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Dear Yuletide 2024 Writer
Dear Yuletide 2024 Writer,
Thank you so much for writing for me! I will be grateful no matter what you create and I can't wait to see what you come up with.
Here are my prompts, canon-specific likes and dislikes, along with my Do Not Wants and Things I Love.
Things I Love
Gen. Strong friendship. Found family. Romance. Femslash. Bechdel-passing. Inclusivity. Genderflipping. Extreme competence. Teamwork. Stories that replicate the tone and style of the original. Smart people getting to show their intelligence; competent people getting to do what they're best at; powerful characters showing their vulnerability. Plot. Well-researched history. Snappy dialogue. Hurt/comfort. Casefic. (if you write me casefic, I will be your friend forever!) Gift-giving. Epistolary. Time-travel and just-add-magic AUs.
And, most of all, I love crossovers! If you find inspiration for one, it would be an amazing Yuletide present! It can be a crossover or fusion between two of the fandoms I've requested, or with an outside one. Time travel and ‘just add magic’ are two of my fandom catnips, and also some of my favorite excuses for crossovers. (Doctor Who and Timeless would be awesome time-travel crossovers. Please, no Harry Potter for the 'just add magic' crossover, not anymore; but just generally having magic would be cool.) So, maybe time-travel shenanigans, with The Doctor landing in 1920s Toronto or…anywhere, pretty much. Or Phoebe and Maisie go to Toronto and team up with Frankie and co. to solve a mystery while wearing extremely fabulous clothes. Or, the gods from Kaos meddle in the real world; or a fusion between Kaos and Wheel of Time where the White Tower is an order dedicated to Athena or something like that. Silly, serious, I'll take it all.
Absolute Do Not Want
Explicit sex or violence. Rape, non-con, dubcon. Incest. Humiliation or cringe humor. Sexual relationships between adults and teens. Violence against children, child abuse, or other children-in-peril. Physical or psychological torture. Misogyny, homophobia, transphobia, and other bigotry. COVID or other epidemics. (One person being sick is fine, just not epidemics.) And please, no 'they act like they hate each other but that's actually because they're in love,' unless that's already been established in canon. I want "no" to mean "no."
Would Rather Not Have
The Five Things / 5+1 structure. Angst. Major character death. Plotless character studies. Modern or sci-fi AUs. Non-canonical pairings that I haven't specified in my request. Character or pairing hate - if you don’t like a character or pairing, just leave them out!
Frankie Drake Mysteries, any character.
This show is so much fun! I love its snappy pacing; I love the way it’s juuuuust a bit over the top (especially in S4!); I love when it digs into real history; I like that it shows some of the historical diversity of Toronto and wish it would do that more. And of course, I love the friendship among the four main characters that anchors it.
I love that Frankie is badass, quick thinking, outrageously daring, unashamedly sexy (and that the show doesn’t punish her for it!), a good leader. (If you want to include one of her current or past boyfriends, I’m fine with that; I like the growing relationship with Smoldering Carpenter at the end of S4 and would be happy to see more of him, but I’m also OK without.)
I love Trudy’s resourcefulness, ambition, fabulous fashion sense, creativity, and strong work ethic. I love her dedication to her family and community; and I love how naturally she weaves that in with her friendship with the others.
I love Mary’s dedication to her job, and her growth over the course of the show. I love that she’s really starting to think seriously about ethics and grapple with questions of justice (and glad that the writers are talking about police corruption/misconduct/brutality!). I love that she’s braver than she thinks she is.
I love that Flo is confident, competent, flirty, smart. I love that she’s good at her job and owns it. I love that she’s a good dancer; I love that she’s ambitious; I love that she’s moving on after losing her husband but also carries his presence with her - she refers to her life and love with him very naturally.
I’d love an ensemble story, of course - the teamwork among the four main women is one of the things I like best about the show. Something that lets each of them showcase their strengths; something that shows how each of them is growing; something that shows how they all work together and help each other shine.
If you want to do a solo story, my first choice would be one focusing on Flo. Maybe an adventure in her new job singing at the club (starting a relationship with a nice woman?); maybe navigating the challenges of medical school and her job at the coroner; maybe solving a medical mystery by herself, using knowledge that only she could have. Or maybe a story about her bonding with her niece - I really loved that storyline in S4, and it was wonderful to see Flo step up to be a supportive ally even as she clearly felt the magnitude of the task of becoming a surrogate parent.
Kaos, any character
OH MY GOSH I am so sad that this show got cancelled! Honestly, whatever stories you want to tell in this world, I will be happy to hear! My favorite characters are Ariadne, Caeneus, and Riddy; and I'd be happiest with a story that focuses on one or more of them, but I'm happy to receive stories with other characters in them too.
Worldbuilding: I'd love to see more about the lives of ordinary people in Crete. How does it affect daily life to be in a city so dominated by the gods? How do prophecies work? Has anyone else tried to defy a prophecy, and what happened to them? The more elements of Greek mythology you can bring in, the better - one of my favorite things about the show was seeing how each story got adapted and re-imagined for this new setting. So, please dig deep into that! I'd love to see how other myths would play out in the Kaos world.
For a solo story
- Ariadne: Oh my goodness _please_ show me what she's like as the ruler of Crete! I want to see her being strong and brilliant and politically savvy; and finding ways to break the cycle of secrecy and abuse in her family. I want to see what her alliance with Andromache is like, and what kinds of changes she brings about as the queen. Of course the gods will try to stop her from making reforms - but the Trojans have gods on their side, too, right? It would be great to see Ariadne falling in love, but I'm also fine without that.
- Caeneus: I love how caring and gentle he is. Even after years in the Underworld - not to mention a childhood spent among the Amazons! - he's still got a wonderfully sweet softness about him. He loves the three-headed doggies! (For a completely fluffy story, how adorable would it be to see Caeneus and Dionysus bonding over their love of fuzzy animals?) I'd love to see a story about him coming into his strength after the end of S1. How does he use his power for good? How does he try to make contact with Riddy?
- Riddy: Even more than the other two, Riddy was just coming into her power at the end of S1 and I really want to see where she goes with it. I'd love to see her teaming up with Cassandra, learning how to be a prophet and figuring out how to use her new gifts. How does she rebel against the gods? How does she try to make contact with Caeneus? (Please _do not_ have her get back together with Orpheus! I like her with Caeneus.)
Best of all would be a story about all three of them. I'd love to see how they all get together to start fulfilling their prophecy. How do they communicate across the divide between the Underworld and the mortal realm? How does Prometheus move those puzzle pieces around?
Paper Girls, any character
Yet another show that was TRAGICALLY cancelled! I loved so many things about it! I loved the friendship among the girls - it grew so naturally and authentically. I loved the themes of confronting your past and future, trying to make up for past mistakes, learning who you _really_ are. While the conspiracy shenanigans were fun, the emotions and relationships were always my favorite part: I'd much rather have a story that focuses on the girls dealing with the past or future than one that's about the Old Watch.
Regarding my DNWs: this canon does require a certain degree of Children In Peril given the premise. I'm fine with 'the girls are running away from a threat', but not 'they're being attacked with weapons' or anything like that.
I'd be happy with a story about any or all of the girls. What I want to see most is a continuation of the story after the end of the series. Where did Mac and KJ land? How does that relationship grow? How do Erin and Tiff deal with being in the 50s? I'd love to see the two groups of girls find a way to communicate with each other - one of my favorite time-travel tropes is "leaving messages in the past for the others to pick up in the future." Do any of them meet other versions of their future selves, or their descendants? Or, since Erin and Tiff are in the past, could they meet their ancestors, or the ancestors of some of their friends? (Erin's family wouldn't have been there yet, but the others might.)
Wheel of Time. Lan Mandragoran, Moiraine Damodred, Nynaeve al'Meara, Siuan Sanche
Oh, I have so much nostalgia for these books! The Wheel of Time series was my first Fandom way back in the early days of the internet, and I have a huge warm fondness for it still.
I loved this adaptation of the story: its focus onto Moiraine and her inner struggle, its deeper view of Two Rivers culture (the whole opening speech about the cultural significance of braids!), its depiction of tenderness among the Warders, its inclusive casting, its honoring of the book canon (the story of Manetheren! Lan's speech to Nynaeve! Oh my heart!) while tracing out new stories when it needs to (Moiraine's S2 arc!).
When I was 18 and read the books for the first time, Nynaeve was my favorite; now that I'm 40something, Moiraine is my favorite. So I'd love to see a story focusing on either or both, although I'm happy to see a story with any combination of these characters, or any of them solo.
I especially love the way Moiraine is depicted in the show. I love her depth of conviction, her political intelligence, her fierce love for Siuan and Lan and for the young people under her protection. The show isn't afraid to depict the more complicated and unpleasant sides of her personality, either, like her ruthlessness and her single-mindedness. It was fascinating to see her relationship with her family in S2: how her obsessive focus on the Dragon destroyed those relationships, how she hated that it did, and how she still couldn't stop herself.
Moiraine/Siuan is always wonderful. I would love to see them as the White Tower power couple, being terrifyingly competent and doing their politics and working for what they believe is right. What other causes have they advocated for together in the past? How have they used their power for good? Or, give me the YA romance of them getting together, full of delicious tropeyness: the two overconfident Accepted facing down some huge threat and then falling into each other's arms while one takes care of the other's injuries. (Wherever they are, there is probably Only One Bed.) Or a solo story about Moiraine: politicking in Cairhien, dealing with the vulnerability of being blocked from channeling (and thinking that she might be stilled forever!), dealing with her relationship with Lan. (I'd rather not have any romance between Moiraine and Lan; one of the things I love most about that relationship is that it is deeply intimate without being romantic or sexual.)
Or maybe a genderflipping/role-reversal with Moiraine and Lan: Lan is an upright principled Aes Sedai, Moiraine is the ruthless pragmatic Warder who Gets Things Done when Lan won't or can't, and Lan falling in love with Nynaeve produces a whole different set of complications.
Or, any story about Nynaeve would make me really happy. Something earlier in her life in the Two Rivers, as she grew and learned and stepped into her role as Wisdom; mentoring the younger villagers or using her astounding channeling strength or struggling to deal with her family history. Or a story about her being super-awesome with Lan somewhere along the journey together in S1, each admiring the other's competence and skill. Or, please please please give her something useful to do at the end of S2 in Falme! Even if she can't channel she can absolutely use all of her Wisdom knowledge of herbs and healing.
And/or, Nynaeve and Moiraine together at some point - on the journey to Tar Valon, at the Tower, or on the journey north - butting heads and learning from each other, while both respecting the depth of the other one's ties with Lan.
Will Darling Adventures, Maisie and Phoebe
I love these two and want only good things for them!
I love Maisie's pride in her work, ambition, humor, extreme intelligence and sensibility, and fabulous fashion. I love how deeply protective she is of her friends, and even more how protective she is of Phoebe. She sees the vulnerability that Phoebe tries not to show the world.
I love Phoebe's wit, emotional intelligence, and resilience. She's so much stronger than she thinks she is! She's so completely self-aware otherwise: she knows how people see her (for better or worse) and how to take advantage of that. And I hate that she felt that she had to hide herself for so long. Which is why I love it when other characters see her for who she is.
I'd love to see some scenes from when they were in Paris together in Book 2. (When I hit that moment in the books, I hoped they were off getting into a romance with each other, and was SO HAPPY that I was right!) Casefic would be especially awesome - it would be great to see the two of them using their specific skills and talents to solve a mystery in a way that nobody else could. Or for something more serious, maybe Maisie helping Phoebe get through her trauma in Book 3 and find her place as Lady Waring.
Thank you so much for writing for me! I will be grateful no matter what you create and I can't wait to see what you come up with.
Here are my prompts, canon-specific likes and dislikes, along with my Do Not Wants and Things I Love.
Things I Love
Gen. Strong friendship. Found family. Romance. Femslash. Bechdel-passing. Inclusivity. Genderflipping. Extreme competence. Teamwork. Stories that replicate the tone and style of the original. Smart people getting to show their intelligence; competent people getting to do what they're best at; powerful characters showing their vulnerability. Plot. Well-researched history. Snappy dialogue. Hurt/comfort. Casefic. (if you write me casefic, I will be your friend forever!) Gift-giving. Epistolary. Time-travel and just-add-magic AUs.
And, most of all, I love crossovers! If you find inspiration for one, it would be an amazing Yuletide present! It can be a crossover or fusion between two of the fandoms I've requested, or with an outside one. Time travel and ‘just add magic’ are two of my fandom catnips, and also some of my favorite excuses for crossovers. (Doctor Who and Timeless would be awesome time-travel crossovers. Please, no Harry Potter for the 'just add magic' crossover, not anymore; but just generally having magic would be cool.) So, maybe time-travel shenanigans, with The Doctor landing in 1920s Toronto or…anywhere, pretty much. Or Phoebe and Maisie go to Toronto and team up with Frankie and co. to solve a mystery while wearing extremely fabulous clothes. Or, the gods from Kaos meddle in the real world; or a fusion between Kaos and Wheel of Time where the White Tower is an order dedicated to Athena or something like that. Silly, serious, I'll take it all.
Absolute Do Not Want
Explicit sex or violence. Rape, non-con, dubcon. Incest. Humiliation or cringe humor. Sexual relationships between adults and teens. Violence against children, child abuse, or other children-in-peril. Physical or psychological torture. Misogyny, homophobia, transphobia, and other bigotry. COVID or other epidemics. (One person being sick is fine, just not epidemics.) And please, no 'they act like they hate each other but that's actually because they're in love,' unless that's already been established in canon. I want "no" to mean "no."
Would Rather Not Have
The Five Things / 5+1 structure. Angst. Major character death. Plotless character studies. Modern or sci-fi AUs. Non-canonical pairings that I haven't specified in my request. Character or pairing hate - if you don’t like a character or pairing, just leave them out!
Frankie Drake Mysteries, any character.
This show is so much fun! I love its snappy pacing; I love the way it’s juuuuust a bit over the top (especially in S4!); I love when it digs into real history; I like that it shows some of the historical diversity of Toronto and wish it would do that more. And of course, I love the friendship among the four main characters that anchors it.
I love that Frankie is badass, quick thinking, outrageously daring, unashamedly sexy (and that the show doesn’t punish her for it!), a good leader. (If you want to include one of her current or past boyfriends, I’m fine with that; I like the growing relationship with Smoldering Carpenter at the end of S4 and would be happy to see more of him, but I’m also OK without.)
I love Trudy’s resourcefulness, ambition, fabulous fashion sense, creativity, and strong work ethic. I love her dedication to her family and community; and I love how naturally she weaves that in with her friendship with the others.
I love Mary’s dedication to her job, and her growth over the course of the show. I love that she’s really starting to think seriously about ethics and grapple with questions of justice (and glad that the writers are talking about police corruption/misconduct/brutality!). I love that she’s braver than she thinks she is.
I love that Flo is confident, competent, flirty, smart. I love that she’s good at her job and owns it. I love that she’s a good dancer; I love that she’s ambitious; I love that she’s moving on after losing her husband but also carries his presence with her - she refers to her life and love with him very naturally.
I’d love an ensemble story, of course - the teamwork among the four main women is one of the things I like best about the show. Something that lets each of them showcase their strengths; something that shows how each of them is growing; something that shows how they all work together and help each other shine.
If you want to do a solo story, my first choice would be one focusing on Flo. Maybe an adventure in her new job singing at the club (starting a relationship with a nice woman?); maybe navigating the challenges of medical school and her job at the coroner; maybe solving a medical mystery by herself, using knowledge that only she could have. Or maybe a story about her bonding with her niece - I really loved that storyline in S4, and it was wonderful to see Flo step up to be a supportive ally even as she clearly felt the magnitude of the task of becoming a surrogate parent.
Kaos, any character
OH MY GOSH I am so sad that this show got cancelled! Honestly, whatever stories you want to tell in this world, I will be happy to hear! My favorite characters are Ariadne, Caeneus, and Riddy; and I'd be happiest with a story that focuses on one or more of them, but I'm happy to receive stories with other characters in them too.
Worldbuilding: I'd love to see more about the lives of ordinary people in Crete. How does it affect daily life to be in a city so dominated by the gods? How do prophecies work? Has anyone else tried to defy a prophecy, and what happened to them? The more elements of Greek mythology you can bring in, the better - one of my favorite things about the show was seeing how each story got adapted and re-imagined for this new setting. So, please dig deep into that! I'd love to see how other myths would play out in the Kaos world.
For a solo story
- Ariadne: Oh my goodness _please_ show me what she's like as the ruler of Crete! I want to see her being strong and brilliant and politically savvy; and finding ways to break the cycle of secrecy and abuse in her family. I want to see what her alliance with Andromache is like, and what kinds of changes she brings about as the queen. Of course the gods will try to stop her from making reforms - but the Trojans have gods on their side, too, right? It would be great to see Ariadne falling in love, but I'm also fine without that.
- Caeneus: I love how caring and gentle he is. Even after years in the Underworld - not to mention a childhood spent among the Amazons! - he's still got a wonderfully sweet softness about him. He loves the three-headed doggies! (For a completely fluffy story, how adorable would it be to see Caeneus and Dionysus bonding over their love of fuzzy animals?) I'd love to see a story about him coming into his strength after the end of S1. How does he use his power for good? How does he try to make contact with Riddy?
- Riddy: Even more than the other two, Riddy was just coming into her power at the end of S1 and I really want to see where she goes with it. I'd love to see her teaming up with Cassandra, learning how to be a prophet and figuring out how to use her new gifts. How does she rebel against the gods? How does she try to make contact with Caeneus? (Please _do not_ have her get back together with Orpheus! I like her with Caeneus.)
Best of all would be a story about all three of them. I'd love to see how they all get together to start fulfilling their prophecy. How do they communicate across the divide between the Underworld and the mortal realm? How does Prometheus move those puzzle pieces around?
Paper Girls, any character
Yet another show that was TRAGICALLY cancelled! I loved so many things about it! I loved the friendship among the girls - it grew so naturally and authentically. I loved the themes of confronting your past and future, trying to make up for past mistakes, learning who you _really_ are. While the conspiracy shenanigans were fun, the emotions and relationships were always my favorite part: I'd much rather have a story that focuses on the girls dealing with the past or future than one that's about the Old Watch.
Regarding my DNWs: this canon does require a certain degree of Children In Peril given the premise. I'm fine with 'the girls are running away from a threat', but not 'they're being attacked with weapons' or anything like that.
I'd be happy with a story about any or all of the girls. What I want to see most is a continuation of the story after the end of the series. Where did Mac and KJ land? How does that relationship grow? How do Erin and Tiff deal with being in the 50s? I'd love to see the two groups of girls find a way to communicate with each other - one of my favorite time-travel tropes is "leaving messages in the past for the others to pick up in the future." Do any of them meet other versions of their future selves, or their descendants? Or, since Erin and Tiff are in the past, could they meet their ancestors, or the ancestors of some of their friends? (Erin's family wouldn't have been there yet, but the others might.)
Wheel of Time. Lan Mandragoran, Moiraine Damodred, Nynaeve al'Meara, Siuan Sanche
Oh, I have so much nostalgia for these books! The Wheel of Time series was my first Fandom way back in the early days of the internet, and I have a huge warm fondness for it still.
I loved this adaptation of the story: its focus onto Moiraine and her inner struggle, its deeper view of Two Rivers culture (the whole opening speech about the cultural significance of braids!), its depiction of tenderness among the Warders, its inclusive casting, its honoring of the book canon (the story of Manetheren! Lan's speech to Nynaeve! Oh my heart!) while tracing out new stories when it needs to (Moiraine's S2 arc!).
When I was 18 and read the books for the first time, Nynaeve was my favorite; now that I'm 40something, Moiraine is my favorite. So I'd love to see a story focusing on either or both, although I'm happy to see a story with any combination of these characters, or any of them solo.
I especially love the way Moiraine is depicted in the show. I love her depth of conviction, her political intelligence, her fierce love for Siuan and Lan and for the young people under her protection. The show isn't afraid to depict the more complicated and unpleasant sides of her personality, either, like her ruthlessness and her single-mindedness. It was fascinating to see her relationship with her family in S2: how her obsessive focus on the Dragon destroyed those relationships, how she hated that it did, and how she still couldn't stop herself.
Moiraine/Siuan is always wonderful. I would love to see them as the White Tower power couple, being terrifyingly competent and doing their politics and working for what they believe is right. What other causes have they advocated for together in the past? How have they used their power for good? Or, give me the YA romance of them getting together, full of delicious tropeyness: the two overconfident Accepted facing down some huge threat and then falling into each other's arms while one takes care of the other's injuries. (Wherever they are, there is probably Only One Bed.) Or a solo story about Moiraine: politicking in Cairhien, dealing with the vulnerability of being blocked from channeling (and thinking that she might be stilled forever!), dealing with her relationship with Lan. (I'd rather not have any romance between Moiraine and Lan; one of the things I love most about that relationship is that it is deeply intimate without being romantic or sexual.)
Or maybe a genderflipping/role-reversal with Moiraine and Lan: Lan is an upright principled Aes Sedai, Moiraine is the ruthless pragmatic Warder who Gets Things Done when Lan won't or can't, and Lan falling in love with Nynaeve produces a whole different set of complications.
Or, any story about Nynaeve would make me really happy. Something earlier in her life in the Two Rivers, as she grew and learned and stepped into her role as Wisdom; mentoring the younger villagers or using her astounding channeling strength or struggling to deal with her family history. Or a story about her being super-awesome with Lan somewhere along the journey together in S1, each admiring the other's competence and skill. Or, please please please give her something useful to do at the end of S2 in Falme! Even if she can't channel she can absolutely use all of her Wisdom knowledge of herbs and healing.
And/or, Nynaeve and Moiraine together at some point - on the journey to Tar Valon, at the Tower, or on the journey north - butting heads and learning from each other, while both respecting the depth of the other one's ties with Lan.
Will Darling Adventures, Maisie and Phoebe
I love these two and want only good things for them!
I love Maisie's pride in her work, ambition, humor, extreme intelligence and sensibility, and fabulous fashion. I love how deeply protective she is of her friends, and even more how protective she is of Phoebe. She sees the vulnerability that Phoebe tries not to show the world.
I love Phoebe's wit, emotional intelligence, and resilience. She's so much stronger than she thinks she is! She's so completely self-aware otherwise: she knows how people see her (for better or worse) and how to take advantage of that. And I hate that she felt that she had to hide herself for so long. Which is why I love it when other characters see her for who she is.
I'd love to see some scenes from when they were in Paris together in Book 2. (When I hit that moment in the books, I hoped they were off getting into a romance with each other, and was SO HAPPY that I was right!) Casefic would be especially awesome - it would be great to see the two of them using their specific skills and talents to solve a mystery in a way that nobody else could. Or for something more serious, maybe Maisie helping Phoebe get through her trauma in Book 3 and find her place as Lady Waring.