Dear Yulegoat!
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sorcyressDear Yulegoat!
(Why am I calling you a Yulegoat? I don't even know. I think it's the fault offuturesoon.)
First things first, thank you thank you THANK YOU! for offering to write me a nice story! That is very sweet of you, and I am super pleased and excited about it. I can't wait to read it and squee a lot and twirl around in circles. (This is not exaggeration, I get really excited when people write me stories.)
Second thing second, you are writing a story set in a universe I love. This means that I want you to write something that you are comfortable with writing --I am a person who really enjoys dirty dirty porn, but I also really enjoy worldbuilding and genfic and fluffy shmoopy g-rated kissies. If your kinks are not my kinks, please don't force yourself to write something you feel oogy or awkward about just because I would swoon.
Thirdly, as you've noticed from my prompts, I babble WAY TOO MUCH and have a lot of opinions on things. Here, have a few more!
I like girls being badasses. I like genderfuckery and queering. I like people who are open-minded and able to put up with a lot of strangeness (both of the usual human kind, and of the alien "wait where did that gorilla get a gun?" kind).
I love domestic scenes between characters just going about their day to day life, especially characters who live together (either platonically or not).
In general, I prefer happy to just about anything else. I like silly, and I enjoy crackfic, but it's not usually my first choice. Sad stuff is not off the table, but it'll make me cry, because I'm a woobie.
I love dancing, and will be very happy if you work it in, even if the story doesn't typically include it. I'm a mathematics major, and if you throw random mathematical asides in, I will squee and bounce.
But lets be honest, my biggest passion is sexuality, and kink, and gender, and sex, and relationships and porn. I find the ranges of expression to be just *fascinating*, and anything that plays with or talks about any of those is likely to make me excited.
Sexually, I personally am a queer kinky poly genderfucker. I am scared off by very little, and if you write a kink because you are passionate about it, I will find it hot --I am almost always turned on by people being turned on.
I especially like impossible fetishes (genderswap, xenophilia (but NOT beastiality, please keep all parties consenting and sentient), multiple copies of oneself, mad science), dom/sub stuff, service sadism, electricity, and creativity.
I am turned off in a big way by dubiousconsent and noncon -I find them triggering. Seriously, don't ruin my Yuletide by writing me a rape, I really don't want to read it.
I also don't like misogyny/queer bashing, superiority, humiliation/degredation, dishonesty (especially cheating on a partner --but I do very much like polyfic or moresomes, where everyone knows what's going on), and when the author blatantly fails to do the research on a sex act or toy.
I'm not at all above porn without plot, or with very minimal plot. While I have some specific pairings I like better than others, I have no problems with queering straight characters. (I might be a little put off by straightening canonically queer characters, but only because it's still so rare for me to see those).
Fourthly, THANK YOU THANK YOU THANK YOU! I so hope this letter is helpful!
Lastly, if you think it would help or you want to waste some time, here is the list of some of my current favourite fanfics:
This is Where it Starts (Middleman, a fic I consider to be friggin _canon_ at this point, it's so good and so right. Platonic Lacey and DubDub --how they met their first year of college.)
Marvelous Things (Homestuck. Incredibly sweet coming of sexuality story re: demisexuality. I squee'd all over the place at this one. See also the sequel, Amazing Places.)
Two Daves No Waiting (Homestuck, porn without plot, two copies of one character equals instant _awesome_ threesome.)
Asteroid Docking Procedures (Homestuck, porn with light plot, denial/waiting, Karkat/John with great xeno to it. I like my aliens as weird as possible --I love the idea of coming across an equal intelligence with a completely different physicality and figuring out how to share pleasure.)
The Naked Quidditch Match (Harry Potter, very silly. If you're gonna do silly, make it at least this good and you're golden.)
Harry Potter and the Methods of Rationality (Harry Potter, as raised by scientists with the ideals of the enlightenment. This is the smartest fanfiction I have ever read in my life, and I regularly recommend it to people who normally wouldn't touch a fic. 80+ chapters, all of them hilarious and smart and wonderful.)
Geniuses (Calvin (of "& Hobbes") and Jason Fox (of Foxtrot) slash. This is pretty much my biggest OTP of all time. If you want to disregard my entire Yuletide list and write me a Calvin/Jason fic from the geniuses universe, that would be okay too.)
The Paladin Protocol (Big Bang Theory, Sheldon/Penny, how they got together. Long but lovely. It is my favourite domestific, and my favourite "how it started" fic.)
From Degas to Vegas (Despicable Me, sweet Christmas-based Father-Daughter fic. Look, I just really love platonic daddy-daughter stuff. It's just so sweet and empowering and lovely.)
Thri-Kreen Erotica (DnD Creatures, so not strictly traditional fanfic, but still close enough. It's porn. It's pretty damn great xeno porn. Yep!)
My previous Yuletide gifts:
2010: Four Times Alexis Was The Adult (and one more) (Castle, platonic Alexis/Rick running around and just...being wonderful together. Melts my happy little heart.)
2011: The Raucous Rodent Regalement (Middleman/Narbonic crossover. This is the fic that finally scratched the itch I've had my whole life for a proper Watson Family Father/Daughter Platonic Warmfuzzy Fic. AND it did so by bringing in Helen Narbon and OH MY GOD is this great stuff.)
Primetime 2012: Five College Careers Alexis Castle Might Consider (and the Consequences Thereof) (Castle, what can I say, I just really love Alexis and people apparently pick up on that and write amazing things for her. The best part of this by far is her becoming a pirate queen and singing up and down the coastline. No really!)
Yay!
~Sor
MOOP!
ETA! 2012/11/02 It has been brought to my attention that apparently I should include my actual prompts so that people who want to write me treats can do so. I am sorta tilting my head at this and going "wait, people want to write me treats what in hell's name?" but sure. Sure, why not.
Middleman:
I love every single character in this show (except Pip. Boo! Hiss!) and would happily read about any or all of them. Some ideas, if you're lacking:
Roxy Wasserman: Anything ever. Especially something to do with what she's like in the evil universe (as seen in episode 12). Is she a fallen angel instead of a redeemed succubus? Does she still do fashion? I can't tell you how interested I am in this story.
Middleman/Dubbie: Dirty dirty porn. My yuletide letter (linked above) will have more detail about what I like. But yeah, I ship it hard. Please no memory modification or drugged states --I want it to be honest, whatever happens between them.
(Or not porn, if you're not comfortable with that. I am _so happy_ to read gen with these two being snarky and siblingish and silly at one another. Bonus points if you return to my favourite villain, Eleanor Draper (from episode 8, The Ectoplasmic Pan-Hellenic Investigation))
DubDub/Lacey: Platonic only, please. But their friendship is one of the best things ever to appear on television and I constantly want more of them being clever and snarky and fantastic off one another. Day to day stuff, joint vacations, their senior year of art school, anything.
Wendy Watson/Peter Watson: I love platonic father-daughter stuff, and would adore seeing something sweet and fluffy and adventuresome, set either before he disappeared or after WW became a Middleman.
But seriously, I love the Middleman sideways and backwards, and if you're willing to write it for me, I love *you* too. Thank you!
St. Trinian's:
I only just saw the first movie a couple months ago (and haven't managed to see the sequel yet, eep, no spoilers!) but I thought it was a ton of fun. Ensemble heist movies filled with hot British ladies? Absolutely up my alley.
I don't care how contrived it is (because these movies _live_ off contrived), but I'd love to see some more dubiously-legal hijinks from the whole crowd. I'm much more interested in seeing what the girls/students can get up to than the adults.
Or, because I am a terrible person with very simple desires, there is this whole elaborate pornographic stereotype that girls' schools are a constant slumber party filled with scandalous games of Truth or Dare and everyone discovering their bisexuality and delicious kinky hazing. I'm down with that too.
Either way, thank you!
Parasol Protectorate:
Woooooorldbuilding! I love the theory that excess soul causes supernaturalism, and all the wonderful ridiculous steampunk nonsense that goes along with it. OCs are fine, or these characters are fine, I just enjoy immensely the romp through this particular version of Victorian London.
Madame Lefoux vies for the position of my favourite character alongside Professor Lyall, so if you're focusing on Carriger's characters, I'd most appreciate seeing one or both of those two. Gender is a big fascinating ball of interest for me, so looking at how either (or both!) fits into the world with their atypical gender presentations strikes your fancy, that would be really wonderful and I would squee lots.
In general, I enjoy reading about Betas more than Alphas. And, of course, porn, dirty, you probably get the idea by now.
Thank you!
Disney Princesses:
So we all heard that Disney just acquired Lucasfilm, right? And so that means Leia just entered the ranks of Disney Princesses, and let's face it, she's completely badass.
I would love to know how any of the other ladies would fare if their world included spaceships and lightsabers. I'm sure they could rise to the challenge, but how would they make their particular talents work? Would Belle become a historian for the Jedi council? Mulan disguise herself so she could get her hands on a lightsaber? Tiana turn into whatever-kind-of-alien Yoda is?
If this is too dorky for you, I'm happy also to read a more general fic about badass ladies being badass. In descending order of preference, my favourite princesses are Mulan, Belle, Tiana, Wendy Darling (fuck off, she's more a princess than Tinkerbelle), and Jasmine.
Please do not make them into the damsel or otherwise useless. Please remember that there are more ways to be effective and useful than swinging a sword around. Please give them the world and freedom and adventure they desire and deserve. Thank you!
(Why am I calling you a Yulegoat? I don't even know. I think it's the fault of
futuresoon.) First things first, thank you thank you THANK YOU! for offering to write me a nice story! That is very sweet of you, and I am super pleased and excited about it. I can't wait to read it and squee a lot and twirl around in circles. (This is not exaggeration, I get really excited when people write me stories.)
Second thing second, you are writing a story set in a universe I love. This means that I want you to write something that you are comfortable with writing --I am a person who really enjoys dirty dirty porn, but I also really enjoy worldbuilding and genfic and fluffy shmoopy g-rated kissies. If your kinks are not my kinks, please don't force yourself to write something you feel oogy or awkward about just because I would swoon.
Thirdly, as you've noticed from my prompts, I babble WAY TOO MUCH and have a lot of opinions on things. Here, have a few more!
I like girls being badasses. I like genderfuckery and queering. I like people who are open-minded and able to put up with a lot of strangeness (both of the usual human kind, and of the alien "wait where did that gorilla get a gun?" kind).
I love domestic scenes between characters just going about their day to day life, especially characters who live together (either platonically or not).
In general, I prefer happy to just about anything else. I like silly, and I enjoy crackfic, but it's not usually my first choice. Sad stuff is not off the table, but it'll make me cry, because I'm a woobie.
I love dancing, and will be very happy if you work it in, even if the story doesn't typically include it. I'm a mathematics major, and if you throw random mathematical asides in, I will squee and bounce.
But lets be honest, my biggest passion is sexuality, and kink, and gender, and sex, and relationships and porn. I find the ranges of expression to be just *fascinating*, and anything that plays with or talks about any of those is likely to make me excited.
Sexually, I personally am a queer kinky poly genderfucker. I am scared off by very little, and if you write a kink because you are passionate about it, I will find it hot --I am almost always turned on by people being turned on.
I especially like impossible fetishes (genderswap, xenophilia (but NOT beastiality, please keep all parties consenting and sentient), multiple copies of oneself, mad science), dom/sub stuff, service sadism, electricity, and creativity.
I am turned off in a big way by dubiousconsent and noncon -I find them triggering. Seriously, don't ruin my Yuletide by writing me a rape, I really don't want to read it.
I also don't like misogyny/queer bashing, superiority, humiliation/degredation, dishonesty (especially cheating on a partner --but I do very much like polyfic or moresomes, where everyone knows what's going on), and when the author blatantly fails to do the research on a sex act or toy.
I'm not at all above porn without plot, or with very minimal plot. While I have some specific pairings I like better than others, I have no problems with queering straight characters. (I might be a little put off by straightening canonically queer characters, but only because it's still so rare for me to see those).
Fourthly, THANK YOU THANK YOU THANK YOU! I so hope this letter is helpful!
Lastly, if you think it would help or you want to waste some time, here is the list of some of my current favourite fanfics:
This is Where it Starts (Middleman, a fic I consider to be friggin _canon_ at this point, it's so good and so right. Platonic Lacey and DubDub --how they met their first year of college.)
Marvelous Things (Homestuck. Incredibly sweet coming of sexuality story re: demisexuality. I squee'd all over the place at this one. See also the sequel, Amazing Places.)
Two Daves No Waiting (Homestuck, porn without plot, two copies of one character equals instant _awesome_ threesome.)
Asteroid Docking Procedures (Homestuck, porn with light plot, denial/waiting, Karkat/John with great xeno to it. I like my aliens as weird as possible --I love the idea of coming across an equal intelligence with a completely different physicality and figuring out how to share pleasure.)
The Naked Quidditch Match (Harry Potter, very silly. If you're gonna do silly, make it at least this good and you're golden.)
Harry Potter and the Methods of Rationality (Harry Potter, as raised by scientists with the ideals of the enlightenment. This is the smartest fanfiction I have ever read in my life, and I regularly recommend it to people who normally wouldn't touch a fic. 80+ chapters, all of them hilarious and smart and wonderful.)
Geniuses (Calvin (of "& Hobbes") and Jason Fox (of Foxtrot) slash. This is pretty much my biggest OTP of all time. If you want to disregard my entire Yuletide list and write me a Calvin/Jason fic from the geniuses universe, that would be okay too.)
The Paladin Protocol (Big Bang Theory, Sheldon/Penny, how they got together. Long but lovely. It is my favourite domestific, and my favourite "how it started" fic.)
From Degas to Vegas (Despicable Me, sweet Christmas-based Father-Daughter fic. Look, I just really love platonic daddy-daughter stuff. It's just so sweet and empowering and lovely.)
Thri-Kreen Erotica (DnD Creatures, so not strictly traditional fanfic, but still close enough. It's porn. It's pretty damn great xeno porn. Yep!)
My previous Yuletide gifts:
2010: Four Times Alexis Was The Adult (and one more) (Castle, platonic Alexis/Rick running around and just...being wonderful together. Melts my happy little heart.)
2011: The Raucous Rodent Regalement (Middleman/Narbonic crossover. This is the fic that finally scratched the itch I've had my whole life for a proper Watson Family Father/Daughter Platonic Warmfuzzy Fic. AND it did so by bringing in Helen Narbon and OH MY GOD is this great stuff.)
Primetime 2012: Five College Careers Alexis Castle Might Consider (and the Consequences Thereof) (Castle, what can I say, I just really love Alexis and people apparently pick up on that and write amazing things for her. The best part of this by far is her becoming a pirate queen and singing up and down the coastline. No really!)
Yay!
~Sor
MOOP!
ETA! 2012/11/02 It has been brought to my attention that apparently I should include my actual prompts so that people who want to write me treats can do so. I am sorta tilting my head at this and going "wait, people want to write me treats what in hell's name?" but sure. Sure, why not.
Middleman:
I love every single character in this show (except Pip. Boo! Hiss!) and would happily read about any or all of them. Some ideas, if you're lacking:
Roxy Wasserman: Anything ever. Especially something to do with what she's like in the evil universe (as seen in episode 12). Is she a fallen angel instead of a redeemed succubus? Does she still do fashion? I can't tell you how interested I am in this story.
Middleman/Dubbie: Dirty dirty porn. My yuletide letter (linked above) will have more detail about what I like. But yeah, I ship it hard. Please no memory modification or drugged states --I want it to be honest, whatever happens between them.
(Or not porn, if you're not comfortable with that. I am _so happy_ to read gen with these two being snarky and siblingish and silly at one another. Bonus points if you return to my favourite villain, Eleanor Draper (from episode 8, The Ectoplasmic Pan-Hellenic Investigation))
DubDub/Lacey: Platonic only, please. But their friendship is one of the best things ever to appear on television and I constantly want more of them being clever and snarky and fantastic off one another. Day to day stuff, joint vacations, their senior year of art school, anything.
Wendy Watson/Peter Watson: I love platonic father-daughter stuff, and would adore seeing something sweet and fluffy and adventuresome, set either before he disappeared or after WW became a Middleman.
But seriously, I love the Middleman sideways and backwards, and if you're willing to write it for me, I love *you* too. Thank you!
St. Trinian's:
I only just saw the first movie a couple months ago (and haven't managed to see the sequel yet, eep, no spoilers!) but I thought it was a ton of fun. Ensemble heist movies filled with hot British ladies? Absolutely up my alley.
I don't care how contrived it is (because these movies _live_ off contrived), but I'd love to see some more dubiously-legal hijinks from the whole crowd. I'm much more interested in seeing what the girls/students can get up to than the adults.
Or, because I am a terrible person with very simple desires, there is this whole elaborate pornographic stereotype that girls' schools are a constant slumber party filled with scandalous games of Truth or Dare and everyone discovering their bisexuality and delicious kinky hazing. I'm down with that too.
Either way, thank you!
Parasol Protectorate:
Woooooorldbuilding! I love the theory that excess soul causes supernaturalism, and all the wonderful ridiculous steampunk nonsense that goes along with it. OCs are fine, or these characters are fine, I just enjoy immensely the romp through this particular version of Victorian London.
Madame Lefoux vies for the position of my favourite character alongside Professor Lyall, so if you're focusing on Carriger's characters, I'd most appreciate seeing one or both of those two. Gender is a big fascinating ball of interest for me, so looking at how either (or both!) fits into the world with their atypical gender presentations strikes your fancy, that would be really wonderful and I would squee lots.
In general, I enjoy reading about Betas more than Alphas. And, of course, porn, dirty, you probably get the idea by now.
Thank you!
Disney Princesses:
So we all heard that Disney just acquired Lucasfilm, right? And so that means Leia just entered the ranks of Disney Princesses, and let's face it, she's completely badass.
I would love to know how any of the other ladies would fare if their world included spaceships and lightsabers. I'm sure they could rise to the challenge, but how would they make their particular talents work? Would Belle become a historian for the Jedi council? Mulan disguise herself so she could get her hands on a lightsaber? Tiana turn into whatever-kind-of-alien Yoda is?
If this is too dorky for you, I'm happy also to read a more general fic about badass ladies being badass. In descending order of preference, my favourite princesses are Mulan, Belle, Tiana, Wendy Darling (fuck off, she's more a princess than Tinkerbelle), and Jasmine.
Please do not make them into the damsel or otherwise useless. Please remember that there are more ways to be effective and useful than swinging a sword around. Please give them the world and freedom and adventure they desire and deserve. Thank you!
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on 2012-11-01 10:01 pm (UTC)no subject
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on 2012-11-02 11:24 am (UTC)But but but people don't write me treats! I'm just this little fandom nobody who basically only ever does any fic writing for Yuletide!
Regardless of whether anything ever comes out of it, the both of you anons are ridiculously flattering and have made me happy. I edited the entry to include my requests. <3
~Sor