[Interlude] Dear! Yuletide! Author!
Thank you so much for signing up, and for writing my request -- I'm excited to be working together!
This is my first time participating, though I've always loved reading, and now I'm worried that I've been too specific in my requests. So I'm saying here: trust me, the three fandoms I've chosen are fandoms in which I'd be thrilled to get any, any story at all. Perry Miller/Jimmy Murray BDSM? Go for it! Genfic where Pagoda goes off to seek his fortune on the oil fields of Alaska? Excellent! No-Face straight-up horror? I'll read with glee. Seriously, go where the story takes you, and I'll be happy.
Aside from my specific requests, here are a few of my favorite things: interstitial stories, ones that could conceivably take place within the scope of the canon, but lie outside the events we actually witness; relationships that look completely dysfunctional to casual observers but work very well for their participants; kink that is or turns into a crucial component of a committed relationship; distinctive/stylized narrative voices; bloody-but-unbowed characters; characters trying desperately to connect and just missing the connection; sexualized rivalry; mindfucks; unreliable narrators; love bordering on obsession; a highly specific sense of place; lavish and unapologetic intelligence; witty dialogue.
I genuinely don't have a preference for whether you go for a plotty or a plotless story. Ditto for a happy or unhappy ending. You can sell me just about any kink, as long as the groundwork's laid for it. Feel free to experiment with style and structure, or keep it straightforward. I read slash, het, and gen, and love them all.
Things that don't work for me: dirty talk or full-on porn dialogue (unless the characters are clearly suited to it); unrelenting cruelty or unkindness (individual acts are fine, but I'd rather they not be gratuitous). And this was probably pretty clear when you read the fic-likes list, but I'm not especially crazy about unadulterated schmoop; I generally like my sweet with a sharp edge to it.
And that's it, I think; I hope I've given you something here that you can work with. And thank you again, and again, author! I'm thrilled to be participating this year, and I hope you are too, now that you've gotten through all this. Good luck -- I'm totally rooting for you!
This is my first time participating, though I've always loved reading, and now I'm worried that I've been too specific in my requests. So I'm saying here: trust me, the three fandoms I've chosen are fandoms in which I'd be thrilled to get any, any story at all. Perry Miller/Jimmy Murray BDSM? Go for it! Genfic where Pagoda goes off to seek his fortune on the oil fields of Alaska? Excellent! No-Face straight-up horror? I'll read with glee. Seriously, go where the story takes you, and I'll be happy.
Aside from my specific requests, here are a few of my favorite things: interstitial stories, ones that could conceivably take place within the scope of the canon, but lie outside the events we actually witness; relationships that look completely dysfunctional to casual observers but work very well for their participants; kink that is or turns into a crucial component of a committed relationship; distinctive/stylized narrative voices; bloody-but-unbowed characters; characters trying desperately to connect and just missing the connection; sexualized rivalry; mindfucks; unreliable narrators; love bordering on obsession; a highly specific sense of place; lavish and unapologetic intelligence; witty dialogue.
I genuinely don't have a preference for whether you go for a plotty or a plotless story. Ditto for a happy or unhappy ending. You can sell me just about any kink, as long as the groundwork's laid for it. Feel free to experiment with style and structure, or keep it straightforward. I read slash, het, and gen, and love them all.
Things that don't work for me: dirty talk or full-on porn dialogue (unless the characters are clearly suited to it); unrelenting cruelty or unkindness (individual acts are fine, but I'd rather they not be gratuitous). And this was probably pretty clear when you read the fic-likes list, but I'm not especially crazy about unadulterated schmoop; I generally like my sweet with a sharp edge to it.
And that's it, I think; I hope I've given you something here that you can work with. And thank you again, and again, author! I'm thrilled to be participating this year, and I hope you are too, now that you've gotten through all this. Good luck -- I'm totally rooting for you!