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First of all, thank you so much for being willing to write me a story. I'm going to love it :-)
A few general likes and dislikes to start with.
Likes: crossovers, slash, asexuals, crack, character focused tales, twisting plots, happy endings
Dislikes: non-con, slave-fic, very dark tales, mpreg, always-a-girl/boy-AUS, character bashing, very kinky sex (as in very BDSM, watersports, etc), lack of actual plot.
The Almighty Johnsons
Ingrid, Mike Johnson, Olaf Johnson, Ty Johnson
I'd love a story with any or all of the characters. I'd love the story of Olaf discovering surfing or just about anything about his long life. I'd love seeing Ty dealing with his marriage and the in-laws (fire and ice, you know). I'd love seeing a younger Mike cooping with having gotten promoted-to-dad for his siblings and oh-by-the-way-you're-a-god - or the first time Mike meets Olaf after his 21st, how did that go down? Or Olaf and Ingrid teaming up to be awesome and adorable - maybe investigating the real reasons behind the Norse gods leaving Scandinavia in the first place, because while the 19th century makes perfect sense as far as going to New Zealand, it really doesn't make all that much sense from the other side - why would the Norse gods leave at a time when they were more popular than anytime since the arrival of Christianity and even the most influential priests where basically Norse myth fanboys?
And, as if that wasn't words enough, I'm going to squee a bit about what I like in this series, just beacuse I can. First and foremost, I love what this series is doing with Norse myth. I love that - out of most modern day canons playing with it - this is one of the few that actually feels like it has actually bothered with, well, reading the Eddas before going off and inventing things on its own. I mean, how many people remember Sjofn? I didn't, I must confess. I love that so many of the minor gods are present and that the major ones are few and far between. As for the characters, I love Olaf with his nearly-a-century of life and would love to know more about it (if I have one true fandom, it's crossovers - has he ever run across, say, Helen Magnus or Methos?), I love Mike being sensible and Mike getting enough, I love Ty being snarky. I love the goddesses - Michele being kickass and snarky, Ingrid being her adorable self (I'd love to see her being BAMF - she's the goddess of wisdom, dammit, imagine the potential!). I like Michele and Anders dancing around each other, having what's probably the healthiest relationship either of those two with their perfect date-rape-powers has had in their adult lives. I'm fond of Colin, because Loki is always fun, I like his little family drama with Eva. Of course, there are parts I'm less fond of - Axl bores me. Not that I dislike that part of the tale, I'm just meh about it - Axl and Gaia and his quest for Frigg. Honestly, if there's a second season, I doubt I'll really have an opinion about that part of the plot, apart from not being that interested in it - unless they decide to go with "surprise-Gaia-was-really-Frigg-all-along", because I really hate it when fictional universes make a rule and then break it, and she can't be. I mean, if you take five seconds to think about it, you realize that all the Norse gods are - strictly speaking - each other second cousins twice removed or something thereabouts - one big happy family, all of them descended from some 30-40 Scandinavian immigrants. Actually, I'd love a story dealing with that, too.
Freddy og monstrene - Dennis Jürgensen
Freddy
I'd love a story focusing on a grown-up Freddy - possibly having finally convinced/been convinced that no, he didn't run around with a bunch of monsters as a boy - reencountering the gang. Though truth be told, I'll love you to bits for almost anything in this fandom.
First of all, if you're not a Dane or at least Scandinavian, I somehow doubt this is going to get written by you. Of course in that case, you probably didn't sign up for it. Freddy og monstrene is a series of Danish children's books from the 80's, featuring the 11-year-old boy Freddy, who is an eager fan of horror movies and comics - and who one night is befriended by a group of quite friendly monsters, including Eddie the werewolf (always well dressed and never without his ghetto-blaster, because he just loves classic rock) who is forever getting on the nerves of Dracula (yes, that Dracula, who in his old age can't actually handle blood anymore, so he drinks raspberry sodas instead) and others, including a burping dragon (yes, you read that right). During the day they pretend to be wax figures at a nearby museum, during the night they go on adventures with their helpful human friend - I read this series several times as a kid and I still love it.
As for my prompt, the thing is, at the end of the series the monsters leave - and I have seen so many fantasy for children stories that involve variations of "and-then-they-woke-up" or "it-wasn't-real". While the ending doesn't imply that Freddy is going to grow up and forget his childhood friends and travels (like one Susan Pevensie?), but still - he's a child, 11 years, with an active imagination and a fannishness directed towards the classic Hammer movie monsters. And the monsters leave. Maybe one day he slips up and says something wrong and winds up with a psychologist, because what's more realistic - a kid getting molested by a teacher at camp or a kid flying away to China on a burping dragon with Dracula for company and meeting the Yeti? I'd love to see an adult Freddy having come to terms with his childhood traumas, only to meet the monsters again. Maybe on a vacation to Transsylvania? Or, if Freddy-as-adult doesn't spark your creative fires, truth be told, I'd love almost anything. Eddie and Dracula snarking at each other, maybe a lost adventure, or feel free to thoroughly ruin my childhood. Anything. I'll love it. I promise.
How to Succeed in Evil - Patrick E. McLean (audiobook)
Edwin Windsor
I'd love a story with Edwin being his awesome, snarky self, doing what he does best - dealing with supervillains that never listen. Or maybe, just this once, one of them does. Actually, I'd love seeing how Edwin got started or how he met Topper or maybe a dark au with Edwin somehow manages to talk Excelsior into letting Edwin be his handler-type person, rather than what he does talk him into. Or...
I kind of fell for this tale this year - because I love intelligent villains and snarkyness and superhero deconstruction and this has it all. If you're not familiar with it, it's the story of Edwin Windsor, evil efficiency consultant, who tries to advise supervillain on, well, how to be more efficient. They rarely listen. It's hilarious and available for free and quite legally at the author's website. As for my prompt, I don't really have much more to say - I'd love to see more of Edwin doing what he does best, surrounded by his trusty helpers. Or a crossover (I mentioned crossovers being my one true fandom, right?) with some supervillain or other (how about Loki from Marvel?)
One note - I nominated the audiobook version, but that's mostly because I haven't read the ebook version and don't know what differences it might have from the audio. However, I loved the original podcast and read (and was less than impressed with) the short comic on the webpage, so if you want to play with those instead of (or in addition to) the audiobook version, feel free.
Matador (TV)
Iben Skjern nee Skjold Hansen, Daniel Skjern
I'd love to see the epic love story of Iben and Jenny and how, in 1989, they managed to scandalize all of Korsbæk by not marrying. Or I'd love a story of Daniel and his British officer - the one his sister stole - maybe an au where she didn't steal him or maybe Daniel meets him again, in Paris maybe?
Again, for those of the foreign persuasion and unfamiliar with this, Matador is a Danish television series. It was shown '78-'82 and is generally considered the best Danish tv series, well, ever - the tale of the life and times of the small, fictional town of Korsbæk from the late 20's to a couple of years after WWII, featuring a gallery of truly awesome characters. It's good and far too complex to be summarized in a yuletide letter.
As for my wish, well, Iben and Daniel are two of my favourites from Korsbæk - the strong, bisexual woman who gets her happily ever after with the girl; and the gay son of the new, big man in town, who is less than impressed with a son with dreams of becoming a fashion designer. And yes, they're stereotypes - truth be told, most of the characters in Matador are - and yet they are so much, much more. Take Maude, the high society wife who has to go lie down when her teenage son steals a condom dispenser from the local bar and installs it in the bathroom just as she's having the town ladies by for coffee and cake - but come the Occupation she's the one who has to get her husband's employee and friend, the jew Stein, to safety, driving through the night, nevermind that she can't actually drive. In general, actually, the women rise high and kick ass (though rarely literally, it's not that sort of series) while the men, who start off seeming so strong, turn out to be - well, not. Mostly.
Anyway, if Iben and Daniel aren't sparking your creative juices, I'm also quite fond of Elisabeth Friis, I have a weak spot for Misse (and her mother - who did kick ass - against the Wehrmacht, of all things - way to go, Fru Fernando Møhge), and for Maude, and Kristen Skjern, and for Herbert Schmidt, the German exile artist on the run from the Nazis. Or if you have a brilliant idea for someone else, go ahead.
A few general likes and dislikes to start with.
Likes: crossovers, slash, asexuals, crack, character focused tales, twisting plots, happy endings
Dislikes: non-con, slave-fic, very dark tales, mpreg, always-a-girl/boy-AUS, character bashing, very kinky sex (as in very BDSM, watersports, etc), lack of actual plot.
The Almighty Johnsons
Ingrid, Mike Johnson, Olaf Johnson, Ty Johnson
I'd love a story with any or all of the characters. I'd love the story of Olaf discovering surfing or just about anything about his long life. I'd love seeing Ty dealing with his marriage and the in-laws (fire and ice, you know). I'd love seeing a younger Mike cooping with having gotten promoted-to-dad for his siblings and oh-by-the-way-you're-a-god - or the first time Mike meets Olaf after his 21st, how did that go down? Or Olaf and Ingrid teaming up to be awesome and adorable - maybe investigating the real reasons behind the Norse gods leaving Scandinavia in the first place, because while the 19th century makes perfect sense as far as going to New Zealand, it really doesn't make all that much sense from the other side - why would the Norse gods leave at a time when they were more popular than anytime since the arrival of Christianity and even the most influential priests where basically Norse myth fanboys?
And, as if that wasn't words enough, I'm going to squee a bit about what I like in this series, just beacuse I can. First and foremost, I love what this series is doing with Norse myth. I love that - out of most modern day canons playing with it - this is one of the few that actually feels like it has actually bothered with, well, reading the Eddas before going off and inventing things on its own. I mean, how many people remember Sjofn? I didn't, I must confess. I love that so many of the minor gods are present and that the major ones are few and far between. As for the characters, I love Olaf with his nearly-a-century of life and would love to know more about it (if I have one true fandom, it's crossovers - has he ever run across, say, Helen Magnus or Methos?), I love Mike being sensible and Mike getting enough, I love Ty being snarky. I love the goddesses - Michele being kickass and snarky, Ingrid being her adorable self (I'd love to see her being BAMF - she's the goddess of wisdom, dammit, imagine the potential!). I like Michele and Anders dancing around each other, having what's probably the healthiest relationship either of those two with their perfect date-rape-powers has had in their adult lives. I'm fond of Colin, because Loki is always fun, I like his little family drama with Eva. Of course, there are parts I'm less fond of - Axl bores me. Not that I dislike that part of the tale, I'm just meh about it - Axl and Gaia and his quest for Frigg. Honestly, if there's a second season, I doubt I'll really have an opinion about that part of the plot, apart from not being that interested in it - unless they decide to go with "surprise-Gaia-was-really-Frigg-all-along", because I really hate it when fictional universes make a rule and then break it, and she can't be. I mean, if you take five seconds to think about it, you realize that all the Norse gods are - strictly speaking - each other second cousins twice removed or something thereabouts - one big happy family, all of them descended from some 30-40 Scandinavian immigrants. Actually, I'd love a story dealing with that, too.
Freddy og monstrene - Dennis Jürgensen
Freddy
I'd love a story focusing on a grown-up Freddy - possibly having finally convinced/been convinced that no, he didn't run around with a bunch of monsters as a boy - reencountering the gang. Though truth be told, I'll love you to bits for almost anything in this fandom.
First of all, if you're not a Dane or at least Scandinavian, I somehow doubt this is going to get written by you. Of course in that case, you probably didn't sign up for it. Freddy og monstrene is a series of Danish children's books from the 80's, featuring the 11-year-old boy Freddy, who is an eager fan of horror movies and comics - and who one night is befriended by a group of quite friendly monsters, including Eddie the werewolf (always well dressed and never without his ghetto-blaster, because he just loves classic rock) who is forever getting on the nerves of Dracula (yes, that Dracula, who in his old age can't actually handle blood anymore, so he drinks raspberry sodas instead) and others, including a burping dragon (yes, you read that right). During the day they pretend to be wax figures at a nearby museum, during the night they go on adventures with their helpful human friend - I read this series several times as a kid and I still love it.
As for my prompt, the thing is, at the end of the series the monsters leave - and I have seen so many fantasy for children stories that involve variations of "and-then-they-woke-up" or "it-wasn't-real". While the ending doesn't imply that Freddy is going to grow up and forget his childhood friends and travels (like one Susan Pevensie?), but still - he's a child, 11 years, with an active imagination and a fannishness directed towards the classic Hammer movie monsters. And the monsters leave. Maybe one day he slips up and says something wrong and winds up with a psychologist, because what's more realistic - a kid getting molested by a teacher at camp or a kid flying away to China on a burping dragon with Dracula for company and meeting the Yeti? I'd love to see an adult Freddy having come to terms with his childhood traumas, only to meet the monsters again. Maybe on a vacation to Transsylvania? Or, if Freddy-as-adult doesn't spark your creative fires, truth be told, I'd love almost anything. Eddie and Dracula snarking at each other, maybe a lost adventure, or feel free to thoroughly ruin my childhood. Anything. I'll love it. I promise.
How to Succeed in Evil - Patrick E. McLean (audiobook)
Edwin Windsor
I'd love a story with Edwin being his awesome, snarky self, doing what he does best - dealing with supervillains that never listen. Or maybe, just this once, one of them does. Actually, I'd love seeing how Edwin got started or how he met Topper or maybe a dark au with Edwin somehow manages to talk Excelsior into letting Edwin be his handler-type person, rather than what he does talk him into. Or...
I kind of fell for this tale this year - because I love intelligent villains and snarkyness and superhero deconstruction and this has it all. If you're not familiar with it, it's the story of Edwin Windsor, evil efficiency consultant, who tries to advise supervillain on, well, how to be more efficient. They rarely listen. It's hilarious and available for free and quite legally at the author's website. As for my prompt, I don't really have much more to say - I'd love to see more of Edwin doing what he does best, surrounded by his trusty helpers. Or a crossover (I mentioned crossovers being my one true fandom, right?) with some supervillain or other (how about Loki from Marvel?)
One note - I nominated the audiobook version, but that's mostly because I haven't read the ebook version and don't know what differences it might have from the audio. However, I loved the original podcast and read (and was less than impressed with) the short comic on the webpage, so if you want to play with those instead of (or in addition to) the audiobook version, feel free.
Matador (TV)
Iben Skjern nee Skjold Hansen, Daniel Skjern
I'd love to see the epic love story of Iben and Jenny and how, in 1989, they managed to scandalize all of Korsbæk by not marrying. Or I'd love a story of Daniel and his British officer - the one his sister stole - maybe an au where she didn't steal him or maybe Daniel meets him again, in Paris maybe?
Again, for those of the foreign persuasion and unfamiliar with this, Matador is a Danish television series. It was shown '78-'82 and is generally considered the best Danish tv series, well, ever - the tale of the life and times of the small, fictional town of Korsbæk from the late 20's to a couple of years after WWII, featuring a gallery of truly awesome characters. It's good and far too complex to be summarized in a yuletide letter.
As for my wish, well, Iben and Daniel are two of my favourites from Korsbæk - the strong, bisexual woman who gets her happily ever after with the girl; and the gay son of the new, big man in town, who is less than impressed with a son with dreams of becoming a fashion designer. And yes, they're stereotypes - truth be told, most of the characters in Matador are - and yet they are so much, much more. Take Maude, the high society wife who has to go lie down when her teenage son steals a condom dispenser from the local bar and installs it in the bathroom just as she's having the town ladies by for coffee and cake - but come the Occupation she's the one who has to get her husband's employee and friend, the jew Stein, to safety, driving through the night, nevermind that she can't actually drive. In general, actually, the women rise high and kick ass (though rarely literally, it's not that sort of series) while the men, who start off seeming so strong, turn out to be - well, not. Mostly.
Anyway, if Iben and Daniel aren't sparking your creative juices, I'm also quite fond of Elisabeth Friis, I have a weak spot for Misse (and her mother - who did kick ass - against the Wehrmacht, of all things - way to go, Fru Fernando Møhge), and for Maude, and Kristen Skjern, and for Herbert Schmidt, the German exile artist on the run from the Nazis. Or if you have a brilliant idea for someone else, go ahead.