Dear Yuletide Santa!
Nov. 2nd, 2012 04:25 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
mindsplintersAgain, this a letter for that wonderful, amazing person who has drawn me as their assignment for Yuletide. I don't even know you and I already love you. In a platonic, non-discomfort-inducing sort of way. I know my recent posts have been on the light and uninformative side of things but, hopefully, you can find something here or at my Livejournal account shortcakegreen to help you if you're so inclined. I assure you that I'm not actually a hard-sell. I'm pretty easily pleased and I'm also an old hand at this. Something like 8 or 9 years. I can never remember and I'm far too lazy at the moment to double-check my records.
Anyway, the point of this is that Yuletide is dear to my heart and I look forward to gifts and gifting every year. More than anything, I hope you have fun with whatever assignment you choose.
Do:
* Have fun. I don't want this to be a chore.
* I adore a sense of humor and I'm a glutton for puns. Feel free to unleash your inner Spider Robinson if you must.
* I do like a well-written bit of heated prose so don't shy away from hot and heavy so long as you can keep it from roaming into Plot What Plot?
* I am a total tramp when it comes to a well-written bit of character development. I drool over interactions and have been known to overlook plot weaknesses when given yummy character interaction and brilliant dialogue. Seriously, I <3 slice of life stories to a totally unhealthy degree.
Don't:
* Please no main character death. I don't mind angst or trauma or unhappy topics when done well because, hey, it's life but I really do want to keep my Yuletide free of wearing-black.
* If you go the pr0n route (and I don't mind if you do!), do not make it non-con. No rape, incest, or pedophilia please.
* Aim for offensive and crude humor. My sense of humor is very broad indeed but reading about people embarrassing themselves solely for the sake of embarrassing themselves... Makes me uncomfy. To frame this up for reference, I get up and leave the room during viewings of Something About Mary, Dumb And Dumber, etc. (But, strangely, I love me some Zoolander.)
... That's really about it. I told you I was easy.
Modesty Blaise
Simply put, I am going to keep requesting this bloody thing until, some magical year, I get it. If this is what you're doing... I will bear your kittens/puppies/lizards. As I said, the only thing I ask that you avoid in this one is the end game. If you got this fandom, then you know just as well as I do how the end comes and I would much rather read about something before that. Something witty, maybe even full of caper-type goodness. The main point I would love is something showcasing the relationship between Modesty and Willie. It is such a rare, powerful bond and not something I've found anywhere else, really. It could be romantic but, then again, it could be strictly platonic. It could be beyond romance and into the spiritual. They know each other better than anyone else and they're both painfully pragmatic people. I find it constantly fascinating how they damn well know they are each other's Achilles' Heels but they have trained themselves to ignore it and work around it. Sure, they would crumble without each other but they have to function as if they wouldn't. They're proud and close and brilliant and they accept each other, warts and all. (There is a Rumi poem that makes me think of them but I can't call it to mind now... But, if you know Rumi and his friendship with Shams-e Tabrizi, then you probably know where I'm coming from.)
Enchanted
I love this movie with all my heart for it's self-aware ridiculousness and how it embraces the Disney tropes and twists them and then plays jump-rope. I love each character, too, which is a rarity for me. If you do feel the need to do Robert/Giselle, I'd like to see something about that day spent together that grew the connection. More desperately, though, I would love to see a fic featuring Nancy and Edward. One of the things I found most charming and refreshing with this movie was how neither of these characters were vilified. They were not presented as grasping and cruel and selfish people who wanted to "get in the way" of Robert and Giselle. They were just people who loved and wanted and hoped and dreamed and feared (In very crayon-colored ways in Edward's case XD). When they were given a happy ending of their own at the end... I literally squealed with joy. Please don't undo that. Instead, expand on it! Tell me about their happily ever after - how they learn to live together and how they learn from each other and what drew them into that impulsive happy decision. Please!
Kurosagi Corpse Delivery Service
Well... This would be the dark request, I imagine. There is no way around it. Though if you could make a story about this series fluffy and cheerful and candy-coated as well as in-character and logical, you would have the keys to the kingdom. Seriously. This is where I don't mind the blood and gore. Knock yourself out but please never forget the characters. By the way, I have a strange particular fondness for Yata. I don't know. It's just there. Also, as of this moment, I've only read up to volume 10 in the English translations so...
Northwest Smith
Shambleau was the first short story I ever read that just completely and utterly took me. Until then, I can't remember any in particular and it was only by chance that I found this in a collection of vampire stories loaned by a friend. The vividness of the words, the depth of the emotions, the growing horror... I suspect Northwest Smith can be partially blamed for my love of the crew on a certain spaceship called Serenity. I fell in love with the unspoken things in the story, the promise of a strange future, the strength and vulnerability of both Smith and Yarol. Oh, Yarol. I can't decide who I love more - you or NW. You can do anything you like with this request - baring the above no-gos or romance between Yarol and NW (I have problems picturing romance as a factor in ANY story for this world, though). Play with the senses, the rich words, the seamy underbelly of things. Please have fun.
Anyway, the point of this is that Yuletide is dear to my heart and I look forward to gifts and gifting every year. More than anything, I hope you have fun with whatever assignment you choose.
Do:
* Have fun. I don't want this to be a chore.
* I adore a sense of humor and I'm a glutton for puns. Feel free to unleash your inner Spider Robinson if you must.
* I do like a well-written bit of heated prose so don't shy away from hot and heavy so long as you can keep it from roaming into Plot What Plot?
* I am a total tramp when it comes to a well-written bit of character development. I drool over interactions and have been known to overlook plot weaknesses when given yummy character interaction and brilliant dialogue. Seriously, I <3 slice of life stories to a totally unhealthy degree.
Don't:
* Please no main character death. I don't mind angst or trauma or unhappy topics when done well because, hey, it's life but I really do want to keep my Yuletide free of wearing-black.
* If you go the pr0n route (and I don't mind if you do!), do not make it non-con. No rape, incest, or pedophilia please.
* Aim for offensive and crude humor. My sense of humor is very broad indeed but reading about people embarrassing themselves solely for the sake of embarrassing themselves... Makes me uncomfy. To frame this up for reference, I get up and leave the room during viewings of Something About Mary, Dumb And Dumber, etc. (But, strangely, I love me some Zoolander.)
... That's really about it. I told you I was easy.
Modesty Blaise
Simply put, I am going to keep requesting this bloody thing until, some magical year, I get it. If this is what you're doing... I will bear your kittens/puppies/lizards. As I said, the only thing I ask that you avoid in this one is the end game. If you got this fandom, then you know just as well as I do how the end comes and I would much rather read about something before that. Something witty, maybe even full of caper-type goodness. The main point I would love is something showcasing the relationship between Modesty and Willie. It is such a rare, powerful bond and not something I've found anywhere else, really. It could be romantic but, then again, it could be strictly platonic. It could be beyond romance and into the spiritual. They know each other better than anyone else and they're both painfully pragmatic people. I find it constantly fascinating how they damn well know they are each other's Achilles' Heels but they have trained themselves to ignore it and work around it. Sure, they would crumble without each other but they have to function as if they wouldn't. They're proud and close and brilliant and they accept each other, warts and all. (There is a Rumi poem that makes me think of them but I can't call it to mind now... But, if you know Rumi and his friendship with Shams-e Tabrizi, then you probably know where I'm coming from.)
Enchanted
I love this movie with all my heart for it's self-aware ridiculousness and how it embraces the Disney tropes and twists them and then plays jump-rope. I love each character, too, which is a rarity for me. If you do feel the need to do Robert/Giselle, I'd like to see something about that day spent together that grew the connection. More desperately, though, I would love to see a fic featuring Nancy and Edward. One of the things I found most charming and refreshing with this movie was how neither of these characters were vilified. They were not presented as grasping and cruel and selfish people who wanted to "get in the way" of Robert and Giselle. They were just people who loved and wanted and hoped and dreamed and feared (In very crayon-colored ways in Edward's case XD). When they were given a happy ending of their own at the end... I literally squealed with joy. Please don't undo that. Instead, expand on it! Tell me about their happily ever after - how they learn to live together and how they learn from each other and what drew them into that impulsive happy decision. Please!
Kurosagi Corpse Delivery Service
Well... This would be the dark request, I imagine. There is no way around it. Though if you could make a story about this series fluffy and cheerful and candy-coated as well as in-character and logical, you would have the keys to the kingdom. Seriously. This is where I don't mind the blood and gore. Knock yourself out but please never forget the characters. By the way, I have a strange particular fondness for Yata. I don't know. It's just there. Also, as of this moment, I've only read up to volume 10 in the English translations so...
Northwest Smith
Shambleau was the first short story I ever read that just completely and utterly took me. Until then, I can't remember any in particular and it was only by chance that I found this in a collection of vampire stories loaned by a friend. The vividness of the words, the depth of the emotions, the growing horror... I suspect Northwest Smith can be partially blamed for my love of the crew on a certain spaceship called Serenity. I fell in love with the unspoken things in the story, the promise of a strange future, the strength and vulnerability of both Smith and Yarol. Oh, Yarol. I can't decide who I love more - you or NW. You can do anything you like with this request - baring the above no-gos or romance between Yarol and NW (I have problems picturing romance as a factor in ANY story for this world, though). Play with the senses, the rich words, the seamy underbelly of things. Please have fun.
