Dear Trick or Treat Creator 2024
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reconditarmoniaHi! Thank you for writing/drawing for me! I’m reconditarmonia here, on Tumblr and on AO3. If you have any questions for me, please reach out through the mod!
The Game and the Candle | Moby-Dick | Sleep No More
General likes:
– Loyalty kink! Trust, affectionate or loving use of titles, gestures of loyalty, replacing one’s situational or ethical judgment with someone else’s, risking oneself (physically or otherwise) for someone else, not doing so on their orders. Can be commander-subordinate or comrades-in-arms.
– Heists, or other stories where there’s a lot of planning and then we see how the plan goes.
– Femslash, complicated or intense relationships between women, and female-centric gen. Women doing “male” stuff (possibly while crossdressing).
– Relationships that aren’t built on romance or attraction. They can be romantic or sexual as well, but my favorite ships are all ones where it would still be interesting or compelling if the romantic component never materialized. Stories whose emotional climax or resolution isn’t the sex scene, if there is one.
– Uniforms/costumes/clothing.
– Stories, history, and performance. What gets told and how, what doesn’t get told or written down, behavior in a society where everyone’s consuming media and aware of its tropes, how people create their personas and script their own lines.
– Minority/diaspora feelings and themes.
Smut Likes: clothing, uniforms, sexual tension, breasts, manual sex, cunnilingus, grinding, informal d/s elements, intensity.
General DNW: rape/dubcon, torture, other creative gore; unrequested AUs, including “same setting, different rules” AUs such as soulmates/soulbonds; PWP; food sex; embarrassment; focus on pregnancy; Christmas/Christian themes; infidelity; unrequested polyamory; focus on unrequested canon or non-canon ships; unrequested trans versions of characters; breakups; jealousy; focus on grief; unequal levels of investment in a relationship (including concerns about same that turn out to be unwarranted), or the idea of a character accepting something they're unhappy with as the most they're going to get; characters apologizing to their partner when they don't actually know what they did to upset them; characters who are written in a sexual context within the fic being ignorant about sex/anatomy (inexperienced is fine); the word "pussy"
I'm happy to receive extra gifts that ignore my trick/treat preferences and my fic/art preferences!
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Fandom: The Game and the Candle
Character(s): John Allard/Feodor Stanief [Treat only, fic only]
I'm so excited for this new-to-me fandom and its ridiculous loyalty kink; lines like "It is my pride to have regained my independence, monseigneur; to be able to come to you, free, and offer to do your secretary's work, Vasili's, what you choose, but to do it as a service of love...You cannot refuse me that! You have taken my life and made it center around you, now you cannot bid me tear that core out and go on" and "Before the brother I loved, the woman I love, before any call, I would follow the Regent. He — I have no words for it. It is not that my loyalty to your Majesty is less, but that he claims me against the world" are insanely my jam as loyalty and possessiveness (and happiness at being possessed - His own! The long loneliness snatched the phrase greedily; worn out, Allard submitted to protection without resentment). I would love More of This Sort of Thing - just put them in more Situations where they simply must declare their undying loyalty to and possessiveness of each other. (Feel free to flesh out Situations that canonically happened that someone decided not to show us, Eleanor...) Where Allard has to kneel to Stanief for some reason, or kiss his hand, to show his actual fealty but it's full of love and meaning! Let one of them get scary and protective when the other one is threatened (by a person, not....a grenade...maybe another asshole courtier, or Dalmorov in a missing scene or continuing to lurk postcanon), or someone tries to shame Allard with his devotion/submission and he declares how proud he is of it.
I'd be happy to receive smut that leans into these dynamics - my general smut likes probably aren't incredibly helpful here beyond, obviously, the D/s vibes (yes!) but I think they are probably fairly switchy in terms of position, but not in terms of dom/sub dynamic where the out-of-the-bedroom power dynamic is part of what they're kinking on.
Also, while I'm not interested in period-typical homophobia as such being the focus of a fic, I do enjoy stories that engage with the reality of two people of the same gender being a stable couple who are semi-acknowledged by the people around them in times and places where that can't be a marriage or treated the exact same way as a straight couple. What's the public perception of the Regent/former Regent and his American secretary/pet/friend/favorite/boyfriend? Of "their" house? When's a situation (inviting people to a party/event/opera was my first thought, but could be anything) when it's just obvious that they're a unit and if you get one you get the other?
FWIW, at this point I have only a pretty thin knowledge of Ingram's other books and stories (and the ones I know better are not the more crossoverable ones with this one), so I will probably not get any crossovers or continuity you put in. I'm also not terribly interested in receiving a fic that focuses on their Sicilian sexcation exclusively - I think it's very important to the development of their relationship, obviously, and probably very hot, but the thing that I'm most interested in is the insane loyaltykink that relies on Allard knowing who Stanief is.
Fandom-Specific DNW Info: please don't write Iria or Theo as romantically involved with Stanief or Allard; perhaps Iria and Stanief's marriage continues platonically, and either Theo just doesn't reenter the story or that is platonic as well. (You don't need to disclaim anything, just please don't explicitly write that Allard or Stanief have multiple romances going on.)
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Fandom: Moby-Dick
Character(s): Ishmael [Trick, Treat, fic only]
I'm mostly just excited about Melville's silly little narrator and getting more of his view on the world. Despite not actually having a huge role in the plot, he feels like someone who's very well defined as a character, probably because he has an opinion on everything and thinks a bit weirdly and starts off the book by talking about how depressed he's been, so give me his opinions on the development of Halloween traditions or ghosts/vampires/zombies or something on the Internet or what happened to the missing Franklin expedition, I don't know. I also love Ishmael/Queequeg and think it's very romantic and cute (he refers to him in the narration as "my Queequeg" and "my brave Queequeg"!)
Optionally, I have a number of prompts in this letter for genderswapped versions of Ishmael, Queequeg, or also Ahab, the rest of the crew, and Moby-Dick.
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Fandom: Sleep No More
Character(s): Bald Witch, Fulton, Porter, Speakeasy Bartender [Trick only, fic or art]
‘Tis the season for spooky Sleep No More fic/art! I love fic and art that allows me to mentally revisit the atmosphere of the McKittrick. (I apologize that I’m not a frequent art requester nor do I have an especially visual mind, so I don’t have great or many art prompts, but the main thing I want out of SNM art is The Vibe, tbh. Non-drawn art, like embroidery or something, would also be really cool if that happens to be your jam?)
I love all the small magic and folk magic on the 4th floor (and 2nd) of the McKittrick, the precise little rituals that reach out to or guard against the world of darkness and magic that is Outside their town but also underlying/intertwined with it. I'm especially interested in how magic and outsider-ness and queerness all interact in the world of SNM. I've requested all these people multiple times before; I'll try to fill this in later but for now you can check my previous letters!
Fandom-Specific DNW Info: if you write Hecate/Speakeasy, consider my DNW of unequal investment waived, as long as Speaks isn't under the impression that it is equal or upset by that. Speakeasy/Sexy Witch, Hecate/Agnes, Hecate/other witches are okay as concurrent background ships and would not violate my poly DNW, but please don't include/suggest any relationship negotiation or prioritization (trying to organize anyone's life around multiple relationships) or manipulation of Speakeasy's jealousy. If you write sex for Speaks/Hecate, please don't write a scene where Hecate subs to "let go" or is "service dommed"; I'm only interested in a D/s dynamic for them if Hecate is the dom. I'm not interested in a story being focused primarily on the Porter/Boy Witch romance as such, although I like it for Porter's character.
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Thank you!
