Dear Trick or Treat Writer 2021
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chokolattejediWelcome and thank you, Trick or Treater! Help yourself to some snacks of your choosing!
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Things I love, in general:
- Tropes: aliens made us do it, cooking, dress uniforms/suiting up, glasses (and/or glasses!kink), goddesses/gods, goth or punk AUs
- Archetypes: antisocial geniuses, boys in eyeliner, chaotic neutral or similar characters, double agents, found families, geeks and geekery, spies, spunky chicks, team-as-family, tomboys, tough-on-the-outside bishies, tricks and tricksters
- Animals: animal sidekicks/pets, dragons, kitties, being adopted by the pet in question, other mythological creatures
- Dark: angst, apocalypses, bittersweet endings, blood, dark themes, death, dub-con, dystopias, evil cliffhanger endings, hurt/comfort, illness, insanity, unhappy endings, whump
- Light: comedy, fluff, happy endings, hijinks, shenanigans, shiny things, snark, sneaking, sparkly things, squee
- Queers: bi- or pansexuality, drag queens, established pairs bringing in a mutual third, OT3s
- Relationships: gen, femslash, slash, het, multi
- Style: episoliary, IF, meta, ploty things, random little life/death snippets, worldbuilding
Things I DNW, in general:
- Subjects: animal cruelty, bashing requested characters, dentistry, infidelity
- Kink: coprophilia/watersports, explicit sex scenes/pwp, non-con
- Real Life: COVID, glorified gay bashing, issuefic,** politics
- Style: 2nd Person POV, reader insert
** "issuefic" has a variety of meanings. My meaning: a story where the fact that something could be an issue is the focus. For example, if I ask for slash A/B, and they are in the military, a story about how they can't be out as gay because military - that's issuefic. If chara C is ace, a story about how her mother thinks that ace is a made up thing, or that gays should burn in hell - that's issuefic. They can be gay and fix the spaceship! Or they can be ace and win the spelling bee! Just, I don't want the story to be about how *whatever* is problematic or hard or dangerous in the wider sociopolitical context. I have real life for that. I hope that makes sense, and if you have any questions, please feel free to have the mods ask me for clarification.
Other things, in general: For canons where we know the characters as children, please age them to at least 15 before putting them in romantic relationships. Thank you!
The above may or may not apply to any of my current requests, which I'll detail now in no particular order:
Request Fandom 1: Harry Potter - J. K. Rowling
Harry/Neville, Tonks, Sirius
Request:
Treats: Nev supporting Harry at school. Nev and Harry making out behind the greenhouse. Something with young Tonks and Sirius (pre-Azk). Something about growing up a Metamorph. No-Azk AU with Sirius being there for Harry/Nev/Tonks growing up.
Tricks: Azkaban and the PTSD that surely follows! Harry/Nev as dark lords! Tonks angst about gaining control of Metamorph powers and being teased at Hogwarts, Nev/Harry and the dark shit that happens to *them* at Hogwarts
More Details:
I often turn "light" characters "dark" or "grey" and would love that for anyone here. Either following Voldemort, Dark!Harry, or leading their own crusade! There is also much angst to be had in Nev's backstory, so feel free to go there for tricks. Tonks is in this odd place in cannon, not being of the parent (Siri) generation, but not of the kid (Harry) generation. Much like the elder Weasley brothers. Thus, she was around before that Halloween that the war ended. She knew Sirius as her cousin, at least, if not the whole Marauder gang. How did she feel about what happened? Does the Boy-Who-Lived mean something different to someone who was a kid when it happened? This scenario is rife with treat or trick potential. No epilogue characters, please.
Potential Ships for individuals:
Sirius/Remus, Sirius/James, Sirius/Bellatrix
Tonks/Charlie, Tonks/Bill, Tonks/Harry
Request Fandom 2: Good Omens (TV)
Aziraphale/Crowley
Request:
Treats/Tricks: In preparation for season 2 coming, give me a moment between the almostgeddon and whatever the future holds for our duo. Adam changed a lot more than they thought, and things go Very Wrong? Domestic "we survived, now let's move in together" fluff? Zira keeps saying the same old shit about how demons are inherently evil and Crowley has had enough?
More Details:
I love these two, and I'm really down for anything with them. For this exchange I would enjoy something set after Season 1, as I said, but it doesn't necessarily have to follow the canonical ending. They failed Adam and had to run off to Alpha Centauri? Fine. Something went wrong during their "trials"? Fine. Pretty much anything is good for me.
Request Fandom 3: MASH (TV)
Any
Request:
Treats: Mash is great at giving us those happy, cheerful, loving, or snarky moments between the horror. Give me anyone having one of those.
Tricks: Mash is great at giving us those deep, horror-filled, mind games, or deadly moments between the humor. Give me anyone having one of those.
If that's too broad, you can never go wrong with OR hijinks or prank war shenanigans.
More Details:
Hawkeye is my favorite, probably followed by Radar and Klinger. After that there are just too many to choose from! I really do mean any here! MASH was great, among other things, for giving each character a moment to shine, or a moment to learn something, or a moment to just have the camera focused on them. Feel free to pick your favorite (even if not nominated, like Kelley or whoever, or a generic patient) and follow them.
As I alluded in my official request, MASH is full of both tricks and treats, and I like both sides. If you want to focus on the horror of war (how about that finale for hearbreak! or when the kid is dead and only Klinger can see him...) go for it. The psychological and the physical are both canon. If you want to go for a happy little moment between the scenes, when someone manages to bring some good to the war, that would also be great. A letter home coving a little of both would also be so canon and a great read!
Potential Ships for individuals:
Hawkeye/BJ
Hawkeye/Trapper
Hawkeye/Margaret
Frank/Margaret
Margaret/Kelley
Kelley/Hawkeye
Background canon ships/marriages are fine.
Request Fandom 4: Criminal Minds (TV)
Derek & or / Garcia
Request:
Treats: I love their banter! domestic scenes around the house, reuniting in person after a long case, surprising the other for a birthday/holiday/after a long week
Tricks: Angsty emotional h/c dealing with the kind of cases they deal with. Physical h/c when Derek's injured on a case
More Details:
All of my prompts are for / or & or ambiguous. Their canonical non-romantic relationship already lends itself to all kinds of cuddles and gifts and pet names, without adding kisses and sex, so feel free to go wild in any direction.
Exploration of Garcia's hacker past, fallout from one of the cases that affected her personally, or where that cop tried to kill her, are also great. Fallout from one of the cases that affected Derek personally (nothing graphically explicit about his childhood trauma, please), or just the slow build up of having to see this kind of carnage day after day are also great angsty or h/c fodder. I love me some injury h/c, so feel free to run wild with that. And of course, anything fluffy and domestic at home or in the office is wonderful.
Request Fandom 5: The Good Place (TV)
Janet, Bad Janet
Request:
Treats: Bad Janet, day in the life. Or that moment of solidarity between the Janets while facing Gen. Good Janet, completely confused by the "good place" denizens other than the fab four. Why do they keep requesting spiders? etc
Tricks: Bad Janet masquerading as Good Janet and trying to screw up their neighborhood. What does she get up to when the fab four aren't around? Good Janet, trapped in the Bad Place during that time, what horrors befell her? Either request could be campy, could be horror, could be whatever.
More Details:
All of the stories are on the human fab four. I just want stories about the Janets! Something set during the first iterations of the Neighborhood would be great. What do bad Janet and the rest of the official "bad" gang get up to while waiting for the plot to kick off? This has to be the easiest gig ever, just appearing once a month or so instead of having to actually torture all day. Are they just sitting around playing Final Fantasy or something all day? Or are they secretly shape-shifting and are actually part of the "good place" neighborhood?
Speaking of that period, how does Good Janet *not* realize that something is up? Maybe the demons request all kinds of nonsense from her? Or she sees things she needs to explain away in her mine? That kind of unreliable narrator trying to explain their surroundings has the potential to be hilarious and maybe cracky!
Also, what is even the point of a Bad Janet? Just to show up and tell you "no"?
Okay, but also, later in the series, when Bad Janet pretends to be Good Janet -- both of their POVs would be rife with shenanigans and potential angst. And then that arc for Bad Janet, when she kind of catches feelings for the gang? And then when all the Janets stand in solidarity against Gen while she's turning them into marbles?! Feel free to include/focus on Neutral Janets or Disco Janets if you want. Is there maybe a fifth kind of Janet that we didn't see? The possibilities are endless!
Potential Ships:
Janet/Janet love is always welcome, but gen or something unrequited in any direction with a human or demon is also very much fine.
Additionally, browsing me on AO3 will lead you to my writings, if you think that would be helpful or fun. :D
I think that's everything! Thanks so much!!!
