Yuletide 2015 Letter
Dear Lovely Yuletide Writer,
My apologies for not quite getting this done before assignments went out. Oops!
Thank you so much for offering to write in one of my fandoms! I am looking forward to your story with great pleasure.
As you will no doubt discern from the length of this letter, I have a great many thoughts about my various requests, but please feel free to totally disregard my ramblings and write what you like, if you have some other idea for the fandom and characters that you’d like to pursue. I have one general request, which is I’d very much prefer if you kept your story in PG-13/T territory, which is to say not excessively violent/gory, and in regards to sex I’m a fade-to-black kind of person.
On to the requests!
For your reference, in case you decide you want to pick another fandom than the one we were matched on, here’s where you can find:
Murder, She Wrote - Netflix - It’s more fun to watch the Michael Hagerty episodes in order (but you definitely don’t even have to have seen all the ones he has appeared in - I’ve seen 4 or 5 out of the six, I think), you don’t strictly need to. And the rest of the series is pretty accessible - many episodes have no series or season-long plot points.
Rosemary & Thyme - Netflix - Although there are some overarching plot points, and it’s a good idea to watch the first episode to get the set up, you can just dip in to this series if you like
Sense and Sensibility (Jane Austen) - Project Gutenberg has several copies here http://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/161 and your local library probably has a copy.
Sense and Sensibility isn’t too terribly long, and there are also two film adaptations that I know of - the 1995 version with Emma Thompson and a more recent BBC miniseries.
Murder, She Wrote
I love this show, even when it is cheesy and the plot has so many holes you could use it to strain spaghetti. I love Jessica and Seth's friendship and Seth's gruff, crusty New Englandness. I also really enjoy Jessica and Michael Hagarty's friendship and flirtation, and I definitely ship them. I'd be delighted to see a story where Seth gets pulled in to one of Michael's schemes, along with Jessica, or noses his way in because he's worried about his friend. A mystery would be fabulous but is by no means required. If you want them to all go out and get ice-cream or a bicycle trip or something I would be quite happy reading that. If shipping is your thing, I'm more inclined to Jessica/Michael than Jessica/Seth, but I will happily read either/both.
My instinct is towards fluffy lightheartedness with this show, but I’m also kind of intrigued by the idea of a dark story, so if the muse wants to go dark, go for it!
Rosemary and Thyme
Cozy mystery + gardening + strong female characters! What's not to like about that?
Rosemary and Thyme is such a lovely, cozy show, with gorgeous set locations and great characters. I love Laura and Rosemary's relationship, their banter, their "oh no, you can't break in to the house that way - you're doing it wrong, let me show you a better way so we can get in and solve this mystery" approach to the world". I like that they have such a close bond but they're also perfectly okay to have their own space, or to go off separately for a while. I would particularly love a story set in or around the episode "The Invisible Worm", which is the one where they go to the boy's school and there is that odd thing with the stag. If you're up for shipping maybe this is the episode where they start having a romantic relationship? There is pretty much nothing you could write (excepting excessive violence or smut) that I would dislike with these two. Slice of life, a mystery, dialogue only, parody, you can even take it dark, so long as it remains in the PG-13 category. I admit I general think in light-hearted terms for this show, but I'm open to dark if you want to go there. Also, if you want to do something silly (or serious) with that episode where they sort of adopt a baby, go for it!
For extra optional points, if you are familiar with Murder, She Wrote and would like to do a crossover or give J.B. Fletcher a cameo I would be utterly delighted.
Sense and Sensibility (Jane Austen)
It would tickle me pink, dear Yuletide writer, if you wrote me a non-smut love story of some sort between Colonel Brandon and Elinor. I am very fond of the book, and how things turned out there, but there is part of me that always wishes for Elinor/Brandon in some form. There are a couple of these stories on the A03, and floating around the internet, but it's a rare paring in an already-small fandom.
If shipping them is not your cup of tea, I will gladly read a friendship tale. The narrator of Sense and Sensibility describes some about how Brandon's acquaintance is the only new one that Elinor can take pleasure in - what books do they discuss? What interests do they have in common? We know they are much in company for a while in the book - what do they talk about, exactly? What makes them friends?
I'm never quite sure what it is that I want with these two, only that I know I want more of their relationship, be it friendship or more than that. So feel free to let your imagination run wild. If you'd like to do some kind of AU, or crossover with another fandom that you think I know (you can look at my lj, A03 and fanfiction.net), please feel free. Space Pirate AU? Middle Ages AU? Let your imagination run free!
Thank you again, dear Yuletide writer.
Sincerely,
Emiline/northeto (A03/LJ)
My apologies for not quite getting this done before assignments went out. Oops!
Thank you so much for offering to write in one of my fandoms! I am looking forward to your story with great pleasure.
As you will no doubt discern from the length of this letter, I have a great many thoughts about my various requests, but please feel free to totally disregard my ramblings and write what you like, if you have some other idea for the fandom and characters that you’d like to pursue. I have one general request, which is I’d very much prefer if you kept your story in PG-13/T territory, which is to say not excessively violent/gory, and in regards to sex I’m a fade-to-black kind of person.
On to the requests!
For your reference, in case you decide you want to pick another fandom than the one we were matched on, here’s where you can find:
Murder, She Wrote - Netflix - It’s more fun to watch the Michael Hagerty episodes in order (but you definitely don’t even have to have seen all the ones he has appeared in - I’ve seen 4 or 5 out of the six, I think), you don’t strictly need to. And the rest of the series is pretty accessible - many episodes have no series or season-long plot points.
Rosemary & Thyme - Netflix - Although there are some overarching plot points, and it’s a good idea to watch the first episode to get the set up, you can just dip in to this series if you like
Sense and Sensibility (Jane Austen) - Project Gutenberg has several copies here http://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/161 and your local library probably has a copy.
Sense and Sensibility isn’t too terribly long, and there are also two film adaptations that I know of - the 1995 version with Emma Thompson and a more recent BBC miniseries.
Murder, She Wrote
I love this show, even when it is cheesy and the plot has so many holes you could use it to strain spaghetti. I love Jessica and Seth's friendship and Seth's gruff, crusty New Englandness. I also really enjoy Jessica and Michael Hagarty's friendship and flirtation, and I definitely ship them. I'd be delighted to see a story where Seth gets pulled in to one of Michael's schemes, along with Jessica, or noses his way in because he's worried about his friend. A mystery would be fabulous but is by no means required. If you want them to all go out and get ice-cream or a bicycle trip or something I would be quite happy reading that. If shipping is your thing, I'm more inclined to Jessica/Michael than Jessica/Seth, but I will happily read either/both.
My instinct is towards fluffy lightheartedness with this show, but I’m also kind of intrigued by the idea of a dark story, so if the muse wants to go dark, go for it!
Rosemary and Thyme
Cozy mystery + gardening + strong female characters! What's not to like about that?
Rosemary and Thyme is such a lovely, cozy show, with gorgeous set locations and great characters. I love Laura and Rosemary's relationship, their banter, their "oh no, you can't break in to the house that way - you're doing it wrong, let me show you a better way so we can get in and solve this mystery" approach to the world". I like that they have such a close bond but they're also perfectly okay to have their own space, or to go off separately for a while. I would particularly love a story set in or around the episode "The Invisible Worm", which is the one where they go to the boy's school and there is that odd thing with the stag. If you're up for shipping maybe this is the episode where they start having a romantic relationship? There is pretty much nothing you could write (excepting excessive violence or smut) that I would dislike with these two. Slice of life, a mystery, dialogue only, parody, you can even take it dark, so long as it remains in the PG-13 category. I admit I general think in light-hearted terms for this show, but I'm open to dark if you want to go there. Also, if you want to do something silly (or serious) with that episode where they sort of adopt a baby, go for it!
For extra optional points, if you are familiar with Murder, She Wrote and would like to do a crossover or give J.B. Fletcher a cameo I would be utterly delighted.
Sense and Sensibility (Jane Austen)
It would tickle me pink, dear Yuletide writer, if you wrote me a non-smut love story of some sort between Colonel Brandon and Elinor. I am very fond of the book, and how things turned out there, but there is part of me that always wishes for Elinor/Brandon in some form. There are a couple of these stories on the A03, and floating around the internet, but it's a rare paring in an already-small fandom.
If shipping them is not your cup of tea, I will gladly read a friendship tale. The narrator of Sense and Sensibility describes some about how Brandon's acquaintance is the only new one that Elinor can take pleasure in - what books do they discuss? What interests do they have in common? We know they are much in company for a while in the book - what do they talk about, exactly? What makes them friends?
I'm never quite sure what it is that I want with these two, only that I know I want more of their relationship, be it friendship or more than that. So feel free to let your imagination run wild. If you'd like to do some kind of AU, or crossover with another fandom that you think I know (you can look at my lj, A03 and fanfiction.net), please feel free. Space Pirate AU? Middle Ages AU? Let your imagination run free!
Thank you again, dear Yuletide writer.
Sincerely,
Emiline/northeto (A03/LJ)