Dear Yuletide Writer
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regndoftDear Yuletide Writer,
Thank you for being here. No, really; if you’re anything like me you’re going to have a lot on your hands at this time of the year and plan on using some of your spare time to indulge a stranger on the internet as well as yourself. If you’re even more like me, you would like some idea of your recipient’s preferences, and maybe even a couple of suggestions if inspiration doesn’t strike immediately.
Of course, this being Yuletide, optional details are optional and you are free to do your own thing – I only wish to help, just in case.
To me, Yuletide is mainly a chance to expand and explore works that don’t get much love in the way of fandom. I adore character studies; elaborate and plotty stuff isn’t too important. I don’t have any ships in these tiny unloved canons, therefore I’m more than fine with gen!fic – though I don’t mind shippy stuff as long as it doesn’t distract from the focus of the story.
I prefer no gratuitous sex and/or violence, though for a couple of these requests one or both are pretty common in canon, and writing them would be in line with the source material; I guess a better way of putting it would be, I don’t mind sex and violence but if I wanted a PWP I have several major fandoms that would provide. Same thing goes for crack!fic.
Palimpsest: As I mentioned in the sign-up, I adore the world-building of this novel, so if you wanted to work with that, I’d love it. Something dealing with the characters’ life after the end of the story, or perhaps a story with the city itself as the main character (because surely it’s so present in the novel it could just as well have been) are two options. A story expanding on the minor characters, the ones that changed our protagonists’ lived and the ones that got left behind could also be interesting.
(I know I have listed November and Ludovico in the character tags, but don’t feel obligated to include them. They resonated the strongest with me when I read it, but I do believe I’d love a Palimpsest story even if they weren’t included.)
A Study in Emerald: Okay, I lied before; I do ship Holmes/Watson, and this is a Holmes story. If you want to include that pairing I’d appreciate it, but it’s nothing I covet. Mostly I’m simply fascinated with the premise of this story (despite only having passing knowledge of Lovecraft’s works) and would like to see more of that world.
Deathless: Repeating myself again to say that I am a complete sucker for Russian folklore as well as meta, which is why I love this book. If you use that there is a 95% chance I’ll love it. As the novel draws on folk tales, archetypes and recurring themes are stellar parts of the narrative, which means there’s quite a bit to work with. Just a couple of suggestions: a further exploration of Ivan the Fool (it’s not like there isn’t a lot to go on!); the Yelenas and Vasilisas and their stories; missing scenes of Marya’s first time in Buyan and how she made friends there.
Rome: I have a weak spot for the female characters in this series, but I’d appreciate pretty much any character in focus (the only ones I don’t particularly care for are Marc Antony and Cleopatra, and I’m only mentioning this because, you know, Shakespeare and everyone’s mother ships it).
This got longer than expected. Hopefully I have only helped and not made you fret. I promise I’m quite easy to please; receiving a fic is a privilege in itself and the content of this post shouldn’t be seen as anything but suggestions.
That being said, thank you once again, and good luck. <3
// Mathilda.
Thank you for being here. No, really; if you’re anything like me you’re going to have a lot on your hands at this time of the year and plan on using some of your spare time to indulge a stranger on the internet as well as yourself. If you’re even more like me, you would like some idea of your recipient’s preferences, and maybe even a couple of suggestions if inspiration doesn’t strike immediately.
Of course, this being Yuletide, optional details are optional and you are free to do your own thing – I only wish to help, just in case.
To me, Yuletide is mainly a chance to expand and explore works that don’t get much love in the way of fandom. I adore character studies; elaborate and plotty stuff isn’t too important. I don’t have any ships in these tiny unloved canons, therefore I’m more than fine with gen!fic – though I don’t mind shippy stuff as long as it doesn’t distract from the focus of the story.
I prefer no gratuitous sex and/or violence, though for a couple of these requests one or both are pretty common in canon, and writing them would be in line with the source material; I guess a better way of putting it would be, I don’t mind sex and violence but if I wanted a PWP I have several major fandoms that would provide. Same thing goes for crack!fic.
Palimpsest: As I mentioned in the sign-up, I adore the world-building of this novel, so if you wanted to work with that, I’d love it. Something dealing with the characters’ life after the end of the story, or perhaps a story with the city itself as the main character (because surely it’s so present in the novel it could just as well have been) are two options. A story expanding on the minor characters, the ones that changed our protagonists’ lived and the ones that got left behind could also be interesting.
(I know I have listed November and Ludovico in the character tags, but don’t feel obligated to include them. They resonated the strongest with me when I read it, but I do believe I’d love a Palimpsest story even if they weren’t included.)
A Study in Emerald: Okay, I lied before; I do ship Holmes/Watson, and this is a Holmes story. If you want to include that pairing I’d appreciate it, but it’s nothing I covet. Mostly I’m simply fascinated with the premise of this story (despite only having passing knowledge of Lovecraft’s works) and would like to see more of that world.
Deathless: Repeating myself again to say that I am a complete sucker for Russian folklore as well as meta, which is why I love this book. If you use that there is a 95% chance I’ll love it. As the novel draws on folk tales, archetypes and recurring themes are stellar parts of the narrative, which means there’s quite a bit to work with. Just a couple of suggestions: a further exploration of Ivan the Fool (it’s not like there isn’t a lot to go on!); the Yelenas and Vasilisas and their stories; missing scenes of Marya’s first time in Buyan and how she made friends there.
Rome: I have a weak spot for the female characters in this series, but I’d appreciate pretty much any character in focus (the only ones I don’t particularly care for are Marc Antony and Cleopatra, and I’m only mentioning this because, you know, Shakespeare and everyone’s mother ships it).
This got longer than expected. Hopefully I have only helped and not made you fret. I promise I’m quite easy to please; receiving a fic is a privilege in itself and the content of this post shouldn’t be seen as anything but suggestions.
That being said, thank you once again, and good luck. <3
// Mathilda.
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Date: 2012-11-03 09:39 pm (UTC)Atia is the third main character of the series, I will CUT people who argue otherwise.
Yeah, s2 just makes everything worse unless you're Titus Pullo, and even then it's terrible. Or maybe Octavian. But then history and I Claudius happens to Octavian. (I like to pretend that I Claudius is 100% a part of Rome's continuity and eventually Simon Woods evolves into Brian Blessed.)
(You may be able to get it via interlibrary loan.)
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Date: 2012-11-03 11:47 pm (UTC)I wonder if we can count any character who was introduced in the first episode and still alive by the end of s2 as a main character... because there aren't many of those, really.
Ah, I Claudius. Another of those series everyone, including my parents, keep telling me to watch. Considering how many friends I have with a weak spot for Derek Jacobi (more than you'd think, I promise) I probably should get around to that at some point.