Dear Yuletide Author
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alteregonDear Author!
First, let me assure you that the characters I requested? No matter what you write, I will love it.
If you want to tailor your work to my personal tastes a bit more: I mostly prefer gen, I really enjoy a dark fic, I love reading about characters getting (reversibly or permanently) damaged, I enjoy the hurt part of hurt and comfort maybe a tiny bit more than the comfort but I love both aspects. I enjoy reading characters recovering / struggling to recover or having to adjust/deal. I like dark, I like torture, I like moral ambiguity. I don't mind character death, but I'll also be absolutely happy if you write me something sweet and fluffy with any of the characters I requested. Or very nearly anything else you might want to write.
Just… I'm really not into things like genderswap, I'd prefer my boys to stay boys and my girls to stay girls and my nonbinary folks to stay nonbinary folks. Also if you're not into writing gen, I'd rather people's existing sexualities weren't erased. Feel free to expand. Make a character who's canonically in an opposite-gender relationship bisexual if you prefer for your writing purposes, but don't render them exclusively gay, thereby making the canon no longer work, please. Same goes vice versa of course.
DNW: Porn without plot, absolute crack, and AUs of the sort where the entire world changes… Like, you know, coffee shop AUs, they’re college roommates AUs, that sort of thing… please stay conceivably within the canon world. I’m okay with canon deviations/slightly alternate timelines.
As for my fandoms:
Snowpiercer (2013) – Grey
Right. My big new fandom from last year. I still love it. OH MY GOD So many buttons. And I’m head over heels in love with Grey. What a beautifully eloquent character without ever uttering a single word. (On that subject, if your idea is different don’t worry about it, but while many are writing him as such, I do not believe his tongue was cut. He’d still make sounds laughing and crying and he cries absolutely soundlessly.)
So erm.. give me anything, really. A scene from his POV? An AU where he wins that fight and survives? What if he’s not dead and lives through the crash? Or maybe something from the past? I’m not extremely into kid fic, but something from an earlier year of the tail section would be fine. What about him and Gilliam? What about those scars he has? How did he get those? Some of those? Anything? Anything, really.
Oh erm right... addendum here: I am aware that the director basically made Grey/Gilliam canon. I am fine with it if you want to explore that. I am also fine with it if you prefer to just ignore that.
Bellman noir (The Wolf and the Watchman) - Cecil Winge.
My new fandom from the year before last. I read this book and I have not fallen as quickly and as hard for any character as I did for this one in a very very long time. Just anything with him will be fine. Something from his past, something from the case, another case, the situation with his wife, something with Jean-Michael... his death even if you like, or an AU where he survives his illness...
I’m still in love with this fandom. I have read the third book, so if you read Swedish and you have, there is no risk of spoiling me.
I’m not particularly enamoured with Cecil’s brother Emil. He reminds me too much of a family member of mine. I’d be okay with something featuring all three Winge siblings, though. Als I would be equally interested in reading anything about Cecil and Emma.
I am not hugely in love with the ending of the third book. However, should you feel like going a bit supernatural and writing some ghosts teaming up to do fun or spooky or casefic ghost things, please don’t hesitate to do so!
I’m open to receiving fic for this in Swedish, should you prefer.
Star Trek – Strange New Worlds – Hemmer
We can request Star Trek for Yuletide? HOW COOL IS THAT? Ahem. This one’s this year’s big new fandom for me. Strange New Worlds that is, not Star Trek, which I’ve loved forever. I absolutely adore the new show and I’m head over heels in love with Hemmer. Tell me about him whatever you like. How did he decide to join Starfleet? Something from the academy? A previous posting? A missing scene? Something we’ve seen from his POV? AU in which he lives?
House of the Dragon – Daemon Targaryen
Okay, here’s another one I was surprised to find eligible, and I AM going to take the opportunity and request it. I’ve found myself surprised by how much I ended up liking this particular character. Sooo yeah, give me some Daemon. And yes, I would love to read about Daemon in pain and struggling, but I will happily consume and heap love on anything else that you might come up with. Something with his dragon? Daemon and Viserys in their younger days (maybe not exactly kidfic I’m not hugely into that)? Something we don’t see on screen? Something that hasn’t happened yet in the show? Elaboration on something we only see briefly?
First, let me assure you that the characters I requested? No matter what you write, I will love it.
If you want to tailor your work to my personal tastes a bit more: I mostly prefer gen, I really enjoy a dark fic, I love reading about characters getting (reversibly or permanently) damaged, I enjoy the hurt part of hurt and comfort maybe a tiny bit more than the comfort but I love both aspects. I enjoy reading characters recovering / struggling to recover or having to adjust/deal. I like dark, I like torture, I like moral ambiguity. I don't mind character death, but I'll also be absolutely happy if you write me something sweet and fluffy with any of the characters I requested. Or very nearly anything else you might want to write.
Just… I'm really not into things like genderswap, I'd prefer my boys to stay boys and my girls to stay girls and my nonbinary folks to stay nonbinary folks. Also if you're not into writing gen, I'd rather people's existing sexualities weren't erased. Feel free to expand. Make a character who's canonically in an opposite-gender relationship bisexual if you prefer for your writing purposes, but don't render them exclusively gay, thereby making the canon no longer work, please. Same goes vice versa of course.
DNW: Porn without plot, absolute crack, and AUs of the sort where the entire world changes… Like, you know, coffee shop AUs, they’re college roommates AUs, that sort of thing… please stay conceivably within the canon world. I’m okay with canon deviations/slightly alternate timelines.
As for my fandoms:
Snowpiercer (2013) – Grey
Right. My big new fandom from last year. I still love it. OH MY GOD So many buttons. And I’m head over heels in love with Grey. What a beautifully eloquent character without ever uttering a single word. (On that subject, if your idea is different don’t worry about it, but while many are writing him as such, I do not believe his tongue was cut. He’d still make sounds laughing and crying and he cries absolutely soundlessly.)
So erm.. give me anything, really. A scene from his POV? An AU where he wins that fight and survives? What if he’s not dead and lives through the crash? Or maybe something from the past? I’m not extremely into kid fic, but something from an earlier year of the tail section would be fine. What about him and Gilliam? What about those scars he has? How did he get those? Some of those? Anything? Anything, really.
Oh erm right... addendum here: I am aware that the director basically made Grey/Gilliam canon. I am fine with it if you want to explore that. I am also fine with it if you prefer to just ignore that.
Bellman noir (The Wolf and the Watchman) - Cecil Winge.
My new fandom from the year before last. I read this book and I have not fallen as quickly and as hard for any character as I did for this one in a very very long time. Just anything with him will be fine. Something from his past, something from the case, another case, the situation with his wife, something with Jean-Michael... his death even if you like, or an AU where he survives his illness...
I’m still in love with this fandom. I have read the third book, so if you read Swedish and you have, there is no risk of spoiling me.
I’m not particularly enamoured with Cecil’s brother Emil. He reminds me too much of a family member of mine. I’d be okay with something featuring all three Winge siblings, though. Als I would be equally interested in reading anything about Cecil and Emma.
I am not hugely in love with the ending of the third book. However, should you feel like going a bit supernatural and writing some ghosts teaming up to do fun or spooky or casefic ghost things, please don’t hesitate to do so!
I’m open to receiving fic for this in Swedish, should you prefer.
Star Trek – Strange New Worlds – Hemmer
We can request Star Trek for Yuletide? HOW COOL IS THAT? Ahem. This one’s this year’s big new fandom for me. Strange New Worlds that is, not Star Trek, which I’ve loved forever. I absolutely adore the new show and I’m head over heels in love with Hemmer. Tell me about him whatever you like. How did he decide to join Starfleet? Something from the academy? A previous posting? A missing scene? Something we’ve seen from his POV? AU in which he lives?
House of the Dragon – Daemon Targaryen
Okay, here’s another one I was surprised to find eligible, and I AM going to take the opportunity and request it. I’ve found myself surprised by how much I ended up liking this particular character. Sooo yeah, give me some Daemon. And yes, I would love to read about Daemon in pain and struggling, but I will happily consume and heap love on anything else that you might come up with. Something with his dragon? Daemon and Viserys in their younger days (maybe not exactly kidfic I’m not hugely into that)? Something we don’t see on screen? Something that hasn’t happened yet in the show? Elaboration on something we only see briefly?
