#cattonquick

[the-toulouser]

just finished watching saltburn for the 9th time. heart palpitations, sobbing and biting off my arm as we speak.

[spacecasehobbit]

Consider, if you will: Saltburn Groundhog Day AU, with Felix and Oliver both reliving Oliver's birthday over and over.

At first, neither of them realizes they're in a time loop, so they do establish mutual knowledge of the First Birthday Party together before they discover that they're stuck reliving the same day.

After that, they'd both absolutely get worse for a while. Oliver gets creative and excessive in each new murder plot, while Felix gets downright mean in his attempts to have Oliver kicked out of Saltburn before he can commit any murder, while also tying himself in knots attempting to avoid the embarrassment of his family finding out that he/they were conned by a liar.

Eventually, Felix starts enjoying putting actual effort into something and getting one over on Oliver by working for it instead of just being rich and expecting his privilege to get him through any mildly uncomfortable situations.

And then he has to come to terms with how he has used his privilege, up till now, to justify being an incredibly lazy, casually cruel, and frankly pretty shallow person.

Meanwhile Oliver starts to realize that he had apparently been building up a lot of repressed anger over his whole life of wanting to fit in and have friends and just getting bullied or ignored by his peers, and while it was kind of fun for a while taking out that anger in increasingly violent and absurd ways on the Cattons, Farleigh, and/or various party guests who came to his birthday party and didn't even know his name, he also really likes knowing that everyone will still be alive the next day and no one will stay hurt, because he kind of hates the thought of actually hurting or killing anyone for real.

And then he has to come to grips with how, on the First Birthday Party, he would have killed Felix for real if not for this time loop.

And thus Felix and Oliver start the long, slow slogs of their respective personal growth journeys, as their days in the loop slowly setting into them just talking and hanging out and becoming actual friends. Actual friends who aren't lying to or manipulating or using each other.

Culminating, of course, in the day that they accidentally finally end the time loop, by Felix planning and surprising Oliver with the kind of nice birthday trip that Oliver was daydreaming about that very first morning, before the disaster of Prescott and everything that followed. Felix actually does something genuinely nice for Oliver to make him happy on his birthday; Oliver has a genuinely nice day with his best friend, and he realizes that he can value himself just fine without a giant birthday party full of strangers who aren't even really there for him anyway.

And then Felix gets them a hotel room so they can fuck all night without worrying about getting walked in on by a maid or party guests, and they both agree it's been the best day either of them can remember having in a long time.

(It's a little awkward when they actually have to drive back to Saltburn the next morning and answer questions about where they'd been all night, but... worth it.)

[w-hikarin]

Using you - Mars Argo

This song is so Cattonquick coded...

[mylovelookup]

👇👇👇

@follieaun 🤓

[helloimscaredofmyownmortality]

Rip Oliver you would’ve loved Chappell Roan

[ants-personal]

most unrealistic thing about saltburn is that oliver didnt steal those bracelets off of felixs cross

[larry-pritchard]

what can i say, i am very weak willed

[darknessanddistance]

[oliverquickatemysoul]

The Picnic - Oliverquickatemysoul - Saltburn (2023) [Archive of Our Own]

My first fic!!! After years telling myself I hate writing, I have finally found something that made me want to do it. Saltburn really is altering my brain chemistry huh 🙃

I hope you like itttt ❤️

@leiflitter HERE. I did it 🥲👉👈

[overstayedtime]

saltburn details that make my brain explode bc theyre so beautifully done

felix & venetia having matching star tattoos

the vampire scene hinting at venetias death

the catton players display with the stones ontop at the end

venetia telling the doppelganger story and seeing a felix doppelganger in the window (hints at felix’s death)

these r some of the details i really love that emerald put into the film & i feel like they add a lot

[the-toulouser]

come on, babygirl (felix catton), let that compulsive heterosexuality turn into impulsive homosexuality!! you know you want oliver’s ass!! could save your life in more ways than one shhhh

[riickgrimes]

Oliver + Felix's bathrobe

[w-hikarin]

Me (bleeding, blurry vision, might pass out) and my hot witch boyfriend (who seems to forgot how to cast healing spells though I taught him that like yesterday)

Witch/Sorcerer AU cattonquick

[bathtubmilk]

[ants-personal]

throwing felix into a happy death day scenario

[quick-catton]

sometimes i just sit and think about how their eyes both drift down towards each other's lips at the exact same time and i could cry