Dear Yulegoat 2019!
Dear Yulegoat!
I am super easy to find. I am Amilyn or AmilynH *everywhere*. I'm Amilyn at AO3, ff.net, DW, & LJ. I'm AmilynH on Tumblr & Twitter, and I'm Ami Lynh on FB. I chatter fannishly about Pretty Ladies in all of these locations.
Fandoms Requested
Early Edition
Birds of Prey (Comic)
Terminator
Overview
DNW: explicit (het or slash); I'm not even really here for romance (except Toni/Gary), and even there, I'm only home for kissing. Undercover performances of romance? SO! Fun! (I could buy into Barbara/Dinah...but it's not my main focus.)
The short summary of What I Love, it goeth thusly:
Request 1 by Amilyn
Fandom: Early Edition
Toni Brigatti, Marissa Clark
I would love ANYTHING with Toni and Marissa interacting or (better yet) working together, whether or not Toni knows about the paper, set during or after the series. I'm also all right with the story including anyone else (Gary, Cat, Crumb, Miguel...), so long as AT LEAST ONE of my ladies is the focus.
Basically....these women being awesome. Marissa and Toni teaming up! Brigatti and Gary (snowed into a cabin, perhaps...)! Marissa and blind adventures! The women handling things when Gary can't. Toni knowing or not knowing about the paper. Hijinks. Toni and Gary together...or not *yet* together. Toni/Gary OTP. Marissa's skills and abilities being remembered. Marissa getting out of the bar to do things. Cat and Toni coming to a detente. Toni covering for Gary and taking heat from Winston. A Day In The Life of Team!Gary's!Paper. Toni and Marissa going undercover as a couple. Toni kvetching to Marissa about the MESS that was what happened to her around Chuck's wedding--and that WHOPPING headache from being repeatedly chloroformed!
So many options...and a magical newspaper brought by a cat.
[If Mary Kate were to write for me, I'd EAT UP a continuation of the Air Crash Investigation AU...just saying...NOT an expectation from Mary Kate and CERTAINLY not from anyone else.]
Request 2 by Amilyn
Fandom: Birds of Prey (comic)
Barbara Gordon | Oracle (Birds of Prey (Comic))
I LOVE my Oracle-BarbaraGordon. I LOVE her being brilliant, badass, a bit morally questionable (her Robin-Hood technique of stealing from the rich to give to the Superhero funds), and functioning as Dispatch for the entirety of the DC Hero-verse.
I love even MORE when she gets out of the clocktower and has to go into a situation herself (and I love the tension between her badassery and her self-doubt). Give me Barbara having ADVENTURES and I am All About That. I want to see her in the field, doing things NO ONE thinks she can do (perhaps even herself)...and taking FULL advantage of being underestimated (and completely anonymous). I love when she gets to shock some bad guy by beating him up and he was absolutely not expecting that.
I LOVE when she has an EXCELLENT, titanium, rigid-frame, lightweight, low-profile, SPORTY wheelchair that FITS her functionality and mobility and needs. Low back, no handles, no armrests, slightly canted wheels, tucked-in footplate, a bit of seat dump. Let my lady have a FANTASTIC chair given her low-level SCI!
This is only shorter because I got tired, NOT because I love Barbara any less than my other awesome ladies on this list!
SPOILERS below for "Dark Fate"
Request 3 by Amilyn
Fandom: Terminator (movies)
Sarah Connor
I love Sarah Connor. I'm changing my sign-up at the last minute because tonight I saw "Dark Fate" and...MAN. Just...WOW. She's adass, angry, bitter, empty...she's had her whole life stolen over and over--no MATTER which iteration of Sarah it is. And I love all of her. I love her monologues.
I LOVE young Sarah, Minnie-Mouse-voiced waitress with a pet reptile, who loses everything in one night and rises to the fate set her.
I love slightly-round-the-bend Sarah who's been driven mad by the weight of responsibility of a known future she has to rise to while simultaneously wanting to prevent the seemingly inescapable horrors.
I love T:SCC Sarah, with whom John DID survive, who got to see John growing into the Future Leader of Mankind while everyone around them dies because "We all die for you, John." I love how that series showed that this is SUCH a fragmented timeline that there is NO WAY to stop the coming apocalypse now...that every time someone has been sent back...it has been from a different version of the future with a different date for Judgement Day or a slightly different set of memories/experiences.
I even posited that perhaps the only way to end this would BE to kill Kyle Reese or John, to prevent the looped demands that the machines and John have to stop or destroy the other. Then "Dark Fate" said, no, even without John...it's all going to go pear-shaped anyway.
I love Sarah who was saved by "Pops"
I love Old Angry Sarah, who DID prevent Skynet, only to lose John...only to find that Judgement Day happened anyway, just, from a different starting point of a company. I love the moment where she says that she's standing up for Dani "Because I was her. And it sucks."
I love her reclaiming the determination and drive of between T1 and T2 when she realizes about Dani, "She's John."
I love Sarah Connor. I love just post-Waitress Sarah, Terrorist Sarah, Trying-to-hold-it-all-together Sarah (T:SCC), Grew-Up-With-Pops Sarah, Angry-Bitter-Old Sarah. I'm going to be happy with any thoughtful story about whichever Sarah Connor you're comfortable with writing.
I love her capacity for growth. I love her determination. I love how she learns, how she faces these awful truths, how she accepts this awful life she's been handed and works to make the best for everyone out of it. I love how she handles guns as big as she is. I love her snark. I love her Glare-That-Could-Kill-You. I love her attempts to save the world from all angles. How do you prevent or change something that is a constantly-moving target?
I'd love to see Sarah between T1 and T2: did she unravel before or after her institutionalization?
I'd love to see Sarah and Dani learning and prepping together.
I'd love to see an ever-increasing understanding of the fragmentation of the timeline and future; the space-time continuum is so fragmented, with EVERY future having a terrible likelihood of the utter destruction of humanity, that it doesn't seem like the fabric of space-time is reparable. And yet...Sarah keeps trying.
Is this angry-bitter-bereaved Sarah from Dark Fate...is she who T:SCC Sarah would have become if they could never get John back from the future she lived in where there never was a John after he time-traveled?
I'm fascinated by her hatred and loathing of Uncle Bob and Cameron and Carl...but her acceptance that sometimes you need a machine to fight the machines...and that uneasy relationship she has with each of these. Her commentary in Mexico is fascinating about how, "It would never leave him.... Of all the would-be fathers who came and went over the years, this thing, this machine, was the only one who measured up. In an insane world, it was the sanest choice."
And...dude...is there a point where multiple Sarahs start overlapping and meeting? I love the ways that the timelines intersect and interact, how the annihilation of mankind and a war against the machines seems entirely inevitable now...and I love how the series shows that there is no comfort in living knowing that is on its way.
I'd be happy with anything that explored any of these or any adjacent questions. I'd love for SARAH to be the one, finally, to get to say, "Come with me if you want to live." I'd love to see who else is out there as the Mother Mary of a given generation. Does she at some point feel that there are others ready to hand the baton to who will do all that can be done to save humanity?
This entry was cross-posted at https://amilyn.dreamwidth.org/849780.html.
I am super easy to find. I am Amilyn or AmilynH *everywhere*. I'm Amilyn at AO3, ff.net, DW, & LJ. I'm AmilynH on Tumblr & Twitter, and I'm Ami Lynh on FB. I chatter fannishly about Pretty Ladies in all of these locations.
Fandoms Requested
Early Edition
Birds of Prey (Comic)
Terminator
Overview
DNW: explicit (het or slash); I'm not even really here for romance (except Toni/Gary), and even there, I'm only home for kissing. Undercover performances of romance? SO! Fun! (I could buy into Barbara/Dinah...but it's not my main focus.)
The short summary of What I Love, it goeth thusly:
- Badass Ladies Having Canon Compliant Adventures.
- I LOVE work that fits tidily into canon. I LOVE my ladies. I LOVE them having badass adventures.
- I LOVE hurt/comfort and fear and women saving themselves (and, sometimes, the world).
- I love when grief and bitterness are explored in all their complexity; all of these ladies have losses and trauma and grief and What Ifs, but despite that...sometimes because of that...they are still fighting for themselves and others.
- I love tropes (handcuffed together and running for their lives, trapped in an elevator during a power cut, pretending to be married [in the suburbs], going undercover as a couple in another situation, "there's a murderer trying to bring down our airplane," someone's been shot during a bank robbery hostage situation [let's be real...ANY hostage situation!], trapped in a cabin during a snowstorm, trapped in a cave-in...you get the idea.)
- I like stories that slot tidily into canon because I am a Canon-Based Life Form. I don't HATE AUs (though I do hate the "coffee shop AU" type of AU), but I mainly enjoy "What If" types of AUs where it's "What if this one thing were different..."
Request 1 by Amilyn
Fandom: Early Edition
Toni Brigatti, Marissa Clark
I would love ANYTHING with Toni and Marissa interacting or (better yet) working together, whether or not Toni knows about the paper, set during or after the series. I'm also all right with the story including anyone else (Gary, Cat, Crumb, Miguel...), so long as AT LEAST ONE of my ladies is the focus.
Basically....these women being awesome. Marissa and Toni teaming up! Brigatti and Gary (snowed into a cabin, perhaps...)! Marissa and blind adventures! The women handling things when Gary can't. Toni knowing or not knowing about the paper. Hijinks. Toni and Gary together...or not *yet* together. Toni/Gary OTP. Marissa's skills and abilities being remembered. Marissa getting out of the bar to do things. Cat and Toni coming to a detente. Toni covering for Gary and taking heat from Winston. A Day In The Life of Team!Gary's!Paper. Toni and Marissa going undercover as a couple. Toni kvetching to Marissa about the MESS that was what happened to her around Chuck's wedding--and that WHOPPING headache from being repeatedly chloroformed!
So many options...and a magical newspaper brought by a cat.
[If Mary Kate were to write for me, I'd EAT UP a continuation of the Air Crash Investigation AU...just saying...NOT an expectation from Mary Kate and CERTAINLY not from anyone else.]
Request 2 by Amilyn
Fandom: Birds of Prey (comic)
Barbara Gordon | Oracle (Birds of Prey (Comic))
I LOVE my Oracle-BarbaraGordon. I LOVE her being brilliant, badass, a bit morally questionable (her Robin-Hood technique of stealing from the rich to give to the Superhero funds), and functioning as Dispatch for the entirety of the DC Hero-verse.
I love even MORE when she gets out of the clocktower and has to go into a situation herself (and I love the tension between her badassery and her self-doubt). Give me Barbara having ADVENTURES and I am All About That. I want to see her in the field, doing things NO ONE thinks she can do (perhaps even herself)...and taking FULL advantage of being underestimated (and completely anonymous). I love when she gets to shock some bad guy by beating him up and he was absolutely not expecting that.
I LOVE when she has an EXCELLENT, titanium, rigid-frame, lightweight, low-profile, SPORTY wheelchair that FITS her functionality and mobility and needs. Low back, no handles, no armrests, slightly canted wheels, tucked-in footplate, a bit of seat dump. Let my lady have a FANTASTIC chair given her low-level SCI!
This is only shorter because I got tired, NOT because I love Barbara any less than my other awesome ladies on this list!
SPOILERS below for "Dark Fate"
Request 3 by Amilyn
Fandom: Terminator (movies)
Sarah Connor
I love Sarah Connor. I'm changing my sign-up at the last minute because tonight I saw "Dark Fate" and...MAN. Just...WOW. She's adass, angry, bitter, empty...she's had her whole life stolen over and over--no MATTER which iteration of Sarah it is. And I love all of her. I love her monologues.
I LOVE young Sarah, Minnie-Mouse-voiced waitress with a pet reptile, who loses everything in one night and rises to the fate set her.
I love slightly-round-the-bend Sarah who's been driven mad by the weight of responsibility of a known future she has to rise to while simultaneously wanting to prevent the seemingly inescapable horrors.
I love T:SCC Sarah, with whom John DID survive, who got to see John growing into the Future Leader of Mankind while everyone around them dies because "We all die for you, John." I love how that series showed that this is SUCH a fragmented timeline that there is NO WAY to stop the coming apocalypse now...that every time someone has been sent back...it has been from a different version of the future with a different date for Judgement Day or a slightly different set of memories/experiences.
I even posited that perhaps the only way to end this would BE to kill Kyle Reese or John, to prevent the looped demands that the machines and John have to stop or destroy the other. Then "Dark Fate" said, no, even without John...it's all going to go pear-shaped anyway.
I love Sarah who was saved by "Pops"
I love Old Angry Sarah, who DID prevent Skynet, only to lose John...only to find that Judgement Day happened anyway, just, from a different starting point of a company. I love the moment where she says that she's standing up for Dani "Because I was her. And it sucks."
I love her reclaiming the determination and drive of between T1 and T2 when she realizes about Dani, "She's John."
I love Sarah Connor. I love just post-Waitress Sarah, Terrorist Sarah, Trying-to-hold-it-all-together Sarah (T:SCC), Grew-Up-With-Pops Sarah, Angry-Bitter-Old Sarah. I'm going to be happy with any thoughtful story about whichever Sarah Connor you're comfortable with writing.
I love her capacity for growth. I love her determination. I love how she learns, how she faces these awful truths, how she accepts this awful life she's been handed and works to make the best for everyone out of it. I love how she handles guns as big as she is. I love her snark. I love her Glare-That-Could-Kill-You. I love her attempts to save the world from all angles. How do you prevent or change something that is a constantly-moving target?
I'd love to see Sarah between T1 and T2: did she unravel before or after her institutionalization?
I'd love to see Sarah and Dani learning and prepping together.
I'd love to see an ever-increasing understanding of the fragmentation of the timeline and future; the space-time continuum is so fragmented, with EVERY future having a terrible likelihood of the utter destruction of humanity, that it doesn't seem like the fabric of space-time is reparable. And yet...Sarah keeps trying.
Is this angry-bitter-bereaved Sarah from Dark Fate...is she who T:SCC Sarah would have become if they could never get John back from the future she lived in where there never was a John after he time-traveled?
I'm fascinated by her hatred and loathing of Uncle Bob and Cameron and Carl...but her acceptance that sometimes you need a machine to fight the machines...and that uneasy relationship she has with each of these. Her commentary in Mexico is fascinating about how, "It would never leave him.... Of all the would-be fathers who came and went over the years, this thing, this machine, was the only one who measured up. In an insane world, it was the sanest choice."
And...dude...is there a point where multiple Sarahs start overlapping and meeting? I love the ways that the timelines intersect and interact, how the annihilation of mankind and a war against the machines seems entirely inevitable now...and I love how the series shows that there is no comfort in living knowing that is on its way.
I'd be happy with anything that explored any of these or any adjacent questions. I'd love for SARAH to be the one, finally, to get to say, "Come with me if you want to live." I'd love to see who else is out there as the Mother Mary of a given generation. Does she at some point feel that there are others ready to hand the baton to who will do all that can be done to save humanity?
This entry was cross-posted at https://amilyn.dreamwidth.org/849780.html.