#max just has ust

[valyrfia]

WTAF?! That Lestappen gif in comparison to how Charles and Carlos greeted each other has changed my perspective. These two are in love and are aware or they are at least aware of their crush on each other but have never acted on it. You can literally taste the UST from the screen. Charles blushing and Max’s grin after. And that wink from Charles and the eye sweep. FUUUUUCK!!! You are making me overly delusional like what was that?

lestappen gifs make me literally insane let me show you a few more of my favourites where you can taste the tension

Exhibit A: Teenagers With a Crush

Max looks at Charles, is caught looking at Charles, they both smile then look away smiling/fidgeting. It's TEXTBOOK crush behaviour it feels like something taken straight from a fic.

Exhibit B: Charles Leclerc's Constant Need for Eye Contact

Something about this gif is haunting. Charles aligning his whole body like he's a lodestone and Max is magnetic north like someone tell this man you're allowed to look away from Max Verstappen.

Exhibit C: Alexa Play Style by Taylor Swift

Them walking absolutely in sync makes me feel ill. That's all there is to say really.

Exhibit D: Austria 2022 Soft Porn

Yeah this one speaks for itself. You didn't even win the race why are you so smiley Max by god I hope these two got a room.

And this is just a summary. Every day I stumble across some other moment of these two that makes my jaw drop. They just...act like this.

#the tension is stifling it's awful #lestappen #GET A ROOM #anon

[treblrebl]

Charting the Course of B&B : How It Began

For nobody's sake but mine, I have decided to chart out the progress of the B&B relationship through the seasons.

Seasons 1 to 3: Keyword - 'Trust'

The foundational seasons, where the ever simmering physical attraction kept smashing up against the wall of 'I just don't understand this guy/girl'. But more importantly, the seasons where both of them, much to their shock, find that their partnership bears immediate fruit. And that the walls they keep around everyone else somehow don't seem to hold up in front of each other.

The graph below charts their attraction and trust levels over the 3 seasons through pivotal points where their partnership either grew or retreated significantly. It's my opinion that fledgling romantic feelings were present during this phase, but neither of them were aware of it.

Representation:

Milestones considered:

S1 - Point 1: "I knew you wouldn't make me a liar" (S1E5)

S1 - Point 2: Rescue from Kenton/"Why are you so nice to me?" (S1E15/E19)

S1 - Point 3: "With each shot we all die a little bit, Bones"/"I know who you are" (S1E21/E22)

S2 - Point 1: "Tony and Roxie" (S2E8)

S2 - Point 2: "I knew you wouldn't give up" (S2E9)

S2 - Point 3: "Everything happens eventually"/Rescue from Gallagher (S2E16/E18)

S2 - Point 4: Zack leaves for the Army/Max gets arrested/Aborted Hodgela wedding (S2E21)

S3 - Point 1: "Making love vs crappy sex" (S3E3)

S3 - Point 2: Smurfette/"I love my gift Booth"/"You are a fully developed man" (S3E7/E9/E11)

S3 - Point 3: Baby Andy/Max's trial/Checkerbox pre-shooting (S3E12/E13/E14)

S3 - Point 4: Booth's 'death'/Zack as Gormogon apprentice (S3E15)

Season 4: Keyword - 'Emotional Intimacy'

This where things start getting COMPLICATED. They start off rough, with Brennan having her walls up again after the deception of Booth's death. But when the last of the walls fall by the end of Con Man in the Meth Lab, the emotional enmeshment is cemented. The UST is also off the charts.

By the time this season ends, the trust between them has reached it's zenith. The attraction has never wavered, but this season is where the romantic feelings start to make their presence seriously felt. It's quite obvious that Dr. Wyatt was referring to Brennan when he posited that one of them was clearly aware of their feelings and struggled with it daily. Booth was deeper in denial even though he had brought Brennan completely into his life, his family and his history. Writing the story at Booth's bedside was Brennan's way of coping with the strength of her feelings which she didn't have the courage to examine or name. Perhaps she felt that putting a label to how she felt for Booth in a fictional world would exorcise the turmoil in the real world. Perhaps it was the only way she had to admit to herself.

Representation:

Milestones considered:

Ep 3: "There's someone for everyone, Bones, you just have to be open to see it."/"What's wrong with a surrogate relationship?"

Ep. 5: "You know the reviews to my books Booth, but do you read them?" "Every single word."

Ep. 9: "My father drank."

Ep. 11: 'Look at my little boy there, with your dad."

Ep. 14: Gravedigger rescue. Needs no explanation.

Ep. 21: Sharing of metaphorical scars, adopting their baby duck. There is no going back for either of them now.

Ep. 25: Brennan's baby, Booth's sperm. "Something is wrong Booth, trust me!"

Ep. 26: "You love someone, you open yourself up to suffering, that's the sad truth. Maybe they'll break your heart, maybe you'll break their heart and never be able to look at yourself in the same way. Those are the risks. That's the burden."

In the next instalment:

Season 5: Keyword - 'Devotion'

Season 6: Keyword - 'Inner Demons'

#bones tv #bonestv #booth x brennan #seeley booth #temperance brennan #i cant even to begin to explain why i wanted to do this

[f1-birb]

some people are never going to understand lando picking his battles because they just think going aggressive and pushing to fight/defend is the only way to drive with skill. COTA showed that amazing improvement though McLaren have made, they're ust not there yet in race pace with Red Bull, at least in Max's hands. Lando keeping as close as he did, especially as he was managing in the last few laps while Max was pushing a bit more, is impressive tbh. Ironically picking his battles is also what has always marked Lewis out when he isn't in a car that could legitimately fight for a win, but so many people seem to miss that. It's such an important skill for a driver to have if they want to go for a championship run. Lando will fight when he knows that fight is on. Until then he's going to know who his competition is and drive accordingly.

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#lando norris #birb speaks

[kireshai]

Current Watchlist Game

I was tagged by @iamdarthbader, and honestly I took too long to get this done because I had the stupid idea of giffing things and that takes me forever. Here we go!

Currently Watching (Somewhat in order of enjoyment)

Love In The Air - I'm here for messy, toxic and epic romances. The show is insane and so giffable, it is just a ton of fun for me. I've also enjoyed a bunch of the background music, there are some real bangers in there.

Vice Versa - I've been enjoying this since the first episode, and it's been pretty solid if not great throughout. The visual design - sets, costuming, post-production - have been fantastic and the colour theming is so well done.

The Eclipse - An intriguing mystery with amazing production design and UST through the roof? This is shaping up to be an amazing show with really important messaging regarding non-comformity. Khaotung not playing a softboy is also new and interesting.

Unforgotten Night - Possibly the most unintentionally hilarious show I've seen in a while (or maybe casting Yoon after his history of crack was intentional). I have so much fun with the bizarre choices in this show, and I do not regret my decision to re-use the shitty tigger tattoo gif for this post.

About Youth - It's only 2 episodes so far, but I'm digging the vibe and style of the show. Got some great music, and I will not be taking questions about why I chose to show the second couple in the gif.

My Only 12% - I started this one a little late, but I've caught up now. Earth's ability to convincingly play a high schooler is criminal, and I'm a big fan of the potential for an uno reverse pining plot. Chomping at the bit for the timeskip already.

Takara-kun and Amagi-kun - This reminds me so much of the heart-rending high-school shonen-ai I've read for years. Sweet and simple, the actors are obviously a bit new to things, but they're doing an admirable job for newbies.

Currently Rewatching

Triage - I will probably never stop rewatching Triage. The plot was so strong, I loved so many of the performances, the medical scenes were really top-tier (except the CPR, lol), and there was some really amazing camerawork that elevated the material.

Manner of Death - I have ascended to the role of Sammon simp. It definitely helps that Max and Tul are such strong actors, especially together. The murder and human trafficking show has become a comfort watch for me, please don't ask why.

Love Mechanics (2022) - I have loved this new version so much more than the original attempt. I'm really glad they got a redo and that Yin and War returned. War is just a really strong actor and Yin has come so far since the first time around.

Fish Upon the Sky - I actually love me some wacky comedy BLs, and while not the strongest, I have a lot of fun with this. I was brought back to it by watching the trailer for Pond and Phuwin's upcoming show.

Looking Forward To...

Never Let Me Go - Pond and Phuwin's upcoming show looks super angsty and dramatic. I dig it. Also, why do all the shows this year have mafia, lol?

Moonlight Chicken - I took way too long to watch 1000 Stars and Cupid's Last Wish, but I was so glad when I did. Earth and Mix work really well together, and I'm interested in seeing them in something a little less sweet and innocent this time around.

Manifesting an official announcement for... Transplant - Please, I want this so much. Please, please, please, please... You cannot be surprised by this.

I have no idea on the etiquette of who I should tag, but I'd like to ask @queersouthasian, @gillianthecat and @thequeenofsastiel to have a go.

#bl drama #triage #manner of death #fish upon the sky #love mechanics #the eclipse series #vice versa #love in the air #unforgotten night #takara kun to amagi kun #about youth #my only 12%

[bwoahtastic]

Lando has so much good momma potential like he is a natural caregiver with how much he appreciates his parents and his friends why isn't he a part of the adoption au parents like him finding a teeny tiny pup and refusing to part with him even though everyone (the press especially) keep saying that he is too young to be a mom and that he is ruining his life by taking the pup

Oohh! Lando adopting little Max? He just finds a tiny 6 month old who is so quiet and doesn't cry to be held to the orphanage staff. Just a poor baby who learned to be quiet and go unnoticed 🥺 lando gently picking the baby up and just holding him against his shoulder and ust cooes softly and rocks him🥺

The pack being so hesitant when they hear Lando plans on adopting his baby, not being sure he is old enough, but then they see him with little Max and he is so good! Just a gifted, caring momma!

#asks #abo adoption

[georgierre]

as a big 4 student here r my thoughts

guanyu & lewis at benilde (their outfits. they would fit in 100% they’re all so artsy and estetik)

danny ric at ust (big go uste vibes & can see him make tambay at dapitan)

charles also at ust (we have a great arki program n the buildings r very cool so charles would appreciate that)

lance at la salle (lawrence deffo donated a library cough cough)

max at iscp (major in automotive engineering minor in racis

george at either asia pacific or enderun (pero they weren't his first choice i think he wanted to go to up pero hindi siya nakapass sa upcat)

sebastian at up (HE WOULD ATTEND ALL THE PROTESTS. REAL.)

lando at ateneo business school /derogatory

alex at southville (but just like george he wanted to get into up but it was not meant to be

pls reply with your thoughts ive been sitting on these thoughts for 3 months now

I WILL RESPOND TO THESE BULLET POINT BY BULLET POINT, but i wanna mention that a lot of ur brainrot is similar to my friend @schumaclerc 's brainrot which i think is funny

guanyu & lewis @ benilde

to me lewis is either an arts student at UP but 100% fashion designer at benilde. same with guanyu, BUT since i am Biased (ONE BIG FIGHT WOOOO) and since guanyu designs a lot of his helmets' layouts, i argue he'd be an atenean under info design >:)

daniel & charles @ ust

kitang kita ko yung kay daniel + dagdagin din natin si pierre kasi Vibes. riel and i are still believers in charles being UP 4 Life :P

lance @ lasalle

YEP HIS DAD 100% PAID FOR A BUILDING. sali din si nicky dyan lol

max @ iscp

HOY BWISET LOL PERO TAMA NAMAN???? may nagpost nga si iscp sa fb abt the "major in racism" course and the picture is verstappens car so 🥴🥴🥴🥴

george & alex @ u&ap/enderan/southville (di nakapasa sa upcat)

HOY. HOHYYMHOTHO6. THIS IS THE EXACT HC MY BARKADA SHARES BC IT WOULD SO GEORGE RUSSELL TO NOT PASS UPCAT. pero no slander sa u&ap ha they are doing their best so george would 100% be poleco sa u&ap, then pursue law w a scholarship from ateneo. alex would stay in u&ap i think and finish masters there too :P

sebastian @ UP

100% LIKE NO BUTS OR IF'S UP YAN. SYA YUNG GUMAGAWA NG STUDENT PROTESTS ++ bonus kapag nag oblation run sya na nakahubad LMFAO

lando @ ateneo

YES SLANDER THE MANAGEMENT STUDENTS SA ATENEO, #1 KALABAN NG MGA ARTISTS FR.

+ to add, here's my other verdicts: mick @ UP, yuki @ benilde, nando @ UP, carlos @ lasalle/ateneo, val & kev di ko pa sure, este @ lasalle, checo @ ust/UP

#asks #long post #ame rambles

[tiodolma]

Previously, I sent an AU with time travel + the accidental acquisition of baby Mordred + season 5 Merlin and Morgana + divorced parents dynamics + UST. 🤔 I was thinking... What if the accidental acquisition is of baby Arthur instead? Morgana time travels back in time to kill Uther, but doesn't realize she brought Merlin along for the ride (he's linked to her, being both her destiny and her doom).

Morgana kills Uther via poison and Merlin tries to stop her, but he's too late. Both proceed to argue about what she has done and throw spells to one another until baby Arthur makes an appearance. Gaius makes them responsible of Arthur (you killed the king, you deal with the consequences). In summary, prince Arthur grows up with passive aggressive foster parents with magic with a great ton of issues and maxed out UST. If and when that UST gets resolved, that's up to you. 😂

Arthur will be spoiled rotten by both of them lmaoo. They will make him read soooo many books. Morgana will teach him how to do politics and fight wars. At least MerMor will agree with each other on that aspect. There is increasing attraction and UST when their ideas match 😂. Bonus if by raising arthur they will both start to imagine what it would be like if they had a magical child aksjshjwsj (which brings them back to the mordred and aithusa question and then they fight again coz they’ll never get over it 😂). Then later cue teenage angst arthur coz he doesnt have 'gifts’ like his foster parents. I think Arthur will be a more okay king because of them at least XD

They’ll probably fall in bed while doing one of those heated fights about arthur, mordred and aithusa (they’re a mess). I can see that happening. Basically Merlin would be all 🥺🥺🥺🥺 when Morgana blurts out the truth about Aithusa in her frustration and rage and his whole attitude with her will shift 😏😏😏😏

But man the paradox this timeline will induce lmao

With Igrain and Uther dead and with the prince still a baby... that means the Purge will never start. Therefore, Nimueh and Balinor are still attending court. Magic is still alive and free in Camelot. The problem would be the civil unrest after the assasination of the monarch. So... who’s gonna show up and try to take the throne? I’m guessing Nimueh and Balinor would prolly fight it out? Morgana’s birth is probably secure coz the Duke of Cornwall wont have to go fight a war or smth. But the problem would be Merlin not being conceived if Balinor is a Camelotian courtier and his future mom is waaaay over farming in Ealdor. Unless Nimueh takes the throne and drives Balinor away (which is unlikely). Merlin would have to find a way to be conceived by his mother smh 😂... all the while raising a future prince with his sworn enemy from their own timeline 😂😂😂

This timeline also have the funny side effect of morgana and nimueh being in the same room as merlin. Imagine the bitchfights bruh. And Merlin, Morgana and Nimue would be of approx the same age. Morgana would be so insanely jealous of Nimueh’s confidence and merlin’s attraction to her and and vice versa. Maybe morgs will side with nimue bec ofc she will... or maybe not.. morgs cannot stand if anyone not her sits on the throne of camelot... she’s gonna bring nimueh down.. i just know it and... Omg yeah theyre gonna fight over merlin. All the while the Gaius x Alice storyline is happening in the background with a nice nimue x gaius x alice tension going on.

Arthur is gonna grow up with this political landscape and i shiver thinking abt it. Morgana would parade him around as hers and Merlin’s child in front of nimue and she’ll be extra flirty with merlin (holysht yep she’ll definitely seduce him to gain leverage over nimueh).

#mergana #sht i wanna see btchfights #meanwhile merlins is gonna recruit some knights i guess?! #alternate merlin

[fadeintoyou1993]

lizzie saltzman for the character game ofc (if someone sent it already, do robin buckley <33)

doing robin !! 

one aspect about them i love: this is gonna be soooo corny so look away but im high rn saur idc but i think something i rly rly love about robin is how comforting she is idk. as someone who’s got a gay mom that was a teenager in the 80s i kinda see her as kind of a love letter to women like my mom and how important she is for sooo many different reasons like <3 thats my girl fr. also bc robin + her being sooo autistic coded esp this season and her kinda showing up when i rly fucking needed a boost made me love her even more and shes literally just a lil comforting character that im rly glad is back<3 

one aspect i wish more people understood about them: SHES NOT ANNOYING!!!!!!!! SHES AUTISTIC!!!!!!!!!!!! AND SHES A LESBIAN!!!!!!! STOP SHIPPING HER ROMANTICALLY W STEVE!!!!!!!!!!!! OR EDDIE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! OR JONATHAN???!! OR FUCKING BILLY!!!!!!!!!!!! SHE!!!!!!!!!!! LIKES!!!!!!!!!!!!!!WOMEN!!!!!!!!!!!ONLY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

one (or more) headcanon(s) i have about this character: that she is autistic ! 100% <3 i also hc that she would go by she/they <3 cos my lil autistic lesbian <3 and umm honestly i have a few that ive been coming up with. she definitely loves the cure and the smiths are two. this bitch is gon DIE over fiona apple in a few yrs!!! in the 90s she IS going to get a god is gay tattoo on her thigh. i have so many little headcanons for her in terms of her being autistic that if i were to list them all i think this would b so LONG ksdfjklsdj so nvm!!! sdj OH A HEADCANON FOR STEVE AND ROBIN IS THAT ROBIN CALLS STEVE HER WIFE AND THE OLD BALL AND CHAIN BKJDFLSDJKsdl steve and robin being roommates eventually and wehenever steve has to make any decisions abt anything hes like oh ive gotta ask the husband and the husband is just robin.  they are conservative indiana’s worst nightmare 

one character i love seeing them interact with: NANCY this season and overall steve 100% thats literally her ball and chain right theresdkjjdklsdj 

one character i wish they would interact with/interact with more: MAX!!!!!!! but also i need robin interacting w el.  and joyce . and just honestly everyone i love seeing her talk 2 ppl shes so funny <3 but mostly max rly need more of that ............. but also i just fucksdfing love ronance bruh i need more nancy interactions pleek ... pleEEK </3

one (or more) headcanon(s) i have that involve them and one other character: fuck i have it allaway in that other bit... well fuck anyways unmmmmm eddie and robin bond over music and being gay and neurodivergent <3 but thats just a given... robin and nancy having girls day w max and el like pleek.... robin taking erica for ice cream COS U KNOW DAMN WELL ERICA AINT LET THEM FORGET ABOUT WHY THE FUCK SHE GOT KIDNAPPED BY RUSSIANS!!!! saur robin literally always just buying erica ice creasmdksddff and they just catch up <3 robin loves erica’s 11 year old gossip she’s ust reading tina to FILTH and robins like no way.............. and u SAID THAT???????????? akldsjlsdfdf like. ugh my mean smart girls <3 NO BC IMAGINE ERICA X MAX X ROBIN JUST BONDING OVER BEING SMART AND MEAN SADLAJSDSDJL i love to see it. god theres sm i wanna see honestlsdfhsdff. maybe i should just write fic 

send me a character<3

#kiddstellas #answered #ty!!!

[miss-m-calling]

Yuletide 2022 letter

Dear writer,

Hello and thank you for writing for me! May your Yuletide be joyful and inspired.

This year, I am requesting:

The Seasons’ Canon (ballet choreographed by Crystal Pite to music by Max Richter) - any (Dancers, Worldbuilding)

Space 1999 (Big Finish Audio) - John Koenig, Helena Russell

Starred Up (2013 movie) - Oliver Baumer, Eric Love

There be spoilers for all my requested canons in the details below!

Since AO3 settings for treats have changed, let me just say that yes, I am open to receiving treats! :-)

General likes:

-pre-canon, canon, post-canon, canon-divergent, and missing-scene stories

-character-driven as well as plot-driven stories

-fics which mix humor and angst/serious business (when this fits the canon)

-characters at work and play

-group dynamics, family dynamics (including constructed families), professional partnerships, friendships, alliances, rivalries, intimate couples (new lovers/first times as well as long-term/established couples), UST-ridden couples who are not just UST-ridden but connected in other ways too

-irony, snark, humor, angst – all arising from the characters rather than the plot crowbaring it in

-linear, non-linear, and 5+1 stories

-hopeful endings, happy endings, bittersweet endings, “everything is awful but you’re here and maybe I don’t entirely hate that” endings

-worldbuilding

-spiky characters who keep their jagged edges and spikiness in adversity as well as when their lives are going well, square-peg-in-round-hole characters, tough characters with (maybe not so well) hidden vulnerabilities, characters who are their own worst enemies, characters who manage to get over themselves when the occasion calls for it, characters with conflicting values which may or may not be reconciled/resolved, characters who treat each other with respect and as equals even if they hate/annoy/can’t stand/love to dislike each other, characters who may not be exactly friends and may well irritate one another but manage to rub along to get the job done and maybe even grow to care about one another (much to their surprise/reluctance/discomfort), characters who just cannot get along with each other or find common ground

-workplace stories (this can mean anything from an actual workplace/casefic/procedural setting to anything that revolves around the canon world in which the characters live) in which the characters get to be competent

Shippy and smutty likes:

-(where it fits the characters) banter

-competitiveness or antagonism shading into attraction (this tension need not be resolved)

-”oh god why did it have to be you what did I do to deserve this“

-”come here and say it to my face/do that again/kiss me, you motherfucker”

-bickering yet loving couples

-characters who are serious about their romantic interests

-characters who think they are much better at flirtation than they actually are

-characters forced to work together only to prove much more compatible than they initially assumed

-fics which mix an exploration of characters’ professional and everyday lives with shipping

-characters who are incompatible in some important way (they are ideological enemies, cop and criminal, spies from opposite sides, or there has been betrayal!!!), and while they love and/or want each other, they’re not willing to change sides or abandon/compromise their identity/beliefs for the other’s benefit

-I don’t know how better to phrase this than: smut which fits the characters; how does their canon dynamics spill over into hubba hubba stuff?

-sexual scenarios that subvert expectations a little and surprise the characters themselves

-sexual scenarios that contain an element of competition or antagonism

-“this is a bad idea but we’re going for it hammer and tongs”

-not wanting to admit feelings or show vulnerability except oops it happens anyway, whether the characters acknowledge it or not

-characters getting way more into the sex or being more affected by it than they thought they would

-quick and intense sex, slow and intense sex, rough yet willing sex (when it fits the characters), unexpectedly emotional and/or tender sex

-masturbation while thinking of the other half of the ship (or not wanting to think about them only oops there they are in the fantasy!)

-first time sex

-established relationship, we-know-each-other-so-well sex

-”we’ve both wanted this and now we both know it so here we go diving in headfirst” sex

-you can go as veiled or as explicit as you like, but please avoid excessive medical jargon – I don’t find a lot of mention of “penis” or “clit” sexy.

Ship/smut DNWs:

MPREG, A/B/O, knotting D/s, formalized BDSM, painful sex, hard kinks (holding someone down playfully, hair pulling and such like, the odd spank are a-OK) scat, watersports knife/gun/blood play incest deaging/infantilization, mommy/daddy kink under-16yos in sexual situations humiliation body distortion/horror (feeding/weight kink, come inflation, vore, etc.) unrequested ships/pairings soulmates and soul marks pregnancy and children (can be mentioned if canon, just don’t make the whole fic about them) wedding setting/theme secondary characters shipping the main pair like it’s their job xeno, tentacles, bestiality noncon/dubcon

Other DNWs:

torture and abuse (this and noncon/dubcon can be mentioned, but please don’t dwell on it in loving detail or subject any of my requested characters to it) descriptions of vomit, shit, and piss (”He pissed up against a tree” and the like is fine), toilet humor lots of gore/blood (mention it, yes; lovingly describe it, no), cannibalism, serious illness or injury character bashing genderswap/genderbent characters, characters as kids/young teens issuefic, gender/sexuality/race/ethnicity/religion/ability/identity headcanons death of requested characters hopeless, unrelenting gloom/angst/horror RL holiday setting/theme, RL religions as a major theme (invented fictional holidays and rituals are fine) reference to RL current events 1st and 2nd person POV unrequested crossovers or fusions AUs which have nothing to do with canon fic written in lapslock, poetry as my main gift

FANDOMS:

The Seasons’ Canon – Pite/Richter

Any (Dancers, Worldbuilding)

“Dancers sculpt space in real time, working inside a form that is constantly in a state of vanishing. We have no artifacts. I find it strangely beautiful to be creating something that is made of us – made of our breath and blood and bones and minds.” ~ Crystal Pite being adorable and poetic

What is this canon: A modern dance piece/ballet made for the Paris Opera Ballet in 2016 with a cast of 54 male and female dancers who mostly perform as a chorus, with occasional solos and duets.

How long is the canon and where can you find it: This piece is about 30 minutes long. It has been performed by the Paris Opera Ballet (in 2016 and 2018) and will be performed by the Pacific Northwest Ballet in Seattle in November 2022. The recording from Paris streamed for a while on ARTE, and the whole recording occasionally pops up on YouTube or Vimeo (*cough* watch it before they take it down *cough*). There are shorter clips on those platforms, and you can check out the relevant tag on my Tumblr for stills from the show.

What do I like about the canon: If I had to pick just one dance performance/piece of choreography to take with me to a desert island, this would be a top contender. I just love everything about it: the styling of the dancers, the movement and how it might feel for the dancers to perform, the lighting design, the way Max Richter gave Vivaldi a spin, the hint of a story about the tension between the community and the individual… Since it’s technically an abstract dance piece, I would just love something that evokes the mood of the piece: the music, the costumes, the movement, that certain vague yet clearly present something that specific dancers brought to a role… So if you end up writing something that is more of a mood piece, something dreamy and phantasmagoric and prose-poem-y, a study of a duet or group’s dynamic, something closer to meta about either the making of a piece (incl. “how the theatrical sausage gets made” stories) or its meaning (whatever that may be), than a story with a plot, that’s great! And if you come up with story with a plot, that’s great too!

Any trigger warnings: all the dancers wear sheer tops, so bare chests are somewhat visible

Canon-specific DNW: anything above M rating (I’m cool with sexual themes for this canon, I just don’t want all-or-mostly-porn for it)

Exceptions to blanket DNWs: major character death is okay; dubcon is okay; worldbuilding-related dark themes are okay (like apocalyptic scenarios, extinction events, psychological darkness)

Prompts:

-Who/what are the dancers in this piece? Some post-apocalyptic community/tribe? Human settlers on a distant planet who have “gone native” somehow? The result of a scientific experiment escaped into the wild? Are they birds? Lizards? Human-animal hybrids?

-If you go with one of the above options, one cool idea would be a found-document type of fic: the field notes or research findings of an outside observer (an anthropologist or biologist, a second-gen human explorer on an alien world, an alien scientist studying future Earth or the earthlings who came to their world), an apocalyptic log about an experiment gone wrong, a record/chronicle of a community (d)evolving (maybe by one of the community’s own members who’s trying to fight against whatever is happening to the others)…

-How do the seasons of the title and the music, and suggested by the shifting light, affect their existence as a group? What is the community’s annual or generational/life cycle like? If they are a society, what are their customs and mores? Are they, as a society or as a species, dealing with an ongoing or impending cataclysm (fictional climate change, another kind of natural or social catastrophe, even an extinction event)? How do they adapt (socially or through evolution/mutation? Well or badly, it’s up to you.)

-Is the dancing part of some communal ritual? Are the dancing couples in the Summer 1 movement performing a mating rite/public (simulated or real) sex ritual? Is it a preying-mantis mating situation? Is it ritual combat? What about the women’s and men’s group dances that follow (Summer 2 and Summer 3, respectively)? Are those connected to each other, like the men’s and the women’s dances in Pina Bausch’s Rite of Spring? Or, there are a few moments (in Summer 2, for example) where a group of dancers lifts one and carries them as though they were dead, before lowering them to continue moving and dancing – funerary rites? A ritual in which one person has to “play dead” and then maybe “be resurrected” for some reason?

-The piece also has the theme of the individual v. the group, in which standing out isn’t necessarily good or beneficial – something exploring that would be great too. Maybe the individual who stands out tries to make sense of their own and their group/community’s existence, and those efforts may or may not do them any favors.

-For something more meta, it would be cool to bring in Crystal Pite the choreographer as part of the worldbuilding and explore how the piece was made. (You can find lots of interview clips with Pite online, if you want to get a feel for her personality and esthetic approach.) Or for something more out there: maybe reality and art begin to blur, or the world being shaped on stage takes on a life of its own? Maybe that created world escapes the boundary of the stage and causes the audience/the real world to regress/evolve in unexpected ways?

Space 1999 (Big Finish Audio)

John Koenig, Helena Russell

“Rise and shine, Commander, it's doomsday.” ~ Helena ‘Ray of Sunshine’ Russell, everyone

What is this canon: An audio-drama reimagining of a 1970s TV show. The set-up is pure throwback pulp sci-fi: In a technologically advanced version of the year 1999, humanity is using the Moon to: safely store the Earth’s nuclear waste; set up a launch pad for an almost-as-fast-as-lightspeed ship that will explore Meta, an Earth-like planet five light years away; and operate a permanent research station/living module called Moonbase Alpha. On September 13, 1999, all this comes together to knock the Moon out of orbit and send it hurtling down a wormhole and then drifting through deep space. On board the damaged but still functioning Moonbase Alpha, a dedicated crew attempt to make the best of things and maybe find a new home for humanity, as well as navigate interpersonal tensions and the problems that arise when a bunch of people find themselves adrift from all they knew, with (probably) no hope of going home. Along the way, there’s a lot of science-ish worldbuilding, first contacts with various aliens, politics, snark, and eventual shippiness.

How long is the canon and where can you find it: So far, there is a two-hour pilot episode titled Breakaway, followed by two seasons/volumes, each comprising three episodes, each one about an hour long (Volume 1 comprises The Siren Call, Death’s Other Dominion, and Goldilocks, and Volume 2 comprises Mooncatcher, Earthbound, and Journey’s End). You can buy them on CDs and/or as digital downloads on the Big Finish website. The CDs can also be found on Amazon and eBay.

What do I like about the canon: I’m here for life on Moonbase Alpha, some of the worldbuilding, and of course my requested characters: John Koenig (voiced by Mark Bonnar, cruelly denied the use of his Scottish accent since Koenig is American) and Dr. Helena Russell (voiced by Maria Teresa Creasey). Koenig is the base commander, very straight-shooting, father-to-his-men, will-take-personal-risks-and-act-the-hero-even-when-that’s-not-responsible-leadership, has been around the block enough to be skeptical of his bosses’ motives, and can be a bit of a deadpan snarker when he’s tired or stressed. Russell is the chief medical officer, who cares deeply about the crew’s wellbeing while also being hilariously abrasive and short-tempered (even when she mellows out, she’s got a mouth on her), one of those people that cannot not drop a snarky comment in almost every situation and to almost everyone, even her allies and friends, and especially authority figures. (Any other canon character is also welcome to appear – I especially like the kind, competent Prof. Bergman, and I love to hate the smarmy if deeply human Simmons.)

I have not watched the original TV show or listened to any of the Big Finish behind-the-scenes materials. If you write this canon for me, any reference to those will be lost on me, so please write just about the audio drama.

Any trigger warnings: some swear words; some sci-fi violence (pew-pew guns, stuff going kaboom)

Canon-specific DNW: anything above M rating (see first prompt for details)

Prompts:

-I do ship Koenig and Russell a lot. By the end of Breakaway, even before the Moon goes on walkabout, they’ve gone from “ugh, that company man”/“boy, she’s a tough customer” to “can you work with me here?”/“okay, but I’m not committing to being on your side” to “we rely on each other unreservedly in the face of greater challenges.” By the end of Volume 2, they were moving toward a proper relationship when the plot got in the way (I was not super into Helena getting essentially alien-sex-pollened and the whole she-needs-to-stay-so-Koenig-can-function-in-his-job attitude of some of the other characters. BUT I appreciated some of the relationship beats that came out of that, like Koenig’s vulnerability and trying to salvage his pride, and Helena too having to deal with how she’s been more vulnerable than she’s allowed herself to be before). Give me more of their mutual spikiness and growing trust. They have to work together to keep Simmons’s scheming at bay. One again takes a personal risk, and the other chews them out for it. “You’re not so bad”/“don’t tell anyone.” Thank-god-you’re/we’re-alive(-you-idiot) kiss or sex. The plot keeps happening, but surely they can snatch an hour here and there to bang in some lunar broom closet, for stress relief if nothing else (or so they tell themselves). With everyone looking to them for leadership, intimacy between them could tip the delicate balance of life on the base, so what to do? If you’re writing smut, please keep it M rated at most (tell me what’s happening and/or how they react/feel/talk through it, by all means, just no abundant anatomical detail – or just do a fade to black!), and I’m good with anything (incl. pegging) except het anal, please and thank you.

-Or, since it’s canon that Koenig was Moonbase Alpha commander ten years earlier, what if Helena’s been stationed on the Moon all that time and they have a history/unresolved issues/UST from way back then? That would put a whole new spin on her initial annoyance at his being assigned to Alpha (again).

-Going through the wormhole causes a time loop.

-Random detail, but I thought the bit in The Siren Call when people are baffled by what “bailiwick” means was hilarious. A plot or part of a plot that hinges on the meaning(s) of a word or idiom? And yes, humor is always welcome, be it of the snarky dialogue or the wacky space mishaps variety.

-More worldbuilding about life on the drifting Moon. There are throwaway mentions of hydroponics, recycling, life-support systems, artificial gravity, and fuel, and needing to conserve resources and repair systems with built-in obsolescence. They have travel tubes, wireless comms, scanners that can capture a living organism’s physiology on the fly, but no nanomachines, 3D printing, or ability to manufacture what they need on site, and even their ability to harvest raw materials seems mostly theoretical. I’d love to know more about how that all works. Or, in addition to being Moonbase Alpha’s Bones McCoy, Helena is also one of the world’s leading experts on cryonics – how could they make that work with the limited resources they have, or is it totally impractical, as stated in Earthbound/Journey’s End?

-Ditto more exploration of how the mini society on the base functions. I’m most invested in what we can glean about all that happens in those stretches of time between the episodes, when the characters spend months, in Helena’s words, “staring at bare bulkheads,” going stir-crazy and being run ragged with the constant stress and uncertainty, the relentless grind of work shifts and daytime cycles. The characters barely have time to register that more than two-thirds of the crew got killed when the Moon went through the wormhole before they have to run to keep up with the plot; maybe explore how that shock and grief affect the survivors? Or dig deeper into the discontent and despair caused by knowing they’ll never see Earth again, which are touched on in Volume 2. Examples of the kinds of society-in-space canons I enjoy: Ursula Le Guin’s novella Paradises Lost or the movie Aniara (but don’t make things that depressing and hopeless), with their space cults/religions, attempts to rethink social and family structures, and brewing civil conflict between factions on board. (I don’t mean you should write a fusion or crossover with these other canons; I’m just mentioning them to give you a sense of where my tastes lean.)

-The Brexit metaphor/mutiny plotline in Earthbound/Journey’s End just begs to be explored further. Please don’t focus on -- you could even completely ignore/retcon! -- what happens with the telepathic aliens in those episodes, and instead tell me a story about how the factions on board continue to antagonize each other. There’s a brief mention of how they cannot afford to descend into civil war. Make it happen anyway! Splinter groups, unexpected alliances, divided loyalties, switching allegiances, tragic losses, Pyrrhic victories, oh my!

-More space worldbuilding (spacebuilding?)! You could spin something on the basis of actual science, which the show itself tries to do to explain the wormhole, why the Moon doesn’t just disintegrate, etc. It’s all still totally preposterous, so go wild! Canon makes space super crowded (the wandering Moon keeps encountering habitable planets, aliens, and other human expeditions) – what if they actually had to cross vast, empty distances with minimal chance of encountering something else? Or you could go for something more in the vein of how classic sci-fi imagined outer space and exoplanets. Please note: I am not very big on monster-of-the-week stories, culturally homogeneous planets, or humanoid aliens (even though the whole “is anyone else wondering how come the alien speaks English?” bit in The Siren Call was great). If you want to write a first-contact story, think hive minds, sentient gas clouds, an AI which may or may not have an organic intelligence behind it, a being which is intelligent but not sentient/conscious/self-aware like in Peter Watts’s novel Blindsight, having to figure out how to communicate with aliens like in the movie Arrival, or something like Solaris… OR they never do circle back to the top secret first contact Koenig and Simmons were involved in in the past – what was that all about?

-The drifting Moon is in danger and the characters have to figure out a solution on the fly (ha ha). Or the base computer goes all HAL 9000 on them – they should shut it down, but how do they run the base without it? Or they try to figure out a way to “drive” the Moon rather than just drift. Space action adventure and competence porn ahoy!

-They somehow do get back to Earth, only to find that the Moon’s absence and possibly time dilation (due to a worm hole, figuring out how to create a faster-than-lightspeed drive, or some alien thingamajig) have caused such massive changes, the Alphans are now strangers in a strange land.

Starred Up (2013)

Oliver Baumer, Eric Love

“I don’t want to think. Right now, I want to fucking hurt you.” ~ Oliver to Eric, as one does

What is this canon: Gritty British prison drama about Eric (played by Jack O’Connell), a violent young offender who gets “starred up” (sent to an adult prison early - he’s 19, should be in young offenders till he’s 21) and quickly gets into conflict with several other prisoners as well as guards and staff. He also gets roped into participating in a therapy group run by Oliver (played by Rupert Friend), a well-meaning if sometimes out-of-his-depth “posh boy” who sees Eric as something more than just an incorrigible thug. Not helping matters is the entire prison system, as well as the fact that Eric’s own father, Neville is serving a life sentence in the same prison and has very narrow views on how Eric should be behaving – and talking about his feelings is not a part of it. The free-flowing conversations in the group therapy scenes are easily the film’s highlight, for me, as is the complicated dynamic between Eric and Oliver.

How long is the canon and where can you find it: The movie is about 100 minutes long. It’s available on DVD and can be streamed for free on several platforms (Peacock, Vudu, Tubi, Roku, etc.) as well as rented on Amazon, Youtube, Apple TV, etc.

What do I like about the canon: Yes I do ship it, I do, I do!

Ahem. Don’t get me wrong, I liked what the movie did with the father-son relationship and its influence on both men’s character development – but I really wish they hadn’t got Oliver out of the action before the story’s climax (not like that!). The final denouement with Love father and Love son was great, as was the hint at the end that Eric learned something in anger-management group and has a support network that will help him a lot. But. I would have wanted to see more of the intriguing dynamic between Eric the intelligent, semi-feral yet not-incorrigible, young thug and Oliver the educated, dedicated, somewhat socially awkward, kind yet aware of his own potential for violence (what was he on about with “I need to be here”?), slightly older counselor. They had me at Oliver’s “I want him” and Eric later telling his father that Oliver’s a better man than Love Sr. Also the not-flirting and the push-pull in the scene when Oliver picks up Eric from his cell - yowza!

Any trigger warnings: toxic masculinity galore; abundant swearing; violence; male nudity; graphic discussions of het and gay sex; sexism, homophobia, racism; a character gets his head dunked into a dirty toilet; a character conceals a cell phone in his ass (not shown graphically)

Exception to blanket DNW: dubcon is a-okay! If you decide to go there, my preferred flavors of dubcon for this canon are: power differential makes it a bad idea but they do it anyway; “I know you want this”; “if the answer’s no/you’re only doing this for a dare or to prove a point, then why are you enjoying this so much [as am I]?”; no no yes a.k.a. starts as dubcon (or one of them thinks they’re dubconning the other), becomes enthusiastic consent. 

Prompts:

-I would love to see Oliver return to holding his group in prison, so the two of them can interact more, either in the movie’s immediate aftermath or years down the line, as it’s implied that Eric will be serving a long sentence. Give me more scenes from anger management or the ribald, honest, free-flowing conversations in group, either with the other men present (I liked Hassan and Tyrone especially, among the group members, and I also liked Neville’s celly/partner Ash) or a one-on-one session.

-An oblique or open-but-undramatic admission/declaration that they both know there’s something there, even if they don’t know what to do with it. Or, one or both of them knows exactly what to do with it, and the push-pull that would result from that.

-Dirty talk: used for arousal, as a defense mechanism, as a form of flirtation. Eric using slurs to assert dominance, and Oliver not letting him hide behind profanity, when he can use colorful language to express emotion and/or sexual interest. There could definitely be some verbal taunting/flirting about who wants/is eager to do what or is good at doing something. There may be some sniping comments about logistics and (lack of) condoms and barebacking and what men get up to in prison. There probably wouldn’t be deep discussions about sexual identity.

-An emergency in the prison requires a lock-down, so Oliver gets temporarily stuck in Eric’s cell or another room with only Eric for company. Things get porny and/or emotional.

-Eric is eventually released (you can handwave this so it happens soon after the movie or have it happen years later) and crashes with Oliver while he adjusts to the outside world. You guessed it: things get porny and/or emotional.

-How do they get to the point where both can cross that line from friends/whatever the hell they are and become, to lovers? (There’s Eric’s personal history and general discomfort with vulnerability, plus all the ways prison sex can be or make things complicated, and if it helps, I headcanon Oliver as either gay or bi and at least somewhat closeted, at work especially.) Who initiates and “directs traffic”? How does their always-contentious dynamic shift during and after sex? Is the sex an isolated (series of) occasion(s), or a progression/escalation over multiple encounters (how would I love especially an escalating series of encounters, let me count the ways)? Eric might seem like the logical initiator and/or dominant partner as well as using the possibility of sex to manipulate and exert control, but then Oliver might (or might not!) surprise him and is definitely the one more in touch with himself as well as aware of his custodial duty toward the men in the group.

-At some point in their intimate relationship (probably not right at the start, and probably not in prison, though if you can make it happen in prison, more power to you!), Oliver decides he’s going to take his sweet time and make Eric fall absolutely apart with pleasure, possibly while also using dirty talk to both arouse and empower Eric to own his desires. By that point, Eric is in a place where he can let that happen and enjoy it, even if he still talks tough.

-Or how about this: Eric gets out, relationship happens or is in the process of being negotiated, and while physical intimacy is a whooooole neeeeeew woooorld, you know what else would be cool? Phone sex. Yep. Or even, Eric gets himself one of those secret prison burner phones (preferably hidden somewhere that’s not someone’s arse), and… phone sex after lights-out and lock-down. Maybe nothing (much) has happened physically (yet), so phone sex can be a building block to that or one facet of that deepening intimacy.

-For smut: any top/bottom (or switching) combo is good. Hand jobs incl. mutual, masturbation, blowjobs, 69, intercrural, frottage, fingering, finger sucking, rimming, anal, dildos – all good.

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My thoughts on Episode 18, A New Deal

inally got around to watching the episode and---

  So. They got Max and Eugene as the tease or whatever for this episode and before I even click on it I’m thinking to myself just don’t have any expectations okay?  Bury them.  Because they are cute in their own nerdy way but Jesus Take the Wheel their storyline has stolen so much time away from the storylines I’m actually invested in and been dying to see unfold this season.  Love Josh but gd.  The Pickle(d) Piper should not have accumulated more screen time up to this point than Carol.  Just saying.

The best thing about these two episodes so far is the flashbacks with Judith’s voiceovers.

TF are they including Daryl carrying Carol out of the tombs in that little montage of the people that go or die because nah.  NAH.

Ofc Pamela and Mercer appealing to Daryl to save Lance’s life ain’t gonna work.  But all it takes is one word from Carol’s mouth.

So.  Is Daryl legit pissed off at her or playing it up because of Pamela’s and Lance’s presence or a little bit of both? Because I’m about to take issue with him showing his ass like that to my girl when she’s just scrambling for a way to keep them all alive and leveraging what she’s got on hand.  Like stand down, Darren.  Damn.  

Who’s gonna write me some angsty, UST-filled fanfiction about the aftermath of that moment when our babies finally get to catch five seconds or five hours to themselves and Daryl’s all WTH, don’t sell your soul to these fuckers, and Carol’s like “I did it for you.  They were coming for you, Daryl.” And then they do more than just eye fuck.  Any takers?  Sarah? Silver? Charli?  Anybody?  

Oh, you know that hurt.  Almost feel sorry for Lance there.  

What did Carol have to promise them to get that deal?  You know it ain’t that easy.  What were the strings?  

They really playing up that underlying distance between Carol and Daryl aren’t they? Like they might have slapped a bandaid on the wound but it’s still there, festering out of sight.  

The way I giggled at Lance saying he was on an ant hill.  It was all in Josh Hamilton’s delivery.  

These power dynamics between Pamela and Lance are something else.  

Max got an axe to grind with Sebastian.

Carol and Lydia have my heart.  Cassady and Melissa are cut from the same cloth.  They don’t just play their characters.  They embody them and that hug melted me.  The hugs with Daryl, too.  

Why’d we have to zoom in on Carol’s face in the background of that long overdue moment where Daryl both acknowledged he knows Lydia saved Carol from opting out and thanks her?  Why? Furthermore, why did all the good, meaty moments happen offscreen on this show and they fill up the episodes with, well, filler?  Anybody? Bueller?  Bueller?  

D’aww. Sweet Gracie and Aaron moment.  That hug goodbye.  It makes me uneasy.  

Poor baby Judith has had a taste of peace, however fake it has been, and doesn’t want to have to bear arms anymore.  She’s had a taste of being a little kid instead of a little adult and doesn’t want to leave it behind.  

Carol and Daryl have absolutely been co-parenting those babies.  They are a formidable unit.  Even if there are arguably cracks in their foundation.  

More of this CW lottery business.  Ugh.

Carol wearing red again and looking beautiful.  

Are they finally gonna let the Ren Faire fairy tale take its last breath because this girl is tired AF of them taking that stick and beating it?  I mean, it could have been a lovely moment.  If they hadn’t already given them “closure” ten thousand times already.  Damn.  

Sebastian stay being a shitty baby wipe.  

In spite of her insta-status, I like Annie.  That almost certainly means she’s marked for death.  

I hope Daryl putting on his vest again means he starts acting more like the Daryl I used to know.  

The Sophia mention has me in my feels and they have Daryl distracted.  Like I know he’s worried for Judith because she’s pulling a Carl but I don’t like the way they played that. Sophia’s name after all these years should have stopped Daryl in his tracks and had him looking at Carol with that soft gaze he reserves only for her and those kids.  

Wait a minute.  Were Aaron and Lydia and her own insta-romantic partner heading back to ASZ or?  

Eugene about to fuck things up.  I can tell. Like Lance is that scorpion enticing the frog to help it escape.  You know he’s not going to go against his own nature.  

Gabriel preaching to an empty church.  Ouch.  Really takes me back to his introduction.  

Why is every Rosita moment making me feel like she’s on some kind of farewell tour?  

Coco is precious.  

I love Judith and Uncle Daryl moments.  They’re really touching.  But again I have to ask, why do they keep sacrificing all these would-be Carol/Daryl moments to the cutting room floor to give us more of the same?  Like same song, second verse?  

They really could have cut so much of that repetitive Maggie/Negan/Daryl/Reapers roundabout and given us these moments all along and they wouldn’t have me so resentful now at the nth hour.

Carol and Daryl are totally giving me vibes of two best friends (secretly or not-so-secretly in love) co-parenting the orphaned daughter of their own best friends.  

Like c’mon. With all the Henry and Sophia mentions and helping Daryl navigate the moods of a preteen girl, Carol has to be swimming in her feels and I’m just sitting her like Daryl, my dude.  Take notice.  

Wrestling? WTF?  At least Judith looks like she’s having fun.  

Where’d Carol disappear to?  

Speaking of disappearing acts, where TF is Princess?  

Max best have her running shoes on.

Oh damn. Lance and his posse setting Walkers loose on the CW people.  

Again, they seem especially hungry.    

Eugene riding in to Max’s rescue with his pony whipping behind him.  

What a gruesome way to go.  I mean, Sebastian deserved it.  But poor Judith having to pull the trigger like that and let go of her hopes for something better.  

Team Family is in some deep shit.  

#The Walking Dead #The Walking Dead spoilers #Season 11 spoilers #A New Deal #Shae's thinky thoughts #things that make me smile and cry #for reasons

[fmnds]

Trick or Treat

This week is kicking my butt, thank you for your patience

General Likes/Kinks/Tropes: Sticking to canon is great but I enjoy a well written AU. I love a great trope. Pretend/Fake relationships, sharing a bed, coffee shop, stuck in a confined space, end of the world scenarios, UST, slow burn, What-If. I also have a strange obsession with medical fiction, true crime and natural disaster movies. I love the “get-together” part of relationships the most.

General DNW: character death, BDSM, mpreg, bestiality, hard kink, non-con/dub-con, poly/threesome/orgies, a/b/o

Specific Fandoms prompt ideas

1. Doctor Who

Rose/9:

A future Rose encounters a past 9.

AU with Halloween hijinx. An age gap relationship. Rose keeps prank the cranky man next door

10 and Donna

Maybe a Halloween adventure? They travel to sleepy hallow

I just love their dynamic and any little in-between story would be fun. Maybe donna takes him on a random adventure

2. House of the Dragon

This show. It has a hold over me.

Alicent/Rhaenyra

Their dynamic in their teens is interesting. Perhaps they had a relationship going on prior to their marriages?

Could be a complete AU as well, what would these two be like at a boarding school?

Daemon/Rhaenyra

This relationship... Not my usual. At all. However, their chemistry is 🔥 the slow burn has me locked in

Maybe he keeps sending her ravens?

An AU (maybe change up the biological relationship... Maybe uncle through marriage?)

3. Letterkenny

All Characters

A Halloween celebration...maybe some sort of scavenger hunt?

They investigate a possible haunting at Modeens

4. A League of Their Own

I love this show! I do love Carson/Greta buuut I felt like there was something between Max and Carson. Would love to see that explored

Max/Carson- maybe more develops during one of their late night sessions

Carson goes to one of Max games. She's her biggest fan

5. Harry Potter

Sirius/Remus: would love maurader Halloween fun.

Pansy/Hermione: accidental penpals

8th year AU becoming friends

6. 9-1-1

Buck/Eddie

A matchmaker test/compatibility pairs them up and they are not as shocked as they should be

Pretend husbands

7. Falcon and the Winter soldier

Sam/Bucky

Sam throws a Halloween party and Bucky is not impressed

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Lando: I'm bored. Max: Wanna commit first degree murder? Lando: Sure! Carlos, hearing them: No- Stop, don't do that! Put that knife down! Put Charles down!!

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[melonlthawne]

ok here we go young justice! kid au or as my idiot self likes to call it, younger justice. now i know kids fighting crime is already a Questionable topic but if tim and jon could be beating ppls asses at 10/13 then this works too itsj ust with oter characters. a lot of stuff is different so here we go

starting with bart! origin’s basically the same ‘cept he comes to the past much earlier do to PLOT DEVICE and because of this his rapid aging stops quickier so hes like.....idk 9~ 10 ish physically/mentally. chronologically younger, but this doesnt rly come into play. at this point, wally is still kid flash, probably on the later years but still kf, and barry is still around. max is still the primary caretaker of bart i think though since barry is mostly busy with mentoring wally and his own stuff to deal with yet another little speedster. bart’s personality is pretty much the same, just younger. obsessed with video games, has that youthful energy to him and is a real spunky kid. 

kon! same sort of deal.  lex gets that nice SUPERMAN dna much earlier and incubates kon earlier and instead of waiting til kon is teenaged/complete, lex gets idk impatient, opens tubes or whatever and kon’s like....idk 11-12. preteen ish. hes still got the same powers but its ultimately more hilarious for grown adults to be beaten by a preteen. kon’s MOSTLY the same, except trying to push that “im a Man and Masculine as Fuck” thing that a lot of boys do around that age. pubert? i dont know. clark finds out, is like “Oh”, and decides to take kon in despite jon recently having been born (maybe jon’s like 2-3 here? havent decided but i want jon to be AROUND so theres less of a plot hole.)

timmy! big change here? jason doesn’t die. hes still robin. around 17-18 years old, he gets a little tired of bruce and tries to branch out but is mostly still robin. BECAUSE jason is still around, tim isnt robin. YET. but hes still got potential and after some PLOT DEVICE INSERT HERE I HAVENT FIGURED IT OUT YET, bruce realizes he could use tim’s expertise and rly just wants another kid to spoil and takes him in. further into this au jason might get tired of being robin and either go the nightwing route (make his own superhero persona) or just be a normal teen. idk. tim’s gonna be like 10-11 here. nerdy, kind of reclusive, a bit of a knowitall but really cares for people even though hes kind of a loner. 

cassie, greata, slobo, cissie, and anita to be explained! i wanted some framework for this all but im not done thinking it out. what does anyone think? the core (three, for now) are still bffs and just do rambunctious things that get them in trouble but just Smaller

recommendations, tweaks, or additions are appreciated! and if you like this idea, i might draw up some concept art and actually finish the askblog i have! please let me knoW!

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[fragilevixenfic]

My AO3 Fanfiction Links (Current)

“I’ve never really thought about making a “Master List” of my own work but I figured, now is the time to do so. If any of the links are incorrect just let me know. I fix. 

Adding in a “keep reading” tab because the list is starting to get long and intense.

Each fic is categorized and easily referenced. I’ll update as I go.

X Files

Series

Into The Shadows

XII (COMPLETE): A serial killer targets victims and leaves behind symbols of his affection -- but who is his intended target and what will it take to discover the truth? (This has a lot of trigger warnings)

Dance In The Dark (ONGOING Chapters 12/? Posted **UPDATED):  With the continuing murder trial of Miles, Mulder, Scully, and Max are confronted by the VCU with a case that seems to be mimicking the pattern by their, now infamous, psychopath on trial.

Echoes and Whispers

Parallel (COMPLETE):  The aftermath of the three little words that Mulder says to Scully in his hospital bed after being rescued from the Queen Anne as it re-appeared in the Bermuda Triangle...and the strange connection that Scully starts to feel to a memory that Scully couldn't possibly have.

Only The Night (ONGOING):  Mulder and Scully begin their undercover assignment as an engaged couple with the assistance of Skinner at the University of Maryland to catch a serial rapist, putting their newly formed physical bond to the test in this sequel to “Parallel”.

Casefics

Falling Away (COMPLETE):  Kersh’s assignment partially splits the team as Scully goes undercover under the watchful eye of Mulder as they both assist on an operation with SWAT and FBI personnel. (A gift for Greta)

Veritas se revēlet (COMPLETE):  (The title is roughly translated to let the truth be revealed in Latin) An impromptu wild goose chase leads Mulder and Scully to the drifts of a winter-locked Tonopah, Nevada—where a little more than the embodiment of Mulder’s imagination takes shape between the walls of the Mizpah Hotel in the dead of winter. (A gift for @monikafilefan)

She Walks at Night (COMPLETE):  Mulder’s knack for getting himself and Scully into sticky situations leads them to the heart of NOLA at the tail end of Hurricane season after barely surviving a Floridian storm—to investigate a rumor of a notable Voodoo Queen and missing girls trying to bring her back. (A gift for @starbuck09256)

Intrigues in the Dark (COMPLETE):   A string of suicides leads Mulder and Scully to a sleepy, coastal town in Oregon for the second time—on their return to The X File—as tensions run high and nothing is as it seems. (A gift for @admiralty-xfd)

By Light, Unseen (COMPLETE):   A series of re-opened cold case murders with one link…they’d been drained of every drop of blood and wore the same, haunting stare toward the sky with their lips aghast as if they were still screaming. (A gift for @serahsanguine)

Post-Series

A House is Not a Home (COMPLETE):  The mere thought of raising a newborn in a world full of horrors has every part of Scully’s emotional irrationality over firing on a chilly, winter evening. Mulder wants nothing more than to show her that not everything is gray and grim. (for @danceswithcybermen)

Remember the Reason (COMPLETE):  Post Series (Part 1 of the “Little Redhead Series”). Mulder and Scully already knew that life with a newborn would be difficult but the first Christmas with their two-month-old daughter throws every curveball…some worse than others, some more humorous. (For @underworldobsessed)

Confectioners Sugar & Snow Drifts (COMPLETE):  Post Series (Part 2 of the “Little Redhead Series”). Mulder spends the morning bonding with Eliana by having a Christmas baking session while Scully is out shopping for gifts. Messes, mayhem, and a healthy dose of laughter ensue. No moment is ever dull as the snow falls outside.

The Easter Bunny was a Fox (COMPLETE):  Post Series (Part 3 of the “Little Redhead” Series). Scully has to pick up Bill, Tara, and a couple of surprise family from the airport, leaving Mulder alone with their 6-year-old daughter, Eliana, on Easter Morning. All she has for him are curiosities as Easter’s non-Christian ideology unfolds before her eyes…creating the most unique bonding opportunity for a father and his daughter. (For Flicked_Switch)

Angst/UST/RST

Caught in the Rain (COMPLETE):  A dark, rainy night leads Mulder and Scully to a hole in the wall bar where glasses of Scotch and unresolved tension is re-visited.

Or We Can Burn (COMPLETE):  Post Never Again - expansion and continuation of the aftermath surrounding what Scully has been hiding from Mulder.

It Lingers (COMPLETE):  The aftermath of trauma and the lingering effects of Mulder’s risky attempt to recover the truth about Samantha’s abduction leads to a revelation from Scully about her own coping mechanisms and flashes into a past she doesn’t fully remember...and the path to which they lead thereafter. (For @red2007)

Fluff/Humor

Nervous Laughter (COMPLETE):  It’s been two full days since their tender, albeit brief, moment at the stroke of midnight and Mulder decides to be brave and methodical by inviting Scully over for a little movie and popcorn night for a film that has stayed locked in his mind as her favorite—The Exorcist. (This is a gift for @rationalcashew)

Lamplight & Shooting Stars (COMPLETE):  It’s Spring-time in DC and spontaneous, mutually taken vacation time has become a personal mission of Mulder’s to surprise Scully with so much more than an escape from their norm—and the unseasonable, uncomfortable city heat. (For @underworldobsessed)

Into the Nightlife (ONGOING):  A little paid vacation time never hurt anyone, right? (Not giving anything away this time)

Smut

Insomniac (COMPLETE):  Another lonely, sleepless night, another dingy motel, and another town that isn’t home for Mulder…but, something changed, with the last gasp of the air conditioner as his partner, and best friend, chooses to walk through the adjoining door. (Expanded writing exercise)

Vultus in Speculo (COMPLETE):  The last of the paperwork on the Strickland case has been finalized and filed and Scully goes off for a drink at a known FBI watering hole. Mulder is invited but doesn’t show up until after Scully is halfway through a drink—giving him an opening to inquire about a whole lot more than her flirtations with the Sheriff in the booth of a rooftop bar. (written for @msrheadcanon

Phosphorescence (COMPLETE):  Still reeling from their experience in North Carolina, Mulder and Scully take a much-needed excursion to the coast of Oregon, where a flicker of light becomes more than a curiosity in the middle of the night. (Written for @anniexami)

The Darker Side of Love (COMPLETE): Mulder does not want to talk but he does not want Scully to leave, either. (This is for the MSR fanzine vol 3)

Ficlets/Drabbles/Short Prompt Collection

Affirmations and Protestations: “Fluff and Angst” Prompts (ONGOING):  

 Chapter 1 - "You Weren't Supposed to Hear That" - prompt #5, 61, 77

Chapter 2 - "Shout!" - prompt #19, 61 (From Valerie)

Chapter 3 - "Litost" - prompt #1, 85, 97 (From Monika)

Chapter 4 - "Ad Infinitum" - prompt #42 (From Minuete)

Chapter 5 - "Brick" - prompt - After Scully calls Mulder in the ep Emily, she asks him to bring her some things from home. Her journal falls to the floor and Mulder sees some things written about him that she has never allowed him to know. (from Monika)

Chapter 6 - "I'd rather be oblivious" - prompt #46 (from Annie)

Criminal Minds

Angst/UST/RST

Dulce Periculum (COMPLETE):  Maxine and Spencer have continued seeing each other, in spite of the interference brought to the surface by Cat Adams. Spencer continues to work closely with the BAU after it nearly dismantled, with signature members scattering to the winds, leaving behind only a few, including himself, to keep working on their caseload. After a long, intense case, Spencer returns home to a little more than a can of worms. (A gift for an anonymous prompter)

Law & Order: Special Victims Unit

Angst/UST/RST

Chasing your Silhouette (COMPLETE):  They’d learned each other’s quirks and intricacies on the job—but when did it become over the line? When did physicality become a detriment to them once they’ve taken off their shields? When did they realize the line in the sand no longer existed? (This is meant to take place a couple weeks after “Zebras” – had to assume a timeline, I don’t remember actual dates)

Paternity Redux - Time Just Stopped (COMPLETE):  Her strength has always been immeasurable—but sometimes, something has to give and a string breaks. Nothing will ever be the same.“I’m trying my best, that is enough.” - UnknownThis is part of a challenge, to right a series of wrongs in an episode that has perpetrated many a discussion of “What Could Have Been”. WriterKC, Liv.Einziger, JustAnotherBookWorm78, MrsWellRested, EORocks, AlexisDawn, ChriskaPeach, and I have stepped up to the plate to do just that.

Oblivion (ONGOING 9/? Chapters posted ***UPDATED***):   The undercover operation in Oregon takes an unexpected, unpleasant turn for Olivia Benson as an injury turns her life, and career, upside-down leaving her with pieces of her memory scattered in the wind.

Humor

Unlock the Door (TENTATIVELY COMPLETE 2/2):   Olivia returns home from a celebratory series of shots with Kim Greylek and lets Elliot Stabler hear a little more than she ever intended to in the aftermath.

Series

Polaroids and Promises (COMPLETE):   The Special Victims Unit has undergone an enormous amount of changes in the past six months, to the point that they are drastically undermanned—until a transfer from the 13th precinct brings new life, and a little chaos, to the team. Will her addition prove to be a permanent shift or a flash in the pan?

Discarded Dignity (COMPLETE):   Elora continues to gain much-needed confidence as a member of the Special Victims Unit but an arrival booked for trespassing, assaulting an officer, and disorderly throws her progress into chaos as her past jumps to the surface. Will she be able to look beyond the misstep to solve one of the most convoluted cases she’s faced? 

Contract Corruption (ONGOING 10/?):   Dickie Stabler and Justin Andrisani are in over their heads--and the members of SVU and the Organized Crime task force must come together in order to set things right.

Law & Order: Special Victims Unit/Organized Crime Crossover

Series

Words of love, words of lies, words of loss

Age of Regret (COMPLETE):  Elliot Stabler has never been good with words but ten years and a double on the rocks in a lonely room will make a man pour his heart out…in any way that he can.

Infidelis (COMPLETE): Elliot had been haunted by too many ghosts; expectations, fantasies, and a promise that he knew should never be kept. It was time to lay them all to rest. “I do not regret you…I regret what you did to me.” - Unknown

#My fics #X Files #Criminal Minds #this is ongoing #someday soon #this will have SVU on it #all the fics #Law and Order: Special Victims Unit #yes I have more #no they are not all done #I'm a little crazy #Organized Crime #crossover

[kaypeace21]

Lets talk about how these spotify songs confirm byler’s endgame.

Will’s songs

Don’t you forget about me: illustrates Will’s feelings after Mike says they won’t be together for the rest of their lives (but have to get gfs). Love’s “strange” (stranger things). And Will fears change will pull them apart- and as it rains he hopes Mike won’t forget about him/ and questions if Mike will ‘ever love him’. And Mike in the rain (instead of “walking on by?”) calls his name.

“Tell me your troubles and doubts.Giving me everything inside and out and Love’s strange so real in the dark. Think of the tender things that we were working on…Slow change may pull us apart.Don’t you, forget about me.Don’t, don’t, don’t, don’t.Don’t you, forget about me.Will you stand above me?Look my way, never love me?Rain keeps falling, rain keeps falling.Down, down, down.Will you recognize me?Call my name or walk on by? rain keeps falling, rain keeps falling. “

“Don’t you try and pretend. It’s my feeling we’ll win in the end.I won’t harm you or touch your defenses-Vanity and security.Don’t you forget about meI’ll be alone, dancing you know it baby .Going to take you apart.I’ll put us back together at heart, baby Don’t you, forget about me.”

( Will physically took them ‘apart’ -from the photo. But in the end it’s also Mike who fears Will will forget about him too. And Will doesn’t harm Mike by picking at his insecurities - like lack of ‘security' in their relationship. But just says the truth that it’s “not possible” to replace him (after he moves). And of course deep down they know they’ll be together in the end. )

upsidedown: Just Will saying he loves Mike and he turns Will ‘insideout” (like the previous song) and “upsidedown”. And he loves him but he’s “crazy’ (cough ‘crazy together’) to think Mike is all his. But no matter what he’ll always love Mike.

“I said, “Upside down, you’re turning me.You’re giving love instinctively.Boy, you turn me inside out .And ‘round and 'round-Upside down…Instinctively, you give to me the love that I need.I cherish the moments with you… no one makes me feel like you do…I know you got charm and appeal.You always play the field.I’m crazy to think you’re all mine.As long as the sun continues to shine.There’s a place in my heart for you, that’s the bottom line.”

here i go again: Will saying he’s “not going to fall in love” ever (like he said in s3) cause he doesn’t want to waste time on Mike. But he keeps backpedalling on the idea and desiring to love Mike for ‘the rest of his days’. Like how Will said he thought they’d never get gfs but play games for the rest of their lives.

“ (verse 3)And here I go again on my own.Goin’ down the only road I’ve ever known…Like a drifter, I was born to walk alone.And I’ve made up my mind.I ain’t wasting no more time . (verse 4)Just another heart in need of rescue- waiting on love’s sweet charity.I’m gonna hold on for the rest of my days'Cause I know what it means to walk along the lonely street of dreams (verse 5) And here I go again on my own .Goin’ down the only road I’ve ever known.Like a drifter, I was born to walk alone.And I’ve made up my mind I ain’t wasting no more time.BUT here I go again.Here I go again.Here I go again.Ooh baby, ooh yeah.”

Take my breath away: This excerpt speaks for itself that byler is real/endgame after Will moves/s4 and 5. XD

Mike’s songs

Will’s canon Spotify playlist. He ALSO has the song “I’m still standing” by Elton John (who is gay)? Aka cause Mike has a ‘romantic comeback’ with Will XD

I’m still standing’ is a guy bragging about a breakup and now feeling like a kid -lol Mike saying he feels like a 7 y old after the breakup . And moving on -lol it’s mileven).   The album is from “to be continued...” I MEAN, C’mon. That’s , very on the nose for s4 byler happening after mileven XD

‘Your blood, like winter, freezes just like ice” (when El broke up with Mike , “cold as ice” played).”I got a taste of love in a simple way.And if you need to know why I’m still standing.You just fade away.Don’t you know I’m still standing better than I ever did?Looking like a true survivor, feeling like a little kid.And I’m still standing after all this time.Picking up the pieces of my life without you on my mind.”

‘Baby I lied’, also reminds me of the byler fight where Mike insults Will/talks about El and then says to Will “ But, we’re not kids anymore. I mean, what did you think, REALLY?  That we’d never get girlfriends? Sit in my basement and play games for the rest of our lives?” Causing Will to storm off crying- thinking Mike doesn’t even imagine Will being there for the rest of his life (in favor of a girlfriend).And then Mike (although already knowing of his feelings for Will) realizing that it wasn’t a temporary crush/phase- but that he was in love with Will. And only realizing he can’t live without him when Will left. Making it sink it to Mike that he was lying to Will during their fight.

“Did I say that I’d be okay if you said good-bye? And did I promise you I could take it if we were through? And forget about these feelings inside? Baby I lied when I told you I could walk away .Baby I lied…And did I ever tell myself I could always find someone else? Did I say if you left today it’d be no surprise? Did I ever leave any doubt I could hold up if you walked out? I know I told you that I could survive. Baby I lied…And now that I can see you walking out of my life . Saying good-bye, I realize….”

also ‘Love is a battlefield’ (could be recontextualized/interpreted through a que*r lens  given the time period-typical hom*phobia) . Love would be considered a ‘battlefield’. ( The song could be. about 2 people refusing to state their feelings/ holding back from doing anything romantic. Despite both people in the song secretly knowing the other secretly reciprocates mutual romantic feelings)  . But they fear pursuing anything cause society says their love would be ‘wrong’. It also reminds me of s3 byler fight . Both ‘standing’ secretly in ‘heartache’. One character in the song(Mike) being mean to the singer who’s angry and wants to go home (Will). Then after that (Mike/song character) begs the singer (Will) to stay but then is mean to the singer again . So in response (Will/singer) gets annoyed and then asks ‘am I in your way? or am I the ‘best thing’ you have?(s2 byler ref). And the singer could internally question if they made a move on the Mike (/song character) would they be rejected? And like that singer ,Will, also throws Mike’s words in his face by saying he actually did think they’d be together for the rest of their lives without girlfriends (cause he may suspects Mike is full of shit?). The singer pretty much says-when it becomes impossible to ignore your romantic feelings for me - you’ll realize you’ll need me ! The song also emphasizes they’re “young” (kids) and Will/the singer  questions if their love will get  “old” , but quickly decides their love can’t get ‘old’ or die (despite Mike’s lies stating the contrary) * Also saying “no promises” could be a ref to show it’s the opposite of mileven who have the promise line.*Seems like the song is from Will’s pov. 

“We are young.(Heartache to heartache) We stand. No promises(No demands)…We are strong. No one can tell us we’re wrong. Searching our hearts for so long. Both of us knowing, love is a battlefield. You’re begging me to go. Then making me stay. Why do you hurt me so bad? It would help me to know : Do I stand in your way?Or am I the ‘best thing’ you have?When I’m losing control.Will you turn me away? And when all this gets old,will it still feel the same?There’s no way this will die. But if we get much closer.I could lose control.And if your heart surrenders-you’ll need me to hold.”

‘Kiss off’ could also be seen through a queer lens aka Mike trying to deny he’s gay but realizing at the end of s3 it’s not a phase. And hopefully learning to accept it in s4.

“I need someone, a person to talk to. Someone who’d care to love. Could it be you?could it be you?Situation gets rough. Then I start to panic. It’s not enough!it’s just a habit! Hey, kid your sick. Well, darling this is it! You can all just kiss off into the air!Behind my back I can see them stare.They’ll hurt me bad . But I won’t mind. They’ll hurt me bad, they do it all the time.” 

El’s songs

 The power of Love is the 1st song that shows El desire to learn about love despite it scaring her and not really understanding her relationship with Mike. (it’s a very heteronormative idea- “I’m your man /i’m your women” so we’ll fall in love). It also shows her more questionable behavior like spying on Mike. (The later songs illustrate mileven falling apart.)

“Even though there may be times it seems I'm far away. Never wonder where I am'.Cause I am always by your side.'Cause I am your lady.And you are my man...We're heading for something.Somewhere I've never been.Sometimes I am frightened.But I'm ready to learn of the Power Of Love.”

  (The second song)Another one bites the dust is about a dysfunctional romantic relationship.

Girls just want to have fun illustrates El’s annoyance with both Hopper controlling her, and Mike (like Hopper trying to control her) and keep her away from the outside world. And just preferring hanging out with Max and not having a romantic relationship.

“ (verse 2)My father yells, "What you gonna do with your life?".Oh daddy dear, you know you're still number one.But girls, they wanna have fun... (verse 4) Some boys take a beautiful girl and hide her away from the rest of the world.I want to be the one to walks in the sun.Oh girls, they wanna have fun.Oh girls just wanna have.That's all they really want. Some fun.”

Don’t tell me lies - (El in s4) saying they’re whole relationship is a lie and she was ‘naive’ to think otherwise.But now she knows her Mike will be with someone else and their relationship was always based on a lie. And she’s ok on her own. “Every move you made before was never meant for real.Over my naivety is this how I should feel?...they'll never ever be another one.Don't tell me lies.Don't tell me lies.Looking back I realize it's always been this way.We must note what has gone and never turn away...Broken loose from indecision.Now I'm alright on my own...I guess I'm alright on my own.”

 I feel like i’ve talked the lying aspect to death but it’s an important element to their relationship.

Mike while apologizing to El at the grocery store never apologizes for lying -despite it being the cause of the breakup . He never apologized for lying cause the love is the lie- like Max said “boyfriends lie ALL THE TIME”. And it’s why the camera panned to Will when Lucas asked why Mike lied to her. And he never answers El’s question of ‘why do you lie?!’ (he just looks up silent and guilt ridden).  In s2, Mike says “i never gave up on you (to El). “ When moments earlier he says to Max “it took her just like it took Bob.” HE’S LYING AGAIN . He thought she was d*ad.Plus he also fought with Hopper in s2 (’about El’) in Will’s room too. He wasn’t actually calling Hopper the liar he was calling himself “a stupid disgusting liar”out of self hate . That scene was foreshadowing his lying to El in s3 (about his feelings for her). He blamed Hopper for his feelings for Will cause he told himself it wouldn’t have escalated if El had been around to ‘fix him’ . “I BLAME YOU! NOTHING ABOUT THIS IS OK! NOTHING ABOUT THIS IS OK. YOU STUPID DISGUSTING liar, liar, liar, liar”.starts crying.

In s3, mike (in Will’s room) did not reciprocate El’s kiss/ or say ‘i love you ‘ back  and had his eyes open while the same exact song plays that robin came out to: called ‘the first i love you’. These are the only times the song plays in s3. The ‘first i love you’ also sounds like ‘the first lie’ - that song played when jancy said they were just friends. it sounds the same cause jancy lied about it not being romantic while mileven lied by saying it was.  

Ugh- why are the tags not working? I guess , please, reblog if the tags continue to act up or else no one will see this.XD

#byler #mike wheeler #will byers #el hopper #byeler