Dear Trick-or-Treat Writer 2022

[suburban_sun]

Dear Trick-or-Treat Writer,

Thank you for signing up for Trick-or-Treat this year!

Below you’ll find the following:

• My Requests
• About Me
• General Likes/Kinks
• General DNWs
• Fandom Specifics/Prompts

My Requests:

• The Falcon and the Winter Soldier - Bucky Barnes/Sam Wilson
• Russian Doll - Nadia Vulvokov & Alan Zaveri
• Our Flag Means Death - Stede Bonnet/Edward Teach
• Star Wars: The Clone Wars - Obi-Wan Kenobi & Anakin Skywalker & Ahsoka Tano, Obi-Wan Kenobi/Satine Kryze

I’ve tried to list some varied prompts for each fandom, but please don’t feel like you have to stick to what I’ve come up with. If the rest of my letter gives you another idea you’d like to write, I’d love to read it!


A little about me to start:

My AO3 name is SuburbanSun; you can also check out my Tumblr if you’d like: unbreakablejemmasimmons. 


General Likes/Kinks:

For this exchange, for all my requested fandoms, tricks and treats are both welcome, and Halloween-themed fic in general is too!

Fave shippy tropes:

• Rivals/enemies to lovers
• Secret dating/sneaking around
• FWBs that turns into something more
• Fake dating
• Mutual pining
• “The love is requited they’re just idiots"/idiots to lovers
• Truth serum/in vino veritas

Fave gen tropes and story elements:

• Found family dynamics
• Competency/mutual respect
• Shenanigans/heists
• Time travel
• Time loops
• Ghost stuff

Subversions of tropes are also great! 

Most of my prompts tend toward canon universe ideas because that’s just what I tend to think of first, but I enjoy AUs too, and here are a few types that I’m always a sucker for:

• Secret Service/bodyguard/witness protection AUs
• Private eye AUs
• Politics AUs (like my requested characters running for office or working on a campaign)
• Vampire slayer AUs
• Food truck or food critic AUs

Epistolary style, either as a small part of a story or as all of it, is always fun to me, if it’s up your alley. Phone calls! Emails! Letters! Post-It notes! I love it all!

Smut is cool and fun and here are some things that I like:

• Teasing
• Phone sex/sexting
• Semi-public sex (not actually getting caught though)
• Workplace sex
• Dirty talk
• Oral sex
• Playfulness/joking around during sex.

General DNWs:

Not into super angsty stuff– for tricks in this exchange, it’s definitely fun to go dark and creepy and weird and all that, and that’s totally fine– I just prefer a happy/hopeful ending. Babyfic/kidfic/pregnancy. Noncon/dubcon. A/B/O. Mpreg. Incest. Poly/threesomes/orgies. First person POV (except in epistolary elements like letters/emails/etc.)

Fandom Specifics/Prompts:

The Falcon & the Winter Soldier
Bucky Barnes/Sam Wilson

I always enjoyed their dynamic, but these two didn't take over my heart and soul until a couple eps into The Falcon & The Winter Soldier, when I thought to myself, "huh, I wonder if people ship them." I looked up fic and almost immediately, I shipped them too. I really love how Bucky was completely on board with Steve handing off the shield to Sam, no doubts whatsoever, because he knows how truly good Sam Wilson is. I think at this point in their relationship Bucky is Sam Wilson's #1 fan and I love it.

Prompts:

• More of Sam and Bucky working on the boat!
• Maybe Bucky moves down to Delacroix, gets a little place near the Wilsons', but it's not like that means he has feelings for Sam or anything. No, of course not. They're partners, that's all.
• What's going on with the Avengers these days? Is Sam the new official or unofficial team leader? Is Bucky an actual Avenger, and if so, how do his and Sam's feelings for each other (whether they realize that's what they are or not) get in the way of day-to-day Avengers stuff? Cameos from other Marvel characters are welcomed!
• Sam, Bucky and Avengers thirst tweets.
• Sam and Bucky take AJ and Cass trick-or-treating!

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Russian Doll
Nadia Vulvokov & Alan Zaveri

Season one of this show was so completely fascinating and weird and great, and my favorite element of it was the friendship/support system that developed between Nadia and Alan. I enjoyed season two of the show, but missed having as much interaction between the two of them, and would love to read more about them just chatting, searching for Oatmeal, solving time travel problems, anything! 

Prompts:

• They've relived the same day on repeat, and they've time traveled to their families' past. What happens when they time travel to their future? 
• Alan's got a birthday coming up, and this Nadia's determined he's going to have a party whether he likes it or not.
• Somehow, Nadia and Alan are convinced to start a podcast about the multiverse called "What a Concept." What do they talk about on it, besides saying the word "fuck" a lot? 

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Our Flag Means Death
Stede Bonnet/Edward Teach

Count me among the whole internet in having come across this show in the spring and being forever changed because of it. I never suspected a pirate comedy would grab hold of my whole heart, but here we are, just haunted by a foot-touch.

I love the whole crew, so cameos from the others are welcomed here! 

Prompts:

• A trick sounds like the perfect opportunity for another fuckery! Maybe this one involves some actual supernatural creatures or paranormal activity. Pirate ghosts?
• A little season 2 spec-- what happens when Stede and Ed lay eyes on each other for the first time once again? 
• Ed or Stede (or, separately, both) go to other members of the crew with thinly-veiled requests for romantic advice.  

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Star Wars: The Clone Wars
Obi-Wan Kenobi & Anakin Skywalker & Ahsoka Tano, Obi-Wan Kenobi/Satine Kryze

I just watched Clone Wars for the first time as part of watching through all of Star Wars this summer, and by far my favorite things about it were a) the relationship dynamics between Obi-Wan, Anakin and Ahsoka, and b) glimpses into the bittersweet and tragic Obi-Wan/Satine relationship. 

For the former, I love how caring about and training Ahsoka humanizes Anakin (seriously never expected I'd have positive feelings toward Anakin Skywalker but here we are). I love how Obi-Wan and Anakin work together, and how Anakin's brashness balances out Obi-Wan's more adult, cautious approach to adventures. And I just love Ahsoka in general; she's become one of my fave characters in the canon. 

For the latter, I love getting to see Obi-Wan flirt! Their back-and-forth is so great, and while things end tragically, the bittersweetness was already baked in, really. I'd love anything exploring their early relationship, or any glimpses into other adventures they might have had while Satine was still alive. 

Note that canon-level angst, or the bittersweetness of knowing what's to come, is perfectly fine for this fandom. 

Prompts:

• A rare bit of downtime during the Clone Wars. Surely they had a few moments in between messes and battles to do something fun? 
• Ahsoka trains or teaches Anakin and Obi-Wan something that surprises them.
• A secret mission finds Obi-Wan undercover in Mandalore.

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So, that’s that! I really hope you enjoy the whole process during Trick-or-Treat this year, and thanks for participating! Happy writing!