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othersideofthisHello! If you're reading this, maybe you're wanting to write things for me for Yuletide.
Here are some thoughts about that.
A.) WRITE WHAT IS IN YOUR HEART. Seriously. I've thrown out some prompts and stuff below but if something else grabs you, please feel free to write it. I want you to have fun and not stress about if you're writing something that is the story of my heart. Write the story of your heart. My most favorite thing about fandom is authors writing what they're passionate about, so if you're on a really big kick of writing your characters as if they're employees at a Tim Hortons or something, then follow your passion.
B.) DON'T BE AFRAID TO GET WEIRD. Epistolary? First person? Second person? Photo essay? The ending isn't happy? The relationship doesn't work? Someone dies at the end? Someone's seeing dead people? Fic is basically the written equivalent of the This Is Fine dog?
Man, just go for it. A quick traipse through my body of work should make it clear that I'm okay with things getting weird. If you've been dying to find an audience for your ghost story or your war story or your fic about a relationship falling apart, well, don't be afraid to try it out on me.
C.) HAVE FUN. Seriously. Please. Enjoy yourself.
D.) GENERAL LIKES. AUs. Spy stories. Historical fiction. Dystopia/apocalypse. Zombies. Survival. World-building. Magical realism. Ghost stories. Horror stories. Time travel.
Coming out. Platonic touching that evolves into non-platonic touching. Found families. Starting over. Unrequited love, forbidden relationships. Fake dating/fake married/marriage of convenience. Poly/open relationships. Consensual infidelity.
Growing up, growing old, moving on.
Also, like: do not feel obligated to write sexytimes stuff. If you want to handwave it, or only write the makeouts, or not write anything at all, that is fine. Not all stories need porn of any level of explicitness, so write what you're comfortable with.
E.) GENERAL DISLIKES: Mpreg. Kidfic of any kind. Always-a-girl/genderswap/rule 63/whatever you want to call it. A/B/O. Kneeling-verse. Animal cruelty. Bestiality. Animal transformation. Watersports/scat. Torture porn. Infidelity (that isn't already part of canon).
I'd prefer not to read scenes of sexual violence or general violence against women, particularly explicit ones. Two of my three requested canons could definitely go that way, and I don't mean you have to write fluff or pretend bad things don't happen, but if you really truly need it for a plot point, I'd prefer it not be graphic.
In regards to real heavy kink/BDSM. I don't mind reading things that play with dynamics/going a more D/s route with a pairing, but what's important for me is that the dynamic has to have a point. I want to know that these characters care about each other, and if the way they express that is by person A paddling person B until they cry, then great, I just don't want to be left wondering what the motivation is or whether they're both into the same thing or not.
F.) THINGS I REQUESTED!
CODE NAME VERITY - JULIE BEAUFORT-STUART
Some ideas, which you don't have to use:
- Julie before the war. Julie growing up -- if you've read The Pearl Thief, feel free to include any canon you've gleaned from that; if you haven't, feel free to make up what you want.
- Julie on missions during the war. Julie being smarter than her enemies.
- Julie falling in love. Julie pretending to fall in love. Julie realizing too late that she's in love.
Feel free to use any/all other characters from canon as you see fit; I've read all the books so I'm good there. I do very much love Julie/Maddie, and also Julie/Ellen (from the Pearl Thief), and also will gladly read gen or het or whatever you come up with.
TABOO - JAMES DELANEY & ZILPHA GEARY
When I saw Taboo, I was instantly like, oh boy, this is a Yuletide fandom.
(Obviously this show is super fucked up, including but not limited to the, ah, explicit incest, so don't feel like you need to tread lightly with content.)
I just want anything and everything about Delaney and Zilpha. Maybe scenes from each of their lives when they were separated when Delaney was in Africa. Maybe something from their earlier life, showing how they ended up taking their relationship to, uh, a different place. Maybe Zilpha really isn't dead?
Go ahead and use any of the other characters in the show, too.
If bad things happen to Zilpha, that's fine? It's canon, for certain. But I guess I'd prefer not to see explicit violence against her written out in great detail.
Of all my requests, feel free to just get really heckin' weird with this one.
KUSHIEL'S LEGACY - PHEDRE NO DELAUNAY & JOSCELIN VERREUIL
It has been ages since I've read these books but Phedre and Joscelin are my forever OTP and I would read any story about them. Here are some thoughts.
- Any sort of "missing moment" throughout canon
- We know they go on some of their own adventures after the original trilogy/during the Imriel books. What are their adventures?
- Sexytimes, obviously. Of any kind.
- Quiet moments at home? Loud moments of court intrigue?
- Young Phedre, headstrong and brash. Older Phedre, still much the same, but wiser. Phedre and Joscelin growing old together, content, beautiful.
I am a super huge fan of Hyacinthe/Phedre/Joscelin, if you want to use him in any way, too.
As always, feel free to toss in other characters from throughout canon, and clearly, this is another canon where things can get dark and if that's the direction you want to go in, that's fine. (I would prefer not to read about non-consensual violence against women. Consensual kink/BDSM play is fine.)
Here are some thoughts about that.
A.) WRITE WHAT IS IN YOUR HEART. Seriously. I've thrown out some prompts and stuff below but if something else grabs you, please feel free to write it. I want you to have fun and not stress about if you're writing something that is the story of my heart. Write the story of your heart. My most favorite thing about fandom is authors writing what they're passionate about, so if you're on a really big kick of writing your characters as if they're employees at a Tim Hortons or something, then follow your passion.
B.) DON'T BE AFRAID TO GET WEIRD. Epistolary? First person? Second person? Photo essay? The ending isn't happy? The relationship doesn't work? Someone dies at the end? Someone's seeing dead people? Fic is basically the written equivalent of the This Is Fine dog?
Man, just go for it. A quick traipse through my body of work should make it clear that I'm okay with things getting weird. If you've been dying to find an audience for your ghost story or your war story or your fic about a relationship falling apart, well, don't be afraid to try it out on me.
C.) HAVE FUN. Seriously. Please. Enjoy yourself.
D.) GENERAL LIKES. AUs. Spy stories. Historical fiction. Dystopia/apocalypse. Zombies. Survival. World-building. Magical realism. Ghost stories. Horror stories. Time travel.
Coming out. Platonic touching that evolves into non-platonic touching. Found families. Starting over. Unrequited love, forbidden relationships. Fake dating/fake married/marriage of convenience. Poly/open relationships. Consensual infidelity.
Growing up, growing old, moving on.
Also, like: do not feel obligated to write sexytimes stuff. If you want to handwave it, or only write the makeouts, or not write anything at all, that is fine. Not all stories need porn of any level of explicitness, so write what you're comfortable with.
E.) GENERAL DISLIKES: Mpreg. Kidfic of any kind. Always-a-girl/genderswap/rule 63/whatever you want to call it. A/B/O. Kneeling-verse. Animal cruelty. Bestiality. Animal transformation. Watersports/scat. Torture porn. Infidelity (that isn't already part of canon).
I'd prefer not to read scenes of sexual violence or general violence against women, particularly explicit ones. Two of my three requested canons could definitely go that way, and I don't mean you have to write fluff or pretend bad things don't happen, but if you really truly need it for a plot point, I'd prefer it not be graphic.
In regards to real heavy kink/BDSM. I don't mind reading things that play with dynamics/going a more D/s route with a pairing, but what's important for me is that the dynamic has to have a point. I want to know that these characters care about each other, and if the way they express that is by person A paddling person B until they cry, then great, I just don't want to be left wondering what the motivation is or whether they're both into the same thing or not.
F.) THINGS I REQUESTED!
CODE NAME VERITY - JULIE BEAUFORT-STUART
Some ideas, which you don't have to use:
- Julie before the war. Julie growing up -- if you've read The Pearl Thief, feel free to include any canon you've gleaned from that; if you haven't, feel free to make up what you want.
- Julie on missions during the war. Julie being smarter than her enemies.
- Julie falling in love. Julie pretending to fall in love. Julie realizing too late that she's in love.
Feel free to use any/all other characters from canon as you see fit; I've read all the books so I'm good there. I do very much love Julie/Maddie, and also Julie/Ellen (from the Pearl Thief), and also will gladly read gen or het or whatever you come up with.
TABOO - JAMES DELANEY & ZILPHA GEARY
When I saw Taboo, I was instantly like, oh boy, this is a Yuletide fandom.
(Obviously this show is super fucked up, including but not limited to the, ah, explicit incest, so don't feel like you need to tread lightly with content.)
I just want anything and everything about Delaney and Zilpha. Maybe scenes from each of their lives when they were separated when Delaney was in Africa. Maybe something from their earlier life, showing how they ended up taking their relationship to, uh, a different place. Maybe Zilpha really isn't dead?
Go ahead and use any of the other characters in the show, too.
If bad things happen to Zilpha, that's fine? It's canon, for certain. But I guess I'd prefer not to see explicit violence against her written out in great detail.
Of all my requests, feel free to just get really heckin' weird with this one.
KUSHIEL'S LEGACY - PHEDRE NO DELAUNAY & JOSCELIN VERREUIL
It has been ages since I've read these books but Phedre and Joscelin are my forever OTP and I would read any story about them. Here are some thoughts.
- Any sort of "missing moment" throughout canon
- We know they go on some of their own adventures after the original trilogy/during the Imriel books. What are their adventures?
- Sexytimes, obviously. Of any kind.
- Quiet moments at home? Loud moments of court intrigue?
- Young Phedre, headstrong and brash. Older Phedre, still much the same, but wiser. Phedre and Joscelin growing old together, content, beautiful.
I am a super huge fan of Hyacinthe/Phedre/Joscelin, if you want to use him in any way, too.
As always, feel free to toss in other characters from throughout canon, and clearly, this is another canon where things can get dark and if that's the direction you want to go in, that's fine. (I would prefer not to read about non-consensual violence against women. Consensual kink/BDSM play is fine.)
