Dear Yuletide writer
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selenayBefore I go any further, thank you for writing for me! We share at least one fandom, and that makes me happy.
Loves:
- Women rescuing each other
- Women having epic friendships
- Competency
- Cheesy tropes!
- Intense, passionate, world-shattering kissing
- Flirting, banter, humour
- Happy endings
Do not wants:
- Deathfic and sad endings
- Rape and dubcon
- Graphic violence, blood play, extreme kinks etc.
- Incenst, paediophilia, bestiality etc.
- Humiliation, adultery/cheating
- Character bashing
Specific fandom thoughts below:
The Good Place
Tahani Al-Jamil, Eleanor Shellstrop
I ship these two pretty hard, but if you don't, I'm also really happy with epic stories of women's friendships and these two are perfect for that. I haven't started season 3 (I'm in the middle of an S2 rewatch right now), but I will be keeping up with it so don't worry about spoilers. If you haven't seen S3, I'd love your take on how Eleanor and Tehani meet in the version of the world we glimpse at the end of S2 and how their friendship (re)begins there. Or if you ship them, how their friendship begins and turns into a ridiculous romance, because I'm here for that in spades.
I'm also a huge fan of tropes and I feel like this is a fandom you can throw in some of them (snowed in! Sharing a bed! Fake dating!) and do fun things because Eleanor would know it's a trope, but would that affect her reaction?
Persuasion
Anne Elliot, Frederick Wentworth
This is my favourite Austen because it's the book where I feel the characters got what they most intensely deserved, particularly Anne and Wentworth. I would love to read the tale of Anne's first sea voyage, her first time travelling to somewhere new and different, with Wentworth at her side. Her admiration for Mrs Croft and her adventurous life is one of the aspects of the novel that I adore, because you can feel the longing Anne has for her own life of travel and adventure.
Of course she loves Wentworth deeply, but I've always suspected that part of that love has a root in the world he can offer her. A world far away from her awful family and filled with new exploration and wonders with a man who understands why she would want to see beyond the horizon. If you could tell me that story, I'd be a delighted little Austen fangirl.
Box of Delights
Maria Jones
Despite Maria's admiration for pirates and robbers, I've always felt that Maria is good deep down and what she really wants is a life subverting the conventions her sisters are so happy to follow. I've also liked to pretend that the final moments, where Kay wakes up and none of the adventures were real, didn't happen because it seems far too easy as an ending. That last glimpse of Charles and Jo has always hinted to me that maybe there is something deeper happening there.
I'd love a story about a grown-up Maria who remembers everything that happened, everything she did, and what kind of woman she becomes. She can't forget that the world out there has magic and bigger battles than her fight against schools - how does that affect her? Does she choose to find adventures of her own, out where the wolves run, Herne the Hunter is real, and nobody is who they seem? And what does that look like for someone like Maria? Does she stay rooted in the real world with guns and cars, or does she decide to find some magic of her own? If so, does she learn from Herne, the old lady with the ring, or someone else? Do she and Kay collaborate, or are their philosophies too different even though they're on the same side?
A story that puts all of that together would delight me.
Loves:
- Women rescuing each other
- Women having epic friendships
- Competency
- Cheesy tropes!
- Intense, passionate, world-shattering kissing
- Flirting, banter, humour
- Happy endings
Do not wants:
- Deathfic and sad endings
- Rape and dubcon
- Graphic violence, blood play, extreme kinks etc.
- Incenst, paediophilia, bestiality etc.
- Humiliation, adultery/cheating
- Character bashing
Specific fandom thoughts below:
The Good Place
Tahani Al-Jamil, Eleanor Shellstrop
I ship these two pretty hard, but if you don't, I'm also really happy with epic stories of women's friendships and these two are perfect for that. I haven't started season 3 (I'm in the middle of an S2 rewatch right now), but I will be keeping up with it so don't worry about spoilers. If you haven't seen S3, I'd love your take on how Eleanor and Tehani meet in the version of the world we glimpse at the end of S2 and how their friendship (re)begins there. Or if you ship them, how their friendship begins and turns into a ridiculous romance, because I'm here for that in spades.
I'm also a huge fan of tropes and I feel like this is a fandom you can throw in some of them (snowed in! Sharing a bed! Fake dating!) and do fun things because Eleanor would know it's a trope, but would that affect her reaction?
Persuasion
Anne Elliot, Frederick Wentworth
This is my favourite Austen because it's the book where I feel the characters got what they most intensely deserved, particularly Anne and Wentworth. I would love to read the tale of Anne's first sea voyage, her first time travelling to somewhere new and different, with Wentworth at her side. Her admiration for Mrs Croft and her adventurous life is one of the aspects of the novel that I adore, because you can feel the longing Anne has for her own life of travel and adventure.
Of course she loves Wentworth deeply, but I've always suspected that part of that love has a root in the world he can offer her. A world far away from her awful family and filled with new exploration and wonders with a man who understands why she would want to see beyond the horizon. If you could tell me that story, I'd be a delighted little Austen fangirl.
Box of Delights
Maria Jones
Despite Maria's admiration for pirates and robbers, I've always felt that Maria is good deep down and what she really wants is a life subverting the conventions her sisters are so happy to follow. I've also liked to pretend that the final moments, where Kay wakes up and none of the adventures were real, didn't happen because it seems far too easy as an ending. That last glimpse of Charles and Jo has always hinted to me that maybe there is something deeper happening there.
I'd love a story about a grown-up Maria who remembers everything that happened, everything she did, and what kind of woman she becomes. She can't forget that the world out there has magic and bigger battles than her fight against schools - how does that affect her? Does she choose to find adventures of her own, out where the wolves run, Herne the Hunter is real, and nobody is who they seem? And what does that look like for someone like Maria? Does she stay rooted in the real world with guns and cars, or does she decide to find some magic of her own? If so, does she learn from Herne, the old lady with the ring, or someone else? Do she and Kay collaborate, or are their philosophies too different even though they're on the same side?
A story that puts all of that together would delight me.
