wherein Liz signs up for Yuletide
When the signups opened, I spent several hours browsing through the tagset, both to see what I could offer and to find things I wanted to request. These do not always overlap, you see -- there are a lot of childhood literary fandoms I love to pieces and am thrilled to write for, but that is not the same as a burning desire to read a particular story.
I have been in the habit of carrying over all unfulfilled requests from year to year, but I was unable to do that this year because nobody nominated The Lions of Al-Rassan. Dammit. Okay, maybe this year I will start a file for things I would like to request and then actually participate in the 2014 nominations.
I did carry Lucifer over, because I live in hope. I also decided to carry over The Dispossessed even though I received an awesome fic about Odo last year. Maybe this year I will get a fic about Shevek, or world-building in general, or even Odo again -- I think it is very unlikely I will ever not be pleased to get a fic about anything in that corner of the Ekumen.
Then I added three new fandoms, because why not. In Macbeth, I asked for a story about Lady Macbeth and her husband in happier days, because I love how they work together (even if toward bad ends) and wanted to see more of that partnership. In Villains by Necessity I asked for world-building about religion, because if ever a world needed (and deserved!) some thoughtful building, that one does. And in Black Jewels, I did something wildly out of character and asked for a fic in which Karla has a happy and fulfilling sex life, goddammit, and went so far as to outline my tastes in femslash porn because when I say sex life, I do, in fact, mean sex life. *resolve face*
You can find my Dear Yuletide Writer letter here. (Now I just need to go get it onto the spreadsheet...)
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I have been in the habit of carrying over all unfulfilled requests from year to year, but I was unable to do that this year because nobody nominated The Lions of Al-Rassan. Dammit. Okay, maybe this year I will start a file for things I would like to request and then actually participate in the 2014 nominations.
I did carry Lucifer over, because I live in hope. I also decided to carry over The Dispossessed even though I received an awesome fic about Odo last year. Maybe this year I will get a fic about Shevek, or world-building in general, or even Odo again -- I think it is very unlikely I will ever not be pleased to get a fic about anything in that corner of the Ekumen.
Then I added three new fandoms, because why not. In Macbeth, I asked for a story about Lady Macbeth and her husband in happier days, because I love how they work together (even if toward bad ends) and wanted to see more of that partnership. In Villains by Necessity I asked for world-building about religion, because if ever a world needed (and deserved!) some thoughtful building, that one does. And in Black Jewels, I did something wildly out of character and asked for a fic in which Karla has a happy and fulfilling sex life, goddammit, and went so far as to outline my tastes in femslash porn because when I say sex life, I do, in fact, mean sex life. *resolve face*
You can find my Dear Yuletide Writer letter here. (Now I just need to go get it onto the spreadsheet...)
You can also read this entry on Dreamwidth, where there are currently (
comments)