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Crueltide 2023
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
AO3: sarriathmg
Letter: https://sarriathmg.dreamwidth.org/
Fandoms:
DC vs. Vampires (Comic 2021)
Dick Grayson (DC vs. Vampires), Hal Jordan (DC vs. Vampires), Jason Todd (DC vs Vampires), Koriand'r (DC vs Vampires)
Lord of the Flies - William Golding
Simon (Lord of the Flies), The Lord of the Flies (Lord of the Flies)
Flowers in the Attic - V. C. Andrews
Cathy Dollanganger (Flowers in the Attic - V. C. Andrews), Corrine Foxworth (Flowers in the Attic - V. C. Andrews), Cory Dollanganger (Flowers in the Attic - V. C. Andrews), Olivia Foxworth (Flowers in the Attic - V. C. Andrews)
The Backrooms - Anonymous on /x/
Worldbuilding (The Backrooms)
Happy Endings Preferred?: no preferences, the only exception being "Flowers in the Attic" (for which, at least a hopeful ending for the kid characters)
Wanted tropes: Anything horror (I have an extensive list of horror likes in my letter, but I also just basically like all horror), gore, noncon/dubcon/consent issues in general, underage, emotional manipulation/emotional vulnerability, kidnapping/captivity/stockholm and lima syndromes, unhealthy relationships, incest, sexual slavery, dehumanization/humans treated as livestock, fucked-up society/dystopias, sexism/sexist language as a kink, humiliation/degradation as a kink, anything requiring a dead dove: do not eat tag, satisfying acts of revenge, there are no good guys, characters willing to do morally ambiguous things presented as the sympathetic ones | characters who "only do what's 'right'" presented as unsympathetic/fake/hypocritical, evil is sexy, the lure of corruption, rapist POV/evil POV
Unwanted tropes (DNWs): unrequested race change/genderswap | identity headcanons, rape where the victim stays unaroused, issuefic (discussing social issues), raceplay, spitting in mouth, vomit kink, weight gain. For the DCU fandom, bottom Dick or Dick whump; for Flowers in the Attic, Corrine apologist.
no subject
Letter: https://poeticpains.dreamwidth.org/624.html
Fandoms:
Escape the Night (Web Series) - The Savant | Joey Graceffa, The Detective | Matthew Patrick
Phantom - Nathan Sharp (Music Video) - Phantom (Phantom - Nathan Sharp), The Magician (Phantom - Nathan Sharp)
Happy Endings Preferred?: Anything goes!
Wanted tropes: Graphic depictions of violence, torture, angst for the sake of angst, a focus on mental health issues such as depression, anxiety, and/or PTSD, noncon/dubcon, emotional manipulation, power imbalances, power play, Stockholm Syndrome, feminization, "came back wrong" trope, gothic horror, discussions of suicide/suicidal thoughts, MCD, self-harming by way of sex, focus on grief/mourning, transphobia/discrimination against transmasc characters, homophobia, obsession, possessiveness, hauntings/vengeful ghosts, blood (in all its permutations: as lube, covering someone's hands or face, being coughed up...), serial killer AUs (as long as they don't get caught!)
(Knowing me, I will probably remember more later, so I encourage you to check my letter in case I wake up in a cold sweat and add a bunch of stuff at 3 AM.)
Unwanted tropes: Kidfic (of any kind), de-aging, mentions of children and/or pregnancy in general, cheating/infidelity, first- and second-person POV, fic centering on breakups/divorce (mentioned in passing is okay), mentions of people's IRL families/partners, alcoholism (casual use of alcohol is okay, just not depictions of heavy drinking/alcohol abuse), misunderstandings/miscommunication as a major plot point, amnesia/memory loss, bad hygiene in day-to-day life (someone getting covered in muck or grossness that they then wash off is okay, I just don't like mentions of body odor and the like), focus on vomit/vomiting, Soulmate AUs, Hanahaki AUs, Apocalypse/Post-Apocalypse AUs, Prison AUs, Slavery AUs, Time Loop AUs. There are a few more DNWs in my letter/sign-up, but I don't think they'll come up in most darkfic.
no subject
Letter: https://jalu2.dreamwidth.org/16812.html
Fandoms:
Growing Things - Paul Tremblay (Short Story)
Don't Worry Darling (2022)
House of Hollow - Krystal Sutherland
Final Girl (Board Game)
Happy Endings Preferred?: Open to any!
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, any horror goes with me.
Unwanted tropes: onscreen non-con, explicit sexual content with characters under 18, anything involving harm to animals.
no subject
Letter: https://sniffinglue.dreamwidth.org/363.html
Fandoms:
Copkiller (1983) - Fred O'Connor, Leo Smith
Pistol (TV 2022) - Steve Jones, Johnny Rotten, Malcolm McLaren
Happy Endings Preferred?: I don't mind either a happy ending or an unhappy ending!
Wanted tropes: Manipulation, noncon/dubcon/consent issues in general, verbal humiliation/degradation, drugged sex, drunk sex, power imbalances, blackmail, possessiveness, people with fucked up morals, whump, trauma recovery, injury recovery, graphic depictions of violence, homophobia, unhealthy relationships, fight sex/hate sex, addiction, invasions of privacy, taking advantage of emotional vulnerability, characters making bad/unhealthy choices because of trauma, punishment
Unwanted tropes: Issuefic, anything having to do with watersports/scat/vomit, anything having to do with weight gain/weight changes, bad hygiene, animals suffering, age regression or infantilization, non-canon major character death, bestiality, any requested characters having pedophilic desires, characters under 17 having sex (mentions of it are fine)
no subject
Letter: https://unhindered-dreams.dreamwidth.org/5787.html
Fandoms:
Blackbird (2016 short film dir. Fellingham & Stente Nielsen)
Rider, Rose
Don't Look Behind You - Lois Duncan
April Corrigan, Mike Vamp
Enola Holmes (Movies)
Enola Holmes, Sherlock Holmes
The Guest (2014)
Anna Peterson, David Collins
The Net (1995)
Angela Bennett, Jack Devlin
Time Trackers (1989)
Edgar of Mansfield, R.J. Craig
Happy Endings Preferred?: Any
Wanted tropes: Apocalypse, Back From The Dead, Bad Guys Win, Blood, Brainwashing, Came Back Wrong, Corruption, Cults, Dysfunctional/Fucked Up Relationships, Dystopia, Faustian Bargains, Gaslighting, Gothic Horror, Hauntings, Horror, Incest, Invasion of Privacy, Kidnapping, Lovecraftian Cosmic Horrors, Manipulation, Meet-Cute Turns Dark, Mind Control, Monsters (especially Demons, Vampires, and Werewolves), Noncon/Dubcon, Obsession, Occult, Possessive Behavior, Serial Killer AU, Stalking, Stockholm Syndrome, To The Victors Go The Spoils, Unhealthy Relationships, Zombie Apocalypse AU
Unwanted tropes: (These are all my DNWs, not just the ones related to darkfic.)
emetophilia, humiliation, mpreg, scat, sounding, terminal illnesses, vore, watersports
no subject
Letter: Letter
Fandoms:
Rivers of London - Peter Grant, Thomas Nightingale, worldbuilding
Warrior (TV) - Ah Toy, Wang Chao
Happy Endings Preferred?: yes, at least a glimmer of hope
Wanted tropes:
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: 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
no subject
Letter: https://elf.dreamwidth.org/867431.html
Fandoms: Adam Ruins Everything - Adam Conover; Ambush Bug (Comics) - Ambush Bug; Nobody is Normal - Any; Planet of the Bass - Any; Remington Steele (TV) - Laura Holt, Remington Steele; Scholomance - Worldbuilding
Happy Endings Preferred?: yes (but not required)
Wanted tropes: Angst; torture; challenges that require extreme sacrifices; worldbuilding that focuses on the dark side of things; unwinnable situations, gaslighting/psychological abuse, dubcon, maybe-noncon.
I'm looking at other people's comments and thinking, "...maybe I don't belong here?" I don't usually like horror; I don't like gore; I don't actually want a dark story where my blorbos get tormented... but I'm open to all of that; I'm in camp "optional details are optional," and I have received - and loved - unhappy endings, heavy violence, "actually no good people here" stories.
Unwanted tropes: (Suggestions more than absolutes; these are all "I won't normally seek these out" but I'm not outright DNW'ing them.) Miserable endings (okay with some angst, or heroic sacrifices; not okay with "actually now everything just sucks"); people treated as objects/animals; omegaverse; hybrid anything; breeding kink; death or torture of small children or animals.
no subject
Letter: https://ungefug.dreamwidth.org/7586.html
Fandoms: Ring of Honor, Vermis 1 - Plastiboo, Trust (TV)
Happy Endings Preferred?: don't mind (with exception of the character Jahangir Khan where I prefer happy endings)
Wanted tropes: hurt/comfort, whump, dubcon, noncon, unpleasant sex, horror as a genre (in particular body, cosmic and folk horror), dirt and viscera, the subtly upsetting, dysfunctional relationship, obsession, masochism, trauma and unhealthy coping mechanisms, repressed people coming apart, graphic depictions of violence, gross things (no bodily excretions are off limits)
Unwanted tropes: on screen underage (<16) sex, noncon between listed ships (unless otherwise specified), omegaverse, BDSM verse, brainwashing, mind break, doomed to be raped forever, Stockholm Syndrome, forced feminization, forced sex change, race kink, terminal illness, cancer, amnesia, m on f dubcon/noncon
no subject
Letter: https://breathingdreams.neocities.org/ExchangeLetters/Yuletide2023Letter
Requested Fandoms: Radiant Emperor Series - Shelley Parker-Chan, Witch King - Martha Wells, Friends at the Table: Sangfielle (Podcast), Parallel World | West Out of Yumen, Sha Hai | Tomb of the Sea, Legend of the Galactic Heroes
Happy Endings Preferred? Eh, whatever fits the story. I don't need happy endings! Bittersweet, ambiguous, or downright bad endings are all good when they suit the story.
Wanted Tropes: Horror (psychological thrillers, creeping dread, the uncanny, ghosts, monsters, demons, religious horror... not so much into the slasher/gore-for-gore's-sake side), bittersweetness, grief/mourning, monsters, transformations/body horror (esp. when it turns into body euphoria despite the seeming horrors), violence, war, imprisonment, interrogation, torture, trauma/ptsd and dealing with it, complicated/unbalanced power dynamics, characters thinking of themselves as tools/weapons, probably some other stuff I'm not thinking of but may be suggested by my likes and prompts!
Unwanted Tropes: Abuse, suicide, brainwashing, mind control
no subject
(Anonymous) 2023-10-15 12:50 pm (UTC)(link)Letter: https://catchmeifyoucreon.dreamwidth.org/361.html
Fandoms:
> Wuthering Heights - Emily Bronte (Catherine Linton, Heathcliff)
> Winter’s Tale - Shakespeare (Camillo, Polixenes)
> 關於我和鬼變成家人的那件事 | Marry My Dead Body (2023) (Mao Pang-yu, Wu Ming-han)
> 아가씨 | The Handmaiden (2016) (Fujiwara).
Happy Endings Preferred?: Don't mind.
Wanted tropes: noncon of all kinds (including violent, coercive, gang rape, marital abuse, etc.); dubcon (including sex pollen, Bad Guys Made Them Do It, sex under the influence of drugs/alcohol, etc.); breathplay; gunplay; knifeplay; unsafe/unnegotiated kink/BDSM; infidelity; incest or incest roleplay; face-slapping; physical fighting; domestic abuse; toxic and/or abusive relationships; hatesex; kidnapping, captivity, hostage situations; tragedy; physical or emotional hurt/comfort; dark fantasies/roleplays; time loops (particularly where one character snaps, doing things they never usually would consider, due to the continued torment of the loop).
Unwanted tropes: Scat, emetophilia, vore, disembowelment; castration, cock & ball torture, penile chastity devices, sounding; rimming; raceplay; explicit depictions of sexual acts featuring characters under the age of 17 (references or implications are fine, as is kissing); mafia AU; sci-fi AU.
no subject
AO3: https://archiveofourown.org/users/clairels/
clairels
https://docs.google.com/document/d/e/2PACX-1vT5vQz5EVb-HnMtjKxzOxaZl8Pjo3l68tHfgy6fIfytW2QDLqq1LNvU9wuKrhRaAKNiQqxOaU39P6Ic/pub
Titanic (1997)
Jack Dawson (Titanic 1997)
Tam Lin - Anonymous (Song)
Janet (Tam Lin), Tam Lin (Tam Lin), The Queen (Tam Lin)
Friday Night Lights (TV)
Tim Riggins (FNL TV)
Happy Endings Preferred?: Yes
Wanted tropes: Whump, abuse, slavery, prison, shackles, chains, captivity, angst, hurt/comfort, cages and cells, muzzles, dehumanization, humiliation, degradation, cruelty, mistreatment and abuse both physical and emotional. See letter for more details.
Unwanted tropes: Unhappy endings, major character death, horror, PWP, excessive noncon, BDSM, "dark romance." See letter for more DNWs specific to fandoms and general DNWs.
no subject
AO3 Name: hangingfire
Letter Link: Letter
Fandom: Chain-Gang All-Stars - Nana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah
Happy endings preferred?: Follow your muse.
Wanted tropes: I'm good with anything that's consistent with the canon. Which is a lot of dark stuff.
Unwanted tropes: De-aging, characters-as-kids fic, digestive/excretory kink, including but not limited to scat, golden showers, emetophilia, vore
no subject
Letter: https://zetsubohoe.dreamwidth.org/1188.html
Fandoms:
Degrees of Lewdity (Video Game)
Any (Harper (Degrees of Lewdity), Player (Degrees of Lewdity), Sydney (Degrees of Lewdity), Whitney (Degrees of Lewdity))
Dangan Ronpa Gaiden: Killer Killer (Manga)
Any (Hijirihara Takumi (DRG: Killer Killer), Ted Chikatilo (DRG: Killer Killer))
NEEDY GIRL OVERDOSE (Visual Novel)
Any (Ame (NEEDY GIRL OVERDOSE), OMGkawaiiAngel (NEEDY GIRL OVERDOSE), P-chan (NEEDY GIRL OVERDOSE))
Happy Endings Preferred?: I don't mind!
Wanted tropes: -Hurt/No comfort, gore/guro, psychological and/or physical torture, unhealthy/abusive relationships, corruption, murder, terrorism, suicide, self-harm, murder/suicide, violence and abuse as intimacy, futile scenarios with no right answer, killing/torture games, PTSD, consensual murder, snuff, necrophilia, autassassinophilia, hybristophilia
Unwanted tropes: -Beastiality (monsters are fine), smut with characters that are underage (references to past child abuse is okay), unrequested character alterations (age, gender, etc.), pregnancy or mpreg,anything involving scat , vomit written as a kink, vore
~Crueltide Recommendations~
If you like tropes like non-con, sexual slavery, PTSD, abusive relationships, Stockholm Syndrome, etc. I'd recommend Degrees of Lewdity; it is a free sandbox game where you play as an 18-year-old orphan being extorted for money by the orphanage caretaker in a town full of terrible people.
If you like tropes along the lines of sexualized violence, I'd recommend Killer Killer; it's a fan-translated 3 volume manga series about a serial killer that kills other serial killers.
no subject
Letter link: here
I have a carrd here that lists my likes/dislikes more extensively, including NSFW prefs. I am good with darkfic in any canon I've requested except One Piece.
Fandoms:
Vinland Saga (Anime)
Canute, Thorfinn
Tales of Luminaria
August Wallenstein, Falk
The Stand (TV 2020)
Lloyd Henreid, Randall Flagg
Final Fantasy XVI
Clive Rosfield, Joshua Rosfield
Interview with the Vampire (TV 2022)
Lestat de Lioncourt, Louis de Pointe du Lac
Happy endings preferred? Generally I like happy or neutral/ambiguous endings, but I'm fine if anything in Vinland Saga or The Stand doesn't have a happy ending.
Wanted tropes: Angst, hurt/comfort, hurt/no comfort, body horror, dehumanisation/objectification, unhealthy relationships, sexual slavery, apocalyptic settings, psychological horror/unreality.
Unwanted tropes: Requested character death, graphic descriptions of hand or eye trauma, graphic discussions of dead/murdered parents/grandparents (I realise this happens in some of the requested canons, I just prefer to not have a fic focus on that), animal abuse, domestic violence, rape, transphobia, race play, genderswaps.
no subject
Letter: https://skazka.dreamwidth.org/178614.html
Fandoms: Asteroid City 2023 (Conrad Earp); George Smiley novels - Le Carre (Dieter Frey, George Smiley); Hannibal Lecter tetralogy - Harris (Will Graham); Hell House - Matheson (Ben Fischer); Primal Fear 1996 (Aaron Stampler); Strange Angels - Koja (Robin Tobias)
Happy Endings Preferred?: No preference.
Wanted tropes: Ghosts and hauntings; claustrophobia; captivity; body horror; gothic horror; trauma and PTSD; manipulation; surviving terrible stuff and being changed by it; major character death; murder; consent issues and noncon; psychological horror; disturbingly intense interpersonal relationships; trauma bonding; survivor guilt; big spooky decaying houses with lots of creepy rooms; characters coming back from the dead “wrong”; vampires; power imbalances; haunted art.
Unwanted tropes: noncon resulting in uncomplicated true love or the victim secretly wanting it all along; focus on pregnancy; noncanonical self-harm cutting or scratching; disordered eating; unrequested incest; unrequested CSA themes; explicit sex involving characters under 16, except as indicated in my letter.
I can’t believe I’m requesting non-horror canons at all this year, tbh! Some of my fandoms lend themselves more to straight up malicious ghosts and Came Back Wrong (Hell House, my beloved) while others are more about psychological cruelty and human darkness (Primal Fear, arguably Le Carre, definitely the Hannibal books) and still others mix the two freely. (Strange Angels explores ableism, haunted art and artists, and unreliable narrators with a little lite body horror and the potential for some real mind-melting dip into what lies beyond or maybe above human experience.) And then there's Asteroid City, which... idk what darkfic for that would look like, but it's certainly possible? I love all kinds of darkfic, including stories that are just barely touched with melancholy rather than overtly gruesome, and it's hard to beat just a regular old depressing character study -- I'd be happy to read anything you can come up with for these.
no subject
Letter: here!
Fandoms: LISA, Fear & Hunger, Yume Nikki, Nanquest, Super Mario RPG, Omega Mart
Happy Endings Preferred?: Any (Yes in Super Mario RPG's case)
Wanted tropes: Puella Magi Madoka Magica fusions | Pacific Rim fusions | Death game fusions (Ex. Hunger Games, Battle Royale, Squid Game) | Earn Your Happy Ending | Psychological horror | body horror of the David Cronenberg variety, and exploration of the character struggling/freaking out/working with the changes | tasteful exploration of depression, anxiety, and PTSD, and the cast being supportive, patient and loving with the person going through those struggles | eldritch abominations | canon-typical limb loss (LISA, Fear & Hunger) | "imperfect" abuse survivors | dysfunctional characters and relationships (whether they heal or not) | non-zombie post-apocalypse settings | dystopias | requested non/dubcon ships | victim of non/dubcon enjoying the experience and feeling guilty because of it
Unwanted tropes: Animal abuse and torture | mpreg/pregnancy/miscarriage/abortion | unrequested sex changes | apologism for canon pedophiles and rapists | terrible parenting justified by the narrative | permanent brain damage ("going mad from the revelation" due to eldritch abominations doesn't count) | non-canon-typical incest | stuffing/feederism/forcefeeding | breeding/oviposition | unrequested non/dubcon ships
no subject
Letter: https://hekateras.dreamwidth.org/260.html
Fandoms: Neverwinter Nights 2: Mask of the Betrayer
Happy Endings Preferred?: don't mind either way
Wanted tropes: Captivity, memory loss, becoming the monster, betrayal, mistrust, dubcon, powerlessness, PTSD
Unwanted tropes: Pregnancy, noncon
no subject
Letter: https://hematophagefic.dreamwidth.org/2023/10/18/
Fandoms: Long Gone Days (Video Game), We Happy Few (Video Game), Bastion (Video Game), Fisheye Placebo (Webcomic)
Happy Endings Preferred?: Actually, I'd prefer you avoid happy endings
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
More details in letter <3
no subject
AO3: Sobriquett
Letter: href="https://sobriquett.tumblr.com/post/731710418596298752/dear-yuletide-author-2023
Fandoms:
Boston Legal
Any (Alan Shore, Denny Crane, Jerry Espenson, Katie Lloyd)
Jane Eyre - Charlotte Brontë
Jane Eyre
Memoirs of a Geisha - Arthur Golden
Nitta Sayuri, Nobu Toshikazu
The Godfather - Mario Puzo
Any (Apollonia Vitelli Corleone (The Godfather - Mario Puzo), Carmela Corleone (The Godfather - Mario Puzo), Kay Adams Corleone (The Godfather - Mario Puzo), Lucy Mancini (The Godfather - Mario Puzo))
Happy Endings Preferred?: No preference; delighted with anything on the happiness-to-wailing spectrum!
Wanted tropes:
Apocalypse | Betrayal | Character Death | Character Death Aftermath | Claustrophobia | Conspiracy | Debt & Financial Pressures | Degradation | Disease | Dubious Consent | Dystopia | Fire | Forced Marriage | Gaslighting | Hauntings | Humiliation | Hypothermia | Infertility | Miscarriage/Pregnancy Loss | Murder | Paranoia | Poisoning | Prison | PTSD | Shame | Suicide | Terminal Illness | Unhappy Endings
Unwanted tropes:
Alpha/Beta/Omega Dynamics | Anyone being called “Daddy” in a sexual context | Bestiality | Body Horror | Gore | Medical Experimentation | Mpreg | Mutilation | Non-Canonical Amputation | Sadism | Scat | Torture | Vore
no subject
Letter: https://evilmuffins.dreamwidth.org/17779.html
Fandoms:
-Yuppie Psycho
(Brian, Tiki Taka)
-Sarazanmai
(Reo,Mabu)
-Empire of Corpses
(John, Friday)
-Samurai Flamenco
(Mari, Moe)
-Ranpo Kitan
(Akechi, Namikoshi)
Happy Endings Preferred?: Yes, or at least bitter-sweet
Wanted tropes: Whump, non-fatal guro/gore, blood, injuries, nightmares, angst, hurt/comfort, 'twisted and fluffy feelings', dark humor, unhealthy relationships, dub-con, hanahaki, depression/suicidal thoughts, body horror, black mail, 'good' characters slowly becoming corrupted
My letter also contains a list of gore likes :)
Unwanted tropes: Death of requested characters
no subject
Letter: here
{Note: My letter for regular Yuletide is linked for reference only. For Crueltide Wanted and Unwanted tropes, please refer to the contents of this comment.}
Fandoms:
琅琊榜 (Langya List, the novel by Haiyan)
Mei Changsu, Xiao Jingyan (needs to have Mei Changsu and/or Xiao Jingyan, but please do include any other character who strikes your fancy)
明朝历史 | Ming Dynasty RPF
Emperor Taizu of Ming | Zhu Yuanzhang (Ming Dynasty RPF), Yuan Kai (Ming Dynasty RPF), (needs to have Zhu Yuanzhang and/or Yuan Kai, but please do include any other character who strikes your fancy)
唐朝历史 | Tang Dynasty RPF
Li Heng (Tang Dynasty RPF)
Happy Endings: I don't mind either way!
Wanted tropes: Graphic Noncon, Blood as Lube (best if the blood comes from the character being noncon-ed, and feel free to include any other bodily fluids - be as gross as you like!), Painful Sex, Whipping/Caning, Captivity, Imprisonment, Chains, Predicament Bondage, Object Insertion (i like rocks and knives/swords, but you do you!), Poisoning, Unwilling Arousal, Ben Wa Balls, Horror, Ghosts.
Unwanted tropes: Daddy kink (i doubt anyone would go there with these fandoms, but just to be clear!), Underage, Raceplay (again, i don't think anyone would go there - but to be safe!), Consensual Sex (if it turns to noncon later, then i'm ok)
no subject
Letter: https://chthonic-cassandra.dreamwidth.org/6444.html
Fandoms: Penny Dreadful (tv), Blood Opera Sequence - Tanith Lee, Vivia - Tanith Lee, La Morte Vivante/Living Dead Girl (1982)
Happy Endings Preferred?: No preference! (Except for the Blood Opera Sequence, where I have a mild happy ending preference.)
Wanted tropes: Captivity; vampirism; unhealthy devotion; trauma; psychological horror
Unwanted tropes: Pregnancy-related body horror; animal harm; institutionalization; sexual content with anyone younger than adolescence
no subject
Letter: https://serephemeral.dreamwidth.org/3564.html
Fandoms:
Duskwalker Brides - Opal Reyne
Orpheus, Reia
The Widow's Captive - Logandria
The Widow, Widow's Captive, Worldbuilding
Note: this is very much a five-minute fandom!
Happy Endings Preferred?: Yes, or at least endings that lean toward everyone enjoying the messed up nature of whatever situation they are in.
Wanted tropes: angst, being restrained against one's will, captivity, corruption (especially via deception and temptation), curses, degradation, dubcon of the variety that suggests both parties are really into it by the end of the encounter, emotional manipulation, folk horror, grief, gothic horror, guilt, implied-to-moderate torture, invasion of privacy, kidnapping, light wounding, mindfucks and mindfucking, monsters, oviposition, possessiveness, power imbalances, 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, detailed, graphic descriptions of blood and gore (mentions and light details are fine), medical experimentation, pregnancy or kidfic, rape, severe mutilation, scat, slavery and master/slave relationships, suicide and/or death of a requested character, watersports
no subject
Letter: https://galaxyofroses.dreamwidth.org/3183.html
Fandoms:
The Expanse Series - Corey: Any (Alex Kamal, Aliana Tanaka, Amos Burton, Caspar Asoau, The Investigator, Jim Holden, Naomi Nagata, Teresa Duarte, Worldbuilding)
Knives Out Films: Benoit Blanc, Helen Brand, Marta Cabrera, Phillip
The Last Unicorn - Beagle: Molly Grue, Schmendrick the Magician, The Unicorn
Space Oddity - David Bowie: Any (Major Tom, Major Tom's Wife, Ground Control
Happy Endings Preferred?: Happy not necessarily, but some degree of hope, i.e., not unremitting bleakness.
Wanted tropes: Horror! Including but not limited to apocalyptic horror, body horror, cosmic horror, dark fantasy, folk horror, gothic horror, monster horror, psychological horror, science fiction horror, supernatural horror, and survival horror. (And shout out to Summer of Horror for the list.)
Unwanted tropes: Any sexual or identity-driven violence, cancer, child abuse, cockroaches and spiders, eye trauma, pet death, underage.
no subject
(Anonymous) 2023-10-21 08:32 pm (UTC)(link)Letter: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1OTqFQtRlvtr4dLssMCiHvUgQi38aGm-WBuAOl3onk5M/
Fandoms:
The First Law - Joe Abercrombi (Sand dan Glokta); Cabaret - Kander/Ebb(Emcee);
Moby Dick - Herman Melville (Captain Ahab); Henry VI - Shakespeare (Richard III)
Happy Endings Preferred?: Slight preference for happy or at least vaguely hopeful endings, but have loved lots of stuff without them.
Wanted tropes: Amputation - Body Horror - Castration - Degradation - Disease - Humiliation - Hurt/Comfort - Hypothermia - Mutilation - Non-Con - PTSD - Torture
Essentially I love dark humour and hurt/comfort, especially in combination.
Unwanted tropes: Animal Abuse - Child Abuse
no subject
Letter: https://midorisakura.dreamwidth.org/22073.html
Fandoms: Not Me, History3:Trapped, The Lost Boys (movies)
Happy Endings Preferred?: Yes
Wanted tropes: Addiction, Amputation, Body Horror, Claustrophobia, Anxiety, Disease, Hauntings, Gaslighting, Hypothermia, Monsters, Murder, Medical Experimentations, Mild Gore, Insanity, Permanent Injury, Traumatic Brain Injury, Drugged
Unwanted tropes: Prison, Character Death (I don't consider being turned into a vampire a character death, and I do not mind the death of OCs), Depression, Dystopia, Humiliation, Suicide, Unhappy Endings, Extended torture (a mild amount of it is okay)
no subject
Letter: https://nonesensed.dreamwidth.org/119862.html
Fandom(s): Candela Obscura, Killjoys (TV), Much Ado About Nothing (2011), Rook & Rose - M. A. Carrick
Happy Endings Preferred?: Preferred, but not a must if that doesn't work for your story.
Wanted tropes: abuse (especially if the abuser gets what's coming to them by the end of the story - aka gets arrested/dies/is transformed into a fleshy blob who forever will only feel pain, etc), angst, betrayal*, body horror, captivity, complicated/unbalanced power dynamics, consent issues, cosmic horror, excessive loyalty (especially when contrasted with deserved & healthy loyalty or worked through so it becomes a healthier relationship), hallucinations, hauntings/ghosts, haunted houses/places and locations that are just "wrong", hurt/comfort, kidnappings, manipulation, medical experimentation, mind control, monsters, pain kink, people being incapacitated (by drugs, restraints or threats to loved ones), power play, psychological horror, villains who are unbelievably cruel (especially if they end up defeated and/or killed by the end of the story)
Unwanted tropes: age regression, non-canon amnesia, animal abuse that leads to animal death, bestiality, betrayal of characters who are friends in canon (aka Sean being betrayed by his circle, Vargo being betrayed by Ren or Alsius, etc), body-switching, non-canon character deaths, emetophilia, explicit descriptions of the loss of a body part from the POV of the person who's lost said body part, infantilization, people under 18 in explicit sexual situations, scat & watersports, vore, a story fully set during wartime (however, I don't mind flashbacks to canon wartime events).
no subject
Letter:
https://laireshi.dreamwidth.org/84475.html
Fandoms:
Licanius Series - James Islington
Alaris (Licanius), Caeden | Tal'kamar | Aarkein Devaed (Licanius)
Shades of Magic - V. E. Schwab
Holland Vosijk
구미호뎐 | Tale of the Nine Tailed (TV)
Lee Yeon, Cheon Mu Young (Tale of the Nine Tailed), Ryu Hong Ju
Happy Endings Preferred?: don't mind
Wanted tropes: dubcon and noncon (although for my requests this year, not between the requested characters, unless it's a messy sex pollen kind), torture, self-harm, ptsd, lack of bodily autonomy. For Licanius specifically, the kind of harm you can do to an immortal character who heals fast, and emotional trauma from that.
Unwanted tropes: terminal illness, body horror, mutilation/irreversible injury, eye trauma/blindness, cannibalism, brain damage, stuff like 'slow loss of self', grief
no subject
Letter: https://dauntlessshadowice.dreamwidth.org/18090.html
Fandoms:
Roseanne (Darlene Conner)
Scott Pilgrim vs. The World (2010)(Any—Scott Pilgrim, Ramona Flowers, Knives Chau, Wallace Wells)
The Skeleton Twins (2014) (Maggie Dean, Milo Dean)
Degrassi the Next Generation (Any—Ellie Nash, Paige Michalchuk, Terri MacGregor, Ashley Kerwin, Emma Nelson, Craig Manning, J.T. Yorke)
Blossom (TV) (Blossom Russo, Six LeMeure)
Red Band Society (US TV) (Any—Emma Chota, Kara Souders, Leo Roth, Jordi Palacios)
Happy Endings Preferred?: yes
Wanted tropes: From the list: Addiction, Apocalypse, Character Death, Child Abuse, Dystopia, Hypothermia, Murder, Paranoia, PTSD, Suicide, Violence. In general: the darker sides of mental illness such as anxiety, depression, etc, hospital fic, self-harm, heavy angst miserable endings (I know I said happy endings are preferred, and they are), but if something takes you in this direction, I’m totally on-board with that.), trauma recovery, rape recovery, grief/mourning, teacher/student relationships, vampire/werewolf AUs
Unwanted tropes: On-screen rape, mutilation, medical experimentation, omegaverse or its dynamics, incest, mind control, non-teacher/student adult/minor relationships
no subject
Letter: https://kartaylir.dreamwidth.org/1440.html
Fandom and character(s):
Tenshi no Tamago | Angel's Egg - Any (Boy, Girl, Worldbuilding)
Kanashimi no Belladonna | Belladonna of Sadness - Jeanne, Milady
Divinity: Original Sin - Sebille, The Red Prince
Elder Scrolls Online - Any (Naryu Virian, Vastarie, 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: Unrequested Noncon (References to canon events are fine, dubcon is fine-I'd count the pheromone/sex polleny likes mentioned in some sections as dubon. I've opted into a few specific noncon configurations in the fandom-specific sections of my letter). Omegaverse, Anal Sex, Soulmates (exception for the canonical Red Prince/Red Princess relationship from Divinity OS: 2), Mundane AUs, Readerfic, Incest, pairings with characters under 16, Covid-19, Non-canon disease outbreaks.
no subject
Letter: here!
Fandoms: Dare Me (TV 2019), Darker Than Black, Psycho-Pass, W.I.T.C.H. (Comics)
Happy Endings Preferred?: don't mind either way!
Wanted tropes: From the list: Addiction - Amputation - Apocalypse - Betrayal - Body Horror - Brainwashing - Cannibalism - Claustrophobia - Conspiracy - Degradation - Dystopia - Gaslighting - Hauntings - Humiliation - Hypothermia - Insanity - Invasion of Privacy - Lovecraftian Cosmic Horrors - Medical Experimentation - Mind Control - Monsters - Murder - Mutilation - Paranoia - Poisoning - Prison - PTSD - Sadism - Slavery - Torture - Unhappy Endings - Violence
Unwanted tropes: M on F noncon, permanent death of requested characters
no subject
Letter: Right here.
Fandom: A Discovery of Witches (Gerbert, Juliette, Ysabeau), Hadestown (Hades, Persephone), Moulin Rouge! (Satine, Toulouse-Latrec, Ziegler)
Happy endings preferred?: I don't mind. I like my crueltide in many flavors!
Wanted tropes:ddiction, all in their mind (or is it??), amnesia, anything spooky and supernatural, betrayal, blood drinking, brainwashing, captivity, character death, complicated cycles of abuse, corruption, darkness, deal-with-a-devil sort of bargains, dystopia, especially the coldness or inhumanity of the gods versus humans, gaslighting, ghosts, gunplay/knifeplay, horror, hurt/comfort, hurt/no comfort, hypothermia and other illnesses where one’s reality might not be sound, imprisonment, incest, isolation, kidnapping, let’s pretend/happy end (even if pretending is unbearable), lovecraftian/cosmic horror, mind horror, monsters, murder/suicide, possession, power imbalance, psych horror, sexism, spooky hauntings, stockholm syndrome, survival, trauma, unhappy endings, unhealthy close relationships, vampires and anything else on my likes list at my letter :)
Unwanted tropes: alpha/beta/omega or omegaverse AU, High School/College/Coffee Shop/Mundane AU, just a retelling of canon (missing scenes welcome though), Extremely Detailed Descriptions of Gore, Prepubescent Characters in Sexual Situations, Scat/Urine/Vomitplay
no subject
Letter link: https://snowynight.dreamwidth.org/238316.html
Fandom specific details:
Severed - Nate Crowley [Any: Obyron (Severed), Zahndrekh (Severed)]
A Study in Steampunk: Choice By Gaslight (Visual Novel) [Main Character (A Study in Steampunk: Choice by Gaslight)]
Top Villain: Total Domination (Visual Novel) [Main Character (Top Villain: Total Domination)]
Fallen Hero Series - Malin Rydén [Sidestep (Fallen Hero)]
I the Forgotten One (Visual Novel) [Main Character (I the Forgotten One)]
Happy Endings: Yes
Wanted tropes: Horror, emotional manipulation/emotional vulnerability, kidnapping/captivity/stockholm and lima syndromes, unhealthy relationships, fucked-up society/dystopias, satisfying acts of revenge, there are no good guys, characters willing to do morally ambiguous things presented as the sympathetic ones | characters who "only do what's 'right'" presented as unsympathetic/fake/hypocritical, evil is sexy, the lure of corruption, obsession, possessiveness
Unwanted tropes (DNWs): graphic violence, major character death, Rape/noncon, issuefic (discussing social issues), unrequested sexuality/gender/neurodivergence headcanons, real life tragedy/serial killers/pandemic, pregnancy/mpreg/kidfic, Serious long term/life threatening illness (e.g. Covid, cancer or AIDS)
no subject
Letter
Fandoms: But I'm A Cat Person, Dracula, Pokemon Horizons, Game of Rassilon, Leif & Thorn, Doctor Who (TV Movie 1996)
Happy Endings Preferred?: yes, absoltuely
Wanted tropes: Illness, torture, manipulation, trauma, PTSD, hospitalization, canon injuries being worse than shown/implied, injury in general, depression, suicide attempt, rape recovery, recovery in general, hospitalization, self-harm
Unwanted tropes: Eye injuries, explicit sex, on-page incest or adult/minor relationships (mentions are okay), utterly sad/depressing/hopeless endings, cheating/infidelity, requested/prompted ships breaking up or being abusive, gore/injury described in greater detail than is typical in canon, Non canon permanent character death
(I have more DNWs in my letter, but these are the ones that I think are most relevant for darkfic)
In general, I tend to like darkfic/whump where characters go through A Lot, and then are rescued/comforted by their loved ones
no subject
Letter: https://e-k-braveman.dreamwidth.org/4937.html
Fandoms: Shining Nikki (Nikki, Player, Lilith, Leonid), Chonny's Charming Chaos Compendium (Any)
Happy Endings Preferred?: yes, but I'm ok with bittersweet endings akin to "there's no one a) dead, b) in physical pain or c) in an inescapable abusive situation, but boy are they traumatized!"
Wanted tropes: Whump, Fear, emotional manipulation, mind control where the victim knows what's happening to them, existential horror, threats involving guns and/or blades, blades being pushed just hard enough to cause bleeding
Unwanted tropes: any of the things listed in the General DNW section or Fandom-specific DNW sections, bigotry against anyone, self-harm, suicide, institutionalized slavery
no subject
Letter: https://alteregon.dreamwidth.org/2694.html
Fandoms: Snowpiercer (2013), Recovery (2007), Dragonlance, Hogan’s Heroes, Wiseguy, Bellman Noir
Happy Endings Preferred?: don't mind
Wanted tropes: Graphic depictions of violence, torture, focus on mental health issues such as depression, anxiety, and/or PTSD, gothic horror, discussions of suicide/suicidal thoughts, body horror, trauma recovery, whump, recovery, hurt/comfort, hurt/no comfort, mutilation, amputation (well, that sort of goes with half the canons/characters I requested)
Unwanted tropes: noncon/dubcon, emotional manipulation, power imbalances, power play, Stockholm Syndrome, mind control, gaslighting, addiction, brainwashing
no subject
letter link: https://geckoholic.dreamwidth.org/563070.html
나의 나라 | My Country: The New Age (TV)
CHARACTERS: Nam Seon-ho, Seo Hwi
猎罪图鉴 | Under the Skin (TV 2022)
CHARACTERS: Du Cheng, Shen Yi
恋い焦れ歌え | Koi Kogare Utae | Sing in Love (2022)
CHARACTERS: Kai, Kiritani Jin
손 | The Guest (TV)
CHARACTERS: Choi Yoon, Joon Hwapyung
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://celaenos.dreamwidth.org/10298.html
Fandoms:
A Day of Fallen Night - Samantha Shannon: Nikeya, Dumai
A Long Time Dead - Samara Breger: Carmen, Roisin
Candela Obscura (CritRole): Arlo Black
Goncharov (1973): Katya, Sofia
Rolling in the Deep Series - Mira Grant: Anne Stewart, Victoria 'Tori" Stewart
Ink Blood Sister Scribe - Emma Töres: Esther Kaltoy, Maram Elba
Happy Endings Preferred?: i don't mind either way. i'm a fan of ambiguous/bittersweet ones, but i'm good either way.
Wanted tropes: angst, longing, exploration of depression, anxiety, PTSD etc, dubcon, emotional manipulation, power imbalances, doubt of one's own senses, power play, amnesia/memory loss, Stockholm Syndrome, feminization, "came back wrong" trope, gothic horror, blackmail, self-harming by way of sex, the lure of corruption, focus on grief/mourning, obsession, possessiveness, hauntings/vengeful ghosts, extreme co-dependency, gaslighting, invasions of privacy, taking advantage of emotional vulnerability, characters making bad/unhealthy choices because of trauma
Unwanted tropes: incest, anyhting with needles, explicit underage (<16) sex, requested characters death, graphic torture, graphic on page rape/noncon, vomit, scat, spit, watersports any body fuild play kink is a no thank you (exception is bloodplay with the vampires in long time dead, or the scribes stuff in ink blood sister scribe, but for that, PLEASE no focus on any needles to get the blood in any way), terminal illnesses, vore,
no subject
letter: here
Fandoms: one piece live action, patricia wants to cuddle, worlds beyond number, candela obscura
Happy Endings Preferred?: don't mind
Wanted tropes: horror (slowburn/gothic/psychological/folk/existential/cosmic/body) & aftermath of horror, came back wrong, loss of identity, corruption, becoming the thing you hate/fear, abuse & cycles of abuse, fucked up power dynamics, emotional manipulation/coercion, noncon/dubious consent, wanted it but not like this, the thin line between kink & trigger, characters making messy/bad/unhealthy choices because of trauma, hurt no comfort, whump, angst, obsession, sex work, serial killer au
Unwanted tropes: major character death, torture porn, zombies, apocalypses/post apocalypses/dystopias, omegaverse, prison fic, slavefic, animal harm/cruelty/death, deaging, kid fic, hypnotism/mind control, mindbreak
no subject
Letter: https://floranna.dreamwidth.org/63059.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
Fandoms: Boss였음 | I Was the Final Boss (all of these things should be done to Baphomet)
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,
Unwanted tropes: cannibalism, cumplay, drowning, necro, scat, watersports
no subject
Letter: Dear Yulegoat
Fandoms:
The Bear (TV 2022)
Carmy Berzatto
Sydney Adamu
Richie Jerimovich
The Little Mermaid (2023)
Ariel
Eric
Vanessa
Monstress (Comics)
Maika Halfwolf
Kippa
Corvin D'Oro
Zinn
World on Fire (TV 2019)
Lois Bennett
Harry Chase
Robin Chase
Kasia Tomaszeski
Happy Endings Preferred?: don't mind
Wanted tropes: A full rundown is in my letter but my favs:
• gothic/gothic romance/horror/ghost stories!!!
• southern gothic/midwestern gothic/suburban gothic/urban gothic/regional gothic in general
• space gothic (think Event Horizon and the Alien series)
• cosmic horror
• body horror
• monsters!!! sentient monsters!!! monsters that just wanna eat things!!!
• eldritch architecture/houses/houses that want to eat you
• eldritch nature/nature that wants to eat you
• eldritch spaceships/planets/etc. (that want to eat you)
• forced/close proximity
• time travel/time loops/time fuckery
• pining
• ghosts/hauntings/etc.
• unhealthy/codependent relationships
• obsession/obsessive relationships
• relationships with a power imbalance
• power imbalances/power dynamics inverted
• manipulation/mindgames (especially mutual manipulation/mindgames)
Unwanted tropes:
• domestic violence/abuse
• violence against animals/animal death
• A/B/O, BDSM, and kneeling 'verses (fine with these tropes appearing as "one offs", not interested in universes structured around them)
• mpreg
• watersports/omorashi/scat
• mundane AUs (i.e. coffee shop, flower shop, cafe, high school/college, etc) ← exceptions noted in the body of the letter
• vampire/werewolf AUs for non-supernatural fandoms/fandoms where they don't appear or exist (canon vampires/werewolves in supernatural-based fandoms are fine!) ← exceptions noted in the body of the letter
• horror that centers on mental institutions/hospitals/etc.
• inclusion of current real world events
no subject
Letter: https://fiore01.dreamwidth.org/956.html
Fandoms:
다크플 | Dark Fall (Manwha)
Leon (Dark Fall)
Nergal (Dark fall)
Mephisto (Dark Fall)
Deus (Dark Fall)
These things should be done to Leon.
Time Princess: The Sacred Beast (Video Game)
Yazdan (TP Sacred Beast)
Reza (TP Sacred Beast)
Asha (TP Sacred Beast)
These things should be done to Yazdan.
Sadistic Beauty (Webcomic)
Cha Wookyung
Byun Minho
These things should be done to 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...