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Yuletide Letter
Nov. 16th, 2011 03:44 pmDear Yulegoat:
Hello! I'm real glad you're assigned to me. It's right kind of you. Also, if you need any refresher material for the canons, I can hook you up. Check out under each fandom.
Let's get down to the nitty gritty.
Fandom 1: Hamlet by Shakespeare
Link to the source material!
Now, I said all the characters available for it because why not, right? But what I'd really like to see for Hamlet, is a genderbent version. Whole thing or just Hamlet, it's fine. I just like that sort of thing and think it'd be keen. However, I'll live if you don't want to. Whatever you end up doing, if Ophelia could have a happier ending, I'd like that.
Fandom 2: Murder, She Wrote
LINK TO THE SOURCE MATERIAL: I have no link. I watch it on Netflix, which has the entire series. Until I've seen the whole series, Netflix owns me. Okay, all of Murder, She Wrote and All Creatures Great and Small because James Herriot makes me happy.
I'm not even sure I should have requested this, because I'm having a horrible time thinking of a prompt. I do know that my love of Jessica Fletcher (Angela Lansbury and her raw animal magnetism and all that) is pretty much unironic (my spellcheck tried to change that to unicorn) so mocking would make me a sad hamster. Any sort of adventure for her would be nice. I love adventure fic. Sorry for the vagueness!
Fandom 3: Neverending Story by Michael Ende
LINK HAS EXPLODED.
Second time's the charm, right? Like last year, I'm asking for worldbuilding for this book. There's so many times in the book where they mention something and then go 'but that's a story for another time' and I would love to see one of those stories. It's such a beautiful book every time I finish rereading it, I want to see more of that world. It's okay not to use the Childlike Empress, btw, I just put her in there because she's such an intrinsic part of Fantasia.
Fandom 4: Chronicles of Chrestomanci by Diana Wynne Jones
LINK HAS EXPLODED.
I love this series so so much. Maybe Cat's first day on the job as Chrestomanci? Cat and Marianne have an adventure? Janet and Julia get some spotlight time? They have bikes, who knows where they could get to, right? Anyway, I'd love an adventure set in that world. If there's lots of Millie, that's even better because she is awesome and used to be a goddess, damnit. Maybe something with Millie, Janet, and Julia.
That done, I must tell you what makes me very upset in a story and my general preferences.
For the most part, my preferred rating for reading is G-PG-13. I'm not a huge fan of major violence or porn, which are not the same thing I know (porn being a much happier thing than violence, but it's not very interesting to me is all, as opposed to extreme violence which I am adverse to. However, if you want to write porn because you want to, that is FINE. Because I am a big kid and porn doesn't ruin anything and I want you to be happy with what you wrote because you're doing this as a gift and it's wonderful) but they're what usually get those higher ratings.
My squicks: Rape, hate crimes, extreme violence, big age differences (exception: if both members are over thirty, I don't care how big the difference is) and especially underage sex (any adult with someone under eighteen, by my definition).
Things that make me go :D: A character having a moment of badassery or triumph, a lot of focus on female characters, ADVENTURES, a light mood to the story.
Stuff what is fine either way: Slash, het, no pairing, canon pairings, non-canon pairings, it's all the same to me. Go for it. Exception: if it's Chrestomanci, I'd like Millie and Christopher to stay together.
EDITS since original writing: I've added links to source material, as well as added to my list of squicks and likes. Hopefully I'm all done with editing now. I'm so glad I'm such a packrat. I have a billion paper and e-versions of everything, so when I saw other people were linking their source materials in their letters...
Hello! I'm real glad you're assigned to me. It's right kind of you. Also, if you need any refresher material for the canons, I can hook you up. Check out under each fandom.
Let's get down to the nitty gritty.
Fandom 1: Hamlet by Shakespeare
Link to the source material!
Now, I said all the characters available for it because why not, right? But what I'd really like to see for Hamlet, is a genderbent version. Whole thing or just Hamlet, it's fine. I just like that sort of thing and think it'd be keen. However, I'll live if you don't want to. Whatever you end up doing, if Ophelia could have a happier ending, I'd like that.
Fandom 2: Murder, She Wrote
LINK TO THE SOURCE MATERIAL: I have no link. I watch it on Netflix, which has the entire series. Until I've seen the whole series, Netflix owns me. Okay, all of Murder, She Wrote and All Creatures Great and Small because James Herriot makes me happy.
I'm not even sure I should have requested this, because I'm having a horrible time thinking of a prompt. I do know that my love of Jessica Fletcher (Angela Lansbury and her raw animal magnetism and all that) is pretty much unironic (my spellcheck tried to change that to unicorn) so mocking would make me a sad hamster. Any sort of adventure for her would be nice. I love adventure fic. Sorry for the vagueness!
Fandom 3: Neverending Story by Michael Ende
LINK HAS EXPLODED.
Second time's the charm, right? Like last year, I'm asking for worldbuilding for this book. There's so many times in the book where they mention something and then go 'but that's a story for another time' and I would love to see one of those stories. It's such a beautiful book every time I finish rereading it, I want to see more of that world. It's okay not to use the Childlike Empress, btw, I just put her in there because she's such an intrinsic part of Fantasia.
Fandom 4: Chronicles of Chrestomanci by Diana Wynne Jones
LINK HAS EXPLODED.
I love this series so so much. Maybe Cat's first day on the job as Chrestomanci? Cat and Marianne have an adventure? Janet and Julia get some spotlight time? They have bikes, who knows where they could get to, right? Anyway, I'd love an adventure set in that world. If there's lots of Millie, that's even better because she is awesome and used to be a goddess, damnit. Maybe something with Millie, Janet, and Julia.
That done, I must tell you what makes me very upset in a story and my general preferences.
For the most part, my preferred rating for reading is G-PG-13. I'm not a huge fan of major violence or porn, which are not the same thing I know (porn being a much happier thing than violence, but it's not very interesting to me is all, as opposed to extreme violence which I am adverse to. However, if you want to write porn because you want to, that is FINE. Because I am a big kid and porn doesn't ruin anything and I want you to be happy with what you wrote because you're doing this as a gift and it's wonderful) but they're what usually get those higher ratings.
My squicks: Rape, hate crimes, extreme violence, big age differences (exception: if both members are over thirty, I don't care how big the difference is) and especially underage sex (any adult with someone under eighteen, by my definition).
Things that make me go :D: A character having a moment of badassery or triumph, a lot of focus on female characters, ADVENTURES, a light mood to the story.
Stuff what is fine either way: Slash, het, no pairing, canon pairings, non-canon pairings, it's all the same to me. Go for it. Exception: if it's Chrestomanci, I'd like Millie and Christopher to stay together.
EDITS since original writing: I've added links to source material, as well as added to my list of squicks and likes. Hopefully I'm all done with editing now. I'm so glad I'm such a packrat. I have a billion paper and e-versions of everything, so when I saw other people were linking their source materials in their letters...