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Yuletide Letter 2013
Oct. 8th, 2013 01:50 pmDear Yuletide Writer,
Thank you for being part of my most favorite time of the year. Every year I participate in Yuletide brings so much happiness and I'm glad you're doing this with me. Let's be awesome and write stories! I've written a bit about my requests below to kind of tell you why I love these fandoms. I'm sure you'd also like to know what kind of stories I enjoy, what odd little things turn the gears in my brain. I'm excited to see anything, from world building to little vignettes to crazy cyberpunk AUs or anything in between. Write however you love to write! I just love that you are bringing a story to me, wrapped up in your shiny words.
Things I enjoy: androids, the future, complicated friendships, life under terrifying regimes, hopeless love, darkness, resistance, cyberpunk, world domination, unbearable sexual tension, demons both actual and metaphorical, comrades against the world, loyalty, betrayal, winter, all things goth, loud music, swimming, technology changing everything.
Feel free to write sex and death as explicitly as you like. I'm happy to read stories ranging from mild to full frontal everything, and I love all genders and combinations of sexuality. (My preferences tend to skew queer, but I love a good story about anyone really.) I enjoy the hell out of kink and BDSM, especially power dynamics and bondage and pain. I'm comfortable with full consent, dubcon and noncon situations. (It's probably easier to say the only things I don't like are feces, vore and mpreg.) Sometimes you have to kill your darlings, so I am fine with violence or character death.
I love questions of humanity or inhumanity, especially as it relates to robots/androids and moral choices. The darker, the stranger, the better!
Papers, Please! - This game is astonishing. All the terror and moral choices of a complex, terrifying world distilled down into one bureaucratic job. I've played it obsessively since it came out, obsessed with how things come together and fall apart. The story of the border guard Sergiu and his love for Elisa, the hysterical weirdness of Jorgi, the terrifying inspector who comes to find out if you've talked to terrorists, the faceless EZIC agent - there's a wealth of stories even before you get to all the ordinary people trying to get through the checkpoint. Because of my intense love/fascination with Soviet and Iron Curtain history, I'm drawn to this like a moth to flame. I would love to see anything that explores the absurdity, the terror, the hidden joys, the unbearable hope through a totalitarian lens of this world. (I'm a big fan of Slavic lit from the 19th & 20th century, so anything echoing that would be mega bonus amazing.)
Coldfire Trilogy by CS Friedman - I recently re-read this after many years and loved the sci-fi/fantasy trope of a world colonized and humanity altered. There are so many things we never learn about Gerald Tarrant and his life, such as how his apprentice Amoril came to be with him. What drove him there, how did he survive? Why did Tarrant take an apprentice? We briefly see Almea in the third novel and I've always wondered if Tarrant thinks about her. What was their relationship like, and does that influence his behavior towards the women he hunts in the Forest? How does he see Vryce? That prickly comrades in arms relationship is one of the best things in the book.
Daft Punk - I love how Daft Punk has always kept themselves a bit of a mystery. Their helmet designs, especially the latest look, really speak to me on some weird level. I like to believe they really are some sort of robot or android or cyborg duo. So any story that explores them as not quite entirely human would be fantastic. Are they here to take over the world? What do androids do for fun when they are world famous musicians?
Free! - This show is so much silly, wonderful fun. It's hot boys with girlish names in the pool. I especially enjoy the times where they teach poor Rei how to swim. Anything that explores their camaraderie and how they become a team/strengthen their friendship. I adore Makoto and Rei! What can I say, I'm a sucker for glasses type guy in anime, and Makoto is just so damn sweet. This is really the nomination that doesn't quite match the rest I suppose. It's just fun! I don't know, maybe Rei's a secret goth who listens to a lot of the Cure. Maybe Makoto takes everyone to see Depeche Mode or Daft Punk!
I hope there's something here that helps you get started! Whatever you write, I know it is going to make my Yuletide because it always does. Thank you! You are the best!
PS: Completely frivolous, unnecessary things that if you happen to work into your story, they would be the sprinkles on my happiness sundae!
- baked goods such as cupcakes, pie, cakes, kolache
- dancing in the goth club
- Depeche Mode
- fur hats
- giant robots
Thank you for being part of my most favorite time of the year. Every year I participate in Yuletide brings so much happiness and I'm glad you're doing this with me. Let's be awesome and write stories! I've written a bit about my requests below to kind of tell you why I love these fandoms. I'm sure you'd also like to know what kind of stories I enjoy, what odd little things turn the gears in my brain. I'm excited to see anything, from world building to little vignettes to crazy cyberpunk AUs or anything in between. Write however you love to write! I just love that you are bringing a story to me, wrapped up in your shiny words.
Things I enjoy: androids, the future, complicated friendships, life under terrifying regimes, hopeless love, darkness, resistance, cyberpunk, world domination, unbearable sexual tension, demons both actual and metaphorical, comrades against the world, loyalty, betrayal, winter, all things goth, loud music, swimming, technology changing everything.
Feel free to write sex and death as explicitly as you like. I'm happy to read stories ranging from mild to full frontal everything, and I love all genders and combinations of sexuality. (My preferences tend to skew queer, but I love a good story about anyone really.) I enjoy the hell out of kink and BDSM, especially power dynamics and bondage and pain. I'm comfortable with full consent, dubcon and noncon situations. (It's probably easier to say the only things I don't like are feces, vore and mpreg.) Sometimes you have to kill your darlings, so I am fine with violence or character death.
I love questions of humanity or inhumanity, especially as it relates to robots/androids and moral choices. The darker, the stranger, the better!
Papers, Please! - This game is astonishing. All the terror and moral choices of a complex, terrifying world distilled down into one bureaucratic job. I've played it obsessively since it came out, obsessed with how things come together and fall apart. The story of the border guard Sergiu and his love for Elisa, the hysterical weirdness of Jorgi, the terrifying inspector who comes to find out if you've talked to terrorists, the faceless EZIC agent - there's a wealth of stories even before you get to all the ordinary people trying to get through the checkpoint. Because of my intense love/fascination with Soviet and Iron Curtain history, I'm drawn to this like a moth to flame. I would love to see anything that explores the absurdity, the terror, the hidden joys, the unbearable hope through a totalitarian lens of this world. (I'm a big fan of Slavic lit from the 19th & 20th century, so anything echoing that would be mega bonus amazing.)
Coldfire Trilogy by CS Friedman - I recently re-read this after many years and loved the sci-fi/fantasy trope of a world colonized and humanity altered. There are so many things we never learn about Gerald Tarrant and his life, such as how his apprentice Amoril came to be with him. What drove him there, how did he survive? Why did Tarrant take an apprentice? We briefly see Almea in the third novel and I've always wondered if Tarrant thinks about her. What was their relationship like, and does that influence his behavior towards the women he hunts in the Forest? How does he see Vryce? That prickly comrades in arms relationship is one of the best things in the book.
Daft Punk - I love how Daft Punk has always kept themselves a bit of a mystery. Their helmet designs, especially the latest look, really speak to me on some weird level. I like to believe they really are some sort of robot or android or cyborg duo. So any story that explores them as not quite entirely human would be fantastic. Are they here to take over the world? What do androids do for fun when they are world famous musicians?
Free! - This show is so much silly, wonderful fun. It's hot boys with girlish names in the pool. I especially enjoy the times where they teach poor Rei how to swim. Anything that explores their camaraderie and how they become a team/strengthen their friendship. I adore Makoto and Rei! What can I say, I'm a sucker for glasses type guy in anime, and Makoto is just so damn sweet. This is really the nomination that doesn't quite match the rest I suppose. It's just fun! I don't know, maybe Rei's a secret goth who listens to a lot of the Cure. Maybe Makoto takes everyone to see Depeche Mode or Daft Punk!
I hope there's something here that helps you get started! Whatever you write, I know it is going to make my Yuletide because it always does. Thank you! You are the best!
PS: Completely frivolous, unnecessary things that if you happen to work into your story, they would be the sprinkles on my happiness sundae!
- baked goods such as cupcakes, pie, cakes, kolache
- dancing in the goth club
- Depeche Mode
- fur hats
- giant robots