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NB - this letter is a WIP. I am behind schedule finishing it and may not have chance before 25th Sept. If you're making an early start then do not panic because I promise I will love whatever you make as long as you avoid my DNWs <3 if you are so inclined, you're welcome to browse my old letters for inspiration, but please don't feel obliged!!

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Hello, dear Trick Or Treater!

Thank you very much for making me a gift. I haven't themed my requests this year (not that I ever really do, despite best intentions), but I was definitely drawn to tags and canons that play with faery, folklore, and strange worlds that touch our own.

I've made my choices with escapism in mind, so please make me something beautiful, magical, fantastical, sweet, bittersweet, mildly creepy, scary-but-hopeful, dark-but-cosy, happy-for-now, tragic-but-cathartic, fluffy, funny, uplifting or comforting. Any rating is fine. Don't feel you have to go out of your way to use my list of likes if they aren't your style or if they don't speak to you (I'm really not picky, they're only there for ideas), and feel free to combine requested fandoms and characters if you're so inspired. Just have fun, and thank you for making me a gift <3

DNWs:

E-rated art

Unrequested AU that significantly changes the canon setting (e.g. mundane AU, omegaverse – canon divergence is fine, as is post-canon exploration)

Pregnant characters/childbirth/babies

Focus on bodily functions and fluids (blood from injuries is OK but no scat, vomit, etc.)
Permanent non-canon death of requested characters

Art Likes:

Portraits

Action shots

Calligraphy/illumination

Clothing, jewellery and hair

Close ups of tiny details like stitching, beading, engraving, etc.

Focus on a part of the body that isn't the face

Art as character study

Comic panels; sets of linked drawings that tell a story

Depictions of the natural world; tiny characters in vast landscapes

Facial expressions conveying more than one emotion at once

Unusual perspectives – through a window, over a gate, down a tunnel, from a distance...

Experimental styles

Mixed media

Limited colour palette; jewel tones; monochrome; monochrome with one colour added

Beams of light; strangely shaped shadows

Basically anything that plays with colour, light, shadow, space and movement

Abstract art

Craft, collage and sculpture

Maps, architectural drawings etc.. (tricky for this exchanges as it's character focused, but if you can make it work then great!)

Tarot or playing cards

Stained glass window effects

Marginalia

In-universe art

Calligraphy

Fic Likes:

Adventure and peril

Canon divergence AUs

Capable/competent characters being casually excellent

Complex character dynamics

Conflicting motivations

Curious characters who just want to know things (even/especially if this has Consequences)

Fables

Fairy tale motifs

Found families/families of choice

Hope

In-world myths and legends

In-world meta / in-universe documents

Mercy/pity/kindness

Mysteries and investigations

Philosophical musings; academic discussions and debates

Solace

Unexpected friends/allies/relationships

Unreliable narrators and quirky narrative structures – for example, epistolary, fragmented narratives, stories told through found documents, framing devices, stories told out of chronological order; playing with canon narrative bias/intent

Unusual perspectives, minor characters and textual ghosts

Wry humour; finding something to smile over when times are bleak

General Likes:

A sense of history and wonder

Communication and travel between worlds and across time

Immortal beings in history

Fic, art etc. inspired by my own fanworks: remixes, based on, set in the same 'verse, using the same plotline, borrowing an OC, podfic recording, etc.

Food, drink and celebration

Fusions of science and magic

Ghosts, hauntings (literal and metaphorical)

Liminal places; portals; the borders of the numinous

Myth, folklore and fairy-tale

Objects and places with special significance

Original characters

Setting as character - feel free to take this literally, I love sentient nature and architectural horror

Shining a light into places canon doesn't show us, or barely touches on – going off the edge of the map

Suggestion and implication, whether this is hints of backstory, a figure hiding in the shadows, or a slightly ambiguous ending – I love it when my imagination can get to work filling in the gaps

The supernatural and the uncanny

Unprompted crossovers between requests

Witchy, fey and eldritch beings

Relationship Likes:

Ambiguous relationships

Banter and teasing

Bedsharing; huddling for warmth

Characters being utterly fascinated by one another (doesn't have to be romantic; could be admiration of craft/skill, or being impressed by someone's intellect, or something else altogether)

Developing friendships – especially unlikely friendships

Emotional reunions after long separations

Enemies/rivals to lovers/friends

Fierce loyalty and devotion, to the point of one character doing something incredibly stupid to help or save somebody they love

Fighting back-to-back
First hugs being as important as first kisses

Forehead kisses

Grey relationships that don't sit neatly in a box

Hurt/comfort

Quiet moments between people who care about each other, especially during or after huge events shaking their world

Situational relationships – enemies having to work together, or people who wouldn't normally be drawn to each other forming a bond through circumstance

“The little things” - light brushes with fingertips, smiles across a room...

Tempestuous, complex or unhealthy relationships (see section on darker stuff)

Smut Likes:

Aftercare

Banter in bed

Bathing

Biting and scratching

Blood play

Breath play

Comfort sex; sex between friends who are just having fun

Differing experience levels

Drinking wine in bed together

Enthusiastic consent

Gags; blindfolds; light bondage

Hair brushing/washing/braiding

Helplessness

Knifeplay

Neck kissing; collarbone kissing

Nipple play

Orgasm delay/denial

Piercings

Pillow talk

Porn as character study

Reading erotic literature together

Sensation play

Sex exploring power dynamics and/or deeply informed by characters' history together

Sex in or near water

Swimming

“Thank god you're alive” sex; sex after serious injury

Darker Stuff:

Apocalypse

Apotheosis, consensual or otherwise

Abandoned places; ruins; haunted houses/objects

Being trapped in a small dark space, possibly with something terrifying lurking nearby

Body horror. Especially pretty body horror, like flowers growing out of bodies, or being consumed from the inside by starlight.

Body modification

Canon divergence that initially seems like it will fix things but then makes everything worse.

Dark fairy tale elements

Dark magic and curses

Dreams and nightmares bleeding into reality

Dubious consent

Folk horror

Incest

Malevolent ghosts and hauntings

Memory loss, or memories being fake/unreliable

Murder - mysteries; studies of killers; any of it

Possession

Resurrection and necromancy

Ritual and sacrifice

Seances

Sentient nature, especially if it loves you and also wants to eat you or drown you

The road to hell being paved with good intentions

Torture

Trauma and survivor's guilt

Unhealthy relationships/relationships with troubling dynamics, including obsession, jealousy and co-dependency

Fandoms and Prompts

The Adventures of Tom Bombadil

Treat - Art
Treat - Fic

You may ignore my Trick/Treat preferences for extra gifts.

Requested Characters:

Prompts:

The Hobbit

Treat - Art
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British Mythology and Folklore

Treat - Art
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The Garden of Death

Treat - Fic
Trick - Fic

You may ignore my Art/Fic preferences for extra gifts

Mushishi

Treat - Art

You may ignore my Art/Fic preferences for extra gifts
You may ignore my Trick/Treat preferences for extra gifts

Queen and the Soldier

Treat - Art
Treat - Fic
Trick - Art
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The Selkie's Wife

Treat - Art
Treat - Fic
Trick - Art
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Tiān Guān Cì Fú - Mòxiāng Tóngxiù (Heaven Official's Blessing)

Treat - Art
Treat - Fic

Do not ignore my fic/art and trick/treat preferences for extra gifts.

Wulf and Eadwacer

Treat - Art
Treat - Fic
Trick - Art
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Crossovers

Treat - Art
Treat - Fic

You may ignore my Trick/Treat preferences for extra gifts.