Me rolling into tumblr on my lunch break: 16 notifications wtf!! Have the antis found me? Am I getting anon hate at last?????!
Me 10 seconds later: oh it’s Cupcake catching up on my feed okay good carry on
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Guys I am so fannishly happy these days, so many good things going on here and on Discord and on AO3 and even on freaking Facebook, I love this, I love you all, I am having such a good time I feel like this today:
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I can’t believe u did this tbh. XD If it were me and I were trying to be sneaky and surprise you I definitely would’ve just accidentally spilled all the beans. ANYWAYS you’re too much, I can’t believe. I AM NOT WORTHY. I love u okay, bye.
Hello!!! <3 Any headcanon about david and patrick as a couple and/or individuals that you would like to share? <3 I really love your take on them!!!!!!
oh no! I think most of my head canon is in my fic? Like David hating tuna and Patrick listening to folk/country-inspired music. Okay but apparently I did have other thoughts, and they got really long, so now they’re beneath a cut.
I will say that personally, I don’t buy the idea that Patrick had no idea he was gay or never thought about being gay before he met David. I think that’s plausible, but probably far less common than my take, which is just that Patrick was confused. Like he kinda thought he might be but didn’t know how to try it out and didn’t meet many gay single guys (that he knew were gay) and felt kinda dishonest putting it on a dating profile because he wasn’t sure. Like I know a lot of queer people who didn’t really come to terms with their queer identity until well beyond puberty into late twenties/thirties/forties, and they didn’t finally realize they were queer because they met the perfect person. They always kinda knew, or had suspicions or were just generally unsure, but just didn’t know what to do with that part of themselves, because honestly sex was not the most important part of their lives. They were busy like, having jobs and traveling and making friends and creating things and surviving. The people I know who actively pursue relationships as more than a casual interest are few and far between. Idk maybe that’s just my circles.
My other Patrick head canon, I guess, is that his decision to move to Schitt’s Creek was not a sudden, bizarre decision that disrupted his perfect job and perfect fiance and steady life. Patrick said nothing ever felt right--which means he could’ve just lived with wrong for a decade and decided he couldn’t hack it any more, but Patrick is, to me, is someone who takes initiative and tries (and fails) to be emotionally honest. If he felt wrong, he wouldn’t sit with it, he’d search for what was right. So my view of him is that like every 6-18 months he’d just nope out. Like--this job, this girlfriend, this place, it’s still not right, and I need to find the things that’s right. I don’t mean he just like willy-nilly broke hearts all across Canada; I just mean he had that urge to start over again repeatedly, and followed it because he wanted to be honest and do things he believed in with someone he care about, and was perpetually unable to find it. This and the above head canon are what my Patrick fic is about.
As for David, we know that his parents were really neglectful and that he didn’t have any real friends or relationships, so I think it’s safe to say that while he got lots of certain kinds of attention, he was pretty affection-starved. So to me it seems fairly obviously to conclude that the reason he was in so many relationships is he was seeking attention and affection. Because he was in so many relationships and they were all so short, I feel like it’s also fairly obvious that many of these relationships were probably based mostly on sex. So, putting two and two together, it seems very plausible that David very much sees sex as a way to get the affection and attention he craves.
We also know David has a hard time trusting people and expressing verbal affection, so I feel like for David, sex is really the only language he has to express affection. I think, other than being high, it’s a good explanation for why he slept with Stevie. He really, really cared about her. He didn’t know what else to do with that other than sleep with her. It’s not actually what he wants; he does it because he likes her and doesn’t really know other ways of expressing it.
But by the time David meets Patrick I feel like he’s very clear on the idea that that’s not healthy relationships work, and he really, really wants a healthy relationship with Patrick. But he’s still not exactly sure how it’s supposed to go, so I think he does a lot of following Patrick’s lead--both when it comes to sex but also when it comes to other kinds of affection. (I think Patrick does a lot of the same, without David realizing it. My guess is that Patrick never once called them boyfriends until David said it first. I think he loved David a long, long time before he says it, but doesn’t say it until he thinks David is ready to hear it. The only thing I think Patrick doesn’t pace himself to David on is sex, because Patrick is well aware that David is ready for anything with sex, but Patrick wants to make sure all the sex they have is with care and mutual respect.) I think David probably messes up in a few ways we don’t see, especially when it comes to using sex as a way to express himself, but I like to think Patrick comes to understand David’s issues with sex fairly quickly, and could help David handle it in emotionally honest ways.
Okay one other David head canon, which is that David is kinda subby. It has to do with the fact that David tends to be vocal and insistent about what he wants and doesn’t want, and yet he somehow ends up letting people walk all over him, from drinking from Stevie’s beer bong in the very first episode to throwing Jocelyn a baby shower when he doesn’t want to. He just seems over and over again like someone who ultimately wants to please people, even while trying to hold onto and express his identity very firmly to anyone who will listen. This means he could just as easily be someone who would very much like to take control in bed as he doesn’t get to in real life, so it’s not at all evidence of his preferences. And let’s be clear a dom could just as easily want to please people as a sub. I just think, because David is so anxious and lacking confidence in so many ways, that he would really enjoy giving up control to someone who makes him feel safe and comfortable. Like, it would be a way to stop worrying and get the attention he so craves. I also think Patrick is just so confident and careful of David’s feelings and likes to plan and take care of things so much that he comes across as kind of dom-ish. Please note I’m not saying anything about who tops and bottoms, because doms and subs can be either. I definitely think David both tops and bottoms and really likes both, with men, women, and all kinds of genderqueer folks. I also think it’s totally plausible that David likes to dom in bed, or that he’s not into any D/s dynamics at all. So that is purely head canon. Oh, and he likes to be hurt. Sometimes in worrisome ways. But Patrick finds ways to do it that are safe and make them both feel pretty good.
WHY ARE YOU SO AWESOME AND BEAUTIFUL AND SMART AND TALENTED WE ARE NOT WORTHY
Somehow...I feel like this is not the message anon was intending with this ask. But WE’RE GONNA RUN WITH IT. THANKS FOR THE COMPLIMENTS, MY EGO IS LIVING.
Also we’re not addressing you calling me beautiful in public bc I might combust from the other part of the globe sO THANK YOU AND GOODBYE ILU
I’M THE TOP TODAY. I COMPLIMENT YOU WHETHER YOU COMBUST OR NOT. CUPCAKE’S SO PRETTY EVERYBODY. AND SHE DOES THE BEST LOOKS AND HAS THE BEST OUTFITS AND ANYBODY WOULD BE LUCKY TO LAY THEIR EYES UPON HER ETHEREAL VISAGE. THAT’S THE TEA.
