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Yuletide!
Hi there, Yuletider! I'm so excited to see what happens this year, so THANK YOU FOR WRITING FOR ME <3
This is my *mumblety* year doing Yuletide, and I love it, but it's kind of terrifying, too! I absolutely love fics of all kinds, most especially when you write a story you're excited about. Please don't stress the details. Remember that optional details are optional!
Here's my annual blanket LIKE/NO LIKE thing. (Bottom line is really: if it serves the story, do what makes you happy!)
If you have questions, I'm happy to answer through the mods :)
So, these requests, in no particular order whatsoever other than the order in which they occurred to me. (Also please please don't think that because there's a ridiculous amount more rambling about one request than another, it means I want one more than another. I love all my children equally; there is not a Gob among them. The only thing is that 2017 continues to sap all of my will to have a good time so I'm choking on writing this letter. I'm sorry.)
KING CREOLE (1958)
Crawfish Seller, Danny Fisher
source: streaming; it runs infrequently on TCM on US cable; and is on dvd & bluray
I'm just gonna repeat what I said last time, because it's everything: We know about him. I want to know about her, and her and him. So, maybe she thought it was only a fling, just to see what it would be like to pretend to be a girl in a world where it doesn't matter who she falls in love with.OR MAYBE HE KNOWS IT'S DOOMED AND ALL OF THE MOVIE IS HIS STUPID ACTING OUT TO GET HER TO HATE HIM? God, he is an unthinking dick aka nineteen-year-old dude, though, so this would work. Or tell me what she's doing during the movie when she's not on screen, which is ALL OF IT after this song. :( Tell me how she struggles and triumphs. Tell me how their paths cross if you aren't starting out with them being together or wanting to be together, or even if you are! Tell me whether she likes selling the crawfish, whether she likes driving the cart, whether she likes standing in knee-high water in the bayou in the mornings, and whether she's pulling up the big cages and thinking how someday maybe she'll have a rice field to flood instead (or maybe she's already got the rice field and she hates one or the other most), or it's late afternoon and she's sold her share for the day and she's not in school anymore and she can't afford college and she's not ready for XYZ and now she has a minute to do what she likes. God. Just. Everything. I want everything. Tell me about anything. (I mostly super want them to be a couple though, I can't lie.)
I feel like this is perpetually the longest of shots in my requests. But I want. Crawfish Seller/Danny Fisher, sweet jeebus, yes, gimme. It's all because of A) this song (♥♥ again, I'm gonna keep linking ittttt) and B) that big smacking kiss he throws at like 42 minutes into the movie, which is probably to the dancer across the street but IT'S NOT IT'S TO HIS LOVE THE CRAWFISH SELLER and I CAN'T BE RATIONAL ABOUT THIS. I'M SO SORRY. It's just that they made this movie right at the cusp of the major civil rights movement in America (though without showing any of that in the movie of course! and without having any characters of color who aren't background!), about as deep as you can get in the South, and almost a decade before Loving v Virginia officially killed interracial marriage bans in law (though not always in practice obvs), and I watch it or listen to the song on repeat, and I want it to be this other hugely complex and painful and wonderful thing instead. I WANT THESE POSSIBILITIES IN MY HEAD TO BE THE REALITY OF THE STORY SO BAD. But mostly I want to learn about crawfish and New Orleans and this girl who drives her cart through the French Quarter every morning and maybe about the boy who sings with her, too.
BACK TO THE FUTURE
Buford "Mad Dog" Tannen, Gertrude Tannen, Griff Tannen, Biff Tannen
source: streaming 1, 2, 3; and is on DVD and Blu-ray
I got a WONDERFUL gift in 2015 for this prompt (Flight of the Tannens!!!) and I'm so greedy I'm asking for another.
Yeah, yeah, Marty and Doc and Jennifer and Lorraine and George. I love them. We all do. They're great! But I want to know about TANNENS. A story about any one or combination of them would be fantastic. Do you want to take it back or forward to other generations? DO IT. Did Buford have a wife? Why did he turn to outlawin'? How did he get to be in California? Who raised his baby? How did they deal with living where Buford harassed everybody and was eventually hanged? Who's Gertrude (Biff's grandma)? Buford's (great-?)granddaughter? Daughter-in-law? Who does Biff hook up with in the improved non-casino original timeline to wind up with a child that eventually produces Griff? What if aside from Buford, Biff, and Griff, the Tannen line is unmarried women who keep their names!! What if all the dudes aren't big dumb jerkfaces! Hell, what if they are. What if the women are worse!! What's your headcanon for this family? I'd really like to read about them being treated fairly as people, not all good or all bad, but definitely not nice people. Maybe a timeline where someone makes a different choice and it isn't a McFly who changes the course of a Tannen's life?
THE GOOD PLACE
Chidi Anagonye, Eleanor Shellstrop
source: s1 is on Netflix, and s2 is currently airing on NBC
Hi, I love this show. It and Superstore are about the only things I'll make sure I watch when they air. I love the intricacy of the neighborhood Michael constructed, the inventive ways Eleanor and Chidi try to evade consequences, the genuinely caring relationship that developed between them, the glimpses of their pre-Good Place life, the interplay with the rest of the neighborhood, and going back to rewatch the first season had me LOSING MY MIND at how they laid the groundwork. So! I love it, I love you if you're writing it, and I will love your forking story. Thank you!
14TH CENTURY CE RPF
Anne of Bohemia, Isabella of France, Joan of England, Philippa of Hainault
source: wikipedia? it's hard to source info about them in readily available texts :| (Alison Weir's Queen Isabella is supposed to be quite good, though.)
Uh, I don't know what else to say. Go wild! Have fun!
CORMORAN STRIKE SERIES
Cormoran Strike, Robin Ellacott
source: ebook & print
HOW COULD SHE END CAREER OF EVIL WHERE SHE DID. Do you want to write your own version of Lethal White? Have at it! I would so very much love to read whatever.
TRUE GRIT
Mattie Ross, LaBoeuf, Rooster Cogburn
source: intermittently available on streaming; dvd & bluray
Found families are my JAM and this is one of the best examples of it in Western literature and film, in both senses of the word Western. I am not a scholar of this period or genre, but I am a sucker for period detail and realism--I want ugly and awful and bloody and ruthless with this fandom. I think it's a disservice to the characters not to include those things. Kind of like, oh, say, a film version starring John Wayne that ignores all the dirty for the schmaltz instead! But I have such fondness for the characters that if you wanted to wrap them all in cotton batting and feed them delicate candies and delectable roasted meats that would be great, too. If you love them, then I'd like to read the story you want to tell about them!
Okay, sorry, every year I get more obnoxious, but I'm done now! Happy Yuletide!! I hope it's everything you hope for as a writer and a recipient ♥
This is my *mumblety* year doing Yuletide, and I love it, but it's kind of terrifying, too! I absolutely love fics of all kinds, most especially when you write a story you're excited about. Please don't stress the details. Remember that optional details are optional!
Here's my annual blanket LIKE/NO LIKE thing. (Bottom line is really: if it serves the story, do what makes you happy!)
LIKE: apocafic, both hopeful and bleak; fight scenes that make me ache; snappy dialogue; character studies; narrative-heavy stories; missing moments; AUs both serious and crack; bickering for bickering's sake and UST-y banter; road trips; what-ifs; fix-its; tropes played straight and subverted; canon-compliance; crossovers; original characters; experiments in tone and tense; mood pieces and action-tastic epics; SCIENCE!; friendships romantic and platonic; history stuff; worldbuilding and backstory explorations; that kind of fic where you spend six hours researching something that winds up being two words out of the whole story. I generally prefer het and canon relationships, unless otherwise specified, and I am terribly vanilla when it comes to kinks.I really mean that "write what makes you happy", but here also are WAY TOO MANY details.
NO LIKE: I put my HARD NOPES in the requests themselves, but here are some other things that make me sadface: gratuitous character-bashing; treating female characters like crap for no reason (but again that goes back to: if it serves the story, as not every story treats its female characters nobly or well). Other than that, it's pretty much all fair game.
If you have questions, I'm happy to answer through the mods :)
So, these requests, in no particular order whatsoever other than the order in which they occurred to me. (Also please please don't think that because there's a ridiculous amount more rambling about one request than another, it means I want one more than another. I love all my children equally; there is not a Gob among them. The only thing is that 2017 continues to sap all of my will to have a good time so I'm choking on writing this letter. I'm sorry.)
KING CREOLE (1958)
Crawfish Seller, Danny Fisher
source: streaming; it runs infrequently on TCM on US cable; and is on dvd & bluray
I'm just gonna repeat what I said last time, because it's everything: We know about him. I want to know about her, and her and him. So, maybe she thought it was only a fling, just to see what it would be like to pretend to be a girl in a world where it doesn't matter who she falls in love with.
I feel like this is perpetually the longest of shots in my requests. But I want. Crawfish Seller/Danny Fisher, sweet jeebus, yes, gimme. It's all because of A) this song (♥♥ again, I'm gonna keep linking ittttt) and B) that big smacking kiss he throws at like 42 minutes into the movie, which is probably to the dancer across the street but IT'S NOT IT'S TO HIS LOVE THE CRAWFISH SELLER and I CAN'T BE RATIONAL ABOUT THIS. I'M SO SORRY. It's just that they made this movie right at the cusp of the major civil rights movement in America (though without showing any of that in the movie of course! and without having any characters of color who aren't background!), about as deep as you can get in the South, and almost a decade before Loving v Virginia officially killed interracial marriage bans in law (though not always in practice obvs), and I watch it or listen to the song on repeat, and I want it to be this other hugely complex and painful and wonderful thing instead. I WANT THESE POSSIBILITIES IN MY HEAD TO BE THE REALITY OF THE STORY SO BAD. But mostly I want to learn about crawfish and New Orleans and this girl who drives her cart through the French Quarter every morning and maybe about the boy who sings with her, too.
BACK TO THE FUTURE
Buford "Mad Dog" Tannen, Gertrude Tannen, Griff Tannen, Biff Tannen
source: streaming 1, 2, 3; and is on DVD and Blu-ray
I got a WONDERFUL gift in 2015 for this prompt (Flight of the Tannens!!!) and I'm so greedy I'm asking for another.
Yeah, yeah, Marty and Doc and Jennifer and Lorraine and George. I love them. We all do. They're great! But I want to know about TANNENS. A story about any one or combination of them would be fantastic. Do you want to take it back or forward to other generations? DO IT. Did Buford have a wife? Why did he turn to outlawin'? How did he get to be in California? Who raised his baby? How did they deal with living where Buford harassed everybody and was eventually hanged? Who's Gertrude (Biff's grandma)? Buford's (great-?)granddaughter? Daughter-in-law? Who does Biff hook up with in the improved non-casino original timeline to wind up with a child that eventually produces Griff? What if aside from Buford, Biff, and Griff, the Tannen line is unmarried women who keep their names!! What if all the dudes aren't big dumb jerkfaces! Hell, what if they are. What if the women are worse!! What's your headcanon for this family? I'd really like to read about them being treated fairly as people, not all good or all bad, but definitely not nice people. Maybe a timeline where someone makes a different choice and it isn't a McFly who changes the course of a Tannen's life?
THE GOOD PLACE
Chidi Anagonye, Eleanor Shellstrop
source: s1 is on Netflix, and s2 is currently airing on NBC
Hi, I love this show. It and Superstore are about the only things I'll make sure I watch when they air. I love the intricacy of the neighborhood Michael constructed, the inventive ways Eleanor and Chidi try to evade consequences, the genuinely caring relationship that developed between them, the glimpses of their pre-Good Place life, the interplay with the rest of the neighborhood, and going back to rewatch the first season had me LOSING MY MIND at how they laid the groundwork. So! I love it, I love you if you're writing it, and I will love your forking story. Thank you!
14TH CENTURY CE RPF
Anne of Bohemia, Isabella of France, Joan of England, Philippa of Hainault
source: wikipedia? it's hard to source info about them in readily available texts :| (Alison Weir's Queen Isabella is supposed to be quite good, though.)
Uh, I don't know what else to say. Go wild! Have fun!
CORMORAN STRIKE SERIES
Cormoran Strike, Robin Ellacott
source: ebook & print
HOW COULD SHE END CAREER OF EVIL WHERE SHE DID. Do you want to write your own version of Lethal White? Have at it! I would so very much love to read whatever.
TRUE GRIT
Mattie Ross, LaBoeuf, Rooster Cogburn
source: intermittently available on streaming; dvd & bluray
Found families are my JAM and this is one of the best examples of it in Western literature and film, in both senses of the word Western. I am not a scholar of this period or genre, but I am a sucker for period detail and realism--I want ugly and awful and bloody and ruthless with this fandom. I think it's a disservice to the characters not to include those things. Kind of like, oh, say, a film version starring John Wayne that ignores all the dirty for the schmaltz instead! But I have such fondness for the characters that if you wanted to wrap them all in cotton batting and feed them delicate candies and delectable roasted meats that would be great, too. If you love them, then I'd like to read the story you want to tell about them!
Okay, sorry, every year I get more obnoxious, but I'm done now! Happy Yuletide!! I hope it's everything you hope for as a writer and a recipient ♥