Dear Creator - Holly Poly 2020
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simplecoffeeHi there! Thank you for creating for me. 💛 I am academicgangster on Tumblr, and simplecoffee on ao3.
So, the thing I love most in fanwork is taking canon character dynamics and just...making them More. Taking them further, exploring their natural progression, usually in a hurt/comfort-y way. I've mentioned the character dynamics and ships I love under each fandom, along with some rambly thoughts and prompts - speaking of which, please feel free to pick, choose, mix, match, play with any, all or even none of said prompts, if that's where the muse takes you. 💛
I love hurt/comfort with all my heart and soul, so most of the prompts here will probably contain it to some degree.
I am a-okay with any kind of exploration of character dynamics - h/c, casefic, fluff fic, angst, missing scenes, outsider POV, outsider POV contrasted with canon characters' POV, getting together fic, established relationship, you name it I love it. I'm also very much okay with or without smut - I enjoy it, but please don't feel pressured to include it or not to include it. If you do feel inclined toward the lovin', I have a preference for a Mature rating over an Explicit rating, but I will likely enjoy whatever rating speaks to you. :D
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> Likes & DNWs (art likes)
> The Hunt for Red October (1990)
(Requested media: fic, art)
Jack Ryan/Bart Mancuso/Marko Ramius
> Mission: Impossible (Movies)
(Requested media: fic, art)
Ethan Hunt/Luther Stickell/Alan Hunley
> Oblivion (2013)
(Requested media: fic, art)
Original Jack Harper/Original Jack Harper/Original Vika Olsen
Original Jack Harper/Original Vika Olsen/Original Vika Olsen
Likes & DNWs
General likes:
• Character studies
• Hurt/comfort of all stripes
• Exploring the fallout of canon trauma
• Missing scenes, slice-of-life, etc - exploring canon character dynamics/canon traits of known characters
• Touch starvation
• Deep friendships
• Earned trust and casual intimacy (carrying, clothes sharing, characters only allowing touch from people they trust, etc)
• Bonding over shared trauma
• PTSD, illness messing with a character's grip on reality, combat/mission injuries, scars, and injuries acting up, touch starvation, sensory deprivation / sensory overload, characters not believing they deserve comfort or being surprised to receive comfort
• Eventually requited pining
• Worldbuilding
• Outsider POV, especially when contrasted with our characters' POV
• Mission aftermaths
• Smut with Feelings (I don't really need to know what body parts are going where, I just love to know how it feels, in the sensory way especially but also the emotional way)
• Pain, bittersweetness, sadness, exploring the darker side and implications of canon is great, but I really need some happiness/comfort and hope along with it!
Sexual likes:
D/s overtones. Femdom, where applicable. Service subs. Subs With Issues. Praise kink. Hands, fingers, touch; touch starvation. Hands in hair. Sexual touches/kisses/closeness through fabric. Finger-sucking. Aftercare. Tenderness, especially if the person receiving it isn't expecting it, isn't used to it, and it breaks them just a little.
Marking, intentional or no - bruising with lips or teeth; hiding the bruises under clothing. Suit kink. Wrists bound or held down. Honour bondage. Shibari and intricate knotwork. Careful sex / making out when one partner is hurt or ill and feverish (fever sex is, uh, very much a Thing of mine). Or rough, desperate, life-affirming sex / making out.
Art likes:
Realistic and sketchy styles, bold lines and rich colours/textures, bold accent colours, creative lighting choices, noir-style art especially for action canons, minimalist styles/silhouettes, characters captured in unaware moments as though they're being photographed without realizing it, art that captures the vibe of canon without necessarily capturing the style of canon; angsty hurt/comfort or warm, gentle, casually intimate moments.
I love kisses of all descriptions, especially at the forehead, temple, hands, throat, or collarbone. I love characters reverently undressing each other. I love seeing characters in partial states of undress rather than seeing them completely naked, especially if there's also a focus on their hands or collarbones or throat. I love seeing characters with love bites, hickeys or bruises; I love characters touching and tracing other characters' wounds or scars, especially if it looks like they got distracted while undressing them to do so. I love characters in shibari, especially under dress shirts, or characters' wrists being tied with something luxurious like velvet or ribbon.
I also love h/c focused art - characters undressing their injured/sick partners or taking off their glasses, if they wear them (eg. Hunley, Mancuso, Ethan in MI 1). Characters patching sick/hurt characters up, with stitches or bandages or ice packs, or cleaning scrapes on the hurt character's face or hands. Sick/hurt characters with their hair messed up, perhaps hiding their faces in other characters' chests or shoulders. Hurting characters sitting at other characters' feet to be taken care of with hair stroking or shoulder rubs, or just burying their face in the other character's lap. Smaller characters getting carried bridal style when they're not feeling well, maybe clinging to the character carrying them if they're not unconscious. Hands in general, especially if they're scratched or hurt and being taken care of. :D
(I would prefer no pink or green as dominant/background colours, but I love...well, basically every other colour there is. Jewel tones are great! Limited palettes are great! Bold colours are great! Whatever you can think of is great! I love it all. :D Style-wise I would prefer no chibis or overly cartoonish styles; I'm very cool with anything and everything else, including experimental styles!)
General DNWs:
• Mundane/depowered/setting change AUs
• Bleak, hopeless endings
• Unrequested crossovers and fusions
• Any mention of coronavirus or quarantine/lockdown situations
• Death of requested characters (even if they died in canon. Alan Hunley Is Alive, that's my story and I'm sticking to it)
• Non-canonical death of non-requested characters (canonical deaths are more than fine to mention and explore)
• Terminal illness
• Permanent injury (this DNW does not apply to Oblivion, and also does not apply to Jack Ryan's canonical past injury in The Hunt for Red October)
• Gastrointestinal illness (nausea/vomiting is okay but not as a focus of the work, and not as a result of GI discomfort - so character getting nauseous or throwing up from a migraine or just severe pain in general, yes; character getting nauseous or throwing up as a result of a severe anxiety attack or PTSD episode, yes; character suffering anything related to food poisoning or GI bugs or overeating and similar, no)
• Pregnancy, menstruation
• Infidelity (for Red October, I would prefer that Jack and Cathy were never married, separated amiably and share custody of Sally)
Sexual DNWs:
• Noncon or dubcon
• humiliation as a kink
• gags of any kind
• pain play
• anal, dirty talk, spanking, ageplay, scat, watersports, rimming, emeto, A/B/O, d/s-verse, mommy/daddy kink, maledom/femsub
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The Hunt for Red October (1990)
Media: fic, art
Jack/Ramius/Mancuso
I love this version of Jack Ryan so much! I love that he's a strategic expert and knows which hunches to play, but he's not a field agent and knows exactly Fuck All about field operations! I love every single character dynamic he has, especially the deeply promising ones he has with Ramius and Mancuso. I also love his backstory, his lingering PTSD and likely chronic pain from the spinal injury that ended his career as a Marine, and how he ploughs on regardless of how Very Much He Does Not Want To Be Ploughing On.
I really love the warmth of everything and everyone in this film - how deeply idealistic Jack and Ramius are, how Jack is an experienced analyst who knows a lot about strategy and history but absolutely nothing about operations (but still knows he has to try to get Ramius in alive), how Ramius makes sure to gain the trust of his officers about the terrible risk he's taking in defecting, how Mancuso's whole crew clearly loves and trusts him and admires him while he is so protective of them in return - indeed, how committed to duty Mancuso is, but how ready and willing to step up when Jack proves his orders wrong.
I love h/c for all my fandoms, but I particularly love it for this one. Jack and/or Mancuso as the hurt character would be great. I love the warmth of this film, and would love that warm atmosphere to carry over into fic. 💛 I'm very here for all kinds of softness and h/c, with Jack or Mancuso as the centre. (If you'd like some more ideas to bounce off of, here's my Hurt/Comfort Ex writeup on Jack; here's the one for Mancuso.)
Prompts!
• Jack and Ramius get together first, smitten almost from the very first time they met. It takes them a while to realize they're both very fond of Bart, and they discuss it between themselves before deciding to invite him to join them.
• Jack and Ramius court Bart as a Southern gentleman should be, with flowers and kisses and eventually some very good whiskey.
• Mancuso tries to figure out which one of them he's pining for, ending up more and more confused each time until he finally realizes it's both.
• Alternatively, it's Ramius and Mancuso who bond over submarine nerdery and get together first, and when they start to spend more time with Jack, they realize they're growing fond of him and decide to court him.
• I'd love to see how they all get used to each other's little quirks, what routines they develop, who sleeps in the middle (how that changes when one of them's sick or hurt and needs to be spoiled by the other two), how they get used to making out and making love when there's three. I'd love to see lots of affection between them; Marko and Jack seem very physically affectionate, and Bart seems a little reserved and touch-starved but also the kind to respond eagerly to touch from people he's fond of. I'm here for building intimacy, but I'm also very here to just...see that intimacy once it's been built behind the scenes.
• Jack's back injury from the chopper crash tends to resurface and leave him in pain on cold or wet days. How do Ramius and Mancuso look after him? Do they join forces or each have their own way of helping? Is it hard to even get Jack to admit he's hurting at first, let alone allow them to help? How do they figure out what he needs and how to make sure he's okay?
• Mancuso gets badly hurt or falls ill while on deployment. Jack and Ramius comfort him over the phone or via messages through the crew of the Dallas while he's laid up, or camp out by his bed if things get bad enough that he has to be taken to a hospital on shore, and make an enormous fuss of him and spoil him thoroughly when he gets home.
• I'd love to see a somewhat outsider-POV take, with little hints about his relationship showing up in Mancuso's life, and the crew of the Dallas, who love and adore him, noticing the subtle changes. What do Mancuso's quarters aboard the Dallas look like? What books does he have there, what photographs or paintings? Are there photos of him with Jack and Ramius? Does he take some of their clothes with him aboard, to sleep in? Jonesy notices everything, and is probably the chief gossip on board. COB Watson probably Knows™, but doesn't care to talk about it. Everyone is delighted that their captain is Getting Some, because he Deserves It. (Seriously though, they're probably also delighted that he's happy and loved, because he deserves to be happy and loved.) Maybe some of the crew eventually get to come to their house up in Maine and chill with the three of them for a bit.
• While I don't think these characters would get up to d/s shenanigans often - I see them mostly as sweet, intense vanilla - I am kind of destroyed by the soft-but-firm-d/s implications of the scene where Ramius presents Mancuso with the Red October. Ramius has enormous Dom Energy in general, especially with Jack, but that scene got me feeling things about Mancuso, who also has a lot of Dom Energy, being the only person in the world whom Ramius would submit to. This goes double because when we see Mancuso give orders on the Dallas, he gives them softly, gently, and everyone immediately leaps to obey; I'd love to see him have the same command style in the bedroom, especially if Jack is sick or hurt and feeling guilty about it and needs to be told to let himself be taken care of, or conversely, if Bart himself is mildly sick or hurt and needs to convince the others to stop worrying and kiss him already, damnit.
Art prompts!
(Bart is left-handed and a shade under six foot; Jack is six foot and Ramius 6'2", and I love that they're both buff and soft while Bart is slender)
• Forehead kisses! All the forehead kisses. Anyone as giver or receiver would be lovely.
• Ramius and Mancuso holding Jack's hands or tucking their arms around him on a plane.
• Jack wrapped in a blanket with Ramius and Mancuso snuggling him.
• Jack and Ramius massaging Mancuso's hands or wrists.
• happy, older bear!Jack in a wheelchair with happy, older Ramius and Mancuso beside him - perhaps holding his hands or kissing him.
• Any and all kisses, gentle touch, handholding and/or making out is deeply loved 💛
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Mission: Impossible (Movies)
Media: fic, art
Ethan/Luther/Hunley
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I love all three of these characters so much, and I love Ethan/Luther and Ethan/Hunley a lot - my readings of both these romantic dynamics influence my reading of how the triad could work.
Luther and Ethan have known each other for over twenty years; there's so much trust between them, so much unspoken intimacy and support between them, ever since the very first film. There's definitely an element of unspoken devotion there, how Luther calls Ethan 'baby', how he's the only person Ethan trusts to see him vulnerable, how they cling to each other for support, how devastated they each look when the other nearly dies in Fallout, how they each seem not to value their own life as much as the other does. There's a long-term-mutual-pining vibe about the two of them, a kind of feeling that each of them thinks they're not good enough for the other, that maybe each of them spent a long while believing their love for the other was unrequited before getting a clue.
Ethan and Hunley, meanwhile, have known each other only since 2015, and Hunley spent most of Rogue Nation trying to chase Ethan down - but by the airport scene in Fallout three years later, he's clearly at least a little bit in love with him, and it's adorable. They're so different but so complementary - Hunley's so vocal and Ethan so quiet but equally intense! Ethan's such a ray of sunshine that he apparently converted Hunley from a cynic to an idealist by deciding to trust him! Hunley heaps praise and reassurance on Ethan, while Ethan looks as though he's in physical pain from being told he's worth believing in! Ethan calls Hunley 'sir' and it somehow means all the things! There's so much unsaid between these two characters, so much unexplored.
We don't get to see Luther and Hunley interact much, and we know that Luther's fiercely protective of Ethan and therefore can't stand Hunley in Rogue Nation, but we do see in Fallout that Hunley deeply adores Ethan, which I think could have won Luther over to his side. And as always, Ethan is canonically pretty damn touch-starved and might tear up on receiving unexpected physical affection, especially if he's otherwise hurting and overwhelmed. These are three very quiet, kind people with a fair amount of self-worth issues between them - though Hunley is professionally skilled at the political and administrative side of intelligence work, my reading of him as a person is based on the deep affection he shows Ethan in Fallout - and so I'd love to see them all slowly getting used to having not just one, but two people who love them so much.
Prompts!
• Luther and Ethan were already together before Rogue Nation, and Luther noticed Hunley pining after Ethan, eventually discussing it with Ethan and deciding to ask him to join them. I'd love to see them getting used to working together, the process of Hunley earning Luther's trust as Secretary (since he had Ethan's immediately, but the others weren't so keen), and Luther's feelings toward Hunley going from 'you adore Ethan, so I approve of you' to 'huh, I think I'm fond of you as a person actually'.
• Alternatively, they all had an awakening after nearly dying in Fallout. From what we see onscreen, Ethan and Hunley have clearly become friends through working together, perhaps over long nights of research in Hunley's office or endless meetings with Erika Sloane, or perhaps through Hunley being Ethan's handler and seeing him vulnerable, hurt and exhausted after missions. I'd love to see them all looking after each other post-Fallout; they're all badly hurt and Ethan will probably take a few weeks to recover, Hunley a few months with how grave his injuries were. I'd love to see them trying to wrap their heads around loving each other and having it acknowledged, having it be official, while also navigating each other's needs while they're healing up.
• In general, I'd love to see Hunley and Luther joining forces to take care of Ethan when he's injured, or protect him from intelligence community brass who want to question him or accuse him when he's already messed up from a mission, or just look after him and keep him warm during the post-mission adrenaline crash. (One or both of them lending him a jacket, or carrying him, would be lovely!)
• I'd also love to see Hunley growing acquainted with the bond there is between Ethan and Luther, how well they know each other without having to say a word. Hunley slowly realizing he's becoming a part of their intimacy, that he too knows both their coffee preferences or knows when Luther's worried and Ethan's hurting and won't admit it, or knows when they've had a particularly bad time on a mission by the way they look when they return for debrief. I'd love to see the learning process, Hunley getting to figure out some things slowly but having to be told others in a crisis - Luther knows what to do when Ethan's hurt or in the middle of a migraine, for instance, and Ethan knows when Luther doesn't like someone or doesn't trust some new technology the CIA's using - and I'd love for both of them to learn Hunley's tells in return, offer him a kind of hot chocolate or scotch he likes when he's had a bad day, and generally surprise him with how fond of him they are.
• I'd also just generally love to see softness and intimacy among all three of them. Sleeping on each other, looking after one another when they're tired or hurt or sick, making out while making sure they all get to feel as loved and wanted as they possibly can. I love Ethan in the submissive role to Luther and Hunley, being gently held down and loved on. (He deals with too much pain in his day job, I think, to ever get off on pain, and Luther and Hunley both read as gentle doms to me.)
Art prompts!
(Ethan is left-handed and 5'7" to Luther and Hunley's six foot, and they're both delightfully broad and soft when compared to him)
• Ethan curled up asleep in Hunley's arms while wearing a jacket that belongs to Luther and is clearly too big for him
• Hunley or Luther patching Ethan up when he's hurt, while the other supports his head or holds his hand
• Ethan and Luther petting Hunley, who's asleep or nearly asleep between them, maybe with Ethan taking off Hunley's glasses
• Any and all kisses, gentle touch, handholding and/or making out is deeply loved 💛
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Oblivion (2013)
Media: fic, art
Original Jack/Original Jack/Original Vika
Original Jack/Original Vika/Original Vika
I'm fascinated by the differences between the different Jacks, even though they're clones of the same person. I am all about how they were each shaped by circumstance, by the terrain of the area they live in, by the books and clothes and other things from the past they found. From how different OG Vika is to the canonical Vikas we see, I think that after the events of the film, this could easily be true of different Vikas as well. I am super interested in the ways in which they might express their individuality after the film, through their appearance, choice of clothes, choice of hobbies and such.
There's an elephant in the room here: the canonical Jack/Vika relationships we see aren't good. Vika 49 is sexually coercive and emotionally neglectful toward Jack 49, and Vika 52 seems not to care much about Jack 52 when she sees him injured. It's not unreasonable to think the majority of Jack/Vika relationships on Earth are unhealthy, and that there might be other Vikas who are worse, even outright abusive toward their Jacks; OG Vika was a sweet nerd, though, and it's very possible there are some Jack/Vika pairs who have healthy relationships and genuine love. With regard to these threesomes, I'm particularly interested in seeing healthy Jack/Vika dynamics in contrast to the many unhealthy ones - I would love to see unhealthy dynamics break up post-film, and healthy ones form after the characters heal, or while they're healing.
Prompts!
• A Jack/Vika pair who had a healthy, loving relationship meet a Jack who wasn't so lucky, and has a lot of healing to do from his relationship with his designated Vika. They get acquainted, and eventually all fall in love, with the established Jack/Vika pair being absolutely horrified at what their other Jack went through - they had no idea the other pairings were unhappy, and do their best to make their other Jack feel loved.
• An established happy Jack/Vika pair meet a Vika who broke up with her Jack, and who's got some lingering guilt over having taken him for granted. She turns out to be a better fit with them than she was with her designated Jack.
• A Jack who broke up with his designated Vika ends up dating another Vika who broke up with her designated Jack. It goes surprisingly well, and they pick up another Vika or another Jack along the way.
• Two Jacks who didn't have the happiest relationships with their Vikas hit it off, and eventually meet a different Vika, who slowly earns their trust.
• In general, this is a post-apocalyptic world and the Jacks worked a seriously hazardous job, so I am very here for injured or otherwise hurting Jacks, even ones who are chronically ill or living with chronic pain. I could see Jacks who've spent too long working drone repair in freezing cold climates having lasting pain or lung issues from it; I could see some of them sustaining injuries in hostile Scav attacks or while exploring, and having to heal up alone if they're out alone, or with their partners if they were already with their partners before they got hurt. I'm also very here for some of the Jacks who had abusive designated Vikas having some kind of touch aversion or complex post-traumatic stress afterwards, and for their new partners to have to learn to work around it and help them deal with it (before they get together, or even after, with the echoes of it still present in their lives). The Jacks we see in canon are all clearly deeply touch-starved, too, and very affectionate while the Vikas are a little awkward with expressing affection, and I'd love to see that explored with original Jacks and Vikas.
• I'm also very here for all the clones having to deal with the truth of who they are, and perhaps also with vague and uncertain nightmares of OG Jack and Vika's lives, like 49 had. I'd love to see a Jack/Vika/Vika or Jack/Jack/Vika triad all dealing with their own demons, and all helping each other survive and get through the day and feel loved.
Art prompts!
(The Jacks are left-handed, and 5'7" to the Vikas' 5'5")
• A hurt Jack being looked after by a Jack and a Vika, or two Vikas.
• A hurt Vika being looked after by two Jacks, or a Vika and a Jack.
• A Jack affectionately carrying a Vika in his arms, while their other Jack affectionately watches them, his arm in a sling.
• Any and all kisses, gentle touch, handholding and/or making out is deeply loved 💛
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Once again, thank you for creating for me! I hope you have fun with it - that's what it's all about, after all. 💛
So, the thing I love most in fanwork is taking canon character dynamics and just...making them More. Taking them further, exploring their natural progression, usually in a hurt/comfort-y way. I've mentioned the character dynamics and ships I love under each fandom, along with some rambly thoughts and prompts - speaking of which, please feel free to pick, choose, mix, match, play with any, all or even none of said prompts, if that's where the muse takes you. 💛
I love hurt/comfort with all my heart and soul, so most of the prompts here will probably contain it to some degree.
I am a-okay with any kind of exploration of character dynamics - h/c, casefic, fluff fic, angst, missing scenes, outsider POV, outsider POV contrasted with canon characters' POV, getting together fic, established relationship, you name it I love it. I'm also very much okay with or without smut - I enjoy it, but please don't feel pressured to include it or not to include it. If you do feel inclined toward the lovin', I have a preference for a Mature rating over an Explicit rating, but I will likely enjoy whatever rating speaks to you. :D
Navigation
> Likes & DNWs (art likes)
> The Hunt for Red October (1990)
(Requested media: fic, art)
Jack Ryan/Bart Mancuso/Marko Ramius
> Mission: Impossible (Movies)
(Requested media: fic, art)
Ethan Hunt/Luther Stickell/Alan Hunley
> Oblivion (2013)
(Requested media: fic, art)
Original Jack Harper/Original Jack Harper/Original Vika Olsen
Original Jack Harper/Original Vika Olsen/Original Vika Olsen
Likes & DNWs
General likes:
• Character studies
• Hurt/comfort of all stripes
• Exploring the fallout of canon trauma
• Missing scenes, slice-of-life, etc - exploring canon character dynamics/canon traits of known characters
• Touch starvation
• Deep friendships
• Earned trust and casual intimacy (carrying, clothes sharing, characters only allowing touch from people they trust, etc)
• Bonding over shared trauma
• PTSD, illness messing with a character's grip on reality, combat/mission injuries, scars, and injuries acting up, touch starvation, sensory deprivation / sensory overload, characters not believing they deserve comfort or being surprised to receive comfort
• Eventually requited pining
• Worldbuilding
• Outsider POV, especially when contrasted with our characters' POV
• Mission aftermaths
• Smut with Feelings (I don't really need to know what body parts are going where, I just love to know how it feels, in the sensory way especially but also the emotional way)
• Pain, bittersweetness, sadness, exploring the darker side and implications of canon is great, but I really need some happiness/comfort and hope along with it!
Sexual likes:
D/s overtones. Femdom, where applicable. Service subs. Subs With Issues. Praise kink. Hands, fingers, touch; touch starvation. Hands in hair. Sexual touches/kisses/closeness through fabric. Finger-sucking. Aftercare. Tenderness, especially if the person receiving it isn't expecting it, isn't used to it, and it breaks them just a little.
Marking, intentional or no - bruising with lips or teeth; hiding the bruises under clothing. Suit kink. Wrists bound or held down. Honour bondage. Shibari and intricate knotwork. Careful sex / making out when one partner is hurt or ill and feverish (fever sex is, uh, very much a Thing of mine). Or rough, desperate, life-affirming sex / making out.
Art likes:
Realistic and sketchy styles, bold lines and rich colours/textures, bold accent colours, creative lighting choices, noir-style art especially for action canons, minimalist styles/silhouettes, characters captured in unaware moments as though they're being photographed without realizing it, art that captures the vibe of canon without necessarily capturing the style of canon; angsty hurt/comfort or warm, gentle, casually intimate moments.
I love kisses of all descriptions, especially at the forehead, temple, hands, throat, or collarbone. I love characters reverently undressing each other. I love seeing characters in partial states of undress rather than seeing them completely naked, especially if there's also a focus on their hands or collarbones or throat. I love seeing characters with love bites, hickeys or bruises; I love characters touching and tracing other characters' wounds or scars, especially if it looks like they got distracted while undressing them to do so. I love characters in shibari, especially under dress shirts, or characters' wrists being tied with something luxurious like velvet or ribbon.
I also love h/c focused art - characters undressing their injured/sick partners or taking off their glasses, if they wear them (eg. Hunley, Mancuso, Ethan in MI 1). Characters patching sick/hurt characters up, with stitches or bandages or ice packs, or cleaning scrapes on the hurt character's face or hands. Sick/hurt characters with their hair messed up, perhaps hiding their faces in other characters' chests or shoulders. Hurting characters sitting at other characters' feet to be taken care of with hair stroking or shoulder rubs, or just burying their face in the other character's lap. Smaller characters getting carried bridal style when they're not feeling well, maybe clinging to the character carrying them if they're not unconscious. Hands in general, especially if they're scratched or hurt and being taken care of. :D
(I would prefer no pink or green as dominant/background colours, but I love...well, basically every other colour there is. Jewel tones are great! Limited palettes are great! Bold colours are great! Whatever you can think of is great! I love it all. :D Style-wise I would prefer no chibis or overly cartoonish styles; I'm very cool with anything and everything else, including experimental styles!)
General DNWs:
• Mundane/depowered/setting change AUs
• Bleak, hopeless endings
• Unrequested crossovers and fusions
• Any mention of coronavirus or quarantine/lockdown situations
• Death of requested characters (even if they died in canon. Alan Hunley Is Alive, that's my story and I'm sticking to it)
• Non-canonical death of non-requested characters (canonical deaths are more than fine to mention and explore)
• Terminal illness
• Permanent injury (this DNW does not apply to Oblivion, and also does not apply to Jack Ryan's canonical past injury in The Hunt for Red October)
• Gastrointestinal illness (nausea/vomiting is okay but not as a focus of the work, and not as a result of GI discomfort - so character getting nauseous or throwing up from a migraine or just severe pain in general, yes; character getting nauseous or throwing up as a result of a severe anxiety attack or PTSD episode, yes; character suffering anything related to food poisoning or GI bugs or overeating and similar, no)
• Pregnancy, menstruation
• Infidelity (for Red October, I would prefer that Jack and Cathy were never married, separated amiably and share custody of Sally)
Sexual DNWs:
• Noncon or dubcon
• humiliation as a kink
• gags of any kind
• pain play
• anal, dirty talk, spanking, ageplay, scat, watersports, rimming, emeto, A/B/O, d/s-verse, mommy/daddy kink, maledom/femsub
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The Hunt for Red October (1990)
Media: fic, art
Jack/Ramius/Mancuso
I love this version of Jack Ryan so much! I love that he's a strategic expert and knows which hunches to play, but he's not a field agent and knows exactly Fuck All about field operations! I love every single character dynamic he has, especially the deeply promising ones he has with Ramius and Mancuso. I also love his backstory, his lingering PTSD and likely chronic pain from the spinal injury that ended his career as a Marine, and how he ploughs on regardless of how Very Much He Does Not Want To Be Ploughing On.
I really love the warmth of everything and everyone in this film - how deeply idealistic Jack and Ramius are, how Jack is an experienced analyst who knows a lot about strategy and history but absolutely nothing about operations (but still knows he has to try to get Ramius in alive), how Ramius makes sure to gain the trust of his officers about the terrible risk he's taking in defecting, how Mancuso's whole crew clearly loves and trusts him and admires him while he is so protective of them in return - indeed, how committed to duty Mancuso is, but how ready and willing to step up when Jack proves his orders wrong.
I love h/c for all my fandoms, but I particularly love it for this one. Jack and/or Mancuso as the hurt character would be great. I love the warmth of this film, and would love that warm atmosphere to carry over into fic. 💛 I'm very here for all kinds of softness and h/c, with Jack or Mancuso as the centre. (If you'd like some more ideas to bounce off of, here's my Hurt/Comfort Ex writeup on Jack; here's the one for Mancuso.)
Prompts!
• Jack and Ramius get together first, smitten almost from the very first time they met. It takes them a while to realize they're both very fond of Bart, and they discuss it between themselves before deciding to invite him to join them.
• Jack and Ramius court Bart as a Southern gentleman should be, with flowers and kisses and eventually some very good whiskey.
• Mancuso tries to figure out which one of them he's pining for, ending up more and more confused each time until he finally realizes it's both.
• Alternatively, it's Ramius and Mancuso who bond over submarine nerdery and get together first, and when they start to spend more time with Jack, they realize they're growing fond of him and decide to court him.
• I'd love to see how they all get used to each other's little quirks, what routines they develop, who sleeps in the middle (how that changes when one of them's sick or hurt and needs to be spoiled by the other two), how they get used to making out and making love when there's three. I'd love to see lots of affection between them; Marko and Jack seem very physically affectionate, and Bart seems a little reserved and touch-starved but also the kind to respond eagerly to touch from people he's fond of. I'm here for building intimacy, but I'm also very here to just...see that intimacy once it's been built behind the scenes.
• Jack's back injury from the chopper crash tends to resurface and leave him in pain on cold or wet days. How do Ramius and Mancuso look after him? Do they join forces or each have their own way of helping? Is it hard to even get Jack to admit he's hurting at first, let alone allow them to help? How do they figure out what he needs and how to make sure he's okay?
• Mancuso gets badly hurt or falls ill while on deployment. Jack and Ramius comfort him over the phone or via messages through the crew of the Dallas while he's laid up, or camp out by his bed if things get bad enough that he has to be taken to a hospital on shore, and make an enormous fuss of him and spoil him thoroughly when he gets home.
• I'd love to see a somewhat outsider-POV take, with little hints about his relationship showing up in Mancuso's life, and the crew of the Dallas, who love and adore him, noticing the subtle changes. What do Mancuso's quarters aboard the Dallas look like? What books does he have there, what photographs or paintings? Are there photos of him with Jack and Ramius? Does he take some of their clothes with him aboard, to sleep in? Jonesy notices everything, and is probably the chief gossip on board. COB Watson probably Knows™, but doesn't care to talk about it. Everyone is delighted that their captain is Getting Some, because he Deserves It. (Seriously though, they're probably also delighted that he's happy and loved, because he deserves to be happy and loved.) Maybe some of the crew eventually get to come to their house up in Maine and chill with the three of them for a bit.
• While I don't think these characters would get up to d/s shenanigans often - I see them mostly as sweet, intense vanilla - I am kind of destroyed by the soft-but-firm-d/s implications of the scene where Ramius presents Mancuso with the Red October. Ramius has enormous Dom Energy in general, especially with Jack, but that scene got me feeling things about Mancuso, who also has a lot of Dom Energy, being the only person in the world whom Ramius would submit to. This goes double because when we see Mancuso give orders on the Dallas, he gives them softly, gently, and everyone immediately leaps to obey; I'd love to see him have the same command style in the bedroom, especially if Jack is sick or hurt and feeling guilty about it and needs to be told to let himself be taken care of, or conversely, if Bart himself is mildly sick or hurt and needs to convince the others to stop worrying and kiss him already, damnit.
Art prompts!
(Bart is left-handed and a shade under six foot; Jack is six foot and Ramius 6'2", and I love that they're both buff and soft while Bart is slender)
• Forehead kisses! All the forehead kisses. Anyone as giver or receiver would be lovely.
• Ramius and Mancuso holding Jack's hands or tucking their arms around him on a plane.
• Jack wrapped in a blanket with Ramius and Mancuso snuggling him.
• Jack and Ramius massaging Mancuso's hands or wrists.
• happy, older bear!Jack in a wheelchair with happy, older Ramius and Mancuso beside him - perhaps holding his hands or kissing him.
• Any and all kisses, gentle touch, handholding and/or making out is deeply loved 💛
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Mission: Impossible (Movies)
Media: fic, art
Ethan/Luther/Hunley
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I love all three of these characters so much, and I love Ethan/Luther and Ethan/Hunley a lot - my readings of both these romantic dynamics influence my reading of how the triad could work.
Luther and Ethan have known each other for over twenty years; there's so much trust between them, so much unspoken intimacy and support between them, ever since the very first film. There's definitely an element of unspoken devotion there, how Luther calls Ethan 'baby', how he's the only person Ethan trusts to see him vulnerable, how they cling to each other for support, how devastated they each look when the other nearly dies in Fallout, how they each seem not to value their own life as much as the other does. There's a long-term-mutual-pining vibe about the two of them, a kind of feeling that each of them thinks they're not good enough for the other, that maybe each of them spent a long while believing their love for the other was unrequited before getting a clue.
Ethan and Hunley, meanwhile, have known each other only since 2015, and Hunley spent most of Rogue Nation trying to chase Ethan down - but by the airport scene in Fallout three years later, he's clearly at least a little bit in love with him, and it's adorable. They're so different but so complementary - Hunley's so vocal and Ethan so quiet but equally intense! Ethan's such a ray of sunshine that he apparently converted Hunley from a cynic to an idealist by deciding to trust him! Hunley heaps praise and reassurance on Ethan, while Ethan looks as though he's in physical pain from being told he's worth believing in! Ethan calls Hunley 'sir' and it somehow means all the things! There's so much unsaid between these two characters, so much unexplored.
We don't get to see Luther and Hunley interact much, and we know that Luther's fiercely protective of Ethan and therefore can't stand Hunley in Rogue Nation, but we do see in Fallout that Hunley deeply adores Ethan, which I think could have won Luther over to his side. And as always, Ethan is canonically pretty damn touch-starved and might tear up on receiving unexpected physical affection, especially if he's otherwise hurting and overwhelmed. These are three very quiet, kind people with a fair amount of self-worth issues between them - though Hunley is professionally skilled at the political and administrative side of intelligence work, my reading of him as a person is based on the deep affection he shows Ethan in Fallout - and so I'd love to see them all slowly getting used to having not just one, but two people who love them so much.
Prompts!
• Luther and Ethan were already together before Rogue Nation, and Luther noticed Hunley pining after Ethan, eventually discussing it with Ethan and deciding to ask him to join them. I'd love to see them getting used to working together, the process of Hunley earning Luther's trust as Secretary (since he had Ethan's immediately, but the others weren't so keen), and Luther's feelings toward Hunley going from 'you adore Ethan, so I approve of you' to 'huh, I think I'm fond of you as a person actually'.
• Alternatively, they all had an awakening after nearly dying in Fallout. From what we see onscreen, Ethan and Hunley have clearly become friends through working together, perhaps over long nights of research in Hunley's office or endless meetings with Erika Sloane, or perhaps through Hunley being Ethan's handler and seeing him vulnerable, hurt and exhausted after missions. I'd love to see them all looking after each other post-Fallout; they're all badly hurt and Ethan will probably take a few weeks to recover, Hunley a few months with how grave his injuries were. I'd love to see them trying to wrap their heads around loving each other and having it acknowledged, having it be official, while also navigating each other's needs while they're healing up.
• In general, I'd love to see Hunley and Luther joining forces to take care of Ethan when he's injured, or protect him from intelligence community brass who want to question him or accuse him when he's already messed up from a mission, or just look after him and keep him warm during the post-mission adrenaline crash. (One or both of them lending him a jacket, or carrying him, would be lovely!)
• I'd also love to see Hunley growing acquainted with the bond there is between Ethan and Luther, how well they know each other without having to say a word. Hunley slowly realizing he's becoming a part of their intimacy, that he too knows both their coffee preferences or knows when Luther's worried and Ethan's hurting and won't admit it, or knows when they've had a particularly bad time on a mission by the way they look when they return for debrief. I'd love to see the learning process, Hunley getting to figure out some things slowly but having to be told others in a crisis - Luther knows what to do when Ethan's hurt or in the middle of a migraine, for instance, and Ethan knows when Luther doesn't like someone or doesn't trust some new technology the CIA's using - and I'd love for both of them to learn Hunley's tells in return, offer him a kind of hot chocolate or scotch he likes when he's had a bad day, and generally surprise him with how fond of him they are.
• I'd also just generally love to see softness and intimacy among all three of them. Sleeping on each other, looking after one another when they're tired or hurt or sick, making out while making sure they all get to feel as loved and wanted as they possibly can. I love Ethan in the submissive role to Luther and Hunley, being gently held down and loved on. (He deals with too much pain in his day job, I think, to ever get off on pain, and Luther and Hunley both read as gentle doms to me.)
Art prompts!
(Ethan is left-handed and 5'7" to Luther and Hunley's six foot, and they're both delightfully broad and soft when compared to him)
• Ethan curled up asleep in Hunley's arms while wearing a jacket that belongs to Luther and is clearly too big for him
• Hunley or Luther patching Ethan up when he's hurt, while the other supports his head or holds his hand
• Ethan and Luther petting Hunley, who's asleep or nearly asleep between them, maybe with Ethan taking off Hunley's glasses
• Any and all kisses, gentle touch, handholding and/or making out is deeply loved 💛
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Oblivion (2013)
Media: fic, art
Original Jack/Original Jack/Original Vika
Original Jack/Original Vika/Original Vika
I'm fascinated by the differences between the different Jacks, even though they're clones of the same person. I am all about how they were each shaped by circumstance, by the terrain of the area they live in, by the books and clothes and other things from the past they found. From how different OG Vika is to the canonical Vikas we see, I think that after the events of the film, this could easily be true of different Vikas as well. I am super interested in the ways in which they might express their individuality after the film, through their appearance, choice of clothes, choice of hobbies and such.
There's an elephant in the room here: the canonical Jack/Vika relationships we see aren't good. Vika 49 is sexually coercive and emotionally neglectful toward Jack 49, and Vika 52 seems not to care much about Jack 52 when she sees him injured. It's not unreasonable to think the majority of Jack/Vika relationships on Earth are unhealthy, and that there might be other Vikas who are worse, even outright abusive toward their Jacks; OG Vika was a sweet nerd, though, and it's very possible there are some Jack/Vika pairs who have healthy relationships and genuine love. With regard to these threesomes, I'm particularly interested in seeing healthy Jack/Vika dynamics in contrast to the many unhealthy ones - I would love to see unhealthy dynamics break up post-film, and healthy ones form after the characters heal, or while they're healing.
Prompts!
• A Jack/Vika pair who had a healthy, loving relationship meet a Jack who wasn't so lucky, and has a lot of healing to do from his relationship with his designated Vika. They get acquainted, and eventually all fall in love, with the established Jack/Vika pair being absolutely horrified at what their other Jack went through - they had no idea the other pairings were unhappy, and do their best to make their other Jack feel loved.
• An established happy Jack/Vika pair meet a Vika who broke up with her Jack, and who's got some lingering guilt over having taken him for granted. She turns out to be a better fit with them than she was with her designated Jack.
• A Jack who broke up with his designated Vika ends up dating another Vika who broke up with her designated Jack. It goes surprisingly well, and they pick up another Vika or another Jack along the way.
• Two Jacks who didn't have the happiest relationships with their Vikas hit it off, and eventually meet a different Vika, who slowly earns their trust.
• In general, this is a post-apocalyptic world and the Jacks worked a seriously hazardous job, so I am very here for injured or otherwise hurting Jacks, even ones who are chronically ill or living with chronic pain. I could see Jacks who've spent too long working drone repair in freezing cold climates having lasting pain or lung issues from it; I could see some of them sustaining injuries in hostile Scav attacks or while exploring, and having to heal up alone if they're out alone, or with their partners if they were already with their partners before they got hurt. I'm also very here for some of the Jacks who had abusive designated Vikas having some kind of touch aversion or complex post-traumatic stress afterwards, and for their new partners to have to learn to work around it and help them deal with it (before they get together, or even after, with the echoes of it still present in their lives). The Jacks we see in canon are all clearly deeply touch-starved, too, and very affectionate while the Vikas are a little awkward with expressing affection, and I'd love to see that explored with original Jacks and Vikas.
• I'm also very here for all the clones having to deal with the truth of who they are, and perhaps also with vague and uncertain nightmares of OG Jack and Vika's lives, like 49 had. I'd love to see a Jack/Vika/Vika or Jack/Jack/Vika triad all dealing with their own demons, and all helping each other survive and get through the day and feel loved.
Art prompts!
(The Jacks are left-handed, and 5'7" to the Vikas' 5'5")
• A hurt Jack being looked after by a Jack and a Vika, or two Vikas.
• A hurt Vika being looked after by two Jacks, or a Vika and a Jack.
• A Jack affectionately carrying a Vika in his arms, while their other Jack affectionately watches them, his arm in a sling.
• Any and all kisses, gentle touch, handholding and/or making out is deeply loved 💛
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