• Found families, ride-or-die friendships and relationships, loyalty
• Banter, humor, friends giving each other crap and joking in only the way people who understand each other can
• Meaningful conversations, devotion and deep emotional connections
• Missing scenes, fix-its
• Hurt/comfort, caretaking after illness or injury
• Mutual pining that's requited or at least implied to be in the future
• Sexual tension and flirting, hand-holding, subtle touches and gestures
• Dreams and nightmares, particularly being comforted after nightmares
• First kisses, angry kisses, unexpected kisses, awkward kissing, thank-god-we're-alive kisses, neck/hand/wrist kissing, spontaneous kissing and/or sex without discussion or negotiation about it
• Feelings realizations and getting together
• Protectiveness
• Love whether sexual or not
• Happy or at least hopeful or ambiguously hopeful endings
• Men kneeling in front of women for sexy reasons (including oral and kissing thighs or legs)
• Porn with feelings and emotional or romantic sex where the focus is more on what the character is feeling that what body part goes where
• Dubcon when requested
• Thank god you're/we're alive sex
• Penetrative sex, oral sex, fingers, frottage, mutual masturbation
• So many topes like oh no! there's only one bed, huddling for warmth, truth serums and/or sex pollen (only in speculative canons), forced proximity, fake relationships, friends/enemies to lovers

• Art-specific DNWs: pixel art, icons, collages, chibis, depictions of bare genitals, and depictions of anything I DNW in general.
• Major character death, noncon, underage
• Anything related to COVID19 or politics
• Unrequested 1st-person POV except epistolary, 2nd-person POV that involves romance or sex, readerfic
• AUs (setting, omegaverse, genderswap, etc.), including speculative elements like ghosts or sex pollen in non-speculative canons (canon divergence is fine)
• Non-canon disabling or fatal illness or injury, self-harm, suicide
• Bleak, hopeless endings
• Original character or unrequested character POV, script format, unrequested dialogue-only, lapslock (but lowercase titles are fine)
• Unrequested gender, asexuality and neurodivergence headcanons
• Cruelty to animals or animal death
• Unrequested infidelity and friend/partner betrayal
• Focus on Thanksgiving/Christmas holidays, unrequested crossovers, crack fic
• Focus on weddings/marriage/getting married (characters can be married, but don't make marriage a plot point), kidfic, pregnancy or birth of any kind, including eggs
• BDSM, D/s and/or consent negotiations, sex toys, sexting, mommy/daddy kink
• Generic dirty talk, porn film dialogue during/about sex, calling someone slut, whore or other names
• Sexual pain and torture, hitting, suffocating, dehumanization, humiliation including bad sex, ruined orgasms and mentions of a small or flaccid penis, age-regression/age play
• Vomiting, coughing up anything, flatulence, body secretions or wastes (except sweat and blood), spitting, and come play. (Come is fine, even a brief description, but please don’t focus on it.)
• Any sex and kink-related tags that aren't already covered by a DNW, requested, or listed below.

These tags are fine and won't violate my DNWs even if I haven't specifically requested them: First Kiss, First Time, Forehead Kisses, Hand/Wrist Kisses, Inner Thigh Kisses, Kissing, Neck Kissing, Nose Kisses, Scar Kissing, Clothed Sex, Cunnilingus, Blow Jobs, Hand Jobs, Dry Humping, Missionary Sex, Morning Sex, Outdoor Sex, PIV sex, Vehicle Sex, Anal Sex

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• Izzy Hands/Evelyn Higgins

Fandom-specific DNW: References to or foreshadowing of Izzy's death.

I adore Evelyn and think she and Izzy would be fire together.

I don't care how you get them in the same place at the same time. You can set it long before the show or in some canon divergence during/after or hand-wave it away. It can be before or after Izzy's unicorn leg, I don't care. I just think an enemies-to-lovers story would be great with them disliking each other immediately and intensely and that turning into something hot, though I'd be happy with anything, whether it never gets beyond banter and flirting or evolves into more.

She would give zero fucks what he thinks, and I love that, and I think he eventually would too. Her being much taller than him also floats my boat, especially if he's comfortable with it or even enjoys it. (No short-man syndrome here, please.)

It would be nice to see Evelyn treated like a lady (or however she wants to be treated!) and for someone who feels something for Izzy to treat him like they care, even if they argue much of the time.

I'm okay with Izzy dealing with his pining for Ed a little bit, at least in the beginning, so there's no need to pretend that wasn't a thing (unless you want to, then it's fine). But if you do bring it up, please don't do much more that mention it or use it to compare to how he feels about Evelyn at the time to show that the current goings-on are much more positive or that he likes how he feels better, etc.

It doesn't have to have a happily ever after, but let it be a happy for now and maybe more later kind of thing, at least. Basically, even if he leaves at the end in an "until next time" scenario (which would be fine!), I wouldn't want him to have had great fun with Evelyn and then go back to pining for Ed.

• Ed disappeared in search of Stede at the end of S1 instead of breaking bad, so Izzy goes in search of him in Stede's town and meets Evelyn, or they run into each other at any point, even canon-divergent post-canon or pre-Stede, for some reason.
• Izzy meets her because he's been tasked with kidnapping or killing her as some kind of old debt or favor. She's clearly been up to some shit and maybe has enemies. He ends up admiring her and turns on the person who wanted her dead. Protective Izzy is a good thing.
• Izzy teaches her some sword moves to help her protect herself or just for fun. I also love the idea of them committing murder or otherwise getting up to mischief together. Murder as bonding! Maybe someone's threatening Evelyn and they take care of the problem.
• Izzy is touch-starved and Evelyn fixes that for him. And/or he talks about Ed and she makes it pretty clear she knows he's got it bad but shows him that there are other options out there.
• Izzy is hurt and Evelyn takes care of him. Good old hurt/comfort can never go wrong. Hurt Evelyn with Izzy as caretaker works for me too.
• I'm all in for something where there's hand kissing, finger sucking, bandaging a hand, stroking a hand as things that really move and/or excite one or preferably both of them. (Fingerfucking is fine to include, I just didn't pick the tag because I don't want nothing but that.)
• Izzy kneeling for almost any reason, including removing/putting on her clothing/shoes or to perform oral sex would also be a treat. Izzy kneeling and hand/finger kissing/sucking would lay me out.
• A regular old meet-cute, maybe they're out drinking, dining, dancing, whatever, where they get to know each other and realize they're both rascally bastards, would be great too.

I just think a story with these two at the center would be amazing. Let them lose control with each other or never even get to a kiss as long as there's obvious sexual tension and attraction there. It'll be fun no matter what.

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• Daniel Cain/Herbert West

I love that Herbert's a bit unhinged and gets more unhinged as the movies went, but Dan kept hanging in there with him. And I love how they're so physical with each other from the beginning, whether it’s leaning or a hand on the arm (or Herbert wrapping Dan in a blanket and touching his hand--!). Grabbing Dan's hand first when Dan's presenting him with the Bride. Love that kind of thing.

I firmly believe that Herbert doesn’t really care about people as much as he cares about defeating death and reaching his goals. He doesn’t care about individual people at all, except Dan. Dan’s the one living person Herbert does give a damn about, and that’s one of the things that makes their relationship so great, IMO.

Herbert's addiction to the reagent presents a lot of hurt/comfort possibilities. Trauma-induced nightmares are always a favorite too, especially when it involves the other character crawling into the bed with them for comfort afterward or trying to help them through it somehow.

DNW Exception: I'm okay with major character death here as long as it's temporary and the character is alive again and somewhat normal (as in not a blood-drooling zombie) at the end.

Some ideas I really like:

• Potential re-agent side-effects Herbert has to deal with. Horniness is always a favorite, but I'm interested in how he and Dan would deal with other things too, like Herbert being able to see things other people can't, or really no longer needing sleep for days on end. Or temporary memory loss that Dan has to bring him back from. Temporary amnesia could be a lot of fun with either of them.
• Dan's face when Herbert starts insulting Hill after they've just met is amazing. Honestly, it could be read as Bruce Abbott on the verge of smiling or laughing and ruining the take but managing to hang on in the end, but I like to see what passes over Dan's face while he and Herbert are staring at each other as an "oh no he's hot" moment. You can explore that as such a moment, or if not, show what he was thinking. 
• It's a similar thing when they're in class and Herbert's snapping pencils. Watching Dan watch him is such a delight. And when Meg's complaining about Herbert and Dan admits he's a little cracked with a strange look on his face, and you can hear the implied "but I don't mind" or even "but I like it so it's okay." I'll enjoy anything dealing with Dan coming to terms with his sudden interest in an arrogant, slightly cracked Herbert 
• I'm always down for one of them discovering he died and was brought back with (an obviously more refined) reagent and all the emotions and fallout from that. 
• A fix-it for the third film. Preferably a shorter time span than 13 years, maybe just a year or so, and Herbert gets out of prison, either through a technicality or an escape. He goes to find Dan, not for revenge or anything, but maybe for help (if he escaped) or just to get some answers about why he betrayed him. But it turns out Dan only turned state’s evidence to prevent the government or some other villain from killing Herbert or worse and he hasn’t been able to contact him. Maybe Dan breaks him out and explains, even. I even like the idea that he did it for Herbert's own good because he didn't know what else to do. As long as they get back together.
• Carl Hill’s head got regenerated yet again and he bat-winged his way to Dan and hypnotized him to betray Herbert, and Dan’s been under his control for a few years while Herbert's been in prison, while Hill’s been trying to get him to reproduce the reagent or do his bidding while he’s working on it. I’m okay with it if he took other liberties with Dan too, giving Herbert even more reason to kill him again, but just controlling his mind and making him betray Herbert would be plenty. The aftermath of Dan getting free of that control and Herbert helping him through it would be amazing.
• If you can think of some other reason for an unwilling betrayal, I’m sure that’d be great, too. I like the idea of Herbert’s alarm when he discovers that Dan didn’t want to betray him and has been in a prison of his own the whole time, even if it’s just one of guilt.
• Any situation where Dan carries Herbert to bed because he’s collapsing with exhaustion, to a room where he can help him inject reagent, because he’s rescued him from someone or somewhere and he’s injured, because he’s been attacked by one of his creations. Any reason at all. I just love the caretaking.
• The focus on their hands and hand-touching/clasping in the films sends me. So that will obviously make me happy. I also really like the idea of Herbert’s hands being injured somehow (nothing that won’t heal). Maybe involuntary spasms for a while could lead Dan to help him eat or get dressed. I think he’d handle his basic hygiene on his own even if it hurt, he’s clever enough, but helping him bathe wouldn’t be out of the question, or helping him work.
• Herbert’s line about Dan thinking with his big head and not his little head stands out. He was so jealous of every woman who looked Dan’s way, but I’d like to see him and Dan both realize that as long as Dan’s thinking about him, Herbert’s fine with his little head doing some thinking. It can even be a revelation to Herbert, realizing how much he really does want Dan. Dan realizing that Herbert never touches anybody but him could be a result or the catalyst. Herbert doesn’t even like to shake people’s hands, wouldn’t even touch Dan the first time they met, then quickly couldn’t stop touching him every whipstitch. I love that.
• If Herbert creates a new reagent, while trying to keep people from coming back crazed and wrong, and tests it on himself, and it turns out to serve as some kind of sex pollen, that would be a-okay. Especially if he’s really suffering and determined not to push himself on Dan, so Dan has to take charge to make sure he’s okay. Alternately, Dan can be the one accidentally dosed somehow, maybe a spill or something that absorbs through his skin, and Herbert has to take care of him. Sex pollen for any reason is a favorite trope.

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• Ben Shakir
• Ben Shakir & Karima Shakir
• Ben Shakir & the Bouchard Daughters

I'd love to see Ben and Karima together, period, in fic or art, a story about Ben on his own (or with virtually any other character if you want) or art of him.

Ben the Magnificent and the kids are one of my favorite things, and him being someone they trust to tell things even more, so almost any scenario that includes them would be great. This is an exception to my kidfic DNW. I would love art for this too as long as Ben is included.

I don't have any art medium preferences. I like anything from pencil sketches to colorful painted or digital art, from realistic to minimalist. I really like the artistry of tarot cards and stained glass depictions, or things like a character depicted as an astrological sign with an explanation of its meaning on a card or panel. Symbolism and interpretations that play with things like that are fun, but I'll also be happy with a simple drawing of a character or scenario.

Art-specific DNWs: pixel art, icons, collages, chibis, depictions of bare genitals, and depictions of anything I DNW in general.

A few prompts:

Ben & Karima

• I adore Ben's relationship with Karima. I'm still intrigued by what the smart home device said about her baby being with the Muslim equivalent of the devil and her just refusing to discuss it with him, so exploring that could be interesting.
• I'd be equally interested to see him working things out about his struggle to stay skeptical with Karima and how he comes to a decision about it, even temporarily.
• Maybe Ben marvels over Karima's hacking skills in any situation, or is visibly proud of her to David and Kristen, or just them bantering over anything.
• I LOVE Karima helping Ben figure stuff out. More Ben and Karima at the Super Secret Science League. That whole episode and their closeness was such a blast!
• Ben telling her about the elevator game and confessing that it's messed him up, and her comforting him. I'd love to see his trauma explored a little more than it has been on the show, with her supporting him. And I'd love to see him telling her about it and her freaking out about almost losing him with them both still not quite believing it all.
• Sibling high-fives and hugs! Snarking at each other! Arguing and making up! More Ben and Karima being close siblings, period.
• Karima sleeping over because they're so involved in whatever mystery they're trying to unravel or supernatural thing they're trying to debunk and experiencing something unexplainable in his apartment (seeing the succubus? Finding a retainer? Thinking she sees a demon?)
• Or Karima meeting Ben's ex who appears to have killed the spirit of her twin and giving him her no-nonsense opinion (same with finding out about the gal he slept with at the cult compound).

Ben & the girls

• I'd love to see a scene where Ben just doesn't take in the information about Leland being on a child's app in quite so much stride but instead asks more questions and learns the whole story. What does he do about it, and how does he plan to tell Kristen?
• I think a canon divergence where they go to him when they realize it's Leland and basically look over his shoulder while he pretends to be one of them and records it to bust him later could be fun.
• He could teach them some scientific principle or show them an experiment or something. Or help them plan some surprise for their parents.
• Whether working out the bit about Leland, working on the plumbing, babysitting on an ordinary evening, helping one of the girls with a common real-world problem, discovering Lexis' tail, anything where they help each other in some way or he takes care of them would be great.
• Ben needing to rescue one of the girls and figuring out how to do it, and basically being a big-ass hero.
• Ben making PSA videos to show ids the fakery in scary videos online with the girls helping could be pretty neat, so a scene where they do that could be fun. Or where one or more get freaked out by a video and he demonstrates for them to show it's fake.

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• Specimen 34 | The Plant Monster
• Doug Eiffel/Specimen 34
• Renée Minkowski/Specimen 34

Art-specific DNWs: pixel art, icons, collages, chibis, depictions of bare genitals, and depictions of anything I DNW in general.

Unrequested but compatible tags that aren't DNWs are fine.

I'd love a fix-it for Specimen 34! Let it be saved, whether through mind control or some other tactics, maybe even have it help the crew somehow and interact with them without either threatening or menacing them. It stole tools and supplies to build a light because it didn't want to be in the dark, so maybe it steals more things and presents the crew with a gift or a peace offering? Or they provide things for it? Maybe it tries to befriend Hilbert because it recognizes him as its creator, or it tries to make cuttings of itself to create more separate plant entities so it won't be alone.

If you opt for something creepier and more horror with the plant monster menacing the crew, that would be great too, but I still want everyone, including the plant, to be okay in the end.

I usually DNW 1st and 2nd-person POVs, but something in the plant monster's POV or in 2nd-person involving a character interacting with it (though not sexually) would be fine here! I think that could be a lot of fun, seeing it recognize the humans and have thoughts about them, wondering what's happening and figuring out how to survive and get what it needs.

I'm down with it winning over Doug or Renée, or both of them together, because of sexual curiosity or some kind of sex pollen it contains that warms them up to it. No noncon please, but dubious consent is fine as long as the people end up enjoying it in the end.

Just let it live and not be a threat or be in danger in the end, and it'll be fun.

Art can be the plant monster alone or surrounded by stolen items, or somewhere inside the station camouflaged or clearly visible. I'm open to about anything here. If the art depicts sexual contact with a crew member, I'd rather not have a bare penis or vagina on full display, so covered by plant parts or partially shown (like part of the shaft or the general shape) is preferred. Humorous depictions would be great too, like the plant monster attempting to have a conversation with or sass any crew member, or whatever you can come up with.

I don't have any art medium preferences. I like anything from pencil sketches to colorful painted or digital art, from realistic to minimalist. I really like the artistry of tarot cards and stained glass depictions, or things like a character depicted as an astrological sign with an explanation of its meaning on a card or panel. Symbolism and interpretations that play with things like that are fun, but I'll also be happy with a simple drawing of a character or scenario.

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• Freder Fredersen/Josaphat/Maria
• Freder Fredersen/Maria
• Freder Fredersen/Josaphat
• Freder Fredersen/Maschinenmensch

This is one of my favorite movies of all time. I love silent films, especially German Expressionist horror/science fiction, and since this is the mother of all science fiction films it has a special place in my heart. I've seen it too many times to count. I love its innocence, its earnestness, its very sweet message despite all the religious heavy-handedness.

The whole thing has such charm and such a sweetness to it while telling a good story and being risque in parts when false Maria is dancing--there's a mad scientist turned evil by jealousy! A robot made to look human! "The Thin Man" who's hella creepy and then turns out to have a conscience of sorts! A happy ending!--that I rewatch it regularly just because it makes me happy. I love things like the truly impressive shots of the modern city and its highway ramps and airships but with biplanes flying between buildings.

I've read the novel written by the screenwriter, so feel free to incorporate anything unique to that if you want. If you haven't read it, a major difference is that Freder doesn't know Josaphat when his father fires the man. And yet! This guy puts so much trust in Freder so fast, then when the Thin Man comes to pay him off he gives in for a lot of money and a woman and a plane ride away from there (didn't like that). But once on the plane, he comes to his senses (yay!), so what does he do? He struggles with the pilot, trying to get him to turn around, and then (I thought rather needlessly) kills him, then parachutes down . . . without a parachute!

Just holding the white silk the narrative has explained is the standard elite clothing with his hands and using that to glide down to safety. This is Indiana Jones level of WTFery and such devotion to get back to Freder, which I'm on board with, so I was tickled at that part. Anything set before, during, or after the film is fine!

I'd be happy with any combination, just please if you go with Freder/Josaphat, have that before he becomes a worker and finds Maria, or with the understanding that they're all together and she's just not there at the moment. No erasing her after the end or any sense that Freder's cheating on her.

A few prompts:

• Yes, the embracing and close talking are an affectation of silent film, but I like leaning into that when it comes to Freder and Josaphat. They obviously have at least a very friendly relationship, and I'd love to see it become romantic. After he saves Josaphat, instead of going to look for Maria or the workers, he could go home with him and help get him settled. There are so many scenarios from confessing that he'd wanted to invite him there many times before to them ending up having comfort sex. The possibilities seem endless.
• I like the idea of Josaphat giving a shoulder rub to Freder who's in a chair talking about all that he's seen and how it upset him, and the massage changing to more intimate touches, then kissing. No need for sex, but if you want to go there I will follow you with bells on.
• Freder has nightmares about the machine and Josaphat comforts him and shares his bed to keep them from coming back.
• Or later when he's actually overcome and feverish in bed, let Josaphat be there and provide comfort for him.
• I'm a fan of the idea that after all the children are out and safe, one or two of them are on the landing and it gives way, plunging them into the water and the remaining one (or two) has to rescue the other(s) and then care for them at Freder's home afterward.
• After Freder rescues Maria from Rotwang and his father and the foreman shake hands, what happens? Do Maria and Freder leave to go to his home, and Josaphat starts to amble away before Freder catches him and insists he come, too? Is Freder's bed big enough for three so that at bedtime they all climb in together because none of them wants to be alone? Sex is grand, but I would also be happy with just cuddles, comfort and affection between two or all three of them.
• Josaphat is injured by the mob hunting for Maria, and after Freder has rescued her and all the rest, they find him and take him home to care for him.
• The Maschinenmensch in Maria guise gets Freder alone and menaces him a bit. He knows it's not Maria, but she's strong and has her debauched mannerisms, and maybe tries to seduce him. Maybe he's torn because he wants her so much? Real!Maria could pull him back to reality. Or he could be seduced into thinking he's gotten everything he ever wanted and slowly realize he's been tricked. Basically, Freder being seduced by Robot!Maria has a lot of appeal, as long as it ends happy.
• Or Josaphat and Maria who have been looking for him find him and rescue him, and get him away from her to safety.
• You could also go pre-film and have a smitten Freder invite Josaphat to the Club of the Sons on a date, or take him to a secret club where two men together is acceptable. Freder can be all in or still kind of afraid of his new feelings and exploring that.
• Maria has done so much of the heavy-lifting, so anything with Freder and/or Josaphat comforting and caring for her would be grand.
• Them presuming she's dead in the end and turning to each other for comfort and then discovering she's alive and finding out she's glad they have they each other, Maria now makes three, would be fun.
• The three of them going somewhere post-movie where they can have dinner and maybe dance together, with the man taking turns passing her between them, and dancing with each other as well, would be great, too. (No, movie Maria wouldn't dance but she wouldn't be part of a threesome either so we can loosen her up just a skosh.)

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• Boro
• Boro/Lisa Nova

Fandom-specific DNW: I know it's canon, but no eye injury/eye horror or animal harm (blood kittens, guinea pig stew).

Art-specific DNWs: pixel art, icons, collages, chibis, depictions of bare genitals, and depictions of anything I DNW in general.

The whole psychosexual mother-figure vibe Boro gives off with Lisa is great. I'd really like a scenario where she doesn't want to steal Lisa's body, but wants her to be a companion or protégé. Any level of coercion and horror she causes while in pursuit of this is fine.

Soulbonding (you don't have to call it that, though) that keeps them together even if it's completely fucked up would be fun. It can be intentional on Boro's part or a happy-for-her accident. Maybe Lisa has to stay with Boro in exchange for something (fixing Jonathan?) and the price is sex or companionship or both. Or Boro is nearly killed and Lisa has to figure out how to regenerate her and realizes she could just stay away but she doesn't. Maybe Lisa does stay with her but ends up as the controlling one between them.

Anything dipping into Boro's past and/or past lives or any lore would be cool. She's a fascinating character. You can go wild with the horror surrounding the plants growing through Lisa's apartment, or the return of the jaguar's spirit and its desire for revenge, if you want. Or injury aside from eyeballs that Boro heals for Lisa or others. What other entities appear to Lisa, and are they guiding her or trying to hurt her?

I like the whole healing magic thing, the sexier the better, and the constant sense that Lisa could be the one in control of herself but it also could be Boro. I'll be happy as long as they're both alive and together in the end, even if Lisa is still horrified by parts of the turn her life has taken but willing to adapt and make the best of it.

Art of Boro or both of them would be great. I don't have any art medium preferences. I like anything from pencil sketches to colorful painted or digital art, from realistic to minimalist. I really like the artistry of tarot cards and stained glass depictions. I also enjoy things like a character depicted as an astrological sign with an explanation of its meaning on a card or panel. Symbolism and interpretations that play with things like that are fun, but I'll also be happy with a simple drawing of a character or scenario.

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• Jack Delroy
• Jack Delroy & Carmichael Haig
• Christou & Jack Delroy & Carmichael Haig
• Jack Delroy/June Ross-Mitchell
• Jack Delroy/Madeleine Piper

This movie nailed the aesthetic, attitudes and some of the cheese of 70s talk shows, so I'd have loved it for that, but then it included things like Bohemian Grove and James Randi with a wink and different names and did such a good job of never quite letting you decide whether you knew exactly what was going on.

I'm really fascinated by the idea that Delroy made a devil's bargain for fame, because he clearly didn't get what he wanted. He'd be infamous as a murderer, sure, but if people at the Grove knew that their deals were likely to be twisted that way, there'd be a lot fewer deals being made. And it's a lot more interesting to me that the deal wasn't cruelly twisted into making him famous in a way he clearly didn't want but that something went wrong at some point. I feel like Jack might have been smart enough to ask specifically to be the top-rated nighttime talk show host and not just make some amorphous wish for "fame" that could be fulfilled by what happened.

Pick any time or place. Older show segments, a fix-it or a different ending (it can still be bad), post-canon shows or events, backstory, expanding the show that's shown in the film, something set at the Grove. I'll enjoy pretty much anything.

DNW Exception: I'm waiving my major character death (except for Jack - please don't kill him) and bleak ending DNW for this fandom. Anyone but Jack is fair game, and things can end up as bad or worse than in canon.

• Why did the deal go so wrong? Did he fall short on his end of the bargain and end up punished for it rather than finally beating Carson legitimately and becoming the biggest talk show star? I'd love to see an exploration of how the whole thing progressed and why it ended the way it did.
• I love the idea that when Jack made his deal, he didn't knowingly and willingly understand that the price would be his wife's life. I got the sense that he truly adored her, even though he took up with June pretty quickly (or maybe had been with her before Madeleine died). When did he understand what had happened? Did he try to get out of it before she died to save her? Did he never put it together? How long was he in denial? How much of the deal did he understand?
• Maybe he made the deal knowing the stated price but not really believing it and just playing along because of the desire to hobnob with powerful star-making people, and then having to deal with the consequences and regret.
• I can also see a great story coming out of him knowingly making the deal (even though my heart wants him to not have known it was real). If he knowingly traded his wife for fame, was it a marriage for appearances he wanted out of it to be with June or just to be free, so he readily agreed? Did he expect it would be sudden and quick rather than her having to suffer so much? Was he offered a can't-say-no deal where he had to choose the lesser of two or more evils, and Madeleine dying that way was the best option?
• What happened during the six months he stayed off the air? Was that something calculated as part of his rise to fame, was it mostly mourning, or something else?
• I loved the nod to James Randi (of whom I've been a lifelong admirer) and his million-dollar challenge. I'd love anything exploring Haig's history on the show. Previous segments, behind-the-scenes stuff, or if you want to lean into Haig's hypocrisy at the end wanting to go to the Grove, Jack getting Haig invited and taking him there and being all kinds of conflicted about it would be great.
• I'd also enjoy an alternate ending where nobody dies and Jack finally hits #1 in late night. Because of this he's expected to keep going to the Grove and the cost of continuing his fame has to be dealt with. Bringing others in, like maybe Haig, could be part of that. Does he know he paid for this with Madeleine's life at this point? Is he planning to reveal everything to an audience in some kind of revenge? Is he supposed to use his show to help demons find victims in his audience? There are a lot of ideas to explore here. Is Madeleine there where only he can see her, taunting him, encouraging him, making him miserable or making him want to burn everything down?
• Was Jack used as part of another deal to kill Lilly and set right what went wrong when she escaped? Or maybe she does die on the show, but it's more an accidental or self-defense, she attacks Jack and it's not his fault, and that starts a path of demonic influence for his show that he tries to escape from.
• I'd love to see how he and June met and how the whole idea of her bringing Lilly onto the show was hatched. Who orchestrated it, or was it a completely chance encounter? Was part of his bargain (knowingly or not) bringing her and the demon to his show, and after they met they just hit it off? Was she supposed to replace Madeleine and give demons access to both Jack and his audience? Any of their history would be great. I'd also like to see more of him and Madeleine before and after the Grove. Did she suspect that her illness had anything to do with it?
• The mass hypnosis angle and the trance-like states, especially Jack's at the end, leave room for so many possibilities. How much of the entire movie was real, and could some of it, including the ending, have been only an illusion to show Jack the many ways his life could go if he didn't play ball with the Grove elite? Another idea would be what happens afterward? Do the Grove elites and dark forces swoop in to make things disappear and keep Jack from suffering any consequences? How much of what he thinks happened does he discover was an illusion later, including deaths? An exorcism on the show where the demon's driven out of Lilly (maybe into someone else) without all the murder (or a little less of it) could be fun.
• Maybe he was offered the deal and turned it down, and all hell's breaking loose because of that? Maybe bringing Lilly on the show is some sort of mixed-up plan to make a deal with that demon for revenge against the people who hurt his wife (and maybe he doesn't firmly believe it's possible but he's desperate).
• Anything drawing on the lore of the cult and their rituals and why getting rid of Lilly in this particular way would be great too. I love the idea of dark forces manipulating everything and all the machinations behind that, especially with Jack thinking he's doing all the decision-making and that it has nothing to do with (or little to do with) his trip to the Grove.
• I'd love anything to do with any of the characters on the show too. I loved Gus, he seems like such a sweet guy who was genuinely concerned about the bad things happening. Include him if you want to! Christou being on the show before or encountering Jack outside it (at the Grove?) would be fun. Another show with Christou and Haig, or backstage discussions, maybe the three of them at a Hollywood party, or if Christou doesn't end up in the hospital and the show ends without all the death, what happens afterward? Christou doing something Haig can't debunk live on the air with Jack mediating could be fun too.
• Anything shippy/sexy with Jack and his wife or girlfriend is also welcome!

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• Connor MacManus/Murphy MacManus
• Greenly/Paul Smecker

Connor/Murphy is such a favorite ride-or-die, codependent relationship. The me-and-you-against-the-world of these two is everything. I like them rough and loud and just as they are in canon but their brotherly love just goes a little further. I like that they're as devoted to protecting each other as they are their mission, and nobody better get in the way or hurt the other.

A 'bad guys made them do it' situation is fine as long as the bad guys don't get in on it (quick non-con groping or a non-con kiss are fine and won't violate my DNW, but no actual noncon xex or prolonged contact on-page, just enough to drive the other brother into a rage). Noncon inferred to have happened before the story to serve as a hurt/comfort situation is also fine.

I particularly like the 'if you won't do it, I will' flavor of 'bad guys made them do it'. As long as they get away afterward, your choice. One thinking terrible things are happening to the other, or that they're dying is a-ok too and a great excuse for celebratory, thank-god-you-alive sex.

I'm also fine with just every day sex between the brothers too, a first time, how does it happen, how close have they come before, etc. or a story that doesn't contain sex at all as long as the tension and longing for it are there. I'm fine with shippy without sex, so don't worry about that.

I really loved the dream-sharing they had when they realized their mission, so any exploration of that would be good. Dealing with childhood crap together, even just hanging out at a pub drinking. Pre, during or post-canon is also fine.

For Paul/Greenly, look, I love Paul in general. More Paul and Greenly interaction! Don't kill either of them, have them interacting, and I'll be happy.

A few prompts:

• I like scenarios where one or both are in peril and one has to be the rescuer, and I really like one being hurt somehow and the other having to find and save them. I'm fine with physical violence and that kind of trauma, but please don't have either one be raped and need to recover from that. I'm okay if part of the trauma was thinking that would happen, or if maybe it's about to but the rescue prevents it. I also don't mind if one thinks it did happen to the other for a while and later is assured that it was just a beatdown, but please no actual non-con.
• And one of my favorite kinds of trauma here is one thinking the other is dying or dead. I can never get enough of that kind of thing, both the anguish and then the joy on discovering it's not true, and all the strong feelings that come with both.
• Any amount of whump heaped upon one or both is fine by me, let the bloody punches fly, as long as there's comfort after the hurt and no injury will be disabling/permanent. One offering himself up to be kidnapped or held hostage or something in place of the other, one just going feral in his need to protect and save the other, one bandaging the other up, such good stuff.
• I'm also a fan of plain old smut. I really like the dream sharing which is kind of canon leading to something, one waking the other with sexy things. They can be established as together already or make the first moves toward it, I don't care. Almost anything is fine.
• I'm also totally okay with no sex at all, just bickering the way they do with a little extra tension that makes their attraction obvious, fighting and protecting each other, rescue, whump, post-canon prison escape hijinks with or without Romeo or ay other characters, pre-canon shenanigans. As long as they're everything to each other as in the canon, it's great.
• I like the idea of them getting captured by someone who wants revenge for somebody they killed, and one having to deal with the other one going first and thinking this it is, and Romeo or Rocco bringing help to rescue them. Dealing with the aftermath of one of them being badly hurt while the other was helpless is just fantastico.
• Humorous moments are great too, like Connor trying to ice his balls and them ending up on the floor on the phone with their mother. When the gun went off while they sat around the table at Rocco's (though please no animal harm). Like when they were playing pool at Doc's and just fucking around. They're just a lot of fun for me.
• Greenly doesn't die but the fact that he's come so close makes Paul realize how fond he actually is of the man. Being at his bedside in the hospital, being attentive and seeming like he cares, all those things are good.
• Greenly and Paul undercover together creates a lot of great possibilities - pretend relationship. Maybe Paul is dressed as a woman undercover again and Greenly stumbles into him in a bar or something, and Paul's trying to get away from a man showing interest so he latches onto Greenly. That'd be an interesting first kiss scenario that could lead to one or both wondering if the other felt the same about it or not.
• Somebody made them do it, a rescue, one presumed dead and then they're alive, having revealing discussions while trapped together, all the tropes, works for both!

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• John Bridgens/Henry Peglar
• Francis Crozier/Thomas Blanky
• Harry Goodsir/Lady Silna
• Francis Crozier/John Clark Ross
• Fracis Crozier/James Fitzjames

DNW exceptions: I DNW major character death but I'm okay with a canonical death that happens pre-story, like a grief/mourning story with the living other half of the couple, like John's thoughts after Henry died or Silna's thoughts after Harry, Crozier's thoughts after Fitzjames, etc. But I'd rather no one die in the story itself.

Fandom-specific DNW: Yes, it's a speculative canon technically, but please no sex pollen. Inuit mythology/magic like the Tuunbaq is fine.

I'm up for anything from knowing glances to actual time alone to do whatever they want. Grief stories, canon divergence where people live or various things change, rescues, missing scenes and stolen moments. Pre-canon, during and post-canon are all great!

BTW, I've read the novel the series was based on, so feel free to draw on anything from the book that didn't make it into the show.

• I love John's eye tattoo and that Henry drew it in his journal. Tattoo touching, kissing, fussing over, love that. Was Henry there when he got it? What did it mean to them if anything? What might be written inside John's journal about Henry, metaphorically or otherwise?
• In the process of teaching Henry to read, John uses love poetry or writings about love to have him read aloud. Or firmly in TV show canon, he gives him a book of such writings to say things he doesn't say out loud.
• The hug after the carnivale was so beautiful, scanning the crowd for each other and the way Henry beelines to him and just grabs him desperately. More of that. Any situation where they can hug, handclasp, touch that's imbued with meaning. Or just another look at any of their scenes inside one of their heads. What were one or both thinking while searching for the other? What did John write or think when Henry was sent to scout and sent the comedy with him?
• Anything from Crozier and Blanky's history, shipping or platonic. How much advice has Blanky given him about things, like Sophia, Franklin, his drinking, anything else about his life? Missing scenes where they talked about him losing his leg (and maybe Crozier's guilt about it), how they should have gone left and not right, what their plans are going forward.
• I like all the what-ifs with Goodsir/Silna. Missing scenes or parts of scenes, like what else might have happened when he was breaking down and Silna crawled under the blankets with him (and it doesn't have to be sex, but I'm open to that too).
• What if she had come back with or without the Tuunbaq and rescued him before he poisoned himself? What if some kind of Inuit magic could have saved him even after he took it? Is there some way for her to communicate with him telepathically or in some other way through this magic, like through music, food or sex?
• What if he had been able to save her father, and they had stayed on the ship together for a while, how would their relationship have changed?
• I think Crozier has such admiration for James Clark Ross, I can easily see that hero worship turning into something else. I'm fine with Crozier pining for him or something that happened when they sailed together.
• Crozier/Fitzjames is such a ride, from their disdain for one another in the beginning to true brotherly intimacy and caring in the end. I don't have any specific prompts, but I love them and would be happy for anything you come up with.
• Look, it's cold and lonely on the ice. All the touching and bedsharing and rubbing cold limbs to keep each other from freezing is a certified very good thing. Huddling for warmth is a favorite trope of my many favorite tropes. Canon diverge all you want to make that happen for the ones it didn't happen for, or add onto a scene/missing scene it.

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• Chit
• Kiel
• Linda
• Sam
• Janice
• Peter
• Macky
• Chit & Linda
• Chit/Linda
• Chit & Kiel

Fandom-specific DNW: Sex, including any NSFW content or tags.

You can find all episodes of The Chit Show on YouTube. Start at 1 and go through them in order, because there are recurring gags and references and lore building, so it's more fun that way.

As of today, there are 20 episodes and 2 bonus shorts, but several of these are under a minute, many are under two, and so far only one is over 3 minutes long. The quirky character of Chit at the center of everything reminds me a bit of the Gayle Waters-Waters series. It's good-natured and wholesome for the most part, and they get better as you go.

I'd love any story that's like an episode with Chit surprising his coworkers with some bizarre fact about his past or doing something silly that only makes sense to him, and sort of loving life in his "gotta try" way. Something based on any character would be great too, whether one alone or interacting with any other character(s). I especially love it when he rizzes up Linda, and when she enjoys it, like during the poker episode. I love their developing friendship, and I would also enjoy Chit/Linda flirting and tension in the tone of the videos, and it's fine for him to pursue and for her to let him down gently, or for them both to be enjoying it. Nothing serious or NSFW, please keep it PG, light and funny.

Some ideas are the first time Chit terrified Janice that made her so jumpy, when Peter came out to the office, an office potluck (does Chit bring anything but his "juice?"), Chit finally finishes the budget (and it's either disastrous or brilliant), Sam actually says something or he tries and keeps getting interrupted. Any of them running into each other out of the office, someone moonlighting as a bartender and they see them, a road trip, a beach excursion to boost morale, whatever you come up with. Basically any office scenario and any fun and/or lore-building moment would be great.

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• Laszlo Cravensworth/Sean Rinaldi

I love these two so much. Every time I hear a "Hey, Laz! or "Seaneeaaaay" it brings me joy. I'd love to see them get together in a way that makes sense for the show. Please don't bash or erase Nadja or Charmaine. The guys can still adore their wives while getting together (and Nadja wouldn't even care). You can even go poly and include one or both if you want.

I've loved this entire show from the first episode, so I'd love a similar tone and sense of humor rather than anything too angst-filled or serious. I'd prefer no memory wiping of them kissing or doing anything else afterward. I want Sean to remember, as much as his poor scrambled brain can! Also, I'm happy with anything from flirting on up, so don't think you have to write sex for me to be happy.

A few prompts

• I know Sean didn't seem interested when Laszlo moved to kiss him, but maybe he was just caught off-guard and regretted it later and keeps trying to find a way to let Laszlo know? I can see it being a comedy of errors with Laszlo misinterpreting his advances until he finally figures it out
• Or maybe a scenario where Laszlo moving in to kiss him never happened and instead he keeps feeling Sean out, mentioning same-sex couples or gay celebrities or otherwise bringing it up and touting it like it's the best thing since sliced bread to try to read his reaction before doing anything
• I'm okay with something like Charmaine making Sean sleep in the garage because of his drinking or temporarily kicking him out over it, or leaving temporarily, and Sean ends up staying next door with Laszlo to help him through his domestic turmoil.
• I'm also okay with Sean being drunk when he makes a pass as long as it's something he still wants sober.
• Maybe something Laszlo's great at surprises Sean by turning him on. Showing off his Jackie Daytona bartending skills, or preventing a pack of wolves or coyotes from attacking them with his mental skills if they're out in the woods, his topiary skills, just about anything would be fun.
• Maybe Sean encounters Jackie Daytona in the wild and the whole disguise thing makes it easier for somebody to take a step. Or hell, just have Sean drinking at his bar, trying to figure out if it's Laszlo or not.
• I could see things happening after the pride parade, what with Sean's enthusiasm over the whole thing.
• Maybe they do something together while Laszlo's out in the sun and things happen. His first time getting off under the sun for hundreds of years could be fun.
• What about all the time it was just Laszlo and Boy Colin there? Did Sean come over and try to help him do maintenance on the house? There are a lot of possibilities while everyone else was gone for so long.
• A fake-dating /kissing to hide scenario could be a scream.

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• Baron Afanas
• Goëjlrm | The Sire
• Aspen the Hellhound
• Baron Afanas/Goëjlrm | The Sire
• Baron Afanas/Goëjlrm | The Sire & Aspen the Hellhound
• Baron Afanas/Goëjlrm & Aspen the Hellhound & Guillermo-frog babies

I love the family of the Baron, the Sire and the Hellhound (and now the mutant hybrid babies). Anything involving them or artwork of any of them or the group would be fantastic. Baron Afanas has such gorgeous clothing, and I'm a real sucker for the peroid clothes he and the other vampires wear.

I don't have any art medium preferences. I like anything from pencil sketches to colorful painted or digital art, from realistic to minimalist. I really like the artistry of tarot cards and stained glass depictions, and I would love to see the Sire, the Baron and/or Aspen depicted as tarot cards or in stained glass alone or together, but anything outside of my DNWs would be great.

Art-specific DNWs: pixel art, icons, collages, chibis, depictions of bare genitals, and depictions of anything I DNW in general.

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• Guillermo de la Cruz/Nandor the Relentless

I love this show so much. Any characters you want throw in are welcome (but not expected). This can be flirting, pre-relationship stuff on up. These two don't have to end up even kissing, but it's fine if they do! I'd just like to see Nandor, even if he's still struggling to come to grips with how he feels, treating Guillermo better, and hopefully, Guillermo noticing and appreciating it. I love Nandor's journey from 'eh, he's just a familiar, I don't really need him' to being miserable without him.

Angst is great, but I'd prefer something in the tone of the show so that even when it's serious, it has humor and nothing too bad happens in the end.

A few prompts:

• Nandor tries to show affection as best he can. I think failboat romantic gestures or passes would be great, the stupider the better. Hopefully Guillermo figures it out.
• Guillermo is hurt, maybe he got an injury or two saving Nandor and the rest, and Nandor fusses over him in a hurt/comfort scenario, or Nandor is hurt protecting him, and the same.
• Guillero overhears Nandor defending him to someone during which Nandor says things he's never admitted out loud to Guillermo.
• I'm up for playing around with Guillermo's vampirism and going in a different direction than the show. Ditto going a different direction with the Freddie episode and having it finally shown that Nandor was jealous and Freddie was just a proxy for Guillermo.
• Anything like where Guillermo was fighting other familiars and Nandor was so proud to show him off.
• A fake-dating scenario. I can't even think of a situation for that, but if they pretended to be a couple for something (maybe another of Sean's gay-positive political rallies ) or they were mistaken for a couple, that could lead to things.
• Guillermo ends up being auctioned off in a buy-a-date charity fundraiser, maybe for some interest he's been pursuing like learning to paint or to cook. Nandor finds out and promptly goes to bid so no one else can have a date with him. Any missing scenes or redone scenes where they ended up together, whether just by affectionate words, kisses or more, would be great.
• Some other vampire takes a shine to Guillermo and openly shows his affection. Nandor thinks he might take Guillermo away and does something about it.

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• Any

I would love art of any of these characters alone or with one or more of the others. I love the period clothes and the house, all of the items like Laszlo's witch skin hat and his topiary vulva garden, the glitter portrait Nandor gave Guillermo, Doll Nadja, just about anything you can think of would be fun. I included the characters individually and in my favorite pairings groups, and you have blanket permission to pair up whomever you want (I adore Laszlo/Nadja and Guilllermo/Nandor, as well as all the friendship pairings among them, but the vamps just work together in any combo).

I love things like Laszlo "disguised" as Jackie Daytona from Tuscan, Arizonia, and when he and Nadja match down to colored streaks in their hair. Nandor and the Baron always have amazing clothing. All of the portraiture on the show is great, and I'd be happy whether it's an ancient depiction, slightly vintage or modern day.

There are probably many other tags that could apply, but I chose some quickly that I knew could work.

I don't have any art medium preferences outside of my DNWs. I like anything from pencil sketches to colorful painted or digital art, from realistic to minimalist. I really like the artistry of tarot cards and stained glass depictions. I also enjoy things like a character depicted as an astrological sign with an explanation of its meaning on a card or panel. Symbolism and interpretations that play with things like that are fun, but I'll also be happy with a simple drawing of a character or scenario.

Art-related DNWs: pixel art, icons, collages, chibis, depictions of bare genitals, and depictions of anything I DNW in general.

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Any previously requested:

• M/M Relationship
• F/F Relationship
• F/M Relationship
• Polyamorous Relationship

I love devotion, hurt/comfort, in-canon shenanigans (and/or violence), bed sharing, dreams, nightmares, caretaking, only one bed, fake dating, undercover as gay, feelings realizations, lots and lots of mutual pining. Get 'em together somehow, without sex or with it, or write a moment of them after they're already in a relationship. I like sex pollen and spooky things in speculative canons only. I'll like something full of pre-relationship pining or ten years after their first kiss, and it can be about other things besides their relationship as long as that's in there. It's all good.

• Stellar Firma
• The Magnus Archives

To save you a click, this is what's listed, with my fandom DNWs removed:

• 1899 (TV)     
• [SAFETY] Late Night with the Devil (2024)     
• [SAFETY] Red River (1948)     
• [SAFETY] Vampires (1998)     
• Abbott Elementary (TV)     
• American Gothic (TV 1995)     
• Blackpool | Viva Blackpool (TV)     
• Bone Tomahawk (2015)     
• Boondock Saints (Movies)     
• Brand New Cherry Flavor (TV)     
• Brooklyn Nine-Nine (TV)     
• Creature Commandos (TV)     
• Crossover Fandom     
• Dampyr (2022)     
• Dark (TV 2017)     
• Echte Kerle | Regular Guys (1996)     
• Evil (TV 2019)     
• Forever Knight     
• Forever Knight (TV 1992)     
• Fright Night (2011)     
• From Beyond (1986)     
• Ghosts (TV 2019)     
• Good Omens (TV)     
• Interview with the Vampire (TV 2022)     
• IT (Movies - Muschietti)     
• Late Night with the Devil (2023)     
• Lawrence of Arabia (1962)     
• Los Espookys (TV)     
• Lucifer (TV)     
• Metropolis (1927)     
• Midnight Mass (TV)     
• Original Work     
• Our Flag Means Death (TV)     
• Perfect Days (Movie 2023)     
• Prodigal Son (TV 2019)     
• Re-Animator (Movies - Combs)     
• Re-Animator (Movies - Combs) [SAFETY]     
• Re-Animator (Movies)     
• Red River (1948)     
• Resident Alien (TV 2021)     
• Riptide (TV)     
• Rope (1948)     
• Scanners (1981)     
• Scanners (1981) [SAFETY]     
• Schitt's Creek     
• Sense8 (TV)     
• Severance (TV)     
• Silo (TV)     
• Sleepy Hollow (TV)     
• Star Trek: Discovery     
• Starsky & Hutch     
• Strange Angel (TV)     
• Stranger Things (TV 2016)     
• Strangers on a Train (1951)     
• Strangers on a Train (1951) [SAFETY]     
• Succession (TV 2018)     
• Ted Lasso (TV)     
• The Chit Show (Video Series)     
• The Endless (2017)     
• The Exorcist (TV)     
• The Girl in Lovers Lane (1960)     
• The Last Days of Pompeii (TV 1984)     
• The Lost Boys (Movies)     
• The Price of the Phoenix/The Fate of the Phoenix - Sondra Marshak and Myrna Culbreath     
• The Ritual (2017)     
• The Terror (TV 2018)     
• The Tick (TV 2017)     
• The Trollenberg Terror (1958)     
• Truth Seekers (TV 2020)     
• Vampires (1998)     
• Vampires (1998) [SAFETY]     
• Wellington Paranormal (TV)     
• Westworld (TV)     
• What We Do in the Shadows (TV)     
• Wolf 359 (Radio)     
• X-Men (Alternate Timeline Movies)     
• Yonderland (TV)     
• 내부자들 | Inside Men (2015)     
• 부산행 | Train to Busan (Movies)

Unrequested tags that aren't DNWs are fine.

Fandom DNWs:

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• Nicholas Knight/Lucien LaCroix
• Janette DuCharme/Nicholas Knight/Lucien LaCroix

This is such an old and beloved fandom for me. I don’t care if you choose Nick/LaCroix or Janette/Nick/LaCroix, or whether it’s set right after Nick became a vampire or post-finale. For art, I really love some of the period clothing in the flashbacks, but a modern day depiction would be great too!

I love LaCroix’s obsession with Nick and inability to let him go, and Nick’s love/hate feelings for LaCroix that change over the centuries. They were a family of three in the earliest years and for a very long time, and Janette was the one who brought Nick into the fold, so the three of them interacting and happy together is not only canon but something I love.

Nick and Janette were canonically a couple for years, and though the show never confirmed a threesome, the shots of LaCroix turning him are horny as hell. You can’t convince me those three weren’t sharing a single bed for a long time. If they missed out on that, it would be a travesty.

There’s canon ring-kissing, hand-clasping, neck-clasping, standing way too close, drinking blood from each other, LaCroix slamming Nick against things, LaCroix telling Nick he belongs to him and will never be free of him, and LaCroix angrily wiping blood off Nick’s mouth with his fingertip and sucking it. Love it all. If at some point in whatever story you write, LaCroix could dispense with the finger wipe and lick blood off Nick’s lips or face, well, I’ll be a happy gal.

Stuff like thank god we're alive sex, sex in the blood of our enemies, all the vampire blood-drinking and sharing, threesome, voyeurism, teacher/student, rescues, angst, all so good for this one.

I don't have any art medium preferences. I like anything from pencil sketches to colorful painted or digital art, from realistic to minimalist. I really like the artistry of tarot cards and stained glass depictions, or things like a character depicted as an astrological sign with an explanation of its meaning on a card or panel. Symbolism and interpretations that play with things like that are fun, but I'll also be happy with a simple drawing of a character or scenario.

Art-specific DNWs: pixel art, icons, collages, chibis, depictions of bare genitals, and depictions of anything I DNW in general.

• I’d love something set after Nick was turned, like how they spent that first night or two. Given that Nick was a Crusader and seemed pretty innocent overall, I doubt he’d been with a man or a woman at that point. Janette and LaCroix introducing him to drinking blood and all kinds of pleasures would be great.
• I like the idea of LaCroix or him and Janette having to rescue Nick after he started to break away from them and acted like he didn’t need them. And if the guy they have to rescue him from is some hot and horny guy that LaCroix has kill and make meal of for them, and said hot guy dosed Nick with some kind of sex pollen/super vampire aphrodisiac because he wanted to have sex with him and maybe be turned into a vampire, that would be okay, too. Nick could be in terrible shape and the only way out of it is through, so LaCroix or both of them have to help him out.
• A situation where Nick has to rescue LaCroix from someone set when he’s trying to break away, and he could walk away, let LaCroix die and be free, but he doesn’t, would be fabulous. There can be healing sex afterward or not, but I’d love for the feelings to be obvious in Nick saving him even though he knows it means LaCroix will keep following him.
• I like the idea of Nick, during The Fix, maybe finding an actual cure that lasts longer than it did, so he loves going out in the sun, and it turns out that his sun-warmed skin serves as a vampire aphrodisiac that LaCroix can’t resist. They haven’t been together in centuries, but he’s helpless against it, and Nick can’t help but be overwhelmed by LaCroix’s reaction, so, in the wise words of Robin the Caveman, they do it.
• I’d love a story set when Nick was a new vampire still reveling in his new nature where he, LaCroix and Janette had a successful hunt or successfully stopped people who would have killed them, and get so into feeding off their prey and the bloodlust it leads to joyful, primal sex right there in the blood of their enemies.
• In some scenes of Nick’s early vampire life, LaCroix taught him to sense their mental bond and come to him through underground catacombs with nothing else to lead him, and he did it. Maybe part of the learning process and/or the reward could be LaCroix just sending pure desire and passion through that telepathic link and them being able to come without touching each other because of it.
• When Nick’s being difficult, LaCroix openly flirting with a man in the inn of whatever village their in, then going with him to his room, makes Nick jealous enough to barge in and stop them. Maybe, if he’s young, he kills the man in jealousy, and that pleases LaCroix to no end (this would be a great scenario for him to lick the blood of that man off Nick’s lips, huh?).
• I also think it’d be interested to see Nick breaking up LaCroix and his sister, and it being obvious that it’s more about jealousy of LaCroix than anything. Alternatively, you could bring LaCroix’ family into the mix and have Nick under Divia’s control in a canon divergence, and let LaCroix stew and have to rescue him. Or the aftermath of that, since Divia’s not a nommed character anyway. Any situation along those lines would be fun.
• A vampire older than LaCroix shows up in Toronto and immediately desires Nick, not just in his bed but to be his bloodline. Maybe there’s a way for a vampire to steal the “offspring” of another and become their master by frequent blood draining and/or orgasms or something like that. And maybe LaCroix rescues him and has to do the same things to him to reverse the process before it’s too late.
• Witches are a thing. One curses LaCroix to be human for a day or a week or something, or one curses LaCroix and Nick, or all three of them, to be human for a while. It could be funny, awkward, poignant, sexy, many things, depending on which way you go. I can definitely see Nick enjoying having the upper hand over a human LaCroix, however briefly.
• Maybe in modern times near the end of the show’s run, Nick discovers that another cure for vampirism, according to some tribal legend, is having lots of sex with the vampire who turned you, so he starts initiating sex with LaCroix frequently. LaCroix knows what he’s doing, knows it’s a bogus cure that another vampire nearly as old as him put out there in an attempt to get his own rebellious vampire-son to want to lie with him again. But LaCroix’s not about to tell Nicholas about that when it benefits him so much and Nick’s mood has improved. (Maybe Nick realizes more and more that he’d been foolish to avoid LaCroix as they get closer, too.)

I know I have a lot of sexish prompts, but I’d be equally happy with something shippy and more about their found family dynamics. Something lighthearted about their early and happy days together would be great, too. Nick and Janette pissing him off like disobedient children, or one of them trying some art or music discipline and being terrible at it. Maybe Janette tries to sing and is awful but they can’t bear to tell her because it makes her happy, or Nick doesn’t share her skills at painting and everything looks like a child painted it, but they keeping framing and hanging them until he puts a stop to it because he knows.

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• Ken Hutchinson/David Starsky

I still love these two so much. They were each other's beginning and end, no matter how many blondes of the week the show tried to toss in there. And it still has one of the most perfect final episodes of any TV show, for my money. I. Adore. It.

Captain Dobey and Huggy Bear are welcome to appear, so if you feel moved to toss either in, feel free! I especially love Huggy.

A scene or story directly from one of the peril-of-the-week episodes for either guy would be great. One hurt, the other freaking out, rescuing, comforting and caring for him, that would be fantastic. Them dealing with trauma together and working things out. Lots of touching, teasing, joking around, anything canon-typical but with the tension cranked up to make it a definite / relationship, even if still at the level on the show or pining stage, would be super. This is such a good hurt/comfort fandom, too. I mean *gestures at it*.

Post-canon, a story showing Hutch taking care of Starsky after he's discharged from the hospital and helping him recuperate (or set after that), and that leading to a new aspect of their relationship, would also be great.

A few prompts:

• I like S&H going undercover, and if they needed cops to play gay to get close to some kingpin or something, it'd be great if they realize feelings while pretending, but I also think it'd be great if only one goes undercover with the cop who's an expert on the person they're after, and it makes the other one jealous.
• That prompt would work without them playing gay, too. One goes undercover with a female cop, and the other is crazy jealous. If the one not part of the couple is also undercover and around to witness the couple stuff, even better.
• Any kind of expansion on what we saw on the show, like Starsky having to help Hutch through fighting his addiction after that episode is over, any kind of hurt/comfort and recuperation for either of them would be great.
• In the episode where the woman they were both hot for was going to come between them, and she basically offered not to choose and for the three of them to be together, first I loved that they turned her down and walked away with their arms around each other. Maybe that makes them realize things? Or maybe they don't turn her down and give it a try, and find that they end up neglecting her in favor of each other anyway. She could point that out, even.
• I'm a big fan of trauma causing nightmares that require help from a partner to get through, and these two have had their share of nightmare-inducing situations.
• Being poisoned, being shot, being tortured and an intended sacrifice for a cult, ffs--write a post-ep story where the injured party has trouble sleeping, eating, or moving on and lots of comfort from the other.
• In any kind of danger situation, the whole "not him, take me instead" thing is fantastic both for the self-sacrifice of it but what it does to the other person. I like a lot of angst, as long as there's a happy ending.
• Also a fan of one being tortured to hurt the other in a hostage/kidnapping situation where they're trying to get information about something or just revenge, as long as the hurt one is rescued before it gets too bad. No permanent maiming or anything, just enough hurt to cause massive pain to the other party who's helpless to stop it.
• On the lighter side, the staff at Huggy's bar thinks they're a couple, and S&H are surprised by them, and then it starts to make sense. Or they're somewhere meeting new people and someone mildly familiar with them introduces them as a couple, and they go with it to be polite but have to figure out why people think that and what it means.

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• Button House Ghosts
• The Captain & Kitty
• Pat Butcher & The Captain
• Fanny Button & The Captain
• The Captain
• Kitty/Thomas
• Kitty & Mary
• Julian Fawcett/Robin
• Mary/Robin
• Pat Butcher/The Captain
• The Captain/Lieutenant Havers
• The Captain/OMC
• Mike & Any Button House Ghost(s)
• Alison & Any Button House Ghost(s)

The Captain and his father-figure relationship with Kitty sends me, but I love everyone in this bar. I don't want to come away from a Ghosts fic feeling sad, so I'd prefer something in the tone of the show. Which means, it can make me cry for various reasons, because sometimes the show did that, but needs to be ultimately happy and/or hopeful in the end. I always DNW major character death as a rule, but in this case, any references to the ghosts' original deaths or fic set around that are fine.

Fandom-specific DNW: On-page sex, any references to Mary's ascension or new ghost ascensions.

I love everything about this show. I'd like something that stays within the tone of it, so while I'm all for the ships romancing each other, the build-up to sex is fine but please fade-to black before anything gets explicit.

A few prompts:

• Captain being a father figure and protector for Kitty. Dancing with her to give Pat a rest. Or they have a discussion, like the one about St. Nick, where he's trying to gently lead her to the truth about something she's confused over. Maybe she tells him and/or the others about her sister and father in more realistic terms, and the Captain cheers her by pointing out he'd be proud to have a daughter like her, etc. I love their relationship so much, so anything.
• Captain talking to his pillow about anything and everything. Memories of Havers, or before Pat and Julian showed up, or something he and Fanny got up to once upon a time, some backstory he talks about, or his opinion on everything that happened that day.
• Any moments between Cap and Havers we didn't get to see. Or fix it and let them reveal something or kiss.
• Captain/OMC is because I loved the way he hangs around handsome men at Button House, like with the director or the construction workers, dancing among men at the wedding, vibing and feeling like one of the guys and part of some project, etc. Maybe some guy he's hovering around and admiring sees the picture of him somehow and remarks on it or clearly likes it and the Captain gets to enjoy that. I'd love anything along those lines.
• Kitty and Mary together are so delightful. When they were trying to remember what was stolen in the van--more moments like that between them. Or Mary telling Kitty about her death, and Kitty helping ease her discomfort with her sunshiney personality.
• Thomas' really bad poetry. His good poetry. His constant challenges to the Captain for a Twister rematch because the Captain wiped the floor with him. Sweet and/or hilarious attempts at writing verse as a gift for each other person at Button House, about something they love.
• Any one of them telling a story about their life to the others. Maybe another roundtable support group session. The Captain admits he's gay, maybe accidentally or in a funny moment, and the others make sure he doesn't regret it. Julian admits he secretly liked some labor policies. Pat always hated wearing shorts with a burning passion. Kitty wants to kickbox. Anything, sentimental to silly.
• Fanny comes to the rescue with calculations for renovations or helps with her eye for design. Maybe she wants to give it another go with Humphrey, but is embarrassed that everyone knows. Maybe she's secretly been doing formulas in her head for years, and now has Alison play YouTube videos to learn because she's trying to find some advanced quantum mathematical way for the ghosts to make themselves known, affect their environment, or get Julian a pair of pants.
• Pat and the Captain camping. Alison leaves the tent up, or they just set it up more often. Any more badge scenarios would be great. Just their bonding and friendship, whether the two of them or the group.
• Julian and Robin playing chess or being afraid of the dark together or anything they do that's sentimental or sweet or them being grumpy.
• Someone finally makes the right amount of fuss over the Captain jumping onto the bomb to save them. Pat could give him a badge or award for that act of bravery or something. Sure he's already dad, but he unthinkingly moved to sacrifice his safety for them. Still out to mean something.
• Thomas gets Julian to help him practice twister, then regrets it because pants. Pat has run out of dances he knows, and starts making up moves when Alison's not around to look up new ones for them. The more ridiculous the names, and the more people they dance in front of, the better.
• Mary decides to try her hand at counseling and giving life advice.
• Another wedding at Button house they get to enjoy, or a birthday celebration for anyone there. Stargazing, looking at the full moon or having Robin's moonah ritual, the world's lowest stakes game of truth or dare, or any lighthearted, happy-ending interactions between any of them!

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• Any

I would enjoy art of any of the ghosts, alone or with others, any combination you want. Feel free to add any room or setting at Button House as a backdrop, if you want, but one face/figure alone is also perfectly fine! I also really love the promotional images of the ghosts peeking out of walls and blending into the background.

The ghosts can be still alive or already dead, up to you. There are probably many other tags that could apply, but I chose some quickly that I knew could work.

I don't have any art medium preferences outside of my DNWs. I like anything from pencil sketches to colorful painted or digital art, from realistic to minimalist. I really like the artistry of tarot cards and stained glass depictions. I also enjoy things like a character depicted as an astrological sign with an explanation of its meaning on a card or panel. Symbolism and interpretations that play with things like that are fun, but I'll also be happy with a simple drawing of a character or scenario.

Art-related DNWs: pixel art, icons, collages, chibis, depictions of bare genitals, and depictions of anything I DNW in general.

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• Jack Crow/Adam Guiteau

I'd love a story ranging from a missing scene(s) during canon, a canon divergence at any point after they met, or a post-canon tale. One or both can be hurt, tortured, turned in a vampire and/or menaced by a big bad Master, as long as they both stay alive (or undead). 

I do want Jack and Adam to have actual feelings for each other underneath whatever's going on (and I'm happy for anything from getting together and purely shippy stuff to the horniest sex you want to write). I know Jack doesn't show much affection, or it comes with a slap in front of it, but I like to think he genuinely feels affection or more for the padre. 

I love that he's a violent, impatient asshole. I want him to be those things. But I also want him to care. And seeing Adam won over to Jack's ways and roughen up a little over time is great too.

I love the ride-or-die and nobody gets to hurt you but me aspects of their relationship. Jack showing actual emotion toward Adam at some breaking point or because he's held it in so long would be great. All the tropes seem like they'd be great for this ship. 

• One thinking the other is dead, completely losing it, and finding them alive is a favorite of mine and would be interesting no matter which character thinks the other is dead. I can see Jack wanting to burn down the world and having an emotional moment to discover Adam alive. I can also see Adam being devastated and maybe behaving more like Jack than before, and losing it when he discovers he's alive (and Jack being smug about how relieved Adam is). Them each thinking the other was dead would make an amazing reunion .
• One getting bitten and figuring that's the end, but it's not. Somehow they can stave off the transformation, or maybe they're on the trail of a cure so the bitten one becomes a vampire and has to travel with the other to get it. What happens? Is the cure difficult, maybe some religious blood magic/sex magic thing they have to do? There are a lot of fun possibilities.
• Either for a cure or just to protect Jack, Adam has to have sex with the person offering. I don't want on-page non-con if the encounter is in the story (his fear/dread and fade to black are fine though) and he can be physically hurt after, as well as traumatized (or totally okay, too) and Jack has to take care of him. His discovery at what Adam did and how he feels about it would be worth exploring.
• One of them has to pretend being evil or that they're betraying the other to work some plan to save them.  
• I can't really think of a plausible scenario for them pretending to be a couple, but that would be a blast to read. Maybe they need information from someone in a gay bar and somebody's all over Adam, so Jack puts a stop to it by pretending they're together? Or the Church sends them on some mission where they have to pretend to be a couple for some crazy reason?
• It would also be great to see a situation where Adam has to pretend to be Jack and Jack has to pretend to be the priest for at least a while.
• I really like scenarios that involve some way for vampires to feed on humans without turning them unless they intend to. The discovery of some medicine, herb or ritual that makes a human immune to being turned from a simple bite could be so much fun. One of them who turns could feed on the other, for instance, while they're looking for a cure or just hunting other vamps. 
• The ability for a human to stay human after being bitten would also lend itself to a lot of other great stories. Like a Master wanting Adam as his personal blood supply and/or sex object, and Jack losing his mind. I would be okay with a story where it's heavily implied that there's non-con happening and Adam has to deal with that after Jack rescues him, but please don't have it on-page. (Unwanted kissing and touching while the Master's toying with him if is fine, just not non-con sex except off-page and implied please.)
• Whether some ritual, or fighting off some sort of vampire mojo, or a discovery that sex is the way to save somebody from turning, whatever the case may be, a 'something made them do it' fic would be great, as long as they're both into by the end (and secretly at least somewhat into it at the start, if not totally and visibly on-board).

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• Marcus Keane/Tomas Ortega

I don't care whether you choose S1 or S2 or go post-canon, with a new take on something that's already happened or a brand new situation altogether. And I'm always up for them saving Bennett post S-2 if you want to toss him in. Lord, somebody save Devon Bennett. If you want to throw other characters like Mouse, the Regos, the Rances or Andy and any of the kids from S2, that's perfectly fine, but don't feel you have to. As long as Marcus and Tomas are in there and it shows their devotion to one another (the more hand-clasping and nape-touching, the better), I will be happy.

Fandom-specific DNWs: Don't make god/religion/the Catholic Church heroic in the story. No divine intervention that saves the day, please. References to canon Marcus/Peter and Tomas/Jessica are fine.

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• Marcus doesn't leave Tomas at the end but stays to help him through what will surely be some post-demon PTSD. Okay, I want there to be post-demon PTSD, not sorry. The hurt/comfort is strong with these two.
• I love nightmares and the hurt caused by them especially when there's someone close to by to offer comfort afterward. A dream or series of them where first-season dark Marcus is whispering things in Tomas' ear would be good, too. Or possessed-Marcus does it when awake, and it can lead to some sort of seduction or not, dubconny in the no-no-yes vein or not (but no non-con). How would they deal with it afterward? Even a situation where it almost happens but doesn't is ripe for some great introspection and character/relationship stuff.
• I really like the idea of one or the other having those intense dreams where the other menaces them in the sexiest of ways, and each night the dreams escalate, and they start to have trouble separating reality from their dreams when they wake up so they might do or say things that would not be forward with the dream other but are unexpected in real life, and the one not affected has to suss out what's going on.
• If Marcus were convinced that god was sending him a message that loving someone and expressing that through sex wouldn't make him less of an exorcist, that'd be really great. Tomas might point out that he'd know if that were evil with his newfound skills and all.
• Just about anything--post-exorcism conversation and comfort (I loved the bar scene at the end of season 1), navigating each other's spaces, a story about something they did together between S1 and S2, investigating the church.
• Any hurt/comfort scenario, expansion on any episode from either season, or any situation where one or the other is possessed and fighting it to keep from hurting the other and has to be exorcised. I truly love that stuff.
• A lighter story that involves Marcus teaching Tomas his ways, maybe with Tomas messing up quite a lot, and them not entirely exhausted all the time or in danger would be great, too. As long as there's obvious shippy affection between them, even if they're both fighting it, and lots of touching and standing far too close together, I'm down.
• Dubcon where the demons decide that helping/pushing Marcus and Tomas to get together will destroy them through guilt or whatever, but nope, it just makes them stronger (after some initial guilt and hand-wringing, probably).
• Either Tomas or Marcus hurt and in the hospital--I'm amazed most of the show wasn't one of them recuperating in a hospital bed, frankly--with the other by their side.

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• Peter Kilmer/Mark Scout

Fandom-specific DNW: References to Peter's death. You don't have to wrap it up with a happily-ever-after bow, but at worst, an ambiguous ending where we know what's coming later but it's fine for now. Or fix it and have him fully recover. Just don't kill him or make it clear that's coming.

I would love to see flashes of Mark and Petey's friendship at Lumon, how they got so close and how they got closer than the show had them get. I'd love to see anything from secret pining to stolen moments at work to Petey and/or Mark remembering bits and pieces of those things while Peter is staying in Mark's basement. 

A few prompts:

• Maybe while he's staying there, longer than in canon, Mark gets an innate sense that he's trustworthy and not crazy, and things start to develop that they resisted before.
• One of them has to do the apology ritual or some other weird Lumon punishment and the other comforts them afterward.
• Pete is in Mark's basement and remembers their affair but Mark doesn't, so as things heat up between them, the closer they get, the more something pushes against Mark's memory. If he doesn't necessarily remember specifics, he can come to know that something is very wrong.
• Mark accidentally sees Peter masturbating at work and that starts something between them. Mark can be as conflicted at first as you want. Or vice versa and Pete catches him.
• While Pete's in Mark's basement, Mark starts to remember their relationship at Lumon in flashes.
• As things heat up between them while Pete's in Mark's basement, they realize how familiar it feels and the way they kiss and touch each other seems to be muscle memory, so they know something happened before.
• Hurt/comfort can never go wrong. In caring for Peter, Mark starts to have feelings that seem oddly familiar and Peter reveals that they were lovers, or really anything that leads them to get together in this kind of a scenari.
• Pete is in a much better state than in the show and starts running into Mark on purpose and trying to attract his attention without Mark knowing he's from Lumon, and it works. He wants Mark, and he also wants to gain his trust so he can convince him to get away from the place.
• Pete tells Mark they were lovers, and Mark thinks Pete's out to scam him or something, so Peter slowly convinces him by showing him that he knows exactly how Mark like to be kissed and touched reveals he knows other non-sexual secrets and quirks he has.
• Petey lives and finds Mark when his innie is at the book party and they have an emotional reunion.
• Innies have to be touch-starved, so anything that plays into that would be great, whether a scene of them at work or Peter trying to make Mark remember on the outside, even just having him close his eyes and feel the way Pete touches his face or something, maybe like the first time they did anything together in the hopes it will break something loose, and it does
• Heck, just a day in the life at Lumon when Peter was there would be great. Anything exploring things we didn't get to see!

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• Irving Bailiff/Burt Goodman

I'd enjoy any moments between Irving/Burt, from stolen moments at Lumon to somehow seeing each other outside it and being drawn to each other in some way. Any canon divergence that keeps Burt there or gives one of them (or both) memories outside, or even Burt being drawn in to the scheme with the rest to figure out what's going on and what the outside is like would be great.

• I'd love to see a divergence at the end of S1 that shows what happens when Irving gets his memory turned off. Is there some sense between them that they should know each other? Do they all figure out what's happened, or is just Irving who must realize, given all his research on Lumon? Does Irving have time to say anything before his outie takes over?
• Burt doesn't retire, so what are their future moments alone at Lumon like? Or they have another moment alone before Burt retires. More of the kind of things we already got!
• Their outies meet somehow and are drawn to each other, and maybe knowing each other that way causes some memories to start to bleed through. We know it can happen, given Irving's black paint dreams, so lean into that.
• One thinks the other is in some kind of danger at Lumon and tries to find and help them, or they team up to try to find information or help someone else. Hurt/comfort involving the break room. Any kind of scheme.
• I'm always down for chip malfunctions and shifting memories, and I love the idea that they'd be just as attracted to each other on the outside (this prompt was written when we only had S1 - I am thrilled at the developments in S2 btw).
• Maybe the dinner went differently and Field was serious about wanting Burt to be happy and suggests they continue the relationship (without OR with him). It's not necessary for it to advance to that, if you don't want, but it would be fun to see everyone's reactions and the implications for the future
• A happy ending fix-it for them would be great. At the very least, I want it to be a hopeful one that things might work out in the future, even if they're stil somewhat separated at the end.

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• Erik Lensherr/Charles Xavier
• Apocalypse/Erik Lensherr/Charles Xavier (Though Erik/Charles & Apocalypse/Charles or Erik instead of the threesome tag is perfectly fine!)

I'll enjoy anything Erik/Charles, from the First Class original timeline or the Days of Future Past second timeline. Feel free to canon diverge every which way to keep them together, get them back together sooner/better, or put a new obstacle in the way they have to get through. I'm all for a different ending of First Class, the time between that and Days going differently with a reunion, or Post-Dark Phoenix fic where Charles accepts Erik's offer for them to stay together, finally.

I particularly like the idea of Apocalypse not only wanting Charles as a vessel but in other ways, and that can go for Erik too. Apocalypse basically menacing Charles, making him feel and want things that he wouldn't otherwise (I DNW noncon but am okay with extremely dubious consent here). I like what it would do to Erik to know he caused it, and how it feels to see the man he wants so much appear to want someone else. It doesn't have to be sexual menacing either, it could just be mental, or it could go like the film but with Erik intervening before the transfer is complete.

Btw, I'd be perfectly happy with a fic more appropriately tagged Apocalypse/Charles & Erik/Charles (or Apocalypse/Erik & Erik/Charles) rather than the three together.

Any situation where Erik has to save him while dealing with the fact that he's the one who put Charles in that danger in the first place and will have to help him recover would be great. Retconning things like that from the films, where Erik doesn't make the terrible choices he did, excellent, or him dealing with the guilt and regret would be good too. I'd also enjoy Charles rescuing Erik from anything similar, and the two of them being in that situation and pulling together to free themselves.

Give me all the pain, all the feelings of hurt and betrayal, as long as there's comfort and a path toward healing at the end. I'd also enjoy a less perilous or angsty story too. My favorite non-perilous moment from First Class was Erik trying to move the satellite dish and the absolute joy they both felt when he did, and of course the montage of all the student training and the humorous moments.

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• Cody Allen/Nick Ryder

Nick and Cody are constantly in each other's personal bubble in a way that would feel awkward to most people, even the closest of friends. The whole show is like they're lovers who just haven't figured that out yet. When one sits down the other practically sits in his lap, and neither of them bat an eye.

And of course they've been there for each other through thick and thin, took care of each other in Vietnam, live together, sleep in the same room and even work together. There's only one way for them to get closer, and if you want to go there I will be on board, but it's also great if you write them getting to shippy without sex.

I'd really rather avoid a bunch of angst about being gay or bi in the 80s and worries about HIV, but I do like when one is afraid to make it known because they worry about damaging the friendship, and the happiness when it's revealed that of course nothing could damage the friendship and they felt the same all along, yay!

I really love all the getting together scenarios, whether with just revelation of feelings or all the way to sexy times. Feel free to include Murray as a platonic third character if you want (but it's not necessary). I do like him being able to see that they love each other before the guys do and either doing nothing or nudging them ever so slightly towards each other. Them having to rescue Boz is always a winner too, or him teaming with one of the guys to rescue the other.

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• Peril and concern for each other, like one getting kidnapped for some reason and the other frantic to rescue them. And if the cops think the kidnapped one is dead but the other refuses to give up and accept that, I love that kind of stuff. One rescuing the other, doesn't matter which is which, is great.
• Undercover as gay is a winner here. Maybe they have to pretend to be a couple for a case and it makes them realize some things. And if they're in a hotel or somewhere and, oh no, there's only one bed, all the better. Sex isn't necessary for me to enjoy the story even in a bedsharing situation, but if you want to write, I'll enjoy it!
• Being mistaken as a couple by someone on the outside, a new person they're helping with a case, and that person explaining why they thought that could be good. Someone pointing out that straight heterosexual guys don't generally sit almost in each other's laps when there are several feet of space on either side of them might make them realize some things. PTSD nightmares and flashbacks that have the other person comforting them, particularly with bedsharing, is great. I like one dreaming of the other dying and waking up frantic to grab ahold of him to assure himself he's okay. Lots of touching, holding, grabbing, that kind of thing. They're very handsy with each other, so more of that!
• One gets shot while they're on a case, and they can't get to help right away so the other has to take care of them until help comes. In any kind of danger situation, the whole "not him, take me instead" thing is fantastic both for the self-sacrifice of it but what it does to the other person. I like a lot of angst, as long as there's a happy ending. Also a fan of one being tortured to hurt the other in a hostage/kidnapping situation where they're trying to get information about something or just revenge, as long as the hurt one is rescued before it gets too bad.
• For a lighter story, maybe the guys get invited to some conference and though they have the opportunity to date a couple gorgeous women, they prefer to hang out together instead. Feel free to have Murray there, maybe he drags them to something they're not looking forward to, and end up going off alone to do the same kinds of things they'd do on the Riptide, and start to realize what that means.
• One getting jealous over the other is always great, as long as it ends up resolved with them together.