Chapters: 1/1
Fandom: Original Work
Rating: Teen And Up Audiences
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Relationships: Queen With Evil Reputation But A Secretly Kind Heart/Her Arranged Marriage Bride
Characters: Queen With Evil Reputation But A Secretly Kind Heart, Arranged Marriage Bride, Princess Beatrice of Trelonia - Character, Queen Alice of Charenth - Character
Additional Tags: Magic, Alternate Universe - Fantasy, Alternate Universe - Royalty, Arranged Marriage, Weddings, Secrets, Trust Issues, Falling In Love, Pining, Protectiveness, Angst with a Happy Ending, Trick or Treat: Treat
Summary:
When all the preparations were completed at last, Beatrice took a few minutes to study her reflection in the full-length mirror of her dressing room. The paleness of her face was disguised with rouge, her mouth painted with lipstick, and a glittering tiara crowned the complicated hairstyle that the royal dresser had finally decided on for the wedding ceremony last week. Her dress was unquestionably breathtaking, a floor-length ivory gown made from Trelonia’s highest quality silk, the bodice boasting an intricate beading design that must have taken months to put together.
Beatrice looked in the mirror and saw a stranger.
Written for Trick or Treat 2023!
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A Litwick with a Greavard friend! Done for the Trick or Treat exchange! 🕯💜💞
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Pretty and Unscathed
Carver x Ladybug
Warnings: 18+, language, blood/injury
Word Count: 507
A/N: Wrote this for the Trick or Treat Exchange and it was such a blast! My first fic for Bullet Train!
“You’re such a dick,” Ladybug grit out as he tried to look anywhere but at Carver.
Carver chuckled at the frustration in his partner’s tone just as much as his choice of words. He didn’t let either of those things rattle him. He knew better than to think there was any real heat or malice behind it. “And yet,” he said as he continued to clean out and stitch up the cuts running along Ladybug’s sides, “somehow we’re still here. Always are.”
“Yeah,” Ladybug conceded, trying to sound annoyed but despite the pain he was in he was almost smiling. “How does that keep happening?”
“Because for some reason I keep showing up to bail you out of trouble.”
“It’s not ‘bailing me out’,” he threw half-hearted air quotes around the phrase, “when you’re my partner. If anything we’re supposed to be keeping each other away from trouble in the first place.” He winched in pain, temporarily getting knocked off his train of thought. “Ah, fuck. Which means only one of us is doing our job.”
“How’s that?” Carver asked as he got ready to start doing the work of stitching the wounds now that they were clean.
“You’re never the one having to get stitched up!” Ladybug snapped, instantly regretting it when it sent a fresh shot of pain through his side. “It’s always me! So obviously one of us is—”
“Maybe I’m just luckier than you,” Carver cut him off. He didn’t give Ladybug any verbal warning that he was about to start stitching, he just went right to work. “Got a good luck charm or something.”
“Yeah,” Ladybug said through gritted teeth, “it’s me. I’m the good luck charm. I get beat up and sliced open all so you can sit there pretty and unscathed.”
Carver chuckled, hands steady as ever as he continued his work. “As long as I’m still pretty.”
Ladybug leaned his head back, shutting his eyes tight in an attempt to not think about the pain. It wasn’t effective in the slightest but he still tried. “When these stitches heal, you’re so fucked, you know that?”
“It gets harder and harder to believe you every time you say something like that.”
“Yeah?” Ladybug opened his eyes once it seemed that he was finally done getting stitched. “Why’s that?”
“Because every time you try and say something like that,” Carver was wiping the blood from his hands, “I still wake up the next morning with you completely enveloping me and snoring directly into my ear.”
“Hmph.” He took a moment to try and slowly get himself upright on the sofa he’d been laid out on. “Getting woken up early seems like a light sentence compared to what you put me through.”
Carver stood up, the cocky grin back on his face as he held his hand out for Ladybug to take. It wasn’t until he was slowly pulling his partner up off the sofa that he said, “Once those stitches heal up I’ll make it up to you this time around.”
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Chapters: 1/1
Fandom: The Sandman (TV 2022)
Rating: General Audiences
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Relationships: Dream of the Endless | Morpheus/Hob Gadling
Characters: Hob Gadling, Dream of the Endless | Morpheus
Additional Tags: Trick or Treat: Treat, Fluff
Summary:
Morpheus actually used the front door to start this date.
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Chapters: 1/1
Fandom: Gravity Falls
Rating: General Audiences
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Relationships: Mabel Pines & Stan Pines
Summary:
Stan has reluctantly agreed to help Mabel with her Summerween knitting project: Life sized monster dolls for the Mystery Shack
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Fic: Employee of the Month
Employee of the Month
by: foolish_mortal
Watanuki applies to work at the Green Drugstore because he needs the extra money. Rated: T, Douwata, background Kakei/Saiga, Rikuo/Kazahaya
OR: Watanuki works for the Green Drugstore, instead of the wish shop
OR: Watanuki plays his queer awakening on speedrun after being hired into a shonen-ai manga
OR: Watanuki and Doumeki co-parent an egg baby
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BIG thank you to thecarlysutra for being my co-commiserator/cheerleader when this fic was coming down to the wire, and helped me finish this! You can be my wingman anytime <3
I'm so grateful to @crimeandcricket's excellent beta work. Thank you for doing such a meticulous job, even after I asked you for help at the eleventh hour. ^_^
This idea has been lying in my WIP pile since literally 2012. Thank you to the Trick or Treat Exchange for pushing me to start writing again, and to the requester for prompting ideas to get the creative juices flowing!
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Chapters: 1/1
Fandom: Doctor Who (1963)
Rating: General Audiences
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Relationships: Melanie Bush & Seventh Doctor
Characters: Melanie Bush, Seventh Doctor (Doctor Who)
Additional Tags: Trick or Treat: Treat, Halloween, Trick or Treating
Summary:
Surely an alien bounty hunter will stand out in a small town in America... right?
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Dear Trick or Treat Author,
Dearest potential author,
What a wonderful time of year!
If you're looking at this thinking, "what's trick or treat?" then I refer you to the Dreamwidth info post here, the AO3 page here, and if you're seriously considering it then you 100% have to look at the requests app here. But, in short, it's a low stress fic/art exchange with a 300-word minimum in which you both give at least one trick (horror, occult, supernatural, scary, etc) or treat (sweet, sexy, fluffy, etc) fanwork to your recipient and receive one or more in return.
Back to the letter!
There isn't much in here that isn't in my signup, but you can have a look at all my previous letters using the tags! Every letter going back seven years is under dear author letter, and specific fandoms and some pretty pretty gif sets under the fandom tags.
Thank you very much for thinking of writing for me. I hope you have a lot of fun doing it. I will be delighted with the result no matter what!
If you would like to write Halloween-flavoured fic, I would ask that it be canonically appropriate. (They're probably not trick-or-treating in costume with carved pumpkins in ninth/tenth century England, but All Hallows' Eve would be a great place to start. On the other hand, I can see Thor really loving a modern Halloween.) Some Halloween prompts are given for some fandoms. All prompts are only suggestions, please write whatever sparks creative joy for you! If you want to dance close to one of my DNWs, I might be open to it so by all means get in touch through the mods. I would just like to avoid gifts that focus on any of these things.
Likes:
5 Times | 5+1 Times | Alternate Ending | Angst | Babies & Children | Backstory | Banter/Bickering | Bittersweet | Canon Compliant | Canon Divergence | Character Death | Character Death Aftermath | Character Study | Class Distinction | Coming of Age | Competence | Complicated Sibling Relationships | Cultural Differences | Dark Fic | Domesticity | Different Worldviews | Enemies to Lovers | Epistolary | Examining Societal Issues | First Meetings | First Time | Fix-It | Fluff | Found Family | Friends to Enemies | Grief/Mourning | Grumpy Character/Sunshine Character | Historical Details | Humour | Hurt/Comfort | Last Time | Laws of Magic | Long-Distance Friendship | Marriage of Convenience | Miscommunication | Missing Moment | Obeying Canonical Boundaries (Social/Cultural/Moral) | Outsider POV | Pining | Platonic Intimacy | Poor Life Choices | Post-Canon | Power Dynamics | Pre-Canon | Presumed Dead | Protectiveness | Redemption | Religious Elements | Reunion | Romance | Sad Endings | Secret Relationships | Sobbing Hopelessly Into My Pillow | Uneven Power Dynamics | Unexpected Friendship | Unlikely Friendship | Unreliable Narrators | Wanderers | Whump | Worldbuilding
DNWs:
A/B/O Dynamics | Bestiality | Body Horror | Gore | Graphic Depiction of Torture | Modern/Mundane AU | Mpreg | Non-Con | Out of Context AU (e.g. coffee shop, college AU) | Scat | Vore
(Exception: anything canon or canon-compliant is fine, i.e. description of or reference to canonical injury, reference to canonical torture/non-con/other.)
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Fandoms & Prompts:
1. The Last Kingdom (TV)
Aelswith & Uthred of Bebbanburg
Aethelflaed Lady of Mercia/Uhtred of Bebbanberg
Aethelstan & Osferth
Alfred the Great & Uhtred of Bebbanberg
Aelswith
Aethelflaed Lady of Mercia
Aethelstan
Alfred the Great
Beocca
Finan
Osferth
Sihtric
Uhtred of Bebbanburg
I asked Netflix to “Surprise Me” this summer and watched the first few minutes of this. Then the first episode. Then the first season. Then I’d devoured the whole thing in a fortnight, couldn’t pick what to watch next and started again. And I’m reading the books. (Halfway through Sword Song as of this morning.) This series caught my imagination in unexpected ways.
I really enjoy the way different characters think/plot, their diverse values and worldviews. How Danes view death (unafraid of death but not keen on the waste of men/expecting to die with their sword in hand) and how Saxons do (a preference for dying peacefully in bed with priest/family by their side), how their religion and gods influence them, the idea of destiny. Death is a constant presence in this world, in a way it’s not in ours. Stiorra says something to her father about death coming for her mother too quickly for Gisela to see, and so Stiorra was ready and unafraid. (Terrible paraphrasing.) But death is always there, a hair’s breadth away (the snipping of a thread by the spinners) whether by violence or disease or childbirth or misadventure. Destiny is all/fate is inexorable.
I was going to split into trick prompts or treat prompts but so many could go either way. Uhtred and friends walk the line between genius and disaster so often. I am also open to the appearance of any other characters at the author’s pleasure.
My likes of missing moments, banter/bickering, character death fic, found family, unlikely friendships and outsider POV all seem extra relevant here.
- Life after Osferth?
- Osferth and Aethelstan “living the bastard life” (and the wider group having a new baby monk to tease instead of Osferth).
- Shadowwalkers?
- One of Uhtred’s plans goes wrong.
- Aethelflaed chooses a different path (with Erik, with Uhtred, anything away from her destiny as Alfred’s daughter). Does it go right or does it go wrong?
- A missing moment for Uhtred and Aethelflaed. Does she ever break her oath, or come close to it?
- Separately or additionally: Aethelflaed is caught breaking her oath.
- How does Aelswith enjoy her room with a sea view? Does she continue to harangue Uhtred? She’s hated him for so long, he’s not fond of her, and that flips. Or does it? S5 Aelswith is so fun. My thanks to whoever nominated this ship.
- Alfred’s perspective on some of Uhtred’s nonsense? Alfred’s reflections on his deathbed? I haven’t requested the / ship, but I did request the characters and I could read it, or just a one-sided version or foolish moment. Love, hate, madness, loyalty, obligation, respect, scorn – they’re one messy tangle of thorns for these two.
- I enjoy fics featuring character death or its aftermath and every tagged character loses someone or is lost themselves.
- I could read more of Beocca and young Uhtred. (Osbert!) What did Uhtred learn from Beocca rather than Ragnar?
- Is Uhtred ever haunted by his ghosts?
- HALLOWEEN: Its origins are in a time to remember the dead, including martyrs, saints and all faithful departed Christians. How is this observed or endured?
2. North and South (UK TV)
Margaret Hale/John Thornton
Margaret Hale
John Thornton
Hannah Thornton
Nicholas Higgins
I’ve requested this more times than I can count, because it’s one of my favourite baby fandoms. I love the conflict between the three worlds in this novel/series (Margaret’s, John and Hannah’s, Nicholas’) and how they come to understand each other better by the end of the story. And it’s pretty hard not to ship Margaret/John. Also, I have such incredibly strong train scene feelings because that’s so horribly unlikely, the PDA, an unmarried woman travelling to the other end of the country from her family with a single man! Shocking. So I absolutely adore post-canon fic here.
There’s so much pride in all these characters, in different ways. All look down on each other too. I could read more about that.
- Post-canon train scene consequences, for good or ill.
- What if Margaret (or John) was seriously injured in the riot?
- We don’t see a second/successful proposal on the show. Does one happen? Does the first go differently?
- Something about John and Hannah’s backstory, the failure and death of John’s father, pulling him out of school and repaying the debts?
- John, Hannah and Nicholas have tasted poverty – or at least true difficulty. Margaret might think she has, but she has not. Is there conflict there?
- What if Frederick Hale came to post-canon Milton? Do any of these characters visit him in Spain?
- Margaret finding her place in post-canon Milton? At home, in the mill, in town.
- Any more flavour/colour of life in Milton.
3. The Witcher (TV)
Geralt of Rivia/Jaskier
Calanthe Fiona Riannon
Cirilla Fiona Elen Riannon
Geralt of Rivia
Jaskier
Mousesack
Yennefer of Vengerberg
I have also played Witcher 3 (the main story, I’m half way through Hearts of Stone, not played Blood and Wine yet) and started the books (although I didn’t get on with them). So if you want to throw in other canon references, I’m probably going to be quietly delighted in a self-satisfied “ooh, I get that!” kind of way.
I’ve tagged the characters I’m most interested in, but there are none I wouldn’t want to see. I also prefer Geralt & Jaskier to Geralt/Jaskier but I am happy reading both. I would prefer to avoid shipping Ciri romantically with any of these characters, but otherwise anything else goes.
Again, many of these prompts could go for tricks or treats. Pile the bodies high and make them suffer or wrap them in thick blankets and keep them warm and cosy by a good fire, both are excellent!
- Non-human Jaskier
- Emotional support bard Jaskier!
- Anything with music and singing
- Truth spells/compulsions
- Platonic intimacy
- Life on the path
- Magic gone wrong/the laws of magic/someone has unexpected magic
- Canon divergence – Ciri finds someone else first during/after S1, not Geralt (Jaskier, Yennefer, another character)
- Post-canon for S2
- Mousesack lives!
- Missing moment/pre-canon for Ciri & Calanthe & Mousesack (& Eist?)
- Geralt and Jaskier have an adventure
- Any two or more characters have an adventure!
- Facing a monster from the canon’s bestiary/fulfilling a contract – either a short incident or a longer odyssey.
- Character comes back wrong!
- The nature of destiny.
- Exploration of Geralt’s wish and its consequences
- HALLOWEEN: is there a Halloween equivalent on the continent? How is it celebrated? How do these characters mark it? There are real monsters and terrors and ghosts in this world.
4. Downton Abbey
Edith Crawley & Mary Crawley
Edith Crawley/Anthony Strallan
Mary Crawley/Matthew Crawley
Thomas Barrow/Guy Dexter
Anna Bates
Beryl Patmore
Cora Crawley
Daisy Mason
Edith Crawley
Gwen Dawson
Mary Crawley
Mrs Hughes
Sybil Crawley
Thomas Barrow
- Did anyone else hear Guy Dexter’s offer to Barrow and think “what the fuck that is too good to be true run Thomas run”? Because I did. There are a thousand ways that could go horribly, terribly wrong, and almost none in which it could go right. (Period-typical homophobia, and classism, they’re doubly fucked.) But Thomas can be a romantic and is open to taking risks and definitely isn’t happy in service even as butler, so maybe he’d take the offer. I’d be open to reading any outcome of that decision.
- Either Bates (or later Anna) is convicted for murder! And hanged, no miracles! What happens then?
- How did Mrs Hughes and Mrs Patmore first meet? Were they both in their senior roles at the top of their departments then, or did they work their way up together?
- What if the Kemal Pamuk episode went differently? For Mary, for Thomas, or for Anna.
- Any missing moments.
- How do the downstairs staff keep in touch with their families, with only one half day off each week?
- The inevitable passage of time, upstairs and downstairs.
- How did Cora feel when she first arrived in England? Happy or horrified?
5. Marvel Cinematic Universe
Darcy Lewis/Loki
Darcy Lewis
Loki
Love
Morgan Stark
Sif
Thor
Valkyrie
I would enjoy fic at any point in the MCU timeline, not just Phase Four.
Alright, so this is pretty Thor heavy. I think it’s because I’ve only recently seen Love and Thunder and still have feelings, and once upon a time got hit over the head with a really, really excellent Darcy/Loki fic and I’ve been craving more ever since.
The outlier here is Morgan Stark, because I wonder how she copes after her father’s death, how she grows up. I mean, the dead dads club is definitely a thing – if you know, you know – but what’s it like to be a member so young? And she comes from an exceptional background, and Tony’s relationship with his father scarred him. How does Morgan’s relationship with her father – even if that relationship is absence and grief – scar her? Or go fluffy, where other characters support and raise her because it takes a village.
But back to the Thor characters:
What is it like to be ordinary amongst superheroes? Genuinely ordinary.
How do these characters live up to (or down to) others’ expectations?
Anything, anything at all, for Darcy Lewis/Loki. Idfic, magical accident, punishment/imprisonment, at any point in canon.
“Nobody else can kill you, that’s my job” kind of protectiveness?
Cancer fic for Jane? The movie somehow ignored its psychological effect on her.
I would like to see more of Love, for good or ill, and this odd new family and role to play.
How do the worldview and perspective of the Asgardian characters compare to the humans around them? Does that lead to happiness or heartache, favour or disaster?
HALLOWEEN: Any of these characters celebrate Halloween, in either an Asgardian way or in the way we would. Do they take it to the absurd?
6. Bridgerton (TV)
Anthony Bridgerton/Kate Sharma
Anthony Bridgerton
Benedict Bridgerton
Daphne Bridgerton
Edwina Sharma
Eloise Bridgerton
Kate Sharma
Lady Danbury
Penelope Featherington
Violet Bridgerton
Okay, so, S2 was not quite what I was expecting, and it wasn’t a terribly close adaptation of the book, but it was still a lot of fun. I was very, very “what the fuck” from the end of episode four right through to the end of the season, peaking in episode six with some what the actual FUCK, and basically watched it in one sitting on release day and into the night. So, please, play with that.
I have read books 1-4 but noped the fuck out after the end of book four because some of the writing was so poor – it was idfic to a degree that I couldn’t tolerate in a “professional�� novel. That said, I am 100% there for idfic in fandom.
Unwanted consequences from the night in the gazebo
Kate leaves for India
Lady Danbury’s backstory
Violet Bridgerton is displaced as Countess and from her family home
Eloise and Penelope’s friendship and falling out
Benedict Bridgerton gets at the tea again
Anthony and Edwina get married and have immediate regret! (There’s no easy way out!)
The charmed life breaks for one or more of the characters and they have an unpleasant brush with the real world
7. Jane Eyre - Charlotte Brontë
Jane Eyre & Adele Varens
Jane Eyre/Edward Rochester
Adèle Varens
Edward Rochester
Jane Eyre
This is my favourite classic novel, that I’ve reread every few years since reading an abridged version as a girl, most recently for Yuletide 2020. And my understanding and perception has changed so dramatically as I’ve seen more of the world myself. Rochester is more bad guy than good guy and that Jane Eyre lies as a narrator and is as prejudiced and superior as those she crititcises for the same qualities. But I still love her, and that she says she got a happy ending. That doesn’t mean it has to stay happy!
What if the Thornfield wedding isn’t interrupted? (I'm writing this myself too, very slowly.)
Does Jane come to see Rochester as a villain? Does she find herself corrupted, tarnished or lessened in his eyes in some way when he comes to marry/possess her and the sharper, darker side of his character turns on her once she’s off her pedestal?
Does Jane resent being Rochester’s carer, his eyes and hands?
If they have children, what does that do to Adele’s place in the family? Is she beloved sister or unwanted burden? (Any POV here – hers, Rochester’s, an outsider. I can’t see Jane considering her a burden but I could perhaps see Jane being torn in too many directions and having no time left for Adele, leaving her bereft.)
What if Adele’s mother returned to collect her, or for some other (nefarious) purpose?
Post-canon happiness?
Post-canon unhappiness?
A missing moment between the interrupted wedding and Jane fleeing Thornfield?
How does Rochester discover she’s missing? How does Adele find out? How do they both react? What is that day like?
8. The Godfather (Movies)
Michael Corleone/Apollonia Vitelli
Apollonia Vitelli
Kay Adams
Michael Corleone
Apollonia and the American dream: what does she actually want? Is Michael a way to get it? (Children, comfort, fortune, adventure, love, other?)
What does Kay want? Compare the women, be thoughtful or go dark.
I’m always intrigued by Kay’s Catholicism, especially in the book. The movie’s ending happens too, but then Kay goes to church with Mama Corleone and prays for Michael’s soul.
Michael’s grief at losing both women in his life, in very different ways.
A missing happy moment for any of these characters or either couple.
A contrast between weddings – Connie’s, Apollonia’s, Kay’s, others.
What if Apollonia had lived, and met Kay?
What if Apollonia lives?
I feel like Kay makes a “better” American wife for Michael, in the world he wants to move in. Would the path have unfolded differently with a different woman at his side?
Does the ghost of Apollonia haunt Michael at later points in his life?
9. The West Wing
Ainsley Hayes
Charlie Young
CJ Cregg
Donna Moss
Evelyn Baker Lang
Jed Bartlet
Josh Lyman
Leo McGarry
Sam Seaborn
Toby Ziegler
Okay, so, I ship Josh/Donna pretty hard and otherwise tend to read canon relationships and gen here, but I’ll read anything I can believe. And this is a 300 word minimum exchange (I know, my prompts don’t always seem to reflect that!) so just a moment of another non-canon ship would be fun.
Gaza angst!
Why did Ainsley leave?
What if the S1 shooting went down differently?
A missing moment with any combination of characters. Platonic intimacy!
Pre-canon scenes or first meetings for any of the characters that we don’t see on screen.
Or post-canon – what happens next for different characters?
Reflecting on the passage of time.
Treating one another like family
HALLOWEEN: Do they mark Halloween in the West Wing? Even informally? Or does someone try, but it's difficult to do while still being taken seriously as a professional. Or do they celebrate Halloween in the Santos administration?
10. Stardew Valley
Emily
Grandpa
Krobus
Marlon
Maru
Player
Robin
Sandy
Sebastian
Shane
Witch
Wizard
I first played this game within days of its release and I’ve played it through at least once a year ever since. I’m currently challenging myself to complete the Community Center in Y1, max points on Grandpa’s Evaluation in Year 2, and 100% Perfection by the end of Year 3. I’m on track so far, around Spring 14 Y2. It’s given me lots of fresh ideas and questions. Mild preference for female player, but only mild.
- “My name’s not really Sandy, you know. It’s just good for business.” WHAT?
- “The elemental wars have long since finished,” says Wizard. What were they?
- And what about the current war with the Gotoro Empire, that Kent fought in? Does it come to Stardew Valley? Does it touch the villagers’ lives? The farmer’s?
Has anyone won the Stardew Hero award before?
- Clint is such a “nice guy” he tells us. I like Clint, but there’s fun to be had there for an author. He clearly adores Emily, but he’s awkward and unsure. What’s Emily’s side of it? For good or ill.
- Marnie and Lewis sitting in a tree (or that truck outside Lewis’ house), K-I-S-S-I-N-G! Do they get caught in the act? By whom? Does their secret come out? What about the lucky purple shorts? Does Lewis lose his job? (Is he even elected anyway? Opposed in any way?) Or do people take Marnie’s side, that there’s nothing to hide, why is he such an arse? Does he have other secrets? Why is he ashamed of Marnie?
- You know, I think that farmer used to have kids. What happened to them?? And now the farmer’s divorced but their ex doesn’t remember them at all? And the ex doesn’t remember the kids? All is not right on the farm, and villagers worry.
- Witch/Wizard: what’s their history? How did it start/end? How does it impact the town? Do Caroline and Abigail have something to do with it? Grandpa?
- Actually, what the hell was going on with Caroline and the Wizard?
- I could enjoy a story about unexpected friendships between any of these characters.
- What was the story with Sebastian’s dad, and how Robin came to be with Demetrius in the valley? Did Sebastian’s dad live in the valley? (Was Sebastian’s dad Grandpa and he’s the player’s uncle?)
- Does anyone ever leave the town? Or are they forever cursed to remain and not age, a bit like the town in Once Upon a Time?
- I could always read more about Shane and his struggles, for good or ill.
- Sebastian has his issues too. Does he come to any harm in his solitary emo sulking around stormy beaches and atop mountains? Or do good things happen to him?
- Do Sebastian and the farmer, or any other character, go on any more bike rides?
- Some angst or hurt/comfort around a wounded farmer? Lost and trapped in the mines, or found and nursed back to health? Stranded/shipwrecked on Ginger Island?
- HALLOWEEN: Shenanigans or supernatural occurrences at the Spirit's Eve festival. Do any of the monsters in the mines come to the surface and roam the mountain or desert? Trick or treating in Pelican town? Or any number of other things, sweet, sexy or black.
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Thanks very much of thinking for writing for me, dear author. I hope it brings you joy!
Sobriquett
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Sign-ups open for the trick-or-treat exchange!
300 word minimum, art also accepted, and you can choose either a trick (scary/horror) or treat (fluff/smut)!
Octopath Traveler, Hitman, Final Fantasy VI, Final Fantasy X, Chrono Trigger and Oxventure BITD are all nominated! (it was me - I nominated them. lol)
Sign-ups are here!
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Trick or Treat Exchange is open for signups and Ergo Proxy is in the tagset this year! ToT is a fanart and fanfic exchange, where you offer to write a short fic (300 words min) or draw art for a small number of fandoms from the list nominated for the year and request art and/or fic from some of the fandoms. That's a very simple explanation, but more info can be found here: https://trickortreatex.dreamwidth.org/54721.html
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Clefairy and Gastly on Halloween! Done for the Trick or Treat Exchange! 💖🎃💞
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Trick or Treat Exchange Letter
Hi everyone, I decided to participate in the trick or treat exchange this year and here’s my letter. Under the cut for length.
Hello content creator. I’m glad you’ve joined this exchange. I’m sure I’ll love anything you make. Obviously nothing in here is required except for DNWs. I just like to provide information and suggestions in case they’re helpful. I put in some Halloween specific likes, but I'm fine with Halloween or non-Halloween stories. Largely copied from other exchange letters. I've asked for treats only, no tricks. So my suggestions are all with that in mind.
General fic likes:
Fluff.
Humor.
Kindness and helping others.
Cuddles and snuggles.
Cozy scenes.
Bedsharing.
Casual touching.
Little soft and/or quiet moments between friends or significant others.
Characters sharing a love of music or movies or books or hobbies.
Pet owners.
Cute kids when those kids are canon children of requested characters.
Living together, either platonically or romantically.
People being really good at what they do and their friends/partners being impressed.
Characters who speak languages other than English slipping into those languages occasionally.
Teaching each other.
Communities supporting each other.
Everyone being accepting of the characters and their differences and/or relationships.
Women who get stuff done.
Bi and Ace-spectrum Headcanons.
Shippy stuff:
Soulmates (both common and creative varieties),
The Soulmate Goose of Enforcement,
Polyamory.
Friends to lovers.
Rivals to lovers.
Annoying each other constantly to lovers.
Established relationships.
Couples knowing each other really well and doing things the other one likes just because.
“Man I really love my wife” guys.
Asking before kissing someone.
Stopping a kiss or a touch immediately when asked.
Surprise kisses in an established relationship.
True Love’s Kiss when fairy tale elements are present.
Only One Bed snuggles.
Marriage Proposals (doesn’t have to be the man proposing to the woman in het ships, the woman can propose to the man too.)
Weddings.
Platonic/familial stuff:
Becoming friends.
Insta-friends,
Female Friendship
Friends who stay friends (they don’t become romantic and they don’t stop enjoying each other’s company).
Found families.
True companions.
Healthy families of origin.
Halloween-related likes:
I'm not much for the "spooky" elements of Halloween. But I do like cute Halloween related things. Children's parties, fun costumes, candy, trick-or-treating, pumpkins, jack-o-lanterns, sheet ghosts, witches' hats, pets in costumes, amusing decorations. Anything fun but non-scary. I put in Halloween prompts where I thought of them, but I don't have many.
Reiterating DNWs for convenience:
Any sort of death or death imagery.
Abuse of any sort.
Anything that AO3 has under major warnings.
Unhealthy relationships.
Cheating, especially cheating being presented as a *good* thing.
Character bashing.
Explicit sex (implied or referenced sex between consenting adults is fine).
Anything that could be considered a loss of control.
Anyone transforming into anything else.
Illness beyond the common cold.
Mpreg.
Non-canonical pregnancy.
Discrimination or bigotry unless in the context of characters working to end it.
Unhappy ending.
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Fandom Specific:
Emergency!:
Fandom content notes: It's a medical/firefighting show so the usual content warnings for that genre. Fires, accidents, illnesses, hospitals, heights, danger, a few episodes with snakes, etc. Cops appear often.
Relationships requested: The Crew of Station 51, Dixie/Joe/Kel, Joanne/Roy/Johnny
Tumblr tag for fandom: Emergency!
Fandom specific likes: The crew all being close. The fact that Johnny and Chet are good friends being obvious even through the bickering. Roy and Joanne's kids absolutely adoring Johnny. Joanne being 1000% on board with the firefighting work even if she worries about Roy and Johnny getting hurt. Appearances by Nurse Sharon.
Fandom specific DNW: No rescues involving snakes, spiders, or deadly diseases please. I also don't want anything where Joanne is unsupportive of the guys and their work.
Optional prompts:
For Joanne/Roy/Johnny, I really love fluffy stories where Johnny spends time with the DeSotos. Maybe they all take the kids trick-or-treating, or help them make costumes, or Johnny gets a little too into "helping" the kids eat their Halloween candy. Or maybe they all just have dinner together and talk about their days and there's just a lot of love there.
For Station 51, I'd love to see them hold a station Halloween party for the various local kids. Or another show-typical silly event happening in their downtime.
For Dixie/Joe/Kel, I guess I'd just like to see more of the three of them getting to spend time together and get a break from ER work for a bit. Maybe when Joe and Kel went to that conference they were so excited about, Dixie got to go too and they had a fun time getting a little vacation around the conference events.
For a Halloween prompt treating people in absurd costumes could be fun. I'd also be happy with them all supporting each other after a hard day in the ER.
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Enchanted Forest Chronicles:
Fandom content notes: Cimorene runs away to avoid an arranged marriage. A few bad guys are mentioned as being eaten by dragons. Mendanbar is imprisoned for 17 years between books 3 and 4. Two characters in the 3rd book are transformed into something else. One by accident, the other as a punishment.
Relationships requested: Alianora/The Stone Prince, Cimorene/Mendanbar, Morwen/Telemain, Shiara/Daystar
Tumblr tag for fandom: Enchanted Forest Chronicles
Fandom specific likes: Mentions/Appearances of Alianora even if she’s not the focus. Morwen’s cats being snarky.
Fandom specific DNW: A story where the focus is on the time between Calling On Dragons and Talking To Dragons.
Optional prompts:
- Cimorene/Mendanbar: We don’t get to see very much of their married life so I would love to see some fluff taking place after their wedding but before Book 3.
- Daystar/Shiara: In an AU where they found some way to rescue Mendanbar sooner and Daystar grew up as the prince knowing both of his parents, how does this effect his and Shiara’s first meeting? Do they get along better or worse? Why is Daystar out in the forest at the right time to find her?
- Morewen/Telemain: I am down for basically anything with these two as long as it’s fun. Growing up together. Being classmates in magic school. Quests/adventures. Spending time together between adventures. Married life. Anything that appeals to you.
How exactly did they manage to get engaged? I would love to get the story of what conversations happened that we aren’t shown.
- Alianora/The Stone Prince: I just want to see anything about their relationship. We don’t get to see a lot of it in the book but I find it fascinating. I like how by the rules of this world, their one-day courtship and falling in love incredibly fast is normal and would enjoy seeing more about it.
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Highway to Heaven:
Fandom content notes: A wide range of injustice and discrimination appear throughout the show. Within the episodes relevant to Jane, Diane, and Scotty, there’s character death, a suicide attempt, and some ableism.
Relationships requested: Diane/Scotty, Jonathan/Jane | Jennifer, Jonathan & Mark
Tumblr tag for fandom: Highway to Heaven
Fandom specific likes: Jonathan is an angel but sometimes he’s still painfully human. (E.G. Getting too emotionally involved with an assignment, his crisis of faith in We Have Forever, his reaction to Mark getting hurt in Going Home, Going Home.) I just really like that Jonathan isn’t perfect and makes mistakes and has strong emotions just like the rest of us.
Exception to no character death: I’m okay with mentions of it in relation to Jonathan and Jane, but I don’t want it to be the focus or the ending. I need to see them as angels afterwards if their deaths come up.
Fandom specific DNW: Ignoring the fact that Scotty is quadriplegic. Making the entire story about Scotty being quadriplegic as though it’s his only trait. Not a hugely important thing, but I would prefer Jonathan and Jennifer not sleep together (except literally) since he doesn’t know that she’s Jane.
Optional prompts:
Jonathan/Jane: I am down with basically any story for these two that you want to tell.
How they fell in love. Scenes from their marriage. Missing scenes between the two in Keep Smiling.
What it was like for Jane to become Jennifer and be given the first assignment of helping her husband regain his faith? A missing scene from their two months together.
Something where they meet again later, either between assignments, sharing an assignment, or being reunited in heaven when they’ve both earned their wings.
Scotty/Diane: A Match Made in Heaven is my absolute favorite episode, I would love literally anything based on it. For a video you’re welcome to use content from any or all of their episodes of course, but I would also be just as happy with one based entirely on this episode.
I’d also love the missing scene of their wedding, or scenes from their married life, or something with them being parents.
Jonathan & Mark: I just really enjoy their friendship and watching the two of them helping others so anything based on that would be lovely.
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Magic School Bus:
Fandom content notes: There are multiple episodes where the characters turn into different animals. There are also many episodes going inside the human body.
Relationships requested: Arnold & Carlos & Dorothy Ann & Keesha & Phoebe & Ralphie & Tim & Wanda, Ms. Frizzle/Mr. Seedplot, DA & Keesha
Tumblr tag for fandom: Magic School Bus
Fandom specific likes: Ms. Frizzle being open to dating many different people, not just Mr. Seedplot. The kids all being close friends and no matter how many arguments they have they always make up quickly. Appearances by Mikey.
Fandom specific DNW: Romances between the kids. I don’t mind occasional references to crushes, but I don’t want shipping with them. The sequel show.
Optional prompts:
- The Kids: How did they first become friends? Phoebe transferred in, but have the other seven always been classmates? Was it hard for Phoebe to fit in at first or did they all make her feel welcome? Did they used to have other classmates before Ms. Frizzle’s class? What do they like to do for fun when they’re not in school or doing science?
A favorite headcanon of mine is that after college, the eight of them chip in and buy a house to use as home base. And they all travel around researching in their respective fields, but sometimes they just stay right there and do science. I would love any sort of story set in that world.
- Ms. Frizzle/Mr. Seedplot: How did they first meet? What happens after Liz brings Ms. Frizzle the flowers and note? Do they go on a date? Do the class ship them?
- DA and Keesha: I accidentally thought of the concept of Keesha and Dorothy Ann being sisters and now I'm extra obsessed with their dynamic. Whether actual sisters or just friends who are like sisters.
- Halloween: I'm a big fan of the Haunted House music episode so anything based on that would be lovely.
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The Monkees:
Fandom content notes: It's been awhile since I watched the show, but I do remember that various plots included danger, kidnapping, a couple of nazi references played for laughs (Monkees Race Again), implied drug use, brainwashing, Mike mistakenly believing a woman is planning to kill herself (Monkees On The Line), a deal with the devil, all played for laughs.
Relationships requested: Davy/Peter/Micky/Mike
Tumblr tag for fandom: The Monkees
Fandom specific likes: The Monkees all absolutely adoring each other. Being best friends as well as romantic partners. A whole lot of goofy nonsense like in the show. Casual affection. Milly from Monkee Mother staying in their lives and them all loving her as their honorary mom, but still being a little annoyed by her sometimes. The reunion episode.
Fandom specific DNW: A fic focusing on less than all four of them. Drug use. Anything trying to split them up. Any episode where they're not character!Monkees (e.g. the one on tour or the one with Princess Gwen or something similar I'm forgetting). Any episode/movie that's notably darker in tone than the rest.
Optional prompts: I'd just like a nice fun romp. That's what this show is all about to me. A whole lot of fun and silly content.
I love the episode Monkee See, Monkee Die. "Spend the night in the haunted house for the inheritance" episodes in sitcoms where they all get jumpy but nothing bad actually happens and it's all revealed to be a hoax anyway is one of my favorite kinds of episodes.
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Sesame Street:
Fandom content notes: One episode deals with the aftermath of the death of a main character.
Relationships (and character) requested: Linda, Linda/Bob, Maria/Linda, Maria/Luis/David, Susan/Gordon, Susan/Gordon/Bob
Tumblr tag for fandom: Sesame Street
Fandom specific likes: Mr. Hooper lives. No one ages. The characters making sure to sign for Linda so that she knows what’s going on. Miles and Gabi being best friends. Bob and Maria being metamours and having a very sibling-like relationship. Mr. Hooper refusing to tell anyone what his orientation is. Big Bird basically being everyone’s child. Bob being in both of the above polyamorous relationships at the same time.
Fandom specific DNW: Anything involving the death of Mr. Hooper. Making Linda hearing instead of Deaf.
Optional prompts: As with all of these I’d be happy with anything you want to write but here are a few thoughts.
Linda: I love her so much and how silly and how sarcastic she can be. Something with her training Barkley might be fun. Or something where she gets a new book that she's excited about. Or a day at the library.
Linda/Bob: If they had gotten married, what would their wedding look like? What kind of dates do they go on?
According to episode summaries on The Muppet wiki, Bob writes songs for Linda and she teaches him American Sign Language. I would love to see either or both of those things.
Maria/Linda: When Linda first arrives on Sesame Street, Maria is the person who’s the most fluent in ASL and that leads to her and Linda becoming friends quickly. Linda learning some Spanish sign language so she and Maria can both speak Spanish.
Susan/Gordon: I would dearly love some fic about how they met and fell in love. Or a fic about how they decided that they were ready to be parents and that they wanted to adopt. Maybe something with them geeking out together over science.
Maria/David/Luis: The only logical solution to the Maria/David, Maria/Luis relationships. I actually shipped David/Luis before I shipped Maria/David, so I definitely view this as a full triad.
How do they get together? Are two of them together first and then the third joins them? Or do they become a triad all at once? What do their dates as a triad look like? Do the three of them ever go dancing?
How do they decide to get married? To become parents? Does it matter which of Maria’s husbands is Gabi’s biological father or do they only know for medical history reasons?
Susan/Gordon/Bob: Did they know each other before Sesame Street or did they meet there? When did they get together? One thing I really like is the idea of them having gone to college together and getting up to hijinks. I would love to see some of that. How involved is Bob in parenting Miles?
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WordGirl:
Fandom content notes: Some danger, one episode (Dr. WordGirl Brains) features a mind-swap, another episode features a kidnapping, there are some cops.
Relationships requested: Becky/Tobey, Becky/Violet/Tobey/Scoops, TJ/Johnson
Tumblr tag for fandom: WordGirl
Fandom specific likes: Tobey realizing that he’s loved. Tobey’s robots being sweet.
Fandom specific DNW: Angst. These are children so I’d prefer they not show affection with anything more than a handhold or maybe a kiss on the cheek, unless they’re aged up. Tobey causing genuine harm beyond his usual property destruction.
Optional prompts: I’m happy with any kind of cute content for any of these pairings. I would especially like to see a get together.
I also read a fic once where Becky and TJ were allowed to invite their friends on a Botsford family trip to a cabin on a lake. Scoops and Violet couldn’t go in the fic, but I keep wondering what it would be like if they did and Becky was there with her mutual crushes and TJ was there with his.
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Trick or Treat Letter
Hello, ToT author! Thank you for writing for me! <3
I hope you enjoy creating something for the challenge. I am certain I'll enjoy seeing it!
Overall Trick Preferences
I like scary and tragic scenarios, although I'd prefer a dash of comfort with the hurt. Body horror, gore, evidence of past trauma, all good stuff. I love themes of decay over time and regrowth in the ruins.
I'm a big fan of horror with some dignity to it. If we matched on Elden Ring, Dark Souls, FMA, or MoE, writing in a similar tone to those canons will make me a very happy camper.
Overall Treat Preferences
I enjoy nontraditional relationship structures, intimate friendships, and kind words from strangers every bit as much as romantic ships. Sexual scenes are welcome but never required.
I really REALLY like loyalty under pressure, depictions of faith (in another character? in a force beyond comprehension? it's up to you!) and intimacy in all its myriad forms.
If you're writing something on the sexual side, I quite enjoy a focus on what the participants are doing with their hands, as well as the emotional dynamics between the characters. I like monsterfucking, displays of passion, and enthusiasm between partners.
DNW
dubcon or noncon; scat/watersports/emeto; setting-change AUs (coffee shops, high schools, etc); y/n fic; a/b/o; pregnancy. Please see AO3 for fandom-specific DNWs, but that's 90% of it.
The following section collects all of the prompts written for all my fandom requests.
Fandom-specific Ideas
Elden Ring
For Tricks:
I'd love to see Rennala's slow descent, or her knowledge of what's happened to her children vs what's going on in her cloistered academy with her sweetlings. Elden Ring has a LOT of horror in its DNA, and I'd love to play around with that some.
Anything Rykard and Tanith may blur the lines between trick and treat, and that's GREAT.
Who's under the crucible knight armor? How changed are they by exposure to their power of choice?
For Treats:
Sweet scenes and kindness between Radagon and Rennala, or between Tanith and Rykard (or between Tanith and Rykard and the Knight? hoo hoo)
Likes:
LGBTQ headcanons, genderbending Radagon, good mom Rennala. Rykard before or after Eiglay. BAMF Tanith. Cameos of other canon characters entirely welcome. Worldbuilding and details.
Dark Souls 1
Whether it's a Trick or a Treat is going to be all about focus, here, and DS1 being what it is, the lines may blur. I'm good for that.
I'd love to see some pre-canon scenarios, with or without the Chosen Undead (time being stagnant and convoluted, it seems possible they pay a visit!) Artorias before Oolacile; Ornstein and Gough vs the Dragons? Ciaran at her duties? Gwyndolin stepping up so that Anor Londo can endure past the loss of the Sun?
If you want to write during the canon timeline, how does the Chosen Undead react to meeting these heroes of old? How do they react to this upstart undead? How much do they remember of what they were?
Likes:
LGBTQ headcanons. Friendship among the Knights of Gwyn. Death, tombs, occult weirdness, time shenanigans, the creeping horror of the bonfires, the Dark, the curse... Characters of faith. Other canon characters entirely welcome.
Compilation of FFVII
I'm familiar with the original game, and a bit less familiar with Crisis Core and Dirge of Cerberus. If you pull in material from other parts of the Compilation, I'd love to know where it is from in a note :)
I'd like fanwork about the Turks, or the Turks and Rufus, or the Turks and Sephiroth, or the Turks and the world around them...
For Tricks:
Show me your character(s) of choice at their skullduggery - is Reno finding a new way to aggravate someone? Is Tseng planning the abduction of a presumed Ancient? What if Sephiroth has an assignment that will require some subtle and quick-thinking backup? There's so many monsters in the world, and Shinra is making more all the time. Has it made monsters of them also?
Jenova transformations, weird science, terrible working conditions, and monsters all welcome.
For Treats:
How about the Turks on vacation? Characters supporting one another after an assignment gone wrong (or gone right?) Quiet moments in the Shinra building, or perched somewhere in Midgar's soaring heights - or in its depths?
Likes:
LGBTQ headcanons. Friendship amongst the Turks. OG Sephiroth, quiet and contemplative and not so human. Jenova-based weirdness. Bad people making bad systems better for their own reasons. Nobody taking President Shinra seriously (and nobody forgetting he is dangerous).
Spy x Family
For Tricks: Yor as the Briar Princess, showing her thorns. Loid up to spy shenanigans. (Perhaps they both have the same target? Someone's going to have a bad day.)
Exploration of their dreary, oppressive society is welcome, but I'd prefer the family to have a safe zone at home. Hurt/comfort VERY welcome.
For Treats: Are the Forgers doing anything fun for Halloween?
Has Bond ever met a cat? What does he think of Halloween costumes? What if Bond saw a ghost, and only Anya knew?
Likes:
LGBTQ headcanons. Intimacy and good parenting from unlikely characters. Good people prevailing against bad systems. Bad people making bad systems better for their own reasons. Poking fun at terrible authorities.
Machineries of Empire
I'm very fond of Jedao, Yeren, and Ruo as a trio; of Jedao and Mikodez fencing wits with one another; of Cheris and Jedao being stuck in their get-along body; and of Istradez and Mikodez being awful together.
For Tricks:
The hexarchate is a terrible place, full of terrible calendrical effects and horrifying remembrances. How do the characters react - internally, as showing an external disagreement is dangerous in the extreme? How do they hide their heresies?
Is Mikodez as awful as he thinks he is? Is Cheris as okay as she thinks she is? And what of the Immolation Fox?
The only thing worse may what lies outside its calendrical control.
For Treats:
Sweetness (or spiciness!) with Jedao, Yeren, and Ruo! Istradez and Mikodez being good to one another, duplicates externally but so unalike inside. Cheris and Jedao at a truce, or collaborating.
Likes:
LGBTQ headcanons. Games, be they board games, mind games, video games, or games of deceit. Body horror and examination of personhood. Monstrosity. Shuos being Shuos. Shuos being Kel. One lost Kel at the Shuos party. Explorations of hexarchate culture. Spaaaaaace! Mad science, bad science, extrapolation of your favorite weird science fact into hexarchate space.
FMA Brotherhood / Manga
I love Roy and Riza in pretty much every permutation - good friends, lovers, pining. So long as they have one another's backs, all's well in the world. I like Olivier, but she doesn't like Roy - she makes such an excellent foil for the other two.
Kimbley is a terrible, terrible person and he is SO MUCH FUN. Playing with the contrast between him and the Amestrians who are at least attempting not to be walking atrocities is a good time.
Greed has been one of my favorites for quite a while, be it his attitude of making everything better (because it's his by right) or his various attempts to get out of the role he was created to occupy.
For Tricks:
FMA has a lot of horror in its DNA. Whether it's human transmutation, chimaera, or the horrors of war, there's lots of room for angst and scary stuff.
Solf J Kimbley is a warning in himself. So is Roy Mustang.
Oliver Armstrong is not far off, even though she may think she is.
If you write Ishval War fic, please also include an element of Riza and/or Roy determined to make a world where the things they do never have to happen again.
For Treats:
Does Amestris have an All Souls' Night? How do the characters celebrate it? Or, someone gives a small sweet treat to your choice of the characters - what is it? How do they accept it, if they accept it at all?
Likes:
LGBTQ headcanons. Alchemy, occult nonsense, weird science, bad science, your favorite science fact made into a plot point. Body horror and examination of personhood. Monstrosity. Good people prevailing against bad systems. Bad people making bad systems better for their own reasons. Poking fun at terrible authorities.
Thank you again!
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Chapters: 1/1
Fandom: My Little Pony Generation 4: Friendship Is Magic (Cartoon 2010)
Rating: General Audiences
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Relationships: Princess Luna/Twilight Sparkle (My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic)
Summary:
It took a long time for Nightmare Moon to convince Twilight to her side. It didn't take very long at all for the two of them to usurp Celestia.
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Fic: Night at the Museum
Night at the Museum
Written by: foolish_mortal
The event is billed as a “scare-boniferously good time” (“No dinosaurs in the Palaeozoic era,” Alan snips). Rated: G, Alan/Billy
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It is my absolute godamn pleasure to be writing this for @tarlanx, who I first met when we were both in the alanbilly LiveJournal comm. What can I say, small fandoms are the best fandoms. <3
Tarlan, I hope you enjoy reading this as much as I enjoyed writing it!
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