Dear Yuletide Writer
Nov. 3rd, 2019 07:03 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
selenayDear Yuletide Writer,
Thank you for writing for me. I'm sure you're going to write something amazing, so here are some thoughts and ideas that will hopefully help. My DNFs are pretty strong, but if there's something you want to do with these characters that I haven't suggested but it fits with the general themes of what I love, feel free to go for it! I've given some general stuff first and then I dive into the fandom-specific stuff.
Loves:
- Women rescuing each other
- 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
Fandom specific thoughts beneath the cut
England Series - KJ Charles
Fenella Carruth, Patricia Merton
I love these two so much, and getting their story this year in Proper English made me so happy. Fen and Pat are so different on the surface but they're beautifully matched. I love the way Fen presents herself as very fluffy and giggly, but has a brilliant mind underneath that is a part of what attracts Pat to her. I just want to know more about their lives after Proper English. I'd be equally happy with a domestic fic or another adventure, whichever you prefer writing, as long as they get a bit of happy romance time together.
Page & Sommers - Cat Sebastian
Edith Pickering, Cora Delacourt
The hints we got about these two just made me want to know more about their story. How did they finally get together? What kind of adventures have they had together? How did their life together work? We got just enough information to intrigue me and draw an outline of what they were, but we didn't get the details. And it's the details I need here! If you want to go fluffy and domestic, I'll love it. If you send them on an adventure or delve into their scandalous youth, feel free. Just show me more about these two and their story and I'll be happy.
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.
Thank you for writing for me. I'm sure you're going to write something amazing, so here are some thoughts and ideas that will hopefully help. My DNFs are pretty strong, but if there's something you want to do with these characters that I haven't suggested but it fits with the general themes of what I love, feel free to go for it! I've given some general stuff first and then I dive into the fandom-specific stuff.
Loves:
- Women rescuing each other
- 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
Fandom specific thoughts beneath the cut
England Series - KJ Charles
Fenella Carruth, Patricia Merton
I love these two so much, and getting their story this year in Proper English made me so happy. Fen and Pat are so different on the surface but they're beautifully matched. I love the way Fen presents herself as very fluffy and giggly, but has a brilliant mind underneath that is a part of what attracts Pat to her. I just want to know more about their lives after Proper English. I'd be equally happy with a domestic fic or another adventure, whichever you prefer writing, as long as they get a bit of happy romance time together.
Page & Sommers - Cat Sebastian
Edith Pickering, Cora Delacourt
The hints we got about these two just made me want to know more about their story. How did they finally get together? What kind of adventures have they had together? How did their life together work? We got just enough information to intrigue me and draw an outline of what they were, but we didn't get the details. And it's the details I need here! If you want to go fluffy and domestic, I'll love it. If you send them on an adventure or delve into their scandalous youth, feel free. Just show me more about these two and their story and I'll be happy.
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.
