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Yuletide 2k17!
Oct. 7th, 2017 02:12 pmDear Yuletide author,
Hi! I'm finally posting this letter! If you were waiting, sorry for the patience I forced you to have!
I'm gonna mostly copy and paste the things I love from past years' letters, because look, I will always love a good found family and rustbucket spaceships that need a little love and percussive maintenance will always have a large chunk of my heart. But I've been thinking a lot about stories this year, and what kind of storyteller I want to be, and seeing how very much people change as they define themselves by what narrative they think they're the hero of. And it really makes a difference in the story being told, when characters are consciously choosing joy; I was at Heroescon this year and heard Matt Fraction describe some of the characterization he was doing as "finding this character's expression of joy" and it really stuck with me. I don't know that I'm really saying anything in particular about what I want in a fic, or if it's even relevant to any fic that could come out of these fandoms, but it's been on my mind and if there's something there that resonates with you, then I would love to read it.
Otherwise, more generally, I love characters exploring how they relate to one another and how to trust each other even when trust seems impossible. I especially love if they can do that while being inconvenienced with adventures and adversaries who are out to capture or kill them and were perhaps prepared for people who fight back, but maybe not for people who barely pause bickering with each other in order to do so. I love include competency porn, found families and the choices that go into making them, bedsharing, a fake relationship becoming real or a real relationship that for some reason needs the pretense of not existing, historical AUs, femslash and women who love women, ladies having friendships with each other that are just as valid as any romantic relationship (or friendships that are also romantic relationships!), casefic, and people just generally being sappy stupid in love with each other.
DNWs include: outright non-con/dub-con, infidelity outside of a negotiated open or polyamorous relationship, a lot of angst in general but particularly for detailed descriptions of rape or sexual assault, animal death, or non-canon major character death. Less extreme: you can include pregnancy if you want but generally speaking stories centered around pregnancy aren’t really my thing. Also I'm just not really feeling anything that's too much of a downer, really; some really honest emotional shit is alright but there are enough unfixable broken things around, and if you could end on a slightly higher note, I'd appreciate it.
Requested fandoms under the cut:
( fandoms and characters )
Hi! I'm finally posting this letter! If you were waiting, sorry for the patience I forced you to have!
I'm gonna mostly copy and paste the things I love from past years' letters, because look, I will always love a good found family and rustbucket spaceships that need a little love and percussive maintenance will always have a large chunk of my heart. But I've been thinking a lot about stories this year, and what kind of storyteller I want to be, and seeing how very much people change as they define themselves by what narrative they think they're the hero of. And it really makes a difference in the story being told, when characters are consciously choosing joy; I was at Heroescon this year and heard Matt Fraction describe some of the characterization he was doing as "finding this character's expression of joy" and it really stuck with me. I don't know that I'm really saying anything in particular about what I want in a fic, or if it's even relevant to any fic that could come out of these fandoms, but it's been on my mind and if there's something there that resonates with you, then I would love to read it.
Otherwise, more generally, I love characters exploring how they relate to one another and how to trust each other even when trust seems impossible. I especially love if they can do that while being inconvenienced with adventures and adversaries who are out to capture or kill them and were perhaps prepared for people who fight back, but maybe not for people who barely pause bickering with each other in order to do so. I love include competency porn, found families and the choices that go into making them, bedsharing, a fake relationship becoming real or a real relationship that for some reason needs the pretense of not existing, historical AUs, femslash and women who love women, ladies having friendships with each other that are just as valid as any romantic relationship (or friendships that are also romantic relationships!), casefic, and people just generally being sappy stupid in love with each other.
DNWs include: outright non-con/dub-con, infidelity outside of a negotiated open or polyamorous relationship, a lot of angst in general but particularly for detailed descriptions of rape or sexual assault, animal death, or non-canon major character death. Less extreme: you can include pregnancy if you want but generally speaking stories centered around pregnancy aren’t really my thing. Also I'm just not really feeling anything that's too much of a downer, really; some really honest emotional shit is alright but there are enough unfixable broken things around, and if you could end on a slightly higher note, I'd appreciate it.
Requested fandoms under the cut:
( fandoms and characters )
