DEAR YULETIDE AUTHOR, FROM WHENCE ALL GOOD THINGS FLOW.
Dear Benevolent Yuletide Being!
Thank you for writing for me!! Here are some more general details to go along with my requests, in case it's helpful! Pick and choose any of this at will:
I love details. I really dig unusual narrative styles. I don't love fic that's just one character being introspective or rehashing canon.
I like fic that's wistful or funny or about something beyond just the relationship (tree forts or an event or a cupcake quest or whatever), or about the details of everyday life. I like fic about the feelings of things beginning. I like to know what the weather feels like.
I love humor. I love crazy cracky premises. I love futurefic. I love a/us. I really really love body swap fic, which no one seems to write anymore! Basically you can not freak me out with weirdness of premise, so go crazy if that's your jam.
I LOVE girls being friends, so if you can work that into any of the requests, I'll be thrilled.
And here are more specifics, if you'd like some ideas (original requests in italics):
#1: Community
Types of stories I would thoroughly enjoy:
Abed/Troy/Annie - especially with sexytimes. And complicated feelings.
Abed/Troy - schmoop. Anything exploring all the awesome facets of their awesome relationship and the places where it might go, and their reactions to their friendship leveling-up. I'd love the dawning realization of feelings or first time fic or one of them tuning in and realizing the other one has been there with feelings all along. Not that big on established relationship fic here, I love that yummy first-time feeling.
Abed/Annie - how would Abed deal with a crush, and wherever that would lead?
Jeff/Annie - … dirty. Dirty dirty dirty. Playing up the age difference and power dynamic.
Abed/anyone - male or female. Fic about him experiencing ~*~feelings~*~ and processing it. Actually that applies to any of the Abed pairings above!
OR. A fic where Abed directs movies which involve having any combo of Troy/Annie/him make out and/or hit it onscreen. With sexy direction-giving and confusing feelings on the part of all involved.
And/or Troy/Abed UST, in either direction, all longing and feelings. What if the other one's oblivious? What if he's not?
#2: Royalty RPF, Kate Middleton/Harry
Harry's secretly in love with Kate. GO!
(No William bashing, please!)
DON'T JUDGE, WE ALL HAVE SHAMEFUL DESIRES. It's just: you've seen the pics of the two of them hanging out together all the time, right? Giggling at royal events? They LIVED together, with William, for heaven's sake. He arranged the entertainment at her birthday party!
(The following ideas shamelessly stolen from old emails with annakovsky: Harry probably tries to crack Kate up all the time and make her look like not the perfect future queen and she's always dying inside and also, him and William are the only ones who really understand what her life is going to be like, and the two of them are always together since they have such a weird life.
Also maybe Harry was an ass to everyone else William ever dated or hung out with, so he warned Kate, but then Harry was just awesome to Kate. It used to be a team of two against the world and now it's a team of three.
Plus the lipreader's report that he whispered "wait 'til you see her" to William as she was coming down the aisle. <3333
And Chelsy -- I bet Kate is really nice to her whenever they're on-again and he brings her somewhere, and it makes him feel really weird seeing them together and then they go home and have weird, intense sex. What. And/or he hit it with Pippa because of his complicated Kate feelings.
(Also, given how many times Harry has reportedly forgotten to pick up Chelsy at airports and train stations: Now I'm just picturing Harry always hanging out with Kate and William back at the palace, having an awesome time, and eventually someone's like, "Is Chelsy coming?" and Harry's like, "FUCK" and then rushes off to the wrong terminal. EVERY TIME. THAT IS AMAZING.)
ALTERNATE PLOT BUNNY, courtesy of bear: (You know what would be incredible? Harry Windsor and Harry Potter run into each other in a bar and neither can quite believe that the other has no idea who he is and then they are both REALLY ECSTATIC not to have all their stupid baggage for a change and become friends and/or have sex.)
AND/OR WILLIAM/KATE/HARRY OT3 FIC, if that's what floats your boat, GO FOR IT.
#3: Hainish Cycle, Ursula K. Le Guin
I realize this is the worst kind of request to get, but I would seriously love ANYTHING set in this universe. I love it so much. Especially if there's a fairly major female character, though that's not strictly necessary.
More details, if it helps: my fav things about the series are the interesting alien ethnographies/anthropological bent, the explorations of really good speculative ideas to their logical societal conclusions, and the way gender is used. Plus the feeling of... I don't know... longing? Gentle ennui? Sweetness? That imbues a lot of her characters. Original fic or fic based on any of the books is equally great!
Here are my fav Hainish cycle books, in order:
Four Ways to Forgiveness
A Fisherman of the Inland Sea (would LOVE to see something expanding on the churten technology implications we see here!)
The Birthday of the World and Other Stories
The Dispossessed
The Telling
The Left Hand of Darkness
The Word for World Is Forest
I haven't read the others yet, but am equally happy for fic in them. :)
I think that about says it all. Also these quotes, and everything they represent about what makes her writing awesome. <33333
And oh, yeah, seriously, the stories about churten technology that conclude A Fisherman of the Inland Sea blew my mind; I'd love fic that built on any of them!
Thank you again! Happy writing!!!
Thank you for writing for me!! Here are some more general details to go along with my requests, in case it's helpful! Pick and choose any of this at will:
I love details. I really dig unusual narrative styles. I don't love fic that's just one character being introspective or rehashing canon.
I like fic that's wistful or funny or about something beyond just the relationship (tree forts or an event or a cupcake quest or whatever), or about the details of everyday life. I like fic about the feelings of things beginning. I like to know what the weather feels like.
I love humor. I love crazy cracky premises. I love futurefic. I love a/us. I really really love body swap fic, which no one seems to write anymore! Basically you can not freak me out with weirdness of premise, so go crazy if that's your jam.
I LOVE girls being friends, so if you can work that into any of the requests, I'll be thrilled.
And here are more specifics, if you'd like some ideas (original requests in italics):
#1: Community
Types of stories I would thoroughly enjoy:
Abed/Troy/Annie - especially with sexytimes. And complicated feelings.
Abed/Troy - schmoop. Anything exploring all the awesome facets of their awesome relationship and the places where it might go, and their reactions to their friendship leveling-up. I'd love the dawning realization of feelings or first time fic or one of them tuning in and realizing the other one has been there with feelings all along. Not that big on established relationship fic here, I love that yummy first-time feeling.
Abed/Annie - how would Abed deal with a crush, and wherever that would lead?
Jeff/Annie - … dirty. Dirty dirty dirty. Playing up the age difference and power dynamic.
Abed/anyone - male or female. Fic about him experiencing ~*~feelings~*~ and processing it. Actually that applies to any of the Abed pairings above!
OR. A fic where Abed directs movies which involve having any combo of Troy/Annie/him make out and/or hit it onscreen. With sexy direction-giving and confusing feelings on the part of all involved.
And/or Troy/Abed UST, in either direction, all longing and feelings. What if the other one's oblivious? What if he's not?
#2: Royalty RPF, Kate Middleton/Harry
Harry's secretly in love with Kate. GO!
(No William bashing, please!)
DON'T JUDGE, WE ALL HAVE SHAMEFUL DESIRES. It's just: you've seen the pics of the two of them hanging out together all the time, right? Giggling at royal events? They LIVED together, with William, for heaven's sake. He arranged the entertainment at her birthday party!
(The following ideas shamelessly stolen from old emails with annakovsky: Harry probably tries to crack Kate up all the time and make her look like not the perfect future queen and she's always dying inside and also, him and William are the only ones who really understand what her life is going to be like, and the two of them are always together since they have such a weird life.
Also maybe Harry was an ass to everyone else William ever dated or hung out with, so he warned Kate, but then Harry was just awesome to Kate. It used to be a team of two against the world and now it's a team of three.
Plus the lipreader's report that he whispered "wait 'til you see her" to William as she was coming down the aisle. <3333
And Chelsy -- I bet Kate is really nice to her whenever they're on-again and he brings her somewhere, and it makes him feel really weird seeing them together and then they go home and have weird, intense sex. What. And/or he hit it with Pippa because of his complicated Kate feelings.
(Also, given how many times Harry has reportedly forgotten to pick up Chelsy at airports and train stations: Now I'm just picturing Harry always hanging out with Kate and William back at the palace, having an awesome time, and eventually someone's like, "Is Chelsy coming?" and Harry's like, "FUCK" and then rushes off to the wrong terminal. EVERY TIME. THAT IS AMAZING.)
ALTERNATE PLOT BUNNY, courtesy of bear: (You know what would be incredible? Harry Windsor and Harry Potter run into each other in a bar and neither can quite believe that the other has no idea who he is and then they are both REALLY ECSTATIC not to have all their stupid baggage for a change and become friends and/or have sex.)
AND/OR WILLIAM/KATE/HARRY OT3 FIC, if that's what floats your boat, GO FOR IT.
#3: Hainish Cycle, Ursula K. Le Guin
I realize this is the worst kind of request to get, but I would seriously love ANYTHING set in this universe. I love it so much. Especially if there's a fairly major female character, though that's not strictly necessary.
More details, if it helps: my fav things about the series are the interesting alien ethnographies/anthropological bent, the explorations of really good speculative ideas to their logical societal conclusions, and the way gender is used. Plus the feeling of... I don't know... longing? Gentle ennui? Sweetness? That imbues a lot of her characters. Original fic or fic based on any of the books is equally great!
Here are my fav Hainish cycle books, in order:
Four Ways to Forgiveness
A Fisherman of the Inland Sea (would LOVE to see something expanding on the churten technology implications we see here!)
The Birthday of the World and Other Stories
The Dispossessed
The Telling
The Left Hand of Darkness
The Word for World Is Forest
I haven't read the others yet, but am equally happy for fic in them. :)
I think that about says it all. Also these quotes, and everything they represent about what makes her writing awesome. <33333
And oh, yeah, seriously, the stories about churten technology that conclude A Fisherman of the Inland Sea blew my mind; I'd love fic that built on any of them!
Thank you again! Happy writing!!!