Rarewomen Ficathon Letter
Dear Writer,
you are fabulous for writing a story about any of these ladies, and I'm profoundly grateful.
Some general likes and dislikes: I'm more of a gen person but am happy with a shipping-oriented fic as well as long as it explores the character I requested. Also, some of the characters I requested have done horrendous things in their respective canons. If you want to address this from the pov of the people who suffered because of this, feel free; being fascinated by a character for me does not mean excusing all this character did or blame it on someone else. However, I'm also not into bashing characters, by which I mean showing them in a one dimensional way.
Alternate Universes: generally speaking, I'd prefer it if you remained in canon. I'm really not interested in coffee shop AUs. On the other hand, I love the "Five things..." format, so if you want to explore the requested character from that angle, go for it!
Other squicks and preferences are specific to the requested and fandoms.
More specific thoughts for the requests:
Female M (James Bond), Eve Moneypenny
My dream would be a gen adventure or character portrait type of story about either M or Moneypenny. (Or both!) If you want to pair them up with Bond or another character (or each other), I'm good with that, too, as long as it's not a PWP and more than sex happens. One request: please no Bond/Q. Not even as a background mention. It's one of my anti-ships. Other than that, whether it's a story showing me M's daily work life (clashes with MI5, i.e. Spooks from the reverse pov?), the way she relates to her agents, or Eve Moneypenny deciding field work is not for her because she wants to survive and become M herself one day, or Moneypenny dealing with the belief she's killed a fellow agent during those three months Bond was missing - anything at all that's centred around one of these two ladies will be deeply appreciated.
Trixie Franklin, Bernadette | Shelagh Turner
We've got some interesting hints about Trixie's background this season - her shellshocked WWI veteran father and how helped forming her personality; I'd love some more exploration - what made her want to become a midwife specifically? How did she end up at Nonnatus House? Her mixture of determined worldliness and job dedication must have been puzzling to at least some of the nuns at first (like Sister Evangelina). Just some ideas, but if your muse takes you in another direction with Trixie, go for it.
With Shelagh, the former Sister Bernadette: her deep bond with Sister Julienne that remains when she leaves the order fascinates me, and I'd love to read a story focused on that, with or without backstory. But if you'd rather focus on Shelagh with the other midwives, or Shelagh & Dr. Turner, etc., that's alright, too - again, anything Shelagh-centric will be welcome.
Alice Carter, Rhiannon Davies, Agent Johnson, Denise Riley
"Children of Earth" is possibly my favourite Torchwood, which tells you something about me, I suppose; not least because of the fascinating female characters. Exploration of any and all of the ladies I requested will be welcome, as long it's not a retcon that declares CoE never happened or ended happily. Which doesn't mean I wouldn't love, say, a story where Alice recovers, scarred, but going on with her life! As long as CoE really happened, we're good.
Queen of Hearts | Cora Mills (Once Upon a Time), Milah (Once Upon a Time)
Anything exploring Cora would be great. (As long as it's not Cora/Regina; undoubtedly Cora was emotionally abusive towards Regina, but sexual abuse is not what I want to read about, and not how I see their relationship.) No matter the era - young Cora, Cora during Regina's childhood, Cora making herself the Queen of Hearts in Wonderland (presumably taking out a lot of competition on the way), an AU where Cora lives (but has to deal with the past and the new heightened emotional awareness of her deeds) - as long as it's Cora centric, go for it.
If you'd rather write about Milah: again, anything from her life would be welcome. Some ideas: as a pirate at Hook's side, how did she deal with the inevitable fighting and pillaging it entailed? Was it easy or difficult for her at first? Did she really plan to come back for her son one day, or was that something she told herself so it would be easier to leave?
This entry was originally posted at http://selenak.dreamwidth.org/965463.html. Comment there or here, as you wish.
you are fabulous for writing a story about any of these ladies, and I'm profoundly grateful.
Some general likes and dislikes: I'm more of a gen person but am happy with a shipping-oriented fic as well as long as it explores the character I requested. Also, some of the characters I requested have done horrendous things in their respective canons. If you want to address this from the pov of the people who suffered because of this, feel free; being fascinated by a character for me does not mean excusing all this character did or blame it on someone else. However, I'm also not into bashing characters, by which I mean showing them in a one dimensional way.
Alternate Universes: generally speaking, I'd prefer it if you remained in canon. I'm really not interested in coffee shop AUs. On the other hand, I love the "Five things..." format, so if you want to explore the requested character from that angle, go for it!
Other squicks and preferences are specific to the requested and fandoms.
More specific thoughts for the requests:
Female M (James Bond), Eve Moneypenny
My dream would be a gen adventure or character portrait type of story about either M or Moneypenny. (Or both!) If you want to pair them up with Bond or another character (or each other), I'm good with that, too, as long as it's not a PWP and more than sex happens. One request: please no Bond/Q. Not even as a background mention. It's one of my anti-ships. Other than that, whether it's a story showing me M's daily work life (clashes with MI5, i.e. Spooks from the reverse pov?), the way she relates to her agents, or Eve Moneypenny deciding field work is not for her because she wants to survive and become M herself one day, or Moneypenny dealing with the belief she's killed a fellow agent during those three months Bond was missing - anything at all that's centred around one of these two ladies will be deeply appreciated.
Trixie Franklin, Bernadette | Shelagh Turner
We've got some interesting hints about Trixie's background this season - her shellshocked WWI veteran father and how helped forming her personality; I'd love some more exploration - what made her want to become a midwife specifically? How did she end up at Nonnatus House? Her mixture of determined worldliness and job dedication must have been puzzling to at least some of the nuns at first (like Sister Evangelina). Just some ideas, but if your muse takes you in another direction with Trixie, go for it.
With Shelagh, the former Sister Bernadette: her deep bond with Sister Julienne that remains when she leaves the order fascinates me, and I'd love to read a story focused on that, with or without backstory. But if you'd rather focus on Shelagh with the other midwives, or Shelagh & Dr. Turner, etc., that's alright, too - again, anything Shelagh-centric will be welcome.
Alice Carter, Rhiannon Davies, Agent Johnson, Denise Riley
"Children of Earth" is possibly my favourite Torchwood, which tells you something about me, I suppose; not least because of the fascinating female characters. Exploration of any and all of the ladies I requested will be welcome, as long it's not a retcon that declares CoE never happened or ended happily. Which doesn't mean I wouldn't love, say, a story where Alice recovers, scarred, but going on with her life! As long as CoE really happened, we're good.
Queen of Hearts | Cora Mills (Once Upon a Time), Milah (Once Upon a Time)
Anything exploring Cora would be great. (As long as it's not Cora/Regina; undoubtedly Cora was emotionally abusive towards Regina, but sexual abuse is not what I want to read about, and not how I see their relationship.) No matter the era - young Cora, Cora during Regina's childhood, Cora making herself the Queen of Hearts in Wonderland (presumably taking out a lot of competition on the way), an AU where Cora lives (but has to deal with the past and the new heightened emotional awareness of her deeds) - as long as it's Cora centric, go for it.
If you'd rather write about Milah: again, anything from her life would be welcome. Some ideas: as a pirate at Hook's side, how did she deal with the inevitable fighting and pillaging it entailed? Was it easy or difficult for her at first? Did she really plan to come back for her son one day, or was that something she told herself so it would be easier to leave?
This entry was originally posted at http://selenak.dreamwidth.org/965463.html. Comment there or here, as you wish.