NoFM Letter 2019
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skazkaDear NoFM author/artist,
You're a champ, and I go on for way too long, so feel free to mix and match parts of this letter, reverse the roles in a particular prompt, or ignore these prompts altogether. I definitely don't expect any fanwork to include everything I mention here (and what could?) and I'll be thrilled with anything you write or draw so long as you're having fun.
Likes:
- hookups coming before feelings
- one-night stands and anonymous sex turned not-so-anonymous
- loving but deeply weird relationships
- pining, whether requited or unrequited
- ghosts, monsters, the supernatural
- loyalty kink, either big gestures or low-key loyal doting
- Pining and characters doing deeply strange things due to pining
- Complicated feelings -- characters who can't say or even think the truth about how they feel, tongue-tied lovers, pining, love/hate, enemies-to-lovers, enemies-to-friends-to-lovers, lovers-to-enemies-to-lovers-again, best friends who you can't stand, etc.
- Film noir tropes and AUs (hardboiled narration, doom and double-crosses, femmes fatales, a gunsel or two…)
- any other kind of genre fusion -- campy 80s slasher horror? Summer camp romp? 90s YA novel? Gothic horror?
- Fucked-up courtships -- mind games, fighting as foreplay, surveillance and obsessions from afar, villains in love with heroes and vice versa. This can be silly (think Kate Beaton's Nemesis comics) or more serious.
- Noncon and dubcon -- power plays, trying to bargain for advantages or escape worse consequences using sex, blackmail, trying to defuse a dangerous situation using sex, fights and captivity scenarios that take a bad turn, villain-on-hero noncon.
- shady pasts, dark secrets,
- parental hangups
- secret meetings and trysts
- road trips and long journeys
- partners in crime, fuckups in love
- hurt/comfort and whump
- murder and major character death/undeath
- always-a-girl genderswap (especially when leading to butch characters and f/f pairings!)
I love fic with trans characters, especially if characters retain their canon genders as trans people, i.e. trans dude David Kessler, trans gal Alex Price. This and genderswap can be a total freebie on top of any other AU too. I'm down for crossovers/fusions, AUs of all kinds (especially high-concept/fanciful/historical AUs), and unusual formats, whatever that may mean to you. For canons where requested characters canonically get together with other people other than the requested ships (aka… all of these) feel free to rearrange canon to circumvent those canonical pairings or write characters taking a break/just as friends, just don't give all the canon girlfriends Chronic Dead Girlfriend Syndrome; all things being equal, I love content that addresses those canon pairings in relation to the noncanonical one the fic centers on, whether in passing or as an issue in the fic itself. I love infidelity, consensual open relationships/V-shaped polyamory, weird complex bonds that don't quite overlap, and whatever you can throw at me.
Art-specific likes: B&W and grayscale art. Soft/muted colors. Visual pastiches of other pieces of art/artists/eras in art -- medieval manuscript illustrations, Faiyum mummy portraits, Symbolist illustrations, etc. (I love Edward Gorey, Alastair, Aubrey Beardsley, Caspar David Friedrich's funky landscapes, Magritte, Caravaggio, Rembrandt, Vermeer, Goya…anything with crazy shadows and/or a severed head, I'm in. I also dig Leyendecker and similar advertising illustration-y styles.) Hairy chests, legs, and pits. Men's legs and butts. Fight scenes, fight aftermath, fighting-turned-intimacy. Historical clothing and uniforms, especially in the context of mostly-dressed/fully-dressed sex. Blood and bruises. Historical/setting AUs where the characters get to show off new clothes/settings/gear. Always-a-girl characters with similar body types and dress styles to their canonical dudeselves. (Feel free to also draw costuming etc. translated across gender or AU lines -- I'm just a big sucker for butch ruggedy dudes genderswapped into butch ruggedy women.) Horror art. Genre-swapped AU art -- Westerns, 80s horror movies, Regency tight pants for all. Tarot motifs. Macabre imagery. Your absolute bonkers-est symbolism. For ship art, size differences and smaller characters taking a more dominant role (whether that's topping or in any other sense). Art of characters beaten up. Portraits/bust-style art.
I'd be equally thrilled to receive standalone fanart and fan-comics.
Kinks: size differences, age differences, partially-clothed or mostly-clothed sex, oral sex, handjobs, frottage, intercrural, breast worship, rough sex, characters who kink on violence (gunplay, face-slapping, beating the hell out of each other or getting beaten up, etc.), impotence/erectile dysfunction, caning, hatesex, body hair, casual fuckbuddies, sex for comfort and solace, funny goofy fail!sex, dramatic dysfunctional fail!sex, historical sexual practices and meeting places, fancy clothes and dressing/undressing, one-night stands and one-night stands that turn into something more, noncon/dubcon, sex work.
I'm not too hot on:
Unrequested teacher/student pairings, high school setting AUs (with one exception for The Servant), characters overhearing one another masturbating or having sex, omegaverse, urban-fantasy werewolf pack and omegaverse tropes like heats and mates, RL crises and current events, apocalyptic/postapoc settings, belly kink, oviposition, noncon against trans characters, trans fic that's 100% about disclosure.
DNWs:
Self-harm, eating disorders, child sexual abuse, unrequested incest. (The exception to this is the pseudocest in The Servant; consider that requested, even if it's not the primary pairing I'm requesting.) I'd rather not read explicit sex with characters under 16; references to teenage sexuality are fine.
In general, however, I'm comfortable receiving fic that includes or touches on other heavy topics -- corruption, abuse, misogyny, homophobia, etc. You don't have to strive to include them out of obligation but you're not required to avoid them either.
*
The Duellists 1977 (fanart, fanfiction)
D'Hubert/Feraud
- From Conrad's "The Duel": A sub-commissary of the Intendence, an agreeable and cultivated bachelor in kerseymere breeches, Hessian boots, and a blue coat embroidered with silver lace, who affected to believe in the transmigration of souls, suggested that the two had met perhaps in some previous existence. The feud was in the forgotten past. It might have been something quite inconceivable in the present state of their being; but their souls remembered the animosity, and manifested an instinctive antagonism. So, uh, I'm just saying… AU where Feraud and D'Hubert are reincarnated soul-enemies after all. Write something about their past lives, ideally where their grievance is equally baffling. Or Feraud and D'Hubert in later lifetimes, still doomed to cross paths and piss each other off for no good reason.
- D'Hubert can't get rid of Feraud even after the latter's death. Feraud is a really annoying Hussar ghost.
- Feraud is robbed of the satisfaction of finally being the one to off D'Hubert (either by death in battle, permanent exile, freak happenstance, death by falling bust of Bonaparte, etc.) and resolving to bring D'Hubert back by any means necessary so he can finally kick his ass.
- Feraud and D'Hubert having sex for the first time -- furious hatesex evolving out of a duel, huddling for warmth while freezing their mustaches off somewhere in Russia, feverish banging, sex in a dream.
- Feraud and D'Hubert in a threesome with the person of your choice, being weird about each other and making it deeply weird for the third person involved.
- Alternate history where Napoleon regains power and it's Feraud using his newfound power as reward for his loyalty to save D'Hubert's skin from some tight spot
- Art-specific prompt (though if you want to fic this too, please do!): Literally anything with the two of these guys looking ridiculous and fantastic in uniform. The Hussar uniforms are balls-to-the-wall crazy, and I'd love to see anything with these guys bloodied/dirty, extra-fancy, kitted up for cold weather, freezing their butts off, partially-undressed, etc.
The Servant 1963 (fanart, fanfiction)
Tony/Hugo Barrett
- Barrett gaslighting Tony, either after the film's end or earlier
- Canon divergence where something sets their fucked-up relationship off on a drastically different track -- does Tony end up in South America, dragging Barrett behind him? Do they end up carrying on with Susan in the house?
- Screwed-up lovers' spats, physical altercations, subtle mind games, both of them trying to put one over on the other.
- Any look at one of the little perversions of domestic comforts that Barrett makes a habit out of plying Tony with -- fixing him a drink, soaking his feet(!), dressing him, undressing him, and in general making over their shared domestic life for his own ends. Alternately, turnabout where it's Tony serving (or servicing) Barrett, either willingly or under duress.
- The two of them crossing paths in another context -- the military, sex work, a historical AU, whatever strikes your fancy.
- Art-specific prompt: Something incorporating the set's use of mirrors and mirroring.
- Alternately, I'd love B&W art that plays with the film's sense of chronological era (play with the iconography of service from 100 years earlier -- or 50 years later?) or something that plays with the slightly overblown interior of the townhouse (white flowers dropping petals everywhere, bookshelves, ashtrays, tons of leather upholstery)
- If you can find a way to work in the crazy class differential here into an alternate universe's school setting, this is the one time I'd kill for an "everybody goes to school together" AU.
An American Werewolf In London (1981) (fanart, fanfiction)
David Kessler, Jack Goodman, David Kessler/Jack Goodman
- Alternate scenes of Jack and David backpacking around, being jackass college boys, crossing paths with different kinds of supernatural horror.
- Any kind of genre pastiche/era-specific AU -- my one caveat is that I want David and Jack to stay Jewish even in historical settings. (Even if that requires a little handwaving -- I'm totally fine with that!) Running into creepy supernatural creatures in the picturesque Italian countryside on the Grand Tour, touring haunted upstate NY, taking a pit stop in Stephen King country, showing up at Camp Firewood…
- Domestic scenes with either of them at home or at college -- I'd love to know more about David's family back home, or how the two of them met at college, or what they're studying.
- Further adventures of zombie Jack -- I'd love any art or fic that incorporates his progressive levels of grodiness, or what his experience of being apparently aware of his own decay is.
- Role-swapped AU where Jack's the werewolf and David is the ghost/revenant/gnarly undead dude trying to problem-solve. Would he propose the same solutions to Jack that Jack proposes to him in canon?
- Art-specific prompt: Actual art of David all wolfed out might be a tall order (all those grody body-horror details!) but I'd love any art of him that incorporates wolf/lunar imagery.
- Genderswap where Jack and David are college girls wandering the moors -- do they avoid getting wolfed on, or do things get as bloody and terriuble as they do in canon?
- A scenario where they both survive as werewolves and cause twice as much fuckery
- Pre-canon get-together fic that allows for early-80s-style sexual confusion, college boy machismo, and constructing intricate rituals.
- Anything with bedsharing, platonic or romantic.
- Gore! Any old kind of gore for either David or Jack, bonus points if they're miserable.
You're a champ, and I go on for way too long, so feel free to mix and match parts of this letter, reverse the roles in a particular prompt, or ignore these prompts altogether. I definitely don't expect any fanwork to include everything I mention here (and what could?) and I'll be thrilled with anything you write or draw so long as you're having fun.
Likes:
- hookups coming before feelings
- one-night stands and anonymous sex turned not-so-anonymous
- loving but deeply weird relationships
- pining, whether requited or unrequited
- ghosts, monsters, the supernatural
- loyalty kink, either big gestures or low-key loyal doting
- Pining and characters doing deeply strange things due to pining
- Complicated feelings -- characters who can't say or even think the truth about how they feel, tongue-tied lovers, pining, love/hate, enemies-to-lovers, enemies-to-friends-to-lovers, lovers-to-enemies-to-lovers-again, best friends who you can't stand, etc.
- Film noir tropes and AUs (hardboiled narration, doom and double-crosses, femmes fatales, a gunsel or two…)
- any other kind of genre fusion -- campy 80s slasher horror? Summer camp romp? 90s YA novel? Gothic horror?
- Fucked-up courtships -- mind games, fighting as foreplay, surveillance and obsessions from afar, villains in love with heroes and vice versa. This can be silly (think Kate Beaton's Nemesis comics) or more serious.
- Noncon and dubcon -- power plays, trying to bargain for advantages or escape worse consequences using sex, blackmail, trying to defuse a dangerous situation using sex, fights and captivity scenarios that take a bad turn, villain-on-hero noncon.
- shady pasts, dark secrets,
- parental hangups
- secret meetings and trysts
- road trips and long journeys
- partners in crime, fuckups in love
- hurt/comfort and whump
- murder and major character death/undeath
- always-a-girl genderswap (especially when leading to butch characters and f/f pairings!)
I love fic with trans characters, especially if characters retain their canon genders as trans people, i.e. trans dude David Kessler, trans gal Alex Price. This and genderswap can be a total freebie on top of any other AU too. I'm down for crossovers/fusions, AUs of all kinds (especially high-concept/fanciful/historical AUs), and unusual formats, whatever that may mean to you. For canons where requested characters canonically get together with other people other than the requested ships (aka… all of these) feel free to rearrange canon to circumvent those canonical pairings or write characters taking a break/just as friends, just don't give all the canon girlfriends Chronic Dead Girlfriend Syndrome; all things being equal, I love content that addresses those canon pairings in relation to the noncanonical one the fic centers on, whether in passing or as an issue in the fic itself. I love infidelity, consensual open relationships/V-shaped polyamory, weird complex bonds that don't quite overlap, and whatever you can throw at me.
Art-specific likes: B&W and grayscale art. Soft/muted colors. Visual pastiches of other pieces of art/artists/eras in art -- medieval manuscript illustrations, Faiyum mummy portraits, Symbolist illustrations, etc. (I love Edward Gorey, Alastair, Aubrey Beardsley, Caspar David Friedrich's funky landscapes, Magritte, Caravaggio, Rembrandt, Vermeer, Goya…anything with crazy shadows and/or a severed head, I'm in. I also dig Leyendecker and similar advertising illustration-y styles.) Hairy chests, legs, and pits. Men's legs and butts. Fight scenes, fight aftermath, fighting-turned-intimacy. Historical clothing and uniforms, especially in the context of mostly-dressed/fully-dressed sex. Blood and bruises. Historical/setting AUs where the characters get to show off new clothes/settings/gear. Always-a-girl characters with similar body types and dress styles to their canonical dudeselves. (Feel free to also draw costuming etc. translated across gender or AU lines -- I'm just a big sucker for butch ruggedy dudes genderswapped into butch ruggedy women.) Horror art. Genre-swapped AU art -- Westerns, 80s horror movies, Regency tight pants for all. Tarot motifs. Macabre imagery. Your absolute bonkers-est symbolism. For ship art, size differences and smaller characters taking a more dominant role (whether that's topping or in any other sense). Art of characters beaten up. Portraits/bust-style art.
I'd be equally thrilled to receive standalone fanart and fan-comics.
Kinks: size differences, age differences, partially-clothed or mostly-clothed sex, oral sex, handjobs, frottage, intercrural, breast worship, rough sex, characters who kink on violence (gunplay, face-slapping, beating the hell out of each other or getting beaten up, etc.), impotence/erectile dysfunction, caning, hatesex, body hair, casual fuckbuddies, sex for comfort and solace, funny goofy fail!sex, dramatic dysfunctional fail!sex, historical sexual practices and meeting places, fancy clothes and dressing/undressing, one-night stands and one-night stands that turn into something more, noncon/dubcon, sex work.
I'm not too hot on:
Unrequested teacher/student pairings, high school setting AUs (with one exception for The Servant), characters overhearing one another masturbating or having sex, omegaverse, urban-fantasy werewolf pack and omegaverse tropes like heats and mates, RL crises and current events, apocalyptic/postapoc settings, belly kink, oviposition, noncon against trans characters, trans fic that's 100% about disclosure.
DNWs:
Self-harm, eating disorders, child sexual abuse, unrequested incest. (The exception to this is the pseudocest in The Servant; consider that requested, even if it's not the primary pairing I'm requesting.) I'd rather not read explicit sex with characters under 16; references to teenage sexuality are fine.
In general, however, I'm comfortable receiving fic that includes or touches on other heavy topics -- corruption, abuse, misogyny, homophobia, etc. You don't have to strive to include them out of obligation but you're not required to avoid them either.
*
The Duellists 1977 (fanart, fanfiction)
D'Hubert/Feraud
- From Conrad's "The Duel": A sub-commissary of the Intendence, an agreeable and cultivated bachelor in kerseymere breeches, Hessian boots, and a blue coat embroidered with silver lace, who affected to believe in the transmigration of souls, suggested that the two had met perhaps in some previous existence. The feud was in the forgotten past. It might have been something quite inconceivable in the present state of their being; but their souls remembered the animosity, and manifested an instinctive antagonism. So, uh, I'm just saying… AU where Feraud and D'Hubert are reincarnated soul-enemies after all. Write something about their past lives, ideally where their grievance is equally baffling. Or Feraud and D'Hubert in later lifetimes, still doomed to cross paths and piss each other off for no good reason.
- D'Hubert can't get rid of Feraud even after the latter's death. Feraud is a really annoying Hussar ghost.
- Feraud is robbed of the satisfaction of finally being the one to off D'Hubert (either by death in battle, permanent exile, freak happenstance, death by falling bust of Bonaparte, etc.) and resolving to bring D'Hubert back by any means necessary so he can finally kick his ass.
- Feraud and D'Hubert having sex for the first time -- furious hatesex evolving out of a duel, huddling for warmth while freezing their mustaches off somewhere in Russia, feverish banging, sex in a dream.
- Feraud and D'Hubert in a threesome with the person of your choice, being weird about each other and making it deeply weird for the third person involved.
- Alternate history where Napoleon regains power and it's Feraud using his newfound power as reward for his loyalty to save D'Hubert's skin from some tight spot
- Art-specific prompt (though if you want to fic this too, please do!): Literally anything with the two of these guys looking ridiculous and fantastic in uniform. The Hussar uniforms are balls-to-the-wall crazy, and I'd love to see anything with these guys bloodied/dirty, extra-fancy, kitted up for cold weather, freezing their butts off, partially-undressed, etc.
The Servant 1963 (fanart, fanfiction)
Tony/Hugo Barrett
- Barrett gaslighting Tony, either after the film's end or earlier
- Canon divergence where something sets their fucked-up relationship off on a drastically different track -- does Tony end up in South America, dragging Barrett behind him? Do they end up carrying on with Susan in the house?
- Screwed-up lovers' spats, physical altercations, subtle mind games, both of them trying to put one over on the other.
- Any look at one of the little perversions of domestic comforts that Barrett makes a habit out of plying Tony with -- fixing him a drink, soaking his feet(!), dressing him, undressing him, and in general making over their shared domestic life for his own ends. Alternately, turnabout where it's Tony serving (or servicing) Barrett, either willingly or under duress.
- The two of them crossing paths in another context -- the military, sex work, a historical AU, whatever strikes your fancy.
- Art-specific prompt: Something incorporating the set's use of mirrors and mirroring.
- Alternately, I'd love B&W art that plays with the film's sense of chronological era (play with the iconography of service from 100 years earlier -- or 50 years later?) or something that plays with the slightly overblown interior of the townhouse (white flowers dropping petals everywhere, bookshelves, ashtrays, tons of leather upholstery)
- If you can find a way to work in the crazy class differential here into an alternate universe's school setting, this is the one time I'd kill for an "everybody goes to school together" AU.
An American Werewolf In London (1981) (fanart, fanfiction)
David Kessler, Jack Goodman, David Kessler/Jack Goodman
- Alternate scenes of Jack and David backpacking around, being jackass college boys, crossing paths with different kinds of supernatural horror.
- Any kind of genre pastiche/era-specific AU -- my one caveat is that I want David and Jack to stay Jewish even in historical settings. (Even if that requires a little handwaving -- I'm totally fine with that!) Running into creepy supernatural creatures in the picturesque Italian countryside on the Grand Tour, touring haunted upstate NY, taking a pit stop in Stephen King country, showing up at Camp Firewood…
- Domestic scenes with either of them at home or at college -- I'd love to know more about David's family back home, or how the two of them met at college, or what they're studying.
- Further adventures of zombie Jack -- I'd love any art or fic that incorporates his progressive levels of grodiness, or what his experience of being apparently aware of his own decay is.
- Role-swapped AU where Jack's the werewolf and David is the ghost/revenant/gnarly undead dude trying to problem-solve. Would he propose the same solutions to Jack that Jack proposes to him in canon?
- Art-specific prompt: Actual art of David all wolfed out might be a tall order (all those grody body-horror details!) but I'd love any art of him that incorporates wolf/lunar imagery.
- Genderswap where Jack and David are college girls wandering the moors -- do they avoid getting wolfed on, or do things get as bloody and terriuble as they do in canon?
- A scenario where they both survive as werewolves and cause twice as much fuckery
- Pre-canon get-together fic that allows for early-80s-style sexual confusion, college boy machismo, and constructing intricate rituals.
- Anything with bedsharing, platonic or romantic.
- Gore! Any old kind of gore for either David or Jack, bonus points if they're miserable.
