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Yuletide Letter
Dear Yuletide Person,
I've never done Yuletide. I'm still not sure I really get how it works. The first thing you need to understand is that I'll be happy about anything you write. So little work exists in these fandoms that it's a joy to read anything about them. I love het, slash, femslash, USTy gen, gen gen, hardcore PWPs, softcore PWPs, UST, long romances with fade-to-blacks, did I mention gen, adventure, horror, action, missing scenes, sequels, prequels, AUs, long fic, short fic, in-between fic, drabbles, nonlinear fic, linear fic, experimental fic and just fic in general.
The only things I tend not to appreciate in fic are adultery and non-con. Infidelity is okay if the couple is not married; dub-con is okay. I don't get why I make these distinctions either.
I love meta and historical accuracy, but they aren't necessary. I really like dialogue, social commentary, philosophy, and people working together.
A Little Princess - Frances Hodgson Burnett. I would especially love to see Sara as a grown-up, especially as an adult who is a) a proponent of social justice, and b) a survivor of abuse. In terms of (a), how does she react to WWI, is she involved with women's suffrage (does Ermengarde help her? Or maybe Ermengarde is a suggragist and gets Sara into it), how is she involved in social work (factory girls, strikes!), does she help Becky get out of service and go to secretarial school, how does she feel about the British Raj, does she find out her Papa and Mr. Carrisford were lovers and if so how does she feel about it? As for (b), I think it very possible that she could have issues with eating disorders or claustrophobia or other issues as a result of what was done to her.
These are just suggestions. I'm just as interested in her being friends with grown-up Ermengarde (who has turned into a career women!), Mr. Carrisford disapproving of her suitors, who are her suitors (can she hook up with an Indian gentleman who is ethnically Indian?), Mr. Carrisford being her suitor (I know I am wrong bad very wrong, going to the special hell), and grown-up encounters with Becky or Lavinia or Lottie.
Lawrence of Arabia (1962). My main interest is the friendship and relationship between Lawrence and Sherif Ali. While I welcome any fic anyone writes about the way they feel about each other, I prefer ones that aren't explicit, either sexually or romantically. This is for many reasons: 1) I feel sort of weird about it, seeing as how Lawrence was a real guy, even if he's inaccurately portrayed here and Ali didn't exist. 2) The suggestion of Lawrence's abuse, whether it happened or not. 3) Both of their cultures wouldn't have been very open to it at the time. 4) The most important part of their relationship isn't love or sex, but respect, admiration, common goals, a willingness to work hard and do that work together, whatever it takes.
But it's for these reasons also that I kind of want the UST without the explicit details of it. I love UST that arises not out of physical need or a longing to be together, but out of sheer desire for common goals, especially when that goal is noble and yet the method of achieving it is questionable. I love the idea of Lawrence's need to be a messiah being inextricably linked to love and physical desire, and Ali's need to unite his people bringing out a desire for Lawrence in the same way.
I also wouldn't mind if you worked parts of Seven Pillars, other historical documents, or A Dangerous Man into this fic.
Mash (TV) I love basically everything about M*A*S*H*, besides maybe Jamie Farr and Radar. I love Margaret and Hawkeye friendship, Margaret/Frank, Frank's issues, Hawkeye understanding Frank's issues--especially if Frank is still a jerk, Margaret and Charles Winchester friendship, anything about Potter, Potter/Mrs Potter, Potter as a father figure for Margaret, Potter reminding Hawkeye of his own dad, Hawkeye+BJ+Winchester reluctant friendship--especially if Winchester is still prickly and snooty, Hawkeye and Trapper friendship or Hawkeye/Trapper, BJ and Hawkeye friendship as well as Hawkeye/BJ (and okay, I know both of those last ships include adultery, which I mentioned as a squick, but I'm alright with it in this context--especially if it is explicitly addressed). I love a Hawkeye+Trapper+BJ triangle in which BJ feels like he's just a replacement for Trapper and isn't treated as his own person by Hawkeye.
I love Father Mulcahy, Father Mulcahy having issues with his faith due to the ugliness of war, Hawkeye being an angry atheist, movie nights and pranks and long nights of meatball surgery starting out with Hawkeye snarking and everyone's edges slowly being frayed until they're snapping at each other and then at the end of a horrendous eighteen hours, Margaret's hand on Hawkeye's shoulder.
I love the idea of M*A*S*H in space; deaged fic, body switch, time travel, flashbacks, all the tropes, but also straight up Korean War. I love history and having issues with faith and patriotism and disillusionment and hope and everything about this show; I love everything; I would love anything.
Singin' In The Rain (1952). I'm totally cool with gen or romance or smut, as long as it involves Cosmo, Don, and Kathy. Whether it's gen or romantic, I'd love to see the relationships of twosomes within the threesomes. I mean, Don and Cosmo have all of this history together and were friends long before meeting Kathy--I bet sometimes Kathy feels left out. And Kathy and Don have a canonical romantic relationship, which I imagine sometimes leaves Cosmo feeling left out. But what if Don just assumes he's the center of this friendship/relationship, but then he realizes Cosmo and Kathy totally hang out without him--how does he feel about that? Or maybe since Cosmo and Kathy tend to be easy-going people who want to make others feel better, whereas Don tends to be moody, Cosmo and Kathy get along better and Don notices? Basically I'd just like to examine the difficulty of three people who are really close but intertwined in different ways.
The reason I love Cosmo, Don, and Kathy together is the passion and enthusiasm they have for the work. I love the idea of them bouncing ideas off of each other, riffing off of each other, hatching crazy plans, finishing each others' sentences, building off each idea before the previous one is even complete. The cool thing is that they do this physically--with song and dance and acting. I feel like anyone watching them from the outside feels like they make no sense.
I've never done Yuletide. I'm still not sure I really get how it works. The first thing you need to understand is that I'll be happy about anything you write. So little work exists in these fandoms that it's a joy to read anything about them. I love het, slash, femslash, USTy gen, gen gen, hardcore PWPs, softcore PWPs, UST, long romances with fade-to-blacks, did I mention gen, adventure, horror, action, missing scenes, sequels, prequels, AUs, long fic, short fic, in-between fic, drabbles, nonlinear fic, linear fic, experimental fic and just fic in general.
The only things I tend not to appreciate in fic are adultery and non-con. Infidelity is okay if the couple is not married; dub-con is okay. I don't get why I make these distinctions either.
I love meta and historical accuracy, but they aren't necessary. I really like dialogue, social commentary, philosophy, and people working together.
A Little Princess - Frances Hodgson Burnett. I would especially love to see Sara as a grown-up, especially as an adult who is a) a proponent of social justice, and b) a survivor of abuse. In terms of (a), how does she react to WWI, is she involved with women's suffrage (does Ermengarde help her? Or maybe Ermengarde is a suggragist and gets Sara into it), how is she involved in social work (factory girls, strikes!), does she help Becky get out of service and go to secretarial school, how does she feel about the British Raj, does she find out her Papa and Mr. Carrisford were lovers and if so how does she feel about it? As for (b), I think it very possible that she could have issues with eating disorders or claustrophobia or other issues as a result of what was done to her.
These are just suggestions. I'm just as interested in her being friends with grown-up Ermengarde (who has turned into a career women!), Mr. Carrisford disapproving of her suitors, who are her suitors (can she hook up with an Indian gentleman who is ethnically Indian?), Mr. Carrisford being her suitor (I know I am wrong bad very wrong, going to the special hell), and grown-up encounters with Becky or Lavinia or Lottie.
Lawrence of Arabia (1962). My main interest is the friendship and relationship between Lawrence and Sherif Ali. While I welcome any fic anyone writes about the way they feel about each other, I prefer ones that aren't explicit, either sexually or romantically. This is for many reasons: 1) I feel sort of weird about it, seeing as how Lawrence was a real guy, even if he's inaccurately portrayed here and Ali didn't exist. 2) The suggestion of Lawrence's abuse, whether it happened or not. 3) Both of their cultures wouldn't have been very open to it at the time. 4) The most important part of their relationship isn't love or sex, but respect, admiration, common goals, a willingness to work hard and do that work together, whatever it takes.
But it's for these reasons also that I kind of want the UST without the explicit details of it. I love UST that arises not out of physical need or a longing to be together, but out of sheer desire for common goals, especially when that goal is noble and yet the method of achieving it is questionable. I love the idea of Lawrence's need to be a messiah being inextricably linked to love and physical desire, and Ali's need to unite his people bringing out a desire for Lawrence in the same way.
I also wouldn't mind if you worked parts of Seven Pillars, other historical documents, or A Dangerous Man into this fic.
Mash (TV) I love basically everything about M*A*S*H*, besides maybe Jamie Farr and Radar. I love Margaret and Hawkeye friendship, Margaret/Frank, Frank's issues, Hawkeye understanding Frank's issues--especially if Frank is still a jerk, Margaret and Charles Winchester friendship, anything about Potter, Potter/Mrs Potter, Potter as a father figure for Margaret, Potter reminding Hawkeye of his own dad, Hawkeye+BJ+Winchester reluctant friendship--especially if Winchester is still prickly and snooty, Hawkeye and Trapper friendship or Hawkeye/Trapper, BJ and Hawkeye friendship as well as Hawkeye/BJ (and okay, I know both of those last ships include adultery, which I mentioned as a squick, but I'm alright with it in this context--especially if it is explicitly addressed). I love a Hawkeye+Trapper+BJ triangle in which BJ feels like he's just a replacement for Trapper and isn't treated as his own person by Hawkeye.
I love Father Mulcahy, Father Mulcahy having issues with his faith due to the ugliness of war, Hawkeye being an angry atheist, movie nights and pranks and long nights of meatball surgery starting out with Hawkeye snarking and everyone's edges slowly being frayed until they're snapping at each other and then at the end of a horrendous eighteen hours, Margaret's hand on Hawkeye's shoulder.
I love the idea of M*A*S*H in space; deaged fic, body switch, time travel, flashbacks, all the tropes, but also straight up Korean War. I love history and having issues with faith and patriotism and disillusionment and hope and everything about this show; I love everything; I would love anything.
Singin' In The Rain (1952). I'm totally cool with gen or romance or smut, as long as it involves Cosmo, Don, and Kathy. Whether it's gen or romantic, I'd love to see the relationships of twosomes within the threesomes. I mean, Don and Cosmo have all of this history together and were friends long before meeting Kathy--I bet sometimes Kathy feels left out. And Kathy and Don have a canonical romantic relationship, which I imagine sometimes leaves Cosmo feeling left out. But what if Don just assumes he's the center of this friendship/relationship, but then he realizes Cosmo and Kathy totally hang out without him--how does he feel about that? Or maybe since Cosmo and Kathy tend to be easy-going people who want to make others feel better, whereas Don tends to be moody, Cosmo and Kathy get along better and Don notices? Basically I'd just like to examine the difficulty of three people who are really close but intertwined in different ways.
The reason I love Cosmo, Don, and Kathy together is the passion and enthusiasm they have for the work. I love the idea of them bouncing ideas off of each other, riffing off of each other, hatching crazy plans, finishing each others' sentences, building off each idea before the previous one is even complete. The cool thing is that they do this physically--with song and dance and acting. I feel like anyone watching them from the outside feels like they make no sense.
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