Rare Male Slash Exchange 2022 Letter
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ungefugHello, thanks for writing for me and a disclaimer up ahead, everything except the dnws is a kind suggestion. Do as you please, really, go nuts. I don't care how weird it gets, I welcome it. And I'm always happier if you write something you're comfortable with.
I'm trying to give some shippy prompts, which might sound more or less plot heavy, but in general I'm happy with the smallest of moments, slice of life, established relationship, missing scenes, or indeed of course straight up smut. G to E, I'm a hungry bird and I'll talk all your crumbs.
The amount I've written here for a pairing is not indicative of how much I like it. Sometimes I just have more ideas.
Likes
Smut:
- hand holding, hand kissing, neck touches, chaste kisses, displays of fealty
- hierarchies, power dynamics, abuse of power
- stifling environments, coded language, uniforms
- obscene, grotesque, disgusting things
- violence, gore
- enemies with benefits
- sexless love and loveless sex
- loyalty
- codependant relationships (knight/squire, boss/goon, gentleman/butler, mad scientist/assistant, sniper/spotter, pilot/mechanic etc)
- people just doing mundane things from baking bread to going for a swim
- hurt and comfort, hurt and hurt
- transgression, transformation
- observations of nature from the tinniest bugs to the tallest trees
- focus on the historical context (from something like the music, clothing, objects to greater societal themes)
- pouring all your niche knowledge, intellect, trivia and so on into fic
- pastiche, archaic language, unusual form
- unreliable narrators, outsider POV
- letters, diary entries, events relayed in conversation
Smut:
I like any level of explicit, from the crude to the flowery. I have a general purpose list of smut things that interest me here.
Údolí včel | Valley of the Bees (1968)
Armin/Ondrej
Repressed Teutonic knight meets not so repressed Teutonic knight, drama ensues.
Do Not Write
Trust FX
Almost all of these feature Primo for reasons (brain bug in my head), so I'll give you a rundown of the things I like about him first. He's my little slut ((affectionate)).
Love the sort of very 70s thing that's going on with him which is equally very masculine and also a little camp and makes him stick out like a sore thumb in the Ndrengheta. The 70s were a great time because a guy could have a hairy chest (unless proven otherwise I will chose to headcanon hair onto Primo's chest) and bulging muscles and wear make-up and a fruity glitter outfit and kiss boys and girls. Yes, he's my princess when he talks about the operatic drama and he's also the insufferably macho guy that fucking kills you. The range.
I'm into all sorts of gay cruising places and loveless fucking but also genuine male bonding or exploring the whole hierarchy thing that's going on with him and his lackeys (probably not entirely wholesome). In general I like stuff that brings in the aspect of drugs, of the party scene in Rome but also Calabria, desolate mountain top cabins and so on. Just an all tongue and mustache kiss by the camp fire (truth or dare?) would satisfy my urges immensely. Teaching someone to shoot while breathing down their neck way too hard. You know, the little things. Or stuff that delves into topics of discrimination in Rome, alienation in Calabria, being between two worlds.
I'm not super keen on anything that deals with the seriously grueling reality of being attracted to men in a Catholic, conservative male-dominated crime syndicate. Reality may be acknowledged but I don't want it to be endlessly sad. Mostly I just think he's *fun* even if terribly mean.
Fletcher Chace/Primo Nizzuto
Nice Piece. Okay, it's crack. If you want to be smart about it Chace knows all the mafia guy's faces. Isn't that a problem? Or he wants to shake Primo down so he doesn't try shit with Paul again. Some film noir thing after the fact? Or they meet when Chace is still looking for Paul. I just got this image of Primo in drag (the mustache stays on). Dont know where that came from. I will be honest I don't have many prompts because it's just silly. Chace is a good guy, Primo doesn't deserve him, but maybe you can have fun with them, they are both basically cartoon characters.
Dante/Primo Nizzuto
This one is all about the power dynamic. I just noticed how poor Dante is glued to Primo's site, doing the whole looking tough while standing around quietly thing - despite the fact that Primo poured gasoline on him (he had a rough day ok?). I also noticed his chest hair.
There are certain comedic qualities to this duo, in particular when they dress up to get into the post office. I also love that exchange atop the tank with Primo doing his "aren't we good friends" smooth talking before immediatly going into "tell me or you die" mode and all of Dante's trembling after he did some posturing about how afraid Gail was of his gun (he's trying so hard to be like Primo). And I love the little moment of Primo patting him on the neck/back when he thinks Dante did the deed of killing Paul.
So I would enjoy anything from the aformentioned dudes being dudes, mutual hand jobs (it's only gay if you make eye contact), to some kind of story of Dante saving Primo's ass or vice versa or having to deal with Primo having a comedown or them having to go undercover and dress up again, even silly kind of stuff.
Angelo Calati/Primo Nizzuto
See my post about Dante but make it more miserable. He's younger, he's more sensitive (compare Dante's reaction to Primo pranking on Paul by pulling the lighter away with Angelo's), so the dynamic is quite different. Angelo seems constantly nervous if not outright terrified around Primo (makes sense), so if you want to go noncon/dubcon or just generally something that's really really uncomfortable and makes me cry for poor Angelo, I'd love that.
If you want Angelo to be reluctantly attracted to Primo (many such cases), that's hot too. And I get the feeling that Primo would be quite observant and perceptive of that and have his fun. Also I like the whole translation aspect there and Primo asking Angelo to translate raunchy things would be *chef's kiss*. Or Primo just being generous to his servant, giving him drugs, introducing him to gay sex in more or less pleasant ways. He is not just scary, he can be nice right? Give and take.
While I love the kidnapping summer camp setting, this could be set beforehand. Primo picked the guy (*boy) for the job, was there a job interview, how if at all do they know each other?
Also bringing Paul into this is interesting. I am not fond of Paul/Primo when it's consensual/wholesome but I like what's going on there with Angelo trying to protect Paul from Primo and it can work in an unwell threesome way. At one point he gets beaten up (where it could have been Paul) which is just tragic but also I'd love more of that. If you want to make him more of a martyr, suffering Primo's sexual advances in Paul's place that's cool. If you read about the real case they really did terrible things to Paul, playing russian roulette, making him drunk all the time. Very sad.
Paul/Primo Nizzuto
Okay, it's obvious, Primo can be charming and is so on occasion with Paul, is all smiles before he sends him to the trunk of the car, feeds him drugs (for his own end but hey they had a good time), has his cute little nicknames. The vibes are in the air and they are a little rancid. Did Primo have to throw Paul over the hood of the car like that? Questions.
- bottomification, woobification
- mundane formalized bdsm/kink things* (formal negotiations, safewords, people identifying as dom/sub, that sort of stuff)
- terminal illness, cancer*
- dementia, amnesia, Alzheimer's*
- infantilization
- mpreg
- mundane modern AU (coffee shop, college, rock band etc.)
- issuefic
- alpha/beta/omega (and similar worldbuilding with assigned roles/biodeterminism)
Trust FX
Almost all of these feature Primo for reasons (brain bug in my head), so I'll give you a rundown of the things I like about him first. He's my little slut ((affectionate)).
Love the sort of very 70s thing that's going on with him which is equally very masculine and also a little camp and makes him stick out like a sore thumb in the Ndrengheta. The 70s were a great time because a guy could have a hairy chest (unless proven otherwise I will chose to headcanon hair onto Primo's chest) and bulging muscles and wear make-up and a fruity glitter outfit and kiss boys and girls. Yes, he's my princess when he talks about the operatic drama and he's also the insufferably macho guy that fucking kills you. The range.
I'm into all sorts of gay cruising places and loveless fucking but also genuine male bonding or exploring the whole hierarchy thing that's going on with him and his lackeys (probably not entirely wholesome). In general I like stuff that brings in the aspect of drugs, of the party scene in Rome but also Calabria, desolate mountain top cabins and so on. Just an all tongue and mustache kiss by the camp fire (truth or dare?) would satisfy my urges immensely. Teaching someone to shoot while breathing down their neck way too hard. You know, the little things. Or stuff that delves into topics of discrimination in Rome, alienation in Calabria, being between two worlds.
I'm not super keen on anything that deals with the seriously grueling reality of being attracted to men in a Catholic, conservative male-dominated crime syndicate. Reality may be acknowledged but I don't want it to be endlessly sad. Mostly I just think he's *fun* even if terribly mean.
Fletcher Chace/Primo Nizzuto
Nice Piece. Okay, it's crack. If you want to be smart about it Chace knows all the mafia guy's faces. Isn't that a problem? Or he wants to shake Primo down so he doesn't try shit with Paul again. Some film noir thing after the fact? Or they meet when Chace is still looking for Paul. I just got this image of Primo in drag (the mustache stays on). Dont know where that came from. I will be honest I don't have many prompts because it's just silly. Chace is a good guy, Primo doesn't deserve him, but maybe you can have fun with them, they are both basically cartoon characters.
Dante/Primo Nizzuto
This one is all about the power dynamic. I just noticed how poor Dante is glued to Primo's site, doing the whole looking tough while standing around quietly thing - despite the fact that Primo poured gasoline on him (he had a rough day ok?). I also noticed his chest hair.
There are certain comedic qualities to this duo, in particular when they dress up to get into the post office. I also love that exchange atop the tank with Primo doing his "aren't we good friends" smooth talking before immediatly going into "tell me or you die" mode and all of Dante's trembling after he did some posturing about how afraid Gail was of his gun (he's trying so hard to be like Primo). And I love the little moment of Primo patting him on the neck/back when he thinks Dante did the deed of killing Paul.
So I would enjoy anything from the aformentioned dudes being dudes, mutual hand jobs (it's only gay if you make eye contact), to some kind of story of Dante saving Primo's ass or vice versa or having to deal with Primo having a comedown or them having to go undercover and dress up again, even silly kind of stuff.
Angelo Calati/Primo Nizzuto
See my post about Dante but make it more miserable. He's younger, he's more sensitive (compare Dante's reaction to Primo pranking on Paul by pulling the lighter away with Angelo's), so the dynamic is quite different. Angelo seems constantly nervous if not outright terrified around Primo (makes sense), so if you want to go noncon/dubcon or just generally something that's really really uncomfortable and makes me cry for poor Angelo, I'd love that.
If you want Angelo to be reluctantly attracted to Primo (many such cases), that's hot too. And I get the feeling that Primo would be quite observant and perceptive of that and have his fun. Also I like the whole translation aspect there and Primo asking Angelo to translate raunchy things would be *chef's kiss*. Or Primo just being generous to his servant, giving him drugs, introducing him to gay sex in more or less pleasant ways. He is not just scary, he can be nice right? Give and take.
While I love the kidnapping summer camp setting, this could be set beforehand. Primo picked the guy (*boy) for the job, was there a job interview, how if at all do they know each other?
Also bringing Paul into this is interesting. I am not fond of Paul/Primo when it's consensual/wholesome but I like what's going on there with Angelo trying to protect Paul from Primo and it can work in an unwell threesome way. At one point he gets beaten up (where it could have been Paul) which is just tragic but also I'd love more of that. If you want to make him more of a martyr, suffering Primo's sexual advances in Paul's place that's cool. If you read about the real case they really did terrible things to Paul, playing russian roulette, making him drunk all the time. Very sad.
Paul/Primo Nizzuto
Okay, it's obvious, Primo can be charming and is so on occasion with Paul, is all smiles before he sends him to the trunk of the car, feeds him drugs (for his own end but hey they had a good time), has his cute little nicknames. The vibes are in the air and they are a little rancid. Did Primo have to throw Paul over the hood of the car like that? Questions.
The caveat: I like anything where Paul does not have genuine feelings for Primo and vice versa, where the relationship is not the end game. Primo straight up raping Paul? Ok. Primo fucking with Paul? Ok. Doing drugs together, having a bit of a good time before reality comes crashing in? Ok. Weird sexual tension while bathing or around the camp fire? Ok. Paul buying drugs/safety/comfort with his body? Ok. Paul protecting Angelo from Primo? Ok. Paul meeting Primo in a club post kidnapping and having a ptsd meltdown? Ok. Pre-abduction club encounters that Paul maybe doesn't quite remember? Ok. Mixed feelings of "guess he's not so bad - oh, no he actually is that bad and worse." Ok. Primo showing a bit of humanity and allowing Paul who's stashed in the back of the car to go for a piss in the woods with him and then—
Stockholm syndrome, Lima syndrome, falling in love, Paul working through his trauma by sucking Primo's magical healing cock, bonding over daddy issues? No, thanks. It just squicks me out a bit, sorry!
Dennis/Jahangir Khan
I don't have much to say there that's not in the canon. Just the love, the tenderness, the repression, the yearning, the imbalance of experience and confidence. Not so stoic anymore Jahangir. God, I do love a stoic tender man. He's gorgeous.
Dennis/Jahangir Khan
I don't have much to say there that's not in the canon. Just the love, the tenderness, the repression, the yearning, the imbalance of experience and confidence. Not so stoic anymore Jahangir. God, I do love a stoic tender man. He's gorgeous.
Does Dennis have to show Jahangir the ropes (re-show)? Dancing. Gardening. The love language of flowers. Nights out. Cocktail parties. Just thriving again. Living together. Jahangir struggling with and/or overcoming internalized homophobia. Jahangir Acclimatizing to a life out of service and the freedom and lack of structure it provides in combination with all the changes society went through.
If you want to bring cricket into it somehow: I know the game well enough to follow. Also I had a terrible cringe moment when I thought Dennis was going to ask Jahangir if he's a bowler or a batman... now I think it would be funny.
Really I just want to see them together, they deserve it. Can be so sugary sweet or lean more into the "getting over my repression and lost time" side of things.
Der junge Törless | Young Törless (1966)
Reiting/Thomas Törless
Beineberg/Thomas Törless
Beineberg/Reiting
I read this book too but nominated the film because it's a lower point of entry. So this one left permanent damage on my teenage brain. Bunch of pretty guys in uniforms all isolated being horribly sadistic to each other, power games, gay sex, that coffee house scene with Törless looking at Beineberg's lovely lovely hands? Loved it. I just really like all three of them, together or individually and their weird dynamics.
Der junge Törless | Young Törless (1966)
Reiting/Thomas Törless
Beineberg/Thomas Törless
Beineberg/Reiting
I read this book too but nominated the film because it's a lower point of entry. So this one left permanent damage on my teenage brain. Bunch of pretty guys in uniforms all isolated being horribly sadistic to each other, power games, gay sex, that coffee house scene with Törless looking at Beineberg's lovely lovely hands? Loved it. I just really like all three of them, together or individually and their weird dynamics.
Basini can be part of this but I don't want the relationship to him to be the main focus. So if say Reiting and Beineberg use him as an inbetween for their own obsessions with each other that would be fine, but it's not the end game.
I like their evil little cabal, the red room hideout with all the props. Whether it's just them exploring their sexuality with each other (Beineberg and Reiting being super casual about it, unlike nervous Törless) or part of their whole fucked up power plays and bdsm (there is no other way to put it). Punishment for Törless's betrayal, they try to pull him out of his observer role. Törless's gender troubles (there is some mention in the book of him feeling like a girl as a child). Beineberg's slender fingers. Fencing. Alcohol. Reiting finally roughing up Beineberg. The specter of war. Imperialism. Classism. Isolation.
Fine with all flavours of noncon, dubcon, terrible experiences all around. There is plenty of room for dark fic, but I am also ok with the boys having a normal time.
Údolí včel | Valley of the Bees (1968)
Armin/Ondrej
Repressed Teutonic knight meets not so repressed Teutonic knight, drama ensues.
I love the contrast of the (Baltic?) castle, the minimal landscape, just the rocks, the sea versus the abundance of the Czech forest. Love the theme of bees, bees as diligent church members, as angels, bees as the pagan wilderness and the honey of life.
I would like really anything about them, whether it's more erotically charged but never quite consumated moments before Ondrej runs away, more tenderness, intimacy, more of Armin being terrible repressed and terrified by his own desires. Or give me a better end, they manage to get through to Armin without anyone having to die. Or a special treat of Armin being drunk and drawn into a threesome that he absolutely hates and which drives him to suicide or worse. Would love for there to be no heavy focus on woman hating or anything like that but he did kill her so...
Also you don't have to fix the situation, I am fine with misery.
Well, actually I think if you watched this film, it doesn't matter what you write for me I'll love it.
Ancient Greek Religion & Lore
Dionysus/Pentheus
So I don't know what to say about Dionysus/Pentheus that the Baccae (and to a lesser extent Ovid's Metamorphoses) doesn't already make blatantly clear. Repressed, hyper-masc, Apollonian, angry little man gets curious about the sexy free ladies in the woods, meets the bull (I raise my eyebrow and turn to the camera), is feminized, is slaughtered. Many such cases.
Love Dionysus winking at the audience, fucking with Pentheus (literally,or not), his little puns, love the seduction and mind control, would love to see some divine sex or more details of the dressing, of teaching Pentheus to act the woman part. Plenty of gender to be had all around.
I'm somewhat obsessed with how grotqesue this play makes Pentheus dancing to Dioysus tune, so what if they danced?
Also I like the aspect of the foreign and oriental in Dionysus and also allusions to him being somehow darker, older (now that's ironic given his birth) and more mysterious than other gods.
Or just give me anything about ecstasy, rapture, rape, rapio, tearing away, tearing flesh.
Ancient Greek Religion & Lore
Dionysus/Pentheus
So I don't know what to say about Dionysus/Pentheus that the Baccae (and to a lesser extent Ovid's Metamorphoses) doesn't already make blatantly clear. Repressed, hyper-masc, Apollonian, angry little man gets curious about the sexy free ladies in the woods, meets the bull (I raise my eyebrow and turn to the camera), is feminized, is slaughtered. Many such cases.
Love Dionysus winking at the audience, fucking with Pentheus (literally,or not), his little puns, love the seduction and mind control, would love to see some divine sex or more details of the dressing, of teaching Pentheus to act the woman part. Plenty of gender to be had all around.
I'm somewhat obsessed with how grotqesue this play makes Pentheus dancing to Dioysus tune, so what if they danced?
Also I like the aspect of the foreign and oriental in Dionysus and also allusions to him being somehow darker, older (now that's ironic given his birth) and more mysterious than other gods.
Or just give me anything about ecstasy, rapture, rape, rapio, tearing away, tearing flesh.