Secret Santa Letter
Dear Yuletide Secret Santa Person,
Before I start this letter, I just want to thank you. I hope my requests aren't too troublesome and that you enjoy writing whatever it is you write. :D And honestly, this is here to help (it's difficult writing things sometimes!) but if you want to ignore, go ahead. I am excited to find someone else in most of the fandoms I requested. I will be happy with whatever you write. Once again, thank you so much.
I haven't actually thought too much about this letter, until sign-ups closed and I realized oh shit, I need to put this up!. So I crawled out of my nice warm bed, hacking up a lung and thought about what to put here.
Before I begin - if you ignore everything in this letter and write something you'd be happy with and loved writing, then I am perfectly okay with that! I'd want you to be happy with what you write and I am more than happy just to have something waiting to be read.
But if more details are good, then here are more:
Dislikes
To get these out of the way
-too much angst (over-the-top, absurd amounts, with weepy emo characters. Yeah, no thank you.)
-really really weak characters,
-really bad OOCness
-top/bottom stereotypes in slash fiction
-anything where someone has an eating disorder or an illness of some sort (unless the character actually has this illness, in canon).
-Character-bashing.
Likes
-Normal, everyday angst
-Get-together fics
-Random scenes in the day/life of people/slice of life type stuff
-Gen/friendship fic
-Open endings (although I have a huge soft spot for actually happy endings)
-Lyrical/poetical prose. Not over the top, purple-prose type stuff. But metaphors and descriptions and things.
-Subtlety, especially when it comes to relationships and romance.
Nothing is too outrageous for me. I like dues ex machinas and plot devices and genderswap and wing!fic. I like it when cliches are twisted and made interesting or entertaining, I like terribly cheesy AU ideas, retellings of fairytales in any form, modern day fairytales, things with sad tones and happy tones and a combination of both, serious things, happy things, sad things. I don't like over the top angst, but some angst is okay.
Uh. I know there are more things I like but I can't think of them right now. I blame it on the time and on being sick.
And more specifics (ignore if you want, use if it's helpful!):
Jacqueline Carey - The Kushiels Legacy series
I love Sidonie, she's one of my favorite characters; I'd love to see something more between her and Amarante, because that is so tantalizing (and I love femslash couples). You can include Imriel or not, I'm okay either way. And I also don't care in which book it's set - before we really get to know Sidonie, or during the events of Kushiel's Justice, or after all three; it's up to you, dear writer.
Neal Stephenson - The Diamond Age
This is currently number one on my list of favorite books. I was drawn in because omg talking book, I want one! And stayed because I fell in love with the characters. I asked only for Nell, but any of the other characters you want to include is fine by me. And the requests pretty much sums up what I'd like to see - Nell after everything happens, either in her role as ruler of those girls and trying to figure out her place, or trying to figure out her relationship with Miranda without the book between them (and since Carl seems like he's going to be sticking around, bonus points for him). If you'd rather not write for anything set post-canon, something between the girls (Nell, Elizabeth, and Fiona) during the series would be wonderful. (I like the comment the Duke makes about the three girls, the contrast between them.) Even a character study of Nell in any way would be a nice thing.
Donkeyskin/Catskin
I always ask for a fairytale, it's become habit. The story of Donkeyskin is one of my favorites; there are such dark undertones to it and so much can be done with it. A modern retelling - or any type of retelling, actually - would be perfectly fine with me. As would anything that deals with the various characters and the aftermath of the events that happen in the fairytale, or a study of the characters. Run free with this one!
L Frank Baum - The Oz Series
Ozma and Dorothy are two of my favorite characters and one of my guilty pleasures, but I can never seem to write them (especially not together) and can't find fic for them, so if you are writing for this one - I'd love to see something shippy between them. If you can't write them together, that is okay. They're best friends, girls (kind of) growing up together, and I can just imagine the marvelous adventures they would have together, in Oz and out of it.
Good luck, Yuletide writer, and thank you so much! :D
Before I start this letter, I just want to thank you. I hope my requests aren't too troublesome and that you enjoy writing whatever it is you write. :D And honestly, this is here to help (it's difficult writing things sometimes!) but if you want to ignore, go ahead. I am excited to find someone else in most of the fandoms I requested. I will be happy with whatever you write. Once again, thank you so much.
I haven't actually thought too much about this letter, until sign-ups closed and I realized oh shit, I need to put this up!. So I crawled out of my nice warm bed, hacking up a lung and thought about what to put here.
Before I begin - if you ignore everything in this letter and write something you'd be happy with and loved writing, then I am perfectly okay with that! I'd want you to be happy with what you write and I am more than happy just to have something waiting to be read.
But if more details are good, then here are more:
Dislikes
To get these out of the way
-too much angst (over-the-top, absurd amounts, with weepy emo characters. Yeah, no thank you.)
-really really weak characters,
-really bad OOCness
-top/bottom stereotypes in slash fiction
-anything where someone has an eating disorder or an illness of some sort (unless the character actually has this illness, in canon).
-Character-bashing.
Likes
-Normal, everyday angst
-Get-together fics
-Random scenes in the day/life of people/slice of life type stuff
-Gen/friendship fic
-Open endings (although I have a huge soft spot for actually happy endings)
-Lyrical/poetical prose. Not over the top, purple-prose type stuff. But metaphors and descriptions and things.
-Subtlety, especially when it comes to relationships and romance.
Nothing is too outrageous for me. I like dues ex machinas and plot devices and genderswap and wing!fic. I like it when cliches are twisted and made interesting or entertaining, I like terribly cheesy AU ideas, retellings of fairytales in any form, modern day fairytales, things with sad tones and happy tones and a combination of both, serious things, happy things, sad things. I don't like over the top angst, but some angst is okay.
Uh. I know there are more things I like but I can't think of them right now. I blame it on the time and on being sick.
And more specifics (ignore if you want, use if it's helpful!):
Jacqueline Carey - The Kushiels Legacy series
I love Sidonie, she's one of my favorite characters; I'd love to see something more between her and Amarante, because that is so tantalizing (and I love femslash couples). You can include Imriel or not, I'm okay either way. And I also don't care in which book it's set - before we really get to know Sidonie, or during the events of Kushiel's Justice, or after all three; it's up to you, dear writer.
Neal Stephenson - The Diamond Age
This is currently number one on my list of favorite books. I was drawn in because omg talking book, I want one! And stayed because I fell in love with the characters. I asked only for Nell, but any of the other characters you want to include is fine by me. And the requests pretty much sums up what I'd like to see - Nell after everything happens, either in her role as ruler of those girls and trying to figure out her place, or trying to figure out her relationship with Miranda without the book between them (and since Carl seems like he's going to be sticking around, bonus points for him). If you'd rather not write for anything set post-canon, something between the girls (Nell, Elizabeth, and Fiona) during the series would be wonderful. (I like the comment the Duke makes about the three girls, the contrast between them.) Even a character study of Nell in any way would be a nice thing.
Donkeyskin/Catskin
I always ask for a fairytale, it's become habit. The story of Donkeyskin is one of my favorites; there are such dark undertones to it and so much can be done with it. A modern retelling - or any type of retelling, actually - would be perfectly fine with me. As would anything that deals with the various characters and the aftermath of the events that happen in the fairytale, or a study of the characters. Run free with this one!
L Frank Baum - The Oz Series
Ozma and Dorothy are two of my favorite characters and one of my guilty pleasures, but I can never seem to write them (especially not together) and can't find fic for them, so if you are writing for this one - I'd love to see something shippy between them. If you can't write them together, that is okay. They're best friends, girls (kind of) growing up together, and I can just imagine the marvelous adventures they would have together, in Oz and out of it.
Good luck, Yuletide writer, and thank you so much! :D