Dear Yuletide Writer
Hi! Thank you so much of writing a story for me. I love all of these fandoms a lot, and I promise that I'll be happy with most anything you chose to write.
First things first: I have a tendency to ramble, and this got pretty long. If that stresses you out, please don't feel pressured to read it. I mostly just like giving lots and lots of possible suggestions.
In terms of general likes/dislikes, I'm honestly pretty easy. I read and love slash, het, femslash, and gen, in pretty much equal measures. So while I didn't actually request any slash or het this year, feel free to do whatever you like with background/supporting pairings, or put any sort of relationships (or lack thereof) you like into my really open-ended requests.
I like angst, fluff, action, plot, porn, little domestic scenes, seriously in depth worldbuilding, whatever. I admit I prefer a happy or hopeful ending, but feel free to drag characters through hell to get there - I just want to be able to see the light at the end of the tunnel. I'm also not a huge fan of character death, but if you feel it's necessary for the story you want to tell, go for it. Just please, don't make it the central focus of the story.
I will say, though, that I'm generally not a big fan of crackfic (she says, despite the most recent thing she's written being complete crack). So please don't turn people into penguins, make them sentient tables, or anything else along that vein. I'm also generally not a huge fan of completely non-canonical AUs for Yuletide. Feel free to spin-off from canon, but please don't put them in a completely new setting. I'm also really not a fan of a/b/o, so please don't utilize that universe in your fic. And I have kind of a weirdly intense squick about amnesia, so I'd just like to request that your story doesn't feature it, please (with the exception that if you want to write some sort of worldwide amnesia backstory thing in xkcd 1190, go for it).
I'm open to crossovers if you have an amazing idea for one, but I will say that I'm not familiar with a lot of the currently bigger fandoms. So unless I have it listed in my interests or it's in my record of trakt.tv plays (found here), don't trust that I actually know the source you want to cross with, no matter how big the fandom for it is.
Zathura: A Space Adventure - Any
I'd really love something dealing with the whole 'the Astronaut is Walter' thing, and the fact that he (and, since he only wished away Danny, Lisa) apparently grew up in the world of the game. What were Walter and Lisa's lives like there? What happened to them? Alternately, after Walter and the Astronaut merge, does Walter get his memories? Even if he doesn't, how does he deal with meeting his older self? How does the Astronaut deal with meeting his younger self? What about Lisa? Did the alternate Lisa out there merge with her younger self too? I'd really just love anything dealing with this aspect of the film.
This movie, okay. On the one hand, it's Jumanji in space. It's completely just Jumanji in space. But hey, I will freely admit that I love space, and the visuals in are just pretty, even if often completely and ridiculously impossible (burning sofa! ...in spaaace? But. Vacuum. Brain. Hurt.). It also has a really ham-fisted moral, and is obviously made for young children. But on the other hand, there is this completely fascinating story going on underneath the surface that the film barely even touches on that I've been sort of obsessed with ever since I first saw the film.
And that, of course, is the Astronaut, and all the implications that come with him. He appears to be in his mid 20s. He's wearing dog tags. He's obviously extremely knowledgeable about everything inside the game world, and apparently has led a fairly hazardous life. And he's Walter. He's the Walter who wished Danny away when he was ten, couldn't finish the game, and was stuck in the game world for 15 years. He grew up there. And that's just. Everything about that is fascinating.
I also will admit that I've watched the film counting turns, and by the time Walter would've wished Danny away, Lisa should be unfrozen. So Lisa would've also been stuck in the game world with no way out, despite the film not mentioning that. Which is also fascinating, especially since she wasn't even playing in the first place.
I would love absolutely anything you have to say relating in any way to this aspect of the film. Seriously, anything. (Also, despite the 'character death' note above, if you want to focus on AstoWalter's guilt over Danny, feel free.)
If you're not feeling this part of the film, I'd also love something with the characters just dealing with what happened to them in the game world in general.
The Trouble with Angels - Any
I'd love pretty much anything at all about this film. Mary and Rachel and their friendship, Mother Superior and Sister Liguori and theirs, Mary and Mother Superior's respectful antagonism, the way the film treats the Sister's vocation, just. Anything. Gen or femslash would both be awesome.
I rediscovered this film a few years ago, and it's since become one of my all-time favorites. I love how it's a film almost entirely about female friendship, but also how, despite being a silly comedy, it treats the decision to join a religious order very seriously. I absolutely love Mary's journey, and the way she not-so-secretly admires Mother Superior. I love how you know that she'll never lose her spirit, and how she actively chooses to join the Sisters.
I love Mary and Rachel's friendship. I love Rachel and her insecurities. I love Mother Superior, and her quiet strength and the way that, even when Mary and Rachel have taken her to the end of her rope, she still just wants what's best for them. I love Sister Liguori, and her entertaining math classes and her friendship with Mother Superior. I love all the other Sisters, and how they all have such distinct personalities.
I love absolutely everything about this film.
I'd love to read something about Mary's decision to join the order, or about Rachel being off on her own now without Mary to guide her (I'd love to read about Rachel discovering the 60s lesbian community), or anything at all about Mother Superior (maybe a story about how she joined the Order?), or Mary telling Mother Superior about her decision to join the order and how Mother Superior reacts, or, just. Anything. I'd also enjoy Mary/Rachel or Mother Superior/Sister Liguori, but I admit that I'd prefer Mother Superior/Sister Liguori be completely unconsummated and Mary/Rachel to be heavier on Rachel's side of things, because I really do love the serious way this movie treats the Sisters and their calling.
Seriously, if you write for this movie, there's pretty much nothing that wouldn't make me ridiculously happy. I'm sure it will be scathingly brilliant.
xkcd 1190 (Time) - Any
What happens next? Or what happened before? How will the two main characters adjust to their new life? Will they ever meet the Beanie Leader again? Will Beret Girl take over the world? What happened in the past 10,000 years that so much knowledge was lost anyway? Will lost knowledge be regained? Seriously, give me anything at all in this world, and I will be happy.
I had a great time following this earlier this year. I loved the slow reveal of the story and what was going on, and how we had to find things out at the same general rate that the two main characters did. I loved all the details that Munroe put into it, from making sure that the stars were right for 10,000 years in the future, to making sure the terrain generally mapped to the actual terrain of the Mediterranean sea floor. I loved how the characters all had such clear personalities despite not even having names.
I'd really just love see more of this world. If you want to do general worldbuilding, that would be awesome. Tell me how the knowledge was lost, or what happened in the past 10,000 years, or how the Mediterranean drained in the first place. Tell me about the other peoples who were evacuated from the basin. Tell about the people of the Hills. Tell me about what's going on in the rest of the world.
If worldbuilding isn't your thing, I'd also love anything to do with the characters themselves. How do the two main characters adapt to their new lives? Do they have to do much at all? Do they go back and try to find the woman to thank her or tell her they survived (or return the maps)? What about all the other people in the 40? What was going with Beret Girl while the main characters were on their adventure?
I just. As you can probably tell, there's basically nothing you could write for this that I wouldn't love to bits. I would prefer, though, that you treat it relatively seriously - I know it's xkcd, but I'd really prefer whatever story you wrote wasn't silly ridiculousness.
If it's set in this world at all, I will be happy.
Metropolis Suites - Janelle Monáe - Cindi Mayweather, Blueberry Mary
Just who is Mary to Cindi anyway? Friend? Lover? Fellow revolutionary? An early disciple of the ArchAndroid? All of the above? I'd love to hear absolutely any ideas you have on the subject.
I've been following Janelle Monáe since, well, okay, since Patrick Stump mentioned how awesome she was and I was heavily into Bandom at the time and moving on. But that was when all she had out was The Chase, and I was immediately captivated. When that album opened with "March of the Wolfmasters", giving me a bounty hunter notice about an Android who had fallen in love with a human and to get the reward you would need to turn in her cybersoul, followed immediately with "Violet Stars Happy Hunting!!!" and then "Many Moons", I was in love. Her mix of science fiction and awesome music just makes me so happy.
I love the story she's been slowly building about Cindi Mayweather the Android revolutionary/possible Android Jesus, and how, like all the best science fiction, it ties right back into contemporary social and societal issues without hitting you over the head with them. But while I love Cindi's story, I also find it weirdly interesting how few other recurring characters there are in the story.
It's Cindi's story, and Cindi is an ultimately solitary figure - she is the ArchAndroid, and like most messianic figures, in the end she stands alone. But throughout the albums, there keep being throwaway references to Mary. So who is Mary? And who is she to Cindi? And, in "Sally Ride", what choice is Mary being given? (And how notable is it that that song is called "Sally Ride", given the way Cindi tends to refer to Mary in a sexual light?) Is she Cindi's friend? Her lover? Her disciple? Someone at the cusp of making a decision to become one or more of those things?
Cindi seems to be attracted to her (Am I a freak because I love watching Mary?, not to mention the whole bit in "Mushrooms and Roses"), but there's nothing to say whether that's something they ever act on or if it's even really that important in their relationship.
I just would love to read absolutely any of your ideas about Cindi, about Mary, about how they relate to each other, or about what Mary's role is in the Android revolution, if she has one at all. Cindi/Mary is, obviously, very welcome, but if you want to go somewhere else with them, that's awesome as well.
Tiger & Bunny - Kaburagi Kaede, Huang Pao-Lin
I'd love to see anything about these two interacting. Maybe Kaede becomes a hero herself and Pao-Lin becomes her partner? Maybe they could become friends in some other way, or develop a rivalry, or end up in a fluffy (or angsty) teenage romance? I just want to see Kaede and Pao-Lin together, in some fashion.
Tiger & Bunny is by far one of my favorite anime of recent years. I love the way it treats Superheroes - corporate sponsorship! Ad placement! Reality tv! Merchandising! I love how some of the heroes really buy into the corporate side of things but for others it's more of calling, and how some of them are using it simply to launch other careers and for some it's almost more of a hobby. I loved how it showed that a lot of NEXT had completely useless powers (Super Sayan hair guy!), and how being a NEXT comes at a cost, and how sometimes powers fade. I really loved the city of Sternbild itself, with its strange multi-tiered levels that are never explained but look gorgeous. I love the two main storylines, and all the possibilities left untold in the time skips. And I love all the characters.
But watching it, I came out of it really wanting more about Kaede and Pao-Lin, neither of whom get a lot of story themselves. Pao-Lin gets the bit about her hairclip, and Kaede gets to support her father, but neither of them really get all that much focus actually put on them. And I also really want to see them bonding or interacting. I'm not entirely sure why I came out of the series going "yes! Those two! Need friendship and/or shipfic, stat!", but I did. Oh, I did.
I just think they'd be fun together. I think their personalities would spark off each other in a sort of fantastic way. I'd love to read about them as friends, partners, rivals, lovers, or really any other sort of thing you could come up with. All I ask is that if you want to write more than the cute, hand-holding and first kiss level of romance, that you please age them up to at least mid-late teens.
I'd also love to see the two of them interacting with Nathan or Karina (especially Nathan), and I do loosely ship Kotetsu/Barnaby if you feel an intense need for them to be in the background. But all I really want is Kaede and Pao-Lin together, in whatever fashion you feel comfortable with. Because seriously, they would be awesome.
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First things first: I have a tendency to ramble, and this got pretty long. If that stresses you out, please don't feel pressured to read it. I mostly just like giving lots and lots of possible suggestions.
In terms of general likes/dislikes, I'm honestly pretty easy. I read and love slash, het, femslash, and gen, in pretty much equal measures. So while I didn't actually request any slash or het this year, feel free to do whatever you like with background/supporting pairings, or put any sort of relationships (or lack thereof) you like into my really open-ended requests.
I like angst, fluff, action, plot, porn, little domestic scenes, seriously in depth worldbuilding, whatever. I admit I prefer a happy or hopeful ending, but feel free to drag characters through hell to get there - I just want to be able to see the light at the end of the tunnel. I'm also not a huge fan of character death, but if you feel it's necessary for the story you want to tell, go for it. Just please, don't make it the central focus of the story.
I will say, though, that I'm generally not a big fan of crackfic (she says, despite the most recent thing she's written being complete crack). So please don't turn people into penguins, make them sentient tables, or anything else along that vein. I'm also generally not a huge fan of completely non-canonical AUs for Yuletide. Feel free to spin-off from canon, but please don't put them in a completely new setting. I'm also really not a fan of a/b/o, so please don't utilize that universe in your fic. And I have kind of a weirdly intense squick about amnesia, so I'd just like to request that your story doesn't feature it, please (with the exception that if you want to write some sort of worldwide amnesia backstory thing in xkcd 1190, go for it).
I'm open to crossovers if you have an amazing idea for one, but I will say that I'm not familiar with a lot of the currently bigger fandoms. So unless I have it listed in my interests or it's in my record of trakt.tv plays (found here), don't trust that I actually know the source you want to cross with, no matter how big the fandom for it is.
Zathura: A Space Adventure - Any
I'd really love something dealing with the whole 'the Astronaut is Walter' thing, and the fact that he (and, since he only wished away Danny, Lisa) apparently grew up in the world of the game. What were Walter and Lisa's lives like there? What happened to them? Alternately, after Walter and the Astronaut merge, does Walter get his memories? Even if he doesn't, how does he deal with meeting his older self? How does the Astronaut deal with meeting his younger self? What about Lisa? Did the alternate Lisa out there merge with her younger self too? I'd really just love anything dealing with this aspect of the film.
This movie, okay. On the one hand, it's Jumanji in space. It's completely just Jumanji in space. But hey, I will freely admit that I love space, and the visuals in are just pretty, even if often completely and ridiculously impossible (burning sofa! ...in spaaace? But. Vacuum. Brain. Hurt.). It also has a really ham-fisted moral, and is obviously made for young children. But on the other hand, there is this completely fascinating story going on underneath the surface that the film barely even touches on that I've been sort of obsessed with ever since I first saw the film.
And that, of course, is the Astronaut, and all the implications that come with him. He appears to be in his mid 20s. He's wearing dog tags. He's obviously extremely knowledgeable about everything inside the game world, and apparently has led a fairly hazardous life. And he's Walter. He's the Walter who wished Danny away when he was ten, couldn't finish the game, and was stuck in the game world for 15 years. He grew up there. And that's just. Everything about that is fascinating.
I also will admit that I've watched the film counting turns, and by the time Walter would've wished Danny away, Lisa should be unfrozen. So Lisa would've also been stuck in the game world with no way out, despite the film not mentioning that. Which is also fascinating, especially since she wasn't even playing in the first place.
I would love absolutely anything you have to say relating in any way to this aspect of the film. Seriously, anything. (Also, despite the 'character death' note above, if you want to focus on AstoWalter's guilt over Danny, feel free.)
If you're not feeling this part of the film, I'd also love something with the characters just dealing with what happened to them in the game world in general.
The Trouble with Angels - Any
I'd love pretty much anything at all about this film. Mary and Rachel and their friendship, Mother Superior and Sister Liguori and theirs, Mary and Mother Superior's respectful antagonism, the way the film treats the Sister's vocation, just. Anything. Gen or femslash would both be awesome.
I rediscovered this film a few years ago, and it's since become one of my all-time favorites. I love how it's a film almost entirely about female friendship, but also how, despite being a silly comedy, it treats the decision to join a religious order very seriously. I absolutely love Mary's journey, and the way she not-so-secretly admires Mother Superior. I love how you know that she'll never lose her spirit, and how she actively chooses to join the Sisters.
I love Mary and Rachel's friendship. I love Rachel and her insecurities. I love Mother Superior, and her quiet strength and the way that, even when Mary and Rachel have taken her to the end of her rope, she still just wants what's best for them. I love Sister Liguori, and her entertaining math classes and her friendship with Mother Superior. I love all the other Sisters, and how they all have such distinct personalities.
I love absolutely everything about this film.
I'd love to read something about Mary's decision to join the order, or about Rachel being off on her own now without Mary to guide her (I'd love to read about Rachel discovering the 60s lesbian community), or anything at all about Mother Superior (maybe a story about how she joined the Order?), or Mary telling Mother Superior about her decision to join the order and how Mother Superior reacts, or, just. Anything. I'd also enjoy Mary/Rachel or Mother Superior/Sister Liguori, but I admit that I'd prefer Mother Superior/Sister Liguori be completely unconsummated and Mary/Rachel to be heavier on Rachel's side of things, because I really do love the serious way this movie treats the Sisters and their calling.
Seriously, if you write for this movie, there's pretty much nothing that wouldn't make me ridiculously happy. I'm sure it will be scathingly brilliant.
xkcd 1190 (Time) - Any
What happens next? Or what happened before? How will the two main characters adjust to their new life? Will they ever meet the Beanie Leader again? Will Beret Girl take over the world? What happened in the past 10,000 years that so much knowledge was lost anyway? Will lost knowledge be regained? Seriously, give me anything at all in this world, and I will be happy.
I had a great time following this earlier this year. I loved the slow reveal of the story and what was going on, and how we had to find things out at the same general rate that the two main characters did. I loved all the details that Munroe put into it, from making sure that the stars were right for 10,000 years in the future, to making sure the terrain generally mapped to the actual terrain of the Mediterranean sea floor. I loved how the characters all had such clear personalities despite not even having names.
I'd really just love see more of this world. If you want to do general worldbuilding, that would be awesome. Tell me how the knowledge was lost, or what happened in the past 10,000 years, or how the Mediterranean drained in the first place. Tell me about the other peoples who were evacuated from the basin. Tell about the people of the Hills. Tell me about what's going on in the rest of the world.
If worldbuilding isn't your thing, I'd also love anything to do with the characters themselves. How do the two main characters adapt to their new lives? Do they have to do much at all? Do they go back and try to find the woman to thank her or tell her they survived (or return the maps)? What about all the other people in the 40? What was going with Beret Girl while the main characters were on their adventure?
I just. As you can probably tell, there's basically nothing you could write for this that I wouldn't love to bits. I would prefer, though, that you treat it relatively seriously - I know it's xkcd, but I'd really prefer whatever story you wrote wasn't silly ridiculousness.
If it's set in this world at all, I will be happy.
Metropolis Suites - Janelle Monáe - Cindi Mayweather, Blueberry Mary
Just who is Mary to Cindi anyway? Friend? Lover? Fellow revolutionary? An early disciple of the ArchAndroid? All of the above? I'd love to hear absolutely any ideas you have on the subject.
I've been following Janelle Monáe since, well, okay, since Patrick Stump mentioned how awesome she was and I was heavily into Bandom at the time and moving on. But that was when all she had out was The Chase, and I was immediately captivated. When that album opened with "March of the Wolfmasters", giving me a bounty hunter notice about an Android who had fallen in love with a human and to get the reward you would need to turn in her cybersoul, followed immediately with "Violet Stars Happy Hunting!!!" and then "Many Moons", I was in love. Her mix of science fiction and awesome music just makes me so happy.
I love the story she's been slowly building about Cindi Mayweather the Android revolutionary/possible Android Jesus, and how, like all the best science fiction, it ties right back into contemporary social and societal issues without hitting you over the head with them. But while I love Cindi's story, I also find it weirdly interesting how few other recurring characters there are in the story.
It's Cindi's story, and Cindi is an ultimately solitary figure - she is the ArchAndroid, and like most messianic figures, in the end she stands alone. But throughout the albums, there keep being throwaway references to Mary. So who is Mary? And who is she to Cindi? And, in "Sally Ride", what choice is Mary being given? (And how notable is it that that song is called "Sally Ride", given the way Cindi tends to refer to Mary in a sexual light?) Is she Cindi's friend? Her lover? Her disciple? Someone at the cusp of making a decision to become one or more of those things?
Cindi seems to be attracted to her (Am I a freak because I love watching Mary?, not to mention the whole bit in "Mushrooms and Roses"), but there's nothing to say whether that's something they ever act on or if it's even really that important in their relationship.
I just would love to read absolutely any of your ideas about Cindi, about Mary, about how they relate to each other, or about what Mary's role is in the Android revolution, if she has one at all. Cindi/Mary is, obviously, very welcome, but if you want to go somewhere else with them, that's awesome as well.
Tiger & Bunny - Kaburagi Kaede, Huang Pao-Lin
I'd love to see anything about these two interacting. Maybe Kaede becomes a hero herself and Pao-Lin becomes her partner? Maybe they could become friends in some other way, or develop a rivalry, or end up in a fluffy (or angsty) teenage romance? I just want to see Kaede and Pao-Lin together, in some fashion.
Tiger & Bunny is by far one of my favorite anime of recent years. I love the way it treats Superheroes - corporate sponsorship! Ad placement! Reality tv! Merchandising! I love how some of the heroes really buy into the corporate side of things but for others it's more of calling, and how some of them are using it simply to launch other careers and for some it's almost more of a hobby. I loved how it showed that a lot of NEXT had completely useless powers (Super Sayan hair guy!), and how being a NEXT comes at a cost, and how sometimes powers fade. I really loved the city of Sternbild itself, with its strange multi-tiered levels that are never explained but look gorgeous. I love the two main storylines, and all the possibilities left untold in the time skips. And I love all the characters.
But watching it, I came out of it really wanting more about Kaede and Pao-Lin, neither of whom get a lot of story themselves. Pao-Lin gets the bit about her hairclip, and Kaede gets to support her father, but neither of them really get all that much focus actually put on them. And I also really want to see them bonding or interacting. I'm not entirely sure why I came out of the series going "yes! Those two! Need friendship and/or shipfic, stat!", but I did. Oh, I did.
I just think they'd be fun together. I think their personalities would spark off each other in a sort of fantastic way. I'd love to read about them as friends, partners, rivals, lovers, or really any other sort of thing you could come up with. All I ask is that if you want to write more than the cute, hand-holding and first kiss level of romance, that you please age them up to at least mid-late teens.
I'd also love to see the two of them interacting with Nathan or Karina (especially Nathan), and I do loosely ship Kotetsu/Barnaby if you feel an intense need for them to be in the background. But all I really want is Kaede and Pao-Lin together, in whatever fashion you feel comfortable with. Because seriously, they would be awesome.
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