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hearthouses) wrote2017-10-07 04:59 pm
hearthouses) wrote2017-10-07 04:59 pm
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DEAR YULETIDE 2017 WRITER,
Hello! Happy yuletide! Thank you so much for offering any one of these fandoms, I'll be excited for anything you write me, so don't be intimidated by anything you read here. My letters are usually fairly long and detailed, as I hope to cover enough ground to give you as much info and as many options as I can think of in case you are not sure of what to write, but feel free to ignore most of this letter, but the DNWs if something sparks you that’s not completely like what I prompted. I just want you to feel inspired and comfortable!
Also, I am very sorry about having my letter be a placeholder so long, I've been really sick this past week. I hope it hasn't held you up re: writing!
I mostly use this journal as a private place to post thoughts I’m not comfortable posting on my tumblr, which is where I mostly hang out, making graphics and reblogging things—if you choose to visit, it’s good place to snoop to get a generalized glimpse at what I like.
In an effort to make my letter as skimmable as possible, here are some links to help guide you to whatever interests you and help you skip the rest.
LIKES & DNWs
BABY DRIVER (2017) || CAPTIVE PRINCE - C.S. PACAT || CASTLEVANIA (CARTOON)
FROM DUSK TILL DAWN: THE SERIES || MOONLIGHT (2016) || TEETH - HANNAH MOSKOWITZ
↳ General Things I Like: I am a very emotionally oriented person. I love exploring a character’s thoughts and feelings, what it is that makes that character tick and make the choices they do. I’d rather have purely character thought-piece over a complex well-plotted fic with no emotional heart or depth. I love relationships: their dynamics, how they support one another, how they relate to each other, how they interact, where their wants and needs match up, where they differ, how their different parts interconnect or pull-apart.
I adore friendships in all forms and I love exploring what it means to be friends and the bond between characters. I love emotional history and how that affects a relationship dynamic between characters. Friends-turned-lovers is a favorite trope of mine, as well as love/hate, enemies-turned-lovers dynamics. I love snark and banter and flirting, but I also love new relationship awkwardness, relationship negotiation, and getting-to-know-you bonding. For any relationship to happen, I want some connection at the base before it turns romantic or sexual. I love developing relationships: relationship conflicts after the characters got together, trying to figure out how to make things work, some things maybe not working at first, temporary breakups. If you’re dealing with a poly-relationship, I’d love to see how the characters deal with that new dynamic and how they adjust into their new roles, how the dynamic changes (for better or for worse). I love unlikely friendships/romances, complicated relationships, group dynamics, partnerships.
I also love fucked up, varying-degrees-of-unhealthy, too-close-for-comfort relationships. Codependent relationships, obsessive relationships, completely-fixated-on-the-other relationships. 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), choosing their partner above anyone else. I really love when this is all a choice, rather than conditioning (though I do love when this closeness is born from abusive homes and situations, with the two characters banding together, them-against-the-world). Two-halves-of-a-whole-person type of relationships are my weakness—I love dynamics where the other can’t function without the other and opt for self-destruction in the face of separation (via either substance abuse or moral/character disintegration), even leading to suicide ideation. Them being equally obsessive and fucked up, and extremely invested in their relationship is what I live for. Utter devotion is key.
I also enjoy something in between the two extremes—characters relying on each other and needing each other, making sure the other is okay, taking care of each other, especially in regards to trauma and/or mental illness. Basically I love messy, codependent relationships with dysfunctional people who love each other and are terrible to each other sometimes, but also healthy, loving, mutually supportive relationships, where people take care of each other and communicate with each other, and everything in between or in combination.
I really dig domesticity and what makes a home a home, and how being a family to each other plays into that and how the characters come together in that way. I adore makeshift families and kid!fic in any form (so long as the children are written realistically and not cute accessories—I love reading about the difficulties of parenting, how it changes the relationships, characters reacting to being a parent—especially if they came from an abusive home). I love cooking and doing chores, and quiet breakfast scenes over coffee or tea. If you want to add pets, that would be wonderful! (I love all kinds of animals, but cats have a special place in my heart).
I love porn and wouldn’t mind a PWP piece, if that’s where your heart takes you, but I’d prefer it to be emotionally anchored; not necessarily romantic, but something with a connection and a reason for it happening beyond two (or three!) pretty faces.
↳ Some of my kinks include: trust (I have a huuuge trust kink that can usually make most kinks work if the basis comes from how intensely two characters trust each other and their willingness to give themselves to the other person in every way, and vice versa), angry sex, fighting-that-leads-to-sex, powerplay, D/s (that’s more focused on taking care of each other than humiliation), switching/no set sexual “roles”, topping from the bottom, service kink (getting off on giving pleasure rather than receiving), oral sex, licking, fingering, dirty talk (please no humiliation), praise kink, teasing, body worship, breast play/nipple play, sensory overload (being overwhelmed by sensations, being touched immediately after orgasm), biting/marking/scratching, begging, public sex, heat-of-the-battle sex, frantic sex, jealousy and possessiveness, bloodplay, voyeurism, bondage, somnophilia, size differences, partially-clothed or mostly-clothed sex, handjobs, rimming, frottage, intercrural, double-penetration, masturbation/fantasizing about the other before getting together, mutual masturbation, drunk or high sex (both the emotionally messy, dubcon-y, bad idea kind and the sloppily affectionate consensual kind), rough sex, characters who kink on violence and danger (gunplay, knifeplay, breathplay, exhibitionism, etc.), hatesex, scar kink, sex for comfort and solace, dressing and undressing, messy badly-negotiated (or unnegotiated) sexual desires, inexperience, sexuality exploration, first times, clothes kink (suits, uniforms, gloves, boots etc.), neat characters being disheveled for once; casual characters cleaning up nicely, clothes-sharing, choosing clothes for the other person as kink/foreplay, sex in other places than a bed: on tables, against walls, on the floor, on a chair, in the shower, making someone come without touching their genitals, messiness (sweat, come, etc.), competence kink (characters kinking on the skills set of another, i.e. Seth’s admiration/fixation on Richie cracking safes or Darling using guns and Buddy watching), oral fixation (smoking, fingersucking, shotgunning, etc.), sex where emotions are mixed, or difficult to acknowledge, or emotionally hurtful to acknowledge, sex that doesn't heal anybody's deep emotional wounds, moody messy melancholy sex.
I’d really love all of this to be paired with tenderness and sweetness, just little touches here and there: hand-holding, forehead touching, forehead/face kisses, snuggling and cuddling, nuzzling, hugs from behind, neck kisses, scar kissing. Lots of kissing in general is lovely. I love the “we like each other so much that we can’t stop touching each other in any way” trope a lot. Sharing food, sharing clothes, sharing beds. Sleep related things in general: comfort after a nightmare, falling asleep together, one character watching the other sleep. Characters feeling safe and cherished by the other. Simple casual intimacy is fantastic and very much appreciated.
↳ Random and miscellaneous things I love:
↳ DNWs: I don’t like radical AUs (unless specified), like coffee shop AU or college AUs. I have nothing really against them, but I prefer to read about characters in the canon setting.
I prefer not to read about excessive abuse, but I understand it’s inclusion if it’s part of a character’s backstory. I like reading about the aftereffects of abuse, of trauma, but not the actual traumatic events in detail. Torture or anything further than canon typical violence.
Extreme underage, especially with adults is deeply uncomfortable for me. I am okay with young-ish teenagers (14/15) experimenting with each other, but with my age differential ships, I’d prefer the younger character to be at least sixteen and no romanticization of the dynamic and acknowledgement of the inherent power dynamic at play.
Mentally ill or neurotypical characters treated as evil or terrible—it’s fine if they're experiencing ableism, but I don't want the whole fic to be about that.
No deathfic unless the characters die or have died in canon, or a villain is being killed. Referring to the major character deaths that occur in canon and exploring those after effects is okay, but otherwise, I’d rather not read it. I don’t consider it deathfic if someone dies and then comes back in the same fic.
Miscommunication as a plot point. Cheating/infidelity. Character bashing, ship bashing; if you don't like a character or a ship, please just keep their inclusion minimal, but don't remove them from the story entirely, especially if they're plot relevant.
My squicks are: parental or cross-gen incest (sibling or cousin incest is totally okay), bestiality (xenophilia in terms of sentient monsters, on the other hand, is encouraged), a/b/o, watersports, scat or most hardcore kinks, humiliation (sexual or otherwise), and rigid top/bottom roles (I prefer switching! But if you have a top/bottom preference for certain characters, that’s okay, I just rather it implied in the fic that’s not all they do), animal cruelty or animal death.
Non-con is a hardline trigger for me, so I’d rather avoid it unless it’s part of a character’s backstory (I’m okay with dub-con though—either messy and fucked up stuff with one character taking advantage of the other, or “we all got drunk and had sex together, whoops”).
P R O M P T S
Baby Driver (2017)
↳ Characters: Darling | Monica Costello, Buddy | Jason Van Horn
To expand on my prompts a little bit, I’d love love LOVE if you wrote me backstory fic for Darling and Buddy. They were my two favorites in the film and I wanted to know so much more about them! Think: how did they meet? how did they get involved in crime? what were they like before they met? what caused their die-without-you-always-need-to-be-touching bond and how that developed? If you do choose to go the route suggested by Bats, I’d prefer Buddy not to have cheated on his wife with Darling, but rather they were already divorced or separated when Buddy meets Darling. I am enamoured with the idea that Buddy only knew white collar crime and Darling was the one that taught him about her side of the criminal underworld. It’s such a reversal of the typical Bonnie-and-Clyde style dynamic and I’d love a fic that explores Darling being Buddy’s teacher in robbing banks or handling a gun.
Or if you prefer NOT to write the backstory, I’d love to just read about some of their many adventures and jobs. Write me a story about them robbing banks or making back alley deals for guns or knocking off jewelry stores. Buddy breaking into a designer store to get Darling the bag she wants. Or just slice of life moments of their relationship--if they have an apartment, show me them in the domestic element, or if they’re constantly on the road, show me what it’s like to live out of a suitcase and how they make homes out of their transient lifestyle. Be as criminally glamorous or unglamorous as you want--I love both their aesthetic of gorgeous criminal bank robbers who shoot in tandem, but also the uglier, seedier stuff underneath, such as Buddy killing for Darling or Darling making him jealous in order to get a thrill out of seeing him kill for her. I love their ruthless violent criminality mixing with their affectionate romantic dynamic and would love to see the interplay between that. They’re bank robbers, but how do they build a life out of that?
Speaking of Buddy killing for Darling, love the moment where Darling says, “it was so romantic when you stabbed that guy for me” and Buddy replied, “which guy?” Because there have been multiple stabbing incidents in the name of Darling, of course there have been. Darling asking for and pushing for, or possibly instigating, and demanding these violent displays of affection, and Buddy being all too happy to give it to her.
I would be totally into reading porn of them roleplaying bank robber and hostage, like Darling suggested they already did, or any kind of roleplay: I could be interested in Buddy having a femdom fantasy, or both of them trying on each other’s clothes and pretending to be each other (bonus points for pegging!). Go as kinky as you want. I would especially appreciate gunplay, knife play, or breathplay with this in addition to roleplaying, and above all, I have a strong trust kink when it comes to these two. All of this works because they trust each other so deeply.
Darling and Buddy live! Maybe they both manage to get away from the cops! And they are now fugitives! WHO HAVE TO GO TO MEXICO. OR CANADA! OR OFF THE CONTINENT COMPLETELY! How do they get there? Do they have connections? Friends who will smuggle them out? I’d love to read about their life on the lam, disguising each other, trying to support their drug habit while also evading the cops, hiding out in seedy hotels, and trying to carve out a little slice of paradise for themselves under the weight of it all. Maybe seeking peace, after everything that's happened.
Or maybe just Darling lives! Maybe Buddy dies in the shoot-out and Darling survives. What happens next? Does she take revenge on Baby or does she handle it a bit better? Honestly, Darling is probably my absolute fave of this movie, so I would love anything that focuses on her, whether it’s backstory fic, post canon AU where she lives, or character study, or just something about her beating people up, shooting people and stealing shit. I'd love to know where she came from and how she grew up. Did she have any other partners before Buddy? What does she want out of life? I'd love anything that explores how her mind works!
And lastly, I know I said I wouldn't want any wild AUs, but for these two, I'd be interested in perhaps a historical AU that's set in the Old West that deals with Darling's racial and ethnic background, or a 1920's AU with speakeasies and prohibition. Also, I looove monsters, so if you want to explore them being criminals and werewolves, go for it! Or maybe they're immortal beings, constantly living on the edge, dying and coming back to each other. I'd also be down for a soulmate or reincarnation AU because these two were simply made for each other.
Captive Prince - C.S. Pacat
↳ Characters: Damen, Jokaste, Laurent
Jokaste, Jokaste, Jokaste; love her or hate her, she is certainly fascinating. I fall firmly on the love her side of the spectrum. When she arrived into the story as a fully-fleshed out character, trying to save herself and her unborn son, I fell head over heels and just wanted her to stay within the story. I’d love anything that explores her mindset, including and especially backstory fic. Where did she come from? How did she grow up to be so ruthless and cunning and focused? You can go as dark as you want for her backstory because I imagine this wasn’t born from a comfortable, loving home, but I don’t want anything explicit, especially in terms of sexual abuse. It can be hinted at or suggested, but not written out in detail. How did all of this falter around Damen? I’d love to see more of their courtship and how she fell for Damen, but also didn’t allow her feelings to cloud her survival instincts. I am fascinated with how she still cares for him and how that feeling never went away and how Damen wormed himself under her defenses in ways she couldn’t escape, even now.
I also greatly enjoyed her confrontation with Laurent and had longed for them to continue to go head-to-head. They’re so similar and have a mutual understanding of each other, and I’d have love to have seen that explored more within the canon, especially in an AU where Jokaste sticks around and helps Damen and Laurent in their plan. I’d like to see what they look like working together, while also sniping at each other and becoming viciously jealous over Damen. It’d be amazing to see how Damen juggles them both and handles having his former lover and current lover in the same space, working with them to bring down the current leadership of their countries. I’d love to see how Laurent and Damen adjust to having her around and how it develops their relationship and makes it stronger, more unbreakable. Laurent and Jokaste friendship fic would be wonderful because I feel like there’s a certain level of sameness that would allow them to be great enemies, but even greater friends. If you go this route, I’d love to see how they grow with each other and open up, and deal with how they both fell for the same person in different ways and how that shaped them. I’d love to see them sharing and confiding in one another, and Laurent having that outlet outside of Damen.
I do OT3 them quite a lot and would love to see a fic exploring how they come together. Obviously this would be an AU situation where Jokaste doesn’t leave, but the possibilities are endless! I especially like the idea of either Damen opting to raise his brother’s son as his own heir or the baby actually being his (I’d love for the child to be a little girl, honestly, and her being raised as the heir to both kingdoms), and Laurent having to reconcile that, while always wanting to keep Damen for himself. I’d love them learning to live together with a child in the mix, Damen both trying to be happy while also committing to his duties as a parent, while Laurent comes to love him or her as his own. Laurent and children has always been a beautiful concept and I’d love to see that explored here. And Jokaste trying to find her place in all of this, giving them space, but craving to be a part of their relationship as she and Damen come to a more honest friendship, while she and Laurent find common ground and bond. I’d love to see a slow burn of them coming together in this domestic situation set over the rebuilding of their nations as one.
In terms of porn, one of my very favorite things about the series in how Laurent and Damen tend to have messy sex that doesn’t fully resolve anything and often makes things worse, but also draws them closer together. I also like Damen’s carefulness with Laurent and would love to see that more explored in light of the revelation of Laurent’s past. Also Laurent topping is all kinds of wonderful. The logistics of Jokaste/Damen/Laurent is interesting because I don’t think Laurent is attracted to women (though I think sexuality is malleable and fluid), but I think it’d be interesting to explore how he becomes attracted to her through growing closer to her, but also their similarities and their connection through Damen. It would be hot to see them both try to dominate Damen and compete for his attention in bed, or making the other watch while they fuck Damen. It’s also interesting (and sexy) if Damen teaches Laurent how to please Jokaste and how to touch a woman. I’d like to see what happens when you put Laurent and Jokaste in bed together, and have them make Damen watch, as well.
As a fan of the series, I adore Damen/Laurent and their desperate messy fucked up romance, and I’d love the inclusion of it in any way possible, but I actually don’t want it to be the forefront of my gift or solely the subject of my gift. I’d rather Jokaste be worked in somehow, at least for this request. I hope you understand!
Castlevania (Cartoon)
↳ Characters: Trevor Belmont, Sypha Belnades, Alucard Tepes
Note: I have never played the games, and I’m only familiar with the cartoon. You are welcome to include elements and plot points from the games in the fic if you want, as long as I don’t need to have played the games to understand, or that won’t spoil potential plot points.
I mainlined this fairly recently due to a recommendation by a friend. I was not disappointed! It’s filled with some of my favorite things: evil churches, long suffering hunters dealing with the weight of a family legacy, faithful believers, sexy shirtless sad burdened vampires, people who dislike each other working together, love healing people but also turning them into monsters, weird prophecies, and horrifying monsters.
I am already on the Alucard/Trevor/Sypha ship train and I would love with all my heart if you wanted to write me a slowburn coming together fic where they all fall in love with each other and figure out how this relationship will work, with all the messiness and complications that come with their history and current statuses. I’d love to see how they all fall into place as a unit. I am not opposed to porn, but I’d like something with a bit more development than a fall in bed together PWP. I’m fascinated by them all sort of being prophesied to fight Dracula together and how that impacts their relationships with each other and the further development of where they go from there. I’d love to see them slowly becoming comrades and truly become friends and then that growing into something more.
I have a deep love of tropes and this fandom suits it perfectly. Forced bedsharing, Pretending to be married (or a couple), going undercover, bickering because of close quarters, being annoyed by each other’s habits and driving each other crazy, forced closeness leading to UST leading to working out the pent up aggression sexually. Vampire tropes are a huuuuge love of mine. Someone kidnaps Alucard and drains him, so he has to feed on Trevor or Sypha or Both! Or them both getting used to his vampiric “quirks” and learning to live with them, or even finding them attractive. I also enjoy the idea of Alucard in peril and Sypha and Trevor having to save him, and all of them realizing their feelings. Magic shenanigans! Sypha or Alucard discovering they need to do some kind of binding spell before fighting Dracula, which is sealed with a (sexy) blood oath, or an oath that requires sex on an altar. Soulbonding would be interesting for these three, especially early on, which could be stressful and a bit terrifying, but fun to explore. But I’d equally love something without a magical justification--maybe some team bonding exercise that leads to sex, or all three of them get trapped in a room or locked up somewhere and need to pass the time.
I would mostly want an OT3 fic, if you choose the ship route, but I am really fascinated by their individual dynamics: Sypha seeing Alucard as her messiah and savior and coming to terms with the reality that faces her, does she still believe in Alucard’s goodness? How does that shape their relationship? Does Alucard humanize himself to her and do they grow closer as a result? Or does he keep his distance and she maintains her worship. Trevor has grown up killing vampires and monster and now he has to work with one, how does he adjust to that? How does he come around to seeing Alucard as a person and not a monster? Does Alucard feel the same hatred for him, or is he more willing to bury the hatchet? I see them as opposites who are very similar and all three of them are wrapped up in the same destiny, brought on them by their individual family legacies, I’d love to see how that influences them and how that builds their dynamics and perhaps, their own little chosen family.
If you don’t ship them as an OT3, that’s okay! I’d love to read a gen-fic that explores their travels and adventures: hunting monsters, learning to trust and rely on each other, living in whatever shelter they can find, learning from each other, living together. How does Trevor adjust to having people by his side who rely on him and vice versa? What does sypha feel about living with these two different men and away from her father? How does she adjust? Does Alucard need an adjustment period after waking up from a long sleep? How does he learn to cope living so close to humans? I’m interested in anything that explores the next chapter in their story!
I would also love ANY backstory fic for each Alucard, Trevor, or Sypha. Alucard’s feelings about growing up the son of Dracula, but in particular, being half-human. I’d love to explore his dynamic with his mother, Lisa, who I imagine he was close to and learned much from. I’d love to see what his upbringing was like, given the two forces of nature his parents were. As for Trevor, what is the pain that shaped his current condition? What was it like to live under the weight of his family legacy and have everyone distrust him by his family name? I’d also love to know what his childhood was like, what his parents were like, who raised him. Sypha is also really fascinating to me and I’d love to see her growing up in the order and learning magic, and reading about Alucard and becoming fixated with him. I wonder what it was like being (potentially) one of the few women and how that might have shaped her. I’d absolutely love anything about her training and education, and the fierce pride she holds in it.
From Dusk Till Dawn: The Series
↳ Characters: Richard Gecko, Seth Gecko, Manola Jimenez, Santanico Pandemonium/Kisa
Seth/Richie is my OTP of the show, so anything you write for me for them would be greatly appreciated and adored. I love both Seth and Richie so much—together and individually. It’s the ship of my dreams—two messy, fucked up codependent brothers so twisted around the bend for each other where nothing actually can come between them (except each other), the pair of them growing up as two pieces of the same whole, not actually complete without the other, a matching set. I love their coded language of mottos and catchphrases and secret handshakes, I love their banter and their bickering, I love their love of film and film references. Their shared history of violence and abuse is so important to me and how I view them and how they were shaped. I love the fact that Richie killed their father for Seth, to keep Seth safe, to save both of them from more abuse and I love that Seth never fully knew, yet still commemorated the act with a tattoo that covers his entire arm—wearing his heart, quite literally, on his sleeve. There is so much for me with these two that so many things would make me happy.
From the ground up, I’d love a pre-series fic that focuses on them coming together in an incestuous relationship—how they grew up isolated and depending upon each other. I have my own headcanons for how this happened, but I’d love to see a new, refreshing take and always open to exploring new avenues for how Seth and Richie come together. I’d prefer the focus to be on fraught their relationship is and how desperate and clingy they are to each other, and for that to be equal between them—they both show that in different ways (Seth is louder, more action-driven and Richie is more internal, and quiet in his love), but I don’t want to see a situation where one loves and sacrifices more for the other or where one is shown to love the other less. Uncle Eddie was one of my favorite secondary characters and any use of his would be welcome, I’d love a fic that utilizes Uncle Eddie being the one to raise them post-fire and how they feel about him as they grow, or even an OPOV fic of them from Uncle Eddie’s POV as he watched their fucked up relationship develop and as he comes to understand it.
I also really want to see someone else’s take on how their dynamic grows as they become these legendary criminals that everyone’s heard of. I’d like to see how they build themselves up into these dangerous, terrifying bank robbers that even culebra bigwigs know of. I want an exploration of how they built their legend from the ground up, how they took the Gecko name from something that the criminal community derided to something they respected. I’d love to see a fic that showcases the legends and stories that get passed around about them, or something that shows the truth behind the public perception of them. I’d be interested in an OPOV fic from the perspective of the FBI hunting the, or the intake officers or the psychiatrist that evaluates Seth when he’s caught and imprisoned—is the fact they’re incestuous in their files, does the law know or even consider it? I know some of this must take place while Seth is married, so I just want to caveat that I really adore Vanessa and I’d love to see her involved or featured in some way. If you don’t want to include her or don’t like her, that’s fine, but please be kind to her—just mention her she’s someone Seth cares about, or write around her, please.
S1-era stuff set when Richie is losing his mind due to having visions of Kisa and the demons she makes him see would be fantastic. I’d love more exploration of that, with Richie trying to fight for his own sanity and control, especially if he uses Seth as an anchor to his sanity and humanity, and uses Seth to ground himself—physically, mentally, or emotionally. Maybe when Richie looks at Seth or grabs on to Seth, the visions go away. Maybe Richie feels closer to himself when Seth is kissing him or inside him or just holding him down or holding them close as they sleep. I’d love a missing moment or missing scene from that time, focusing on either Richie’s POV with emphasis on hos Seth makes him feel safe, or an exploration of Seth’s POV with him taking on this new role of caring for his terrified brother and scared of what’s happening to Richie and feeling in over his head and out of his depth and unsure of how to help—so he clings to his own fairytale he spins for himself and Richie called El Rey.
God, anything set post-s1 and during their separation would be amazing and very welcome. But for some starters, I’d love Seth having nightmares about Richie or hallucinating him while high on heroin or in withdrawal—I love the angst of Seth seeing Richie and unable to get him out of his head no matter how hard he’s trying to snuff him out with drugs and alcohol. I’d love an exploration of Seth’s instinct towards self-destruction in the face of separation from his brother—I’d be okay with suicide ideation here, I almost encourage it and would love the thought that stops Seth is that Richie isn’t dead, so there’s still a foolish sort of hope that keeps him clinging to life. Or I’d love some kind of body horror dream sex with culebra!Richie, emphasis on how Seth’s brother is a monster now and how a part of him doesn’t care and is actually into it. Seth must have kept scratching at his bite wounds and putting his fingers there for them not to have healed in three months. I’d love perhaps a messy fic where Seth masturbates while sticking his fingers in the puncture wounds, or something that explores the thought that heroin is a replacement for the venom that Richie never gave him, that Richie never turned him or chose him.
Or something exploring Richie’s POV would be all kinds of amazing, since s2 was kind of lax on that. I’d love the emphasis to be put on how he thought Seth didn’t want to be with him anymore—the “we’re done” scene comes to mind, especially Richie’s face afterwards—and how that was re-emphasized throughout the latter half of s1, so Richie breaks it off with him because he thought Seth may be better off without him, that Seth wanted to be “set free,” even though Seth’s last minute turn around suggests that wasn’t the case—but it happened too late. I’d love anything exploring Richie trying to move on from Seth by throwing himself furiously into his own ambitions, becoming kind of cold and driven, but grieving him as well. Or something that explores his long-simmering anger and building resentment at Seth having failed him and not believed him, and how that was never fully resolved.
I love Kisa so much, she is my absolute favorite, so feel free to include her in this, especially when it comes to her being the catalyst that caused the separation between Seth and Richie, but not the actual reason they broke up—or how Richie is trying to use her as a new partner to help him move on and both of them acting in roles they don’t really want or fully feel, but it’s what they have for the moment. If you want to explore how Kisa is like Seth but not like him at all, and how Richie reacts to that, I’d really enjoy that—but if you don’t want to include her in the fic, that’s okay, too; just no character bashing or demonizing her for “breaking up the boys” as I see them at fault for their own issues, Kisa was just the catalyst.
Anything exploring the fact that Seth was the first person who Richie fed on in reality would be lovely. Based on the in-show mythology, culebras feed on the soul and consume parts of the person they feed from, which means Richie fed on Seth’s soul—go wild with that. I’d love something that explores the intimacy of Richie carrying around a piece of his brother’s soul or Seth’s soul becoming part of his DNA literally, or an even more intense expansion on the concept—maybe they end up with a messy mental connection because of that, even when separated from each other? Maybe they’re bound through their souls now. But really I just love fucked up angst and intimacy stemming from that act.
Fic set during s2 would be great as it’s honestly my favorite season in terms of their relationship—them pining for each other while acting like they don’t care at all and they’ve moved on is one of my favorite aspects of the evolution of their dynamic. Anything involving missing scenes from the season focusing on their inability to communicate ending up with them having rough, angry sex—exploring how they feel drawn to each other bodily and sexually, but refusing to acknowledge it intellectually or emotionally. I’d love something that showcases how they still fit together perfectly, work together seamlessly, but there’s still that emotional wall between them that they have to overcome. Anything that shows their anger melting for melancholy tenderness that aches from longing and hurt would be sweet.
I’d also love to read someone’s take on how they come back together in the aftermath of s2 as well—how do they adjust to life as bank robbers turned collectors with a home base and crew? Or what happened to Jackknife Jed’s? Did they run the truck stop for a while before they became collectors? How do all these changes affect them and their relationship? How does forced closeness make them confront all that’s between them? How do they change with each other and learn from each other again? I’d love to read Seth adjusting to Richie being a culebra now and honestly becoming fascinated with Richie’s culebra face, scaled body, or his mind control powers. I’d love for this to be explored within the confines of a sexual space (i.e. Seth wants Richie to use his mind control powers on him in a D/s consent play space), but if you just want to write Seth touching Richie all over and exploring his new face and new body in a show of intimacy and physicality, I’d love that.
I love them in s3 and how they’ve come back together, but everything is so fraught and tense because their comfortable life they thought they had is shattered and now they run the risk of losing each other again causes them to become even more intense and clingy with each other. Remember how Seth thought Richie was dead in 3x09? Remember that walkie-talkie conversation? I’d love anything with Seth choosing to run towards Richie instead of the church or anything that explores their PSTD post-s3 at having nearly lost each other forever—Richie’s time in Xibalba or how Seth almost committed suicide via Amaru to be with him. But most of all, I love the introduction of shadow selves and shadow!Richie especially. His obsession with Seth and how he was going to drag Seth into Xibalba with him, to his manhandling and control of Seth, to his tying Seth up and openly leering at him, pressing his body close to Seth’s—all of that hit my buttons. I’d love maybe an AU where Shadow!Richie comes back from hell instead of real!Richie post-s3, or Shadow!Richie sticking around longer even after 3x06, or even just Richie’s headspace after living with an extreme ID-y version of himself in control of his body, or Seth’s attraction to a more openly violent and dangerous version of his brother that was willing to do dirtybadwrong things to him.
This is a vague prompt, but I’d love something that explores the legend of the Geckos, maybe playing on the hero twin mytharc, but with more of Geckos becoming legendary in their own right, even among culebras. I’ve been watching American Gods lately so I don’t exactly want a fusion, but I’d love the idea of Geckos becoming immortal legends from the stories people tell about them? Or something about their bloodline being special (callback to Carlos’ ‘you got a little bit of Lucifer in you’ line). Or something just a bit fairytale and mythic about them—perhaps something focusing on their connection; there’s a scene in S2 where Richie gets his powers, then cuts to Seth suddenly being able to see all the culebras in the bar and their true faces, if you need inspiration. Anything with them sharing powers from the “gods” in terms of being able to see and to take action as the show described would make for a really excellent fic.
Branching off this, I’d love anything that explores Kisa’s status as La Diosa and the mythos around her. I’d be interested in a story that explores the reason Kisa is so terrifying to the culebra community is because she holds the devotion of the people and captivates their belief, so it lends her power and authority; it doesn’t matter that she rejects it, it’s still hers to reach out and grasp. Also Kisa said she was a child of prophecy and born at the end of the sacred cycle, I’d love to see more of that backstory and what that means for her current status, and how Malvado and the other lords sought to defile her fated purpose. I’d also love to somehow link this to her identity as Santanico Pandemonium and how her status as both Sacred Whore and Divine Mother shapes her identity and also stifles and smothers her, and she seeks to escape both definitions. But the legend of both La Diosa and Santanico Pandemonium haunt her and shape who she is in a myriad of ways. I’d love anything exploring her identity issues that stem from that.
I’d also love anything fairytale/myth-esque for Kisa/Manola, their dynamic and backstory lends so much for this, such as the Beauty and the Beast elements to Kisa potentially going on an Orpheus-like quest to bring back her lost love. I’d love anything that explores how Manola feels about Kisa’s history or how she feels about Kisa being La Diosa. Manola is such a grounded presence that is so separate from anything Kisa has known, yet emboiled in culebra society somehow--she exists on the fringes and it’s a fascinating thing for Kisa to have that in her life, a person who just sees her as herself.
In general, anything hurt/comfort-y or Geckos protecting one another during a job, or exploring Richie setting the fire and killing their dad for Seth and Seth’s flame tattoo, especially his choice to extend it to his throat, over Richie’s bite marks—or how they keep choosing one another, over and over again, can’t live without each other; all of that is good, I’d love anything with that. As always, all of these can be Gen, if you’re uncomfortable with incest!
As for Kisa, I ship every permutation of Richie/Seth/Kisa, but the OT3 is my true love. I am fascinated with how the mythos of the show is created around them all being mythic figures that don’t exactly live up to the expectations and are messy and human underneath the layers of performance and lore. They are the core three of the show and I’d love anything that explores that: slow burn future-fic where they come together after Richie turns Seth and Kisa has rebuilt culebra society, or further along the lines, or a post-S2 AU where Kisa decides to stick around and help them run their empire, or keeps coming back to them and finding them comforting or giving Kisa a sense of family, which she’s been seeking for most of her life. A place to rest her weary head, so to speak. I’d love anything that explores her POV of the Geckos as a unit and how their level of fierce devotion must terrify her on some level given the shape her abuse took and how worship and devotion looks to her and feels to her. I’d love anything about her watching them and learning to understand the language they speak in, and in turn, they learn about her as well.
Seth and Kisa’s dynamic is one of the storytelling gems of the show. I love how they went from enemies to saving each other’s lives and being genuinely concerned about the well-being of the other! I would honestly be happy with just more interactions with them, any fic about them being friends and bonding would be wonderful--but I also ship them a whole lot and would love something regarding that tension there. Maybe expand on the scene where he lets her feed on him (the camera just cut away! I wanted to see it up close and personal!) and how it feels now that Kisa has tasted Seth’s soul and saw inside him; that is a deeply intimate act and I’d love to know what she saw and to know if she told him about it. They keep getting caught in these situations where they’re raw and exposed and share things with each other that can’t be replicated. I’d love anything that explores the bond that comes from Seth helping Kisa kill Malvado and him witnessing their exchange. They’re such similar people and I love how Kisa sees through him, but by the same token, Seth starts to see through her too. They both offer each other advice they’re reluctant to take, yet trust each other implicitly. There’s so much richness here to explore.
I often feel robbed by Richie and Kisa’s dynamic because S2 was so rich for them, but then in S3 there was a lack of interaction and honestly, I always wanted to see what happened after S1 in terms of them coming together after Kisa invaded his mind, mentally assaulted him, and ruined Richie’s life by making him the same monster as her. He very much did not want to go to Mexico at first--does he resent her for making him kill Monica? For invading his mind? Does he get over that? HOW does he get over that and come to forgive her, and continue to want her around? I’d love to see her teaching him how to be a vampire while he teaches her how to be a human in the modern day, while also teaching her how to be a criminal. I’d love to see more of Richie having no idea how an actual romantic relationship works and pulling tricks he’s learned from movies and media, or watching Seth with Vanessa, and falling short. I’d love to see anything exploring their mental connection and how Kisa must have taught Richie how to do it, and she must have learned it from Malvado. Or anything exploring their strange friendship and dynamic where Kisa quite literally recreated Richie in her image to create her perfect champion, yet still resented how he fell short by being his own person, but also her quiet affection for him; they both symbolically set each other free, but a part of them still circle back to each other. In S3, Richie kept tabs on Kisa, yet kept his distance, I want more about his growing understanding about what she needs and vice versa.
I’D GIVE MY FIRST BORN FOR A POST-S3 AU FIC WHERE RICHIE ENDS UP TRAPPED IN XIBALBA, AND KISA AND SETH MUST RESOLVE TO RESCUE HIM.
But also a post-s1 AU where Seth goes with Kisa and Richie and how that changes things. I would love to see Seth being jealous of the Richie/Kisa relationship and wanting to insert himself in the middle, and Kisa trying to win Seth over because she can win Richie over to her side the more she gets Seth to like her, and Richie trying to cope with the force of natures they both are, similar people with similar tempers and tactics, while Richie has to keep up. Honestly, just play with the weird complicate mess between all three of them that kind of situation would bring.
My kingdom for Kisa gen-fic regarding anything: her backstory including her family, how she came to the temple, how the temple evolved over the centuries until it became the Twister, her dynamic with Malvado and how he shaped her, her relationship with Carlos (my only request is that you don’t demonize Carlos; they both loved each other and it went sour), her relationship with the ladies in the Twister, the time after S2 and before S3, that gap of time she had to build her fight club, but also probably walked the earth trying to come to terms with her life post-everything she’s endured. Fic exploring her trauma and PTSD and her recovery is very much encouraged, if you can stomach it. I’m not asking for issue-fic, but I’d love anything that explores the messiness of recovery and how it’s not fathomable what she’s been through. On a lighter note, I’d love anything that explores Kisa’s sexuality and her lack of issue with it. She is so comfortable with that part of herself, when other parts of herself don’t fit well. I’d also enjoy anything that explores how she views herself as a monster and the cycles of abuse she committed in her quest for freedom, and how she’s devoted to being a better person afterwards. Her reconciliation with her status as a culebra has always been fascinating, especially her thoughts on humanity and how she’s lost it, but seemingly regained it with Manola.
Finally, I requested Manola because I fucking adored her and was so upset when she died after one episode. There was so much to explore with her character, so much potential wasted and I am turning to fandom to fix it. I love how much of a spitfire Manola was, small and ready to fight anyone and everyone. I’d love to explore her backstory and where she came from, the life she experienced in Idaho, how she became a fighter and how she got embroiled in culebra politics. I want to just know more about her, especially since she so willingly gave herself to Kisa to feed after she saved her, no hesitancy, complete trust. I love her look, the combination of masculine and feminine, and how that translates into her personality, both hard and soft, willing to submit to Kisa but also defend her.
Kisa/Manola was a gift that the writers gave to me then smashed right in front of my face. I am still upset over it. I’d love ANYTHING for these two: their love story, we know how they met, but not how they came together, not how they built such trust and devotion, not how Kisa opened herself up to Manola fully and how Manola earned that. I just want to see the story behind what the show gave us, I want to experience it fully. Give me them meeting and then Manola tracking Kisa down and never leaving her alone, give me Kisa taking Manola back to her hotel room and Manola just never leaving after that, give me what Kisa saw in her soul, how they view each other as their own personal savior. I’d love anything domestic with them! How they developed their feeding ritual, how they grew together, just building a home with each other then building the fight club. Porn-wise, I’d love anything that explores how Manola clearly gets off on being bitten, but also anything with Manola being careful and slow and gentle with Kisa, knowing her history and how Kisa slowly grows to crave something harder and more rough, and how Manola works up to that, but still likes worshipping kisa sexually, while Kisa returns the favor. As much as I like D/s, I don’t think that works for this relationship, so please steer clear of that kind of vibe. I’d also just love a simple h/c where Kisa tends to Manola’s cage fighting woulds and Kisa frets and fusses over and Manola just looks at her with adoration. Or Manola is a supernatural creature in her own right AU fic! I have a huuuge soft-spot for werewolf or werecoyote!Manola, if you want to write that.
Manola lives fix-it AU is a most desired fic! God, the wasted potential, the wasted dynamics! I’d love anything from Manola getting attacked and living, and Kisa taking her on the run and into hiding until Manola convinces her to join the fight and to stop running out of fear, or Manola convincing her in the moment after her attack to join Seth and Richie, and Kisa agrees to go because the Geckos promise to help protect Manola. I think Manola going with Kisa to rebuild Carlos would be amazing, especially when they meet and imagining their dynamic. Honestly, feel free to include Carlos in any capacity, I love that piece of shit, if I had a fifth slot, it’d go to him.
If you go with the latter, I’d love anything that explores Manola bonding with each Gecko. She and Richie have a lowkey antagonistic vibe that seems to evolve quickly to mutual respect and I’d like to see that escalated into something of a friendship, while I’d love to see Manola quickly taking to Seth and Seth taking to her, both of them bonding about being the lone humans in a relationship with a culebra. I’d love to see her and Seth sparring, and she kicks his ass, and he’s just impressed while Kisa and Richie watch their humans in companionable silence. I’d love love love somehow an OT4 fic working out between Kisa/Manola/Seth/Richie with the four of them becoming a weird little family as they try to stop the end of the world. Manola growing affection for the Geckos and Kisa falling back in with them, while the Geckos already viewing Kisa as a weird sort of family member, but accepting Manola into the fold. I’d love to see a slow-burn OT4 fic that explores the S3 timeline and beyond. Feel free to include trope-y shit! Bed sharing, trapped together because of Amaru, having to do a (sexy) blood ritual in order to defeat Amaru, creepy soulbonding, or Richie and Kisa arguing over how they feed on their humans (I imagine Richie is rougher with Seth and Kisa disapproves), or resolving to turn their humans, or post-battle sex or h/c sex, or anything in between.
I’ve already gone on and on, so I am going to stop myself here. I do wanna request that if you go for a post-s3 fic, I’d prefer an AU where Kate doesn’t go with the Geckos, though I am happy to read about Kate being their criminal protege; I just DNW Kate/Geckos in any shippy capacity.
Moonlight (2016)
↳ Characters: Chiron, Kevin
This movie took my breath away and just left me wanting so much more of it. It’s so painful, yet gorgeously rendered—both in imagery and within the storytelling, and of course, the acting. It deserves all the awards it received and then some. The atmosphere, the colors, the cinematography, and the characters all together combined is a hell of a punch to the gut. This is one of those films that stay with you long after you finish it—in a sort of longing way that makes you crave more.
I’d love to have a continuation post-movie fic that explores how Kevin and Chiron come back together, how they build a life together—I can’t imagine Chiron leaves after driving all that way to find Kevin and I don’t think he intended to leave, not deep down, even though he knew also it was a risk. I love that he took that risk anyway—Chiron’s intense, physical attraction to Kevin that’s so palpable in their short phone call just showcases everything. I’d love fic that deals with Kevin being there to help Chiron find a life outside of dealing and help him with his childhood trauma, but also just them coming together as a couple. I love domesticity for them—Kevin cooking for Chiron, music playing in the background, them being comfortable around each other as they put the past behind them and look towards the future.
I love oceanic themes and would love more exploration on the fact that Kevin lives by the ocean, given that is one of the most soothing things in Chiron’s life and how his most significant moments and memories are tied to the ocean—and how that is now tied to Kevin, first with their first sexual encounter on the beach and now with Chiron hearing the waves when he arrives at Kevin’s apartment.
I’d also just love a continuation of that final scene. Do they kiss? Do they have sex? What else happens after that? I’m fascinated by the fact that Kevin has been the only person who has ever touched Chiron and how he has lived without allowing anyone else that close to him. I’d love an exploration of that and the intensity of their connection from Chiron’s end and how that translates to their relationship going forward—how does Kevin feel being the fixed point of that kind of emotion? How do they navigate that?
By that same token, Chiron’s only sexual experiences were probably with himself and probably thinking of Kevin, so I’d be happy and interested in a fic about Chiron masturbating to memories of the scene on the beach. Or a fic just exploring the sensuality and sexual tension threaded through the film between Chiron and Kevin. The scene in the diner where Kevin plays “Hello Stranger” and touches his neck is so intense and heated and anything that expresses that would be lovely.
I also just would love something set when they were kids—especially an AU where Chiron doesn’t go to juvie and how that would shape his life, especially if he and Kevin would continue to move forward with their relationship—in secret, probably—and how that shapes them as adults going forward. I’d love exploration of teenage sexuality here and how they both come to reconcile themselves with how they feel about each other, while trying to grow up in the environment they’re living in. I’d love something that includes all the messy dynamics and themes that would entail, including angst and break-ups, but also reconciliation and coming together again.
Teeth - Hannah Moskowitz
↳ Characters: Rudy Clearwater, Teeth Delaney
This book is so heart-wrenchingly perfect in all its visceral pain and violence, as well as its intense love story at its heart. This book stayed with me long after I finished it like a pang in my chest—I don’t think I’ll ever be over it. It takes the concept of the mermaid and flips it on its head, rendering something wholly unique and tragic.
I really do want some kind of fix-it fic—not because I hate the ending, because I don’t, but rather I just want to much more from the dynamic between Rudy and Teeth. I'd love something in the future where Rudy is still on the island and his brother has gotten better, but Rudy can't move on and leave because he's still waiting for Teeth. I’d love for eventually Teeth to return, something that explores the changes in their dynamic and in themselves just from growing up, and Teeth having to leave the isolation of the island and explore elsewhere. Did Teeth see the world? I'd just love something that resolves and plays into the connection between them, which gives them a second chance at being able to be with each other. I'd love Rudy being careful and kind, and this to be a future where the island doesn't rely on the fish anymore so that Teeth can feel at peace knowing his family isn’t being hunted anymore.
Or you could break my heart and have Rudy’s brother die and all the fish being hunted to extinction and Teeth comes back to an older, more broken Rudy alone on an empty island and how Teeth responds and reacts to that—and how Rudy doesn’t want him to leave, but it’s physically and emotionally difficult for Teeth to be there.
On the flipside, I'd love an AU where Teeth gets to stay—imagine that the climax doesn’t happen—and he and Rudy grow closer and have a lot of exploratory experiences. Like how does sex work when your boyfriend is part-fish? I'd love something that explores that and Rudy being fascinated, and honestly attracted to Teeth's otherness. I love that Teeth isn’t actually attractive and looks quite monstrous, but Rudy still finds something beautiful in him. I'd also love something that explores Rudy being careful and tender and giving affection that Teeth very much craves. Hurt/comfort would be a super plus here. But I’d also love the conflict and angst of how possessive Teeth feels because Rudy has his family and Teeth only has him—Teeth’s jealousy and resentment of Rudy’s brother is fascinating when it comes into contention with the fact that Rudy participates in eating his family because his brother is sick and how that complicates Teeth’s attraction and growing feelings for Rudy.
Ultimately, I'd also just love hurt/comfort in general based on the time after Teeth was caught by the fishermen and Rudy trying to patch him up and take care of him. But if you just want to write me something melancholy in the form of a fairytale or heavy introspection from either Teeth or Rudy’s POV about their doomed romance, I'd still love that—the book holds a place in my heart because it was unafraid to be dark and frightening and ugly.
*NOTE: some of these sections are a lot longer than the others (mainly From Dusk Till Dawn: the Series) and I don't want you to think I'd much prefer that fandom over the others. Sometimes when a fandom lives so long in your brain, you have a lot more to say for it, but I honestly would be delighted with ANYTHING you'd write for me. I selected these fandoms because I've been craving fic for them, so I really would be happy to get anything for any of them! Nothing here is a placeholder fandom and a lot of the requests have been requested before.
Also, I am very sorry about having my letter be a placeholder so long, I've been really sick this past week. I hope it hasn't held you up re: writing!
I mostly use this journal as a private place to post thoughts I’m not comfortable posting on my tumblr, which is where I mostly hang out, making graphics and reblogging things—if you choose to visit, it’s good place to snoop to get a generalized glimpse at what I like.
In an effort to make my letter as skimmable as possible, here are some links to help guide you to whatever interests you and help you skip the rest.
BABY DRIVER (2017) || CAPTIVE PRINCE - C.S. PACAT || CASTLEVANIA (CARTOON)
FROM DUSK TILL DAWN: THE SERIES || MOONLIGHT (2016) || TEETH - HANNAH MOSKOWITZ
↳ General Things I Like: I am a very emotionally oriented person. I love exploring a character’s thoughts and feelings, what it is that makes that character tick and make the choices they do. I’d rather have purely character thought-piece over a complex well-plotted fic with no emotional heart or depth. I love relationships: their dynamics, how they support one another, how they relate to each other, how they interact, where their wants and needs match up, where they differ, how their different parts interconnect or pull-apart.
I adore friendships in all forms and I love exploring what it means to be friends and the bond between characters. I love emotional history and how that affects a relationship dynamic between characters. Friends-turned-lovers is a favorite trope of mine, as well as love/hate, enemies-turned-lovers dynamics. I love snark and banter and flirting, but I also love new relationship awkwardness, relationship negotiation, and getting-to-know-you bonding. For any relationship to happen, I want some connection at the base before it turns romantic or sexual. I love developing relationships: relationship conflicts after the characters got together, trying to figure out how to make things work, some things maybe not working at first, temporary breakups. If you’re dealing with a poly-relationship, I’d love to see how the characters deal with that new dynamic and how they adjust into their new roles, how the dynamic changes (for better or for worse). I love unlikely friendships/romances, complicated relationships, group dynamics, partnerships.
I also love fucked up, varying-degrees-of-unhealthy, too-close-for-comfort relationships. Codependent relationships, obsessive relationships, completely-fixated-on-the-other relationships. 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), choosing their partner above anyone else. I really love when this is all a choice, rather than conditioning (though I do love when this closeness is born from abusive homes and situations, with the two characters banding together, them-against-the-world). Two-halves-of-a-whole-person type of relationships are my weakness—I love dynamics where the other can’t function without the other and opt for self-destruction in the face of separation (via either substance abuse or moral/character disintegration), even leading to suicide ideation. Them being equally obsessive and fucked up, and extremely invested in their relationship is what I live for. Utter devotion is key.
I also enjoy something in between the two extremes—characters relying on each other and needing each other, making sure the other is okay, taking care of each other, especially in regards to trauma and/or mental illness. Basically I love messy, codependent relationships with dysfunctional people who love each other and are terrible to each other sometimes, but also healthy, loving, mutually supportive relationships, where people take care of each other and communicate with each other, and everything in between or in combination.
I really dig domesticity and what makes a home a home, and how being a family to each other plays into that and how the characters come together in that way. I adore makeshift families and kid!fic in any form (so long as the children are written realistically and not cute accessories—I love reading about the difficulties of parenting, how it changes the relationships, characters reacting to being a parent—especially if they came from an abusive home). I love cooking and doing chores, and quiet breakfast scenes over coffee or tea. If you want to add pets, that would be wonderful! (I love all kinds of animals, but cats have a special place in my heart).
I love porn and wouldn’t mind a PWP piece, if that’s where your heart takes you, but I’d prefer it to be emotionally anchored; not necessarily romantic, but something with a connection and a reason for it happening beyond two (or three!) pretty faces.
↳ Some of my kinks include: trust (I have a huuuge trust kink that can usually make most kinks work if the basis comes from how intensely two characters trust each other and their willingness to give themselves to the other person in every way, and vice versa), angry sex, fighting-that-leads-to-sex, powerplay, D/s (that’s more focused on taking care of each other than humiliation), switching/no set sexual “roles”, topping from the bottom, service kink (getting off on giving pleasure rather than receiving), oral sex, licking, fingering, dirty talk (please no humiliation), praise kink, teasing, body worship, breast play/nipple play, sensory overload (being overwhelmed by sensations, being touched immediately after orgasm), biting/marking/scratching, begging, public sex, heat-of-the-battle sex, frantic sex, jealousy and possessiveness, bloodplay, voyeurism, bondage, somnophilia, size differences, partially-clothed or mostly-clothed sex, handjobs, rimming, frottage, intercrural, double-penetration, masturbation/fantasizing about the other before getting together, mutual masturbation, drunk or high sex (both the emotionally messy, dubcon-y, bad idea kind and the sloppily affectionate consensual kind), rough sex, characters who kink on violence and danger (gunplay, knifeplay, breathplay, exhibitionism, etc.), hatesex, scar kink, sex for comfort and solace, dressing and undressing, messy badly-negotiated (or unnegotiated) sexual desires, inexperience, sexuality exploration, first times, clothes kink (suits, uniforms, gloves, boots etc.), neat characters being disheveled for once; casual characters cleaning up nicely, clothes-sharing, choosing clothes for the other person as kink/foreplay, sex in other places than a bed: on tables, against walls, on the floor, on a chair, in the shower, making someone come without touching their genitals, messiness (sweat, come, etc.), competence kink (characters kinking on the skills set of another, i.e. Seth’s admiration/fixation on Richie cracking safes or Darling using guns and Buddy watching), oral fixation (smoking, fingersucking, shotgunning, etc.), sex where emotions are mixed, or difficult to acknowledge, or emotionally hurtful to acknowledge, sex that doesn't heal anybody's deep emotional wounds, moody messy melancholy sex.
I’d really love all of this to be paired with tenderness and sweetness, just little touches here and there: hand-holding, forehead touching, forehead/face kisses, snuggling and cuddling, nuzzling, hugs from behind, neck kisses, scar kissing. Lots of kissing in general is lovely. I love the “we like each other so much that we can’t stop touching each other in any way” trope a lot. Sharing food, sharing clothes, sharing beds. Sleep related things in general: comfort after a nightmare, falling asleep together, one character watching the other sleep. Characters feeling safe and cherished by the other. Simple casual intimacy is fantastic and very much appreciated.
↳ Random and miscellaneous things I love:
backstory, future fic, unreliable narrators, outsider POV adding new insight, outsider POV in general, snapshots, missing scene fics, character studies, missing scenes, codas, alternate canons, semi-alternate universes, and canon divergences, and/or slight changes to canon, “what if” AUs epistolary fic, or a “five times something happened” type of fic, or a “five things you didn’t know,” fics that start in the middle with flashbacks, play with format, if you want happy endings, bittersweet endings, downer endings—whatever works for your story: no happy domestic fics with sudden swerves into death fic, but if something is generally melancholy to begin with, go with the downer ending road trips, small towns, traveling, a sense of place, in between moments and in transit, a strong sense of a setting—I really love the aesthetics of being on the road, having to stay in crappy motels and living in and out of suitcases communicating without words established relationships/friendships, and domesticity with slice-of-life that details their routine or daily life the intimacy of living together for a while, or people learning to share space—people sharing household chores or cooking food for each other, people having silly arguments with each other over routine things or watching movies together awkward wooing, or when people can’t say things in words so they say it in action slow burns, UST, people reconnecting again, getting back together, learning to love each other again, pining for each other reunions, a strong sense of history between characters intense protectiveness, will-kill-for-you-without-thinking protectiveness—or the flipside, will-lay-down-my-life self-sacrificial type of protectiveness trust—either people who trust each other or people with trust issues surprising intellect from unsuspecting characters small but meaningful moments bad weather, quiet rainy days, autumn, the ocean, the desert, the woods, libraries, characters reading to each other, sense of time passing, the change of seasons, being snowed in found families complicated relationships and internal conflicts—I like relationships where not everything is clear cut between people, when conflict stems from personal issues or clashing, rather than something external, where there’s angst and anger between these characters, but also genuine love and fondness awful people being tender to each other, terrible people who don’t know how to love, or trying very hard to be good to each other (with some or no success) hurt/comfort of ANY KIND—illness or wounded or just having a bad day, any kind of physical or emotional bad stuff happening to characters (either the main point of the fic or in the background/stemming from canon events), and characters looking after one another, especially tending to injuries, patching the other up, assisting with a drug recovery, to helping each other cope with PTSD or loss, helping them day to day—just a person taking care of someone as a practical way to show love darkfic of any kind—psychological mind games, body horror, creepy obsessive claustrophobic dynamics, erotic horror, desperate broken violent lives of crime, break-it fics (unhappy or unresolved endings are okay!) focus on mental illness or trauma, such as panic attacks, character adjusting to each other’s needs, messy coping mechanisms and “bad victim” traits exploring physical disabilities (losing sight/hearing/the ability to a speak) irrational ugly emotions, like jealousy or resentment or paranoia claustrophobic and isolation stories, be it physical or emotional isolation angst: self-doubts, guilt, shame, nightmares, fears, self-destructive tendencies, alcohol/drug abuse, character-appropriate self-harm, suicide ideation monsters of any kind—vampires, werewolves, merpeople, witches, ghosts, humanity as monstrosity, the “monster” being more human than the “human”, the interplay between where monstrosity begins and humanity ends, struggles with monsterhood; I love human/monster pairings where the human is fascinated with their otherness and cherishes their monster partner characters who aren’t sure how to “people” properly, characters who aren’t good at being “human.” Inhumanity, especially when love is demonstrated or expressed differently, but still love horror themes: body horror, eldritch abominations, haunted houses, restless spirits, people turning into monsters, cannibalism, undead people (vampires and revenants mainly; I do not care for brainless zombies), turning into a monster, serial killers, etc. fairytale themes: retellings, use of fairytales as a structure, or a fairytale structured story reincarnation or soulmates, with the relationship feeling old and constant, or the messy complications that come with being soulmates, “wrong” soulmates, character reliving the same time loops, losing each other and colliding with each other and missing each other completely, past lives, epic-across-time stories
↳ DNWs: I don’t like radical AUs (unless specified), like coffee shop AU or college AUs. I have nothing really against them, but I prefer to read about characters in the canon setting.
I prefer not to read about excessive abuse, but I understand it’s inclusion if it’s part of a character’s backstory. I like reading about the aftereffects of abuse, of trauma, but not the actual traumatic events in detail. Torture or anything further than canon typical violence.
Extreme underage, especially with adults is deeply uncomfortable for me. I am okay with young-ish teenagers (14/15) experimenting with each other, but with my age differential ships, I’d prefer the younger character to be at least sixteen and no romanticization of the dynamic and acknowledgement of the inherent power dynamic at play.
Mentally ill or neurotypical characters treated as evil or terrible—it’s fine if they're experiencing ableism, but I don't want the whole fic to be about that.
No deathfic unless the characters die or have died in canon, or a villain is being killed. Referring to the major character deaths that occur in canon and exploring those after effects is okay, but otherwise, I’d rather not read it. I don’t consider it deathfic if someone dies and then comes back in the same fic.
Miscommunication as a plot point. Cheating/infidelity. Character bashing, ship bashing; if you don't like a character or a ship, please just keep their inclusion minimal, but don't remove them from the story entirely, especially if they're plot relevant.
My squicks are: parental or cross-gen incest (sibling or cousin incest is totally okay), bestiality (xenophilia in terms of sentient monsters, on the other hand, is encouraged), a/b/o, watersports, scat or most hardcore kinks, humiliation (sexual or otherwise), and rigid top/bottom roles (I prefer switching! But if you have a top/bottom preference for certain characters, that’s okay, I just rather it implied in the fic that’s not all they do), animal cruelty or animal death.
Non-con is a hardline trigger for me, so I’d rather avoid it unless it’s part of a character’s backstory (I’m okay with dub-con though—either messy and fucked up stuff with one character taking advantage of the other, or “we all got drunk and had sex together, whoops”).
Baby Driver (2017)
↳ Characters: Darling | Monica Costello, Buddy | Jason Van Horn
Oh man oh man, this movie had so much potential, mainly due to these two. Bonnie and Clyde of the modern age! I'd love to see backstory fic for them because I want to know everything: how they met, when they became so devoted to each other, why they became so devoted to each other. You can go with Bats' insinuations, but I'd like to see something different. I like the implication that Darling led Buddy into crime and not the other way around because it flips the typical narrative. I's also love an AU where they both live and get away, and what happens to them after. Or an AU where Buddy dies instead of Darling (my one exception to my character death DNW). I just wanted so much more for these two!
To expand on my prompts a little bit, I’d love love LOVE if you wrote me backstory fic for Darling and Buddy. They were my two favorites in the film and I wanted to know so much more about them! Think: how did they meet? how did they get involved in crime? what were they like before they met? what caused their die-without-you-always-need-to-be-touching bond and how that developed? If you do choose to go the route suggested by Bats, I’d prefer Buddy not to have cheated on his wife with Darling, but rather they were already divorced or separated when Buddy meets Darling. I am enamoured with the idea that Buddy only knew white collar crime and Darling was the one that taught him about her side of the criminal underworld. It’s such a reversal of the typical Bonnie-and-Clyde style dynamic and I’d love a fic that explores Darling being Buddy’s teacher in robbing banks or handling a gun.
Or if you prefer NOT to write the backstory, I’d love to just read about some of their many adventures and jobs. Write me a story about them robbing banks or making back alley deals for guns or knocking off jewelry stores. Buddy breaking into a designer store to get Darling the bag she wants. Or just slice of life moments of their relationship--if they have an apartment, show me them in the domestic element, or if they’re constantly on the road, show me what it’s like to live out of a suitcase and how they make homes out of their transient lifestyle. Be as criminally glamorous or unglamorous as you want--I love both their aesthetic of gorgeous criminal bank robbers who shoot in tandem, but also the uglier, seedier stuff underneath, such as Buddy killing for Darling or Darling making him jealous in order to get a thrill out of seeing him kill for her. I love their ruthless violent criminality mixing with their affectionate romantic dynamic and would love to see the interplay between that. They’re bank robbers, but how do they build a life out of that?
Speaking of Buddy killing for Darling, love the moment where Darling says, “it was so romantic when you stabbed that guy for me” and Buddy replied, “which guy?” Because there have been multiple stabbing incidents in the name of Darling, of course there have been. Darling asking for and pushing for, or possibly instigating, and demanding these violent displays of affection, and Buddy being all too happy to give it to her.
I would be totally into reading porn of them roleplaying bank robber and hostage, like Darling suggested they already did, or any kind of roleplay: I could be interested in Buddy having a femdom fantasy, or both of them trying on each other’s clothes and pretending to be each other (bonus points for pegging!). Go as kinky as you want. I would especially appreciate gunplay, knife play, or breathplay with this in addition to roleplaying, and above all, I have a strong trust kink when it comes to these two. All of this works because they trust each other so deeply.
Darling and Buddy live! Maybe they both manage to get away from the cops! And they are now fugitives! WHO HAVE TO GO TO MEXICO. OR CANADA! OR OFF THE CONTINENT COMPLETELY! How do they get there? Do they have connections? Friends who will smuggle them out? I’d love to read about their life on the lam, disguising each other, trying to support their drug habit while also evading the cops, hiding out in seedy hotels, and trying to carve out a little slice of paradise for themselves under the weight of it all. Maybe seeking peace, after everything that's happened.
Or maybe just Darling lives! Maybe Buddy dies in the shoot-out and Darling survives. What happens next? Does she take revenge on Baby or does she handle it a bit better? Honestly, Darling is probably my absolute fave of this movie, so I would love anything that focuses on her, whether it’s backstory fic, post canon AU where she lives, or character study, or just something about her beating people up, shooting people and stealing shit. I'd love to know where she came from and how she grew up. Did she have any other partners before Buddy? What does she want out of life? I'd love anything that explores how her mind works!
And lastly, I know I said I wouldn't want any wild AUs, but for these two, I'd be interested in perhaps a historical AU that's set in the Old West that deals with Darling's racial and ethnic background, or a 1920's AU with speakeasies and prohibition. Also, I looove monsters, so if you want to explore them being criminals and werewolves, go for it! Or maybe they're immortal beings, constantly living on the edge, dying and coming back to each other. I'd also be down for a soulmate or reincarnation AU because these two were simply made for each other.
Captive Prince - C.S. Pacat
↳ Characters: Damen, Jokaste, Laurent
When Jokaste showed up in Kings Rising, I was instantly hooked on her character and wanted so much more from her interactions with both Damen and Laurent. I'd love to see some backstory for her, such as where she grew up, what happened in her childhood, her courtship with Damen and her decision to betray him. I just want to get into her mindset. I'd also really love a slow-burn OT3 fic where Jokaste sticks around and helps them and Damen helps take care of her and her son, and Jokaste and Laurent have to find some common ground, or an AU where Jokaste's son IS Damen's son and how they handle that dynamic. I really adored her back and forth with Laurent and would love to see more interactions between them!
Jokaste, Jokaste, Jokaste; love her or hate her, she is certainly fascinating. I fall firmly on the love her side of the spectrum. When she arrived into the story as a fully-fleshed out character, trying to save herself and her unborn son, I fell head over heels and just wanted her to stay within the story. I’d love anything that explores her mindset, including and especially backstory fic. Where did she come from? How did she grow up to be so ruthless and cunning and focused? You can go as dark as you want for her backstory because I imagine this wasn’t born from a comfortable, loving home, but I don’t want anything explicit, especially in terms of sexual abuse. It can be hinted at or suggested, but not written out in detail. How did all of this falter around Damen? I’d love to see more of their courtship and how she fell for Damen, but also didn’t allow her feelings to cloud her survival instincts. I am fascinated with how she still cares for him and how that feeling never went away and how Damen wormed himself under her defenses in ways she couldn’t escape, even now.
I also greatly enjoyed her confrontation with Laurent and had longed for them to continue to go head-to-head. They’re so similar and have a mutual understanding of each other, and I’d have love to have seen that explored more within the canon, especially in an AU where Jokaste sticks around and helps Damen and Laurent in their plan. I’d like to see what they look like working together, while also sniping at each other and becoming viciously jealous over Damen. It’d be amazing to see how Damen juggles them both and handles having his former lover and current lover in the same space, working with them to bring down the current leadership of their countries. I’d love to see how Laurent and Damen adjust to having her around and how it develops their relationship and makes it stronger, more unbreakable. Laurent and Jokaste friendship fic would be wonderful because I feel like there’s a certain level of sameness that would allow them to be great enemies, but even greater friends. If you go this route, I’d love to see how they grow with each other and open up, and deal with how they both fell for the same person in different ways and how that shaped them. I’d love to see them sharing and confiding in one another, and Laurent having that outlet outside of Damen.
I do OT3 them quite a lot and would love to see a fic exploring how they come together. Obviously this would be an AU situation where Jokaste doesn’t leave, but the possibilities are endless! I especially like the idea of either Damen opting to raise his brother’s son as his own heir or the baby actually being his (I’d love for the child to be a little girl, honestly, and her being raised as the heir to both kingdoms), and Laurent having to reconcile that, while always wanting to keep Damen for himself. I’d love them learning to live together with a child in the mix, Damen both trying to be happy while also committing to his duties as a parent, while Laurent comes to love him or her as his own. Laurent and children has always been a beautiful concept and I’d love to see that explored here. And Jokaste trying to find her place in all of this, giving them space, but craving to be a part of their relationship as she and Damen come to a more honest friendship, while she and Laurent find common ground and bond. I’d love to see a slow burn of them coming together in this domestic situation set over the rebuilding of their nations as one.
In terms of porn, one of my very favorite things about the series in how Laurent and Damen tend to have messy sex that doesn’t fully resolve anything and often makes things worse, but also draws them closer together. I also like Damen’s carefulness with Laurent and would love to see that more explored in light of the revelation of Laurent’s past. Also Laurent topping is all kinds of wonderful. The logistics of Jokaste/Damen/Laurent is interesting because I don’t think Laurent is attracted to women (though I think sexuality is malleable and fluid), but I think it’d be interesting to explore how he becomes attracted to her through growing closer to her, but also their similarities and their connection through Damen. It would be hot to see them both try to dominate Damen and compete for his attention in bed, or making the other watch while they fuck Damen. It’s also interesting (and sexy) if Damen teaches Laurent how to please Jokaste and how to touch a woman. I’d like to see what happens when you put Laurent and Jokaste in bed together, and have them make Damen watch, as well.
As a fan of the series, I adore Damen/Laurent and their desperate messy fucked up romance, and I’d love the inclusion of it in any way possible, but I actually don’t want it to be the forefront of my gift or solely the subject of my gift. I’d rather Jokaste be worked in somehow, at least for this request. I hope you understand!
Castlevania (Cartoon)
↳ Characters: Trevor Belmont, Sypha Belnades, Alucard Tepes
Four twenty-minute episodes are just not enough! Mainlining this show only left me wanting more. I'd love OT3 fic with them fighting monsters, or especially a slow burn coming together fic. I'm all for Alucard/Trevor as a dynamic and I'd love to see their animosity explored as closeness develops. Vampire tropes are my favorite! I'd love a fic where Alucard has to feed on one of them (or both of them!) to survive. I'd also adore Sypha/Alucard fic with her coming to terms with Alucard being her vampire Jesus.
Note: I have never played the games, and I’m only familiar with the cartoon. You are welcome to include elements and plot points from the games in the fic if you want, as long as I don’t need to have played the games to understand, or that won’t spoil potential plot points.
I mainlined this fairly recently due to a recommendation by a friend. I was not disappointed! It’s filled with some of my favorite things: evil churches, long suffering hunters dealing with the weight of a family legacy, faithful believers, sexy shirtless sad burdened vampires, people who dislike each other working together, love healing people but also turning them into monsters, weird prophecies, and horrifying monsters.
I am already on the Alucard/Trevor/Sypha ship train and I would love with all my heart if you wanted to write me a slowburn coming together fic where they all fall in love with each other and figure out how this relationship will work, with all the messiness and complications that come with their history and current statuses. I’d love to see how they all fall into place as a unit. I am not opposed to porn, but I’d like something with a bit more development than a fall in bed together PWP. I’m fascinated by them all sort of being prophesied to fight Dracula together and how that impacts their relationships with each other and the further development of where they go from there. I’d love to see them slowly becoming comrades and truly become friends and then that growing into something more.
I have a deep love of tropes and this fandom suits it perfectly. Forced bedsharing, Pretending to be married (or a couple), going undercover, bickering because of close quarters, being annoyed by each other’s habits and driving each other crazy, forced closeness leading to UST leading to working out the pent up aggression sexually. Vampire tropes are a huuuuge love of mine. Someone kidnaps Alucard and drains him, so he has to feed on Trevor or Sypha or Both! Or them both getting used to his vampiric “quirks” and learning to live with them, or even finding them attractive. I also enjoy the idea of Alucard in peril and Sypha and Trevor having to save him, and all of them realizing their feelings. Magic shenanigans! Sypha or Alucard discovering they need to do some kind of binding spell before fighting Dracula, which is sealed with a (sexy) blood oath, or an oath that requires sex on an altar. Soulbonding would be interesting for these three, especially early on, which could be stressful and a bit terrifying, but fun to explore. But I’d equally love something without a magical justification--maybe some team bonding exercise that leads to sex, or all three of them get trapped in a room or locked up somewhere and need to pass the time.
I would mostly want an OT3 fic, if you choose the ship route, but I am really fascinated by their individual dynamics: Sypha seeing Alucard as her messiah and savior and coming to terms with the reality that faces her, does she still believe in Alucard’s goodness? How does that shape their relationship? Does Alucard humanize himself to her and do they grow closer as a result? Or does he keep his distance and she maintains her worship. Trevor has grown up killing vampires and monster and now he has to work with one, how does he adjust to that? How does he come around to seeing Alucard as a person and not a monster? Does Alucard feel the same hatred for him, or is he more willing to bury the hatchet? I see them as opposites who are very similar and all three of them are wrapped up in the same destiny, brought on them by their individual family legacies, I’d love to see how that influences them and how that builds their dynamics and perhaps, their own little chosen family.
If you don’t ship them as an OT3, that’s okay! I’d love to read a gen-fic that explores their travels and adventures: hunting monsters, learning to trust and rely on each other, living in whatever shelter they can find, learning from each other, living together. How does Trevor adjust to having people by his side who rely on him and vice versa? What does sypha feel about living with these two different men and away from her father? How does she adjust? Does Alucard need an adjustment period after waking up from a long sleep? How does he learn to cope living so close to humans? I’m interested in anything that explores the next chapter in their story!
I would also love ANY backstory fic for each Alucard, Trevor, or Sypha. Alucard’s feelings about growing up the son of Dracula, but in particular, being half-human. I’d love to explore his dynamic with his mother, Lisa, who I imagine he was close to and learned much from. I’d love to see what his upbringing was like, given the two forces of nature his parents were. As for Trevor, what is the pain that shaped his current condition? What was it like to live under the weight of his family legacy and have everyone distrust him by his family name? I’d also love to know what his childhood was like, what his parents were like, who raised him. Sypha is also really fascinating to me and I’d love to see her growing up in the order and learning magic, and reading about Alucard and becoming fixated with him. I wonder what it was like being (potentially) one of the few women and how that might have shaped her. I’d absolutely love anything about her training and education, and the fierce pride she holds in it.
From Dusk Till Dawn: The Series
↳ Characters: Richard Gecko, Seth Gecko, Manola Jimenez, Santanico Pandemonium/Kisa
Ah! The show of my heart! I'd love anything you'd write me for these four: backstory fic for Kisa and Manola, both individually and together, backstory fic for the Geckos growing up, AUs where Manola lives and comes along for the ride. In terms of Geckos, I'm very much open to incest and would love to see anything that explores their die-without-out symbiotic desperate codependence from any perspective. I'm also open to poly dynamics with Kisa and Manola, and would honestly adore an AU of S3 where Manola lives and she worms her way into Seth and Richie's affections. She and Seth have similar personalities, it'd be interesting to see them bonding through sparring as Richie and Kisa work through their past.
Seth/Richie is my OTP of the show, so anything you write for me for them would be greatly appreciated and adored. I love both Seth and Richie so much—together and individually. It’s the ship of my dreams—two messy, fucked up codependent brothers so twisted around the bend for each other where nothing actually can come between them (except each other), the pair of them growing up as two pieces of the same whole, not actually complete without the other, a matching set. I love their coded language of mottos and catchphrases and secret handshakes, I love their banter and their bickering, I love their love of film and film references. Their shared history of violence and abuse is so important to me and how I view them and how they were shaped. I love the fact that Richie killed their father for Seth, to keep Seth safe, to save both of them from more abuse and I love that Seth never fully knew, yet still commemorated the act with a tattoo that covers his entire arm—wearing his heart, quite literally, on his sleeve. There is so much for me with these two that so many things would make me happy.
From the ground up, I’d love a pre-series fic that focuses on them coming together in an incestuous relationship—how they grew up isolated and depending upon each other. I have my own headcanons for how this happened, but I’d love to see a new, refreshing take and always open to exploring new avenues for how Seth and Richie come together. I’d prefer the focus to be on fraught their relationship is and how desperate and clingy they are to each other, and for that to be equal between them—they both show that in different ways (Seth is louder, more action-driven and Richie is more internal, and quiet in his love), but I don’t want to see a situation where one loves and sacrifices more for the other or where one is shown to love the other less. Uncle Eddie was one of my favorite secondary characters and any use of his would be welcome, I’d love a fic that utilizes Uncle Eddie being the one to raise them post-fire and how they feel about him as they grow, or even an OPOV fic of them from Uncle Eddie’s POV as he watched their fucked up relationship develop and as he comes to understand it.
I also really want to see someone else’s take on how their dynamic grows as they become these legendary criminals that everyone’s heard of. I’d like to see how they build themselves up into these dangerous, terrifying bank robbers that even culebra bigwigs know of. I want an exploration of how they built their legend from the ground up, how they took the Gecko name from something that the criminal community derided to something they respected. I’d love to see a fic that showcases the legends and stories that get passed around about them, or something that shows the truth behind the public perception of them. I’d be interested in an OPOV fic from the perspective of the FBI hunting the, or the intake officers or the psychiatrist that evaluates Seth when he’s caught and imprisoned—is the fact they’re incestuous in their files, does the law know or even consider it? I know some of this must take place while Seth is married, so I just want to caveat that I really adore Vanessa and I’d love to see her involved or featured in some way. If you don’t want to include her or don’t like her, that’s fine, but please be kind to her—just mention her she’s someone Seth cares about, or write around her, please.
S1-era stuff set when Richie is losing his mind due to having visions of Kisa and the demons she makes him see would be fantastic. I’d love more exploration of that, with Richie trying to fight for his own sanity and control, especially if he uses Seth as an anchor to his sanity and humanity, and uses Seth to ground himself—physically, mentally, or emotionally. Maybe when Richie looks at Seth or grabs on to Seth, the visions go away. Maybe Richie feels closer to himself when Seth is kissing him or inside him or just holding him down or holding them close as they sleep. I’d love a missing moment or missing scene from that time, focusing on either Richie’s POV with emphasis on hos Seth makes him feel safe, or an exploration of Seth’s POV with him taking on this new role of caring for his terrified brother and scared of what’s happening to Richie and feeling in over his head and out of his depth and unsure of how to help—so he clings to his own fairytale he spins for himself and Richie called El Rey.
God, anything set post-s1 and during their separation would be amazing and very welcome. But for some starters, I’d love Seth having nightmares about Richie or hallucinating him while high on heroin or in withdrawal—I love the angst of Seth seeing Richie and unable to get him out of his head no matter how hard he’s trying to snuff him out with drugs and alcohol. I’d love an exploration of Seth’s instinct towards self-destruction in the face of separation from his brother—I’d be okay with suicide ideation here, I almost encourage it and would love the thought that stops Seth is that Richie isn’t dead, so there’s still a foolish sort of hope that keeps him clinging to life. Or I’d love some kind of body horror dream sex with culebra!Richie, emphasis on how Seth’s brother is a monster now and how a part of him doesn’t care and is actually into it. Seth must have kept scratching at his bite wounds and putting his fingers there for them not to have healed in three months. I’d love perhaps a messy fic where Seth masturbates while sticking his fingers in the puncture wounds, or something that explores the thought that heroin is a replacement for the venom that Richie never gave him, that Richie never turned him or chose him.
Or something exploring Richie’s POV would be all kinds of amazing, since s2 was kind of lax on that. I’d love the emphasis to be put on how he thought Seth didn’t want to be with him anymore—the “we’re done” scene comes to mind, especially Richie’s face afterwards—and how that was re-emphasized throughout the latter half of s1, so Richie breaks it off with him because he thought Seth may be better off without him, that Seth wanted to be “set free,” even though Seth’s last minute turn around suggests that wasn’t the case—but it happened too late. I’d love anything exploring Richie trying to move on from Seth by throwing himself furiously into his own ambitions, becoming kind of cold and driven, but grieving him as well. Or something that explores his long-simmering anger and building resentment at Seth having failed him and not believed him, and how that was never fully resolved.
I love Kisa so much, she is my absolute favorite, so feel free to include her in this, especially when it comes to her being the catalyst that caused the separation between Seth and Richie, but not the actual reason they broke up—or how Richie is trying to use her as a new partner to help him move on and both of them acting in roles they don’t really want or fully feel, but it’s what they have for the moment. If you want to explore how Kisa is like Seth but not like him at all, and how Richie reacts to that, I’d really enjoy that—but if you don’t want to include her in the fic, that’s okay, too; just no character bashing or demonizing her for “breaking up the boys” as I see them at fault for their own issues, Kisa was just the catalyst.
Anything exploring the fact that Seth was the first person who Richie fed on in reality would be lovely. Based on the in-show mythology, culebras feed on the soul and consume parts of the person they feed from, which means Richie fed on Seth’s soul—go wild with that. I’d love something that explores the intimacy of Richie carrying around a piece of his brother’s soul or Seth’s soul becoming part of his DNA literally, or an even more intense expansion on the concept—maybe they end up with a messy mental connection because of that, even when separated from each other? Maybe they’re bound through their souls now. But really I just love fucked up angst and intimacy stemming from that act.
Fic set during s2 would be great as it’s honestly my favorite season in terms of their relationship—them pining for each other while acting like they don’t care at all and they’ve moved on is one of my favorite aspects of the evolution of their dynamic. Anything involving missing scenes from the season focusing on their inability to communicate ending up with them having rough, angry sex—exploring how they feel drawn to each other bodily and sexually, but refusing to acknowledge it intellectually or emotionally. I’d love something that showcases how they still fit together perfectly, work together seamlessly, but there’s still that emotional wall between them that they have to overcome. Anything that shows their anger melting for melancholy tenderness that aches from longing and hurt would be sweet.
I’d also love to read someone’s take on how they come back together in the aftermath of s2 as well—how do they adjust to life as bank robbers turned collectors with a home base and crew? Or what happened to Jackknife Jed’s? Did they run the truck stop for a while before they became collectors? How do all these changes affect them and their relationship? How does forced closeness make them confront all that’s between them? How do they change with each other and learn from each other again? I’d love to read Seth adjusting to Richie being a culebra now and honestly becoming fascinated with Richie’s culebra face, scaled body, or his mind control powers. I’d love for this to be explored within the confines of a sexual space (i.e. Seth wants Richie to use his mind control powers on him in a D/s consent play space), but if you just want to write Seth touching Richie all over and exploring his new face and new body in a show of intimacy and physicality, I’d love that.
I love them in s3 and how they’ve come back together, but everything is so fraught and tense because their comfortable life they thought they had is shattered and now they run the risk of losing each other again causes them to become even more intense and clingy with each other. Remember how Seth thought Richie was dead in 3x09? Remember that walkie-talkie conversation? I’d love anything with Seth choosing to run towards Richie instead of the church or anything that explores their PSTD post-s3 at having nearly lost each other forever—Richie’s time in Xibalba or how Seth almost committed suicide via Amaru to be with him. But most of all, I love the introduction of shadow selves and shadow!Richie especially. His obsession with Seth and how he was going to drag Seth into Xibalba with him, to his manhandling and control of Seth, to his tying Seth up and openly leering at him, pressing his body close to Seth’s—all of that hit my buttons. I’d love maybe an AU where Shadow!Richie comes back from hell instead of real!Richie post-s3, or Shadow!Richie sticking around longer even after 3x06, or even just Richie’s headspace after living with an extreme ID-y version of himself in control of his body, or Seth’s attraction to a more openly violent and dangerous version of his brother that was willing to do dirtybadwrong things to him.
This is a vague prompt, but I’d love something that explores the legend of the Geckos, maybe playing on the hero twin mytharc, but with more of Geckos becoming legendary in their own right, even among culebras. I’ve been watching American Gods lately so I don’t exactly want a fusion, but I’d love the idea of Geckos becoming immortal legends from the stories people tell about them? Or something about their bloodline being special (callback to Carlos’ ‘you got a little bit of Lucifer in you’ line). Or something just a bit fairytale and mythic about them—perhaps something focusing on their connection; there’s a scene in S2 where Richie gets his powers, then cuts to Seth suddenly being able to see all the culebras in the bar and their true faces, if you need inspiration. Anything with them sharing powers from the “gods” in terms of being able to see and to take action as the show described would make for a really excellent fic.
Branching off this, I’d love anything that explores Kisa’s status as La Diosa and the mythos around her. I’d be interested in a story that explores the reason Kisa is so terrifying to the culebra community is because she holds the devotion of the people and captivates their belief, so it lends her power and authority; it doesn’t matter that she rejects it, it’s still hers to reach out and grasp. Also Kisa said she was a child of prophecy and born at the end of the sacred cycle, I’d love to see more of that backstory and what that means for her current status, and how Malvado and the other lords sought to defile her fated purpose. I’d also love to somehow link this to her identity as Santanico Pandemonium and how her status as both Sacred Whore and Divine Mother shapes her identity and also stifles and smothers her, and she seeks to escape both definitions. But the legend of both La Diosa and Santanico Pandemonium haunt her and shape who she is in a myriad of ways. I’d love anything exploring her identity issues that stem from that.
I’d also love anything fairytale/myth-esque for Kisa/Manola, their dynamic and backstory lends so much for this, such as the Beauty and the Beast elements to Kisa potentially going on an Orpheus-like quest to bring back her lost love. I’d love anything that explores how Manola feels about Kisa’s history or how she feels about Kisa being La Diosa. Manola is such a grounded presence that is so separate from anything Kisa has known, yet emboiled in culebra society somehow--she exists on the fringes and it’s a fascinating thing for Kisa to have that in her life, a person who just sees her as herself.
In general, anything hurt/comfort-y or Geckos protecting one another during a job, or exploring Richie setting the fire and killing their dad for Seth and Seth’s flame tattoo, especially his choice to extend it to his throat, over Richie’s bite marks—or how they keep choosing one another, over and over again, can’t live without each other; all of that is good, I’d love anything with that. As always, all of these can be Gen, if you’re uncomfortable with incest!
As for Kisa, I ship every permutation of Richie/Seth/Kisa, but the OT3 is my true love. I am fascinated with how the mythos of the show is created around them all being mythic figures that don’t exactly live up to the expectations and are messy and human underneath the layers of performance and lore. They are the core three of the show and I’d love anything that explores that: slow burn future-fic where they come together after Richie turns Seth and Kisa has rebuilt culebra society, or further along the lines, or a post-S2 AU where Kisa decides to stick around and help them run their empire, or keeps coming back to them and finding them comforting or giving Kisa a sense of family, which she’s been seeking for most of her life. A place to rest her weary head, so to speak. I’d love anything that explores her POV of the Geckos as a unit and how their level of fierce devotion must terrify her on some level given the shape her abuse took and how worship and devotion looks to her and feels to her. I’d love anything about her watching them and learning to understand the language they speak in, and in turn, they learn about her as well.
Seth and Kisa’s dynamic is one of the storytelling gems of the show. I love how they went from enemies to saving each other’s lives and being genuinely concerned about the well-being of the other! I would honestly be happy with just more interactions with them, any fic about them being friends and bonding would be wonderful--but I also ship them a whole lot and would love something regarding that tension there. Maybe expand on the scene where he lets her feed on him (the camera just cut away! I wanted to see it up close and personal!) and how it feels now that Kisa has tasted Seth’s soul and saw inside him; that is a deeply intimate act and I’d love to know what she saw and to know if she told him about it. They keep getting caught in these situations where they’re raw and exposed and share things with each other that can’t be replicated. I’d love anything that explores the bond that comes from Seth helping Kisa kill Malvado and him witnessing their exchange. They’re such similar people and I love how Kisa sees through him, but by the same token, Seth starts to see through her too. They both offer each other advice they’re reluctant to take, yet trust each other implicitly. There’s so much richness here to explore.
I often feel robbed by Richie and Kisa’s dynamic because S2 was so rich for them, but then in S3 there was a lack of interaction and honestly, I always wanted to see what happened after S1 in terms of them coming together after Kisa invaded his mind, mentally assaulted him, and ruined Richie’s life by making him the same monster as her. He very much did not want to go to Mexico at first--does he resent her for making him kill Monica? For invading his mind? Does he get over that? HOW does he get over that and come to forgive her, and continue to want her around? I’d love to see her teaching him how to be a vampire while he teaches her how to be a human in the modern day, while also teaching her how to be a criminal. I’d love to see more of Richie having no idea how an actual romantic relationship works and pulling tricks he’s learned from movies and media, or watching Seth with Vanessa, and falling short. I’d love to see anything exploring their mental connection and how Kisa must have taught Richie how to do it, and she must have learned it from Malvado. Or anything exploring their strange friendship and dynamic where Kisa quite literally recreated Richie in her image to create her perfect champion, yet still resented how he fell short by being his own person, but also her quiet affection for him; they both symbolically set each other free, but a part of them still circle back to each other. In S3, Richie kept tabs on Kisa, yet kept his distance, I want more about his growing understanding about what she needs and vice versa.
I’D GIVE MY FIRST BORN FOR A POST-S3 AU FIC WHERE RICHIE ENDS UP TRAPPED IN XIBALBA, AND KISA AND SETH MUST RESOLVE TO RESCUE HIM.
But also a post-s1 AU where Seth goes with Kisa and Richie and how that changes things. I would love to see Seth being jealous of the Richie/Kisa relationship and wanting to insert himself in the middle, and Kisa trying to win Seth over because she can win Richie over to her side the more she gets Seth to like her, and Richie trying to cope with the force of natures they both are, similar people with similar tempers and tactics, while Richie has to keep up. Honestly, just play with the weird complicate mess between all three of them that kind of situation would bring.
My kingdom for Kisa gen-fic regarding anything: her backstory including her family, how she came to the temple, how the temple evolved over the centuries until it became the Twister, her dynamic with Malvado and how he shaped her, her relationship with Carlos (my only request is that you don’t demonize Carlos; they both loved each other and it went sour), her relationship with the ladies in the Twister, the time after S2 and before S3, that gap of time she had to build her fight club, but also probably walked the earth trying to come to terms with her life post-everything she’s endured. Fic exploring her trauma and PTSD and her recovery is very much encouraged, if you can stomach it. I’m not asking for issue-fic, but I’d love anything that explores the messiness of recovery and how it’s not fathomable what she’s been through. On a lighter note, I’d love anything that explores Kisa’s sexuality and her lack of issue with it. She is so comfortable with that part of herself, when other parts of herself don’t fit well. I’d also enjoy anything that explores how she views herself as a monster and the cycles of abuse she committed in her quest for freedom, and how she’s devoted to being a better person afterwards. Her reconciliation with her status as a culebra has always been fascinating, especially her thoughts on humanity and how she’s lost it, but seemingly regained it with Manola.
Finally, I requested Manola because I fucking adored her and was so upset when she died after one episode. There was so much to explore with her character, so much potential wasted and I am turning to fandom to fix it. I love how much of a spitfire Manola was, small and ready to fight anyone and everyone. I’d love to explore her backstory and where she came from, the life she experienced in Idaho, how she became a fighter and how she got embroiled in culebra politics. I want to just know more about her, especially since she so willingly gave herself to Kisa to feed after she saved her, no hesitancy, complete trust. I love her look, the combination of masculine and feminine, and how that translates into her personality, both hard and soft, willing to submit to Kisa but also defend her.
Kisa/Manola was a gift that the writers gave to me then smashed right in front of my face. I am still upset over it. I’d love ANYTHING for these two: their love story, we know how they met, but not how they came together, not how they built such trust and devotion, not how Kisa opened herself up to Manola fully and how Manola earned that. I just want to see the story behind what the show gave us, I want to experience it fully. Give me them meeting and then Manola tracking Kisa down and never leaving her alone, give me Kisa taking Manola back to her hotel room and Manola just never leaving after that, give me what Kisa saw in her soul, how they view each other as their own personal savior. I’d love anything domestic with them! How they developed their feeding ritual, how they grew together, just building a home with each other then building the fight club. Porn-wise, I’d love anything that explores how Manola clearly gets off on being bitten, but also anything with Manola being careful and slow and gentle with Kisa, knowing her history and how Kisa slowly grows to crave something harder and more rough, and how Manola works up to that, but still likes worshipping kisa sexually, while Kisa returns the favor. As much as I like D/s, I don’t think that works for this relationship, so please steer clear of that kind of vibe. I’d also just love a simple h/c where Kisa tends to Manola’s cage fighting woulds and Kisa frets and fusses over and Manola just looks at her with adoration. Or Manola is a supernatural creature in her own right AU fic! I have a huuuge soft-spot for werewolf or werecoyote!Manola, if you want to write that.
Manola lives fix-it AU is a most desired fic! God, the wasted potential, the wasted dynamics! I’d love anything from Manola getting attacked and living, and Kisa taking her on the run and into hiding until Manola convinces her to join the fight and to stop running out of fear, or Manola convincing her in the moment after her attack to join Seth and Richie, and Kisa agrees to go because the Geckos promise to help protect Manola. I think Manola going with Kisa to rebuild Carlos would be amazing, especially when they meet and imagining their dynamic. Honestly, feel free to include Carlos in any capacity, I love that piece of shit, if I had a fifth slot, it’d go to him.
If you go with the latter, I’d love anything that explores Manola bonding with each Gecko. She and Richie have a lowkey antagonistic vibe that seems to evolve quickly to mutual respect and I’d like to see that escalated into something of a friendship, while I’d love to see Manola quickly taking to Seth and Seth taking to her, both of them bonding about being the lone humans in a relationship with a culebra. I’d love to see her and Seth sparring, and she kicks his ass, and he’s just impressed while Kisa and Richie watch their humans in companionable silence. I’d love love love somehow an OT4 fic working out between Kisa/Manola/Seth/Richie with the four of them becoming a weird little family as they try to stop the end of the world. Manola growing affection for the Geckos and Kisa falling back in with them, while the Geckos already viewing Kisa as a weird sort of family member, but accepting Manola into the fold. I’d love to see a slow-burn OT4 fic that explores the S3 timeline and beyond. Feel free to include trope-y shit! Bed sharing, trapped together because of Amaru, having to do a (sexy) blood ritual in order to defeat Amaru, creepy soulbonding, or Richie and Kisa arguing over how they feed on their humans (I imagine Richie is rougher with Seth and Kisa disapproves), or resolving to turn their humans, or post-battle sex or h/c sex, or anything in between.
I’ve already gone on and on, so I am going to stop myself here. I do wanna request that if you go for a post-s3 fic, I’d prefer an AU where Kate doesn’t go with the Geckos, though I am happy to read about Kate being their criminal protege; I just DNW Kate/Geckos in any shippy capacity.
Moonlight (2016)
↳ Characters: Chiron, Kevin
This movie aches. It rendered me speechless and left me wanting. I want to see more of what happened to between Chiron and Kevin post-movie. Chiron driving halfway across the country is quite a statement and I'd love a continuation that focuses on Chiron not leaving and slowly worming his way into Kevin's life as they build a life together. I'd also love an AU where the fight never happens and Chiron never goes to juvie and he and Kevin go further with each other from that moment on the beach, growing up together and figuring out themselves alongside each other. I also really love the symbolism of the ocean and what it means to Chiron, and I'd love some focus on the fact that Kevin lives by the ocean and Chiron hears it when he arrives at his place.
This movie took my breath away and just left me wanting so much more of it. It’s so painful, yet gorgeously rendered—both in imagery and within the storytelling, and of course, the acting. It deserves all the awards it received and then some. The atmosphere, the colors, the cinematography, and the characters all together combined is a hell of a punch to the gut. This is one of those films that stay with you long after you finish it—in a sort of longing way that makes you crave more.
I’d love to have a continuation post-movie fic that explores how Kevin and Chiron come back together, how they build a life together—I can’t imagine Chiron leaves after driving all that way to find Kevin and I don’t think he intended to leave, not deep down, even though he knew also it was a risk. I love that he took that risk anyway—Chiron’s intense, physical attraction to Kevin that’s so palpable in their short phone call just showcases everything. I’d love fic that deals with Kevin being there to help Chiron find a life outside of dealing and help him with his childhood trauma, but also just them coming together as a couple. I love domesticity for them—Kevin cooking for Chiron, music playing in the background, them being comfortable around each other as they put the past behind them and look towards the future.
I love oceanic themes and would love more exploration on the fact that Kevin lives by the ocean, given that is one of the most soothing things in Chiron’s life and how his most significant moments and memories are tied to the ocean—and how that is now tied to Kevin, first with their first sexual encounter on the beach and now with Chiron hearing the waves when he arrives at Kevin’s apartment.
I’d also just love a continuation of that final scene. Do they kiss? Do they have sex? What else happens after that? I’m fascinated by the fact that Kevin has been the only person who has ever touched Chiron and how he has lived without allowing anyone else that close to him. I’d love an exploration of that and the intensity of their connection from Chiron’s end and how that translates to their relationship going forward—how does Kevin feel being the fixed point of that kind of emotion? How do they navigate that?
By that same token, Chiron’s only sexual experiences were probably with himself and probably thinking of Kevin, so I’d be happy and interested in a fic about Chiron masturbating to memories of the scene on the beach. Or a fic just exploring the sensuality and sexual tension threaded through the film between Chiron and Kevin. The scene in the diner where Kevin plays “Hello Stranger” and touches his neck is so intense and heated and anything that expresses that would be lovely.
I also just would love something set when they were kids—especially an AU where Chiron doesn’t go to juvie and how that would shape his life, especially if he and Kevin would continue to move forward with their relationship—in secret, probably—and how that shapes them as adults going forward. I’d love exploration of teenage sexuality here and how they both come to reconcile themselves with how they feel about each other, while trying to grow up in the environment they’re living in. I’d love something that includes all the messy dynamics and themes that would entail, including angst and break-ups, but also reconciliation and coming together again.
Teeth - Hannah Moskowitz
↳ Characters: Rudy Clearwater, Teeth Delaney
I read this book in one sitting and it floored me with how painful and raw it was. I was left with wanting more and someone to fix it. I don't necessarily think the ending was wrong (because I think it fit, even if it broke me a bit), but I'd love to see a future fic where Rudy finds Teeth again, or Teeth returns to the island and finds Rudy changed. I'd love to see them reconnecting as adults and how the island most likely shaped Rudy and how Teeth has grown from his travels. I'd also like to see a fic that focuses on their time together and further exploration of their sexuality. Or simply a dark messy AU where Teeth decides to stay and the continued strain of the dynamic between them. I just want so much more!
This book is so heart-wrenchingly perfect in all its visceral pain and violence, as well as its intense love story at its heart. This book stayed with me long after I finished it like a pang in my chest—I don’t think I’ll ever be over it. It takes the concept of the mermaid and flips it on its head, rendering something wholly unique and tragic.
I really do want some kind of fix-it fic—not because I hate the ending, because I don’t, but rather I just want to much more from the dynamic between Rudy and Teeth. I'd love something in the future where Rudy is still on the island and his brother has gotten better, but Rudy can't move on and leave because he's still waiting for Teeth. I’d love for eventually Teeth to return, something that explores the changes in their dynamic and in themselves just from growing up, and Teeth having to leave the isolation of the island and explore elsewhere. Did Teeth see the world? I'd just love something that resolves and plays into the connection between them, which gives them a second chance at being able to be with each other. I'd love Rudy being careful and kind, and this to be a future where the island doesn't rely on the fish anymore so that Teeth can feel at peace knowing his family isn’t being hunted anymore.
Or you could break my heart and have Rudy’s brother die and all the fish being hunted to extinction and Teeth comes back to an older, more broken Rudy alone on an empty island and how Teeth responds and reacts to that—and how Rudy doesn’t want him to leave, but it’s physically and emotionally difficult for Teeth to be there.
On the flipside, I'd love an AU where Teeth gets to stay—imagine that the climax doesn’t happen—and he and Rudy grow closer and have a lot of exploratory experiences. Like how does sex work when your boyfriend is part-fish? I'd love something that explores that and Rudy being fascinated, and honestly attracted to Teeth's otherness. I love that Teeth isn’t actually attractive and looks quite monstrous, but Rudy still finds something beautiful in him. I'd also love something that explores Rudy being careful and tender and giving affection that Teeth very much craves. Hurt/comfort would be a super plus here. But I’d also love the conflict and angst of how possessive Teeth feels because Rudy has his family and Teeth only has him—Teeth’s jealousy and resentment of Rudy’s brother is fascinating when it comes into contention with the fact that Rudy participates in eating his family because his brother is sick and how that complicates Teeth’s attraction and growing feelings for Rudy.
Ultimately, I'd also just love hurt/comfort in general based on the time after Teeth was caught by the fishermen and Rudy trying to patch him up and take care of him. But if you just want to write me something melancholy in the form of a fairytale or heavy introspection from either Teeth or Rudy’s POV about their doomed romance, I'd still love that—the book holds a place in my heart because it was unafraid to be dark and frightening and ugly.