Yuletide letter 2020
Oct. 23rd, 2020 10:58 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
cebDear Yulegoat,
Thank you for writing for me! I love hand-made presents and I am easy to please. I hope you will find something you enjoy writing here. This is me at AO3.
My guiding philosophy this year is: please write me a story which will make me smile in January, when it's dark and cold and we're not allowed outside, and there isn't even Christmas to look forward to. I don't mind if it doesn't have a plot; this is the right time for cosy slice-of-life if there ever was one. I am looking for escapism and fluff.
General likes/dislikes:
I would prefer gen fic for all the fandoms I've nominated, though plot-relevant sex is fine (especially for Paladin's Grace) if that's where your plot needs to go. I am in a mood for happy endings this year (though if you want to write appropriately epic crushing doom for Gloryhammer then knock yourself out :-).
I like competence and the ability to think things through; I am annoyed by plots where a character does something out-of-character stupid just to advance the plot. I have no problem with in-character mistakes and if written well they can make the story.
I adore experimental and unusual formats (and, apparently, lists). Please, if you want to, tell me a story as a game or a series of drabbles or a shopping list or a puzzle or a 1-line fic with a very large set of intertwined footnotes or a poem or an ASCII map or half of a scribbled note exchange... if there's some crazy thing you've been wanting to try to write forever but aren't sure if it would work or if your recipient would get it, I am the right person to send it to. Take this as a 'HELL YES' opt-in for IF also. If you're not that person and just want to write a story, I will also be delighted, so please play to your strengths and don't feel you need to reach for a weird format if you don't want to.
DNW: No Nazis, pandemics, or 2020 real-world politics please.
All my specific suggestions are intended as idea sparks, I don't have my heart set on any of them and I will not be even slightly disappointed if you have a different idea you'd like to pursue. Run with them, or not, as suits your story.
AO3 Name: molybdomantic
Fandom: Temple of the White Rat Universe - T. Kingfisher
Characters: Shane, Grace Angelica, Istvhan, Stephen
Please, give me more of paladins being gently exasperating to everyone around them (including other paladins) in such a lovable way that you can't even tell them to stop. I just adore those big, angsty, kind-hearted, heavily-armoured, gingerbread-scented goofs.
This is the fandom where I mind least about plot. Some notable event could be going on, or everyone could just be playing cards and drinking beer; as long as paladins are being gently and adorably exasperating then I will be very happy.
Fandom: Murder Most Unladylike Series - Robin Stevens
Characters: Hazel Wong, Daisy Wells, Alexander Arcady, George Mukherjee
Hazel is my favourite character and I love her narrative voice and her careful setting out of facts and suspects. I'm also delighted by the way she matures into herself and becomes more confident throughout the series.
I would love to see more of Hazel and Daisy interacting with Alexander and George. Maybe they set each other another competition, or write each other letters full of puzzles? Or perhaps they end up collaborating on another case?
Fandom: The Extraordinary Adventures of the Athena Club - Theodora Goss
Characters: Mary Jekyll, Justine Frankenstein, Catherine Moreau, Beatrice Rappaccini
The thing I love most about this series is the variety and depth of the female main cast. They're all fully rounded characters even though they're very different people with completely different approaches to life. Their friendships are all strong and unique because each pair relates to each other in their own special way. It's so refreshing to read!
I would love a story, however inconsequential, told in the way the book does, with Catherine narrating and the others all butting in when they have something to say. (I particularly like it when Catherine uses her artistic licence and the others all object ;-). Feel free to include any of the other main characters, although I find Diana can be a bit too "look at me I want attention" for my tastes, so don't focus on her please.
Fandom: The Dundaxian Codex - Gloryhammer (Albums)
Characters: Any
I am in love with this unashamedly epic fantasy metal. It's tongue-in-cheek but in a "let us take this and make it GLORIOUS" way, not a poking fun way. It has evil wizards and mighty generational hero clans and zombie space unicorns. It reminds me of the delightfully awful Victorian poet William McGonagall (it turns out that's not even slightly accidental and he's a major influence).
I would love back-story fic for this. How did Zargothrax get so evil? Who froze the Frozen Princess? (These questions may be related.) Epic battles of the Knights of Crail (5 times they won gloriously + 1 time the Chaos Wizards wiped the floor with them). Tales of the endless line of Angus McFifes, scandinavian saga-style. Training manuals for the Knights of Crail (12 Steps To A Secure Eagle Harness).
An exception to my DNWs: ridiculously overblown Space Nazis are OK for this fandom.
Some links you might find helpful:
http://dundaxiancodex.wikia.com/wiki/Home
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lXl5x1edtRk
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MXSDPoWeXIg
Thank you for writing for me! I love hand-made presents and I am easy to please. I hope you will find something you enjoy writing here. This is me at AO3.
My guiding philosophy this year is: please write me a story which will make me smile in January, when it's dark and cold and we're not allowed outside, and there isn't even Christmas to look forward to. I don't mind if it doesn't have a plot; this is the right time for cosy slice-of-life if there ever was one. I am looking for escapism and fluff.
General likes/dislikes:
I would prefer gen fic for all the fandoms I've nominated, though plot-relevant sex is fine (especially for Paladin's Grace) if that's where your plot needs to go. I am in a mood for happy endings this year (though if you want to write appropriately epic crushing doom for Gloryhammer then knock yourself out :-).
I like competence and the ability to think things through; I am annoyed by plots where a character does something out-of-character stupid just to advance the plot. I have no problem with in-character mistakes and if written well they can make the story.
I adore experimental and unusual formats (and, apparently, lists). Please, if you want to, tell me a story as a game or a series of drabbles or a shopping list or a puzzle or a 1-line fic with a very large set of intertwined footnotes or a poem or an ASCII map or half of a scribbled note exchange... if there's some crazy thing you've been wanting to try to write forever but aren't sure if it would work or if your recipient would get it, I am the right person to send it to. Take this as a 'HELL YES' opt-in for IF also. If you're not that person and just want to write a story, I will also be delighted, so please play to your strengths and don't feel you need to reach for a weird format if you don't want to.
DNW: No Nazis, pandemics, or 2020 real-world politics please.
All my specific suggestions are intended as idea sparks, I don't have my heart set on any of them and I will not be even slightly disappointed if you have a different idea you'd like to pursue. Run with them, or not, as suits your story.
AO3 Name: molybdomantic
Fandom: Temple of the White Rat Universe - T. Kingfisher
Characters: Shane, Grace Angelica, Istvhan, Stephen
Please, give me more of paladins being gently exasperating to everyone around them (including other paladins) in such a lovable way that you can't even tell them to stop. I just adore those big, angsty, kind-hearted, heavily-armoured, gingerbread-scented goofs.
This is the fandom where I mind least about plot. Some notable event could be going on, or everyone could just be playing cards and drinking beer; as long as paladins are being gently and adorably exasperating then I will be very happy.
Fandom: Murder Most Unladylike Series - Robin Stevens
Characters: Hazel Wong, Daisy Wells, Alexander Arcady, George Mukherjee
Hazel is my favourite character and I love her narrative voice and her careful setting out of facts and suspects. I'm also delighted by the way she matures into herself and becomes more confident throughout the series.
I would love to see more of Hazel and Daisy interacting with Alexander and George. Maybe they set each other another competition, or write each other letters full of puzzles? Or perhaps they end up collaborating on another case?
Fandom: The Extraordinary Adventures of the Athena Club - Theodora Goss
Characters: Mary Jekyll, Justine Frankenstein, Catherine Moreau, Beatrice Rappaccini
The thing I love most about this series is the variety and depth of the female main cast. They're all fully rounded characters even though they're very different people with completely different approaches to life. Their friendships are all strong and unique because each pair relates to each other in their own special way. It's so refreshing to read!
I would love a story, however inconsequential, told in the way the book does, with Catherine narrating and the others all butting in when they have something to say. (I particularly like it when Catherine uses her artistic licence and the others all object ;-). Feel free to include any of the other main characters, although I find Diana can be a bit too "look at me I want attention" for my tastes, so don't focus on her please.
Fandom: The Dundaxian Codex - Gloryhammer (Albums)
Characters: Any
I am in love with this unashamedly epic fantasy metal. It's tongue-in-cheek but in a "let us take this and make it GLORIOUS" way, not a poking fun way. It has evil wizards and mighty generational hero clans and zombie space unicorns. It reminds me of the delightfully awful Victorian poet William McGonagall (it turns out that's not even slightly accidental and he's a major influence).
I would love back-story fic for this. How did Zargothrax get so evil? Who froze the Frozen Princess? (These questions may be related.) Epic battles of the Knights of Crail (5 times they won gloriously + 1 time the Chaos Wizards wiped the floor with them). Tales of the endless line of Angus McFifes, scandinavian saga-style. Training manuals for the Knights of Crail (12 Steps To A Secure Eagle Harness).
An exception to my DNWs: ridiculously overblown Space Nazis are OK for this fandom.
Some links you might find helpful:
http://dundaxiancodex.wikia.com/wiki/Home
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lXl5x1edtRk
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MXSDPoWeXIg
