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.
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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.