The CRAZY BONEZ SKELETON Collection
(Any Characters. Nominees include the skeleton Octopus, Spider, Mouse, and Kitty)

I love these silly plastic halloween bones in all their anatomically incorrect glory. So many invertebrates! So much cartilage and whiskers! And yet, somehow, it's all bone now? A friend of mine posited that these are clearly not skeletons but rather carved bones, which raises so many more questions than it answers. And so I put it to you, dear author. How, and why, and by whom were any of these creatures made? Perhaps you might even tackle the most glaring question: out of whose bones?

A few starter prompts:

A lonely necromancer builds a new friend.
Saint's bones are given mobility and watch over a congregation in the form of a churchmouse.
Each of Skeleton Octopus' legs is someone else's spine, and they all have their own opinions on what to do with their new un-life.
A spy with unfinished business comes back in a most unassuming form.
Students of dark magic have no idea how anatomy works, 30/100 F- please see me after class

DNW: Rape/Noncon, Focus on Suicidal Ideation

Greater Boston
(Leon Stamatis, Michael Tate)

Greater Boston is such a charmingly surreal story, because it's not wholly unrealistic. It just takes reality and tips it about ten degrees on its axis, then watches as everything slowly slides sideways into singing telegrammorism and cheese robots. Then we hit maximum velocity and crash through the fourth wall.

It should come as no surprise, then, that Leon is one of my favorite characters. Particularly in his role last season. If you only want to write about him, feel free to explore the limits of his... narrative abilities, as it were. Or dive into his lifetime! Leon the highschooler with a perfect game plan for college enrollment? Leon realizing he's past due to hit that next big life milestone-- whatever it may be --and whether he's actually ready for it or not? Of course feel free to bring in family and friends. They're the things that make him tick (almost perfectly on time, but still not always in sync.) I also especially love how Louisa described Leon and dancing and would love to hear more about his relationship with art in general.

And then there's Michael, who honestly in my opinion is the heart and soul of the podcast. He's a perfect mix of hilarious and sometimes too-real quirks, but also genuine human growth. If you only want to write about him, one of my favorite recent tangents has been his letters from his deathbed(well. death-floor) - if you wanted to write another, pick any character and have at... though a letter from Michael to Michael might be the most interesting thing of all. Alternatively, I'd love to know where he's living now and how else he might be spending some of his insurance money when he's not funding the free press. Gotta get rid of the rest of it somehow, right?

If you're open to writing about these two together-- well. First of all, all due respect to word of god in the context of canon but I absolutely do ship this, particularly as a could have been, could still be but now one of us is stuck in 500 cheese robots way. But I'm also very down for explorations of their friendship and history together beyond the absolutely beautiful anecdotes we've gotten in canon.

DNW: Rape/Noncon, Non-Canonical Character Death, Focus on Suicidal Ideation, Alternate Universe Settings

Sleep No More
(Any Characters. Nominees include J. Fulton, Agnes Naismith, Bargarran, Hecate)

My usual opening spiel: The McKittrick Hotel is a dreamspace in real life, fluid in the way that only often-retold stories can manage. It's also one of my favorite places in the world and I miss it terribly.

Part of the great fun of SNM as a fandom is that the show is a framework that invites so much speculation, and I’d enjoy spending time in any character’s head. I'm also yearning for a return to all things immersive and would be very open to any kind of interactive or experimental fictions. Finally, I'm lifting my standard "No AUs" DNW. Keep the atmosphere of the original, but if you want haunted spaceships or a fantastical inn to be your location of choice . . . what the hell. I'm curious what might happen when this particular Macbeth story meets something other than straight-up Hitchcock. In short -- if there’s a story you want to tell, please do!

If you’re looking for inspiration, read on.

Fulton and Agnes have always been two of my favorite characters for the everyman/outsider appeal. I'd love to see either or both of them used as foils for the supernatural. In over their heads, perhaps? But I also appreciate that both have an air of the quiet, the practical, and maybe even the competent (well. sometimes. maybe more Agnes.) I would like to have Agnes win for once. Or see Fulton's charms and protections have an actual effect.

On the flip side, since Fulton is a character so open to interpretation: this is a man with deep roots in town. Someone who might have seen Hecate's witchcraft take hold. Perhaps even someone who might have opened the door for her, with all his whiter witchery? An exploration of his past, with or without other characters, would be fascinating.

As for Hecate herself, I'd love a story entirely aligned to her perspective. Is she human, or a true goddess of witchcraft? What rituals does she have that we don't see? Does she control this world, or does she only revel in it? Speaking of reveling, she's also a highly seductive figure. What is a conversation with the woman in red even like for any of the others in town?

And then there's Bargarran who is maybe the ultimate "up for interpretation" man in the cast. Write me a Hitchcockian story about a child murderer? Something supernatural, full of bones and unclean offerings to powers he may or may not understand? A tale of seething jealousy? (For lost normalcy? Because he's into his tight-wound neighbor? Because no one will ever taxidermy him and make him the eyes and ears of a vengeful coven? You tell me.) Speaking of, the back of his shop is just overrun with witches. Is there a creeping horror to that, or are they just a nuisance?

As always, feel free to pull from any of my previous signups for this fandom as well. There are... maybe a lot of them by now. And if you’re wondering whether I ship a certain combination of characters: yes.


DNW: Rape/Noncon, Non-Canonical Character Death, Focus on Suicidal Ideation, Referencing the real-world status of the show (ie: please don't write me a story about how the audience/ghosts have disappeared. My heart couldn't take it)