everywoman Dear Author Letter!
Dear Everywoman Author,
I'm so glad you've been assigned as my writer, and i really hope this letter will give you some assistance when it comes to my likes and dislikes.
LIKES
* Character studies! Tell me how the character got to this point! How they got PAST that point! The first time they did this thing and if they'd ever do that thing again? What are they like when they're older or younger?
* Quests and adventures: especially when said quest helps the characters figure out something about themselves along the way.
* Futurefic and pre-canon fic!
* Girls night out, whether they've gone awry or are right on schedule.
* If you know more than one of the canons we match on, I'd love to see a crossover between any of these properties!
DISLIKES:
I'll still read just about anything but scat, incest, sex between underage partners and nonconsensual sexual activity that's not plot-driven.
American Horror Story: Hotel
Characters: Relationship: Elizabeth and or / Ramona
Prompt: What was it like when they were first together, and the world seemed younger and fairer? What's it like now that they're together basically for all of eternity (though I presume from the way the show played it Ramona is still a vampire and thus can leave the Cortez any time she wants to)? And in all of those between times, when Ramona is alone and cursing her fate and Elizabeth - well, frankly has become so hedonistic she's forgotten anyone but herself exists?
This is AHS, so feel free to go as wild with the content rating and the character's extremes, and feel free to go with an AU that drives you!
Archer
Characters: Any (Lana, Pam, Katya and/or Mallory)
Prompt: Mission fic is absolutely my jam in this fandom, so feel free to write any fic where these four are forced to work together without killing each other.
Pam is my unquestioned favorite; anything where she gets to kick butt, have a good meal and get some is a good fic in my book. Explore any backstory the show's missed; give me a lot of humor and a lot of semi-competence and I'll be happy!
Lana is consistently the coolest character: what was she like when she was younger? What's she like as a mother when she's stuck alone with AJ for the evening? What happens when she's forced to retire and become a handler?
Katya is quite an interesting character; not entirely human anymore, smart as a whip and still filled with desires of the human variety. How does she reconcile herself with her cyborg identity? Does she even need to?
Mallory in her youth, as a field agent: Mallory now, as a reluctant grandmother and detective agency runner.
Feel free to write slash or ship fic, the more smutty and ridiculous the better!
Evil Dead Series
Characters: Any (Sheila and/or Annie, Ruby or Kelly)
Prompt: I've nominated characters from across the entire franchise for this one, so if you only watch one section of it, go with whichever character you're most familiar with.
Sheila is the queen of my heart; anything about her, stories about her childhood, when she's an old woman or what she remembers or her time as a Deadite. Anything at all!
Kelly's life on the run must be strangely new to her, other times she ran away? Who she becomes after her adventures are through?
Was Ruby ever really a Knowby or was that just a front? If so, what was her relationship with Annie like? What if Annie had lived? What and who would she be now?
Crossover Groups
Characters: Evy Carnahan and Marion Ravenwood (friendship/relationship)
Prompt: Badass academic women unite!! I want all of the adventures with these two, journeying through the world, trying to find a lost artifact or solve a puzzle; travel, and what it means to them; finding common ground or being rivals trying to reach something who have to respect and work together. An elderly Marion and Evy in their 60s working out a puzzle and dealing with the grand WTFery of life in the 1960s?
Marion being interested in Evy's past lives and using what she knows about what she's experienced (and what she's learned from life with Indy) to learn more, perhaps discovering past lives of her own?
Something as simple as the two of them sitting in a bar talking about life would please me. Maybe Marion comes to Evy's library to check out a book and things go along from there?
I'm also absolutely here for shipping the two of them together, if you're feeling it!
Galavant (TV)
Characters: Any Character (Isabella of Valencia, Queen Madalena, Princess Jubilee, Roberta Steingass)
Prompt: First of all - any story where all four of these characters team up to kick some butt and have adventures would absolutely thrill me (maybe they liberate Spinster Island together, or they find some of Tad Cooper's relatives, or they end up lost in the forest of plot Contrivances together?).
Isabella's going to become a queen eventually - how does she handle her duty? Is being a wife everything she hoped it might be? What was she like as a child? Canon divergence fic where she becomes a knight? Isabella as a mother?
Madalena's reaction to her further training in the evil magic of D'Dew. Does she end up regretting her choices or does she revel in them? What sort of woman would she had been, had Richard not kidnapped her? Or was she always secretly a consummate strategist underneath? What's she like as an old woman?
Roberta's had to have had some sort of adventures happen to her when she was out of Richard's sight. Or better yet: now that they're together I bet the itch is strong to go exploring on her. What's her relationship like with Tad Cooper? How does she deal with being a queen? Imagine her turning everyone on Spinster Island into a raft of badass warrior women!
Jubilee is carefree -how did she become so self-confident? And is her boldness ever challenged? How does she deal with it? And what happens when this unconventional princess meets up with something conventional (whether she is aghast to like it or rebels creatively is up to you).
Femmeslash more than welcome!
King of the Hill
Characters: Any (Peggy and/or Luanne, Connie and Nancy)
Prompt: I love Peggy, durnit, even when she's stubborn, proud and wrong-headed. How did she develop that level of self-confidence, and what keeps her going? How does she deal with her evolving role as wife and mother, does she ever go back to teaching or take the guitar back up? Does she make it back to the Boggle championships again?
Luanne is my favorite character in the show. Tell me about her as a child (this is a great opportunity to write about Peggy being a shepherding influence to a young Luanne). Adventures with the Manger Babies! Life at college (I like to ignore the whole quitting college part of things, unless you'd like to write about her going back). What's she like as an adult, now that she's grown? One note: I loathed her relationship with Lucky, so I'd prefer their marriage be entirely ignored in any fic I get.
Connie as a developing person; in college, dealing with being a first generation American and dealing with the presumptiveness of others. Does she end up following the violin or does she end up in academia? Who is she as a mother? As a woman? Or does she just run away from Kahn and Minh's expectations and make a path of her own?
Nancy can be so much more than big hair and infidelity jokes. Tell me about her background. Show me how she became a meteorologist. How has she learned to tolerate Dale, and how does she accept and deal with Joseph's strangeness? With her own oddness? Does she have secret talents or hobbies?
While I'd love any sort of family or team dynamics with these three, I'd prefer no ship fic or smut for this fandom.
Much Ado About Nothing - Shakespeare
Characters: Any (Beatrice and/or Hero)
Prompt: Hero and Beatrice have gently cajoled one another toward true love; they adore each other greatly, clearly. So give me them pre-canon, in their youth; explain their friendship blood bond as cousins. Further machinations and joy as they age? Further adventures? Maybe they're both occasioned to head off to war together in disguise?
I would love a glimpse at a young, impertinent Beatrice; as we know from history, women were not often encouraged to be as sharp-tongued as she is. How did she become that way? And what if she'd stalked off into the great world on the weight of her own strength?
Hero must be pretty damn brave to fake her own death in the proof of proving her love loves her; does she ever have her faith dismayed in any way on any other occasion? And how did she develop such strength? And what if she indeed had been unfaithful?
Murder...She Wrote
Characters: Jessica Fletcher
Prompt: You know Jessica's still out there solving mysteries and being amazing; give me some of her latest adventures! What's it like for her, sleuthing in the digital age? Is it easier or harder?
A younger Jessica solving mysteries, or discovering her passion for problem-solving and justice.
A rare day when nobody dies in Cabot Cove! Does Jessica cope well with her downtime?
Jessica as a writer; what made her pick up writing as a profession? How does she approach her work? What does she consider vital to her art?
Or, if you're in a cracky mood - go with the Jessica-is-totally-a-murderer fan theory. Or maybe she has a theory on why Cabot Cove has so many deaths in her presence. She could be a human version of that death-predicting cat or a bad luck charm who brushes up against people and causes them to die!
Scooby Doo, Where Are You? (1976)
Characters: Velma and Daphne (relationship/friendship)
Prompt: How did two such disparate women meet and forge a friendship? This origin story's been explored in other versions of the canon but I don't remember them talking about it in the original version of the show.
Maybe a night away from the boys where they get to solve a mystery and find monsters that are all too real and must use Daphne's wit and Velma's book smarts to defeat them? Canon divergence where it's just the two of them in the Mystery Machine with Scooby, or a zombie or vampire or monster slayer AU?
I absolutely adore Daphne/Velma shipfic and femmeslash, so if your idea takes you in that direction feel free to go there!
Shameless (US)
Characters: Debbie and/or Fiona Gallagher (Any)
Prompt: I love Fiona and Debbie for entirely different reasons, and thus I want fic that explores entirely different things for each of them.
Fiona post-season six, dealing with what happened to her there. Fiona as a child or as an old woman, or an AU where she took the kids when they were younger and escaped for a different, Frank-free place. Does she finally get her due? Fall in love with someone who's not a complete ahole? Manage to raise the kids to some state of functionality? Or simply a typical day in her life.
Debbie when she was younger or as a senior citizen. Further season 6 exploration - does Debbie settle into her role as a mother to Franny or does she give the child up? Or an AU where she doesn't have a child at all. Debbie back in MMA or maybe teaching some form of martial arts or self-defense? Or simply a moment where she learns her own self-worth and retains her old spunk.
For both of them: Future fic! Do either of them ever manage to get out from under? Are they closer or even more estranged? How do Debbie and Fiona relate to each other once Debbie's an adult? How did they interact when Debbie was very small, pre-canon? A Depression-era AU with the two of them conning their way across America? An AU where the family strikes it rich? Canon divergences?
I really don't like Frank, so feel free to trash his character if you need to; otherwise no character bashing. I'd also prefer no Fiona/Debbie pairing/ship fic.
I'm so glad you've been assigned as my writer, and i really hope this letter will give you some assistance when it comes to my likes and dislikes.
LIKES
* Character studies! Tell me how the character got to this point! How they got PAST that point! The first time they did this thing and if they'd ever do that thing again? What are they like when they're older or younger?
* Quests and adventures: especially when said quest helps the characters figure out something about themselves along the way.
* Futurefic and pre-canon fic!
* Girls night out, whether they've gone awry or are right on schedule.
* If you know more than one of the canons we match on, I'd love to see a crossover between any of these properties!
DISLIKES:
I'll still read just about anything but scat, incest, sex between underage partners and nonconsensual sexual activity that's not plot-driven.
American Horror Story: Hotel
Characters: Relationship: Elizabeth and or / Ramona
Prompt: What was it like when they were first together, and the world seemed younger and fairer? What's it like now that they're together basically for all of eternity (though I presume from the way the show played it Ramona is still a vampire and thus can leave the Cortez any time she wants to)? And in all of those between times, when Ramona is alone and cursing her fate and Elizabeth - well, frankly has become so hedonistic she's forgotten anyone but herself exists?
This is AHS, so feel free to go as wild with the content rating and the character's extremes, and feel free to go with an AU that drives you!
Archer
Characters: Any (Lana, Pam, Katya and/or Mallory)
Prompt: Mission fic is absolutely my jam in this fandom, so feel free to write any fic where these four are forced to work together without killing each other.
Pam is my unquestioned favorite; anything where she gets to kick butt, have a good meal and get some is a good fic in my book. Explore any backstory the show's missed; give me a lot of humor and a lot of semi-competence and I'll be happy!
Lana is consistently the coolest character: what was she like when she was younger? What's she like as a mother when she's stuck alone with AJ for the evening? What happens when she's forced to retire and become a handler?
Katya is quite an interesting character; not entirely human anymore, smart as a whip and still filled with desires of the human variety. How does she reconcile herself with her cyborg identity? Does she even need to?
Mallory in her youth, as a field agent: Mallory now, as a reluctant grandmother and detective agency runner.
Feel free to write slash or ship fic, the more smutty and ridiculous the better!
Evil Dead Series
Characters: Any (Sheila and/or Annie, Ruby or Kelly)
Prompt: I've nominated characters from across the entire franchise for this one, so if you only watch one section of it, go with whichever character you're most familiar with.
Sheila is the queen of my heart; anything about her, stories about her childhood, when she's an old woman or what she remembers or her time as a Deadite. Anything at all!
Kelly's life on the run must be strangely new to her, other times she ran away? Who she becomes after her adventures are through?
Was Ruby ever really a Knowby or was that just a front? If so, what was her relationship with Annie like? What if Annie had lived? What and who would she be now?
Crossover Groups
Characters: Evy Carnahan and Marion Ravenwood (friendship/relationship)
Prompt: Badass academic women unite!! I want all of the adventures with these two, journeying through the world, trying to find a lost artifact or solve a puzzle; travel, and what it means to them; finding common ground or being rivals trying to reach something who have to respect and work together. An elderly Marion and Evy in their 60s working out a puzzle and dealing with the grand WTFery of life in the 1960s?
Marion being interested in Evy's past lives and using what she knows about what she's experienced (and what she's learned from life with Indy) to learn more, perhaps discovering past lives of her own?
Something as simple as the two of them sitting in a bar talking about life would please me. Maybe Marion comes to Evy's library to check out a book and things go along from there?
I'm also absolutely here for shipping the two of them together, if you're feeling it!
Galavant (TV)
Characters: Any Character (Isabella of Valencia, Queen Madalena, Princess Jubilee, Roberta Steingass)
Prompt: First of all - any story where all four of these characters team up to kick some butt and have adventures would absolutely thrill me (maybe they liberate Spinster Island together, or they find some of Tad Cooper's relatives, or they end up lost in the forest of plot Contrivances together?).
Isabella's going to become a queen eventually - how does she handle her duty? Is being a wife everything she hoped it might be? What was she like as a child? Canon divergence fic where she becomes a knight? Isabella as a mother?
Madalena's reaction to her further training in the evil magic of D'Dew. Does she end up regretting her choices or does she revel in them? What sort of woman would she had been, had Richard not kidnapped her? Or was she always secretly a consummate strategist underneath? What's she like as an old woman?
Roberta's had to have had some sort of adventures happen to her when she was out of Richard's sight. Or better yet: now that they're together I bet the itch is strong to go exploring on her. What's her relationship like with Tad Cooper? How does she deal with being a queen? Imagine her turning everyone on Spinster Island into a raft of badass warrior women!
Jubilee is carefree -how did she become so self-confident? And is her boldness ever challenged? How does she deal with it? And what happens when this unconventional princess meets up with something conventional (whether she is aghast to like it or rebels creatively is up to you).
Femmeslash more than welcome!
King of the Hill
Characters: Any (Peggy and/or Luanne, Connie and Nancy)
Prompt: I love Peggy, durnit, even when she's stubborn, proud and wrong-headed. How did she develop that level of self-confidence, and what keeps her going? How does she deal with her evolving role as wife and mother, does she ever go back to teaching or take the guitar back up? Does she make it back to the Boggle championships again?
Luanne is my favorite character in the show. Tell me about her as a child (this is a great opportunity to write about Peggy being a shepherding influence to a young Luanne). Adventures with the Manger Babies! Life at college (I like to ignore the whole quitting college part of things, unless you'd like to write about her going back). What's she like as an adult, now that she's grown? One note: I loathed her relationship with Lucky, so I'd prefer their marriage be entirely ignored in any fic I get.
Connie as a developing person; in college, dealing with being a first generation American and dealing with the presumptiveness of others. Does she end up following the violin or does she end up in academia? Who is she as a mother? As a woman? Or does she just run away from Kahn and Minh's expectations and make a path of her own?
Nancy can be so much more than big hair and infidelity jokes. Tell me about her background. Show me how she became a meteorologist. How has she learned to tolerate Dale, and how does she accept and deal with Joseph's strangeness? With her own oddness? Does she have secret talents or hobbies?
While I'd love any sort of family or team dynamics with these three, I'd prefer no ship fic or smut for this fandom.
Much Ado About Nothing - Shakespeare
Characters: Any (Beatrice and/or Hero)
Prompt: Hero and Beatrice have gently cajoled one another toward true love; they adore each other greatly, clearly. So give me them pre-canon, in their youth; explain their friendship blood bond as cousins. Further machinations and joy as they age? Further adventures? Maybe they're both occasioned to head off to war together in disguise?
I would love a glimpse at a young, impertinent Beatrice; as we know from history, women were not often encouraged to be as sharp-tongued as she is. How did she become that way? And what if she'd stalked off into the great world on the weight of her own strength?
Hero must be pretty damn brave to fake her own death in the proof of proving her love loves her; does she ever have her faith dismayed in any way on any other occasion? And how did she develop such strength? And what if she indeed had been unfaithful?
Murder...She Wrote
Characters: Jessica Fletcher
Prompt: You know Jessica's still out there solving mysteries and being amazing; give me some of her latest adventures! What's it like for her, sleuthing in the digital age? Is it easier or harder?
A younger Jessica solving mysteries, or discovering her passion for problem-solving and justice.
A rare day when nobody dies in Cabot Cove! Does Jessica cope well with her downtime?
Jessica as a writer; what made her pick up writing as a profession? How does she approach her work? What does she consider vital to her art?
Or, if you're in a cracky mood - go with the Jessica-is-totally-a-murderer fan theory. Or maybe she has a theory on why Cabot Cove has so many deaths in her presence. She could be a human version of that death-predicting cat or a bad luck charm who brushes up against people and causes them to die!
Scooby Doo, Where Are You? (1976)
Characters: Velma and Daphne (relationship/friendship)
Prompt: How did two such disparate women meet and forge a friendship? This origin story's been explored in other versions of the canon but I don't remember them talking about it in the original version of the show.
Maybe a night away from the boys where they get to solve a mystery and find monsters that are all too real and must use Daphne's wit and Velma's book smarts to defeat them? Canon divergence where it's just the two of them in the Mystery Machine with Scooby, or a zombie or vampire or monster slayer AU?
I absolutely adore Daphne/Velma shipfic and femmeslash, so if your idea takes you in that direction feel free to go there!
Shameless (US)
Characters: Debbie and/or Fiona Gallagher (Any)
Prompt: I love Fiona and Debbie for entirely different reasons, and thus I want fic that explores entirely different things for each of them.
Fiona post-season six, dealing with what happened to her there. Fiona as a child or as an old woman, or an AU where she took the kids when they were younger and escaped for a different, Frank-free place. Does she finally get her due? Fall in love with someone who's not a complete ahole? Manage to raise the kids to some state of functionality? Or simply a typical day in her life.
Debbie when she was younger or as a senior citizen. Further season 6 exploration - does Debbie settle into her role as a mother to Franny or does she give the child up? Or an AU where she doesn't have a child at all. Debbie back in MMA or maybe teaching some form of martial arts or self-defense? Or simply a moment where she learns her own self-worth and retains her old spunk.
For both of them: Future fic! Do either of them ever manage to get out from under? Are they closer or even more estranged? How do Debbie and Fiona relate to each other once Debbie's an adult? How did they interact when Debbie was very small, pre-canon? A Depression-era AU with the two of them conning their way across America? An AU where the family strikes it rich? Canon divergences?
I really don't like Frank, so feel free to trash his character if you need to; otherwise no character bashing. I'd also prefer no Fiona/Debbie pairing/ship fic.