Dear Rarewomen Writer
Dear Rarewomen writer,
Thank you for writing this story! I haven't put together a list of my general likes, because I feel it's covered in the specific fandoms, but don't be intimidated by the dislikes. The letter's rambly and enthused enough to deserve the cut. >_>
I don't like Sexual assault as a basis for h/c, or sexual assault between the main pairing. Character bashing. Slave AUs. Casual misogyny/homophobia/transphobia/etc (“don’t be such a girl”, “that’s so gay”, “haha, can’t believe you didn’t see she was a man!”) and slut-shaming of all types.
Requests:
Large Fandom: DC Comics - Batman
Woman: Cassandra Cain
Optional Details: What I love best about Cass are her devotion to the Bat, her selflessness, her compassion, how brave and determined and good she is, how her moral code is not “normal” (atoning for being brought up to murder someone when she was 8 ftw!) but, quote, “it works [for her].” I adore her relationships with Bruce, Steph, Babs in canon, as well as Dick and Jim. If you want to pair her with somebody, I ship Cass/Steph a lot (or can be convinced to ship Cass/Steph/Tim - just, no Cass/Tim unless Steph is involved somehow).
As for what sort of story I'd like to read about her - I'm open to just about anything. A character study about Cass' relationship to language or to body language and the lies and truths she can read in the body language of people in the family. A piece about Cass and Bruce being woobily working at a case, and Steph interrupting. Cass alone when she leaves Gotham, or Cass coming back to Gotham. A fixit to any of the stupid plots DC has done to our poor girl - dealing with Steph's death! Or does something special happen after she's no longer ~drugged by Deathstroke~ (maybe Cain wants to do something about it and Cass is like, stfu)? Maybe she meets Shiva while she's in Hong Kong. Or when she comes back to Gotham, the cops - Jim - recognize her and are happy to see her. Or something about Cass catching up with Brenda the coffee-shop owner after the Bludhaven/crises kerfuffle.
Or a scene from the happy future where Black Bat and Batgirl is totally a series. Or your favorite scenario (or hell, a series of scenarios) about what Cass is doing in the DCnU. Or a story about Cass being Batman (Steph-as-Robin optional but entirely welcome) in a non-reboot future. Or the story of how the Queen of Fables from the JLA story arc comes to Gotham, makes Arkham her home, and Cass is the hero of that fairytale.
Basically Cass is my favorite and I love her and any idea you've wanted to write about Cass is going to be the story I want to read. (On a related note, Bruce is my other favorite and I really don't like character bashing.)
Fandom 2: Pan Am SPOILERS FOR 1x12
Woman: Kate Cameron
Optional Details: I want Kate being a fierce spy. I'd be totally happy with a fic starring Kate and any of the others doing something completely unrelated to any spying, but Kate's sensibilities being completely out of whack because of what she's doing. Or maybe something that deals with Bridget revealing to Dean she was a spy when Bridget tells Kate what she did, or Kate realizes it after refusing to believe it for a while, or something about Maggie's political opinions, or something about Laura's and Kate's very different ways of being liberated, empowered women.
Being a spy can be in the background, but it informs who she's becoming, and that's awesome. Or maybe you'd like to explore the fall-out of her shooting someone, and that'd be awesome too. Maybe someone suspects her, or maybe you'd like to write a claustrophobic story of Kate dealing with the aftermath. I sort of ship all-the-handlers-crushing-on-Kate, because Kate is that awesome. (Not that the others aren't. They really are! But. Spy Kate.)
Fandom 3: Mythology - Greek
Women: Athena, Ariadne, Arachne, Eurydice, Persephone
Optional Details: So. Vaguely cyberpunk AU. Arachne as a hacker! Ariadne as the cyber-cop chasing her! Athena as Ariadne's boss with a complicated relationship with Arachne! Persephone as an underground icon by night! Medusa the tattoo artist! ...or something completely different along these lines.
Cameos are made of awesome, assume I have no set ship for the purposes of this AU (it depends on what you write: I have a fondness for Ariadne/Dionysos and Persephone/Hades, and I like rivalshipping - so I could totally buy Arachne/Athena - but depending on what you set up I could probably float with a lot of crackpairings. Just no Athena in a monogamous heterosexual relationship.) and open relationships make me :D. Generally speaking, I like big fucked-up families, issues with authority, queer characters, world-building, referencing myth but do feel free not to follow it, and completely ridiculous settings for AUs, as you can see.
This entry was originally posted at http://runespoor.dreamwidth.org/118510.html. There are
comments there.
Thank you for writing this story! I haven't put together a list of my general likes, because I feel it's covered in the specific fandoms, but don't be intimidated by the dislikes. The letter's rambly and enthused enough to deserve the cut. >_>
I don't like Sexual assault as a basis for h/c, or sexual assault between the main pairing. Character bashing. Slave AUs. Casual misogyny/homophobia/transphobia/etc (“don’t be such a girl”, “that’s so gay”, “haha, can’t believe you didn’t see she was a man!”) and slut-shaming of all types.
Requests:
Large Fandom: DC Comics - Batman
Woman: Cassandra Cain
Optional Details: What I love best about Cass are her devotion to the Bat, her selflessness, her compassion, how brave and determined and good she is, how her moral code is not “normal” (atoning for being brought up to murder someone when she was 8 ftw!) but, quote, “it works [for her].” I adore her relationships with Bruce, Steph, Babs in canon, as well as Dick and Jim. If you want to pair her with somebody, I ship Cass/Steph a lot (or can be convinced to ship Cass/Steph/Tim - just, no Cass/Tim unless Steph is involved somehow).
As for what sort of story I'd like to read about her - I'm open to just about anything. A character study about Cass' relationship to language or to body language and the lies and truths she can read in the body language of people in the family. A piece about Cass and Bruce being woobily working at a case, and Steph interrupting. Cass alone when she leaves Gotham, or Cass coming back to Gotham. A fixit to any of the stupid plots DC has done to our poor girl - dealing with Steph's death! Or does something special happen after she's no longer ~drugged by Deathstroke~ (maybe Cain wants to do something about it and Cass is like, stfu)? Maybe she meets Shiva while she's in Hong Kong. Or when she comes back to Gotham, the cops - Jim - recognize her and are happy to see her. Or something about Cass catching up with Brenda the coffee-shop owner after the Bludhaven/crises kerfuffle.
Or a scene from the happy future where Black Bat and Batgirl is totally a series. Or your favorite scenario (or hell, a series of scenarios) about what Cass is doing in the DCnU. Or a story about Cass being Batman (Steph-as-Robin optional but entirely welcome) in a non-reboot future. Or the story of how the Queen of Fables from the JLA story arc comes to Gotham, makes Arkham her home, and Cass is the hero of that fairytale.
Basically Cass is my favorite and I love her and any idea you've wanted to write about Cass is going to be the story I want to read. (On a related note, Bruce is my other favorite and I really don't like character bashing.)
Fandom 2: Pan Am SPOILERS FOR 1x12
Woman: Kate Cameron
Optional Details: I want Kate being a fierce spy. I'd be totally happy with a fic starring Kate and any of the others doing something completely unrelated to any spying, but Kate's sensibilities being completely out of whack because of what she's doing. Or maybe something that deals with Bridget revealing to Dean she was a spy when Bridget tells Kate what she did, or Kate realizes it after refusing to believe it for a while, or something about Maggie's political opinions, or something about Laura's and Kate's very different ways of being liberated, empowered women.
Being a spy can be in the background, but it informs who she's becoming, and that's awesome. Or maybe you'd like to explore the fall-out of her shooting someone, and that'd be awesome too. Maybe someone suspects her, or maybe you'd like to write a claustrophobic story of Kate dealing with the aftermath. I sort of ship all-the-handlers-crushing-on-Kate, because Kate is that awesome. (Not that the others aren't. They really are! But. Spy Kate.)
Fandom 3: Mythology - Greek
Women: Athena, Ariadne, Arachne, Eurydice, Persephone
Optional Details: So. Vaguely cyberpunk AU. Arachne as a hacker! Ariadne as the cyber-cop chasing her! Athena as Ariadne's boss with a complicated relationship with Arachne! Persephone as an underground icon by night! Medusa the tattoo artist! ...or something completely different along these lines.
Cameos are made of awesome, assume I have no set ship for the purposes of this AU (it depends on what you write: I have a fondness for Ariadne/Dionysos and Persephone/Hades, and I like rivalshipping - so I could totally buy Arachne/Athena - but depending on what you set up I could probably float with a lot of crackpairings. Just no Athena in a monogamous heterosexual relationship.) and open relationships make me :D. Generally speaking, I like big fucked-up families, issues with authority, queer characters, world-building, referencing myth but do feel free not to follow it, and completely ridiculous settings for AUs, as you can see.
This entry was originally posted at http://runespoor.dreamwidth.org/118510.html. There are
comments there.