dear yulegoat (2015)
Dear Yuletide Writer,
Hi, new favorite person! I love all of these fandoms, and I’m so excited that you’ve offered one of them! I can’t wait to read whatever story you write for me. Here are some of my general likes/dislikes before I get into the specific requests.
Likes: character-driven stories, romance (I generally lean towards canon pairings as specified below), female friendships, slow burn UST, porn (if appropriate), backstory and missing scene fic, best friends who fall in love, banter and bickering, fake relationship tropes, men who adore the women in their lives. I have a preference for happier/more hopeful endings. Female characters tend to be my favorites. I talk a lot about romance in my requests, but I love reading great gen and friendship fic as well. I really love AUs, and I’ve specified a few fandoms below that I would love to receive an AU for! If you have any questions on this, ask the mods and I’ll be happy to answer it. (This goes in general, actually. I am happy to provide any clarification as needed.)
Dislikes: misogyny, noncon or dubcon, infidelity, major character death (you can use anything that’s already canon of course), character bashing, excessive embarrassment, unrequited female pining, Nice Guys TM.
This is my sixth year participating in Yuletide! If you’d like to take a look at some of what I’ve written to get a better idea, my fic master list is located here and almost everything is archived over at for_the_coast or AO3, otherwise it’s in my fic tag on Tumblr. My journal is primarily locked and not very active (although if you go through my Yuletide tag, my past letters are all public), but I also have Tumblr (x) and a GoodReads account (x), and both of those are a pretty good reflection of what I like.
I’m the type of writer who likes more details rather than less when I’m writing a story for someone else, so my requests generally reflect that. You can choose what you would like to take or leave based on what works for you. These are just some of my ideas, but they are certainly not the complete list of stories I would like to read for any of these fandoms. I know whatever you write is going to be great!
Fandom #1: Benched
Characters: Nina Whitley, Phil Quinlan
FIX IT!! That’s it, really. That’s my request.
Okay, so really “FIX IT!!” pretty much sums it up. I loved this show and Nina/Phil’s relationship, and I was heartbroken when the show was canceled given how things ended between them.
One of the things I really loved about this show was that it was set at a public defender’s office, too! I’m a law student (third year now), and I worked for a local PD for my 1L summer. I’m working in juvenile public defense this semester, and just in general, the idea that a show would want to tackle a PD’s office as its setting is fantastic! Being a PD is one of the most thankless legal jobs you could ever have but also one of the most important, and Benched got at the heart of it while still keeping things funny.
ANYWAY, the point of this is that Benched was a wonderful show that got canceled too soon, and I would really love to see Nina and Phil’s relationship from the point the show left off in the finale. How do they overcome their misunderstandings and get together? What’s it like starting a romantic relationship in the context of the PD’s office? I’d also love missing moments from S1 and how their relationship developed to what it became! Or if their romance isn’t your thing, I’d love to read more about their relationship as colleagues and friends! I promise, anything you want to write about with them, I will want to read!
Fandom #2: Eye Candy
Characters: Lindy Sampson, Tommy Calligan
What happens next for them? Tell me more of their story!
I’m so sad this show got canceled! I’d love to know what happens next for Lindy and Tommy. She was going back to her hometown to follow up on leads about her sister, so how does that (and what happened in the finale with the Flirtual killer in general) affect her relationship with Tommy going forward? How does Tommy deal with her leaving to look for more information on Sara? There’s also this interview that talks about a conspiracy related to Lindy and Sara’s father in S2, which now obviously we’ll never get to see. I’d love to read about that potential conspiracy, why Sara faked her kidnapping to protect Lindy, and how that might affect Tommy and Lindy’s relationship.
I was really into Tommy/Lindy as a romantic relationship, as evidenced by my tumblr tag for the show, so I would love it if that was explored as well! Tommy just makes excellent heart eyes at Lindy without verging into Nice Guy territory, and that is really what I am all about in my romantic ships. There’s so much between them, and there were some great opportunities for fake/undercover dating on the show, so I’d really love to see their UST explored/get into RST territory, particularly with how complicated things were in the fallout of the finale.
Request #3: Firebird Series - Claudia Gray
Characters: Marguerite Caine, Paul Markov
The series set up such an interesting dynamic between Marguerite and Paul by having their relationship develop between Marguerite and guard!Paul in the Russian monarchy universe. I’d love to see how the relationship between Marguerite and her!Paul deal with that and how their own potential romantic relationship develops as a result. I’d also love to read a story about Marguerite and Paul from another universe or something that delves more into the relationship between Marguerite and Paul in book!verse in the past.
This is a repeat request from this year’s fic_corner exchange, but I’m bringing it back because I really enjoy this series and just want more of this world! The second book in the series comes out on November 3rd, and I may update my letter if I have any additional ideas. Please feel free to incorporate the second book into whatever you write, but also please feel free to disregard the second book (and any of my updated ideas) if that’s what works better for you. With that said, on to the details!
I love alternate universes, so this series was pretty much made for me! I love the slight changes and how those affect things - it was one of my favorite things about Fringe too. And the triangle of sorts they’ve set up between Marguerite and the two Pauls reminds me a little bit of Farscape, if you've seen it. So my request is more or less exactly what I said before! Marguerite fell in love with one version of Paul, but the idea of every version of you is something that’s important between them. So how does Marguerite’s relationship with her!Paul develop from where they are now? I love the idea of Marguerite/Paul, and I would love to read something about the development of their romantic relationship after the events of book one (and/or book two)! I’d also really love to read something that sheds more light on their relationship before the book. Backstory or something to shed more light on Paul’s POV.
Or if any of that isn’t something you’re interested in, this book lends itself to so many possibilities: what are other Marguerites and other Pauls doing in other universes? You could use one of the universes mentioned briefly in the book and expand on those versions of the characters or create your own universe entirely. I just want more of these characters and the idea behind this world!
UPDATE 11/6/15: I have read Ten Thousand Skies Above You and here is my review.
Some additional things I am interested in exploring after Book 2:
So many new universes!! The ones I am particularly interested in are Warverse and Cambridgeverse. I would love to see how Warverse Paul and Marguerite eventually find their way to each other in a way that’s still respectful to Theo (and he doesn’t get killed in the War). That idea really appeals to me because I like the idea that your first love isn’t always the person you end up with because things change and people grow and life happens, etc., and it’s easy for me to see that happening here just because of the nature of this universe. And Cambridgeverse! Oh, this universe’s versions of Paul and Marguerite hit this really lovely, achy tone that resonated with me. I’d love to know more about their relationship and how it happened and a possible future for them where they come to terms with what happened and find their way back to each other.
Another definite possibility if you are interested in creating a completely new parallel universe: give me another version of New York City where Paul didn’t join the family business. (I am currently finishing up my last year of school and then heading back home to New York, so I loved reading about a world where they lived in New York and would enjoy seeing more of that in a universe where Theo is a true Bushwick hipster and Paul lives in student housing near Columbia and yeah Marguerite’s family probably still lives on the UWS in the 80s.)
MORE THOUGHTS. I’d love to see more of Marguerite and Paul in the months in between Book 1 and Book 2. Everything from them traveling to different parallel worlds together to just quiet moments and exploring their new relationship. Or, in the aftermath of this book (once Marguerite has found a way to get rid of Home Officeverse Marguerite), I’d really like to see Marguerite and Paul working through everything that happened in Book 2. I was actually expecting them to break up at the end of the book, and although they didn’t actually break up, they definitely have a lot to work through together to get back to solid ground. How does that happen? How do things work out with them and Theo? (And actually, I don’t think I’ve said this yet but I love Theo, even though I don’t ship him with Marguerite!) How do they work out the communications technology that Cambridgeverse was working on, and how does that affect their relationship, interacting with the versions of themselves that are in such a different place? Just anything on what happens next for them!
Request #4: Killjoys
Characters: Dutch, D’avin Jaqobis, Johnny Jaqobis
This has been my favorite new show of the year, and I just want more of it! I’m especially interested in the team dynamics between all three of them, the romantic undertones between Dutch and D’avin, Dutch and Johnny’s long friendship/partnership, and the backstory between D’avin and Johnny.
This show has so many things I love! Great characters and relationship dynamics; bounty hunters; a really interesting, complex world; and fantastic plots! Dutch is my favorite character by far, but I love the whole team. I requested Dutch, D’avin, and Johnny, but please feel free to take this as an either/or request - I would be happy receiving a story focusing on any subset of these characters or all of them. Just choose some combination and go with it! My one caveat is that I really only ship Dutch/D’avin romantically, so I’d prefer any fic I receive not go explicitly against that - but if they aren’t your thing, I will be just as thrilled with gen/friendship stories about them or any other combination of these three characters!
Here are some things I’m interested in about these characters:
Anything that focuses on Dutch - her backstory, the people in her life, how she got to where she is today. She’s my favorite character by far and I will be thrilled with anything you write that focuses on her! I am fascinated by the quote about how she learned three things from her harem: killing, dancing, and marrying into royalty. I’d love to see that part of her backstory explored more, both then and today. Or something that went into detail about how she became a killjoy.
I’m super into the idea of a romantic relationship between Dutch and D’avin and how complicated and messy and awesome it could be. I admit that I was up in the air about which pairing I most wanted to ship on this show during the first few episodes, but the last half of the season sold me. I’d love to read something that explores their relationship in the fallout of S1 or missing scenes between them from S1 (more dancing, maybe! a progression of their relationship through missing scenes! five times fic!). A story that focuses on them wouldn’t need to be romantic, either. Just anything that focuses on the dynamic between them would be great!
I also really love the relationship between Johnny and Dutch. I’d love to read more about how that developed over time - their partnership, how they first met and started working together, the strong friendship they have and how that developed over time, how Johnny is Lucy’s favorite (!). Or I’d also love reading backstory fic about D’avin and Johnny, why D’avin left, how their history informs their relationship now and in the future.
Or! If you want to include all three characters, I am so into the found family dynamic between the three of them. Partners! Out in the world watching each others’ backs! I’d love to read about missing scene moments between them, team bonding and friendship in their off hours/in between assignments, some kind of groundhog day story where they keep having to relive the day until they get it right, a modern day spies AU, S2 spec fic for how Dutch and Johnny find D’avin/basically what happens next. Really, anything goes!
For reference: this is my Killjoys tag on Tumblr. There isn’t much in it yet, but that should be changing ;)
Fandom #5: Off Campus - Elle Kennedy
Characters: John Logan, Grace Ivers
Romantic shenanigans of any kind, please!
I think I have reread this book at least five times this year. I love both The Mistake and The Deal, but The Mistake holds a special place in my heart for being everything I ever wanted about a guy who screws up and then recognizes his screw up and works to fix it. I love John Logan, romcom hero, and I love Grace Ivers, taking control of her own life.
So my short request is for romantic shenanigans of any kind. And I mean exactly that! John Logan, devoted boyfriend, is maybe the greatest thing romance novels have given me in a while. I’d love to read about the ridiculous list of tasks Grace gives him before she’ll agree to marry him. Grace rambling about serial killers and watching crime documentaries (look she probably does this) and Logan just grinning like the fool in love that he is. Grace’s Ph.D. graduation ceremony and John Logan as the proudest husband ever. Logan reenacting as many iconic romantic movie scenes as possible (caveat: I am not a huge fan of Grease, Dirty Dancing, or Love Story) because this is absolutely 1000% something John Logan would do. Victory sex after winning the Stanley Cup. Love letters/emails when he’s traveling and she’s in school. How they deal with his travel schedule and her school/work commitments. I would be really into a story about how they support each other in their chosen careers. Mutual support/encouragement in romantic partners is something that I really love reading about. Just in general, anything that explores their relationship will be fun for me to read.
Please feel free to bring in other characters from the series! I love Hannah and Garrett, so date nights with them would be really fun! I also really loved Daisy and Morris, so I’d love it if they showed up. OH, and Grace’s parents. Who doesn’t love a parent who threatens her daughter’s boyfriend with a pillowcase full of soap bars? Ivers family gatherings would be incredibly fun to read about.
Fandom #6: Psy Changeling - Nalini Singh
Characters: Nikita Duncan, Anthony Kyriakus, Kaleb Krychek, Sahara Kyriakus
This is an either/or request. What’s really going on between Anthony and Nikita? Or just write me anything about Kaleb and Sahara - future fic, missing scene, AU, anything!
So like I said, this is really an either/or request. I’d love a story that includes all four characters, too, but there’s no need for that if you want to focus on one pairing or the other.
For Nikita/Anthony, their scenes were my favorite in Shards of Hope. As the series has progressed, Nikita and Anthony’s dynamic is one of the most fascinating, and Kaleb’s continued observations about the strength of their bond and how they always seem to be on the same page only add to that. Anthony at Nikita’s bedside was a real highlight of SOH was a lot, especially with Sascha wondering on a deeper emotional bond between them. So tell me more! What were their early encounters like? How has their relationship developed over time? What is their relationship now? Do Kaleb and Sahara really spy on them? What do they find? How do Nikita and Anthony deal with the changes in the world and the PsyNet, the end of Silence? How would a romantic relationship develop between them?
Please feel free to include Sascha, Lucas, and Naya in any story about Nikita and Anthony. And Faith and Vaughn too (along with Leon, Sahara, and Kaleb), but I particularly love the Duncan women and the complicated relationship between them. There were some fantastic moments between Nikita and Sascha in SOH and that was part of what inspired this request.
For Kaleb/Sahara, they are my everything so I am happy to read anything you want to write about them. I’d love to read about missing moments, memories from their childhood friendship, future fic, a story about them adopting an empath child who has been abandoned by her parents (as part of a headcanon developed with magisterequitum and tosca1390, where they have so much love to give but might be afraid of passing down their genes, especially Kaleb). I also would be very into reading AUs about them. Some I would particularly love to read are: Sahara as a ballerina AU, a Regency era AU (Duke Kaleb Krychek running an orphanage and charming Sahara as he cares for the bb orphans or any other Regency era AU you create), figure skating AU (either them skating pairs together or maybe she’s a figure skater and he plays some other winter sport/hockey/etc), modern royalty AU, possibly some kind of lawyer/law firm AU, political AU, just a general modern AU. REALLY, the field is open here. There are very few AUs I wouldn’t want to read, as long as the focus is staying true to the characters.
So I think that’s about it! I hope this was helpful for you. Thank you again, and Happy Yuletide!
spyglass_
Hi, new favorite person! I love all of these fandoms, and I’m so excited that you’ve offered one of them! I can’t wait to read whatever story you write for me. Here are some of my general likes/dislikes before I get into the specific requests.
Likes: character-driven stories, romance (I generally lean towards canon pairings as specified below), female friendships, slow burn UST, porn (if appropriate), backstory and missing scene fic, best friends who fall in love, banter and bickering, fake relationship tropes, men who adore the women in their lives. I have a preference for happier/more hopeful endings. Female characters tend to be my favorites. I talk a lot about romance in my requests, but I love reading great gen and friendship fic as well. I really love AUs, and I’ve specified a few fandoms below that I would love to receive an AU for! If you have any questions on this, ask the mods and I’ll be happy to answer it. (This goes in general, actually. I am happy to provide any clarification as needed.)
Dislikes: misogyny, noncon or dubcon, infidelity, major character death (you can use anything that’s already canon of course), character bashing, excessive embarrassment, unrequited female pining, Nice Guys TM.
This is my sixth year participating in Yuletide! If you’d like to take a look at some of what I’ve written to get a better idea, my fic master list is located here and almost everything is archived over at for_the_coast or AO3, otherwise it’s in my fic tag on Tumblr. My journal is primarily locked and not very active (although if you go through my Yuletide tag, my past letters are all public), but I also have Tumblr (x) and a GoodReads account (x), and both of those are a pretty good reflection of what I like.
I’m the type of writer who likes more details rather than less when I’m writing a story for someone else, so my requests generally reflect that. You can choose what you would like to take or leave based on what works for you. These are just some of my ideas, but they are certainly not the complete list of stories I would like to read for any of these fandoms. I know whatever you write is going to be great!
Fandom #1: Benched
Characters: Nina Whitley, Phil Quinlan
FIX IT!! That’s it, really. That’s my request.
Okay, so really “FIX IT!!” pretty much sums it up. I loved this show and Nina/Phil’s relationship, and I was heartbroken when the show was canceled given how things ended between them.
One of the things I really loved about this show was that it was set at a public defender’s office, too! I’m a law student (third year now), and I worked for a local PD for my 1L summer. I’m working in juvenile public defense this semester, and just in general, the idea that a show would want to tackle a PD’s office as its setting is fantastic! Being a PD is one of the most thankless legal jobs you could ever have but also one of the most important, and Benched got at the heart of it while still keeping things funny.
ANYWAY, the point of this is that Benched was a wonderful show that got canceled too soon, and I would really love to see Nina and Phil’s relationship from the point the show left off in the finale. How do they overcome their misunderstandings and get together? What’s it like starting a romantic relationship in the context of the PD’s office? I’d also love missing moments from S1 and how their relationship developed to what it became! Or if their romance isn’t your thing, I’d love to read more about their relationship as colleagues and friends! I promise, anything you want to write about with them, I will want to read!
Fandom #2: Eye Candy
Characters: Lindy Sampson, Tommy Calligan
What happens next for them? Tell me more of their story!
I’m so sad this show got canceled! I’d love to know what happens next for Lindy and Tommy. She was going back to her hometown to follow up on leads about her sister, so how does that (and what happened in the finale with the Flirtual killer in general) affect her relationship with Tommy going forward? How does Tommy deal with her leaving to look for more information on Sara? There’s also this interview that talks about a conspiracy related to Lindy and Sara’s father in S2, which now obviously we’ll never get to see. I’d love to read about that potential conspiracy, why Sara faked her kidnapping to protect Lindy, and how that might affect Tommy and Lindy’s relationship.
I was really into Tommy/Lindy as a romantic relationship, as evidenced by my tumblr tag for the show, so I would love it if that was explored as well! Tommy just makes excellent heart eyes at Lindy without verging into Nice Guy territory, and that is really what I am all about in my romantic ships. There’s so much between them, and there were some great opportunities for fake/undercover dating on the show, so I’d really love to see their UST explored/get into RST territory, particularly with how complicated things were in the fallout of the finale.
Request #3: Firebird Series - Claudia Gray
Characters: Marguerite Caine, Paul Markov
The series set up such an interesting dynamic between Marguerite and Paul by having their relationship develop between Marguerite and guard!Paul in the Russian monarchy universe. I’d love to see how the relationship between Marguerite and her!Paul deal with that and how their own potential romantic relationship develops as a result. I’d also love to read a story about Marguerite and Paul from another universe or something that delves more into the relationship between Marguerite and Paul in book!verse in the past.
This is a repeat request from this year’s fic_corner exchange, but I’m bringing it back because I really enjoy this series and just want more of this world! The second book in the series comes out on November 3rd, and I may update my letter if I have any additional ideas. Please feel free to incorporate the second book into whatever you write, but also please feel free to disregard the second book (and any of my updated ideas) if that’s what works better for you. With that said, on to the details!
I love alternate universes, so this series was pretty much made for me! I love the slight changes and how those affect things - it was one of my favorite things about Fringe too. And the triangle of sorts they’ve set up between Marguerite and the two Pauls reminds me a little bit of Farscape, if you've seen it. So my request is more or less exactly what I said before! Marguerite fell in love with one version of Paul, but the idea of every version of you is something that’s important between them. So how does Marguerite’s relationship with her!Paul develop from where they are now? I love the idea of Marguerite/Paul, and I would love to read something about the development of their romantic relationship after the events of book one (and/or book two)! I’d also really love to read something that sheds more light on their relationship before the book. Backstory or something to shed more light on Paul’s POV.
Or if any of that isn’t something you’re interested in, this book lends itself to so many possibilities: what are other Marguerites and other Pauls doing in other universes? You could use one of the universes mentioned briefly in the book and expand on those versions of the characters or create your own universe entirely. I just want more of these characters and the idea behind this world!
UPDATE 11/6/15: I have read Ten Thousand Skies Above You and here is my review.
Some additional things I am interested in exploring after Book 2:
So many new universes!! The ones I am particularly interested in are Warverse and Cambridgeverse. I would love to see how Warverse Paul and Marguerite eventually find their way to each other in a way that’s still respectful to Theo (and he doesn’t get killed in the War). That idea really appeals to me because I like the idea that your first love isn’t always the person you end up with because things change and people grow and life happens, etc., and it’s easy for me to see that happening here just because of the nature of this universe. And Cambridgeverse! Oh, this universe’s versions of Paul and Marguerite hit this really lovely, achy tone that resonated with me. I’d love to know more about their relationship and how it happened and a possible future for them where they come to terms with what happened and find their way back to each other.
Another definite possibility if you are interested in creating a completely new parallel universe: give me another version of New York City where Paul didn’t join the family business. (I am currently finishing up my last year of school and then heading back home to New York, so I loved reading about a world where they lived in New York and would enjoy seeing more of that in a universe where Theo is a true Bushwick hipster and Paul lives in student housing near Columbia and yeah Marguerite’s family probably still lives on the UWS in the 80s.)
MORE THOUGHTS. I’d love to see more of Marguerite and Paul in the months in between Book 1 and Book 2. Everything from them traveling to different parallel worlds together to just quiet moments and exploring their new relationship. Or, in the aftermath of this book (once Marguerite has found a way to get rid of Home Officeverse Marguerite), I’d really like to see Marguerite and Paul working through everything that happened in Book 2. I was actually expecting them to break up at the end of the book, and although they didn’t actually break up, they definitely have a lot to work through together to get back to solid ground. How does that happen? How do things work out with them and Theo? (And actually, I don’t think I’ve said this yet but I love Theo, even though I don’t ship him with Marguerite!) How do they work out the communications technology that Cambridgeverse was working on, and how does that affect their relationship, interacting with the versions of themselves that are in such a different place? Just anything on what happens next for them!
Request #4: Killjoys
Characters: Dutch, D’avin Jaqobis, Johnny Jaqobis
This has been my favorite new show of the year, and I just want more of it! I’m especially interested in the team dynamics between all three of them, the romantic undertones between Dutch and D’avin, Dutch and Johnny’s long friendship/partnership, and the backstory between D’avin and Johnny.
This show has so many things I love! Great characters and relationship dynamics; bounty hunters; a really interesting, complex world; and fantastic plots! Dutch is my favorite character by far, but I love the whole team. I requested Dutch, D’avin, and Johnny, but please feel free to take this as an either/or request - I would be happy receiving a story focusing on any subset of these characters or all of them. Just choose some combination and go with it! My one caveat is that I really only ship Dutch/D’avin romantically, so I’d prefer any fic I receive not go explicitly against that - but if they aren’t your thing, I will be just as thrilled with gen/friendship stories about them or any other combination of these three characters!
Here are some things I’m interested in about these characters:
Anything that focuses on Dutch - her backstory, the people in her life, how she got to where she is today. She’s my favorite character by far and I will be thrilled with anything you write that focuses on her! I am fascinated by the quote about how she learned three things from her harem: killing, dancing, and marrying into royalty. I’d love to see that part of her backstory explored more, both then and today. Or something that went into detail about how she became a killjoy.
I’m super into the idea of a romantic relationship between Dutch and D’avin and how complicated and messy and awesome it could be. I admit that I was up in the air about which pairing I most wanted to ship on this show during the first few episodes, but the last half of the season sold me. I’d love to read something that explores their relationship in the fallout of S1 or missing scenes between them from S1 (more dancing, maybe! a progression of their relationship through missing scenes! five times fic!). A story that focuses on them wouldn’t need to be romantic, either. Just anything that focuses on the dynamic between them would be great!
I also really love the relationship between Johnny and Dutch. I’d love to read more about how that developed over time - their partnership, how they first met and started working together, the strong friendship they have and how that developed over time, how Johnny is Lucy’s favorite (!). Or I’d also love reading backstory fic about D’avin and Johnny, why D’avin left, how their history informs their relationship now and in the future.
Or! If you want to include all three characters, I am so into the found family dynamic between the three of them. Partners! Out in the world watching each others’ backs! I’d love to read about missing scene moments between them, team bonding and friendship in their off hours/in between assignments, some kind of groundhog day story where they keep having to relive the day until they get it right, a modern day spies AU, S2 spec fic for how Dutch and Johnny find D’avin/basically what happens next. Really, anything goes!
For reference: this is my Killjoys tag on Tumblr. There isn’t much in it yet, but that should be changing ;)
Fandom #5: Off Campus - Elle Kennedy
Characters: John Logan, Grace Ivers
Romantic shenanigans of any kind, please!
I think I have reread this book at least five times this year. I love both The Mistake and The Deal, but The Mistake holds a special place in my heart for being everything I ever wanted about a guy who screws up and then recognizes his screw up and works to fix it. I love John Logan, romcom hero, and I love Grace Ivers, taking control of her own life.
So my short request is for romantic shenanigans of any kind. And I mean exactly that! John Logan, devoted boyfriend, is maybe the greatest thing romance novels have given me in a while. I’d love to read about the ridiculous list of tasks Grace gives him before she’ll agree to marry him. Grace rambling about serial killers and watching crime documentaries (look she probably does this) and Logan just grinning like the fool in love that he is. Grace’s Ph.D. graduation ceremony and John Logan as the proudest husband ever. Logan reenacting as many iconic romantic movie scenes as possible (caveat: I am not a huge fan of Grease, Dirty Dancing, or Love Story) because this is absolutely 1000% something John Logan would do. Victory sex after winning the Stanley Cup. Love letters/emails when he’s traveling and she’s in school. How they deal with his travel schedule and her school/work commitments. I would be really into a story about how they support each other in their chosen careers. Mutual support/encouragement in romantic partners is something that I really love reading about. Just in general, anything that explores their relationship will be fun for me to read.
Please feel free to bring in other characters from the series! I love Hannah and Garrett, so date nights with them would be really fun! I also really loved Daisy and Morris, so I’d love it if they showed up. OH, and Grace’s parents. Who doesn’t love a parent who threatens her daughter’s boyfriend with a pillowcase full of soap bars? Ivers family gatherings would be incredibly fun to read about.
Fandom #6: Psy Changeling - Nalini Singh
Characters: Nikita Duncan, Anthony Kyriakus, Kaleb Krychek, Sahara Kyriakus
This is an either/or request. What’s really going on between Anthony and Nikita? Or just write me anything about Kaleb and Sahara - future fic, missing scene, AU, anything!
So like I said, this is really an either/or request. I’d love a story that includes all four characters, too, but there’s no need for that if you want to focus on one pairing or the other.
For Nikita/Anthony, their scenes were my favorite in Shards of Hope. As the series has progressed, Nikita and Anthony’s dynamic is one of the most fascinating, and Kaleb’s continued observations about the strength of their bond and how they always seem to be on the same page only add to that. Anthony at Nikita’s bedside was a real highlight of SOH was a lot, especially with Sascha wondering on a deeper emotional bond between them. So tell me more! What were their early encounters like? How has their relationship developed over time? What is their relationship now? Do Kaleb and Sahara really spy on them? What do they find? How do Nikita and Anthony deal with the changes in the world and the PsyNet, the end of Silence? How would a romantic relationship develop between them?
Please feel free to include Sascha, Lucas, and Naya in any story about Nikita and Anthony. And Faith and Vaughn too (along with Leon, Sahara, and Kaleb), but I particularly love the Duncan women and the complicated relationship between them. There were some fantastic moments between Nikita and Sascha in SOH and that was part of what inspired this request.
For Kaleb/Sahara, they are my everything so I am happy to read anything you want to write about them. I’d love to read about missing moments, memories from their childhood friendship, future fic, a story about them adopting an empath child who has been abandoned by her parents (as part of a headcanon developed with magisterequitum and tosca1390, where they have so much love to give but might be afraid of passing down their genes, especially Kaleb). I also would be very into reading AUs about them. Some I would particularly love to read are: Sahara as a ballerina AU, a Regency era AU (Duke Kaleb Krychek running an orphanage and charming Sahara as he cares for the bb orphans or any other Regency era AU you create), figure skating AU (either them skating pairs together or maybe she’s a figure skater and he plays some other winter sport/hockey/etc), modern royalty AU, possibly some kind of lawyer/law firm AU, political AU, just a general modern AU. REALLY, the field is open here. There are very few AUs I wouldn’t want to read, as long as the focus is staying true to the characters.
So I think that’s about it! I hope this was helpful for you. Thank you again, and Happy Yuletide!
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