Jeanette Winterson, Written on the Body
Richard Siken, 'Portrait of Fryderyk in Shifting Light'
Victor Tkachenko, Emerald (2019)
Audre Lorde, 'On a Night of the Full Moon'
Mitski, 'Heaven'
The Shape of Water (2017), dir. Guillermo del Toro
Vanessa Taylor & del Toro, The Shape of Water script
Mitski, 'Strawberry Blond'
i was wondering about matt and mello’s parents reaction about them being involved with the mafia, also just in general if they kept in touch with their families as they got older
another thing, would they come out ? i feel like they would just “oh yk my childhood best friend? yea that’s my husband now .. btw what’s for dinner?” (i can picture both of them saying this but matt specifically)
OHHHH I’ve been thinking about and writing some prompts for exactly that!! How did you know?! :0c
I always feel bad about posting walls of text, so here’s the short answer.
Chris doesn’t know about them doing mafia stuff, Matt sure as hell ain’t gonna tell him what they did. Matt comes out pretty much from the start to his dad even though he was so scared of it but Chris is accepting and loving about it. Their reunion was absolutely adorable. They keep close contact to Matts family post-canon. They regularly come over for a cuppa.
Ivanka, Ana and Jakov only suspect Mello stepping in their dads criminal footsteps but don’t know what exactly Mello is involved in and they don’t want anything to do with it either. Mello comes out straight away too at the initial reunion - the siblings are either ignorant or low-key deriding Mello and Ivanka has an intense internal struggle about it. You know, croatian catholic conservatism and all that. And like Lilo choosing Stitch at the shelter, I can imagine Ana leaning over to Mello, being like
Nikola doesn’t know the details but he followed Mello’s criminal activity from a distance. So he knows what’s up and he’s pretty proud, I can imagine. There is one clash between Nikola and Mello in a shady bar, where Nikola is chilling with his criminal buddies. Mello doesn’t beat around the bush and introduces Matt as his boyfriend - to a whole table of old white slavic gangsters. I don’t need to tell you how insanely provocative this is. A heated argument between the two breaks out (Nikola shouts in croatian, Mello in english) where Mello makes it clear how he lost all respect for Nikola, how he’s never been there for the family, how he doesn’t deserve to have kids in the first place etc etc. Matt pressures Mello to just leave before things happen, Mello spits on the table as a last statement and leaves.
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