darkest night reveals

[kimaracretak]

Surprising absolutely no one darkestnightex is full of my favourite things, and I maybe signed up twice definitely wrote two things!

this is the sound of joy. midsommar, dani/pelle. 1.5k words, rated mature. for psychomachia

The Hårga community is built on blood and dreams.
And joy.

I had sort of a weird fannish time with Midsommar, where I saw the movie and loved it with all my heart and then was ... deeply alienated by basically everything everyone was saying about it. And then! I saw these prompts! Wanting spooky things and folk horror and the liminal spaces that dreams and reality create! And I'm so pleased I was able to write for them :3

heart-strings undone. star wars sequel trilogy, f!kylo/rey. 1.6k words, rated mature. for tristesses

A stem gets caught on Kylo's tongue before she can answer and she chokes, tries to swallow it down. The roots are around her lungs, somewhere so deep she can't even use the Force to dislodge them. It isn't worth trying, anyway: it hasn't worked in years.

So ... for a very long time I thought I wasn't super into hanahaki disease as a trope. And then I saw this request, with all of the possibilities for leaning into the body horror and the 'what if the love is unrequited because one person is an eldritch manifestation of the Force literally unable to love' and. Guys. I really like this particular version of the hanahaki trope, help.

And! I got two excellent gifts! LadyBrooke wrote me Queens of the East and West, a Dark Queen Galadriel AU with some excellent necromancy, and tristesses wrote me desiderate, a perfect Rey/Kylo fic with horror-of-the-Light and implied cannibalism.

Comments

[kore]

That Midsommar fic was GREAT (I think I remembered to comment on it....?) and I think we had several conversations on how weirdly the general culture was interpreting it, heh. I remain pretty amazed that was made by a guy.

[kimaracretak]

You didn't comment on AO3, but I'm glad you liked it! Our conversations were definitely on my mind for a lot of the writing time.

[kore]

ARRRGH. The only time I log in to AO3 is typically to post something, which I do every six months lol, so I suck at commenting. (also I pre-ordered the dvd and it is FINALLY on the way)