#Todolf fanfiction

[emilydickinsonsghost]

It’s so funny to me when gay mentally ill nerds on the internet put more historical research into their fucked up homoerotic fanfiction than major networks do for their period dramas

[fitzrove]

Man I love POTO a lot !!!!

[adridoesstuff]

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Tagged by: @sarcasticdolphin

Three ships: Will keep it in the Elisabeth fandom, since that is what my current fanfic and fandom focus is. Todolf (legit question: who in the Elisabeth fandom doesn't love reading Todolf fics?), SisiTod (a classic) and Smrtolf (Czech production Todolf my beloveds, but I'm counting it as different from Todolf, because Smrt just has vibes and characterization different enough from Tod for me to not really see them as the same character)

First ship: Eristine from PotO (oh, the good ol' tween days when I used to read and write PotO fanfiction on Wattpad)

Last song: Tanz der Vampire Act 2 Finale from the 2010 cast recording. A true dance banger

Last movie: Do bootlegs count? If yes, then TdV with Jan Kříž as Krolock (the man, the voice, the hands and the PRESENCE) and if not, the Czech movie Nedejte se, děvčata!

Currently watching: Some assorted ASMR on YouTube to help me fall asleep

Currently consuming: A eucalyptus candy for my throat

Currently craving: Nacho cheese tortilla chips. Those always hit

Not tagging anybody, do it if you'd like :)

[yallemagne]

Taaffe is not above espionage for the retrieval of detrimental information to their empire. So, when he is tasked by the Kaiser to… in gentler words: monitor the Crown Prince’s behaviour, he does so without question.

What he finds is... disconcerting.

[fitzrove]

jfkfkdkddk i just realised it's gonna take me a couple months to release my video essay so maybe i'll just blurt out some of my tanz der vampire hot takes now

- ALFRED IS THE MAIN CHARACTER come on you guys,,, you can like and be interested in other characters but it's a problem when the show itself doesn't remember how it was written. The very structure of the show (music, dialogue, plot, scenes) rebels against trying to change this and productions that push him aside just end up jumbled and messy. It's literally a main reason Kunze hated Broadway Tanz

- tied to this, so many people view carpe noctem as this "haha weird random nightmare dance number, guess it was added to pad the runtime" like no... that is literally a way for the show to metaphorically recap and further develop the central themes of the show to the audience at the beginning of act 2... open your eyes...

- I'll take Kunze's "tdv is a musical symbolizing the fall of the berlin wall" (true take of his) over "a longterm relationship with krolock is the ultimate way for sarah to liberate herself" any day. 😭

[mo0nchhild]

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self-indulgent

[fitzrove]

ok but what if todolf fanfiction was EVEN MORE weird... free pointers:) open the post it wont bite you i promise.............

1992 is like. the end is so near you can taste it, the darkness surrounds you completely, you cling to hope and try to find it in yourself to remember how it felt to find it but you can't. you stare into the abyss and suddenly the abyss stares back and it hurts to see that but it would hurt more to look away and find nothing else to save you. you feel too weak to fight it but beneath you skin, deep down in your heart, you want it so badly. it's cold, it's sharp, it's painful, but it's all you have. it can't feel the way you do, but it beckons you, lets you near when you creep closer, and there's some level of mutual understanding, some level of recognition that you both know that neither of you wants to pull away, that you need it too much and that it wants to draw you in.

it's a herald and a warning that things will not get better and things will in fact get worse - it stays your hand and holds you back, prevents you from acting in some ways, and steers you and urges you forward in others. it's a push-pull where you know what you have to do but every path is a dead end that makes things worse. and because of that you don't want to make the decision because any decision you make will doom you, but you know that not making a decision will also doom you anyway...

all your life you've gotten all the love you could ask for from all the wrong places but you're still unhappy like a child because there's no comfort to it, nobody there to hold your hand through the night whenever you need it and to always, always want you as you are, without asking or needing you to be anything you're not. you just want to be embraced and he just wants to embrace you - you just want to be kissed and he just wants to kiss you - you just want to be killed and he just wants to kill you.

2005 is like. you know what you crave but you don't want to want it because it's monstrous, it's wrong, it's not for you to seek. you're scared but you're drawn to that feeling, you want to feel your heart lurch and your hands go cold and clammy. it's the abyss, again, but it's an old friend after all - surely it wouldn't be that bad, you know it, you can stop before you go too far. but you find yourself bad at that, and if anything, he's worse, much worse. it's so easy to have second thoughts, but it's even easier to have second second thoughts - the pull to it is simply too strong. you're all too keenly aware of why and how it's come to this, you're a bit angry at the world for it, and you don't feel equipped to handle any of it alone - but you don't want to quit either, there's simply too much at stake. you're ready to fight for the future you want but all too scared that you're going to fail, in disbelief over whether anything you can do will not just be too little too late. and then, maybe it would've been better not to try at all. so even at the last moment you turn back to see if you can still give up.

it hurts, but it hurts so good. you know he has bad intentions but you don't care.

[fitzrove]

I'm aware I'm insane I'm sorry but i keep reading the rudolf biography and like omg he's awful

this is why lesbian todolf and lesbian rudolf in general fanfiction is so appealing,,, yes I could write original fiction but that is not as fun as historical research,,, Like, gay and homophobic (male character) is over, time for gay and misogynist girlies only...... i promise its fun when it's a girl

[fitzrove]

Choose violence Tanz der Vampire (or another fandom if you dont have an answer!) 3, 17, 22!

3. screenshot or description of the worst take you've seen on tumblr

OOH i collected a bunch of these for my video essay xD

This is perhaps way too mean ahdhfh and I think differences in opinion are productive in fandom spaces, but... one old post I screenshotted argued that people who criticise romantic kr*lock x sarah may not in fact be doing it out of seriously analysing canon, and are instead "smashing 'frivolous fangirls' dreams' - because god forbid we ruin the Serious Vampire Musical with something as fluffy as EPIC GOTHIC ROMANCE". XD And then the post pointed out that vampires are a metaphor for escaping societal pressures, especially for young women and lgbtq+ people, so it's actually a deep and good theme in and of itself.

Idk it's sooo ironic how that post posits that specific relationship as women's liberation (and also points out lgbtq people's struggles in society, as a sidenote...) when there are in fact women out there who don't think romance with men liberates them - and in fact, for whom anything of the sort would be a prison and a nightmare (... that society still tries to push on them at every turn). Like I get how some people would like it but your experiences are not universal and it's ironic that they didn't think about what the L in LGBTQ+ means when making the post and even mentioning it ahdhfh

Anyway yeah, I criticise the (over)romanticisation of Krolock and the de-romanticisation and farcification of Alfred because I hate fun and women's rights, hope that helps (hsdhfjfgfkjgk)

17. there should be more of this type of fic/art

Canon-compliant/canon-universe (ie. not AU) Alfred x Sarah!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Canon-era, post-canon, vampirified, not vampirified... straight people rights (ahsdhjfjskdfghjld). Oh but I do think I would accept an AU that would make it lesbian alfred x sarah because girl Alfred is so exciting to me (but it would have to be good, I hate when people genderbend and change everything in an illogical way lmao). Both fic and art for this >:]

22. your favorite part of canon that everyone else ignores

alfred x sarah (XDDD). Máté Kamarás nightmare solo 1 deep lore (jsjajfj mostly a joke). The depths of the Alfred corruption arc thing and the differences in his and Sarah's worldviews/anxieties (as represented metaphorically by how they approach vampirism). I mean there are people who don't ignore these things but there is too much h*rbert x alfred content in proportion (HAHSDHFJFJ sorry, everyone should write what they want, it's just that that time could've been more productively spent writing todolf fanfiction /hj) and it's craaazyyy how marginal alfred x sarah is in fandom and in fan content (14 fics on ao3 if excluding h*rbfred and krolock alfred sarah polyamory) vs. how much people (at least in the past, now it's mostly ignored or talked of positively I think) fight/fought against it and put it down as a ship.

[fitzrove]

2, 10, 22?

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2. a compelling argument for why your fave would never top or bottom

This is difficult because in my fanfic allllll the characters switch xD It's because to me it's (by "it" I mean todolf elisabethdasmusical) all about the BDSM, where it doesn't really matter what the configuration is - you can still dom someone as a bottom. I get bored writing or thinking about relationships where it's only ever one way around lmaoo.

In terms of the bdsm configuration, though, I don't see canon-compliant Rudolf domming Tod. It's not how depression works, everyone knows depression puts YOU at its mercy ahfhfjfj. That is to say, though, that I find fanfic depictions of Rudolf as a sad limp noodle too timid to ever "fight back" oversimplified. Even Andy Bieber's Rudolf, the limpest noodle of them all (affectionate) canonically isn't a wimp who needs to be treated like a child. And considering history, that really isn't the case. And for me personally it's a turn off in all fanfics if the power dynamic is too reductive/one-sided... it's only a fucked up relationship if both people contribute to the fucked-up-ness somehow, OR if it's a clear situation where one character is the "victim", their suffering should fuck them up and have them react to things in fucked up ways (it doesn't mean they're at fault suddenly but it's more realistic)

10. worst part of fanon

Ahshdfhgj this is spicy... In terms of fanfic it's probably too many OCs (sorry I don't have time to learn all this stuff but you do you ahdhhf), arbitrary changes to the canon just because (without exploring how those changes would work, or going way too far and it becoming just an original story with the names plastered on, that's boring), and most iterations of romantic mutually consensual and enthusiastic Elisat*d. I mean, that last one is hardly a crime considering that I (fitzrove) have written and enjoyed todolf marriage fanfiction, but I personally dislike it xD

Already replied to 22! >:]

[yallemagne]

He lost all dignity the moment Tod slipped the collar around his neck.

The bell certainly didn't help.

[yallemagne]

In hindsight, Rudolf should have known better than to accept mysterious fruit from his lover. That isn't to say he regrets it.

[yallemagne]

His hands trail up the blond’s legs, groping his thighs as he leans in.

“What are you plotting, my prince?” his friend asks with a tinge of intrigue in his tone. 

Rudolf undoes the front of Tod’s trousers, drawing out his member before a hand on his wrist prevents him from acting further. “Humour me, my friend,” he nearly begs.