Trick or Treat Letter
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Dear Trick or Treat writer,
Thank you for writing for me and having a look at this letter. I've got some general likes and dislikes listed - those are the important parts, really. They're followed by a list of kinks I like, should you feel inclined to write porn, and some fandom-specific prompts, but if those don't work for you - as long as you include a thing or two that I like and don't include my DNWs, I'm sure I will love whatever you write for me. :D I've tried to keep this letter short (for my standards), but I've included links to past letters if you want more specific prompts.
As a general rule, I enjoy all ratings; I like darker, angstier fic and more light-hearted stories, although neither completely conflictless fluff nor completely bleak darkfic without a ray of hope are quite my thing. I'm always happy about porn, but it's not a must. I like shorter fics and plotty longfic. If you do write porn and you want more smut-related prompts, I've requested most of these ships for Smut Swap before. The fandoms are listed alphabetically. The length of the fandom-specific sections doesn't indicate an order of preference; I just had more ideas and prompts for some of them.
I requested both trick and treat for all my fandoms, but I honestly just don't care much about the categories. If it's fic for one of my prompts or likes, I'm happy. :)
All my requests are for fic, but I'm totally open to art treats.
Wondering where some of my usual requests are? Probably in my Shipoween signup. :)
I use the same name on AO3 and tumblr as here.
Do Not Wants:
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Things I like to read about:
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Kinks I like to read about:
Fallout: New Vegas
Vulpes Inculta, Lucius
Relationships I'm interested in: literally any gen or shippy combination of Lucius, Vulpes, Caesar, Arcade (including noncon and dubcon); totally open to gen involving a male Legion-aligned Courier, but not interested in shipfic about him; Legion OCs are also fine
I have such a craving for Legion fic, simply because the game leaves so many questions open about them and so many gaps to be filled. That and I find characters who are horrible people entertaining. Feel free to go dark and fucked up with these assholes, that's what they're there for, although I'd enjoy it if there was a bit more to them than just doing everything for the evulz. We do get a good look at what goes on in Caesar's head in the game, but the same can hardly be said for Lucius or Vulpes, so I'd enjoy fic that gives them a bit more depth. (I really don't like secretly-not-so-bad Vulpes, though. I know that seems to be a thing in fandom, but it's not my kind of thing. Let him be horrid and evil. I do like not-necessarily-a-horrible-person-at-heart-just-devoted-to-a-horrible-system!Lucius, but not going-to-desert-the-Legion-first-chance-he-gets!Lucius.)
Feel free to write something darker here than what I usually prompt, no happy ending required (and I certainly don't expect anyone to be in love). However, I'd still prefer if there was more to the fic than just unrelenting misery, and most of my DNWs like no character death and no mutilation etc. still apply - I don't want to read about Arcade's canon death, for example. I am totally okay with killing off Caesar, though, as long as you somehow get Lanius out of the way first so someone slightly less batshit like Lucius takes over.
Links to past letters for more detailed prompts:
Elements I'd love to see:
The Hateful Eight (2015)
Chris Mannix. Marquis Warren
Relationships I'm interested in: Warren/Mannix, either of them on their own, gen with any OCs from their past
Crossovers I'd be interested in: with Django Unchained or The Magnificent Seven
I love their initial antagonism, I love that they have every reason to hate and despise each other, and yet they still end up working together and trusting each other. I love that for all his hatred, Mannix almost seems to admire Warren from the start and is surprisingly respectful towards him at times ('please, Major, let me shoot that ugly bastard' comes to mind).
There is so much potential for their relationship if they survive, so I'd love to read any fic in which they do survive (somehow, I don't care how medically implausible it is) and maybe partner up as bounty hunters or see each other every time Warren shows up with new bounties (if we assume that Mannix actually is the new sheriff of Red Rock). And they're the weirdest, most mismatched pair of sort-of-friends ever and constantly confuse people around them, and they grow closer without ever entirely getting over their antagonism and their disagreements, probably switching between 'aw, I'm starting to like him' and 'I'm going to murder him if he doesn't shut his goddamn mouth' twice per conversation. And eventually they end up sleeping with each other. Maybe because they share a bed/blankets in the next cold winter and that leads to more? Maybe because they're angry at each other and fighting about something and that leads to more? Maybe one of them gets injured again and the other takes care of him and there's some gentler affection going on? (Please let's pretend Warren only got shot in the upper thigh or, idk, got one ball shot off and the rest is still intact.)
Links to past letters for more detailed prompts:
Elements I'd love to see:
Mass Effect
Male Shepard
Relationships I'm interested in: Shepard/Garrus, Shepard/Vega, Shepard/Garrus/Vega, Shepard/Legion, gen interactions for any of those, spacer!Shepard & his mother (and/or father), Shep interacting with Zaeed, Miranda, Jack, Cortez, Mordin, Joker, Samara, Traynor, Javik.
I strongly prefer renegade Shepard (who is nicer to his companions/friends) - ruthless and efficient, the end justifies the means, snarky and intimidating, willing to do whatever needs to be done, no matter the cost to himself or to others. Should it come up, I really prefer him sabotaging the genophage cure for that reason because Shepard having to kill two of his friends to do what he thinks is right is such a horrifically great moment in the games. I picked the Spacer/Ruthless backgrounds and vanguard as his class, but I'm not fixated on that, if you want to use something else. Ending-wise, I think for fic a handwavey "the Crucible destroyed the Reapers without destroying the geth, and Shepard is alive" works best. I'd also be super interested in a variation of the Control ending, though, in which Shepard doesn't die while uploading part of himself into a God-AI, simply because the mindfuck of co-existing with an all-powerful AI version of yourself must be incredible. In general, I love stoic and/or angry suffering, so feel free to whump Shepard hard as long as there's a happy-ish ending.
I'm very attached to his default looks and name, so please no custom Shepards.
Links to past letters for more detailed prompts:
Elements I'd love to see:
Rivers of London
Thomas Nightingale
Relationships I'm interested in: Nightingale/Peter, Nightingale/OMCs in fic set before WW2, Nightingale/Seawoll; Nightingale & any of his pre-war friends or family or coworkers
Crossovers I'd be interested in: with Black Sails, Blitz, Kingsman, Whitechapel (see link to Crossovering letter below)
I really love the setting of these books, I'm incredibly fond of many of the characters, I'm crazy about Peter and Nightingale's relationship, and I really love Peter's narration style (the self-deprecation, the irony, the pop culture references, his love for London and for architecture). I love worldbuilding for this fandom, especially anything related to the history of the Folly (because I love the Folly a lot), and Peter's admiration (fanboy crush) for Nightingale. I like it when Peter and Nightingale are both being emotionally constipated and not very good at talking about their feelings and probably misunderstanding each other quite a bit (although I would like if they figured things out eventually and got a happy ending), and I'd love anything dealing with Nightingale's very probable PTSD and depression and loneliness (and how having Peter with him helps at least somewhat).
I also like many other characters in the books and wouldn't mind at all if they appeared in the fic, especially all the Met/Folly characters. I do however dislike Beverley and Peter/Beverley, and I'm generally not a huge fan of the Rivers, so I'd prefer if they didn't appear in the fic. I'm fine with Lesley appearing, but briefly rather than as the main focus of the fic. I firmly headcanon Nightingale as gay, so I'd rather not read about bi!Nightingale. I'm not super into the idea of Nightingale/Mellenby, should that come up.
I'm up to date on the books, including the novellas. I haven't read the comics - I don't care about spoilers, but I'd rather not receive a fic that requires me to be familiar with the comics.
Links to past letters for more detailed prompts:
Elements I'd love to see:
And that's it! I hope that something in this letter works for you, dear writer. I'm looking forward to seeing what you come up with, no matter which fandom we matched on! :D
Thanks!
linndechir
Dear Trick or Treat writer,
Thank you for writing for me and having a look at this letter. I've got some general likes and dislikes listed - those are the important parts, really. They're followed by a list of kinks I like, should you feel inclined to write porn, and some fandom-specific prompts, but if those don't work for you - as long as you include a thing or two that I like and don't include my DNWs, I'm sure I will love whatever you write for me. :D I've tried to keep this letter short (for my standards), but I've included links to past letters if you want more specific prompts.
As a general rule, I enjoy all ratings; I like darker, angstier fic and more light-hearted stories, although neither completely conflictless fluff nor completely bleak darkfic without a ray of hope are quite my thing. I'm always happy about porn, but it's not a must. I like shorter fics and plotty longfic. If you do write porn and you want more smut-related prompts, I've requested most of these ships for Smut Swap before. The fandoms are listed alphabetically. The length of the fandom-specific sections doesn't indicate an order of preference; I just had more ideas and prompts for some of them.
I requested both trick and treat for all my fandoms, but I honestly just don't care much about the categories. If it's fic for one of my prompts or likes, I'm happy. :)
All my requests are for fic, but I'm totally open to art treats.
Wondering where some of my usual requests are? Probably in my Shipoween signup. :)
I use the same name on AO3 and tumblr as here.
Do Not Wants:
- character death of characters I like (random side characters or antagonists dying is fine)
- serious illnesses, permanent injuries (blood and wounds that will heal again are fine)
- completely tragic/bleak endings
- animal death/cruelty
- genderbend of any kind, mpreg, A/B/O, characters being werewolves/vampires/anything than what they are in canon
- non-canon gender identities/sexual orientations (e.g. writing characters as trans or asexual), except for writing characters as gay or bi
- unrequested ships (including canon ships)
- unrequested crossovers or fusions
- complete AUs (canon divergence is fine, but no high school AUs, coffee shop AUs, in space AUs, groundhog day AUs etc.)
- permanently unrequited love or permanent breakups for my ships (this doesn't apply to my FNV requests) - gen is fine, but please don't go out of your way to say that my ship is totally not into each other
- unnecessary epithets, please use characters' names/pronouns unless their name isn't known to the POV character (or unless the characters think of each other by e.g. their title rather than their name)
- 1st and 2nd person fic (1st person is fine for RoL from Peter's POV)
- for porn: detailed kink negotiation, safewords for scenes that don't involve consent play (and even then I'm not really into safewords); scat, watersports, coming in pants, crossdressing, feminisation, body modification, infantilisation (daddy kink and calling characters "boy/girl" is fine)
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Things I like to read about:
- first time/getting together: slow burn, pining, UST finally getting resolved, but also antagonistic hate sex or casual hookups that are only later followed by feelings (emotional pining while already having sex is great)
- friends with benefits who think the other one can't possibly be in love with them/want a serious relationship
- developing relationships: relationship conflicts after the characters got together, trying to figure out how to make things work, some things maybe not working at first, temporary breakups, basically anything that doesn't assume that first time sex -> perfect relationship
- porn, especially porn with feelings/porn that says something about their relationship (see list below for kinks I like)
- enemies to lovers, partners to lovers
- reluctant allies grudgingly starting to like each other
- non-verbal expressions of affection, unusual romantic gestures that fit the characters
- familiarity, intimacy, characters getting to know each other better (their habits, their hangups etc.)
- pre-canon/background stories, first meetings/first impressions (especially if we didn't see those in canon)
- post-canon fic
- canon divergence
- casefic
- moral dilemmas, characters having to question/go against their principles, situations in which there is no clear right or wrong
- loyalty, devotion, trust, but also trust/commitment issues
- obsessive, codependent, complicated relationships
- unhealthy relationships that should be a trainwreck, but work for the characters involved
- obsessive/intense family relationships
- us-against-the-world
- villains/sociopaths in love, bad guys who would literally burn down the rest of the world for each other
- jealousy, possessiveness
- age differences
- misunderstandings (as long as there's a good reason for them)
- competence, characters being smart and skilled and good at what they do; characters with different skill sets complementing each other
- hurt/comfort (after injuries/exhaustion, not so much with illness)
- angst: self-doubts, guilt, shame, internalised homophobia, nightmares, fears, self-destructive tendencies, alcohol abuse ...
- period-typical attitudes towards sex, sexuality, class, morality, religion etc. (I obviously don't expect 100% historical accuracy, but I like reading about characters from different societies having different values and principles from our own - this also applies to fictional societies)
- infidelity (not between my requested ships, but one half of my ship cheating on their previous partner with the other half of my ship)
- meaningful name uses (e.g. characters who always call each other by their last name or title switching to using first names)
- outside POVs, different POVs than in canon (more "usual" POVs are great, too)
- sleep-related themes: waking each other from nightmares, falling asleep on each other's shoulder etc.
- soulbonds (but no soulmates, please)
- undercover as enemies (undercover as a couple is fun, too, as long as it actually fits the setting/characters, like spies or cops)
- I like darker elements (violence, murder, noncon/dubcon, manipulation, depression, whatever fits your plot and isn't on my DNW list), but I'd prefer a happy or semi-happy ending. Feel free to make me bawl my eyes out, but please cheer me up again afterwards.
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Kinks I like to read about:
- anal, blowjobs, fingering, intercrural, frottage, rimming & felching are all great
- asphyxiation/choking/breathplay (this is my kink holy grail that makes everything else hotter to me; even just throat-touching without choking is great)
- switching
- biting, bruising, marking; possessive sex
- rough/angry sex, hate sex, fighting/sparring leading to sex, adrenaline-fuelled post-battle and "thank fuck we/you're alive" sex
- dressed sex, dressed/naked, clothes kink (suits, uniforms, gloves, boots etc.), neat characters being dishevelled for once, casual characters cleaning up nicely
- D/s (I prefer casually developing kink to minutely negotiated, formalised BDSM; if anything under-negotiated kink is a plus for me)
- kink discovery/exploration
- strength kink; body worship; men's body hair (on chest, arms, thighs, butt; not so much on back and shoulders)
- stubble/beard burn
- hand kink; fisting; finger sucking
- large/thick cocks (not absurdly huge, but bigger than average); size kink
- bondage: leather cuffs, ropes, restraints, chains, collars
- face slapping, spanking, flogging, riding crops
- gun play, knife play, blood play
- consent play
- dirty talk (both the praising and the humiliating/condescending kind), voice/accent kink
- praise kink
- banter, teasing
- hard, desperate kissing with lots of biting
- barebacking (including the ill-advised, unplanned, unnegotiated we-really-shouldn't-have-done-that-but-it-was-so-hot kind - I'm not into serious STD scares, though; if there is an "oh fuck, what did we just do?" aftermath, please have both characters be certain that they're clean)
- come play (licking come off fingers/skin, felching, feeding each other come, kissing after blowjobs/felching ...)
- come as lube, spit as lube (especially the top spitting on the bottom's ass)
- messiness (sweat, come play, dishevelled hair/clothes)
- overstimulation; characters being overwhelmed, begging for more, becoming speechless ...
- shaving (face or body), especially with straight razors/knives
- sex on tables, against walls, on the floor, on a chair, in the shower ... (sex in beds is great, too)
- masturbation/fantasising about the other before getting together
- incest kink (i.e. characters who are related kinking on it)
- competence kink, admiration
- kneeling, hand kissing, physical expressions of loyalty/fealty
- scars and their history
- oral fixation (while smoking, drinking, talking ...)
- sharing cigarettes, clothes, food ...
- shame in sexual desires (whether about being attracted to another man at all, being attracted to this specific person for whatever reason, wanting to bottom, wanting to suck dick, wanting to hurt their partner, wanting to be hurt by their partner ...)
Fallout: New Vegas
Vulpes Inculta, Lucius
Relationships I'm interested in: literally any gen or shippy combination of Lucius, Vulpes, Caesar, Arcade (including noncon and dubcon); totally open to gen involving a male Legion-aligned Courier, but not interested in shipfic about him; Legion OCs are also fine
I have such a craving for Legion fic, simply because the game leaves so many questions open about them and so many gaps to be filled. That and I find characters who are horrible people entertaining. Feel free to go dark and fucked up with these assholes, that's what they're there for, although I'd enjoy it if there was a bit more to them than just doing everything for the evulz. We do get a good look at what goes on in Caesar's head in the game, but the same can hardly be said for Lucius or Vulpes, so I'd enjoy fic that gives them a bit more depth. (I really don't like secretly-not-so-bad Vulpes, though. I know that seems to be a thing in fandom, but it's not my kind of thing. Let him be horrid and evil. I do like not-necessarily-a-horrible-person-at-heart-just-devoted-to-a-horrible-system!Lucius, but not going-to-desert-the-Legion-first-chance-he-gets!Lucius.)
Feel free to write something darker here than what I usually prompt, no happy ending required (and I certainly don't expect anyone to be in love). However, I'd still prefer if there was more to the fic than just unrelenting misery, and most of my DNWs like no character death and no mutilation etc. still apply - I don't want to read about Arcade's canon death, for example. I am totally okay with killing off Caesar, though, as long as you somehow get Lanius out of the way first so someone slightly less batshit like Lucius takes over.
Links to past letters for more detailed prompts:
Elements I'd love to see:
- Legion worldbuilding: growing up in the Legion, what life is like back in the Eastern territories, what everyday life is like, what the Mojave would look like if the Legion wins at the end of the game, expanding on worldviews, political/military discussions among the Legion higher-ups, to what extent people like Lucius or Vulpes believe all that Son of Mars stuff, things like education and language use
- Caesar through the eyes of people like Lucius and Vulpes who know him with all his flaws and still worship him
- background stories: we know how Vulpes became a frumentarius, but did Caesar then personally keep an eye on that smart young legionary or did a few years pass before he saw him again? When did Vulpes become the head of the frumentarii? What about the circumstances of Lucius becoming a praetorian, and then head of the praetorians? What was it like for either of them to actually get to meet and know the man they were taught to worship from afar since they were kids?
- Vulpes and Lucius interacting in any way: first meetings/impressions, their opinions of each other, them working together
- Vulpes getting rid of Lanius somehow and Lucius becoming Caesar's successor
- either of them interacting with slave!Arcade - or, hell, even with free Arcade who just accompanied the Courier to the Fort one time
The Hateful Eight (2015)
Chris Mannix. Marquis Warren
Relationships I'm interested in: Warren/Mannix, either of them on their own, gen with any OCs from their past
Crossovers I'd be interested in: with Django Unchained or The Magnificent Seven
I love their initial antagonism, I love that they have every reason to hate and despise each other, and yet they still end up working together and trusting each other. I love that for all his hatred, Mannix almost seems to admire Warren from the start and is surprisingly respectful towards him at times ('please, Major, let me shoot that ugly bastard' comes to mind).
There is so much potential for their relationship if they survive, so I'd love to read any fic in which they do survive (somehow, I don't care how medically implausible it is) and maybe partner up as bounty hunters or see each other every time Warren shows up with new bounties (if we assume that Mannix actually is the new sheriff of Red Rock). And they're the weirdest, most mismatched pair of sort-of-friends ever and constantly confuse people around them, and they grow closer without ever entirely getting over their antagonism and their disagreements, probably switching between 'aw, I'm starting to like him' and 'I'm going to murder him if he doesn't shut his goddamn mouth' twice per conversation. And eventually they end up sleeping with each other. Maybe because they share a bed/blankets in the next cold winter and that leads to more? Maybe because they're angry at each other and fighting about something and that leads to more? Maybe one of them gets injured again and the other takes care of him and there's some gentler affection going on? (Please let's pretend Warren only got shot in the upper thigh or, idk, got one ball shot off and the rest is still intact.)
Links to past letters for more detailed prompts:
Elements I'd love to see:
- working together post-canon, whether as bounty hunters or bounty hunter + sheriff
- anything about either of their backstories, whether it's fic set in the past or their past coming back to haunt them in some way, interacting with anyone they used to know
- outside POV fic about what a weird team they are
- Mannix being surprisingly clever and Warren enjoying it far more than he likes to admit
- protectiveness, loyalty kink, surprising amounts of affection
- kinky porn: D/s, uniform kink, daddy issues, getting turned on by watching each other kill, glove kink, boot kink, spanking, gun play, knife play ...
Mass Effect
Male Shepard
Relationships I'm interested in: Shepard/Garrus, Shepard/Vega, Shepard/Garrus/Vega, Shepard/Legion, gen interactions for any of those, spacer!Shepard & his mother (and/or father), Shep interacting with Zaeed, Miranda, Jack, Cortez, Mordin, Joker, Samara, Traynor, Javik.
I strongly prefer renegade Shepard (who is nicer to his companions/friends) - ruthless and efficient, the end justifies the means, snarky and intimidating, willing to do whatever needs to be done, no matter the cost to himself or to others. Should it come up, I really prefer him sabotaging the genophage cure for that reason because Shepard having to kill two of his friends to do what he thinks is right is such a horrifically great moment in the games. I picked the Spacer/Ruthless backgrounds and vanguard as his class, but I'm not fixated on that, if you want to use something else. Ending-wise, I think for fic a handwavey "the Crucible destroyed the Reapers without destroying the geth, and Shepard is alive" works best. I'd also be super interested in a variation of the Control ending, though, in which Shepard doesn't die while uploading part of himself into a God-AI, simply because the mindfuck of co-existing with an all-powerful AI version of yourself must be incredible. In general, I love stoic and/or angry suffering, so feel free to whump Shepard hard as long as there's a happy-ish ending.
I'm very attached to his default looks and name, so please no custom Shepards.
Links to past letters for more detailed prompts:
Elements I'd love to see:
- moral dilemmas, complicated decisions, anything about just how exactly renegade Shep became renegade Shep (and what it does to him to become a person who can make these decisions)
- space politics, Shepard hating space politics and being annoyingly good at them
- Shepard survives the Control ending
- fic set after a generic vague "the Reapers are defeated" ending, trying to go back to normal after the war
- anything about his N7 training (including fucked up shit like ~enhanced interrogation training~ and military-sanctioned rape to toughen him up)
- generally, whump him as much as you like, stoic suffering is my Thing for him
- outside POVs, whether from his crew/friends or strangers
- anything shippy for my ships, from UST to getting together fic to kinky porn to angsty hurt/comfort ...
Rivers of London
Thomas Nightingale
Relationships I'm interested in: Nightingale/Peter, Nightingale/OMCs in fic set before WW2, Nightingale/Seawoll; Nightingale & any of his pre-war friends or family or coworkers
Crossovers I'd be interested in: with Black Sails, Blitz, Kingsman, Whitechapel (see link to Crossovering letter below)
I really love the setting of these books, I'm incredibly fond of many of the characters, I'm crazy about Peter and Nightingale's relationship, and I really love Peter's narration style (the self-deprecation, the irony, the pop culture references, his love for London and for architecture). I love worldbuilding for this fandom, especially anything related to the history of the Folly (because I love the Folly a lot), and Peter's admiration (fanboy crush) for Nightingale. I like it when Peter and Nightingale are both being emotionally constipated and not very good at talking about their feelings and probably misunderstanding each other quite a bit (although I would like if they figured things out eventually and got a happy ending), and I'd love anything dealing with Nightingale's very probable PTSD and depression and loneliness (and how having Peter with him helps at least somewhat).
I also like many other characters in the books and wouldn't mind at all if they appeared in the fic, especially all the Met/Folly characters. I do however dislike Beverley and Peter/Beverley, and I'm generally not a huge fan of the Rivers, so I'd prefer if they didn't appear in the fic. I'm fine with Lesley appearing, but briefly rather than as the main focus of the fic. I firmly headcanon Nightingale as gay, so I'd rather not read about bi!Nightingale. I'm not super into the idea of Nightingale/Mellenby, should that come up.
I'm up to date on the books, including the novellas. I haven't read the comics - I don't care about spoilers, but I'd rather not receive a fic that requires me to be familiar with the comics.
Links to past letters for more detailed prompts:
Elements I'd love to see:
- anything about Nightingale's past, especially his pre-war Indiana Jones/James Bond adventures or young Nightingale having his fun in the 20s
- the Folly before the war
- casefic (whether in the past or the present)
- domesticity for Nightingale and Peter, whether shippy or not: Latin lessons, magic lessons, breakfast and lunch and dinner together ...
- getting together fic for them
- Peter time travelling to the past and meeting young Nightingale
- AU in which Peter is Nightingale's apprentice before the war
And that's it! I hope that something in this letter works for you, dear writer. I'm looking forward to seeing what you come up with, no matter which fandom we matched on! :D
Thanks!
linndechir 
