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Dear Yuletide author,
I am so excited for yuletide this year! This is my fourth year participating (see still-relevant letters from 2012 and 2013 and 2014) and I am always impressed by the quality of work with these exchanges.
I'm Diaphenia on AO3.
Let’s talk about things I like and dislike, generally.
Love: Getting together stories. Tropes, especially for comedy fandoms (think roadtrips, broken elevators, anything that requires characters to spend time together). Ensemble fic, even more than shippy stuff (with an exception or two). Related, but found families are my thing, and most fandoms I read reflect that love. Spy AUs: a total bulletproof fandom kink. Banter. Flirting. Friends setting up friends. Hijinx. Groundhog's Day AUs.
No: Baby/pregnancy fic, or spending much time with canon children. Major OCs- I nominate fandoms because I want to spend time with the characters I love. Kink fic, since I’m extraordinarily picky about kink!fic. Religion. Fluff. Incest. Rape/Non-con. Character-bashing. Gross-out humor. Miracles.
Additional details: I’m fine with sexytimes, as long as it’s not PWP. Or fading to black is totally cool too. Action scenes make my eyes glaze over. And I’m not big on alternative POVs on canon scenes. I love fusions though I don't want crossovers for these fandoms.
If you want to see my fandom story recs, click here. If you want to see what fic I’ve written, click here. If you want to see my tumblr, click here, and if you want to see an occasionally-contradictory list of fic things I love, click here.
Hamilton
Angelica Schuyler
[lyrics here, rap genius annotations here]
I’ve always loved musicals and early American history and someone combined the two and the resulting rap musical is amazing. I think it’s a brilliant show, but Angelica’s story really interested me the most. I’d love something that dived into her character, either looking at her relationships with her sisters or her place in the revolution. I’ve only listened to the soundtrack, and won’t be seeing the show any time soon, so these are based solely on listening to the soundtrack again and again.
I like the canon relationships and assume the Hamilton/Angelica relationship was unconsummated.
Prompts:
Angelica has a clear friendship with Eliza. How does their relationship change over the years, as Eliza marries first, becomes a mother, and then loses her son and husband?
Per the show, Angelica also had numerous social climbers interested in her. I’d love some fic of her interacting with (debating, flirting with, gossiping about) prominent revolutionaries of the time. Feel free to include only show characters, or other historical figures, if that rocks your world.
I’ve had particular affection for Thomas Jefferson forever (blame The Jefferson Hour) and I know these two exchanged letters for years. If you wanted to write about their friendship I’d be over the moon.
Angelica, working from a disadvantage due to her gender, still gets to influence politics writing to Hamilton, Jefferson, Washington, etc. How does she work to get women “included in the sequel”?
And if you want to go totally off the wall, I’m down with some sort of AUs/crack. What happens in a world where the men stay home and she’s fighting Martha Jefferson for the presidency? Does she ever have a drink with Abigail Adams and complain about all the social climbers? Is she currently haunting Hillary Clinton, advising her on how to fight Donald Trump? Does she hang out in the afterlife with Cleopatra and Isabella the She Wolf? Does she get time-traveled into modern day DC? 1776 crossover? All of this would be bananas in all the best ways. Seriously, if any of these are your wheelhouse, feel free to go nuts.
Side note: Obviously, this is a fandom with tons of available outside material. If you want to incorporate historical events, letters, etc, from outside the musical, that’s awesome (even better if you link to the background info, in case I’m not familiar with it!) If you prefer writing strictly musical-canon fic, that’s also awesome!
Spy
Susan Cooper
Rick Ford
[movie currently available for streaming and on DVD]
I saw Spy and just adored it, and am desperately hoping they write a sequel and take all of my dollars. It was super refreshing to have a plus-sized heroine whose weight is almost never commented on, and the movie was hysterical to boot. I mildly ship Susan with Rick, so if you wanted to play with that dynamic, that’d be fantastic. If not, I’d prefer gen.
I love everyone in the movie, so feel free to include whoever you’d enjoy writing
Prompts:
My dream sequel is that the spies have to pull Rayna out of jail (as part of a plea deal? are they going against the government and sneaking her out?) to work together to take down some wild shadowy villain. The begrudging friendship between Rayna and Susan was a delight, and Rayna clearly has knowledge on whatever McGuffin is going on. How does this play out?
Rick and Susan attend Nancy/50 Cent’s wedding together
I know high school AUs are out of vogue, but I really think this would be a great fandom for a high school AU! References early in the movie make Susan’s mom into a real peach, so I want to see Susan gain her confidence earlier, in some high-stake (high school) version of everything-- speech team, debate team, maybe she is the new lead in the musical?
Rick takes Susan on one of his ridiculous missions
Spy AUs are my very favorite type of AU, from all the many times of spy archetypes. I’d love to see Susan (/Rick) in an AU that looks that the many iterations of spy she could be. Think “five times”/spy AU-- her as a gumshoe, a Nick/Nora partnership, noir, etc
As this is a comedy fandom, literally all the tropes: road trip, stuck in an elevator, spin the bottle, sharing a bed, etc, etc, etc.
You’re the Worst
any [Jimmy, Gretchen, Lindsay, Edgar, Sam]
[First season on Hulu Plus, second season currently airing on FXX]
This show is a recent love of mine thanks to my friend clubgetright. It’s sharp, hilarious, and it moves quick. I love the friendships between Edgar and Jimmy, and Lindsay and Gretchen, and the romance between Jimmy and Gretchen has been a real delight. I haven’t yet seen the second season, as it’s not on Hulu, so the prompts I’m leaving will reflect that, but feel free to incorporate material from either season, as I will try to be caught up by Christmas.
I love all the bit characters, so write in anyone from the show you’d enjoy writing. I feel like basically pairing up any two people from this show could be a really funny thing, so feel free to go wild!
Fandom-specific DNW: I know Jimmy has a foot fetish, but I don’t. If you could just slide on past that, I’d be pleased.
Prompts:
Jimmy/Gretchen or Edgar/Lindsay on a double date with Becca/Vernon
Gretchen learning to cook with Edgar
Lindsay helping Jimmy pick out engagement rings
Gretchen helping Sam with his next album/taking him to the Grammys
Sam and Lindsay end up on a date accidentally
Someone throws a party!
Bachelor party with Edgar, Vernon, Paul, Jimmy, Sam, etc/Bachlorette party with the ladies
As this is a comedy fandom, literally all the tropes: road trip, stuck in an elevator, spin the bottle, sharing a bed, etc, etc, etc.
For something a little cracky: wing!fic, soulmate AU (but with some sort of sharp twist), Pride and Prejudice AU
That should be everything! If you need additional clarification, please feel free to reach out to
throwingpens/iloveyouandilikeyou. She may write her answer in all caps, but she gets me, fandom-wise.
Thanks!
Diaphenia