Dear Yulegoat
Dear Yulegoat,
I'm so happy you're here!
You can check out my yuletide tag to see my requests and wants/do not wants from yuletides past. I've been doing this since 2003, and it's been a blast every year. I am mtgat/Merlin Missy on AO3.
Basic likes: bright stories for the dark of the year, feel-good apocalypse fics, 1000 words of my OTPs chatting over coffee, madcap casefic adventures with the whole ensemble, drabbles, longfics, poetry, filk, magic, romance, angst with a happy ending, non-traditional holidays, and/or food porn. (Regular porn always welcome.) Tropefic of all varieties makes me happy. In general, I am happy if you want to take any of my prompts in the direction of one of the outside challenges. Crueltide is outside my interests (though I could see the BoJack requests going there and I would be fine with that). I am open to any ship configuration unless I've specifically said otherwise.
Basic dislikes: noncon/dubcon, character/actor/writer bashing, A/B/O and mundane AUs, original characters, harm to children. Please no harm to animals in canons where the animals are not the main characters. (Example: Bad things can happen to BoJack but please don't hurt a horse in Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt.)
Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt
Deirdre Robespierre
On a show full of damaged people trying to build better lives for themselves, the utter moral vacuity of Deirdre Robespierre haunts me. She's smart, she's the kind of beautiful that will only become harder to maintain over time, she's scratched her way to the top of the Mommy Pyramid in their social circle, and she lied about a break-in when she shot herself. Deirdre's damaged and desperate. I want to know what she was and how she became this, and why she sacrificed every last ounce of her own soul for this empty life she hates. I don't ship her with Jacqueline, but I can definitely see a one-sided obsession on her part with this woman who chooses to throw away the things Deirdre has cut out own heart to get. Does she follow Jacqueline's lead and break away? Has she had an archnemesis before, and did that end with bloodshed, sex, cutting remarks at PTA meetings, or all three? Does Deirdre become a maniacal supervillain complete with haute couture cape and minions to touch up her roots with the blood of her enemies? Tell me more about her, please!
Billy Joel - Goodnight Saigon
Any
This is my absolute favorite Billy Joel song. It's lyrical and gutting, and it gives no easy answers to anything. I'm not even into traditional war canons as a rule, but I want to know everything about the world of the song. The transition from eager young Marines who thought they'd win in a day to the horror-struck soldiers who discovered their enemy was smart and war was hell. The bonds they created and broke. The story from the other side of the war. Ghosts refighting the same conflict night after night long after the war is over. If Vietnam is too close as a setting, feel free to transpose the characters into other times and places, or even in space. I'd prefer no crossovers with this request. Slash, gen, or het are all fine, and this is a case where my "no OCs please" would not apply.
Brandy (Song)
Brandy
This song has always bugged me, and watching GotG 2 helped me put my finger on why: Brandy deserves better. I want a story where Brandy is happy. Does her sailor come back one day and stay? Is she happy with the arrangement they have? Does she live the opposite life of that guy who has a girl in every port, and instead, she has a guy on every ship and likes things that way? Does she preferentially go after men with the same name, because there are many Toms and Bobs and Harrys on each ship, or does she change out her necklace when Tombobharry is in port? Alternately, does Brandy tell everyone the story about the sailor, the only man she'll ever love, see here his name on her necklace as evidence he existed, then go home each night to the woman the rest of the town believes is her roommate or her cousin? More metaphysical: is the sailor in love with the personification of the sea ala a formless spirit as in Moana or a physical being as in Pirates of the Caribbean, and does Brandy eventually fall in love with her as well? The point of view in the song is semi-omniscient, but there's a lot of room for other stories the singer doesn't know or isn't telling.
Sing (2016)
Buster Moon
Eddie Noodleman
All I am saying is that there is no evidence Buster and Eddie aren't also dating. I am fine with a story of their early friendship from back in school, of their mad adventures together now and in the future, whatever. I like the rest of the cast. What do they do in the new theatre? Does everyone sign on to perform? You can crossover with any other anthropomorphized animal canon you'd like (Zootopia, BoJack, Roger Rabbit for starting preferences but I'm pretty open --- picture if you will Disney's Robin Hood) or keep it strictly within the Sing canon.
BoJack Horseman
Beatrice Horseman
Honey Sugarman
Sarah Lynn
This can be a OR request. This show broke me and I am still ruminating on the last season. I love, for varying definitions of the word, all the characters, and I'd be happy to see any of them appear. I've specifically chosen the characters who cracked open and bled out on the screen. In Bea's memories, Honey became a faceless shadow after her surgery, but Bea's memories are no longer reliable. What was their relationship like after Crackjack and the aftermath? What was it like before? We only saw a glimpse in The Old Sugarman Place, but surely a lot of weird went into creating the bitter woman Bea became. Sarah Lynn bent until she broke, but who else could she have been in another life? Did she daydream about architecture while she was up on stage? Was there ever an opening for her, however small, to escape Hollywoo and her fate, or was in set in stone by everyone around her? Like the Sing request, this can be crossed over with other anthropomorphized animal properties or not as you choose.
I'm so happy you're here!
You can check out my yuletide tag to see my requests and wants/do not wants from yuletides past. I've been doing this since 2003, and it's been a blast every year. I am mtgat/Merlin Missy on AO3.
Basic likes: bright stories for the dark of the year, feel-good apocalypse fics, 1000 words of my OTPs chatting over coffee, madcap casefic adventures with the whole ensemble, drabbles, longfics, poetry, filk, magic, romance, angst with a happy ending, non-traditional holidays, and/or food porn. (Regular porn always welcome.) Tropefic of all varieties makes me happy. In general, I am happy if you want to take any of my prompts in the direction of one of the outside challenges. Crueltide is outside my interests (though I could see the BoJack requests going there and I would be fine with that). I am open to any ship configuration unless I've specifically said otherwise.
Basic dislikes: noncon/dubcon, character/actor/writer bashing, A/B/O and mundane AUs, original characters, harm to children. Please no harm to animals in canons where the animals are not the main characters. (Example: Bad things can happen to BoJack but please don't hurt a horse in Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt.)
Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt
Deirdre Robespierre
On a show full of damaged people trying to build better lives for themselves, the utter moral vacuity of Deirdre Robespierre haunts me. She's smart, she's the kind of beautiful that will only become harder to maintain over time, she's scratched her way to the top of the Mommy Pyramid in their social circle, and she lied about a break-in when she shot herself. Deirdre's damaged and desperate. I want to know what she was and how she became this, and why she sacrificed every last ounce of her own soul for this empty life she hates. I don't ship her with Jacqueline, but I can definitely see a one-sided obsession on her part with this woman who chooses to throw away the things Deirdre has cut out own heart to get. Does she follow Jacqueline's lead and break away? Has she had an archnemesis before, and did that end with bloodshed, sex, cutting remarks at PTA meetings, or all three? Does Deirdre become a maniacal supervillain complete with haute couture cape and minions to touch up her roots with the blood of her enemies? Tell me more about her, please!
Billy Joel - Goodnight Saigon
Any
This is my absolute favorite Billy Joel song. It's lyrical and gutting, and it gives no easy answers to anything. I'm not even into traditional war canons as a rule, but I want to know everything about the world of the song. The transition from eager young Marines who thought they'd win in a day to the horror-struck soldiers who discovered their enemy was smart and war was hell. The bonds they created and broke. The story from the other side of the war. Ghosts refighting the same conflict night after night long after the war is over. If Vietnam is too close as a setting, feel free to transpose the characters into other times and places, or even in space. I'd prefer no crossovers with this request. Slash, gen, or het are all fine, and this is a case where my "no OCs please" would not apply.
Brandy (Song)
Brandy
This song has always bugged me, and watching GotG 2 helped me put my finger on why: Brandy deserves better. I want a story where Brandy is happy. Does her sailor come back one day and stay? Is she happy with the arrangement they have? Does she live the opposite life of that guy who has a girl in every port, and instead, she has a guy on every ship and likes things that way? Does she preferentially go after men with the same name, because there are many Toms and Bobs and Harrys on each ship, or does she change out her necklace when Tombobharry is in port? Alternately, does Brandy tell everyone the story about the sailor, the only man she'll ever love, see here his name on her necklace as evidence he existed, then go home each night to the woman the rest of the town believes is her roommate or her cousin? More metaphysical: is the sailor in love with the personification of the sea ala a formless spirit as in Moana or a physical being as in Pirates of the Caribbean, and does Brandy eventually fall in love with her as well? The point of view in the song is semi-omniscient, but there's a lot of room for other stories the singer doesn't know or isn't telling.
Sing (2016)
Buster Moon
Eddie Noodleman
All I am saying is that there is no evidence Buster and Eddie aren't also dating. I am fine with a story of their early friendship from back in school, of their mad adventures together now and in the future, whatever. I like the rest of the cast. What do they do in the new theatre? Does everyone sign on to perform? You can crossover with any other anthropomorphized animal canon you'd like (Zootopia, BoJack, Roger Rabbit for starting preferences but I'm pretty open --- picture if you will Disney's Robin Hood) or keep it strictly within the Sing canon.
BoJack Horseman
Beatrice Horseman
Honey Sugarman
Sarah Lynn
This can be a OR request. This show broke me and I am still ruminating on the last season. I love, for varying definitions of the word, all the characters, and I'd be happy to see any of them appear. I've specifically chosen the characters who cracked open and bled out on the screen. In Bea's memories, Honey became a faceless shadow after her surgery, but Bea's memories are no longer reliable. What was their relationship like after Crackjack and the aftermath? What was it like before? We only saw a glimpse in The Old Sugarman Place, but surely a lot of weird went into creating the bitter woman Bea became. Sarah Lynn bent until she broke, but who else could she have been in another life? Did she daydream about architecture while she was up on stage? Was there ever an opening for her, however small, to escape Hollywoo and her fate, or was in set in stone by everyone around her? Like the Sing request, this can be crossed over with other anthropomorphized animal properties or not as you choose.