The Chocolate Box letter
Jan. 3rd, 2018 09:13 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
scripsiDear Chocolate Box creator,
I hope you will find this letter useful. Here are some general likes and dislikes. I’m fine with any rating. Please note that I have requested the characters I want in a fic, but that you are free to include any additional character you like, unless I have clearly stated it’s a character I don’t want. I have few hard prompts- basically I want MOAR of the characters I love, and if you just steer clear of my dislikes, you can’t go wrong.
I like: Missing scenes, epilogues and AU’s which explores alternate timelines. Bittersweet romances. Introspection fics. Funny fics where the character banter or snark at each other. I also enjoy angst and darkfic if you want to go that route. I love fashion history and I love it when clothes are correctly described. I definitely have a costume kink. For higher ratings I enjoy BDSM, but more vanilla flavoured sex is fine too. When it comes to OT3’s I like all participants to be equally wanted. I don’t mind if two worships a third, but I don’t want something where the third part isn’t really welcomed or just wanted by one of the other ones.
If you want to write darkfic, then I’m happy with mind control, manipulation, non-con, dub-con, psychological sadism. I do like a proper grounding for them, though, not just thrown in for the sensation. I also like when the personal consequences from traumatic experiences are explored. Minor violence is ok. I’m fine with both happy and unhappy endings.
As for art. I would love to receive it, but I don’t have any particular prompts just for art. I’m fine with any rating when it comes to art too.
I don’t like: Character bashing, or character’s suddenly changing personalities. A good character may go darker or an evil one nicer, but then I like to have a good psychological reason for that change. Modern AU’s. A/B/O.
I’m totally squicked by: Amputation, body horror, cannibalism blood play, wet, scat, child abuse, medical experimentation, torture, incest, animal abuse, mpreg and too gory violence.
Deadwood
Al Swearengen/Alma Garret
I love this show, and years later it still annoys me we never got a fourth season. Amazing writing, characters, actors, set and costumes. I especially enjoy how the characters are multifaceted with both good and bad sides. Al and Alma shared very little screen time, but I loved their interactions, and want more of it.
Ivanhoe
Brian de Bois-Guilbert/Rebecca of York
When I was five I saw the 50’s version of Ivanhoe with George Sanders and Elizabeth Taylor as Bois-Guilbert and Rebecca, and it must have been my first OTP. But my favourite version of Ivanhoe is the 90’s miniseries as the length provided teh characters with more depth. I would love a fic where Bois-Guilbert doesn’t die, and he and Rebecca meet again, a few years down the road. Both Bois-Guilbert and Rebecca changes because of their interactions, and I’d love to see how those changes play out if the were to meet again. But I would also be happy with a fic taking place within the time period of the original story too.
Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell
John Childermass/Arabella Strange
John Childermass/Emma Pole/John Segundus
A fascinating multi-level book with so many interesting characters. I also hugely enjoyed the TV-series for its casting and settings, if not always how they handled the story. Childermass and Arabella are both practical and pragmatic characters, and I’d love a fic set after the end of the book.Childermass/LadyPool/John Segundus is one of my OT3 I read it like candy.
The Mummy-series
Ardeth Bay/Evy Carnahan O'Connell
Ardeth Bay/Evy Carnahan O'Connell/Rick O'Connell
Imhotep/Evy Carnahan O'Connell
I particularly love the first movie, with it’s mixture of fun, adventure, but also some rather scary stuff. So I would be equally happy with a fic which focus on fun and adventure, or a darker one. Rick/Evy/Ardeth is one of my favourite OT3, and I would be very happy if you wrote that. I also ship Ardeth/Evy. I have absolutely nothing against the canonical Rick/Evy, but I’m not particularly interested in a story which focus on their relationship, but I don’t mind if they are in a relationship in a story that does not.
Please, no Alex O’Connell.
Versailles
Fabien Marchal/Sophie de Clermont
Claudine/Fabien Marchal
The 17th century is one of my favourite historical periods, as well when it came to the fashion. Even if the writing in the show plays fast and loose with what really happened occasionally, I really enjoy it. I’m drawn to character with ambiguous moral, straddling the line between good and bad, so it’s not surprising Fabien Marchal quickly became my favourite. I loved the relationship between Fabien and Claudine, but I also ship Fabien with Sophie, even if that relationship pretty much has to be rather dysfunctional.
I hope you will find this letter useful. Here are some general likes and dislikes. I’m fine with any rating. Please note that I have requested the characters I want in a fic, but that you are free to include any additional character you like, unless I have clearly stated it’s a character I don’t want. I have few hard prompts- basically I want MOAR of the characters I love, and if you just steer clear of my dislikes, you can’t go wrong.
I like: Missing scenes, epilogues and AU’s which explores alternate timelines. Bittersweet romances. Introspection fics. Funny fics where the character banter or snark at each other. I also enjoy angst and darkfic if you want to go that route. I love fashion history and I love it when clothes are correctly described. I definitely have a costume kink. For higher ratings I enjoy BDSM, but more vanilla flavoured sex is fine too. When it comes to OT3’s I like all participants to be equally wanted. I don’t mind if two worships a third, but I don’t want something where the third part isn’t really welcomed or just wanted by one of the other ones.
If you want to write darkfic, then I’m happy with mind control, manipulation, non-con, dub-con, psychological sadism. I do like a proper grounding for them, though, not just thrown in for the sensation. I also like when the personal consequences from traumatic experiences are explored. Minor violence is ok. I’m fine with both happy and unhappy endings.
As for art. I would love to receive it, but I don’t have any particular prompts just for art. I’m fine with any rating when it comes to art too.
I don’t like: Character bashing, or character’s suddenly changing personalities. A good character may go darker or an evil one nicer, but then I like to have a good psychological reason for that change. Modern AU’s. A/B/O.
I’m totally squicked by: Amputation, body horror, cannibalism blood play, wet, scat, child abuse, medical experimentation, torture, incest, animal abuse, mpreg and too gory violence.
Deadwood
Al Swearengen/Alma Garret
I love this show, and years later it still annoys me we never got a fourth season. Amazing writing, characters, actors, set and costumes. I especially enjoy how the characters are multifaceted with both good and bad sides. Al and Alma shared very little screen time, but I loved their interactions, and want more of it.
Ivanhoe
Brian de Bois-Guilbert/Rebecca of York
When I was five I saw the 50’s version of Ivanhoe with George Sanders and Elizabeth Taylor as Bois-Guilbert and Rebecca, and it must have been my first OTP. But my favourite version of Ivanhoe is the 90’s miniseries as the length provided teh characters with more depth. I would love a fic where Bois-Guilbert doesn’t die, and he and Rebecca meet again, a few years down the road. Both Bois-Guilbert and Rebecca changes because of their interactions, and I’d love to see how those changes play out if the were to meet again. But I would also be happy with a fic taking place within the time period of the original story too.
Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell
John Childermass/Arabella Strange
John Childermass/Emma Pole/John Segundus
A fascinating multi-level book with so many interesting characters. I also hugely enjoyed the TV-series for its casting and settings, if not always how they handled the story. Childermass and Arabella are both practical and pragmatic characters, and I’d love a fic set after the end of the book.Childermass/LadyPool/John Segundus is one of my OT3 I read it like candy.
The Mummy-series
Ardeth Bay/Evy Carnahan O'Connell
Ardeth Bay/Evy Carnahan O'Connell/Rick O'Connell
Imhotep/Evy Carnahan O'Connell
I particularly love the first movie, with it’s mixture of fun, adventure, but also some rather scary stuff. So I would be equally happy with a fic which focus on fun and adventure, or a darker one. Rick/Evy/Ardeth is one of my favourite OT3, and I would be very happy if you wrote that. I also ship Ardeth/Evy. I have absolutely nothing against the canonical Rick/Evy, but I’m not particularly interested in a story which focus on their relationship, but I don’t mind if they are in a relationship in a story that does not.
Please, no Alex O’Connell.
Versailles
Fabien Marchal/Sophie de Clermont
Claudine/Fabien Marchal
The 17th century is one of my favourite historical periods, as well when it came to the fashion. Even if the writing in the show plays fast and loose with what really happened occasionally, I really enjoy it. I’m drawn to character with ambiguous moral, straddling the line between good and bad, so it’s not surprising Fabien Marchal quickly became my favourite. I loved the relationship between Fabien and Claudine, but I also ship Fabien with Sophie, even if that relationship pretty much has to be rather dysfunctional.
