YULETIMES ! ! ! !
omg how is it yuletimes already! crazycakes! time is linear! etc.
Hello fellow Yuletider! A bit early this year, are you as totally unprepared as I am? AWESOME. Here are a few things that would make me happy, but as we all know, Optional Details Are Optional. This stuff is here in case you're interested and/or in need of a bit of direction. By no means are you required to use every character I've listed for any of my fandoms; that's just to give you as much elbow room as I can. If you want to use one, some, or all, it's all good!
OK, on with the show:
커피프린스 1호점 | Coffee Prince
Go Eun Chan, Choi Han Gyeol, Go Eun Sae, Han Yu Ju
OMG THIS SHOW. GOD HELP ME. I would love Eun Chan and Han Kyul being ADORABLE at each other. (Or Eun Chan and Han Sung being adorable at each other. GOD I LOVE THEIR FRIENDSHIP even though Han Sung wasn't nominated. 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 more of Eun Chan and Yu 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 (Han Sung! 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! 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.) Subtitled in English.
The Exeter Book
The Wife, The Wanderer, The Seafarer
The Seafarer is the poem of my SOUL, dear author. It's the reason I want to go into Anglo-Saxon studies. I just. I read it and never looked back. It's heartbreaking and perfect and perfectly heartbreaking. I love the cold, the ice and snow and wheeling gulls and unfeeling sea it evokes so clearly. And I love it in the context of these other poems-- they could almost all be the same speaker (and a ladytype Seafarer/Wanderer, how great would that be?).
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 digitization ANY-FLIPPING-WHERE, which is frustrating as hell (come on, Exeter Cathedral library, give us the pretty). I'm a bit fond of anglo-saxons.net, which has Wanderer and Seafarer. Here is a pretty good translation of Wife's Lament.
14th and 15th Century CE Religious Women RPF
Margery Kempe, Julian of Norwich
So medieval historians are pretty sure that these two actually met and exchanged ideas, which I sort of can't get over. Margery wrote (by which I mean dictated because she was illiterate) the first autobiography in English. Julian was the author of the first book published by a woman in English. Mostly I'm just in love with the thought that Marge and Jules hung out and talked about Christ and possibly beta'd for each other and there was lots of crying about Julian's gorgeous theology. If you want to go the epistolary route (Marge sends Jules letters from her pilgrimages and complains about her husband) that is awesome, but that's just a thought. Here's another thought: there's a play about them, which I think is amazing. If you want to mess around with that, that would be amazing, but I will be delighted with anything you do with these two because MARGERY KEMPE and JULIAN OF NORWICH. [insert weeping emoji here]
How to obtain this awesome thing: Julian's Revelations of Divine Love is available on Project Gutenberg. The Book of Margery Kempe is here on METS, but is in Middle English.
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 (anything that would need the AO3 warning). 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 Wars X-Wing. 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 (HBO). 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. Vikings. Vorkosigan novels. Scott Pilgrim (graphic novels and film). Merlin. The collected works of Monty Python. Black Sails. Mozart In The Jungle. A Knight's Tale. #GBBO.
If you are in doubt about anything, please talk to
shihadchick and/or
lovelokest. These ladies know what I like.
Thank you, sibling in this seasonal weirdness! I hope the writing comes easy and you have plenty of time for Madness and everything else the end of the year may throw at you! <3
This entry was originally posted at http://izzy.dreamwidth.org/1601092.html. Please comment there using OpenID.
Hello fellow Yuletider! A bit early this year, are you as totally unprepared as I am? AWESOME. Here are a few things that would make me happy, but as we all know, Optional Details Are Optional. This stuff is here in case you're interested and/or in need of a bit of direction. By no means are you required to use every character I've listed for any of my fandoms; that's just to give you as much elbow room as I can. If you want to use one, some, or all, it's all good!
OK, on with the show:
커피프린스 1호점 | Coffee Prince
Go Eun Chan, Choi Han Gyeol, Go Eun Sae, Han Yu Ju
OMG THIS SHOW. GOD HELP ME. I would love Eun Chan and Han Kyul being ADORABLE at each other. (Or Eun Chan and Han Sung being adorable at each other. GOD I LOVE THEIR FRIENDSHIP even though Han Sung wasn't nominated. 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 more of Eun Chan and Yu 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 (Han Sung! 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! 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.) Subtitled in English.
The Exeter Book
The Wife, The Wanderer, The Seafarer
The Seafarer is the poem of my SOUL, dear author. It's the reason I want to go into Anglo-Saxon studies. I just. I read it and never looked back. It's heartbreaking and perfect and perfectly heartbreaking. I love the cold, the ice and snow and wheeling gulls and unfeeling sea it evokes so clearly. And I love it in the context of these other poems-- they could almost all be the same speaker (and a ladytype Seafarer/Wanderer, how great would that be?).
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 digitization ANY-FLIPPING-WHERE, which is frustrating as hell (come on, Exeter Cathedral library, give us the pretty). I'm a bit fond of anglo-saxons.net, which has Wanderer and Seafarer. Here is a pretty good translation of Wife's Lament.
14th and 15th Century CE Religious Women RPF
Margery Kempe, Julian of Norwich
So medieval historians are pretty sure that these two actually met and exchanged ideas, which I sort of can't get over. Margery wrote (by which I mean dictated because she was illiterate) the first autobiography in English. Julian was the author of the first book published by a woman in English. Mostly I'm just in love with the thought that Marge and Jules hung out and talked about Christ and possibly beta'd for each other and there was lots of crying about Julian's gorgeous theology. If you want to go the epistolary route (Marge sends Jules letters from her pilgrimages and complains about her husband) that is awesome, but that's just a thought. Here's another thought: there's a play about them, which I think is amazing. If you want to mess around with that, that would be amazing, but I will be delighted with anything you do with these two because MARGERY KEMPE and JULIAN OF NORWICH. [insert weeping emoji here]
How to obtain this awesome thing: Julian's Revelations of Divine Love is available on Project Gutenberg. The Book of Margery Kempe is here on METS, but is in Middle English.
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 (anything that would need the AO3 warning). 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 Wars X-Wing. 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 (HBO). 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. Vikings. Vorkosigan novels. Scott Pilgrim (graphic novels and film). Merlin. The collected works of Monty Python. Black Sails. Mozart In The Jungle. A Knight's Tale. #GBBO.
If you are in doubt about anything, please talk to
shihadchick and/or
lovelokest. These ladies know what I like.
Thank you, sibling in this seasonal weirdness! I hope the writing comes easy and you have plenty of time for Madness and everything else the end of the year may throw at you! <3
This entry was originally posted at http://izzy.dreamwidth.org/1601092.html. Please comment there using OpenID.