Trick or Treat Letter
Dear author or artist:
Thanks in advance for the gift fic or art! This is my first year participating in this exchange and I'm super excited about it. I try to foster a low-pressure environment, so just know that I'm fairly easy to please. If you have fun drawing or writing for me, I'm sure I'll enjoy it, too!
Themes/tropes I like include mysteries, action/adventure, humor (inc. crack!fic), hurt/comfort, rescuing/being rescued (from dangerous situation, not so much emotionally), snappy dialogue, forced to work together (to overcome obstacle, solve puzzle, defeat bad guy, etc), drama, angst, bromance, friendship, found family, epistolary fic, dark!fic, and exploration of character back stories and/or motivations.
Spooky and supernatural elements I like include ghost stories, haunted houses, vampires, spooky or scary situations that wind up having a mundane explanation (like in Scooby Doo!), magical creatures, demons & angels, creepy fortune tellers/prophecies of doom, body swap, reincarnation, and post-death reunions.
Kinks I like include femdom, MMF threesomes, DP, CFNM or CMNM, crossdressing, pegging, partially clothed sex, frottage, bondage, sensory deprivation, tease and denial, and non-sexual affection (where affection is lavished on someone with absolutely no expectation of it turning sexual in that moment - okay, prob not technically a kink but whatever, you get what I mean).
I don't particularly like things like mpreg (although Bucky is an exception - see below), A/B/O, gender swap (although trans and non-binary characters are fine), kid!fic, or anything too schmoopy or fluffy. AUs that explore different choices the characters could have made in canon are okay, but nothing that puts them in a completely new environment or time period, please. I'm not triggered by non-con or dub-con, but I'd prefer not to go there for any of these characters (although Bucky - poor guy - is an exception once again - see below).
I have no preference for present vs. past tense or first vs. third POV, so do whatever you want there. Second person is risky, but it's not an instant backbutton for me. Any rating is okay. These prompts are just suggestions, so if your muse takes you in another direction that's fine with me.
For the specific fandoms and characters I've requested (in alphabetical order):
Hannibal - (Will Graham, Hannibal Lecter, Abigail Hobbs, Dr. Frederick Chilton, Jack Crawford, Bedelia Du Maurier, Freddie Lounds, Miriam Lass, The Wendigo)
This show. Seriously, this show! If you can out-weird or out-creep or out-id this show I will be incredibly impressed.
Fic:
This album has several unexpectedly and delightfully creepy songs. I picked my two favorites to nominate and request, and I think they fit the theme of this exchange perfectly. I'd love to see any aspect of the stories behind the songs explored.
In a Week - (Male Corpse, Female Corpse)
Fic & Art: The lyrics are the prompts!
"In A Week" Lyrics
I have never known peace like the damp grass that yields to me
I have never known hunger like these insects that feast on me
A thousand teeth and yours among them, I know
Our hungers appeased, our heart beats becoming slow
We'll lay here for years or for hours
Thrown here or found, to freeze or to thaw
So long, we'd become the flowers
Two corpses we were, two corpses I saw
And they'd find us in a week
When the weather gets hot
After the insects have made their claim
I'll be home with you, I'll be home with you
I have never known sleep like this slumber that creeps to me
I have never known colors like this morning reveals to me
And you haven't moved an inch such that I would not know
If you sleep always like this, flesh calmly going cold
We'll lay here for years or for hours
Your hand in my hand, so still and discreet
So long, we'd become the flowers
We'd feed well the land and worry the sheep
And they'd find us in a week
When the cattle'd show fear
After the insects have made their claim
After the foxes have known our taste
I'll be home with you, I'll be home with you
And they'd find us in a week
When the weather gets hot
And they'd find us in a week
When the cattle'd show fear
And they'd find us in a week
When the buzzards get loud
After the insects have made their claim
After the foxes have known our taste
After the raven has had his say
I'll be home with you, I'll be home with you
I'll be home with you, I'll be home with you
I'll be home with you, I'll be home with you
Like Real People Do - (Narrator, Honey)
Fic & Art: The lyrics are the prompts! Note: The narrator addresses the other as "honey" but feel free to put a name to him or her if you like.
"Like Real People Do" Lyrics
I had a thought, dear
However scary
About that night
The bugs and the dirt
Why were you digging?
What did you bury
Before those hands pulled me
From the earth?
I will not ask you where you came from
I will not ask and neither should you
Honey just put your sweet lips on my lips
We should just kiss like real people do
I knew that look dear
Eyes always seeking
Was there in someone
That dug long ago
So I will not ask you
Why you were creeping
In some sad way I already know
So I will not ask you where you came from
I would not ask and neither would you
Honey just put your sweet lips on my lips
We should just kiss like real people do
I could not ask you where you came from
I could not ask and neither could you
Honey just put your sweet lips on my lips
We could just kiss like real people do
MCU - Avengers Connected - (James "Bucky" Barnes, Timothy "Dum Dum" Dugan, Nick Fury's Grandfather, Jim Morita, James Montgomery Falsworth, Gabriel Jones, Steve Rogers, Peggy Carter)
I love the Howling Commandos! I would have nominated them as a group if I could have, but feel free to write them as an ensemble or focus on individuals - it's all good. I ship Steve/Bucky, Steve/Peggy, and Steve/Peggy/Bucky, but I'm also good with gen BFF dynamics.
Fic:
I love everyone in this bar! Pretty much anything you want to write or draw and any character(s) you want to focus on will be okay by me. Shippy or gen, I'm good with either. I don't particularly ship Phryne and Jack - I prefer her being the free-spirited swinging single - although I do thoroughly enjoy their UST and his grudging admiration of her. Hugh/Dot are awkwardly cute, and Cec and Bert's loyalty and squabbling are adorable.
Fic:
I picked closet monster for the nostalgia factor (I was definitely convinced I had one when I was a kid - and for the record I slept with the closet door open), and vampire to scratch my id. If you pair up some vampires, I prefer M/M. Feel free to make them as close to human or as creepily "other" as you like.
Fic & Art:
I need fix it fic or art for this unrelenting angst-fest of a title! Or at least, flashback-to-happier-times fic or art. Please? Feel free to focus on all or any one of the characters. Ship fic or gen BFFs - it's all good to me!
Fic:
Thanks in advance for the gift fic or art! This is my first year participating in this exchange and I'm super excited about it. I try to foster a low-pressure environment, so just know that I'm fairly easy to please. If you have fun drawing or writing for me, I'm sure I'll enjoy it, too!
Themes/tropes I like include mysteries, action/adventure, humor (inc. crack!fic), hurt/comfort, rescuing/being rescued (from dangerous situation, not so much emotionally), snappy dialogue, forced to work together (to overcome obstacle, solve puzzle, defeat bad guy, etc), drama, angst, bromance, friendship, found family, epistolary fic, dark!fic, and exploration of character back stories and/or motivations.
Spooky and supernatural elements I like include ghost stories, haunted houses, vampires, spooky or scary situations that wind up having a mundane explanation (like in Scooby Doo!), magical creatures, demons & angels, creepy fortune tellers/prophecies of doom, body swap, reincarnation, and post-death reunions.
Kinks I like include femdom, MMF threesomes, DP, CFNM or CMNM, crossdressing, pegging, partially clothed sex, frottage, bondage, sensory deprivation, tease and denial, and non-sexual affection (where affection is lavished on someone with absolutely no expectation of it turning sexual in that moment - okay, prob not technically a kink but whatever, you get what I mean).
I don't particularly like things like mpreg (although Bucky is an exception - see below), A/B/O, gender swap (although trans and non-binary characters are fine), kid!fic, or anything too schmoopy or fluffy. AUs that explore different choices the characters could have made in canon are okay, but nothing that puts them in a completely new environment or time period, please. I'm not triggered by non-con or dub-con, but I'd prefer not to go there for any of these characters (although Bucky - poor guy - is an exception once again - see below).
I have no preference for present vs. past tense or first vs. third POV, so do whatever you want there. Second person is risky, but it's not an instant backbutton for me. Any rating is okay. These prompts are just suggestions, so if your muse takes you in another direction that's fine with me.
For the specific fandoms and characters I've requested (in alphabetical order):
Hannibal - (Will Graham, Hannibal Lecter, Abigail Hobbs, Dr. Frederick Chilton, Jack Crawford, Bedelia Du Maurier, Freddie Lounds, Miriam Lass, The Wendigo)
This show. Seriously, this show! If you can out-weird or out-creep or out-id this show I will be incredibly impressed.
Fic:
- The final fight with Dolarhyde hit my id like whoa! Hannibal and Will hunting like a pack to bring the larger predator down, Hannibal ripping D's throat out with his teeth, the happy cannibal noises they made at the end in each other's arms...I'd like to see more of that.
- AU in which Abigail lives and the Murder Family hunts as a pack.
- Exploration of the time any of the characters spent alone with Hannibal (especially Abigail, Bedelia, or Miriam).
- Chilton and his Frankensteined skin grafts - who were the donors?
- How does Bedelia's story end?
- Freddie Lounds chronicling the Murder Husbands' exploits through Europe. What are the headlines? Maybe she and Chilton team up to make a buck (she of course trademarked Murder Husbands). Maybe she (and/or Chilton) teams up with Jack to solve other weird murders.
- The Wendigo - geez, I don't even know what I want but I had to nominate it. Just anything - go wild!
- Any of the above, or
- Will Graham, Dog Thief (or International Seal Thief)
- Hannibal's fanart of any of the requested characters
This album has several unexpectedly and delightfully creepy songs. I picked my two favorites to nominate and request, and I think they fit the theme of this exchange perfectly. I'd love to see any aspect of the stories behind the songs explored.
In a Week - (Male Corpse, Female Corpse)
Fic & Art: The lyrics are the prompts!
"In A Week" Lyrics
I have never known peace like the damp grass that yields to me
I have never known hunger like these insects that feast on me
A thousand teeth and yours among them, I know
Our hungers appeased, our heart beats becoming slow
We'll lay here for years or for hours
Thrown here or found, to freeze or to thaw
So long, we'd become the flowers
Two corpses we were, two corpses I saw
And they'd find us in a week
When the weather gets hot
After the insects have made their claim
I'll be home with you, I'll be home with you
I have never known sleep like this slumber that creeps to me
I have never known colors like this morning reveals to me
And you haven't moved an inch such that I would not know
If you sleep always like this, flesh calmly going cold
We'll lay here for years or for hours
Your hand in my hand, so still and discreet
So long, we'd become the flowers
We'd feed well the land and worry the sheep
And they'd find us in a week
When the cattle'd show fear
After the insects have made their claim
After the foxes have known our taste
I'll be home with you, I'll be home with you
And they'd find us in a week
When the weather gets hot
And they'd find us in a week
When the cattle'd show fear
And they'd find us in a week
When the buzzards get loud
After the insects have made their claim
After the foxes have known our taste
After the raven has had his say
I'll be home with you, I'll be home with you
I'll be home with you, I'll be home with you
I'll be home with you, I'll be home with you
Like Real People Do - (Narrator, Honey)
Fic & Art: The lyrics are the prompts! Note: The narrator addresses the other as "honey" but feel free to put a name to him or her if you like.
"Like Real People Do" Lyrics
I had a thought, dear
However scary
About that night
The bugs and the dirt
Why were you digging?
What did you bury
Before those hands pulled me
From the earth?
I will not ask you where you came from
I will not ask and neither should you
Honey just put your sweet lips on my lips
We should just kiss like real people do
I knew that look dear
Eyes always seeking
Was there in someone
That dug long ago
So I will not ask you
Why you were creeping
In some sad way I already know
So I will not ask you where you came from
I would not ask and neither would you
Honey just put your sweet lips on my lips
We should just kiss like real people do
I could not ask you where you came from
I could not ask and neither could you
Honey just put your sweet lips on my lips
We could just kiss like real people do
MCU - Avengers Connected - (James "Bucky" Barnes, Timothy "Dum Dum" Dugan, Nick Fury's Grandfather, Jim Morita, James Montgomery Falsworth, Gabriel Jones, Steve Rogers, Peggy Carter)
I love the Howling Commandos! I would have nominated them as a group if I could have, but feel free to write them as an ensemble or focus on individuals - it's all good. I ship Steve/Bucky, Steve/Peggy, and Steve/Peggy/Bucky, but I'm also good with gen BFF dynamics.
Fic:
- A "Monkey's Paw" type of story, in which Peggy wishes for Steve to come back. She goes to the dance hall a week later for their date, hoping against hope. And Steve does show up, but he comes back...wrong.
- Bucky body horror mpreg due to a Hydra cloning experiment to replicate the Winter Soldier. Dubcon elements are okay here, but please avoid any outright rape/sexual assault.
- "Alone. Yes, that's the key word, the most awful word in the English tongue. Murder doesn't hold a candle to it and hell is only a poor synonym." - Stephen King. Steve is trapped in the ice, alone, and slowly...slowly freezing. Perhaps he was even conscious the whole time?
- The ghosts of war.
- Encountering magical artifacts from a Hydra stash.
- Nick Fury's grandfather was an elevator operator in an old building for 40 years, and he often told young Nick stories about the building's strange residents, and their even stranger guests.
- Any of the above, or character(s) as supernatural creatures
I love everyone in this bar! Pretty much anything you want to write or draw and any character(s) you want to focus on will be okay by me. Shippy or gen, I'm good with either. I don't particularly ship Phryne and Jack - I prefer her being the free-spirited swinging single - although I do thoroughly enjoy their UST and his grudging admiration of her. Hugh/Dot are awkwardly cute, and Cec and Bert's loyalty and squabbling are adorable.
Fic:
- Masquerade ball...with murder!
- One character gets a bad fortune or is "cursed" or has a ghostly encounter. Other character freaks out and tries to help but makes things worse, and they finally turn to Phryne and/or Jack for help.
- The murder of the week appears to have a supernatural element to it. One character is surprisingly superstitious and believes it's ghosts (or fairies or werewolves or whatever). The other believes there is a logical, rational explanation for everything. Who is right?
- Any of the above, or
- Characters as supernatural creatures (e.g., flapper werewolf?)
- Steampunk lady detective and posse
I picked closet monster for the nostalgia factor (I was definitely convinced I had one when I was a kid - and for the record I slept with the closet door open), and vampire to scratch my id. If you pair up some vampires, I prefer M/M. Feel free to make them as close to human or as creepily "other" as you like.
Fic & Art:
- I love sire bonding, erotic blood drinking, and any rituals or customs involved in siring a new vampire.
- The first few days as a new vampire, trying out his new powers, makng his first kill, etc. Bonus points for his sire mentoring him (and maybe a little daddy!kink with lots of praise if you want to go there - I sure do!).
- What do vampires do in their spare time to combat the "been there, done that" ennui of immortality?
- There are two types of people in this world: those who sleep with the closet door shut, and those who keep it open - because they want to see what's coming for them.
- Helpful Closet Monster is helpful.
- Closet Monsters Anonymous
- Vampire meets Closet Monster?
I need fix it fic or art for this unrelenting angst-fest of a title! Or at least, flashback-to-happier-times fic or art. Please? Feel free to focus on all or any one of the characters. Ship fic or gen BFFs - it's all good to me!
Fic:
- Gladiators being gladiators! The trio fighting it out in the Killeseum.
- Gladiator porn! What do they get up to in between bouts?
- What does Devil think about all of this, anyway?
- Alternate ending in which they retire to a goat farm and live happily ever after (more or less).
- If you really must trick, how about something like Bucky's ghost haunting Steve? Or Steve being doomed to forever search for and attempt to rescue Bucky - even after Steve himself dies - with varying degrees of success.
- Any of the above, or the trio cuddling up to sleep.