Trick or Treat Letter 2025

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Thank you for writing a fic or creating art for me! Or considering it!

I enjoy a wide range of fic and art and encourage you to go wild with whatever inspires you. I've tried to include a few ideas/things I like for each of the fandoms I requested, but don't feel like you need to adhere to that.

 

General likes for treats and tricks:

- Character studies, aracter backstory
- Ambiguously hopeful endings (though happy endings and fitting bad endings are also great!)
- Complicated familial relationships
- Humor
- Horror
- Hurt/comfort
- Halloween themes
- Teams and found families
- Characters bonding
- I enjoy all sorts of POVs and formats (2nd person, epistolary fiction, you name it)
- Smut/kink
- Ghosts and haunted houses
- Body horror
- Unhealthy but devoted relationships
- Zombie apocalypse AUs and similar premises
- Cults
- Time travel and general time weirdness (things like mystical realms where time moves differently, periods of hibernation, time moving differently during space travel, etc.)
- Astral planes and dream worlds

Smut/Kink Likes:

- Loyalty or service kink
- Pining
- Exhibitionism
- BDSM, especially dominance/submission
- Non-con/dub-con
- Power imbalances
- Spanking
- Public use
- Generally any type of sex

For art: I love art but am horrible at pinpointing specific things that I like, or thinking of art prompts. I like art that tells a story, but I also love a nice character or ship portrait.

DNWs:

- Underage involving characters under 12
- AUs that significantly change the canon setting (unless requested)
- Generative AI
- Heavy focus on animal harm (particularly pets)

 

 

Piranesi - Susanna Clarke 

Characters/ships requested: 
Matthew Rose Sorenson
Ship: Valentine Andrew Ketterley/Matthew Rose Sorenson
Ship: Valentine Andrew Ketterley & Matthew Rose Sorenson
Ship: Sarah Raphael & Matthew Rose Sorenson (Piranesi)

I love this novel! A few things that particularly interest me:

- The setting of the House.
- The complicated relationship between Matthew/Piranesi and Ketterley.
- Matthew/Piranesi's experience re-adjusting to the regular world and re-learning his old identity.

 

Marvel 616   

Characters/ships requested:
Illyana Rasputin
Laura Kinney
Kitty Pryde
Erik Lehnsherr
Ship: Erik Lehnsherr & The New Mutants
Ship: Gabrielle Kinney & Laura Kinney
Ship: Kitty Pryde/Rachel Summers
Ship: Kitty Pryde/Illyana Rasputin
Ship: Emma Frost/Kitty Pryde
Ship: Emma Frost & Kitty Pryde

As you can see, I'm particularly interested in X-Men. I'd be happy with anything involving one or more of the requested characters/ships. A few things I really like:

- Magneto in a mentor/teacher role.
- Kitty and Emma working together in spite of their differences.
- Laura and Gabby having adventures.
- Kitty paired with Illyana or Rachel (or both of them)
- I enjoy how Kitty's character has evolved over time. I like her as a young student trying to show what she's capable of, as someone trying to live a "normal" life, and as a teacher/mentor.
- I think I like both Laura and Illyana for similar reasons. They both have a lot of trauma and darkness in their pasts that they've overcome but haven't completely left behind, and they have been on teams but also lean toward independence sometimes.  
 

X-Men (Alternate Timeline Movies) 

Characters/ships requested:
Ship: Erik Lehnsherr/Hank McCoy/Charles Xavier
Ship: Erik Lehnsherr/Hank McCoy
Ship: Jean Grey/Erik Lehnsherr
Ship: Hank McCoy/Charles Xavier
Ship: Emma Frost/Erik Lehnsherr
Ship: Emma Frost/Charles Xavier
Erik Lensherr

Some things I really like in this fandom:

- Telepathy and mind control being used in sexy or ethically-dubious ways.
- Pining and loyalty kink.
- Emma playing a bigger role, and perhaps being alive after her implied death.
- Comics storylines and elements being incorporated into the movie universe.
- The animosity between Hank and Erik turning into sexual tension.
- Erik mentoring Jean.
- Charles and Hank running the school together.



Alien (Prequel Movies 2012 2017)   

Characters/ships requested:
Elizabeth Shaw
Meredith Vickers
David 8
Ship: David 8/Elizabeth Shaw
Ship: David 8 & Elizabeth Shaw
Ship: David 8/Peter Weyland
Ship: David 8/Meredith Vickers

Prompts:

- Elizabeth and David in space together after Prometheus.
- AU where Elizabeth lives, for better or worse.
- Meredith resents David as a rival for her father's approval and attention. When they sleep together, Meredith tells herself that he's just a machine.
- Peter Weyland made David into exactly what he wanted. Because of that, David might be the only thing he loves.
- Backstory for any of the requested characters. What was their life like before Prometheus?
 

Legion (TV 2017-2019)   

Characters/ships requested:
Lenore "Lenny" Busker
David Haller
Syd Barrett
Ship: Melanie Bird & Cary Loudermilk & Kerry Loudermilk & Ptonomy Wallace
Ship: Cary Loudermilk & Kerry Loudermilk
Ship: Amahl Farouk/David Haller

Some things I enjoy about this fandom:

- Cary and Kerry and their relationship.
- The group dynamic at Summerland.
- David's evolution as an anti-hero as he becomes more powerful.
- Anything to do with Lenny.
- Amahl Farouk and David as evenly-matched rivals who are both capable of darkness.
- Future Syd and how she came to be.


 
Penny Dreadful (TV)   

Characters/ships requested:
Ship: Vanessa Ives/Sir Malcolm Murray
Ship: Ethan Chandler/Vanessa Ives
Brona Croft | Lily Frankenstein
Ship: Vanessa Ives/Mina Murray 

I love both Vanessa and Brona/Lily.

I like Vanessa/Ethan for how they can understand and relate to each other. I like Vanessa/Mina for the potential for pining and guilt. And I like Vanessa/Sir Malcolm for the taboo and secrecy of it, and the connection to the demon who visited her in Sir Malcolm's form.

I've always been intrigued by how Brona and Lily are very different, but both strong and sympathetic. Brona's death, and the loss of her personality, is tragic. But Lily wouldn't exist otherwise.
 

Thoroughbreds (2017)   

Characters/ships requested:
Ship: Amanda/Lily (Thoroughbreds)

I love this movie and the idea of this ship. I don't really have specific requests, but here are a couple possible prompts:

- Amanda and Lily reconnecting in the future.
- AU where things go differently. Maybe they both get away with the murder, or are both arrested.

 
Poker Face (TV 2023)   

Characters/ships requested:
Charlie Cale
Ship: Charlie Cale/Luka Clark
Ship: Charlie Cale/Alex | The Iguana

I love Charlie, and like the idea of Luka and/or Alex falling for her because of her savviness and what she represents to them. And I wonder how Charlie would react to that.

Something that takes place post-season 2 would be fun.

For gen, Charlie finding herself in the middle of a mystery or sticky situation is always fun. For a Halloween theme, maybe she finds herself dealing with ghosts or other supernatural trouble. 
 

Flight of the Conchords - All Media Types   

Characters/ships requested:
Ship: Jemaine Clement/Murray Hewitt/Bret McKenzie
Ship: Jemaine Clement/Bret McKenzie
Murray Hewitt
Jemaine Clement
Bret McKenzie 

I'm primarily into the TV show incarnations of the characters, but if you wanted to do something based on other performances or versions of the characters, I'd enjoy that, too!

 
Severance (TV)

Characters/ships requested:
Helly R.
Ms. Casey
Ship: Helena Eagan/Mark Scout
Helena Eagan
Seth Milchick
Mark Scout
Irving Bailiff
Burt Goodman
Ship: Dylan G. & Helly R. & Irving B. & Mark S.
Ship: Helly R./Mark S.
Ship: Helena Eagan/Mark S.
Gemma Scout 

Some of the things I really like about Severance:

- The team relationship between Mark S., Helly R., Irving B., and Dylan G.
- The weird mythology and culture of the severed floor.
- The themes of identity and the differences (or similarities) between the innies and outies.
- The way severed characters experience time.
- Milchick as a complex character who tries to maintain order while chafing under the lack of respect he receives from Lumon.