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Trick or Treat!
Nov. 1st, 2019 10:07 amI had the absolute best Trick or Treat Exchange experience.
I got two winter Friday the 13th stories:
Chocolate and Blood. Fluffy/cracky story about the sweet relationship between a mother and her hard-working son, complete with dorky Christmas sweaters and hot cocoa. It's just that they're Pamela and Jason Voorhees.
Slay Bells. Absolutely feels like the cold open to a winter Friday movie! Great setup, awesome use of the setting and winter season, slasher-style creepy, and accompanied by some downright iconic cinematic images.
And I got two Ginger Snaps fics:
Aqua Eyeshadow and Knee Bruises. A happier ending for modern Ginger and Brigitte--but, in inimitable werewolf style, there's still a dead Avon lady. Funny and oddly sweet, with the perfect blend of horror and comedy and dark suburban satire. And werewolves digging holes with their hands/paws.
Dead Men's Tales. Awesome "found manuscript" folkloric horror set in historical Canada. Beautifully written, incredibly creepy, and so very much my jam. And this one will totally work even if you don't know canon, so I highly recommend it for your Halloween horror needs.
And the very first Twin Peaks Cooper/Audrey/Laura fic, at least on AO3:
Under So Many Lids. Stunningly poetic--"get drunk on the language" prose--and a perfect evocation of Lynch in general and The Return in particular. Post-canon Cooper keeps searching, and, on a winding and mythical path, is eventually reunited with both Laura and Audrey. Bittersweet, gorgeous, and with some scorching hot sex. I adore it, and I'm going to slide this in as the perfect canon postscript.
And this amazing Misery fic:
Sophronia. Annie conjures up Misery out of fan love so she can save her from her dire fate... and keep her favorite character imprisoned in her house as a kind of grotesque living doll. This somehow manages to be a skin-crawling bit of horror, an incredible metafictional look at a character from a romantic and Romantic world transported into our own, a sweet and lived-in look at my fiction-within-fiction OT3 (Misery/Geoffrey/Ian FTW!), and incredibly suspenseful and well-paced and clever. <3
I got two winter Friday the 13th stories:
Chocolate and Blood. Fluffy/cracky story about the sweet relationship between a mother and her hard-working son, complete with dorky Christmas sweaters and hot cocoa. It's just that they're Pamela and Jason Voorhees.
Slay Bells. Absolutely feels like the cold open to a winter Friday movie! Great setup, awesome use of the setting and winter season, slasher-style creepy, and accompanied by some downright iconic cinematic images.
And I got two Ginger Snaps fics:
Aqua Eyeshadow and Knee Bruises. A happier ending for modern Ginger and Brigitte--but, in inimitable werewolf style, there's still a dead Avon lady. Funny and oddly sweet, with the perfect blend of horror and comedy and dark suburban satire. And werewolves digging holes with their hands/paws.
Dead Men's Tales. Awesome "found manuscript" folkloric horror set in historical Canada. Beautifully written, incredibly creepy, and so very much my jam. And this one will totally work even if you don't know canon, so I highly recommend it for your Halloween horror needs.
And the very first Twin Peaks Cooper/Audrey/Laura fic, at least on AO3:
Under So Many Lids. Stunningly poetic--"get drunk on the language" prose--and a perfect evocation of Lynch in general and The Return in particular. Post-canon Cooper keeps searching, and, on a winding and mythical path, is eventually reunited with both Laura and Audrey. Bittersweet, gorgeous, and with some scorching hot sex. I adore it, and I'm going to slide this in as the perfect canon postscript.
And this amazing Misery fic:
Sophronia. Annie conjures up Misery out of fan love so she can save her from her dire fate... and keep her favorite character imprisoned in her house as a kind of grotesque living doll. This somehow manages to be a skin-crawling bit of horror, an incredible metafictional look at a character from a romantic and Romantic world transported into our own, a sweet and lived-in look at my fiction-within-fiction OT3 (Misery/Geoffrey/Ian FTW!), and incredibly suspenseful and well-paced and clever. <3