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it's yuletide time again
I wasn't going to do my yuletide sign-up as soon as the form opened, but I was still up and it was the wee hours of the morning across North America and odds were that a lot of people had gone to bed rather than waiting so I figured, since I was ready, I would just get it in there. And now for the traditional letter to my yuletide writer, to be opened on the occasion of our matching.
Dear Yuletide Writer:
I say this every year, but it's just as true every time I say it: what I really want, above all else, is for you to take the fandom and character(s) that I've requested and write the story you want to write. I've offered additional information on each of them, both in the request and in this letter, about what draws me to that particular fandom or what might be an interesting story to me, but please don't let that limit you. Think of it more like inspiration than limitation.
Generally, I enjoy stories of all ratings and all types. I'm a slash fan who also enjoys het and poly relationships, or no relationships at all. I like fluff and angst, humour and gravity, light and dark, short and long, traditional narrative and experimental, and most of all I just love reading stories.
General things I particularly enjoy in fic: complex relationships (romantic and otherwise); the supernatural and paranormal; zombies; single fathers; apocalypses and post-apocalypses; queer themes and worldviews that incorporate queerness; strong female characters.
General things I don't particularly enjoy: plots that revolve around misunderstandings, especially ones that are easily solved if people don't make stupid decisions; humiliation; melodramatic angst; evil with no underlying motivation or logic.
My specific requests, now with added notes!
Happy Town (tv) - Tommy Conroy, Greggy Stiviletto
What I'd love to see is TC and Greggy in high school. Slash or not slash, both are good with me. I just want to see them being bad boys together when they were teenagers.
This show was an early cancellation this year--only six episodes ever aired, though two more were eventually available--and I got a lot more attached to the characters and their backstories than to the central mystery of the show itself. So this is definitely a backstory request: the cop and the criminal were canonically good friends who got up to shit together when they were in school, and I'd love to hear about it!
American Gothic - Grant Wood (painting)
This painting has been riffed on and parodied many, many times, but I'd love to see a speculative exploration of the painting just as it is. Please don't feel bound by any additional information we have about the painting (though feel free to use it if that's the direction you want to take); as far as the actual content of the painting goes, I feel like the possibilities are wide open. Who are these people? What are they doing there? Are they at home? Visiting? Planning a hostile takeover? Aliens trying to emulate our ways? Just tell me a compelling story about them, in any way that you like.
I think my request pretty much says it all here. American Gothic is an iconic painting (see link below), and for me--especially since I finally got to see it in person a couple of years ago--it's always been a painting that shows a story in that one frame.
Elimination Dance (1998)
I'm not even sure what I want here specifically, just something that captures the eccentric feel of the short film (or the poem that it's based on, in any incarnation). Crossovers welcome. OCs welcome. Backstory, futurefic, set on the banks of the Nile or on the Mars space station or anywhere in between - I'm completely open to the possibilities.
One of the most interesting things about Elimination Dance (the poem, though the author himself says it's something in between poetry and prose) is that it's not a static text. Lines are added or taken away in performance and even in print, though the spirit of it is always the same, and I feel like the poem and the live performances and the film are less adaptations from one single starting point than all just different ways of expressing the same thing. The opening of the short film (it's only about ten minutes long) opens up a whole world when it describes the elimination dance as an underground movement all over the world, and in my mind all over time and space as well.
Jane Austen's Fight Club
My first choice for this is femslash, any pairing, explicit or not, but if that's not your bag that's totally cool with me too. I just want awesome women being awesome women, doing their own thing and apologizing to no one for it, however that turns out.
One of the most delightful things on youtube! What really makes it stick with me, though, are the transgressive and empowering elements of it. It's great fun, and a tremendous laugh, but it's also more than that. I love both aspects of it, the fun but also the badassery.
Most of my canons this year ended up being short and easily available online, so in case you want to try out something you weren't matched on, here are some links. Obviously I think they're all awesome, and think everyone should check them all out whether they want to write for them or not. :D
American Gothic [painting by Grant Wood, 1930]
Elimination Dance:
- 1998 short film by Bruce McDonald
- Poem by Michael Ondaatje (text)
- Audio (read by author)
- Live, bilingual performance
Jane Austen's Fight Club [youtube parody]
Dear Yuletide Writer:
I say this every year, but it's just as true every time I say it: what I really want, above all else, is for you to take the fandom and character(s) that I've requested and write the story you want to write. I've offered additional information on each of them, both in the request and in this letter, about what draws me to that particular fandom or what might be an interesting story to me, but please don't let that limit you. Think of it more like inspiration than limitation.
Generally, I enjoy stories of all ratings and all types. I'm a slash fan who also enjoys het and poly relationships, or no relationships at all. I like fluff and angst, humour and gravity, light and dark, short and long, traditional narrative and experimental, and most of all I just love reading stories.
General things I particularly enjoy in fic: complex relationships (romantic and otherwise); the supernatural and paranormal; zombies; single fathers; apocalypses and post-apocalypses; queer themes and worldviews that incorporate queerness; strong female characters.
General things I don't particularly enjoy: plots that revolve around misunderstandings, especially ones that are easily solved if people don't make stupid decisions; humiliation; melodramatic angst; evil with no underlying motivation or logic.
My specific requests, now with added notes!
Happy Town (tv) - Tommy Conroy, Greggy Stiviletto
What I'd love to see is TC and Greggy in high school. Slash or not slash, both are good with me. I just want to see them being bad boys together when they were teenagers.
This show was an early cancellation this year--only six episodes ever aired, though two more were eventually available--and I got a lot more attached to the characters and their backstories than to the central mystery of the show itself. So this is definitely a backstory request: the cop and the criminal were canonically good friends who got up to shit together when they were in school, and I'd love to hear about it!
American Gothic - Grant Wood (painting)
This painting has been riffed on and parodied many, many times, but I'd love to see a speculative exploration of the painting just as it is. Please don't feel bound by any additional information we have about the painting (though feel free to use it if that's the direction you want to take); as far as the actual content of the painting goes, I feel like the possibilities are wide open. Who are these people? What are they doing there? Are they at home? Visiting? Planning a hostile takeover? Aliens trying to emulate our ways? Just tell me a compelling story about them, in any way that you like.
I think my request pretty much says it all here. American Gothic is an iconic painting (see link below), and for me--especially since I finally got to see it in person a couple of years ago--it's always been a painting that shows a story in that one frame.
Elimination Dance (1998)
I'm not even sure what I want here specifically, just something that captures the eccentric feel of the short film (or the poem that it's based on, in any incarnation). Crossovers welcome. OCs welcome. Backstory, futurefic, set on the banks of the Nile or on the Mars space station or anywhere in between - I'm completely open to the possibilities.
One of the most interesting things about Elimination Dance (the poem, though the author himself says it's something in between poetry and prose) is that it's not a static text. Lines are added or taken away in performance and even in print, though the spirit of it is always the same, and I feel like the poem and the live performances and the film are less adaptations from one single starting point than all just different ways of expressing the same thing. The opening of the short film (it's only about ten minutes long) opens up a whole world when it describes the elimination dance as an underground movement all over the world, and in my mind all over time and space as well.
Jane Austen's Fight Club
My first choice for this is femslash, any pairing, explicit or not, but if that's not your bag that's totally cool with me too. I just want awesome women being awesome women, doing their own thing and apologizing to no one for it, however that turns out.
One of the most delightful things on youtube! What really makes it stick with me, though, are the transgressive and empowering elements of it. It's great fun, and a tremendous laugh, but it's also more than that. I love both aspects of it, the fun but also the badassery.
Most of my canons this year ended up being short and easily available online, so in case you want to try out something you weren't matched on, here are some links. Obviously I think they're all awesome, and think everyone should check them all out whether they want to write for them or not. :D
American Gothic [painting by Grant Wood, 1930]
Elimination Dance:
- 1998 short film by Bruce McDonald
- Poem by Michael Ondaatje (text)
- Audio (read by author)
- Live, bilingual performance
Jane Austen's Fight Club [youtube parody]
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