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Fandom: Dear Trick or Treat Creator Letter
ETA Sep 17: Added Battle of the Bands community challenge info.
Dear Trick or Treat Creator,
It’s my favorite time of year: horror and Halloween and fall weather and Trick or Treat.
Below, I provide Do Not Wants and general likes, then fandom-specific details. If there is a discrepancy between the DNWs and general likes and the fandom-specific information, go with the fandom-specific information. Mixing and matching fandoms and prompts more than welcome, as is making any prompt a trick or a treat.
My absolute favorite things: werewolves, crossovers and alternate universes, and monsters and magic.
I requested fic and tricks and treats. For the freeform tags: I am interested in extra gifts for the community challenge that don’t fit my requests. You may ignore my art/fic preferences for extra gifts.
My AO3 name is also![[archiveofourown.org profile]](https://p.dreamwidth.org/b164c54b26e4/-/archiveofourown.org/favicon.ico)
escritoireazul.
General Likes
+ stories about women, including f/f, gen, and het
+ werewolves, werewolf packs as families, and werewolf alternate universes in any canon
+ Halloween and horror movies, particularly horror movie alternate universes in any canon
+ chosen families and adoption stories where adoption is treated as totally normal, adoption and chosen families = real families, and the adoption is not a BIG DRAMATIC SECRET
+ alternate universes, a non-exhaustive list: werewolves, witches and witch hunters, IN SPACE, horror movies, haunted summer camps, ghost hunters (including this state-mandated idea), portal fantasies, monsters, canon divergence, weird west/wild west (I particularly like the outlaw feel of it, untamed and wild, big spaces with nowhere to hide, big woods claustrophobic around you, danger at every turn, as long as the AU avoids the magical Indian/savage Indian/white savior bullshit that can show up in weird west and westerns in general)
+ polyam families, threesomes, foursomes, and moresomes, in all configurations (Vs, triangles, dodecahedrons)
+ monsters of the week, casefic, adventure stories, mysteries
+ friends and family teaming up to save the world, particularly on road trips
+ crossovers and fusions so long as my requested characters are the main characters
+ tropes, a non-exhaustive list: wilderness survival, huddling for warmth, forced proximity, friends to lovers, enemies to friends (to lovers), there’s only one bed oh no, fake dating, survival horror, abandoned ships, burial at sea, burial by fire, crashed on a deserted island, ghost ships, not-so-safe harbour, locked-room mysteries, came back wrong
+ kink (female top/dom only except for biting and bloodplay): biting, light bondage, impact play, rough body play, bloodplay for supernatural characters, fireplay, marking, sensory overload, orgasm denial/control, pegging
Do Not Wants
+ characters dealing with racism, sexism, homophobia, biphobia, transphobia, fat hate, or ableism within the story
+ character bashing or villainizing
+ rape, non-con, and dub-con
+ embarrassment/humiliation
+ animal cruelty or death (except for Tricks where it would be appropriate for farm animals or wild animals to be harmed by a non-human monster -- no matter what, though, no harm to dogs)
+ permanent character death for my requested characters
+ incest
+ big age difference in romantic relationships (except for supernatural characters), particularly an older man/younger woman
+ a/b/o or werewolf stories with Big Tough Alpha Male tropes
+ pregnancy, including mpreg
+ spiders, especially in art
Requests
There are spoilers below for each of my requests, which are:
Dog Soldiers (2002): Megan
Down in the Library Basement - Rona Vaselaar: Cassie
Mortel (TV 2019): Luisa Manjimbe
Silver Bullet (1985): Jane Coslaw
Tremors (1990): Rhonda LeBeck
Trick 'r Treat (2008): Laurie
Willow (1988): Sorsha
Dog Soldiers (2002): Megan
Source material: Fun, bloody British werewolf movie about soldiers on a training assignment who run into werewolves.
What I like: I mean, werewolves. Also, there are some fun character interactions between the soldiers and them and Megan. It’s slightly gory, has some clever moments and great visuals, and the werewolves are absolutely brutal.
Prompts:
Megan backstory. We get a little of it in the movie, and if we take her at her word: she’s a zoologist and came to study the wildlife two years before the events of the movie; specifically, she heard the stories about people disappearing in the woods and went looking. And boy did she find something. At some point, obviously she was bitten and became a reluctant werewolf.
I’m curious about what it was like for her during those two years, both before she became a werewolf and after. What did she expect to find when she came looking? She’s a zoologist, not a cryptozoologist, so if she wasn’t looking for something supernatural, what was it? Or was she looking for the supernatural? Was she trying to prove werewolves exist?
She did not want to be a werewolf and the movie makes it seem like they’re putting her out of her misery when the soldiers kill her. How hard would those first few months have been after becoming an unwilling killer, especially one who eats humans? Was there anything she liked about being a werewolf even if the pack and the eating people part wasn’t great?
When she finally starts shifting, the way she talks about it can be interpreted as her falling into embracing the violence of it all, of what she is, and I’d love to see more of that.
Worldbuilding. I’d love to see more of the world, too. The werewolves are interesting, and look a little strange. They keep a dog as a pet, and they play with their food (they throw a freaking cow carcass into the camp to fuck with the soldiers before they even start attacking!), and they are extra sensitive to bright light flashing in their eyes. They eat humans, but do they have to? There’s not silver in their house, but does that mean it works on them or does it mean they eat humans and don’t give a fuck about fancy flatware? Are there packs of werewolves hunting in woods in other places? What other things exist?
Canon divergence and alternate universes. What if she lived? A werewolf final girl would be amazing. Now she’s stronger and faster and harder to kill; she knows the supernatural exists; she’s a zoologist: Megan hunting all sorts of monsters, to prove they exist, to save them, to stop them, whatever. Werewolves in space are great.
I don’t really ship Megan with anyone in the movie, but I loved Sarge and mostly loved Cooper, and I would be down for seeing her with either or both of them. Or with any werewolf woman from any other canon I know, and probably the ones I don’t, too.
Down in the Library Basement - Rona Vaselaar: Cassie
Source Material: A story posted to NoSleep in three parts (one, two, three) and then adapted to a podcast episode of NoSleep (story starts around 4:00) (and it is GREAT). Cassie steps in to run a small-town library while her mother is out on medical leave, and she finds something terrifying and wonderful in the basement.
What I like: Despite my spider DNW and arachnophobia, I love the hell out of this story. Cassidy is a joy, as is her character growth: She goes from reluctantly working in the library and being terrified of the thing in the basement to loving her work and being fiercely protective of their monster. The rest of the characters are fun, too, particularly the librarians who show up to help save the day.
While this is basically an exception to my DNW, please don’t go into detailed descriptions of the monster in the basement.
Prompts:
Post-story adventures. Cassie's basically a librarian for life by the end of the story and a bunch of librarians at other libraries have library protectors of their own, plus at least some of them came to help fight a monster. It can't be the only monster out there. What does Cassie get up to with the other librarians and their libraries? Do Cassie, her mother, and the other librarians form a team to hunt down the creatures that aren't safe, that are truly monsters, and protect the world? Do they use their library protectors to help?
It's easy for people to look at the library protectors as monsters. What happens when people try to take one out? How does Cassie protect it? Does she teach people that it is safe or does she fight back or does she hide them or what?
Not all of the creatures are safe. There’s one particular one in the story that is a maneater, but there are likely more out there, too. I really want to see Cassie, her mother, and the other librarians forming a team to hunt them down and protect the world, using the safe creatures to help.
Worldbuilding. This is such a strange, interesting world, and I want to see more of it. These are basically giant spiders and therefore terrifying, and worse, some of them are maneaters. Kids disappear. Kids are eaten. What kind of path of horror do they spread? Once the big male in Cassie's town has been killed, does that open them up to attacks by others? Is there another spate of kids gone missing?
These are basically giant spiders and therefore terrifying and some of them are maneaters. Kids disappear. Kids are eaten. Tell me a horror story about one in another town, or one coming to this town now that the big male has been killed. (I still can’t believe how much I want a horror story about a giant spider.)
Crossovers and alternate universes. While I always love crossovers, I think this canon in particular sets itself up with great crossover potential, because many other canons have libraries, either front and center or in the background, and real world, there are so many different types of libraries to choose from. Plus librarians in space! Librarians in the weird, wild west! Librarians inside technology when humanity has gone into the machine!
Romance. Cassie seems absolutely delighted by some of the women who come to hunt the big maneating monster. Does she hook up with them? If she gets serious with someone who isn't already a librarian in the know, at what point does she tell them about the guardian of her library? Does she ever? If she doesn't, do they accidentally find out? Dating while hiding monsters and possibly monster hunting can be tough, and it could go very, bloodily wrong.
I ship Cassie with pretty much any woman ever, in her canon and in any other canon I know, except for her mother.
Mortel (TV 2019): Luisa Manjimbe
Source material: French tv show about two teenage boys who receive superpowers and flounder their way through trying to solve the mystery of a brother’s disappearance, along with a bunch of other things. Luisa has to save the day.
What I like: There’s a fun, dramatic supernatural surface layer and beneath that a much more serious, realistic layer that deepens the story and the characters and grounds them in real-world issues (racism, mental illness, familial lies). I love the way those stories mix. Mostly, though I love the characters. Sofiane is reckless and brave and obsessed with finding his brother even though his family life was not all that great when the brother was still around, Victor in all his broken vulnerability and fighting to get things out through his art, and Luisa just being the best all around. She throws herself into her grandmother’s work so she can help Victor and Sofiane even when she’s reluctant, she has some sort of epic responsibility, and also she saved the fucking day at the end. And, you know, strange, kind of terrible powers in this world, love them.
Prompts:
I would happily read about Luisa doing pretty much anything. Reconnecting with her other friends and drawing new boundaries. Teaming up with Melanie on school adventures or monster adventures or anything. Learning more about her grandmother’s past and her own future. Saving the day again and again and again (shoving people out windows, running them over with a car, using her powers, anything). Loud parties or quiet parties with Victor and Sofiane.
Alternate universes. OT3 monster hunting! Luisa and witches. Luisa and werewolves. Luisa and haunted houses. Luisa and creepy forests. Luisa on the moors with monsters. Luisa saving the world while the boys are trying, but, you know, they’re not all that good at this.
I ship Luisa/Victor/Sofiane and Luisa/Melanie.
Silver Bullet (1985): Jane Coslaw
Source material: Movie adaptation of The Cycle of the Werewolf by Stephen King.
What I like: Werewolves. Jane’s complicated relationship with Marty. Jane not believing but still going along with helping Marty because she’s the big sister and then actually believing.
Prompts:
Adventures. Jane’s life after knowing werewolves are real and being a part of killing one. Jane and Marty hunting more werewolves together or other monsters. Tracking down legends to see what’s real and what’s not. Marty + Jane road trip checking out monster stories across the country, complete with hitchhiking ghosts and creepy deserts and full moons rising each month.
Family. The Coslaw family has complicated dynamics, particularly between siblings (Jane’s mother and uncle, Jane and Marty). What does Jane and Marty's relationship look like after this? She's struggled with loving him and with her role as his older sister needing to protect him, but after the werewolf fight, she can tell him she loves him and they have grown closer. Does that last? Does going back to normalcy change things yet again? Does one of them get obsessed with proving other monsters exist while the other tries to talk them down?
Alternate universes. Clearly I’m a fan of werewolves in space and weird west stories. Jane in different urban legends. Jane becomes a werewolf herself. Jane was the werewolf all along. Jane versus a siren.
I don’t ship Jane with anyone specifically, but I can get behind her with werewolf hunters from other canons.
Tremors (1990): Rhonda LeBeck
Source material: US horror comedy movie about underground monsters hunting via vibrations and the people trying to survive.
What I like: Rhonda forever. She’s a nerdy seismologist who is smart and brave and daring. Underground monsters hunting via vibrations are terrifying and perfect. The mix of humor and horror.
Prompts:
More monsters. Rhonda using science to track down more monsters. Rhonda trying to explain her findings to the university where she studies. Rhonda becoming part of grad-student lore with all her monster stories. Rhonda bonding with Mindy throughout the years as Mindy grows up knowing that sometimes monsters do exist and science can help save you. Rhonda bonding with Heather over survival and prepping.
Alternate universes and crossovers. Rhonda the monster hunter. Worm-creatures in space. With all the dust and desert and horse riding, this could easily be an older weird west story without even as much technology as they have. Rhonda’s brought in when seismological events start hinting at trouble for Jurassic World.
I ship Rhonda/Val/Earl.
Trick 'r Treat (2008): Laurie
Source material: US anthology horror movie. Requested characters are from “Surprise Party,” a werewolf first time story.
What I like: Werewolves. Vicious, violent, vivacious women who are werewolves. The way sisters and sister-friends fight and bond. Werewolf traditions.
Prompts:
Laurie and her chosen family. Do they consider each other a pack? Is that even how werewolves work here? Laurie’s young and they tease her a lot, but there’s plenty of love between them. There are many Halloweens to come, and all of them bathed in blood. They aren’t always hunting and killing, and slice of life around the violence (including the violence, maybe).
Worldbuilding. Werewolves hunting their prey. Sometimes in neighborhoods full of people. Sometimes in secluded woods. Does silver work on them? Other rituals beyond the special “first time” and the Halloween feast. Are werewolves only women and do they only hunt men?
Alternate universes and crossovers. Clearly I love werewolves in space. Laurie and her sister-friends team up with women werewolves in any other fandom. Weird west werewolves choosing first time victims from outlaws and gunslingers.
I ship Laurie with any of the other werewolves in the movie as well as with any woman werewolf from another fandom.
Willow (1988): Sorsha
Source material: US fantasy movie about a baby destined to save the world, an evil queen determined to destroy her, and the people on either side.
What I like: Everything. Sorsha and her swords, her prowess in battle, her drive to prove herself to a mother who disregards her at every turn and uses her only for her power. How shocked she is when Madmartigan compliments her while he’s under the spell, and her anger when it goes away. The way she turns on her mother to save the world.
The worldbuilding, the magic and warriors and brave Willow and just everything.
Prompts:
More adventures. Sorsha and Madmartigan are raising and protecting Elora Danan by the end of the movie. As the child grows, surely others will come for her, too, eager to control that power and the prophecies that may rise around her. Sorsha and Mardmartigan go into battle again and again. Magic brings new monsters. Willow needs their help. Terrible storms come onto the lands and they must find a way to survive. Sorsha before the movie, so desperate for her mother's approval, fighting (and fucking?) her way through the world.
Alternate universes and crossovers. Sorsha and all the women warriors from other fandoms. IN SPACE! Weird west. They’re turned into wolves instead of pigs, or another predator, and the traits of that predator lingers. Bavmorda banishes Elora, and Sorsha and the team have to find another way to defeat her. Superheroes. Monster hunters.
Love and romance and sex! We survived celebratory sex. Fighting turns to fucking. We’re raising a princess and have a castle at our disposal, how many places can we fuck without being caught. Sorsha topping the hell out of Madmartigan, and Madmartigan loving it. Sorsha topping the hell out of both Madmartigan and Airk, Mardmartigan loving it, and Airk loving it despite himself. Enemies to lovers. Sex magic.
I ship Sorsha/Madmartigan and Sorsha/Madmartigan/Airk.
Community Challenge: Battle of the Bands
Details about this year's community challenge can be found here. I'm interested in Battle of the Bands for all of my requested fandoms. I'm open to creators drawing inspiration from any song, really, but below the cut are some of my favorites from the list.
"Animal" by Three Days Grace
"Baby Outlaw" by Elle King
"Bad Moon Rising" by Thea Gilmore (cover) or Creedence Clearwater Revival
"Glitter and Gold" by Barns Courtney
"Bat Out of Hell" by Meat Loaf
"Castle" by Halsey
"Confident" by Demi Lovato
"Devil Went Down to Georgia" by Charlie Daniels Band
"Do Not Disturb" by Halestorm (CHECK OUT THE VIDEO TO THIS IT IS SO GREAT)
"Go Crazy" by Leslie Odom Jr.
"Handlebars" by Flobots
"Hurt" by Johnny Cash (cover)
"I Would Do Anything for Love (But I Won't Do That)" by Meat Loaf
"Lil Red Riding Hood" by Sam the Sham and the Pharaohs and Bowling for Soup (cover)
"My Songs Know What You Did in the Dark" by Fall Out Boy
"Raise Your Banner" by Within Temptation
"Salute" Little Mix
"Shut Up and Dance" by Walk the Moon
"Teeth" by 5 Seconds of Summer
"Wolf Like Me" TV on the Radio
"You Should See Me in a Crown" by Billie Eilish
Dear Trick or Treat Creator,
It’s my favorite time of year: horror and Halloween and fall weather and Trick or Treat.
Below, I provide Do Not Wants and general likes, then fandom-specific details. If there is a discrepancy between the DNWs and general likes and the fandom-specific information, go with the fandom-specific information. Mixing and matching fandoms and prompts more than welcome, as is making any prompt a trick or a treat.
My absolute favorite things: werewolves, crossovers and alternate universes, and monsters and magic.
I requested fic and tricks and treats. For the freeform tags: I am interested in extra gifts for the community challenge that don’t fit my requests. You may ignore my art/fic preferences for extra gifts.
My AO3 name is also
General Likes
+ stories about women, including f/f, gen, and het
+ werewolves, werewolf packs as families, and werewolf alternate universes in any canon
+ Halloween and horror movies, particularly horror movie alternate universes in any canon
+ chosen families and adoption stories where adoption is treated as totally normal, adoption and chosen families = real families, and the adoption is not a BIG DRAMATIC SECRET
+ alternate universes, a non-exhaustive list: werewolves, witches and witch hunters, IN SPACE, horror movies, haunted summer camps, ghost hunters (including this state-mandated idea), portal fantasies, monsters, canon divergence, weird west/wild west (I particularly like the outlaw feel of it, untamed and wild, big spaces with nowhere to hide, big woods claustrophobic around you, danger at every turn, as long as the AU avoids the magical Indian/savage Indian/white savior bullshit that can show up in weird west and westerns in general)
+ polyam families, threesomes, foursomes, and moresomes, in all configurations (Vs, triangles, dodecahedrons)
+ monsters of the week, casefic, adventure stories, mysteries
+ friends and family teaming up to save the world, particularly on road trips
+ crossovers and fusions so long as my requested characters are the main characters
+ tropes, a non-exhaustive list: wilderness survival, huddling for warmth, forced proximity, friends to lovers, enemies to friends (to lovers), there’s only one bed oh no, fake dating, survival horror, abandoned ships, burial at sea, burial by fire, crashed on a deserted island, ghost ships, not-so-safe harbour, locked-room mysteries, came back wrong
+ kink (female top/dom only except for biting and bloodplay): biting, light bondage, impact play, rough body play, bloodplay for supernatural characters, fireplay, marking, sensory overload, orgasm denial/control, pegging
Do Not Wants
+ characters dealing with racism, sexism, homophobia, biphobia, transphobia, fat hate, or ableism within the story
+ character bashing or villainizing
+ rape, non-con, and dub-con
+ embarrassment/humiliation
+ animal cruelty or death (except for Tricks where it would be appropriate for farm animals or wild animals to be harmed by a non-human monster -- no matter what, though, no harm to dogs)
+ permanent character death for my requested characters
+ incest
+ big age difference in romantic relationships (except for supernatural characters), particularly an older man/younger woman
+ a/b/o or werewolf stories with Big Tough Alpha Male tropes
+ pregnancy, including mpreg
+ spiders, especially in art
Requests
There are spoilers below for each of my requests, which are:
Dog Soldiers (2002): Megan
Down in the Library Basement - Rona Vaselaar: Cassie
Mortel (TV 2019): Luisa Manjimbe
Silver Bullet (1985): Jane Coslaw
Tremors (1990): Rhonda LeBeck
Trick 'r Treat (2008): Laurie
Willow (1988): Sorsha
Dog Soldiers (2002): Megan
Source material: Fun, bloody British werewolf movie about soldiers on a training assignment who run into werewolves.
What I like: I mean, werewolves. Also, there are some fun character interactions between the soldiers and them and Megan. It’s slightly gory, has some clever moments and great visuals, and the werewolves are absolutely brutal.
Prompts:
Megan backstory. We get a little of it in the movie, and if we take her at her word: she’s a zoologist and came to study the wildlife two years before the events of the movie; specifically, she heard the stories about people disappearing in the woods and went looking. And boy did she find something. At some point, obviously she was bitten and became a reluctant werewolf.
I’m curious about what it was like for her during those two years, both before she became a werewolf and after. What did she expect to find when she came looking? She’s a zoologist, not a cryptozoologist, so if she wasn’t looking for something supernatural, what was it? Or was she looking for the supernatural? Was she trying to prove werewolves exist?
She did not want to be a werewolf and the movie makes it seem like they’re putting her out of her misery when the soldiers kill her. How hard would those first few months have been after becoming an unwilling killer, especially one who eats humans? Was there anything she liked about being a werewolf even if the pack and the eating people part wasn’t great?
When she finally starts shifting, the way she talks about it can be interpreted as her falling into embracing the violence of it all, of what she is, and I’d love to see more of that.
Worldbuilding. I’d love to see more of the world, too. The werewolves are interesting, and look a little strange. They keep a dog as a pet, and they play with their food (they throw a freaking cow carcass into the camp to fuck with the soldiers before they even start attacking!), and they are extra sensitive to bright light flashing in their eyes. They eat humans, but do they have to? There’s not silver in their house, but does that mean it works on them or does it mean they eat humans and don’t give a fuck about fancy flatware? Are there packs of werewolves hunting in woods in other places? What other things exist?
Canon divergence and alternate universes. What if she lived? A werewolf final girl would be amazing. Now she’s stronger and faster and harder to kill; she knows the supernatural exists; she’s a zoologist: Megan hunting all sorts of monsters, to prove they exist, to save them, to stop them, whatever. Werewolves in space are great.
I don’t really ship Megan with anyone in the movie, but I loved Sarge and mostly loved Cooper, and I would be down for seeing her with either or both of them. Or with any werewolf woman from any other canon I know, and probably the ones I don’t, too.
Down in the Library Basement - Rona Vaselaar: Cassie
Source Material: A story posted to NoSleep in three parts (one, two, three) and then adapted to a podcast episode of NoSleep (story starts around 4:00) (and it is GREAT). Cassie steps in to run a small-town library while her mother is out on medical leave, and she finds something terrifying and wonderful in the basement.
What I like: Despite my spider DNW and arachnophobia, I love the hell out of this story. Cassidy is a joy, as is her character growth: She goes from reluctantly working in the library and being terrified of the thing in the basement to loving her work and being fiercely protective of their monster. The rest of the characters are fun, too, particularly the librarians who show up to help save the day.
While this is basically an exception to my DNW, please don’t go into detailed descriptions of the monster in the basement.
Prompts:
Post-story adventures. Cassie's basically a librarian for life by the end of the story and a bunch of librarians at other libraries have library protectors of their own, plus at least some of them came to help fight a monster. It can't be the only monster out there. What does Cassie get up to with the other librarians and their libraries? Do Cassie, her mother, and the other librarians form a team to hunt down the creatures that aren't safe, that are truly monsters, and protect the world? Do they use their library protectors to help?
It's easy for people to look at the library protectors as monsters. What happens when people try to take one out? How does Cassie protect it? Does she teach people that it is safe or does she fight back or does she hide them or what?
Not all of the creatures are safe. There’s one particular one in the story that is a maneater, but there are likely more out there, too. I really want to see Cassie, her mother, and the other librarians forming a team to hunt them down and protect the world, using the safe creatures to help.
Worldbuilding. This is such a strange, interesting world, and I want to see more of it. These are basically giant spiders and therefore terrifying, and worse, some of them are maneaters. Kids disappear. Kids are eaten. What kind of path of horror do they spread? Once the big male in Cassie's town has been killed, does that open them up to attacks by others? Is there another spate of kids gone missing?
These are basically giant spiders and therefore terrifying and some of them are maneaters. Kids disappear. Kids are eaten. Tell me a horror story about one in another town, or one coming to this town now that the big male has been killed. (I still can’t believe how much I want a horror story about a giant spider.)
Crossovers and alternate universes. While I always love crossovers, I think this canon in particular sets itself up with great crossover potential, because many other canons have libraries, either front and center or in the background, and real world, there are so many different types of libraries to choose from. Plus librarians in space! Librarians in the weird, wild west! Librarians inside technology when humanity has gone into the machine!
Romance. Cassie seems absolutely delighted by some of the women who come to hunt the big maneating monster. Does she hook up with them? If she gets serious with someone who isn't already a librarian in the know, at what point does she tell them about the guardian of her library? Does she ever? If she doesn't, do they accidentally find out? Dating while hiding monsters and possibly monster hunting can be tough, and it could go very, bloodily wrong.
I ship Cassie with pretty much any woman ever, in her canon and in any other canon I know, except for her mother.
Mortel (TV 2019): Luisa Manjimbe
Source material: French tv show about two teenage boys who receive superpowers and flounder their way through trying to solve the mystery of a brother’s disappearance, along with a bunch of other things. Luisa has to save the day.
What I like: There’s a fun, dramatic supernatural surface layer and beneath that a much more serious, realistic layer that deepens the story and the characters and grounds them in real-world issues (racism, mental illness, familial lies). I love the way those stories mix. Mostly, though I love the characters. Sofiane is reckless and brave and obsessed with finding his brother even though his family life was not all that great when the brother was still around, Victor in all his broken vulnerability and fighting to get things out through his art, and Luisa just being the best all around. She throws herself into her grandmother’s work so she can help Victor and Sofiane even when she’s reluctant, she has some sort of epic responsibility, and also she saved the fucking day at the end. And, you know, strange, kind of terrible powers in this world, love them.
Prompts:
I would happily read about Luisa doing pretty much anything. Reconnecting with her other friends and drawing new boundaries. Teaming up with Melanie on school adventures or monster adventures or anything. Learning more about her grandmother’s past and her own future. Saving the day again and again and again (shoving people out windows, running them over with a car, using her powers, anything). Loud parties or quiet parties with Victor and Sofiane.
Alternate universes. OT3 monster hunting! Luisa and witches. Luisa and werewolves. Luisa and haunted houses. Luisa and creepy forests. Luisa on the moors with monsters. Luisa saving the world while the boys are trying, but, you know, they’re not all that good at this.
I ship Luisa/Victor/Sofiane and Luisa/Melanie.
Silver Bullet (1985): Jane Coslaw
Source material: Movie adaptation of The Cycle of the Werewolf by Stephen King.
What I like: Werewolves. Jane’s complicated relationship with Marty. Jane not believing but still going along with helping Marty because she’s the big sister and then actually believing.
Prompts:
Adventures. Jane’s life after knowing werewolves are real and being a part of killing one. Jane and Marty hunting more werewolves together or other monsters. Tracking down legends to see what’s real and what’s not. Marty + Jane road trip checking out monster stories across the country, complete with hitchhiking ghosts and creepy deserts and full moons rising each month.
Family. The Coslaw family has complicated dynamics, particularly between siblings (Jane’s mother and uncle, Jane and Marty). What does Jane and Marty's relationship look like after this? She's struggled with loving him and with her role as his older sister needing to protect him, but after the werewolf fight, she can tell him she loves him and they have grown closer. Does that last? Does going back to normalcy change things yet again? Does one of them get obsessed with proving other monsters exist while the other tries to talk them down?
Alternate universes. Clearly I’m a fan of werewolves in space and weird west stories. Jane in different urban legends. Jane becomes a werewolf herself. Jane was the werewolf all along. Jane versus a siren.
I don’t ship Jane with anyone specifically, but I can get behind her with werewolf hunters from other canons.
Tremors (1990): Rhonda LeBeck
Source material: US horror comedy movie about underground monsters hunting via vibrations and the people trying to survive.
What I like: Rhonda forever. She’s a nerdy seismologist who is smart and brave and daring. Underground monsters hunting via vibrations are terrifying and perfect. The mix of humor and horror.
Prompts:
More monsters. Rhonda using science to track down more monsters. Rhonda trying to explain her findings to the university where she studies. Rhonda becoming part of grad-student lore with all her monster stories. Rhonda bonding with Mindy throughout the years as Mindy grows up knowing that sometimes monsters do exist and science can help save you. Rhonda bonding with Heather over survival and prepping.
Alternate universes and crossovers. Rhonda the monster hunter. Worm-creatures in space. With all the dust and desert and horse riding, this could easily be an older weird west story without even as much technology as they have. Rhonda’s brought in when seismological events start hinting at trouble for Jurassic World.
I ship Rhonda/Val/Earl.
Trick 'r Treat (2008): Laurie
Source material: US anthology horror movie. Requested characters are from “Surprise Party,” a werewolf first time story.
What I like: Werewolves. Vicious, violent, vivacious women who are werewolves. The way sisters and sister-friends fight and bond. Werewolf traditions.
Prompts:
Laurie and her chosen family. Do they consider each other a pack? Is that even how werewolves work here? Laurie’s young and they tease her a lot, but there’s plenty of love between them. There are many Halloweens to come, and all of them bathed in blood. They aren’t always hunting and killing, and slice of life around the violence (including the violence, maybe).
Worldbuilding. Werewolves hunting their prey. Sometimes in neighborhoods full of people. Sometimes in secluded woods. Does silver work on them? Other rituals beyond the special “first time” and the Halloween feast. Are werewolves only women and do they only hunt men?
Alternate universes and crossovers. Clearly I love werewolves in space. Laurie and her sister-friends team up with women werewolves in any other fandom. Weird west werewolves choosing first time victims from outlaws and gunslingers.
I ship Laurie with any of the other werewolves in the movie as well as with any woman werewolf from another fandom.
Willow (1988): Sorsha
Source material: US fantasy movie about a baby destined to save the world, an evil queen determined to destroy her, and the people on either side.
What I like: Everything. Sorsha and her swords, her prowess in battle, her drive to prove herself to a mother who disregards her at every turn and uses her only for her power. How shocked she is when Madmartigan compliments her while he’s under the spell, and her anger when it goes away. The way she turns on her mother to save the world.
The worldbuilding, the magic and warriors and brave Willow and just everything.
Prompts:
More adventures. Sorsha and Madmartigan are raising and protecting Elora Danan by the end of the movie. As the child grows, surely others will come for her, too, eager to control that power and the prophecies that may rise around her. Sorsha and Mardmartigan go into battle again and again. Magic brings new monsters. Willow needs their help. Terrible storms come onto the lands and they must find a way to survive. Sorsha before the movie, so desperate for her mother's approval, fighting (and fucking?) her way through the world.
Alternate universes and crossovers. Sorsha and all the women warriors from other fandoms. IN SPACE! Weird west. They’re turned into wolves instead of pigs, or another predator, and the traits of that predator lingers. Bavmorda banishes Elora, and Sorsha and the team have to find another way to defeat her. Superheroes. Monster hunters.
Love and romance and sex! We survived celebratory sex. Fighting turns to fucking. We’re raising a princess and have a castle at our disposal, how many places can we fuck without being caught. Sorsha topping the hell out of Madmartigan, and Madmartigan loving it. Sorsha topping the hell out of both Madmartigan and Airk, Mardmartigan loving it, and Airk loving it despite himself. Enemies to lovers. Sex magic.
I ship Sorsha/Madmartigan and Sorsha/Madmartigan/Airk.
Community Challenge: Battle of the Bands
Details about this year's community challenge can be found here. I'm interested in Battle of the Bands for all of my requested fandoms. I'm open to creators drawing inspiration from any song, really, but below the cut are some of my favorites from the list.
"Animal" by Three Days Grace
"Baby Outlaw" by Elle King
"Bad Moon Rising" by Thea Gilmore (cover) or Creedence Clearwater Revival
"Glitter and Gold" by Barns Courtney
"Bat Out of Hell" by Meat Loaf
"Castle" by Halsey
"Confident" by Demi Lovato
"Devil Went Down to Georgia" by Charlie Daniels Band
"Do Not Disturb" by Halestorm (CHECK OUT THE VIDEO TO THIS IT IS SO GREAT)
"Go Crazy" by Leslie Odom Jr.
"Handlebars" by Flobots
"Hurt" by Johnny Cash (cover)
"I Would Do Anything for Love (But I Won't Do That)" by Meat Loaf
"Lil Red Riding Hood" by Sam the Sham and the Pharaohs and Bowling for Soup (cover)
"My Songs Know What You Did in the Dark" by Fall Out Boy
"Raise Your Banner" by Within Temptation
"Salute" Little Mix
"Shut Up and Dance" by Walk the Moon
"Teeth" by 5 Seconds of Summer
"Wolf Like Me" TV on the Radio
"You Should See Me in a Crown" by Billie Eilish