Dear Yuletide Santa,
Hello dear anon! It's lovely to think we share at least one tiny fandom, and I'm very much looking forward to seeing what you write. I love all these three fandoms, and they're very small indeed, so I'm going to be delighted with whatever you come up with. Feel free to ignore everything I've written below if trying to follow it is giving you a headache and writer's block ;)
My yuletide requests bear little resemblance to the sort of fic I usually read and write, so I've written quite a long letter to try and give you a bit of guidance. If you've poked around my journal, you'll have noticed that I almost only ever read and write slash, often quite dark and angsty and R-rated. If you've read my Optional Details, you'll have noticed that I'm mostly asking for low-rated het or gen. I am the same person, honest!
General stuff first:
I would very much appreciate it if you didn't include any of the following: noncon, dubcon, explicit het, mpreg, gender-bending, AUs, crossovers, omegaverse, incest
Things I'm not too keen on, but don't mind reading if you're keen on writing it: hurt/comfort, anything involving supernatural/fantasy elements
References to religion/Christmas are fine and welcome. Fine to leave them out too, of course.
I also tried to put some info about ease/speed of familiarisation with the different fandoms, in case you end up not wanting to write in what we were matched on.
Island at War - Bernhardt and Angelique
You can't go wrong with this one. These two have a grand total of zero fics, so I'll be delighted with anything you write at all! As long as nobody dies, anyway.
If you do want a bit more guidance: I'd like a happy ending and a lowish rating. The two of them were very sweet together, and I'd love to see them get their happy ever after. If you were to set the story in Germany after the war, with Angelique trying to adapt to life in a strange, hostile place, and Bernhardt trying to adapt to life after the war, that would be an added bonus.
Fandom-specific squicks: character death.
Ease of familiarisation - this one's very easy. It's a 6-hour mini-series, available on youtube, and if you skim through the non-Bernhardt-and-Angelique bits, you'll have seen everything in an hour or two.
All Creatures Great and Small
There are a whole host of different stories I'd enjoy in this fandom. James/Tristan is my particular favourite (before Helen is around - no infidelity, please!). I'd enjoy James/Helen too (not explicit, please). A gen story in the light-hearted style of the books/TV series would also be wonderful and very welcome. I just love the personalities of the different characters (including Siegfried, whom I haven't mentioned yet, I know) and I'd like to see them come to life in whatever sort of tale you prefer to write.
Fandom-specific squicks: anything too dark and out of sync with the light-hearted tone of the series.
Ease of familiarisation - episodes on youtube and it's based on a series of books which I've been able to find in public libraries in a couple of different countries. One book or a couple of episodes should be enough to give you a good idea of the characters. It's basically just about their daily lives; there aren't really any super-important canon details or plot twists to worry about.
Sadler's Wells - Veronica and Sebastian
I was always frustrated that in the books, we got to see very little of their life after they finally married. I adored the dynamic of their interactions before they got together, and I'd love to see more of that. I'm sure it wasn't all roses, not with two rather highly-strung people, but of course it's their personalities, and in particular Sebastian's, that make them so fascinating. I'd love to see sparks fly between them, despite (or in some ways because of!) them being very much in love. A ballet/musical setting would be lovely. Something that brings to life the wild Northumberland backdrop would also be lovely.
Fandom-specific squicks: fluff
Ease of familiarisation - This is a series of books, and reading either the first (A Dream of Sadler's Wells) or the second (Veronica at the Wells) would be all you'd need. They're out of print, but I've seen often seen them in UK public libraries, if that helps you. By the way, if you do like ballet stories, these are a cut above the usual 'girl dreams of being a ballerina'. The characters and the settings - from cheap London boarding houses to the wilds of Northumberland - remained vivid in my memory for years.
Well, that's it! Hope you have fun writing.
Garonne