nephilot

Dear Writers,

Hello, and thank you for reading this letter!! I'm very excited for this exchange. I've never done one before, so hopefully I'm doing everything right. I'm nephilot on Tumblr and Ao3 if you'd like to get more of a sense of my interests.

I'm generally very into dark stories, sexual violence, and unconventional formats and narratives. My favorite piece that I've written is a syllabus on Sam Winchester's relationship with sexual violence, for example ("Rape in the Damned Imagination" on Ao3.) I love hidden identities and dramatic reveals. I don't really care whether or not a fic has explicit sex! It's great if it's there, and it's great if it's not there, too. One of my favorite things is a character being forced to be vulnerable when they'd rather not. I'm very interested in psychiatrized characters, by which I mean that I don't hold much stock in diagnosis but I am interested in how characters interact with diagnoses they're given, if that makes sense. I love self-destructive and impulsive characters.

What I hate, hate, hate is pure fluff. I understand if there are scenes that show a more gentle side of a character or characters, but it has to be contrasted with pain. I don't really like anything that can be categorized as "fluff," tbh. I never click on fics with "fluff" as a tag.

Beyond that, I'm pretty open!

Here are my requests, in order:

1. Thoroughbreds, Amanda/Lily
For this, I'm really interested in a True Crime sort of narrative. I'm not sure if that's too prescriptive, but I'd love to see someone external to the girls excavating information about their relationship and trying to figure out what really happened. This could include newspaper articles, letters from Amanda to Lily or Lily to Amanda, texts, podcast transcripts, etc.

2. Succession, Kendall Roy & None OR Gerri Kellman/Roman Roy
I think it would be really cool to get a look at the way Kendall has been pathologized and psychologized. Perhaps through doctor's notes, or his patient chart from rehab? I'm interested in the ways a holistic life experience butts up against a more reified understanding of character. Like I don't want to diagnose Kendall, that's not what's interesting for me, but I think the ways in which he is diagnosed ARE interesting, if that makes sense. I'm curious about his pre-show life, and the ways in which Logan sensed something "wrong" with him from the beginning.

OR:

Pretty much anything about Roman's sexual dysfunction. I'd love something where Gerri mocks Roman for the ways in which he fails as a man, and Roman gets off on it. I'd also love some of Gerri speculating about Roman and why he is the way he is. Does she know anything the viewer of the show doesn't know? What was he like as a child? Etc.

3. The Secret History, any available pairing
What if the characters were fiction writers instead of Greek scholars? I'm interested in a reimagining of the canon where the characters are studying creative writing with plenty of excerpts of their works and responses to each other. If they're not studying creative writing, I would still love to see some of their forays into fiction. Maybe Bunny has an adventure novel he desultorily pounds out every night and forces everyone to read, for example. There's something very incestuous about a close-knit group of fiction writers, very much a ouroboros situation. Plenty of people hate reading about writers and their drama, but I am not one of those people.

Thank you again for reading this letter! I'm so excited for this exchange <3

As always,

nephilot