catchmeifyoucreon

Likes:

• Canon divergences; fix-it fic; make-it-worse fic.
• Destructive relationships; overwhelming emotional connections; characters becoming inseparable due to shared trauma.
• Traumatic events bringing two people closer.
• Tragic endings for characters caused by their own choices.
• Forced intimacy (including sex pollen, body swaps, Bad Guys Made Them Do It, locked in a confined space, etc.).
• Noncon & dubcon scenarios of all kinds (including drugged/drunk sex, gangbangs, marital abuse, un-negotiated kink, etc.).
•  Outsider POV on a taboo or forbidden relationship.
• Captive or hostage situations.
• Enemies/rivals forced to work together.
• Reunions.
• Explorations into different historical sexual mores/different understandings of sex across cultures/time periods.
• Found families and families of choice.
• Time loops, particularly where one character snaps, doing things they never usually would.
• Dreamscapes and imaginary worlds (particularly when characters are trapped in these, or it’s ambiguous as to how “real” what is happening to them within the dream world may be).
• Circular/recursive narratives; narratives that refer back to previous events after having revealed new context that allows the reader to see the first iteration in a different light.

Do Not Wants (DNWs):

• Scat, sounding, cock & ball torture, rimming.
• Raceplay.
• Explicit depictions of sexual acts featuring characters under the age of 17 (references or implications are fine, as is kissing).

Fandom-specific DNW for 镇魂 | Guardian – priest:

• Any plot point or character that only appears in the TV show, e.g., Haixingren/Dixingren, Chu Nianzhi, etc.

Wuthering Heights - Emily Brontë

Catherine Linton (Wuthering Heights - Brontë)
Heathcliff (Wuthering Heights - Brontë)

Context:

Wuthering Heights focuses on the devastating consequences of the tumultuous relationship between Catherine (Cathy) Earnshaw and Heathcliff, an outsider brought home by her father. Following a misunderstanding in their youth, Heathcliff abandons Cathy and she instead marries her neighbour, Edgar Linton.

Shortly after Heathcliff’s return triggers delirium for Cathy, she gives birth to a daughter, Catherine Linton. Cathy dies soon after, leaving Heathcliff distraught and haunted by her ghost. To get his revenge for her death, he plots to marry young Catherine to his own son, her cousin Linton Heathcliff, and keeps her trapped in Wuthering Heights until she agrees.

The novel can be read online at Project Gutenburg.

Prompts:

I’d be very interested to read a twisted, psychosexual dynamic between Heathcliff and Catherine – perhaps she reminds him of her mother with her “Earnshaw eyes”, or perhaps there’s even a lingering possibility that she could be his daughter. I also love the implication from Nelly the maid that Linton’s love letters to Catherine are written by a “more experienced source” (i.e., his father).

Perhaps Catherine realises (or suspects) a relationship between Heathcliff and her mother and confronts him about it. Perhaps she tries to get through to him after he locks himself in his room near the end of the book. Or perhaps Heathcliff plans to exact revenge on his rival Edgar Linton by marrying Catherine himself, rather than having Linton marry her.

For a gen perspective, I’d be interested to read something where Heathcliff grows fonder of Catherine, despite the blame he places on her for her mother’s death, and struggles to reconcile his feelings. Or else something where Catherine struggles with her own mixed feelings following Heathcliff’s death.

 

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镇魂 | Guardian - priest

Chu Shuzhi
Guo Changcheng

Context:

Guardian is a danmei novel featuring the various ghosts and monsters of the Special Investigation Department, an agency (headed by the sardonic and whip-sharp Zhao Yunlan) that deals with supernatural occurrences in Dragon City, working with the Soul-Executing Emissary who runs the Netherworld to deal with these cases.

In the course of the various cases the department is tasked to solve, Zhao Yunlan meets a mysterious university professor, Shen Wei, and the two strike up an intense relationship (much to the SID team’s varied amusement and dismay). But there’s more to Shen Wei than meets the eye – and he knows something about Zhao Yunlan’s past that could change everything.

It's into this eclectic group that Guo Changcheng sets foot one day, after his uncle secures him a government job and he’s assigned to this strange department. Guo Changcheng is a nervous young man who can barely string a sentence together. He’s terrified of everything, except – somehow – his co-worker Chu Shuzhi, a necromancer and zombie Corpse King who constantly dissuades him from acts of kindness. But Guo Changcheng refuses to give up on kindness despite being rebuffed at every turn.

The Seven Seas website has links to buy the three volumes of Guardian in English translation.

Prompts:

I love the contrast between Guo Changcheng’s kindness and the way he learns to use his fear as a weapon throughout the series, and Chu Shuzhi’s jaded viewpoint and his ruthlessness, his refusal to be afraid of anyone or anything (except perhaps the Soul-Executing Emissary). I like that, despite the fact that he would never admit it openly, Chu Shuzhi comes to care about Guo Changcheng, helping him and saving him multiple times (including from bad blind dates, in the bonus stories set post-canon).

I’d love to see a fic set post-canon: maybe a casefic where they have to work on something together and we get to see more of how their relationship develops? I love the moments in canon where they work together, so anything along those lines where Guo Changcheng gets to shine and Chu Shuzhi gets to pretend he doesn’t care about “Xiao-Guo” while caring very, very much, would be brilliant. I’m also very open to casefic involving some kind of forced proximity or intimacy – sex pollen, bodyswap, bodysharing, fake dating, being bound together, etc. would all be great.

Or else, perhaps something set mid-canon, when Guo Changcheng follows his “Chu-ge” home on Zhao Yunlan’s orders – what if Guo Changcheng didn’t go home after Chu Shuzhi confronted him? What would happen if Guo Changcheng ever set foot inside Chu Shuzhi’s house? What does Chu Shuzhi feel about Guo Changcheng seeing him in such a vulnerable moment (in his home, no less)? Does he lash out more, or do they come to an understanding of sorts? What does Chu Shuzhi’s home even look like?

Fandom-specific Do Not Wants:

·       Any plot point or character that only appears in the TV show, e.g., Haixingren/Dixingren, Chu Nianzhi, etc.

 

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In Parenthesis – David Jones

Bates (In Parenthesis – David Jones)
Coldpepper (In Parenthesis – David Jones)

Context:

In Parenthesis is a modernist prose poem based on David Jones’ experiences as an infantryman during the Great War of 1914-18. It tells the story of a soldier called John Ball, an Englishman who joins a mixed regiment of Welsh and English soldiers. The poem follows the regiment as they journey over to France to fight in the trenches. One of the poem’s most famous passages is the boast of Dai Greatcoat, a deathless, mythical figure among the soldiers who tells of past battles from ancient times to the present.

The poem culminates at Mametz Wood during the Battle of the Somme, where many of the men die.

Bates and Coldpepper, the characters I’ve requested, are two soldiers who appear in Part 7 and are mentioned twice – once where they are introduced to as “two lovers from Ebury Bridge”, and again when Coldpepper dies, leaving Bates to bear his “weight of woe”.

In Parenthesis can be read for free on the Internet Archive.

Prompts:

I’d love to read something about how Bates and Coldpepper met, how they became lovers, and how they came to be in the military – was one conscripted and the other joined up to be with them, were they both conscripted, or did they both voluntarily join up?

Or I’d also be really interested to read something about their time in the military – the poem is plainly aware they’re lovers, so how many of the men around them know? How do the other men react? Do Bates and Coldpepper mind if people know about them? Do they ever manage to get some time alone? Do any of the other men help them out or pretend not to see? How do they manage the lack of privacy?

Alternatively, I’d love something post-canon where Bates has to learn to live without Coldpepper, and also grieve him without being able to fully express his sense of loss to the people around him, who might judge him or even hurt him for daring to speak about Coldpepper as his lover.

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• Characters trapped in a confined space/any place they can't leave, and growing closer as a result of the experience.
• Enemies, rivals, or unlikely allies forced to work together towards a common goal and/or for their survival.
• Found family dynamics; choosing to love a person/group of people unconditionally as family.
• Intense, all-consuming relationships where two (or more) characters are inextricably bound by circumstance or trauma and develop a unique connection as a result.
• Strange circumstances and/or traumatic events bringing two (or more) people closer in a way that makes them feel like no one else understands them.
• A character finding out about another character's trauma or pain and doing their best to comfort/support them.
• Emotional and/or physical hurt/comfort.
• Friends with benefits dynamics.
• Characters who were once close reuniting after many years and difficulties that parted them.
• Deep bonds between two people who should (and maybe do) hate one another but feel like the other is the only one who understands them.
• Characters seeing an unexpected side to another character and growing closer as a result.
• Crack treated seriously.
• Time travel, particularly if it deals with the shock of being in a completely different cultural context and/or the time travelling character having to adjust to the differences.
• Forced intimacy - including bodyswaps, sex pollen, Fuck or Die plots, characters being magically bound together.

• Depiction of sexual acts featuring any character below the age of 18 (brief references to a character having had underage sex or references to childhood abuse are fine).
• Vore; disembowelment.
• Scat; cock & ball torture; cock cages; castration; sounding; rimming.
• Mafia or sci-fi AUs.

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Humphrey Bone & Alison Cooper

I would love to read anything about their dynamic! I loved it when they teamed up to prank the other ghosts on April Fool’s Day. I also love it when Humphrey gets to join in the fun. Maybe Alison finds a way to bring Humphrey with her on “adventures” around the estate? Or maybe Alison tries to get him to help with a Tudor homework assignment for Mia, and he ends up telling her a bit about his life and marriage?

The Captain & Mike Cooper

I just think the Captain would love to be friends with Mike (and they’d probably both be incredibly awkward and earnest at each other if they could actually interact properly). Maybe the Captain discovers a ghostly ability that allows Mike to hear/see/communicate with him in some way? Or else Mike comes up with some creative ways to befriend the Captain without being about to hear or see him?

The Captain & Alison Cooper

It strikes me that Alison wasn’t there to hear the Captain’s story about his death, or his feelings for Havers. I’d love to read something where they delve into his history together a bit. Perhaps Alison looks into the lives of the soldiers who lived at Button House during the war at the Captain’s request – and maybe she finds out what happened to Havers after the Captain died?

Alison Cooper & Julian Fawcett

I feel like Alison sometimes reminds Julian of the daughter he wasn’t able to raise, and I’d love to read something where he takes on a paternal, comforting, and/or protective role towards her (especially if he’s quite bad at it and falls back on his usual off-colour jokes and general crassness).

Humphrey Bone/Alison Cooper/Mike Cooper

Honestly I just think it would be really funny if both Alison and Mike got a crush on Humphrey. (Imagine how mad about it Thomas would be...) I'd read literally anything for this trio, the more unhinged the better - maybe Humphrey wakes up corporeal one day, with his head reattached, and Alison and Mike both realise he's actually really handsome. Maybe Alison and Mike time travel back to Tudor England and Humphrey takes them under his wing. Maybe Humphrey accidentally sees something he shouldn't when his head is left in Alison and Mike's bedroom (and maybe Alison/Mike decide they actually don't mind at all?).

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山河令 | Word of Honor (TV 2021)

Shen Shen & Wen Kexing

I think the history between these two is fascinating – and although there will always be a part of Wen Kexing that can’t forgive Shen Shen, they are the last two who really remember Wen Kexing’s parents. I’d be interested to read anything featuring a tentative reconciliation or friendship post-canon, and/or the ways they both grudgingly unite to protect Chengling.

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괴물 | Beyond Evil (TV)

Kang Minjeong & Park Jeongje

I’d love to read anything about Park Jeongje’s role in Minjeong’s life growing up, and how she came to trust him. Does she ever find him “weird” or unsettling, like her father, or is there something different that she sees in him that helps her relate to him? What would have happened if Jeongje hadn’t walked her back to her father’s house that night, but instead let her stay at his or took her to Dongsik’s place?

Park Jeongje & Yoo Jaeyi

I find Jaeyi’s relationship with Jeongje – the way he goes straight to her shop when drunk and messily blurting out secrets, the way she tells him he needs to do the right thing, the way they deal with Oh Jihun together at Minjeong’s funeral – to be really intriguing. I’d be really interested to read about the way their friendship is affected by the revelation of Jeongje’s role in Yuyeon’s death, and if Jaeyi is able to forgive and/or re-establish their connection. Does she ever feel scared of him? Does she see something of her own denial around her mother’s death in the way he repressed his role in Yuyeon’s death? How did they become friends in the first place, and what did that dynamic look like before the events of the show?

Likes:

• Canon divergences; fix-it fic; make-it-worse fic.
• Destructive relationships; overwhelming emotional connections; characters becoming inseparable due to shared experiences and/or traumas.
• Deep bonds between two people who should (and maybe do) hate one another but feel like the other is the only one who understands them.
• Traumatic events bringing two people closer in a way that makes them feel like no one else understands them.
• Tragic endings for characters inevitably caused by their own choices (especially if they know they could have avoided their end if they had made other choices).
• Forced intimacy (including sex pollen, Bad Guys Made Them Do It, Scarpia ultimatum, etc.).
• Noncon and dubcon scenarios of all kinds (including but not limited to: gangbangs, drugged/drunk sex, blackmail, marital abuse, and unnegotiated kink/BDSM).
• Outsider POV on a taboo or forbidden relationship.
• Captive or hostage situations; rival/enemy characters trapped in a confined place and forced to team up for survival.
• Enemies/rivals forced to work together.
• Arranged marriage; political marriage; forced marriage.
• Enemies to reluctant allies; enemies to friends; enemies to lovers.
• Characters who were once close reuniting after many years and difficulties that parted them.
• Explorations into different historical sexual mores and different understandings of sex across cultures and time periods.
• Found families and families of choice; characters finding community and belonging with one another.
• Time loops, particularly where one character snaps, doing things they never usually would consider, due to the continued torment of the loop.
• Dreamscapes and imaginary worlds (particularly when characters are trapped in these, or it’s ambiguous as to how “real” what is happening to them within the dream world may be).
• Circular/recursive narratives; narratives that refer back to previous events after having revealed new context that allows the reader to see the first iteration in a different light.

DNWs:

• Scat, emetophilia, vore, disembowelment.
• Castration, cock & ball torture, penile chastity devices, sounding.
• Rimming.
• Raceplay.
• Explicit depictions of sexual acts featuring characters under the age of 17 (references or implications are fine, as is kissing).
• Modern AU for historical or fantasy canons; mafia AU; sci-fi AU.

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Wuthering Heights - Emily Bronte

Catherine Linton (Wuthering Heights - Bronte)
Heathcliff (Wuthering Heights - Bronte)

Context:

Wuthering Heights focuses on the devastating consequences of the tumultuous relationship between Catherine (Cathy) Earnshaw and Heathcliff, an outsider brought home by her father. Following a misunderstanding in their youth, Heathcliff abandons Cathy and she instead marries her neighbour, Edgar Linton.

Shortly after Heathcliff’s return triggers delirium for Cathy, she gives birth to a daughter, Catherine Linton. Cathy dies soon after, leaving Heathcliff distraught and haunted by her ghost. To get his revenge for her death, he plots to marry young Catherine to his own son, her cousin Linton Heathcliff, and keeps her trapped in Wuthering Heights until she agrees.

The novel can be read online at Project Gutenburg.

Prompts:

I’d be very interested to read a twisted, psychosexual dynamic between Heathcliff and Catherine – perhaps she reminds him of her mother with her “Earnshaw eyes”, or perhaps there’s even a lingering possibility that she could be his daughter. I also love the implication from Nelly the maid that Linton’s love letters to Catherine are written by a “more experienced source” (i.e., his father).

Perhaps Catherine realises (or suspects) a relationship between Heathcliff and her mother and confronts him about it. Perhaps she tries to get through to him after he locks himself in his room near the end of the book. Or perhaps Heathcliff plans to exact revenge on his rival Edgar Linton by marrying Catherine himself, rather than having Linton marry her.

For a gen perspective, I’d be interested to read something where Heathcliff grows fonder of Catherine, despite the blame he places on her for her mother’s death, and struggles to reconcile his feelings. Or else something where Catherine struggles with her own mixed feelings following Heathcliff’s death.

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Winter’s Tale - Shakespeare

Camillo (Winter's Tale)
Polixenes (Winter's Tale)

Context:

The Winter’s Tale is one of Shakespeare’s late comedies, which starts very like a tragedy – the King of Sicily, Leontes, becomes obsessed with the idea that his dear friend Polixenes, King of Bohemia, is having an affair with Leontes’ wife Hermione. Irrational and unwilling to listen to reason, he condemns Hermione to death, and commands his servant Antigonus to expose his newborn daughter (whom he believes was fathered by Polixenes) to the elements. Unbeknownst to him, Antigonus instead leaves the baby in Bohemia, where she is adopted by a shepherd and his son.

Meanwhile, Leontes’ adviser Camillo helps Polixenes to escape Sicily, and flees with him. He spends the next few years living in exile in Polixenes’ court and becomes a trusted adviser – even accompanying Polixenes on an undercover trip to find out what his son Florizel is up to… and which young shepherd girl he’s been courting.

The play can be read online at the Folger Shakespeare Library.

Prompts:

I absolutely love the scene where Camillo and Polixenes go undercover to crash Perdita’s party – I love Polixenes being an overprotective dad, and Camillo being the one who tries to reason with Polixenes and advocate for Florizel, even as he scolds Florizel for not listening to his father.

I’ve always been intrigued by the idea of the two of them raising Florizel together as his fathers (whether there’s a romantic relationship between Polixenes and Camillo or not; I ship them but I’m also keen to read gen or pre-slash takes).

I’d be interested to read something set in Florizel’s childhood, with Polixenes struggling with parenthood and Camillo trying his best to help. Or maybe something post-canon, where Camillo and Polixenes have to deal with being parted/saying goodbye to one another (or perhaps there could be a different ending, where Camillo decides to return to Bohemia with Polixenes, or Polixenes decides to stay in Sicily)?

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關於我和鬼變成家人的那件事 | Marry My Dead Body (2023)

Mao Pang-yu
Wu Ming-han

Context:

Marry My Dead Body is a Taiwanese comedy-drama film featuring the prejudiced policeman Wu Ming-han, who accidentally finds himself trapped in a ghost marriage with a gay man, Mao Pang-yu. Mao Pang-yu died in a hit and run, and his ghost appears to torment Wu Ming-han into helping him find his killer. As he gets to know Mao Pang-yu, Wu Ming-han’s prejudices are challenged and he begins to grow closer to his ghost husband.

The film is available to watch on Netflix. You can watch the trailer on YouTube.

Prompts:

I ship them, and I also love their canon dynamic of platonic/ambiguously romantic soulmates.

I’d love to read any kind of fix-it fic for this canon with Mao Pang-yu sticking around after the end of the movie (either as a ghost or restored to life). Something where they end up as private detectives after the events of the movie, working together to solve crimes, would be really fun!

I’d equally love anything set mid-canon – maybe they do kiss in that scene in the gay bar, and have to deal with the fall-out from that, whether that’s realising that they do have romantic feelings for each other, or Wu Ming-han coming to terms with his sexuality and/or feelings for Mao Pang-yu?

Or, for a darker prompt, maybe the crime boss responsible for Mao Pang-yu’s death forces Wu Ming-han into a sexual situation with a henchman, and Mao Pang-yu possesses the guy and takes over in an attempt (maybe unsuccessful) to make things easier and less horrific for Wu Ming-han?

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아가씨 | The Handmaiden (2016)

Fujiwara (The Handmaiden)

Context:

A film reimagining the events of Sarah Waters’ novel Fingersmith in Japanese-occupied Korea. It features the maid Sook-hee, who goes to work for the rich lady Hideko, whose uncle hides his dark secrets in plain sight. Sook-hee is hiding secrets of her own – she’s working with the fake nobleman Fujiwara to scam Hideko by encouraging her to marry Fujiwara so that he can assume control of her fortune and put her in a mental hospital to get rid of her.

As Sook-hee grows closer to Hideko, she begins to doubt her original plans… but she’s not the only one Fujiwara has been working with, and a twisted tale of betrayal and loyalty ensues when Sook-hee, Hideko, and Fujiwara flee Hideko’s uncle.

It can be watched on Amazon Prime (with a 7-day free trial of BFI Player).

Prompts:

I find Fujiwara such a fascinating character – he is an antagonist and an unreliable, feckless, often cruel man, but he ultimately allies himself with the female protagonists over the other male antagonist. He meets a grim fate, refusing to give up any information on Hideko and Sook-hee’s whereabouts to Hideko’s uncle.

I find it really interesting that he plays such a pivotal role as a villain and a sexual threat, but also has a kind of grudging respect for Hideko’s tenacity, and he has also the kind of moral complexity and charisma that makes me root for him in the final confrontation between him and Hideko’s uncle.

I’d love to read anything relating to Fujiwara as an unreliable narrator of his own life/backstory; how he views his own actions and their consequences as he approaches his death; or his outsider POV as he notices Hideko and Sook-hee growing closer.

Or I’d also be interested to read an AU where he survives the movie’s events, and what his life looks like after that (maybe he goes to Shanghai and meets Hideko and Sook-hee – or views them from a distance)?