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paleomnesisThis is my first time doing this exchange and I'm so excited to see whatever you write for me!
The Menu (2022)
Margot Mills/Julian Slowik (The Menu)
Eroticized Gore, Humor With Gore
So I absolutely adored the connection between these two, the way they bonded over being fellow members of the service industry, even if Julian is an egotistical asshole who murders people for some of the pettiest of crimes and Margot... isn't. Still, they had some sparking chemistry and I can completely see a universe in which gruesome murder and culinary gore becomes something they can bond over.
This is definitely a food porn movie, and I'd love something that incorporates that – delicious meals accompanied by grotesquely beautiful deaths would definitely be my aesthetic. Cannibalism is absolutely encouraged here if you want to go that route; Julian strikes me as the type of person who would use actual people as ingredients, though he'd probably insist on them being free-range and free from additives first (also he would serve himself up on a platter as some deranged metaphor while Margot rolls her eyes at the drama of it all). Also, if you want to do actual porn, that would be splendid too – I'd love for Margot to get a chance to show off her skills.
DNWs: No harm of pets, extreme underage, scat/watersports, no focus on unrequested pairings involving nominated characters (mentions of past canon relationships are fine). Please don't kill Margot off. Also, please none of the theories that Julian drugged his guests or adulterated any of the food.
Prompts:
Tyler picked Margot at random because Julian only accepts couples and Tyler's a douchebag who doesn't give a shit who he sacrifices. Except oh shit, Margot's service industry experience isn't just limited to sex work and she was in on it all along (we do know Julian has a fondness for planting staff where he can dramatically reveal them). Perhaps Katherine fucked off after Julian pulled his harassment shit and Margot became the new sous chef, creating sanguine masterpieces that Tyler can only dream of having a “mouthfeel” about.
I have this weird incesty desire where Margot is Julian's daughter and that just complicates everything. Was she raised from the beginning and grew up with him in the kitchen, experiencing the same highs and lows that he did? Or is it one of those where Julian was a shitty father as well and is trying to make up for it by giving all of himself to her, whatever she wants, even his raw bloody heart for her to rip her teeth into.
Also, hey, maybe it's a happy ending – well, not for most people – where Julian rediscovers his joy of cooking and decides that Margot should definitely be the one that tastes his new dishes full of love (and human flesh?) She really should run away and call the cops, but damn it, why must his food truck constantly fulfill everything she craves?
Guillermo del Toro's Cabinet of Curiosities (TV)
Richard Pickman/Will Thurber (GDTCOC)
Richard Pickman/Will Thurber/Yog-Sothoth (GDTCOC)
Angst With Gore, Eroticized Gore, Horror With Gore
I probably shouldn't have ended watching the Pickman's Model episode feeling bad for Pickman, because all he wanted was for his best friend to understand the monstrosities that run through his blood and whisper his name from the darkness. Also, it would be nice if he could also serve the dark entity Yog-Sothoth the way Pickman's ancestor Lavinia did, letting art show the true nightmare of the world and drive people to madness and sacrifice.
There's so much horror to delve into here and if it involves Thurber suffering, I'm all for it. Maybe Thurber is the one feasted upon, unable to die, or maybe he is the one doing the feasting. Perhaps it's both and Pickman and Thurber end up in some sort of twisted corruptive cycle where Thurber just keeps being broken and remade into something of his worst nightmares, until at the end, he's fit for Pickman's art. I also nominated Yog-Sothoth because why not make it worse for Thurber with a deity that knows time, space, and your secrets all at once?
DNWs: No harm of pets, extreme underage, scat/watersports, no focus on unrequested pairings involving nominated characters (mentions of past canon relationships are fine). Please don't kill the nominated characters off permanently by the end (transformations are fine). Also, I know there is canonical child murder, but I'd prefer it not to be described in any great detail (referenced is fine).
Prompts:
Thurber fails to kill Pickman – maybe the creatures are able to stop him before he can pull the trigger or maybe Pickman's already unnatural enough that mortal hands cannot kill him. In any event, Pickman's a bit hurt that his friend tried to do it, but it's all right, he reassures his 'friends.' Thurber will learn not do that again. He just needs a small lesson.
Yog-Sothoth can raise the dead and Thurber's just lost everything in his life, including a good chunk of his sanity, one would imagine. Whispers encourage him to bring Pickman back first, which succeeds, and then Pickman and his god mention that they can bring his son back to him. It just requires... well, let's just say that there's precedent in The Dunwich Horror and I have no problems with mpreg for this fandom.
It is assumed that Pickman selected Thurber because he's both a talented artist and has connections to spread Pickman's messages to a far larger audience than Pickman could do alone. But what if there was another reason, one that involves not just Pickman's ancestors but Thurber's and perhaps the same cursed blood that runs through both their veins.
Finally, I have this strange notion to see a female Pickman and how the events might play out from there. Lavinia feasted upon her husband and I can see a world in which her descendant might do the same, though I doubt Thurber would have the mercy of death granted upon him, for Pickman does love her husband so very much and it would be a pity to lose such a capable man.
Dead & Buried - Chelsea Quinn Yarbro
G. William Dobbs/Dan Gillis (Dead & Buried)
Eroticized Gore, Horror With Gore, Hurt/Comfort With Gore
It's the story of the town coroner, Dobbs, and the sheriff, Dan, who investigate a series of murders and find out that oh shit, it's everyone in town doing them because they're dead, and what's that? The coroner's been the one bringing them back and making them forget about it? And the sheriff was one of them, constantly caught in the same vicious cycle? And then Dan shoots Dobbs in the stomach who acts like he's just given him the best hand job of his life? To top it off, the final lines are “Come on Dan,” Dobbs said indulgently as he came toward him. “Let me fix that up for you.”
So yes, it's body horror from start to finish – people rotting all over town and the coroner occasionally having to make a few new ones by having the townspeople murder the visitors and then fixing them up until they're good as new (corpses)! For a bit. I should note that I chose the book rather than the movie it was adapted from because I like the dynamic better in it. Plus, it reminds me of another delightful story about a doctor that enjoyed bringing the dead back to life, even if his special friend, Dan, had to occasionally be coaxed into participating. Truly, the 80s were magical times.
DNWs: No harm of pets, extreme underage, scat/watersports, no focus on unrequested pairings involving nominated characters (mentions of past canon relationships are fine). Please don't kill off the nominated characters permanently at the end (I mean, they're technically zombies, but they're functional ones and I'd like them to remain so, even if a few body parts go missing).
Prompts:
Dobbs says at one point that he “enjoys playing these chess games with you, Dan.” How many times in the past has Dobbs done this? Were there ever times where it was particularly tricky for him to fix Dan up? Dobbs also states that the bodies he restores have to be 'mutilated' first so they won't be recognized and because it's more of a challenge? How much of a challenge was Dan in the beginning?
So Dan knows the truth at the end, sees his flesh and bone rotting away and Dobbs is more than happy to fix him up, take care of the man he keeps breaking and mending in a constant cycle. The thing is, as Dobbs says, “the dead have no memory,” so he creates the memories he gives those he fixes. Does he take advantage of Dan this time around, now that Dan has finally and quite definitively put his wife to rest? After all, Dan seems to possess the same capability of “fear and love and sex” and Dobbs is a thorough scientist who loves the dead more than the living.
A fairly glaring plothole seems to be that no matter how much Dobbs changes the look of the dead, there's still the whole problem of “hey, a fair number of people went missing near this small seaside town.” Maybe Dobbs decides to pack it in, set up in another town when things get too hot, but he doesn't leave empty-handed, though they'll both need a few minor changes to start over, and Dan is a most uncooperative patient (it would be a shame to remove a limb, but sometimes, small sacrifices must be made).
The Menu (2022)
Margot Mills/Julian Slowik (The Menu)
Eroticized Gore, Humor With Gore
So I absolutely adored the connection between these two, the way they bonded over being fellow members of the service industry, even if Julian is an egotistical asshole who murders people for some of the pettiest of crimes and Margot... isn't. Still, they had some sparking chemistry and I can completely see a universe in which gruesome murder and culinary gore becomes something they can bond over.
This is definitely a food porn movie, and I'd love something that incorporates that – delicious meals accompanied by grotesquely beautiful deaths would definitely be my aesthetic. Cannibalism is absolutely encouraged here if you want to go that route; Julian strikes me as the type of person who would use actual people as ingredients, though he'd probably insist on them being free-range and free from additives first (also he would serve himself up on a platter as some deranged metaphor while Margot rolls her eyes at the drama of it all). Also, if you want to do actual porn, that would be splendid too – I'd love for Margot to get a chance to show off her skills.
DNWs: No harm of pets, extreme underage, scat/watersports, no focus on unrequested pairings involving nominated characters (mentions of past canon relationships are fine). Please don't kill Margot off. Also, please none of the theories that Julian drugged his guests or adulterated any of the food.
Prompts:
Tyler picked Margot at random because Julian only accepts couples and Tyler's a douchebag who doesn't give a shit who he sacrifices. Except oh shit, Margot's service industry experience isn't just limited to sex work and she was in on it all along (we do know Julian has a fondness for planting staff where he can dramatically reveal them). Perhaps Katherine fucked off after Julian pulled his harassment shit and Margot became the new sous chef, creating sanguine masterpieces that Tyler can only dream of having a “mouthfeel” about.
I have this weird incesty desire where Margot is Julian's daughter and that just complicates everything. Was she raised from the beginning and grew up with him in the kitchen, experiencing the same highs and lows that he did? Or is it one of those where Julian was a shitty father as well and is trying to make up for it by giving all of himself to her, whatever she wants, even his raw bloody heart for her to rip her teeth into.
Also, hey, maybe it's a happy ending – well, not for most people – where Julian rediscovers his joy of cooking and decides that Margot should definitely be the one that tastes his new dishes full of love (and human flesh?) She really should run away and call the cops, but damn it, why must his food truck constantly fulfill everything she craves?
Guillermo del Toro's Cabinet of Curiosities (TV)
Richard Pickman/Will Thurber (GDTCOC)
Richard Pickman/Will Thurber/Yog-Sothoth (GDTCOC)
Angst With Gore, Eroticized Gore, Horror With Gore
I probably shouldn't have ended watching the Pickman's Model episode feeling bad for Pickman, because all he wanted was for his best friend to understand the monstrosities that run through his blood and whisper his name from the darkness. Also, it would be nice if he could also serve the dark entity Yog-Sothoth the way Pickman's ancestor Lavinia did, letting art show the true nightmare of the world and drive people to madness and sacrifice.
There's so much horror to delve into here and if it involves Thurber suffering, I'm all for it. Maybe Thurber is the one feasted upon, unable to die, or maybe he is the one doing the feasting. Perhaps it's both and Pickman and Thurber end up in some sort of twisted corruptive cycle where Thurber just keeps being broken and remade into something of his worst nightmares, until at the end, he's fit for Pickman's art. I also nominated Yog-Sothoth because why not make it worse for Thurber with a deity that knows time, space, and your secrets all at once?
DNWs: No harm of pets, extreme underage, scat/watersports, no focus on unrequested pairings involving nominated characters (mentions of past canon relationships are fine). Please don't kill the nominated characters off permanently by the end (transformations are fine). Also, I know there is canonical child murder, but I'd prefer it not to be described in any great detail (referenced is fine).
Prompts:
Thurber fails to kill Pickman – maybe the creatures are able to stop him before he can pull the trigger or maybe Pickman's already unnatural enough that mortal hands cannot kill him. In any event, Pickman's a bit hurt that his friend tried to do it, but it's all right, he reassures his 'friends.' Thurber will learn not do that again. He just needs a small lesson.
Yog-Sothoth can raise the dead and Thurber's just lost everything in his life, including a good chunk of his sanity, one would imagine. Whispers encourage him to bring Pickman back first, which succeeds, and then Pickman and his god mention that they can bring his son back to him. It just requires... well, let's just say that there's precedent in The Dunwich Horror and I have no problems with mpreg for this fandom.
It is assumed that Pickman selected Thurber because he's both a talented artist and has connections to spread Pickman's messages to a far larger audience than Pickman could do alone. But what if there was another reason, one that involves not just Pickman's ancestors but Thurber's and perhaps the same cursed blood that runs through both their veins.
Finally, I have this strange notion to see a female Pickman and how the events might play out from there. Lavinia feasted upon her husband and I can see a world in which her descendant might do the same, though I doubt Thurber would have the mercy of death granted upon him, for Pickman does love her husband so very much and it would be a pity to lose such a capable man.
Dead & Buried - Chelsea Quinn Yarbro
G. William Dobbs/Dan Gillis (Dead & Buried)
Eroticized Gore, Horror With Gore, Hurt/Comfort With Gore
It's the story of the town coroner, Dobbs, and the sheriff, Dan, who investigate a series of murders and find out that oh shit, it's everyone in town doing them because they're dead, and what's that? The coroner's been the one bringing them back and making them forget about it? And the sheriff was one of them, constantly caught in the same vicious cycle? And then Dan shoots Dobbs in the stomach who acts like he's just given him the best hand job of his life? To top it off, the final lines are “Come on Dan,” Dobbs said indulgently as he came toward him. “Let me fix that up for you.”
So yes, it's body horror from start to finish – people rotting all over town and the coroner occasionally having to make a few new ones by having the townspeople murder the visitors and then fixing them up until they're good as new (corpses)! For a bit. I should note that I chose the book rather than the movie it was adapted from because I like the dynamic better in it. Plus, it reminds me of another delightful story about a doctor that enjoyed bringing the dead back to life, even if his special friend, Dan, had to occasionally be coaxed into participating. Truly, the 80s were magical times.
DNWs: No harm of pets, extreme underage, scat/watersports, no focus on unrequested pairings involving nominated characters (mentions of past canon relationships are fine). Please don't kill off the nominated characters permanently at the end (I mean, they're technically zombies, but they're functional ones and I'd like them to remain so, even if a few body parts go missing).
Prompts:
Dobbs says at one point that he “enjoys playing these chess games with you, Dan.” How many times in the past has Dobbs done this? Were there ever times where it was particularly tricky for him to fix Dan up? Dobbs also states that the bodies he restores have to be 'mutilated' first so they won't be recognized and because it's more of a challenge? How much of a challenge was Dan in the beginning?
So Dan knows the truth at the end, sees his flesh and bone rotting away and Dobbs is more than happy to fix him up, take care of the man he keeps breaking and mending in a constant cycle. The thing is, as Dobbs says, “the dead have no memory,” so he creates the memories he gives those he fixes. Does he take advantage of Dan this time around, now that Dan has finally and quite definitively put his wife to rest? After all, Dan seems to possess the same capability of “fear and love and sex” and Dobbs is a thorough scientist who loves the dead more than the living.
A fairly glaring plothole seems to be that no matter how much Dobbs changes the look of the dead, there's still the whole problem of “hey, a fair number of people went missing near this small seaside town.” Maybe Dobbs decides to pack it in, set up in another town when things get too hot, but he doesn't leave empty-handed, though they'll both need a few minor changes to start over, and Dan is a most uncooperative patient (it would be a shame to remove a limb, but sometimes, small sacrifices must be made).
