Bending spoons

[resonant]

I was talking about a story I read once in which someone licked someone's eardrum. I said I was surprised that I hadn't seen that sort of thing in Night Vale fandom, where prehensile tongues aren't ruled out by canon. And king_touchy commented:

Oh god, just by writing that out you likely caused exactly that fic to spontaneously exist.

And, you know, it's probably true. Reality is malleable, and fandom doubly so. Who knows what I've let loose on the world with the power of my imagination!

With that in mind, let's try to use that power for good! With the power of my mind, I'm causing the following stories to burst spontaneously into existence:

1. A story in which, while two people are falling in love, one of them washes the other's hair.
   
   
2. A story in which one character says, "That feels so incredible. I don't even know what you're doing to me," and the other one tells him.
   
   
3. A story with the line: "No. I don't want you to have what you want. What you want is to be safe from me."
   
   
4. A story where a buttoned-up character only lets his emotions out when the other one can't respond -- say, talking into a hidden earpiece during a stakeout.
   
   
5. A story where two people with an intense and difficult relationship go fishing together, sitting back-to-back on a cooler.
   
   
6. A kiss in a kitchen.

Comments

[rhi]

Oh, god. How long a story? ::eyeing 5. And maybe 6::

[resonant]

Hey, 200 words is 200 words that didn't exist before!

[libitina]

Oh - OH! Number 3. I've got you.

[resonant]

Yay!

In retrospect this is the most random collection of prompts ever.

[kindkit]

1. A story in which, while two people are falling in love, one of them washes the other's hair.

I wrote that! Long ago now, and there are things I'd do differently if I were writing it today, but:

What It Feels Like (1808 words) by kindkit
Chapters: 1/1
Fandom: Angel: the Series
Rating: General Audiences
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Relationships: Charles Gunn/Wesley Wyndam-Pryce
Characters: Wesley Wyndam-Pryce, Charles Gunn
Additional Tags: Hurt/Comfort, Character of Color
Summary:

Being shot has its compensations.

[resonant]

The last time I was reading Wes/Gunn, I had never even seen the show! I missed a lot of nuances, that time around.

[burnishedvictory]

*makes grabby hands for #4*

[resonant]

Oh yes!

[jelazakazone]

I think #4 already exists? Q-Branch Does Not Operate a Phone Sex Line .

Also, vassalady just posted a Night Vale fic today wherein Cecil says he doesn't know how to describe how he's feeling, but alas, Carlos does not tell him.

[resonant]

#4 cannot exist enough, in my opinion. Thanks for the link!

[delphi]

Coincidentally, I am at this very moment writing a story with two of those (#1 and #6).

[resonant]

Sounds like something to look forward to!

[schmerica]

Ugh, I love hair-washing, so much. It's right up there with shaving the other person.

[resonant]

Yes! I wonder if I would love it so much if Sentinel hadn't been my first real fandom, with all the worship of Blair's hair.

[malnpudl]

Re #1... I once wrote a due South F/K story with hair washing, but it's established relationship. Sleepy bathtime hair washing while fucking.

Yeah, guess it's not quite a match. Ah, well.

[resonant]

It sounds perfectly lovely!

[carolyn_claire]

Hmmm, 1. is Sherlock/John. Sherlock loooooves getting his hair washed and he sort of fidgets and sighs with happiness (and smugness) when John does it. John thinks why the hell not, he does everything else for him, and then he loves it too, turns out. He loves all of it.

2. is Jim/Blair/blindfold, and I'll be in my bunk.

3. is Spike/Zander and is chock fulla angst. I think there's bondage involved and tables getting turned and definitely trust issues and maybe some D/s.

4. is Mulder/Scully, and it's weird and funny and sweet, and

5. is Mulder/Krycek, and it isn't. Someone may even die who isn't a fish.

6. is John/Rodney, and they're vegetables in a crisper drawer, because there's a remote chance someone hasn't already written them as vegetables in a crisper drawer.

I'm likkered up enough right now to kind of want to write these. The hangover will probably fix that.

[aerye]

:)))))

Hair washing

[dorothy1901]

A story in which, while two people are falling in love, one of them washes the other's hair.

And Then Some, by Loch Ness. Highlander, Duncan/Methos. It's a small hurt/comfort scene in a long, plotty story.

He pushed the door open. The Scot was
sitting in the tub, naked and leaning against the side of the bathtub
as if he badly needed the support to stay upright. He was so pale the
black beard on his face looked like ink against white paper, and his
long hair had become impossibly matted. His clothes lay discarded in a
pile under the sink.

"Go away," he said again. With effort, he turned his head so he faced
away from Methos, the gesture suggesting that the next time he looked
around, he had damn well better be alone. Then he tried to raise his
arm to pour water over his hair from a small bucket and bit his lip in
pain.

Methos knew he was swallowing another groan. He walked over to the tub.
At most MacLeod could only threaten to kill him--the Scot was in no
condition to do him permanent damage, no matter how much he might want
to. "Let me help you," Methos said quietly.

MacLeod jerked away and nearly fell over. "Get away from me, damn you,"
he grated out.

Methos forced his tone low, gentle. "Look, I'm not going to hurt you.
I'm not going to try to fuck you, and I swear I'll never tell a soul
you let me touch you."

MacLeod was still looking away, his jaw clenched in stubborn
resistance.

"Duncan," he said, using the highlander's given name to get his
attention. It worked--surprised, MacLeod looked up.

"It'll be all right," Methos murmured. "I'm just going to wash your
hair for you, and then help you into bed and let you die in peace."

The Scot turned his head away again and closed his eyes, defeated. Then
he let go of the bucket so Methos could take hold of it.

It's on the Wayback Machine.
And Then Some by Loch Ness, Part 1
And Then Some by Loch Ness, Part 2
And Then Some by Loch Ness, Part 3

Re: Hair washing

[resonant]

That's very nice! I don't know that I've ever read a story where the washee resisted like that -- mostly they're like, "Oh, yes, please."

[nomelon]

I find it very difficult to keep my characters out of the kitchen when kissing/sex is happening. They always want to get right down to it without retiring to the boudoir. I just read a Kirk/Spock fic where there was hairwashing, although it was about 100k words in. Number 2, I'm all up for some competent taking control or some dirty talk, but it has to be the right kind. If not, and it's a fine line, nothing puts me off faster. And number 4, I love it when the characters can't talk and all there is to do it listen.

Yes, these stories need to exist. But you likely caused exactly that fic to spontaneously exist - oh man, if only it were that easy!

[resonant]

Dirty talk is definitely a fine line for me, too, and a lot of the people who like it seem also to like erotic humiliation, which I don't care for. It's one of those things I read with one eye open and a finger on the Back button.

I love it when the characters can't talk and all there is to do it listen.

Yes! Extra-fun when the character in question normally dominates every conversation.

[basingstoke]

Reading that list, you must read this story: http://archiveofourown.org/works/934124/chapters/1818408

And it's Night Vale to boot.

[resonant]

Yeah? That warnings list would have kept me away, but I'll give it a try.

[laurenthemself]

#1: if you read Big Bang Theory, I did this in the water sustains me. (Leonard/Sheldon, Mature, no warnings apply unless one requires a warning for schmoop and ultraviolet prose.)

Sheldon submits to having his hair washed, complains about getting shampoo in his eyes, and then turns his face up to the spray when Leonard grabs the detachable shower head and rinses the offending suds away. With his hair slick-wet against his head he looks like a selkie temporarily in human form. The notion is only intensified in Leonard’s mind when Sheldon opens his sea-blue eyes.

Funny, he’s never noticed his roommate’s eye color before. Nor found it quite so appealing. He must have been single for too long.

[resonant]

Never read any Big Bang Theory, but I'll give it a try. I never mind coming to a fandom through the slash, though sometimes the way the characters really look comes as a bit of a shock.

[reginagiraffe]

#4 Lots of these in Person of Interest fic.

[laurakaye]

I was just coming here to say that I have a Person of Interest WIP that is totally #4!

[saraht]

Reality is malleable, and fandom doubly so. Who knows what I've let loose on the world with the power of my imagination!

We call those "whitnels" in my corner of the world, which, judging by the fannish reference, is a joke more than ten years old!

[basingstoke]

HISSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSS

which is to say I recognize that reference.

[sara]

Pretty sure I have 1 and 4 already somewhere in either bookmarks or the Kindle. 4 exists in multiple variants in Avengers fandom, for reasons which should be obvious. I want to say I have read 1 in Homestuck.

While 3 may not exist in exactly that phrasing, I was rereading a Generation Kill story last night that's got a very similar scene.

The fishing, I don't know, I think there's some of that in hockey RPF. Something with Jonathan Toews in it.

[jamafanta]

What's the Generation Kill story, if you don't mind? #3 is my favourite trope on that list, and I do love GK.

[out_there]

I have a feeling I've read half of those. Of course, it's also Monday and I'm having complete brain-fail and have no idea which fandom/stories they were.

[giglet]

Hmm. It occurs to me that in Dr. Who fandom, the sonic screwdriver undoubtedly has a "cleanse" setting, so one could write hair washing happening anywhere. I like this idea.

[elynross]

A story where a buttoned-up character only lets his emotions out when the other one can't respond -- say, talking into a hidden earpiece during a stakeout.

I may have just spontaneously combusted.

A story where two people with an intense and difficult relationship go fishing together, sitting back-to-back on a cooler.

I vote Haven, with Nathan&Duke, for this! *g*

[lastscorpion]

1. Hair-washing, people falling in love -- A Man's Got to Know his Limitations Smallville-Superman, pre-Clex(ois), h/c