AO3: russian_blue Letter:on DW Fandoms: The Chronicles of Chrestomanci -- Diana Wynne Jones had a knack for putting bad stuff on stage in an understated way that let you notice it was there, but not drown in it. So, for example, it's okay to have a tribe of butchered mermaids and a kid realizing he helped ship out their body parts, but I don't want to see the mermaids being butchered. Melancholy is particularly fine if you decide to write the Homeward Bounders crossover.
Elfquest -- any kind of canon-level darkness here is fine, which includes a pretty broad range of murder, violence, mind games, psychological torture, body modification, and characters freaking out about mortality. I'd like the final tone to not be grim, though.
Gabriel Knight -- canon-level darkness is fine (I mean, it's a series of supernatural murder mysteries, so yeah).
The Mummy Series -- I'd prefer this one to stay lighter in tone, which is to say that pulp-style violence is fine, but nothing too sad or horrifying.
Wanted tropes: Overall I'm good with addiction, animal abuse, apocalypse, betrayal, brainwashing, character death, claustrophobia, conspiracy, disease, dystopia, gaslighting, hauntings (yes please!), hypothermia, insanity, invasion of privacy, mind control, monsters, murder, paranoia, poisoning, prison, PTSD, suicide, and violence.
Unwanted tropes: I would prefer no amputation, body horror, cannibalism, child abuse, degradation, humiliation, Lovecraftian cosmic horrors, humiliation, medical experimentation, mutilation, non-con, sadism, slavery, or torture. You can probably see a couple of general patterns there.
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The Chronicles of Chrestomanci -- Diana Wynne Jones had a knack for putting bad stuff on stage in an understated way that let you notice it was there, but not drown in it. So, for example, it's okay to have a tribe of butchered mermaids and a kid realizing he helped ship out their body parts, but I don't want to see the mermaids being butchered. Melancholy is particularly fine if you decide to write the Homeward Bounders crossover.
Elfquest -- any kind of canon-level darkness here is fine, which includes a pretty broad range of murder, violence, mind games, psychological torture, body modification, and characters freaking out about mortality. I'd like the final tone to not be grim, though.
Gabriel Knight -- canon-level darkness is fine (I mean, it's a series of supernatural murder mysteries, so yeah).
The Mummy Series -- I'd prefer this one to stay lighter in tone, which is to say that pulp-style violence is fine, but nothing too sad or horrifying.
Wanted tropes: Overall I'm good with addiction, animal abuse, apocalypse, betrayal, brainwashing, character death, claustrophobia, conspiracy, disease, dystopia, gaslighting, hauntings (yes please!), hypothermia, insanity, invasion of privacy, mind control, monsters, murder, paranoia, poisoning, prison, PTSD, suicide, and violence.
Unwanted tropes: I would prefer no amputation, body horror, cannibalism, child abuse, degradation, humiliation, Lovecraftian cosmic horrors, humiliation, medical experimentation, mutilation, non-con, sadism, slavery, or torture. You can probably see a couple of general patterns there.