Dear Yuletide Writer:
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violsvaHi! Thanks so much for writing for me, and congratulations on your evident good taste!
If you want to benignly internet-stalk me to get an idea of my interests, Tumblr and AO3 (both linked in the sidebar) are probably a better idea than DW. However, my previous Yuletide-related posts are tagged here.
This year I requested The Comfortable Courtesan, Pride, and Carmilla. These are three very different fandoms and I love them all in different ways. I am happy with absolutely any fic rating or length.
A large and random list of things I like in general: worldbuilding, adventure, lesbians, alternate universes, ethical dilemmas, people being clever, twisty plots, gender, sibling or sibling-like relationships, epistolary fic, punks, backstory, hurt/comfort, pining, physical affection, queerness, philosophy, romance, feminism, UST, found families, mythological allusions, polyamory, slash, het, femslash, hidden worlds, cities, banter, complicated plans, beautiful landscapes, angst, puns, magical realism, history, creepy supernatural beings, passionate platonic friendships, case fic, period accuracy, gen, smut, pwp, diversity, fairy tales... Feel free to use any of these.
Dislikes: I have a major embarrassment squick, I don't like incest, and I'm not interested in graphic depictions of rape or gore or torture. However, I can be sold on most consensual kinks.
Fandom specific thoughts and optional details, to be taken more as suggestions and jumping-off points than requests:
Pride: Steph
I would also love to see any of the other characters listed, but especially Steph. I love Steph and want her to be happy (in or out of a relationship). I love her teasing friendship with Bromley. I love the way found families come together in the movie. I love her with Gail. I love her boldness, and the way she is totally open about sex and yet also pretty sure she's no one's choice of romantic prospect. I love her hair.
Basically I want Steph to be happy, and however you want to do that is fine with me.
Specific prompts:
Steph and Bromley as roommates/activists
Gail divorcing her husband and returning to London and Steph not letting herself hope that this means she's interested (pining!)
Steph and Sian, helping each other inside and outside the system
A holiday or event with lots of the cast together, taking care of each other and being family
Carmilla: Carmilla and Laura
(on Wikisource or Project Gutenberg)
What I'm interested in seeing more of is the atmosphere of a dark world with the possibility of monsters everywhere. I would like to see Carmilla's obsessive point of view, either before she arrives at the castle or while she's there, and her comparing Laura to past victims, and why she's going after Laura when she doesn't seem to have trouble attacking the local peasants. Or Laura afterwards - was she really unscathed? Or was she transformed, like Lucy Westenra, and her decline in health is actually the beginning of her becoming a vampire herself? In that case, how much does she have to fight against her morality?
I would really like to see you ignore the ending and let Laura and Carmilla go on a blood-soaked tour of Europe together, meeting all kinds of supernatural phenomena along the way. If you don't want to write femslash, you can leave it as obsessive friendship. If you do want to write femslash, all of the above, but with sex.
The Comfortable Courtesan: Any
(available for free here)
This story has consistently made me so happy for the last year and a half. I love the characters with their own individual strengths and weaknesses and abilities. I love the casual inclusion of diversity. I love the narrative voice(s). I requested any character and I do mean any.
Specific prompts, all of them optional if you have a better idea:
More of Mr and Mrs F-'s backstory. Anything about Mrs F- at all, really. Perhaps her slowly realizing her feelings for Clorinda before triangular matters commenced?
Sandy growing up, or hanging out with revolutionary/scholarly/gay friends, either before or after meeting G-
Belinda's backstory - we've heard hints about her relationship with her father and I am fascinated. Or how she and Captain P- concocted their plan
Lady J- and the classics - maybe hanging out with Sandy, maybe she tries translating a play for Miss A-, maybe she saw all kinds of interesting ruins while visiting the Admiral
Madame C- and Sandy (and G-?) bantering, or protecting each other from gossip
Hector and Lord G- R- and Sandy seem to have a lot of respect for each other - tell me more
Smut in any canon relationship
Details or snippets from Madame's fiction, or various characters' reactions when they first read it
Mostly though, write what makes you happy. Thanks again for writing for me!
If you want to benignly internet-stalk me to get an idea of my interests, Tumblr and AO3 (both linked in the sidebar) are probably a better idea than DW. However, my previous Yuletide-related posts are tagged here.
This year I requested The Comfortable Courtesan, Pride, and Carmilla. These are three very different fandoms and I love them all in different ways. I am happy with absolutely any fic rating or length.
A large and random list of things I like in general: worldbuilding, adventure, lesbians, alternate universes, ethical dilemmas, people being clever, twisty plots, gender, sibling or sibling-like relationships, epistolary fic, punks, backstory, hurt/comfort, pining, physical affection, queerness, philosophy, romance, feminism, UST, found families, mythological allusions, polyamory, slash, het, femslash, hidden worlds, cities, banter, complicated plans, beautiful landscapes, angst, puns, magical realism, history, creepy supernatural beings, passionate platonic friendships, case fic, period accuracy, gen, smut, pwp, diversity, fairy tales... Feel free to use any of these.
Dislikes: I have a major embarrassment squick, I don't like incest, and I'm not interested in graphic depictions of rape or gore or torture. However, I can be sold on most consensual kinks.
Fandom specific thoughts and optional details, to be taken more as suggestions and jumping-off points than requests:
Pride: Steph
I would also love to see any of the other characters listed, but especially Steph. I love Steph and want her to be happy (in or out of a relationship). I love her teasing friendship with Bromley. I love the way found families come together in the movie. I love her with Gail. I love her boldness, and the way she is totally open about sex and yet also pretty sure she's no one's choice of romantic prospect. I love her hair.
Basically I want Steph to be happy, and however you want to do that is fine with me.
Specific prompts:
Steph and Bromley as roommates/activists
Gail divorcing her husband and returning to London and Steph not letting herself hope that this means she's interested (pining!)
Steph and Sian, helping each other inside and outside the system
A holiday or event with lots of the cast together, taking care of each other and being family
Carmilla: Carmilla and Laura
(on Wikisource or Project Gutenberg)
What I'm interested in seeing more of is the atmosphere of a dark world with the possibility of monsters everywhere. I would like to see Carmilla's obsessive point of view, either before she arrives at the castle or while she's there, and her comparing Laura to past victims, and why she's going after Laura when she doesn't seem to have trouble attacking the local peasants. Or Laura afterwards - was she really unscathed? Or was she transformed, like Lucy Westenra, and her decline in health is actually the beginning of her becoming a vampire herself? In that case, how much does she have to fight against her morality?
I would really like to see you ignore the ending and let Laura and Carmilla go on a blood-soaked tour of Europe together, meeting all kinds of supernatural phenomena along the way. If you don't want to write femslash, you can leave it as obsessive friendship. If you do want to write femslash, all of the above, but with sex.
The Comfortable Courtesan: Any
(available for free here)
This story has consistently made me so happy for the last year and a half. I love the characters with their own individual strengths and weaknesses and abilities. I love the casual inclusion of diversity. I love the narrative voice(s). I requested any character and I do mean any.
Specific prompts, all of them optional if you have a better idea:
More of Mr and Mrs F-'s backstory. Anything about Mrs F- at all, really. Perhaps her slowly realizing her feelings for Clorinda before triangular matters commenced?
Sandy growing up, or hanging out with revolutionary/scholarly/gay friends, either before or after meeting G-
Belinda's backstory - we've heard hints about her relationship with her father and I am fascinated. Or how she and Captain P- concocted their plan
Lady J- and the classics - maybe hanging out with Sandy, maybe she tries translating a play for Miss A-, maybe she saw all kinds of interesting ruins while visiting the Admiral
Madame C- and Sandy (and G-?) bantering, or protecting each other from gossip
Hector and Lord G- R- and Sandy seem to have a lot of respect for each other - tell me more
Smut in any canon relationship
Details or snippets from Madame's fiction, or various characters' reactions when they first read it
Mostly though, write what makes you happy. Thanks again for writing for me!