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Shipoween Letter
Sep. 18th, 2019 03:57 pmDear Author,
First of all please consider all of my prompts in the way of suggestions rather than requirements. Write whatever you're inspired to write, and as long as it's about my ship and avoids my DNWs then I promise I will enjoy it--and that goes for all ratings!!
General Likes
- tropes: codependency, mutual pining, fake marriage/fake dating, praise kink, kidfic, slice of life/curtainfic, loyalty kink, hurt/comfort, time travel, amnesia, outsider POV, jealousy, pregnancy, first time, fuck or die
- alllllll the fusion AUs idc if it’s college or soulmark or hp or daemons or pacific rim i promise if you write it I WILL LOVE IT
- my bedrock bulletproof kink is friends to lovers, but the kind of friends to lovers where the plot turns on the revelation of their already extant love, not them growing into the people they love, if you get me. it's not that i dislike enemies to lovers either! what i like about it is the shared history that gives rise to their feelings.
- themes: psychological horror, conflicting loyalties
Gone Girl (Nick/Amy, Margot & Nick)
I am fascinated by this book's class discourse. Nick is no moral exemplar, but he's also a relatable guy in the sense that his whole life he's had to make decisions based on where his next paycheck's coming from. Amy by contrast has never had to worry about her next paycheck. Amy's fiendish masterplan is ultimately foiled by a gun-- by the simple threat of violence, that she had no way to plan for or counter. But there's a great deal of structural violence being done in this text (and Amy is often the one doing it). Like it's literally a novel about the Great Recession?? Of course they're both terrible people who 100% deserve each other and I hope they go on hurting each other forever, but I can't help thinking the issue of MONEY has never been resolved. Even Amy having a first baby in her late thirties bears the unmistakable stamp of it--poor women don't wait that long to have babies. Poor women mostly aren't even getting married anymore. All of Amy's anxiety about edging towards forty, about how some random grifter is "prettier" than her, all of these anxieties are tinged with class anxiety: specifically, the fear of losing status and power, the falling out of the (upper) middle class. Once the baby is born I expect her to go into full helicopter mom mode and i am h e r e for it.
Margot is basically the only person on earth who can stomach Nick and when she responds to the question "Do you think I murdered my wife" with "I love you" that tells you everything about Nick lol. It's so unbalanced--I think Nick's getting so much more out of this relationship emotionally than she is, but that's par for the course between a man and a woman. What I think is REALLY interesting is how she's a foil to Amy, how Nick describes being with her as easy/unstressful while being with Amy he's constantly stressed/inadequate. I want all the missing scenes when Margot and Amy first met or got to know each other or were staking out their separate claims on Nick. I want all the futurefic of Margot and Amy negotiating some kind of ceasefire. I want Nick and Margot's dynamic as children vs now (has anything even changed?).
Greek Mythology (Hecate & Medea, Jason/Medea)
There aren't a lot of unrepentant full-throated endorsements of revenge arcs out there by Medea's is one and I'm here for it. Like after she murders her own children to hurt Jason she literally fucks off by flying into the sun?? What kind of power move. There's so much pain in Medea, and her situation is so relatable despite the centuries that separate her from us --- which of us has not feared to be set aside for a younger, more politically expedient women? Medea gave up everything, betrayed her father and her country for Jason, and this is how he repays her? I think it's so telling that Jason's all "look at what you've done woman" and Medea returns "no this is your doing." This is a conversation that is replayed probably every day, and I'd love to see it transplanted to a modern or other non-classical context. I think it's ballin' that she's such a forceful personality that she extracts whatever she wants out of men through sheer rhetorical power or psychological manipulation, whatever gets the job done. Her disillusionment with Jason's weakness & treachery is so poignant and her crimes are unforgivable but not incomprehensible---she's not a psychopath, she did what she did for Reasons.
Medea throws her lot in with Jason but she is a barbarian and remains a perpetual outsider, just as Hecate is the goddess of crossroads and doorways, a liminal figure whose power comes from being a heretic as much as a healer (the two are probably connected). Of course Medea is Hecate's priestess. It's unclear whether Medea is even mortal or an agent of divine justice, given that (in Euripedes's version at least) she flew away on a sky-borne chariot. Whether her involvement with Hecate began back in her father's court, before the quest for the Golden Fleece, or afterwards when Jason abandoned her, it's so interesting to think of her having a mentor & confidante instead of all by herself stewing in her bitterness.
Six of Crows (Kaz/Inej, Inej/Nina)
I headcanon Inej and Nina as the only two Gryffindors among the crew, and would read 3489348 words of them bonding over it. Inej and Nina going on adventures (organizing the sex workers of Ketterdam into a guild of their own, for instance)! Inej and Nina painting their nails or giving each other massages or similar domestic fluff!
Kaz being hamstrung by his own debilitating fear of intimacy and not being able to let Inej all the way in?? Gold. Never get tired of it. I just think it's fascinating that Kaz is the only one of the Dregs whose main asset is his brain. By which I don't mean to say everyone else is stupid, but that they're all defined by what they can do physically. Jesper can shoot straight and bend metal; Nina can literally rearrange your internal organs for you; Wylan's gift is for making bombs and music, both of which are extremely corporeal; Matthias is a soldier and Inej is a an acrobat. Her body is her weapon. Kaz, I get the sense would rather shed his corporeal form altogether if he could, and the bad leg with it. He lives so entirely in the realm of thoughts that he needs Inej to ground him in the realm of material things.
First of all please consider all of my prompts in the way of suggestions rather than requirements. Write whatever you're inspired to write, and as long as it's about my ship and avoids my DNWs then I promise I will enjoy it--and that goes for all ratings!!
General Likes
- tropes: codependency, mutual pining, fake marriage/fake dating, praise kink, kidfic, slice of life/curtainfic, loyalty kink, hurt/comfort, time travel, amnesia, outsider POV, jealousy, pregnancy, first time, fuck or die
- alllllll the fusion AUs idc if it’s college or soulmark or hp or daemons or pacific rim i promise if you write it I WILL LOVE IT
- my bedrock bulletproof kink is friends to lovers, but the kind of friends to lovers where the plot turns on the revelation of their already extant love, not them growing into the people they love, if you get me. it's not that i dislike enemies to lovers either! what i like about it is the shared history that gives rise to their feelings.
- themes: psychological horror, conflicting loyalties
Gone Girl (Nick/Amy, Margot & Nick)
I am fascinated by this book's class discourse. Nick is no moral exemplar, but he's also a relatable guy in the sense that his whole life he's had to make decisions based on where his next paycheck's coming from. Amy by contrast has never had to worry about her next paycheck. Amy's fiendish masterplan is ultimately foiled by a gun-- by the simple threat of violence, that she had no way to plan for or counter. But there's a great deal of structural violence being done in this text (and Amy is often the one doing it). Like it's literally a novel about the Great Recession?? Of course they're both terrible people who 100% deserve each other and I hope they go on hurting each other forever, but I can't help thinking the issue of MONEY has never been resolved. Even Amy having a first baby in her late thirties bears the unmistakable stamp of it--poor women don't wait that long to have babies. Poor women mostly aren't even getting married anymore. All of Amy's anxiety about edging towards forty, about how some random grifter is "prettier" than her, all of these anxieties are tinged with class anxiety: specifically, the fear of losing status and power, the falling out of the (upper) middle class. Once the baby is born I expect her to go into full helicopter mom mode and i am h e r e for it.
Margot is basically the only person on earth who can stomach Nick and when she responds to the question "Do you think I murdered my wife" with "I love you" that tells you everything about Nick lol. It's so unbalanced--I think Nick's getting so much more out of this relationship emotionally than she is, but that's par for the course between a man and a woman. What I think is REALLY interesting is how she's a foil to Amy, how Nick describes being with her as easy/unstressful while being with Amy he's constantly stressed/inadequate. I want all the missing scenes when Margot and Amy first met or got to know each other or were staking out their separate claims on Nick. I want all the futurefic of Margot and Amy negotiating some kind of ceasefire. I want Nick and Margot's dynamic as children vs now (has anything even changed?).
Greek Mythology (Hecate & Medea, Jason/Medea)
There aren't a lot of unrepentant full-throated endorsements of revenge arcs out there by Medea's is one and I'm here for it. Like after she murders her own children to hurt Jason she literally fucks off by flying into the sun?? What kind of power move. There's so much pain in Medea, and her situation is so relatable despite the centuries that separate her from us --- which of us has not feared to be set aside for a younger, more politically expedient women? Medea gave up everything, betrayed her father and her country for Jason, and this is how he repays her? I think it's so telling that Jason's all "look at what you've done woman" and Medea returns "no this is your doing." This is a conversation that is replayed probably every day, and I'd love to see it transplanted to a modern or other non-classical context. I think it's ballin' that she's such a forceful personality that she extracts whatever she wants out of men through sheer rhetorical power or psychological manipulation, whatever gets the job done. Her disillusionment with Jason's weakness & treachery is so poignant and her crimes are unforgivable but not incomprehensible---she's not a psychopath, she did what she did for Reasons.
Medea throws her lot in with Jason but she is a barbarian and remains a perpetual outsider, just as Hecate is the goddess of crossroads and doorways, a liminal figure whose power comes from being a heretic as much as a healer (the two are probably connected). Of course Medea is Hecate's priestess. It's unclear whether Medea is even mortal or an agent of divine justice, given that (in Euripedes's version at least) she flew away on a sky-borne chariot. Whether her involvement with Hecate began back in her father's court, before the quest for the Golden Fleece, or afterwards when Jason abandoned her, it's so interesting to think of her having a mentor & confidante instead of all by herself stewing in her bitterness.
Six of Crows (Kaz/Inej, Inej/Nina)
I headcanon Inej and Nina as the only two Gryffindors among the crew, and would read 3489348 words of them bonding over it. Inej and Nina going on adventures (organizing the sex workers of Ketterdam into a guild of their own, for instance)! Inej and Nina painting their nails or giving each other massages or similar domestic fluff!
Kaz being hamstrung by his own debilitating fear of intimacy and not being able to let Inej all the way in?? Gold. Never get tired of it. I just think it's fascinating that Kaz is the only one of the Dregs whose main asset is his brain. By which I don't mean to say everyone else is stupid, but that they're all defined by what they can do physically. Jesper can shoot straight and bend metal; Nina can literally rearrange your internal organs for you; Wylan's gift is for making bombs and music, both of which are extremely corporeal; Matthias is a soldier and Inej is a an acrobat. Her body is her weapon. Kaz, I get the sense would rather shed his corporeal form altogether if he could, and the bad leg with it. He lives so entirely in the realm of thoughts that he needs Inej to ground him in the realm of material things.
