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Yuletide sign-up and letter
Nov. 17th, 2011 10:00 amYuletide is on, and I volunteered for my usual suspects plus some new ones. Was amused to note Help! listed among the film fandoms but not up for Help! fanfiction, and while I'm curious whether someone will actually writing Revolution No.9 fanfic, the thought of hearing that song on repeat for inspiration makes me blanch. (Next year I'll so ask for Penny Lane fanfiction.) Finding the film Cairo Time as a fandom listed was a nice surprise and made for my fourth prompt in my own requests, with the first three being my nominations (The Borgias with the request being for Lucrezia and Giulia Farnese, 18th century RPF about Mary Bryant and James Boswell, and Sharon Penman's novel The Reckoning for one of my favourite messed up sibling relationships, the one between Daffydd and Llewelyn. Now, on to the annual letter.
Dear Yuletide Author,
I'm delighted to get a gift from you this year. Whichever prompt you choose will make me happy. Now, a few more words regarding the prompts:
1.) As a writer, I'm mostly a gen person, but as a reader, I'm open for anything as long as it's not a PWP exercise in gymnastics. What I mean: if you want to turn one of the prompts into a a slash or het romance-centric story, feel free, as long as the characters interact beyond having sex with each other. (If you're more into gen yourself, the point is academic, and I'm doubly looking forward to friendship and family ties explorations.)
2.) I have only a few anti kinks. Among these: character bashing (yes, some of the characters listed in the prompts are hostile towards other characters, but I think both of us know the difference between character point of view and an author venting her/his dislike), romances with an uneven power structure (be they het or slash), and whitewashing of ambiguities. Daffydd ap Gruffydd is probably my favourite character in Sharon Penman's Welsh trilogy, but he agreed to his brother's death at one point, and Llewelyn is completely entitled to hold that against him, to put it mildly. The Borgias in any incarnation are a ruthless bunch (part of their success), and while Lucrezia is very young and still learning in the first season, she's by the later third ready and willing to not only plot someone's death but to use others to do it. (She has her reasons, but don't ignore she also has her part of the family manipulativeness.) You see what'm getting at.
3.) Context is of the win. Three of my prompts have a historical setting and the fourth while contemporary is set in Egypt. I know research can take a lot of time, but still: the more you manage to convince me of time and location of your story, the more awesome are you, plus all the character are formed by where and when they come from. Boswell was a Scottish Tory lawyer who somehow ended up befriending a suspicious amount of rebels (atheist philosopher David Hume, Voltaire, Rousseau, Pasquale Paoli); Mary Bryant was an escaped convict who after years in Australia probably couldn't care less about who was Prime Minister but had experienced the consequences of the laws first hand, and so forth.
4.) Form-wise, I've got nothing. Anything from limericks to a full fledged novella is up to you and accepted in gratitude by me.
Yours,
Dear Yuletide Author,
I'm delighted to get a gift from you this year. Whichever prompt you choose will make me happy. Now, a few more words regarding the prompts:
1.) As a writer, I'm mostly a gen person, but as a reader, I'm open for anything as long as it's not a PWP exercise in gymnastics. What I mean: if you want to turn one of the prompts into a a slash or het romance-centric story, feel free, as long as the characters interact beyond having sex with each other. (If you're more into gen yourself, the point is academic, and I'm doubly looking forward to friendship and family ties explorations.)
2.) I have only a few anti kinks. Among these: character bashing (yes, some of the characters listed in the prompts are hostile towards other characters, but I think both of us know the difference between character point of view and an author venting her/his dislike), romances with an uneven power structure (be they het or slash), and whitewashing of ambiguities. Daffydd ap Gruffydd is probably my favourite character in Sharon Penman's Welsh trilogy, but he agreed to his brother's death at one point, and Llewelyn is completely entitled to hold that against him, to put it mildly. The Borgias in any incarnation are a ruthless bunch (part of their success), and while Lucrezia is very young and still learning in the first season, she's by the later third ready and willing to not only plot someone's death but to use others to do it. (She has her reasons, but don't ignore she also has her part of the family manipulativeness.) You see what'm getting at.
3.) Context is of the win. Three of my prompts have a historical setting and the fourth while contemporary is set in Egypt. I know research can take a lot of time, but still: the more you manage to convince me of time and location of your story, the more awesome are you, plus all the character are formed by where and when they come from. Boswell was a Scottish Tory lawyer who somehow ended up befriending a suspicious amount of rebels (atheist philosopher David Hume, Voltaire, Rousseau, Pasquale Paoli); Mary Bryant was an escaped convict who after years in Australia probably couldn't care less about who was Prime Minister but had experienced the consequences of the laws first hand, and so forth.
4.) Form-wise, I've got nothing. Anything from limericks to a full fledged novella is up to you and accepted in gratitude by me.
Yours,
