Dear Yuletide Author 2018
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bobcatmoranHello, Yuletide Author!
I would be super duper excited to get most any fic in any of my requested fandoms, from new faves to this-is-my-umpteenth-year-requesting-this-and-by-this-point-I-don't-actually-expect-anything-but-I-can't-stop-trying.
If you saw my signup and went, "Yes! I know what I am going to write! This will be awesome!" then by all means, please go ahead! Write the awesome thing! But if you need/want some extra help as to what direction to go in, read on.
In general:
If you choose to go the romance route, I am ok with couples or poly relationships of all shapes and sizes — M/F, M/M, F/F, nonbinary, trans, interspecies, etc. Friends-to-lovers is always awesome. I am not so down with big power differences (e.g. teacher/student), hatesex, or noncon. However! If you don’t want to go the romance route, rest assured that I always love me some genfic.
Other likes include found family, science fiction settings (space AUs for those canons that aren’t already in space are ok), canon divergence AUs (e.g. “What if Harry was sorted into Slytherin”), and characters being snarky.
For a further idea of what sort of stuff I like (and some, IMO, really good reads), you can check out my Ao3 bookmarks, or my “read this fic it is good” and “read this story it is good” tags on Tumblr — the latter is for original fiction.
As for specific fandoms...
The LEGO Movie (2014)
Benny (The LEGO Movie)
SPACESHIP!! *cough* I mean…
Benny's gotta have seen some things, y'know, being a 1980s-era minifig. He's been around a long time. How'd he find out he was a Master Builder? Does he hang out with the other 80s space guys? How does he feel about minifigs from more recent space-themed sets? Or maybe just shenanigans are more up your alley. I'll bet he got up to lots of shenanigans. Heck, whatever you want to write, I'm pretty sure it'll be awesome. Gen, het, and slash are all fine by me, just please keep it T-rated or under.
I think I kind of covered it so far as prompts and such goes. I am 900% cool with fic that has other characters from the movie, I just really, really like Benny. I sympathize with his spaceship obsession (see my request for 17776) and appreciate a minifig who knows what he wants in life :D
Arm Joe
Any character
Being that this is a fighter game based on Les Mis, I'm not expecting anything super-serious here. I mean, if the muse has struck you in that direction, go for it by all means, but if you're going the route of pure, unadultrated crack, that is totally a good route to be on. If you want to try and explain how this world works (Where did Robojean come from? Why are they all fighting? Are these the canon characters thrust into video fighter game land or a crazy AU? What the heck is even up with Ponpon?), or try and explore the Cosette-Eponine-Marius love triangle thing in this 'verse, or even retell part of the story in this bizarro universe, I am up for all those or anything else your mind can come up with. Basically, go nuts, just no sexytimes, please. And I'm okay with any of the characters listed, either individually or together. You're under no obligation to include all of them, although you certainly can if you like. FYI, as far as canons go, if you want to incorporate things from the more "official" versions of Les Mis, I'm familiar with The Brick as well as the musical and very nearly all the filmed versions.
I think I pretty well covered it. FYI, I know this is a fandom that I've actually written for, but if your take on the game-verse is different from mine in any way, shape, or form, that's more than okay. The more takes on this crazy universe and the more fic for this, the better!
I'm gonna be a total lazy butt and link to my fandom pimping post from a couple years ago, because that has links to download the game and YouTube videos of gameplay.
Kamen Rider Build
Any character
I’d love a little slice-of-life with the Nascita crew at any point from early on in the series, when it was just Sento, Banjou, Misora, and not-actually-Isurugi to towards the end, with Kazumin, Sawa, and Gentoku added in. Or! If you’d like to write post-series fic with Sento and Banjou getting to know the new world counterparts of their old friends (or meeting Satou Taro or even Katsuragi), that’d be awesome, too. Basically, I love all these characters and I am a giant sucker for the Found Family trope. Gen or shipping at no more of a level than the series itself, please.
This series devoured my brain with happy munching sounds, and it’s all because of the characters and their relationships — not romantically, as I’m not much of a shipper for this series, but the way that all these people who are messed up in their own ways found companionship and a new, optimistic view on life. How they were able to become better people together than they were individually. Basically, y’know that cookout they had on the rooftop? That sort of feeling.
If you want to pick up this series, be forewarned that it's probably the least accessible for quickly getting acquainted with out of my requests, with 49 half-hour episodes in Japanese and no official subs. Over-Time is my personal favorite fansub group for this.
17776: What Football Will Look Like in the Future - Jon Bois
Any character
Sentient space probe fic, please. I’d love a fic with any/all of Hubble, Juice, or Ten first achieving consciousness, or just space probe chit-chat (of which I am sure there are a few millennia’s worth).
I admit it. I have a thing for space probes. It’s been an ongoing thing since I was a very wee Bobcat and fell in love with Voyager 2 and cried when I found out that Pioneer 11 was leaving the solar system and would be all alone. So you can imagine the pitch and volume of the shriek I emitted when I found out who Nine was. If you wanna include football in this, that’s awesome. If you don’t, that’s awesome, too. I just wanna see a thing with the sentient space ships hanging out, whether it be Nine getting more comfortable with its new situation, Juice being kind of an ass, Hubble on a rare occasion where it’s being social, or anything else you fancy. Um. Maybe not sexytimes, as these characters are all a pretty substantial distance from each other, but if you can make it work, more power to you. And if you have no idea what I’m talking about, go here and read/watch the thing if you have a couple free hours. I’ll wait. Also, if you get stuck on one of the other fandoms (it happens! there's been two Yuletides where I wound up writing for fandoms I didn't sign up for because I got stuck), this might be a good one to pick up as it’s relatively easy to access.
Prisoner of the Ant People - R. A. Montgomery
Any characters
Something pre-canon would be lovely. A different case tackled by the Zondo Quest Group, a story about the characters just hanging out in their downtime (my word, the Zondo Quest Group II group trying to do some sort of group bonding activity would be really…something), a more in-depth look at the activities of the ants’ independent activities, all would be awesome. Ships of all shapes and sizes or gen are awesome, though I’m pretty sure Rendoxoll has all the sex drive of a toaster.
Pretty sure I covered it all here. I’d be amazed if anyone writes for this — haven’t met anyone else who even remembers this old Choose Your Own Adventure Book — but a gal can always dream, right? And it was part of the reissuing of CYOA a couple years ago, so it’s maybe less obscure than, say, Danger at Anchor Mine. AFAIK, there is no fic for this. None. So you’d be able to be like those idiots who go into comment sections and yell, “First!” only you wouldn’t be an idiot since what you’d be doing would be way more cool. Anyhow, if you need a springboard, Flppto needling Rendoxoll is always fun. Trying to explain why the Zondo Quest Group II seems to be the only multi-species Zondo Quest Group might be fun, too.
Uprooted - Naomi Novik
Any characters
Basically, there’s two things I’d really like to see: More early days magic studying with Agnieszka and The Dragon or more of the wizards at court. Something pre-series, seeing Sarkan actually having to interact with people in that politics-laden environment would be a delight, but I’d go for pretty much anything with the other wizards interacting with each other.
I just read this book about a month ago, and it was the first one I’ve read in awhile where I went, “Oh, I’ll just finish up this chapter” and then emerged a couple hours later having finished the book. So while some of these are repeat requests, this is a new favorite for me. There’s a lot hinted at with the pasts of the wizards at court and with Sarkan, and I’d love to see something that explores that, especially since it’s mentioned that by law wizards have to be trained whenever they’re first noticed to have magical abilities, which seems to have been very young indeed for some of them.
If you’d prefer to stick to the main characters, though, I really love the bits about magical theory and how Agnieszka and Sarkan have such different approaches to magic. Watching them bounce off each other with that would be a delight. Honestly though, see that earlier note about devouring this book mostly in one sitting — I’d love anything else with this world.
Good luck with bear-free writing, dear Author, and remember that Optional Details Are Optional! Hope you have a good Yuletide!
I would be super duper excited to get most any fic in any of my requested fandoms, from new faves to this-is-my-umpteenth-year-requesting-this-and-by-this-point-I-don't-actually-expect-anything-but-I-can't-stop-trying.
If you saw my signup and went, "Yes! I know what I am going to write! This will be awesome!" then by all means, please go ahead! Write the awesome thing! But if you need/want some extra help as to what direction to go in, read on.
In general:
If you choose to go the romance route, I am ok with couples or poly relationships of all shapes and sizes — M/F, M/M, F/F, nonbinary, trans, interspecies, etc. Friends-to-lovers is always awesome. I am not so down with big power differences (e.g. teacher/student), hatesex, or noncon. However! If you don’t want to go the romance route, rest assured that I always love me some genfic.
Other likes include found family, science fiction settings (space AUs for those canons that aren’t already in space are ok), canon divergence AUs (e.g. “What if Harry was sorted into Slytherin”), and characters being snarky.
For a further idea of what sort of stuff I like (and some, IMO, really good reads), you can check out my Ao3 bookmarks, or my “read this fic it is good” and “read this story it is good” tags on Tumblr — the latter is for original fiction.
As for specific fandoms...
The LEGO Movie (2014)
Benny (The LEGO Movie)
SPACESHIP!! *cough* I mean…
Benny's gotta have seen some things, y'know, being a 1980s-era minifig. He's been around a long time. How'd he find out he was a Master Builder? Does he hang out with the other 80s space guys? How does he feel about minifigs from more recent space-themed sets? Or maybe just shenanigans are more up your alley. I'll bet he got up to lots of shenanigans. Heck, whatever you want to write, I'm pretty sure it'll be awesome. Gen, het, and slash are all fine by me, just please keep it T-rated or under.
I think I kind of covered it so far as prompts and such goes. I am 900% cool with fic that has other characters from the movie, I just really, really like Benny. I sympathize with his spaceship obsession (see my request for 17776) and appreciate a minifig who knows what he wants in life :D
Arm Joe
Any character
Being that this is a fighter game based on Les Mis, I'm not expecting anything super-serious here. I mean, if the muse has struck you in that direction, go for it by all means, but if you're going the route of pure, unadultrated crack, that is totally a good route to be on. If you want to try and explain how this world works (Where did Robojean come from? Why are they all fighting? Are these the canon characters thrust into video fighter game land or a crazy AU? What the heck is even up with Ponpon?), or try and explore the Cosette-Eponine-Marius love triangle thing in this 'verse, or even retell part of the story in this bizarro universe, I am up for all those or anything else your mind can come up with. Basically, go nuts, just no sexytimes, please. And I'm okay with any of the characters listed, either individually or together. You're under no obligation to include all of them, although you certainly can if you like. FYI, as far as canons go, if you want to incorporate things from the more "official" versions of Les Mis, I'm familiar with The Brick as well as the musical and very nearly all the filmed versions.
I think I pretty well covered it. FYI, I know this is a fandom that I've actually written for, but if your take on the game-verse is different from mine in any way, shape, or form, that's more than okay. The more takes on this crazy universe and the more fic for this, the better!
I'm gonna be a total lazy butt and link to my fandom pimping post from a couple years ago, because that has links to download the game and YouTube videos of gameplay.
Kamen Rider Build
Any character
I’d love a little slice-of-life with the Nascita crew at any point from early on in the series, when it was just Sento, Banjou, Misora, and not-actually-Isurugi to towards the end, with Kazumin, Sawa, and Gentoku added in. Or! If you’d like to write post-series fic with Sento and Banjou getting to know the new world counterparts of their old friends (or meeting Satou Taro or even Katsuragi), that’d be awesome, too. Basically, I love all these characters and I am a giant sucker for the Found Family trope. Gen or shipping at no more of a level than the series itself, please.
This series devoured my brain with happy munching sounds, and it’s all because of the characters and their relationships — not romantically, as I’m not much of a shipper for this series, but the way that all these people who are messed up in their own ways found companionship and a new, optimistic view on life. How they were able to become better people together than they were individually. Basically, y’know that cookout they had on the rooftop? That sort of feeling.
If you want to pick up this series, be forewarned that it's probably the least accessible for quickly getting acquainted with out of my requests, with 49 half-hour episodes in Japanese and no official subs. Over-Time is my personal favorite fansub group for this.
17776: What Football Will Look Like in the Future - Jon Bois
Any character
Sentient space probe fic, please. I’d love a fic with any/all of Hubble, Juice, or Ten first achieving consciousness, or just space probe chit-chat (of which I am sure there are a few millennia’s worth).
I admit it. I have a thing for space probes. It’s been an ongoing thing since I was a very wee Bobcat and fell in love with Voyager 2 and cried when I found out that Pioneer 11 was leaving the solar system and would be all alone. So you can imagine the pitch and volume of the shriek I emitted when I found out who Nine was. If you wanna include football in this, that’s awesome. If you don’t, that’s awesome, too. I just wanna see a thing with the sentient space ships hanging out, whether it be Nine getting more comfortable with its new situation, Juice being kind of an ass, Hubble on a rare occasion where it’s being social, or anything else you fancy. Um. Maybe not sexytimes, as these characters are all a pretty substantial distance from each other, but if you can make it work, more power to you. And if you have no idea what I’m talking about, go here and read/watch the thing if you have a couple free hours. I’ll wait. Also, if you get stuck on one of the other fandoms (it happens! there's been two Yuletides where I wound up writing for fandoms I didn't sign up for because I got stuck), this might be a good one to pick up as it’s relatively easy to access.
Prisoner of the Ant People - R. A. Montgomery
Any characters
Something pre-canon would be lovely. A different case tackled by the Zondo Quest Group, a story about the characters just hanging out in their downtime (my word, the Zondo Quest Group II group trying to do some sort of group bonding activity would be really…something), a more in-depth look at the activities of the ants’ independent activities, all would be awesome. Ships of all shapes and sizes or gen are awesome, though I’m pretty sure Rendoxoll has all the sex drive of a toaster.
Pretty sure I covered it all here. I’d be amazed if anyone writes for this — haven’t met anyone else who even remembers this old Choose Your Own Adventure Book — but a gal can always dream, right? And it was part of the reissuing of CYOA a couple years ago, so it’s maybe less obscure than, say, Danger at Anchor Mine. AFAIK, there is no fic for this. None. So you’d be able to be like those idiots who go into comment sections and yell, “First!” only you wouldn’t be an idiot since what you’d be doing would be way more cool. Anyhow, if you need a springboard, Flppto needling Rendoxoll is always fun. Trying to explain why the Zondo Quest Group II seems to be the only multi-species Zondo Quest Group might be fun, too.
Uprooted - Naomi Novik
Any characters
Basically, there’s two things I’d really like to see: More early days magic studying with Agnieszka and The Dragon or more of the wizards at court. Something pre-series, seeing Sarkan actually having to interact with people in that politics-laden environment would be a delight, but I’d go for pretty much anything with the other wizards interacting with each other.
I just read this book about a month ago, and it was the first one I’ve read in awhile where I went, “Oh, I’ll just finish up this chapter” and then emerged a couple hours later having finished the book. So while some of these are repeat requests, this is a new favorite for me. There’s a lot hinted at with the pasts of the wizards at court and with Sarkan, and I’d love to see something that explores that, especially since it’s mentioned that by law wizards have to be trained whenever they’re first noticed to have magical abilities, which seems to have been very young indeed for some of them.
If you’d prefer to stick to the main characters, though, I really love the bits about magical theory and how Agnieszka and Sarkan have such different approaches to magic. Watching them bounce off each other with that would be a delight. Honestly though, see that earlier note about devouring this book mostly in one sitting — I’d love anything else with this world.
Good luck with bear-free writing, dear Author, and remember that Optional Details Are Optional! Hope you have a good Yuletide!
