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Crueltide (2019)
Credit to for_sorrow for the original post and macrocosmica for the dreamwidth port!
Not every story is pleasant. Not every story has a happy ending, and not all happy endings come without a dark and painful journey. And sometimes, those are the kinds of stories that we really, really want to read.
Why Crueltide?
Because darkfic isn't to everyone's taste. By making it easier to identify darkfic prompts and people open to receiving darkfic in yuletide, we can all indulge our preferences without placing undue pressure on our assigned writers or risking gifting unwelcome fics to our recipients. (And also: the name was the least cutesy of those being thrown around in 2014.)
What is darkfic?
Depends on your definition. But here's a (non-exhaustive) list of darker tropes to get you started:
(White text used as some content may be triggering to some - highlight to read.)
Addiction - Amputation - Animal Abuse - Apocalypse - Betrayal - Body Horror - Brainwashing - Cannibalism - Character Death - Child Abuse - Claustrophobia - Conspiracy - Degradation - Disease - Dystopia - Gaslighting - Hauntings - Humiliation - Hypothermia - Insanity - Invasion of Privacy - Lovecraftian Cosmic Horrors - Medical Experimentation - Mind Control - Monsters - Murder - Mutilation - Non-Con - Paranoia - Poisoning - Prison - PTSD - Sadism - Slavery - Suicide - Torture - Unhappy Endings - Violence
Does a darkfic story have to have an unhappy ending/some other specific trope?
No! Not at all. Just because a story is packed with darkfic tropes doesn't mean there's no light at the end of the tunnel.
Also, just because you like one trope, it doesn't mean you like all of them. Feel free to specify your do-not-wants alongside your wants.
Great, how does it work?
-- If you end up writing a darkfic story, just tag it with Crueltide when you upload it to the collection, and that'll help readers find more of what they like. It would also be good to tag any particular tropes you've used, to help readers find/avoid them. That's all you need to do!
-- If you would like to receive a darkfic story in one of the fandoms you've requested in your yuletide sign-up, you can advertise that here by replying to this post. (The template below is merely a suggestion of what to include - the level of detail in prompts/tropes is entirely up to you. But please do limit yourself to fandoms on your Yuletide sign-up - the Yuletide mods need to be sure you get a fic in one of those, and a treat in an unexpected fandom could make that awkward. )
AO3: ao3 username
Letter: dear yuletide writer (URL)
Fandoms: fandom details here
Happy Endings Preferred?: yes/no/don't mind
Wanted tropes: list any of your favorite dark tropes, themes, or prompts here.
Unwanted tropes: list your darkfic do-not-wants here.
If you want to advertise your requested fandoms as being particularly dark and of potential interest to others, feel free to comment along those lines too.
Alternatively, if you only want your assigned writer to know what you're into, just make a mention of darkfic/crueltide in your optional details as part of your signup.
for_sorrow for the original post and macrocosmica for the dreamwidth port!Not every story is pleasant. Not every story has a happy ending, and not all happy endings come without a dark and painful journey. And sometimes, those are the kinds of stories that we really, really want to read.
If you're one of the many people interested in either writing or receiving darkfic, then Crueltide is here to devour your soul the Yuletide-extra for you!
The short version
- Read the comments to find people to treat with darkfic.
- Tag your yuletide darkfic with 'crueltide'
The long version is beneath the cut.
Why Crueltide?
Because darkfic isn't to everyone's taste. By making it easier to identify darkfic prompts and people open to receiving darkfic in yuletide, we can all indulge our preferences without placing undue pressure on our assigned writers or risking gifting unwelcome fics to our recipients. (And also: the name was the least cutesy of those being thrown around in 2014.)
What is darkfic?
Depends on your definition. But here's a (non-exhaustive) list of darker tropes to get you started:
(White text used as some content may be triggering to some - highlight to read.)
Addiction - Amputation - Animal Abuse - Apocalypse - Betrayal - Body Horror - Brainwashing - Cannibalism - Character Death - Child Abuse - Claustrophobia - Conspiracy - Degradation - Disease - Dystopia - Gaslighting - Hauntings - Humiliation - Hypothermia - Insanity - Invasion of Privacy - Lovecraftian Cosmic Horrors - Medical Experimentation - Mind Control - Monsters - Murder - Mutilation - Non-Con - Paranoia - Poisoning - Prison - PTSD - Sadism - Slavery - Suicide - Torture - Unhappy Endings - Violence
Does a darkfic story have to have an unhappy ending/some other specific trope?
No! Not at all. Just because a story is packed with darkfic tropes doesn't mean there's no light at the end of the tunnel.
Also, just because you like one trope, it doesn't mean you like all of them. Feel free to specify your do-not-wants alongside your wants.
Great, how does it work?
-- If you end up writing a darkfic story, just tag it with Crueltide when you upload it to the collection, and that'll help readers find more of what they like. It would also be good to tag any particular tropes you've used, to help readers find/avoid them. That's all you need to do!
-- If you would like to receive a darkfic story in one of the fandoms you've requested in your yuletide sign-up, you can advertise that here by replying to this post. (The template below is merely a suggestion of what to include - the level of detail in prompts/tropes is entirely up to you. But please do limit yourself to fandoms on your Yuletide sign-up - the Yuletide mods need to be sure you get a fic in one of those, and a treat in an unexpected fandom could make that awkward. )
AO3: ao3 username
Letter: dear yuletide writer (URL)
Fandoms: fandom details here
Happy Endings Preferred?: yes/no/don't mind
Wanted tropes: list any of your favorite dark tropes, themes, or prompts here.
Unwanted tropes: list your darkfic do-not-wants here.
If you want to advertise your requested fandoms as being particularly dark and of potential interest to others, feel free to comment along those lines too.
Alternatively, if you only want your assigned writer to know what you're into, just make a mention of darkfic/crueltide in your optional details as part of your signup.
no subject
Letter: https://maltpowder.dreamwidth.org/465.html
I’m opting in to receive any/all archive warnings.
I have no preference for a happy ending over an unhappy one, but I DNW permanent on-screen death of requested characters (requested characters who died in their canon can be perma-dead from the start, though).
Fandoms:
Novel - Gideon the Ninth (Colum Asht, Silas Octakiseron)
Novel - Scum Villain (Original Liu Mingyan, Liu Qingge)
TV - Guardian (Zhang Shi, Zhao Xinci, Ye Zun, Zhu Jiu)
TV - Ice Fantasy (Ka Suo, Ying Kong Shi)
TV - The Untamed (Lan Jingyi, Lan Qiren, Ouyang Zizhen)
Cartoon - Mo Dao Zu Shi (Jiang Cheng, Jin Ling, Jin Guangyao, Lan Xichen)
excerpts from my likes: bad decisions and poor coping mechanisms • hurt/comfort and whump • body horror • irrational and rational fears • the illusion of choice • social and interpersonal pressures • characters clinging to a sliver of hope • unexpected consequences and compromise • loyalty and morality confusion • zealotry as an aspect of horror • characters who need to believe something is true more than they need it to actually be true • manipulation tactics (well-intentioned or otherwise) • corruption • emotional interdependency • questionably healthy attachments • relationships involving complex layers of positive and negative emotions (especially as a result of forces explicitly within or outside their control) • lima syndrome • repression • obsessive love • dubcon, noncon and coercion • grooming, gaslighting, brainwashing or mind control • incest kink (especially wrestling with pressure to enter into a relationship or a taboo against it. Characters don’t have to be related by blood or related at all to dig into the familial dynamic and get off on it; siblings, cousins, aunts and uncles/nieces and nephews + nonbinary equivalents, as well as more muddled scenarios where one unrelated character is involved with two or more characters who are related are allowed) • embarrassment and humiliation kinks (especially dirty talk, succumbing to or enjoying shameful acts) • kinking on vulnerability • overstim and extreme sensations (masochism, power play, anyone crying-but-into-it)
additional likes: self-loathing, addiction, characters wrestling with trauma, characters losing their grip on reality or behaving in ways that are overtly delusional, characters struggling to gain agency in and over their circumstances, characters trying to suffer in silence (and failing), unrequited feelings and rejection, characters in denial
Full list of likes and DNWs in my letter.