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Dear Yuletide Writer!
Oct. 23rd, 2014 11:57 pmThank you so much for writing me a story! I'm super easy to please, I promise. Just having heard of/wanting to write one of my fandoms wins you a million points, so I'm sure I'll like whatever you write. All optional details really are optional - if none of my ideas are working for you or you already have a story you are dying to write, I'm sure I'll like that too! But here are some ideas to get you going, anyway. :)
Things I like: slash, femslash, OT3s, gen, complicated, intense, and fucked up relationships (romantic and otherwise), non-conventional romance, plotty adventures and casefic, character studies, team-as-family, dub-con, consensual hate-sex, aaaaaall the hurt/comfort. I am always okay with porn, plotty or otherwise.
Things I don't like so much: non-con, extremely graphic violence or gore, character bashing (especially female characters), BDSM, humiliation, non-canonical deaths/deathfic
More fandom-specific thoughts:
Vi är bäst! | We Are the Best!
Okay, I'm inclined to have an emotional soft spot for this movie, since it was one of the very first dates I went on with my girlfriend. But I really do think it's one of the better teenager movies I've ever seen - even when the girls are being really silly, because 13, the movie always takes them 100% seriously, and the result is just really unironically earnest and sweet. I love how much focus is given to their messy emotions and the evolution of their relationships with each other. Something from Hedvig's POV would be really interesting for me - so much of the movie is her getting quietly dragged along and not really asserting herself, but she has a lot of covert development as a person through their friendship, and I'd like to see more of what's going on in her head. I'd also be pretty happy with femslash - one of the three coming out, or realizing she has feelings for one of the others, or dating one of the others and how that affects the group dynamic. No preference to pairing, and if you would like to throw them together into a giggly OT3 I would certainly not complain. I would prefer that you not permanently break up the group or have them fight too seriously, and feel free to age them up/set things post-canon for romance purposes. Bonus points for punk rock references, weird fashion, and Hedvig's mom.
Guilded Age
There aren't too many characters in Guilded Age I don't like an awful lot, but Frigg is absolutely, hands-down, 100% my favorite. I love how brave she is, how tough she is, how much she swears, how few fucks she gives for what other people think/do, and how she is kind of a terrible person - but also, when it comes down to it, how she clearly cares about her friends and wants to fight for/with them, even if she would rather pull her own arm off than admit it. So anything Frigg-centric would make me super happy, whether it's adventure-fic with her hitting all the things with her magic hammer, sexytimes fic where she gets to clear the dust out (any pairing is great, although I'd prefer not breaking up Syr'Nj/Byron), backstory about her time pre-comics with the Sisterhood, or backstory about her character outside the game/in the tube, because she sounded really interesting IRL too. I'm also really interested in her relationship with Gravedust - both on what she gets out of having an older mentor kind of figure, and what he sees in her, and how that reflects on both of their real-life counterparts. Something where Gravedust shows he cares about her and Frigg grudgingly accepts/reciprocates would make me pretty happy.
Cat-Eye Willie Claims His Lover
Every time I listen to this song, I am torn between being impressed at how much creepiness and supernatural world-building Dave Carter managed to imply in a 3-minute song, and frustrated because we only got half the story. Bonnie is a fascinating character to me - she's stuck in a terrible situation (which, arguably she got herself into, with the betting herself in poker and making fun of Willie, but it's still terrible and undeserved), but she has the forethought to bring a silver dagger to the bedroom and murder the fuck out of Willie. I desperately want to know what exactly she was doing for those twenty years afterwards, because I can't believe she wasn't making some kind of plan to deal with Willie's curse. I also really want to know what she means by the line at the end "for i have served one master, true and only" - I feel like there are a lot of really interesting possibilities for that, depending on who you read her as talking about, and what that would mean for her. Alternatively, I'd be pretty happy with something about her and Willie's son, growing up with the knowledge of all this back-story, and what he rides off at the end of the song to do.
Scayered Straights (Cracked.com Quentin Tarantino Parody)
I wish I had enough money to throw into Quentin Tarantino's face to make this movie actually exist, I really, really do. Luckily, I have fanfiction - so I'd really like something as over-the-top, ridiculous, and violent as the movie would be. Given the nature of the trailer, I'm fine with including homophobic slurs, although if you aren't comfortable with including them that is totally okay too. I'd love to see the pre-canon story of the Protagonist and his Husband and their adventures as world-traveling assassins falling in love while fighting off their enemies together (or the weirdest meet-cute over a dead body ever. Or their star-crossed romance on opposite sides of a crime war. Or whatever headcanon you have for them!). Or more context for that scene in the limo with the senator and the gay marriage law. Or that time the Protagonist and Soren Bowie's character totally had hate sex. Or gay adventure fic after the end of the "movie". Pretty much anything, really.
Valor Series - Tanya Huff
I tried to narrow myself down to specific characters this year, but it's hard - there's just so much interesting stuff going on in this universe for me to pick. But I wouldn't say no to: slice of life from Torrin's marriage (or snarky romance, or Torrin having adventures), The Romantic Gunslinging Adventures of Binti Mashona, Lady-Kissing Sniper, or Sh'Quo Company gen missionfic, prank wars, shore-leave hijinks, etc. If you'd like to do more with the Everyone is Bi theme in the books - Torrin's ex-girlfriends? Gender-neutral drunken spin-the-bottle on station down-time? All the gay makeouts? - that would be awesome. I know these books have a high bodycount, but I'd prefer if you kept the character death to a minimum - and if you'd like to pretend that any canonically dead characters (*cough*Haysole*cough*) made it out alive I won't tell on you. Pretty much any pairing is acceptable, canon or not, especially if it is ridiculous/brain-breaking. Bonus points for Torrin kicking all the ass, wild rumors about what Sh'Quo company does to the enemy/to new recruits/on leave, and sex pollen.
Psmith - Wodehouse
If you are inclined to write some Psmith/Mike, I would love to see how Psmith goes about trying to court Mike - from what we've seen in the books, I suspect it would involve lavish gifts and getting them both into all sorts of hijinks and trouble, and completely obliviousness on Mike's part that he is being courted in the first place - in other words, grand farce, ending in make-outs. If you are not inclined to slash, I will happily settle for just the dramatic hijinks, though. I'd prefer something set during their boarding school years, or when they are both at university together, rather than during the later books - I am pretty sure that Psmith is responsible for kicking off my deep, deep love of vaguely homoerotic boys' boarding school series, and it still holds a dear place in my heart for that. Bonus points for socialism references, cricket, and Psmith judging other people's clothes.
Things I like: slash, femslash, OT3s, gen, complicated, intense, and fucked up relationships (romantic and otherwise), non-conventional romance, plotty adventures and casefic, character studies, team-as-family, dub-con, consensual hate-sex, aaaaaall the hurt/comfort. I am always okay with porn, plotty or otherwise.
Things I don't like so much: non-con, extremely graphic violence or gore, character bashing (especially female characters), BDSM, humiliation, non-canonical deaths/deathfic
More fandom-specific thoughts:
Vi är bäst! | We Are the Best!
Okay, I'm inclined to have an emotional soft spot for this movie, since it was one of the very first dates I went on with my girlfriend. But I really do think it's one of the better teenager movies I've ever seen - even when the girls are being really silly, because 13, the movie always takes them 100% seriously, and the result is just really unironically earnest and sweet. I love how much focus is given to their messy emotions and the evolution of their relationships with each other. Something from Hedvig's POV would be really interesting for me - so much of the movie is her getting quietly dragged along and not really asserting herself, but she has a lot of covert development as a person through their friendship, and I'd like to see more of what's going on in her head. I'd also be pretty happy with femslash - one of the three coming out, or realizing she has feelings for one of the others, or dating one of the others and how that affects the group dynamic. No preference to pairing, and if you would like to throw them together into a giggly OT3 I would certainly not complain. I would prefer that you not permanently break up the group or have them fight too seriously, and feel free to age them up/set things post-canon for romance purposes. Bonus points for punk rock references, weird fashion, and Hedvig's mom.
Guilded Age
There aren't too many characters in Guilded Age I don't like an awful lot, but Frigg is absolutely, hands-down, 100% my favorite. I love how brave she is, how tough she is, how much she swears, how few fucks she gives for what other people think/do, and how she is kind of a terrible person - but also, when it comes down to it, how she clearly cares about her friends and wants to fight for/with them, even if she would rather pull her own arm off than admit it. So anything Frigg-centric would make me super happy, whether it's adventure-fic with her hitting all the things with her magic hammer, sexytimes fic where she gets to clear the dust out (any pairing is great, although I'd prefer not breaking up Syr'Nj/Byron), backstory about her time pre-comics with the Sisterhood, or backstory about her character outside the game/in the tube, because she sounded really interesting IRL too. I'm also really interested in her relationship with Gravedust - both on what she gets out of having an older mentor kind of figure, and what he sees in her, and how that reflects on both of their real-life counterparts. Something where Gravedust shows he cares about her and Frigg grudgingly accepts/reciprocates would make me pretty happy.
Cat-Eye Willie Claims His Lover
Every time I listen to this song, I am torn between being impressed at how much creepiness and supernatural world-building Dave Carter managed to imply in a 3-minute song, and frustrated because we only got half the story. Bonnie is a fascinating character to me - she's stuck in a terrible situation (which, arguably she got herself into, with the betting herself in poker and making fun of Willie, but it's still terrible and undeserved), but she has the forethought to bring a silver dagger to the bedroom and murder the fuck out of Willie. I desperately want to know what exactly she was doing for those twenty years afterwards, because I can't believe she wasn't making some kind of plan to deal with Willie's curse. I also really want to know what she means by the line at the end "for i have served one master, true and only" - I feel like there are a lot of really interesting possibilities for that, depending on who you read her as talking about, and what that would mean for her. Alternatively, I'd be pretty happy with something about her and Willie's son, growing up with the knowledge of all this back-story, and what he rides off at the end of the song to do.
Scayered Straights (Cracked.com Quentin Tarantino Parody)
I wish I had enough money to throw into Quentin Tarantino's face to make this movie actually exist, I really, really do. Luckily, I have fanfiction - so I'd really like something as over-the-top, ridiculous, and violent as the movie would be. Given the nature of the trailer, I'm fine with including homophobic slurs, although if you aren't comfortable with including them that is totally okay too. I'd love to see the pre-canon story of the Protagonist and his Husband and their adventures as world-traveling assassins falling in love while fighting off their enemies together (or the weirdest meet-cute over a dead body ever. Or their star-crossed romance on opposite sides of a crime war. Or whatever headcanon you have for them!). Or more context for that scene in the limo with the senator and the gay marriage law. Or that time the Protagonist and Soren Bowie's character totally had hate sex. Or gay adventure fic after the end of the "movie". Pretty much anything, really.
Valor Series - Tanya Huff
I tried to narrow myself down to specific characters this year, but it's hard - there's just so much interesting stuff going on in this universe for me to pick. But I wouldn't say no to: slice of life from Torrin's marriage (or snarky romance, or Torrin having adventures), The Romantic Gunslinging Adventures of Binti Mashona, Lady-Kissing Sniper, or Sh'Quo Company gen missionfic, prank wars, shore-leave hijinks, etc. If you'd like to do more with the Everyone is Bi theme in the books - Torrin's ex-girlfriends? Gender-neutral drunken spin-the-bottle on station down-time? All the gay makeouts? - that would be awesome. I know these books have a high bodycount, but I'd prefer if you kept the character death to a minimum - and if you'd like to pretend that any canonically dead characters (*cough*Haysole*cough*) made it out alive I won't tell on you. Pretty much any pairing is acceptable, canon or not, especially if it is ridiculous/brain-breaking. Bonus points for Torrin kicking all the ass, wild rumors about what Sh'Quo company does to the enemy/to new recruits/on leave, and sex pollen.
Psmith - Wodehouse
If you are inclined to write some Psmith/Mike, I would love to see how Psmith goes about trying to court Mike - from what we've seen in the books, I suspect it would involve lavish gifts and getting them both into all sorts of hijinks and trouble, and completely obliviousness on Mike's part that he is being courted in the first place - in other words, grand farce, ending in make-outs. If you are not inclined to slash, I will happily settle for just the dramatic hijinks, though. I'd prefer something set during their boarding school years, or when they are both at university together, rather than during the later books - I am pretty sure that Psmith is responsible for kicking off my deep, deep love of vaguely homoerotic boys' boarding school series, and it still holds a dear place in my heart for that. Bonus points for socialism references, cricket, and Psmith judging other people's clothes.