Trick Or Treat 2024 Exchange Letter

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Treat likes:
- domesticity scenes and material culture, even in less-than-domestic situations!
- mutual caretaking and h/c
- characters learning new skills or new things (about each other, their environment, their powers, etc.)
- monsters! werewolves, vampires, ghosts, revenants, mummies, etc.
- road trips
- trans characters in stories that aren’t centered on transphobia/outing/inner turmoil (even if they don’t “need” to be trans for the story to work, I love it, and maybe especially then)
- loyalty and tenderness
- character studies and introspection, role reversals
- queer identity and self-discovery, trauma recovery, disability, sex work AUs
- funny jubilant failsex, missing scenes, comedy
- PWPs, post-intimacy pillow talk, any kind of relationship vignette
- enemies-to-lovers or rivals-to-lovers, emotional repression, crusty characters warming up, cold-hearted baddies with one exception for the person they’re soft on

Trick likes:
- "came back wrong" -- undead revenants, hauntings, or just straight-up coming back from the dead or a near-miss with death leaving the person or people significantly altered
- cannibalism! grody vampires who take more than blood, subsistence cannibalism, weird gestures of affection, cannibalism as an act of reverence, cannibalism as an act of contempt
- serial killers, drifters, malcontents
- lonely road trips, cursed Americana
- ghosts, poltergeists, gothic horror, revenge from beyond the grave
- major character death
- wound fingering, injuries and bruises, scars
- dubcon and noncon, failsex, unpleasant/painful sex, power plays, power imbalances, hatefucking, more grim sex work AUs
- nightmares and dreams (with or without supernatural dream invasion)
- necromancy, misuse of magic, bad vibes
- enemy ships between enemies who stay enemies or at least mistrustful for the duration of their conjunction; pet sociopaths; characters doing terrible things for their love objects
- dysfunctional relationships, obsessive unbalanced love, emotional and sexual repression

Feel free to mix and match between these two categories and to take all prompts given as suggestions to get the gears turning. I’m also thrilled with crossovers between any of these fandoms.

Smut likes:
- size differences (both size/weight/physique-related and in the great big dick department)
- partially-clothed or mostly-clothed sex
- oral sex, handjobs, frottage, intercrural
- body worship, scar worship, breast worship, hair kink (including body hair)
- characters who kink on violence (gunplay, face-slapping, rough body play, beating the hell out of each other or getting beaten up, etc.)
- impotence/erectile dysfunction
- casual fuckbuddies, sex for comfort, friends with benefits
- funny goofy fail!sex, dramatic dysfunctional fail!sex; painful sex
- historical sexual practices and meeting places, cruising, queer subcultures
- fancy clothes and dressing/undressing
- angsty whumpy noncon/dubcon; conflicted manipulative dubcon; dysfunctional dynamics
- class issues in the bedroom
- younger characters as sexual initiators/sexual aggressors
- infidelity
- pining while fucking

I'm not confident in my ability to do art-specific prompts yet but if you're hankering to treat here's some stuff I dig!

Art likes:
- B&W and grayscale art, soft/muted colors.
- Visual pastiches of other art styles -- Edward Gorey, Aubrey Beardsley, Caravaggio, Vermeer, Goya, midcentury magazine illustrations, etc.
- Historical/setting AUs where the characters get to show off new clothes/settings/gear.
- Outfit changes and redesigns.
- Hairy chests, legs, and pits. Men's legs (especially thighs!) and butts. Long hair!
- Historical clothing and uniforms.
- Tarot motifs.
- Skulls! Skulls, skulls, skulls.
- Macabre/Halloweeny imagery. Your absolute bonkers-est symbolism.
- For ship art, clothed sex, size differences, and smaller characters taking a more dominant role (whether that's topping or in any other sense).
- Blood and injuries; characters beaten up or scarred.
- Portraits/bust-style art.

A lot of these canons deal in some way with gnarly subject matter and I'm fine with any level of darkness or non-darkness with those canon elements, as well as the presence or absence of Halloween themes. I like unhappy endings, fix-it fics, and anything in between. If you're interested in an even wordier take on the tropes/kinks I love, many of my previous exchange letters are here on DW. Feel free to incorporate ships into any of the prompts below if the given possibilities strike you.

DNWs: Self-harm via cutting or scratching; eating disorders; unrequested child sexual abuse; unrequested incest pairings; transmasculine characters bottoming for PIV sex; on-the-page sexual assault of trans characters; actual pregnancy as a plot point (potential/threatened pregnancy is fine!); belly kink/stuffing/vore; omegaverse/BDSMverse/other role-based worldbuilding AUs; focus on formalized aspects of BDSM negotiations/safewords/etc. For this exchange, I don't want to receive explicit fic/art involving characters under 16, with fandom-specific exceptions noted.


Dune Series - Frank Herbert

Treat
- AU where Feyd-Rautha succeeds in offing the Baron and the new promotion in rank thrusts him into a position he doesn’t entirely expect. I love the absolutely bananas corrupt space politics of the Dune universe, and really consider this a blank check for anything dealing with politics, bureaucracy, court intrigue, schmoozing, or political farce.

- Feyd-Rautha is fostered on Caladan under the authority of House Atreides for handwave space-politics reasons. (If you can make any actual space-politics reasons why this would be remotely plausible, you are a hero, but feel free not to specify and let it just be one of those weird far-future space politics things that go more or less unexplained. Kanly Made Them Do It?) If you want to combine this with a variant on the Paul/Feyd BG-Wanted-To-Make-Them-Do-It theme already present in this fandom, I love anything where Feyd is already plenty damaged from his time in House Harkonnen and it’s anybody’s guess if better influences around him will allow his merits to find less nasty exercise.

- Feyd spending quality time with his doomed concubines. RIP Feyd-Rautha’s concubines.

Trick
- Feyd spending quality time with Piter De Vries. Either actively doing stuff where the oversight of a twisted mentat might be desirable, or just more corrupt decadent court bureaucracy with his creepy uncle’s creepiest henchman.

- Back-from-the-dead Feyd — a ghost, a ghola, a DNA relic in the psyche of his unnamed offspring by Margot Fenring, or good old came-back-wrong-because-of-reasons. There’s a lot of people whose lives would be made just that little bit more difficult by the extra-late na-baron still hanging around, not least of all Paul’s, and I love that. (I can also imagine Feyd-Rautha himself might not be too happy about being brought back against his will.)

- Clearly the relationship between Feyd-Rautha and the Baron is not particularly healthy even by the standards of the Dune universe — I love the insight into their relationship they get with Feyd’s botched assassination attempt via poisoned slave boy (which demonstrates that he clearly knows where his uncle’s tastes lie) and if you want to explore that more it’s dialled in for darkfic. He owes his status to the Baron’s plotting and seems to know that he’s too valuable to bump off just yet, but he also has ample reason to hate his uncle even apart from the Baron’s transparent sexual attraction to him. What kind of lessons in politics does the Baron teach?

Ship-wise, Feyd-Rautha is my little black stillsuit dress character for these books and I would love fic pairing him with Paul, Irulan, Jessica, the Baron, Piter, or literally anybody else

bonus art prompts:

- CLOTHING PORN. Obviously the 1984 evil bikini outfit is iconic, as are his miniseries fits, but I would love any illustration of his outfits and appearance from the first novel or let your mind run wild and free with other space-clothes inspirations. If you really feel like indulging me I’d love character designs and outfits inspired by different historical eras or aesthetics.

- Arena scenes or any illustrations of Feyd’s gladiatorial misdeeds — don’t feel pressured to draw action scenes or anything like that if you’d rather not, I just think his gladiatorial wardrobe is sick as hell.

- Gratuitous tarot symbolism? Gratuitous tarot symbolism. Or just Feyd-Rautha lounging around looking sullen, treacherous, and questionably clothed.

- Bad end AU Feyd (or… good end for Harkonnens, bad end for everybody else) as the Padishah Emperor. I’d love to see any vision of this or character design you might have.

Fandom-specific DNW waiver: Canon-typical grim sexual abuse and incest themes for Dune are just fine, and all incest pairings (Baron Harkonnen/Feyd-Rautha, Feyd-Rautha/Paul, Paul/Jessica, etc.) are fair game. I’d prefer no explicit sex or art with characters explicitly stated to be under 16 years old, but mentions are fine.

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NBC Hannibal

Will Graham
Trick
- Hannibal survives the fall; Will doesn’t, but his ghost sticks around, and his relationship to Hannibal is as thorny as ever. I loved the ways Will’s mental version of Abigail served as an interlocutor to confront him with his own worst self-blaming thoughts, independent from who Abigail actually was as a person or how she might have felt about what happened, and I’d love to see what kind of not-very-nice things a version of Will who’s a similar invention of Hannibal’s imagination (or is he?) might throw at him. Alternately, Will haunting the shit out of everybody -- Jack Crawford? Bedelia?

- Time loop gone very, very bad, with Will stuck reliving a period of time he’d rather not — I’d especially love something where each successive loop imparts an ugly kind of clarity, or where Will stuck in the loop gets increasingly decompensated and fucked-up.

- Came Back Wrong fic where Will returns from the dead after any of the various points in the show where he nearly bites it — all the rampaging encephalitis, getting shot by Chris in “Oeuf” or by Jack, getting disemboweled, getting mauled by a cave bear otherkin, getting his skull sawn open, getting his face stolen, the final cliffside battle — but he’s not… quite… right. (Some of my favorite flavors of this trope are where the person’s intelligence and personality remain the same but their body is supernaturally deteriorating, or they’ve got some less than seemly appetites, but feel free to take the trope wherever you like.)

- Werewolf AU… but the solitary, isolating, maddening, life-ruining kind, not the comparatively-sociable kind with packs and alphas. Will has great lonesome-wolfman energy but he does have a documented propensity for helping out strays, maybe somebody else ends up in the back of his little Volvo that way while in animal form. Or if you want to take the life-ruining in a different direction, something where the animal transformation is purely a delusion and the characters are stuck dealing with that. Or just take some dog/wolf symbolism on a walk.

- Casefic or a scene from a case that leans into the series’ horror elements — where the killer (or victims?) are supernatural, where Will or his colleagues are in danger, or where shit hits the fan in some other exciting way.

Ship-wise I ship Will Graham with everybody -- Hannibal, Alana, Beverly, Jack, Bedelia, Abigail, and damn near any of the other killers he crosses paths with; ditto with Hannibal. All canon relationships (including nebulous auntfucking/weird siblingfucking Mischa vibes) and additional/background/past pairings are fair game too. I love this show's whole ensemble so feel free to have any characters appear.

Smut-wise: I am dying for some Will Graham sweatpants dick (and I am mildly unhinged about Hannibal's chest hair) but in general this fandom pairs great with the whole spectrum from gentle and intimate to rough and outright-violent sex, emotionally conflicted dubcon and noncon, pining for one another while actively fucking one another, unexpectedly tender comfort sex, intimate touching on the neck and face, hair pulling, breathplay, intercrural sex, and sex that takes advantage of the show's wild sets and domestic interiors.

Fandom-specific DNWs: AUs where Will’s a serial killer of his own volition; conflict-free domestic Hannigram in any universe where either party murders people for fun. (In general, in any universe where Hannibal or any other character kills people on purpose I like there to be interpersonal friction about it rather than Will acquiescing.)

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Stranger Things

Billy Hargrove

Trick

- Something where Billy escapes the Mind Flayer’s control but now he’s unlike his old self in a completely different way… in the Came Back Wrong kind of way.

- Billy’s ghost haunting Max, Eleven, Will, or anybody else! Regular classic ghost, some kind of residual impression, some shred of his consciousness that’s still hooked into the Mind Flayer-Vecna industrial complex… I’d especially love anything where he’s not happy about hanging around or where Vecna etc have effectively yanked him back from someplace he’d rather be.

- Non-supernatural darkfic dealing with Billy’s obsessive control over Max and the long shadow he has over her even once he’s dead — I’m down for the stepsibling incest/sexual obsession angle here as well but I’d prefer it not to have started when Max was younger than at the time of her first appearance in canon.

- Billy’s noncon Mind Flayer takeover reminded me at times of Michael’s transformation in The Lost Boys (a fine 1980s horror parallel!) and now I want grody vampire nightmare Billy. Or werewolf Billy, tbh.

- dirtybadwrong Billy/anyone — especially adult/older teen characters (Steve, Jonathan, Nancy, Robin, his housewife admiration society at the pool, Joyce, Murray…), supernatural characters (the Mind Flayer, Vecna, his Mind Flayer doppelganger) or getting nonconned by various Soviets.

I ship Billy with all teens/adult characters, both being tender and being terrible. I also love anything pairing him with Will, especially where internalized homophobia/closetedness comes into play or their mutual connections to the Upside-Down.

Eddie Munson

Trick

- I’m going to be honest, I loved this guy and I want to see him suffer. Emotionally, physically, sexually, psychically. Hurt-comfort scenarios (platonic ones with the whole gang, one-on-one comfort, romantic ones, some kind of giant comfort gangbang, etc.) are terrific too but I just love seeing this poor guy undergo agonies.

- Vampire Eddie! I’d love this in a dark, angsty, disconnected, came-back-wrong flavor or with a more comedic angle as he tries to navigate the “earthquake” aftermath and reconnect with his old friends.

- Eddie dealing with the clearly traumatic experience of seeing Chrissy’s death — something where supernatural forces exploit his guilt to fuck with his mind? Something where his memories of seeing it go down recur as nightmares or intrusive thoughts even as he spends time with his new allies? Feel free to go for h/c here too.

- Vecna tries to manipulate Eddie using the same kind of hyper-pessimistic, morbid rhetoric he expounds on to Eleven — either in a similar “we could rule together, haha psych, you’re my human meat puppet” kind of way or trying to use Eddie as his puppet for evildoing via suggestion and coercion. Eddie’s stuck doubting his own reality and terrified confessing “btw an extradimensional being is ordering me to kill kill kill, but trust me, it’s not Satan or psychosis or bad acid” will fuck up his life even more.

- Sad forlorn hustler Eddie, that is all. (Sad-but-mostly-pissed-off hustler Billy is also very welcome, or both of them as rivals haunting the same slim-pickings Indiana cruising spots.)

I ship Eddie with damn near everybody teenaged and up, in any combination including trios and moresomes — in addition to Chrissy, Jonathan, Steve, Nancy, and Billy, Eddie/Hopper is a rarepair of my heart — and I’m very multishippy with this whole fandom so go for it. Background pairings and outside POVs are just fine.

Smut-wise, for both of these characters (and any of their sexual partners) I love some grimy Midwestern boning -- handjobs, frottage, sex in out-of-the-way places, high sex, drunk sex, all different flavors of heavy petting.

Fandom-specific DNWs: Eddie-as-Kas-the-Betrayer; racist violence happening to any of the Sinclairs. For any ships involving the show's younger cohort of characters, like Billy/Will, I'd prefer nothing where the younger character is explicitly younger than they are in s3.

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The Stand - Stephen King

Treat

- I read the epilogue in the Complete & Uncut Edition as, in Dark Tower terms, another turn of the wheel — Flagg being picked up and dumped in another iteration of his same essential journey but in a fundamentally different place and time. Where else might he get to?

- Missing scenes from Flagg’s nebulous backstory/backstories — do any of the assorted misfits, murderers, and radicals he influences catch on to the nature of his interference? What is it like to be in an organization Flagg is in the process of taking over, whether that’s a political cell taking a turn for the worse or something more informal?

- Literally any art of Flagg would thrill me but I’d especially love different 20th century iterations of Flagg slightly tweaked for differences of era. What might Flagg look like in a postwar middle-American scenario, or drifting through the Haight?

- Flagg wandering through another Stephen King property of your choice — feel free to incorporate Dark Tower characterizations or any other iteration of the character King has interpolated. My favorite King properties include Salem’s Lot, The Girl Who Loved Tom Gordon, Carrie, The Shining, Christine, It (and its various adaptations), and the 11/22/63 TV series, but feel free to drop him down in any short story from Night Shift, Different Seasons, Skeleton Crew, Nightmares & Dreamscapes, Everything’s Eventual, Bazaar of Bad Dreams, or Full Dark No Stars.

- Art or fic with a female version of Flagg! I’d love it if fem!Flagg’s attire and general sense of style is still just about the same as the busted-cowboy-boots, faded-denim, pockets-full-of-hate-literature presence regular dude Flagg has in canon.

Trick

- Flagg sexually menacing the King hero/heroine of your choice. I love the juxtaposition between his supernatural, demon-lover qualities and the crass nastiness of him, cruel sense of humor and all.

- Fic/art set in Vegas with Flagg obtaining Larry as an amusement for Nadine while maintaining her technical virginity for himself. Can be as fraught, sexual, trauma-bonding-filled, mutually recriminatory, or gothic as desired.

- Art illustrating Flagg’s gradual ascension over Nadine, either symbolizing his insidious influence in her life as he seemingly calls her to him or representing their ultimate meeting. I love everything about Nadine and especially her pre-Captain Trips backstory, so feel free to have the focus be on her as much as Flagg.

- What would a Flagg-wins scenario for the novel look like? Besides, obviously… very very bad.

- Art/fic incorporating the Complete & Uncut Edition with Flagg finally meeting the Kid either in Las Vegas or in some other circumstance while the two of them are drifters pre-canon — how far could the Kid have gotten in his mutiny plans? What kind of inventive cruelty could they wreak on one another?

I ship Flagg with a whole lot of people— including but not limited to Lloyd, the Kid, Stu, Fran, Harold, Dayna, Sue, Nick Andros, Larry, Rita, Lucy, and especially Nadine. Smut-wise, I love Flagg being a joyfully crass and nasty coercive creep, all kinds of demon lover/monsterfucker action, misuse of magic mindfucks during sex, perversions of loyalty kink, and grimy drifter filth.

Fandom-specific DNWs: noncon/racial abuse in fic featuring Mother Abagail (general treatment of racism is fine); Flagg/Tom Cullen; Flagg/Trashcan Man; COVID-19.