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Dear Yule Goat,
Thank you for writing a story for me!
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. I do love angst, oh do I ever, but I kind of need happy endings afterward. h/c is probably my biggest kink. I'm also really into family-of-choice tropes and stories about strong or passionate emotional intimacy.
I like female characters really a lot. Not all of my requests center directly on women, but it's important to me that narrative spaces reflect gender parity/equity, or specifically condemn the lack thereof in more realistically patriarchal 'verses. I like non-standard sexualities and imaginative modes of sexual engagement. Similarly, cultural diversity that opens up the imaginative space of the canon makes me seriously happy. There's no reason why kyriarchal western values, images, mores, or cultural practices need to rule speculative stories that are fairytales or take place in outer space!
Battlestar Galactica (1978). Details: Seriously, anything! Apollo is my One True Character, but I'll be equally happy with stories dealing with him in the context of his Three Musketeers thing with Boomer and Starbuck, or the biological family relationships between him and Adama and Boxey. The only ship that lights me up is Apollo/Starbuck, so either that or genfic for this, please!
I love this show to itty bitty little bits. It is a random sparkly haven filled with happiness and joy and knights in shining vipers and adorable moppets and tiny tiny pants. Ahem. I think I'm just going to like to the bsg love post I wrote last spring, because I think that just about covers it. Warning: this fandom makes me babble.
Three things I love about this 'verse:
1. its dedication to childcare and good parenting
2. the very medievalist way that the warriors are romanticized futuristic chevaliers in space - as opposed to more traditionally military takes on warlike sff. They never seem to follow orders, and no one's ever surprised, because they're allied and loyal rather than conscripted or commanded
3. the fairly good job the show does with sex, gender, and race, considering its age. The strength and diversity it habitually gives to its chromatic characters. The feeling that, with twelve colonies and a polytheistic pantheon, the opportunities for further diversification are pretty much infinite.
I do anti-ship Apollo/Sheba - no offense to the lady, it just don't work for me! - and I vastly prefer the naively utopian idealism of BSG Classic to the gritter-but-not-necessarily-more-progressive tone of the reboot.
my Battlestar Galactica tag
Gene Stratton Porter - Limberlost Books. Details: Freckles&MacLean smarm? Freckles/Angel shipping? I just mainly want Freckles cared for and adored - he's my pet character. This is a childhood fandom of mine, so gentleness in terms of rating and in terms of realist brutality would be appreciated!
My grandmother gave me the Limberlost books when I was just a wee thing. She told me that when she was a little girl growing up in Indiana, GSP was basically the JK Rowling of the day - everyone read her books. So I've been crazy about the Limberlost books for pretty much my whole life, and have never face-to-face met another person outside my family who's read 'em. I grew up in backwoods northern Michigan, and I'm actually living in Indiana now, so these are very local, homey books for me. They remind me vividly of a childhood outdoors.
Three things I love:
1. Freckles. Idek, I just adore him. His pluck, his bravery, his sensitivity, his talent. The easy way that he gives love, and the passionate way he lets himself be loved once he's accepted that he deserves care. With MacLean in particular, I think he's just dear.
2. the sexiness! This whole book is pretty much panting with diffuse desire - everything is oversaturated with sensate richness. It's deliciously polymorphously perverse.
3. the transcendentalist outdoorsiness. GSP reminds me that I need to go outside and just be, sometimes.
Het and gen only for this one, please - too much my childhood for anything heavier than smarm. But smarm is great so! And see above re: polymorphous perversity - I'm not saying no sexuality, just asking to avoid generically explicit ship-based sex scenes. I don't need all three of my requested characters at once; I was more aiming for possible combinations than demanding full inclusion of all of them.
my Gene Stratton Porter tag
Tamora Pierce - Tortall, Veralidaine Sarrasri, Numair Salmalin. Details: Um. So. Daine/Numair is the shivery romantic ship of my teenagerdom. I'd be really happy with explicit sexual content, but gen is also good - the only stipulation I'd make is tone-based. Because this is a happy-place fandom for me, and I want big happy soaring ambitious successful romantic fantasies for it. Realism what realism?
I love these books so uncritically that they're not actually that easy for me to talk about! The Immortals Quartet is by far my favorite of all Tammy's sets so far, maybe because it's the least, hrm, military? Or possibly just because I've had thing thing for Numair since I was about 13?
Three things that I love:
1. that Numair is a (gorgeous, edible) character of color. Tammy's described Tyra as a Venetian culture, but I'd argue that's more in terms of economic structure than ethnicity. She's also described Numair as looking rather like a Sephardic Jew, and going by the descriptions of food in Squire, Tyra seems to be culturally more like Greece or Turkey - Near Middle Eastern, roughly.
2. that Daine and Numair don't get married - I'm cheerfully in denial of the canon from the Trickster books that lands them with a surprise pregnancy and a shotgun marriage. Babies, sure - but intentionally, and out of wedlock! Resist the wedding-industrial complex, Daine!
3. the eruption of the mythic into Tortall, and the way that plays out over both The Immortals and Protector of the Small. The way the world changes; the way the characters deal.
my Tortall tag
Virginia Woolf - Orlando. Details: Joyful affirmational free gender and sexuality play, please? Preferably centered on Orlando herself, after she's become bodily female - but apart from that I'm open. I'd love a story that hung on to the artfulness that Woolf has in eroticizing both objects and events, and the matter-of-fact magical realism of her narrative - the great frost in England, or Orlando's string of pearls.
I love Virginia Woolf! I have very little else to say! I credit reading A Room of One's Own at sixteen with making me a feminist. Orlando was the first piece of Woolf's fiction I read, and I've been crazy about it ever since.
Sorry to not be more helpful! She tends to make me get quiet. Um. If you wanted to do something sexy and clitoral with those pearls? Or anything really - this book is just so perfect and beautiful. Feel free to deconstruct the orientalism or the gypsies, though.
my Virginia Woolf tag
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. I do love angst, oh do I ever, but I kind of need happy endings afterward. h/c is probably my biggest kink. I'm also really into family-of-choice tropes and stories about strong or passionate emotional intimacy.
I like female characters really a lot. Not all of my requests center directly on women, but it's important to me that narrative spaces reflect gender parity/equity, or specifically condemn the lack thereof in more realistically patriarchal 'verses. I like non-standard sexualities and imaginative modes of sexual engagement. Similarly, cultural diversity that opens up the imaginative space of the canon makes me seriously happy. There's no reason why kyriarchal western values, images, mores, or cultural practices need to rule speculative stories that are fairytales or take place in outer space!
Battlestar Galactica (1978). Details: Seriously, anything! Apollo is my One True Character, but I'll be equally happy with stories dealing with him in the context of his Three Musketeers thing with Boomer and Starbuck, or the biological family relationships between him and Adama and Boxey. The only ship that lights me up is Apollo/Starbuck, so either that or genfic for this, please!
I love this show to itty bitty little bits. It is a random sparkly haven filled with happiness and joy and knights in shining vipers and adorable moppets and tiny tiny pants. Ahem. I think I'm just going to like to the bsg love post I wrote last spring, because I think that just about covers it. Warning: this fandom makes me babble.
Three things I love about this 'verse:
1. its dedication to childcare and good parenting
2. the very medievalist way that the warriors are romanticized futuristic chevaliers in space - as opposed to more traditionally military takes on warlike sff. They never seem to follow orders, and no one's ever surprised, because they're allied and loyal rather than conscripted or commanded
3. the fairly good job the show does with sex, gender, and race, considering its age. The strength and diversity it habitually gives to its chromatic characters. The feeling that, with twelve colonies and a polytheistic pantheon, the opportunities for further diversification are pretty much infinite.
I do anti-ship Apollo/Sheba - no offense to the lady, it just don't work for me! - and I vastly prefer the naively utopian idealism of BSG Classic to the gritter-but-not-necessarily-more-progressive tone of the reboot.
my Battlestar Galactica tag
Gene Stratton Porter - Limberlost Books. Details: Freckles&MacLean smarm? Freckles/Angel shipping? I just mainly want Freckles cared for and adored - he's my pet character. This is a childhood fandom of mine, so gentleness in terms of rating and in terms of realist brutality would be appreciated!
My grandmother gave me the Limberlost books when I was just a wee thing. She told me that when she was a little girl growing up in Indiana, GSP was basically the JK Rowling of the day - everyone read her books. So I've been crazy about the Limberlost books for pretty much my whole life, and have never face-to-face met another person outside my family who's read 'em. I grew up in backwoods northern Michigan, and I'm actually living in Indiana now, so these are very local, homey books for me. They remind me vividly of a childhood outdoors.
Three things I love:
1. Freckles. Idek, I just adore him. His pluck, his bravery, his sensitivity, his talent. The easy way that he gives love, and the passionate way he lets himself be loved once he's accepted that he deserves care. With MacLean in particular, I think he's just dear.
2. the sexiness! This whole book is pretty much panting with diffuse desire - everything is oversaturated with sensate richness. It's deliciously polymorphously perverse.
3. the transcendentalist outdoorsiness. GSP reminds me that I need to go outside and just be, sometimes.
Het and gen only for this one, please - too much my childhood for anything heavier than smarm. But smarm is great so! And see above re: polymorphous perversity - I'm not saying no sexuality, just asking to avoid generically explicit ship-based sex scenes. I don't need all three of my requested characters at once; I was more aiming for possible combinations than demanding full inclusion of all of them.
my Gene Stratton Porter tag
Tamora Pierce - Tortall, Veralidaine Sarrasri, Numair Salmalin. Details: Um. So. Daine/Numair is the shivery romantic ship of my teenagerdom. I'd be really happy with explicit sexual content, but gen is also good - the only stipulation I'd make is tone-based. Because this is a happy-place fandom for me, and I want big happy soaring ambitious successful romantic fantasies for it. Realism what realism?
I love these books so uncritically that they're not actually that easy for me to talk about! The Immortals Quartet is by far my favorite of all Tammy's sets so far, maybe because it's the least, hrm, military? Or possibly just because I've had thing thing for Numair since I was about 13?
Three things that I love:
1. that Numair is a (gorgeous, edible) character of color. Tammy's described Tyra as a Venetian culture, but I'd argue that's more in terms of economic structure than ethnicity. She's also described Numair as looking rather like a Sephardic Jew, and going by the descriptions of food in Squire, Tyra seems to be culturally more like Greece or Turkey - Near Middle Eastern, roughly.
2. that Daine and Numair don't get married - I'm cheerfully in denial of the canon from the Trickster books that lands them with a surprise pregnancy and a shotgun marriage. Babies, sure - but intentionally, and out of wedlock! Resist the wedding-industrial complex, Daine!
3. the eruption of the mythic into Tortall, and the way that plays out over both The Immortals and Protector of the Small. The way the world changes; the way the characters deal.
my Tortall tag
Virginia Woolf - Orlando. Details: Joyful affirmational free gender and sexuality play, please? Preferably centered on Orlando herself, after she's become bodily female - but apart from that I'm open. I'd love a story that hung on to the artfulness that Woolf has in eroticizing both objects and events, and the matter-of-fact magical realism of her narrative - the great frost in England, or Orlando's string of pearls.
I love Virginia Woolf! I have very little else to say! I credit reading A Room of One's Own at sixteen with making me a feminist. Orlando was the first piece of Woolf's fiction I read, and I've been crazy about it ever since.
Sorry to not be more helpful! She tends to make me get quiet. Um. If you wanted to do something sexy and clitoral with those pearls? Or anything really - this book is just so perfect and beautiful. Feel free to deconstruct the orientalism or the gypsies, though.
my Virginia Woolf tag