Dear Yuletide Writer
Oct. 25th, 2020 07:41 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
jlhFirst, THANK YOU. I think of Yuletide as more of an opportunity to write something a little different than request something to exacting specifications, so whatever you write is more like a totally awesome bonus than the entire reason I'm participating. In other words, NO PRESSURE. This, and my comments on the assignment, are really just suggestions in case you'd like some.
When I say "no heavy kink" I mean, well, there's been an increasing amount of watersports fic in YT over the past few seasons and I am super not into that at all. Nor am I particularly fond of long BDSM contract negotiations or scenes, especially as I haven’t requested any established relationship.
The most important thing really is no deathfic and I prefer a happy ending. I don't mind working for the happy ending; angst that ends well is splendid. Downer endings, though, kinda bum me out. I'm not a freak about plot—in many of the stories I love nothing really happens except maybe an internal change in a character or an emotional realization. Characters are always more important to me than plot and I adore great conversation. So feel free to have them just sitting around drinking coffee and talking about great Heart songs, or have them find a way to Save the World from Certain Destruction, or anything in between! I've asked for women or pairs of women, but while femslash is welcome it isn't expected and certainly not required.
If you want more of a sense of the sort of stories I adore, since Yuletide is its own animal, you can check out the Yuletide stories I've bookmarked and also the ones that I've received (anything here that was posted in December) as well as my Yuletide recs posts.
This year I wrote quite a bit in the optional details so I don't have much more to add—honestly you should feel free to do what you like!
Booksmart: Gigi
Who IS she? Before, after, during—tell me ANYTHING.
No really—we know almost nothing about her! If you offered her as a character, you have a thought. Tell me that thought! Other characters welcome but obviously not at all necessary.
Carole and Tuesday: Carole and Tuesday
I'd love femslash but friendship fic is more than welcome! During the show, or many years into the future; focused on the music or not really—as long as they don't hate each other at the end I'll be happy.
I am so charmed by this show and the music is really fun! Carole and Tuesday's rapport is so immediate and natural even thought they are very different people. I love watching people make art together. Anything you want to write about the two of them together is fantastic.
(But seriously how is this not yuri?)
The Crown: Princess Anne
We don't see much of her own life, just in relation to Charles. Where else is she driving her little car and singing Starman? What about Mark Philips, who we never see, or her athletic career, which was also never see? Or literally anything that isn't about the Prince of Wales?
While it would be the most fun to see her young as she is in s3, it's great to see her at any point. This isn't RPF so I would just expect the same fidelity to reality as is in the show—close on the big events, maybe fudging the small stuff for dramatic purposes.
Tennis RPF: Madison, Sloane and Naomi
Just them, interacting. Femslash is always fun but friendship or rival fic among any of them in any combination is very much welcome.
I'm so intrigued that the tennis players nominated are all black. I don’t know enough to give you lots of pointers here but they’re black athletes in a very small mostly white club and also Serena’s shadow so do with that what you will! I've left out Coco because she's so much younger but if you want to reference her or include her in any non-sexy times that's great, but obviously not required at all.
Mostly, thank you in advance; I know that anything you do will be awesome, because it will mean more fic for one of these fandoms, and isn't that the whole point?
When I say "no heavy kink" I mean, well, there's been an increasing amount of watersports fic in YT over the past few seasons and I am super not into that at all. Nor am I particularly fond of long BDSM contract negotiations or scenes, especially as I haven’t requested any established relationship.
The most important thing really is no deathfic and I prefer a happy ending. I don't mind working for the happy ending; angst that ends well is splendid. Downer endings, though, kinda bum me out. I'm not a freak about plot—in many of the stories I love nothing really happens except maybe an internal change in a character or an emotional realization. Characters are always more important to me than plot and I adore great conversation. So feel free to have them just sitting around drinking coffee and talking about great Heart songs, or have them find a way to Save the World from Certain Destruction, or anything in between! I've asked for women or pairs of women, but while femslash is welcome it isn't expected and certainly not required.
If you want more of a sense of the sort of stories I adore, since Yuletide is its own animal, you can check out the Yuletide stories I've bookmarked and also the ones that I've received (anything here that was posted in December) as well as my Yuletide recs posts.
This year I wrote quite a bit in the optional details so I don't have much more to add—honestly you should feel free to do what you like!
Booksmart: Gigi
Who IS she? Before, after, during—tell me ANYTHING.
No really—we know almost nothing about her! If you offered her as a character, you have a thought. Tell me that thought! Other characters welcome but obviously not at all necessary.
Carole and Tuesday: Carole and Tuesday
I'd love femslash but friendship fic is more than welcome! During the show, or many years into the future; focused on the music or not really—as long as they don't hate each other at the end I'll be happy.
I am so charmed by this show and the music is really fun! Carole and Tuesday's rapport is so immediate and natural even thought they are very different people. I love watching people make art together. Anything you want to write about the two of them together is fantastic.
(But seriously how is this not yuri?)
The Crown: Princess Anne
We don't see much of her own life, just in relation to Charles. Where else is she driving her little car and singing Starman? What about Mark Philips, who we never see, or her athletic career, which was also never see? Or literally anything that isn't about the Prince of Wales?
While it would be the most fun to see her young as she is in s3, it's great to see her at any point. This isn't RPF so I would just expect the same fidelity to reality as is in the show—close on the big events, maybe fudging the small stuff for dramatic purposes.
Tennis RPF: Madison, Sloane and Naomi
Just them, interacting. Femslash is always fun but friendship or rival fic among any of them in any combination is very much welcome.
I'm so intrigued that the tennis players nominated are all black. I don’t know enough to give you lots of pointers here but they’re black athletes in a very small mostly white club and also Serena’s shadow so do with that what you will! I've left out Coco because she's so much younger but if you want to reference her or include her in any non-sexy times that's great, but obviously not required at all.
Mostly, thank you in advance; I know that anything you do will be awesome, because it will mean more fic for one of these fandoms, and isn't that the whole point?
