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Oct. 16th, 2012 10:10 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
kittydesadeDear Yuletide Writer,
This is a placeholder letter! If you've come here and I didn't update it I am deeply sorry. The main rule is gen is better, explicit is less preferred, slash is much much less preferred (at least the non-canon or less probable), and I'm a big fan of character study and worldbuilding.
Prefer not:
I'd prefer no drastic AUs; AUs where characters live instead of die (or die instead of live) and then the consequences of that are explored are interesting to me, High School or In Space or Cavemen vs Astronaut AUs, not so much. I'd also prefer no unspecified/non-canon slash, for the simple reason that I somehow never end up a big fan of the big slash pairings or even the small ones. I like the canon pairings, for the most part, if I have a preference for any pairing at all. And then some of these fandoms don't lend themselves well to romance/erotica at all.
Prefer:
Worldbuilding! Character exploration! I love to explore the world and the characters of any canon more thoroughly; I love what-ifs. Mood, I love the moods of most of my fandoms and certainly every one I requested. As far as requests or preferences go, I'm actually pretty easy. Something thoughtful and exploratory, elaborate, another flight of fancy in a world I love.
Shrug:
Length (apart from requirements of course) is a handwave, however long the story wants to be. Grimdark or fluffy is equally 'eh whatever.'
Specifics!
Christmas Eve and Other Stories - Trans Siberian Orchestra
I'll be honest; if you were picked because of this fandom or picked it to write about I'll be shocked. Trans-Siberian Orchestra is one of my big holiday favorites, I go see every concert of theirs I can (seriously, I've seen their Christmas show ten years running) and I'm looking forward to this year because they have a new show up. But this album in particular was my first, my first concert of theirs, and it still makes me cry happy happy tears. The story, the music, all of it. If you're not familiar but you'd like to explore writing something for it, Spotify has the album on their radio thing, and it's pretty easy to get ahold of. The story is on the TSO website; in brief, it's a story within a story within a story of a Christmas eve in a bar. A man listens to another man tell a story about a child who came into the bar on Christmas and told a story (you see how recursive this gets?) about a girl standing outside in the snow who wished on the neon sign of the bar, lacking stars in New York City, that she could be home for Christmas. The crusty old bartender (tm) comes out and gives her the cash from the register, packs her in a cab to the airport, and lo, a happy Christmas family reunion. It's both much better and much more schmaltzy than I just made it sound. Seriously, I don't much like schmaltz, but this album! The most famous track off of it is Sarajevo 12/24, (or as my friends and I call it, Hells Bells/Music to Conduct Mage Battles By), an orchestral rock rendition of Carol of the Bells.
(And if you're familiar with the works of TSO, by all means, feel free to pull from other albums!)
Haven
DWIGHT. Dwight Dwight Dwight. All the Dwight, all the time. I added Audrey, Duke, and Nathan because honestly I would not mind fic about any of the main three, but there is not enough Dwight fic on AO3, dammit! And, honestly, I know I said I prefer no non-canon slash, but Duke and Nathan are the one pair I've found lately where I side with the massive quantity of fan slashers. They need to kiss and make up. Yesterday. No explicit/pornography please, but anything outside of that is fine. Audrey/Duke, Audrey/Nathan, Audrey/Nathan/Duke, Duke/Nathan. (But no Dwight slash... >.>)
Johnny Dixon - John Bellairs
Johnny Dixon is another one I put in there not entirely expecting anyone to pick it up. Though that's what Yuletide is for, right? Johnny Dixon is comfort reading from my childhood, it spooked me out when I was little, but it was also fun and exciting adventures. I really wanted to have adventures like that. Alas, I didn't get any haunted clocks or houses or figurines or anything. But I still love the books. No specific requests here, something in the mood or something dealing with the characters, even something dealing with Johnny or Fergie or any of them grown up.
Caprica
SAM ADAMA. ALL THE ADAMAS. Adamas kick ass. And yes, I had to put the no slash thing up there out of reflex because my tastes are generally not fandom tastes but SAM AND LARRY. There is also not enough Sam and Larry fic on AO3. I am all about the Sam and Larry, Sam and Larry having hijinks, having domestic bliss, even having domestic arguments and making up afterwards. Yes, go on, laugh at the ridiculousness of me being all "no slash pls" and then picking two fandoms where I love the slash pairings. Or is it still slash if it's a canon marriage? I have no idea. Okay, Sam and Larry aside, I love the Adamas. All of them. I love Josef even as I want to smack the stupid out of him, I love Tamara's badassery even when I want to shake her and oh honey no, I love Sam. Sam Sam Sam. I love the spouses/partners and their taking care of their Adamas, Larry and Shannon and Evelyn. I think because so much of the Adamas family dynamic pings off of my own (much loved!) family dynamic, it makes the whole of them a really happy place for me.
This is a placeholder letter! If you've come here and I didn't update it I am deeply sorry. The main rule is gen is better, explicit is less preferred, slash is much much less preferred (at least the non-canon or less probable), and I'm a big fan of character study and worldbuilding.
Prefer not:
I'd prefer no drastic AUs; AUs where characters live instead of die (or die instead of live) and then the consequences of that are explored are interesting to me, High School or In Space or Cavemen vs Astronaut AUs, not so much. I'd also prefer no unspecified/non-canon slash, for the simple reason that I somehow never end up a big fan of the big slash pairings or even the small ones. I like the canon pairings, for the most part, if I have a preference for any pairing at all. And then some of these fandoms don't lend themselves well to romance/erotica at all.
Prefer:
Worldbuilding! Character exploration! I love to explore the world and the characters of any canon more thoroughly; I love what-ifs. Mood, I love the moods of most of my fandoms and certainly every one I requested. As far as requests or preferences go, I'm actually pretty easy. Something thoughtful and exploratory, elaborate, another flight of fancy in a world I love.
Shrug:
Length (apart from requirements of course) is a handwave, however long the story wants to be. Grimdark or fluffy is equally 'eh whatever.'
Specifics!
Christmas Eve and Other Stories - Trans Siberian Orchestra
I'll be honest; if you were picked because of this fandom or picked it to write about I'll be shocked. Trans-Siberian Orchestra is one of my big holiday favorites, I go see every concert of theirs I can (seriously, I've seen their Christmas show ten years running) and I'm looking forward to this year because they have a new show up. But this album in particular was my first, my first concert of theirs, and it still makes me cry happy happy tears. The story, the music, all of it. If you're not familiar but you'd like to explore writing something for it, Spotify has the album on their radio thing, and it's pretty easy to get ahold of. The story is on the TSO website; in brief, it's a story within a story within a story of a Christmas eve in a bar. A man listens to another man tell a story about a child who came into the bar on Christmas and told a story (you see how recursive this gets?) about a girl standing outside in the snow who wished on the neon sign of the bar, lacking stars in New York City, that she could be home for Christmas. The crusty old bartender (tm) comes out and gives her the cash from the register, packs her in a cab to the airport, and lo, a happy Christmas family reunion. It's both much better and much more schmaltzy than I just made it sound. Seriously, I don't much like schmaltz, but this album! The most famous track off of it is Sarajevo 12/24, (or as my friends and I call it, Hells Bells/Music to Conduct Mage Battles By), an orchestral rock rendition of Carol of the Bells.
(And if you're familiar with the works of TSO, by all means, feel free to pull from other albums!)
Haven
DWIGHT. Dwight Dwight Dwight. All the Dwight, all the time. I added Audrey, Duke, and Nathan because honestly I would not mind fic about any of the main three, but there is not enough Dwight fic on AO3, dammit! And, honestly, I know I said I prefer no non-canon slash, but Duke and Nathan are the one pair I've found lately where I side with the massive quantity of fan slashers. They need to kiss and make up. Yesterday. No explicit/pornography please, but anything outside of that is fine. Audrey/Duke, Audrey/Nathan, Audrey/Nathan/Duke, Duke/Nathan. (But no Dwight slash... >.>)
Johnny Dixon - John Bellairs
Johnny Dixon is another one I put in there not entirely expecting anyone to pick it up. Though that's what Yuletide is for, right? Johnny Dixon is comfort reading from my childhood, it spooked me out when I was little, but it was also fun and exciting adventures. I really wanted to have adventures like that. Alas, I didn't get any haunted clocks or houses or figurines or anything. But I still love the books. No specific requests here, something in the mood or something dealing with the characters, even something dealing with Johnny or Fergie or any of them grown up.
Caprica
SAM ADAMA. ALL THE ADAMAS. Adamas kick ass. And yes, I had to put the no slash thing up there out of reflex because my tastes are generally not fandom tastes but SAM AND LARRY. There is also not enough Sam and Larry fic on AO3. I am all about the Sam and Larry, Sam and Larry having hijinks, having domestic bliss, even having domestic arguments and making up afterwards. Yes, go on, laugh at the ridiculousness of me being all "no slash pls" and then picking two fandoms where I love the slash pairings. Or is it still slash if it's a canon marriage? I have no idea. Okay, Sam and Larry aside, I love the Adamas. All of them. I love Josef even as I want to smack the stupid out of him, I love Tamara's badassery even when I want to shake her and oh honey no, I love Sam. Sam Sam Sam. I love the spouses/partners and their taking care of their Adamas, Larry and Shannon and Evelyn. I think because so much of the Adamas family dynamic pings off of my own (much loved!) family dynamic, it makes the whole of them a really happy place for me.