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The masks of anonymity are off, and creators have been revealed. Thank you all for another fun and spooky Trick or Treat Exchange!

Continue enjoying the collection here: https://archiveofourown.org/collections/trickortreatex2024/works

Fandom Sorting Feedback

For nominations, Trick or Treat's fandom sorting is based mostly on what previous Pumpkin Kings have done. The rest is a mishmash of how other exchanges handle certain fandoms, my own understanding of fandoms I'm familiar with, and participant input throughout the years.

Sometimes, this results in outdated or difficult fandom sorting choices. For example, I don't keep up with what channels host the various Marvel TV shows at any given time. We also currently divide Star Wars between trilogies, while lumping every Dimension 20 campaign into a single fandom tag.

But policy changes are easier when nominations aren't currently underway. So! If you have any feedback on fandom sorting in advance of next year, I'd appreciate any comments on this post!

Here is 2024's nominations post for reference on current guidelines: https://trickortreatex.dreamwidth.org/64087.html

And here is 2024's tag set: https://archiveofourown.org/tag_sets/20767

(Note that I'm busy this month and will probably not reply to comments. I'll read everything ahead of next year's nominations.)

(Note also that I'm more interested in a generally functional tag set than a universal rule of how fandoms get divided. There will always be some inconsistencies by design.)
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After conferring with Detective Pumpkin, you join the gathering in the Room of Dreams and Nightmares. Everyone is here, from Mugwortius the Monster to Catherine Catrina Catalina the Cat to the weeping banshee housekeeper.

Detective Pumpkin stands next to an upright, open coffin, in which Velmarina the Vampire is bound.

"I'm most disappointed," Velmarina complains. "I wanted you to gather us all up before dramatically pointing at me."

"You would have escaped in a flurry of bats," Mugwortius points out, waving a sludgy hand. "You always do that. What I don't understand is why you killed the Spirit of Halloween."

Velmarina rolls her eyes. "Let the Spirit explain that for themself."

"Enough!" Detective Pumpkin says. "It's already Halloween, and without the help of my new investigator—" she gestures towards you— "I wouldn't have been able to solve the murder in time. But thanks to this amulet, I can perform the ritual to resurrect the Spirit of Halloween."

She lifts her hand, on which glitters an enormous pumpkin-orange diamond.

Catherine Catrina Catalina stretches adorably. "That would be the ring the Spirit of Halloween gave you on your, ahem, friendship anniversary?"

Detective Pumpkin can't blush. Her head is literally a pumpkin. But her candle flickers.

"It's a practical, magical amulet," Detective Pumpkin says defensively. "The Spirit thought it would be useful for my work."

She busies herself with the preparations. You help her lay out the array of festive bonbons and tiny pumpkins, surrounding the Mask of Masking and the bound Velmarina.

Then you step back, and Detective Pumpkin steps into the circle. She touches the amulet ring and says, "The culprit is Velmarina the Vampire, with the Mask of Masking, in the Room of Dreams and Nightmares. The trick has been uncovered. Bibbity bobbity boo!"

With the final "boo", a horde of ghosts flurries through the room. They dash hither and thither in gusts of cold wind and flapping sheets—then vanish.

The bonbons and tiny pumpkins float into the air. Small orange lights dance between them.

"Spirit," Detective Pumpkin breathes.

And the Spirit of Halloween appears.

They look different to everyone. You might see a witch, or a devil, or a fairy, or a clown. A sexy mime or an amorphous wisp of shadow. A memory. A friend. The Spirit of Halloween is whatever Halloween means to you.

Upon resurrection, their first words are, "I'm sorry."

"Why?" Detective Pumpkin reaches out. "You've done nothing wrong."

The Spirit of Halloween clasps Detective Pumpkin's hands. "Velmarina killed me because I wouldn't shut up about you. I've been annoying her for years, talking about my crush on you without ever doing anything about it."

Silence falls. Except for the weeping banshee housekeeper.

"She what," Detective Pumpkin says, flabbergasted. Then her voice softens, her candle flickering intensely. "Your crush on me?"

"They're insufferable about you," Velmarina says, ruthless.

"We have a lot to talk about," the Spirit of Halloween says fondly. "But first, I have one spooky job to take care of..."

The Spirit of Halloween lets go of Detective Pumpkin's hands enough to gesture skyward.

Bonbons and tiny pumpkins fly away through the windows, streaming orange and purple sparkles. They light up the sky on their journeys to every corner of Halloweenland—

While in Trick or Treat Manor, surrounded by friends, the Spirit of Halloween and Detective Pumpkin lean in for a long-awaited kiss.

As the bonbons and tiny pumpkins arrive at their destinations, they transform into gifts for lucky Trick or Treaters. The murder mystery is solved, and works are revealed. Please enjoy the tricks and treats in the collection!
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Here is the collection. Enjoy your tricks and treats!

Works will remain anonymous until creator reveals on Nov. 7.
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Happy Halloween! Enjoy your tricks and treats!

As a reminder, works should remain anonymous through creator reveals on Nov. 7. Community Challenge tracking will also continue through that time, if you still have some extra treats planned :)
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Creators have been revealed! Thank you everyone for your participation.

Works

Works by Fandom

This year's challenge was not completed, but I hope you had fun with the exchange anyway!

The collection will remain open for treats indefinitely, as in previous years. I am still willing to pass on questions for recipients; you can send them over at halloweenmod@gmail.com
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The collection is revealed!

Works

Works by Fandom

Enjoy your tricks and treats. Happy Halloween!

Note: It looks like works are being revealed slowly, but it is happening. Email halloweenmod@gmail.com if there appears to be an issue with your gift.
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Thank you everyone for a fantastic final round as your PumpkinKing! Congratulations to the community in winning at Battleship. You all worked hard at it.

Creators should be revealed now!
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Collection is live! You still have until creator reveals to beat me at Battleship. I will be doing the hits and misses shortly.

Happy Halloween and if there are any issues with the collection or gifts email me at halloweenmod@gmail.com!

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AO3 support has been contacted about the authors failing to reveal.

[personal profile] shadowsapiens will be the official Chief Goblin next year.

Neither community challenge, Challenge Yourself or Shopping List, were completed this year.  But you all got very close to completing Shopping List.  Shopping List was very ambitious and it didn't work out as planned, but I'm still glad that we tried it this year.  We won't be revisiting Shopping List unless I can find a way to make it far more manageable. Next year we will be playing a game of Battleship. 

If you have never played it before, here is a page about the game.  It will be done as the entire community trying to sink my ships.  The squares will operate like they did in Bingo.  I will be picking the difficulty roughly the same way as I did for Bingo.  You don't have to get the entire board to win, you just need to find where my hidden ships are and sink them.

For next year, if this bug hasn't been resolved, I will temporarily close the collection just during work and author reveals.  As soon as the reveals have gone through the collection will be reopened.

If you participated in Challenge Yourself and want to talk about how you challenged yourself then do so on this post.

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