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Dear Yuletide,
My apologies this wasn't posted by the time assignments went out. Hopefully you'll check your email after I post this but yeah XD
Anyway, wow, I'm really excited to get a fic for any of these fandoms. All four of them are close to my heart in various ways and I know I'll love your take on them. :) I can handle nearly all kinds of writing style. Angst, myster, drama, hopefulness, humor, PWP, AU, I love it all. So go where your intuition takes you! (The only kind of fic I'd dislike is straight up crack fic. It's fine in more prolific fandoms, but with these smaller fandoms I'd like to see stuff that focuses on the characters as they are instead of as a joke. ajksflkafslkj I hope this makes sense.) I especially love fic which focuses on relationships (platonic or otherwise, between characters.) I like a good balance of introspection and dialogue. I love nearly all writing styles as long as I can tell the author had fun writing it. All I ask is that you avoid character bashing, misogyny, and other kinds of prejudice.
As for the fandoms I requested... Here's some stuff to get you started on your way.
Spiritwalker Trilogy
I love this canon for having PoC women with agency, unique worldbuilding, and inversions of a lot of fantasy stereotypes. I'm really dying for prequel fic. Camjiata and Helena (wow based on how he talks about her I ship them hard), Daniel Hassi Barahal and Tara Bell, even Bee's parents having to come to terms with how they have to sacrifice Cat.
Of if you don't want to go back that far in time, I'd also love to hear about the events of the two books from the POV of Bee, or Andevai, or Rory. They all have compelling stories: Bee having to deal with the fact that her parents can be cruel, Andevai trying to fit in with a family that needs and loathes him (while saving his own family... omg his relationship with his sister is amazing), or Rory being bored in the spirit realm and being psyched to have a sister. I love this world, I love these characters, I want to hear more about them.
The Iliad
PRECIOUS TROJAN ROYAL FAMILY SIBLINGS. Some scenarios I'd love to read:
-Anything Helenus. Seriously, anything. His relationship to his twin Cassandra, his relationship with Andromache, why did he want to marry Helen so much?, dealing with being prophetic, dealing with being one of the only members of his family to survive, being forced to tell the enemy how to defeat his city. Literally anything (just don't pair him with Neoptolemus because Neoptolemus squicks me out so bad.)
-And Cassandra and Hector get a bit more attention in contemporary fiction than Helenus. I'd love to see either of them as part of the family unit. Or even just Hector acting as a protective older sibling to Cassandra. Cassandra and Hector both try so hard to save the city, and they both fail. Somehow that just seems so poignant to me and I'd love to read more about it.
The Good Wife
God, I just really need Kalinda/Alicia fic. Something I love about the canon is how public perception has an effect on the private sphere, including intimate details of personal relationships. Alicia's life has been up for public consumption ever since her husband's crimes came out. So, I'd love an AU where Kalinda and Alicia are a couple. Kalinda having to deal with being in a long-term relationship with someone she legitimately loves, and Alicia coming to terms with being queer. And then the two of them navigating how public they want to be with it, how to handle their office while being in a relationship, how to handle the news media etc. Just... a relationship between these two is so fascinating, especially given the nature of this show.
If pairing fic isn't your deal, I'd really love anything that deals with the friendship between Kalinda and Alicia, because it's the heart of the show to me. I love that one of the major plot threads is a relationship between two women. How rare is that?
Yvain: The Knight of the Lion
YVAIN IS SUCH AN INTERESTING STORY TO ME because there's this really odd tension running through it that's never quite resolved. I mean, Yvain kills Laudine's husband and, yeah, he loves her but she marries him partially because it's the easier thing to do. And then she becomes estranged from him, accepts him back, but basically says "well, okay, I guess that's how it's going to be." And the story claims they're in love but...
yeah, lots of tension and unresolved questions.
and then there's the Gawaine/Lunete ship tease (and if you just want to write fun, sassy PWP with those two... let's just say I'll squee a lot.)
and Sir Kay hating pretty much everyone and as the story unfolds you can't help but take his side.
Yvain is interesting too because in some traditions he's the son of Morgan Le Fey. So if you want to write about his thoughts on that that would be great too. (Heh, if you wrote Morgan Le Fey teaching Laudine or Lunete magic that would be badass.)
OKAY I'M DONE RAMBLING
but I'm extremely excited to see what you write, and I hope you have fun!
-Stephanie