Dearest darlingest yuletide writer,
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lotesseFirst things first: thank you so very much 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 stories about people who mean well, stories about idealists, and stories about the times when that doesn't entirely work out as expected.
I like female characters really a lot. 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.
Apart from that, um - no character death? Um. I have a humiliation squick, but can be seduced by well-handled shame kink. I'm pretty easy to please, really.
I'm interested in all Blabbermouth's corners - the Lady Warrior/crossdressing thing, the fact that she's a woman/page in a martial/textual army, her Thing with Haroun, her Thing with Mudra, her Thing as the alternate ideal of femininity to Princess Batcheat, which connects as well as separates them. Femslash, het, or gen equally appreciated!
I love Haroun - I love how weird it is - I love how, as a USian, it feels very familiar to me in some ways but very different in others. As a kid, I cherished the scope that it gave my imagination. And I love Blabbermouth - she's named Blabbermouth, for heaven's sake! She's a crossdressing girl who is also a Page in a Library. The semiotics are amazing.
This is a very open request: I'm game for any ship, for postcanon or backstory, for porn or for character work or for both at once. Shakespeare-style crossdressing genderfuck? Meta-narrative commentary? Really loud, verbal sex? Or the opposite - the kinkiest thing a Guppee could do, surely, would be to gag their sex partner.
This is a fix-it request - unsurprising given the fandom! I need Will not to be alone after Silver on the Tree, and I need Bran to remember him - but I also have this problem where I can't imagine Will disobeying enough to disenchant him. And what I really really want is a story where there's a something that Will can't handle - a something that requires a king rather than a wizard - and Bran has to put the pieces together in order to save himself/Will/the cosmos/whathaveyou. H/c with victimized!Will would be lovely; Drews or other characters are very welcome; slash would be phenomenal, but gen would also be loved and snuggled.
I have this problem with The Dark is Rising where I hate the ending but share Will's characteristic inability to disobey author(ity). I love Bran, but don't always understand him - Will's outlook is much easier for me to access. So when I write DiR, it tends to be, yanno, Will angsting unrequitedly and being really fucked up by his situation. (Has anyone ever been as messed up as Will Stanton? I ask you!) But Bran's a hero - the kind of hero, I think, who can fix bad endings. I want his power displayed, expressed, to the end of loving his dewin back. So, idk, Will's the enchanted wizard in the tower, and only the power of the Pendragon can save him. Or the world of men poses more of a threat to wizard-children than previously expected. Or some sort of mythological baddie with a resonance to remembrance. But Bran as the active force, Will as the receptive partner; Bran as the rebellious hero, Will as the reluctant-but-happy beloved one.
I'd really love a post-canon dig through the darker parts of Theo's psyche, and how his blood-and-gore past conflicts with his really very sweet nature, and how the tension between the two effects the people left around him after the end. I'm more interested in Theo and Mickle than I am in the more wild characters - Florian, Zara, Justin - but I love the way that those wilder characters effect and transform a pair of rather ordinary young people into something much greater. Slash, het, or gen welcome!
(Despite being the protag, Theo doesn't seem to have been nommed as a character. So I asked for Mickle, hoping to narrow out anyone who wanted to write, idk, Florian/Justin, which is not my cuppa. Which means, dear writer, that you are totally welcome to disregard all my Theoish rambling and write the Westmark story you wanted to - no worries at all there.)
I've been doing all this work this last year with Lloyd Alexander, but I've been sticking close to Prydain! Theo, though, interests me greatly: in some ways, he's among the most gormless of Alexander's male leads, far less overtly badass than more direct hero-types like Taran or Prince Jen. But he goes to this place where none of the others ever make it. And the aftereffects of that must be startling. Mickle is the stronger of the two, I think, more born to it than he is, but he's oddly enough better at some of the bloodier parts of revolution than she is. Which makes them a very odd pair. Theo through Mickle's eyes? or an exploration of the friction between their respective powers and damages - the story of what you do next, once you've discovered that you/your lover isn't entirely the gentle little printer's devil you/he had always seemed to be. Theo has pretty thick sexual tension with both Justin and Florian, so queer away; my prompts lean in a hettish direction, but that need not be your take on things, dear writer; gen is always good and lovely.
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 stories about people who mean well, stories about idealists, and stories about the times when that doesn't entirely work out as expected.
I like female characters really a lot. 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.
Apart from that, um - no character death? Um. I have a humiliation squick, but can be seduced by well-handled shame kink. I'm pretty easy to please, really.
I'm interested in all Blabbermouth's corners - the Lady Warrior/crossdressing thing, the fact that she's a woman/page in a martial/textual army, her Thing with Haroun, her Thing with Mudra, her Thing as the alternate ideal of femininity to Princess Batcheat, which connects as well as separates them. Femslash, het, or gen equally appreciated!
I love Haroun - I love how weird it is - I love how, as a USian, it feels very familiar to me in some ways but very different in others. As a kid, I cherished the scope that it gave my imagination. And I love Blabbermouth - she's named Blabbermouth, for heaven's sake! She's a crossdressing girl who is also a Page in a Library. The semiotics are amazing.
This is a very open request: I'm game for any ship, for postcanon or backstory, for porn or for character work or for both at once. Shakespeare-style crossdressing genderfuck? Meta-narrative commentary? Really loud, verbal sex? Or the opposite - the kinkiest thing a Guppee could do, surely, would be to gag their sex partner.
This is a fix-it request - unsurprising given the fandom! I need Will not to be alone after Silver on the Tree, and I need Bran to remember him - but I also have this problem where I can't imagine Will disobeying enough to disenchant him. And what I really really want is a story where there's a something that Will can't handle - a something that requires a king rather than a wizard - and Bran has to put the pieces together in order to save himself/Will/the cosmos/whathaveyou. H/c with victimized!Will would be lovely; Drews or other characters are very welcome; slash would be phenomenal, but gen would also be loved and snuggled.
I have this problem with The Dark is Rising where I hate the ending but share Will's characteristic inability to disobey author(ity). I love Bran, but don't always understand him - Will's outlook is much easier for me to access. So when I write DiR, it tends to be, yanno, Will angsting unrequitedly and being really fucked up by his situation. (Has anyone ever been as messed up as Will Stanton? I ask you!) But Bran's a hero - the kind of hero, I think, who can fix bad endings. I want his power displayed, expressed, to the end of loving his dewin back. So, idk, Will's the enchanted wizard in the tower, and only the power of the Pendragon can save him. Or the world of men poses more of a threat to wizard-children than previously expected. Or some sort of mythological baddie with a resonance to remembrance. But Bran as the active force, Will as the receptive partner; Bran as the rebellious hero, Will as the reluctant-but-happy beloved one.
I'd really love a post-canon dig through the darker parts of Theo's psyche, and how his blood-and-gore past conflicts with his really very sweet nature, and how the tension between the two effects the people left around him after the end. I'm more interested in Theo and Mickle than I am in the more wild characters - Florian, Zara, Justin - but I love the way that those wilder characters effect and transform a pair of rather ordinary young people into something much greater. Slash, het, or gen welcome!
(Despite being the protag, Theo doesn't seem to have been nommed as a character. So I asked for Mickle, hoping to narrow out anyone who wanted to write, idk, Florian/Justin, which is not my cuppa. Which means, dear writer, that you are totally welcome to disregard all my Theoish rambling and write the Westmark story you wanted to - no worries at all there.)
I've been doing all this work this last year with Lloyd Alexander, but I've been sticking close to Prydain! Theo, though, interests me greatly: in some ways, he's among the most gormless of Alexander's male leads, far less overtly badass than more direct hero-types like Taran or Prince Jen. But he goes to this place where none of the others ever make it. And the aftereffects of that must be startling. Mickle is the stronger of the two, I think, more born to it than he is, but he's oddly enough better at some of the bloodier parts of revolution than she is. Which makes them a very odd pair. Theo through Mickle's eyes? or an exploration of the friction between their respective powers and damages - the story of what you do next, once you've discovered that you/your lover isn't entirely the gentle little printer's devil you/he had always seemed to be. Theo has pretty thick sexual tension with both Justin and Florian, so queer away; my prompts lean in a hettish direction, but that need not be your take on things, dear writer; gen is always good and lovely.