December meme: fic commission
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marginaliana: if you could commission the perfect piece of fiction, what would it be like?
Oh, this one's hard for me. I like surprises and discovery, and commissioning something would take some of that away. So it's not the sort of thing I think about, usually.
Although, oo, wait -- for profic, I'd commission The Door Into Starlight from Diane Duane. There's been a spot for it on my shelf for ages now.
But I suspect this is for fanfic, so. Hm.
If I were commissioning a desert-island kinda story, I'd go for something long -- really long, over 100,000 words, possibly a lot over. *g* Slash, with a slow-building relationship leading to a first time and then maybe establishing itself (or at least starting to), probably woven into a case/mission/other plotty thing -- doesn't need to be complicated, necessarily, just something so they're doing something (preferably together) as well as developing a romance. (I would far rather watch them open a restaurant together for 100k words, slowly falling in love between arguments about decor and bonding over the menu, than watch them go out to dinner on dates for 100k words, IOW. Although the dinner date thing is also good in shorter stuff!) (Also also, I loved The Larton Chronicles, so really, sometimes the plottier stuff just isn't necessary.)
(... I am very bad at this "what specific thing do you like" thing *kof*)
Okay, so, er, long, and maybe plotty and maybe not, but slash and romance. That's a start. I also really like warm stories -- no objection to hot, mind you, but warm is also key for me. I like cCharacters who have genuine affection for each other -- not just lust or even love, but like, too. Mutual respect and trust, either right from the beginning or growing through the story. (Actually, that goes for the like/lust/love, too -- it can grow, it doesn't have to be there from the beginning, depending on the characters; the moment when a character realizes that things have changed is one of my favorite things, done well.) I like fairly even power dynamics; I love competence, and when characters are competent at different things and respect each other for it.
I tend to like canon-based and canon-divergent stories best, but also certain kinds of AU, depending on the fandom; I'm not keen on most of the current popular AUs like high-school, college, barista, A/B/O, but others can really work for me if the characterization is there.
I love happy endings. <3
So: long/epic, maybe-plotty, slash, romance, warmth, affection, trust, respect, competence, a relationship that grows, first time. /tags
Other tropes are welcome in there, but that's probably the core of it. Mostly I'm a pretty vanilla sap who likes characters who like each other and want to make each other happy, who maybe have some (mis)adventures along the way.
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Full request list here, still open!
marginaliana: if you could commission the perfect piece of fiction, what would it be like?Oh, this one's hard for me. I like surprises and discovery, and commissioning something would take some of that away. So it's not the sort of thing I think about, usually.
Although, oo, wait -- for profic, I'd commission The Door Into Starlight from Diane Duane. There's been a spot for it on my shelf for ages now.
But I suspect this is for fanfic, so. Hm.
If I were commissioning a desert-island kinda story, I'd go for something long -- really long, over 100,000 words, possibly a lot over. *g* Slash, with a slow-building relationship leading to a first time and then maybe establishing itself (or at least starting to), probably woven into a case/mission/other plotty thing -- doesn't need to be complicated, necessarily, just something so they're doing something (preferably together) as well as developing a romance. (I would far rather watch them open a restaurant together for 100k words, slowly falling in love between arguments about decor and bonding over the menu, than watch them go out to dinner on dates for 100k words, IOW. Although the dinner date thing is also good in shorter stuff!) (Also also, I loved The Larton Chronicles, so really, sometimes the plottier stuff just isn't necessary.)
(... I am very bad at this "what specific thing do you like" thing *kof*)
Okay, so, er, long, and maybe plotty and maybe not, but slash and romance. That's a start. I also really like warm stories -- no objection to hot, mind you, but warm is also key for me. I like cCharacters who have genuine affection for each other -- not just lust or even love, but like, too. Mutual respect and trust, either right from the beginning or growing through the story. (Actually, that goes for the like/lust/love, too -- it can grow, it doesn't have to be there from the beginning, depending on the characters; the moment when a character realizes that things have changed is one of my favorite things, done well.) I like fairly even power dynamics; I love competence, and when characters are competent at different things and respect each other for it.
I tend to like canon-based and canon-divergent stories best, but also certain kinds of AU, depending on the fandom; I'm not keen on most of the current popular AUs like high-school, college, barista, A/B/O, but others can really work for me if the characterization is there.
I love happy endings. <3
So: long/epic, maybe-plotty, slash, romance, warmth, affection, trust, respect, competence, a relationship that grows, first time. /tags
Other tropes are welcome in there, but that's probably the core of it. Mostly I'm a pretty vanilla sap who likes characters who like each other and want to make each other happy, who maybe have some (mis)adventures along the way.
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Full request list here, still open!
