Dear Yuletide Writer
Oct. 23rd, 2021 07:34 am![[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.
But as always you should feel free to do what you like!
Bullitt: Cathy
Tell me anything about her—Frank-related welcome, but her job, the way she wanted to be involved then reacted to the blase attitudes of the police, who she was before she met Frank, who she is becoming.
Cathy is so interesting, you could do anything! Her job seems atypical for a woman in 1968; she's working on a Saturday; they have cool "bohemian" friends but he's a cop. She drives a cute little convertible and is happy to drive him out to the crime scene until she really isn't (understandably!) She doesn't seem to live there (they spend ten minutes showing him buying frozen dinners at the corner store, but then again they spend ten minutes waiting for a telex so ymmv) but she is there Sunday night when he gets home.
But you could also look at her life before the movie, after the movie, really anything!
Also: when Frank said "time starts now" why didn't she say, "What the hell does that mean?"
Clueless: Cher, Dionne and Tai
Female friendship: so great! Not without complications! (Feel free to ignore the TV show as I never watched it.)
Hard to do before the movie but any time during or after the movie would be amazing. What does Dionne really think of all these shenanigans? What happens when they go to college? See each other again at reunion?
Hustlers: Ramona and Destiny
Whatcha gonna do when you get out of jail? I'm gonna have some FUN.
Or, you know, anything else, up to and including femslash.
During? Years later? What about when the magazine article came out? The movie?
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.
But as always you should feel free to do what you like!
Bullitt: Cathy
Tell me anything about her—Frank-related welcome, but her job, the way she wanted to be involved then reacted to the blase attitudes of the police, who she was before she met Frank, who she is becoming.
Cathy is so interesting, you could do anything! Her job seems atypical for a woman in 1968; she's working on a Saturday; they have cool "bohemian" friends but he's a cop. She drives a cute little convertible and is happy to drive him out to the crime scene until she really isn't (understandably!) She doesn't seem to live there (they spend ten minutes showing him buying frozen dinners at the corner store, but then again they spend ten minutes waiting for a telex so ymmv) but she is there Sunday night when he gets home.
But you could also look at her life before the movie, after the movie, really anything!
Also: when Frank said "time starts now" why didn't she say, "What the hell does that mean?"
Clueless: Cher, Dionne and Tai
Female friendship: so great! Not without complications! (Feel free to ignore the TV show as I never watched it.)
Hard to do before the movie but any time during or after the movie would be amazing. What does Dionne really think of all these shenanigans? What happens when they go to college? See each other again at reunion?
Hustlers: Ramona and Destiny
Whatcha gonna do when you get out of jail? I'm gonna have some FUN.
Or, you know, anything else, up to and including femslash.
During? Years later? What about when the magazine article came out? The movie?
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?
