Dear #ITPE Letter, 2014
You're so awesome, I made you an AUDIO letter! It's streaming below, but you can download it for #ITPE-ing on the go right over here.
And, in case you don't want to listen through the whole thing again, or if you need a cheat-sheet, here's a brief summary:
Fandoms For Me (Please)
-Leverage
-MCU(including Agents of SHIELD and Guardians of the Galaxy)
-Buffy the Vampire Slayer (including pre-canon and Angel, no comics)
-Discworld
-Fast and the Furious
-The Hobbit
-CW RPF
-Stargate: Atlantis
-Tangled
-Lilo & Stitch
-Star Trek: Reboot
-Teen Wolf
-Brooklyn-99
-X-Men movie'verse
-How To Train Your Dragon.
Things That Make Me Love This Story
-crossovers
-humor
-happy endings
-twisty or creepy endings
-kidfic (of both the all-the-characters-ARE-kids and the-characters-HAVE-kids varieties)
-romance
-mystery
-dark and twisted AUs where are the good guys are serial killers or psychopaths or career criminals but you root for them anyway
-Stargate Atlantis AUs
-crossovers
-not!fic
-Buffy the Vampire Slayer AUs
-snappy banter
-found families
-badassery
-competence
-secrets
-crossovers
-vampires
-AUs where Character X never died, and then you get to see how canon gets warped by their presence
-situationally-induced cuddling
-fluff
-crossdressing
-bondage
-X-Men AUs
-High-School-Into-College AUs
-adventure
-epistolary stories
-stories where Character X is a demon/Special Kid/uses their Gift for devious or scandalous affairs
-glitter
-crossovers
-music
-sound effects
-weddings
-Accidental Boyfriends
-Pretend Dating
-scheming
-sarcasm
-stories that make you think
-stories that leave you thinking and pondering and contemplating, even after it's all over
-threesomes, foursomes, moresomes (where the relationship is a Thing, not just an orgy of Guest Starring Limbs)
-werewolves
-crossovers
-high school/college AUs
Things I Do Not Dig
-unwarned-for character death (I don't mind if you have to kill off a character in the course of your storytelling duty, but warn me ahead of time, please)
-cross-generational incest (I'm alright with incest - see all the Wincest I've recorded - but parent/child is not my thing)
-angels having any kind of sex (it throws up all kinds of Catholic Guilt flags. Interestingly, however, I have no problems at all with demons having sex)
-I can't remember the exact term, but stories where altar-boy!X (or demon!X, or doubting-his-faith!X) seduces Father Y (let's just leave the clergy out of this altogether, okay? Let's make it easy for everyone, and skip over Catholic School AUs for now, too)
-angst (I'm in this for the escapism; unless under very specific circumstances, if I wanted to be depressed I'd take my headphones off and pay attention to crappy reality)
-bestiality (of the there-is-actually-an-animal-involved-with-my-genitalia kind, not the sometimes-I'm-a-werewolf kind)
-stories that lack internal consistency (I'll spend the whole time picking apart the logic holes, instead of appreciating your performance)
-First Person POVs (though oddly enough, Second Person POVs really work for me...)
-people eating people (don't care if they're alive or dead, I frown upon cannibalism)
THANK YOU SO MUCH I LOVE YOU ALREADY