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dragojustine) wrote2009-11-14 05:48 pm
dragojustine) wrote2009-11-14 05:48 pm
Dear Yuletide Author
Oh god, is it that time again already?
Dear Yuletide Author,
First of all, thank you SO MUCH for agreeing to write me a present! I picked four fandoms I just love, and I know getting fic in any of them will absolutely fill me with glee.
I know writing exchange fic can be problematic- remember, optional details are optional. All fannish things on this journal are unlocked. Feel free to browse. Note that I am difficult to squick and adore dialog and banter. I like having concrete starting bunnies, so I will throw you some, and I'll also try to tell you what I like about these fandoms... but you can also stop reading right now if you like, and anything that really speaks to you will be wonderful.
The Big Bang Theory:
I love this geeky show because it feels very much like it was written by One Of Us. I love the banter, and would love anything that has funny geeky dialog. You could just put our crew in a geeky situation (Send them to comic-con! Put them on set at the filming of a SF show! Make them LARP, or at least try!) and let them talk. Specific things I love: Leslie. What a smartass Raj turned into this season. How Penny has learned to screw with Sheldon. Leslie and Sheldon's rivalry. Everything about the way Sheldon's mind works. Sheldon's mom. Specific things I don't like: Howard's mom. The way Penny doesn't seem to really care about or be interested Leonard-as-Leonard at all.
Slings & Arrows:
Geoffrey! The snark and the banter and the brilliance and the passion and the deep and abiding love of narrative and stage. Geoffrey Tenant is in a dead tie for the character I am most in love with in the entire world, simply because of the love and intensity and passion he brings to text.
Geoffrey is insane, Ellen is narcissistic, Oliver is snarky, Darren is insufferable, Richard is weak, Anna is lovable, Maria is bitchy, Nahum is enigmatic, and I love single every minute of interaction between every single one of them.
Bonus more specific prompts, if you like: Future fic- what new home does Geoffrey make for himself and the people he loves? Past fic- I love the intensity of their love/hate relationship in college. After all, Geoffrey stormed the stage and they dueled... but I don't believe for a moment that they weren't tightly connected by their similar crazy levels of passion and engagement. Past- show us Ellen and Oliver and Geoffry and Darren together at the festival, maybe before Hamlet, as they start to learn each other and fall into their new lives, or later, during the crazy intense three-way power struggles and passion tangle during the Hamlet rehearsals. Het, slash, or gen.
Rome:
I am an ancient Rome geek, and love the historical texture and attention to detail in the show. I adore the way both Vorenus and Pullo are Roman men, not modern men shoved into an ancient setting; they have a deep connection, in their own ways, to the gods and the traditions and the rituals of their time, and they hold many ideas and world views that we find distasteful but manage to be good and sympathetic men despite that. Vorenus is a wonderful tragic hero, strong but brittle, proud, not quite able enough to bend without breaking. Pullo forms the moral and emotional center of the show for me, with his big heart and limitless care and compassion beneath his rough exterior, and the intensity of love and boundless loyalty between them is beautiful. I would love fic that gets inside their heads, and while I would love slash, really intense friendshippy gen would scratch pretty much the same itch.
But I love the historical characters as well! Antony drips sex, and I adore the way he uses it as a weapon; you can pair him with ANYBODY (there are especially interesting intense power struggles to be had with Octavian and Vorenus, I think). Brutus is fascinatingly complex, Cicero is delightful in his rather weasel-like way, and I love the juxtaposition of sincerity and goodness with Machiavellian scheming in young Octavian's head.
The Temptation of Adam:
This one I just couldn't resist. It's such a very deeply human story, in that crazy setting. You could write a glimpse of them falling in love in the bunker. Or say he pushes the button- I love post-apocalypse stories. How does our narrator cope with the concrete evidence of what he's done? Does Marie ever find out, and if so, how does she react? There's a hell of a tragedy there. Do they ever leave the bunker and join the remnants of humanity on the surface? Or he doens't have to push the button after all. Does she leave, as he fears? Does he try to make it work, on the surface? Does he end up back in the bunker... and if so, how does it look different to him now?
Very optional bonus: I found this song via this vid, and if you actually wrote the John/Rodney version of this? I might just die. (Is this allowed, under Yuletide rules? Screw it, it's my wishlist)
-DragoJustine, excitedly
Dear Yuletide Author,
First of all, thank you SO MUCH for agreeing to write me a present! I picked four fandoms I just love, and I know getting fic in any of them will absolutely fill me with glee.
I know writing exchange fic can be problematic- remember, optional details are optional. All fannish things on this journal are unlocked. Feel free to browse. Note that I am difficult to squick and adore dialog and banter. I like having concrete starting bunnies, so I will throw you some, and I'll also try to tell you what I like about these fandoms... but you can also stop reading right now if you like, and anything that really speaks to you will be wonderful.
The Big Bang Theory:
I love this geeky show because it feels very much like it was written by One Of Us. I love the banter, and would love anything that has funny geeky dialog. You could just put our crew in a geeky situation (Send them to comic-con! Put them on set at the filming of a SF show! Make them LARP, or at least try!) and let them talk. Specific things I love: Leslie. What a smartass Raj turned into this season. How Penny has learned to screw with Sheldon. Leslie and Sheldon's rivalry. Everything about the way Sheldon's mind works. Sheldon's mom. Specific things I don't like: Howard's mom. The way Penny doesn't seem to really care about or be interested Leonard-as-Leonard at all.
Slings & Arrows:
Geoffrey! The snark and the banter and the brilliance and the passion and the deep and abiding love of narrative and stage. Geoffrey Tenant is in a dead tie for the character I am most in love with in the entire world, simply because of the love and intensity and passion he brings to text.
Geoffrey is insane, Ellen is narcissistic, Oliver is snarky, Darren is insufferable, Richard is weak, Anna is lovable, Maria is bitchy, Nahum is enigmatic, and I love single every minute of interaction between every single one of them.
Bonus more specific prompts, if you like: Future fic- what new home does Geoffrey make for himself and the people he loves? Past fic- I love the intensity of their love/hate relationship in college. After all, Geoffrey stormed the stage and they dueled... but I don't believe for a moment that they weren't tightly connected by their similar crazy levels of passion and engagement. Past- show us Ellen and Oliver and Geoffry and Darren together at the festival, maybe before Hamlet, as they start to learn each other and fall into their new lives, or later, during the crazy intense three-way power struggles and passion tangle during the Hamlet rehearsals. Het, slash, or gen.
Rome:
I am an ancient Rome geek, and love the historical texture and attention to detail in the show. I adore the way both Vorenus and Pullo are Roman men, not modern men shoved into an ancient setting; they have a deep connection, in their own ways, to the gods and the traditions and the rituals of their time, and they hold many ideas and world views that we find distasteful but manage to be good and sympathetic men despite that. Vorenus is a wonderful tragic hero, strong but brittle, proud, not quite able enough to bend without breaking. Pullo forms the moral and emotional center of the show for me, with his big heart and limitless care and compassion beneath his rough exterior, and the intensity of love and boundless loyalty between them is beautiful. I would love fic that gets inside their heads, and while I would love slash, really intense friendshippy gen would scratch pretty much the same itch.
But I love the historical characters as well! Antony drips sex, and I adore the way he uses it as a weapon; you can pair him with ANYBODY (there are especially interesting intense power struggles to be had with Octavian and Vorenus, I think). Brutus is fascinatingly complex, Cicero is delightful in his rather weasel-like way, and I love the juxtaposition of sincerity and goodness with Machiavellian scheming in young Octavian's head.
The Temptation of Adam:
This one I just couldn't resist. It's such a very deeply human story, in that crazy setting. You could write a glimpse of them falling in love in the bunker. Or say he pushes the button- I love post-apocalypse stories. How does our narrator cope with the concrete evidence of what he's done? Does Marie ever find out, and if so, how does she react? There's a hell of a tragedy there. Do they ever leave the bunker and join the remnants of humanity on the surface? Or he doens't have to push the button after all. Does she leave, as he fears? Does he try to make it work, on the surface? Does he end up back in the bunker... and if so, how does it look different to him now?
Very optional bonus: I found this song via this vid, and if you actually wrote the John/Rodney version of this? I might just die. (Is this allowed, under Yuletide rules? Screw it, it's my wishlist)
-DragoJustine, excitedly