Dear Rare Male Slash Exchange creator!
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dorindaHello, Raremaleslash creator!
Thanks for signing up to make me something! I know my letter explanations often sound pretty ficcish, but I would also love some art, whichever you're offering.
(Also, let me say: you'll notice it's not uncommon for me to ask for the same fandoms a lot. If you've been assigned to me previously, please do not ever think this is because I don't still love your gift! It's just that these pairings are so small and I love them so much--I crave another cake, to go with my previous delicious cakes. In my cake hoard. :9 )
Some of my general preferences:
* Happy or at least hopeful endings to stories. This doesn't rule out melancholy or bittersweet tones, and needn't be fluffy...I don't actually find pure fluff as pleasurable in general. I prefer the characters to go through something at least a bit intense in order to get to the happy/hopeful place.
* Of course a single piece of art doesn't have an 'ending' in the same way, so in art I'd phrase it more as a hopeful/tender tone. Like, one grieving over the other's dead body: no. But, one rescuing/tenderly caring for the other one who's hurt: yiss.
* Any rating level is fine. If there is explicit sex, I prefer it to have underpinnings, emotions, needs, etc.--something deeper than just sex for its own sake. (I mean, I always prefer that, but especially when it comes to on-screen explicitness, rather than just 'they're horny and this is hot'. :D )
* I love little details of daily life, especially food, drink, clothes, etc.
* Some tropes and approaches I particularly like: trust, protectiveness, loyalty, worry, communication between the lines, seemingly-ordinary words that camouflage deep meaning, a surface shell cracking to reveal vulnerability beneath, hurt/comfort, uncovering a secret, me and you against the world, physical care like tending wounds/washing/etc., road trips, nurturing with food/drink/warmth.
And don't hesitate to go for classic frameworks if you like them! Along with hurt/comfort I am also big on things like bedsharing, huddling for warmth, pretend couple, undercover as a rentboy, rescues, suffering/sacrificing for the other, stranded somewhere, etc.
One jumps in the way of the other getting hurt? (Especially if the saved one is then mad about it?) One gets attacked and the other rises in wrath, GET BACK HE IS MINE? One awkwardly expresses the depth of his feelings with a painstakingly fried egg on toast? A desire to impress him, an effort to figure out how to be silently vulnerable with him, frustration with how he doesn't look after himself, a need for him that he hadn't understood until now or had hidden while pining? Yepppp.
Big drama is good, quiet subtlety is good. ♥
Thoughts on my specific fandom requests, alphabetically:
Aubrey/Maturin series - Patrick O'Brian: Jack Aubrey/Stephen Maturin
I love Jack and Stephen's old-married-coupleness, their music scenes as love scenes. They're so different, but their angles fit with each other in a way they don't with anyone else. I feel like neither one knows himself half as well as he knows the other. Where they might live in denial about their own weaknesses, they're knowledgeable and indulgent of each other's weaknesses. (Even when there's also teasing.) They love and worry about and admire and trust each other so much--in fact I think they trust each other more than they do themselves, e.g. Jack always absolutely sure that Stephen can cure anything, Stephen always absolutely sure that Jack can outsail anyone. But that doesn't mean I don't enjoy them having conflict--I certainly do, as long as they find their way through it.
Sexually/intimacy-wise, no need to cleave hard-and-fast to the Articles of War. I do like it to feel like it's in the canon world (rather than an anything-goes AU where no one has to keep secrets), but the canon world has a surprising amount of room in it around the edges. Like, we've seen how flexible interpretations of the Articles of War can be, and how masculinity and sexuality are expressed in various ways.
No need to set it at a specific spot in the books if you don't want to--O'Brian often creates these timeless, eternal voyages where the ship/crew becomes its own self-contained world, and I love that feeling. Also, I'm not a purist re: book vs. movie; if you want to mix in movie influences/characters, that's fine. Don't worry about technicalities of sailing terminology or whatever--include it if you want, skim over it if you want, it's all good.
镇魂 Guardian (TV): Chu Shuzhi/Guo Changcheng or Chu Shuzhi/Ye Huo
Oof, Chu Shuzhi, so handsome! His shoulders, arms, back, the way his upper body narrows at the waist like an inverted triangle. His fighting stance, the graceful way he uses his powers. I love the way he interacts with his puppet... the gentle way he holds (even clings to) the little doll, or the nurturing and delicate way he tends to the full puppet. I also dearly love his flaws, his fixation on fighting as a solution to any problem, his unresolved traumas and the way that when those get hit again he just completely falls apart.
I love how Guo Changcheng has all the resilience that Chu Shuzhi lacks. He's brave before he even has any skills to be brave with-- when Chu Shuzhi is in danger he throws himself instantly and repeatedly in the way (my favorite might be when he's about to attack a superpowered villain with a medkit <3 ). I love that after the healing, Changcheng tells him that he wasn't scared of him, even if he should have been. When he says Chu Shuzhi is a good person, he believes it, even if Chu Shuzhi maybe can't.
As for Ye Huo, we don't get as much of him, but what we get is great. He has that badass power, his fighting lifestyle and so forth-- but it turns out it's used for others, basically collecting troubled kids and looking out for them, mentoring them, finding them homes, sometimes even being that home. He envies Chu Shuzhi his life--is that about the duty and mission Chu Shuzhi has found, is it about the team, family, loved ones? And, why does he have scars from his own power, what might have happened?
Master and Commander - the Far Side of the World: Jack Aubrey/Stephen Maturin
(I'm bringing in a lot of my bookverse thoughts from above, because I find this adaptation very compatible.)
I adore the movie's style and tone, and the way it adapts Jack and Stephen. I love how the ship is its own little world with Jack and Stephen at the center, Jack the body and Stephen the mind, with the two of them together forming the heart. And for me, the same things I wrote above about the characters in the book still apply: the old-married-coupleness, the knowledge of each other, the love and trust and so forth, as well as the conflict. And it certainly brings the angst, worry, and hurt/comfort! Plus the music scenes as love scenes. ♥
Sexually/intimacy-wise, no need to cleave hard-and-fast to the Articles of War. I do like it to feel like it's in the canon world (rather than an anything-goes AU where no one has to keep secrets), but as in the books, I think this world has a surprising amount of room in it around the edges.
No need to link it to a specific spot in the movie if you don't want to--it could take place before or after or at no time in particular. I'm not a purist re: book vs. movie; if you want to mix in book influences/characters, that's fine, and also fine if not. And don't worry about technicalities of sailing terminology or whatever--include it if you want, skim over it if you want, it's all good.
Rejseholdet | Unit One: Allan Fischer/Thomas La Cour
Fischer and La Cour seem to need each other so much, like there's something they just can't get anywhere else. But this need, while intense and unflagging, also seems confused and inchoate. They feel very "Idiots in Love" to me, so skilled at their work but so clumsy at understanding 1) how deeply they personally need/love/want each other, and 2) what the hell to do about that.
They rely on the structure of the job to let them be together, work together, relax together, sit quietly in dark cars on stakeouts together, protect each other, rescue each other, talk about private and intimate things. And eventually, they rely on it to let them create a situation where literally Fischer's only lifeline is La Cour. They have this desire to connect at very deep levels, and I would love to see them finally learn to create and savor this connection without needing to pretend it's about something else.
I love their skills, with their very different angles: Fischer the expressive extrovert who is so good at talking with people, and La Cour the tightly-wrapped introvert who loses himself in the tiniest crime scene details. I love how matter-of-fact and supportive Fischer is about La Cour's abilities, even when they freak La Cour out. I love their humor and the way they enjoy poking at and needling each other. But also how much they share with each other, support each other, think of each other.
Shetland (TV): Duncan Hunter/Jimmy Perez
I love Jimmy's caretaking, idealism, his desire to do right and protect his islands and his people. I love his calm--and the times he loses his calm. I love Duncan's flexibility, sociability, compassion, sense of humor; I love his insight and the way he understands people, especially Jimmy.
And I love their relationship--their work as co-parents, the way they support each other, their history, their trust and vulnerability. Sometimes they bring out the worst--Jimmy's wish for Duncan to pull himself together can shade into self-righteousness; Duncan's wish for Jimmy to think past a black-and-white worldview can shade into immaturity. But they've been better and better for each other over time. Duncan comes to Jimmy as his automatic refuge in hard times; Jimmy in turn can stop pretending he has it all together, and lean on the supportive heart Duncan has beneath his casual exterior.
I also love the atmosphere of the islands, and am always up for more of it--the weather, the water, the shore, the ferries and boats, the sky, the birds... But if you want to take Jimmy and Duncan out of their comfort zone and have them travelling or otherwise being elsewhere, that's great too.
Thanks again! *\o/*
Thanks for signing up to make me something! I know my letter explanations often sound pretty ficcish, but I would also love some art, whichever you're offering.
(Also, let me say: you'll notice it's not uncommon for me to ask for the same fandoms a lot. If you've been assigned to me previously, please do not ever think this is because I don't still love your gift! It's just that these pairings are so small and I love them so much--I crave another cake, to go with my previous delicious cakes. In my cake hoard. :9 )
Some of my general preferences:
* Happy or at least hopeful endings to stories. This doesn't rule out melancholy or bittersweet tones, and needn't be fluffy...I don't actually find pure fluff as pleasurable in general. I prefer the characters to go through something at least a bit intense in order to get to the happy/hopeful place.
* Of course a single piece of art doesn't have an 'ending' in the same way, so in art I'd phrase it more as a hopeful/tender tone. Like, one grieving over the other's dead body: no. But, one rescuing/tenderly caring for the other one who's hurt: yiss.
* Any rating level is fine. If there is explicit sex, I prefer it to have underpinnings, emotions, needs, etc.--something deeper than just sex for its own sake. (I mean, I always prefer that, but especially when it comes to on-screen explicitness, rather than just 'they're horny and this is hot'. :D )
* I love little details of daily life, especially food, drink, clothes, etc.
* Some tropes and approaches I particularly like: trust, protectiveness, loyalty, worry, communication between the lines, seemingly-ordinary words that camouflage deep meaning, a surface shell cracking to reveal vulnerability beneath, hurt/comfort, uncovering a secret, me and you against the world, physical care like tending wounds/washing/etc., road trips, nurturing with food/drink/warmth.
And don't hesitate to go for classic frameworks if you like them! Along with hurt/comfort I am also big on things like bedsharing, huddling for warmth, pretend couple, undercover as a rentboy, rescues, suffering/sacrificing for the other, stranded somewhere, etc.
One jumps in the way of the other getting hurt? (Especially if the saved one is then mad about it?) One gets attacked and the other rises in wrath, GET BACK HE IS MINE? One awkwardly expresses the depth of his feelings with a painstakingly fried egg on toast? A desire to impress him, an effort to figure out how to be silently vulnerable with him, frustration with how he doesn't look after himself, a need for him that he hadn't understood until now or had hidden while pining? Yepppp.
Big drama is good, quiet subtlety is good. ♥
Thoughts on my specific fandom requests, alphabetically:
Aubrey/Maturin series - Patrick O'Brian: Jack Aubrey/Stephen Maturin
I love Jack and Stephen's old-married-coupleness, their music scenes as love scenes. They're so different, but their angles fit with each other in a way they don't with anyone else. I feel like neither one knows himself half as well as he knows the other. Where they might live in denial about their own weaknesses, they're knowledgeable and indulgent of each other's weaknesses. (Even when there's also teasing.) They love and worry about and admire and trust each other so much--in fact I think they trust each other more than they do themselves, e.g. Jack always absolutely sure that Stephen can cure anything, Stephen always absolutely sure that Jack can outsail anyone. But that doesn't mean I don't enjoy them having conflict--I certainly do, as long as they find their way through it.
Sexually/intimacy-wise, no need to cleave hard-and-fast to the Articles of War. I do like it to feel like it's in the canon world (rather than an anything-goes AU where no one has to keep secrets), but the canon world has a surprising amount of room in it around the edges. Like, we've seen how flexible interpretations of the Articles of War can be, and how masculinity and sexuality are expressed in various ways.
No need to set it at a specific spot in the books if you don't want to--O'Brian often creates these timeless, eternal voyages where the ship/crew becomes its own self-contained world, and I love that feeling. Also, I'm not a purist re: book vs. movie; if you want to mix in movie influences/characters, that's fine. Don't worry about technicalities of sailing terminology or whatever--include it if you want, skim over it if you want, it's all good.
镇魂 Guardian (TV): Chu Shuzhi/Guo Changcheng or Chu Shuzhi/Ye Huo
Oof, Chu Shuzhi, so handsome! His shoulders, arms, back, the way his upper body narrows at the waist like an inverted triangle. His fighting stance, the graceful way he uses his powers. I love the way he interacts with his puppet... the gentle way he holds (even clings to) the little doll, or the nurturing and delicate way he tends to the full puppet. I also dearly love his flaws, his fixation on fighting as a solution to any problem, his unresolved traumas and the way that when those get hit again he just completely falls apart.
I love how Guo Changcheng has all the resilience that Chu Shuzhi lacks. He's brave before he even has any skills to be brave with-- when Chu Shuzhi is in danger he throws himself instantly and repeatedly in the way (my favorite might be when he's about to attack a superpowered villain with a medkit <3 ). I love that after the healing, Changcheng tells him that he wasn't scared of him, even if he should have been. When he says Chu Shuzhi is a good person, he believes it, even if Chu Shuzhi maybe can't.
As for Ye Huo, we don't get as much of him, but what we get is great. He has that badass power, his fighting lifestyle and so forth-- but it turns out it's used for others, basically collecting troubled kids and looking out for them, mentoring them, finding them homes, sometimes even being that home. He envies Chu Shuzhi his life--is that about the duty and mission Chu Shuzhi has found, is it about the team, family, loved ones? And, why does he have scars from his own power, what might have happened?
Master and Commander - the Far Side of the World: Jack Aubrey/Stephen Maturin
(I'm bringing in a lot of my bookverse thoughts from above, because I find this adaptation very compatible.)
I adore the movie's style and tone, and the way it adapts Jack and Stephen. I love how the ship is its own little world with Jack and Stephen at the center, Jack the body and Stephen the mind, with the two of them together forming the heart. And for me, the same things I wrote above about the characters in the book still apply: the old-married-coupleness, the knowledge of each other, the love and trust and so forth, as well as the conflict. And it certainly brings the angst, worry, and hurt/comfort! Plus the music scenes as love scenes. ♥
Sexually/intimacy-wise, no need to cleave hard-and-fast to the Articles of War. I do like it to feel like it's in the canon world (rather than an anything-goes AU where no one has to keep secrets), but as in the books, I think this world has a surprising amount of room in it around the edges.
No need to link it to a specific spot in the movie if you don't want to--it could take place before or after or at no time in particular. I'm not a purist re: book vs. movie; if you want to mix in book influences/characters, that's fine, and also fine if not. And don't worry about technicalities of sailing terminology or whatever--include it if you want, skim over it if you want, it's all good.
Rejseholdet | Unit One: Allan Fischer/Thomas La Cour
Fischer and La Cour seem to need each other so much, like there's something they just can't get anywhere else. But this need, while intense and unflagging, also seems confused and inchoate. They feel very "Idiots in Love" to me, so skilled at their work but so clumsy at understanding 1) how deeply they personally need/love/want each other, and 2) what the hell to do about that.
They rely on the structure of the job to let them be together, work together, relax together, sit quietly in dark cars on stakeouts together, protect each other, rescue each other, talk about private and intimate things. And eventually, they rely on it to let them create a situation where literally Fischer's only lifeline is La Cour. They have this desire to connect at very deep levels, and I would love to see them finally learn to create and savor this connection without needing to pretend it's about something else.
I love their skills, with their very different angles: Fischer the expressive extrovert who is so good at talking with people, and La Cour the tightly-wrapped introvert who loses himself in the tiniest crime scene details. I love how matter-of-fact and supportive Fischer is about La Cour's abilities, even when they freak La Cour out. I love their humor and the way they enjoy poking at and needling each other. But also how much they share with each other, support each other, think of each other.
Shetland (TV): Duncan Hunter/Jimmy Perez
I love Jimmy's caretaking, idealism, his desire to do right and protect his islands and his people. I love his calm--and the times he loses his calm. I love Duncan's flexibility, sociability, compassion, sense of humor; I love his insight and the way he understands people, especially Jimmy.
And I love their relationship--their work as co-parents, the way they support each other, their history, their trust and vulnerability. Sometimes they bring out the worst--Jimmy's wish for Duncan to pull himself together can shade into self-righteousness; Duncan's wish for Jimmy to think past a black-and-white worldview can shade into immaturity. But they've been better and better for each other over time. Duncan comes to Jimmy as his automatic refuge in hard times; Jimmy in turn can stop pretending he has it all together, and lean on the supportive heart Duncan has beneath his casual exterior.
I also love the atmosphere of the islands, and am always up for more of it--the weather, the water, the shore, the ferries and boats, the sky, the birds... But if you want to take Jimmy and Duncan out of their comfort zone and have them travelling or otherwise being elsewhere, that's great too.
Thanks again! *\o/*
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