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Chocolate Box letter
Hello!
I'm so sorry this letter took so long to write. The truth is that I'm not all that fussy! Not that that's any excuse to put up a placeholder and then leave it there for a week. In any case, thumbs up if you already started writing. Anything you come up with is probably better than any prompt I'd give you, but in any case here are some thoughts about the pairings I requested:
Shetland, Jimmy/Duncan
I mean mostly I've been craving fic for these two because of the extreme domesticity of their parental dialogue on the show, together with how casually they shacked up together at one point, and the way that the actors often seem like they're just about to start giggling. The way Jimmy mentions Duncan's relationships always sounds like... like maybe even he thinks it's teasing? Like he's not even noticing his own resentfulness? Anyway as far as prompts go... Maybe Jimmy finds out Duncan hooked up with a man at some point in the past and finds himself getting weird about it. Or else - oh this might be more interesting, actually - Duncan finds out Jimmy is dating someone and he just loses it. Or maybe I'm making this too complicated and it's just as simple as, one time when they're cohabiting Duncan spills something gross on his bed at 1am and when he starts stripping the bed and putting it in the washing machine he makes all this noise and Jimmy is like "jfc you are making a racket, just leave it, take care of it in the morning" and Duncan is like "where did you put all the other blankets" and Jimmy is like "I don't know, I DON'T KNOW, just sleep here, now will you PLEASE BE QUIET."
Stranger Things, Nancy/Jonathan/Steve
So I've just rewatched Stranger Things and I'm all about Steve’s dark, conflicted face when he sees Jonathan and Nancy together through the bedroom window. Nancy instinctively trusting both of them but systematically hiding her feelings from everyone. Jonathan's first photo of Nancy being a photo of her while she's with Steve. Jonathan and Nancy's entire relationship involving Steve either directly or peripherally. Steve going back for them when without him they would have died. All three of them looking hesitant and apprehensive about what they want but all three of them being essential to each other in the s1 finale. Etc. etc. the interplay of care and fascination and strong feelings; pining and conflicted lust. For these characters I'm kinda picturing a scenario where Steve's way of coping with heartbreak is to, first, do everything he thinks Nancy would want him to do, which includes being friendly with Jonathan and even sometimes hanging out with him, and second, keeping a journal, or maybe even writing letters to... maybe a pen pal? Pen pal matching services were totally a thing in the 80s. Since he has no one to confide in, and his pen pal seems interested in anything and everything he writes, he finds himself saying more and more and even occasionally blurting things out. Like, things he didn't even know until he wrote them down. I dunno, it's a very vague idea - I'm interested in anything you write.
UK Comedy RPF, Brooker/Mitchell
I mean I've always felt that Brooker/Mitchell is about emotionally stunted friends who just really don't know what to do. Their infatuation is unclear even to them, and when they become aware of it they have no vocabulary, let alone tools, to deal with it. They're all "ok fine I have romantic feelings for this idiot. NOW WHAT." I feel like - David Mitchell tends to fall for people who have the ability to easily articulate their thoughts and feelings; he gravitates towards anyone who is unusually perceptive, who find it easy to point at patterns and name/describe them. And Charlie Brooker is all those things, that is, he's self-aware about his emotions but he's ashamed of them. He's particularly embarrassed about craving sustainable trust. Wanting David's enormous cock is fine, it's wanting his love that's humiliating. I always picture them slowly getting themselves to a point where they're experiencing huge, unwieldy, dramatically pent-up, unresolved sexual tension. For prompts... I feel like you can throw so many things at this pairing. Bedsharing. Amnesia. Fake relationship. I mean, one of my favourite stories for this pairing is one where David is a vampire. And there is like, no explanation. He just happens to be stuck with this vampirism issue. And it's amazing. Ooh, here's an idea: what if they're in a haunted house? Charlie would just go on and on about, idk, zombie tropes, while David quietly looks for an exit, but then there's some kind of jump scare situation and they cling to each other in terror. And maybe they hide in a closet or something, but they don't let go of each other. And maybe they talk each other down from panic attacks.
Ok, hope there's something useful for you in there. Sorry again about the late placeholder, and happy January!
I'm so sorry this letter took so long to write. The truth is that I'm not all that fussy! Not that that's any excuse to put up a placeholder and then leave it there for a week. In any case, thumbs up if you already started writing. Anything you come up with is probably better than any prompt I'd give you, but in any case here are some thoughts about the pairings I requested:
Shetland, Jimmy/Duncan
I mean mostly I've been craving fic for these two because of the extreme domesticity of their parental dialogue on the show, together with how casually they shacked up together at one point, and the way that the actors often seem like they're just about to start giggling. The way Jimmy mentions Duncan's relationships always sounds like... like maybe even he thinks it's teasing? Like he's not even noticing his own resentfulness? Anyway as far as prompts go... Maybe Jimmy finds out Duncan hooked up with a man at some point in the past and finds himself getting weird about it. Or else - oh this might be more interesting, actually - Duncan finds out Jimmy is dating someone and he just loses it. Or maybe I'm making this too complicated and it's just as simple as, one time when they're cohabiting Duncan spills something gross on his bed at 1am and when he starts stripping the bed and putting it in the washing machine he makes all this noise and Jimmy is like "jfc you are making a racket, just leave it, take care of it in the morning" and Duncan is like "where did you put all the other blankets" and Jimmy is like "I don't know, I DON'T KNOW, just sleep here, now will you PLEASE BE QUIET."
Stranger Things, Nancy/Jonathan/Steve
So I've just rewatched Stranger Things and I'm all about Steve’s dark, conflicted face when he sees Jonathan and Nancy together through the bedroom window. Nancy instinctively trusting both of them but systematically hiding her feelings from everyone. Jonathan's first photo of Nancy being a photo of her while she's with Steve. Jonathan and Nancy's entire relationship involving Steve either directly or peripherally. Steve going back for them when without him they would have died. All three of them looking hesitant and apprehensive about what they want but all three of them being essential to each other in the s1 finale. Etc. etc. the interplay of care and fascination and strong feelings; pining and conflicted lust. For these characters I'm kinda picturing a scenario where Steve's way of coping with heartbreak is to, first, do everything he thinks Nancy would want him to do, which includes being friendly with Jonathan and even sometimes hanging out with him, and second, keeping a journal, or maybe even writing letters to... maybe a pen pal? Pen pal matching services were totally a thing in the 80s. Since he has no one to confide in, and his pen pal seems interested in anything and everything he writes, he finds himself saying more and more and even occasionally blurting things out. Like, things he didn't even know until he wrote them down. I dunno, it's a very vague idea - I'm interested in anything you write.
UK Comedy RPF, Brooker/Mitchell
I mean I've always felt that Brooker/Mitchell is about emotionally stunted friends who just really don't know what to do. Their infatuation is unclear even to them, and when they become aware of it they have no vocabulary, let alone tools, to deal with it. They're all "ok fine I have romantic feelings for this idiot. NOW WHAT." I feel like - David Mitchell tends to fall for people who have the ability to easily articulate their thoughts and feelings; he gravitates towards anyone who is unusually perceptive, who find it easy to point at patterns and name/describe them. And Charlie Brooker is all those things, that is, he's self-aware about his emotions but he's ashamed of them. He's particularly embarrassed about craving sustainable trust. Wanting David's enormous cock is fine, it's wanting his love that's humiliating. I always picture them slowly getting themselves to a point where they're experiencing huge, unwieldy, dramatically pent-up, unresolved sexual tension. For prompts... I feel like you can throw so many things at this pairing. Bedsharing. Amnesia. Fake relationship. I mean, one of my favourite stories for this pairing is one where David is a vampire. And there is like, no explanation. He just happens to be stuck with this vampirism issue. And it's amazing. Ooh, here's an idea: what if they're in a haunted house? Charlie would just go on and on about, idk, zombie tropes, while David quietly looks for an exit, but then there's some kind of jump scare situation and they cling to each other in terror. And maybe they hide in a closet or something, but they don't let go of each other. And maybe they talk each other down from panic attacks.
Ok, hope there's something useful for you in there. Sorry again about the late placeholder, and happy January!