YULETIMES ! ! ! !
Yay it's fandom's favorite time of year again! Hello esteemed author! I am so happy you will be writing me a thing in one of these teeny-in-quantity-but-ginormous-in-awesomeness fandoms!
커피프린스 1호점 | Coffee Prince
Go Eun Chan, Choi Han Gyeol, Choi Han Seong, Go Eun Sae
OMG I want Eun Chan and Han Kyul being ADORABLE at each other. Or I want Eun Chan and Han Sung being adorable at each other. GOD I LOVE THEIR FRIENDSHIP. Or more of Eun Chan and Yoo Ju being ladybros! Or Eun Chan and Eun Sae's amazing sister relationship, I LOVE THEM SO MUCH AUGH. For clarity: Darling Author, you need not include every character I request here, and feel free to include characters that are not on the list (Yoo Ju! Grandmother! The Coffee Princes! Eun Chan's mother, Han Kyul's parents!). I assume you'll be writing this in English, and thus you should handle the Korean names and forms of address as you see fit. I love how this series handles Eun Chan's gender presentation - it could be played for laughs or totally insensitively and coarsely, but the writers really seem to Get It. If you wanna play around with Eun Chan being genderqueer, you absolutely should! If you want to write something with Han Sung as the central character, you DEFINITELY should because I ADORE HIM A RIDICULOUS AMOUNT (and if you want to write something totally indulgent about his crush on Eun Chan, I will never ever ever think less of you because I totally shipped them even after the show said I should stop). Or whatever you want to write about, Author! Eun Chan in Italy! Han Kyul and Grandmother working together on Coffee Princess! Eun Sae's second shot at a singing career! Go nuts! I just love this showwwww and their stupid precious nerd facessssssss
How to obtain this awesome thing: It's on Netflix! (At least the USian one.) Dubbed English.
The Exeter Book
The Wife's Lament, The Wanderer, The Seafarer, The Riddles
I would love to see like, The Wanderer and The Seafarer meet on the whaleroad or something like that, and and be really depressed at each other because it's super hard being an exile bro, and The Wife's Lament being all yknow ladies have a hard time too, have you seen Wulf or Eadwacer around lately, no you haven't, and then The Riddles just making bad puns and being inappropriately sexual and dickish. Or something! I don't know! For clarity: Darling Author, you need not include every character I request here, and feel free to include 'characters' that are not on the list (Wulf And Eadwacer, The Phoenix, Deor, The Ruin). I nominated The Exeter Book because I thought it would be weird and interesting and had nothing in particular in mind, but if you're anything like me, author, you like a bit of direction. If you don't want it, please ignore me and cook up whatever awesomeness you want, obviously!
How to obtain this awesome thing: It's literally a thousand years old, so you'd think it'd be in the public domain, right? Well, I can't find an open access scan ANY-FLIPPING-WHERE, which is frustrating as hell. All the poetry and the riddles can be googled and Modern English translations found scattered about the interwebs.
Star Wars Legends: X-wing Series - Aaron Allston & Michael Stackpole
Wedge Antilles, Wes Janson, Tycho Celchu
Rogues, awesome. Wraiths, awesome. Obviously optional details are optional but if you want to include poor Hobbie, that would also be awesome and I would never complain about that. Fab Four X-wing style forever. (If you're answering this prompt, you probably know me.) I will happily read literally anything about these jerks. I just have so many feeeelings about these guys. I love the novels (Solo Command and Starfighters Of Adumar FOR LIFE), but my true soft spot is the X-wing comics, The Phantom Affair in particular (but also The Warrior Princess, Battleground: Tatooine, and Mandatory Retirement). I love that it's been these four guys no matter what since almost the Battle of Yavin, and that the squadron is Wedge's family, and oh man here come the feelings. augh.
How to obtain this awesome thing: This one you might have to lay out some money for. There are nine novels and eight graphic novels, and I think we can all agree that's more of a commitment than anyone expects from you (unless you have them all already like a big nerd me).
Sense8 (TV)
Sun Bak, Riley Blue, Nomi Marks, Lito Rodriguez
Because I love the transcontinental karaoke squad. I love Sun particularly omg (and her prison ladybros). and Nomi (AND AMANITA) and Riley (and Riley's dad ugh so much, "getting stoned in your tuxes like it's 1985"). and Lito (and Hernando and Daniela!!!). Honestly I love the whole cluster because stories about found family are the best stories. For clarity: Darling Author, you need not include every character I request here, though obviously feel free to include others/the rest of the cluster and related people. Generally, I like togetherness and happiness tropes for these adorable dorkfaces, and the 'everyone else finds out about the cluster' trope is always a great one, and expanding the circle of support type of thing. Unless you have a plot burning a hole in your pocket, in which case I will totally read that too! :D
How to obtain this awesome thing: This is also on Netflix! And I bet it's on everyone's Netflix the world over, since it is a Netflix Original!
Yes Please!
Humor. Slang used in/appropriately. Team/chosen family dynamic. Female characters. Characters of color. Books. Het, slash, and gen. Kissing and affection. Medieval stuff and other old shit. Alcohol, and the consuming of. Unusual formats (if executed well). Good dialogue. Witty Banter™. Creative swearing. Real life. Alternate/parallel universes. Friends to lovers. Enemies to friends to lovers. Fake married/fake dating. Happy endings, or at least things turning out well, are kind of necessary to me; please do not irretrievably break my toys (though you're totally allowed to make me cry on the journey toward a good ending).
No thanks.
Over-the-top angst and drama. Gratuitous/graphic violence. A/B/O. Songfic. Crackfic. Cheesy/stilted dialogue. Misunderstandings the plot hinges on that could be resolved by the characters actually talking to each other (this drives me CRAZY in tv/profic/Shakespeare/etc). Super embarrassing situations. Unrealistic portrayals of life/the universe/everything. Bad formatting. Honestly, I'm pretty easy, as long as it's believable (and people don't spontaneously burst into song or whatever). I'm lucky enough to not have any actual triggers, so this is mainly stuff that makes me hit the back button.
Other fandoms I am into:
Star Trek (excepting Voyager and Enterprise). Doctor Who (old and new). Neil Gaiman novels. Hobbit+LOTR (books and films). R.E.M. U2. The Beatles. Discworld. Harry Potter (books and films). Douglas Adams novels. Shakespeare. Old English literature. #medievaltwitter. Battlestar Galactica (the new one). The West Wing. Black Books. Keen Eddie. Game Of Thrones. Marvel (comics and MCU). Stargate SG-1. Jossverse (including Dr. Horrible, excepting Dollhouse). Spaced. Welcome To Night Vale. Pacific Rim. Brooklyn Nine-Nine. Orphan Black. Sleepy Hollow. Vikings. Vorkosigan novels. Scott Pilgrim (graphic novels and film). A Knight's Tale.
If you are in doubt about anything, please talk to
shihadchick and/or
lovelokest. These ladies know what I like.
Happiest of yuletimes to you, Fabulous Author! May the words flow and may you finish early (and have plenty of time for Yuletide Madness)!
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커피프린스 1호점 | Coffee Prince
Go Eun Chan, Choi Han Gyeol, Choi Han Seong, Go Eun Sae
OMG I want Eun Chan and Han Kyul being ADORABLE at each other. Or I want Eun Chan and Han Sung being adorable at each other. GOD I LOVE THEIR FRIENDSHIP. Or more of Eun Chan and Yoo Ju being ladybros! Or Eun Chan and Eun Sae's amazing sister relationship, I LOVE THEM SO MUCH AUGH. For clarity: Darling Author, you need not include every character I request here, and feel free to include characters that are not on the list (Yoo Ju! Grandmother! The Coffee Princes! Eun Chan's mother, Han Kyul's parents!). I assume you'll be writing this in English, and thus you should handle the Korean names and forms of address as you see fit. I love how this series handles Eun Chan's gender presentation - it could be played for laughs or totally insensitively and coarsely, but the writers really seem to Get It. If you wanna play around with Eun Chan being genderqueer, you absolutely should! If you want to write something with Han Sung as the central character, you DEFINITELY should because I ADORE HIM A RIDICULOUS AMOUNT (and if you want to write something totally indulgent about his crush on Eun Chan, I will never ever ever think less of you because I totally shipped them even after the show said I should stop). Or whatever you want to write about, Author! Eun Chan in Italy! Han Kyul and Grandmother working together on Coffee Princess! Eun Sae's second shot at a singing career! Go nuts! I just love this showwwww and their stupid precious nerd facessssssss
How to obtain this awesome thing: It's on Netflix! (At least the USian one.) Dubbed English.
The Exeter Book
The Wife's Lament, The Wanderer, The Seafarer, The Riddles
I would love to see like, The Wanderer and The Seafarer meet on the whaleroad or something like that, and and be really depressed at each other because it's super hard being an exile bro, and The Wife's Lament being all yknow ladies have a hard time too, have you seen Wulf or Eadwacer around lately, no you haven't, and then The Riddles just making bad puns and being inappropriately sexual and dickish. Or something! I don't know! For clarity: Darling Author, you need not include every character I request here, and feel free to include 'characters' that are not on the list (Wulf And Eadwacer, The Phoenix, Deor, The Ruin). I nominated The Exeter Book because I thought it would be weird and interesting and had nothing in particular in mind, but if you're anything like me, author, you like a bit of direction. If you don't want it, please ignore me and cook up whatever awesomeness you want, obviously!
How to obtain this awesome thing: It's literally a thousand years old, so you'd think it'd be in the public domain, right? Well, I can't find an open access scan ANY-FLIPPING-WHERE, which is frustrating as hell. All the poetry and the riddles can be googled and Modern English translations found scattered about the interwebs.
Star Wars Legends: X-wing Series - Aaron Allston & Michael Stackpole
Wedge Antilles, Wes Janson, Tycho Celchu
Rogues, awesome. Wraiths, awesome. Obviously optional details are optional but if you want to include poor Hobbie, that would also be awesome and I would never complain about that. Fab Four X-wing style forever. (If you're answering this prompt, you probably know me.) I will happily read literally anything about these jerks. I just have so many feeeelings about these guys. I love the novels (Solo Command and Starfighters Of Adumar FOR LIFE), but my true soft spot is the X-wing comics, The Phantom Affair in particular (but also The Warrior Princess, Battleground: Tatooine, and Mandatory Retirement). I love that it's been these four guys no matter what since almost the Battle of Yavin, and that the squadron is Wedge's family, and oh man here come the feelings. augh.
How to obtain this awesome thing: This one you might have to lay out some money for. There are nine novels and eight graphic novels, and I think we can all agree that's more of a commitment than anyone expects from you (unless you have them all already like a big nerd me).
Sense8 (TV)
Sun Bak, Riley Blue, Nomi Marks, Lito Rodriguez
Because I love the transcontinental karaoke squad. I love Sun particularly omg (and her prison ladybros). and Nomi (AND AMANITA) and Riley (and Riley's dad ugh so much, "getting stoned in your tuxes like it's 1985"). and Lito (and Hernando and Daniela!!!). Honestly I love the whole cluster because stories about found family are the best stories. For clarity: Darling Author, you need not include every character I request here, though obviously feel free to include others/the rest of the cluster and related people. Generally, I like togetherness and happiness tropes for these adorable dorkfaces, and the 'everyone else finds out about the cluster' trope is always a great one, and expanding the circle of support type of thing. Unless you have a plot burning a hole in your pocket, in which case I will totally read that too! :D
How to obtain this awesome thing: This is also on Netflix! And I bet it's on everyone's Netflix the world over, since it is a Netflix Original!
Yes Please!
Humor. Slang used in/appropriately. Team/chosen family dynamic. Female characters. Characters of color. Books. Het, slash, and gen. Kissing and affection. Medieval stuff and other old shit. Alcohol, and the consuming of. Unusual formats (if executed well). Good dialogue. Witty Banter™. Creative swearing. Real life. Alternate/parallel universes. Friends to lovers. Enemies to friends to lovers. Fake married/fake dating. Happy endings, or at least things turning out well, are kind of necessary to me; please do not irretrievably break my toys (though you're totally allowed to make me cry on the journey toward a good ending).
No thanks.
Over-the-top angst and drama. Gratuitous/graphic violence. A/B/O. Songfic. Crackfic. Cheesy/stilted dialogue. Misunderstandings the plot hinges on that could be resolved by the characters actually talking to each other (this drives me CRAZY in tv/profic/Shakespeare/etc). Super embarrassing situations. Unrealistic portrayals of life/the universe/everything. Bad formatting. Honestly, I'm pretty easy, as long as it's believable (and people don't spontaneously burst into song or whatever). I'm lucky enough to not have any actual triggers, so this is mainly stuff that makes me hit the back button.
Other fandoms I am into:
Star Trek (excepting Voyager and Enterprise). Doctor Who (old and new). Neil Gaiman novels. Hobbit+LOTR (books and films). R.E.M. U2. The Beatles. Discworld. Harry Potter (books and films). Douglas Adams novels. Shakespeare. Old English literature. #medievaltwitter. Battlestar Galactica (the new one). The West Wing. Black Books. Keen Eddie. Game Of Thrones. Marvel (comics and MCU). Stargate SG-1. Jossverse (including Dr. Horrible, excepting Dollhouse). Spaced. Welcome To Night Vale. Pacific Rim. Brooklyn Nine-Nine. Orphan Black. Sleepy Hollow. Vikings. Vorkosigan novels. Scott Pilgrim (graphic novels and film). A Knight's Tale.
If you are in doubt about anything, please talk to
shihadchick and/or
lovelokest. These ladies know what I like.
Happiest of yuletimes to you, Fabulous Author! May the words flow and may you finish early (and have plenty of time for Yuletide Madness)!
This entry was originally posted at http://izzy.dreamwidth.org/1597210.html. Please comment there using OpenID.