Dear Yuletide Santa
Nov. 3rd, 2006 06:48 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
arduinnaDear Yuletide Santa,
Thank you so much! I've spent the entire week refreshing the fandoms list and being gleeful at the sight of gold numbers next to all of my requests, and I'm so happy you're writing one of them!
My prompts were mostly vague partly because I love surprises so it almost never occurs to me to think "what kind of story do I want to get?", and partly because I didn't want to make you feel obligated to meet any requirements. Seriously, whatever you want to write is great, and the happier you are with what you write, the happier I'll be reading it. If you have an idea that you're itching to write, go for it!
If you want or need more info, though:
You will have noticed I'm a slash fan. *g* Slash for me covers the full spectrum from UST and preslash through totally committed/involved, and can be explicit or not depending on what suits the story. It's all about the characters and their relationship, whatever point it may be at.
But if you don't do slash, that's fine! "Relationship" also covers friendship (or, in one particular case in one of my requests, enemies with a strong connection), and gen will also make me happy.
Some things I like, in no particular order: first times, hurt/comfort (physical or emotional), snark, banter, affection, trust (either existing, or discovering, trust), competence, happy endings (or endings that leave room for eventual happiness), plots, pwps, character studies, longing/yearning, wit, romance (in terms of a building relationship, not so much the Harlequin/Mills&Boon sort of thing), the moment of discovery/realization, canon-based characterization.
If you want a more extensive look at the sorts of things I like, I have a recs site that you can
look at if that will help, including last year's Yuletide recs.
The only things I can't read are domestic discipline and embarrassment/humiliation (I have a severe embarrassment squick); the next rung of that ladder would be the "really not my cup of tea" level, with things like hardcore bdsm, torturefic, mpreg, and genderfuck. Beyond those, pretty much anything goes.
Although I tend to prefer the lighter, vanilla, happy/fluffy end of the spectrum, a dip into murkier waters is no problem. :)
I never know if I should give "why I love this fandom" info. Last year I didn't, so I guess I'll switch off and add it this year.
Equalizer: During the series, they're that cranky old married couple who bitch and moan and poke at each other, but they're always there for each other no matter what. A relationship that deep and strong and long-lasting isn't normal in their business, and nothing seems to be able to jeopardize it. I've always wanted to know how they got that way. I don't mean the whole decades-long story (although hey, if you want to write it, I won't complain *g*), but some point of connection between them before Control became Control. (Also, fwiw, I always thought his first name should be Paul, even before the actor showed up on KF:tLC as a character named Paul, whose background was weirdly Control-ish, which freaked me out no end because clearly I am psychic. So if you don't have a first name for him in your head already...)
Invisible Man: The only main character I didn't like was Alex. Beyond her, I-Man made me incredibly happy -- a true buddy show with great secondary characters, great dialogue, wackiness and humor and tragedy and courage and omg Flowers for Hobbes! and paranoia and lithium and quicksilver madness and matching sunglasses and "little *prick*!" and it was just all good. Anything, absolutely anything, would make me happy. Pre-canon ('cause, Kevin!), canon, post-canon, you name it.
MASH: Hawkeye and Trapper are a dozen different walking fanfic cliches, and I love them so much. They're another buddy pair for me, either slash or gen -- they belong together. Show me that they care about each other, or that they make each other laugh, or that they can be angry at each other and still be completely connected, and I will be so happy. Again, pre-canon, canon, or post-canon, it's all good.
Wiseguy: I watched Wiseguy before I knew what slash was. I was so heartbroken at the end of the arc that I stopped watching the show -- not out of spite, or anything, but because I couldn't imagine what they could possibly be airing, because Wiseguy was about Vinnie and Sonny, and how much they loved and needed each other. The show was *over* after the arc ended. Years later I watched and loved the whole series and Vinnie's relationships with Roger and Frank, but I never lost my true love for Sonny/Vinnie. Their connection rocks my world.
And thank you, again! Yay!
Thank you so much! I've spent the entire week refreshing the fandoms list and being gleeful at the sight of gold numbers next to all of my requests, and I'm so happy you're writing one of them!
My prompts were mostly vague partly because I love surprises so it almost never occurs to me to think "what kind of story do I want to get?", and partly because I didn't want to make you feel obligated to meet any requirements. Seriously, whatever you want to write is great, and the happier you are with what you write, the happier I'll be reading it. If you have an idea that you're itching to write, go for it!
If you want or need more info, though:
You will have noticed I'm a slash fan. *g* Slash for me covers the full spectrum from UST and preslash through totally committed/involved, and can be explicit or not depending on what suits the story. It's all about the characters and their relationship, whatever point it may be at.
But if you don't do slash, that's fine! "Relationship" also covers friendship (or, in one particular case in one of my requests, enemies with a strong connection), and gen will also make me happy.
Some things I like, in no particular order: first times, hurt/comfort (physical or emotional), snark, banter, affection, trust (either existing, or discovering, trust), competence, happy endings (or endings that leave room for eventual happiness), plots, pwps, character studies, longing/yearning, wit, romance (in terms of a building relationship, not so much the Harlequin/Mills&Boon sort of thing), the moment of discovery/realization, canon-based characterization.
If you want a more extensive look at the sorts of things I like, I have a recs site that you can
look at if that will help, including last year's Yuletide recs.
The only things I can't read are domestic discipline and embarrassment/humiliation (I have a severe embarrassment squick); the next rung of that ladder would be the "really not my cup of tea" level, with things like hardcore bdsm, torturefic, mpreg, and genderfuck. Beyond those, pretty much anything goes.
Although I tend to prefer the lighter, vanilla, happy/fluffy end of the spectrum, a dip into murkier waters is no problem. :)
I never know if I should give "why I love this fandom" info. Last year I didn't, so I guess I'll switch off and add it this year.
Equalizer: During the series, they're that cranky old married couple who bitch and moan and poke at each other, but they're always there for each other no matter what. A relationship that deep and strong and long-lasting isn't normal in their business, and nothing seems to be able to jeopardize it. I've always wanted to know how they got that way. I don't mean the whole decades-long story (although hey, if you want to write it, I won't complain *g*), but some point of connection between them before Control became Control. (Also, fwiw, I always thought his first name should be Paul, even before the actor showed up on KF:tLC as a character named Paul, whose background was weirdly Control-ish, which freaked me out no end because clearly I am psychic. So if you don't have a first name for him in your head already...)
Invisible Man: The only main character I didn't like was Alex. Beyond her, I-Man made me incredibly happy -- a true buddy show with great secondary characters, great dialogue, wackiness and humor and tragedy and courage and omg Flowers for Hobbes! and paranoia and lithium and quicksilver madness and matching sunglasses and "little *prick*!" and it was just all good. Anything, absolutely anything, would make me happy. Pre-canon ('cause, Kevin!), canon, post-canon, you name it.
MASH: Hawkeye and Trapper are a dozen different walking fanfic cliches, and I love them so much. They're another buddy pair for me, either slash or gen -- they belong together. Show me that they care about each other, or that they make each other laugh, or that they can be angry at each other and still be completely connected, and I will be so happy. Again, pre-canon, canon, or post-canon, it's all good.
Wiseguy: I watched Wiseguy before I knew what slash was. I was so heartbroken at the end of the arc that I stopped watching the show -- not out of spite, or anything, but because I couldn't imagine what they could possibly be airing, because Wiseguy was about Vinnie and Sonny, and how much they loved and needed each other. The show was *over* after the arc ended. Years later I watched and loved the whole series and Vinnie's relationships with Roger and Frank, but I never lost my true love for Sonny/Vinnie. Their connection rocks my world.
And thank you, again! Yay!
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