Mistletoe Exchange

• 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

• 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.

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.

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).

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.

A few prompts:

• 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.

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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 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.

All my past requests are here

Unrequested tags that aren't DNWs are fine.

Fandom DNWs:

• Teen Wolf
• Stellar Firma
• The Magnus Archive