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troll the ancient yuletide carol —

Thank you for offering any of these fandoms ♥

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'll come to see very soon, I have a lot of things that I like — I'll be elated. Please take my note at the top seriously, pick whatever you like to write, and burn the rest of it!

LIKES | DISLIKES
AMERICAN ANIMALS | MAN IN AN ORANGE SHIRT
OUTLANDER (TV) | WESTWORLD | WONDERKID

( quick note )

⸰ My prompts are formatted to (hopefully!) work for the less-is-more writer and the more-is-more writer. The top level prompt suggestions are generalized, complete ideas. Know what you want to write now? Great!

If you come up with an idea that’s similar to a prompt, 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. I’d also love to see prompts mixed. All these general questions and ideas following the top-level exist just in case you want more to work with.

l i k e s

⸰ Strong relationships! I'm super into reading about how relationships work: their unique 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, as well as where they differ.

Established relationships are kind of my jam because I love seeing how people get along after they've gotten together; that's where the really interesting stuff shows up for me. The day to day of their lives and intricacies therein fascinate me endlessly — this is also why I'm into so many soap fandoms, haha. How do they fit one another into their routine? What things do they do (or don't do) because they've got that other person in the lives?

That said, get-togethers are also my bread and butter and I've yet to meet one I didn't like.

⸰ Fucked-up, unhealthy relationships! Codependent relationships, obsessive relationships, and so on: 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.

Them doing questionable things or neglecting themselves in order to make their partner happy. I love it when they put themselves or the other person in precarious situations just so they can have their desired outcome; letting the ends justify the means. My favorites are when the characters know — be it fully or a suspicion — that what they're feeling, and the degree to which they're feeling it, isn't healthy, but they enjoy it so much they can't bring themselves to care. Them being equally, fuck-up-ed-ly invested in their relationship is what I live for.

⸰ Rather than miscommunication causing drama, I love it when bluntness and frankness cause 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.

⸰ Stories that starts in the "middle"/in medias res of the overarching plot. I don't need a lot of world-building set up, 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 and you are welcome to go right on ahead with the action of the story.

However, if half the fun of AUs/divergences involves really delving deep into the universe and making yourself at home there, go wild!

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

⸰ Anything from G-rated schmoop to NC-17 sex is alright in my book.

Should you write a sex scene, here’s a general list of kinks/scenarios that I'm cool with:

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, identity porn/anonymous sex, rough sex, marking, 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 paired with very quick physical intimacy, captivity.

⸰ Tropes that I never fail to love:

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, woke up married, bodyswaps, bodyswaps with themselves in a different multiverse, gentleness, stuck in isolation together, sex before feelings, bodyswaps, exploring physical disabilities (losing sight/hearing/the ability to a speak).

⸰ My Yuleporn and Crueltide entries are here. There are some extra prompts and kinks there that aren't listed here, and may be useful if you're hoping to write something dark and/or porny.

d i s l i k e s

⸰ Deathfic as an ending. If they’re brought back to life via the supernatural, reincarnation, turned into a cyborg, etc — or the story continues on in the afterlife, I'm good. As long as the story doesn't end with "[…] and they died, the end", it's perfect.

⸰ Whump/excessive angst wherein the majority of the fic is self-pity/sadness or miscommunications, and a tiny section at the end is happy/resolution; if from the outside, or as an observer, the events are sad but the character(s) living that reality as their everyday life are happy, content, and/or blind to it, then that's fine! I dislike when half or more of the fic focused on someones 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, polyamory, epistolary, crossdressing, noncon (wherein one half completely hates the sex; if they come to like it/are mindbroken, we're good!), genderswap/always-a-[opposite gender].

⸰ It's absolutely fine if you don't ship my ships, but please don't have them in a relationship with someone else. I'm also not a huge fan of background pairings, but if your plot needs 'em, do what you gotta do.

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

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

An American Animals fusion with Westworld where hosts Warren & Spencer become sentient and decide to break out of there would be great.Outlander fused with Wonderkid, with Jack and Jamie as bitter futbol rivals that angrily hook up whenever the English & Scottish NTs play one another is very much related to my interests. Or even Man in an Orange Shirt fused with American Animals that has Thomas & Michael getting into extravagant shenanigans as an excuse to spend time with one another? I love.

American Animals (2018)

Warren Lipka & Spencer Reinhard

Stream it here.

I caught this at the NZIFF and went into it pretty much blind, and I came out of it instantly knowing it was going to have to be one of my Yuletide requests. I think my favorite thing about it is that it's basically The Social Network meets the Ocean's Trilogy, both of which I love a lot, with everything good and bad those connotation entail.

For how inept and totally out of their depth they ended up being, the heist idea wasn't completely awful. Neither Warren or Spencer are heroes — they're entitled assholes who wanted something to break up the monotony of their largely-okay lives and make them unique.

I'm fascinated by all the men in Warren's life who seemed desperate to keep his friendship: Eric clearly seemed to have known better to join in at all right from the start, but he was desperate to rekindle that friendship.

Ditto again with Chas, who didn't even seem to really be Warren's friend, and yet there he was, willing to do this even though he was on his way into being independently wealthy without even considering his family's wealth.

Even Spencer seemed to have lost touch with Warren, but their reunion didn't seem like they had missed a beat and were back into their childhood friendship dynamic without much effort.

We know that Spencer wanted to keep this going because it gave him and Warren an excuse to constantly be around one another, but Warren's motives seemed to be centered around wanting to give Spencer (and himself) something life changing, and proving to themselves that they could do it. It makes absolutely no sense for them to have allowed this to go as far as it did, especially since Spencer wanted out, but they kept at it because they didn't want their shared adventure to be over.

The unreliable narrator aspect of it all is something else that I love. Where does the truth end and the lie begin? For all that happened, I think it's really telling that neither Spencer or Warren's version make the other out to be the main bad guy. Their guilt and blame is shared, and in the classic "be careful what you wish for"-fashion, they certainly got themselves life experience that changed them.

I have no interest in the real versions of them beyond the context they gave the film, so don't worry about being true to them or accuracy in that regard. I'm dubious towards the sincerity the real men feel about the harm they caused BJ, but for the purposes of how their fictionalized characters work I think that really tracks and keeps up with the anguish the characters felt in the film. Similar to how The Social Network fandom works, I'm interested in the fiction and couldn't care less if the real dudes choked.

PRE-CANON

⸰ "We were not thrilled with the relationship with Warren, but we accepted it because [long pause] that was his friend."

Everything about this makes so much more sense if Spencer (and Eric and Chas, to be honest) was in love with Warren, and Warren clearly loved Spencer.

What if they were childhood sweethearts up until their time in high school? Was the heist just Spencer and Warren's excuse to get closer again after college made them drift? How would that change the events of the film? Would everything stay the same, but things are recontextualized?

Whats their deal anyway? Are they exes? On a break? Was it nothing but hookups — or almost hookups — that they never put a name to?

⸰ How the jock and art nerd came together in the first place

CANON

⸰ Differences in what they remember

The literal first conversation we see between them is "About fucking time. I left you like a zillion fucking messages." "You haven't left me a message in weeks, Warren." and it all spirals from there.

I love how they're unreliable narrators and have such different experiences over the most basic shit. Why can't they ever seem to agree on anything or get their story straight? Why does Warren feel like he's constantly reaching out to Spencer, while Spencer feels like he's been tossed aside?

⸰ The heist as an excuse to be together as much as possible

Because that's what they admitted to the heist actually being for all allong! I'm done!!!

Movie marathons, late night planning sessions, road trips — dates. All of them dates. Who instigated them, what goes on, what else didn't we see?

⸰ Spencer drawing and making doodles of Warren all! the! time!

⸰ "Give me a kiss"

These two have 100% made out before at least once and I want you to tell me all about it, please!

⸰ Spencer's jealousy over bringing in Chas & Eric

How does Warren convince him? How does he make sure Spencer knows he's still his main guy?

⸰ The sheer happiness and joy that Spencer & Warren felt in NYC

⸰ They! can't! stop! touching! eachother!

⸰ Spencer wanting out...but staying in.

How did Spencer going back to Warren and taking the lookout position go about?

POST-CANON

⸰ The years in jail

A part of me is honestly shocked they actually served time (their full sentence, too!) not gonna lie.

I love stuff like Oz and OITNB and would love to know how these idiots found a way to survive federal prison.

Are Warren and Spencer cellmates or in opposite cells? Do they cling even more to one another than they did on the outside, or is there some sourness that they have to get past? What was their time in prison like? Is it more of an Oz situation where staying alive and sane is all they can do? More OITNB where things are largely alright if they keep their heads down?

Does it give them that "specialness" that they were so desperately seeking or do they realize their relationship was more than enough on that front?

⸰ Life after jail

So they're out...now what?

Do they still see one another? Are they allowed to be in contact at all? Do they actually obey that condition of their parole?

CANON-DIVERGENCE

⸰ "I think we should just quit while we're ahead." "Dude, this isn't fucking 'ahead'. This is just more of the same shit. Nothing has changed! What has changed? Tell me."

Spencers look, that long as fuck pause, the cracks in Warren's voice — he should have kissed Warren. What if he had?

Say they had stopped everything there? What would have been the fallout? Would Chas and Eric still gone ahead without them? Or would Warren still have gone along with it but left Spencer out of it for real?

If this is where Warren and Spencer finally get together (or get back together), where do they go from there? Are they able to be in a relationship and spend so much time together without the high stakes? Do they take lesser-stakes jobs to keep the magic alive?

Do they still get minor jail time on conspiracy if Eric and Chas pull the job and rat on them? If Warren still does the job, how do he and Spencer manage that particular brand of long distance?

ALTERNATE-CANON

⸰ "Oh, you know this from all your previous heists?"

This isn't Warren's first time around the block.

Has he stolen things before? Were they big or small jobs? Had Warren been building to this for a while?

Or maybe it isn't stealing so much as being a conman? What are the things Warren lies about? He was so smooth in tearing up the letter from the fence without Spencer having a chance to see it — what if Warren's always been great at convincing Spencer of his lies, and that's the "heists" he's pulled in the past?

⸰ An artist and his muse

There's so many ways this could happen and I'd be there for all of them.

Warren signs up to be a nude model after he loses his athletic scholarship and thats how he meets Spencer, the dude who looks at him like he hung the moon?

Spencer spots Warren on the street/around campus and becomes obsessed? Maybe he starts following him around and can't seem to bring himself to draw anything but Warren these days?

Naturalist — set historically or now — Spencer moves into the Southern wilderness to focus on his art and get away from the trappings of polite society. He plans on documenting nature in all of its wonder, but that idea quickly gets cast aside when he lays eyes on Warren, his closest neighbor, a lumberjack/survivalist/farmer/whatever who fascinates Spencer to no end?

⸰ American Animals as a season of American Horror Story

Because a) Evan Peters and b) entitled middle class white kids doing awful shit is as much of an American Horror Story as I can imagine.

How would it work? Is it straightforward or supernatural? What kind of supernatural?

Man in an Orange Shirt (TV)

Michael Barryman & Thomas March

Stream it on BBC, PBS, here.

Barring the tragic ending (which is, of course, what my main request is), MIAOS is basically everything I love.

I love how easily Tom and Michael fit together, how natural and seamless their relationship was when they were alone together. For all the various angst and drama that befell them from the moment they met, they always were completely themselves with one another, and just being near one another seemed to make everything alright.

I'm not even sure how to begin to talk about what I love about these two, so I'll just wax on about my favorite moments and aspects of their relationship.
Michael heading straight to Thomas after the war, not even bothering to let anyone else know that he was back home; the shy excitement Thomas had when he saw him.

That Michael wrote to Thomas in his head every single day. That Thomas literally wrote letters and brought them with him to the cottage. How domestic they always seemed to be, even during the war, before they'd gotten together.

How they literally cannot keep their hands off one another and are constantly being frisky as all get out. How utterly affected by their kiss in the bathroom Michael was, and how he practically begged Thomas to beard-up to protect himself. That Thomas comforted him even though Thomas was the one with reason to be angry and upset.

That love letter, god.

That they always kept finding a way back to one another, and that their love was so apparent and long-lasting that Adam was able to suss it all out two generations after it was over!!

Also, I love Adam and Steve, so if you wanted to muddy the timelines or have elder Thomas and Michael still alive so that Adam(/Steve) could be in their lives, I wouldn't question any of it.

PRE-CANON

⸰ Boarding school

"Was I a beast to you? At school?” “Well actually, you were very kind.” “What a relief.”

What if Michael and Thomas had been more than passing acquaintances during their time at school? What if their relationship began there and carried into the war and beyond?

CANON

⸰ Their time together in the war at the recovery home.

Canon compliant or a bit of canon manipulation to draw out their time together at the convalescence home — perhaps moving the kiss up sooner so it wasn’t on their last day? — and explore all the ways that Thomas and Michael hid and nurtured their growing relationship behind the homosocial lad culture going on there.

⸰ Their time together at the cottage. Give me all the domestic day to day goings on for the happiest period of their lives.

Them fucking against every single surface they’re ever even slightly next too. Them cuddled up in bed in the cold autumn morning, Thomas having just brought tea. Their cheeky “Morning March.” “Captain.” Going shopping at neighboring farms, washing dishes together, Michael modeling for Thomas without a single complaint.

Drag it all out and tell me about their little world!

⸰ How tactile they are with one another.

⸰ That Michael has no qualms about picking Thomas up and that Thomas is very happy to be man handled and to climb Michael like a tree. 

POST-CANON

⸰ Flora urges Michael to visit Thomas in Cassis — or for Michael to get Thomas to stay in London.

During their department store run-in, Flora seems keen on getting Michael to go to Thomas' art opening. We know later that there was never any love on her end for Thomas or his relationship with Michael, so maybe at that point in her life she was seeing it as a the devil you know situation and she wanted Michael to be with one man who even she trusted rather than a randoms that could blackmail him?

⸰ Rebirth/reincarnation? Michael and Thomas get a second chance at it all.

How do they meet? Are they both still soldiers at some point? Just one of them? Completely different careers? What path do their lives and relationship take?

Is it a clean rebirth where there's some lingering connecting but they're entirely new people — or do they remember the past? Do they recognize one another instantly when they meet in this new life, or is it just an Intense Feeling that draws them to one another?

Maybe they move in together right away, and get married as soon as possible, leaving all their friends are shocked and thinking it's far too soon — but they don't care? Or if they do remember, maybe they're so happy that they actually can be married this time; Thomas once said that he didn't wan't to be Michael's platonic!family, and now he doesn't have to be.

CANON-DIVERGENCE

⸰ Thomas got Michael's letter in prison. They get to do all the things Michael’s fantasized over and more.

⸰ Michael gets himself arrested so that Thomas doesn't have to deal with prison alone

Brought to you by me being extremely emotional™ about Ian & Mickey's final scene on Shameless (US).

⸰ Michael saves both him and Flora grief by not marrying her.

Michael resolves himself to be a confirmed bachelor for the rest of his days — now what?

Do he and Thomas move in together? No? Do they relocate to the cottage for privacy? What sort of job does he take up? What about Thomas? Is Thomas happy that they can be together, or are there hurt feelings that Michael almost went through with the marriage?

⸰ Michael is there for Thomas after he gets out of prison, and they start their lives together from that point going forward.

Do they take up Thomas' mother on her offer of the cottage? Or do they make a go of it in the city?

ALTERNATE-CANON

⸰ Soulmate/soulbond AU

⸰ Different first meetings!

Thomas’ parents died in the raid and so he’s a young man with no family/relations to tell him how to live his life. That leaves a lot of opportunities for him to do — whatever he wants, really.

What if he became a mountain man/lumberjack — that chest hair deserves to exist in all its glory amongst nature, okay! — who Thomas runs into while working on a series of nature paintings?

Michael needs a painting done for reasons and hires Thomas? Michael starts collecting Thomas’ work as a courting ritual?

They meet whist cottaging, and anonymous sex turns into something far more?

“We’ve never met before, but I live in the apartment next door and I can’t go to work for the next week so could you buy me some groceries and medicine I promise I’ll pay you back”?

“I see you jogging around my block every morning so I guess it’s my fault I accidentally left my curtains open when changing while you passed by”?

“I’m a cab driver and you’re late to a business meeting and you are literally the most demanding pretentious piece of shit I’ve ever had the displeasure of driving but I also kind of want to fuck you in that suit”?

⸰ Thomas as an artist and Michael as his muse?

⸰ A fusion with A Single Man?

After the war Thomas and Michael settle together — in London, Michael's cottage, the cottage in France, hell, in California? — and make a life for themselves.

⸰ A fusion with Maurice?

Their class differences deserved to be explored!

What if they took a page from Maurice’s book and did decide to run off to the cottage together, with Michael forsaking his background so that they could work the land together — or probably more likely, Michael works the land and Thomas faffs off making art — and live in their own little world, away from raids and prying eyes?

Is it easy for Michael to give up his status because Thomas is worth it? Or does he struggle? How does Thomas help him get accustomed to his new status and life?

⸰ A fusion with In God’s Country?

Another situation where they have a reason to run off together, hahaha. I'm easy.

What if their relationship began in their boarding schooling days and the war made them realize what was important?

What is their shared life together on the cottage/farm/et cetera really like? What are the risks? Even without neighbors and police, there's weather and nature to contend with? What happens if their crops/animals don’t do as well as they’d like? When they’re snowed in for the winter? Sweated out in the summer?

⸰ Something Downton Abbey- or A Place To Call Home-esque?

Perhaps Michael is a bit richer than he is in canon, and he’s a young lord who has his estate used as a recovery house. Thomas is a patient staying there whom Michael never wants to leave? A doctor working there to support the war effort? With his parents dead, Michel has to take over the family's title and house, all while he deals with falling in love with Thomas, his butler?

Maybe Thomas needs some extra cash to support his artist lifestyle and he picks up Michael’s ad in the paper to be a butler/footman/cook? A handyman/builder that Michael keeps finding excuses to hire just so that he can see him again?

Outlander (TV)

Jamie Fraser & Jonathan "Black Jack" Randall

Stream it on STARZ or here.

Jack and Jamie's relationship could have gone so many ways — some better, some far, far worse — and I'm pretty much here for all of it?

Jack's obsession with Jamie was essentially love at first sight. Which would have been really sweet, if Jack's love wasn't so...off. One of my favorite things is that it was clearly reciprocated to some degree by Jamie, only Jamie didn't have a way to conceptualize it beyond the rivalry. Later on when John comes into the picture, we get an idea that Jamie probably isn't as straight as he might assume, and which makes looking back on his interactions with Jack just that much more fascinating.

So they're left with this weird obsessive rivalry that comes to a head when Jack rapes Jamie, except that isn't the end of it at all because Jamie is left with Mixed Feelings™ about it all. Non-con isn't my thing, and their scenes were exactly the kind of dubcon I love, which hopefully tells you something about where my line for it is? Jamie being into the sex, even though Jack's basically forcing him and mindfucking him to admit to it, is what makes it not read as non-con to me.

Jamie's breaking point has always felt like him coming to terms with something about himself that he desperately didn't want to acknowledge; to a certain degree its almost like all their previous interactions were leading up to one of them forcing themselves on the other just so they could get this release. It was never going to be Jamie, because that's not the kind of guy he is, but his constant poking at Jack when he knew full well of how dark the mans deeds ran was almost like he was daring Jack to take it there.

If you keep their relationship along that vein, regardless of the prompt then I'll be blissfully happy, even if you personally view it as textbook non-con! As long as some part of Jamie likes it, even if he hates that part of himself, then [kisses fingers]. My cheating squick is pretty sensitive, so I'd prefer that Claire and Jamie be broken up, or Jack and Jamie's relationship happen before he and Claire meet or in an AU where she didn't travel back in time.

CANON

⸰ "What did Randall do to you?" "Too much…and not enough."

Jamie doesn't deal with what happened between them well, and Black Jack would certainly love that.

What if they ran into one another more before Black Jack's death? Is the usual tension between them ramped even more now that they've slept together?

Similar to how Jamie offers himself to John, does Jamie almost position himself into a situation and/or goad Jack into intro forcing himself on Jamie because Jamie isn't willing to initiate things between them himself? Is this a one time thing, or does it happen multiple times? How long can Jamie lie to himself that this isn't something he wants? How long will Jack let Jamie keep up that lie?

⸰ "One way or another, I will get a response from you […] Are you mine? […] Show me you're mine" & "…he made love to me."

⸰ Black Jack's obsession with marking/owning Jamie in mind, body, and soul.

What about Jamie makes him get so deep under Jack's skin, and why is he obsessed with making sure he does the same to Jamie?

⸰ Injury or the weather has Jack and Jamie shacked up together for a good long while?

Is it antagonistic or do they begin to develop some shred of a normal relationship? What does their version of a truce look like? What concessions to Jamie and Jack permit one another?

⸰ Good ol' fashioned amnesia trope

Jack gets a second chance at a first impression with Jamie? Does Jamie assume they're together? Does Jack decide to go right for the sadism, or does he realize that it's honey that'll draw Jamie to him quicker than scorn? Does he relish knowing the truth of their relationship when Jamie sweetens for him, or does it bring him unexpected guilt?

Maybe it's Jack that forgets everything and it turns out that he isn't as much of a total bastard when his childhood/etc isn't weighing him down? He's at Jamie's mercy — but Jamie can't bring himself to hurt him? Or maybe he wants to get revenge and even out the scales of their abusive past, but without their background as context, Jack doesn't see any of it as a punishment, no matter what it is Jamie throws at him?

ALTERNATE-CANON

⸰ Arranged marriages?

The English take the Highlands for good. To really rub the victory in to the clans, they force the resistance leader into marrying their most sadistic captain? Do they come to love one another in their own way? Is it minor domestic wars that neither of them is willing to lose, punctuated by hatesex for the victor?

The Randalls have an agreement with the Frasers for such-and-such son to be promised to the other? Is it a full-on marriage or an indentured servitude situation that becomes more?

⸰ Jack as Jamie

Scotland has control over England, with Jamie constantly chasing after the troublesome rebel Black Jack? Jamie doesn't have the same sadistic streak as Jack; how would that change their dynamic? For all that he's a sadist, Jack certainly has a masochistic streak when it comes to his interactions with Jamie, so what would he be like in trying to convince Jamie to be with him? Just how much would he put himself and his cause at risk over that Jamie-sized boner of his?

⸰ Jack hiring Rentboy Jamie

At first Jamie has no idea what he's getting himself into. It quickly becomes something that he couldn't live without, not that he'll tell Jack that. (Bonus points if Jack's possessiveness have him becoming Jamie's sugar daddy so that he doesn't have to take on any more clients?!)

⸰ Westworld fusion

Jack is an uber-wealthy businessman that goes to HighlanderWorld every chance he gets, all to act out his fantasies on a Host called Jamie? Does Jack start to notice that Jamie is gaining sentience? Does that change how he feels about treating Jamie the way he does? Does he not care at all?

Jack and Jamie are hosts in HighlanderWorld? In a previous narrative they were a homesteader couple but in their current loop they're bitter rivals? What happens when the reveries have them remembering more and more of their past lives?

⸰ Basically the same except [supernatural].

Interview with the Vampire: Highlands Edition.

Jack turns Jamie and is his progeny — or packmate, if you'd rather werewolves to vampires. How does that impact their relationship? The plot? Is the bond so strong that they don't even want to fight this newfound connection/kinship, or do those individualistic streaks light up and make them fight even as their natures try to keep them together?

Do they only feel the pull during the moon? Can young vampires only stay away from their makers for so long before they need a dose of their blood?

This is totally inspired by the great work Heughan and Menzies did with their body composition during those scenes and how it looks way too much like your typical sexy vampire turning sequences. That and the whole "you owe me a debt [by promising to kill me after we fucked]" and Jack 100% being the type to be like ok I'll end…your human life! type of motherfucker.

Westworld (TV)

Logan Delos

Stream it on HBO or here.

Justice! Justice for Logan, the bisexual legend who saw all the awfulness of Westworld coming but didn't have his genius appreciated.

He was the only one who saw that WW was worth investing in, that WW was something that they should outright try to buy and took it upon himself to do research to make that happen, tried to vet his future brother in law because he knew there was something off about him (+1 for intuition Logan), and was the only one who realized that nothing good would come out of whatever immortality/mass surveillance and non-theme-park related goings-on Delos was planning before it was far, far too late.

Is the dude messy? Yes. Is he an idiot? No. I'd love to see Logan get the treatment he deserves, and that we had confirmed for us in season two. So much of his life is a mystery and I'd like to see any of it explored. I was extremely happy when we saw that The Forge took Logan's form and personality, and so if you'd like to base your fic around that portion of Logan's life (such as it is), I'll take it!

I loved that the show never tried to hide Logan's aggressive bi-ness, but its a shame that we never actually got to see him with a man, beyond that foursome nippleplay. I ship Logan with just about every male host at the park, including, but not limited to, Akecheta, Major Craddock, Hector, and Teddy, and will happily accept any OMC you want to pair him with, be they host or guest, if thats your thing. I'm also alright with William/Logan.

Some of my prompts may seem specific to a certain host, but if you'd rather slot a different one in there, go right ahead.

PRE-CANON

⸰ Logan has his own "fell in love with a host" backstory.

Was it with an Original Male Host or one of the originals, like Craddock or Akecheta?

Craddock and Logan seemed to have immediate chemistry at the party. Akecheta seemed utterly bemused with Logan during the pitch, and absolutely fascinated with Logan when he discovered him in the Plains. Does Logan fall for them outside of the Park, or is it their new narratives that get him?

⸰ Logan's backstory in general

Who was Logan's first boyfriend? He always seems to be looking for sex, but does he ever look for love? Why or why not? Did he have a great love that didn't work out and so he's playing the field when we meet him?

During the trip with William, does Logan actually have a boyfriend/fiancé/husband of his own who doesn't mind Logan sleeping with hosts? When Logan comes back from that trip broken and raging, does he help put Logan back together? Does he believe Logan about William, or is he another one that fails Logan?

⸰ Roles that Craddock/Hector/Akecheta/Teddy have held, and the ways that Logan always finds new ways to fall for them

CANON

⸰ Different Parks/Worlds

Certainly pre-William's Takeover, I would imagine that Logan had a decent amount of sway in the company, if only to keep him happy — so it wouldn't be a challenge for him to take his favorite host into a different Park; maybe Logan meets Original Male Guest/Host and finds love anew? Whatever you like.

Logan playing the hero in Chronicles of Narnia World? Victorian England/Dorian Gray World?

Similarly, it could be fun to play with the other actors' roles. Spartan World, MMA Boxer World, X-Men World, Justified...world.

Or you can have fun with it: Futuristic Star Trek/Star Wars World? Overwatch World? Kingdom Hearts/Final Fantasy World? Whatever you like!

⸰ OMH/OMG helps Logan kick his bad habits and rebuild his life

CANON-DIVERGENCE

⸰ Logan doesn't die

What's he up to now? Is he still on the Delos board or did he take his money and run? Has he been with someone for a while or does he find love later in life?

After hearing about what's gone down at Delos, does Logan use this as his chance to take Delos over from William? Is he behind whatever the board is up to? Has he been in cahoots with Ford this entire time? Is he at the park himself but far better at #blending than Willam is?

With the hosts becoming sentient, do he and [whatever host or guest you ship him with] have a chance to fall in love?

⸰ Akecheta takes Logan with him

What if Akecheta took Logan with him instead of leaving him there? How does Logan fit into Ghost Nation? What would the season have been like if Logan had secretly been a part of what was happening all along? How does Akecheta — and Logan — deal with Logan aging?

ALTERNATE-CANON

⸰ Logan never takes William to the Park.

Does William therefore never "get" it, and so when he takes over the rest of Delos, he leaves WW mainly in Logan's hands as a consolation prize? Does Logan become the rightful heir to the Delos empire because William never has a chance to take over without WW?

Does Logan have [Akecheta/Hector/Craddock/Teddy/OMH] brought to the outside world to be his live-in lover, or is he constantly going into the Park to meet with them, a la Ford's private childhood section?

Is there an Original Male Guest that has Logan settling down? Do they meet at one of the Parks? Outside of it? Is he on the board? Another CEO?

⸰ Logan is the Man In Black

Except not really, because Logan doesn't take things out on others and it didn't take him 30 years to figure out the park is a bad idea. But, y'know, besides that.

What's WW like with a Chaos Agent that likely would have worked with Ford rather than serve as his antagonist? Has Logan been pining after and running loops with [Akecheta/Craddock/Hector/Teddy/OMH] for years?

Where does Logan end up with the uprising happens? I can't see Logan and Delores getting along (although I'm willing to be convinced!) but Maeve and Logan would likely be fast pals. Would Logan team up with Hector and the Maeve crew post-revolution just like MiB has with Lawrence? (With Hector taken, would Maeve end up with Clementine!! Or Armistice!! Or Akane!!!)

⸰ Logan is a host

Is his character a white or black hat within the WW narrative?

Is he a cowboy who wanders out too far and falls in love with an Akecheta as starcrossed lovers? Is he Craddock's second in command and the only one able to keep up with his level of crazy? Is he the sheriff that can't bring himself to hang Hector — or another outlaw that lives to one-up Hector's heists?

Does an Original Male Guest fall in love with Logan and realize that he's more than he appears?

Does his father need an heir and so he had Logan (and his sister?) made by Argos? Does Logan know he's a host, or does he think he's human?

Wonderkid (2016)

Wonderkid | Bradley McGuire & Johnny

Stream it here.

I love futbol so much and this film is basically a fic I would love to read turned into a film…so why not also ask for fic about it, hahaha. It's just over thirty minutes in length but it manages to pack so much into it, and I'd love to see the universe they've built explored more.

I'm a sucker for athlete/agent dynamics, especially when the athlete is a prodigy and their agent has been with them from the beginning (and is possibly even a childhood friend?) — sign! me! up!

Without excusing cultural and institutional homophobia — because seriously, shit doesn't happen in a vacuum — as well as possible mental health issues, I kind of really love how Bradley's problems are generally his own fault? He's so aggressive and doesn't think ahead, he's a bit of a horny git, and he isn't all that kind, especially for someone in the public eye who should care more about his public image.

But that's clearly not all he is. We see how sweet he is to his mascot, and has no time for the awful berating father. If Johnny and whatever drama happened back home is any indication, Bradley is seemingly out in his private life. When he lets himself open up, he realizes that for all the shit he gets from commentators/social media trolls, the city and his teammates kinda love him?

Johnny seems like he has an easier time moving around other people than Bradley does. It looks like he has no problem keeping himself out of trouble, yet his entire life is wrapped up in Bradley, which means Bradley's bullshit is his own and his drama becomes their shared drama.

He doesn't seem to have that much of an issue with the twisted, codependent entangled mess between them. Bradley clearly gets under his buttons — why in the woooorld would you have that kind of domestic in a public space?! Johnny should absolutely know better.

...and then Johnny's hair-trigger jealousy issue? Hello.

I'm fine with Bradley/OMC, but I'd appreciate if you'd keep his weird friendship with Johnny in tact, and have that be something the new boyfriend has to work with.

PRE-CANON

⸰ What's Bradley's "closeted" life like?

He seems out in private, but not at work/to the public — how did that come about? It also seems to be strongly hinted that it's a part of his long-term plan to eventually come out (Johnny knows it, his parents seem terrified that it'll happen any day now), so what does that say about his life before he became super famous?

Does he ever date? Is he only someone who goes on the pull through Grindr/pubs and then never sees them again? Does he employ rent boys? The same lad or different ones?

Does Johnny's paranoia have him sleeping with Bradley just to make sure that nobody has a story to tell…or is it his jealousy that does it?

⸰ Anything dealing with Johnny basically owing everything about his life to Bradley and how Bradley never fails to bring that up/ throws it in Johnny's face.

What's the deal with these really nasty fights and the way they make up after them without fail? Is it UST that prompts this aggression? Are they ex's that can't seem to let it go?

We get that conversation about how Johnny wasn't always on Bradley's side? What's up with that? How did he make amends enough for Bradley to accept him as an agent? Is he still making amends?

⸰ "Them lot back home disowned you. I stuck with you! I believe in you! Why can't we do something special together, ay?"

⸰ Bradley seems to live in his underwear and skin tight shit in general. What's that like for Johnny when it comes to room sharing or picking him up?

CANON

⸰ "You've got a mate who's good a football, yeah, he'll do alright — but what have you got? Say it!" "You need me! Yeah, you fucking need me too! You know that!"

"I'm the fucking bender! I'm the bender that owns you. I'm the queer that bought that suit. I'm the faggot that bought you a car."

Unpack this dynamic, please, please, please.

⸰ Of all the things Johnny picks at Bradley for, the OCD-type behaviors never seem to be a button he pushes? Why is that?

⸰ Bradley always seeming giddy about the thought of coming out on his own terms, when the usual narrative is that it's something a player dreads.

⸰ I'm a sucker for the "straight"/closeted friend pining after their gay friend, while the gay character doesn't even really think about them one way or another, so feel free with that inherent dynamic when it comes to Johnny's OTT jealousy and Bradley's bafflement at it.

...Why does Johnny get the room right next to Bradley's, even when he knows Bradley brings men back to the hotel? Why do this to yourself!?

⸰ For all the social media hate, it seems like the general public/fans really do love Bradley.

Do fans ever throw themselves at them and does Bradley take them up on it? Does this make Johnny jealous? Does Johnny have to be Bradley's number one fan, or does he mark it a point to not say fannish things so that he can stand out among Bradley's admirers?

⸰ WHO GAVE BRADLEY THE "BE YOURSELF" RAINBOW TEE???

⸰ "Johnny, Johnny I need you, mate. You always take me to the games. I can't go without you…"

Johnny bailing after he sees Bradley fucking another dude! Bradley being incapable of going about his routine without Johnny!!! Are you kidding me, you two!?!!?

Is this the first time Johnny's pulled this power move or is a normal part of their relationship? If it's the first time, how does it change things?

POST-CANON

⸰ World Cup Stuff

Does the trip give Bradley a chance to fall for and OMC on the England team? Another team? A fan? Are he and Johnny in their little insular world? Do they spend all their time in Bradley's hotel room, or do they explore?

England made it pretty deep into the Cup this year. Was Johnny a star? Does it give him the clout to come out?

⸰ "One day. I'm not saying it's today, right. But, one day, all that will matter is that I'm the best this country has ever seen."

Bradley comes out. He's the highest profile openly gay player in the PL (and quite possibly the only openly gay player on a national team) — what's it like? How's Johnny deal with managing this?

⸰ "You know I'm only in this for the cash, mate. We're gonna clean up: gay club appearances, gay mags, gay porn—" "Fuck off!" "Alright, no gay porn." and everything to do with their expressions during this scene.

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