Dear Yuletide Creator - 2024
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simplecoffeeHi there! Thank you so much for sharing my fandoms and for writing for me! <3 I am academicgangster on Tumblr, and simplecoffee on ao3. I am open to treats in any medium!
I love exploration of canon character dynamics, especially with an extra helping of hurt/comfort!
I am here for any kind of framing device you might be feeling! H/c, casefic, fluff fic, angst, missing scenes, outsider POV, outsider POV contrasted with canon characters' POV, getting together fic, established relationship fic, you name it I love it. I'm also very much okay with or without smut - I like it, but please don't feel pressured to include it or not to include it. If you do feel inclined toward the sensual, I have a preference for a Mature rating over an Explicit rating, but I will likely enjoy whatever rating speaks to you. :D
I am super open to unconventional medium/narrative styles if you feel inspired to use them - outsider POV, outsider POV contrasted with canon characters' POV, epistolary fic, framing devices such as mission reports, medical reports, audio transcripts/debrief transcripts, text messages or post-its between characters, news articles, even official documentation, are all amazing.
I'm always open to treats in any medium!
Navigation
> Likes & DNWs
> The Sting (1973)
Johnny Hooker
Henry Gondorff
> Sneakers (1992)
Martin Bishop
Bernard Abbott
> The Chase (1966)
Bubber Reeves
Anna Reeves
Jake Rogers
> War of the Worlds (2005)
Ray Ferrier
> Space Cowboys (2000)
William "Hawk" Hawkins
Sara Holland
Frank Corvin
Likes & DNWs
General likes:
• Character studies, exploration of canon character dynamics, fallout of canon trauma
• Missing scenes, slice-of-life, etc - exploring canon character dynamics/canon traits of known characters
• Touch starvation
• Deep friendships, friends-to-lovers, earned trust between characters who know each other closely and fondly, casual intimacy and caretaking, clothes sharing
• PTSD, illness messing with a character's grip on reality, combat/mission injuries, scars, old 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 and atmosphere
• Outsider POV, especially when contrasted with our characters' POV
• Mission aftermaths
• Cars or planes, cars or planes as refuge or comfort spaces, h/c and caretaking in cars, intimacy and/or making out in cars
• 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!
Smut likes:
D/s overtones (wherever mentioned; I generally give an indication of what direction). Femdom, where applicable. Service subs. Subs With Issues. Doms who are all about looking after their subs and being gentle with them. Praise kink. Hands, fingers, touch; touch starvation. 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. Fabric kink in general (denim, silk, cotton, plush, what have you - give me all the pleasant textures!). Wrists bound or held down. Honour bondage. Careful sex / making out when one partner is hurt or ill and feverish (fever sex is, uh, a Thing of mine). Or rough, desperate, life-affirming sex / making out.
There are some fandoms where I like the sex a lot rougher; see War of the Worlds. There are also prompts for dubcon and generally messed up sexual situations there.
General DNWs:
• Mundane/depowered/setting change AUs
• Bleak, hopeless endings (as long as there's hope, bittersweet endings are fine!)
• Unrequested crossovers and fusions
• Any mention of coronavirus or quarantine/lockdown situations (trapped together is fine and encouraged though!)
• Death of requested characters (even if they died in canon)
• Non-canonical death of non-requested characters
• Terminal illness
• Permanent injury (canonical injuries acting up is fine and encouraged)
• 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)
• Marijuana use or mention of it in any capacity (other intoxicants a-okay)
• Infidelity (for Space Cowboys I'd like Sara and Barbara to be in on it and enthusiastic about Hawk/Frank)
• Infected wounds
• Internalized homophobia
Smut DNWs:
• Noncon or dubcon, except where noted
• humiliation as a kink, except where noted
• pain play, except where noted
• gags of any kind
• 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 Sting
Characters: Henry Gondorff, Johnny Hooker
Ships: Henry/Johnny
I love these smug idiots and how protective they are of each other! I feel like they would immediately do anything for each other, but are still very much tiptoeing around acknowledging that even to themselves, and that makes for a fascinating dynamic full of devoted mutual pining that neither is quite sure how to get around - and some hurt/comfort might just be the way they finally do it.
DNW innocent/vulnerable targets, please! In tune with canon, I would prefer for the target of any con they pull to be someone who deserves it.
Prompts if you want em!
• Henry out of his element in looking after Johnny, and Johnny himself out of his element in being injured or unwell - either it's an injury or illness he's never dealt with before (pneumonia? broken limb? first ever migraine?) or it's severe enough to disorient and scare him, or both
• Henry just absolutely losing his mind trying to figure out how to make Johnny more comfortable/less in pain/just make whatever he's suffering more bearable - getting him something soft to wear, extra blankets or scarves, cool cloths, filling up the bathroom with steam, whatever occurs to him
• Johnny being super unfamiliar with being cared for, complaining that Henry is fussing too much and making a big deal out of nothing, until he's feeling too bad to even complain and finally has to acknowledge it's nice to be treated nice
• Trains! I'd love to see some caretaking on trains, whether they're undercover on a fancy one or escaping on a less fancy one, or whatever other Train Premise you desire. (Cars also good, but trains lend themselves to h/c set over longer journeys without outside help, while I feel like cars are more immediate, especially in the canon time period, which is why I'm pointing out the Trains)
• Johnny letting slip how wonderful he thinks Henry is while he's out of it with pain or fever; Henry wondering if he'll even remember he said that when he feels better (he does)
• Alternatively, Henry letting something slip when Johnny is out of it, then hoping he won't remember (he does)
• Alternatively alternatively, Johnny confessing how much he likes Henry while he's really sick or hurt and Henry thinks he's out of it, but Johnny is completely in possession of his senses (just suffering) and sticks to his guns, gently coaxing Henry into accepting a kiss
• Johnny showing up injured or sick and collapsing on Henry's doorstep because he doesn't know where else to go; Henry being a disaster but pulling it together to look after Johnny despite being out of his depth and perhaps even afraid (maybe with some help and reassurance from Billie)
• Henry wanting to be gentle with Johnny in bed while Johnny is a bit of a brat and can't or won't handle gentleness (I would love to see him come around to accepting gentleness from Henry, even if Henry has to get stern in order to achieve it)
• Johnny kinda getting off on being injured/in pain until it's very suddenly all too much for him and he's in unfamiliar, disorienting territory of Actually Feeling Bad
• Johnny wanting to be tied/held down roughly, but it ends up hurting him too much and Henry compromises by tying/holding him lightly instead, carefully within how much he can handle
• Generally them being super protective of each other and having feelings they can't figure out how to express, until they do
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Sneakers (1992)
Characters: Martin Bishop, Bernard Abbott
Ships: Martin/Bernard
Here for Martin getting some looking after; he is canonically pretty fucking injured and doesn't seem to want to bother anyone with it, and his friends are all (justifiably) wrapped up in their own happy endings, and while they like him fine, I don't think they'd notice enough to stick around. Abbott, on the other hand, as a stranger looking in, may see something about him that they don't, and find himself growing unwillingly concerned for the scrappy not-so-young idiot who bested him.
Prompts if you want em!
• Martin got hit in the head to unconsciousness twice, drifted in and out in a car boot for hours, then got choked out and chucked out of a moving car, and yet when he wandered back to Liz's door he found himself comforting her instead of seeking comfort - perhaps because he didn't want to worry her, perhaps because he feels awkward asking for anything when she's his ex and is already helping him so much, perhaps just because he's not comfortable letting anyone see him vulnerable at all. (The team like him and think he's cool, but he's technically their employer, and he clearly keeps himself to himself a lot - they were all pretty stunned to learn anything about his past, let alone the whole Cosmo Situation.) To Abbott, meanwhile, he's a peer and an adversary - Abbott looks at him and sees an annoying idealist who truly understands how the world works and chooses to try to do good anyway, but he also sees how tiring that is and how Martin looks out for his team above all else. I think that of all the characters in the film, it's Abbott who could truly understand why Martin looks after everyone while keeping them at arm's length from ever seeing him less than perfectly fine, and I think he'd notice Martin was hurt and start to be concerned.
• I'd love to see them getting to know each other, starting to trust each other. Martin doesn't trust the government, but neither does Abbott even though he works within it; it's the nature of the job. Abbott likes how Martin gets super excited about security, investigation, computers and the like. Martin, now that his record is cleared and he doesn't have to worry about looking over his shoulder any more, finds Abbott is surprisingly warm and surprisingly good at getting past his defensive walls when he needs some looking after. Them being surprised to fall in love with each other, but taking it in stride. Abbott giving Martin a sense of security, of having a home base, that he's never really had before and takes a bit of coming to terms with. Hell, maybe it gives the team a bit more confidence in themselves, knowing there's an NSA agent in their corner - or maybe Abbott quits the agency to come work with them or start his own private investigation firm or something.
• Martin and Abbott doing silly word games or crossword puzzles together and bringing each other breakfast, just generally getting to be warm together. The team seeing a new, uncomplicatedly happy side of Martin they never have before - he's always been a ray of sunshine but there's always been an edge to it, and now it's slowly disappeared.
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The Chase (1966)
Characters: Bubber Reeves, Anna Reeves, Jake Rogers
Ships: Bubber/Anna/Jake
Soooo these three were all in love with each other, right? Please tell me about how they were all in love with each other. How they managed to get by on love in their miserable town before Bubber went to jail. Maybe even how the sheriff (before he was the sheriff) helped them out at times. I would be super open to reading something where Bubber survives his injuries (and this would be an exception to my permanent injuries DNW; wounds that severe may well have lifetime consequences and I would be willing to read about that in a universe where Anna and Jake are together with Bubber long-term and help him recover/adjust.)
I don't have much rambling or extra prompts/ideas here, but please be assured I would love a work for this fandom just as much as any of the others - I just need these three to have their good, warm, comforting times in the past and/or their quiet happily ever after in the future, please! <3
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War of the Worlds (2005)
Characters: Ray Ferrier
Ships: prompts are mostly gen-focused, but I'd very much enjoy Ray/OMC or Ray/OFC as well
Generally after some serious h/c for Ray after the film - I'd love some exploration of the ways in which he falls apart, and the ways in which he could start to recover. I'm also very interested in worldbuilding and Ray getting involved in communal trauma recovery post-film, and I welcome OCs and varied points of view. Here is a link to my Darkest Night tag cloud for this fandom, to give you an idea of where my headspace is at.
Ray is an exception to my permanent injuries DNW, and I have some permanent injury focused tags and prompts for him.
Thoughts/prompts:
Ray falls apart.
Whether at Mary Ann's house, or otherwise. I'm eternally frustrated by the fact that no one even invited him in for a glass of water after the absolute hell he's just been through. I'm here for Ray doing his best to keep going, possibly not even realizing how exhausted or hurt or sick he is until the kids are safe, at which point his body completely gives out on him.
Maybe Mary Ann doesn't want him around and he doesn't particularly want to impose on her family, but he blacks out literally right there on their doorstep and has to be hauled inside, and there's immensely awkward caretaking while he's very out of it, embarrassed that they're the ones who have to look after him but too messed up to try and leave. (Maybe he does try to leave and not bother them any more, and promptly passes out another time and has to be hauled back in again. Maybe he succeeds in leaving and gets caught in the rain or cold and gets even sicker. Maybe he finds himself crying in secret, or has to explain away the tears to Mary Ann's husband or a stranger.)
Speaking of strangers, I'm also here for Ray getting comfort from someone else - in fact, comfort from a stranger is more likely to be genuine comfort that really helps him. Maybe he passes out in a train on the way home and wakes up in hospital. Maybe, in the longer term, he starts to process all the awful things he's been through and bond with other survivors - does he even have a home to go back to, after Brooklyn was pretty much destroyed? Does the government put survivors and displaced folk up while deciding how to compensate them for the losses they've faced, so does Ray hole up with other people who've suffered, generally try to help out as much as he can with volunteering and relief work, and the people he finds along the way look after him when he crashes? Does he try to help with the rebuilding efforts, possibly while in no shape to do so, and crash on the job? Is he surprised that people care enough about him to make sure he's okay? I'm not opposed to him finding a cute romantic partner (of whatever gender!) who's also been through terrible things and can help him feel less alone, but I'm also very taken with the thought of this small community of traumatized people coming together to help one of their own when he needs it, and him kind of wondering why they'd even notice him or care about him. That's generally what I'm getting at with the injury, nightmare and PTSD-related tags - something happening to Ray, and a stranger, or the community of strangers he ended up a part of, helping him even when he doesn't want to be a bother and doesn't know why they'd care.
My reading of Ray is that he generally didn't see many people outside of work, and that he's the kind of person who does his utmost to help in any situation that needs it but keeps to himself a lot outside of that, so I'm very here for even the slightest bit of comfort, offered hand or kind word sort of breaking him into several pieces.
Ray falls apart, tries to cope through substances.
Ray has...a lot to deal with, and no one to even listen let alone help. A lot of the altered states tags could be fever or illness related or PTSD related, and I'm super here for that, for someone getting to see how messed up Ray really is, and choosing to stay and look after him instead of leaving him to fend for himself. I'm also here for him trying to deal with the pain by getting as drunk as he can, or accepting a pill that someone gives him, possibly not knowing what he's getting into. (To clarify, I'm not looking for an addiction plotline here, more like a 'very tired, slightly clueless, trying anything once' situation. Though I can see Ray drinking every day, I would rather not see him binge drinking every day.) Also kind of here for someone slipping him something in a drink, either with malicious intent or with benevolent intent (getting him to lighten up or have some fun for once, hoping to stop the nightmares, etc) and that not ending well whatsoever.
Here for someone - as above, a stranger or partner or someone from a community Ray's ended up in - being with him while he's in that messed up altered state, perhaps talking him down from a bad trip or flashback or some kind of delirium, or holding him while he spills sad confessions and talks without a filter, without being able to stop himself talking, about everything that hurts. Very here for all the comfort.
Ray falls apart, tries to cope through ill-advised sex with strangers.
The Above, But More. This is what the sex/BDSM tags are getting at. I'm here for Ray kind of both trying to seek out physical contact, and trying to seek out physical pain to drown out all the mental and emotional pain, and getting those wires so crossed and knotted that he ends up not really knowing which is which. Maybe, because so many people are hurting and everyone deals in different ways, he finds an abundance of people willing to hurt him, and finds that it kind of gets him off, or finds that it's easier to get off to pain than to gentleness he feels he doesn't deserve. Maybe some of these partners aren't in the best of mental places either, and end up hurting him more than he wanted, or he and said partners both kinda forget what safe and sane mean because they have no barometer for it any more, and maybe aftercare kind of isn't a thing and Ray drops hard more than once. Maybe the drop and the pain are the only way he can manage to let himself cry. (Maybe he finally happens to find someone who is really into the aftercare, and it changes his life. Very here for gentleness breaking Ray into pieces here, too.)
Ray tries his best to hold it together, even if he doesn't always succeed, but then additional terrible things happen post-apocalypse to set him back/make him crumble.
These are plot tags for Additional Angst And Pain that could add on to any of the above thoughts to make the darkness even darker, or make for a dark fic on their own. Thunderstorms, for instance, are probably going to be a major trauma trigger not just for Ray but for everyone else who survived the tripods moving through their area; I could see Ray huddling with a fellow traumatized survivor or a bunch of them, one or several of them shaking or crying, just trying to comfort one another as best they can while they weather the storm. Similarly, a broken down car in the middle of nowhere would be an eerie parallel to what Ray experienced in the film - maybe he's alone this time and doesn't deal with it well, or maybe he's with a few other people who are compassionate and help him deal. Perhaps either of these is even a trapped with someone in need of medical care situation, with Ray hurt or sick and unable to hide it when in close quarters to others, and the storm being too intense for anyone to try and get him help until it passes.
Violence is also not unlikely in a survivor camp or just in general in a post-apocalypse scenario, and I could see Ray either stepping in to try and defuse things and getting hurt because of it, or just happening to be in the wrong place at the wrong time and be the kind of quiet, awkward, perceived-as-weird person that those looking for violence like to target. Both the tags for this situation involve impalement or near-impalement - pinned/stabbed to surface as a form of restraint, possibly through a sleeve or through the arm or leg, possibly because Ray was being inconvenient for someone who wanted to steal something or hurt someone else and had to be got out of the way, and crucifixion, for which I'm mostly seeing him being pinned to a surface through the wrist or hand. For both of these I'm interested both in the trauma of the situation itself and in the (probably long-term) healing afterwards - whether Ray ends up just weaker in that arm, or whether he ends up with a limp, or ends up losing the use of a hand entirely, I want to see the healing process and someone, or multiple someones, looking after Ray while he's badly hurt and in shock on top of everything else they've all been through.
There's also a Solitary Confinement tag, for the possibility that Ray is held as responsible by law enforcement for the violent incident as the actual instigators, and is put in a cell while he's hurt, and possibly someone who witnessed the incident or just someone from the survivor camp makes it their mission to get him freed and then help him heal up afterwards.
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Space Cowboys (2000)
Characters: William 'Hawk' Hawkins, Sara Holland, Frank Corvin
Ships: Hawk/Sara, Hawk/Frank, Hawk/Sara/Frank, Hawk/Sara/Frank/Barbara (Mrs Frank)
I would love an AU where Hawk lives (either the cancer was really a setup by Bob and not real at all, or he fights it and survives).
I love Sara with all my heart, and Hawk/Sara is one of my favourite onscreen relationships, but on this last rewatch I was really struck by the dynamic between Hawk and Frank. So for this request I'm specifically looking for exploration of that dynamic with Hawk/Frank overtones (potentially ending up in a happy poly foursome with both Sara and Barbara), with Frank having pined for Hawk for decades. I would really like Sara to play a starring role as well - perhaps she is the one who notices Frank's pining, or just that there are unsaid things between the two, and helps encourage them to resolve those feelings by making out or fucking (as a one-time thing or a long-term thing).
• So, the Hawk and Frank thing. They parted on a negative note, but they're clearly so fond of each other despite being frustrated with each other, and I'm so charmed by it. I love Barbara! I love Sara! I think Frank/Barbara and Hawk/Sara are both wonderful! I just also think that there's something tangibly romantic between Hawk and Frank, and has been all these years, and that they might benefit from acknowledging it and getting to explore it. That scene under Hawk's plane, where he goes from a deeply emotional moment with Sara to an equally deeply emotional moment with Frank? Destroyed my soul. They just love each other so much!
• So, maybe Frank realizes he has feelings for Hawk, and has repressed them all these years. Perhaps it's only recently occurred to him that men being attracted to men is a possibility at all - maybe he learns that from freewheeling Jerry, or from Tank talking about unconditional support for his gay parishioners, and in the aftermath of almost losing Hawk, he just can't stop thinking about it. So he talks to Barbara about it, since he shares everything with her, perhaps thinking he'll stop feeling that way if he just talks about it, but instead realizes it just intensifies his romantic feelings for Hawk. And Barbara, who also knows and loves Hawk (and is more sexually adventurous than one would think), simply encourages Frank not to hide it any more and to get Sara's permission to ask Hawk out.
• Cue Frank awkwardly talking to Sara, who is curious but emotionally moved and then delighted, and then equally awkwardly asking Hawk out. Which prompts Hawk to think about it, and have several revelations of his own...and more conversations with Sara about it...and then maybe with Barbara, before he hesitantly accepts.
• Cue Hawk being wooed in awkward curmudgeonly manner on an awkward curmudgeonly date with Frank, while they're both having several feelings about maybe having been in love for decades wtf???
• And maybe they go to bed together afterwards.
• Maybe, instead of Frank being the first to realize it, it's Barbara or Sara or both who figure it out by the way Frank looks at Hawk, and it's their idea that he should ask Hawk out.
• Maybe at first all four of them intend it as a one-time thing, but it ends up as a recurring theme and they realize, oh man they're in love love. Maybe Barbara and Sara also realize they like to kiss each other from time to time! Maybe they don't kiss but really enjoy each other's company and are cool with their husbands being in love with them and each other.
• I'd love anything that gets Hawk and Frank together after realizing they've pined for decades - there's absolutely no need to follow every detail I put there - but however they manage it, I would very much like it to be with both their partners' consent please!
• Outside of Hawk/Frank romance, I'd love to see Hawk/Sara, with Hawk going back to giving people joyrides or being a flight instructor, while Sara continues to kick ass at NASA. I'd love to see a slice of life in their relationship, how they spend their time, what they wear, where they go to stargaze, what else they do on the bonnet of their car. ;) I love the sensory detail we get on their first date - the clothes, the breeze, the colours, the beer; how quiet and low-key but intense they are. I would love literally anything that gives me more of that feeling.
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Thank you for writing for me - I hope you have fun doing it! <3
I love exploration of canon character dynamics, especially with an extra helping of hurt/comfort!
I am here for any kind of framing device you might be feeling! H/c, casefic, fluff fic, angst, missing scenes, outsider POV, outsider POV contrasted with canon characters' POV, getting together fic, established relationship fic, you name it I love it. I'm also very much okay with or without smut - I like it, but please don't feel pressured to include it or not to include it. If you do feel inclined toward the sensual, I have a preference for a Mature rating over an Explicit rating, but I will likely enjoy whatever rating speaks to you. :D
I am super open to unconventional medium/narrative styles if you feel inspired to use them - outsider POV, outsider POV contrasted with canon characters' POV, epistolary fic, framing devices such as mission reports, medical reports, audio transcripts/debrief transcripts, text messages or post-its between characters, news articles, even official documentation, are all amazing.
I'm always open to treats in any medium!
Navigation
> Likes & DNWs
> The Sting (1973)
Johnny Hooker
Henry Gondorff
> Sneakers (1992)
Martin Bishop
Bernard Abbott
> The Chase (1966)
Bubber Reeves
Anna Reeves
Jake Rogers
> War of the Worlds (2005)
Ray Ferrier
> Space Cowboys (2000)
William "Hawk" Hawkins
Sara Holland
Frank Corvin
Likes & DNWs
General likes:
• Character studies, exploration of canon character dynamics, fallout of canon trauma
• Missing scenes, slice-of-life, etc - exploring canon character dynamics/canon traits of known characters
• Touch starvation
• Deep friendships, friends-to-lovers, earned trust between characters who know each other closely and fondly, casual intimacy and caretaking, clothes sharing
• PTSD, illness messing with a character's grip on reality, combat/mission injuries, scars, old 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 and atmosphere
• Outsider POV, especially when contrasted with our characters' POV
• Mission aftermaths
• Cars or planes, cars or planes as refuge or comfort spaces, h/c and caretaking in cars, intimacy and/or making out in cars
• 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!
Smut likes:
D/s overtones (wherever mentioned; I generally give an indication of what direction). Femdom, where applicable. Service subs. Subs With Issues. Doms who are all about looking after their subs and being gentle with them. Praise kink. Hands, fingers, touch; touch starvation. 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. Fabric kink in general (denim, silk, cotton, plush, what have you - give me all the pleasant textures!). Wrists bound or held down. Honour bondage. Careful sex / making out when one partner is hurt or ill and feverish (fever sex is, uh, a Thing of mine). Or rough, desperate, life-affirming sex / making out.
There are some fandoms where I like the sex a lot rougher; see War of the Worlds. There are also prompts for dubcon and generally messed up sexual situations there.
General DNWs:
• Mundane/depowered/setting change AUs
• Bleak, hopeless endings (as long as there's hope, bittersweet endings are fine!)
• Unrequested crossovers and fusions
• Any mention of coronavirus or quarantine/lockdown situations (trapped together is fine and encouraged though!)
• Death of requested characters (even if they died in canon)
• Non-canonical death of non-requested characters
• Terminal illness
• Permanent injury (canonical injuries acting up is fine and encouraged)
• 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)
• Marijuana use or mention of it in any capacity (other intoxicants a-okay)
• Infidelity (for Space Cowboys I'd like Sara and Barbara to be in on it and enthusiastic about Hawk/Frank)
• Infected wounds
• Internalized homophobia
Smut DNWs:
• Noncon or dubcon, except where noted
• humiliation as a kink, except where noted
• pain play, except where noted
• gags of any kind
• 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 Sting
Characters: Henry Gondorff, Johnny Hooker
Ships: Henry/Johnny
I love these smug idiots and how protective they are of each other! I feel like they would immediately do anything for each other, but are still very much tiptoeing around acknowledging that even to themselves, and that makes for a fascinating dynamic full of devoted mutual pining that neither is quite sure how to get around - and some hurt/comfort might just be the way they finally do it.
DNW innocent/vulnerable targets, please! In tune with canon, I would prefer for the target of any con they pull to be someone who deserves it.
Prompts if you want em!
• Henry out of his element in looking after Johnny, and Johnny himself out of his element in being injured or unwell - either it's an injury or illness he's never dealt with before (pneumonia? broken limb? first ever migraine?) or it's severe enough to disorient and scare him, or both
• Henry just absolutely losing his mind trying to figure out how to make Johnny more comfortable/less in pain/just make whatever he's suffering more bearable - getting him something soft to wear, extra blankets or scarves, cool cloths, filling up the bathroom with steam, whatever occurs to him
• Johnny being super unfamiliar with being cared for, complaining that Henry is fussing too much and making a big deal out of nothing, until he's feeling too bad to even complain and finally has to acknowledge it's nice to be treated nice
• Trains! I'd love to see some caretaking on trains, whether they're undercover on a fancy one or escaping on a less fancy one, or whatever other Train Premise you desire. (Cars also good, but trains lend themselves to h/c set over longer journeys without outside help, while I feel like cars are more immediate, especially in the canon time period, which is why I'm pointing out the Trains)
• Johnny letting slip how wonderful he thinks Henry is while he's out of it with pain or fever; Henry wondering if he'll even remember he said that when he feels better (he does)
• Alternatively, Henry letting something slip when Johnny is out of it, then hoping he won't remember (he does)
• Alternatively alternatively, Johnny confessing how much he likes Henry while he's really sick or hurt and Henry thinks he's out of it, but Johnny is completely in possession of his senses (just suffering) and sticks to his guns, gently coaxing Henry into accepting a kiss
• Johnny showing up injured or sick and collapsing on Henry's doorstep because he doesn't know where else to go; Henry being a disaster but pulling it together to look after Johnny despite being out of his depth and perhaps even afraid (maybe with some help and reassurance from Billie)
• Henry wanting to be gentle with Johnny in bed while Johnny is a bit of a brat and can't or won't handle gentleness (I would love to see him come around to accepting gentleness from Henry, even if Henry has to get stern in order to achieve it)
• Johnny kinda getting off on being injured/in pain until it's very suddenly all too much for him and he's in unfamiliar, disorienting territory of Actually Feeling Bad
• Johnny wanting to be tied/held down roughly, but it ends up hurting him too much and Henry compromises by tying/holding him lightly instead, carefully within how much he can handle
• Generally them being super protective of each other and having feelings they can't figure out how to express, until they do
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Sneakers (1992)
Characters: Martin Bishop, Bernard Abbott
Ships: Martin/Bernard
Here for Martin getting some looking after; he is canonically pretty fucking injured and doesn't seem to want to bother anyone with it, and his friends are all (justifiably) wrapped up in their own happy endings, and while they like him fine, I don't think they'd notice enough to stick around. Abbott, on the other hand, as a stranger looking in, may see something about him that they don't, and find himself growing unwillingly concerned for the scrappy not-so-young idiot who bested him.
Prompts if you want em!
• Martin got hit in the head to unconsciousness twice, drifted in and out in a car boot for hours, then got choked out and chucked out of a moving car, and yet when he wandered back to Liz's door he found himself comforting her instead of seeking comfort - perhaps because he didn't want to worry her, perhaps because he feels awkward asking for anything when she's his ex and is already helping him so much, perhaps just because he's not comfortable letting anyone see him vulnerable at all. (The team like him and think he's cool, but he's technically their employer, and he clearly keeps himself to himself a lot - they were all pretty stunned to learn anything about his past, let alone the whole Cosmo Situation.) To Abbott, meanwhile, he's a peer and an adversary - Abbott looks at him and sees an annoying idealist who truly understands how the world works and chooses to try to do good anyway, but he also sees how tiring that is and how Martin looks out for his team above all else. I think that of all the characters in the film, it's Abbott who could truly understand why Martin looks after everyone while keeping them at arm's length from ever seeing him less than perfectly fine, and I think he'd notice Martin was hurt and start to be concerned.
• I'd love to see them getting to know each other, starting to trust each other. Martin doesn't trust the government, but neither does Abbott even though he works within it; it's the nature of the job. Abbott likes how Martin gets super excited about security, investigation, computers and the like. Martin, now that his record is cleared and he doesn't have to worry about looking over his shoulder any more, finds Abbott is surprisingly warm and surprisingly good at getting past his defensive walls when he needs some looking after. Them being surprised to fall in love with each other, but taking it in stride. Abbott giving Martin a sense of security, of having a home base, that he's never really had before and takes a bit of coming to terms with. Hell, maybe it gives the team a bit more confidence in themselves, knowing there's an NSA agent in their corner - or maybe Abbott quits the agency to come work with them or start his own private investigation firm or something.
• Martin and Abbott doing silly word games or crossword puzzles together and bringing each other breakfast, just generally getting to be warm together. The team seeing a new, uncomplicatedly happy side of Martin they never have before - he's always been a ray of sunshine but there's always been an edge to it, and now it's slowly disappeared.
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The Chase (1966)
Characters: Bubber Reeves, Anna Reeves, Jake Rogers
Ships: Bubber/Anna/Jake
Soooo these three were all in love with each other, right? Please tell me about how they were all in love with each other. How they managed to get by on love in their miserable town before Bubber went to jail. Maybe even how the sheriff (before he was the sheriff) helped them out at times. I would be super open to reading something where Bubber survives his injuries (and this would be an exception to my permanent injuries DNW; wounds that severe may well have lifetime consequences and I would be willing to read about that in a universe where Anna and Jake are together with Bubber long-term and help him recover/adjust.)
I don't have much rambling or extra prompts/ideas here, but please be assured I would love a work for this fandom just as much as any of the others - I just need these three to have their good, warm, comforting times in the past and/or their quiet happily ever after in the future, please! <3
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War of the Worlds (2005)
Characters: Ray Ferrier
Ships: prompts are mostly gen-focused, but I'd very much enjoy Ray/OMC or Ray/OFC as well
Generally after some serious h/c for Ray after the film - I'd love some exploration of the ways in which he falls apart, and the ways in which he could start to recover. I'm also very interested in worldbuilding and Ray getting involved in communal trauma recovery post-film, and I welcome OCs and varied points of view. Here is a link to my Darkest Night tag cloud for this fandom, to give you an idea of where my headspace is at.
Ray is an exception to my permanent injuries DNW, and I have some permanent injury focused tags and prompts for him.
Thoughts/prompts:
Ray falls apart.
Whether at Mary Ann's house, or otherwise. I'm eternally frustrated by the fact that no one even invited him in for a glass of water after the absolute hell he's just been through. I'm here for Ray doing his best to keep going, possibly not even realizing how exhausted or hurt or sick he is until the kids are safe, at which point his body completely gives out on him.
Maybe Mary Ann doesn't want him around and he doesn't particularly want to impose on her family, but he blacks out literally right there on their doorstep and has to be hauled inside, and there's immensely awkward caretaking while he's very out of it, embarrassed that they're the ones who have to look after him but too messed up to try and leave. (Maybe he does try to leave and not bother them any more, and promptly passes out another time and has to be hauled back in again. Maybe he succeeds in leaving and gets caught in the rain or cold and gets even sicker. Maybe he finds himself crying in secret, or has to explain away the tears to Mary Ann's husband or a stranger.)
Speaking of strangers, I'm also here for Ray getting comfort from someone else - in fact, comfort from a stranger is more likely to be genuine comfort that really helps him. Maybe he passes out in a train on the way home and wakes up in hospital. Maybe, in the longer term, he starts to process all the awful things he's been through and bond with other survivors - does he even have a home to go back to, after Brooklyn was pretty much destroyed? Does the government put survivors and displaced folk up while deciding how to compensate them for the losses they've faced, so does Ray hole up with other people who've suffered, generally try to help out as much as he can with volunteering and relief work, and the people he finds along the way look after him when he crashes? Does he try to help with the rebuilding efforts, possibly while in no shape to do so, and crash on the job? Is he surprised that people care enough about him to make sure he's okay? I'm not opposed to him finding a cute romantic partner (of whatever gender!) who's also been through terrible things and can help him feel less alone, but I'm also very taken with the thought of this small community of traumatized people coming together to help one of their own when he needs it, and him kind of wondering why they'd even notice him or care about him. That's generally what I'm getting at with the injury, nightmare and PTSD-related tags - something happening to Ray, and a stranger, or the community of strangers he ended up a part of, helping him even when he doesn't want to be a bother and doesn't know why they'd care.
My reading of Ray is that he generally didn't see many people outside of work, and that he's the kind of person who does his utmost to help in any situation that needs it but keeps to himself a lot outside of that, so I'm very here for even the slightest bit of comfort, offered hand or kind word sort of breaking him into several pieces.
Ray falls apart, tries to cope through substances.
Ray has...a lot to deal with, and no one to even listen let alone help. A lot of the altered states tags could be fever or illness related or PTSD related, and I'm super here for that, for someone getting to see how messed up Ray really is, and choosing to stay and look after him instead of leaving him to fend for himself. I'm also here for him trying to deal with the pain by getting as drunk as he can, or accepting a pill that someone gives him, possibly not knowing what he's getting into. (To clarify, I'm not looking for an addiction plotline here, more like a 'very tired, slightly clueless, trying anything once' situation. Though I can see Ray drinking every day, I would rather not see him binge drinking every day.) Also kind of here for someone slipping him something in a drink, either with malicious intent or with benevolent intent (getting him to lighten up or have some fun for once, hoping to stop the nightmares, etc) and that not ending well whatsoever.
Here for someone - as above, a stranger or partner or someone from a community Ray's ended up in - being with him while he's in that messed up altered state, perhaps talking him down from a bad trip or flashback or some kind of delirium, or holding him while he spills sad confessions and talks without a filter, without being able to stop himself talking, about everything that hurts. Very here for all the comfort.
Ray falls apart, tries to cope through ill-advised sex with strangers.
The Above, But More. This is what the sex/BDSM tags are getting at. I'm here for Ray kind of both trying to seek out physical contact, and trying to seek out physical pain to drown out all the mental and emotional pain, and getting those wires so crossed and knotted that he ends up not really knowing which is which. Maybe, because so many people are hurting and everyone deals in different ways, he finds an abundance of people willing to hurt him, and finds that it kind of gets him off, or finds that it's easier to get off to pain than to gentleness he feels he doesn't deserve. Maybe some of these partners aren't in the best of mental places either, and end up hurting him more than he wanted, or he and said partners both kinda forget what safe and sane mean because they have no barometer for it any more, and maybe aftercare kind of isn't a thing and Ray drops hard more than once. Maybe the drop and the pain are the only way he can manage to let himself cry. (Maybe he finally happens to find someone who is really into the aftercare, and it changes his life. Very here for gentleness breaking Ray into pieces here, too.)
Ray tries his best to hold it together, even if he doesn't always succeed, but then additional terrible things happen post-apocalypse to set him back/make him crumble.
These are plot tags for Additional Angst And Pain that could add on to any of the above thoughts to make the darkness even darker, or make for a dark fic on their own. Thunderstorms, for instance, are probably going to be a major trauma trigger not just for Ray but for everyone else who survived the tripods moving through their area; I could see Ray huddling with a fellow traumatized survivor or a bunch of them, one or several of them shaking or crying, just trying to comfort one another as best they can while they weather the storm. Similarly, a broken down car in the middle of nowhere would be an eerie parallel to what Ray experienced in the film - maybe he's alone this time and doesn't deal with it well, or maybe he's with a few other people who are compassionate and help him deal. Perhaps either of these is even a trapped with someone in need of medical care situation, with Ray hurt or sick and unable to hide it when in close quarters to others, and the storm being too intense for anyone to try and get him help until it passes.
Violence is also not unlikely in a survivor camp or just in general in a post-apocalypse scenario, and I could see Ray either stepping in to try and defuse things and getting hurt because of it, or just happening to be in the wrong place at the wrong time and be the kind of quiet, awkward, perceived-as-weird person that those looking for violence like to target. Both the tags for this situation involve impalement or near-impalement - pinned/stabbed to surface as a form of restraint, possibly through a sleeve or through the arm or leg, possibly because Ray was being inconvenient for someone who wanted to steal something or hurt someone else and had to be got out of the way, and crucifixion, for which I'm mostly seeing him being pinned to a surface through the wrist or hand. For both of these I'm interested both in the trauma of the situation itself and in the (probably long-term) healing afterwards - whether Ray ends up just weaker in that arm, or whether he ends up with a limp, or ends up losing the use of a hand entirely, I want to see the healing process and someone, or multiple someones, looking after Ray while he's badly hurt and in shock on top of everything else they've all been through.
There's also a Solitary Confinement tag, for the possibility that Ray is held as responsible by law enforcement for the violent incident as the actual instigators, and is put in a cell while he's hurt, and possibly someone who witnessed the incident or just someone from the survivor camp makes it their mission to get him freed and then help him heal up afterwards.
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Space Cowboys (2000)
Characters: William 'Hawk' Hawkins, Sara Holland, Frank Corvin
Ships: Hawk/Sara, Hawk/Frank, Hawk/Sara/Frank, Hawk/Sara/Frank/Barbara (Mrs Frank)
I would love an AU where Hawk lives (either the cancer was really a setup by Bob and not real at all, or he fights it and survives).
I love Sara with all my heart, and Hawk/Sara is one of my favourite onscreen relationships, but on this last rewatch I was really struck by the dynamic between Hawk and Frank. So for this request I'm specifically looking for exploration of that dynamic with Hawk/Frank overtones (potentially ending up in a happy poly foursome with both Sara and Barbara), with Frank having pined for Hawk for decades. I would really like Sara to play a starring role as well - perhaps she is the one who notices Frank's pining, or just that there are unsaid things between the two, and helps encourage them to resolve those feelings by making out or fucking (as a one-time thing or a long-term thing).
• So, the Hawk and Frank thing. They parted on a negative note, but they're clearly so fond of each other despite being frustrated with each other, and I'm so charmed by it. I love Barbara! I love Sara! I think Frank/Barbara and Hawk/Sara are both wonderful! I just also think that there's something tangibly romantic between Hawk and Frank, and has been all these years, and that they might benefit from acknowledging it and getting to explore it. That scene under Hawk's plane, where he goes from a deeply emotional moment with Sara to an equally deeply emotional moment with Frank? Destroyed my soul. They just love each other so much!
• So, maybe Frank realizes he has feelings for Hawk, and has repressed them all these years. Perhaps it's only recently occurred to him that men being attracted to men is a possibility at all - maybe he learns that from freewheeling Jerry, or from Tank talking about unconditional support for his gay parishioners, and in the aftermath of almost losing Hawk, he just can't stop thinking about it. So he talks to Barbara about it, since he shares everything with her, perhaps thinking he'll stop feeling that way if he just talks about it, but instead realizes it just intensifies his romantic feelings for Hawk. And Barbara, who also knows and loves Hawk (and is more sexually adventurous than one would think), simply encourages Frank not to hide it any more and to get Sara's permission to ask Hawk out.
• Cue Frank awkwardly talking to Sara, who is curious but emotionally moved and then delighted, and then equally awkwardly asking Hawk out. Which prompts Hawk to think about it, and have several revelations of his own...and more conversations with Sara about it...and then maybe with Barbara, before he hesitantly accepts.
• Cue Hawk being wooed in awkward curmudgeonly manner on an awkward curmudgeonly date with Frank, while they're both having several feelings about maybe having been in love for decades wtf???
• And maybe they go to bed together afterwards.
• Maybe, instead of Frank being the first to realize it, it's Barbara or Sara or both who figure it out by the way Frank looks at Hawk, and it's their idea that he should ask Hawk out.
• Maybe at first all four of them intend it as a one-time thing, but it ends up as a recurring theme and they realize, oh man they're in love love. Maybe Barbara and Sara also realize they like to kiss each other from time to time! Maybe they don't kiss but really enjoy each other's company and are cool with their husbands being in love with them and each other.
• I'd love anything that gets Hawk and Frank together after realizing they've pined for decades - there's absolutely no need to follow every detail I put there - but however they manage it, I would very much like it to be with both their partners' consent please!
• Outside of Hawk/Frank romance, I'd love to see Hawk/Sara, with Hawk going back to giving people joyrides or being a flight instructor, while Sara continues to kick ass at NASA. I'd love to see a slice of life in their relationship, how they spend their time, what they wear, where they go to stargaze, what else they do on the bonnet of their car. ;) I love the sensory detail we get on their first date - the clothes, the breeze, the colours, the beer; how quiet and low-key but intense they are. I would love literally anything that gives me more of that feeling.
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