Trick or Treat 2024 Letter

AO3 Username: StopTalkingAtMe

Welcome to my letter, Mystery Creator. Let me start by saying I’m open to a LOT of different things, including unrequested crossovers with other fandoms that I’m into. If I’ve ever written it or requested it or otherwise given you reason to think I’m a fan then go ahead.. And while my general likes might lean towards the bleak and angsty, believe it or not, I do also really love more light-hearted styles of fic as well as pure unadulterated smut. Do whatever you want with my prompts. Use them, subvert them, or ignore them completely and go off my general likes if you’d prefer. Some of the sections here may be longer than others but please don’t read anything into that – I’d be delighted with a gift for any one of them. I’m excited to see what you come up with! :D

General Preferences
Fallout 4
Fallout (TV)
The Pale Blue Eye - Louis Bayard
Re-Animator (Movies)
Star Trek: Deep Space Nine

General Likes and DNWs

General Likes

Character studies and introspection
Loneliness and isolation
Angst
Atmospheric description, scenery porn, sensory description
World-building, backstory, and character development.
Horror of all kinds, understated ghost stories, body horror, cosmic horror, claustophibic horror where the characters are trapped underground, potentially with monsters (think The Descent), etc.
Closed Circle - Stranded with a murderer in your midst, whether in horror or murder mystery. Think And Then There Were None.
Case-fic, whether fully realised or just touching on elements from a case.
Whump, hurt/comfort and hurt/no comfort.
Endings of all kinds, happy, bleak or bittersweet.
Canon-divergent AUs, especially post-canon ones where the bad guys win.
Pining, whether mutual or one-sided
Repression and stoicism
Descriptions of scars
Main Character Death and grief; characters getting together while still grieving for previous partners, taking solace in each other, the dead character still seeming like a presence in the relationship, etc.
Crossovers, especially oddball crossovers that come completely out of left field, although I do tend to prefer crack played straight rather than outright crack. If you have reason to believe I know and like the other fandom, then I encourage you to go for it.
Post-Apocalypse scenarios, including zombies (probably my favourite AU scenario of all time), with focus on angst and the struggle for survival.
Stranded Together With No Way Home, intense (and probably pretty damn unhealthy) fire-forged relationships that come about as a result of being isolated together and being able to rely on no one but each other.
Time Loops
Older characters finding love.
Age gap relationships
I really love historical detail and extensive research notes, so if that’s what you’re into then feel free to go wild. (If that’s not your thing, then please don’t worry: I am in no way an expert, and I love tropey indulgent stuff and cheerfully anachronistic fics just as much).
Hair kink. Hands pushed into hair, coiling it around fingers, routinely cutting another character's hair if appropriate in context (e.g. in post-apocalyptic scenarios), hairwashing as part of hurt/comfort, yanking head back by the hair, etc
Textiles, especially knitwear and embroidery; men in jumpers; historical and cultural details and craft in general
Unusual structures and ways of telling a story, such as Rashomon plots, non-linear narratives, outsider POVs, epistolary works, etc.
Cigarette kink: descriptions of smoking, sharing cigarettes, lighting cigarettes for each other, etc.
Finally, and I cannot emphasise this enough, men in sleepwear, particularly pyjamas and dressing gowns.

Smut Likes

Sex Pollen and aftermath, and any other kind of something made them do it scenario
Angry Sex, rough sex, hate sex, rough sex that turns tender
Clothed Sex, or clothed/naked
Comfort Sex
Dubcon when requested (mutual dubcon of the something-made-us-do-it kind is ALWAYS okay even when not explicitly requested)
Mild bondage and other forms of gentle restraint
Oral Sex, especially cunnilingus in all its forms, and ESPECIALLY cunnilingus with fingering
Rough Sex - Lots of Scratching and Biting and Hair-Grabbing/Pulling and Holding Partner(s) Down
Sex in grimy, grim, uncomfortable places
Threesomes
Situations where one character is too tired, injured etc to orgasm themselves, but takes great pleasure in making the other person come, so long as it's part of a wider give-take relationship when it comes to sex.

DNWs

Omegaverse
Noncon between requested ships (Something Made Them Do It scenarios are always okay though, including Bad Guys Made Them Do It)
Dubcon involving unaroused characters
Unrequested Incest
Bestiality (monsters don't count here)
Scat and waterplay
Formalised D/s dynamics (more casual power play, bondage and other forms of restraint are OK)
Underage
Het anal sex
Breathplay (antagonistic choking is fine)
Fisting
Lactation kink
Any variation of the word 'come' in a sexual context spelled as 'cum' (please use 'come', 'came', 'precome' etc)

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Fallout 4

Requested Ship:
John Hancock/Female Sole Survivor
Requested mediums:
Fic, Art

Right, so after watching the series, I finally gave Fallout a shot without scurrying off back to Skyrim after about an hour of gameplay and I HAVE FALLEN IN LOVE. I love this game so much, (and have a whole bunch of thoughts about how it compares to Skyrim and TES in general, which I will spare you here, but for the record, if you want to do a crossover or some kind of fusion, then please do). I was hesitant to request it as I haven't been playing long (although I seem to be burning through it), but since I'm not sure when I'll get another chance, fuck it, it's in. XD Please don't worry about spoilers (I will do my damndest to have finished the main quest by reveals) and I apologise in advance for any shortcomings in my request, and my prompts in particular. Please just know I love this setting and the characters I have met so far (Preston! Piper! Nick! Hancock!) to absolute bits and I'm sure I'll love whatever you come up with.

I love the look of the game, the decayed retrofuturistic Americana, the flavour of the Boston setting, and the scrappy against the odds determination to make the Commonwealth a better place.

John Hancock/Female Sole Survivor

Oh hot fucking damn. <3 Hancock absolutely had my heart from the moment he shivved that other ghoul for me, but having now romanced him, I cannot get over how much I ADORE him. His outfit, his backstory, those scars. And yeah, okay, the ghoul thing, which I just find so fascinating (and not just because it's hot as fuck): the ever-present fear of the slide into becoming feral, which is something the world never lets you forget.

He's such a fascinating character, the weird mingling of genuine kindness and altruism with the way he maintains control over Goodneighbour through a mixture of ultraviolence and fairness. Add in the vulnerability over being a ghoul and the way he thinks he isn’t good enough for the Sole Survivor (CATNIP), and how utterly heartfelt and sincere his lines are when he’s romanced (MY HEART), that I’m kind of at a loss for words. His first romance line where he admits to having impure thoughts (me too, Hancock, me too) did not in any way prepare me for the way romancing him was going to pan out. I was not expecting him to be so lovely, and while I shipped it early on, I have gone on to absolutely, overwhelmingly ship it like burning.

It’s been a while since I fell for a ship and a character quite this hard. Plus their dynamic is delightful: he’s just all-in and utterly loyal and delighted to be fighting by the Sole Survivor’s side, and their dynamic just makes me want to cackle with glee. One little detail I really love is the playful teasing way she tells him to ‘stay’ when she wants him to temporarily stay put, like she’s going to pat him on the head and call him a good boy. Okay, it’s probably the same line she uses with all the (romanced?) companions, but with him it plays exactly into what I like about their dynamic and the desperately loyal golden retriever boyfriend vibes he gives off if you romance him. More of that playfulness and potentially the Sole Survivor getting to have fun for the first time since she escaped the Vault (maybe feeling a little conflicted about it) would be very welcome.

There are so many things I love about this pairing, and so much that I wish had been incorporated into the game, all of which I would be delighted to see explored (and this is a little tricky as I’m still on my first playthrough, so bear with me). I wish we’d got something when he accompanies the Sole Survivor to Diamond City and goes up to the Mayor’s Office (and I have been vaguely spoiled that there’s more going on there that I haven’t got to yet, but still, there should be something if you take him up to the office before that plot point…).

And the aftermath of the Sole Survivor taking him back to Vault 111, and his line when he sees your spouse in the Vault and that horrible moment of realisation, combined with his self-doubt about whether he really deserves her alongside the potential for emotional hurt/comfort in the renewal of the Sole Survivor’s grief... Again: catnip. I’m afraid I’m a sucker for the fridged spouse trope (and there are few spouses quite so comprehensively fridged as the Sole Survivor’s), and all the painful ins and outs of falling for someone while still grieving for a significant other.

I am completely here for him and the Sole Survivor as a battle couple, the way the Sole Survivor’s arrival in Goodneighbour acts as a catalyst for him deciding to leave. I’d love to see his reasons for leaving Goodneighbour explored a little more too, as well as his relationship with the town in general: it feels like there’s some really interesting character stuff to get into there: like him being relatively young in comparison to most of the other ghouls, and the way he had to adopt a whole new persona in order to have the courage to fight back, complete with a changed name and stolen clothes. And the way he talks about himself before he became a ghoul: this hot-headed, passionate, self-destructive idealist, and the way everything he’s been through has changed him. I would love to see a younger version of Hancock explored, particularly early on in his transformation into a ghoul, and when he’s going up against Vic.

Optional Prompts

Survival Horror, and surviving in the Commonwealth in general. Injured and stranded and out of ammo, they have to fight to survive something hunting them.
Clothing porn – THAT FUCKING COAT THOUGH. I’m not even sure what I want from this, beyond descriptions of his coat, but I just love the backstory behind why he’s wearing it (and I note that a disproportionate number of my prompts seem to be coat-related), and the way it provided the inspiration to finally stand up and fight.
First time together naked – because out in the wilderness, you’re not going to risk making yourself vulnerable by undressing, which makes the first time they fuck in safety and are able to get undressed all that much more significant.
Altered States – Drugs (Recreational) – I mean… *gestures at Hancock* Maybe they get time for that chem break, and get a little carried away.
Role play as a feral – ahaha, oh GOD. Maybe it comes about accidentally, they’re goofing around, possibly while under the influence of something, (recreational or some sort of sex pollen situation), and it leads to something more. I do really love the idea of a playful dynamic for these too, particularly combined with filthy, filthy sex.
Bad Guys Make Them Do It – Always and forever. I love this trope in all its forms, from lighter treatments where it’s more ‘Bad Guys Enable Them’ to something darker. For this, I especially love focus on mutual emotional support, and the two of them bonding over a traumatic experience. Also vengeance.
Bad Weather – I love the atmosphere when there’s a radiation storm, how bleak and moody it gets, and those lightning flashes. Anything from something quiet and contemplative while they’re waiting for the storm to pass (or the two of them trying to find something to do and playing Blast Radius ain’t quite cutting it), or hurt/comfort or survival with the two of them trying to find somewhere to take shelter. Or Hancock trying to shield her from the radiation.
Bathing/Washing – indulgent descriptions of luxuriating in the process of getting clean. A bathhouse in the game world could probably make a killing. Possibly literally? So maybe they stumble across a bathhouse which is really a front for stealing from and murdering its guests.
Character A drapes their coat over B's shoulders – And we’re back to the clothing porn again. :D
Distracting an addict from addiction with sex – Tricky to imagine a world where Hancock runs out of drugs, admittedly, but what if. Maybe they’re in captivity or stranded in the middle of nowhere. Or maybe it’s the Sole Survivor who’s trying to break the habit. Here for hurt/comfort and/or smut.
Identity Porn - Masked Ball As An Excuse for Inadvisable Sex – masked, perhaps, because wherever the hell they are doesn’t let in ghouls. Maybe there’s a plotty reason for them investigating the ball (and indulgent descriptions of the crumbling but grand old building where the ball is being held are particularly welcome), or maybe it’s just an excuse for smut.
Comparing Scars – and scars in general. Just mmph, yes please.
A canon divergent fic where the Sole Survivor thaws out a few years earlier than in-game and comes out of the vault early, say round about the time when Hancock is gearing up to overthrow Vic.
Any of the missing moments that feel like they should be in game, but aren’t, like The Talk after a romanced Hancock sees the Sole Survivor’s body in the Vault, a companion quest that digs into the relationship between him and his brother, or the conversation that should have taken place with a romanced Hancock after the Sole Survivor leaves the Institute having learned the truth about his brother.
Time loops, and watching the person you love die over and over again.
The Silver Shroud questline was a fucking delight from start to finish, one of the highlights being the Sole Survivor's Wes Johnson impression. Plus more Hancock content. I loved the way it started as the two of them goofing around a little, before becoming more serious. Just pure fun. I'd love to see something exploring the questline, whether the Sole Survivor and Hancock are travelling together yet or not. Identity porn and more ridiculous impressions welcome, as is pure unadulterated smut with the Sole Survivor roleplaying as the Silver Shroud.

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Fallout (TV)

Requested ships:
Chet/Norm MacLean
Cooper Howard/Lucy MacLean
Requested mediums:
Fic, Art

Note on my DNWs: Regarding the fact that Norm and Chet cousins, I’d prefer no heavy angst or focus on it, or it being treated by any of the characters as a major obstacle. If you want to touch on it, I really like the matter-of-fact way canon handled it, acknowledging it as less than ideal, but not something to make a huge deal about.

I absolutely loved the post-apocalyptic setting, the retrofuturism vibes, and the way the show mixed the darkness with moments of humour. And also tongue-in-cheek meta nods to video game mechanics, like Cooper's line about getting distracted by bullshit in the Wasteland, and Lucy's skill building speech in the first episode, are always fun to see.

Norm/Chet

Oh, god, these two. I'd love to see them explored more, And Norm especially: this prickly, apathetic, little weirdo, forever stuck in the shadow of his prettier, perkier, overachieving sister! And the way his inability to give a shit about any kind of work is ultimately vindicated by the show, and that it actually turns out he's pretty damn brave after all. I am also an absolute SUCKER for vulnerable men, and there is SO much opportunity for that with him, not just from external threats, but everything involving Chet having previously been in love with Lucy and Norm's potential anxiety about being a stand-in for his sister, not to mention everything that happens with Steph, and I just... oof, it's so horribly messy with so much potential for pain and self-doubt. I'd also be remiss if I didn't mention that size difference.

Explore their history, or how things might pan out post-canon, or alternatively get them up on the surface and exploring the world beyond the vaults. Does Lucy try to contact him via another vault to tell him what she's learned about their mother and their past? What if for whatever reason she wasn't in a position to leave the vault, and so he went in her stead, and unlike her didn't stop Chet when he offered to come? How would that difference affect canon? How would Norm, who has a very different set of skills to Lucy (and again, I love the meta concept of him as a different character 'class'), respond differently to the same threats? And Chet is quite passive in canon and easily manipulated: how would he react to leaving the vault? I am completely here for the character study of it all, but also for survial, the threats of the Wasteland, whether human or monstrous, hurt/comfort, resentment, and loyalty kink. And also the gradually unfolding realisation of how utterly fucked up Valut-Tec is.

I'd also love to see Norm's relationship with his sister explored, and how he'd react to her with Cooper if they end up reuniting. As for Chet, he's so passive in the show, and I'd love to see that developed.

Optional Prompts

Instead of Lucy, it's Norm and Chet who leave the Vault in search of Norm's father. How would that affect canon? Would they still get involved in the hunt for the head? Or would they find their way to Moldaver by another route? Would they meet Max or the Ghoul? Something plotty is very welcome, but I'd also be here for scenery porn, the struggle for survival, and the two of them huddling for warmth by campfires.
Pining while having sex - Norm thinking that the only reason Chet is sleeping with him is as a stand-in for Lucy, and maybe that is how it started (or not: it's up to you), but things change pretty quickly.
Sparring. Norm has to learn to fight so that he can protect himself.
So far on my rewatch something that stood out to me was Chet saying that he doesn’t know who he is any more after he’s demoted and is no longer the gatekeeper, which chimes with Norm’s whole ‘lacks enthusiasm’ thing, because maybe he doesn’t know who he is either, and it takes them leaving the vault and finding a place in the world to figure out who they are and where they belong.
Manhandling with Norm/Chet in mind. That height difference, man. It doesn't feel like something Chet would do naturally, but maybe something happens which leads Norm to realise how easily Chet can handle it, and how hot he finds it.
Clothing porn
A desperate fight for survival -- for either pairing, but particularly Norm/Chet, partly because they're not quite as competent or good at surviving, so it makes the fight all the more desperate. Maybe they're attacked by raiders or ghouls, or stuck somewhere freezing and have to huddle for warmth. Anything where they get the chance to show off their own skills and knowledge especially.
Something where Norm is convinced that the only reason Chet wants to sleep with him is as a stand-in for Lucy, and turns him down as a result. Chet decides to stop being so passive and decides to go after what he wants for a chance.
Bad Guys Make Them Do It – always and forever. I love this trope so much, the potential for guilt and self-blame, the way it can act as a catalyst for revelation of feelings and abs an obstacle to them (that delicious guilt), the hotness of being forced to go through public or semi-public sex, mutual protectiveness and bonding, and the potential threat from the onlookers. I like it both as something fun and tropey, where it’s more Bad Guys Enabled them, and as something darker where there is a genuine threat from the bad guys and it’s traumatic (but they still find it sexually arousing).
Lucy and Norm are reunited in the Wasteland post season one.
Accidental Baby Acquisition – delightful for either pairing, honestly. If they’re out in the Wasteland, I love all the complications of having to feed it and keep it alive, and the potential for characters to behave in unexpected ways. Norm and Chet are stuck looking after Steph’s baby?

Lucy/Cooper

Ohhhh, be still my enemy-shipping heart. God, this ship is a *delight*, and I hold my hands up to finding the whole thing scorching hot, aside from all the fucked up complications of their relationship -- the way he treated her when they first met, the finger, her ultimately saving his life and telling him she's not like him (even though she potentially kinda is, or vice versa). I'd love to see something exploring how the two of them might change each other while they’re travelling together whether they’re still in the antagonistic phase of their relationship or if it happens once they’re allies. What's going to happen when she learns who he used to be (and probably still is) and that she grew up watching his films? Western themes and references are very welcome, as are canon divergent fics where they stay together for longer while they're still enemies. How would the slow burn enemies-to-lovers shift come about in that case? What would have happened if they were still travelling together when they find themselves in Vault 4? I’d also like to draw your attention to my hand kink like, and my like for cunnilingus with fingering.

I’d also love to see anything exploring the way he’s changed, and the almost certainly hopeless futility of his quest, and if he ever finds his family, he almost certainly isn’t going to like what he’s going to find. And how the hell he thinks a reunion with his daughter is going to go, given what he’s become. Given he’s an actor, I also have a lot of thoughts about the act of putting on a costume in order to able to pretend to be something you’re not (and if you’re familiar with Fallout 4, I have Hancock pretty solidly in mind here), and to what extent he’s become that character.

And speaking of Hancock, if you’re familiar with F4 and up for doing a crossover, then I would absolutely love a crossover where they meet, whether it’s Hancock and the Sole Survivor (ftr, I ship Hancock/Female Sole Survivor) or just Hancock on his own. Mainly because it amuses me how much Hancock would absolutely HATE him.

So long as Lucy/Cooper is endgame, I'm fine with Cooper/Barb and references to their relationship (particularly thinking about the memory , and especially with explorations of all the messy fallout (ha) of the way it ended, plus some residual feelings for her on his part.

Art Prompts

I love the visuals of the show so much, the bleak post-apocalyptic imagery, the retrofuturism, the body horror elements of the ghouls and THIS ghoul in particular. Also feel free to pack in as many Western tropes and references as you can, tumbleweed, cinematic Western visuals, smut, the contrast between the cleanliness of the Vaults and the decay of the Wasteland.

Optional Prompts

Body Swap - Characters Are Alarmingly Good At Being Each Other – And body swaps in general. Maybe it can only be reversed with sex.
Something that focuses on Shady Sands and the things that have happened there over the years. A 5+1 piece, maybe, about past, present, and future. Or something written from the point of view of Shady Sands itself.
The episode where Lucy and Maximus find themselves in Vault 4 was one of my favourites, and I’d love to see that Vault explored more, whether it’s an expanded version of that episode which takes more time over what’s going on, (maybe an AU version where it’s Lucy and Cooper) or an entirely different visit to the Vault. In particular, I’d really love to find out more about what the hell was going on with the Mother of Flames culty stuff, because canon skipped waaaay too quickly over that for my liking, but also I’d just really love to spend more time with that overly polite helpful bunch of adorable weirdos. (OH GOD THE CYCLOPS GUY <3<3<3)
Tentacles - RoboTentacles as a Sex Toy - For either pairing. Up to you whether this is entirely consensual and the characters choose to incorporate them into their sex, or if the robotentacles are malfunctioning and there's a dubcon element at play. Either way, NICE.
Time loop - Either pairing, and the details are up to you. Is one character stuck, or are they both trapped? Is one character repeatedly dying, or having to watch the other one die? And feel free to incorporate meta elements of gameplay.
"I can make them worse" with Lucy/The Ghoul in mind, because the process of redemption fascinates me, and I can’t help envisaging a situation where he’s starting to go back to being a better person, but for plot reasons, Lucy has to stop or slow down the redemption process and force him to be temporarily worse again.
Accidental Baby Acquisition – delightful for either pairing, honestly. If they’re out in the Wasteland, I love all the complications of having to feed it and keep it alive, and the potential for characters to behave in unexpected ways. For Lucy/Cooper, her being taken aback that he’s unexpectedly good with kids, even if he’s making noises about it being better to abandon it.
Sex Pollen – Always and forever one of my favourite tropes, whether it focuses on the event or the aftermath or both. Either pairing, one character affected, or both? If it’s just Cooper affected, then I’d especially love to see his reaction to Lucy’s matter-of-fact attitude to sex and her willingness to get on with it.
Alternate Univerve - Zombie Apocalypse – I just love zombie apocalypses so much, and I’d love to see the characters reimagined in this universe. Did the turn happen a long time ago, or is it more recent (and how would that affect the characters?) Is Cooper a zombie hybrid of some kind? Or alternatively, the ghouls hit some very similar tropes, so go with a survival horror in which the characters have to defend themselves from a bunch of feral ghouls.
Lucy and Norm are reunited in the Wasteland post season one.
Bad Guys Make Them Do It – always and forever. I love this trope so much, the potential for guilt and self-blame, the way it can act as a catalyst for revelation of feelings and abs an obstacle to them (that delicious guilt), the hotness of being forced to go through public or semi-public sex, mutual protectiveness and bonding, and the potential threat from the onlookers. I like it both as something fun and tropey, where it’s more Bad Guys Enabled them, and as something darker where there is a genuine threat from the bad guys and it’s traumatic (but they still find it sexually arousing).
Due to some handwavy technological simulation, Cooper becomes stuck in his memories of the past and thinks he’s his old self again with the end of the world nothing but a bad dream. Lucy has to travel into his mind and memories to remind him of who he really is and get him to snap out of it before he dies. Only trouble is he’s happier there, and meanwhile Lucy gets to meet some familiar faces. (I wrote this prompt before I realised there was precedent in Fallout 4 XD. Up to you if it operates along the same principles or if it’s something wholly new)
So what does Cooper plan to do when he finds his family?
All the Body Horror and/or hurt/comfort/whump that comes from turning into a ghoul, whether Cooper's condition is worsening, or one of the other characters is also turning into a ghoul, with their respective partner stuck in the position of being unable to do anything other than help them through it.
character reveals feelings while out of it from illness/injury/alcohol - I particularly have Cooper in mind here, mainly because of the sheer depth of secrets/feelings he could spill, but this would absolutely apply to any of the other characters too.
UH OH, Lucy's pregnant, and the baby is Cooper's. CAN ghouls father children? That's up to you, but perhaps some kind of Vault-Tec fuckery where his sperm was somehow kept on ice, and a malfunctioning AI 'misreads' their relationship, which is entirely platonic they *swear,* and knocks her up. Cue all the complicated feelings for Cooper of a baby on its way, and a half-sister for Janey, and for Lucy of finally getting the chance to reproduce, but it's with this guy.
Character that acts tough and stoic is secretly vulnerable and needs to be tenderly fucked - I specifically have Cooper in mind here, and OK OK, I will admit there are limits to how vulnerable he's capable of being, but at the same time, I’m really drawn to redemption arcs and to all those tough layers being torn away to reveal the traumatised gooey centre.
Manhandling, specifically with Lucy/Cooper in mind. I mean, goddamn, thouse scenes from early canon with him dragging her around were so fucking hot. I'd love something along those lines with her giving as good as she gets. Maybe something where they're working together now and they have to pretend to be antagonistic and that she's his prisoner, with all the rough handling necessary for show and infused with sexual tension, and afterwards they spar which leads to angry angry sex. (and for something set when they're more antagonistic, Lucy fighting back also leads to angry sex.).
Emotionally repressed but deeply in love character finally breaks and gives into feelings - Specifically thinking about Lucy/Cooper here, because OH GOD YEP. What would this moment look like? How long would it build until it gets to this point? Would there be a catalyst?
Cooper goes feral; Lucy has to bring him back. I don’t know if it’s reversible in canon, but handwave that if you need to. Maybe there’s an external plot reason why she has to bring him back, while other characters are telling her to abandon him or kill him outright, or maybe there isn’t and she knows they’re probably right but still can’t bring herself to do it. All the hurt/comfort here, her chaining him to a bed and trying to nurse him through it, while he gets flashes of lucidity and maybe even he’s telling her she should just kill him, idk.
Hurt/Comfort - Buried Alive & Rescue and Locked in a coffin together –Grade A whump. Maybe Lucy is captured and buried because hey, she’s a vaultie, so surely she’ll be happier underground, and Cooper has to rescue her. Feel free to dive into the trauma, horror and claustrophobia of this set-up, or her trauma in the aftermath, and Cooper’s complicated feelings. Also, if they’re buried together, Lucy’s realisation that this is something that’s happened to him before, and the UST that arises from the forced proximity.
A Fallout 4 crossover. Lucy and the Ghoul meet up with the Sole Survivor and Hancock. (preferably female Sole Survivor, since that’s the only version I’ve played, and I ship them HARD). Maybe they’ve come south chasing one of Mama Murphy’s prophecies; maybe there’s a case of mistaken identities because Dom Pedro’s men are looking for a ghoul and a woman travelling together. The potential similarities between the Sole Survivor’s story and the Ghoul’s intrigue me too, and if anyone’s in a position to tell him to be careful what he wishes for...

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The Pale Blue Eye - Louis Bayard

Requested Ships:
Augustus Landor/Edgar Allan Poe
Requested mediums:
Fic, Art

God, I loved this book so much. The way the narrative unfolds, the contrast between Landor’s more straightforward entries (ha!), and Poe’s gloriously overwrought entries, ridiculously over the top and gothic and full of all earnest little asides. Landor and Poe are both sensitive, damaged men, and it delights me that right from the start they’re drawn to each other right, and not only that but helplessly charmed by each other. It’s just a pure unadulterated joy to read. And shippy. Hot fucking damn, is it shippy.

Poe’s feelings towards Landor are a little ambiguous. I’m inclined towards thinking they’re mostly platonic, and he’s just developed an intense attachment because Landor is one of the first few people to show him any regard, BUT that if he realised the truth he’d come around pretty damn quickly. But as for Landor… Yeah, nope. His crush on Poe is so big it could probably be seen from SPACE! Look, if your reaction to your on-off lover telling you in the middle of sexual activity that you’re 'not so old' is to immediately recall that time when Poe said the exact same thing, I’m afraid the definitely-only-paternal-feelings-here plausible deniability ship has sailed. :D

Ship-wise, I have so many favourite moments: Poe’s excitement at having solved the puzzle of the scrap of paper and how deflated he is when he realises Landor already knew what he was going to say; his delight at seeing Landor’s books; all the moments when Landor thinks about Poe (and he’s constantly thinking about Poe); Landor virtually having an ‘Oh no he’s hot!’ moment in reaction to Poe in disguise; the whole tear-my-heart-out-and-stamp-on-it (ha!) of the ending; Landor deliberately breaking Poe’s heart; and the intimacy of the times they spent talking together in the darkness. If I had to pick one favourite moment, though, it’d be the bit where Landor tells the story about the time he saw Poe’s mother perform while Poe’s sitting on the floor completely spellbound. It’s such a heartbreakingly intimate little moment.

I kept seeing patterns in it, like the repeating hints of threesome pairings: like Poe’s half-joking suggestion that he, Landor and Lea should run off together, (at which my mind just went: !), and Poe/Lea/Artemus (also: !), but also, less overtly: Landor/Poe/Mattie. That moment towards the end when Landor wishes Mattie had met Poe, and that they might have become a family, hit me so damn hard. All the messy potential and the need for each other: the blurred lines between wanting Poe as his son-in-law vs wanting him as his lover, and the fact that under certain circumstances it could have been very possible indeed – if Mattie hadn’t died, and some other event led to them meeting Poe (perhaps another murder), it’s a pretty good bet that Poe would fallen for her as hard as he did Lea – the two of them bonding over Byron, while Landor is completely perplexed by his daughter’s oddball of a beau, and yet drawn to him as well… Which is to say that I’m very open to the way Poe/Mattie could cast light on Landor/Poe (whether she’s alive or not.).

And then there’s everything involving ghosts, with that reveal at the end strongly hinting that they exist, which raises so many questions about why Mattie was drawn to Poe in the first place, and whether the ritual to save Lea’s life might actually have worked? My read on that ritual, btw, is that Poe’s life was never in danger (Although I’m 50-50 on whether Lea and Artemus would actually have taken him with them when they ran away), but either way it makes the consequences of Landor’s actions so much more painful. (And maybe Poe has to tell himself Landor absolutely did save his life that second time, because it’s too painful otherwise, but every now and then he has his doubts…)

I’d love to see anything for this fandom, whether it’s explicitly shippy or on a similar subtextual level as canon. Pining is extremely welcome, whether one-sided or mutual. Hurt/comfort and hurt/no comfort, a post-canon fic, whether immediately, or a number of years down the line. Landor’s ghost visiting an older Poe, perhaps now dying himself? A canon-divergent fic where Mattie never died? Or something exploring the nature of ghosts and the implications their presence raises? Pure, unadulterated smut, or something quieter and more subtle and smarmy with one of those late-night moments where Poe and Landor are staying up into the night bonding?

Optional Prompts

Bedside Vigils – Post-canon or otherwise. Maybe Poe is more seriously injured during Ballinger’s attack on him than he is in canon, and the closest place to take him is Landor’s room in the hotel. Or post-canon, with Poe sitting by Landor’s bedside, with all the grief and guilt and resentment and loyalty that entails.
Bittersweet Reunions - Everything's changed but that's okay – The way the relationship between them stands at the end of canon is like catnip to me: all that devotion and loyalty and resentment and grief. Landor and Poe reunite several years down the line. How has the dynamic between them changed?
Conversations In Liminal Spaces On The Border Of One World And Another – Perhaps a 5+1 fic of Conversations Poe has had with Ghosts. Or just Landor’s ghost visiting Poe throughout the years.
'Oh No They're Hot' moment leads to feelings realization – I don’t know if it was the result of shipping goggles, but the moment where Landor sees Poe in disguise completely reads as an Oh No He’s Hot moment to me, given how Landor cannot help but note how well the borrowed uniform fits and how the moustache makes Poe look older and more handsome. XD Take that moment and turn it up a couple of notches, and maybe add a little more UST into the moment where Landor points out that the moustache has come detached.
Exploration of Aftermath of Canon Events – A fic set immediately post-canon where Poe interrupts Landor considering suicide.
Gently and Lovingly Taking Partner's Virginity – I am, for the record, 100% here for smut.
A canon-divergent fic where Mattie is still alive and both she and Landor come into contact with Poe, perhaps as a result of Landor being called in to investigate a different murder-mutilation. Because it seems like there’s a lot of potential to dig into with that dynamic of Landor’s confusion over whether his feelings for Poe are romantic or paternal. How would canon pan out differently if it was Mattie Poe fell passionately in love with? A less damaged Landor completely baffled yet drawn to his daughter’s new beau, and feeling excluded by their passionate conversations about Byron, and Poe still just as devoted to Landor, but this story will have a very different ending.
Letting your body be used as a conduit so that man you’re pining for can lose his virginity to his ghostly beloved who also happens to be your daughter – Yeaaaah, okay, this is just hot and messy and deeply deeply uncomfortable and awkward. Is Poe also pining for Landor, or is this genuinely entirely about Mattie for him (either is fine by me)? For Poe, is there some ghostly influence where the body feels female, or is it a case of feeling Landor’s male body but having to pretend otherwise? A one-off or otherwise? How blurry do those lines get over time if this is more than just a one-time deal? Maybe this is about Mattie deliberately trying to bring them together, and one day she just fades out and leaves them fucking each other? Or maybe one day Poe accidentally says Landor’s name? (if you go with this prompt, then regarding my incest DNW, I’d ideally prefer no focus on direct incestuous feelings/contact between Landor and Mattie, but if you’re at all in doubt then please err on the side of assuming its fine. Ambiguity is great.)
Mutual Pining – Explore all the time they spent together, all those intimate late nights sitting in the darkness in Landor’s room, drinking, and talking, and maybe they get onto the subject of whether Landor thinks he might be right about whether Fry could have gone to meet a man.
I’m curious what induced Poe to approach Landor in the first place, and whether at this point it might potentially have had something to do with Mattie.

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Re-Animator

Requested Ships:
Herbert West/Dan Cain
Requested mediums:
Fic, Art

Canon-specific DNW: Please pretend that the scenes of sexual violence against women in Beyond Re-Animator never happened. References to the Meg/Hill scene in the first film are fine though, and I’m also fine with Dan or Herbert being nonconned (onscreen or otherwise) by a third party for the purposes of whump or hurt/comfort.

I fell absolutely head over heels in love with the first Re-Animator film from the first moment I saw it – it’s so much damn fun to watch, funny, gory, obscene, and I think Herbert West might actually be one of my favourite characters in anything ever (and while I have some reservations about the sequels I do really like them both). As for Dan/Herbert, I shipped it right from the scene where they bring the cat back, and specifically from the moment where they’re side by side with weapons in hand, although with Herbert hanging back a little bit and clinging onto Dan’s shirt, because obviously.

The way from that moment they’re just… together, and there’s no way Dan is going to do anything other than help Herbert. I love that, and I love the way Dan sticks with Herbert through thick or thin (right up until the moment that he doesn’t, but more of that in a minute). So many things about this ship are tailor-made to my id: the combination of earnest/obsessive and likeable/abrasive, the constant touching with Herbert grabbing Dan at every single opportunity (this in particular just freaking delights me XD), the potential for hurt/comfort and protectiveness, and a complicated mixture of loyalty, manipulation, and betrayal that will get me every damn time.

I’d love anything that goes hard on the hurt/comfort and mutual protectiveness between Herbert and Dan, or anything that captures the tone and bonkers exuberance, gore, humour and horror of the films. Maybe something that explores what happens in between the films, especially between the first and second films, because damn, are there some unanswered questions there – like how did Meg’s heart come to be outside of her body (from the autopsy presumably, but WHAT IF...), and how the hell did Herbert manage to persuade Dan to go to Peru with him? And any of the reunions where an apparently dead Herbert pops up again. I also cannot emphasise enough how here I am for Herbert getting menaced and/or whumped.

I know it’s a deleted scene, but I find it really interesting that it doesn’t seem to be the prospect of having to give Dr Hill the credit for his work that gets Herbert to break the hypnosis, but Hill threatening Dan’s life. And the way he immediately abandons their current work to switch focus onto making the Bride to stop Dan from moving out. On the one hand, it’s a terrible manipulative thing to do, but on the other hand… *eyes* And also, what the hell was Herbert’s ultimate plan with the Bride anyway? How did he see that whole thing panning out long-term, beyond a short-term fix to keep Dan from leaving?

And then there’s the third film. While I have reservations about it, Dan turning state’s evidence on Herbert actually isn’t one of them. I am a complete sucker for complicated relationships, and I actually really love the way it shifts the balance of their relationship, especially considering the unfortunate consequences and the hellhole of a prison Herbert ends up getting thrown into. The way it hints at the way he’s suffered without ever quite going into details (the years in solitary), along with that moment when the warden hits him… and Herbert’s very deliberate act of revenge on the warden, which I firmly believe is something the Herbert of thirteen years previously would not have contemplated in a million fucking years, just shows how much the experience has changed him. That, and the way he reacts when Howard calls him doctor when they first meet. Mmph. It’s all very painful in a way that hits me right in the id.

I’m also delighted by how differently Herbert acts towards Howard, particularly at the end of the third film, where he comes across Howard cradling Laura’s head, looks at him for a moment, and then just effectively shrugs and yoinks his ID card. It’s a detail that brings home just how important Dan is to him. As far as I’m concerned, at the end of the 3rd film he is 100% going off to find Dan, and I would love something that explores them meeting again post-canon, and how the dynamics between them might shift with a Herbert who’s hurt at the betrayal and bruised by everything he’s been through and a Dan who’s not quite so naive and trusting.

Art Prompts

I am completely here for smut and shippy moments, as well as schlocky gore, the rampaging dead, and body-horror. Also the two of them in middleage, whether they’re reuniting after an estrangement or solidly established as partners (however you want to interpret that XD). Crossovers with other canons featuring Jeffrey Combs, or Herbert meeting the version of himself from Lovecraft’s original story, Herbert as a ghost! Eldritch Lovecraftian horrors, or historical AUs (Herbert in Regency clothing!!!!! *eyes*)

Optional Prompts

5 Times Dan Assumed Herbert was Dead – Because in various places, namely the screenplay and the novelisation, he is explicitly stated to have died at the end of the first film and I like the idea of him repeatedly appearing to die and popping up again mostly unscathed (and I’m amused that the one film where he doesn’t appear to die at the end is the one in which Dan does not appear. XD).
Accidental Baby Acquisition – I mean, they’re doctors. It’s not beyond the realms of possibility that they might find themselves in a situation where they have to deliver a baby in a crisis (possibly involving zombies), and end up separated from the mother and stuck having to look after the baby.
Addiction - Character tries to distract Addict from addiction with sex – Dan tries to break Herbert’s reliance on the serum.
Alternate Universe - Russian Doll Fusion – I love time loops in all their forms anyway, but this one in particular, with its focus on constant, unrelenting death, and the way the discovery that the loop is being shared with another person would play out with these two is perfect. (and for time loops in general, I’m amused by the way Herbert would probably adapt his work to take full advantage of the loop (er, an endless supply of fresh corpses with no consequences – hey, how is it murder if they don’t stay dead? – having to memorise the results because he can’t write them down, etc.)
Hurt/Comfort – Hurt/Comfort is always welcome, but one thing I’d love to see is Dan helping Herbert through withdrawal from the serum. Mainly because I really wish that deleted scene had been included in the film. I have some quiet headcanons about Herbert’s addiction to reagent, and amongst them is the fact that avoiding sleep is really, really not a good idea, and that maybe the times when he’s at his most batshit are the times when he’s suffering from chronic sleep-deprivation. All of which convinces Dan to help him to break the habit.
Bad Guys Made Them Do It – and every other iteration of Something Made Them Do It.
Betray them to save them – Dan’s presence looms so large in Beyond Reanimator even though he doesn’t appear. I can definitely see a situation where Dan got to a point where he couldn’t see any other choice, and he genuinely believed if things carried on the way they were that Herbert was going to get himself killed. I’d love to see that decision explored and the fallout when/if they’re reunited and he realises what Herbert’s been through.
Hurt/Comfort - Character with injured hands requires assistance (which turns sexual) – Here for the hurt/comfort and smut potential of this (and also very fond of one character shaving another.)
Inspired by the novelisation, Dan is completely taken by surprise when Herbert unexpectedly turns out to be massively into ice hockey. Maybe it’s a hobby he only occasionally spares the time for, but either way Dan is extremely weirded out by the prospect of Herbert going to bars and talking to fans.
You Hurt Me More Than Anything; But Being Without You Hurts More – Herbert goes in search of Dan after the end of Beyond Reanimator. Is he planning on revenge (even if he ultimately can’t face going through with it?) Does something else happen as a catalyst that forces them to work together again? I’d love to see all the messy hurt/comfort and emotional fallout of everything that happened.
Alternate Universe - Canon Divergence – How might things have played out if Meg hadn’t been so hostile to Herbert from the get-go? Maybe if she hadn’t been there when he came about the room, allowing Dan to prime her for his oddball roommate beforehand? And if she hadn’t walked in on them bringing Rufus back, which meant that Dan wouldn’t have fallen out with Dean Halsey, who then wouldn’t have died, etc etc. It’s interesting how differently Herbert treats Francesca. While he’s not exactly polite to her (XD) he tolerates her presence in a way he doesn’t really tolerate Meg’s, and I can’t help but read that as at least partially being the result of Meg’s attitude towards him.
Alternate Universe - Canon Divergence – A canon-divergent AU where Francesca isn’t on the scene and the creation of the Bride is much more successful, and she isn’t quite so much of a monster. Mainly because I’m really curious what the hell Herbert actually had in mind beyond keeping Dan with him at all costs. (And for the record, I’m completely open to Herbert/Dan/The Bride in whatever form that takes.)
Hurt/Comfort - Technically awful attempts at comfort are actually very comforting – Okay, so Herbert is pretty terrible at doing the whole comfort thing, but the fact that he even tries is pretty damn significant.
Road trip after the end of the world – Any post-apocalypse scenario will do, but I am particularly fond of zombie apocalypses, which seems particularly apt for this canon. Was it Herbert’s fault, or was he entirely innocent for once? Where are they going? What’s the plan? And how does reagent factor into things?
Estranged Characters - Injured A shows Up on B's doorstep Saying "I didn't know where else to go" – My first thought with this was Herbert turning up out of the blue, but what if it’s the other way around? What if, potentially after Herbert’s prison break, he considered hunting Dan down, but reluctantly decided not to follow through, only for Dan to suddenly turn up unexpectedly, and turns out he’s been keeping track of Herbert all these years and somehow or other the shit’s about to hit the fan?
Herbert and Dan take the places of the narrator and the version of Herbert in the original story by Lovecraft. – I read the story after watching the films, and I was really not expecting to find that so much of what happens in the first two films came more or less directly from the story (with a fair few changes along the way). I’m fascinated by the way the films work as adaptations, but especially by the similarities and differences between the two Herberts (running away screaming the first time they reanimate a corpse? Film!Herbert would never. On the other hand the stuff with the revolver? Yeeeeah, he totally would). So perhaps a historical AU where Herbert and Dan are from that period, or where they’re still their 80s selves but have switched places with the versions of themselves from the story. Or maybe it’s just Dan who’s switched places, and he has to content with a different version of Herbert, who is BLOND (and, y'know, also slightly more actively murderous than Dan's Herbert, and has a disconcerting habit of eyeing his healthy physique with a covetous eye). (If you haven’t already read it, be warned it has some racist elements. I’d prefer for those to be avoided if you go with this prompt, please)
A Re-Animator/Ghosts (UK) crossover. Why, yes, this is goofy as hell but I want it. :D In the eighties or nineties Dan and Herbert rent out Button House. Unfortunately something goes wrong and Herbert ends up dying on the property and coming back as a ghost. Or alternatively, Dan and Herbert are estranged, and Dan inherits the house from a mysterious relative, only realising who his benefactor is when he stumbles across the lab.
A rewatch of Bride of Re-Animator left me wondering what a M*A*S*H cross over would look like. So that, basically, whether it's Re-Animator reimagined as a half-hour sitcom set during their time in Peru, with slashy vibes between Herbert in the Frank role and Dan as Hawkeye. Or a more traditional crossover with MASH if you'd prefer to go with that.

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Star Trek: Deep Space Nine

Requested Ships
Quark/Brunt
Odo/Weyoun
Mirror Brunt/Weyoun 6
Requested mediums:
Fic, Art

DS9 is easily my favourite Star Trek series. I love all the shades of grey, the complicated questions of morality it raises, everything to do with the Dominion War and the Cardassians and the damn Ferengi. One of my favourite things about it is how it deals with the overturn of the status quo on a planetary scale, whether on Bajor, Cardassia, in the Dominion, and even on Ferenginar. I love what this series did with the Ferengi so, so much. They could just have been comic relief, but instead they’re so much more complicated than that. Partly it’s because the whole Ferenginar plotline ties in with the themes of the rest of the series, but it’s also because Quark is actually one of the most complicated characters in the whole show. I particularly love the way he’s used to comment on the Federation, and on humans in particular. His speech to Nog about how humans are only wonderful and friendly so long as their bellies are full in the Siege of AR-558 gives me the shivers.

Art Prompts (for all pairings)

Again, whatever I’d like in a fic, I’d also love to see explored in a piece of art. Action, hurt/comfort, romance, adventure, horror, smut. Explorations of alien worlds (especially Ferenginar!), the grimdark bleakness of the Mirror Universe, sexual tension between Brunt and Quark, or Weyoun’s slavish devotion to Odo and Odo’s grudging discomfort, Weyoun’s facial expressions alone... The visuals of changeling transformations, Ferengi clothing porn! Rain and other forms of inclement weather.

Odo/Weyoun

I’d love to see their relationship explored in all its forms, whether gen or shippy. There’s so much to explore in their relationship, and just what each character says about the other. I've shipped Odo/Weyoun pretty damn hard right from Weyoun's first episode, and Weyoun 6 sacrificing himself and then dying in Odo’s arms certainly didn’t make me ship them any less, but their gen relationship is fascinating too. There's so much to dig into: the complexities of the Vorta and their inbuilt loyalty to Changelings, the potential for changes to the way the Vorta are created and how that might affect the Dominion, Odo's blind spot for his people, and the fact that they're both capable of leading very long lives. Even when almost every other solid Odo’s known in his life has passed on, Weyoun could potentially still be around, and there are a lot of possibilities there.

I have a lot of feelings about everything that happens between them both in Faith, Treachery and the Great River, and what it says about both their characters. That story Weyoun 6 tells Odo about the origins of his people, and the way Odo seems to take it as kindness when actually what the Founders did was at the very least mass enslavement, and possibly even something akin to genocide? The suggestion that the Vorta are powerful is laughable, given that their entire purpose, over and above their own wellbeing, is to serve the Founders, and Odo of all people should know that. Would he have thought of himself as powerful when he was facilitating the Cardassians on Terok Nor? (Yeah, I wasn’t kidding about having a lot of feelings about that episode. XD) There are a lot of interesting parallels to be drawn.

Optional Prompts

DS9: Post-canon attempt to return the Vorta to sexual reproduction; first non-clone baby born - With Weyoun and Odo being at the heart of the attempt.
A canon-divergent fic where Weyoun 6 survives to defect to the Federation, exploring how their relationship goes after the war is over.
A canon-divergent AU where the canonical baby Changeling turns up while the station is in the hands of the Dominion and Weyoun is involved with Odo's attempts to look after it.
Complicated emotions at being pregnant with a baby character believes is a god - somehow Weyoun ends up knocked up, whether it's some kind of handwavy transporter accident type accident, or the result of a sex pollen incident necessary to save Odo's life and neither of them realised Weyoun could get pregnant that way. Is there some kind of side effect from the pregnancy which leaves Weyoun with some degree of shapeshifting powers, or the ability to link with the baby, which is amazing but also very uncomfortable because he's just a Vorta.
Cloning Accident result in creating a baby - The real reason Weyoun 6 tried to defect. :D Is it a wholly new person or just a baby version of Weyoun, and what are the implications of it not being going through the full cloning process?
character that thought they had zero parenting instincts goes into hardcore protective mode - I love Weyoun as a villain at least partly because of how very... unintimidating he is in a lot of ways. He's small and slight and vulnerable and he keeps dying, and I'm really drawn to this prompt both for him embracing his violent side in the interests of protecting a baby and for the potential to explore his character because I’ll always love a character study.
a 5+1 fic exploring the way Odo's relationship with the various different Weyouns changes over the years.
Sex Pollen – Whether it’s Odo affected and Weyoun willingly sacrifices himself to save the Founder, or Weyoun is affected and is horrified/pathetically grateful at Odo being willing to help. Or the aftermath of the sex pollen situation with all the fallout.
A canon-divergent AU where Odo remains human for longer, and he’s still a solid when he meets Weyoun 5 for the first time. What effect would Odo's becoming a solid have on their dynamic? How would the Vorta conceptualise the concept of a god becoming a solid, and what does that mean for the way Weyoun’s worldview? I’d be delighted with anything from a character/relationship study that follows their time on the station together, or perhaps something plottier where they're stranded on a planet together and have to work together to survive, but now Odo's just as vulnerable as Weyoun is. (Sex pollen always welcome)
Hurt/Comfort - Character Treats Other Character's Injuries – Weyoun is injured and Odo has to treat his injuries, whether it’s Weyoun 6 or one of the other ones. I’m just fascinated by all the messy feelings of faith and awe, and Odo’s discomfort at being thought of as a god.
Slow and painful process of recovering from lifetime of cultural brainwashing – Whether it happens over the course of one Weyoun or several. I really love all the tangled complexities of the way the Vorta see the world. Maybe this is a canon-divergent fic where Weyoun 6 survives and Odo tries to deprogram him? Or maybe a future Weyoun where the process has begun but isn't quite there yet.
Whump - A sacrifices themself to protect B; B is forced to watch A being tortured – The obvious candidate for self-sacrifice is Weyoun, but Odo sacrificing himself and Weyoun's struggles watching him being tortured (perhaps that Romulan device that stops him from changing shape) would be delicious too.

Quark/Brunt

These two had my enemy-shipping heart right from the moment Brunt got his Nausicaan goons to beat Quark half to death. *hearteyes* They are so, so shippy I can’t even: from how ridiculously unsubtle the show was about the subtext at the end of Ferengi Love Songs, to the air-kiss Quark blows him in Profit and Lace, to basically everything that happens between them in Body Parts. Brunt spending a small fortune purely to fuck Quark over, turning up in his quarters and reclining on Quark’s couch as he talks gleefully about his plans planning on defiling Quark’s remains (and that moment of ‘what do I do with my hands?!’ panic when Quark suddenly moves closer to him?)… yeah, um, that… that right there is a Ferengi who might just be up for some contract renegotiation.

It’s fascinating how much their relationship shifts throughout the series, going from entirely antagonistic to some degree of them being willing to work together even though Brunt’s ultimately always out for himself. There’s actually a lot of common ground between them – compared to just about everyone else in his family Quark’s a traditional Ferengi (or at least he wishes he was a traditional Ferengi), and it’s probably only because of his very non-traditional mother (Ishka, you glorious creature, you <3<3<3) that they end up at odds. I’m fascinated by the question of what makes a good Ferengi, and by Quark, who despite his first appearances as an amoral little schemer actually has a pretty strong moral code, and I found their reactions to the changes on Ferenginar in The Dogs of War, with Quark being outraged and Brunt much more pragmatic, pretty damn interesting, given how very, very bound to tradition Brunt’s been throughout the series. Granted he’s seen the changes first hand, and is trying to suck up to and manipulate Quark, but still… (and as an aside, that bit when he drops to his knees and kisses Quark’s hand? *eyes*)

I’d love to see anything from any moment of their relationship, from the early days when Brunt is so obsessed by (and horny for) Quark that he’s willing to do virtually anything to destroy him, to later when Brunt is more focused on his own gain and becoming Grand Nagus himself, to a post-canon fic which focuses on how their relationship might develop after the end of the series and the massive sweeping changes on Ferenginar. Similarly, tone-wise I’d be delighted with anything from UST and pining (one-sided or mutual), to hate-fucking, to something more genuine, and anything on the enemies-to-lovers to enemies-to-enemies-who-fuck scale.

Explore the worldbuilding – how progressive is Ferenginar when it comes to gay relationships? (and repression, denial, and internalised homophobia on one or both their parts is always welcome.) Alternatively, maybe Ferengi are actually pretty relaxed about it when it comes to casual relationships, or in the context of an M/M/F poly relationship because at least that solves the question of who pre-chews the tube grubs? In theory at least...

It’s also fine to write about their mirror universe counterparts instead, whether the story is focused on the actual mirror universe versions (and canon-divergent AUs are always welcome, btw), or something that involves pining while fucking the mirror-universe counterpart of the object of your affections, or a selfcest threesome (We barely saw Mirror!Quark, but Mirror!Brunt is such a sweetheart and I just want him to have nice things. D:). I also really, really love the look of (male) Ferengi clothing, so if you want to go all-out on clothing porn, then please do, as well as exploring any avenues of clothed or clothed/unclothed sex you might want to go down.

Optional Prompts

'Dirty little secret' relationship leads to Too Many Feelings leads to unexpected marriage proposal – Because I am so here for the two of them having a secret relationship on the downlow, and maybe they keep telling themselves it’s just about sex and it doesn’t mean anything, but actually...
Accidental Marriage – When they’re on an alien planet negotiating a contract, they accidentally wind up married (maybe because in that planet’s laws rivalry is considered a sign of great regard), and this cannot stand. Turns out getting it annulled is a little trickier than first envisioned, and in the meantime pining, forced proximity, and sex-of-convenience ensues.
Hate Sex – I am so, so here for the two of them hatefucking, and for moments of unexpected tenderness in the middle of the hatefucking, and for hate sex where they gradually start to develop feelings.
Exploration of Aftermath of Canon Events – A relationship study that looks at how things might develop between the two of them after the end of the series, with neither of them entirely happy about the changes on Ferenginar.
Characters don't realise they're in a relationship but everyone else can see it – Maybe Brunt keeps finding reasons to return to Deep Space Nice to make Quark’s life a misery, and Quark does everything he can to irritate Brunt, and neither of the two of them wants to admit that actually they’re sort of starting to enjoy each other’s company, while as far as everyone else is concerned they’re already basically together.
A post-canon fic with an established relationship between Quark and Brunt. They’re… sort of settled. Almost happy. And then, like a hand grenade tossed into the middle of their relationship, Quark’s old lover Natima Lang comes back. Somehow Brunt finds out what happened between them and is torn between horrified disgust at Quark being willing to abandon everything to run off with her and seething jealousy because he thinks, rightly or wrongly, that Quark wouldn't do that for HIM in a million years. Maybe Quark and Natima have both moved on with no lingering feelings other than a faint poignant ‘what might have been’, or maybe they’re still as in love with each other as ever and the only way to resolve this is with Quark/Natima/Brunt.
5+1 Things – A post-canon 5+1 fic exploring the ways every single member of Quark’s family undermines their attempts at (semi-)tradition Ferengi parenting (preferably of a boy, please, unless the focus is on them both overcoming their terrible ingrained sexism to the point where it’s probably going to be a bit ooc, let’s face it).
Having met by chance with an oddly familiar stranger in a bar who shares his animosity for Quark, Brunt obtains a copy of a unique holosuite program involving Major Kira with Quark’s head in return for a discounted price and the promise to use it to destroy Quark. Which would be easier to do if he could just stop thinking about how it would be better with Quark’s head on Quark’s body. To facilitate Getting Revenge, obviously. (And just as soon as he figures out why the hell Quark would make the program so damn good at oo-mox if it was written for a non-Ferengi).
So, um, those scenes in The Dogs of War when Brunt is sucking up to Quark because they both think Zek is going to appoint him the next Grand Nagus? He’d be remiss if he forgot Rule 113 of the Rules of Acquisition: Always have sex with the boss.
Ishka figures out why Brunt is so fixated on bringing Quark down. And, well, okay, yes, Brunt is terrible, but also he’s a good Ferengi, and frankly, Quark could probably do worse.
Time Travel Fix-It – Brunt and Quark travel back to a point where they’re in a position to alter the course of Ferengi history and prevent the sweeping changes brought about by Quark’s mother, but potentially ruining their fortunes in their present, since with the franchisement of Quark’s they’re actually doing pretty damn well for themselves. Do they go through with it, or disagree about whether they should go through with it?

Mirror Brunt/Weyoun 6

Because a passing stray thought that Mirror Brunt and Weyoun 6 should hook up got into my head and then refused to go away. Which I can understand, because fucking hell, yes. I have absolutely no idea how it would work or how it would come about, but goddamn do I want it to happen.

As ships go, this is absurdly self-indulgent, but at the same time there are some potentially really interesting dynamics and parallels to be drawn between them. They're both more sympathetic versions of more or less antagonistic characters, both desperately loyal to another person with whom they have a somewhat one-sided relationship, (and they're both adorable tragically doomed cinnamon rolls. D:) Maybe Weyoun finds himself stranded in the Mirror universe – does the fact that it isn’t his universe provide a loophole that allows him to override his inbuild loyalty to the Dominion? (Keevan shows that not all Vorta are unquestionably loyal, which suggests that Weyoun is just like that, unswervingly terrifyingly loyal, whether to the Dominion or to Odo, and I love him all the more for that) Does he immediately set out to try to find a way back to his universe, or to find the wormhole in the Mirror universe? How does Mirror Odo complicate matters? Does he shift his loyalties to Mirror Brunt?

There are countless things I’d love to see here, and explore it however you want, but I do really love the idea of him gradually coming to terms with being stranded in the Mirror universe, and even though it’s a grimdark hellhole, realising he’s better off there, even though he’s conflicted about staying. And as for Mirror Brunt, mmph, these two sweethearts would be absolutely perfect for each other. Just get them together and make them kiss, however you have to do it. And maybe they’re both pining for other people at first, but gradually they catch feelings for each other. They’re both so lovely: they deserve some happiness.

Optional Prompts

Look, if in doubt, please just make them kiss and I will be happy. :D
Body Swap - Characters Are Alarmingly Good At Being Each Other
Conflicting loyalties – Explore the issue of loyalty and how it manifests in each of them. Especially Weyoun, whose loyalties are at least somewhat artificial. How does the Mirror universe affect his loyalties to the Founders? Is he able to override it? Perhaps because he’s stuck there he gradually becomes used to feeling free of his obligations to the Dominion, and transfers his loyalties to Mirror Brunt instead, but then an opportunity to return to the prime universe arises and he has to deal with his conflicting loyalties.
Weyoun has fallen in with M!Ezri and M!Brunt and has been working with them for a while without issue until they capture Mirror!Odo. And maybe he can override his instinctive loyalties because this is the Mirror!Universe version and so not a true Founder, but it doesn’t come easily.
Character finally finds an unconditionally good relationship; not sure how to handle it - They're both just so damn sweet, and while everything else might be going to hell, the two of them still manage to carve out some moments of sweetness in the middle of the nightmarish dystopia that is the Mirror Universe.
Character isn't used to being loved and shown tenderness/affection – Because loving relationships aren’t normally part of a Vorta’s life experience, and Weyoun isn’t quite sure how to handle it.
Food as part of the language of love – They both have interesting relationships with food. Given Mirror Brunt’s tendency to make sure everyone’s fed (with tube grubs, but still...), and the way Weyoun works his way through everything on the replicator’s menu, it seems like this would be the perfect way for them to bond. And okay, maybe Brunt can’t get his hands on kava nuts or rippleberries but there must be something.
Creating your moral code from scratch after the last one imploded – So let’s say Weyoun is stranded, temporarily or otherwise, in the Mirror universe. He’s finally free of his obligations to the Dominion, because there is no Dominion there, and so has to figure out a few things and relearn the sort of person he wants to be.
Gently touching a character's scar(s) – Because again this is one of the contrasts between them, Mirror Brunt being scarred (because picking up scars in the Mirror Universe is inevitable, let’s face it) while Weyoun is almost entirely scar-free due to being a recent clone. I’m particularly here for scar kink, and all the associated fascination and sympathy and tenderness, but you could also play with the issues over cloning: Weyoun’s memories of injuries sustained by other Weyouns, which aren’t reflected on his body, but which maybe he feels as phantom scars of some kind?
Emotional hurt/comfort – Ordinarily Vortas’ memories of their previous deaths and injuries are suppressed as part of the cloning process to ensure they remain motivated and willing to sacrifice themselves, but every now and then those suppressed memories return in full force.
Identity Porn - A scam/heist requires that they both have to pose as their other selves.
Smut - experimenting with and exploring interspecies biology.
on the run together – Whether from the Alliance or from some kind of crime syndicate (potentially run by Mirror Ishka XD), and bonding in the process.
Two tired people taking quiet comfort in each other – Exhausted sex, moments of respite in the middle of the world going to hell, the two of them finding moments of common ground, etc.
Competence Kink - And the two of them being quietly impressed and turned on by the other’s competence: Brunt’s toughness and fighting skills and Weyoun's innate diplomacy and negotiating skills.

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FiaB 2024 Letter

AO3 Username: StopTalkingAtMe

General Preferences
Blake’s 7
Fallout 4
Fallout (TV)
From Beyond
House on Haunted Hill (1999)
Re-Animator (Movies)
Star Trek: Deep Space Nine
Would You Rather

General Likes and DNWs

General Likes

Character studies and introspection
Loneliness and isolation
Angst
Atmospheric description, scenery porn, sensory description
World-building, backstory, and character development.
Horror of all kinds, understated ghost stories, body horror, cosmic horror, claustophibic horror where the characters are trapped underground, potentially with monsters (think The Descent), etc.
Closed Circle - Stranded with a murderer in your midst, whether in horror or murder mystery. Think And Then There Were None.
Case-fic, whether fully realised or just touching on elements from a case.
Whump, hurt/comfort and hurt/no comfort.
Endings of all kinds, happy, bleak or bittersweet.
Canon-divergent AUs, especially post-canon ones where the bad guys win.
Pining, whether mutual or one-sided
Repression and stoicism
Descriptions of scars
Main Character Death and grief; characters getting together while still grieving for previous partners, taking solace in each other, the dead character still seeming like a presence in the relationship, etc.
Crossovers, especially oddball crossovers that come completely out of left field, although I do tend to prefer crack played straight rather than outright crack. If you have reason to believe I know and like the other fandom, then I encourage you to go for it.
Post-Apocalypse scenarios, including zombies (probably my favourite AU scenario of all time), with focus on angst and the struggle for survival.
Stranded Together With No Way Home, intense (and probably pretty damn unhealthy) fire-forged relationships that come about as a result of being isolated together and being able to rely on no one but each other.
Time Loops
Older characters finding love.
Age gap relationships
I really love historical detail and extensive research notes, so if that’s what you’re into then feel free to go wild. (If that’s not your thing, then please don’t worry: I am in no way an expert, and I love tropey indulgent stuff and cheerfully anachronistic fics just as much).
Hair kink. Hands pushed into hair, coiling it around fingers, routinely cutting another character's hair if appropriate in context (e.g. in post-apocalyptic scenarios), hairwashing as part of hurt/comfort, yanking head back by the hair, etc
Textiles, especially knitwear and embroidery; men in jumpers; historical and cultural details and craft in general
Unusual structures and ways of telling a story, such as Rashomon plots, non-linear narratives, outsider POVs, epistolary works, etc.
Cigarette kink: descriptions of smoking, sharing cigarettes, lighting cigarettes for each other, etc.
Finally, and I cannot emphasise this enough, men in sleepwear, particularly pyjamas and dressing gowns.

Smut Likes

Sex Pollen and aftermath, and any other kind of something made them do it scenario
Angry Sex, rough sex, hate sex, rough sex that turns tender
Clothed Sex, or clothed/naked
Comfort Sex
Dubcon when requested (mutual dubcon of the something-made-us-do-it kind is ALWAYS okay even when not explicitly requested)
Mild bondage and other forms of gentle restraint
Oral Sex, especially cunnilingus in all its forms, and ESPECIALLY cunnilingus with fingering
Rough Sex - Lots of Scratching and Biting and Hair-Grabbing/Pulling and Holding Partner(s) Down
Sex in grimy, grim, uncomfortable places
Threesomes
Situations where one character is too tired, injured etc to orgasm themselves, but takes great pleasure in making the other person come, so long as it's part of a wider give-take relationship when it comes to sex.

DNWs

Omegaverse
Noncon between requested ships (Something Made Them Do It scenarios are always okay though, including Bad Guys Made Them Do It)
Dubcon involving unaroused characters
Unrequested Incest
Bestiality (monsters don't count here)
Scat and waterplay
Formalised D/s dynamics (more casual power play, bondage and other forms of restraint are OK)
Underage
Het anal sex
Breathplay (antagonistic choking is fine)
Fisting
Lactation kink
Any variation of the word 'come' in a sexual context spelled as 'cum' (please use 'come', 'came', 'precome' etc)

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Blake’s 7

Requested Ship: Roj Blake/Travis
Travis/Servalan
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It’s rare that I fall so completely and utterly head-over-heels in love with a show, but it’s happened with Blake’s 7, to the point where frankly I’m a little taken aback. I loved it right from the very first episode, which was so grimly dystopian (the bureaucracy, the people in charge running ‘feasibility studies’ when the possibility being examined is the act of planting false memories of abuse in the minds of children, I mean… fuck. Fuck.) It’s so utterly bleak and awful, but then it’s balanced out by the sheer fun of the sets and the storylines.

I’ll be up for anything that examines the dystopian elements of the world and the Federation, angst, backstory, canon divergent AUs set during, pre- and post-canon, hurt/comfort, whump and torture, trust issues, case fic of the planet-of-the-week sort or the murder mystery sort, clothes porn, and… look, I’ll take basically anything for this show.

Roj Blake/Travis

I always love a good enemy ship, and Blake/Travis is a particularly delightful example. Their background, Travis’s overwhelming hatred of Blake, Blake’s repeated failure to kill him… Why does he keep sparing Travis? In Duel he justifies it because the Federation would just send someone else in Travis’s place and at least Blake knows he’s capable of defeating Travis, but it doesn’t ring entirely true. It could just be him being merciful, but personally I have a soft spot for the idea that Blake’s fucked over about his brainwashing (speaking of which, how does Blake’s period of compliance on Earth fit into Travis’s vendetta against him?) and is aware that Travis is probably the person who knows him best and so subconsciously unwilling to kill Travis because of that. Again, go with either Travis here, whenever you choose to set it.

I want so many different things for this pairing, from smut: Travis dubconning Blake (all the way up to extremely dubious consent), or sex pollen, to something more plotty, such as the two of them being stuck in a situation where they’re forced to work together. Smut would be fantastic, but they’ve both been fucked over by the Federation and are both ruthless men willing to do terrible things for their beliefs (and I freaking adored the way the last episode drew deliberate parallels between them), so I’d love to see something where they’re forced to warily interact on a level beyond simply trying to kill each other.

As well as redemption arcs for Travis (which I can never ever get enough of), I’d also love to see the opposite for Blake, whether temporary or permanent, down to brainwashing or a slow insidious downfall.

I’d also be open to Blake’s clone acting as a stand-in for Blake himself. They had to travel together, so what would that have looked like, considering what happened to the first clone? (And for the record, I completely headcanon that Travis fucked the clone. Carnell would absolutely have taken catharsis through sex into account, and even if it hadn’t been part of the official strategy, Servalan would probably have had Travis do it just for the lolz.) There’s no need for the real Blake to appear in the fic if you go this route.

Optional Prompts

We’ve heard the story of what happened between Blake and Travis, but we only hear the latter half of it through Blake’s somewhat compromised memories. What if it didn’t happen quite the way Blake described?
Travis survives Star One and runs into Blake. Does Travis regret what he did or is he completely unrepentant? And considering the consequences of destroying Star One, it’s not like Blake is entirely comfortable on the moral high ground. Perhaps there’s an external conflict that forces them to work together and not just kill each other there and then, but I’d also be willing to just seen them both too tired and broken to fight and so calling a truce of a kind just for one night.
Blake ends up brainwashed again and an extremely resentful Travis is set as his guard dog with explicit instructions not to harm him and the ability to erase Blake’s memories if he thinks Blake is starting to suspect something is wrong. It’s not like he was planning on taking advantage of the situation, but it just sort of happened that way. Does Blake start growing on him despite Travis’s best efforts? Or show it through Blake’s eyes, and the gradual realisation that something is very very wrong.
They get stuck in a time loop, (some kind of simulation, perhaps?) and the only way out of the time loop is for them to work together to get them both out of the situation in one piece or, uh, possibly for them to fuck.
Show me the Blake/Travis relationship through the lens of Travis/The Clone (and it’s fine for Blake himself not to appear in the fic). There’s a lot of places you could go with this, from pure unadulterated smut to character development. It occurs to Travis, possibly at Servalan’s urging, that he might be able to use the clone to work out his issues with Blake. Maybe Servalan acts as a third party directing the two of them, and rather enjoying Travis’s shame at enjoying it so much (he was so broken in that episode), or else a hundred petty little moments of cruelty escalate into extremely dubconny sex. Or maybe a post-Star One AU in which Travis runs into the clone again.
Interrogations – Travis has captured Blake and is interrogating him. Maybe there’s information he needs to get which is time-critical, maybe the Federation forces are pinned down, so he’s desperate. Maybe he just gets to the point where he decides he has nothing to lose, and the interrogation takes a darker, more sexual turn.
It’ll be a cold day in hell before I get bored of Sex Pollen. :D Make. Them. Fuck. I love it in all its forms, whether both are affected, or just one of them. An unaffected Travis taking advantage of an affected Blake (and hating himself just a little for not being able to resist)? Or maybe neither one of them is affected and they’re both just pretending they are because it’s the perfect excuse to finally fuck. I love it both as a one-off and as a potential catalyst for a potential redemption arc, and in both fluffy and darker forms.
In general, I’m just fascinated by the idea of redemption, and particularly when it comes to Travis. He’s undoubtedly done some terrible things, so I’m really drawn to the question of whether he can be redeemed.

Travis/Servalan

These two. Oh god, where do I even start. I was going to say they were the two most evil people in the Federation, but this is the Federation that plants false memories of abuse in the minds of children, so… idek. I loved the brief flash of a conscience Travis shows in Deliverance and the way she tramples on it and you can see him reassessing his opinion of her right there and then. Then there's the dynamic between them in the caves on Aristo -- the "No, Travis. *You* will follow me" line, and the way he looks at her. That's one thing I love about Servalan's character, terrible though she might be in many ways: she's not necessarily a skilled soldier and she's very often completely out of her depth, but she always recovers both her poise and the upper hand, and in a way that only makes her relationship with Travis all the more interesting.

The way the whole of his arc in the second series is a constant push and pull between them, going from working together to antagonistic to whatever the hell that was in Gambit… I mean, she had him at her mercy on a sex swing. A literal sex swing. And all the time they were low-key threatening each other they were holding hands. I was already shipping them pretty damn hard, and watching that felt like a fever dream. I’m still not entirely convinced I didn’t hallucinate it. :D

Go with either Travis, or bridge the gap between the two. I loved Travis I, but Travis II won me round very quickly indeed. I liked his quieter, more sinister manner (and his scruffier appearance towards the latter half of the season was scorching hot, so, uh, any description of that wouldn’t go amiss. Look, the slipping of his military standards of appearance is thematically relevant character development, okay?). I’d be especially here for anything that explores reasons for the changes in his behaviour (such as the moment in Weapon where he goes all broken and mentions his visits to the retraining therapists) and his gradual deterioration over the course of season 2. An AU with Travis II in the first season or Travis I in the second would be interesting too – their speech patterns, manner and appearance are very different, and it’d be interesting seeing how his story arc in the second season would work with Travis I.

And Servalan, how utterly ruthless and amoral she is, the way she tries to manipulate everybody, her poise, her clothes, the way she toys with him, and finds a way, despite his break from the Federation as a result of her scheming, to get him working for her again. She’s so utterly ruthless and evil and fantastic to watch. I especially love seeing her when she’s out of her comfort zone, but managing to regain her composure. I’m also open to post season 2 set fics where it’s not Travis himself but a clone she’s had made for reasons of her own.

I’m always here for character studies and I’d love to see something that dives deep into their characters and motivations (and maybe continues what the show started and humanises them a little, while not letting them off the hook for the atrocities they’ve committed), but I’m also up for pure smut too. Man, I am so, so here for fucked-up loyalty kink between them. And I don’t know if loyalty kink is the right word for their relationship, considering everything that happens in canon, but I still can’t help but see him as desperately wanting to be ride-or-die for her, even after everything she’s done to him and knowing she’ll fuck him over at the first opportunity, but if he can just prove himself one more time maybe she’ll give him the chance...

Optional Prompts

Fill in some of the missing moments from his arc, either from the first or second season. In the first season, he’s in disgrace after the events of Duel. His arc in the second season is a rollercoaster ride. After Hostage it’s pretty clear he’s in regularish contact with Servalan, so there are some opportunities for missing scenes there. Maybe he comes close to getting captured by the Federation and she manipulates things to get him free and hunting for Blake again.
What the hell would pillow talk between the two of them look like?
More background to The Keeper, please. I have some headcanons about what was going on with him (he just wanted to rule the universe by her side, another moment between them that makes my shippy heart explode in delight, as does the idea that this ship might have been the pivotal moment that would massively change the course of events of the series going forwards), but I’m curious to see your take on it. If she’d let him, would he have been genuinely loyal to her, or might he still have betrayed her down the line? I think it probably goes without saying that she would have betrayed him.
And along those lines the concept of Travis and Servalan ruling the universe side by side is a TERRIFYING one. Give me that AU, please, or else the set-up for it where he delivers Star One to her.
An AU where Travis survives Star One. “There's no one as free as a dead man,” Servalan tells him in Hostage. Well, now everyone thinks he’s dead, so he’s got his freedom. What’s he going to do with it? How does he get off Star One? Does he end up working with Servalan again, or watch her from afar, trying to keep his head down?

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Fallout 4

Requested Ship:
John Hancock/Female Sole Survivor
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I love the look of the game, the decayed retrofuturistic Americana, the flavour of the Boston setting, and the scrappy against the odds determination to make the Commonwealth a better place.

John Hancock/Female Sole Survivor

It’s been a while since I fell for a ship and a character quite this hard. Plus their dynamic is delightful: he’s just all-in and utterly loyal and delighted to be fighting by the Sole Survivor’s side, and their dynamic just makes me want to cackle with glee. One little detail I really love is the playful teasing way she tells him to ‘hold’ when she wants him to temporarily stay put, like she’s going to pat him on the head and call him a good boy. Okay, it’s probably the same line she uses with other companions, but with him it plays exactly into what I like about their dynamic and the desperately loyal golden retriever boyfriend vibes he gives off if you romance him. More of that playfulness and potentially the Sole Survivor getting to have fun for the first time since she escaped the Vault (maybe feeling a little conflicted about it) would be very welcome.

Optional Prompts

Survival Horror, and surviving in the Commonwealth in general. Injured and stranded and out of ammo, they have to fight to survive something hunting them.
Clothing porn – THAT FUCKING COAT THOUGH. I’m not even sure what I want from this, beyond descriptions of his coat, but I just love the backstory behind why he’s wearing it (and I note that a disproportionate number of my prompts seem to be coat-related), and the way it provided the inspiration to finally stand up and fight.
First time together naked – because out in the wilderness, you’re not going to risk making yourself vulnerable by undressing, which makes the first time they fuck in safety and are able to get undressed all that much more significant.
Altered States – Drugs (Recreational) – I mean… *gestures at Hancock* Maybe they get time for that chem break, and get a little carried away.
Role play as a feral – ahaha, oh god. Maybe it comes about accidentally, they’re goofing around, possibly while under the influence of something, (recreational or some sort of sex pollen situation), and it leads to something more. I do really love the idea of a playful dynamic for these too, particularly combined with filthy, filthy sex.
Bad Guys Make Them Do It – Always and forever. I love this trope in all its forms, from lighter treatments where it’s more ‘Bad Guys Enable Them’ to something darker. For this, I especially love focus on mutual emotional support, and the two of them bonding over a traumatic experience. Also vengeance.
Bad Weather – I love the atmosphere when there’s a radiation storm, how bleak and moody it gets, and those lightning flashes. Anything from something quiet and contemplative while they’re waiting for the storm to pass (or the two of them trying to find something to do and playing Blast Radius ain’t quite cutting it), or hurt/comfort or survival with the two of them trying to find somewhere to take shelter. Or Hancock trying to shield her from the radiation.
Bathing/Washing – indulgent descriptions of luxuriating in the process of getting clean. A bathhouse in the game world could probably make a killing. Possibly literally? So maybe they stumble across a bathhouse which is really a front for stealing from and murdering its guests.
Character A drapes their coat over B's shoulders – And we’re back to the clothing porn again. :D
Distracting an addict from addiction with sex – Tricky to imagine a world where Hancock runs out of drugs, admittedly, but what if. Maybe they’re in captivity or stranded in the middle of nowhere. Or maybe it’s the Sole Survivor who’s trying to break the habit. Here for hurt/comfort and/or smut.
Identity Porn - Masked Ball As An Excuse for Inadvisable Sex – masked, perhaps, because wherever the hell they are doesn’t let in ghouls. Maybe there’s a plotty reason for them investigating the ball (and indulgent descriptions of the crumbling but grand old building where the ball is being held are particularly welcome), or maybe it’s just an excuse for smut.
Comparing Scars – and scars in general. Just mmph, yes please.
A canon divergent fic where the Sole Survivor thaws out a few years earlier than in-game and comes out of the vault early, say round about the time when Hancock is gearing up to overthrow Vic.
Any of the missing moments or conversations that feel like they should be in game, but aren’t, like the Talk after a romanced Hancock sees the Sole Survivor’s spouse's in the Vault, or a companion quest that digs into the relationship between him and his brother, or the conversation that should take place with a romanced Hancock after leaving the Institute having learned the truth about his brother.
Time loops, and watching the person you love die over and over again.
So that line of his about how if they can figure out how to turn her into a ghoul then they can do this long-term? I figure he's joking and that if it actually came to it he would be very conflicted (and guilty, which is yet more catnip.). So let's say they come across more of the experimental drug that turned Hancock ghoulish, and the Sole Survivor is considering taking it. Or alternatively maybe they don't know how it happened but she starts to turn. Hurt/comfort, guilt, and all messy feelings are very welcome here.
One of my favourite things to do in the game right now is stealth-clearing out of nests of ferals with Hancock, headcanoning it as an act of kindness putting them out of their misery. The poignancy of the remnants of their past lives hits me in a tender spot, and I'd love something exploring anxieties over turning feral, Hancock getting her to promise that if it ever happens to him she'll put him down, and then it does and instead she chains him up and tries to find a way to bring him back. Handwave this however you need to. I believe it's not supposed to be reversible in canon, but maybe he hasn't fully turned or there's an experimental drug that can bring him back, or maybe he's just different to the other ghouls because he's so much younger. Maybe he has flashes of lucidity; maybe she figures out a way to turn herself because he won't attack her if she's a ghoul and it buys them more time (and feel free to explore all the emotional fallout that ensues when she manages to bring him back and he realises she turned ghoul for his sake).
Pregnancy! Maybe the experiments conducted in Vault 111 involved studying the effects of long-term cryofreezing on foetuses, and impregnated her while she was frozen, and since she puts any symptoms she feels down to the effects of radiation, she doesn't realise for a while.
If all else fails, I just want them to dance and smooch to Magnolia's Good Neighbour song.

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Fallout (TV)

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Cooper Howard | The Ghoul/Lucy MacLean
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Note on my DNWs: Regarding the fact that Norm and Chet are cousins, I’d prefer no heavy angst or focus on it, or it being treated by any of the characters as a major obstacle. If you want to touch on it, I really like the matter-of-fact way canon handled it, acknowledging it as less than ideal, but not something to make a huge deal about.

Firstly, I just want to apologise if this request doesn't seem as extensive as some of the others: I loved this show so damn much, but I feel like I really need to give it a rewatch to be able to put my thoughts into order, and while I will absolutely be rewatching it, and probably soon, I haven't had the chance to do it yet. If you choose to write or do art for this request, then please know that I'm excited to see whatever you come up with. And while I'm also not really familiar with the games, I'm also hoping to be able to play Fallout 4 at least before reveals. Including canon from the wider universe is absolutely fine and I don't mind spoilers: just please bear in mind that I might not get the references. (Since writing this, I have both started a rewatch AND started playing (and accidentally fell in love with) Fallout 4).

Norm/Chet

Lucy/Cooper

So long as Lucy/Cooper is endgame, I'm fine with Cooper/Barb and references to their relationship, and escpecially with explorations of all the messy fallout (ha) of the way it ended, plus some residual feelings for her on his part.

Art Prompts

Optional Prompts

Body Swap - Characters Are Alarmingly Good At Being Each Other – And body swaps in general. Maybe it can only be reversed with sex.
Something that focuses on Shady Sands and the things that have happened there over the years. A 5+1 piece, maybe, about past, present, and future. Or something written from the point of view of Shady Sands itself.
The episode where Lucy and Maximus find themselves in Vault 4 was one of my favourites, and I’d love to see that Vault explored more, whether it’s an expanded version of that episode which takes more time over what’s going on, (maybe an AU version where it’s Lucy and Cooper) or an entirely different visit to the Vault. In particular, I’d really love to find out more about what the hell was going on with the Mother of Flames culty stuff, because canon skipped waaaay too quickly over that for my liking, but also I’d just really love to spend more time with that overly polite helpful bunch of adorable weirdos. (OH GOD THE CYCLOPS GUY <3<3<3)
Tentacles - RoboTentacles as a Sex Toy - For either pairing. Up to you whether this is entirely consensual and the characters choose to incorporate them into their sex, or if the robotentacles are malfunctioning and there's a dubcon element at play. Either way, NICE.
Time loop - Either pairing, and the details are up to you. Is one character stuck, or are they both trapped? Is one character repeatedly dying, or having to watch the other one die? And feel free to incorporate meta elements of gameplay.
"I can make them worse" with Lucy/The Ghoul in mind, because the process of redemption fascinates me, and I can’t help envisaging a situation where he’s starting to go back to being a better person, but for plot reasons, Lucy has to stop or slow down the redemption process and force him to be temporarily worse again.
Accidental Baby Acquisition – delightful for either pairing, honestly. If they’re out in the Wasteland, I love all the complications of having to feed it and keep it alive, and the potential for characters to behave in unexpected ways. For Lucy/Cooper, her being taken aback that he’s unexpectedly good with kids, even if he’s making noises about it being better to abandon it. For Norm/Chet, is it Steph’s baby?
Sex Pollen – Always and forever one of my favourite tropes, whether it focuses on the event or the aftermath or both. Either pairing, one character affected, or both? If it’s just Cooper affected, then I’d especially love to see his reaction to Lucy’s matter-of-fact attitude to sex and her willingness to get on with it.
Alternate Univerve - Zombie Apocalypse – I just love zombie apocalypses so much, and I’d love to see the characters reimagined in this universe. Did the turn happen a long time ago, or is it more recent (and how would that affect the characters?) Is Cooper a zombie hybrid of some kind? Or alternatively, the ghouls hit some very similar tropes, so go with a survival horror in which the characters have to defend themselves from a bunch of feral ghouls.
Lucy and Norm are reunited in the Wasteland post season one.
Something where Norm is convinced that the only reason Chet wants to sleep with him is as a stand-in for Lucy, and turns him down as a result. Chet decides to stop being so passive and decides to go after what he wants for a chance.
Bad Guys Make Them Do It – always and forever. I love this trope so much, the potential for guilt and self-blame, the way it can act as a catalyst for revelation of feelings and abs an obstacle to them (that delicious guilt), the hotness of being forced to go through public or semi-public sex, mutual protectiveness and bonding, and the potential threat from the onlookers. I like it both as something fun and tropey, where it’s more Bad Guys Enabled them, and as something darker where there is a genuine threat from the bad guys and it’s traumatic (but they still find it sexually arousing).
Due to some handwavy technological simulation, Cooper becomes stuck in his memories of the past and thinks he’s his old self again with the end of the world nothing but a bad dream. Lucy has to travel into his mind and memories to remind him of who he really is and get him to snap out of it before he dies. Only trouble is he’s happier there, and meanwhile Lucy gets to meet some familiar faces. (I wrote this prompt before I realised there was precedent in Fallout 4 XD. Up to you if it operates along the same principles or if it’s something wholly new)
So what does Cooper plan to do when he finds his family?
All the Body Horror and/or hurt/comfort/whump that comes from turning into a ghoul, whether Cooper's condition is worsening, or one of the other characters is also turning into a ghoul, with their respective partner stuck in the position of being unable to do anything other than help them through it.
character reveals feelings while out of it from illness/injury/alcohol - I particularly have Cooper in mind here, mainly because of the sheer depth of secrets/feelings he could spill, but this would absolutely apply to any of the other characters too.
UH OH, Lucy's pregnant, and the baby is Cooper's. CAN ghouls father children? That's up to you, but perhaps some kind of VaultTec fuckery where his sperm was somehow kept on ice, and a malfunctioning AI 'misreads' their relationship, which is entirely platonic they *swear,* and knocks her up. Cue all the complicated feelings for Cooper of a baby on its way, and a half-sister for Janey, and for Lucy of finally getting the chance to reproduce, but it's with this guy.
Character that acts tough and stoic is secretly vulnerable and needs to be tenderly fucked - I specifically have Cooper in mind here, and OK OK, I will admit there are limits to how vulnerable he's capable of being, but at the same time, I’m really drawn to redemption arcs and to all those tough layers being torn away to reveal the traumatised gooey centre.
Manhandling, specifically with Lucy/Cooper in mind. I mean, goddamn, thouse scenes from early canon with him dragging her around were so fucking hot. I'd love something along those lines with her giving as good as she gets. Maybe something where they're working together now and they have to pretend to be antagonistic and that she's his prisoner, with all the rough handling necessary for show and infused with sexual tension, and afterwards they spar which leads to angry angry sex. (and for something set when they're more antagonistic, Lucy fighting back also leads to angry sex.).
Manhandling with Norm/Chet in mind. That height difference, man. It doesn't feel like something Chet would do naturally, but maybe something happens which leads Norm to realise how easily Chet can handle it, and how hot he finds it.
Clothing porn
A desperate fight for survival -- for either pairing, but particularly Norm/Chet, partly because they're not quite as competent or good at surviving, so it makes the fight all the more desperate. Maybe they're attacked by raiders or ghouls, or stuck somewhere freezing and have to huddle for warmth. Anything where they get the chance to show off their own skills and knowledge especially.
Emotionally repressed but deeply in love character finally breaks and gives into feelings - Specifically thinking about Lucy/Cooper here, because OH GOD YEP. What would this moment look like? How long would it build until it gets to this point? Would there be a catalyst?
Cooper goes feral; Lucy has to bring him back. I don’t know if it’s reversible in canon, but handwave that if you need to. Maybe there’s an external plot reason why she has to bring him back, while other characters are telling her to abandon him or kill him outright, or maybe there isn’t and she knows they’re probably right but still can’t bring herself to do it. All the hurt/comfort here, her chaining him to a bed and trying to nurse him through it, while he gets flashes of lucidity and maybe even he’s telling her she should just kill him, idk.
Hurt/Comfort - Buried Alive & Rescue and Locked in a coffin together – no surprises which pairing I have in mind for obvious reasons, but if you want to do this for Norm/Chet instead then PLEASE DO, because this is a grade A whump trope. Maybe Lucy is captured and buried because hey, she’s a vaultie, so surely she’ll be happier underground, and Cooper has to rescue her. Feel free to dive into the trauma, horror and claustrophobia of this set-up, or her trauma in the aftermath, and Cooper’s complicated feelings. Also, if they’re buried together, Lucy’s realisation that this is something that’s happened to him before, and the UST that arises from the forced proximity.
Instead of Lucy, it's Norm and Chet who leave the Vault in search of Norm's father. How would that affect canon? Would they still get involved in the hunt for the head? Or would they find their way to Moldaver by another route? Would they meet Max or the Ghoul? Something plotty is very welcome, but I'd also be here for scenery porn, the struggle for survival, and the two of them huddling for warmth by campfires.
Pining while having sex - welcome for either pairing, but I love this especially for Norm/Chet, with Norm thinking that the only reason Chet is sleeping with him is as a stand-in for Lucy, and maybe that is how it started (or not: it's up to you), but things change pretty quickly.
Sparring leads to sex. For either pairing. For Norm/Chet, Norm has to learn to fight so that he can protect himself, and Lucy has to keep up her skills somehow.
So far on my rewatch something that stood out to me was Chet saying that he doesn’t know who he is any more after he’s demoted and is no longer the gatekeeper, which chimes with Norm’s whole ‘lacks enthusiasm’ thing, because maybe he doesn’t know who he is either, and it takes them leaving the vault and finding a place in the world to figure out who they are and where they belong.

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From Beyond

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Katherine McMichaels/Crawford Tillinghast
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Note on my DNWs: My BDSM DNW is waived when it comes to Dr Pretorius.

Well, I wasn’t expecting this to turn out to be one of the single-most hottest things I've ever seen in my life, but the whole thing is laser-targeted to my id from start to finish. It's so sexually charged, from Crawford and Katherine eye-fucking each other when they turn the machine back on for the first time, to him watching her sleep while bleakly confessing to Bubba about how he used to lie awake listening to the sounds coming from (*checks notes*) Dr Pretorius's kinky sex dungeon, to the deeply creepy and uncomfortable implications about what was going on between Crawford and Dr Pretorius pre-canon and what will be going on post-canon. Canon never quite clarifies, but it’s implied that their relationship was abusive, domineering, and dubiously consensual in *all the fucking ways.*

Crawford is exactly the kind of woobie I like, meek, damaged, and deeply traumatised, and I can’t decide if I want him to continue to suffer horribly or to actually get the chance to be happy for once. Both, ideally. I love Katherine too: she’s so single-minded and determined, and after all the shit Meg goes through in Re-Animator I very much appreciate seeing Katherine get the chance to be the scientist with dubious ethics who inadvertently fucks everyone over for once.

My OTP of OTPs for this film is Crawford/Katherine, but I also ship Crawford/Katherine/Bubba, and all the permutations of fucked-up Crawford/Pretorius/Katherine. There are so many character notes that I really, really love: like Crawford taking the bed in Dr Pretorius's room, having presumably given Katherine his own bedroom because it's the gentlemanly thing to do even though it's possible to infer that some very, very unpleasant things have happened to him in Pretorius’s room. Or that moment early on where she strokes his hair tenderly and then sends him off to get an CAT scan while he desperately begs her not to. Their relationship is such a mix of genuinely sweet and deeply uncomfortable, and it leaves me wondering if perhaps she reminds Crawford subconsciously of Pretorius, and that's part of why he's attracted to her (and oh god that's the creepiest fucking thing). Also, hot fucking damn, that *kiss*.

I love that whole early stretch of the film when it's just Crawford, Katherine and Bubba in the house, investigating the murder of Dr Pretorius while also poking about the machine. It's so claustrophobic and intimate and sexually charged, and I'd love to see that section of canon stretched out a little bit. This isn’t a haunted house story in the traditional sense, but it gives me the same vibes as something like the Haunting of Hill House (book or film) or Hell House, another can't-fail trope with me. Perhaps Crawford takes longer repairing the machine and in the meantime they're all settling in and getting to know one another while Crawford is trying to repress his trauma about the house, and all the while the atmosphere is getting more intense. I love watching the three of them get to know each other, the dynamic between the three of them, and the way it shifts after they’ve turned the machine on for the first time and ratcheted up that febrile atmosphere of horniness. Maybe Dr Pretorius doesn’t make his presence known so obviously at first, so they turn the machine on more times before the shit really hits the fan, while Crawford gradually starts to suspect something is wrong.

And oh man, *Bubba.* I grew up watching Dawn of the Dead a lot, and it remains one of my favourite films of all time, so yep, I am extremely fond of Bubba. I’m delighted by the way he towers over the pair of them, the way he watches over and the caretaking role he takes on, and the way, when the sexual tension starts to ramp up, he admits to getting an erection. Which is to say I am very much here for a Crawford/Katherine/Bubba threesome, or even poly of a kind where it somehow reflects the dynamics of canon, because Crawford/Katherine is so intensely charged in the film and I’d prefer for it to remain the central relationship. Maybe because he's older and not as damaged as Crawford (or as horny as Katherine) he sort of acts like an anchor for the two of them?

Optional Prompts

Post-canon fic – The more I think about that ending the more it sticks with me, how it’s a circular narrative, with Crawford beginning the film under Pretorius’s control and ending it that way too. And I’m guessing Pretorius isn’t impotent any more. It’s so bleak, the idea of him being tormented, tortured and eaten (ideally with the focus on body horror rather than vore), only to be reborn over and over again.
It sure would be a shame if those manacles went to waste.
Post-canon fic where Crawford and Katherine explore the world beyond, like the mysterious temple mentioned in the original story, and all the creatures who inhabit it. Maybe they’re more or less normal, maybe they’re changing into something monstrous (but that doesn’t necessarily need to be a bad thing). Anything is welcome for this prompt, from horror, worldbuilding, smut, or something much gentler and fluffier.
Femdom – I just want Katherine to gently dom Crawford. Maybe they stumble across an overly friendly tentacle monster and after escaping from its clutches it occurs to her it could have its uses.
A fix-it where Katherine sets out to rescue Crawford.
Or a canon divergent fic where Crawford appears to have escaped the effects of the Resonator at the end, but it gradually becomes clear that although he looked normal at first, he came back wrong.
I cannot emphasise enough how here I am for Crawford having his boundaries trampled on and getting bad-touched, either by Katherine while she’s being affected by the resonator or by Dr Pretorius. I would very much like to see the relationship between Crawford and Pretorius explored, and I think there's a lot to dig into. Like the bit where he yells that Pretorius doesn't know how to give pleasure, only pain, and the question of how he'd know Pretorius was impotent because there's really no good answer to that question. Give me something where Pretorius feels up Crawford instead of (or as well as) Katherine, or where Pretorius encourages her to join in. Bad Guys Made Them Do It scenarios are especially welcome here.
So how did Dr Pretorius manage to turn the Resonator back on? Does he (and Crawford after the end of the film) retain an awareness of the normal plane of existence, and some ability to manipulate it?
Obvious third wheel in spontaneous threesome still highly enjoys themselves – During the early part of the film, a spontaneous threesome develops between Katherine, Crawford and Bubba, possibly induced by sex pollen or just the lingering effects of the Resonator. (With Bubba, naturally, being the third wheel, but he’s fine with that tbh.

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House on Haunted Hill (1999)

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The House & Dr Richard B Vannacutt
Watson Pritchett & Dr Richard B Vannacutt
The House & Watson Pritchett
Watson Pritchett/Dr Richard B Vannacutt
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Note on my DNWs: For Pritchett, please have him be 16 or older for direct sexual contact, but sexually arousing dreams/visions/hallucinations are fine from 13+).

Canon-specific DNW: This request is specifically for the first film, and it’s fine for Return to House on Haunted Hill to be ignored. If you do include it, please avoid having the evil in the house being purely due to the Baphomet Idol.

I have a very particular fondness for 90s cheese, architectural horror, and the disparate bunch of people trapped somewhere for *reasons* trope, which is one of my favourite tropes of all time. Add in ghosts, and ohhhh baby, I am there. (As an aside, I'm also a big fan of the original trilogy of Thief games, and the ghost visuals in this were the direct inspiration for the Shalebridge Cradle mission in Thief 3 (possibly one of the best, creepiest missions in anything EVER), so I'm inclined to be kindly predisposed towards this film purely because of that.)

It’s a curious one, because the things that mean it doesn’t work that well as a horror film for me (the CGI smoke-monster climax! The criminal underuse of Dr Vannacutt!) are the exact same things that make the question of what the hell is going on significantly more interesting. The more you dig into the first film, the more it becomes clear that there’s something more going on that just a haunting as a result of what happened at the asylum.

I also find it fascinating that despite the male Dr Vannacutt being the most prominent ghost, Pritchett refers to the house as female, and specifically as ‘a stupid vengeful whore’ iirc. The Shadow primarily speaks with female voices (and according to one of the extras they used imagery of naked women to create the Rorschach effect). Then there’s the women Price sees while he’s in the Saturation Chamber. It all adds together to create this feeling of the house being a separate entity in its own right.

I'd love to see the mythology of the house dug into, because I have a lot of unanswered questions. Like the walled off room we finally see towards the end where Vannacutt used to dump his corpses, and in the middle of the room there’s a chair, just sitting right in front of the rubble, which is the creepiest fucking thing. Why is that chair there? Did Vannacutt sit on it, staring into the rubble, listening to the Shadow talk to him? (And while I’m not hugely keen on the canon introduced by the second film, and I especially dislike the suggestion that the evil in the house is all down to the Baphomet idol, I do quite like the way it expands on the way the house seduces people, the idea of good if flawed people being corrupted, and the suggestion that Vannacutt wasn’t always evil).

And then there’s one of my favourite things about this film: Pritchett, a fucked-up traumatised asshole woobie packed with neuroses, who clearly has a boat-load of issues with the house. It’s not immediately clear whether he actually used to live in the house or not, but he’s clearly spent a lot of time there and he’s familiar with it enough to know the history of the house, his way around the basement, and quite a lot about how it’s haunted, including the existence of the Darkness/Shadow and Dr Vannacutt. I’d love to see something about his previous experiences with it, what happened with his grandfather and father, and what it was like growing up in the vicinity of that house, whether he lived there or not. And I am completely here for the house’s attempts to seduce him.

Other random things I love about this canon: the Saturation Chamber! I’m really drawn to the concept of machines that can drive you insane through sensory experiences, and it’s just the icing on the cake that it takes the form of this extraordinary period-appropriate zoetrope. The relationship between Price and Evelyn! This complicated tangle of love and hatred and contempt, spitting daggers at each other, and him clearly being so desperately in love with her still, while she's so completely batshit. I love her. And the whole thing of there being multiple conflicting agendas, with the three competing guest lists, and even then the house doesn’t get what it wants because of Sara being an imposter.

Watson Pritchett/Dr Richard B Vannacutt

Not a pairing that I’d originally considered, but then a seed took root and now I can’t stop thinking about these two and what sort of dynamic they’d have.

We see so little of Vannacutt, but Pritchett absolutely freaks the fuck out when he realises he’s around, so they clearly have a history, but exactly what that history is, and what Vannacutt’s role is as a ghost in the house, is left decidedly unclear. It’s gradually become one of my favourite things about this film: the way the focus shifts from the villain being Vannacutt to the house itself, and the way that upends the way his character could potentially be seen – is he a villain, or potentially another victim of the house, or both?

There are just so many unanswered questions about what it means to be a ghost in that house, how much of it is reenacting the terrible things that happened there, and how much free will they have, and to what extent they’re being controlled by the house, and just… damn, I don’t know, but dig into it as much as you want.

The sequel flattens out most of the unexpected wrinkles in the worldbuilding, and is mostly forgettable, so I don’t really recommend watching it (although I will admit to being delighted by Steven Pacey and Andrew Lee Potts’ inclusion in the cast), but what it does do is develop the idea of people being corrupted and seduced by the house, with one line being: ‘Vannacutt was known for being a brilliant physician and great humanitarian. Nominated for the Nobel Prize in the '20s. But somehow, this great man went from saving people to butchering them’ and oof.

The whole trope of otherwise good-but-flawed people getting corrupted to evil and doing terrible things (and there’s no doubt that he’s done terrible things) gets me right in the id. Corruption and redemption arcs are welcome in all their forms for either character, as is the all-encompassing guilt that comes from realising what you’ve done. I’m also just generally interested in the idea of them finding common ground as fellow victims of the house, even if Vannacutt remains wholly evil, and that would affect how they might relate to each other, before and after Pritchett’s death. And pre-canon too – why does Pritchett react like that to finding out Vannacutt’s around?

Explore the ship in whatever way you choose. The gen dynamics fascinate me just as much, but shipwise, anything is welcome, from fucked up extremely dubious consent, where the sex is part of the house’s way of torturing Pritchett (potentially with some medical kink mixed in, but anything where Pritchett gets strapped down?), to anything on the enemy-fucking scale, to something a little more sympathetic where we do actually get a glimpse of a glimmer of goodness in Vannacutt. Or maybe the house is fucking with them both by making them fuck each other?

Art Prompts

As you might have guessed I love the visuals of this film so much: the stained glass window, the steampunky aspects of the Saturation Chamber, the Shadow’s nightmarish appearance at the end and the way they used naked women as part of its imagery, the architecture of the house, the sculptures in the basement, and all the visions of horror the various characters see. Something precanon in which Pritchett visits the house and while nothing quite happens on the surface it’s all going on in the background? Or alternatively all-out schlocky horror is good with me too. Vannacutt having a conversation with the house in the room where he dumped the bodies? Historical detail is particularly welcome.

Optional Prompts

This House has a Personality and that Personality is Fucked Up – And adolescence is tough enough as it is, without having to go through it while you're living in a haunted house that can't seem to decide whether it wants to fuck you or kill you.
Explore the deaths of Pritchett's father and grandfather, because it feels like there are a lot of unanswered questions there. Did the house exert any influence over them? Could Pritchett’s father have murdered his grandfather? How did his father really die?
A both hates and loves how good the sex with B is – Vannacutt/Pritchett (because the more I think about shipping them, the harder I ship them.)
Character is forced to work with someone who scares them – I’m intrigued by what it means to be a ghost and how much free will they have. Pritchett has to work with Vannacutt for reasons (especially delighted by the idea of this considering how Pritchett crapped himself when he recognised Vannacutt’s description).
So how does Pritchett manage to resist the Shadow at the end in order to free Sara and Eddie, when seemingly no one else was able to resist?
Something revolving around the stained glass ceiling, because creepy though it is is just suggest a marginally less evil side to Vannacutt and the idea of good people being corrupted by evil will always fascinate me.
Character with trauma is freaked out and turned on by getting tied up – Specifically thinking of Pritchett here, the poor little bastard. XD
Conversations In Liminal Spaces On The Border Of One World And Another – Ghost!Pritchett and ghost!Vannacutt have a conversation.
Evil!Pritchett – A canon-divergent fic where Pritchett isn’t so resistant to the house. How would that affect canon?
Entering someone's dreams/nightmares – Vannacutt and/or the Shadow enter Pritchett’s dreams, where pre-, during, or post-canon.
Time Travel Fix-It – Pritchett travels back in time to the 20s-30s, and finds himself caught up in events at the asylum. Could he potentially change the way events pan out? (The actual fix-it is optional here)
Time Travel - Character meets their child self – Ghost!Pritchett realises it’s possible to travel through time and interact with his younger self.
Vannacutt manages to escape the house. There’s a deleted scene (after the credits roll in this video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zdo8voI87LI) in which Vannacutt brings the real Jennifer Jenzen to the house, and another scene where his spot being tortured is taken by Price. Which leads me to wonder if it’s possible for him to buy his freedom, or if he’s figured out a way to outwit the house.
Explore what the hell was going on with that chair. Was Vannacutt listening to the Darkness, or was it potentially a seduction/sex thing?
Corruption Arc – Either for Vannacutt or for Pritchett. Or, conversely, a redemption arc for Vannacutt, or Vannacutt getting a redemption arc while Pritchett goes the other way. I really love the idea of the house seducing people into evil (the second film goes harder on that, and iirc explicitly states that Vannacutt wasn’t always a monster), and the question of whether someone who’s done terrible things can really be redeemed.
Eldritch Architecture – I’d love to see something that goes hard on the Lovecraftian elements in the plot, the idea of this ancient nameless evil existing even before the house was built, and of what the Darkness at the heart of the house really is.
Tentacles made them do it – Probably no surprises that I have Pritchett/Vannacutt in mind here.

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Re-Animator

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Herbert West/Dan Cain
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Optional Prompts

5 Times Dan Assumed Herbert was Dead – Because in various places, namely the screenplay and the novelisation, he is explicitly stated to have died at the end of the first film and I like the idea of him repeatedly appearing to die and popping up again mostly unscathed (and I’m amused that the one film where he doesn’t appear to die at the end is the one in which Dan does not appear. XD).
Accidental Baby Acquisition – I mean, they’re doctors. It’s not beyond the realms of possibility that they might find themselves in a situation where they have to deliver a baby in a crisis (possibly involving zombies), and end up separated from the mother and stuck having to look after the baby.
Addiction - Character tries to distract Addict from addiction with sex – Dan tries to break Herbert’s reliance on the serum.
Alternate Universe - Russian Doll Fusion – I love time loops in all their forms anyway, but this one in particular, with its focus on constant, unrelenting death, and the way the discovery that the loop is being shared with another person would play out with these two is perfect. (and for time loops in general, I’m amused by the way Herbert would probably adapt his work to take full advantage of the loop (er, an endless supply of fresh corpses with no consequences – hey, how is it murder if they don’t stay dead? – having to memorise the results because he can’t write them down, etc.)
Hurt/Comfort – Hurt/Comfort is always welcome, but one thing I’d love to see is Dan helping Herbert through withdrawal from the serum. Mainly because I really wish that deleted scene had been included in the film. I have some quiet headcanons about Herbert’s addiction to reagent, and amongst them is the fact that avoiding sleep is really, really not a good idea, and that maybe the times when he’s at his most batshit are the times when he’s suffering from chronic sleep-deprivation. All of which convinces Dan to help him to break the habit.
Bad Guys Made Them Do It – and every other iteration of Something Made Them Do It.
Betray them to save them – Dan’s presence looms so large in Beyond Reanimator even though he doesn’t appear. I can definitely see a situation where Dan got to a point where he couldn’t see any other choice, and he genuinely believed if things carried on the way they were that Herbert was going to get himself killed. I’d love to see that decision explored and the fallout when/if they’re reunited and he realises what Herbert’s been through.
Hurt/Comfort - Character with injured hands requires assistance (which turns sexual) – Here for the hurt/comfort and smut potential of this (and also very fond of one character shaving another.)
Inspired by the novelisation, Dan is completely taken by surprise when Herbert unexpectedly turns out to be massively into ice hockey. Maybe it’s a hobby he only occasionally spares the time for, but either way Dan is extremely weirded out by the prospect of Herbert going to bars and talking to fans.
You Hurt Me More Than Anything; But Being Without You Hurts More – Herbert goes in search of Dan after the end of Beyond Reanimator. Is he planning on revenge (even if he ultimately can’t face going through with it?) Does something else happen as a catalyst that forces them to work together again? I’d love to see all the messy hurt/comfort and emotional fallout of everything that happened.
Alternate Universe - Canon Divergence – How might things have played out if Meg hadn’t been so hostile to Herbert from the get-go? Maybe if she hadn’t been there when he came about the room, allowing Dan to prime her for his oddball roommate beforehand? And if she hadn’t walked in on them bringing Rufus back, which meant that Dan wouldn’t have fallen out with Dean Halsey, who then wouldn’t have died, etc etc. It’s interesting how differently Herbert treats Francesca. While he’s not exactly polite to her (XD) he tolerates her presence in a way he doesn’t really tolerate Meg’s, and I can’t help but read that as at least partially being the result of Meg’s attitude towards him.
Alternate Universe - Canon Divergence – A canon-divergent AU where Francesca isn’t on the scene and the creation of the Bride is much more successful, and she isn’t quite so much of a monster. Mainly because I’m really curious what the hell Herbert actually had in mind beyond keeping Dan with him at all costs. (And for the record, I’m completely open to Herbert/Dan/The Bride in whatever form that takes.)
Hurt/Comfort - Technically awful attempts at comfort are actually very comforting – Okay, so Herbert is pretty terrible at doing the whole comfort thing, but the fact that he even tries is pretty damn significant.
Road trip after the end of the world – Any post-apocalypse scenario will do, but I am particularly fond of zombie apocalypses, which seems particularly apt for this canon. Was it Herbert’s fault, or was he entirely innocent for once? Where are they going? What’s the plan? And how does reagent factor into things?
Estranged Characters - Injured A shows Up on B's doorstep Saying "I didn't know where else to go" – My first thought with this was Herbert turning up out of the blue, but what if it’s the other way around? What if, potentially after Herbert’s prison break, he considered hunting Dan down, but reluctantly decided not to follow through, only for Dan to suddenly turn up unexpectedly, and turns out he’s been keeping track of Herbert all these years and somehow or other the shit’s about to hit the fan?
Herbert and Dan take the places of the narrator and the version of Herbert in the original story by Lovecraft. – I read the story after watching the films, and I was really not expecting to find that so much of what happens in the first two films came more or less directly from the story (with a fair few changes along the way). I’m fascinated by the way the films work as adaptations, but especially by the similarities and differences between the two Herberts (running away screaming the first time they reanimate a corpse? Film!Herbert would never. On the other hand the stuff with the revolver? Yeeeeah, he totally would). So perhaps a historical AU where Herbert and Dan are from that period, or where they’re still their 80s selves but have switched places with the versions of themselves from the story. Or maybe it’s just Dan who’s switched places, and he has to content with a different version of Herbert, who is BLOND (and, y'know, also slightly more actively murderous than Dan's Herbert, and has a disconcerting habit of eyeing his healthy physique with a covetous eye). (If you haven’t already read it, be warned it has some racist elements. I’d prefer for those to be avoided if you go with this prompt, please)
A Re-Animator/Ghosts (UK) crossover. Why, yes, this is goofy as hell but I want it. :D In the eighties or nineties Dan and Herbert rent out Button House. Unfortunately something goes wrong and Herbert ends up dying on the property and coming back as a ghost. Or alternatively, Dan and Herbert are estranged, and Dan inherits the house from a mysterious relative, only realising who his benefactor is when he stumbles across the lab.
A rewatch of Bride of Re-Animator left me wondering what a M*A*S*H cross over would look like. So that, basically, whether it's Re-Animator reimagined as a half-hour sitcom set during their time in Peru, with slashy vibes between Herbert in the Frank role and Dan as Hawkeye. Or a more traditional crossover with MASH if you'd prefer to go with that.

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Star Trek: Deep Space Nine

Requested Ships
Quark/Brunt
Odo/Weyoun
Mirror Brunt/Weyoun 6
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Art Prompts (for all pairings)

Again, whatever I’d like in a fic, I’d also love to see explored in art. Action, hurt/comfort, romance, adventure, horror, smut. Explorations of alien worlds (especially Ferenginar!), the grimdark bleakness of the Mirror Universe, sexual tension between Brunt and Quark, or Weyoun’s slavish devotion to Odo and Odo’s grudging discomfort, Weyoun’s facial expressions alone... The visuals of changeling transformations, Ferengi clothing porn! Rain and other forms of inclement weather.

Odo/Weyoun

Optional Prompts

DS9: Post-canon attempt to return the Vorta to sexual reproduction; first non-clone baby born - With Weyoun and Odo being at the heart of the attempt.
A canon-divergent fic where Weyoun 6 survives to defect to the Federation, exploring how their relationship goes after the war is over.
A canon-divergent AU where the canonical baby Changeling turns up while the station is in the hands of the Dominion and Weyoun is involved with Odo's attempts to look after it.
Complicated emotions at being pregnant with a baby character believes is a god - somehow Weyoun ends up knocked up, whether it's some kind of handwavy transporter accident type accident, or the result of a sex pollen incident necessary to save Odo's life and neither of them realised Weyoun could get pregnant that way. Is there some kind of side effect from the pregnancy which leaves Weyoun with some degree of shapeshifting powers, or the ability to link with the baby, which is amazing but also very uncomfortable because he's just a Vorta.
Cloning Accident result in creating a baby - The real reason Weyoun 6 tried to defect. :D Is it a wholly new person or just a baby version of Weyoun, and what are the implications of it not being going through the full cloning process?
character that thought they had zero parenting instincts goes into hardcore protective mode - I love Weyoun as a villain at least partly because of how very... unintimidating he is in a lot of ways. He's small and slight and vulnerable and he keeps dying, and I'm really drawn to this prompt both for him embracing his violent side in the interests of protecting a baby and for the potential to explore his character because I’ll always love a character study.
a 5+1 fic exploring the way Odo's relationship with the various different Weyouns changes over the years.
Sex Pollen – Whether it’s Odo affected and Weyoun willingly sacrifices himself to save the Founder, or Weyoun is affected and is horrified/pathetically grateful at Odo being willing to help. Or the aftermath of the sex pollen situation with all the fallout.
A canon-divergent AU where Odo remains human for longer, and he’s still a solid when he meets Weyoun 5 for the first time. What effect would Odo's becoming a solid have on their dynamic? How would the Vorta conceptualise the concept of a god becoming a solid, and what does that mean for the way Weyoun’s worldview? I’d be delighted with anything from a character/relationship study that follows their time on the station together, or perhaps something plottier where they're stranded on a planet together and have to work together to survive, but now Odo's just as vulnerable as Weyoun is. (Sex pollen always welcome)
Hurt/Comfort - Character Treats Other Character's Injuries – Weyoun is injured and Odo has to treat his injuries, whether it’s Weyoun 6 or one of the other ones. I’m just fascinated by all the messy feelings of faith and awe, and Odo’s discomfort at being thought of as a god.
Slow and painful process of recovering from lifetime of cultural brainwashing – Whether it happens over the course of one Weyoun or several. I really love all the tangled complexities of the way the Vorta see the world. Maybe this is a canon-divergent fic where Weyoun 6 survives and Odo tries to deprogram him? Or maybe a future Weyoun where the process has begun but isn't quite there yet.
Whump - A sacrifices themself to protect B; B is forced to watch A being tortured – The obvious candidate for self-sacrifice is Weyoun, but Odo sacrificing himself and Weyoun's struggles watching him being tortured (perhaps that Romulan device that stops him from changing shape) would be delicious too.

Quark/Brunt

Optional Prompts

'Dirty little secret' relationship leads to Too Many Feelings leads to unexpected marriage proposal – Because I am so here for the two of them having a secret relationship on the downlow, and maybe they keep telling themselves it’s just about sex and it doesn’t mean anything, but actually...
Accidental Marriage – When they’re on an alien planet negotiating a contract, they accidentally wind up married (maybe because in that planet’s laws rivalry is considered a sign of great regard), and this cannot stand. Turns out getting it annulled is a little trickier than first envisioned, and in the meantime pining, forced proximity, and sex-of-convenience ensues.
Hate Sex – I am so, so here for the two of them hatefucking, and for moments of unexpected tenderness in the middle of the hatefucking, and for hate sex where they gradually start to develop feelings.
Exploration of Aftermath of Canon Events – A relationship study that looks at how things might develop between the two of them after the end of the series, with neither of them entirely happy about the changes on Ferenginar.
Characters don't realise they're in a relationship but everyone else can see it – Maybe Brunt keeps finding reasons to return to Deep Space Nice to make Quark’s life a misery, and Quark does everything he can to irritate Brunt, and neither of the two of them wants to admit that actually they’re sort of starting to enjoy each other’s company, while as far as everyone else is concerned they’re already basically together.
A post-canon fic with an established relationship between Quark and Brunt. They’re… sort of settled. Almost happy. And then, like a hand grenade tossed into the middle of their relationship, Quark’s old lover Natima Lang comes back. Somehow Brunt finds out what happened between them and is torn between horrified disgust at Quark being willing to abandon everything to run off with her and seething jealousy because he thinks, rightly or wrongly, that Quark wouldn't do that for HIM in a million years. Maybe Quark and Natima have both moved on with no lingering feelings other than a faint poignant ‘what might have been’, or maybe they’re still as in love with each other as ever and the only way to resolve this is with Quark/Natima/Brunt.
5+1 Things – A post-canon 5+1 fic exploring the ways every single member of Quark’s family undermines their attempts at (semi-)tradition Ferengi parenting (preferably of a boy, please, unless the focus is on them both overcoming their terrible ingrained sexism to the point where it’s probably going to be a bit ooc, let’s face it).
Having met by chance with an oddly familiar stranger in a bar who shares his animosity for Quark, Brunt obtains a copy of a unique holosuite program involving Major Kira with Quark’s head in return for a discounted price and the promise to use it to destroy Quark. Which would be easier to do if he could just stop thinking about how it would be better with Quark’s head on Quark’s body. To facilitate Getting Revenge, obviously. (And just as soon as he figures out why the hell Quark would make the program so damn good at oo-mox if it was written for a non-Ferengi).
So, um, those scenes in The Dogs of War when Brunt is sucking up to Quark because they both think Zek is going to appoint him the next Grand Nagus? He’d be remiss if he forgot Rule 113 of the Rules of Acquisition: Always have sex with the boss.
Ishka figures out why Brunt is so fixated on bringing Quark down. And, well, okay, yes, Brunt is terrible, but also he’s a good Ferengi, and frankly, Quark could probably do worse.
Time Travel Fix-It – Brunt and Quark travel back to a point where they’re in a position to alter the course of Ferengi history and prevent the sweeping changes brought about by Quark’s mother, but potentially ruining their fortunes in their present, since with the franchisement of Quark’s they’re actually doing pretty damn well for themselves. Do they go through with it, or disagree about whether they should go through with it?

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Mirror Brunt/Weyoun 6

Optional Prompts

Look, if in doubt, please just make them kiss and I will be happy. :D
Body Swap - Characters Are Alarmingly Good At Being Each Other
Conflicting loyalties – Explore the issue of loyalty and how it manifests in each of them. Especially Weyoun, whose loyalties are at least somewhat artificial. How does the Mirror universe affect his loyalties to the Founders? Is he able to override it? Perhaps because he’s stuck there he gradually becomes used to feeling free of his obligations to the Dominion, and transfers his loyalties to Mirror Brunt instead, but then an opportunity to return to the prime universe arises and he has to deal with his conflicting loyalties.
Weyoun has fallen in with M!Ezri and M!Brunt and has been working with them for a while without issue until they capture Mirror!Odo. And maybe he can override his instinctive loyalties because this is the Mirror!Universe version and so not a true Founder, but it doesn’t come easily.
Character finally finds an unconditionally good relationship; not sure how to handle it - They're both just so damn sweet, and while everything else might be going to hell, the two of them still manage to carve out some moments of sweetness in the middle of the nightmarish dystopia that is the Mirror Universe.
Character isn't used to being loved and shown tenderness/affection – Because loving relationships aren’t normally part of a Vorta’s life experience, and Weyoun isn’t quite sure how to handle it.
Food as part of the language of love – They both have interesting relationships with food. Given Mirror Brunt’s tendency to make sure everyone’s fed (with tube grubs, but still...), and the way Weyoun works his way through everything on the replicator’s menu, it seems like this would be the perfect way for them to bond. And okay, maybe Brunt can’t get his hands on kava nuts or rippleberries but there must be something.
Creating your moral code from scratch after the last one imploded – So let’s say Weyoun is stranded, temporarily or otherwise, in the Mirror universe. He’s finally free of his obligations to the Dominion, because there is no Dominion there, and so has to figure out a few things and relearn the sort of person he wants to be.
Gently touching a character's scar(s) – Because again this is one of the contrasts between them, Mirror Brunt being scarred (because picking up scars in the Mirror Universe is inevitable, let’s face it) while Weyoun is almost entirely scar-free due to being a recent clone. I’m particularly here for scar kink, and all the associated fascination and sympathy and tenderness, but you could also play with the issues over cloning: Weyoun’s memories of injuries sustained by other Weyouns, which aren’t reflected on his body, but which maybe he feels as phantom scars of some kind?
Emotional hurt/comfort – Ordinarily Vortas’ memories of their previous deaths and injuries are suppressed as part of the cloning process to ensure they remain motivated and willing to sacrifice themselves, but every now and then those suppressed memories return in full force.
Identity Porn - A scam/heist requires that they both have to pose as their other selves.
Smut - experimenting with and exploring interspecies biology.
on the run together – Whether from the Alliance or from some kind of crime syndicate (potentially run by Mirror Ishka XD), and bonding in the process.
Two tired people taking quiet comfort in each other – Exhausted sex, moments of respite in the middle of the world going to hell, the two of them finding moments of common ground, etc.
Competence Kink - And the two of them being quietly impressed and turned on by the other’s competence: Brunt’s toughness and fighting skills and Weyoun's innate diplomacy and negotiating skills.

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Would You Rather (2012)

Requested Ships:
Iris/Shepard Lambrick
Iris & Shepard Lambrick
Julian Lambrick & Shepard Lambrick
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Note on my DNWs: It’s fine to include references to the attempted rape in canon. Anything up to and including extremely dubious consent is fine for this canon.

Shepard Lambrick & Julian Lambrick

Fucked-up Lambrick family dynamics please! :D While the film itself doesn’t do too much digging into the Lambrick family, it sets up a lot of hints that seem like they’d be very fun to dig into. Like, what the deal is with the Lambrick Foundation, and everything to do with the games, past, present and future. And especially the relationship between Julian and his father, which I find deeply uncomfortable to watch but in an extremely satisfying way (much like the film itself XD). Julian is a terrible excuse for a human being, but it’s pretty clear at least part of the reason he’s so sadistic and screwed up and ultimately a cringing little worm (that bit where he’s cowering under the table much to Shepard’s contempt? Oof) is because of having Shepard as a father. And god, Shepard: from his first appearance where he’s putting on the thinnest veneer of philanthropy possible to the way he manipulates the proceedings of the game, terrorising basically everyone except Bevans? Even when things are going wrong, he’s never less than in control. He’s a genuinely terrifying villain and an absolute blast to watch.

Every moment Shepard and Julian interact is gold, and I would very much like to know more about their relationship. There are some interesting wrinkles there: the whole thing about Shepard being glad that Julian’s finally taking an interest in the Foundation, the question of what happened with Julian’s mother, the way Shepard reacts when he finds out about Julian’s attempt to sexually assault Iris, and whatever happens between them off-screen when Shepard excuses himself to talk to Julian… It shouldn’t be that hard for Julian to live up to his father, right, and yet he keeps failing and disappointing his father again and again, and yeeeeah, I’m not sure Shepard Lambrick is a man you really want to disappoint.

I’d love to see exploration of other games, whether in the past or the future, alternative ways the game in the film could have gone, what Julian’s childhood was like, what happened to his mother, how the whole thing came about in the first place. Even just a fic exploring the day-to-day running of the Foundation, which might seem entirely normal on the surface, but with occasional glimpses behind the curtain to suggest that something is very, very badly wrong, like glimpses of ex-players who are now working for the Lambricks. How many of them are morally compromised in the way that Dr Barden was, and how many have willingly, even eagerly, embraced everything Shepard had to offer?

I’m fascinated by the way Shepard manipulates everyone around him (including his family?), and the way he seems to be building up this network of people who are complicit in murder, and what his motivations for doing that might be. Or the consequences of the game we see in canon: what will Iris do next given her reason for playing is now gone? Will she make use of Shepard’s patronage any way or turn against him?

And then there’s Lucas. Watching the film for the first time, I was convinced he was going to turn out to be the other Lambrick brother, and to have been a ringer in on it all along. It would probably have been too obvious a twist, but story-wise and character-wise the possibilities are delicious, and I am so so here for Lucas and Julian as siblings with a fucked-up codependent relationship: Lucas as the golden child, the one who has the guts to actually take part in the games himself, risking genuine physical pain and potential harm (short of death because they've been rigged just enough) because that’s what his father’s ‘rules’ call for, with Julian as the weaker son who can never live up to his father’s legacy. (The film ultimately doesn’t really bear this out, but it’s not beyond the realms of possibility that the eye injury could have been faked, and maaaaybe the death too if you squint. And hey, that's what AUs are for.)

It throws an interesting spin on Julian’s bitterness, and on some of Lucas’s behaviour in the game, and the possibility that he too is pushing back against his father. Or maybe the reason he gives the others a chance to run is to give Julian the chance to go after her, because because he’s doing it for his brother or because he knows how his father will react. I particularly love the idea of Shepard taking a hands-off approach to discipline, but manipulating them into punishing each other instead.

If you do go this route, I am absolutely here for Lucas and Julian having an incestuous relationship. Perhaps one which they think their father doesn’t know about, although actually not only does he know about it, he’s quietly done everything in his power to encourage it. (Or for extra fucked-up vibes, Lucas knows their father knows, but Julian doesn’t.)

Art Prompts

Again, anything I’d like in a fic, I’d love in a piece of art. And while I’d love something that goes hard on the violence of a game, I’d also love something quieter and atmospheric, which maybe only hints at the horrors going on in the name of the Lambrick Foundation. Maybe that ‘date’ between Iris and Shepard, where there’s a hell of a lot going on under the surface, or Julian and Shepard at a similar public event. But outright horror and violence is very welcome too.

Optional Prompts

Something Lovecraftian – Because apparently I’m almost incapable of requesting an entirely non-Lovecraftian film with Jeffrey Combs in it without going ‘Yeah, but what if Lovecraft though?’ On the one hand, you could just take this film at face value, but on the other there does seem to be an odd sense of duty about the way Shepard treats the games, with his attention to the rules and tradition, so what if the Foundation and the games have some kind of supernatural reason for existing?
Antagonism - characters don't like each other but nobody else understands them this well Characters who can't stand each other would also die for each other
Daddy Issues – Because if there was ever a character with hang-ups over his father, it’s Julian Lambrick.
Fantasies about murdering your father – Whether a 5+1 fic about the times Julian has thought about killing his father throughout his life, or something a bit more involved, where he’s actually seriously thinking about going through with it. Or dreaming about doing it. Will he ever have the guts? Does Shepard know? (And if Lucas is involved, maybe the two of them plotting together as part of some fucked-up sexual fantasy, but actually Lucas is telling Shepard about it)
Shepard is beginning to have doubts about whether Julian really has the necessary qualities to follow in his footsteps. Maybe he decides to give Julian one last chance.
A fucked-up slice of life fic following the everyday operations of the Lambrick Foundation.
Something investigating Shepard’s relationship with his son in contrast to Shepard’s relationship with his own father.
What was the first game like? Did it happen under Shepard, or was it something that he inherited? If the latter, then what was his experience of his first game like?

Shepard Lambrick & Iris, Shepard Lambrick/Iris

And then there’s my Iris &/ Shepard requests. Whether entirely platonic or shippy (in whatever form that takes) or something in between, these have so much potential to be utterly fucked up and uncomfortable in a way that very much appeals to me. Given Shepard’s ongoing relationship with Dr Barden at the start of the film, it can be assumed that he makes a habit of taking a continuing interest in the winners of his games, and his ‘Call me Shep’ at the end of the film (*shiver*) suggests that it’s going to be the same sort of situation with Iris, and that he’s going to follow her career through college with an eye to manipulating into a position where she can be of some use to him. And oh dear fucking god, that’s creepy.

The situation at the end of the film throws that completely out of joint though, and I go back and forth on which way she might go. Her primary reason for taking part in the game has gone, but it’s also one of the few things that Shepard isn’t responsible for, and I could go either way on whether she chooses to take advantage of Shepard’s patronage or not.

And Shepard himself is such a bundle of conflicting emotions. On the one hand, he’s a fucked-up, sadistic, manipulative arsehole who gets a kick out of psychological and physical torture (he’s just enjoying himself so much), but on the other hand he really does seem to run the games by a certain set of rules and maybe a sick sort of honour, which almost makes him more terrifying in a way. I’m thinking of the moment when he apologises to Iris for Julian’s behaviour – in a way that touch on her shoulder makes my skin crawl more than the attempted rape. It’s all very messy and uncomfortable, and one of the reasons why I love this fucked up little film so much, aside from how tense and claustrophobic it is.

What if the situation leads him to take even more of an interest in her than he usually would? Or perhaps his additional interest is in reaction to something she does? Maybe every now and then one of the players of the game does something to genuinely surprise him, and something about her draws him to her, to the point, perhaps, where he starts to shape her into a potential protoge. (Which Julian isn’t exactly happy about naturally).

As for the shippy version a lot of the appeal of this is how deeply fucked up it would be, and the deal with the devil vibes it would have, and Iris telling herself that she’s going into it with her eyes open because she knows what a monster he is, and finding herself in way over her head anyway. What does it take for this to come about?

Optional Prompts

Enemies to Lovers - Enemy tenderly treats character's injuries that the enemy inflicted – Whether this follows on directly from the end of the film, or relates to a whole new injury that Iris has sustained, I am so completely here for this. Or alternatively, what if Shepard is the one who’s been injured at Iris’s hands. It’s a couple of years down the line and, trying to get her revenge on him, she’s taken him to an isolated cabin while his people hunt for them. Only she isn’t sure whether she can really bring herself to kill someone again. Manipulation ensues.
Antagonist Surprises With Honourable Behavior – ‘honourable’ according to Shepard’s judgement, anyway. Because he really does seem to have a fucked-up code of his own when it comes to the games, even if that is just one of his manipulation techniques. But he honours his promises, and Iris finds herself conflicted.
Breathplay - top/dom likes getting choked – Consider this an exception to my Breathplay DNW. Shepard has a thing about being choked. Iris obliges because she just hates him so much. They’re both drawn to the element of risk: him because he knows she might well kill him if she was capable of it, she’s not sure if she is capable of it, but knows that if she takes it too far it could end very badly for her.
Captivity – For one reason or another, Shepard decides it’s necessary to have Iris quietly disposed of, but he’s unwilling to have her killed so imprisons her instead.
Character has their face shaved with a straight razor (by someone they have reason to distrust) – Having established a sexual relationship, although still aware that there’s good chance she’d like to kill him, Shepard lets Iris shave him. What appeals to me here is the sexual tension and Iris’s ever-present temptation to just cut his throat and have done with it.
Character Trains a Protege – Ohhh baby. Explore this however you want to, whether the focus is on the beginning of the process or if you start with her taking her place as a witness to a game. Is Iris all in (for whatever reason), or does she still have her doubts, or is she working against him somehow? And what exactly is Julian doing in all of this?
Slow Seduction/Corruption Arc – So uncomfortably hot, whatever form the seduction takes, whether it’s about sex or a moral corruption. I am absolutely here for a sexual relationship developing between them, but also her originally resisting him trying to use her for his own ends once she’s gone through college, and his attempts to bring her around, finding her a job, etc.
Outsider POV of a 'date' between Shepard and Iris. Especially if its clearly deeply uncomfortable, but to the outsider it just looks like a normal date between a solicitous older man and a younger woman (aside from maybe a couple of out-of-place moments).
Possessiveness - No One Is Allowed to Hurt You Except Me – Times when Shepard went out of his way to protect Iris.
Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder – After the game, Iris is struggling to recover from the experience.
Scar Worship – Specifically that stab-wound. But also, maybe Shepard has one or two scars of his own.

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AO3 Username: StopTalkingAtMe

General Preferences
The 4400 (2004)
Butch Cassidy (Ferrante Movies)
The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim
Fallout (TV)
House on Haunted Hill (1999)
I Know What You Did Last Summer (Movie Series)
Re-Animator (Movies)
Star Trek: Deep Space Nine
Thief (Original Games)
Would You Rather

General Likes and DNWs

General Likes

Character studies and introspection
Loneliness and isolation
Angst
Atmospheric description, scenery porn, sensory description
World-building, backstory, and character development.
Horror of all kinds, understated ghost stories, body horror, cosmic horror, claustophibic horror where the characters are trapped underground, potentially with monsters (think The Descent), etc.
Closed Circle - Stranded with a murderer in your midst, whether in horror or murder mystery. Think And Then There Were None.
Case-fic, whether fully realised or just touching on elements from a case.
Whump, hurt/comfort and hurt/no comfort.
Endings of all kinds, happy, bleak or bittersweet.
Canon-divergent AUs, especially post-canon ones where the bad guys win.
Pining, whether mutual or one-sided
Repression and stoicism
Descriptions of scars
Main Character Death and grief; characters getting together while still grieving for previous partners, taking solace in each other, the dead character still seeming like a presence in the relationship, etc.
Crossovers, especially oddball crossovers that come completely out of left field, although I do tend to prefer crack played straight rather than outright crack. If you have reason to believe I know and like the other fandom, then I encourage you to go for it.
Post-Apocalypse scenarios, including zombies (probably my favourite AU scenario of all time), with focus on angst and the struggle for survival.
Stranded Together With No Way Home, intense (and probably pretty damn unhealthy) fire-forged relationships that come about as a result of being isolated together and being able to rely on no one but each other.
Time Loops
Older characters finding love.
Age gap relationships
I really love historical detail and extensive research notes, so if that’s what you’re into then feel free to go wild. (If that’s not your thing, then please don’t worry: I am in no way an expert, and I love tropey indulgent stuff and cheerfully anachronistic fics just as much).
Hair kink. Hands pushed into hair, coiling it around fingers, routinely cutting another character's hair if appropriate in context (e.g. in post-apocalyptic scenarios), hairwashing as part of hurt/comfort, yanking head back by the hair, etc
Textiles, especially knitwear and embroidery; men in jumpers; historical and cultural details and craft in general
Unusual structures and ways of telling a story, such as Rashomon plots, non-linear narratives, outsider POVs, epistolary works, etc.
Cigarette kink: descriptions of smoking, sharing cigarettes, lighting cigarettes for each other, etc.
Finally, and I cannot emphasise this enough, men in sleepwear, particularly pyjamas and dressing gowns.

Smut Likes

Sex Pollen and aftermath, and any other kind of something made them do it scenario
Angry Sex, rough sex, hate sex, rough sex that turns tender
Clothed Sex, or clothed/naked
Comfort Sex
Dubcon when requested (mutual dubcon of the something-made-us-do-it kind is ALWAYS okay even when not explicitly requested)
Mild bondage and other forms of gentle restraint
Oral Sex, especially cunnilingus in all its forms, and ESPECIALLY cunnilingus with fingering
Rough Sex - Lots of Scratching and Biting and Hair-Grabbing/Pulling and Holding Partner(s) Down
Sex in grimy, grim, uncomfortable places
Threesomes
Situations where one character is too tired, injured etc to orgasm themselves, but takes great pleasure in making the other person come, so long as it's part of a wider give-take relationship when it comes to sex.

DNWs

Omegaverse
Noncon between requested ships (Something Made Them Do It scenarios are always okay though, including Bad Guys Made Them Do It)
Dubcon involving unaroused characters
Unrequested Incest
Bestiality (monsters don't count here)
Scat and waterplay
Formalised D/s dynamics (more casual power play, bondage and other forms of restraint are OK)
Underage
Het anal sex
Breathplay (antagonistic choking is fine)
Fisting
Lactation kink
Any variation of the word 'come' in a sexual context spelled as 'cum' (please use 'come', 'came', 'precome' etc)

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The 4400 (2004)

Requested Ships:
Kevin Burkhoff/Tess Doerner
Requested Mediums:
Fanart: 1 x 10-Page Comic OR 2 x 5-Page Comics
Fanfic: 1 x 10000-Word Fic OR 2 x 5000-Word Fics

(I understand there are post-canon novels available, but I haven’t read them yet. It’s fine to disregard them and purely go off the series.)

The canon Kevin/Tess relationship still makes me a little giddy that it actually happened. It hits me in so many iddy spots: the age gap, the mutual protectiveness, unwavering devotion, and caretaking, all the potential for guilt and grief, how very uncomfortable with it Kevin is at times, and just in general all the complexities of their relationship. It was made for me, and I feel beyond spoiled that it happened at all, let along how it almost perfectly fulfilled every one of my hopes for how it might happen. :D I am very much here for younger characters pursuing older ones and for the older characters feeling weird and guilty as hell about it, but they just adore each other so much, and again SPOILED. I also love the weirdness of her being so much younger than him despite having been born in the thirties.

Okay, I do kinda wish their chemistry came across as a little more explicitly sexual on-screen, but I can headcanon that as Kevin feeling guilty about the age gap, and they are so affectionate with each other (I’ll settle for hugs, kisses and forehead pressing *sobs*). They run away together. Twice!

There’s an argument to be made that she’s the most powerful 4400 after Isabelle (and it cracks me up the way they kept having to ~~dose her with kryptonite~~ pack her off to visit her grandniece to get around the problem of why the characters wouldn’t just send Tess in every time there’s a problem that needs fixing. It’s not a perfect show, but it’s imperfections are part of what I find so delightful XD).

And that leads me to another thing about their relationship: the sheer casual indifferent cruelty of how they came together in the first place, with Tess being sent back purely to cure his paranoid personality disorder (but only just enough so that he’s able to develop promicin; not to the point where he necessarily has good judgement or is fully capable of making ethical judgements or anything). Just, oof, how guilty would Kevin feel learning the circumstances of how he came to be healed? While the show never really touches on it, it colours so much of their relationship going forwards, and I would love to see that explored.

I mentioned the incongruousness of Kevin and Tess's abilities, and there’s a weird fucked-up sort of synergy about how they seem designed to protect each other. Like, yes, okay, maybe Kevin’s invulnerability is to protect his promicin-research, but it also means that when Tess has a schizophrenic break he’s able to survive anything she does to him, and he’s devoted enough to hang on in there. The more you start to tease out the implications, the more the cruelty starts to show itself, so dig into that all you want.

Go with something plotty if you want, but for these two I would just love to wallow in something indulgent smut or hurt/comfort. Or just explore missing scenes – so much of their relationship development happens off-screen. And I am so, so here for tender, gentle (and maybe just slightly guilty) smut I cannot even say.

Regarding the show itself, although the wheels started to come off by the end, on the whole I loved this weird convoluted little puzzle box of a show in its entirety. I wish we’d got more closure about the future and the catastrophe and everything that was going to happen. Right up to the end I genuinely couldn’t predict where it was going to go and how things were going to shake out, and I just had so much fun watching it and trying to figure out what was going to happen and what the implications were. It’s kind of superheroes-by-stealth, and I really love how it’s an upside down version of the X-Men while not being anything of the kind, and the way it focuses on the day-to-day realities of a situation like this by mostly following NTAC (and god, I ADORE Tom and Diana’s rock-solid, loving, affectionate, I-would-die-for-this-person friendship <3<3<3)

And then there's all the fucked up time weirdness and the way it’s cosmic horror adjacent. The show even gives a nod to Lovecraft at one point and specifically to A Shadow out of Time, in which people swap minds with impossibly alien creatures from the far future, which is so fascinating giving everything revealed in the later episodes. Plus, even the supposed good guys of the future are capable of being incredibly spectacularly cruel: witness their kidnapping and erasure of Maia from the timeline, plus virtually everything about Kevin and Tess. We never really learn that much about the people from the future – on the one hand, I’d like answers, but on the other, I’m actually really glad the show ultimately left that sort of ambiguous. What I keep coming back to is that all we know about the future is what the future tells us, which has the potential to be spectacularly creepy. If you want to play with even the good guys of the future turning out to be neither as good or as human as they claim, then please do.

And time stuff: how does the butterfly affect change the original plan of the people from the future? If Isabelle was meant to destroy the 4400s and she is actively working against the plan, then what does that mean for the promicin developed later in the series? I think Kevin even says at one point that it’s different from his. So how might things have played out if Isabelle had never been sent back and the original plan had played out with Kevin’s promicin becoming more slowly available, perhaps with fewer deaths because he’s able to figure out the compatibility test earlier?

And then I have a bunch of other questions. Like what the hell was going on with Cassie? What parts of the plot were down to the good future people and which the bad future people? How will things play out post-series? Does Jordan actually manage to clear the interloper and what happens if he doesn’t? Play with the butterfly effect: give me a Sliding Doors style thing which explores different timelines, or a canon-divergent fic, or character studies of any of the characters. Or a future-fic which looks at what happens a significant length of time post-canon.

(And yet another goofy crossover possibility, but the nod to Re-Animator in this series delights me. If you want to do a crossover where Herbert is one of the 4400 and maybe possibly meets up with Kevin, then PLEASE DO.)

Comic Prompts

Take full advantage of this canon’s adjacency to superheroes to go all out on nods to DC and Marvel. What would these two look like if they were trapped in a superhero comic? (Given canon that could very well be someone’s ability). Or go meta with them discovering that they’re characters in a comic. The two of them getting together while Kevin’s still scarred. Post-apocalyptic imagery in a future fic: what happens to them after the world’s gone to hell? Something smutty (potentially involving consensual mind control kink?)

Optional Prompts

A bad guys win!AU in which Marked!Jordan Collier is removing the abilities of the p-positives, while the original 4400s are being hunted down one by one. Tess and Kevin go on the run.
Their reunion after Tess gets out of hospital happens off-screen. I would love to see how that went, and how they came to be working together. There’s so much potential for everything I love here: his guilt over how he came to be cured, and the hurt/comfort as the promicin side effects get worse.
Yet another thing that happens off-screen: how they got together as a couple in the first place. Given that they kiss just after he’s sloughed off his skin, clearly something was happening while he was still scarred, and oh god that DELIGHTS me. Him being so ashamed of it and not wanting her to see her like that, her being so into him anyway? Mmph.
The first time they sleep together.
Oof, that scene where he says goodbye in the hospital (the book, the kiss on the cheek, the hairtouching). It isn’t clear how much Kevin has realised at that point and whether he understands that it was Tess who cured him, but he’s a smart man: he’ll figure it out quickly. I’d love something exploring his grief and survivor’s guilt over the way things panned out (and I adore early Kevin where he’s still adjusting to being cured, spitting sunflower seeds in the general direction of the bin and not quite having shaken off his mental illness yet).
Thanks to a 4400’s ability akin to the one in No Exit, Kevin and Tess and a bunch of other people find themselves trapped in an alternate universe. Except that this one is a superhero AU, and they specifically have to use their abilities as superheroes. Mainly because I find it so amusing that the least badass people get the most badass abilities. (and it also cracks me up how the various abilities were basically magic by the end.)
They reunite after the end of the series.
Something fluffy and sweet and indulgent where another handwavey 4400 ability allows Kevin and Tess the opportunity to go back in time and give her the Sweet 16 birthday party she never got to experience. Maybe something that works along similar lines to Alana’s, so they don’t lose any time in the real world, and this is set during the penultimate episode, right before he sends her away, and it’s a little respite for them, and perhaps the other people at the party can’t see them? And it’s sweet and romantic and a little bit hot, but also sort of uncomfortable for Kevin given everything that happened in the diner. And play with the age thing: on the one hand it reminds him how young she is, but at the same time he hasn’t actually been born yet, so...
MIND CONTROL KINK. Because I can see the sex being a little bit uncertain and awkward at first, and I find the idea of them stumbling into a consensual set-up where Tess orders Kevin around in bed (or makes him tell her what he wants to do) hot as fuck.
And also mind control, but slightly less consensual: I am so, so into all the chewy complexities of these two and the way the mind control plays into that, with Tess potentially using her ability to make Kevin ignore his qualms about the age gap? Because what’s a little gentle mind control between people who love each other? :D On the one hand it’s such a violation of trust, but on the other hand he really does love her and is happier with her, so it’s kind of understandable, but still… So explore that, or even just his underlying unease that it might be a possibility.

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Butch Cassidy (Ferrante Movies)

Requested Ships:
Charles Siringo/Tom Horn
Requested Mediums:
Fanart: 1 x 10-Page Comic OR 2 x 5-Page Comics
Fanfic: 1 x 10000-Word Fic OR 2 x 5000-Word Fics

These films, starting with Butch Cassidy and the Wild Bunch (the 2023 version), which is followed up by the sequel Butch vs Sundance, aren’t perfect by any means, but I found them a lot of fun to watch, the first one especially. They’re free on Tubi, but I’m not sure if they’re available elsewhere yet – I had to use a VPN to access them. I enjoyed the first film more, although I did appreciate a lot of what the second film tried to do, (and ftr I ship the Butch Cassidy/Sundance Kid/Etta Place OT3 too).

Horn is only in the first film and I was a little disappointed with how the sequel defanged Siringo a little – he wasn’t nearly as much as a bastard as he was in the first film, and depending on what you want to write, you could easily write for this request only having seen the first film. OTOH that bit where he slams Sundance into the bars of the cell? HOT. And I am apparently very into him being called ‘Charlie’. (Also the whole section where Siringo and Sundance are travelling together and all the testing his loyalty stuff? I’m not quite sure it pulled off what it was trying to do, but I would have been very very into what it was trying to do had it managed to do it, so I think of it fondly for that reason alone. Kinda shipping Siringo/Sundance a little bit too, ngl. XD)

As for Siringo and Horn, I ship them so damn hard. Turns out I am extremely into a violent dangerous man making a surprised pikachu face when the even more violent dangerous man he tried to leash turns out to be harder to control than expected, whilst still remaining apparently completely loyal to the man who tried to leash him. Add in the height difference, and damn. *hearteyes*

I adore their dynamic so much: in their first scene together, Siringo approvingly watching Horn beat the shit out of someone for the crime of stealing a chicken; giving him a badge and turning Horn into his monster on a leash – all of that is golden. The potential for loyalty kink is delicious, and it’s all the better for how Siringo’s control over Horn isn’t always total. I would love to see that dynamic of having tried to leash a hurricane captured, particularly in the context of them having a sexual relationship: Siringo having maybe bitten off more than he can chew, and not quite being in control, but at the same time doing his damndest to maintain the appearance of being in control.

Siringo fascinates me – why is he so intent on bringing Cassidy in? Does it just come down to him being obsessed with the law? I’m also really drawn to the question of morality, and the way his association with Horn leads to him compromising his moral values. (Or not. Maybe he really was always just that much of a bastard, and Horn gave him the excuse). In other words, if you want to go to town on a character study, or more along the lines of canon, then please, please do, but ftr I would also be happy with pure indulgent smut.

The theme of apparently dead people turning out not to be dead at all comes up repeatedly, so what about an AU where Horn survives, and is only thought to be dead, whether for handwavy reasons or because Siringo thought that if he was thought to be dead, he might be able to use him to outwit Butch.

Comic Prompts

I love the Western visuals, the scenery, the clothing porn, the height difference. Something atmospheric that explores the visuals of travelling in the West, campfires and the stars, smut or UST, or anything exploring Siringo’s discomfort when he realises he’s bitten off more than he can chew.

Optional Prompts

Pure indulgent smutfic. I’d especially love to see something exploring Siringo’s potential feelings of being out of control, and having unleashed something he’s maybe not quite ready to deal with. Also for this pairing I’m especially here for sex under the stars, rough sex, oral sex, campfire sex, scar worship/comparison, and a potentially repressed man getting borderline dubconned while at the same time being very into it.
Something set during the second film which digs into how Horn’s canonical death provides Siringo with a further motive to bring Cassidy in, particularly if they were lovers. (It’s fine for Horn not to appear in the fic.)
One thing I really did like about the second film was Siringo and Sundance travelling together, and Siringo’s attempts to win Sundance over to his side. Assuming Horn’s still dead, maybe they recognise that the other is attracted to men, and Sundance figures out what Siringo’s relationship with Horn really was, adding a whole interesting layer to the relationship Siringo’s trying to build between them, especially if Sundance is playing up the UST, whether or not they actually sleep together.
Alternatively, how would the second film have played out if Horn had survived? Perhaps if he’s there while Siringo is travelling with Sundance?
Prison break! Horn did survive the first film after all, and breaks Siringo out of jail after the end of the second. What happens? Do they go after Cassidy? How does the whole having the law turned against him affect Siringo’s moral worldview?
Hurt/comfort -- they both survive the end of the first film, but are both wounded and have to patch each other up.
A's Love Language Is Killing B's Enemies And Dropping Them At B's Feet Like A Cat Gifting Dead Mice – With A being Horn. :D Go hard on the loyalty kink, and it’s fine to handwave whatever canon events you need to or ignore them completely.
Zombie AU – I always love zombies, and there isn’t nearly enough zombie apocalypse stuff set in alternative time periods. Potentially as an excuse to force Siringo to work with Butch and the rest of his gang.
Alternate Universe - Different First Meeting – I’d love to see the version of Siringo recruiting Horn where they met before, potentially as an anonymous one night stand (although it doesn’t have to be) – maybe he isn’t sure if Horn recognises him, but turns out he does, which leads to complicated feelings. (or just sex. That’s good too.)
Give me Siringo’s version of the story, in which he very much sees himself as the hero. Is it a case of unreliable narrator, or is he well aware of all the terrible things he’s done, but sees them as a necessary price to pay? (First person and epistolary works, maybe a memoir written in prison are particularly welcome here.)
I’d love something digging into their onscreen dynamic, exploring how Siringo really feels about Horn's propensity for violence and the way his own moral code is compromised, or if he was just secretly always that much of a bastard and Horn just gave him the excuse. Also here for him being taken aback by how drawn he is to Horn because of how good he is at killing.
Character Surprised By Their Own Deep Loyalty Feels; Object Of Loyalty Even More Surprised – The tag speaks for itself. :D Here for all the loyalty kink. and for Horn unexpectedly being genuinely loyal to Siringo, even though he might not always obey him
One character shaves another's face with a straight razor – Ideally Horn shaving Siringo, but the alternative is good too. Bring this about however you can, whether Siringo’s hands have been injured, or maybe they’ve already slept together and this is just an extension of that intimacy. If there’s an undercurrent of mild threat to the shaving and Siringo isn’t entirely comfortable with it, then all the better.
Only One Bed – Or maybe there is another bed and it’s in the brothel next door, so everyone’s expecting Horn to take it, including Siringo (and maybe Horn himself), but actually he ends up sharing Siringo’s room and bed instead and trying to pass it off as being because of his moral uprightedness which literally no one believes for a minute.

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Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim

Requested ships:
Female Dragonborn/General Tullius
Requested Mediums:
Fanart: 1 x 10-Page Comic OR 2 x 5-Page Comics
Fanfic: 1 x 10000-Word Fic OR 2 x 5000-Word Fics

I love the Elder Scrolls games: that feeling when you start playing and know that a ridiculous amount of time is going to be sucked up by the game for the foreseeable future. I love the depth of the lore and the history, and I should mention that I'm also a huge Oblivion fan, so I will particularly appreciate any references to events in that game (or its occasional goofy quirks, although Skyrim has plenty of goofy quirks of its own :D).

Screwing with canon events, timelines and quests is all welcome. I especially like it when events don't unfold as in game, and when, while in-game events may take place, it's not necessarily the Dragonborn at the heart of them. Canon-divergent AUs are especially welcome here. Please note that I'd also be happy with an alternate start player character who isn't actually the Dragonborn.

Me being me, of course General Tullius would turn out to be my favourite character in Skyrim: it's the sarcasm, mainly, along with his ruthless competence and implied conflict over the Thalmor. For this pairing, what appeals to me is the dynamic of two older characters with plenty of history and experience, and who just might be starting to get a bit too old for this shit. Having said that, a younger Dragonborn offers up a lot of interesting possibilities too. This seems like a ship suited for introspection and quieter thoughtful moments (and I'd be thrilled with that), but I'd also love to see him taken out of his comfort zone, and being forced to survive away from the safety of Solitude and the Legion. Especially if it involves 'Thank god we're alive sex' by the side of a campfire.

Oh, and if you happen to be looking for a first name for him, my head-canon preference happens to be 'Reman', but PLEASE ignore this if you prefer something else or choose not to give him a first name at all.

Comic Prompts

I love the visuals of the game anyway, the landscape porn, the armour (especially Tullius’s), and the Solitude setting. Snowstorms, caves, quiet moments in between battles, something action-packed or alternatively quiet and moody, persistent trauma from the original war with the Thalmor and the ongoing difficulties of diplomatic relationships with the Thalmor, and Tullius’s changing attitude towards Skyrim and its people.

Optional Prompts

The eve of the battle for Windhelm (or Solitude -- who says the winning side has to be the one the player character picks?), and they both might die tomorrow
There's an awkward moment at the Thalmor embassy party
Anything delving into the lore and history of Solitude or any of the quests revolving around the city, like the Potema questline or the Sheogorath quest.
The Dragonborn comes seeking revenge for what happened in Helgen
The Dragonborn isn't really the Dragonborn but a con-artist who gets caught up in the civil war.
Their party is waylaid on the way to Windhelm and they're isolated from the rest of the group or involved in a skirmish with Stormcloaks.

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Fallout (TV)

Requested ships:
Chet/Norm MacLean
Cooper Howard | The Ghoul/Lucy MacLean
Requested Mediums:
Fanart: 1 x 10-Page Comic OR 2 x 5-Page Comics
Fanfic: 1 x 10000-Word Fic OR 2 x 5000-Word Fics

Norm/Chet

Lucy/Cooper

Comic Prompts

Optional Prompts

The episode where Lucy and Maximus find themselves in Vault 4 was one of my favourites, and I’d love to see that Vault explored more, whether it’s an expanded version of that episode which takes more time over what’s going on, (maybe an AU version where it’s Lucy and Cooper) or an entirely different visit to the Vault. In particular, I’d really love to find out more about what the hell was going on with the Mother of Flames culty stuff, because canon skipped waaaay too quickly over that for my liking, but also I’d just really love to spend more time with that overly polite helpful bunch of adorable weirdos. (OH GOD THE CYCLOPS GUY <3<3<3)
"I can make them worse" with Lucy/The Ghoul in mind, because the process of redemption fascinates me, and I can’t help envisaging a situation where he’s starting to go back to being a better person, but for plot reasons, Lucy has to stop or slow down the redemption process and force him to be temporarily worse again.
Accidental Baby Acquisition – delightful for either pairing, honestly. If they’re out in the Wasteland, I love all the complications of having to feed it and keep it alive, and the potential for characters to behave in unexpected ways. For Lucy/Cooper, her being taken aback that he’s unexpectedly good with kids, even if he’s making noises about it being better to abandon it. For Norm/Chet, is it Steph’s baby?
Sex Pollen – Always and forever one of my favourite tropes, whether it focuses on the event or the aftermath or both. Either pairing, one character affected, or both? If it’s just Cooper affected, then I’d especially love to see his reaction to Lucy’s matter-of-fact attitude to sex and her willingness to get on with it.
Alternate Univerve - Zombie Apocalypse – I just love zombie apocalypses so much, and I’d love to see the characters reimagined in this universe. Did the turn happen a long time ago, or is it more recent (and how would that affect the characters?) Is Cooper a zombie hybrid of some kind? Or alternatively, the ghouls hit some very similar tropes, so go with a survival horror in which the characters have to defend themselves from a bunch of feral ghouls.
Body Swap - Characters Are Alarmingly Good At Being Each Other – And body swaps in general. Maybe it can only be reversed with sex.
Something where Norm is convinced that the only reason Chet wants to sleep with him is as a stand-in for Lucy, and turns him down as a result. Chet decides to stop being so passive and decides to go after what he wants for a chance.
Bad Guys Make Them Do It – always and forever. I love this trope so much, the potential for guilt and self-blame, the way it can act as a catalyst for revelation of feelings and abs an obstacle to them (that delicious guilt), the hotness of being forced to go through public or semi-public sex, mutual protectiveness and bonding, and the potential threat from the onlookers. I like it both as something fun and tropey, where it’s more Bad Guys Enabled them, and as something darker where there is a genuine threat from the bad guys and it’s traumatic (but they still find it sexually arousing).
Lucy and Norm are reunited in the Wasteland post season one.
Due to some handwavy technological simulation, Cooper becomes stuck in his memories of the past and thinks he’s his old self again with the end of the world nothing but a bad dream. Lucy has to travel into his mind and memories to remind him of who he really is and get him to snap out of it before he dies. Only trouble is he’s happier there, and meanwhile Lucy gets to meet some familiar faces.
So what does Cooper plan to do when he finds his family?
Something that focuses on Shady Sands and the things that have happened there over the years. A 5+1 piece, maybe, about past, present, and future. Or something written from the point of view of Shady Sands itself.
All the Body Horror and/or hurt/comfort/whump that comes from turning into a ghoul, whether Cooper's condition is worsening, or one of the other characters is also turning into a ghoul, with their respective partner stuck in the position of being unable to do anything other than help them through it.
character reveals feelings while out of it from illness/injury/alcohol - I particularly have Cooper in mind here, mainly because of the sheer depth of secrets/feelings he could spill, but this would absolutely apply to any of the other characters too.
UH OH, Lucy's pregnant, and the baby is Cooper's. CAN ghouls father children? That's up to you, but perhaps some kind of VaultTec fuckery where his sperm was somehow kept on ice, and a malfunctioning AI 'misreads' their relationship, which is entirely platonic they *swear,* and knocks her up. Cue all the complicated feelings for Cooper of a baby on its way, and a half-sister for Janey, and for Lucy of finally getting the chance to reproduce, but it's with this guy.
Character that acts tough and stoic is secretly vulnerable and needs to be tenderly fucked - I specifically have Cooper in mind here, and OK OK, I will admit there are limits to how vulnerable he's capable of being, but at the same time, I’m really drawn to redemption arcs and to all those tough layers being torn away to reveal the traumatised gooey centre.
Manhandling, specifically with Lucy/Cooper in mind. I mean, goddamn, thouse scenes from early canon with him dragging her around were so fucking hot. I'd love something along those lines with her giving as good as she gets. Maybe something where they're working together now and they have to pretend to be antagonistic and that she's his prisoner, with all the rough handling necessary for show and infused with sexual tension, and afterwards they spar which leads to angry angry sex. (and for something set when they're more antagonistic, Lucy fighting back also leads to angry sex.).
Manhandling with Norm/Chet in mind. That height difference, man. It doesn't feel like something Chet would do naturally, but maybe something happens which leads Norm to realise how easily Chet can handle it, and how hot he finds it.
Clothing porn
A desperate fight for survival -- for either pairing, but particularly Norm/Chet, partly because they're not quite as competent or good at surviving, so it makes the fight all the more desperate. Maybe they're attacked by raiders or ghouls, or stuck somewhere freezing and have to huddle for warmth. Anything where they get the chance to show off their own skills and knowledge especially.
Emotionally repressed but deeply in love character finally breaks and gives into feelings - Specifically thinking about Lucy/Cooper here, because OH GOD YEP. What would this moment look like? How long would it build until it gets to this point? Would there be a catalyst?
Cooper goes feral; Lucy has to bring him back. I don’t know if it’s reversible in canon, but handwave that if you need to. Maybe there’s an external plot reason why she has to bring him back, while other characters are telling her to abandon him or kill him outright, or maybe there isn’t and she knows they’re probably right but still can’t bring herself to do it. All the hurt/comfort here, her chaining him to a bed and trying to nurse him through it, while he gets flashes of lucidity and maybe even he’s telling her she should just kill him, idk.
Hurt/Comfort - Buried Alive & Rescue and Locked in a coffin together – no surprises which pairing I have in mind for obvious reasons, but if you want to do this for Norm/Chet instead then PLEASE DO, because this is a grade A whump trope. Maybe Lucy is captured and buried because hey, she’s a vaultie, so surely she’ll be happier underground, and Cooper has to rescue her. Feel free to dive into the trauma, horror and claustrophobia of this set-up, or her trauma in the aftermath, and Cooper’s complicated feelings. Also, if they’re buried together, Lucy’s realisation that this is something that’s happened to him before, and the UST that arises from the forced proximity.
Instead of Lucy, it's Norm and Chet who leave the Vault in search of Norm's father. How would that affect canon? Would they still get involved in the hunt for the head? Or would they find their way to Moldaver by another route? Would they meet Max or the Ghoul? Something plotty is very welcome, but I'd also be here for scenery porn, the struggle for survival, and the two of them huddling for warmth by campfires.
Pining while having sex - welcome for either pairing, but I love this especially for Norm/Chet, with Norm thinking that the only reason Chet is sleeping with him is as a stand-in for Lucy, and maybe that is how it started (or not: it's up to you), but things change pretty quickly.
Sparring leads to sex. For either pairing. For Norm/Chet, Norm has to learn to fight so that he can protect himself, and Lucy has to keep up her skills somehow.
Tentacles - RoboTentacles as a Sex Toy - For either pairing. Up to you whether this is entirely consensual and the characters choose to incorporate them into their sex, or if the robotentacles are malfunctioning and there's a dubcon element at play. Either way, NICE.
Time loop - Either pairing, and the details are up to you. Is one character stuck, or are they both trapped? Is one character repeatedly dying, or having to watch the other one die? And feel free to incorporate meta elements of gameplay.

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House on Haunted Hill (1999)

Note on my DNWs: For Pritchett, please have him be 16 or older for direct sexual contact, but sexually arousing dreams/visions/hallucinations are fine from 13+).

Watson Pritchett/Dr Richard B Vannacutt

Not a pairing that I’d originally considered, but then a seed took root and now I can’t stop thinking about these two and what sort of dynamic they’d have.

Comic Prompts

Optional Prompts

This House has a Personality and that Personality is Fucked Up – And adolescence is tough enough as it is, without having to go through it while you're living in a haunted house that can't seem to decide whether it wants to fuck you or kill you.
Explore the deaths of Pritchett's father and grandfather, because it feels like there are a lot of unanswered questions there. Did the house exert any influence over them? Could Pritchett’s father have murdered his grandfather? How did his father really die?
A both hates and loves how good the sex with B is – Vannacutt/Pritchett (because the more I think about shipping them, the harder I ship them.)
Character is forced to work with someone who scares them – I’m intrigued by what it means to be a ghost and how much free will they have. Pritchett has to work with Vannacutt for reasons (especially delighted by the idea of this considering how Pritchett crapped himself when he recognised Vannacutt’s description).
So how does Pritchett manage to resist the Shadow at the end in order to free Sara and Eddie, when seemingly no one else was able to resist?
Something revolving around the stained glass ceiling, because creepy though it is is just suggest a marginally less evil side to Vannacutt and the idea of good people being corrupted by evil will always fascinate me.
Character with trauma is freaked out and turned on by getting tied up – Specifically thinking of Pritchett here, the poor little bastard. XD
Conversations In Liminal Spaces On The Border Of One World And Another – Ghost!Pritchett and ghost!Vannacutt have a conversation.
Evil!Pritchett – A canon-divergent fic where Pritchett isn’t so resistant to the house. How would that affect canon?
Entering someone's dreams/nightmares – Vannacutt and/or the Shadow enter Pritchett’s dreams, where pre-, during, or post-canon.
Time Travel Fix-It – Pritchett travels back in time to the 20s-30s, and finds himself caught up in events at the asylum. Could he potentially change the way events pan out? (The actual fix-it is optional here)
Time Travel - Character meets their child self – Ghost!Pritchett realises it’s possible to travel through time and interact with his younger self.
Vannacutt manages to escape the house. There’s a deleted scene (after the credits roll in this video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zdo8voI87LI) in which Vannacutt brings the real Jennifer Jenzen to the house, and another scene where his spot being tortured is taken by Price. Which leads me to wonder if it’s possible for him to buy his freedom, or if he’s figured out a way to outwit the house.
Explore what the hell was going on with that chair. Was Vannacutt listening to the Darkness, or was it potentially a seduction/sex thing?
Corruption Arc – Either for Vannacutt or for Pritchett. Or, conversely, a redemption arc for Vannacutt, or Vannacutt getting a redemption arc while Pritchett goes the other way. I really love the idea of the house seducing people into evil (the second film goes harder on that, and iirc explicitly states that Vannacutt wasn’t always a monster), and the question of whether someone who’s done terrible things can really be redeemed.
Eldritch Architecture – I’d love to see something that goes hard on the Lovecraftian elements in the plot, the idea of this ancient nameless evil existing even before the house was built, and of what the Darkness at the heart of the house really is.
Tentacles made them do it – Probably no surprises that I have Pritchett/Vannacutt in mind here.

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I Know What You Did Last Summer (Movie Series)

Requested Ships
Mr Brooks & Nancy
Mr Brooks/Nancy
Will Benson & Ben Willis
Requested Mediums:
Fanart: 1 x 10-Page Comic OR 2 x 5-Page Comics
Fanfic: 1 x 10000-Word Fic OR 2 x 5000-Word Fics

This request is for the first two films in the series, and particularly the second film. There is a third film too, but while I have watched, I have forgotten virtually everything about it except for the fact that Ben Willis is suddenly a zombie or a ghost or whatever. If you want to include it, then that’s fine, but otherwise it can be safely ignored. Note that Will, Brooks and Nancy only appear in the second film, and depending what you want to write, you may only need to watch that one, but I’ve requested them both because of Ben’s overall plotline.

I like the first film a lot (and I really appreciate how the relationship that gets the most focus is the friendship between Julie and Helen), but it’s the second film I really, really love beyond all reason. I’m not going to claim it’s a good film, but it is endearingly dumb, and I’m inexplicably fond of it. Why do I keep coming back to it over objectively better slashers from the same period? Fuck knows, to be honest, but there’s a good chance it has something to do with the characters being stranded in an empty hotel on an island in the Bahamas in the middle of the hurricane season. Isolated storm-swept hotel? TICK. I’m willing to forgive just about everything for that trope, which, uh, is probably just as well. XD It’s certainly not perfect, but I find it very fun to watch and I maintain that the chase set scenes towards the end are great.

So what do I like about it? Well, for one thing, there’s the setting: isolated storm-swept islands are so RTMI I can’t even say, and the fact that it was partly filmed at an abandoned hotel in Mexico just makes the whole thing that little bit more interesting. I’m also charmed by how convoluted Ben's plan is: why follow your victims to college when instead you can lure them to the Bahamas for… no good reason? Granted, it’s the off-season, so at least the hotel rooms must have been cheap, but still… why? What is the purpose of this diabolical scheme, other than to explore a piece of Ben’s backstory which has nothing to do with Julie at all?

I’m also really drawn to the contrast between what is to all appearances a genuinely lovely looking hotel and the staff-members who work there. Like the check-in scene, with that potted history of the hotel, which just gives the most delightful Shining vibes, and Mr Brooks is creepy and ever so slightly menacing, while at the same time being utterly DONE WITH THIS SHIT. And Nancy, with her snark, tough-girl attitude and threatening karaoke machine -- what brought her to the island? Did she really shoot a guy?

I just want to know more about what the hell is going on. Why is Mr Brooks so hostile? Is he just pissy because it’s the end of the season and he really didn’t want to be dealing with guests? Or was he just hoping to hunker down and play strip-poker with Nancy? OR is there something more going on behind the scenes? At one point he says that he knew they’d be trouble: why? Does he have his suspicions that Ben Willis is involved somewhere along the line but took a backhander to keep his mouth shut? Are they both semi-complicit in the events of the film, and I'm including Nancy in that because she sure acted suspiciously when that karaoke machine acted up? Is the hotel cursed along the lines of the Overlook, and if it isn’t prior to the opening of the film, is it cursed afterwards? Why does it take so long for anyone to point out that Rio isn’t actually the capital of Brazil?

I’d love to see something that digs a little bit more into what’s going on behind the scenes with Ben, and his ridiculous get-Julie-to-the-Bahamas scheme. Was it because he wanted to punish the islanders too, and it’s a case of killing two birds with one stone? What’s his relationship with his son like? Why does Will go along with his father’s plan, given he doesn’t have much of a reason for vengeance himself (and let’s face it, even Ben’s reason is a bit shaky once you start examining it). I’m just very interested in the idea of them returning home and the ghosts that might be waiting for them there, and I’d love to see something exploring all the little details of their backstory that only get briefly touched on in canon.

Something else I’d love to see is a fic which explores the hotel and the island, because again I just love the setting so much. Horror is particularly welcome, but it doesn’t have to be in the same vein as the films. Feel free to completely disregard the actual plot of the fulms if you want. One thing I do like about the first film is the urban legend aspect of it, how it starts with the story of the hook hand killer, and ends with Ben losing his hand and becoming the urban legend. I’m reminded of how Ben cuts Helen’s hair because he hears her sister talking about it, and it’d be interesting to explore how urban legends can be recursive and self-perpetuating.

What urban legends (or ghost stories) have grown up around him on the island, either after he left the first time or after the events of the second film? Is the hotel haunted, before, during, or afterwards? How did the requested characters come to be on the island in the first place? I also just really love the idea of this tiny island and the hotel being haunted by this terrible thing that happened (shades of The Shining again), and I should also point out that I have a particular weak spot for ghost stories set by the coast. I’m always open to slasher-style horror too, though, so if you don’t feel like going spooky and understated, then don’t. :D

Comic Prompts

Again, anything that I’d like to see explored in fic, I’d love to see in a comic. Scenery porn: the island and the hotel, the sea and rocky coastlines. Horror, whether of the canon-style slasher kind, or something quieter. Ben in between the moments when he puts on the slicker, ghosts, images of decay and the hotel gradually eroding, scenes from Will’s life growing up and his fucked-up relationship with his father and sister.

Optional Prompts

Ghosts! After the events of the film, the hotel is abandoned except for the ghosts haunting its corridors. Is Will one of them? How about Ben? Also here for decay, abandoned buildings, the place gradually eroding as it gives way to the elements and the storms.

Explore the setting up of the plan behind the scenes, and to what extent the characters are complicit, whether they knew or suspected anything was up.

Something quiet, with a quiet undercurrent of menace, where the night before Julie and her friends arrive Mr Brooks and Nancy share an uneasy drink in the bar. It’s the last night of the season so they’re probably going to be rushed off their feet, but maybe despite how busy they are, there’s a feeling at the back of their minds that something bad is going to happen.

So what do they actually know about each other? What brought them both to the island and what are they running away from, if anything?

God, I love Ben Willis and his stupid, stupid plans. This whole thing is a terrible idea, and when it comes to Julie he really needs to cut his losses and let it fucking go, but he never will, the dumbass. Why the island? Why the absurd, convoluted plan? Why does Will go along with it? Explore the idea of their homecoming, and the question of them both having ghosts of their own, namely Ben’s wife.

An AU where I Still Know is an understated ghost story rather than a slasher.

A time-loop where the events of I Still Know keep happening, and the characters are trapped in it, repeatedly dying until they figure out how to break the loop.

An AU where Julie never comes to the island, but Ben Willis and his son return to wreak revenge on the islanders anyway.

Look, Closed Circle scenarios like this are my CATNIP. Always. Give me missing scenes, or a version of the scene where events play out differently. Maybe where the killers aren't so efficient at clearing away the evidence of that corpse in the wardrobe so Mr Brooks isn't quite so quick to dismiss it, and events play out at a slower more 'And Then There Were None'-style pace with lots of paranoia and suspicion.

Five times something weird happened at the hotel (and the one time everyone got butchered)

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Re-Animator

Requested Ships:
Herbert West/Dan Cain
Requested Mediums:
Fanart: 1 x 10-Page Comic OR 2 x 5-Page Comics
Fanfic: 1 x 10000-Word Fic OR 2 x 5000-Word Fics

Comic Prompts

Optional Prompts

5 Times Dan Assumed Herbert was Dead – Because in various places, namely the screenplay and the novelisation, he is explicitly stated to have died at the end of the first film and I like the idea of him repeatedly appearing to die and popping up again mostly unscathed (and I’m amused that the one film where he doesn’t appear to die at the end is the one in which Dan does not appear. XD).
Accidental Baby Acquisition – I mean, they’re doctors. It’s not beyond the realms of possibility that they might find themselves in a situation where they have to deliver a baby in a crisis (possibly involving zombies), and end up separated from the mother and stuck having to look after the baby.
Addiction - Character tries to distract Addict from addiction with sex – Dan tries to break Herbert’s reliance on the serum.
Alternate Universe - Russian Doll Fusion – I love time loops in all their forms anyway, but this one in particular, with its focus on constant, unrelenting death, and the way the discovery that the loop is being shared with another person would play out with these two is perfect. (and for time loops in general, I’m amused by the way Herbert would probably adapt his work to take full advantage of the loop (er, an endless supply of fresh corpses with no consequences – hey, how is it murder if they don’t stay dead? – having to memorise the results because he can’t write them down, etc.)
Hurt/Comfort – Hurt/Comfort is always welcome, but one thing I’d love to see is Dan helping Herbert through withdrawal from the serum. Mainly because I really wish that deleted scene had been included in the film. I have some quiet headcanons about Herbert’s addiction to reagent, and amongst them is the fact that avoiding sleep is really, really not a good idea, and that maybe the times when he’s at his most batshit are the times when he’s suffering from chronic sleep-deprivation. All of which convinces Dan to help him to break the habit.
Bad Guys Made Them Do It – and every other iteration of Something Made Them Do It.
Betray them to save them – Dan’s presence looms so large in Beyond Reanimator even though he doesn’t appear. I can definitely see a situation where Dan got to a point where he couldn’t see any other choice, and he genuinely believed if things carried on the way they were that Herbert was going to get himself killed. I’d love to see that decision explored and the fallout when/if they’re reunited and he realises what Herbert’s been through.
Hurt/Comfort - Character with injured hands requires assistance (which turns sexual) – Here for the hurt/comfort and smut potential of this (and also very fond of one character shaving another.)
Inspired by the novelisation, Dan is completely taken by surprise when Herbert unexpectedly turns out to be massively into ice hockey. Maybe it’s a hobby he only occasionally spares the time for, but either way Dan is extremely weirded out by the prospect of Herbert going to bars and talking to fans.
You Hurt Me More Than Anything; But Being Without You Hurts More – Herbert goes in search of Dan after the end of Beyond Reanimator. Is he planning on revenge (even if he ultimately can’t face going through with it?) Does something else happen as a catalyst that forces them to work together again? I’d love to see all the messy hurt/comfort and emotional fallout of everything that happened.
Alternate Universe - Canon Divergence – How might things have played out if Meg hadn’t been so hostile to Herbert from the get-go? Maybe if she hadn’t been there when he came about the room, allowing Dan to prime her for his oddball roommate beforehand? And if she hadn’t walked in on them bringing Rufus back, which meant that Dan wouldn’t have fallen out with Dean Halsey, who then wouldn’t have died, etc etc. It’s interesting how differently Herbert treats Francesca. While he’s not exactly polite to her (XD) he tolerates her presence in a way he doesn’t really tolerate Meg’s, and I can’t help but read that as at least partially being the result of Meg’s attitude towards him.
Alternate Universe - Canon Divergence – A canon-divergent AU where Francesca isn’t on the scene and the creation of the Bride is much more successful, and she isn’t quite so much of a monster. Mainly because I’m really curious what the hell Herbert actually had in mind beyond keeping Dan with him at all costs. (And for the record, I’m completely open to Herbert/Dan/The Bride in whatever form that takes.)
Hurt/Comfort - Technically awful attempts at comfort are actually very comforting – Okay, so Herbert is pretty terrible at doing the whole comfort thing, but the fact that he even tries is pretty damn significant.
Road trip after the end of the world – Any post-apocalypse scenario will do, but I am particularly fond of zombie apocalypses, which seems particularly apt for this canon. Was it Herbert’s fault, or was he entirely innocent for once? Where are they going? What’s the plan? And how does reagent factor into things?
Estranged Characters - Injured A shows Up on B's doorstep Saying "I didn't know where else to go" – My first thought with this was Herbert turning up out of the blue, but what if it’s the other way around? What if, potentially after Herbert’s prison break, he considered hunting Dan down, but reluctantly decided not to follow through, only for Dan to suddenly turn up unexpectedly, and turns out he’s been keeping track of Herbert all these years and somehow or other the shit’s about to hit the fan?
Herbert and Dan take the places of the narrator and the version of Herbert in the original story by Lovecraft. – I read the story after watching the films, and I was really not expecting to find that so much of what happens in the first two films came more or less directly from the story (with a fair few changes along the way). I’m fascinated by the way the films work as adaptations, but especially by the similarities and differences between the two Herberts (running away screaming the first time they reanimate a corpse? Film!Herbert would never. On the other hand the stuff with the revolver? Yeeeeah, he totally would). So perhaps a historical AU where Herbert and Dan are from that period, or where they’re still their 80s selves but have switched places with the versions of themselves from the story. Or maybe it’s just Dan who’s switched places, and he has to content with a different version of Herbert, who is BLOND (and, y'know, also slightly more actively murderous than Dan's Herbert, and has a disconcerting habit of eyeing his healthy physique with a covetous eye). (If you haven’t already read it, be warned it has some racist elements. I’d prefer for those to be avoided if you go with this prompt, please)
A Re-Animator/Ghosts (UK) crossover. Why, yes, this is goofy as hell but I want it. :D In the eighties or nineties Dan and Herbert rent out Button House. Unfortunately something goes wrong and Herbert ends up dying on the property and coming back as a ghost. Or alternatively, Dan and Herbert are estranged, and Dan inherits the house from a mysterious relative, only realising who his benefactor is when he stumbles across the lab.
A rewatch of Bride of Re-Animator left me wondering what a M*A*S*H cross over would look like. So that, basically, whether it's Re-Animator reimagined as a half-hour sitcom set during their time in Peru, with slashy vibes between Herbert in the Frank role and Dan as Hawkeye. Or a more traditional crossover with MASH if you'd prefer to go with that.

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Star Trek: Deep Space Nine

Requested Ships
Quark/Brunt
Odo/Weyoun
Mirror Brunt/Weyoun 6
Requested Mediums:
Fanart: 1 x 10-Page Comic OR 2 x 5-Page Comics
Fanfic: 1 x 10000-Word Fic OR 2 x 5000-Word Fics

Comic Prompts (for all pairings)

Again, whatever I’d like in a fic, I’d also love to see explored in a comic. Action, hurt/comfort, romance, adventure, horror, smut. Explorations of alien worlds (especially Ferenginar!), the grimdark bleakness of the Mirror Universe, sexual tension between Brunt and Quark, or Weyoun’s slavish devotion to Odo and Odo’s grudging discomfort, Weyoun’s facial expressions alone... The visuals of changeling transformations, Ferengi clothing porn! Rain and other forms of inclement weather.

Odo/Weyoun

Optional Prompts

DS9: Post-canon attempt to return the Vorta to sexual reproduction; first non-clone baby born - With Weyoun and Odo being at the heart of the attempt.
A canon-divergent fic where Weyoun 6 survives to defect to the Federation, exploring how their relationship goes after the war is over.
A canon-divergent AU where the canonical baby Changeling turns up while the station is in the hands of the Dominion and Weyoun is involved with Odo's attempts to look after it.
Complicated emotions at being pregnant with a baby character believes is a god - somehow Weyoun ends up knocked up, whether it's some kind of handwavy transporter accident type accident, or the result of a sex pollen incident necessary to save Odo's life and neither of them realised Weyoun could get pregnant that way. Is there some kind of side effect from the pregnancy which leaves Weyoun with some degree of shapeshifting powers, or the ability to link with the baby, which is amazing but also very uncomfortable because he's just a Vorta.
Cloning Accident result in creating a baby - The real reason Weyoun 6 tried to defect. :D Is it a wholly new person or just a baby version of Weyoun, and what are the implications of it not being going through the full cloning process?
character that thought they had zero parenting instincts goes into hardcore protective mode - I love Weyoun as a villain at least partly because of how very... unintimidating he is in a lot of ways. He's small and slight and vulnerable and he keeps dying, and I'm really drawn to this prompt both for him embracing his violent side in the interests of protecting a baby and for the potential to explore his character because I’ll always love a character study.
a 5+1 fic exploring the way Odo's relationship with the various different Weyouns changes over the years.
Sex Pollen – Whether it’s Odo affected and Weyoun willingly sacrifices himself to save the Founder, or Weyoun is affected and is horrified/pathetically grateful at Odo being willing to help. Or the aftermath of the sex pollen situation with all the fallout.
A canon-divergent AU where Odo remains human for longer, and he’s still a solid when he meets Weyoun 5 for the first time. What effect would Odo's becoming a solid have on their dynamic? How would the Vorta conceptualise the concept of a god becoming a solid, and what does that mean for the way Weyoun’s worldview? I’d be delighted with anything from a character/relationship study that follows their time on the station together, or perhaps something plottier where they're stranded on a planet together and have to work together to survive, but now Odo's just as vulnerable as Weyoun is. (Sex pollen always welcome)
Hurt/Comfort - Character Treats Other Character's Injuries – Weyoun is injured and Odo has to treat his injuries, whether it’s Weyoun 6 or one of the other ones. I’m just fascinated by all the messy feelings of faith and awe, and Odo’s discomfort at being thought of as a god.
Slow and painful process of recovering from lifetime of cultural brainwashing – Whether it happens over the course of one Weyoun or several. I really love all the tangled complexities of the way the Vorta see the world. Maybe this is a canon-divergent fic where Weyoun 6 survives and Odo tries to deprogram him? Or maybe a future Weyoun where the process has begun but isn't quite there yet.
Whump - A sacrifices themself to protect B; B is forced to watch A being tortured – The obvious candidate for self-sacrifice is Weyoun, but Odo sacrificing himself and Weyoun's struggles watching him being tortured (perhaps that Romulan device that stops him from changing shape) would be delicious too.

Quark/Brunt

Optional Prompts

'Dirty little secret' relationship leads to Too Many Feelings leads to unexpected marriage proposal – Because I am so here for the two of them having a secret relationship on the downlow, and maybe they keep telling themselves it’s just about sex and it doesn’t mean anything, but actually...
Accidental Marriage – When they’re on an alien planet negotiating a contract, they accidentally wind up married (maybe because in that planet’s laws rivalry is considered a sign of great regard), and this cannot stand. Turns out getting it annulled is a little trickier than first envisioned, and in the meantime pining, forced proximity, and sex-of-convenience ensues.
Hate Sex – I am so, so here for the two of them hatefucking, and for moments of unexpected tenderness in the middle of the hatefucking, and for hate sex where they gradually start to develop feelings.
Exploration of Aftermath of Canon Events – A relationship study that looks at how things might develop between the two of them after the end of the series, with neither of them entirely happy about the changes on Ferenginar.
Characters don't realise they're in a relationship but everyone else can see it – Maybe Brunt keeps finding reasons to return to Deep Space Nice to make Quark’s life a misery, and Quark does everything he can to irritate Brunt, and neither of the two of them wants to admit that actually they’re sort of starting to enjoy each other’s company, while as far as everyone else is concerned they’re already basically together.
A post-canon fic with an established relationship between Quark and Brunt. They’re… sort of settled. Almost happy. And then, like a hand grenade tossed into the middle of their relationship, Quark’s old lover Natima Lang comes back. Somehow Brunt finds out what happened between them and is torn between horrified disgust at Quark being willing to abandon everything to run off with her and seething jealousy because he thinks, rightly or wrongly, that Quark wouldn't do that for HIM in a million years. Maybe Quark and Natima have both moved on with no lingering feelings other than a faint poignant ‘what might have been’, or maybe they’re still as in love with each other as ever and the only way to resolve this is with Quark/Natima/Brunt.
5+1 Things – A post-canon 5+1 fic exploring the ways every single member of Quark’s family undermines their attempts at (semi-)tradition Ferengi parenting (preferably of a boy, please, unless the focus is on them both overcoming their terrible ingrained sexism to the point where it’s probably going to be a bit ooc, let’s face it).
Having met by chance with an oddly familiar stranger in a bar who shares his animosity for Quark, Brunt obtains a copy of a unique holosuite program involving Major Kira with Quark’s head in return for a discounted price and the promise to use it to destroy Quark. Which would be easier to do if he could just stop thinking about how it would be better with Quark’s head on Quark’s body. To facilitate Getting Revenge, obviously. (And just as soon as he figures out why the hell Quark would make the program so damn good at oo-mox if it was written for a non-Ferengi).
So, um, those scenes in The Dogs of War when Brunt is sucking up to Quark because they both think Zek is going to appoint him the next Grand Nagus? He’d be remiss if he forgot Rule 113 of the Rules of Acquisition: Always have sex with the boss.
Ishka figures out why Brunt is so fixated on bringing Quark down. And, well, okay, yes, Brunt is terrible, but also he’s a good Ferengi, and frankly, Quark could probably do worse.
Time Travel Fix-It – Brunt and Quark travel back to a point where they’re in a position to alter the course of Ferengi history and prevent the sweeping changes brought about by Quark’s mother, but potentially ruining their fortunes in their present, since with the franchisement of Quark’s they’re actually doing pretty damn well for themselves. Do they go through with it, or disagree about whether they should go through with it?

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Mirror Brunt/Weyoun 6

Optional Prompts

Look, if in doubt, please just make them kiss and I will be happy. :D
Body Swap - Characters Are Alarmingly Good At Being Each Other
Conflicting loyalties – Explore the issue of loyalty and how it manifests in each of them. Especially Weyoun, whose loyalties are at least somewhat artificial. How does the Mirror universe affect his loyalties to the Founders? Is he able to override it? Perhaps because he’s stuck there he gradually becomes used to feeling free of his obligations to the Dominion, and transfers his loyalties to Mirror Brunt instead, but then an opportunity to return to the prime universe arises and he has to deal with his conflicting loyalties.
Weyoun has fallen in with M!Ezri and M!Brunt and has been working with them for a while without issue until they capture Mirror!Odo. And maybe he can override his instinctive loyalties because this is the Mirror!Universe version and so not a true Founder, but it doesn’t come easily.
Character finally finds an unconditionally good relationship; not sure how to handle it - They're both just so damn sweet, and while everything else might be going to hell, the two of them still manage to carve out some moments of sweetness in the middle of the nightmarish dystopia that is the Mirror Universe.
Character isn't used to being loved and shown tenderness/affection – Because loving relationships aren’t normally part of a Vorta’s life experience, and Weyoun isn’t quite sure how to handle it.
Food as part of the language of love – They both have interesting relationships with food. Given Mirror Brunt’s tendency to make sure everyone’s fed (with tube grubs, but still...), and the way Weyoun works his way through everything on the replicator’s menu, it seems like this would be the perfect way for them to bond. And okay, maybe Brunt can’t get his hands on kava nuts or rippleberries but there must be something.
Creating your moral code from scratch after the last one imploded – So let’s say Weyoun is stranded, temporarily or otherwise, in the Mirror universe. He’s finally free of his obligations to the Dominion, because there is no Dominion there, and so has to figure out a few things and relearn the sort of person he wants to be.
Gently touching a character's scar(s) – Because again this is one of the contrasts between them, Mirror Brunt being scarred (because picking up scars in the Mirror Universe is inevitable, let’s face it) while Weyoun is almost entirely scar-free due to being a recent clone. I’m particularly here for scar kink, and all the associated fascination and sympathy and tenderness, but you could also play with the issues over cloning: Weyoun’s memories of injuries sustained by other Weyouns, which aren’t reflected on his body, but which maybe he feels as phantom scars of some kind?
Emotional hurt/comfort – Ordinarily Vortas’ memories of their previous deaths and injuries are suppressed as part of the cloning process to ensure they remain motivated and willing to sacrifice themselves, but every now and then those suppressed memories return in full force.
Identity Porn - A scam/heist requires that they both have to pose as their other selves.
Smut - experimenting with and exploring interspecies biology.
on the run together – Whether from the Alliance or from some kind of crime syndicate (potentially run by Mirror Ishka XD), and bonding in the process.
Two tired people taking quiet comfort in each other – Exhausted sex, moments of respite in the middle of the world going to hell, the two of them finding moments of common ground, etc.
Competence Kink - And the two of them being quietly impressed and turned on by the other’s competence: Brunt’s toughness and fighting skills and Weyoun's innate diplomacy and negotiating skills.

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Thief (Original Video Game Trilogy)

Requested Ship: Garrett
Requested Mediums:
Fanart: 1 x 10-Page Comic OR 2 x 5-Page Comics
Fanfic: 1 x 10000-Word Fic OR 2 x 5000-Word Fics

Every now and then a game gets hold of you and you can't put it down. I love this series. I love everything about it: the gameplay, the lore, the level design, the characters, and the setting. I love the set-up, the competing factions of the Hammerites and the Pagans, the folk-horror imagery, and the steam-punky vibes. Oh, and Garrett. He's sort of a bastard, tries to be a misanthrope, but then there are those moments when his compassion shine through, like the Trail of Blood mission in the second game which was so sad and unexpected. In the first two games it's interesting to see the difference in his character between the cut-scenes when he's interacting with others (where he's misanthropic, angry, and bitter), and the pre-mission voice-overs (where he's confident, collected, and wry).

I'd love to see some world-building: the City is such a fantastic, fascinating setting, and there's so much scope for exploring, with the mix of old technology with the steampunky vibes of the first two games.

In many ways, this is the perfect canon for horror. Garrett is extremely vulnerable once spotted, and there are some seriously creepy antagonists in the game, as well as certain missions and locations being slanted towards horror, particularly the Haunted Cathedral, Constantine’s mansion, and – most of all – Shalebridge. Not to mention zombies, ghosts, the Hammer Haunts, necromancers, the bleak desolation of the walled off part of the City, the folk horror aspects of the Pagans, the Trickster’s monsters, torture, and the grotesque body horror of the Hag. There’s so much to explore, and I would love to see something exploring any aspect of these games.

Garrett is and remains one of my favourite characters of all time, and if there’s ever been a character who I’d love to see getting whumped, it’s him. I would LOVE a fic that focuses on him and him alone, or which focuses on his relationship with the City (which deserves to be a ship in its own right, honestly), his day-to-day life, or his background.

In the first two games it's interesting to see the difference in his character between the cut-scenes when he's interacting with others (misanthropic, angry, bitter), and the pre-mission voice-overs (confident, collected, dark humour). I'd be fascinated by anything exploring that apparent 'discrepancy' in his character, or by his backstory, what led him to be the way he is, what really happened while he was with the Keepers, why he left, and what happened after he left.

Prequels, sequels and fics set during canon are all welcome. I'd particularly love anything exploring Garrett as a young man, particularly his time with the Keepers, or just after leaving them. I'd especially love to see a Bad Guys Win AU for the first game in particular -- what happens if the Trickster wins and the world is plunged into darkness? Or alternatively, something exploring Garrett's past and his time with the Keepers. What was it like for him being one of their number, and why did he leave?

I would be thrilled with gen, but if you're interested in writing shipfic, I'm up for Garrett being shipped with Viktoria (whether consensual or dubconny), the Trickster/Constantine (leaning towards dubcon), Inspector Drept, or an original character (with a slight preference for a female OC).

Comic Prompts

I especially love the style and visuals of the first two games, but the third has its moments as well. I love the style of the box art and the cut scenes (particularly in the first two games – the deep shadows contrasted with the jewel-bright colours), and I am always here for horror imagery, not only of the zombies and various monsters, but all the folk horror stuff as well, not to mention the urban cityscapes and the Thieves’ Highway, all the intricate little passages and differing styles of architecture, the old mixed in with the modern, the way the city is layered and constantly reinventing itself, the Keepers and their library, the mages, the Hammerites and their religious trappings, the steampunk elements… And then there’s Garrett himself. Look, basically, I’d love to see any element of the game explored.

Optional Prompts

Shalebridge Cradle. Just that, basically, whether it’s set during the game’s events, or perhaps a pre-canon fic where Garrett is younger.
Anything that follows on from the loss of his eye. I’d be fascinated to see something which looks at his early relationship with Karras before the events of the second game
I love the bleakness of the walled-off part of the City, the ruined buildings, the zombies, and in particular the Hammer Haunts. It’s so atmospheric and creepy.
The Eye fascinates me too, the way it speaks to him, how manipulative it is, and just what the implications are of it coming into his possession at the end of the third game.
Any kind of heist fic is always welcome.
I love the setting and the world building, and I'd love to see your take on balancing the different versions of the City. The third game is very different from the first two: how do you reconcile those differences?
A fellow thief (ex-lover?) tricks him when they're going after a particular priceless artefact (guarded by Kurshok? Zombies?), and they repeatedly turn the tables on each other.
A post-canon fic where one of the ex-Keepers now turned loose in the world comes to him for help.
Something exploring the healing process Garrett goes through after his escape from Constantine's mansion and the loss of his eye. It was Karras who gave Garrett his replacement mechanical eye, and I'd particularly love something which explores the complicated relationship between them -- Garrett being vulnerable and hurt and broken, and it being Karras of all people who helps him start to heal.
The Trickster Wins AU. Garrett, being Garrett, is nothing but pragmatic, and decides that he might as well make the best of a bad situation and seeks to make himself useful.
Constantine invites Garrett to his house to give him the tour. I'd love to see more of their early game dynamic (and those creepy gardens), so stick to pre-slash conversation if you want: that mix of hostility and mistrust and greed. Maybe Constantine slips something in Garrett's drink to make him more voluble (or something in the air in the gardens?). Or, if you want to do smut, then that, whether Garrett remembers it all afterwards or not.
Drept meets up with Garrett after the events of the third game. What happens to the Keepers, given the destruction of the glyphs? Does the destruction of the glyphs mean that the sealed-off part of the Old Town won't be sealed off anymore? And what will happen to Garrett now that he has the Eye? I have so many questions.
For the Bad Guys Win AU, after being tortured, Garrett is seriously injured and close to death. Viktoria tends to his wounds.
A fic set during the course of the second game when Garrett and Viktoria are gradually getting used to working with one another, and still don't quite trust each other. Does Viktoria try to make amends?

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Would You Rather (2012)

Requested Ships:
Iris/Shepard Lambrick
Iris & Shepard Lambrick
Julian Lambrick & Shepard Lambrick
Requested Mediums:
Fanart: 1 x 10-Page Comic OR 2 x 5-Page Comics
Fanfic: 1 x 10000-Word Fic OR 2 x 5000-Word Fics

Note on my DNWs: It’s fine to include references to the attempted rape in canon. Anything up to and including extremely dubious consent is fine for this canon.

Shepard Lambrick & Julian Lambrick

Comic Prompts

Again, anything I’d like in a fic, I’d love in a comic. And while I’d love something that goes hard on the violence of a game, I’d also love something quieter and atmospheric, which maybe only hints at the horrors going on in the name of the Lambrick Foundation. Maybe that ‘date’ between Iris and Shepard, where there’s a hell of a lot going on under the surface, or Julian and Shepard at a similar public event. But outright horror and violence is very welcome too.

Optional Prompts

Something Lovecraftian – Because apparently I’m almost incapable of requesting an entirely non-Lovecraftian film with Jeffrey Combs in it without going ‘Yeah, but what if Lovecraft though?’ On the one hand, you could just take this film at face value, but on the other there does seem to be an odd sense of duty about the way Shepard treats the games, with his attention to the rules and tradition, so what if the Foundation and the games have some kind of supernatural reason for existing?
Antagonism - characters don't like each other but nobody else understands them this well Characters who can't stand each other would also die for each other
Daddy Issues – Because if there was ever a character with hang-ups over his father, it’s Julian Lambrick.
Fantasies about murdering your father – Whether a 5+1 fic about the times Julian has thought about killing his father throughout his life, or something a bit more involved, where he’s actually seriously thinking about going through with it. Or dreaming about doing it. Will he ever have the guts? Does Shepard know? (And if Lucas is involved, maybe the two of them plotting together as part of some fucked-up sexual fantasy, but actually Lucas is telling Shepard about it)
Shepard is beginning to have doubts about whether Julian really has the necessary qualities to follow in his footsteps. Maybe he decides to give Julian one last chance.
A fucked-up slice of life fic following the everyday operations of the Lambrick Foundation.
Something investigating Shepard’s relationship with his son in contrast to Shepard’s relationship with his own father.
What was the first game like? Did it happen under Shepard, or was it something that he inherited? If the latter, then what was his experience of his first game like?

Shepard Lambrick & Iris, Shepard Lambrick/Iris

Optional Prompts

Enemies to Lovers - Enemy tenderly treats character's injuries that the enemy inflicted – Whether this follows on directly from the end of the film, or relates to a whole new injury that Iris has sustained, I am so completely here for this. Or alternatively, what if Shepard is the one who’s been injured at Iris’s hands. It’s a couple of years down the line and, trying to get her revenge on him, she’s taken him to an isolated cabin while his people hunt for them. Only she isn’t sure whether she can really bring herself to kill someone again. Manipulation ensues.
Antagonist Surprises With Honourable Behavior – ‘honourable’ according to Shepard’s judgement, anyway. Because he really does seem to have a fucked-up code of his own when it comes to the games, even if that is just one of his manipulation techniques. But he honours his promises, and Iris finds herself conflicted.
Breathplay - top/dom likes getting choked – Consider this an exception to my Breathplay DNW. Shepard has a thing about being choked. Iris obliges because she just hates him so much. They’re both drawn to the element of risk: him because he knows she might well kill him if she was capable of it, she’s not sure if she is capable of it, but knows that if she takes it too far it could end very badly for her.
Captivity – For one reason or another, Shepard decides it’s necessary to have Iris quietly disposed of, but he’s unwilling to have her killed so imprisons her instead.
Character has their face shaved with a straight razor (by someone they have reason to distrust) – Having established a sexual relationship, although still aware that there’s good chance she’d like to kill him, Shepard lets Iris shave him. What appeals to me here is the sexual tension and Iris’s ever-present temptation to just cut his throat and have done with it.
Character Trains a Protege – Ohhh baby. Explore this however you want to, whether the focus is on the beginning of the process or if you start with her taking her place as a witness to a game. Is Iris all in (for whatever reason), or does she still have her doubts, or is she working against him somehow? And what exactly is Julian doing in all of this?
Slow Seduction/Corruption Arc – So uncomfortably hot, whatever form the seduction takes, whether it’s about sex or a moral corruption. I am absolutely here for a sexual relationship developing between them, but also her originally resisting him trying to use her for his own ends once she’s gone through college, and his attempts to bring her around, finding her a job, etc.
Outsider POV of a 'date' between Shepard and Iris. Especially if its clearly deeply uncomfortable, but to the outsider it just looks like a normal date between a solicitous older man and a younger woman (aside from maybe a couple of out-of-place moments).
Possessiveness - No One Is Allowed to Hurt You Except Me – Times when Shepard went out of his way to protect Iris.
Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder – After the game, Iris is struggling to recover from the experience.
Scar Worship – Specifically that stab-wound. But also, maybe Shepard has one or two scars of his own.

Thanks for reading!

Id Pro Quo 2024 Letter

AO3 Username: StopTalkingAtMe

Please note this letter is still under construction. In particular, the prompts probably need updating, but my id is pretty consistent.

General Preferences
The 4400 (2004)
Love and a .45
Re-Animator (Movies)
Lurking Fear (1994)
Star Trek: Deep Space Nine

General Likes and DNWs

General Likes

Character studies and introspection
Loneliness and isolation
Angst
Atmospheric description, scenery porn, sensory description
World-building, backstory, and character development.
Horror of all kinds, understated ghost stories, body horror, cosmic horror, claustophibic horror where the characters are trapped underground, potentially with monsters (think The Descent), etc.
Closed Circle - Stranded with a murderer in your midst, whether in horror or murder mystery. Think And Then There Were None.
Case-fic, whether fully realised or just touching on elements from a case.
Whump, hurt/comfort and hurt/no comfort.
Endings of all kinds, happy, bleak or bittersweet.
Canon-divergent AUs, especially post-canon ones where the bad guys win.
Pining, whether mutual or one-sided
Repression and stoicism
Descriptions of scars
Main Character Death and grief; characters getting together while still grieving for previous partners, taking solace in each other, the dead character still seeming like a presence in the relationship, etc.
Crossovers, especially oddball crossovers that come completely out of left field, although I do tend to prefer crack played straight rather than outright crack. If you have reason to believe I know and like the other fandom, then I encourage you to go for it.
Post-Apocalypse scenarios, including zombies (probably my favourite AU scenario of all time), with focus on angst and the struggle for survival.
Stranded Together With No Way Home, intense (and probably pretty damn unhealthy) fire-forged relationships that come about as a result of being isolated together and being able to rely on no one but each other.
Time Loops
Older characters finding love.
Age gap relationships
I really love historical detail and extensive research notes, so if that’s what you’re into then feel free to go wild. (If that’s not your thing, then please don’t worry: I am in no way an expert, and I love tropey indulgent stuff and cheerfully anachronistic fics just as much).
Hair kink. Hands pushed into hair, coiling it around fingers, routinely cutting another character's hair if appropriate in context (e.g. in post-apocalyptic scenarios), hairwashing as part of hurt/comfort, yanking head back by the hair, etc
Textiles, especially knitwear and embroidery; men in jumpers; historical and cultural details and craft in general
Unusual structures and ways of telling a story, such as Rashomon plots, non-linear narratives, outsider POVs, epistolary works, etc.
Cigarette kink: descriptions of smoking, sharing cigarettes, lighting cigarettes for each other, etc.
Finally, and I cannot emphasise this enough, men in sleepwear, particularly pyjamas and dressing gowns.

Smut Likes

Sex Pollen and aftermath, and any other kind of something made them do it scenario
Angry Sex, rough sex, hate sex, rough sex that turns tender
Clothed Sex, or clothed/naked
Comfort Sex
Dubcon when requested (mutual dubcon of the something-made-us-do-it kind is ALWAYS okay even when not explicitly requested)
Mild bondage and other forms of gentle restraint
Oral Sex, especially cunnilingus in all its forms, and ESPECIALLY cunnilingus with fingering
Rough Sex - Lots of Scratching and Biting and Hair-Grabbing/Pulling and Holding Partner(s) Down
Sex in grimy, grim, uncomfortable places
Threesomes
Situations where one character is too tired, injured etc to orgasm themselves, but takes great pleasure in making the other person come, so long as it's part of a wider give-take relationship when it comes to sex.

DNWs

Omegaverse
Noncon between requested ships (Something Made Them Do It scenarios are always okay though, including Bad Guys Made Them Do It)
Dubcon involving unaroused characters
Unrequested Incest
Bestiality (monsters don't count here)
Scat and waterplay
Formalised D/s dynamics (more casual power play, bondage and other forms of restraint are OK)
Underage
Het anal sex
Breathplay (antagonistic choking is fine)
Fisting
Lactation kink
Any variation of the word 'come' in a sexual context spelled as 'cum' (please use 'come', 'came', 'precome' etc)

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The 4400 (2004)

Requested Ships:
Kevin Burkhoff/Tess Doerner
Requested Tags:
Accidental Baby Acquisition, A and B got badly hurt and are recovering together, Bittersweet Reunions - Everything's changed but that's okay, Body Worship, Character A attempts to sacrifice themself for B; B gets very upset, Complicated relationships of love and loyalty and hurt and resentment, Consensual Mind Control, Exploration of Aftermath of Canon Events, Femdom - Inexperienced female character struggles with playing the part, Gently and Lovingly Taking Partner's Virginity, Less sexually experienced character seduces more experienced character, One character shaves another's face with a straight razor, Road trip after the end of the world, Stranded at Roadside Motel, Two tired people taking quiet comfort in each other

(I understand there are post-canon novels available, but I haven’t read them yet. It’s fine to disregard them and purely go off the series.)

Optional Prompts

A bad guys win!AU in which Marked!Jordan Collier is removing the abilities of the p-positives, while the original 4400s are being hunted down one by one. Tess and Kevin go on the run.
Their reunion after Tess gets out of hospital happens off-screen. I would love to see how that went, and how they came to be working together. There’s so much potential for everything I love here: his guilt over how he came to be cured, and the hurt/comfort as the promicin side effects get worse.
Yet another thing that happens off-screen: how they got together as a couple in the first place. Given that they kiss just after he’s sloughed off his skin, clearly something was happening while he was still scarred, and oh god that DELIGHTS me. Him being so ashamed of it and not wanting her to see her like that, her being so into him anyway? Mmph.
The first time they sleep together.
Oof, that scene where he says goodbye in the hospital (the book, the kiss on the cheek, the hairtouching). It isn’t clear how much Kevin has realised at that point and whether he understands that it was Tess who cured him, but he’s a smart man: he’ll figure it out quickly. I’d love something exploring his grief and survivor’s guilt over the way things panned out (and I adore early Kevin where he’s still adjusting to being cured, spitting sunflower seeds in the general direction of the bin and not quite having shaken off his mental illness yet).
Thanks to a 4400’s ability akin to the one in No Exit, Kevin and Tess and a bunch of other people find themselves trapped in an alternate universe. Except that this one is a superhero AU, and they specifically have to use their abilities as superheroes. Mainly because I find it so amusing that the least badass people get the most badass abilities. (and it also cracks me up how the various abilities were basically magic by the end.)
They reunite after the end of the series.
Something fluffy and sweet and indulgent where another handwavey 4400 ability allows Kevin and Tess the opportunity to go back in time and give her the Sweet 16 birthday party she never got to experience. Maybe something that works along similar lines to Alana’s, so they don’t lose any time in the real world, and this is set during the penultimate episode, right before he sends her away, and it’s a little respite for them, and perhaps the other people at the party can’t see them? And it’s sweet and romantic and a little bit hot, but also sort of uncomfortable for Kevin given everything that happened in the diner. And play with the age thing: on the one hand it reminds him how young she is, but at the same time he hasn’t actually been born yet, so...
MIND CONTROL KINK. Because I can see the sex being a little bit uncertain and awkward at first, and I find the idea of them stumbling into a consensual set-up where Tess orders Kevin around in bed (or makes him tell her what he wants to do) hot as fuck.
And also mind control, but slightly less consensual: I am so, so into all the chewy complexities of these two and the way the mind control plays into that, with Tess potentially using her ability to make Kevin ignore his qualms about the age gap? Because what’s a little gentle mind control between people who love each other? :D On the one hand it’s such a violation of trust, but on the other hand he really does love her and is happier with her, so it’s kind of understandable, but still… So explore that, or even just his underlying unease that it might be a possibility.

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Love and a .45 (1994)

Requested Ships:
Dinosaur Bob/Creepy Cody
Requested Tags:
"Platonic" porn-watching and mutual masturbation session leads to sex, A/B Seduce C into a Threesome; Then A/B Realize They Only Want Each Other, A&B mutually pining FWB until A tries to stop because "it's too hard to do this with you", A accidentally says I love you to fuckbuddy B in the middle of sex, Altered States - Drugs (Recreational), A and B got badly hurt and are recovering together, Bonding over substance misuse, bonding over violence, Cigarettes, Clearly The Fact That We Keep Having Sex Is A Series of Unrelated Bad Decisions, Gun Kink, One character shaves another's face with a straight razor, rough sex turns unexpectedly tender and/or emotional, rough sex turns unexpectedly tender and/or emotional (and then maybe rough again), Sex in the blood of your/our enemies, Stranded at Roadside Motel, Two Psychopaths In Love happily going on a trail of destruction

Terrible people doing terrible things! :D

I don’t know what it says about me that I find the tattoo-parlour scene in particular distractingly hot (probably nothing good XD), but the reason why I ship these two can almost certainly be traced to that scene.

The bit in the scene where Bob and Creepy go after Billy, and having terrorised him, Bob dances around him and then just straight up throws himself into his lap? And then, THEN, still sitting in said lap, he goes on to nestle his head against Billy’s chest while still menacing him and waving a gun around? Mmmph. The gun kink, the dancing, the casual touching and violation of personal space, the apparent total confidence in whatever the fucking hell his sexuality is, the gun kink... Oh GOD did I mention the gun kink? MORE OF THAT SORT OF THING PLEASE.

I am here for anything that explores their relationship, with Dinosaur Bob as the semi-smart, marginally more pulled-together one, and Creepy as the subservient tagalong one who looks to Bob and defers to him in just about everything. They’re simultaneously menacing but ultimately so tragically pathetic, and I just want to see more of their dynamic. I ship them so hard too: Creepy has a bad case of hero-worship when it comes to Bob, and Bob is, uh, clearly pretty comfortable getting up close and personal with other men.

Tropewise, for these two, I especially like anything where they’re in some way in denial about their sexuality, whether it’s a case of situational homosexuality, ‘no homo’ bro-sex, gay chicken, pining while having sex that definitely isn’t gay, or sex under the influence (look, they’re basically off their tits on meth for the entirety of the film, so if they’re having sex that’s probably inevitable), but there is almost no fic for this fandom, and nothing for these two, so anything goes. Is there a degree of internalised homophobia or have they just never really thought that hard about it? Or alternatively, maybe they’re both just fine with their sexualities actually, even if they’re keeping it on the downlow because their boss would very definitely not approve. (For the record their boss only appears in cut-scenes and the only cut scene I’ve been able to watch is this one: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bd-tTmLLxIU&t=1s)

Maybe a canon-divergent fic where Bob gets shot but not killed outright, so Creepy has to look after him. I have no idea what hurt/comfort would look like for these two, but damn do I want to see it. :D Or maybe a pre-canon scene that investigates whatever the fuck they were up to before they showed up at Watty’s place. Also gun kink. Aaaaall the gun kink. I like how vaguely submissive Creepy is towards Bob, and the more you can capture Dinosaur Bob’s physicality the better as far as I’m concerned.

Finally I get such Sketchy and Skeezy from Z Nation vibes from them, (the one smartish one, one goofy one dynamic, the criminal behaviour, the homoerotic undertones, the meth) to the point where I’m semi-wondering if they were the inspiration for Sketchy and Skeezy. so if you want to do a Z Nation crossover, then PLEASE DO, whether they run into anyone in the main cast, or Sketchy and Skeezy, or a fusion where they take over the Sketchy and Skeezy roles. Or just a zombie apocalypse wholly unaffiliated with Z Nation.

Optional Prompts

Gun Kink – Yeeeep. This is a pretty good canon for gun kink. I’m here for anything from caressing the other party with a gun, whether tenderly or with an air of menace, to actual insertion or fellating of a gun.
'Platonic' porn-watching and mutual masturbation session leads to sex – Because they’re horny and bored and there’s definitely nothing gay about this.
"We'll just have sex one time to get it out of our systems" ... but it makes the longing worse – All the ‘sex while pining and in denial’ energy please.
A/B Seduce C into a Threesome; Then A/B Realize They Only Want Each Other – I’m specifically thinking of Billy for C here, because his entire dynamic with them, and it way it flips their roles delights me, but alternatively go with an OC, possibly a woman because I like the opportunities for ‘pining while in denial’.
Altered States – Drugs (Recreational) – Bonding over substance misuse and/or sex under the influence.
First Meeting – Explore their backstory. How did they meet? In prison or elsewhere? How did they get on the first time they met
Alternate Universe - John Wick (Movies) Setting – In which they are (terrible) international assassins. Either that or they’re just tagging along with an old acquaintance who is an assassin, and maybe they’re just knocking about the Continental while plot happens all around them.
The awkward situation that results when you’re inadvertently on the periphery of a Bad Guys Made Them Do It situation between two men and it leads to the awakening of feelings.
Forced proximity – they have to hole up for a while for reasons, and have to share a hotel room, which potentially leads to sharing a bed, watching pay per view porn, and whatever other forced proximity tropes you can come up with.
Handcuffed together – Whether for the purposes of plot, or purely as an excuse for filthy PWP porn.
Bob injures his hands, which leads to him getting a caretaking handjob or oral sex from Creepy.
They meet up with Watty and Star under different circumstances a couple of years down the line.
AU where they are the wanted fugitives on a road trip as they try to escape to Mexico.
A From Dusk Till Dawn (the film version) fusion. Bob and Creepy follow Watty and Star to Mexico, but their stand-off is interrupted by vampires and they need to work together to survive.
Platonic bed sharing and the accompanying unfortunately timed boners.
Morning after (amazing sex the night before) – All the awkward aftermath please, possibly with optional ‘did that really happen?’ binge-related amnesia.

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The Lurking Fear (1994)

Requested Ships:
Dr. Haggis/Cathryn Farrell
Requested Tags:
"Because I love you!" Oops I said it out loud,"Thank Fuck You're Alive!" Emotions Turn Into Frantic Fucking,"We'll just have sex one time to get it out of our systems" ... but it makes the longing worse,5+1 Things,Addiction - Character tries to distract Addict from addiction with sex,Alternate Universe - the big bad wins,Character A falls asleep on B's shoulder,Character A has been crying and tries to hide it but B still notices it,Character Survives Canon Death,Character trying to hold it together is clearly fraying at the edges,Cigarettes,exhausted sex as stress relief,Forehead Touching,Functional Alcoholic Not So Functional At The Moment,Gently touching a character's scar(s),Road trip after the end of the world,sharing a bed for comfort (after injury/nightmare/etc),Survival Horror,Time loop - Tries to prevent LI's death and keeps failing; eventual success breaks the loop,trapped together

As far as I can remember, I don’t think Dr Haggis’s first name is mentioned at any point, but by the looks of that sign outside his surgery, it starts with an I. :D

God, I had so much fun watching this. It’s very short and kiiinda trashy, inexplicably mashing up Lovecraft with a London gangster subplot, but 1.) I appreciate how firmly it commits to in media res (even the prologue flashback opens with the people of Leffert’s Corners fully aware that the creatures exist), and, 2.) oh GOD do I adore Cathryn and Dr Haggis, both the individual characters and their ‘us against the world’ dynamic, whatever the hell their relationship is, or was, or might have been. <3<3<3 Oh, and the basic horror concept of monsters living in a cave trope (along the lines of The Descent, if you've seen it) is a bulletproof trope for me, and I love this particular film's take on it with the creatures burrowing up into people's houses and nowhere in town being safe.

For Cathryn, I love that whole thing of her having to take over the commando role from her sister, even though it’s not really a role that fits her naturally. She’s so tough, but vulnerable at the same time. And Dr Haggis, ohhhh baby: he’s a damaged, chain-smoking (even around sweating dynamite. DUDE. XD), bitter as fuck, alcoholic broken man, but at the same time he absolutely steps the fuck up when it comes to people needing medical attention and he’s so protective towards Beth and Cathryn... Uhm, not to mention the adoring stoic hearteyes he makes at Cathryn throughout. I love him so much and I just want him to have nice things. Or at least to survive so he can suffer some more.

They’re both so bruised by whatever’s gone on before the film starts. We never really see anything of what they were before or what their lives were really like: we’re just plunged into this semi post-apocalyptic warzone with no real explanation. He’s pretty clearly pining for her, but their conversation at the church door suggests the feeling is mutual, and I am just so here to see their relationship explored, whether it be a look at what might have happened between them pre-canon, or possibly a post-canon fix-it (or a fix-it to make it worse) where he survives. I love the way they work together, and the dynamic they’ve fallen into, and their shared grim resignation and determination to fight. They’re just together, this mismatched quietly pining little battle-couple, while their town falling to hell around them, and I ship them so hard.

I’d love to see something that explores pre-canon, because the film really does does drop us right smack in the middle of things, with virtually no explanation of what happened before. How did the townspeople finally figure out the creatures existed, and how long has it been common knowledge? Why haven’t they left? Or a canon-divergent fic where things shake out differently: maybe his injuries weren’t quite that serious which means he survives and she has to patch him up? Or the Martenses haven’t quite all been killed and come after them looking for revenge? Or give me a moment between them: have they ever hooked up while drunk or had inadvisable ‘thank god we’re alive’ sex? Oh, and pining is extremely welcome, especially mutual pining.

The film and pairing also hits a very specific trope which is like CATNIP to me: a physically unprepossessing man uncomfortably aware of how powerless he is to protect the woman he’s with from men who are stronger than he is, whether or not the woman can take care of herself (and in this case Cathryn very much can take care of herself). It gets me every damn time. *eyes*

Optional General Prompts

Battle-couple – They just work so well together. I’d love to see some moments of them working together, because I’m so drawn to their dynamic, especially since fighting doesn’t necessarily come easily to her. Are they fighting by each other’s side, or it it a case of her fighting and him patching her up afterwards? Or him talking her through patching him up because he’s the one who got injured?
Love in the time of horror and misery – Something else I love is the whole bleak atmosphere of the virtually deserted town. Everything’s crumbling and worn down, there are holes everywhere where the creatures have burrowed through, and everything is falling apart. It’s almost post-apocalyptic, except the world is still going on around them. Show me them them falling in love, or quiet moments of tenderness, affection and loyalty in the middle of the world going to hell around them.
Alternate Universe - the big bad wins – They’ve lost and been captured by the creatures, and have nothing to do but try to escape, or trying to support and comfort each other through it, or have ‘fuck it we’re going to die’ despair sex.
Bathing/Washing - After a fight, the two of them hole up together to wash off the gore.
A 5 Times fic showing the gradual change in Leffert's Corner over time as the townsfolk gradually begin to realise something is wrong.
Character A falls asleep on B's shoulder – Their relationship has so many opportunities for moments of quiet intimacy and emotional hurt/comfort. And pining. Lots and lots of pining.
Character A has been crying and tries to hide it but B still notices it – I’m good with either one of them being the crying character here. Maybe he’s exhausted patching people up, or someone’s died despite all his best efforts, or she’s been coasting on adrenaline for too long and is finally starting to crumble. I adore their dynamic so much, and the idea of him being the only person she lets see her in a moment of weakness is the most delicious thing.
Scars – Maybe a Five Times fic cataloguing their scars (or just hers), whether they’re caused by the creatures or not.
Gently touching a character's scar(s) – As an excuse for hurt/comfort or tender emotional sex? I’m good with either. Or both.
A canon-divergent fix-it where Dr Haggis survives his injuries, which means Cathryn has to patch him up post-canon.
Cigarettes – You can probably count the number of minutes he’s without a cigarette on one hand. XD Give me all the descriptions of smoking, maybe a traumatised moment when his hand is shaking so hard he can’t light his cigarette so she has to do it for him.
Functional Alcoholic Not So Functional At The Moment – Here for the hurt/comfort of this, whether the emotional hurt/comfort of them being there for each other when they’re scared or grieving, or the physical hurt/comfort of her helping him to bed, and then maybe sticking around afterwards, and the two of them bedsharing, whether entirely platonic or otherwise. Also here for drunken confessions, or maybe him just being less able to hide the way he feels about her while he’s drunk. I love how important they clearly are to each other, but also how frustrated she is with his drinking, even while she obviously gets why he does it.
Childbirth - Because you can't have the Chekhov's Gun of a heavily pregnant woman and not have her give birth in a highly stressful set-piece, come on. So how about a canon-divergent scene where Beth, Cathryn and Haggis are beseiged down by the monsters, and at the worst possible moment, Beth goes into labour.
That line of Cathryn's: "This is what I thought the end of the world was going to look like."? What if it really was the end of the world? Give me a post-apocalyptic AU. Maybe they're dealing with a zombie apocalypse, or creatures much like the canon ones but more widespread, or they're carriers for a disease.
In that first scene with them, while they're outside his surgery, he makes a reference to them making some kind of bargain, presumably an agreement to stick around in town to kill the creatures. How did that bargain come about?
There’s a lot about this film that doesn’t entirely make sense, the most notable thing being that they’re not actually trapped in the town, and can leave any time they like. I can buy them wanting to stay to finish things once and for all, but at the same time that doesn’t mean they can’t have the occasional holiday. So maybe they get out of town for a night or two when there’s no rain forecast for a while. Are they able to relax or are they constantly thinking about going back? Book separate rooms but end up sharing a room/bed anyway because it’s the only way they can get any sleep? Both get drunk and end up sleeping together?

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Re-Animator

Requested Ships:
Herbert West/Dan Cain
Requested Tags:
"Thank Fuck You're Alive!" Emotions Turn Into Frantic Fucking, Accidental Baby Acquisition, Addiction - Character tries to distract Addict from addiction with sex, Bad Guys Make Them Do It, Betray them to save them, Bittersweet Reunions - Everything's changed but that's okay, Body Swap - Characters Are Alarmingly Good At Being Each Other, Body Worship as Possessiveness, A came back wrong but B is into them anyway, Character A gets off on how possessive Character B is, Character with injured hands needs assistance (turns sexual), Complicated relationships of love and loyalty and hurt and resentment, Different First Meeting - one night stand before their first canon meeting, Ghosts - A is a ghost only B can see and interact with, Hurt/Comfort - Technically awful attempts at comfort are actually very comforting, Possessiveness - Bites and Scratches and Bruises as Claiming, Reconciliation - "I'm Tired of Hating You", Snowed In - A who's been pining for B gets hypothermia and B has to hug them nude for warmth, You Hurt Me More Than Anything; But Being Without You Hurts More, you're an unhinged disaster but you're MY unhinged disaster and no one's allowed to hurt you

Optional Prompts

5 Times Dan Assumed Herbert was Dead – Because in various places, namely the screenplay and the novelisation, he is explicitly stated to have died at the end of the first film and I like the idea of him repeatedly appearing to die and popping up again mostly unscathed (and I’m amused that the one film where he doesn’t appear to die at the end is the one in which Dan does not appear. XD).
Accidental Baby Acquisition – I mean, they’re doctors. It’s not beyond the realms of possibility that they might find themselves in a situation where they have to deliver a baby in a crisis (possibly involving zombies), and end up separated from the mother and stuck having to look after the baby.
Addiction - Character tries to distract Addict from addiction with sex – Dan tries to break Herbert’s reliance on the serum.
Alternate Universe - Russian Doll Fusion – I love time loops in all their forms anyway, but this one in particular, with its focus on constant, unrelenting death, and the way the discovery that the loop is being shared with another person would play out with these two is perfect. (and for time loops in general, I’m amused by the way Herbert would probably adapt his work to take full advantage of the loop (er, an endless supply of fresh corpses with no consequences – hey, how is it murder if they don’t stay dead? – having to memorise the results because he can’t write them down, etc.)
Hurt/Comfort – Hurt/Comfort is always welcome, but one thing I’d love to see is Dan helping Herbert through withdrawal from the serum. Mainly because I really wish that deleted scene had been included in the film. I have some quiet headcanons about Herbert’s addiction to reagent, and amongst them is the fact that avoiding sleep is really, really not a good idea, and that maybe the times when he’s at his most batshit are the times when he’s suffering from chronic sleep-deprivation. All of which convinces Dan to help him to break the habit.
Bad Guys Made Them Do It – and every other iteration of Something Made Them Do It.
Betray them to save them – Dan’s presence looms so large in Beyond Reanimator even though he doesn’t appear. I can definitely see a situation where Dan got to a point where he couldn’t see any other choice, and he genuinely believed if things carried on the way they were that Herbert was going to get himself killed. I’d love to see that decision explored and the fallout when/if they’re reunited and he realises what Herbert’s been through.
Hurt/Comfort - Character with injured hands requires assistance (which turns sexual) – Here for the hurt/comfort and smut potential of this (and also very fond of one character shaving another.)
Inspired by the novelisation, Dan is completely taken by surprise when Herbert unexpectedly turns out to be massively into ice hockey. Maybe it’s a hobby he only occasionally spares the time for, but either way Dan is extremely weirded out by the prospect of Herbert going to bars and talking to fans.
You Hurt Me More Than Anything; But Being Without You Hurts More – Herbert goes in search of Dan after the end of Beyond Reanimator. Is he planning on revenge (even if he ultimately can’t face going through with it?) Does something else happen as a catalyst that forces them to work together again? I’d love to see all the messy hurt/comfort and emotional fallout of everything that happened.
Alternate Universe - Canon Divergence – How might things have played out if Meg hadn’t been so hostile to Herbert from the get-go? Maybe if she hadn’t been there when he came about the room, allowing Dan to prime her for his oddball roommate beforehand? And if she hadn’t walked in on them bringing Rufus back, which meant that Dan wouldn’t have fallen out with Dean Halsey, who then wouldn’t have died, etc etc. It’s interesting how differently Herbert treats Francesca. While he’s not exactly polite to her (XD) he tolerates her presence in a way he doesn’t really tolerate Meg’s, and I can’t help but read that as at least partially being the result of Meg’s attitude towards him.
Alternate Universe - Canon Divergence – A canon-divergent AU where Francesca isn’t on the scene and the creation of the Bride is much more successful, and she isn’t quite so much of a monster. Mainly because I’m really curious what the hell Herbert actually had in mind beyond keeping Dan with him at all costs. (And for the record, I’m completely open to Herbert/Dan/The Bride in whatever form that takes.)
Hurt/Comfort - Technically awful attempts at comfort are actually very comforting – Okay, so Herbert is pretty terrible at doing the whole comfort thing, but the fact that he even tries is pretty damn significant.
Road trip after the end of the world – Any post-apocalypse scenario will do, but I am particularly fond of zombie apocalypses, which seems particularly apt for this canon. Was it Herbert’s fault, or was he entirely innocent for once? Where are they going? What’s the plan? And how does reagent factor into things?
Estranged Characters - Injured A shows Up on B's doorstep Saying "I didn't know where else to go" – My first thought with this was Herbert turning up out of the blue, but what if it’s the other way around? What if, potentially after Herbert’s prison break, he considered hunting Dan down, but reluctantly decided not to follow through, only for Dan to suddenly turn up unexpectedly, and turns out he’s been keeping track of Herbert all these years and somehow or other the shit’s about to hit the fan?
Herbert and Dan take the places of the narrator and the version of Herbert in the original story by Lovecraft. – I read the story after watching the films, and I was really not expecting to find that so much of what happens in the first two films came more or less directly from the story (with a fair few changes along the way). I’m fascinated by the way the films work as adaptations, but especially by the similarities and differences between the two Herberts (running away screaming the first time they reanimate a corpse? Film!Herbert would never. On the other hand the stuff with the revolver? Yeeeeah, he totally would). So perhaps a historical AU where Herbert and Dan are from that period, or where they’re still their 80s selves but have switched places with the versions of themselves from the story. Or maybe it’s just Dan who’s switched places, and he has to content with a different version of Herbert, who is BLOND (and, y'know, also slightly more actively murderous than Dan's Herbert, and has a disconcerting habit of eyeing his healthy physique with a covetous eye). (If you haven’t already read it, be warned it has some racist elements. I’d prefer for those to be avoided if you go with this prompt, please)
A Re-Animator/Ghosts (UK) crossover. Why, yes, this is goofy as hell but I want it. :D In the eighties or nineties Dan and Herbert rent out Button House. Unfortunately something goes wrong and Herbert ends up dying on the property and coming back as a ghost. Or alternatively, Dan and Herbert are estranged, and Dan inherits the house from a mysterious relative, only realising who his benefactor is when he stumbles across the lab.

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Star Trek: Deep Space Nine

Request One: Odo/Weyoun and Odo & Weyoun
Requested Tags:
Accidental Baby Acquisition,Accidental Soulbond - Both are resistant to the idea but fall in love over time,Aftermath of possession leaves characters with inconvenient mental connection,A and B got badly hurt and are recovering together,Bad Guys Make Them Do It,Body Swap - Characters Are Alarmingly Good At Being Each Other,Body Worship,Captive character surprised to learn their rescuer is motivated by genuine affection,Character A attempts to sacrifice themself for B; B gets very upset,Character falls from grace and finds out that he is far happier there,Character has to fake being evil for reasons,Character isn't used to being loved and shown tenderness/affection,Character Offers Themselves in Trade for Someone Else's Release/Safety,Complicated relationships of love and loyalty and hurt and resentment,My Moral Compass Is "What Do I Need To Do To Protect You?",Slow Burn - Soulbonding is the only way for A to save seriously injured B's life,Stranded somewhere together and have to rely on each other to survive

Optional Prompts

DS9: Post-canon attempt to return the Vorta to sexual reproduction; first non-clone baby born - With Weyoun and Odo being at the heart of the attempt.
A canon-divergent fic where Weyoun 6 survives to defect to the Federation, exploring how their relationship goes after the war is over.
A canon-divergent AU where the canonical baby Changeling turns up while the station is in the hands of the Dominion and Weyoun is involved with Odo's attempts to look after it.
Complicated emotions at being pregnant with a baby character believes is a god - somehow Weyoun ends up knocked up, whether it's some kind of handwavy transporter accident type accident, or the result of a sex pollen incident necessary to save Odo's life and neither of them realised Weyoun could get pregnant that way. Is there some kind of side effect from the pregnancy which leaves Weyoun with some degree of shapeshifting powers, or the ability to link with the baby, which is amazing but also very uncomfortable because he's just a Vorta.
Cloning Accident result in creating a baby - The real reason Weyoun 6 tried to defect. :D Is it a wholly new person or just a baby version of Weyoun, and what are the implications of it not being going through the full cloning process?
character that thought they had zero parenting instincts goes into hardcore protective mode - I love Weyoun as a villain at least partly because of how very... unintimidating he is in a lot of ways. He's small and slight and vulnerable and he keeps dying, and I'm really drawn to this prompt both for him embracing his violent side in the interests of protecting a baby and for the potential to explore his character because I’ll always love a character study.
a 5+1 fic exploring the way Odo's relationship with the various different Weyouns changes over the years.
Sex Pollen – Whether it’s Odo affected and Weyoun willingly sacrifices himself to save the Founder, or Weyoun is affected and is horrified/pathetically grateful at Odo being willing to help. Or the aftermath of the sex pollen situation with all the fallout.
A canon-divergent AU where Odo remains human for longer, and he’s still a solid when he meets Weyoun 5 for the first time. What effect would Odo's becoming a solid have on their dynamic? How would the Vorta conceptualise the concept of a god becoming a solid, and what does that mean for the way Weyoun’s worldview? I’d be delighted with anything from a character/relationship study that follows their time on the station together, or perhaps something plottier where they're stranded on a planet together and have to work together to survive, but now Odo's just as vulnerable as Weyoun is. (Sex pollen always welcome)
Hurt/Comfort - Character Treats Other Character's Injuries – Weyoun is injured and Odo has to treat his injuries, whether it’s Weyoun 6 or one of the other ones. I’m just fascinated by all the messy feelings of faith and awe, and Odo’s discomfort at being thought of as a god.
Slow and painful process of recovering from lifetime of cultural brainwashing – Whether it happens over the course of one Weyoun or several. I really love all the tangled complexities of the way the Vorta see the world. Maybe this is a canon-divergent fic where Weyoun 6 survives and Odo tries to deprogram him? Or maybe a future Weyoun where the process has begun but isn't quite there yet.
Whump - A sacrifices themself to protect B; B is forced to watch A being tortured – The obvious candidate for self-sacrifice is Weyoun, but Odo sacrificing himself and Weyoun's struggles watching him being tortured (perhaps that Romulan device that stops him from changing shape) would be delicious too.

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Request Two: Quark/Brunt
Requested Tags:
"Oh No They're Hot" moment leads to feelings realization, "We'll just have sex one time to get it out of our systems" ... but it makes the longing worse, Accidental Baby Acquisition, Accidental Soulbond - Both are resistant to the idea but fall in love over time, Aftermath of possession leaves characters with inconvenient mental connection, Bad Guys Make Them Do It, Body Swap - Characters Are Alarmingly Good At Being Each Other, Character in hatesex arrangement realizes they don't consider themself single, Character Surprised By Their Own Deep Loyalty Feels; Object Of Loyalty Even More Surprise, Characters don't realise they're in a relationship but everyone else can see it, Characters Finally Commit to Each Other After Years of Casual Non-Exclusive Sex, Clearly The Fact That We Keep Having Sex Is A Series of Unrelated Bad Decisions, Different First Meeting - one night stand before their first canon meeting, Pining - Mutual pining that both characters figure out is requited but that's terrifying, Reluctant sexual attraction to someone they (should) dislike, Slow Burn - Soulbonding is the only way for A to save seriously injured B's life, Soulbond - Accidental soulbond between enemies/rivals leads to feelings, Stranded somewhere together and have to rely on each other to survive, we're gonna regret having sex as soon as it's over

Optional Prompts

'Dirty little secret' relationship leads to Too Many Feelings leads to unexpected marriage proposal – Because I am so here for the two of them having a secret relationship on the downlow, and maybe they keep telling themselves it’s just about sex and it doesn’t mean anything, but actually...
Accidental Marriage – When they’re on an alien planet negotiating a contract, they accidentally wind up married (maybe because in that planet’s laws rivalry is considered a sign of great regard), and this cannot stand. Turns out getting it annulled is a little trickier than first envisioned, and in the meantime pining, forced proximity, and sex-of-convenience ensues.
Hate Sex – I am so, so here for the two of them hatefucking, and for moments of unexpected tenderness in the middle of the hatefucking, and for hate sex where they gradually start to develop feelings.
Exploration of Aftermath of Canon Events – A relationship study that looks at how things might develop between the two of them after the end of the series, with neither of them entirely happy about the changes on Ferenginar.
Characters don't realise they're in a relationship but everyone else can see it – Maybe Brunt keeps finding reasons to return to Deep Space Nice to make Quark’s life a misery, and Quark does everything he can to irritate Brunt, and neither of the two of them wants to admit that actually they’re sort of starting to enjoy each other’s company, while as far as everyone else is concerned they’re already basically together.
A post-canon fic with an established relationship between Quark and Brunt. They’re… sort of settled. Almost happy. And then, like a hand grenade tossed into the middle of their relationship, Quark’s old lover Natima Lang comes back. Somehow Brunt finds out what happened between them and is torn between horrified disgust at Quark being willing to abandon everything to run off with her and seething jealousy because he thinks, rightly or wrongly, that Quark wouldn't do that for HIM in a million years. Maybe Quark and Natima have both moved on with no lingering feelings other than a faint poignant ‘what might have been’, or maybe they’re still as in love with each other as ever and the only way to resolve this is with Quark/Natima/Brunt.
5+1 Things – A post-canon 5+1 fic exploring the ways every single member of Quark’s family undermines their attempts at (semi-)tradition Ferengi parenting (preferably of a boy, please, unless the focus is on them both overcoming their terrible ingrained sexism to the point where it’s probably going to be a bit ooc, let’s face it).
Having met by chance with an oddly familiar stranger in a bar who shares his animosity for Quark, Brunt obtains a copy of a unique holosuite program involving Major Kira with Quark’s head in return for a discounted price and the promise to use it to destroy Quark. Which would be easier to do if he could just stop thinking about how it would be better with Quark’s head on Quark’s body. To facilitate Getting Revenge, obviously. (And just as soon as he figures out why the hell Quark would make the program so damn good at oo-mox if it was written for a non-Ferengi).
So, um, those scenes in The Dogs of War when Brunt is sucking up to Quark because they both think Zek is going to appoint him the next Grand Nagus? He’d be remiss if he forgot Rule 113 of the Rules of Acquisition: Always have sex with the boss.
Ishka figures out why Brunt is so fixated on bringing Quark down. And, well, okay, yes, Brunt is terrible, but also he’s a good Ferengi, and frankly, Quark could probably do worse.
Time Travel Fix-It – Brunt and Quark travel back to a point where they’re in a position to alter the course of Ferengi history and prevent the sweeping changes brought about by Quark’s mother, but potentially ruining their fortunes in their present, since with the franchisement of Quark’s they’re actually doing pretty damn well for themselves. Do they go through with it, or disagree about whether they should go through with it?

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Request Three: Mirror Ezri Dax/Brunt, & Mirror Ezri Dax/Mirror Brunt
Requested Tags:
Accidental Baby Acquisition,A/B edge C until they're a sobbing desperate mess,Character has to fake being evil for reasons,Clothing - Naked Male Clothed Female,Identity Porn,we're gonna regret having sex as soon as it's over

Mirror!Brunt is such a sweetheart. Pottering around the ship preparing tube grubs for everyone! Honourable and decent and loyal! Quietly and respectfully pining for Mirror!Ezri, knowing that his feelings will probably never be reciprocated, and being a little bit sad about that, but it doesn’t matter because he values her friendship and their partnership above everything else!

And then there’s Brunt. XD

Brunt is genuinely terrible in so many ways. He’s the worst, and I have loved him right from the first moment he was twitchy about Ishka wearing clothes. <3<3<3 I’m so charmed by the difference between him and his mirror counterpart, and I just want him and Mirror!Ezri to hook up however it comes about, and whether it’s just a one-off or something more long-lasting. Maybe she needs him to pretend to be Mirror!Brunt to pull something off. Or maybe she finds herself in the non-mirror universe and runs into him in Quark’s, and is, uh... taken aback? Fascinated? Weirdly charmed?... by this absolute dick with the face of the dead partner she really was very fond of. He’s sexist and greedy and treacherous, and she can’t trust him as far as she can throw him, but maybe she finds herself drawn to him. And while Mirror!Brunt was far too self-effacing to proposition her, the same is very definitely not true of regular Brunt. Maybe it’s just because she really misses her Brunt, or maybe it’s because regular Brunt reminds her more of herself, or maybe it’s just because she’s horny and he’s there, idk.

As for the OT3, I cannot say how delighted I am by the idea of the two Brunts meeting. I can’t tell which of them would be the more horrified at meeting the other one. I’m not quite sure how the threesome would come about, but man, do I want to see it. Is it a one-off, or is the OT3 threesome the catalyst that actually gets Mirror Brunt/Mirror Ezri together?

And while this should go without saying, canon divergent fics are very welcome here. The poor Ferengi never seem to get much of a chance in the Mirror universe. (I’m also curious what Ferenginar is actually like there).

I headcanon Mirror Ezri as bisexual and read Mirror Brunt's comment about her being picky when it comes to men as relating to Quark and Brunt being Ferengi. References to her relationships with Mirror Leeta and the Intendant are welcome, and the requested ships absolutely do NOT have to be end-game (although I would prefer the fic to focus on them.) Look, I just find the idea of these two treacherous bastards hooking up hot as fuck, even if it's just temporary, and I'm both amused and heartbroken at how Mirror Brunt might react to finding out that actually she will make an exception for at least one Ferengi male and it's the terrible evil mirror universe version of himself who is the literal worst.

Optional Prompts

Femdom – Because if there’s ever been a character who very definitely needs to get dommed by a female, it is Brunt.
Clothing - Naked Male Clothed Female – Niiice. I just love this freeform so, so much when it comes to Brunt (especially if combined with femdom). He would just hate it so fucking much. It’s disgusting. It’s depraved. So why the hell does he find it so fucking hot? *hearteyes*
Identity Porn – Brunt has to pose as his Mirror counterpart and work with Mirror!Ezri, leading to a sex scene in which for kink reasons he ends up having sex with her while still in the Mirror!Brunt persona.
A threesome in which Ezri and Brunt edge Mirror!Brunt until he’s a sobbing desperate mess. Look, I just want him to have nice things okay?
Accidental Baby Acquisition – I am a sucker for certain tropes and one of those tropes that will forever get me is when people who under normal circumstances have no business looking after babies get stuck looking after a baby. If Mirror!Brunt is around, maybe the plan was that he’d be the one looking after the kid, but due to something going wrong, he and Brunt have to trade places and pretend to be each other.
Competence Kink - Whether they’re rivals or allies, I just love the idea of Brunt and Mirror!Ezri being secretly impressed and turned on by how good the other one is at lying, cheating and stealing. Lets just say Brunt probably has more in common with Mirror!Ezri than his counterpart does.
Since his death, Ezri has been seeing Mirror!Brunt's ghost. Maybe it’s some kind of hallucination from a space anomaly, or maybe she’s just imagining him, or maybe he really is a ghost, or maybe he’s the result of a malfunctioning portable holoprojector (which she hasn’t fixed because she kind of misses him and it’s nice having him around). but either way she’s gradually beginning to accept she might have had feelings for him after all. Then she meets Brunt.
proxy-fucking – Mirror!Ezri fucking Brunt as a way of processing the grief she feels about Mirror!Brunt’s death.

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Request Four: Mirror Brunt/Weyoun 6
Requested Tags:
Accidental Baby Acquisition, Amnesia - character reverts to a dramatically different previous version of themselves, A and B got badly hurt and are recovering together, Character A asks about Character B's scars/injuries from abuse/torture, Character A attempts to sacrifice themself for B; B gets very upset, Character falls from grace and finds out that he is far happier there, Character finally finds an unconditionally good relationship; not sure how to handle, Character has to fake being evil for reasons, Character isn't used to being loved and shown tenderness/affection, Character Offers Themselves in Trade for Someone Else's Release/Safety, Characters show affection through food/cooking, Creating your moral code from scratch after the last one imploded, Slow Burn - Soulbonding is the only way for A to save seriously injured B's life, Stranded somewhere together and have to rely on each other to survive, Two tired people taking quiet comfort in each other

Optional Prompts

Look, if in doubt, please just make them kiss and I will be happy. :D
Body Swap - Characters Are Alarmingly Good At Being Each Other
Conflicting loyalties – Explore the issue of loyalty and how it manifests in each of them. Especially Weyoun, whose loyalties are at least somewhat artificial. How does the Mirror universe affect his loyalties to the Founders? Is he able to override it? Perhaps because he’s stuck there he gradually becomes used to feeling free of his obligations to the Dominion, and transfers his loyalties to Mirror Brunt instead, but then an opportunity to return to the prime universe arises and he has to deal with his conflicting loyalties.
Weyoun has fallen in with M!Ezri and M!Brunt and has been working with them for a while without issue until they capture Mirror!Odo. And maybe he can override his instinctive loyalties because this is the Mirror!Universe version and so not a true Founder, but it doesn’t come easily.
Character finally finds an unconditionally good relationship; not sure how to handle it - They're both just so damn sweet, and while everything else might be going to hell, the two of them still manage to carve out some moments of sweetness in the middle of the nightmarish dystopia that is the Mirror Universe.
Character isn't used to being loved and shown tenderness/affection – Because loving relationships aren’t normally part of a Vorta’s life experience, and Weyoun isn’t quite sure how to handle it.
Food as part of the language of love – They both have interesting relationships with food. Given Mirror Brunt’s tendency to make sure everyone’s fed (with tube grubs, but still...), and the way Weyoun works his way through everything on the replicator’s menu, it seems like this would be the perfect way for them to bond. And okay, maybe Brunt can’t get his hands on kava nuts or rippleberries but there must be something.
Creating your moral code from scratch after the last one imploded – So let’s say Weyoun is stranded, temporarily or otherwise, in the Mirror universe. He’s finally free of his obligations to the Dominion, because there is no Dominion there, and so has to figure out a few things and relearn the sort of person he wants to be.
Gently touching a character's scar(s) – Because again this is one of the contrasts between them, Mirror Brunt being scarred (because picking up scars in the Mirror Universe is inevitable, let’s face it) while Weyoun is almost entirely scar-free due to being a recent clone. I’m particularly here for scar kink, and all the associated fascination and sympathy and tenderness, but you could also play with the issues over cloning: Weyoun’s memories of injuries sustained by other Weyouns, which aren’t reflected on his body, but which maybe he feels as phantom scars of some kind?
Emotional hurt/comfort – Ordinarily Vortas’ memories of their previous deaths and injuries are suppressed as part of the cloning process to ensure they remain motivated and willing to sacrifice themselves, but every now and then those suppressed memories return in full force.
Identity Porn - A scam/heist requires that they both have to pose as their other selves.
Smut - experimenting with and exploring interspecies biology.
on the run together – Whether from the Alliance or from some kind of crime syndicate (potentially run by Mirror Ishka XD), and bonding in the process.
Two tired people taking quiet comfort in each other – Exhausted sex, moments of respite in the middle of the world going to hell, the two of them finding moments of common ground, etc.
Competence Kink - And the two of them being quietly impressed and turned on by the other’s competence: Brunt’s toughness and fighting skills and Weyoun's innate diplomacy and negotiating skills.

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Candy Hearts 2024 Letter

AO3 Username: StopTalkingAtMe

Welcome to my letter, Mystery Creator. Let me start by saying I’m open to a LOT of different things, including unrequested crossovers with other fandoms that I’m into. If I’ve ever written it or requested it or otherwise given you reason to think I’m a fan then go ahead.. And while my general likes might lean towards the bleak and angsty, believe it or not, I do also really love more light-hearted styles of fic as well as pure unadulterated smut. Do whatever you want with my prompts. I tend to use freeforms to trigger ideas and suggestions, but they are purely to give you ideas of the sort of thing I like. Use them, subvert them, or ignore them completely and go off my general likes if you’d prefer. Some of the sections here may be longer than others but please don’t read anything into that – I’d be delighted with a gift for any one of them. I’m excited to see what you come up with! :D

General Likes
Smut Likes
DNWs
The 4400 (2004)
Butch Cassidy (Movies Ferrante)
Doctor Mordrid (1992)
House on Haunted Hill (1999)
Love and a .45 (1994)
The Lurking Fear (1994)
Murder, She Wrote
Re-Animator (Movies)
Star Trek: Deep Space Nine
Would You Rather? (2012)

General Likes and DNWs

General Likes

Character studies and introspection
Loneliness and isolation
Angst
Atmospheric description, scenery porn, sensory description
World-building, backstory, and character development.
Horror of all kinds, understated ghost stories, body horror, cosmic horror, claustophibic horror where the characters are trapped underground, potentially with monsters (think The Descent), etc.
Closed Circle - Stranded with a murderer in your midst, whether in horror or murder mystery. Think And Then There Were None.
Case-fic, whether fully realised or just touching on elements from a case.
Whump, hurt/comfort and hurt/no comfort.
Endings of all kinds, happy, bleak or bittersweet.
Canon-divergent AUs, especially post-canon ones where the bad guys win.
Pining, whether mutual or one-sided
Repression and stoicism
Descriptions of scars
Main Character Death and grief; characters getting together while still grieving for previous partners, taking solace in each other, the dead character still seeming like a presence in the relationship, etc.
Crossovers, especially oddball crossovers that come completely out of left field, although I do tend to prefer crack played straight rather than outright crack. If you have reason to believe I know and like the other fandom, then I encourage you to go for it.
Post-Apocalypse scenarios, including zombies (probably my favourite AU scenario of all time), with focus on angst and the struggle for survival.
Stranded Together With No Way Home, intense (and probably pretty damn unhealthy) fire-forged relationships that come about as a result of being isolated together and being able to rely on no one but each other.
Time Loops
Older characters finding love.
Age gap relationships
I really love historical detail and extensive research notes, so if that’s what you’re into then feel free to go wild. (If that’s not your thing, then please don’t worry: I am in no way an expert, and I love tropey indulgent stuff and cheerfully anachronistic fics just as much).
Hair kink. Hands pushed into hair, coiling it around fingers, routinely cutting another character's hair if appropriate in context (e.g. in post-apocalyptic scenarios), hairwashing as part of hurt/comfort, yanking head back by the hair, etc
Textiles, especially knitwear and embroidery; men in jumpers; historical and cultural details and craft in general
Unusual structures and ways of telling a story, such as Rashomon plots, non-linear narratives, outsider POVs, epistolary works, etc.
Cigarette kink: descriptions of smoking, sharing cigarettes, lighting cigarettes for each other, etc.
Finally, and I cannot emphasise this enough, men in sleepwear, particularly pyjamas and dressing gowns.

Smut Likes

Sex Pollen and aftermath, and any other kind of something made them do it scenario
Angry Sex, rough sex, hate sex, rough sex that turns tender
Clothed Sex, or clothed/naked
Comfort Sex
Dubcon when requested (mutual dubcon of the something-made-us-do-it kind is ALWAYS okay even when not explicitly requested)
Mild bondage and other forms of gentle restraint
Oral Sex, especially cunnilingus in all its forms, and ESPECIALLY cunnilingus with fingering
Rough Sex - Lots of Scratching and Biting and Hair-Grabbing/Pulling and Holding Partner(s) Down
Sex in grimy, grim, uncomfortable places
Threesomes
Situations where one character is too tired, injured etc to orgasm themselves, but takes great pleasure in making the other person come, so long as it's part of a wider give-take relationship when it comes to sex.

DNWs

Omegaverse
Noncon between requested ships (Something Made Them Do It scenarios are always okay though, including Bad Guys Made Them Do It)
Dubcon involving unaroused characters
Unrequested Incest
Bestiality (monsters don't count here)
Scat and waterplay
Formalised D/s dynamics (more casual power play, bondage and other forms of restraint are OK)
Underage
Het anal sex
Breathplay (antagonistic choking is fine)
Fisting
Lactation kink
Any variation of the word 'come' in a sexual context spelled as 'cum' (please use 'come', 'came', 'precome' etc)

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The 4400 (2004)

Requested Ships:
Kevin Burkhoff/Tess Doerner

(I understand there are post-canon novels available, but I haven’t read them yet. It’s fine to disregard them and purely go off the series.)

Optional Prompts

A bad guys win!AU in which Marked!Jordan Collier is removing the abilities of the p-positives, while the original 4400s are being hunted down one by one. Tess and Kevin go on the run.
Their reunion after Tess gets out of hospital happens off-screen. I would love to see how that went, and how they came to be working together. There’s so much potential for everything I love here: his guilt over how he came to be cured, and the hurt/comfort as the promicin side effects get worse.
Yet another thing that happens off-screen: how they got together as a couple in the first place. Given that they kiss just after he’s sloughed off his skin, clearly something was happening while he was still scarred, and oh god that DELIGHTS me. Him being so ashamed of it and not wanting her to see her like that, her being so into him anyway? Mmph.
The first time they sleep together.
Oof, that scene where he says goodbye in the hospital (the book, the kiss on the cheek, the hairtouching). It isn’t clear how much Kevin has realised at that point and whether he understands that it was Tess who cured him, but he’s a smart man: he’ll figure it out quickly. I’d love something exploring his grief and survivor’s guilt over the way things panned out (and I adore early Kevin where he’s still adjusting to being cured, spitting sunflower seeds in the general direction of the bin and not quite having shaken off his mental illness yet).
Thanks to a 4400’s ability akin to the one in No Exit, Kevin and Tess and a bunch of other people find themselves trapped in an alternate universe. Except that this one is a superhero AU, and they specifically have to use their abilities as superheroes. Mainly because I find it so amusing that the least badass people get the most badass abilities. (and it also cracks me up how the various abilities were basically magic by the end.)
They reunite after the end of the series.
Something fluffy and sweet and indulgent where another handwavey 4400 ability allows Kevin and Tess the opportunity to go back in time and give her the Sweet 16 birthday party she never got to experience. Maybe something that works along similar lines to Alana’s, so they don’t lose any time in the real world, and this is set during the penultimate episode, right before he sends her away, and it’s a little respite for them, and perhaps the other people at the party can’t see them? And it’s sweet and romantic and a little bit hot, but also sort of uncomfortable for Kevin given everything that happened in the diner. And play with the age thing: on the one hand it reminds him how young she is, but at the same time he hasn’t actually been born yet, so...
MIND CONTROL KINK. Because I can see the sex being a little bit uncertain and awkward at first, and I find the idea of them stumbling into a consensual set-up where Tess orders Kevin around in bed (or makes him tell her what he wants to do) hot as fuck.
And also mind control, but slightly less consensual: I am so, so into all the chewy complexities of these two and the way the mind control plays into that, with Tess potentially using her ability to make Kevin ignore his qualms about the age gap? Because what’s a little gentle mind control between people who love each other? :D On the one hand it’s such a violation of trust, but on the other hand he really does love her and is happier with her, so it’s kind of understandable, but still… So explore that, or even just his underlying unease that it might be a possibility.

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Butch Cassidy (Ferrante Movies)

Requested Ships:
Charles Siringo/Tom Horn

Horn is only in the first film and I was a little disappointed with how the sequel defanged Siringo a little – he wasn’t nearly as much as a bastard as he was in the first film. OTOH that bit where he slams Sundance into the bars of the cell? HOT. (Also the whole section where Siringo and Sundance are travelling together and all the testing his loyalty stuff? I’m not quite sure it pulled off what it was trying to do, but I would have been very very into what it was trying to do had it managed to do it, so I think of it fondly for that reason alone. Kinda shipping Siringo/Sundance a little bit too, ngl. XD)

As for Siringo and Horn, I ship them so damn hard. Turns out I am extremely into a violent dangerous man making a surprised pikachu face when the even more violent dangerous man he employs turns out to be harder to control than expected, whilst still remaining completely loyal. Add in the height difference, and damn. *hearteyes*

Optional Prompts

Pure indulgent smutfic. I’d especially love to see something exploring Siringo’s potential feelings of being out of control, and having unleashed something he’s maybe not quite ready to deal with. Also for this pairing I’m especially here for sex under the stars, rough sex, oral sex, campfire sex, scar worship/comparison, and a potentially repressed man getting borderline dubconned while at the same time being very into it.
Something set during the second film which digs into how Horn’s canonical death provides Siringo with a further motive to bring Cassidy in, particularly if they were lovers. (It’s fine for Horn not to appear in the fic.)
One thing I really did like about the second film was Siringo and Sundance travelling together, and Siringo’s attempts to win Sundance over to his side. Assuming Horn’s still dead, maybe they recognise that the other is attracted to men, and Sundance figures out what Siringo’s relationship with Horn really was, adding a whole interesting layer to the relationship Siringo’s trying to build between them, especially if Sundance is playing up the UST, whether or not they actually sleep together.
Alternatively, how would the second film have played out if Horn had survived? Perhaps if he’s there while Siringo is travelling with Sundance?
Prison break! Horn did survive the first film after all, and breaks Siringo out of jail after the end of the second. What happens? Do they go after Cassidy? How does the whole having the law turned against him affect Siringo’s moral worldview?
Hurt/comfort -- they both survive the end of the first film, but are both wounded and have to patch each other up.
A's Love Language Is Killing B's Enemies And Dropping Them At B's Feet Like A Cat Gifting Dead Mice – With A being Horn. :D Go hard on the loyalty kink, and it’s fine to handwave whatever canon events you need to or ignore them completely.
Zombie AU – I always love zombies, and there isn’t nearly enough zombie apocalypse stuff set in alternative time periods. Potentially as an excuse to force Siringo to work with Butch and the rest of his gang.
Alternate Universe - Different First Meeting – I’d love to see the version of Siringo recruiting Horn where they met before, potentially as an anonymous one night stand (although it doesn’t have to be) – maybe he isn’t sure if Horn recognises him, but turns out he does, which leads to complicated feelings. (or just sex. That’s good too.)
Give me Siringo’s version of the story, in which he very much sees himself as the hero. Is it a case of unreliable narrator, or is he well aware of all the terrible things he’s done, but sees them as a necessary price to pay? (First person and epistolary works, maybe a memoir written in prison are particularly welcome here.)
I’d love something digging into their onscreen dynamic, exploring how Siringo really feels about Horn's propensity for violence and the way his own moral code is compromised, or if he was just secretly always that much of a bastard and Horn just gave him the excuse. Also here for him being taken aback by how drawn he is to Horn because of how good he is at killing.
Character Surprised By Their Own Deep Loyalty Feels; Object Of Loyalty Even More Surprised – The tag speaks for itself. :D Here for all the loyalty kink. and for Horn unexpectedly being genuinely loyal to Siringo, even though he might not always obey him
One character shaves another's face with a straight razor – Ideally Horn shaving Siringo, but the alternative is good too. Bring this about however you can, whether Siringo’s hands have been injured, or maybe they’ve already slept together and this is just an extension of that intimacy. If there’s an undercurrent of mild threat to the shaving and Siringo isn’t entirely comfortable with it, then all the better.
Only One Bed – Or maybe there is another room and it’s in the brothel next door, so everyone’s expecting Horn to take it, including Siringo (and maybe Horn himself), but actually he ends up sharing Siringo’s room and bed instead and trying to pass it off as being because of his moral uprightedness which literally no one believes for a minute.

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Doctor Mordrid (1992)

Requested Ships:
Samantha Hunt/Anton Mordrid

Such a weird little gem of a film, even though it’s so short, (and not in a ‘told all the story they want to tell’ way, but in a ‘straight-up forgot to include the third act’ way). While I wish it was longer, I still found it very fun to watch, and I ship Sam and Anton so hard. There’s so much space to expand on the worldbuilding, and the storyline, and the relationship between Anton and Kabal. I wish that it had got all that, and that it had got the sequels it was meant to, but mainly, if I had one Dr Mordrid-related wish…?

One of the reviews I read of this film somewhere said that it felt like the pilot for a TV show, and YES, that is exactly what it feels like. Somewhere there is a parallel universe in which this was a pilot, and went on to spawn several seasons worth of a mid-range budget supernatural police procedural show in which Jeffrey Combs plays a hot, sad, lonely wizard who lives in an insanely gorgeous apartment and uses his background in criminal psychology (and, y’know, being an actual literal wizard) to help his cop neighbour Sam solve a series of cult-related weird-as-shit crimes. There is plenty of UST, a will-they-won’t-they relationship, Kabal is an ongoing antagonist, and occasionally Anton wears a cape. I want to live in that universe. Failing that, I would like fics from that universe. (Okay, she's technically not a cop but handwave that however you need to)

There’s so much I love about it, like the worldbuilding and how much there is to explore, and the sheer lack of human contact of Anton’s life before he really starts getting to know Sam hits me in a very tender spot: he’s so quiet and sad and lonely, and it gets me right in the heart. D:

Alternatively, expand on the events in the film, because there’s no way what happened was enough to kill Kabal. Or maybe give me a scene from a version of the film where events are much more epic. I'd especially love something tender and sweet for these two, or, if you go with something darker like a Bad Guys Made Them Do It fic (which: YES PLEASE. I always love Something Made Them Do It scenarios with their potential for angst and guilt, as well as them providing a catalyst for a get-together), something with lots of mutual support and hurt/comfort.

Optional Prompts

Morning After (Incredible Sex the night before) - So it's finally happened after however many weeks or months of pining, they've finally fallen into bed together. I'd love to see the aftermath, the satisfaction that comes from finally getting together with the person you're in love with.
Hand and Finger Kink - Because I find the bit where he casually breaks out of the handcuffs while they're in the police interview room hot as fuck.
And speaking of handcuffs, maybe an attempt to teach her how to do the same trick leads to them getting carried away.
Undercover Work Used As Excuse To Have Sex They've Always Wanted -- While investigating a cult, they have to go undercover as a couple.
Anton teaches Sam how to use magic. Take this whatever way you want. Maybe something goes wrong (a tentacle monster with designs on making them do it?) or maybe it’s just an opportunity for lots of flirting, casual touching, and sexual tension.
Time Travel - Sam travels back to another time period and needs to work with Anton's younger self. Is she already together with present day Anton, or is this somehow the catalyst for getting them together? Or, potentially, the opportunity for a selfcest threesome?
For plot reasons, Anton has to fake being evil. Or perhaps he’s been mind-controlled by Kabal into being evil, but somehow Sam manages to get him to break the mind control, but he has to maintain it for a little while longer.
Loneliness is such a can’t fail trope for me. Having resigned himself to a lonely existence, Anton has to adapt to finding intimacy with Sam.
Experience - Experienced Partner Lets Inexperienced One Explore Them – I mean, he’s spent the past century and a half avoiding so much as talking to his neighbours, let alone dating.
Feeling your feelings in a quiet moment with a much older/immortal being – something quiet and sweet and tender, exploring the strangeness of being in a relationship with someone so much older.
A casefic where Sam and Anton investigate a Lovecraftian Cult.
Villain tries to draw out hero's dark side (that they say they know is there) – Because I can’t help thinking that when Anton was telling Sam about his backstory that he wasn’t being entirely candid. Especially when he was positioning himself as kind and good in comparison to Kabal being evil. I can’t help but think that there’s an undercurrent of bitterness there. So what if he had once been tempted to work with Kabal, perhaps before he realised how thoroughly evil Kabal was? (And for the record I’m completely here for past Anton/Kabal).

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House on Haunted Hill

Requested Ships:
Dr Richard B Vannacutt & The House
Watson Pritchett & Dr Richard B Vannacutt
Watson Pritchett & The House
Watson Pritchett/Dr Richard B Vannacutt

I also find it fascinating that despite Dr Vannacutt being the most prominent ghost (and male), Pritchett refers to the house as female, and specifically as ‘a stupid vengeful whore’ iirc. The Shadow primarily speaks with female voices (and according to one of the extras they used imagery of naked women to create the Rorschach effect). Then there’s the women Price sees while he’s in the Saturation Chamber.

I ship Watson Pritchett/Dr Richard B Vannacutt very hard indeed. It’s not a pairing that I’d originally considered, but then a seed took root and now I can’t stop thinking about what sort of dynamic they’d have. We see so little of Vannacutt, but Pritchett absolutely freaks the fuck out when he realises he’s around, so they clearly have a history, but exactly what that history is, and what Vannacutt’s role is as a ghost in the house, is left decidedly unclear. It’s gradually become one of my favourite things about this film: the way the focus shifts from the villain being Vannacutt to the house itself, and the way that upends the way his character could potentially be seen – is he a villain, or potentially another victim of the house, or both?

The gen dynamics of this pairing and all the opportunities for horror fascinate me just as much, but shipwise, anything is welcome, from fucked up extremely dubious consent, where the sex is part of the house’s way of torturing Pritchett (potentially with some medical kink mixed in, but anything where Pritchett gets strapped down?), to anything on the enemy-fucking scale, to something a little more sympathetic where we do actually get a glimpse of a glimmer of goodness in Vannacutt. Or maybe the house is fucking with them both by making them fuck each other?

Optional Prompts

This House has a Personality and that Personality is Fucked Up – And adolescence is tough enough as it is, without having to go through it while you're living in a haunted house that can't seem to decide whether it wants to fuck you or kill you.
Explore the deaths of Pritchett's father and grandfather, because it feels like there are a lot of unanswered questions there. Did the house exert any influence over them? Could Pritchett’s father have murdered his grandfather? How did his father really die?
A both hates and loves how good the sex with B is – Vannacutt/Pritchett (because the more I think about shipping them, the harder I ship them.)
Character is forced to work with someone who scares them – I’m intrigued by what it means to be a ghost and how much free will they have. Pritchett has to work with Vannacutt for reasons (especially delighted by the idea of this considering how Pritchett crapped himself when he recognised Vannacutt’s description).
So how does Pritchett manage to resist the Shadow at the end in order to free Sara and Eddie, when seemingly no one else was able to resist?
Something revolving around the stained glass ceiling, because creepy though it is is just suggest a marginally less evil side to Vannacutt and the idea of good people being corrupted by evil will always fascinate me.
Character with trauma is freaked out and turned on by getting tied up – Specifically thinking of Pritchett here, the poor little bastard. XD
Conversations In Liminal Spaces On The Border Of One World And Another – Ghost!Pritchett and ghost!Vannacutt have a conversation.
Evil!Pritchett – A canon-divergent fic where Pritchett isn’t so resistant to the house. How would that affect canon?
Entering someone's dreams/nightmares – Vannacutt and/or the Shadow enter Pritchett’s dreams, where pre-, during, or post-canon.
Time Travel Fix-It – Pritchett travels back in time to the 20s-30s, and finds himself caught up in events at the asylum. Could he potentially change the way events pan out? (The actual fix-it is optional here)
Time Travel - Character meets their child self – Ghost!Pritchett realises it’s possible to travel through time and interact with his younger self.
Vannacutt manages to escape the house. There’s a deleted scene (after the credits roll in this video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zdo8voI87LI) in which Vannacutt brings the real Jennifer Jenzen to the house, and another scene where his spot being tortured is taken by Price. Which leads me to wonder if it’s possible for him to buy his freedom, or if he’s figured out a way to outwit the house.
Explore what the hell was going on with that chair. Was Vannacutt listening to the Darkness, or was it potentially a seduction/sex thing?
Corruption Arc – Either for Vannacutt or for Pritchett. Or, conversely, a redemption arc for Vannacutt, or Vannacutt getting a redemption arc while Pritchett goes the other way. I really love the idea of the house seducing people into evil (the second film goes harder on that, and iirc explicitly states that Vannacutt wasn’t always a monster), and the question of whether someone who’s done terrible things can really be redeemed.
Eldritch Architecture – I’d love to see something that goes hard on the Lovecraftian elements in the plot, the idea of this ancient nameless evil existing even before the house was built, and of what the Darkness at the heart of the house really is.
Tentacles made them do it – Probably no surprises that I have Pritchett/Vannacutt in mind here.

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Love and a .45 (1994)

Requested Ships:
Dinosaur Bob/Creepy Cody

Terrible people doing terrible things! :D

Optional Prompts

Gun Kink – Yeeeep. This is a pretty good canon for gun kink. I’m here for anything from caressing the other party with a gun, whether tenderly or with an air of menace, to actual insertion or fellating of a gun.
'Platonic' porn-watching and mutual masturbation session leads to sex – Because they’re horny and bored and there’s definitely nothing gay about this.
"We'll just have sex one time to get it out of our systems" ... but it makes the longing worse – All the ‘sex while pining and in denial’ energy please.
A/B Seduce C into a Threesome; Then A/B Realize They Only Want Each Other – I’m specifically thinking of Billy for C here, because his entire dynamic with them, and it way it flips their roles delights me, but alternatively go with an OC, possibly a woman because I like the opportunities for ‘pining while in denial’.
Altered States – Drugs (Recreational) – Bonding over substance misuse and/or sex under the influence.
First Meeting – Explore their backstory. How did they meet? In prison or elsewhere? How did they get on the first time they met
Alternate Universe - John Wick (Movies) Setting – In which they are (terrible) international assassins. Either that or they’re just tagging along with an old acquaintance who is an assassin, and maybe they’re just knocking about the Continental while plot happens all around them.
The awkward situation that results when you’re inadvertently on the periphery of a Bad Guys Made Them Do It situation between two men and it leads to the awakening of feelings.
Forced proximity – they have to hole up for a while for reasons, and have to share a hotel room, which potentially leads to sharing a bed, watching pay per view porn, and whatever other forced proximity tropes you can come up with.
Handcuffed together – Whether for the purposes of plot, or purely as an excuse for filthy PWP porn.
Bob injures his hands, which leads to him getting a caretaking handjob or oral sex from Creepy.
They meet up with Watty and Star under different circumstances a couple of years down the line.
AU where they are the wanted fugitives on a road trip as they try to escape to Mexico.
A From Dusk Till Dawn (the film version) fusion. Bob and Creepy follow Watty and Star to Mexico, but their stand-off is interrupted by vampires and they need to work together to survive.
Platonic bed sharing and the accompanying unfortunately timed boners.
Morning after (amazing sex the night before) – All the awkward aftermath please, possibly with optional ‘did that really happen?’ binge-related amnesia.

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The Lurking Fear (1994)

Requested Ships:
Dr. Haggis/Cathryn Farrell

As far as I can remember, I don’t think Dr Haggis’s first name is mentioned at any point, but by the looks of that sign outside his surgery, it starts with an I. :D

Optional General Prompts

Battle-couple – They just work so well together. I’d love to see some moments of them working together, because I’m so drawn to their dynamic, especially since fighting doesn’t necessarily come easily to her. Are they fighting by each other’s side, or it it a case of her fighting and him patching her up afterwards? Or him talking her through patching him up because he’s the one who got injured?
Love in the time of horror and misery – Something else I love is the whole bleak atmosphere of the virtually deserted town. Everything’s crumbling and worn down, there are holes everywhere where the creatures have burrowed through, and everything is falling apart. It’s almost post-apocalyptic, except the world is still going on around them. Show me them them falling in love, or quiet moments of tenderness, affection and loyalty in the middle of the world going to hell around them.
Alternate Universe - the big bad wins – They’ve lost and been captured by the creatures, and have nothing to do but try to escape, or trying to support and comfort each other through it, or have ‘fuck it we’re going to die’ despair sex.
Bathing/Washing - After a fight, the two of them hole up together to wash off the gore.
A 5 Times fic showing the gradual change in Leffert's Corner over time as the townsfolk gradually begin to realise something is wrong.
Character A falls asleep on B's shoulder – Their relationship has so many opportunities for moments of quiet intimacy and emotional hurt/comfort. And pining. Lots and lots of pining.
Character A has been crying and tries to hide it but B still notices it – I’m good with either one of them being the crying character here. Maybe he’s exhausted patching people up, or someone’s died despite all his best efforts, or she’s been coasting on adrenaline for too long and is finally starting to crumble. I adore their dynamic so much, and the idea of him being the only person she lets see her in a moment of weakness is the most delicious thing.
Scars – Maybe a Five Times fic cataloguing their scars (or just hers), whether they’re caused by the creatures or not.
Gently touching a character's scar(s) – As an excuse for hurt/comfort or tender emotional sex? I’m good with either. Or both.
A canon-divergent fix-it where Dr Haggis survives his injuries, which means Cathryn has to patch him up post-canon.
Cigarettes – You can probably count the number of minutes he’s without a cigarette on one hand. XD Give me all the descriptions of smoking, maybe a traumatised moment when his hand is shaking so hard he can’t light his cigarette so she has to do it for him.
Functional Alcoholic Not So Functional At The Moment – Here for the hurt/comfort of this, whether the emotional hurt/comfort of them being there for each other when they’re scared or grieving, or the physical hurt/comfort of her helping him to bed, and then maybe sticking around afterwards, and the two of them bedsharing, whether entirely platonic or otherwise. Also here for drunken confessions, or maybe him just being less able to hide the way he feels about her while he’s drunk. I love how important they clearly are to each other, but also how frustrated she is with his drinking, even while she obviously gets why he does it.
Childbirth - Because you can't have the Chekhov's Gun of a heavily pregnant woman and not have her give birth in a highly stressful set-piece, come on. So how about a canon-divergent scene where Beth, Cathryn and Haggis are beseiged down by the monsters, and at the worst possible moment, Beth goes into labour.
That line of Cathryn's: "This is what I thought the end of the world was going to look like."? What if it really was the end of the world? Give me a post-apocalyptic AU. Maybe they're dealing with a zombie apocalypse, or creatures much like the canon ones but more widespread, or they're carriers for a disease.
In that first scene with them, while they're outside his surgery, he makes a reference to them making some kind of bargain, presumably an agreement to stick around in town to kill the creatures. How did that bargain come about?
There’s a lot about this film that doesn’t entirely make sense, the most notable thing being that they’re not actually trapped in the town, and can leave any time they like. I can buy them wanting to stay to finish things once and for all, but at the same time that doesn’t mean they can’t have the occasional holiday. So maybe they get out of town for a night or two when there’s no rain forecast for a while. Are they able to relax or are they constantly thinking about going back? Book separate rooms but end up sharing a room/bed anyway because it’s the only way they can get any sleep? Both get drunk and end up sleeping together?

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Murder She Wrote

Requested Ship:
Jessica Fletcher & David Tolliver

God, I love this show. I’m slowly working my way through a full watch-through, and one of the things that has stuck with me is one of the very early episodes, Lovers and Other Killers (series 1, episode 5), and especially the character of David Tolliver and his everything with Jess. I love how despite knowing how untrustworthy he is, she can’t help being charmed by him, and the ending of this episode is one of my favourite moments of the show so far – when she tells him she doesn’t know what sort of character he’d be, whether suspect, killer, or victim, and then the episode ends on a creepy freezeframe of his face as his smile vanishes. It’s such a dark little stinger, both to the episode and to their relationship, and I really wish they’d brought him back for another episode. The way he tries to inveigle himself into her affections, the way he’s lying through his teeth about virtually everything, the lingering doubts about the way Allison Brevard died… *shiver* It feels like there’s so much more to explore.

I would love for something where his path crosses with Jessica’s again, and we get some sort of answer to the question of whether he’s suspect, killer, or victim, or some combination or all three? Or something else entirely? Does Jessica ever get around to basing a character on him? How do their paths cross again?

If he’s the victim, it’s fine for him to be dead at the start of the fic. And while I don’t ship them specifically, more flirting in the style of canon is very much welcome. Some of my favourite episodes of MSW are the closed circle ones like Murder Takes the Bus and the Ski Lodge episode, so anything along those lines will be particularly welcome.

Optional Prompts

In her list of potential roles, Jessica left out one very important one. What if, rather than suspect, killer, or victim, David is actually the amateur detective? He contacts Jessica to ask her to help him solve a murder. Is he genuine or just trying to inveigle himself into her life again? And let’s not forget the trope of the detective turning out to be the killer.
What happens to David after the end of the episode?
5 times David’s path crossed with Jessica’s (and the one time it didn’t) – or vice versa.
David is just the sort of shifty type Grady would get involved with. So perhaps it’s Grady who brings David back into Jessica’s orbit. Coincidence or otherwise? (And for the record, I am completely here for David/Grady.)
So what really did happen with Allison Brevard? Because that burglar explanation seems kinda convenient.

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Re-Animator

Requested Ships:
Herbert West/Dan Cain

Optional Prompts

5 Times Dan Assumed Herbert was Dead – Because in various places, namely the screenplay and the novelisation, he is explicitly stated to have died at the end of the first film and I like the idea of him repeatedly appearing to die and popping up again mostly unscathed (and I’m amused that the one film where he doesn’t appear to die at the end is the one in which Dan does not appear. XD).
Accidental Baby Acquisition – I mean, they’re doctors. It’s not beyond the realms of possibility that they might find themselves in a situation where they have to deliver a baby in a crisis (possibly involving zombies), and end up separated from the mother and stuck having to look after the baby.
Addiction - Character tries to distract Addict from addiction with sex – Dan tries to break Herbert’s reliance on the serum.
Alternate Universe - Russian Doll Fusion – I love time loops in all their forms anyway, but this one in particular, with its focus on constant, unrelenting death, and the way the discovery that the loop is being shared with another person would play out with these two is perfect. (and for time loops in general, I’m amused by the way Herbert would probably adapt his work to take full advantage of the loop (er, an endless supply of fresh corpses with no consequences – hey, how is it murder if they don’t stay dead? – having to memorise the results because he can’t write them down, etc.)
Hurt/Comfort – Hurt/Comfort is always welcome, but one thing I’d love to see is Dan helping Herbert through withdrawal from the serum. Mainly because I really wish that deleted scene had been included in the film. I have some quiet headcanons about Herbert’s addiction to reagent, and amongst them is the fact that avoiding sleep is really, really not a good idea, and that maybe the times when he’s at his most batshit are the times when he’s suffering from chronic sleep-deprivation. All of which convinces Dan to help him to break the habit.
Bad Guys Made Them Do It – and every other iteration of Something Made Them Do It.
Betray them to save them – Dan’s presence looms so large in Beyond Reanimator even though he doesn’t appear. I can definitely see a situation where Dan got to a point where he couldn’t see any other choice, and he genuinely believed if things carried on the way they were that Herbert was going to get himself killed. I’d love to see that decision explored and the fallout when/if they’re reunited and he realises what Herbert’s been through.
Hurt/Comfort - Character with injured hands requires assistance (which turns sexual) – Here for the hurt/comfort and smut potential of this (and also very fond of one character shaving another.)
Inspired by the novelisation, Dan is completely taken by surprise when Herbert unexpectedly turns out to be massively into ice hockey. Maybe it’s a hobby he only occasionally spares the time for, but either way Dan is extremely weirded out by the prospect of Herbert going to bars and talking to fans.
You Hurt Me More Than Anything; But Being Without You Hurts More – Herbert goes in search of Dan after the end of Beyond Reanimator. Is he planning on revenge (even if he ultimately can’t face going through with it?) Does something else happen as a catalyst that forces them to work together again? I’d love to see all the messy hurt/comfort and emotional fallout of everything that happened.
Alternate Universe - Canon Divergence – How might things have played out if Meg hadn’t been so hostile to Herbert from the get-go? Maybe if she hadn’t been there when he came about the room, allowing Dan to prime her for his oddball roommate beforehand? And if she hadn’t walked in on them bringing Rufus back, which meant that Dan wouldn’t have fallen out with Dean Halsey, who then wouldn’t have died, etc etc. It’s interesting how differently Herbert treats Francesca. While he’s not exactly polite to her (XD) he tolerates her presence in a way he doesn’t really tolerate Meg’s, and I can’t help but read that as at least partially being the result of Meg’s attitude towards him.
Alternate Universe - Canon Divergence – A canon-divergent AU where Francesca isn’t on the scene and the creation of the Bride is much more successful, and she isn’t quite so much of a monster. Mainly because I’m really curious what the hell Herbert actually had in mind beyond keeping Dan with him at all costs. (And for the record, I’m completely open to Herbert/Dan/The Bride in whatever form that takes.)
Hurt/Comfort - Technically awful attempts at comfort are actually very comforting – Okay, so Herbert is pretty terrible at doing the whole comfort thing, but the fact that he even tries is pretty damn significant.
Road trip after the end of the world – Any post-apocalypse scenario will do, but I am particularly fond of zombie apocalypses, which seems particularly apt for this canon. Was it Herbert’s fault, or was he entirely innocent for once? Where are they going? What’s the plan? And how does reagent factor into things?
Estranged Characters - Injured A shows Up on B's doorstep Saying "I didn't know where else to go" – My first thought with this was Herbert turning up out of the blue, but what if it’s the other way around? What if, potentially after Herbert’s prison break, he considered hunting Dan down, but reluctantly decided not to follow through, only for Dan to suddenly turn up unexpectedly, and turns out he’s been keeping track of Herbert all these years and somehow or other the shit’s about to hit the fan?
Herbert and Dan take the places of the narrator and the version of Herbert in the original story by Lovecraft. – I read the story after watching the films, and I was really not expecting to find that so much of what happens in the first two films came more or less directly from the story (with a fair few changes along the way). I’m fascinated by the way the films work as adaptations, but especially by the similarities and differences between the two Herberts (running away screaming the first time they reanimate a corpse? Film!Herbert would never. On the other hand the stuff with the revolver? Yeeeeah, he totally would). So perhaps a historical AU where Herbert and Dan are from that period, or where they’re still their 80s selves but have switched places with the versions of themselves from the story. Or maybe it’s just Dan who’s switched places, and he has to content with a different version of Herbert, who is BLOND (and, y'know, also slightly more actively murderous than Dan's Herbert, and has a disconcerting habit of eyeing his healthy physique with a covetous eye). (If you haven’t already read it, be warned it has some racist elements. I’d prefer for those to be avoided if you go with this prompt, please)
A Re-Animator/Ghosts (UK) crossover. Why, yes, this is goofy as hell but I want it. :D In the eighties or nineties Dan and Herbert rent out Button House. Unfortunately something goes wrong and Herbert ends up dying on the property and coming back as a ghost. Or alternatively, Dan and Herbert are estranged, and Dan inherits the house from a mysterious relative, only realising who his benefactor is when he stumbles across the lab.

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Star Trek: Deep Space Nine

Requested Ships:
Quark/Brunt
Mirror Ezri Dax/Brunt
Mirror Ezri Dax/Mirror Brunt/Brunt
Odo/Weyoun
Odo & Weyoun
Mirror Brunt/Weyoun 6

Quark/Brunt

Optional Prompts

'Dirty little secret' relationship leads to Too Many Feelings leads to unexpected marriage proposal – Because I am so here for the two of them having a secret relationship on the downlow, and maybe they keep telling themselves it’s just about sex and it doesn’t mean anything, but actually...
Accidental Marriage – When they’re on an alien planet negotiating a contract, they accidentally wind up married (maybe because in that planet’s laws rivalry is considered a sign of great regard), and this cannot stand. Turns out getting it annulled is a little trickier than first envisioned, and in the meantime pining, forced proximity, and sex-of-convenience ensues.
Hate Sex – I am so, so here for the two of them hatefucking, and for moments of unexpected tenderness in the middle of the hatefucking, and for hate sex where they gradually start to develop feelings.
Exploration of Aftermath of Canon Events – A relationship study that looks at how things might develop between the two of them after the end of the series, with neither of them entirely happy about the changes on Ferenginar.
Characters don't realise they're in a relationship but everyone else can see it – Maybe Brunt keeps finding reasons to return to Deep Space Nice to make Quark’s life a misery, and Quark does everything he can to irritate Brunt, and neither of the two of them wants to admit that actually they’re sort of starting to enjoy each other’s company, while as far as everyone else is concerned they’re already basically together.
A post-canon fic with an established relationship between Quark and Brunt. They’re… sort of settled. Almost happy. And then, like a hand grenade tossed into the middle of their relationship, Quark’s old lover Natima Lang comes back. Somehow Brunt finds out what happened between them and is torn between horrified disgust at Quark being willing to abandon everything to run off with her and seething jealousy because he thinks, rightly or wrongly, that Quark wouldn't do that for HIM in a million years. Maybe Quark and Natima have both moved on with no lingering feelings other than a faint poignant ‘what might have been’, or maybe they’re still as in love with each other as ever and the only way to resolve this is with Quark/Natima/Brunt.
5+1 Things – A post-canon 5+1 fic exploring the ways every single member of Quark’s family undermines their attempts at (semi-)tradition Ferengi parenting (preferably of a boy, please, unless the focus is on them both overcoming their terrible ingrained sexism to the point where it’s probably going to be a bit ooc, let’s face it).
Having met by chance with an oddly familiar stranger in a bar who shares his animosity for Quark, Brunt obtains a copy of a unique holosuite program involving Major Kira with Quark’s head in return for a discounted price and the promise to use it to destroy Quark. Which would be easier to do if he could just stop thinking about how it would be better with Quark’s head on Quark’s body. To facilitate Getting Revenge, obviously. (And just as soon as he figures out why the hell Quark would make the program so damn good at oo-mox if it was written for a non-Ferengi).
So, um, those scenes in The Dogs of War when Brunt is sucking up to Quark because they both think Zek is going to appoint him the next Grand Nagus? He’d be remiss if he forgot Rule 113 of the Rules of Acquisition: Always have sex with the boss.
Ishka figures out why Brunt is so fixated on bringing Quark down. And, well, okay, yes, Brunt is terrible, but also he’s a good Ferengi, and frankly, Quark could probably do worse.
Time Travel Fix-It – Brunt and Quark travel back to a point where they’re in a position to alter the course of Ferengi history and prevent the sweeping changes brought about by Quark’s mother, but potentially ruining their fortunes in their present, since with the franchisement of Quark’s they’re actually doing pretty damn well for themselves. Do they go through with it, or disagree about whether they should go through with it?

Mirror Ezri Dax/Brunt & Mirror Ezri Dax/Mirror Brunt/Brunt

And then there’s Brunt. XD

Optional Prompts

Femdom – Because if there’s ever been a character who very definitely needs to get dommed by a female, it is Brunt.
Clothing - Naked Male Clothed Female – Niiice. I just love this freeform so, so much when it comes to Brunt (especially if combined with femdom). He would just hate it so fucking much. It’s disgusting. It’s depraved. So why the hell does he find it so fucking hot? *hearteyes*
Identity Porn – Brunt has to pose as his Mirror counterpart and work with Mirror!Ezri, leading to a sex scene in which for kink reasons he ends up having sex with her while still in the Mirror!Brunt persona.
A threesome in which Ezri and Brunt edge Mirror!Brunt until he’s a sobbing desperate mess. Look, I just want him to have nice things okay?
Accidental Baby Acquisition – I am a sucker for certain tropes and one of those tropes that will forever get me is when people who under normal circumstances have no business looking after babies get stuck looking after a baby. If Mirror!Brunt is around, maybe the plan was that he’d be the one looking after the kid, but due to something going wrong, he and Brunt have to trade places and pretend to be each other.
Competence Kink - Whether they’re rivals or allies, I just love the idea of Brunt and Mirror!Ezri being secretly impressed and turned on by how good the other one is at lying, cheating and stealing. Lets just say Brunt probably has more in common with Mirror!Ezri than his counterpart does.
Since his death, Ezri has been seeing Mirror!Brunt's ghost. Maybe it’s some kind of hallucination from a space anomaly, or maybe she’s just imagining him, or maybe he really is a ghost, or maybe he’s the result of a malfunctioning portable holoprojector (which she hasn’t fixed because she kind of misses him and it’s nice having him around). but either way she’s gradually beginning to accept she might have had feelings for him after all. Then she meets Brunt.
proxy-fucking – Mirror!Ezri fucking Brunt as a way of processing the grief she feels about Mirror!Brunt’s death.

Odo/Weyoun and Odo & Weyoun

Optional Prompts

DS9: Post-canon attempt to return the Vorta to sexual reproduction; first non-clone baby born - With Weyoun and Odo being at the heart of the attempt.
A canon-divergent fic where Weyoun 6 survives to defect to the Federation, exploring how their relationship goes after the war is over.
A canon-divergent AU where the canonical baby Changeling turns up while the station is in the hands of the Dominion and Weyoun is involved with Odo's attempts to look after it.
Complicated emotions at being pregnant with a baby character believes is a god - somehow Weyoun ends up knocked up, whether it's some kind of handwavy transporter accident type accident, or the result of a sex pollen incident necessary to save Odo's life and neither of them realised Weyoun could get pregnant that way. Is there some kind of side effect from the pregnancy which leaves Weyoun with some degree of shapeshifting powers, or the ability to link with the baby, which is amazing but also very uncomfortable because he's just a Vorta.
Cloning Accident result in creating a baby - The real reason Weyoun 6 tried to defect. :D Is it a wholly new person or just a baby version of Weyoun, and what are the implications of it not being going through the full cloning process?
character that thought they had zero parenting instincts goes into hardcore protective mode - I love Weyoun as a villain at least partly because of how very... unintimidating he is in a lot of ways. He's small and slight and vulnerable and he keeps dying, and I'm really drawn to this prompt both for him embracing his violent side in the interests of protecting a baby and for the potential to explore his character because I’ll always love a character study.
a 5+1 fic exploring the way Odo's relationship with the various different Weyouns changes over the years.
Sex Pollen – Whether it’s Odo affected and Weyoun willingly sacrifices himself to save the Founder, or Weyoun is affected and is horrified/pathetically grateful at Odo being willing to help. Or the aftermath of the sex pollen situation with all the fallout.
A canon-divergent AU where Odo remains human for longer, and he’s still a solid when he meets Weyoun 5 for the first time. What effect would Odo's becoming a solid have on their dynamic? How would the Vorta conceptualise the concept of a god becoming a solid, and what does that mean for the way Weyoun’s worldview? I’d be delighted with anything from a character/relationship study that follows their time on the station together, or perhaps something plottier where they're stranded on a planet together and have to work together to survive, but now Odo's just as vulnerable as Weyoun is. (Sex pollen always welcome)
Hurt/Comfort - Character Treats Other Character's Injuries – Weyoun is injured and Odo has to treat his injuries, whether it’s Weyoun 6 or one of the other ones. I’m just fascinated by all the messy feelings of faith and awe, and Odo’s discomfort at being thought of as a god.
Slow and painful process of recovering from lifetime of cultural brainwashing – Whether it happens over the course of one Weyoun or several. I really love all the tangled complexities of the way the Vorta see the world. Maybe this is a canon-divergent fic where Weyoun 6 survives and Odo tries to deprogram him? Or maybe a future Weyoun where the process has begun but isn't quite there yet.
Whump - A sacrifices themself to protect B; B is forced to watch A being tortured – The obvious candidate for self-sacrifice is Weyoun, but Odo sacrificing himself and Weyoun's struggles watching him being tortured (perhaps that Romulan device that stops him from changing shape) would be delicious too.

Mirror Brunt/Weyoun 6

Optional Prompts

Look, if in doubt, please just make them kiss and I will be happy. :D
Body Swap - Characters Are Alarmingly Good At Being Each Other
Conflicting loyalties – Explore the issue of loyalty and how it manifests in each of them. Especially Weyoun, whose loyalties are at least somewhat artificial. How does the Mirror universe affect his loyalties to the Founders? Is he able to override it? Perhaps because he’s stuck there he gradually becomes used to feeling free of his obligations to the Dominion, and transfers his loyalties to Mirror Brunt instead, but then an opportunity to return to the prime universe arises and he has to deal with his conflicting loyalties.
Weyoun has fallen in with M!Ezri and M!Brunt and has been working with them for a while without issue until they capture Mirror!Odo. And maybe he can override his instinctive loyalties because this is the Mirror!Universe version and so not a true Founder, but it doesn’t come easily.
Character finally finds an unconditionally good relationship; not sure how to handle it - They're both just so damn sweet, and while everything else might be going to hell, the two of them still manage to carve out some moments of sweetness in the middle of the nightmarish dystopia that is the Mirror Universe.
Character isn't used to being loved and shown tenderness/affection – Because loving relationships aren’t normally part of a Vorta’s life experience, and Weyoun isn’t quite sure how to handle it.
Food as part of the language of love – They both have interesting relationships with food. Given Mirror Brunt’s tendency to make sure everyone’s fed (with tube grubs, but still...), and the way Weyoun works his way through everything on the replicator’s menu, it seems like this would be the perfect way for them to bond. And okay, maybe Brunt can’t get his hands on kava nuts or rippleberries but there must be something.
Creating your moral code from scratch after the last one imploded – So let’s say Weyoun is stranded, temporarily or otherwise, in the Mirror universe. He’s finally free of his obligations to the Dominion, because there is no Dominion there, and so has to figure out a few things and relearn the sort of person he wants to be.
Gently touching a character's scar(s) – Because again this is one of the contrasts between them, Mirror Brunt being scarred (because picking up scars in the Mirror Universe is inevitable, let’s face it) while Weyoun is almost entirely scar-free due to being a recent clone. I’m particularly here for scar kink, and all the associated fascination and sympathy and tenderness, but you could also play with the issues over cloning: Weyoun’s memories of injuries sustained by other Weyouns, which aren’t reflected on his body, but which maybe he feels as phantom scars of some kind?
Emotional hurt/comfort – Ordinarily Vortas’ memories of their previous deaths and injuries are suppressed as part of the cloning process to ensure they remain motivated and willing to sacrifice themselves, but every now and then those suppressed memories return in full force.
Identity Porn - A scam/heist requires that they both have to pose as their other selves.
Smut - experimenting with and exploring interspecies biology.
on the run together – Whether from the Alliance or from some kind of crime syndicate (potentially run by Mirror Ishka XD), and bonding in the process.
Two tired people taking quiet comfort in each other – Exhausted sex, moments of respite in the middle of the world going to hell, the two of them finding moments of common ground, etc.
Competence Kink - And the two of them being quietly impressed and turned on by the other’s competence: Brunt’s toughness and fighting skills and Weyoun's innate diplomacy and negotiating skills.

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Would You Rather (2012)

Requested Ships:
Iris/Shepard Lambrick
Iris & Shepard Lambrick
Julian Lambrick & Shepard Lambrick

Note on my DNWs: It’s fine to include references to the attempted rape in canon. Anything up to and including extremely dubious consent is fine for this canon.

Shepard Lambrick & Julian Lambrick

Optional Prompts

Something Lovecraftian – Because apparently I’m almost incapable of requesting an entirely non-Lovecraftian film with Jeffrey Combs in it without going ‘Yeah, but what if Lovecraft though?’ On the one hand, you could just take this film at face value, but on the other there does seem to be an odd sense of duty about the way Shepard treats the games, with his attention to the rules and tradition, so what if the Foundation and the games have some kind of supernatural reason for existing?
Antagonism - characters don't like each other but nobody else understands them this well Characters who can't stand each other would also die for each other
Daddy Issues – Because if there was ever a character with hang-ups over his father, it’s Julian Lambrick.
Fantasies about murdering your father – Whether a 5+1 fic about the times Julian has thought about killing his father throughout his life, or something a bit more involved, where he’s actually seriously thinking about going through with it. Or dreaming about doing it. Will he ever have the guts? Does Shepard know? (And if Lucas is involved, maybe the two of them plotting together as part of some fucked-up sexual fantasy, but actually Lucas is telling Shepard about it)
Shepard is beginning to have doubts about whether Julian really has the necessary qualities to follow in his footsteps. Maybe he decides to give Julian one last chance.
A fucked-up slice of life fic following the everyday operations of the Lambrick Foundation.
Something investigating Shepard’s relationship with his son in contrast to Shepard’s relationship with his own father.
What was the first game like? Did it happen under Shepard, or was it something that he inherited? If the latter, then what was his experience of his first game like?

Shepard Lambrick & Iris, Shepard Lambrick/Iris

Optional Prompts

Enemies to Lovers - Enemy tenderly treats character's injuries that the enemy inflicted – Whether this follows on directly from the end of the film, or relates to a whole new injury that Iris has sustained, I am so completely here for this. Or alternatively, what if Shepard is the one who’s been injured at Iris’s hands. It’s a couple of years down the line and, trying to get her revenge on him, she’s taken him to an isolated cabin while his people hunt for them. Only she isn’t sure whether she can really bring herself to kill someone again. Manipulation ensues.
Antagonist Surprises With Honourable Behavior – ‘honourable’ according to Shepard’s judgement, anyway. Because he really does seem to have a fucked-up code of his own when it comes to the games, even if that is just one of his manipulation techniques. But he honours his promises, and Iris finds herself conflicted.
Breathplay - top/dom likes getting choked – Consider this an exception to my Breathplay DNW. Shepard has a thing about being choked. Iris obliges because she just hates him so much. They’re both drawn to the element of risk: him because he knows she might well kill him if she was capable of it, she’s not sure if she is capable of it, but knows that if she takes it too far it could end very badly for her.
Captivity – For one reason or another, Shepard decides it’s necessary to have Iris quietly disposed of, but he’s unwilling to have her killed so imprisons her instead.
Character has their face shaved with a straight razor (by someone they have reason to distrust) – Having established a sexual relationship, although still aware that there’s good chance she’d like to kill him, Shepard lets Iris shave him. What appeals to me here is the sexual tension and Iris’s ever-present temptation to just cut his throat and have done with it.
Character Trains a Protege – Ohhh baby. Explore this however you want to, whether the focus is on the beginning of the process or if you start with her taking her place as a witness to a game. Is Iris all in (for whatever reason), or does she still have her doubts, or is she working against him somehow? And what exactly is Julian doing in all of this?
Slow Seduction/Corruption Arc – So uncomfortably hot, whatever form the seduction takes, whether it’s about sex or a moral corruption. I am absolutely here for a sexual relationship developing between them, but also her originally resisting him trying to use her for his own ends once she’s gone through college, and his attempts to bring her around, finding her a job, etc.
Outsider POV of a 'date' between Shepard and Iris. Especially if its clearly deeply uncomfortable, but to the outsider it just looks like a normal date between a solicitous older man and a younger woman (aside from maybe a couple of out-of-place moments).
Possessiveness - No One Is Allowed to Hurt You Except Me – Times when Shepard went out of his way to protect Iris.
Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder – After the game, Iris is struggling to recover from the experience.
Scar Worship – Specifically that stab-wound. But also, maybe Shepard has one or two scars of his own.

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Yuletide 2023 Letter

AO3 Username: StopTalkingAtMe

Welcome to my letter, Mystery Creator. Let me start by saying I’m open to a LOT of different things, including unrequested crossovers with other fandoms that I’m into. If I’ve ever written it or requested it or otherwise given you reason to think I’m a fan then go ahead.. And while my general likes might lean towards the bleak and angsty, believe it or not, I do also really love more light-hearted styles of fic as well as pure unadulterated smut. Do whatever you want with my prompts. I tend to use freeforms to trigger ideas and suggestions, but they are purely to give you ideas of the sort of thing I like. Use them, subvert them, or ignore them completely and go off my general likes if you’d prefer. Some of the sections here may be longer than others but please don’t read anything into that – I’d be delighted with a gift for any one of them. I’m excited to see what you come up with! :D

General Likes
Smut Likes
DNWs
The 4400 (2004)
Butch Cassidy and the Wild Bunch (2023 Movie Duology)
House on Haunted Hill (1999)
Love and a .45 (1994)
Re-Animator (Movies)
Would You Rather? (2012)

General Likes and DNWs

General Likes

Character studies and introspection
Loneliness and isolation
Angst
Atmospheric description, scenery porn, sensory description
World-building, backstory, and character development.
Horror of all kinds, understated ghost stories, body horror, cosmic horror, claustophibic horror where the characters are trapped underground, potentially with monsters (think The Descent), etc.
Closed Circle - Stranded with a murderer in your midst, whether in horror or murder mystery. Think And Then There Were None.
Case-fic, whether fully realised or just touching on elements from a case.
Whump, hurt/comfort and hurt/no comfort.
Endings of all kinds, happy, bleak or bittersweet.
Canon-divergent AUs, especially post-canon ones where the bad guys win.
Pining, whether mutual or one-sided
Repression and stoicism
Descriptions of scars
Main Character Death and grief; characters getting together while still grieving for previous partners, taking solace in each other, the dead character still seeming like a presence in the relationship, etc.
Crossovers, especially oddball crossovers that come completely out of left field, although I do tend to prefer crack played straight rather than outright crack. If you have reason to believe I know and like the other fandom, then I encourage you to go for it.
Post-Apocalypse scenarios, including zombies (probably my favourite AU scenario of all time), with focus on angst and the struggle for survival.
Stranded Together With No Way Home, intense (and probably pretty damn unhealthy) fire-forged relationships that come about as a result of being isolated together and being able to rely on no one but each other.
Time Loops
Older characters finding love.
Age gap relationships
I really love historical detail and extensive research notes, so if that’s what you’re into then feel free to go wild. (If that’s not your thing, then please don’t worry: I am in no way an expert, and I love tropey indulgent stuff and cheerfully anachronistic fics just as much).
Hair kink. Hands pushed into hair, coiling it around fingers, routinely cutting another character's hair if appropriate in context (e.g. in post-apocalyptic scenarios), hairwashing as part of hurt/comfort, yanking head back by the hair, etc
Textiles, especially knitwear and embroidery; men in jumpers; historical and cultural details and craft in general
Unusual structures and ways of telling a story, such as Rashomon plots, non-linear narratives, outsider POVs, epistolary works, etc.
Cigarette kink: descriptions of smoking, sharing cigarettes, lighting cigarettes for each other, etc.
Finally, and I cannot emphasise this enough, men in sleepwear, particularly pyjamas and dressing gowns.

Smut Likes

Sex Pollen and aftermath, and any other kind of something made them do it scenario
Angry Sex, rough sex, hate sex, rough sex that turns tender
Clothed Sex, or clothed/naked
Comfort Sex
Dubcon when requested (mutual dubcon of the something-made-us-do-it kind is ALWAYS okay even when not explicitly requested)
Mild bondage and other forms of gentle restraint
Oral Sex, especially cunnilingus in all its forms, and ESPECIALLY cunnilingus with fingering
Rough Sex - Lots of Scratching and Biting and Hair-Grabbing/Pulling and Holding Partner(s) Down
Sex in grimy, grim, uncomfortable places
Threesomes
Situations where one character is too tired, injured etc to orgasm themselves, but takes great pleasure in making the other person come, so long as it's part of a wider give-take relationship when it comes to sex.

DNWs

Omegaverse
Noncon between requested ships (Something Made Them Do It scenarios are always okay though, including Bad Guys Made Them Do It)
Dubcon involving unaroused characters
Unrequested Incest
Bestiality (monsters don't count here)
Scat and waterplay
Formalised D/s dynamics (bondage and other forms of restraint are OK)
Underage
Het anal sex
Breathplay (antagonistic choking is fine)
Fisting
Lactation kink
Any variation of the word 'come' in a sexual context spelled as 'cum' (please use 'come', 'came', 'precome' etc)
Focus on AIDS/HIV

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The 4400 (2004)

Requested Characters:
Kevin Burkhoff
Tess Doerner

(I understand there are post-canon novels available, but I haven’t read them yet. It’s fine to disregard them and purely go off the series.)

Although the wheels started to come off by the end, on the whole I loved this weird convoluted little puzzle box of a show in its entirety. I wish we’d got more closure about the future and the catastrophe and everything that was going to happen. Right up to the end I genuinely couldn’t predict where it was going to go and how things were going to shake out, and I just had so much fun watching it and trying to figure out what was going to happen and what the implications were. It’s kind of superheroes-by-stealth, and I really love how it’s an upside down version of the X-Men while not being anything of the kind, and the way it focuses on the day-to-day realities of a situation like this by mostly following NTAC (and god, I ADORE Tom and Diana’s rock-solid, loving, affectionate, I-would-die-for-this-person friendship <3<3<3)

Optional Prompts

A bad guys win!AU in which Marked!Jordan Collier is removing the abilities of the p-positives, while the original 4400s are being hunted down one by one. Tess and Kevin go on the run.
Their reunion after Tess gets out of hospital happens off-screen. I would love to see how that went, and how they came to be working together. There’s so much potential for everything I love here: his guilt over how he came to be cured, and the hurt/comfort as the promicin side effects get worse.
Yet another thing that happens off-screen: how they got together as a couple in the first place. Given that they kiss just after he’s sloughed off his skin, clearly something was happening while he was still scarred, and oh god that DELIGHTS me. Him being so ashamed of it and not wanting her to see her like that, her being so into him anyway? Mmph.
The first time they sleep together.
Oof, that scene where he says goodbye in the hospital (the book, the kiss on the cheek, the hairtouching). It isn’t clear how much Kevin has realised at that point and whether he understands that it was Tess who cured him, but he’s a smart man: he’ll figure it out quickly. I’d love something exploring his grief and survivor’s guilt over the way things panned out (and I adore early Kevin where he’s still adjusting to being cured, spitting sunflower seeds in the general direction of the bin and not quite having shaken off his mental illness yet).
Thanks to a 4400’s ability akin to the one in No Exit, Kevin and Tess and a bunch of other people find themselves trapped in an alternate universe. Except that this one is a superhero AU, and they specifically have to use their abilities as superheroes. Mainly because I find it so amusing that the least badass people get the most badass abilities. (and it also cracks me up how the various abilities were basically magic by the end.)
They reunite after the end of the series.
Something fluffy and sweet and indulgent where another handwavey 4400 ability allows Kevin and Tess the opportunity to go back in time and give her the Sweet 16 birthday party she never got to experience. Maybe something that works along similar lines to Alana’s, so they don’t lose any time in the real world, and this is set during the penultimate episode, right before he sends her away, and it’s a little respite for them, and perhaps the other people at the party can’t see them? And it’s sweet and romantic and a little bit hot, but also sort of uncomfortable for Kevin given everything that happened in the diner. And play with the age thing: on the one hand it reminds him how young she is, but at the same time he hasn’t actually been born yet, so...

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Butch Cassidy and the Wild Bunch (2023 Movie Duology)

Requested Characters:
Charles Siringo
Tom Horn

Horn is only in the first film and I was a little disappointed with how the sequel defanged Siringo a little – he wasn’t nearly as much as a bastard as he was in the first film. OTOH that bit where he slams Sundance into the bars of the cell? HOT. (Also the whole section where Siringo and Sundance are travelling together and all the testing his loyalty stuff? I’m not quite sure it pulled off what it was trying to do, but I would have been very very into what it was trying to do had it managed to do it, so I think of it fondly for that reason alone. Kiiiiinda shipping Siringo/Sundance a little bit too, ngl. XD)

I adore their dynamic so much: in their first scene together, Siringo approvingly watching Horn beat the shit out of someone for the crime of stealing a chicken; giving him a badge and turning Horn into his monster on a leash – all of that is golden. The potential for loyalty kink is delicious, and it’s all the better for how Siringo’s control over Horn isn’t always total. I would love to see that dynamic of having tried to leash a hurricane captured, particularly in the context of them having a sexual relationship: Siringo having maaaaybe bitten off more than he can chew, and not quite being in control, but at the same time doing his damndest to maintain the appearance of being in control.

Optional Prompts

Pure indulgent smutfic. I’d especially love to see something exploring Siringo’s potential feelings of being out of control, and having unleashed something he’s maybe not quite ready to deal with. Also for this pairing I’m especially here for sex under the stars, rough sex, oral sex, campfire sex, scar worship/comparison, and a potentially repressed man getting borderline dubconned while at the same time being very into it.
Something set during the second film which digs into how Horn’s canonical death provides Siringo with a further motive to bring Cassidy in, particularly if they were lovers. (It’s fine for Horn not to appear in the fic.)
One thing I really did like about the second film was Siringo and Sundance travelling together, and Siringo’s attempts to win Sundance over to his side. Assuming Horn’s still dead, maybe they recognise that the other is attracted to men, and Sundance figures out what Siringo’s relationship with Horn really was, adding a whole interesting layer to the relationship Siringo’s trying to build between them, especially if Sundance is playing up the UST, whether or not they actually sleep together.
Alternatively, how would the second film have played out if Horn had survived? Perhaps if he’s there while Siringo is travelling with Sundance?
Prison break! Horn did survive the first film after all, and breaks Siringo out of jail after the end of the second. What happens? Do they go after Cassidy? How does the whole having the law turned against him affect Siringo’s moral worldview?
Hurt/comfort -- they both survive the end of the first film, but are both wounded and have to patch each other up.
A's Love Language Is Killing B's Enemies And Dropping Them At B's Feet Like A Cat Gifting Dead Mice – With A being Horn. :D Go hard on the loyalty kink, and it’s fine to handwave whatever canon events you need to or ignore them completely.
Zombie AU – I always love zombies, and there isn’t nearly enough zombie apocalypse stuff set in alternative time periods. Potentially as an excuse to force Siringo to work with Butch and the rest of his gang.
Alternate Universe - Different First Meeting – I’d love to see the version of Siringo recruiting Horn where they met before, potentially as an anonymous one night stand (although it doesn’t have to be) – maybe he isn’t sure if Horn recognises him, but turns out he does, which leads to complicated feelings. (or just sex. That’s good too.)
Give me Siringo’s version of the story, in which he very much sees himself as the hero. Is it a case of unreliable narrator, or is he well aware of all the terrible things he’s done, but sees them as a necessary price to pay? (First person and epistolary works, maybe a memoir written in prison are particularly welcome here.)
I’d love something digging into their onscreen dynamic, exploring how Siringo really feels about Horn's propensity for violence and the way his own moral code is compromised, or if he was just secretly always that much of a bastard and Horn just gave him the excuse. Also here for him being taken aback by how drawn he is to Horn because of how good he is at killing.
Character Surprised By Their Own Deep Loyalty Feels; Object Of Loyalty Even More Surprised – The tag speaks for itself. :D Here for all the loyalty kink. and for Horn unexpectedly being genuinely loyal to Siringo, even though he might not always obey him
One character shaves another's face with a straight razor – Ideally Horn shaving Siringo, but the alternative is good too. Bring this about however you can, whether Siringo’s hands have been injured, or maybe they’ve already slept together and this is just an extension of that intimacy. If there’s an undercurrent of mild threat to the shaving and Siringo isn’t entirely comfortable with it, then all the better.
Only One Bed – Or maybe there is another room and it’s in the brothel next door, so everyone’s expecting Horn to take it, including Siringo (and maybe Horn himself), but actually he ends up sharing Siringo’s room and bed instead and trying to pass it off as being because of his moral uprightedness which literally no one believes for a minute.

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House on Haunted Hill

Requested Characters:
Dr Richard B Vannacutt
Watson Pritchett

Optional Prompts

This House has a Personality and that Personality is Fucked Up – And adolescence is tough enough as it is, without having to go through it while you're living in a haunted house that can't seem to decide whether it wants to fuck you or kill you.
Explore the deaths of Pritchett's father and grandfather, because it feels like there are a lot of unanswered questions there. Did the house exert any influence over them? Could Pritchett’s father have murdered his grandfather? How did his father really die?
A both hates and loves how good the sex with B is – Vannacutt/Pritchett (because the more I think about shipping them, the harder I ship them.)
Character is forced to work with someone who scares them – I’m intrigued by what it means to be a ghost and how much free will they have. Pritchett has to work with Vannacutt for reasons (especially delighted by the idea of this considering how Pritchett crapped himself when he recognised Vannacutt’s description).
So how does Pritchett manage to resist the Shadow at the end in order to free Sara and Eddie, when seemingly no one else was able to resist?
Something revolving around the stained glass ceiling, because creepy though it is is just suggest a marginally less evil side to Vannacutt and the idea of good people being corrupted by evil will always fascinate me.
Character with trauma is freaked out and turned on by getting tied up – Specifically thinking of Pritchett here, the poor little bastard. XD
Conversations In Liminal Spaces On The Border Of One World And Another – Ghost!Pritchett and ghost!Vannacutt have a conversation.
Evil!Pritchett – A canon-divergent fic where Pritchett isn’t so resistant to the house. How would that affect canon?
Entering someone's dreams/nightmares – Vannacutt and/or the Shadow enter Pritchett’s dreams, where pre-, during, or post-canon.
Time Travel Fix-It – Pritchett travels back in time to the 20s-30s, and finds himself caught up in events at the asylum. Could he potentially change the way events pan out? (The actual fix-it is optional here)
Time Travel - Character meets their child self – Ghost!Pritchett realises it’s possible to travel through time and interact with his younger self.
Vannacutt manages to escape the house. There’s a deleted scene (after the credits roll in this video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zdo8voI87LI) in which Vannacutt brings the real Jennifer Jenzen to the house, and another scene where his spot being tortured is taken by Price. Which leads me to wonder if it’s possible for him to buy his freedom, or if he’s figured out a way to outwit the house.
Explore what the hell was going on with that chair. Was Vannacutt listening to the Darkness, or was it potentially a seduction/sex thing?
Corruption Arc – Either for Vannacutt or for Pritchett. Or, conversely, a redemption arc for Vannacutt, or Vannacutt getting a redemption arc while Pritchett goes the other way. I really love the idea of the house seducing people into evil (the second film goes harder on that, and iirc explicitly states that Vannacutt wasn’t always a monster), and the question of whether someone who’s done terrible things can really be redeemed.
Eldritch Architecture – I’d love to see something that goes hard on the Lovecraftian elements in the plot, the idea of this ancient nameless evil existing even before the house was built, and of what the Darkness at the heart of the house really is.
Tentacles made them do it – Probably no surprises that I have Pritchett/Vannacutt in mind here.

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Love and a .45 (1994)

Requested Characters:
Dinosaur Bob
Creepy Cody

Terrible people doing terrible things! :D

Optional Prompts

Gun Kink – Yeeeep. This is a pretty good canon for gun kink. I’m here for anything from caressing the other party with a gun, whether tenderly or with an air of menace, to actual insertion or fellating of a gun.
'Platonic' porn-watching and mutual masturbation session leads to sex – Because they’re horny and bored and there’s definitely nothing gay about this.
"We'll just have sex one time to get it out of our systems" ... but it makes the longing worse – All the ‘sex while pining and in denial’ energy please.
A/B Seduce C into a Threesome; Then A/B Realize They Only Want Each Other – I’m specifically thinking of Billy for C here, because his entire dynamic with them, and it way it flips their roles delights me, but alternatively go with an OC, possibly a woman because I like the opportunities for ‘pining while in denial’.
Altered States – Drugs (Recreational) – Bonding over substance misuse and/or sex under the influence.
First Meeting – Explore their backstory. How did they meet? In prison or elsewhere? How did they get on the first time they met
Alternate Universe - John Wick (Movies) Setting – In which they are (terrible) international assassins. Either that or they’re just tagging along with an old acquaintance who is an assassin, and maybe they’re just knocking about the Continental while plot happens all around them.
The awkward situation that results when you’re inadvertently on the periphery of a Bad Guys Made Them Do It situation between two men and it leads to the awakening of feelings.
Forced proximity – they have to hole up for a while for reasons, and have to share a hotel room, which potentially leads to sharing a bed, watching pay per view porn, and whatever other forced proximity tropes you can come up with.
Handcuffed together – Whether for the purposes of plot, or purely as an excuse for filthy PWP porn.
Bob injures his hands, which leads to him getting a caretaking handjob or oral sex from Creepy.
They meet up with Watty and Star under different circumstances a couple of years down the line.
AU where they are the wanted fugitives on a road trip as they try to escape to Mexico.
A From Dusk Till Dawn (the film version) fusion. Bob and Creepy follow Watty and Star to Mexico, but their stand-off is interrupted by vampires and they need to work together to survive.
Platonic bed sharing and the accompanying unfortunately timed boners.
Morning after (amazing sex the night before) – All the awkward aftermath please, possibly with optional ‘did that really happen?’ binge-related amnesia.

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Re-Animator

Requested Characters:
Herbert West
Dan Cain

Optional Prompts

5 Times Dan Assumed Herbert was Dead – Because in various places, namely the screenplay and the novelisation, he is explicitly stated to have died at the end of the first film and I like the idea of him repeatedly appearing to die and popping up again mostly unscathed (and I’m amused that the one film where he doesn’t appear to die at the end is the one in which Dan does not appear. XD).
Accidental Baby Acquisition – I mean, they’re doctors. It’s not beyond the realms of possibility that they might find themselves in a situation where they have to deliver a baby in a crisis (possibly involving zombies), and end up separated from the mother and stuck having to look after the baby.
Addiction - Character tries to distract Addict from addiction with sex – Dan tries to break Herbert’s reliance on the serum.
Alternate Universe - Russian Doll Fusion – I love time loops in all their forms anyway, but this one in particular, with its focus on constant, unrelenting death, and the way the discovery that the loop is being shared with another person would play out with these two is perfect. (and for time loops in general, I’m amused by the way Herbert would probably adapt his work to take full advantage of the loop (er, an endless supply of fresh corpses with no consequences – hey, how is it murder if they don’t stay dead? – having to memorise the results because he can’t write them down, etc.)
Hurt/Comfort – Hurt/Comfort is always welcome, but one thing I’d love to see is Dan helping Herbert through withdrawal from the serum. Mainly because I really wish that deleted scene had been included in the film. I have some quiet headcanons about Herbert’s addiction to reagent, and amongst them is the fact that avoiding sleep is really, really not a good idea, and that maybe the times when he’s at his most batshit are the times when he’s suffering from chronic sleep-deprivation. All of which convinces Dan to help him to break the habit.
Bad Guys Made Them Do It – and every other iteration of Something Made Them Do It.
Betray them to save them – Dan’s presence looms so large in Beyond Reanimator even though he doesn’t appear. I can definitely see a situation where Dan got to a point where he couldn’t see any other choice, and he genuinely believed if things carried on the way they were that Herbert was going to get himself killed. I’d love to see that decision explored and the fallout when/if they’re reunited and he realises what Herbert’s been through.
Hurt/Comfort - Character with injured hands requires assistance (which turns sexual) – Here for the hurt/comfort and smut potential of this (and also very fond of one character shaving another.)
Inspired by the novelisation, Dan is completely taken by surprise when Herbert unexpectedly turns out to be massively into ice hockey. Maybe it’s a hobby he only occasionally spares the time for, but either way Dan is extremely weirded out by the prospect of Herbert going to bars and talking to fans.
You Hurt Me More Than Anything; But Being Without You Hurts More – Herbert goes in search of Dan after the end of Beyond Reanimator. Is he planning on revenge (even if he ultimately can’t face going through with it?) Does something else happen as a catalyst that forces them to work together again? I’d love to see all the messy hurt/comfort and emotional fallout of everything that happened.
Alternate Universe - Canon Divergence – How might things have played out if Meg hadn’t been so hostile to Herbert from the get-go? Maybe if she hadn’t been there when he came about the room, allowing Dan to prime her for his oddball roommate beforehand? And if she hadn’t walked in on them bringing Rufus back, which meant that Dan wouldn’t have fallen out with Dean Halsey, who then wouldn’t have died, etc etc. It’s interesting how differently Herbert treats Francesca. While he’s not exactly polite to her (XD) he tolerates her presence in a way he doesn’t really tolerate Meg’s, and I can’t help but read that as at least partially being the result of Meg’s attitude towards him.
Alternate Universe - Canon Divergence – A canon-divergent AU where Francesca isn’t on the scene and the creation of the Bride is much more successful, and she isn’t quite so much of a monster. Mainly because I’m really curious what the hell Herbert actually had in mind beyond keeping Dan with him at all costs. (And for the record, I’m completely open to Herbert/Dan/The Bride in whatever form that takes.)
Hurt/Comfort - Technically awful attempts at comfort are actually very comforting – Okay, so Herbert is pretty terrible at doing the whole comfort thing, but the fact that he even tries is pretty damn significant.
Road trip after the end of the world – Any post-apocalypse scenario will do, but I am particularly fond of zombie apocalypses, which seems particularly apt for this canon. Was it Herbert’s fault, or was he entirely innocent for once? Where are they going? What’s the plan? And how does reagent factor into things?
Estranged Characters - Injured A shows Up on B's doorstep Saying "I didn't know where else to go" – My first thought with this was Herbert turning up out of the blue, but what if it’s the other way around? What if, potentially after Herbert’s prison break, he considered hunting Dan down, but reluctantly decided not to follow through, only for Dan to suddenly turn up unexpectedly, and turns out he’s been keeping track of Herbert all these years and somehow or other the shit’s about to hit the fan?
Herbert and Dan take the places of the narrator and the version of Herbert in the original story by Lovecraft. – I read the story after watching the films, and I was really not expecting to find that so much of what happens in the first two films came more or less directly from the story (with a fair few changes along the way). I’m fascinated by the way the films work as adaptations, but especially by the similarities and differences between the two Herberts (running away screaming the first time they reanimate a corpse? Film!Herbert would never. On the other hand the stuff with the revolver? Yeeeeah, he totally would). So perhaps a historical AU where Herbert and Dan are from that period, or where they’re still their 80s selves but have switched places with the versions of themselves from the story. Or maybe it’s just Dan who’s switched places, and he has to content with a different version of Herbert, who is BLOND (and, y'know, also slightly more actively murderous than Dan's Herbert, and has a disconcerting habit of eyeing his healthy physique with a covetous eye). (If you haven’t already read it, be warned it has some racist elements. I’d prefer for those to be avoided if you go with this prompt, please)
A Re-Animator/Ghosts (UK) crossover. Why, yes, this is goofy as hell but I waaaant it. :D In the eighties or nineties Dan and Herbert rent out Button House. Unfortunately something goes wrong and Herbert ends up dying on the property and coming back as a ghost.

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Would You Rather (2012)

Requested Characters:
Shepard Lambrick
Julian Lambrick
Iris

Note on my DNWs: It’s fine to include references to the attempted rape in canon. Anything up to and including extremely dubious consent is fine for this canon.

For this canon, I’m open to receiving either Shepard and Julian, or Shephard and Iris, so you don’t have to include all three characters.

Shepard Lambrick & Julian Lambrick

Optional Prompts

Something Lovecraftian – Because apparently I’m almost incapable of requesting an entirely non-Lovecraftian film with Jeffrey Combs in it without going ‘Yeah, but what if Lovecraft though?’ On the one hand, you could just take this film at face value, but on the other there does seem to be an odd sense of duty about the way Shepard treats the games, with his attention to the rules and tradition, so what if the Foundation and the games have some kind of supernatural reason for existing?
Antagonism - characters don't like each other but nobody else understands them this well Characters who can't stand each other would also die for each other
Daddy Issues – Because if there was ever a character with hang-ups over his father, it’s Julian Lambrick.
Fantasies about murdering your father – Whether a 5+1 fic about the times Julian has thought about killing his father throughout his life, or something a bit more involved, where he’s actually seriously thinking about going through with it. Or dreaming about doing it. Will he ever have the guts? Does Shepard know? (And if Lucas is involved, maybe the two of them plotting together as part of some fucked-up sexual fantasy, but actually Lucas is telling Shepard about it)
Shepard is beginning to have doubts about whether Julian really has the necessary qualities to follow in his footsteps. Maybe he decides to give Julian one last chance.
A fucked-up slice of life fic following the everyday operations of the Lambrick Foundation.
Something investigating Shepard’s relationship with his son in contrast to Shepard’s relationship with his own father.
What was the first game like? Did it happen under Shepard, or was it something that he inherited? If the latter, then what was his experience of his first game like?

Shepard Lambrick & Iris, Shepard Lambrick/Iris

Optional Prompts

Enemies to Lovers - Enemy tenderly treats character's injuries that the enemy inflicted – Whether this follows on directly from the end of the film, or relates to a whole new injury that Iris has sustained, I am so completely here for this. Or alternatively, what if Shepard is the one who’s been injured at Iris’s hands. It’s a couple of years down the line and, trying to get her revenge on him, she’s taken him to an isolated cabin while his people hunt for them. Only she isn’t sure whether she can really bring herself to kill someone again. Manipulation ensues.
Antagonist Surprises With Honourable Behavior – ‘honourable’ according to Shepard’s judgement, anyway. Because he really does seem to have a fucked-up code of his own when it comes to the games, even if that is just one of his manipulation techniques. But he honours his promises, and Iris finds herself conflicted.
Breathplay - top/dom likes getting choked – Consider this an exception to my Breathplay DNW. Shepard has a thing about being choked. Iris obliges because she just hates him so much. They’re both drawn to the element of risk: him because he knows she might well kill him if she was capable of it, she’s not sure if she is capable of it, but knows that if she takes it too far it could end very badly for her.
Captivity – For one reason or another, Shepard decides it’s necessary to have Iris quietly disposed of, but he’s unwilling to have her killed so imprisons her instead.
Character has their face shaved with a straight razor (by someone they have reason to distrust) – Having established a sexual relationship, although still aware that there’s good chance she’d like to kill him, Shepard lets Iris shave him. What appeals to me here is the sexual tension and Iris’s ever-present temptation to just cut his throat and have done with it.
Character Trains a Protege – Ohhh baby. Explore this however you want to, whether the focus is on the beginning of the process or if you start with her taking her place as a witness to a game. Is Iris all in (for whatever reason), or does she still have her doubts, or is she working against him somehow? And what exactly is Julian doing in all of this?
Slow Seduction/Corruption Arc – So uncomfortably hot, whatever form the seduction takes, whether it’s about sex or a moral corruption. I am absolutely here for a sexual relationship developing between them, but also her originally resisting him trying to use her for his own ends once she’s gone through college, and his attempts to bring her around, finding her a job, etc.
Outsider POV of a 'date' between Shepard and Iris. Especially if its clearly deeply uncomfortable, but to the outsider it just looks like a normal date between a solicitous older man and a younger woman (aside from maybe a couple of out-of-place moments).
Possessiveness - No One Is Allowed to Hurt You Except Me – Times when Shepard went out of his way to protect Iris.
Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder – After the game, Iris is struggling to recover from the experience.
Scar Worship – Specifically that stab-wound. But also, maybe Shepard has one or two scars of his own.

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Trick or Treat 2023 Letter

AO3 Username: StopTalkingAtMe

Welcome to my letter, Mystery Creator. Let me start by saying I’m open to a LOT of different things, including unrequested crossovers with other fandoms that I’m into. If I’ve ever written it or requested it or otherwise given you reason to think I’m a fan then go ahead.. And while my general likes might lean towards the bleak and angsty, believe it or not, I do also really love more light-hearted styles of fic as well as pure unadulterated smut. Do whatever you want with my prompts. I tend to use freeforms to trigger ideas and suggestions, but they are purely to give you ideas of the sort of thing I like. Use them, subvert them, or ignore them completely and go off my general likes if you’d prefer. Some of the sections here may be longer than others but please don’t read anything into that – I’d be delighted with a gift for any one of them. I’m excited to see what you come up with! :D

General Likes
Smut Likes
DNWs
Ash vs Evil Dead
Butch Cassidy and the Wild Bunch (2023 Movie Duology)
Love and a .45
Re-Animator (Movies)
Star Trek: Deep Space Nine
Would You Rather? (2012)

General Likes and DNWs

General Likes

Character studies and introspection
Loneliness and isolation
Angst
Atmospheric description, scenery porn, sensory description
World-building, backstory, and character development.
Horror of all kinds, understated ghost stories, body horror, cosmic horror, claustophibic horror where the characters are trapped underground, potentially with monsters (think The Descent), etc.
Closed Circle - Stranded with a murderer in your midst, whether in horror or murder mystery. Think And Then There Were None.
Case-fic, whether fully realised or just touching on elements from a case.
Whump, hurt/comfort and hurt/no comfort.
Endings of all kinds, happy, bleak or bittersweet.
Canon-divergent AUs, especially post-canon ones where the bad guys win.
Pining, whether mutual or one-sided
Repression and stoicism
Descriptions of scars
Main Character Death and grief; characters getting together while still grieving for previous partners, taking solace in each other, the dead character still seeming like a presence in the relationship, etc.
Crossovers, especially oddball crossovers that come completely out of left field, although I do tend to prefer crack played straight rather than outright crack. If you have reason to believe I know and like the other fandom, then I encourage you to go for it.
Post-Apocalypse scenarios, including zombies (probably my favourite AU scenario of all time), with focus on angst and the struggle for survival.
Stranded Together With No Way Home, intense (and probably pretty damn unhealthy) fire-forged relationships that come about as a result of being isolated together and being able to rely on no one but each other.
Time Loops
Older characters finding love.
Age gap relationships
I really love historical detail and extensive research notes, so if that’s what you’re into then feel free to go wild. (If that’s not your thing, then please don’t worry: I am in no way an expert, and I love tropey indulgent stuff and cheerfully anachronistic fics just as much).
Hair kink. Hands pushed into hair, coiling it around fingers, routinely cutting another character's hair if appropriate in context (e.g. in post-apocalyptic scenarios), hairwashing as part of hurt/comfort, yanking head back by the hair, etc
Textiles, especially knitwear and embroidery; men in jumpers; historical and cultural details and craft in general
Unusual structures and ways of telling a story, such as Rashomon plots, non-linear narratives, outsider POVs, epistolary works, etc.
Cigarette kink: descriptions of smoking, sharing cigarettes, lighting cigarettes for each other, etc.
Finally, and I cannot emphasise this enough, men in sleepwear, particularly pyjamas and dressing gowns.

Smut Likes

Sex Pollen and aftermath, and any other kind of something made them do it scenario
Angry Sex, rough sex, hate sex, rough sex that turns tender
Clothed Sex, or clothed/naked
Comfort Sex
Dubcon when requested (mutual dubcon of the something-made-us-do-it kind is ALWAYS okay even when not explicitly requested)
Mild bondage and other forms of gentle restraint
Oral Sex, especially cunnilingus in all its forms, and ESPECIALLY cunnilingus with fingering
Rough Sex - Lots of Scratching and Biting and Hair-Grabbing/Pulling and Holding Partner(s) Down
Sex in grimy, grim, uncomfortable places
Threesomes
Situations where one character is too tired, injured etc to orgasm themselves, but takes great pleasure in making the other person come, so long as it's part of a wider give-take relationship when it comes to sex.

DNWs

Omegaverse
Noncon between requested ships (Something Made Them Do It scenarios are always okay though, including Bad Guys Made Them Do It)
Dubcon involving unaroused characters
Unrequested Incest
Bestiality (monsters don't count here)
Scat and waterplay
Formalised D/s dynamics (bondage and other forms of restraint are OK)
Underage
Het anal sex
Breathplay (antagonistic choking is fine)
Fisting
Lactation kink
Any variation of the word 'come' in a sexual context spelled as 'cum' (please use 'come', 'came', 'precome' etc)
Focus on AIDS/HIV

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Ash vs Evil Dead

Requested Ships: Ash Williams
Ship: Pablo Simon Bolivar & Kelly Maxwell & Ash Williams
Ship: Pablo Simon Bolivar/Kelly Maxwell/Ash Williams
Ship: Ruby Knowby/Kelly Maxwell
Requested Freeforms:
You may ignore my Art/Fic preferences for extra gifts.
You may ignore my Trick/Treat preferences for extra gifts.

For the record, I’ve just finished season 2 of the TV series, but I’m burning through the series pretty quickly, so should certainly have finished it by reveals (and possibly even by the end of sign-ups). Please don’t worry about spoilers, and I apologise in advance if I miss anything in my request). I also haven’t consumed the games, comics or the more recent films, so while I don’t mind spoilers, feel free to disregard them.

I am fascinated by the way his character evolves over the course of the films and the TV series, and while I don’t love everything about the show what I do love is how damaged he is by everything he’s gone through and everything he’s lost, and the way he’s trying to be a selfish asshole and never quite 100% succeeding because he cares more than he wants to. (If that’s not your take, by the way, then please don’t worry: part of the joy of fanfiction for me is seeing the way other people interpret characters so go with your headcanons if you want)

There are so many contradictions in his character: the womanising vs how he’s actually pretty damn romantic whenever he gets the chance, and the whole thing about him being dumb, when he is demonstratively NOT stupid AT ALL – he converted his trashed car so that it could be steam-powered ffs! My personal headcanon is that he was an engineering student working at S-Mart to put himself through college, which may or may not be supported by canon (haha, since writing this I’ve started on the comics, and YEP, engineering degree XD), but either way I love the insights those apparent contradictions give us – his almost supernatural competence when it comes to fighting Deadites vs the whole accidentally reading from the Necronomicon while high to impress a girl thing, the way his mistakes seem to come from spiralling despair and depression, the womanising coming from not wanting to get close to anyone because they almost inevitably die horribly, and the prospect of a career just being yet another thing he’s lost because of everything that happened. It’s all a mix of whump and grief and regret that will never fail to hit me in a very tender spot, and I would love to see any of that explored.

I ship him with basically everyone, and also just about every permutation of Ash/Pablo/Kelly, so if you want to write smut or ship-fic, then you have just about an open book there. I also love Kelly so much – she’s fast become one of my favourite characters, and I love her dynamic with Ruby. And just in general, I really, really love the dynamics of the relationship between Ash, Pablo and Kelly, him making the deal with Ruby purely to save them, and all the day to day mundanities of life on the road living in his trailer, and the way Kelly and Pablo feel a little like facets of Ash’s character – with Pablo being the way he used to be, mostly a normal young man, maybe a little more sensitive and quiet than most (okay, YMMV hugely on that, but that’s my take XD), while Kelly is the way he is now, a traumatised badass who is pissed as hell. I love her so freaking much, and find myself adoring her and her dynamic with Ash more with every episode I watch.

Optional Prompts

That time the evil clone goes back in time to have questionably consensual sex with a younger version of Ash, who never realises it’s a clone and so just assumes he’s inevitably going to turn into a bit of an asshole. Which… might explain a lot.
A 5+1 Things fic looking at anything you want it to. Five people Ash has slept with, five encounters with a Deadite, five times he tried to destroy the Necronomicon, Five times Ash got drenched in blood, etc.
Bathing/Washing – Because they sure do get grimy a lot in canon. Here for hurt/comfort, or just moments of respite when he gets the chance, however briefly, to get clean.
- Taking the original trilogy and the TV show in mind, I'm amused by the way each instalment contradicts the canon in one that went before. Like it only being Ash and Linda who went to the cabin in ED2, and the TV series (so far anyway) ignoring that whole sleeping too long element at the end of Army of Darkness. But what if they're all true, and each discrepancy can be put down to an alternate universe? What happens if the barriers between those universes start to break down?
More film references. One of the things I love about the series, particularly series 2 are all the nods to other films, like Christine, Mad Max, and Back to the Future. Spoof some more films, particularly horror. The Thing? Halloween? Nightmare on Elm Street?
Character expected to die but didn't and now has no idea how to live any more – I’d love to see the aftermath of trauma explored, what happened in Elk Grove after Ash’s return, the death of his girlfriend and sister, and his doomed attempts at trying to rebuild his life. Just rip my heart out please. And CHET, because woooow, that’s a relationship where there’s clearly a shit-ton of baggage. I headcanon Chet as having been in love with Ash since High School, with him sleeping with Cheryl as a kind of substitute for her brother, so yeah: that’s going to be an interesting bit of backstory right there.
Ash has to fake being evil for reasons.
Character resigned to loneliness finds unexpected intimacy with other(s) – I love Ash’s relationship with Pablo and Kelly so much, how tightly knitted they’ve become in so short a time, the whole travelling together, the way they’ve all lost something. I ship it, but I’m here for the gen relationship too – the protectiveness and the loyalty and the way that it kind of feels like he has a family again, and ow my heart ow.
Competence Kink - Character A Annoyed By How Hot They Find Character B’s Competence – Ahha, :D. I’ll admit I have Ruby in mind for this, but competence kink in general is a good fit for him, and especially the disconnect between people’s first impressions of him and the way he is in action. That speech he gives Kelly in the first episode about how ‘sure, he doesn’t look like much now, but wait a while...’ and her ‘oh. Oh no’ moment. XD
Going undercover in a cult that worships the Deadites.
Ash’s relationship with Sheila back in the Middle Ages left her pregnant, resulting in the establishment of a secret society dedicated to hunting demons. Although their priorities may have got a little mixed up over the centuries.
A Burn Notice crossover! (Note that so far I've only watched season 1 of Burn Notice, and I'm not sure how far I'll get in it by reveals, so I'd prefer no major spoilers, please. ETA: This doesn't apply to Sam's backstory or to the Fall of Sam Axe) Mistaken identities. The trio jumping to the conclusion that the evil hand has regrown Ash again and trying to kidnap/kill Sam necessitating another rescue by Michael and Fi until deadites complicate matters. Sam and Ash having to pose as each other for plot reasons. Or alternatively, maybe Sam just wakes up hungover in Ash's body one day and has to pretend to be him while he figures out what the hell's going on, who these people are, and what the fuck happened to his hand. Fudge the timelines however you need to to make this happen. :D Oh, and I should add that I am very, very here for Ash/Sam, with an Ash from any point in the timeline from the first film onwards.
Bodyswap - for any combination of the characters really, but especially the threesome of Ash, Kelly & Pablo, and for Kelly and Ruby. This is an issue that may or may not have to be solved through sex.
Pablo gets sex pollened, meaning that Ash and Kelly have to help him get through it (but end up getting it on with each other a little bit as well).
For Ruby/Kelly, a canon divergence where they team up earlier than in canon, or where they're working together for a longer period of time, perhaps because Baal's plans play out over a longer period of time or because it takes them longer to rescue Ash from the hospital. Maybe Kelly gets sick of Jacksonville so takes a break and ends up meeting up with Ruby and they have to work together.
Ruby and Kelly go on a shopping spree. Because oh god, Ruby's *wardrobe.* And maybe something something demons but also I am completely here for the clothing porn and retail therapy.
Ruby and Kelly as a battle couple.
For Ruby/Kelly (although feel free to use this prompt for other pairings) sex in the blood of their enemies
Everyone gets to meet their evil puppet selves. In fact, what about a whole evil puppet related casefic? Or body swap, where they find themselves trapped in the bodies of their evil puppet selves while the evil puppets are puppeting it up with their real bodies?
Ruby helps Kelly work through the whole being possessed by Eligos thing, whether that means the underlying trauma which she never dealt with due to being on the road with Ash, or something less serious like sex-pollen esque symptoms.
Ruby and Kelly get stranded in the 80s and have to live their lives out until the future happens. Possibly without actually having to age.
(Note that I haven't started on season 3 yet, but:) The evil Ruby we see towards the end of season 3? Her paired with an evil version of Kelly, please.
Supernatural pregnancy -- Ruby accidentally gets Kelly pregnant. Is it a monster? Is it a real baby? Or maybe they won't know either way until the baby comes.
No One Is Allowed to Hurt You Except Me - Evil!Ruby > Kelly
Enemies to Lovers - Enemy tenderly treats character's injuries that the enemy inflicted - Again for Evil!Ruby/Kelly. And while my first thought was Ruby tending to Kelly, it occurs to me that there's no reason it couldn't be the other way around, with Kelly determined to at least try to talk Ruby back to the good side.

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Butch Cassidy and the Wild Bunch (2023 Movie Duology)

Requested Ships: Charles Siringo/Tom Horn
Requested Freeforms:
You may ignore my Art/Fic preferences for extra gifts.
You may ignore my Trick/Treat preferences for extra gifts.

This is going to be a bit of a shorter request, mainly because I’m throwing it in last minute, but please don’t think that means I want this any less. These films, starting with Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid (the 2023 version), which is followed up by the sequel Butch vs Sundance, aren’t perfect by any means, but I found them a lot of fun to watch, the first one especially. They’re free on Tubi, but I’m not sure if they’re available elsewhere yet – I had to use a VPN to access them. I enjoyed the first film more, although I did appreciate a lot of what the second film tried to do, (and ftr I ship the Butch Cassidy/Sundance Kid/Etta Place OT3 too).

Horn is only in the first film and I was a little disappointed with how the sequel defanged Siringo a little – he wasn’t nearly as much as a bastard as he was in the first film. OTOH that bit where he slams Sundance into the bars of the cell? HOT. (Also the whole section where Siringo and Sundance are travelling together and all the testing his loyalty stuff? I’m not quite sure it pulled off what it was trying to do, but I would have been very very into what it was trying to do had it managed to do it, so I think of it fondly for that reason alone. Kiiiiinda shipping Siringo/Sundance a little bit too, ngl. XD)

Charles Siringo/Tom Horn

Oof, the height difference alone. *hearteyes* But I also adore their dynamic so much: in their first scene together, Siringo approvingly watching Horn beat the shit out of someone for the crime of stealing a chicken. Giving him a badge and turning Horn into his monster on a leash, standing back and watching him work: all of that is golden. The potential for loyalty kink is delicious, and it’s all the better for how Siringo is actually barely in control of Horn a lot of the time, with innocent people getting hurt as a result, but even so Horn remains completely loyal to Siringo throughout.

I would love to see that whole dynamic dug into, and I am so fucking here to see them having a sexual relationship, possibly one that reflects their dynamic onscreen – Siringo having maaaaybe bitten off more than he can chew, and not quite being in control, but at the same time doing his damndest to maintain the appearance of being in control.

Siringo fascinates me – why is he so intent on bringing Cassidy in? Does it just come down to him being obsessed with the law? I’m also really drawn to the question of morality, and the way his association with Horn leads to him compromising his moral values. (Or not. Maybe he really was always just that much of a bastard, and Horn gave him the excuse). In other words, if you want to go to town on a character study, then please, please do, but ftr I would also be happy with pure indulgent smut.

Optional Prompts

Pure indulgent smutfic. I’d especially love to see something exploring Siringo’s potential feelings of being out of control, and having unleashed something he’s maybe not quite ready to deal with. Also for this pairing I’m especially here for sex under the stars, rough sex, oral sex, campfire sex, scar worship/comparison, and a potentially repressed man getting borderline dubconned while at the same time being very into it.
Something set during the second film which digs into how Horn’s canonical death provides Siringo with a further motive to bring Cassidy in, particularly if they were lovers. (It’s fine for Horn not to appear in the fic.)
One thing I really did like about the second film was Siringo and Sundance travelling together, and Siringo’s attempts to win Sundance over to his side. Assuming Horn’s still dead, maybe they recognise that the other is attracted to men, and Sundance figures out what Siringo’s relationship with Horn really was, adding a whole interesting layer to the relationship Siringo’s trying to build between them, especially if Sundance is playing up the UST, whether or not they actually sleep together.
Alternatively, how would the second film have played out if Horn had survived? Perhaps if he’s there while Siringo is travelling with Sundance?
Prison break! Horn did survive the first film after all, and breaks Siringo out of jail after the end of the second. What happens? Do they go after Cassidy? How does the whole having the law turned against him affect Siringo’s moral worldview?
Hurt/comfort -- they both survive the end of the first film, but are both wounded and have to patch each other up.
A's Love Language Is Killing B's Enemies And Dropping Them At B's Feet Like A Cat Gifting Dead Mice – With A being Horn. :D Go hard on the loyalty kink, and it’s fine to handwave whatever canon events you need to or ignore them completely.
Zombie AU – I always love zombies, and there isn’t nearly enough zombie apocalypse stuff set in alternative time periods. Potentially as an excuse to force Siringo to work with Butch and the rest of his gang.
Alternate Universe - Different First Meeting – I’d love to see the version of Siringo recruiting Horn where they met before, potentially as an anonymous one night stand (although it doesn’t have to be) – maybe he isn’t sure if Horn recognises him, but turns out he does, which leads to complicated feelings. (or just sex. That’s good too.)
Give me Siringo’s version of the story, in which he very much sees himself as the hero. Is it a case of unreliable narrator, or is he well aware of all the terrible things he’s done, but sees them as a necessary price to pay? (First person and epistolary works, maybe a memoir written in prison are particularly welcome here.)
I’d love something digging into their onscreen dynamic, exploring how Siringo really feels about Horn's propensity for violence and the way his own moral code is compromised, or if he was just secretly always that much of a bastard and Horn just gave him the excuse. Also here for him being taken aback by how drawn he is to Horn because of how good he is at killing.
Character Surprised By Their Own Deep Loyalty Feels; Object Of Loyalty Even More Surprised – The tag speaks for itself. :D Here for all the loyalty kink. and for Horn unexpectedly being genuinely loyal to Siringo, even though he might not always obey him
One character shaves another's face with a straight razor – Ideally Horn shaving Siringo, but the alternative is good too. Bring this about however you can, whether Siringo’s hands have been injured, or maybe they’ve already slept together and this is just an extension of that intimacy. If there’s an undercurrent of mild threat to the shaving and Siringo isn’t entirely comfortable with it, then all the better.
Only One Bed – Or maybe there is another room and it’s in the brothel next door, so everyone’s expecting Horn to take it, including Siringo (and maybe Horn himself), but actually he ends up sharing Siringo’s room and bed instead and trying to pass it off as being because of his moral uprightedness which literally no one believes for a minute.

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Love and a .45 (1994)

Requested Ships:
Dinosaur Bob/Creepy Cody
Requested Freeforms:
You may ignore my Art/Fic preferences for extra gifts.
You may ignore my Trick/Treat preferences for extra gifts.

Terrible people doing terrible things! :D

The bit where having terrorised Billy, Bob dances around him and then just straight up throws himself into his lap? And then, THEN, still sitting in said lap, he goes on to nestle his head against Billy’s chest while still menacing him and waving a gun around? Mmmph. The gun kink, the dancing, the casual touching and violation of personal space, the apparent total confidence in whatever the fucking hell his sexuality is, the gun kink... Oh GOD did I mention the gun kink? MORE OF THAT SORT OF THING PLEASE.

Optional Prompts

Gun Kink – Yeeeep. This is a pretty good canon for gun kink. I’m here for anything from caressing the other party with a gun, whether tenderly or with an air of menace, to actual insertion or fellating of a gun.
'Platonic' porn-watching and mutual masturbation session leads to sex – Because they’re horny and bored and there’s definitely nothing gay about this.
"We'll just have sex one time to get it out of our systems" ... but it makes the longing worse – All the ‘sex while pining and in denial’ energy please.

A/B Seduce C into a Threesome; Then A/B Realize They Only Want Each Other – I’m specifically thinking of Billy for C here, because his entire dynamic with them, and it way it flips their roles delights me, but alternatively go with an OC, possibly a woman because I like the opportunities for ‘pining while in denial’.

Altered States – Drugs (Recreational) – Bonding over substance misuse and/or sex under the influence.

First Meeting – Explore their backstory. How did they meet? In prison or elsewhere? How did they get on the first time they met

Alternate Universe - John Wick (Movies) Setting – In which they are (terrible) international assassins. Either that or they’re just tagging along with an old acquaintance who is an assassin, and maybe they’re just knocking about the Continental while plot happens all around them.

The awkward situation that results when you’re inadvertently on the periphery of a Bad Guys Made Them Do It situation between two men and it leads to the awakening of feelings.

Forced proximity – they have to hole up for a while for reasons, and have to share a hotel room, which potentially leads to sharing a bed, watching pay per view porn, and whatever other forced proximity tropes you can come up with.

Handcuffed together – Whether for the purposes of plot, or purely as an excuse for filthy PWP porn.

Bob injures his hands, which leads to him getting a caretaking handjob or oral sex from Creepy.

They meet up with Watty and Star under different circumstances a couple of years down the line.

AU where they are the wanted fugitives on a road trip as they try to escape to Mexico.

A From Dusk Till Dawn (the film version) fusion. Bob and Creepy follow Watty and Star to Mexico, but their stand-off is interrupted by vampires and they need to work together to survive.

Platonic bed sharing and the accompanying unfortunately timed boners.

Morning after (amazing sex the night before) – All the awkward aftermath please, possibly with optional ‘did that really happen?’ binge-related amnesia.

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Re-Animator

Requested Ship:
Herbert West/Dan Cain
Requested Freeforms:
You may ignore my Art/Fic preferences for extra gifts.
You may ignore my Trick/Treat preferences for extra gifts.

I’d love anything that goes hard on the hurt/comfort and mutual protectiveness between Herbert and Dan, or anything that captures the tone and bonkers exuberance, gore, humour and horror of the films. Maybe something that explores what happens in between the films, especially between the first and second films, because damn, are there some unanswered questions there – like how did Meg’s heart come to be outside of her body, and how the hell did Herbert manage to persuade Dan to go to Peru with him? And any of the reunions where an apparently dead Herbert pops up again. I also cannot emphasise enough how here I am for Herbert getting menaced and/or whumped.

Optional Prompts

5 Times Dan Assumed Herbert was Dead – Because in various places, namely the screenplay and the novelisation, he is explicitly stated to have died at the end of the first film and I like the idea of him repeatedly appearing to die and popping up again mostly unscathed (and I’m amused that the one film where he doesn’t appear to die at the end is the one in which Dan does not appear. XD).
Accidental Baby Acquisition – I mean, they’re doctors. It’s not beyond the realms of possibility that they might find themselves in a situation where they have to deliver a baby in a crisis (possibly involving zombies), and end up separated from the mother and stuck having to look after the baby.
Addiction - Character tries to distract Addict from addiction with sex – Dan tries to break Herbert’s reliance on the serum.
Alternate Universe - Russian Doll Fusion – I love time loops in all their forms anyway, but this one in particular, with its focus on constant, unrelenting death, and the way the discovery that the loop is being shared with another person would play out with these two is perfect. (and for time loops in general, I’m amused by the way Herbert would probably adapt his work to take full advantage of the loop (er, an endless supply of fresh corpses with no consequences – hey, how is it murder if they don’t stay dead? – having to memorise the results because he can’t write them down, etc.)
Hurt/Comfort – Hurt/Comfort is always welcome, but one thing I’d love to see is Dan helping Herbert through withdrawal from the serum. Mainly because I really wish that deleted scene had been included in the film. I have some quiet headcanons about Herbert’s addiction to reagent, and amongst them is the fact that avoiding sleep is really, really not a good idea, and that maybe the times when he’s at his most batshit are the times when he’s suffering from chronic sleep-deprivation. All of which convinces Dan to help him to break the habit.
Bad Guys Made Them Do It – and every other iteration of Something Made Them Do It.
Betray them to save them – Dan’s presence looms so large in Beyond Reanimator even though he doesn’t appear. I can definitely see a situation where Dan got to a point where he couldn’t see any other choice, and he genuinely believed if things carried on the way they were that Herbert was going to get himself killed. I’d love to see that decision explored and the fallout when/if they’re reunited and he realises what Herbert’s been through.
Hurt/Comfort - Character with injured hands requires assistance (which turns sexual) – Here for the hurt/comfort and smut potential of this (and also very fond of one character shaving another.)
Inspired by the novelisation, Dan is completely taken by surprise when Herbert unexpectedly turns out to be massively into ice hockey. Maybe it’s a hobby he only occasionally spares the time for, but either way Dan is extremely weirded out by the prospect of Herbert going to bars and talking to fans.
You Hurt Me More Than Anything; But Being Without You Hurts More – Herbert goes in search of Dan after the end of Beyond Reanimator. Is he planning on revenge (even if he ultimately can’t face going through with it?) Does something else happen as a catalyst that forces them to work together again? I’d love to see all the messy hurt/comfort and emotional fallout of everything that happened.
Alternate Universe - Canon Divergence – How might things have played out if Meg hadn’t been so hostile to Herbert from the get-go? Maybe if she hadn’t been there when he came about the room, allowing Dan to prime her for his oddball roommate beforehand? And if she hadn’t walked in on them bringing Rufus back, which meant that Dan wouldn’t have fallen out with Dean Halsey, who then wouldn’t have died, etc etc. It’s interesting how differently Herbert treats Francesca. While he’s not exactly polite to her (XD) he tolerates her presence in a way he doesn’t really tolerate Meg’s, and I can’t help but read that as at least partially being the result of Meg’s attitude towards him.
Alternate Universe - Canon Divergence – A canon-divergent AU where Francesca isn’t on the scene and the creation of the Bride is much more successful, and she isn’t quite so much of a monster. Mainly because I’m really curious what the hell Herbert actually had in mind beyond keeping Dan with him at all costs. (And for the record, I’m completely open to Herbert/Dan/The Bride in whatever form that takes.)
Hurt/Comfort - Technically awful attempts at comfort are actually very comforting – Okay, so Herbert is pretty terrible at doing the whole comfort thing, but the fact that he even tries is pretty damn significant.
Road trip after the end of the world – Any post-apocalypse scenario will do, but I am particularly fond of zombie apocalypses, which seems particularly apt for this canon. Was it Herbert’s fault, or was he entirely innocent for once? Where are they going? What’s the plan? And how does reagent factor into things?
Estranged Characters - Injured A shows Up on B's doorstep Saying "I didn't know where else to go" – My first thought with this was Herbert turning up out of the blue, but what if it’s the other way around? What if, potentially after Herbert’s prison break, he considered hunting Dan down, but reluctantly decided not to follow through, only for Dan to suddenly turn up unexpectedly, and turns out he’s been keeping track of Herbert all these years and somehow or other the shit’s about to hit the fan?
Herbert and Dan take the places of the narrator and the version of Herbert in the original story by Lovecraft. – I read the story after watching the films, and I was really not expecting to find that so much of what happens in the first two films came more or less directly from the story (with a fair few changes along the way). I’m fascinated by the way the films work as adaptations, but especially by the similarities and differences between the two Herberts (running away screaming the first time they reanimate a corpse? Film!Herbert would never. On the other hand the stuff with the revolver? Yeeeeah, he totally would). So perhaps a historical AU where Herbert and Dan are from that period, or where they’re still their 80s selves but have switched places with the versions of themselves from the story. Or maybe it’s just Dan who’s switched places, and he has to content with a different version of Herbert, who is BLOND (and, y'know, also slightly more actively murderous than Dan's Herbert, and has a disconcerting habit of eyeing his healthy physique with a covetous eye). (If you haven’t already read it, be warned it has some racist elements. I’d prefer for those to be avoided if you go with this prompt, please)
A Re-Animator/Ghosts (UK) crossover. Why, yes, this is goofy as hell but I waaaant it. :D In the eighties or nineties Dan and Herbert rent out Button House. Unfortunately something goes wrong and Herbert ends up dying on the property and coming back as a ghost.

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Star Trek: Deep Space Nine

Requested Ships:
Quark/Brunt
Mirror Ezri Dax/Brunt, Mirror Ezri Dax/Mirror Brunt/Brunt
Odo/Weyoun
Mirror Brunt/Weyoun 6 (ST: DS9)
Requested Freeforms:
You may ignore my Art/Fic preferences for extra gifts.
You may ignore my Trick/Treat preferences for extra gifts.

Quark/Brunt

Explore the worldbuilding – how progressive is Ferenginar when it comes to gay relationships? (and repression, denial, and internalised homophobia on one or both their parts is always welcome.) Alternatively, maybe Ferengi are actually pretty relaxed about it when it comes to casual relationships (this is where my headcanon leans these days tbh. It’s the only way the ‘Always have sex with the boss’ Rule of Acquisition really makes sense), or in the context of an M/M/F poly relationship because at least that solves the question of who pre-chews the tube grubs? In theory at least...

Optional Prompts

'Dirty little secret' relationship leads to Too Many Feelings leads to unexpected marriage proposal – Because I am so here for the two of them having a secret relationship on the downlow, and maybe they keep telling themselves it’s just about sex and it doesn’t mean anything, but actually...
Accidental Marriage – When they’re on an alien planet negotiating a contract, they accidentally wind up married (maybe because in that planet’s laws rivalry is considered a sign of great regard), and this cannot stand. Turns out getting it annulled is a little trickier than first envisioned, and in the meantime pining, forced proximity, and sex-of-convenience ensues.
Hate Sex – I am so, so here for the two of them hatefucking, and for moments of unexpected tenderness in the middle of the hatefucking, and for hate sex where they gradually start to develop feelings.
Exploration of Aftermath of Canon Events – A relationship study that looks at how things might develop between the two of them after the end of the series, with neither of them entirely happy about the changes on Ferenginar.
Characters don't realise they're in a relationship but everyone else can see it – Maybe Brunt keeps finding reasons to return to Deep Space Nice to make Quark’s life a misery, and Quark does everything he can to irritate Brunt, and neither of the two of them wants to admit that actually they’re sort of starting to enjoy each other’s company, while as far as everyone else is concerned they’re already basically together.
A post-canon fic with an established relationship between Quark and Brunt. They’re… sort of settled. Almost happy. And then, like a hand grenade tossed into the middle of their relationship, Quark’s old lover Natima Lang comes back. Somehow Brunt finds out what happened between them and is torn between horrified disgust at Quark being willing to abandon everything to run off with her and seething jealousy because he thinks, rightly or wrongly, that Quark wouldn't do that for HIM in a million years. Maybe Quark and Natima have both moved on with no lingering feelings other than a faint poignant ‘what might have been’, or maybe they’re still as in love with each other as ever and the only way to resolve this is with Quark/Natima/Brunt.
5+1 Things – A post-canon 5+1 fic exploring the ways every single member of Quark’s family undermines their attempts at (semi-)tradition Ferengi parenting (preferably of a boy, please, unless the focus is on them both overcoming their terrible ingrained sexism to the point where it’s probably going to be a bit ooc, let’s face it).
Having met by chance with an oddly familiar stranger in a bar who shares his animosity for Quark, Brunt obtains a copy of a unique holosuite program involving Major Kira with Quark’s head in return for a discounted price and the promise to use it to destroy Quark. Which would be easier to do if he could just stop thinking about how it would be better with Quark’s head on Quark’s body. To facilitate Getting Revenge, obviously. (And just as soon as he figures out why the hell Quark would make the program so damn good at oo-mox if it was written for a non-Ferengi).
So, um, those scenes in The Dogs of War when Brunt is sucking up to Quark because they both think Zek is going to appoint him the next Grand Nagus? He’d be remiss if he forgot Rule 113 of the Rules of Acquisition: Always have sex with the boss.
Ishka figures out why Brunt is so fixated on bringing Quark down. And, well, okay, yes, Brunt is terrible, but also he’s a good Ferengi, and frankly, Quark could probably do worse.
Time Travel Fix-It – Brunt and Quark travel back to a point where they’re in a position to alter the course of Ferengi history and prevent the sweeping changes brought about by Quark’s mother, but potentially ruining their fortunes in their present, since with the franchisement of Quark’s they’re actually doing pretty damn well for themselves. Do they go through with it, or disagree about whether they should go through with it?

Mirror Ezri Dax/Brunt & Mirror Ezri Dax/Mirror Brunt/Brunt

And then there’s Brunt. XD

Optional Prompts

Femdom – Because if there’s ever been a character who very definitely needs to get dommed by a female, it is Brunt.
Clothing - Naked Male Clothed Female – Niiice. I just love this freeform so, so much when it comes to Brunt (especially if combined with femdom). He would just hate it so fucking much. It’s disgusting. It’s depraved. So why the hell does he find it so fucking hot? *hearteyes*
Identity Porn – Brunt has to pose as his Mirror counterpart and work with Mirror!Ezri, leading to a sex scene in which for kink reasons he ends up having sex with her while still in the Mirror!Brunt persona.
A threesome in which Ezri and Brunt edge Mirror!Brunt until he’s a sobbing desperate mess. Look, I just want him to have nice things okay?
Accidental Baby Acquisition – I am a sucker for certain tropes and one of those tropes that will forever get me is when people who under normal circumstances have no business looking after babies get stuck looking after a baby. If Mirror!Brunt is around, maybe the plan was that he’d be the one looking after the kid, but due to something going wrong, he and Brunt have to trade places and pretend to be each other.
Competence Kink - Whether they’re rivals or allies, I just love the idea of Brunt and Mirror!Ezri being secretly impressed and turned on by how good the other one is at lying, cheating and stealing. Lets just say Brunt probably has more in common with Mirror!Ezri than his counterpart does.
Since his death, Ezri has been seeing Mirror!Brunt's ghost. Maybe it’s some kind of hallucination from a space anomaly, or maybe she’s just imagining him, or maybe he really is a ghost, or maybe he’s the result of a malfunctioning portable holoprojector (which she hasn’t fixed because she kind of misses him and it’s nice having him around). but either way she’s gradually beginning to accept she might have had feelings for him after all. Then she meets Brunt.
proxy-fucking – Mirror!Ezri fucking Brunt as a way of processing the grief she feels about Mirror!Brunt’s death.

Odo/Weyoun

I've shipped Odo/Weyoun pretty damn hard right from Weyoun's first episode, and Weyoun 6 sacrificing himself and then dying in Odo’s arms certainly didn’t make me ship them any less. There's a lot to dig into with this relationship: the complexities of the Vorta and their inbuilt loyalty to Changelings, the potential for changes to the way the Vorta are created and how that might affect the Dominion, Odo's blind spot for his people, and the fact that they're both capable of leading very long lives. Even when almost every other solid Odo’s known in his life has passed on, Weyoun could potentially still be around, and there are a lot of possibilities there.

Optional Prompts

DS9: Post-canon attempt to return the Vorta to sexual reproduction; first non-clone baby born - With Weyoun and Odo being at the heart of the attempt.
A canon-divergent fic where Weyoun 6 survives to defect to the Federation, exploring how their relationship goes after the war is over.
A canon-divergent AU where the canonical baby Changeling turns up while the station is in the hands of the Dominion and Weyoun is involved with Odo's attempts to look after it.
Complicated emotions at being pregnant with a baby character believes is a god - somehow Weyoun ends up knocked up, whether it's some kind of handwavy transporter accident type accident, or the result of a sex pollen incident necessary to save Odo's life and neither of them realised Weyoun could get pregnant that way. Is there some kind of side effect from the pregnancy which leaves Weyoun with some degree of shapeshifting powers, or the ability to link with the baby, which is amazing but also very uncomfortable because he's just a Vorta.
Cloning Accident result in creating a baby - The real reason Weyoun 6 tried to defect. :D Is it a wholly new person or just a baby version of Weyoun, and what are the implications of it not being going through the full cloning process?
character that thought they had zero parenting instincts goes into hardcore protective mode - I love Weyoun as a villain at least partly because of how very... unintimidating he is in a lot of ways. He's small and slight and vulnerable and he keeps dying, and I'm really drawn to this prompt both for him embracing his violent side in the interests of protecting a baby and for the potential to explore his character because I’ll always love a character study.
a 5+1 fic exploring the way Odo's relationship with the various different Weyouns changes over the years.
Sex Pollen – Whether it’s Odo affected and Weyoun willingly sacrifices himself to save the Founder, or Weyoun is affected and is horrified/pathetically grateful at Odo being willing to help. Or the aftermath of the sex pollen situation with all the fallout.
A canon-divergent AU where Odo remains human for longer, and he’s still a solid when he meets Weyoun 5 for the first time. What effect would Odo's becoming a solid have on their dynamic? How would the Vorta conceptualise the concept of a god becoming a solid, and what does that mean for the way Weyoun’s worldview? I’d be delighted with anything from a character/relationship study that follows their time on the station together, or perhaps something plottier where they're stranded on a planet together and have to work together to survive, but now Odo's just as vulnerable as Weyoun is. (Sex pollen always welcome)
Hurt/Comfort - Character Treats Other Character's Injuries – Weyoun is injured and Odo has to treat his injuries, whether it’s Weyoun 6 or one of the other ones. I’m just fascinated by all the messy feelings of faith and awe, and Odo’s discomfort at being thought of as a god.
Slow and painful process of recovering from lifetime of cultural brainwashing – Whether it happens over the course of one Weyoun or several. I really love all the tangled complexities of the way the Vorta see the world. Maybe this is a canon-divergent fic where Weyoun 6 survives and Odo tries to deprogram him? Or maybe a future Weyoun where the process has begun but isn't quite there yet.
Whump - A sacrifices themself to protect B; B is forced to watch A being tortured – The obvious candidate for self-sacrifice is Weyoun, but Odo sacrificing himself and Weyoun's struggles watching him being tortured (perhaps that Romulan device that stops him from changing shape) would be delicious too.

Mirror Brunt/Weyoun 6

Because a passing stray thought that Mirror Brunt and Weyoun 6 should hook up got into my head and then refused to go away. Which I can understand, because because fucking hell, yes. I have absolutely no idea how it would work or how it would come about, but goddamn do I want it to happen.

As ships go, this is absurdly self-indulgent, but at the same time there are some potentially really interesting dynamics and parallels to be drawn between them. They're both more sympathetic versions of more or less antagonistic characters, both desperately loyal to another person with whom they have a somewhat one-sided relationship, (and they're both adorable tragically doomed cinnamon rolls. D:) Maybe Weyoun finds himself stranded in the Mirror universe – is the fact that it isn’t his universe provide a loophole that allows him to override his inbuild loyalty to the Dominion? (Keevan shows that not all Vorta are unquestionably loyal, which suggests that Weyoun is just like that, unswervingly terrifyingly loyal, whether it’s to the Dominion or to Odo, and I love him all the more for that) Does he immediately set out to try to find a way back to his universe, or to find the wormhole in the Mirror universe? How does Mirror Odo complicate matters?

Optional Prompts

Look, if in doubt, please just make them kiss and I will be happy. :D
Body Swap - Characters Are Alarmingly Good At Being Each Other
Conflicting loyalties – Explore the issue of loyalty and how it manifests in each of them. Especially Weyoun, whose loyalties are at least somewhat artificial. How does the Mirror universe affect his loyalties to the Founders? Is he able to override it? Perhaps because he’s stuck there he gradually becomes used to feeling free of his obligations to the Dominion, and transfers his loyalties to Mirror Brunt instead, but then an opportunity to return to the prime universe arises and he has to deal with his conflicting loyalties.
Weyoun has fallen in with M!Ezri and M!Brunt and has been working with them for a while without issue until they capture Mirror!Odo. And maybe he can override his instinctive loyalties because this is the Mirror!Universe version and so not a true Founder, but it doesn’t come easily.
Character finally finds an unconditionally good relationship; not sure how to handle it - They're both just so damn sweet, and while everything else might be going to hell, the two of them still manage to carve out some moments of sweetness in the middle of the nightmarish dystopia that is the Mirror Universe.
Character isn't used to being loved and shown tenderness/affection – Because loving relationships aren’t normally part of a Vorta’s life experience, and Weyoun isn’t quite sure how to handle it.
Food as part of the language of love – They both have interesting relationships with food. Given Mirror Brunt’s tendency to make sure everyone’s fed (with tube grubs, but still...), and the way Weyoun works his way through everything on the replicator’s menu, it seems like this would be the perfect way for them to bond. And okay, maybe Brunt can’t get his hands on kava nuts or rippleberries but there must be something.
Creating your moral code from scratch after the last one imploded – So let’s say Weyoun is stranded, temporarily or otherwise, in the Mirror universe. He’s finally free of his obligations to the Dominion, because there is no Dominion there, and so has to figure out a few things and relearn the sort of person he wants to be.
Gently touching a character's scar(s) – Because again this is one of the contrasts between them, Mirror Brunt being scarred (because picking up scars in the Mirror Universe is inevitable, let’s face it) while Weyoun is almost entirely scar-free due to being a recent clone. I’m particularly here for scar kink, and all the associated fascination and sympathy and tenderness, but you could also play with the issues over cloning: Weyoun’s memories of injuries sustained by other Weyouns, which aren’t reflected on his body, but which maybe he feels as phantom scars of some kind?
Emotional hurt/comfort – Ordinarily Vortas’ memories of their previous deaths and injuries are suppressed as part of the cloning process to ensure they remain motivated and willing to sacrifice themselves, but every now and then those suppressed memories return in full force.
Identity Porn - A scam/heist requires that they both have to pose as their other selves.
Smut - experimenting with and exploring interspecies biology.
on the run together – Whether from the Alliance or from some kind of crime syndicate (potentially run by Mirror Ishka XD), and bonding in the process.
Two tired people taking quiet comfort in each other – Exhausted sex, moments of respite in the middle of the world going to hell, the two of them finding moments of common ground, etc.
Competence Kink - And the two of them being quietly impressed and turned on by the other’s competence: Brunt’s toughness and fighting skills and Weyoun's innate diplomacy and negotiating skills.

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Would You Rather (2012)

Requested Ships:
Shepard Lambrick & Julian Lambrick
Shepard Lambrick & Iris
Shepard Lambrick/Iris
Requested Freeforms:
You may ignore my Art/Fic preferences for extra gifts.
You may ignore my Trick/Treat preferences for extra gifts.

Note on my DNWs: It’s fine to include references to the attempted rape in canon. Anything up to and including extremely dubious consent is fine for this canon.

Shepard Lambrick & Julian Lambrick

Optional Prompts

Something Lovecraftian – Because apparently I’m almost incapable of requesting an entirely non-Lovecraftian film with Jeffrey Combs in it without going ‘Yeah, but what if Lovecraft though?’ On the one hand, you could just take this film at face value, but on the other there does seem to be an odd sense of duty about the way Shepard treats the games, with his attention to the rules and tradition, so what if the Foundation and the games have some kind of supernatural reason for existing?
Antagonism - characters don't like each other but nobody else understands them this well Characters who can't stand each other would also die for each other
Daddy Issues – Because if there was ever a character with hang-ups over his father, it’s Julian Lambrick.
Fantasies about murdering your father – Whether a 5+1 fic about the times Julian has thought about killing his father throughout his life, or something a bit more involved, where he’s actually seriously thinking about going through with it. Or dreaming about doing it. Will he ever have the guts? Does Shepard know? (And if Lucas is involved, maybe the two of them plotting together as part of some fucked-up sexual fantasy, but actually Lucas is telling Shepard about it)
Shepard is beginning to have doubts about whether Julian really has the necessary qualities to follow in his footsteps. Maybe he decides to give Julian one last chance.
A fucked-up slice of life fic following the everyday operations of the Lambrick Foundation.
Something investigating Shepard’s relationship with his son in contrast to Shepard’s relationship with his own father.
What was the first game like? Did it happen under Shepard, or was it something that he inherited? If the latter, then what was his experience of his first game like?

Shepard Lambrick & Iris, Shepard Lambrick/Iris

Optional Prompts

Enemies to Lovers - Enemy tenderly treats character's injuries that the enemy inflicted – Whether this follows on directly from the end of the film, or relates to a whole new injury that Iris has sustained, I am so completely here for this. Or alternatively, what if Shepard is the one who’s been injured at Iris’s hands. It’s a couple of years down the line and, trying to get her revenge on him, she’s taken him to an isolated cabin while his people hunt for them. Only she isn’t sure whether she can really bring herself to kill someone again. Manipulation ensues.
Antagonist Surprises With Honourable Behavior – ‘honourable’ according to Shepard’s judgement, anyway. Because he really does seem to have a fucked-up code of his own when it comes to the games, even if that is just one of his manipulation techniques. But he honours his promises, and Iris finds herself conflicted.
Breathplay - top/dom likes getting choked – Consider this an exception to my Breathplay DNW. Shepard has a thing about being choked. Iris obliges because she just hates him so much. They’re both drawn to the element of risk: him because he knows she might well kill him if she was capable of it, she’s not sure if she is capable of it, but knows that if she takes it too far it could end very badly for her.
Captivity – For one reason or another, Shepard decides it’s necessary to have Iris quietly disposed of, but he’s unwilling to have her killed so imprisons her instead.
Character has their face shaved with a straight razor (by someone they have reason to distrust) – Having established a sexual relationship, although still aware that there’s good chance she’d like to kill him, Shepard lets Iris shave him. What appeals to me here is the sexual tension and Iris’s ever-present temptation to just cut his throat and have done with it.
Character Trains a Protege – Ohhh baby. Explore this however you want to, whether the focus is on the beginning of the process or if you start with her taking her place as a witness to a game. Is Iris all in (for whatever reason), or does she still have her doubts, or is she working against him somehow? And what exactly is Julian doing in all of this?
Slow Seduction/Corruption Arc – So uncomfortably hot, whatever form the seduction takes, whether it’s about sex or a moral corruption. I am absolutely here for a sexual relationship developing between them, but also her originally resisting him trying to use her for his own ends once she’s gone through college, and his attempts to bring her around, finding her a job, etc.
Outsider POV of a 'date' between Shepard and Iris. Especially if its clearly deeply uncomfortable, but to the outsider it just looks like a normal date between a solicitous older man and a younger woman (aside from maybe a couple of out-of-place moments).
Possessiveness - No One Is Allowed to Hurt You Except Me – Times when Shepard went out of his way to protect Iris.
Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder – After the game, Iris is struggling to recover from the experience.
Scar Worship – Specifically that stab-wound. But also, maybe Shepard has one or two scars of his own.

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Thanks for reading!

FiaB 2023 Letter

AO3 Username: StopTalkingAtMe

Welcome to my letter, Mystery Creator. Let me start by saying I’m open to a LOT of different things, including unrequested crossovers with other fandoms that I’m into. If I’ve ever written it or requested it or otherwise given you reason to think I’m a fan then go ahead.. And while my general likes might lean towards the bleak and angsty, believe it or not, I do also really love more light-hearted styles of fic as well as pure unadulterated smut. Do whatever you want with my prompts. I tend to use freeforms to trigger ideas and suggestions, but they are purely to give you ideas of the sort of thing I like. Use them, subvert them, or ignore them completely and go off my general likes if you’d prefer. Some of the sections here may be longer than others but please don’t read anything into that – I’d be delighted with a gift for any one of them. I’m excited to see what you come up with! :D

General Likes
Smut Likes
DNWs
The 4400 (2004)
Butch Cassidy and the Wild Bunch (2023 Movie Duology)
Dr Mordrid (1992)
Evil Dead (Movies and TV)
House on Haunted Hill (1999)
Interzone (1987)
The Lurking Fear (1994)
Re-Animator (Movies)
Star Trek: Deep Space Nine
Would You Rather? (2012)

General Likes and DNWs

General Likes

Character studies and introspection
Loneliness and isolation
Angst
Atmospheric description, scenery porn, sensory description
World-building, backstory, and character development.
Horror of all kinds, understated ghost stories, body horror, cosmic horror, claustophibic horror where the characters are trapped underground, potentially with monsters (think The Descent), etc.
Closed Circle - Stranded with a murderer in your midst, whether in horror or murder mystery. Think And Then There Were None.
Case-fic, whether fully realised or just touching on elements from a case.
Whump, hurt/comfort and hurt/no comfort.
Endings of all kinds, happy, bleak or bittersweet.
Canon-divergent AUs, especially post-canon ones where the bad guys win.
Pining, whether mutual or one-sided
Repression and stoicism
Descriptions of scars
Main Character Death and grief; characters getting together while still grieving for previous partners, taking solace in each other, the dead character still seeming like a presence in the relationship, etc.
Crossovers, especially oddball crossovers that come completely out of left field, although I do tend to prefer crack played straight rather than outright crack. If you have reason to believe I know and like the other fandom, then I encourage you to go for it.
Post-Apocalypse scenarios, including zombies (probably my favourite AU scenario of all time), with focus on angst and the struggle for survival.
Stranded Together With No Way Home, intense (and probably pretty damn unhealthy) fire-forged relationships that come about as a result of being isolated together and being able to rely on no one but each other.
Time Loops
Older characters finding love.
Age gap relationships
I really love historical detail and extensive research notes, so if that’s what you’re into then feel free to go wild. (If that’s not your thing, then please don’t worry: I am in no way an expert, and I love tropey indulgent stuff and cheerfully anachronistic fics just as much).
Hair kink. Hands pushed into hair, coiling it around fingers, routinely cutting another character's hair if appropriate in context (e.g. in post-apocalyptic scenarios), hairwashing as part of hurt/comfort, yanking head back by the hair, etc
Textiles, especially knitwear and embroidery; men in jumpers; historical and cultural details and craft in general
Unusual structures and ways of telling a story, such as Rashomon plots, non-linear narratives, outsider POVs, epistolary works, etc.
Cigarette kink: descriptions of smoking, sharing cigarettes, lighting cigarettes for each other, etc.
Finally, and I cannot emphasise this enough, men in sleepwear, particularly pyjamas and dressing gowns.

Smut Likes

Sex Pollen and aftermath, and any other kind of something made them do it scenario
Angry Sex, rough sex, hate sex, rough sex that turns tender
Clothed Sex, or clothed/naked
Comfort Sex
Dubcon when requested (mutual dubcon of the something-made-us-do-it kind is ALWAYS okay even when not explicitly requested)
Mild bondage and other forms of gentle restraint
Oral Sex, especially cunnilingus in all its forms, and ESPECIALLY cunnilingus with fingering
Rough Sex - Lots of Scratching and Biting and Hair-Grabbing/Pulling and Holding Partner(s) Down
Sex in grimy, grim, uncomfortable places
Threesomes
Situations where one character is too tired, injured etc to orgasm themselves, but takes great pleasure in making the other person come, so long as it's part of a wider give-take relationship when it comes to sex.

DNWs

Omegaverse
Noncon between requested ships (Something Made Them Do It scenarios are always okay though, including Bad Guys Made Them Do It)
Dubcon involving unaroused characters
Unrequested Incest
Bestiality (monsters don't count here)
Scat and waterplay
Formalised D/s dynamics (bondage and other forms of restraint are OK)
Underage
Het anal sex
Breathplay (antagonistic choking is fine)
Fisting
Lactation kink
Any variation of the word 'come' in a sexual context spelled as 'cum' (please use 'come', 'came', 'precome' etc)
Focus on AIDS/HIV

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The 4400 (2004)

Requested Ships:
Jordan Collier/Shawn Farrell
Kevin Burkhoff/Tess Doerner
Requested Worldbuilding Tags:
WB: The Future Catastrophe
Requested Freeforms:

(I understand there are post-canon novels available, but I haven’t read them yet. It’s fine to disregard them and purely go off the series.)

Shawn and Maia are probably the two characters I came away loving the most: they’re both so young and complicated, and I’d be really fascinated to see how they both deal with everything post-canon. I had my doubts about Isabelle (the whole super-fast-aging eldritch baby turns out hot thing), but actually I really loved her too by the end, especially after she lost her abilities.

And then there’s all the time stuff. It’s kind of superheroes-by-stealth, and I really love how it’s an upside down version of the X-Men while not being anything of the kind, and the way it focuses on the day-to-day realities of a situation like this by mostly following NTAC (and god, I ADORE Tom and Diana’s rock-solid, loving, affectionate, I-would-die-for-this-person friendship <3<3<3)

Jordan Collier/Shawn Farrell

As much as I love all the other relationships that appear in the show, the one between Jordan and Shawn is ultimately the central relationship of the show: these two as diametrically-opposed messiahs, each of them wanting to do what’s best for everyone, but ultimately ending up on opposite sides.

And they’re still like that at the end – the issue with promicin still hasn’t gone away. Jordan still wants everyone in the world to take the shot, Shawn wants to save as many lives as possible, and still has Kevin potentially developing a test to determine whether anyone taking it will be able to survive, so that conflict between them is still there. At one point it felt like the show was setting up Jordan vs Isabelle, and it kiiiinda was, but more than that, what it was actually setting up was this weird, complicated push-pull relationship between Shawn and Jordan, and goddamn, am I here for seeing that explored.

And Shawn, god I love him so much. Everything he’s been through, everything he’s lost: his fucked-up relationship with Isabelle, and his brother, and the pressure on his shoulders. I forget, sometimes, watching it, just how painfully young he is, given he was still in high school at the start of the series, and the series only really unfolds over a couple of years. He’s really just a kid, but he’s had to shoulder this massive burden and responsibility while getting his heart ripped out and stamped on at every turn. Taking over the 4400 centre after Jordan’s death (and his GRIEF when that happens), and trying to steer a middle path and shift the centre away from Jordan’s extremely cult-like trappings to something more genuine, and then Jordan comes back as a kind of smug Jesus (not a complaint: what other kind of Jesus would Jordan Collier be?) and starts a whole new cult, and just… oof.

Can that middle path be steered? Which of them is right? To what extent does Jordan believe his new world heaven on earth bullshit, or is it just more of him being a businessman and creating the image he knows what everyone wants to see? I do believe he is, at least to some extent, sincere, but at the same time some part of his nature remains, and he was always manipulative and stubborn.

What exactly is this vision of the face of god he’s talking about or heaven on earth? Right up until the end I didn’t know if Jordan was going to prove to be a force for good or bad, and I still can’t tell, but then I think about his for the world being 100% promicin positive, and I think about how many deaths that means, and yeeeeeah, that probably ain’t great.

Optional Prompts

I seem to remember Matthew suggesting he knew Jordan was back before Jordan made his appearance at the wedding. What if the Marked got hold of him earlier and turned him into one of them then, so that he’s marked right from the moment he turns up. How would that change things? How does Shawn figure out that there might be a way to save him.
A fic revolving around Shawn removing the Mark from Jordan after they escape in the final episode. Does he get tempted at any point simply to let Jordan die?
I do love a nightmare post-apocalyptic hellscape so explore that all you want. Perhaps Shawn and Jordan find themselves trapped together in one of Jordan’s nightmarish visions of the future and have to work together to survive. Maybe they really are trapped, or maybe they’re shared dreams. If the latter, is Jordan behind them?
Jordan and Shawn are the subject of one of Curtis Peck’s terrible, terrible films, which predicts Jordan’s death and the identity of his murderer before Jordan is killed. Oh, and also, Jordan and Shawn are an item in the film.
A 5+1 fic exploring the way their relationship changes over the course of the show.
A Sliding Doors fic that looks at different ways the timeline could have gone. What if Jordan hadn’t been killed, or if Shawn had been able to save him?
Maia makes a prediction that not only are Shawn and Jordan going to end up on the same side, they’re also going to end up lovers.
So what if things happen differently with Danny and the promicin virus spreads beyond Seattle, so Shawn isn’t able to take him out of the picture until it’s too late? Maybe he gets kidnapped by a splinter-group who don’t agree with Jordan’s insistence that everyone has to choose to get the shot, who want to deliberately use him to infect the world. And Shawn and Jordan have to team up to rescue him (although exactly how sincere is Jordan about that? Ultimately there are always going to be some people who refuse to get the shot).
Shawn is injured and Jordan has to tend to his wounds.
What the hell was going on with Cassie and all the White Light cult stuff? Was it the result of inconvenient 4400s being sent back in the time line and still retaining some memory of what was going on?

Kevin Burkhoff/Tess Doerner

The relationship between these two hits me so hard in the id, it makes me a little bit giddy. The age gap, the protectiveness, the complete unwavering mutual devotion, the (also mutual) caretaking, all the potential for guilt and grief, and just in general all the complexities of their relationship. It was made for me, and I feel so spoiled that it happened. :D

They are so, so affectionate with each other. I do kinda wish their relationship came across as a little more explicitly sexual on-screen, but I can headcanon that as Kevin feeling guilty about the age gap, which actually is canon given the moment in the penultimate episode where he tries to break up with her (I’ll settle for hugs, kisses and forehead pressing *sobs*). I am very much here for younger characters pursuing older ones and for the older characters feeling weird and guilty as hell about it, but they just adore each other so much, and again SPOILED. I also love the weirdness of her being so much younger than him despite having been born in the thirties.

There’s an argument to be made that she’s the most powerful 4400 after Isabelle (and it cracks me up the way they kept having to ~~dose her with kryptonite~~ pack her off to visit her grandniece to get her out of the way. It’s not a perfect show, but it’s imperfections are part of what I find so delightful XD).

They also sort of act as a mirror to Lily and Richard, another couple who have been semi-destined to be together. I mentioned the incongruousness of Kevin and Tess's abilities, and there’s a weird fucked-up sort of synergy about how they seem designed to protect each other. Like, yes, okay, maybe Kevin’s invulnerability is to protect his promicin-research, but it also means that when Tess has a schizophrenic break he’s able to survive anything she does to him, and he’s devoted enough to hang on in there. The more you start to tease out the implications, the more the cruelty starts to show itself, so dig into that all you want.

Optional Prompts

A bad guys win!AU in which Marked!Jordan Collier is removing the abilities of the p-positives, while the original 4400s are being hunted down one by one. Tess and Kevin go on the run.
Their reunion after Tess gets out of hospital happens off-screen. I would love to see how that went, and how they came to be working together. There’s so much potential for everything I love here: his guilt over how he came to be cured, and the hurt/comfort as the promicin side effects get worse.
Yet another thing that happens off-screen: how they got together as a couple in the first place. Given that they kiss just after he’s sloughed off his skin, clearly something was happening while he was still scarred, and oh god that DELIGHTS me. Him being so ashamed of it and not wanting her to see her like that, her being so into him anyway? Mmph.
The first time they sleep together.
Oof, that scene where he says goodbye in the hospital (the book, the kiss on the cheek, the hairtouching). It isn’t clear how much Kevin has realised at that point and whether he understands that it was Tess who cured him, but he’s a smart man: he’ll figure it out quickly. I’d love something exploring his grief and survivor’s guilt over the way things panned out (and I adore early Kevin where he’s still adjusting to being cured, spitting sunflower seeds in the general direction of the bin and not quite having shaken off his mental illness yet).
Thanks to a 4400’s ability akin to the one in No Exit, Kevin and Tess and a bunch of other people find themselves trapped in an alternate universe. Except that this one is a superhero AU, and they specifically have to use their abilities as superheroes. Mainly because I find it so amusing that the least badass people get the most badass abilities. (and it also cracks me up how the various abilities were basically magic by the end.)
They reunite after the end of the series.
Something fluffy and sweet and indulgent where another handwavey 4400 ability allows Kevin and Tess the opportunity to go back in time and give her the Sweet 16 birthday party she never got to experience. Maybe something that works along similar lines to Alana’s, so they don’t lose any time in the real world, and this is set during the penultimate episode, right before he sends her away, and it’s a little respite for them, and perhaps the other people at the party can’t see them? And it’s sweet and romantic and a little bit hot, but also sort of uncomfortable for Kevin given everything that happened in the diner. And play with the age thing: on the one hand it reminds him how young she is, but at the same time he hadn’t actually been born yet.

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Butch Cassidy and the Wild Bunch (2023 Movie Duology)

Requested Ships: Charles Siringo/Tom Horn
Requested Freeforms:

This is going to be a bit of a shorter request, mainly because I’m throwing it in last minute, but please don’t think that means I want this any less. These films, starting with Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid (the 2023 version), which is followed up by the sequel Butch vs Sundance, aren’t perfect by any means, but I found them a lot of fun to watch, the first one especially. They’re free on Tubi, but I’m not sure if they’re available elsewhere – I had to use a VPN to access them. I enjoyed the first film more, although I did appreciate a lot of what the second film tried to do, (and ftr I ship the Butch Cassidy/Sundance Kid/Etta Place OT3 too, and the only reason I’m not requesting it here is because wording the request is completely beyond me right now).

Horn is only in the first film and I was a little disappointed with how the sequel defanged Siringo a little – he wasn’t nearly as much as a bastard as he was in the first film. OTOH that bit where he slams Sundance into the bars of the cell? HOT. (Also the whole section where Siringo and Sundance are travelling together and all the testing his loyalty stuff? I’m not quite sure it pulled off what it was trying to do, but I would have been very very into what it was trying to do had it managed to do it, so I think of it fondly for that reason alone. Kiiiiinda shipping Siringo/Sundance a little bit too, ngl. XD)

Charles Siringo/Tom Horn

Siringo fascinates me – why is he so intent on bringing Cassidy in? Does it just come down to him being obsessed with the law? I’m also really drawn to the question of morality, and the way his association with Horn leads to him compromising his moral values. (Or not. Maybe he was always that much of a bastard, and Horn just gives him the excuse). In other words, if you want to go to town on a character study, then please, please do, but ftr I would also be happy with pure indulgent smut.

Optional Prompts

Pure indulgent smutfic. I’d especially love to see something exploring Siringo’s potential feelings of being out of control, and having unleashed something he’s maybe not quite ready to deal with. Also for this pairing I’m especially here for sex under the stars, rough sex, oral sex, campfire sex, scar worship/comparison, and a potentially repressed man getting borderline dubconned while at the same time being very into it.
Something set during the second film which digs into how Horn’s canonical death provides Siringo with a further motive to bring Cassidy in, particularly if they were lovers. (It’s fine for Horn not to appear in the fic.)
One thing I really did like about the second film was Siringo and Sundance travelling together, and Siringo’s attempts to win Sundance over to his side. Assuming Horn’s still dead, maybe they recognise that the other is attracted to men, and Sundance figures out what Siringo’s relationship with Horn really was, adding a whole interesting layer to the relationship Siringo’s trying to build between them, especially if Sundance is playing up the UST, whether or not they actually sleep together.
Alternatively, how would the second film have played out if Horn had survived? Perhaps if he’s there while Siringo is travelling with Sundance?
Prison break! Horn did survive the first film after all, and breaks Siringo out of jail after the end of the second. What happens? Do they go after Cassidy? How does the whole having the law turned against him affect Siringo’s moral worldview?
Hurt/comfort -- they both survive the end of the first film, but are both wounded and have to patch each other up.
A's Love Language Is Killing B's Enemies And Dropping Them At B's Feet Like A Cat Gifting Dead Mice – With A being Horn. :D Go hard on the loyalty kink, and it’s fine to handwave whatever canon events you need to or ignore them completely.
Zombie AU – I always love zombies, and there isn’t nearly enough zombie apocalypse stuff set in alternative time periods. Potentially as an excuse to force Siringo to work with Butch and the rest of his gang.
Alternate Universe - Different First Meeting – I’d love to see the version of Siringo recruiting Horn where they met before, potentially as an anonymous one night stand (although it doesn’t have to be) – maybe he isn’t sure if Horn recognises him, but turns out he does, which leads to complicated feelings. (or just sex. That’s good too.)
Give me Siringo’s version of the story, in which he very much sees himself as the hero. Is it a case of unreliable narrator, or is he well aware of all the terrible things he’s done, but sees them as a necessary price to pay? (First person and epistolary works, maybe a memoir written in prison are particularly welcome here.)
I’d love something digging into their onscreen dynamic, exploring how Siringo really feels about Horn's propensity for violence and the way his own moral code is compromised, or if he was just secretly always that much of a bastard and Horn just gave him the excuse. Also here for him being taken aback by how drawn he is to Horn because of how good he is at killing.
Character Surprised By Their Own Deep Loyalty Feels; Object Of Loyalty Even More Surprised – The tag speaks for itself. :D Here for all the loyalty kink. and for Horn unexpectedly being genuinely loyal to Siringo, even though he might not always obey him
One character shaves another's face with a straight razor – Ideally Horn shaving Siringo, but the alternative is good too. Bring this about however you can, whether Siringo’s hands have been injured, or maybe they’ve already slept together and this is just an extension of that intimacy. If there’s an undercurrent of mild threat to the shaving and Siringo isn’t entirely comfortable with it, then all the better.
Only One Bed – Or maybe there is another room and it’s in the brothel next door, so everyone’s expecting Horn to take it, including Siringo (and maybe Horn himself), but actually he ends up sharing Siringo’s room and bed instead and trying to pass it off as being because of his moral uprightedness which literally no one believes for a minute.

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Doctor Mordrid (1992)

Requested Ships:
Samantha Hunt/Anton Mordrid
Requested Freeforms:

Optional Prompts

Morning After (Incredible Sex the night before) - So it's finally happened after however many weeks or months of pining, they've finally fallen into bed together. I'd love to see the aftermath, the satisfaction that comes from finally getting together with the person you're in love with.
Hand and Finger Kink - Because I find the bit where he casually breaks out of the handcuffs while they're in the police interview room hot as fuck.
Undercover Work Used As Excuse To Have Sex They've Always Wanted -- While investigating a cult, they have to go undercover as a couple.
Anton teaches Sam how to use magic. Take this whatever way you want. Maybe something goes wrong (a tentacle monster with designs on making them do it?) or maybe it’s just an opportunity for lots of flirting, casual touching, and sexual tension.
Time Travel - Sam travels back to another time period and needs to work with Anton's younger self. Is she already together with present day Anton, or is this somehow the catalyst for getting them together? Or, potentially, the opportunity for a selfcest threesome?
For plot reasons, Anton has to fake being evil. Or perhaps he’s been mind-controlled by Kabal into being evil, but somehow Sam manages to get him to break the mind control, but he has to maintain it for a little while longer.
Loneliness is such a can’t fail trope for me. Having resigned himself to a lonely existence, Anton has to adapt to finding intimacy with Sam.
Experience - Experienced Partner Lets Inexperienced One Explore Them – I mean, he’s spent the past century and a half avoiding so much as talking to his neighbours, let alone dating.
Feeling your feelings in a quiet moment with a much older/immortal being – something quiet and sweet and tender, exploring the strangeness of being in a relationship with someone so much older.
A casefic where Sam and Anton investigate a Lovecraftian Cult.
Villain tries to draw out hero's dark side (that they say they know is there) – Because I can’t help thinking that when Anton was telling Sam about his backstory that he wasn’t being entirely candid. Especially when he was positioning himself as kind and good in comparison to Kabal being evil. I can’t help but think that there’s an undercurrent of bitterness there. So what if he had once been tempted to work with Kabal, perhaps before he realised how thoroughly evil Kabal was? (And for the record I’m completely here for past Anton/Kabal).

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Evil Dead (Movies and TV)

Requested Ships: Solo: Ash Williams
Requested Freeforms:

For the record, I’ve just started season 2 of the TV series, but I’m burning through it pretty quickly, so should certainly have finished it by reveals (and possibly even by the end of sign-ups). Please don’t worry about spoilers, and I apologise in advance if I miss anything in my request). I also haven’t consumed the games, comics or the more recent films (although I may well be seeking out the comics and the recent films), so while I don’t mind spoilers, feel free to disregard them.

I am such a sucker for a reluctant heroes who are much more noble than they want or pretend to be, and for characters who pretend to be more assholish than they are. Not to mention undergoing whump and bucketloads of trauma, and Ash hits all of this spot-on. I very much appreciate that we repeatedly get to see him dragged to the end of his tether and a little bit beyond, and then get the chance to watch him snap. His moment of pure despair at the end of Evil Dead 2 when he realises it isn’t over and it’s probably never going to be over, and *cough*, the final scenes of ED1 (and every other time for that matter) when he’s sweating and terrified and repeatedly getting drenched in blood. I cannot emphasise enough how here I am for moments like that.

There are so many contradictions in his character: the womanising vs how he’s actually pretty damn romantic whenever he gets the chance, and the whole thing about him being dumb, when he is demonstratively NOT stupid AT ALL – he converted his trashed car so that it could be steam-powered ffs! My personal headcanon is that he was an engineering student working at S-Mart to put himself through college, which may or may not be supported by canon, but either way I love the insights those apparent contradictions give us – his almost supernatural competence when it comes to fighting Deadites vs the whole accidentally reading from the Necronomicon while high to impress a girl thing, the way his mistakes seem to come from spiralling despair and depression, the womanising coming from not wanting to get close to anyone because they almost inevitably die horribly, and the prospect of a career just being yet another thing he’s lost because of everything that happened. It’s all a mix of whump and grief and regret that will never fail to hit me in a very tender spot, and I would love to see any of that explored.

I ship him with basically everyone, Sheila, Ruby, Amanda (*sobs*), and just about every permutation of Ash/Pablo/Kelly, so if you want to write smut or ship-fic, then you have just about an open book there. I also ship Amanda/Ruby and Amanda/Kelly. And just in general, I really, really love the dynamics of the relationship between Ash, Pablo and Kelly, him making the deal with Ruby purely to save them, and all the day to day mundanities of life on the road living in his trailer, and the way Kelly and Pablo feel a little like facets of Ash’s character – with Pablo being the way he used to be, mostly a normal young man, maybe a little more sensitive and quiet than most (okay, YMMV hugely on that, but that’s my take), while Kelly is the way he is now, a traumatised badass who is pissed as hell. I love her so freaking much, and find myself adoring her and her dynamic with Ash more with every episode I watch.

Optional Prompts

That time the evil clone goes back in time to have questionably consensual sex with a younger version of Ash, who never realises it’s a clone and so just assumes he’s inevitably going to turn into a bit of an asshole. Which… might explain a lot.
A 5+1 Things fic looking at anything you want it to. Five people Ash has slept with, five encounters with a Deadite, five times he tried to destroy the Necronomicon, Five times Ash got drenched in blood, etc.
Aftermath of possession – The ongoing trauma and after-effects of the possession in ED2.
Bathing/Washing – Because he sure does get grimy a lot in canon. Here for hurt/comfort, or just moments of respite when he gets the chance, however briefly, to get clean.
- Taking the original trilogy and the TV show in mind, I'm amused by the way each instalment contradicts the canon in one that went before. Like it only being Ash and Linda who went to the cabin in ED2, and the TV series (so far anyway) ignoring that whole sleeping too long element at the end of Army of Darkness. But what if they're all true, and each discrepancy can be put down to an alternate universe? What happens if the barriers between those universes start to break down?
Fill in the missing scenes, particularly between AoD and the TV series (or between ED2 and the TV series if you choose to pretend AoD didn’t happen). How did he get back from the future? I’d love a character study that explores what happened over the last thirty years, and how his character changed and developed.
Character expected to die but didn't and now has no idea how to live any more – I’d love to see the aftermath of trauma explored, what happened in Elk Grove after his return, the death of his girlfriend and sister, and his doomed attempts at trying to rebuild his life. Just rip my heart out please.
Ash has to fake being evil for reasons.
Character resigned to loneliness finds unexpected intimacy with other(s) – I love his relationship with Pablo and Kelly so much, how tightly knitted they’ve become in so short a time, the whole travelling together, the way they’ve all lost something. I ship it, but I’m here for the gen relationship too – the protectiveness and the loyalty and the way that it kind of feels like he has a family again, and ow my heart ow.
Competence Kink - Character A Annoyed By How Hot They Find Character B’s Competence – Ahha, :D. I’ll admit I have Ruby in mind for this, but competence kink in general is a good fit for him, and especially the disconnect between people’s first impressions of him and the way he is in action. That speech he gives Kelly in the first episode about how ‘sure, he doesn’t look like much now, but wait a while...’ and her ‘oh. Oh no’ moment. XD
Going undercover in a cult that worships the Deadites.
Ash’s relationship with Sheila leaves her pregnant, resulting in the establishment of a secret society dedicated to hunting demons. Although their priorities may have got a little mixed up over the centuries.
A Burn Notice crossover! (Note that so far I've only watched season 1 of Burn Notice, and I'm not sure how far I'll get in it by reveals, so I'd prefer no major spoilers, please. ETA: This doesn't apply to Sam's backstory or to the Fall of Sam Axe) Mistaken identities. The trio jumping to the conclusion that the evil hand has regrown Ash again and trying to kidnap/kill Sam necessitating another rescue by Michael and Fi until deadites complicate matters. Sam and Ash having to pose as each other for plot reasons. Or alternatively, maybe Sam just wakes up hungover in Ash's body one day and has to pretend to be him while he figures out what the hell's going on, who these people are, and what the fuck happened to his hand. Fudge the timelines however you need to to make this happen. :D Oh, and I should add that I am very, very here for Ash/Sam, with an Ash from any point in the timeline from the first film onwards.

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House on Haunted Hill

Watson Pritchett/Dr Richard B Vannacutt

Not a pairing that I’d originally considered, but then a seed took root and now I can’t stop thinking about these two and what sort of dynamic they’d have.

Optional Prompts

This House has a Personality and that Personality is Fucked Up – And adolescence is tough enough as it is, without having to go through it while you're living in a haunted house that can't seem to decide whether it wants to fuck you or kill you.
Explore the deaths of Pritchett's father and grandfather, because it feels like there are a lot of unanswered questions there. Did the house exert any influence over them? Could Pritchett’s father have murdered his grandfather? How did his father really die?
A both hates and loves how good the sex with B is – Vannacutt/Pritchett (because the more I think about shipping them, the harder I ship them.)
Character is forced to work with someone who scares them – I’m intrigued by what it means to be a ghost and how much free will they have. Pritchett has to work with Vannacutt for reasons (especially delighted by the idea of this considering how Pritchett crapped himself when he recognised Vannacutt’s description).

So how does Pritchett manage to resist the Shadow at the end in order to free Sara and Eddie, when seemingly no one else was able to resist?

Something revolving around the stained glass ceiling, because creepy though it is is just suggest a marginally less evil side to Vannacutt and the idea of good people being corrupted by evil will always fascinate me.

Character with trauma is freaked out and turned on by getting tied up – Specifically thinking of Pritchett here, the poor little bastard. XD

Conversations In Liminal Spaces On The Border Of One World And Another – Ghost!Pritchett and ghost!Vannacutt have a conversation.

Evil!Pritchett – A canon-divergent fic where Pritchett isn’t so resistant to the house. How would that affect canon?

Entering someone's dreams/nightmares – Vannacutt and/or the Shadow enter Pritchett’s dreams, where pre-, during, or post-canon.

Time Travel Fix-It – Pritchett travels back in time to the 20s-30s, and finds himself caught up in events at the asylum. Could he potentially change the way events pan out? (The actual fix-it is optional here)

Time Travel - Character meets their child self – Ghost!Pritchett realises it’s possible to travel through time and interact with his younger self.

Vannacutt manages to escape the house. There’s a deleted scene (after the credits roll in this video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zdo8voI87LI) in which Vannacutt brings the real Jennifer Jenzen to the house, and another scene where his spot being tortured is taken by Price. Which leads me to wonder if it’s possible for him to buy his freedom, or if he’s figured out a way to outwit the house.

Explore what the hell was going on with that chair. Was Vannacutt listening to the Darkness, or was it potentially a seduction/sex thing?

Corruption Arc – Either for Vannacutt or for Pritchett. Or, conversely, a redemption arc for Vannacutt, or Vannacutt getting a redemption arc while Pritchett goes the other way. I really love the idea of the house seducing people into evil (the second film goes harder on that, and iirc explicitly states that Vannacutt wasn’t always a monster), and the question of whether someone who’s done terrible things can really be redeemed.

Eldritch Architecture – I’d love to see something that goes hard on the Lovecraftian elements in the plot, the idea of this ancient nameless evil existing even before the house was built, and of what the Darkness at the heart of the house really is.

Tentacles made them do it – Probably no surprises that I have Pritchett/Vannacutt in mind here.

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Interzone (1987)

Requested Ships:
Swan/Tera
Requested Worldbuilding Tags:
WB: Everyday Life in the Interzone
Requested Freeforms:

Note that while this is tricky to get hold of, there are a couple of versions up on Youtube. One of them (the slightly longer one with VHS in the title, I think) I found unwatchable, but the quality of the shorter one was more or less okay.

Okay, first off, I am not going to claim that this is a good film (hahaha NOPE), and yet it is so unabashedly joyously trashy that I can’t help but be charmed by (almost) everything about it. The plot is extremely thin, and the sound mixing is so bad I struggle to make out some of the dialogue (which some might argue is a plus XD), but objectively terrible though it undoubtedly is I love it so fucking much, mainly because I get the feeling everyone involved is having a shitload of fun.

One factor that can sometimes get me loving a completely trashy, objectively rubbish canon is a feeling of delighted incomprehension at what the hell I’m watching, and this hits that in spades. The ‘sex’ scene, the two guys it cuts to during the sex scene, the ridiculous bar fight scene at the beginning, Panasonic’s terrible acting in his psychic voiceovers (so bad it’s got to be deliberate, surely? Surely?)… Also, yes, there’s a character called Panasonic. He’s a cock-blocking psychic monk, (a phrase that feels like it ought to be sung to a Chemical Brothers song) and yes, it makes sense in canon... as much as anything makes sense in canon.

Buuuut then at the same time, there’s some stuff about it that I do really like, like some of the locations it uses are genuinely cool (and the sense of a post-apocalyptic society it has going on at times, particularly in the brief bar scene at the beginning. And, *cough*, the scene where a shirtless Bruce Abbott dangles from chains while the bad guy whips him stood out, and frankly even at the best of times he’s barely wearing a shirt tbh. And the noise he makes when Tera kisses his collar bone is... mmph.

Swan hits just the right balance between rogueish and honourable, & cynical and earnest. I will forever be a sucker for a reluctant hero who’s much more noble than he really wants to be, and while Tera doesn’t get nearly enough to do, I do really like their dynamic and chemistry, and I just want more of this stupid, trashy, iddy film.

Stick with the goofy ridiculous tone of canon or go more serious/realistic, or expand and explore the worldbuilding, although I’m not sure how much sense the worldbuilding makes: like… how long has it actually been since the end of the world? If the Interzone is the only habitable area, how come Balzakan calls Swan a foreigner (and specifically a ‘fuzzy faced foreigner’, an example of the kind of the top drawer dialogue which makes me love this terrible film so much <3)? Was the end of the world much more recent than I’d assumed and it happened within living memory, or did he come from outside the Interzone somehow? Where the fuck did Mantis get that banana? Why is Panasonic so determined to stop Tera and Swan from having sex to the point of literally opening fire on them, wtf? What’s Swan’s deal with dogs? What happens post-canon with the treasure?

Or alternatively just go full-on iddy with smut and/or whump, particularly along the lines of that whipping scene because hot fucking damn. There are also some really delicious opportunities for pining and dubcon of the Bad Guys Made Them Do It variety while they’re in Mantis and Balzakan’s camp, and for angsty, tender and/or possessive sex in the aftermath.

Optional Prompts

There are a couple of hints in canon that Swan is in mourning for a dog, which made me hanker for a fic where they stumble across, and try to befriend what might actually be the last dog left alive in the Interzone.
Femdom – Explore the aftermath of everything that happens with Mantis and Balzakan. After some jealousy on Tera’s part, he tries to reassure her that it meant nothing and wasn’t even fun: Mantis just blindfolded him and made him do everything she said, at which Tera is like, actually that does sound like fun.
Accidental Baby Acquisition –
Expand on the situation in Mantis and Blazakan's camp. Watching it, I wasn’t really sure how much of their ‘plan’ is actually a plan and how much is improvised, but I’d love to see it expanded on in a fic. Identity kink, the pining coming from Swan sleeping with Mantis and Tera with Balzakan. And of course, the potential for Bad Guys Made Them Do It, whether it’s a case of having to keep up the pretence, or if they’ve both been found out.
An AU involving a different kind of apocalypse, whether zombies or triffids or something that takes a slightly more realistic take on the apocalypse than this.
Relationship study. This is not the sort of canon that really goes all that deep into character development, but from what we get, I find their dynamics really appealing, and I’d love to see their relationship explored.
AU - Villains win – The ‘treasure’ makes about as much sense as just about anything else in this film, but let’s say Mantis and Balzakan managed to break into the vault. Even despite everything that happened, Mantis is still pretty fond of Swan, so can be persuaded to spare him, especially if Balzakan is killed. Tera still gets brought back, so together they have to negotiate a potentially uneasy truce and deal with the potential destruction of the Interzone.
building a civilization from the ground up – Swan and Tera return to the Veterans to start the process of cataloguing the treasure.
Characters Have Trouble Sleeping Apart After Shared Traumatic Captivity – All the angst, emotional hurt/comfort and mutual support please. Especially if nightmares are involved. Or just go all out on the emotional fallout of canon.
Came Back Wrong – Just because Tera came back doesn’t mean her resurrection is going to be entirely smooth sailing (or Swan’s miraculous healing for that matter). Maybe it’s flawed in some way, or maybe it’s only temporary and they have to set out to find a way to make it permanent. And if you want to delve into Swan's guilt over the circumstances of her death, then please do.
Ghosts - A is a ghost only B can see and interact with – And similarly, while the assumption is that she really has been brought back, what if that isn’t true?
Undercover as Master and Slave – Which, actually, canon does, without ever really getting too into the details. That moment where they first get to the Bad Guy camp and Tera hands him the leash because he’s forgotten, and Mantis casually saying ‘Maybe I’ll have her later’ just, um, stood out to me a bit. Or maybe the roles are reversed, and it’s Tera who has to play the role of Master.

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The Lurking Fear (1994)

Requested Ships:
Dr. Haggis/Cathryn Farrell
Requested Freeforms:

As far as I can remember, I don’t think Dr Haggis’s first name is mentioned at any point, but by the looks of that sign outside his surgery, it starts with an I. :D

Optional General Prompts

Battle-couple – They just work so well together. I’d love to see some moments of them working together, because I’m so drawn to their dynamic, especially since fighting doesn’t necessarily come easily to her. Are they fighting by each other’s side, or it it a case of her fighting and him patching her up afterwards? Or him talking her through patching him up because he’s the one who got injured?
Love in the time of horror and misery – Something else I love is the whole bleak atmosphere of the virtually deserted town. Everything’s crumbling and worn down, there are holes everywhere where the creatures have burrowed through, and everything is falling apart. It’s almost post-apocalyptic, except the world is still going on around them. Show me them them falling in love, or quiet moments of tenderness, affection and loyalty in the middle of the world going to hell around them.
Alternate Universe - the big bad wins – They’ve lost and been captured by the creatures, and have nothing to do but try to escape, or trying to support and comfort each other through it, or have ‘fuck it we’re going to die’ despair sex.
Bathing/Washing - After a fight, the two of them hole up together to wash off the gore.
A 5 Times fic showing the gradual change in Leffert's Corner over time as the townsfolk gradually begin to realise something is wrong.
Character A falls asleep on B's shoulder – Their relationship has so many opportunities for moments of quiet intimacy and emotional hurt/comfort. And pining. Lots and lots of pining.
Character A has been crying and tries to hide it but B still notices it – I’m good with either one of them being the crying character here. Maybe he’s exhausted patching people up, or someone’s died despite all his best efforts, or she’s been coasting on adrenaline for too long and is finally starting to crumble. I adore their dynamic so much, and the idea of him being the only person she lets see her in a moment of weakness is the most delicious thing.
Scars – Maybe a Five Times fic cataloguing their scars (or just hers), whether they’re caused by the creatures or not.
Gently touching a character's scar(s) – As an excuse for hurt/comfort or tender emotional sex? I’m good with either. Or both.
A canon-divergent fix-it where Dr Haggis survives his injuries, which means Cathryn has to patch him up post-canon.
Cigarettes – You can probably count the number of minutes he’s without a cigarette on one hand. XD Give me all the descriptions of smoking, maybe a traumatised moment when his hand is shaking so hard he can’t light his cigarette so she has to do it for him.
Functional Alcoholic Not So Functional At The Moment – Here for the hurt/comfort of this, whether the emotional hurt/comfort of them being there for each other when they’re scared or grieving, or the physical hurt/comfort of her helping him to bed, and then maybe sticking around afterwards, and the two of them bedsharing, whether entirely platonic or otherwise. Also here for drunken confessions, or maybe him just being less able to hide the way he feels about her while he’s drunk. I love how important they clearly are to each other, but also how frustrated she is with his drinking, even while she obviously gets why he does it.
Childbirth - Because you can't have the Chekhov's Gun of a heavily pregnant woman and not have her give birth in a highly stressful set-piece, come on. So how about a canon-divergent scene where Beth, Cathryn and Haggis are beseiged down by the monsters, and at the worst possible moment, Beth goes into labour.
That line of Cathryn's: "This is what I thought the end of the world was going to look like."? What if it really was the end of the world? Give me a post-apocalyptic AU. Maybe they're dealing with a zombie apocalypse, or creatures much like the canon ones but more widespread, or they're carriers for a disease.
In that first scene with them, while they're outside his surgery, he makes a reference to them making some kind of bargain, presumably an agreement to stick around in town to kill the creatures. How did that bargain come about?
There’s a lot about this film that doesn’t entirely make sense, the most notable thing being that they’re not actually trapped in the town, and can leave any time they like. I can buy them wanting to stay to finish things once and for all, but at the same time that doesn’t mean they can’t have the occasional holiday. So maybe they get out of town for a night or two when there’s no rain forecast for a while. Are they able to relax or are they constantly thinking about going back? Book separate rooms but end up sharing a room/bed anyway because it’s the only way they can get any sleep? Both get drunk and end up sleeping together?

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Re-Animator

Requested Ship:
Herbert West/Dan Cain
Requested Freeforms:

I’d love anything that goes hard on the hurt/comfort and mutual protectiveness between Herbert and Dan, or anything that captures the tone and bonkers exuberance, gore, humour and horror of the films. Maybe something that explores what happens in between the films, especially between the first and second films, because damn, are there some unanswered questions there – like how did Meg’s heart come to be outside of her body, and how the hell did Herbert manage to persuade Dan to go to Peru with him? And any of the reunions where an apparently dead Herbert pops up again. I also cannot emphasise enough how here I am for Herbert getting menaced and/or whumped.

Optional Prompts

5 Times Dan Assumed Herbert was Dead – Because in various places, namely the screenplay and the novelisation, he is explicitly stated to have died at the end of the first film and I like the idea of him repeatedly appearing to die and popping up again mostly unscathed (and I’m amused that the one film where he doesn’t appear to die at the end is the one in which Dan does not appear. XD).
Accidental Baby Acquisition – I mean, they’re doctors. It’s not beyond the realms of possibility that they might find themselves in a situation where they have to deliver a baby in a crisis (possibly involving zombies), and end up separated from the mother and stuck having to look after the baby.
Addiction - Character tries to distract Addict from addiction with sex – Dan tries to break Herbert’s reliance on the serum.
Alternate Universe - Russian Doll Fusion – I love time loops in all their forms anyway, but this one in particular, with its focus on constant, unrelenting death, and the way the discovery that the loop is being shared with another person would play out with these two is perfect. (and for time loops in general, I’m amused by the way Herbert would probably adapt his work to take full advantage of the loop (er, an endless supply of fresh corpses with no consequences – hey, how is it murder if they don’t stay dead? – having to memorise the results because he can’t write them down, etc.)
Hurt/Comfort – Hurt/Comfort is always welcome, but one thing I’d love to see is Dan helping Herbert through withdrawal from the serum. Mainly because I really wish that deleted scene had been included in the film. I have some quiet headcanons about Herbert’s addiction to reagent, and amongst them is the fact that avoiding sleep is really, really not a good idea, and that maybe the times when he’s at his most batshit are the times when he’s suffering from chronic sleep-deprivation. All of which convinces Dan to help him to break the habit.
Bad Guys Made Them Do It – and every other iteration of Something Made Them Do It.
Betray them to save them – Dan’s presence looms so large in Beyond Reanimator even though he doesn’t appear. I can definitely see a situation where Dan got to a point where he couldn’t see any other choice, and he genuinely believed if things carried on the way they were that Herbert was going to get himself killed. I’d love to see that decision explored and the fallout when/if they’re reunited and he realises what Herbert’s been through.
Hurt/Comfort - Character with injured hands requires assistance (which turns sexual) – Here for the hurt/comfort and smut potential of this (and also very fond of one character shaving another.)
Inspired by the novelisation, Dan is completely taken by surprise when Herbert unexpectedly turns out to be massively into ice hockey. Maybe it’s a hobby he only occasionally spares the time for, but either way Dan is extremely weirded out by the prospect of Herbert going to bars and talking to fans.
You Hurt Me More Than Anything; But Being Without You Hurts More – Herbert goes in search of Dan after the end of Beyond Reanimator. Is he planning on revenge (even if he ultimately can’t face going through with it?) Does something else happen as a catalyst that forces them to work together again? I’d love to see all the messy hurt/comfort and emotional fallout of everything that happened.
Alternate Universe - Canon Divergence – How might things have played out if Meg hadn’t been so hostile to Herbert from the get-go? Maybe if she hadn’t been there when he came about the room, allowing Dan to prime her for his oddball roommate beforehand? And if she hadn’t walked in on them bringing Rufus back, which meant that Dan wouldn’t have fallen out with Dean Halsey, who then wouldn’t have died, etc etc. It’s interesting how differently Herbert treats Francesca. While he’s not exactly polite to her (XD) he tolerates her presence in a way he doesn’t really tolerate Meg’s, and I can’t help but read that as at least partially being the result of Meg’s attitude towards him.
Alternate Universe - Canon Divergence – A canon-divergent AU where Francesca isn’t on the scene and the creation of the Bride is much more successful, and she isn’t quite so much of a monster. Mainly because I’m really curious what the hell Herbert actually had in mind beyond keeping Dan with him at all costs. (And for the record, I’m completely open to Herbert/Dan/The Bride in whatever form that takes.)
Hurt/Comfort - Technically awful attempts at comfort are actually very comforting – Okay, so Herbert is pretty terrible at doing the whole comfort thing, but the fact that he even tries is pretty damn significant.
Road trip after the end of the world – Any post-apocalypse scenario will do, but I am particularly fond of a zombie apocalypse, which seems particularly apt for this canon. Was it Herbert’s fault, or was he entirely innocent for once? Where are they going? What’s the plan? And how does reagent factor into things?
Estranged Characters - Injured A shows Up on B's doorstep Saying "I didn't know where else to go" – My first thought with this was Herbert turning up out of the blue, but what if it’s the other way around? What if, potentially after Herbert’s prison break, he considered hunting Dan down, but reluctantly decided not to follow through, only for Dan to suddenly turn up unexpectedly, and turns out he’s been keeping track of Herbert all these years and somehow or other the shit’s about to hit the fan?
Herbert and Dan take the places of the narrator and the version of Herbert in the original story by Lovecraft. – I read the story after watching the films, and I was really not expecting to find that so much of what happens in the first two films came more or less directly from the story (with a fair few changes along the way). I’m fascinated by the way the films work as adaptations, but especially by the similarities and differences between the two Herberts (running away screaming the first time they reanimate a corpse? Film!Herbert would never. On the other hand the stuff with the revolver? Yeeeeah, he totally would). So perhaps a historical AU where Herbert and Dan are from that period, or where they’re still their 80s selves but have switched places with the versions of themselves from the story. Or maybe it’s just Dan who’s switched places, and he has to content with a different version of Herbert, who is BLOND (and, y'know, also slightly more actively murderous than Dan's Herbert, and has a disconcerting habit of eyeing his healthy physique with a covetous eye). (If you haven’t already read it, be warned it has some racist elements. I’d prefer for those to be avoided if you go with this prompt, please)
A Re-Animator/Ghosts (UK) crossover. Why, yes, this is goofy as hell but I waaaant it. :D In the eighties or nineties Dan and Herbert rent out Button House. Unfortunately something goes wrong and Herbert ends up dying on the property and coming back as a ghost.

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Quark/Brunt

Optional Prompts

'Dirty little secret' relationship leads to Too Many Feelings leads to unexpected marriage proposal – Because I am so here for the two of them having a secret relationship on the downlow, and maybe they keep telling themselves it’s just about sex and it doesn’t mean anything, but actually...
Accidental Marriage – When they’re on an alien planet negotiating a contract, they accidentally wind up married (maybe because in that planet’s laws rivalry is considered a sign of great regard), and this cannot stand. Turns out getting it annulled is a little trickier than first envisioned, and in the meantime pining, forced proximity, and sex-of-convenience ensues.
Hate Sex – I am so, so here for the two of them hatefucking, and for moments of unexpected tenderness in the middle of the hatefucking, and for hate sex where they gradually start to develop feelings.
Exploration of Aftermath of Canon Events – A relationship study that looks at how things might develop between the two of them after the end of the series, with neither of them entirely happy about the changes on Ferenginar.
Characters don't realise they're in a relationship but everyone else can see it – Maybe Brunt keeps finding reasons to return to Deep Space Nice to make Quark’s life a misery, and Quark does everything he can to irritate Brunt, and neither of the two of them wants to admit that actually they’re sort of starting to enjoy each other’s company, while as far as everyone else is concerned they’re already basically together.
A post-canon fic with an established relationship between Quark and Brunt. They’re… sort of settled. Almost happy. And then, like a hand grenade tossed into the middle of their relationship, Quark’s old lover Natima Lang comes back. Somehow Brunt finds out what happened between them and is torn between horrified disgust at Quark being willing to abandon everything to run off with her and seething jealousy because he thinks, rightly or wrongly, that Quark wouldn't do that for HIM in a million years. Maybe Quark and Natima have both moved on with no lingering feelings other than a faint poignant ‘what might have been’, or maybe they’re still as in love with each other as ever and the only way to resolve this is with Quark/Natima/Brunt.
5+1 Things – A post-canon 5+1 fic exploring the ways every single member of Quark’s family undermines their attempts at (semi-)tradition Ferengi parenting (preferably of a boy, please, unless the focus is on them both overcoming their terrible ingrained sexism to the point where it’s probably going to be a bit ooc, let’s face it).
Having met by chance with an oddly familiar stranger in a bar who shares his animosity for Quark, Brunt obtains a copy of a unique holosuite program involving Major Kira with Quark’s head in return for a discounted price and the promise to use it to destroy Quark. Which would be easier to do if he could just stop thinking about how it would be better with Quark’s head on Quark’s body. To facilitate Getting Revenge, obviously. (And just as soon as he figures out why the hell Quark would make the program so damn good at oo-mox if it was written for a non-Ferengi).
So, um, those scenes in The Dogs of War when Brunt is sucking up to Quark because they both think Zek is going to appoint him the next Grand Nagus? He’d be remiss if he forgot Rule 113 of the Rules of Acquisition: Always have sex with the boss.
Ishka figures out why Brunt is so fixated on bringing Quark down. And, well, okay, yes, Brunt is terrible, but also he’s a good Ferengi, and frankly, Quark could probably do worse.
Time Travel Fix-It – Brunt and Quark travel back to a point where they’re in a position to alter the course of Ferengi history and prevent the sweeping changes brought about by Quark’s mother, but potentially ruining their fortunes in their present, since with the franchisement of Quark’s they’re actually doing pretty damn well for themselves. Do they go through with it, or disagree about whether they should go through with it?

Mirror Ezri Dax/Brunt & Mirror Ezri Dax/Mirror Brunt/Brunt

And then there’s Brunt. XD

Optional Prompts

Femdom – Because if there’s ever been a character who very definitely needs to get dommed by a female, it is Brunt.
Clothing - Naked Male Clothed Female – Niiice. I just love this freeform so, so much when it comes to Brunt (especially if combined with femdom). He would just hate it so fucking much. It’s disgusting. It’s depraved. So why the hell does he find it so fucking hot? *hearteyes*
Identity Porn – Brunt has to pose as his Mirror counterpart and work with Mirror!Ezri, leading to a sex scene in which for kink reasons he ends up having sex with her while still in the Mirror!Brunt persona.
A threesome in which Ezri and Brunt edge Mirror!Brunt until he’s a sobbing desperate mess. Look, I just want him to have nice things okay?
Accidental Baby Acquisition – I am a sucker for certain tropes and one of those tropes that will forever get me is when people who under normal circumstances have no business looking after babies get stuck looking after a baby. If Mirror!Brunt is around, maybe the plan was that he’d be the one looking after the kid, but due to something going wrong, he and Brunt have to trade places and pretend to be each other.
Competence Kink - Whether they’re rivals or allies, I just love the idea of Brunt and Mirror!Ezri being secretly impressed and turned on by how good the other one is at lying, cheating and stealing. Lets just say Brunt probably has more in common with Mirror!Ezri than his counterpart does.
Since his death, Ezri has been seeing Mirror!Brunt's ghost. Maybe it’s some kind of hallucination from a space anomaly, or maybe she’s just imagining him, or maybe he really is a ghost, or maybe he’s the result of a malfunctioning portable holoprojector (which she hasn’t fixed because she kind of misses him and it’s nice having him around). but either way she’s gradually beginning to accept she might have had feelings for him after all. Then she meets Brunt.
proxy-fucking – Mirror!Ezri fucking Brunt as a way of processing the grief she feels about Mirror!Brunt’s death.

Odo/Weyoun

Optional Prompts

DS9: Post-canon attempt to return the Vorta to sexual reproduction; first non-clone baby born - With Weyoun and Odo being at the heart of the attempt.
A canon-divergent fic where Weyoun 6 survives to defect to the Federation, exploring how their relationship goes after the war is over.
A canon-divergent AU where the canonical baby Changeling turns up while the station is in the hands of the Dominion and Weyoun is involved with Odo's attempts to look after it.
Complicated emotions at being pregnant with a baby character believes is a god - somehow Weyoun ends up knocked up, whether it's some kind of handwavy transporter accident type accident, or the result of a sex pollen incident necessary to save Odo's life and neither of them realised Weyoun could get pregnant that way. Is there some kind of side effect from the pregnancy which leaves Weyoun with some degree of shapeshifting powers, or the ability to link with the baby, which is amazing but also very uncomfortable because he's just a Vorta.
Cloning Accident result in creating a baby - The real reason Weyoun 6 tried to defect. :D Is it a wholly new person or just a baby version of Weyoun, and what are the implications of it not being going through the full cloning process?
character that thought they had zero parenting instincts goes into hardcore protective mode - I love Weyoun as a villain at least partly because of how very... unintimidating he is in a lot of ways. He's small and slight and vulnerable and he keeps dying, and I'm really drawn to this prompt both for him embracing his violent side in the interests of protecting a baby and for the potential to explore his character because I’ll always love a character study.
a 5+1 fic exploring the way Odo's relationship with the various different Weyouns changes over the years.
Sex Pollen – Whether it’s Odo affected and Weyoun willingly sacrifices himself to save the Founder, or Weyoun is affected and is horrified/pathetically grateful at Odo being willing to help. Or the aftermath of the sex pollen situation with all the fallout.
A canon-divergent AU where Odo remains human for longer, and he’s still a solid when he meets Weyoun 5 for the first time. What effect would Odo's becoming a solid have on their dynamic? How would the Vorta conceptualise the concept of a god becoming a solid, and what does that mean for the way Weyoun’s worldview? I’d be delighted with anything from a character/relationship study that follows their time on the station together, or perhaps something plottier where they're stranded on a planet together and have to work together to survive, but now Odo's just as vulnerable as Weyoun is. (Sex pollen always welcome)
Hurt/Comfort - Character Treats Other Character's Injuries – Weyoun is injured and Odo has to treat his injuries, whether it’s Weyoun 6 or one of the other ones. I’m just fascinated by all the messy feelings of faith and awe, and Odo’s discomfort at being thought of as a god.
Slow and painful process of recovering from lifetime of cultural brainwashing – Whether it happens over the course of one Weyoun or several. I really love all the tangled complexities of the way the Vorta see the world. Maybe this is a canon-divergent fic where Weyoun 6 survives and Odo tries to deprogram him? Or maybe a future Weyoun where the process has begun but isn't quite there yet.
Whump - A sacrifices themself to protect B; B is forced to watch A being tortured – The obvious candidate for self-sacrifice is Weyoun, but Odo sacrificing himself and Weyoun's struggles watching him being tortured (perhaps that Romulan device that stops him from changing shape) would be delicious too.

Mirror Brunt/Weyoun 6

As ships go, this is absurdly self-indulgent, but at the same time there are some potentially really interesting dynamics and parallels to be drawn between them. They're both more sympathetic versions of more or less antagonistic characters, both desperately loyal to another person with whom they have a somewhat one-sided relationship, (and they're both adorable tragically doomed cinnamon rolls. D:) Maybe Weyoun finds himself stranded in the Mirror universe – is the fact that it isn’t his universe provide a loophole that allows him to override his inbuild loyalty to the Dominion? (Keevan shows that not all Vorta are unquestionably loyal, which suggests that Weyoun is just like that, unswervingly terrifyingly loyal, whether it’s to the Dominion or to Odo, and I love him all the more for that) Does he immediately set out to try to find a way back to his universe, or to find the wormhole in the Mirror universe? How does Mirror Odo complicate matters?

Optional Prompts

Look, if in doubt, please just make them kiss and I will be happy. :D
Body Swap - Characters Are Alarmingly Good At Being Each Other
Conflicting loyalties – Explore the issue of loyalty and how it manifests in each of them. Especially Weyoun, whose loyalties are at least somewhat artificial. How does the Mirror universe affect his loyalties to the Founders? Is he able to override it? Perhaps because he’s stuck there he gradually becomes used to feeling free of his obligations to the Dominion, and transfers his loyalties to Mirror Brunt instead, but then an opportunity to return to the prime universe arises and he has to deal with his conflicting loyalties.
Weyoun has fallen in with M!Ezri and M!Brunt and has been working with them for a while without issue until they capture Mirror!Odo. And maybe he can override his instinctive loyalties because this is the Mirror!Universe version and so not a true Founder, but it doesn’t come easily.
Character finally finds an unconditionally good relationship; not sure how to handle it - They're both just so damn sweet, and while everything else might be going to hell, the two of them still manage to carve out some moments of sweetness in the middle of the nightmarish dystopia that is the Mirror Universe.
Character isn't used to being loved and shown tenderness/affection – Because loving relationships aren’t normally part of a Vorta’s life experience, and Weyoun isn’t quite sure how to handle it.
Food as part of the language of love – They both have interesting relationships with food. Given Mirror Brunt’s tendency to make sure everyone’s fed (with tube grubs, but still...), and the way Weyoun works his way through everything on the replicator’s menu, it seems like this would be the perfect way for them to bond. And okay, maybe Brunt can’t get his hands on kava nuts or rippleberries but there must be something.
Creating your moral code from scratch after the last one imploded – So let’s say Weyoun is stranded, temporarily or otherwise, in the Mirror universe. He’s finally free of his obligations to the Dominion, because there is no Dominion there, and so has to figure out a few things and relearn the sort of person he wants to be.
Gently touching a character's scar(s) – Because again this is one of the contrasts between them, Mirror Brunt being scarred (because picking up scars in the Mirror Universe is inevitable, let’s face it) while Weyoun is almost entirely scar-free due to being a recent clone. I’m particularly here for scar kink, and all the associated fascination and sympathy and tenderness, but you could also play with the issues over cloning: Weyoun’s memories of injuries sustained by other Weyouns, which aren’t reflected on his body, but which maybe he feels as phantom scars of some kind?
Emotional hurt/comfort – Ordinarily Vortas’ memories of their previous deaths and injuries are suppressed as part of the cloning process to ensure they remain motivated and willing to sacrifice themselves, but every now and then those suppressed memories return in full force.
Identity Porn - A scam/heist requires that they both have to pose as their other selves.
Smut - experimenting with and exploring interspecies biology.
on the run together – Whether from the Alliance or from some kind of crime syndicate (potentially run by Mirror Ishka XD), and bonding in the process.
Two tired people taking quiet comfort in each other – Exhausted sex, moments of respite in the middle of the world going to hell, the two of them finding moments of common ground, etc.
Competence Kink - And the two of them being quietly impressed and turned on by the other’s competence: Brunt’s toughness and fighting skills and Weyoun's innate diplomacy and negotiating skills.

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Would You Rather (2012)

Requested Ships:
Shepard Lambrick & Julian Lambrick
Shepard Lambrick & Iris
Shepard Lambrick/Iris
Requested Worldbuilding Tags:
WB: Past and Future Games
WB: The Lambrick Foundation
Requested Freeforms:

Shepard Lambrick & Julian Lambrick

Optional Prompts

Something Lovecraftian – Because apparently I’m almost incapable of requesting an entirely non-Lovecraftian film with Jeffrey Combs in it without going ‘Yeah, but what if Lovecraft though?’ On the one hand, you could just take this film at face value, but on the other there does seem to be an odd sense of duty about the way Shepard treats the games, with his attention to the rules and tradition, so what if the Foundation and the games have some kind of supernatural reason for existing?
Antagonism - characters don't like each other but nobody else understands them this well Characters who can't stand each other would also die for each other
Daddy Issues – Because if there was ever a character with hang-ups over his father, it’s Julian Lambrick.
Fantasies about murdering your father – Whether a 5+1 fic about the times Julian has thought about killing his father throughout his life, or something a bit more involved, where he’s actually seriously thinking about going through with it. Or dreaming about doing it. Will he ever have the guts? Does Shepard know? (And if Lucas is involved, maybe the two of them plotting together as part of some fucked-up sexual fantasy, but actually Lucas is telling Shepard about it)
Shepard is beginning to have doubts about whether Julian really has the necessary qualities to follow in his footsteps. Maybe he decides to give Julian one last chance.
A fucked-up slice of life fic following the everyday operations of the Lambrick Foundation.
Something investigating Shepard’s relationship with his son in contrast to Shepard’s relationship with his own father.
What was the first game like? Did it happen under Shepard, or was it something that he inherited? If the latter, then what was his experience of his first game like?

Shepard Lambrick & Iris, Shepard Lambrick/Iris

Optional Prompts

Enemies to Lovers - Enemy tenderly treats character's injuries that the enemy inflicted – Whether this follows on directly from the end of the film, or relates to a whole new injury that Iris has sustained, I am so completely here for this. Or alternatively, what if Shepard is the one who’s been injured at Iris’s hands. It’s a couple of years down the line and, trying to get her revenge on him, she’s taken him to an isolated cabin while his people hunt for them. Only she isn’t sure whether she can really bring herself to kill someone again. Manipulation ensues.
Antagonist Surprises With Honourable Behavior – ‘honourable’ according to Shepard’s judgement, anyway. Because he really does seem to have a fucked-up code of his own when it comes to the games, even if that is just one of his manipulation techniques. But he honours his promises, and Iris finds herself conflicted.
Breathplay - top/dom likes getting choked – Consider this an exception to my Breathplay DNW. Shepard has a thing about being choked. Iris obliges because she just hates him so much. They’re both drawn to the element of risk: him because he knows she might well kill him if she was capable of it, she’s not sure if she is capable of it, but knows that if she takes it too far it could end very badly for her.
Captivity – For one reason or another, Shepard decides it’s necessary to have Iris quietly disposed of, but he’s unwilling to have her killed so imprisons her instead.
Character has their face shaved with a straight razor (by someone they have reason to distrust) – Having established a sexual relationship, although still aware that there’s good chance she’d like to kill him, Shepard lets Iris shave him. What appeals to me here is the sexual tension and Iris’s ever-present temptation to just cut his throat and have done with it.
Character Trains a Protege – Ohhh baby. Explore this however you want to, whether the focus is on the beginning of the process or if you start with her taking her place as a witness to a game. Is Iris all in (for whatever reason), or does she still have her doubts, or is she working against him somehow? And what exactly is Julian doing in all of this?
Slow Seduction/Corruption Arc – So uncomfortably hot, whatever form the seduction takes, whether it’s about sex or a moral corruption. I am absolutely here for a sexual relationship developing between them, but also her originally resisting him trying to use her for his own ends once she’s gone through college, and his attempts to bring her around, finding her a job, etc.
Outsider POV of a 'date' between Shepard and Iris. Especially if its clearly deeply uncomfortable, but to the outsider it just looks like a normal date between a solicitous older man and a younger woman (aside from maybe a couple of out-of-place moments).
Possessiveness - No One Is Allowed to Hurt You Except Me – Times when Shepard went out of his way to protect Iris.
Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder – After the game, Iris is struggling to recover from the experience.
Scar Worship – Specifically that stab-wound. But also, maybe Shepard has one or two scars of his own.

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Thanks for reading!

FFFX 2023 Letter

AO3 Username: StopTalkingAtMe

Welcome to my letter, Mystery Creator. Let me start by saying I’m open to a LOT of different things, including unrequested crossovers with other fandoms that I’m into. If I’ve ever written it or requested it or otherwise given you reason to think I’m a fan then go ahead.. And while my general likes might lean towards the bleak and angsty, believe it or not, I do also really love more light-hearted styles of fic as well as pure unadulterated smut. Do whatever you want with my prompts. I tend to use freeforms to trigger ideas and suggestions, but they are purely to give you ideas of the sort of thing I like. Use them, subvert them, or ignore them completely and go off my general likes if you’d prefer. Some of the sections here may be longer than others but please don’t read anything into that – I’d be delighted with a gift for any one of them. I’m excited to see what you come up with! :D

General Likes
Smut Likes
DNWs
The 4400 (2004)
Dr Mordrid
From Beyond
Hap and Leonard (TV)
House on Haunted Hill (1999)
Interzone (1987)
Love and a .45 (1994)
Re-Animator
Star Trek: Deep Space Nine
Would You Rather?

General Likes and DNWs

General Likes

Character studies and introspection
Loneliness and isolation
Angst
Atmospheric description, scenery porn, sensory description
World-building, backstory, and character development.
Horror of all kinds, understated ghost stories, body horror, cosmic horror, claustophibic horror where the characters are trapped underground, potentially with monsters (think The Descent), etc.
Closed Circle - Stranded with a murderer in your midst, whether in horror or murder mystery. Think And Then There Were None.
Case-fic, whether fully realised or just touching on elements from a case.
Whump, hurt/comfort and hurt/no comfort.
Endings of all kinds, happy, bleak or bittersweet.
Canon-divergent AUs, especially post-canon ones where the bad guys win.
Pining, whether mutual or one-sided
Repression and stoicism
Descriptions of scars
Main Character Death and grief; characters getting together while still grieving for previous partners, taking solace in each other, the dead character still seeming like a presence in the relationship, etc.
Crossovers, especially oddball crossovers that come completely out of left field, although I do tend to prefer crack played straight rather than outright crack. If you have reason to believe I know and like the other fandom, then I encourage you to go for it.
Post-Apocalypse scenarios, including zombies (probably my favourite AU scenario of all time), with focus on angst and the struggle for survival.
Stranded Together With No Way Home, intense (and probably pretty damn unhealthy) fire-forged relationships that come about as a result of being isolated together and being able to rely on no one but each other.
Time Loops
Older characters finding love.
Age gap relationships
I really love historical detail and extensive research notes, so if that’s what you’re into then feel free to go wild. (If that’s not your thing, then please don’t worry: I am in no way an expert, and I love tropey indulgent stuff and cheerfully anachronistic fics just as much).
Hair kink. Hands pushed into hair, coiling it around fingers, routinely cutting another character's hair if appropriate in context (e.g. in post-apocalyptic scenarios), hairwashing as part of hurt/comfort, yanking head back by the hair, etc
Textiles, especially knitwear and embroidery; men in jumpers; historical and cultural details and craft in general
Unusual structures and ways of telling a story, such as Rashomon plots, non-linear narratives, outsider POVs, epistolary works, etc.
Cigarette kink: descriptions of smoking, sharing cigarettes, lighting cigarettes for each other, etc.
Finally, and I cannot emphasise this enough, men in sleepwear, particularly pyjamas and dressing gowns.

Smut Likes

Sex Pollen and aftermath, and any other kind of something made them do it scenario
Angry Sex, rough sex, hate sex, rough sex that turns tender
Clothed Sex, or clothed/naked
Comfort Sex
Dubcon when requested (mutual dubcon of the something-made-us-do-it kind is ALWAYS okay even when not explicitly requested)
Mild bondage and other forms of gentle restraint
Oral Sex, especially cunnilingus in all its forms, and ESPECIALLY cunnilingus with fingering
Rough Sex - Lots of Scratching and Biting and Hair-Grabbing/Pulling and Holding Partner(s) Down
Sex in grimy, grim, uncomfortable places
Threesomes
Situations where one character is too tired, injured etc to orgasm themselves, but takes great pleasure in making the other person come, so long as it's part of a wider give-take relationship when it comes to sex.

DNWs

A/B/O
Noncon between requested ships (Something Made Them Do It scenarios are always okay though, including Bad Guys Made Them Do It)
Dubcon involving unaroused characters
Unrequested Incest
Bestiality (monsters don't count here)
Scat and waterplay
Formalised D/s dynamics (bondage and other forms of restraint are OK)
Underage
Het anal sex
Breathplay (antagonistic choking is fine)
Fisting
Lactation kink
Any variation of the word 'come' in a sexual context spelled as 'cum' (please use 'come', 'came', 'precome' etc)
Focus on AIDS/HIV

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The 4400 (2004)

Requested Ships:
Jordan Collier/Shawn Farrell
Kevin Burkhoff/Tess Doerner

(I understand there are post-canon novels available, but I haven’t read them yet. It’s fine to disregard them and purely go off the series.)

Jordan Collier/Shawn Farrell

Optional Prompts

I seem to remember Matthew suggesting he knew Jordan was back before Jordan made his appearance at the wedding. What if the Marked got hold of him earlier and turned him into one of them then, so that he’s marked right from the moment he turns up. How would that change things? How does Shawn figure out that there might be a way to save him.
A fic revolving around Shawn removing the Mark from Jordan after they escape in the final episode. Does he get tempted at any point simply to let Jordan die?
I do love a nightmare post-apocalyptic hellscape so explore that all you want. Perhaps Shawn and Jordan find themselves trapped together in one of Jordan’s nightmarish visions of the future and have to work together to survive. Maybe they really are trapped, or maybe they’re shared dreams. If the latter, is Jordan behind them?
Jordan and Shawn are the subject of one of Curtis Peck’s terrible, terrible films, which predicts Jordan’s death and the identity of his murderer before Jordan is killed. Oh, and also, Jordan and Shawn are an item in the film.
A 5+1 fic exploring the way their relationship changes over the course of the show.
A Sliding Doors fic that looks at different ways the timeline could have gone. What if Jordan hadn’t been killed, or if Shawn had been able to save him?
Maia makes a prediction that not only are Shawn and Jordan going to end up on the same side, they’re also going to end up lovers.
So what if things happen differently with Danny and the promicin virus spreads beyond Seattle, so Shawn isn’t able to take him out of the picture until it’s too late? Maybe he gets kidnapped by a splinter-group who don’t agree with Jordan’s insistence that everyone has to choose to get the shot, who want to deliberately use him to infect the world. And Shawn and Jordan have to team up to rescue him (although exactly how sincere is Jordan about that? Ultimately there are always going to be some people who refuse to get the shot).
Shawn is injured and Jordan has to tend to his wounds.
What the hell was going on with Cassie and all the White Light cult stuff? Was it the result of inconvenient 4400s being sent back in the time line and still retaining some memory of what was going on?

Kevin Burkhoff/Tess Doerner

There’s an argument to be made that she’s the most powerful 4400 after Isabelle (and it cracks me up the way they kept having to ~~dose her with kryptonite~~ pack her off to visit her grandniece to get her out of the way. It’s not a perfect show, but it’s imperfections are part of what I find so delightful XD).

Optional Prompts

A bad guys win!AU in which Marked!Jordan Collier is removing the abilities of the p-positives, while the original 4400s are being hunted down one by one. Tess and Kevin go on the run.
Their reunion after Tess gets out of hospital happens off-screen. I would love to see how that went, and how they came to be working together. There’s so much potential for everything I love here: his guilt over how he came to be cured, and the hurt/comfort as the promicin side effects get worse.
Yet another thing that happens off-screen: how they got together as a couple in the first place. Given that they kiss just after he’s sloughed off his skin, clearly something was happening while he was still scarred, and oh god that DELIGHTS me. Him being so ashamed of it and not wanting her to see her like that, her being so into him anyway? Mmph.
The first time they sleep together.
Oof, that scene where he says goodbye in the hospital (the book, the kiss on the cheek, the hairtouching). It isn’t clear how much Kevin has realised at that point and whether he understands that it was Tess who cured him, but he’s a smart man: he’ll figure it out quickly. I’d love something exploring his grief and survivor’s guilt over the way things panned out (and I adore early Kevin where he’s still adjusting to being cured, spitting sunflower seeds in the general direction of the bin and not quite having shaken off his mental illness yet).
Thanks to a 4400’s ability akin to the one in No Exit, Kevin and Tess and a bunch of other people find themselves trapped in an alternate universe. Except that this one is a superhero AU, and they specifically have to use their abilities as superheroes. Mainly because I find it so amusing that the least badass people get the most badass abilities. (and it also cracks me up how the various abilities were basically magic by the end.)
They reunite after the end of the series.
Something fluffy and sweet and indulgent where another handwavey 4400 ability allows Kevin and Tess the opportunity to go back in time and give her the Sweet 16 birthday party she never got to experience. Maybe something that works along similar lines to Alana’s, so they don’t lose any time in the real world, and this is set during the penultimate episode, right before he sends her away, and it’s a little respite for them, and perhaps the other people at the party can’t see them? And it’s sweet and romantic and a little bit hot, but also sort of uncomfortable for Kevin given everything that happened in the diner. And play with the age thing: on the one hand it reminds him how young she is, but at the same time he hadn’t actually been born yet.

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Doctor Mordrid

Requested Ships:
Samantha Hunt/Anton Mordrid

Optional Prompts

Morning After (Incredible Sex the night before) - So it's finally happened after however many weeks or months of pining, they've finally fallen into bed together. I'd love to see the aftermath, the satisfaction that comes from finally getting together with the person you're in love with.
Hand and Finger Kink - Because I find the bit where he casually breaks out of the handcuffs while they're in the police interview room hot as fuck.
Undercover Work Used As Excuse To Have Sex They've Always Wanted -- While investigating a cult, they have to go undercover as a couple.
Anton teaches Sam how to use magic. Take this whatever way you want. Maybe something goes wrong (a tentacle monster with designs on making them do it?) or maybe it’s just an opportunity for lots of flirting, casual touching, and sexual tension.
Time Travel - Sam travels back to another time period and needs to work with Anton's younger self. Is she already together with present day Anton, or is this somehow the catalyst for getting them together? Or, potentially, the opportunity for a selfcest threesome?
For plot reasons, Anton has to fake being evil. Or perhaps he’s been mind-controlled by Kabal into being evil, but somehow Sam manages to get him to break the mind control, but he has to maintain it for a little while longer.
Loneliness is such a can’t fail trope for me. Having resigned himself to a lonely existence, Anton has to adapt to finding intimacy with Sam.
Experience - Experienced Partner Lets Inexperienced One Explore Them – I mean, he’s spent the past century and a half avoiding so much as talking to his neighbours, let alone dating.
Feeling your feelings in a quiet moment with a much older/immortal being – something quiet and sweet and tender, exploring the strangeness of being in a relationship with someone so much older.
A casefic where Sam and Anton investigate a Lovecraftian Cult.
Villain tries to draw out hero's dark side (that they say they know is there) – Because I can’t help thinking that when Anton was telling Sam about his backstory that he wasn’t being entirely candid. Especially when he was positioning himself as kind and good in comparison to Kabal being evil. I can’t help but think that there’s an undercurrent of bitterness there. So what if he had once been tempted to work with Kabal, perhaps before he realised how thoroughly evil Kabal was? (And for the record I’m completely here for past Anton/Kabal).

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From Beyond

Requested Ships:
Katherine McMichaels/Crawford Tillinghast

Note on my DNWs: My BDSM DNW is waived when it comes to Dr Pretorius.

And oh man, *Bubba.* I grew up watching Dawn of the Dead a lot, and it remains one of my favourite films of all time, so yep, I am extremely fond of Bubba. I’m delighted by the way he towers over the pair of them, the way he watches over and the caretaking role he takes on, and the way, when the sexual tension starts to ramp up, he admits to getting an erection. Which is to say I am very much here for a Crawford/Katherine/Bubba threesome, or even poly of a kind where it somehow reflects the dynamics of canon, because Crawford/Katherine is so intensely charged in the film. Maybe because he's older and not as damaged as Crawford (or as horny as Katherine) he sort of acts like an anchor for the two of them?

Optional Prompts

Exploration of Aftermath of Canon Events – The more I think about that ending the more it sticks with me, how it’s a circular narrative, with Crawford beginning the film under Pretorius’s control and ending it that way too. And I’m guessing Pretorius isn’t impotent any more. It’s so bleak, the idea of him being tormented, tortured and eaten (ideally with the focus on body horror rather than vore), only to be reborn over and over again.
Bondage – It sure would be a shame if those manacles went to waste.
Exploring Ancient Ruins in a Lovecraftian Alternate Dimension (Monsters Optional) – Post-canon fic where Crawford and Katherine explore the world beyond, like the mysterious temple mentioned in the original story, and all the creatures who inhabit it. Maybe they’re more or less normal, maybe they’re changing into something monstrous (but that doesn’t necessarily need to be a bad thing). Anything is welcome for this prompt, from horror, worldbuilding, smut, or something much gentler and fluffier.
Femdom – I just want Katherine to gently dom Crawford. Maybe they stumble across an overly friendly tentacle monster and after escaping from its clutches it occurs to her it could have its uses.
A fix-it where Katherine sets out to rescue Crawford.
Or a canon divergent fic where Crawford appears to have escaped the effects of the Resonator at the end, but it gradually becomes clear that although he looked normal at first, he came back wrong.
I cannot emphasise enough how here I am for Crawford having his boundaries trampled on and getting bad-touched, either by Katherine while she’s being affected by the resonator or by Dr Pretorius. I would very much like to see the relationship between Crawford and Pretorius explored, and I think there's a lot to dig into. Like the bit where he yells that Pretorius doesn't know how to give pleasure, only pain, and the question of how he'd know Pretorius was impotent because there's really no good answer to that question. Give me something where Pretorius feels up Crawford instead of (or as well as) Katherine, or where Pretorius encourages her to join in. Bad Guys Made Them Do It scenarios are especially welcome here.
So how did Dr Pretorius manage to turn the Resonator back on? Does he (and Crawford after the end of the film) retain an awareness of the normal plane of existence, and some ability to manipulate it?
Obvious third wheel in spontaneous threesome still highly enjoys themselves – During the early part of the film, a spontaneous threesome develops between Katherine, Crawford and Bubba, possibly induced by sex pollen or just the lingering effects of the Resonator. (With Bubba, naturally, being the third wheel, but he’s fine with that tbh.

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Hap and Leonard (TV)

Requested Ships:
Hap Collins/Leonard Pine
Raoul Vasquez/Leonard Pine

I discovered this recently and have absolutely fallen for it hard. I burned through the series, and am now planning on reading the books because I need more. It just gets better and better, and I am so, so gutted it didn’t get a fourth season.

The relationship between the two mains is just the most extraordinary thing to watch, this tangle of utter devotion and conflict and loyalty, and I could just watch the two of them interact for hours. The way their relationship stretches back to when they were boys, and the little complexities that come from Leonard being gay and Hap being straight, and the never quite clarified question of whether there’s any attraction there… The level of devotion between them is off the fucking scale, to the point where it almost hurts. The way they look out for each other! Every time one of them tells the other he loves him! All the opportunities for hurt/comfort and protectiveness, but also, also, all the times one of them gets the other one into trouble and it doesn’t matter because they’re both ride-or-die for each other anyway.

I would love something that explores their relationship, whether entirely one-sided pining on Leonard’s part or where something happens between them, whether a (drunken?) one-off encounter or a more sustained relationship. Maybe Hap experiments sexually – in which case, does he decide reluctantly that as much as he loves Leonard he’s never going to feel sexually attracted towards him, or maybe he realises he’s bisexual late in life? Or maybe they experimented once when they were younger, and while Hap’s put it behind him, Leonard hasn’t? Or something absurdly tropey – there was only one bed! Or they have to investigate a crime in the gay community necessitating Undercover as a Couple! Or Bad Guys Made Them Do It, and/or its angsty aftermath.

And then there’s Raoul. I liked him and his relationship with Leonard a lot anyway, and then I got to the last episode of S2, and the scene where he walks out on Leonard and that line where he’s looking back and they’re both kind of teary, and the ship hit me right in the heart. Their relationship in canon is so painful and messy, and I really wish we’d seen a bit more of Raoul as a character. The way they get back together in S1 seems linked to Hap getting together with Trudy, but at the same time Raoul and Leonard do genuinely seem to love each other. It’s just Leonard’s relationship with Hap is so all-consuming. No matter whether it’s entirely platonic or not, Hap will always be the most important person in Leonard’s life, and the question is whether there’s ever really going to be room for anyone else.

Hap and Leonard have been devoted to each other since they were boys, and I’d love to see something exploring how Raoul might be able to find a way to fit into that, or not as the case may be. Anything is welcome, whether it revolves around them breaking up because they’re never going to make it work, OR (because I do genuinely ship them) the two of them figuring out how to make it work despite the Hap-sized elephant in the room. I’d also really love to see him getting more involved in a case and working together with them.

Optional Prompts

Oh No They're Hot – Always a sucker for Oh No They’re Hot moments, whichever one of them it happens to. Maybe Leonard’s been coasting along complacently because he knows he isn’t really attracted to Hap so it’s fine, and then something happens and how hot Hap is is all he can think about. Or maybe Hap starts to suspect he might not be as straight as he’s always assumed, but he doesn’t want to risk letting it slip to Leonard because he doesn’t want to screw up their friendship.
"We'll just have sex one time to get it out of our systems" ... but it makes the longing worse – Whether for Hap/Leonard or Leonard/Raoul, either way I just love this dynamic so much. The bad idea sex, the pining, the inability to control themselves. Maybe the tension is getting too intense so Hap and Leonard decide to get it out of the way, but turns out it’s much much better than they expected, or conversely terrible and they can’t have that be their only sexual encounter. For Leonard/Raoul, maybe they meet up again after season 2, and there’s still something there between them.
Captured and tortured together & doing their best to help each other through it – All the angst and whump and mutual support, please. Also the two of them having to figure out a way to escape.
Character Confesses Unrequited Feelings; Other Character Begins to See Them in a New Light – If it’s Leonard, presumably he’s slightly delirious because otherwise it’d have to be dragged out of him by wild horses. But maybe it’s the other way around, and in a drunken moment Hap admits that he did go through a brief stage of thinking he might have had feelings for Leonard. Maybe sometime after Trudy turned up and dumped him again, and Leonard was just there?
Character is in love with best friend (and the friend will never know) – I have to admit I head-canon Leonard as having feelings of some kind for Hap. Watching it, it just feels like there’s something there. Either he’s in love with him, or he used to be in love with him and as time went on those feelings got blunted without ever really going away. (I lean towards the latter, but let me stress that if you have a different head canon you want to write then you should do it. Something where it’s Hap is the one pining would be extremely welcome too). Just all the pining and self-denial and refusal to say anything for fear of screwing up their friendship. Delicious.
Pining. I want allll the pining for this, from: Pining - Character A incorrectly assumes that Character B knows that A is pining for them, to Pining - Mutual pining that both characters figure out is requited but that's terrifying, to basically everything in between.
Accidental Baby Acquisition – For either pairing. Canon already went with Accidental Child Acquisition with Ivan, but a baby would be fun too. How does it happen? Some ex-girlfriend of Hap’s, perhaps, or maybe they’re being chased by bad guys and end up stranded with a baby they need to return to its family.
Ghosts – Season 2 in particular had some hints of the supernatural going on, although it never quite clarified if they were really ghosts or not. But what if they were?
Whichever is the endgame ship, give me Raoul's point of view on whatever Hap and Leonard's relationship is. If Raoul/Leonard, then all the quiet resentment at not being the most important person in your boyfriend’s life, even if you’re trying to be understanding. If Hap/Leonard is the end-ship, then that last scene when Raoul walks out seems pretty central. Maybe he comes back into Leonard’s life the next time one of them is hospitalised and he realises at some point they’ve got together and he knew it was inevitable. (or maybe there is no endgame ship, and it's all a mess of pining and hurt).
Relationship Study – Either relationship. I’d love something exploring whatever the hell is going on with them and how they fit together. How Raoul and Leonard met, for example, or what happened the last time they broke up. What it’s like being gay in 80s Texas and whether they ever thought about moving somewhere else. And for Hap and Leonard, is this a pining situation (one-sided or otherwise?), or if they did get together, how would it happen, how would it work?
First time – First time having sex with each other. For Hap/Leonard, maybe Hap’s first time having sex with another man. Or first time having sex sober. I’m here for anything from pure unadulterated PWP smut to something which focuses on the emotion or which takes a look at the aftermath.
Raoul and Leonard are reunited shortly after the events of season 3. Leonard still hasn’t got over the trauma he went through, but given what happened, he doesn’t want go to Hap. Not that he particularly wants to go to Raoul either, mind you, but Raoul is used to Leonard’s bullshit by now.
Case fic! For either pairing. After their break-up in season 2, Raoul comes to Leonard because he needs help with something. Something which potentially means Hap and Leonard going undercover as a couple to investigate a crime in the gay community. Hap/Leonard seems like the obvious pairing for this (and YES PLEASE), but also Raoul/Leonard could be interesting as well. Pretending to be in a relationship with Hap could be the catalyst to finally get Leonard over whatever the fuck his deal is with Hap and leave the way clear for him to properly get together with Raoul. Not to mention all the opportunities for jealousy and pining. (And also some interaction between Hap and Raoul would be very welcome too – they both love Leonard so they already have something in common.)
Speaking of Hap and Raoul, while I don’t ship them, and I’m not particularly interested in poly combining these two pairings, I would really love to see them have a one-off threesome.
Hurt/Comfort - A Blames Themself for Love Interest Getting Hurt to Protect A - Leads to Feelings – Either pairing, although I’m particularly drawn to Raoul/Leonard for this, with Raoul being the one getting injured. Mainly because Hap and Leonard are both getting injured on the reg: they’re used to it. But Raoul isn’t anywhere near as tough as they are, and maybe that’s the catalyst to get them together properly.
Hurt/Comfort - Character with injured hands requires assistance (which turns sexual) – As ever, one of my favourite tropes. :D

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House on Haunted Hill

Requested Ships:
Dr Richard B Vannacutt & The House
Watson Pritchett & Dr Richard B Vannacutt
Watson Pritchett & The House
Watson Pritchett/Dr Richard B Vannacutt

Note on my DNWs: For Pritchett, please have him be 16 or older for direct sexual contact, but sexually arousing dreams/visions/hallucinations are fine from 13+).

Watson Pritchett/Dr Richard B Vannacutt

Not a pairing that I’d originally considered, but then a seed took root and now I can’t stop thinking about these two and what sort of dynamic they’d have.

Optional Prompts

This House has a Personality and that Personality is Fucked Up – And adolescence is tough enough as it is, without having to go through it while you're living in a haunted house that can't seem to decide whether it wants to fuck you or kill you.
Explore the deaths of Pritchett's father and grandfather, because it feels like there are a lot of unanswered questions there. Did the house exert any influence over them? Could Pritchett’s father have murdered his grandfather? How did his father really die?
A both hates and loves how good the sex with B is – Vannacutt/Pritchett (because the more I think about shipping them, the harder I ship them.)
Character is forced to work with someone who scares them – I’m intrigued by what it means to be a ghost and how much free will they have. Pritchett has to work with Vannacutt for reasons (especially delighted by the idea of this considering how Pritchett crapped himself when he recognised Vannacutt’s description).
So how does Pritchett manage to resist the Shadow at the end in order to free Sara and Eddie, when seemingly no one else was able to resist?
Something revolving around the stained glass ceiling, because creepy though it is is just suggest a marginally less evil side to Vannacutt and the idea of good people being corrupted by evil will always fascinate me.
Character with trauma is freaked out and turned on by getting tied up – Specifically thinking of Pritchett here, the poor little bastard. XD
Conversations In Liminal Spaces On The Border Of One World And Another – Ghost!Pritchett and ghost!Vannacutt have a conversation.
Evil!Pritchett – A canon-divergent fic where Pritchett isn’t so resistant to the house. How would that affect canon?
Entering someone's dreams/nightmares – Vannacutt and/or the Shadow enter Pritchett’s dreams, where pre-, during, or post-canon.
Time Travel Fix-It – Pritchett travels back in time to the 20s-30s, and finds himself caught up in events at the asylum. Could he potentially change the way events pan out? (The actual fix-it is optional here)
Time Travel - Character meets their child self – Ghost!Pritchett realises it’s possible to travel through time and interact with his younger self.
Vannacutt manages to escape the house. There’s a deleted scene (after the credits roll in this video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zdo8voI87LI) in which Vannacutt brings the real Jennifer Jenzen to the house, and another scene where his spot being tortured is taken by Price. Which leads me to wonder if it’s possible for him to buy his freedom, or if he’s figured out a way to outwit the house.
Explore what the hell was going on with that chair. Was Vannacutt listening to the Darkness, or was it potentially a seduction/sex thing?
Corruption Arc – Either for Vannacutt or for Pritchett. Or, conversely, a redemption arc for Vannacutt, or Vannacutt getting a redemption arc while Pritchett goes the other way. I really love the idea of the house seducing people into evil (the second film goes harder on that, and iirc explicitly states that Vannacutt wasn’t always a monster), and the question of whether someone who’s done terrible things can really be redeemed.
Eldritch Architecture – I’d love to see something that goes hard on the Lovecraftian elements in the plot, the idea of this ancient nameless evil existing even before the house was built, and of what the Darkness at the heart of the house really is.
Tentacles made them do it – Probably no surprises that I have Pritchett/Vannacutt in mind here.

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Interzone (1987)

Requested Ships:
Swan/Tera

Optional Prompts

There are a couple of hints in canon that Swan is in mourning for a dog, which made me hanker for a fic where they stumble across, and try to befriend what might actually be the last dog left alive in the Interzone.
Femdom – Explore the aftermath of everything that happens with Mantis and Balzakan. After some jealousy on Tera’s part, he tries to reassure her that it meant nothing and wasn’t even fun: Mantis just blindfolded him and made him do everything she said, at which Tera is like, actually that does sound like fun.
Accidental Baby Acquisition –
Expand on the situation in Mantis and Blazakan's camp. Watching it, I wasn’t really sure how much of their ‘plan’ is actually a plan and how much is improvised, but I’d love to see it expanded on in a fic. Identity kink, the pining coming from Swan sleeping with Mantis and Tera with Balzakan. And of course, the potential for Bad Guys Made Them Do It, whether it’s a case of having to keep up the pretence, or if they’ve both been found out.
An AU involving a different kind of apocalypse, whether zombies or triffids or something that takes a slightly more realistic take on the apocalypse than this.
Relationship study. This is not the sort of canon that really goes all that deep into character development, but from what we get, I find their dynamics really appealing, and I’d love to see their relationship explored.
AU - Villains win – The ‘treasure’ makes about as much sense as just about anything else in this film, but let’s say Mantis and Balzakan managed to break into the vault. Even despite everything that happened, Mantis is still pretty fond of Swan, so can be persuaded to spare him, especially if Balzakan is killed. Tera still gets brought back, so together they have to negotiate a potentially uneasy truce and deal with the potential destruction of the Interzone.
building a civilization from the ground up – Swan and Tera return to the Veterans to start the process of cataloguing the treasure.
Characters Have Trouble Sleeping Apart After Shared Traumatic Captivity – All the angst, emotional hurt/comfort and mutual support please. Especially if nightmares are involved. Or just go all out on the emotional fallout of canon.
Came Back Wrong – Just because Tera came back doesn’t mean her resurrection is going to be entirely smooth sailing (or Swan’s miraculous healing for that matter). Maybe it’s flawed in some way, or maybe it’s only temporary and they have to set out to find a way to make it permanent. And if you want to delve into Swan's guilt over the circumstances of her death, then please do.
Ghosts - A is a ghost only B can see and interact with – And similarly, while the assumption is that she really has been brought back, what if that isn’t true?
Undercover as Master and Slave – Which, actually, canon does, without ever really getting too into the details. That moment where they first get to the Bad Guy camp and Tera hands him the leash because he’s forgotten, and Mantis casually saying ‘Maybe I’ll have her later’ just, um, stood out to me a bit. Or maybe the roles are reversed, and it’s Tera who has to play the role of Master.

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Love and a .45 (1994)

Requested Ships:
Dinosaur Bob/Creepy Cody

Terrible people doing terrible things! :D

I don’t know what it says about me that I find the tattoo-parlour scene in which they torment Billy together particular distractingly hot (probably nothing good XD). The bit where having terrorised Billy, Bob dances around him and then just straight up throws himself into his lap? And then, THEN, still sitting in said lap, he goes on to nestle his head against Billy’s chest while still menacing him and waving a gun around? Mmmph. The gun kink, the dancing, the casual touching and violation of personal space, the apparent total confidence in whatever the fucking hell his sexuality is, the gun kink... Oh GOD did I mention the gun kink? MORE OF THAT SORT OF THING PLEASE.

Optional Prompts

Gun Kink – Yeeeep. This is a pretty good canon for gun kink. I’m here for anything from caressing the other party with a gun, whether tenderly or with an air of menace, to actual insertion or fellating of a gun.
'Platonic' porn-watching and mutual masturbation session leads to sex – Because they’re horny and bored and there’s definitely nothing gay about this.
"We'll just have sex one time to get it out of our systems" ... but it makes the longing worse – All the ‘sex while pining and in denial’ energy please.
A/B Seduce C into a Threesome; Then A/B Realize They Only Want Each Other – I’m specifically thinking of Billy for C here, because his entire dynamic with them, and it way it flips their roles delights me, but alternatively go with an OC, possibly a woman because I like the opportunities for ‘pining while in denial’.
Altered States – Drugs (Recreational) – Bonding over substance misuse and/or sex under the influence.
First Meeting – Explore their backstory. How did they meet? In prison or elsewhere? How did they get on the first time they met
Alternate Universe - John Wick (Movies) Setting – In which they are (terrible) international assassins. Either that or they’re just tagging along with an old acquaintance who is an assassin, and maybe they’re just knocking about the Continental while plot happens all around them.
The awkward situation that results when you’re inadvertently on the periphery of a Bad Guys Made Them Do It situation between two men and it leads to the awakening of feelings.
Forced proximity – they have to hole up for a while for reasons, and have to share a hotel room, which potentially leads to sharing a bed, watching pay per view porn, and whatever other forced proximity tropes you can come up with.
Handcuffed together – Whether for the purposes of plot, or purely as an excuse for filthy PWP porn.
Bob injures his hands, which leads to him getting a caretaking handjob or oral sex from Creepy.
They meet up with Watty and Star under different circumstances a couple of years down the line.
AU where they are the wanted fugitives on a road trip as they try to escape to Mexico.
A From Dusk Till Dawn (the film version) fusion. Bob and Creepy follow Watty and Star to Mexico, but their stand-off is interrupted by vampires and they need to work together to survive.
Platonic bed sharing and the accompanying unfortunately timed boners.
Morning after (amazing sex the night before) – All the awkward aftermath please, possibly with optional ‘did that really happen?’ binge-related amnesia.

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Re-Animator

Requested Ship:
Herbert West/Dan Cain

Canon-specific DNW: Please pretend that the scenes of sexual violence against women in Beyond Re-Animator never happened (. References to the Meg/Hill scene in the first film are fine though, and I’m also fine with Dan or Herbert being nonconned (onscreen or otherwise) by a third party for the purposes of whump or hurt/comfort.

I’d love anything that goes hard on the hurt/comfort and mutual protectiveness between Herbert and Dan, or anything that captures the tone and bonkers exuberance, gore, humour and horror of the films. Maybe something that explores what happens in between the films, especially between the first and second films, because damn, are there some unanswered questions there – like how did Meg’s heart come to be outside of her body, and how the hell did Herbert manage to persuade Dan to go to Peru with him? And any of the reunions where an apparently dead Herbert pops up again. I also cannot emphasise enough how here I am for Herbert getting menaced and/or whumped.

Optional Prompts

5 Times Dan Assumed Herbert was Dead – Because in various places, namely the screenplay and the novelisation, he is explicitly stated to have died at the end of the first film and I like the idea of him repeatedly appearing to die and popping up again mostly unscathed (and I’m amused that the one film where he doesn’t appear to die at the end is the one in which Dan does not appear. XD).
Accidental Baby Acquisition – I mean, they’re doctors. It’s not beyond the realms of possibility that they might find themselves in a situation where they have to deliver a baby in a crisis (possibly involving zombies), and end up separated from the mother and stuck having to look after the baby.
Addiction - Character tries to distract Addict from addiction with sex – Dan tries to break Herbert’s reliance on the serum.
Alternate Universe - Russian Doll Fusion – I love time loops in all their forms anyway, but this one in particular, with its focus on constant, unrelenting death, and the way the discovery that the loop is being shared with another person would play out with these two is perfect. (and for time loops in general, I’m amused by the way Herbert would probably adapt his work to take full advantage of the loop (er, an endless supply of fresh corpses with no consequences – hey, how is it murder if they don’t stay dead? – having to memorise the results because he can’t write them down, etc.)
Hurt/Comfort – Hurt/Comfort is always welcome, but one thing I’d love to see is Dan helping Herbert through withdrawal from the serum. Mainly because I really wish that deleted scene had been included in the film. I have some quiet headcanons about Herbert’s addiction to reagent, and amongst them is the fact that avoiding sleep is really, really not a good idea, and that maybe the times when he’s at his most batshit are the times when he’s suffering from chronic sleep-deprivation. All of which convinces Dan to help him to break the habit.
Bad Guys Made Them Do It – and every other iteration of Something Made Them Do It.
Betray them to save them – Dan’s presence looms so large in Beyond Reanimator even though he doesn’t appear. I can definitely see a situation where Dan got to a point where he couldn’t see any other choice, and he genuinely believed if things carried on the way they were that Herbert was going to get himself killed. I’d love to see that decision explored and the fallout when/if they’re reunited and he realises what Herbert’s been through.
Hurt/Comfort - Character with injured hands requires assistance (which turns sexual) – Here for the hurt/comfort and smut potential of this (and also very fond of one character shaving another.)
Inspired by the novelisation, Dan is completely taken by surprise when Herbert unexpectedly turns out to be massively into ice hockey. Maybe it’s a hobby he only occasionally spares the time for, but either way Dan is extremely weirded out by the prospect of Herbert going to bars and talking to fans.
You Hurt Me More Than Anything; But Being Without You Hurts More – Herbert goes in search of Dan after the end of Beyond Reanimator. Is he planning on revenge (even if he ultimately can’t face going through with it?) Does something else happen as a catalyst that forces them to work together again? I’d love to see all the messy hurt/comfort and emotional fallout of everything that happened.
Alternate Universe - Canon Divergence – How might things have played out if Meg hadn’t been so hostile to Herbert from the get-go? Maybe if she hadn’t been there when he came about the room, allowing Dan to prime her for his oddball roommate beforehand? And if she hadn’t walked in on them bringing Rufus back, which meant that Dan wouldn’t have fallen out with Dean Halsey, who then wouldn’t have died, etc etc. It’s interesting how differently Herbert treats Francesca. While he’s not exactly polite to her (XD) he tolerates her presence in a way he doesn’t really tolerate Meg’s, and I can’t help but read that as at least partially being the result of Meg’s attitude towards him.
Alternate Universe - Canon Divergence – A canon-divergent AU where Francesca isn’t on the scene and the creation of the Bride is much more successful, and she isn’t quite so much of a monster. Mainly because I’m really curious what the hell Herbert actually had in mind beyond keeping Dan with him at all costs. (And for the record, I’m completely open to Herbert/Dan/The Bride in whatever form that takes.)
Hurt/Comfort - Technically awful attempts at comfort are actually very comforting – Okay, so Herbert is pretty terrible at doing the whole comfort thing, but the fact that he even tries is pretty damn significant.
Road trip after the end of the world – Any post-apocalypse scenario will do, but I am particularly fond of a zombie apocalypse, which seems particularly apt for this canon. Was it Herbert’s fault, or was he entirely innocent for once? Where are they going? What’s the plan? And how does reagent factor into things?
Estranged Characters - Injured A shows Up on B's doorstep Saying "I didn't know where else to go" – My first thought with this was Herbert turning up out of the blue, but what if it’s the other way around? What if, potentially after Herbert’s prison break, he considered hunting Dan down, but reluctantly decided not to follow through, only for Dan to suddenly turn up unexpectedly, and turns out he’s been keeping track of Herbert all these years and somehow or other the shit’s about to hit the fan?
Herbert and Dan take the places of the narrator and the version of Herbert in the original story by Lovecraft. – I read the story after watching the films, and I was really not expecting to find that so much of what happens in the first two films came more or less directly from the story (with a fair few changes along the way). I’m fascinated by the way the films work as adaptations, but especially by the similarities and differences between the two Herberts (running away screaming the first time they reanimate a corpse? Film!Herbert would never. On the other hand the stuff with the revolver? Yeeeeah, he totally would). So perhaps a historical AU where Herbert and Dan are from that period, or where they’re still their 80s selves but have switched places with the versions of themselves from the story. Or maybe it’s just Dan who’s switched places, and he has to content with a different version of Herbert, who is BLOND (and, y'know, also slightly more actively murderous than Dan's Herbert, and has a disconcerting habit of eyeing his healthy physique with a covetous eye). (If you haven’t already read it, be warned it has some racist elements. I’d prefer for those to be avoided if you go with this prompt, please)
A Re-Animator/Ghosts (UK) crossover. Why, yes, this is goofy as hell but I waaaant it. :D In the eighties or nineties Dan and Herbert rent out Button House. Unfortunately something goes wrong and Herbert ends up dying on the property and coming back as a ghost.

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Star Trek: Deep Space Nine

Requested Ships:
Quark/Brunt
Mirror Ezri Dax/Brunt, Mirror Ezri Dax/Mirror Brunt/Brunt
Odo/Weyoun

Quark/Brunt

Optional Prompts

'Dirty little secret' relationship leads to Too Many Feelings leads to unexpected marriage proposal – Because I am so here for the two of them having a secret relationship on the downlow, and maybe they keep telling themselves it’s just about sex and it doesn’t mean anything, but actually...
Accidental Marriage – When they’re on an alien planet negotiating a contract, they accidentally wind up married (maybe because in that planet’s laws rivalry is considered a sign of great regard), and this cannot stand. Turns out getting it annulled is a little trickier than first envisioned, and in the meantime pining, forced proximity, and sex-of-convenience ensues.
Hate Sex – I am so, so here for the two of them hatefucking, and for moments of unexpected tenderness in the middle of the hatefucking, and for hate sex where they gradually start to develop feelings.
Exploration of Aftermath of Canon Events – A relationship study that looks at how things might develop between the two of them after the end of the series, with neither of them entirely happy about the changes on Ferenginar.
Characters don't realise they're in a relationship but everyone else can see it – Maybe Brunt keeps finding reasons to return to Deep Space Nice to make Quark’s life a misery, and Quark does everything he can to irritate Brunt, and neither of the two of them wants to admit that actually they’re sort of starting to enjoy each other’s company, while as far as everyone else is concerned they’re already basically together.
A post-canon fic with an established relationship between Quark and Brunt. They’re… sort of settled. Almost happy. And then, like a hand grenade tossed into the middle of their relationship, Quark’s old lover Natima Lang comes back. Somehow Brunt finds out what happened between them and is torn between horrified disgust at Quark being willing to abandon everything to run off with her and seething jealousy because he thinks, rightly or wrongly, that Quark wouldn't do that for HIM in a million years. Maybe Quark and Natima have both moved on with no lingering feelings other than a faint poignant ‘what might have been’, or maybe they’re still as in love with each other as ever and the only way to resolve this is with Quark/Natima/Brunt.
5+1 Things – A post-canon 5+1 fic exploring the ways every single member of Quark’s family undermines their attempts at (semi-)tradition Ferengi parenting (preferably of a boy, please, unless the focus is on them both overcoming their terrible ingrained sexism to the point where it’s probably going to be a bit ooc, let’s face it).
Having met by chance with an oddly familiar stranger in a bar who shares his animosity for Quark, Brunt obtains a copy of a unique holosuite program involving Major Kira with Quark’s head in return for a discounted price and the promise to use it to destroy Quark. Which would be easier to do if he could just stop thinking about how it would be better with Quark’s head on Quark’s body. To facilitate Getting Revenge, obviously. (And just as soon as he figures out why the hell Quark would make the program so damn good at oo-mox if it was written for a non-Ferengi).
So, um, those scenes in The Dogs of War when Brunt is sucking up to Quark because they both think Zek is going to appoint him the next Grand Nagus? He’d be remiss if he forgot Rule 113 of the Rules of Acquisition: Always have sex with the boss.
Ishka figures out why Brunt is so fixated on bringing Quark down. And, well, okay, yes, Brunt is terrible, but also he’s a good Ferengi, and frankly, Quark could probably do worse.
Time Travel Fix-It – Brunt and Quark travel back to a point where they’re in a position to alter the course of Ferengi history and prevent the sweeping changes brought about by Quark’s mother, but potentially ruining their fortunes in their present, since with the franchisement of Quark’s they’re actually doing pretty damn well for themselves. Do they go through with it, or disagree about whether they should go through with it?

Mirror Ezri Dax/Brunt & Mirror Ezri Dax/Mirror Brunt/Brunt

And then there’s Brunt. XD

Optional Prompts

Femdom – Because if there’s ever been a character who very definitely needs to get dommed by a female, it is Brunt.
Clothing - Naked Male Clothed Female – Niiice. I just love this freeform so, so much when it comes to Brunt (especially if combined with femdom). He would just hate it so fucking much. It’s disgusting. It’s depraved. So why the hell does he find it so fucking hot? *hearteyes*
Identity Porn – Brunt has to pose as his Mirror counterpart and work with Mirror!Ezri, leading to a sex scene in which for kink reasons he ends up having sex with her while still in the Mirror!Brunt persona.
A threesome in which Ezri and Brunt edge Mirror!Brunt until he’s a sobbing desperate mess. Look, I just want him to have nice things okay?
Accidental Baby Acquisition – I am a sucker for certain tropes and one of those tropes that will forever get me is when people who under normal circumstances have no business looking after babies get stuck looking after a baby. If Mirror!Brunt is around, maybe the plan was that he’d be the one looking after the kid, but due to something going wrong, he and Brunt have to trade places and pretend to be each other.
Competence Kink - Whether they’re rivals or allies, I just love the idea of Brunt and Mirror!Ezri being secretly impressed and turned on by how good the other one is at lying, cheating and stealing. Lets just say Brunt probably has more in common with Mirror!Ezri than his counterpart does.
Since his death, Ezri has been seeing Mirror!Brunt's ghost. Maybe it’s some kind of hallucination from a space anomaly, or maybe she’s just imagining him, or maybe he really is a ghost, or maybe he’s the result of a malfunctioning portable holoprojector (which she hasn’t fixed because she kind of misses him and it’s nice having him around). but either way she’s gradually beginning to accept she might have had feelings for him after all. Then she meets Brunt.
proxy-fucking – Mirror!Ezri fucking Brunt as a way of processing the grief she feels about Mirror!Brunt’s death.

Odo/Weyoun

Optional Prompts

DS9: Post-canon attempt to return the Vorta to sexual reproduction; first non-clone baby born - With Weyoun and Odo being at the heart of the attempt.
A canon-divergent fic where Weyoun 6 survives to defect to the Federation, exploring how their relationship goes after the war is over.
A canon-divergent AU where the canonical baby Changeling turns up while the station is in the hands of the Dominion and Weyoun is involved with Odo's attempts to look after it.
Complicated emotions at being pregnant with a baby character believes is a god - somehow Weyoun ends up knocked up, whether it's some kind of handwavy transporter accident type accident, or the result of a sex pollen incident necessary to save Odo's life and neither of them realised Weyoun could get pregnant that way. Is there some kind of side effect from the pregnancy which leaves Weyoun with some degree of shapeshifting powers, or the ability to link with the baby, which is amazing but also very uncomfortable because he's just a Vorta.
Cloning Accident result in creating a baby - The real reason Weyoun 6 tried to defect. :D Is it a wholly new person or just a baby version of Weyoun, and what are the implications of it not being going through the full cloning process?
character that thought they had zero parenting instincts goes into hardcore protective mode - I love Weyoun as a villain at least partly because of how very... unintimidating he is in a lot of ways. He's small and slight and vulnerable and he keeps dying, and I'm really drawn to this prompt both for him embracing his violent side in the interests of protecting a baby and for the potential to explore his character because I’ll always love a character study.
a 5+1 fic exploring the way Odo's relationship with the various different Weyouns changes over the years.
Sex Pollen – Whether it’s Odo affected and Weyoun willingly sacrifices himself to save the Founder, or Weyoun is affected and is horrified/pathetically grateful at Odo being willing to help. Or the aftermath of the sex pollen situation with all the fallout.
A canon-divergent AU where Odo remains human for longer, and he’s still a solid when he meets Weyoun 5 for the first time. What effect would Odo's becoming a solid have on their dynamic? How would the Vorta conceptualise the concept of a god becoming a solid, and what does that mean for the way Weyoun’s worldview? I’d be delighted with anything from a character/relationship study that follows their time on the station together, or perhaps something plottier where they're stranded on a planet together and have to work together to survive, but now Odo's just as vulnerable as Weyoun is. (Sex pollen always welcome)
Hurt/Comfort - Character Treats Other Character's Injuries – Weyoun is injured and Odo has to treat his injuries, whether it’s Weyoun 6 or one of the other ones. I’m just fascinated by all the messy feelings of faith and awe, and Odo’s discomfort at being thought of as a god.
Slow and painful process of recovering from lifetime of cultural brainwashing – Whether it happens over the course of one Weyoun or several. I really love all the tangled complexities of the way the Vorta see the world. Maybe this is a canon-divergent fic where Weyoun 6 survives and Odo tries to deprogram him? Or maybe a future Weyoun where the process has begun but isn't quite there yet.
Whump - A sacrifices themself to protect B; B is forced to watch A being tortured – The obvious candidate for self-sacrifice is Weyoun, but Odo sacrificing himself and Weyoun's struggles watching him being tortured (perhaps that Romulan device that stops him from changing shape) would be delicious too.

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Would You Rather (2012)

Requested Ships:
Shepard Lambrick & Julian Lambrick
Shepard Lambrick & Iris
Shepard Lambrick/Iris

Shepard Lambrick & Julian Lambrick

Optional Prompts

Something Lovecraftian – Because apparently I’m almost incapable of requesting an entirely non-Lovecraftian film with Jeffrey Combs in it without going ‘Yeah, but what if Lovecraft though?’ On the one hand, you could just take this film at face value, but on the other there does seem to be an odd sense of duty about the way Shepard treats the games, with his attention to the rules and tradition, so what if the Foundation and the games have some kind of supernatural reason for existing?
Antagonism - characters don't like each other but nobody else understands them this well Characters who can't stand each other would also die for each other
Daddy Issues – Because if there was ever a character with hang-ups over his father, it’s Julian Lambrick.
Fantasies about murdering your father – Whether a 5+1 fic about the times Julian has thought about killing his father throughout his life, or something a bit more involved, where he’s actually seriously thinking about going through with it. Or dreaming about doing it. Will he ever have the guts? Does Shepard know? (And if Lucas is involved, maybe the two of them plotting together as part of some fucked-up sexual fantasy, but actually Lucas is telling Shepard about it)
Shepard is beginning to have doubts about whether Julian really has the necessary qualities to follow in his footsteps. Maybe he decides to give Julian one last chance.
A fucked-up slice of life fic following the everyday operations of the Lambrick Foundation.
Something investigating Shepard’s relationship with his son in contrast to Shepard’s relationship with his own father.
What was the first game like? Did it happen under Shepard, or was it something that he inherited? If the latter, then what was his experience of his first game like?

Shepard Lambrick & Iris, Shepard Lambrick/Iris

Optional Prompts

Enemies to Lovers - Enemy tenderly treats character's injuries that the enemy inflicted – Whether this follows on directly from the end of the film, or relates to a whole new injury that Iris has sustained, I am so completely here for this. Or alternatively, what if Shepard is the one who’s been injured at Iris’s hands. It’s a couple of years down the line and, trying to get her revenge on him, she’s taken him to an isolated cabin while his people hunt for them. Only she isn’t sure whether she can really bring herself to kill someone again. Manipulation ensues.
Antagonist Surprises With Honourable Behavior – ‘honourable’ according to Shepard’s judgement, anyway. Because he really does seem to have a fucked-up code of his own when it comes to the games, even if that is just one of his manipulation techniques. But he honours his promises, and Iris finds herself conflicted.
Breathplay - top/dom likes getting choked – Consider this an exception to my Breathplay DNW. Shepard has a thing about being choked. Iris obliges because she just hates him so much. They’re both drawn to the element of risk: him because he knows she might well kill him if she was capable of it, she’s not sure if she is capable of it, but knows that if she takes it too far it could end very badly for her.
Captivity – For one reason or another, Shepard decides it’s necessary to have Iris quietly disposed of, but he’s unwilling to have her killed so imprisons her instead.
Character has their face shaved with a straight razor (by someone they have reason to distrust) – Having established a sexual relationship, although still aware that there’s good chance she’d like to kill him, Shepard lets Iris shave him. What appeals to me here is the sexual tension and Iris’s ever-present temptation to just cut his throat and have done with it.
Character Trains a Protege – Ohhh baby. Explore this however you want to, whether the focus is on the beginning of the process or if you start with her taking her place as a witness to a game. Is Iris all in (for whatever reason), or does she still have her doubts, or is she working against him somehow? And what exactly is Julian doing in all of this?
Slow Seduction/Corruption Arc – So uncomfortably hot, whatever form the seduction takes, whether it’s about sex or a moral corruption. I am absolutely here for a sexual relationship developing between them, but also her originally resisting him trying to use her for his own ends once she’s gone through college, and his attempts to bring her around, finding her a job, etc.
Outsider POV of a 'date' between Shepard and Iris. Especially if its clearly deeply uncomfortable, but to the outsider it just looks like a normal date between a solicitous older man and a younger woman (aside from maybe a couple of out-of-place moments).
Possessiveness - No One Is Allowed to Hurt You Except Me – Times when Shepard went out of his way to protect Iris.
Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder – After the game, Iris is struggling to recover from the experience.
Scar Worship – Specifically that stab-wound. But also, maybe Shepard has one or two scars of his own.

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Thanks for reading!

Rare Pairs Exchange 2023 Letter

AO3 Username: StopTalkingAtMe

Welcome to my letter, Mystery Creator. Let me start by saying I’m open to a LOT of different things, including unrequested crossovers with other fandoms that I’m into. If I’ve ever written it or requested it or otherwise given you reason to think I’m a fan then go ahead.. And while my general likes might lean towards the bleak and angsty, believe it or not, I do also really love more light-hearted styles of fic as well as pure unadulterated smut. Do whatever you want with my prompts. I tend to use freeforms to trigger ideas and suggestions, but they are purely to give you ideas of the sort of thing I like. Use them, subvert them, or ignore them completely and go off my general likes if you’d prefer. Some of the sections here may be longer than others but please don’t read anything into that – I’d be delighted with a gift for any one of them. I’m excited to see what you come up with! :D

General Likes
Smut Likes
DNWs
The 4400 (2004)
Escape Plan (Movies)
From Beyond (1986)
Hap and Leonard (TV)
Love and a .45 (1994)
Star Trek: Deep Space Nine

General Likes and DNWs

General Likes

Character studies and introspection
Loneliness and isolation
Angst
Atmospheric description, scenery porn, sensory description
World-building, backstory, and character development.
Horror.
Closed Circle - Stranded with a murderer in your midst, whether in horror or murder mystery. Think And Then There Were None.
Case-fic, whether fully realised or just touching on elements from a case.
Whump, hurt/comfort and hurt/no comfort.
Endings of all kinds, happy, bleak or bittersweet.
Canon-divergent AUs, especially post-canon ones where the bad guys win.
Pining, whether mutual or one-sided
Repression and stoicism
Descriptions of scars
Main Character Death and grief; characters getting together while still grieving for previous partners, taking solace in each other, the dead character still seeming like a presence in the relationship, etc.
Crossovers, especially oddball crossovers that come completely out of left field, although I do tend to prefer crack played straight rather than outright crack. If you have reason to believe I know and like the other fandom, then I encourage you to go for it.
Post-Apocalypse scenarios, including zombies (probably my favourite AU scenario of all time), with focus on angst and the struggle for survival.
Stranded Together With No Way Home, intense (and probably pretty damn unhealthy) relationships that come about as a result of being isolated together and trauma bonding.
Time Loops
Older characters finding love.
Age gap relationships
I really love historical detail and extensive research notes, so if that’s what you’re into then feel free to go wild. (If that’s not your thing, then please don’t worry: I am in no way an expert, and I love tropey indulgent stuff and cheerfully anachronistic fics just as much).
Hair kink. Hands pushed into hair, coiling it around fingers, routinely cutting another character's hair if appropriate in context (e.g. in post-apocalyptic scenarios), hairwashing as part of hurt/comfort, yanking head back by the hair, etc
Textiles, especially knitwear and embroidery; men in jumpers; historical and cultural details and craft in general
Unusual structures and ways of telling a story, such as Rashomon plots, non-linear narratives, outsider POVs, epistolary works, etc.
Cigarette kink: descriptions of smoking, sharing cigarettes, lighting cigarettes for each other, etc.
Finally, and I cannot emphasise this enough, men in sleepwear, particularly pyjamas and dressing gowns.

Smut Likes

Sex Pollen and aftermath, and any other kind of something made them do it scenario
Angry Sex, rough sex, hate sex, rough sex that turns tender
Clothed Sex, or clothed/naked
Comfort Sex
Dubcon when requested (mutual dubcon of the something-made-us-do-it kind is ALWAYS okay even when not explicitly requested)
Mild bondage and other forms of gentle restraint
Oral Sex, especially cunnilingus in all its forms, and ESPECIALLY cunnilingus with fingering
Rough Sex - Lots of Scratching and Biting and Hair-Grabbing/Pulling and Holding Partner(s) Down
Sex in grimy, grim, uncomfortable places
Threesomes
Situations where one character is too tired, injured etc to orgasm themselves, but takes great pleasure in making the other person come, so long as it's part of a wider give-take relationship when it comes to sex.

DNWs

A/B/O
Noncon between requested ships (Something Made Them Do It scenarios are always okay though, including Bad Guys Made Them Do It)
Dubcon involving unaroused characters
Unrequested Incest
Bestiality (monsters don't count here)
Scat and waterplay
Formalised D/s dynamics (bondage and other forms of restraint are OK)
Underage
Het anal sex
Breathplay (antagonistic choking is fine)
Fisting
Lactation kink
Any variation of the word 'come' in a sexual context spelled as 'cum' (please use 'come', 'came', 'precome' etc)
Focus on AIDS/HIV

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The 4400 (2004)

Requested Ships:
Jordan Collier/Shawn Farrell
Kevin Burkhoff/Tess Doerner

(I understand there are post-canon novels available, but I haven’t read them yet. It’s fine to disregard them and purely go off the series.)

As I write this, I literally finished binge-watching the fourth series last night, so I’m mired in the middle of it and still trying to get my thoughts together. The wheels started to come off by the end, but on the whole I loved this weird convoluted little puzzle box of a show in its entirety, and I wish we’d got more closure about the future and the catastrophe and everything that was going to happen. Right up to the end I genuinely couldn’t predict where it was going to go and how things were going to shake out, and I just had so much fun watching it and trying to figure out what was going to happen and what the implications were.

This is one of those I love everyone in this bar kind of shows. I love all the different characters and their various relationships, Maia and Diana, Tom and Diana, Marco, and Lily and Richard, and Shawn, god, Shawn. Shawn and Maia are probably the two characters I came away loving the most: they’re both so young and complicated, and I’d be really fascinated to see how they both deal with everything post-canon. I had my doubts about Isabelle (the whole super-fast-aging eldritch baby turns out hot thing), but actually I really loved her too by the end, especially after she lost her powers.

And all the fucked up time weirdness and the way it’s cosmic horror adjacent. The show even gives a nod to Lovecraft at one point and specifically to A Shadow out of Time, in which people swap minds with impossibly alien creatures from the far future, which is so fascinating giving everything revealed in the later episodes. Plus, even the supposed good guys of the future are capable of being incredibly spectacularly cruel: witness their kidnapping and erasure of Maia from the timeline, plus virtually everything about Kevin and Tess. We never really learn that much about the people from the future – on the one hand, I’d like answers, but on the other, I’m actually really glad the show ultimately left that sort of ambiguous. What I keep coming back to is that all we know about the future is what the future tells us, which has the potential to be spectacularly creepy. If you want to play with even the good guys of the future turning out to be neither as good or as human as they claim, then please do.

And time stuff: how does the butterfly affect change the original plan of the people from the future? If Isabelle was meant to destroy the 4400s and she is actively working against the plan, then what does that mean for the promicin that originated from her? Kevin even says at one point that it’s different from his. So how might things have played out if Isabelle had never been sent back and the original plan had played out with Kevin’s promicin becoming more slowly available, perhaps with fewer deaths because he’s able to figure out the compatibility test earlier?

What the hell was going on with Cassie? What parts of the plot were down to the good future people and which the bad future people? How will things play out post-series? Does Jordan actually manage to clear the interloper and what happens if he doesn’t? Play with the butterfly effect: give me a Sliding Doors style thing which explores different timelines, or a canon-divergent fic, or character studies of any of the characters. Or a future-fic which looks at what happens a significant length of time post-canon.

Jordan Collier/Shawn Farrell

And they’re still like that at the end – the issue with promicin still hasn’t gone away. Jordan still wants everyone in the world to take the shot, Shawn wants to save as many lives as possible, and still has Kevin potentially developing a test to determine whether anyone taking it will be able to survive, so that conflict between them is still there. At one point it felt like the show was setting up Jordan vs Isabelle, and it kiiiinda was, but more than that what it was actually setting up was this weird, complicated push-pull relationship between Shawn and Jordan, and goddamn, am I here for seeing that explored.

Optional Prompts

I seem to remember Matthew suggesting he knew Jordan was back before Jordan made his appearance at the wedding. What if the Marked got hold of him earlier and turned him into one of them then, so that he’s marked right from the moment he turns up. How would that change things? How does Shawn figure out that there might be a way to save him.
A fic revolving around Shawn removing the Mark from Jordan after they escape in the final episode. Does he get tempted at any point simply to let Jordan die?
I do love a nightmare post-apocalyptic hellscape so explore that all you want. Perhaps Shawn and Jordan find themselves trapped together in one of Jordan’s nightmarish visions of the future and have to work together to survive. Maybe they really are trapped, or maybe they’re shared dreams. If the latter, is Jordan behind them?
Jordan and Shawn are the subject of one of Curtis Peck’s terrible, terrible films, which predicts Jordan’s death and the identity of his murderer before Jordan is killed. Oh, and also, Jordan and Shawn are an item in the film.
A 5+1 fic exploring the way their relationship changes over the course of the show.
A Sliding Doors fic that looks at different ways the timeline could have gone. What if Jordan hadn’t been killed, or if Shawn had been able to save him?
Maia makes a prediction that not only are Shawn and Jordan going to end up on the same side, they’re also going to end up lovers.
So what if things happen differently with Danny and the promicin virus spreads beyond Seattle, so Shawn isn’t able to take him out of the picture until it’s too late? Maybe he gets kidnapped by a splinter-group who don’t agree with Jordan’s insistence that everyone has to choose to get the shot, who want to deliberately use him to infect the world. And Shawn and Jordan have to team up to rescue him (although exactly how sincere is Jordan about that? Ultimately there are always going to be some people who refuse to get the shot).
Shawn is injured and Jordan has to tend to his wounds.
What the hell was going on with Cassie and all the White Light cult stuff? Was it the result of inconvenient 4400s being sent back in the time line and still retaining some memory of what was going on?

Kevin Burkhoff/Tess Doerner

The relationship between these two hits me so hard in the id, it makes me a little bit giddy. The age gap, the protectiveness, the complete unwavering mutual devotion, the (also mutual) caretaking, the potential for guilt and grief, and just in general all the complexities of their relationship. It was made for me, and I feel so spoiled that it happened. :D

Given the weird not-quite-superheroes vibe of this show, it absolutely cracks me up how ridiculously incongruously badass they both are. He can heal himself from any wound! She has insanely powerful mind control and can turn herself into a one-woman-army! And what do they mainly use those powers for? SCIENCE. And also (unfortunate schizophrenia-related incidents aside) protecting each other. Tess in particular is fucking terrifying. The scene where she rescues Kevin from Promisetown? Just gathering up a bunch of 4400s and using their powers for herself? They never quite explored the full ramifications of her powers or how far they spread, but yeeeeah. There’s an argument to be made that she’s the most powerful 4400 after Isabelle (and it cracks me up the way they kept having to ~~dose her with kryptonite~~ pack her off to visit her grandniece to get her out of the way. It’s not a perfect show, but it’s imperfections are part of what I find so delightful XD).

They also sort of act as a mirror to Lily and Richard, another couple who have been destined to be together. I mentioned the incongruousness of their powers, and there’s a weird fucked-up sort of synergy about how they seem designed to protect each other. Like, yes, okay, maybe Kevin’s invulnerability is to protect his promicin-research, but it also means that when Tess has a schizophrenic break he’s able to survive anything she does to him, and he’s devoted enough to hang on in there. The more you start to tease out the implications, the more the cruelty starts to show itself, so dig into that all you want.

Optional Prompts

A bad guys win!AU in which Marked!Jordan Collier is removing the powers of the p-positives, while the original 4400s are being hunted down one by one. Tess and Kevin go on the run.
Their reunion after Tess gets out of hospital happens off-screen. I would love to see how that went, and how they came to be working together. There’s so much potential for everything I love here: his guilt over how he came to be cured, and the hurt/comfort as the promicin side effects get worse.
Yet another thing that happens off-screen: how they got together as a couple in the first place. Given that they kiss just after he’s sloughed off his skin, clearly something happened while he was still scarred, and oh god that DELIGHTS me. Him being so ashamed of it and not wanting her to see her like that, her being so into him anyway? Mmph.
The first time they sleep together.
Oof, that scene where he says goodbye in the hospital (the book, the kiss on the cheek, the hairtouching). It isn’t clear how much Kevin has realised at that point and whether he understands that it was Tess who cured him, but he’s a smart man: he’ll figure it out quickly. I’d love something exploring his grief and survivor’s guilt over the way things panned out (and I adore early Kevin where he’s still adjusting to being cured, spitting sunflower seeds in the general direction of the bin and not quite having shaken off his mental illness yet).
Thanks to a 4400’s ability akin to the one in No Exit, Kevin and Tess and a bunch of other people find themselves trapped in an alternate universe. Except that this one is a superhero AU, and they specifically have to use their abilities as superheroes. Mainly because I find it so amusing that the least badass people get the most badass abilities. (and it also cracks me up how the various abilities were basically magic by the end.)
They reunite after the end of the series.
Something fluffy and sweet and indulgent where another handwavey 4400 ability allows Kevin and Tess the opportunity to go back in time and give her the Sweet 16 birthday party she never got to experience. Maybe something that works along similar lines to Alana’s, so they don’t lose any time in the real world, and this is set during the penultimate episode, right before he sends her away, and it’s a little respite for them, and perhaps the other people at the party can’t see them? And it’s sweet and romantic and a little bit hot, but also sort of uncomfortable for Kevin given everything that happened in the diner. And play with the age thing: on the one hand it reminds him how young she is, but at the same time he hadn’t actually been born yet.

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Escape Plan (Movies)

Requested Ships:
Ray Breslin/Emil Rottmayer

This request is mainly for the first film. I have seen the others, and you want to incorporate the other elements and characters introduced, then please do, but Emil only appears in EP1, so it’s fine to focus on that one and disregard the others if you wish. Having said that though, I do really love the overarching bad guy plotline EP2 introduces, and the hi-tech prison setting in general, so it might be worth watching that if you want to focus on either of those elements. The third film, however, drops the elaborate hi-tech prison theme and doesn’t really follow up on the mastermind behind the prisons either, so disregard it if you want to.

I loved the first Escape Plan so much. So, so much, and I came out of it shipping Ray and Emil hard. The prison break plotline (which I will forever be a sucker for), the way these two guys meet and almost immediately develop this rock-solid bond, and the way not even the twist ending is going to change that… And, honestly, just the sheer fucking joy of watching the fight scene between them, and the sense that they’re both having more fun than they should be given the circumstances.

One of my favourite things about this film is how, while they can both fight, first and foremost the film’s focus is on them both being extremely intelligent men. It’s how they get out of the prison, and it’s how they both make their livings. Them being absolute fucking badasses is almost secondary. And Arnie? Well, hmm, how do I put this... That bit towards the end when he picked up the machine gun? Something about the mixture of the greying hair and how his character isn’t really the typical action movie hero in this and the slight softness that comes with age and just, daaaaamn, when did he get so hot? *eyes*

I love so many elements of this. The setting for a start, all the opportunities for hurt/comfort, the question of what might happen if they met again after the events of the first film, or just missing scenes and quiet bonding moments set during the film itself. Or something set immediately post-canon, where Ray does accept that lift from Emil at the end? Something where they find themselves needing to escape from another futuristic prison, whether it’s the one from EP2 or somewhere else, or in some other kind of captivity and have to work together to escape again? Bad Guys Made Them Do It? Trauma-bonding? More torture, brutality and whump is also welcome too: the warden’s quiet sadistic brutality was one of my favourite things. More from Abigail and Hush would be very much appreciated too. Ray and Emil just had such a fun dynamic, and I’d really love to see it explored a lot more.

And, if you’re at all up for writing a crossover/fusion, back in 1992 there was a Stuart Gordon film called Fortress which apparently was supposed to have Arnold Schwarzenegger attached. For one reason or another that fell through, meaning a potential budget of $50 million and Arnold Schwarzenegger became $15 million and Christopher Lambert. XD I absolutely fucking love it anyway, and they did a fantastic job with the shoestring budget, but daaaamn, WHAT MIGHT HAVE BEEN. It would have fit in really well with Total Recall and The Running Man, and the first Escape Plan film feels like it’s referencing Fortress a lot in some of the details, and I think plot and setting wise they’d mesh really well. If you do go with this, then go with whatever you want, but frankly if you just give me the Intestinator-removal scene, maybe with a bit of tough-love hurt/comfort woven in, then I will be delighted.

Optional Prompts

I liked Abigail and Ray’s casual friends-with-benefits relationship a lot (at least I’m assuming that’s what it was), and I am very much here for them occasionally sleeping together when they’re between relationships without either of them getting too serious about it. So how would Ray developing feelings for Emil fit into that? Maybe he turns down sex one night and she gets wind of it, or they do sleep together and she figures out he’s pining. Or a threesome! (Ideally with Abigail/Ray remaining very casual and not at all serious)
Hurt/comfort – Suffering from PTSD after everything he went through, Ray runs into Emil again post-canon, whether the meeting is accidental, or one of them brings it about, or maybe they arrange to meet up for whatever reason. (New Orleans might be a nice choice given it was where Ray was abducted from.)
Rescue - I Know You Must Hate Me But I'm Here To Save You – Turn the tables. This time Ray is the one who’s been imprisoned or made captive somehow and Emil has to save him.
An AU where the revelation that Emil is Manheim comes much earlier than it does in canon. I Ray’s reaction at the end of the film is interesting: I can see why they went with what they did, and hey, they’re free, so fuck it, but it does kinda feel like he should be much angrier about it. It is essentially a betrayal. SO what if it came in the final act, jeopardising their partnership, and maybe the growing feelings they’re starting to have for each other. Emil’s guilt would be interesting to explore too.
Hurt/comfort – The Warden setting out to break Ray has much more severe consequences than in canon, resulting in Ray being nonconned by Drake. Possibly while Emil is made to watch?
I’m really fascinated by the implications of the Warden’s butterfly collecting given the nature of the glass cells the prisoners are kept in, so if you want to explore that theme then please do.
And those glass cells in general: the almost total lack of privacy, and just the day-to-day experience of trying to get by in a place like that, trying to find moments of privacy, and how a tentative relationship might start to develop between them even if nothing really happens until they escape.
I really loved the story progression between EP1 and EP2, and the whole concept of the super hi-tech prisons getting more and more refined, and the uncomfortable realisation that these ultra-illegal human-rights abuses are being developed and refined through Ray’s work. Which, y’know, he’s going to be pretty damn pissed about, right? Follow through on the ending of EP2. Maybe Ray teams up with Emil in order to disrupt the financial affairs of the people responsible for building the black-site prisons.
Bad Guys Made Them Do It. Always and forever. <3
Fake relationship. Part of the plan to convince the Warden Emil trusts him enough to give up the location of Manheim involves convincing him they’re in a relationship.
Forced Addiction and Withdrawal To Break Prisoner's Will – More hurt/comfort basically. :D
If in doubt, I am completely here for smut for these two, whether stolen moments in the prison, or something more relaxed (or not) set post-canon.

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From Beyond

Requested Ships:
Katherine McMichaels/Crawford Tillinghast

Note on my DNWs: My BDSM DNW is waived when it comes to Dr Pretorius.

And oh man, *Bubba.* I grew up watching Dawn of the Dead a lot, and it remains one of my favourite films of all time, so yep, I am extremely fond of Bubba. I’m delighted by the way he towers over the pair of them, the way he watches over and the caretaking role he takes on, and the way, when the sexual tension starts to ramp up, he admits to getting an erection. Which is to say I am very much here for a Crawford/Katherine/Bubba threesome, or even poly of a kind where it somehow reflects the dynamics of canon, because Crawford/Katherine is so intensely charged in the film. Maybe because he's older and not as damaged as Crawford (or as horny as Katherine) he sort of acts like an anchor for the two of them?

Optional Prompts

Exploration of Aftermath of Canon Events – The more I think about that ending the more it sticks with me, how it’s a circular narrative, with Crawford beginning the film under Pretorius’s control and ending it that way too. And I’m guessing Pretorius isn’t impotent any more. It’s so bleak, the idea of him being tormented, tortured and eaten (ideally with the focus on body horror rather than vore), only to be reborn over and over again.
Bondage – It sure would be a shame if those manacles went to waste.
Exploring Ancient Ruins in a Lovecraftian Alternate Dimension (Monsters Optional) – Post-canon fic where Crawford and Katherine explore the world beyond, like the mysterious temple mentioned in the original story, and all the creatures who inhabit it. Maybe they’re more or less normal, maybe they’re changing into something monstrous (but that doesn’t necessarily need to be a bad thing). Anything is welcome for this prompt, from horror, worldbuilding, smut, or something much gentler and fluffier.
Femdom – I just want Katherine to gently dom Crawford. Maybe they stumble across an overly friendly tentacle monster and after escaping from its clutches it occurs to her it could have its uses.
A fix-it where Katherine sets out to rescue Crawford.
Or a canon divergent fic where Crawford appears to have escaped the effects of the Resonator at the end, but it gradually becomes clear that although he looked normal at first, he came back wrong.
I cannot emphasise enough how here I am for Crawford having his boundaries trampled on and getting bad-touched, either by Katherine while she’s being affected by the resonator or by Dr Pretorius. I would very much like to see the relationship between Crawford and Pretorius explored, and I think there's a lot to dig into. Like the bit where he yells that Pretorius doesn't know how to give pleasure, only pain, and the question of how he'd know Pretorius was impotent because there's really no good answer to that question. Give me something where Pretorius feels up Crawford instead of (or as well as) Katherine, or where Pretorius encourages her to join in. Bad Guys Made Them Do It scenarios are especially welcome here.
So how did Dr Pretorius manage to turn the Resonator back on? Does he (and Crawford after the end of the film) retain an awareness of the normal plane of existence, and some ability to manipulate it?
Obvious third wheel in spontaneous threesome still highly enjoys themselves – During the early part of the film, a spontaneous threesome develops between Katherine, Crawford and Bubba, possibly induced by sex pollen or just the lingering effects of the Resonator. (With Bubba, naturally, being the third wheel, but he’s fine with that tbh.

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Love and a .45 (1994)

Requested Ships:
Dinosaur Bob/Creepy Cody

Terrible people doing terrible things! :D

Optional Prompts

Gun Kink – Yeeeep. This is a pretty good canon for gun kink. I’m here for anything from caressing the other party with a gun, whether tenderly or with an air of menace, to actual insertion or fellating of a gun.
'Platonic' porn-watching and mutual masturbation session leads to sex – Because they’re horny and bored and there’s definitely nothing gay about this.
"We'll just have sex one time to get it out of our systems" ... but it makes the longing worse – All the ‘sex while pining and in denial’ energy please.
A/B Seduce C into a Threesome; Then A/B Realize They Only Want Each Other – I’m specifically thinking of Billy for C here, because his entire dynamic with them, and it way it flips their roles delights me, but alternatively go with an OC, possibly a woman because I like the opportunities for ‘pining while in denial’.
Altered States – Drugs (Recreational) – Bonding over substance misuse and/or sex under the influence.
First Meeting – Explore their backstory. How did they meet? In prison or elsewhere? How did they get on the first time they met
Alternate Universe - John Wick (Movies) Setting – In which they are (terrible) international assassins. Either that or they’re just tagging along with an old acquaintance who is an assassin, and maybe they’re just knocking about the Continental while plot happens all around them.
The awkward situation that results when you’re inadvertently on the periphery of a Bad Guys Made Them Do It situation between two men and it leads to the awakening of feelings.
Forced proximity – they have to hole up for a while for reasons, and have to share a hotel room, which potentially leads to sharing a bed, watching pay per view porn, and whatever other forced proximity tropes you can come up with.
Handcuffed together – Whether for the purposes of plot, or purely as an excuse for filthy PWP porn.
Bob injures his hands, which leads to him getting a caretaking handjob or oral sex from Creepy.
They meet up with Watty and Star under different circumstances a couple of years down the line.
AU where they are the wanted fugitives on a road trip as they try to escape to Mexico.
A From Dusk Till Dawn (the film version) fusion. Bob and Creepy follow Watty and Star to Mexico, but their stand-off is interrupted by vampires and they need to work together to survive.
Platonic bed sharing and the accompanying unfortunately timed boners.
Morning after (amazing sex the night before) – All the awkward aftermath please, possibly with optional ‘did that really happen?’ binge-related amnesia.

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Hap and Leonard (TV)

Requested Ships:
Hap Collins/Leonard Pine
Raoul/Leonard Pine

Hap and Leonard have been devoted to each other since they were boys, and I’d love to see something exploring how Raoul might be able to find a way to fit into that, or not as the case may be. Anything is welcome, it revolves around they’re break-up and how they’re never going to make it work, OR (because I do genuinely ship them) the two of them figuring out how to make it work despite the massive Hap-sized elephant in the room. I’d also really love to see him getting more involved in a case and working together with them.

Optional Prompts

Oh No They're Hot – Always a sucker for Oh No They’re Hot moments, whichever one of them it happens to. Maybe Leonard’s been coasting along complacently because he knows he isn’t really attracted to Hap so it’s fine, and then something happens and how hot Hap is is all he can think about. Or maybe Hap starts to suspect he might not be as straight as he’s always assumed, but he doesn’t want to risk letting it slip to Leonard because he doesn’t want to screw up their friendship.
"We'll just have sex one time to get it out of our systems" ... but it makes the longing worse – Whether for Hap/Leonard or Leonard/Raoul, either way I just love this dynamic so much. The bad idea sex, the pining, the inability to control themselves. Maybe the tension is getting too intense so Hap and Leonard decide to get it out of the way, but turns out it’s much much better than they expected, or conversely terrible and they can’t have that be their only sexual encounter. For Leonard/Raoul, maybe they meet up again after season 2, and there’s still something there between them.
Captured and tortured together & doing their best to help each other through it – All the angst and whump and mutual support, please. Also the two of them having to figure out a way to escape.
Character Confesses Unrequited Feelings; Other Character Begins to See Them in a New Light – If it’s Leonard, presumably he’s slightly delirious because otherwise it’d have to be dragged out of him by wild horses. But maybe it’s the other way around, and in a drunken moment Hap admits that he did go through a brief stage of thinking he might have had feelings for Leonard. Maybe sometime after Trudy turned up and dumped him again, and Leonard was just there?
Character is in love with best friend (and the friend will never know) – I have to admit I head-canon Leonard as having feelings of some kind for Hap. Watching it, it just feels like there’s something there. Either he’s in love with him, or he used to be in love with him and as time went on those feelings got blunted without ever really going away. (I lean towards the latter, but let me stress that if you have a different head canon you want to write then you should do it. Something where it’s Hap is the one pining would be extremely welcome too). Just all the pining and self-denial and refusal to say anything for fear of screwing up their friendship. Delicious.
Pining. I want allll the pining for this, from: Pining - Character A incorrectly assumes that Character B knows that A is pining for them, to Pining - Mutual pining that both characters figure out is requited but that's terrifying, to basically everything in between.
Accidental Baby Acquisition – For either pairing. Canon already went with Accidental Child Acquisition with Ivan, but a baby would be fun too. How does it happen? Some ex-girlfriend of Hap’s, perhaps, or maybe they’re being chased by bad guys and end up stranded with a baby they need to return to its family.
Ghosts – Season 2 in particular had some hints of the supernatural going on, although it never quite clarified if they were really ghosts or not. But what if they were?
Whichever is the endgame ship, give me Raoul's point of view on whatever Hap and Leonard's relationship is. If Raoul/Leonard, then all the quiet resentment at not being the most important person in your boyfriend’s life, even if you’re trying to be understanding. If Hap/Leonard is the end-ship, then that last scene when Raoul walks out seems pretty central. Maybe he comes back into Leonard’s life the next time one of them is hospitalised and he realises at some point they’ve got together and he knew it was inevitable. (or maybe there is no endgame ship, and it's all a mess of pining and hurt).
Relationship Study – Either relationship. I’d love something exploring whatever the hell is going on with them and how they fit together. How Raoul and Leonard met, for example, or what happened the last time they broke up. What it’s like being gay in 80s Texas and whether they ever thought about moving somewhere else. And for Hap and Leonard, is this a pining situation (one-sided or otherwise?), or if they did get together, how would it happen, how would it work?
First time – First time having sex with each other. For Hap/Leonard, maybe Hap’s first time having sex with another man. Or first time having sex sober. I’m here for anything from pure unadulterated PWP smut to something which focuses on the emotion or which takes a look at the aftermath.
Raoul and Leonard are reunited shortly after the events of season 3. Leonard still hasn’t got over the trauma he went through, but given what happened, he doesn’t want go to Hap. Not that he particularly wants to go to Raoul either, mind you, but Raoul is used to Leonard’s bullshit by now.
Case fic! For either pairing. After their break-up in season 2, Raoul comes to Leonard because he needs help with something. Something which potentially means Hap and Leonard going undercover as a couple to investigate a crime in the gay community. Hap/Leonard seems like the obvious pairing for this (and YES PLEASE), but also Raoul/Leonard could be interesting as well. Pretending to be in a relationship with Hap could be the catalyst to finally get Leonard over whatever the fuck his deal is with Hap and leave the way clear for him to properly get together with Raoul. Not to mention all the opportunities for jealousy and pining. (And also some interaction between Hap and Raoul would be very welcome too – they both love Leonard so they already have something in common.)
Speaking of Hap and Raoul, while I don’t ship them, and I’m not particularly interested in poly combining these two pairings, I would really love to see them have a one-off threesome.
Hurt/Comfort - A Blames Themself for Love Interest Getting Hurt to Protect A - Leads to Feelings – Either pairing, although I’m particularly drawn to Raoul/Leonard for this, with Raoul being the one getting injured. Mainly because Hap and Leonard are both getting injured on the reg: they’re used to it. But Raoul isn’t anywhere near as tough as they are, and maybe that’s the catalyst to get them together properly.
Hurt/Comfort - Character with injured hands requires assistance (which turns sexual) – As ever, one of my favourite pairings. :D

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Star Trek: Deep Space Nine

Requested Ships:
Quark/Brunt
Mirror Ezri Dax/Brunt, Mirror Ezri Dax/Mirror Brunt/Brunt
Odo/Weyoun

Quark/Brunt

Optional Prompts

'Dirty little secret' relationship leads to Too Many Feelings leads to unexpected marriage proposal – Because I am so here for the two of them having a secret relationship on the downlow, and maybe they keep telling themselves it’s just about sex and it doesn’t mean anything, but actually...
Accidental Marriage – When they’re on an alien planet negotiating a contract, they accidentally wind up married (maybe because in that planet’s laws rivalry is considered a sign of great regard), and this cannot stand. Turns out getting it annulled is a little trickier than first envisioned, and in the meantime pining, forced proximity, and sex-of-convenience ensues.
Hate Sex – I am so, so here for the two of them hatefucking, and for moments of unexpected tenderness in the middle of the hatefucking, and for hate sex where they gradually start to develop feelings.
Exploration of Aftermath of Canon Events – A relationship study that looks at how things might develop between the two of them after the end of the series, with neither of them entirely happy about the changes on Ferenginar.
Characters don't realise they're in a relationship but everyone else can see it – Maybe Brunt keeps finding reasons to return to Deep Space Nice to make Quark’s life a misery, and Quark does everything he can to irritate Brunt, and neither of the two of them wants to admit that actually they’re sort of starting to enjoy each other’s company, while as far as everyone else is concerned they’re already basically together.
A post-canon fic with an established relationship between Quark and Brunt. They’re… sort of settled. Almost happy. And then, like a hand grenade tossed into the middle of their relationship, Quark’s old lover Natima Lang comes back. Somehow Brunt finds out what happened between them and is torn between horrified disgust at Quark being willing to abandon everything to run off with her and seething jealousy because he thinks, rightly or wrongly, that Quark wouldn't do that for HIM in a million years. Maybe Quark and Natima have both moved on with no lingering feelings other than a faint poignant ‘what might have been’, or maybe they’re still as in love with each other as ever and the only way to resolve this is with Quark/Natima/Brunt.
5+1 Things – A post-canon 5+1 fic exploring the ways every single member of Quark’s family undermines their attempts at (semi-)tradition Ferengi parenting (preferably of a boy, please, unless the focus is on them both overcoming their terrible ingrained sexism to the point where it’s probably going to be a bit ooc, let’s face it).
Having met by chance with an oddly familiar stranger in a bar who shares his animosity for Quark, Brunt obtains a copy of a unique holosuite program involving Major Kira with Quark’s head in return for a discounted price and the promise to use it to destroy Quark. Which would be easier to do if he could just stop thinking about how it would be better with Quark’s head on Quark’s body. To facilitate Getting Revenge, obviously. (And just as soon as he figures out why the hell Quark would make the program so damn good at oo-mox if it was written for a non-Ferengi).
So, um, those scenes in The Dogs of War when Brunt is sucking up to Quark because they both think Zek is going to appoint him the next Grand Nagus? He’d be remiss if he forgot Rule 113 of the Rules of Acquisition: Always have sex with the boss.
Ishka figures out why Brunt is so fixated on bringing Quark down. And, well, okay, yes, Brunt is terrible, but also he’s a good Ferengi, and frankly, Quark could probably do worse.
Time Travel Fix-It – Brunt and Quark travel back to a point where they’re in a position to alter the course of Ferengi history and prevent the sweeping changes brought about by Quark’s mother, but potentially ruining their fortunes in their present, since with the franchisement of Quark’s they’re actually doing pretty damn well for themselves. Do they go through with it, or disagree about whether they should go through with it?

Mirror Ezri Dax/Brunt & Mirror Ezri Dax/Mirror Brunt/Brunt

And then there’s Brunt. XD

I headcanon Mirror Ezri as bisexual and read Mirror Brunt's comment about her being picky when it comes to men as relating to Quark and Brunt being Ferengi. References to her relationships with Mirror Leeta and the Intendant are welcome, and the requested ships absolutely do NOT have to be end-game (although I would prefer the fic to focus on them.) Look, I just find the idea of these two treacherous bastards hooking up hot as fuck, even if it's just temporary, and I'm both amused and heartbroken at how Mirror Brunt's might react to finding out that actually she will make an exception for at least one Ferengi male and it's the terrible evil mirror universe version of himself who is the literal worst.

Optional Prompts

Femdom – Because if there’s ever been a character who very definitely needs to get dommed by a female, it is Brunt.
Clothing - Naked Male Clothed Female – Niiice. I just love this freeform so, so much when it comes to Brunt (especially if combined with femdom). He would just hate it so fucking much. It’s disgusting. It’s depraved. So why the hell does he find it so fucking hot? *hearteyes*
Identity Porn – Brunt has to pose as his Mirror counterpart and work with Mirror!Ezri, leading to a sex scene in which for kink reasons he ends up having sex with her while still in the Mirror!Brunt persona.
A threesome in which Ezri and Brunt edge Mirror!Brunt until he’s a sobbing desperate mess. Look, I just want him to have nice things okay?
Accidental Baby Acquisition – I am a sucker for certain tropes and one of those tropes that will forever get me is when people who under normal circumstances have no business looking after babies get stuck looking after a baby. If Mirror!Brunt is around, maybe the plan was that he’d be the one looking after the kid, but due to something going wrong, he and Brunt have to trade places and pretend to be each other.
Competence Kink - Whether they’re rivals or allies, I just love the idea of Brunt and Mirror!Ezri being secretly impressed and turned on by how good the other one is at lying, cheating and stealing. Lets just say Brunt probably has more in common with Mirror!Ezri than his counterpart does.
Since his death, Ezri has been seeing Mirror!Brunt's ghost. Maybe it’s some kind of hallucination from a space anomaly, or maybe she’s just imagining him, or maybe he really is a ghost, or maybe he’s the result of a malfunctioning portable holoprojector (which she hasn’t fixed because she kind of misses him and it’s nice having him around). but either way she’s gradually beginning to accept she might have had feelings for him after all. Then she meets Brunt.
proxy-fucking – Mirror!Ezri fucking Brunt as a way of processing the grief she feels about Mirror!Brunt’s death.

Odo/Weyoun

Optional Prompts

DS9: Post-canon attempt to return the Vorta to sexual reproduction; first non-clone baby born - With Weyoun and Odo being at the heart of the attempt.
A canon-divergent fic where Weyoun 6 survives to defect to the Federation, exploring how their relationship goes after the war is over.
A canon-divergent AU where the canonical baby Changeling turns up while the station is in the hands of the Dominion and Weyoun is involved with Odo's attempts to look after it.
Complicated emotions at being pregnant with a baby character believes is a god - somehow Weyoun ends up knocked up, whether it's some kind of handwavy transporter accident type accident, or the result of a sex pollen incident necessary to save Odo's life and neither of them realised Weyoun could get pregnant that way. Is there some kind of side effect from the pregnancy which leaves Weyoun with some degree of shapeshifting powers, or the ability to link with the baby, which is amazing but also very uncomfortable because he's just a Vorta.
Cloning Accident result in creating a baby - The real reason Weyoun 6 tried to defect. :D Is it a wholly new person or just a baby version of Weyoun, and what are the implications of it not being going through the full cloning process?
character that thought they had zero parenting instincts goes into hardcore protective mode - I love Weyoun as a villain at least partly because of how very... unintimidating he is in a lot of ways. He's small and slight and vulnerable and he keeps dying, and I'm really drawn to this prompt both for him embracing his violent side in the interests of protecting a baby and for the potential to explore his character because I’ll always love a character study.
a 5+1 fic exploring the way Odo's relationship with the various different Weyouns changes over the years.
Sex Pollen – Whether it’s Odo affected and Weyoun willingly sacrifices himself to save the Founder, or Weyoun is affected and is horrified/pathetically grateful at Odo being willing to help. Or the aftermath of the sex pollen situation with all the fallout.
A canon-divergent AU where Odo remains human for longer, and he’s still a solid when he meets Weyoun 5 for the first time. What effect would Odo's becoming a solid have on their dynamic? How would the Vorta conceptualise the concept of a god becoming a solid, and what does that mean for the way Weyoun’s worldview? I’d be delighted with anything from a character/relationship study that follows their time on the station together, or perhaps something plottier where they're stranded on a planet together and have to work together to survive, but now Odo's just as vulnerable as Weyoun is. (Sex pollen always welcome)
Hurt/Comfort - Character Treats Other Character's Injuries – Weyoun is injured and Odo has to treat his injuries, whether it’s Weyoun 6 or one of the other ones. I’m just fascinated by all the messy feelings of faith and awe, and Odo’s discomfort at being thought of as a god.
Slow and painful process of recovering from lifetime of cultural brainwashing – Whether it happens over the course of one Weyoun or several. I really love all the tangled complexities of the way the Vorta see the world. Maybe this is a canon-divergent fic where Weyoun 6 survives and Odo tries to deprogram him? Or maybe a future Weyoun where the process has begun but isn't quite there yet.
Whump - A sacrifices themself to protect B; B is forced to watch A being tortured – The obvious candidate for self-sacrifice is Weyoun, but Odo sacrificing himself and Weyoun's struggles watching him being tortured (perhaps that Romulan device that stops him from changing shape) would be delicious too.

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Summer of Horror 2023 Letter

AO3 Username: StopTalkingAtMe

Welcome to my letter, Mystery Creator. Do whatever you want with my prompts. I tend to use freeforms to trigger ideas and suggestions, but they are purely to give you ideas of the sort of thing I like. Use them, subvert them, or ignore them completely and go off my general likes if you’d prefer. And while some of the sections here may be longer than others, please don’t read anything into that – I’d be delighted with a gift for any one of them. I’m excited to see what you come up with! :D

General Likes
Smut Likes
DNWs
Enys Men (2022)
From Beyond (1986)
House on Haunted Hill (1999)
Lurking Fear (1994)
Re-Animator
Scooby Doo! Mystery Incorporated (2010)
Would You Rather? (2012)

General Likes and DNWs

General Likes

Character studies and introspection
Loneliness and isolation
Angst
Atmospheric description, scenery porn, sensory description
World-building, backstory, and character development.
Horror.
Closed Circle - Stranded with a murderer in your midst, whether in horror or murder mystery. Think And Then There Were None.
Case-fic, whether fully realised or just touching on elements from a case.
Whump, hurt/comfort and hurt/no comfort.
Endings of all kinds, happy, bleak or bittersweet.
Canon-divergent AUs, especially post-canon ones where the bad guys win.
Pining, whether mutual or one-sided
Repression and stoicism
Descriptions of scars
Main Character Death and grief; characters getting together while still grieving for previous partners, taking solace in each other, the dead character still seeming like a presence in the relationship, etc.
Crossovers, especially oddball crossovers that come completely out of left field, although I do tend to prefer crack played straight rather than outright crack. If you have reason to believe I know and like the other fandom, then I encourage you to go for it.
Post-Apocalypse scenarios, including zombies (probably my favourite AU scenario of all time), with focus on angst and the struggle for survival.
Stranded Together With No Way Home, intense (and probably pretty damn unhealthy) relationships that come about as a result of being isolated together and trauma bonding.
Time Loops
Older characters finding love.
Age gap relationships
I really love historical detail and extensive research notes, so if that’s what you’re into then feel free to go wild. (If that’s not your thing, then please don’t worry: I am in no way an expert, and I love tropey indulgent stuff and cheerfully anachronistic fics just as much).
Hair kink. Hands pushed into hair, coiling it around fingers, routinely cutting another character's hair if appropriate in context (e.g. in post-apocalyptic scenarios), hairwashing as part of hurt/comfort, yanking head back by the hair, etc
Textiles, especially knitwear and embroidery; men in jumpers; historical and cultural details and craft in general
Unusual structures and ways of telling a story, such as Rashomon plots, non-linear narratives, outsider POVs, epistolary works, etc.
Cigarette kink: descriptions of smoking, sharing cigarettes, lighting cigarettes for each other, etc.
Finally, and I cannot emphasise this enough, men in sleepwear, particularly pyjamas and dressing gowns.

Smut Likes

Sex Pollen and aftermath, and any other kind of something made them do it scenario
Angry Sex, rough sex, hate sex, rough sex that turns tender
Clothed Sex, or clothed/naked
Comfort Sex
Dubcon when requested (mutual dubcon of the something-made-us-do-it kind is ALWAYS okay even when not explicitly requested)
Mild bondage and other forms of gentle restraint
Oral Sex, especially cunnilingus in all its forms, and ESPECIALLY cunnilingus with fingering
Rough Sex - Lots of Scratching and Biting and Hair-Grabbing/Pulling and Holding Partner(s) Down
Sex in grimy, grim, uncomfortable places
Threesomes
Situations where one character is too tired, injured etc to orgasm themselves, but takes great pleasure in making the other person come, so long as it's part of a wider give-take relationship when it comes to sex.

DNWs

A/B/O
Noncon between requested ships (Something Made Them Do It scenarios are always okay though, including Bad Guys Made Them Do It)
Dubcon involving unaroused characters
Unrequested Incest
Bestiality (monsters don't count here)
Scat and waterplay
Formalised D/s dynamics (bondage and other forms of restraint are OK)
Underage
Het anal sex
Breathplay (antagonistic choking is fine)
Fisting
Lactation kink
Any variation of the word 'come' in a sexual context spelled as 'cum' (please use 'come', 'came', 'precome' etc)

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Enys Men

Requested Ships:
Solo: The Volunteer
Requested Freeforms:
Subgenre: Body Horror
Subgenre: Cosmic Horror
Subgenre: Folk HorrorSub
genre: Gothic Horror
Subgenre: Paranormal Horror
Subgenre: Psychological Horror
Subgenre: Supernatural Horror
Subgenre: Survival Horror

Requesting:

Art and Fic

Enys Men (which means ‘Stone Island’) is a Cornish folk horror film. What the fuckity-fuck is going on? I don’t have a fricking clue, but also that doesn’t matter because I found it extraordinarily satisfying to watch. It’s arty and creepy and weird, with gorgeous scenery and enough tantalising hints of what’s going on that I just got sucked in. It’s hypnotic.

The setting and the sense of place are extraordinary, and I loved the creeping sense of dread, the way it layers repetition and routine, and the allusions to other films: The Fog and Don’t Look Now. I don’t know if that shot of the main character standing on the cliffs in her red coat is deliberately echoing The Wicker Man… There is so much potential for creepy horror imagery here: the invasive lichen, the link between the Volunteer and the flowes, the standing stone, the weird time shenanigans – and the way the film uses time, layering scenes over each other and kind of… echoing the repetitive nature of the Volunteer’s work, so that time itself seems to have no meaning?

This request is going to be pretty short because I don’t really know what I want for it, but I would especially love anything that captures some of the weird off-kilter nature of the film, the absolutely unapologetic way it refuses to explain anything, and the imagery it uses, particularly the bal maidens and the children… Try to answer some of the questions suggested by canon or alternatively keep it just as obscure and inexplicable.

Optional Prompts

Time loop! This is the first thing that comes to mind. I don’t know if it’s what the film itself suggests, but the repetitive nature of the Volunteer’s day certainly suggested something along those lines. (The part where she started writing ‘no change’ in the DATE section of the log book had me gasping out loud). Or maybe it’s just that time has no meaning and the days are sort of… layered on each other?
Stone and erosion, the rusting of objects so that they gradually become part of the island. Does that include people? What does it mean when the lichen starts growing on her?
I am an absolute sucker for botanical horror. Explore the invasive nature of lichen or the flowers and how they seemed almost hungry for blood.

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From Beyond

Requested Ships:
Katherine McMichaels & Crawford Tillinghast
Requested Freeforms:
Subgenre: Body Horror
Subgenre: Cosmic Horror
Subgenre: Gothic Horror
Subgenre: Monster Horror
Subgenre: Paranormal Horror
Subgenre: Psychological Horror
Subgenre: Supernatural Horror
Subgenre: Survival Horror

Requesting:

Fic

Note on my DNWs: My BDSM DNW is waived when it comes to Dr Pretorius.

And oh man, *Bubba.* I grew up watching Dawn of the Dead a lot, and it remains one of my favourite films of all time, so yep, I am extremely fond of Bubba. I’m delighted by the way he towers over the pair of them, the way he watches over and the caretaking role he takes on, and the way, when the sexual tension starts to ramp up, he admits to getting an erection. Which is to say I am very much here for Crawford/Katherine/Bubba, and I’m fascinated by how the dynamic would shake out given how intense the Crawford/Katherine relationship is. Maybe because he's older and not as damaged as Crawford (or as horny as Katherine) he sort of acts like an anchor for the two of them? I’d also love to see just about every permutation of Crawford/Pretorius/Katherine explored too, including monster-fucking.

Optional Prompts

Exploration of Aftermath of Canon Events – The more I think about that ending the more it sticks with me, how it’s a circular narrative, with Crawford beginning the film under Pretorius’s control and ending it that way too. And I’m guessing Pretorius isn’t impotent any more. It’s so bleak, the idea of him being tormented, tortured and eaten (ideally with the focus on body horror rather than vore), only to be reborn over and over again, and I would be very much here for some extremely dubiously consensual, abusive, domineering tentacle sex, and body horror.
Bondage – It sure would be a shame if those manacles went to waste.
Exploring Ancient Ruins in a Lovecraftian Alternate Dimension (Monsters Optional) – Post-canon fic where Crawford and Katherine explore the world beyond, like the mysterious temple mentioned in the original story, and all the creatures who inhabit it. Maybe they’re more or less normal, maybe they’re changing into something monstrous (but that doesn’t necessarily need to be a bad thing). Anything is welcome for this prompt, from horror, worldbuilding, smut, or something much gentler and fluffier.
Femdom – I just want Katherine to gently dom Crawford. Maybe they stumble across an overly friendly tentacle monster and after escaping from its clutches it occurs to her it could have its uses.
A fix-it where Katherine sets out to rescue Crawford.
Or a canon divergent fic where Crawford appears to have escaped the effects of the Resonator at the end, but it gradually becomes clear that although he looked normal at first, he came back wrong.
I cannot emphasise enough how here I am for Crawford having his boundaries trampled on and getting bad-touched, either by Katherine while she’s being affected by the resonator or by Dr Pretorius. I would very much like to see the relationship between Crawford and Pretorius explored, and I think there's a lot to dig into. Like the bit where he yells that Pretorius doesn't know how to give pleasure, only pain, and the question of how he'd know Pretorius was impotent because there's really no good answer to that question. Give me something where Pretorius feels up Crawford instead of (or as well as) Katherine, or where Pretorius encourages her to join in. Bad Guys Made Them Do It scenarios are especially welcome here.
So how did Dr Pretorius manage to turn the Resonator back on? Does he (and Crawford after the end of the film) retain an awareness of the normal plane of existence, and some ability to manipulate it?
Obvious third wheel in spontaneous threesome still highly enjoys themselves – During the early part of the film, a spontaneous threesome develops between Katherine, Crawford and Bubba, possibly induced by sex pollen or just the lingering effects of the Resonator. (With Bubba, naturally, being the third wheel, but he’s fine with that tbh.

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House on Haunted Hill

Requested Ships:
Dr Richard B Vannacutt & The House
Watson Pritchett & Dr Richard B Vannacutt
Watson Pritchett & The House
Requested Freeforms:
Subgenre: Cosmic Horror
Subgenre: Gothic Horror
Subgenre: Institutional Horror
Subgenre: Medical Horror
Subgenre: Paranormal Horror
Subgenre: Psychological Horror
Subgenre: Supernatural Horror
Subgenre: Survival Horror

Requesting: Art, Fic

This is a curious one, because the things that mean it doesn’t work that well as a horror film for me (the CGI smoke-monster climax! The criminal underuse of Dr Vannacutt!) are the exact same things that make the question of what the hell is going on significantly more interesting. The more you dig into the first film, the more it becomes clear that there’s something more going on that just a haunting as a result of what happened at the asylum.

I ship Pritchett and Vannacutt, but I would be equally delighted to see a gen dynamic explored. We see so little of Vannacutt, but Pritchett absolutely freaks the fuck out when he realises he’s around, so they clearly have a history, but exactly what that history is, and what Vannacutt’s role is as a ghost in the house, is left decidedly unclear. It’s gradually become one of my favourite things about this film: the way the focus shifts from the villain being Vannacutt to the house itself, and the way that upends the way his character could potentially be seen – is he a villain, or potentially another victim of the house, or both?

Optional Prompts

This House has a Personality and that Personality is Fucked Up – And adolescence is tough enough as it is, without having to go through it while you're living in a haunted house that can't seem to decide whether it wants to fuck you or kill you.
Explore the deaths of Pritchett's father and grandfather, because it feels like there are a lot of unanswered questions there. Did the house exert any influence over them? Could Pritchett’s father have murdered his grandfather? How did his father really die?
A both hates and loves how good the sex with B is – Vannacutt/Pritchett (because the more I think about shipping them, the harder I ship them.)
Character is forced to work with someone who scares them – I’m intrigued by what it means to be a ghost and how much free will they have. Pritchett has to work with Vannacutt for reasons (especially delighted by the idea of this considering how Pritchett crapped himself when he recognised Vannacutt’s description).
So how does Pritchett manage to resist the Shadow at the end in order to free Sara and Eddie, when seemingly no one else was able to resist?
Something revolving around the stained glass ceiling, because creepy though it is is just suggest a marginally less evil side to Vannacutt and the idea of good people being corrupted by evil will always fascinate me.
Character with trauma is freaked out and turned on by getting tied up – Specifically thinking of Pritchett here, the poor little bastard. XD
Conversations In Liminal Spaces On The Border Of One World And Another – Ghost!Pritchett and ghost!Vannacutt have a conversation.
Evil!Pritchett – A canon-divergent fic where Pritchett isn’t so resistant to the house. How would that affect canon?
Entering someone's dreams/nightmares – Vannacutt and/or the Shadow enter Pritchett’s dreams, where pre-, during, or post-canon.
Time Travel Fix-It – Pritchett travels back in time to the 20s-30s, and finds himself caught up in events at the asylum. Could he potentially change the way events pan out? (The actual fix-it is optional here)
Time Travel - Character meets their child self – Ghost!Pritchett realises it’s possible to travel through time and interact with his younger self.
Vannacutt manages to escape the house. There’s a deleted scene (after the credits roll in this video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zdo8voI87LI) in which Vannacutt brings the real Jennifer Jenzen to the house, and another scene where his spot being tortured is taken by Price. Which leads me to wonder if it’s possible for him to buy his freedom, or if he’s figured out a way to outwit the house.
Explore what the hell was going on with that chair. Was Vannacutt listening to the Darkness, or was it potentially a seduction/sex thing?
Corruption Arc – Either for Vannacutt or for Pritchett. Or, conversely, a redemption arc for Vannacutt, or Vannacutt getting a redemption arc while Pritchett goes the other way. I really love the idea of the house seducing people into evil (the second film goes harder on that, and iirc explicitly states that Vannacutt wasn’t always a monster), and the question of whether someone who’s done terrible things can really be redeemed.
Eldritch Architecture – I’d love to see something that goes hard on the Lovecraftian elements in the plot, the idea of this ancient nameless evil existing even before the house was built, and of what the Darkness at the heart of the house really is.
Tentacles made them do it – Probably no surprises that I have Pritchett/Vannacutt in mind here.

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The Lurking Fear (1994)

Requested Ships:
Dr. Haggis & Cathryn Farrell
Requested Freeforms:
Subgenre: Cosmic Horror
Subgenre: Folk Horror
Subgenre: Gothic Horror
Subgenre: Monster Horror
Subgenre: Psychological Horror
Subgenre: Survival Horror

Requesting: Fic

As far as I can remember, I don’t think Dr Haggis’s first name is mentioned at any point, but by the looks of that sign outside his surgery, it starts with an I. :D

Optional General Prompts

Battle-couple – They just work so well together. I’d love to see some moments of them working together, because I’m so drawn to their dynamic, especially since fighting doesn’t necessarily come easily to her. Are they fighting by each other’s side, or it it a case of her fighting and him patching her up afterwards? Or him talking her through patching him up because he’s the one who got injured?
Love in the time of horror and misery – Something else I love is the whole bleak atmosphere of the virtually deserted town. Everything’s crumbling and worn down, there are holes everywhere where the creatures have burrowed through, and everything is falling apart. It’s almost post-apocalyptic, except the world is still going on around them. Show me them them falling in love, or quiet moments of tenderness, affection and loyalty in the middle of the world going to hell around them.
Alternate Universe - the big bad wins – They’ve lost and been captured by the creatures, and have nothing to do but try to escape, or trying to support and comfort each other through it, or have ‘fuck it we’re going to die’ despair sex.
Bathing/Washing - After a fight, the two of them hole up together to wash off the gore.
A 5 Times fic showing the gradual change in Leffert's Corner over time as the townsfolk gradually begin to realise something is wrong.
Character A falls asleep on B's shoulder – Their relationship has so many opportunities for moments of quiet intimacy and emotional hurt/comfort. And pining. Lots and lots of pining.
Character A has been crying and tries to hide it but B still notices it – I’m good with either one of them being the crying character here. Maybe he’s exhausted patching people up, or someone’s died despite all his best efforts, or she’s been coasting on adrenaline for too long and is finally starting to crumble. I adore their dynamic so much, and the idea of him being the only person she lets see her in a moment of weakness is the most delicious thing.
Scars – Maybe a Five Times fic cataloguing their scars (or just hers), whether they’re caused by the creatures or not.
Gently touching a character's scar(s) – As an excuse for hurt/comfort or tender emotional sex? I’m good with either. Or both.
A canon-divergent fix-it where Dr Haggis survives his injuries, which means Cathryn has to patch him up post-canon.
Cigarettes – You can probably count the number of minutes he’s without a cigarette on one hand. XD Give me all the descriptions of smoking, maybe a traumatised moment when his hand is shaking so hard he can’t light his cigarette so she has to do it for him.
Functional Alcoholic Not So Functional At The Moment – Here for the hurt/comfort of this, whether the emotional hurt/comfort of them being there for each other when they’re scared or grieving, or the physical hurt/comfort of her helping him to bed, and then maybe sticking around afterwards, and the two of them bedsharing, whether entirely platonic or otherwise. Also here for drunken confessions, or maybe him just being less able to hide the way he feels about her while he’s drunk. I love how important they clearly are to each other, but also how frustrated she is with his drinking, even while she obviously gets why he does it.
Childbirth - Because you can't have the Chekhov's Gun of a heavily pregnant woman and not have her give birth in a highly stressful set-piece, come on. So how about a canon-divergent scene where Beth, Cathryn and Haggis are beseiged down by the monsters, and at the worst possible moment, Beth goes into labour.
That line of Cathryn's: "This is what I thought the end of the world was going to look like."? What if it really was the end of the world? Give me a post-apocalyptic AU. Maybe they're dealing with a zombie apocalypse, or creatures much like the canon ones but more widespread, or they're carriers for a disease.
In that first scene with them, while they're outside his surgery, he makes a reference to them making some kind of bargain, presumably an agreement to stick around in town to kill the creatures. How did that bargain come about?

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Re-Animator

Requested Ship:
Herbert West & Daniel Cain
Requested Freeforms:
Subgenre: Body Horror
Subgenre: Comedic Horror
Subgenre: Cosmic Horror
Subgenre: Gothic Horror
Subgenre: Psychological Horror
Subgenre: Supernatural Horror
Subgenre: Survival Horror

Requesting: Fic

Canon-specific DNW: Please pretend that the scenes of sexual violence against women in Beyond Re-Animator never happened. References to the Meg/Hill scene in the first film are fine though, and I’m also fine with noncon (onscreen or otherwise) by a third party for the purposes of whump or hurt/comfort.

I’d love anything that goes hard on the hurt/comfort and mutual protectiveness between Herbert and Dan, or anything that captures the tone and bonkers exuberance, gore, humour and horror of the films. Maybe something that explores what happens in between the films, especially between the first and second films, because damn, are there some unanswered questions there – like how did Meg’s heart come to be outside of her body, and how the hell did Herbert manage to persuade Dan to go to Peru with him? And any of the reunions where an apparently dead Herbert pops up again. I also cannot emphasise enough how here I am for Herbert getting menaced and/or whumped.

Optional Prompts

5 Times Dan Assumed Herbert was Dead – Because in various places, namely the screenplay and the novelisation, he is explicitly stated to have died at the end of the first film and I like the idea of him repeatedly appearing to die and popping up again mostly unscathed (and I’m amused that the one film where he doesn’t appear to die at the end is the one in which Dan does not appear. XD).
Accidental Baby Acquisition – I mean, they’re doctors. It’s not beyond the realms of possibility that they might find themselves in a situation where they have to deliver a baby in a crisis (possibly involving zombies), and end up separated from the mother and stuck having to look after the baby.
Addiction - Character tries to distract Addict from addiction with sex – Dan tries to break Herbert’s reliance on the serum.
Alternate Universe - Russian Doll Fusion – I love time loops in all their forms anyway, but this one in particular, with its focus on constant, unrelenting death, and the way the discovery that the loop is being shared with another person would play out with these two is perfect. (and for time loops in general, I’m amused by the way Herbert would probably adapt his work to take full advantage of the loop (er, an endless supply of fresh corpses with no consequences – hey, how is it murder if they don’t stay dead? – having to memorise the results because he can’t write them down, etc.)
Hurt/Comfort – Hurt/Comfort is always welcome, but one thing I’d love to see is Dan helping Herbert through withdrawal from the serum. Mainly because I really wish that deleted scene had been included in the film. I have some quiet headcanons about Herbert’s addiction to reagent, and amongst them is the fact that avoiding sleep is really, really not a good idea, and that maybe the times when he’s at his most batshit are the times when he’s suffering from chronic sleep-deprivation. All of which convinces Dan to help him to break the habit.
Bad Guys Made Them Do It – and every other iteration of Something Made Them Do It.
Betray them to save them – Dan’s presence looms so large in Beyond Reanimator even though he doesn’t appear. I can definitely see a situation where Dan got to a point where he couldn’t see any other choice, and he genuinely believed if things carried on the way they were that Herbert was going to get himself killed. I’d love to see that decision explored and the fallout when/if they’re reunited and he realises what Herbert’s been through.
Hurt/Comfort - Character with injured hands requires assistance (which turns sexual) – Here for the hurt/comfort and smut potential of this (and also very fond of one character shaving another.)
Inspired by the novelisation, Dan is completely taken by surprise when Herbert unexpectedly turns out to be massively into ice hockey. Maybe it’s a hobby he only occasionally spares the time for, but either way Dan is extremely weirded out by the prospect of Herbert going to bars and talking to fans.
You Hurt Me More Than Anything; But Being Without You Hurts More – Herbert goes in search of Dan after the end of Beyond Reanimator. Is he planning on revenge (even if he ultimately can’t face going through with it?) Does something else happen as a catalyst that forces them to work together again? I’d love to see all the messy hurt/comfort and emotional fallout of everything that happened.
Alternate Universe - Canon Divergence – How might things have played out if Meg hadn’t been so hostile to Herbert from the get-go? Maybe if she hadn’t been there when he came about the room, allowing Dan to prime her for his oddball roommate beforehand? And if she hadn’t walked in on them bringing Rufus back, which meant that Dan wouldn’t have fallen out with Dean Halsey, who then wouldn’t have died, etc etc. It’s interesting how differently Herbert treats Francesca. While he’s not exactly polite to her (XD) he tolerates her presence in a way he doesn’t really tolerate Meg’s, and I can’t help but read that as at least partially being the result of Meg’s attitude towards him.
Alternate Universe - Canon Divergence – A canon-divergent AU where Francesca isn’t on the scene and the creation of the Bride is much more successful, and she isn’t quite so much of a monster. Mainly because I’m really curious what the hell Herbert actually had in mind beyond keeping Dan with him at all costs. (And for the record, I’m completely open to Herbert/Dan/The Bride in whatever form that takes.)
Hurt/Comfort - Technically awful attempts at comfort are actually very comforting – Okay, so Herbert is pretty terrible at doing the whole comfort thing, but the fact that he even tries is pretty damn significant.
Road trip after the end of the world – Any post-apocalypse scenario will do, but I am particularly fond of a zombie apocalypse, which seems particularly apt for this canon. Was it Herbert’s fault, or was he entirely innocent for once? Where are they going? What’s the plan? And how does reagent factor into things?
Estranged Characters - Injured A shows Up on B's doorstep Saying "I didn't know where else to go" – My first thought with this was Herbert turning up out of the blue, but what if it’s the other way around? What if, potentially after Herbert’s prison break, he considered hunting Dan down, but reluctantly decided not to follow through, only for Dan to suddenly turn up unexpectedly, and turns out he’s been keeping track of Herbert all these years and somehow or other the shit’s about to hit the fan?
Herbert and Dan take the places of the narrator and the version of Herbert in the original story by Lovecraft. – I read the story after watching the films, and I was really not expecting to find that so much of what happens in the first two films came more or less directly from the story (with a fair few changes along the way). I’m fascinated by the way the films work as adaptations, but especially by the similarities and differences between the two Herberts (running away screaming the first time they reanimate a corpse? Film!Herbert would never. On the other hand the stuff with the revolver? Yeeeeah, he totally would). So perhaps a historical AU where Herbert and Dan are from that period, or where they’re still their 80s selves but have switched places with the versions of themselves from the story. Or maybe it’s just Dan who’s switched places, and he has to content with a different version of Herbert, who is BLOND (and, y'know, also slightly more actively murderous than Dan's Herbert, and has a disconcerting habit of eyeing his healthy physique with a covetous eye). (If you haven’t already read it, be warned it has some racist elements. I’d prefer for those to be avoided if you go with this prompt, please)
A Re-Animator/Ghosts (UK) crossover. Why, yes, this is goofy as hell but I waaaant it. :D In the eighties or nineties Dan and Herbert rent out Button House. Unfortunately something goes wrong and Herbert ends up dying on the property and coming back as a ghost.

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Scooby Doo! Mystery Incorporated (2010)

Requested Ships:
Solo: H.P. Hatecraft
Requested Freeforms:
Subgenre: Comedic Horror
Subgenre: Cosmic Horror
Subgenre: Dark Fantasy
Subgenre: Folk Horror
Subgenre: Gothic Horror
Subgenre: Monster Horror
Subgenre: Paranormal Horror
Subgenre: Psychological Horror
Subgenre: Supernatural Horror
Subgenre: Survival Horror

Requesting: Art, Fic

Another short request, I’m afraid. I’m still working my way through the last half of season 2, so please excuse any rubbishness of my prompts and please don’t worry about spoilers: I should have finished by the time of reveals. I am enjoying this so much: aside from revisiting all the Scooby Doo I watched while I was growing up, I love the additional layers of cosmic horror and the references to horror films this piles on. I love everything that’s going on with all the previous mystery solving groups, and it just does so many fun things with the set-up.

And then there’s Hatecraft, my favourite lugubrious sadsack hack of a writer. I wish he was in more episodes, and I’m frankly kind of gutted that season 2 hasn’t brought him back, particularly as it’s just starting to get a bit more cosmic horrory, and it would have been really fun to see him going up against real cosmic horror when he’s already admitted that he’s a complete fraud.

I love the main characters a lot, but I really appreciate the way the series develops the adults too, and the way they’re leading their own lives in the background. Maybe Hatecraft meets up with Mystery Incorporated again, or alternatively maybe he teams up with one of the adults to solve a mystery of his own. Especially if it’s Cassidy: they meet briefly in Pawn of Shadows, and the way they were both so protective of the kids just made me sort of hanker for them to team up (aaaaand also had me sort of shipping them). Ridiculous monsters and even more ridiculous explanations for their abilities are especially welcome, as are any and all references to horror films and to Lovecraft.

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Would You Rather (2012)

Requested Shipss:
Shepard Lambrick & Julian Lambrick, Shepard Lambrick & Iris
Requested Freeforms:
Subgenre: Cosmic Horror
Subgenre: Gothic Horror
Subgenre: Psychological Horror
Subgenre: Supernatural Horror
Subgenre: Survival HorrorSub
genre: Violent Horror

Requesting: Fic

Shepard Lambrick & Julian Lambrick

And then there’s Lucas. Watching the film for the first time, I was convinced he was going to turn out to be the other Lambrick brother, and to have been a ringer in on it all along. It would probably have been too obvious a twist, but story-wise and character-wise the possibilities are delicious, and I am so so here for Lucas and Julian as siblings with a fucked-up codependent relationship: Lucas as the golden child, the one who has the guts to actually take part in the games himself, risk physical pain and potential harm because that’s what his father’s ‘rules’ call for, with Julian as the weaker son who can never live up to his father’s legacy. (The film ultimately doesn’t really bear this out, but it’s not beyond the realms of possibility that the eye injury and maybe his death could have been faked.)

Optional Prompts

Cosmic Horror – On the one hand, you could just take this film at face value, but on the other there does seem to be an odd sense of duty about the way Shepard treats the games, with his attention to the rules and tradition, so what if the Foundation and the games have some kind of supernatural reason for existing?
Antagonism - characters don't like each other but nobody else understands them this well Characters who can't stand each other would also die for each other
Daddy Issues – Because if there was ever a character with hang-ups over his father, it’s Julian Lambrick.
Fantasies about murdering your father – Whether a 5+1 fic about the times Julian has thought about killing his father throughout his life, or something a bit more involved, where he’s actually seriously thinking about going through with it. Or dreaming about doing it. Will he ever have the guts? Does Shepard know? (And if Lucas is involved, maybe the two of them plotting together as part of some fucked-up sexual fantasy, but actually Lucas is telling Shepard about it)
Shepard is beginning to have doubts about whether Julian really has the necessary qualities to follow in his footsteps. Maybe he decides to give Julian one last chance.
A fucked-up slice of life fic following the everyday operations of the Lambrick Foundation.
Something investigating Shepard’s relationship with his son in contrast to Shepard’s relationship with his own father.
What was the first game like? Did it happen under Shepard, or was it something that he inherited? If the latter, then what was his experience of his first game like?

Shepard Lambrick & Iris

Optional Prompts

Enemies to Lovers - Enemy tenderly treats character's injuries that the enemy inflicted – Whether this follows on directly from the end of the film, or relates to a whole new injury that Iris has sustained, I am so completely here for this. Or alternatively, what if Shepard is the one who’s been injured at Iris’s hands. It’s a couple of years down the line and, trying to get her revenge on him, she’s taken him to an isolated cabin while his people hunt for them. Only she isn’t sure whether she can really bring herself to kill someone again. Manipulation ensues.
Antagonist Surprises With Honourable Behavior – ‘honourable’ according to Shepard’s judgement, anyway. Because he really does seem to have a fucked-up code of his own when it comes to the games, even if that is just one of his manipulation techniques. But he honours his promises, and Iris finds herself conflicted.
Breathplay - top/dom likes getting choked – Consider this an exception to my Breathplay DNW. Shepard has a thing about being choked. Iris obliges because she just hates him so much. They’re both drawn to the element of risk: him because he knows she might well kill him if she was capable of it, she’s not sure if she is capable of it, but knows that if she takes it too far it could end very badly for her.
Captivity – For one reason or another, Shepard decides it’s necessary to have Iris quietly disposed of, but he’s unwilling to have her killed so imprisons her instead.
Character has their face shaved with a straight razor (by someone they have reason to distrust) – Having established a sexual relationship, although still aware that there’s good chance she’d like to kill him, Shepard lets Iris shave him. What appeals to me here is the sexual tension and Iris’s ever-present temptation to just cut his throat and have done with it.
Character Trains a Protege – Ohhh baby. Explore this however you want to, whether the focus is on the beginning of the process or if you start with her taking her place as a witness to a game. Is Iris all in (for whatever reason), or does she still have her doubts, or is she working against him somehow? And what exactly is Julian doing in all of this?
Slow Seduction/Corruption Arc – So uncomfortably hot, whatever form the seduction takes, whether it’s about sex or a moral corruption. I am absolutely here for a sexual relationship developing between them, but also her originally resisting him trying to use her for his own ends once she’s gone through college, and his attempts to bring her around, finding her a job, etc.
Outsider POV of a 'date' between Shepard and Iris. Especially if its clearly deeply uncomfortable, but to the outsider it just looks like a normal date between a solicitous older man and a younger woman (aside from maybe a couple of out-of-place moments).
Possessiveness - No One Is Allowed to Hurt You Except Me – Times when Shepard went out of his way to protect Iris.
Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder – After the game, Iris is struggling to recover from the experience.
Scar Worship – Specifically that stab-wound. But also, maybe Shepard has one or two scars of his own.

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Thanks for reading!

Fandom 5K 2023 Letter

AO3 Username: StopTalkingAtMe

Welcome to my letter, Mystery Creator. Let me start by saying I’m open to a LOT of different things, including unrequested crossovers with other fandoms that I’m into. If I’ve ever written it or requested it or otherwise given you reason to think I’m a fan then go ahead.. And while my general likes might lean towards the bleak and angsty, believe it or not, I do also really love more light-hearted styles of fic as well as pure unadulterated smut. Do whatever you want with my prompts. I tend to use freeforms to trigger ideas and suggestions, but they are purely to give you ideas of the sort of thing I like. Use them, subvert them, or ignore them completely and go off my general likes if you’d prefer. Some of the sections here may be longer than others but please don’t read anything into that – I’d be delighted with a gift for any one of them. I’m excited to see what you come up with! :D

General Likes
Smut Likes
DNWs
The 4400 (2004)
Death Goes to School
From Beyond (1986)
House on Haunted Hill (1999)
Last Days of Pompeii
Love and a .45 (1994)
The Professionals
Re-Animator
Star Trek: Deep Space Nine
Would You Rather? (2012)

General Likes and DNWs

General Likes

Character studies and introspection
Loneliness and isolation
Angst
Atmospheric description, scenery porn, sensory description
World-building, backstory, and character development.
Horror.
Closed Circle - Stranded with a murderer in your midst, whether in horror or murder mystery. Think And Then There Were None.
Case-fic, whether fully realised or just touching on elements from a case.
Whump, hurt/comfort and hurt/no comfort.
Endings of all kinds, happy, bleak or bittersweet.
Canon-divergent AUs, especially post-canon ones where the bad guys win.
Pining, whether mutual or one-sided
Repression and stoicism
Descriptions of scars
Main Character Death and grief; characters getting together while still grieving for previous partners, taking solace in each other, the dead character still seeming like a presence in the relationship, etc.
Crossovers, especially oddball crossovers that come completely out of left field, although I do tend to prefer crack played straight rather than outright crack. If you have reason to believe I know and like the other fandom, then I encourage you to go for it.
Post-Apocalypse scenarios, including zombies (probably my favourite AU scenario of all time), with focus on angst and the struggle for survival.
Stranded Together With No Way Home, intense (and probably pretty damn unhealthy) relationships that come about as a result of being isolated together and trauma bonding.
Time Loops
Older characters finding love.
Age gap relationships
I really love historical detail and extensive research notes, so if that’s what you’re into then feel free to go wild. (If that’s not your thing, then please don’t worry: I am in no way an expert, and I love tropey indulgent stuff and cheerfully anachronistic fics just as much).
Hair kink. Hands pushed into hair, coiling it around fingers, routinely cutting another character's hair if appropriate in context (e.g. in post-apocalyptic scenarios), hairwashing as part of hurt/comfort, yanking head back by the hair, etc
Textiles, especially knitwear and embroidery; men in jumpers; historical and cultural details and craft in general
Unusual structures and ways of telling a story, such as Rashomon plots, non-linear narratives, outsider POVs, epistolary works, etc.
Cigarette kink: descriptions of smoking, sharing cigarettes, lighting cigarettes for each other, etc.
Finally, and I cannot emphasise this enough, men in sleepwear, particularly pyjamas and dressing gowns.

Smut Likes

Sex Pollen and aftermath, and any other kind of something made them do it scenario
Angry Sex, rough sex, hate sex, rough sex that turns tender
Clothed Sex, or clothed/naked
Comfort Sex
Dubcon when requested (mutual dubcon of the something-made-us-do-it kind is ALWAYS okay even when not explicitly requested)
Mild bondage and other forms of gentle restraint
Oral Sex, especially cunnilingus in all its forms, and ESPECIALLY cunnilingus with fingering
Rough Sex - Lots of Scratching and Biting and Hair-Grabbing/Pulling and Holding Partner(s) Down
Sex in grimy, grim, uncomfortable places
Threesomes
Situations where one character is too tired, injured etc to orgasm themselves, but takes great pleasure in making the other person come, so long as it's part of a wider give-take relationship when it comes to sex.

DNWs

A/B/O
Noncon between requested ships (Something Made Them Do It scenarios are always okay though, including Bad Guys Made Them Do It)
Dubcon involving unaroused characters
Unrequested Incest
Bestiality (monsters don't count here)
Scat and waterplay
Formalised D/s dynamics (bondage and other forms of restraint are OK)
Underage
Het anal sex
Breathplay (antagonistic choking is fine)
Fisting
Lactation kink
Any variation of the word 'come' in a sexual context spelled as 'cum' (please use 'come', 'came', 'precome' etc)

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The 4400 (2004)

Requested Ships:
Jordan Collier/Shawn Farrell
Kevin Burkhoff/Tess Doerner
Requested Freeforms:

(I understand there are post-canon novels available, but I haven’t read them yet. It’s fine to disregard them and purely go off the series.)

And time stuff: how does the butterfly affect change the original plan of the people from the future? If Isabelle was meant to destroy the 4400s and she is actively working against the plan, then what does that mean for the promicin that originated from her? Kevin even says at one point that it’s different from his. So how might things have played out if Isabelle had never been sent back and the original plan had played out with Kevin’s promicin becoming more slowly available, perhaps with fewer deaths because he’s able to figure out the compatibility test earlier?

Jordan Collier/Shawn Farrell

And they’re still like that at the end – the issue with promicin still hasn’t gone away. Jordan still wants everyone in the world to take the shot, Shawn wants to save as many lives as possible, and still has Kevin potentially developing a test to determine whether anyone taking it will be able to survive, so that conflict between them is still there. At one point it felt like the show was setting up Jordan vs Isabelle, and it kiiiinda was, but more than that what it was actually setting up was this weird, complicated push-pull relationship between Shawn and Jordan, and goddamn, am I here for seeing that explored.

Explore any point of their relationship, from the manipulative early days when Shawn was starting to find his feet, to the later seasons where Shawn has taken over the centre and has grown more used to power and leadership. I do ship them, but also I’d be open to seeing their gen relationship explored if that’s what you’d rather too. Everything about their relationship fascinates me.

Optional Prompts

I seem to remember Matthew suggesting he knew Jordan was back before Jordan made his appearance at the wedding. What if the Marked got hold of him earlier and turned him into one of them then, so that he’s marked right from the moment he turns up. How would that change things? How does Shawn figure out that there might be a way to save him.
A fic revolving around Shawn removing the Mark from Jordan after they escape in the final episode. Does he get tempted at any point simply to let Jordan die?
I do love a nightmare post-apocalyptic hellscape so explore that all you want. Perhaps Shawn and Jordan find themselves trapped together in one of Jordan’s nightmarish visions of the future and have to work together to survive. Maybe they really are trapped, or maybe they’re shared dreams. If the latter, is Jordan behind them?
Jordan and Shawn are the subject of one of Curtis Peck’s terrible, terrible films, which predicts Jordan’s death and the identity of his murderer before Jordan is killed. Oh, and also, Jordan and Shawn are an item in the film.
A 5+1 fic exploring the way their relationship changes over the course of the show.
A Sliding Doors fic that looks at different ways the timeline could have gone. What if Jordan hadn’t been killed, or if Shawn had been able to save him?
Maia makes a prediction that not only are Shawn and Jordan going to end up on the same side, they’re also going to end up lovers.
So what if things happen differently with Danny and the promicin virus spreads beyond Seattle, so Shawn isn’t able to take him out of the picture until it’s too late? Maybe he gets kidnapped by a splinter-group who don’t agree with Jordan’s insistence that everyone has to choose to get the shot, who want to deliberately use him to infect the world. And Shawn and Jordan have to team up to rescue him (although exactly how sincere is Jordan about that? Ultimately there are always going to be some people who refuse to get the shot).
Shawn is injured and Jordan has to tend to his wounds.
What the hell was going on with Cassie and all the White Light cult stuff? Was it the result of inconvenient 4400s being sent back in the time line and still retaining some memory of what was going on?

Kevin Burkhoff/Tess Doerner

The potential for hurt/comfort is off-the-scale with these two. So much about this relationship hits me right in the id: the age gap, the protectiveness, the complete unwavering mutual devotion, the (also mutual) caretaking, the potential for guilt and grief, and just in general all the complexities of their relationship. It was made for me, and I feel so spoiled that it happened. :D

They are so, so affectionate with each other. I do kinda wish their relationship came across as a little more explicitly sexual on-screen, but I can headcanon that as Kevin feeling guilty about the age gap, which actually is canon given the moment in the penultimate episode where he tries to break up with her (I’ll settle for hugs, kisses and forehead pressing *sobs*). I am very much here for younger characters pursuing older ones and for the older characters feeling weird and guilty as hell, but they just adore each other so much, and again SPOILED. I also love the weirdness of her being so much younger than him despite having been born in the thirties.

They also sort of act as a mirror to Lily and Richard, another couple who have been destined to be together. I mentioned the incongruousness of their powers, and there’s a weird fucked-up sort of synergy about how they seem designed to protect each other. Like, yes, okay, maybe Kevin’s invulnerability is to protect his promicin-research, but it also means that when Tess has a schizophrenic break he’s able to survive anything she does to him and he’s devoted enough to hang on in there. The more you start to tease out the implications, the more the cruelty starts to show itself.

Optional Prompts

A bad guys win!AU in which Marked!Jordan Collier is removing the powers of the p-positives, while the original 4400s are being hunted down one by one. Tess and Kevin go on the run.
Their reunion after Tess gets out of hospital happens off-screen. I would love to see how that went, and how they came to be working together. There’s so much potential for everything I love here: his guilt over how he came to be cured, and the hurt/comfort as the promicin side effects get worse.
Yet another thing that happens off-screen: how they got together as a couple in the first place. Given that they kiss just after he’s sloughed off his skin, clearly something happened while he was still scarred, and oh god that DELIGHTS me. Him being so ashamed of it and not wanting her to see her like that, her being so into him anyway? Mmph.
The first time they sleep together.
Oof, that scene where he says goodbye in the hospital (the book, the kiss on the cheek, the hairtouching). It isn’t clear how much Kevin has realised at that point and whether he understands that it was Tess who cured him, but he’s a smart man: he’ll figure it out quickly. I’d love something exploring his grief and survivor’s guilt over the way things panned out (and I adore early Kevin where he’s still adjusting to being cured, spitting sunflower seeds in the general direction of the bin and not quite having shaken off his mental illness yet).
Thanks to a 4400’s ability akin to the one in No Exit, Kevin and Tess and a bunch of other people find themselves trapped in an alternate universe. Except that this one is a superhero AU, and they specifically have to use their abilities as superheroes. Mainly because I find it so amusing that the least badass people get the most badass abilities. (and it also cracks me up how the various abilities were basically magic by the end.)
They reunite after the end of the series.
Something fluffy and sweet and indulgent where another handwavey 4400 ability allows Kevin and Tess the opportunity to go back in time and give her the Sweet 16 birthday party she never got to experience. Maybe something that works along similar lines to Alana’s, so they don’t lose any time in the real world, and this is set during the penultimate episode, right before he sends her away, and it’s a little respite for them, and perhaps the other people at the party can’t see them? And it’s sweet and romantic and a little bit hot, but also sort of uncomfortable for Kevin given everything that happened in the diner.

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Death Goes to School (1953)

Requested Ships:
Detective Inspector Campbell/Miss Shepherd
Requested Freeforms:

Note: I don’t think either of them actually gets a first name at any point in canon. It’s based on a novel but I haven’t been able to get hold of a copy or find out much about it. I do semi-headcanon hers as Anne, probably because I read Cat Among the Pigeons at about the same tame and associated her with Ann Shapland (and his as Alec because of Survivors), but go with whatever you want.

This. Is. Delightful. I’m a sucker for murder mysteries with schools as the setting, so this appeals so damn hard with its closed circle-esque setting and everyone into each other’s business, and the two leads are so, so shippy and charming together, even with Campbell’s occasional sexist dickishness – he’s otherwise so sweet (the scarf he gives her at the end, and the way that whole business pans out – I’m sure he knows exactly where those pills came from.), that I can’t take his comments seriously, and they just make his dynamic with Miss Shepherd more appealing. YMMV, of course, but I can’t help thinking his pronouncements are mostly bullshit and he doesn’t mean half of it, and it’s at least partly to tease her, but then I’m wearing shipper goggles, so who the fuck knows. I love what a period piece it is too, with the way the plot depends on rationing and his precious hoarded bars of chocolate, and the way his manner towards her shifts from disinterest to respect/admiration, winding up on him asking for her help in the case. And especially the way the help she gives him is part cooperation, part competition, with her staying one step ahead of him until the end.

I’d love to see a post-canon fic, where their paths cross again, possibly involving another murder, although I should stress that I am absolutely fine with the case not being fully realised, with maybe just snippets from a case as background to the ship. I’d love to see more of their semi-competitive dynamic, with her trying to prove his chauvinistic nonsense wrong. Or skip ahead to a future where they’re in an established relationship of any kind – married, engaged, or right at the point of becoming engaged. I’d particularly love something tropey and romantic and smuttily indulgent for these two, and despite what I said about case fic a minute ago, PWPs are absolutely welcome.

Optional Prompts

cigarette kink – Ah, the 50s. When everyone and their mother was lighting up, and that includes the schoolkids. When it comes to cigarette kink, canon alone is pretty damn good to me. I love all the sexual tension descriptions and focus on smoking can provide, and the intimacy that comes from offering each other cigarettes, lighting up for each other, sharing their last cigarette, etc…
A first time, whether it be their first time together, first time as a married couple, first time as an engaged couple, first time for full sex…
Competence Kink - Rivals Are Incredibly Turned On By Each Other's Talent – I LOVE this for these two. I’d just love more of them competing with each other to solve a case, and that whole thing bringing them closer together.
"Thank God You're/We're Alive" Sex – A slightly more hazardous case leads to frantic sex, with optional get together and feelings confession.
trapped together – yep, I will never get sick of this trope as a catalyst for shipfic. Interpret this however you want, whether a very small cramped space like a wardrobe or the two of them being stranded in an isolated building. Either way, I love the awkwardness of forced proximity, especially when the sexual tension is laid on with a trowel.
In a weirdly meta-twist, the film is based on the novel Death in Seven Hours, which Miss Shepherd is pictured reading at one point (and which to my great frustration I haven’t been able to get hold of so I know nothing whatsoever about it, meaning you should feel entirely at your liberty to make shit up). Is the novel the same plot as the film? Eerily similar? Does this keep happening, with life and murder repeatedly echoing the books she reads? Maybe a romance starts developing between the characters in the books. Does this act as a catalyst or does she try to resist the inevitable?

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From Beyond

Requested Ships:
Katherine McMichaels/Crawford Tillinghast
Requested Freeforms:

Note on my DNWs: My BDSM DNW is waived when it comes to Dr Pretorius.

My headcanon is that Pretorius was blindfolding the women he brought back, and forcing Crawford to become complicit in rape-by-deception (whether the women were secretly in it or not). It explains how Crawford would know about Pretorius being impotent, leads to some uncomfortable conclusions about what Pretorius was doing with those recordings (blackmail being yet another hold over Crawford), and is horribly uncomfortable and messy in a way that very much appeals to me, especially if Pretorius isn't above dubconning the fuck out of Crawford and punishing him for knowing about his impotence. And I’m assuming he isn’t.

And oh man, *Bubba.* I grew up watching Dawn of the Dead a lot, and it remains one of my favourite films of all time, so yep, I am extremely fond of Bubba. I’m delighted by the way he towers over the pair of them, the way he watches over and the caretaking role he takes on, and the way, when the sexual tension starts to ramp up, he admits to getting an erection. Which is to say I am very much here for Crawford/Katherine/Bubba, and I’m fascinated by how the dynamic would shake out given how intense the Crawford/Katherine relationship is. Maybe because he's older and not as damaged as Crawford (or as horny as Katherine) he sort of acts like an anchor for the two of them? I’d also love to see just about every permutation of Crawford/Pretorius/Katherine explored too, including monster-fucking.

Optional Prompts

Exploration of Aftermath of Canon Events – The more I think about that ending the more it sticks with me, how it’s a circular narrative, with Crawford beginning the film under Pretorius’s control and ending it that way too. And I’m guessing Pretorius isn’t impotent any more. It’s so bleak, the idea of him being tormented, tortured and eaten (ideally with the focus on body horror rather than vore), only to be reborn over and over again, and I would be very much here for some extremely dubiously consensual, abusive, domineering tentacle sex, and body horror.
Bondage – It sure would be a shame if those manacles went to waste.
Exploring Ancient Ruins in a Lovecraftian Alternate Dimension (Monsters Optional) – Post-canon fic where Crawford and Katherine explore the world beyond, like the mysterious temple mentioned in the original story, and all the creatures who inhabit it. Maybe they’re more or less normal, maybe they’re changing into something monstrous (but that doesn’t necessarily need to be a bad thing). Anything is welcome for this prompt, from horror, worldbuilding, smut, or something much gentler and fluffier.
Femdom – I just want Katherine to gently dom Crawford. Maybe they stumble across an overly friendly tentacle monster and after escaping from its clutches it occurs to her it could have its uses.
A fix-it where Katherine sets out to rescue Crawford.
Or a canon divergent fic where Crawford appears to have escaped the effects of the Resonator at the end, but it gradually becomes clear that although he looked normal at first, he came back wrong.
I cannot emphasise enough how here I am for Crawford having his boundaries trampled on and getting bad-touched, either by Katherine while she’s being affected by the resonator or by Dr Pretorius. I would very much like to see the relationship between Crawford and Pretorius explored, and I think there's a lot to dig into. Like the bit where he yells that Pretorius doesn't know how to give pleasure, only pain, and the question of how he'd know Pretorius was impotent because there's really no good answer to that question. Give me something where Pretorius feels up Crawford instead of (or as well as) Katherine, or where Pretorius encourages her to join in. Bad Guys Made Them Do It scenarios are especially welcome here.
So how did Dr Pretorius manage to turn the Resonator back on? Does he (and Crawford after the end of the film) retain an awareness of the normal plane of existence, and some ability to manipulate it?
Obvious third wheel in spontaneous threesome still highly enjoys themselves – During the early part of the film, a spontaneous threesome develops between Katherine, Crawford and Bubba, possibly induced by sex pollen or just the lingering effects of the Resonator. (With Bubba, naturally, being the third wheel, but he’s fine with that tbh.

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House on Haunted Hill

Requested Ships:
Dr Richard B Vannacutt & The House
Watson Pritchett & Dr Richard B Vannacutt
Watson Pritchett & The House
Watson Pritchett/Dr Richard B Vannacutt
Requested Freeforms:

Note on my DNWs: For Pritchett, please have him be 16 or older for direct sexual contact, but sexually arousing dreams/visions/hallucinations are fine from 13+).

Watson Pritchett/Dr Richard B Vannacutt

Not a pairing that I’d originally considered, but then a seed took root and now I can’t stop thinking about these two and what sort of dynamic they’d have.

Optional Prompts

This House has a Personality and that Personality is Fucked Up – And adolescence is tough enough as it is, without having to go through it while you're living in a haunted house that can't seem to decide whether it wants to fuck you or kill you.
Explore the deaths of Pritchett's father and grandfather, because it feels like there are a lot of unanswered questions there. Did the house exert any influence over them? Could Pritchett’s father have murdered his grandfather? How did his father really die?
A both hates and loves how good the sex with B is – Vannacutt/Pritchett (because the more I think about shipping them, the harder I ship them.)
Character is forced to work with someone who scares them – I’m intrigued by what it means to be a ghost and how much free will they have. Pritchett has to work with Vannacutt for reasons (especially delighted by the idea of this considering how Pritchett crapped himself when he recognised Vannacutt’s description).
So how does Pritchett manage to resist the Shadow at the end in order to free Sara and Eddie, when seemingly no one else was able to resist?
Something revolving around the stained glass ceiling, because creepy though it is is just suggest a marginally less evil side to Vannacutt and the idea of good people being corrupted by evil will always fascinate me.
Character with trauma is freaked out and turned on by getting tied up – Specifically thinking of Pritchett here, the poor little bastard. XD
Conversations In Liminal Spaces On The Border Of One World And Another – Ghost!Pritchett and ghost!Vannacutt have a conversation.
Evil!Pritchett – A canon-divergent fic where Pritchett isn’t so resistant to the house. How would that affect canon?
Entering someone's dreams/nightmares – Vannacutt and/or the Shadow enter Pritchett’s dreams, where pre-, during, or post-canon.
Time Travel Fix-It – Pritchett travels back in time to the 20s-30s, and finds himself caught up in events at the asylum. Could he potentially change the way events pan out? (The actual fix-it is optional here)
Time Travel - Character meets their child self – Ghost!Pritchett realises it’s possible to travel through time and interact with his younger self.
Vannacutt manages to escape the house. There’s a deleted scene (after the credits roll in this video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zdo8voI87LI) in which Vannacutt brings the real Jennifer Jenzen to the house, and another scene where his spot being tortured is taken by Price. Which leads me to wonder if it’s possible for him to buy his freedom, or if he’s figured out a way to outwit the house.
Explore what the hell was going on with that chair. Was Vannacutt listening to the Darkness, or was it potentially a seduction/sex thing?
Corruption Arc – Either for Vannacutt or for Pritchett. Or, conversely, a redemption arc for Vannacutt, or Vannacutt getting a redemption arc while Pritchett goes the other way. I really love the idea of the house seducing people into evil (the second film goes harder on that, and iirc explicitly states that Vannacutt wasn’t always a monster), and the question of whether someone who’s done terrible things can really be redeemed.
Eldritch Architecture – I’d love to see something that goes hard on the Lovecraftian elements in the plot, the idea of this ancient nameless evil existing even before the house was built, and of what the Darkness at the heart of the house really is.
Tentacles made them do it – Probably no surprises that I have Pritchett/Vannacutt in mind here.

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The Last Days of Pompeii – 1984 Miniseries

Requested Ships:
Lydon/Nydia/Sporus
Requested Freeforms:

Basically my distilled pure id from start to finish. Hallucinatory dubcon threesome sex, rival gladiators, doomed lovers, and so many satisfying death scenes I’m shivering in delight at the thought of them. I enjoyed the book too, but found myself preferring a lot of the changes the miniseries made – many of the characters are significantly more likeable, and I was low-key invested in a *lot* of the canon ships and friendships. I also thoroughly appreciated that they decided to give the gladiators more of a role in the story, that they eased back on the ‘Ancient Greece is massively superior to Ancient Rome’ theme in the book, and added a couple of the characters who came to be favourites of mine (especially Chloe <3).

Go with a fix-it or take full advantage of my being fine with Major Character Death and wallow in the tragedy and grief. I’d particularly love to see the gladiatorial life explored a little, especially the various relationships between them all, and canon-divergent AUs are welcome, as are fix-its, whether they’re genuinely fixing things or otherwise. One of the things that appeals about canon is the web of interconnecting friendships (Lydon and Glaucus comparing wrestling styles XD) so I’d love to see that reflected too if you have a chance.

Sporus is a fantastic character, a tightly knit bundle of resentment, envy, jealousy, and bitterness (I love how pissy he is at not being appreciated when Marcus snipes at him for killing his opponent in the arena). And the early scene after the first gladiator fight when he helps Lydon with his armour and tells him, utterly sincerely, to be careful. <3<3<3 And then later the scene where Lydon is training with Gar, and Sporus doesn’t know whether to be jealous of Gar or Nydia or of Lydon being champion. And his lines in his final scene, which led to a massive record scratch on my part: Lydon, I did love you. Not ‘Lydon, I loved you’ but ‘I DID love you.’ Implying… what? That the question of his feelings for Lydon had come up at some point in the past? Did they have a fling? Was Lydon in love with Sporus before Nydia? Did Sporus deny him? WHAT THE HELL HAPPENED? And Lydon holding his hand while he dies… goddamnit, my heart.

I would love backstory for this, or something set during canon. Canon-divergent AUs are always welcome, and I’d also be happy for any level of ship: from fully realised, to pining, whether mutual or one-sided. I particularly like Nydia/Sporus/Lydon as as a triad although a v-shaped set-up where everyone is fine with the situation is okay (or a v-shaped set-up which gradually turns into a triad). If they all manage to make it out of Pompeii it would be a pretty fascinating dynamic, especially if Sporus feels himself dependent on Lydon due to his injuries. I'd be especially interested in seeing Sporus's relationship with Nydia developed.

Optional Prompts

We know how and why Lydon came to be a gladiator and why he continues in that life despite having earned his freedom, but what about Sporus? Was he already there when Lydon turned up as a slave whom no one expected to last more than a couple of matches?
Always here for descriptions of gladiator matches or sparring, the blood, the sweat, the sexual tension… Also helping each other with their armour, and tending to wounds afterwards. And, uh, bathhouses.
And hey, if you just want to write PWP, sex in the wake of a match or sparring session wouldn’t go amiss.
What happened when they all left Pompeii for Campania?
A post-canon fix-it. Lydon escapes Pompeii with an injured Sporus. What does the aftermath look like? Bitter angst and hurt/comfort welcome here. Given what a massive jealous shit Sporus is in canon, I’d love to see that explored.
Nydia understands something about being in love with someone you feel dependent on and the heartbreak of watching them love another. An understanding develops between her and Sporus.

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Love and a .45 (1994)

Requested Shipss:
Dinosaur Bob/Creepy Cody
Requested Freeforms:

Terrible people doing terrible things! :D

Optional Prompts

Gun Kink – Yeeeep. This is a pretty good canon for gun kink. I’m here for anything from caressing the other party with a gun, whether tenderly or with an air of menace, to actual insertion or fellating of a gun.
'Platonic' porn-watching and mutual masturbation session leads to sex – Because they’re horny and bored and there’s definitely nothing gay about this.
"We'll just have sex one time to get it out of our systems" ... but it makes the longing worse – All the ‘sex while pining and in denial’ energy please.
A/B Seduce C into a Threesome; Then A/B Realize They Only Want Each Other – I’m specifically thinking of Billy for C here, because his entire dynamic with them, and it way it flips their roles delights me, but alternatively go with an OC, possibly a woman because I like the opportunities for ‘pining while in denial’.
Altered States – Drugs (Recreational) – Bonding over substance misuse and/or sex under the influence.
First Meeting – Explore their backstory. How did they meet? In prison or elsewhere? How did they get on the first time they met
Alternate Universe - John Wick (Movies) Setting – In which they are (terrible) international assassins. Either that or they’re just tagging along with an old acquaintance who is an assassin, and maybe they’re just knocking about the Continental while plot happens all around them.
The awkward situation that results when you’re inadvertently on the periphery of a Bad Guys Made Them Do It situation between two men and it leads to the awakening of feelings.
Forced proximity – they have to hole up for a while for reasons, and have to share a hotel room, which potentially leads to sharing a bed, watching pay per view porn, and whatever other forced proximity tropes you can come up with.
Handcuffed together – Whether for the purposes of plot, or purely as an excuse for filthy PWP porn.
Bob injures his hands, which leads to him getting a caretaking handjob or oral sex from Creepy.
They meet up with Watty and Star under different circumstances a couple of years down the line.
AU where they are the wanted fugitives on a road trip as they try to escape to Mexico.
A From Dusk Till Dawn (the film version) fusion. Bob and Creepy follow Watty and Star to Mexico, but their stand-off is interrupted by vampires and they need to work together to survive.
Platonic bed sharing and the accompanying unfortunately timed boners.
Morning after (amazing sex the night before) – All the awkward aftermath please, possibly with optional ‘did that really happen?’ binge-related amnesia.

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The Professionals

Requested Ships
William Bodie/Ray Doyle
George Cowley/Elizabeth Walsh
George Cowley/Annie Irvine

God, I love this show so much. I could spend forever watching the dynamic between Cowley, Bodie, and Doyle, the banter, the jokes, the friendly rivalry, the way their different backgrounds give them different insights and skills, and the vibe I get that Cowley, who I adore beyond all reason (*gestures sheepishly to most of the rest of my sign-up*) is actually harder than Bodie and Doyle put together. Cowley chewing them out because they've disobeyed his orders and then immediately doing a U-turn and supporting them to the hilt, the way their characters shift and adapt over time, the uncomfortable questions it raises about their methods… Oh, and the whump. Getting shot and beaten up and captured and generally getting the shit kicked out of them. So damn here for all of that. XD I love the way it subverts expectations too, with all the literary references and the acknowledgement of CI5’s often deeply questionable tactics.

I’d also like to make it clear that I am extremely here for Bad Guys Made Them Do It for all the ships I’ve requested. Handle that however you want with Bodie/Doyle, but for Cowley/Bodie I’d prefer Cowley topping if it comes to penetrative sex. Beyond that I have no topping preferences. I’m also open to noncon scenarios involving noncon by a third party, whether on or off-screen, for the purposes of hurt/comfort or whumpy hurt/no comfort scenarios because they’re too damn stoic to talk about it and must suffer in silence like the emotionally constipated blokes they are (and my Dubcon with Unaroused Victims DNW doesn’t apply here).

I also really, really love Apocalypse AUs (including zombies), and this is one of those series that I would absolutely LOVE that trope for, whatever style of apocalypse it is. Oh, and while I know my chances of getting it are extremely slim, I’ll mention it on the off-chance: I particularly adore the 70s version of Survivors, and I cannot emphasise enough how much I would love a crossover set in that world, even if just in the very beginnings of the series. I’ve requested it before, including some suggestions for crossovers, so take a look at my other letters if you’re interested, but even if you just give me one of them nursing the other through the illness and the tiniest glimpse of society falling apart, OH MY GOD I WILL LOVE YOU FOREVER OH MY GOD. (Fair warning that Survivors is grim though. Really, really grim. XD)

William Bodie/Ray Doyle

For Bodie/Doyle, explore the mutual codependence that comes as a result of working in close confines in a way that may not be entirely healthy, the tedium of surveillance, working and training together, working late and falling asleep at your desk, actively threatening to murder a suspect if anything happens to your partner… Anything goes here from explicit smut to pining (mutual or otherwise), and including canon-style relationships with women is fine too. Maybe they come to the realisation that while women come and go, their relationship remains immutable. They also sure do seem to get shot/beaten up on the reg, and look very pretty doing it, *especially* Doyle, so if you wanted to go hard on the whump… I absolutely love all the moments of character interaction, the bonding moments in Mixed Doubles and that bit where Bodie interrupts Doyle’s brooding session by just sitting there and looking at him? Yeah…

I am so, so here for the contrast between them. And Bodie, Bodie. <3<3<3 The way his character shifts and changes over the course of the series, and those bleak little glimpses of darkness, and that sense that he hasn’t really believed in anything until he came to CI5… The way the show alludes to his time in Northern Ireland, and how intensely private he is and prickly when Doyle asks, and just… *sigh*, I’m struggling to put into words why I love them so much.

Give me canon style casefic or something that takes them out of their comfort zones, backstory for either one of them, or post-canon fic. Also here for character studies, and anything that digs into any moral qualms they might have about CI5 and its methods, especially Doyle.

Optional Prompts

Casefic, or elements from a partially realised casefic, whether canon-typical or something which takes them out of their comfort zones.
5 + 1 ways of livening up surveillance detail.
Bonding in captivity – whether as a result of trauma and torture, or being imprisoned together somewhere dark and claustrophobic.
Ever seen Randall and Hopkirk (Deceased)? Well, that AU, where one half of the pairing is a ghost the other can’t see, whether the ghost is potentially a sign that the other one is cracking up, or an actual literal ghost, and the first case they have to solve together is who murdered him. I was thinking either Bodie or Doyle as the ghost, but Cowley as the ghost haunting the two of them (and absolutely livid about it) would be great too.
If they do get together, how does it happen? How do they come to realise they have feelings for the other? When it starts is it just about sex, or is the sexual attraction develop out of a result of their bond?
The bit in Stake Out where Bodie flung himself across a bowling alley to manhandle Doyle to the floor to stop him from kicking off at an aggressive member of the public, including hooking his leg over Doyle's in the process, did things to me. More undercover stuff please, with them both trying to keep a low profile, and having to rely on the other one to rein them in. Additional manhandling is optional, but very much appreciated.
”Casual” sex turning tender -Neither character thinks the other has any genuine feelings, or maybe the sex is just something that keeps happening without either of them ever intending it to. What happens when tenderness starts creeping in? Is it mutual? Is the other party unnerved by it? Into it? Or both?
Aftermath of Torture – Character trying to hold it together is clearly low-key fraying at the edges - All the whump, stoicism and hurt/comfort here please.
Agonisingly slow build-up of sexual tension - Along with copious amounts of mutual self-denial and pining, while trying to hide the mutual attraction from each other/other people/themselves.
A zombie apocalypse AU, or some other apocalyptic scenario. Always and forever one of my favourite tropes. Or alternatively, if you’re familiar with it, a crossover with Survivors, even if it only uses the other series as a backdrop for desperate ‘us against the crumbling world’ sex.
Character A confesses feelings because they think Character B is unconscious - Man, the awkwardness and painful aftermath, the self-doubt and the questioning – did they mishear? Should they say anything, or would it be better to pretend they didn’t hear?
While working undercover, one half of the couple is forced to torture the other to maintain their cover
Estranged Characters – Injured A shows up on B’s doorstep saying ‘I didn’t know where else to go’. – future fic or canon-divergent where the injured character has gone AWOL or otherwise rogue.
Country House Party – Weird time-slip where they find themselves in an interwar house party that ended in murder. Ghosts? Inexplicable events that are never explained beyond handwavy nonsense? A Sapphire & Steel crossover? Or is this just an excuse to get them into period dress?
Character A and Character B Mutually Pine For Each Other While They Fuck Other People Together -- The drunken aftermath of a double date turns orgiastic, or else one of the lads has been stood up or had an argument with his girlfriend, and the other's girlfriend insists he join them to cheer him up.
sex under the stars – Ohhh, I love this tag: the romanticism of sex outdoors, the setting and potential for scenery porn, the low-level risk of semi-public sex, and the suggestion that they’re so turned on they can’t keep their hands off each other. How does it come about? Are they camping for plot reasons, on a stake-out, stranded in nature for some reason?
A Doomsday fusion (the 2008 Neil Marshall film). I'm assuming Cowley's in the Bob Hoskins role, as much as I'd secretly love to see him facing off against a bunch of Mad Max style Scottish cannibals. (And it's not like he's explicitly sending them north of the wall to get him some Scotch, but have you seen what the price of single malt is on the black market these days?)

George Cowley/Elizabeth Walsh and George Cowley/Annie Irvine

Cowley has very fast become one of my favourite characters in anything ever: it’s that combination of implied loneliness and stoicism, dedication to the life he’s chosen even if he might have been happier on another path, repression and self-sacrifice and sarcasm, the clash of his staunch code of ethics combined with some very questionable tactics, and the conflict of him wanting to look after the woman he’s fallen in love with, but of course it’s his fate to only ever fall in love with tough-as-nails women who wouldn’t want to be looked after in a million fucking years. <3<3<3 Look, there are very few characters I love quite as much as Cowley, and I just want him to be happy, dammit. I’m open to any kind of relationship here, from stoic one-sided pining, to indulgent smut, to a happy ending.

The episode in which Annie appears was an absolute delight. From Bodie and Doyle’s reaction to the idea of Cowley in a relationship with a woman (that conversation in the car! Doyle slightly dubiously describing him as attractive :D) to the way Cowley actually behaves when he meets her and then quietly having his heart broken all over again (and oh god, my heart).

And the backstory we get for him, picking his education back up after the war, as a student going to political meetings, and falling in love with a woman who he keeps loving even after she breaks his heart. Just that line about him watching her. And that line about how she never knew him at all? Damn. It’s so up my street I can’t even say: quiet loneliness and a lingering feeling of regret even while you’re getting on with all the shit that needs to get done will get me every time. Him wanting to look after her when she’s not the sort of woman who wants to be looked after, and if she had been, then he probably wouldn’t have fallen in love with her as hard as he did.

And then there’s Elizabeth Walsh. I, uh, ship Cowley with quite a few people, but out of everyone that I ship him with this the relationship I can actually see working long-term. Spy Probe worked out as the last episode I watched, so there’s nothing to contradict my head-canon that the two of them get together post-canon, or that one of his primary motivations for getting her involved in the case (other than keeping her safe and the possibility of her being behind the killings) is to buy him a little time while he dithers about asking her out for dinner, and after the case has been solved he’s got the perfect excuse – how else is he going to thank her for all her help?

He spends a significant part of the episode making impressed hearteyes at her, and they clearly have a history, and since he’s not pining for Annie any more… Well, let’s just say that the idea of them finally getting together in middle age really appeals.

And she’s perfect for him: she’s a retired spy so she knows and understands the demands of the work, she’s intelligent and trustworthy enough that he can pick her brains, and she’s independent enough not to mind doing her own thing while he turns up every now and then like an outdoor cat looking for food and affection, and in fact she’d probably hate having him under her feet all the time so the situation works perfectly for both of them.

Optional Prompts

Okay, so what the hell did happen with Annie Irvine? Explore their backstory. When they meet Annie says it’s been about ten years since they last met, so depending on how you figure the timeline that must have been significantly after their university days. Was he at her wedding? I have so many questions.
What did Annie actually say to Bodie and Doyle which made them so reluctant to share with Cowley?
Give me something that follows on from the ending of Look After Annie. Do their paths cross again? Where do they go from there?
Give me an AU of that episode where events go differently.
Bad Guys Made Them Do It. Always. <3<3<3 (and oh god, the guilt! The terrible all-consuming guilt!).
A zombie apocalypse AU, or some other apocalyptic scenario. Always and forever one of my favourite tropes. Or alternatively, if you’re familiar with it, a crossover with Survivors, even if it only uses the other series as a backdrop for desperate ‘us against the crumbling world’ sex.
Hurt/Comfort - Cowley is injured during a case, and the other character reluctantly starts looking in on him despite his protests.
Experience – Experienced/Inexperienced – Look, he’s been pining after Annie for, what, twenty years or so, so chances are he hasn’t had that much experience with women.
They’re stranded at some isolated out-of the way place, which is potentially derelict, where the forced proximity puts them in a position where they have to work together and get over any potential awkwardness.
The aftermath of Spy Probe. Cowley takes Elizabeth out to dinner as a way of saying thank you (well, he claims that’s his primary motivation), and walks her back to her hotel room afterwards. (and while I haven’t requested it for this particular exchange I do love the freeform: Late-Night Discussions Outside in the Gently Falling Rain.) Luckily she’s not quite as reticent as he is, and since someone did just try to have her murdered, the least he could do is double-check her hotel room to make sure it’s safe.
Or Cowley/Elizabeth but a slower courtship, where he starts picking her brains on a regular basis and they start to see more and more of each other, until they’ve get as familiar with each other as an old married couple, only without the sex. And then they have sex.
Back in their MI5 days Cowley and Elizabeth narrowly avoided having to have sex to maintain their cover. They both pretended to be relieved about it at the time, but secretly they’ve both regretted it since then.
The AU where my completely off-base assumption that Elizabeth was behind the killings wasn’t quite so off-base, and her arranging her own attempted murder was a set-up to get her inside CI5 because she knew Cowley wouldn’t be able to resist. Except he suspects, and the whole thing is the two of them trying to out-think each other, combined with genuine professional mutual admiration and sexual attraction.
An epistolary fic where they kept in touch by exchanging letters over the years.
Get Together – Character recovering from torture gets taken care of by the person they’re pining for – When Cowley and the other character's paths meet again after a case has gone wrong, she reluctantly starts looking in on him despite his protests.
Smut – guiding an inexperienced partner in how to perform cunnilingus – Look, he’s been pining after Annie for, what, twenty years or so, so chances are he hasn’t had that much experience with women.
Undercover as a couple leads to mutual feelings – When their paths cross again, Cowley poses as Annie’s lover to protect her.
5 Times Cowley had his heart broken.

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Re-Animator

Requested Ship:
Herbert West/Dan Cain
Requested Freeforms:

Canon-specific DNW: Please pretend that the scenes of sexual violence against women in Beyond Re-Animator never happened. References to the Meg/Hill scene in the first film are fine though, and I’m also fine with noncon (onscreen or otherwise) by a third party for the purposes of whump or hurt/comfort.

I’d love anything that goes hard on the hurt/comfort and mutual protectiveness between Herbert and Dan, or anything that captures the tone and bonkers exuberance, gore, humour and horror of the films. Maybe something that explores what happens in between the films, especially between the first and second films, because damn, are there some unanswered questions there – like how did Meg’s heart come to be outside of her body, and how the hell did Herbert manage to persuade Dan to go to Peru with him? And any of the reunions where an apparently dead Herbert pops up again. I also cannot emphasise enough how here I am for Herbert getting menaced and/or whumped.

Optional Prompts

5 Times Dan Assumed Herbert was Dead – Because in various places, namely the screenplay and the novelisation, he is explicitly stated to have died at the end of the first film and I like the idea of him repeatedly appearing to die and popping up again mostly unscathed (and I’m amused that the one film where he doesn’t appear to die at the end is the one in which Dan does not appear. XD).
Accidental Baby Acquisition – I mean, they’re doctors. It’s not beyond the realms of possibility that they might find themselves in a situation where they have to deliver a baby in a crisis (possibly involving zombies), and end up separated from the mother and stuck having to look after the baby.
Addiction - Character tries to distract Addict from addiction with sex – Dan tries to break Herbert’s reliance on the serum.
Alternate Universe - Russian Doll Fusion – I love time loops in all their forms anyway, but this one in particular, with its focus on constant, unrelenting death, and the way the discovery that the loop is being shared with another person would play out with these two is perfect. (and for time loops in general, I’m amused by the way Herbert would probably adapt his work to take full advantage of the loop (er, an endless supply of fresh corpses with no consequences – hey, how is it murder if they don’t stay dead? – having to memorise the results because he can’t write them down, etc.)
Hurt/Comfort – Hurt/Comfort is always welcome, but one thing I’d love to see is Dan helping Herbert through withdrawal from the serum. Mainly because I really wish that deleted scene had been included in the film. I have some quiet headcanons about Herbert’s addiction to reagent, and amongst them is the fact that avoiding sleep is really, really not a good idea, and that maybe the times when he’s at his most batshit are the times when he’s suffering from chronic sleep-deprivation. All of which convinces Dan to help him to break the habit.
Bad Guys Made Them Do It – and every other iteration of Something Made Them Do It.
Betray them to save them – Dan’s presence looms so large in Beyond Reanimator even though he doesn’t appear. I can definitely see a situation where Dan got to a point where he couldn’t see any other choice, and he genuinely believed if things carried on the way they were that Herbert was going to get himself killed. I’d love to see that decision explored and the fallout when/if they’re reunited and he realises what Herbert’s been through.
Hurt/Comfort - Character with injured hands requires assistance (which turns sexual) – Here for the hurt/comfort and smut potential of this (and also very fond of one character shaving another.)
Inspired by the novelisation, Dan is completely taken by surprise when Herbert unexpectedly turns out to be massively into ice hockey. Maybe it’s a hobby he only occasionally spares the time for, but either way Dan is extremely weirded out by the prospect of Herbert going to bars and talking to fans.
You Hurt Me More Than Anything; But Being Without You Hurts More – Herbert goes in search of Dan after the end of Beyond Reanimator. Is he planning on revenge (even if he ultimately can’t face going through with it?) Does something else happen as a catalyst that forces them to work together again? I’d love to see all the messy hurt/comfort and emotional fallout of everything that happened.
Alternate Universe - Canon Divergence – How might things have played out if Meg hadn’t been so hostile to Herbert from the get-go? Maybe if she hadn’t been there when he came about the room, allowing Dan to prime her for his oddball roommate beforehand? And if she hadn’t walked in on them bringing Rufus back, which meant that Dan wouldn’t have fallen out with Dean Halsey, who then wouldn’t have died, etc etc. It’s interesting how differently Herbert treats Francesca. While he’s not exactly polite to her (XD) he tolerates her presence in a way he doesn’t really tolerate Meg’s, and I can’t help but read that as at least partially being the result of Meg’s attitude towards him.
Alternate Universe - Canon Divergence – A canon-divergent AU where Francesca isn’t on the scene and the creation of the Bride is much more successful, and she isn’t quite so much of a monster. Mainly because I’m really curious what the hell Herbert actually had in mind beyond keeping Dan with him at all costs. (And for the record, I’m completely open to Herbert/Dan/The Bride in whatever form that takes.)
Hurt/Comfort - Technically awful attempts at comfort are actually very comforting – Okay, so Herbert is pretty terrible at doing the whole comfort thing, but the fact that he even tries is pretty damn significant.
Road trip after the end of the world – Any post-apocalypse scenario will do, but I am particularly fond of a zombie apocalypse, which seems particularly apt for this canon. Was it Herbert’s fault, or was he entirely innocent for once? Where are they going? What’s the plan? And how does reagent factor into things?
Estranged Characters - Injured A shows Up on B's doorstep Saying "I didn't know where else to go" – My first thought with this was Herbert turning up out of the blue, but what if it’s the other way around? What if, potentially after Herbert’s prison break, he considered hunting Dan down, but reluctantly decided not to follow through, only for Dan to suddenly turn up unexpectedly, and turns out he’s been keeping track of Herbert all these years and somehow or other the shit’s about to hit the fan?
Herbert and Dan take the places of the narrator and the version of Herbert in the original story by Lovecraft. – I read the story after watching the films, and I was really not expecting to find that so much of what happens in the first two films came more or less directly from the story (with a fair few changes along the way). I’m fascinated by the way the films work as adaptations, but especially by the similarities and differences between the two Herberts (running away screaming the first time they reanimate a corpse? Film!Herbert would never. On the other hand the stuff with the revolver? Yeeeeah, he totally would). So perhaps a historical AU where Herbert and Dan are from that period, or where they’re still their 80s selves but have switched places with the versions of themselves from the story. Or maybe it’s just Dan who’s switched places, and he has to content with a different version of Herbert, who is BLOND (and, y'know, also slightly more actively murderous than Dan's Herbert, and has a disconcerting habit of eyeing his healthy physique with a covetous eye). (If you haven’t already read it, be warned it has some racist elements. I’d prefer for those to be avoided if you go with this prompt, please)
A Re-Animator/Ghosts (UK) crossover. Why, yes, this is goofy as hell but I waaaant it. :D In the eighties or nineties Dan and Herbert rent out Button House. Unfortunately something goes wrong and Herbert ends up dying on the property and coming back as a ghost.

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Star Trek: Deep Space Nine

Requested Ships:
Quark/Brunt, Odo/Weyoun, Mirror Ezri Dax/Brunt, Mirror Ezri Dax/Mirror Brunt/Brunt
Requested Freeforms:

Quark/Brunt

Optional Prompts

'Dirty little secret' relationship leads to Too Many Feelings leads to unexpected marriage proposal – Because I am so here for the two of them having a secret relationship on the downlow, and maybe they keep telling themselves it’s just about sex and it doesn’t mean anything, but actually...
Accidental Marriage – When they’re on an alien planet negotiating a contract, they accidentally wind up married (maybe because in that planet’s laws rivalry is considered a sign of great regard), and this cannot stand. Turns out getting it annulled is a little trickier than first envisioned, and in the meantime pining, forced proximity, and sex-of-convenience ensues.
Hate Sex – I am so, so here for the two of them hatefucking, and for moments of unexpected tenderness in the middle of the hatefucking, and for hate sex where they gradually start to develop feelings.
Exploration of Aftermath of Canon Events – A relationship study that looks at how things might develop between the two of them after the end of the series, with neither of them entirely happy about the changes on Ferenginar.
Characters don't realise they're in a relationship but everyone else can see it – Maybe Brunt keeps finding reasons to return to Deep Space Nice to make Quark’s life a misery, and Quark does everything he can to irritate Brunt, and neither of the two of them wants to admit that actually they’re sort of starting to enjoy each other’s company, while as far as everyone else is concerned they’re already basically together.
A post-canon fic with an established relationship between Quark and Brunt. They’re… sort of settled. Almost happy. And then, like a hand grenade tossed into the middle of their relationship, Quark’s old lover Natima Lang comes back. Somehow Brunt finds out what happened between them and is torn between horrified disgust at Quark being willing to abandon everything to run off with her and seething jealousy because he thinks, rightly or wrongly, that Quark wouldn't do that for HIM in a million years. Maybe Quark and Natima have both moved on with no lingering feelings other than a faint poignant ‘what might have been’, or maybe they’re still as in love with each other as ever and the only way to resolve this is with Quark/Natima/Brunt.
5+1 Things – A post-canon 5+1 fic exploring the ways every single member of Quark’s family undermines their attempts at (semi-)tradition Ferengi parenting (preferably of a boy, please, unless the focus is on them both overcoming their terrible ingrained sexism to the point where it’s probably going to be a bit ooc, let’s face it).
Having met by chance with an oddly familiar stranger in a bar who shares his animosity for Quark, Brunt obtains a copy of a unique holosuite program involving Major Kira with Quark’s head in return for a discounted price and the promise to use it to destroy Quark. Which would be easier to do if he could just stop thinking about how it would be better with Quark’s head on Quark’s body. To facilitate Getting Revenge, obviously. (And just as soon as he figures out why the hell Quark would make the program so damn good at oo-mox if it was written for a non-Ferengi).
So, um, those scenes in The Dogs of War when Brunt is sucking up to Quark because they both think Zek is going to appoint him the next Grand Nagus? He’d be remiss if he forgot Rule 113 of the Rules of Acquisition: Always have sex with the boss.
Ishka figures out why Brunt is so fixated on bringing Quark down. And, well, okay, yes, Brunt is terrible, but also he’s a good Ferengi, and frankly, Quark could probably do worse.
Time Travel Fix-It – Brunt and Quark travel back to a point where they’re in a position to alter the course of Ferengi history and prevent the sweeping changes brought about by Quark’s mother, but potentially ruining their fortunes in their present, since with the franchisement of Quark’s they’re actually doing pretty damn well for themselves. Do they go through with it, or disagree about whether they should go through with it?

Mirror Ezri Dax/Brunt & Mirror Ezri Dax/Mirror Brunt/Brunt

And then there’s Brunt. XD

I headcanon Mirror Ezri as bisexual and read Mirror Brunt's comment about her being picky when it comes to men as relating to Quark and Brunt being Ferengi. References to her relationships with Mirror Leeta and the Intendant are welcome, and the requested ships absolutely do NOT have to be end-game (although I would prefer the fic to focus on them.) Look, I just find the idea of these two treacherous bastards hooking up hot as fuck, even if it's just temporary, and I'm both amused and heartbroken at how Mirror Brunt's might react to finding out that actually she will make an exception for at least one Ferengi male and it's the terrible evil mirror universe version of himself who is the literal worst.

Optional Prompts

Femdom – Because if there’s ever been a character who very definitely needs to get dommed by a female, it is Brunt.
Clothing - Naked Male Clothed Female – Niiice. I just love this freeform so, so much when it comes to Brunt (especially if combined with femdom). He would just hate it so fucking much. It’s disgusting. It’s depraved. So why the hell does he find it so fucking hot? *hearteyes*
Identity Porn – Brunt has to pose as his Mirror counterpart and work with Mirror!Ezri, leading to a sex scene in which for kink reasons he ends up having sex with her while still in the Mirror!Brunt persona.
A threesome in which Ezri and Brunt edge Mirror!Brunt until he’s a sobbing desperate mess. Look, I just want him to have nice things okay?
Accidental Baby Acquisition – I am a sucker for certain tropes and one of those tropes that will forever get me is when people who under normal circumstances have no business looking after babies get stuck looking after a baby. If Mirror!Brunt is around, maybe the plan was that he’d be the one looking after the kid, but due to something going wrong, he and Brunt have to trade places and pretend to be each other.
Competence Kink - Whether they’re rivals or allies, I just love the idea of Brunt and Mirror!Ezri being secretly impressed and turned on by how good the other one is at lying, cheating and stealing. Lets just say Brunt probably has more in common with Mirror!Ezri than his counterpart does.
Since his death, Ezri has been seeing Mirror!Brunt's ghost. Maybe it’s some kind of hallucination from a space anomaly, or maybe she’s just imagining him, or maybe he really is a ghost, or maybe he’s the result of a malfunctioning portable holoprojector (which she hasn’t fixed because she kind of misses him and it’s nice having him around). but either way she’s gradually beginning to accept she might have had feelings for him after all. Then she meets Brunt.
proxy-fucking – Mirror!Ezri fucking Brunt as a way of processing the grief she feels about Mirror!Brunt’s death.

Odo/Weyoun

I really really dig the platonic relationship between them too, so it’s fine for the ship to take a back seat and just going all out on the complicated mixture of emotions and faith that’s packed into even the gen relationship between them.

Optional Prompts

DS9: Post-canon attempt to return the Vorta to sexual reproduction; first non-clone baby born - With Weyoun and Odo being at the heart of the attempt.
A canon-divergent fic where Weyoun 6 survives to defect to the Federation, exploring how their relationship goes after the war is over.
A canon-divergent AU where the canonical baby Changeling turns up while the station is in the hands of the Dominion and Weyoun is involved with Odo's attempts to look after it.
Complicated emotions at being pregnant with a baby character believes is a god - somehow Weyoun ends up knocked up, whether it's some kind of handwavy transporter accident type accident, or the result of a sex pollen incident necessary to save Odo's life and neither of them realised Weyoun could get pregnant that way. Is there some kind of side effect from the pregnancy which leaves Weyoun with some degree of shapeshifting powers, or the ability to link with the baby, which is amazing but also very uncomfortable because he's just a Vorta.
Cloning Accident result in creating a baby - The real reason Weyoun 6 tried to defect. :D Is it a wholly new person or just a baby version of Weyoun, and what are the implications of it not being going through the full cloning process?
character that thought they had zero parenting instincts goes into hardcore protective mode - I love Weyoun as a villain at least partly because of how very... unintimidating he is in a lot of ways. He's small and slight and vulnerable and he keeps dying, and I'm really drawn to this prompt both for him embracing his violent side in the interests of protecting a baby and for the potential to explore his character because I’ll always love a character study.
a 5+1 fic exploring the way Odo's relationship with the various different Weyouns changes over the years.
Sex Pollen – Whether it’s Odo affected and Weyoun willingly sacrifices himself to save the Founder, or Weyoun is affected and is horrified/pathetically grateful at Odo being willing to help. Or the aftermath of the sex pollen situation with all the fallout.
A canon-divergent AU where Odo remains human for longer, and he’s still a solid when he meets Weyoun 5 for the first time. What effect would Odo's becoming a solid have on their dynamic? How would the Vorta conceptualise the concept of a god becoming a solid, and what does that mean for the way Weyoun’s worldview? I’d be delighted with anything from a character/relationship study that follows their time on the station together, or perhaps something plottier where they're stranded on a planet together and have to work together to survive, but now Odo's just as vulnerable as Weyoun is. (Sex pollen always welcome)
Hurt/Comfort - Character Treats Other Character's Injuries – Weyoun is injured and Odo has to treat his injuries, whether it’s Weyoun 6 or one of the other ones. I’m just fascinated by all the messy feelings of faith and awe, and Odo’s discomfort at being thought of as a god.
Slow and painful process of recovering from lifetime of cultural brainwashing – Whether it happens over the course of one Weyoun or several. I really love all the tangled complexities of the way the Vorta see the world. Maybe this is a canon-divergent fic where Weyoun 6 survives and Odo tries to deprogram him? Or maybe a future Weyoun where the process has begun but isn't quite there yet.
Whump - A sacrifices themself to protect B; B is forced to watch A being tortured – The obvious candidate for self-sacrifice is Weyoun, but Odo sacrificing himself and Weyoun's struggles watching him being tortured (perhaps that Romulan device that stops him from changing shape) would be delicious too.

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Would You Rather (2012)

Requested Shipss:
Shepard Lambrick & Julian Lambrick, Shepard Lambrick & Iris, Shepard Lambrick/Iris
Requested Freeforms:

Shepard Lambrick & Julian Lambrick

And then there’s Lucas. Watching the film for the first time, I was convinced he was going to turn out to be the other Lambrick brother, and to have been a ringer in on it all along. It would probably have been too obvious a twist, but story-wise and character-wise the possibilities are delicious, and I am so so here for Lucas and Julian as siblings with a fucked-up codependent relationship: Lucas as the golden child, the one who has the guts to actually take part in the games himself, risk physical pain and potential harm because that’s what his father’s ‘rules’ call for, with Julian as the weaker son who can never live up to his father’s legacy. (The film ultimately doesn’t really bear this out, but it’s not beyond the realms of possibility that the eye injury and maybe his death could have been faked.)

Optional Prompts

Something Lovecraftian – Because apparently I’m almost incapable of requesting an entirely non-Lovecraftian film with Jeffrey Combs in it without going ‘Yeah, but what if Lovecraft though?’ On the one hand, you could just take this film at face value, but on the other there does seem to be an odd sense of duty about the way Shepard treats the games, with his attention to the rules and tradition, so what if the Foundation and the games have some kind of supernatural reason for existing?
Antagonism - characters don't like each other but nobody else understands them this well Characters who can't stand each other would also die for each other
Daddy Issues – Because if there was ever a character with hang-ups over his father, it’s Julian Lambrick.
Fantasies about murdering your father – Whether a 5+1 fic about the times Julian has thought about killing his father throughout his life, or something a bit more involved, where he’s actually seriously thinking about going through with it. Or dreaming about doing it. Will he ever have the guts? Does Shepard know? (And if Lucas is involved, maybe the two of them plotting together as part of some fucked-up sexual fantasy, but actually Lucas is telling Shepard about it)
Shepard is beginning to have doubts about whether Julian really has the necessary qualities to follow in his footsteps. Maybe he decides to give Julian one last chance.
A fucked-up slice of life fic following the everyday operations of the Lambrick Foundation.
Something investigating Shepard’s relationship with his son in contrast to Shepard’s relationship with his own father.
What was the first game like? Did it happen under Shepard, or was it something that he inherited? If the latter, then what was his experience of his first game like?

Shepard Lambrick & Iris, Shepard Lambrick/Iris

Optional Prompts

Enemies to Lovers - Enemy tenderly treats character's injuries that the enemy inflicted – Whether this follows on directly from the end of the film, or relates to a whole new injury that Iris has sustained, I am so completely here for this. Or alternatively, what if Shepard is the one who’s been injured at Iris’s hands. It’s a couple of years down the line and, trying to get her revenge on him, she’s taken him to an isolated cabin while his people hunt for them. Only she isn’t sure whether she can really bring herself to kill someone again. Manipulation ensues.
Antagonist Surprises With Honourable Behavior – ‘honourable’ according to Shepard’s judgement, anyway. Because he really does seem to have a fucked-up code of his own when it comes to the games, even if that is just one of his manipulation techniques. But he honours his promises, and Iris finds herself conflicted.
Breathplay - top/dom likes getting choked – Consider this an exception to my Breathplay DNW. Shepard has a thing about being choked. Iris obliges because she just hates him so much. They’re both drawn to the element of risk: him because he knows she might well kill him if she was capable of it, she’s not sure if she is capable of it, but knows that if she takes it too far it could end very badly for her.
Captivity – For one reason or another, Shepard decides it’s necessary to have Iris quietly disposed of, but he’s unwilling to have her killed so imprisons her instead.
Character has their face shaved with a straight razor (by someone they have reason to distrust) – Having established a sexual relationship, although still aware that there’s good chance she’d like to kill him, Shepard lets Iris shave him. What appeals to me here is the sexual tension and Iris’s ever-present temptation to just cut his throat and have done with it.
Character Trains a Protege – Ohhh baby. Explore this however you want to, whether the focus is on the beginning of the process or if you start with her taking her place as a witness to a game. Is Iris all in (for whatever reason), or does she still have her doubts, or is she working against him somehow? And what exactly is Julian doing in all of this?
Slow Seduction/Corruption Arc – So uncomfortably hot, whatever form the seduction takes, whether it’s about sex or a moral corruption. I am absolutely here for a sexual relationship developing between them, but also her originally resisting him trying to use her for his own ends once she’s gone through college, and his attempts to bring her around, finding her a job, etc.
Outsider POV of a 'date' between Shepard and Iris. Especially if its clearly deeply uncomfortable, but to the outsider it just looks like a normal date between a solicitous older man and a younger woman (aside from maybe a couple of out-of-place moments).
Possessiveness - No One Is Allowed to Hurt You Except Me – Times when Shepard went out of his way to protect Iris.
Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder – After the game, Iris is struggling to recover from the experience.
Scar Worship – Specifically that stab-wound. But also, maybe Shepard has one or two scars of his own.

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Thanks for reading!

StorkSwap 2023 Letter

AO3 Username: StopTalkingAtMe

It’s that time of year again. :D Welcome to my letter, Mystery Creator. I’m excited to see what you come up with. And while some of the sections here may be longer than others but please don’t read anything into that – I’d be delighted with a gift for any one of them.

I’ve requested all these fandoms before, so please feel free to go digging through my older letters for further prompts and ideas if you want.

General Likes
Baby and Pregnancy Likes
Smut Likes
DNWs
From Beyond
Re-Animator
- Request 1: Herbert West/Pregnant Daniel Cain, Pregnant Herbert West/Daniel Cain
- Request 2: Herbert West/Dan Cain & Baby
Star Trek: Deep Space Nine
- Request 1: Quark/Brunt & Baby, Pregnant Quark/Brunt, Quark/Pregnant Brunt
- Request 2: Odo/Weyoun & Baby, Odo & Weyoun & Baby, Odo/Pregnant Weyoun

General Likes and DNWs

Baby and Pregnancy Likes

For this exchange, I'd love shipfic with a baby or pregnancy as the backdrop and the real focus is on the couple, Hurt/comfort focusing on the pregnancy, or fluffy pregnancy or babyfic which digs into the setting and the weirdness of the ships I'm requesting.

For babyfic, anything exploring the characters adjusting to looking after a baby, whether it's temporary or more long term, and the experience bringing them closer together. Peril is great too, althiough I'd rather nothing really bad happens to the baby who's the focus of the fic (with the exception of the canonical Changeling baby in DS9).

And pregnancy! I especially love the weirdness of pregnancy, and that applies to fpreg as well as mpreg. The sensations of the baby moving, and the bump moving when the baby kicks against it, the moment when the non-pregnant partner is able to feel the baby kicking, all the pregnancy symptoms, and the pregnant person, who might at first have been ambivalent, coming to realise how much they enjoy being pregnant, heightened sex drives due to hormones and increased blood flow in the area, the non-pregnant partner being fascinated by the changes in the pregnant person's body, and being very protective of the pregnant person.

For Mpreg, I really like it to take place either in a world where Mpreg is either completely unheard of, but is able to happen as a result of supernatural fuckery or some other intervention, OR in worlds where it is known to happen but is extremely rare to the point where no one ever thinks it could happen to them. I prefer babies to be born by c-section, or, in the case of monsters, them just straight-up ripping their way out is fine too.

General Likes

Character studies and introspection
Loneliness and isolation
Angst
Atmospheric description, scenery porn, sensory description
World-building, backstory, and character development.
Horror.
Closed Circle - Stranded with a murderer in your midst, whether in horror or murder mystery. Think And Then There Were None.
Case-fic, whether fully realised or just touching on elements from a case.
Whump, hurt/comfort and hurt/no comfort.
Endings of all kinds, happy, bleak or bittersweet.
Canon-divergent AUs, especially post-canon ones where the bad guys win.
Pining, whether mutual or one-sided
Repression and stoicism
Descriptions of scars
Main Character Death and grief; characters getting together while still grieving for previous partners, taking solace in each other, the dead character still seeming like a presence in the relationship, etc. (Please note the exception for Whisky Galore!)
Crossovers, especially oddball crossovers that come completely out of left field, although I do tend to prefer crack played straight rather than outright crack. If you have reason to believe I know and like the other fandom, then I encourage you to go for it.
Post-Apocalypse scenarios, including zombies (probably my favourite AU scenario of all time), with focus on angst and the struggle for survival.
Stranded Together With No Way Home, us against the world, deep mutual dependence on the other party because there’s no one else around (which may not be entirely healthy)
Time Loops
Older characters finding love.
Age gap relationships
I really love historical detail and extensive research notes, so if that’s what you’re into then feel free to go wild. (If that’s not your thing, then please don’t worry: I am in no way an expert, and I love tropey indulgent stuff and cheerfully anachronistic fics just as much).
Hair kink. Hands pushed into hair, coiling it around fingers, routinely cutting another character's hair if appropriate in context (e.g. in post-apocalyptic scenarios), hairwashing as part of hurt/comfort, yanking head back by the hair, etc
Textiles, especially knitwear and embroidery; men in jumpers; historical and cultural details and craft in general
Unusual structures and ways of telling a story, such as Rashomon plots, non-linear narratives, outsider POVs, epistolary works, etc.
Cigarette kink: descriptions of smoking, sharing cigarettes, lighting cigarettes for each other, etc.
Finally, and I cannot emphasise this enough, men in sleepwear, particularly pyjamas and dressing gowns.

Smut Likes

Sex Pollen and aftermath, and any other kind of something made them do it scenario
Angry Sex, rough sex, hate sex, rough sex that turns tender
Clothed Sex, or clothed/naked
Comfort Sex
Dubcon when requested (mutual dubcon of the something-made-us-do-it kind is ALWAYS okay even when not explicitly requested)
Mild bondage and other forms of gentle restraint
Oral Sex, especially cunnilingus in all its forms, and ESPECIALLY cunnilingus with fingering
Rough Sex - Lots of Scratching and Biting and Hair-Grabbing/Pulling and Holding Partner(s) Down
Sex in grimy, grim, uncomfortable places
Threesomes
Situations where one character is too tired, injured etc to orgasm themselves, but takes great pleasure in making the other person come, so long as it's part of a wider give-take relationship when it comes to sex.

DNWs

A/B/O
Noncon between requested pairings (Something Made Them Do It scenarios are ALWAYS fine though)
Dubcon involving unaroused characters
Unrequested Incest
Bestiality (monsters don't count here)
Scat and waterplay
Formalised D/s dynamics (bondage and other forms of restraint are OK)
Underage
Het anal sex
Breathplay (antagonistic choking is fine)
Fisting
Lactation Kink
Any variation of the word 'come' in a sexual context spelled as 'cum' (please use 'come', 'came', 'precome' etc)
For Reanimator, please assume the scenes of sexual violence in Beyond Reanimator never happened.
For Deep Space Nine, please don't have Odo cheat on Kira.

For the opt-ins, references and depictions of past miscarriages and child death are fine, but please avoid them when it comes to the baby/pregnancy that's the focus of the fic.

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From Beyond

Requested Ships:
Katherine McMichaels/Crawford Tillinghast
Requested Freeforms:
Accidental Baby Acquisition, Alternating between oral sex and kissing pregnant belly, A comes back from the dead and finds B has given birth to their child, A comes back from the dead and finds B is pregnant, Baby finds skin to skin contact calming, Character has higher libido when pregnant, Character undecided about staying pregnant has miscarriage scare and just wants baby to be okay, Character wakes up pregnant and they don’t know how it happened, character that thought they had zero parenting instincts goes into hardcore protective mode, Didn't expect to enjoy being pregnant this much, Emergency c-section in the middle of chaos, Pregnancy Caused by Eldritch Abomination, Pregnancy Result of Fuck Or Die Situation, pregnancy as body horror, Sleeping Baby Rests Head On Parent's Shoulder, Villain is the biological father; couple on the run

Note on my DNWs: My BDSM DNW is waived when it comes to Dr Pretorius.

For Mpreg, I really like it to take place either in a world where Mpreg is either completely unheard of, but is able to happen as a result of supernatural fuckery, or alternatively where it is known to happen but is extremely rare to the point where no one ever thinks it could happen to them. I strongly prefer babies to be born by c-section.

This film is one of the single-most hottest things I've seen in my life, and I ship Crawford/Katherine like burning. The way he looks at her. That moment when they eye-fuck each other when the Resonator is turned on for the first time. Him watching her sleep while bleakly confessing to Bubba about how he used to lie awake listening to the sounds coming from (*checks notes*) Dr Pretorius's kinky sex dungeon. Not to mention Crawford's pre-canon relationship with Dr Pretorius which I assume was abusive, domineering, and dubiously consensual in *all the fucking ways.*

Crawford is exactly the kind of woobie I like, meek, deeply traumatised, and horribly vulnerable, and I can’t decide if I want him to continue to suffer horribly or to actually get the chance to be happy for once. Both, ideally. I love Katherine too: she’s so single-minded and determined, and their relationship is such a mix of genuinely sweet and deeply uncomfortable, but mainly I ship them so hard and I just want them both to be happy.

For this exchange, I’m here for anything from baby and pregnancy fluff, to hurt/comfort, to something which expands on Crawford’s suffering in canon, turning the pregnancy into body horror. Poor Crawford spends the entire film having his boundaries trampled on, and for the pregnant Crawford option I am open to either the pregnancy being an extension of that, or for it actually to turn out to be something positive.

I also love the early part of the film where Katherine, Crawford and Bubba are exploring the house (and I am completely here for a threesome between the three of them, btw). Or maybe a post-canon fic where Crawford comes back, whether it's an unambiguously happy ending or if there are some doubts about how human he is (and maybe Katherine is changing too). Or have them explore the world Beyond, whether the focus is on the horror or fluffier and sweeter with them bonding still further because of the isolation (CATNIP).

Optional Prompts

pregnancy as body horror - This is the perfect canon for body horror, whether the baby itself is a monster or a perfectly normal baby, and it's the pregnancy itself that's somehow horrific, perhap because the character themself has been transformed. Go with all the gore you want (with Crawford's 'birth' at the end of the film as the template). Crawford getting impregnated by Dr Pretorius while Pretorius is 'pregnant' with Crawford, and the baby gestating while Crawford is stuck inside him? (It’s fine for Katherine not to appear if you’re going with this prompt) Or maybe the pregnany itself is the means by which Katherine is able to bring a monstrously transformed Crawford more or less back to his right mind.
A comes back from the dead and finds B has given birth to their child -- I would really, really love a post-canon fic where Crawford is able somehow to find his way back to the real world, whether or not the tone is fluffy and happy, or whether there are still horrors to come, perhaps because he didn't come back quite human and still gets cravings for braaaains or because Pretorius isn't quite ready to give them up.
Alternating between oral sex and kissing pregnant belly - I am always here for loving PWP smut in this fandom.
Pregnancy Caused by Eldritch Abomination - Whether it's Dr Pretorius or a mindless tentacle monster, and whether the pregnant person is Katherine or Crawford. Here for hurt/comfort and horror with this, and it's up to you whether the baby is a terrifying monster or something more ambiguous which they're not quite sure what to do with, and they tentatively start to look after it.
We don't see much of the world beyond in the film, but there are some brief descriptions of it in the short story and it's clear it's not just the creatures, but that there are buildings there. I'd love to see Katherine and Crawford reuniting to explore that world, whether they're stranded or are there more voluntarily, and whether it's horror, adventure, or a travelogue with added smut and/or hurt/comfort.
Sleeping Baby Rests Head On Parent's Shoulder - Also here for adorable baby fluff, although ideally with a streak of canon-typical fucked-up weirdness.
Character has higher libido when pregnant - Again I cannot emphasise how much I would love pure unadulterated smut for these two. Plus, if it's Katherine who's pregnant, maybe there's an added edge of tension, because what if the Resonator is affecting her again?

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Re-Animator

Canon-specific DNW: Please pretend that the scenes of sexual violence against women in Beyond Re-Animator never happened. References to the Meg/Hill scene in the first film are fine though, and I’m also fine with noncon by a third party whether onscreen or of, for the purposes of whump and hurt/comfort.

I’m also delighted by how differently Herbert acts towards Howard, particularly at the end of the third film, where he comes across Howard cradling Laura’s head, looks at him for a moment, and then just effectively shrugs and yoinks his ID card. It’s a detail that brings home just how important Dan is to him. As far as I’m concerned, at the end of the 3rd film he is 100% going off to find Dan, and I would love something that explores them meeting again post-canon, and how the dynamics between them might shift with a Herbert who’s hurt at the betrayal and bruised by everything he’s been through and a Dan who’s not quite so naive and trusting.

Request 1: Herbert West/Pregnant Daniel Cain, Pregnant Herbert West/Daniel Cain

Requested Freeforms:
Alternating between oral sex and kissing pregnant belly, Char with other duties/ambitions has complicated feelings about prospect of pregnancy/parenthood, Character A is extremely possessive over pregnant character B, Character getting impregnated by a possessed/mind controlled version of their loved one, character that thought they had zero parenting instincts goes into hardcore protective mode, Character undecided about staying pregnant has miscarriage scare and just wants baby to be okay, Character wakes up pregnant and they don’t know how it happened, A comes back from the dead and finds B is pregnant, Didn't expect to enjoy being pregnant this much, Dream Sex Leads to Real Pregnancy, Emergency c-section in the middle of chaos, Late Night Conversations About (Future) Parenting, Mixed feelings at being pregnant during the apocalypse, Mpreg - A didn't know B could get pregnant; B assumed A was trying to knock him up, Mpreg is possible but almost unheard of & only documented in extremely obscure medical textbooks, Other characters try to keep pregnant character from doing canon-typical perilous activity, pregnancy causes nesting urges, Pregnancy Caused by Eldritch Abomination, Pregnancy Due To Scientific Experimentation, Surprise pregnancy discovery when estranged A & B reunite after A gets out of prison early, Grief Sex Results in Pregnancy

For Mpreg, I really like it to take place either in a world where Mpreg is either completely unheard of, but is able to happen as a result of supernatural fuckery or canon-typical SCIENCE, or alternatively where it is known to happen but is extremely rare to the point where no one ever thinks it could happen to them. I strongly prefer babies to be born by c-section.

How the hell did it come about? Is the non-pregnant one the partner, or was the pregnancy the result of one of Herbert's experiments (maybe all that serum he's been injecting himself with changed his physiology to make him mpreggable), an eldritch nightmare (hey, this is Arkham we're talking about), or rape by a third party (ideally leading to much hurt/comfort and a get-together)?

Especially here for Herbert being extremely overprotective and touchy-feely if Dan's the knocked-up one, or for Dan being unnerved, both by the weirdness of the situation and by how happy he is about it, and if Herbert's the pregnant one getting extremely frustrated about his refusal to accept that he isn't actually immortal. I'd also love to see pregnancy sex and anything exploring ambivalent feelings over the prospect of having a kid and the weirdness of the situation.

Optional Prompts

Surprise pregnancy discovery when estranged A & B reunite after A gets out of prison early - Herbert is let out of prison early because he's pregnant. Is Dan the father or is it the warden? Does he seek Dan out or does Dan find out by accident? Or maybe there’s no way Dan can be the father, either because they’ve never had sex or because Herbert’s been in prison for a couple of years by the time he’s released, but he refuses to tell Dan what happened and who the father is, and the guilt. D: OR maybe, despite the length of time Herbert’s been in prison, there’s still a chance Dan could be the father due to a weird dream sex situation.
Surprise pregnancy discovery when estranged A & B reunite after A gets out of prison early – Or maybe Herbert escapes from prison to find out one of the reasons Dan never visited him in prison was because he was pregnant and didn’t know how the hell to break it to Herbert.
Char with other duties/ambitions has complicated feelings about prospect of pregnancy/parenthood - Because Herbert's a scientist! He barely spares the time to sleep and feed himself properly, let alone look after a baby.
Character wakes up pregnant and they don’t know how it happened - Arkham, man. One of the things I like about the cut plotline with Dr Hill’s hypnotism is the way it implies that there's this whole other load of crap going on in town that they never notice because they're too busy, and then one day one of them ends up pregnant and Herbert *swears* it's got nothing to do with him, so they have to figure out what's going on.
Mixed feelings at being pregnant during the apocalypse - I will always, always love apocalypse AUs for this canon. Ideally with zombies, but anything goes. Hurt/comfort, the intensity that comes from only being able to rely on the other person, and the angst that comes from knowing there's a danger you could lose everything...
Mpreg - A didn't know B could get pregnant; B assumed A was trying to knock him up - I could see this working either way. Does B know he can get pregnant or is it a surprise to him too? If Dan is B and doesn't know, I could see there being some resentment until things are worked out, and if Herbert is B, Dan WTFing because 'why the hell didn't you tell me?'
Other characters try to keep pregnant character from doing canon-typical perilous activity - Aside from the typical risks of being around violent reanimated subjects, it's hardly sanitary.
Emergency c-section in the middle of chaos - With the chaos ideally being rampaging reanimated corpses. I love this for the tension, the threat of danger, and the potential for hurt/comfort and extreme protectiveness.
Mpreg is possible but almost unheard of & only documented in extremely obscure medical textbooks – Textbooks that Herbert owns naturally, and because he thought Dan had also read them too he assumed Dan knew there was a chance Herbert could get knocked up. Or alternatively, Herbert deep-diving into very important research.
pregnancy causes nesting urges – Weird and just sliiiiightly fucked-up pregnancy fluff. :D The thought of Herbert being extremely weird and intense about nesting just delights me, and if Dan is the pregnant one, Herbert trying to restrain his irritation at Dan fucking about with his stuff in the lab and maybe treating the emergency shopping trips to buy furniture and choose paint shades for the nursery as a kind of experiment because that’s the only way he can justify it to himself.

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Re-Animator Request 2: Herbert West/Dan Cain & Baby

Requested Freeforms:
Accidental Baby Acquisition, accidental baby acquisition leads to relationship, B being a much better parent than A had expected, Baby finds skin to skin contact calming, Babyproofing the Home, Bad Guys Want The Baby, Balancing parenting with work, Char with other duties/ambitions has complicated feelings about prospect of pregnancy/parenthood, character that thought they had zero parenting instincts goes into hardcore protective mode, Childless character slips into an AU/timeslip where they have a baby/baby on the way, A comes back from the dead and finds B has given birth to their child, Father wants to teach baby everything he knows…despite baby being completely oblivious, Supposedly temporary baby acquisition proves longer term than anticipated, Villain is the biological father; couple on the run, Surviving in a dangerous world while pregnant or with a baby, Villain is the biological father; couple on the run, You're a little (a lot) psycho but let's raise this baby anyway

I’m just charmed by the idea of Herbert looking after a baby and unexpectedly turning out to be quite good at it to Dan’s delighted surprise. I’d love to see something where the two of them adapt to looking after a child, whether temporarily or for a longer period, and seeing that bring them closer together. Is it their child, or a child they’ve adopted, or maybe one of them is the father? (Was Meg the mother?) Alternatively maybe one of them got pregnant through non-con (whether violent or as a result of mind-control at the hands of a villain, whether Dr Hill, the warden, or an original character.

Accidental Baby Acquisition - In the middle of another massacre (which may or may not be their fault) they get lumbered with the care of a baby. Or babies.
Balancing parenting with work - A slice-of-life fic exploring how they come to terms with looking after a baby.
Babyproofing the Home - Although by 'home' I mostly mean 'basement'. :D
Baby finds skin to skin contact calming - Just pure baby fluff, and the other character finds themselves overwhelmed by how touching it is (and finding what a great dad the other one is very hot)
Surviving in a dangerous world while pregnant or with a baby - Whether it's a post-apocalyptic situation (yep, zombies again), or something more Lovecraft-inspired like the Dreamlands. Just that whole thing of forming this intensely bonded family unit, barricading yourself inside, trying to stay quiet during 'thank god we're alive' sex while the baby sleeps, etc...
Father wants to teach baby everything he knows…despite baby being completely oblivious - Yes, this is ridiculously fluffy. :D Herbert earnestly talking through his thought processes and experimental methods while the baby gawps at him and Dan looks on amused and charmed.
Villain is the biological father; couple on the run – Through mind control, non-con or some kind of nefarious scientific experiment Dr Hill has got one of them (or perhaps Meg?) pregnant and now he wants the baby back. Cue trying to look after a baby on the run while keeping themselves and the baby safe.
You're a little (a lot) psycho but let's raise this baby anyway – I’d love to see something exploring Dan’s… ambivalent feelings about coparenting with Herbert. Having misgivings and then saying fuck it and doing it anyway.

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Star Trek: Deep Space Nine

I have a long history with DS9. I watched most of it when it was first airing, but never really watched it all the way through from start to finish, something which I’ve been meaning to rectify for a while. I’ve just started on season 5, so I’m still working my way through, but I know most of what happens and there’s a good chance I’ll have finished the series by reveals, so please don’t worry about spoilers. It’s also up to you whether you follow the plot of the relaunch novels or ignore them entirely.

For the mpreg requests, I really like it to take place either in a world where Mpreg is either completely unheard of, but is able to happen as a result of supernatural fuckery or canon-typical SCIENCE, or alternatively where it is known to happen but is extremely rare to the point where no one ever thinks it could happen to them. I strongly prefer babies to be born by c-section.

Deep Space Nine Request 1: Quark/Brunt & Baby, Pregnant Quark/Brunt, Quark/Pregnant Brunt

Requested Freeforms:
Adopting the baby of your now-dead counterpart from an alternate universe, Accidental Baby Acquisition, accidental baby acquisition leads to relationship, B being a much better parent than A had expected, Bad Guys Want The Baby, Balancing parenting with work, Character A gets knocked up by Character B in an alternate timeline; goes back to original timeline, Didn't expect to enjoy being pregnant this much, Enemies with benefits situation complicated by coparenting a baby, Enemies with benefits situation complicated by unexpected pregnancy, Father wants to teach baby everything he knows…despite baby being completely oblivious, Finding Too Late That The Unknown Artifact You Touched Made You Gain A Womb And Become Impregnable, People Who Absolutely Should Not Raise A Child Are Now Responsible For One, Pregnancy complications make it necessary to return to alien parent's home planet, Pregnancy Result of Fuck Or Die Situation, Supposedly temporary baby acquisition proves longer term than anticipated, Traditional parenting/pregnancy plans undermined by family members at every turn

If the gender of the baby is ever specified, and there’s focus on them raising the child, I’d really prefer it to be a boy. The idea of these two raising a girl is bleak, to say the least. Unless the focus is on them overcoming their ingrained misogyny, in which case, do what you gotta do.

These two had my enemy-shipping heart right from the moment Brunt got his Nausicaan goons to beat Quark half to death. *hearteyes* They are so, so shippy I can’t even: from how ridiculously unsubtle the show was about the subtext at the end of Ferengi Love Songs, to the air-kiss Quark blows him in Profit and Lace, to basically everything that happens between them in Body Parts. Brunt spending a small fortune purely to fuck Quark over, turning up in his quarters and reclining on Quark’s couch as he talks gleefully about his plans planning on defiling Quark’s remains (and that moment of ‘what do I do with my hands?!’ panic when Quark suddenly moves closer to him?)… yeah, um, that right there is a Ferengi who might just be up for some contract renegotiation.

I’d love to see anything from any moment of their relationship, from the early days when Brunt is so obsessed by (and horny for) Quark that he’s willing to do virtually anything to destroy him, to later when Brunt is more focused on his own gain and becoming Grand Nagus himself, to a post-canon fic which focuses on how their relationship might develop after the end of the series and the massive sweeping changes on Ferenginar. Similarly, tone-wise I’d be delighted with anything from pining (one-sided or mutual), to hate-fucking, to something more genuine, and anything on the enemies-to-lovers to enemies-to-enemies-who-fuck scale.

It’s also fine to write about their mirror universe counterparts instead, whether the story is focused on the actual mirror universe versions (and canon-divergent AUs are always welcome, btw), or something that involves pining while fucking the mirror-universe counterpart of the object of your affections, or a selfcest threesome (We barely saw Mirror Quark, but Mirror Brunt is such a sweetheart and I just want him to have nice things. D:). I also really, really love the look of (male) Ferengi clothing, so if you want to go all-out on clothing porn, then please do, as well as exploring any avenues of clothed or clothed/unclothed sex you might want to go down.

Optional Prompts

Adopting the baby of your now-dead counterpart from an alternate universe - Mirror Ezri turns up with Mirror Brunt's baby in tow, dumps it on Brunt and Quark, and then disappears, necessitating a trip to the Mirror Universe to find Ezri and return the baby. Bonding ensues.
B being a much better parent than A had expected - Although admittedly I'm not sure what Ferengis would consider being a good parent.
Didn't expect to enjoy being pregnant this much - Not to mention how lucrative it turns out to be. Without a valid womb rental agreement in place the pregnant one can all but set his own price.
Finding Too Late That The Unknown Artifact You Touched Made You Gain A Womb And Become Impregnable - Brunt and Quark run into each other on Risa, claiming to be on holiday but in reality they're both hoping to make some profit in black market archaeological artifacts. And as for what happens afterwards, well, in theory what happens on Risa stays on Risa, although it turns out that doesn’t apply when there’s a pregnancy involved.
Enemies with benefits situation complicated by coparenting a baby - Maybe Brunt keeps finding reasons to return to Deep Space 9 to make Quark's life a misery and squabble over what to do with the baby, and neither of the two of them wants to admit that actually they’re sort of starting to enjoy each other’s company, while as far as everyone else is concerned they’re already basically together.
Pregnancy complications make it necessary to return to alien parent's home planet - Man, I just love Ferenginar so much. I also love Ishka, and her relationship with Brunt, and I wish more were made of that -- she is, ultimately the reason why Brunt is so obsessed with Quark, and his relationship with her fascinates me. (Like after The Magnificent Ferengi: was it Brunt who took her back to Ferenginar on his ship and if so what the hell was that journey like? XD) Maybe his mother is out of the picture, so he has to turn (with extreme reluctance on both their parts) to Ishka for help and advice.
Traditional parenting/pregnancy plans undermined by family members at every turn – Because, okay, yes, there's a Grand Nagus in the family, but it's Rom, the baby's cousin is the first Ferengi in Starfleet, and the baby’s grandmother singlehandedly brought about the emancipation of Ferengi women. (MOOOOGIE <3<3<3) And that's not even starting on Brunt's family.

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Deep Space Nine Request 2: Odo/Weyoun & Baby, Odo & Weyoun & Baby, Odo/Pregnant Weyoun

Requested Freeforms:
DS9: Post-canon attempt to return the Vorta to sexual reproduction; first non-clone baby born, DS9: Protecting a baby Changeling, character that thought they had zero parenting instincts goes into hardcore protective mode, Cloning Accident result in creating a baby, Complicated emotions at being pregnant with a baby character believes is a god, Pregnancy complications make it necessary to return to alien parent's home planet, Unplanned pregnancy as a result of sex pollen, Unplanned Pregnancy Leads to Relationship

Canon-Specific DNW: Please avoid having Odo cheat on Kira. Please either have them having broken up or for them to never have got together at all. For fics set a long-time post-canon, her having died is fine too.

There’s also a moment in A Time to Stand when Weyoun 5, gloriously insincere arsehole that he is, talks about the habitat ring echoing with the sound of happy children, but this is a man who’d knowing preside over wiping out the population of entire planets, and of course presumably the Vorta don’t have children in the usual way or childhoods, and that’s probably something else the Dominion have taken away from them. It’s pure nightmare fuel. Plus the story Weyoun 6 tells Odo about the origins of his people, which Odo seems to take it as kindness when actually what the Founders did was at the very least mass enslavement, and possibly even something akin to genocide.

Optional Prompts

DS9: Post-canon attempt to return the Vorta to sexual reproduction; first non-clone baby born - With Weyoun and Odo being at the heart of the attempt.
A canon-divergent fic where Weyoun 6 survives to defect to the Federation, exploring how their relationship goes after the war is over.
DS9: Protecting a baby Changeling - Whether it's a canon-divergent AU where the canonical baby Changeling turns up while the station is in the hands of the Dominion and Weyoun is involved with Odo's attempts, or an entirely different baby Changeling. Perhaps Odo is desperate not to let this one die too, or they're being hunted by a faction who wants the baby dead. (If you're writing about the canonical baby changeling then it's fine to follow canon and have it die)
Complicated emotions at being pregnant with a baby character believes is a god - somehow Weyoun ends up knocked up, whether it's some kind of handwavy transporter accident type accident, or the result of a sex pollen incident necessary to save Odo's life and neither of them realised Weyoun could get pregnant that way. Is there some kind of side effect from the pregnancy which leaves Weyoun with some degree of shapeshifting powers, or the ability to link with the baby, which is amazing but also very uncomfortable because he's just a Vorta.
Cloning Accident result in creating a baby - The real reason Weyoun 6 tried to defect. :D Is it a wholly new person or just a baby version of Weyoun, and what are the implications of it not being going through the full cloning process?
character that thought they had zero parenting instincts goes into hardcore protective mode - I love Weyoun as a villain at least partly because of how very... unintimidating he is in a lot of ways. He's small and slight and vulnerable and he keeps dying, and I'm really drawn to this prompt both for him embracing his violent side in the interests of protecting a baby and for the potential to explore his character because I’ll always love a character study.

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Thanks for reading!

Smut4Smut 2023 Letter

AO3 Username: StopTalkingAtMe

Welcome to my letter, Mystery Creator. Let me start by saying I’m open to a LOT of different things, and to endings of all kinds from tooth-rottingly happy to bleak despair. I’m also open to unrequested crossovers, so as long as you have good reason to believe I’m into a fandom, then go for it. And while my general likes might lean towards the bleak and angsty, believe it or not, I do also really love more light-hearted styles of fic as well as pure unadulterated smut. Some of the sections here may be longer than others but please don’t read anything into that – I’d be delighted with a gift for any one of them. I’m excited to see what you come up with! :D Do whatever you want with my prompts: they’re just there to give you some ideas of the sort of thing I like. Use them as springboards, or subvert them, or ignore them completely and go off my general and smut likes if you prefer.

General Likes
Smut Likes
DNWs
Doctor Mordrid
The Evil Clergyman (2012)
From Beyond
House on Haunted Hill (1999)
The Professionals
Re-Animator
Star Trek: Deep Space Nine
Star Trek: Lower Decks

General Likes and DNWs

General Likes

Character studies and introspection
Loneliness and isolation
Angst
Atmospheric description, scenery porn, sensory description
World-building, backstory, and character development.
Horror.
Closed Circle - Stranded with a murderer in your midst, whether in horror or murder mystery. Think And Then There Were None.
Case-fic, whether fully realised or just touching on elements from a case.
Whump, hurt/comfort and hurt/no comfort.
Endings of all kinds, happy, bleak or bittersweet.
Canon-divergent AUs, especially post-canon ones where the bad guys win.
Pining, whether mutual or one-sided
Repression and stoicism
Descriptions of scars
Main Character Death and grief; characters getting together while still grieving for previous partners, taking solace in each other, the dead character still seeming like a presence in the relationship, etc. (Please note the exception for Whisky Galore!)
Crossovers, especially oddball crossovers that come completely out of left field, although I do tend to prefer crack played straight rather than outright crack. If you have reason to believe I know and like the other fandom, then I encourage you to go for it.
Post-Apocalypse scenarios, including zombies (probably my favourite AU scenario of all time), with focus on angst and the struggle for survival.
Stranded Together With No Way Home, us against the world, deep mutual dependence on the other party because there’s no one else around (which may not be entirely healthy)
Time Loops
Older characters finding love.
Age gap relationships
I really love historical detail and extensive research notes, so if that’s what you’re into then feel free to go wild. (If that’s not your thing, then please don’t worry: I am in no way an expert, and I love tropey indulgent stuff and cheerfully anachronistic fics just as much).
Hair kink. Hands pushed into hair, coiling it around fingers, routinely cutting another character's hair if appropriate in context (e.g. in post-apocalyptic scenarios), hairwashing as part of hurt/comfort, yanking head back by the hair, etc
Textiles, especially knitwear and embroidery; men in jumpers; historical and cultural details and craft in general
Unusual structures and ways of telling a story, such as Rashomon plots, non-linear narratives, outsider POVs, epistolary works, etc.
Cigarette kink: descriptions of smoking, sharing cigarettes, lighting cigarettes for each other, etc.
Finally, and I cannot emphasise this enough, men in sleepwear, particularly pyjamas and dressing gowns.

Smut Likes

Sex Pollen and aftermath, and any other kind of something made them do it scenario
Angry Sex, rough sex, hate sex, rough sex that turns tender
Clothed Sex, or clothed/naked
Comfort Sex
Dubcon when requested (mutual dubcon of the something-made-us-do-it kind is ALWAYS okay even when not explicitly requested)
Mild bondage and other forms of gentle restraint
Oral Sex, especially cunnilingus in all its forms, and ESPECIALLY cunnilingus with fingering
Rough Sex - Lots of Scratching and Biting and Hair-Grabbing/Pulling and Holding Partner(s) Down
Sex in grimy, grim, uncomfortable places
Threesomes
Situations where one character is too tired, injured etc to orgasm themselves, but takes great pleasure in making the other person come, so long as it's part of a wider give-take relationship when it comes to sex.

DNWs

A/B/O
Unreqested Noncon (Bad Guys Made Them Do It scenarios are fine though)
Dubcon involving unaroused characters
Unrequested Incest
Bestiality (monsters don't count here)
Scat and waterplay
Formalised D/s dynamics (bondage and other forms of restraint are OK)
Underage
Het anal sex
Breathplay (antagonistic choking is fine)
Fisting
Sexualised lactation
Any variation of the word 'come' in a sexual context spelled as 'cum' (please use 'come', 'came', 'precome' etc)

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Doctor Mordrid

Requested Ships:

Requested Freeforms:
Bad Guys Made Them Do It, Characters mutually pining finally get together and have amazing sex, Comfort Sex, Cunnilingus - Character Can’t Stop Touching Themselves While Performing Cunnilingus, Cunnilingus - Receiver Grabs/Pulls Giver's Hair, Experience - Experienced Partner Lets Inexperienced One Explore Them, Hand and Finger Kink, Lazy Sex, Making Love, Morning After (Incredible Sex the night before), Mutual Pining, Playful Sex, "Thank God You're/We're Alive" Sex, Touch-Starved, Touch-starved character overwhelmed from seemingly innocent touches, Undercover Work Used As Excuse To Have Sex They've Always Wanted, Undercover - Sex to Maintain Cover Identity

One of the reviews I read of this film somewhere said that it felt like the pilot for a TV show, and YES, that is exactly what it feels like. Somewhere there is a parallel universe in which this was a pilot, and went on to spawn several seasons worth of a supernatural police procedural show in which Jeffrey Combs plays a hot, sad, lonely wizard who lives in a gorgeous apartment and uses his background in criminal psychology (and, y’know, being an actual literal wizard) to help his cop neighbour Sam solve a series of cult-related weird-as-shit crimes. There is plenty of UST, a will-they-won’t-they relationship, Kabal is an ongoing antagonist, and occasionally Anton wears a cape. I want to live in that universe. Failing that, I would like fics from that multiverse.

There’s so much I love about it: the worldbuilding and how much there is to explore, the sheer lack of human contact of Anton’s life before he really starts getting to know Sam hits me in a very tender spot: he’s so quiet and sad and lonely, and it gets me right in the heart. D:

I just want to see something that follows on from the end of the movie. What happens after he returns and is he sticking around? And while I was semi-joking about wanting fics from the alternative universe, I really, really do love the idea of them working together from now on. Alternatively, expand on the events in the film, because there’s no way what happened was enough to kill Kabal. I'd especially love something tender and sweet for these two, or, if you go with something darker like a Bad Guys Made Them Do It fic (which: YES PLEASE. I always love Something Made Them Do It scenarios with their potential for angst and guilt, as well as them providing a catalyst for a get-together), something with lots of mutual support and hurt/comfort.

Optional Prompts

Morning After (Incredible Sex the night before) - So it's finally happened after however many weeks or months of pining, they've finally fallen into bed together. I'd love to see the aftermath, the satisfaction that comes from finally getting together with the person you're in love with.
Hand and Finger Kink - Because I find the bit where he casually breaks out of the handcuffs while they're in the police interview room hot as fuck.
Undercover Work Used As Excuse To Have Sex They've Always Wanted -- While investigating a cult, they have to go undercover as a couple.
Anton teaches Sam how to use magic. Take this whatever way you want. Maybe something goes wrong (a tentacle monster with designs on making them do it?) or maybe it’s just an opportunity for lots of flirting, casual touching, and sexual tension.
Time Travel - Sam travels back to another time period and needs to work with Anton's younger self. Is she already together with present day Anton, or is this somehow the catalyst for getting them together? Or, potentially, the opportunity for a selfcest threesome?
For plot reasons, Anton has to fake being evil. Or perhaps he’s been mind-controlled by Kabal into being evil, but somehow Sam manages to get him to break the mind control, but he has to maintain it for a little while longer.
Loneliness is such a can’t fail trope for me. Having resigned himself to a lonely existence, Anton has to adapt to finding intimacy with Sam.
Experience - Experienced Partner Lets Inexperienced One Explore Them – I mean, he’s spent the past century and a half avoiding so much as talking to his neighbours, let alone dating.
Feeling your feelings in a quiet moment with a much older/immortal being – something quiet and sweet and tender, exploring the strangeness of being in a relationship with someone so much older.
A casefic where Sam and Anton investigate a Lovecraftian Cult.
Villain tries to draw out hero's dark side (that they say they know is there) – Because I can’t help thinking that when Anton was telling Sam about his backstory that he wasn’t being entirely candid. Especially when he was positioning himself as kind and good in comparison to Kabal being evil. I can’t help but think that there’s an undercurrent of bitterness there. So what if he had once been tempted to work with Kabal, perhaps before he realised how thoroughly evil Kabal was? (And for the record I’m completely here for past Anton/Kabal).

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The Evil Clergyman (2012)

Requested Ships:
Jonathan/Mrs Brady
Requested Freeforms:
Body Worship, Bodysharing - two people in one body fucking a third party together, Bondage - with soft luxurious fabric, Corrupting good character with sex, corruption of innocence, Cunnilingus - Character Can’t Stop Touching Themselves While Performing Cunnilingus, Cunnilingus - Receiver Grabs/Pulls Giver's Hair, Cunnilingus While Standing With Legs Supported by Partner's Arms, Dreamsharing - Sex Dream, Ghost Sex, Ghost Watches Someone Fuck Their Corpse Back To Life, Receiving cunnilingus while restrained, Religion - Altar Sex, Ritual Sex to Resurrect the Dead, sexual hallucinations

Fandom-specific DNW: Mrs Brady being entirely dead post-canon. Her coming back as a ghost or still inhabiting her body are both fine – I just don’t want her to be gone completely.

Note: Apparently her name is meant to be ‘Said Brady’. I’m not sure where that comes from as details are scanty. Stick with that if you want, or leave her unnamed, or change it if you prefer.

What a weird fucked-up little film this is. :D The image quality is not great, unfortunately – the footage was lost for 25 years and had to be reconstructed, and while it does get somewhat overwrought (every time I watch it I can’t help cracking up at David Warner’s first appearance), it’s only about 30 minutes long and the sex scene is hot as fuck. It can be found on DVD and on Amazon Prime, but I stumbled across it as an extra on my Castle Freak blu-ray.

It is an absurd piece of Gothic melodrama, with some very creepy bits, and some even filthier bits, and it left me wondering what the fuck I just watched, but most of all I very much appreciate the way it runs on the Rule of HORNY. Everyone in this is horny for Jonathan, and that’s something I can wholly get behind. :D Yes, even his voyeuristic housekeeper (she didn’t have to listen at the door, ~~but she did anyway.~~). Yes, even his Brown Jenkin-esque familiar, the oversized rat with a human face played by David Gale (They actually kiss!). The bishop miiiight be an exception, but I’d argue otherwise (and I’m not entirely convinced that’s really the ghost of the bishop anyway). It’s just so unabashedly filthy from start to finish, and mmph, that ending. *eyes*

The ending is a bit ambiguous. My preferred reading (mainly because I’ve been very into bodysharing lately and because it’s what personally appeals) is that she’s still in that body alongside him, with or without a soul, but I could also get into him entirely inhabiting her body and her having become the ghost, because now she’s the one who won’t let him go. His betrayal of his familiar fascinates me too – was that something he’d been planning for a while or something that happened on impulse? Has he escaped completely, or are there still demons tracking him down? Could it have be something they planned together, with her behaviour in the film a way to trick his familiar?

I’d really love something that captures the atmosphere of canon – Gothic melodrama, corruption, ghosts, and filthy, filthy sex. I’d also open to it being set in a historical time period – Regency or Victorian, say – the coyness of the language over the blow-job (given while he’s literally hanging from a noose!) and some of the dialogue generally gives it an otherworldly feeling, so setting it earlier feels like it would fit very well.

Optional Prompts

Bodysharing – All the body sharing for this one please, whether it’s the two of them fucking someone together (I presume she’s married, and oh damn, Mr Brady doesn’t know what’s about to hit him), or him giving her orders while she masturbates (or vice versa actually). I’d also love to see some exploration of how the bodysharing works: whether there’s any conflict over who is in control, and if they retain individual personalities, or if they start to merge.
sexual hallucinations – I do think the short run-time hurts it a little, with everything happening so fast, and I’d love to see an alternate take where everything is slowed down and he starts to appear more slowly, with glancing touches that she imagined at first (although that first appearance where his arms grab her from behind? So hot.). Maybe she has more access to the castle, so slow it down a bit, (or a lot), maybe with hallucinations that start a little bit more ambiguous at first, and then build, more of him fucking with her...
Body Worship – Well, with a line like ‘Your body is my religion’ what do you expect? Maybe a pre-canon thing set before his suicide, something dark and creepy and hot. Character and relationship studies are always welcome, but then again so are PWPs.
corruption of innocence – Backstory, whether it’s looking at how he got corrupted, or how he corrupted her, or a post-canon thing, where she’s still trapped in her body which he’s controlling, and he’s still seducing her, corrupting her bit by bit.
Dreamsharing - Sex Dream – That part about her wanting him to let her go intrigues me because it doesn’t quite seem to entirely fit with what happens on screen, and that makes me wonder if his ghost has been visiting her in her dreams in an attempt to get her to come to the castle.
Ritual Sex to Resurrect the Dead – A post-canon fic where they’re sharing the same body and he’s still studying black magic (more cautiously, since there’s a danger he’ll be tracked down and punished). Then he tracks down a ritual which might be able to restore his body. Is she working with him or are they in conflict, but this might be her way to be free of him?
A Regency AU – Aside from the clothing, I think this would actually fit really well with the dialogue and the styling and just the overall plot. Everything it suggests about seduction and the way he moved from parish to parish… It just feels like a story that belongs in an older time.
Bondage - with soft luxurious fabric – so, uh, that white scarf she’s wearing just before Jonathan makes his first appearance, and the way they cling onto the brass bedframe a couple of times? Um, yeah, about that...
Ghost Watches Someone Fuck Their Corpse Back To Life – This feels like an extremely appropriate freeform for this fandom. Maybe the bishop doesn't interrupt them. Is it just oral sex, or perhaps the scene in canon goes slightly differently. :D
Religion - Altar Sex – Yet another extremely appropriate freeform given the canon. Perhaps a pre-canon scene while Jonathan is still alive, or something post-canon with them sharing her body and masturbating on the altar. However you choose to do it: all the blasphemy please.

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From Beyond

Requested Ships:
Katherine McMichaels/Crawford Tillinghast
Requested Freeforms:
"I know it's still you in there" Sex, Bad Guys Made Them Do It, Bondage, Comfort Sex, Cunnilingus - Character Can’t Stop Touching Themselves While Performing Cunnilingus, Cunnilingus - Receiver Grabs/Pulls Giver's Hair, Cunnilingus While Standing With Legs Supported by Partner's Arms, Devotion Through Sex, Femdom, Injuries - Careful Sex with an Injured Partner, Morning After (Incredible Sex the night before), panic attack during sex, Power Dynamics, Receiving cunnilingus while restrained, Rough Sex to Stave Off Other Violent Urges

Note on my DNWs: My BDSM DNW is waived when it comes to Dr Pretorius.

My OTP of OTPs for this film is Crawford/Katherine, but I also ship Crawford/Katherine/Bubba, and all the permutations of fucked-up Crawford/Pretorius/Katherine. There are so many character notes that I really, really love: like Crawford taking the bed in Dr Pretorius's room, having presumably given Katherine his own bedroom because it's the gentlemanly thing to do even though it's possible to infer that some very, very unpleasant things have happened to him in Pretorius’s room. Or that moment early on where she strokes his hair tenderly and then sends him off to get an MRI while he desperately begs her not to. Their relationship is such a mix of genuinely sweet and deeply uncomfortable, and it leaves me wondering if perhaps she reminds Crawford subconsciously of Pretorius, and that's part of why he's attracted to her (and oh god that's the creepiest fucking thing). Also, hot fucking damn, that *kiss*.

And oh man, *Bubba.* I grew up watching Dawn of the Dead a lot, and it remains one of my favourite films of all time, so yep, I am extremely fond of Bubba. I’m delighted by the way he towers over the pair of them, the way he watches over and the caretaking role he takes on, and the way, when the sexual tension starts to ramp up, he admits to getting an erection. Which is to say I am very much here for Crawford/Katherine/Bubba, and I’m fascinated by how the dynamic would shake out given how intense the Crawford/Katherine relationship is. Maybe because he's older and not as damaged as Crawford (or as horny as Katherine) he sort of acts like an anchor for the two of them? I’d also love to see just about every permutation of Crawford/Pretorius/Katherine explored too, including monster-fucking.

Optional Prompts

Explore the aftermath of canon events. The more I think about that ending the more it sticks with me, how it’s a circular narrative, with Crawford beginning the film under Pretorius’s control and ending it that way too. And I’m guessing Pretorius isn’t impotent any more. It’s so bleak, the idea of him being tormented, tortured and eaten (ideally with the focus on body horror rather than vore), only to be reborn over and over again, and I would be very much here for some extremely dubiously consensual, abusive, domineering tentacle sex, and body horror.
Bondage – It sure would be a shame if those manacles went to waste.
Post-canon fic where Crawford and Katherine explore the world beyond, like the mysterious temple mentioned in the original story, and all the creatures who inhabit it. Maybe they’re more or less normal, maybe they’re changing into something monstrous (but that doesn’t necessarily need to be a bad thing). I especially like the dynamic of the two of them exploring together, relying on each other, having sex under whatever passes for stars, etc
Femdom – I just want Katherine to gently dom Crawford. Maybe they stumble across an overly friendly tentacle monster and after escaping from its clutches it occurs to her it could have its uses.
"I know it's still you in there" Sex – As a result of the effects of the Resonator, Crawford has changed into something monstrous and Katherine tries to bring him back through sex. (Or alternatively, it’s Katherine who’s changed and Crawford is trying to bring her back.)
A canon divergent fic where Crawford appears to have escaped the effects of the Resonator at the end, but it gradually becomes clear that although he looked normal at first, he came back wrong.
I cannot emphasise enough how here I am for Crawford having his boundaries trampled on and getting bad-touched, either by Katherine while she’s being affected by the resonator or by Dr Pretorius. I would very much like to see the relationship between Crawford and Pretorius explored, and I think there's a lot to dig into. Like the bit where he yells that Pretorius doesn't know how to give pleasure, only pain, and the question of how he'd know Pretorius was impotent because there's really no good answer to that question. Give me something where Pretorius feels up Crawford instead of (or as well as) Katherine, or where Pretorius encourages her to join in. Bad Guys Made Them Do It scenarios are especially welcome here.
Threesome - obvious third wheel still highly enjoys themself – During the early part of the film, a spontaneous threesome develops between Katherine, Crawford and Bubba, possibly induced by sex pollen or just the lingering effects of the Resonator. (With Bubba, naturally, being the third wheel, but he’s fine with that tbh.

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House on Haunted Hill

Requested Ships:
Watson Pritchett/Dr Richard B Vannacutt
Requested Freeforms:
Antagonism Leads to Sex, Bondage, Character study through porn, Clearly The Fact That We Keep Having Sex Is A Series of Unrelated Bad Decisions, Corrupting good character with sex, Desperate Arousal, Dream Sex, dub/noncon - aroused victim, Enemies to enemies who fuck, Enemies to Lovers, Falsely Gentle Threatening Touches, Ghost Sex, Hate Sex Turns Unexpectedly Tender, Hurt/Comfort where the Hurt was caused by the comforting party, Seduction to the Dark Side, Sex as Unhealthy Coping Mechanism, sexual hallucinations, Something Made Them Do It, trapped together, Twisted Display of Affection

Note on my DNWs: For Pritchett, please have him be 16 or older for direct sexual contact, but sexually arousing dreams/visions/hallucinations are fine from 13+).

Watson Pritchett/Dr Richard B Vannacutt

Not a pairing that I’d originally considered, but then a seed took root and now I can’t stop thinking about these two and what sort of dynamic they’d have. As is usually the case with my enemy ships, I ship them in just about every configuration, from anywhere on the enemy-fucking scale to something more genuine and loving, and I’m also open to something darker and dubconny, all the way up to extremely dubious consent (along the lines of ‘forced seduction’ and ‘no no yes’.).

Optional Prompts

Adolescence is tough enough as it is, without having to go through it while you're living in a haunted house that can't seem to decide whether it wants to fuck you or kill you.
Character study through porn – I’d love to see an exploration of how a sexual relationship between the two of them might work, whether it’s antagonistic (dubconny or otherwise) or otherwise. I’m intrigued by what it means to be a ghost and how much free will they have, and how Pritchett would deal with interacting with Vannacutt given the way he crapped himself when he recognised Vannacutt’s description.
Bondage – Specifically thinking of Pritchett here, the poor little bastard. Something dubconny, in which he ends up getting strapped down. XD
Evil!Pritchett – A canon-divergent fic where Pritchett isn’t so resistant to the house. How would that affect canon?
Dream Sex – Vannacutt enters Pritchett’s dreams, whether pre-, during, or post-canon.
Time Travel Fix-It – Pritchett travels back in time, and finds himself caught up in events at the asylum and interacting with Dr Vannacutt before things really go to hell. Can he potentially change the way events pan out? (The actual fix-it is optional here)
Explore what the hell was going on with that chair. Was Vannacutt listening to the Darkness, or was it potentially a seduction/sex thing?
Seduction to the Dark Side – The House attempts to seduce Pritchett over to the Dark Side by way of Dr Vannacutt. Does it succeed? Or alternatively, does the opposite happen, with Pritchett potentially causing Vannacutt to go through something of a redemption arc?
Something Made Them Do It – Possibly smoke-tentacles, idk. Either way the House wants them to fuck.
Enemies to enemies who fuck and Enemies to Lovers – Basically anything on the enemy-fucking scale. How does it come about? How does it work?
Hurt/Comfort where the Hurt was caused by the comforting party – After torturing, or otherwise somehow injuring Pritchett, Dr Vannacutt fixes him up again. Is it just the prelude to more torture, or the first signs of a growing humanity? Either way, Pritchett is probably traumatised and terrified but also desperately grateful for the respite and the care.
Sex as Unhealthy Coping Mechanism – Once Pritchett is a ghost, maybe Vannacutt isn’t an immediate threat to him. Maybe they find moments of common ground between them which leads to a sexual relationship, which is probably a terrible, terrible idea, but fuck it, Pritchett’s already dead so what’s the worst that can happen, and since he didn’t manage to get himself laid before he died, this is the next best thing.
Twisted Display of Affection – So somehow, against all the odds, Pritchett and Vannacutt manage to find a way to co-exist somehow (whether or not Pritchett’s entirely comfortable with the idea.). How does Vannacutt show his affection?

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The Professionals

Requested Ships:
William Bodie/Ray Doyle
Requested Freeforms:
Bad Guys Made Them Do It, Bodysharing - one of them commenting/giving orders while the other jerks off, Character A and Character B Mutually Pine For Each Other While They Fuck Other People Together, Sparring or Fighting as Foreplay, First time having consensual sex post-Fuck or Die, Forced to have sex to keep their cover, Friends With Benefits, Friends With Benefits "Make Love" for the First Time, Injuries - Careful Sex with an Injured Partner, Injuries - Character With Injured Hands Requires Assistance Which Turns Sexual, Morning After (Incredible Sex the night before), Mutual Pining, Playfully wrestling for dominance, Post-Torture Sex as Coping Mechanism, sex under the stars, Sex While Covered In The Blood of Their Enemies

I’d also like to make it clear that I am extremely here for Bad Guys Made Them Do It. I’m also open to noncon scenarios involving noncon by a third party, whether on or off-screen, for the purposes of hurt/comfort or whumpy hurt/no comfort scenarios because they’re too damn stoic to talk about it and must suffer in silence like the emotionally constipated blokes they are (and my Dubcon with Unaroused Victims DNW doesn’t apply here).

Explore the mutual codependence that comes as a result of working in close confines in a way that may not be entirely healthy, the tedium of surveillance, working and training together, working late and falling asleep at your desk, actively threatening to murder a suspect if anything happens to your partner… Anything goes here from explicit smut to mutual pining, and including canon-style relationships with women is fine too. Maybe they come to the realisation that while women come and go, their relationship remains immutable. They also sure do seem to get shot/beaten up on the reg, and look very pretty doing it, *especially* Doyle, so if you wanted to go hard on the whump… I absolutely love all the moments of character interaction, the bonding moments in Mixed Doubles and that bit where Bodie interrupts Doyle’s brooding session by just sitting there and looking at him? Yeah…

Optional Prompts

Bonding in captivity – whether as a result of trauma and torture, or being imprisoned together somewhere dark and claustrophobic.
If they do get together, how does it happen? How do they come to realise they have feelings for the other? When it starts is it just about sex, or is the sexual attraction develop out of a result of their bond?
The bit in Stake Out where Bodie flung himself across a bowling alley to manhandle Doyle to the floor to stop him from kicking off at an aggressive member of the public, including hooking his leg over Doyle's in the process, did things to me. More undercover stuff please, with them both trying to keep a low profile, and having to rely on the other one to rein them in. Additional manhandling is optional, but very much appreciated.
Casual Sex while Secretly Pining Neither character thinks the other has any genuine feelings, or maybe the sex is just something that keeps happening without either of them ever intending it to.
A zombie apocalypse AU, or some other apocalyptic scenario. Always and forever one of my favourite tropes. Or alternatively, if you’re familiar with it, a crossover with Survivors, even if it only uses the other series as a backdrop for desperate ‘us against the crumbling world’ sex.
Character A confesses feelings because they think Character B is unconscious - Man, the awkwardness and painful aftermath, the self-doubt and the questioning – did they mishear? Should they say anything, or would it be better to pretend they didn’t hear?
While working undercover, one half of the couple is forced to torture the other to maintain their cover.
Country House Party – Weird time-slip where they find themselves in an interwar house party that ended in murder. Ghosts? Inexplicable events that are never explained beyond handwavy nonsense? A Sapphire & Steel crossover? Or is this just an excuse to get them into period dress?
Character A and Character B Mutually Pine For Each Other While They Fuck Other People Together -- Ohhh yeah. :D The drunken aftermath of a double date turns orgiastic, or else one of the lads has been stood up or had an argument with his girlfriend, and the other's girlfriend insists he join them to cheer him up. Or maybe it’s something they do on the reg, only the veneer of plausible deniability is growing more tattered by the day.
Bodysharing - one of them commenting/giving orders while the other jerks off -- Ahaha, <3. I love this tag so much.
sex under the stars – Ohhh, I love this tag: the romanticism of sex outdoors, the setting and potential for scenery porn, the low-level risk of semi-public sex, and the suggestion that they’re so turned on they can’t keep their hands off each other. How does it come about? Are they camping for plot reasons, on a stake-out, stranded in nature for some reason?
Morning After (Incredible Sex the night before) – I would really love an exploration of the aftermath. Maybe they were drunk, maybe it wasn’t supposed to mean anything. Is everything fine or is everything incredibly awkward?

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Re-Animator

Requested Ship:
Herbert West/Dan Cain
Requested Freeforms:
Bad Guys Made Them Do It, Bodysharing - one of them commenting/giving orders while the other jerks off, Character study through porn, Devotion Through Sex, Hurt/Comfort Sex, Injuries - Careful Sex with an Injured Partner, Injuries - Character With Injured Hands Requires Assistance Which Turns Sexual, Loyalty Kink - Risking Self For Someone, Ghost Sex, Dubcon - Both Suffer from Memory Loss, Possessive Sex, Mutual Pining, Sex is Required to Keep Resurrected Character Alive, Threesome - F/M/M

Canon-specific DNW: Please pretend that the scenes of sexual violence against women in Beyond Re-Animator never happened. References to the Meg/Hill scene in the first film are fine though, and I’m also fine with noncon by a third party where Herbert is the victim.

I’d love anything that goes hard on the hurt/comfort and mutual protectiveness between Herbert and Dan, or anything that captures the tone and bonkers exuberance, gore, humour and horror of the films. Maybe something that explores what happens in between the films, especially between the first and second films, because damn, are there some unanswered questions there – like how did Meg’s heart come to be outside of her body (just the result of the autopsy and if so, why is it just her heart?), and how the hell did Herbert manage to persuade Dan to go to Peru with him? And any of the reunions where an apparently dead Herbert pops up again. I also cannot emphasise enough how here I am for Herbert getting menaced and/or whumped.

Optional Prompts

Hurt/Comfort Sex – Hurt/Comfort is always welcome. Maybe one of them is injured, or perhaps Dan is using sex to distract Herbert from his addiction to the reagent.
Herbert goes in search of Dan after the end of Beyond Reanimator. Is he planning on revenge (even if he ultimately can’t face going through with it?) Does something else happen as a catalyst that forces them to work together again? I’d love to see all the messy hurt/comfort and emotional fallout of everything that happened.
Threesome – F/M/M – An AU where the creation of the Bride is much more successful, and she isn’t quite so much of a monster. Mainly because I’m really curious what the hell Herbert actually had in mind beyond keeping Dan with him at all costs. (I’m also open to Dan/Herbert/Meg and Dan/Herbert/Francesca if you can figure out a way that would come about. Just a one-night stand or something more lasting?)
A post-apocalyptic road trip after the end of the world – Any post-apocalypse scenario will do, but I am particularly fond of a zombie apocalypse, which seems particularly apt for this canon. Was it Herbert’s fault, or was he entirely innocent for once? Where are they going? What’s the plan? And how does the reagent factor into things?
Bodysharing - one of them commenting/giving orders while the other jerks off –
Ghost Sex -- Having watched American Werewolf in London fairly recently, I can’t help but imagine that sort of set-up (sans werewolf) between Dan and Herbert, with Herbert as the ghost and pretty fucking pissed off about it.
Sex is Required to Keep Resurrected Character Alive – God knows how they find this out, but handwavy porn logic is fine by me. XD Does it start with them trying to keep it detached only for them both to catch feelings?

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Star Trek: Deep Space Nine

Quark/Brunt & Quark/Brunt/Natima Lang

Requested Freeforms:
Accidental marriage between requested characters must be consummated to avert a war, Bad Guys Made Them Do It, Character study through porn, Clandestine "we shouldn't be doing this" sex, Clearly The Fact That We Keep Having Sex Is A Series of Unrelated Bad Decisions, Clothing - Naked Male Clothed Female, Competitiveness in Bed, Dubcon - Both Suffer from Memory Loss, fleeting moment of unexpected tenderness in the midst of hate sex, Frenemies with Benefits, Frenemies With Benefits "Make Love" for the First Time, Hate Sex, Hate Sex Turns Unexpectedly Tender, Jealousy leads to possessive sex, Polyamory, Power Dynamics, Reluctant attraction - sexual attraction to someone they (should) dislike, Rivals to Lovers, Threesome - F/M/M

Quark and Brunt had my enemy-shipping heart right from the moment Brunt got his Nausicaan goons to beat Quark half to death. *hearteyes* They are so, so shippy I can’t even: from how ridiculously unsubtle the show was about the subtext at the end of Ferengi Love Songs, to the air-kiss Quark blows him in Profit and Lace, to basically everything that happens between them in Body Parts. Brunt spending a small fortune purely to fuck Quark over, turning up in his quarters and reclining on Quark’s couch as he talks gleefully about his plans planning on defiling Quark’s remains (and that moment of ‘what do I do with my hands?!’ panic when Quark suddenly moves closer to him?)… yeah, um, that… that right there is a Ferengi who might just be up for some contract renegotiation.

Add Natima Lang into the mix, and ooooh boy. The dynamics of that fascinate me, particularly with a potential established relationship between Quark and Brunt. How the hell would Brunt of all people react to learning that Quark was willing to abandon everything to run off with a female? Would he be horrified, or secretly be seething with jealousy because he believes, rightly or wrongly, that Quark wouldn’t be willing to do that in a million years?

It’s fascinating how much the relationship between Quark and Brunt shifts throughout the series, going from entirely antagonistic to some degree of them being willing to work together even though Brunt’s ultimately always out for himself. There’s actually a lot of common ground between them – compared to just about everyone else in his family Quark’s a traditional Ferengi (or at least he wishes he was a traditional Ferengi), and it’s probably only because of his very non-traditional mother (Ishka, you glorious creature, you <3<3<3) that they end up at odds. I’m fascinated by the question of what makes a good Ferengi, and by Quark, who despite his first appearances as an amoral little schemer actually has a pretty strong moral code, and I found their reactions to the changes on Ferenginar in The Dogs of War, with Quark being outraged and Brunt much more pragmatic, pretty damn interesting, given how very, very bound to tradition Brunt’s been throughout the series. Granted he’s seen the changes first hand, and is trying to suck up to and manipulate Quark, but still… (and as an aside, that bit when he drops to his knees and kisses Quark’s hand? *eyes*)

I’d love to see anything from any moment of their relationship, from the early days when Brunt is so obsessed by (and horny for) Quark that he’s willing to do virtually anything to destroy him, to later when Brunt is more focused on his own gain and becoming Grand Nagus himself, to a post-canon fic which focuses on how their relationship might develop after the end of the series and the massive sweeping changes on Ferenginar. Similarly, tone-wise I’d be delighted with anything from hate-fucking to something more genuine, and anything on the enemies-to-lovers to enemies-to-enemies-who-fuck scale.

It’s also fine to write about their mirror universe counterparts instead (including Natima Lang), whether the story is focused on the actual mirror universe versions (and canon-divergent AUs are always welcome, btw), or something that involves pining while fucking the mirror-universe counterpart of the object of your affections, or a selfcest threesome (We barely saw Mirror!Quark, but Mirror!Brunt is such a sweetheart and I just want him to have nice things. D:). I also really, really love the look of (male) Ferengi clothing, so if you want to go all-out on clothing porn, then please do, as well as exploring any avenues of clothed or clothed/unclothed sex you might want to go down.

Optional Prompts

Clandestine "we shouldn't be doing this" sex – Because I am so here for the two of them having a secret relationship on the downlow, and maybe they keep telling themselves it’s just about sex and it doesn’t mean anything, but actually...
Accidental marriage between requested characters must be consummated to avert a war – When they’re on an alien planet negotiating a contract, they accidentally wind up married (maybe because in that planet’s laws rivalry is considered a sign of great regard), and this cannot stand. Turns out getting it annulled is a little trickier than first envisioned, and in the meantime...
Hate Sex – I am so, so here for the two of them hatefucking, and for moments of unexpected tenderness in the middle of the hatefucking, and for hate sex where they gradually start to develop feelings.
A relationship study that looks at how things might develop between the two of them after the end of the series, with neither of them entirely happy about the changes on Ferenginar.
Maybe Brunt keeps finding reasons to return to Deep Space Nice to make Quark’s life a misery, and Quark does everything he can to irritate Brunt, and neither of the two of them wants to admit that actually they’re sort of starting to enjoy each other’s company, while as far as everyone else is concerned they’re already basically together.
Polyamory or Threesome – F/M/M – A post-canon fic with an established relationship between Quark and Brunt. They’re… sort of settled. Almost happy. And then, like a hand grenade tossed into the middle of their relationship, Quark’s old lover Natima Lang comes back. Somehow Brunt finds out what happened between them and is torn between horrified disgust at Quark being willing to abandon everything to run off with her and seething jealousy because he thinks, rightly or wrongly, that Quark wouldn't do that for HIM in a million years. Maybe Quark and Natima have both moved on with no lingering feelings other than a faint poignant ‘what might have been’, or maybe they’re still as in love with each other as ever and the only way to resolve this is with Quark/Natima/Brunt.
Having met by chance with an oddly familiar stranger in a bar who shares his animosity for Quark, Brunt obtains a copy of a unique holosuite program involving Major Kira with Quark’s head in return for a discounted price and the promise to use it to destroy Quark. Which would be easier to do if he could just stop thinking about how it would be better with Quark’s head on Quark’s body. To facilitate Getting Revenge, obviously. (And just as soon as he figures out why the hell Quark would make the program so damn good at oo-mox if it was written for a non-Ferengi).
So, um, those scenes in The Dogs of War when Brunt is sucking up to Quark because they both think Zek is going to appoint him the next Grand Nagus? He’d be remiss if he forgot Rule 113 of the Rules of Acquisition: Always have sex with the boss.
Clothing - Naked Male Clothed Female – This freeform just utterly delights me, because of how subversive it would be in Ferengi culture and how horrified/confused/horny Brunt would be about it. XD

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Brunt/Mirror Ezri Dax & Mirror Ezri Dax/Brunt/Mirror Brunt

Requested Freeforms:
Bad Guys Made Them Do It, Clothing - Naked Male Clothed Female, Competence Kink, Competitiveness in Bed, Cunnilingus - Character Can’t Stop Touching Themselves While Performing Cunnilingus, Cunnilingus - Licking Someone’s Clit as They Ride Someone Else’s Dick/Strapon, Femdom, Jealousy - Sex to Make Someone Jealous, Identity Porn, Jealousy leads to possessive sex, Power Dynamics, Threesome – F/M/M, Identity Porn

Man, Mirror!Brunt is such a sweetheart. Pottering around the ship preparing tube grubs for everyone! Honourable and decent and loyal! Quietly and respectfully pining for Mirror!Ezri, knowing that his feelings will probably never be reciprocated, and being a little bit sad about that, but it doesn’t matter because he values her friendship and their partnership above everything else!

And then there’s Brunt. XD

And while this should go without saying, canon divergent fics are very welcome here. The poor Ferengis never seem to get much of a chance in the Mirror universe. (I’m also curious what Ferenginar is actually like there).

Optional Prompts

Femdom – Because if there’s ever been a character who very definitely needs to get dommed by a female, it is Brunt.
Clothing - Naked Male Clothed Female – Niiice. I just love this freeform so, so much when it comes to Brunt (especially if combined with femdom). He would just hate it so fucking much. It’s disgusting. It’s depraved. So why the hell does he find it so fucking hot? *hearteyes*
Identity Porn – Brunt has to pose as his Mirror counterpart and work with Mirror!Ezri, leading to a sex scene in which for kink reasons he ends up having sex with her while still in the Mirror!Brunt persona.
A threesome in which Ezri and Brunt edge Mirror!Brunt until he’s a sobbing desperate mess. Look, I just want him to have nice things okay?
Accidental Baby Acquisition – I am a sucker for certain tropes and one of those tropes that will forever get me is when people who under normal circumstances have no business looking after babies get stuck looking after a baby. If Mirror!Brunt is around, maybe the plan was that he’d be the one looking after the kid, but due to something going wrong, he and Brunt have to trade places and pretend to be each other. (And since this is Smut4Smut maybe lack of sleep and/or being forced to share a room because the baby’s got the other one leads to desperate sex)
Competence Kink - Whether they’re rivals or allies, I just love the idea of Brunt and Mirror!Ezri being secretly impressed and turned on by how good the other one is at lying, cheating and stealing. Lets just say Brunt probably has more in common with Mirror!Ezri than his counterpart does.
Since his death, Ezri has been seeing Mirror!Brunt's ghost. Maybe it’s some kind of hallucination from a space anomaly, or maybe she’s just imagining him, or maybe he really is a ghost, or maybe he’s the result of a malfunctioning portable holoprojector (which she hasn’t fixed because she kind of misses him and it’s nice having him around). but either way she’s gradually beginning to accept she might have had feelings for him after all. Then she meets Brunt.
proxy-fucking – Mirror!Ezri fucking Brunt as a way of processing the grief she feels about Mirror!Brunt’s death.

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Solo: Weyoun

Requested Freeforms:
Bad Guys Made Them Do It, Character study through porn, Dubcon Due to Eagerness to Please, Dubcon/noncon - victim offers to take noncon in place of another, Dubiously Consensual Loyalty Kink, Eager Submission, Hate Sex, Kneeling, Masturbation, Masturbation - Character's masturbation is guided/instructed by another, Masturbation - Masturbating but can't come, Power Dynamics, Religion - Sex With Character's God, Selfcest - Seduced by alternate version of self, First Time - Has Never Been Aroused Before

Fandom-specific DNW: For Odo/Weyoun, please avoid having Odo cheat on Kira, by either having them be broken up or never having got together in the first place.

I’m still working my way through the series (currently about halfway through season 6), but I’ve seen most of it before and know more or less what happens, so please don’t worry about spoilers, and bear with me if my prompts aren’t brilliant or overlook canon details later in the series. (I skipped ahead to watch the Brunt episodes, but aside from Faith, Treachery and the Great River, I wanted to watch the bulk of the Dominion plotline in order).

I just could not resist requesting this. I find the set-up of the Dominion fascinating, and the Vorta in particular: just the sheer casual cruelty of the Founders engineering them to have no sense of taste or aesthetics – it all feels so deliberately designed to make them lesser (because Changelings don’t eat, and only they get to have a sense of art and beauty). Then there’s the whole engineering them to believe the Founders are gods, just straight-up hardwiring it into their systems, and them knowing that’s what’s been done, and not questioning it, because that’s just what gods do.

There’s also a moment in A Time to Stand when Weyoun 5, gloriously insincere arsehole that he is, talks about the habitat ring echoing with the sound of happy children, but of course presumably the Vorta don’t have children in the usual way or childhoods, and nor do the Jem’Hadar, or the Changelings, and that’s probably something else the Dominion have taken away from them. It’s pure nightmare fuel. Plus the story Weyoun 6 tells Odo about the origins of his people, which is so clearly bullshit, and yet Odo seems to take it as kindness, when actually what the Founders did was at the very least mass enslavement, and possibly even something akin to genocide.

I would really love something exploring worldbuilding, and particularly the question of Vorta sexuality. Are they sexual beings, or is sexuality something else the Founders decided wasn’t something they needed to have? Weyoun seems to take so much joy in the few pleasures that he is able to have, like playing games and the pleasure he takes in the textures of food. I can see that curiosity and joy in the little things extending to sex. Even if he is asexual, maybe there are aspects of it he’s still able to enjoy or which he’s curious about, and perhaps another glimpse of some awareness of what could have been, like his wishing he could carry a tune, and then dismissing it because ‘oh well, Founders know best. :D’ (D:) He certainly doesn’t have to be asexual though; perhaps the Vorta do have sexual urges (but perhaps have been created sterile?).

Go with any Weyoun you want, whether past, present, or future. In the relaunch novels, Odo creates a ninth clone to act as his aide, and while I’m not otherwise tied to the canon of the relaunch novels, as far as I’m concerned, Odo bringing Weyoun back absolutely happened, and that is a hill I will die on. :D My personal headcanon, which almost certainly contradicts *everything*, is that ultimately there is an attempt to reverse what was done to the Vorta, trying to move them away from being clones and back to reproducing normally, and to removing the compulsion to view the Founders as gods, even if it happens a long, long way down the line.

I’ve requested a couple of masturbation tags, and I’d really love to see those explored in terms of worldbuilding of Vorta sexuality (or lack of it). I also ship him with virtually everyone. Weyoun 5’s relationship with Dukat amuses me so much: the cracks are already starting to develop in Ties of Blood and Water, but by the time the Dominion occupation of DS9 ends, I get the strong impression that Weyoun loathes him (and maybe is kind of baffled by how much he loathes him, because he’s a natural diplomat and more or less ‘likes’ (or is at least charmingly insincere and indifferent to) everyone. Everyone, that is, except Dukat. XD). Hate-fucking, dubcon, or sex pollen are particularly welcome for these two, and I’d really love to see their first meeting as well.

And then there’s the Female Changeling, and damn, that mixture of unwavering, unnatural devotion and loyalty hits so freaking hard. His absolute willingness to unquestioningly sacrifice himself, his mixture of fear at upsetting her and slavish desperation to please. One thing I really like about the character is the contrast between his insincerity with everyone else compared to the way he is when interacting with the Changelings. Maybe after she has sex with Odo on the station, she still has some questions about the nature of solid intimacy, or maybe it’s a reward for his being so loyal (or a punishment of some kind). The situation is inherently dubconny and delightfully uncomfortable, so please feel free to dig into that and explore the fucked-up uncomfortable power dynamics.

I’m not quite sure at what point Damar has his change of heart, but watching Faith, Treachery and the Great River I was absolutely drawn to this relationship with Weyoun 7 (and man, do I have some thoughts about the contrast between him and Weyoun 6), and the two of them colluding together to knowingly allow the Jem’Hadar to fire on Odo’s runabout. The aftermath of that might be pretty damn interesting to explore, and I am very much here either for Damar using his leverage somehow or about the situation drawing them together.

I have shipped Odo/Weyoun ever since Weyoun’s conversation with Odo in his first appearance (the facial expression he makes at the end!), and Weyoun 6 sacrificing himself and then dying in Odo’s arms certainly didn’t make me ship them any less. I ship them at any point, but I’m particularly drawn to how their relationship might go post-canon, especially if attempts have been made to remove the compulsion to see the Founders as gods.

Optional Prompts

Character study through porn – Whatever you go with, whether it’s Weyoun masturbating on his own, or having sex with someone else, or a situation where the person having sex is another party (some kind of surveillance related to the war, perhaps?), I would really, really love an exploration of his character.
Dubcon Due to Eagerness to Please – The Female Changeling has some further questions about solid intimacy, and engages Weyoun in an attempt to find out the answers. He is, as ever, delighted to serve the Founder in any way he can.
Weyoun offers himself up for noncon in an attempt to protect the Founder.
Future fic where attempts are being made to remove the Vortas’ inherent subservience to the Founders and their belief that they are gods. Unfortunately it’s not quite as simple as that.
A future Weyoun travels back in time and meets his past self.
Self-cest, however that comes about. Dubconny Weyoun 6/Weyoun 7 springs to mind.
Hate Sex – Dukat/Weyoun 5 and the slow degradation of their relationship gives me life, from the relatively amicable relationship at the start of when we first see them together, to the bickering and constant rivalry, to Weyoun pretty clearly imo loathing Dukat by the end. Maybe they get stranded on a planet somewhere and get hit by sex pollen. Or possibly their constant jockeying for position evolves into something sexual.
Masturbation - Character's masturbation is guided/instructed by another – Whether it’s the Female Changeling curious about Solid sexuality again, or testing his loyalty somehow, or perhaps something less dubconny in which another character attempts to guide him into developing and/or exploring his sexual drive.
Masturbation - Masturbating but can't come – Perhaps, after spending so much time in the Alpha Quadrant, he begins to grow curious about sexuality, and sets out to explore it, much like he tried to explore the question of aesthetics and Ziyal’s art. It’s up to you whether he eventually succeeds in having an orgasm or if it never quite words for him.
Religion - Sex With Character's God – Whether it’s the Female Founder or Odo or some other Changeling. The situation is inherently dubconny, so please feel free to explore that, subtly or otherwise.
Explore the aftermath of Faith, Treachery and the Great River for Weyoun 7, because his slowly coming around and willingness to justify causing Odo’s death is delicious. How does he feel about it, not only about his being willing to bring about the death of a Changeling, but also about the inevitable Sword of Damocles hanging over his head, since both Damar and Odo know and could potentially use that information against him? How does it change his relationship with Damar? Or does it bring them together?
Canon-Divergent AU where Weyoun 6 survives and Starfleet accepts the request to let Odo debrief him. Hurt/Comfort and more nightmares are especially welcome here.
A 5 Times fic which explores how the various Weyouns (whether past, present or future) experience sex and/or sexuality.

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Star Trek: Lower Decks

Requested Shipss:
AGIMUS/Peanut Hamper
Requested Freeforms:
Trust Kink, Robots/Computers - Hardware and/or Software to facilitate sex with partner is installed, Robots/Computers - Plugging Cables into Ports, Character study through porn, Non-human character who doesn't consider themselves sexual surprised to enjoy sex, Non-Sticky (Sex That Doesn't Resemble Human Sex)

Man, this series. I don't normally binge shows, but I've sped through the three seasons and now I’m feeling just the tiniest bit bereft. It’s one of those shows were I genuinely love everybody in this bar, particularly the four mains, but every single one of the supporting characters as well. Aaaaaand then there’s AGIMUS, everybody’s favourite manipulative murder computer (well, mine anyway). <3 I hadn’t planned on requesting him at all: although I adored the season 2 episode he was in, I was fine with leaving it at that, and then the season 3 episode A Mathematically Perfect Redemption happened and HOLY FUCKING SHIT.

He barely even appears in it, but the twist at the end and the set-up it provides for potential plotlines had me cackling. I just want him and Peanut Hamper to team up, escape from the Daystrom Institute, and bone in whatever way it’s possible for an evil AI and an amoral exocomp to bone. Hey, look, if she can manage to have sex with a bipedal bird alien with complicated genitalia, then these two can figure something out. Almost certainly involving prehensile cables.

And then there's those awful things they could do together, which should definitely involve them trying to take over the universe, or at least a planet. Or, alternatively, by time-travelling back to the Dominion War and fucking things up for everyone. *eyes* (FTR, I am very, very excited that canon seems to be seeding this very thing.) And yeah, okay, they’d both betray each other in a heartbeat, because they’re both terrible, but frankly that’s a feature, not a bug.

Canon isn't entirely consistent about whether it's AGIMUS or Agimus, and uses both 'he' and 'it'. In both cases, please go with whatever works best for you.

Optional Prompts

Prison break! – How does it work? How do they pull it off? Do they each try to betray the other at the last minute and then manage to escape together anyway?
Character study through porn – I’m just really drawn to the question of how they’d fit together. They’re both the wooooorst: he’s explicitly evil, she’s amoral and selfish, and I just really, really want to know how it would work between them, whether they’re constantly trying to manipulate and betray each other, or if they can actually sort of manage to make it work (give or take the odd betrayal).
Explore everyday life in the Daystrom Institute. What do those evil AIs do all day? Are they constantly scheming against each other? How often does one of them try to take over the lab? Is there a change when Peanut Hamper arrives since she’s an exocomp, and not just a computer, which means she can’t just be locked away? What’s it like to be a researcher in that lab, constantly having to deal with scheming AIs? Do they get conjugal breaks, and was
Something goes wrong which means the AIs have to work together, which is unfortunate since aside from Peanut Hamper they’re mostly useless, either scheming to outwit each other or needing to be rescued from crabs or whatever (ok, I imprinted pretty damn hard on Boimler carrying AGIMUS in a makeshift baby sling). Maybe there’s an attack on the Institute, or while being transported somewhere, the ship crashes, or there’s a holosuite malfunction which the AIs have to deal with. (Possibly involving Badgey)
Robots/Computers - Plugging Cables into Ports – Look, he’s canonically obsessed with plugging his tentacles into every socket going, so…?
It seems like there are quite a few supercomputers manipulating entire planets into being at war with each other in this series. There’s one mentioned in the first episode, and aside from AGIMUS, I’m pretty sure there’s at least one other… An omnipotent being gathers them all together and pits them against each other in a battle of the evil AIs.
Time travel to the Dominion War. I’ve already mentioned how I think canon is working towards this, and hot fucking damn do I want to see it happen. Peanut Hamper undercover as a dabo girl at Quark’s! AGIMUS interacting with Weyoun! Both of them trying to fuck things up for the Federation because that was the plan, but oh, huh, turns out there’s a lot of opportunity for manipulation and strife within the Dominion itself...
Robots/Computers - Hardware and/or Software to facilitate sex with partner is installed -- Because I'm guessing sex has tended to come somewhere at the bottom of his agenda, somewhere beneath not getting carried off by crabs and obtaining the resources to build murder drones.
Trust Kink – Okay, so he’s canonically evil, and common agenda or not, there’s got to be some trust issues involved in allowing an explicitly evil AI to plug into your port, right? I just really love the idea of them both kinking like hell on this, the ever-present threat of each of them betraying the other, and actually maybe they do, and that just makes it all the hotter.

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Thanks for reading!

Goreswap 2023 Letter

AO3 Username: StopTalkingAtMe

Welcome to my letter, Mystery Creator. Let me start by saying I’m open to a LOT of different things, to horror of all kinds, and to endings that range from tooth-rottingly happy to bleak despair. Some of the sections here may be longer than others but please don’t read anything into that – I’d be delighted with a gift for any one of them. I’m excited to see what you come up with! :D

The canons that I've requested all lend themselves to gore automatically, and if in doubt anything canon-typical will always be welcome. Do whatever you want with my prompts: they're just there to give you an idea of the sort of thing I like and the tropes I'm fond of. Use them as starting points, subvert them, or ignore them completely and go off my general likes. Whatever works for you.

Gore Likes
General Likes
Smut Likes
DNWs
From Beyond
House on Haunted Hill (1999)
Lurking Fear (1994)
Re-Animator

General Likes and DNWs

Gore Likes

Canon-typical gore and violence
Blood (whether from injuries, supernatural bleeding from the walls of a house, or vast pools of blood)
Injuries: stabbings and gunshot wounds, getting bitten, broken bones (including when the ends piece the skin), exposed viscera
Bruising and scarring
Severe beatings
Zombies and ghosts, and the accompanying horrifying descriptions
Cannibalistic monsters
Hurt/Comfort: patching up wounds, standing vigil by the bedside of a wounded loved one
Torture (from an antagonistic character), Characters being forced by an antagonist to torture their loved ones, or to maintain their cover
Charnel Houses: piles of mangled body parts, corpses, and bones
Dreams, hallucinations and other altered states: gory and horrifying images
Characters getting beaten to hell and back and still forcing themselves on even if they have to crawl over broken glass (maybe metaphorical, maybe not)
Resorting to desperate acts of violence when fighting an enemy, especially biting and using nails to claw at them, gouging or even biting eyeballs, etc, accompanied by all the sensory experiences and internalised trauma
All the horror, agony and bone-crunching trauma of TEMPORARY extreme maimings, amputation of entire limbs etc, for example in a dream/hallucination or in cases where the injury is healed somehow (e.g. in From Beyond). (‘temporary’ only applies to the requested characters -- with third parties, anything goes)
Less extreme maimings, such as the loss of a single eye or hand (gory descriptions are fine), and the character's accompanying trauma, recovery process and/or adaptation to the injury.

General Likes

Character studies and introspection
Loneliness and isolation
Angst
Atmospheric description, scenery porn, sensory description
World-building, backstory, and character development.
Horror.
Closed Circle - Stranded with a murderer in your midst, whether in horror or murder mystery. Think And Then There Were None.
Case-fic, whether fully realised or just touching on elements from a case.
Whump, hurt/comfort and hurt/no comfort.
Endings of all kinds, happy, bleak or bittersweet.
Canon-divergent AUs, especially post-canon ones where the bad guys win.
Pining, whether mutual or one-sided
Repression and stoicism
Descriptions of scars
Main Character Death and grief; characters getting together while still grieving for previous partners, taking solace in each other, the dead character still seeming like a presence in the relationship, etc.
Crossovers, especially oddball crossovers that come completely out of left field, although I do tend to prefer crack played straight rather than outright crack. If you have reason to believe I know and like the other fandom, then I encourage you to go for it.
Post-Apocalypse scenarios, including zombies (probably my favourite AU scenario of all time), with focus on angst and the struggle for survival.
Stranded Together With No Way Home, us against the world, deep mutual dependence on the other party because there’s no one else around (which may not be entirely healthy)
Time Loops
Older characters finding love.
Age gap relationships
I really love historical detail and extensive research notes, so if that’s what you’re into then feel free to go wild. (If that’s not your thing, then please don’t worry: I am in no way an expert, and I love tropey indulgent stuff and cheerfully anachronistic fics just as much).
Hair kink. Hands pushed into hair, coiling it around fingers, routinely cutting another character's hair if appropriate in context (e.g. in post-apocalyptic scenarios), hairwashing as part of hurt/comfort, yanking head back by the hair, etc
Textiles, especially knitwear and embroidery; men in jumpers; historical and cultural details and craft in general
Unusual structures and ways of telling a story, such as Rashomon plots, non-linear narratives, outsider POVs, epistolary works, etc.
Cigarette kink: descriptions of smoking, sharing cigarettes, lighting cigarettes for each other, etc.
Physically unprepossessing men uncomfortably aware of how powerless he is to protect the woman he’s with from other men, whether or not the woman can take care of herself, such as Jenna and Vila in Blake’s 7’s The Keeper! The Fifth Doctor and Peri in Caves of Androzani! (Or Dr Haggis and Cathryn in Lurking Fear.) It gets me every time.
Finally, and I cannot emphasise this enough, men in sleepwear, particularly pyjamas and dressing gowns.

Smut Likes

Sex Pollen and aftermath, and any other kind of something made them do it scenario
Angry Sex, rough sex, hate sex, rough sex that turns tender
Clothed Sex, or clothed/naked
Comfort Sex
Dubcon when requested (mutual dubcon of the something-made-us-do-it kind is ALWAYS okay even when not explicitly requested)
Mild bondage and other forms of gentle restraint
Oral Sex, especially cunnilingus in all its forms, and ESPECIALLY cunnilingus with fingering
Rough Sex - Lots of Scratching and Biting and Hair-Grabbing/Pulling and Holding Partner(s) Down
Sex in grimy, grim, uncomfortable places
Threesomes
Situations where one character is too tired, injured etc to orgasm themselves, but takes great pleasure in making the other person come, so long as it's part of a wider give-take relationship when it comes to sex.

DNWs

A/B/O
Unreqested Noncon (Bad Guys Made Them Do It scenarios are fine though)
Dubcon involving unaroused characters
Unrequested Incest
Bestiality (monsters don't count here)
Scat and waterplay
Formalised D/s dynamics (bondage and other forms of restraint are OK)
Underage
Het anal sex
Breathplay (antagonistic choking is fine)
Fisting
Sexualised lactation
Any variation of the word 'come' in a sexual context spelled as 'cum' (please use 'come', 'came', 'precome' etc)
Permanent and extreme maiming of a requested character, e.g. removal of an entire limb, or both hands, or eyes. (Less extreme maimings, such as loss of a single hand or eye, or a couple of fingers, is fine).

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From Beyond

Requested Ships:
Katherine McMichaels/Crawford Tillinghast
Requested Freeforms: Action With Gore, Angst With Gore, Eroticized Gore, Horror With Gore, Hurt/Comfort With Gore

Note on my DNWs: My BDSM DNW is waived when it comes to Dr Pretorius.

CANON-SPECIFIC GORE SUGGESTIONS:

Body horror
Monstrous transformations with all the accompanying violence and gore, bones breaking as bodies twist into different forms, skin peeling off, exposed viscera, gloop, and blood
Dr Pretorius repeatedly torturing Crawford, and/or Katherine, and able to go extreme due to them being able to heal themselves
Crawford's unfortunate phase of sucking out bits of brain through eye-sockets
The experience of being eaten alive then rebirthed. I'm more into this for the body horror rather than for vore, but feel free to go to town on the agonising pain and birthing analogies and poor Crawford suffering.
An exploration of the monsters living in the world of the Resonator, gloop and tentacles and the monsters hunting each other or Katherine and Crawford (those creatures that kill Bubba, for instance)
Descriptions of injuries and wounds and the injured party's suffering, as the non-injured party tries to patch them up, or else offers comfort. And given canon, let's assume they can heal from just about anything, so any kind of injury goes.
Dr Pretorius dubconning Crawford and/or Katherine, along the lines of the scene in canon where he gropes Katherine

My OTP of OTPs for this film is Crawford/Katherine, but I also ship Crawford/Katherine/Bubba, and all the permutations of fucked-up Crawford/Pretorius/Katherine. There are so many character notes that I really, really love: like Crawford taking the bed in Dr Pretorius's room, having presumably given Katherine his own bedroom because it's the gentlemanly thing to do even though it's possible to infer that some very, very unpleasant things have happened to him in Pretorius’s room. Or that moment early on where she strokes his hair tenderly and then sends him off to get an MRI while he desperately begs her not to. Their relationship is such a mix of genuinely sweet and deeply uncomfortable, and it leaves me wondering if perhaps she reminds Crawford subconsciously of Pretorius, and that's part of why he's attracted to her (and oh god that's the creepiest fucking thing). Also, hot fucking damn, that *kiss*.

And oh man, *Bubba.* I grew up watching Dawn of the Dead a lot, and it remains one of my favourite films of all time, so yep, I am extremely fond of Bubba. I’m delighted by the way he towers over the pair of them, the way he watches over and the caretaking role he takes on, and the way, when the sexual tension starts to ramp up, he admits to getting an erection. Which is to say I am very much here for Crawford/Katherine/Bubba, and I’m fascinated by how the dynamic would shake out given how intense the Crawford/Katherine relationship is. Maybe because he's older and not as damaged as Crawford (or as horny as Katherine) he sort of acts like an anchor for the two of them? I’d also love to see just about every permutation of Crawford/Pretorius/Katherine explored too, including monster-fucking.

Optional General Prompts

Exploration of Aftermath of Canon Events – The more I think about that ending the more it sticks with me, how it’s a circular narrative, with Crawford beginning the film under Pretorius’s control and ending it that way too. And I’m guessing Pretorius isn’t impotent any more. It’s so bleak, the idea of him being tormented, tortured and eaten (ideally with the focus on body horror rather than vore), only to be reborn over and over again, and I would be very much here for some extremely dubiously consensual, abusive, domineering tentacle sex, and body horror.
Bondage – It sure would be a shame if those manacles went to waste.
Exploring Ancient Ruins in a Lovecraftian Alternate Dimension (Monsters Optional) – Post-canon fic where Crawford and Katherine explore the world beyond, like the mysterious temple mentioned in the original story, and all the creatures who inhabit it. Maybe they’re more or less normal, maybe they’re changing into something monstrous (but that doesn’t necessarily need to be a bad thing). Anything is welcome for this prompt, from horror, worldbuilding, smut, or something much gentler and fluffier.
Femdom – I just want Katherine to gently dom Crawford. Maybe they stumble across an overly friendly tentacle monster and after escaping from its clutches it occurs to her it could have its uses.
A fix-it where Katherine sets out to rescue Crawford.
Or a canon divergent fic where Crawford appears to have escaped the effects of the Resonator at the end, but it gradually becomes clear that although he looked normal at first, he came back wrong.
I cannot emphasise enough how here I am for Crawford having his boundaries trampled on and getting bad-touched, either by Katherine while she’s being affected by the resonator or by Dr Pretorius. I would very much like to see the relationship between Crawford and Pretorius explored, and I think there's a lot to dig into. Like the bit where he yells that Pretorius doesn't know how to give pleasure, only pain, and the question of how he'd know Pretorius was impotent because there's really no good answer to that question. Give me something where Pretorius feels up Crawford instead of (or as well as) Katherine, or where Pretorius encourages her to join in. Bad Guys Made Them Do It scenarios are especially welcome here.
So how did Dr Pretorius manage to turn the Resonator back on? Does he (and Crawford after the end of the film) retain an awareness of the normal plane of existence, and some ability to manipulate it?
Obvious third wheel in spontaneous threesome still highly enjoys themselves – During the early part of the film, a spontaneous threesome develops between Katherine, Crawford and Bubba, possibly induced by sex pollen or just the lingering effects of the Resonator. (With Bubba, naturally, being the third wheel, but he’s fine with that tbh.

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House on Haunted Hill

Note on my DNWs: For Pritchett, please have him be 16 or older for direct sexual contact, but sexually arousing dreams/visions/hallucinations are fine from 13+).

CANON-SPECIFIC GORE SUGGESTIONS:

Vannacutt's charnel house.
Mutilated ghosts
Hallucinations along the lines of the ones Price sees when he's in the zoetrope. Or the operation Melissa sees through her camera.
Medical kink and descriptions of Vannacutt's fucked-up medical experiments, asylum-based horror in general, turture devices masquerading as medical devices, the zoetrope and its accompanying hallucinations
Gory descriptions of zombies and the risen dead. (There's a deleted scene where Sara falls into the cellar onto a vast pile of rubble and body parts, and is attacked by zombies.)
That vast pool of blood in the basement, where it came from, the experience of drowning in it, etc.
Eldritch architecture: including, but not limited to the agonising experience of becoming part of the house, with its fabric replacing bones and sinews, or of being dragged into the walls, or non-euclidean architecture
Pritchett being tortured by Vannacutt, knives, the experience of being autopsied while still alive
Those sculptures in the basement, coming alive or appearing to be made of freshly dead flesh

Watson Pritchett/Dr Richard B Vannacutt

Not a pairing that I’d originally considered, but then a seed took root and now I can’t stop thinking about these two and what sort of dynamic they’d have.

Optional General Prompts

This House has a Personality and that Personality is Fucked Up – And adolescence is tough enough as it is, without having to go through it while you're living in a haunted house that can't seem to decide whether it wants to fuck you or kill you.
Explore the deaths of Pritchett's father and grandfather, because it feels like there are a lot of unanswered questions there. Did the house exert any influence over them? Could Pritchett’s father have murdered his grandfather? How did his father really die?
A both hates and loves how good the sex with B is – Vannacutt/Pritchett (because the more I think about shipping them, the harder I ship them.)
Character is forced to work with someone who scares them – I’m intrigued by what it means to be a ghost and how much free will they have. Pritchett has to work with Vannacutt for reasons (especially delighted by the idea of this considering how Pritchett crapped himself when he recognised Vannacutt’s description).
So how does Pritchett manage to resist the Shadow at the end in order to free Sara and Eddie, when seemingly no one else was able to resist?
Something revolving around the stained glass ceiling, because creepy though it is is just suggest a marginally less evil side to Vannacutt and the idea of good people being corrupted by evil will always fascinate me.
Character with trauma is freaked out and turned on by getting tied up – Specifically thinking of Pritchett here, the poor little bastard. XD
Conversations In Liminal Spaces On The Border Of One World And Another – Ghost!Pritchett and ghost!Vannacutt have a conversation.
Evil!Pritchett – A canon-divergent fic where Pritchett isn’t so resistant to the house. How would that affect canon?
Entering someone's dreams/nightmares – Vannacutt and/or the Shadow enter Pritchett’s dreams, where pre-, during, or post-canon.
Time Travel Fix-It – Pritchett travels back in time to the 20s-30s, and finds himself caught up in events at the asylum. Could he potentially change the way events pan out? (The actual fix-it is optional here)
Time Travel - Character meets their child self – Ghost!Pritchett realises it’s possible to travel through time and interact with his younger self.
Vannacutt manages to escape the house. There’s a deleted scene (after the credits roll in this video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zdo8voI87LI) in which Vannacutt brings the real Jennifer Jenzen to the house, and another scene where his spot being tortured is taken by Price. Which leads me to wonder if it’s possible for him to buy his freedom, or if he’s figured out a way to outwit the house.
Explore what the hell was going on with that chair. Was Vannacutt listening to the Darkness, or was it potentially a seduction/sex thing?
Corruption Arc – Either for Vannacutt or for Pritchett. Or, conversely, a redemption arc for Vannacutt, or Vannacutt getting a redemption arc while Pritchett goes the other way. I really love the idea of the house seducing people into evil (the second film goes harder on that, and iirc explicitly states that Vannacutt wasn’t always a monster), and the question of whether someone who’s done terrible things can really be redeemed.
Eldritch Architecture – I’d love to see something that goes hard on the Lovecraftian elements in the plot, the idea of this ancient nameless evil existing even before the house was built, and of what the Darkness at the heart of the house really is.
Tentacles made them do it – Probably no surprises that I have Pritchett/Vannacutt in mind here.

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The Lurking Fear (1994)

Requested Ships:
Dr. Haggis/Cathryn Farrell
Requested Freeforms:
Action With Gore, Angst With Gore, Horror With Gore, Hurt/Comfort With Gore

Note: The full film is up on YouTube here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r7GZu2GofGM. It starts about 37 minutes in.

As far as I can remember, I don’t think his first name is mentioned at any point, but by the looks of that sign outside his surgery, it starts with an I. :D

CANON-SPECIFIC GORE SUGGESTIONS:

The creatures: cannibalism, rooms littered with bones, a charnel house of body parts
Violent attacks on the people of Leffert's Corner, bite wounds, evisceration, dragging corpses or living people through small spaces with all the resulting breaking of bones
Descriptions of wounds, whether in action, horror, or hurt/comfort, exposed viscera and bone, deep bites, plentiful blood.
Patching up wounds, standing vigil by the bedside of a severely injured loved one
Childbirth and all the resulting gore from that, particularly if something goes wrong and it becomes necessary to perform a c-section or if they're under siege from the creatures.
Thank God We're Alive Sex while covered in blood, or Fuck We're Going to Die sex in captivity or otherwise desperate circumstances
Scars, how they got them, what they look like, etc
Watching loved ones die

Optional General Prompts

Battle-couple – They just work so well together. I’d love to see some moments of them working together, because I’m so drawn to their dynamic, especially since fighting doesn’t necessarily come easily to her. Are they fighting by each other’s side, or it it a case of her fighting and him patching her up afterwards? Or him talking her through patching him up because he’s the one who got injured?
Love in the time of horror and misery – Something else I love is the whole bleak atmosphere of the virtually deserted town. Everything’s crumbling and worn down, there are holes everywhere where the creatures have burrowed through, and everything is falling apart. It’s almost post-apocalyptic, except the world is still going on around them. Show me them them falling in love, or quiet moments of tenderness, affection and loyalty in the middle of the world going to hell around them.
Alternate Universe - the big bad wins – They’ve lost and been captured by the creatures, and have nothing to do but try to escape, or trying to support and comfort each other through it, or have ‘fuck it we’re going to die’ despair sex.
Bathing/Washing - After a fight, the two of them hole up together to wash off the gore.
A 5 Times fic showing the gradual change in Leffert's Corner over time as the townsfolk gradually begin to realise something is wrong.
Character A falls asleep on B's shoulder – Their relationship has so many opportunities for moments of quiet intimacy and emotional hurt/comfort. And pining. Lots and lots of pining.
Character A has been crying and tries to hide it but B still notices it – I’m good with either one of them being the crying character here. Maybe he’s exhausted patching people up, or someone’s died despite all his best efforts, or she’s been coasting on adrenaline for too long and is finally starting to crumble. I adore their dynamic so much, and the idea of him being the only person she lets see her in a moment of weakness is the most delicious thing.
Scars – Maybe a Five Times fic cataloguing their scars (or just hers), whether they’re caused by the creatures or not.
Gently touching a character's scar(s) – As an excuse for hurt/comfort or tender emotional sex? I’m good with either. Or both.
A canon-divergent fix-it where Dr Haggis survives his injuries, which means Cathryn has to patch him up post-canon.
Cigarettes – You can probably count the number of minutes he’s without a cigarette on one hand. XD Give me all the descriptions of smoking, maybe a traumatised moment when his hand is shaking so hard he can’t light his cigarette so she has to do it for him.
Functional Alcoholic Not So Functional At The Moment – Here for the hurt/comfort of this, whether the emotional hurt/comfort of them being there for each other when they’re scared or grieving, or the physical hurt/comfort of her helping him to bed, and then maybe sticking around afterwards, and the two of them bedsharing, whether entirely platonic or otherwise. Also here for drunken confessions, or maybe him just being less able to hide the way he feels about her while he’s drunk. I love how important they clearly are to each other, but also how frustrated she is with his drinking, even while she obviously gets why he does it.
Childbirth - Because you can't have the Chekhov's Gun of a heavily pregnant woman and not have her give birth in a highly stressful set-piece, come on. So how about a canon-divergent scene where Beth, Cathryn and Haggis are beseiged down by the monsters, and at the worst possible moment, Beth goes into labour.
That line of Cathryn's: "This is what I thought the end of the world was going to look like."? What if it really was the end of the world? Give me a post-apocalyptic AU. Maybe they're dealing with a zombie apocalypse, or creatures much like the canon ones but more widespread, or they're carriers for a disease.
In that first scene with them, while they're outside his surgery, he makes a reference to them making some kind of bargain, presumably an agreement to stick around in town to kill the creatures. How did that bargain come about?

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Re-Animator

Requested Ship:
Herbert West/Dan Cain
Requested Freeforms:
Action With Gore, Angst With Gore, Horror With Gore, Humor With Gore, Hurt/Comfort With Gore

Canon-specific DNW: Please pretend that the scenes of sexual violence against women in Beyond Re-Animator never happened. References to the Meg/Hill scene in the first film are fine though, and I’m also fine with noncon by a third party where Herbert is the victim.

CANON-SPECIFIC GORE SUGGESTIONS:

Canon-typical experiments (including experiments on animals), descriptions of corpses (reanimated or otherwise) and body parts, further examples of morbid doodling with human body parts
From bullets to bone saws: different methods of putting down the dead and their respective pros and cons
Visual descriptions of them being splattered with blood and gore and viscera, e.g. that moment when Herbert is soaked up to his elboes in blood? More like that, please.
Patching each other up after an experiment goes wrong, performing battlefield surgery and stitching up wounds, injuries, gunshot wounds, stabbings, evisceration
Thank God We're Alive Sex while covered in blood
Canon-typical over the top violence and gore, biting, hacking reaniated apart with axes, etc
Quiet moments of respite when surrounded by the gory remains of whatever you've just been doing, whether experiment or fighting the dead
Body horror, descriptions of the Bride, mutilated or monstrously adapted experiemts, exposed viscera, sinews and tendons
Fighting the dead, doing everything in your power to protect the other person, acts of violent desperation

I’d love anything that goes hard on the hurt/comfort and mutual protectiveness between Herbert and Dan, or anything that captures the tone and bonkers exuberance, gore, humour and horror of the films. Maybe something that explores what happens in between the films, especially between the first and second films, because damn, are there some unanswered questions there – like how did Meg’s heart come to be outside of her body, and how the hell did Herbert manage to persuade Dan to go to Peru with him? And any of the reunions where an apparently dead Herbert pops up again. I also cannot emphasise enough how here I am for Herbert getting menaced and/or whumped.

Optional General Prompts

5 Times Dan Assumed Herbert was Dead – Because in various places, namely the screenplay and the novelisation, he is explicitly stated to have died at the end of the first film and I like the idea of him repeatedly appearing to die and popping up again mostly unscathed (and I’m amused that the one film where he doesn’t appear to die at the end is the one in which Dan does not appear. XD).
Accidental Baby Acquisition – I mean, they’re doctors. It’s not beyond the realms of possibility that they might find themselves in a situation where they have to deliver a baby in a crisis (possibly involving zombies), and end up separated from the mother and stuck having to look after the baby.
Addiction - Character tries to distract Addict from addiction with sex – Dan tries to break Herbert’s reliance on the serum.
Alternate Universe - Russian Doll Fusion – I love time loops in all their forms anyway, but this one in particular, with its focus on constant, unrelenting death, and the way the discovery that the loop is being shared with another person would play out with these two is perfect. (and for time loops in general, I’m amused by the way Herbert would probably adapt his work to take full advantage of the loop (er, an endless supply of fresh corpses with no consequences – hey, how is it murder if they don’t stay dead? – having to memorise the results because he can’t write them down, etc.)
Hurt/Comfort – Hurt/Comfort is always welcome, but one thing I’d love to see is Dan helping Herbert through withdrawal from the serum. Mainly because I really wish that deleted scene had been included in the film. I have some quiet headcanons about Herbert’s addiction to reagent, and amongst them is the fact that avoiding sleep is really, really not a good idea, and that maybe the times when he’s at his most batshit are the times when he’s suffering from chronic sleep-deprivation. All of which convinces Dan to help him to break the habit.
Bad Guys Made Them Do It – and every other iteration of Something Made Them Do It.
Betray them to save them – Dan’s presence looms so large in Beyond Reanimator even though he doesn’t appear. I can definitely see a situation where Dan got to a point where he couldn’t see any other choice, and he genuinely believed if things carried on the way they were that Herbert was going to get himself killed. I’d love to see that decision explored and the fallout when/if they’re reunited and he realises what Herbert’s been through.
Hurt/Comfort - Character with injured hands requires assistance (which turns sexual) – Here for the hurt/comfort and smut potential of this (and also very fond of one character shaving another.)
Inspired by the novelisation, Dan is completely taken by surprise when Herbert unexpectedly turns out to be massively into ice hockey. Maybe it’s a hobby he only occasionally spares the time for, but either way Dan is extremely weirded out by the prospect of Herbert going to bars and talking to fans.
You Hurt Me More Than Anything; But Being Without You Hurts More – Herbert goes in search of Dan after the end of Beyond Reanimator. Is he planning on revenge (even if he ultimately can’t face going through with it?) Does something else happen as a catalyst that forces them to work together again? I’d love to see all the messy hurt/comfort and emotional fallout of everything that happened.
Alternate Universe - Canon Divergence – How might things have played out if Meg hadn’t been so hostile to Herbert from the get-go? Maybe if she hadn’t been there when he came about the room, allowing Dan to prime her for his oddball roommate beforehand? And if she hadn’t walked in on them bringing Rufus back, which meant that Dan wouldn’t have fallen out with Dean Halsey, who then wouldn’t have died, etc etc. It’s interesting how differently Herbert treats Francesca. While he’s not exactly polite to her (XD) he tolerates her presence in a way he doesn’t really tolerate Meg’s, and I can’t help but read that as at least partially being the result of Meg’s attitude towards him.
Alternate Universe - Canon Divergence – A canon-divergent AU where Francesca isn’t on the scene and the creation of the Bride is much more successful, and she isn’t quite so much of a monster. Mainly because I’m really curious what the hell Herbert actually had in mind beyond keeping Dan with him at all costs. (And for the record, I’m completely open to Herbert/Dan/The Bride in whatever form that takes.)
Hurt/Comfort - Technically awful attempts at comfort are actually very comforting – Okay, so Herbert is pretty terrible at doing the whole comfort thing, but the fact that he even tries is pretty damn significant.
Road trip after the end of the world – Any post-apocalypse scenario will do, but I am particularly fond of a zombie apocalypse, which seems particularly apt for this canon. Was it Herbert’s fault, or was he entirely innocent for once? Where are they going? What’s the plan? And how does reagent factor into things?
Estranged Characters - Injured A shows Up on B's doorstep Saying "I didn't know where else to go" – My first thought with this was Herbert turning up out of the blue, but what if it’s the other way around? What if, potentially after Herbert’s prison break, he considered hunting Dan down, but reluctantly decided not to follow through, only for Dan to suddenly turn up unexpectedly, and turns out he’s been keeping track of Herbert all these years and somehow or other the shit’s about to hit the fan?

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General Likes
Smut Likes
DNWs
Dagon (2001)
The Evil Clergyman (2012)
The Frighteners
From Beyond
House on Haunted Hill (1999)
Motivational Growth
The Pale Blue Eye – Louis Bayard
Re-Animator
Star Trek: Deep Space Nine
Star Trek: Lower Decks

General Likes and DNWs

General Likes

Character studies and introspection
Loneliness and isolation
Angst
Atmospheric description, scenery porn, sensory description
World-building, backstory, and character development.
Horror.
Closed Circle - Stranded with a murderer in your midst, whether in horror or murder mystery. Think And Then There Were None.
Case-fic, whether fully realised or just touching on elements from a case.
Whump, hurt/comfort and hurt/no comfort.
Endings of all kinds, happy, bleak or bittersweet.
Canon-divergent AUs, especially post-canon ones where the bad guys win.
Pining, whether mutual or one-sided
Repression and stoicism
Descriptions of scars
Main Character Death and grief; characters getting together while still grieving for previous partners, taking solace in each other, the dead character still seeming like a presence in the relationship, etc. (Please note the exception for Whisky Galore!)
Crossovers, especially oddball crossovers that come completely out of left field, although I do tend to prefer crack played straight rather than outright crack. If you have reason to believe I know and like the other fandom, then I encourage you to go for it.
Post-Apocalypse scenarios, including zombies (probably my favourite AU scenario of all time), with focus on angst and the struggle for survival.
Stranded Together With No Way Home, us against the world, deep mutual dependence on the other party because there’s no one else around (which may not be entirely healthy)
Time Loops
Older characters finding love.
Age gap relationships
I really love historical detail and extensive research notes, so if that’s what you’re into then feel free to go wild. (If that’s not your thing, then please don’t worry: I am in no way an expert, and I love tropey indulgent stuff and cheerfully anachronistic fics just as much).
Hair kink. Hands pushed into hair, coiling it around fingers, routinely cutting another character's hair if appropriate in context (e.g. in post-apocalyptic scenarios), hairwashing as part of hurt/comfort, yanking head back by the hair, etc
Textiles, especially knitwear and embroidery; men in jumpers; historical and cultural details and craft in general
Unusual structures and ways of telling a story, such as Rashomon plots, non-linear narratives, outsider POVs, epistolary works, etc.
Cigarette kink: descriptions of smoking, sharing cigarettes, lighting cigarettes for each other, etc.
Finally, and I cannot emphasise this enough, men in sleepwear, particularly pyjamas and dressing gowns.

Smut Likes

Sex Pollen and aftermath, and any other kind of something made them do it scenario
Angry Sex, rough sex, hate sex, rough sex that turns tender
Clothed Sex, or clothed/naked
Comfort Sex
Dubcon when requested (mutual dubcon of the something-made-us-do-it kind is ALWAYS okay even when not explicitly requested)
Mild bondage and other forms of gentle restraint
Oral Sex, especially cunnilingus in all its forms, and ESPECIALLY cunnilingus with fingering
Rough Sex - Lots of Scratching and Biting and Hair-Grabbing/Pulling and Holding Partner(s) Down
Sex in grimy, grim, uncomfortable places
Threesomes
Situations where one character is too tired, injured etc to orgasm themselves, but takes great pleasure in making the other person come, so long as it's part of a wider give-take relationship when it comes to sex.

DNWs

A/B/O
Unreqested Noncon (Bad Guys Made Them Do It scenarios are fine though)
Dubcon involving unaroused characters
Unrequested Incest
Bestiality (monsters don't count here)
Scat and waterplay
Formalised D/s dynamics (bondage and other forms of restraint are OK)
Underage
Het anal sex
Breathplay (antagonistic choking is fine)
Fisting
Sexualised lactation
Any variation of the word 'come' in a sexual context spelled as 'cum' (please use 'come', 'came', 'precome' etc)

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Dagon

Requested Ships:
Paul Marsh & Dagon
Paul Marsh/Bárbara
Paul Marsh/Dagon
Paul Marsh/Uxía Cambarro
Paul Marsh/Uxía Cambarro/Bárbara
Paul Marsh/Uxía Cambarro/Dagon
Uxía Cambarro/Dagon
Requested Freeforms:
Character Study, Character Survives Canon Death, Corruption Arc, Enemies to Lovers - Enemy to Caretaker, Entering someone's dreams/nightmares, Exploration of Aftermath of Canon Events, Femdom, Ritual Sex - Consensual Joyful and Possibly Public, Worldbuilding, Tentacles - Consentacles, The Existential Dread of Being Pregnant With a Baby that May or May not be a Monster, Character increasingly attracted to and aroused by the tentacles that used to repulse them

DNW Note: Non-con tentacle sex is fine for Bárbara/Dagon, but no unaroused victims please.

Well, somehow, before watching Dagon I failed to osmose that it was actually an adaptation of The Shadow over Innsmouth (and was in fact quietly lamenting the fact that no one ever seemed to adapt TSoI, since it’s probably my favourite Lovecraft story). Which meant that I spent most of the early part of the film growing gradually more delighted as the penny dropped. Not only that, but it adds important female characters (Uxía!!!), and replaces the racist miscegenation elements of the original story with canonical incest and literal Dagon-fucking.

I’m open to basically any combination of Paul Marsh/Uxía Cambarro/Bárbara/Dagon. Paul is adorably hapless and clumsy, and I have no words for how much I loved Uxía. The actress is undeniably gorgeous but there was something so creepily uncanny valley about her facial expressions, especially her smile, and her joyous delight in the face of Paul’s bewildered horror is contagious. She’s so happy at the prospect of living underwater with Dagon and even happier to share it with Paul! :D I adored everything about her, including every single reveal – the tentacles and how they took the imagery of her as a mermaid and ran with it! The fact that she’s his half-sister! And the contrast with her being disabled on land and anything but in the water – and Paul doing his best to resist, but ultimately succumbing. That moment when she rescued him at the end… Well, I don’t know if it counted as a happy ending exactly, but I’d really love to see what happens beyond that and how their relationship might develop. I loved Bárbara too, and that whole situation was nightmare fuel, especially as Paul didn’t do what she asked and put her out of her suffering.

What might have happened if Bárbara had survived at the end, some of the body horror of being pregnant with a baby who may or may not be a monster. Paul’s mother survived, so it’s not necessarily a death warrant. Whether or not Paul’s accepted the whole becoming a terrible fish-monster himself or not, maybe he still wants to protect her, and I’d love to see something exploring the dynamics between Paul, Uxía Cambarro and Bárbara, whichever of the three relationships you focus on. How might Bárbara’s relationship with Uxía develop? Does she remain essentially a prisoner or does she come round to the situation, whether willingly or not? How does she react to a Paul who’s accepted Dagon? Is he still trying to help her escape?

Optional Prompts

Corruption Arc – So the film ends with Paul apparently having come around to his fate and the joy of living underwater with Dagon, but has he really, or does he still have lingering doubts? Does he regain his senses once he’s out of the water, meaning that his coming around is a much longer slower process? And how does he feel next time there’s a sacrifice to Dagon? Particularly if it’s Bárbara?
Entering someone's dreams/nightmares – Paul and Uxía’s first meeting is one of my favourite moments in the movie: aside from the tentacle reveal how damn hot it is, I really love the instant connection between them, the way they react so immediately to each other, and how helpless Paul is to resist her, even though a minute ago he was fleeing for his life. It’s like they know each other immediately, and if she was aware of her appearances in his dreams, in a way they kind of do. I’d love to see that developed, whether it’s an excuse for a PWP, or something more involved and reflective, and maybe for her a sign that he will ultimately be drawn home, and so she’s been waiting for him all this time.
Enemies to Lovers - Enemy to Caretaker – I’m specifically thinking of Uxía taking care of Paul and treating his injuries here, but her taking care of Bárbara is a possibility too.
Tentacles – Consentacles – Involving Dagon? Or how Uxía’s tentacles would factor into sex between her and Paul.
Character Survives Canon Death -- Bárbara survives to give birth to Dagon’s baby. Paul looks after her, protecting her from Uxía. How does this pan out? Is Paul quietly planning to help her escape (and maybe escape himself?), or does he start out that way, but eventually comes around to the joys of Dagon, and wants Bárbara to share his joy?
The Existential Terror of Being Pregnant With a Baby that May or May not be a Monster – The pure nightmare fuel of being pregnant with a baby that might be completely normal or might be a hideous tentacled squid-monster.
Worldbuilding – What’s everyday life like in the village? What’s it’s like underwater? How does the village continue to survive?
Femdom – Uxía gently doms Paul.
Jealous of Paul's continuing love for Bárbara, Uxía sets out to know her better, because she wants to understand why Paul can't let her go.
Or alternatively, because she wants Paul to be happy, and she wants everyone to share in the joys of Dagon, Uxía uses seduction and aphrodisiac-esque drugs to bring Bárbara around.
Character increasingly attracted to and aroused by the tentacles that used to repulse them – After seeing the way they look underwater, Paul gradually grows more fascinated/attracted to/aroused by Uxía's tentacles. Maybe it’s part of his corruption arc, or perhaps he’s starting to change himself.
Something Made Them Do It - Uxía orders Paul to go down on/have sex with Bárbara (sex pollen optional), and will hurt Bárbara if he doesn't.
Character Study of anyone and/or everyone. Uxía's worldview and comple unquestioning acceptance of everything that's going on, Paul's life before returning to the village, never really happy and not quite sure why, and Bárbara if she survives, and how she'd cope with the horrors going on around her.
An AU where Bárbara is the long-lost child returning to the place of her conception.

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The Evil Clergyman (2012)

Requested Ships:
Jonathan/Mrs Brady
Requested Freeforms:
Alternate Universe - Regency era, Bodysharing - Fucking other people together, Bodysharing - A comments/gives orders while B masturbates, Bodysharing - A starts to remember B's life as if it were their own, Body Worship as Possessiveness, Bondage, Conversations In Liminal Spaces On The Border Of One World And Another, Corruption Arc, Exploration of Aftermath of Canon Events, Mutual psychosexual obsession, good old fashioned manipulation and betrayal, Sex Ritual to Resurrect the Dead, Altered States - Hallucinations

Fandom-specific DNW: Mrs Brady being entirely dead post-canon. Her coming back as a ghost or still inhabiting her body are both fine – I just don’t want her to be gone completely.

Note: Apparently her name is meant to be ‘Said Brady’. I’m not sure where that comes from as details are scanty. Stick with that if you want, or leave her unnamed, or change it if you prefer.

Optional Prompts

Bodysharing – All the body sharing for this one please, whether it’s the two of them fucking someone together (I presume she’s married, and oh damn, Mr Brady doesn’t know what’s about to hit him), or him giving her orders while she masturbates (or vice versa actually). I’d also love to see some exploration of how the bodysharing works: whether there’s any conflict over who is in control, and if they retain individual personalities, or if they start to merge.
Altered States – Hallucinations – I do think the short run-time hurts it a little, with everything happening so fast, and I’d love to see an alternate take where everything is slowed down and he starts to appear more slowly, with glancing touches that she imagined at first (although that first appearance where his arms grab her from behind? So hot.). Maybe she has more access to the castle, so slow it down a bit, (or a lot), maybe with hallucinations that start a little bit more ambiguous at first, and then build, more of him fucking with her...
Body Worship as Possessiveness – Well, with a line like ‘Your body is my religion’ what do you expect? Maybe a pre-canon thing set before his suicide, something dark and creepy and hot. Character and relationship studies are always welcome, but then again so are PWPs.
Conversations In Liminal Spaces On The Border Of One World And Another – Ghooooosts. Whether a deleted scene from an imagined extended version of canon, or something post-canon where she is the ghost haunting him.
Corruption Arc – Backstory, whether it’s looking at how he got corrupted, or how he corrupted her, or a post-canon thing, where she’s still trapped in her body which he’s controlling, and he’s still seducing her, corrupting her bit by bit.
Entering someone's dreams/nightmares – That part about her wanting him to let her go intrigues me because it doesn’t quite seem to entirely fit with what happens on screen, and that makes me wonder if his ghost has been visiting her in her dreams in an attempt to get her to come to the castle.
Mutual psychosexual obsession – Something exploring their relationship, before, during and after canon.
Sex Ritual to Resurrect the Dead – A post-canon fic where they’re sharing the same body and he’s still studying black magic (more cautiously, since there’s a danger he’ll be tracked down and punished). Then he tracks down a ritual which might be able to restore his body. Is she working with him or are they in conflict, but this might be her way to be free of him?
Alternate Universe - Regency era – Aside from the clothing, I think this would actually fit really well with the dialogue and the styling and just the overall plot. Everything it suggests about seduction and the way he moved from parish to parish… It just feels like a story that belongs in an older time.
Bondage – so, uh, that white scarf she’s wearing just before Jonathan makes his first appearance, and the way they cling onto the brass bedframe a couple of times? Um, yeah, about that...

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The Frighteners

Requested Ships:
Frank Bannister/Lucy Lynskey & Milton Dammers
Requested Freeforms:
Scars, TFW your enemy's ghost turns up wanting help but death hasn't made him any less of an asshole, Investigating a Lovecraftian Cult, Case Fic - Investigating Something Paranormal/Supernatural, Character's difficult canon backstory explored in delicious whumpy detail, Enemies Forced To Work Together, Exploration of Aftermath of Canon Events, Stranded Together & Have To Rely On Each Other To Survive, This House has a Personality and that Personality is Fucked Up

This request is potentially going to be a little bit shorter than the others, but please don’t take that as any sign of me wanting it any less. I love this film so much, although I do occasionally wish it was played a little straighter and was slightly less cartoonish. Its mix of comedy and horror is right up my street, though, and I really love the case at the heart of the film, and the whole creepy set-up between Johnny and Patricia. It’s a lot of fun to watch.

What I have in mind for this is a post-canon fic which explores what might happen after the end of the film. If you have another idea, though, such as a canon-divergent fic or want to set it during canon, then please do go with that.

So what happens post-canon? What does Frank do after his unfinished dream house has been demolished? Does he start all over again with something more suited to him and Lucy? How does their relationship pan out given she can see ghosts too, now, and what, if anything, do they plan to do with their new-found ability? Given how Lucy got to know him in the first place, I can see some issues arising between them over helping people to contact their loved ones, with her believing that if they can bring comfort to people they should, while for him he immediately associates it all with a time of his life that he’d much rather forget. But the whole seeing ghosts thing isn’t going to go away.

And then there’s Milton, and the way he adapts (or fails to adapt) to being a ghost, and how Frank and Lucy would react to him turning up in their lives again, given what an arsehole he was to them both when he was alive. Do they try to pretend they can’t see him, or set out to at least try to help him move on when his chance arises again?

I’d love to see anything which explores the relationship between the characters and how the dynamics might shift post-canon. The possibilities for case fic could be really interesting too with opportunities for all sorts of weirdness. Maybe Milton is still obsessed with investigating weird cases and making himself an absolute nightmare until they agree to help him investigate.

Optional Prompts

Case Fic - Investigating Something Paranormal/Supernatural – A Case Fic in which Frank, Lucy and Milton investigate something weird going on, possibly at Milton’s insistence, possibly because much like in canon it quickly becomes weird that there really is something weird going on, and Milton is the one who has to be persuaded.
Investigating a Lovecraftian Cult – Frank and Milton go undercover to investigate a cult. This may or may not be a terrible, terrible idea.
Milton tries to come to terms with being dead.
TFW when the ghost of your enemy turns up uninvited to your wedding and refuses to go away until you help him, except he doesn't even know what sort of help he wants and he's driving you up the wall because death hasn't made him any less of an asshole.
Enemies Forced To Work Together – Because even if they are working together, that doesn’t mean they have to like each other.
OK, it was probably inevitable that Frank was going to gather more ghosts around him after losing Cyrus, Stuart and the Judge, but seriously this guy?
Scars – Because even before I watched Re-Animator and caught a bad case of blorbo (*gestures sheepishly at the rest of my sign-up*) the ‘my body is a roadmap of pain!’ bit of this was formative (and Herbert West was a goddamn revelation, ok). What the fuck happened to him? Were those scars the result of one incident or many? Backstory, please?
Stranded Together & Have To Rely On Each Other To Survive – They find themselves stranded together somewhere creepy like a haunted building or an isolated motel
Frank is reluctantly starting to worry about Milton.

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From Beyond

Requested Ships:
Katherine McMichaels/Crawford Tillinghast
Requested Freeforms:
Aftermath of Torture - Character trying to hold it together is clearly low-key fraying at the edges, Body Horror - detailed description of transformation or its aftermath, Bondage, Character with trauma is freaked out and turned on by getting tied up, Character's difficult canon backstory explored in delicious whumpy detail, Codependency - It may be unhealthy but neither of them care, Conversations In Liminal Spaces On The Border Of One World And Another, Eldritch Architecture, Exploration of Aftermath of Canon Events, Exploring Ancient Ruins in a Lovecraftian Alternate Dimension (Monsters Optional), Femdom, kneeling for cunnilingus and then needing to support her legs as they buckle, Recovering from Shared Trauma that Bonded Characters Codependently and Permanently Changed Them, Obvious third wheel in spontaneous threesome still highly enjoys themself

Note on my DNWs: My BDSM DNW is waived when it comes to Dr Pretorius.

My OTP of OTPs for this film is Crawford/Katherine, but I also ship Crawford/Katherine/Bubba, and all the permutations of fucked-up Crawford/Pretorius/Katherine. There are so many character notes that I really, really love: like Crawford taking the bed in Dr Pretorius's room, having presumably given Katherine his own bedroom because it's the gentlemanly thing to do even though it's possible to infer that some very, very unpleasant things have happened to him in Pretorius’s room. Or that moment early on where she strokes his hair tenderly and then sends him off to get an MRI while he desperately begs her not to. Their relationship is such a mix of genuinely sweet and deeply uncomfortable, and it leaves me wondering if perhaps she reminds Crawford subconsciously of Pretorius, and that's part of why he's attracted to her (and oh god that's the creepiest fucking thing). Also, hot fucking damn, that *kiss*.

And oh man, *Bubba.* I grew up watching Dawn of the Dead a lot, and it remains one of my favourite films of all time, so yep, I am extremely fond of Bubba. I’m delighted by the way he towers over the pair of them, the way he watches over and the caretaking role he takes on, and the way, when the sexual tension starts to ramp up, he admits to getting an erection. Which is to say I am very much here for Crawford/Katherine/Bubba, and I’m fascinated by how the dynamic would shake out given how intense the Crawford/Katherine relationship is. Maybe because he's older and not as damaged as Crawford (or as horny as Katherine) he sort of acts like an anchor for the two of them? I’d also love to see just about every permutation of Crawford/Pretorius/Katherine explored too, including monster-fucking.

Optional Prompts

Exploration of Aftermath of Canon Events – The more I think about that ending the more it sticks with me, how it’s a circular narrative, with Crawford beginning the film under Pretorius’s control and ending it that way too. And I’m guessing Pretorius isn’t impotent any more. It’s so bleak, the idea of him being tormented, tortured and eaten (ideally with the focus on body horror rather than vore), only to be reborn over and over again, and I would be very much here for some extremely dubiously consensual, abusive, domineering tentacle sex, and body horror.
Bondage – It sure would be a shame if those manacles went to waste.
Exploring Ancient Ruins in a Lovecraftian Alternate Dimension (Monsters Optional) – Post-canon fic where Crawford and Katherine explore the world beyond, like the mysterious temple mentioned in the original story, and all the creatures who inhabit it. Maybe they’re more or less normal, maybe they’re changing into something monstrous (but that doesn’t necessarily need to be a bad thing). Anything is welcome for this prompt, from horror, worldbuilding, smut, or something much gentler and fluffier.
Femdom – I just want Katherine to gently dom Crawford. Maybe they stumble across an overly friendly tentacle monster and after escaping from its clutches it occurs to her it could have its uses.
A fix-it where Katherine sets out to rescue Crawford.
Or a canon divergent fic where Crawford appears to have escaped the effects of the Resonator at the end, but it gradually becomes clear that although he looked normal at first, he came back wrong.
I cannot emphasise enough how here I am for Crawford having his boundaries trampled on and getting bad-touched, either by Katherine while she’s being affected by the resonator or by Dr Pretorius. I would very much like to see the relationship between Crawford and Pretorius explored, and I think there's a lot to dig into. Like the bit where he yells that Pretorius doesn't know how to give pleasure, only pain, and the question of how he'd know Pretorius was impotent because there's really no good answer to that question. Give me something where Pretorius feels up Crawford instead of (or as well as) Katherine, or where Pretorius encourages her to join in. Bad Guys Made Them Do It scenarios are especially welcome here.
So how did Dr Pretorius manage to turn the Resonator back on? Does he (and Crawford after the end of the film) retain an awareness of the normal plane of existence, and some ability to manipulate it?
Obvious third wheel in spontaneous threesome still highly enjoys themselves – During the early part of the film, a spontaneous threesome develops between Katherine, Crawford and Bubba, possibly induced by sex pollen or just the lingering effects of the Resonator. (With Bubba, naturally, being the third wheel, but he’s fine with that tbh.

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House on Haunted Hill

Requested Ships:
Dr Richard B Vannacutt & The House
Watson Pritchett & Dr Richard B Vannacutt
Watson Pritchett & The House
Watson Pritchett/Dr Richard B Vannacutt
Requested Freeforms:
Character is forced to work with someone who scares them, Tentacles made them do it, Character with trauma is freaked out and turned on by getting tied up, Conversations In Liminal Spaces On The Border Of One World And Another, Corruption Arc, Eldritch Architecture, Entering someone's dreams/nightmares, Ghosts, Redemption - Trying to make amends for past mistakes, This House has a Personality and that Personality is Fucked Up, Time Travel - Character meets their child self, Time Travel Fix-It, Time Travel - Seducing the Villain To Keep Them From Turning To Evil

Note on my DNWs: For Pritchett, please have him be 16 or older for direct sexual contact, but sexually arousing dreams/visions/hallucinations are fine from 13+).

Watson Pritchett/Dr Richard B Vannacutt

Not a pairing that I’d originally considered, but then a seed took root and now I can’t stop thinking about these two and what sort of dynamic they’d have.

Optional Prompts

This House has a Personality and that Personality is Fucked Up – And adolescence is tough enough as it is, without having to go through it while you're living in a haunted house that can't seem to decide whether it wants to fuck you or kill you.
Explore the deaths of Pritchett's father and grandfather, because it feels like there are a lot of unanswered questions there. Did the house exert any influence over them? Could Pritchett’s father have murdered his grandfather? How did his father really die?
A both hates and loves how good the sex with B is – Vannacutt/Pritchett (because the more I think about shipping them, the harder I ship them.)
Character is forced to work with someone who scares them – I’m intrigued by what it means to be a ghost and how much free will they have. Pritchett has to work with Vannacutt for reasons (especially delighted by the idea of this considering how Pritchett crapped himself when he recognised Vannacutt’s description).
So how does Pritchett manage to resist the Shadow at the end in order to free Sara and Eddie, when seemingly no one else was able to resist?
Something revolving around the stained glass ceiling, because creepy though it is is just suggest a marginally less evil side to Vannacutt and the idea of good people being corrupted by evil will always fascinate me.
Character with trauma is freaked out and turned on by getting tied up – Specifically thinking of Pritchett here, the poor little bastard. XD
Conversations In Liminal Spaces On The Border Of One World And Another – Ghost!Pritchett and ghost!Vannacutt have a conversation.
Evil!Pritchett – A canon-divergent fic where Pritchett isn’t so resistant to the house. How would that affect canon?
Entering someone's dreams/nightmares – Vannacutt and/or the Shadow enter Pritchett’s dreams, where pre-, during, or post-canon.
Time Travel Fix-It – Pritchett travels back in time to the 20s-30s, and finds himself caught up in events at the asylum. Could he potentially change the way events pan out? (The actual fix-it is optional here)
Time Travel - Character meets their child self – Ghost!Pritchett realises it’s possible to travel through time and interact with his younger self.
Vannacutt manages to escape the house. There’s a deleted scene (after the credits roll in this video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zdo8voI87LI) in which Vannacutt brings the real Jennifer Jenzen to the house, and another scene where his spot being tortured is taken by Price. Which leads me to wonder if it’s possible for him to buy his freedom, or if he’s figured out a way to outwit the house.
Explore what the hell was going on with that chair. Was Vannacutt listening to the Darkness, or was it potentially a seduction/sex thing?
Corruption Arc – Either for Vannacutt or for Pritchett. Or, conversely, a redemption arc for Vannacutt, or Vannacutt getting a redemption arc while Pritchett goes the other way. I really love the idea of the house seducing people into evil (the second film goes harder on that, and iirc explicitly states that Vannacutt wasn’t always a monster), and the question of whether someone who’s done terrible things can really be redeemed.
Eldritch Architecture – I’d love to see something that goes hard on the Lovecraftian elements in the plot, the idea of this ancient nameless evil existing even before the house was built, and of what the Darkness at the heart of the house really is.
Tentacles made them do it – Probably no surprises that I have Pritchett/Vannacutt in mind here.

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Motivational Growth

Requested Characters:
Ian Folivor/The Mold
Ian Folivor & The Mold
Requested Freeforms:
Body Horror - detailed description of transformation or its aftermath, Complicated relationships of love and loyalty and hurt and resentment, Conversations In Liminal Spaces On The Border Of One World And Another, Exploration of Aftermath of Canon Events, fixing the world after breaking it, good old fashioned manipulation and betrayal, I am everything you hate but have you considered no one will ever understand you like I do, No One Is Allowed to Hurt You Except Me, Worldbuilding, Enemies forced to work together to survive a more powerful mutual enemy, Altered States - Hallucinations

This film. This fucking film. It gives me such What the Fuck Did I Just Watch vibes and I love it for that, even though I'm only about 75% sure that I know what's actually going on. Before seeing this I would never have believed I'd get so invested in the relationship between a suicidal agoraphobe and the sinister talking fungus growing in his bathroom, and YET…

I just want to watch it over and over again, piecing together all the little clues in the in-universe TV shows, trying to figure out what's real and what's not, who's on the Mold's side and who isn't, how much of what Ian sees is real and how much a hallucination. It's so unapologetically *weird* and just the tiniest bit repulsive, and even though I don’t entirely know what the hell is going on I find it so extraordinarily satisfying to watch.

And then there’s the Mold. God, the fucking Mold. Absurdly charismatic, shifty as fuck, and hiding his manipulation of poor hapless Ian in plain-sight, and Ian just going along with it, because surely this sinister talking fungus can only have his best interests at heart? Admittedly, it’s probably because he can probably only understand about 50% of what the Mold is actually saying at any given moment.

There are essentially two (very broad) things I want for this request: 1.) Worldbuilding, and 2.) More interaction between Ian and the Mold.

For worldbuilding, I’d love to see some exploration of what the hell is actually going on, whether that means what the Mold actually is, where he came from, what he’s doing with Ian, what the deal is with the TV, or what’s going to happen after the end of the film and Ian finally leaves the apartment. My take on what the hell is going on (although I stress that if you have a different reading then please go with it.) involves aliens, potential invasion, and it’s, idk, a Bodysnatchers type situation with poor hapless Ian being ground zero for the new fungal world order. Alternatively, maybe the Mold is an escaped criminal with another faction hunting him? There do seem to be two opposing sides, one represented by the Mold and the other communicating through the medium of Ian's TV... and yeah, no, that's literally all I've got. Do with that what you will or ignore it completely and do your own thing.

What is the Mold? (Just a hallucination caused by Ian inhaling fumes? One of Lovecraft’s fungus-aliens?) Where did he come from? What exactly are his big plans for Ian? Is the world outside mostly normal or is it already in chaos? What happens post-canon? How much of what Ian sees through the spyhole is real? Is he the only person this is happening to, or is this happening all over, and if the former why him? The first TV repair guy (if he’s real) is clearly linked with the Mold somehow since we see the Mold mouthing his dialogue. Are they both part of a larger organism? In which case the Mold must also exist in some way outside of Ian's apartment?

I could mostly take or leave the other characters, since they often just detracted from Ian & the Mold screen time, but Leah did fascinate me. And oh, hey, turns out the Normal Guy/Gorgeous Girl pairing is a hell of a lot less obnoxious when there’s a good chance she’s a meat puppet under the control of Normal Guy’s creepy mould buddy who just wants him to ~~bear his spore~~ self-actualise. What's going on with Leah? Is she a hallucination caused by the Mold (because why else would she call Ian Jack? BUT THEN WHY WOULD THE MOLD KILL HER?) Or is she working for the other side? (If indeed there is another side?) Or is the other side able to somehow disrupt whatever the Mold shows Ian, so she started off as his work and then got side-tracked by the Mold? I have so many questions.

For the Ian & The Mold part of my request, I cannot emphasise enough how much I love the dynamic between this pair. The heart of this film for me was the Mold slowly taking over his life (and his apartment), and the interaction between them, and I just want more of that, in whatever form it takes. I love the way the Mold speaks, his off-kilter speech patterns and the weird slangy cant he uses. He’s so clearly unambiguously evil and manipulative from the get-go (which isn’t to say that I’m not open to a less antagonistic version of their relationship because I absolutely am).

I’d have liked to have seen more of earlier on in their relationship: because that montage of Ian chilling on the floor with the Mold and even stroking him affectionately... I just, uh... I don't know, man. It gave me feelings that I'm not entirely sure I want to feel. I have no clue how a relationship between them would work, but if you can figure it out, then PLEASE DO, but I’d love anything that expands on their relationship, whether antagonistic, gen or shippy or anything in-between.

What the hell is Ian anyway? Does that bee story Leah tells him suggest that he'll die after mating? And how exactly will he mate? The usual human kinda way, or will he... idk, spore somehow? After the end of the film, does he keep turning to the Mold for advice? Or does their relationship continue semi-antagonistically? (or both). Are there other Molds out there, and if so are they all still the same one or slightly different? Does he ever come to terms what he is (or what I think he is?), or does he keep operating under the assumption that he's still human?

Optional Prompts

Altered States – Hallucinations – Give me more of the Mold casually fucking with Ian, more surreal and weirdly foreboding hallucinations.
I am everything you hate but have you considered no one will ever understand you like I do – Whether set during canon or afterwards. Granted, the Mold is terrible, but he’s the only being who really understands Ian, particularly now that Ian may not exactly be human any more. Is the Mold still fucking with him, or now that he’s achieved whatever he wanted to achieve, is their relationship less antagonistic?
Ian wakes up in an entirely mundane at first glance universe where he is living a normal life, has a different apartment and a job and maybe even a girlfriend and everything that happened with the Mold was just a dream. Then due to a twist of fate he runs into a stranger who sounds unnervingly familiar and that's the catalyst that causes reality to bleed through.
Ian (because he's now at least partially part of the Mold?) gains the ability to see through/tap into the experience of other Molds, and starts to have visions of an alien world or space station.
Captivity – Assuming the Mold is an escaped criminal as hinted at by one of the in-universe clips, he’s recaptured and thrown back into whatever passes for a prison, and unfortunately, since Ian is now part of the Mold, he’s thrown into prison right alongside him.
No One Is Allowed to Hurt You Except Me – Despite everything, the Mold’s actually grown a bit fond of Ian.
Time Loop – canon goes a little bit time-loopy at the end there, so expand on that a little bit.
Exploration of Aftermath of Canon Events – So x months down the line and having inadvertently brought about the apocalypse, Ian returns to his apartment to confront the Mold.

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The Pale Blue Eye - Louis Bayard

Requested Ships:
Augustus Landor/Edgar Allan Poe
Requested Freeforms:
Alternate Universe - Canon Divergence, Bedside Vigils, Bittersweet Reunions - Everything's changed but that's okay, Character saved from suicide attempt; reluctantly starts the healing process, Character Study, Complicated relationships of love and loyalty and hurt and resentment, Conversations In Liminal Spaces On The Border Of One World And Another, Emotional Hurt/Comfort, Exploration of Aftermath of Canon Events, Functional Alcoholic Not So Functional At The Moment, Gently and Lovingly Taking Partner's Virginity, Ghosts, Mutual Pining, Ridiculously Gothic Atmosphere, You Hurt Me More Than Anything; But Being Without You Hurts More, 'Oh No They’re Hot' moment leads to feelings realization

Notes on my DNWs: Regarding my Incest DNW, Lea/Artemus is fine. For my Landor/Poe/Mattie bodysharing prompt, I would prefer no direct sexual contact between Landor and Mattie, but for example descriptions of him being aware of what she’s experiencing are okay. If at any point you have any doubts, please err on the side of assuming it’s absolutely fine. :D)

For this canon, my Underage DNW is adjusted to anything below 16 for Virginia Poe.

NOTE: This section is going to be very spoilery I'm afraid.

Probably one of the most enjoyable books I’ve read in ages. It’s been a while since I had a book I really couldn’t put down, and I devoured this over the course of a couple of days (stopping halfway through to spoil myself by watching the film XD), and I’m semi-counting off the days before I can justify reading it again (given the current state of my tbr pile), just to experience it at a slower pace and pick up all the details I’m pretty sure I missed along the way.

I love the way the narrative unfolds, the contrast between Landor’s more straightforward entries (ha!), and Poe’s gloriously overwrought entries, ridiculously over the top and gothic and full of all earnest little asides. Landor and Poe are both sensitive, damaged men, and it delights me that right from the start they’re drawn to each other right, and not only that but helplessly charmed by each other. It’s just a pure unadulterated joy to read. And shippy. Hot fucking damn, is it shippy.

Poe’s feelings towards Landor are a little more ambiguous. I’m inclined towards thinking they’re mostly platonic, and he’s just developed an intense attachment because Landor is one of the first few people to show him any regard, BUT that if he realised the truth he’d come around pretty damn quickly. Anything on the scale of Poe’s feelings being completely platonic to him already being desperately in love and pining is welcome, though.

As for Landor… Yeah, nope. His crush on Poe is so big it could probably be seen from SPACE! Look, if your reaction to your on-off lover telling you in the middle of sexual activity that you’re 'not so old' is to immediately recall that time when Poe said the exact same thing, I’m afraid the yep-definitely-only-paternal-feelings-here plausible deniability ship has sailed. :D

Optional Prompts

Bedside Vigils – Post-canon or otherwise. Maybe Poe is more seriously injured during Ballinger’s attack on him than he is in canon, and the closest place to take him is Landor’s room in the hotel. Or post-canon, with Poe sitting by Landor’s bedside, with all the grief and guilt and resentment and loyalty that entails.
Bittersweet Reunions - Everything's changed but that's okay – The way the relationship between them stands at the end of canon is like catnip to me: all that devotion and loyalty and resentment and grief. Landor and Poe reunite several years down the line. How has the dynamic between them changed?
Conversations In Liminal Spaces On The Border Of One World And Another – Perhaps a 5+1 fic of Conversations Poe has had with Ghosts. Or just Landor’s ghost visiting Poe throughout the years.
'Oh No They're Hot' moment leads to feelings realization – I don’t know if it was the result of shipping goggles, but the moment where Landor sees Poe in disguise completely reads as an Oh No He’s Hot moment to me, given how Landor cannot help but note how well the borrowed uniform fits and how the moustache makes Poe look older and more handsome. XD Take that moment and turn it up a couple of notches, and maybe add a little more UST into the moment where Landor points out that the moustache has come detached.
Exploration of Aftermath of Canon Events – A fic set immediately post-canon where Poe interrupts Landor considering suicide. (And I know that ‘I can’t fly into his arms’ line is supposed to refer to god, but I cannot help but read it as Poe, especially given everything with Mattie).
Gently and Lovingly Taking Partner's Virginity – I am, for the record, 100% here for smut.
A canon-divergent fic where Mattie is still alive and both she and Landor come into contact with Poe, perhaps as a result of Landor being called in to investigate a different murder-mutilation. Because it seems like there’s a lot of potential to dig into with that dynamic of Landor’s confusion over whether his feelings for Poe are romantic or paternal. How would canon pan out differently if it was Mattie Poe fell passionately in love with? A less damaged Landor completely baffled yet drawn to his daughter’s new beau, and feeling excluded by their passionate conversations about Byron, and Poe still just as devoted to Landor, but this story will have a very different ending.
Letting your body be used as a conduit so that man you’re pining for can lose his virginity to his ghostly beloved who also happens to be your daughter – (NOT a nominated freeform, unfortunately, although frankly I wish I had nominated it, but I have requested the more general freeform ‘ghosts’). Yeaaaah, okay, this is just hot and messy and deeply deeply uncomfortable and awkward. Is Poe also pining for Landor, or is this genuinely entirely about Mattie for him (either is fine by me)? For Poe, is there some ghostly influence where the body feels female, or is it a case of feeling Landor’s male body but having to pretend otherwise? A one-off or otherwise? How blurry do those lines get over time if this is more than just a one-time deal? Maybe this is about Mattie deliberately trying to bring them together, and one day she just fades out and leaves them fucking each other? Or maybe one day Poe accidentally says Landor’s name?
Mutual Pining – Explore all the time they spent together, all those intimate late nights sitting in the darkness in Landor’s room, drinking, and talking, and maybe they get onto the subject of whether Landor thinks he might be right about whether Fry could have gone to meet a man.
I’m curious what induced Poe to approach Landor in the first place, and whether at this point it might potentially have had something to do with Mattie.

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Re-Animator

Requested Ship:
Herbert West/Dan Cain
Requested Freeforms:
Addiction - Character tries to distract Addict from addiction with sex, Alternate Universe - Russian Doll Fusion, Betray them to save them, "Thank Fuck You're Alive!" Emotions Turn Into Frantic Fucking, Accidental Baby Acquisition, Alternate Universe - Canon Divergence, Bad Guys Make Them Do It, Bittersweet Reunions - Everything's changed but that's okay, Complicated relationships of love and loyalty and hurt and resentment, Estranged Characters - Injured A shows Up on B's doorstep Saying "I didn't know where else to go", Hurt/Comfort, Mind Control Aftermath & Recovery, Mutual Pining, Road trip after the end of the world, Sex Pollen, You Hurt Me More Than Anything; But Being Without You Hurts More, you're an unhinged disaster but you're MY unhinged disaster and no one's allowed to hurt you, Hurt/Comfort - Technically awful attempts at comfort are actually very comforting, Hurt/Comfort - Rape Recovery with Love Interest's Help and Support Leads to Get Together, Hurt/Comfort - Character with injured hands requires assistance (which turns sexual)

Canon-specific DNW: Please pretend that the scenes of sexual violence against women in Beyond Re-Animator never happened. References to the Meg/Hill scene in the first film are fine though, and I’m also fine with noncon by a third party where Herbert is the victim.

I’d love anything that goes hard on the hurt/comfort and mutual protectiveness between Herbert and Dan, or anything that captures the tone and bonkers exuberance, gore, humour and horror of the films. Maybe something that explores what happens in between the films, especially between the first and second films, because damn, are there some unanswered questions there – like how did Meg’s heart come to be outside of her body, and how the hell did Herbert manage to persuade Dan to go to Peru with him? And any of the reunions where an apparently dead Herbert pops up again. I also cannot emphasise enough how here I am for Herbert getting menaced and/or whumped.

Optional Prompts

5 Times Dan Assumed Herbert was Dead – Because in various places, namely the screenplay and the novelisation, he is explicitly stated to have died at the end of the first film and I like the idea of him repeatedly appearing to die and popping up again mostly unscathed (and I’m amused that the one film where he doesn’t appear to die at the end is the one in which Dan does not appear. XD).
Accidental Baby Acquisition – I mean, they’re doctors. It’s not beyond the realms of possibility that they might find themselves in a situation where they have to deliver a baby in a crisis (possibly involving zombies), and end up separated from the mother and stuck having to look after the baby.
Addiction - Character tries to distract Addict from addiction with sex – Dan tries to break Herbert’s reliance on the serum.
Alternate Universe - Russian Doll Fusion – I love time loops in all their forms anyway, but this one in particular, with its focus on constant, unrelenting death, and the way the discovery that the loop is being shared with another person would play out with these two is perfect. (and for time loops in general, I’m amused by the way Herbert would probably adapt his work to take full advantage of the loop (er, an endless supply of fresh corpses with no consequences – hey, how is it murder if they don’t stay dead? – having to memorise the results because he can’t write them down, etc.)
Hurt/Comfort – Hurt/Comfort is always welcome, but one thing I’d love to see is Dan helping Herbert through withdrawal from the serum. Mainly because I really wish that deleted scene had been included in the film. I have some quiet headcanons about Herbert’s addiction to reagent, and amongst them is the fact that avoiding sleep is really, really not a good idea, and that maybe the times when he’s at his most batshit are the times when he’s suffering from chronic sleep-deprivation. All of which convinces Dan to help him to break the habit.
Bad Guys Made Them Do It – and every other iteration of Something Made Them Do It.
Betray them to save them – Dan’s presence looms so large in Beyond Reanimator even though he doesn’t appear. I can definitely see a situation where Dan got to a point where he couldn’t see any other choice, and he genuinely believed if things carried on the way they were that Herbert was going to get himself killed. I’d love to see that decision explored and the fallout when/if they’re reunited and he realises what Herbert’s been through.
Hurt/Comfort - Character with injured hands requires assistance (which turns sexual) – Here for the hurt/comfort and smut potential of this (and also very fond of one character shaving another.)
Inspired by the novelisation, Dan is completely taken by surprise when Herbert unexpectedly turns out to be massively into ice hockey. Maybe it’s a hobby he only occasionally spares the time for, but either way Dan is extremely weirded out by the prospect of Herbert going to bars and talking to fans.
You Hurt Me More Than Anything; But Being Without You Hurts More – Herbert goes in search of Dan after the end of Beyond Reanimator. Is he planning on revenge (even if he ultimately can’t face going through with it?) Does something else happen as a catalyst that forces them to work together again? I’d love to see all the messy hurt/comfort and emotional fallout of everything that happened.
Alternate Universe - Canon Divergence – How might things have played out if Meg hadn’t been so hostile to Herbert from the get-go? Maybe if she hadn’t been there when he came about the room, allowing Dan to prime her for his oddball roommate beforehand? And if she hadn’t walked in on them bringing Rufus back, which meant that Dan wouldn’t have fallen out with Dean Halsey, who then wouldn’t have died, etc etc. It’s interesting how differently Herbert treats Francesca. While he’s not exactly polite to her (XD) he tolerates her presence in a way he doesn’t really tolerate Meg’s, and I can’t help but read that as at least partially being the result of Meg’s attitude towards him.
Alternate Universe - Canon Divergence – A canon-divergent AU where Francesca isn’t on the scene and the creation of the Bride is much more successful, and she isn’t quite so much of a monster. Mainly because I’m really curious what the hell Herbert actually had in mind beyond keeping Dan with him at all costs. (And for the record, I’m completely open to Herbert/Dan/The Bride in whatever form that takes.)
Hurt/Comfort - Technically awful attempts at comfort are actually very comforting – Okay, so Herbert is pretty terrible at doing the whole comfort thing, but the fact that he even tries is pretty damn significant.
Road trip after the end of the world – Any post-apocalypse scenario will do, but I am particularly fond of a zombie apocalypse, which seems particularly apt for this canon. Was it Herbert’s fault, or was he entirely innocent for once? Where are they going? What’s the plan? And how does reagent factor into things?
Estranged Characters - Injured A shows Up on B's doorstep Saying "I didn't know where else to go" – My first thought with this was Herbert turning up out of the blue, but what if it’s the other way around? What if, potentially after Herbert’s prison break, he considered hunting Dan down, but reluctantly decided not to follow through, only for Dan to suddenly turn up unexpectedly, and turns out he’s been keeping track of Herbert all these years and somehow or other the shit’s about to hit the fan?

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Star Trek: Deep Space Nine

Requested Ships:
Quark/Brunt
Requested Freeforms:
Characters don't realise they're in a relationship but everyone else can see it, Forced to pose as your other self from an alternate universe, 'Dirty little secret' relationship leads to Too Many Feelings leads to unexpected marriage proposal, Accidental Marriage, Soulbond - Accidental soulbond between enemies/rivals leads to feelings, "We'll just have sex one time to get it out of our systems" ... but it makes the longing worse, Bad Guys Make Them Do It, Both Captured - Forced to Work Together to Escape, Dimension Travel - counterparts are in a relationship, Enemies Forced To Work Together, Exploration of Aftermath of Canon Events, Hate Sex, Mutual Pining, Stranded Together & Have To Rely On Each Other To Survive, Time Travel Fix-It, Time travel - character travels back to own past with enemy and now they have to work together, Truth Serum, 5+1 Things

Quark/Brunt

Optional Prompts

'Dirty little secret' relationship leads to Too Many Feelings leads to unexpected marriage proposal – Because I am so here for the two of them having a secret relationship on the downlow, and maybe they keep telling themselves it’s just about sex and it doesn’t mean anything, but actually...
Accidental Marriage – When they’re on an alien planet negotiating a contract, they accidentally wind up married (maybe because in that planet’s laws rivalry is considered a sign of great regard), and this cannot stand. Turns out getting it annulled is a little trickier than first envisioned, and in the meantime pining, forced proximity, and sex-of-convenience ensues.
Hate Sex – I am so, so here for the two of them hatefucking, and for moments of unexpected tenderness in the middle of the hatefucking, and for hate sex where they gradually start to develop feelings.
Exploration of Aftermath of Canon Events – A relationship study that looks at how things might develop between the two of them after the end of the series, with neither of them entirely happy about the changes on Ferenginar.
Characters don't realise they're in a relationship but everyone else can see it – Maybe Brunt keeps finding reasons to return to Deep Space Nice to make Quark’s life a misery, and Quark does everything he can to irritate Brunt, and neither of the two of them wants to admit that actually they’re sort of starting to enjoy each other’s company, while as far as everyone else is concerned they’re already basically together.
A post-canon fic with an established relationship between Quark and Brunt. They’re… sort of settled. Almost happy. And then, like a hand grenade tossed into the middle of their relationship, Quark’s old lover Natima Lang comes back. Somehow Brunt finds out what happened between them and is torn between horrified disgust at Quark being willing to abandon everything to run off with her and seething jealousy because he thinks, rightly or wrongly, that Quark wouldn't do that for HIM in a million years. Maybe Quark and Natima have both moved on with no lingering feelings other than a faint poignant ‘what might have been’, or maybe they’re still as in love with each other as ever and the only way to resolve this is with Quark/Natima/Brunt.
5+1 Things – A post-canon 5+1 fic exploring the ways every single member of Quark’s family undermines their attempts at (semi-)tradition Ferengi parenting (preferably of a boy, please, unless the focus is on them both overcoming their terrible ingrained sexism to the point where it’s probably going to be a bit ooc, let’s face it).
Having met by chance with an oddly familiar stranger in a bar who shares his animosity for Quark, Brunt obtains a copy of a unique holosuite program involving Major Kira with Quark’s head in return for a discounted price and the promise to use it to destroy Quark. Which would be easier to do if he could just stop thinking about how it would be better with Quark’s head on Quark’s body. To facilitate Getting Revenge, obviously. (And just as soon as he figures out why the hell Quark would make the program so damn good at oo-mox if it was written for a non-Ferengi).
So, um, those scenes in The Dogs of War when Brunt is sucking up to Quark because they both think Zek is going to appoint him the next Grand Nagus? He’d be remiss if he forgot Rule 113 of the Rules of Acquisition: Always have sex with the boss.
Ishka figures out why Brunt is so fixated on bringing Quark down. And, well, okay, yes, Brunt is terrible, but also he’s a good Ferengi, and frankly, Quark could probably do worse.
Time Travel Fix-It – Brunt and Quark travel back to a point where they’re in a position to alter the course of Ferengi history and prevent the sweeping changes brought about by Quark’s mother, but potentially ruining their fortunes in their present, since with the franchisement of Quark’s they’re actually doing pretty damn well for themselves. Do they go through with it, or disagree about whether they should go through with it?

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Star Trek: Lower Decks

Requested Shipss:
AGIMUS/Peanut Hamper
Requested Freeforms:
Sentient Computer/Robot Has Hardware and/or Software Installed To Sleep With Their Partner, Prison break!, Forced to pose as your other self from an alternate universe, Stranded Together & Have To Rely On Each Other To Survive, good old fashioned manipulation and betrayal, Outsider POV - Time Travel From the POV of a Non-Time-Traveling Character

And then there's those awful things they could do together, which should definitely involve them trying to take over the universe, or at least a planet. Or , alternatively, by time-travelling back to the Dominion War and fucking things up for everyone. *eyes* (FTR, I am very, very excited that canon seems to be seeding this very thing.) And yeah, okay, they’d both betray each other in a heartbeat, because they’re both terrible, but frankly that’s a feature, not a bug.

Canon isn't entirely consistent about whether it's AGIMUS or Agimus, and uses both 'he' and 'it'. For either, go with whatever works best for you.

Optional Prompts

Prison break! – How does it work? How do they pull it off? Do they each try to betray the other at the last minute and then manage to escape together anyway?
Relationship Study – I’m just really drawn to the question of how they’d fit together. They’re both the wooooorst: he’s explicitly evil, she’s amoral and selfish, and I just really, really want to know how it would work between them, whether they’re constantly trying to maniuplate and betray each other, or if they can actually sort of manage to make it work (give or take the odd betrayal).
5+1 Things – A fic exploring everyday life in the Daystrom Institute. What do those evil AIs do all day? Are they constantly scheming against each other? How often does one of them try to take over the lab? Is there a change when Peanut Hamper arrives since she’s an exocomp, and not just a computer, which means she can’t just be locked away? What’s it like to be a researcher in that lab, constantly having to deal with scheming AIs?
Stranded Together & Have To Rely On Each Other To Survive – Something goes wrong which means the AIs have to work together, which is unfortunate since aside from Peanut Hamper they’re mostly useless, either scheming to outwit each other or needing to be rescued from crabs or whatever (ok, I imprinted pretty damn hard on Boimler carrying AGIMUS in a makeshift baby sling). Maybe there’s an attack on the Institute, or while being transported somewhere, the ship crashes, or there’s a holosuite malfunction which the AIs have to deal with. (Possibly involving Badgey)
Smut. Look, he’s canonically obsessed with plugging his tentacles into every socket going, so... I’m here for PWP, an exploration of what a sexual relationship between them would look like, considering… And it strikes me that there are some interesting trust issues to be explored too.
It seems like there are quite a few supercomputers manipulating entire planets into being at war with each other in this series. There’s one mentioned in the first episode, and aside from AGIMUS, I’m pretty sure there’s at least one other… An omnipotent being gathers them all together and pits them against each other in a battle of the evil AIs.
Time Travel Make-It-Worse – Time travel to the Dominion War. I’ve already mentioned how I think canon is working towards this, and hot fucking damn do I want to see it happen. Peanut Hamper undercover as a dabo girl at Quark’s! AGIMUS interacting with Weyoun! Both of them trying to fuck things up for the Federation because that was the plan, but oh, huh, turns out there’s a lot of opportunity for manipulation and strife within the Dominion itself...
Sentient Computer/Robot Has Hardware and/or Software Installed To Sleep With Their Partner -- Because I'm guessing sex has tended to come somewhere at the bottom of his agenda, somewhere beneath not getting carried off by crabs and obtaining the resources to build murder drones.

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General Likes
Smut Likes
DNWs
Dagon (2001)
The Frighteners
From Beyond
House on Haunted Hill (1999)
Motivational Growth
The Professionals
Re-Animator
Star Trek: Deep Space Nine
Star Trek: Lower Decks

General Likes and DNWs

General Likes

Character studies and introspection
Loneliness and isolation
Angst
Atmospheric description, scenery porn, sensory description
World-building, backstory, and character development.
Horror.
Closed Circle - Stranded with a murderer in your midst, whether in horror or murder mystery. Think And Then There Were None.
Case-fic, whether fully realised or just touching on elements from a case.
Whump, hurt/comfort and hurt/no comfort.
Endings of all kinds, happy, bleak or bittersweet.
Canon-divergent AUs, especially post-canon ones where the bad guys win.
Pining, whether mutual or one-sided
Repression and stoicism
Descriptions of scars
Main Character Death and grief; characters getting together while still grieving for previous partners, taking solace in each other, the dead character still seeming like a presence in the relationship, etc. (Please note the exception for Whisky Galore!)
Crossovers, especially oddball crossovers that come completely out of left field, although I do tend to prefer crack played straight rather than outright crack. If you have reason to believe I know and like the other fandom, then I encourage you to go for it.
Post-Apocalypse scenarios, including zombies (probably my favourite AU scenario of all time), with focus on angst and the struggle for survival.
Stranded Together With No Way Home, us against the world, deep mutual dependence on the other party because there’s no one else around (which may not be entirely healthy)
Time Loops
Older characters finding love.
Age gap relationships
I really love historical detail and extensive research notes, so if that’s what you’re into then feel free to go wild. (If that’s not your thing, then please don’t worry: I am in no way an expert, and I love tropey indulgent stuff and cheerfully anachronistic fics just as much).
Hair kink. Hands pushed into hair, coiling it around fingers, routinely cutting another character's hair if appropriate in context (e.g. in post-apocalyptic scenarios), hairwashing as part of hurt/comfort, yanking head back by the hair, etc
Textiles, especially knitwear and embroidery; men in jumpers; historical and cultural details and craft in general
Unusual structures and ways of telling a story, such as Rashomon plots, non-linear narratives, outsider POVs, epistolary works, etc.
Cigarette kink: descriptions of smoking, sharing cigarettes, lighting cigarettes for each other, etc.
Finally, and I cannot emphasise this enough, men in sleepwear, particularly pyjamas and dressing gowns.

Smut Likes

Sex Pollen and aftermath, and any other kind of something made them do it scenario
Angry Sex, rough sex, hate sex, rough sex that turns tender
Clothed Sex, or clothed/naked
Comfort Sex
Dubcon when requested (mutual dubcon of the something-made-us-do-it kind is ALWAYS okay even when not explicitly requested)
Mild bondage and other forms of gentle restraint
Oral Sex, especially cunnilingus in all its forms, and ESPECIALLY cunnilingus with fingering
Rough Sex - Lots of Scratching and Biting and Hair-Grabbing/Pulling and Holding Partner(s) Down
Sex in grimy, grim, uncomfortable places
Threesomes
Situations where one character is too tired, injured etc to orgasm themselves, but takes great pleasure in making the other person come, so long as it's part of a wider give-take relationship when it comes to sex.

DNWs

A/B/O
Unreqested Noncon (Bad Guys Made Them Do It scenarios are fine though)
Dubcon involving unaroused characters
Unrequested Incest
Bestiality (monsters don't count here)
Scat and waterplay
Formalised D/s dynamics (bondage and other forms of restraint are OK)
Underage
Het anal sex
Breathplay (antagonistic choking is fine)
Fisting
Sexualised lactation
Any variation of the word 'come' in a sexual context spelled as 'cum' (please use 'come', 'came', 'precome' etc)

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Dagon

Requested Ships:
Paul Marsh & Dagon
Paul Marsh/Bárbara
Paul Marsh/Dagon
Paul Marsh/Uxía Cambarro
Paul Marsh/Uxía Cambarro/Bárbara
Paul Marsh/Uxía Cambarro/Dagon
Uxía Cambarro/Dagon

Optional Prompts

Corruption Arc – So the film ends with Paul apparently having come around to his fate and the joy of living underwater with Dagon, but has he really, or does he still have lingering doubts? Does he regain his senses once he’s out of the water, meaning that his coming around is a much longer slower process? And how does he feel next time there’s a sacrifice to Dagon? Particularly if it’s Bárbara?
Dreamsharing – Paul and Uxía’s first meeting is one of my favourite moments in the movie: aside from the tentacle reveal how damn hot it is, I really love the instant connection between them, the way they react so immediately to each other, and how helpless Paul is to resist her, even though a minute ago he was fleeing for his life. It’s like they know each other immediately, and if she was aware of her appearances in his dreams, in a way they kind of do. I’d love to see that developed, whether it’s an excuse for a PWP, or something more involved and reflective, and maybe for her a sign that he will ultimately be drawn home, and so she’s been waiting for him all this time.
A has conflicting feelings while B tenderly treats his/her injuries – I’m specifically thinking of Uxía treating Paul’s injuries here, but either of them treating Bárbara’s injuries is a strong contender too. The whole situation is so messy, and while Paul seems like he might have accepted the situation, there’s always room for doubt.
Tentacle sex – Whether with Dagon, or how Uxía’s tentacles would factor into sex between her and Paul.
Bárbara survives to give birth to Dagon’s baby. Paul looks after her, protecting her from Uxía. How does this pan out? Is Paul quietly planning to help her escape (and maybe escape himself?), or does he start out that way, but eventually comes around to the joys of Dagon, and wants Bárbara to share his joy?
The pure nightmare fuel of being pregnant with a baby that might be completely normal or might be a hideous tentacled squid-monster.
Worldbuilding exploring what it’s like underwater.
Femdom – Uxía gently doms Paul.
Jealous of Paul's continuing love for Bárbara, Uxía sets out to know her better, because she wants to understand why Paul can't let her go.
Or alternatively, because she wants Paul to be happy, and she wants everyone to share in the joys of Dagon, Uxía uses seduction and aphrodisiac-esque drugs to bring Bárbara around.
After seeing the way they look underwater, Paul gradually grows more fascinated/attracted to/aroused by Uxía's tentacles.
Something Made Them Do It - Uxía orders Paul to go down on/have sex with Bárbara (sex pollen optional), and will hurt Bárbara if he doesn't.
Character Study of anyone and/or everyone. Uxía's worldview and comple unquestioning acceptance of everything that's going on, Paul's life before returning to the village, never really happy and not quite sure why, and Bárbara if she survives, and how she'd cope with the horrors going on around her.
An AU where Bárbara is the long-lost child returning to the place of her conception.

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The Frighteners

Requested Ships:
Frank Bannister/Lucy Lynskey & Milton Dammers

Optional Prompts

Characters Team Up To Investigate Something Paranormal/Supernatural – A Case Fic in which Frank, Lucy and Milton investigate something weird going on, possibly at Milton’s insistence, possibly because much like in canon it quickly becomes weird that there really is something weird going on, and Milton is the one who has to be persuaded.
Frank and Milton go undercover to investigate a cult. And if you want to make that a Lovecraftian cult, then please do.
Milton tries to come to terms with being dead.
TFW when the ghost of your enemy turns up uninvited to your wedding and refuses to go away until you help him, except he doesn't even know what sort of help he wants and he's driving you up the wall because death hasn't made him any less of an asshole.
Enemies Forced to Work Together; Caustic Banter Ensues – Because even if they are working together, that doesn’t mean they have to like each other.
OK, it was probably inevitable that Frank was going to gather more ghosts around him after losing Cyrus, Stuart and the Judge, but seriously this guy?
Scars – Because even before I watched Re-Animator and caught a bad case of blorbo (*gestures sheepishly at the rest of my sign-up*) the ‘my body is a roadmap of pain!’ bit of this was formative (and Herbert West was a goddamn revelation, ok). What the fuck happened to him? Were those scars the result of one incident or many? Backstory, please?
They find themselves stranded together somewhere creepy like a haunted building or an isolated motel
"normally we're on opposite sides and i don't/shouldn't like you but hey are you okay?" – Frank is reluctantly starting to worry about Milton.

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From Beyond

Requested Ships:
Katherine McMichaels/Crawford Tillinghast

My OTP of OTPs for this film is Crawford/Katherine, but I also ship Crawford/Katherine/Bubba, and all the permutations of fucked-up Crawford/Pretorius/Katherine. There are so many character notes that I really, really love: like Crawford taking the bed in Dr Pretorius's room, having presumably given Katherine his own bedroom because it's the gentlemanly thing to do even though it's possible to infer that some very, very unpleasant things have happened to him in Pretorius’s room. Or that moment early on where she strokes his hair tenderly and then sends him off to get an MRI while he desperately begs her not to. Their relationship is such a mix of genuinely sweet and deeply uncomfortable, and it leaves me wondering if perhaps she reminds Crawford subconsciously of Pretorius, and that's part of why he's attracted to her (and oh god that's the creepiest fucking thing). Also, hot fucking damn, that *kiss*.

And oh man, *Bubba.* I grew up watching Dawn of the Dead a lot, and it remains one of my favourite films of all time, so yep, I am extremely fond of Bubba. I’m delighted by the way he towers over the pair of them, the way he watches over and looks after them both, and the way, when the sexual tension starts to ramp up, he’s included creepy intimacy of that moment where he admits to getting an erection. Which is to say I am very much here for Crawford/Katherine/Bubba, and I’m fascinated by how the dynamic would shake out given how intense the Crawford/Katherine relationship is. Maybe because he's older and not as damaged as Crawford (or as horny as Katherine) he sort of acts like an anchor for the two of them? I’d also love to see just about every permutation of Crawford/Pretorius/Katherine explored too, including monster-fucking.

Optional Prompts

The more I think about that ending the more it sticks with me, how it’s a circular narrative, with Crawford beginning the film under Pretorius’s control and ending it that way too. And I’m guessing Pretorius isn’t impotent any more. It’s so bleak, the idea of him being tormented, tortured and eaten (ideally with the focus on body horror rather than vore), only to be reborn over and over again, and I would be very much here for some extremely dubiously consensual, abusive, domineering tentacle sex, and body horror.
Smut – It sure would be a shame if those manacles went to waste.
Post-canon fic where Crawford and Katherine explore the world beyond, like the mysterious temple mentioned in the original story, and all the creatures who inhabit it. Maybe they’re more or less normal, maybe they’re changing into something monstrous (but that doesn’t necessarily need to be a bad thing). Anything is welcome for this prompt, from horror, worldbuilding, smut, or something much gentler and fluffier.
More smut – I just want Katherine to gently dom Crawford. Maybe they stumble across an overly friendly tentacle monster and after escaping from its clutches it occurs to her it could have its uses.
A fix-it where Katherine sets out to rescue Crawford.
Or a canon divergent fic where Crawford appears to have escaped the effects of the Resonator at the end, but it gradually becomes clear that although he looked normal at first, he came back wrong.
I cannot emphasise enough how here I am for Crawford having his boundaries trampled on and getting bad-touched, either by Katherine while she’s being affected by the resonator or by Dr Pretorius. I would very much like to see the relationship between Crawford and Pretorius explored, and I think there's a lot to dig into. Like the bit where he yells that Pretorius doesn't know how to give pleasure, only pain, and the question of how he'd know Pretorius was impotent because there's really no good answer to that question. Give me something where Pretorius feels up Crawford instead of (or as well as) Katherine, or where Pretorius encourages her to join in. Bad Guys Made Them Do It scenarios are especially welcome here.
So how did Dr Pretorius manage to turn the Resonator back on? Does he (and Crawford after the end of the film) retain an awareness of the normal plane of existence, and some ability to manipulate it?
Sex pollen! During the early part of the film, Katherine, Crawford and Bubba are affected by tentacles from the other dimension that dose them with sex pollen

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House on Haunted Hill

Requested Ships:
Dr Richard B Vannacutt & The House
Watson Pritchett & Dr Richard B Vannacutt
Watson Pritchett & The House
Watson Pritchett/Dr Richard B Vannacutt

Note: This request is specifically for the first film, and it’s fine for Return to House on Haunted Hill to be ignored. If you do include it, please avoid having the evil in the house being purely due to the Baphomet Idol.

Optional Prompts

Adolescence is tough enough as it is, without having to go through it while you're living in a haunted house that can't seem to decide whether it wants to fuck you or kill you.
Explore the deaths of Pritchett's father and grandfather, because it feels like there are a lot of unanswered questions there. Did the house exert any influence over them? Could Pritchett’s father have murdered his grandfather? How did his father really die?
A both hates and loves how good the sex with B is – Vannacutt/Pritchett (because the more I think about shipping them, the harder I ship them.)
Character is forced to work with someone who scares them – I’m intrigued by what it means to be a ghost and how much free will they have. Pritchett has to work with Vannacutt for reasons (especially delighted by the idea of this considering how Pritchett crapped himself when he recognised Vannacutt’s description).
So how does Pritchett manage to resist the Shadow at the end in order to free Sara and Eddie, when seemingly no one else was able to resist?
Something revolving around the stained glass ceiling, because creepy though it is is just suggest a marginally less evil side to Vannacutt and the idea of good people being corrupted by evil will always fascinate me.
Character with trauma is freaked out and turned on by getting tied up – Specifically thinking of Pritchett here, the poor little bastard. XD
Conversations In Liminal Spaces On The Border Of One World And Another – Ghost!Pritchett and ghost!Vannacutt have a conversation.
Evil!Pritchett – A canon-divergent fic where Pritchett isn’t so resistant to the house. How would that affect canon?
Entering someone's dreams/nightmares – Vannacutt and/or the Shadow enter Pritchett’s dreams, where pre-, during, or post-canon.
Identity Porn - Identity Issues due to Time Travel – Pritchett travels back in time to the 20s-30s, and finds himself caught up in events at the asylum. Could he potentially change the way events pan out?
Character saves their younger self from trauma – Ghost!Pritchett realises it’s possible to travel through time and interact with his younger self.
Vannacutt manages to escape the house. There’s a deleted scene (after the credits roll in this video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zdo8voI87LI) in which Vannacutt brings the real Jennifer Jenzen to the house, and another scene where his spot being tortured is taken by Price. Which leads me to wonder if it’s possible for him to buy his freedom, or if he’s figured out a way to outwit the house.
Explore what the hell was going on with that chair. Was Vannacutt listening to the Darkness, or was it potentially a seduction/sex thing?
A corruption arc! Either for Vannacutt or for Pritchett. Or, conversely, a redemption arc for Vannacutt, or Vannacutt getting a redemption arc while Pritchett goes the other way. I really love the idea of the house seducing people into evil (the second film goes harder on that, and iirc explicitly states that Vannacutt wasn’t always a monster), and the question of whether someone who’s done terrible things can really be redeemed.
Lovecraftian horror. I’d love to see something that goes hard on the Lovecraftian elements in the plot, the idea of this ancient nameless evil existing even before the house was built, and of what the Darkness at the heart of the house really is.
Tentacles made them do it. – Probably no surprises that I have Pritchett/Vannacutt in mind here.

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Motivational Growth

Requested Characters:
Ian Foliver & The Mold
Ian Folivor/The Mold

There are essentially two (very broad) things I want for this request: 1.) Worldbuilding, and 2.) More interaction between Ian and the Mold.

Optional Prompts

Altered States – Fever Dreams/Hallucinations – Give me more of the Mold casually fucking with Ian, more surreal and weirdly foreboding hallucinations.
Antagonism - characters don't like each other but nobody else understands them this well – Whether set during canon or afterwards. Granted, the Mold is terrible, but he’s the only being who really understands Ian, particularly now that Ian may not exactly be human any more. Is the Mold still fucking with him, or now that he’s achieved whatever he wanted to achieve, is their relationship less antagonistic?
Ian wakes up in an entirely mundane at first glance universe where he is living a normal life, has a different apartment and a job and maybe even a girlfriend and everything that happened with the Mold was just a dream. Then due to a twist of fate he runs into a stranger who sounds unnervingly familiar and that's the catalyst that causes reality to bleed through.
Ian (because he's now at least partially part of the Mold?) gains the ability to see through/tap into the experience of other Molds, and starts to have visions of an alien world or space station.
In Captivity Together – Assuming the Mold is an escaped criminal as hinted at by one of the in-universe clips, he’s recaptured and thrown back into whatever passes for a prison, and unfortunately, since Ian is now part of the Mold, he’s thrown into prison right alongside him.
Possessiveness - No One Is Allowed to Hurt You Except Me – Despite everything, the Mold’s actually grown a bit fond of Ian.
Time Loop – canon goes a little bit time-loopy at the end there, so expand on that a little bit.
So x months down the line and having inadvertently brought about the apocalypse, Ian returns to his apartment to confront the Mold.

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The Professionals

Requested Ships
William Bodie/George Cowley
William Bodie/Ray Doyle
George Cowley/Elizabeth Walsh
George Cowley/Annie Irvine

William Bodie/Ray Doyle, George Cowley/William Bodie

And then there’s Cowley/Bodie. This ship hit me pretty hard after a chance comment got me thinking how it would work, and then in the middle of that I watched Need to Know, and noticed that little bit where Cowley brushes back Bodie's hair after administering oxygen (all Doyle gets is a cheek pat), and huh, okay, turns out I do actually ship it, and turns out I really ship it.

I'm nearly always drawn to age-gap relationships anyway, and something about this particular age gap ship just really appeals -- it's something about the mix of loyalty, trust issues, and the low-level disapproval on Cowley's part - his little dig about how it's not like Bodie will ever have to worry about it when the subject of them needing his permission to get married comes up (also Bodie's 'Wait, what?' reaction, XD). Even aside from the age gap, there are so many fundamental differences between them -- faith, repression, romanticism, etc -- but in a way that gets me wanting to see just how they'd fit together, as well as all the different ways they could fit together.

I’m also fascinated by the way Bodie and Cowley sort of mirror each other in their early lives, and the way they both ran away from home at a young age to fight abroad… A LOT of this is headcanon, but I see Cowley as having left a happy and supportive home to fight for a cause he absolutely believed in, while Bodie is basically the polar opposite, running away from an abusive home, and fighting for one group or another, and ultimately never believing in anything, until maybe CI5, and even then it takes him a while to come round to that.

Repression and trust issues and pining (mutual or otherwise) are always golden, as well as imperfect awkward sex and scenarios where they're both out of their depth and forced to rely on each other. Not to mention having to keep any relationship secret and/or self-denial because of Cowley's 'No Fraternisation Between Agents' rule. And Bad Guys Made Them Do It scenarios, which take on an extra layer of interest if it's Cowley being made to fuck Bodie -- that delicious additional guilt during and afterwards because ultimately Cowley is the one responsible for their safety. Just... fucking yes please. That, and the delicious guilt and angst of the aftermath.

There absolutely doesn't need to be a happy ending. Oh, and I should mention that background Bodie/Doyle is welcome here too.

Optional Prompts (some of these have been written with specific ships/characters in mind, but please feel free to mix and match)

Casefic, or elements from a partially realised casefic, whether canon-typical or something which takes them out of their comfort zones.
5 + 1 ways of livening up surveillance detail.
Bonding in captivity – whether as a result of trauma and torture, or being imprisoned together somewhere dark and claustrophobic.
Ever seen Randall and Hopkirk (Deceased)? Well, that AU, where one half of the pairing is a ghost the other can’t see, whether the ghost is potentially a sign that the other one is cracking up, or an actual literal ghost, and the first case they have to solve together is who murdered him. I was thinking Bodie/Doyle for this, with one of them as the ghost, but Cowley as the ghost (and absolutely livid about it) would be great too, whichever ship you go with.
If they do get together, how does it happen? How do they come to realise they have feelings for the other? When it starts is it just about sex, or is the sexual attraction develop out of a result of their bond?
The bit in Stake Out where Bodie flung himself across a bowling alley to manhandle Doyle to the floor to stop him from kicking off at an aggressive member of the public, including hooking his leg over Doyle's in the process, did things to me. More undercover stuff please, with them both trying to keep a low profile, and having to rely on the other one to rein them in. Additional manhandling is optional, but very much appreciated.
”Casual” sex turning tender - (both ships) neither character thinks the other has any genuine feelings, or maybe the sex is just something that keeps happening without either of them ever intending it to. What happens when tenderness starts creeping in? Is it mutual? Is the other party unnerved by it? Into it? Or both?
Aftermath of Torture – Character trying to hold it together is clearly low-key fraying at the edges - Either paring, any character. Trying to remain stoic and refusing help much to the frustration of the other/s. If Cowley’s the whumped character then maybe it could be a semi-fakeout, where he’s using his weakness as bait, and it works, but actually he’s suffering too.
Agonisingly slow build-up of sexual tension - Along with copious amounts of mutual self-denial and pining, while trying to hide the mutual attraction from each other/other people/themselves.
A zombie apocalypse AU, or some other apocalyptic scenario. Always and forever one of my favourite tropes. Or alternatively, if you’re familiar with it, a crossover with Survivors, even if it only uses the other series as a backdrop for desperate ‘us against the crumbling world’ sex.
Character A confesses feelings because they think Character B is unconscious - Man, the awkwardness and painful aftermath, the self-doubt and the questioning – did they mishear? Should they say anything, or would it be better to pretend they didn’t hear?
While working undercover, one half of the couple is forced to torture the other to maintain their cover
Complicated feelings of love and loyalty and hurt and resentment - For either pairing really, although I have to admit I have Cowley/Bodie in mind specifically. Just a relationship study, really, examining all the complicated trust issues and matters of loyalty
Estranged Characters – Injured A shows up on B’s doorstep saying ‘I didn’t know where else to go’. – future fic or canon-divergent where the injured character has gone AWOL or otherwise rogue.
Fighting/sparring as foreplay – I mean, the usual, but for Cowley/Bodie this would probably also include Cowley watching (disapprovingly?) as Bodie gets the shit kicked out of him by Macklin, followed by something that could theoretically be described as comfort if you squint. For Bodie/Doyle, them enjoying sparring with each other.
Cowley goes rogue. Is it for real, or another ruse?
Country House Party – Weird time-slip where they find themselves in an interwar house party that ended in murder. Ghosts? Inexplicable events that are never explained beyond handwavy nonsense? A Sapphire & Steel crossover? Or is this just an excuse to get them into period dress?
Time Loop – the part where the looper breaks and stops giving any fucks – Again any character, but I admit I’m thinking of Cowley here, mainly because I’m delighted by the idea of him being thwarted at every turn and then just going FUCK THIS.
Character A and Character B Mutually Pine For Each Other While They Fuck Other People Together -- I'm specifically thinking of Bodie/Doyle (Cowley would NEVER), but dear god do I love it for them. The drunken aftermath of a double date turns orgiastic, or else one of the lads has been stood up or had an argument with his girlfriend, and the other's girlfriend insists he join them to cheer him up.
And of course now that I've said that Cowley would NEVER, I'm immediately trying to think of situations in which he would. *sigh* I suppose the most likely scenario is a combination of the procuring an undercover Bodie claims to do in Take Away and everything that happens with Anna in The Untouchables -- another party who knows this is a CI5 operation and is working with full consent. So a 'Sex while undercover' scenario, probably?
Bodysharing - one of them commenting/giving orders while the other jerks off -- Ahaha, <3. I love this tag so much. Either pairing, either character. Although I do have to admit, that while it would be especially weird and filthy and fun for Bodie/Doyle, the idea of this for Cowley/Bodie fills me with glee. God, it would be excruciating and I can't figure out which scenario I like more: Bodie trying to have a surreptitious wank when he thinks Cowley isn't looking, and his dawning horror at the first sour comment, or while Bodie's inside Cowley some of his general horniness rubs off on him, and even when Cowley was young he hadn't been as horny as this all the damn time, what the hell, man? It appeals so much, the two of them trying to make it work as best they can until they can get the mess fixed, and grudgingly actually getting sort of into it, weird and fucked up as it is.
sex under the stars – Ohhh, I love this tag: the romanticism of sex outdoors, the setting and potential for scenery porn, the low-level risk of semi-public sex, and the suggestion that they’re so turned on they can’t keep their hands off each other. How does it come about? Are they camping for plot reasons, on a stake-out, stranded in nature for some reason?
Authority Figure Societally Expected To Have Sex With Subordinate – I obviously had Cowley/Bodie in mind for this, but if you want to use it for Bodie/Doyle instead, then please do. I can see a couple of ways that’d work – an AU where either Bodie or Doyle is the other’s subordinate, OR where Cowley being expected to have sex with his subordinates is part of the background to the Bodie/Doyle ship (a Droit du Seigneur situation which arises when two of his subordinates are in a relationship, which is part of the reason why Cowley discourages relations between his agents because he hates having to fulfil his duties and he is extremely unimpressed every time it happens?) Either way, what appeals with this is how utterly awkward and uncomfortable it would be, and Cowley’s reluctance and impatience with the whole business. I’d love to see the worldbuilding explored whichever ship the focus is on. Would Cowley put it off or grit his teeth and get it over with as soon as possible? Is it a one-off, or is he expected to keep it up on a regular basis? (and oh, bless him, but he’s not as young as he used to be and CI5 has a LOT of agents) Or maybe he does usually try to keep it a one-off, although nominally it isn’t meant to be, but for some reason he keeps fulfilling his statutory duties with Bodie more often than he does with his other agents… (or that Droit de Seigneur situation again, where Bodie keeps submitting fraternisation request forms for different people, and Cowley gets progressively more exasperated every time he has to fuck him, until he realises that Bodie hasn’t so much as gone on a date with the party named in the most recent form (but why? Is it an excuse to fuck Cowley, or a form of bratty non-violent protest, which leads to the two of them bonding over their mutual resentment at the practice).
A Doomsday fusion (the 2008 Neil Marshall film). I'm assuming Cowley's in the Bob Hoskins role, as much as I'd secretly love to see him facing off against a bunch of Mad Max style Scottish cannibals. (And it's not like he's explicitly sending them north of the wall to get him some Scotch, but have you seen what the price of single malt is on the black market these days?)

George Cowley/Elizabeth Walsh and George Cowley/Annie Irvine

Optional Prompts

Okay, so what the hell did happen with Annie Irvine? Explore their backstory. When they meet Annie says it’s been about ten years since they last met, so depending on how you figure the timeline that must have been significantly after their university days. Was he at her wedding? I have so many questions.
What did Annie actually say to Bodie and Doyle which made them so reluctant to share with Cowley?
Give me something that follows on from the ending of Look After Annie. Do their paths cross again? Where do they go from there?
Give me an AU of that episode where events go differently.
Bad Guys Made Them Do It. Always. <3<3<3 (and oh god, the guilt! The terrible all-consuming guilt!).
A zombie apocalypse AU, or some other apocalyptic scenario. Always and forever one of my favourite tropes. Or alternatively, if you’re familiar with it, a crossover with Survivors, even if it only uses the other series as a backdrop for desperate ‘us against the crumbling world’ sex.
Hurt/Comfort - Cowley is injured during a case, and the other character reluctantly starts looking in on him despite his protests.
Experience – Experienced/Inexperienced – Look, he’s been pining after Annie for, what, twenty years or so, so chances are he hasn’t had that much experience with women.
They’re stranded at some isolated out-of the way place, which is potentially derelict, where the forced proximity puts them in a position where they have to work together and get over any potential awkwardness.
The aftermath of Spy Probe. Cowley takes Elizabeth out to dinner as a way of saying thank you (well, he claims that’s his primary motivation), and walks her back to her hotel room afterwards. (and while I haven’t requested it for this particular exchange I do love the freeform: Late-Night Discussions Outside in the Gently Falling Rain.) Luckily she’s not quite as reticent as he is, and since someone did just try to have her murdered, the least he could do is double-check her hotel room to make sure it’s safe.
Or Cowley/Elizabeth but a slower courtship, where he starts picking her brains on a regular basis and they start to see more and more of each other, until they’ve get as familiar with each other as an old married couple, only without the sex. And then they have sex.
Back in their MI5 days Cowley and Elizabeth narrowly avoided having to have sex to maintain their cover. They both pretended to be relieved about it at the time, but secretly they’ve both regretted it since then.
The AU where my completely off-base assumption that Elizabeth was behind the killings wasn’t quite so off-base, and her arranging her own attempted murder was a set-up to get her inside CI5 because she knew Cowley wouldn’t be able to resist. Except he suspects, and the whole thing is the two of them trying to out-think each other, combined with genuine professional mutual admiration and sexual attraction.
An epistolary fic where they kept in touch by exchanging letters over the years.
Get Together – Character recovering from torture gets taken care of by the person they’re pining for – When Cowley and the other character's paths meet again after a case has gone wrong, she reluctantly starts looking in on him despite his protests.
Smut – guiding an inexperienced partner in how to perform cunnilingus – Look, he’s been pining after Annie for, what, twenty years or so, so chances are he hasn’t had that much experience with women.
Undercover as a couple leads to mutual feelings – When their paths cross again, Cowley poses as Annie’s lover to protect her.
5 Times Cowley had his heart broken.

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Re-Animator

Requested Ship:
Herbert West/Dan Cain

Canon-specific DNW: Please pretend that the scenes of sexual violence against women in Beyond Re-Animator never happened. References to the Meg/Hill scene in the first film are fine though, and I’m also fine with noncon by a third party where Herbert is the victim.

I’d love anything that goes hard on the hurt/comfort and mutual protectiveness between Herbert and Dan, or anything that captures the tone and bonkers exuberance, gore, humour and horror of the films. Maybe something that explores what happens in between the films, especially between the first and second films, because damn, are there some unanswered questions there – like how did Meg’s heart come to be outside of her body, and how the hell did Herbert manage to persuade Dan to go to Peru with him? And any of the reunions where an apparently dead Herbert pops up again. I also cannot emphasise enough how here I am for Herbert getting menaced and/or whumped.

And then there’s the third film. While I have reservations about it, Dan turning state’s evidence on Herbert isn’t one of them. I am a complete sucker for relationships which are a mixture of loyalty and betrayal and horribly messy feelings, and I really like the way it shifts the balance of their relationship, especially considering the unfortunate consequences and the hellhole of a prison Herbert ends up getting thrown into. The way it hints at the way he’s suffered without ever quite going into details (the years in solitary), along with that moment when the warden hits him… and Herbert’s very deliberate act of revenge on the warden, which I firmly believe is something the Herbert of thirteen years previously would not have contemplated in a million fucking years, just shows how much the experience has changed him. That, and the way he reacts when Howard calls him doctor when they first meet. Mmph. It’s all very painful in a way that hits me right in the id.

Optional Prompts

5 Times Dan Assumed Herbert was Dead – Because in various places, namely the screenplay and the novelisation, he is explicitly stated to have died at the end of the first film and I like the idea of him repeatedly appearing to die and popping up again mostly unscathed (and I’m amused that the one film where he doesn’t appear to die at the end is the one in which Dan does not appear. XD).
5 ways character's typical routine plays out slightly differently – Because I’m curious about what a day in the life looks like for both of them.
Accidental Baby Acquisition – I mean, they’re doctors. It’s not beyond the realms of possibility that they might find themselves in a situation where they have to deliver a baby in a crisis (possibly involving zombies), and end up separated from the mother and stuck having to look after the baby.
Addiction - Character tries to distract Addict from addiction with sex – Dan tries to break Herbert’s reliance on the serum.
Alternate Universe - Russian Doll Fusion – I love time loops in all their forms anyway, but this one in particular, with its focus on constant, unrelenting death, and the way the discovery that you’re sharing the loop with another person would play out with these two is perfect. (and for time loops in general, Herbert adapting his work to take full advantage of the loop (er, an endless supply of fresh corpses with no consequences, having to memorise the results because he can’t write them down…)
Alternate Universe - Zombie Apocalypse – Always and forever one of my favourite AUs. Was it Herbert’s fault, or was he entirely innocent for once?
Hurt/Comfort - Drug Withdrawal; Love Interest Helps Them Getting Though It – Yeeep, I wish that deleted scene had been included in the film. I have some quiet headcanons about Herbert injecting himself with reagent, and amongst them being the fact that avoiding sleep is really, really not a good idea, and that maybe the times when he’s at his most batshit are the times when he’s suffering from chronic sleep-deprivation. All of which convinces Dan to help him to break the habit.
Bad Guys Made Them Do It – and every other iteration of Something Made Them Do It.
Betray them to save them – Dan’s presence looms so large in Beyond Reanimator even though he doesn’t appear. I can definitely see a situation where Dan got to a point where he couldn’t see any other choice, and he genuinely believed if things carried on the way they were that Herbert was going to get himself killed. I’d love to see that decision explored and the fallout when/if they’re reunited and he realises what Herbert’s been through.
Character with injured hands requires assistance (which turns sexual) – Here for the hurt/comfort and smut potential of this (and also very fond of one character shaving another.)
Inspired by the novelisation, Dan is completely taken by surprise when Herbert unexpectedly turns out to be massively into ice hockey. Maybe it’s a hobby he only occasionally spares the time for, but either way Dan is extremely weirded out by the prospect of Herbert going to bars and talking to fans.
Herbert goes in search of Dan after the end of Beyond Reanimator. Is he planning on revenge (even if he ultimately can’t face going through with it?) Does something else happen as a catalyst that forces them to work together again? I’d love to see all the messy hurt/comfort and emotional fallout of everything that happened.
How might things have played out if Meg hadn’t been so hostile to Herbert from the get-go? Maybe if she hadn’t been there when he came about the room, allowing Dan to prime her for his oddball roommate beforehand? And if she hadn’t walked in on them bringing Rufus back, which meant that Dan wouldn’t have fallen out with Dean Halsey, who then wouldn’t have died, etc etc. It’s interesting how differently Herbert treats Francesca. While he’s not exactly polite to her (XD) he tolerates her presence in a way he doesn’t really tolerate Meg’s, and I can’t help but read that as at least partially being the result of Meg’s attitude towards him.
A canon-divergent AU where Francesca isn’t on the scene and the creation of the Bride is much more successful, and she isn’t quite so much of a monster. Mainly because I’m really curious what the hell Herbert actually had in mind beyond keeping Dan with him at all costs. (And for the record, I’m completely open to Herbert/Dan/The Bride in whatever form that takes.)

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Star Trek: Deep Space Nine

Requested Ships:
Quark/Brunt
Ishka & Brunt

Quark/Brunt

It’s fascinating how much their relationship shifts throughout the series, going from entirely antagonistic to some degree of them being willing to work together even though Brunt’s ultimately always out for himself. There’s actually a lot of common ground between them – compared to just about everyone else in his family Quark’s a traditional Ferengi (or at least he wishes he was a traditional Ferengi), and it’s probably only because of his very non-traditional mother (Ishka, you glorious creature, you <3<3<3) that they end up at odds. I found their reactions to the changes on Ferenginar in The Dogs of War, with Quark outraged while Brunt is much more pragmatic, pretty damn interesting, given how very, very bound to tradition Brunt’s been throughout the series, and granted he’s trying to suck up to and manipulate Quark, but still… (and as an aside, that bit when he drops to his knees and kisses Quark’s hand? *eyes*)

Explore the worldbuilding – I’m guessing Ferenginar isn’t exactly the most progressive place when it comes to gay relationships – and repression, denial, and internalised homophobia on one or both their parts are all welcome. One of my prompts suggests Quark/Natima/Brunt and I’d be interested in seeing that sort of this explored in terms of worldbuilding. Maybe M/M relationships are more accepted in the context of a M/M/F poly relationship because at least that solves the question of who pre-chews the tube grubs? In theory at least...

It’s also fine to write about their mirror universe counterparts instead, whether the story is focused on the actual mirror universe versions (and canon-divergent AUs are always welcome, btw), or something that involves pining while fucking the mirror-universe counterpart of the object of your affections, or a selfcest threesome (We barely saw Mirror Universe! Quark, but Mirror Universe!Brunt is such a sweetheart and I just want him to have nice things. D:). I also really, really love the look of (male) Ferengi clothing, so if you want to go all-out on clothing porn, then please do, as well as exploring any avenues of clothed or clothed/unclothed sex you might want to go down.

Optional Prompts

'Dirty little secret' relationship leads to Too Many Feelings leads to unexpected marriage proposal – Because I am so here for the two of them having a secret relationship on the downlow, and maybe they keep telling themselves it’s just about sex and it doesn’t mean anything, but actually...
Accidental Marriage – When they’re on an alien planet negotiating a contract, they accidentally wind up married (maybe because in that planet’s laws rivalry is considered a sign of great regard), and this cannot stand. Turns out getting it annulled is a little trickier than first envisioned, and in the meantime pining, forced proximity, and sex-of-convenience ensues.
Accidental Soulbond - distance and lack of touch and regular sex causes characters pain and illness
All the Enemies to Lovers and Enemies to Enemies Who Fuck tropes, please, from ’Receiving vaguely threatening but confusingly sexy oo-mox from antagonist’ to ‘Enemies With Benefits Slowly Falling in Love’.
Sex pollen, and/or the aftermath.
Angry Sex – I am so, so here for the two of them hatefucking, and for moments of unexpected tenderness in the middle of the hatefucking.
A relationship study that looks at how things might develop between the two of them after the end of the series, with neither of them entirely happy about the changes on Ferenginar.
Character A mistakenly thinks character B is only in it for sex – Because pining while having sex is one of my favourite things.
Characters don't realise they're in a relationship but everyone else can see it – Maybe Brunt keeps finding reasons to return to Deep Space Nice to make Quark’s life a misery, and Quark does everything he can to irritate Brunt, and neither of the two of them wants to admit that actually they’re sort of starting to enjoy each other’s company, while as far as everyone else is concerned they’re already basically together.
A post-canon fic with an established relationship between Quark and Brunt. They’re… sort of settled. Almost happy. And then, like a hand grenade tossed into the middle of their relationship, Quark’s old lover Natima Lang comes back. Somehow Brunt finds out what happened between them and is torn between horrified disgust at Quark being willing to abandon everything to run off with her and seething jealousy because he thinks, rightly or wrongly, that Quark wouldn't do that for HIM in a million years. Maybe Quark and Natima have both moved on with no lingering feelings other than a faint poignant ‘what might have been’, or maybe they’re still as in love with each other as ever and the only way to resolve this is with Quark/Natima/Brunt.
Another post-canon fic in which not only are they an established relationship but they also have a kid (preferably a boy, please, unless the focus is on them both overcoming their terrible ingrained sexism to the point where it’s probably going to be a bit ooc, let’s face it-*). Brunt’s traditional Ferengi parenting and Quark’s slightly less traditional Ferengi parenting, vs everyone else in Quark’s family undermining them at every turn. Possibly a 5+1 format?
Having met by chance with an oddly familiar stranger in a bar who shares his animosity for Quark, Brunt obtains a copy of a unique holosuite program involving Major Kira with Quark’s head in return for a discounted price and the promise to use it to destroy Quark. Which would be easier to do if he could just stop thinking about how it would be better with Quark’s head on Quark’s body. To facilitate Getting Revenge, obviously. (And just as soon as he figures out why the hell Quark would make the program so damn good at oo-mox if it was written for a non-Ferengi).
So, um, those scenes in The Dogs of War when Brunt is sucking up to Quark because they both think Zek is going to appoint him the next Grand Nagus? He’d be remiss if he forgot Rule 113 of the Rules of Acquisition: Always have sex with the boss.

Ishka & Brunt

I cannot emphasise enough how much I adore Ishka, scheming and plotting, and virtually singlehandedly causing a complete cultural change on Ferenginar, not only bringing the emancipation of Ferengi females everywhere but the labour rights movement. She is amazing, and I’d love to see more of what the women’s rights movement looks like on Ferenginar. Is there an underground network of women quietly operating under the noses of the FCA? Does she know Pel? Is she still conducting business (FTR, I strongly headcanon that she is. :D)?

As a Brunt/Quark shipper, I very much appreciate the role she plays in ma/9king Brunt fixate on Quark in the first place, and I’d very much like to see something of what’s going on in Ferenginar in between the episodes in which she plays a part. I’m curious too about the inconsistencies: when Quark breaks his contract with Brunt in Body Parts, Brunt says it should bring about the ruin of his family, but it doesn’t actually seem to impact much on her at all. Possibly this is explained somewhere and I just missed it, but my personal headcanon for this is that she managed to create her own safety net with the money she didn’t declare to the FCA, setting it up so that it looked like the work of a distant male relative, and driving Brunt batshit trying to bring her down.

If you want to bring Brunt/Quark into it, then please do, but I’d be just as delighted with a purely gen fic about the two of them scheming and trying to thwart the other’s plans, or alternatively, them having to work together for once.

Optional Prompts

When he agreed to help rescue Ishka from the Dominion, Brunt hadn’t realised that since he’s the one with the ship, that also means he’s also the one stuck transporting her back to Ferenginar. Does something happen on the trip that forces them to work together, or is the entire journey the two of them irritating the hell out of each other?
Ishka figures out why Brunt is so fixated on bringing Quark down. And, well, okay, yes, Brunt is terrible, but also he’s a good Ferengi, and frankly, Quark could probably do worse. *shrug*
Five times Ishka and Brunt thwarted each other’s schemes (and the one time they actually brought about a net benefit for everyone involved)
Any missing scene of what’s going on on Ferenginar in-between when we see it in the show, such as the institution of the Congress of Economic Advisors.
Mirror Universe!Brunt is such a sweetheart. What’s Mirror Universe!Ishka like?
Brunt visits Ishka after she and Zek have retired to Risa in the hopes of persuading her to put in a good word for him with Grand Nagus Rom.

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Star Trek: Lower Decks

Requested Shipss:
AGIMUS/Peanut Hamper

And then there's those awful things they could do together, which should definitely involve them trying to take over the universe, or at least a planet. Or , alternatively, by time-travelling back to the Dominion War and fucking things up for everyone. *eyes* (FTR, I am very, very excited that canon seems to be seeding this very thing.) And yeah, okay, they’d both betray each other in a heartbeat, because they’re both terrible, but frankly that’s a feature, not a bug.

Optional Prompts

Prison break! Prison break! Prison break! How does it work? How do they pull it off? Do they each try to betray the other at the last minute and then manage to escape together anyway?
A relationship study. I’m just really drawn to the question of how they’d fit together. They’re both the wooooorst: he’s explicitly evil, she’s amoral and selfish, and I just really, really want to know how it would work between them, whether they’re constantly trying to maniuplate and betray each other, or if they can actually sort of manage to make it work (give or take the odd betrayal).
Everyday life in the Daystrom Institute. What do those evil AIs do all day? Are they constantly scheming against each other? How often does one of them try to take over the lab? Is there a change when Peanut Hamper arrives since she’s an exocomp, and not just a computer, which means she can’t just be locked away? What’s it like to be a researcher in that lab, constantly having to deal with scheming Ais?
Something goes wrong which means the AIs have to work together, which is unfortunate since aside from Peanut Hamper they’re mostly useless, either scheming to outwit each other or needing to be rescued from crabs or whatever (ok, I imprinted pretty damn hard on Boimler carrying AGIMUS in a makeshift baby sling). Maybe there’s an attack on the Institute, or while being transported somewhere, the ship crashes, or there’s a holosuite malfunction which the AIs have to deal with. (Possibly involving Badgey)
Smut. Look, he’s canonically obsessed with plugging his tentacles into every socket going, so... I’m here for PWP, an exploration of what a sexual relationship between them would look like, considering… And it strikes me that there are some interesting trust issues to be explored too.
It seems like there are quite a few supercomputers manipulating entire planets into being at war with each other in this series. There’s one mentioned in the first episode, and aside from AGIMUS, I’m pretty sure there’s at least one other… An omnipotent being gathers them all together and pits them against each other in a battle of the evil AIs.
Time travel to the Dominion War. I’ve already mentioned how I think canon is working towards this, and hot fucking damn do I want to see it happen. Peanut Hamper undercover as a dabo girl at Quark’s! AGIMUS interacting with Weyoun! Both of them trying to fuck things up for the Federation because that was the plan, but oh, huh, turns out there’s a lot of opportunity for manipulation and strife within the Dominion itself...
Sentient Computer Has Hardware and/or Software Installed To Sleep With Their Partner -- Because I'm guessing sex has tended to come somewhere at the bottom of his agenda, somewhere beneath not getting carried off by crabs and obtaining the resources to build murder drones.

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Thanks for reading!

Yuletide 2022 Letter

AO3 Username: StopTalkingAtMe

General Likes
Smut Likes
DNWs
Doomsday (2008)
Hamlet (1969)
I Know What You Did Last Summer
Supernatural (1977)
Whisky Galore

General Likes and DNWs

General Likes

Character studies and introspection
Loneliness and isolation
Angst
Atmospheric description, scenery porn, sensory description
World-building, backstory, and character development.
Horror.
Closed Circle - Stranded with a murderer in your midst, whether in horror or murder mystery. Think And Then There Were None.
Case-fic, whether fully realised or just touching on elements from a case.
Whump, hurt/comfort and hurt/no comfort.
Endings of all kinds, happy, bleak or bittersweet.
Canon-divergent AUs, especially post-canon ones where the bad guys win.
Pining, whether mutual or one-sided
Repression and stoicism
Descriptions of scars
Main Character Death and grief; characters getting together while still grieving for previous partners, taking solace in each other, the dead character still seeming like a presence in the relationship, etc. (Please note the exception for Whisky Galore!)
Crossovers, especially oddball crossovers that come completely out of left field, although I do tend to prefer crack played straight rather than outright crack. If you have reason to believe I know and like the other fandom, then I encourage you to go for it.
Post-Apocalypse scenarios, including zombies (probably my favourite AU scenario of all time), with focus on angst and the struggle for survival.
Stranded Together With No Way Home, us against the world, deep mutual dependence on the other party because there’s no one else around (which may not be entirely healthy)
Time Loops
Older characters finding love.
Age gap relationships
I really love historical detail and extensive research notes, so if that’s what you’re into then feel free to go wild. (If that’s not your thing, then please don’t worry: I am in no way an expert, and I love tropey indulgent stuff and cheerfully anachronistic fics just as much).
Hair kink. Hands pushed into hair, coiling it around fingers, routinely cutting another character's hair if appropriate in context (e.g. in post-apocalyptic scenarios), hairwashing as part of hurt/comfort, yanking head back by the hair, etc
Textiles, especially knitwear and embroidery; men in jumpers; historical and cultural details and craft in general
Unusual structures and ways of telling a story, such as Rashomon plots, non-linear narratives, outsider POVs, epistolary works, etc.
Cigarette kink: descriptions of smoking, sharing cigarettes, lighting cigarettes for each other, etc.
Finally, and I cannot emphasise this enough, men in sleepwear, particularly pyjamas and dressing gowns.

Smut Likes

Sex Pollen and aftermath, and any other kind of something made them do it scenario
Angry Sex, rough sex, hate sex, rough sex that turns tender
Clothed Sex, or clothed/naked
Comfort Sex
Dubcon when requested (mutual dubcon of the something-made-us-do-it kind is ALWAYS okay even when not explicitly requested)
Mild bondage and other forms of gentle restraint
Oral Sex, especially cunnilingus in all its forms, and ESPECIALLY cunnilingus with fingering
Rough Sex - Lots of Scratching and Biting and Hair-Grabbing/Pulling and Holding Partner(s) Down
Sex in grimy, grim, uncomfortable places
Threesomes
Situations where one character is too tired, injured etc to orgasm themselves, but takes great pleasure in making the other person come, so long as it's part of a wider give-take relationship when it comes to sex.

DNWs

A/B/O
Unreqested Noncon (Bad Guys Made Them Do It scenarios are fine though)
Dubcon involving unaroused characters
Unrequested Incest
Bestiality (monsters don't count here)
Scat and waterplay
Formalised D/s dynamics (bondage and other forms of restraint are OK)
Underage
Het anal sex
Breathplay (antagonistic choking is fine)
Fisting
Sexualised lactation
Any variation of the word 'come' in a sexual context spelled as 'cum' (please use 'come', 'came', 'precome' etc)

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Doomsday

Requested Characters:
Sol, Cally

This film has grown on me so hard over the years. It revels in what it is, and while I wasn't sure about it when it first came out (probably because it wasn’t The Descent), I unashamedly love it now. It’s so gloriously batshit and unrestrained, and I'd love to see the world beyond the wall and its history explored, particularly the relationship between Sol and Cally. How did they come to be in such different places at the start of the film? What was their upbringing like? All kinds of fucked up, presumably, but their relationship with each other and with Kane fascinates me. I’d especially love to see something of how Sol turned into the total fucking maniac that he is at the start of the film and how he came to be the leader of the marauders in the first place.

Oh, and if you want to go with Sol/Cally, whether implied or otherwise (and Sol/Cally/Viper would be very interesting indeed), then please do.

How did Sol come to be the leader of the cannibals? How do the various factions get on generally? And what's life beyond the wall like, either when they were growing up or closer to when canon is set? Explore their backstories, or go with a canon-divergent fic where Sol survives. What’s going to happen to Scotland if a cure is found and there’s no longer an excuse to keep the wall standing with the world still looking on? If the wall comes down, how will the survivors adapt to the new world?

Optional Prompts

How did he become leader of the cannibals? Did they run away from home? Did she originally go with him, but decided to return home because, you know, cannibalism and shit.
A canon-divergent AU where Sol survives. Does he storm the wall with his army and unleash the Reaper Virus on the rest of the UK? Turns out Cally isn't entirely on Sinclair's side after all.
Cally/Sol/Viper? However it turns out, whether dubcon or entirely consensual. An AU where Cally is (almost?) entirely allied with Sol? And they have a messed-up incestuous poly vibe going on?
Cally has to choose between Sol and Captain Sinclair
Captivity – Whether an exploration of Cally being imprisoned by Sol and the Marauders, or Sol being imprisoned by Cally’s father. In canon Cally tells Sinclair he was going to kill her – was he, and if so was he going to do it entirely willingly? (and on this note it’s interesting that Viper targets Sinclair as being specifically for Sol. A replacement for Cally?)
Hurt/Comfort – Yep, I am so here for them having a childhood where they were completely wrapped up in each other and had only each other to turn to for comfort. I’m fine with it being extremely unhealthy (I mean… *gestures at canon*) and incestuous.
Maybe all through their childhoods, Cally and Sol used to talk about how they'd run away together, and then when they're older, they manage it, and run away to Glasgow. What happens before their father drags them back? Or does he only drag Cally back? Is this when Sol gets his first taste of the Maurauders' life? Is this when he meets Viper? Or does Sol appear to sacrifice himself to save his sister, which means she thinks he's dead until by chance she finds out otherwise? Whatever you do, I'd love to see something of them exploring the ruined city together. Maybe for a little while it’s even fun.
Zombie Apocalypse AU – Fast zombies (which I think would fit pretty well with canon) or otherwise.
A canon-divergent fic where Cally still leaves on the helicopter, but Sol survives and goes on to confront his father.
So, post-canon, what happens if they manage to develop a cure, and the wall surrounding Scotland is demolished allowing those beyond to reintegrate with the rest of the country, presumably with all crimes forgotten.
Character Surprised By Their Own Deep Loyalty Feels; Object Of Loyalty Even More Surprised – I’d just love to see their relationship explored, especially given Cally’s role in Viper’s death. Maybe Sol’s trying to get revenge but finds he’s unable to hurt his sister, or he was trying very hard to keep her alive, because keeping the Marauders from turning against him is a fine line to tread?
Fuck or Die with mutual pining – Pre-canon when they were younger or closer to the point at which canon takes place, and with Sol apparently in the aggressor role, but it’s actually a bit more complicated than that, and he’s very much trying to keep her alive.
Grief - privately and conflictedly mourning a loved one whom society regards as evil – I’m also fine with post-canon fics where Sol is dead so long as there’s a significant focus on their relationship. (I’m fine with Cally/Stirling too so include that if you want) While I love canon-divergence, I’d also love to see a canon-compliant post-canon fic which focuses on Cally, her complicated grief over her brother and what he became, and how she adjusts to the new world, which, uh, may not exactly be the paradise she might have imagined. XD

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Hamlet (1969)

Requested Characters:
Hamlet, Horatio

When I started watching this version of Hamlet my thoughts for it went something along the lines of, yep, okay, I’m basically just watching this for one particular actor, but hey, I have been meaning to watch more Shakespeare for a while, so I might as well start here, and it’s not like I’m going to end up shipping it or anyth-- dammit.

Seriously, though. Horatio. Baby. <3<3<3 He’s so lovely in this, sweet and smiley and bookish, and he gives Ophelia the loveliest hug, and the dynamic between him and Hamlet is… well, uhm, how do I put this, I was very definitely getting a low-key Horatio is desperately in love with Hamlet subtext up until the final scene, at which point it ceased to be subtext and became about as close to being text-text as it’s possible to get without them actually kissing, and in a way that appeals extremely strongly to my id.

(ETA: Since writing the above I rewatched, got to the 'and I will wear him in my heart's core […] as I do thee' bit, and oh hey, mystery solved. Horatio’s adoring gaze when Hamlet says that line, combined with the hand-touching, and yep, let’s just say I can see where I got the shippy vibes, hot damn. Frankly, the only mystery is why I was only low-key shipping them.)

As for the death scene, look, there are forehead presses and hands pushed into hair and Horatio gently lowering a dying Hamlet down, and that ‘more an antique Roman than a Dane’ sure does look a whole lot like a moment of ‘I don’t want to live in a world without Hamlet in it’ grief. The way it’s filmed means that there’s heavy focus on faces and the whole bit is just this extremely heartwrenching understated moment of grief and love on both sides which took me from ‘aww, I semi-ship it’ to ‘THEY HAVE MY SWORD’. (Also, and I know this is goofy as fuck, they have matching beards, which it took me far too long to realise was a very deliberate attempt at mirroring. Apparently, it took them gazing into each other’s eyes – no really – for me to figure it out. *facepalm*)

Put short, it’s one of the shippiest things I’ve ever seen.

I’ve never studied Hamlet in detail, so can’t really say much about how it compares with other performances in terms of what they’ve cut and how they’ve rearranged scenes, and I definitely raised an eyebrow at Nicol Williamson (Hamlet) being only a year younger than Judy Parfitt (Gertrude), but what it does have is a young(ish) Anthony Hopkins being sexy as fuck as Claudius (if that’s your thing. It sure as hell is MINE), and some incestuous vibes between Ophelia and Laertes. Also, I love how pared back and intimate and emotionally raw it is, Hamlet’s death scene and his confrontation with Gertrude in particular.

The filming is pretty odd, in that it’s something between a film and a filmed performance (and I may well be talking bollocks here, but bear with me XD). The sets are stripped back, but unlike with a filmed performance where you might make allowances for the moving of the sets etc. because it’s treated more like a film, it almost makes it feel like it’s taking place in this weird unreal liminal space. So if you at all want to take advantage of that, then please do. Is it purgatory? This unreal place between worlds? Some weird time-fuckery?

As for Hamlet/Horatio, ahhh, man. <3<3<3 My personal headcanon for these particular versions is that they love each other, but it’s platonic on Hamlet’s side, however it’s entirely up to you whether you go with that, or if you want to have Hamlet reciprocating, whether or not he takes it as seriously as Horatio does. I’d love to see hurt/comfort, backstory for them, explorations of the class issues, pining (mutual or otherwise), missing scenes, post-canon fics, whether canon-divergent or otherwise (and I am more than happy for Main Character Death and heavy focus on grief here, just for the record). Or a post-canon thing focusing on the theme of truth? Also ghosts, supernatural fuckery, Horatio dealing with the aftermath of canon and essentially being the last man standing. That moment when Horatio hugged Ophelia was so sweet and tender, and it got me wondering about the relationship between the two of them – why is it Horatio who encourages the queen to talk to Ophelia?

Finally, while I’m not in any way an expert on Hamlet, I would very much like to understand more about its themes, use of language, and references, etc, so if you happen to have studied it in any great detail, then please consider this carte blanche to dig deep into its themes to an indulgent degree. I’m especially drawn to the references to stage-craft and in-jokes to the audience – Horatio probably going off into an advert for Julius Caesar in one of the alternative texts, for example – so if you want to explore some fourth-wall breaking stuff then do. If it’s not your thing, don’t worry; I’ll also be delighted with something fun and iddy, or creepy, or smutty, or angsty, or… well, look, basically anything.

Optional Prompts

Was there ever a canon more suited for ghosts? Maybe in the aftermath, Horatio sees Hamlet’s ghost, but is it really Hamlet? I am open to all explorations of the supernatural, I love creepiness in general and ghost stories in particular, but, uh, I’m also partial to ghost-fucking if you wanted to go smuttier, or really delve into the guilt and grief and sense of loss.
"Casual" Sex Turning Tender" – So maybe while they were both at Wittenberg, he and Horatio had a casual sexual relationship. Give me all the pining while having sex, Horatio believing he isn’t good/rich/noble enough for Hamlet, and knowing he should stop it because it will end up breaking his heart, but he can’t bring himself to finish it.
Character expected to die but didn't and now has no idea how to live anymore – Although everyone else who dies, still dies, somehow Hamlet survives the poison, and okay, yes, he’s revenged his father, but unfortunately with one or two casualties along the way. Which raises again the question of the ghost’s motivations, and plunges him into a whole new quagmire of guilt and grief while Horatio tries to bring him through it.
Characters A and C brought together by shared love for B – Specifically Horatio and Ophelia. I’d really love to see the relationship between this version of Horatio and Ophelia explored. That hug, and what exactly is going on between her and her brother. I absolutely 100% believe that this version of Horatio adores Hamlet, but also he’s lovely, and I can completely see him Horatio pining for Hamlet and making the decision to love Ophelia too because he believes Hamlet loves her. Seriously, that hug.
Characters Are In Love But Duty Will Keep Them Apart Forever Until Something Makes Them Do It – Always and forever, ‘Something made them do it’ scenarios are one of my favourite tropes. The nature of the something that made them do it is up to you, but… drugs? Alcohol? Pirates?
Pining. All the pining, whether one-sided or mutual, whether they have a sexual relationship or not. Maybe Horatio’s awareness of the differences in their stations, or because he believes Hamlet is in love with another (or using Horatio as a substitute, which yes, fine, but the heartache), or because Hamlet is straight.
Drunken Confessions – Danes or not, turns out they’re both very bad at being drunk.
That Time of Night So Late It's Early Again (And the Liminal Conversations Had At This Hour) – Hamlet and Horatio get into the habit of staying out late in the hopes of seeing the ghost again. Conversations, huddling for warmth, lack of sleep...
A canon-divergent fic where Claudius decides that it might be wiser to let Hamlet return to Wittenberg after all, but the ghost still won’t leave him alone while he’s there.
Elsinore as a weird liminal space between life and death, and Horatio as the only character who’s actually real/alive? A time loop, where events keep repeating themselves?
Time Loop – The whole thing as a semi-neverending story. On explaining the story to Fortinbras (which happens off-screen in this production which ends with the ‘Goodnight sweet prince’ line, making it feel even more like a tragic Hamlet/Horatio love story), Horatio keeps looping back to the beginning and living it all over again. Gradually, reality starts to break down, and he begins to realise it’s all starting to feel a bit familiar.
It's partly the mirroring in the matching beards (I feel so silly writing that, and yet) and partly a note about the text I read somewhere which points out that Horatio is whatever the script (or Hamlet) needs him to be at that particular moment. So play with that. Horatio as the ghost? Or Horatio as a creation of Hamlet's mind which has brought forth at a time of extreme stress, with Horatio's disapproval at the killing of Rosencrantz and Guildenstern an echo of Hamlet's own guilt?

I Know What You Did Last Summer (Movies)

Requested characters:
Mr Brooks, Nancy, Ben Willis

The second film in the trilogy, I Still Know What You Did Last Summer (which also happens to be the film my request is particularly focused on, and depending on what you choose to write, this request could probably be fulfilled by watching that film alone) is available on YouTube here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HL0adFw2wNE

Note: I’ve requested all the nominated characters (two of whom are only in I Still Know) because I’m specifically hoping for fic involving the setting and/or characters introduced in the second film. So long as the island setting is the focus, it’s fine to only include one or two of the requested characters.

Also, while I have watched the third film at some point, I have forgotten almost everything about it (except that it's suddenly supernatural). I have no immediate plans to watch it again, so it can be safely ignored. (Although if you would rather include it, then please feel free to do so)

I like the first film a lot (and I really appreciate how the relationship that gets the most focus is the friendship between Julie and Helen), but it’s the second film I really, really love beyond all reason. I’m not going to claim it’s a good film, but it is endearingly dumb, and I’m inexplicably fond of it. Why do I keep coming back to it over objectively better slashers from the same period? Fuck knows, to be honest, but there’s a good chance it has something to do with the characters being stranded in an empty hotel on an island in the Bahamas in the middle of the hurricane season. Isolated storm-swept hotel? TICK. I’m willing to forgive just about everything for that trope, which, uh, is probably just as well. XD It’s certainly not perfect, (Jack Black’s performance in particular is… mmph, not great), but I just find it so much fun to watch.

Optional Prompts

Ghosts! After the events of the film, the hotel is abandoned except for the ghosts haunting its corridors. Is Will one of them? How about Ben? Also here for decay, abandoned buildings, the place gradually eroding as it gives way to the elements and the storms.
Explore the setting up of the plan behind the scenes, and to what extent the characters are complicit, whether they knew or suspected anything was up.
Something quiet, with a quiet undercurrent of menace, where the night before Julie and her friends arrive Mr Brooks and Nancy share an uneasy drink in the bar. It’s the last night of the season so they’re probably going to be rushed off their feet, but maybe despite how busy they are, there’s a feeling at the back of their minds that something bad is going to happen.
So what do they actually know about each other? What brought them both to the island and what are they running away from, if anything?
God, I love Ben Willis and his stupid, stupid plans. This whole thing is a terrible idea, and when it comes to Julie he really needs to cut his losses and let it fucking go, but he never will, the dumbass. Why the island? Why the absurd, convoluted plan? Why does Will go along with it? Explore the idea of their homecoming, and the question of them both having ghosts of their own, namely Ben’s wife.
An AU where I Still Know is an understated ghost story rather than a slasher.
A time-loop where the events of I Still Know keep happening, and the characters are trapped in it, repeatedly dying until they figure out how to break the loop.
An AU where Julie never comes to the island, but Ben Willis and his son return to wreak revenge on the islanders anyway.
Look, Closed Circle scenarios like this are my CATNIP. Always. Give me missing scenes, or a version of the scene where events play out differently. Maybe where the killers aren't so efficient at clearing away the evidence of that corpse in the wardrobe so Mr Brooks isn't quite so quick to dismiss it, and events play out at a slower more 'And Then There Were None'-style pace with lots of paranoia and suspicion.
Five times something weird happened at the hotel (and the one time everyone got butchered)

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Supernatural (1977)

Requested Characters:
Howard Lawrence, Mary Lawrence

The characters I'm requesting only appear in the mostly standalone episode Night of the Marionettes, which is currently up on YouTube here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SuqafiyLnN4. The episode is also available from Amazon Prime UK. It's just under an hour long.

And while it should go without saying, if you’re at all in any doubt regarding my DNW, this very much counts as requested incest, whatever level of explicitness you go with. :D Please avoid any suggestions of anything underage though: a huge part of why I love the dynamic between them is the implication that Mary isn’t that young and that she’s fast approaching spinsterhood.

Hah, well, damn, turns out that when you go trawling through an actor’s back catalogue, you find some… I want to say gems, but I’m not sure if that’s really the work for this batshit fever dream of a horror show. I wish to god it was longer: there’s a whole novel’s worth of Gothic WTFery to unpack here.

This is a standalone episode from a 1970s BBC anthology series of gothic horror stories, gloriously overwrought, somewhat stagey, and just bonkers from start to finish. (The puppet show. Oh, god, the puppet show.) All the episodes feature a narrator telling a grisly tale to the members of a Club in the hopes of becoming a member themselves: if they fail to convince, it means their death, and that’s really all you need to know about the wider series (although the other episodes are also worth watching).

This episode is so gloriously fucking weird. Scenery-chewing, Hammer-horror-esque sets, Howard in a loose shirt and undone waistcoat exploring darkened corridors and brandishing a candelabra, the heavily implied incestuous attraction between him and his daughter…. uh, and FYI, those scenes between them are some of the most uncomfortably hot things I’ve ever seen – her touching his hand, the way he eases her down onto the bed, while he touches her face and searchingly gazes at her. The slowly dawning realisation that the slight incesty vibes I was getting weren’t actually accidental, and oh, hey, turns out I ship it. Oh, damn, he’s really distraught and guilty over what happened? Turns out I REALLY ship it.

I’ve watched it twice and I’m still not 100% sure I know what’s going on. Is Mary possessed by the spirit of Mary Shelley? Are the Huberts actually murderers or have they been unfairly castigated when all they really wanted to do entertain? Who the fuck knows? Certainly not me! Go with whatever head canon takes your fancy and hand-wave whatever you need to.

I have so many questions. Like, what happened at the Villa Diodati that meant he needed rest? What’s going on with Mary? And for that matter, what’s going on with Howard? Who’s really to blame for what happened? What’s with the lack of crucifixes in the guesthouse? It’s entirely up to you what headcanon you go with (part of the joy of fanfiction for me is seeing other people’s takes), but I really like the idea of the Huberts using their, uh, skills to fulfil needs beyond the puppet shows, such as helping people come to terms with bereavement. The mix of rich and poor in the audience enthralled me too. Who are these people? What the hell is going on? Thinking about it, I’m leaning towards the idea that Mary, and possibly Howard too, are possessed or influenced by an entity that also may have possessed Mary Shelley. It just seems to fit with the theme of puppetry, and it makes the weird coincidence of them turning up in this specific guesthouse a bit more likely.

And finally there’s the relationship between Mary and Howard. I really, really love their dynamic, the fact that she isn’t all that young, but probably about 30 or so, a bluestockingy spinster destined for an unmarried life dedicated to helping her father with his research. They are so utterly devoted to one another, but at the same time he’s so horribly selfish and caught up with his own obsessions. It’s so uncomfortable to watch: the way they’re clearly such a happy loving family at the start, but the cracks are already there, and they’re beginning to deepen, with the father-daughter team developing their own little world with Elsbeth excluded – partly because she’s simply not interested in his work in the same way Mary is, and partly because of her alcoholism. Also, I really love the idea of the relationship between Howard and Mary shifting in the Villa Diodati: perhaps Elsbeth was feeling unwell and had to take to her bed, which led to them spending more time with each other, and all that Byronic influence taking its effect.

I'm open to any level of explicitness for the ship, from canon-style uncomfortable smarm to explicit sex, but I'd also love to see something that concentrates on the gothic atmosphere/plot, and which treats it as an entirely non-incestuous father-daughter relationship.

Optional Prompts

So, uh, that scene where the Monster turns up in Mary’s bedroom? I’m not sure how much this fits with canon (fudge it if you need to, and bear in mind the whole thing could be filtered through Howard’s narration anyway), but it occurred to me that maybe part of the way they entertained themselves at the Villa Diodati could have been through putting themselves in the Shelleys’ mindset by reenacting Regency-style games like Charades (that dressing up and posing in tableaux thing). So what if her first thought when she sees the Monster is that it’s her father in a costume? And that raises some major fucking questions given the turn the puppet show takes.
Unreliable narrator. Play with this however you want. Assume the whole thing is filtered through Howard’s narration, and that events may not necessarily have played out as he claims. Maybe the whole thing comes about because of his obsession with Mary Shelley? Maybe there are no animated corpses, but just people in costume, or maybe they are just puppets, and the whole thing is an invention of his fevered brain because he feels so horribly guilty about an affair with his daughter? And maybe he was in fact the Monster that turned up in her bedroom in a moment of delusion.
A Rashomon-style narrative where we see the other versions of the story. I’d particularly love to get the Huberts’ take if they’re more or less innocent of actual murder – this overwrought maddened candelabra-wielding academic who’s clearly got a thing for his daughter feverishly accusing them of fuck knows what. (“Ghouls! Murderers! Frankenstein! Frankenstein!” XD) And it never fails to crack me up that he makes certain to question Hubert about his pet academic theory before accusing him of murder. Priorities!
Explore the aftermath of canon. Like, fuuuuck, that ending and everything that happens to Mary, and what we learn of her fate, and how distressed he is about it, which. Is. Catnip. Is she mad? Is she dead and somehow been reanimated? Does she have lucid moments? Is she specifically reenacting the role of that female marionette? She’s mostly the one who knowingly initiates most of the inappropriate touching: I’d love to see some of the aftermath where he’s stuck caring for this poor broken creature whom he still adores, but she keeps on with the inappropriate touching. Maybe it distresses her not to have the puppet show reenacted, so he plays along with it as much as he can bear, resisting letting it go too far, but in a way she doesn’t really feel like his daughter any more, until one day in a moment of weakness, he breaks and sleeps with her, and oh god the guilt, the horrible horrible GUILT.
Hurt character offered comfort they think they don’t deserve – Or the aftermath of canon and Howard caring for Mary, as above, but something painfully tender and bittersweet, where he genuinely loves his daughter and would never take advantage of her in that way, he knows he should never have let things get to that point in the first place, and he should probably send her to an asylum, but her delusions are real, and she’s the proof that his were real in turn so he can’t bring himself to do it. And if she does try to do the inappropriate touching thing he’s learned from his mistakes and quickly disengages. Hair washing, and the whole thing heavy with grief and guilt and love and attempting to atone, and her trying to comfort him as much as he’s trying to comfort her, and look, just rip my heart out and have done with it, okay?
Keeping with the marionette theme, maybe he gradually begins to suspect that there’s someone or something controlling her. Perhaps a ghost which has been influencing their actions (and possibly Elsbeth’s too) since the Villa Diodati.
Explore his reasons for approaching the Club in the first place. Why was he trying to join? (The Club features throughout the series, but we never learn much about it other than what I’ve written about it above so you really have an open book). If he doesn’t convince them of his story (and at the end of canon it seems very much like he hasn’t), it means his death, so why has he gone to them? Has Mary died? Do they have the rumoured power to bring her back, or somehow reunite him with her spirit, or is he so guilt-ridden he’s secretly hoping he’ll fail?
Just give me more of the horribly awkward and uncomfortably father-daughter incesty smarm. Slice-of-life moments from their time together pre-canon or during the early part of the episode. I did sort of feel everything happened a little too fast, so I’d really love to see some missing scenes and expansions which take canon events and slow them down to dwell on them a bit longer. Their chess games, Elsbeth’s alcoholism, the transition between ‘o what a lovely peaceful guesthouse’ to ‘clearly these people are murdering their guests.’ Or answer the question of what really happened at the Villa Diodati.
Epistolary – Entirely suited for the setting. Mary’s diaries, especially if she has occasional lucid-ish moments post-canon? Perhaps she has no memory of what happened, or of who she really is, and is still playing out the story she saw in the puppet show, or something similar? Letters that explore what’s going on, pre, during or post-canon, or which explore another story, perhaps from an Outsider POV, where Howard and Mary have moved, and to make it easier to explain away the occasional moments of inappropriate touching, he’s decided to pretend she’s his wife rather than his daughter. It makes things simpler. Except it doesn’t, of course.
Incest – platonic touching slowly turning less platonic – Yeah, okay, look, as far as I’m concerned, the incesty bits are fucking hot. So, uh, that, basically. The slow creep from affection to something much darker.
Possessiveness – Bites and scratches and bruises as claiming – Yep, also something that I basically just think is hot. :D I’d love to see a darker take on what Mary becomes, where she isn’t just this innocent broken doll, but something with a malicious streak, maybe something which isn’t entirely his daughter anymore. And maybe Howard has given up and is already sleeping with her, or he’s trying to be noble and self-sacrificing (successfully or otherwise), but either way as far as she’s concerned, he belongs to her in every way: as father, lover, husband, victim, and marks him accordingly.
Outsider POV – Especially one which goes all-out on the Gothic atmosphere, such as the point of view of the nurse/companion Howard brings in to look after Mary, who gradually begins to get the impression that something isn’t quite right in the house.
What happens between Howard and the Huberts in the aftermath of what happens in canon? I’m fascinated by the Huberts’ whole deal – there’s a moment where you see the woman’s grim, faintly despairing expression just before the puppet show begins – and I really do like the idea that they’re not actually murderers, and are, in fact, decent people, corpse-desecration aside. And hey, maybe they have permission for the corpse-desecration. Maybe it’s considered an honour. Maybe they have other sources of income other than what they earn from the shows, such as offering solace to the recently bereaved. And maybe, if Howard hadn’t gone poking about where he didn’t belong and encouraging Mary to do the same, nothing bad would have happened other than some restless nights (No fucking wonder no one stays in that guesthouse if they can help it with that racket going on). So give me that confrontation with Herr Hubert, either in the immediate aftermath, or over a longer period of time with Herr Hubert visiting him occasionally in England in an attempt to persuade Howard to come to terms with his daughter’s death so that she can finally laid to rest, and they become friends of a kind.

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Whisky Galore! (1949)

Requested Characters:
George Campbell, Catriona Macroon

Canon-specific DNWs: Heavy angst, dark themes, unhappy endings

Note: I've also read (and love) the novel it's based on, so if you want to base it off that rather than the film, or make it a combination of the two, then feel free to do so.

Oh god, this film is absolutely delightful. It’s just the loveliest film, and I love everything about it: the central message of how every problem can be solved with bootleg whisky, the quiet understated humour, and especially all the scenes of island life, the rèiteach, and all the Gaelic, and the scenery (even if it doesn’t quite come through in b&w), and the two central romances, particularly George and Catriona, who were adorable. I’d love to see more of the two of them, whether it follows them post-canon, or if it’s set in the period leading up to the events in the film. The film focuses a lot on the men of the island, so if you want to expand on the two sisters and their relationship with each other, and the other women of the island, especially George’s mother, then please do. I’d really love either something which captures the tone of the film (sweet and fluffy and gently funny) OR something atmospheric which captures the character and beauty of the island.

Generally I’d love to see something indulgently fluffy and heartwarming, home guard shenanigans, or some other low-stakes conflict, something domestic, sweet or smutty (or both), or alternatively something which goes hard on the atmosphere, details of island life, and scenery porn, or domestic details of married life as their marriage evolves over the years and the seasons. A gentle murder mystery or some other kind of casefic would also be wonderful.

Optional Prompts

The scenes where the islanders hide bottles of whisky everywhere made me laugh quite a bit, because you just know they’ll never be able to find them all again later, so they’ll be finding bottles of whisky in unexpected places for months afterwards. So… stumbling across a carefully hidden bottle after you thought it had all run out? Digging multiple places because you can’t remember exactly where you hid it?
Weddings - I wasn’t kidding when I said I wanted something tooth-rottingly fluffy. I’d love to see something which captures the film’s gentle humour and relatively low-stakes here. The trials and tribulations of holding a wedding during rationing (wedding dress details, because I’m also here for home sewing), trying to keep George’s mother sweet, pre-wedding nerves, bickering between the sisters, or a minor home guard crisis (suspected German spy who turns out to be a birdwatcher? Unexploded bomb?). Is it a double-wedding?
First Time - Wedding Night – And speaking of wedding nights… *ahem* I’m a sucker for inexperienced couples figuring things out. Smut? Or George discreetly tries to seek advice from Sergeant Odd
Inclement weather - Storms and heavy snow and sea fogs, whether just for atmosphere, or for tropey situations like huddling for warmth, mildly perilous rescue attempts, or just a reason for the two of them to shelter inside with only each other for company. And then nine months later…
Falling in love - How did they come to fall in love? Pre-canon quiet pining, or the two of them getting to know each other. Were they childhood sweethearts? Why didn’t his mother like Catriona?
His mother! Using whisky as the solution to all life’s problems is great, until the whisky runs out. Has his mother permanently come around to their relationship, or are there still going to be some blips along the way? Is there a permanent battle of wills between Catriona and Mrs Campbell, or do they find some common ground?
Scenery Porn - I am completely here for something plotless and quiet and atmospheric, maybe just vignettes of their life together set at different times of the year. A year (or longer) in the life of a relationship, where the island itself plays a part.
Pregnancy – Yeah, I really wasn’t kidding about wanting indulgent fluff. All the pregnancy tropes, George sweating it about not being ready to be a father, Catriona and his mother butting heads about how to raise a baby, getting the nursery ready, both the sisters pregnant at the same time…
5 times fic – Five things George and Catriona have argued about.

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For the unusual mediums, it's fine to disregard the requested ship is that makes things simpler.

General Likes
Smut Likes
DNWs
Assassins’ Creed
Doomsday (2008)
Hamlet (1969)
Inspector George Gently
The Last Days of Pompeii (1984)
Poirot (TV)
The Professionals
Supernatural (1977)
Whisky Galore

General Likes and DNWs

General Likes

Character studies and introspection
Loneliness and isolation
Angst
Atmospheric description, scenery porn, sensory description
World-building, backstory, and character development.
Horror.
Closed Circle - Stranded with a murderer in your midst, whether in horror or murder mystery. Think And Then There Were None.
Case-fic, whether fully realised or just touching on elements from a case.
Whump, hurt/comfort and hurt/no comfort.
Endings of all kinds, happy, bleak or bittersweet.
Canon-divergent AUs, especially post-canon ones where the bad guys win.
Pining, whether mutual or one-sided
Repression and stoicism
Descriptions of scars
Main Character Death and grief; characters getting together while still grieving for previous partners, taking solace in each other, the dead character still seeming like a presence in the relationship, etc. (Please note the exception for Whisky Galore!)
Crossovers, especially oddball crossovers that come completely out of left field, although I do tend to prefer crack played straight rather than outright crack. If you have reason to believe I know and like the other fandom, then I encourage you to go for it. (and for the record, I’m not sure why The Professionals has become the fandom I would really love to see crossed over with everything, but for some reason it has.)
Post-Apocalypse scenarios, with focus on angst and the struggle for survival. This includes zombie apocalypse AUs.
Stranded Together With No Way Home, us against the world, deep mutual dependence on the other party because there’s no one else around (which may not be entirely healthy)
Time Loops
Older characters finding love.
Age gap relationships
I really love historical detail and extensive research notes, so if that’s what you’re into then feel free to go wild. (If that’s not your thing, then please don’t worry: I am in no way an expert, and I love tropey indulgent stuff and cheerfully anachronistic fics just as much).
Hair kink. Hands pushed into hair, coiling it around fingers, routinely cutting another character's hair if appropriate in context (e.g. in post-apocalyptic scenarios), hairwashing as part of hurt/comfort, yanking head back by the hair, etc
Textiles, especially knitwear and embroidery; men in jumpers; historical and cultural details and craft in general
Unusual structures and ways of telling a story, such as Rashomon plots, non-linear narratives, outsider POVs, epistolary works, etc.
Cigarette kink: descriptions of smoking, sharing cigarettes, lighting cigarettes for each other, etc.
Finally, and I cannot emphasise this enough, men in pyjamas.

Smut Likes

Sex Pollen and aftermath, and any other kind of something made them do it scenario
Angry Sex, rough sex, hate sex, rough sex that turns tender
Clothed Sex, or clothed/naked
Comfort Sex
Dubcon when requested (mutual dubcon of the something-made-us-do-it kind is ALWAYS okay even when not explicitly requested)
Mild bondage and other forms of gentle restraint
Oral Sex, especially cunnilingus in all its forms, and ESPECIALLY cunnilingus with fingering
Rough Sex - Lots of Scratching and Biting and Hair-Grabbing/Pulling and Holding Partner(s) Down
Sex in grimy, grim, uncomfortable places
Threesomes
Situations where one character is too tired, injured etc to orgasm themselves, but takes great pleasure in making the other person come, so long as it's part of a wider give-take relationship when it comes to sex.

DNWs

A/B/O
Unreqested Noncon (Bad Guys Made Them Do It scenarios are fine though)
Dubcon involving unaroused characters
Unrequested Incest
Bestiality (monsters don't count here)
Scat and waterplay
Formalised D/s dynamics (bondage and other forms of restraint are OK)
Underage
Het anal sex
Breathplay (antagonistic choking is fine)
Fisting
Sexualised lactation
Any variation of the word 'come' in a sexual context spelled as 'cum' (please use 'come', 'came', 'precome' etc)

Assassin’s Creed

Requested ships:
Octavian Claudius Britannicus/Brendan of Clonfert
Deimos!Kassandra/Stentor
Requested mediums:
Medium Opt In: Art - A Softer World style art,
Medium Opt In: Art - Fanart
Medium Opt In: Art - Comics
Medium Opt In: Art - Any Nominated Art Medium
Medium Opt In: Art - Stained Glass
Medium Opt In: Art - Tarot Card
Medium Opt In: Writing - Epistolary
Medium Opt In: Writing - Rashomon (1950)-style Conflicting Narratives
Medium Opt In: Writing - Remix - Fic Remix of my Fic
Medium Opt In: Art - Remix - Art Remix of my Fic

Octavian Claudius Britannicus/Brendan of Clonfert

Yes, this ship is absurdly weird and cracky, and is at least partly inspired by them having the same voice actor, and I have no idea how it would even work, but. That Octavian exists is one of the things I appreciate most about AC: Valhalla, this Roman-obsessed, sexually repressed, utterly adorable weirdo just chilling with his beloved statuary in the middle of a Viking settlement. I mean, what the HELL? Who is he? Why (and when) did he change his name? What tf happened between him and Maximilian? Where does he get his togas? I just find it utterly delightful that he exists, and I wish he had a bit more of a role in the game. Plus sexually repressed fish-out-of-water oddballs are very, very much RTMI. He's delightful and I just want him to have nice things, and also, with any luck, get laid. Ideally at the hands of the ghost of a long-dead Irish monk who’s clearly been eating the wrong sort of mushrooms. Or the right sort, idek.

The atmosphere at the standing stones is so eerie, yet peaceful, and there's this weird ebb that pulls at me. I'd love to know more. I don't even know how it would work -- ghosts, time travel? -- but I would LOVE to see it happen. (Bear in mind that I don't know much about the sci-fi aspects of the AC universe, which might well be behind Brendan's ramblings about Nephilim, so while it's fine for that to be the case, if you'd prefer you can ignore the modern day/futuristic aspects and go with some other explanation). Smut, character studies, scenery porn, and anything exploring the atmosphere of the standing stones and/or the Roman ruins are all very welcome too.

Unfortunately, I’m afraid I don’t have a lot of extensive prompts for this one, mainly because the ship is so cracky it’s tricky to come up with ideas, but I can only apologise for the crapness of my prompts, and assure you that whatever you write for this absurd pairing of one I will be delighted.

Optional Prompts

Octavian is sent back in time.
Or alternatively Brendan is transported forwards in time.
Cracky as the ship is, I'd really love something that takes the absurd premise and runs with it, deep-diving into both their characters and exploring how it would work.
Eivor takes Octavian with him to visit some Roman ruins and they run into trouble along the way, idk… something something mushrooms something something standing stones something something ghost sex.

Deimos!Kassanda/Stentor

Because apparently nothing gets me shipping something harder than spontaneous antagonistic wrestling in the middle of dinner. <3<3<3 I love the idea of them together so, so much, and how they’re almost imperfect mirrors of each other: they were both raised to be warriors, and both adopted. I am absolutely HERE for any angst-ridden fallout of Deimos adjusting to what she did for the Cult (That tormented ‘I’ve done terrible things’ to her mother towards the end of the game is CATNIP), and maybe finding she has more in common with Stentor than she does with her brother as a result of their upbringings. As always, canon-divergent AUs are welcome. I’m also fine with most background ships for the other characters, but I’m particularly fond of Myrrine/Nikolaos and Alexios/Brasidas. A couple of these prompts are for AUs where Kassandra had a sister rather than a brother, and if you choose that option then feel free to change either the PC’s name or Deimos’s name.

Optional Prompts

What if their paths crossed before they meet in canon? Does Stentor notice the resemblance, or does Deimos realise he is Nikolaos’s adoptive son, and perhaps see it as an opportunity for revenge, defying/angering the Cult? Perhaps an AU where Kassandra had a sister rather than a brother, and the resemblance between them is so obvious Stentor cannot help but notice the resemblance.
Speaking of AUs where Kassandra had a sister rather than a brother… perhaps Stentor thinks he’s in love with protagonist!Kassandra, and is sleeping with Deimos as a way to drown his sorrows, but gradually he begins to realise she’s much more suited to him.
Smut – their sparring or wrestling sessions (whether friendly or otherwise) keep leading to sex.
One of my favourite bits of their interaction in canon was the way the other characters react to the wrestling session. The way Alexios WTFs and Myrrine’s little smile at the end. So something shown through one or more of the other characters’ POVs. Do the other characters realise there’s something between them before they do? Or is Alexios (whom I always played as being extremely slow on the uptake because it was more fun that way) genuinely concerned they might actually murder each other until Myrrine puts him right?
Anything exploring how they’re adjusting to their lives at the end of the game, with Deimos adjusting to life in Sparta and both of them to their new family.
Hurt/comfort of any kind, particularly the ‘captured and tortured by the enemy’ type, whether bandits, Athenians, or the Followers of Ares (I particularly love claustrophobic settings and caves
More smut – sex in captivity, whether it’s of the ‘bad guys made them do it’ or if they’re just seeking comfort in each other.
Time-loop or some other reality-breaking down weirdness. Play with the meta of the various potential endings and characters who could be alive or dead. Perhaps a time-loop where one or the other keeps dying, or one of them finds themselves in a version of reality where the other didn’t survive.
Kid-fic. Not for them necessarily, but instead Alexios (or Kassandra if you want to go the two sisters!AU) settles down (as far as he or she ever will), marries, and just generally does what Good Spartans are meant to do. Mainly I’m here for mild angst and for the image of Deimos being the most terrifying auntie ever. (I have no preference as to whom the PC is shipped with, btw, although I’m not keen on mpreg – accidental baby acquisition is definitely a possibility though)
Meta action/adventure. I love stealth games despite being dreadful at them, and I really like the idea of these two being forced to be stealthy despite being two of the least stealthy characters in the game. Take them out of their comfort zone, take away all their weapons, leave them vulnerable, injured and outnumbered, and put them in a position where they have to rely on stealth and throat-slitting rather than confronting their enemies head-on.

Alternative Medium Prompts

When it comes to fanart, I’d love to see the atmosphere of the games captured. Odyssey is so gorgeous: one of my favourite things to do was just to wander round and look at the scenery. The same goes for Valhalla, although it wasn’t quite as pretty. XD I did however love the atmosphere of the Standing Stones and of the Roman ruins. For Deimos!Kassandra/Stentor, an image of them wrestling wouldn't go amiss (is naked wrestling between men and women historically accurate? Let's pretend it is, at least in Sparta). Or something post-coital, where they're both bruised and battered and look like they've gone to hell and back. Or the two of them as a battle couple, slaughtering their way through a fort full of bandits. Or a moment of hurt-comfort between them after they've been caught and tortured by enemy soldiers.

For Octavian and Brendan of Clonfert, I'd love to see the gorgeous locations in the game incorporated, especially the eerie atmosphere of the Standing Stones or the Roman ruins. Or alternatively, play with smoke and light and shadow in the longhouse.

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Doomsday

Requested Ships:
Sol & Cally
Sol/Cally
Requested Mediums:
Medium Opt In: Art - A Softer World style art
Medium Opt In: Art - Fanart
Medium Opt In: Art - Comics
Medium Opt In: Art - Any Nominated Art Medium
Medium Opt In: Art - Stained Glass
Medium Opt In: Art - Tarot Card
Medium Opt In: Illustrated Text (Art & Writing) - Excerpts from a Journal/Notebook/Sketchbook
Medium Opt In: Writing - Any In-Universe Documents
Medium Opt In: Writing - Epistolary
Medium Opt In: Writing - Rashomon (1950)-style Conflicting Narratives

Oh, and if you want to go with Sol/Cally, whether implied or otherwise (and Sol/Cally/Viper would be very interesting indeed), then please do.

Optional Prompts

How did he become leader of the cannibals? Did they run away from home? Did she originally go with him, but decided to return home because, you know, cannibalism and shit.
A canon-divergent AU where Sol survives. Does he storm the wall with his army and unleash the Reaper Virus on the rest of the UK? Turns out Cally isn't entirely on Sinclair's side after all.
Cally/Sol/Viper? However it turns out, whether dubcon or entirely consensual. An AU where Cally is (almost?) entirely allied with Sol? And they have a messed-up incestuous poly vibe going on?
Cally has to choose between Sol and Captain Sinclair
Captivity – Whether an exploration of Cally being imprisoned by Sol and the Marauders, or Sol being imprisoned by Cally’s father. In canon Cally tells Sinclair he was going to kill her – was he, and if so was he going to do it entirely willingly? (and on this note it’s interesting that Viper targets Sinclair as being specifically for Sol. A replacement for Cally?)
Hurt/Comfort – Yep, I am so here for them having a childhood where they were completely wrapped up in each other and had only each other to turn to for comfort. I’m fine with it being extremely unhealthy (I mean… *gestures at canon*) and incestuous.
Maybe all through their childhoods, Cally and Sol used to talk about how they'd run away together, and then when they're older, they manage it, and run away to Glasgow. What happens before their father drags them back? Or does he only drag Cally back? Is this when Sol gets his first taste of the Maurauders' life? Is this when he meets Viper? Or does Sol appear to sacrifice himself to save his sister, which means she thinks he's dead until by chance she finds out otherwise? Whatever you do, I'd love to see something of them exploring the ruined city together. Maybe for a little while it’s even fun.
Zombie Apocalypse AU – Fast zombies (which I think would fit pretty well with canon) or otherwise.
A canon-divergent fic where Cally still leaves on the helicopter, but Sol survives and goes on to confront his father.
So, post-canon, what happens if they manage to develop a cure, and the wall surrounding Scotland is demolished allowing those beyond to reintegrate with the rest of the country, presumably with all crimes forgotten.
Character Surprised By Their Own Deep Loyalty Feels; Object Of Loyalty Even More Surprised – I’d just love to see their relationship explored, especially given Cally’s role in Viper’s death. Maybe Sol’s trying to get revenge but finds he’s unable to hurt his sister, or he was trying very hard to keep her alive, because keeping the Marauders from turning against him is a fine line to tread?
Fuck or Die with mutual pining – Pre-canon when they were younger or closer to the point at which canon takes place, and with Sol apparently in the aggressor role, but it’s actually a bit more complicated than that, and he’s very much trying to keep her alive.
Grief - privately and conflictedly mourning a loved one whom society regards as evil – I’m also fine with post-canon fics where Sol is dead so long as there’s a significant focus on their relationship. (I’m fine with Cally/Stirling too so include that if you want) While I love canon-divergence, I’d also love to see a canon-compliant post-canon fic which focuses on Cally, her complicated grief over her brother and what he became, and how she adjusts to the new world, which, uh, may not exactly be the paradise she might have imagined. XD

Alternative Medium Prompts

One of my favourite things about this film is the contrast between all the different settings, from the grimy run-down futurescape of England south of the wall, to the post-apocalyptic ruins of Glasgow and its dieselpunk cannibals, to the gorgeous countryside, and the pseudo-mediaeval castle and knights. Not to mention Sol and Cally, who despite being brother and sister, couldn’t be more different from each other. Art-wise, there is so much to explore.

Here for violence, horror and gore, but also quiet moments of peace amidst the horror. I’m fascinated by their backstory, what their lives were like growing up, how Sol came to be the way he is, what their relationship was like before the events in the film and to what extent that’s changed. Visually, I’d especially love to see Sol himself in that mediaeval setting.

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Hamlet (1969)

Requested Ships:
Hamlet/Horatio
Requested Mediums:
Medium Opt In: Art - A Softer World style art
Medium Opt In: Art - Fanart
Medium Opt In: Art - Comics
Medium Opt In: Art - Any Nominated Art Medium
Medium Opt In: Art - Stained Glass
Medium Opt In: Art - Tarot Card
Medium Opt In: Writing - Epistolary
Medium Opt In: Writing - Rashomon (1950)-style Conflicting Narratives

Put short, it’s one of the shippiest things I’ve ever seen.

Optional Prompts

Was there ever a canon more suited for ghosts? Maybe in the aftermath, Horatio sees Hamlet’s ghost, but is it really Hamlet? I am open to all explorations of the supernatural, I love creepiness in general and ghost stories in particular, but, uh, I’m also partial to ghost-fucking if you wanted to go smuttier, or really delve into the guilt and grief and sense of loss.
"Casual" Sex Turning Tender" – So maybe while they were both at Wittenberg, he and Horatio had a casual sexual relationship. Give me all the pining while having sex, Horatio believing he isn’t good/rich/noble enough for Hamlet, and knowing he should stop it because it will end up breaking his heart, but he can’t bring himself to finish it.
Character expected to die but didn't and now has no idea how to live anymore – Although everyone else who dies, still dies, somehow Hamlet survives the poison, and okay, yes, he’s revenged his father, but unfortunately with one or two casualties along the way. Which raises again the question of the ghost’s motivations, and plunges him into a whole new quagmire of guilt and grief while Horatio tries to bring him through it.
Characters A and C brought together by shared love for B – Specifically Horatio and Ophelia. I’d really love to see the relationship between this version of Horatio and Ophelia explored. That hug, and what exactly is going on between her and her brother. I absolutely 100% believe that this version of Horatio adores Hamlet, but also he’s lovely, and I can completely see him Horatio pining for Hamlet and making the decision to love Ophelia too because he believes Hamlet loves her. Seriously, that hug.
Characters Are In Love But Duty Will Keep Them Apart Forever Until Something Makes Them Do It – Always and forever, ‘Something made them do it’ scenarios are one of my favourite tropes. The nature of the something that made them do it is up to you, but… drugs? Alcohol? Pirates?
Pining. All the pining, whether one-sided or mutual, whether they have a sexual relationship or not. Maybe Horatio’s awareness of the differences in their stations, or because he believes Hamlet is in love with another (or using Horatio as a substitute, which yes, fine, but the heartache), or because Hamlet is straight.
Drunken Confessions – Danes or not, turns out they’re both very bad at being drunk.
That Time of Night So Late It's Early Again (And the Liminal Conversations Had At This Hour) – Hamlet and Horatio get into the habit of staying out late in the hopes of seeing the ghost again. Conversations, huddling for warmth, lack of sleep...
A canon-divergent fic where Claudius decides that it might be wiser to let Hamlet return to Wittenberg after all, but the ghost still won’t leave him alone while he’s there.
Elsinore as a weird liminal space between life and death, and Horatio as the only character who’s actually real/alive? A time loop, where events keep repeating themselves?
Time Loop – The whole thing as a semi-neverending story. On explaining the story to Fortinbras (which happens off-screen in this production which ends with the ‘Goodnight sweet prince’ line, making it feel even more like a tragic Hamlet/Horatio love story), Horatio keeps looping back to the beginning and living it all over again. Gradually, reality starts to break down, and he begins to realise it’s all starting to feel a bit familiar.
It's partly the mirroring in the matching beards (I feel so silly writing that, and yet) and partly a note about the text I read somewhere which points out that Horatio is whatever the script (or Hamlet) needs him to be at that particular moment. So play with that. Horatio as the ghost? Or Horatio as a creation of Hamlet's mind which has brought forth at a time of extreme stress, with Horatio's disapproval at the killing of Rosencrantz and Guildenstern an echo of Hamlet's own guilt?

Alternative Medium Prompts

Visually, I love how pared-back and simple the sets are in this version of Hamlet, to the point where it verges on eerie, almost giving the impression that it’s happening in this strange limbo between worlds, and I’d love to see that captured in art. Or the mirroring between Hamlet and Horatio, or one of Horatio’s adoring looks, or… well, anything really. Ghosts and eerie spookiness are also welcome.

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Inspector George Gently

Requested Ships:
George Gently/John Bacchus

Daaaamn, this is such a great series. I’ll admit I started watching for silver fox!Martin Shaw, but it’s just got better and better, culminating in series 6, which has absolutely been the peak of the series for me. While I like the bleaker turn series 7 has taken (and I’m delighted to see that Gently’s still willing to interfere in Bacchus’s life at every single opportunity), series 6 is fantastic from start to finish, mainly because of Bacchus, and the turnaround in his character. I always liked him, despite what an absolute little shit he is (and still is, let’s face it), but he’s grown up so much, finally trying to step up to the mark as a father. And oh god oh god, all the loyalty kink and trust issues between him and Gently, (the bit where Gently thinks Bacchus is the one who let slip about his leg when it was Rachel, and Bacchus confronting the situation dead on), and all the fallout from the season finale of season 5, and the different ways they’re both dealing with the trauma of getting shot: all of this is absolutely at the heart of why I ship them.

I especially love the way I get the impression that while Bacchus is growing as a character, almost the opposite thing is happening with Gently: while Bacchus is lightening up a bit and growing, it’s almost like Gently is retreating into a darker place – his struggle to trust Bacchus, the angry boxing, and those rare but terrifying moments when he loses his temper. And him still interfering with Bacchus’s life, while at the same time being intensely private about his own, and everything he’s going through. That mixture of loneliness and intense need for privacy is tailor-made to my id, especially combined with Bacchus’s need for approval/friendship/whatever from Gently. Like Bacchus trying to joke and getting unceremoniously knocked back? Gently snarling that he doesn’t need help when he knocks the bottle of whisky over in season 7? Oh, and every time they make each other laugh (and especially every time Gently laughs at Bacchus). All that is golden. <3<3<3

Idk, I just find the interplay between them and how it’s shifted over the course of the series so far absolutely fascinating. I’m at the point now where I just want to go back and watch it all over again from the beginning. :D

Optional Prompts

Can't Stop Thinking About It - A Accidentally Sees B Naked – Bacchus sees Gently naked, and can’t get it out of his mind.
Canon Divergence – What would have happened at the start of season 6 if Bacchus hadn’t been so easily persuaded, or if his injuries/trauma were more severe than they were in canon?
Captivity - Trapped with someone in need of medical attention – Captivity is one of my favourite tropes: all that sexual tension in close quarters, fuck or die, hurt/comfort and we’re not dead yet sex, and this tag in particular, which is the ideal opportunity for feelings confessions.
Char. wears a suit - oh no they're hot; then they get hurt & disheveled - oh no they're even hotter – Because the only thing better than suit kink is the moment when the immaculately dressed character is scruffed up a bit. :D
One thing I really love about the series is how it deals with parenthood (and the lack of it, in Gently’s case). His admission that he and his wife were trying for children and it just never happened is so poignant, especially when combined with everything that’s going on with Bacchus and his daughter. So let’s say they’re already in a tentative relationship – explore all the complicated feelings of co-parenting (along with Lisa), Bacchus’s difficulty in adjusting to the idea of Leigh Ann thinking about Gently as a step-father (jealousy? Some lingering streak of internalised homophobia?), and Gently’s wariness about become a father to someone else’s child.
Accidental Baby Acquisition – Gently accidentally acquires a baby. Who better to help him look after it than Bacchus?
Character Surprised By Their Own Deep Loyalty Feels; Object Of Loyalty Even More Surprised – I would just really love to see more exploration of the loyalty kink and trust issues in season 6, and especially that shift in their characters, with Bacchus chilling out a bit, while Gently does the exact fucking opposite.
Get Together (A/B/A) - A time travels to fix B's death; A gets stuck and now there are two of A – Oh god oh god, I love this tag so much. :D Bacchus travelling back in time to fix Gently’s death makes the most sense to me, but if you want to do it the other way around please do. Having not seen season 8 yet, I’m not quite sure what happens. Go with the canonical death if that makes sense, or an AU where it happens differently. Maybe future!Bacchus has grown up significantly and accepted that he’s gay/bi, which leads present day!Bacchus to some revelations about his own sexuality. Maybe present day!Bacchus walks in on Gently/Future!Bacchus, and is overcome by lust. I’m open to any combination of Bacchus/Gently here, including the threesome.
A canon-divergent AU where Bacchus gets that job with the Met, either during the course of the series or afterwards, and they solve a crime based in London.
Rough sex as unhealthy coping mechanism or rough sex turns unexpectedly tender and/or emotional – After the season 5 finale, maybe, and part of Bacchus’s way of coping with the trauma is through rough meaningless sex with Gently. But actually it’s not all that meaningless after all.
Something Made Them Do It - Undercover assignment requires putting on a performance – Along with every other flavour of Bad Guys (or Something) Made Them Do It. Here for porn, or something concentrating on the awkward guilty aftermath, which ideally is messy and filled with pining.
A Randall and Hopkirk (Deceased) fusion where Bacchus is assisted by Gently’s ghost
Authority Figure Societally Expected To Have Sex With Subordinate - Oh man, I just love this freeform so much. The bleak dystopian alternative universe it implies! How much they'd both hate it (but maybe not actually). Explore the worldbuilding, how does it work? How do they both deal with it and adapt to it? When do feelings start creeping in, or do they both do their damndest to keep feelings out of it?

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The Last Days of Pompeii – 1984 Miniseries

Requested Ships:
Sporus/Lydon
Sporus/Lydon/Nydia
Requested Mediums:
Medium Opt In: Art - Fanart
Medium Opt In: Art - Comics
Medium Opt In: Art - Any Nominated Art Medium
Medium Opt In: Art - Stained Glass
Medium Opt In: Art - Tarot Card
Medium Opt In: Writing - Epistolary
Medium Opt In: Writing - Rashomon (1950)-style Conflicting Narratives

(Available on Youtube here: part one, part two, and part three.)

I would love backstory for this, or something set during canon. Canon-divergent AUs are always welcome, and I’d also be happy for any level of ship: from fully realised, to pining, whether mutual or one-sided. If you're not sure what to do with Nydia and don't want to write Sporus/Lydon/Nydia where everyone is happy with the set-up, I'm pretty invested in Nydia/Ione and Nydia/Glaucus/Ione.

And then there's Sporus/Lydon/Nydia, which I would particularly like to see as a triad although a v-shaped set-up where everyone is fine with the situation is okay (or a v-shaped set-up which gradually turns into a triad). If they all manage to make it out of Pompeii it would be a pretty fascinating dynamic, especially if Sporus feels himself dependent on Lydon due to his injuries. I'd be especially interested in seeing Sporus's relationship with Nydia developed.

Optional Prompts

We know how and why Lydon came to be a gladiator and why he continues in that life despite having earned his freedom, but what about Sporus? Was he already there when Lydon turned up as a slave whom no one expected to last more than a couple of matches?
Always here for descriptions of gladiator matches or sparring, the blood, the sweat, the sexual tension… Also helping each other with their armour, and tending to wounds afterwards. And, uh, bathhouses.
And hey, if you just want to write PWP, sex in the wake of a match or sparring session wouldn’t go amiss.
What happened when they all left Pompeii for Campania?
A post-canon fix-it. Lydon escapes Pompeii with an injured Sporus. What does the aftermath look like? Bitter angst and hurt/comfort welcome here. Given what a massive jealous shit Sporus is in canon, I’d love to see that explored.
Nydia understands something about being in love with someone you feel dependent on and the heartbreak of watching them love another. An understanding develops between her and Sporus.

Alternative Medium Prompts

The ensemble cast makes this perfect for a Rashomon-style narrative. I’d love anything art-wise – an action-oriented comic focusing on fights in the arena? – but given that so much ancient art has been preserved in Pompeii it would be amazing to see that incorporated somehow, whether it be in mosaics or wall-paintings, or in filthy, filthy graffiti. I can see Sporus being the type to write graffiti about himself, is all I’m saying. XD

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Agatha Christie’s Poirot

Requested Ships:
Charles Cartwright/Hermione "Egg" Lytton Gore

While normally I'm equally divided between whether I prefer the show version or the book, in this case I particularly prefer the series, mainly because the characters seem significantly more likeable, there’s the wonderful dynamic between Poirot and Sir Charles, and, um, *cough* Martin Shaw arguably at his hottest in a tragic May-December romance. Which… God, I’d just LOVE to see more of. I ship Egg and Sir Charles so freaking hard. They love each other so much, and I especially adore the bleak turn taken in the denouement, when Egg realises the truth, and just damn my freaking heart. I adore Sir Charles – he’s so very much a luvvie, but then towards the end that mask slips the tiniest bit, and everything he does is so utterly ruthless and terrible, and completely inexcusable, and yet… I’d really love to see more of them, and especially a glimpse of a world where things went differently.

I love the way the age gap is dealt with, the no one’s really judgemental of it even if it does raise a couple of eyebrows – it’s treated as natural and understandable on both their parts, and they just adore each other so much in a way that I am completely weak for. I love the moment where Egg’s mother points out that an older man’s discretions are mostly behind him, and whether that’s right or wrong I can’t help making hearteyes at the pair of them.

Go with a permanent fix-it, or a temporary fix-it only to make things much much worse (and let me just say I am completely fine with Main Character Death here), something canon-compliant or something which looks at how differently things might have gone had the circumstances been different. (Background Egg/Oliver Manders is fine too, especially in post-canon canon-compliant fics). And if you want to go hard on that delicious loyalty kink between Sir Charles and Poirot then that’s welcome too. :D

Optional Prompts

Missing scenes and sweet little moments from their courtship and the investigation. The two of them bonding over clue-hunting, or going sailing together, Sir Charles trying to be noble and self-sacrificing (ha!) and Egg not standing for it. (In age gap relationships I’m particularly fond of the younger party doing the pursuing)
A canon-divergent fix-it of sorts? Because for whatever reason there’s no impediment to the marriage. Sweetly indulgent fluff or does the tragic part just happen differently? Do they end up tangled up in another murder, and if so, is one of them the victim or the murderer??
Poirot investigates Tollie’s murder as a cold-case after Sir Charles and Egg are married.
A role reversal AU where Egg is the murderer.
What would have happened if Egg had recognised Sir Charles at Strange’s party, and he was forced to pass it off as a joke?
They hold their own murder mystery party.
On the one hand, I ship it so hard. On the other, he’s so horribly ruthless, and I suddenly remember one of the potential murder victims could have been her mother. So what if it was Egg’s mother who drank the poisoned cocktail? How would that affect the plot?
After Egg and Sir Charles are married, he’s approached by a blackmailer.
Pure indulgent fluff or smut with the very slightest edge of darkness.

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The Professionals

Requested Ships
William Bodie/George Cowley
William Bodie/Ray Doyle
William Bodie & Ray Doyle
Solo: George Cowley
George Cowley/Elizabeth Walsh
George Cowley/Annie Irvine
Requested Mediums:
Medium Opt In: Any - Any In-Universe Documents
Medium Opt In: Art - A Softer World style art
Medium Opt In: Art - Any Nominated Art Medium
Medium Opt In: Art - Comics
Medium Opt In: Art - Fanart
Medium Opt In: Art - Point - Pixel Art
Medium Opt In: Art - Stained Glass
Medium Opt In: Art - Tarot Card
Medium Opt In: Illustrated Text (Art & Writing) - Bureaucratic Paperwork
Medium Opt In: Illustrated Text (Art & Writing) - Excerpts from a Journal/Notebook/Sketchbook
Medium Opt In: Writing - Any In-Universe Documents
Medium Opt In: Writing - Bureaucratic Paperwork
Medium Opt In: Writing - Epistolary
Medium Opt In: Writing - Rashomon (1950)-style Conflicting Narratives
Medium Opt In: Writing - Remix - Fic Remix of my Fic
Medium Opt In: Art - Remix - Art Remix of my Fic
Medium Opt In: Unique Rules - Cross Stitch Pattern

William Bodie/Ray Doyle, George Cowley/William Bodie

There absolutely doesn't need to be a happy ending. Oh, and I should mention that background Bodie/Doyle is welcome here too.

Optional Prompts (some of these have been written with specific ships/characters in mind, but please feel free to mix and match)

Casefic, or elements from a partially realised casefic, whether canon-typical or something which takes them out of their comfort zones.
5 + 1 ways of livening up surveillance detail.
Bonding in captivity – whether as a result of trauma and torture, or being imprisoned together somewhere dark and claustrophobic.
Ever seen Randall and Hopkirk (Deceased)? Well, that AU, where one half of the pairing is a ghost the other can’t see, whether the ghost is potentially a sign that the other one is cracking up, or an actual literal ghost, and the first case they have to solve together is who murdered him. I was thinking Bodie/Doyle for this, with one of them as the ghost, but Cowley as the ghost (and absolutely livid about it) would be great too, whichever ship you go with.
If they do get together, how does it happen? How do they come to realise they have feelings for the other? When it starts is it just about sex, or is the sexual attraction develop out of a result of their bond?
The bit in Stake Out where Bodie flung himself across a bowling alley to manhandle Doyle to the floor to stop him from kicking off at an aggressive member of the public, including hooking his leg over Doyle's in the process, did things to me. More undercover stuff please, with them both trying to keep a low profile, and having to rely on the other one to rein them in. Additional manhandling is optional, but very much appreciated.
”Casual” sex turning tender - (both ships) neither character thinks the other has any genuine feelings, or maybe the sex is just something that keeps happening without either of them ever intending it to. What happens when tenderness starts creeping in? Is it mutual? Is the other party unnerved by it? Into it? Or both?
Aftermath of Torture – Character trying to hold it together is clearly low-key fraying at the edges - Either paring, any character. Trying to remain stoic and refusing help much to the frustration of the other/s. If Cowley’s the whumped character then maybe it could be a semi-fakeout, where he’s using his weakness as bait, and it works, but actually he’s suffering too.
Agonisingly slow build-up of sexual tension - Along with copious amounts of mutual self-denial and pining, while trying to hide the mutual attraction from each other/other people/themselves.
A zombie apocalypse AU, or some other apocalyptic scenario. Always and forever one of my favourite tropes. Or alternatively, if you’re familiar with it, a crossover with Survivors, even if it only uses the other series as a backdrop for desperate ‘us against the crumbling world’ sex.
Character A confesses feelings because they think Character B is unconscious - Man, the awkwardness and painful aftermath, the self-doubt and the questioning – did they mishear? Should they say anything, or would it be better to pretend they didn’t hear?
While working undercover, one half of the couple is forced to torture the other to maintain their cover
Complicated feelings of love and loyalty and hurt and resentment - For either pairing really, although I have to admit I have Cowley/Bodie in mind specifically. Just a relationship study, really, examining all the complicated trust issues and matters of loyalty
Estranged Characters – Injured A shows up on B’s doorstep saying ‘I didn’t know where else to go’. – future fic or canon-divergent where the injured character has gone AWOL or otherwise rogue.
Fighting/sparring as foreplay – I mean, the usual, but for Cowley/Bodie this would probably also include Cowley watching (disapprovingly?) as Bodie gets the shit kicked out of him by Macklin, followed by something that could theoretically be described as comfort if you squint. For Bodie/Doyle, them enjoying sparring with each other.
Cowley goes rogue. Is it for real, or another ruse?
Country House Party – Weird time-slip where they find themselves in an interwar house party that ended in murder. Ghosts? Inexplicable events that are never explained beyond handwavy nonsense? A Sapphire & Steel crossover? Or is this just an excuse to get them into period dress?
Time Loop – the part where the looper breaks and stops giving any fucks – Again any character, but I admit I’m thinking of Cowley here, mainly because I’m delighted by the idea of him being thwarted at every turn and then just going FUCK THIS.
Character A and Character B Mutually Pine For Each Other While They Fuck Other People Together -- I'm specifically thinking of Bodie/Doyle (Cowley would NEVER), but dear god do I love it for them. The drunken aftermath of a double date turns orgiastic, or else one of the lads has been stood up or had an argument with his girlfriend, and the other's girlfriend insists he join them to cheer him up.
And of course now that I've said that Cowley would NEVER, I'm immediately trying to think of situations in which he would. *sigh* I suppose the most likely scenario is a combination of the procuring an undercover Bodie claims to do in Take Away and everything that happens with Anna in The Untouchables -- another party who knows this is a CI5 operation and is working with full consent. So a 'Sex while undercover' scenario, probably?
Bodysharing - one of them commenting/giving orders while the other jerks off -- Ahaha, <3. I love this tag so much. Either pairing, either character. Although I do have to admit, that while it would be especially weird and filthy and fun for Bodie/Doyle, the idea of this for Cowley/Bodie fills me with glee. God, it would be excruciating and I can't figure out which scenario I like more: Bodie trying to have a surreptitious wank when he thinks Cowley isn't looking, and his dawning horror at the first sour comment, or while Bodie's inside Cowley some of his general horniness rubs off on him, and even when Cowley was young he hadn't been as horny as this all the damn time, what the hell, man? It appeals so much, the two of them trying to make it work as best they can until they can get the mess fixed, and grudgingly actually getting sort of into it, weird and fucked up as it is.
sex under the stars – Ohhh, I love this tag: the romanticism of sex outdoors, the setting and potential for scenery porn, the low-level risk of semi-public sex, and the suggestion that they’re so turned on they can’t keep their hands off each other. How does it come about? Are they camping for plot reasons, on a stake-out, stranded in nature for some reason?
Authority Figure Societally Expected To Have Sex With Subordinate – I obviously had Cowley/Bodie in mind for this, but if you want to use it for Bodie/Doyle instead, then please do. I can see a couple of ways that’d work – an AU where either Bodie or Doyle is the other’s subordinate, OR where Cowley being expected to have sex with his subordinates is part of the background to the Bodie/Doyle ship (a Droit du Seigneur situation which arises when two of his subordinates are in a relationship, which is part of the reason why Cowley discourages relations between his agents because he hates having to fulfil his duties and he is extremely unimpressed every time it happens?) Either way, what appeals with this is how utterly awkward and uncomfortable it would be, and Cowley’s reluctance and impatience with the whole business. I’d love to see the worldbuilding explored whichever ship the focus is on. Would Cowley put it off or grit his teeth and get it over with as soon as possible? Is it a one-off, or is he expected to keep it up on a regular basis? (and oh, bless him, but he’s not as young as he used to be and CI5 has a LOT of agents) Or maybe he does usually try to keep it a one-off, although nominally it isn’t meant to be, but for some reason he keeps fulfilling his statutory duties with Bodie more often than he does with his other agents… (or that Droit de Seigneur situation again, where Bodie keeps submitting fraternisation request forms for different people, and Cowley gets progressively more exasperated every time he has to fuck him, until he realises that Bodie hasn’t so much as gone on a date with the party named in the most recent form (but why? Is it an excuse to fuck Cowley, or a form of bratty non-violent protest, which leads to the two of them bonding over their mutual resentment at the practice).
A Doomsday fusion (the 2008 Neil Marshall film). I'm assuming Cowley's in the Bob Hoskins role, as much as I'd secretly love to see him facing off against a bunch of Mad Max style Scottish cannibals. (And it's not like he's explicitly sending them north of the wall to get him some Scotch, but have you seen what the price of single malt is on the black market these days?)

George Cowley/Elizabeth Walsh and George Cowley/Annie Irvine

Optional Prompts

Okay, so what the hell did happen with Annie Irvine? Explore their backstory. When they meet Annie says it’s been about ten years since they last met, so depending on how you figure the timeline that must have been significantly after their university days. Was he at her wedding? I have so many questions.
What did Annie actually say to Bodie and Doyle which made them so reluctant to share with Cowley?
Give me something that follows on from the ending of Look After Annie. Do their paths cross again? Where do they go from there?
Give me an AU of that episode where events go differently.
Bad Guys Made Them Do It. Always. <3<3<3 (and oh god, the guilt! The terrible all-consuming guilt!).
A zombie apocalypse AU, or some other apocalyptic scenario. Always and forever one of my favourite tropes. Or alternatively, if you’re familiar with it, a crossover with Survivors, even if it only uses the other series as a backdrop for desperate ‘us against the crumbling world’ sex.
Hurt/Comfort - Cowley is injured during a case, and the other character reluctantly starts looking in on him despite his protests.
Experience – Experienced/Inexperienced – Look, he’s been pining after Annie for, what, twenty years or so, so chances are he hasn’t had that much experience with women.
They’re stranded at some isolated out-of the way place, which is potentially derelict, where the forced proximity puts them in a position where they have to work together and get over any potential awkwardness.
The aftermath of Spy Probe. Cowley takes Elizabeth out to dinner as a way of saying thank you (well, he claims that’s his primary motivation), and walks her back to her hotel room afterwards. (and while I haven’t requested it for this particular exchange I do love the freeform: Late-Night Discussions Outside in the Gently Falling Rain.) Luckily she’s not quite as reticent as he is, and since someone did just try to have her murdered, the least he could do is double-check her hotel room to make sure it’s safe.
Or Cowley/Elizabeth but a slower courtship, where he starts picking her brains on a regular basis and they start to see more and more of each other, until they’ve get as familiar with each other as an old married couple, only without the sex. And then they have sex.
Back in their MI5 days Cowley and Elizabeth narrowly avoided having to have sex to maintain their cover. They both pretended to be relieved about it at the time, but secretly they’ve both regretted it since then.
The AU where my completely off-base assumption that Elizabeth was behind the killings wasn’t quite so off-base, and her arranging her own attempted murder was a set-up to get her inside CI5 because she knew Cowley wouldn’t be able to resist. Except he suspects, and the whole thing is the two of them trying to out-think each other, combined with genuine professional mutual admiration and sexual attraction.
An epistolary fic where they kept in touch by exchanging letters over the years.
Get Together – Character recovering from torture gets taken care of by the person they’re pining for – When Cowley and the other character's paths meet again after a case has gone wrong, she reluctantly starts looking in on him despite his protests.
Smut – guiding an inexperienced partner in how to perform cunnilingus – Look, he’s been pining after Annie for, what, twenty years or so, so chances are he hasn’t had that much experience with women.
Undercover as a couple leads to mutual feelings – When their paths cross again, Cowley poses as Annie’s lover to protect her.
5 Times Cowley had his heart broken.

Alternative Medium Prompts

Welp, since apparently my fannish world has been almost taken over by The Professionals, I basically want everything. The shades of grey in this fandom and the complicated relationships between the characters would make it particularly suited to A Softer World style comic strip, and Pixel Art would be so fucking adorable omg.

I’d also love to see story telling through unusual formats, such as in-universe paperwork (even if it’s something as light and fun as 5 Expense Chits that Cowley Will Not Sign Off On). Or stylised Tarot Cards that capture the characters.

And finally, it's been a long, long while since I did any cross stitch, but I'd love to be given the impetus to take it up again. I'm especially fond of samplers (along the lines of the Historical Sampler Company, so anything like that, slightly old-fashioned but with a Pros edge (quotes included), and I will be delighted.

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Supernatural (1977)

Requested Ships
Howard Lawrence/Mary Lawrence
Requested Mediums:
Medium Opt In: Art - A Softer World style art
Medium Opt In: Art - Any Nominated Art Medium
Medium Opt In: Art - Comics
Medium Opt In: Art - Fanart
Medium Opt In: Art - Stained Glass
Medium Opt In: Art - Tarot Card
Medium Opt In: Illustrated Text (Art & Writing) - Excerpts from a Journal/Notebook/Sketchbook
Medium Opt In: Writing - Any In-Universe Documents
Medium Opt In: Writing - Epistolary
Medium Opt In: Writing - Rashomon (1950)-style Conflicting Narratives
Medium Opt In: Writing - Remix - Fic Remix of my Fic
Medium Opt In: Art - Remix - Art Remix of my Fic

The characters requested only appear in the standalone episode Night of the Marionettes, which is currently up on YouTube here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SuqafiyLnN4. The episode is also available from Amazon Prime UK. It's just under an hour long.

Optional Prompts

So, uh, that scene where the Monster turns up in Mary’s bedroom? I’m not sure how much this fits with canon (fudge it if you need to, and bear in mind the whole thing could be filtered through Howard’s narration anyway), but it occurred to me that maybe part of the way they entertained themselves at the Villa Diodati could have been through putting themselves in the Shelleys’ mindset by reenacting Regency-style games like Charades (that dressing up and posing in tableaux thing). So what if her first thought when she sees the Monster is that it’s her father in a costume? And that raises some major fucking questions given the turn the puppet show takes.
Unreliable narrator. Play with this however you want. Assume the whole thing is filtered through Howard’s narration, and that events may not necessarily have played out as he claims. Maybe the whole thing comes about because of his obsession with Mary Shelley? Maybe there are no animated corpses, but just people in costume, or maybe they are just puppets, and the whole thing is an invention of his fevered brain because he feels so horribly guilty about an affair with his daughter? And maybe he was in fact the Monster that turned up in her bedroom in a moment of delusion.
A Rashomon-style narrative where we see the other versions of the story. I’d particularly love to get the Huberts’ take if they’re more or less innocent of actual murder – this overwrought maddened candelabra-wielding academic who’s clearly got a thing for his daughter feverishly accusing them of fuck knows what. (“Ghouls! Murderers! Frankenstein! Frankenstein!” XD) And it never fails to crack me up that he makes certain to question Hubert about his pet academic theory before accusing him of murder. Priorities!
Explore the aftermath of canon. Like, fuuuuck, that ending and everything that happens to Mary, and what we learn of her fate, and how distressed he is about it, which. Is. Catnip. Is she mad? Is she dead and somehow been reanimated? Does she have lucid moments? Is she specifically reenacting the role of that female marionette? She’s mostly the one who knowingly initiates most of the inappropriate touching: I’d love to see some of the aftermath where he’s stuck caring for this poor broken creature whom he still adores, but she keeps on with the inappropriate touching. Maybe it distresses her not to have the puppet show reenacted, so he plays along with it as much as he can bear, resisting letting it go too far, but in a way she doesn’t really feel like his daughter any more, until one day in a moment of weakness, he breaks and sleeps with her, and oh god the guilt, the horrible horrible GUILT.
Hurt character offered comfort they think they don’t deserve – Or the aftermath of canon and Howard caring for Mary, as above, but something painfully tender and bittersweet, where he genuinely loves his daughter and would never take advantage of her in that way, he knows he should never have let things get to that point in the first place, and he should probably send her to an asylum, but her delusions are real, and she’s the proof that his were real in turn so he can’t bring himself to do it. And if she does try to do the inappropriate touching thing he’s learned from his mistakes and quickly disengages. Hair washing, and the whole thing heavy with grief and guilt and love and attempting to atone, and her trying to comfort him as much as he’s trying to comfort her, and look, just rip my heart out and have done with it, okay?
Keeping with the marionette theme, maybe he gradually begins to suspect that there’s someone or something controlling her. Perhaps a ghost which has been influencing their actions (and possibly Elsbeth’s too) since the Villa Diodati.
Explore his reasons for approaching the Club in the first place. Why was he trying to join? (The Club features throughout the series, but we never learn much about it other than what I’ve written about it above so you really have an open book). If he doesn’t convince them of his story (and at the end of canon it seems very much like he hasn’t), it means his death, so why has he gone to them? Has Mary died? Do they have the rumoured power to bring her back, or somehow reunite him with her spirit, or is he so guilt-ridden he’s secretly hoping he’ll fail?
Just give me more of the horribly awkward and uncomfortably father-daughter incesty smarm. Slice-of-life moments from their time together pre-canon or during the early part of the episode. I did sort of feel everything happened a little too fast, so I’d really love to see some missing scenes and expansions which take canon events and slow them down to dwell on them a bit longer. Their chess games, Elsbeth’s alcoholism, the transition between ‘o what a lovely peaceful guesthouse’ to ‘clearly these people are murdering their guests.’ Or answer the question of what really happened at the Villa Diodati.
Epistolary – Entirely suited for the setting. Mary’s diaries, especially if she has occasional lucid-ish moments post-canon? Perhaps she has no memory of what happened, or of who she really is, and is still playing out the story she saw in the puppet show, or something similar? Letters that explore what’s going on, pre, during or post-canon, or which explore another story, perhaps from an Outsider POV, where Howard and Mary have moved, and to make it easier to explain away the occasional moments of inappropriate touching, he’s decided to pretend she’s his wife rather than his daughter. It makes things simpler. Except it doesn’t, of course.
Incest – platonic touching slowly turning less platonic – Yeah, okay, look, as far as I’m concerned, the incesty bits are fucking hot. So, uh, that, basically. The slow creep from affection to something much darker.
Possessiveness – Bites and scratches and bruises as claiming – Yep, also something that I basically just think is hot. :D I’d love to see a darker take on what Mary becomes, where she isn’t just this innocent broken doll, but something with a malicious streak, maybe something which isn’t entirely his daughter anymore. And maybe Howard has given up and is already sleeping with her, or he’s trying to be noble and self-sacrificing (successfully or otherwise), but either way as far as she’s concerned, he belongs to her in every way: as father, lover, husband, victim, and marks him accordingly.
Outsider POV – Especially one which goes all-out on the Gothic atmosphere, such as the point of view of the nurse/companion Howard brings in to look after Mary, who gradually begins to get the impression that something isn’t quite right in the house.
What happens between Howard and the Huberts in the aftermath of what happens in canon? I’m fascinated by the Huberts’ whole deal – there’s a moment where you see the woman’s grim, faintly despairing expression just before the puppet show begins – and I really do like the idea that they’re not actually murderers, and are, in fact, decent people, corpse-desecration aside. And hey, maybe they have permission for the corpse-desecration. Maybe it’s considered an honour. Maybe they have other sources of income other than what they earn from the shows, such as offering solace to the recently bereaved. And maybe, if Howard hadn’t gone poking about where he didn’t belong and encouraging Mary to do the same, nothing bad would have happened other than some restless nights (No fucking wonder no one stays in that guesthouse if they can help it with that racket going on). So give me that confrontation with Herr Hubert, either in the immediate aftermath, or over a longer period of time with Herr Hubert visiting him occasionally in England in an attempt to persuade Howard to come to terms with his daughter’s death so that she can finally laid to rest, and they become friends of a kind.

Alternative Medium Prompts

I’d love to see art that captures the absurdly Gothic atmosphere and the visuals, such as the oppressive setting of the guesthouse or the grotesque imagery of the marionettes. The nature of the canon makes it especially perfect for epistolary story-telling, and it’s another one where I’d love to see what ideas you can come up with. Several characters either canonically do, or have reason to, keep journals, so it would be great to see those explored too.

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Whisky Galore! (1949)

Requested Ships:
George Campbell/Catriona Macroon
Requested Mediums:
Medium Opt In: Art - Any Nominated Art Medium
Medium Opt In: Art - Fanart
Medium Opt In: Writing - Epistolary

Canon-specific DNWs: Heavy angst, dark themes, unhappy endings

Optional Prompts

The scenes where the islanders hide bottles of whisky everywhere made me laugh quite a bit, because you just know they’ll never be able to find them all again later, so they’ll be finding bottles of whisky in unexpected places for months afterwards. So… stumbling across a carefully hidden bottle after you thought it had all run out? Digging multiple places because you can’t remember exactly where you hid it?
Weddings - I wasn’t kidding when I said I wanted something tooth-rottingly fluffy. I’d love to see something which captures the film’s gentle humour and relatively low-stakes here. The trials and tribulations of holding a wedding during rationing (wedding dress details, because I’m also here for home sewing), trying to keep George’s mother sweet, pre-wedding nerves, bickering between the sisters, or a minor home guard crisis (suspected German spy who turns out to be a birdwatcher? Unexploded bomb?). Is it a double-wedding?
First Time - Wedding Night – And speaking of wedding nights… *ahem* I’m a sucker for inexperienced couples figuring things out. Smut? Or George discreetly tries to seek advice from Sergeant Odd
Inclement weather - Storms and heavy snow and sea fogs, whether just for atmosphere, or for tropey situations like huddling for warmth, mildly perilous rescue attempts, or just a reason for the two of them to shelter inside with only each other for company. And then nine months later…
Falling in love - How did they come to fall in love? Pre-canon quiet pining, or the two of them getting to know each other. Were they childhood sweethearts? Why didn’t his mother like Catriona?
His mother! Using whisky as the solution to all life’s problems is great, until the whisky runs out. Has his mother permanently come around to their relationship, or are there still going to be some blips along the way? Is there a permanent battle of wills between Catriona and Mrs Campbell, or do they find some common ground?
Scenery Porn - I am completely here for something plotless and quiet and atmospheric, maybe just vignettes of their life together set at different times of the year. A year (or longer) in the life of a relationship, where the island itself plays a part.
Pregnancy – Yeah, I really wasn’t kidding about wanting indulgent fluff. All the pregnancy tropes, George sweating it about not being ready to be a father, Catriona and his mother butting heads about how to raise a baby, getting the nursery ready, both the sisters pregnant at the same time…
5 times fic – Five things George and Catriona have argued about.

Alternative Medium Prompts

I absolutely love this film to bits, so anything you can come up with is welcome. I’d absolutely love to see some scenery porn, something where the island is virtually a character in its own right, all mists and wet drizzle and sheep and the sea. But also the islands of the Outer Hebrides are pretty good locations for seeing the Northern Lights. Maybe the two of them against the backdrop of the island, or something sweet and quietly understated, a moment of quiet in the middle of the rèiteach, them holding hands, or one of them watching the other when they think the other can’t see them.

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Thanks for reading!

FFFX 2022 Letter

AO3 Username: StopTalkingAtMe

Welcome to my letter, Mystery Creator. Let me start by saying I’m open to a LOT of different things, and to endings of all kinds from tooth-rottingly happy to bleak despair. I’m also open to unrequested crossovers, so as long as you have good reason to believe I’m into a fandom, then go for it. And while my general likes might lean towards the bleak and angsty, believe it or not, I do also really love more light-hearted styles of fic as well as pure unadulterated smut. Some of the sections here may be longer than others but please don’t read anything into that – I’d be delighted with a gift for any one of them. All requests are for fic, and I’m excited to see what you come up with! :D

General Likes
Smut Likes
DNWs
Blake’s 7
Death Goes to School (1953)
Doomsday (2008)
Hamlet (1969)
Poirot (TV)
Primeval
The Professionals
Supernatural (1977)
Survivors
Upstairs Downstairs

General Likes and DNWs

General Likes

Character studies and introspection
Loneliness and isolation
Angst
Atmospheric description, scenery porn, sensory description
World-building, backstory, and character development.
Horror.
Closed Circle - Stranded with a murderer in your midst, whether in horror or murder mystery. Think And Then There Were None.
Case-fic, whether fully realised or just touching on elements from a case.
Whump, hurt/comfort and hurt/no comfort.
Endings of all kinds, happy, bleak or bittersweet.
Canon-divergent AUs, especially post-canon ones where the bad guys win.
Pining, whether mutual or one-sided
Repression and stoicism
Descriptions of scars
Main Character Death and grief; characters getting together while still grieving for previous partners, taking solace in each other, the dead character still seeming like a presence in the relationship, etc. (Please note the exception for Whisky Galore!)
Crossovers, especially oddball crossovers that come completely out of left field, although I do tend to prefer crack played straight rather than outright crack. If you have reason to believe I know and like the other fandom, then I encourage you to go for it. (and for the record, I’m not sure why The Professionals has become the fandom I would really love to see crossed over with everything, but for some reason it has.)
Post-Apocalypse scenarios, with focus on angst and the struggle for survival. This includes zombie apocalypse AUs.
Stranded Together With No Way Home, us against the world, deep mutual dependence on the other party because there’s no one else around (which may not be entirely healthy)
Time Loops
Older characters finding love.
Age gap relationships
I really love historical detail and extensive research notes, so if that’s what you’re into then feel free to go wild. (If that’s not your thing, then please don’t worry: I am in no way an expert, and I love tropey indulgent stuff and cheerfully anachronistic fics just as much).
Hair kink. Hands pushed into hair, coiling it around fingers, routinely cutting another character's hair if appropriate in context (e.g. in post-apocalyptic scenarios), hairwashing as part of hurt/comfort, yanking head back by the hair, etc
Textiles, especially knitwear and embroidery; men in jumpers; historical and cultural details and craft in general
Cigarette kink: descriptions of smoking, sharing cigarettes, lighting cigarettes for each other, etc.
Finally, and I cannot emphasise this enough, men in pyjamas.

Smut Likes

Sex Pollen and aftermath, and any other kind of something made them do it scenario
Angry Sex, rough sex, hate sex, rough sex that turns tender
Clothed Sex, or clothed/naked
Comfort Sex
Dubcon when requested (mutual dubcon of the something-made-us-do-it kind is ALWAYS okay even when not explicitly requested)
Mild bondage and other forms of gentle restraint
Oral Sex, especially cunnilingus in all its forms, and ESPECIALLY cunnilingus with fingering
Rough Sex - Lots of Scratching and Biting and Hair-Grabbing/Pulling and Holding Partner(s) Down
Sex in grimy, grim, uncomfortable places
Threesomes
Situations where one character is too tired, injured etc to orgasm themselves, but takes great pleasure in making the other person come, so long as it's part of a wider give-take relationship when it comes to sex.

DNWs

A/B/O
Unreqested Noncon (Bad Guys Made Them Do It scenarios are fine though)
Dubcon involving unaroused characters
Unrequested Incest
Bestiality (monsters don't count here)
Scat and waterplay
Formalised D/s dynamics (bondage and other forms of restraint are OK)
Underage
Het anal sex
Breathplay (antagonistic choking is fine)
Fisting
Sexualised lactation
Any variation of the word 'come' in a sexual context spelled as 'cum' (please use 'come', 'came', 'precome' etc)

Blake’s 7

Requested Ship: Roj Blake/Travis
Travis/Servalan

Roj Blake/Travis

Optional Prompts

We’ve heard the story of what happened between Blake and Travis, but we only hear the latter half of it through Blake’s somewhat compromised memories. What if it didn’t happen quite the way Blake described?
Travis survives Star One and runs into Blake. Does Travis regret what he did or is he completely unrepentant? And considering the consequences of destroying Star One, it’s not like Blake is entirely comfortable on the moral high ground. Perhaps there’s an external conflict that forces them to work together and not just kill each other there and then, but I’d also be willing to just seen them both too tired and broken to fight and so calling a truce of a kind just for one night.
Blake ends up brainwashed again and an extremely resentful Travis is set as his guard dog with explicit instructions not to harm him and the ability to erase Blake’s memories if he thinks Blake is starting to suspect something is wrong. It’s not like he was planning on taking advantage of the situation, but it just sort of happened that way. Does Blake start growing on him despite Travis’s best efforts? Or show it through Blake’s eyes, and the gradual realisation that something is very very wrong.
They get stuck in a time loop, (some kind of simulation, perhaps?) and the only way out of the time loop is for them to work together to get them both out of the situation in one piece or, uh, possibly for them to fuck.
Show me the Blake/Travis relationship through the lens of Travis/The Clone (and it’s fine for Blake himself not to appear in the fic). There’s a lot of places you could go with this, from pure unadulterated smut to character development. It occurs to Travis, possibly at Servalan’s urging, that he might be able to use the clone to work out his issues with Blake. Maybe Servalan acts as a third party directing the two of them, and rather enjoying Travis’s shame at enjoying it so much (he was so broken in that episode), or else a hundred petty little moments of cruelty escalate into extremely dubconny sex. Or maybe a post-Star One AU in which Travis runs into the clone again.
Interrogations – Travis has captured Blake and is interrogating him. Maybe there’s information he needs to get which is time-critical, maybe the Federation forces are pinned down, so he’s desperate. Maybe he just gets to the point where he decides he has nothing to lose, and the interrogation takes a darker, more sexual turn.
It’ll be a cold day in hell before I get bored of Sex Pollen. :D Make. Them. Fuck. I love it in all its forms, whether both are affected, or just one of them. An unaffected Travis taking advantage of an affected Blake (and hating himself just a little for not being able to resist)? Or maybe neither one of them is affected and they’re both just pretending they are because it’s the perfect excuse to finally fuck. I love it both as a one-off and as a potential catalyst for a potential redemption arc, and in both fluffy and darker forms.
In general, I’m just fascinated by the idea of redemption, and particularly when it comes to Travis. He’s undoubtedly done some terrible things, so I’m really drawn to the question of whether he can be redeemed.

Travis/Servalan

Optional Prompts

Fill in some of the missing moments from his arc, either from the first or second season. In the first season, he’s in disgrace after the events of Duel. His arc in the second season is a rollercoaster ride. After Hostage it’s pretty clear he’s in regularish contact with Servalan, so there are some opportunities for missing scenes there. Maybe he comes close to getting captured by the Federation and she manipulates things to get him free and hunting for Blake again.
What the hell would pillow talk between the two of them look like?
More background to The Keeper, please. I have some headcanons about what was going on with him (he just wanted to rule the universe by her side, another moment between them that makes my shippy heart explode in delight, as does the idea that this ship might have been the pivotal moment that would massively change the course of events of the series going forwards), but I’m curious to see your take on it. If she’d let him, would he have been genuinely loyal to her, or might he still have betrayed her down the line? I think it probably goes without saying that she would have betrayed him.
And along those lines the concept of Travis and Servalan ruling the universe side by side is a TERRIFYING one. Give me that AU, please, or else the set-up for it where he delivers Star One to her.
An AU where Travis survives Star One. “There's no one as free as a dead man,” Servalan tells him in Hostage. Well, now everyone thinks he’s dead, so he’s got his freedom. What’s he going to do with it? How does he get off Star One? Does he end up working with Servalan again, or watch her from afar, trying to keep his head down?

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Death Goes to School (1953)

Requested ships: DI Campbell/Miss Shepherd

Available on YouTube here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DnOlzfp3bgo. It’s a second feature, and is very short, just over an hour long.

Optional Prompts

cigarette kink – Ah, the 50s. When everyone and their mother was lighting up, and that includes the schoolkids. When it comes to cigarette kink, canon alone is pretty damn good to me. I love all the sexual tension descriptions and focus on smoking can provide, and the intimacy that comes from offering each other cigarettes, lighting up for each other, sharing their last cigarette, etc…
A first time, whether it be their first time together, first time as a married couple, first time as an engaged couple, first time for full sex…
Competence Kink - Rivals Are Incredibly Turned On By Each Other's Talent – I LOVE this for these two. I’d just love more of them competing with each other to solve a case, and that whole thing bringing them closer together.
"Thank God You're/We're Alive" Sex – A slightly more hazardous case leads to frantic sex, with optional get together and feelings confession.
trapped together – yep, I will never get sick of this trope as a catalyst for shipfic. Interpret this however you want, whether a very small cramped space like a wardrobe or the two of them being stranded in an isolated building. Either way, I love the awkwardness of forced proximity, especially when the sexual tension is laid on with a trowel.
In a weirdly meta-twist, the film is based on the novel Death in Seven Hours, which Miss Shepherd is pictured reading at one point (and which to my great frustration I haven’t been able to get hold of so I know nothing whatsoever about it). Is the novel the same plot as the film? Eerily similar? Does this keep happening, with life and murder repeatedly echoing the books she reads? Maybe a romance starts developing between the characters in the books. Does this act as a catalyst or does she try to resist the inevitable?

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Doomsday

Requested Ships:
Sol & Cally

Oh, and if you want to go with Sol/Cally, whether implied or otherwise (and Sol/Cally/Viper would be very interesting indeed), then please do.

Optional Prompts

How did he become leader of the cannibals? Did they run away from home? Did she originally go with him, but decided to return home because, you know, cannibalism and shit.
A canon-divergent AU where Sol survives. Does he storm the wall with his army and unleash the Reaper Virus on the rest of the UK? Turns out Cally isn't entirely on Sinclair's side after all.
Cally/Sol/Viper? However it turns out, whether dubcon or entirely consensual. An AU where Cally is (almost?) entirely allied with Sol? And they have a messed-up incestuous poly vibe going on?
Cally has to choose between Sol and Captain Sinclair
Captivity – Whether an exploration of Cally being imprisoned by Sol and the Marauders, or Sol being imprisoned by Cally’s father. In canon Cally tells Sinclair he was going to kill her – was he, and if so was he going to do it entirely willingly? (and on this note it’s interesting that Viper targets Sinclair as being specifically for Sol. A replacement for Cally?)
Hurt/Comfort – Yep, I am so here for them having a childhood where they were completely wrapped up in each other and had only each other to turn to for comfort. I’m fine with it being extremely unhealthy (I mean… *gestures at canon*) and incestuous.
Maybe all through their childhoods, Cally and Sol used to talk about how they'd run away together, and then when they're older, they manage it, and run away to Glasgow. What happens before their father drags them back? Or does he only drag Cally back? Is this when Sol gets his first taste of the Maurauders' life? Is this when he meets Viper? Or does Sol appear to sacrifice himself to save his sister, which means she thinks he's dead until by chance she finds out otherwise? Whatever you do, I'd love to see something of them exploring the ruined city together. Maybe for a little while it’s even fun.
Zombie Apocalypse AU – Fast zombies (which I think would fit pretty well with canon) or otherwise.
A canon-divergent fic where Cally still leaves on the helicopter, but Sol survives and goes on to confront his father.
So, post-canon, what happens if they manage to develop a cure, and the wall surrounding Scotland is demolished allowing those beyond to reintegrate with the rest of the country, presumably with all crimes forgotten.
Character Surprised By Their Own Deep Loyalty Feels; Object Of Loyalty Even More Surprised – I’d just love to see their relationship explored, especially given Cally’s role in Viper’s death. Maybe Sol’s trying to get revenge but finds he’s unable to hurt his sister, or he was trying very hard to keep her alive, because keeping the Marauders from turning against him is a fine line to tread?
Fuck or Die with mutual pining – Pre-canon when they were younger or closer to the point at which canon takes place, and with Sol apparently in the aggressor role, but it’s actually a bit more complicated than that, and he’s very much trying to keep her alive.
Grief - privately and conflictedly mourning a loved one whom society regards as evil – I’m also fine with post-canon fics where Sol is dead so long as there’s a significant focus on their relationship. (I’m fine with Cally/Stirling too so include that if you want) While I love canon-divergence, I’d also love to see a canon-compliant post-canon fic which focuses on Cally, her complicated grief over her brother and what he became, and how she adjusts to the new world, which, uh, may not exactly be the paradise she might have imagined. XD

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Hamlet (1969)

Requested Ships: Hamlet/Horatio

Put short, it’s one of the shippiest things I’ve ever seen.

Optional Prompts

Was there ever a canon more suited for ghosts? Maybe in the aftermath, Horatio sees Hamlet’s ghost, but is it really Hamlet? I am open to all explorations of the supernatural, I love creepiness in general and ghost stories in particular, but, uh, I’m also partial to ghost-fucking if you wanted to go smuttier, or really delve into the guilt and grief and sense of loss.
"Casual" Sex Turning Tender" – So maybe while they were both at Wittenberg, he and Horatio had a casual sexual relationship. Give me all the pining while having sex, Horatio believing he isn’t good/rich/noble enough for Hamlet, and knowing he should stop it because it will end up breaking his heart, but he can’t bring himself to finish it.
Character expected to die but didn't and now has no idea how to live anymore – Although everyone else who dies, still dies, somehow Hamlet survives the poison, and okay, yes, he’s revenged his father, but unfortunately with one or two casualties along the way. Which raises again the question of the ghost’s motivations, and plunges him into a whole new quagmire of guilt and grief while Horatio tries to bring him through it.
Characters A and C brought together by shared love for B – Specifically Horatio and Ophelia. I’d really love to see the relationship between this version of Horatio and Ophelia explored. That hug, and what exactly is going on between her and her brother. I absolutely 100% believe that this version of Horatio adores Hamlet, but also he’s lovely, and I can completely see him Horatio pining for Hamlet and making the decision to love Ophelia too because he believes Hamlet loves her. Seriously, that hug.
Characters Are In Love But Duty Will Keep Them Apart Forever Until Something Makes Them Do It – Always and forever, ‘Something made them do it’ scenarios are one of my favourite tropes. The nature of the something that made them do it is up to you, but… drugs? Alcohol? Pirates?
Pining. All the pining, whether one-sided or mutual, whether they have a sexual relationship or not. Maybe Horatio’s awareness of the differences in their stations, or because he believes Hamlet is in love with another (or using Horatio as a substitute, which yes, fine, but the heartache), or because Hamlet is straight.
Drunken Confessions – Danes or not, turns out they’re both very bad at being drunk.
That Time of Night So Late It's Early Again (And the Liminal Conversations Had At This Hour) – Hamlet and Horatio get into the habit of staying out late in the hopes of seeing the ghost again. Conversations, huddling for warmth, lack of sleep...
A canon-divergent fic where Claudius decides that it might be wiser to let Hamlet return to Wittenberg after all, but the ghost still won’t leave him alone while he’s there.
Elsinore as a weird liminal space between life and death, and Horatio as the only character who’s actually real/alive? A time loop, where events keep repeating themselves?
Time Loop – The whole thing as a semi-neverending story. On explaining the story to Fortinbras (which happens off-screen in this production which ends with the ‘Goodnight sweet prince’ line, making it feel even more like a tragic Hamlet/Horatio love story), Horatio keeps looping back to the beginning and living it all over again. Gradually, reality starts to break down, and he begins to realise it’s all starting to feel a bit familiar.
It's partly the mirroring in the matching beards (I feel so silly writing that, and yet) and partly a note about the text I read somewhere which points out that Horatio is whatever the script (or Hamlet) needs him to be at that particular moment. So play with that. Horatio as the ghost? Or Horatio as a creation of Hamlet's mind which has brought forth at a time of extreme stress, with Horatio's disapproval at the killing of Rosencrantz and Guildenstern an echo of Hamlet's own guilt?

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Agatha Christie’s Poirot

Requested Ships: Charles Cartwright/Hermione "Egg" Lytton Gore

Optional Prompts

Missing scenes and sweet little moments from their courtship and the investigation. The two of them bonding over clue-hunting, or going sailing together, Sir Charles trying to be noble and self-sacrificing (ha!) and Egg not standing for it. (In age gap relationships I’m particularly fond of the younger party doing the pursuing)
A canon-divergent fix-it of sorts? Because for whatever reason there’s no impediment to the marriage. Sweetly indulgent fluff or does the tragic part just happen differently? Do they end up tangled up in another murder, and if so, is one of them the victim or the murderer??
Poirot investigates Tollie’s murder as a cold-case after Sir Charles and Egg are married.
A role reversal AU where Egg is the murderer.
What would have happened if Egg had recognised Sir Charles at Strange’s party, and he was forced to pass it off as a joke?
They hold their own murder mystery party.
On the one hand, I ship it so hard. On the other, he’s so horribly ruthless, and I suddenly remember one of the potential murder victims could have been her mother. So what if it was Egg’s mother who drank the poisoned cocktail? How would that affect the plot?
After Egg and Sir Charles are married, he’s approached by a blackmailer.
Pure indulgent fluff or smut with the very slightest edge of darkness.

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Primeval

Requested Ships/Characters
Claudia Brown/Nick Cutter
Emily Merchant
Helen Cutter

This show is just so much damn fun to watch. Having recently rewatched it, I can confirm that I still love it to bits, whilst also finding it incredibly frustrating. All the missed opportunities and dropped potential storylines, and things that were brought up and then just dropped without ever really being explored in detail. I’d love to see some of that worldbuilding developed and explored, and canon divergence is always welcome, particularly for the Nick/Claudia and Helen Cutter requests. (Note: I have also watched Primeval: New World, and I’m probably going to have given that a rewatch by the time reveals roll around, so if you want to include aspects of that then please feel free to do so, but I’m also absolutely fine with it being ignored completely).

Claudia Brown/Nick Cutter

In my rewatch, I’ve fallen in love with the Nick/Claudia/Jenny thing all over again. It’s all so horrifically awkward and messy, especially since the show never quite delivered on explaining what the hell was going on and essentially dropped the entire storyline, leaving it all dangling. While I’ve requested Claudia/Nick, feel free to deal with the Jenny-Claudia thing however you want, whether you go with Nick/Claudia, Nick/Jenny (but it’s extremely awkward), or anything inbetween. The whole situation is so awkward and weird and difficult in a way that gets me right in the id, and it’s such a shame that the storyline was dropped.

It raises so many questions, like the moral dilemma of Nick potentially getting the chance to revert back to the original timeline, and possibly erasing Jenny in the process, for example. Is Claudia dead or does she still exist in a parallel universe? Could she be brought back? How utterly fucked up would it be to know the man you’re dating was once in love with another version of you and his first act on finding out she no longer existed was to attempt to go back through the anomaly in the hopes of bringing her back and destroying you (granted he didn’t know Jenny existed then, but still…)?

I like both Jenny and Claudia, although Claudia’s vulnerabilities appeal (the golf club episode in which she temporarily loses her sight was one of my favourites) and I loveloveLOVE the way Nick talks about her when Jenny asks him what she was like. But I’m also fascinated by the differences between them, and the way those differences seem to be softened somewhat in series 3, with Jenny starting to look a little more like Claudia. Is her other self starting to bleed through? And if so, how many more versions of herself might there be? (It makes me laugh how blithe they all are about potential changes to the past, which in return makes me wonder how fluid and subject to change the timeline actually is, and whether there are any other changes that might be going on without them realising it.)

Other random things that really appeal to me about the show: Helen Cutter and Nick’s relationship with her (and feel free to include background Nick/Helen if you want). I really like her a lot, her motivations and her relationship with Nick, (both the good and the bad) really fascinate me. She’s brilliant and utterly amoral, and while she’s clearly massively flawed I prefer shades-of-grey!Helen to malicious-for-no-good-reason!Helen. And I find it pretty appealing how Nick always seems to have the bad luck to only seem to fall for a woman, when he’s semi-grieving for the loss of another (first Helen and Claudia, then Claudia and Helen). I also adore Connor/Abby, James Lester (<3<3<3), the future creatures, and glimpses into the apocalypse.

Explore all the timey-wimey potential weirdness of alternative universes, multiple anomalies, the timeline proving to be more fluid than they’d previously realised, with Cutter and Jenny-Claudia as the focus. (5 + 1 Times Shit Got Weird?)
For a show that dealt with time travel, it’s noticeable that the characters never really found themselves in the more recent past (or future). What if Nick and Claudia find themselves stranded in the more recent past, whether it’s a shippy stranded together moment or something more plotty. If he’s there with Jenny, for instance, and the opportunity arises for him to warn his younger self about what’s going to happen.
A role reversal AU where it was Nick who first found out about the anomalies (accidentally finding himself stranded, if it might be a bit OOC for him to just fuck off the way Helen did), and it’s Helen who’s working for Lester. So when Claudia first meets him he’s an outsider and her colleague’s estranged ex-husband.
Explore all the implications of the changing of history. Is there any trace of Claudia left in Jenny? Are the boundaries between the women starting to break down? Maybe the team discover a strange nexus point where all possibilities are equal, so Claudia-Jenny starts shifting between the two (or more?) versions of herself.
The original plan for the plotline seemed to be that it would become clear that there were more people like Jenny who used to be someone else in another timeline. So perhaps they meet another person who used to be someone else.
The whole situation with Jenny-Claudia was so very odd. Why that change? Granted there were other changes too, like the ARC building, but the Jenny-Claudia change is so hyper-specific that it feels like there must have been something more going on. Was it deliberate? Was Helen somehow behind it, and if so, why?
Claudia is somehow brought back to find herself in a world where she never existed.
So given all the changes after the season 1 finale, how would Nick himself have changed if he hadn’t been on the other side of that anomaly? Who would he have been in this new world? How would the cases he’d already experienced have gone differently? How did the ARC come into existence? Trying to make sense of everything, Nick sets out to find out about this new timeline.
And finally if you want to go the tropey route, perhaps an anomaly opens up which leads to Nick and Claudia getting dosed with sex pollen, whether you go with PWP or the awkward aftermath.

Helen Cutter and Emily Merchant

Basically my excuse for worldbuilding requests. :D Although if you want to go with canon typical casefic for either one, then I’d be delighted with that too. They both absolutely fascinate me. They’ve both travelled through the anomalies, both been trapped in the past/future for significant periods of time, which is never really something we see directly explored in any detail, even though it’s fascinating. Such as, if every time you travel into the past you’re risking changing the future timeline, well… what are the ramifications of that? What changes has Helen seen that we aren’t aware of? What was the group Emily was travelling with like? Something else we never saw explored, and we didn’t find out much about them, but the idea of a nomadic group wandering through timelines, sticking to places where there are no people? There is so much to explore for both of them. I’m also drawn to the question of how all that future-tech both came about and how it could be used, the question of how fragile the time line really is and whether there might be changes going on all the time that we’re completely unaware of, and all the potential for alternative versions of characters. I’m also always a bit amused by how blasé everyone is about potentially causing changes to the time line. Emily’s husband is dead and she’s been extracted from Victorian times, but apparently that’s fine?

For Helen, I’d love to see something exploring a little deeper into her motivations and her time in the anomalies, particularly the periods of time she spent in the future scavenging for future-tech, and perhaps her relationship with Philip Burton, because for me that’s one of the major unanswered questions: everything New Dawn was going to bring about was exactly what Helen was trying to prevent! There’s so much I’d like to see explored, such as her relationship with Cutter, past present and – maybe? – future, the potential of cloning, and how she went from amoral scientist to actively seeking to destroy the human race.

For Emily, I’d really love to know more about the group she was travelling with, or how things might pan out for her, Matt and the team post-canon. The idea of a group of damaged people from disparate time periods travelling through the anomalies forever searching for ways home to their different worlds is fascinating, and I’m forever frustrated that we never got to learn much more about them. I’d love to see her coming to terms with this new world and her place in it, getting to know Jess and Abby, and training to become one of the team.

I liked her relationship with Matt a lot, particularly the whole idea of them bonding because of their shared experience of being in the wrong time period. I really enjoyed the two final seasons, but it kills me that they ended on a cliffhanger. So… what happens next? Why is it so urgent that Matt has to go back? And back where? To his own time period? Or was the other Matt talking about another time, Emily’s time period for example or to shortly before the prevention of New Dawn? I’d love to see something that follows on from canon and attempts to answer the question of what happens next, whether immediately or long-term in the future. How are things going to pan out now that everyone knows about the existence of anomalies?

Optional Prompts

Abandoned Ruins and Survival Horror – Just give me 10,000 words of Helen or Emily (with or without her group) exploring strange worlds or the post-apocalyptic future and I will be delighted. Especially if there are future monsters hunting her. When it comes to horror, dark underground spaces filled with monsters particularly appeals.
Time Loop – Particularly suited for the canon. What if an anomaly bookends a very specific period of time, which loops back on itself, so that if you don’t achieve what you want to achieve, you can go back to the beginning and start again?
Gothic - AU where changes in the time line mean Emily is stuck in a Gothic novel. Maybe her husband is aware of the anomalies, maybe Helen is involved somehow (whether she's on Emily's side or otherwise). Just play around with Gothic tropes: the big house, the husband with a secret, etc.
Amnesia - Affected person forgets the terrible things they've done – Helen turns up at the Arc post season three (whether a canonically divergent ending where she survives, OR there’s some other reason, such as an alternative universe or there’s clones involved somewhere), having forgotten everything she did. Is she for real or is there something more going on?
Stranded together and forced to rely on each other to survive – always one of my favourite tropes. For Helen and Cutter I’m find with it bringing them back together or with their relationship remaining mostly antagonistic. Or, you know, both. Or if it’s for Matt and Emily, Victorian era or Matt’s time?
enemies/antagonists have to work together – Helen works with the Arc on a case.
POV Outsider – I’d love to see an outsider take on the anomalies, whether in the past, present, or future. Maybe there’s somewhere Helen (or Emily and her group although they tend to avoid places where there are other humans) uses as a sort of base camp, and someone there sees her coming and going.
Villain Undergoes Redemption Arc – As I wrote above, I prefer shades-of-grey!Helen to malicious-for-no-good-reason!Helen, and her actions in season 3 actually make a twisted sense given the blasted wasteland the world becomes directly as a result of the actions of human beings (and because it seems like there’s a kind of inevitability to the coming end of the world – if it’s not Philip Burton, then it’ll be someone else). Ultimately she’s trying to prevent the same thing as the team, so there’s room for redemption in her character, and I’d love to see something of how it might come about.
That AU where Cutter was the one who went through the anomaly and Helen takes his role heading the team. Then Cutter comes back.
Heist – Look, I just love heists, okay? Do the team have to pull off a heist with Helen’s help, or is Helen pulling one of her own and they have to stop her?
Unreliable Narrator – possibly an epistolary work. Go as weird and complicated as you can. Amnesia? Alternative time lines? Different versions of Helen seeing events in different ways?
Emily adapting to the new world and training to become part of the team. No one, not even Matt, has quite as much hands-on experience of anomalies as she does.

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The Professionals

Requested Ships
William Bodie/George Cowley
William Bodie/Ray Doyle
Char: George Cowley
George Cowley/Elizabeth Walsh
George Cowley/Annie Irvine

William Bodie/Ray Doyle, George Cowley/William Bodie

There absolutely doesn't need to be a happy ending. Oh, and I should mention that background Bodie/Doyle is welcome here too.

Optional Prompts (some of these have been written with specific ships/characters in mind, but please feel free to mix and match)

Casefic, or elements from a partially realised casefic, whether canon-typical or something which takes them out of their comfort zones.
5 + 1 ways of livening up surveillance detail.
Bonding in captivity – whether as a result of trauma and torture, or being imprisoned together somewhere dark and claustrophobic.
Ever seen Randall and Hopkirk (Deceased)? Well, that AU, where one half of the pairing is a ghost the other can’t see, whether the ghost is potentially a sign that the other one is cracking up, or an actual literal ghost, and the first case they have to solve together is who murdered him. I was thinking Bodie/Doyle for this, with one of them as the ghost, but Cowley as the ghost (and absolutely livid about it) would be great too, whichever ship you go with.
If they do get together, how does it happen? How do they come to realise they have feelings for the other? When it starts is it just about sex, or is the sexual attraction develop out of a result of their bond?
The bit in Stake Out where Bodie flung himself across a bowling alley to manhandle Doyle to the floor to stop him from kicking off at an aggressive member of the public, including hooking his leg over Doyle's in the process, did things to me. More undercover stuff please, with them both trying to keep a low profile, and having to rely on the other one to rein them in. Additional manhandling is optional, but very much appreciated.
”Casual” sex turning tender - (both ships) neither character thinks the other has any genuine feelings, or maybe the sex is just something that keeps happening without either of them ever intending it to. What happens when tenderness starts creeping in? Is it mutual? Is the other party unnerved by it? Into it? Or both?
Aftermath of Torture – Character trying to hold it together is clearly low-key fraying at the edges - Either paring, any character. Trying to remain stoic and refusing help much to the frustration of the other/s. If Cowley’s the whumped character then maybe it could be a semi-fakeout, where he’s using his weakness as bait, and it works, but actually he’s suffering too.
Agonisingly slow build-up of sexual tension - Along with copious amounts of mutual self-denial and pining, while trying to hide the mutual attraction from each other/other people/themselves.
A zombie apocalypse AU, or some other apocalyptic scenario. Always and forever one of my favourite tropes. Or alternatively, if you’re familiar with it, a crossover with Survivors, even if it only uses the other series as a backdrop for desperate ‘us against the crumbling world’ sex.
Character A confesses feelings because they think Character B is unconscious - Man, the awkwardness and painful aftermath, the self-doubt and the questioning – did they mishear? Should they say anything, or would it be better to pretend they didn’t hear?
While working undercover, one half of the couple is forced to torture the other to maintain their cover
Complicated feelings of love and loyalty and hurt and resentment - For either pairing really, although I have to admit I have Cowley/Bodie in mind specifically. Just a relationship study, really, examining all the complicated trust issues and matters of loyalty
Estranged Characters – Injured A shows up on B’s doorstep saying ‘I didn’t know where else to go’. – future fic or canon-divergent where the injured character has gone AWOL or otherwise rogue.
Fighting/sparring as foreplay – I mean, the usual, but for Cowley/Bodie this would probably also include Cowley watching (disapprovingly?) as Bodie gets the shit kicked out of him by Macklin, followed by something that could theoretically be described as comfort if you squint. For Bodie/Doyle, them enjoying sparring with each other.
Cowley goes rogue. Is it for real, or another ruse?
Country House Party – Weird time-slip where they find themselves in an interwar house party that ended in murder. Ghosts? Inexplicable events that are never explained beyond handwavy nonsense? A Sapphire & Steel crossover? Or is this just an excuse to get them into period dress?
Time Loop – the part where the looper breaks and stops giving any fucks – Again any character, but I admit I’m thinking of Cowley here, mainly because I’m delighted by the idea of him being thwarted at every turn and then just going FUCK THIS.
Character A and Character B Mutually Pine For Each Other While They Fuck Other People Together -- I'm specifically thinking of Bodie/Doyle (Cowley would NEVER), but dear god do I love it for them. The drunken aftermath of a double date turns orgiastic, or else one of the lads has been stood up or had an argument with his girlfriend, and the other's girlfriend insists he join them to cheer him up.
And of course now that I've said that Cowley would NEVER, I'm immediately trying to think of situations in which he would. *sigh* I suppose the most likely scenario is a combination of the procuring an undercover Bodie claims to do in Take Away and everything that happens with Anna in The Untouchables -- another party who knows this is a CI5 operation and is working with full consent. So a 'Sex while undercover' scenario, probably?
Bodysharing - one of them commenting/giving orders while the other jerks off -- Ahaha, <3. I love this tag so much. Either pairing, either character. Although I do have to admit, that while it would be especially weird and filthy and fun for Bodie/Doyle, the idea of this for Cowley/Bodie fills me with glee. God, it would be excruciating and I can't figure out which scenario I like more: Bodie trying to have a surreptitious wank when he thinks Cowley isn't looking, and his dawning horror at the first sour comment, or while Bodie's inside Cowley some of his general horniness rubs off on him, and even when Cowley was young he hadn't been as horny as this all the damn time, what the hell, man? It appeals so much, the two of them trying to make it work as best they can until they can get the mess fixed, and grudgingly actually getting sort of into it, weird and fucked up as it is.
sex under the stars – Ohhh, I love this tag: the romanticism of sex outdoors, the setting and potential for scenery porn, the low-level risk of semi-public sex, and the suggestion that they’re so turned on they can’t keep their hands off each other. How does it come about? Are they camping for plot reasons, on a stake-out, stranded in nature for some reason?
Authority Figure Societally Expected To Have Sex With Subordinate – I obviously had Cowley/Bodie in mind for this, but if you want to use it for Bodie/Doyle instead, then please do. I can see a couple of ways that’d work – an AU where either Bodie or Doyle is the other’s subordinate, OR where Cowley being expected to have sex with his subordinates is part of the background to the Bodie/Doyle ship (a Droit du Seigneur situation which arises when two of his subordinates are in a relationship, which is part of the reason why Cowley discourages relations between his agents because he hates having to fulfil his duties and he is extremely unimpressed every time it happens?) Either way, what appeals with this is how utterly awkward and uncomfortable it would be, and Cowley’s reluctance and impatience with the whole business. I’d love to see the worldbuilding explored whichever ship the focus is on. Would Cowley put it off or grit his teeth and get it over with as soon as possible? Is it a one-off, or is he expected to keep it up on a regular basis? (and oh, bless him, but he’s not as young as he used to be and CI5 has a LOT of agents) Or maybe he does usually try to keep it a one-off, although nominally it isn’t meant to be, but for some reason he keeps fulfilling his statutory duties with Bodie more often than he does with his other agents… (or that Droit de Seigneur situation again, where Bodie keeps submitting fraternisation request forms for different people, and Cowley gets progressively more exasperated every time he has to fuck him, until he realises that Bodie hasn’t so much as gone on a date with the party named in the most recent form (but why? Is it an excuse to fuck Cowley, or a form of bratty non-violent protest, which leads to the two of them bonding over their mutual resentment at the practice).
A Doomsday fusion (the 2008 Neil Marshall film). I'm assuming Cowley's in the Bob Hoskins role, as much as I'd secretly love to see him facing off against a bunch of Mad Max style Scottish cannibals. (And it's not like he's explicitly sending them north of the wall to get him some Scotch, but have you seen what the price of single malt is on the black market these days?)

George Cowley/Elizabeth Walsh

Optional Prompts

Okay, so what the hell did happen with Annie Irvine? Explore their backstory. When they meet Annie says it’s been about ten years since they last met, so depending on how you figure the timeline that must have been significantly after their university days. Was he at her wedding? I have so many questions.
What did Annie actually say to Bodie and Doyle which made them so reluctant to share with Cowley?
Give me something that follows on from the ending of Look After Annie. Do their paths cross again? Where do they go from there?
Give me an AU of that episode where events go differently.
Bad Guys Made Them Do It. Always. <3<3<3 (and oh god, the guilt! The terrible all-consuming guilt!).
A zombie apocalypse AU, or some other apocalyptic scenario. Always and forever one of my favourite tropes. Or alternatively, if you’re familiar with it, a crossover with Survivors, even if it only uses the other series as a backdrop for desperate ‘us against the crumbling world’ sex.
Hurt/Comfort - Cowley is injured during a case, and the other character reluctantly starts looking in on him despite his protests.
Experience – Experienced/Inexperienced – Look, he’s been pining after Annie for, what, twenty years or so, so chances are he hasn’t had that much experience with women.
They’re stranded at some isolated out-of the way place, which is potentially derelict, where the forced proximity puts them in a position where they have to work together and get over any potential awkwardness.
The aftermath of Spy Probe. Cowley takes Elizabeth out to dinner as a way of saying thank you (well, he claims that’s his primary motivation), and walks her back to her hotel room afterwards. (and while I haven’t requested it for this particular exchange I do love the freeform: Late-Night Discussions Outside in the Gently Falling Rain.) Luckily she’s not quite as reticent as he is, and since someone did just try to have her murdered, the least he could do is double-check her hotel room to make sure it’s safe.
Or Cowley/Elizabeth but a slower courtship, where he starts picking her brains on a regular basis and they start to see more and more of each other, until they’ve get as familiar with each other as an old married couple, only without the sex. And then they have sex.
Back in their MI5 days Cowley and Elizabeth narrowly avoided having to have sex to maintain their cover. They both pretended to be relieved about it at the time, but secretly they’ve both regretted it since then.
The AU where my completely off-base assumption that Elizabeth was behind the killings wasn’t quite so off-base, and her arranging her own attempted murder was a set-up to get her inside CI5 because she knew Cowley wouldn’t be able to resist. Except he suspects, and the whole thing is the two of them trying to out-think each other, combined with genuine professional mutual admiration and sexual attraction.
An epistolary fic where they kept in touch by exchanging letters over the years.
Get Together – Character recovering from torture gets taken care of by the person they’re pining for – When Cowley and the other character's paths meet again after a case has gone wrong, she reluctantly starts looking in on him despite his protests.
Smut – guiding an inexperienced partner in how to perform cunnilingus – Look, he’s been pining after Annie for, what, twenty years or so, so chances are he hasn’t had that much experience with women.
Undercover as a couple leads to mutual feelings – When their paths cross again, Cowley poses as Annie’s lover to protect her.
5 Times Cowley had his heart broken.

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Supernatural (1977)

Requested Ships
Howard Lawrence/Mary Lawrence

Optional Prompts

So, uh, that scene where the Monster turns up in Mary’s bedroom? I’m not sure how much this fits with canon (fudge it if you need to, and bear in mind the whole thing could be filtered through Howard’s narration anyway), but it occurred to me that maybe part of the way they entertained themselves at the Villa Diodati could have been through putting themselves in the Shelleys’ mindset by reenacting Regency-style games like Charades (that dressing up and posing in tableaux thing). So what if her first thought when she sees the Monster is that it’s her father in a costume? And that raises some major fucking questions given the turn the puppet show takes.
Unreliable narrator. Play with this however you want. Assume the whole thing is filtered through Howard’s narration, and that events may not necessarily have played out as he claims. Maybe the whole thing comes about because of his obsession with Mary Shelley? Maybe there are no animated corpses, but just people in costume, or maybe they are just puppets, and the whole thing is an invention of his fevered brain because he feels so horribly guilty about an affair with his daughter? And maybe he was in fact the Monster that turned up in her bedroom in a moment of delusion.
A Rashomon-style narrative where we see the other versions of the story. I’d particularly love to get the Huberts’ take if they’re more or less innocent of actual murder – this overwrought maddened candelabra-wielding academic who’s clearly got a thing for his daughter feverishly accusing them of fuck knows what. (“Ghouls! Murderers! Frankenstein! Frankenstein!” XD) And it never fails to crack me up that he makes certain to question Hubert about his pet academic theory before accusing him of murder. Priorities!
Explore the aftermath of canon. Like, fuuuuck, that ending and everything that happens to Mary, and what we learn of her fate, and how distressed he is about it, which. Is. Catnip. Is she mad? Is she dead and somehow been reanimated? Does she have lucid moments? Is she specifically reenacting the role of that female marionette? She’s mostly the one who knowingly initiates most of the inappropriate touching: I’d love to see some of the aftermath where he’s stuck caring for this poor broken creature whom he still adores, but she keeps on with the inappropriate touching. Maybe it distresses her not to have the puppet show reenacted, so he plays along with it as much as he can bear, resisting letting it go too far, but in a way she doesn’t really feel like his daughter any more, until one day in a moment of weakness, he breaks and sleeps with her, and oh god the guilt, the horrible horrible GUILT.
Hurt character offered comfort they think they don’t deserve – Or the aftermath of canon and Howard caring for Mary, as above, but something painfully tender and bittersweet, where he genuinely loves his daughter and would never take advantage of her in that way, he knows he should never have let things get to that point in the first place, and he should probably send her to an asylum, but her delusions are real, and she’s the proof that his were real in turn so he can’t bring himself to do it. And if she does try to do the inappropriate touching thing he’s learned from his mistakes and quickly disengages. Hair washing, and the whole thing heavy with grief and guilt and love and attempting to atone, and her trying to comfort him as much as he’s trying to comfort her, and look, just rip my heart out and have done with it, okay?
Keeping with the marionette theme, maybe he gradually begins to suspect that there’s someone or something controlling her. Perhaps a ghost which has been influencing their actions (and possibly Elsbeth’s too) since the Villa Diodati.
Explore his reasons for approaching the Club in the first place. Why was he trying to join? (The Club features throughout the series, but we never learn much about it other than what I’ve written about it above so you really have an open book). If he doesn’t convince them of his story (and at the end of canon it seems very much like he hasn’t), it means his death, so why has he gone to them? Has Mary died? Do they have the rumoured power to bring her back, or somehow reunite him with her spirit, or is he so guilt-ridden he’s secretly hoping he’ll fail?
Just give me more of the horribly awkward and uncomfortably father-daughter incesty smarm. Slice-of-life moments from their time together pre-canon or during the early part of the episode. I did sort of feel everything happened a little too fast, so I’d really love to see some missing scenes and expansions which take canon events and slow them down to dwell on them a bit longer. Their chess games, Elsbeth’s alcoholism, the transition between ‘o what a lovely peaceful guesthouse’ to ‘clearly these people are murdering their guests.’ Or answer the question of what really happened at the Villa Diodati.
Epistolary – Entirely suited for the setting. Mary’s diaries, especially if she has occasional lucid-ish moments post-canon? Perhaps she has no memory of what happened, or of who she really is, and is still playing out the story she saw in the puppet show, or something similar? Letters that explore what’s going on, pre, during or post-canon, or which explore another story, perhaps from an Outsider POV, where Howard and Mary have moved, and to make it easier to explain away the occasional moments of inappropriate touching, he’s decided to pretend she’s his wife rather than his daughter. It makes things simpler. Except it doesn’t, of course.
Incest – platonic touching slowly turning less platonic – Yeah, okay, look, as far as I’m concerned, the incesty bits are fucking hot. So, uh, that, basically. The slow creep from affection to something much darker.
Possessiveness – Bites and scratches and bruises as claiming – Yep, also something that I basically just think is hot. :D I’d love to see a darker take on what Mary becomes, where she isn’t just this innocent broken doll, but something with a malicious streak, maybe something which isn’t entirely his daughter anymore. And maybe Howard has given up and is already sleeping with her, or he’s trying to be noble and self-sacrificing (successfully or otherwise), but either way as far as she’s concerned, he belongs to her in every way: as father, lover, husband, victim, and marks him accordingly.
Outsider POV – Especially one which goes all-out on the Gothic atmosphere, such as the point of view of the nurse/companion Howard brings in to look after Mary, who gradually begins to get the impression that something isn’t quite right in the house.
What happens between Howard and the Huberts in the aftermath of what happens in canon? I’m fascinated by the Huberts’ whole deal – there’s a moment where you see the woman’s grim, faintly despairing expression just before the puppet show begins – and I really do like the idea that they’re not actually murderers, and are, in fact, decent people, corpse-desecration aside. And hey, maybe they have permission for the corpse-desecration. Maybe it’s considered an honour. Maybe they have other sources of income other than what they earn from the shows, such as offering solace to the recently bereaved. And maybe, if Howard hadn’t gone poking about where he didn’t belong and encouraging Mary to do the same, nothing bad would have happened other than some restless nights (No fucking wonder no one stays in that guesthouse if they can help it with that racket going on). So give me that confrontation with Herr Hubert, either in the immediate aftermath, or over a longer period of time with Herr Hubert visiting him occasionally in England in an attempt to persuade Howard to come to terms with his daughter’s death so that she can finally laid to rest, and they become friends of a kind.

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Survivors (1975)

Requested Characters/Ships
Jenny Richards/Greg Preston
Jenny Richards/Alec Campbell
Lizzie Willoughby & John Millon
Abbie Grant

Fandom-specific DNW: I like the idea of John and Lizzy (and possibly baby Paul) ending up in a relationship when they’re adults. That’s fine, and my incest DNW doesn’t apply to them either, but please no underage or on-screen sexual content for the aged-up characters (although fade-to-black is fine so long as all parties are 18+).

So far, in my quest for the grimmest piece of seventies British sci-fi, Survivors is winning hands down. XD It is incredibly bleak, and can be tough to watch, particularly these days with everything that’s going on with Covid, but personally I’ve actually found it quite comforting. YMMV, though, and I’m really not kidding: it is grim. Content warnings include pressure to have babies, bad things happening to children and animals, and the occasional threat of sexual violence (mostly low-level, but there's at least one death which is strongly implied to have to do with rape although it isn't clear what exactly took place). It’s on UK BritBox, and it also looks like a lot of the episodes are currently available on YouTube, and the first episode is here.

This series is an absolute gem, despite (or perhaps because of) how grim it is. I’m still thinking about the themes it raises some time after finishing watching and hankering for a rewatch because it raises so many different issues – all the philosophising chat about planning for short-term survival vs planning for the long-term future, all the competence porn (Greg MacGyvering his way through the apocalypse will forever be one of my favourite things), the immediate aftermath of the plague and the race to form communities, with some groups making power grabs, while others struggle to get settled. And the way it deals with trauma and grief, and the way that sometimes all that has to be set aside while people are trying to get on with the business of surviving. The moral issues it raises, and the way Greg and Charles sort of each represent a different path, with Charles’ way being looking backwards to a simpler way of life, while Greg is all about engineering and the future and restarting industry.

I love it. I love it so damn much, and I am here for any aspect of the show being explored. I especially love how heavy it is on female characters. One of my favourite things about the early season, aside from watching the early days of the plague unfold – all the rural, soggy, muddiness of rural England – was the core relationship between Abby, Jenny and Greg, and the way the group ultimately grows up around the three of them. I ship Jenny/Greg pretty hard, and I really liked the way their relationship came about almost as an afterthought, but deepened as time went on, and also how that arc came to an end (and on that subject: oh dear god), and I ship Jenny/Alec pretty damn hard too, and would love to see something of how their relationship develops after the end of the series. The whole situation is so incredibly real and messy and painful, and a particular weakness of mine is relationships that come about originally out of solace which deepen into something much more serious, and both Jenny/Greg and Jenny/Alec hit that dead-on. They’re not necessarily healthy relationships, but frankly that’s a feature rather than a bug.

I adore Abby and Jenny both, Abby for how competent and tough she is, and how her arc isn’t entirely defined by her being a mother. I love that she’s the group’s original leader, and I’d love to see something following her after she leaves. We hear mentions of her, but we never quite find out what happened to her. Does she find Peter? Is she still around during the events of the third season? I’d love to see that explored, with her potentially meeting up with the other characters during the course of season 3. I also absolutely love Jenny to bits, particularly in the third season when she actually gets stuff to do. She’s simultaneously lovely, but also has a temper – and I am completely here for those little moments like her yelling at Charles and bickering with Ruth about soap, especially because she’s so apparently mild-mannered so much of the time. While the stakes are usually pretty high, I love all the low-stakes stuff, like the domestic conflicts that arrise in the different groups when characters don’t get one.

And then there’s Lizzie and John. Child characters can be tricky things, but I think Survivors is one of those shows that really gets it right. I like them both a lot, and I’d love to see something exploring the way they fit into the world, and adapt to the trauma of losing their families and all the subsequent upheavals. The games they play and the stories they tell, and what it’s like to be a kid existing in that world. I’d also love to see future-fic with them aged up, exploring the way things pan out after canon (and for the record I’m completely here for the two of them sort of ending in this weirdly intense semi-incestuous but almost inevitable relationship once they’re adults, possibly poly including Baby Paul as well).

Oh, and as someone who likes post-apocalyptic stuff in general (including zombies), I’m also fascinated by the way the show uses tropes and to what extent it’s inspired other post-apocalyptic media. Like Mad Dog, which reminds so so damn hard of zombie tropes, even though it was screened before Dawn of the Dead.

Optional Prompts

A missing scene from Jenny and Greg’s relationship filling in the bits it didn’t show. Like in the episode Gone to the Angels, when it goes from Greg outright stating that they’re together to them being in bed together. What happened in the interim? He’s pretty obviously trying to protect her and it’s entirely understandable under the circumstances, but it does smack a bit of chauvinism and him riding rough-shod over her opinions. So what happened in between? Did they argue about it? Was she angry, annoyed, relieved?
I don’t often request slice-of-life, but I’m requesting it here, whenever it’s set, whether during the early days or when they reach the Grange, or at Whitecross in series 2, or during series 3 and the long search for Greg. I love the way the group grows up around that little kernel of three, Abby, Jenny and Greg, and how they’re the heart of their community. So just that really, moments from their lives and just the general small scale practicalities of their lives, trying to get hold of farm animals, another dog to breed with Ben, looking after the kids...
Worldbuilding – give snapshots of the end of the world from the beginning to the long-term future, showing how things evolve.
I’d love to see something exploring the conflict and dilemma that arises towards the end of series 2 and onwards – the difficult choice between the long-shot attempt to re-establish civilisation and industry and returning to a semi-medieval way of life, after years of modern life, antibiotics, industrial farming, and contraception. And the series makes it explicit that there is a price to pay for that, given what happens to Dr Adams and his community. And it’s all very well for people in the Scottish Highlands, but if some of them have never come into contact with with original virus, then are they still at risk of it?
Something along the lines of the Canterbury Tales. Season 3 seems like a good point to set it, but any other point in canon would do. A group of people gather together somewhere to shelter and share their stories about the Death.
Mad Dog made me want a zombie-apocalypse AU.
And speaking of Mad Dog, give me something similarly tense and gripping with any of the characters and I will be beyond delighted.
What happened to Abby? We get a few mentions of her after the first season but never anything concrete, so I'd love to see something following her after she leaves to find her son. Or bBring her into the events of the third season.
Something bittersweet and sad following Jenny and Alec after the final episode. I’d love to see their building relationship, with Jenny grieving for Greg and Alec still grieving his wife.
Futurefic with John, Lizzy and Paul as older teenagers/adults. How does the next generation to the new world, especially kids like Paul who've never known anything else. How do they grow up thinking about Greg, who by this point might have taken on an almost mythical status?
Another semi-domestic fic involving John and Lizzy at White Cross. Maybe they think one of the cottages is haunted.
Suddenly there are Triffids – Probably self-explanatory (although the Triffids can be there at the start). I suspect the series owes quite a bit to Day of the Triffids, with all the focus on the practical sides of surviving after the apocalypse, so it’d be pretty interesting to see elements from the novel included, whether just the Triffids or a more extensive fusion.

Optional Art Prompts

Scenery porn. I really like the look of 70s rural Britain, with everything looking a bit rubbish and muddy. Mud-splattered cars, and the seasons passing, and camping, and everyone bundled up against the cold. The play of light and shadow and people gathering around oil lamps or candles, domestic scenes, and trying to figure out agriculture. Those moments when everyone comes together – moments of celebration and moments of grief. The horror of the apocalypse, and moments of triumph. Quiet moments of intimacy.

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Upstairs Downstairs (1971)

Requested ships
Angus Hudson/Kate Bridges

God, I love this series so, so much. It’s one of the few things that I find utterly gripping, holding me absolutely spell-bound until the closing credits in a way very few things do. The cast of characters, flawed and imperfect though they all are, are the ‘I love everyone in this bar’ kind of ensemble, and I am especially here for life below stairs and for the lives of the women in general, the petty little cruelties and the painful inevitabilities of that sort of life. And loss and missed opportunities, and what might have been, like Rose’s dead fiance, and all the different relationships between the characters, both above and below stairs. And the life of servants in general, the contrast between the absolute chaos when something’s going on and the quiet moments when there’s nothing to do except fall asleep by the fire. I especially love how many of the stories revolve around women. There’s so much I’d love to see explored.

I am absolutely here for intricate and indulgent levels of historical detail, and the social history of the way domestic service changed throughout the 20th century is one that particularly fascinates me, but I’d like to stress that I am by no means an expert, and I’d be just as delighted with a cheerfully anachronistic tropey fic, so if historical research isn’t your thing, then please don’t worry. I also love character studies, smut, romance, fics in the style of canon, or apocalyptic AUs. Or crossovers – canon stretches from around 1905 to 1930, so timewise there’s a lot of leeway – Marple or Poirot? Or Vampyr.

And as for Hudson/Mrs Bridges, well, huh, this absolutely was not the OTP I was expecting to end up shipping when I went in, but it’s hit me pretty damn hard. It’s that whole thing of middle-aged people getting together, especially when they both of them have reason to think they’ll be alone for the rest of their lives, and the mix of mutual affection and respect with it being a practical arrangement, and I am so, so here for it turning out to be a much more passionate arrangement than either of them ever expected.

And then on top of that there’s everything that happens in the episode where they get… betrothed? Engaged? Well, whatever the hell it is – S1E9, Why is her Door Locked, which was an unmitigated delight from start to finish. Accidental baby acquisition! The store of endless resources Hudson is willing to employ to get the family out of a fix while everyone else is basically useless! His grand romantic gesture! – Proposing! In a court room! While his loved one is in the dock! His dedication to domestic service despite the fact that he clearly secretly wishes he was a lawyer (and what might have been if not for the options available at the time). Lady Marjorie walking the tightrope between callousness and genuine concern for the well-being of her servants (and yes, it really is dreadfully sad, but WHAT ABOUT HER DINNER PARTY ON THURSDAY?).

And then there’s the potential aftermath of Your Obedient Servant (S2 E7), and that glimpse Hudson gets into a life he could have had with a wife and family, and the suggestion that perhaps he’s not as content with the constraints of a life in service as he claims he is after all. And everything that happened with Lily, which was so horribly painful to watch, but which only made me ship them harder. All that quiet heartbreak, and the horrible fascination of almost seeing him throw everything away on an infatuation, and the way Mrs Bridges is ready to support him whatever he wants to do, and that whole speech he makes about what Lily is to him, completely unaware he's breaking Mrs Bridges's heart, and ow, my heart, ow. D:

Ah, Hudson, Hudson. It was probably inevitable that he'd be my favourite character, although there's a couple of others who come pretty damn close, but god I adore him. All that quiet grief for the road not taken which he won't admit even to himself, the loyalty to the family, all his pride and pettiness and self-deluding ways, and the repression.

Loneliness in all its forms is one of my favourite tropes. That includes lonely people finding love, whether or not the finding love brings an end to the loneliness or just mitigates it somewhat. Or maybe it’s not so much love as (non-platonic) companionship, or maybe it starts as the latter and deepens until they love each other more deeply than they ever could have imagined. Then there’s the proposal itself (which I think is very possibly one of my favourite proposals of all time). Where the hell did that come from? Did he go into the witness box planning on it, or was it a last resort? Did he consider it a necessary sacrifice for the greater good of the family and for Mrs Bridges’ well-being, or was it a genuine opportunity for himself to find some companionship for when he finally leaves service? Was he already semi-pining for her? (the actress who plays her was pretty damn lovely when she was young, and they’ve known each other a long time...) Did they have a thing in the past?

I’d love to see some explorations of that, and the possibility of them developing a somewhat sexual relationship. Even though neither of them is in the first flush of youth, there still might be moments when they realise they don’t have to lead entirely abstinent lives any more – they are engaged, after all. (Although it would have to be kept secret from the other servants, naturally.) He’s so pleased with himself and adorably solicitous of her in the episode that follows, which got me wondering a bit about what had happened between them in the gap between those two episodes, not to mention the twenty-five years or so that pass before they actually do get married. They’re two sensible (well, he is) people living in a highly claustrophobic environment – they’re probably not going to be all over each other like lovestruck teenagers, but a sexual aspect to their relationship would be great, whether that’s just occasional moments of sexual tension (heightened by self-denial and the lack of privacy) to a sex life that’s so unexpectedly passionate it takes the two of them completely by surprise, and all the practical difficulties of keeping it a secret and setting a good example to the other servants. Oh, and every time he calls her Kate. <3

I’d love to see any part of this relationship explored, from where the line between love and duty lies, to the two of them being more suited to each other than they realised (and the converse of that – that they aren’t perfect for each other but they find ways to compromise), moments from that long, long courtship (and the oddness of a courtship that essentially happens after they’ve got engaged), or what happens to them post-canon. There was apparently going to be a spin-off series focused on the two of them running a guest house in Hastings that never came about, and I’m very curious about what that would have looked like. But generally, I am utterly head-over-heels in love with this fandom, so anything you write about it will be welcome, whether it focuses on the relationship between them, or if that goes on the back-burner for something more in line with canon.

Optional Prompts

Accidental Baby Acquisition – Emphasis on the accidental. Given the catalyst that got them together in the first place, this seemed appropriate. :D Maybe Mrs Bridges or one of the other servants offers to take care of a baby for the mother, and the mother is waylaid so they’re stuck looking after the child for longer than expected. It’s up to you whether you treat this as humour, with a farce of Mrs Bridges repeatedly finding herself lumbered with small children, this time accidentally, or something more serious, that touches on the poignancy of being too old to have children of your own.
Character A Learning To Cook Character B's Favorite Food To Show Affection – Because this is absolutely how Mrs Bridges would show her love.
Established Relationship - The Inherent Romance And Eroticism Of Being Known – They’ve known each other for a very, very long time. They both came from Southwold when Lady Bellamy came to marry Richard Bellamy, and the Bellamys have adult children at the start of canon, so by the end of canon they much have known each other and worked in close quarters for, what, forty-five years, at least, so they’ll know each other inside out. Are there any surprises when they finally marry, or is it like settling down on the sofa for a comfort-watch of something you’ve seen a thousand times before? I’m really drawn to the idea of them settling into a sexual relationship that feels very natural from the outside, even if (or because) they remained more or less celibate for their entire engagement, (with maybe one or two moments of UST).
In denial - Pretending Sex is for Reasons Other Than Desire – God, I am so, so into this, whether it’s set during canon, and they’re having to be more inventive about their reasons as they probably shouldn’t be having sex at all, or after they’re married, where it’s just a necessary part of their marital duties, and they can both definitely take or leave it, although, uh...
Late-Night Discussions Outside in the Gently Falling Rain – Ohhhh, this tag. Inclement weather and implied intimacy. <3 The two of them carving out some privacy from the other servants, going out together on their days off (and what do they do together on their days off?), and strolling back to the house. Lingering outside, because the moment they go back inside they have to go back to being sensible middle-aged people.
Stranded at Roadside Motel (Storm Optional) – Or the British equivalent. As always, I love forced proximity due to being stranded (along the lines of And Then There Were None). Either the Closed Circle thing, where they’re trapped with a potential killer, or the place might be haunted, or otherwise spooky, or just use the need for shelter as a trope to take them out of their comfort zone and force them to rely on each other.
There Was Only One Bed – Go hard on the tropeyness on this. Maybe they’re supposed to be following the family up to Scotland on the train, but the train breaks down, and the only place they can find to stay in only has one room, and they’re sensible people who are entirely capable of sharing a bed without any funny business, and, well, they are engaged. Especially if they have been mostly celibate up until this point.
Time Travel – However you want to handle it. Maybe the two of them time travel into younger versions of themselves. Outsider POV of a third party aware that they’re acting differently even if they can’t figure out why.
Case-fic of the murder in a large country house kind. Rose gets drawn into the investigation by a handsome amateur detective (who may or may not be either the killer or an idiot). Mr Hudson disapproves as it’s not their place to investigate their betters. And also they’re going about it entirely the wrong way.
Competence – highly effective teamwork – After a dinner party narrowly avoids ending in disaster, they’re exhausted and relieved and elated, and their realising and celebrating how well they work together leads to feelings. I love the contrast of the serene harmony above stairs and the frantic scrambling below stairs.
Finding someone sleeping and putting a blanket or coat over them – I love quiet little displays of affection and tenderness, particularly when the other person might not necessarily be aware of it, perhaps where one member of the ship has fallen asleep by the fire after a long day, or because they’re waiting up for a member of the family.
And speaking of that fire, quietly intimate conversations at the end of the day.
Time Loop – both stuck and escape by both revealing feelings – A disastrous dinner party keeps repeating itself, and at first they assume that’s what they have to fix. (In Time Loops I particularly love it when one or both parties snap and do something terrible on purpose.)
A post-canon fic where Lily (heavily pregnant?) turns up at their guesthouse because she didn't know where else to turn.

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