2017 Dear Yuletide Author Letter
Hello and happy Yuletide! I am so excited you were matched with me!
Here are my standard things I say every year, give or take some variations:
Things I’m never into: death fic (unless it’s in the canon source material), non-con/rape, darkfic, unhappy endings (unless it’s in the canon source material), unrealistic dialogue, crying at the drop of a hat, misunderstandings to the point of disbelief
Things I don’t necessarily gravitate towards except on occasion: bdsm, a/b/o
Things I’m always into: dirty talk, phone sex/sexting, pining, romance, happy endings, makeouts, wall sex, smoking up, AU's, meet-cutes, grand gestures, mixtapes.
Tropes I'm never into: Wingfic
Tropes I adore: fake dating/married, fuckbuddies/friends with benes to lovers, woke up married, kidfic, coffee shop aus, college aus, soulmate aus
Tropes I'm less into: bed sharing, amnesia fic
Also note: I'm totally okay with pwp's.
My tumblr is here, if you need that for anything.
Here’s what I said during my sign-up and I’ll comment additionally on each. But as always remember you’re not bound by anything here! If you have a specific idea of your own, please run with it!
1. True Detective - Marty/Rust
I'm utterly obsessed with anything post-canon with these two. The more curtainfic and/or hurt/comfort, the better.
Additional comments/inspiration: I shipped these two hard, especially after that last scene, but I fell back into them hardcore recently and have read some pretty amazing fic. I adore the casual touching and the intimacy of their long, shared history. I really would adore post-canon curtainfic. Living together, maybe that actual engagement. I'm forever torn on if I believe they fooled around at all prior to their reunion, but I'd be down for a one night stand they never talked about again thing.
I made a mix recently here.
And here are some gifs:
2. Academy Awards RPF - Dev Patel/Andrew Garfield
These two and their award season chemistry made me want a real life slow burn rom com so damn bad. Give me first dates post-award season or someone realizing how much they should be boyfriends on screen and casting them in the next big lgbtq romance film and them slowly falling for one another. Whatever you want, I'll love it.
Additional comments: Not too much else to add here. Basically any of my likes/tropes would be amazing if fit into these two. I just want these two to have the slow burn rom com they deserve. They are so damn cute.
3. The Breakfast Club - Bender/Brian
Every year I want the same thing: post-canon future fic with these two falling for each other. Don't care how it happens. Alternatively, if future fic ain't your comfort zone any first time/first date/prom fic would be great.
Additional comments: not too much to add here either. I love when the script is flipped and it's Bender who turns out to be the successful one. I love the thought of how these two can fit into one another's worlds, at the end of the film and if they do at all, or if they don't until years down the road. Hell, I'd even be down for a complete au and how they'd fit together in a completely different context. From my likes, any version of fuckbuddies to friends to lovers or fake dating would also be wonderful.
4. Disco 2000 - Storyteller, Deborah
One of my favorite songs. I'd love either past fic of them in school together and friendship/pining fic or current fic with what happens next. Do they meet up? Do they become real friends? Does he get along with Deborah's kid? Is her marriage not as perfect as he imagines it? Or a blend between past and present. I feel like the song gives so much to work with.
Additional comments: Basically what I said. Feel free to just run with it. Doesn't have to go to a happy ending shippy place. Could be a character study of their separate lives, or you could shift the canon of the song up a bit and make it a 10 year high school reunion in the year 2000, instead. I adore reunion circumstances, if you couldn't tell yet. Pulp is so quintessentially British, so if you could keep to some authenticness there, that'd be awesome. I know Deborah appears in the music video. I've actually never watched it, but feel free to run with any inspiration there, too. Also the character of the narrator/singer could be Jarvis, or could be an OC, I'm totally fine with either. Really, the fact that there was someone who offered to write this fandom on the sign-up summary just thrills me to pieces, so I'd be so happy with whatever your vision is for a fic based on this song :D
5. Velvet Goldmine - Curt/Arthur
Another standard want of mine: post-canon curt/Arthur. Falling in love or curtain fic or anything. I'll love it all
Additional comments: I was in Velvet Goldmine fandom in the 90s (yes, there was a fandom and it was big and there was tons of fic and honestly, if all that was still archived places this fandom probably wouldn't even qualify for yuletide. See also: Sports Night. But I digress) and I was a teenager back then and ridiculously, hopelessly in love with Curt/Brian. It's mostly all I read. And it's funny because as I've gotten older, I realize that -- the adult pairing here, the one that does really have the potential to make it and not be some self-destructive thing -- is Curt/Arthur. And I'm so, so interested in just -- seeing that explored. I want Arthur to run after him and just -- ask him out, go out on a date, fucking build something. So yeah, that's just what I think about when I think about Curt/Arthur. Whatever you come up with, be it something akin to this or something completely different -- will be brilliant. Again, these are just prompt ideas.
Personal thoughts on the text as it pertains to fanfic: I'm less interested in full-on AUs (i.e. it isn't set in the 70s, etc) with this fandom.
And here of course is that iconic tweet:
6. Point Break - Johnny/Bodhi
Yet again going with an old reliable: first time sex, bonus if it's on the beach or johnny's first time or tantric or just so super intense the way Bodhi would totally make it. Would also love a happy ending tbh, where Bodhi survives and Johnny never stopped obsessing over him and maybe a few years down the line after it doesn't work with Tyler they find each other again, Johnny living the way Bodhi used to and Bodhi ready to just settle down for once, the thrill not being as important as what he felt with Johnny, for the first time ever.
Personal thoughts on the text as it pertains to fanfic: I'm less interested in AUs/tropes with this fandom. Also, I'm not interested in fics that ignore/discredit female characters. Tyler is awesome and Johnny clearly cares for her. But he's also so clearly drawn to Bodhi. So if you go with my prompt of him reconnecting with Bodhi years later, please consider her importance in Johnny's life and the pain of that breakup. I believe they both were seeking something that they necessarily couldn't completely find within one another yet desperately wanted to and the realization of that and the letting go of one another finally would have been tough on him.
Here are my standard things I say every year, give or take some variations:
Things I’m never into: death fic (unless it’s in the canon source material), non-con/rape, darkfic, unhappy endings (unless it’s in the canon source material), unrealistic dialogue, crying at the drop of a hat, misunderstandings to the point of disbelief
Things I don’t necessarily gravitate towards except on occasion: bdsm, a/b/o
Things I’m always into: dirty talk, phone sex/sexting, pining, romance, happy endings, makeouts, wall sex, smoking up, AU's, meet-cutes, grand gestures, mixtapes.
Tropes I'm never into: Wingfic
Tropes I adore: fake dating/married, fuckbuddies/friends with benes to lovers, woke up married, kidfic, coffee shop aus, college aus, soulmate aus
Tropes I'm less into: bed sharing, amnesia fic
Also note: I'm totally okay with pwp's.
My tumblr is here, if you need that for anything.
Here’s what I said during my sign-up and I’ll comment additionally on each. But as always remember you’re not bound by anything here! If you have a specific idea of your own, please run with it!
1. True Detective - Marty/Rust
I'm utterly obsessed with anything post-canon with these two. The more curtainfic and/or hurt/comfort, the better.
Additional comments/inspiration: I shipped these two hard, especially after that last scene, but I fell back into them hardcore recently and have read some pretty amazing fic. I adore the casual touching and the intimacy of their long, shared history. I really would adore post-canon curtainfic. Living together, maybe that actual engagement. I'm forever torn on if I believe they fooled around at all prior to their reunion, but I'd be down for a one night stand they never talked about again thing.
I made a mix recently here.
And here are some gifs:
2. Academy Awards RPF - Dev Patel/Andrew Garfield
These two and their award season chemistry made me want a real life slow burn rom com so damn bad. Give me first dates post-award season or someone realizing how much they should be boyfriends on screen and casting them in the next big lgbtq romance film and them slowly falling for one another. Whatever you want, I'll love it.
Additional comments: Not too much else to add here. Basically any of my likes/tropes would be amazing if fit into these two. I just want these two to have the slow burn rom com they deserve. They are so damn cute.
3. The Breakfast Club - Bender/Brian
Every year I want the same thing: post-canon future fic with these two falling for each other. Don't care how it happens. Alternatively, if future fic ain't your comfort zone any first time/first date/prom fic would be great.
Additional comments: not too much to add here either. I love when the script is flipped and it's Bender who turns out to be the successful one. I love the thought of how these two can fit into one another's worlds, at the end of the film and if they do at all, or if they don't until years down the road. Hell, I'd even be down for a complete au and how they'd fit together in a completely different context. From my likes, any version of fuckbuddies to friends to lovers or fake dating would also be wonderful.
4. Disco 2000 - Storyteller, Deborah
One of my favorite songs. I'd love either past fic of them in school together and friendship/pining fic or current fic with what happens next. Do they meet up? Do they become real friends? Does he get along with Deborah's kid? Is her marriage not as perfect as he imagines it? Or a blend between past and present. I feel like the song gives so much to work with.
Additional comments: Basically what I said. Feel free to just run with it. Doesn't have to go to a happy ending shippy place. Could be a character study of their separate lives, or you could shift the canon of the song up a bit and make it a 10 year high school reunion in the year 2000, instead. I adore reunion circumstances, if you couldn't tell yet. Pulp is so quintessentially British, so if you could keep to some authenticness there, that'd be awesome. I know Deborah appears in the music video. I've actually never watched it, but feel free to run with any inspiration there, too. Also the character of the narrator/singer could be Jarvis, or could be an OC, I'm totally fine with either. Really, the fact that there was someone who offered to write this fandom on the sign-up summary just thrills me to pieces, so I'd be so happy with whatever your vision is for a fic based on this song :D
5. Velvet Goldmine - Curt/Arthur
Another standard want of mine: post-canon curt/Arthur. Falling in love or curtain fic or anything. I'll love it all
Additional comments: I was in Velvet Goldmine fandom in the 90s (yes, there was a fandom and it was big and there was tons of fic and honestly, if all that was still archived places this fandom probably wouldn't even qualify for yuletide. See also: Sports Night. But I digress) and I was a teenager back then and ridiculously, hopelessly in love with Curt/Brian. It's mostly all I read. And it's funny because as I've gotten older, I realize that -- the adult pairing here, the one that does really have the potential to make it and not be some self-destructive thing -- is Curt/Arthur. And I'm so, so interested in just -- seeing that explored. I want Arthur to run after him and just -- ask him out, go out on a date, fucking build something. So yeah, that's just what I think about when I think about Curt/Arthur. Whatever you come up with, be it something akin to this or something completely different -- will be brilliant. Again, these are just prompt ideas.
Personal thoughts on the text as it pertains to fanfic: I'm less interested in full-on AUs (i.e. it isn't set in the 70s, etc) with this fandom.
And here of course is that iconic tweet:
6. Point Break - Johnny/Bodhi
Yet again going with an old reliable: first time sex, bonus if it's on the beach or johnny's first time or tantric or just so super intense the way Bodhi would totally make it. Would also love a happy ending tbh, where Bodhi survives and Johnny never stopped obsessing over him and maybe a few years down the line after it doesn't work with Tyler they find each other again, Johnny living the way Bodhi used to and Bodhi ready to just settle down for once, the thrill not being as important as what he felt with Johnny, for the first time ever.
Personal thoughts on the text as it pertains to fanfic: I'm less interested in AUs/tropes with this fandom. Also, I'm not interested in fics that ignore/discredit female characters. Tyler is awesome and Johnny clearly cares for her. But he's also so clearly drawn to Bodhi. So if you go with my prompt of him reconnecting with Bodhi years later, please consider her importance in Johnny's life and the pain of that breakup. I believe they both were seeking something that they necessarily couldn't completely find within one another yet desperately wanted to and the realization of that and the letting go of one another finally would have been tough on him.