Dear Yuletide Author letter
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kangeikoDear Yuletide Santa,
Thank you so much for writing for me! I can't wait to unwrap my present Yuletide morning. I've included some broad likes / dislikes below, but in general I'm pretty open to a whole host of possibilities and relationships, so please write what feels right to you.
Likes:
I love character studies, and that feeds into relationship dynamics as well. I like the intricacies of why people respond to each other the way that they do, and I like my relationships complex and multi-layered. Anything knotty and problematic gets my seal of approval. I also like family relationships, especially found family, family of choice, and complicated family dynamics.
I read slash, femslash, gen and het, and I am just as happy with a gen character study as I am with a slashy romance. I love canon-compliant fics.
Do Not Wants:
The pretty standard squicks apply - underage, snuff, scat, non-con, body horror. I'm not a big fan of AUs (e.g. Coffee shop AUs, high school AUs) or of PWPs.
The requests -
The Laundry Files - Charles Stross
Bob Howard, James Angleton
I love this relationship. I like Bob's respect for Dr Angleton and his wholly-justified fear of him, and I wish that we'd had more of an exploration of Angleton's motivation and reasoning with respect to Bob. We know why he is loyal to the Laundry, but not why he chose Bob as his assistant and successor, or why he felt one would be necessary. I love the early books, and little short story tie-ins with little mini mysteries for Bob to unravel. I'd love a day in the life for Angleton, or a training exercise for Bob, or even one of the paperclip audits. Anything set within the world of the Laundry - prior to it all going horribly wrong with the PHANGs - would be welcome.
Rome
Atia of the Julii, Servilia of the Junii
I love these two adversaries. Anything around their relationship - so close and suffocating within the confines of what it means to be a 'proper' Roman matron, and yet so clearly adversarial - would be wonderful. By the time we see them on the show they are clearly already at odds, but how did they get there? Was it just jealousy on Atia's part? Distaste on Servilia's? How did Atia feel after her adversary was no longer there, how did she adjust to a world where she didn't have Servilia to compete against? Anything about these two would be wonderful.
A Knight's Tale
Geoffrey Chaucer, Wat
I was recently re-watching this film and it struck me again how wonderfully these two fit together. I love Wat's incoherent rage, and Geoffrey's sly teasing. The whole film is so much fun, and these two are a real highlight for me. Anything which captures their dynamic - the humour, the fun, the exasperation - would be great, and if you feel inclined towards a slashy first time story, that would be wonderful.
Thank you so much for writing for me! I can't wait to unwrap my present Yuletide morning. I've included some broad likes / dislikes below, but in general I'm pretty open to a whole host of possibilities and relationships, so please write what feels right to you.
Likes:
I love character studies, and that feeds into relationship dynamics as well. I like the intricacies of why people respond to each other the way that they do, and I like my relationships complex and multi-layered. Anything knotty and problematic gets my seal of approval. I also like family relationships, especially found family, family of choice, and complicated family dynamics.
I read slash, femslash, gen and het, and I am just as happy with a gen character study as I am with a slashy romance. I love canon-compliant fics.
Do Not Wants:
The pretty standard squicks apply - underage, snuff, scat, non-con, body horror. I'm not a big fan of AUs (e.g. Coffee shop AUs, high school AUs) or of PWPs.
The requests -
The Laundry Files - Charles Stross
Bob Howard, James Angleton
I love this relationship. I like Bob's respect for Dr Angleton and his wholly-justified fear of him, and I wish that we'd had more of an exploration of Angleton's motivation and reasoning with respect to Bob. We know why he is loyal to the Laundry, but not why he chose Bob as his assistant and successor, or why he felt one would be necessary. I love the early books, and little short story tie-ins with little mini mysteries for Bob to unravel. I'd love a day in the life for Angleton, or a training exercise for Bob, or even one of the paperclip audits. Anything set within the world of the Laundry - prior to it all going horribly wrong with the PHANGs - would be welcome.
Rome
Atia of the Julii, Servilia of the Junii
I love these two adversaries. Anything around their relationship - so close and suffocating within the confines of what it means to be a 'proper' Roman matron, and yet so clearly adversarial - would be wonderful. By the time we see them on the show they are clearly already at odds, but how did they get there? Was it just jealousy on Atia's part? Distaste on Servilia's? How did Atia feel after her adversary was no longer there, how did she adjust to a world where she didn't have Servilia to compete against? Anything about these two would be wonderful.
A Knight's Tale
Geoffrey Chaucer, Wat
I was recently re-watching this film and it struck me again how wonderfully these two fit together. I love Wat's incoherent rage, and Geoffrey's sly teasing. The whole film is so much fun, and these two are a real highlight for me. Anything which captures their dynamic - the humour, the fun, the exasperation - would be great, and if you feel inclined towards a slashy first time story, that would be wonderful.
Fangirling
Date: 2017-11-25 05:15 pm (UTC)Libretto
Ouverture.
Imagine you are in Moscow, Russia. Eternal snow, vodka, balalaika and babushka might be added for ambiance as needed. Imagine seeing someone with a polar bear and a Putin or two.
Introduction.
That someone is me (the female one, not one of the animal forms). 30-ish, nice-ish, not-pissing-off-the-universe, nothing of the kind. But - alas - I got my phone stolen a couple of days ago.
Too bad already *suspenseful music on the background*, but I had all my inspirational stuff on it. And among it a work of yours that you've since deleted from AO3.
Main theme.
I am speaking of Summer Apple (or Apple Summer, I can not recall exactly), the one ~700 words long on Life on Mars. It is gone, it disapperared, it evaporated, it went away leaving no cached version behind.
Will you please please help me recreate what has been destroyed? Could you please please supply me with a copy of the said drabble?
Minuet
Am I being way too pushy and intimidating already?
I do respect your right as a creator to make calls and decisions about your works. And while I can not possibly know the reasons behind your decision (my knees start hurting from all that vigorous curtseying) I do understand first hand not wanting to relate to some old stuff any more.
And yet here I am, writing you and pleading you to share what you deleted.
Small sonata
For 2 years this work of yours has been one of my go-to golden standarts. Whether I am stuck writing or translating something or just generally stuck in life, I normally turn for inspiration and grounding to some prescious examples of precise wording and style, dowloaded years ago. And the one representing the ideal small form essay was (of course it had to be) yours. *background music reaching crescendo* It is kinky as hell, in caracter, written in Canon language, very believable and tender and loving, no excessive porn stuff, no artificial dwellings, very precise wording, lots of feeling.
Culmination.
How does this world expect me to go on without access to it? Can this world be so cruel and uncaring? Is there a remedy, a solution, a possibility of a happy ending?
Conclusion
I would be really really grateful if you were to share it once again, exclusively with me, I am all for striking any kind of sane deal (and ready to bombard you with similar comments on a weekly basis, too)
- Yours, Sahaja
(Constantly f5'ing my inbox at the moment)
tl;dr Please please oh please help me stay sane by sharing your deleted work (Summer Apple)