Yuletide letter
Heya! Thanks first up for offering to write a story for me! I can barely contain myself until reveals.
This letter is a bit late, so if you already have an idea in mind, please! Ignore all that follows. My hope is only to help if you are stuck for ideas.
Generalities: (basically c&p'd from last year's letter)
I like happy endings. I like unhappy endings. I like endings that land somewhere in between. I like relationships where the history weighs on the present. I like plot and snark and characters acting like themselves and thinkiness and seriousfic and crackfic and many other things besides.
Please avoid rape, incest, and sex involving young children. I've got a moderate mentor/student squick and a mild embarrassment squick - For the latter, if no one is forced to improv through a lecture on a subject they know nothing about, I will probably be okay! Less urgently, I'm not fond of whininess, character bashing or unmitigated fluff and I usually skim over the porniness. I know, why am I *in* fandom, amirite? (If porniness is your thing, though, go for it!)
Specifics:
Chris Moriarty - Spin State and Spin Control - Catherine Li/Hy Cohen
There is so much in this relationship to play with, so write anything and I will be extremely happy! I am endlessly fascinated with the way that Cohen's mind works (or, at least, the way his aggregate networks approximate a working mind). Also, with the poly aspects to their relationship (tell me, was 'enlightened introversion' truly the *only* reason router/decomposer stuck it out for so long?).
Or for something different, I would also love more story on Helen Nguyen, and all the games she's been playing with our honoured protagonists.
I love Li and Cohen, and find them most interesting when they are interacting with one another. Also, I am totally okay with how their relationship is complicated and doomed. (For now? Why isn't the next book out yet, I ask you.) Truly, I *like* that in an OTP! So if you would rather write them before or after they were together, I'd still be best pleased.
The Sandman - Pharamond
So, Pharamond is probably the character from Sandman who interests me most of anyone. Any story you want to tell me about him will please me greatly. Or, if you want prompts... what does it mean, to move through the world as a man and a god both? Or tell me about some complications wrought by his less-mundane business areas; that must be an interesting company to work for. Or that drink he had with Dream so long ago, or if Pharamond is indeed a successful experiment in the possibility of Changing one's nature.
Oh! He also shows up in the first story of Lucifer, and I like how Mike Carey wrote him. If you haven't read that, but are interested, I've put up the relevant pages here and here and (sorta) here.
...I am not sure how to add to my previous rambling here! *ponders* I guess, all things equal, I'd prefer a story set in the present rather than the past. But do not take this lack of further notes as ambivalence, I have SO MANY <3's for the guy.
Suicide Squad (Comic) - Amanda Waller
So, if you check around my journal, you may pick up I am Amanda Waller's no. 1 fan. In short, I will be pleased by ANYTHING!
If you are sticking with the Suicide Squad, I am most interested in her relationships with characters like Ben or Mari, or Vertigo or Faraday, as opposed to the actual sociopaths on the team. Or maybe her kids (Hey! An actual excuse for holiday fic). Or feel free to expand into the larger DCU as you wish; there is always a reason for her to be showing up places.
Did you sign up to write Amanda Waller? I am already impressed! When it comes to characterization, I prefer the original Suicide Squad series as a baseline, rather than the woman who comes in for a panel or two whenever a DCU writer needs a generic gov't villain. I actually have a tumblr on the subject.
If you'd rather write her in a pairing (just, please, no fat-phobia), I approve! Personally, I hardcore ship her with Vril Dox II, but I would not expect you to know him; the DCU is a vast place. Or her adventures in civilian dating might be great times.
Modest Mouse - Dashboard (Music Video)
My friend, this music video, it is 4 minutes of blow your mind awesome! If you have grown scared of another request, this is a quick canon to pick up.
What'd be favourite here is info on some other stories about that Island. Myths or local legends or references in folk songs. Or how does one return?
Here are some of my thoughts on why you should watch this music video! I included it as an escape fandom, but I really, really love it a lot, and would totally enjoy a story set in its world! Something epistolary and/or creepy would be especially awesome.
I'm not sure any of that was helpful, as opposed to another excuse to ramble lots. Feel free to disregard everything, if it means you'll enjoy the writing more!
:)
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Crossposted from Dreamwidth, where there are
comments.
This letter is a bit late, so if you already have an idea in mind, please! Ignore all that follows. My hope is only to help if you are stuck for ideas.
Generalities: (basically c&p'd from last year's letter)
I like happy endings. I like unhappy endings. I like endings that land somewhere in between. I like relationships where the history weighs on the present. I like plot and snark and characters acting like themselves and thinkiness and seriousfic and crackfic and many other things besides.
Please avoid rape, incest, and sex involving young children. I've got a moderate mentor/student squick and a mild embarrassment squick - For the latter, if no one is forced to improv through a lecture on a subject they know nothing about, I will probably be okay! Less urgently, I'm not fond of whininess, character bashing or unmitigated fluff and I usually skim over the porniness. I know, why am I *in* fandom, amirite? (If porniness is your thing, though, go for it!)
Specifics:
Chris Moriarty - Spin State and Spin Control - Catherine Li/Hy Cohen
There is so much in this relationship to play with, so write anything and I will be extremely happy! I am endlessly fascinated with the way that Cohen's mind works (or, at least, the way his aggregate networks approximate a working mind). Also, with the poly aspects to their relationship (tell me, was 'enlightened introversion' truly the *only* reason router/decomposer stuck it out for so long?).
Or for something different, I would also love more story on Helen Nguyen, and all the games she's been playing with our honoured protagonists.
I love Li and Cohen, and find them most interesting when they are interacting with one another. Also, I am totally okay with how their relationship is complicated and doomed. (For now? Why isn't the next book out yet, I ask you.) Truly, I *like* that in an OTP! So if you would rather write them before or after they were together, I'd still be best pleased.
The Sandman - Pharamond
So, Pharamond is probably the character from Sandman who interests me most of anyone. Any story you want to tell me about him will please me greatly. Or, if you want prompts... what does it mean, to move through the world as a man and a god both? Or tell me about some complications wrought by his less-mundane business areas; that must be an interesting company to work for. Or that drink he had with Dream so long ago, or if Pharamond is indeed a successful experiment in the possibility of Changing one's nature.
Oh! He also shows up in the first story of Lucifer, and I like how Mike Carey wrote him. If you haven't read that, but are interested, I've put up the relevant pages here and here and (sorta) here.
...I am not sure how to add to my previous rambling here! *ponders* I guess, all things equal, I'd prefer a story set in the present rather than the past. But do not take this lack of further notes as ambivalence, I have SO MANY <3's for the guy.
Suicide Squad (Comic) - Amanda Waller
So, if you check around my journal, you may pick up I am Amanda Waller's no. 1 fan. In short, I will be pleased by ANYTHING!
If you are sticking with the Suicide Squad, I am most interested in her relationships with characters like Ben or Mari, or Vertigo or Faraday, as opposed to the actual sociopaths on the team. Or maybe her kids (Hey! An actual excuse for holiday fic). Or feel free to expand into the larger DCU as you wish; there is always a reason for her to be showing up places.
Did you sign up to write Amanda Waller? I am already impressed! When it comes to characterization, I prefer the original Suicide Squad series as a baseline, rather than the woman who comes in for a panel or two whenever a DCU writer needs a generic gov't villain. I actually have a tumblr on the subject.
If you'd rather write her in a pairing (just, please, no fat-phobia), I approve! Personally, I hardcore ship her with Vril Dox II, but I would not expect you to know him; the DCU is a vast place. Or her adventures in civilian dating might be great times.
Modest Mouse - Dashboard (Music Video)
My friend, this music video, it is 4 minutes of blow your mind awesome! If you have grown scared of another request, this is a quick canon to pick up.
What'd be favourite here is info on some other stories about that Island. Myths or local legends or references in folk songs. Or how does one return?
Here are some of my thoughts on why you should watch this music video! I included it as an escape fandom, but I really, really love it a lot, and would totally enjoy a story set in its world! Something epistolary and/or creepy would be especially awesome.
I'm not sure any of that was helpful, as opposed to another excuse to ramble lots. Feel free to disregard everything, if it means you'll enjoy the writing more!
:)
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Crossposted from Dreamwidth, where there are
comments.