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Just binge watched the IWTV series and it gave me many thoughts. No pun intended when I say it made me very thirsty. So I wrote some prompts! Warning: Some of these contain spoilers for the AMC show! Most of these prompts are written with the AMC show in mind, but they can probably be used interchangeably for either the 1994 movie or the 2022 tv series. Whichever version is up to you. Please tag me if you’re inspired by or write any of these ideas. I’d love to read it! ❤️🩸

Content Warning: Almost all of these prompts contain dark themes! Including: Toxic behavior, unhealthy relationships, power imbalances, abuse, racism, murder, and incest. If Dark! Fics aren’t your thing or you can’t handle such themes, that’s okay. These prompts just may not be for you, so ignore them and kindly move on. If you don’t like, then don’t read. Please don’t act as morality police and harass me or others. Don’t start arguments in the comments. Thank you.

1. You meet Lestat and Louis at a ball celebrating your arranged engagement to an odious man you don't love. While taking turns dancing with them, you're rudely dragged away by your jealous and controlling fiancé. Seeing how innocent and miserable you are, they later kill your unwanted groom and take you from your home, eventually giving you the choice to live with them and have a better life as a vampire.

2. You were Lestat's lover and companion heart when he was human. You were forcibly separated when he was abducted and turned into a vampire by Magnus. He believes you later perished in the French Revolution, until he’s delightfully surprised when he finds you in New Orleans while living with Louis and Claudia. You don’t look a day older than when he saw you last, and he realizes you had faked your death over a century ago. As he watches you seduce and feed on a couple of unfortunate humans, he falls in love with you all over again. You’re even more beautiful as a vampire.

3. Lestat feeds on you and drains you of blood to the point of near death. He gives you a choice: Join him in eternal life as his new companion heart and lover, or don't. Help him adapt to the modern world, or he will leave you to die and move on to someone else.

4. Haunted Mansion-esque AU: When Lestat was human, he was deeply in love with you, a black or mixed woman, despite it being unconventional and illegal. You may have had many plans for the future, but your love was like playing a most dangerous game. It ended tragically with you killed and him kidnapped by Magnus and turned into a vampire. But what if you’re reincarnated looking exactly the same as you did before in the early 20th century. Lestat becomes obsessed with you at first sight, discreetly following you around or using his powers to hypnotize you to come to him.

He acts overprotective and possessive when he courts you. Even if you don’t remember him or your past life yet, he’s undeterred in his advances. He’s determined to keep you safe with him and not let such a cruel fate befall you again. If that means turning you into a vampire, so be it. You’re his forever and he’s yours. You may hate him at first, but you’ll thank him for the dark gift in the end. He has loved you in death as he did in life and whether your memories come back or not, he’s going to stay by your side. What if in this life, you’re Louis’s neighbor/friend and he loves you too? Maybe not romantically, but there are many forms of love.

5. You’re Lestat’s younger sister and the only other person he loves in his family apart from yours and his mother. He cherishes you so deeply that he often protected you from your abusive father and other brothers by taking countless beatings and starvations to spare you. While you were only a teenager, you’d tend to his wounds and bring him food and drink. He insisted you came with him and Nicolas to Paris, where he would look after you as your legal guardian until you could be free as an adult woman. But after he was turned into a vampire, he tried to stay away. For years, he kept his distance and watched over you from afar as you blossomed into womanhood, while using his inheritance to send money and lavish gifts so you could live comfortably. He still wanted to provide for you, give you everything he felt you deserved but couldn’t have while living in poverty.

Until something happened that made him hyperaware of your fragility in your mortal state. He realized he was too selfish and loved you too much to condemn you to permanent death. He couldn’t bear it if you were lost to him forever, so he snuck into your house and turned you into a vampire. You live together for many decades before you go off on your own to explore the world. But you still correspond and visit regularly. You’re surprised and delighted when you stop in and discover your brother has a lover and a…sister? Daughter? Are you an aunt now? You’re not really sure what the family dynamic is but you’re happy for him.

6. Crimson Peak/Flowers in the Attic-esque AU: You’re Lestat’s sister. You sought comfort and protection from your abusive father and other brothers through each other, and your unhealthy coping mechanisms spiraled into a toxic incestuous relationship. After taking countless beatings and starvations, you’d tend to Lestat’s wounds and he to yours. While locked away together, you’d silently admire your bodies and touch each other gently, mindful of your scars. Your curiosity gave way to darker thoughts, and neither of you could help the urges you began to feel. Lestat and you are so fucked up. You’re overly co-dependent on each other, you both can be manipulative to get what you want, etc. You and Lestat are aware you might love each other too much, since you’ve had ugly fights fueled by jealousy where you’ve threatened to kill the other.

“If I can’t have you, no one can!”

“Do it, coward. You won’t. You and I both know a life without me would be even more unbearable.”

But neither of you would ever actually go through with it. Despite your issues, you cared for each other and wanted to get into a better situation. Even after Lestat became a vampire and inherited endless wealth, he couldn’t let you go. So he snuck into your Paris bedroom and seduced you. Afterwards, he used his powers to render you immobile so he could kidnap you. He turned you into a vampire and your bond can never be severed now. You may have been livid with your brother for turning you, but even that argument ended with angry hate sex to blow off steam. It’s no different than the many times he killed or otherwise drove away all the men and women who vied to be your lover while you were both still human. You were angry with him then, and retaliated by doing the same with all his lovers. These kind of sibling spats are common. If there’s one thing you both hate, it’s competition.

But still you slept together and all was soon forgiven. As vampires your lovemaking can be bloody and violent but it hurts so good. You can’t hear each other’s thoughts, but are so in tune with one another that you still know exactly what the other is feeling. When everything is good, you either hold hands or embrace without needing to say anything. You have your own coffins, but often crawl into each other’s so you can cuddle within the enclosed shared space where you spend hours talking into the early morning before going to sleep. You’re addicted to each other’s company. To the outside mortal world you may act as husband and wife. This is your eternity. You both fear loneliness and abandonment more than anything in the world, so as long as you stay together, neither of you will be alone and you’ll both be fine.

7. You’re a whore and have threesomes with Lestat and Louis. Unlike Lily and the others, you’re a woman of many talents with a unique spirit, so Lestat and Louis want to keep you forever as theirs. What started out as purely transactional sex and pillow talk has become so much more. They’re addicted to you and each other. Being a human and having sex with two vampires is on another level you never knew existed. Levitating in the air while your body is sandwiched between the two handsome devils, Lestat feeding on you while Louis may refuse to at first before Lestat convinces him to do it. Un petite coup, they call it. The little drink. Not enough to kill you, but just enough to keep them fit. The feelings of intimacy it awakens in you is beyond words. And all your senses are only heightened once your lovers turn you into a vampire. While you have your own coffin, you sometimes share a special coffin that’s big and spacious enough to fit 3 people.

8. You’re a human who willingly lets Louis feed on you in modern day. What Daniel doesn’t know is that you actually live in the house with him and Rashid. They take good care of you after the feedings and it’s like a poly relationship. Daniel doesn’t know how to respond as he watches Louis feed on you while you just nonchalantly talk to him like nothing is happening to you. He finds it so off putting how you hold eye contact with him.

Spoilers: Or you’re actually a vampire who pretends to be human by putting on a good show of acting faint and woozy after Louis feeds from you. You go by a fake name and wear contacts just like Armand. Louis and Armand are your lovers.

9. Phantom of the Opera-esque AU: You’re an opera singer or a First Chair in the orchestra and you’re elevated in Lestat’s eyes due to your immense musical talent. You’re one of the few human attachments Lestat keeps. He acts as your patron, providing you with money and lavish gifts. He visits you in your dressing room before and after performances, where you often get hot and steamy. He sometimes takes you back to his home where you sing and play piano (or another instrument) together. You may not know about his vampiric nature yet, but make no mistake: He will inevitably turn you one day.

10. In the books, Lestat mentions bedding a whole lot of women before he was turned so it’s possible he had children he never got to know. He finds out he had a secret accident baby over a hundred years ago when you, his daughter, show up at his and Louis’ home after tracking him down. Lestat being Lestat, he may not believe you at first, but you have substantial proof: A birth certificate, old belongings of his, miniatures of him and your mother, handwritten letters from the 18th century, etc. And then there’s your uncanny resemblance to him in both physical appearance and personality/mannerisms that even Louis points out. You’re not only a grown adult, but frozen in time. Maybe you had a family of your own before your vampire transformation, maybe not. But Lestat tracking down his descendants could make for an interesting story. Because he’s not your maker, you can hear each other’s thoughts. Lestat wants to know everything about you: Who your maker was, how you lived after parting ways with your maker, etc.

He doesn’t want secrets. In hypocritical fashion, he’ll probably keep secrets from you, but he doesn’t want you to keep secrets from him. You and your father are alike in so many ways, and sometimes that causes you two to butt heads and get into petty quarrels. It’s like an unstoppable force meets an immovable object. It’s like two walls trying to get the other to move. Whenever your father annoys you too much, you’ll block him out of your mind or he’ll do the same to you. From what your mother told you about him, you were expecting him to be a bratty and spoiled prince. She used to say you were his perfect copy and called you princess to annoy you. He does love you and you do love him, it’s just expressed and shown in very weird, unusual ways that don't make sense to anyone else. Your form of affection is unique to only you two.

11. You and Lestat are vampires in a complicated love-hate and co-dependent relationship. It can get very toxic and manipulative, especially since both of you are varieties of possessive and jealous or vain and narcissistic. Sometimes if either of you are bored, you do your best to goad each other into losing any sense of decorum or restraint. Like playing with each other’s emotions is a game. Your arrangement of, “You can fuck whoever you want as long as you come home to me.” quickly becomes “I thought we could have an orgy. You can fuck them and I can eat them.” Your sex life is full of depraved fantasies and decadence you indulge in. A hedonistic existence of drink, drugs, and parties. You’re both different flavors of fucked up, but you’re addicted to each other. You want him dead, you want him all to yourself. He wants you dead, he wants you all to himself. It’s far from healthy, but it’s all you know and neither of you care. You’ve let go of human attachments ages ago.

12. You’re a vampire who’s in a romantic/sexual relationship with Lestat and in his own twisted way, he actually cares about and loves you along with Louis. You were given the dark gift by your maker when you were a full grown adult, unlike Claudia. So you’re like an older sister or aunt to her. Claudia is envious of your mature body and asks you questions of the female sort that you do your best to answer, no matter how awkward they are. Some of the questions she has are similar to ones she writes in her diary. (If you know, you know.)

13. Ghost of Thornton Hall-esque AU: When Lestat was human, he was in love with you, a renowned singer. During a masquerade ball celebrating your birthday, a fire started that quickly spread out of control. You got trapped in the burning building and were killed. You’re the only person Lestat has cried rivulets of blood over in his vampire life. All Lestat has left of you is a necklace you always used to wear. That’s why he’s hesitant to turn Claudia after Louis saves her from the fire and tries to make excuses that she’s too charred and he doesn’t know where to bite. During the Mardi Gras ball, Lestat hears your voice whispering and singing sweetly to him. He may be losing his mind due to fasting, but he swears he can see you in the crowd, wearing the same blood red dress that you burned up in. Your black lace mask hides your eyes from him. He follows you, but keeps losing sight of you in the crowd when other men and women get in his way. It’s like trying to follow a ghost. Finally he catches up to you. When you turn around, you are indeed wearing the very same red dress you wore when you “died”. It’s now charred and black in some areas. He removes your mask and looks into your eyes - your vampire eyes.

14. You and Lestat go out to Lover’s Lane because it’s one of your favorite spots to hunt. The many lovey-dovey couples fueled by passion and sexual desire makes your meals that much more tasty. After you feed together, who could blame you if you also wanted to get romantic and passionate yourselves and make love outdoors or in the car of some victims before you disposed of the bodies? It’s practically like going out on a date anyway. Lestat and you go on date nights like this often. Your dates have also included going to the movies, sometimes watching vampire flicks to laugh at them and have a good time. Lestat uses his vampire powers to make an annoying movie goer who keeps shushing you start slapping himself repeatedly, just to entertain you and himself.

15. The relationship you have with Lestat is…complicated, to say the least. You’re human, but musically talented or have something else about you that makes him very possessive and obsessive over you. Maybe you remind him of his first love, Nicolas. He fears loneliness more than anything, so he tries to make you dependent on and love only him. He tries to isolate you and prove that he’s all you need. He can take care of you and give almost everything you desire. Toxic Lestat is so against you leaving because he doesn’t want to be alone. He lets you know of his plans to make you a vampire, whether you like it or not. It’s inevitable, he’s more than clear in no uncertain terms about that. But instead of rejoicing at his plans to give you this most precious and coveted dark gift, you tried to run away. He killed all the other passengers of the train you tried to stowaway on and blamed you for their deaths. You made him do this by acting out and being ungrateful, their blood is on your hands.

He used the conductor’s head as a macabre puppet to scare you before he coerced you into coming back home. You should be thankful he’s still respecting your compromise to stay human for a little longer after you pulled that stunt. You should show him some appreciation for all he’s doing for you, instead of acting like a spoiled and bratty princess. One time, you get into a nasty fight that ends with Lestat dragging your weak but still alive body outside, leaving a bloody trail. He then uses the Cloud Gift to fly high up into the sky while holding you in his arms. He tells you, “How I’ve waited. I have patiently waited in vain for you to love me as I love you.”

“Let go of me!”

“Anything for you,” he says as he strokes your cheek and wipes away your tears before letting you fall from the sky. As your heart pounds loudly in your ears and can be heard over the whistling wind, you thought surely you’d splatter on the ground below and be nothing but an unrecognizable mess of mangled flesh. But no. Lestat wouldn’t give you the mercy of permanent death. He only let you free fall for a few seconds before swooping down and catching you. As if to teach you a lesson and further prove his point that you need him. You need him to protect you from others and yourself. But who’s going to protect you from him, you think to yourself as you lose consciousness in his arms.

16. During the Mardi Gras Masquerade ball, Lestat had Tom appoint you, his vampire bride, as Queen while he was Raj. After fasting for three days before the ball, you play your part well. Both men and women try to crowd around you and vie for your attention, but you’re very particular about who you hand out boutonnières to. You can see Lestat surrounded by middle aged women he seduced but can’t remember from 10 years ago. They’re still fawning all over him. Ah, these must be the ladies from the Women’s Opera Society. They’ve gotten so old and wrinkly in such short time, poor dears. You use your hand fan to hide your smirk as you try not to laugh when you overhear their voices coated with sympathy. So they really believed him to be ill all those years? Just when he asks which of the ladies did he pull under the stairs during that dull lecture on Don Giovanni, you take that as your cue to pull him away. You can feel the ladies’ questioning and jealous gazes on you as you loop your arm through his and kiss his cheek then his lips.

You’re so radiant, all dressed in white and diamonds. But all the women’s eyes are drawn to the matching rings on your and Lestat’s fingers. You love putting on a good show. Even more so when you’re covered in blood during the after party when you and your vampire family start feeding on the selected victims from the ball. While you walk towards them in a straight line and assert your power, they run and scream in terror. In vain, they try to break down the locked doors and windows. It’s a massacre, a bloodbath, and one hell of a good time. (Whether you know of Claudia and Louis’ plan to kill Lestat or not is up to you.)

17. Vamps inspired AU: You’re a vampire who was turned against your will. During the 1970’s, you met and fell in love with Daniel, a fresh young journalist who was aspiring to achieve more as a writer. You were only together for a few short years before you left. As much as it pained you to do so, you knew you had to leave him before he noticed you weren’t aging and got suspicious. He could have a normal life and hopefully find another love. You loved him so much that you didn’t want to be selfish and condemn him to vampirism. So you parted ways both for his sake and to protect your secret, before he had his first interview with Louis.

Now it’s 2022 and Daniel is an old man. When he’s interviewing Louis again, he’s surprised to see you, seemingly either living with or working for the vampire, just like Rashid. When he questions you, you lie. You say you’re not his past love, but her daughter, and that your mother died. It isn’t until much later in the interview, after Rashid reveals his true identity as Armand that you also come clean. You tell Daniel that he was right about you, and that you’ll answer any questions he has. You spend a great deal of time catching up as you ask him about his life, family, career, etc. And he asks you about your own life, why did you leave, why didn’t you tell him or turn him, etc. (Maybe you’re Armand’s sister and over 500 years old so the sun has no effect on you either.)

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do-it-for-the-fandom · 10 months

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I've had this 'scene' in my head for days now but I'm too lazy to write it - I did still want to share it though because awww Caskett ❤️❤️

Beckett and Castle at Beckett's desk theorising.

Beckett knocks her pen off the desk, bends down to pick it up.

Castle shifts his hand along the edge of the desk, wrapping his fingers around the corner.

Beckett sits upright again, places the pen back on the desk, notices Castle's hand had shifted. She narrows her eyes but then realises why.

Her eyes flick up to him, he's still rambling on about some CIA theory. She realises that he didn't even do this purposely; his instinct is to protect her, even if it is just from bumping her head.

Her heart melts into a puddle and she smiles.

#caskett #kate beckett #richard castle #kate beckett x richard castle #someone feel free to write this into something adorable #I'd love to read it

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completeoveranalysis · 7 months

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You know, thinking about the whole True Name business, usually in fantasy True Names and Names as Power come into play with the fae and deal making with supernatural creatures. Which is especially interesting in Tsubasa with Yuuko being a witch who makes Deals, some of which are fae deal type stuff. (Thinking about that ghost girl that got exorcised bc she requested for her house to not be scary anymore)

It's true it's a very similar pattern! If I had to guess I'd say that CLAMP weren't thinking of the fae, since that's pretty squarely European mythology whereas xxxHolic is a beautiful exploration of Japanese folklore, but it does highlight the similar traits that cultures tend to give the supernatural when they develop their understanding of the world around them. "Be careful of deals with supernatural beings because they have different morals than you" is a lovely thread that runs through both examples, as does the name thing, like you point out.

If anyone was studying folklore at university this would be a GREAT connective tissue to compare the two.

#Sometimes I go - oh wouldn't it be great to study that stuff again?#And it would! If I had the time #But who has the time these days?#replies #anon #tsubasa #xxxholic #folklore #mythology #Though if anyone DOES know a publication that explores this #please do let me know #I'd love to read it

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asagirisfavoritepen · 15 days

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Let's talk a bit about Beast. Dazai fixed everything, right? He saved Odasaku. He gave everyone happiness. He saved the others. He even deleted the thing with the Azure King so Kunikida won't be traumatized anymore. He even made Mori not a pedophile!

But what about Chuuya? I've read the manga 2 times and watched the movie 3 times. But I can't see what he did to give Chuuya a happy ending. In the movie he even made it worse!

He didn't stop the Sheep from betraying him, he didn't stop Chuuya from joining the Mafia. He didn't even make him taller!

But what if Dazai did give Chuuya some happiness in Beast? What if he made sure some certain friends of his don't die? What if he saved the Flags too? If Odasaku can be saved then so can the Flags, right?

Maybe in Beast they didn't die. They continued living, being Mafia's elite.

Pianoman is an executive now. And after Dazai kills himself he's the one to become the boss. He's just the most fitted for it. He was kinda close to Atushi too, trying to help him when Atsushi was feeling down.

Lippmann is still enjoying his acting career, while negotiating for the Mafia. He's the one Dazai sends to negotiations when he knows the ADA will be involved. Ranpo is very found of him, being one of the few people Ranpo considers smart. He can't wait to become an executive. He still asks Chuuya from time to time to drop the mafioso career to join him on the set. He's close to Gin, since both of them are often around Dazai. He thinks she's very intelligent and nice. And he doesn't know who her brother is, but he thinks Akutagawa is stupid for abandoning her.

Albatross is still the annoying upstairs neighbor to Chuuya and his drinking buddy and best friend. He can't take Chuuya on spontaneous adventures anymore, but that won't stop him from showing up at Chuuya's office from time to time to "kidnap" him and take him drinking. He's also close to Atsushi. After all, he had to drive him around a lot since not any driver can take the Withe Reaper to his destination. He knows what Atsushi's going through and he invites him drinking sometimes, telling him he has friends. That there's someone that's there for him, not just Dazai's missions.

Doc is leading the underground doctors and he's a bit disappointed that Mori is no longer the Boss. Every single time Atsushi gets knocked out and his ability doesn't work/takes longer to heal he ends up on Doc's table. Just like Yosano, he finds his ability very interesting. He's fascinated by how Byakko is negates wounds. Doesn't heal them, it negates them.

Iceman's Mafia's beat hit man. He's trained Kyouka (Verlaine didn't happen 😊) and he knows how much she hates the Mafia. He's not very good with people, but he's trying his best to help her feel better. He also trained Tachihara, who reminds him of Chuuya for some reason.

And Chuuya has his friends. He knows he can relay on them anytime. He knows they're safe. And he can't explain how, but he knows he's lost them before. So he's happy they're there for him. They all hang out often. He sometimes complains to them about Dazai and his stupid schemes. Sometimes they just fool around. Sometimes Atsushi and Gin join them and have fun together.

And when Dazai dies, Atsushi and Kyouka leave and Gin disappears, Chuuya still has the Flags. They make sure Atsushi and Kyouka are good at the Orphanage, checking up on them and even visiting sometimes. They're worried for Gin, but they know she's capable of taking care of herself.

They hang out less now that Pinaoman is the Boss, but now Albatross can take Chuuya on crazy adventures again. And Lippmann is trying more than ever to make Chuuya become an actor or a photo model.

#beast #bsd #bsd chuuya #beast chuuya #the flags bsd #beast flags #lippmann bsd #pianoman bsd #doc bsd #albatross bsd #iceman bsd #beast atsushi #beast kyouka #beast gin #NOT skk #can some1 pls make it a fic??#i'd love to read it #(make it angst)

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tears-of-xion · 3 months

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You made a drawing of Chloé Bourgeois in a ball gown, walking away from a party. I had two questions.

1)Do you see her as canon-evente age in that shot, or is it years later?(could vive either way)

2)Do you mind if I wrote a short one shot around it?

I assume you're talking about this piece of Chloe here?

1) She's intended to be about 17-ish in this piece. She's older, perhaps even a bit more mature, but also not quite an adult yet.

2) Go for it! I'd be delighted to see what it inspires you to write!

#i has been asked #chloe bourgeois #i'd love to read it #so if you do write a one shot about it please let me know!!#feel like i've just been given the highest possible compliment about my art hehe

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hexenmond · 5 months

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A dreamling fic idea

Haven't posted here in forever, and the first thing pouring out of me is a wild writing prompt I came up with today, having spent more than two months devouring dreamling fanfic (which is wild in itself, maybe I'll write about that as well. The devouring I mean).

Most of the idea comes from À Cœur Vaillant by WyvernQuill. It's a fishbowl rescue fic, but the one who does the actual rescuing is a still very young Alex Burgess, who in turn gets saved from his father's ire by Paul McGuire. So that's lovely. (Go read it!)

And in general I like it when people who have done shitty things come around at some point. Like Hob got involved in the slave trade and came to see just how wrong that was. Because we're humans, and we fuck up sometimes, and it can take us a long time to be able to see it – and then what happens? How do we deal with our own shittiness once it has irrevocably happened? Do we try to be better, or shy away from the mess?

So I thought, what if Dream's in the bowl, and Alex shoots Jessamy, and old Roderick dies, and Alex is left with a prisoner he never wanted but is too cowardly to set free (canon so far). And Paul tells him it's wrong, repeatedly, but is a coward himself, so nothing actually changes.

But some time before 1989, Paul McGuire finds it within himself to put his foot down – and there are several interesting things that could make this change of heart happen. Possibly a coincidental chat with a certain immortal about regrets, or just some life event that shakes him awake. And he goes to Alex and says, hey, this is wrong and can't go on. In your heart of hearts, you know that as well as I do. We should free him, even if that means we'll die. We aren't free while he is not free.

And Alex protests and all of course, and tries to talk him out of it again, and panics, and flips his shit – but when Paul is still determined after some days and takes him by the hand to go downstairs, he goes along. Scared to death, but between knowing Paul is right and loving him, he doesn't fight.

So Paul stands before the fishbowl, scared but determined, holding Alex next to him, who is on the verge of collapsing, and he addresses Dream, basically saying something along the lines of "we should have done this straight after the old codger died, and we didn't out of cowardice, but now we're going to set you free, and hope that you have some mercy on us for this". And he breaks the circle and the glass, or whatever it takes.

Now, this might happen just very shortly before Dream's scheduled meeting with Hob, and like I've read in a couple of other fics, Dream might have been agonising over having to miss this appointment. So getting to go after all might just temper his wrath the teensiest bit, if not immediately then maybe at a later point.

I can see this going two ways at this point: he takes great pleasure in trapping Alex in eternal nightmares for killing Jessamy, the guards as well for good measure, but he leaves Paul unscathed for being the driving force behind his release and doing it before June 7th, 1989. And then he storms off to find his tools and sulk and get ready for his not-date.

Or, he does that but Paul has already geared himself up to be incredibly brave that day and so dares to ask what Dream has done to Alex, and Dream says "best of my nightmares around the clock", and Paul takes one deep breath and then begs him to split the nightmares between them both, so that they would share nightmares every night but still be awake together during the day. And Dream says, oh well, your funeral, and makes it so, and then storms off.

In both cases Paul is very miserable (nightmares every night forever is bound to leave you permanently sleep-deprived, or else he has to live with Alex's screams and permasleep). And at some point he might speak to Hob. Again, bundle of possible scenarios:

he'd talked to Hob before (see above) and they have some previous acquaintance;

he just washes up in The New Inn like a commoner and starts drinking, and Hob is a barkeeper with many years of experience;

they might talk while Dream is still picking up his tools and before the appointment, or afterwards.

And at some point Hob makes some connection, depending on this and also how open Dream is after his imprisonment.

Since I personally feel that revenge does not bring lasting satisfaction, let alone joy, I could see Hob helping Dream grieve Jessamy, and also appreciate the understanding he gained while in involuntary timeout. And maybe he relents after some time, maybe because he took a good look at Alex and Paul's nightmares. Or gives them a task to accomplish.

The end? I don't know. Depends on the story you want to tell, who and what it's really about. But I like the premise, is what I wanted to say.

#writing prompt #writing inspiration #dreamling #the sandman #if you like this feel free to run with it!#please let me know if you post something though #I'd LOVE to read it #and I am extremely unlikely to write it myself #for all sorts of reasons

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lizzieisright · 10 months

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Hiiii, I LOVED the last chapter of Aligyimh, you did such an amazing job ❤️‍🩹

I want to ask if you are thinking of writing some blurbs or drabbles to continue the spirit of this amazing series?

I'm already having a hard time with getting over the fact that its over 😩🤍

Hi! ❤️

Thank you, it was so fun to write my babies finally getting together (why there's no emoji where I wipe my tears like a proud mother?)

I genuinely don't know and can't promise anything, but I wrote small list of nsfw hcs for them, so I'll probably post it later during the weekend

#maybe if I'll have energy I'll write a full smut based on the hcs #but otherwise i have no ideas now for them #if you have some you can share them #I'd love to read it

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gaunt-sallow · 1 year

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MC finally finds Sebastian with the relic at the end of ‘In the Shadow of Relic’

#sebastian x mc #sebastian sallow #so is there a fanfic of this moment from seb's pov?#i'd love to read it #hogwarts legacy

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agi-ppangx · 6 months

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no bc why do I want to write this💀

omg do it !! only if you want to and have time and energy to tho, no pressure love🫶🏽

#i'd love to read it #- 🍄𖥻 [ answers ]

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decaydanceredacted · 8 months

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i’m the hamletposting mutual people have been talking about….. i’ve taken their advice and begun writing the au

do let me know when it's done!

#i'd LOVE to read it #not a redacted

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free-for-all-fics · 1 year

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Prompts for Roberto aka Beto, Tenoch’s character from Madres. He’s so husband and so soft, I love him. Pls tag me if you’re inspired by any of these and write something, I’d love to read it! 💜

1. You’re a farmer’s daughter, tending to your daily chores. As you’re sewing up a hole on your scarecrow, Beto, a neighbor and farmer, notices a note attached to his own scarecrow while walking around his field. The handwriting is unfamiliar to him, but it’s a sweet note welcoming him to the neighborhood, signed off “your secret friend”. These friendly notes keep getting sent to him, always attached to the scarecrow. But his secret friend is very sneaky and stealthy. Beto never sees who writes the notes, nor does he notice anyone around his house at night. Even after he befriends you, he never sees your handwriting so he still has no idea you’re the one behind it. When he does finally realize you’re his secret friend/admirer, he doesn’t confront you directly. Instead he leaves a cute little love note pinned to your scarecrow, which lets you know he feels the same.

2. You, A small town farmer living with your grandparents as they struggle with farm work, decide to take on the role of caring for the entire farm. It’s quite difficult until your neighbor, Beto, starts helping you and you’re very grateful. You're just a normal young woman who lives in the California countryside with a slow, quiet life. But something unexpected finally happens when you’re in the barn, and Beto falls through the roof while trying to repair it. As far as entrances go, Beto’s was quite unique. He’s not terribly hurt, but you still take him to the doctor and then personally look after him at home. The least you could do is provide the best bedside manner after all the work he’s done for you and your family. When you fall in love, you forgive his terrible jokes of “I fell head over heels for you.”

3. Animals go missing nearly every night- A cow there, a dozen pigs there; Yet your farm has been completely untouched by the 'curse'. Assuming foul play, many of the townfolk begin to suspect you of sabotaging their land. You've even overheard whispers that they plan to do something tonight. In your attempt to get away, you drive for miles and miles until you stumble upon a farm in the middle of nowhere. The farmer, Beto, – who is genuinely nice – welcomes you in, gives you food, prepares a bath, and even offers a warm bed for you to sleep in. You – a paranoid introvert that you are – cautiously agree since you got nowhere else to go.

4. All your life, you’ve lived in a small-town farming community with no chance of leaving. Your dad’s farm makes a modest living, but you’ve always dreamed of doing more. You’ve always wanted to pursue your passion, but your family never had the means. You’ve been working hard, managing multiple jobs to save up the funds for college. When Beto moves into your neighborhood, you befriend him and he shows you the beauty of the small things in life. Thanks to him, you learn to appreciate what you have and make the best of it while also never giving up on your dreams or ambitions. You grow to love each other and settle down. One day, a package arrives, with a paid scholarship to the university of your choice. An anniversary gift from your husband that he’s been secretly saving towards for years, wanting to surprise you.

5. You've led a simple, unimpressive farm life. Nothing big has ever happened. You were homeschooled because the nearest town was too far away. You barely know anybody besides your family. Every night, a stray dog always followed you ever since you were little. Doesn't matter what you were doing, the dog would always be there. You never really thought much of it, thinking it’d get bored and wander off eventually. Spoiler alert: The dog chose you and refused to leave. It’s a typical morning on the farm. You’ve had your coffee and breakfast, and head out to do your usual chores; feed the animals, clean their stalls, etc, when your farm dog runs up to you with a cowboy hat in his/her mouth. Your neighbor, Beto, is nearly out of breath. He must’ve been chasing your dog for a few miles. Oh no, your dog has been committing theft! Again. You’ve tried to get your mutt to stop doing that, but that doesn’t mean he/she listens to you. One day, you come home late at night and you don't see your dog. But you do hear Beto’s surprised yelling from next door, followed by happy and excited barking. Oh no. Your dog got the zoomies and committed breaking and entering! Again. Your dog’s love language is crime and chaos. You don’t know how many times you’ve apologized to Beto on behalf of your overly friendly dog. You never would’ve thought this would be your “How I met your father” story.

6. In the will of your grandparent, you were given ownership of an egg farm in the distant countryside. Despite not knowing how to work on an egg farm, you take it. When you get to the farm, you understand why this was given to you when you’re introduced to Beto, a very handsome farmer who’s single. He’ll be acting as manager and assisting you with your farm until you can handle raising and managing chickens on your own. Even when your grandparent is laid to rest, they’re still trying to play matchmaker for you and find you a husband.

7. You’re an ordinary farmer, and this year’s crop has been completely wiped out by freak weather. To make ends meet, you're taking a job at a vegetable farm that’s faring much better. The ad said "must love animals, must be good with children." You weren’t sure why until you meet Beto, who placed the ad. He has a dog and a baby.

8. Your parents never approved of Beto but you married him anyway because you love him. After your marriage, your parents begrudgingly acted civil when Beto was around, but when he was out of earshot you’d fight with them about Beto or your decision to move to the countryside. You’re so tired and can’t fight with them anymore about how thrilled they are for having paid all that money for your college degree only for you to become a poor farmer’s wife. They think you deserve better and have hoped you and Beto would eventually divorce and you’d move back to the city. But when you become pregnant, your parents stop talking to you. Your sister assured you this is just temporary silent treatment and your folks will come around.

9. You're a local farmer’s daughter in a little town out in the countryside of California. After your parents’ deaths, you’re just trying to manage the land, doing your best to grow some crops to sell so you can make enough money to pay off debts and keep your family’s farm. One day, you see your crop field has withered completely. All the plants you try to grow in your garden, fail. Seedlings do not sprout and fully grown plants placed into the soil die within days. Thanks to Beto, whom you’ve hired as a farmhand, you have now discovered the reason why. He brings your crops to life and nurtures them until they’re flourishing. You appreciate his green thumb and fall in love with him as you work the land together.

10. You’re pregnant and craving weird things like pickles and peanut butter or fish and ice cream. You told Beto to go to the store and do whatever it takes to get whatever it is you’re craving. It’s the middle of the night, but Beto still gets out of bed and runs to the nearest 24-hour store to appease you. He’s far more scared of you, his beloved hormonal wife, than wild animals like coyotes. Cooking together used to be a cute couples’ activity for you both, but now Beto is just very concerned about your…experimental cooking. "Alright, we're gonna cook. But first, I need you to go to the store and buy me a bag of sugar, a jar of peanut butter, three eggs, a goose, grass fed beef, a bouquet of dandelions, a bucket of live fish, and two bags of sunflower seeds.” Maybe it’s best if you let him do all the cooking for now so neither of you get food poisoning.

11. You’re pregnant and dealing with cravings like Slim Jim's and cherry slushies, brownies with hot sauce, Oreos and pickles. Perfectly normal cravings for a hungry woman going through such a unique and stressful event. Your husband, Beto, is worried "only a little bit". Sometimes in your home town, an ice cream truck can be heard roaming the streets. You got a craving for vanilla ice cream with soy sauce or olive oil, but the wind and the rain is picking up. He loves you so much that he’ll walk outside during any kind of weather to make you happy and get your precious ice cream from the truck. Your moods are a much more volatile storm than anything mother nature can throw at him.

12. Dead of night, back road, you’re a pregnant woman who’s going into labor. The father is out of the picture, so it’s just you. You were driving yourself to the hospital but accidentally ran into a ditch because of contractions. You get out of your stuck car, unhurt, and walk down the road to find help. You don’t make it very far when a truck’s headlights blind you. It’s your neighbor and best friend, Beto. He immediately helps you into his truck and drives you to the nearest hospital. He comforts you, even stays with you during the birth when you ask him to. He lets you hold and squeeze his hand. After the baby is born, he lets you move in with him since, as a father himself, he knows being alone with a baby can be scary. He looks after you, giving you whatever you need. He cares for the baby and helps you raise him/her alongside his son, José. This arrangement was supposed to be temporary, only until you could get back up on your feet. But whoops you and Beto caught feelings. Too early to say if it’s love, but since Beto is divorced and you’re single, both of you decide it’s for the best if you get married so both your child and José can have much needed support. It’s not a big wedding, just a small court ceremony in front of a judge and signing a certificate. He knows you’ll need time to adjust and recover both mentally and physically, but perhaps love comes later and you grow into a happy family.

13. You’re pregnant, which would be great if not for the fact that the child isn’t from your husband, but from your childhood friend/past lover, Beto, whom you recently reunited with after his move to the California countryside. When your husband asked you to bring over food to welcome your new neighbor, you didn’t expect it to be Beto. You didn't plan on sleeping with him. It just sort of happened. So whoops, looks like your feelings for each other still lingered and young love was just waiting to be rekindled. Your sexual tension may have been resolved, but the matter regarding your precarious marriage and unplanned pregnancy sure hasn’t. What do you do now?

14. You're standing in line at the gas station with your husband, Beto, when some guy in a mask comes in to rob the place. A pregnant woman starts freaking out and he points the gun at her. Beto jumps in the way and he fires, hitting your husband in the shoulder. The robber's eyes nearly bug out of his head and he flees, while an ambulance is called. You keep pressure on the wound to slow the bleeding and Beto is able to stay conscious and talking, making jokes the whole time to keep you calm until the ambulance arrives. When you get to hospital, he comes out of surgery just fine. It was a flesh wound, so he’ll recover with some rest and physical therapy. He loves you so much he’d gladly take a bullet for you to keep you out of harm’s way.

15. From your point of view, you're walking down your old street at night, and the lights in your old house are on. You knock on the door, and the new owner answers. Based on his attire, It looks like he was about to go to bed. You apologize for the intrusion, but ask to see your old room upstairs. You left something important in there and need to get it. You describe what your room looks like so he’ll believe you. From Beto’s point of view, he rushes to answer the pounding at his door. He opens it to find a woman frantically requesting to go to her room upstairs. Upon further questioning, she perfectly describes the room he’s just finished turning into a nursery. He lets her in. You walk into your old bedroom, now a nursery for Beto’s newborn. You kneel down to feel the carpet. It's still there. You can feel it.

16. Fried Green Tomatoes inspired: You’re a tomboy who hates wearing skirts and dresses. You like to go fishing, hunting, gambling, etc. Beto is a farmer and your new neighbor, so you welcome him to the neighborhood by giving him a jar of fresh honey. Later, you invite Beto to join you for a blanket picnic in the middle of a field. Nearby, there’s a large tree where bees are nesting. You grab an empty jar and he watches from a safe distance as you reach into the beehive. He’s terrified that you collect the fresh honey by hand, bees surrounding you and clinging to your clothing and skin. “Why would you do that? You could’ve been killed.”

“Don’t you want the honey? I got it just for you. It’s all right, I do it all the time. I never get stung, honest.” After that, Beto starts calling you a bee charmer and it becomes his cute little nickname for you. When you fall in love, you leave him cute little notes and sign them off with,

‘I’ll always love you, the bee charmer’

17. You stand up from a long day working in the field. Your crops are finally all planted. You walk back to the house to grab a drink. You live a peaceful life alone in the countryside, tending to your sheep and apple orchards. Your afternoon is disrupted when you hear distressed bleating. The sheep are gone. Oh no, they’ve escaped out of their pen. Again. You’re not so worried about the sheep because you know your neighbor, Beto, will help you herd them back into their pen. Again. But he’s going to tease you about it and call you Mary or Bo Peep. Again. Ugh. He’s lucky he’s cute.

18. James and the Giant Peach inspired: You’re an organic farmer that uses organic manure, delivered fresh every morning. However, something must have been off with this batch, as you notice something strange happening to the growth of your crops. Inexplicably, the largest apple ever known has grown overnight in your orchard. You aren't sure why you are so scared of it.

19. They say when life gives you lemons, make lemonade. You just inherited a 3,000 acre lemon orchard. So you put it to good use and make fresh, homemade lemonade for your neighbors, including Beto, the newest arrival. You can’t help but admire him whenever you see him. He’s so handsome, even when he’s hard at work and covered in dirt and sweat. Whenever you bring out the glasses of lemonade for Beto and the other workers, you can’t help but flirt with him. You wonder if he’s teasing you when he starts commenting about the heat and taking off his shirt every time he notices you looking.

20. The abandoned house behind the orchard always had your curiosity. You get dared to go inside. In an upstairs room you find a small bed with several stuffed animals and a storybook laying open to a page with pictures of what looks to be a fairytale. Turns out the abandoned house isn’t so abandoned. Beto, a single dad, has just moved in today with his baby. He wonders what you’re doing in his house. To diffuse the awkwardness, you make up an excuse that you wanted to come by and offer assistance in fixing up the place. You could help with the painting, furniture, etc.

21. The orchard had a bumper crop of apples. Unfortunately, it also had a bumper crop of poison ivy. What was supposed to be a fun day of apple picking goes wrong when you fall into the poison ivy. Beto looks after you while you’re suffering unbearable itchiness and redness as your skin feels so gross. He’s your personal doctor and after you’ve fully recovered, he surprises you with a wonderful dinner he made all by himself, topped off with a delicious apple pie he baked for dessert, made special just for you.

22. You've lived a relatively normal life as a farmer. It’s the first farmer's market of the new year and you’re selling your crops at town today. Everyone is staring, glancing between you and Beto. You’re rival farmers and have clashed across the aisle about who has the best crops every year. Will this year be any different?

#tenoch huerta mejia x reader #tenoch x reader #tenoch huerta x reader #tenoch huerta fanfic #tenoch fic #Beto x reader #Roberto x reader #Madres 2020 #Madres prompts #random fic ideas #fic ideas #random prompts #pls tag me if you write any of these #I'd love to read it #Most of these I got from Reddit so I can't take all the credit

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