Yuletide is here again!
Dear Yuletide author,
So glad to meet you! I hope that at least one of my prompts catches your fancy and you enjoy writing a story for me as much as I am sure I'll enjoy reading it.
My general likes and dislikes:
I love found families, and I love people who have found or made a home in each other. I love adventure and mystery and the excitement characters have at discovering things, as well as the suspense of things like standoffs that show you exactly what those families will do for each other. I'm drawn to characters who show grace and love and, most importantly, laughter under pressure. There's a soft spot in my heart for people who are flawed disasters but genuinely good and caring no matter what they get into. I like when it's acknowledged that platonic relationships can be every bit as important and intimate as romantic relationships.
There are a few things I try to stay away from; dub-con and non-con are among them, though playing with topics of consent is interesting (though possibly not relevant to any of the prompts here, I'm not sure). No animal death. I'm not a fan of infidelity, but I will absolutely read consensual polyamory- seeing how people negotiate different relationships inside of a bigger relationship is something I love, how each person has their own distinct link to the others.
And now, for the fandoms!
Killjoys: Pre-series please! I love Dutch and Johnny’s friendship and how much they love each other without needing to make it a romantic love. They work so well together and just have each other’s backs and it’s perfect. If you could write some of that so-in-sync partnership, whether it’s something so small as breaking up a bar fight at Pree’s or, and I would love this if you were up to it, as large as some mission fic (warrant fic?) with a whole job to do and just the two of them getting it done. I especially enjoy their glee about getting to go undercover for their missions, so it would be delightful to see that, too!
Hamilton: I love this musical that I have definitely been listening to it non-stop, pun fully intended. I love everything exactly how it is (meaning I cry every time the orphanage is mentioned, "Let me show you what I'm proudest of..." oh god) and I’m digging into the Hamilton biography, Burr’s memoirs, and other sources, but I also am full of wondering all the what ifs and might-have-beens. Like:
Republic of Doyle: I love this show and the delightful mess of a family that is the Doyles. I like that the finale left two years of space to play around in, so something set during then would be great. I’m intrigued by Jake and Crocker’s relationship (not that I’m looking for slash, mind you, just I like their used-to-be-friends antagonism when they’re forced together) and I’d love a fic where Tinny gets kidnapped during a police investigation and Jake and Crocker have to team up to look for her. I’m sure they’d get into their fair share of trouble, and Crocker would be incredibly smug about them BOTH having now spent time in prison and on the run after being framed for murder, and Jake would not fight the impulse to murder his face for that too hard. Tinny’s incredibly resourceful and capable, so honestly she probably ends up getting herself out of being kidnapped with only minor assistance from her rescuers, so her perspective and problem-solving POV of the story would be great to see mixed in with the investigation Jake and Crocker are carrying out. I know that’s terribly specific for a prompt, so I would also welcome anything about Leslie during the two years not shown in the finale; did she feel abandoned by the RNC, given how they hadn’t protected her on so many levels, and what did she do in response? What disasters did Jake stumble through trying to make it to the hospital in time for the twins’ birth?
So those are my ideas; I hope something piques your interest, because I am so looking forward to reading about any of these stories. I'm mostly on tumblr, also under the name intrikate88, if you want to check out more of what I'm interested in.
Best wishes!
Katie
So glad to meet you! I hope that at least one of my prompts catches your fancy and you enjoy writing a story for me as much as I am sure I'll enjoy reading it.
My general likes and dislikes:
I love found families, and I love people who have found or made a home in each other. I love adventure and mystery and the excitement characters have at discovering things, as well as the suspense of things like standoffs that show you exactly what those families will do for each other. I'm drawn to characters who show grace and love and, most importantly, laughter under pressure. There's a soft spot in my heart for people who are flawed disasters but genuinely good and caring no matter what they get into. I like when it's acknowledged that platonic relationships can be every bit as important and intimate as romantic relationships.
There are a few things I try to stay away from; dub-con and non-con are among them, though playing with topics of consent is interesting (though possibly not relevant to any of the prompts here, I'm not sure). No animal death. I'm not a fan of infidelity, but I will absolutely read consensual polyamory- seeing how people negotiate different relationships inside of a bigger relationship is something I love, how each person has their own distinct link to the others.
And now, for the fandoms!
Killjoys: Pre-series please! I love Dutch and Johnny’s friendship and how much they love each other without needing to make it a romantic love. They work so well together and just have each other’s backs and it’s perfect. If you could write some of that so-in-sync partnership, whether it’s something so small as breaking up a bar fight at Pree’s or, and I would love this if you were up to it, as large as some mission fic (warrant fic?) with a whole job to do and just the two of them getting it done. I especially enjoy their glee about getting to go undercover for their missions, so it would be delightful to see that, too!
Hamilton: I love this musical that I have definitely been listening to it non-stop, pun fully intended. I love everything exactly how it is (meaning I cry every time the orphanage is mentioned, "Let me show you what I'm proudest of..." oh god) and I’m digging into the Hamilton biography, Burr’s memoirs, and other sources, but I also am full of wondering all the what ifs and might-have-beens. Like:
- What if Alexander had gone upstate? (Would Eliza have shared him with Angelica? I kinda think she was thinking about it…I'm also pretty sure she would have been mostly okay with sharing him with Laurens too, had Laurens not gotten shot. I mean, Alexander somehow managed to put at least eight kids in her while starting half the institutions of a new government, I'm sure she wouldn't have minded a break from the intensity.)
- What if Angelica and Burr got together? (Imagine: she was such an inspirational kick in the ass to the political men she was friends with, and maybe that balance between Burr’s prudence and Angelica’s ambition would have done them both good? Plus I know how he valued educated women, given his mother and how he raised his daughter- maybe if he was with Angelica, she would have been the one pushing him to push that bill for women’s suffrage in 1796 or whenever when he was a NY senator and put it forward.)
- What if Hamilton got to be president and Burr was VP? (OHHH the antagonism. Oh how Burr would just lose his shit at being so high up and yet STILL not being in the room where it happens. Or maybe Hamilton takes advantage of Burr’s penchant for intrigue and how he liked secrets and encoding his letters -which Washington hated about Burr- and tries to make him head of some intelligence branch in the midst of all the debate over whether America should have a standing military?)
- What if Hamilton survived the duel? (What would he have done next? You know, if Eliza hadn’t murdered him for dueling?)
- What if Philip hadn’t died and somehow had married Theodosia Burr and she never got on a boat? (THE AWKWARD FAMILY DINNER PARTIES PLEASE PICTURE THEM)
Republic of Doyle: I love this show and the delightful mess of a family that is the Doyles. I like that the finale left two years of space to play around in, so something set during then would be great. I’m intrigued by Jake and Crocker’s relationship (not that I’m looking for slash, mind you, just I like their used-to-be-friends antagonism when they’re forced together) and I’d love a fic where Tinny gets kidnapped during a police investigation and Jake and Crocker have to team up to look for her. I’m sure they’d get into their fair share of trouble, and Crocker would be incredibly smug about them BOTH having now spent time in prison and on the run after being framed for murder, and Jake would not fight the impulse to murder his face for that too hard. Tinny’s incredibly resourceful and capable, so honestly she probably ends up getting herself out of being kidnapped with only minor assistance from her rescuers, so her perspective and problem-solving POV of the story would be great to see mixed in with the investigation Jake and Crocker are carrying out. I know that’s terribly specific for a prompt, so I would also welcome anything about Leslie during the two years not shown in the finale; did she feel abandoned by the RNC, given how they hadn’t protected her on so many levels, and what did she do in response? What disasters did Jake stumble through trying to make it to the hospital in time for the twins’ birth?
So those are my ideas; I hope something piques your interest, because I am so looking forward to reading about any of these stories. I'm mostly on tumblr, also under the name intrikate88, if you want to check out more of what I'm interested in.
Best wishes!
Katie