Dear Yuletide Writer
First and foremost, thank you. I salute your courage and your willingness to write for a stranger. I hope, after this exchange, we can become fandom friends since you have such a fine taste.
Writing is, at best, hard labor and I want you to know I appreciate your efforts. I assure you I'll pounce on any fic you write and enjoy it at leisure: You are writing me a story!
I put it in different words in the sign-up form but I'm really most interested in the canon-verse, so I’d appreciate a story about that rather than a crossover or AU. Also, I have some things I rather not read on Christmas morning; My DNWs are related mainly to bodily fluids, harm and hard Kinks (knifeplay, breathplay, extreme bondage, electricity play, and the sorts). Any other day, I would pounce on them without thinking but not on Christmas morning (Blame my catholicism). That said, I love a good sexual tale, please feel free to write porn (even PWP), if that tickles your right. On the Gen side, I'm a sucker for curtain fic and all sorts of domesticity. If you write romance, I'm not on the side of mushy words, I rather have an established couple showing their love through acts, rather than flowery discourses. I'm not a fan of poetry, but any prose would be right down my alley, use the format you like better and that make you comfortable.
Oh, and before I forgot: please, don't write a lengthy fic for me. I'm a slow reader and I find fic over 10k words hard to read and to reply with the required speed.
Now, you are here for a reason. Let us proceed to the fandoms!
Strange Planet (Webcomic)
This is a five-minute fandom. You can check a small selection at the Author's Page (LINK), but if you need more inspiration the tag "strangeplanet" at Imgur has more examples readily available.
I didn't ask for a character in particular because all the characters are funny in their own way and because I rather read whatever idea springs to your mind. If world-building is your jam, go wild, my friend!
Of course, everyone consumes the webcomic differently, but, for me, the key of the humor is the absurdly formal language the characters use to describe the most mundane actions. The disparity is frankly hilarious. If you can come with a new vision for the common human experience, I'll squee to the next year.
The author of this comic can't travel a thousand routes because he wants to be published, I know, but you are free! if politics tickles you pink, I'm not adverse. Child-rearing and child-plays? Yes, please. Sports? Of course! Sex? I like the way you think! Darkness and mortality? I read it like nobody's business! Fandom life? Oh, boy! YES!
As long as you avoid my DNWs, I'll read it and squee to it, promise!
I pirati della Malesia | The Pirates of Malaysia - Emilio Salgari
The complete opposite of the last fandom. If you are not familiar with this book series, I can't blame you. Few people outside Italy and Latin America had heard of this. I'll try to summarize it for you: This is a dated story about a dethroned Malay prince, Sandokan, turned pirate to avenge his slain family. He has a friend, Yanez de Gomera, who is Portuguese and a heavy smoker and that's all the information Salgari gave us. These two are larger than life and twice as dramatic, they oppose the British Empire and East India Company in spectacular naval battles and narrow scape skirmishes. Like all other penny dreadfuls of its time, it's full of romance and high ideals. This fandom is ripe for a post-colonial reading!
What I love the most of this series is the Bash Brothers dynamics of the protagonists: they rather die than to leave the other in troubles (Here you have a set of shipping googles!). Give me anything with these two and I will seriously regard you as a higher being! Take them to swim; made them argue about how to split the loot; show me how they plan an ambush; tell me how Sandokan trained Yanez to eat spicy food; put both of them in a hammock and let them take twenty winks (or not? I like slash!). Literally ANYTHING!
Pre-canon would be awesome, Post-Canon is an excelent choice because there was never a formal ending due to Autor Existence Failure. If you have the time and inclination, the TV tropes page (LINK) is pretty amusing reading material. I'm sure there is a version in English if you roam the Internet (Roh Press have some samples) and I would offer you my amazon books but that would spoil the surprise.
And last, but not the least...
Anne of Green Gables - L. M. Montgomery
I asked for my favorite ladies-beside Anne herself-for Yuletide because I just reread them and I can't take them from my mind.
Miss Cornelia and her acerbic sense of humor and her practical way to see the world would make me happy any day of the week and twice during Yuletide: tell me how she manages that firecracker of Mary Vance or how she argues the prices at the store; spin me a tale of the ways she manages her husband or how she chides Anne for her liberal ways. Miss Cornelia is a delight and I'm ready to read your take on her.
Now, I asked for Susan Baker and Rebecca Dew. Canonically, they are friends and they correspond by letter, I might like a peek into those letters if you like to write epistolary fic, but if you don't like the format a regular domestic fic of them arguing over laundry or a recipe would do; they can knit and gossip about the children and the neighbors. Also, I'm not adverse of their developing a loving relationship over time, femmeslash is always awesome.
Give me more of these lovely ladies, please!
Wow, so much squee... Feel free to disregard any of this prompts and to write the fic your heart desires. I would be happy to read whatever you write.
You have my respect and my admiration. I wish you the best in this season!
~Arithanas
Writing is, at best, hard labor and I want you to know I appreciate your efforts. I assure you I'll pounce on any fic you write and enjoy it at leisure: You are writing me a story!
I put it in different words in the sign-up form but I'm really most interested in the canon-verse, so I’d appreciate a story about that rather than a crossover or AU. Also, I have some things I rather not read on Christmas morning; My DNWs are related mainly to bodily fluids, harm and hard Kinks (knifeplay, breathplay, extreme bondage, electricity play, and the sorts). Any other day, I would pounce on them without thinking but not on Christmas morning (Blame my catholicism). That said, I love a good sexual tale, please feel free to write porn (even PWP), if that tickles your right. On the Gen side, I'm a sucker for curtain fic and all sorts of domesticity. If you write romance, I'm not on the side of mushy words, I rather have an established couple showing their love through acts, rather than flowery discourses. I'm not a fan of poetry, but any prose would be right down my alley, use the format you like better and that make you comfortable.
Oh, and before I forgot: please, don't write a lengthy fic for me. I'm a slow reader and I find fic over 10k words hard to read and to reply with the required speed.
Now, you are here for a reason. Let us proceed to the fandoms!
Strange Planet (Webcomic)
This is a five-minute fandom. You can check a small selection at the Author's Page (LINK), but if you need more inspiration the tag "strangeplanet" at Imgur has more examples readily available.
I didn't ask for a character in particular because all the characters are funny in their own way and because I rather read whatever idea springs to your mind. If world-building is your jam, go wild, my friend!
Of course, everyone consumes the webcomic differently, but, for me, the key of the humor is the absurdly formal language the characters use to describe the most mundane actions. The disparity is frankly hilarious. If you can come with a new vision for the common human experience, I'll squee to the next year.
The author of this comic can't travel a thousand routes because he wants to be published, I know, but you are free! if politics tickles you pink, I'm not adverse. Child-rearing and child-plays? Yes, please. Sports? Of course! Sex? I like the way you think! Darkness and mortality? I read it like nobody's business! Fandom life? Oh, boy! YES!
As long as you avoid my DNWs, I'll read it and squee to it, promise!
I pirati della Malesia | The Pirates of Malaysia - Emilio Salgari
The complete opposite of the last fandom. If you are not familiar with this book series, I can't blame you. Few people outside Italy and Latin America had heard of this. I'll try to summarize it for you: This is a dated story about a dethroned Malay prince, Sandokan, turned pirate to avenge his slain family. He has a friend, Yanez de Gomera, who is Portuguese and a heavy smoker and that's all the information Salgari gave us. These two are larger than life and twice as dramatic, they oppose the British Empire and East India Company in spectacular naval battles and narrow scape skirmishes. Like all other penny dreadfuls of its time, it's full of romance and high ideals. This fandom is ripe for a post-colonial reading!
What I love the most of this series is the Bash Brothers dynamics of the protagonists: they rather die than to leave the other in troubles (Here you have a set of shipping googles!). Give me anything with these two and I will seriously regard you as a higher being! Take them to swim; made them argue about how to split the loot; show me how they plan an ambush; tell me how Sandokan trained Yanez to eat spicy food; put both of them in a hammock and let them take twenty winks (or not? I like slash!). Literally ANYTHING!
Pre-canon would be awesome, Post-Canon is an excelent choice because there was never a formal ending due to Autor Existence Failure. If you have the time and inclination, the TV tropes page (LINK) is pretty amusing reading material. I'm sure there is a version in English if you roam the Internet (Roh Press have some samples) and I would offer you my amazon books but that would spoil the surprise.
And last, but not the least...
Anne of Green Gables - L. M. Montgomery
I asked for my favorite ladies-beside Anne herself-for Yuletide because I just reread them and I can't take them from my mind.
Miss Cornelia and her acerbic sense of humor and her practical way to see the world would make me happy any day of the week and twice during Yuletide: tell me how she manages that firecracker of Mary Vance or how she argues the prices at the store; spin me a tale of the ways she manages her husband or how she chides Anne for her liberal ways. Miss Cornelia is a delight and I'm ready to read your take on her.
Now, I asked for Susan Baker and Rebecca Dew. Canonically, they are friends and they correspond by letter, I might like a peek into those letters if you like to write epistolary fic, but if you don't like the format a regular domestic fic of them arguing over laundry or a recipe would do; they can knit and gossip about the children and the neighbors. Also, I'm not adverse of their developing a loving relationship over time, femmeslash is always awesome.
Give me more of these lovely ladies, please!
Wow, so much squee... Feel free to disregard any of this prompts and to write the fic your heart desires. I would be happy to read whatever you write.
You have my respect and my admiration. I wish you the best in this season!
~Arithanas