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Dear Yuletide Writer
I already know you are wonderful, awesome and amazing because you matched me on one of these fandoms! And here you are reading this letter, which means you have come to my journal to try to find out more about me and the fic requests I made. That is very nice and thoughtful of you -- thank you!
Please don't worry too much about my optional details. I tried to give you a general sense of why I chose these particular characters in these particular fandoms, and perhaps provide you with a prompt idea or two. But I am well aware that optional details are optional! Also, I find that the best fics are usually the ones that the author really wanted to write. Follow your muse; chances are that it is going to lead you to a better story than I will, and there's nothing I like better than a good story.
But here you are, reading this letter, and so the least I can do is tell you a little more information about myself. Like most people, I do have general things I tend to like and dislike in a story. So, here we go:
General dislikes:
-- Smut, especially smut for smut's sake, and explicit descriptions of sex in general. I'm not really into it.
-- Pairing up characters that were not romantically paired in canon. I'm not a big shipper, and creating new het and slash pairings out of canon characters doesn't usually work for me.
--Torture, non-con and dub-con scenes. Just not my thing.
General likes:
-- I requested two humorous fandoms this time, and for them I would love to get something funny and more than a little silly. Otherwise, I'm open to any genre of story, except for PWP.
-- I tend to prefer stories that have a rating of PG-13 or lower, as a general rule. (This goes with the "dislikes" above.)
-- If you're stuck and need a more specific direction, some of my general likes are: stories that explore the characters, stories that play off of something we saw in an episode, missing scenes, tags, and stories from another person's point of view. But I like a wide range of story types, so don't worry if your story idea doesn't fit with any of that. What you want to write is what I most want to read, truly!
Feel free to look through my journal -- it's 99% public, after all -- and take a look at my fanfic at the Doctor Who archive (most of my fic is Whoniverse-related) and at AO3.
Here are my requests again, so everything's in one place:
Space: 1999
Tony Verdeschi, Maya
I love Tony and Maya. I love them separately as characters, and I love them together as a "you say you're not in love but we know you really are" couple. I'm not a big shipper, but this is the big exception -- I think they eventually married each other and lived happily ever after. So if you like to write shippy stories, go for it! (Please no explicit sex, though -- G or PG rating would be great.) On the other hand, I also think it took them a long time to get there, so a story that doesn't focus on them as a couple works, too -- I love genfic, and I'm primarily a gen writer myself. Some ideas: Tony and Maya's first meeting; Moonbase Alpha coming across something from Psychon civilization; or maybe a missing scene or a tag around one or more broadcast episodes? Really, just feel free to explore whatever you find interesting about these characters.
Doctor Who: Curse of Fatal Death
Any
Okay, I have to confess that part of me wanted to request Tenth Doctor for this fandom just to see what you would do with it. I mean, how in the world does one write Tenth Doctor "Curse of Fatal Death" fic? But I requested "any," and I meant it -- I would be happy with any fic at all here, featuring whichever character or characters strike your fancy. That means if you do want to attempt 1000 words on the very brief life of Richard E. Grant!Ten, go for it! In fact, you can bring in the equally short-lived Jim Broadbent!Eleven and Hugh Grant!Twelve if you like as well, even though they weren't nominated. (But of course you don't need to.)
I love humor, especially parody, and that's the main reason why I love this fandom. I would be especially pleased if you could manage to write me something that is in the same silly vein as this special. If you'd like some prompt ideas: How about something from the point of view of the poor architect who kept receiving competing visits from the Master and the Doctor? Or maybe something set after the special ended: did Lumley!Thirteen and Pryce!Master settle into happy domesticity, or constantly argue over whose etheric beam locators are better? Or what if the "Curse of Fatal Death" characters were dropped into a different Doctor Who story, with their "these corridors all look the same" and "I'll explain later" sensibilities? Or what if Delgado!Master met up with Pryce!Master? Would they compare capes and evil laughs?
Quark
Any
I said "any" characters here because I would love fic featuring any of the characters from this show, including the characters that weren't nominated. I have no dislikes here -- it's all good! I'd prefer comedy / parody / spoof if you can manage it in this fandom, along the lines of what the show did so well: taking sci-fi tropes and absolutely skewering them. What if there was an Invasion of the Space Baggies? Or Quark and crew were accidentally hurled backwards in time? Or one of the crewmembers got alien superpowers? I'd love to see a sci-fi situation taken to its silliest extreme, like the show did with "The Source." This is also a fandom where I'd be happy to see a crossover, if that happens to be your thing. How would the intrepid crew of the United Galaxy Sanitation Patrol fare against characters from, say, Star Trek (any incarnation), or Doctor Who (any era), or Galaxy Quest, or Red Dwarf?
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