Dear Candy Maker '23

 I'm so glad you picked one of my requests! These are all pretty short, but here they all are in one place if you're interested! Either art or fic for any of these would be great.

 

General likes: Fairy tales, gothic literature, film noir, revenge tragedies, bodice rippers, melodrama, dark comedy, heroine/villain/hero love triangles, heroine/villain dynamics, rescue romance, mythology, maledom (non and dubcon are fine), bdsm, bondage, character studies, what-if AUs, genre swapping AUs, vampires, folklore, knight and lady dynamics, epistolary fic,  interactive fiction.

 

General DNWs: Gruesome mutilations described in detail, comeplay, ABO, scat or watersports, pushing away female characters, fetish universes, character bashing, fully mundane AUs for fantastical settings, unrequested identity headcanons, harm to cute animals

 

Literary RPF
Mary Shelley/Lord Byron/Percy Shelley

Hey, it could have happened! For fic, the more over the top darkly romantic, the better. If you want to get erotic and/or kinky, these three seem like a good choice for that, in any position or situation of power. For art, gothic is great, whether that means Edward Gorey or lush and colorful to you. Let's get swooning!

Crossover Fandom
Dale Cooper (Twin Peaks)/Victoria Winters (Dark Shadows 1966)

They're both wide-eyed and weird-headed idealists investigating a strange town, and they both end up unstuck in time, so why not face these things together? You could do a mashup where Victoria's job takes her to Twin Peaks or Cooper investigates Collinwood, or have them bump into each other while unstuck in time, place and fictional universe. This doesn't have to be an outright fix fic for either of them, but it should still have some amount of hope- I think they'd like that! (Or an outright fix fic is fine...)

 

For art, you can draw on the Avon Gothic covers that inspired Dark Shadows, or the red, black and white mid-century motifs of Twin Peaks. Or both at once, if you want to get wild!

Arthurian Mythology
Gawain/Dame Ragnelle

Look, I love them, that's all. You can set this anywhere in their timeline so long as it isn't about Ragnelle leaving or dying (maybe she could even show up at the end after the final battle and get her husband off to Avalon?) Gawain can be any mix you want of flower of chivalry and human disaster, as long as he's a good and loving husband. You can involve the families or the rest of the mythos, or just focus on the two of them.

 

For art, there's so much Arthurian art you can draw on for inspiration from Disney's Sword in the Stone to Arthur Rackham and beyond, you have lots of freedom! Or just something close and cozy between the two would warm my heart.

The Muppets
Miss Piggy/Kermit the Frog/Gonzo the Great

Look, I can explain. I saw a video go around of an interview where the three were portrayed as a dysfunctional polycule, and now I can't stop thinking about it! I'm hoping for wackiness on the level of the show, maybe with some sweetness underneath. Art can do this as well, with a goofy situation or pose. I don't want porn, but canon-level jokes about such are fine.

 

The Addams Family (Movies - Sonnenfeld)
Pugsley Addams & Wednesday Addams 
Wednesday Addams/Joel Glicker

Pugsley & Wednesday: I feel like Pugsley got a bit shafted in the movies, so I'd love to see him and his sister have some bonding time that showcases familial love and possibly also violence.

 

Wednesday/Joel: I hope the scare Joel got at the end of Family Values wasn't the end of their relationship! Whether or not she ever changes her mind about marriage, I'd like to see them have fun together.

 

For art, you can take inspiration either from the comics or the movies (or both!) to do something creepily cute.

Dracula (Movies - Hammer)  

Marianne Danielle/Van Helsing

I came away from the movie yelling "NOW KISS!" at the end when they embraced, and I've always believed she was his wife and the mother of the sons from later movies. You can give me a romantic scene of courtship in the aftermath of the Baron's destruction, or a scene of future domesticity. You can get sexy, too, if you want!

 

For art, you can go for the style of the Hammer movie posters, or a romance novel cover, of whatever captures gothic love to you!

Space Mutiny
Dave Ryder/Lea Jansen

I've seen this MST3K episode so many times I've actually come around to finding their chemistry kind of cute! This would probably be a more goofy story, with the two of them fighting back Kalgon on space golf carts or finding a way for Dave to get in his weightlifting routine in her greenhouse, but there can be some genuine romance as well. (You could even throw this in as a 'missing scene' that Mike and the bots come across, possibly to their dismay!)

 

Art would probably be cartoony or influenced by pulp scifi covers, but I wouldn't say no to something tender, either.

Darkest Dungeon
Grave Robber/Highwayman

Ex-thieves with dangerous, tormented pasts- but now they can be dangerous and tormented together! I'm cool with setting this in the original game or its DLCs or in the sequel, but either way, they can cling together through the dark times. I'd be happy for this to get sexual or even kinky so long as it doesn't go against my general DNWs (I could see them using rope, roleplaying as monsters, or switching bdsm roles) but it doesn't have to go there if you don't want.

 

For art, it would make sense to draw something that looked like the art in the game but I'm open to other horror art as well.