men who love men!

[daken]

hello, writer!

Thank you for offering any of these fandoms.

I'm so excited to see what you come up with! I tried to make this as skim-friendly as possible. The tl;dr of it all is that if you touch on anything I mention liking even slightly (and I have a lot of things that I like!), I'll be elated ♥

(LIKES | DISLIKES)
LORD OF THE RINGS (MOVIES) | NIGHT AT THE MUSEUM (MOVIES)
TERMINATOR (MOVIES) | PLEASE LIKE ME (TV) | THE HATEFUL EIGHT (2015)

( quick note )

I’ve tried to break the prompts into a format that works for the less-is-more writer and the more-is-more writer. Feel free to pick and choose aspects of the prompts that you like, and disregard or change whatever doesn’t work for you.

If you come up with an idea that’s similar to a prompt I left below, but not quite on the nose, go for it! If ¾ of a prompt really works for you, but the final ¼ doesn’t, only work with the bit that does! Mixing and matching is also completely fine.

⟿The top level prompt suggestions are generalized, complete ideas. Know what you want to write now? Great!

Not sure what to write? Mind swimming with too many possibilities? Not enough possibilities? The questions and ideas following the top-level are here for you, just in case you need more prompting!

Don't feel like you have to spend a bunch of time on setting up a universe or plot. I already know what 'verse I requested or what situation I've set up in a prompt, so please feel free to jump right in the "middle" of a story/in media res and start right when stuff is getting interesting.

likes!

⟿ I really like strong relationships. I am super into reading about how their relationships work; their dynamics, how they support one another, how they relate to each other, how they interact [pre-, post-, and during-canon when “offscreen”], where their wants and needs mesh up, where they differ; all that interests me immensely.

⟿ I love when people are equally invested in whatever they’re doing; completing a mission, building a relationship, putting together IKEA furniture! Them putting in the same amount of care and time into what they're doing/building together, and them respecting each other enough not to play games are all stuff that I like.

Rather than miscommunication causing drama, I love it when bluntness and frankness causes that tension instead! Characters saying what they want or what they've done, point blank, and then leaving it to the other character to decide if they can handle that; quiet characters taking their time and really mulling over their choices before telling the other person what they want: It’s all great.

⟿ On the darker side of that coin, I love me some fucked up, unhealthy relationships too. Codependent relationships, dependent personality disorders being exploited by someone with a histrionic personality disorder, obsessive relationships: you can be giving it all to me. I love when a character is willing to literally let the world burn, should the world try to come between them and the person they love (romantically or platonically).

I love them doing questionable things or neglecting themselves in order to make their partner happy. I don't need it sugar coated or spun to make it seem healthy and alright, in fact I love it when the characters know — fully or merely suspecting — that what they're feeling, to the level they're feeling it at, isn't healthy, but they enjoy it so much they wouldn't even think of getting help or trying to back off. Them being equally, fuck-up-ed-ly invested in their relationship is what I live for.

⟿ I love codas, alternate canons, semi-alternate universes, and canon divergences, and/or slight changes to canon. I also love established relationships/friendships, and domesticity. If you want to write me slice-of-life that details their routine or daily life, I'll eat that shit up.

⟿ I actually really like stuff that starts in the "middle"/in medias res of a fic. I don't need a lot of world building, especially if that's not something you're super into doing. If you've decided to take up one of my AU or canon-divergence ideas, I already know the basic background of what's going on so you can go right on ahead with the action of the story.

⟿ When it comes to ratings, anything from G-rated schmoop to NC-17 sexcapades is alright in my book.

⟿ Should you write a sex scene, here’s a list of kinks/scenarios that I like to read:

age regression, age differences, underage, made-them-do-it, a/b/o, water sports (for marking/scenting and/or intimacy; less about being super into pee or humiliation), conditioning, frottage, gentleness, roleplay, rough sex, marking/branding, switching/no set sexual “roles”, possessiveness, power issues, abuse of power, dubcon, semi-public sex, sensory overload, sex addiction/compulsion, silence, d/S that’s focused on taking care/being cared for more than pain/humiliation, size differences and power dynamics — feel free to have the "smaller”/younger/more docile dude be more "dominant”/aggressive member of the relationship—, touching, slavefic, delayed emotional intimacy, captivity.

⟿ Finally, a general list of tropes/scenarios that I will never turn down are:

stuck in isolation together, forced closeness, age gaps, amnesia, viking/tribe/barbarian/pre-history au, android aus, hooker aus, western/rancher/farmer aus, trope inversions & subversions, sex before feelings, d/s that’s focused on taking care/being cared for more than pain/humiliation, soul mates/soul bonds, fake relationships, forced/arranged marriages, bodyswaps, exploring physical disabilities (losing sight/hearing/the ability to a speak).

dislikes!

⟿ Deathfic wherein a character dies and then the story ends; if they’re brought back to life via something supernatural, are reborn, are turned into a cyborg, etc. or the story continues on in the ~afterlife~, then fine!

⟿ Excessive angst wherein the majority of the fic is sadness/miscommunications and a tiny bit at the end is happy/resolution; if from the outside, as an observer, it's sad but the character(s) living that reality as their everyday lives are happy/content/blind to it, then that's fine! I just don't like it when 50% or more of the fic is focused on someone's sadness/angst and how they react or wallow in said angst.

⟿ Pain kink, embarrassment/humiliation (kink or otherwise), painplay/torture kink, cheating/infidelity, high school/university au, matchmaking/meddling friends, crossdressing, noncon/rape, genderswap/always-a-[opposite gender].

⟿ Not a fan of crossovers, but fusions are always cool.

A Night At The Museum fusion with Hateful Eight, where Jedediah and Octavious are two mean old bastards caught up in some shit would be awesome. A Lord of the Rings fusion with Please Like Me where Éomer and Faramir are two failboat boyfriends (with tagalong straight BFF Aragorn or loser golden child brother Boromir) just taking life one day at a time in modern day Australia would be lovely. Or even a Terminator fusion with LOTR where hobbit Kyle meets up with man (dwarf?) Marcus and they go on an adventure!

⟿ I’d like fics best when background pairings are kept to a minimum. Side relationships existing in the background (or canon relationships showing up) are completely fine, but an extended subplot detailing their relationship angst or them getting together will make my eyes glaze over.

⟿ Like I said above, I'm okay with any rating, and some of the prompts I've given aren't 100% about romance, but please just have my ship either together or getting together during your fic. I love established fic, so just a quick kiss here or there or mentioning of feelings while they otherwise go about the plot is alright, but if it's a "slash goggles"-type situation, I always feel a little crushed. ;;;;;;

⟿ No preference between past and present tense, although I prefer 3^rd-Person Narration well above all others.

LORD OF THE RINGS (MOVIES)

Éomer & Faramir.

Watch The Two Towers and Return of the King on Putlocker.

This ship has been one of the eternal rarepairs of my heart for years. They're so similar in a lot of their most defining characteristics — nobel of soul and pure of heart, champions for their people, well-respected and much-beloved by those who know them best, military men — but the way they react to those things really makes it obvious how they're miles apart. That dichotomy of how the few key differences in their upbringing so drastically impacted their overall personality, while not having any impact whatsoever to who they actually are as a person, is one of my favorite things about them and what I think is so great about this little ship.

I absolutely adore both the films and the books, so feel free to avoid or meld them as you see fit if that's your thing!

⟿ Navigating the cultural differences between Rohan & Gondor.

Although Tolkien did an amazing job fleshing out both cultures, there's still a lot a) to be desired, in some ways and b) to delve into.

Due to their differing cultural inspirations and influences, plus the semi-isolation (for Faramir & Éomer lifetimes, anyway), there's a potential for more than a few ways that they'd have to navigate potential gaps or help the other bridge them. I love world building as the backdrop to (or seen/experienced through) a relationship, so just seeing them live their lives and having all those little things exposed through that minutia of living would be wonderful.

Various jumping-off prompts: What are the dating rituals? What's expected of either partner in a relationship? What's the daily life like? How is affection shown? How are conflicts resolved? How do they rebuild things after the One Ring is destroyed?

They've lived in a state of what basically amounts to a "cold war" for so long, what things of that type of lifestyle do they keep? In what ways do they go back to their "original" cultures? How does that meld with the things they keep from their "new" cultural norms? In what ways do Faramir and Éomer differ in what their respective cultures meld+revert?

What's expected of them by the King (if you want to work in some of the book canon, how does Faramir feel about how close Éomer and Faramir are; is Éomer given more responsibility/easier things)?

Are same-sex relationships accepted or even common (or, possibly, even preferable to het ones? what the heck, in for a penny) in Rohan? For a flip on that fanon, what if Gondor's culture is the more LGBT*-friendly one?

This can honestly can be worked in as a background detail for any of the preceding prompts!

⟿ A thousand ways to tackle Arranged Marriage trope.

Love this trope until the day I die. Anyway, anytime.

Canon-divergence where the One Ring never existed as such the main tension in the region is based in politics, so they are arranged to be wed as a way to solidify ties between Rohan and Gondor once and for all?

Boromir & Prince Théodred were injured but didn't die. Faramir becomes a beloved and renown hero for his part in the War of the Ring and most of Gondor would see him as their king (over Boromir in terms of succession & Denethor in general). This leads to Denethor quickly marrying him off to a lesser nobel in Rohan to force Faramir out of the line of succession and, just as importantly, out of Gondor?

They've arranged to be wed since they were children? Are they together before the fellowship is even formed/the events of movie&book are even set into motion? Are they wed right before Boromir leaves to join the fellowship? Does Denethor see something in the palantir in the interim before the (broken-up) Fellowship arrives that makes him finally pull the trigger on marrying Faramir and Éomer?(Boromir's death, perhaps? Maybe he want Éomer as a successor?)

⟿ The logistics of being together with them both being rulers of separate "countries".

Who moves where? Do they live apart? How's Éomer handle being a prince or how does Faramir handle no longer being one (and just being general "lesser royalty")? What new duties do they have? What do they bond over?

How does Éomer help Faramir get over all the abuse his father has forced into his psyche? If Denethor lives, how does Éomer react around him?

How do they both deal with being kings/rulers? What's them running a separate kingdoms like? Do they decide to merge or no? Does Éomer prefer being more of a warrior and gives the "kingship" to his sister? Does he take to kingship well and relish it? Is Faramir the one who doesn't care for it and lets Éomer take over stewardship Gondor? Do both of them let Aragorn take over?

⟿ The process of how they fell in love.

I love established relationships but for these two I feel like their meeting is a great plot point to explore.

In the book, Boromir met Éomer on his way to Rivendell. It was so soon after leaving his brother; maybe he tells Éomer all about his wonderful younger sibling just because he's homesick and can't help talking about his beloved brother? Is Éomer's interest peaked? Éomer writes to Faramir to let him know that his brother passed through Rohan safely, and they strike up a correspondence.

They meet while patrolling and find themselves making excuses/plans to meet up whenever they can Almost in a Brokeback Mountain sort of way? Maybe they've been "together" since they were teens without anyone in their lives ever knowing.

Their first meeting is similar to Faramir and Éowyn's, where they see one another there's just something and they take it from there.

⟿ Alternate canon where there is no One Ring and they're just two (for all intents-and-purposes) second sons with strong, healthy "brothers" who will surely succeed.

Maybe they meet in court. Maybe they meet on patrol. Maybe they meet in a minor battle between another clan/even one another. Neither of them have any true responsibility so they can make whatever life they want, and what they want is one with each other.

⟿ Alternate canon that incorporates modern life?

I'm not keen on 100% modern AUs for Tolkien, but maybe everything about Middle Earth isn't set during Middle Earth at all? They've got our technology and knowledge, but they're still kingdoms, there's still different races and magic and dragons/ents/etc.

Éomer and Faramir as modern princes and how that might change the way the War of the Ring (if you wanna keep that in) is handled or just how their duties & lives change/stay the same? LOTR as if it were set today and all the things that go with that sort of change!

⟿ Them as a different race?

Maybe they're elves. Éomer lives in Rivendell and all is peaceful, or maybe Lothlórien where he's a well-regarded warrior. Faramir could be the maligned son of Denethor, who's one of the ~noble-elves~ of King Thranduil in Mirkwood, who is maybe pushed out/"encouraged" to leave and go to Rivendell/Lothlórien? Or perhaps they live in the same elf-kingdom and grew up/served together?

They're dwarves and are each others Ones.

Maybe they're hobbits and lead a simple life.

Maybe Faramir is one race and the Éomer is another? Man/Elf. Man/Hobbit. Dwarf/Hobbit. Elf/Dwarf. Hobbit/Elf. Lots of combinations to work with.

How does being a different race change them/their lives, for better or worse? What type of men would they be if they were brought up in that different culture with different expectations and different lifespans?

NIGHT AT THE MUSEUM (MOVIES)

Jedediah & Octavius.

Watch Night at the Museum, Battle of the Smithsonian, or Secret of the Tomb on Putlocker.

I love that the franchise decided to play with the Macho Cowboy and Stoic Roman trope by highlighting another, more accurate and prevalent aspect of those two eras: there was a lot of man-on-man lovin'. I've always been super into canons and AUs set during the Wild West/Manifest Destiny and Ancient Greco-Roman Antiquity, so their relationship was basically torn right from my dreams. That they were always intended to be read as gay and in love is icing on that particular cake.

The way that these two became fast friends after being one another's nemesis for decades is both hilarious and sweet, and I love how in NATM III: Secret of the Tomb Jed found himself super jealous of Lancelot, even though the only reason Octavius found Lancelot attractive in the first place was because of the fact that he's got very similar features to Jed — tall, blond, blue eyes, bit of an asshole, …mega gay? (As an aside, Lancelot totally wanted to fuck Nick right? I'm not the only one imagining those vibes? Someone needs to write that fic.)

If you want to go past AU or Modern AU, don't feel like you have to change their names. I'm fine with an Octavius in the 1800s and a Jedediah in the 8^th century BCE, no questions asked. If you want to make them more period appropriate, that's okay too, but just don't feel like you have to. Although I really like Ancient Rome and the American West, but I'm not a stickler for historical accuracy, so you can be as canon-compliant or Hollywood-handwavey as you so choose; neither will toss me out of the story.

I've requested this in the past so if you want a little more tl;dr ranting, go ahead and check that out.

⟿ Western or Roman AU!

If Western: Farm hands who fall in love? Two guys who're shacked up together and tending land together with nobody around for miles? A Brokeback-type situation where they have to work together and fall in love, except instead of going the angsty closeted life route, they decide to make a go after they come down from the mountain!?!

Or, if Roman: Jed as Emperor/Senator Octavius' bodyguard? The two of as lovers in the army; Octavius taking Jed as his concubinus? Maybe Octavius being unofficially-exiled from the army/senate because they found out he was a ~cinaedus, so he goes into the countryside for his own ye olde Manifest Destiny, where he meets country boy Jedediah?

⟿ Soulmates + rebirth trope.

They're literally so obsessed with one another that they make it their motion to break into one another's cells, and even when they're given the chance to go anywhere in the museum, they stick close and fight. What if that ~draw~ between them was the fact that they're soulmates. Or, maybe even better, what if they've soul bonded?

For rebirth, you can do as many different lives lived as you like! Did they first meet as cavemen and that's where their fates tied? Or was their first time in Ancient Rome, and then they finally met again in the Wild West? Third time could be a miniatures and maybe they'll meet again as full-sized humans in the modern day/near feature?

⟿ If you don't want to go the canon-compliant route and history aus aren't your scene, here are a few random scenarios that I think would work with them. However, if you can make any of these work and be canon compliment/a divergent-canon, I am totally here for it.

"i tried to use self-check out when buying lube and it froze hopelessly and you were the employee to come and help me" au

"i hate commitment but my dad’s dying wish is to see me get married and you’re an old family friend i ran into at the airport on my way to visit him so hey let’s get engaged" Fake-dating au

"We’re going on a blind date - but wait a moment, aren’t you that went down on me in a back alley behind a club year ago? … what do you mean “which one”?" au

“No that’s impossible how the fuck did you manage to get it to catch fire?!” Firefighter AU

“sorry i knocked you out in that bar fight last night, but i brought you to the hospital and stuck around ‘til you woke up to apologize” au

TERMINATOR (MOVIES)

Marcus & Kyle.

Watch on Terminator Salvation on Putlocker.

Do you know what I love just as much as androids? Cyborgs. Wanna know what I love even more than androids/cyborgs? Ones that were programmed to care about only one damn person on earth and will literally do anything to protect them, single-mindedly, including going against their programming when they realize it's not the best thing for that person. And that's why I love me some Marcus.

This movie basically has everything I enjoy: human/non-human relationships, age gaps, loyalty kink, bodyguard trope, 'made for you', and best of all, a sci-fi setting that is ripe for canon divergences thanks to the very fucking time loops that make Terminator what it is. I'm all about Kyle/Marcus but incest never bothered me none, so if you wanted to work John in there somehow? Make it so. It seems like a waste to have Christian Bale in a movie and not use him.

I also requested this for Yuletide last year so if you want more tl;dr about it, it's there.

⟿ Kyle is a bit reckless and clearly thinks with his heart and not his head. What if he went back in time to save Marcus?

How far back would he go? Right before Marcus committed the crime that got him locked up in the first place? To when Marcus was Kyle's age, to save him from getting involved in his brothers shit? Just a few days prior, right before he and Marcus first met?

Regardless of the period, how does Marcus feel about some kid showing up in his life, one who obviously thinks Marcus is the moon and the stars?

How does that change things? Do they stop Skynet and prevent Judgement Day? Does Judgement Day still happen? Does Kyle Prime still find John somehow (sans-Marcus) and go back in time and have that baby with Sarah, while time traveler!Kyle and Marcus lie low and spend their days fighting in the resistance under assumed names?

⟿ Canon divergence where John dies at the end of the film and Kyle (+ Marcus?) have to lead the resistance.

⟿ The Terminator creators are really into John Connor as a Jesus parallel. Kyle was obviously one of the believers, but I think that he found his own personal savior — literally, since Marcus was made for him — in Marcus and that became even more clear when he was more worried about Marcus than he ever was John.

I'd love to see an canon-divergence/alternate-canon where there's a fraction in the resistance where some people think that John is humanity's savior, while other people think that Marcus (…which in this case I suppose is Judas?), who straddles the line between man and machine but sides with man, is the one who can stop this, just like he took down the San Francisco Skynet headquarters.

⟿ The original leaked ending for the film was: to have John killed, and his image kept alive by the resistance by grafting his skin onto Marcus' cybernetic body. Marcus would have then murdered Kate, Barnes, Kyle, and Star. Which would have been intense as hell.

Leaving off the murder, the idea that Marcus would literally become John and carry on the resistance is actually really interesting. With John dead, Kyle wouldn't really need to go back in time, because clearly John isn't the savior, Marcus is? So how in the hell does that change things?

⟿ Prison Alternate Canon. Kyle is born earlier and ends up in prison with Marcus.

Is this a universe where Judgement Day still happens? Does Marcus still become a cyborg? Does Kyle?

If it's an AU with no Terminator threat, how does Kyle end up under Marcus' protection? Does Marcus end up under Kyle's? Is John in prison too? John's such a charismatic force, I could see him being a gang boss; maybe he gets tough guy Marcus to look after his son?

⟿ Skynet kills everyone except Marcus — and Kyle, by extension, because there's no way that Marcus would fail at keeping him safe. What's being the last two people on earth like? Kyle will keep aging; will Marcus?

⟿ Feral Kyle

Kyle had to raise himself from a young age and other adults probably were the last thing from trustworthy, so it would be perfectly reasonable for him to have gone a little wild. If you want him to be 100% wolf boy, his father could have died when Kyle was around toddler age rather than pre-preteen.

I'd love Marcus having to gentle him. Or maybe something inside of Kyle knows that Marcus is his and is very territorial?

If you want to go pre-Judgement Day, maybe Marcus finds Kyle right as or just after shit hits the fan. I'd imagine that Kyle would be more civilized for having Marcus with him, but such a traumatic event might leave him feeling very possessive of Marcus and result in an unhealthy fixation, right? Marcus is his whole world! Does Marcus freak out about it and try to make Kyle look beyond him, or does he actually really love that Kyle is his and he is Kyle's?

⟿ Alternate Canon where Judgement Day happened pre-technology in either the Middle Ages or a period where humans were largely tribes.

Maybe there's a prophesy about how young Prince-King Kyle Reese will find some random woman who will have a son named John, who will be his one true heir — moreso than any bio kid? — and save their kingdom from the Terminator kingdom/clan? Marcus as his hunky older knight? skakdkjh;asdhsdk I don't know. A non-technological take on the Terminator 'verse could be fun!

⟿ And, finally, random tropes/aus. Change them any way you like, and if you can figure out a way to make them canon divergences or alternate canons then I will be mega impressed and very interested.

“Sure, you could send a bunch of knights to their deaths by having them compete for my hand in marriage, or like, you know, I could just “marry” my best friend/bodyguard” AU

"So I accidentally peeked at your laundry once and saw your superhero uniform and now I’m trying to play it chill.” Superhero AU

“I’m your roommate and you keep coming home at the ass-crack of dawn exhausted and covered in bruises, are you okay?” Another Superhero AU

AU where Superhero Marcus takes on a villain and almost dies, but random stranger Kyle takes him in and cares for him as he heals. Neither of them pry into the other's real identity. (I'm just now realizing that a superhero AU/canon divergence for this fandom is something I could be Very Into, help.)

Marcus/Kyle was Kyle/Marcus' imaginary friend as a kid. Boy was he surprised when they met in real life.

PLEASE LIKE ME (TV)

Arnold & Josh.

Watch on Putlocker.

Ah gosh, I love this show a lot. Josh is honestly my dream and nightmare of a writer because I love all the guys he sets himself up with. All my kingdom for beautiful, dim Geoffrey. Patrick was a sweetheart. Brain surgery random-hookup dude deserves his own damn show. But then, on top of them all, is precious, wonderful Arnold.

Everything about them from how they met to where they wind up at the tail-end of season three is so wonderfully, awfully real in that over-the-top way that real life can sometimes be.

⟿ Growing old together.

Josh & Arnold withstand the test of time, tell me all the bumps they hit and ways that things are smooth-sailing. How does Josh "grow up"? How does Arnold? What things about them change and what stays the same? How do they work as a team? How adapt are they at working with and around one another's "manias" and "episodes"?

⟿ Going on vacation.

Josh talks Arnold into going somewhere with him. With both of their idiosyncrasies, it goes just about as well as you'd expect. (Which is to say, greatly entertaining.)

⟿ Arnold's POV.

Arnold's pretty zen for someone with such horrible anxiety as he's got. He's always willing to go along with Josh (& Tom & Claire)'s ridiculous ideas. He'll randomly stick a flower in his hair. He'll let Josh crawl under him. He'll make out with Josh anywhere, anytime.

Seeing an episode (coda from a real one or an entirely "new" episode) of what goes on during his day and what he's thinking (and his hopes/wants/motivations/desires) would be pretty cool.

Actually, seeing the whole show with Arnold framed as the main character from the start would be pretty damn interesting. To start off with, Josh's episodes are centered around food; what would Arnold's overarching hobby!concept be?

⟿ Josh & Arnold (& Tom?) are Angels/Demons/Human, but besides that everything is the same.

⟿ Logistics of living together…plus Tom.

On Josh & Tom's podcast (RIP hilarious gem, I miss you so much; I can't believe its been like four years??? Come back please it's been so long but I still have #hope.), they've talked about how Josh's real boyfriend lives with Josh & Tom. Which is to say, the boyfriend lives with Josh, and Tom lives with them lmao. Tom is as happy and blissful about living with Josh (and boyfriend) in real life as he is in the show.

So, a fic about Arnold and Josh…and Tom. Them getting cuddling in bed and then Tom coming in to serenading them (true story), them getting ready to have sex and realizing they don't have lube/etc and yelling at Tom to run out and fetch them some, them having fancy romantic dinners and Arnold feeling guilty that Tom's in the living room having takeaway while Josh absolutely doesn't care even 1%, etc.

⟿ Alternate Canon where Arnold is a superhero in his spare time.

"Away at math camp", my ass!

Whenever Arnold isn't with Josh, he's fighting little crimes. It all started with his therapist telling him to do small acts of kindness as a way with dealing with his anxiety and of course he couldn't help himself and took it to the extreme. Does Josh find out or does Arnold tell him?

Maybe their first meeting is with Arnold in his superhero persona? They share a couple Spider-Man-esque kisses and Arnold really wants to come clean and reveal his identity so they can date for real, but will Josh like anxious, nerdy, "broken" Arnold without the superhero window-dressing?

⟿ OTP prompts because there isn't enough fic and these two deserve to reach tropey status!!

"We’re in secret relationships so we have to pretend that we hate each other so our co-workers wouldn’t know about what’s going on, but you keep flashing me these heart eyes and honestly stop"

"You’ve been checking up on me for twenty minutes already, honestly just introduce yourself, I don’t bite."

"Person A makes breakfast in bed for Person B and then cuddles them whilst they eat it."

"Imagine Person A almost walks out into the street in front of a car and Person B quickly grabs and pulls back Person A before they get hit. Person B worriedly holds Person A close to them as the car passes while Person A is still in shock that they almost got hit."

"you showed up at my place in the middle of the night with bruises and blood and you won’t say what happened so I just lead you into the bathroom and clean you up"

"stop yelling ‘parkour’ when you scale fences and run across the road that’s dangerous and an incredibly inefficient detour so gET BACK HERE"

"person A is deaf, person B is not, although person A reads lips, B goes through so much trouble just to learn sign language so A can be more comfortable" / "A getting frustrated at their life and being deaf/ starts having a panic attack and B is always there calming them down"

"Imagine Person A memorizing Person B’s nervous ticks so they can always tell when Person B is worried and be there to comfort them."

"reading together. walking together. sleeping together. watching tv together."

Just thought of this but….Arnold vs. The Evil Ex's? Arnold finds himself having to get the approval from Patrick, Geoffrey, Claire and….surprise!Tom (as Josh's first "relationship"?? Feel free to work in one night stand guy too, whatever) in order to date Josh for For Real.

THE HATEFUL EIGHT (2015)

Marquis & Chris.

Watch on Putlocker.

I love Tarantino movies to the same degree that Tarantino himself loves feet. It's a lot, I see them over and over again and never get tired of them, and nobody wants to hear about it.

Samuel L. Jackson and Walton Goggins acted their asses off for every second of this movie, which you would think wouldn't be saying much since they're both just really amazing actors, but they took it to a new level in this one, even by their own high bars. Their chemistry throughout this flawless from start to finish. Despite the age-gap, the racism, (and, just speaking for the actors, difference in levels of fame + filming experience) Mannix was right there with Warren throughout the entire film. Nothing about them should have worked, but it did, for one main reason: they're both snakes, pure and simple.

Even before Mannix found himself respecting and teamed-up with Warren, you could tell that he had fun just being around him, and not even his bullshit and racism could stop him from yanking on Warren's chain right from the second he stepped in that wagon to get & keep Warren's attention. You'd think that as a racist he'd want to stay as far away from Warren and ignore him as he could, just as Daisy and the General did, but Mannix genuinely can't seem to stand Warren ignore him for a second, let alone thinking about getting himself out of Warren's company.

I'm so happy that other people ship them and will gleefully ready any and all situations you through them in.

⟿ Semi-role reversal. Warren's the new sheriff of Red Rock, Chris is the shit-kicker everyone expected him to be.

If you've seen Justified, think sorta like that, only set during the 19^th century.

If you want to follow canon events, Warren's gotten tired of the bounty life and gets himself a job as sheriff in a forward-thinking town in Wyoming. He gets picked up by Ruth, etc. Mannix picks up bounty work just to get by and luckily having his own corpses manages to help him hitch a ride in the same way Warren did in canon, etc. Picking up at the end of the film, they survive and…what? Does Mannix take over Minne's? Does Warren have a moment of insanity and make Mannix his deputy?

If you want to do an alternate canon where they avoid the whole Domergue drama, Warren and Mannix roll into Red Rock on the same day and from that point on Warren is constantly hauling Mannix into the jailhouse and hoping that one day this stupid white boy fucks up bad enough that he can hang him. Except, the town would be a little boring without him around.

⟿ Them as partners, because honestly I'm so sad that they aren't a buddy cop style TV show that I can watch every week. Bounty hunters, sheriff & deputy, 1800's American Sherlock & Watson-type detectives, anything.

⟿ They've met before.

Any explanations for why, despite the animosity, they're both practically a dynamic duo right from the moment they step into the Haberdashery in a way that two strangers who should hate and mistrust one another more than anyone else in the joint shouldn't be?

Maybe during the Civil War, Warren or Mannix were injured and the other cared for them in secret? Warren has no idea why he didn't just put a bullet through Mannix's head himself, but here he is, taking care of this white bastard who starts off saying hateful shit but becomes downright cuddly after just a few days of tending? Or, Mannix risking both their asses by hiding an injured Warren from his daddy and brothers, but there's something about Warren that keeps him coming back to the little cabin Mannix stashed him in with food and conversation each day?

Maybe they met up just before the events of the movie. Mannix was one of those white boys who searched out Warren in the depths of Wyoming hoping to bring in his head more for the glory than the cash before he started his new life as a righteous lawman, and all he got for it was nearly freezing his ass off in the snow, a horse with a bullet in its brain, and a bellyful of Warren's come with the taste of his dick still in his mouth?

⟿ They die…but they don't stay gone from this world for long.

Reapers/shinigami, demons, ghosts, whatever: Warren and Mannix don't stay dead for long. Turns out Ruth was right about the whole "needing to hang mean bastards" thing, because when all was said and done, they were some mean bastards themselves and they died with their throats unscathed.

⟿ Bullshit kings! After getting past whatever hand-wavy or detailed explanation of your choice for why they live, Warren & Mannix spend the rest of their lives answering people's questions about that night. Each time they tell the story it's different and they pretty much get-off on trying to one up each other with a crazier version every time.

⟿ Dealing with PTSD/trauma.

Warren has been through & committed a whole lotta some-sorta shit in his life. Mannix, hopefully past the entirely racist part of his life, realizes that he actually feels kinda guilty over the shit he's done. That's not even factoring what happened at Minnie's and how that fucked them up.

They use each other to cope with just how much of a toll their sorta lives would put on a person. They support one another, too, in their own way. As healthy or utterly & completely as fucked up as you'd like; maybe some of their ways of dealing with things are healthy and helpful and others are just textbook 101 What Not To Do.

⟿ D/S relationship.

It's been noted by just about everyone and their mother who happens to ship this ship that Mannix can be downright subservient towards Warren. He's the only character (besides Ruth) who doesn't tell a single lie throughout the film, he's the youngest child to a very domineering and aggressive father, he plays sidekick to someone who he should (based on his upbringing/beliefs) never even pretend to listen to, he offers to take Warren (& Ruth) dinner + drinks in Red Rock completely unprompted, he literally comes back from the brink of death to kill Daisy & save Warren, and wouldn't even turn Warren in just to spite him, let alone save his own ass. There's a dozen things you could point to

So, 19^th Century interracial homicidal maniac same-sex dom/sub relationship. How do they navigate the racism, mistrust, homophobia (internalized &/or external forces), age-difference, and any other thing you can think of in order to have the kind of relationship that satisfies both Mannix and Warren?

You can find entire sociological essays on how gay relationships are how social barriers are broken in just about every single era and civilization across humanity, so how does Mannix and Warren being a (kinky) thing get them through the million things that should keep them apart? Neither of them seem interested in women or have wives, so how much of their relationship is new to them and how much is an old hat? Have either of them done d/s as a relationship before? Been with a man of different race? Touch on whatever you like!

⟿ Somehow working in a relationship with John Carpenter's The Thing.

I could get more tl;dr than I already have thus far, so I'll just C&P from TVTropes.

Some of the lighting during the exterior shots of Minne's Haberdashery during the blizzard are reminiscent of The Thing (1982). O.B. and Mannix setting up a guide rope to the outhouse establishes another prop that was important in The Thing, and the overall story ends with the last two surviving members of the cast (two men, one black and one white) victorious...but nonetheless in conditions that all but guarantee that they won't be surviving for that much longer.

Spiritual Successor: To The Thing (1982). The story of characters isolated in the snow and having heavy themes of paranoia and share the bleak tone. Both feature Kurt Russell as the lead and a soundtrack by Ennio Morricone. Three songs from The Thing's soundtrack even show up in Hateful Eight (two unused in the film but featured on the soundtrack, and one used when they find the site of the UFO). Both films also end with the two main characters, one black and one white, calmly waiting to die.

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