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Yuletide letter
Dear Yuletide Author,
You've signed up to write for one of my beloved teeny fandoms so that already makes me adore you and utter little squeaky happy noises :-D Thank you!
I'm not hard to please, I don't think. A lot of my fandoms are femslashy this year, but if F/F isn't your thing, I'm a huge fan of female friendships and fics focusing on those.
This letter isn't as long and terrifying as it looks, I promise. I broke it all down into sections and put the general notes in their own bit, which is why it looks long, but honestly. As long as you don't include anything on my dislikes list, I'm probably going to be happy.
General likes and loves
- Happy or hopeful endings. I'm a sucker for fics that leave me smiling and feeling good about life and my fandoms.
- Explorations of friendship and love. In all forms. Friends to lovers, epic friendship, epic love, quietly maturing love, slow builds, pining and its resolution, friends as found family...whether a relationship is romantic or not, I'm a big fan of relationships based in friendship.
- Tropes. I have an embarrassingly intense love for the tropes: all the AUs (really, ALL OF THEM), soulbonds, telepathy, amnesia, huddle for warmth, cabin fic, road trips, fake relationship, rivals to lovers...you can't go wrong with tropes for me.
- Or subverting the tropes, that will also get me happy, particularly if it's subverting some of the more problematic tropes (sex pollen subversion etc.)
- Any rating is great, but I do like some plot in my porn if that's your direction. PWPs don't do much for me unless it's the kind with lots of banter and affection and sex that doesn't go perfectly but is still good for everyone.
- Plotty goodness casefic is always a winner for me as well.
- Humour. Deep and dark fic is cool, but deep and funny, or fluffy and funny, or just some great bantery humour are more my level.
- If you're a romance writer and you're doing a slow build, I'm a complete sucker for the big gorgeously desperate kiss-after-revealing-shared-feelings trope. Go wild on that if you want to :-D
- Plotty goodness casefic with humour and kissing and porn is probably too much to ask for, but it's basically my ideal fic :-D
General dislikes
- Character death. Please, please, no. I really don't enjoy crying into my Christmas Pudding.
- Torture, graphic violence, rape, BDSM, gore, scat, watersports...nope.
- One year I had a note here about my dislike for shopping fics, unless the fic is about fighting off aliens in IKEA using standard lamps and Billy bookcases. As my writer WROTE THAT FIC and it was awesome, I can't actually make that note again :-D
Think of England - K J Charles: Fenella Carruth, Patricia Merton
So, I read the book not long ago and adored the m/m story, but I really wanted to know more about the lovely lesbian ladies. How did they meet? How did they fall in love? What is life like for them every day - is this the first time they've got involved in defeating plotting and conspiracies, or does this happen often?
Did they fall for each other while investigating some kind of mystery? Giving them a mystery to investigate while they fall in love would be perfect.
This is definitely a fandom where I'm all about the femslash, because it's impossible to write these two without acknowledging their relationship. So, go wild and have fun with them.
Uprooted - Naomi Novik - Agnieszka, Kasia
The friendship between Agnieszka and Kasia is at the core of the entire book and I loved it. I'd love a story about their lives together in the village before the choosing. How did their friendship work so beautifully when they always knew (thought) that Kasia would be taken?
If you lean in a femslashy direction for these two, I'd highly encourage that. So very much. How does that work with Kasia's changes? What moment made their relationship shift from friendship to romance? Does rescuing Kasia from the Wood trigger that realisation for Agnieszka (that's my headcanon, at least) or is it some later event, after the end of the book?
Really, all I wanted when this book ended was more. More stories set in this world and more about these two women who have a friendship that transcends everything.
Jupiter Ascending (2015): Jupiter Jones, Kiza Apini
I would love some post-movie fic for these two. There were so many threads left untied, particularly for Kiza, and I would love to see some of them picked up and run with.
What I'm really looking for is a story where Kiza stays on Earth--after getting cured--and helps Jupiter adjust to her new status. Or where Kiza and Jupiter go travelling around the galaxy exploring this amazing new world that Jupiter has been shown. Either will make me happy.
In short, I'd just love to see more exploration of this world through a friendship between Jupiter and Kiza. And if you can throw in some romance and kissing, so much the better!
Jurassic Park (Movies): Claire Dearing, Ellie Sattler
Claire got to be one of the heroes of the Jurassic World movie despite the best attempts of the other characters and some of the writing she got. I loved her.
Ellie got to be one of the heroes of Jurassic Park, without quite so much interference from other characters, thankfully.
A friendship between these two would be EPIC. They've survived dinosaurs and they still love them. Obviously, they have to meet and bond.
(And if you want to throw in some femslashy vibes, feel free.)
Could Claire call Ellie in to advise on the next Park? How would she get past Ellie's reticence because dinosaur parks are obviously a terrible idea? Or does Claire track Ellie down because she's been through the post-dinosaur stuff and Claire wants to talk to someone (who isn't Owen, because he's still way to excited about Blue saving them to be rational about dinosaur dangers)?
So many possibilities. So many potentially beautiful stories about amazing women and the dinosaur parks they've survived.
Cornetto "40 - love" Commercial: Debbie, Maria Fernandez
I'm still in love with this short. It was the Yuletide fandom of my heart last year, and it's still my femslashy tennis AU that I'd always wanted this year. You can watch the video here: Cornetto "40 - love.
Debbie and Maria's story is incredibly sweet, and I fell for them so easily. Their story is largely told through Debbie's POV, yet despite that, we don't learn much about Debbie's life outside tennis. Just that she commutes a lot and is a little shy, but doesn't let that hold her back from helping someone who needs it or confronting someone when she's hurt.
I would love to see more of this story from Debbie's POV. What does she do when Wimbledon isn't on? How do her co-workers at her day job react to everything that happens - her 15 minutes of fame, and her relationship with Maria? How is Debbie's life changed, if it is, and how does she make her relationship with Maria work when they're from such different lives?
Does she have friends/family who know about Maria? Or do they keep their relationship a complete secret, and how does Debbie manage that?
(I do kind of have a thing for secret relationships, as long as nobody gets hurt and everything eventually comes out in a happily ever after kind of way.)
Alternatively, a fic about where Debbie and Maria go straight after the match in the film. Is there a lot of waiting for both of them, or do they run away from the press conferences to hole up somewhere and kiss a lot more? Is there some kind of "where is Maria Fernandez?" press scrum trying to figure out why Maria keeps disappearing after any matches in the UK and sometimes in Europe?
Really, I'm just looking for more about these two. More lesbian tennis ladies, more kissing, more everything.
You've signed up to write for one of my beloved teeny fandoms so that already makes me adore you and utter little squeaky happy noises :-D Thank you!
I'm not hard to please, I don't think. A lot of my fandoms are femslashy this year, but if F/F isn't your thing, I'm a huge fan of female friendships and fics focusing on those.
This letter isn't as long and terrifying as it looks, I promise. I broke it all down into sections and put the general notes in their own bit, which is why it looks long, but honestly. As long as you don't include anything on my dislikes list, I'm probably going to be happy.
General likes and loves
- Happy or hopeful endings. I'm a sucker for fics that leave me smiling and feeling good about life and my fandoms.
- Explorations of friendship and love. In all forms. Friends to lovers, epic friendship, epic love, quietly maturing love, slow builds, pining and its resolution, friends as found family...whether a relationship is romantic or not, I'm a big fan of relationships based in friendship.
- Tropes. I have an embarrassingly intense love for the tropes: all the AUs (really, ALL OF THEM), soulbonds, telepathy, amnesia, huddle for warmth, cabin fic, road trips, fake relationship, rivals to lovers...you can't go wrong with tropes for me.
- Or subverting the tropes, that will also get me happy, particularly if it's subverting some of the more problematic tropes (sex pollen subversion etc.)
- Any rating is great, but I do like some plot in my porn if that's your direction. PWPs don't do much for me unless it's the kind with lots of banter and affection and sex that doesn't go perfectly but is still good for everyone.
- Plotty goodness casefic is always a winner for me as well.
- Humour. Deep and dark fic is cool, but deep and funny, or fluffy and funny, or just some great bantery humour are more my level.
- If you're a romance writer and you're doing a slow build, I'm a complete sucker for the big gorgeously desperate kiss-after-revealing-shared-feelings trope. Go wild on that if you want to :-D
- Plotty goodness casefic with humour and kissing and porn is probably too much to ask for, but it's basically my ideal fic :-D
General dislikes
- Character death. Please, please, no. I really don't enjoy crying into my Christmas Pudding.
- Torture, graphic violence, rape, BDSM, gore, scat, watersports...nope.
- One year I had a note here about my dislike for shopping fics, unless the fic is about fighting off aliens in IKEA using standard lamps and Billy bookcases. As my writer WROTE THAT FIC and it was awesome, I can't actually make that note again :-D
Think of England - K J Charles: Fenella Carruth, Patricia Merton
So, I read the book not long ago and adored the m/m story, but I really wanted to know more about the lovely lesbian ladies. How did they meet? How did they fall in love? What is life like for them every day - is this the first time they've got involved in defeating plotting and conspiracies, or does this happen often?
Did they fall for each other while investigating some kind of mystery? Giving them a mystery to investigate while they fall in love would be perfect.
This is definitely a fandom where I'm all about the femslash, because it's impossible to write these two without acknowledging their relationship. So, go wild and have fun with them.
Uprooted - Naomi Novik - Agnieszka, Kasia
The friendship between Agnieszka and Kasia is at the core of the entire book and I loved it. I'd love a story about their lives together in the village before the choosing. How did their friendship work so beautifully when they always knew (thought) that Kasia would be taken?
If you lean in a femslashy direction for these two, I'd highly encourage that. So very much. How does that work with Kasia's changes? What moment made their relationship shift from friendship to romance? Does rescuing Kasia from the Wood trigger that realisation for Agnieszka (that's my headcanon, at least) or is it some later event, after the end of the book?
Really, all I wanted when this book ended was more. More stories set in this world and more about these two women who have a friendship that transcends everything.
Jupiter Ascending (2015): Jupiter Jones, Kiza Apini
I would love some post-movie fic for these two. There were so many threads left untied, particularly for Kiza, and I would love to see some of them picked up and run with.
What I'm really looking for is a story where Kiza stays on Earth--after getting cured--and helps Jupiter adjust to her new status. Or where Kiza and Jupiter go travelling around the galaxy exploring this amazing new world that Jupiter has been shown. Either will make me happy.
In short, I'd just love to see more exploration of this world through a friendship between Jupiter and Kiza. And if you can throw in some romance and kissing, so much the better!
Jurassic Park (Movies): Claire Dearing, Ellie Sattler
Claire got to be one of the heroes of the Jurassic World movie despite the best attempts of the other characters and some of the writing she got. I loved her.
Ellie got to be one of the heroes of Jurassic Park, without quite so much interference from other characters, thankfully.
A friendship between these two would be EPIC. They've survived dinosaurs and they still love them. Obviously, they have to meet and bond.
(And if you want to throw in some femslashy vibes, feel free.)
Could Claire call Ellie in to advise on the next Park? How would she get past Ellie's reticence because dinosaur parks are obviously a terrible idea? Or does Claire track Ellie down because she's been through the post-dinosaur stuff and Claire wants to talk to someone (who isn't Owen, because he's still way to excited about Blue saving them to be rational about dinosaur dangers)?
So many possibilities. So many potentially beautiful stories about amazing women and the dinosaur parks they've survived.
Cornetto "40 - love" Commercial: Debbie, Maria Fernandez
I'm still in love with this short. It was the Yuletide fandom of my heart last year, and it's still my femslashy tennis AU that I'd always wanted this year. You can watch the video here: Cornetto "40 - love.
Debbie and Maria's story is incredibly sweet, and I fell for them so easily. Their story is largely told through Debbie's POV, yet despite that, we don't learn much about Debbie's life outside tennis. Just that she commutes a lot and is a little shy, but doesn't let that hold her back from helping someone who needs it or confronting someone when she's hurt.
I would love to see more of this story from Debbie's POV. What does she do when Wimbledon isn't on? How do her co-workers at her day job react to everything that happens - her 15 minutes of fame, and her relationship with Maria? How is Debbie's life changed, if it is, and how does she make her relationship with Maria work when they're from such different lives?
Does she have friends/family who know about Maria? Or do they keep their relationship a complete secret, and how does Debbie manage that?
(I do kind of have a thing for secret relationships, as long as nobody gets hurt and everything eventually comes out in a happily ever after kind of way.)
Alternatively, a fic about where Debbie and Maria go straight after the match in the film. Is there a lot of waiting for both of them, or do they run away from the press conferences to hole up somewhere and kiss a lot more? Is there some kind of "where is Maria Fernandez?" press scrum trying to figure out why Maria keeps disappearing after any matches in the UK and sometimes in Europe?
Really, I'm just looking for more about these two. More lesbian tennis ladies, more kissing, more everything.
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In the 40-Love section you mentioned Wimbledon and UK etc, which confused me. Is it because you thought it was set at Wimbledon? This says everything about me, but even having not watched it for a year I immediately thought it must be an American tournament because it was on a hard court.