Trick or Treat Letter 2018

[telm_393]

Dear Trick or Treat writer,

 

Thank you for writing for me! All of my prompts are optional. If you want to write for any of the fandoms just by mixing and matching my likes or just plucking one of the likes from my list, I’ll love it. If your ideas suddenly go in unexpected directions, go with it (as long as it doesn’t hit a DNW).

  

DNWs

 

• Non-con or dub-con between canon characters
• Explicit sexual content (I do not count description/depiction of sexual attraction, making out, heavy petting, or fade to black explicit sexual content)
• Character bashing 
• Broken bones
• A/B/O
• Oviposition
• Unrequested AUs
• Genderswap 
• First person POV
• Shipfic/fic based around romance

 

Likes

 

• Hurt/comfort, especially when there’s more focus on the comfort than hurt
• Darkfic 
• Mental breakdowns/sanity slippage
• Illnesses (physical and mental)
• Sickfic
• Torture and/or non-con aftermath and/or recovery
• Aftermath of and/or recovery from pretty much any kind of trauma imaginable really (abuse, assault, violence in general…whatever you want)
• Dark pasts and repression/suppression of the emotional consequences of those dark pasts (you can go for pretty much anything that doesn’t hit a DNW for those dark pasts—past abuse of any kind, self-harm, serious illness, suicide attempts, go nuts)
• Heart-to-hearts/characters baring their souls to each other
• Protectiveness
• Devoted friendships and loyalty
• Found family, especially dysfunctional found families

 

 

All of those likes apply no matter the tone of the canon. I love angsty/dark/h/c fic for light-hearted/comedy canons, is what I’m saying. That's why I chose 'trick' for all my canons! Also, I know that we matched on characters, but if you want to include any other main characters from whichever canon as major or minor characters, I'm all for it! As you can tell from my likes, I love friendship. 

I'm asking for just fic for all of these. For the canons I only have 'trick' chosen for, I'd be happy to get treats that are...'treats'! Also, I know that some of these canons are ongoing and will be airing new episodes during the writing period--don't worry, if you want to include something from the new material, I'll be keeping up!

Also also, some of these fandoms have more prompts than others. That says nothing about how much I want the fandom, only that I had more prompt ideas for it. I also know that some of the characters have more prompts than others. If we matched on a character I almost didn't mention, that was not on purpose and I promise I love the character as much as any other. 


FANDOMS

Trial & Error (2017)

Trick OR Treat
Any

[There are some spoilers for season 2 here.]


On a shipfic note--I like Carol Anne/Josh, though I'd still rather fic not be romance-focused. You can include Princess Anne or not. 


Trick ideas:

- Anne's grandmother's death and Anne's discovery of her inappropriate emotional expression!

- Anne's conditions in general! If you want to go scary with it, maybe she develops a new one, and it's...particularly frightening.

- There are actually vampires in East Peck!

- Dwayne's mother died two months before he was born. In the podcast, we figure out that she actually died two weeks before he was born, and biology is a lie. So, Dwayne was literally born in a morgue to a dead woman...there has to be some kind of horror plot to come out of that. Hell, even just a retelling of the story of his birth would be horrifying! Maybe it's also left him with some abilities. Talking to the dead stuff, etc. I'm just spitballing here, just do with it what you will.

- There's a zombie apocalypse! Turns out East Peck is kinda the place to be. Carol Anne's great at zombies.

Don't be afraid to go full dark humor with these if that's where it takes you, or to go melancholy/dark/whatever with one of the treat ideas.


Treat ideas:

- Okay, but, concept: a firm Halloween party! There are only three people in the firm, yes, but they make it work. Who decides that they're going to have a Halloween party? Is it Dwayne? Does Josh secretly love Halloween and get super, super into it? Is Carol Anne invited, and does she actually come?

- What's trick or treating like in East Peck? What's Halloween in general like in East Peck? Do their thoughts on witchcraft and sorcery in general inform their opinion? 


- Taking Anne's daughter out trick or treating!


- Taking Princess Anne trick or treating over the years! 

- You don't have to do something Halloween focused! Maybe have Josh go antiquing, possibly with company, because there's no way he doesn't scour flea markets and thrift shops and antique shops for his grandma interior design. Where on earth did he find that tea set? Does Carol Anne judge his interior design choices?

Or give Dwayne a boyfriend, because that would be cute. (In that situation, you can go ahead and write Dwayne/OMC shipfic. Maybe one of the cameramen falls for him, much to Cameraman's dismay and the dismay of all his colleagues, everywhere.)

- Seriously, any of my likes can act as a prompt, either for a trick or a treat.

Ghosted (TV)

Trick 
Max Jennifer
Leroy Wright

[Vague spoilers for the entire series here.]


Well, this is a perfect canon for this exchange, because obviously.

Note if you decide to set it during canon: I know that the continuity is a little confusing with the retool, and you can set it anywhere you want, even though I'd slightly--but only slightly, because I would love anything for this show--prefer you set it pre-retool (when LaFrey is director and there's the monster of the week plot, you can include the last episode aired too) and kinda ignore everything else. 

I love these two characters as friends and partners, so if you want to write friendship, please go for it. 

Specific prompts:

- Anything about Leroy and his partner and how it was for Leroy to lose him.

- Leroy's partner comes back wrong.

- Bad run ins with very scary monsters. 

- The aliens finally invade!!! And anything based off of the plot of the last episode aired, actually. Aliens in general. 

- The alternate universes where only Max and Leroy were able to maybe save the world from the aliens. 

- Remember that any of my likes can act as a prompt.


Midnight, Texas

Trick 

Lemuel Bridger
Chuy Strong

I'm going to put the 'any of my likes can act as a prompt' disclaimer here before I even get to the prompts, because there aren't that many prompts. So, any of my likes can act as a prompt. Lem/Olivia, Chuy/Joe, and Bobo/Fiji are all a-ok with me. 

- What about that time Chuy went into his demon form and was like that for three years? You can go full shipfic for Chuy/Joe if you want. Did they move to Midnight soon after that incident? What caused Chuy to change anyway?

- Lemuel's years as a vampire before meeting Xylda, becoming more and more unhappy with the whole 'killing people' thing, getting to Midnight, meeting Olivia...basically, I loved "Lemuel, Unchained" and I want even more backstory for him. (Shipfic with Olivia is fine if you're writing about Lem.)


Chicago Med

Trick 
Connor Rhodes

Note that I like all the other main characters (plus I have a huge soft spot for Latham), and I'd be very happy to see them in a fic, but I'd rather there not be any shipping. Mentions of canon romances are fine, but it would be cool if you'd place this at a point where Connor's single, though you can definitely have the aftermath/emotional fallout of his romantic relationship/s play a part in the story.


- The ED is haunted! Or the OR is haunted! Med is haunted! Connor is haunted, and he's starting to wonder if he's losing his mind! Maybe he is! It's not up to me to decide!

- What happened the night Connor's mother killed herself? Anything about his mom's suicide would be super interesting, actually. 

- Mental illness runs in Connor's family, and he's not spared. You can go full suicide attempt if you want, honestly, but if you do I'd prefer at least a little h/c. 

- I know I'm really banging this in, but any of my likes can act as a prompt and I'll be absolutely thrilled if you go for one of them.