Ahead of the finale, I am making my post finale fanfiction to-do-list (may I stick to it):
1) Finish: Little Stranger. I've always known exactly where the characters will be at the end of it and have been plotting out their journey there, trust. It is just a matter of getting it written out in prose.
2) Finish: Milestones. The last couple seasons' new information on John's life (B6, Barbara Findley and her project, the Legend meeting him) have given me so many ideas. I plan to revise the story to include those but will leave my original chapters up as well.
3) Write: The Babysitters Club. My most diabolical fanfiction idea ever. The unfortunate lovestory of Barbara Findley. Homelander is more a sex toy than a partner. Madelyn Stillwell is in over her head.
4) Write: The Stable Hand. John joins Stan Edgar and Victoria née Nadia on their farm for some much needed acclimitizaton after his disastrous introduction to Vought's upper echelon. The realities of life on this farm do not match the idealized version that he was told to pretend was his lot.
5) Write: Brings All The Boys To The Yard. The Milklander fanfiction of my dreams. "My best way is to creep under his [cape]; there is no other shelter hereabouts: [Soldier Boy] acquaints a man with strange bed-fellows.” - Shakespeare, The Tempest (bastardized)
6) Write: Errai. My Starlander/#Homelight idea. As his female fanbase is not pleased that he is in a relationship, Vought decides Homelander ought to have a sidekick instead of a girlfriend. They decide to check some boxes at the same time by having him choose his sidekick from a shortlist of young superheroines.
7) A nebulous idea for a Butchlander fic involving Soldier Boy. I just think him having to adjust to having an apparently-not-asexual (he longs for the days he could still believe Homelander was asexual -- why must Butchlander be so loud) weirdo son, dealing with Butcher as a son-in-law, and learning to tolerate Ryan (who Ben hilariously seems to like the least of all in the show despite Ryan being this rather normal, sweet, even-keeled kid lmao) is a recipe for fun. It's a The Boys spin on Meet the Parents. Maybe Homelander has V1 in this. Soldier Boy keeps hypocritically telling himself this whole family business is a phase Homelander will get past in several decades, so it's worth sticking it out as it will get him his son at his side for the long road ahead. And everyone is wondering what is Terror's deal but they know enough to know they probably don't want to know, which has Soldier Boy side-eying Billy.
