psycho killer qu'est-ce que c'est

[daken]

dear ghoulish author!

Thank you for offering any of these fandoms. I've got an accidental theme going this year of nearly all psychopathic bad guys. Some are canonically gay, some give off major mlm vibes, some have major incest vibes, and all have got some codependency in their lives. If nothing else, I hope I can provide you with some recs. If you're into one of my canons, I think you'll find the other's to be to your tastes as well.

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, as you will surely find, I have a lot of things that I like — I'll be elated ♥

I always have way too much fun when it comes to letter writing; below is a page jump so you can hop to whatever fandom we matched on quickly. Please take my note at the top seriously, pick whatever you like, and burn the rest of it, honestly.

(TRICKS | TREATS | ART | DISLIKES)
THE ACCOUNTANT (2016) | THE DARK TOWER (2017)
DOMINION (TV) | NARCOS (TV) | SATAN’S ALLEY | TRUE DETECTIVE

( 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 well and good.

⟿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!

Also please 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.

( regarding challenges )

For this year's challenge, my prompts are good towards checking off:

M/M, AUs, Art Gifts, Chocolate Box, Family, Monster Mash, Autumn, Undead, Fluff, Night, and while there aren’t any specific prompts for it, please feel free to throw in as many Cats as you like.

TRICKS!

⟿ Vampires, ghosts, werewolves, zombies, shape-shifters, demons, aliens, superheroes, villains, barbarians, wizards: it’s all fine with me.

⟿ I love fucked up, varying-degrees-of-unhealthy relationships. 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 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 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.

⟿ Continuing off that, I love it when people are equally invested in whatever they’re doing, period: murdering people in cold blood, taking what they want because they think they deserve to have it. Them putting in the same amount of care and time into what they're doing 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.

⟿ Canon divergences, semi-alternative universes, and/or slight changes to canon are my jam, so if you want to keep everything the same but except now there’s a paranormal or supernatural element (i.e. ‘it’s all the same except X was the grim reaper the whole time’, ‘they’re all werewolves! and this is how that changes canon’, ‘oh no! Y got possessed by a demon’, or ‘Z sold their soul to the devil in order to make [blah] happen!’) that’s completely fine and really cool.

Complete AUs that are paranormal or supernatural in nature are also welcome.

⟿ 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 instead of spending a lot of time and effort in explaining how the situation came to be. However, if it’s half the fun of AUs and divergences for you, then go wild.

⟿ When it comes to ratings, anything from G-rated schmoop to NC-17 PWP 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, android aus, hooker aus, western/rancher/farmer aus, sex addiction/compulsion, intimate 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 might pair well with tricks:

stuck in isolation together, forced closeness, amnesia, viking/tribe/barbarian/pre-history au, trope inversions & subversions, sex before feelings, soul mates/soul bonds, fake relationships, forced/arranged marriages, bodyswaps, exploring physical disabilities (losing sight/hearing/the ability to a speak).

TREATS!

First and foremost I would like to say that if you want to add in some paranormal or supernatural elements to an otherwise fluffy or domestic fic, I say go for it all the way. I am completely fine with a hybrid tricky-treat of a fic. Blur those lines!

⟿ 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.

⟿ 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 instead of spending a lot of time and effort in explaining how the situation came to be. However, if it’s half the fun of AUs and divergences for you, then go wild.

⟿ When it comes to ratings, anything from G-rated schmoop to NC-17 PWP sex 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, android aus, hooker aus, western/rancher/farmer aus, sex addiction/compulsion, intimate 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 like that would be great for treats:

forced closeness, amnesia, viking/tribe/barbarian/pre-history au, android aus, western/rancher/farmer aus, trope inversions & subversions, 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, gentleness.

ART!

⟿ I like genre scenes, still life, and/or things that look like they could be proudly displayed in the middle of a chapter, or even as the 'cover' of a comic book, novel, or DVD box.

⟿ In terms of color palettes and style/mood/composition, I'm into Renaissance Art, Impressionism, Fauvism, Luminism, Surrealism, and Baroque.

⟿ From a design perspective, intentionally 'sketchy' and rough looking things, as well as watercolor that go "outside" the lines and look beautifully wobbly are so absolutely wonderful. As is of course practically all the Realistic, comic-book, and similar styles!

Anything that comes even vaguely close to any of the above plus my trick and treat likes will be amazing and make me extremely happy. I'm not an artist in any way, shape, or form — although I like coloring books and can make a mean .gif! — so whatever you create will be impressive as hell to me.

DISLIKES!

⟿ Deathfic wherein the character(s) I requested 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! As long as the story doesn't end with "[…] and they died, the end", it's perfect.

⟿ 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.

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

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

A The Accountant fusion with Dominion where Christian and Braxton are archangels who have lived in one another’s pockets since the literal dawn of time and are so codependant where they can barely function would be amazing. A Narcos mix with Satan’s Alley where Pacho is a priest who can’t stop thinking about his apprentice is very much related to my interests. The Dark Tower meeting True Detective where Roland and Walter are total opposite cops thrown together and form a bond that becomes the strongest thing in either of their lives is basically begging to be written, right?

(Feel free to look at fandoms I’ve requested in the past if you’d like other fusion potentialities.)

⟿ If we don’t share any ships thats absolutely fine! All I ask is that you don’t pair them up with other people/have romance with them be a major plot point of the story.

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

The Accountant (2016)

Watch it on HBO or here.

Braxton! My kingdom for anything about Braxton.

The following is entirely headcanon so please don’t feel like you have to use it or hold true to it at all, it won’t ruin a fic for me if you don’t — that said, however, I feel as if the film gave about a hundred hints that Braxton was gay and I’m utterly fascinated by that.

I was shocked (in a pleasant way, it’s not often that the whole parental roles dictated by gender get a trope inversion!) when their father was the one to stay, but by the end of the film I think a lot of his sense of duty showed up in Christian in Braxton in a way that explained why he was the one to stick out having a disabled kid in a not-so-friendly time. But I keep finding myself wondering, why in the hell was he so hard on Braxton? Why didn’t the mom want to take Braxton with her when it was clear her main issue was that she didn’t want ‘non-normal’ children?

Was there something ‘wrong’ with Braxton too that made her give up on him and made their dad feel like he needed to train Braxton on how to keep himself safe from being abused in the world just as hard as he trained Christian? Given the type of guy their father seemed to be, there really didn’t seem to be a reason for him to be as hard on Braxton as he was unless he was “helping” Braxton too.

TL;DR Is Braxton gay? Beyond the weirdness of him being outwardly ’normal’ yet still taken to task like he has something to prove, it came off to me like there were more than a references hinting that he was gay. In a world where all of the characters dressed conservatively, Braxton is flamboyant and stylish. When he start presenting himself that way, before or after his dad was out of his life?

There’s a line when he talks Chilton into killing himself where he threatens to sexually assault his wife before instantly backing off. He says that “besides what it would say about me as a human being, physiologically it’s a nonstarter”, which seems like such a weird thing to say. Why would it be physiologically be impossible, specifically? Is it because he can’t/won’t get it up for women in general?

ALRIGHT, I’VE MADE MY CASE. IT’S UP TO YOU TO USE IT IF YOU LIKE! If you told me there was a subplot about Braxton’s sexuality that got cut but they had left over artifacts thought the film because it wasn’t worth doing reshoots, I wouldn’t be shocked in the slightest.

Getting back to his relationship with his family, he gave up an ‘easy’ life with his mom to stay his intense dad and autistic brother? Make a choice like that while so young says a lot about him; it says a lot about their relationship. I also love how he’s a ruthless mercenary who seems to have reached a point in his career where he can pick and choose his clients based on his own moral compass, so exploring that would also be great! It’s such a perfect collaboration of what his dad taught and Christian and it really fits his personality well. There’s no doubt that he’s a total psychopath, but he’s one with morals! My favorite combo.

I would love to see stuff set during his adolescence, his fallout with his family, his time building his reputation as a mercenary, or something post-series where he and Christian are hopefully back in touch again.

As I say below, I’m very much here for the incest, but Braxton with and OMC boyfriend would make my entire month too so just go with whatever works.

Braxton.

♡ I ship Braxton/Christian and Braxton/OMC.

⟿ Filling in the years before their estrangement.

Braxton clearly saw Christian going with/asking their dad to come with him to go to their mom’s funeral as a betrayal of their relationship, so what exactly was that relationship like?

We saw bits of their grade school years — what were Braxton’s teen years like?

Christian went the military route, but did Braxton?

If they got together before either of them enlisted, was it a long distance relationship? How did it start? When did they become estranged?

What was Braxton’s first relationship like? If he was in the military, how did he navigate DADT? If he went straight into the killer for hire lifestyle, does he date men who are also a part of that world or does he like to keep his romantic interests outside of it? Perhaps he thinks he is but a Mr & Mr Smith situation develops up?

⟿ How did Braxton get into the mercenary life, anyway? Did he have his own Francis that saw potential in him and mentored him? What was that like?

⟿ Working together with Christian post-film.

Anything exploring how they had completely different reactions to the environments they grew up in (neurotypical-ness aside) and yet both ended up in the same ‘field’. How do their different-yet-the-same styles carry into their lives post-film?

After they reunite at the end of the film, could they team up together? How would that work: is Braxton doing more of the physical aspect while Christian handles the ‘books’ of their operation? Is Christian equally involved in the neck breaking? Do they work separately and then come home at night/on the weekends?

They both clearly care a lot about ‘fairness’ and don’t take an entirely devil-may-care mercenary approach since they’re both selective about the jobs they take. The Batfleck comparisons are obvious, but really I could see them as being a quasi-Batman & Robin duo. I can equally see them in a Superman & Batman situation where they do things independently.

⟿ How Braxton got together with his endgame beau.

Did Braxton have boyfriends before he and Christian got together? How did Christian take that? How did their dad take it? Did Braxton see it as a bonus act of rebellion against their father, or did he keep it secret and only tell Christian? Or has Braxton only ever been with Christian?

Where does Braxton meet the love of his life? He’s so touchy feely with Christian despite their clearly unloving-in-conventional-ways childhood, does that carry over with the boyfriend in such a way that he believes in love at first sight? Does it take him a while to get into the mindset that his one night stand isn’t so one night? At what point do they get together — Braxton’s teens; while he and Christian are estranged; after Christian is back in his life? How does Christian react to Braxton having a boyfriend and how does the boyfriend react to Christian?

⟿ Living together with Christian post-film.

Setting aside their jobs (i.e. if you aren’t looking to write some kind of action-thriller alongside the romance, please feel no obligation to do so), their little reunion scene made it pretty obvious that Braxton knows how to handle Christian like a pro.

How will things be now that they’re back in one another’s lives?

Is what we saw during their reunion — Braxton ‘helping’ Christian by voicing the things he forgets/doesn’t know how to say (“I missed you, Braxton. ‘I missed you too, because I love you. You're my brother.’ ”); Christian being awkward but clearly not in his usual way where he wants to get the fuck out of dodge — their usual dynamic?

Is Christian awkward due to him being unused to being around someone who knows and accepts him?

Is Braxton out of sorts too, and his openness was out of the norm, e.g. neither of them are really at their ‘best’?

What does ‘their best’ look like, and how do they get back there? If their best if exactly what we saw in the film, why was it so easy to pick everything back up, and how do they feel about that?

⟿ Supernatural Braxton! Maybe a fusion with What We Do In The Shadows where werewolf Braxton finds himself falling for a packmate — or worse, one of the uppity vampires who they always cross paths with at night! Maybe Christian was an angel born to a family of demons and caring for him as much as he did made Braxton pick up some angelic traits as well.

⟿ Actually, “I missed you, Braxton. ‘I missed you too, because I love you. You're my brother.’ ” is totally worthy of its own prompt? Give me Braxton voicing all the things Christian has a hard time saying, and Christian being all shy and happy every single time Braxton does it.

The Dark Tower (2017)

Get it here.

I’ve read the books and while I enjoyed them a lot, I never felt particularly fannish about them, but man oh man, did the movie hook me.

I love that they decided to use the film as a soft reboot, and it was a really interesting way to have it slot in with what we came to discover at the end of the series. Who knows if it’ll become the franchise they’re hoping for — is the TV adaption even still planned? I need to do some googling homework — but I’m here for it if it does.

McConaughey’s Man in Black really felt like McConaughey-as-Man-In-Black and while I expected to enjoy that utter lulziness of that, I underestimated how related to my interests it would. He and Idris roleplaying over twitter did not help at all. It was obviously by design that The Man In Black was much more of a presence here than he was in the books, and I found it to be for the better. McConaughey let a lot of himself bleed into the role in a way that made him larger than life in all the ways he’s supposed to be, and the chemistry he had with Roland really made the film for me.

Give me all of this flirty, obsessive Walter. I love how he pops into Roland’s life as if he can’t help himself, as if he can’t deal with the thought of Roland’s entire being not centering around him. I love how ruthlessly he ruins Jakes entire life (yet, in a way, is freeing him from a really horrible situation) and the lives of everyone else that he crosses. At a certain point you start to wonder if he really does want the tower to fall (there’s hints that like in the book, he isn’t the main one gunning for this) and if the chase is what he’s after, not the ending, and I love that about him and would love to see it explored in a multitude of ways.

The Man In Black.

♡ I ship The Man In Black/Roland, Man in Black/OMC, Man in Black/Jake (canon age or aged up), Man in Black/Jake/Roland.

⟿ The Man in Black making good on Roland not knowing who he is/Identity Porn.

Without spoiling the books, is there a period before Roland realizes just how awful Walter is that they’re friends? Perhaps something more? How long does Walter drag it out before things get revealed? Is it a fun and awful game to him, or is being allowed to be in Roland’s life like a small reprieve?

⟿ Taken prisoner/trapped together with Roland.

Walter fucks up — or is that how he wants it to appear? — and is taken prisoner by Roland. Roland still can’t kill him, but now he’s finally got the devil himself at his beck and call. Does he abuse this power? Does he do his best to ignore Walter until whatever is binding them wears off?

Something happens where Walter is put in even more of a position of power than he usually has, and get Roland in his clutched for an extended period of time. What does this forced closeness breed?

An unknown but interested third part binds them together and they both try to deal with it?

⟿ “You are my Climax, Roland!”

⟿ Old West AU

I’d love to see Walter spreading around his antagonism in a less high stakes universe!

What if Roland and Walter are rival ranch owners? Sheriff and Outlaw? Farmhands constantly trying to one up one another?

If you’ve seen Magnificent Seven (2016), Walter and Roland have a pretty good Vasquez and Faraday dynamic that could make for an interesting fusion. If you could find a way to get Roland-as-Billy and Walter-as-Goodnight from bitter rivals to the basically married’s that we see in the film’s canon, I’ll love you forever. I can see this version of Walter getting PTSD from all the lives he’s lived and wanting it all to end while a distrusting but lonely-enough-to-risk it Roland gives Walter something to live for.

⟿ Playing around with the Arthurian Legend aspect.

How did Walter fit into Roland’s world?

⟿ The Man in Black has changed his tune.

You decide if it’s genuine or not, but the devil just can’t stay dead and he can’t stay away from Roland and Jake. Walter keeps trying to convinced Roland that he’s changed. Does Roland buy it? What does it take for him to finally thaw to Walter? What does that mean for their relationship. (I’m not saying Jake has two daddies but what if Jake has two daddies.)

⟿ All the lives The Man in Black has led and all the names he’s known by.

⟿ The Man in Black takes the form most attractive to Roland to keep testing his will. Roland is only so strong for so long. Every man breaks.

⟿ The Man in Black is very vampire-y, so if you want to go for it, do it.

⟿ Demon/Devil!Man in Black constantly bothering Priest!Roland.

Make it as tropey and sitcommy or as serious and tortured as you like.

⟿ Fusion with True Detective? Roland and Walter as two cops who can’t stand one another paired on a horrible case that just keeps getting worse and brings them closer and closer together?

Dominion (TV)

Watch on Amazon or stream here or here.

This show was so good to me, from the canonical codependecy and obsession between Gabriel and Michael and a boatload of other characters to the major incest vibes that existed between them from the literal first moment they get to interact, made all the better by how they constantly wouldn’t stop really hammering home that not only are they brothers, but they were twins made in the exact same moment and had previously existed as the same person before God plucked them into existence — oh, has Gabriel mentioned that he knows everything that Michael thinks and feels yet this episode? I feel like we’re a little light on that ‘five times minimum quota.

I feel as if the show did great job giving them such rich and complex backstories — shared and individual, for a given value of individual given that they’ve always been together since before time was even a thing — that felt full and lived in before we even got to see flashbacks, but hoo boy! Those flashbacks. Here for it!

I’d love anything set in just about any period of their lives: right after their inception by God and what life was like in Heaven/the universe before God took up The Human Project; during the Torah/Quran/“Old Testament” part of their histories and how their dispositions from how we know them in canon were completely flipped; whatever life was like in modern times before God bailed; their lives when they’re on opposite sides in the post-God war, and how they couldn’t even manage to do that right with all their rendezvous; however you see S3 having gone; and beyond!

Archangel Gabriel.

♡ I ship Gabriel/Michael, Gabriel/Michael/Lucifer, Gabriel/Michael/Alex, Gabriel/William.

⟿ Gabriel falling back into his Michael obsession when Lucifer returns.

We all know that Lyrae did a great job of turning Gabriel's love/faith/obsession in Michael against him and making him find new levels when it came to his Michael obsession. Michael's love managed to #save him at the end of S2 and it was amazing, but what if Lucifer coming back managed to trigger him into that desperate, obsessed mess who only wants Michael for himself again?

⟿ Gabriel & David: A perfect little two-unit family.

Gabriel was absolutely besotted with David. (If you're familiar with football/soccer, I see them as being a biblical era version of Cristiano & Cristianinho, seriously.) I'd love anything set amongst the happier times of Gabriel's attempts to be a father. Domesticity, training him to best Goliath, h/c, anything.

⟿ Exploring how Gabriel's mind and body is always connected to Michael's.

Take it any way you see it. Can be smutty; can be how even when they're at odds, they still checked in with one another and got feedback on their plans just like how they would have a "truce" when they would meet up in person; can be set during their Old Testament days or closer to canon.

⟿ Canon divergence where, when threatened with the very real reality of Michael choosing the humans over him pre-S1, Gabriel folds and goes with Michael to set up Vega and protect the humans.

What changes? What stays the same? Are things easier/safer with Gabriel not constantly trying to get Michael back and take out the city? Does a different villain reveal themselves? Do they catch wind of what Lucfier's up to sooner without the distraction of their rivalry?

If you'd like: how does Alex come into play? If Gabriel's history can be taken into account, we've seen that he's very hands on when it comes to chosen boys. Does him being in Vega mean that he (& Michael?) plays a larger role in Alex's upbringing? Does that change how he is seen by the other citizens of Vega? How he views himself? Does Gabriel's interest in him have Michael being more active just to try to counterbalance Gabriel's parental POV? Does Michael continue to be standoffish and so Alex becomes Gabriel's David 2.0? Does his/their constant meddling turn him into the same kid of apocalyptic, separate-from-thou prophet that Jesus was?

⟿ Things that Gabriel has done for Michael that Michael has no idea about.

⟿ How Gabriel got William to defect to his cult/worship him.

⟿ Anything dealing with his antics throughout the Torah/Old Testament/Quran.

⟿ What things were like before Lucifer fell.

Were the a happy little triad? Did Michael agree with how Lucifer felt about humans back then? Did Gabriel? Was Gabriel jealous of how close Michael and Lucifer were? Was he more of a standoffish older sibling — God's favorite, after all — despite Michael and Gabriel being God's voice and will?

Archangel Michael.

♡ I ship Michael/Gabriel, Michael/Gabriel/Lucifer, Michael/Alex, Michael/Gabriel/Alex.

⟿ Michael needing Gabriel to speak for him.

Just by wont of their respective roles, Gabriel is so much more articulate than Michael.

How often was it that Michael let Gabriel do the talking? During his Flood/Sword days, were there ever times where Michael wouldn't talk at all and Gabriel had whole conversations by himself? They can communicate with their minds and their bodies are in tune with one another, but that hasn't ever seemed to stop Gabriel from needing to physically speak.

⟿ Michael + Gabriel & David: What it was like for Michael to be on the outside of Gabriel being in a two-person unit that didn't include him.

We saw how badly Gabriel dealt with Michael's relationship with Alex on the show, but never really got to see how Michael dealt with Gabriel & David. I'd love to see how that bitter & Jaded version of Michael felt towards David? Was it jealousy?

Michael was vengeful and standoffish with everyone besides his twin during his Flood period, while Gabriel was domestic and kind, with most of his attention trained on newfound son. Did Michael like this changed Gabriel? Did he hate it? Were the only glimmers of Michael's "humanity" to be found when he was spending time with Gabriel & David, or was the "loss" of his brother to some human one of the reason's Michael went so hard during his Flood?

⟿ Struggling with his need to be God's Sword and the Flood throughout history even after Sodom & Gomorrah, especially during his Vega days.

⟿ Canon divergence where Michael did "choose" Gabriel from the start and was totally up for taking over the Earth from the humans and running shit until God came back.

What changes? What stays the same? Is Vega absolutely toast without an Archangel on their side, or does someone else pick up the slack? Does Michael's tactician prowess have him convincing Gabriel to forget the humans so they can focus on readying the world for God's return? Does he set forth another Flood?

If you'd like: how does Alex come into play? Is he turned into a slave? Do they raise him as a sort of David 2.0, the one good human amongst filth? Do they sorta brain-wash him into thinking that humanity deserves to be wiped out, so he turns into the same kid of apocalyptic, separate-from-thou prophet that Jesus was?

⟿ Michael becoming obsessive/possessive over Gabriel when Lucifer returns.

Michael came so close to losing his brother at the end of S2, but really he spent most of the reason reconnecting with their whole codependent twin-bond.

With Lucifer back and Gabriel far more changed than he'd been the last time Lucifer was around, maybe Lucifer and Gabriel have far more in common and start to strike up a bond over their now-shared views. Is Michael worried that Gabriel will leave him again? How does he feel about that, considering all he went through to get his twin back? Is he threatened by Lucifer? Is it less serious and more of a brotherly competition for Gabriel's affections? Is it a serious, Light vs. Dark situation?

⟿ Anything dealing with their antics throughout the Torah/Old Testament/Quran.

Narcos (TV)

Watch on Netflix.

Pacho. Pacho! Pacho!!!!!!!

Pacho is my favorite everything. For the past two seasons I stanned him and enjoyed every scene he was in because of how deliciously extra he is. Last season I was convinced that he and Lion had been hooking up during their brief allegiance in Miami — the little we saw of Lion in S1 had him hanging around with that biracial nazi who Pablo and Gustavo said was gay, and they made jokes about Lion so A + B is math that I’m sure you follow — and felt so robbed when they didn’t make out.

But this season. This season. This season was everything that I wanted for my random background fav. He has evolved into the main character that he always clearly deserved to be. Pablo who?? #CaliCartelForever.

I love how unrepentantly gay he is. I love how unrepentantly, utterly, and ruthlessly psychopathic he is. I love that he “led a team of young psychopaths who would do anything he asked”; that he took his father kicking him out and telling him that he’d never make it in the Cartel world as a challenge that led to him being one of the bosses in the most successful narco ‘company’ of all time; that Gilberto and Miguel are his surrogate dads with Chepe as a big brother-uncle hybrid that can’t stop kissing and hugging him (honestly every guy seems to love kissing and touching Pacho and I’m here for it); that his brother is fucking gorgeous and seems to have a brother complex.

I love that he made a room full of homophobes he can’t stand watch him slowdance and make out with his boyfriend just because he could and he knew they wouldn’t do anything about it, before ruthlessly murdering their leader via quartering by motocycle. I love that he stacked his henchman crew with beautiful young things that all seem to be gay too — because why not?

I love how secure in his skin Pacho is. He’ll kill you without blinking but he has the nerdiest smile and laugh. He does double takes whenever he sees a cute boy, even when that cute boy is already his boyfriend. He has no shame about what he likes at all, and he’s so out that everyone (besides Newman the Laywer, somehow?!) knows that he’s gay, yet he still sneaks glasses over the rim of his shades at the boys he likes. I’m repeating myself but you could honestly give me 300 words about how Pacho always does that little double take he did in the season premiere whenever his boyfriend gets out of the bathtub even though they clearly take at least two baths a day together and I’m happy.

(I realize this is turning into a Pacho love letter and I’m sorry. The fandom is so small and I didn’t realize I had #feelings that I needed to force on someone.) One last thing, I love Pacho’s shirts. They’re so, so good. Also, I take him having a gun in the front and back of his pants at the same time as a ganger signal that he’s a switch/versatile. (This is a joke but if you want to work with it, go for it.) I apologize in advance for whatever prompts I come up with now that I realize just how low my bar is when it comes to Pacho.

Hélmer Pacho Herrera.

♡ I ship Pacho/his main Henchman boyfriend whos name I can’t seem to find (feel free to name him if he really doesn’t have one listed), Pacho/the cute waiter who was taken from us way too soon, Pacho/Alvaro (his brother), Pacho/Amado (Cali’s Mexican buyer), Pacho/Franklin, Pacho/any of the other Cali bosses, Pacho/Javier Peńa, Pacho/Steve Murphy, Pacho/Lion, Pacho/OMC.

⟿ Pacho’s youth.

So we know that his dad found out about him being gay sometime in his teens by walking in on Pacho and a boy — take it from there.

Was that the first boy he’d been with? Was it a rando or was it Pacho’s boyfriend? Where did Pacho go after he was kicked out? It’s clear he’s close with his Alvaro, so did Pacho still get to see him or were they estranged for a bit? How long was it before Pacho got in on the ground floor with Gilberto and Miguel?

⟿ Pacho and his tiny robe.

What does Pacho bring the robe out for? Now that we know that Pacho chills in his bathtub while his henchmen boyfriends bring him clothing options, I can’t stop thinking about his meeting with Javi (was it Steve? I can’t remember.) over the Los Pepes thing in a whole new light

⟿ Werewolves, vampires, oh my.

Cali as a pack or coven! What changes, what stays the same? Is Pacho natural born or was he turned?

⟿ Found family.

I really do love how affectionate the boss foursome is. Chepe cradling Pacho close and hugging and kissing him all the time. Gilberto always wanting to do what’s best for Pacho. The way that Miguel didn’t even think about turning on Pacho (or Chepe) when he found out they were still talking to Gilberto in jail — in fact, what I really loved about this season was how Cali had all their shit figured out in the way’s that Pablo never did. Yeah they ran everything like a business, but the “CEOs” were all a family and had genuine loyalty. They tried to make it seem like they might turn on one another for dramas sake, which I didn’t mind, but it was always really clear that there wasn’t any power grabbing (although Miguel did toe the line there for a while) or genuine betrayal in their hearts.

What was it like for Pacho to finally be accepted by the men in his life/people he cared about?

We got a few glimpses of what things were like when they were all together and it seemed like a great time. What was it like when they weren’t all spread out around the globe and avoiding the law? What are things like as they’re running prison?

Show me what Pacho’s relationship is with each of the guys. Extra love for tossing in Alvaro.

⟿ Psycho-killer.

Pacho has no qualms about doing what needs to be done and he has a flare for the dramatic, as evidenced by the whole ‘the last thing you’re ever gonna see is me sucking face with my boyfriend while listening to a slowjam I picked’ thing. How did Pacho get his rep so well known and respected that he gets to live the life he lives?

⟿ Pacho’s life in jail.

All season long I was making jokes about Pacho having a great time in jail because all he would need to do is import his henchmen boyfriends and install them in his cell and he’d be set. I gotta say, I was still a little surprised that he actually did it. What a boss.

What was life on the inside like while the getting was good?

⟿ Pacho’s life after jail.

In real life we know that Pacho died from his assassination, but Narcos loves its artistic liberties and we didn’t actually see him die die. What if Pacho survived the stabbing?

What would he have done after he got out of jail? Would he have sought revenge against Amado? Would he have let all the Cali bygones be bygones?

Would he still want to stay in the business and start again from scratch, or would his brother be able to talk him into taking his millions (billions?) and legitimate businesses and retire for good? What does retirement look like for Pacho? Does he stay in the bathtub all day surrounded by his dozens of boyfriends or is he using his skills to take over the legitimate (alright “legitimate”) world of Wall Street?

⟿ Pacho making notches in his bedpost with the various cute men of the show.

Honestly do not need any sort of plausible set up for this; I’ll take a “5 times men randomly dropped trou when Pacho was around” fic.

Pacho and Steve and/or Javi because Boyd Holbrook and Pedro Pascal are a one-two mustache punch that Pacho couldn’t resist. Pacho summons them, things get out of hand because Steve things he can pivot this into something they can use to get Pablo/Javi thinks with his dick and his dick is very focused on Pacho. Pacho gets what he wants and they leave with nothing because only one person in this paragraph has sense and it isn’t the DEA agents.

Pacho and Franklin because honestly how dare you have Miguel Ángel Silvestre on a show and not let him and Pacho do the deed! (Javi can come too, honestly.) There was a brief part of Franklin’s intro montage showed he and Pacho talking in what seemed like the beginning of his tenure with the cartel. What if Miguel and Gilberto caught on that Franklin kept sneaking glances at Pacho and gave Pacho the go-ahead to test him out to really ensure his loyalty/see what he was made of?

Pacho and Lion because I’m still not over their whirlwind romance that ended in Lion getting ganked while Pacho turned up the radio and continued packing without so much as a blink. They seemed to be living it up in Miami, so what was their time like? Their final conversation where Lion seemed to be angling for Pacho to leave his subpar hotel room for something nicer seems like it could be spun into a lot more! That sounded like a good ol’ move in with me invitation if I ever hear one.

Pacho and Alvaro because man does that kid love his brother and good lord is he beautiful. Alvaro looks at Pacho like he hung the moon. Pacho seems like he doesn’t like to deny Alvaro anything and clearly wants to show Pacho his world. Maybe he offers some of his henchmen boyfriends for Alvaro to spend the night with, but that isn’t who Alvaro wants at all. Cue Dos Gardenias in the background.

⟿ Initiation rites into Pacho’s special security wing of the cartel.

How does one get reffered? What’s the hiring process like?

Satan’s Alley (2008)

Watch on Youtube.

It’s been ten years and I still think about this movie that never was. I accidentally found myself rewatching Wonder Boys while noms were going on and here we are.

I love priests, I love gay priests, I love random and niche historical settings, love my small fandom OTP being reunited for an even smaller fandom. I love that they gave Kirk a wangsty gay film as the first thing that we see of him. I love that the fact that he’s of the Daniel Day-Lewis breed of extreme method acting that he probably actually had sex with Toby the entire time they were filming this. I love that the only award they were able to pull up for Toby was MTV Best Kiss Winner.

As it’s a two minute trailer for a gag movie inside of another movie, please go wild with this. I feel like there’s a million different directions that this movie could have taken. I’ll do my best to cast a wide variety of prompts but I’d honestly be happy with anything.

Apprentice Monk.

♡ I ship Father O’Malley/Apprentice Monk.

⟿ Gimmie your take on what the film’s canon probably was.

Because I love schmoop, I want to believe one of the reasons Satan’s Alley did so well is because unlike other 00s gay cinema, it harkened back to the 80s/90s where gay films had happy endings now and again.

If you want to go angsty, there’s a million and one ways a Priest and his — young…Pope? (I’m a Jewish Atheist I’m sorry I have no idea how Christianity or Catholicism works; the upside is that you don’t have to worry about being historically or religiously accurate if you don’t want to be!) living in the middle of nowhere could meet a tragic end.

Give him whatever name you like!

⟿ Apprentice Monk is a demon/vampire/ghost/anything supernatural.

Is he trying to tempt Father O’Malley into the darkness? Would he be happier there than he is in his religious existence?

Is he looking to be saved? Will their love bring him into the light?
⟿ Young Pope fusion?

If you haven’t seen Young Pope, the tl;dr is that a middle aged Jude Law becomes the Pope. People expect him to be progressive but he decidedly isn’t. He tackles a lot of the ‘darkness’ in the church, has an actual connection with God and can preform miracles, and he has a lot of gay and bisexual men in his life.

Now that that’s out of the way: what if the Apprentice Monk became Pope. Canon era or modern like Young Pope, and he actually was progressive. What if he points the church in a (extremely radical, if you keep it canon compliant) radical direction.

I’d love it if Father O’Malley is one of the (gay) priests sent to advise the new Pope, and they find themselves developing into more than just advisor and advisee.

⟿ “I’ve been a bad, bad boy father.”

⟿ Space alternate canon.

Father O’Malley is a space priest working on a distant outpost. He’s sent an apprentice droid to help him upkeep his duties. Why in the world is his droid so attractive?

⟿ How do they get together?

Skip all the plot and right into the scene the internet would be lining up to gif?

Does one of them fall ill and it leads to some h/c? Do they get trapped inside the church during a winter storm so that Father O’Malley can’t avoid him any longer?

⟿ How did the Apprentice Monk end up at the Church?

A small church in what seems like an isolated setting; what does one do to get assigned there.

Is it a punishment? Did Apprentice Monk get caught doing something he shouldn’t have and so they sent him far away to the most pious priestdom they knew?

Is he one of the few parishioners on the island? Has he had a thing for Father O’Malley since he was young and he saw this as his chance to avoid marrying one of the village girls and possibly getting his man?

⟿ Cult.

There’s a lot of priest imagery, sure, but what if they aren’t regular Catholics? What if they’re apart of some dark cult that arranges for pairs up younger and older men to be together? Why does Father O’Malley fight it? Is he fighting it, or is that all a part of the dance?

⟿ More alternate settings/timeperiods for canon.

Because I came up with some.

A viking setting where as a concession to a trade agreement with not-yet-England, Apprentice Monk is gifted to Father O’Malley’s chruch as a show of good will?

Old west setting where a rather lawless town means that Father O’Malley hardly sees a parishioner in his entire tenure as the town’s priest and he’s so excited when a young man says he’s interested in joining up — except that doesn’t seem to be what he’s interested in at all?

Something else? Seriously there’s so many fun ways to play with this world.

True Detective

Watch on HBO, here or here.

While I think that S1 was the better of the two (#not even a controversial opinion, I know) I did enjoy S2 for what it was so if you want to work in aspects of the former into the latter, I’m here for it.

Ginger fascinated me so much and I’m eternally bitter that we didn’t get to see more of whatever his past with Rust/Crash was, because it felt like it had the potential to be all the things I love. I was robbed!

I like him because of all that was unsaid. I feel like he’s got this interesting duality to him — I can see exactly what type of character he is, yet it feels like we know nothing about him at all. Why would he, someone who had to be used to betrayal and the need to be suspicious of everyone, let Crash waltz back into his life with almost no questions asked? Why does he look at Crash the way he does; what kind of homosocial power structure exists within their gang that let him be so expressive in a certain way while obviously guarded in others? Was Crash the only person in the gang he had that kind of rapport and connection with, or were there others? Are there current others?

Because of the way canon went, I’m fine with pre-series — however, if you wanted to go with a canon divergent route (or perhaps even take canon’s vagueness as an assist — it isn’t as if we saw Rust kill Ginger! Maybe Vampire Rust has Ginger locked away to be his familiar, or psychopath Rust kept him captive to be his sex slave) and have Ginger exist after the time jump, please feel free.

Ginger.

♡ I ship Ginger/Rust, Ginger/Crash, or Ginger/OMC.

⟿ Anything pre-canon.

What was Ginger's role in the crime/drug/etc organization? How'd he fall into that life?

Were Ginger and Crash close? Passing acquaintances? How did they get to the point where Rust felt comfortable waltzing back into Ginger’s life?

⟿ What happened to Ginger before the cops showed up?

Are there any missing scenes we didn’t get to see? It seemed like Rust was completely fed up after they got Ginger in the car (“Oh goddamn. I’m so done talking to you like a man.”) so what exactly did Ginger have him doing that got him to that point.?

⟿ What happened to him after the cops showed up? What was his life like for the 10 year gap in the show?

⟿ Ginger forced to stay with Rust.

What if after the raid/kidnapping, Rust forced Ginger to stay with him for a while to make sure that he didn't rat/to let the heat die down.

⟿ Anything post-Canon.

Does Rust (and Marty) reenter his life as they look for informants for ayran biker related crimes? Does Ginger hate this or is he glad to have Rust back in his life again?

What if Rust turns down Marty’s offer to stay with him because he knows he can force Ginger to look after him?

Matthew McConaughey said that he would love to come back and play Rust again. While I would personally love a season of True Detective set during his Crash era, there would be something epic about Marty nursing Rust back to health and then him jumping back into undercover work.

So! Rust wants back into that life and he drags Ginger along with him? Ginger is manipulated to thinking that he's dragging Rust into that life as revenge for what went down during the show, but it's really Rust allowing this to happen and using Ginger again?

⟿ Crash was a workin' boy, and Ginger was sweet on him.

I, like a lot of fandom, completely believe that Crash turned tricked/prostituted himself while he was undercover.

Was Ginger a fellow rentboy? Was he Rust's trick? Was he in charge of making sure Rust didn't get roughed up? Was Rust not a hooker, but he would sleep with Ginger for favors/to manipulate him?

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