen, Vex )
( Requested Tags: Wildemount Campaign )
( Avantika, Avantika/Beau, Avantika/Jester, Beau/Ophelia, Beau/Dashilla, Jester & The Traveler )
General:
( Requested Tags )
( Metal Videos Crossovers, Witch Edition )
( Tolkien Crossovers )
General: This album is basically 'fairytales, but more weird and more symphonic metal, so if any of those things sppeal to you you should check it out! I've provided youtube and lyric links for the songs in which my requested characters appear below, but the whole album is on the usual iTunes/Spotify/etc.
DNW Note: The age of the brother & sister is super vague, I'd be happy for them to be anywhere in the 10-18 range and that wouldn't hit my kidfic DNW.
( Requested Tags )
( The Brother & The Sister, The Sleeper/The Wicked Fairy )
General: I love the lush expansiveness of Tolkien's work, the history and the care and the sheer amount of space characters are allowed to take up and that we are able to fill in. My favourite bits are the horror and the weird fey things, but moments of levity and happy couples dealing with supernatural things (happy couples murdering other things :D) are also excellent! Feel free to play pick-and-choose with various bits of history from the Silm/Unfinished Tales/etc as you like - I'm familiar with everything.
( Requested Tags )
( Galadriel, Goldberry, Old Man Willow )
General: I love horror canons and eldritch things and unconventional formatting and pretty much everything about this story! I read rather than listen and am only up to 115 where the official transcripts end so I'd prefer something set before then. Permanent death for anyone is totally fine here.
( Requested Tags )
( Melanie & Helen, Sasha/Helen )
General: I love them as a changeling story, I love them as a story of nature-as-entity, I love them as a story of how desolation is never bleak and usually alive. I would prefer you use the characters' professions to describe them (eg "the psychologist" ) in narration, rather than their names. I am fine with canon-consistent 'being eaten by Area X' for either of the requested characters but DNW them to die in any other way. 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.
( Requested Tags )
( Original F!Expedition Member/Original F!Expedition Member, The Biologist / or & The Psychologist, The Biologist & Ghost Bird, The Biologist & The Surveyor, The Biologist, The Surveryor )
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. Feel free to combine any of these requests to make an OT3. Basically, just lean into the WEIRD and I will be super happy!
( Requested Tags )
( Ariel/Cathy, Ariel/Mab, Cathy/Kasdaye, Cathy/Laon, Cathy/Mab )