Yuletide 2018
How quickly Yuletide comes around again. I'm always happy to get new prompts for stories, and always happy to get stories, so it's a good trade.
As last year, the template here is taken from
triplesalto.
Hello and welcome to my Yuletide letter! Thank you for writing for me.
AO3 name: fajrdrako
General likes: Competence, heroism, adventures, slow burn romance, passionate feelings, first times, five-times fics, happy endings. Good grammar and good spelling and that more nebulous thing, good style, are all very important to me - more important than story content. I love in-character fanfic that makes me feel I know a character better than I did before.
Smut Likes: Detailed explicit sex, sex in which the characters are really eager for it, M/M, F/F, threesomes or sexual groupings of any configuration, bisexual characters, teasing, romantic sex, passionate feelings, bondage, sexual tension and/or delayed gratification.
DNWs: unhappy endings, character death, rape, extreme changes from canon characterisation, explicit gore and violence.
Fandoms Requested: Rivers of London - Ben Aaronovitch, Six of Crows Series - Leigh Bardugo, Hawkeye (Comics), Warchild Series - Karin Lowachee, 12th Century Christians, The Expanse (TV).
~
Fandom 1: Rivers of London - Ben Aaronovitch
I adore both Thomas Nightingale and Peter Grant, for different reasons - including the delightful contrast of two kinds of Englishmen: the traditional gentleman of a bygone era, and the curious multicultural working class cop.
Aspects I find particularly interesting:
- The relationship between Peter Grant and Thomas Nightingale. Could be slashy, could be straight - but either way, how does Nightingale actually understand Peter and his milieu? What makes them appreciate and understand - or fail to understand - each other?
- Nightingale's background. We know he has issue about World War II, but before that - family? Non-magical friends? How and when did his affinity for magic appear? How was it fostered?
- Themes about their ties to specific places in London or in England, including rivers.
- What would happen if Peter and Nightingale had a serious class of needs, values, or intent? Would they compromise? Would one of them back down? And why?
- I'd like to see a story in which one of them surprises the other - with an accomplishment, or a decision, or something in their past.
Though I like a focus on Peter Grant and Thomas Nightingale, I don't mind the other characters in the novels being included, including, of course, Toby.
~~~
Fandom 2: Six of Crows Series - Leigh Bardugo
I loved the world of Ketterdan with all its aspects - the lowlife and the rich, the vagrants and the foreigners. Most of all, I adored Kaz Brekker, with his vulnerability and strength, his problems and his unutterable cleverness. I also loved Inej, with her skills and her courage, and her determination to meet her goals.
Aspects I find particularly interesting:
- The relationship between Kaz and Inej - a little bit like Rogue and Gambit. Is their love impossible? Can the situation be resolved, and if so, how?
- Will Inej succeed in her anti-piracy ambitions? How will that play out? With there be complications?
- I'd be interested in seeing the whole team a year after the ending of "Crooked Kingdom". How will they have changed? How will their feelings towards each other (and the events of the books) have evolved? Will they be in a better situation, or a worse one?
~~~
Fandom 3: Hawkeye (Comics)
Loved the series by Matt Fraction and David Aja; and the Kate Bishop stories which have followed. I particularly enjoyed seeing Kate in "Young Avengers" by Gillen and McKelvie, where I thought America Chavez was particularly hot and that she and Kate made a great couple - with or without Noh-Varr.
- My first choice in a story would be something romantic and/or sexy with Kate and America.
- Further difficulties, trials and tribulations at Clint Barton's apartment building
- An adventure with Lucky, possibly a Christmas story. What would Clint and Lucky do at Christmas? Would pizza be involved?
~~~
Fandom 4: Warchild Series - Karin Lowachee
Cairo Azarcon is one of my favourite heroes, the Macedon one of my favourite ships. I'd love to know more of his story. I also loved Yuri, Jos and Ryan.
Things I would like to see explored:
- Azarcon in any sort of emotional conflict - between his wife and his ship? in his relationship with Ryan? in his feelings regarding Yuri or Falcone?
- Azarcon's choosing crew for the Macedon - and how the individuals fit in with their various difficulties (PTSD, etc.)
- his conflict(s) with the government, and the reasons he makes the choices he makes
- Anything featuring Azarcon's past and how it affects his present
- What happens after the end of "Cagebird"?
~~~
Fandom 5: 12th Century Christians
Henry II is my favourite monarch - and it's difficult to contemplate his reign without looking at his relationship with Thomas Becket. What went wrong between them, and why?
Or, even more interesting, how did they meet? Where and when, and why? What made Henry trust Becket, and how did Becket feel about Henry as king before the debacle?
~~~
Fandom 6: The Expanse (TV)
Relationships I would like to see explored (individually, not together, though that might be fun, too!):
- Naomi and her feelings about Holden - including their separation, and her sometimes conflicted loyalty to both the Belters and to the crew of the Rocinante.
- More about Amos, and his feelings about Holden and Alex. To what extent is he motivated personally - or politically - or is he the ultimate pragmatist?
- Chrisjen Avrasalara - anything about her point of view, her reactions to events, her relationships with those she encounters - and the way she reacts to emergency.
~~~
I might add that these are all guidelines, not rules!
As last year, the template here is taken from
triplesalto.
Hello and welcome to my Yuletide letter! Thank you for writing for me.
AO3 name: fajrdrako
General likes: Competence, heroism, adventures, slow burn romance, passionate feelings, first times, five-times fics, happy endings. Good grammar and good spelling and that more nebulous thing, good style, are all very important to me - more important than story content. I love in-character fanfic that makes me feel I know a character better than I did before.
Smut Likes: Detailed explicit sex, sex in which the characters are really eager for it, M/M, F/F, threesomes or sexual groupings of any configuration, bisexual characters, teasing, romantic sex, passionate feelings, bondage, sexual tension and/or delayed gratification.
DNWs: unhappy endings, character death, rape, extreme changes from canon characterisation, explicit gore and violence.
Fandoms Requested: Rivers of London - Ben Aaronovitch, Six of Crows Series - Leigh Bardugo, Hawkeye (Comics), Warchild Series - Karin Lowachee, 12th Century Christians, The Expanse (TV).
~
Fandom 1: Rivers of London - Ben Aaronovitch
I adore both Thomas Nightingale and Peter Grant, for different reasons - including the delightful contrast of two kinds of Englishmen: the traditional gentleman of a bygone era, and the curious multicultural working class cop.
Aspects I find particularly interesting:
- The relationship between Peter Grant and Thomas Nightingale. Could be slashy, could be straight - but either way, how does Nightingale actually understand Peter and his milieu? What makes them appreciate and understand - or fail to understand - each other?
- Nightingale's background. We know he has issue about World War II, but before that - family? Non-magical friends? How and when did his affinity for magic appear? How was it fostered?
- Themes about their ties to specific places in London or in England, including rivers.
- What would happen if Peter and Nightingale had a serious class of needs, values, or intent? Would they compromise? Would one of them back down? And why?
- I'd like to see a story in which one of them surprises the other - with an accomplishment, or a decision, or something in their past.
Though I like a focus on Peter Grant and Thomas Nightingale, I don't mind the other characters in the novels being included, including, of course, Toby.
~~~
Fandom 2: Six of Crows Series - Leigh Bardugo
I loved the world of Ketterdan with all its aspects - the lowlife and the rich, the vagrants and the foreigners. Most of all, I adored Kaz Brekker, with his vulnerability and strength, his problems and his unutterable cleverness. I also loved Inej, with her skills and her courage, and her determination to meet her goals.
Aspects I find particularly interesting:
- The relationship between Kaz and Inej - a little bit like Rogue and Gambit. Is their love impossible? Can the situation be resolved, and if so, how?
- Will Inej succeed in her anti-piracy ambitions? How will that play out? With there be complications?
- I'd be interested in seeing the whole team a year after the ending of "Crooked Kingdom". How will they have changed? How will their feelings towards each other (and the events of the books) have evolved? Will they be in a better situation, or a worse one?
~~~
Fandom 3: Hawkeye (Comics)
Loved the series by Matt Fraction and David Aja; and the Kate Bishop stories which have followed. I particularly enjoyed seeing Kate in "Young Avengers" by Gillen and McKelvie, where I thought America Chavez was particularly hot and that she and Kate made a great couple - with or without Noh-Varr.
- My first choice in a story would be something romantic and/or sexy with Kate and America.
- Further difficulties, trials and tribulations at Clint Barton's apartment building
- An adventure with Lucky, possibly a Christmas story. What would Clint and Lucky do at Christmas? Would pizza be involved?
~~~
Fandom 4: Warchild Series - Karin Lowachee
Cairo Azarcon is one of my favourite heroes, the Macedon one of my favourite ships. I'd love to know more of his story. I also loved Yuri, Jos and Ryan.
Things I would like to see explored:
- Azarcon in any sort of emotional conflict - between his wife and his ship? in his relationship with Ryan? in his feelings regarding Yuri or Falcone?
- Azarcon's choosing crew for the Macedon - and how the individuals fit in with their various difficulties (PTSD, etc.)
- his conflict(s) with the government, and the reasons he makes the choices he makes
- Anything featuring Azarcon's past and how it affects his present
- What happens after the end of "Cagebird"?
~~~
Fandom 5: 12th Century Christians
Henry II is my favourite monarch - and it's difficult to contemplate his reign without looking at his relationship with Thomas Becket. What went wrong between them, and why?
Or, even more interesting, how did they meet? Where and when, and why? What made Henry trust Becket, and how did Becket feel about Henry as king before the debacle?
~~~
Fandom 6: The Expanse (TV)
Relationships I would like to see explored (individually, not together, though that might be fun, too!):
- Naomi and her feelings about Holden - including their separation, and her sometimes conflicted loyalty to both the Belters and to the crew of the Rocinante.
- More about Amos, and his feelings about Holden and Alex. To what extent is he motivated personally - or politically - or is he the ultimate pragmatist?
- Chrisjen Avrasalara - anything about her point of view, her reactions to events, her relationships with those she encounters - and the way she reacts to emergency.
~~~
I might add that these are all guidelines, not rules!