Fandoms: Asteroid City 2023 (Conrad Earp); George Smiley novels - Le Carre (Dieter Frey, George Smiley); Hannibal Lecter tetralogy - Harris (Will Graham); Strange Angels - Koja (Robin Tobias); Edward Edward - Lolah Burford (Edward Clare Armstrong)
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; hauntology and the perseverance of historical wrongs into the characters' own present-day.
Unwanted darkfic 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; focus on modern-day circa-2024 right-wing extremism/ongoing atrocities.
I'm requesting one honest-to-goodness gothic novel this year (Edward, Edward is equal parts 20th century paperback Gothic and full-blast 18th century bonkers, full of philosophical struggles and incest) and one standalone horror novel (Strange Angels explores obsession, 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) but darkfic is welcome for all of these. Torment Will Graham! Haunt the hell out of George Smiley! He would not enjoy it! 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.
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Letter:https://skazka.dreamwidth.org/180353.html
Fandoms: Asteroid City 2023 (Conrad Earp); George Smiley novels - Le Carre (Dieter Frey, George Smiley); Hannibal Lecter tetralogy - Harris (Will Graham); Strange Angels - Koja (Robin Tobias); Edward Edward - Lolah Burford (Edward Clare Armstrong)
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; hauntology and the perseverance of historical wrongs into the characters' own present-day.
Unwanted darkfic 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; focus on modern-day circa-2024 right-wing extremism/ongoing atrocities.
I'm requesting one honest-to-goodness gothic novel this year (Edward, Edward is equal parts 20th century paperback Gothic and full-blast 18th century bonkers, full of philosophical struggles and incest) and one standalone horror novel (Strange Angels explores obsession, 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) but darkfic is welcome for all of these. Torment Will Graham! Haunt the hell out of George Smiley! He would not enjoy it! 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.