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rosedamask) wrote2022-01-07 10:22 pm
rosedamask) wrote2022-01-07 10:22 pm
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Chocolate Box 2022
Dear Chocolatier,
Thank you so much for writing/drawing one of these ships! I love all the ships requested here, so if you already have something in mind and want to go ahead and write or draw that, I’m really open for anywhere you’d like to go with them. But if you’d like a non-exhaustive commentary on what I love about these ships and some of the things I’d like to see in fic or art, here is my letter. I really hope there’s something here that inspires you, and that you have an amazing Chocolate Box exchange!
General Likes: fic and art of all ratings, all POVs/tenses, characters from everywhere on the moral spectrum, fairy tale elements, supernatural elements, introspection and character studies, distinctive settings and worldbuilding, mythology, symbolism, complicated or ambiguous relationships, characters going to hell and back for each other (literally or figuratively), hurt/comfort, hidden depths and dimensions (as both a character thing and a worldbuilding thing), love stories of all kinds, slow burns and slow builds, little details, hopeful endings (even for unconventional values of hopeful).
Smut Likes: first times, oral sex (especially cunnilingus and face-sitting), dirty talk and dialogue, bondage, non-lifestyle D/s, blindfolds, sensation play, hair-touching, holding hands during sex, wrists pinned to things, ordinarily restrained or composed characters letting go, intimacy, vulnerability, emotional intensity of all kinds, touch starvation, edging, body worship, kissing, lingerie and other beautiful clothes, slow undressing scenes.
DNWs: non-canon character death (unless otherwise requested), rape/noncon as the main focus (although references to canon events are fine), pregnancy/non-canon kids (unless otherwise requested), explicit content for characters under 16 (or under 18 for art), omegaverse, onscreen animal harm, ace/aro/trans/non-binary headcanons (unless otherwise requested), humiliation kink.
Fic, Art
Lily/Nina Sayers
Nina breaks my heart with her all her pink, pent-up desperation and earnestness. I also love how Lily stays so beguilingly warm and easy and generous, even when she's caught up in all the horror of the movie. Their tentative attraction to each other in the middle of Nina's breakdown is so moving to me, and I love how they contrast one another as two different faces of the Black Swan. I'd really love to see any fic or art that explored them more: as dancers, as swans, or as girlfriends.
Prompts:
- Fic or art of Nina and Lily dancing together. Maybe Thomas sends Lily to personally coach Nina on dancing Odile, or they have to do some kind of gala performance together as promotion for the company?
- Canon divergence where Lily really does come home with Nina after the club scene. How different is the sex, and does this change anything about Nina’s trajectory?
- Nina lives and she has to work with Lily on another production. Are they competing over the same role again, or do they have to dance opposite each other as different characters, like Giselle and Myrtha, or Aurora and the Lilac Fairy?
- Or, another Nina Lives AU that explores how Lily and Nina’s relationship evolves over a series of different productions of Swan Lake?
- Reckless, woozy, semi-public sex – in the studio, or the club, or the taxi, or the bathroom where they met?
- Lily has hallucinations of Nina as Odile while she’s drunk or high. I would love to see art of a normal club scene except Nina is there in full swan transformation, or fic where Lily ends up chasing down Nina’s dark side after this vision.
Fic, Art
Sandie | Alexandra Collins/Eloise "Ellie" Turner
I enjoyed the hell out of this glitzy, lurid merry-go-round of a movie, and Eloise’s totally earnest adoration of Sandie really worked for me as the contrast to the giallo drama of it all. I like their potential for tenderness and salvation and the haunting, if-only aspects of their relationship as well as all the possibilities of violence and obsession and corruption, and I would love to see any kind of exploration of them in a ghost-to-girlfriend situation.
Prompts:
- Knifeplay, or bloodplay, or anything that leans into the lurid horror imagery of the movie. Maybe Eloise has a very different reaction to visions of a blood-covered Sandie after she finds out how the blood got there, or she has a vision of Sandie killing a man where she gets to help kill him too?
- Sort of as an extension of that last prompt, I would also be into any kind of full-on murder girlfriends futurefic where Eloise finds new men for Sandie to kill, or where Sandie comes back to kill someone for Eloise’s sake.
- Any kind of hurt/comfort situation – does Eloise ever look after Sandie after some injury like breaking the mirror or cigarette burns, or rough treatment from a client? How much can Sandie actually feel when Eloise touches her in her dreams?
- Eloise and Sandie in a 1960s club, dancing or drinking together.
- Mirror sex, or dressing room sex, or any kind of romantic encounter that plays with the weirdness of all these liminal spaces where Eloise sees Sandie. Does Sandie haunt all of Eloise’s fashion shows, and does Eloise just always take a moment to visit Sandie in the mirrors backstage after a runway?
- Anything where Eloise watches Sandie perform – maybe she dreams of a private performance just for her at the Rialto, or has more visions of Sandie in fiery, surreal club from the end of the movie?
Fic, Art
Augustine the First/Mercymorn the First, Augustine the First/Cristabel Oct/Mercymorn the First
I am so weak for Augustine and Mercymorn’s whole dynamic, with their outbursts of performative hatred and performative forgiveness that both somehow belie the true depths of their messy Lyctoral codependency. Also, their toast to Cristabel and the fallout afterwards is one of the most painful, fascinating parts of the series, to me, and I would absolutely love to see their relationships to Cristabel (or Cristabel’s perspective on their relationship) explored some more.
Prompts:
- Augustine encounters the spirits of Mercymorn (and Cristabel?) in the stoma. What are they like in the belly of the (river)beast together?
- A myriad of Augustine critiquing Mercymorn’s fashion choices, with illustrations extremely welcome. (“You look like a melon” is one of my absolute favourite lines in the series.)
- Mercymorn and Augustine watch each other set up their respective houses. Do they drag each other over their tastes in civilizations, and maybe have sex at Koniortos or the court of the Eighth House just to make sure their houses start off on the wrong foot?
- Any kind of scene with Augustine and Mercymorn on the Mithraeum together – do they ever have sex over Augustine’s tasteful wooden furniture, or have to spend the night together in one of their rooms while they’re under attack? Does space madness ever get so terrible that being holed up with each other is still preferable to avoiding each other?
- Augustine and Mercymorn share a cigarette, under any pretext – a moment of mutual weariness during the Canaan House days, Mercy stealing a cigarette as an act of spite, cigarettes after sex, or on some faraway planet while they pray for their cessation together?
- Any kind of pre-Lyctorhood threesome with Cristabel, maybe in some kind of tragically ironic scenario where Cristabel tries to bequeath Mercymorn to Augustine before she sacrifices herself? Does she push for a threesome because she wants to see what Augustine and Mercymorn will be like together, or try to set them up in the hopes that Augustine will be there for Mercymorn once Cristabel is dead?
- Fic where the soul of Cristabel narrates an encounter between Augustine and Mercymorn, or art that plays around with the idea of Cristabel still being inside Mercymorn and watching her with Augustine.
- Any kind of canon divergent take on “I hope you know that one day I’ll wrench Cristabel’s rotten ghost from your corpse,” where Augustine does actually use spirit magic to bring back Cristabel in Mercy’s body.
Harrowhark Nonagesimus/Ianthe Tridentarius
I love Harrow and Ianthe as two fucked-up romantics who somehow meet in the middle and start to care about each other during their time on the Mithraeum, despite their obvious differences as a debauched cannibal princess and an achingly repressed reverend daughter. I’m so fascinated by the way that Harrow sometimes brings out something lively and tender in Ianthe, even when they’re drilling down into each other's bones, and I would be incredibly into anything for them and the odd, electrifying sisterhood they have together out in darkest space.
Prompts:
- Any fic or art of Harrow and Ianthe holed up in the Third House rooms on the Mithraeum, especially anything with more bed-sharing.
- “Perhaps there was a dark universe in which you reached for her.”
- Ianthe comes to Drearburh – maybe on a state visit, or as part of a canon divergence where Harrow had to marry into the Third instead of becoming a Lyctor, or just to be with Harrow post-canon? When is she sacrilegious, when is she unexpectedly serious? What skull design would Harrow choose for her?
- Or, conversely, Harrow on Ida. All the makeovers, all the weird Third House debauchery, maybe Ianthe also protecting Harrow from her planet’s worst backstabbers?
- Anything with Ianthe kinking on Harrow as a nun – ravishing her after she sees her perform a Ninth House ritual, vaginal use of bone rosaries? Or, alternately, more of Harrow deciding to sacramentally adore Ianthe.
- Body worship, praise kink, overstimulation. I love the contrast between Ianthe’s philosophy of conspicuous consumption as the Princess of Ida and Harrow’s intense asceticism, and would be incredibly into anything where Harrow is overwhelmed by Ianthe’s decadent more-is-more attitude towards sex.
- Necromancy used for sexual or romantic effect – maybe something where Harrow uses her knack for the aorta to stop Ianthe’s heart or induce swooning, or Ianthe using flesh magic to peel back her skin and give Harrow access to more of her bones?
- Ianthe finds a way into one of Harrow’s bubble universes during the attack on the Mithraeum.
Fic, Art
Audrey Horne/Dale Cooper
Everything about these two is just delicious: the intensity and yearning and admiration, the way they match each other as dreamy misfits, and how effortlessly old Hollywood romance melts into the romance of the everyday when they're together. I love the contrast between Cooper’s cool, slicked-back demeanor as a special agent and his volcanic attraction to Audrey, and I also love how Audrey becomes so passionate and serious in her pursuit of him, and how her love for Cooper feels almost like another kind of metaphysical force in the show. I would always love to see any kind of romance for them – getting together, first times, dreamlike encounters, reunions after their long separation.
Prompts:
- First kisses or first times set around Audrey’s undercover work at One-Eyed Jack’s. Is Cooper sent in to meet the new girl on the night they’re both undercover, and does anything happen there – or, if Cooper takes Audrey back home, does anything happen when they’re back in the relative safety of the Great Northern? For a canon divergence set later in s2, what if a hazy, drugged, relieved Audrey had the strength to try and kiss Cooper, when he came to rescue her?
- Small romantic scenes from an established relationship – kisses, mountain excursions, breakfasts in Cooper’s hotel room, talking about Hollywood conspiracies and solving mysteries as they fall asleep together.
- Any kind of canon divergence where Cooper doesn’t end up trapped in the Black Lodge at the end of s2, and gets together with Audrey sometime after the Miss Twin Peaks contest – was it Audrey’s speech that made him decide to go for it, and do they have some kind of tense, joyful get-together backstage, or after some other big event in Audrey’s life – her prom, or her graduation?
- Audrey finds a way to reach out to Cooper in the Lodge – maybe Cooper can leave the Red Room if she can take some kind of romantic or erotic possession of him? Or maybe the Giant visits her after she prays to see Cooper again, in a reversal of what happened when she was held hostage at One-Eyed Jack’s?
- Return-era reunions in the real world. What’s their first kiss like, after their separation? Is it instant rekindling or do they have to reassure each other they still want each other as much as ever, even as older, darker, more damaged people? Do they get married, or rediscover the world together, in roadhouses and jazz clubs and hotels in different cities?
- More surreal, otherworldly reunions set between seasons or around s3 – a Return-era scene where Cooper is on the road and finds Audrey on a dark highway somewhere, or desperate semi-public sex at some version of the Roadhouse?
- A slow dance at the Roadhouse, or the Lodge, or an abandoned ballroom, a la this scene from Phantom Thread.
Audrey Horne/Dale Cooper/Laura Palmer
I’m endlessly fascinated by all the different connections that Audrey, Cooper and Laura have with each other across life and death, dreams and decades. I love how Audrey and Cooper are haunted by Laura, how they get closer to each other as they investigate her death and yet how they also start to understand (and fall for?) Laura in all her bright-dark complexity. I also love how Audrey and Laura are both the girl of Cooper’s dreams, one in each world. I would love to see anything that explores them as an OT3, in any time, in any world.
Prompts:
- Sometime around s1/s2, Audrey and Cooper find themselves in the same dreams with Laura. Or, sometime after Cooper’s dream in s1, Audrey opens up about her complex relationship with Laura and tells him that Laura was the last person she kissed – does Cooper tell her that Laura was the last person he kissed too, or try to help Audrey enter a lucid dream where she can say goodbye to Laura?
- Fanart based on this photograph by Larry Fink: https://64.media.tumblr.com/7030bd1767b1eb2c24303e2cf311106a/2395b571b6a96e23-bc/s1280x1920/771b33ac0a8dfa6af7fbb55815591e201c41abf7.jpg
- Surreal, unexpected reunions set around s3. Audrey wakes up in/finds a way into the Odessa universe? Laura and Cooper visit the Roadhouse and find Audrey there? Kisses on the shores of the purple sea, or scratchy records and threesomes at the Fireman's house, or even some kind of White Lodge encounter?
- Encounters in the Black Lodge – as erotic or esoteric as you like. Does Audrey end up passing through the Lodge during her coma, or while she’s drugged at One-Eyed Jack’s, and see Laura and Cooper there together? Does she dream of them there for years between seasons? Does Laura reach out to her somehow, and lead her out into Glastonbury Grove?
- Laura never dies, but she and Audrey still meet Cooper somehow – perhaps he gets asked to investigate their disappearance after they run away from Twin Peaks together?
Audrey Horne/Laura Palmer
Even though they were never on screen together, I love all the fraught, complicated possibilities of Audrey and Laura, not exactly friends but still caught up in some kind of haunting, formative girlhood connection. I love Audrey’s fascination with Laura, and how clear-eyed she is about (at least some of) Laura’s issues even with the distance between them. I also love this never stops her from being drawn to Laura as a person, or from looking for some kind of spiritual connection to her (she went to church for her!). I would love to see anything that explores their whole strange, unnameable attraction – pre-canon scenes from their lives, or supernatural encounters, or AUs where they make it beyond high school together.
Prompts:
- Audrey and Laura out in the mountains or the woods – do they skip school to go up there one day, or meet there at a party one night and slip away to be alone with each other? I would also really love any fanart takes on this inspired by this photo series: https://thisisnthappiness.com/post/190043960639/some-girls-madeleine-morlet
- Any kind of intimate moment from their ski trip. Does Audrey ever sneak into Laura’s bed one night, or do they need to huddle for warmth after doing something reckless? Alternately, is there a lot of passive-aggressive playing nice in front of their families, and aggressive making out once they're out of sight?
- Slow days (or nights) at the Great Northern, where Audrey and Laura are pushed toward each other by boredom and family tension and their own attraction to one another - smoking together, listening to records, defending each other from their parents?
- Hurt/comfort or sexual experimentation after a brush with the seamier side of life in Twin Peaks. An AU where Laura takes Audrey to the Pink Room, or where Audrey follows Laura to One-Eyed Jack's one night? Audrey stumbles across Laura while she’s still high or hurt from a night at Leo’s cabin, and tries to look after her as best as she can?
- Anything for an AU where Laura never died. Does she get closer to Audrey after high school, as runaways, or college students, or just as two women still stuck in Twin Peaks? If they run away together, what triggers it, and what kind of journey out of town do they have? If they stay in Twin Peaks, do they inevitably see each other drinking alone at the Roadhouse more and more as the years pass, until they eventually move closer into each other's orbit?
- Supernatural encounters after Laura’s death – does Laura come to visit Audrey in her coma, or while she’s drugged at One-Eyed Jack’s, or do they ever meet in the Black Lodge?