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lotesseOMG YULETIDE ASSIGNMENT EXCITEMENT!!!
Whoever you are, thank you for writing for me! You rock! As a note, please don't think you have to write about all my named characters for these fandoms - I was more pitching multiple possible stories than specifying everything I want in a single one. So.
In general, I'm a happy-ending kind of girl. I like stories about people in love, sexual or otherwise - stories where people care for and help one another. It satisfies my idealistic streak. Hurt/comfort junkie, happy with slash, het, and gen unless otherwise specified. I do love angst, oh do I ever, but I kind of need happy endings afterward.
Philip Pullman - Sally Lockhart Series, Frederick Garland/Jim Taylor/Rosa Garland/Sally Lockhart. Pre-Shadow in the North (so Fred isn't dead yet). Family of choice, with potential hijinks, Fred/Sally sexual tension, and possible group bohemian sex.
I love these books, and Sally in particular - she's got that same gutsy Tricksterishness that Pullman's heroines always do, but for some reason I find it even more exciting when part of a Victorian timeperiod. I'm a big fan of Victorian women's fiction - Brontes, Eliot, that sort of thing - so a contemporary take on that really gets me going and makes my inner feminist all squeaky. Also the Gothic.
I do ship Fred/Sally pretty hard, but I also really love the way that the Garlands and Jim and Sally (and Trembler!) form this untraditional family of sorts. They're making the world fit them, not trying to fit themselves to the world.
I'm also a theater baby, so that aspect gives me happies.
Gene Stratton Porter - Limberlost Books, Freckles James Ross MacLean/MacLean/The Swamp Angel. Freckles&MacLean smarm? Freckles/Angel shipping? I just mainly want Freckles cared for and adored - he's my pet character.
(this one was actually my fandom nom.) My granmum gave me the Limberlost books when I was just a wee thing, because she's an Indiana girl. I'm a Michigan child, but as someone who's done the rural midwest thing, these books really resonate with me. They remind me vividly of a childhood outdoors.
Freckles in particular hits my hurt/comfort kink in a major way. I utterly love him, as a character, and I like seeing him be taken care of. I love the high, fairytale drama of Stratton Porter's writing. Het and gen only for this one, please - too much my childhood for anything heavier than smarm. But smarm is great so!
Tamora Pierce - Tortall series, Daine/Numair. Shipping! As romance-novel-tastic as possible! Daring rescues, emo doubts, tragic separations, the power of love transcending all obstacles! Preferably set at least after "Emperor Mage," or between the end of the quartet and the major Daine/Numair developments in Protector of the Small.
Tammy Pierce was - and is - my fandom of self-indulgence. I'm a romantic with a penchant for melodrama, and she tends to provide that in spades. So more of that, please? I've always been a Daine girl, because I'm pretty much a pacifist, and I think Numair Salmalin is scorchingly hot - especially because of the secret, emo past and the long legs and the whole being the most powerful mage in the world thing.
But pretty much, dear Yuletide santa, write me any story at all, and I am yours indebted forever!
Whoever you are, thank you for writing for me! You rock! As a note, please don't think you have to write about all my named characters for these fandoms - I was more pitching multiple possible stories than specifying everything I want in a single one. So.
In general, I'm a happy-ending kind of girl. I like stories about people in love, sexual or otherwise - stories where people care for and help one another. It satisfies my idealistic streak. Hurt/comfort junkie, happy with slash, het, and gen unless otherwise specified. I do love angst, oh do I ever, but I kind of need happy endings afterward.
Philip Pullman - Sally Lockhart Series, Frederick Garland/Jim Taylor/Rosa Garland/Sally Lockhart. Pre-Shadow in the North (so Fred isn't dead yet). Family of choice, with potential hijinks, Fred/Sally sexual tension, and possible group bohemian sex.
I love these books, and Sally in particular - she's got that same gutsy Tricksterishness that Pullman's heroines always do, but for some reason I find it even more exciting when part of a Victorian timeperiod. I'm a big fan of Victorian women's fiction - Brontes, Eliot, that sort of thing - so a contemporary take on that really gets me going and makes my inner feminist all squeaky. Also the Gothic.
I do ship Fred/Sally pretty hard, but I also really love the way that the Garlands and Jim and Sally (and Trembler!) form this untraditional family of sorts. They're making the world fit them, not trying to fit themselves to the world.
I'm also a theater baby, so that aspect gives me happies.
Gene Stratton Porter - Limberlost Books, Freckles James Ross MacLean/MacLean/The Swamp Angel. Freckles&MacLean smarm? Freckles/Angel shipping? I just mainly want Freckles cared for and adored - he's my pet character.
(this one was actually my fandom nom.) My granmum gave me the Limberlost books when I was just a wee thing, because she's an Indiana girl. I'm a Michigan child, but as someone who's done the rural midwest thing, these books really resonate with me. They remind me vividly of a childhood outdoors.
Freckles in particular hits my hurt/comfort kink in a major way. I utterly love him, as a character, and I like seeing him be taken care of. I love the high, fairytale drama of Stratton Porter's writing. Het and gen only for this one, please - too much my childhood for anything heavier than smarm. But smarm is great so!
Tamora Pierce - Tortall series, Daine/Numair. Shipping! As romance-novel-tastic as possible! Daring rescues, emo doubts, tragic separations, the power of love transcending all obstacles! Preferably set at least after "Emperor Mage," or between the end of the quartet and the major Daine/Numair developments in Protector of the Small.
Tammy Pierce was - and is - my fandom of self-indulgence. I'm a romantic with a penchant for melodrama, and she tends to provide that in spades. So more of that, please? I've always been a Daine girl, because I'm pretty much a pacifist, and I think Numair Salmalin is scorchingly hot - especially because of the secret, emo past and the long legs and the whole being the most powerful mage in the world thing.
But pretty much, dear Yuletide santa, write me any story at all, and I am yours indebted forever!