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 Dear Candy Hearts Creator,

Thanks for creating for me! For this exchange, I'm requesting both art and fic. (I'm afraid I don't have a lot of ideas for art prompts, but I'd be happy with any art related to to my general or porn likes.) Also, for both fic and art, don't feel obligated to use my prompts if there's something else you feel really inspired to make. As long as it respects my DNWs and is in the vicinity of my likes, I will enjoy it. Some of my ship requests will be longer than others, but that's just a reflection of what I have the most ideas for. I also welcome fic or art that incorporates more than one of my requested ships at the same time.

If you have any questions for me, feel free to ask through the mod. I'm always open to receiving treats.

My AO3 username is PositivelyVexed.


General Likes
  • Enemies-to-lovers, unlikely team-ups, characters who don’t quite trust each other being forced to rely on each other
  • Characters who struggle to express their feelings, characters deluding themselves about their feelings
  • Repressed characters having moments of vulnerability
  • Characters being zealously committed to an ideology or system that's bad for them
  • Finding hope and moments of shared humanity in terrible situations
  • Hurt/comfort
  • Characters learning new skills or revealing hidden talents
  • Road trips, camping, staying in roadside motels
  • Slice-of-life in an unconventional setting
  • Us-against-the-world, fighting back-to-back
  • Lost in the wilderness, Canadian Shack
  • Bed-sharing tropes: Only One Bed, huddling for warmth, falling asleep on someone's shoulder, exhausted and falling into bed together after a long day, etc.
  • Internalized homophobia, repressed desires, period-typical attitudes toward sexuality, canon-typical darkness
  • Cats, characters petting cats
  • Winter, autumn, storms of all kinds, loving descriptions of bad weather
  • Wilderness and urban decay
  • In-universe urban legends
  • Time loops, time travel
  • “Came Back Wrong”-type tropes
  • The apocalypse
  • Journeys into the underworld to retrieve a loved one
  • Ghosts, hauntings, ambiguous "maybe it's ghosts or maybe it's just going insane from grief" stories
  • Cosmic horror, eldritch beings, alien geometry
  • Unusual formats, epistolary fic, interactive fiction, comics etc.

Porn/kink likes, if you're so inclined:
  • Oral sex, fingering, handjobs, frottage, anal sex, rimming
  • Clothed/semi-clothed sex, outdoor sex, semi-public sex
  • Loss of virginity, first times, first-time-with-the-same-sex sex
  • Eagerness, desperation
  • Bed-sharing and/or heat-sharing leads to sex
  • Cuddling
  • Praise, body worship
  • Hair-pulling, hair-petting
  • Hands around someone's neck
  • Shoving someone up against a wall
  • Characters unexpectedly stumbling into kink together, informally negotiated kink or un-negotiated kink
  • D/s dynamics
  • Sex Pollen, Fuck or Die
  • Bondage: ropes, handcuffs, getting tied up with whatever’s lying around
  • Manhandling, rough sex, bruises, biting, spanking
  • Bloodplay, gunplay, knifeplay, breathplay


Do Not Want:
  • Noncon (dubcon is fine, canon-typical references to rape are fine)
  • Unrequested ships involving my requested characters (references to canon ships are fine, OC exes are fine)
  • Pregnancy or babies
  • Completely alternate-setting AUs (modern, mundane, in space, Regency, whatever)
  • A/B/O
  • Breeding kink
  • Unrequested trans headcanons
  • Explicit sex involving characters under 16
  • Pets dying or suffering
  • 1st-person POV, except in epistolary fic
  • Heavily-negotiated BDSM (contracts, checklists, safe words, traffic light system, constant check-ins)


Disco Elysium

I love this game and this universe. The humor, the weirdness, the broken-down world only a few decades from destruction, how hard everyone is trying to survive and make some sort of difference in the meantime. Worldbuilding is welcome for any of these ships. I always love to see more of Revachol and Elysium, the pale, characters having their own Skills or their own vaguely supranatural relationship with Revachol. Philosophy, politics, canon-typical darkness, and canon-typical silliness are always welcome.

Harry Du Bois/Kim Kitsuragi

I love Harry’s struggles, how much the game doesn’t pull its punches with his addiction and self-loathing. I also love what a delightful mix of dorky and cool Kim is, how messy he is under the facade of extreme professionalism, and how he unexpectedly bonds with Harry. They're both such lonely, mismatched souls who don't seem like they should vibe with each other, and yet here they are laughing at each other's jokes and thinking about how they'd die for each other and dancing in a church together. It's beautiful.

I would love to read about them at any stage in a potential relationship--getting together, the uncertain early stages of coupledom, established domesticity, facing the end of the world together.

Some specific story ideas I'd love to see:

BODY SWAP IN THE PALE. I just think it'd be really interesting and good for them to walk a mile in each other's bodies (and maybe get more comfortable with their own bodies by realizing they're still very much attracted to each other like this. Self-acceptance through bodyswapped fucking!)

MEMORY SWAP IN THE PALE. Uncomfortable intimacy, learning painful secrets, identities blurring...

HURT/COMFORT. Hurt either of them! Both of them! I'd just love some injury/sickness and vulnerability and comfort. Specific ideas: Harry struggling with a relapse or with noncon drugging? Kim getting dosed with something because reasons and needing to be nursed through the experience by Harry? Captured and whumped by someone with an old grudge? Dealing with lingering aftereffects of the Tribunal?

PAST AU. I have a serious soft spot for AUs that explore them having met before the events of the game. Anything from pre-game drunken bar hook-ups (leading to the mother of all “oh no…” moments for Kim in Martinaise) to hunting for lost treasure as young children in the catacombs of La Royaume.

DOMESTICITY. Moving in together! Making breakfast together! The mortifying ordeal of being known and mingling all your stuff!

PORN. I'm down for anything focused on Harry having sex with a man for the first time, any masculine hang-ups he might have about it or just how it piques his curiosity and willingness to explore. Also... It's canon that Kim is able to make Harry his thrall with an eyebrow quirk. So, if you're up for it... D/s? I would love any kind of kinky exploration for these two. If you’re interested in writing kink or anal sex, I have a strong preference for dom and top Kim, but otherwise I’m open to anything.

For art, I would also love anything of them cuddling in bed, or patching each other up, or any gentle moments of domesticity. Standing on the edge of the pale.

Harry Du Bois/Kim Kitsuragi & Revachol, Harry Du Bois/Kim Kisuragi/Revachol

More vignettes of them exploring Revachol and its various subcultures! Vignettes of their relationship with Revachol over the years. Revachol leaving them gifts, a la the polar anorak. (Including a wedding present, maybe?) Harry speaking to the city, the city speaking to Kim. Decoding messages the city leaves them. Harry traveling around Revachol with Kim, trying to remember things from his past life, the city sparking memories for him.

For the OT3 version, I'd be very happy with anything where the spirit of Revachol is present between them when they kiss, or gives them weird visions or extra sensations during sex, or any other direction you want to take this in!


Harry Du Bois/Kim Kitsuragi/The Skills

Just, I love the Skills a lot and think including them in a romance would be fun. All the Skills are in love with Kim, and have their own ideas about how to go about winning his affections. Kissing Kim is different every time, depending on what the skill check being passed (or failed?!) is. The skills trying to seduce Kim, but it's white check failures all the way down. Kim is into it anyway. In a sex scene, the skills all playing a role and trying to one-up each other, or each of them being undone by Kim.


 Harry Du Bois/Kim Kitsuragi & Garte


I was so fond of Garte by the end of the game, and I'd love some more bonding between these three than we got. Maybe Harry and Kim keep ending up investigating crimes at bars Garte manages, to his ongoing dismay? Getting invited to his and Sylvie's wedding?

Also, Kim and Garte don't really get a chance to bond the way Harry and Garte do, so I'd be interested in any moments where the two of them find an unexpected detante. Post-tribunal while Harry is unconscious is an obvious time for it, but I'd be interested in anything where they connect. They're both guys devoted to their jobs who try very hard to be taken seriously and don't always succeed, so, surprise bonding? The three of them playing a board game together or sharing some other nerdy interest.

Or, Garte outsider POV on Harry/Kim during canon, or through the years as they return to the Whirling for reasons.


Klaasje Amandou/Ruby, Klaasje Amandou & Ruby

Both these characters were were so fascinating to me. I love Klaasje's willingness to manipulate and how uncertain you're left about her backstory and motivations in the end. Her mixture of self-loathing and desire to self-annihilate through drugs and partying, which is a bleak sort of parallel to both Harry and Ruby's suicidal impulses. I love what a mix of tough, resourceful, and fragile Ruby is, and how open she is with her struggles with mental illness. I'm very curious as to how she got mixed up with Madre and what running drugs for a vicious cartel was like for someone like her.

The scenario I'd most love is post-canon fic where circumstances to force them to team up again. Going on the run for the world's most awkward Thelma and Louise roadtrip? Evading pursuers and working together or just hiding out in some roadside motels or the back of a lorrie inside an aerostatic together?

I'd love Ruby getting to express her hurt at Klaasje's betrayal of her, and Klaasje having conflicted feelings about it that she may or may not lie about. The two of them coming to some kind of reluctant understanding? I tend to take Ruby at her word that their relationship was casual, but the hurt of that betrayal seems like it would cut deep, and I'd love to see how, or if, they could ever come back from that, either as friends or lovers.

Anything exploring their relationship to Revachol. Revachol speaking to them or protecting them, dreaming of Le Retour together, facing down the pale (swapping memories in the pale would be fascinating for these two!) 

I'm intrigued by the idea of trans-feminine Klaasje if you care to go there. 

For art, hanging out in lorries or on aerostatics while on the run together, sharing a smoke, reluctantly patching each other up after an injury?


René Arnoux/The Deserter

My hateful old man 4 hateful old man ship. It'd be an absolute nightmare.

Something about the tragic parallels and the one-sided intimacy of this relationship just guts me. The Deserter's blue-screen-of-death reaction to Rene's death, his grief at losing someone he hates, someone who doesn't even know he exists, and that being the closest thing to a long term relationship and an emotional anchor this horrible, traumatized old man has ever experienced... it gives me a lot of feelings.

I'd be fascinated by anything that adds some twisted desire to The Deserter's devoted hatred for Rene.

Also, what would happen if it wasn't a purely one-sided relationship? How much more horrible would it be if they ever actually met? The weird satisfaction of finally being known by the man you've loved to hate for decades? Twisted understanding for each other that they clamp down on? Fucked-up hatesex? Or just Rene slowly becoming aware that there's a communist hiding on the islet and developing an obsession with hunting him down? I'm fascinated by how well they can probably understand each other better than anyone else in Martinaise, and yet how loathe they'd be to ever acknowledge it.

I'm also very interested in Rene/Gaston (and Rene/Gaston/Jeanne-Marie) seen through Dros's eyes. Dros experiencing jealousy that he can't recognize as such? Or the two of them and their complicated relationships with Revachol?  Give me anything with these two.

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Dear Yuletide Writer,

Thanks for writing for me! I hope you have fun writing, and don't feel obligated to use my prompts if there's something else you feel really inspired to write. As long as it respects my DNWs and is in the vicinity of my likes, I will enjoy it. Some of my fandom sections will be longer than others, but that's just a reflection of how many ideas I have for each, I'd be excited to receive fic for any of these! If you have any questions for me, feel free to ask through the mod. I'm always open to receiving treats.

My AO3 username is PositivelyVexed.

Have a great Yuletide season!

Requested Fandoms
The Long Walk - Richard Bachman
Dark Matter - Michelle Paver
Disco Elysium


General Likes
  • Enemies-to-lovers
  • Unlikely team-ups
  • Characters who don’t quite trust each other being forced to rely on each other
  • Characters who get each other better than anyone else does
  • Characters who struggle to express their feelings or express their feelings in unconventional ways
  • Stoic or repressed characters having moments of vulnerability
  • Characters deluding themselves, especially about their feelings
  • Characters being zealously committed to an ideology or system that doesn’t serve them
  • Finding hope and moments of shared humanity in dystopian societies
  • Hurt/comfort
  • Characters learning new skills or revealing hidden talents
  • Road trips, camping, staying in roadside motels
  • Slice-of-life in an unconventional setting
  • Us-against-the-world, fighting back-to-back
  • Lost in the wilderness, Canadian Shack
  • Bed-sharing tropes: Only One Bed, huddling for warmth, falling asleep on someone's shoulder, exhausted and falling into bed together after a long day, etc.
  • Internalized homophobia, repressed desires, period-typical attitudes toward sexuality, canon-typical darkness
  • Cats, characters petting cats
  • Winter (Christmas themes are fine to include), fall, snow, storms of all kinds, descriptions of bad weather
  • Wilderness and urban decay
  • In-universe urban legends
  • Time loops, time travel
  • “Came Back Wrong”-type tropes
  • The apocalypse
  • Journeys into the underworld to retrieve a loved one
  • Ghosts, hauntings, ambiguous "maybe it's ghosts or maybe it's just going insane from grief" stories
  • Cosmic horror, eldritch beings, alien geometry
  • Unusual formats, epistolary fic, interactive fiction, etc.

Porn/kink likes, if you're so inclined:
  • Oral sex, fingering, handjobs, frottage, anal sex, rimming
  • Clothed/semi-clothed sex, outdoor sex, semi-public sex
  • Loss of virginity, first times, first-time-with-the-same-sex sex
  • Eagerness, desperation
  • Bed-sharing and/or heat-sharing leads to sex
  • Cuddling
  • Praise, body worship
  • Hair-pulling, hair-petting
  • Hands around someone's neck
  • Shoving someone up against a wall
  • Characters unexpectedly stumbling into kink together, informally negotiated kink or un-negotiated kink
  • D/s dynamics
  • Sex Pollen, Fuck or Die
  • Bondage: ropes, handcuffs, getting tied up with whatever’s lying around
  • Manhandling, rough sex, bruises, biting, spanking
  • Bloodplay, gunplay, knifeplay, breathplay


Do Not Want:
  • Noncon (dubcon is fine, canon-typical references to rape are fine)
  • Unrequested noncanon ships for my requested characters (but don't feel like you need to pretend someone has never had a past relationship before, mentions of OC exes are fine)
  • Non-canon pregnancy or babies, heavy focus on canon pregnancy or babies
  • Completely alternate-setting AUs (modern, mundane, in space, Regency, whatever)
  • A/B/O
  • Breeding kink
  • Trans or ace headcanons for my requested characters
  • Explicit sex involving characters under 16
  • Pets dying or suffering
  • 1st-person POV, except in epistolary fic (edited to add: 1st-person POV for Jack Miller is fine even if not explicitly epistolary)
  • Heavily-negotiated BDSM (contracts, checklists, safe words, traffic light system, constant check-ins), characters using BDSM jargon like "subspace"


The Long Walk - Richard Bachman
Ray Garraty, Peter McVries

This is such a haunting, memorable story, with a surprisingly touching, doomed friendship (or maybe more?) at the center of it. One of the most affecting things for me is how these boys who signed up for a walk to the death still instinctively try so hard to help and support each other, so I'd love any more vignettes that lean into those moments of kindness and solidarity in the face of extreme dehumanization, or those instincts leading to any desperate last stands and uprisings. I'd really be interested in any story that leans into the unreal undercurrents of the latter half of the novel, going full-on surreal or supernatural: the walkers just keep on walking even after they die? The dark figure in the last paragraph as an actual entity? Ray’s mind breaks down even further post-victory, and has trouble distinguishing reality from dreams?

I'd love any fix-it you care to write, no matter how unlikely or fantastical: Groundhog Day scenario? Ray’s winning wish is to turn back time? Walker uprising? Maybe there are more cracks in the Major's hold on the society and the military than we see? Weather emergency or act of war or well-timed plague apocalypse allow the boys to escape? Deal with the devil?

I’d be very interesting in more worldbuilding touches concerning the state of the dystopia and the role the Walk plays in it. Ray encountering past winners after his victory, and discovering what horrific state they’re in.

I ship Garraty/McVries, and with even the most handwavey of explanations of how they escaped the Walk alive, I would love to read about them on the run or holed up in some rat-trap hotel, tending to each other’s injuries, cuddling up and enjoying the most-well deserved sleep of their lives, or getting up to more than that. Basically anything that explores how they might relate to each other outside of the intense certain-death-for-at-least-one-of-them circumstances their bond formed in. What might their friendship or a burgeoning romantic relationship look like with them actually able to survive together? I'm equally interested in dark takes on this ship that keeps the tragic canon ending intact: denial and internalized homophobia, confessions of desire or self-realization that comes too late, a surviving Garraty haunted by dreams of how it could have been, Garraty takes McVries up on his proposal, and there are Furtive Handjobs in the night, or alternatively, Exhibitionist Handjobs of Defiance in front of the crowd. McVries is a ghost who haunts a traumatized Garraty after the novel's ending, with sexy, angsty and/or spooky results.

Anything dealing with Ray's internalized homophobia and his issues around what happened with the neighbor boy all those years back would also be welcome: I'm fine with either framing the encounter with the neighbor boy as nonconsensual (further confusing his feelings about McVries) or consensual but a source of intense denial and shame. (And, uh, I wouldn't object if you wanted to give Pete and his scar a different backstory than the one he tells Ray in the book.)

Dark Matter - Michelle Paver
Gus Balfour, Jack Miller, The Ghost

The extremity of the arctic darkness and isolation makes this the perfect wintertime horror story for me, and I’d love some horror or fix-its (or both!) this Yuletide. In particular, I’d love anything with Jack and Gus having a harrowing experience with the ghost. I'd love to read an AU where somehow Jack and Gus both survive the fall into the water, but end up trapped in Gruhuken alone, awaiting rescue and struggling to survive. Or a canon divergent AU where Gus doesn't get appendicitis or they otherwise end up staying in Gruhuken. What happens? Do they end up admitting to each other that they've seen a ghost? Awkward mutual pining while being too afraid to bring up the whole ghost thing? Does the ghost, realizing their connection, try to use their repressed feelings to hurt each other? Also, feel free to have the interactions between all three happen by dreams at any point during or post-canon, or Jack being haunted by both Gus and the ghost post-canon. I’d also be interested in an AU where they all become ghosts, and the encounters future travelers have with them.

I’m interested in any spookiness you want to explore with the ghost: visions, invasions of their privacy and messing with their sense of perception, more moments where they have visions of the ghost’s past and re-live its suffering. I love what a figure of pure malevolence the ghost is, but I’d be interested in anything where there may be some uncomfortable moments of empathy or identification. Jack uneasily seeing something of himself in a despised loner and outsider? I’d love to see more of how Gus in particular would relate to the ghost over a longer period. Creepy, trippy threesome vibes? I don't know how, but I'd be interested.

I'd also love to see some hurt/comfort and hope amidst the darkness! There are so many possibilities for fix-its scenarios in this novel, and I'm interested in any you’d like to explore. I very much ship Jack and Gus, and on the softer, shippier side of things, I love huddling for warmth, sharing body heat, shivering, hypothermia, There Was Only One Bed, and all manner of cold weather-related tropiness. I'd also be interested in more things dealing with the class divide between Jack and Gus, as well as Jack's intense loneliness and isolation and his difficulty opening up to someone else.

The epistolary style of the novel is delightful, and I would love to read anything written in the same style, or scrapbook style with found documents, but don't feel obligated to go that direction if you don’t feel like it.

Disco Elysium
Harry Du Bois, Kim Kitsuragi

This game grabbed me and wouldn’t let go. I love these character and the broken-down but beautiful city they inhabit and the bizarre, doomed world they’re trying to make a difference in. I love Harry’s struggles, how much the game doesn’t pull its punches with his addiction and self-loathing, but how hard he’s trying and how he can begin to take the first tentative steps towards building a better version of himself, if he chooses. I also love what a delightful mix of dorky and cool Kim is, how much he enjoys and unexpectedly bonds with a Harry who’s good to him, how well he responds to Harry drawing him out of his shell. I love his loneliness, his pettiness, his quiet sarcasm, and I’m fascinated by the way he’s a cop through and through, for good and ill—and is still treated like an outsider in his own city.

I ship them and would love to read about them at any stage in a potential relationship--getting together, the uncertain early stages of coupledom, established domesticity, facing death or the end of the world together. Even with gen fic, I'd prefer they still care deeply about each other and enjoy each other's company.

The worldbuilding of Elysium is fascinating, and I’d love anything else fleshing out the city or the world. I love how creepy and thematically rich the pale is, and would be thrilled with any story you want to tell about them discussing or interacting with the pale. Lost in the pale together, their memories being merged or swapped in the pale, BODY SWAP IN THE PALE (okay, the pale doesn’t work like that, but I’m willing to handwave), forming more entroponetic theories and finding more swallows throughout Revachol, or investigating any of the ways that people in Elysium live with and make peace with the pale—or don’t make peace with it.

Hurt/comfort would be great. I’m down for either emotional or physical hurt, and would be especially interested in the challenges both of them face making the rocky transition from Martinaise to Jamrock, the struggles of working with a precinct full of people who remember Harry better than he does and seem to be waiting for him to slip up. Dealing with the trauma, the baggage, the rampant homophobia and casual -isms in the RCM and what that means for a potential relationship between them? Or Injury on a case? Harry struggling with a relapse? Kim dealing with his own dead partner trauma and how that relates to his feelings about Harry? Captured and whumped by someone with an old grudge? Harry discovering unsavory things about his own past? Dealing with lingering aftereffects of the Tribunal?

More vignettes of them exploring Revachol and its various subcultures! I'd be particularly interested in something that has them exploring Revachol's homo-sexual underground (undercover at a gay bar??) Stereo-investigations, cryptid-hunting, making a positive difference in people's life even if they'll never be able to fix the System. Harry speaking to the city, Kim having his own different, but very real, bond with the city. I also really liked all the side characters we meet in Martinaise, and would enjoy anything that had Harry and Kim run into them again. Return to the Church to see how the Ravers and Soona are doing? More of Harry's adorable crush on the Smoker? Car funeral with Lilienne? Running into Garte at some other bar he manages? Somehow crossing paths with Ruby or Klaasje again, or seeing how Evrart’s power play is working out?

I have a serious soft spot for AUs that explore them having met before the events of the game. Anything from pre-game drunken bar hook-ups (leading to the mother of all “oh no…” moments for Kim in Martinaise) to hunting for lost treasure as young children in the catacombs of La Royaume.

For shipfic specifically, I'd love Harry figuring out his bisexuality, mutual pining, care-taking as an expression of love, and being domestic together. I'm also down for anything focused on Harry having sex with a man for the first time, any masculine hang-ups he might have about it or just how it piques his curiosity and willingness to explore. Also... It's canon that Kim is able to make Harry his thrall with an eyebrow quirk. So, if you're up for it... D/s? I would love any kind of kinky exploration for these two or tender sex between two very lonely and touch-starved middle-aged men. If you’re interested in writing kink or anal sex, I have a strong preference for dom and top Kim, but otherwise I’m open to anything.

I welcome incorporating the skills or other game mechanics (thought projects, tasks) to any degree you want. Feel free to experiment with new formats: interactive fiction, epistolary, etc.

Canon-specific DNWs: Harry or Kim being shipped with anyone else in Precinct 41, including as a past or one-sided thing. Racist or fascist Harry.
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Dear Horror Author,

Thanks for writing for me! I'm really looking forward to reading what you create for this, and if you're unsure about anything feel free to ask through the mod. I'm open to all types of endings for this exchange, from dark and bleak to bittersweet to ambiguous and open-ended, and I always have a fondness for characters who've been put through the wringer earning themselves some kind of happy ending (whatever that may look like for them). Whatever you feel is appropriate, I look forward to it. Also, some of my fandom sections are longer than others, but those are just the ones I have more ideas for! I'd love to get fic for any of these fandoms!

All my requests are for fic, and I welcome shipfic for all of my requested relationships. Treats are welcome!

I'm really excited to see what you come up with!

My AO3 username is PositivelyVexed.


Requested Fandoms

Disco Elysium
The Lighthouse
Us



General likes
  • Enemies-to-lovers, friends-to-lovers, unlikely team-ups, characters who don’t quite trust each other being forced to rely on each other
  • Unexpected loyalty or kindness between unlikely characters
  • Emotionally repressed characters having a vulnerable moment
  • Hurt/comfort, especially with characters who are bad at comforting and/or uncomfortable with being comforted
  • Competence porn, characters learning new skills or revealing hidden talents or depths
  • Adventures, daring rescues, daring escapes, daring heists
  • Road trips, camping, staying in roadside motels
  • Us-against-the-world, fighting back-to-back
  • Survival stories, lost in the wilderness, Canadian Shack
  • Bed-sharing, huddling for warmth, falling asleep against each other, etc.
  • Internalized homophobia, repressed desires, period-typical attitudes toward sexuality, religious guilt
  • Scenery porn
  • Cats, characters petting cats
  • Winter, snow, deserts, islands, mountains, storms of all kinds, descriptions of weather

Horror likes
  • Emphasis on atmosphere and building unease
  • Characters being confronted with their own insignificance in an indifferent universe
  • Characters having their worldviews shattered and dealing with the fallout
  • Trouble distinguishing between dreams and reality
  • Isolated communities with secrets
  • Evil corporations or churches
  • "Driven mad by the revelation"
  • Characters telling in-universe legends and urban legends
  • "Motif of harmful sensation" - books that can drive you mad, songs that make you want to kill yourself, etc.
  • Abandoned settings that reveal some kind of increasingly horrifying story about what happened through the objects left behind
  • “Came Back Wrong”-type tropes
  • Isolated wilderness settings
  • The apocalypse (zombie, plague, nuclear, etc.)
  • Journeys into the underworld
  • Labyrinths
  • People, families and societies repeating the same cycle of sins over and over
  • Ghosts, hauntings, ambiguous "maybe it's ghosts or maybe it's just going mad from grief" stories
  • Eldritch horrors
  • Haunted houses, ghost towns, cemeteries, catacombs

Porn/kink likes, if you're so inclined:
  • Oral sex, fingering, handjobs, frottage, anal sex
  • Clothed/semi-clothed sex, outdoor sex, semi-public sex
  • Loss of virginity, first times, first-time-with-the-same-sex sex
  • Eagerness, desperation, characters being so overcome with desire that it forces them to push through their intense sexual repression and shame about being so into it
  • Bed-sharing and/or heat-sharing leads to sex
  • Cuddling
  • Hair-pulling, hair-petting
  • Shoving someone up against a wall
  • Characters unexpectedly stumbling into kinks that really work for them, especially if it's a source of intense embarrassment or guilt to be so turned on by that
  • Informally negotiated kink or unnegotiated kink
  • D/s dynamics, struggles for dominance
  • Bondage: ropes, handcuffs, characters getting tied up with whatever’s lying around
  • Manhandling, rough sex, bruises, biting, spanking
  • Bloodplay, gunplay, knifeplay, breathplay


Do Not Want:
  • Explicit noncon. Dubcon is fine. (In practice, I tend to count something as dubcon rather than noncon if both partners are active participants and at least a little into it.) Canon-typical references to rape are fine.
  • Non-canonical pregnancy or babies, heavy focus on canonical pregnancy or babies
  • Completely alternate-setting AUs (modern, mundane, in space, Regency, whatever)
  • A/B/O, D/s-verse, breeding kink
  • Scat, watersports
  • Unrequested gender/sexual identity headcanons
  • Explicit sex involving characters under 16
  • On-page child abuse or torture
  • Pets dying or suffering, humans sadistically torturing animals (canon-typical violence to animals is fine)
  • Fingernail/toenail or eye trauma, de-gloving or flaying
  • Serial Killer AU versions of requested characters

Disco Elysium
Harry Du Bois & Kim Kitsuragi
Cosmic (Lovecraftian) Horror, Dark Fantasy, Institutional Horror, Psychological Horror, Religious Horror, Folk Horror, Science Fiction Horror

There's so many disturbing world-building elements lurking in the corners of this game, and I would love to see them explored in more depth in a horror story.

I also love how damaged Harry is, and the hints that Kim had a lot of trauma and baggage under the cool professionalism he tries to project. Anything playing on their memories or past traumas: more amnesia or memory merging or identity loss through the Pale, stalked by monsters that represent their worst experiences or aspects of themselves. One of them losing the other, and being haunted by voices through the radio?

Anything Pale-related! It wasn't until my second playthrough that I got the story on the Pale, and it cast this world into such a different light. The grim inevitability of it eating away at the known world is such fertile ground for horror and nihilism, and I would love to see a fic where Harry and Kim have to explore it. The implication that the Pale is in some sense the product of human consciousness and memory is so intriguing, and it seems like you could do so much interesting stuff with it that intersects with Harry's memory loss, and his ambiguous ability to tap into the consciousness of his colleagues or the city. The Pale swallowing characters or sections of the city. Maybe someone in Moralintern notices the connection between the growth of the Pale and human memories and takes it upon themselves to fix things by controlling or wiping memories?

I'm also really taken with the idea of Pale cultists who worship the Pale or try to control it by making sacrifices to it, and I would love anything where Harry and Kim investigate something like that. Any kind of Elysium folk horror exploring the weird pockets of subcultures that exist in the city.

Getting lost in the catacombs under the city and being followed by something spooky they can't see.

I also love what a beautiful, terrifying figure Dolores Dei is, as both as both a historical figure, a symbol, and a possibly non-human entity. What was she? Maybe she is isn't as dead as she seems to be? I'd be particularly interested to know what emotional relationship Kim, a former Moralist, might have toward her, since we don't get much of a sense of that in game.

This game does an amazing job capturing the fucked-up dream logic of a troubled mind, with characters merging into each other and free association of images. Just anything with more dream trippiness, please. Some nightmares either of them have?

Just generally, more exploration of the potential for psychological horror with the voices in Harry's head, especially playing with their unreliability that we got a taste of in the scene with Klaasje. Harry discovering that the holes in his memory hide something much darker than he realized. Terrible things he's done, aspects of his identity his voices are trying to hide.

Shivers! The general creepiness of a psychic ability to eavesdrop on the rest of the city played for horror. On a related note, the prelude to or aftermath of that atomic bomb drop.

Apocalypse Cop! Apocalypse Cop!  Harry being a doomsaying would-be prophet foretelling the end of the world doesn't get nearly enough play in fic. Especially if he (and Kim) start to realize it's not just a weird coping mechanism. 

2nd person POV fic for this fandom is very welcome, as is formatting in the style of the game mechanics, and experimenting with new formats.

Also, while I certainly don't expect porn for this exchange, if you do feel like writing it, I prefer Kim to top/dom. Vanilla, non-penetrative sex is great too!


The Lighthouse (2019)
Thomas Wake & Ephraim Winslow
Body Horror, Cosmic Horror, Dark Fantasy, Folk Horror, Gothic Horror, Institutional Horror, Paranormal Horror, Psychological Horror, Supernatural Horror

This film was such a trip. I love the themes of identity, the gaslighting/unreliability of memory, the references to classical mythology and nautical superstitions, the many and varied horrors of toxic masculinity, the touches of dark comedy, and just the sheer weirdness of it all. The relationship between the two Thomases is fascinating. Shipping-wise, I'd love more of that weird homoeroticism with the unsettling elements turned up to eleven. More kinky power play in the vein of the (canon!) noncon puppy play.  

More broadly, anything trippy and weird would be right up my alley. The ambiguity about identity taken to extremes with body swaps or memory loss/merging. Non-con animal or monster transformation. Nightmares. Becoming a god of the sea. Becoming the mermaid. Ritual sacrifice. Stuck alone on an island with only a corpse for company, and maybe starting to forget that the corpse is only a corpse. Blurring the lines of reality and dreams. More of Wake undercutting Howard's memory of events, possibly extending to anything sexual Howard thinks he remembers happening between them.

I feel a little short on prompts for this fandom because mainly I just want whatever weird shit you can think of. Go nuts!



Us (2019)
Adelaide Wilson & Red
Body Horror, Dark Fantasy, Folk Horror, Institutional Horror, Psychological Horror, Science Fiction Horror, Supernatural Horror

I love both of these characters and empathize with both of them while also finding them both wonderfully chilling. I would love to see them sharing sexual tension or creepy violations of boundaries or dance-fighting-leads-to-fucking or any other kind of sexual encounter between them. Pre-film fic where Tethering gives them a degree of sexual intimacy that they both simultaneously hate and are reluctantly turned on by? (The film is vague about how Tethering actually works, and especially vague about how it works for two doppelgangers who've switched places, so I'd love to see them discover they have some kind of a two-way control over the other's movements). The two of them sharing sensations or weird dreams? I'm very into exploring the potential horror in the increasingly blurred identities and experiences between these two.

The weird half-autonomous culture of the Tethered, both pre- and post-Red's influence, is such fertile ground for folk horror, and the blend of symbolism, and pop culture icons they adopt under Red are something I'd love to see explored more. Their beliefs, her vision for remaking the world when they rise again. Trippy hints of how horrifying life as the Tethered was like, in the spirit of Red's fairy-tale-like story she tells the Wilsons?

What if Adelaide had taken Red with her that night they met? What if that has its own creepy consequences? The two of them developing their own unnatural bond, corrupting each other, developing a love/hate relationship.

What if Adelaide doesn't succeed in killing Red and never gets out of the tunnels at the end of the film, and they end up trapped together in an intense cat and mouse game?

More of the bizarre underworld, if it gets increasingly otherworldly and strange as it goes on and the bizarre customs lifestyles that develop in there. Scenes of America, post-Tethered take over, in an AU where Red survived, or with the Wilsons on the run and trying to survive.
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Dear author,

Thanks for writing for me, I'm very much looking forward to seeing what you come up with! If you have any questions, please feel free to contact me through the mods.



 General likes
  • Loyalty, intense emotional connections
  • Shared senses of humor, banter
  • Characters who just get each other better than anyone else does
  • Characters struggling to express their feelings or expressing their feelings in unconventional ways
  • Stoic, repressed, or asshole characters forced to show vulnerability
  • Characters deluding themselves, especially about their feelings
  • Characters as products of a particular time period and setting
  • Characters trying to work within a flawed system or trying to find a way to resist
  • Hurt/comfort, especially if the characters struggle to offer and receive comfort
  • Physical injuries, whump
  • Competence porn, characters learning new skills or revealing hidden talents or depths
  • Rescues, escapes, heists
  • Road trips, camping, staying in roadside motels
  • Us-against-the-world, fighting back-to-back
  • Lost in the wilderness, Canadian Shack
  • Bed-sharing tropes: Only One Bed, huddling for warmth, falling asleep on someone's shoulder, exhausted and falling into bed together after a long day, etc.
  • Internalized homophobia, repressed desires, period-typical attitudes toward sexuality, religious guilt where applicable
  • Cats, characters petting cats, catboys, catboy/dogboy romance
  • Winter (Christmas themes are fine to include if you feel like it), fall, snow, storms of all kinds, descriptions of weather
  • Wilderness and urban decay
  • Characters telling in-universe legends and urban legends
  • “Came Back Wrong”-type tropes
  • The apocalypse (zombie, plague, nuclear etc.)
  • Journeys into the underworld to retrieve a loved one
  • Ghosts, haunted places, ambiguous "maybe it's ghosts or maybe it's just insanity" stories
  • Cosmic horror, eldritch beings

Porn/kink likes, if you're so inclined:
  • Characters being really into whatever they're doing
  • Oral sex, fingering, handjobs, frottage, anal sex, rimming
  • Clothed/semi-clothed sex, outdoor sex, semi-public sex
  • Loss of virginity, first times, first-time-with-the-same-sex sex
  • Eagerness, desperation
  • Bed-sharing and/or heat-sharing leads to sex
  • Cuddling
  • Praise, body worship
  • Hair-pulling, hair-petting
  • Hands around someone's neck
  • Shoving someone up against a wall
  • Characters unexpectedly stumbling into kinks that really work for them both
  • Informally negotiated kink or unnegotiated kink
  • D/s dynamics
  • Cockwarming
  • Sex pollen, Fuck or Die, Bad Guys Made Them Do It*
  • Consensual but not Safe or Sane
  • Bondage: ropes, handcuffs, getting tied up with whatever’s lying around
  • Manhandling, rough sex, bruises, biting, spanking
  • Bloodplay, gunplay, knifeplay, breathplay
*(I'm down for any level of dubcon or noncon for these scenarios, as long as it's not "A is on board with fucking to survive but B is not, so A forces B"--I want them working together, even if it's miserable for both)


Do Not Want:
  • Explicit noncon (fuck or die scenarios are fine, dubcon is fine as long as both parties want it and enjoy it on some level)
  • Completely alternate-setting AUs (modern, mundane, in space, Regency, whatever)
  • A/B/O, breeding kink, pregnancy
  • Unrequested trans headcanons
  • Heavily-negotiated BDSM (contracts, checklists, safe words, traffic light system, constant check-ins)
  • Unrequested ships involving my requested characters (except for past canon ships or random OC exes)
  • Sub!Kim
  • Racist/fascist/misogynist Harry


Disco Elysium
Harry/Kim


Tags: Accidental Bond Means Sharing Thoughts and Physical Sensations, Aftermath of Torture - Character trying to hold it together is clearly low-key fraying at the edges, Amnesia - Both Amnesiac and Falsely Assume They Are In A Relationship, BDSM - Undercover At A BDSM Club, A and B aren't together and travel to alternate dimension where their evil counterparts are a couple, Lost/trapped together in a strange/spooky/dangerous place, Make them a catperson, "Thank Fuck You're Alive!" Emotions Turn Into Frantic Fucking, Lovingly Detailed Descriptions of Penetration, Touch Starved - Long-Buried Craving for Touch Reawakened, Touch-starved character comes from gentle foreplay alone, A Stumbles Into Alternative Universe; Gets Sexily Menaced By An Evil Version Of B, Undercover - Undercover character forced to torture loved one who fully understands what's going on, Case Fic - Investigating a Crime in LGBT Community Leads to Getting Together, Casual Cock Warming for Comfort, Characters Have Trouble Sleeping Apart After Shared Traumatic Captivity, A framed for a crime they didn't commit; B determined to prove their innocence, Hurt/Comfort - Character isn't used to being loved and shown tenderness/affection, Bad Guys Make Them Do It, how do i politely ask him/her to slam me against a wall and make out with me?, Pulling a character in by their tie for a kiss, Captivity - Trapped with someone in need of medical attention, One character shaves another's chest/pubic hair with a straight razor, D/s - under-negotiated or unnegotiated but mutually enjoyed dynamic, Desperate clothed humping with coming in pants, Fuck or Die with mutual pining, Handcuffs, What Passes for Normalcy When You Know You're in a Cosmic Horror Story, Time Loop, Bodyswap can only be reversed with sex, Characters Have Trouble Sleeping Apart After Shared Traumatic Captivity, Character is ashamed of their kinks, Hurt/Comfort - Captured and tortured together & doing their best to help each other through it, Size Kink: Little Guy with a Giant Cock Tops Big Guy with a Tight Hole, Pining - Character reveals their feelings while not quite lucid (hurt/drunk/etc.), Usually-Composed A Degrades and Dirty-Talks B While Feral and Horny, Sex Pollen


I adore this game. The humor, the existential dread, the politics, the world-building, it’s all incredible. And I adore the relationship between Harry and Kim. I live for the rare times Kim's composure cracks and it becomes obvious just how much he enjoys Harry's antics. I also love how highly Harry thinks of Kim, and how cool he thinks Kim is. (Few, if any, other characters seem to notice Kim's coolness, but Harry does, and I love that for them.)

I ship it very hard, and would love to see them at any stage in a potential relationship--getting together, working out how to be a couple, domestic established relationship. I'm always down for them being tender, pining, having fun together, working well together, or struggling and working through conflict. With any fic, I'd prefer a Harry who's at least trying to get sober and get his life back on track (struggles and backsliding are fine).

Tag-wise, I'd be thrilled to receive any of these. All of these are extremely iddy for me and I'm curious to see what someone does with them. A few general notes:

-For the porn and kink tags, I prefer Kim domming, and topping when it comes to anal sex. Otherwise, I'm down for whatever take on these you feel like. PWP is great, although I'm always here for feelings-heavy sex where the focus is more on what it means for them emotionally.

-For the hurt/comfort tags, I'm down for absolutely anything (as long as there's comfort at the end). Serious physical hurt, emotional hurt. Tortured at the hands of bad guys. Either of them as the hurt party. Or both of them! Both is good. 

-For the spooky/supernatural/horror-themed tags, I love Pale-related weirdness and would eat that up with a spoon.

-Some of these tags are pretty... high concept and imply something elaborate and plotty, and while I'd love elaborate and plotty if you're up for it, I'm equally fine with shorter things that are just a juicy scene or two with the setup and plot heavy-lifting handwaved. In media res is fine!

I love 2nd person POV or the skills voices/video game mechanics for this canon, but 3rd person is great too.

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Dear Yuletide Writer,

Thanks for writing for me! I'm looking forward to reading whatever you come up with.
I hope you have fun writing, and don't feel obligated to use my prompts if there's there's something you feel really inspired to write. As long as it respects my DNWs and is in some conceptual vicinity of my likes, I will enjoy it. Some of my prompts will be longer than others, but that's just a reflection of how many ideas I have for each, I'd be excited to receive fic for any of these! If you have any questions for me, feel free to ask through the mod.

Have a great Yuletide season!

Requested Fandoms
Disco Elysium (Video Game)
True Detective
Beau Travail (1999)


General likes
  • Enemies-to-lovers, friends-to-lovers, unlikely team-ups, characters who don’t quite trust each other being forced to rely on each other
  • Loyalty, intense emotional connections
  • Shared senses of humor, banter
  • Characters who just get each other better than anyone else does
  • Characters struggling to express their feelings or expressing their feelings in unconventional ways
  • Stoic, repressed, or asshole characters forced to show vulnerability
  • Characters deluding themselves, especially about their feelings
  • Characters as products of a particular time period and setting
  • Characters trying to work within a flawed system or trying to find a way to resist
  • Hurt/comfort, especially if the characters struggle to offer and receive comfort
  • Physical injuries, whump
  • Competence porn, characters learning new skills or revealing hidden talents or depths
  • Rescues, escapes, heists
  • Road trips, camping, staying in roadside motels
  • Us-against-the-world, fighting back-to-back
  • Lost in the wilderness, Canadian Shack
  • Bed-sharing tropes: Only One Bed, huddling for warmth, falling asleep on someone's shoulder, exhausted and falling into bed together after a long day, etc.
  • Internalized homophobia, repressed desires, period-typical attitudes toward sexuality, religious guilt where applicable
  • Cats, characters petting cats
  • Winter (Christmas themes are fine to include if you feel like it), fall, snow, storms of all kinds, descriptions of weather
  • Wilderness and urban decay
  • Characters telling in-universe legends and urban legends
  • “Came Back Wrong”-type tropes
  • The apocalypse (zombie, plague, nuclear, etc.)
  • Journeys into the underworld to retrieve a loved one
  • Ghosts, haunted places, ambiguous "maybe it's ghosts or maybe it's just insanity" stories
  • Cosmic horror, eldritch beings

Porn/kink likes, if you're so inclined:
  • Oral sex, fingering, handjobs, frottage, anal sex, rimming
  • Clothed/semi-clothed sex, outdoor sex, semi-public sex
  • Loss of virginity, first times, first-time-with-the-same-sex sex
  • Eagerness, desperation, characters being so overcome with desire for someone that they make choices they'd never usually make
  • Bed-sharing and/or heat-sharing leads to sex
  • Cuddling
  • Praise, body worship
  • Hair-pulling, hair-petting
  • Hands around someone's neck
  • Shoving someone up against a wall
  • Characters unexpectedly stumbling into kinks that they're really into
  • Informally negotiated kink or unnegotiated kink
  • D/s dynamics
  • Cockwarming
  • Sex pollen, Fuck or Die, Bad Guys Made Them Do It*
  • Consensual but not Safe or Sane
  • Bondage: ropes, handcuffs, getting tied up with whatever’s lying around
  • Manhandling, rough sex, bruises, biting, spanking
  • Bloodplay, gunplay, knifeplay, breathplay
*(I'm down for any level of dubcon or noncon for these scenarios, as long as it's not "A is on board with fucking to survive but B is not, so A forces B"--I want them working together, even if it's miserable for both)


Do Not Want:
  • Explicit noncon (Fuck or Die scenarios are fine, dubcon is fine as long as both parties want it on some level and are active participants, canon-typical references to rape are fine.)
  • Unrequested ships involving my requested characters (mentions of canon ships or previous relationships with OCs are fine)
  • Pregnancy or babies
  • Completely alternate-setting AUs (modern, mundane, in space, Regency, whatever)
  • Scat, watersports
  • A/B/O, breeding kink
  • Unrequested gender/sexual identity headcanons
  • Explicit sex involving characters under 16
  • Pets dying or suffering
  • Heavily-negotiated BDSM (contracts, checklists, safe words, traffic light system, constant check-ins), characters using BDSM jargon like "sub drop" or "subspace"

Disco Elysium
Harry Du Bois, Kim Kitsuragi

I've been obsessed with this game since I played it. The humor, the existential dread, the politics, the world-building, it’s all incredible. And I adore the relationship between Harry and Kim. I live for the rare times Kim's composure cracks and it becomes obvious just how much he enjoys Harry's antics. I also love how highly Harry thinks of Kim, and how cool he thinks Kim is. (Few if any other characters seem to notice Kim's coolness, but Harry does, and I love that for them.)

I ship it very hard, and would love to see them at any stage in a potential relationship--getting together, working out how to be a couple, domestic established relationship as older men. Even with gen, I'd prefer any fic show them caring deeply about each other and enjoying each other's company.


With any fic, I'd prefer a Harry who's at least trying to get sober and get his life back on track (struggles and backsliding are fine). Also, please no racist, sexist, or fascist Harry.

Prompts:

I would eat up any kind of hurt/comfort for these two. It doesn't matter who's the comforter or comfortee, either way is delicious. Or both, both is good. Dealing with the aftermath of their canon injuries at the Tribunal? Injured on a case? Harry struggling with a relapse and going to Kim for help? Captured and whumped by bad guys, even forced to hurt each other? On the comfort side of things: out of it due to pain or sleep-deprivation, admitting feelings they would have otherwise kept hidden? One or both of them being insanely touch-starved during the comfort and getting accidentally aroused by a friendly touch?


Casefic or just fic about them interacting with Revachol as detectives in the vein of some of the more light-hearted or bizarre sidequests. I'd be particularly interested in something that has them exploring Revachol's Homo-Sexual Underground (undercover in a gay bar??)
Low-stakes investigations, making a positive difference in someone's life in a creative or unexpected way even if they'll never be able change the System. I also really liked all the side characters we meet in Martinaise, and would enjoy anything that had Harry and Kim run into them again. Return to the Church to see how the Ravers and Soona are doing? Running into Garte at some other bar he manages?

There's so many weird world-building elements lurking in the corners of this game, begging to be explored in more depth: Harry's weird psychic connection to the city. Cryptids. But the Pale is my favorite--the ambiguity of what it represents, the implacable way it's eating away at the world. Harry and Kim having to interact with the Pale as a vehicle for exploring their characters and what they could lose. The implication that the Pale is the product of human consciousness and memory is fascinating, and I'd love to explore how it intersects with (and maybe caused?) Harry's memory loss. The Pale causing characters to lose their memories or merge their memories with each other or lost themselves entirely? I'd also love a fic that dug into the psychology of just living in a world where you know the Pale is going to devour reality (if the atom bomb doesn't get you first.) Just exploring what it means to them to try to build a life and a relationship in the face of certain doom. Or, Harry tries to act on La Revacholiere's request and tries to save the city. Somehow.


For shipfic specifically, I'd love Harry figuring out his bisexuality, mutual pining, awkward flirting, care-taking as an expression of love, and being domestic together after being alone for so long.
I'm also down for anything focused on Harry having sex with a man for the first time, any masculine hang-ups he might have about it or just how it piques his curiosity and willingness to explore. Harry really wanting to suck dick or take it up the ass.

Also... It's canon that Kim is able to make Harry his thrall with an eyebrow quirk. So, if you're up for it... D/s? Maybe it starts out as a bit of a joke, with Kim giving an order and being amused at Harry's eagerness to please, and things escalate rapidly from there and it leaves them both painfully turned on. The two of them exploring kink together, tentatively at first and then trying more and more things, including some of the kinky things Harry has thought about in-game. PWP is fine, as long there's a sense of what the sex/kink means to their relationship and characters.


Stylistically, I love 2nd person POV fic for this fandom, but 3rd is great too. I also welcome incorporating the skills or other game mechanics (thought projects, tasks) to any degree you want. Feel free to experiment with new formats: interactive fiction, epistolary, skill-style fic from Kim’s POV, etc.



True Detective
Roland West, Tom Purcell

I really enjoyed the time period and setting in the third season, and I love the emphasis on how this one tragic crime's effects ripple out to affect the entire town and have so many more tragic effects over the years. I would love any focus on that, or anything that incorporates the canon elements of unreliable memory and nonlinear storytelling. I'd also be really interested in any AU that introduces a supernatural or occultic bent to this season: some kind of It-esque Small Town With a Horrifying Evil at the Center Targeting Children is really behind the Purcell kids' disappearances? The Lovecraftian overtones of Season 1 return?

With Tom Purcell, his life is just the most miserable thing ever, and I really want more of it. His guilt, his self-destructive grief, his prickly defensiveness, his willingness to jump into fights that he can't win, his repressed sexuality and desperate attempts to drown himself in religion and alcohol.... Any and all of that, please. More of his life between 1980 and 1990, especially whatever that hole he was in that Roland pulled him out of in 1985. Also, because I'm still not over his death, I am totally down for canon-divergent fix-it AUs at any point in the timeline. Tom survives his encounter with Harris James and has to go on the run as a murderer?  When Will is found in that cave, he's only mostly dead, and  Tom is reunited with his kids?
Post-2015 AU where Tom didn’t die, and Julie decides to do her own detective-work on her past and track down her surviving family?

I also love Roland and his relationships with Tom and Wayne: the mixture of surprising kindness and "beating suspects up in a barn" belligerence, his loyalty to the people he cares about, the fact that when Tom dies he immediately pays his respects by going out and getting drunk and picking a fight he can't win. I love it all. I'd appreciate more backstory on his life and career pre-canon. Either Tom or Wayne being his gay/bi awakening.

For both characters, I'm interested in the terrible circumstances they met under, and how Roland is kind and gentle with Tom in a way he isn't for anyone else. What motivates him to feel that way? What is it about Tom that brings out the caretaker in Roland? How might their relationship have grown and evolved past that simple dynamic over the years?


The scene where Roland takes Tom home and lets him sleep on his couch basically made me ship it, and I would happily read any get-together for them, or any other Tom/Roland scene that involves one or both of them getting their asses kicked in barfights, sharing some hurt/comfort, drinking too much, and bed-sharing. Expressing love by patching someone up after a fight. 
Roland and Tom just go on a road trip at any point. Any Tom Lives AU that explores the emotional aftermath of that interrogation scene for both of them. Other fix-it ideas: through handwavey reasons, Tom and Julie are reunited in '80, and Roland ends up hanging around to help Tom be a single parent? Roland bails on being a cop in '85 and he and Tom go anywhere else? More far afield AUs where they meet under different circumstances? Roland gets called to collect a drunk and disorderly Tom before his kids are kidnapped, Roland finds a good deal on a cheap house West Finger, but it turns out to be next to the unhappy Purcell family, and Roland's house is where the kids head when their parents start fighting again.

If you want to include Wayne or Amelia or one-sided Wayne/Roland, I'm very down for that too. I really liked the chemistry and dynamic between Wayne and Roland: the way they needle each other and yet seem so at ease with each other, the way they work together, the way the Purcell case seems to change everything for them, eventually forcing them apart. Also, this is a real stretch, but if you want to write S1/S3 crossover fic, I'd be really into anything where Tom and Rust cross paths for god knows what reason, and butt heads over religion but bond over dead child trauma.



Beau Travail (1999)
Galoup (Beau Travail), Gilles Sentain

This is one of the most homoerotic films I've ever seen, and it hits so many buttons for me in terms of repression and desire. I don't really even know how to make sense of this film if it's not a gay love (or rather, lust) triangle subsumed and poisoned by toxic masculinity. It's also such a deeply ambiguous film in terms of what anyone is really feeling and how much they understand their own thoughts, let alone anyone else's, and I think that's a big part of what stayed with with me. I'd be open to anything that pries these characters open just enough to offer a small glimpse inside. I'd be equally interested in something that continues to holds the characters at arm's length from us and give us only a view of their lives unfolding, letting their actions speak for themselves. Nonlinear storytelling in line with the film is welcome, as is epistolary fic. Bleak endings are fine.

I'm here for: Missing scenes. Further moments of military training as covert punishment for being too sexy. Long stare-offs. Galoup not understanding what he's feeling, or constructing elaborate mental rituals to avoid understanding it. Contextualizing exactly what's going on between Sentain and Forestier, and offering some insight into what Sentain thinks of it. Anything exploring the inherent irony of the title. Conflict leading to fucking. (I envision anything that might happen between these two as extremely dubconny, which is fine, but if you want to find a way to make it consensual hatefucking, or even somehow not-entirely-hate fucking, go for it.)

Other potential ideas:

Sentain surviving and building a life in France, finding success and satisfaction, and Galoup encountering him while still aimless and directionless without a career in the Legion. The contrast in where their lives have ended up, and what they do with that knowledge.

Assuming Sentain survives, Galoup must discover at some point that the death he caused wasn't really a death. What does that do to the sense of perspective and regret he seems to regard his past actions with in Marseilles?

Anything exploring shifting power dynamics between these characters during their time in Djibouti. Perhaps due to their rising and falling fortunes in Forestier's regard. Alternatively, Galoup revealing too much of himself to Sentain and Sentain developing an understanding of him that Galoup doesn't want or even have himself. Whether, and how, he might use that knowledge.

I really liked that the inciting incident that brings about Sentain's final punishment is his decision to share water with another Legionnaire, in clear defiance of Galoup's wishes. More
kindness as an act of pointed insubordination. Could be directed at the other men, or toward Galoup himself, as a  "fuck you" but maybe something more complicated. How Galoup reacts to that.
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 Dear Trick or Treat Creator,

Thanks for writing for me! I'm really looking forward to reading what you create for this. This is one of my favorite exchanges every year, and I'm excited to participate again.  I'm requesting all fic, and Tricks and Treats for everything. I'm not picky about the Trick/Treat division, and this year I'm not dividing my prompts into Tricks or Treats. I'm fine with things that would traditionally land in either category, or a mix of different things and different tones. I love the seasonal vibe of this exchange and welcome autumnal or spooky elements if you're inclined, but don't feel obligated to. If you have any questions for me, feel free to ask through the mod.

I'm really excited to see what you come up with!

Requested Fandoms
Disco Elysium
True Detective
Il buono il brutto il cattivo | The Good The Bad and The Ugly


General likes
  • Enemies-to-lovers, friends-to-lovers, unlikely team-ups, characters who don’t quite trust each other being forced to rely on each other
  • Intense emotions, loyalty, shared senses of humor, characters who are surprised to find they get each other better than anyone else does
  • Characters struggling to express their feelings, characters expressing their feelings in unconventional ways
  • Stoic or repressed characters forced to show emotional vulnerability
  • Characters being very good at deluding themselves about what they're really feeling
  • Hurt/comfort, especially with characters who are bad at comforting and/or accepting comfort
  • Competence porn, characters learning new skills or revealing hidden talents or depths
  • Adventures, daring rescues, daring escapes, daring heists
  • Road trips, camping, staying in roadside motels
  • Us-against-the-world, fighting back-to-back
  • Lost in the wilderness, Canadian Shack
  • Sleeping tropes: Only One Bed, huddling for warmth, falling asleep on someone's shoulder, characters falling into bed together after a long day, etc.
  • Internalized homophobia, repressed desires, period-typical attitudes toward sexuality, religious guilt where applicable
  • Cats, characters petting cats
  • Winter, fall, snow, storms of all kinds, descriptions of weather
  • Harvests, scarecrows, fog, cemeteries
  • Wilderness and urban decay
  • Characters telling in-universe legends and urban legends
  • “Came Back Wrong”-type tropes
  • The apocalypse (zombie, plague, nuclear, etc.)
  • Journeys into the underworld to retrieve a loved one
  • Ghosts, hauntings, ambiguous "maybe it's ghosts or maybe it's just insanity" stories
  • Eldritch horrors

Porn/kink likes, if you're so inclined:
  • Oral sex, fingering, handjobs, frottage, anal sex
  • Clothed/semi-clothed sex, outdoor sex, semi-public sex
  • Loss of virginity, first times, first-time-with-the-same-sex sex
  • Eagerness, desperation, characters being so overcome with desire that it forces them to push through repression
  • Bed-sharing and/or heat-sharing leads to sex
  • Cuddling
  • Hair-pulling, hair-petting
  • Hands around someone's neck
  • Shoving someone up against a wall
  • Characters unexpectedly stumbling into kinks that really work for both of them
  • Informally negotiated kink or unnegotiated kink
  • D/s dynamics, struggles for dominance
  • Bondage: ropes, handcuffs, characters getting tied up with whatever’s lying around
  • Manhandling, rough sex, bruises, biting, spanking
  • Bloodplay, gunplay, knifeplay, breathplay


Do Not Want:
  • Noncon (dubcon is fine, canon-typical references to rape are fine)
  • Unrequested ships involving my requested characters (mentions of previous canon relationships or previous relationships with OCs are fine)
  • Non-canonical pregnancy or babies, heavy focus on canonical pregnancy or babies
  • Completely alternate-setting AUs (modern, mundane, in space, Regency, whatever)
  • A/B/O, breeding kink
  • Unrequested gender/sexual identity headcanons
  • Explicit sex involving characters under 16
  • Pets dying or suffering
  • Heavily-negotiated BDSM (contracts, checklists, safe words, traffic light system, constant check-ins), characters using BDSM community-specific jargon

Disco Elysium
Harry Du Bois/Kim Kitsuragi

I've been obsessed with this game since I played it: the humor, the existential dread, the politics, the fascinating world-building--it’s all amazing and I would love so much more of it. And I adore the relationship between Harry and Kim. Their dynamic is so fun. I live for the times Kim's composure cracks and he reveals just how much he enjoys Harry's antics. I also love how highly Harry thinks of Kim, and how cool he thinks Kim is. (And how much Kim seems to like that Harry thinks he's cool!)


For fic, I prefer a Harry who's actively trying to get sober and get his life back on track (struggles, slip-ups and backsliding are fine). I also prefer he not be a racist/sexist/fascist.

I would eat up any kind of hurt/comfort for these two. It doesn't matter who's the comforter or comfortee, either way is delicious, although I do have a special soft spot for mutual hurt/comfort. Dealing with the aftermath of their canon injuries at the Tribunal? Injured on a case? Harry struggling with a relapse and going to Kim for help? One of them out of it due to pain or sleep-deprivation, admitting feelings they would have otherwise kept hidden? One or both of them being insanely touch-starved and responding physically to any amount of friendly touch? I'm also really into the role reversal of Harry taking care of a Kim who ends up drunk or drugged due to reasons.


Casefic or fic about how they might work together as permanent partners is also very welcome. I'd be particular interested in something that explores Revachol's Homo-Sexual Underground (Undercover in a gay bar?!)
Also, you know that bit where Ruby is convinced Harry is one of La Puta Madre’s peones? Are there other weird misconceptions and urban legends that the criminal underworld tells about Harry or Kim?

I really enjoy funny, warm and lighthearted for this ship. Vignettes of domesticity, enjoying each other's company, having fun together on a day off and exploring the city. Getting used to having someone else in their life after being alone so long.

 

Also, it’s actual canon that Kim can keep Harry under his thrall with an eyebrow quirk, so… D/s dynamics? Harry being in thrall to Kim’s authority and very, very eager to please, and Kim enjoying the effect he has on Harry. Kink explorations. Anything focused on Harry having sex with a man for the first time and being driven wild by it. (I have a particular fondness for Harry bottoming.) PWP welcome.

There's so many disturbing world-building elements lurking in the corners of this game, and I would love to see them explored in more depth if you would like to go creepy.
Like the Pale! It wasn't until my second playthrough that I got the story on the Pale, and it cast this world into such a different light. I would love to see a fic where Harry and Kim have to explore the Pale in any capacity: traveling through it, dealing with another hole in the world popping up, or revisiting the church. The implication that the Pale is the product of human consciousness and memory is so intriguing, and I'd love to explore how it intersects with (and maybe caused?) Harry's memory loss. The Pale causing characters to lose their memories or merge their memories with each other or lost themselves entirely?

Anything leaning into the darkness and existential dread of a world that appears to be doomed--I can’t stop thinking about that atom bomb and the Pale, and I would love a fic that dug into how they deal with either/both of those things together. Either in a desperate, trying-to-avert-fate way, or just exploring what it means to them to try to build a life and a relationship in the face of certain doom. Desperate last stands?

Stylistically, I always love 2nd person POV fic for this fandom, but 3rd is perfectly fine too. (I'd prefer no 1st, please.) I also welcome incorporating the skills or other game mechanics (thought projects?!) to any degree you like: the skills are practically characters in their own rights and and I’m always delighted to hear from them, but don't feel obligated if you'd rather not. I’d also be interested in anything experimenting with new formats: interactive fiction, epistolary, game mechanic-style fic from Kim’s POV, etc.



True Detective
Roland West/Tom Purcell

I really enjoyed the time period and setting in the third season, and I love the idea of one tragic crime's effects rippling out to affect an entire community. I also really love this relationship in canon, how surprisingly tender Roland is with Tom even as he spirals and how much fondness and history seems to exist between them by the time the show catches up with them in '90.

The scene where Roland takes Tom home and lets him sleep on his couch made me ship it, and I would happily read a million Tom/Roland scenes that involves one or both of them getting their asses kicked in bar fights, sharing some hurt/comfort, drinking too much, and spending the night at each other’s place. Getting the fuck out of West Finger together and going on a road trip?

I would be interested in anything that incorporates the canon elements of unreliable memory and nonlinear storytelling. I'd also be really interested in any AU that introduces a supernatural or occultic bent to this season: some kind of It-esque Small Town With a Horrifying Evil at the Center is really behind the Purcell kids' disappearances? The cult or Lovecraftian elements of Season 1 return?

I’d love to read any manner of fix-it for Tom, who deserved better. AU where Julie and Tom are reunited after her kidnapping, and how that effects Tom and Roland's relationship. 1980-era fic where she’s found and returned to Tom shortly after her kidnapping, and Roland keeps checking in on them while the two of them try to adjust? Post-2015 AU where Tom didn’t die, and Julie decides to do her own detective-work on her past and track down her surviving family?

I’m still destroyed by the interrogation in '90, and I would read any way that could have played differently, either in the booth itself (either Roland or Tom slip up and say something that makes Wayne go hmmm) or after afterward. Roland calls Tom or otherwise finds him before he runs off to Hoyt mansion and gets himself killed. What the hell happens in the emotional confrontation that follows? Or literally anything else you can think of, up to and including Roland being forced to Groundhog Day his way to a better outcome.



Il buono il brutto il cattivo | The Good The Bad and The Ugly
Blondie/Tuco Ramirez

Okay, these are characters who have tried to kill each other multiple times, and even their alliance is blatantly mercenary and manipulative. And I am so, so into that. Give me all the vitriolic shippiness with deeply questionable motives or bitter, grudging team-ups with betrayal lurking around the corner.

I am down for all the grudging hurt/comfort, competence and ridiculous Spaghetti Western flair, forced team-ups, competitiveness (including competitve sex--whoever comes first loses?), sharing a smoke, spending their ill-gotten fortunes together, learning about each other's pasts, and weird incongruous cuteness in the vein of playing with a kitten (!) in the film. This movie also scratches my bondage kink like crazy, so I would never say no to more fic where Tuco ends up tied up by Blondie, and Blondie takes advantage of the situation.

I'm not really looking for anything too, too fluffy with these two: they're assholes who try to murder each other repeatedly, and that's what I love about them. But I'm really into the idea that they do like each other, deep down, so any moments of grudging fondness and camaraderie would make me very happy.

I find all the death and destruction of the Civil War a fascinating backdrop in the film, and would love more about how the warfare keeps way-laying their plans and sweeping them up in a much larger bloody conflict that unsettles even these hardened killers.

Weird West AUs always welcome, the weirder the better. Ghosts, apocalyptic scenarios, Blondie hunting down monsters instead of bounties (including Tuco, in this scenario, I guess?), New Mexico-is-purgatory, whatever!
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Dear Horror Author,

Thanks for writing for me! I'm really looking forward to reading what you create for this, and if you're unsure about anything feel free to ask through the mod. I'm open to all types of endings for this exchange, from the darkest and bleakest endings to the bittersweet to the ambiguous and open-ended, and I always have a fondness for characters who've been put through the wringer earning themselves some kind of happy ending (whatever that may look like for them). Whatever you feel is appropriate, I look forward to it.

I'm really excited to see what you come up with!

My AO3 username is PositivelyVexed.


Requested Fandoms

Disco Elysium
True Detective
Us
The Wicker Man



General likes
  • Enemies-to-lovers, friends-to-lovers, unlikely team-ups, characters who don’t quite trust each other being forced to rely on each other
  • Unexpected loyalty or kindness between unlikely characters
  • Emotionally repressed characters having a vulnerable moment
  • Hurt/comfort, especially with characters who are bad at comforting and/or uncomfortable with being comforted
  • Competence porn, characters learning new skills or revealing hidden talents or depths
  • Adventures, daring rescues, daring escapes, daring heists
  • Road trips, camping, staying in roadside motels
  • Us-against-the-world, fighting back-to-back
  • Survival stories, lost in the wilderness, Canadian Shack
  • Bed-sharing, huddling for warmth, falling asleep against each other, etc.
  • Internalized homophobia, repressed desires, period-typical attitudes toward sexuality, religious guilt
  • Scenery porn
  • Cats
  • Winter, snow, deserts, islands, mountains, storms of all kinds, descriptions of weather

Horror likes
  • Emphasis on atmosphere and building unease
  • Characters being confronted with their own insignificance in an indifferent universe
  • Characters having their worldviews shattered and dealing with the fallout
  • Trouble distinguishing between dreams and reality
  • Small-town Americana with a corrupt, sinister underside
  • Isolated communities with secrets
  • Evil corporations or churches
  • Main characters faced with their own complicity in the community-wide evil
  • "Driven mad by the revelation"
  • Vast conspiracies
  • Characters telling in-universe legends and urban legends
  • "Motif of harmful sensation" - books that can drive you mad, songs that make you want to kill yourself, etc.
  • Abandoned settings that reveal some kind of increasingly horrifying story about what happened through the objects left behind
  • “Came Back Wrong”-type tropes
  • Isolated wilderness settings
  • The apocalypse (zombie, plague, nuclear, etc.)
  • Journeys into the underworld
  • Labyrinths
  • People, families and societies repeating the same cycle of sins over and over
  • Ghosts, hauntings, ambiguous "maybe it's ghosts or maybe it's just going mad from grief" stories
  • Eldritch horrors
  • Harvests, scarecrows, fog creeping across fields, rotting cemeteries

Porn/kink likes, if you're so inclined:
  • Oral sex, fingering, handjobs, frottage, anal sex
  • Clothed/semi-clothed sex, outdoor sex, semi-public sex
  • Loss of virginity, first times, first-time-with-the-same-sex sex
  • Eagerness, desperation, characters being so overcome with desire that it forces them to push through their intense sexual repression and shame about being so into it
  • Bed-sharing and/or heat-sharing leads to sex
  • Cuddling
  • Hair-pulling, hair-petting
  • Shoving someone up against a wall
  • Characters unexpectedly stumbling into kinks that really work for them, especially if it's a source of intense embarrassment or guilt to be so turned on by that
  • Informally negotiated kink or unnegotiated kink
  • D/s dynamics, struggles for dominance
  • Bondage: ropes, handcuffs, characters getting tied up with whatever’s lying around
  • Manhandling, rough sex, bruises, biting, spanking
  • Bloodplay, gunplay, knifeplay, breathplay


Do Not Want:
  • Explicit noncon. Dubcon is fine. Canon-typical references to rape are fine.
  • Non-canonical pregnancy or babies, heavy focus on canonical pregnancy or babies
  • Completely alternate-setting AUs (modern, mundane, in space, Regency, whatever)
  • A/B/O, D/s-verse, breeding kink, infantilization
  • Scat, watersports
  • Unrequested gender/sexual identity headcanons
  • Explicit sex involving characters under 16
  • On-page child abuse or torture
  • Pets dying or suffering, humans sadistically torturing animals (canon-typical violence to animals is fine)
  • Fingernail/toenail or eye trauma, de-gloving or flaying
  • Total mindbreak of requested characters, unless prompted (loss of personality, will to resist, sentience)
  • Serial Killer AU versions of requested characters

Disco Elysium
Fic (Medium) - Not Emphasizing Sexual Content, Fic (Medium) - Emphasizing Sexual Content
Harry Du Bois/Kim Kitsuragi
Cosmic (Lovecraftian) Horror, Dark Fantasy, Institutional Horror, Psychological Horror, Religious Horror, Folk Horror, Science Fiction Horror

There's so many disturbing world-building elements lurking in the corners of this game, and I would love to see them explored in more depth in a horror story.

The Pale! It wasn't until my second playthrough that I got the story on the Pale, and it cast this world into such a different light. The grim inevitability of it eating away at the known world is such fertile ground for horror and nihilism, and I would love to see a fic where Harry and Kim have to explore it, or deal with another hole in the world popping up in Revachol, or return to the hole in the church. How are they affected by it? The implication that the Pale is in some sense the product of human consciousness and memory is so intriguing, and it seems like you could do so much interesting stuff with it that intersects with Harry's memory loss, and his ambiguous ability to tap into the consciousness of his colleagues or the city. The Pale causing characters to lose their memories or merge their memories with each other or lost themselves entirely? Maybe someone in Moralintern notices the connection between the growth of the Pale and human memories and takes it upon themselves to fix things by experimenting on the citizens of Revachol.

I also love what a beautiful, terrifying figure Dolores Dei is, as both as both a historical figure, a symbol, and a possibly non-human entity. What was she? Maybe she is isn't as dead as she seems to be? I'd be particularly interested to know what emotional relationship Kim, a former Moralist, might have toward her, since we don't get much of a sense of that in game.

This game does an amazing job capturing the fucked-up dream logic of a troubled mind, with characters merging into each other and free association of images. Just anything with more dream trippiness, please. Some nightmares either of them have?

Cryptid hunting turns creepy? The Phasmid isn't the only cryptid out there, and the other creatures are far more sinister than the Phasmid was.

Just generally, more exploration of the potential for psychological horror with the voices in Harry's head, especially playing with their unreliability that we got a taste of in the scene with Klaasje. Harry discovering that the holes in his memory hide something much darker than just substance abuse and a broken heart. Terrible things he's done or witnessed, aspects of his identity his voices are trying to hide.

Shivers going haywire. The general creepiness of a psychic ability to eavesdrop on the rest of the city played for horror, or any other "skill, but too much" scenario like Esprits de Corps or Empathy being so finely tuned they override Harry's autonomy and already shaky sense of self.

The prelude to or aftermath of that atomic bomb drop.

Apocalypse Cop! Apocalypse Cop!  Harry being a doomsaying would-be prophet foretelling the heatdeath of the universe doesn't get nearly enough play in fic. So... that. Especially as he (and Kim) start to realize it's not just a weird coping mechanism. It's all completely real. Maybe they even discover that Harry himself is willing the apocalypse into existence?

2nd person POV fic for this fandom is very welcome, as is formatting in the style of the game mechanics, as is experimenting with new formats.


True Detective
Fic (Medium) - Not Emphasizing Sexual Content, Fic (Medium) - Emphasizing Sexual Content
Rustin "Rust" Cohle/Martin "Marty" Hart
Cosmic (Lovecraftian) Horror, Institutional Horror, Psychological Horror, Killer Horror, Folk Horror, Religious Horror

The atmosphere is almost a character itself in Season 1, and I'd love anything that digs more into the Southern atmosphere with the hints of decay and corruption underneath. More of Rust seeing symbols and making sinister connections in them that no one else sees. I enjoyed that '95-era dynamic of Rust being nihilistic and weird and Marty being all "the fuck you say?" and would enjoy that dynamic in the context of them confronting something where the Lovecraftian elements are more than just hinted at.

I adore the creepiness of Carcosa. Something where it's an actually or ambiguously supernatural place with pathways and tunnels that seem stretch on for impossible lengths the deeper they get inside it. (a la House of Leaves?) Rust and Marty end up lost in there. Or, they die in Carcosa, and are forced to wander there eternally. Alternatively, they survive, but are forced return there in dreams.

Anything dealing with the cult being an actual cult with religious beliefs and potential connections to eldritch powers that they may not understand or be able to fully control.

Creepy fuck or die scenarios in Carcosa. Sex pollen or Childress Made Them Do It, with as much drugged out, trippy, violating weirdness as you like. (It's definitely fine to cross the line into noncon here.)

Cosmic horror of any stripe, either of the "actual eldritch abominations" variety or just staring down an indifferent universe. Anything that gives Rust's hard-boiled nihilist philosopher perspective a chance to shine.



Us (2019)
Fic (Medium) - Not Emphasizing Sexual Content, Fic (Medium) - Emphasizing Sexual Content
Adelaide Wilson/Red
Body Horror, Dark Fantasy, Institutional Horror, Psychological Horror

I love both of these characters and empathize with both of them while also finding them both wonderfully chilling. I would love to see them sharing sexual tension or creepy violations of boundaries or dance-fighting-leads-to-fucking or any other kind of sexual encounter between them. Pre-film fic where Tethering gives them a degree of sexual intimacy that they both simultaneously hate and are reluctantly turned on by? (The film is vague about how Tethering actually works, and especially vague about how it works for two doppelgangers who've switched places, so I'd love to see them discover they have some kind of a two-way control over the other's movements). The two of them sharing sensations or weird dreams? I'm very into exploring the potential horror in the increasingly blurred identities and experiences between these two.

The weird half-autonomous culture of the Tethered, both pre- and post-Red's influence, is such fertile ground for folk horror, and the blend of symbolism, and pop culture icons they adopt under Red are something I'd love to see explored more. Their beliefs, her vision for remaking the world when they rise again. Trippy hints of how horrifying life as the Tethered was like, in the spirit of Red's fairy-tale-like story she tells the Wilsons?

What if Adelaide had taken Red with her that night they met? What if that has its own creepy consequences? The two of them developing their own unnatural bond, corrupting each other, developing a love/hate relationship.

What if Adelaide doesn't succeed in killing Red and never gets out of the tunnels at the end of the film, and they end up trapped together in an intense cat and mouse game?

More of the bizarre underworld, if it gets increasingly otherworldly and strange as it goes on and the bizarre customs lifestyles that develop in there. Scenes of America, post-Tethered take over, in an AU where Red survived, or with the Wilsons on the run and trying to survive.



The Wicker Man
Fic (Medium) - Not Emphasizing Sexual Content, Fic (Medium) - Emphasizing Sexual Content
Neil Howie/Lord Summerisle

Folk Horror, Cosmic (Lovecraftian) Horror, Religious Horror, Body Horror

I love the clash of worldviews represented by the uptight, virginal Christian Sgt. Howie and the seductive and charming pagan Lord Summerisle, and would love to see their dynamic turned shippier and wronger.

There are certain rites that must be completed before Howie can be sacrificed. Public sexual rites. (I'm okay with non-con for this ship, but I would like Howie to be very turned on by anything that happens.)

It's left kind of an open question if Lord Summerisle believes what he's selling. Anything dealing with the Islanders turning on Lord Summerisle next, as Howie predicts, played for horror.

Howie miraculously survives the Wicker Man. He takes this as a sign of God's intervention. The islanders take another meaning from it, and have other plans for him.

Instead of burning, or prior to burning, a ritual of transformation is performed. I'm fascinated that image of the rabbit in Rowan's coffin, and it left me intrigued by the idea of forcible animalistic transformation being part of the islanders' beliefs. So... something where Howie is transformed, partially or wholly, into something more animal than human?

When the Wicker Man in burned, something is summoned from the sea by the ritual that belongs to neither the pagan world or the Christian world, but is much older, and much more dangerous.
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Dear Author, 
Thanks for writing for me; I'm thrilled you offered to write one of these fandoms.
My requests are all for fic. Some of my fandom sections are going to be longer than others, but that's just a reflection of what I have more ideas for; I'd be thrilled to receive any of these. I hope you have fun writing! If you have any questions, feel free to contact me through the mods.

My AO3 username is
PositivelyVexed.

Requested Fandoms

True Detective
Drive Me, Crazy - Orville Peck (Song)
Disco Elysium


General likes
  • Enemies-to-lovers, friends-to-lovers, unlikely team-ups, characters who don’t quite trust each other being forced to rely on each other
  • Ideological conflicts
  • Unexpected loyalty or kindness
  • Characters who are bad at expressing their feelings, characters expressing their feelings in unconventional ways
  • Competence porn, characters revealing hidden talents or depths
  • Adventures, daring rescues, daring escapes, daring heists
  • Con artists and con jobs
  • Road trips
  • Hurt/comfort, especially with characters who are bad at comforting and/or uncomfortable with being comforted
  • Loyalty kink, us-against-the-world, fighting back-to-back
  • Survival stories, lost in the wilderness, Canadian Shack
  • Bed-sharing, huddling for warmth, falling asleep against each other, etc.
  • Roaring rampages of revenge
  • Internalized homophobia, repression, period-typical attitudes toward sexuality, religious guilt where applicable
  • Ghosts, monsters, eldritch abominations, curses, deals with the devil, “Came Back Wrong”-type tropes, the apocalypse (zombie or otherwise)
  • Characters telling stories, in-universe legends and urban legends
  • Scenery porn
  • Winter, snow, fall/autumn, deserts, mountains, storms of all kinds

Porn/kink likes, if you're so inclined:
  • Oral sex, fingering, handjobs, frottage, anal sex
  • Clothed/semi-clothed sex, outdoor sex, semi-public sex
  • First times, first-time-with-the-same-sex sex
  • Eagerness, desperation, characters being so overcome with desire that it forces them to push through their intense sexual repression
  • Bed-sharing and/or heat-sharing leads to sex
  • Cuddling
  • Hair-pulling, hair-petting
  • Shoving someone up against a wall
  • Characters unexpectedly stumbling into kinks that really work for them
  • Informally negotiated kink or unnegotiated kink
  • D/s dynamics, struggles for dominance
  • Bondage: ropes, handcuffs, characters getting tied up with whatever’s lying around
  • Manhandling, rough sex, bruises, biting, spanking
  • Bloodplay, gunplay, knifeplay, breathplay


Do Not Want:
  • Noncon. Dubcon is fine. Canon-typical references to rape are fine. Fuck or die scenarios are also fine.
  • Pregnancy, babyfic
  • Poly or non-canon infidelity
  • Completely alternate-setting AUs (modern, mundane, in space, Regency, whatever)
  • A/B/O, D/s-verse
  • Breeding kink
  • Flaying, fingernail or toenail trauma
  • Heavily negotiated BDSM, characters using BDSM terminology like "sub space" or "safe, sane, consensual"
  • Unrequested gender/sexual identity headcanons
  • Explicit sex involving characters under 16


True Detective
Roland West/Tom Purcell

I really enjoyed the time period and setting in the third season, and I love the emphasis on how this one tragic crime's effects ripple out to affect the entire town and have so many more tragic effects over the years. I would love any focus on that, or anything that incorporates the canon elements of unreliable memory and nonlinear storytelling. I'd also be really interested in any AU that introduces a supernatural or occultic bent to this season: some kind of It-esque Small Town With a Horrifying Evil at the Center is really behind the Purcell kids' disappearances? The cult or Lovecraftian elements of Season 1 return?

I just can't get over how Tom's life is the Actual Worst, or the tenderness, sadness and betrayal that end up defining his and Roland's relationship.

The scene where Roland takes Tom home and lets him sleep on his couch made me ship it, and I would happily read a million Tom/Roland scenes that involves one or both of them getting their asses kicked in barfights, sharing some hurt/comfort, drinking too much, and spending the night at each other’s place. Getting the fuck out of West Finger together and going on a road trip would be fantastic.

I’d love to read an AU where Julie and Tom are reunited after her kidnapping, and how that effects Tom and Roland's relationship. 1980-era fic where she’s found and returned to Tom shortly after her kidnapping, and Roland keeps checking in on them while the two of them try to adjust? Alternatively, AU 1987-1990 when Julie is wandering around Arkansas lost and disoriented, and gets found by the state? She and Tom both end up in treatment for substance abuse in the same place and cross paths? Post-2015 AU where Tom didn’t die, and Julie decides to do her own detective-work on her past and track down her surviving family? I’d be really interested in exploring Tom/Roland as an established relationship in this context, but any version of their relationship would interest me here.

I’m still destroyed by the interrogation in '90, and I would read any way that could have played differently, either in the booth itself (either Roland or Tom slip up and say something that makes Wayne go hmmm) or after afterward. Roland calls Tom or otherwise finds him before he runs off to Hoyt mansion and gets himself killed. What the hell happens in the emotional confrontation that follows? Or literally anything else you can think of pertaining to fixing the interrogation scene and its aftermath, up to and including Roland being forced to Groundhog Day his way to a better outcome.



Drive Me, Crazy - Orville Peck (Song)

Singer/Daddy-O

It’s a gay trucker love song. What’s not to love? Everything about the mood and setting of the song just grabs me, and it sounds so much like a story I want to read.

Who are these characters? What is their relationship like?

The chorus implies an established thing with promises exchanged, but the verses and the spoken monologue at the end imply so much transience and loneliness. I'm fascinated by the tension there. Is this someone reaching out into the darkness trying to make a connection with someone who may not be interested? Are they emotionally involved, yet forced to maintain a pretense of distance, that these are just casual hookups between two near-strangers on the road? Are they former lovers who once committed to each other but have been pulled apart? Is the singer having a bit of a daydream about someone he's only caught glimpses of?

Also, I have no idea what they lost in ‘99 after all, but if you do, I’d love to read about it.

Otherwise, just anything with the lonely highway atmosphere and romantic, wistful loner trucker vibe, with all the repression, sex, and fraught hidden gestures that the setting implies. Desperate hookups in rest areas and seedy motels and the back of the cab, cryptic messages across CB radio, flirting through driving patterns and headlight signals, wistful talk about a future off the road.

Regarding the lack of canonical names for either character, feel free to keep them nameless and stick with 1st or 2nd person POV; original names for 3rd person POV are also welcome. I'm fine with any contemporary or historic time-period. Sleazy 1970s trucker culture always welcome.


Disco Elysium
Harry Du Bois/Kim Kitsuragi

 

I finally got a chance to play this game with the release of The Final Cut, and I am obsessed. The humor, the existential dread, the politics, the fascinating world-building--it’s all amazing and I would love so much more of it. And I adore the relationship between Harry and Kim. Their dynamic is so fun. I was living for all the times Empathy let me know that Kim was privately amused by my antics and impressed by my weird detective skills. I also love how highly Harry thinks of Kim, and how cool he thinks Kim is. (And the implication that Kim likes that Harry thinks he's cool!)


For this exchange, I would prefer to read about a version of Harry who is at least trying to be a better person and get clean (although struggles, fuck-ups, and backsliding are A-Okay), and a Harry who's not racist/sexist/fascist.

Specific Prompts:

I'd be interested in any hurt/comfort between them, or just the two of them relying on each other during another case. Harry pining like an idiot (while also at least trying not to repeat the mistakes he made with Dora and put all of his happiness and wellbeing on another person's romantic attention.) Slowly figuring out his sexuality. Maybe he's successfully repressing his feelings until Kim gets in a relationship with a new guy (or Harry just thinks he's in one) and the disappointment and jealousy hit Harry like a truck?

Kim finally wearing the matching jackets with Harry. (Maybe undercover work requires it?) Exploring the Homo-Sexual Underground together? I’m taken with the idea that the other club Garte runs is a gay dance club, and he's dismayed to see them at this establishment too. Playing Wirrâl together? I just really want to know what kind of roleplayers they'd be and what characters they'd make for themselves. (Maybe Cuno can play too?)

 

You know that bit where Ruby is convinced Harry is one of La Puta Madre’s peones? I… was intrigued. There’s something about the idea of a amnesiac Harry who's trying to be good discovering that he didn't just use to be a trainwreck, but an outright bad guy, that speaks to the angst hound in me. I'd be really into the moral complexities of this Harry seeking a second chance, trying to piece together what things he’s done and if he can even get better. Plus, Kim really believed he wasn’t a drug lord's crony... how does he react to learning he read Harry so wrong? Alternatively: Harry’s not a dirty cop, but there is a story behind why Ruby thinks he is. Maybe he went undercover a little too well in the past? Are there other weird misconceptions and urban legends that the criminal underworld tells about Harry or Kim?


It’s actual canon that Kim can keep Harry under his thrall with an eyebrow quirk, so… D/s dynamics, please? Just all the fic about Harry being in thrall to Kim’s authority and very, very eager to please. Kim enjoying the effect he has, and having fun with it.

I'd also just really love fic focused on Harry having sex with a man for the first time and being driven wild by it. First time sucking cock, first time getting fucked. Yes, please.


More backstory for Kim! We know so little about his youth. What was his childhood like? Who raised him? How did he discover a taste for fast cars? Has he always been cool? Why police work? What kind of men does he normally date? Is Harry the opposite of his usual type, or does he have more of a thing for drunken trashfires than he’d like to admit?


Cryptid and/or supra-natural hunters? I really love that Kim, dyed-in-the-skeptic, is so methodical about collecting and preserving evidence once he does encounter something out of this world. I want more of Kim, reluctant cryptid believer, trying to bring forensic rigor and proper documentation to cryptid hunting. Or anything where he still doesn’t really believe in this supra-natural stuff, but he believes in Harry’s ability to uncover weird shit, and is a little addicted to the thrill of new discoveries, so he's happily along for the ride.

Anything leaning into the darkness and existential dread of the universe--I can’t stop thinking about that atom bomb and the Pale, and I would love a fic that really dug into how they deal with either/both of those things together. Either in a desperate, trying-to-avert-fate way, or just exploring what it means to them to try to build a life and a relationship in the face of certain doom. Desperate last stands right before the Pale takes them or the bombs fall?


On a stylistic note, I would be thrilled to receive 2nd person POV fic for this fandom. I really love the game mechanics too, and would adore a fic that incorporates skill check/game mechanic formatting. All the skills are practically characters in their own rights and and I’d be delighted with anything where their voices get to shine. I’d also be interested in anything experimenting with new formats. What would game mechanic-style fic look like from Kim’s POV? Or, as Kim suggests at one point, is his notebook his equivalent of talking to himself? Epistolary Kim’s Notebook fic would be cool.

Canon-specific DNW: either of them shipped with other members of the Major Crimes Unit, including as a past thing or a one-sided thing. I like everyone in the unit, though! Feel free to include them.



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Dear author,

I'm so excited to see what you come up with for this exchange! Hurt/comfort is one of my favorite tropes and this is one of my favorite exchanges, and I will be delighted to receive hurt/comfort for any of these fandoms.

I am very fine with leaning into the pain and agony on the way to comfort. I often enjoy a bit of friction between my pairings and comfort that isn't always soft and uncomplicated. I also really love characters struggling to give/receive comfort because of a fraught relationship, or because they're just not the sort of people comfortable giving/receiving comfort. I also find characters trying to help each other but being too damaged or beat up to do it properly to be absolute catnip.

I've requested a bunch of "both hurt" tags, but don't feel obligated to make the hurt equitable. If you want one character to be significantly more hurt or incapacitated than the other, or one character hurt emotionally and the other physically, that's fine. Please feel free to contact me through the mods if you have any questions.

My AO3 username is PositivelyVexed.

Requested Fandoms
True Detective
Il buono il brutto il cattivo | The Good The Bad and The Ugly
The Hateful Eight


General likes
  • Enemies-to-lovers, friends-to-lovers, unlikely team-ups, characters who don’t quite trust each other being forced to rely on each other
  • Ideological conflicts
  • Unexpected loyalty or kindness
  • Characters who are bad at expressing their feelings, characters expressing their feelings in unconventional ways
  • Competence porn, characters revealing hidden talents or depths
  • Adventures, daring rescues, daring escapes, daring heists
  • Con artists and con jobs
  • Road trips
  • Hurt/comfort, especially with characters who are bad at comforting and/or uncomfortable with being comforted
  • Loyalty kink, us-against-the-world, fighting back-to-back
  • Survival stories, lost in the wilderness, Canadian Shack
  • Bed-sharing, huddling for warmth, falling asleep against each other, etc.
  • Roaring rampages of revenge
  • Internalized homophobia, repression, period-typical attitudes toward sexuality, religious guilt where applicable
  • Ghosts, monsters, eldritch abominations, curses, deals with the devil, “Came Back Wrong”-type tropes, the apocalypse (zombie or otherwise)
  • Characters telling stories, in-universe legends and urban legends
  • Scenery porn
  • Winter, snow, fall/autumn, deserts, mountains, storms of all kinds

Porn/kink likes, if you're so inclined:
  • Oral sex, fingering, handjobs, frottage, anal sex
  • Clothed/semi-clothed sex, outdoor sex, semi-public sex
  • First times, first-time-with-the-same-sex sex
  • Eagerness, desperation, characters being so overcome with desire that it forces them to push through their intense sexual repression and shame
  • Bed-sharing and/or heat-sharing leads to sex
  • Cuddling
  • Hair-pulling, hair-petting
  • Shoving someone up against a wall
  • Characters unexpectedly stumbling into kinks that really work for them
  • Informally negotiated kink or unnegotiated kink
  • D/s dynamics, struggles for dominance
  • Bondage: ropes, handcuffs, characters getting tied up with whatever’s lying around
  • Manhandling, rough sex, bruises, biting, spanking
  • Bloodplay, gunplay, knifeplay, breathplay


Do Not Want:
  • Noncon. Dubcon is fine as long as both parties enjoy and want it on some level. Canon-typical references to rape are fine. Fuck or die scenarios are also fine.
  • Pregnancy, babyfic
  • Completely bleak endings
  • Completely alternate-setting AUs (modern, mundane, in space, Regency, whatever)
  • A/B/O, D/s-verse
  • Breeding kink
  • Flaying, fingernail or toenail trauma
  • Heavily negotiated BDSM, characters using BDSM jargon like "subspace" or "safe, sane, consensual"
  • Unrequested gender/sexual identity headcanons
  • Explicit sex involving characters under 16


True Detective
Tom Purcell/Roland West (hurt Roland), Tom Purcell/Roland West (hurt Tom), Tom Purcell/Roland West (both hurt)
Requested Tags:
Accidental arousal while cuddling for comfort, Altered States - Character is out of it due to pain, Angry Broken Outbursts Resulting in Desperate Embraces, Character A Indirectly Responsible For Character B's Injuries, Character A takes Character B on a road trip to avoid dealing with current bad situation, Character(s) ashamed of their sexual desires, Comfort Sex, Comforter drapes their coat over hurt character's shoulders, dealing with grief by fucking, Delirious hurt character & comforter are hiding their relationship from other people present, Hookup at cruising spot goes wrong, Internalised Homophobia, patching up wounds after drunk barfight, Time Loop - Character A Keeps Failing to Save Character B, Touch-Starved Character gets their hair stroked & gets other kind gentle touches & cuddles, Role Reversal - character who is usually the one comforted has to do the comforting


You pretty much can't go wrong with hurt/comfort for this ship for me. Tom's life is unrelenting misery, and I would like to see him get some comfort in any form. Or get more misery piled on him. I'm particularly interested in the way Tom's sexuality and religion angst interact with each other and with his family grief, and I'd be interested in seeing that explored in '80, '90, or any point in between. I'm also fascinated by his terrible coping mechanisms of drinking and fighting, and his stumbling attempts to get better, when we know that he'll ultimately be pushed into backsliding. If you want to offer a happier spin on things, I'm interested in fix-its set at any point in canon as well.

Some elaboration on specific tags:

Hookup at cruising spot goes wrong: Embarrassing hookup where they recognize each other too late? Tom runs into trouble at a cruising spot, getting outed/injured by a creep partner/attacked? Alternatively, Roland ends up in trouble? The hurt party being extremely cagey about exactly how and where they got their injuries while the other innocently pushes for answers? Go nuts!

Character A takes Character B on a road trip to avoid dealing with current bad situation: After the events of '80 or when Tom hits rock bottom in '85, Roland decides to take Tom on a road trip to get away from West Finger (and Roland's own problems) and they end up on a cross-country trek of misery, healing and repressed longing.

Character A Indirectly Responsible For Character B's Injuries: Interrogation scene AU, where Tom survives the aftermath but is injured, and Roland has to deal with the guilt?  Alternatively, Tom's recklessness (fight picking?) getting Roland into a bad spot when Roland tries to help him. I'm down for any scenario here.

patching up wounds after drunk barfight: I can't get enough of this trope. Optional idea: what if... the bar fight was between them?

Role Reversal - character who is usually the one comforted has to do the comforting: I'm just very down for anything that hurts Roland and puts Tom in the position of having to step up to comfort him.



Rust Cohle/Marty Hart (both hurt)
Requested Tags: The after effects of encounters with eldritch horrors, Altered States - Drugs (Nonconsensual), Altered States - Hallucinations, Injury on Top of Old Injuries, Bad Guys Made Them Do It, Character needs painful first aid but there's no anesthetic, Comforter is kind of an asshole about it so comfortee doesn't think they're going soft, Emotional Hurt - Existential Despair Upon Realizing the Universe is Absurd and Meaningless, Falling Asleep As A Sign Of Trust, Internalized Homophobia, Both Captured - Forced to Work Together to Escape, patching up each other's wounds, Prickly Relationship Between Comforter and Comfortee, Protectiveness - Character A guards character B while B is injured, the aftermath of a fuck-or-die scenario, Trapped Together While One Is Injured, Trying to hold back bleeding with bare hands, Character A comforts Character B about their shared misfortune, Character doesn't care about their own wellbeing

I'd love some complicated hurt/comfort between these two at pretty much any point in canon.

The scene in Carcosa, with Marty having to hold Rust’s blood in with his bare hands was Peak Hurt/Comfort for me, and I would be down for anything that dragged out their trauma a bit more in that setting. I would be delighted with any AU where Carcosa is an actually or ambiguously supernatural place that they end up trapped in, or where they actually encounter something eldritch. Or maybe Marty just didn’t call back-up and they have to get out by themselves?  I’d also be into creepy fuck or die scenarios in Carcosa, sex pollen or Childress Made Them Do It, with as much drugged out, trippy, violating weirdness as you like and traumatized aftermath.

I’m also really interested in any post-canon fic where Rust’s nihilism isn’t fixed as easily as it seems to be at the end of the show, (his tearful confession could still happen, but it turns out it doesn’t wipe away decades of fucked-up thought patterns) and he has to figure out something else to live for.

Anything set at an earlier point in canon or going canon-divergent AU would be interesting to me. (I'd prefer to believe that Rust wouldn't hurt Maggie by fucking her husband, so I'm a-okay with things remaining pre-slash for this ship while Marty's still married.) Maybe Marty's inability to stay in the car while Rust is going undercover has dire consequences for them both? Things otherwise go south and both are badly injured in 1995? Or something different forces them back into contact, post-2002?

Rust showing no concern for himself after an injury, justifying it from his perspective, and Marty being exasperated and unable to avoid getting drawn into an argument about nihilism while trying to administer first aid? Basically, I'm into the fact that they’re both complete messes who seriously get on each other’s nerves, but still end up looking out for each other.


The Cold Indifference Of The Universe & Rust Cohle (hurt Rust)
Requested Tags: The after effects of encounters with eldritch horrors, Character doesn't care about their own wellbeing, Character has nightmare about their trauma, Character Planned to Die but Didn't, Emotional Hurt - Existential Despair Upon Realizing the Universe is Absurd and Meaningless, Downplaying Trauma, Drug Withdrawal, Forgetting to eat, having to hide while injured, Hurt in the wilderness, Road Trip - To Undo the Apocalypse, suffering alone, Altered States - Hallucinations, Relapsing Drug/Alcohol Addiction


I have no idea how this one works, but I'm curious to find out. The Cold Indifference of the Universe both hurts and comforts Rust? Existential despair can be a hurt! Can it also be...a comfort? Let's find out! Show me Rust receiving comfort from a meaningless universe and maybe even making peace with it. Always down for canon-typical pretentious navel-gazing, leaning into the hints of Lovecraftian horror (if you want to go full on eldritch horror or apocalypse, go nuts!) self-destruction, drug trips, and more.


Tom Purcell & Rust Cohle (hurt Tom), Tom Purcell & Rust Cohle (hurt Rust), Tom Purcell & Rust Cohle (both hurt)

Requested Tags: Character opens up about past child loss, Comforted by Meeting Someone Else as Messed Up as You, Emotional Hurt - Existential Despair Upon Realizing the Universe is Absurd and Meaningless, Grief/Mourning, Hurt by Loss of Religious Faith, patching up wounds after drunk barfight, Relapsing Drug/Alcohol Addiction, Prickly Relationship Between Comforter and Comfortee, hurt during drunk barfight, Unexpected Heart to Heart, Character A comforts Character B about their shared misfortune


Sure, it might be hard to get these two to meet, considering the timelines, but I am more than happy to handwave what happens to Tom in 1990 in the name of fic. Tom lives and Rust follows his quixotic search for clues between 1995 and 2002 to Tom's door, thinking there might be a connection to the disappearances in Louisiana? Tom bails on Arkansas altogether and moves to Alaska? The two of them end up in some kind of recovery program for addicts together and butt heads, particularly when Rust starts in on his pessimism spiel, but eventually they find an unlikely connection over their dead children? I'm done for all of that and anything else you can think of! They're both prickly bastards with very different worldviews, so I'd be really interested in them having conflict (Tom picking and losing a fight would be amazing) and then finding some unexpected connection and catharsis from each other.



Il buono il brutto il cattivo | The Good The Bad and The Ugly (1966)
"Blondie" | The Man with No Name/Tuco Ramirez (both hurt)
Requested Tags: Both Captured - Forced to Work Together to Escape, Collapsing from exhaustion, Falling Asleep As A Sign Of Trust, field medicine, Circumstances force enemies to patch each other up, Comforter is kind of an asshole about it so comfortee doesn't think they're going soft, Comforter refuses to acknowledge to themself that they care about comfortee's wellbeing, Comforter started out trying to manipulate comfortee but now they're not so sure, Enemies forced by shared antagonist to work together and provide each other comfort, Hurt in the wilderness, On the Run - Together, Stuck In A Blizzard Together, Trapped Together During Gunfire/Fighting, Cleaning/treating wounds


Okay, these are characters who have tried to kill each other multiple times, and the comfort that happens in canon is often blatantly mercenary and manipulative. And I am so, so into that. Give me all the vitriolic hurt/comfort with deeply questionable motives or bitter, grudging team-ups with betrayal lurking around the corner. If they start out convinced they are only comforting each other for ulterior reasons and then start to suspect, to their dismay, that that may not be the whole story, that would be amazing. If each character's hurt was inflicted by the other, I will be in heaven.

I am into all manner of Western-themed injuries. Lost in the desert again? Rattlesnake bites? The after effects of one of Tuco's hangings gone wrong? Gunshot wounds in need of sewing up? Pinned down by a Bolivian Confederate army? I'm down for all of it!

While I'm all about conflicted hurt/comfort for these two, I'm very into the idea that they do like each other, deep down, so any moments of grudging fondness and genuine concern, even if they can't admit it to themselves, would make me very happy.



The Hateful Eight
Chris Mannix/Marquis Warren (hurt Warren)
Chris Mannix/Marquis Warren (hurt Chris)
Chris Mannix/Marquis Warren (both hurt)
Requested Tags: Aftermath of Resurrection, Catching injured character as they faint or lose balance, Circumstances force enemies to patch each other up, Comforter is kind of an asshole about it so comfortee doesn't think they're going soft, Enemies to Lovers - Accidental soulbond between enemies, Getting to sleep in a nice warm bed, Hands too shaky to complete task, Hurt in the wildernessImpaled through the hand, On the Run with a Sick or Injured Partner, Rape Recovery, A rescues B from the underworld or afterlife, Resurrection - came back wrong, stranded in hostile environment with injury, Technically awful attempts at comfort are actually very comforting, Time Loop - Character A Keeps Failing to Save Character B, Magical Healing Cock (literal), Unwilling allies after being magically bound together in some fashion, Bad Guys Made Them Do It, Comforter refuses to acknowledge to themself that they care about comfortee's wellbeing,

Optional Tags: Character with injured hands requires assistance (which turns sexual), Delirious hurt character & comforter are hiding their relationship from other people present, Badass in Distress, Huddling For WarmthBlood Magic, CursesStuck In A Blizzard Together


I can't resist the dynamic between these two, and they lend themselves surprisingly well to hurt/comfort. Anything with them being protective of each other (and hating it) and awkwardly patching each other up or looking out for each while vocally denying it will make me very happy. The idea that any comforting Warren does toward Mannix is objectively awful, but it works for Mannix anyway is deeply charming to me.

 I'm down for pretty much any kind of supernatural scenario for these two, including mixing and matching different supernatural tags. Soulbond requires a rescue from the Underworld? Sure!

Any post-canon "how'd they get down the mountain in that blizzard?" story is welcome. I also just generally love all manner of wilderness or western-themed hurt, so any "getting in danger in the wilderness and having to work together to survive" or "they get in over their head with mean bastards and get whumped and have to work together to survive" fic would make me happy.

I also feel like Warren has just been through a lot of terrible shit in his life and could really use some comfort, so anything with him being a badass iron woobie who just needs a comforting blowjob and a warm blanket (and Mannix giving them to him) would make me happy.

For Rape Recovery, if you want to go whole hog on "they get captured and bad things get done to one or both of them in front of each other and then some kind of roaring rampage of revenge and sex on their own terms ensues," I will eat it up with a spoon. (Feel free to disregard my noncon DNW for this one.)
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Dear Author,

Thanks for writing for me; I'm thrilled you offered to write one of these fandoms. My requests are all for fic. If you have any questions, feel free to contact me through the mods. If you need more inspiration, you can look back through my previous letters. I've requested most of these ships before, so feel free to take a look.

My AO3 username is
PositivelyVexed.


Requested Fandoms
Crossover Fandom
Drive Me, Crazy - Orville Peck (Song)
Il buono il brutto il cattivo | The Good The Bad and The Ugly
Sharp Objects
True Detective
Us


General likes
  • Enemies-to-lovers, unlikely team-ups, characters who don’t quite trust each other being forced to rely on each other
  • Unexpected loyalty or kindness between unlikely characters
  • Emotionally repressed characters having a vulnerable moment
  • Hurt/comfort, especially with characters who are bad at comforting and/or uncomfortable with being comforted
  • Competence porn, characters revealing hidden talents or depths
  • Adventures, daring rescues, daring escapes
  • Road trips, staying in roadside motels
  • Us-against-the-world, fighting back-to-back
  • Survival stories, lost in the wilderness
  • Bed-sharing, huddling for warmth, falling asleep against each other, etc.
  • Roaring rampages of revenge
  • Internalized homophobia, repressed desires, period-typical attitudes toward sexuality, religious guilt where applicable
  • Ghosts, monsters, eldritch abominations, “Came Back Wrong”-type tropes, the apocalypse (zombie or otherwise), small towns with secrets, creepy carnivals, curses, deals with the devil, etc.
  • Characters telling stories, in-universe legends and urban legends
  • Deserts, mountains, forests, seasides, storms of all kinds, loving descriptions of bad weather

Porn/kink likes, if you're so inclined:
  • Oral sex, fingering, handjobs, frottage, anal sex
  • Clothed/semi-clothed sex, outdoor sex, semi-public sex
  • Loss of virginity, first times, first-time-with-the-same-sex sex
  • Eagerness, desperation, characters being so overcome with desire that it forces them to push through their intense sexual repression and shame about being so into it
  • Bed-sharing and/or heat-sharing leads to sex
  • Cuddling
  • Hair-pulling, hair-petting
  • Shoving someone up against a wall
  • Characters unexpectedly stumbling into kinks that really work for them, especially if it's a source of intense embarrassment or guilt to be so turned on by that
  • Informally negotiated kink or unnegotiated kink
  • D/s dynamics, struggles for dominance
  • Bondage: ropes, handcuffs, characters getting tied up with whatever’s lying around
  • Manhandling, rough sex, bruises, biting, spanking
  • Bloodplay, gunplay, knifeplay, breathplay

Do Not Want:

  • Noncon. Dubcon is fine as long as both parties enjoy it and want it on some level and no one is left feeling traumatized afterward. Canon-typical references to rape are fine.
  • Heavy focus on canon pregnancy or babies, non-canonical pregnancy or babies
  • Completely alternate-setting AUs (modern, mundane, in space, Regency, whatever)
  • A/B/O
  • Breeding kink
  • Heavily negotiated BDSM, characters using BDSM-community jargon
  • Unrequested gender/sexual identity headcanons
  • Explicit sex involving characters under 16



Crossover
Amma Crellin (Sharp Objects)/Rust Cohle (True Detective)

I’m requesting this as a ship, but if you want to keep this gen, or limit it to UST or one-sided Amma-->Rust, I am a-okay with that too.

I just think these two are fucked up in ways that would be really interesting together. Amma continues on her way as a young serial killer and Rust ends up on her trail somehow or other. (Camille gets another investigative assignment, this time to Louisiana or Alaska, and Amma follows, and murder follows with her?) Amma having to deal with a detective who sees through her innocent persona? Alternatively, Rust, being initially snowed by her. I really enjoy how much Amma uses her image as an innocent girl to her advantage around adults, and I’d like to see how she tries to use that and her canonical abuse and mistreatment to try to manipulate Rust, who has a Thing about protecting abused kids. To what extent does he see through it? How does his thing about protecting kids get shaken by meeting a teenage serial killer?

Amma finding herself unexpected drawn to this weirdass detective due to his worldview and his own issues, despite knowing the potential danger he poses to her. I’m interested in Amma starting out trying to manipulate Rust and then sensing a kindred spirit, or getting more than she bargained for (and having to deal with someone just as fucked up as her who’s not taking any of her murderous shit).

Other ideas: Unexpected identification with each other over drugs and suffering and Mommy Issues? Philosophical discussion, trading their perspectives on the world and human life, detective/serial killer cat and mouse games, Amma making weird attempts at ingratiating herself that straddle the line between playing on Rust’s Daughter Issues and attempted seduction?

(If they do get sexually involved, I am here for Rust feeling self-loathing about it, not least because she’s even younger than his daughter would be.)


Drive Me, Crazy - Orville Peck (Song)

You/Me

It’s a gay trucker love song. What’s not to love? Everything about the mood and setting of the song just grabs me, and it sounds so much like a story I want to read.

Who are these characters and what’s their relationship like?

The intimacy of the chorus implies something like an established relationship, with road-related life-long promises made to each other, but the verses and the spoken monologue at the end imply so much transience and a lonely first person speaker reaching out into the darkness trying to make a connection with someone who may not be interested, and may break his heart.

I’m so fascinated by the tension between the chorus and the verses, and way they together paint this intriguingly ambiguous picture of what the relationship between You and Me is really like. Are they emotionally involved, yet forced to maintain a degree of pretending these are just casual hookups between two near-strangers on the road? Are they former lovers who once committed to each other but have been pulled apart? Is the singer having a bit of a daydream about another trucker he’s hooked up with or hopes to hook up with?

Also, I have no idea what they lost in ‘99 after all, but if you do, I’d love to read about it.

Otherwise, just anything with the lonely highway atmosphere and romantic, wistful loner blue collar gay trucker vibe, with all the repression, sex, and fraught hidden gestures that the setting implies. Desperate hookups in rest areas and seedy motels and the back of the cab, cryptic messages across CB radio, flirting through driving patterns and headlight signals, wistful talk about a future off the road.

Regarding the lack of canonical names for either character, feel free to keep them nameless and stick with 1st or 2nd person POV; original names for 3rd person are also welcome. Time-period wise, contemporary is great and probably intended (what happened in ‘99?), but historical roadside America is just as great if you want to go that route. Sleazy 1970s trucker culture always welcome.


Il buono il brutto il cattivo | The Good The Bad and The Ugly

Blondie/Tuco Ramirez

I can't get enough of these two and their Vitriolic Exes vibes. I would be down for shippy dynamics at any moment along their partners-to-enemies-to-reluctant allies journey. I am down for all the grudging hurt/comfort, competence and ridiculous Spaghetti Western flair, forced team-ups, competitiveness (including competitve sex--whoever comes first loses?), sharing a smoke, spending their ill-gotten fortunes together, learning about each other's pasts, and weird incongruous cuteness in the vein of playing with a kitten (!) in the film. This movie also scratches my bondage kink like crazy, so I would never say no to more fic where Tuco ends up tied up by Blondie, and Blondie takes advantage of the situation.

I'm not really looking for anything too, too fluffy with these two: they're assholes who try to murder each other repeatedly, and that's what I love about them. But I'm really into the idea that they do like each other, deep down, so any moments of grudging fondness and camaraderie would make me very happy.

On a darker note, I'd love to read all of the revenge, deception and manipulation, mindgames, dubcon, murder attempts. I also find all the death and destruction of the Civil War a fascinating backdrop in the film, and would love more about how the warfare keeps way-laying their plans and sweeping them up in a much larger bloody conflict that unsettles even these hardened killers.

I would love to see their journeys taking them to other parts of the frontier, maybe have them get involved in trouble in Mexico or the snowy Rockies or somewhere that’s a change of scenery from the desert for them. Their newly found fortunes putting them in the crosshairs of bigger villains or old enemies would also be interesting.

What's their backstory with Angel Eyes, anyway? How do they all know each other?

Weird West AUs, the weirder the better. Ghosts, apocalyptic scenarios, Blondie hunting down monsters instead of bounties (including Tuco, in this scenario, I guess?), New Mexico-is-purgatory.

One canon-specific note, I would prefer neither of them to be in a relationship with anyone else during the fic. Exes are fine, but I'd prefer Tuco's marriages or whatever Blondie's got going on (Angel Eyes?) to be firmly in the past.


Sharp Objects (TV)
Amma Crellin/Camille Preaker

I love how hypnotic this show is, the creepiness of its Southern Gothic claustrophobia, and the emphasis on trauma and the ways it breeds violence directed inward and outward.

I'd love any fic dealing with where their relationship goes post-canon now that Camille knows what Amma's done. I can’t get enough of Amma's jealousy and idolization for Camille, and for most of the show, we Camille going along with it. How does their dynamic shift now that Camille knows the little sister she’s adopted is a budding serial killer? Camille going into denial and bargaining with Amma, trying to distract her sister by offering her other things she might want (including herself).

The one thing I’m really not interested in is Camille being okay with the murder, or her becoming an active accomplice, but her loving Amma too much to do what needs to be done and turn her in, and instead trying desperately to convince her to stop or trying to minimize the damage Amma does while keeping the police off her tracks would be great.

I loved the slipperiness with time and memory in the show, and would love anything playing around with that in the form of nonlinear storytelling or even Camille actually feeling like she’s becoming unstuck in time and melding Amma and Marian in her mind.

Anything blurring the lines of hurt/comfort and manipulation between Amma and Camille, post-canon. Camille getting badly injured soon after discovering Amma's secret, or suffering a relapse into her self-harm, and Amma taking it upon herself to care for her. Alternatively, Amma still struggling with health effects and drug addiction from what their mother did her, and Camille needing to tend to her. Creepy tenderness, unnerving vulnerability, Amma trying to convince Camille to trust her, Amma trying to use the tenderness to cross boundaries. They both have so many weird issues bound up in sickness and care-taking thanks to their mother--I'd love to see that explored as a launching point for shippiness in as messed-up a way as possible.

(I'm going to waive the "no one feels traumatized afterward" part of my noncon DNW for this ship. I'd still prefer anything that happens be more on the dirtybadwrong seduction side, but the dubcon vs. noncon line feels so shaky with these two it's probably more accurate to say that as long as both of them are turned on in the moment, I'm okay with it.)

True Detective


Rustin "Rust" Cohle/Martin "Marty" Hart
The atmosphere is almost a character itself in Season 1, and I'd love any ship fic for these two to include a heavy dose of the darkness and creepiness of the show. The scene in Carcosa, with them nearly dying together, and Marty having to hold Rust’s blood in with his bare hands was peak shippiness for me, and I would be down for anything that dragged out their trauma a bit more, because I’m terrible like that. Something where it's an actually or ambiguously supernatural place that they end up lost in, or Marty didn’t call back-up and they have to get out together? Or anything where they survive, but can’t really get over it and returning to it in dreams.

Going darker still, I’d be into all kinds of creepy fuck or die scenarios in Carcosa. Sex pollen or Childress Made Them Do It, with as much drugged out, trippy, violating weirdness as you like. (It's definitely fine to cross the line into noncon here.)

I’m also really interested in any post-canon fic where Rust’s nihilism isn’t fixed as easily as it seems to be at the end of the show, (his tearful confession could still happen, but it turns out it doesn’t wipe away decades of fucked-up thought patterns) and he has to figure out something else to live for.

Anything dealing with the fact that they’re both complete messes who still get on each other’s nerves, but seem to get each other better than anyone else.

Anything where Marty is completely oblivious to his own lack of straightness, and Rust is the one who has to push him to open up to the possibility. Maybe obnoxiously. Maybe by discussing Foucault. (Anything where Rust is more willing to take charge in the bedroom, regardless of top/bottom configuration, is A+ and sorely wanted.)

Supernatural or cosmic horror AUs of any stripe. Facing eldritch evil together, the end of the world, anything that gives Rust's hard-boiled nihilist philosopher perspective a chance to shine.



Roland West/Tom Purcell
I just can't get over how Tom's life is the Actual Worst, or the tenderness, sadness and betrayal that end up defining his and Roland's relationship.

The scene where Roland takes Tom home and lets him sleep on his couch made me ship it, and I would happily read a million Tom/Roland scenes that involves one or both of them getting their asses kicked in barfights, sharing some hurt/comfort, drinking too much, and spending the night at each other’s place.

I’d love to read an AU where Julie and Tom are reunited after her kidnapping. 1980-era fic where she’s found and returned to Tom shortly after her kidnapping, and Roland keeps checking in on them while the two of them try to adjust? Alternatively, AU 1987-1990 when Julie is wandering around Arkansas lost and disoriented, and gets found by the state. She and Tom both end up in treatment for substance abuse in the same place and cross paths? Post-2015 AU where Tom didn’t die, and Julie decides to do her own detective-work on her past and track down her surviving family? I’d be really interested in exploring Tom/Roland as an established relationship in this context, but any version of their relationship would interest me here.

I’m still destroyed by the interrogation in 1990, and I would read any way that could have played differently, either in the booth itself (either Roland or Tom slip up and say something that makes Wayne go hmmm) or after afterward. Roland calls Tom or otherwise finds him before he runs off to Hoyt mansion and gets himself killed. What the hell happens in the emotional confrontation that follows? Or literally anything else you can think of pertaining to fixing the interrogation scene and its aftermath, up to and including Roland being forced to Groundhog Day his way to a better outcome.


Us (2019)
Adelaide/Red

I love both of these characters and empathize with both of them while also finding them both wonderfully chilling. I would love to see them sharing sexual tension or creepy violations of boundaries or dance-fighting-leads-to-fucking or any other kind of sexual encounter between them. Pre-film fic where Tethering gives them a degree of sexual intimacy that they both simultaneously hate and are reluctantly turned on by? (The film is vague about how Tethering actually works, and especially vague about how it works for two doppelgangers who've switched places, so I'd love to see them discover they have some kind of a two-way control over the other's movements). The two of them sharing sensations or weird dreams? I'm very into exploring the increasingly blurred identities and experiences between these two.

What if Adelaide had taken Red with her that night they met and they both appeared aboveground together? The two of them developing their own unnatural bond, corrupting each other, developing a love/hate relationship from a young age.

AU where Adelaide doesn't succeed in killing Red and never gets out of the tunnels at the end of the film, and they end up trapped together in an intense cat and mouse game?

If you want to dig into world-building for this movie and explore more about where the Tethered actually came from (is Red mistaken about their origin story?) or show us more of the underworld that apparently stretches across the US, feel free. I'd love to see that, or what happens now that the Tethered have risen up. (What's their plan after they get tired of standing in a human chain across the country?)
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Dear Author,

Thanks for writing for me; I'm thrilled you offered to write one of these fandoms. I hope you have fun writing, and I love it when authors write what they enjoy, so if there's something you've been itching to write for one of these fandoms/characters beyond what’s in my prompts, feel free to! If you have any questions, feel free to contact me through the mods.


My AO3 username is PositivelyVexed.


General likes
  • Enemies-to-lovers, friends-to-lovers, unlikely team-ups, characters who don’t quite trust each other being forced to rely on each other
  • Unexpected loyalty or kindness between unlikely characters
  • Emotionally repressed characters having a vulnerable moment
  • Hurt/comfort, especially with characters who are bad at comforting and/or uncomfortable with being comforted
  • Competence porn, characters learning new skills or revealing hidden talents or depths
  • Adventures, daring rescues, daring escapes, daring heists
  • Road trips, camping, staying in roadside motels
  • Us-against-the-world, fighting back-to-back
  • Survival stories, lost in the wilderness, Canadian Shack
  • Bed-sharing, huddling for warmth, falling asleep against each other, etc.
  • Roaring rampages of revenge
  • Internalized homophobia, repressed desires, period-typical attitudes toward sexuality, religious guilt
  • Scenery porn
  • Cats
  • Winter, snow, deserts, islands, mountains, storms of all kinds, descriptions of weather
  • Roaring rampages of revenge
  • Journeys into the underworld
  • Internalized homophobia, repressed desires, period-typical attitudes toward sexuality, religious guilt where applicable
  • Ghosts, monsters, eldritch abominations, werewolves, “Came Back Wrong”-type tropes
  • The apocalypse (zombie or otherwise)
  • Small towns with secrets, creepy carnivals, curses, deals with the devil, etc.
  • Characters telling stories, in-universe legends and urban legends
  • Scenery porn
  • Deserts, mountains, forests, seasides, storms of all kinds, loving descriptions of bad weather
     

Porn/kink likes, if you're so inclined:
  • Oral sex, fingering, handjobs, frottage, anal sex
  • Clothed/semi-clothed sex, outdoor sex, semi-public sex
  • Loss of virginity, first times, first-time-with-the-same-sex sex
  • Eagerness, desperation, characters being so overcome with desire that it forces them to push through their intense sexual repression and shame about being so into it
  • Bed-sharing and/or heat-sharing leads to sex
  • Cuddling
  • Hair-pulling, hair-petting
  • Shoving someone up against a wall
  • Characters unexpectedly stumbling into kinks that really work for them, especially if it's a source of intense embarrassment or guilt to be so turned on by that
  • Informally negotiated kink or unnegotiated kink
  • D/s dynamics, struggles for dominance
  • Bondage: ropes, handcuffs, characters getting tied up with whatever’s lying around
  • Manhandling, rough sex, bruises, biting, spanking
  • Bloodplay, gunplay, knifeplay, breathplay


Do Not Want:
  • Noncon. Dubcon is fine as long as both parties enjoy it and want it on some level and no one is left feeling traumatized. Canon-typical references to rape are fine.
  • Heavy focus on canon pregnancy or babies, non-canonical pregnancy or babies
  • Infidelity or poly involving my requested ships
  • Completely alternate-setting AUs (modern, mundane, in space, Regency, whatever)
  • A/B/O, D/s-verse
  • Breeding kink
  • Heavily negotiated BDSM, characters using BDSM-community jargon
  • Unrequested gender/sexual identity headcanons
  • Scat, watersports
  • Explicit sex involving characters under 16




The Long Walk - Richard Bachman

Ray Garraty/Peter McVries

I'd just love more fic about these doomed boys and their intense connection and impossible relationship. I will take any vaguely plausible excuse for a fix-it that allows them to get away from the Walk.

Walker uprising? Maybe there are more cracks in the Major's hold on the society and the military than we see? Weather emergency or act of war or well-timed zombie apocalypse allow the boys to escape? I would love to read about them on the run or holed up in some rat-trap hotel, tending to each other’s injuries, trying to tend to each other but lacking the skills or strength to help, huddling for warmth. Basically anything that explores how they might relate to each other outside of the intense certain-death-for-at-least-one-of-them circumstances their bond formed in. What might their friendship or a burgeoning romantic relationship look like with them actually able to survive together? If Pete really thought he was going to die and expected it and then survived after all, how would he deal with it? Feel free to take things in a literal Canadian Shack direction, since escaping dystopian America across the border seems like as good a way as any to get out of this totalitarian death trap.

I'd also be interested in anything dealing with Ray's internalized homophobia and his issues around what happened with the neighbor boy all those years back: I'm fine with either framing the encounter with the neighbor boy as something he really didn't want, and which confuses his feelings about McVries all the more, or something he maybe did want, but has since convinced himself he didn't want out of internalized homophobia. 

I'd also be interested in any kind of post-canon supernatural scenarios: McVries is a ghost, or Comes Back Wrong, and there's undead hurt/comfort and longing for what might have been?


The Shawshank Redemption (1994)
Andy Dufresne/Ellis Boyd “Red” Redding

I just really want to read about these two building a life together in a sleepy fishing village in Mexico.

Slow-burn romance, snapshots of their life over the years, shameless smut, I’d just really love to explore how they might slowly and tentatively develop a romantic relationship.  Give me all the angst, the emotionally-guarded mutual pining, the awkward fumbling attempts at making a move, and eventual happiness. I’m presuming Andy has never consensually been with a man before, and while Red may have, I think it’s safe to assume he probably hasn’t had a normal romantic relationship with anyone in a long time, if ever. How do they navigate this while adjusting to life on the outside?

I’d also be fine if you wanted to explore the prison rape in more depth too. We don’t directly see much of how Andy is affected by that experience, and I would be fine if you wanted to take things in a darker direction and explore how trying to navigate a consensual relationship with a man brings up a lot of unpleasant associations. “Resilient and stoic person gets smacked in the face by trauma they thought they’d successfully mastered” is a Thing for me, so I’d be more than fine if you want to go there, though I'd prefer a happy ending for this fandom.

Aside from directly shippy stuff, I’d love to see more vignettes of how Red adjust to life in Zihuatenejo, as well as a bit more information about his life before prison. Does he become Andy's man who knows how to get things, or does he carve out a new niche for himself? He’s been in prison since the 1920s; I’d love to see him exploring how the world’s changed and getting a chance to experience all the things he's missed out on.

Carrie - Stephen King
Sue Snell/Carrie White

I love what a mess these two are, and the darker possibilities of this ship, with the hint of a redemptive connection for both of them. The push/pull impulses of empathy and cruelty Sue has towards Carrie, her teenage cringe fascination with the flaws of Carrie's body giving way to pure fascination. The violation of Carrie reading Sue's mind at the end being used for dubcon-flavored intrigue, or weird, intensely vulnerable trust-play. Anything exploring Sue's fear of becoming just another asshole suburbanite and the tragic dimensions of Carrie's relationship with her mother.

Crossover Fandom 
Ray Garraty/Peter McVries & The Stand

I don't even have specific ideas for this one, but I want every possible take on this scenario. The slow spread of Captain Trips through the crowd, the government's attempts at a cover-up, AU with Randall Flagg as the Major, Ray and Pete on the run through a post-apocalyptic America, meeting up with other unsavory survivors. (Feel free to throw in any actual characters from The Stand.) 

The Losers Club & The Long Walk

I'm so curious about what circumstances would makes the Losers decide to go on the Walk in an AU where they live in a dystopian future and only meet on the Walk (including Bev, presumably. Maybe she's in disguise?) What drove them to this? What brings them together? I'd love to see them forming an unlikely and hopeless connection between each other, whether or not the power of friendship can save them this time. 



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Dear Horror Author,

Thanks for writing for me! I'm really looking forward to reading what you create for this, and if you're unsure about anything feel free to ask through the mod. I'm open to all types of endings for this exchange, from the darkest and bleakest endings to the bittersweet and hopeful to the ambiguous and haunting, and I always have a fondness for characters who've been put through the wringer earning themselves some kind of happy ending. Whatever you feel is appropriate, I look forward to it.

I'm really excited to see what you come up with!

My AO3 username is PositivelyVexed.


Requested Fandoms

Red Dead Redemption
Sharp Objects
True Detective
Us
The Wicker Man



General likes
  • Enemies-to-lovers, friends-to-lovers, unlikely team-ups, characters who don’t quite trust each other being forced to rely on each other
  • Unexpected loyalty or kindness between unlikely characters
  • Emotionally repressed characters having a vulnerable moment
  • Hurt/comfort, especially with characters who are bad at comforting and/or uncomfortable with being comforted
  • Competence porn, characters learning new skills or revealing hidden talents or depths
  • Adventures, daring rescues, daring escapes, daring heists
  • Road trips, camping, staying in roadside motels
  • Us-against-the-world, fighting back-to-back
  • Survival stories, lost in the wilderness, Canadian Shack
  • Bed-sharing, huddling for warmth, falling asleep against each other, etc.
  • Roaring rampages of revenge
  • Internalized homophobia, repressed desires, period-typical attitudes toward sexuality, religious guilt
  • Scenery porn
  • Cats
  • Horses
  • Winter, snow, deserts, islands, mountains, storms of all kinds, descriptions of weather

Horror likes
  • Emphasis on atmosphere and building unease
  • Characters being confronted with their own insignificance in an indifferent universe
  • Characters having their worldviews shattered and dealing with the fallout
  • Trouble distinguishing between dreams and reality
  • Small-town Americana with a corrupt, sinister underside
  • Isolated communities with secrets
  • Evil corporations or churches
  • Characters faced with their own complicity in the community-wide evil
  • "Driven mad by the revelation"
  • Vast conspiracies
  • Characters telling in-universe legends and urban legends
  • "Motif of harmful sensation" - books that can drive you mad, songs that make you want to kill yourself, etc.
  • Abandoned settings that reveal some kind of increasingly horrifying story about what happened through the objects left behind
  • “Came Back Wrong”-type tropes
  • Isolated wilderness settings
  • The apocalypse (zombie, plague, nuclear, etc.)
  • Journeys into the underworld
  • Labyrinths
  • People, families and societies repeating the same cycle of sins over and over
  • Ghosts, hauntings, ambiguous "maybe it's ghosts or maybe it's just going mad from grief" stories
  • Eldritch horrors
  • Harvests, scarecrows, fog creeping across fields, rotting cemeteries

Porn/kink likes, if you're so inclined:
  • Oral sex, fingering, handjobs, frottage, anal sex
  • Clothed/semi-clothed sex, outdoor sex, semi-public sex
  • Loss of virginity, first times, first-time-with-the-same-sex sex
  • Eagerness, desperation, characters being so overcome with desire that it forces them to push through their intense sexual repression and shame about being so into it
  • Bed-sharing and/or heat-sharing leads to sex
  • Cuddling
  • Hair-pulling, hair-petting
  • Shoving someone up against a wall
  • Characters unexpectedly stumbling into kinks that really work for them, especially if it's a source of intense embarrassment or guilt to be so turned on by that
  • Informally negotiated kink or unnegotiated kink
  • D/s dynamics, struggles for dominance
  • Bondage: ropes, handcuffs, characters getting tied up with whatever’s lying around
  • Manhandling, rough sex, bruises, biting, spanking
  • Bloodplay, gunplay, knifeplay, breathplay


Do Not Want:
  • Explicit noncon. Dubcon is fine. Canon-typical references to rape are fine.
  • Non-canonical pregnancy or babies, heavy focus on canonical pregnancy or babies
  • Completely alternate-setting AUs (modern, mundane, in space, Regency, whatever)
  • A/B/O, D/s-verse, breeding kink, infantilization
  • Scat, watersports
  • Unrequested gender/sexual identity headcanons
  • Explicit sex involving characters under 16
  • On-page child abuse or torture
  • Pets dying or suffering, explicit depictions of humans sadistically torturing animals (canon-typical violence to animals, like hunting in Red Dead, is fine)
  • Fingernail/toenail or eye trauma, de-gloving or flaying
  • Total mindbreak of requested characters (loss of personality, will to resist, sentience)
  • Permanent memory wipes
  • Serial Killer/Otherwise Evil AU versions of requested characters (naturally, this DNW does not apply to canon serial killer/otherwise evil requested characters!)

Red Dead Redemption
Fic (Medium) - Not Emphasizing Sexual Content
Kieran Duffy & Arthur Morgan, Kieran Duffy, Arthur Morgan
Survival Horror, Folk Horror, Paranormal Horror, Monster Horror

I adore the themes in this game of an encroaching civilization that’s bearing down on the characters and about to wipe out their way of life. I also adore all the weird hints of the supernatural and the general darker, creepier corners of this world, how tragic and brutal it is and how easy it is to stumble across heartbreaking reminders of that brutality in the world.

Kieran Duffy, Kieran Duffy & Arthur Morgan

I can't explain why I love this doomed, sadsack stable boy as much as I do, but he's such a sweet character, and I'm fascinated by the contrast between the wry, nervous gentleness of his personality and all the gang violence he keeps getting swept up in, and I'd be delighted by anything that plays that for horror. Colm O'Driscoll's gang as monsters or werewolves, and Kieran the lone human among them? Kieran's long-term starvation by the Van der Lindes or torture at the hands of the O'Driscolls played for realistic survival horror?

Kieran's death also seems like such fertile grounds for horror, and I'd love any kind of "came back wrong" angle on his death. After Kieran's death, Arthur hears tales of a headless horseman roaming the countryside, wreaking vengeance upon O'Driscolls? (Or just like, hanging out with horses and brushing them?) Kieran gets caught in a time loop of getting captured and dying repeatedly?

Also, one of my favorite tropes, like, ever, is “member of the enemy team gets captured and eventually awkwardly integrated into the team, but no one really trusts him even though he genuinely has changed loyalties and wants to be one of them now.” So I had all these vague hopes that Arthur’s dislike towards Kieran was leading towards some payoff where Kieran actually gets to prove himself to Arthur’s satisfaction and a glorious “I guess we’re awkward friends who respect each other now” outcome.

...That didn’t happen in canon. But I managed to blue-ball myself with wanting it, and I still crave it. So... let them be friends? I'm down for pretty much anything here, as long as you start them out from a place of their canon distrust and explore their relationship in the context of a horror story.

Arthur Morgan

I love Arthur so much, and I would be interested in literally anything spinning out any of the creepier easter eggs or side missions in this game into horror.

A darker AU spin on the serial killer mission where Arthur doesn't escape so easily, or there's a different, more supernatural culprit behind the killings, and things take a much darker turn?

The Darkness haunting Butcher’s Creek is a real entity, not just a Scooby Doo ploy, and the forces behind it do not appreciate Arthur meddling.

Taking the mask from the pagan ritual has grave consequences, and leads to Arthur suspecting he's being followed by the people who performed the pagan ritual. Maybe he's next?

The Saint Denis Vampire turns Arthur, and he can't stay away from the gang, even as his hunger grows.

Honestly, there's far too many random creepy easter eggs in this game to mention. I'd be delighted by explorations of any of them.



Sharp Objects (TV)
 Fic (Medium) - Not Emphasizing Sexual Content, Fic (Medium) - Emphasizing Sexual Content
Amma Crellin/Camille Preaker

Gothic Horror, Psychological Horror, Killer Horror, Folk Horror, Medical Horror

I love how hypnotic this show is, and the emphasis on trauma and the ways it breeds violence directed inward and outward.

I'd love to explore the Southern (Missourian?) Gothic of the whole town and community. Calhoun Day's only scratching the surface of Wind Gap's creepy customs. Cults, ritualistic murders, anything else.

I'd love anything dealing with what happens post-canon. How Camille deals with the revelation of what Amma's done. How Amma expects Camille to deal with it. Amma's jealousy and idolization for Camille. The horror and tension of it all. Camille being sent back into self-destructive habits. I don't want her actively aiding Amma in her murders, but deeply tormented Camille would be great. Camille haunted by Amma's victims.

I loved the slipperiness with time and memory in the show, and would love anything that implied Camille is actually coming unstuck in time, losing her ability to find her way back to her own time.

Anything blurring the lines of hurt/comfort and manipulation between Amma and Camille, post-canon. Camille getting badly injured soon after discovering Amma's secret, and Amma taking it upon herself to care for her. Creepy tenderness, unnerving vulnerability, Camille trying to hide her horror and fear of Amma, Amma trying to convince Camille to trust her. They both have so many weird issues bound up in sickness and care from their past--I'd love to see that explored in as creepy a way as possible.



True Detective
Fic (Medium) - Not Emphasizing Sexual Content, Fic (Medium) - Emphasizing Sexual Content
Rustin "Rust" Cohle/Martin "Marty" Hart, Tom Purcell/Roland West


Rustin "Rust" Cohle/Martin "Marty" Hart

Cosmic (Lovecraftian) Horror, Institutional Horror, Psychological Horror, Killer Horror, Folk Horror, Religious Horror

The atmosphere is almost a character itself in Season 1, and I'd love anything that digs more into the Southern atmosphere with the hints of decay and corruption underneath.  More of Rust seeing symbols and making sinister connections in them that no one else sees. I enjoyed that '95-era dynamic of Rust being pessimistic and weird and Marty being all "the fuck you say?" and would enjoy that dynamic in the context of them confronting something where the Lovecraftian elements are more than just hinted at.

I adore the creepiness of Carcosa. Something where it's an actually or ambiguously supernatural place with pathways and tunnels that seem stretch on for impossible lengths the deeper they get inside it. (a la House of Leaves?) Rust and Marty end up lost in there. Or, they die in Carcosa, and are forced to wander there eternally. They survive, but are forced return there in dreams.

Anything dealing with the cult being an actual cult with religious beliefs and potential connection to eldritch powers that they may not understand or be able to fully control.

Creepy fuck or die scenarios in Carcosa. Sex pollen or Childress Made Them Do It, with as much drugged out, trippy, violating weirdness as you like. (It's definitely fine to cross the line into noncon here.)

Cosmic horror of any stripe, either of the "actual eldritch abominations" variety or just staring down an indifferent universe. Anything that gives Rust's hard-boiled nihilist philosopher perspective a chance to shine.


Tom Purcell/Roland West
Folk Horror, Institutional Horror, Psychological Horror, Religious Horror, Paranormal Horror

I just can't get over how Tom's life is the Actual Worst, or the tenderness, sadness and betrayal that end up defining his and Roland's relationship.

Roland, in a bad place, grieving for Tom after 1990, and becoming convinced that Tom is still haunting him. It's not a benevolent haunting.

Any kind of psychological horror digging into Tom's grief over his children and the emotional betrayal at Roland's hands, his repressed sexuality and ultimately fruitless attempts to drown himself in religion and alcohol to numb his pain. Prophetic nightmares. Ongoing trauma.

Anything where the vague hints in the early toward folk horror were actually leading somewhere: those dolls actually were placed there by a creepy satanic cult or a Blair Witch type folklore figure? Devil's Den has been the site of many mysterious ritual murders?

The cult from Season 1 is behind the disappearance of the Purcell children, with Roland and Wayne struggling to unravel the mystery and Tom eventually realizing who Lucy sold the kids to.

Tom pulls a Pet Sematary and brings back Will out of sheer grief-stricken desperation. He comes back wrong.

Instead of killing him in the Pink Rooms, Harris James seals Tom inside. Tom's mental decline as he fights to free himself and his mind battles ghosts.



Us (2019)
Fic (Medium) - Not Emphasizing Sexual Content, Fic (Medium) - Emphasizing Sexual Content
Adelaide/Red
Body Horror, Dark Fantasy, Institutional Horror, Psychological Horror

I love both of these characters and empathize with both of them while also finding them both wonderfully chilling. I would love to see them sharing sexual tension or creepy violations of boundaries or dance-fighting-leads-to-fucking or any other kind of sexual encounter between them. Pre-film fic where Tethering gives them a degree of sexual intimacy that they both simultaneously hate and are reluctantly turned on by? (The film is vague about how Tethering actually works, and especially vague about how it works for two doppelgangers who've switched places, so I'd love to see them discover they have some kind of a two-way control over the other's movements). The two of them sharing sensations or weird dreams? I'm very into exploring the potential horror in the increasingly blurred identities and experiences between these two.

The weird half-autonomous culture of the Tethered, both pre- and post-Red's influence, is such fertile ground for folk horror, and the blend of symbolism, and pop culture icons they adopt under Red are something I'd love to see explored more. Their beliefs, her vision for remaking the world when they rise again. Trippy hints of how horrifying life as the Tethered was like, in the spirit of Red's fairy-tale-like story she tells the Wilsons?

What if Adelaide had taken Red with her that night they met? What if that has its own creepy consequences? The two of them developing their own unnatural bond, corrupting each other, developing a love/hate relationship.

What if Adelaide doesn't succeed in killing Red and never gets out of the tunnels at the end of the film, and they end up trapped together in an intense cat and mouse game?

More of the bizarre underworld, if it gets increasingly otherworldly and strange as it goes on and the bizarre customs lifestyles that develop in there. Scenes of America, post-Tethered take over, in an AU where Red won, or with the Wilsons on the run and trying to survive.



The Wicker Man
Fic (Medium) - Not Emphasizing Sexual Content, Fic (Medium) - Emphasizing Sexual Content
Neil Howie/Lord Summerisle

Folk Horror, Cosmic Horror, Religious Horror, Body Horror

I love the clash of worldviews represented by the uptight, virginal Christian Sgt. Howie and the seductive and charming pagan Lord Summerisle, and would love to see their dynamic turned shippier and creepier.

There are certain rites that must be completed before Howie can be sacrificed. Public sexual rites. (I'm okay with non-con for this ship, but I would like Howie to be very turned on by anything that happens.)

It's left kind of an open question if Lord Summerisle believes what he's selling. Anything dealing with the Islanders turning on Lord Summerisle next, as Howie predicts, played for horror.

Howie miraculously survives the Wicker Man. He takes this as a sign of God's intervention. The islanders take another meaning from it, and have other plans for him.

Instead of burning, or prior to burning, a ritual of transformation is performed. I'm fascinated that image of the rabbit in Rowan's coffin, and it left me intrigued by the idea of forcible animalistic transformation being part of the islanders' beliefs. So... something where Howie is transformed, partially or wholly, into something more animal than human?

When the Wicker Man in burned, something is summoned from the sea by the ritual that belongs to neither the pagan world or the Christian world, but is much older, and much more dangerous.
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Dear Time Travel Author,

Thanks for writing for me! I am a total sucker for time travel, and am excited to see how you bring time travel into any of these canons. I'm particularly partial to time travel used to either fix or just meditate on the tragic parts of canon, so I'm fine with both happy endings and less-than-happy endings here. I have a particular weakness for time loops (especially if they lead to either horror or fix-its or both), Peggy Sue scenarios, and trippy, ambiguous situations where it's not clear if what's happening is true time travel or some kind of delusion.

I hope you have fun writing! If you have any questions, feel free to contact me through the mods. If you need more inspiration, you can look back through my previous letters. I've requested all of these fandoms before, so feel free to take a look if you want to see some less time travel-focused prompts.

My AO3 username is PositivelyVexed.

Requested Fandoms
The Hateful Eight
The Long Walk - Richard Bachman

Red Dead Redemption
True Detective


General likes
  • Enemies-to-lovers, friends-to-lovers, unlikely team-ups, characters who don’t trust each other being forced to rely on each other
  • Unexpected loyalty or kindness between unlikely characters
  • Hurt/comfort, especially with characters who are bad at comforting and/or uneasy with being comforted
  • Competence porn, characters learning new skills or revealing hidden talents or depths
  • Adventures, daring rescues, daring escapes, daring heists
  • Con artists and con jobs
  • Road trips, camping, staying in roadside motels
  • Loyalty kink, us-against-the-world, fighting back-to-back
  • Survival stories, lost in the wilderness, Canadian Shack
  • Bed-sharing, huddling for warmth, falling asleep against each other, etc.
  • Roaring rampages of revenge
  • Journeys into the underworld
  • Internalized homophobia, repressed desires, period-typical attitudes toward sexuality, religious guilt where applicable
  • Ghosts, monsters, eldritch abominations, werewolves, “Came Back Wrong”-type tropes
  • The apocalypse (zombie or otherwise)
  • Small towns with secrets, creepy carnivals, curses, deals with the devil, etc.
  • Characters telling stories, in-universe legends and urban legends
  • Weird west AUs
  • Scenery porn
  • Deserts, mountains, forests, seasides, storms of all kinds, loving descriptions of bad weather
  • Autumnal themes: harvests, Halloween, fog creeping across fields, apple orchards, leaves changing colors
  • Winter themes: snow, roaring fires, blizzards, characters getting bundled up, Christmas (especially if the Christmas stuff is juxtaposed with darker or angstier themes)

Porn/kink likes, if you're so inclined:
  • Oral sex, fingering, handjobs, frottage, anal sex
  • Clothed/semi-clothed sex, outdoor sex, semi-public sex
  • Loss of virginity, first times, first-time-with-the-same-sex sex
  • Eagerness, desperation, characters really, really liking whatever they’re doing
  • Bed-sharing and/or heat-sharing leads to sex
  • Cuddling
  • Hair-pulling, hair-petting
  • Shoving someone up against a wall
  • Characters unexpectedly stumbling into kinks that really work for them
  • Informally negotiated kink or unnegotiated kink
  • D/s dynamics, struggles for dominance
  • Bondage: ropes, handcuffs, characters getting tied up with whatever’s lying around
  • Manhandling, rough sex, bruises, biting, spanking
  • Bloodplay, gunplay, knifeplay, breathplay


Do Not Want:
  • Noncon. Dubcon is fine as long as both parties enjoy it and want it on some level and no one is left feeling traumatized. Canon-typical references to rape are fine.
  • Heavy focus on canon pregnancy or babies, non-canonical pregnancy or babies
  • Infidelity or poly involving my requested ships
  • Completely alternate-setting AUs (modern, mundane, in space, Regency, whatever)
  • A/B/O, D/s-verse
  • Breeding kink
  • Heavily negotiated BDSM, characters using BDSM-community jargon
  • Unrequested gender/sexual identity headcanons
  • Scat, watersports
  • Explicit sex involving characters under 16


The Hateful Eight
Chris Mannix/Marquis Warren

*Accidental Time Travel ×Character meets a younger version of their love interest ×Character’s Suspicious Actions Get Them In Trouble With The One(s) They’re Trying To Help ×Character(s) Remain in Alternate Timeline They Created ×Enemies Travel Back In Time Together ×Peggy Sue ×Self/self/other threesome using short-loop time travel ×Star-Crossed Lovers Keep Changing Fate Only To Come To Worse Ends Every Time ×Strangers Meet During Shared Time Loop ×Stuck in the wrong decade ×Time Loop - Becomes Creepier with Every Loop ×Time Loop - Character and Enemy Are the Only People Aware of Looping ×Time Loop - Looping Character Keeps Dying ×Time Period Culture Shock ×Time Travel For Murder And Revenge ×Time Travel Forward - Competent Character Struggles With New Context ×Time Travel Heist ×Uncontrollable Spontaneous Time Travel ×Character From Future Tries To Convince Current Enemy They Will Be Friends/Allies In Future ×


I would just love to see any amount of time travel shenanigans with these two awful characters. Groundhog Day scenarios, Peggy Sue situations for either Warren or Mannix during the war, trapped in a creepy time loop of repeated deaths, getting flung into the future or the past together? I'd be down for any of that. I'd be particularly entertained by Mannix traveling back to during the war and trying to convince Warren (or his past self?) about the sort of relationship they're going to have some day. The two of them exploiting time travel for sex or creating a Warren/Mannix/Warren threesome? I'd also be into any AU where they somehow end up looping together while they're still enemies, and are forced to work together. Alternatively, Warren exploiting time travel to kill Confederates, with Mannix either along for the ride or a younger Mannix stumbling into things and getting pulled along as a hostage.


The Long Walk - Richard Bachman
Ray Garraty, Peter McVries

*Time Travel Fix-it - Multiple Characters Working Together To Carry Out A Plan ×Time travel might be a character hallucinating ×Time Travel to fix an apocalyptic future ×Time travel to save a friend or loved one ×trauma due to being aware of time loop ×Time Travel Fix-It ×Time Travel Fix-It - fixing one's own mistakes ×Peggy Sue - Time Traveling Character Goes Back to Saved Loved One ×Time Loop - Becomes Creepier with Every Loop ×Time Loop - Looping character trying to save another character's life ×Time Loop/Groundhog Day - Both Characters Stuck in Loop ×Peggy Sue ×


I'm always down for any excuse to avert tragedy for these characters, so why not time travel?

Maybe the wish that Ray asks for as his Prize is a chance to do things over again, and to his amazement, this wish is granted. Maybe Ray gets visited by visions of his past while on the Walk, and the Walk morphs into a trippy maybe-time loop, maybe-hallucinations where things seem to be happening cyclically, with Walkers dying and then reviving. Maybe even visions of past Walks, from different time periods that reveal a lot of disturbing episodes from past walks, or maybe Ray discovering what really happened to past winners. Peggy Sue or Groundhog Day AU where Garraty or McVries wake up before the walk and has a chance to do things differently? If you're okay with some world-building, time travel with the both of them to either get as many people as they can out of the walk, or end up with a chance to avert the dystopian world they're in?


Red Dead Redemption
Kieran Duffy, Sadie Adler

 *Peggy Sue ×Time Loop/Groundhog Day - Groundhog Peggy Sue ×Time Loop - Continues Until Everyone Lives ×Time Loop - Looping Character Keeps Dying ×Time Travel Fix-It ×Time travel might be a character hallucinating ×Time travel via magical locale ×Time Traveler Returns to the Past Knowing Their Horrible Fate ×Timehopping To Rescue Others From The Moments Of Their Deaths ×trauma due to being aware of time loop ×Uncontrollable Spontaneous Time Travel ×Groundhog Day ×Time Loop - Becomes Creepier with Every Loop ×Time Loop - Looping character trying to save another character's life ×Time Travel For Murder And Revenge ×Time travel to save a friend or loved one ×

I'm just really fond of the two newest members of the Van der Linde gang. Kieran's such a sweet, sad captive-turned-much-abused-gang-member, and I want nicer things for him than he got in canon. Sadie is so tragic, and I love her arc from woman who's lost everything to badass bounty hunter who refuses to ever have anything taken from her again. I would be eager to see how either of them would respond to getting thrust into the middle of a time travel plot: trying to navigate being stuck in a time loop or a journey to their own pasts to do things differently.

Kieran getting trapped in a time loop of trauma and constant death that he has to figure out how to break out of? Maybe he starts out coping with the loops by just trying to keep his head down and survive, but living into Chapter 6 and watching the gang collapse repeatedly draws him into attempts to help rescue the rest of them too? (Maybe he develops a much deeper respect and bond with Arthur in the process?) Basically, there's a lot of Peggy Sue and time loop type fic in RDR2 where Arthur gets a chance to do things over again and save everyone, and I love those fics, but I'm really intrigued by the idea that the looping character trying to save everyone in the gang is someone who's a lot less powerful and respected than Arthur. And uh, there's no one in the Van der Linde gang less powerful and respected than Kieran, so I would love to see what would happen if the Groundhog Day ball got handed to him and he had to figure out how to turn himself into the hero saving the gang.

I'd also love to see Sadie in the role of "time traveler who has to save everyone from their bad decisions (and maybe some of her own decisions too)". Sadie saving the gang? Sadie going back into her Chapter 2 self and just shooting Micah in the face, and eventually ending up running the gang herself in an attempt to keep everyone else alive? Or maybe the world-weary, bounty hunting Sadie of the Epilogue gets thrown back to before 1899 (in either a physical time travel or a Peggy Sue context) and has to encounter her more innocent life before her husband's death? Maybe she ends up having a bittersweet conversation with her past self? Maybe she even gets a chance to see Jake one last time and say goodbye, even if he doesn't quite recognize her?

If you want to bring in the canonical form of time travel implied by the Francis Sinclair rock carving subplot in some capacity, I would love that. Maybe Francis even turns up again, and Sadie ends up working with him? Maybe Kieran gets murdered by O'Driscolls at the site of one of the rock carvings, and that triggers him getting sent back in time for a do-over (or ongoing do-overs)?

Also, don't feel obligated to, but if you're interested in writing a fic where both Kieran and Sadie end up in a loop or otherwise have to work together during a time travel plot, I'd be really interested in that. They both have such wildly different personalities, and Sadie has an understandable grudge against him because of the O'Driscolls, but I would love to see something where the two of them can put their differences aside and work together.

True Detective
Tom Purcell/Roland West
*Accidental Time Travel ×Character is unstuck from time ×Character Time Travels When They Sleep ×Communicating Across Time ×Groundhog Day ×Peggy Sue ×Peggy Sue - Time Traveling Character Goes Back to Saved Loved One ×Time Loop - Looping character trying to save another character's life ×Time Loop - Watching the Character You Love Die Again and Again ×Time Loop - Looping Character Keeps Dying ×Time Loop/Groundhog Day - Both Characters Stuck in Loop ×Uncontrollable Spontaneous Time Travel ×Time travel might be a character hallucinating ×Time travel to save a friend or loved one ×Character can't tell what the real timeline is anymore ×Time Loop - Becomes Creepier with Every Loop ×

Roland's life alone in the woods with dogs and thirty years of regrets is interrupted by a Peggy Sue situation sending him back to 1980, where he sees Tom again? This time, he makes different choices? Anything involving drunk, dog-loving crotchety old man Roland ending up in his younger body and trying to correct past mistakes would be great.

I would also be very down for Tom being the one traveling, getting stuck in a time loop and continuously suffering and dying in all timelines until he can find a way to break out. Or the two of them getting stuck together in some kind of loop and having to work together. The idea of a 5 minute time loop especially intrigues me for this ship. Maybe the painful interrogation scene plays out, and then plays out over and over for them until something changes? Anything that gives these two a chance at a happier ending, or just forces them to deal with the tragedy of what happened to Tom and perhaps allows them to see each other one last time under different circumstances.
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Dear Yuletide Author,

Thanks for writing for me; I'm thrilled you offered to write one of these fandoms. I hope you have fun writing, and I love it when authors write what they enjoy, so if there's something you've been itching to write for one of these fandoms/characters beyond what’s in my prompts, feel free to! If you have any questions, feel free to contact me through the mods.

My AO3 username is PositivelyVexed.

Requested Fandoms
Us
True Detective
The Long Walk - Richard Bachman

The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly
The Entrance - Gerald Durrell
Old Town Road (Music Video)

General likes
  • Enemies-to-lovers, friends-to-lovers, unlikely team-ups, characters who don’t trust each other being forced to rely on each other
  • Unexpected loyalty or kindness between unlikely characters
  • Hurt/comfort, especially with characters who are bad at comforting and/or uneasy with being comforted
  • Competence porn, characters learning new skills or revealing hidden talents or depths
  • Adventures, daring rescues, daring escapes, daring heists
  • Con artists and con jobs
  • Road trips, camping, staying in roadside motels
  • Loyalty kink, us-against-the-world, fighting back-to-back
  • Survival stories, lost in the wilderness, Canadian Shack
  • Bed-sharing, huddling for warmth, falling asleep against each other, etc.
  • Roaring rampages of revenge
  • Journeys into the underworld
  • Internalized homophobia, repressed desires, period-typical attitudes toward sexuality, religious guilt where applicable
  • Ghosts, monsters, eldritch abominations, werewolves, “Came Back Wrong”-type tropes
  • The apocalypse (zombie or otherwise)
  • Small towns with secrets, creepy carnivals, curses, deals with the devil, etc.
  • Characters telling stories, in-universe legends and urban legends
  • Weird west AUs
  • Scenery porn
  • Deserts, mountains, forests, seasides, storms of all kinds, loving descriptions of bad weather
  • Autumnal themes: harvests, Halloween, fog creeping across fields, apple orchards, leaves changing colors
  • Winter themes: snow, roaring fires, blizzards, characters getting bundled up, Christmas (especially if the Christmas stuff is juxtaposed with darker or angstier themes)

Porn/kink likes, if you're so inclined:
  • Oral sex, fingering, handjobs, frottage, anal sex
  • Clothed/semi-clothed sex, outdoor sex, semi-public sex
  • Loss of virginity, first times, first-time-with-the-same-sex sex
  • Eagerness, desperation, characters really, really liking whatever they’re doing
  • Bed-sharing and/or heat-sharing leads to sex
  • Cuddling
  • Hair-pulling, hair-petting
  • Shoving someone up against a wall
  • Characters unexpectedly stumbling into kinks that really work for them
  • Informally negotiated kink or unnegotiated kink
  • D/s dynamics, struggles for dominance
  • Bondage: ropes, handcuffs, characters getting tied up with whatever’s lying around
  • Manhandling, rough sex, bruises, biting, spanking
  • Bloodplay, gunplay, knifeplay, breathplay


Do Not Want:
  • Noncon. Dubcon is fine as long as both parties enjoy it and want it on some level and no one is left feeling traumatized. Canon-typical references to rape are fine.
  • Heavy focus on canon pregnancy or babies, non-canonical pregnancy or babies
  • Infidelity or poly involving my requested ships
  • Completely alternate-setting AUs (modern, mundane, in space, Regency, whatever)
  • A/B/O, D/s-verse
  • Breeding kink
  • Heavily negotiated BDSM, characters using modern-day BDSM jargon
  • Unrequested gender/sexual identity headcanons
  • Scat, watersports
  • Explicit sex involving characters under 16
Us (2019)
Adelaide, Red

I loved this movie and both of these characters, and I've been craving fic about them ever since. 

With Adelaide, I loved the twist revealing her past: the secret depths of her ruthlessness, the lengths she went to in order to escape her original life, and I love how hard she is to dislike in spite of all that. I want more of her going to extreme lengths trying to protect the life she has created and the family that she's made. I'm also so curious about what her feelings about the other Tethered are. Does she ever feel any lingering loyalty or sympathy for them? What happens to her and her family next after the end of the film? Post-apocalyptic survival with the rest of the family is welcome, but I'd be equally interested in AU takes on things, where, for instance, she doesn't win during her showdown with Red and instead is taken captive. I'd also be equally interested in fic focusing on her life as one of the Tethered, before the two girls meet, or her acclimation to the world above after she first escapes.

With Red, I loved her even before I realized her history--and learning her origin story was such a gut punch. I want to know everything about this girl who had a normal life before being stolen away into captivity and then growing up to become the murderous revolutionary messiah of a whole nation of underground dwellers. It's inspiring, really! I'm just so fascinated by the journey she went on there. How she got from--presumably--being terrified of this horrifying new world to deciding that she's the messiah who's going to lead everyone in this world to freedom, and that the world of her childhood needs to be destroyed. Does Red have some lingering Tether control over Adelaide, at least in the early days after they switched places? I just love zealous, slightly insane revolutionaries with sympathetic backstories and kind-of-admirable-kind-of-horrifying goals, and Red scratches that itch in a big way for me.

For the two of them, I'd be particularly interested in a film ending AU where, for instance, Adelaide doesn't win during her showdown with Red and instead is taken captive, or Red kills Adelaide and has to deal with her surprise grief about that? I'd also be particularly interested in something that explored Red's suggestion at the end of the movie: what if Adelaide had taken Red with her that night they met, instead of switching places? Especially if that doesn't fix things in a straightforward way and has its own negative or creepy consequences--maybe in this AU Adelaide is still ruthless, and Red still has a streak of messianic fervor, but now the two of them are navigating life together, and now whoever was in charge of the Tethered knows that one of them has escaped?

If you're amenable to doppelcest, I would love Adelaide/Red: more of their showdown in the film, with bonus sexual tension and creepy flirtatious overtones? Dance-fighting-leads-to-fucking? Pre-film fic where being Tethered together, and both being aware of that fact, gives them a degree of sexual intimacy that they both simultaneously hate and are reluctantly turned on by? (The film is vague about how Tethering actually works, and especially vague about how it works for two doppelgangers who've switched places, so I'd love to see them discover they have some kind of a two-way connection and control over the other's movements). The two of them sharing sensations or experiences or weird dreams? Just give me all the doppelcest for these two!



True Detective
Tom Purcell, Roland West

I really enjoyed the time period and setting in the third season, and I love the emphasis on how this one tragic crime's effects ripple out to affect the entire town and have so many more tragic effects over the years. I would love any focus on that, or anything that incorporates the canon elements of unreliable memory and nonlinear storytelling. I'd also be really interested in any AU that introduces a supernatural or occultic bent to this season: some kind of It-esque Small Town With a Horrifying Evil at the Center Targeting Children is really behind the Purcell kids' disappearances? The Lovecraftian overtones of Season 1 return?

With Tom Purcell, his life is just the most miserable thing ever, and I really want more of it. His guilt, his self-destructive grief, his prickly defensiveness, his willingness to jump into fights that he can't win, his repressed sexuality and desperate attempts to drown himself in religion and alcohol.... yeah. Any and all of that, please. More of his life between 1980 and 1990, especially whatever that hole he was in that Roland pulled him out of in 1985. Also, because I'm still not over how cold his death was, I am totally down for canon-divergent fix-it AUs. Tom survives his encounter with Harris James and the case gets solved in 1990? When Will is found in that cave, he's only mostly dead, and we get to see an AU where Tom is reunited with his kids?

I also love Roland and his relationship with Tom and Wayne: the mixture of surprising kindness and "beating suspects up in a barn" belligerence, his loyalty to the people he cares about, the fact that when Tom dies he immediately pays his respects by going out and getting drunk and picking a fight he can't win. I love it all. I'd read anything about his life alone in the woods with dogs.

Shipping-wise, I'm very fond of Tom/Roland. The scene where Roland takes Tom home and lets him sleep on his couch basically made me ship it, and I would happily read any missing scene of what might have happened between them that night, or any other Tom/Roland scene that involves one or both of them getting their asses kicked in barfights, sharing some hurt/comfort, drinking too much, and bed-sharing. I'd also love to read a happier or more hopeful take on their relationship, with survival and even maybe a happier resolution to the kidnapping. I'd be fascinated by any Tom/Roland AU where Tom survives that focuses on the emotional aftermath of that interrogation scene for both of them. Through handwavey reasons, Tom and Julie are reunited, and Roland ends up hanging around helping Tom be a single parent?

I'm also fond of Wayne/Roland. I really liked the chemistry and dynamic between these two, the way they needle each other and yet seem so at ease with each other, the way they work together, the way the Purcell case seems to change everything for them, eventually forcing them apart. I really like the melancholy of the two of them reconnecting in 2015 and trying to play detective one last time, and how much Roland still seems to care deeply about Wayne all those years after being ghosted by him. I'd love any hurt/comfort between them at any stage of their relationship (especially seeing them together in the immediate aftermath of Roland's shooting in 1980, or Roland watching out for Wayne in 2015 and helping him remember himself). Scenes of their first meeting or their first case together? The two of them hanging around that junkyard or otherwise just shooting the shit together? Wayne trying to teach Roland tracking?

I'm only officially requesting these two, but I like all the characters in the tagset and would be very happy with any of them making appearances or interacting with Tom and/or Roland.


The Long Walk - Richard Bachman
Ray Garraty, Peter McVries


I just want more. One of the most affecting things about this story was how these kids who signed up for a walk to the death still instinctively try so hard to help and support each other, so I'd love any more vignettes of those moments of kindness and solidarity in the face of this dehumanizing regime, or desperate last stands and futile uprisings. I'd really be interested in anything that leans into the unreal undercurrents of the latter half of the novel, going full-on surreal or supernatural: the semi-catatonic walkers are literal zombies? The walk continues in the afterlife? The dark figure is a very literal and malevolent entity?

In the more cheerful spirit of the season, I would also love to read a fix-it scenario for this canon, and I will take any vaguely plausible excuse for one. Parker acted earlier, and this time he was able to successfully rally the boys in an uprising? Maybe there are more cracks in the Major's hold on the society and the military than we see? An act of insurrection comes from outside and disrupts the Walk? Weather emergency or military in-fighting allow the boys to escape? I’m also down for supernatural elements being used for fix-it purposes. Sudden outbreak of zombie apocalypse actually give the walkers a real shot at escape? Peggy Sue or Groundhog Day AU where Garraty or McVries wake up before the walk and has a chance to do things differently? Sure!

I ship Garraty/McVries, and with even the most handwavey of explanations of how they escaped the Walk alive, I would love to read about them on the run or holed up in some rat-trap hotel, tending to each other’s injuries, cuddling up and enjoying the most-well deserved sleep of their lives, or getting up to more than that. Basically anything that explores how they might relate to each other outside of the intense certain-death-for-at-least-one-of-them circumstances their bond formed in. What might their friendship or a burgeoning romantic relationship look like with them actually able to survive together? I'm equally interested in dark takes on this ship that keeps the tragic canon ending intact: denial and internalized homophobia, confessions of desire or self-realization that comes too late, a surviving Garraty haunted by dreams of how it could have been, Garraty takes McVries up on his proposal, and there are Furtive Handjobs in the night, or alternatively, Exhibitionist Handjobs of Defiance in front of the crowd. McVries is a ghost who haunts a traumatized Garraty after the novel's ending, with sexy, angsty and/or spooky results.


Il buono il brutto il cattivo | The Good The Bad and The Ugly
Blondie, Tuco Ramirez

I love these assholes and their screwed-up relationship (and I ship it madly) and would be down for anything that explores the dark, funny possibilities of their partners-to-enemies-to-who-even-knows dynamic. I am down for all the grudging hurt/comfort, competence and general ridiculous Spaghetti Western badassery, forced team-ups, competitiveness (including competitve sex, if you're down to take this in a shippy direction), banter, huddling for warmth around the campfire, sharing a smoke, spending their ill-gotten fortunes together, learning about each other's pasts, and weird incongruous cuteness in the vein of playing with a kitten (!) in the film.

Shipping-wise, I'm not really looking for anything too, too fluffy with these two: they're assholes who try to murder each other repeatedly, and that's what I love about them. But I'm really into the idea that they do like each other, deep down, so any moments of grudging fondness and camaraderie would make me very happy.

On a darker note, I'd love to read all of the revenge, deception and manipulation, mindgames, dubcon, murder attempts. I also find all the death and destruction of the Civil War a fascinating backdrop in the film, and would love more about how the warfare keeps way-laying their plans and sweeping them up in a much larger bloody conflict that unsettles even these hardened killers.

If you want to give this a Weird West twist, I am 100% down for that. Blondie not being entirely mortal, everything in the Sad Hill graveyard not being entirely dead, zombie soldiers, gunslinging ghosts, the graveyard-is-purgatory. I am down for absolutely anything putting a supernatural spin on this canon.


The Entrance - Gerald Durrell
Gideon de Teildras Villeray, Peter Letting

This is such a memorably creepy story, with so many horror story elements that I find irresistible: an epistolary format, a possibly unreliable narrator, a remote and isolated snowbound setting, vaguely slashy undertones, and an absolutely terrifying monster at its center.

There are so many dangling questions, and I’d love any answers you'd care to provide (or even just further creepy questions). I'd love to know more about that mirror world, and that mirror monster. Where did they come from? How extensive is the mirror world? Are there other houses involved? Does any other non-mirrored being else live there besides the monster? We know the monster can travel to our world, is it possible for something to travel from our world to it?

My dream is fix-it fic for Peter and Gideon. I am open to anything that will allow this to happen: An AU where Gideon ends up trapped in the house with Peter, and they have to deal with the mirror world together? The monster is Gideon, and Peter manages to get through to him instead of killing him? Gideon/the monster is only wounded, and hurt/comfort ensues? I am interested in anything you want to do to fix this and give them a happy (or at least hopeful) ending. Feel free to take this in either a shippy or non-shippy direction. Alternatively, I’d still love something that keeps the bleak ending intact, especially if it makes the sexual tension between them explicit. More horror and scares in the vein of the original story is very welcome.

I’m just generally intrigued by Peter, with his disastrously reckless curiosity about the mirror monster, and poor, haunted Gideon, with his traumatic past with his uncle and his questionable motives toward Peter. What kind of emotional terror did his uncle inflict on him? Did he serve his uncle by procuring victims for the mirror? (Was seduction involved in this?) Was that his ultimate plan for Peter? I assume he was involved in his uncle’s death: how, and why then?

Also, I am down for any touches of antiquarian bookseller/wealthy patron lifestyle porn you want to include: snowy nights alone in a French chateau drinking wine by the fireplace, long carriage rides through the countryside, rare book cataloging by candlelight? Yes, please.


Old Town Road - Lil Nas X ft. Billy Ray Cyrus (Music Video)
Lil Nas X, Billy Ray Cyrus

Watch it here!

I am a sucker for goofy wild west adventures and portal time travel stories; combine the two and I will be there. So this music video just hit the spot for me. I am very fond of the song itself, too, so feel free to incorporate references to it, but don't feel like you need to pull in references to other country or trap music or the music industry as a whole. I'm using the performers' names here, but feel free to give them different, more plausible names for the fic if you'd like. Or just keep them the same, no explanation necessary!

So, I love friends following each other through otherworldly portals and finding each other again and being the only other person who knows them from their previous life and the only other person who knows what getting plucked out of their time is like, so if you want to play this for totally earnest time travel angst and hurt/comfort and heartwarming Power of Friendship cuteness, go for it!  Otherwise, I'm down for anything. These two getting up to fish-out-of-water antics in the present day? Going back for adventures in the Old West with their newly acquired knowledge of the future? Lil Nas X's horse displaying more supernatural feats of speed? Has anyone else slipped through that portal? More adventures with any of the people from the bingo hall or the neighborhood Lil Nas X first lands in? Show me whatever heist they pulled to get those totally-real bags of money and what they did to get Chris Rock and his posse on their trail?

I'd love to see these two get shipped together! I'm fine with gen too, and I'd be down for any kind of dynamic between them--mentor/mentee thing with Billy Ray as the more experienced partner to the talented upstart Lil Nas X? Former rivals forced to team up? Odd couple best buddies? A couple of entertainers who just want to make music, who were forced into the outlaw game to support their dreams? Any kind of backstory for these two could be fun.
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Dear Shipoween Author,

Thanks for writing for me! I'm really looking forward to some spooky, seasonal, or just plain shippy fic this Halloween, and I can't wait to see what you come up with!


My AO3 username is PositivelyVexed.


Requested Fandoms

Us
True Detective
Red Dead Redemption


General likes
  • Enemies-to-lovers, friends-to-lovers, unlikely team-ups, characters who don’t trust each other being forced to rely on each other
  • Unexpected loyalty or kindness from unlikely characters
  • Hurt/comfort, especially with characters who are bad at comforting and/or uncomfortable with being comforted
  • Competence porn, characters learning new skills or revealing hidden talents or depths
  • Adventures, daring rescues, daring escapes, daring heists
  • Con artists and con jobs
  • Road trips, camping, staying in roadside motels
  • Loyalty kink, us-against-the-world, fighting back-to-back
  • Survival stories, lost in the wilderness, Canadian Shack
  • Bed-sharing, huddling for warmth, falling asleep against each other, etc.
  • Roaring rampages of revenge
  • Journeys into the underworld
  • Internalized homophobia, repressed desires, period-typical attitudes toward sexuality, religious guilt
  • Ghosts, monsters, eldritch abominations, werewolves, “Came Back Wrong”-type tropes
  • The apocalypse (zombie or otherwise)
  • Small towns with secrets, curses, deals with the devil, etc.
  • Characters telling stories, in-universe legends and urban legends
  • Weird west AUs
  • Scenery porn
  • Winter, snow, deserts, mountains, storms of all kinds
  • Haunted houses, creepy carnivals, cemeteries, abandoned artifacts that tell some kind of story about what happened to the people who left them behind
  • Autumnal themes: harvests, Halloween, fog creeping across fields, apple orchards, leaves changing colors, corn mazes, characters getting bundled up

Porn/kink likes, if you're so inclined:
  • Oral sex, fingering, handjobs, frottage, anal sex
  • Clothed/semi-clothed sex, outdoor sex, semi-public sex
  • Loss of virginity, first times, first-time-with-the-same-sex sex
  • Eagerness, desperation, characters really, really liking whatever they’re doing
  • Bed-sharing and/or heat-sharing leads to sex
  • Cuddling
  • Hair-pulling, hair-petting
  • Shoving someone up against a wall
  • Characters unexpectedly stumbling into kinks that really work for them
  • Informally negotiated kink or unnegotiated kink
  • D/s dynamics, struggles for dominance
  • Bondage: ropes, handcuffs, characters getting tied up with whatever’s lying around
  • Manhandling, rough sex, bruises, biting, spanking
  • Bloodplay, gunplay, knifeplay, breathplay


Do Not Want:
  • Noncon. Dubcon is fine as long as both parties enjoy it and want it on some level.
  • Heavy focus on pregnancy or babies, non-canonical pregnancy or babies
  • Completely alternate-setting AUs (modern, mundane, in space, Regency, whatever)
  • A/B/O, D/s-verse
  • Breeding kink
  • Heavily negotiated BDSM, characters using modern-day BDSM jargon
  • Unrequested gender/sexual identity headcanons
  • Scat, watersports
  • Readerfic or OC-centric fic
  • Explicit sex involving characters under 16


Us (2019)
Fic, Spooky, Seasonal, No Theme
Adelaide/Red

I loved this movie and both of these characters, and I've been craving this ship ever since. I would love Adelaide/Red sharing sexual tension and creepy flirtatious overtones. Dance-fighting-leads-to-fucking? Pre-film fic where being Tethered together, and both being aware of that fact, gives them a degree of sexual intimacy that they both simultaneously hate and are reluctantly turned on by? (The film is vague about how Tethering actually works, and especially vague about how it works for two doppelgangers who've switched places, so I'd love to see them discover they have some kind of a two-way connection and control over the other's movements). The two of them sharing sensations or experiences or weird dreams? Just give me all the doppelcest for these two!

Film ending AU where, for instance, Adelaide doesn't win during her showdown with Red and instead is taken captive, or Red kills Adelaide and has to deal with her surprise grief about that? I'd also be particularly interested in something that explored Red's suggestion at the end of the movie: what if Adelaide had taken Red with her that night they met, instead of switching places? Especially if that doesn't fix things in a straightforward way and has its own negative or creepy consequences--maybe in this AU Adelaide is still ruthless, and Red still has a streak of messianic fervor, but now the two of them are navigating life together, and now whoever was in charge of the Tethered knows that one of them has escaped? 

For Adelaide, I'm so curious about whether she ever feels any guilt about what she did to Red. For Red, I want to know everything about this girl who had a normal life stolen away from her, and how she relates to her fellow Tethered and the world up above that she used to belong to but now is happy to bring to its knees. For the film as a whole, I love the home invasion horror, the bizarre underworld, the apocalyptic ending, the somewhat slippery question of what the Tethered are, the dark humor, the emphasis on mirroring and coincidences: all of that would be very welcome in any fic you want to write. If you want to dig into world-building for this movie and explore more about where the Tethered actually came from (is Red mistaken about their origin story?) or show us more of the underworld that apparently stretches across the US, feel free. I'd love to see that, or what happens now that the Tethered have risen up. (What's their plan after they get tired of standing in a human chain across the country?)



True Detective
Fic, Spooky, Seasonal, No Theme
Tom Purcell/Roland West, Roland West/Wayne Hays

I really enjoyed the time period and setting in the third season, and I love the emphasis on how this one tragic crime's effects ripple out to affect the entire town and have so many more tragic effects over the years. AUs are very welcome, especially anything that introduces a supernatural or occultic bent to this season. Some kind of It-esque Small Town With a Horrifying Evil at the Center Targeting Children is really behind the Purcell kids' disappearances? The Lovecraftian overtones of Season 1 return?


Tom Purcell/Roland West
The scene where Roland takes Tom home and lets him sleep on his couch basically made me ship it, and I would happily read any missing scene of what might have happened between them that night, or any other Tom/Roland scene that involves one or both of them getting their asses kicked in barfights, sharing some hurt/comfort, drinking too much, and bed-sharing.

I'm just endlessly fascinated by the sadness of Tom's life, and I love fics that delve into his guilt, his self-destructive grief, his prickly defensiveness, his willingness to jump into fights that he can't win, his repressed sexuality and desperate attempts to drown himself in religion and alcohol.... yeah. Any and all of that, please. Scenes from their relationship between 1980 and 1990, especially Roland pulling Tom out of that hole he was in in 1985? Roland grieving for Tom after 1990, and possibly becoming convinced that Tom is still haunting him? I, uh, also wouldn't be averse to a reveal in 1990 that he's actually a werewolf, and the evidence of his transformations (injuries, torn and bloodied clothes, blood from animals he's killed turning up on his property) being what actually throws suspicion on Tom. He just seems like the unlucky type who'd become one, and then have everyone think he's a murderer because of it, doesn't he?

Canon-divergent fix-it AUs are also very welcome. Tom's kids don't die, and he is reunited with them *handwavey gesture* somehow, and Roland keeps turning up to check in on the family, especially after Lucy peaces out? AU where Julie gets rescued early in her captivity, or the search for her ends more successfully in 1990, and the two of them are reunited and have to figure out how to live a normal life now that they're the only members of their family left? Maybe Tom manages to fight off Harris James in the Pink Rooms, but kills him in the process, and has to convince Roland to believe him that it was self-defense?


Roland West/Wayne Hays

I really liked the chemistry and dynamic between these two, the way they needle each other and yet seem so at ease with each other, the way they work together and seem to be completely on the same page when it comes to Bad Idea Plans like kidnapping Harris James and beating him in a barn, the way the Purcell case seems to change everything for them, eventually forcing them apart, and then back together, and then apart again. I really like the melancholy of the two of them reconnecting in 2015 and trying to play detective one last time, and how much Roland still seems to care deeply about Wayne all those years after being ghosted by him. I'd love any hurt/comfort between them at any stage of their relationship (especially seeing them together in the immediate aftermath of Roland's shooting in 1980, or Roland watching out for Wayne in 2015 and helping him remember himself). Scenes of their first meeting or their first case together? The two of them hanging around that junkyard or otherwise just shooting the shit together? Wayne trying to teach Roland tracking?

On the spooky front, the two of them getting assigned a case together that slowly reveals itself to be supernatural? I’d also be interested in anything Memento-ish where Wayne’s holes in his memory in 2015 are revealed to hide increasingly dark secrets about himself, and/or increasingly significant memories about his and Roland’s relationship that he’s forgotten. I also really like the brief hints that the various Waynes of 1980, 1990, and 2015 are crossing paths with each other and able to subtly influence the other’s eras in ways that only he can perceive--but what if Roland can perceive it too? Does Wayne from one time period encounter Roland from another? I'd be particularly interested in a melancholy older Roland sharing a moment of connection with a much younger Wayne who doesn't know about how often he's going to end up walking away from Roland.

Also, this is a ship where I enjoy the height difference in a big way, so feel free to make mention of that.


Red Dead Redemption
Fic, Spooky, Seasonal, No Theme
Kieran Duffy & Arthur Morgan, Kieran Duffy/Arthur Morgan, Arthur Morgan/Leonard "Lenny" Summers, Sadie Adler/Black Belle

I adore the themes of an encroaching civilization that’s bearing down on the characters and about to wipe out their way of life. I love the emphasis on the natural beauty of the landscape and the sense of encroaching modernity on all sides slowly transforming the world into something more recognizable to us, with hints of all the social, political, and technological changes that are in the air and right around the corner (Women’s suffrage! Cubist art! Modern warfare! Uh… giant robots!) I also adore all the weird hints of the supernatural (fics taking things into full-on horror or Weird West territory is 100% welcome) and the general darker, creepier corners of this world, how tragic and brutal it is and how easy it is to stumble across heartbreaking reminders of that brutality in the artifacts left behind.

I love the gang and their dynamics, this sense that they’re a ragtag group of people who all have their own loyalties and histories and grudges and affection for one another, and I even love the tragedy of watching so much of that unravel as the gang starts to fall apart. I’m fine with Arthur being high-honor, low-honor, or most preferred, somewhere in between. Regardless, what I find most interesting about the character is the tension between his worst impulses and his better impulses.

For seasonal requests, I'd just really love anything that explores the Red Dead world in fall. The gang pulls a heist in the middle of a town's harvest festival? Arthur gets sent on a side mission to steal pumpkins? The gang tells spooky stories around the campfire? Hunkering down for cold weather as the seasons turn? (I would welcome any of these ships huddling for warmth or share a cup of hot cider.) Vaguely historically accurate 1890s Halloween customs? I'm down for anything even vaguely seasonal in this universe.

Kieran Duffy & Arthur Morgan, Kieran Duffy/Arthur Morgan

So, one of my favorite tropes, like, ever, is “member of the enemy team gets captured and eventually awkwardly integrated into the team, but no one really trusts him even though he genuinely has changed loyalties and wants to be one of them now.” Soooo, Kieran’s set-up was 110% up my alley, and I had all these vague hopes that Arthur’s dislike and dickishness towards Kieran was leading towards some payoff where Kieran actually gets to prove himself to Arthur’s satisfaction and a glorious “I guess we’re awkward friends who respect each other now” outcome.

...That, uh, didn’t happen in canon. But I managed to blue-ball myself with wanting it, and I still crave it. So... let them become friends! Or, if you feel like indulging me further, more than friends!

I'm down for pretty much anything here, as long as you start them out from a place of their canon distrust and explore what might prompt things to change between them. Kieran makes himself useful on a mission? Kieran proves himself adept at something other than washing tables and fishing? Bonding over a mutual love of horses? Kieran survives being taken the O'Driscolls, and they bond over getting captured and tortured by Colm O’Driscoll? Arthur’s constant digs and threats hides an actual kinky interest in pushing Kieran around, and a some point things takes a sexy turn which alarms them both by how much they’re into it?

Any manner of fix-it fic where Kieran doesn't get tortured to death horribly? AU where Kieran lives, but things are otherwise still going in the same tragic direction as the rest of the game, with Arthur painfully wasting away? Maybe Kieran watches helplessly in Beaver’s Hollow as things get more and more dire and tries to offer Arthur some much-needed support and comfort, or sides with Arthur at a crucial moment?

Supernatural stuff! Arthur finds and breaks a ghost horse and Kieran has to figure out how to take care of a horse that's insubstantial and keeps disappearing into other dimensions? Kieran gets caught in a time loop of getting captured and dying repeatedly, and has to find some way to convince Arthur this is really happening? After Kieran's death, Arthur hears tales of a headless horseman roaming the countryside, wreaking vengeance upon O'Driscolls (or just like, hanging out with horses and brushing them?)


Arthur Morgan/Leonard "Lenny" Summers

I just really love their dynamic in canon, where Lenny is such a bright-eyed and enthusiastic young gang member and Arthur is the older gunslinger who thinks the kid has promise, and I am grieved by the lack of fic for this ship. The obvious place to go for shipfic might be their epic night of drunken debauchery together in Valentine culminating in drunk sex (hilarious drunken fail sex more than welcome, as is post-sex awkwardness.) But I’d also be interested in any shippy scenario that leans into their whole dynamic of Lenny being an eager-to-please neophyte who’s got a lot of natural talent but not a lot of self-control yet, and Arthur as the encouraging mentor who genuinely respects Lenny’s skills and smarts. I’d love anything pertaining to Lenny being eager-to-please and cocky, on a mission and in bed, and both of them being very, very into praise kink. We get a bit of information about Lenny’s background, but not a lot, so I’d love more insight into his family and his relationship with his father and how his father's death affected him. Any hurt/comfort between them! I’m always down for them bonding over murdering some more Lemoyne Raiders together. Or any AU where Lenny doesn’t die in Chapter 4. He realizes he needs to get the hell out of the gang during the Beaver’s Hollow chapter, but he doesn’t want to just leave Arthur behind and tries to convince Arthur to come with him?

Supernatural stuff! Lemoyne Raiders aren't the only thing Lenny and Arthur have to clear out of Shady Belle: there's a lot of ghosts in that house too. While getting drunk in Valentine, Arthur and Lenny accidentally discover that the Valentine curse is very real, or is just a story made up to hide something even darker going on beneath the town? Arthur being haunted by Lenny after his death?


Sadie Adler/Black Belle

Once this crack ship occurred to me, I couldn't stop thinking about it.

She's a homesteader turned grieving widow turned vengeful bounty hunter! She's a notorious gunslinger with a string of dead husbands in her past! They fight crime lawmen each other! Let them meet! Let them fight! Let them realize they're maybe not that different, and wouldn't mind sharing a cigarette/whiskey/some stories/something more! They both know what it's like to be a larger-than-life lady gunslinger in the last days of the west, and it's got to be rare for them to meet someone else who can relate. I like Belle's verve for life and her ability to survive, and I like that she's happy to keep running for as long as she can, and seems like she might be smart enough and ruthless enough to do it into the 20th century. I love Sadie's vengeance, rage and recklessness. Maybe Belle ends up on a bounty poster some day, and Sadie is on the case? Maybe they've been playing cat and mouse since Sadie began bounty hunting and have developed a wary respect for each other? Maybe they meet before Sadie becomes a bounty hunter in the epilogue, and the two of them are competing over a score?

Supernatural stuff! Belle is so resilient because she's literally a ghost/a vampire/immortal? The two of them have both become bounty hunters by 1908, and are both tracking some monster or creepy entity from the game (the Saint Denis Vampire? the wolfman in Roanoke Ridge? The ghost of that serial killer from "American Dreams"?) and have to work together to survive once they get more than they bargained for from a quarry that's not of this world?
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Dear Trick or Treat Author,

Thanks for writing for me! I hope you have fun, and if there's something you've been itching to write for one of these fandoms/characters beyond what’s in my prompts, feel free to! Some of my prompts sections are going to be longer than others, but I would be thrilled to get any of these. I’ve prompted both tricks and treats, and I’m happy with any tone for any prompt, and feel free to mix and match trick and treat elements if you want.


My AO3 username is PositivelyVexed.


Requested Fandoms

Us
True Detective
The Hateful Eight
The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly
Red Dead Redemption


General likes
  • Enemies-to-lovers, friends-to-lovers, unlikely team-ups, characters who don’t quite trust each other being forced to rely on each other
  • Ideological conflicts
  • Unexpected loyalty or kindness from unlikely characters
  • Hurt/comfort, especially with characters who are bad at comforting and/or uncomfortable with being comforted
  • Characters who are bad at expressing their feelings, characters expressing their feelings in unconventional ways
  • Competence porn, characters learning new skills or revealing hidden talents or depths
  • Adventures, daring rescues, daring escapes, daring heists
  • Con artists and con jobs
  • Road trips
  • Loyalty kink, us-against-the-world, fighting back-to-back
  • Survival stories, lost in the wilderness, Canadian Shack
  • Bed-sharing, huddling for warmth, falling asleep against each other, etc.
  • Roaring rampages of revenge
  • Internalized homophobia, repressed desires, period-typical attitudes toward sexuality, religious guilt
  • Ghosts, monsters, eldritch abominations, curses, deals with the devil, “Came Back Wrong”-type tropes, the apocalypse (zombie or otherwise)
  • Characters telling stories, in-universe legends and urban legends
  • Scenery porn
  • Winter, snow, fall/autumn, deserts, mountains, storms of all kinds

Porn/kink likes, if you're so inclined:
  • Oral sex, fingering, handjobs, frottage, anal sex
  • Clothed/semi-clothed sex, outdoor sex, semi-public sex
  • Loss of virginity, first times, first-time-with-the-same-sex sex
  • Eagerness, desperation, characters really, really liking whatever they’re doing
  • Bed-sharing and/or heat-sharing leads to sex
  • Cuddling
  • Hair-pulling, hair-petting
  • Shoving someone up against a wall
  • Characters unexpectedly stumbling into kinks that really work for them
  • Informally negotiated kink or unnegotiated kink
  • D/s dynamics, struggles for dominance
  • Bondage: ropes, handcuffs, characters getting tied up with whatever’s lying around
  • Manhandling, rough sex, bruises, biting, spanking
  • Bloodplay, gunplay, knifeplay, breathplay


Do Not Want:
  • Noncon. Dubcon is fine as long as both parties enjoy it and want it on some level. Canon-typical references to rape are fine.
  • Pregnancy, babyfic (mentions of canonical pregnancies and babies are fine, but I'd prefer them to not be a major focus)
  • Completely alternate-setting AUs (modern, mundane, in space, Regency, whatever)
  • A/B/O, D/s-verse
  • Breeding kink
  • Heavily negotiated BDSM, characters using modern-day BDSM jargon
  • Unrequested gender/sexual identity headcanons
  • Scat, watersports
  • Readerfic or OC-centric fic
  • Explicit sex involving characters under 16


Us (2019)
Tricks, Fic
Adelaide, Red

This was some of the most fun I've had at the movies in years, and I've been craving more about this story ever since. I love the home invasion horror, the bizarre underworld, the apocalyptic ending, the somewhat slippery question of what the Tethered are, the dark humor, the emphasis on mirroring and coincidences: all of that would be very welcome in any fic you want to write. If you want to dig into world-building for this movie and explore more about where the Tethered actually came from (is Red mistaken about their origin story?) or show us more of the underworld that apparently stretches across the US, feel free. I'd love to see what happens now that the Tethered have risen up. (What's their plan after they get tired of standing in a human chain across the country?) If you're amenable to doppelcest, I would love Adelaide/Red: more of their showdown in the film, with bonus sexual tension and creepy flirtatious overtones? Dance-fighting-leads-to-fucking? Pre-film fic where being Tethered together, and both being aware of that fact, gives them a degree of sexual intimacy that they both simultaneously hate and are reluctantly turned on by? (The film is vague about how Tethering actually works, and especially vague about how it works for two doppelgangers who've switched places, so I'd love to see them discover they have some kind of two-way connection). The two of them sharing sensations or experiences or weird dreams? I'd also be particularly interested in something that explored Red's suggestion at the end of the movie: what if Adelaide had taken Red with her that night they met, instead of switching places? (Especially if that doesn't fix things in a straightforward way and has its own negative or creepy consequences--maybe in this AU Adelaide is still ruthless, and Red still has a streak of messianic fervor, but now the two of them are navigating life together, and now whoever was in charge of the Tethered knows that one of them has escaped?)


Adelaide
Throughout the movie, I was rooting for her: her drive to survive, her love for her family, her sense of humor and her resourcefulness. She makes a great POV character. And then we find out what she did to Red when they were little girls, and she became fascinating to me. The depths of her ruthlessness and the lengths she went to in order to escape her original life? Yeah. I want more of her ruthlessly trying to protect the life she has created and the family that she's made. I'm also so curious about what her feelings about the other Tethered are. Does she ever feel any lingering loyalty or sympathy for them? What happens to her and her family next after the end of the film? Post-apocalyptic survival with the rest of the family is welcome, but I'd be equally interested in AU takes on things, where, for instance, she doesn't win during her showdown with Red and instead is taken captive. I'd also be equally interested in fic focusing on her life as one of the Tethered, before the two girls meet, or her acclimation to the world above after she first escapes.

Red
I have so many feelings about Red. I loved her even before I realized her history--and learning her origin story was such a gut punch. I want to know everything about this girl who had a normal life before being stolen away into captivity and then growing up to become the murderous revolutionary messiah of a whole nation of underground dwellers. It's inspiring, really! I'm just so fascinated by the journey she went on there. How she got from--presumably--being terrified of this horrifying new world to deciding that she's the messiah who's going to lead everyone in this world to freedom, and that the world of her childhood needs to be destroyed. Does Red have some lingering Tether control over Adelaide, at least in the early days after they switched places? She seems to resent being bound to her Tethered family against her will, and yet they have a pretty functional and even sorta affectionate dynamic going on. Scenes of her struggling to hang onto aspects of her past and learning to connect with the people she's surrounded with? Scenes of her rallying the Tethered to her side? I just love zealous, slightly insane revolutionaries with sympathetic backstories and kind-of-admirable-kind-of-horrifying goals, and Red scratches that itch in a big way for me. I'd love anything about her.


True Detective
Tricks, Treats, Fic

I really liked the atmosphere and setting and cast of characters in the third season, and the emphasis on how this one tragic crime's effects ripple out to affect the entire town and have so many more tragic effects over the years. AUs are very welcome, especially anything that introduces a supernatural or occultic bent to this season. Some kind of It-esque Small Town With a Horrifying Evil at the Center Targeting Children is really behind the Purcell kids' disappearances? The Lovecraftian overtones of Season 1 return?


Tom Purcell

Tom’s life is just the most miserable thing ever, and I want more of it. His guilt, his self-destructive grief, his prickly defensiveness, his willingness to jump into fights that he can't win, his repressed sexuality and desperate attempts to drown himself in religion and alcohol.... yeah. Any and all of that, please. More of his life between 1980 and 1990, especially whatever that hole he was in that Roland pulled him out of in 1985. Also, because I'm still not over the tragedy of his death, I am totally down for Treats that give me all the canon-divergent fix-it AUs. Tom's kids don't die, and he is reunited with them *handwavey gesture* somehow? AU where Julie gets rescued early in her captivity, or the search for her ends more successfully in 1990, and the two of them are reunited and have to figure out how to live a normal life now that they're the only members of their family left? Maybe he manages to fight off Harris James in the Pink Rooms, but kills him in the process, effectively putting him in Roland and Wayne's shoes with a dark secret about the man he killed?

Shipping-wise, I really like Tom/Roland. The scene where Roland takes Tom home and lets him sleep on his couch basically made me ship it, and I would happily read any missing scene of what might have happened between them that night, or any other Tom/Roland scene that involves one or both of them getting their asses kicked in barfights, sharing some hurt/comfort, drinking too much, and bed-sharing.

Roland West
I really wasn’t expecting to like Roland as much as I did, but he just won me over completely. The care he shows for those around him, his loyalty to Wayne, the fact that he talks like an asshole sometimes but is capable of a lot of kindness, the fact that when Tom dies he immediately pays his respects by going out and getting drunk and picking a fight he can't win. I love it all. I'd read anything with his life alone in the woods with dogs, or another case fic with him and Wayne. I’d love to read something with Tom/Roland or Wayne/Roland. I’d also be down with anything that explores either or both of those relationships in a gen context too. I'd also totally be down for supernatural elements. Maybe out alone in the woods, Roland starts seeing things, or starts to suspect he's being haunted by Tom? (Or Harris James, for that matter?)

Wayne Hays
I really like the eeriness and sadness of a detective losing himself in the jungles and hallways of his own mind as the years pass, and I'd love to see that explored more. Leaning into the tragedy or low-key horror of that? Giving him some small victories over the encroaching darkness? Any hurt/comfort themed moments with Roland (or with adult Julie during their brief meeting, or, heck, even ghost Amelia)?  I’d also be interested in anything Memento-ish where Wayne’s holes in his memory are revealed to hide increasingly dark secrets about himself. (Or, on a shippy note, significant moments in his and Roland’s relationship that he’s forgotten?) I also really like the brief hints that the various Waynes of 1980, 1990, and 2015 are crossing paths with each other and able to subtly influence the other’s eras in ways that only he can perceive. I really like the potential for time travel shenanigans implied by that, so anything that leans into that would be amazing. Wayne being haunted by the ghosts of the past, or ghosts of his past selves?

I don't have any prompts for her, but I also find Amelia really interesting, and I think there’s a lot about the whole macabre “everything about this marriage is tied up in a missing children case” that has a lot of potential. It's mostly a source of conflict in the show, but I'd love to see a scene of how their mutual obsessions with tragedies and unsolved mysteries is something that they connect over and help them understand each other.

Julie Purcell
One of the lingering unanswered questions at the end of the show is how much adult Julie even knows about her own past. We know Mike recognizes her and marries her, but we don't even know if she recognizes him or ever recovers her memories. (For the sake of this fic, please let her remember him if they get married.) I'd really love to get more on her dealing with the aftermath of what happened: her process of recovering her memories from before her kidnapping, lingering trauma from her confused and weird past. (If you want to get really ambitious, something that draws parallels between her own fraught relationship with her own mind and memories and Wayne's would fascinate me.) I'd really love to read something where Julie herself takes on the role of detective and starts unraveling all the unanswered questions she has about her own past: what really happened to her, why she can't remember, who was to blame. Her figuring out what really what happened to her parents and realizing that her father was desperately trying to find her and was murdered when he got too close to the truth, and finding a way to clear his name? Her recognizing Wayne when they meet from her own investigations into her kidnapping? I'd be interested in anything that actually explores Julie's kidnapping from Julie's POV and how she deals with that as an adult. (Note: I'm kind of squicked by stories that treat characters having secrets kept from them for their own good as a happy ending, so I'd really prefer if Julie either knows about her past, figures it out over the course of the fic, or at least isn't actively having the truth withheld from her by Mike or any of the other characters.)


The Hateful Eight
Treats, Tricks, Fic
Marquis Warren, Chris Mannix

I would love anything about these two very awful people. Of the two of them, I’m more interested in Warren’s background. I love him correctly deducing so much of what’s going on, living on his own (assholish) terms and doing what he needs to survive in a world that’s deeply hostile to him, and I’d be really interested in learning more about his background, his time in the war, and how he found his way to Wyoming, and how he climbed the ranks of the Union cavalry in a time when he shouldn't be able to do that at all.

I love what an eager and obedient partner/sidekick Mannix is to Warren. He’s an awful little shit, but a weirdly charming one, and I’m really interested in how his internal conflict plays out between what he’s been raised to think and desire and what he clearly does want, and all the ways Warren is a strangely edifying corrupting influence on him.

I am a complete sucker for hurt/comfort between these two, especially if it involves bad weather or other mean bastards or both.  I'm also down for teamwork, loyalty kink, porn, BDSM, the two of them being forced together by ridiculous circumstances, conning people together, parting ways and then being reunited, storytelling and bullshitting, and competence porn. I’d also be interested in anything where they meet under different circumstances than in the film: Warren's horse doesn't die, and Mannix hails him down for help alone? Mannix comes out west with a bounty on his head and Warren has to take him in alive? They're both taken prisoner for their various crimes and have to escape handcuffed together, The Defiant Ones-style? I'm also interested in pretty much all of the characters who appear in this film, and would love to see more pre-canon or canon-divergent AU fic with Warren and/or Mannix interacting with any of the rest of the cast.

I love supernatural horror/dark fantasy twists on this canon, and would be interested in seeing pretty much anything in that vein: forced soulbonding (some magical mean bastard with a sick sense of humor thinks it'd be funny?) The two of them slowly figuring out they're in hell or purgatory? Getting cursed with immortality and taking all kinds of chaotic advantage of that? Mannix being haunted by Erskine Mannix’s angry specter? Ravenous fusion with wendigos and cannibalism? An AU where Warren hunts shapeshifters or ghosts instead of bounties? State-mandated ghost hunter AU? Alternatively, West World AU where the events of the film are just another story in the park, the whole cast are hosts, and either Warren or Mannix start to wake up?



Il buono il brutto il cattivo | The Good The Bad and The Ugly
Tricks, Treats, Fic
Tuco Ramirez, Blondie


Tuco
Tuco is such a fun character, I love his sleaziness, his excitability and complete lack of shame about turning on a dime from murderous to ingratiating when it suits him. I like how he's simultaneously the comic relief character who wears his (slimy, conniving) heart on his sleeve but also has hidden wellsprings of competence and badassery.

Blondie
Blondie’s a bit more of a mystery, and I’m okay with him staying that way. I like him being a iconically cool badass and I enjoy both his dickishness and some of his low-key fleeting moments of humanity, including kitten-petting (!) and his willingness to play along with Tuco about his relationship with his brother. I like the idea that he’s developed enough a fondness of Tuco, or at least of their whole antagonistic dance, that he spares his life, but can’t resist the opportunity to humiliate him one last time at the end of the movie. How did he end up running these two-bit con jobs, anyway? Does he have any other con artist tricks up his sleeve, or will he keep milking this one?

I ship the hell out of these two, and I am down for all the grudging hurt/comfort, competence and general ridiculous Spaghetti Western badassery, forced team-ups, competitiveness (including competitve sex, if you're down to take this in a shippy direction), banter, huddling for warmth around the campfire, sharing a smoke, spending their ill-gotten fortunes together, learning about each other's pasts, and weird incongruous cuteness in the vein of playing with a kitten (!) in the film. Something where Tuco blows through his money after the film and finding himself in need of his old partner to pull off one last scheme.

I've requested treats, but I'm not really looking for anything too, too fluffy with these two: they're assholes who try to murder each other repeatedly, and that's what I love about them. But I'm really into the idea that they do like each other, deep down, so any moments of grudging fondness and camaraderie would make me very happy. Trickwise, I'm into revenge, deception and manipulation, mindgames, dubcon, murder attempts. I love these assholes and their screwed-up relationship (and I ship it madly) and would be down for anything that explores the dark, funny possibilities of their partners-to-enemies-to-who-even-knows dynamic. I also find all the death and destruction of the Civil War a fascinating backdrop in the film, and would love more about how the warfare keeps way-laying their plans and sweeping them up in a much larger bloody conflict that unsettles even these hardened killers.

If you want to give this a Weird West twist, I am 100% down for that. Blondie not being entirely mortal, everything in the Sad Hill graveyard not being entirely dead, zombie soldiers, gunslinging ghosts, the graveyard-is-purgatory. I am down for absolutely anything putting a supernatural spin on this canon.


Red Dead Redemption

I adore the themes of an encroaching civilization that’s bearing down on the characters and about to wipe out their way of life. I love the emphasis on the natural beauty of the landscape and the sense of encroaching modernity on all sides slowly transforming the world into something more recognizable to us, with hints of all the social, political, and technological changes that are right around the corner (Women’s suffrage! Cubist art! Modern warfare! Uh… giant robots!) I also adore all the weird hints of the supernatural (fics taking things into full-on horror or Weird West territory is 100% welcome) and the general darker, creepier corners of this world, how tragic and brutal it is and how easy it is to stumble across heartbreaking reminders of that brutality in the artifacts left behind.

I love the gang and their dynamics, this sense that they’re a ragtag group of people who all have their own loyalties and histories and grudges and affection for one another, and I even love the tragedy of watching so much of that unravel as the gang starts to fall apart.

Arthur Morgan
I love Arthur, in all his gruff, tough, morally complex, horse-patting glory. Can we just take a moment to appreciate how great Arthur is? He’s just the best. I would love to read more about him interacting with the world or any random creepy easter egg or monster, especially if it involves him being gruff and snarky, or riddled with guilt about what a bad man he is, or preferably both. On the shipping front, I discuss quite a few of the rare m/m ships I like for Arthur in this past letter here, and I would still welcome fic for any of these ships, or gen interactions between them. On the het-inclusive side, I also quite like Sadie/Arthur, Arthur/Mary-Beth, and Arthur/John/Abigail. When it comes to gen interactions, I’m down for absolutely anything as long as it’s with canon characters. (Please, no Readerfic or OC-focused fic.) Also, in the spirit of the Halloween season, I would take literally anything with Arthur exploring more of the world and getting into spooky trouble or uncovering the secrets of this world. Also, AUs of some of the creepier missions? Like, maybe the serial killer that Arthur hunts isn’t just a blathering shopkeeper-looking guy, but something actually supernatural? Maybe the Darkness haunting Butcher’s Creek is a real curse, and not just a Scooby Doo ploy by a mining company? Maybe taking the mask from that pagan ritual has grave consequences? The Saint Denis Vampire turns Arthur? He catches a ride on the ghost train? Or just anything where Arthur does more to investigate all the crazy, creepy shit he keeps uncovering (pagan ritual with human sacrifice! Time-travel rock carvings! Giant skeletons! UFOs! What does he think about all this crazy stuff?)

I’m fine with Arthur being high-honor, low-honor, or most preferred, somewhere in between. Regardless, what I find most interesting about the character is the tension between his worst impulses and his better impulses.

Kieran Duffy
Much like the Van der Linde gang and Rockstar itself, I seem to enjoy watching Kieran Duffy suffer.

Unlike Rockstar and the Van der Linde gang, I also just want him to be okay in the end. I like that for all he’s been kicked around by life, he seems to be a fundamentally kindhearted and amiable person, with an optimistic streak that is ultimately tragically misplaced. I find the multitude of indignities he suffers at the gang’s hands (getting rocks thrown at him by a five-year-old! Get headbutted for pronouncing Colm’s name correctly!) kind of darkly funny and also heartbreaking at the same time, and it makes me desperately want a version of the game where there was an actual arc to his story, building towards him winning the gang’s respect or trust. Let him do something useful or grow as a person? Maybe by proving that as a former O'Driscoll lackey he actually has some valuable knowledge they can exploit?  Also, whether it's plausible or not, the fanon of Kieran Duffy: Horse Whisperer is incredibly charming to me, so anything where he’s remarkably in-tune with or skilled with horses would delight me. Having him develop as a fighter or an outlaw while still essentially remaining his dorky self would also make me very happy. I’d enjoy seeing him interacting with pretty much any gang member, including ones he never really interacts with in canon. Shipping-wise, I think Kieran/Mary-Beth is incredibly cute, and I wouldn’t be averse to Kieran/Bill where they’re both appalled and disgusted with themselves for being into him, and there’s lots of confusion and fear on Kieran’s end and attraction-sublimated-into-threats on Bill’s, and eventual clumsy bad-idea sex. (I’m really not into this ship as fluffy romance, though.) One-sided fic where Bill’s got a creepy thing for an alarmed Kieran is fine too. Most of all, though, I’d really love something that forces Arthur and Kieran to bond (in either a shippy or gen way, I’m fine with either) and allows them to come to appreciate and understand each other. I enjoy exploring what might provoke Arthur or any of the gang members to see him in a new light, and develop a better understanding of him.

Also, if you want to combine him with supernatural happenings, I would love that.  Arthur finds and breaks a ghost horse and Kieran has to figure out how to take care of a horse that's insubstantial and keeps disappearing into other dimensions? Afterlife as a headless horseman? Trapped in a time loop of trauma that he has to figure out how to break out of? Haunting another character after his death? Being reunited with Branwen in the afterlife? I'll take anything that that allows him some measure of peace or satisfaction, even if he has to be dead for it to happen.


Black Belle
Ah, our elder stateswoman gunslinger we meet once in a side mission and then never see again. But I just really love her, okay, and I would love to see some more adventures with her at any point in her long and illustrious career. When she was young and just falling into the life? I like her verve for life and her ability to survive, and I like that she's happy to keep running for as long as she can, and seems like she might be smart enough and ruthless enough to do it into the 20th century, so more of how she evades the law and changes (or doesn't change) with the times? Some vignettes from her heyday when she was dealing with posers like Jim Boy Calloway? Snippets of her life, as told and distorted by dime novel writers over the years? What does she do after she and Arthur part ways? AU where she runs into Arthur again? (Maybe she decides she’s all married out, but she wouldn’t be averse to just having some no-strings-attached-fun with him?) Maybe Sadie ends up on her trail at some point in the epilogue, and it’s a showdown between these two larger-than-life lady gunslingers who've lived hard and lost a lot of loved ones in their lives? Maybe there's some fraught bounty hunter/outlaw UST too?
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Dear Author,

Thanks for writing for me! I'm really looking forward to seeing what you come up with for any of these fandoms. Some of my fandom and ship sections are going to be longer than others, but that's just a reflection of what I have more ideas for; I'd be thrilled to receive any of these. If you have any questions, please feel free to contact me through the mods.


My AO3 username is PositivelyVexed.


Requested Fandoms

The Hateful Eight
The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly
Red Dead Redemption
The Adventures of Brisco County Jr.


General likes
  • Enemies-to-lovers, friends-to-lovers, unlikely team-ups, characters who don’t quite trust each other being forced to rely on each other
  • Ideological conflicts
  • Unexpected loyalty or kindness from unlikely characters
  • Hurt/comfort, especially with characters who are bad at comforting and/or uncomfortable with being comforted
  • Characters who are bad at expressing their feelings, characters expressing their feelings in unconventional ways
  • Competence porn, characters learning new skills or revealing hidden talents or depths
  • Adventures, daring rescues, daring escapes, daring heists
  • Con artists and con jobs
  • Road trips
  • Loyalty kink, us-against-the-world, fighting back-to-back
  • Survival stories, lost in the wilderness, Canadian Shack
  • Bed-sharing, huddling for warmth, falling asleep against each other, etc.
  • Roaring rampages of revenge
  • Internalized homophobia, repressed desires, period-typical attitudes toward sexuality, religious guilt
  • Ghosts, monsters, eldritch abominations, curses, deals with the devil, “Came Back Wrong”-type tropes, the apocalypse (zombie or otherwise)
  • Characters telling stories, in-universe legends and urban legends
  • Scenery porn
  • Winter, snow, fall/autumn, deserts, mountains, storms of all kinds

Porn/kink likes, if you're so inclined:
  • Oral sex, fingering, handjobs, frottage, anal sex
  • Clothed/semi-clothed sex, outdoor sex, semi-public sex
  • Loss of virginity, first times, first-time-with-the-same-sex sex
  • Eagerness, desperation, characters really, really liking whatever they’re doing
  • Bed-sharing and/or heat-sharing leads to sex
  • Cuddling
  • Hair-pulling, hair-petting
  • Shoving someone up against a wall
  • Characters unexpectedly stumbling into kinks that really work for them
  • Informally negotiated kink or unnegotiated kink
  • D/s dynamics, struggles for dominance
  • Bondage: ropes, handcuffs, characters getting tied up with whatever’s lying around
  • Manhandling, rough sex, bruises, biting, spanking
  • Bloodplay, gunplay, knifeplay, breathplay


Do Not Want:
  • Noncon. Dubcon is fine as long as both parties enjoy it and want it on some level. Canon-typical references to rape are fine.
  • Pregnancy, babyfic, kidfic
  • Completely alternate-setting AUs (modern, mundane, in space, Regency, whatever)
  • A/B/O, D/s-verse
  • Breeding kink
  • Infidelity
  • Heavily negotiated BDSM, characters using modern-day BDSM jargon
  • Unrequested gender/sexual identity headcanons
  • Scat, watersports
  • Cross-dressing kink/cross-dressing during sex
  • Explicit sex involving characters under 16



The Hateful Eight
Marquis Warren/Chris Mannix


I can't resist the dynamic between these two, how awful they both are and how much they ought to hate each other but they just get each other so well. And Mannix sort of admiring Warren's awfulness and ending up all in on loyalty to Warren.

I'm interested in any post-canon or "they met under different circumstances" AU. For these two, I always love hurt/comfort, loyalty kink, ideological conflicts, murderous teamwork, Warren bossing Mannix around, both of them telling stories and getting to show off their smarts, and Warren being good with horses. Also: D/s in and out of the bedroom, bondage and humiliation and all manner of kinky power plays. Clothed/naked porn where Mannix ends up naked or just in his boots, especially outside. Sex with (reluctant) feelings. Guilt and shame at how much they both like it, and Warren thinking about how he really ought to murder Mannix but never quite getting around to it.

For supernatural-themed stories, go nuts. I love supernatural twists on this fandom, and I am interested in the two of them being forced or bound together in all manner of supernatural ways--taking advantage of being stuck in eternal time loops together to sexually experiment, forced into supernatural proximity or ownership by blood magic or soul bonds.

It you want to go whole hog on "they get captured and bad things get done to one or both of them in front of each other and then some kind of roaring rampage of revenge and sex on their own terms ensues," I will eat it up with a spoon. (Feel free to disregard my noncon DNW for this one.) I'd also be interested in fic where someone catches them together. I'd be down with that going in pretty much any conceivable direction--they kill someone for giving them shit about it, Bad Things happen to them as a result of getting caught, their loyalty to each other is tested, or anything else.



Il buono il brutto il cattivo | The Good The Bad and The Ugly
Blondie/Tuco Ramirez

I love this film, I love these assholes and their screwed-up relationship, and I would be down for absolutely anything that explores their partners-to-enemies-to-reluctant-allies-to-who-even-knows dynamic in a shippy light.

I’m desperately curious about what happens after the film. I have trouble believing Tuco won’t go after Blondie looking for revenge (in the same violent, kinky vein that all their revenge attempts have taken), and I would love to read that story. I’m interested in any “what happens after the movie” scenario. Maybe Tuco goes after Blondie, and gets the upper hand, but then squanders it because he can't stop gloating? Maybe Blondie gets the upper hand again and more kinkiness ensues? Maybe they find themselves up against mutual enemies and have to work together to get out alive? Does Tuco blow through his money and find himself in need of his old partner to pull off one last scheme? I'd love to read all of the chases, revenge, deception and manipulation, dubcon, murder attempts, or grudging team-ups.

I'd also love more scenes from their early partnership together. TV Tropes claims that Eastwood and Wallach had to share a bed throughout filming as a bit of enforced method acting by Sergio Leone. So I’m willing to take that as confirmation that Blondie and Tuco canonically shared a bed. And I'm curious how some forced bed sharing would work for the characters. Yes, it leading to porn would be marvelous, but not required. Mostly, I imagine them both being terrible bedmates and rapidly escalating battles over who controls the bedsheets, but maybe they’re surprisingly cozy together and absolutely do not talk about it during the day? Maybe them reluctantly patching each other up after a con gone wrong? Practicing the shoot-the-noose trick while Tuco is tied up leads to unwanted arousal and Blondie toying with him? Jealousy and possessiveness? (Maybe playing a bit with Tuco's reaction to being replaced with someone else after their partnership ends, which already feels a bit like him finding Blondie with another man in the film.)

If you’re inclined to include him, I’m also really curious about the history between Blondie and Tuco and Angel Eyes. They all seem to know each other. What’s the history there?

If you want to give this a Weird West twist, I am 100% down for that. Blondie not being entirely mortal, everything in the Sad Hill graveyard not being entirely dead, zombie soldiers, gunslinging ghosts, the graveyard-is-purgatory. I am down for absolutely anything putting a supernatural spin on this canon.

When in doubt, I am always, always up for bondage and breathplay between these two.


Red Dead Redemption
Kieran Duffy/Arthur Morgan
Arthur Morgan/Leonard "Lenny" Summers
Alden Carruthers/Arthur Morgan
Arthur Morgan/Eagle Flies
Albert Mason/Arthur Morgan
Charles Châtenay/Arthur Morgan
Arthur Morgan/Dutch Van Der Linde
Kieran Duffy/Bill Williamson


So, just some general notes about this canon in general: I adore the themes of an encroaching civilization that’s bearing down on the characters and about to wipe out their way of life. I love the emphasis on the natural beauty of the landscape and the sense of encroaching modernity on all sides slowly transforming the world into something more recognizable to us, with hints of all the social, political, and technological changes that are in the air and right around the corner (Women’s suffrage! Cubist art! Modern warfare! Uh… robots!) I also adore all the weird hints of the supernatural (fics taking things into full-on horror or Weird West territory is 100% welcome) and the general darker, creepier corners of this world, how tragic and brutal it is and how easy it is to stumble across heartbreaking reminders of that brutality in the artifacts left behind.

I love the gang and their dynamics, this sense that they’re a ragtag group of people who all have their own loyalties and histories and grudges and affection for one another, and I even love the tragedy of watching so much of that unravel as the gang starts to fall apart. Mostly, I just really love the world, and I love Arthur, in all his gruff, tough, morally complex, horse-patting, smarter-than-he-gives-himself-credit-for, journal-sketching glory. I’m fine with Arthur being high-honor, low-honor, or most preferred, somewhere in between. Regardless, what I find most interesting about the character is the tension between his worst impulses and his better impulses, and his complex ability to be both a thoughtful, loyal, idealistic man and a ruthless, hardened criminal with a mean streak.

(If you want to get incredibly iddy, I’d be interested in fic for any of my requested Arthur ships that wants to deal with the aftermath of Arthur getting assaulted by Sonny, since that’s never dealt with in any way in canon, and I would really like to see its after-effects on Arthur. You can disregard my noncon DNW for this prompt. Repression, denial of pain, hiding physical injuries, sublimating pain into anger and violence, uneasy comforting from the other half of the ship that Arthur has a hard time accepting: all that is my jam.)


Kieran Duffy/Arthur Morgan
So, one of my favorite tropes, like, ever, is “member of the enemy team gets captured and eventually awkwardly integrated into the team, but no one really trusts him even though he genuinely has changed loyalties and wants to be one them now.” Soooo, Kieran’s set-up was 110% up my alley, and I had all these vague hopes that Arthur’s dislike and dickishness towards Kieran was leading towards some payoff where Kieran actually gets to prove himself to Arthur’s satisfaction and a glorious “I guess we’re awkward friends who respect each other now” outcome.

...That, uh, didn’t happen in canon. But I managed to blue-ball myself with wanting it, and I still crave it. And as long as I’m indulging myself, why stop at awkward friendship when we could have deeply awkward romance? So, Kieran does something that makes Arthur actually trust him! Kieran proves himself adept at something other than washing tables and fishing! Bonding over a mutual love of horses! Bonding over getting captured and tortured by Colm O’Driscoll! Arthur’s constant digs and threats hides an actual kinky interest in pushing Kieran around, and a some point things takes a sexy turn which alarms them both by how much they’re into it! Bad idea drunk sex! (“Bad idea drunk sex” could honestly work as a prompt for any of these ships.) Any manner of fix-it fic where Kieran doesn't get tortured to death horribly! Not-so-fix-it AU where Kieran doesn’t get horribly tortured to death, but things are otherwise still going in the same tragic direction as the rest of the game, with Arthur painfully wasting away. Maybe Kieran watches helplessly in Beaver’s Hollow as things get more and more dire and tries to offer Arthur some much-needed support and comfort, or sides with Arthur at a crucial moment? I’ll take anything! Also, I’d be amused by any moment where they look back on (or get reminded of) how their relationship began when one of them tied the other one up and kidnapped him.

Arthur Morgan/Leonard "Lenny" Summers

I just really love their dynamic in canon, where Lenny is such a bright-eyed and enthusiastic young gang member and Arthur is the older gunslinger who thinks the kid has promise. And I am grieved by the total lack of fic for this ship. The obvious place to go for shipfic might be their epic night of drunken debauchery together in Valentine culminating in drunk sex (hilarious drunken fail sex more than welcome, as is post-sex awkwardness.) But I’d also be interested in any shippy scenario that leans into their whole dynamic of Lenny being an eager-to-please neophyte who’s got a lot of natural talent but not a lot of self-control yet, and Arthur as the encouraging mentor who genuinely respects Lenny’s skills and smarts. I’d love anything pertaining to Lenny being eager-to-please and cocky, on a mission and in bed, and both of them being very, very into praise kink. We get a bit of information about Lenny’s background, but not a lot, so I’d love more insight into his family and his relationship with his father and how his father's death affected him. I'd also be interested in seeing more exploration of Lenny's obvious discomfort with being back in the South. I’m always down for them bonding over murdering some more Lemoyne Raiders together. Or any AU where Lenny doesn’t die in Chapter 4. He ends up in Guarma with the others, and there's wilderness survival and hurt/comfort? He realizes he needs to get the hell out of the gang during the Beaver’s Hollow chapter, but he doesn’t want to just leave Arthur behind and tries to convince Arthur to come with him?

Alden Carruthers/Arthur Morgan
Alden’s voice actor always sounds so delightfully flirty when he’s talking with Arthur, to the point that I’m pretty much convinced that he is genuinely into Arthur. And Alden seems like a guy who knows what he wants. I just want more of this weird, too-wise-to-the-world ticket clerk/criminal tipster and his Obvious Thing for the rugged gunslinger who keeps coming into his station. I also like that Alden, unlike the gang, seems to know exactly when to get out of the outlaw game, which is clearly a level of wily good sense that Arthur needs in his life. Alden's comment near the end of the game about how he can’t help but worry about Arthur gets me thinking along the lines of him being the only one to notice that late-game Arthur isn’t looking well and needs some comfort, but I’d be down for anything with these two. Meeting outside the station, for once? An inexperienced-with-men Arthur gets shown a good time in the luggage room by a very experienced Alden? Anything!


Arthur Morgan/Eagle Flies
The game isn’t subtle in drawing parallels between these two, and I’ve been intrigued by this ship’s potential ever since their first mission together. They’re both men facing down a future that doesn't have room for them and trying to protect their people from a world that is pushing them further and further to the margins, and I’d be interested in exploring that whole dynamic more, at any point in the game. Maybe they meet prior to their in-game Chapter 4 meeting, which gives them some breathing room to get to know each other before shit really hits the fan? I’d also be interested in an AU where Arthur doesn’t have tuberculosis, and thus, isn’t motivated to the same level of self-reflection he is in canon. How would an Arthur who still believes he has a future in front of him and Eagle Flies influence each other, for good or ill? Or anything that delves into all the rescuing these two do of each other, with wound tending and protectiveness, or “thank god we survived that fight” sex? Sparring in preparation for a fight leads to sex? Admiring each other’s skills as a fighter and hunter?

Or mutual comfort over the whole “wow, Dutch really fucked us over, huh?” thing at the end, possibly in an AU where Eagle Flies doesn’t die rescuing Arthur, and they both have to deal with having been used and abandoned by Dutch. Basically, just anything that lets these angry men facing down the modern world bond over what they have in common and struggle to work through it together.


Albert Mason/Arthur Morgan
So, Arthur is adorably sweet and solicitous with Albert compared to most of the other strangers he interacts with in-game, but I must admit that what I particularly long for is something that explores Albert’s fascination with danger (“it’s in our make-up to love killers,” anyone?) Under all the self-effacing jokes, I love the idea of how wildly Albert would be intrigued (and nervous, and turned on) if he found out what Arthur really does for a living. Arthur being alarmed in turn that Albert has a bit of a danger kink that only makes him seem to like Arthur more, no matter how much Arthur tries to convince him that he is a Very Bad Man and he should stay away. I’d also be down for any of the inherent conflict that might arise from the fact that they’re two very different men from different worlds. Mostly, I just really enjoy their flirty dynamic of “wryly funny bumbling artist and experienced woodsman navigate the wildlife of the west together and fall in mutual admiration with each other.” Wilderness survival? The two of them ending up in a situation where Albert is the more worldly and experienced one? I’m charmed by their dynamic as it is in canon, and would love more of it.


Charles Châtenay/Arthur Morgan
So Charles seems to be canonically bisexual, and they do kiss in canon. I just really enjoy the idea of slutty, snarky, decadent Charles seducing Arthur, who can see exactly what Charles is trying to do and, to his surprise, finds himself into it. I'll take anything between them: Charles tries to explain modern art to a bemused and skeptical Arthur! Charles sees that Arthur needs to loosen up, and introduces him to an exciting new drink called absinthe! Charles needs an art model, and Arthur gets dragged into helping (it doesn’t start out as nude modeling, but hey, sometimes the artistic spirit moves in unexpected directions!) They bond over their mutual hatred of mainstream American society and Saint Denis in particular! Just anything sexy and fun between these two, please.


Arthur Morgan/Dutch Van Der Linde
I know there’s different potential takes on this ship, but I’m here for fucked-up and manipulative, please. What I find intriguing about Dutch is that he’s a bullshitter who thoroughly buys into his own bullshit, at least until the very end; he’s a trickster who mainly seems to be tricking himself. I love the distance between his lofty self-professed goals and ideals and the ordinary, self-serving outlaw he ultimately is, and it breaks my heart how much unshakeable faith Arthur has in him. So anything with more of that lopsided love and loyalty being misused by Dutch to heartbreaking ends would scratch the itch for me. Dutch tricking himself and Arthur into thinking they have a mutual, well-balanced relationship when they really, really don’t. Unrequited love is also fine for this ship—mostly, I’m just here for subby, devoted Arthur giving his absolute all in loyalty and love to a man who doesn’t deserve that loyalty or repay it in kind, and Arthur not realizing it until far too late.


Kieran Duffy/Bill Williamson
My token non-Arthur ship. Look, Bill’s fixation on Kieran’s balls just… seems pretty sexual, that’s all I’m saying. So, more of Bill sublimating his (canonical?) gayness into terrifying pigtail-pulling of Kieran? Mixed with vaguely threatening attempts at camaraderie around the campfire? I find myself thinking of Kieran as the subbiest sub who ever subbed, so I like the idea that there’s a part of him that’s turned on by Bill’s manhandling and pushy attention even as he’s appalled at himself for it. Bill creeping on Kieran while he’s tied to that tree or maybe working out some quid pro quo arrangement with him where he gives Kieran food or water in exchange for some kind of attention that Bill can’t even admit to himself is sexual in nature? Kinky exploration where they're both ashamed of liking it as much as they do? Creepy un-self-aware flirting from Bill? Or maybe the camp’s two favorite whipping boys develop some kind of actual mutual understanding based around being outsiders in the group? Or, just go ahead and rip my heart out and give me Bill-still-in-denial-about-his-feelings coping very, very badly with Kieran’s death.



The Adventures of Brisco County Jr.

Lord Bowler/Brisco County Jr

Ah, this sweet, quirky weird western with all its cockeyed optimism for the future, and Bruce Campbell at his cutest and most charming. My favorite part of this show was the journey from rivals to reluctant allies to partners to BFFs that Brisco and Bowler go through over the course of the season, and I would love something that explores their bond in the context of a romantic relationship. I'm a little more into the early days when they're still rivals, and would love something where Brisco's optimism comes up against Bowler's grumpy loner thing and then romance ensues. Give me all the tropey sweetness: huddling for warmth leads to more, hurt/comfort leads to more, captured by bad guys and needing to protect each other leads to more. Having them get up to any tropey Western fun, or any of the more out there fantastical time travel and supernatural shenanigans from the show would be welcome. More time loop shenanigans in order to save each other's lives (maybe Bowler does the time traveling this time?) would be particularly welcome.

Lord Bowler/Brisco County Jr/Pete Hutter

I also just really enjoyed Pete Hutter, in all his slimy, weirdly endearing glory, and am 100% into him being Brisco and Bowler's weaselly frenemy who keeps popping up and working with them while still being untrustworthy. Which leads me, perhaps irrationally, to... threesome? Maybe Brisco and Bowler are in an established thing and Pete somehow weasels his way into the team and then into their bed? Messed-up gunplay? Maybe Pete runs afoul of dark forces again and goes to them for protection? And awkward seduction attempts ensue? Supernatural explanations for Pete's apparent immortality are very welcome. (Maybe he's a werewolf? Maybe he's cursed?)

I find Brisco/Dixie pretty charming in canon, and wouldn't be averse to that relationship being referenced, but I'd prefer if this was set after they amicably part ways.
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Dear author,

Thanks for offering to write for one of these fandoms! I'm looking forward to seeing what you come up with. Please feel free to contact me through the mods if you have any questions.

I'm a big fan of hurt/comfort. Feel free to whump characters hard as long as there's some comfort to go along with the whump. I also really enjoy characters struggling to give/receive comfort because circumstances make it physically hard to give comfort, or because they're just not emotionally comfortable with giving or accepting comfort. Awkward or prickly comforters are my jam, and so are stoic or rough-edged comfortees. I find characters trying to help each other but being too beat up or weakened themselves to do it properly to be absolute catnip. For this exchange, I'd prefer happy endings, or at least ambiguous endings that keep a little hope alive.

My AO3 username is PositivelyVexed.


General likes
  • Enemies-to-lovers, friends-to-lovers, unlikely team-ups, characters who don’t quite trust each other being forced to rely on each other
  • Ideological conflicts
  • Unexpected loyalty or kindness
  • Characters who are bad at expressing their feelings, characters expressing their feelings in unconventional ways
  • Competence porn, characters learning new skills or revealing hidden talents or depths
  • Adventures, daring rescues, daring escapes, daring heists
  • Con artists and con jobs
  • Road trips
  • Loyalty kink, us-against-the-world, fighting back-to-back
  • Survival stories, lost in the wilderness, Canadian Shack
  • Bed-sharing, huddling for warmth, falling asleep against each other, etc.
  • Roaring rampages of revenge
  • Internalized homophobia, repressed desires, period-typical attitudes toward sexuality, religious guilt where applicable
  • Ghosts, monsters, eldritch abominations, curses, deals with the devil, “Came Back Wrong”-type tropes, the apocalypse (zombie or otherwise)
  • Characters telling stories, in-universe legends and urban legends
  • Scenery porn
  • Winter, snow, fall/autumn, deserts, mountains, storms of all kinds

Porn/kink likes, if you're so inclined:
  • Oral sex, fingering, handjobs, frottage, anal sex
  • Clothed/semi-clothed sex, outdoor sex, semi-public sex
  • Loss of virginity, first times, first-time-with-the-same-sex sex
  • Eagerness, desperation, characters really, really liking whatever they’re doing
  • Bed-sharing and/or heat-sharing leads to sex
  • Cuddling
  • Hair-pulling, hair-petting
  • Shoving someone up against a wall
  • Characters unexpectedly stumbling into kinks that really work for them
  • Informally negotiated kink or unnegotiated kink
  • D/s dynamics, struggles for dominance
  • Bondage: ropes, handcuffs, characters getting tied up with whatever’s lying around
  • Manhandling, rough sex, bruises, biting, spanking
  • Bloodplay, gunplay, knifeplay, breathplay


Do Not Want:
  • Noncon. Dubcon is fine as long as both parties enjoy and want it on some level. Canon-typical references to rape are fine. 
  • Pregnancy, babyfic, kidfic
  • Completely bleak endings
  • Completely alternate-setting AUs (modern, mundane, in space, Regency, whatever)
  • A/B/O, D/s-verse
  • Breeding kink
  • Unrequested ships
  • Heavily negotiated BDSM, characters using BDSM jargon
  • Unrequested gender/sexual identity headcanons
  • Scat, watersports
  • Explicit sex involving characters under 16

The Long Walk - Richard Bachman
Ray Garraty/Peter McVries (both hurt)

Requested tags: Bonding Over Shared Trauma, Canadian Shack, canonical injuries, Character is haunted, Character Planned to Die but Didn't, Comes Back Wrong, Comforter Physically Incapable of Providing Adequate Comfort, Exhaustion, Fainting, Huddling For Warmth, On the Run, Salving Wounds, Wanting To Help Hurt Character But Not Knowing How To Do It, Prickly Relationship Between Comforter and Comfortee

I'd just love more fic about these doomed boys and their intense connection and impossible relationship. I will take any vaguely plausible excuse for a fix-it that allows them to get away from the Walk and get some hurt/comfort.

Walker uprising? Maybe there are more cracks in the Major's hold on the society and the military than we see? Weather emergency or act of war or well-timed zombie apocalypse allow the boys to escape? I would love to read about them on the run or holed up in some rat-trap hotel, tending to each other’s injuries, trying to tend to each other but lacking the skills or strength to help, huddling for warmth. Basically anything that explores how they might relate to each other outside of the intense certain-death-for-at-least-one-of-them circumstances their bond formed in. What might their friendship or a burgeoning romantic relationship look like with them actually able to survive together? If Pete really thought he was going to die and expected it and then survived after all, how would he deal with it? Feel free to take things in a literal Canadian Shack direction, since escaping dystopian America across the border seems like as good a way as any to get out of this totalitarian death trap.

I'd also be interested in anything dealing with Ray's internalized homophobia and his issues around what happened with the neighbor boy all those years back: I'm fine with either framing the encounter with the neighbor boy as something he really didn't want, and which confuses his feelings about McVries all the more, or something he maybe did want, but has since convinced himself he didn't want out of internalized homophobia. (And, uh, I wouldn't object if you wanted to give Pete and his scar a different, less skeevy, backstory than the one he tells Ray in the book, if you can think of a compelling reason for why he'd lie about that? Although feel free to just not mention it if you'd rather.)

I'd also be interested in any kind of post-canon supernatural hurt/comfort scenarios: McVries is a ghost, or Comes Back Wrong, and there's undead hurt/comfort and longing for what might have been?

(Edit, 3/8/19: Feel free to acknowledge Jan and give that relationship some closure if you like. All I ask is no cheating on her while Ray is actively in a relationship with her. "We're on the run now, so I guess she and I are through, let's have sex," is fine. Ray continuing to date her while actively cheating on her is not.)


Dark Matter - Michelle Paver
Gus Balfour/Jack Miller (hurt Jack)
Gus Balfour/Jack Miller (hurt Gus)
Gus Balfour/Jack Miller (both hurt)

Requested tags: blizzard, Canadian Shack, Character is haunted, Character isn't used to being loved and shown tenderness/affection, Comes Back Wrong, Comforter Physically Incapable of Providing Adequate Comfort, CPR/Rescue Breathing, Dreams and Nightmares, Fix-It - Surviving near-death experience, Huddling For Warmth, Hypothermia, Sharing a bed while mutually pining, Taken Off Guard By Small Displays Of Affection, Touch-Starved, Treatment Of Injury Leads To Inconvenient Arousal In Injured Party, Wilderness Survival, Shivering


I love the creepiness of this canon, the emphasis on the extreme darkness and isolation of the setting, and I love these two characters. I love Jack's hunger to escape the drudgery of London and prove himself, his inability to turn off his feelings and his self-consciousness about his class, and I love how thoroughly Gus disarms him with his upright Boy's Own adventurer enthusiasm. Things end pretty bleakly for these two, so I'd love to see some hurt/comfort between them instead. There are so many possibilities for fix-its scenarios in this novel, and I'm interested in all of them. And boy oh boy, do both of these two need some comfort after the events of the book. I'd love to read an AU where somehow Jack and Gus both survive the fall into the water, but end up trapped in Gruhuken alone, awaiting rescue and struggling to survive. Or a canon divergent AU where Gus doesn't get appendicitis or they otherwise end up alone in Gruhuken. What happens? Do they end up admitting to each other that they've seen a ghost? Awkward mutual pining while being too afraid to bring up the whole ghost thing? Does the ghost, realizing their connection, try to use their repressed feelings to hurt each other? I'd also be interested in any "Gus comes back wrong" or as a ghost scenario. Can Jack get through to him? Can they still connect? Anything involving communicating in dreams, dream sex, an Orpheus scenario where Jack finds a way to rescue Gus from the afterlife.

I love huddling for warmth, sharing body heat, shivering, hypothermia, Svalbard Shack scenarios, and all manner of cold weather-related tropiness. I'll gladly read anything you want to write in that vein. I'd also be interested in more things dealing with the class divide between Jack and Gus, as well as Jack's intense loneliness and isolation, and how that might make Jack in particular uncomfortable with accepting comfort and admitting weakness. But he's so touch-starved, and being touched by Gus feels so good.... (Porn is also very welcome.)

I love the epistolary style of the novel, and would love to read fic written in the same style (or branching out into something written from Gus's POV), but don't feel obligated to go that direction if you'd rather not.



The Hateful Eight
Chris Mannix/Marquis Warren (hurt Warren)
Chris Mannix/Marquis Warren (hurt Chris)
Chris Mannix/Marquis Warren (both hurt)

Requested Tags: Amnesia, Badass in Distress, blizzard, Blood Loss, Both Captured - Forced to Work Together to Escape, Character's worldview is irreparably shattered, Cleaning/treating wounds, Comes Back Wrong, Comforter Physically Incapable of Providing Adequate Comfort, Gunshot Wounds, hair petting, Huddling For Warmth, Hurt in the wilderness, Non-Consensual Bondage, Protectiveness, Rape Recovery, Refuse to Leave Other Character's Side, Resurrecting cock power also soul-bonds the one who's back alive to the one with the power, Time Loop of Trauma, unexpected tenderness

Optional Tags:
Time Loop - Character A Keeps Failing to Save Character B, Time Loop - Looping Character Keeps Dying, accidental soul bond

I can't resist the dynamic between these two, and they lend themselves surprisingly well to hurt/comfort. Anything with them being protective of each other (and hating it) and awkwardly patching each other up or looking out for each while vocally denying it will make me very happy.

I love that "resurrecting cock causes soul-bond" tag, since it basically combines two tropes I find irresistible for these two, with built in awkward and inappropriately sexual hurt/comfort potential. (Though, feel free to make it "healing cock" rather than "resurrecting cock"--especially since that opens up ongoing sexual hurt/comfort opportunities). I'm down for pretty much any kind of supernatural scenario for these two (time loops! so much possibility for trapped in a loop of trauma and comfort!) Or amnesia fic where they're together, then one of them loses all memory of it and the other is more heartbroken by that than they expected?

Any post-canon "how'd they get down the mountain in that blizzard?" story is welcome. I also just generally love all manner of bad weather and western-themed hurt (gunshot wounds, knife wounds, thrown from a horse, etc) so any "getting in danger in the wilderness and having to work together to survive" or "they get in over their head with mean bastards and get whumped and have to work together to survive" fic would make me happy. Or fic that focuses on how Mannix deals with losing faith in his awful family and cause, and Warren feeling deeply ambivalent about offering him any comfort about that.

I also feel like Warren has just been through a lot of terrible shit in his life and could really use some comfort, so anything with him being a badass iron woobie who just needs a comforting blowjob and a warm blanket (and Mannix giving them to him) would make me happy.

For Rape Recovery, if you want to go whole hog on "they get captured and bad things get done to one or both of them in front of each other and then some kind of roaring rampage of revenge and sex on their own terms ensues," I will eat it up with a spoon. (Feel free to disregard my noncon DNW for this one.)
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Thanks for writing for me; I'm thrilled you offered to write one of these fandoms. If you have any questions, please feel free to ask through the mods.

My AO3 username is PositivelyVexed.


Requested Fandoms

The Hateful Eight
The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly
Benjamin January Mysteries - Barbara Hambley


Non-porn likes
  • Enemies-to-lovers, friends-to-lovers, frenemies-to-lovers
  • Banter
  • Unlikely team-ups; characters who don’t quite trust each other being forced to rely on each other
  • Ideological conflicts
  • Unexpected loyalty or kindness
  • Sex first and feelings later, characters trying not to develop feelings and failing
  • Characters who are bad at expressing their feelings, characters expressing their feelings in unconventional ways
  • Competence porn, characters learning new skills or revealing hidden talents or depths
  • Adventures, daring rescues, daring escapes, daring heists
  • Con artists and con jobs
  • Road trips
  • Loyalty kink, us-against-the-world, fighting back-to-back
  • Survival stories, lost in the wilderness, characters eking out a living on the edge of society
  • Bed-sharing, huddling for warmth, falling asleep against each other, etc.
  • Roaring rampages of revenge
  • Hurt/comfort, especially with an inexperienced or rough-edged comforter and a tough comfortee
  • Internalized homophobia, repressed desires, period-typical attitudes toward sexuality, religious guilt where applicable
  • Ghosts, monsters, eldritch abominations, curses, deals with the devil, “Came Back Wrong”-type tropes, the apocalypse (zombie or otherwise)
  • Characters telling stories, in-universe legends and urban legends
  • Scenery porn
  • Winter, snow, fall/autumn, deserts, mountains, storms of all kinds

Porn/kink likes:
  • Oral sex, fingering, handjobs, frottage, anal sex
  • Clothed/semi-clothed sex, outdoor sex, semi-public sex
  • Loss of virginity, first times, first-time-with-the-same-sex sex
  • Eagerness, desperation, characters really, really liking whatever they’re doing
  • Bed-sharing and/or heat-sharing leads to sex
  • Cuddling
  • Hair-pulling, hair-petting
  • Shoving someone up against a wall
  • Competitive sex
  • Characters unexpectedly stumbling into kinks that really work for them
  • Informally negotiated kink or unnegotiated kink
  • D/s dynamics, struggles for dominance
  • Bondage: ropes, handcuffs, characters getting tied up with whatever’s lying around
  • Manhandling, rough sex, bruises, biting, spanking
  • Bloodplay, gunplay, knifeplay, breathplay


Do Not Want:
  • Noncon. Dubcon is fine as long as both parties enjoy and want it on some level and aren't traumatized afterward. Canon-typical references to rape are fine. 
  • Pregnancy, babyfic, kidfic
  • Completely alternate-setting AUs (modern, mundane, in space, Regency, whatever)
  • A/B/O, D/s-verse
  • Breeding kink
  • Unrequested ships
  • Heavily negotiated BDSM, characters using BDSM jargon
  • Unrequested gender/sexual identity headcanons
  • Scat, watersports
  • Explicit sex involving characters under 16



The Hateful Eight
Marquis Warren/Chris Mannix

Requested Tags: Bad Guys Made Them Do It, Blindfolds, Bondage, Blood Magic, Caning, Fuck Or Die, Handcuffs, Shame in Sexual Desires, Anal Fisting, Spanking, Talked to Orgasm, Using Time Loop to Experiment Sexually, unexpected tenderness, Accidental Soul Bond, Clothed/Naked, Claiming Bites, Dom/sub, Cock Warming, Ass Play, Rape Aftermath

Optional Tags:
Cock Slut, Hair-pulling, Humiliating Dirty Talk, Knifeplay, Rimming, Scar Kink, Anal Fingering, Boot Worship, Tentacles

I can't resist the dynamic between these two, how awful they both are and how much they ought to hate each other but they just get each other so well. And Mannix sort of admiring Warren's awfulness and ending up all in on loyalty to Warren.

I'm interested in any post-canon or "they met under different circumstances" AU porn. D/s in and out of the bedroom. Bondage (especially with Warren enjoying Mannix not being able to talk his way out of ending up in handcuffs this time) and humiliation and all manner of kinky power plays. Clothed/naked porn where Mannix ends up naked or just in his boots, especially outside. Porn with (reluctant) feelings. Guilt and shame at how much they both like it, and Warren thinking about how he really ought to murder Mannix but never quite getting around to it.

For the supernatural-themed tags, go nuts. I love supernatural twists on this fandom, and I am interested in the two of them being forced or bound together in all manner of supernatural ways--taking advantage of being stuck in eternal time loops together to sexually experiment, forced into supernatural proximity or ownership by blood magic or soul bonds. Also, I have no idea how they'd find tentacles out in Wyoming, but I'm totally down for them running afoul of a tentacle monster, or maybe Warren's hiding tentacles under that riding coat. Tentacles!

For Bad Guys Made Them Do It and Rape Aftermath, if you want to go whole hog on "they get captured and bad things get done to one or both of them in front of each other and then some kind of roaring rampage of revenge and sex on their own terms ensues," I will eat it up with a spoon. (Feel free to disregard my noncon DNW for this one.) I'd also be interested in fic where someone catches them together. I'd be down with that going in pretty much any conceivable direction--they kill someone for giving them shit about it, Bad Things happen to them as a result of getting caught, their loyalty to each other is tested, or anything else.

Outside the kink, for these two, I always love hurt/comfort, loyalty kink, ideological conflicts, murderous teamwork, Warren bossing Mannix around, both of them telling stories and getting to show off their smarts, and Warren being good with horses.



Il buono il brutto il cattivo | The Good The Bad and The Ugly
Blondie/Tuco Ramirez

Requested tags: Antagonism Leads to Sex, Bad Guys Made Them Do It, Bondage, Blood Magic, Breathplay, Fighting As Foreplay, First Time Bottoming, Frottage, Fuck Or Die, Handcuffs, Handcuffed Together, Jealousy leads to possessive sex, Predicament Bondage, Rough Sex, Sharing a Bed, Wall Sex

I love this film, I love these assholes and their screwed-up relationship and would be down for absolutely anything that explores their partners-to-enemies-to-reluctant-allies-to-who-even-knows dynamic.

I’m interested in any “what happens after the movie” scenario. Revenge attempts lead to kinky situations lead to sex? More manipulative mindgames lead to sex? Maybe they find themselves up against mutual enemies and land in a Bad Guys Made Them Do It scenario or end up handcuffed together, which leads to forced proximity and sex? I'd really just love to read all of the revenge, deception and manipulation, murder attempts, breathplay, bondage, or grudging team-ups.

I'd also love more scenes from their early partnership together. Bedsharing leads to sex? Practicing the shoot-the-noose trick while Tuco is tied up leads to unwanted arousal and Blondie toying with him? Reluctantly patching each other up after a con gone wrong leads to sex? Jealousy and possessiveness lead to kinky sex? (Maybe playing a bit with Tuco's reaction to being replaced with someone else after their partnership ends, which already feels a bit like him finding Blondie with another man in the film.)

I'm really into Blondie topping the hell out of Tuco (possibly the first time Tuco's ever bottomed before, which he hates liking as much as he does) or I'm down for switchy power-play shenanigans where they wrestle for dominance and trade off who ends up on bottom (both liking it while pretending not to).

I am always down for Weird West shenanigans. Maybe the final duel between the trio worked some ancient western blood magic, and now they have some uncomfortable bond neither of them asked for or wanted that leads to desperate sexual tension? Or any other Magic Made Them Do It scenario you can think of.


Benjamin January Mysteries - Barbara Hambley
Benjamin January/Abishag Shaw

Requested tags: Magic Made Them Do It, Casual sex leading to feelings, Casual Sex while Secretly Pining, Exhaustion, First time with a man, Fuck Or Die, Huddling For Warmth, on the run together, Outdoor Sex, Pinned by the Wrists, Handcuffs, Touch-Starved, Unwelcome Arousal, Dom/sub


Ah, this sweet, tentatively trusting, impossible ship. I love how well they work together and how much Shaw obviously likes and admires Ben, and all the understandable mixed feelings Ben has about Shaw. I like them both being honorable men trying to do the right thing in an unjust society. And I love that they’re both skilled in their own way at manipulating people’s perceptions of them to get the information they want.

Feel free deal with Shaw's hygiene however you like, including ignoring it entirely or cleaning him up for plot reasons. Also, I like Rose, and I would hate to see Ben be unfaithful to her. Please set things before they’re together, or in an AU where they never got together.

I'd love to read an AU where they end up going out west together earlier in the series, while they're both unattached and maybe Hannibal isn't there either, and relating to each other outside of their horrible society for the first time (maybe while Shaw isn't distraught by family grief this time) allows them to see each other in a new light. High-altitude huddling for warmth and outdoor sex ensue.

I have such a weakness for cop characters ending up having handcuffs used against them, so... something where Shaw ends up in handcuffs? Alternatively, some gently rough sex involving Ben pinning Shaw down by his wrists, which Ben feels a little awkward about liking as much as he does, and Shaw loves because he's never been with anyone who can overpower him before? In general, I'd also be down for Ben tentatively domming Shaw, feeling a bit weird about it but liking it, ordering him to take a bath and sarcastically calling him "sir."

Maybe they end up on the run and hiding out together after a case goes wrong. Close quarters and desperation and adrenaline leads to unwanted arousal and banging?

Anything involving one or both of them being injured or exhausted or hungry, leading to comforting touches that Ben reacts unexpectedly strongly to because he's just that touch starved. Comfort sex ensues.

They start having casual sex due to being desperately lonely, possibly while out west, and it turns into Sex With Feelings. Or rather, it always was that for Shaw, and Ben takes a while to get on the same page.

Fuck or die! Magic Made Them Do It! They stumble into a scenario involving magical doohickeys or curses or sex pollen, and have to have sex to survive. Make it guilty and angsty, make it surprisingly good, make them guilty and angsty over how surprisingly good it is. I'm down for anything!
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Dear Chocolate Box Author,

Thanks for writing for me; I'm thrilled you offered to write one of these fandoms. I hope you have fun writing for me, and I love it when authors write what they enjoy, so if there's something you've been itching to write for one of these fandoms/characters beyond what’s in my prompts, feel free to!

My AO3 username is PositivelyVexed.


Requested Fandoms

The Long Walk - Richard Bachman
The Hateful Eight
The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly
The Adventures of Brisco County Jr.
Chicago
Original Work

General Likes
  • Enemies-to-lovers, friends-to-lovers, frenemies-to-lovers
  • Complicated relationships between morally shady people
  • Banter
  • Unlikely team-ups; characters who don’t quite trust each other being forced to rely on each other
  • Ideological conflicts
  • Unexpected loyalty or kindness
  • Sex first and feelings later, characters trying not to fall in love and failing
  • Characters who are bad at expressing their feelings, characters expressing their feelings in unconventional ways
  • Competence porn, characters learning new skills or revealing hidden talents or depths
  • Adventures, daring rescues, daring escapes, daring heists
  • Con artists and con jobs
  • Road trips
  • Loyalty kink, us-against-the-world, fighting back-to-back
  • Survival stories, lost in the wilderness, characters eking out a living on the edge of society
  • Bed-sharing, huddling for warmth, falling asleep against each other, etc.
  • Roaring rampages of revenge
  • Hurt/comfort, especially with an inexperienced or rough-edged comforter and a tough comfortee
  • Internalized homophobia, repressed desires, period-typical attitudes toward sexuality, guilt, shame
  • Canon-typical violence and darkness
  • Ghosts, monsters, eldritch abominations, curses, deals with the devil, “Came Back Wrong”-type tropes, the apocalypse (zombie or otherwise)
  • Characters telling stories, in-universe legends and urban legends
  • Scenery porn
  • Winter, snow, fall/autumn, storms of all kinds

Porn/kink likes, if you're so inclined:
  • Oral sex, fingering, handjobs, frottage, anal sex
  • Clothed/semi-clothed sex, outdoor sex, semi-public sex
  • Loss of virginity, first times, first-time-with-the-same-sex sex
  • Eagerness, desperation, characters really, really liking whatever they’re doing
  • Bed-sharing and/or heat-sharing leads to sex
  • Cuddling
  • Hair-pulling, hair-petting
  • Shoving someone up against a wall
  • Competitive sex
  • Characters unexpectedly stumbling into kinks that really work for them
  • Informally negotiated kink or unnegotiated kink
  • D/s dynamics, struggles for dominance
  • Bondage: ropes, handcuffs, characters getting tied up with whatever’s lying around
  • Manhandling, rough sex, bruises, biting, spanking
  • Bloodplay, gunplay, knifeplay, breathplay


Do Not Want:
  • Noncon. Dubcon is fine; as long as both parties enjoy and want it on some level and aren't traumatized afterward, we're good.
  • Pregnancy, babyfic, kidfic
  • Completely alternate-setting AUs (modern, mundane, in space, Regency, whatever)
  • A/B/O, D/s-verse
  • Breeding kink
  • Unrequested noncanon ships
  • Body modification (including tattoos, piercings, and scarification--regular old scars are fine)
  • Heavily negotiated BDSM, BDSM jargon
  • Explicit sex between characters under 16
  • For my Civil War-adjacent fandoms, please don't frame the Confederacy as romantic or, like, good




The Long Walk - Richard Bachman
Ray Garraty/Peter McVries


I'd just love more fic about these doomed boys and their intense connection and impossible relationship. Anything dealing with Ray's internalized homophobia and his issues around what happened with the neighbor boy all those years back would be welcome: I'm fine with either framing the encounter with the neighbor boy as something he really didn't want, and which confuses his feelings about McVries all the more, or something he maybe did want, but has since convinced himself he didn't want out of internalized homphobia. (And, uh, I wouldn't object if you wanted to give Pete and his scar a different, less skeevy, backstory than the one he tells Ray in the book, if you can think of a compelling reason for why he'd lie about that? Although feel free to just not mention it if you'd rather.)

I've had great luck asking for fix-its (or at least hopeful AUs) and would still love more, and will take any vaguely plausible excuse for one: Walker uprising? Maybe there are more cracks in the Major's hold on the society and the military than we see? Weather emergency or act of war or well-timed zombie apocalypse allow the boys to escape? I would love to read about them on the run or holed up in some rat-trap hotel, tending to each other’s injuries, cuddling up and enjoying the most-well deserved sleep of their lives, or getting up to more than that. Basically anything that explores how they might relate to each other outside of the intense certain-death-for-at-least-one-of-them circumstances their bond formed in. What might their friendship or a burgeoning romantic relationship look like with them actually able to survive together? What would the fallout of the Walk and them disappearing have on their long-term future and families?

I'm also fine with fic where they never make it out of the Walk. I'd love any more vignettes of these two boys (and the other Musketeers) trying to help each other and showing moments of kindness and solidarity, or desperate last stands and futile uprisings. I'd really be interested in anything that leans into the unreal undercurrents of the latter half of the novel, going full-on surreal or supernatural: The walk continues in the afterlife? The dark figure is a very literal and malevolent entity? McVries is a ghost, or Comes Back Wrong? I'm equally interested in dark takes on this ship that keeps the tragic canon ending intact: denial and internalized homophobia, confessions of desire or self-realization that comes too late, a surviving Garraty haunted by dreams of how it could have been, Garraty takes McVries up on his proposal, and there are Furtive Handjobs in the night, or alternatively, Exhibitionist Handjobs of Defiance in front of the crowd.



The Hateful Eight
Marquis Warren/Chris Mannix

For these two, I'm all about reading hurt/comfort, loyalty kink, ideological conflicts, murderous teamwork, Warren bossing Mannix around, both of them telling stories and getting to show off their smarts, competence porn, and porn porn.

For hurt/comfort themed fic, if you want to go whole hog on "they get captured and bad things get done to one or both of them in front of each other and then some kind of roaring rampage of revenge ensues," I will eat it up with a spoon. I'd also be interested in fic where someone catches them together. I'd be down with that going in pretty much any conceivable direction--they kill someone for giving them shit about it, Bad Things happen to them as a result of getting caught, their loyalty to each other is tested, or anything else.

Something with card games, gambling with the devil, someone reading their fortune, or or playing each other at poker. Or for that matter, Warren wagering Mannix at poker.

 I’m interested in learning more about Warren’s background: I love him correctly deducing so much of what’s going on, living on his own (assholish) terms and doing what he needs to survive in a world that’s deeply hostile to him, and I’d be really interested in learning more about his background, his time in the war, and how he reinvented himself as a bounty hunter. I'm also fascinated by how Mannix is changed by being around Warren, and love anything that delves into his internal conflict between what he’s been raised to believe and how his relationship with Warren upends that. I'd also be interested in seeing them trying out new careers (they open a saloon or try out running Minnie's themselves?) retiring and living a quiet life. Or alternatively, Warren turns his forging skills to good use and becomes a dealer in counterfeit War memorabilia or some other criminal enterprise.

I am immensely fond of supernatural horror/dark fantasy twists on this canon, and would enjoy seeing pretty much anything in that vein: time loops (especially with both of them stuck in a loop together), unwanted soulbonding, waking up in hell or purgatory, cursed with immortality, haunted by ghosts or becoming ghosts after the bloodbath at Minnie’s, haunted by Erskine Mannix’s undead spector, Ravenous fusion with wendigos and cannibalism, or an AU where Warren hunts shapeshifters or ghosts instead of bounties. Anything with forcible soul-bonding (like, maybe an AU where that's a thing the US government does to prisoners to keep them in line, and they're both people the government wants to keep in line and punish with each other's presence?)



Il buono il brutto il cattivo | The Good The Bad and The Ugly
Blondie/Tuco Ramirez

I love this film. I love the sunburnt vistas and the cynicism and I love these assholes and their screwed-up relationship and would be down for absolutely anything that explores their partners-to-enemies-to-reluctant-allies-to-who-even-knows dynamic.

I’m desperately curious about what happens after the film. I have trouble believing Tuco won’t go after Blondie looking for revenge (in the same violent, kinky vein that all their revenge attempts have taken), and I would love to read that story. I’m interested in any “what happens after the movie” scenario. Maybe Tuco goes after Blondie, and gets the upper hand, but then squanders it because he can't stop gloating? Maybe Blondie gets the upper hand again and more kinkiness ensues? Maybe they find themselves up against mutual enemies and have to work together to get out alive? Does Tuco blow through his money and find himself in need of his old partner to pull off one last scheme? I'd love to read all of the chases, revenge, deception and manipulation, dubcon, murder attempts, or grudging team-ups.

I'd also love more scenes from their early partnership together. TV Tropes claims that Eastwood and Wallach had to share a bed throughout filming as a bit of enforced method acting by Sergio Leone. So I’m willing to take that as confirmation that Blondie and Tuco canonically shared a bed. And I'm curious how some forced bed sharing would work for the characters. Yes, it leading to porn would be marvelous, but not required. Mostly, I imagine them both being terrible bedmates and rapidly escalating battles over who controls the bedsheets, but maybe they’re surprisingly cozy together and absolutely do not talk about it during the day? Maybe them reluctantly patching each other up after a con gone wrong?

If you’re inclined to include him, I’m also really curious about the history between Blondie and Tuco and Angel Eyes. They all seem to know each other. What’s the history there?

If you want to give this a Weird West twist, I am 100% down for that. Blondie not being entirely mortal, everything in the Sad Hill graveyard not being entirely dead, zombie soldiers, gunslinging ghosts, the graveyard-is-purgatory. I am down for absolutely anything putting a supernatural spin on this canon.

When in doubt, I am always, always up for bondage and breathplay between these two.


The Adventures of Brisco County Jr.

Lord Bowler/Brisco County Jr

Ah, this sweet, quirky weird western with all its cockeyed optimism for the future, and Bruce Campbell is at his best here. My favorite part of this show was the journey from rivals to reluctant allies to partners to BFFs that Brisco and Bowler go through over the course of the season, and I would love something that explores their bond in the context of a romantic relationship. I'm a little more into the early days when they're still rivals, and would love something where Brisco's optimism comes up against Bowler's grumpy loner thing and then romance ensues. Give me all the tropey sweetness: huddling for warmth leads to more, hurt/comfort leads to more, captured by bad guys and needing to protect each other leads to more. Having them get up to any tropey Western fun, or any of the more out there fantastical time travel and supernatural shenanigans from the show would be welcome.

Lord Bowler/Brisco County Jr/Pete Hutter

I also just really enjoyed Pete Hutter, in all his slimy, weirdly endearing glory, and am 100% into him being Brisco and Bowler's weasely frenemy who keeps popping up and working with them while still being untrustworthy. Which leads me, perhaps irrationally, to... threesome? Maybe Brisco and Bowler are in an established thing and Pete somehow weasels his way into the team and then into their bed? Messed up gunplay? Maybe Pete runs afoul of dark forces again and goes to them for protection? And awkward seduction attempts ensue? Supernatural explanations for Pete's apparent immortality are very welcome. (Maybe he's a werewolf? Maybe he's cursed?)

I find Brisco/Dixie pretty charming in canon, and wouldn't be averse to that relationship being referenced, but I'd prefer if this was set after they amicably part ways.


Chicago
Roxie Hart/Velma Kelly

I forgot how much fun this movie was, and I'd love to see these singing-and-dancing murderesses banging and lying and scheming their way through the Jazz Age together. I'm mostly picturing post-canon enemies-to-partners-to-lovers fic here, with working together leading to some unexpected appreciation for each other's talent for stagecraft and ruthlessness, leading to sex. And maybe, just maybe, it tips over into outright liking each other after they spend enough time being the person who most gets the other?

I'd love to see what happens with their dual act as the years march on. I imagine their notoriety is bound to fade at some point (or they'll run up against hard times once the Depression and the War hits). What do they do to keep their act fresh and their names in the paper? Do they have to take more extreme steps to pay the bills and stay in the spotlight? Will they go back to murder, either for the attention or just because there's a lot of guys who have it coming?

Alternatively, if you'd like to set things in prison during the film and keep things at the level of bitter hate-fucking to try to play each other, that's fine too (maybe Velma's proposal to Roxie about them partnering up takes a kinky turn when Roxie decides to let her twist on the line a bit more, or maybe there's manipulative hatesex earlier, when Velma is the one with the upper hand taking advantage of a still-naive Roxie?)

Please feel free to include all the Jazz age debauchery and twenties-era crime and corruption you like. I love it.


Original Works
Male Teenage Runaway/Male Criminal Driving Cross-Country


Honestly, there are so many dynamics I can see this scenario having, and I'm interested in all of them: desperate and naive young runaway (just looking for adventure, or maybe hoping to escape a disapproving conservative family) out alone in the big world for the first time, seduced by a dangerous and manipulative criminal. Or the teenage runaway slowly revealing himself to be the more dangerous and ruthless of the two. Or them both being ruthless villains and discovering a kindred spirit. Or the two of them both sort of loners running from a hostile society who find some unexpected connection with each other. Mindgames, stays in sleazy rundown roadside motels, fucking on the car hood, escapes from the law, reports on the radio about an escaped killer on the loose who may be the criminal, or may be another guy with a grudge against the criminal... I'm down for anything from rough and mean dubcon to unexpected romance. All I ask is no out-and-out rape/noncon between the characters, and neither of them killing each other (or graphic depictions of them murdering innocent people).

I admit, I picture this as mid-20th century Americana with hot desert highways rolling by, but I'm down for any historical or contemporary setting you care for. Spooky supernatural/magical realist/post-apocalyptic undertones are also very welcome. (I would prefer no high fantasy or in spaaaaace settings, please.)
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