Dear Yuletide Author 2015
Dear Yuletide Author,
Hi! It’s been a while since I’ve done yuletide, so I am going to be super crazy excited by pretty much anything you give me XD If it’s helpful for your process, my ao3 probably gives a reasonable ideas of what I read (though I think I mostly tend to bookmark fluff, while I read a lot of kink and epic h/c), and sooome idea of what I write - though I have a tendency to forget to post the second halves of my epics, and my really kinky stuff is mostly lost in the depths of challenge comms, so just take it as given that I’m into most sorts of thing :P
Pretty much my only squick is dark!versions of characters. This doesn’t aaaalways apply, and I’m okay with protags cast as the villain as long as they’re not evil, or they’re being mind-controlled, or xyz other mitigating circumstances, I’m just not generally into actual full-blown personality transplant evil versions of main characters (even when they’re written tremendously well and are very clever transformations, they tend to just squick me a bit).
Below are partly the additional notes from my requests, with details added throughout :)
Fitz and the Fool
What I love about these characters is the way they push on through a frankly mind boggling amount of sheer miscommunication (JUST TALK IT OUT BOYS, HOLY EDA), mostly just by power of an absolutely fundamental love, whether you read that as friendship or more (I lean toward a sort of almost the latter, but am very okay with either/any!).
Most of all I love the warm moments between them (and Nighteyes!): apricot brandy by the fire, and the times they just have to hold each other because everything is pretty awful and no one else really gets it.
I am down with any period, though prefer when they're together (i.e. not book 1)...snowed in (just as a general trope? :P), or if they'd visited the dragon garden together (all my tears, guh), or hiding out in Chade's old quarters (because what is blindness/torture if not a premise for sick!fic/comfort? XD)...but, that said, there's always what we now know about the book 1 period (Beloved's psychic awareness of Fitz and all the visions and dreams and mental escapes you could imagine there). So I am really pretty down with anything.
Other characters I love: Kettricken, Verity, Nighteyes, Bee. No Molly bashing, please.
Bits and pieces I love: Fool carving wood! (but that's pretty tricky in the current timeline), apricot brandy, Skill bond, reminiscing
The Librarians (Flynn and Jake)
So I'm going to be honest, I ship Flynn and Jake, BUT I would also love to read about them as friends/colleagues if that's more your thing. If you do share my ship, bring on snark or porn or fluff or established relationship or h/c or xmas or…right I’m done XD. If you don’t ship that, bring on snark or casefic or xmas or pretty much anything, really ;D
I love the banter between characters in this show. I love the way the show picks something ridiculous but great, and just goes with it. I find The Library as a setting pretty fantastic - the atmosphere, the possibilities. I'd love a story that plays with mythology - any sort - or with the possibilities of the Library itself. I would be thrilled to get a casefic using Jake's magical powers of art history/surveying and Flynn's magical powers of being the protagonist. I would likewise be thrilled to get a fic about Flynn and Jake hanging around the library researching. There are probably a million other things I’d be thrilled to get too. The only thing I'd really rather not see is Jake/Cassandra shipping; I'm good with pretty much anything else!
Other characters I love: Jenkins is a plus (I love him, and I find his fabulous dry humour impossible to write myself). Eve is also awesome (I just find her and Flynn as a couple weird because she’s kind of a Nicole clone? - but this is not a hard limit). No Jake/Cassandra shipping, please.
Romantic Poets RPF (Keats and Shelley)
So I ship Keats and Shelley. I'm also totally happy with them just being good (overdramatic) friends, if that’s more your thing. Or, you know, shoot down the middle and say romantic friends. It’s all good, any which way :D
Adonais is my favourite poem ever (of all time, forever and ever, amen), but I'd rather not post-mortem fic. Death!fic of the dying!fic kind is completely fine, though, if you want to go that way (i.e. I’d like them both alive, please, but totally cool if you want to write the period immediately preceding Keats’ death). I'd equally love…
· to see them in an English springtime or an Italian summer or a snowy winter, writing or trying to write (or failing to write, or moaning about writing, or celebrating about writing)
· I could very much go for epistolary fic if that's something that appeals, since they were often in different countries
· I love stories about the whole gang in their Swiss chalet (and feel it is totally reasonable to pretend Keats was there too XD)
· I could go for Keats and Shelley on a crazy, fantastical, entirely non-historical adventure if that's your thing!
Really, I just love their way of seeing the world through words, and their struggle to act like reasonable adults, and the way their depth of feeling about the world and their work is tied up in each other.
Other characters: No strong feelings about Severn or Brown - won’t be bothered by anything you do (or don’t) with them. Likewise for Mary and Fanny, except that I’d rather not read them hurt/humiliated/sad (which I do realise is probably what Mary at least felt a lot of the time in reality - I’d just rather read about her totally cool with their nonsense, or ignoring them, or even furious, if she makes an appearance at all). I kind of love both Fanny and Mary, and tend to think they would’ve been much happier with each other than with their respective husbands (who I obviously love, but who are terribly sexist in the way of their time), so I don’t love to see them miserable/humiliated/pining. Byron is the worst and also great (and also not a big player in Keats’ life, but he’s so fantastic as a character. Don’t feel he has to pop up, though XD). I have a weird love for Keats’ wander on the Heath with Coleridge, so cool with him too. These are all side notes, obviously - I’ll love anything with Keats and Shelley, so include as few or as many characters as you like!
Most importantly - feel free to ignore my rambling above, and thank you in advance! I can't wait :D
Hi! It’s been a while since I’ve done yuletide, so I am going to be super crazy excited by pretty much anything you give me XD If it’s helpful for your process, my ao3 probably gives a reasonable ideas of what I read (though I think I mostly tend to bookmark fluff, while I read a lot of kink and epic h/c), and sooome idea of what I write - though I have a tendency to forget to post the second halves of my epics, and my really kinky stuff is mostly lost in the depths of challenge comms, so just take it as given that I’m into most sorts of thing :P
Pretty much my only squick is dark!versions of characters. This doesn’t aaaalways apply, and I’m okay with protags cast as the villain as long as they’re not evil, or they’re being mind-controlled, or xyz other mitigating circumstances, I’m just not generally into actual full-blown personality transplant evil versions of main characters (even when they’re written tremendously well and are very clever transformations, they tend to just squick me a bit).
Below are partly the additional notes from my requests, with details added throughout :)
Fitz and the Fool
What I love about these characters is the way they push on through a frankly mind boggling amount of sheer miscommunication (JUST TALK IT OUT BOYS, HOLY EDA), mostly just by power of an absolutely fundamental love, whether you read that as friendship or more (I lean toward a sort of almost the latter, but am very okay with either/any!).
Most of all I love the warm moments between them (and Nighteyes!): apricot brandy by the fire, and the times they just have to hold each other because everything is pretty awful and no one else really gets it.
I am down with any period, though prefer when they're together (i.e. not book 1)...snowed in (just as a general trope? :P), or if they'd visited the dragon garden together (all my tears, guh), or hiding out in Chade's old quarters (because what is blindness/torture if not a premise for sick!fic/comfort? XD)...but, that said, there's always what we now know about the book 1 period (Beloved's psychic awareness of Fitz and all the visions and dreams and mental escapes you could imagine there). So I am really pretty down with anything.
Other characters I love: Kettricken, Verity, Nighteyes, Bee. No Molly bashing, please.
Bits and pieces I love: Fool carving wood! (but that's pretty tricky in the current timeline), apricot brandy, Skill bond, reminiscing
The Librarians (Flynn and Jake)
So I'm going to be honest, I ship Flynn and Jake, BUT I would also love to read about them as friends/colleagues if that's more your thing. If you do share my ship, bring on snark or porn or fluff or established relationship or h/c or xmas or…right I’m done XD. If you don’t ship that, bring on snark or casefic or xmas or pretty much anything, really ;D
I love the banter between characters in this show. I love the way the show picks something ridiculous but great, and just goes with it. I find The Library as a setting pretty fantastic - the atmosphere, the possibilities. I'd love a story that plays with mythology - any sort - or with the possibilities of the Library itself. I would be thrilled to get a casefic using Jake's magical powers of art history/surveying and Flynn's magical powers of being the protagonist. I would likewise be thrilled to get a fic about Flynn and Jake hanging around the library researching. There are probably a million other things I’d be thrilled to get too. The only thing I'd really rather not see is Jake/Cassandra shipping; I'm good with pretty much anything else!
Other characters I love: Jenkins is a plus (I love him, and I find his fabulous dry humour impossible to write myself). Eve is also awesome (I just find her and Flynn as a couple weird because she’s kind of a Nicole clone? - but this is not a hard limit). No Jake/Cassandra shipping, please.
Romantic Poets RPF (Keats and Shelley)
So I ship Keats and Shelley. I'm also totally happy with them just being good (overdramatic) friends, if that’s more your thing. Or, you know, shoot down the middle and say romantic friends. It’s all good, any which way :D
Adonais is my favourite poem ever (of all time, forever and ever, amen), but I'd rather not post-mortem fic. Death!fic of the dying!fic kind is completely fine, though, if you want to go that way (i.e. I’d like them both alive, please, but totally cool if you want to write the period immediately preceding Keats’ death). I'd equally love…
· to see them in an English springtime or an Italian summer or a snowy winter, writing or trying to write (or failing to write, or moaning about writing, or celebrating about writing)
· I could very much go for epistolary fic if that's something that appeals, since they were often in different countries
· I love stories about the whole gang in their Swiss chalet (and feel it is totally reasonable to pretend Keats was there too XD)
· I could go for Keats and Shelley on a crazy, fantastical, entirely non-historical adventure if that's your thing!
Really, I just love their way of seeing the world through words, and their struggle to act like reasonable adults, and the way their depth of feeling about the world and their work is tied up in each other.
Other characters: No strong feelings about Severn or Brown - won’t be bothered by anything you do (or don’t) with them. Likewise for Mary and Fanny, except that I’d rather not read them hurt/humiliated/sad (which I do realise is probably what Mary at least felt a lot of the time in reality - I’d just rather read about her totally cool with their nonsense, or ignoring them, or even furious, if she makes an appearance at all). I kind of love both Fanny and Mary, and tend to think they would’ve been much happier with each other than with their respective husbands (who I obviously love, but who are terribly sexist in the way of their time), so I don’t love to see them miserable/humiliated/pining. Byron is the worst and also great (and also not a big player in Keats’ life, but he’s so fantastic as a character. Don’t feel he has to pop up, though XD). I have a weird love for Keats’ wander on the Heath with Coleridge, so cool with him too. These are all side notes, obviously - I’ll love anything with Keats and Shelley, so include as few or as many characters as you like!
Most importantly - feel free to ignore my rambling above, and thank you in advance! I can't wait :D