Dear Yuletide Letter
Dear Yuletide Author,
First off, thank you so much for a) having the awesome taste of sharing at least one of these rare fandoms with me, and b) for agreeing to write in one of these awesome rare fandoms. I can already tell you have THE most excellent taste. :D
As far as who I am and what I like in a story, I like well-written characterizations, I love the push/pull of friends who are lovers (although I also love a good origin romance, too), I love angst as long as it works for the characters (and there's some hope at the end), I love slice of life/quiet fics, and I love fics that give me new insight to these characters I know and love.
Not into: Major Character Death, watersports, mpreg, rape, any A/B/O dynamics, and I have a really big problem with fridging the ladies (unless it's actually part of the canon plot) or ignoring them/writing them out of the story to get the male leads together.
Now, onto the fandoms and specifics about each one, and please keep in mind that these are only suggestions, and you don't have to use any of these ideas. I promise, I'll love whatever you write, because I know you're writing from the heart and out of the same love for the source material. Also, I LOVE AUs, so don't feel like you have to a be a slave to the canon story, either!!!
(Honestly, ALL AUs ARE WELCOME IN MY HOUSE!!!)
Alien Quadrilogy:
As long as you can agree that Alien3 never happened, I'm good with ANY story set in this world. But what I'd really love is Vasquez's back story. How and why she joined the Marines, how she met Drake, why her relationship with Bishop was so fraught with tension, how did she and Hicks become friends, all of it.
I'm also totally cool with any and all post-Aliens Ripley/Hicks fics, and what they do after they leave LV-426 with Newt, and what their lives are like and how they help each other heal from their massive PTSD, and what the family dynamics are like now (and if Ripley and Hicks do get together, and what that looks like.) I also love Bishop, so feel free to include him in any post-Aliens fic!!!
Edge of Tomorrow:
I unabashedly love the hell out of this movie and how it played with narrative conventions and how it upended the notion of the "heroic" arc. And I fell as in love with Rita as Bill did - not just because she's a total badass, but because the film allowed her to be complex and interesting and scared and allowed her to fuck up. She's a fascinating character. And I'd love any and all fics dealing with what life is like for her now that the world's been saved and her services are no longer needed. And how she deals with a man who knows her so intimately that she's just met, and how he has to reintroduce himself to her all over again.
I'd also love a story dealing with Bill's PTSD and how screwed up he has to be from all of the traumas and deaths he's lived through and remembers, and how he's able to move past that. Gen fic is also fine for these two, although I wouldn't complain if they hooked up.
Knight and Day:
This is one of my ultimate comfort films - I just love how Roy is this perfect combination of slightly unhinged and highly competent, and how he basically fell for June at first sight, and did everything he could to do both protect her and keep her with him. And I love June - how clear-eyed she is and how smart she is, but how lost she was in her own life before Roy came crashing into it, and how awesome her entire character arc was.
I would love anything that deals with their time after the film - perhaps on the road to Cape Horn, Roy and June each dealing with all of the crazy shit that's happened since they met (and Roy realizing that the CIA had been using the hell out of him), Roy finally being reunited with his parents - I mean, anything at all, I'm here for it.
Rock Of Ages:
This movie was eighteen shades of RIDICULOUS fun and at the rock and roll beating heart of it all was the utterly magnificent, beautifully tragic Stacee Jaxx. I love that he's this crazy mix of Jim Morrison and Axl Rose and that he's just lost and a little bit crazy and a lyrical genius and this brilliant frontman, but he is so fucked up on a personal level he can't even relate to the world or anyone in it.
I'm so not picky on where you go with this one - you can write a fic about Arsenal's early days, about some crazy drug and orgy-fueled night while the band was on tour, a quiet slice of life story with Stacee having some downtime (possibly with Dennis dropping by, since they're old friends) or a coda to the film with him enjoying his new-found lease on life with Constance. Het, gen, slash, it's all good. (And I think Stacee's tried it all anyway. *g*) And I'd love for the music to be front and center, because that's the mistress that truly owns him and the only thing I think he truly cares about.
Also, if you want to include Drew as part of Stacee's adoring harem or his one night stand or his boyfriend or roadie or them going out on tour together and Stacee shepherding Drew in the ways of road life and navigating groupies, sound checks, the press, agents and promoters, etc, etc, I would love it.
Thanks!
Brenda
First off, thank you so much for a) having the awesome taste of sharing at least one of these rare fandoms with me, and b) for agreeing to write in one of these awesome rare fandoms. I can already tell you have THE most excellent taste. :D
As far as who I am and what I like in a story, I like well-written characterizations, I love the push/pull of friends who are lovers (although I also love a good origin romance, too), I love angst as long as it works for the characters (and there's some hope at the end), I love slice of life/quiet fics, and I love fics that give me new insight to these characters I know and love.
Not into: Major Character Death, watersports, mpreg, rape, any A/B/O dynamics, and I have a really big problem with fridging the ladies (unless it's actually part of the canon plot) or ignoring them/writing them out of the story to get the male leads together.
Now, onto the fandoms and specifics about each one, and please keep in mind that these are only suggestions, and you don't have to use any of these ideas. I promise, I'll love whatever you write, because I know you're writing from the heart and out of the same love for the source material. Also, I LOVE AUs, so don't feel like you have to a be a slave to the canon story, either!!!
(Honestly, ALL AUs ARE WELCOME IN MY HOUSE!!!)
Alien Quadrilogy:
As long as you can agree that Alien3 never happened, I'm good with ANY story set in this world. But what I'd really love is Vasquez's back story. How and why she joined the Marines, how she met Drake, why her relationship with Bishop was so fraught with tension, how did she and Hicks become friends, all of it.
I'm also totally cool with any and all post-Aliens Ripley/Hicks fics, and what they do after they leave LV-426 with Newt, and what their lives are like and how they help each other heal from their massive PTSD, and what the family dynamics are like now (and if Ripley and Hicks do get together, and what that looks like.) I also love Bishop, so feel free to include him in any post-Aliens fic!!!
Edge of Tomorrow:
I unabashedly love the hell out of this movie and how it played with narrative conventions and how it upended the notion of the "heroic" arc. And I fell as in love with Rita as Bill did - not just because she's a total badass, but because the film allowed her to be complex and interesting and scared and allowed her to fuck up. She's a fascinating character. And I'd love any and all fics dealing with what life is like for her now that the world's been saved and her services are no longer needed. And how she deals with a man who knows her so intimately that she's just met, and how he has to reintroduce himself to her all over again.
I'd also love a story dealing with Bill's PTSD and how screwed up he has to be from all of the traumas and deaths he's lived through and remembers, and how he's able to move past that. Gen fic is also fine for these two, although I wouldn't complain if they hooked up.
Knight and Day:
This is one of my ultimate comfort films - I just love how Roy is this perfect combination of slightly unhinged and highly competent, and how he basically fell for June at first sight, and did everything he could to do both protect her and keep her with him. And I love June - how clear-eyed she is and how smart she is, but how lost she was in her own life before Roy came crashing into it, and how awesome her entire character arc was.
I would love anything that deals with their time after the film - perhaps on the road to Cape Horn, Roy and June each dealing with all of the crazy shit that's happened since they met (and Roy realizing that the CIA had been using the hell out of him), Roy finally being reunited with his parents - I mean, anything at all, I'm here for it.
Rock Of Ages:
This movie was eighteen shades of RIDICULOUS fun and at the rock and roll beating heart of it all was the utterly magnificent, beautifully tragic Stacee Jaxx. I love that he's this crazy mix of Jim Morrison and Axl Rose and that he's just lost and a little bit crazy and a lyrical genius and this brilliant frontman, but he is so fucked up on a personal level he can't even relate to the world or anyone in it.
I'm so not picky on where you go with this one - you can write a fic about Arsenal's early days, about some crazy drug and orgy-fueled night while the band was on tour, a quiet slice of life story with Stacee having some downtime (possibly with Dennis dropping by, since they're old friends) or a coda to the film with him enjoying his new-found lease on life with Constance. Het, gen, slash, it's all good. (And I think Stacee's tried it all anyway. *g*) And I'd love for the music to be front and center, because that's the mistress that truly owns him and the only thing I think he truly cares about.
Also, if you want to include Drew as part of Stacee's adoring harem or his one night stand or his boyfriend or roadie or them going out on tour together and Stacee shepherding Drew in the ways of road life and navigating groupies, sound checks, the press, agents and promoters, etc, etc, I would love it.
Thanks!
Brenda