scioscribe

Thank you so much for writing for me! I'm so delighted by the epic King tagset and really looking forward to what this exchange will bring.

I'm scioscribe on AO3 and scioscribe on Tumblr. All requests this year are for fic.

If you're feeling a crossover impulse that's not covered here, I'm always happy to see characters/situations from Carrie, Salem's Lot, The Shining, The Stand, The Dead Zone, The Long Walk, The Dark Tower, Pet Sematary, The Eyes of the Dragon, Misery, It, The Talisman, Gerald's Game, Insomnia, Rose Madder, Bag of Bones, Storm of the Century, The Girl Who Loved Tom Gordon, Hearts in Atlantis, Duma Key, The Colorado Kid, and Joyland.

Likes

enemies-to-lovers, enemies-to-friends, opposites attract, conflicting worldviews and priorities, emotional vulnerability, hurt/comfort, emotional hurt/comfort, fix-its, sympathetic bad guys/terrible people with moments of goodness or vulnerability, redemption, pining, obvious feelings that don’t quite get admitted to, unconventional gestures of affection, partnerships, power dynamics, ambiguously intense relationships, found family, friendships, first-time stories, betrayal with reconciliation, character death, amnesia, characters forced to cooperate, forced proximity, bedsharing, huddling/cuddling for warmth, 5 + 1 fics, slow-burns, fake/pretend relationship, arranged marriage/marriage of convenience, power couples, age gaps, worldbuilding, magical realism, undercover work, loyalty, tenderness, identity porn, complicated relationships, codependency, morally gray characters, moral complexity, long relationships that go through a lot of changes, werewolves with pack dynamics, canon-divergence AUs

Historical- and canon-typical language, violence, attitudes, and darkness-levels all okay to include.



General Sex Likes/Kinks

BDSM, spanking (including breasts, thighs, and pussy), clothed sex, wall-sex, rough sex, dubcon/consent play/ambiguous consent, teasing, anal play/sex, oral sex, frottage, fingering, gags, dirty talk, hand and finger kink, hair-touching, nipple play, characters giving orders/instructions, roleplay, talking during sex, emotional sex, sleepy/lazy sex, humorous sex scenes, enthusiastic sex, tenderness, loss of virginity, bad/awkward sex (either charmingly funny or depressing), coming untouched, coming in pants, exhibitionism, collaring, people getting mussed, orgasm delay/denial, overstimulation, edging, begging, historical period- or location-specific sex, sex toys, praise kink, marking/bruising/biting

DNW

ageplay, mommy/daddy kink, explicit sex for characters under sixteen, modern AUs, mundane AUs, knotting, scat, bestiality, vore

Carrie

Carrie White/Sue Snell

I love both darker/creepier and more romantic takes on this ship. Carrie’s ghost haunting Sue after the canonical ending? Carrie somehow pulling Sue along in her wake when she leaves town after burning down the prom, complete with creepy dubcon/noncon mind-fucks? (That scene in the book of her brutally going through Sue’s memories has always given me chills.) Divided loyalties and the ongoing toll of telekinetic powers? Or just tentative romance and awkwardness and sexual exploration. Anywhere on the gamut, I’m good.

Chris Hargensen/Carrie White

This is an excellent enemy-ship. Look, Chris canonically likes rough sex and gets off on mutual spite, so we are all owed Carrie/Chris hate-sex with telekinetic kink. I tend to see this ship as full-on dark, so my mind immediately goes to Carrie Lives AUs where Chris is somehow pressured or blackmailed into protecting her or where something Carrie does with her powers leads to the two of them slipping off this plane of reality altogether on prom night. But also: Chris getting her revenge for missing prom by manipulating Carrie into a fake relationship or just taking advantage of Carrie’s rock bottom social status and desperate desire to be liked for favors that get rewarded with a kiss. Just--darkness and awfulness and maybe some blood play.

Chris Hargensen/Sue Snell

Ethical popular girl and unethical (and possibly sociopathic) popular girl. What is their history like? A few moments together between boyfriends that weren’t supposed to mean anything? An actual relationship that one of them wanted more than the other? What if Chris had targeted Sue for her revenge instead of Carrie, taking umbrage at Sue’s moral stance--what would she have done? If they had both lived, what would the aftermath of prom have been like, with the two of them among the only people who know the full story? How do they deal with the scrutiny and attention? Does Chris begin to actually feel any guilt, and does Sue sympathize with that, or find it to be too little too late? How would they get along as adults? (Given the format of the book, with all the excerpts from fake documents, I would totally read a mocked-up lesbian news profile of Chris and Sue all grown up and together and complicatedly loving and hating each other at the same time.)

Dark Tower

Eddie Dean/Susannah Dean/Roland Deschain

I love both get-together fic and established relationship stories for these three. Hurt/comfort is unfailingly awesome. So… accidental marriage due to playing along with the customs of a strange barony? Khef-sharing creates what’s culturally regarded as a marriage bond? What steps do they take in forming their relationship—all of them warily circling each other until their feelings become clear? Two of them already together? (This is a great ship for high-quality pining.) What tensions are caused by Roland’s focus on the Tower? Also, sex: tender, hot, quick, exhausted?

I'd also still be seriously delighted by anything I prompted here (Chocolate Box), here (AU Exchange), or here (Just Married).

Roland Deschain & Eddie Dean & Susannah Dean & Jake Chambers & Oy

I just really love the ka-tet and want to spend more time with them. I love all the individual relationships here and also the dynamic of all of them together and how they all bounce off each other. I like the wrinkles and complications, like the painful history of Roland letting Jake fall, and their occasional disagreements or differing priorities. I love Susannah, Eddie, and Jake learning more about Mid-World and Roland learning more about New York. Loyalty kink! Gestures of affection! Gift-giving! Roland, Eddie, and Susannah trying to bring up their shared kid and his talking raccoon-dog! High fantasy adventure! Time travel or dimension-slippage: maybe they end up in the Gilead of Roland’s childhood. or in space, or in a strange world none of them can even begin to understand.

I'd also still be seriously delighted by anything I prompted here (Chocolate Box) or here (AU Exchange).

Cortland “Cort” Andrus

I really like Cort’s gruffness and his often brutally shown affection for the boys in his care. He occupies such an odd niche of Gilead’s society, able to treat these kids fairly mercilessly but also training them to be men to whom he’ll eventually defer. I love Roland’s thoughts on his teaching—the moment in The Drawing of the Three when he thinks about how Cort would appreciate Eddie’s travois is so great—and I’d love to see more of his instruction of Roland, Cuthbert, and/or Alain. What’s his perspective on them? How does he feel about these gunslingers he may well outlive? How aware is he of Marten’s machinations? And what if he’d survived via Roland’s own quasi-immortality to become part of the ka-tet?

Misery

Geoffrey Alliburton/Ian Carmichael/Misery Chastain

I am more invested in this doubly fictional threesome than anyone has the right to be. Please give me more of their sad, heartfelt pining for each other or allow them to finally consummate it all in a blaze of Gothic/Old School historical romance glory. I love the heightened weirdness that Paul writes into Misery Returns--buried alive!—and would love to see more of that. I’m also always a sucker for queer and/or poly characters in historical settings working realistically to find what happiness is available for them, so I’d also totally read about how the three of them managed to set up domestic arrangements or figure out how to be together. Metafictional weirdness—are they vaguely aware of multiple drafts of their existence, like parallel realities? Do they have any sense of Paul or Annie?--is completely welcome, but so is playing it straight and just writing about it like Misery Returns is the actual canon.

The Stand

Alice Underwood & Amy Lauder & Rita Blakemoor & Peter Goldsmith & Ray Flowers
Amy Lauder & Frannie Goldsmith
Alice Underwood & Larry Underwood
Rita Blakemoor
Ray Flowers
Peter Goldsmith
Jesse Rider
Alice Underwood

(This will be long given the number of characters with different circumstances.)

I would be so delighted to see any takes on any of these characters surviving the plague (or, in Rita's case, surviving for longer in the aftermath). They can go either to Vegas or Boulder or take a third option or be ambiguously undecided/not on the road yet when the story ends--I just want to see how they might do in the aftermath, whether or not the major characters they're connected to are around. Do any of them significantly change the course of the overall story? Do they intersect in surprising ways with each other or other characters in the book? For the huge group request, it would just be awesome to see these people traveling together or trying to settle down somewhere, and I'm interested in the way they would relate to each other. What's it like for Peter to be traveling with his daughter's friend, when his daughter didn't survive? Is anything different because this particular group skews older than the canonical survivors we focus on? Who gets along really well and who winds up feeling prickly and contentious?

How does Alice deal with the death of her son and the need to get out of New York? Or if Larry also survives, how does their relationship evolve as they survive travel together? What would a team-up between Alice and Rita be like, or what if she took over Larry's role in terms of traveling with Nadine and Leo? If Fran dies, does Jesse feel the loss of her and his unborn child, or is he secretly relieved? If she survives too, do the two of them have to try to travel together even when things are prickly and uncomfortable? If he ended up with Harold and/or Stu, what would that be like? I'd also love to see Frannie traveling with her best friend--and maybe Amy struggling with the loss of her weird younger brother she'd never liked all that much. (I'm okay with shippy Fran/Amy, too.)

Does Ray Flowers wind up taking on a leadership role in the plague aftermath? Can he get some kind of radio station up and running again? (I'm also good with Kathy Bates's Rae, if you want to draw from the miniseries.) And I'd love to see Rita grappling with survival and developing and embracing some grit as she continues living and traveling. Does she have to deal with Larry's death, in a reversal scenario? Or is she on her own or teamed up with a different survivor? Does she have problems with attaching herself to them to the point where she's relying on someone else too much?

And the Goldsmiths! Frannie's relationship with her dad is really touching, and it would be so heartbreaking to see him trying to deal with her death instead of the other way around. Is he on his own, or does his wife survive as well? If they're together, what kind of chasm is between them after Fran's death? Are they able to bridge it, or do they have to split up? (Maybe with Peter going to Boulder and Carla going to Vegas?) If only Carla lives, how damaged is she by everything that's happened? Does she feel like the plague is just part and parcel of the collapse of her world that went along with Frannie's pregnancy? How does she try to hold onto normalcy and decorum in a world that no longer supports them? I tend to imagine her going over to Flagg's side, and it would be amazing to see their relationship: she'd be a good organizer in Vegas, and I can see her becoming a kind of right-hand woman to him. What does he offer her? What's their relationship like?

The Talisman

Worldbuilding

This book has some of my favorite small details of King worldbuilding. I love the notched-stick currency, the winged men for whom flying is exhausting and exhilarating physical exercise, Wolf and his family, the whole concept of Twinners, Queen Laura DeLoessian, Speedy Parker/Parkus, Jason being seen as an almost godlike figure… Anything dealing with any of that would be amazing. What are some of the other mirrored places in the compressed Territories universe? Do Lily’s movies have any counterparts there? I’d also always love to see more crossing over between the worlds, whether that’s Earth characters (other King characters?) exploring the Territories or Territories characters venturing into Earth.

Crossover Fandom

Carrie White & Dark Tower
Charlene McGee & Dark Tower
Johnny Smith & Dark Tower

The Dark Tower series is just such a gift for crossovers. I’m lumping all these together because they really all just boil down to my desire to see other King characters thrown into Mid-World. Are they all questing for the Tower, or is there a chance they might get drawn into the service of the Crimson King? Are they attached to Roland or on their own? I could see Charlie taking Jake’s place in The Gunslinger, or anyone joining up with the regular series ka-tet. What effect would Carrie and Johnny’s powers have on the quest? Would Johnny have unnerving, unwanted insights into Roland’s fate? Would Carrie be as much of a threat as a help? How would these characters deal with being thrown into a completely new environment? In some cases, they could be coming out of extremely stressful situations, so is Mid-World almost a relief by comparison? How do they get there in the first place? Feel free to use any of these in combination with each other, the regular series characters, or any other King characters in this letter or in the books I mentioned up top.

Misery Chastain & Jessie Burlingame & Gerald’s Game
Misery Chastain & Rose Daniels | Rosie McClendon

And now, the category of “Misery Chastain as semi-imaginary friend of women in trouble.” I absolutely adore the idea of Misery as one of the voices in Jessie’s head—Misery’s so often put in perilous situations and threatened with ravishment, surely, that she would have useful advice to give. What would she represent to Jessie? There’s such potential for a weird, complex relationship there involving pleasure and guilt and anger; I could see Jessie conceiving of Misery as being both part of her struggle to free herself and part of the same structure that endangered her in the first place. And I love the idea of Rosie having a soft spot for the Misery books and one day dealing with the overblown Fabio-style cover of one of them taking on a life of its own. Is this after the novel, when she knows something about how to deal with it? Or in place of the canonical painting? Or does it happen while she’s still with Norman? Can Misery help her break out of her life and/or kill her terrible husband?