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Yuletide 2010
Dear Yuletide Author,
thank you for doing this. I know of the horrors of Yuletide deadlines, even if this is the first year I'm participating in the challenge--the great number of people on my reading list despairing over Yuletide was what stopped me in the past from signing up. But! This year I caved. I guess what I'm trying to say is that when I'm sitting with my laptop in my lap on December 20, chewing my nails and trying to come up with something for my Yuletide fic, I will feel bad for putting you through this, and hope you know that you have my undying gratitude for signing up at all, let alone being willing to attempt to write a fic that caters to my specific requests.
Which are as follows. (Hur hur, wasting no time here.) Generally, I'm a dramedy fan. Meaning I really like stories that feel painfully, cuttingly real. To give you a general idea of what I mean--I'm a big fan of RTD's writing (Second Coming, Torchwood: Children of Earth, Doctor Who: Midnight, to give a couple of examples), and have read my way through most of Stephen King's published works. (My favorite books of his include Needful Things and It.) I like character-focused stuff, and I like stuff that combines comedy and tragedy to equal amounts.
As for fandom genres, I like angst, deathfic, angst/humor, PWP, angst/humor/romance. I'm not a big fan of schmoop--at least not if there isn't something to balance the schmoop. I like bittersweet endings, and am not at all averse to the idea of slash and kink, both explicit and non-explicit.
Things that I'd be grateful if you could avoid include of course the basics like improper spelling and grammar; then: imprecise personal pronoun referencing (I'd rather have the names used a large amount of times than everything just being "he"), POV changes within a scene, characterization being compromised to serve the plot, character bashing of any kind, sexism or misogyny of any sort, generally characters displaying any sort of privilege without that being addressed critically. (If you want to address it critically, however, characters being privileged asses and getting called out on it would make me very happy.) Oh, and I'm not a fan of genderswitch.
Now that I've probably thoroughly scared you off, here are some more details about my requests.
Hamlet (Hamlet, Horatio, Gertrude)
As far as Hamlet/Horatio go, I like the relationship that was depicted in the 2008 RSC production. Of them as friends, and with a bit of an us-against-the-rest-of-the-world feeling. Hamlet being the angry/confrontational one, while Horatio tries to keep him out of trouble a lot.
With Hamlet and Gertrude, I really like the slightly antagonistic love/hate relationship between them, so if that's more down your alley, I'd be thrilled with something like that, too.
I'd generally be happy with any sort of story involving the three characters I specified, though, so if you have a different idea for these characters, I'm sure I'll love whatever you'll come up with.
Lord Peter Wimsey (Peter, Bunter)
I vaguely remember there being one story in which Lord Peter fakes his death, and Bunter pretends to be the heir of his estate. They do it in order to catch a bad guy, obviously. Something relating to that story/those dynamics would make me extremely happy--Peter and Bunter playing with the fact that while the one might be the other's employer, they're still more than equals.
Generally, though, I would enjoy any story involving those two that plays with the slightly kinky, awkward and hilarious Lord/Butler dynamics. It could be slash or gen; I'd be more than happy with either.
Bible (New Testament) (Jesus, Judas)
Of those two characters, I'm mainly interested in Judas--exploring why he did what he did, if he was maybe right to do it, if him getting turned into the traitor archetype is fair or not. However, if you prefer depicting the story from Jesus' side, I'd find that extremely interesting as well, mainly because Jesus, a lot of the time, is written as very untouchable and infallible. Seeing his side of the story, with him as a normal human, would intrigue me.
Kiss Kiss Bang Bang (Harry, Perry)
I love Harry's and Perry's relationship. Mainly from a kinky BDSM angle, to be entirely honest, but I'd be generally interested in a fic that just explores their unlikely, antagonistic relationship--slice-of-life, maybe; five ways Harry Lockhart managed to drive Perry van Shrike to homicide. Could be set post-movie. I just want them to make me laugh, and most of the time, all they have to do is be in the same scene together to accomplish that.
That was a lot of talking there. If you already have an idea for a fic that you want to write, please do ignore my rambling entirely and write whatever you feel like writing. I'm sure I'll love whatever you come up with. If you feel like you want to pick someone's brain about my likes and dislikes, hit up![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
mind_the_tardis. She should be able to help you out.
Thank you for writing for me! And good luck. <3
thank you for doing this. I know of the horrors of Yuletide deadlines, even if this is the first year I'm participating in the challenge--the great number of people on my reading list despairing over Yuletide was what stopped me in the past from signing up. But! This year I caved. I guess what I'm trying to say is that when I'm sitting with my laptop in my lap on December 20, chewing my nails and trying to come up with something for my Yuletide fic, I will feel bad for putting you through this, and hope you know that you have my undying gratitude for signing up at all, let alone being willing to attempt to write a fic that caters to my specific requests.
Which are as follows. (Hur hur, wasting no time here.) Generally, I'm a dramedy fan. Meaning I really like stories that feel painfully, cuttingly real. To give you a general idea of what I mean--I'm a big fan of RTD's writing (Second Coming, Torchwood: Children of Earth, Doctor Who: Midnight, to give a couple of examples), and have read my way through most of Stephen King's published works. (My favorite books of his include Needful Things and It.) I like character-focused stuff, and I like stuff that combines comedy and tragedy to equal amounts.
As for fandom genres, I like angst, deathfic, angst/humor, PWP, angst/humor/romance. I'm not a big fan of schmoop--at least not if there isn't something to balance the schmoop. I like bittersweet endings, and am not at all averse to the idea of slash and kink, both explicit and non-explicit.
Things that I'd be grateful if you could avoid include of course the basics like improper spelling and grammar; then: imprecise personal pronoun referencing (I'd rather have the names used a large amount of times than everything just being "he"), POV changes within a scene, characterization being compromised to serve the plot, character bashing of any kind, sexism or misogyny of any sort, generally characters displaying any sort of privilege without that being addressed critically. (If you want to address it critically, however, characters being privileged asses and getting called out on it would make me very happy.) Oh, and I'm not a fan of genderswitch.
Now that I've probably thoroughly scared you off, here are some more details about my requests.
Hamlet (Hamlet, Horatio, Gertrude)
As far as Hamlet/Horatio go, I like the relationship that was depicted in the 2008 RSC production. Of them as friends, and with a bit of an us-against-the-rest-of-the-world feeling. Hamlet being the angry/confrontational one, while Horatio tries to keep him out of trouble a lot.
With Hamlet and Gertrude, I really like the slightly antagonistic love/hate relationship between them, so if that's more down your alley, I'd be thrilled with something like that, too.
I'd generally be happy with any sort of story involving the three characters I specified, though, so if you have a different idea for these characters, I'm sure I'll love whatever you'll come up with.
Lord Peter Wimsey (Peter, Bunter)
I vaguely remember there being one story in which Lord Peter fakes his death, and Bunter pretends to be the heir of his estate. They do it in order to catch a bad guy, obviously. Something relating to that story/those dynamics would make me extremely happy--Peter and Bunter playing with the fact that while the one might be the other's employer, they're still more than equals.
Generally, though, I would enjoy any story involving those two that plays with the slightly kinky, awkward and hilarious Lord/Butler dynamics. It could be slash or gen; I'd be more than happy with either.
Bible (New Testament) (Jesus, Judas)
Of those two characters, I'm mainly interested in Judas--exploring why he did what he did, if he was maybe right to do it, if him getting turned into the traitor archetype is fair or not. However, if you prefer depicting the story from Jesus' side, I'd find that extremely interesting as well, mainly because Jesus, a lot of the time, is written as very untouchable and infallible. Seeing his side of the story, with him as a normal human, would intrigue me.
Kiss Kiss Bang Bang (Harry, Perry)
I love Harry's and Perry's relationship. Mainly from a kinky BDSM angle, to be entirely honest, but I'd be generally interested in a fic that just explores their unlikely, antagonistic relationship--slice-of-life, maybe; five ways Harry Lockhart managed to drive Perry van Shrike to homicide. Could be set post-movie. I just want them to make me laugh, and most of the time, all they have to do is be in the same scene together to accomplish that.
That was a lot of talking there. If you already have an idea for a fic that you want to write, please do ignore my rambling entirely and write whatever you feel like writing. I'm sure I'll love whatever you come up with. If you feel like you want to pick someone's brain about my likes and dislikes, hit up
mind_the_tardis. She should be able to help you out.Thank you for writing for me! And good luck. <3
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