Dear Yuletide Writer
Dear Yuletide Writer,
General Fic Likes/Dislikes: I generally don't like happy fic. I'm not a happy person. I'm sort of a realist with a wicked sense of humor. Happy tends to be boring. Real is interesting. I like crushing reality and relationships with people who aren't good for each other. I like manipulation. That said, I don't like meaningless wangst. No character death, unless you do it in an interesting way (See Blake's 7 for an interesting way to do character death!).Don't make it a pity party, just make it psychologically interesting and complex and delicious.
I love smut. PWP is fine by me, but I do tend to prefer the exploration of the emotions behind them. I love BDSM and kink as well. Exploration of Dom/sub relationships, etc are nice. I don't mind breathplay and blood play. If you can do it hot, do it. Make it all psychologically...yummy. The only kinks I really don't like are scat/watersports. I even like incest. I don't know why I said that, since there's no real incest pairings in ANYTHING I requested.
I love slash and femmeslash as well. I also love threesomes and moresomes. The more the merrier, etc, etc, etc. In terms of sexuality, I tend to view most of my favorite characters as flexible: they have a preference one way or another, but they are comfortable enough to act on attractions to the opposite sex. I have no idea if this is projection on my part, or if I just fall in love with characters BECAUSE of that.
Specific Fandoms of Fannishness
Ashes to Ashes
Why I'm into the show:
I would LOVE either a Jim Keats/Alex, Alex/Shaz, or Alex/Gene story. I'd take pretty much anything Alex/Shaz. No one writes it. I mean in canon Shaz says, "I'd pay," and I think I've read like 6 Alex/Shaz fics.
As for the other stories, I like manipulative fics, like I said before. I really love it when Keats manipulates Alex, or when Alex does things for Keats because she's so absolutely certain about her own preconceived ideas that she can't realize how wrong she is. I love Alex being wrong. It happens all the time!
In Alex/Gene or Alex/Keats I like anything that touches on Alex's daddy issues, Alex's need to be in control/the way she falls apart when things spiral out of control, things like that, are good. Explicit smut would be nice, but it's not necessary. I don't love mushy lovey-dovey, but I don't mind reluctant love, fucked up love, etc. I don't like Keats as overt, rapey evil. I like him as smooth, likable evil. Think Satan in South Park, not Satan in Milton. Actually, think Satan in Milton when it comes to the human foibles and pity he incurs.
D/s overtones/outright D/s is/are great in everything. Alex in my mind is alternatingly topping from the bottom and just needing to totally submit to gain any peace of mind. Straight-up smut is welcome, but psychological fic would be perfect too. Ideally a combination would exist within a fic.
Alternately, I might actually love it if Keats arranged deliberately for Alex to top him. That might be nice as well.
Blake's 7
Why I'm into the show:
I was gonna change the "why I'm into the show" bit, but...it's still totally true for this. At least I'm consistent! I did add one!
I love the Blake/Avon relationship. I love that Avon loves him so much he hates him. I love that obsession, the reluctant obsession. I love that (I think, at least) Blake is manipulating Avon's affections (whether he realizes it or not) in order to help THE CAUSE. I love that nothing will ever be more important to Blake than the cause.
Avon is also a total masochist. And a total sub. And I mean this explicitly and literally. You wouldn't believe how many Blake/Avon gay BDSM club rendezvous fics I've read, and I would TOTALLY not mind if I read one more. :D I mean for Christ-sakes, have you seen how much leather Avon wears? Yeesh.
If you don't like the slash, I'm fine with Avon/Anna and Avon/Servalan. In Avon/Anna, it might be nice to see Anna's POV from manipulating him, reluctantly falling in love with him. You can even combine previous/current Avon/Anna or Avon/Servalan into an Avon/Blake fic, as I see Avon as very flexible and basically a slut for anyone. Fandom bicycle.
A Bit of Fry and Laurie
Why I'm into the show:
Let me tell you a sad tale, Yuletide Writer. Once upon a time, when I first got into this fandom, there was NOTHING BUT lovely, funny, witty, occasionally angsty, but always brilliant Fry/Laurie RPS. And now? Now?! There is none. I haven't read a new one in...oh lord, AGES. I'd take anything. Literally anything. If you feel as though you're stranded, Id love a first-time fic at Cambridge or maybe an angsty bit about Hugh being all married. I want them in IRL character, and not in TV show character too. If that makes sense. It's like...the difference between Stephen Colbert's tv show persona and his real personality. Like that.
Knights of the Old Republic
Why I'm into the game:
Okay, you're probably seeing a pattern. I like things that are all...difficult. I would love, love, love a neutral (maybe leaning to the dark side even) Female!Revan/Bastilla fic that deals with Bastilla's fall to the darkside. You should also deal with Bastilla's attraction to Revan in terms of the whole "Jedi can't feel stuff." You should ALSO ALSO deal with how manipulative, controlling and nasty the Jedi Council is. Maybe Revan's "DARKSIDE" fall wasn't about evil. Maybe she was just trying to play the Council's game on a larger scale? Smut is a plus, of course, but smut firmly grounded in the intense psychological landscape that is KOTOR. If you don't feel entirely comfortable with the femmeslash aspect, I'd just as easily take a Male Revan.
And that's it. Should turn out great. :D
Love,
Me
(Note: Yeah flist, I'm doing Yuletide for the first time. Yes, I am petrified. I just am running out of fic to read in certain fandoms.)
General Fic Likes/Dislikes: I generally don't like happy fic. I'm not a happy person. I'm sort of a realist with a wicked sense of humor. Happy tends to be boring. Real is interesting. I like crushing reality and relationships with people who aren't good for each other. I like manipulation. That said, I don't like meaningless wangst. No character death, unless you do it in an interesting way (See Blake's 7 for an interesting way to do character death!).Don't make it a pity party, just make it psychologically interesting and complex and delicious.
I love smut. PWP is fine by me, but I do tend to prefer the exploration of the emotions behind them. I love BDSM and kink as well. Exploration of Dom/sub relationships, etc are nice. I don't mind breathplay and blood play. If you can do it hot, do it. Make it all psychologically...yummy. The only kinks I really don't like are scat/watersports. I even like incest. I don't know why I said that, since there's no real incest pairings in ANYTHING I requested.
I love slash and femmeslash as well. I also love threesomes and moresomes. The more the merrier, etc, etc, etc. In terms of sexuality, I tend to view most of my favorite characters as flexible: they have a preference one way or another, but they are comfortable enough to act on attractions to the opposite sex. I have no idea if this is projection on my part, or if I just fall in love with characters BECAUSE of that.
Specific Fandoms of Fannishness
Ashes to Ashes
Why I'm into the show:
- The mindfuckery
- The characters
- the 80s!
- The powerplays and how unintentionally (or intentionally?) kinky it is
I would LOVE either a Jim Keats/Alex, Alex/Shaz, or Alex/Gene story. I'd take pretty much anything Alex/Shaz. No one writes it. I mean in canon Shaz says, "I'd pay," and I think I've read like 6 Alex/Shaz fics.
As for the other stories, I like manipulative fics, like I said before. I really love it when Keats manipulates Alex, or when Alex does things for Keats because she's so absolutely certain about her own preconceived ideas that she can't realize how wrong she is. I love Alex being wrong. It happens all the time!
In Alex/Gene or Alex/Keats I like anything that touches on Alex's daddy issues, Alex's need to be in control/the way she falls apart when things spiral out of control, things like that, are good. Explicit smut would be nice, but it's not necessary. I don't love mushy lovey-dovey, but I don't mind reluctant love, fucked up love, etc. I don't like Keats as overt, rapey evil. I like him as smooth, likable evil. Think Satan in South Park, not Satan in Milton. Actually, think Satan in Milton when it comes to the human foibles and pity he incurs.
D/s overtones/outright D/s is/are great in everything. Alex in my mind is alternatingly topping from the bottom and just needing to totally submit to gain any peace of mind. Straight-up smut is welcome, but psychological fic would be perfect too. Ideally a combination would exist within a fic.
Alternately, I might actually love it if Keats arranged deliberately for Alex to top him. That might be nice as well.
Blake's 7
Why I'm into the show:
- The mindfuckery
- The characters
- the 80s!
- The powerplays and how unintentionally (or intentionally?) kinky it is
- THE DOOMEDNESS!
I was gonna change the "why I'm into the show" bit, but...it's still totally true for this. At least I'm consistent! I did add one!
I love the Blake/Avon relationship. I love that Avon loves him so much he hates him. I love that obsession, the reluctant obsession. I love that (I think, at least) Blake is manipulating Avon's affections (whether he realizes it or not) in order to help THE CAUSE. I love that nothing will ever be more important to Blake than the cause.
Avon is also a total masochist. And a total sub. And I mean this explicitly and literally. You wouldn't believe how many Blake/Avon gay BDSM club rendezvous fics I've read, and I would TOTALLY not mind if I read one more. :D I mean for Christ-sakes, have you seen how much leather Avon wears? Yeesh.
If you don't like the slash, I'm fine with Avon/Anna and Avon/Servalan. In Avon/Anna, it might be nice to see Anna's POV from manipulating him, reluctantly falling in love with him. You can even combine previous/current Avon/Anna or Avon/Servalan into an Avon/Blake fic, as I see Avon as very flexible and basically a slut for anyone. Fandom bicycle.
A Bit of Fry and Laurie
Why I'm into the show:
- Stephen Fry
- Hugh Laurie
- teh LULZ
Let me tell you a sad tale, Yuletide Writer. Once upon a time, when I first got into this fandom, there was NOTHING BUT lovely, funny, witty, occasionally angsty, but always brilliant Fry/Laurie RPS. And now? Now?! There is none. I haven't read a new one in...oh lord, AGES. I'd take anything. Literally anything. If you feel as though you're stranded, Id love a first-time fic at Cambridge or maybe an angsty bit about Hugh being all married. I want them in IRL character, and not in TV show character too. If that makes sense. It's like...the difference between Stephen Colbert's tv show persona and his real personality. Like that.
Knights of the Old Republic
Why I'm into the game:
- The mindfuckery
- The blank slate
- the neutrality
- The femmeslash potentiality
- the manipulation of the Jedi
Okay, you're probably seeing a pattern. I like things that are all...difficult. I would love, love, love a neutral (maybe leaning to the dark side even) Female!Revan/Bastilla fic that deals with Bastilla's fall to the darkside. You should also deal with Bastilla's attraction to Revan in terms of the whole "Jedi can't feel stuff." You should ALSO ALSO deal with how manipulative, controlling and nasty the Jedi Council is. Maybe Revan's "DARKSIDE" fall wasn't about evil. Maybe she was just trying to play the Council's game on a larger scale? Smut is a plus, of course, but smut firmly grounded in the intense psychological landscape that is KOTOR. If you don't feel entirely comfortable with the femmeslash aspect, I'd just as easily take a Male Revan.
And that's it. Should turn out great. :D
Love,
Me
(Note: Yeah flist, I'm doing Yuletide for the first time. Yes, I am petrified. I just am running out of fic to read in certain fandoms.)