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Crueltide 2022
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 or horror, then Crueltide is here for you!
The short version
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.)
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 your recip requested dark or horror fic but didn't comment on this post, you can still tag it with Crueltide if it fits the theme! The Crueltide tag helps all of us darkfic and horror readers find more things to read. :)
-- 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.
If you're one of the many people interested in either writing or receiving darkfic or horror, then Crueltide is here 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 your recip requested dark or horror fic but didn't comment on this post, you can still tag it with Crueltide if it fits the theme! The Crueltide tag helps all of us darkfic and horror readers find more things to read. :)
-- 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://skazka.dreamwidth.org/176944.html
Fandoms: The Black Phone 2022 (Finney Blake); Call For The Dead - Le Carre (George Smiley, Dieter Frey); Hell House - Richard Matheson (Ben Fischer); The Little Stranger - Sarah Waters (Caroline Ayres, Roderick Ayres); The Power Of The Dog - Thomas Savage (Peter Gordon)
Happy Endings Preferred?: No preference.
Wanted tropes: Ghosts and hauntings; claustrophobia; captivity; body horror; gothic horror; trauma and PTSD; surviving terrible stuff and being changed by it; major character death; murder; consent issues and noncon; psychological horror; trauma bonding; survivor guilt; big spooky decaying houses with lots of creepy rooms; characters coming back from the dead “wrong”; vampires.
Unwanted tropes: noncon resulting in true love or the victim secretly wanting it all along; pregnancy; self-harm cutting; disordered eating; unrequested incest; unrequested CSA themes; explicit sex involving characters under 16, except as indicated. (CSA themes/underage noncon for The Black Phone or Hell House, a-okay; in Call For The Dead or Little Stranger fic, no thanks.)
Hell House, The Black Phone, and The Little Stranger are all horror canons of very different stripes and I love all of them, A++ would rec:
Hell House is an intense sleazy psychological horror novel about four people locked up for a week in the haunted mansion of an infamously depraved occultist and his brood of doped-up decadent hangers-on, seeking out the objective truth of life after death at the request of a rich eccentric. Shit goes off the rails fast. There’s lots of queer themes and trauma themes if that’s a draw, but they’re handled with all the delicacy of… a trashy horror novel from 1971.
The Little Stranger is a much more delicately-shaded and twisty psychological gothic novel set in post-WWII Britain, about a cool-headed country doctor’s lifelong fascination with a decaying country house and the upper-class family who live in it; I’m requesting Caroline, the daughter of the family who’s had her first taste of independence during the war, and Roderick, her brother who’s living with disfigurement and disability after his service in the RAF. This one’s also got queer themes out the waz, but handled with a lot more nuance.
The Black Phone is a 2022 period horror film about two young siblings in suburban Denver, 1978 — shy and sensitive 13-year-old Finney and his mouthy, courageous 9-year-old sister Gwen. When Finney’s abducted by a masked child-killer, Gwen’s racing against time trying to find him with the help of some troubling visions, but even locked in a soundproofed basement Finney isn’t alone, and the disconnected telephone on the wall starts to ring. (It’s ghosts. With me it’s always ghosts.) Lots of trauma, lots of ghosts, lots of fun.
no subject
Letter: here
Fandoms:
Peter Darling - Austin Chant
Peter Pan, James Hook (Harrington)
Tales of Luminaria
August Wallenstein, Falk, Leo Fourcade, Hugo Simon
Interview with the Vampire (TV)
Lestat, Louis
House of the Dragon
Daemon Targaryen, Rhaenyra Targaryen
Happy Endings Preferred: Generally yes.
Wanted tropes: Hurt (hurt/comfort or hurt no comfort are fine), trauma bonding, consent issues, power imbalances, unsafe BDSM/kink practices, captivity, injury, heavy angst, monsters/monsterfucking (I did not particularly list this in my fandom requests but it's something I just like in general), codependent relationships (esp. with House of the Dragon or Interview with the Vampire).
Unwanted tropes: major character death, suicide in general, CSA, rape, self-harm, disordered eating, pregnancy
no subject
AO3: sarriathmg
Letter link: https://sarriathmg.dreamwidth.org/4523.html
Fandoms: DC vs. Vampires (Comic 2021), Tales from the Dark Multiverse: Batman: Hush (Comic), Interview with the Vampire (TV 2022), Maid Maleen (Fairy Tale), Lord of the Flies - William Golding
Happy Endings Preferred?: No preferences.
Wanted tropes: Horror, Vampires, Gore/blood/body horror, psychological horror, cosmic horror, gothic horror, folk horror, existential horror, unreliable narrator, betrayal, murder, cruelty done to a human being, horrible ways to die, sexual slavery, amputee kink, dub/noncon, kidnapping/captivity, PTSD, hurt no comfort, human kept as livestock, Second person POV (not reader insert, but a character referred to as "you"), fucked up/unhealthy relationships, codependency, incest/taboo, underage, Stockholm/Lima syndrome
Unwanted tropes: spitting in mouth, vomit, weight gain, raceplay, Bottom Dick Grayson/Dick Grayson whump/angst centering on Dick Grayson for DC-related fandoms
DC vs. Vampires (Comic 2021): Vampire King Nightwing fucking up everything, murdering his family, keeping humans as blood cattle, keeping his ex-girlfriend and/or his brother as a blood/sex slave, basically a lot of evilness and bleakness for humanity kind of deal.
Tales from the Dark Multiverse: Batman: Hush (Comic): Mutual non-con, captivity, cages, and amputee kink
Interview with the Vampire (TV 2022): Vampire sex, blood draining to the point of death, references to other human victims of vampire attack, blood and gore
Maid Maleen (Fairy Tale): This canon is itself pretty dark to begin with if you like dark fairy tales. Some appropriate tropes would be buried alive, unreliable narrator, a fate worse than death, canon nightmare fuel. Basically looking for any kind of horror for this canon and have basically no hard limits. The more messed up it is the more I'll love it.
Lord of the Flies - William Golding: The evil spirit that inhabits the island, "the devil corrupts Lord's perfect creation", child death, dub/noncon monsterfucking, (possibly extreme) underage, biblical symbolism, horror
no subject
Letter: https://simonlorden.dreamwidth.org/2806.html
Fandoms: Olive Hill (Podcast)
Happy Endings Preferred?: don't mind
Wanted tropes: horror, noncon, mind control, underage, captivity
Unwanted tropes: amputation, vore, graphic gore, suicide, detailed self-harm, cannibalism
Olive Hill (Podcast): A podcast that takes about 3-4 hours to listen to, about two girls and the fairies they meet in the forest. I am open to noncon, forced noncon, mind control from the fairies, being kidnapped, being enslaved, underage/lolisho since they meet the fairies as children, etc. There is also some great horror potential.
no subject
Letter: https://ayboo-da-bish.dreamwidth.org/1638.html
Fandoms: 成化十四年 | The Sleuth of the Ming Dynasty (TV), 成化十四年 - 梦溪石 | The Fourteenth Year of Chenghua - Meng Xi Shi, Dark Matter - Michelle Paver, 别那么骄傲 | Proud of Love (TV 2016)
Happy Endings Preferred?: yes, although I’m also fine with ambiguous/unhappy endings for Dark Matter
Wanted tropes: hauntings, abduction, noncon & attempted noncon, non-graphic torture, claustrophobia, hypothermia, monsters, paranoia, psychological horror, poisoning, degradation & humiliation (by abductors)
Unwanted tropes: graphic torture, disordered eating, starvation or food-related horror, body horror, non-canonical character death, cannibalism, self-harm, traumatic amputation, unhappy endings, betrayal, degradation & humiliation (by friends and family)
Only one of the listed fandoms is an actual horror story, so I’ve done a little explanation of what tropes I think could maybe fit for each fandom if that helps. People can do whatever they like though!
成化十四年 | The Sleuth of the Ming Dynasty (TV): A Chinese historical and romantic mystery drama approximately 50 episodes long, available in full on Viki or iQiyi. This is fairly light for an action-packed drama, but the main character is canonically a very pretty young man who gets abducted surprisingly often. My favourite tropes to play with here are abduction, noncon & attempted noncon, paranoia, non-graphic torture, violence, degradation & humiliation by abductors
成化十四年 - 梦溪石 | The Fourteenth Year of Chenghua - Meng Xi Shi: The novel the previous fandom was based on, available originally on jjwxc or translated on chichilations.home.blog. The novel is less lighthearted than the show, with a lot more conspiracy, betrayal, monsters, and magic. The main character is even more canonically pretty and irresistible here, and he has definitely been abducted and sexually harassed before. Fun tropes would be: abduction, noncon & attempted noncon, poisoning, monsters, non-graphic torture, violence, degradation & humiliation by abductors
Dark Matter - Michelle Paver: A fantastic short-ish ghost story/psychological horror novel available to buy anywhere, about an explorer who gets stranded in the Arctic overwinter and isn’t sure if he’s being haunted by a ghost. Fun tropes would be paranoia, psychological horror, hauntings, possession, violence, hypothermia, ambiguous/unhappy endings, claustrophobia, agoraphobia too come to think of it
别那么骄傲 | Proud of Love (TV 2016): A mostly-lighthearted slapstick Chinese youth fantasy comedy/drama, both seasons available entirely for free on Youtube. Bodyswapping, time travel, and alternate universes/timelines are all canon here, so there are plenty of possibilities. Favourite tropes are abduction, noncon & attempted noncon, claustrophobia, hypothermia, monsters, hauntings, violence, degradation/humiliation by abductors
no subject
letter: https://emetsulk.tumblr.com/post/698143918073741312/yuletide-2022
fandoms:
- disco elysium (harry du bois, kim kitsuragi, jean vicquemare)
- elden ring (sorcerer rogier, d(arian) hunter of death)
- monster (eva heinemann, johan liebert, tenma kenzou, wolfgang grimmer)
- mozart l’opera rock (antonio salieri, wolfgang amadeus mozart)
- tokyo babylon (sakurazuka seishirou, sumeragi subaru)
- vampyr (geoffrey mccullum, jonathan reid)
happy endings preferred?: i like both happy and not happy endings
wanted dark tropes: horror elements, dub con (as for the definition of this, i like both parties to enjoy at least some aspect of the sex or relationship but i am really open on interpretation), extremely unhealthy relationships, emotional manipulation and abuse, compromising one's values (especially for a relationship), murder, dying, consent issues, betrayal, end of relationship, self-destructiveness, wanting things they shouldn't, people doing bad things because they can justify it
unwanted dark tropes: incest, eating/feeding/weight-related stuff, violent non-con in which a party doesn't find enjoyment in any aspect, unrequested underage (exception for tokyo babylon)
general do not wants: unrequested gender identity headcanons (note for reasoning: i have plenty of gender issues of my own and it can have a negative effect on me), unrequested AUs that change the setting (i.e. i’m not interested in coffee shop au or university au stories but i love canon divergent stories that keep the same general setting with something changed), unrequested non-canon ships that conflict with requested ships), unrequested underage characters in sexual situations or sexualizing youth (including age regression, ageplay, infantilization, etc), unrequested kidfic (e.g. parenthood plots, stories central on child characters, characters as children), pregnancy/breeding, A/B/O, watersports/scat
no subject
Letter: https://jalu2.dreamwidth.org/16073.html
Fandoms: Growing Things by Paul Tremblay, Piranesi by Susanna Clarke, House Of Hollow by Krystal Sutherland, and Yellowjackets (TV)
Happy Endings Preferred?: Don't mind
Wanted tropes: apocfic, body horror, blood, cosmic horror, doubt of one's own senses, emotional manipulation, extreme co-dependency, gaslighting, hauntings, insanity, mind control, monsters, obsessive and possessive love, people with fucked up morals, psychological horror, Stockholm syndrome, torture, trauma recovery, unhappy endings, whump. Really, anything that isn't in my unwanted tropes is fair game.
Unwanted tropes: explicit non-con (off-screen or past references are fine), cruelty to animals.
no subject
Letter: Letter
Fandoms:
The Expanse (TV) - Chrisjen, Amos, Worldbuilding
Rivers of London - Peter Grant, Thomas Nightingale
Shining Girls (TV) - Kirby, Worldbuilding
The Lazarus Project (TV) - Shiv, Worldbuilding
Warrior (TV) - Ah Toy, Wang Chao
Happy Endings Preferred?: yes, at least a glimmer of hope
Wanted tropes: Let's see. This year I have sex workers, serial killers, racial and sexual violence, and a group of people trying desperately, over and over, to keep humanity from wiping itself out. Do I want any dark tropes? *laughs maniacally*
I especially enjoy unreliable narrators, horrors of war, forced to choose between ideals or people, main character death and grief (esp. dealing with canonical death), confronting your worst fears about yourself, unconventional morality, psychological horror, excessive loyalty, alienation, paranoia, corruption, dystopian societies, PTSD, dub-con of the sex pollen/drugged/going into heat variety, fuck-or-die scenarios, blood kink, pain kink, knife play, involving unknowing people in your kink, sex work, 'shoot the dog' to save someone else from having to do it, mind control, hypnosis, brainwashing, gaslighting, possession, xeno, tentacles, controlling (or failing to control) dangerous desires, and the subtle, building realization that something is deeply wrong.
Special shout-out to my oh-so-very Crueltide Operation Paperclip AU request for Rivers of London. If you've ever wondered what would happen if, instead of stealing the research of Nazi practitioners at Ettersburg and burying it in the Black Library, the British wizards recruited the defeated practitioners and USED that research to win the war and rule the peace, I'd love to see you write about it!
Unwanted tropes: COVID or related plagues, non-con between main characters (unless forced on them from the outside), suicide, evil for the sake of evil, child abuse, pregnancy and breeding, partner betrayal, forced feminization, graphic on-screen overdose non-con or murder, focus on mental illness or institutionalization EXCEPT as prompted for Kirby in Shining Girls.
no subject
Letter: here!
Fandoms: 鹿鼎記 | The Duke of Mount Deer (Hong Kong 1984), 老洞 | The Old Miao Myth (Hong Kong 1983), 神鵰俠侶 | The Return of the Condor Heroes (Hong Kong 1983), 江湖 | Triad Underworld (2004)
Happy Endings Preferred?: No preference!
Wanted tropes: Hurt (comfort optional) | Angst | Hard choices | Power imbalance | Consent issues | Manipulation | Threats | Suspicion | Betrayal | Relationships falling apart | Friends to enemies | Possessiveness | Jealousy | Self-sacrifice | Isolation | Loneliness | One-sided pining | Bad coping mechanisms | Suppressed or misdirected emotions | Violence | Lashing out | Self-destructiveness | Drinking or alcoholism | Trauma | Loss | Grief | Guilt | Taboos | Curses | Poison | Illness | Injuries | Survival situations | Psychological or cosmic horror | Haunted or liminal spaces
Unwanted tropes: Non-canonical major character death | Graphic gore | Noncon as a focus (dubcon is fine) | Major divergence from canon (so like, no limb amputation unless it's canonical, for instance)
Some relevant notes on my requested canons (promos/links and content warnings are in my letter):
鹿鼎記 | The Duke of Mount Deer (Hong Kong 1984): An illiterate trickster street-kid befriends the young Emperor of China... and also joins up with his enemies. Massive power imbalance, manipulation, secrets and lies, threats, betrayal, friends to enemies. Basically, lots of dark relationship tropes. With some loyalty kink on the side.
老洞 | The Old Miao Myth (Hong Kong 1983): Supernatural suspense/horror about a cursed statue haunting a family in 1930s Shanghai. Features a lot of death, grief, fear, suspicion, jealousy, betrayal, and people's lives just generally falling apart. I'd love to see some exploration of the trauma these characters go through. Or just more supernatural horror.
神鵰俠侶 | The Return of the Condor Heroes (TV 1983) : A young man on a quest to avenge his father ends up falling in love with his martial arts teacher. Features a central taboo-breaking student/teacher relationship with some inevitable power imbalance and vaguely Oedipal vibes, jealousy, possessiveness, constant pining, various moral dilemmas, repeated poisoning, permanent mutilation, and sixteen years of angst and clinging to a far-fetched hope of reunion.
江湖 | Triad Underworld (2004) : A crime drama that follows a plot to assassinate a mob boss. The mob boss and his extremely dangerous best friend are both pretty brutal characters, but in very different ways, and their relationship is intense and full of distrust and antagonism and... a weird lingering affection. Violence, triad brotherhood tropes, and two messed-up people who might just as easily kill for each other, die for each other, or kill each other.
no subject
Letter: is here
Fandoms:
Dracula (TV 2013) - Lucy/Mina, Lucy/Mina/Alexander, Lucy/Mina/Lady Jayne
Witchblade (TV) - Ian/Sara, Ian/Sara/Conchobar, Sara/Conchobar
The Exorcist (TV) - Tomas/Marcus
The Path (Video Game) - Scarlet
Happy Endings Preferred?: no, but I also don't mind them
Wanted tropes:Almost all my fandoms can be horrific/horror settings so anything canon compliant horror definitely goes + just for extra ideas: ghosts, possession, noncon/dubcon, gothic horror, trauma bonds, PTSD/C-PTSD, hauntings (houses or otherwise), religious trauma, vampires, psychological fuckery
Unwanted tropes: bodily functions or humor (blood/gore is fine), alcoholism/heavy drinking, pregnancy, a/b/o
no subject
AO3: hangingfire
Letter: Here
Fandoms: The North Water, Raised By Wolves
Happy Endings Preferred?: slight preference for happy or at least not totally crushing, but go where the story takes you.
Preferred tropes: Addiction, Apocalypse, Betrayal, Body Horror, Character Death, Claustrophobia, Conspiracy, Disease, Folie a deux, Gaslighting, Hauntings, Hypothermia, Imprisonment, Insanity, Lovecraftian Cosmic Horrors, Monsters, Murder, Mutilation, Paranoia, PTSD, Vampire stuff, War
Unwanted tropes: sexual abuse/violence, incest, child abuse, animal abuse, underage sex
no subject
Letter: https://alteregon.dreamwidth.org/2452.html
Fandoms: Snowpiercer (2013) - Grey; Bellman Noir - Cecil Winge; Star Trek: Strange New Worlds - Hemmer; House of the Dragon - Daemon Targaryen
Happy Endings Preferred?: No preference
Wanted tropes: Torture, injury including permanent physical damage, trauma (particularly physical, perfectly happy if combined with psychological trauma), hurt & comfort with or without the comfort, recovery from trauma, illness... anything that goes in that sort of context
Unwanted tropes: addiction, pregnancy, anything majorly featuring children, noncon/rape if it's the main focus of a fic.
no subject
AO3: KannaOphelia
Yuletide Letter
Fandoms: I want to opt in for three of my fandoms: The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes, Black Closet and The Vampire Lovers
Happy Endings Preferred?: don't mind
Wanted tropes: Death games, death, physical and mental suffering, psychological manipulation, vampires, damnation, betrayal, obsession, jealousy, yanderes, trauma, possessiveness
Unwanted tropes: Miscarriage, abortion, pregnancy trauma, harm to babies or to pregnant women, rape, underage for characters under 16
no subject
Letter: https://sourwood.dreamwidth.org/1056.html
Fandoms:
化十四年 | The Sleuth of the Ming Dynasty (TV)
(Wang Zhi, Tang Fan)
경이로운 소문 | The Uncanny Counter (TV)
(Shin Hyeok Woo)
악마판사 | The Devil Judge (TV)
(Kang Yo Han, Kim Ga On)
아다마스 | Adamas (TV)
Any (Choi Taesung, Ha Wooshin, Lee Jun Kyung, Song Soohyeon)
괴물 | Beyond Evil (TV)
Any (Han Joo Won, Lee Dong Sik, Lee Su Yeon, Oh Ji Hoon, Oh Ji Hwa, Park Jung Je, Yoo Jae Yi)
Happy Endings Preferred?: No Preference, and I love a little "or is it??" angle on an (un)happy ending.
Wanted tropes: ALL OF THEM, or: my faves have a terrible time, make terrible choices, and it ends terribly (horny edition optional) OR they get through it OR it's terrible but they kind of dig it and that's worse. If I'm not making much sense, I love a sense of dread, suspicion, futility, a sort of tunneling of the world and obsession, unreality, psychological and physical violence or the threat thereof, escalation, unexpected and occasionally dire circumstances, duress, compulsion, substance abuse, I mean Wang Zhi is notorious for war crimes, there's a lot to work with.
Unwanted tropes: Cancer.
no subject
Letter: https://www.tumblr.com/ten-ten31/698183771634237440/dear-yuletide-writer-2022-dear-yuletide-writer?source=share
Fandoms: Pieces - L'Arc~en~Ciel (Music Video)
Happy Endings Preferred?: generally yes, but wit this particular fandom I really don't mind
Wanted tropes: Addiction, Apocalypse, Betrayal, Brainwashing, Character Death, Conspiracy, Dystopia, Hauntings, Insanity, Mind Control, Murder, Paranoia, PTSD, Violence
Unwanted tropes: Amputation, Animal Abuse, Child Abuse, Lovecraftian Cosmic Horrors, Mutilation, Non-Con, Sadism, Slavery
no subject
Letter: https://lastofbarrettsprivateers.dreamwidth.org/1131.html
Fandoms: Cthulhu Mythos, Runemarks, Bauhaus RPF
Happy Endings Preferred?: Yes for RPF, no preference otherwise.
Wanted Tropes: Addiction, Betrayal, Body Horror, Brainwashing, Cannibalism, Child Abuse, Claustrophobia, Conspiracy, Degradation, Disease, Dystopia, Gaslighting, Hauntings, Humiliation, Hypothermia, Insanity, Lovecraftian Cosmic Horrors, Mind Control, Monsters, Murder, Non-Con, Paranoia, Poisoning, PTSD, Sadism, Torture, Violence
Unwanted Tropes: Amputation, Animal Abuse, Medical Experimentation, Mutilation, Prison
Have a few Cthulhu Mythos ideas but open to any fandom!
- Nyarlathotep getting whumped is a big want
- Randolph Carter having a dark childhood due to his eldritch/dreamlands connections being misunderstood in the waking world
- Randolph Carter's WWI Experience/PTSD
- Ilek-Vad as dystopian police state due to Randolph's paranoia
no subject
Fandoms:
The Elementalists:
Requested Characters: Shreya Mistry, Katrina Harrington, Female Main Character
Preferred Pairrings: Shreya/FMC, Katrina/FMC
Dynamic: Shreya/Katrina (Agressor), FMC (Victim)
Sweet Enchantments:
Requested Characters: Liora Skyheart, Main Character
Preferred Dynamic: Liora (Agressor), MC (Victim)
Keeper Series - Brynn Chernosky:
Requested Characters: Seraphina Delacroix, Female Main Character, Cressida Monroe, Astrid Adtaz
Preferred Pairings: Seraphina (Agressor)/FMC (Victim), Astrid (Victim)/FMC (Agressor), Cressida (Agressor)/Astrid (Victim), Cressida (Agressor)/Astrid (Agressor)/FMC (Victim)
Happy Endings Preferred?: No
Wanted tropes: Betrayal - Brainwashing - Character Death - Degradation - Gaslighting - Snuff - Humiliation - Invasion of Privacy - Mind Control - Murder - Non-Con - Sadism - Slavery - Torture - Unhappy Endings - Violence - Asphyxiation
Unwanted tropes: Addiction - Amputation - Animal Abuse - Apocalypse - Suicide - Paranoia - Poisoning - Prison - PTSD - Hypothermia - Insanity - Lovecraftian Cosmic Horrors - Medical Experimentation - Disease - Dystopia - Body Horror - Canabalism - Child Abuse - Claustrophobia - Conspiracy - Dystopia - Hauntings
no subject
Letter: https://croik.livejournal.com/128991.html
Fandoms: Archive 81, Malevolent, Arkham Horror, A Voice From Darkness, The Sinking City, Homegrown Pet
Happy Endings Preferred?: No preference!
Wanted tropes: Cosmic horror, body horror, gothic horror, dark magic, horrific rituals, friends to enemies, lovers to enemies, whump and hurt/comfort, wound-stitching, disfigurement, descending into madness, character death, non-con, dub-con, tentacles, xeno, transformation, came back wrong, corruption arcs, violence and gore, cannibalism, monster on a leash.
Unwanted tropes: Piss or scat, omegaverse worldbuilding, 2nd person or reader insert, total AUs (canon divergence and What If's that honor the setting are cool though).
no subject
Letter: https://hematophagefic.dreamwidth.org/2022/10/16/
Fandoms: Misao (Video Game), The Beginner's Guide (Video Game), Find Love or Die Trying (Visual Novel), Jazzpunk (Video Game)
Happy Endings Preferred?: No, not really. Bleak or bittersweet is more my speed.
Wanted tropes: Addiction - Apocalypse - Betrayal - Body Horror - Cannibalism - Character Death - Conspiracy - Dystopia - Gaslighting - Hauntings - Insanity - Invasion of Privacy - Medical Experimentation - Murder - Mutilation - Paranoia - Poisoning - PTSD - Sadism - Suicide - Torture - Unhappy Endings - Violence
Unwanted tropes: Amputation - Degradation - Humiliation
no subject
Letter: http://serephemeral.dreamwidth.org/3160.html
Fandoms:
The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power
Adar (The Rings of Power), Galadriel (The Rings of Power), Halbrand (The Rings of Power), Isildur (The Rings of Power)
The Widow's Captive - Logan Spector
The Widow (The Widow's Captive - Logan Spector), The Widow's Captive (The Widow's Captive - Logan Spector)
Happy Endings Preferred?: slightly, but I can get down with a good tragedy – especially love poetic and cyclically sad stories
Wanted tropes: angst, captivity, corruption (especially via deception and temptation), cosmic horror, curses, cyclic tragedies, dubcon of the variety that suggests both parties are really into it by the end of the encounter, folk horror, grief, gothic horror, guilt, implied torture, kidnapping, light wounding, mindfucks and mindfucking, oviposition, posessiveness, suspicion and fractured trust, trauma bonds, tentacles, very unequal power dynamics that flip midway through a relationship, well well if it isn't the consequences of my own fucked-up actions
Unwanted tropes: adult/minor relationships, animal cruelty, child abuse, forced religious conversion, gender-based violence, graphic descriptions of violence and gore, medical experimentation, rape, severe mutilation, slavery and master/slave relationships, suicide and/or death of a requested character.
no subject
Letter: https://zabbers.dreamwidth.org/5423.html
Fandoms: See (TV 2019)
Happy Endings Preferred?: no preference
Wanted tropes: betrayal, violence, antagonism, secrets and conspiracy, dub/noncon, manipulation, captivity, gaslighting, unhealthy relationships, power imbalances, unsafe/violent/hate sex, manipulation, monstrous people, murder or attempted murder, h/c or hurt no comfort, insanity, possessiveness, anger
Unwanted tropes: disease, burning (see DNWs for exception details), incest, explicit underage sex, pregnant characters, cannibalism, illness, dystopian social commentary, complete loss of agency, grief
no subject
Letter: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1Kf3WWQLoNQcRCohWRKmDQXfCEviRR-Kk1erS_s6xH5M/edit?usp=sharing
Happy Endings Preferred?: Don't mind
Wanted tropes: Amputation; Body Horror; Degradation; Disease; Humiliation; Hypothermia; Medical Experimentation; Mutilation; Non-Con; PTSD; Slavery; Torture.
Unwanted tropes: animal suffering, child abuse (though adults dealing with the after effects of child abuse is fine)
Fandoms:
The First Law - Joe Abercrombie (Sand dan Glokta)
Barrett's Privateers (Narrator)
Moby Dick - Herman Melville (Captain Ahab)
Cabaret - Kander/Ebb (Emcee)
Philoctetes - Sophocles (Philoctetes)
My darkfic prompts are incorporated into my main letter.
no subject
Letter: dear yulegoat
Fandoms:
• The Final Girl Support Group - Grady Hendrix: Lynette Tarkington, Dani Shipman, Adrienne Butler, Julia Campbell
• Final Girls - Riley Sager: Quincy Carpenter, Coop, Samantha Boyd | Tina Stone
• Halloween (Movies 1978-2002): Laurie Strode, Michael Myers, Jamie Lloyd, John Tate
• Taxi Driver (1976): Iris Steensma, Travis Bickle
• Where Are You Going, Where Have You Been? - Joyce Carol Oates: Connie, Arnold Friend, June, Connie's Mother
• Слуга народу | Servant of the people (TV): Vasyl Holoborodko, Yuriy Chuiko
Happy Endings Preferred?: no strong preferences; dealer's choice
Wanted tropes: see the full list of "stuff i like" in my letter, but here are some things i like: gothic horror/gothic romance, gothic subcategories (suburban, southern, midwestern, space, etc.), cosmic horror, eldritch houses, eldritch nature, time travel/time loops, manipulation/mindgames, ghosts/hauntings/etc., enemies to lovers, poly/poly-v relationships, unhealthy/codependent relationships, obsessive relationships, power imbalances/power imbalances inverted, forced/close proximity, jealousy, witchcraft, ritual sex/resurrection rituals, public marriage consummation, deals with the devil gone wrong, creepy small towns
Unwanted tropes: see the full list of DNWs in my letter, but the main ones are domestic violence/abuse, violence against animals/animal death, watersports/scat, mpreg, and inclusion of current real world events (i.e. COVID, war in Ukraine, US politics/trump, SCOTUS decisions, etc). any exceptions/clarifications are noted in the body of the letter itself.
no subject
Letter: https://peaked.dreamwidth.org/73876.html
Fandoms:
YOU (TV)
> Joe Goldberg
> Love Quinn
READY OR NOT (2019)
> Daniel Le Domas
> Grace Le Domas
Happy Endings Preferred?: I'd prefer a hopeful ending for Ready or Not. I don't have a preference for which type of ending for YOU.
Wanted tropes:
YOU: Emotional manipulation, psychological manipulation, noncon/dubcon, trauma recovery, hauntings/ghosts, hallucinations (is what they're experiencing real?), gaslighting, possessiveness, toxic love, character death.
READY OR NOT Explorations of death (even a timeloop of coming back to life just to die), emotional manipulation, explorations of PTSD, hauntings/ghosts, timeloops, dubcon, trauma recovery, hallucinations (is what they're experiencing even real?), hopelessness, death game.
Unwanted tropes: Animal cruelty, body horror/mutilation (someone being hurt/bleeding a-okay, but please avoid Saw levels of mutilation), eye trauma, permanent monster transformations, medical horror.
no subject
Letter: https://floranna.dreamwidth.org/61474.html
Fandoms: W.I.T.C.H. (comics)(any of these things being done to Cedric, not Orube, or done by Orube)
Happy Endings Preferred?: Nothing saccharine
Wanted tropes: Addiction, amputation, disability, noncon, captivity and restraints, child abuse, childhood trauma, dub-con, gore, graphic violence, humiliation, loyalty and morality issues, manipulation, masochism, mind control, mpreg, mutiliation, non-consensual body modification, petrification, power imbalance, rape, rough sex, sexual grooming, shame/guilt over succumbing to or enjoying shameful acts, torture, transformation, trauma recovery, whump.
A/B/O with Cedric as an omega and Orube as an alpha!
Unwanted tropes: cannibalism, cumplay, drowning, necro, scat, watersports, no consent issues with Orube or having Orube as the 'bad guy'.
Fandoms: Elfquest (all of these things should be done to Rayek)
Happy Endings Preferred?: Nothing saccharine
Wanted tropes: Addiction, amputation, disability, noncon, captivity and restraints, child abuse, childhood trauma, dub-con, gore, graphic violence, humiliation, loyalty and morality issues, manipulation, masochism, mind control, mpreg, mutiliation, non-consensual body modification, petrification, power imbalance, rape, rough sex, sexual grooming, shame/guilt over succumbing to or enjoying shameful acts, torture, transformation, trauma recovery, whump.
Unwanted tropes: cannibalism, cumplay, drowning, necro, scat, watersports
Fandom: Ennead (all of these things should be doe to Seth)
Happy Endings Preferred?: Nothing saccharine
Wanted tropes: Addiction, amputation, disability, noncon, captivity and restraints, child abuse, childhood trauma, dub-con, gore, graphic violence, humiliation, loyalty and morality issues, manipulation, masochism, mind control, mpreg, mutiliation, non-consensual body modification, petrification, power imbalance, rape, rough sex, sexual grooming, shame/guilt over succumbing to or enjoying shameful acts, torture, transformation, trauma recovery, whump.
A/B/O with Seth as an omega and others as alphas!
Unwanted tropes: cannibalism, cumplay, drowning, necro, scat, watersports
no subject
Letter: https://redblonde7.dreamwidth.org/29310.html
Fandoms: Until We Meet Again, Legend of Yunze, Florasis Lipstick Commercial
Happy Endings Preferred?: Yes, though hopeful is fine too.
Wanted tropes: I said in my letter that I enjoyed hurt/comfort with equal amounts of both, but what I absolutely love is when the comfort hurts too. So someone gets hurts and is rescued/saved from the bad situation but then there comes the reveal about what happens to them, and the suffering of their loved ones at knowing the person has been hurt, and then the nightmares and the recovery and the people who don't understand. I love characters having the support of their friends and partners and it helps, but it doesn't make everything make everything okay. Maybe it's someone hurting them, maybe it's an accident, maybe it's nature itself. I like the hurt of the person being injured/attacked and the hurt of their loved one as they witness the attack/hear about it afterwards.
Forced to watch, trapped apart, reveal of previous rape, disease/surgery, serious injury and recovery, time loop trauma, nightmares, PTSD, haunting, curses, forced pregnancy, a/b/o
Unwanted tropes: rape between canon couples, cutting, bodyswap, suicide, enemas, watersports, scat, vore, anorexia/bulimia, permanent break up of canon couples (break up of women in Florasis Commercial fine because they will be reunited in next life), amputation, mind break, explicit animal abuse, mental illness making them think something supernatural is going on, brainwashing
no subject
Letter: https://libraralien.dreamwidth.org/11413.html
Fandoms: Phantasmagoria: A Puzzle of Flesh
Happy Endings Preferred?: don't mind
Wanted tropes: Body-horror, trauma, revisiting past trauma via kink, whump, psychological horror, loss of sanity, bodily transformation, monstrosity, paranoia, unwanted thoughts and desires, PTSD, death
Unwanted tropes: Underage sex below age 15, non-canonical child abuse
no subject
letter link: https://geckoholic.dreamwidth.org/561177.html
Great Freedom (2021)
Viktor Kohl/Hans Hoffmann
ケイ×ヤク | KeixYaku (TV)
Hanabusa Shirou/Kunishita Ichirou
S.C.I.谜案集 | S.C.I. Mystery (TV)
Bai Yutang/Zhao Zhen
Happy Endings Preferred?: I don't mind them, but I don't need them.
Wanted tropes: Psychological horror, gore, torture (both physical and mental/emotional), PTSD and related issues, trauma recovery (that's actually my favorite thing about dark fic, the fallout and the dealing with that stuff afterwards), kinky sex as an instrument to deal with past trauma, child abuse (if referenced or implied in canon), character death, dystopia and apocalypse, captivity and restraints, body horror (except anything involving eyes), permanent injury (preferably both inflicted and dealt with onscreen), mindfuck and manipulation, unreliable narrator, humiliation and degradation, invasion of privacy, altered perception (for whatever reason) and its consequences, involuntary nudity, coercion, intimacy without love. Incest if it's treated as unhealthy and terrible, soulmates (or most other usually happy tropes) gone wrong, enemies to lovers/lust, power imbalance that is addressed as such and/or skewed in favor of the seemingly weaker party.
Unwanted tropes: I'm picky with consent-related issues, especially when it comes to women -- actually, I'm always pickier when it comes to women, I prefer my guys to do the suffering. Victim blaming, even implied or referenced, is a huge no, though I can be fine with it if the narrative recognizes and acknowledges that the victim isn't actually at fault. Graphic and descriptive non-con is a hard no. Forced nudity and threats of rape or sexual violence, especially in the context of torture, are okay, as long as a rescue happens before said threats are actually followed up on. I don't like feminization of male characters or sexist/gendered slurs, and racism is also a total nope. Please avoid permanent injury. Also, actual slavery, mpreg bestiality, medical experimentation, and anything involving bodily fluids and excrement. I can deal with vomit if it's not graphic, and watersports is okay if it focuses on the desperation and humiliation and not on the fact that it is, well, pissing. Underage below the age of sixteen, and age gaps of more than fifteen years (physically and/or mentally) or with one party below, say, twenty -- meaning, for example, twenty-two and thirty-seven is okay, fifteen and thirty is definitely not. A/B/O is out, so is any kind of kink-based AU universe.
Please keep to the characters requested in this comment, not all in the signup. And generally, don't go overboard and keep it in character and in the context of the source fandom, even if you go for an AU.
no subject
Letter: https://fiore01.dreamwidth.org/743.html
Fandoms:
Time Princess: The Perfect Storm (Video Game)
Mary Read (TP Perfect Storm)
Eric Keats (TP Perfect Storm)
Cordelia Delamare (TP Perfect Storm)
Charles Vane (TP Perfect Storm)
Time Princess: The Sacred Beast (Video Game)
Yazdan (TP Sacred Beast)
Reza (TP Sacred Beast)
Asha (TP Sacred Beast)
Sadistic Beauty (Webcomic)
Cha Wookyung
Byun Minho
Happy Endings Preferred: Generally yes. Doesnt need to be anything overtly sweet.
Wanted tropes: Hurt (hurt/comfort or hurt no comfort are fine), trauma bonding, consent issues, power imbalances, unsafe BDSM/kink practices, captivity, injury, heavy angst, codependent relationships, permanent injuries, sexual slavery, mind control, noncon, dubcon, mpreg, sexual grooming, forced transformation...
Unwanted tropes: animal abuse, cumplay, necro, scat, watersports, cum eating, spitting in mouth...
no subject
Letter Link: https://unhindered-dreams.dreamwidth.org/4507.html
Fandoms:
Enola Holmes (Movies) [Enola, Sherlock]
The Guest (2014) [Anna, David]
Kolchak: The Night Stalker (TV 1974) [Kolchak]
Scream (Movies) [Roman, Sidney]
Happy Endings Preferred?: Any type of ending is fine.
Wanted Tropes: addiction, apocalypse, betrayal, blackmail, bloodplay, brainwashing, claustrophobia, codependent relationships, come back wrong, conspiracy, corruption, cults, curses, demons, devils, dysfunctional/fucked up relationships, dystopia, faustian bargains, gaslighting/mindfuckery, ghosts, gothic horror, hauntings, incest, invasion of privacy, kidnapping, lovecraftian cosmic horrors, manipulation, meet-cute turns dark, mind control, monsters, morally bankrupt, murder, noncon (or dubcon or any kind of consent issues), obsession, obsessive love, occult, paranoia, possession, possessive behavior, power imbalances, psychological horror, ptsd, stalking, stockholm syndrome, threats, to the victors go the spoils, trauma bonds, underage, unreliable narrators, vampires, villains corrupting heroes, werewolves
Unwanted Tropes: amputation, animal abuse, cannibalism, disordered eating, graphic descriptions of gore, mutilation, self-harm, suicide
My General DNWs: (listed separately because not all of them are dark, but I don't want them just the same)
emetophilia, humiliation, mpreg, scat, sounding, terminal illnesses, vore, watersports
no subject
Letter: https://a-belladonna.dreamwidth.org/164432.html
Fandoms:
Cycling RPF: Vincenzo Nibali, Domenico Pozzovivo
Tintin: Tintin, captain Haddock, Tchang Tchong-Jen, Piotr Szut
Happy Endings Preferred?: Yes
Wanted tropes:
Cycling: Disordered eating, anxiety, loneliness, coping with injuries, canon-typical homophobia (it's a conservative sport with macho-ideals and catholic faith, after all), homesickness, rivalry, hurt/comfort. Feeling of guilt because of religious/societal norms and mores. Prejudice against people from the South of Italy ("terroni" is considered a slur, used against people from the south if Italy. They'll sometimes refer to themselves as that, but it's a bit like the n-word in English, meaning that non-southerners shouldn't be using it). Dealing with the death of friends/colleagues.
Tintin: Further exploration of episodes in the books where things went wrong/could have gone wrong, such as but not limited to:
Tintin's stay in a Japanese prison during The Blue Lotus
What if he became addicted to opium during his stay in China?
All the times he got hurt/injured
In a way "Tintin in Tibet" sums up my likes in this genre: The protagonists suffer all through the story, but in the end they're saved and in one piece (except for the poor, lonely yeti)
Captain Haddock's alcoholism, hurt/comfort, period-typical attitudes to homosexuality, trust issues/learning to trust, orphan!Tintin
And in general there are just many darker episodes in the comic
Unwanted tropes: Death/deathfic (unless it's referring to canonical deaths). Infidelity. Angst with no happy ending/bleak and unhappy endings. Graphic non-con. Unrequested changes to the canon resulting in an unhappy ending (such as "Tintin didn't find Tchang in time and he perished in Tibet"). Humiliation, explicit, graphic torture and violence. Dystopia. Insanity. Dr. Müller actually succeeding in sending Tintin off to an insane asylum.
no subject
Letter: https://firstroad.dreamwidth.org/3892.html
Fandoms:
- W.I.T.C.H. (Comics): Irma Lair
- Villains Series - V.E. Schwab: Victor Vale, Eli Ever
- Dare Me (TV): Beth Cassidy, Addy Hanlon
- Dreamer Trilogy - Maggie Stiefvater: Adam Parrish, Ronan Lynch
- Darker than Black: Hei
- Psycho-Pass: Kougami Shinya, Makishima Shougo
Happy Endings Preferred?: No preference!
Wanted tropes: abduction, addiction, amputation, betrayal, body horror, cannibalism, corruption, cosmic horror, death games, disordered eating, injuries, jealousy, manipulation, mutilation, obsession, paranoia, poisoning, sadism, self-destructiveness, torture
Unwanted tropes: noncon with female victims, terminal illness, underage, permanent character death of the above characters
no subject
Letter: https://chess.dreamwidth.org/413351.html
Fandoms:
FTL: Faster Than Light (Video Game)
Earth: Final Conflict: Da'an, Zo'or
The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power (TV 2022): Halbrand (The Rings of Power)
Happy Endings Preferred?: don't mind
Wanted tropes:
If you are wondering whether your favourite darkfic trope is okay, the answer is yes :-).
FTL: Faster Than Light (Video Game)
FTL is full of terrible situations - the ship's on fire, the oxygen's going out, you've just been sent over to murder the other crew horribly while your ship is still firing on them - what does that do to the crew members?
FTL also has a wide variety of alien races - what kind of horrible misunderstandings happen when they're cooped up on a ship with each other?
Earth: Final Conflict
Basically everything the Taelons do is dubcon at best, and there's plenty of body horror to go round too; unethical experiments, not understanding the limits of their human companions, and outright just using their power to get what they want...
The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power (TV 2022)
What if Halbrand went to further efforts to seduce Galadriel - or just keep her for himself - or kidnap Elrond or one of the other elves to take with him? What else has he been up to before he ends up on that raft? What made it so personal between him and Adar?
no subject
AO3: VioletDawn
Letter: https://violetdawn.dreamwidth.org/302.html
Fandoms:
Paradise Killer: cosmic horror with blood cults and murder mysteries
Fortuna: cosmic horror of spaceship crews throwing themselves into doomed missions, also sentient AI who know it's a game and have been through a lot
Hashihime of the Old Book Town: psychedelic mystery BL with time travel, death and madness
Crewniverse: RPF of YouTube gamers/Twitch streamers, but with potential for fun AUs
Happy Endings Preferred?: don't mind
Wanted tropes: psychological horror, paranoia, insanity, is this real or not, PTSD, survivor guilt, body horror, brainwashing, apocalypse, claustrophobia, survival horror, suicide, cosmic horror, murder, despair, betrayal, killing games/death games, dystopia, codependent/dysfunctional/abusive dynamics,
Unwanted tropes: cannibalism, eye trauma, horror related to pregnancy/childbirth are DNWs. Tropes I'm just less interested in is major illnesses, medical experimentation and asylum AUs.
The Last Kingdom (TV), Jane Eyre (Brontë), North and South (Gaskell), Memoirs of a Geisha (Golden)
Letter: https://sobriquett.tumblr.com/post/698768287559024640/dear-yuletide-author-2022
Happy Endings Preferred?: Surprise me. (Bonus: actually surprise me!)
Fandoms:
The Last Kingdom (TV)
Requested character: Uhtred of Bebbanburg
Jane Eyre - Charlotte Bronte
Requested character: Jane Eyre
North and South - Elizabeth Gaskell
Requested characters: Margaret Hale, John Thornton
Memoirs of a Geisha - Arthur Golden
Requested characters: Nobu Toshikazu, Nitta Sayuri | Sakamoto Chiyo
Wanted tropes:
Addiction | Apocalypse | Betrayal | Brainwashing | Cannibalism | Character Death | Character Death Aftermath | Child Abuse | Claustrophobia | Conspiracy | Debt & Financial Pressures | Degradation | Disease | Dubious Consent | Dystopia | Fire | Forced Marriage | Gaslighting | Hauntings | Humiliation | Hypothermia | Insanity | Invasion of Privacy | Mind Control | Murder | Paranoia | Poisoning | Prison | PTSD | Slavery (Canon-Appropriate) | Suicide | Unhappy Endings | Violence
Unwanted tropes:
A/B/O Dynamics | Animal Abuse (Canon-Typical Animal Death is fine, e.g. in battle) | Bestiality | Body Horror | Explicit, On-Screen Non-Con | Gore | Lovecraftian Cosmic Horrors | Medical Experimentation | Mutilation | Non-Canonical Amputation | Sadism | Scat | Torture | Vore
Further likes, dislikes, details and specific prompts are in my letter.
no subject
Letter: https://docs.google.com/document/d/183mX86C-3VkUHU10_9aPq-6BsVbGJeAYVWb9Ypn1Bm0/edit?usp=sharing
Fandoms: Asking For It - Lilah Pace, Turner Series - Cat Sebastian, Twin Peaks, Utopia Avenue - David Mitchell
Happy Endings Preferred?: no preference
Wanted tropes: apocalypse, dystopia, monsters, body snatcher invasions, hauntings, PTSD, psychological horror, painful transformations, mutilation/scarring, loss of control over oneself/risk of harming others, being hunted, evil exes/stalkers/criminals with grudges, baddies made them do it, dubcon, slavery, curses, folk horror.
Unwanted tropes: Anything medical/surgical, graphic/extended torture, exorcisms.
no subject
Letter: https://kartaylir.dreamwidth.org/1164.html
Fandom and character(s):
Tenshi no Tamago | Angel's Egg - Any (Boy, Girl, Worldbuilding)
Kanashimi no Belladonna | Belladonna of Sadness - Jeanne
Divinity: Original Sin - Sebille, The Red Prince, Worldbuilding
Elder Scrolls Online - Naryu Virian, Vastarie, Worldbuilding (Creator only need include one)
A Rasp of Sand (TTRPG) - Any (Worldbuilding)
Happy Endings Preferred?: Varies. I'd prefer ambiguous or happier endings for named characters who don't die in canon, but darker ones are welcome for worldbuilding/OCs and explorations of canonical death are also welcome.
Wanted tropes: These vary based on fandom but a few examples include canon-typical cannibalism, ritual sacrifice, post-apocalytic worlds, some specific cases of f/f noncon, memory erasure as a form of manipulation, canonical character death, and all the unpleasant workings of assassins guilds.
DNWS: A/B/O, Anal Sex, Soulmates, Mundane AUs, Readerfic, Incest, pairings with characters under 16, Covid-19, Non-canon disease outbreaks.
no subject
Letter: https://at.tumblr.com/dauntless-shadow-ice-1/dear-yuletide-writer/nb65mqs7fkqg
Fandoms: Alexa & Katie (Alexa, Mendoza, Katie Cooper), Roseanne (Darlene Conner, Molly Tilden), Lies Like Poison (Lily Holloway, Belladonna Drake, Raven Holloway, Jack McClain), This Lie Will Kill You (Juniper Torres, Ruby Valentine, Shane Ferrick, Brianna Ferrick), Wonder (Olivia "Via" Pullman, Miranda Navas)
Happy Endings Preferred?: yes
Wanted tropes: addiction, hypothermia, murder, abusive relationships, self-harm, eating disorders, suicide (specifically suicide pacts), invasion of privacy
Unwanted tropes: animal abuse of any kind, sci-fi elements that don't already exist today, graphic non-con or dub-con
no subject
AO3: liebchen
Letter: https://brigand.dreamwidth.org/590.html
Fandoms: Disco Elysium, 泾渭情殇 - 请君莫笑 | Clear and Muddy Loss of Love - Qǐng Jūn Mò Xiào, 余污 - 肉包不吃肉 | Remnants of Filth - Meatbun Doesn't Eat Meat, 괴물 | Beyond Evil (TV)
Happy Endings Preferred?: Don't mind!
Wanted tropes: (Deeply) unhealthy relationships, emotional manipulation, kidnapping, gaslighting, humiliation, dub/noncon, cheating, unhappy or ambiguous endings, gore (except for eye trauma/feet mutilation), body horror, weird eldritch sex stuff + vampires, serial killer AUs, bad ending AUs
Unwanted tropes: ABO, medfet (please no eye gore or feet mutilation), scat, extended kink negotiation, suicide, self-harm or suicidal ideation as a main plot point, issuefic, age regression, kidfic
no subject
Letter: http://eirenical.dreamwidth.org/tag/dear+yuletide+author
Fandoms: I have Crueltide prompts for the following fandoms:
怒海潜沙&秦岭神树 | Explore with the Note & The Lost Tomb (TV) -- Dou Cheng, Zhang Buxun, Xie Yuchen, Zhai Xingyao
盗墓笔记 - 南派三叔 | The Grave Robbers' Chronicles - Xu Lei -- Wu Xie, Zhang Qiling, Wang Meng, Wu Yiqiong
人生大事 | Lighting Up the Stars (2022) -- Mo Sanmei, Wu Xiaowen, Wang Jianren, Yin Baixue
琉璃 | Love and Redemption (TV) -- Qing Long, Teng She, Yu Sifeng, Luohou Jidu
心宅猎人 | Psych-Hunter (TV) -- Jiang Shuo, Qin Yi Heng
Happy Endings Preferred?: yes
Wanted tropes: All details are in my letter, but I'll say up front I have a noncon kink a mile wide. ^_^
Unwanted tropes:
1. Entirely changed setting AUs, particularly mundane AUs (i.e. coffeehouse AUs, high school AUs, etc.) but also historical AUs, modern AUs, fantasy AUs, superhero AUs, etc., unless specified. (AUs of the canon divergence/"What if?" variety (i.e. what if character A had made a different decision here; what if character B hadn't died) are fine.)
2. Infidelity/cheating/going behind someone's back/etc.
3. Embarrassment/secondhand embarrassment/humiliation
4. Animal abuse or pet death. Referring to animals with the pronoun "it."
5. Derealization: character believes they are in one situation and that turns out not to be true. (The old "it turns out the character is in a mental institution and all of canon was a hallucination" trope is a classic example of this.)
6. No unrequested gender or sexuality headcanons or swaps
7. The following kinks: Age play/infantilism, scat, watersports, omegaverse. (...basically, if I haven't listed it as something I'd like for a particular story, please err on the side of caution and just don't include it. Thanks!)