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May. 19th, 2020 02:56 am
Multifandom Horror Exchange 2020
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Maurice - E. M. ForsterSharp Objects (TV)
Hello! Horror is one of my favorite things, and I am so here for this exchange! This is gonna be so much fun, I know it. I’m smiling just writing the letter. Okay so for all of my requests I picked both “Emphasizing Sexual Content” and “Not Emphasizing Sexual Content” because I’m into it either way so go with whichever works better for what you decide to write for me. My AO3 is summerdayghost. If you would like anything in this letter clarified or have any questions feel free to ask through the mod. I hope you have a fantabulous exchange!
Likes
Terrible people in love
Drifters
Violence
Blood
Bruises
Casefic
Fluff with disturbing subtext
Horror presented as fluff
Straight up horror
Straight up fluff
Fridge horror
Roadtrips
Character study
Guilt
Anger
Begging
Taunting/Teasing
Dirty talk
Internal Conflict
Villain or criminal AUs
Historical AUs
Complicated and/or messed up relationships
Codependency
Loyalty
Being brought over to the dark side
Dramatic irony
All levels of consent
Manipulative relationships
Secrets
Dirtybadwrong
Power dynamics
Power imbalance
Mentor/protégé
Grand gestures (both of the poorly and well received variety)
Understated love
Oral sex
Frottage
Riding
Roleplay (the more tongue and cheek while also kinda sincere the better)
Characters being put on pedestals they can’t live up to
Frantic fully clothed take me now sex
Slow deliberate love making
Possessive sex
Cuddling
DNWs
Recreational drug use (alcohol and cigarettes are fine as are depictions of drug addiction)
Watersports/scat
Bestiality
Unrequested m/f
Unrequested trans or ace headcanons
Pregnancy
a/b/o
Marvel Cinematic Universe
A note on my stance for Infinity War/Endgame: I don’t feel strongly one way or the other about whether the fic is compliant to those two films. There were events in those films concerning my requested characters that very definitely impacted their dynamic and if you want to stick to that I would be down. However if you wanna diverge completely that’s alright with me as well. I’m kinda neutral. However, for the sake of full transparency I’ll admit that when it comes to this ship/these characters those movies simply don’t enter my mind often. When I think about this ship I’m thinking about the Guardians of the Galaxy movies and what was set up there (which btw I do feel Infinity War and Endgame derailed where those movies wanted to go pretty hard even if I don’t know what was supposed to have come next) and that’s where I tend to be coming from with my prompts. I’m only including this note because I remembered that stuff happened after the two Guardians of the Galaxy movies and I should probably address that.
Gamora/Nebula
I just love these two. So much. I’ll do my best to explain some of what I like about this ship and why without simply repeating the phrases “my heart” and “what more could I ask for” over and over. But like they’re sisters but they come from a context where sisterhood means antagonism and competition, and there are some deep scars as a result of that, but there is love between them despite that somewhere and a desire for a change from the past dynamic but it isn’t easy and they don’t necessarily see things the same way. I love it so much and I ship them so hard. Just đź’•đź’•đź’•
Requested Horror Types
Cosmic/Lovecraftian Horror
Well, I mean they are from the cosmic portion of the Marvel universe, and Ilike the idea of a space setting for Lovecraftian Horror because like this is already the unknown but now there’s even more unknown beyond that unknown.
Institutional Horror
Does being Thanos’s daughters count as an institution? It seemed more like a military system than a family. I think some great horror could be generated through focusing on that experience and the hierarchy within. Because dear god, that’s all so fucked up. Also I’m not quite sure how much younger than Gamora Nebula is supposed to be. I tend to default to the age difference of the actresses which is like nine years, but feel free to make them closer or farther apart in age if something like that would better suit your purposes. Mentioning that here due to the ways that may or may not play into the power structure.
Killer Horror
Well, they are assassins, so horror focusing on that would be lovely. Or you could go serial killer AU where murder has become something one or both of them do of their own volition or as a hobby. For this prompt I would like it in a canon setting or in a Earth/human/mundane AU (maybe even a period AU on top of that) as long as their fucked up adoptive sister dynamic is preserved when translating them to the AU.
Science-fiction Horror
I couldn’t request this pairing and not give you the option to go for science fiction horror. Like bring it on. There’s a lot of mileage to be gotten from the heartlessness of space and Nebula being a cyborg.
Maurice - E. M. Forster
Clive Durham/Maurice Hall
Oh the pains of a platonic relationship that is in truth very much not that but one person has problems with being gay and has the other person’s heart completely and would this be willingly followed into the darkof course until someone else comes along and steals that heart away to return it and runs off with them into the light. Feel free to set this during that period in canon when they were together or go canon divergence and prevent them from splitting up or from Maurice getting with Alec or not go canon divergence about those things but having them get back together after those events or any other approach you see fit. My prompts are likely kinda all over the place with where they’d fit in the timeline with this one (as well as all over the place in general). My strategy for promoting this canon was throw everything at the wall and maybe something will stick because this isn’t exactly a horror thing by nature.
Requested Horror Types
Cosmic/Lovecraftian Horror
A part of what made me want this canon for a horror exchange in the first place is pure word association. When I first read the book my first association with the name Clive was Clive Barker so I was suddenly remembering stuff from Clive Barker stories from time to time as I read it. I mention this here because I associate Clive Barker with this sort of horror.
I just think putting those sorts of themes and like ripping reality apart by the seams would be fun to put in the Edwardian era. The first thing that comes to mind is that you could do some interesting things with time. What put that in my head is from what I understand (hopefully I wasn’t being lied to) the script they shot for the film was out of chronological order (if I recall correctly, we meet Dickie Barry before we meet Clive) jumping back and forth in time. Ultimately the film was put back in chronological order during the editing process, but the fact that it wasn’t always is more than enough to make me interested in time fuckery. If there are any more fundamental concepts you would like to smash instead/as well go for it.
Folk Horror
Pendersleigh. For some reason Clive’s estate is easy for me to imagine getting twisted into a creepy little community.
Gothic Horror
This is set during the Edwardian era and I love gothic horror, so yes. Just yes. I wish I had fancier things to say about this specific prompt.
Institutional Horror
This specific prompt is gonna take a little context. I have a little story to tell about something called Dark Academia. You might already be familiar. Basically it was a genre that I would describe as a school setting with what the students are studying and/or are independently interested in showing up at least as a pretentious motif if not being directly plot relevant and also something terrible happens. The three things I can recall off the top of my head that were often cited as quintessential examples of this genre were The Secret History by Donna Tartt, The Dead Poets Society (1989) dir. Peter Weir, and Kill Your Darlings (2013) dir. John Krokidas. Those aren’t the only examples that exist (one coming to mind that fills the bill would be The Basic Eight by Daniel Handler), but those seemed to be the canons those really into this genre were super into. A few short years after stumbling across this concept I ventured into the tumblr tag once again looking for examples of this genre and kept seeing Maurice listed as an example. Which was disorientating to say the least. It seems while I wasn’t looking, Dark Academia stopped describing a genre and started describing a subculture/aesthetic. As far as I can parse it my best attempt to explain the new version is deliberately and fashionably pretentious. As long as people are having fun, I’m all for it. Parts of this canon lend well to that scene. However because of that initial shock and attempt to figure out how that made sense, I would love to see Clive/Maurice in a horror story that fits Dark Academia in the old sense, as a genre. I feel like that sort of thing marries to institutional horror quite nicely.
A completely different direction to take this would be reuniting them during WWI. Okay so I’ll admit that I don’t exactly see this canon as having a WWI. I don’t mean in an alternate history sense, but like in that this canon is so deeply rooted in a world that WWI kinda ended, so after the story ends I see life going on but also being frozen in a sense. Like not in a “It’s been 1914 for a century!” way (although if you wanted to use that concept for horror go ahead), but in there being a poetic eternity in the ending. “Maurice and Alec still roam the greenwood” and all that. The most long term detail I have in my head is Clive living to old age and never seeing Maurice again because that’s what the book indicates. I don’t know if any of that makes sense outside of my head. That being said I am willing to throw every last bit of that out the window for the sake of WWI horror. Just horror in the trenches! Horror in the trenches! Horror in the trenches! Okay so like WWI is one of my favorite wars to read about and I just think a WWI horror story would be awesome. Beyond the institutional horror I have to ask, how would a reunion under such circumstances go?
Killer Horror
Serial killer AUs are apparently things I can’t resist asking for even when I’d have no idea what they’d look like. Sorry, I’m not much help in this department, but I’d be super impressed if you did it.
Paranormal Horror
Ghosts! Maybe Clive being haunted by the ghost of Maurice or the two of them encountering vicious ghosts together or any other idea you might have? Another direction you could take is vampires. I’ve always been kinda fascinated by the homoeroticism present in a lot of old timey vampire stories. I have a lot of thoughts on that specific thing that I won’t get into here, but it definitely means adding vampires to this canon is a thing that would interest me. Although who is the vampire would be up to you.
Psychological Horror
I think Clive’s state of mind, particularly with him being gay but filled to the brim with self-loathing, denial, and repression, is something that could lend itself quite well to psychological horror. I mean it’s intense enough that he’s had multiple breakdowns over it. Other than that I really don’t have much to say about this ship and psychological horror other than YES.
Maurice Hall/Alec Scudder
When talking about this novel the author once said, “A happy ending was imperative.” I do think of Maurice/Alec and them being in love and together as that happy ending, and feel that is essential to the point/intent of this canon. That being said for the sake of this exchange there are several things you can do with that concept. You can throw it out the window entirely, have an unhappy ending or turn their relationship into a nightmare. You can make their love the light at the end of the tunnel whilst everything else is terrible. You can make them the horror and even though they are monsters they are monsters together and happy in their love. Or some other angle I haven’t thought of.
Requested Horror Types
Cosmic/Lovecraftian Horror
A part of what made me want this canon for a horror exchange in the first place is pure word association. When I first read the book my first association with the name Clive was Clive Barker so I was suddenly remembering stuff from Clive Barker stories from time to time as I read it. I mention this here because I associate Clive Barker with this sort of horror.
I just think putting those sorts of themes and like ripping reality apart by the seams would be fun to put in the Edwardian era. The first thing that comes to mind is that you could do some interesting things with time. What put that in my head is from what I understand (hopefully I wasn’t being lied to) the script they shot for the film was out of chronological order (if I recall correctly, we meet Dickie Barry before we meet Clive) jumping back and forth in time. Ultimately the film was put back in chronological order during the editing process, but the fact that it wasn’t always is more than enough to make me interested in time fuckery. If there are any more fundamental concepts you would like to smash instead/as well go for it.
I thought of this next prompt as a joke but I’m gonna ask for it seriously. So one of the most common criticisms I’ve seen for this canon, both book and film, is that people don’t buy Alec and Maurice as a couple, don’t see what they have in common, and can’t imagine them lasting in the long term. I ship it, but I absolutely see where these people are coming from. So Maurice and Alec being pushed together and kept together by an all powerful and very invested Eldritch being.
Folk Horror
My first thought for this is the greenwood that Maurice and Alec run off to and the lives they lead together within as a source of horror. Another option would be Pendersleigh. I know Maurice and Alec’s time together at Pendersleigh in canon was brief, but I do have a soft spot for fic about them set there, and I can easily imagine twisting Clive’s estate into a deeply creepy little community.
Gothic Horror
This is set during the Edwardian era and I love gothic horror, so yes. Just yes. I wish I had fancier things to say about this specific prompt.
Institutional Horror
Have you ever wanted to write a WWI horror story for Maurice/Alec? Here’s your chance. Okay so I’ll admit that I don’t exactly see this canon as having a WWI. I don’t mean in an alternate history sense, but like in that this canon is so deeply rooted in a world that WWI kinda ended, so after the story ends I see life going on but also being frozen in a sense. Like not in a “It’s been 1914 for a century!” way (although if you wanted to use that concept for horror go ahead), but in there being a poetic eternity in the ending. “Maurice and Alec still roam the greenwood” and all that. The most long term detail I have in my head is Clive living to old age and never seeing Maurice again because that’s what the book indicates. I don’t know if any of that makes sense outside of my head. That being said for fic reasons I have imagined how WWI might have impacted Alec and Maurice and my default tends to be Maurice going and Alec as a conscientious objector or neither of them going choosing to stay in the woods (those are ways I’ve seen other fic handle it that just stuck in my head I guess). Alright now that we’ve covered all of this, because WWI is one of my favorite wars to read about and I think WWI horror sounds awesome I would absolutely put all those feelings aside for the sake of WWI horror. Maybe they’re together in the trenches or maybe they aren’t but either way it is a nightmare.
Killer Horror
Serial killer AUs are apparently things I can’t resist asking for even when I’d have no idea what they’d look like. Sorry, I’m not much help in this department, but I’d be super impressed if you did it.
Paranormal Horror
Maurice and Alec still haunt the greenwood. I’m sorry I just couldn’t stop myself from phrasing it that way. But a ghost story could be super cool. Another direction you could take is vampires. I’ve always been kinda fascinated by the homoeroticism present in a lot of old timey vampire stories. I have a lot of thoughts on that specific thing that I won’t get into here, but it definitely means adding vampires to this canon is a thing that would interest me. Although who is the vampire would be up to you.
Psychological Horror
I really don’t have much to say about this ship and psychological horror other than YES.
Sharp Objects (TV)
Amma Crellin/Camille Preaker
Amma fixating on Camille, idealizing her. Amma’s murders all being in some way about Camille (even before they met because her first two victims were girls that Adora paid attention to because they reminded her of Camille). Camille’s self harm and Amma violence. The way their mother fucked them up. Amma trying to manipulate Camille. Amma getting insanely jealous about Camille. Camille trying her best to be there for Amma and do right by her and the motherhood related baggage that comes with that. Amma wanting to sleep in Camille’s bed always. All the obsession and possession. The way Camille connects Amma to dead girls she has loved in her mind. I really love basically the everything about this ship so just fuck me up tbh.
Requested Horror Types
Folk Horror
I feel like Wind Gap would be a good setting for this. Maybe something exploring the way they are both products of Wind Gap and what that means. How much can the people in Wind Gap and their actions as individuals be divided from Wind Gap as a community? It seems like the sort of town you can absolutely just write evil soaking all the way through and rotting. Also I am never the sort to pass up claustrophobic on the road fic, so if you don’t wanna go with Wind Gap specifically but do want creepy Americana and Camille and Amma in unfamiliar surroundings, fic where they’re on the run together would be a great way to achieve that, just saying.
Gothic Horror
Midwestern gothic! That could be spooky and fun. If you want to put it during a period setting my two suggestions are like 1870s-1910s because that just feels right in my heart (probably because of the whole Calhoun Day thing and there is an inextricable connection in my mind between midwestern America in that time and stuff like axe murder) and 1950s because that was an era with some real darkness running through it and it is remembered as this idealized, wholesome, and simplistic thing that never was and I have a soft spot for stuff that exposes the fucked upedness underneath that aesthetic and I feel like the themes of this canon would be great for this.
Killer Horror
I felt like this was kinda obligatory for this pairing. Maybe stuff set during canon while Camille is investigating Amma’s murders or post canon involving future murders? Maybe stuff from Amma’s POV that involves murder?
Also, serial killer AU. Yes, I know Amma is already a serial killer, but I talked to someone who had misosmosed that this was about lesbian serial killers having a torrid love affair that revolves around killing pretty girls and hurting each other, and I have wanted that ever since. Whether Camille is already a serial killer when she meets Amma or becomes one after they meet is up to you.
Psychological Horror
Amma and Camille both have such fucked up states of mind that I feel like psychological horror would be perfect for them. Don’t be afraid to get dark. I love dark.
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Maurice - E. M. ForsterSharp Objects (TV)
Hello! Horror is one of my favorite things, and I am so here for this exchange! This is gonna be so much fun, I know it. I’m smiling just writing the letter. Okay so for all of my requests I picked both “Emphasizing Sexual Content” and “Not Emphasizing Sexual Content” because I’m into it either way so go with whichever works better for what you decide to write for me. My AO3 is summerdayghost. If you would like anything in this letter clarified or have any questions feel free to ask through the mod. I hope you have a fantabulous exchange!
Likes
Terrible people in love
Drifters
Violence
Blood
Bruises
Casefic
Fluff with disturbing subtext
Horror presented as fluff
Straight up horror
Straight up fluff
Fridge horror
Roadtrips
Character study
Guilt
Anger
Begging
Taunting/Teasing
Dirty talk
Internal Conflict
Villain or criminal AUs
Historical AUs
Complicated and/or messed up relationships
Codependency
Loyalty
Being brought over to the dark side
Dramatic irony
All levels of consent
Manipulative relationships
Secrets
Dirtybadwrong
Power dynamics
Power imbalance
Mentor/protégé
Grand gestures (both of the poorly and well received variety)
Understated love
Oral sex
Frottage
Riding
Roleplay (the more tongue and cheek while also kinda sincere the better)
Characters being put on pedestals they can’t live up to
Frantic fully clothed take me now sex
Slow deliberate love making
Possessive sex
Cuddling
DNWs
Recreational drug use (alcohol and cigarettes are fine as are depictions of drug addiction)
Watersports/scat
Bestiality
Unrequested m/f
Unrequested trans or ace headcanons
Pregnancy
a/b/o
Marvel Cinematic Universe
A note on my stance for Infinity War/Endgame: I don’t feel strongly one way or the other about whether the fic is compliant to those two films. There were events in those films concerning my requested characters that very definitely impacted their dynamic and if you want to stick to that I would be down. However if you wanna diverge completely that’s alright with me as well. I’m kinda neutral. However, for the sake of full transparency I’ll admit that when it comes to this ship/these characters those movies simply don’t enter my mind often. When I think about this ship I’m thinking about the Guardians of the Galaxy movies and what was set up there (which btw I do feel Infinity War and Endgame derailed where those movies wanted to go pretty hard even if I don’t know what was supposed to have come next) and that’s where I tend to be coming from with my prompts. I’m only including this note because I remembered that stuff happened after the two Guardians of the Galaxy movies and I should probably address that.
Gamora/Nebula
I just love these two. So much. I’ll do my best to explain some of what I like about this ship and why without simply repeating the phrases “my heart” and “what more could I ask for” over and over. But like they’re sisters but they come from a context where sisterhood means antagonism and competition, and there are some deep scars as a result of that, but there is love between them despite that somewhere and a desire for a change from the past dynamic but it isn’t easy and they don’t necessarily see things the same way. I love it so much and I ship them so hard. Just đź’•đź’•đź’•
Requested Horror Types
Cosmic/Lovecraftian Horror
Well, I mean they are from the cosmic portion of the Marvel universe, and Ilike the idea of a space setting for Lovecraftian Horror because like this is already the unknown but now there’s even more unknown beyond that unknown.
Institutional Horror
Does being Thanos’s daughters count as an institution? It seemed more like a military system than a family. I think some great horror could be generated through focusing on that experience and the hierarchy within. Because dear god, that’s all so fucked up. Also I’m not quite sure how much younger than Gamora Nebula is supposed to be. I tend to default to the age difference of the actresses which is like nine years, but feel free to make them closer or farther apart in age if something like that would better suit your purposes. Mentioning that here due to the ways that may or may not play into the power structure.
Killer Horror
Well, they are assassins, so horror focusing on that would be lovely. Or you could go serial killer AU where murder has become something one or both of them do of their own volition or as a hobby. For this prompt I would like it in a canon setting or in a Earth/human/mundane AU (maybe even a period AU on top of that) as long as their fucked up adoptive sister dynamic is preserved when translating them to the AU.
Science-fiction Horror
I couldn’t request this pairing and not give you the option to go for science fiction horror. Like bring it on. There’s a lot of mileage to be gotten from the heartlessness of space and Nebula being a cyborg.
Maurice - E. M. Forster
Clive Durham/Maurice Hall
Oh the pains of a platonic relationship that is in truth very much not that but one person has problems with being gay and has the other person’s heart completely and would this be willingly followed into the dark
Requested Horror Types
Cosmic/Lovecraftian Horror
A part of what made me want this canon for a horror exchange in the first place is pure word association. When I first read the book my first association with the name Clive was Clive Barker so I was suddenly remembering stuff from Clive Barker stories from time to time as I read it. I mention this here because I associate Clive Barker with this sort of horror.
I just think putting those sorts of themes and like ripping reality apart by the seams would be fun to put in the Edwardian era. The first thing that comes to mind is that you could do some interesting things with time. What put that in my head is from what I understand (hopefully I wasn’t being lied to) the script they shot for the film was out of chronological order (if I recall correctly, we meet Dickie Barry before we meet Clive) jumping back and forth in time. Ultimately the film was put back in chronological order during the editing process, but the fact that it wasn’t always is more than enough to make me interested in time fuckery. If there are any more fundamental concepts you would like to smash instead/as well go for it.
Folk Horror
Pendersleigh. For some reason Clive’s estate is easy for me to imagine getting twisted into a creepy little community.
Gothic Horror
This is set during the Edwardian era and I love gothic horror, so yes. Just yes. I wish I had fancier things to say about this specific prompt.
Institutional Horror
This specific prompt is gonna take a little context. I have a little story to tell about something called Dark Academia. You might already be familiar. Basically it was a genre that I would describe as a school setting with what the students are studying and/or are independently interested in showing up at least as a pretentious motif if not being directly plot relevant and also something terrible happens. The three things I can recall off the top of my head that were often cited as quintessential examples of this genre were The Secret History by Donna Tartt, The Dead Poets Society (1989) dir. Peter Weir, and Kill Your Darlings (2013) dir. John Krokidas. Those aren’t the only examples that exist (one coming to mind that fills the bill would be The Basic Eight by Daniel Handler), but those seemed to be the canons those really into this genre were super into. A few short years after stumbling across this concept I ventured into the tumblr tag once again looking for examples of this genre and kept seeing Maurice listed as an example. Which was disorientating to say the least. It seems while I wasn’t looking, Dark Academia stopped describing a genre and started describing a subculture/aesthetic. As far as I can parse it my best attempt to explain the new version is deliberately and fashionably pretentious. As long as people are having fun, I’m all for it. Parts of this canon lend well to that scene. However because of that initial shock and attempt to figure out how that made sense, I would love to see Clive/Maurice in a horror story that fits Dark Academia in the old sense, as a genre. I feel like that sort of thing marries to institutional horror quite nicely.
A completely different direction to take this would be reuniting them during WWI. Okay so I’ll admit that I don’t exactly see this canon as having a WWI. I don’t mean in an alternate history sense, but like in that this canon is so deeply rooted in a world that WWI kinda ended, so after the story ends I see life going on but also being frozen in a sense. Like not in a “It’s been 1914 for a century!” way (although if you wanted to use that concept for horror go ahead), but in there being a poetic eternity in the ending. “Maurice and Alec still roam the greenwood” and all that. The most long term detail I have in my head is Clive living to old age and never seeing Maurice again because that’s what the book indicates. I don’t know if any of that makes sense outside of my head. That being said I am willing to throw every last bit of that out the window for the sake of WWI horror. Just horror in the trenches! Horror in the trenches! Horror in the trenches! Okay so like WWI is one of my favorite wars to read about and I just think a WWI horror story would be awesome. Beyond the institutional horror I have to ask, how would a reunion under such circumstances go?
Killer Horror
Serial killer AUs are apparently things I can’t resist asking for even when I’d have no idea what they’d look like. Sorry, I’m not much help in this department, but I’d be super impressed if you did it.
Paranormal Horror
Ghosts! Maybe Clive being haunted by the ghost of Maurice or the two of them encountering vicious ghosts together or any other idea you might have? Another direction you could take is vampires. I’ve always been kinda fascinated by the homoeroticism present in a lot of old timey vampire stories. I have a lot of thoughts on that specific thing that I won’t get into here, but it definitely means adding vampires to this canon is a thing that would interest me. Although who is the vampire would be up to you.
Psychological Horror
I think Clive’s state of mind, particularly with him being gay but filled to the brim with self-loathing, denial, and repression, is something that could lend itself quite well to psychological horror. I mean it’s intense enough that he’s had multiple breakdowns over it. Other than that I really don’t have much to say about this ship and psychological horror other than YES.
Maurice Hall/Alec Scudder
When talking about this novel the author once said, “A happy ending was imperative.” I do think of Maurice/Alec and them being in love and together as that happy ending, and feel that is essential to the point/intent of this canon. That being said for the sake of this exchange there are several things you can do with that concept. You can throw it out the window entirely, have an unhappy ending or turn their relationship into a nightmare. You can make their love the light at the end of the tunnel whilst everything else is terrible. You can make them the horror and even though they are monsters they are monsters together and happy in their love. Or some other angle I haven’t thought of.
Requested Horror Types
Cosmic/Lovecraftian Horror
A part of what made me want this canon for a horror exchange in the first place is pure word association. When I first read the book my first association with the name Clive was Clive Barker so I was suddenly remembering stuff from Clive Barker stories from time to time as I read it. I mention this here because I associate Clive Barker with this sort of horror.
I just think putting those sorts of themes and like ripping reality apart by the seams would be fun to put in the Edwardian era. The first thing that comes to mind is that you could do some interesting things with time. What put that in my head is from what I understand (hopefully I wasn’t being lied to) the script they shot for the film was out of chronological order (if I recall correctly, we meet Dickie Barry before we meet Clive) jumping back and forth in time. Ultimately the film was put back in chronological order during the editing process, but the fact that it wasn’t always is more than enough to make me interested in time fuckery. If there are any more fundamental concepts you would like to smash instead/as well go for it.
I thought of this next prompt as a joke but I’m gonna ask for it seriously. So one of the most common criticisms I’ve seen for this canon, both book and film, is that people don’t buy Alec and Maurice as a couple, don’t see what they have in common, and can’t imagine them lasting in the long term. I ship it, but I absolutely see where these people are coming from. So Maurice and Alec being pushed together and kept together by an all powerful and very invested Eldritch being.
Folk Horror
My first thought for this is the greenwood that Maurice and Alec run off to and the lives they lead together within as a source of horror. Another option would be Pendersleigh. I know Maurice and Alec’s time together at Pendersleigh in canon was brief, but I do have a soft spot for fic about them set there, and I can easily imagine twisting Clive’s estate into a deeply creepy little community.
Gothic Horror
This is set during the Edwardian era and I love gothic horror, so yes. Just yes. I wish I had fancier things to say about this specific prompt.
Institutional Horror
Have you ever wanted to write a WWI horror story for Maurice/Alec? Here’s your chance. Okay so I’ll admit that I don’t exactly see this canon as having a WWI. I don’t mean in an alternate history sense, but like in that this canon is so deeply rooted in a world that WWI kinda ended, so after the story ends I see life going on but also being frozen in a sense. Like not in a “It’s been 1914 for a century!” way (although if you wanted to use that concept for horror go ahead), but in there being a poetic eternity in the ending. “Maurice and Alec still roam the greenwood” and all that. The most long term detail I have in my head is Clive living to old age and never seeing Maurice again because that’s what the book indicates. I don’t know if any of that makes sense outside of my head. That being said for fic reasons I have imagined how WWI might have impacted Alec and Maurice and my default tends to be Maurice going and Alec as a conscientious objector or neither of them going choosing to stay in the woods (those are ways I’ve seen other fic handle it that just stuck in my head I guess). Alright now that we’ve covered all of this, because WWI is one of my favorite wars to read about and I think WWI horror sounds awesome I would absolutely put all those feelings aside for the sake of WWI horror. Maybe they’re together in the trenches or maybe they aren’t but either way it is a nightmare.
Killer Horror
Serial killer AUs are apparently things I can’t resist asking for even when I’d have no idea what they’d look like. Sorry, I’m not much help in this department, but I’d be super impressed if you did it.
Paranormal Horror
Maurice and Alec still haunt the greenwood. I’m sorry I just couldn’t stop myself from phrasing it that way. But a ghost story could be super cool. Another direction you could take is vampires. I’ve always been kinda fascinated by the homoeroticism present in a lot of old timey vampire stories. I have a lot of thoughts on that specific thing that I won’t get into here, but it definitely means adding vampires to this canon is a thing that would interest me. Although who is the vampire would be up to you.
Psychological Horror
I really don’t have much to say about this ship and psychological horror other than YES.
Sharp Objects (TV)
Amma Crellin/Camille Preaker
Amma fixating on Camille, idealizing her. Amma’s murders all being in some way about Camille (even before they met because her first two victims were girls that Adora paid attention to because they reminded her of Camille). Camille’s self harm and Amma violence. The way their mother fucked them up. Amma trying to manipulate Camille. Amma getting insanely jealous about Camille. Camille trying her best to be there for Amma and do right by her and the motherhood related baggage that comes with that. Amma wanting to sleep in Camille’s bed always. All the obsession and possession. The way Camille connects Amma to dead girls she has loved in her mind. I really love basically the everything about this ship so just fuck me up tbh.
Requested Horror Types
Folk Horror
I feel like Wind Gap would be a good setting for this. Maybe something exploring the way they are both products of Wind Gap and what that means. How much can the people in Wind Gap and their actions as individuals be divided from Wind Gap as a community? It seems like the sort of town you can absolutely just write evil soaking all the way through and rotting. Also I am never the sort to pass up claustrophobic on the road fic, so if you don’t wanna go with Wind Gap specifically but do want creepy Americana and Camille and Amma in unfamiliar surroundings, fic where they’re on the run together would be a great way to achieve that, just saying.
Gothic Horror
Midwestern gothic! That could be spooky and fun. If you want to put it during a period setting my two suggestions are like 1870s-1910s because that just feels right in my heart (probably because of the whole Calhoun Day thing and there is an inextricable connection in my mind between midwestern America in that time and stuff like axe murder) and 1950s because that was an era with some real darkness running through it and it is remembered as this idealized, wholesome, and simplistic thing that never was and I have a soft spot for stuff that exposes the fucked upedness underneath that aesthetic and I feel like the themes of this canon would be great for this.
Killer Horror
I felt like this was kinda obligatory for this pairing. Maybe stuff set during canon while Camille is investigating Amma’s murders or post canon involving future murders? Maybe stuff from Amma’s POV that involves murder?
Also, serial killer AU. Yes, I know Amma is already a serial killer, but I talked to someone who had misosmosed that this was about lesbian serial killers having a torrid love affair that revolves around killing pretty girls and hurting each other, and I have wanted that ever since. Whether Camille is already a serial killer when she meets Amma or becomes one after they meet is up to you.
Psychological Horror
Amma and Camille both have such fucked up states of mind that I feel like psychological horror would be perfect for them. Don’t be afraid to get dark. I love dark.
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