Summer Of Horror Dear Creator Letter

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Hello spooky friend! Thank you for reading my letter. Here you can find some of my general thoughts on horror likes/dislikes, and some fandom specific prompts!

Treats welcome!

Horror likes:
- Psychological horror/horror focused on emotion: I love when horror stories focus on how characters *feel* (How do they deal with being afraid? How do they cope with and parse through unnatural situations? I love when horror really explores unusual and odd states of mind)
-cosmic/eldritch horror: I love when horror elements feel really big, mysterious, and incomprehensible
-Unexpected little moments of levity/humor/tenderness in horror scenarios
-Creative monster designs
-Dark or twisted retellings of fairytales/folklore/existing stories
-"Final girl" type catharsis/characters pulling their way through survival scenarios
- First person horror narration/in-universe "found footage" documents
-Horror where "becoming the monster" is the good ending and something the characters accept and want
-In horror art I really love ~atmosphere~

In general I'm pretty robust to gore and body horror so feel free to go crazy with those if you like (see DNWs for my hard limits about this). I'm also OK with a bit of smut in my horror (I do like horror with a lot of sexual tension and sometimes it's neat to see that acted upon) - my main limit here is I prefer to keep my smut and my extreme gore separate, though I am excited about both independently.

General Likes:
- hurt/comfort (and hurt no comfort >:D )
- pining and slow-burn
- pre-slash and other fic where couples are not quite together yet/in the process of getting together
- polyamory (and poly relationship negotiation)
- messy/imperfect relationships and characters just being a mess
- shipped characters as exes
- trust kink / loyalty kink
- angst and existential angst
- power dynamics with sexual tension (not necessarily acted upon, but could be!)
- nemeses being forced to team up
- queer headcanons, especially transmasc headcanons
- fae bullshit (generally into fae aus or recasting characters in traditional ballads and that sort of thing)
- scenes that are dark/violent but also surprisingly wholesome
- deleted scenes/alternate interpretations of canon scenes

Art likes:
- trippy colors
- limited or monochrome color palates
- intense black linework/crosshatching
- art deco, art nouveau, german expressionism, medieval woodcut style
- cyberpunk and glitch art
- religious motifs
- classical art references
- Comics!! And other storytelling mediums

Smut likes:
- characterization revealed by sex / plot relevant sex (less of a fan of PWP)
- fingering/handjobs as the climactic sex act
- nipple play
- kink discovery
- rough sex/fighting which becomes sexual (love love love when this is combined with kink discovery in a “characters fighting realize they’re both into it” kinda way)
- bondage/restraint
- Ghost sex/magic sex
- Hands (and too many hands)

Do Not Wants:
- A/B/O
- violent noncon (dubcon fine)
- jealousy/possessiveness played as proof of a character’s love (cool as something creepy or unhealthy or as a horror element! Or as something the characters are working through) 
- legal marriage as main focus of a romance story
- mommy/daddy kink, ageplay, or sexualized infantilization
- sexualized feminization/forced feminization
- sexual submission framed as a character needing to “relax” or “turn off their brain”
- bimbofication/kink where becoming horny or hotter makes a character “dumber”
- pregnancy kink
- weight-gain kink or food-related kink
- referring to men’s chests as “tits”
- eye trauma in art (described in fic is fine)
- guro/sexually explicit gore (ok with: some blood in a sexy scene, extreme sexual tension with extreme violence. Not ok with: woundfucking, genital/nipple mutilation, total nudity and extreme gore, characters with life-threatening injuries having sex)

Fandom Specific Prompts

Revolutionary Girl Utena

Mikage Souji

I am so in love with the whole horror vibes of the Black Rose Saga - the creepy basements! the ominous pointing hands! the giant morgue basement! the whole eerie abandoned feel of Nemuro Memorial Hall!
I'm kind of taken with the "Mikage is a ghost" interpretation of Utena, so horror exploring that could be cool - How does Mikage feel about realizing he's already dead? Is there evidence before his duel with Utena? How did he die - and does he remember that?
Mikage's also really seen some shit and done some shit in his life, so psychological horror getting into any of it could be cool - the Nemuro Memorial Hall fire, his relationship with Mamiya, the creation of the dueling arena...
I'm also a big fan of the time-fuckery of Ohtori academy and would love something with that played as a horror element

The Haunting of Hill House

Eleanor, Theodora, or Eleanor & Theodora

ngl I ship Eleanor and Theodora a lot, but I'm interested in their dynamic in any sort of way: an unrequited crush in either direction, unacted romantic tension, acted romantic tension, as two strangers finding each other, and as two sort-of-friends who kind of hate each other.
For Eleanor, I'm obsessed with her relationship with Hill House. I've always sort of thought she becomes a ghost in the house after canon (or has she always been?) - what does that look like? Do new people ever come to Hill House, and how does she interact with them? Or does Theodora ever come back? 
For Theodora, I think it would be really cool to see a section of canon from her point of view? How does she feel about Hill House? Is she only scared of it, or is there something attractive to her about it? How does she feel about Eleanor? It could be especially cool to see a moment where she seeks out Eleanor for comfort - does she appreciate it, or somewhat resent it, or both? 
For art, I would love to see your ideas about what Hill House looks like! Or maybe something that plays on 1950s horror pulp art styles? 

We Have Always Lived In The Castle

Merricat, Constance, or Merricat and Constance

I'd love to see more of this story from Constance's point of view! Merricat is such an interesting and unreliable narrator, and I'd love to hear your take on where she is correct about what Constance and what she isn't - what does Constance's extreme agoraphobia look like from inside her own head? 
I'm also interested in how you think the people in town continue to think about and tell the story of Merricat and Constance - some in universe urban legends about the house (especially after the fire) could be cool.

A Field In England

Thank you, by the way, to whoever nominated this, I frigging love this movie and seeing it on the noms made my day!

This movie has such impeccable vibes and I'd love to see how you translate the trippiness of it into fic or art! I'd love anything which integrates copious mushroom imagery and lore. I also love the religious imagery and blasphemy of the film and would be really into an exploration of the different character's beliefs about religion, and how those beliefs are challenged in the face of magic and horror (Whitehead existential crisis about Christianity every day every day we love a good Anglican boy having an existential crisis) 

Whitehead and O'Neill's dynamic is so fascinating to me. If you wanna take this in a shippy/smutty direction...I'll just say, I really do see the sexual tension. But I'm also just both so amused and interested in O'Neill's particular attitude of "it's useful to my nefarious purposes to keep this guy drugged and out of it so he will be my pawn, but fuck if it doesn't make him kinda hard to work with that he's just high as balls all the time."

I'm kinda into the interpretation that there isn't actually any magic in the Field In England universe and they just all think there is 'cause they're high on shrooms. But I'm also interested in an interpretation where there is - and I'd love to hear your thoughts on what medieval alchemical magic looks like!

Also, I'm a huge sucker for period details and especially the English Civil War background setting of this film, so if you wanna bring in period language/historically accurate Puritan or Anglican religious imagery/alchemy or 1600s science that would rock so hard

Jennifer's Body

Oh man the Jennifer and Needy dynamic in this movie is just so fire: the whole "friend you're a little jealous of but also a little in love with but also maybe realizing she's not a good person, but also maybe now she's a succubus who kills people" thing is sooooooo good. I would love to see anything from Needy's pov parsing out her confused feelings about Jennifer now that she's a terrifying monster. But I'm also curious about Jennifer's relationship with Needy - what does she still Needy for? is she an audience? A tether to humanity? is she attracted to her (and does she like that she is?) Could be cool to see a scenario where they end up acting on the sexual tension a little more than they do in the movie - but hey, it's also just fun to see them think about it! Bonus points if the real horror was the internalized homophobia, I guess

Twa Corbies

Yeah yeah yeah traditional ballad horror!! I am here for any sort of expansion on/exploration of the story in the ballad that you want to go for! Are the Corbies just normal ravens, or are they more than that (some sort of supernatural being?) I really dig this ballad as a sort of dissonant horror/humor scenario - I love the corbies' flippant approach to the concept of death

I really like the version of the ballad by Maddie Prior for horror vibes: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x5Ik8OrT2AU

Evangelion


For any Evangelion characters, I would love to see bad endings!! The more completely apocalyptic the better!

Misato, Ritsuko, Misato & Ritsuko

I'd love to see more about what these two were up to behind all of the trippness that happened during the end of the series - especially a scenario where the two of them end up together at the end of everything. Misato and Ritsuko final-girl-ing it together through an apocalypse survival horror scenario? What do the two of them decide to do when they realize that the third impact is inevitable and there's no longer any chance of either of them making it out alive? (I very much parse Misato and Ritsuko as exes who are maybe always kinda on the cusp of getting back together but know it's a bad idea - but honestly I'm down for any sort of shipping or non-shipping dynamic with them!)

I'd also be excited about seeing things from either of their perspectives in a less immediately apocalyptic moment - how are they coping or crumbling under the stress of the slowly approaching end of the world?

Kaworu, Shinji & Kaworu

So so so fascinated with Kaworu and is seeming ambivalence towards the role he's going to play in the coming apocalypse. I'd love to see more from the inside of his head and his thoughts about humanity. I'd also like to see Kaworu in full Biblically-Accruate-Angel BE NOT AFRAID mode. Any and all biblical/Relevations motifs so welcome here

For Shinji and Kaworu, I've been thinking a lot about the Hozier song NFWMB, if that helps as inspiration!