Chocolate Box 2018
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positivelyvexedDear Chocolate Box 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 ships beyond what’s in my prompts, feel free to! Some of my fandom sections are going to be longer than others, but I would be thrilled to get fic for any of these.
General likes:
Do Not Want:
The Hateful Eight
Warren/Mannix
I desperately need more about Warren and Mannix and their unlikely team-up and even more unlikely fondness for each other. I am always down for arguing, unexpected sweetness between two awful people, and D/s shippiness and porn. The two of them learning to work together and/or live together, domesticity, reluctantly stitching each other up, and drunk sex are also welcome. I love the entire genre of “they become bounty hunters together,” and would gladly read more fic in that vein, especially with them getting in over their heads and seriously in trouble.
Anything with more of the ominous, snowy atmosphere of the film. Dealing with the direct aftermath of the end of the film; Warrn and Mannix facing a brutal struggle to survive bullet wounds and a blizzard, or it turns out Daisy wasn't lying about that army of men down in Red Rock. Anything generally involving injuries and the threat of freezing to death.
I would love to see ghost fic, with either both of them dead and haunting Minnie's, or one of them dead and haunting the other. Alternatively, nearly dying together leads to accidental and unwanted soulbonding.
Straight razor shaving. Seriously, I just want Warren shaving Mannix for reasons, and knifeplay and bloodplay ensuing.
Post-film or pre-film AU, where they’re both taken prisoner for their various crimes and have to escape, handcuffed together, The Defiant Ones-style?
If Mannix is lying about being the sheriff of Red Rock, it would seem that both of them are excellent bullshitters, and I’d love to see them turn those talents to good use and become old west con artists together, traveling the west and pulling con jobs, particularly ones that incorporate the sheer unlikelihood of the two of them working together.
Also, because I just want to watch the world burn, anything where Warren gives Mannix a blowjob.
The Good the Bad and the Ugly
Blondie/Tuco
I adore this ship, in all of its fucked up Spaghetti Western glory, and would love anything you wanted to write about their past partnership, a missing scene in the movie, or their future after the movie.
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 about him succeeding, or having Blondie get the upper hand. Or just as Tuco catches up to him, they find themselves in a bad situation 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?
TV Tropes claims that Clint Eastwood and Eli 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?
A missing scene of how they negotiated the initial terms of their partnership, or the first time they tried their con out together.
If you want to give this a Weird West twist, I am 100% down for a supernatural spin on the setting. Blondie not being entirely human, Ghost Hunter AU, everything in the graveyard at the end not being entirely dead and buried, or anything else that strikes your fancy.
Any of these: extremely grudging hurt/comfort, forced team-ups against a shared enemy, competitive sex in lieu of fighting, huddling for warmth around the campfire leading to sex, sharing a smoke, spending their ill-gotten fortunes together, learning about each other's pasts, and weird incongruous cuteness.
Dark Matter by Michelle Paver
Jack/Gus
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 intense awareness of his class, and I love how thoroughly Gus disarms him with his upright Boy's Own adventurer enthusiasm. I'm fine with either keeping the ending of the book as is, or a fix-it scenario where things take a happier turn. Gus survives, but somehow Jack and Gus both end up trapped in Gruhuken, awaiting rescue and struggling to survive? Or a canon divergent AU where Gus doesn't get appendicitis or leave Gruhuken and the ghost, realizing their connection, uses their feelings for each other against them, attempting to turn them against each other? Gus comes back wrong as a ghost, and it's not a friendly haunting? Anything involving communicating in dreams, dream sex, an Orpheus scenario where Jack finds a way to return to rescue Gus.
Or happier fix-its! Tentative developing feelings, hurt/comfort and huddling for warmth, all the bonding and loyalty. I don't need declarations of love, but some hopefulness for requited feelings down the road would be very nice.
Epistolary fic! I love the diary style of the novel, and would love anything else you want to do to in an epistolary style. More of Jack's diary writing, letters between Gus and Jack in an AU where they survive but have to part, Gus's private diary that Jack never found, Jack receiving written messages from beyond the grave (I have a huge thing for "dispatches from the dead" tropes.)
Westworld
Dolores Abernathy/Maeve Millay
Dolores Abernathy/Teddy Flood
Teddy Flood/Wyatt
I love the interweaving timelines and the meditations on consciousness, but at the end of the day, I am here for the hosts regaining their memories and fighting back. I love the host characters in general and want to see them succeed. One note: while I'm fine with dark themes and downbeat endings for this fandom, I'd prefer not to see the Man in Black raping or committing violence against Dolores, and would prefer if sexual exploitation of the female hosts wasn't a focus of the story. I also have a bit of a squick pertaining to permanent mindwipes with no hope of recovery, and would prefer that not be any of the hosts' fates here.
Dolores Abernathy/Maeve Millay
We got so little interaction between them in Season 1, but I'm fascinated by both characters and think they would make an incredible power couple in the robot uprising, or leaders of opposing factions who clash but have a wary respect and sexual tension with each. Do they have some kind of romantic or violent past together that starts to seep back into their memories? Working with the theory that Dolores helped awaken Maeve this time, I'd love to see all the different times they've awakened each other through different storylines or moments. Or just give me conflict over the direction the hosts will go in now that they're fighting back. Sexy conflict. Ruthless Dolores getting in the way of Maeve's search for her daughter, or alternatively, helping her find her for her own reasons, or the two of them forced to work together for reason. I'd also just love to see the two of them getting revenge on asshole guests together. Mostly, I'm interested in two dangerous characters who've just achieved consciousness going after what they want, sparring, matching wits, and realizing they'd be a lot stronger together.
Dolores Abernathy/Teddy Flood
I am in love with how surprisingly sweet the Dolores/Teddy relationship is, and adore the idea that a corny narrative-mandated love story could take on an epic life of its own in ways no one expected. I enjoy all the doomed romance and devotion and loyalty kink between Dolores and Teddy, but I also love the potential for how their relationship could grow and change once Teddy hits the same level of awareness that Dolores has achieved. How does their dynamic shift? How does he feel about the fact that it was following her orders that led to him killing the other hosts, and landed him in a cycle of endless punishment? I'd love to see them work through it and have Teddy choose to follow to Dolores of his own free will.
Teddy Flood/Wyatt
I also can't get enough of the potential for heart-rending drama and torn loyalties once Teddy figures out that Dolores is also his sworn enemy Wyatt. Any dirtybadwrong that comes out of that would be great. I want to see Teddy trying to navigate his conflicting urges to murder Wyatt and protect Dolores, and I'd like to see if Dolores has a Jekyll and Hyde side that has its own dark urges towards Teddy. (I admit, I enjoyed watching Teddy get hurt repeatedly, and wouldn't say no to more of that, although I'd prefer he get some comfort too.) Identity porn, conflicted loyalties, and confused desires manifesting in cross-dressing roleplay or guilty fantasies of Dolores/Teddy/Wyatt threesomes are all welcome.
The Thing
R.J. MacReady/Childs
Horror and paranoia in isolated snowy settings + antagonistic sole survivors of a doomed research station? Hell yes. I'd love all the barely sublimated sexual attraction, reluctant teamwork to stay alive, and ongoing distrust. It's a bleak ending, but if you can find a way to keep them alive afterward, I'd love to see what happens next. Perhaps their station is intact enough that they can survive over the winter together, slowly going stir-crazy and having increasingly few boundaries? Ongoing horror as neither is quite sure the other isn't the Thing, or maybe isn't even sure if they themselves aren't? They have some sort of working vehicle after all and go on a road trip across Antarctica seeking help? They are rescued and have to work together to convince the authorities of what really happened, or just recover together while battling lingering doubts about whether anyone is really who they seem to be? I'd love absolutely anything for this film.
Crossover
Boyd Crowder (Justified)/Jules Winfield (Pulp Fiction)
I couldn't resist. I want to see this terrifyingly charismatic LA hitman fucking, fighting, or having long philosophical discussions with this terrifyingly charismatic hillbilly outlaw. I'd especially love to see them talking about the parallels running between their respective spiritual awakenings. My favorite versions of Boyd are the ones in Season 1 and early Season 2, with his tragic, doomed attempts to be a man of God or stay on the right side of the law. I'd love to see religious zealot Boyd trying to bond with Jules, or post-crisis of faith Boyd arguing with him about God. However, I'd be happy with fic set at any point in Justified's run, or afterward.
I'm curious what Jules has been up to since the events of Pulp Fiction. How has he changed over the last twenty years? Was he really able to leave the criminal life behind? If so, I'd love to see Jules maybe successfully convincing Boyd that he can leave Harlan, or at the very least, showing that it's possible to walk away from a destructive path before it catches up with him. If he's slid back into old ways, what's he doing in the criminal world now? Is he still working for someone else's operation, or has he set his sights higher? Hitman or rival crime lord Jules going after crime lord Boyd would be amazing.
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 ships beyond what’s in my prompts, feel free to! Some of my fandom sections are going to be longer than others, but I would be thrilled to get fic for any of these.
General likes:
- Enemies-to-lovers, unexpected team-ups, uneasy alliances
- Ideological differences
- Unexpected acts of loyalty or kindness
- Us-against-the-world dynamics
- Unapologetic asshole characters being assholes to other unapologetic asshole characters
- Capture, helplessness, and whump
- Survival in extreme conditions, lost in the wilderness
- Roaring rampages of revenge
- Going on adventures, traveling to new places
- Huddling for warmth
- Bed-sharing
- Competent characters getting to show off a skill or teach it to someone else
- Daring rescues
- Saving the day with teamwork
- Characters who are not naturally good at caretaking being the comforter in a hurt/comfort scenario
- Internalized homophobia
- scars and old injuries
- Banter and humor
- Hatesex that develops into something more romantic
- Supernatural horror elements in non-supernatural canons: ghosts, monsters, cosmic horror, curses, the devil, “Came Back Wrong”-type tropes, and the afterlife
Do Not Want:
- Noncon (dubcon and canon-typical references to rape are fine)
- Pregnancy/babyfic/kidfic
- Het femsub
- Alternate-setting AUs (modern, mundane, everyone is pirates, etc.)
- A/B/O
- Infidelity
- Formally negotiated or protocol-heavy BDSM
The Hateful Eight
Warren/Mannix
I desperately need more about Warren and Mannix and their unlikely team-up and even more unlikely fondness for each other. I am always down for arguing, unexpected sweetness between two awful people, and D/s shippiness and porn. The two of them learning to work together and/or live together, domesticity, reluctantly stitching each other up, and drunk sex are also welcome. I love the entire genre of “they become bounty hunters together,” and would gladly read more fic in that vein, especially with them getting in over their heads and seriously in trouble.
Anything with more of the ominous, snowy atmosphere of the film. Dealing with the direct aftermath of the end of the film; Warrn and Mannix facing a brutal struggle to survive bullet wounds and a blizzard, or it turns out Daisy wasn't lying about that army of men down in Red Rock. Anything generally involving injuries and the threat of freezing to death.
I would love to see ghost fic, with either both of them dead and haunting Minnie's, or one of them dead and haunting the other. Alternatively, nearly dying together leads to accidental and unwanted soulbonding.
Straight razor shaving. Seriously, I just want Warren shaving Mannix for reasons, and knifeplay and bloodplay ensuing.
Post-film or pre-film AU, where they’re both taken prisoner for their various crimes and have to escape, handcuffed together, The Defiant Ones-style?
If Mannix is lying about being the sheriff of Red Rock, it would seem that both of them are excellent bullshitters, and I’d love to see them turn those talents to good use and become old west con artists together, traveling the west and pulling con jobs, particularly ones that incorporate the sheer unlikelihood of the two of them working together.
Also, because I just want to watch the world burn, anything where Warren gives Mannix a blowjob.
The Good the Bad and the Ugly
Blondie/Tuco
I adore this ship, in all of its fucked up Spaghetti Western glory, and would love anything you wanted to write about their past partnership, a missing scene in the movie, or their future after the movie.
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 about him succeeding, or having Blondie get the upper hand. Or just as Tuco catches up to him, they find themselves in a bad situation 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?
TV Tropes claims that Clint Eastwood and Eli 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?
A missing scene of how they negotiated the initial terms of their partnership, or the first time they tried their con out together.
If you want to give this a Weird West twist, I am 100% down for a supernatural spin on the setting. Blondie not being entirely human, Ghost Hunter AU, everything in the graveyard at the end not being entirely dead and buried, or anything else that strikes your fancy.
Any of these: extremely grudging hurt/comfort, forced team-ups against a shared enemy, competitive sex in lieu of fighting, huddling for warmth around the campfire leading to sex, sharing a smoke, spending their ill-gotten fortunes together, learning about each other's pasts, and weird incongruous cuteness.
Dark Matter by Michelle Paver
Jack/Gus
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 intense awareness of his class, and I love how thoroughly Gus disarms him with his upright Boy's Own adventurer enthusiasm. I'm fine with either keeping the ending of the book as is, or a fix-it scenario where things take a happier turn. Gus survives, but somehow Jack and Gus both end up trapped in Gruhuken, awaiting rescue and struggling to survive? Or a canon divergent AU where Gus doesn't get appendicitis or leave Gruhuken and the ghost, realizing their connection, uses their feelings for each other against them, attempting to turn them against each other? Gus comes back wrong as a ghost, and it's not a friendly haunting? Anything involving communicating in dreams, dream sex, an Orpheus scenario where Jack finds a way to return to rescue Gus.
Or happier fix-its! Tentative developing feelings, hurt/comfort and huddling for warmth, all the bonding and loyalty. I don't need declarations of love, but some hopefulness for requited feelings down the road would be very nice.
Epistolary fic! I love the diary style of the novel, and would love anything else you want to do to in an epistolary style. More of Jack's diary writing, letters between Gus and Jack in an AU where they survive but have to part, Gus's private diary that Jack never found, Jack receiving written messages from beyond the grave (I have a huge thing for "dispatches from the dead" tropes.)
Westworld
Dolores Abernathy/Maeve Millay
Dolores Abernathy/Teddy Flood
Teddy Flood/Wyatt
I love the interweaving timelines and the meditations on consciousness, but at the end of the day, I am here for the hosts regaining their memories and fighting back. I love the host characters in general and want to see them succeed. One note: while I'm fine with dark themes and downbeat endings for this fandom, I'd prefer not to see the Man in Black raping or committing violence against Dolores, and would prefer if sexual exploitation of the female hosts wasn't a focus of the story. I also have a bit of a squick pertaining to permanent mindwipes with no hope of recovery, and would prefer that not be any of the hosts' fates here.
Dolores Abernathy/Maeve Millay
We got so little interaction between them in Season 1, but I'm fascinated by both characters and think they would make an incredible power couple in the robot uprising, or leaders of opposing factions who clash but have a wary respect and sexual tension with each. Do they have some kind of romantic or violent past together that starts to seep back into their memories? Working with the theory that Dolores helped awaken Maeve this time, I'd love to see all the different times they've awakened each other through different storylines or moments. Or just give me conflict over the direction the hosts will go in now that they're fighting back. Sexy conflict. Ruthless Dolores getting in the way of Maeve's search for her daughter, or alternatively, helping her find her for her own reasons, or the two of them forced to work together for reason. I'd also just love to see the two of them getting revenge on asshole guests together. Mostly, I'm interested in two dangerous characters who've just achieved consciousness going after what they want, sparring, matching wits, and realizing they'd be a lot stronger together.
Dolores Abernathy/Teddy Flood
I am in love with how surprisingly sweet the Dolores/Teddy relationship is, and adore the idea that a corny narrative-mandated love story could take on an epic life of its own in ways no one expected. I enjoy all the doomed romance and devotion and loyalty kink between Dolores and Teddy, but I also love the potential for how their relationship could grow and change once Teddy hits the same level of awareness that Dolores has achieved. How does their dynamic shift? How does he feel about the fact that it was following her orders that led to him killing the other hosts, and landed him in a cycle of endless punishment? I'd love to see them work through it and have Teddy choose to follow to Dolores of his own free will.
Teddy Flood/Wyatt
I also can't get enough of the potential for heart-rending drama and torn loyalties once Teddy figures out that Dolores is also his sworn enemy Wyatt. Any dirtybadwrong that comes out of that would be great. I want to see Teddy trying to navigate his conflicting urges to murder Wyatt and protect Dolores, and I'd like to see if Dolores has a Jekyll and Hyde side that has its own dark urges towards Teddy. (I admit, I enjoyed watching Teddy get hurt repeatedly, and wouldn't say no to more of that, although I'd prefer he get some comfort too.) Identity porn, conflicted loyalties, and confused desires manifesting in cross-dressing roleplay or guilty fantasies of Dolores/Teddy/Wyatt threesomes are all welcome.
The Thing
R.J. MacReady/Childs
Horror and paranoia in isolated snowy settings + antagonistic sole survivors of a doomed research station? Hell yes. I'd love all the barely sublimated sexual attraction, reluctant teamwork to stay alive, and ongoing distrust. It's a bleak ending, but if you can find a way to keep them alive afterward, I'd love to see what happens next. Perhaps their station is intact enough that they can survive over the winter together, slowly going stir-crazy and having increasingly few boundaries? Ongoing horror as neither is quite sure the other isn't the Thing, or maybe isn't even sure if they themselves aren't? They have some sort of working vehicle after all and go on a road trip across Antarctica seeking help? They are rescued and have to work together to convince the authorities of what really happened, or just recover together while battling lingering doubts about whether anyone is really who they seem to be? I'd love absolutely anything for this film.
Crossover
Boyd Crowder (Justified)/Jules Winfield (Pulp Fiction)
I couldn't resist. I want to see this terrifyingly charismatic LA hitman fucking, fighting, or having long philosophical discussions with this terrifyingly charismatic hillbilly outlaw. I'd especially love to see them talking about the parallels running between their respective spiritual awakenings. My favorite versions of Boyd are the ones in Season 1 and early Season 2, with his tragic, doomed attempts to be a man of God or stay on the right side of the law. I'd love to see religious zealot Boyd trying to bond with Jules, or post-crisis of faith Boyd arguing with him about God. However, I'd be happy with fic set at any point in Justified's run, or afterward.
I'm curious what Jules has been up to since the events of Pulp Fiction. How has he changed over the last twenty years? Was he really able to leave the criminal life behind? If so, I'd love to see Jules maybe successfully convincing Boyd that he can leave Harlan, or at the very least, showing that it's possible to walk away from a destructive path before it catches up with him. If he's slid back into old ways, what's he doing in the criminal world now? Is he still working for someone else's operation, or has he set his sights higher? Hitman or rival crime lord Jules going after crime lord Boyd would be amazing.
