Dear Rare Male Slash author
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bustedxflushHi, I’m great_whatsit at AO3! First and foremost: THANK YOU! I am so lucky to be getting a gift from you, and I’m immensely grateful for the time and energy you're putting into this. Taking the time to do something like this is a huge deal.
In terms of narrative I’m pretty easy to please, and any rating and/or combination of gender identities and bodies is cool with me. That said, I do have a few DNWs, mainly: extreme or explicit violence and torture, noncon or dubcon (unless specified for the fandom), horror, and A/B/O.
Things I love (but in no way require) in fic: found family, sex that is urgent, angry, awkward, or familiar and full of laughter (or all of the above), complicated or fucked up power dynamics (please never think anything in this department will be Too Much), quiet devotion, humor, bittersweet endings, day in the life snapshots, tragically stoic characters who only one other person understands, damaged people who are trying, whether it's just to do as little harm as possible, or to heal themselves, even a little (ðŸ˜ðŸ˜ðŸ˜ðŸ˜ðŸ˜ðŸ˜).
All of that said: everything that follows is mere suggestion, nothing more. I am already over the moon that anyone else shares any of these interests, and is willing to write something about one of them for me. Anything you come up with will be incredible.
REQUEST #1: Suspense (Radio), episode: "Pearls are a Nuisance!" (1950)
Available for free here.
This is an old timey radio show that is COMPLETELY WONDERFUL. The canon (linked above) runs under 30 minutes, and that's with ads — you can finish it in no time, especially if you listen to it at 1.25x or 1.5x! Anyway, the story brings together a gruff bruiser (Henry Eigelberger, played by William Bendix) and a cowardly, idle rich boy (Allyn Joslyn as Walter Gage) as the latter tries to track down missing pearls, which he initially assumes the former stole. The two butt heads but quickly become allies (Gage very much likes having a badass criminal pal), and it's just achingly adorable and very funny.
REQUEST #2: Briarpatch (TV)
Forget what the summary says, this movie is about Peter O'Toole (Captain Finch) being completely in love with Aldo Ray (Norgate). Their first fishing date (yes really) is ridiculous, Finch is so smitten he can hardly contain himself and, when they get back to London proper, he starts inviting his new bff to have dinner with him at work (which happens to be The Bank of England, cos he's a rich boy whose job is wearing a uniform and wandering around there) so often that, when Norgate doesn't show up, the ... work butler or whatever is unsettled by his absence. And, when Finch gets all sad, where does he go? TO NORGATE OF COURSE TO POUR OUT HIS HEART. Seriously man, it's unreal.
FWIW, the movie is great even away from their relationship, but it's definitely the best thing about it. I would adore futurefic about how their relationship develops once the movie ends (since with Norgate is going to jail thanks to Finch finally coming out of his swoon and looking around), but also anything from within the movie's story itself would be incredible — all of the fishing and the private dinners and whatnot are rich with ~possibilities~. For real though, as with all of my requests: reading them together is all I need to be thrilled.
Request #5: Dial M for Murder (1954)
Available for rent at the usual place, as well as on Kanopy, and here for free.
Just: this. I could watching that scene ALL FUCKING DAY. The, like schoolmaster's disappointment on Wendice's face, and the "you know what you do, you little shit" vibe to it all! IDK man, maybe I'm alone but I find it outrageously hot: Halliday stepping out of his established place in their relationship, Wendice being mildly intrigued but also still 100% certain how their power dynamic actually works, biding his time before he correct things? As someone who is extremely into fictional power dynamics, I eat this shit up.
Give me ANYTHING between them, from flirtation and lightness to more intense d/s kinda stuff — whatever you feel, I'm here for, as long as builds upon (or to) the vibes in that one goddamn moment.
When the story ends, Eigelberger is in Hawaii, and Gage is at home in CA (I think?) with his pushy fiancée, probably bored out of his mind without his cool bro to hang out with and make him feel smart. Even with the whole betrayal thing at the end, Gage seriously isn't even mad, he's so excited when Eigelberger writes him a letter!
Anyway, I would love anything with the two of them, no matter what is going on — futurefic would be amazing, as would missing scenes from the story itself, and any groovy AU floats your boat. As long as they're together, and bantering and bickering and in love I will be so, so happy. (They're totally soulmates, though I don't need that in the fic. I'M JUST SAYING.)
REQUEST #2: Briarpatch (TV)
Here is my old Yuletide promo post for this amazing show, here is the trailer, and here is a short featurette about the main characters; it runs 10 one-hour episodes and is on Amazon Prime.
I cannot tell you how much I love this show, or how much sexual tension is running through its veins. If you've watched it and are familiar with the characters, please feel free to write whatever you want for any of the pairings I've nominated! If it helps, here are some specific ideas/details about why I am obsessed with each of them.
I cannot tell you how much I love this show, or how much sexual tension is running through its veins. If you've watched it and are familiar with the characters, please feel free to write whatever you want for any of the pairings I've nominated! If it helps, here are some specific ideas/details about why I am obsessed with each of them.
Jake Spivey/Clyde Brattle (note: dubcon and noncon are more than ok with these two). In case you're not familiar with the show and are reading this, all you need to know is that Alan Cumming plays this shadyass arms dealer/very bad man whose all-male minions HAVE BAR CODES TATTOOED ON THE BACK OF THEIR NECKS (often involuntarily applied). AND JAKE HAS ONE. Jake also experience serious trauma (and did illegal things) while in the military during a Gulf War or two, and Brattle is very much part of that. The two of them are the main reasons I’ve watched episode 8 so many times: there’s so much in their first meeting since they were in the Middle East, not just volumes of terrible history but also absolute oceans of UST. The power dynamic between them is royally fucked up, too, in that Jake gives into no one except Allegra (who he's pretty much canonically in love with), but then Brattle shows up and Jake almost falls apart — just the awareness that Brattle is nearby nearly breaks him. WHY? What happened? Show me all of the awful things that went down between them! Or, if you're more inclined to recovery, show me Jake putting himself back together (Or someone else doing it? God, is it Brattle?) until he's the guy who meet in the show — and is that guy really back together at all?
REQUEST #3: Pit Stop (1969)
Available to rent at all the usual place, as well as on Arrow Player, and for free here.
This is one of my favorite movies, it's terribly bleak and sad, about a bunch of lonely, mostly broken people, but I somehow also find it very comforting, which might be revealing too much about me, actually ...
Anyway, Rick Bowman is a disaster of a human being who only gets more disastrous as the movie progresses, but I love how his character is developed and written, and I love his relationships with Hawk and Willard. The phases of his relationship with Hawk goes through are fascinating, from wariness, to violent rivalry (over cars + girls), to a sort of sad, grudging respect, at least on Hawk's part. It's extremely easy for me to believe that they hooked up, and what's so interesting is how different the dynamic would be, depending on when it happened — Hawk seems to grow a ton as a human being over the course of the film; Rick not so much. I would love to read your take on things between them at any point, whether it's in the intense early days or, later, when so much has happened, and Hawk is seeing him in a completely different way.
While Rick/Hawk is just, for me, deeply interesting, Rick/Grant is kinda wrong but also outrageously compelling. There are glimpse of them together, esp at the bar, when they both seem almost oddly relaxed and happy — for two guys who are typically neither, it's striking, and makes me want to know a LOT more about what happens when we're not looking. And, later, when Rick literally chooses Grant over everything else he knows, what happens then? Is there a comfort in Grant for him, both physical and emotional? Or is sex/intimacy just another way for Grant to manipulate and control this fucked up guy he somehow basically owns? GOD. I love all of it, tell me how they look together to you!
REQUEST #3: Pit Stop (1969)
Available to rent at all the usual place, as well as on Arrow Player, and for free here.
This is one of my favorite movies, it's terribly bleak and sad, about a bunch of lonely, mostly broken people, but I somehow also find it very comforting, which might be revealing too much about me, actually ...
Anyway, Rick Bowman is a disaster of a human being who only gets more disastrous as the movie progresses, but I love how his character is developed and written, and I love his relationships with Hawk and Willard. The phases of his relationship with Hawk goes through are fascinating, from wariness, to violent rivalry (over cars + girls), to a sort of sad, grudging respect, at least on Hawk's part. It's extremely easy for me to believe that they hooked up, and what's so interesting is how different the dynamic would be, depending on when it happened — Hawk seems to grow a ton as a human being over the course of the film; Rick not so much. I would love to read your take on things between them at any point, whether it's in the intense early days or, later, when so much has happened, and Hawk is seeing him in a completely different way.
While Rick/Hawk is just, for me, deeply interesting, Rick/Grant is kinda wrong but also outrageously compelling. There are glimpse of them together, esp at the bar, when they both seem almost oddly relaxed and happy — for two guys who are typically neither, it's striking, and makes me want to know a LOT more about what happens when we're not looking. And, later, when Rick literally chooses Grant over everything else he knows, what happens then? Is there a comfort in Grant for him, both physical and emotional? Or is sex/intimacy just another way for Grant to manipulate and control this fucked up guy he somehow basically owns? GOD. I love all of it, tell me how they look together to you!
Forget what the summary says, this movie is about Peter O'Toole (Captain Finch) being completely in love with Aldo Ray (Norgate). Their first fishing date (yes really) is ridiculous, Finch is so smitten he can hardly contain himself and, when they get back to London proper, he starts inviting his new bff to have dinner with him at work (which happens to be The Bank of England, cos he's a rich boy whose job is wearing a uniform and wandering around there) so often that, when Norgate doesn't show up, the ... work butler or whatever is unsettled by his absence. And, when Finch gets all sad, where does he go? TO NORGATE OF COURSE TO POUR OUT HIS HEART. Seriously man, it's unreal.
FWIW, the movie is great even away from their relationship, but it's definitely the best thing about it. I would adore futurefic about how their relationship develops once the movie ends (since with Norgate is going to jail thanks to Finch finally coming out of his swoon and looking around), but also anything from within the movie's story itself would be incredible — all of the fishing and the private dinners and whatnot are rich with ~possibilities~. For real though, as with all of my requests: reading them together is all I need to be thrilled.
Request #5: Dial M for Murder (1954)
Available for rent at the usual place, as well as on Kanopy, and here for free.
Just: this. I could watching that scene ALL FUCKING DAY. The, like schoolmaster's disappointment on Wendice's face, and the "you know what you do, you little shit" vibe to it all! IDK man, maybe I'm alone but I find it outrageously hot: Halliday stepping out of his established place in their relationship, Wendice being mildly intrigued but also still 100% certain how their power dynamic actually works, biding his time before he correct things? As someone who is extremely into fictional power dynamics, I eat this shit up.
Give me ANYTHING between them, from flirtation and lightness to more intense d/s kinda stuff — whatever you feel, I'm here for, as long as builds upon (or to) the vibes in that one goddamn moment.
