Yuletide 2016
Dear Yuletide author
First of all, a high five for whichever fandom we matched in! I love all of my request fandoms, and I love you for wanting to write one for me! I am so excited to read your fic!
Some things I would be ESPECIALLY delighted by:
The Mummy Series
Okay, so I'm gonna be up front here: my soul burns for a Rick/Evy/Ardeth threesome fic, and if you were to write me one (not even porny!) I would read it every day and twice on Sundays while skywriting about how great you are. HAVING SAID THAT, if that is not your jam then please do not feel compelled to write it - I would be just as happy reading about Evy and Rick navigating domesticity and/or parenthood, or more about Ardeth's background and Medjai culture, or Evy/Rick casefic like we see at the beginning of The Mummy Returns, or what on earth Ardeth does with his time between movies when Imhotep is not actively trying to destroy the world.
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Black Sails
So this show has become my latest fandom and my tumblr is currently a disaster of pirate feelings and capslock while I await season 4. In general, I feel like the fandom needs MORE FEMSLASH and MORE MIRANDA FIC because both tend to get sidelined for Silverflint and Thomas/James (which I am also exceedingly in favour of, just FYI), so any of those would be amazing. Equally amazing would be anything backstory-ish about Anne or Max, or Miranda before or after her marriage to Thomas, or anything about the transformation process from Lt. McGraw to Capt. Flint. Porn is, of course, optional but enthusiastically received! All I would ask is that if you do write Miranda/Thomas/James, you don't sideline/minimise Miranda, and if you write about Anne/Max(/Jack), that you don't treat Max as a ~phase and Jack as Anne's One True Love (to be clear, I am hugely invested in Anne/Jack as past lovers and current soulmates, but I am equally invested in the canon that says that Anne is no longer into being his "wife").
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Temeraire
I ADORE the entire Temeraire universe, which is why I didn't specify any particular character! Basically, write whatever you want - missing scenes, post-canon, alternate timelines, Temeraire living to the present day and giving his Opinions on everything, etc. I should note that I have a particular fondness for the Longwing captains, and for Jane's letters in Tongues Of Serpents talking about how Lady Allendale is helping her to make her way in society, so anything in that vein would particularly delight me! Pairing-wise, I am flexible - I love the canon pairings, but I am also hella into bi!Jane, Laurence/Tharkay, Laurence/Granby and even Laurence/Granby/Tharkay, so do with that information what you will :D I am not as interested in porn for book fandoms as I am for live action ones, so don't feel obliged to write it in detail/at all if you don't want to.
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Dragonriders of Pern
I have loved Pern since I was like, ten, so again, anything you want to write will make me very happy! I am particularly delighted that this year all the nominated characters are women, and that several of them are women who didn't get much exploration/development in canon, so any fic about them will be wonderful. I am very much a YAY DRAGONS Pern fan, so I would be particularly delighted by fic about any of the female riders' relationships with their dragons, and/or about any dragon/firelizard biology/behaviour that the books didn't really cover. However, I am also very interested in outsider POV, so if you'd rather write about Manora/Emily Boll/Silvina and the daily challenges they face as they deal with trying to take care of so many other people and keep things running smoothly, then please do! I also don't mind if you want to write about Kylara or Mardra, but please do humanise them a little rather than just making them Evil. (Kylara fic (and to an extent, any fic about Brekke) would also be the exception to my happy endings rule, since if you're writing about her post-queen's battle then she obviously doesn't have a happy ending)
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Okay, I think that's everything! Once again, I am already SO HAPPY that you're going to write something for me, please don't worry about adhering too closely to the stuff above to Make Sure I like your fic, I'm just throwing ideas around in case any of them appeal!
Happy Yuletide, I'll see you in January <3
First of all, a high five for whichever fandom we matched in! I love all of my request fandoms, and I love you for wanting to write one for me! I am so excited to read your fic!
Some things I would be ESPECIALLY delighted by:
- established relationships, be they romantic or platonic, and the ease the people involved have with each other
- slice of life stuff, because most fandoms center on world-changing events
- alternate universes of the X event happened differently, now what? variety, including fix-it fic
- happy endings
- specialist knowledge infodumping. So like, if you just happen to know or have thought a lot about any topic that comes up while writing, PLEASE do not hesitate to write it in, I LOVE reading fic where the author clearly Knows Their Shit
- and porn-wise, if you're so inclined: edging/delayed orgasm, eating out, pegging
- the usual list of major character death/non-con/extreme graphic violence/angst without a happy ending
- homophobia as a major source of angst, either internalised or external
- breaking up canon pairings in favour of fanon ones and then justifying it by making the ex a terrible person despite all canon evidence to the contrary
The Mummy Series
Okay, so I'm gonna be up front here: my soul burns for a Rick/Evy/Ardeth threesome fic, and if you were to write me one (not even porny!) I would read it every day and twice on Sundays while skywriting about how great you are. HAVING SAID THAT, if that is not your jam then please do not feel compelled to write it - I would be just as happy reading about Evy and Rick navigating domesticity and/or parenthood, or more about Ardeth's background and Medjai culture, or Evy/Rick casefic like we see at the beginning of The Mummy Returns, or what on earth Ardeth does with his time between movies when Imhotep is not actively trying to destroy the world.
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Black Sails
So this show has become my latest fandom and my tumblr is currently a disaster of pirate feelings and capslock while I await season 4. In general, I feel like the fandom needs MORE FEMSLASH and MORE MIRANDA FIC because both tend to get sidelined for Silverflint and Thomas/James (which I am also exceedingly in favour of, just FYI), so any of those would be amazing. Equally amazing would be anything backstory-ish about Anne or Max, or Miranda before or after her marriage to Thomas, or anything about the transformation process from Lt. McGraw to Capt. Flint. Porn is, of course, optional but enthusiastically received! All I would ask is that if you do write Miranda/Thomas/James, you don't sideline/minimise Miranda, and if you write about Anne/Max(/Jack), that you don't treat Max as a ~phase and Jack as Anne's One True Love (to be clear, I am hugely invested in Anne/Jack as past lovers and current soulmates, but I am equally invested in the canon that says that Anne is no longer into being his "wife").
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Temeraire
I ADORE the entire Temeraire universe, which is why I didn't specify any particular character! Basically, write whatever you want - missing scenes, post-canon, alternate timelines, Temeraire living to the present day and giving his Opinions on everything, etc. I should note that I have a particular fondness for the Longwing captains, and for Jane's letters in Tongues Of Serpents talking about how Lady Allendale is helping her to make her way in society, so anything in that vein would particularly delight me! Pairing-wise, I am flexible - I love the canon pairings, but I am also hella into bi!Jane, Laurence/Tharkay, Laurence/Granby and even Laurence/Granby/Tharkay, so do with that information what you will :D I am not as interested in porn for book fandoms as I am for live action ones, so don't feel obliged to write it in detail/at all if you don't want to.
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Dragonriders of Pern
I have loved Pern since I was like, ten, so again, anything you want to write will make me very happy! I am particularly delighted that this year all the nominated characters are women, and that several of them are women who didn't get much exploration/development in canon, so any fic about them will be wonderful. I am very much a YAY DRAGONS Pern fan, so I would be particularly delighted by fic about any of the female riders' relationships with their dragons, and/or about any dragon/firelizard biology/behaviour that the books didn't really cover. However, I am also very interested in outsider POV, so if you'd rather write about Manora/Emily Boll/Silvina and the daily challenges they face as they deal with trying to take care of so many other people and keep things running smoothly, then please do! I also don't mind if you want to write about Kylara or Mardra, but please do humanise them a little rather than just making them Evil. (Kylara fic (and to an extent, any fic about Brekke) would also be the exception to my happy endings rule, since if you're writing about her post-queen's battle then she obviously doesn't have a happy ending)
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Okay, I think that's everything! Once again, I am already SO HAPPY that you're going to write something for me, please don't worry about adhering too closely to the stuff above to Make Sure I like your fic, I'm just throwing ideas around in case any of them appeal!
Happy Yuletide, I'll see you in January <3