Yuletide 2017
Dear Yuletide Author
General notes on what I like and dislike which I am copy and pasting from a previous post:
First of all, the most important thing to me about fandom is the characters. Characterization is King and all that, I am super excited about anything, from firmly-in-canon wacky AUs to beloved fandom tropes. As long as the characters are real, I am happy. (Take this with a grain of salt for the video fandoms, you work with what you've got!)
I LOVE Tropes. Love, love, love. (Pretend marriages? Road trips? Everybody has super powers? Set in outerspace or with them everyone-as-spies? Freaky Friday or Groundhog Day? All is beautiful. It can be comical or angsty or plotty or sweet or action-filled or whatever. Write to your comfort! )
Things I don't want: In general, I don't have a lot of squicks, but I can say I don't want S&A incest and for Yuletide, no death!fic, pretty please!, and if your fic goes angsty or dark, that it have a happy/hopeful ending.
I am not big on Porn-without-Plot. Emotions-based porn or with a touch of humor works more for me. Beyond that, I am happy with any rating whatsoever, and with m/m, f/m, or f/f. IF you go a shipping route on a fic, I prefer relationship buildup and development far, far more than fics that start with an established relationship. I am absolutely happy with fade-to-blacks if writing porn makes you uncomfortable, because really, it's the emotional aspect of ship fics that hits my kinks!
On the 'childhood books' theme, on any of them I would be intrigued by a teen-or-adult modernization, same characters but set in the now instead of canon. Or the future!fic (canon or modernized). Or settled firmly in the there and then.
I don't have a lot to say about the specific prompts that I didn't say in my requests, so I'll just copy and paste them (actually, I'm expanding JUST to clarify but hopefully it's not too late and I haven't crushed your soul, Yuletide author!):
Lip Sync Challenge:
This was the dream I never knew I wanted and I don't care what you do with it (aka, it can tie into other roles Tom Holland has done or be RPF or it can be the fictionalized performance itself - sorry, I wrote this prompt half asleep and in case that didn't make any sense, I mean it could be based in a world where his persona in the lip sync is a main character and go all out on what that means to you.)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1i5DEipIWh4
The Girl with the Silver Eyes:
What I would really love is the answer to the question "What happens next?" - whether an immediately followed sequel or a look into lives as adults.
as I said before, I have zero shipping preferences in terms of yes/no/maybe - you can write gen if that's what you're comfortable with but if you end up doing m/m, f/m or f/f, it would make me super happy as well... what I find intriguing is the world and the characters and the sheer magic of their superpowers and how that makes them different/special, and I picked any character because of that. Plus, you know, the fact I read this book MULTIPLE TIMES in my childhood and every time expected there to be a sequel and there *never was one*, how unfair is that?!
Miike Snow - Genghis Khan video:
I love this video and the story it tells and I don't care if I get that story or if I get the prequel or the sequel or the PoV of the ex-wife (that ending!) or the kids, everything about it is gold. Pun intended :) Secret agents and villains and hijinx! This is the one fic where I really *do* want them shipped, because that's what I fell in love with in the video so I hope that's what you wanted to write!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P_SlAzsXa7E
Swallows and Amazons:
If you look back at an older Yuletide entry, you'll see this really hasn't changed much, except that it's expanded out to any of the kids!
(This prompt is longer just because there is a much more substantial source although it's a rework of a previous request for Susan-the-unnominated!)
Any-of-the-girls-at-school.. what is she like? Is she a golden god at the school? Kind of a weirdo outcast who only lives for the summers? What kinds of adventures does she get up to or rescue people from? I can see so many possibilities from her personality, and I would love to see all or any of them.
Actually Shipwrecked-on-a-deserted island fic for any or all chars. Weird and crazy AUs absolutely welcome, if you suddenly want to know what would have happened if the Walkers were the ones that had stumbled into Narnia or fell into a portal into an alternate universe or traveled in time. Or what it would be like if they were living in the here-and-now. I just want their spirit.
I love ALL THE WALKERS AND BLACKETTS and Ds, so again, if for some reason you are going blank, I am totally flexible in my Swallows and Amazon love. And again, yes, if you love to write shippy fic, knock yourself out! If you love a pairing and can believe it, I can believe in it (I mean, I was trying to think of a non-incest pairing that I wouldn't buy at ALL and the closest was Nancy/Roger and then I was like ...yeah, no I can probably see a case for that, too.
General notes on what I like and dislike which I am copy and pasting from a previous post:
First of all, the most important thing to me about fandom is the characters. Characterization is King and all that, I am super excited about anything, from firmly-in-canon wacky AUs to beloved fandom tropes. As long as the characters are real, I am happy. (Take this with a grain of salt for the video fandoms, you work with what you've got!)
I LOVE Tropes. Love, love, love. (Pretend marriages? Road trips? Everybody has super powers? Set in outerspace or with them everyone-as-spies? Freaky Friday or Groundhog Day? All is beautiful. It can be comical or angsty or plotty or sweet or action-filled or whatever. Write to your comfort! )
Things I don't want: In general, I don't have a lot of squicks, but I can say I don't want S&A incest and for Yuletide, no death!fic, pretty please!, and if your fic goes angsty or dark, that it have a happy/hopeful ending.
I am not big on Porn-without-Plot. Emotions-based porn or with a touch of humor works more for me. Beyond that, I am happy with any rating whatsoever, and with m/m, f/m, or f/f. IF you go a shipping route on a fic, I prefer relationship buildup and development far, far more than fics that start with an established relationship. I am absolutely happy with fade-to-blacks if writing porn makes you uncomfortable, because really, it's the emotional aspect of ship fics that hits my kinks!
On the 'childhood books' theme, on any of them I would be intrigued by a teen-or-adult modernization, same characters but set in the now instead of canon. Or the future!fic (canon or modernized). Or settled firmly in the there and then.
I don't have a lot to say about the specific prompts that I didn't say in my requests, so I'll just copy and paste them (actually, I'm expanding JUST to clarify but hopefully it's not too late and I haven't crushed your soul, Yuletide author!):
Lip Sync Challenge:
This was the dream I never knew I wanted and I don't care what you do with it (aka, it can tie into other roles Tom Holland has done or be RPF or it can be the fictionalized performance itself - sorry, I wrote this prompt half asleep and in case that didn't make any sense, I mean it could be based in a world where his persona in the lip sync is a main character and go all out on what that means to you.)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1i5DEipIWh4
The Girl with the Silver Eyes:
What I would really love is the answer to the question "What happens next?" - whether an immediately followed sequel or a look into lives as adults.
as I said before, I have zero shipping preferences in terms of yes/no/maybe - you can write gen if that's what you're comfortable with but if you end up doing m/m, f/m or f/f, it would make me super happy as well... what I find intriguing is the world and the characters and the sheer magic of their superpowers and how that makes them different/special, and I picked any character because of that. Plus, you know, the fact I read this book MULTIPLE TIMES in my childhood and every time expected there to be a sequel and there *never was one*, how unfair is that?!
Miike Snow - Genghis Khan video:
I love this video and the story it tells and I don't care if I get that story or if I get the prequel or the sequel or the PoV of the ex-wife (that ending!) or the kids, everything about it is gold. Pun intended :) Secret agents and villains and hijinx! This is the one fic where I really *do* want them shipped, because that's what I fell in love with in the video so I hope that's what you wanted to write!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P_SlAzsXa7E
Swallows and Amazons:
If you look back at an older Yuletide entry, you'll see this really hasn't changed much, except that it's expanded out to any of the kids!
(This prompt is longer just because there is a much more substantial source although it's a rework of a previous request for Susan-the-unnominated!)
Any-of-the-girls-at-school.. what is she like? Is she a golden god at the school? Kind of a weirdo outcast who only lives for the summers? What kinds of adventures does she get up to or rescue people from? I can see so many possibilities from her personality, and I would love to see all or any of them.
Actually Shipwrecked-on-a-deserted island fic for any or all chars. Weird and crazy AUs absolutely welcome, if you suddenly want to know what would have happened if the Walkers were the ones that had stumbled into Narnia or fell into a portal into an alternate universe or traveled in time. Or what it would be like if they were living in the here-and-now. I just want their spirit.
I love ALL THE WALKERS AND BLACKETTS and Ds, so again, if for some reason you are going blank, I am totally flexible in my Swallows and Amazon love. And again, yes, if you love to write shippy fic, knock yourself out! If you love a pairing and can believe it, I can believe in it (I mean, I was trying to think of a non-incest pairing that I wouldn't buy at ALL and the closest was Nancy/Roger and then I was like ...yeah, no I can probably see a case for that, too.