Trick or Treat 2020!

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Hello, creator!

Thank you for taking the time to make something for me this fall season, and I’m so excited to see what you come up with. This is my first ToT, which makes it extra exciting. I hope it gives you some guidance (but only as much as you want!)

I'm totally open to any Battle of the Bands influence, but my eyes started crossing when I looked at the tagset. If a song makes sense for you as a prompt and works with my likes, go for it! I don't know if it'd be cool by the mod, but I'd accept any extra gifts with the song as the fandom under the same if-it-seems-like-I'd-like-it logic.

GENERAL

I really love autumn, so that's mostly where my head is at right now. I’m into horror (psychological over gore, but good gore can certainly amplify the former), supernatural, cartoonish spookiness, Aesthetic Spooks that aren’t really spooky at all, urban fantasy, apple orchards, state fairs, rainy months heading into winter, seasonal baking, dress-up, people loving Halloween and all things spooky, people being underwhelmed by totally bogus commercialized holidays (except, who’s that, standing on the hill?), harmless teenage nonsense, Heathers-level teenage nonsense… Just about every trope you can imagine, I’m into it!

I try to keep notes down-letter more fandom-specific, but please feel free to mix and match when it comes to my general likes and such!

Art likes: oversaturation, contrast, color blocking; tender moments (fingers brushing, kissing, holding hands, intense eye contact), atmosphere and settings; details and clutter

General likes: Relationship messiness (infidelity, rough patches in established relationships, break up-make up, codependency, us vs. the world etc.); physical or social isolation, loyalty and group dynamics; missing scenes; competency, characters owning their environments; FALL!!!

DNW: existential horror, apocalypse, massive natural disasters, or complete dystopias (isolated incidents fine); incest treated as normal or culturally accepted, intergenerational incest; gore or body horror, serious injury during or as the result of sex; gender or sex swap; impact play (spanking, caning, etc.); slavery; explicit underage sex (<16); unrequested poly; depictions of IRL bigotry; focus on IRL religion

Generally speaking, I'm not terribly squeamish—I know I have some violent canons or prompts here, and I'm totally comfortable with canon levels, or new events being added for plot purposes. Mostly what I'm not into is focusing on the injury or pain: someone getting stabbed and being in pain or moving slower because of it, for instance, is fine. I am not interested in vivid descriptions of the damage it's doing or how it feels, or more OTT injuries.

REQUESTS

1917

Requested: Tom Blake, William Schofield

Prompts

Given the nature of the canon, it feels weird to say that Blake and Schofield’s interactions were sweet, but… they were? I think part of why 1917 worked as well as it did was because of those moments where you could exhale. The “age before beauty” really killed me; Schofield was so aware of Blake’s relative youth and naivete, even through his bravery and bullheadedness, and I’d love to see that explored more, too, within the realm of friendship or shipping.

Post-canon would also be really interesting, either canon-compliant PAIN and the feeling (or experience) or being haunted, or them maybe trying to adjust to something back in the real world — the trauma, the attitudes of the time, Schrodinger's Schofield's Family. (I'm into either the "sister and nieces route" or infidelity; please don’t villainize Mrs. Schofield either way.)

Every war is different: While I’m not as familiar with British military history, I’d be interested in how things would look different (or the same) in different wars through time. The US in Vietnam is a pretty obvious instance of fiction digging into the senseless horror or war, but hardly the only one.

Magnus Archives AU: The Slaughter! The Hunt! The Lonely!

Night in the Woods

Requested Characters: Angus Delaney, Greggory Lee, Mae Borowski, Bea Santello, Casey Hartley, Mae Borowski's Grandfather

Finally got the chance to play this a few months ago and I absolutely adored everything about it. It being a half-step apart from ours but still feeling just so real makes it just so exciting to go exploring in more.

Weird August: This just fits so well into the season, I’m about to start a replay even though I just finished playing it in June (usually, I never replay something before it’s been so long I’ve forgotten all of it). So give me more Halloween in Possum Springs! More traditions! Pranks!
Myth Making: I’d love something along the lines of Longest Night—more telling each other stories, being immersed in one's own culture—or spending more time in the library or historical places, digging deeper into the cult’s beliefs, how things got to the point they did.

And a few more choice Jump Scare freeforms: 24 hr convenience store in a really weird neighborhood AU (“AU”), dreams bleeding into reality, Forest Is Dark and Mysterious and Possibly Sentient But Definitely Out to Get Us, In-Universe Lore and Myth, Pranks and Practical Jokes, Telling scary stories that turn out to be real, Losing Confidence in the Belief that the Monster is Really Dead Over Time, Investigating The Evil Cult

Red Dead Redemption

Requested characters: John Marston, Arthur Morgan
Optional Pairings: John Marston/Arthur Morgan, Arthur Morgan/Charles Smith (While I don't particularly love John/Abigail, please don't bash her if you write them not together)

The Gang as Pack/Coven/Group of Supernatural Beings of Your Choice: I loved the codependent little circle the gang maintains, right up until things started to fall apart, and I think it’d work really well with
— Dutch and Hosea were just Lestat-and-Louising it up until they found Arthur, and Dutch just had to turn him. And Miss Grimshaw. And—listen, it’s working out for them, isn’t it?
— Van de Lindes vs. O’Driscolls = werewolves vs. vampires (or vice versa, or whatever else)

The Road AU: Yes, the Cormac McCarthy one (or, well, I haven’t seen the movie, but I imagine it’d work just fine as a source as well.) The idea of John and Jack as the father and son jumped in my head recently, and now I want it. Apocalypse DNW obviously does not apply.

The Vampire of St. Denis and other such canon oddities. Feel free to expand upon what’s already there or build your own for them to stumble upon.

Monster Hunting as Bounty Hunting: It’s an honest way to earn some money… or is it?
— Someone gets changed, and it challenges some preconceived notions. Or maybe it doesn’t matter that they’re still them, and now they have to run.
— No one gets changed, but the hunter’s conscious gets more and more unsure about what they’re doing.

Re: my IRL bigotry DNW, I understand that it'd be pretty hard-to-impossible to write about how Charles got where he did without any racism in the world, so please don't feel obligated to go that far, but I'd still prefer for nothing major to happen within the plot of the story.

 

Tri Phi — Molly Stanard

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Requested characters: Any
Pairings: Demon Girl & New Pledges, Ghost Girl/Her Internet Girlfriend, Werewolf Girl/Mummy Girl & Their Dogs, Vampire Girl/Werewolf Girl, Zombie Girl/Roommate Whose Things She Ate - or anything else! I'm not huge on poly but I love casual dating, hook-ups, fooling around, etc.

These illustrations build up SO MUCH happening all at once, and I just want to hear all about this house and all the girls who live in it and the campus it’s on. I’d really prefer that this mostly be fun, but I’d love a campy approach to sorority girls and scary (“scary”) movies and tropey set-ups along those lines.

And while it’s a bit corny of me, but I do genuinely love the #sisterhood where, even if they have petty roommate problems or species rivalries, they still have each other’s backs against, like, their annoying brother frat’s pranks or there being a home invader during a thunderstorm or Prof. Frankenstein’s finals always being the stuff of nightmares

One last set of Jump Scare freeforms: Scary But Have Fun With It, telling scary stories, Sketchy Carnivals, Pranks and Practical Jokes, pranks gone wrong, Belated Realization That Your Jerk "Friends" Tricked You Into This Horrifying Situation, Characters Wander Into The Extra Creepy Part Of The Cursed Forest, Crack Treated Semi-Seriously, It Was A Dark And Stormy Night, man eating lesbians strike again, Monsters Having A Swell Time, Would-Be Bad Guy Underestimates Target