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impertinency) wrote2018-10-10 07:36 am
impertinency) wrote2018-10-10 07:36 am
Yuletide 2018
Dear Yuletide Writer:
I can’t wait to see what you write! I love all of these fandoms equally, and in different ways, so I'll be delighted with whatever you write.
My prompts tend to ramble on (sorry!!), so if one aspect of a prompt catches your interest, feel free to take that and run with it. The prompts are to give you a sense of what I like more than anything else, so don't feel pressured to stick with them. If you have a story idea in mind already, go for it!
I’m available on AO3 and tumblr, though I haven’t really used tumblr much over the past few years. I love slash, femmeslash, het, threesomes, friendship fic, and gen fic. I tend to gravitate towards plotty fic. Sex is great, no sex is great - write whatever you feel comfortable with.
Overall, I love anything that stays true to the tone of the canon universe or characters. I’m not huge on mundane modern day AUs for fantasy, sci-fi, and historical fandoms, since part of why I like those fandoms is the setting. I also have a fierce love of spy AUs, Age of Sail AUs, and noir AUs, so feel free to write those AUs for any fandom.
General Likes, Dislikes, and Triggers:
Likes: canon divergence and what-if AUs, future fic, fix-it fic, porn with feelings, friends to lovers, female friendships, found families, mutual pining, co-dependency in a I’ll-die-for you type of way, love letters, unsent love letters that someone accidentally finds, accidental feelings confessions, angst with a happy ending, secret relationships, fake dating/married, bandaging each other’s wounds/taking care of someone who’s sick, separations and reunions (even better if there's the "I thought you were dead!" trope thrown in), soulmate AUs, historical AUs, spies and secret agent AUs, noir AUs, Age of Sail AUs, domesticity/curtain fic for usually angsty pairings, happy endings for LGBTQA+ characters in historical eras.
Dislikes: issue fic, personal identity headcanons, soapboxing/writer-on-board, unrequested pairings/crossovers, mundane modern day AUs, power imbalances (student/teacher, etc.), savior tropes, fuck-or-die/sex pollen/etc., always-a-top/always-a-bottom depictions, woobiefication, a/b/o, mob/mafia AUs, rent boy/prostitution AUs, homeless AUs, d/s or bdsm, slavery, genderswap, fandom/tumblr AUs, non-con or dub-con, graphic description of pregnancy or bodily fluids, scat/watersports, mpreg, underage, reader insert fic, infidelity.
Breaking the fourth wall also makes me super uncomfortable, so please no coy nods to other fandoms, other movies or shows the actors have been in, or nods to other books the authors have written. It’s just going to make me feel awkward.
Triggers: rape, spanking/beating/whipping, eye injuries or mutilation, forced pregnancy, infertility. I have a HUGE snake phobia, so please avoid any unnecessary mention of snakes.
If anything on the DNW list appears in canon, you can ignore it as a DNW for that particular fandom. For triggers, if it appears in canon, please don’t go into graphic detail about it if at all possible.
Requests:
Turn
Characters: Any (Benjamin Tallmadge, Caleb Brewster, Anna Strong, Mary Woodhull)
Why I Love It: I have a weakness for spy stories, and what I love about Turn is that it shows both sides of the war, and has sympathetic and antagonistic characters on each side. So many war stories are so one-sided, so I really appreciate the multifaceted approach. Ben is my favorite character because I have a weakness for idealistic, passionate revolutionaries. But I love all four of these requested characters. My favorite part of the show was in S4 when all four were in camp together because they're my dream team.
I do ship Ben/Caleb and Anna/Mary, if you're looking to write any romantic pairings. But I would be equally happy with fic about just one of the characters, friendship fic, or whatever else!
Prompts:
The Alienist (TV)
Characters: John Moore, Sara Howard
Why I Love It: I love how the premise of the first season gives us a bunch of misfits making a pseudo-family together to catch a serial killer. I adore Sara for being so determined to forge her own path in the world without the help of anyone, and for being so curious and intelligent and willing to bring up points that most of the men aren't. And I love how John is such a romantic - still hurt by his fiancee leaving him and then utterly besotted with Sara (his confession to her!!!), but also that he's kind to a boy who needs a friend. He's willing to make himself a better person for those around him, and that's so refreshing to see.
I do ship Sara/John, and as I said in my sign-up DNW, I'm really not interested in John/Laszlo as a romantic pairing. I do love their friendship, though!
Prompts:
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The Amberlough Dossier Series - Lara Elena Donnelly
Characters: Cyril DePaul, Aristide Makricosta
Why I Love It: This is one of my new favorite series. I read the first book last year, and the second immediately when it was released and both stuck with me for a long time afterwards. I love Cyril and Ari's relationship and how it plays a much larger part in the plot that you think at the beginning. Upon meeting them, each says at different moments that they're not in love with the other, but we soon see how deeply in love they are and how willing they are to do anything to save each other (Ari's letter to Cyril at the end of Book 1 killed me). All of Ari's scenes in the second book had such a sense of regret and grief and loneliness that it made me ache, and the same goes for Cyril's scenes in book 1 where it's clear that he's only playing double agent to save Ari. All I want is for them to find each other again and share all their secrets and get a happy ending.
Prompts:
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Gemma Doyle Trilogy - Libba Bray
Characters: Any (Gemma Doyle, Kartik, Felicity Worthington, Pippa Cross)
Why I Love It: I have such a soft spot for this series and, in particular, for Gemma/Kartik and Felicity/Pippa. I love the fantasy worldbuilding and how the book addresses female independence and uniqueness in a time period that’s right on the cusp of the suffrage movement. And I love the dilemma over being true to society’s standards or true to yourself, as well as the dilemma between fate and free choice. It’s all wrapped up in nice fantasy package that’s sometimes whimsical and sometimes very dark and grotesque, and I love it.
I do ship Gemma/Kartik and Felicity/Pippa, if you're looking to write any romantic pairings. But I would be equally happy with fic about just one of the characters, friendship fic, gen fic, or whatever else!
Prompts:
I can’t wait to see what you write! I love all of these fandoms equally, and in different ways, so I'll be delighted with whatever you write.
My prompts tend to ramble on (sorry!!), so if one aspect of a prompt catches your interest, feel free to take that and run with it. The prompts are to give you a sense of what I like more than anything else, so don't feel pressured to stick with them. If you have a story idea in mind already, go for it!
I’m available on AO3 and tumblr, though I haven’t really used tumblr much over the past few years. I love slash, femmeslash, het, threesomes, friendship fic, and gen fic. I tend to gravitate towards plotty fic. Sex is great, no sex is great - write whatever you feel comfortable with.
Overall, I love anything that stays true to the tone of the canon universe or characters. I’m not huge on mundane modern day AUs for fantasy, sci-fi, and historical fandoms, since part of why I like those fandoms is the setting. I also have a fierce love of spy AUs, Age of Sail AUs, and noir AUs, so feel free to write those AUs for any fandom.
General Likes, Dislikes, and Triggers:
Likes: canon divergence and what-if AUs, future fic, fix-it fic, porn with feelings, friends to lovers, female friendships, found families, mutual pining, co-dependency in a I’ll-die-for you type of way, love letters, unsent love letters that someone accidentally finds, accidental feelings confessions, angst with a happy ending, secret relationships, fake dating/married, bandaging each other’s wounds/taking care of someone who’s sick, separations and reunions (even better if there's the "I thought you were dead!" trope thrown in), soulmate AUs, historical AUs, spies and secret agent AUs, noir AUs, Age of Sail AUs, domesticity/curtain fic for usually angsty pairings, happy endings for LGBTQA+ characters in historical eras.
Dislikes: issue fic, personal identity headcanons, soapboxing/writer-on-board, unrequested pairings/crossovers, mundane modern day AUs, power imbalances (student/teacher, etc.), savior tropes, fuck-or-die/sex pollen/etc., always-a-top/always-a-bottom depictions, woobiefication, a/b/o, mob/mafia AUs, rent boy/prostitution AUs, homeless AUs, d/s or bdsm, slavery, genderswap, fandom/tumblr AUs, non-con or dub-con, graphic description of pregnancy or bodily fluids, scat/watersports, mpreg, underage, reader insert fic, infidelity.
Breaking the fourth wall also makes me super uncomfortable, so please no coy nods to other fandoms, other movies or shows the actors have been in, or nods to other books the authors have written. It’s just going to make me feel awkward.
Triggers: rape, spanking/beating/whipping, eye injuries or mutilation, forced pregnancy, infertility. I have a HUGE snake phobia, so please avoid any unnecessary mention of snakes.
If anything on the DNW list appears in canon, you can ignore it as a DNW for that particular fandom. For triggers, if it appears in canon, please don’t go into graphic detail about it if at all possible.
Requests:
Turn
Characters: Any (Benjamin Tallmadge, Caleb Brewster, Anna Strong, Mary Woodhull)
Why I Love It: I have a weakness for spy stories, and what I love about Turn is that it shows both sides of the war, and has sympathetic and antagonistic characters on each side. So many war stories are so one-sided, so I really appreciate the multifaceted approach. Ben is my favorite character because I have a weakness for idealistic, passionate revolutionaries. But I love all four of these requested characters. My favorite part of the show was in S4 when all four were in camp together because they're my dream team.
I do ship Ben/Caleb and Anna/Mary, if you're looking to write any romantic pairings. But I would be equally happy with fic about just one of the characters, friendship fic, or whatever else!
Prompts:
- What were their lives like before the war? Maybe something about Ben at Yale or Caleb on his whaling ship, Anna's life working in the tavern, or Mary's experience with raising a family and marriage to a man she married but might not love immediately (and who certainly doesn't love her).
- Post-war fic! How have their lives changed? What are they doing based on what we know from the epilogue? What has changed for the better or worse? Are they still haunted by anything they did during the war?
- A canon divergent AU where Mary was recruited into the Culper Ring from the beginning (because let's be real, she knows how to get stuff done without issue).
- Anna/Mary specific prompts: I think they could have had an amazing friendship and bond if the issues with Abe hadn’t impacted them. What if Abe was never an issue? Or what if they had sorted things out and worked together from the beginning - something where they were both recruited or had a united front for everything happening in Setauket. They could offer each other the emotional companionship that I think they're both lacking in their lives.
- Ben/Caleb specific prompts: I really love how they’re willing to do anything for each other, as we’ve seen over the course of the show. Were they always this close growing up or did it develop during the war? Do they act on their feelings during the war or just go on mutually pining until after the war ends? They also have so many instances where hurt/comfort could come into play (after Caleb is tortured, whenever Ben is being sad and disheartened about something, etc.)
- Give me a spy AU set during another time period - WWI, WWII, Cold War, etc. I'm all about different types of spy AUs for this fandom, and I'd love to see how the characters we know and love would act in a similar situation, but with different stakes on the line than independence.
The Alienist (TV)
Characters: John Moore, Sara Howard
Why I Love It: I love how the premise of the first season gives us a bunch of misfits making a pseudo-family together to catch a serial killer. I adore Sara for being so determined to forge her own path in the world without the help of anyone, and for being so curious and intelligent and willing to bring up points that most of the men aren't. And I love how John is such a romantic - still hurt by his fiancee leaving him and then utterly besotted with Sara (his confession to her!!!), but also that he's kind to a boy who needs a friend. He's willing to make himself a better person for those around him, and that's so refreshing to see.
I do ship Sara/John, and as I said in my sign-up DNW, I'm really not interested in John/Laszlo as a romantic pairing. I do love their friendship, though!
Prompts:
- There's so much potential to explore Sara and John's backstory. The book delves into it a little bit more than the show does, so pull from that if you'd like! I'd love to see their first meeting, or their interactions over the years. How they become friends or their reactions to each other's significant life events (John's fiancee leaving him, the death of Sara's father, etc.)
- Slow burn and/or pining. John said he'd wait for her, and that provides such a good opportunity for slow burn and some serious pining. I think John would pine pretty well, and I'd love to see Sara's slow realization that she can love John and keep her career.
- More casefic because I think they make a great team. Feel free to bring in all the other characters as well because I love them all.
- Undercover fake married for a case. Maybe they have to go investigate a new case someplace where they have to pretend to be married? Maybe one of them lies about being married to get information from someone? Whatever the reason, just imagine the awkwardness and potential for budding romance in that situation.
- Their relationship as seen through someone else's eyes. I have a soft spot for outside POVs, so this could be a POV from one person or multiple people over the years reflecting on the change in their relationship.
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The Amberlough Dossier Series - Lara Elena Donnelly
Characters: Cyril DePaul, Aristide Makricosta
Why I Love It: This is one of my new favorite series. I read the first book last year, and the second immediately when it was released and both stuck with me for a long time afterwards. I love Cyril and Ari's relationship and how it plays a much larger part in the plot that you think at the beginning. Upon meeting them, each says at different moments that they're not in love with the other, but we soon see how deeply in love they are and how willing they are to do anything to save each other (Ari's letter to Cyril at the end of Book 1 killed me). All of Ari's scenes in the second book had such a sense of regret and grief and loneliness that it made me ache, and the same goes for Cyril's scenes in book 1 where it's clear that he's only playing double agent to save Ari. All I want is for them to find each other again and share all their secrets and get a happy ending.
Prompts:
- We get a glimpse of how they first met - a sort of love (or lust) at first sight - but I'd love to see the actual start of their affair and how it builds into something more. They were together for a year at the start of Book 1, so what did all those missing moments look like? When was the point where it stopped being a hookup and affection started to flow through?
- Similar to the prompt above, I'd love something about the happier moments in their relationship, however rare they may have been. Moments where it wasn't just about sex, but there was something more intimate. When they let their defenses drop a little. This could also be future fic or fix-it fic if that works for you!
- Maybe a canon divergence where Cyril actually tells Ari about the deal he made or Ari tells Cyril he can get him out of Amberlough.
- Or a fix-it where Cyril does get on the train out of Amberlough in Book 1 and he and Ari get a nice reunion. Or where he makes his way to Ari sometime in the three years that passed during the books.
- Ari's so obviously heartbroken all those years later and still desperately in love with Cyril that he's willing to assault someone he thinks killed him, and is willing to run off to the jungle to try and find him. Does he find him? If so, what is their reunion like? Do they finally get to be happy together, with no more lies between them?
- What's Cyril been doing since we last saw him in Amberlough? I can just imagine him lonely and unhappy and pining for Ari while he's undercover, convinced that he's never going to see him again and that keeping away is only keeping Ari safe.
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Gemma Doyle Trilogy - Libba Bray
Characters: Any (Gemma Doyle, Kartik, Felicity Worthington, Pippa Cross)
Why I Love It: I have such a soft spot for this series and, in particular, for Gemma/Kartik and Felicity/Pippa. I love the fantasy worldbuilding and how the book addresses female independence and uniqueness in a time period that’s right on the cusp of the suffrage movement. And I love the dilemma over being true to society’s standards or true to yourself, as well as the dilemma between fate and free choice. It’s all wrapped up in nice fantasy package that’s sometimes whimsical and sometimes very dark and grotesque, and I love it.
I do ship Gemma/Kartik and Felicity/Pippa, if you're looking to write any romantic pairings. But I would be equally happy with fic about just one of the characters, friendship fic, gen fic, or whatever else!
Prompts:
- Fix-it Fic! What I’d give for fix-it fic where Kartik doesn’t sacrifice himself and he and Gemma get to have a happy ending together. Maybe Gemma figures out a way to undo his sacrifice. Maybe they return to India and get married like in Gemma’s vision. Maybe they just travel the world or maybe he goes with her to America.
- Fix-it where Pippa doesn’t stay in the Realms. Maybe she and Felicity run off to Paris together. Maybe the girls all find a way to prevent Pippa from marrying so she can get her happy ending.
- Future fic! Does Felicity make it to Paris? Does she get her fabulous pantsuit and meet other lesbians or bisexual women? Do she and Gemma meet up or write to each other? How’s Gemma doing in America? Does she still visit the Realms? How’s her relationship with her family after everything that happened?
- I’d love any fic about Felicity and Gemma bonding over losing their first loves and being independent, smart women in a time when society doesn’t like women who go against the norm. Friendship or romantic fic is fine.
- Backstory or POV fic about Kartik, Felicity, or Pippa! I’d love to see any of their stories play out from their POV since we only get one chapter from Kartik in the entire trilogy and none from Felicity or Pippa.
- Aside from the ending, two of my biggest disappointments were that Kartik never showed up to that masquerade in the third book because I wanted to see him and Gemma dance. And that we never got to see more of Felicity and Pippa alone to see how their relationship developed. Exploring either of those would be great.