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Trick or Treat is one of my favorite exchanges, and I'm very excited to be participating in it again. I hope you have a lot of fun, too!
My signup requests are all for fic, but I'm happy to receive art as a bonus gift. General art likes: clothing porn, especially pretty 19th/early 20th century dresses and nice suits; nudity/sex scenes; autumnal landscapes; candlelight and firelight; magic.
I mostly have a preference for Tricks involving scary supernatural threats that are soundly defeated by the protagonists for a happy ending. The major exception is the James Asher Vampire series, in which my requested characters are a scary supernatural threat. (I also have some trouble seeing a happy ending in The Magnus Archives as anything more than the calm before the next apocalypse, but I'm definitely on board for a happily-for-now ending or for a happily-as-possible-given-the-circumstances ending.)
Particularly relevant to this exchange: I like ghosts, witches, vampires, and werewolves, and do not want non-canonical zombies. Regarding Treats, I like anything from G-rated fluff to hardcore porn, but don't care for PWPs; I like some sort of character and/or relationship development along with my smut. If you want further details on my fic preferences, you can check out my general fic kinks and squicks post or browse my fic exchanges tag.
The Bone Key - Sarah Monette
Kyle Murchison Booth, John Pelham Ratcliffe
Treat/Trick:
I love their brief partnership in "Drowning Palmer": how Booth keeps reaching out for human connection despite expecting to be rebuffed every time, and Ratcliffe just takes the whole situation in stride and gives him the support and advice he needs (while indulging his own curiosity, of course). Does Ratcliffe ever pay a friendly visit to Booth afterwards? Do they ever find themselves brought together by work? Or does Ratcliffe get into a supernatural difficulty of his own and ask for Booth's help? I ship the two of them, but intimate gen with a canonical feel is also very welcome.
Hexworld - Jordan L. Hawk
Isaac
Treat/Trick:
I know he's barely appeared in the series so far, but Isaac's my faaavorite. (What can I say? He's a queer Jewish character with an angsty past. Hawk would've had to work hard to make me not love him.) I'm especially interested in the disaster that was Isaac finding his witch; or friendship fic about Isaac and Cicero--backstory, future fic, or anything in between; or Isaac's POV on the events of Hexbreaker; or first time fic involving Isaac finding himself a newer, better witch--either Bill Quigley or an OMC, it's up to you.
James Asher Vampire series - Barbara Hambly
Basilio Occhipinti, Antonio Pentangeli
Trick:
Basilio/Antonio: Confession: I found the vampire ambulance horribly funny. (Genuinely horrible--as though wounded WWI soldiers didn't have enough awful shit in their lives already without vampires preying on them at their most vulnerable. But also funny in a horribly ironic way, and really quite clever of Antonio and Basilio.) I'd love to see more of the two of them being awfully amoral yet devoted to each other: how they fell in love, a slice of "life" fic, how they navigate the cutthroat world of vampire politics together...pretty much anything exploring their relationship prior to the events of Pale Guardian.
Basilio and/or Antonio: I'm intrigued by the suggestion that Basilio and Antonio were able to get revenge even after their deaths--that the small bits of their lingering consciousnesses were able to subvert Francesca from within--and would love to see that explored in greater depth. Not too happy an ending, please! I prefer the tone cast by canon: melancholic yet viciously satisfying.
Lynes and Mathey series - Amy Griswold & Melissa Scott
Cordelia Frost
Treat/Trick:
Miss Frost is hands down my favorite character in this series: competent, intelligent, highly sensible, and not quite what people expect her to be. I'd love a story about her university days, or her life outside of the office, or the progression of her career. If you want to write a Trick, then Miss Frost having to deal with a mysterious supernatural threat of her own would be excellent.
Either gen or Miss Frost/OFC is very welcome. Based on things she's said in the books, I don't think Miss Frost had a female lover in university, but I'd be interested in first time fic in which she becomes romantically involved with a friend from her club, or with one of Julian's or Ned's clients, or perhaps with a woman whom she and/or Ned consults on a case. Background Julian/Ned is also cool.
The Magnus Archives
Georgie Barker, Jonathan Sims
Treat/Trick:
Georgie: Anything exploring Georgie's lack of fear would be fantastic. You can go supernatural (obviously) or mundane (how does someone adult without a sense of growing dread forcing them to deal with unpleasant but necessary tasks?!). I'm also interested in the possibilities were Georgie to meet Karolina Górka, the remarkably self-possessed young woman from Episode 71: Underground. Assuming that Karolina isn't a follower of The Buried--though she's obviously been marked by it at the least--could she have lost her capacity to feel fear just as Georgie has? Gen and Georgie/Karolina are both great.
Jon: My absolute favorite part of canon is the two largely unrelated personal journeys Jon is on, in which he's becoming a better person--allowing himself to care for his assistants, recognizing that he has to be able to trust people and ask them for help when he needs it, empathizing more with people in general, etc.--even as he's losing at least some part of his humanity. Fic addressing either or both of those personal journeys would be awesome. Or how Jon feels about the various scars he's been collecting. Or for something more humorous/lighthearted, Jon takes an obviously prank statement on Halloween.
Georgie/Jon or Georgie & Jon: I don't ship them as an endgame pairing, but I enjoy their canonical relationship and would love to see more of it. Perhaps some backstory exploring how they started dating and/or why they stopped. The one thing I really don't want to see is "She wanted sex; he didn't; they broke up." Though the related version that goes "She wanted sex; he didn't and was really fucking terrible at talking about what he did want, both physically and emotionally; they broke up" is potentially very relevant to my interests. Or maybe they broke up because of something else entirely, e.g. philosophical differences in their attitudes towards the supernatural--that would also be awesome!
Alternatively, I'm interested in how they reconnected and became friends again after their apparently unpleasant breakup. They're so obviously comfortable with and fond of each other, and I'm curious about how they got to that place considering 1) the aforementioned unpleasant breakup, and 2) how awkward and undemonstrative Jon is with everyone else, particularly at the point in his life when we got introduced to Georgie.
Martin/Jon: My endgame Jon ship. :-) I'd love any of the Jon solo prompts from above with added Martin/Jon shippiness. Or Jon is trying to find a better work-life balance and Martin is a surprisingly helpful source of support in this endeavor. Or Martin and Jon have yet another argument about spiders.
ETA: After listening to Episode 120, I don't really have much to add to my above requests. You can address the events of the finale directly in your fic if you like, but it's also fine to set your fic sometime in the not-so-immediate future, when at least some things are back to normal. (For a certain value of "normal.") And as I said before, you should definitely feel free to write canon-divergent fic branching off after Episode 118 or 119 if that works better for you.
The Queen's Thief - Megan Whalen Turner
Kamet, Costis Ormentiedes
Treat:
Kamet: Backstory about his time as a slave; you can focus on the good parts, e.g. his justified pride in his accomplishments and/or his friendship with Laela, or on the bad parts, or a mix. (No het and no rape, please, though canonical levels of creepiness from Nahuseresh is okay.) Or Kamet finally gets glasses. Or Kamet and Aristogiton get to know each other. Or Kamet makes himself at home in Magyar...and if you wanted to focus mostly on alt!Hungary worldbuilding, that's cool, too.
Costis: I'm oddly charmed by Costis the naturalist--even if he has an ulterior motive in developing that interest--and would like to see more. Or Costis's reactions to more Ennikar and Immakuk stories.
Kamet/Costis: Post-canon first time fic, set either in Attolia or their house in Magyar, would be fantastic. One of my favorite things in canon was the very different sets of expectations that the two of them were working with, and I would love to see more of that--anything from a simple comparison of their different perspectives on a situation to full-blown cultural misunderstandings. Also, getting to see Costis's thoughts on Kamet would be great, since Thick as Thieves focused so strongly on the reverse.
Trick:
Obviously, Kamet or Costis or both have to encounter a real ghost. :-)
The Watchmaker of Filigree Street - Natasha Pulley
Grace Carrow, Katsu, Keita Mori, Thaniel Steepleton
Treat:
Grace: Grace doing science in Japan! Does she ever make a breakthrough discovery and establish her scholarly reputation?
Katsu: When and why does Keita build Katsu? Or any cute domestic scene involving Katsu would be great: Katsu and the people he lives with, Katsu and socks, etc. I'm also amenable to fic in which Katsu moonlights as the world's most adorable sex toy.
Keita: If you're up for a challenge, I'd love to read a story from Keita's POV. Outsider POV or a loose 3rd person POV are also perfectly fine, though. I really like Keita's building clockwork and am especially intrigued by the locust clock; what was its original purpose and does it get repurposed as something important post-canon?
Thaniel: I'm interested in Thaniel's time as a telegraph operator: the work itself and/or the social dynamics in the office.
Keita/Thaniel: Post-book fic focusing on their relationship would be the best. Maybe more about how Keita's abilities affect their lives together. Or domestic fluff involving Keita and Thaniel forming a family with Six (and optional Katsu when he returns).
Trick:
(Note: Katsu's the only one of my requested characters for whom I'd like a Trick in this fandom.)
On his way home, Katsu encounters a Lovecraftian horror. No permanent psychological injury or character death, please!
My signup requests are all for fic, but I'm happy to receive art as a bonus gift. General art likes: clothing porn, especially pretty 19th/early 20th century dresses and nice suits; nudity/sex scenes; autumnal landscapes; candlelight and firelight; magic.
I mostly have a preference for Tricks involving scary supernatural threats that are soundly defeated by the protagonists for a happy ending. The major exception is the James Asher Vampire series, in which my requested characters are a scary supernatural threat. (I also have some trouble seeing a happy ending in The Magnus Archives as anything more than the calm before the next apocalypse, but I'm definitely on board for a happily-for-now ending or for a happily-as-possible-given-the-circumstances ending.)
Particularly relevant to this exchange: I like ghosts, witches, vampires, and werewolves, and do not want non-canonical zombies. Regarding Treats, I like anything from G-rated fluff to hardcore porn, but don't care for PWPs; I like some sort of character and/or relationship development along with my smut. If you want further details on my fic preferences, you can check out my general fic kinks and squicks post or browse my fic exchanges tag.
The Bone Key - Sarah Monette
Kyle Murchison Booth, John Pelham Ratcliffe
Treat/Trick:
I love their brief partnership in "Drowning Palmer": how Booth keeps reaching out for human connection despite expecting to be rebuffed every time, and Ratcliffe just takes the whole situation in stride and gives him the support and advice he needs (while indulging his own curiosity, of course). Does Ratcliffe ever pay a friendly visit to Booth afterwards? Do they ever find themselves brought together by work? Or does Ratcliffe get into a supernatural difficulty of his own and ask for Booth's help? I ship the two of them, but intimate gen with a canonical feel is also very welcome.
Hexworld - Jordan L. Hawk
Isaac
Treat/Trick:
I know he's barely appeared in the series so far, but Isaac's my faaavorite. (What can I say? He's a queer Jewish character with an angsty past. Hawk would've had to work hard to make me not love him.) I'm especially interested in the disaster that was Isaac finding his witch; or friendship fic about Isaac and Cicero--backstory, future fic, or anything in between; or Isaac's POV on the events of Hexbreaker; or first time fic involving Isaac finding himself a newer, better witch--either Bill Quigley or an OMC, it's up to you.
James Asher Vampire series - Barbara Hambly
Basilio Occhipinti, Antonio Pentangeli
Trick:
Basilio/Antonio: Confession: I found the vampire ambulance horribly funny. (Genuinely horrible--as though wounded WWI soldiers didn't have enough awful shit in their lives already without vampires preying on them at their most vulnerable. But also funny in a horribly ironic way, and really quite clever of Antonio and Basilio.) I'd love to see more of the two of them being awfully amoral yet devoted to each other: how they fell in love, a slice of "life" fic, how they navigate the cutthroat world of vampire politics together...pretty much anything exploring their relationship prior to the events of Pale Guardian.
Basilio and/or Antonio: I'm intrigued by the suggestion that Basilio and Antonio were able to get revenge even after their deaths--that the small bits of their lingering consciousnesses were able to subvert Francesca from within--and would love to see that explored in greater depth. Not too happy an ending, please! I prefer the tone cast by canon: melancholic yet viciously satisfying.
Lynes and Mathey series - Amy Griswold & Melissa Scott
Cordelia Frost
Treat/Trick:
Miss Frost is hands down my favorite character in this series: competent, intelligent, highly sensible, and not quite what people expect her to be. I'd love a story about her university days, or her life outside of the office, or the progression of her career. If you want to write a Trick, then Miss Frost having to deal with a mysterious supernatural threat of her own would be excellent.
Either gen or Miss Frost/OFC is very welcome. Based on things she's said in the books, I don't think Miss Frost had a female lover in university, but I'd be interested in first time fic in which she becomes romantically involved with a friend from her club, or with one of Julian's or Ned's clients, or perhaps with a woman whom she and/or Ned consults on a case. Background Julian/Ned is also cool.
The Magnus Archives
Georgie Barker, Jonathan Sims
Treat/Trick:
Georgie: Anything exploring Georgie's lack of fear would be fantastic. You can go supernatural (obviously) or mundane (how does someone adult without a sense of growing dread forcing them to deal with unpleasant but necessary tasks?!). I'm also interested in the possibilities were Georgie to meet Karolina Górka, the remarkably self-possessed young woman from Episode 71: Underground. Assuming that Karolina isn't a follower of The Buried--though she's obviously been marked by it at the least--could she have lost her capacity to feel fear just as Georgie has? Gen and Georgie/Karolina are both great.
Jon: My absolute favorite part of canon is the two largely unrelated personal journeys Jon is on, in which he's becoming a better person--allowing himself to care for his assistants, recognizing that he has to be able to trust people and ask them for help when he needs it, empathizing more with people in general, etc.--even as he's losing at least some part of his humanity. Fic addressing either or both of those personal journeys would be awesome. Or how Jon feels about the various scars he's been collecting. Or for something more humorous/lighthearted, Jon takes an obviously prank statement on Halloween.
Georgie/Jon or Georgie & Jon: I don't ship them as an endgame pairing, but I enjoy their canonical relationship and would love to see more of it. Perhaps some backstory exploring how they started dating and/or why they stopped. The one thing I really don't want to see is "She wanted sex; he didn't; they broke up." Though the related version that goes "She wanted sex; he didn't and was really fucking terrible at talking about what he did want, both physically and emotionally; they broke up" is potentially very relevant to my interests. Or maybe they broke up because of something else entirely, e.g. philosophical differences in their attitudes towards the supernatural--that would also be awesome!
Alternatively, I'm interested in how they reconnected and became friends again after their apparently unpleasant breakup. They're so obviously comfortable with and fond of each other, and I'm curious about how they got to that place considering 1) the aforementioned unpleasant breakup, and 2) how awkward and undemonstrative Jon is with everyone else, particularly at the point in his life when we got introduced to Georgie.
Martin/Jon: My endgame Jon ship. :-) I'd love any of the Jon solo prompts from above with added Martin/Jon shippiness. Or Jon is trying to find a better work-life balance and Martin is a surprisingly helpful source of support in this endeavor. Or Martin and Jon have yet another argument about spiders.
ETA: After listening to Episode 120, I don't really have much to add to my above requests. You can address the events of the finale directly in your fic if you like, but it's also fine to set your fic sometime in the not-so-immediate future, when at least some things are back to normal. (For a certain value of "normal.") And as I said before, you should definitely feel free to write canon-divergent fic branching off after Episode 118 or 119 if that works better for you.
The Queen's Thief - Megan Whalen Turner
Kamet, Costis Ormentiedes
Treat:
Kamet: Backstory about his time as a slave; you can focus on the good parts, e.g. his justified pride in his accomplishments and/or his friendship with Laela, or on the bad parts, or a mix. (No het and no rape, please, though canonical levels of creepiness from Nahuseresh is okay.) Or Kamet finally gets glasses. Or Kamet and Aristogiton get to know each other. Or Kamet makes himself at home in Magyar...and if you wanted to focus mostly on alt!Hungary worldbuilding, that's cool, too.
Costis: I'm oddly charmed by Costis the naturalist--even if he has an ulterior motive in developing that interest--and would like to see more. Or Costis's reactions to more Ennikar and Immakuk stories.
Kamet/Costis: Post-canon first time fic, set either in Attolia or their house in Magyar, would be fantastic. One of my favorite things in canon was the very different sets of expectations that the two of them were working with, and I would love to see more of that--anything from a simple comparison of their different perspectives on a situation to full-blown cultural misunderstandings. Also, getting to see Costis's thoughts on Kamet would be great, since Thick as Thieves focused so strongly on the reverse.
Trick:
Obviously, Kamet or Costis or both have to encounter a real ghost. :-)
The Watchmaker of Filigree Street - Natasha Pulley
Grace Carrow, Katsu, Keita Mori, Thaniel Steepleton
Treat:
Grace: Grace doing science in Japan! Does she ever make a breakthrough discovery and establish her scholarly reputation?
Katsu: When and why does Keita build Katsu? Or any cute domestic scene involving Katsu would be great: Katsu and the people he lives with, Katsu and socks, etc. I'm also amenable to fic in which Katsu moonlights as the world's most adorable sex toy.
Keita: If you're up for a challenge, I'd love to read a story from Keita's POV. Outsider POV or a loose 3rd person POV are also perfectly fine, though. I really like Keita's building clockwork and am especially intrigued by the locust clock; what was its original purpose and does it get repurposed as something important post-canon?
Thaniel: I'm interested in Thaniel's time as a telegraph operator: the work itself and/or the social dynamics in the office.
Keita/Thaniel: Post-book fic focusing on their relationship would be the best. Maybe more about how Keita's abilities affect their lives together. Or domestic fluff involving Keita and Thaniel forming a family with Six (and optional Katsu when he returns).
Trick:
(Note: Katsu's the only one of my requested characters for whom I'd like a Trick in this fandom.)
On his way home, Katsu encounters a Lovecraftian horror. No permanent psychological injury or character death, please!
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