Dear Yuletide Santa
Nov. 13th, 2010 09:55 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
rmDear Yuletide Santa,
You are already awesome. In fact, unless you're really mean and kick puppies or something, you became awesome long before you ever signed up for Yuletide. But hey, you did, and now you're writing me a story, which means YOU ARE EVEN MORE AWESOME, and I hope you don't kick puppies.
I was sort of doing my Yuletide signup in a rush, so this is my attempt to be more specific, but first, let me start by being more general!
First, you can be as smutty or not as you want to be when writing for me. You can also be as gen as you want to be, since each thing I requested has both lots of pairings I find totally hot and worlds that fascinate me, so porn, no porn, all good. Whatever serves the story best!
Non-sex related things I love in stories: a feeling of reality -- I like specifics, awkwardness, imperfections, people who try and sometimes succeed (even often, but not always). I like heroism in the hard-choices + dumb bravery = one hell of an effort sort of way. I like tragedy when it honors the characters, when even loss feels like love.
Things I really don't like: OOC schmoop -- this includes nicknames no one in canon would ever use (yeah, hi, I come from Torchwood fandom, if you know it, you know what I mean); also not a huge fan of PWP that doesn't include either plot or character analysis.
Now, if you want to write porn my kinks on paper include: breath-play, intense BDSM with good/sweet/caring/encouraging aftercare, service/use, orgasm denial, edging, prostate milking, 3somes/moresomes, consenting drunk/high/otherwise altered sex, and really just about anything you can convince me is in character other than scat/vomit/vore. Yes, that means that if golden showers is your thing and you can write it well, have at. Dub-con where everyone is okay with what happened at the end, AOK; but non-con, not my thing. It's also worth noting I'm happy to read M/M or F/F, but tend to un-prefer explicit M/F unless it's kinky or part of a threesome/moresome or poly arrangement.
Finally, before we get on to my specific requests, it seems this is the year to address -isms in fic. Since several of my requests have significant historical components, involve characters of color, and at least one of the requests involves a character with a disability, I should probably cover this stuff.
First, don't worry, you aren't perfect and neither am I (oh god, I have made some fail over the years!). And I'm okay with shit happening in a story which serves the narrative and is appropriate to a given character or setting while also being offensive (one hopes) to the modern eye, as long as it's not gratuitous. I.e., there are plenty of ways to tell me it's 1899 or WWI without making a racist remark; but some stories set in those time periods will, for whatever reason, require the racist remark. Do what serves the story; but please try not to offend people (including me!) if it doesn't serve the larger tale.
Also please remember I am an actual queer person, so while there are definitely places in lots of fic for characters to be uncomfortable or self-hating about their own queerness and/or to experience bias because of it -- if you get into those issues, please be considered and research-y.
And now, onto my specific requests:
Moulin Rouge -- this is one of those fandoms I'm in, but not. Long story. ANYWAY, I think I was pretty clear in terms of ALL THE OPTIONS EVER in my original request. Like I said, I'm really interested in all the various things this film almost was, so anything using minor characters or is about the various things known to have been excised from earlier drafts of the script, I'm totally onboard for.
Flyboys -- OMG, are you writing me this? I am so so so desperate for some good fic out of this. Slash slash slash please. Filthy and tragic. I'd particularly dig on a Cassidy/Rawlings story, In all fairness, you should probably know I know a lot about the era and planes and uniforms and crap like that. Major accuracy is not necessary, but I really love the period, and the more research and reality of the time you can put into this, the happier I'll be.
Covert Affairs -- I love this show even if the fandom and I don't seem to get along because I am not all ANNIE AND AUGGIE FOREVER OMG. Btw, if my original request doesn't work for you (Annie/Aggie/Jai) I will HAPPILY take Annie/Joan or Auggie/Joan.
Marie Antoinette -- I put this here SO RANDOMLY. I've no idea what I want, but I'm all about the tone of this film. Surprise me.
You are already awesome. In fact, unless you're really mean and kick puppies or something, you became awesome long before you ever signed up for Yuletide. But hey, you did, and now you're writing me a story, which means YOU ARE EVEN MORE AWESOME, and I hope you don't kick puppies.
I was sort of doing my Yuletide signup in a rush, so this is my attempt to be more specific, but first, let me start by being more general!
First, you can be as smutty or not as you want to be when writing for me. You can also be as gen as you want to be, since each thing I requested has both lots of pairings I find totally hot and worlds that fascinate me, so porn, no porn, all good. Whatever serves the story best!
Non-sex related things I love in stories: a feeling of reality -- I like specifics, awkwardness, imperfections, people who try and sometimes succeed (even often, but not always). I like heroism in the hard-choices + dumb bravery = one hell of an effort sort of way. I like tragedy when it honors the characters, when even loss feels like love.
Things I really don't like: OOC schmoop -- this includes nicknames no one in canon would ever use (yeah, hi, I come from Torchwood fandom, if you know it, you know what I mean); also not a huge fan of PWP that doesn't include either plot or character analysis.
Now, if you want to write porn my kinks on paper include: breath-play, intense BDSM with good/sweet/caring/encouraging aftercare, service/use, orgasm denial, edging, prostate milking, 3somes/moresomes, consenting drunk/high/otherwise altered sex, and really just about anything you can convince me is in character other than scat/vomit/vore. Yes, that means that if golden showers is your thing and you can write it well, have at. Dub-con where everyone is okay with what happened at the end, AOK; but non-con, not my thing. It's also worth noting I'm happy to read M/M or F/F, but tend to un-prefer explicit M/F unless it's kinky or part of a threesome/moresome or poly arrangement.
Finally, before we get on to my specific requests, it seems this is the year to address -isms in fic. Since several of my requests have significant historical components, involve characters of color, and at least one of the requests involves a character with a disability, I should probably cover this stuff.
First, don't worry, you aren't perfect and neither am I (oh god, I have made some fail over the years!). And I'm okay with shit happening in a story which serves the narrative and is appropriate to a given character or setting while also being offensive (one hopes) to the modern eye, as long as it's not gratuitous. I.e., there are plenty of ways to tell me it's 1899 or WWI without making a racist remark; but some stories set in those time periods will, for whatever reason, require the racist remark. Do what serves the story; but please try not to offend people (including me!) if it doesn't serve the larger tale.
Also please remember I am an actual queer person, so while there are definitely places in lots of fic for characters to be uncomfortable or self-hating about their own queerness and/or to experience bias because of it -- if you get into those issues, please be considered and research-y.
And now, onto my specific requests:
Moulin Rouge -- this is one of those fandoms I'm in, but not. Long story. ANYWAY, I think I was pretty clear in terms of ALL THE OPTIONS EVER in my original request. Like I said, I'm really interested in all the various things this film almost was, so anything using minor characters or is about the various things known to have been excised from earlier drafts of the script, I'm totally onboard for.
Flyboys -- OMG, are you writing me this? I am so so so desperate for some good fic out of this. Slash slash slash please. Filthy and tragic. I'd particularly dig on a Cassidy/Rawlings story, In all fairness, you should probably know I know a lot about the era and planes and uniforms and crap like that. Major accuracy is not necessary, but I really love the period, and the more research and reality of the time you can put into this, the happier I'll be.
Covert Affairs -- I love this show even if the fandom and I don't seem to get along because I am not all ANNIE AND AUGGIE FOREVER OMG. Btw, if my original request doesn't work for you (Annie/Aggie/Jai) I will HAPPILY take Annie/Joan or Auggie/Joan.
Marie Antoinette -- I put this here SO RANDOMLY. I've no idea what I want, but I'm all about the tone of this film. Surprise me.
