Dear Yuletide Author
Nov. 14th, 2010 06:56 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
masterofmidgetsDear Yuletide Writer,
To start with, thank you for writing my story! I'm pretty easy to please, so just the fact that you are writing me fic in one of my fandoms means that I'm probably going to love it a lot. I hope you have fun writing it, and I can't wait to read it!
Some things that I really like: slash (and gen, and femmeslash, and het, and threesomes, but especially slash), complex relationship geometries, wacky hijinks, humour and banter, light hurt/comfort (so colds or broken arms, but not assault, serious injury or torture so much), exploration of character or relationship dynamics (how characters get together, how their issues mesh or don't mesh, how they negotiate their relationships, etc), teams/friends as make-shift families, non-schmoopy domesticity, plotty adventures.
Some things I don't like so much: rape or non-con, heavy BDSM, character bashing (especially female character bashing), humiliation, heavy angst or deathfic.
Some fandom specific requests/suggestions (but these are guidelines more than anything, and if you think of something else you'd like to do that you think I'd really like, that's awesome too!)
Life is Beautiful (Korea)
I love a lot of things about this show (Ho-Sub's dorky face, the romance between Byung Joon and Jo Ah Ra, everything Kim Min Jae does ever), but let's be honest- I'm watching it for Tae-Sub/Kyung-Soo! What I'd really like for Yuletide is some nice relationship fic between them, set any time after Tae-Sub comes out to his family. Porn or not-porn is up to you, I just want to see them get to be happy together for once, even if it's only for a few minutes. Bonus points for domesticity, cooking together, Tae-Sub being emotionally supportive of Kyung-Soo, and Tae-Sub's mom being awesome.
Looking For Group
Ever since this strip came out, I have been really inexplicably obsessed with the idea of a Benny/Cale/Richard threesome where Benny and Richard are sharing Cale. It's a very practical arrangement! Cale is a lot to handle! So when he gets too "I have a sacred duty to save the world and fight bad guys!" Benny can shove him in Richard's direction for a few hours so she can get stuff done, and when Richard gets bored with his feelings he can shove him back, and that way everyone is happy! I don't really care what kind of a story this is - character piece, how-they-got-together-piece, action-adventure piece - I just really want that relationship to be at the center of it. And please, no Benny/Richard, because...ew. Bonus Points for bed hopping, Richard being a closet cuddler,and the three of them thinking they are being discreet and really, really failing at it.
Football RPF
If you've checked out the character list on my request already, you've probably figured out by now that I am a Spain fangirl. So what I'm really after is fic - any fic - about the Spanish NT during the World Cup this summer. I don't have any diehard NT OTPs at the moment, so if you want to write gen that's fine, but if you do want to make it slash, Cesc Fabregas/anyone would make me really happy. As would a story that deals in some way with the difficulty of playing on a NT with guys you are rivals with during the club season (Barcelona vs Madrid boys?) or playing against players who are your teammates in your club league (like Cesc and Robin van Persie). Bonus Points for Germans (my other favorite team! Bastian Schweinsteiger/Lukas Podolski FTW), Fernando Torres' freckles, and hijinks (of either a bored-twenty-something-guys-playing-pranks variety or the sexual variety) in the team hotel.
Jeeves and Wooster - P.G. Wodehouse
Jeeves/Bertie slash, please, or at least very slashy gen, since as far as I'm concerned that's pretty much canon. In my prompt I asked for h/c, with Bertie hurting and Jeeves doing the comforting, and I feel the need to clarify. I'm really fascinated by the rare moments of vulnerability in the series, when we are really reminded that Bertie is an orphan who was raised by a succession of relatives who didn't have much time for him and now has a lot of friends who mostly take advantage of him. I don't want Bertie turned into a sobbing woobie who's just pretending to be light and carefree - I really like the canon sweet and naively cheerful Bertie. But a fic where that emotional vulnerability is brought out - because he's sick/injured, because his aunt says something cruel, because one of his schemes backfires badly, whatever - and Jeeves tries to make it clear that he thinks Bertie is important and special would really make me happy. Bonus points for wacky adventures/over-complicated plots, the Drones' Club, suit/tie porn, and (if it's slash) Jeeves being surprised that Bertie knows what's he's doing (because what do you learn at Eton if not the art of performing oral sex?).
To start with, thank you for writing my story! I'm pretty easy to please, so just the fact that you are writing me fic in one of my fandoms means that I'm probably going to love it a lot. I hope you have fun writing it, and I can't wait to read it!
Some things that I really like: slash (and gen, and femmeslash, and het, and threesomes, but especially slash), complex relationship geometries, wacky hijinks, humour and banter, light hurt/comfort (so colds or broken arms, but not assault, serious injury or torture so much), exploration of character or relationship dynamics (how characters get together, how their issues mesh or don't mesh, how they negotiate their relationships, etc), teams/friends as make-shift families, non-schmoopy domesticity, plotty adventures.
Some things I don't like so much: rape or non-con, heavy BDSM, character bashing (especially female character bashing), humiliation, heavy angst or deathfic.
Some fandom specific requests/suggestions (but these are guidelines more than anything, and if you think of something else you'd like to do that you think I'd really like, that's awesome too!)
Life is Beautiful (Korea)
I love a lot of things about this show (Ho-Sub's dorky face, the romance between Byung Joon and Jo Ah Ra, everything Kim Min Jae does ever), but let's be honest- I'm watching it for Tae-Sub/Kyung-Soo! What I'd really like for Yuletide is some nice relationship fic between them, set any time after Tae-Sub comes out to his family. Porn or not-porn is up to you, I just want to see them get to be happy together for once, even if it's only for a few minutes. Bonus points for domesticity, cooking together, Tae-Sub being emotionally supportive of Kyung-Soo, and Tae-Sub's mom being awesome.
Looking For Group
Ever since this strip came out, I have been really inexplicably obsessed with the idea of a Benny/Cale/Richard threesome where Benny and Richard are sharing Cale. It's a very practical arrangement! Cale is a lot to handle! So when he gets too "I have a sacred duty to save the world and fight bad guys!" Benny can shove him in Richard's direction for a few hours so she can get stuff done, and when Richard gets bored with his feelings he can shove him back, and that way everyone is happy! I don't really care what kind of a story this is - character piece, how-they-got-together-piece, action-adventure piece - I just really want that relationship to be at the center of it. And please, no Benny/Richard, because...ew. Bonus Points for bed hopping, Richard being a closet cuddler,and the three of them thinking they are being discreet and really, really failing at it.
Football RPF
If you've checked out the character list on my request already, you've probably figured out by now that I am a Spain fangirl. So what I'm really after is fic - any fic - about the Spanish NT during the World Cup this summer. I don't have any diehard NT OTPs at the moment, so if you want to write gen that's fine, but if you do want to make it slash, Cesc Fabregas/anyone would make me really happy. As would a story that deals in some way with the difficulty of playing on a NT with guys you are rivals with during the club season (Barcelona vs Madrid boys?) or playing against players who are your teammates in your club league (like Cesc and Robin van Persie). Bonus Points for Germans (my other favorite team! Bastian Schweinsteiger/Lukas Podolski FTW), Fernando Torres' freckles, and hijinks (of either a bored-twenty-something-guys-playing-pranks variety or the sexual variety) in the team hotel.
Jeeves and Wooster - P.G. Wodehouse
Jeeves/Bertie slash, please, or at least very slashy gen, since as far as I'm concerned that's pretty much canon. In my prompt I asked for h/c, with Bertie hurting and Jeeves doing the comforting, and I feel the need to clarify. I'm really fascinated by the rare moments of vulnerability in the series, when we are really reminded that Bertie is an orphan who was raised by a succession of relatives who didn't have much time for him and now has a lot of friends who mostly take advantage of him. I don't want Bertie turned into a sobbing woobie who's just pretending to be light and carefree - I really like the canon sweet and naively cheerful Bertie. But a fic where that emotional vulnerability is brought out - because he's sick/injured, because his aunt says something cruel, because one of his schemes backfires badly, whatever - and Jeeves tries to make it clear that he thinks Bertie is important and special would really make me happy. Bonus points for wacky adventures/over-complicated plots, the Drones' Club, suit/tie porn, and (if it's slash) Jeeves being surprised that Bertie knows what's he's doing (because what do you learn at Eton if not the art of performing oral sex?).