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I like gen, het, slash, femslash, poly-ships (poly-v too), etc. You're welcome to interpret my character noms as any, rather than all, though you're free to include all characters in a fic if you want! I'm also okay with not including all of the nominated characters. Also, if you want to include unnominated characters, I'm absolutely okay with that too!
I have used parts of previous letters to compose the body of this letter. If anything is confusing, or you have any questions or need clarification, you can reach me through the mods or you can anonymously message me via tumblr!
What I Love:
I'm really, really into gothic romance/gothic horror/horror of any stripe. I also love ambiguous/happy for now/sad endings. I love things that are not necessarily tied up with a neat pretty bow. That's not to say I don't enjoy a happy ending, though! This is mostly just to reassure you, the author, that if a happy ending doesn't seem to fit the story, or isn't coming, don't stress about it. I love endings that fit the story being told, regardless of whether or not they're happy. Aside from horror, I like romcoms, romcoms/comedies of errors, found family/families of choice, strong platonic friendships, broad comedy, understated/subtle comedy, cats (characters adopting/owning cats, turning into cats, caring for cats, cat familiars, werecats, etc.), religious and philosophical themes, postmodernism, and pastiche/epistolary to name just a few.
My main DNWs are listed below. Exceptions will be noted within the body of the letter:
DNWs:
β’ domestic violence/abuse
β’ violence against animals/animal death
β’ A/B/O, BDSM, and kneeling 'verses (fine with these tropes appearing as "one offs", not interested in universes structured around them)
β’ mpreg
β’ watersports/omorashi/scat
β’ mundane AUs (i.e. coffee shop, flower shop, cafe, high school/college, etc)
β’ vampire/werewolf AUs for non-supernatural fandoms/fandoms where they don't appear or exist (canon vampires/werewolves in supernatural-based fandoms are fine!)
β’ horror that centers on mental institutions/hospitals/etc.
β’ inclusion of current real world events (i.e. war in Ukraine, US politics/Trump, SCOTUS decisions, covid, etc.)
Some Stuff I Like:
β’ gothic/gothic romance/horror/ghost stories!!!
β’ southern gothic/midwestern gothic/suburban gothic/urban gothic/regional gothic in general
β’ space gothic (think Event Horizon and the Alien series)
β’ cosmic horror
β’ body horror
β’ monsters!!! sentient monsters!!! monsters that just wanna eat things!!!
β’ eldritch architecture/houses/houses that want to eat you
β’ eldritch nature/nature that wants to eat you
β’ eldritch spaceships/planets/etc. (that want to eat you)
β’ bodyswap
β’ gray morality/shady ethics/etc.
β’ forced/close proximity
β’ time travel/time loops/time fuckery
β’ pining
β’ ghosts/hauntings/etc.
β’ miscommunication (within reason)
β’ poly/poly-v relationships
β’ enemies to lovers
β’ friends to lovers to enemies to lovers
β’ friends to enemies to lovers
β’ unhealthy/codependent relationships
β’ obsession/obsessive relationships
β’ relationships with a power imbalance (i.e. mentor/pupil, priest/parishioner, older partner/younger partner, queen/subject, etc.)
β’ power imbalances/power dynamics inverted (i.e. the student in the professor/student relationship has/gains the power, parishioner has/gains power over the priest, subject controls the queen, etc.)
β’ manipulation/mindgames (especially mutual manipulation/mindgames)
β’ characters facing/dealing with mortality (of their lives, their livelihoods, careers, etc.)
β’ age gap
β’ platonic soulmates
β’ amnesiafic
β’ epistolary/social media pastiche
β’ future fic
β’ casefic
β’ ensemble fic
β’ found family/families of choice
β’ complicated relationships
β’ professional/career-related jealousy
β’ ritual sex/resurrection rituals
β’ public consummation of marriage
β’ witchcraft/witches
β’ scary/creepy/spooky interpretations of fairytales/mythology/folklore/etc.
β’ deals gone wrong (supernatural demon deals/deals with the devil literally or figuratively... not talking like business deals that fall through, although if that was a metaphor for something...)
β’ small town AUs (small town in the suburban gothic sense rather than cute, quaint villages and whatnot)
The following prompts are meant as suggestions. I'll be perfectly happy with any combination of Stuff I Like, if none of the ideas I've offered grab your attention. I also probably won't have prompts/ideas for every iteration of the characters I've nominated, but if you would prefer to focus on an individual character rather than a friendship or romantic pairing that's fine too!
Holiday themed fics are totally awesome (and some of my prompts may involve holiday themes) but you don't have to write one centered around the holidays if you don't want to! If you do, I celebrate both Christmas and Hanukkah.
The Final Girl Support Group - Grady Hendrix
Lynnette Tarkington
Dani Shipman
Julia Campbell
Adrienne Butler
Pairs/groups: Lynnette & Dani & Julia, Lynnette & Adrienne, Dani & Julia, Dani/Julia, Dani/Michelle, Lynnette/Adrienne
*Feel free to mention/include unnominated characters like Heather DeLuca, Michelle, Stephanie Fugate, Dr. Carol Elliott, Skye Elliott, Chrissy, Keith, Fine, and any of the final girls' slashers (the Volkers, Nick Shipman, the Dream King, Ricky and Billy, etc).
Prompts/ideas:
I love post-canon/"what happens next" fic for all of the characters (nominated and unnominated), especially for a book like this. I'm also intrigued by the possibilities of post-canon Dani/Julia, and what life looks like for Lynnette after the events of the book. Does the group further splinter apart or become even closer?
I really like Lynnette as the main narrator, so I would be thrilled to see more of her/her life after the events of the book. At the end of the book, Lynnette visits Stephanie in prison; how do those visits go? Is Lynnette able to reach her?
There's a moment in the book where it's revealed that Dani agonizes over whether or not she killed the right person (in a nod to Laurie Strode's storyline in Halloween: Resurrection). I'd love more of those sorts of introspective moments for the final girls; we know what haunts them literally, but what haunts them figuratively? What do they dream about? What plagues their nightmares? Are there missed opportunities they wish they'd taken? People they wish they'd kept in their lives or people they wish they'd cut off?
If you want to get a little supernatural, what if Adrienne becomes a ghost? Is she malevolent, intent on seeking revenge for herself or others, or more of a guiding spirit for her fellow final girls?
It's left sort of ambiguous as to whether or not Heather's Dream King is real or a hallucination; maybe he is real and she eventually finds him.
I would adore a mix of social media epistolary/pastiche elements like letters, emails/tweets, video transcripts, etc. An outsider POV of the events of the book through the lens of social media would be neat!
Final Girls - Riley Sager
Quincy Carpenter
Samantha Boyd | Tina Stone
Coop
Pairs/groups: Quincy/Tina, Quincy & Tina, Quincy/Coop, Quincy & Coop, Quincy & Hayley
*Feel free to mention/include unnominated characters like Haley Pace, Lisa Milner, Real Samantha Boyd, Jonah Thompson, Jeff and Quincy's mom, if you wish.
Ideas/prompts:
Quincy/Tina
β Post-book AU. Murder girlfriends!! Tina and Quincy go on the run together, leaving a trail of blood and bodies behind them. Are they eventually caught? Do they become urban legends in their own right?
β Post-book. Tina gets out of prison and comes looking for Quincy. What does she want with Quincy?
β Missing/deleted scene or AU. An extension of the food fight scene which leads to Quincy and Tina's first time together?
Quincy & Tina
β Any of the above prompts interpreted platonically
β Post-book. After she gets out of prison, Tina starts blackmailing Quincy. Does Quincy give in or does she fight back?
Quincy/Coop
β Post-book. Quincy starts to believe she's being haunted by Coop. Is he a ghost, or something more corporeal?
β Pre-canon, shortly after the events at Pine Cottage. In those early days, is Quincy's memory as unreliable as it is during the course of the novel? Does she become better about suppressing certain memories? Was she ever distrustful of Coop? He was obviously manipulating her for some time; did Quincy ever see signs about Coop she just chose to ignore?
β Quincy and Coop exchange Christmas gifts. (Something dark and a little off-center would be great.)
β I was never totally convinced Quincy had romantic feelings toward Coop, though he was clearly obsessed with her from the start. How does that sort of imbalance play out over the course of their relationship?
β In the novel, Quincy and Coop have one night together, before Quincy learns the truth about Coop. How does she feel about him/their night together, in the aftermath?
Quincy & Coop
β Any of the above prompts interpreted platonically
β Five times Coop helped Quincy and one time Coop helped himself
β How does Quincy view Coop after the events of the book? Does she feel guilty for killing him?
β Post-book AU. Quincy tries to summon Coop but the ritual goes wrong.
β Post-canon AU. Coop haunts Quincy, either literally or figuratively. Maybe she goes back to Pine Cottage to pay her respects and sees him thereβor only thinks she does. Is she able to help his ghost move on? Is he vengeful or regretful? Is he still as obsessed with her?
Quincy
β Post-book. At the end of the book, Quincy's finally accepted and embraced her legacy as a Final Girl, and appoints herself as Haley Pace's mentor. How does their relationship develop. Is Haley grateful for the guidance, or resentful? Is Quincy able to defeat her demons to be what Haley needs?
β Post-book. Quincy coaches Haley Pace on how to be the perfect Final Girl.
β Post-book. Five times Quincy passed knowledge onto Haley and one time Haley passed knowledge onto Quincy.
β Post-book. Do Quincy and Haley bond? Or do they become rivals?
β Post-book or AU. Quincy is haunted (figuratively or literally) by other Final Girls who were killed by Coop, in particular Lisa and Real Sam Boyd.
β Post-book. What happens to Quincy after Pine Cottage 2.0? Does she find fame and fortune, or notoriety? Do people treat her as a hero, an oddity or worse?
β Are Quincy and her mother able to reestablish a relationship after the events of the book?
Tina
β Tina's a complicated, somewhat tragic character. A deeper exploration of her motivations (or an AU take) behind assuming the identity of a "final girl" would be great.
β What does Tina really think of Quincy, over the course of the book? How do some scenes change/stay the same interpreted from Tina's POV?
β What is life like for Tina after the events of the book? She takes the rap for the assault Quincy committed as a sort of penance for her crimes, but is she able to find peace? Does she get out of prison on good behavior? Does she escape?
β What does Tina think of Coop? Why does she try to seduce him? Did she ever suspect him?
Halloween (Movies 1978-2002)
Laurie Strode
Michael Myers
Jamie Lloyd
John Tate
Pairs/groups: Laurie & Michael, Laurie/Michael, Jamie & John, Jamie & Michael, Jamie & Laurie, Laurie & Michael & Jamie, Laurie & Michael & Jamie & John
*Feel free to include/mention unnominated characters like Dr. Loomis, Judith Myers, Tommy Doyle, Lindsey Wallace, Rachel Carruthers, Tina Williams, Annie Brackett, Lynda van der Klok, and Leigh Brackett, if you wish.
**I'm a fan of the original Halloween movies, so I prefer that Laurie and Michael are siblings and Jamie is Laurie's daughter and/or John is Laurie's son.
Ideas/prompts:
Laurie & Michael
β Missing scene or AU. A young Laurie's adoptive parents take her to visit Michael. Things don't go well.
β AU. Laurie discovers she has a psychic connection to her brother when he wakes up out of a coma.
β AU. After Laurie fakes her death and leaves her daughter with the Carruthers, Michael goes searching for her.
Laurie/Michael
β Any of the above prompts interpreted non-platonically
β Pre-canon AU. Laurie starts receiving strange Valentine's cards (or love letters or what have you) from a secret admirer...that get progressively more disturbing.
β AU. Laurie is horrified to learn that her baby is Michael's, which adds a whole new complication to their already fraught connection.
β Missing/deleted scene or AU. Now that Michael finally has Laurie, what does he plan on doing with her?
Laurie & Jamie
β AU. Laurie didn't fake her death and instead raises Jamie. (Maybe instead of Karen in the Green movies, Jamie is the one who gets the paranoid survivalist upbringing.)
β AU. An adult Jamie and Laurie don't reunite until Michael begins killing again after a decades-long hiatus.
β AU or missing/deleted scene. Some vignettes of Laurie raising and being a mom to Jamie, in between the chaos and death, would be nice!
Laurie & Jamie & John
β AU. After years of searching, Jamie finds Laurie in California and learns that she started a new family. How does the Strode-Myers reunion go?
β AU. Rather than fake her death and leave Jamie with the Carruthers family, she takes Jamie with her and eventually raises her and John as siblings. How does this change things?
β AU. After Laurie dies, her estranged surviving children come together for the reading of the will. And one of them will do anything for the Myers/Strode legacy.
Jamie & Michael
β AU. Jamie is taken to visit her uncle at Smiths Grove. How does their first meeting go?
β AU. Michael successfully abducts Jamie and rather than kill her, he begins to train her to take over his legacy. Does Jamie fight back or does she accept his mentorship?
β AU. Jamie's psychic connection to her uncle is stronger than even Dr. Loomis suspected.
Jamie & John
β AU. Jamie discovers Laurie faked her death and started anew in California, with a son. She soon goes to great lengths to track them down.
β AU. Jamie and John end up at the same high school in California. And then the killing starts again. Is it Jamie or John? Or is Michael back? (Maybe it's all of them!)
β Post-movies/AU. Jamie and John meet for the first time as adults when Haddonfield becomes the site of another string of gruesome murders.
Laurie & Jamie & Michael
β AU. Michael brings Jamie and Laurie back together for a twisted family reunion. Will anyone survive?
β AU. Years after Laurie faked her death and left Jamie behind, mother and daughter reconnect in a fraught family reunion... Then people start dying in familiar ways.
β AU. Years after the events of Halloween 4, Michael abducts his niece and Laurie comes out of hiding to try and save her.
Taxi Driver (1976)
Iris "Easy" Steensma
Travis Bickle
Pairs/groups: Iris & Travis, Iris/Travis, Iris/OC, Travis/OC
*If you write Iris/Travis I'd prefer it to be set in the future when Iris is an adult. I'm also open to Iris and Travis paired with OCs. I headcanon Iris as queer and would love Iris/OFC.
**re. my DNWs: I'll make an exception to hospital/institution-related horror for this fandom.
Prompts/ideas:
Iris & Travis
β Post-movie. Travis survives the shootout. Years later, he receives a visit from a grown-up Iris. How does their reunion go?
β Post-movie. Travis dies at the end of the movie and visits Iris as a ghost.
β AU. Years later, Travis visits Iris. Is he a ghost or a hallucination? Or is he real? Is Iris losing her grip on reality or is she being haunted?
β Post-canon. Iris finds out her mother's been writing to Travis at the hospital/institution/etc. he's been at since the shootout. How does this impact her?
β Iris is sent by her parents to visit Travis for her 18th birthday, in some sort of reunion/anniversary of her "rescue." But Iris begins to suspect things aren't quite right. Is Travis a ghost? Or something more human?
β A grown-up Iris visits Travis wherever he ends up (hospital, home, grave...).
Iris/Travis
β Any of the above prompts interpreted non-platonically
β Post-canon. An adult Iris and Travis meet up and start a relationship. But things aren't quite as they seem. Is one (or both) of them a ghost, or something worse?
Iris
β Post-movie. An adult Iris meets a woman she knew when she was working for Sport, at her support group and bond over their shared past(s).
β Post-movie. A reclusive Iris begins a relationship but soon begins to suspect her new partner has ulterior motives connected to her past. Is she just being paranoid? Or does Iris truly have something to be worried about?
β Post-movie. How does Iris feel about everything, afterward? Is she happy and relieved? Grateful? Or is she angry, traumatized, fearful, etc.?
β Post-movie. After the shootout, Iris ends up back home with her parents. Is she happy about that? Or does she try to run away again?
β Post-movie. An adult Iris reckons with her past.
β What happens to Iris after the movie? Who does she grow up to be? Are Travis's actions a blessing or a curse in her life?
β Iris grows up in the shadow of her past. Is she ever able to escape it... does she even want to? Or does it continue to haunt her into her adult life?
Travis
β If he survived the shootout, did he really go back to driving taxis?
β What if Travis was or became a sort of ferryman for the dead?
β Post-movie. Travis survives but finds out notoriety isn't all it's cracked up to be.
β Post-movie. Travis dies and becomes a ghost. Who or what does he haunt?
β Paul Schrader's stated that he sees Travis as a ticking bomb that reset at the end of the movie... So what happens when Travis does snap again?
Where Are You Going, Where Have You Been? - Joyce Carol Oates
Connie
Arnold Friend
June
Connie's Mother
Pairs/groups: Connie & Arnold, Connie & June, Connie & June & Connie's Mother
*I'd prefer no explicit sexual or romantic content between Connie and Arnold, though ambiguity in keeping with the source material is fine.
Prompts/ideas:
What if Connie was able to escape Arnold? What if her family came back a little earlier...or too late... It's heavily implied that Arnold killed Connie, but what if he lets Connie live? Is that a blessing or a curse?
Or what if Connie does die? Does she become a ghost that haunts Arnold? Does she eventually get her revenge? What if she kills Arnold and they both become ghosts, tied to one another for eternity?
Is Arnold the devil? Give me an AU twist where Arnold and Connie strike a Faustian deal... Or perhaps it's Connie who's the one to tempt Arnold into giving over his soul.
What about something between Connie and her mother, or Connie and June, or the three of them? Maybe something post-canon, where Connie (as a ghost?) visits her mother and sister.
What about something steeped in 1960s-era nostalgia? Or an exploitation horror take on it like something in the vein of The Last House on the Left or a slasher like Halloween?
Oates' short story was inspired by Bob Dylan's It's All Over Now, Baby Blue (which was inspired by the real-life serial killer Charles Schmid). Also please feel free to borrow from the film adaptation Smooth Talk if you want!
Honestly, I'll love whatever you come up with for this fandom!
Π‘Π»ΡΠ³Π° Π½Π°ΡΠΎΠ΄Ρ | Servant of the people (TV)
Yuriy Ivanovich Chuiko
Vasyl Petrovych Holoborodko
Pairings/groups: Vasyl/Yuriy, Vasyl & Yuriy
*Feel free to include/mention unnominated characters like Anna Mikhailovna, Dima Holoborodko, Dmitry Surikov, Oksana Skovoroda, Natasha Sakhno, and the Oligarchs in addition to any other nominated characters (like Olha Mishchenko, Serhiy Mukhin, Svetlana Sakhno, Tolya, and Mikhail Ashotovich Tasunyan) that you may wish to include in the background!
**Re. my DNWs about real world events: if you write this fandom, I'd prefer no mentions of the ongoing Russian invasion/war in Ukraine. It might help to just think of it happening in an alternate universe. Thanks for understanding!
***I'd prefer Ukrainian spellings of names/locations/etc., though the characters do primarily speak Russian.
Ideas/prompts:
I'm endlessly fascinated with Vasya and Yuriy, and their relationship throughout the course of the show. I'll take them however you want to write them, whether that's platonic or romantic/sexual. Maybe Vasya helps Yuriy become a better person and they become actual friends; alternately, maybe Yuriy makes Vasya worse.
What if Vasya actually did take up Yuriy's offer to run off to Capri with him? Or... I'd love a missing scene from their time together on the run/on Yuriy's yacht, or when they were in prison together, or even a post-canon thing showing what happened between them after the events of s3? Maybe after Vasya's out of office they do actually run off together. I'd also adore darkfic revolving around manipulation/mindgames, emotional manipulation, dubcon/coercion, and other dark themes (like those listed in my favs).
If you don't want to write Vasya and Yuriy, I'm open to Vasya/Olha (maybe they get back together or we're shown snippets of their pre-canon life together), Vasya and his son Dima, Vasya and Svetlana, Vasya and Natasha, Vasya and Tolya, Vasya/Anna, Olha/Surikov, Serhiy/Oksana, etc.
Mini Challenges
Crueltide 2022
Queering the Tide 2022
Once again, I'd like to emphasize that these prompts/ideas are only suggestions! Please don't feel constrained by them! Mix and match as you please, or come up with something completely on your own. Optional details are optional!
If you have any questions don't be afraid to contact the mods! Thank you and happy writing!
Welcome! I'm
littlestclouds/badritual. I'm super excited we matched up for this challenge! I'm sure I'll be thrilled with whatever you decide to write, and I hope something here pings your interest! Gifts are enabled if anyone wishes to leave extra treats.I like gen, het, slash, femslash, poly-ships (poly-v too), etc. You're welcome to interpret my character noms as any, rather than all, though you're free to include all characters in a fic if you want! I'm also okay with not including all of the nominated characters. Also, if you want to include unnominated characters, I'm absolutely okay with that too!
I have used parts of previous letters to compose the body of this letter. If anything is confusing, or you have any questions or need clarification, you can reach me through the mods or you can anonymously message me via tumblr!
Table of Contents
- What I Love
- DNWs
- Stuff I Like
- The Final Girl Support Group - Grady Hendrix
- Final Girls - Riley Sager
- Halloween (Movies 1978-2002)
- Taxi Driver (1976)
- Where Are You Going, Where Have You Been? - Joyce Carol Oates
- Π‘Π»ΡΠ³Π° Π½Π°ΡΠΎΠ΄Ρ | Servant of the people (TV)
- Mini Challenges
What I Love:
I'm really, really into gothic romance/gothic horror/horror of any stripe. I also love ambiguous/happy for now/sad endings. I love things that are not necessarily tied up with a neat pretty bow. That's not to say I don't enjoy a happy ending, though! This is mostly just to reassure you, the author, that if a happy ending doesn't seem to fit the story, or isn't coming, don't stress about it. I love endings that fit the story being told, regardless of whether or not they're happy. Aside from horror, I like romcoms, romcoms/comedies of errors, found family/families of choice, strong platonic friendships, broad comedy, understated/subtle comedy, cats (characters adopting/owning cats, turning into cats, caring for cats, cat familiars, werecats, etc.), religious and philosophical themes, postmodernism, and pastiche/epistolary to name just a few.
My main DNWs are listed below. Exceptions will be noted within the body of the letter:
DNWs:
β’ domestic violence/abuse
β’ violence against animals/animal death
β’ A/B/O, BDSM, and kneeling 'verses (fine with these tropes appearing as "one offs", not interested in universes structured around them)
β’ mpreg
β’ watersports/omorashi/scat
β’ mundane AUs (i.e. coffee shop, flower shop, cafe, high school/college, etc)
β’ vampire/werewolf AUs for non-supernatural fandoms/fandoms where they don't appear or exist (canon vampires/werewolves in supernatural-based fandoms are fine!)
β’ horror that centers on mental institutions/hospitals/etc.
β’ inclusion of current real world events (i.e. war in Ukraine, US politics/Trump, SCOTUS decisions, covid, etc.)
Some Stuff I Like:
β’ gothic/gothic romance/horror/ghost stories!!!
β’ southern gothic/midwestern gothic/suburban gothic/urban gothic/regional gothic in general
β’ space gothic (think Event Horizon and the Alien series)
β’ cosmic horror
β’ body horror
β’ monsters!!! sentient monsters!!! monsters that just wanna eat things!!!
β’ eldritch architecture/houses/houses that want to eat you
β’ eldritch nature/nature that wants to eat you
β’ eldritch spaceships/planets/etc. (that want to eat you)
β’ bodyswap
β’ gray morality/shady ethics/etc.
β’ forced/close proximity
β’ time travel/time loops/time fuckery
β’ pining
β’ ghosts/hauntings/etc.
β’ miscommunication (within reason)
β’ poly/poly-v relationships
β’ enemies to lovers
β’ friends to lovers to enemies to lovers
β’ friends to enemies to lovers
β’ unhealthy/codependent relationships
β’ obsession/obsessive relationships
β’ relationships with a power imbalance (i.e. mentor/pupil, priest/parishioner, older partner/younger partner, queen/subject, etc.)
β’ power imbalances/power dynamics inverted (i.e. the student in the professor/student relationship has/gains the power, parishioner has/gains power over the priest, subject controls the queen, etc.)
β’ manipulation/mindgames (especially mutual manipulation/mindgames)
β’ characters facing/dealing with mortality (of their lives, their livelihoods, careers, etc.)
β’ age gap
β’ platonic soulmates
β’ amnesiafic
β’ epistolary/social media pastiche
β’ future fic
β’ casefic
β’ ensemble fic
β’ found family/families of choice
β’ complicated relationships
β’ professional/career-related jealousy
β’ ritual sex/resurrection rituals
β’ public consummation of marriage
β’ witchcraft/witches
β’ scary/creepy/spooky interpretations of fairytales/mythology/folklore/etc.
β’ deals gone wrong (supernatural demon deals/deals with the devil literally or figuratively... not talking like business deals that fall through, although if that was a metaphor for something...)
β’ small town AUs (small town in the suburban gothic sense rather than cute, quaint villages and whatnot)
The following prompts are meant as suggestions. I'll be perfectly happy with any combination of Stuff I Like, if none of the ideas I've offered grab your attention. I also probably won't have prompts/ideas for every iteration of the characters I've nominated, but if you would prefer to focus on an individual character rather than a friendship or romantic pairing that's fine too!
Holiday themed fics are totally awesome (and some of my prompts may involve holiday themes) but you don't have to write one centered around the holidays if you don't want to! If you do, I celebrate both Christmas and Hanukkah.
The Final Girl Support Group - Grady Hendrix
Lynnette Tarkington
Dani Shipman
Julia Campbell
Adrienne Butler
Pairs/groups: Lynnette & Dani & Julia, Lynnette & Adrienne, Dani & Julia, Dani/Julia, Dani/Michelle, Lynnette/Adrienne
*Feel free to mention/include unnominated characters like Heather DeLuca, Michelle, Stephanie Fugate, Dr. Carol Elliott, Skye Elliott, Chrissy, Keith, Fine, and any of the final girls' slashers (the Volkers, Nick Shipman, the Dream King, Ricky and Billy, etc).
Prompts/ideas:
I love post-canon/"what happens next" fic for all of the characters (nominated and unnominated), especially for a book like this. I'm also intrigued by the possibilities of post-canon Dani/Julia, and what life looks like for Lynnette after the events of the book. Does the group further splinter apart or become even closer?
I really like Lynnette as the main narrator, so I would be thrilled to see more of her/her life after the events of the book. At the end of the book, Lynnette visits Stephanie in prison; how do those visits go? Is Lynnette able to reach her?
There's a moment in the book where it's revealed that Dani agonizes over whether or not she killed the right person (in a nod to Laurie Strode's storyline in Halloween: Resurrection). I'd love more of those sorts of introspective moments for the final girls; we know what haunts them literally, but what haunts them figuratively? What do they dream about? What plagues their nightmares? Are there missed opportunities they wish they'd taken? People they wish they'd kept in their lives or people they wish they'd cut off?
If you want to get a little supernatural, what if Adrienne becomes a ghost? Is she malevolent, intent on seeking revenge for herself or others, or more of a guiding spirit for her fellow final girls?
It's left sort of ambiguous as to whether or not Heather's Dream King is real or a hallucination; maybe he is real and she eventually finds him.
I would adore a mix of social media epistolary/pastiche elements like letters, emails/tweets, video transcripts, etc. An outsider POV of the events of the book through the lens of social media would be neat!
Final Girls - Riley Sager
Quincy Carpenter
Samantha Boyd | Tina Stone
Coop
Pairs/groups: Quincy/Tina, Quincy & Tina, Quincy/Coop, Quincy & Coop, Quincy & Hayley
*Feel free to mention/include unnominated characters like Haley Pace, Lisa Milner, Real Samantha Boyd, Jonah Thompson, Jeff and Quincy's mom, if you wish.
Ideas/prompts:
Quincy/Tina
β Post-book AU. Murder girlfriends!! Tina and Quincy go on the run together, leaving a trail of blood and bodies behind them. Are they eventually caught? Do they become urban legends in their own right?
β Post-book. Tina gets out of prison and comes looking for Quincy. What does she want with Quincy?
β Missing/deleted scene or AU. An extension of the food fight scene which leads to Quincy and Tina's first time together?
Quincy & Tina
β Any of the above prompts interpreted platonically
β Post-book. After she gets out of prison, Tina starts blackmailing Quincy. Does Quincy give in or does she fight back?
Quincy/Coop
β Post-book. Quincy starts to believe she's being haunted by Coop. Is he a ghost, or something more corporeal?
β Pre-canon, shortly after the events at Pine Cottage. In those early days, is Quincy's memory as unreliable as it is during the course of the novel? Does she become better about suppressing certain memories? Was she ever distrustful of Coop? He was obviously manipulating her for some time; did Quincy ever see signs about Coop she just chose to ignore?
β Quincy and Coop exchange Christmas gifts. (Something dark and a little off-center would be great.)
β I was never totally convinced Quincy had romantic feelings toward Coop, though he was clearly obsessed with her from the start. How does that sort of imbalance play out over the course of their relationship?
β In the novel, Quincy and Coop have one night together, before Quincy learns the truth about Coop. How does she feel about him/their night together, in the aftermath?
Quincy & Coop
β Any of the above prompts interpreted platonically
β Five times Coop helped Quincy and one time Coop helped himself
β How does Quincy view Coop after the events of the book? Does she feel guilty for killing him?
β Post-book AU. Quincy tries to summon Coop but the ritual goes wrong.
β Post-canon AU. Coop haunts Quincy, either literally or figuratively. Maybe she goes back to Pine Cottage to pay her respects and sees him thereβor only thinks she does. Is she able to help his ghost move on? Is he vengeful or regretful? Is he still as obsessed with her?
Quincy
β Post-book. At the end of the book, Quincy's finally accepted and embraced her legacy as a Final Girl, and appoints herself as Haley Pace's mentor. How does their relationship develop. Is Haley grateful for the guidance, or resentful? Is Quincy able to defeat her demons to be what Haley needs?
β Post-book. Quincy coaches Haley Pace on how to be the perfect Final Girl.
β Post-book. Five times Quincy passed knowledge onto Haley and one time Haley passed knowledge onto Quincy.
β Post-book. Do Quincy and Haley bond? Or do they become rivals?
β Post-book or AU. Quincy is haunted (figuratively or literally) by other Final Girls who were killed by Coop, in particular Lisa and Real Sam Boyd.
β Post-book. What happens to Quincy after Pine Cottage 2.0? Does she find fame and fortune, or notoriety? Do people treat her as a hero, an oddity or worse?
β Are Quincy and her mother able to reestablish a relationship after the events of the book?
Tina
β Tina's a complicated, somewhat tragic character. A deeper exploration of her motivations (or an AU take) behind assuming the identity of a "final girl" would be great.
β What does Tina really think of Quincy, over the course of the book? How do some scenes change/stay the same interpreted from Tina's POV?
β What is life like for Tina after the events of the book? She takes the rap for the assault Quincy committed as a sort of penance for her crimes, but is she able to find peace? Does she get out of prison on good behavior? Does she escape?
β What does Tina think of Coop? Why does she try to seduce him? Did she ever suspect him?
Halloween (Movies 1978-2002)
Laurie Strode
Michael Myers
Jamie Lloyd
John Tate
Pairs/groups: Laurie & Michael, Laurie/Michael, Jamie & John, Jamie & Michael, Jamie & Laurie, Laurie & Michael & Jamie, Laurie & Michael & Jamie & John
*Feel free to include/mention unnominated characters like Dr. Loomis, Judith Myers, Tommy Doyle, Lindsey Wallace, Rachel Carruthers, Tina Williams, Annie Brackett, Lynda van der Klok, and Leigh Brackett, if you wish.
**I'm a fan of the original Halloween movies, so I prefer that Laurie and Michael are siblings and Jamie is Laurie's daughter and/or John is Laurie's son.
Ideas/prompts:
Laurie & Michael
β Missing scene or AU. A young Laurie's adoptive parents take her to visit Michael. Things don't go well.
β AU. Laurie discovers she has a psychic connection to her brother when he wakes up out of a coma.
β AU. After Laurie fakes her death and leaves her daughter with the Carruthers, Michael goes searching for her.
Laurie/Michael
β Any of the above prompts interpreted non-platonically
β Pre-canon AU. Laurie starts receiving strange Valentine's cards (or love letters or what have you) from a secret admirer...that get progressively more disturbing.
β AU. Laurie is horrified to learn that her baby is Michael's, which adds a whole new complication to their already fraught connection.
β Missing/deleted scene or AU. Now that Michael finally has Laurie, what does he plan on doing with her?
Laurie & Jamie
β AU. Laurie didn't fake her death and instead raises Jamie. (Maybe instead of Karen in the Green movies, Jamie is the one who gets the paranoid survivalist upbringing.)
β AU. An adult Jamie and Laurie don't reunite until Michael begins killing again after a decades-long hiatus.
β AU or missing/deleted scene. Some vignettes of Laurie raising and being a mom to Jamie, in between the chaos and death, would be nice!
Laurie & Jamie & John
β AU. After years of searching, Jamie finds Laurie in California and learns that she started a new family. How does the Strode-Myers reunion go?
β AU. Rather than fake her death and leave Jamie with the Carruthers family, she takes Jamie with her and eventually raises her and John as siblings. How does this change things?
β AU. After Laurie dies, her estranged surviving children come together for the reading of the will. And one of them will do anything for the Myers/Strode legacy.
Jamie & Michael
β AU. Jamie is taken to visit her uncle at Smiths Grove. How does their first meeting go?
β AU. Michael successfully abducts Jamie and rather than kill her, he begins to train her to take over his legacy. Does Jamie fight back or does she accept his mentorship?
β AU. Jamie's psychic connection to her uncle is stronger than even Dr. Loomis suspected.
Jamie & John
β AU. Jamie discovers Laurie faked her death and started anew in California, with a son. She soon goes to great lengths to track them down.
β AU. Jamie and John end up at the same high school in California. And then the killing starts again. Is it Jamie or John? Or is Michael back? (Maybe it's all of them!)
β Post-movies/AU. Jamie and John meet for the first time as adults when Haddonfield becomes the site of another string of gruesome murders.
Laurie & Jamie & Michael
β AU. Michael brings Jamie and Laurie back together for a twisted family reunion. Will anyone survive?
β AU. Years after Laurie faked her death and left Jamie behind, mother and daughter reconnect in a fraught family reunion... Then people start dying in familiar ways.
β AU. Years after the events of Halloween 4, Michael abducts his niece and Laurie comes out of hiding to try and save her.
Taxi Driver (1976)
Iris "Easy" Steensma
Travis Bickle
Pairs/groups: Iris & Travis, Iris/Travis, Iris/OC, Travis/OC
*If you write Iris/Travis I'd prefer it to be set in the future when Iris is an adult. I'm also open to Iris and Travis paired with OCs. I headcanon Iris as queer and would love Iris/OFC.
**re. my DNWs: I'll make an exception to hospital/institution-related horror for this fandom.
Prompts/ideas:
Iris & Travis
β Post-movie. Travis survives the shootout. Years later, he receives a visit from a grown-up Iris. How does their reunion go?
β Post-movie. Travis dies at the end of the movie and visits Iris as a ghost.
β AU. Years later, Travis visits Iris. Is he a ghost or a hallucination? Or is he real? Is Iris losing her grip on reality or is she being haunted?
β Post-canon. Iris finds out her mother's been writing to Travis at the hospital/institution/etc. he's been at since the shootout. How does this impact her?
β Iris is sent by her parents to visit Travis for her 18th birthday, in some sort of reunion/anniversary of her "rescue." But Iris begins to suspect things aren't quite right. Is Travis a ghost? Or something more human?
β A grown-up Iris visits Travis wherever he ends up (hospital, home, grave...).
Iris/Travis
β Any of the above prompts interpreted non-platonically
β Post-canon. An adult Iris and Travis meet up and start a relationship. But things aren't quite as they seem. Is one (or both) of them a ghost, or something worse?
Iris
β Post-movie. An adult Iris meets a woman she knew when she was working for Sport, at her support group and bond over their shared past(s).
β Post-movie. A reclusive Iris begins a relationship but soon begins to suspect her new partner has ulterior motives connected to her past. Is she just being paranoid? Or does Iris truly have something to be worried about?
β Post-movie. How does Iris feel about everything, afterward? Is she happy and relieved? Grateful? Or is she angry, traumatized, fearful, etc.?
β Post-movie. After the shootout, Iris ends up back home with her parents. Is she happy about that? Or does she try to run away again?
β Post-movie. An adult Iris reckons with her past.
β What happens to Iris after the movie? Who does she grow up to be? Are Travis's actions a blessing or a curse in her life?
β Iris grows up in the shadow of her past. Is she ever able to escape it... does she even want to? Or does it continue to haunt her into her adult life?
Travis
β If he survived the shootout, did he really go back to driving taxis?
β What if Travis was or became a sort of ferryman for the dead?
β Post-movie. Travis survives but finds out notoriety isn't all it's cracked up to be.
β Post-movie. Travis dies and becomes a ghost. Who or what does he haunt?
β Paul Schrader's stated that he sees Travis as a ticking bomb that reset at the end of the movie... So what happens when Travis does snap again?
Where Are You Going, Where Have You Been? - Joyce Carol Oates
Connie
Arnold Friend
June
Connie's Mother
Pairs/groups: Connie & Arnold, Connie & June, Connie & June & Connie's Mother
*I'd prefer no explicit sexual or romantic content between Connie and Arnold, though ambiguity in keeping with the source material is fine.
Prompts/ideas:
What if Connie was able to escape Arnold? What if her family came back a little earlier...or too late... It's heavily implied that Arnold killed Connie, but what if he lets Connie live? Is that a blessing or a curse?
Or what if Connie does die? Does she become a ghost that haunts Arnold? Does she eventually get her revenge? What if she kills Arnold and they both become ghosts, tied to one another for eternity?
Is Arnold the devil? Give me an AU twist where Arnold and Connie strike a Faustian deal... Or perhaps it's Connie who's the one to tempt Arnold into giving over his soul.
What about something between Connie and her mother, or Connie and June, or the three of them? Maybe something post-canon, where Connie (as a ghost?) visits her mother and sister.
What about something steeped in 1960s-era nostalgia? Or an exploitation horror take on it like something in the vein of The Last House on the Left or a slasher like Halloween?
Oates' short story was inspired by Bob Dylan's It's All Over Now, Baby Blue (which was inspired by the real-life serial killer Charles Schmid). Also please feel free to borrow from the film adaptation Smooth Talk if you want!
Honestly, I'll love whatever you come up with for this fandom!
Π‘Π»ΡΠ³Π° Π½Π°ΡΠΎΠ΄Ρ | Servant of the people (TV)
Yuriy Ivanovich Chuiko
Vasyl Petrovych Holoborodko
Pairings/groups: Vasyl/Yuriy, Vasyl & Yuriy
*Feel free to include/mention unnominated characters like Anna Mikhailovna, Dima Holoborodko, Dmitry Surikov, Oksana Skovoroda, Natasha Sakhno, and the Oligarchs in addition to any other nominated characters (like Olha Mishchenko, Serhiy Mukhin, Svetlana Sakhno, Tolya, and Mikhail Ashotovich Tasunyan) that you may wish to include in the background!
**Re. my DNWs about real world events: if you write this fandom, I'd prefer no mentions of the ongoing Russian invasion/war in Ukraine. It might help to just think of it happening in an alternate universe. Thanks for understanding!
***I'd prefer Ukrainian spellings of names/locations/etc., though the characters do primarily speak Russian.
Ideas/prompts:
I'm endlessly fascinated with Vasya and Yuriy, and their relationship throughout the course of the show. I'll take them however you want to write them, whether that's platonic or romantic/sexual. Maybe Vasya helps Yuriy become a better person and they become actual friends; alternately, maybe Yuriy makes Vasya worse.
What if Vasya actually did take up Yuriy's offer to run off to Capri with him? Or... I'd love a missing scene from their time together on the run/on Yuriy's yacht, or when they were in prison together, or even a post-canon thing showing what happened between them after the events of s3? Maybe after Vasya's out of office they do actually run off together. I'd also adore darkfic revolving around manipulation/mindgames, emotional manipulation, dubcon/coercion, and other dark themes (like those listed in my favs).
If you don't want to write Vasya and Yuriy, I'm open to Vasya/Olha (maybe they get back together or we're shown snippets of their pre-canon life together), Vasya and his son Dima, Vasya and Svetlana, Vasya and Natasha, Vasya and Tolya, Vasya/Anna, Olha/Surikov, Serhiy/Oksana, etc.
Mini Challenges
Crueltide 2022
Queering the Tide 2022
Once again, I'd like to emphasize that these prompts/ideas are only suggestions! Please don't feel constrained by them! Mix and match as you please, or come up with something completely on your own. Optional details are optional!
If you have any questions don't be afraid to contact the mods! Thank you and happy writing!