Dear Yule Goat 2012
YYYYAAAAYYYY! Its YULETIDE time again! :D
*does a happy dance*
I'm not sure which dialect you speak, so, er, *Imitates Dory* TTTTHHHHAAANNNKKK YYYOOOUUU YYYYUUULLLEEEE WWWRRRIIITTTEEERRR!
*ahem*
On to the letter.
Things I love, in general: Aliens made us do it, amazing hair, angst, animal sidekicks/pets, antisocial geniuses, bi- or pansexuality, blood, boys in eyeliner, chaotic neutral or similar characters, chocolate, comedy, cooking, dark themes, death, dress uniforms/suiting up, double agents, dub-con, evil cliffhanger endings, femslash, fluff, geekboys, geekery, geekgirls, gen, glasses (and/or glasses!kink), goddesses/gods, goth or punk AUs, happy endings, het, hijinks, hurt/comfort, illness, insanity, kitties, meta, OT3s, ploty things, random little life/death snippets, shenanigans, shiny things, slash, snark, sneaking, sparkly things, spies, spunky chicks, squee, tomboys, tough-on-the-outside bishies, tricks and tricksters, unhappy endings, whump… and more, I'm sure.
Things I dislike, in general: character bashing, cheating on partners, non-con, pwp, scatology, watersports.
The above may or may not apply to any of my current requests, which I'll detail now.
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Request Fandom 1: Tricksters - Tamora Pierce
Alianne Cooper, Kyprioth, Dovasary Balitang
Request: Basically I am so starved for anything in this fandom that I'll take whatever you give me. Aly or Kyprioth being sneaky and awesome? Done! Aly and Nawat being all adorable together? Fantastic! Aly and Dove being all awesome and/or perhaps slighty shippy together? Love! Aly and Taybur talking spy-speak together? Sweet! Kyprioth sending them off on another task/adventure? Wonderful!
Again, those're just a few thoughts off the top of my head. I will really take ANYTHING you are willing to give me in this world. You DO have my permission to treat these characters as OR - that is, not all three have to be in the story. (But they could be) ;)
**If you get stuck and want to read these, Aly and the others only appear in the two Trickster's books: Trickster's Choice and Trickster's Queen. (Alright, Aly makes a brief cameo in Diane's first book, but she's, like, two!) It is entirely possible to write about these characters without having read the other three Tortall quartets, and if you wrote a story set in/before Choice, then you would only have to read one of them. Of course, I dare you to read Choice and then not to read Queen to find out how it all turns out, but if you’re seriously pressed for time, that can wait until after Yuletide. :D **
More Details: I always request this, and will continue to do so until I get my fic! :D I love the Trickster series best of all the Tortall Books. Anything based around these characters, either before, during, or after the books would be great! (Also, I put my three favorites, but please don't feel that you have to include all three of them, or that someone else from the books can't come out to play as well). I also love the entire Tortall world for the amazingly strong, well detailed, and so very different from each other female characters!
I love Aly's love of life and the pleasure she gets from doing spy things. Her depth of knowledge and sneaky ways are very impressive. Her way of living with one finger stuck in everyone else's business while seeming to be nowhere near them is great as well. In Choice, the way she moves between the family, the conspirators, and her day job with the goats and crows and Kyprioth is fascinating. In Queen, the way she knows what everyone is doing, including her fellows, by way of the darkings is fabulous. The way she moves in the shadows for so long and then all of a sudden there is a huge result (a la Topabaw) is fascinating. And her personality in general I just adore.
Kyprioth is fascinating, especially in the few scenes where Aly sees the chasm between his elder statesman persona and the ruthless god who uses mortals for his own gains. Not that I see him as a villain, but simply as a very complex character. His love for his isles, and for their native people (in general, but occasionally in specific, as with Ochobu) is wonderful, and the many intricacies of his relationships with his siblings are fascinating. I also love how he has human flaws, like the way he jumps to conclusions and allows anger to overtake his judgment when Sarai leaves.
I love how calculating Dove is; she thinks before she speaks and she always wants to learn more about everything. The loyalty/friendship/potentially love between her and Aly is fabulous to watch as it develops. I also love the differences between her and Sarai, and how the Raka have to get used to her. As a bookworm myself, her quieter personality, and the way various people interpret it, really hit home with me.
I would love anything set during or after the books. Gen, Aly, Dove, Kyprioth Aly/Dove, Aly/Nawat, Dove/Aly/Nawat, even Aly/Kyprioth or Aly/Nawat/Kyprioth if it pleases you (I truly have no preference among all those options). Any scenes from within the rebellion, Dove and Aly talking late at night, Aly and Nawat raising their family, Dove being queen, Aly being spymaster, Kyprioth interfering in either of those two jobs, Kyprioth making another wager with/assignment for Aly… or whatever you can think of.
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Request Fandom 2: Danger Days: The True Lives of the Fabulous Killjoys
Any
Request: God how I love this fandom! I'd love some world-building here. Flesh out the Killjoy universe for me a bit. I'd love a take on the Korse/Poison backstory (not necessarily shippy, but not necessarily not shippy) ;), or how any of the gang came to be in the zones. Hijinks. Anything with Grace, or a look at Show Pony and/or Pony's relationship with the gang and/or the Doc. Basically just go wild and have fun with it. :D
**This is an album of songs, accompanied by two music videos, so relatively easy to catch up on canon-wise. That said, it is a very detailed world. :P I do love and adore the world of Ask Poison and it has been largely incorporated into my headcanon, so you can play with that too if you'd like. (But by no means do I consider it necessary for you to do so).**
More Details: On this one I feel that my request pretty much sums it up. You can check out some of the things I've written for DD on AO3 too. In terms of shipping, I'm fine with it, but also with gen. I'm not super into MCR fandom, so I've got no particular attachment to the hardcore ships over there. I've also got no real attachment to the MCR world as it intersects with the Killjoy one, if that makes sense? That is to say, I love the world of the Killjoys as though it is a real thing, and not just a band playing dress up, so that's what I love to read. That said, I am fairly easy to please (I think).
So yes, world-building! Backstory! Hijinks! Character exploration! Fluff! Crack! Angst! Go wild! :D
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Request Fandom 3: M*A*S*H
Benjamin Franklin 'Hawkeye' Pierce
Request: I love the Hawkeye! I think there is so much depth to him, and he's really got levels to explore. He's also witty, hilarious, crazy, and adorable. I love the dynamic he has with Margaret through the series, and also his dynamics with Trapper and BJ. These can all lean towards shippy or platonic. I also love Hawkeye and Trapper/BJ/Klinger/Radar getting up to hyjinks, and Radar being awesome. Potter, Henry, Mulcahy and Sidney are welcome to come along for the ride. And Frank or Charles too of course. A fic set during any season, with any supporting cast, but focused around Hawkeye would be fabulous!
**This one is a bit harder to get into for the first time, as it is an 11 season TV series, and the disks can be hard to find, but fortunately you can grasp the concept and the basics of the characters just from watching a few half-hour episodes. With the exception of the first handful of episodes of season 1, when they were still ironing out the characters, they are fairly consistent throughout, excepting the magical ability to spawn and then erase stateside siblings like there's no tomorrow. Also people who have been in the show since season 1 are discovering that their wives are magically pregnant 3 seasons later, but that's what happens when you stretch a 3 year period over 11 seasons, so I can forgive it. But basically, if you skim the Wikipedia and watch any, say 3 or 4 episodes - or aprox the length of a regular movie - you'll know pretty much all you need to, to write for this one.**
More Details: My favorite episodes of MASH are the ones that focus on Hawkeye, Radar, pranks, or throwing Margaret and Hawkeye together in tough circumstances. Oh, and poker nights, especially on the rare occasion that Sidney or Margaret join the game. I love the will they/won't they relationship between Margaret and Hawkeye, the paternal/minion relationship between Hawk and Radar, and the friends/brothers relationship between Hawk and Trapper/BJ/Sidney/Sometimes Charles.
I love Carry On Hawkeye, where he's faced with the Herculean task of taking care of the entire sick camp with just Radar and the nurses for help while he himself slowly succumbs to it. I also like Aid Station, Bug Out and all the other episodes where Hawkeye, Margaret, and Radar/Klinger are left behind/sent to the front/whatever. Pranking and bet-related episodes and Hawkeye and BJ/Trapper's war against Frank/Charles are also fun times.
If you're in the mood for some deep thinking, I love when the show goes all psychological on Hawkeye. For example: the episode where he goes crazy because of his suppressed memories, the one where he pretends to go crazy to get a trip to Tokyo, any of the ones where he loses a patient and freaks out, Sons and Bowlers with Hawkeye and Charles, and essentially the whole of the last few episodes.
Basically I love Hawkeye, and anything that focuses on him and/or his relationship with the others would be marvelous, but I would especially love an episodic type piece where hijinks ensue.
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Request Fandom 4: The IT Crowd
Maurice Moss
Request: I love Moss! He is just too zany and out there. My favorite episode his hands down "The Final Countdown." "I've come here to drink milk, and kick ass. And I've just finished my milk." (I *died* of glee) I love the way Moss talks, the way he thinks, his absurd lying, and the way he is sometimes so ridiculously competent and sometimes so insanely not. :D I'd love something with Moss (and/or Roy, and/or Jen and/or Richmond) getting up to shenanigans and hijinks.
**This is a relatively short TV series, but it does take a couple of episodes to really get the characters. Especially Moss. ;) Each season is only six episodes long, however, so you can get through a season pretty quickly.**
More Details: I don't actually have much more for this one. :P I love Moss. I love Countdown. I love Roy and Richmond. I like Jen. I love the zany ideas and hijinks that Moss and Roy come up with. I also love the zany idea and hijinks that the Reynholms always come up with to make the boys miserable. I love the website to teach them to talk like real men. I love the time Moss plays DM for the VIPs. I love the way Roy (and to a lesser extent Moss) always get hurt. I love the fact that Moss's first reaction in a panic situation when the cops approach is to wildly kiss Roy. And that even after being called on it, a few minutes later his reaction is still the same. Do I spy a ship? I think I do! And if not, then gen please. :D
ETA: Now that I'm thinking about it though, Moss/Richmond could be really interesting (maybe Moss worked late one night and things happened) - with the way the boys panic about the door... Ooh! What's behind the other door in that episode?
I feel like this one is so much shorter than my other requests (especially the ramblyness that is my MASH request), but that doesn't mean that I love it less or would not be as happy to see it. I think I was just relatively susinct here. ;)
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Additionally, browsing me on AO3 will lead you to my writings, including stuff in MASH, Danger Days, and other Tortall universes, if you think that would be helpful or fun. :D
I think that's everything! Thanks so much!!!
ETA: Because every year I forget this, and I know some people are tetchy about it: if you would like to attempt a Misses Claus fill with my Tricksters request, or a Chromatic fill with my Tricksters or IT Crowd requests, that's cool. :D
*does a happy dance*
I'm not sure which dialect you speak, so, er, *Imitates Dory* TTTTHHHHAAANNNKKK YYYOOOUUU YYYYUUULLLEEEE WWWRRRIIITTTEEERRR!
*ahem*
On to the letter.
Things I love, in general: Aliens made us do it, amazing hair, angst, animal sidekicks/pets, antisocial geniuses, bi- or pansexuality, blood, boys in eyeliner, chaotic neutral or similar characters, chocolate, comedy, cooking, dark themes, death, dress uniforms/suiting up, double agents, dub-con, evil cliffhanger endings, femslash, fluff, geekboys, geekery, geekgirls, gen, glasses (and/or glasses!kink), goddesses/gods, goth or punk AUs, happy endings, het, hijinks, hurt/comfort, illness, insanity, kitties, meta, OT3s, ploty things, random little life/death snippets, shenanigans, shiny things, slash, snark, sneaking, sparkly things, spies, spunky chicks, squee, tomboys, tough-on-the-outside bishies, tricks and tricksters, unhappy endings, whump… and more, I'm sure.
Things I dislike, in general: character bashing, cheating on partners, non-con, pwp, scatology, watersports.
The above may or may not apply to any of my current requests, which I'll detail now.
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Request Fandom 1: Tricksters - Tamora Pierce
Alianne Cooper, Kyprioth, Dovasary Balitang
Request: Basically I am so starved for anything in this fandom that I'll take whatever you give me. Aly or Kyprioth being sneaky and awesome? Done! Aly and Nawat being all adorable together? Fantastic! Aly and Dove being all awesome and/or perhaps slighty shippy together? Love! Aly and Taybur talking spy-speak together? Sweet! Kyprioth sending them off on another task/adventure? Wonderful!
Again, those're just a few thoughts off the top of my head. I will really take ANYTHING you are willing to give me in this world. You DO have my permission to treat these characters as OR - that is, not all three have to be in the story. (But they could be) ;)
**If you get stuck and want to read these, Aly and the others only appear in the two Trickster's books: Trickster's Choice and Trickster's Queen. (Alright, Aly makes a brief cameo in Diane's first book, but she's, like, two!) It is entirely possible to write about these characters without having read the other three Tortall quartets, and if you wrote a story set in/before Choice, then you would only have to read one of them. Of course, I dare you to read Choice and then not to read Queen to find out how it all turns out, but if you’re seriously pressed for time, that can wait until after Yuletide. :D **
More Details: I always request this, and will continue to do so until I get my fic! :D I love the Trickster series best of all the Tortall Books. Anything based around these characters, either before, during, or after the books would be great! (Also, I put my three favorites, but please don't feel that you have to include all three of them, or that someone else from the books can't come out to play as well). I also love the entire Tortall world for the amazingly strong, well detailed, and so very different from each other female characters!
I love Aly's love of life and the pleasure she gets from doing spy things. Her depth of knowledge and sneaky ways are very impressive. Her way of living with one finger stuck in everyone else's business while seeming to be nowhere near them is great as well. In Choice, the way she moves between the family, the conspirators, and her day job with the goats and crows and Kyprioth is fascinating. In Queen, the way she knows what everyone is doing, including her fellows, by way of the darkings is fabulous. The way she moves in the shadows for so long and then all of a sudden there is a huge result (a la Topabaw) is fascinating. And her personality in general I just adore.
Kyprioth is fascinating, especially in the few scenes where Aly sees the chasm between his elder statesman persona and the ruthless god who uses mortals for his own gains. Not that I see him as a villain, but simply as a very complex character. His love for his isles, and for their native people (in general, but occasionally in specific, as with Ochobu) is wonderful, and the many intricacies of his relationships with his siblings are fascinating. I also love how he has human flaws, like the way he jumps to conclusions and allows anger to overtake his judgment when Sarai leaves.
I love how calculating Dove is; she thinks before she speaks and she always wants to learn more about everything. The loyalty/friendship/potentially love between her and Aly is fabulous to watch as it develops. I also love the differences between her and Sarai, and how the Raka have to get used to her. As a bookworm myself, her quieter personality, and the way various people interpret it, really hit home with me.
I would love anything set during or after the books. Gen, Aly, Dove, Kyprioth Aly/Dove, Aly/Nawat, Dove/Aly/Nawat, even Aly/Kyprioth or Aly/Nawat/Kyprioth if it pleases you (I truly have no preference among all those options). Any scenes from within the rebellion, Dove and Aly talking late at night, Aly and Nawat raising their family, Dove being queen, Aly being spymaster, Kyprioth interfering in either of those two jobs, Kyprioth making another wager with/assignment for Aly… or whatever you can think of.
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Request Fandom 2: Danger Days: The True Lives of the Fabulous Killjoys
Any
Request: God how I love this fandom! I'd love some world-building here. Flesh out the Killjoy universe for me a bit. I'd love a take on the Korse/Poison backstory (not necessarily shippy, but not necessarily not shippy) ;), or how any of the gang came to be in the zones. Hijinks. Anything with Grace, or a look at Show Pony and/or Pony's relationship with the gang and/or the Doc. Basically just go wild and have fun with it. :D
**This is an album of songs, accompanied by two music videos, so relatively easy to catch up on canon-wise. That said, it is a very detailed world. :P I do love and adore the world of Ask Poison and it has been largely incorporated into my headcanon, so you can play with that too if you'd like. (But by no means do I consider it necessary for you to do so).**
More Details: On this one I feel that my request pretty much sums it up. You can check out some of the things I've written for DD on AO3 too. In terms of shipping, I'm fine with it, but also with gen. I'm not super into MCR fandom, so I've got no particular attachment to the hardcore ships over there. I've also got no real attachment to the MCR world as it intersects with the Killjoy one, if that makes sense? That is to say, I love the world of the Killjoys as though it is a real thing, and not just a band playing dress up, so that's what I love to read. That said, I am fairly easy to please (I think).
So yes, world-building! Backstory! Hijinks! Character exploration! Fluff! Crack! Angst! Go wild! :D
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Request Fandom 3: M*A*S*H
Benjamin Franklin 'Hawkeye' Pierce
Request: I love the Hawkeye! I think there is so much depth to him, and he's really got levels to explore. He's also witty, hilarious, crazy, and adorable. I love the dynamic he has with Margaret through the series, and also his dynamics with Trapper and BJ. These can all lean towards shippy or platonic. I also love Hawkeye and Trapper/BJ/Klinger/Radar getting up to hyjinks, and Radar being awesome. Potter, Henry, Mulcahy and Sidney are welcome to come along for the ride. And Frank or Charles too of course. A fic set during any season, with any supporting cast, but focused around Hawkeye would be fabulous!
**This one is a bit harder to get into for the first time, as it is an 11 season TV series, and the disks can be hard to find, but fortunately you can grasp the concept and the basics of the characters just from watching a few half-hour episodes. With the exception of the first handful of episodes of season 1, when they were still ironing out the characters, they are fairly consistent throughout, excepting the magical ability to spawn and then erase stateside siblings like there's no tomorrow. Also people who have been in the show since season 1 are discovering that their wives are magically pregnant 3 seasons later, but that's what happens when you stretch a 3 year period over 11 seasons, so I can forgive it. But basically, if you skim the Wikipedia and watch any, say 3 or 4 episodes - or aprox the length of a regular movie - you'll know pretty much all you need to, to write for this one.**
More Details: My favorite episodes of MASH are the ones that focus on Hawkeye, Radar, pranks, or throwing Margaret and Hawkeye together in tough circumstances. Oh, and poker nights, especially on the rare occasion that Sidney or Margaret join the game. I love the will they/won't they relationship between Margaret and Hawkeye, the paternal/minion relationship between Hawk and Radar, and the friends/brothers relationship between Hawk and Trapper/BJ/Sidney/Sometimes Charles.
I love Carry On Hawkeye, where he's faced with the Herculean task of taking care of the entire sick camp with just Radar and the nurses for help while he himself slowly succumbs to it. I also like Aid Station, Bug Out and all the other episodes where Hawkeye, Margaret, and Radar/Klinger are left behind/sent to the front/whatever. Pranking and bet-related episodes and Hawkeye and BJ/Trapper's war against Frank/Charles are also fun times.
If you're in the mood for some deep thinking, I love when the show goes all psychological on Hawkeye. For example: the episode where he goes crazy because of his suppressed memories, the one where he pretends to go crazy to get a trip to Tokyo, any of the ones where he loses a patient and freaks out, Sons and Bowlers with Hawkeye and Charles, and essentially the whole of the last few episodes.
Basically I love Hawkeye, and anything that focuses on him and/or his relationship with the others would be marvelous, but I would especially love an episodic type piece where hijinks ensue.
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Request Fandom 4: The IT Crowd
Maurice Moss
Request: I love Moss! He is just too zany and out there. My favorite episode his hands down "The Final Countdown." "I've come here to drink milk, and kick ass. And I've just finished my milk." (I *died* of glee) I love the way Moss talks, the way he thinks, his absurd lying, and the way he is sometimes so ridiculously competent and sometimes so insanely not. :D I'd love something with Moss (and/or Roy, and/or Jen and/or Richmond) getting up to shenanigans and hijinks.
**This is a relatively short TV series, but it does take a couple of episodes to really get the characters. Especially Moss. ;) Each season is only six episodes long, however, so you can get through a season pretty quickly.**
More Details: I don't actually have much more for this one. :P I love Moss. I love Countdown. I love Roy and Richmond. I like Jen. I love the zany ideas and hijinks that Moss and Roy come up with. I also love the zany idea and hijinks that the Reynholms always come up with to make the boys miserable. I love the website to teach them to talk like real men. I love the time Moss plays DM for the VIPs. I love the way Roy (and to a lesser extent Moss) always get hurt. I love the fact that Moss's first reaction in a panic situation when the cops approach is to wildly kiss Roy. And that even after being called on it, a few minutes later his reaction is still the same. Do I spy a ship? I think I do! And if not, then gen please. :D
ETA: Now that I'm thinking about it though, Moss/Richmond could be really interesting (maybe Moss worked late one night and things happened) - with the way the boys panic about the door... Ooh! What's behind the other door in that episode?
I feel like this one is so much shorter than my other requests (especially the ramblyness that is my MASH request), but that doesn't mean that I love it less or would not be as happy to see it. I think I was just relatively susinct here. ;)
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Additionally, browsing me on AO3 will lead you to my writings, including stuff in MASH, Danger Days, and other Tortall universes, if you think that would be helpful or fun. :D
I think that's everything! Thanks so much!!!
ETA: Because every year I forget this, and I know some people are tetchy about it: if you would like to attempt a Misses Claus fill with my Tricksters request, or a Chromatic fill with my Tricksters or IT Crowd requests, that's cool. :D