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First and foremost, dear Yuletide Author, I just want to say thank you for writing for me.
To start of, a few general likes and dislikes:
Likes: crossovers, slash, snark, tricksters, asexuals, crack, character focused tales, twisting plots, happy endings
Squicks: non-con, slave-fic, A/B/O-verse and similar, mpreg, always-a-girl/boy-AUS, character bashing, very kinky sex (as in very BDSM, watersports, etc), lack of actual plot.
And on to the actual prompts.
The Almighty Johnsons
Olaf Johnson, Mike Johnson, Colin Gunderson
I would love a story about Olaf's past - the guy is in his nineties, he would have been a young man and a very new god during WWII, I would love a story exploring that, or pretty much any point in his long life. Or I'd love a story about Mike and Olaf's first meeting after Mike turned 21 - how did he, the freshly-abandoned by his mother and responsible for three brothers god Ullr, react to granddad Baldr? Or a story of Mike and George being BAMF? Or I'd love a slash story about Mike and Colin - because after season two, I am firmly convinced that Colin likes Mike (He gives him a bar! He creepily watches him have sex! He saves his life!) - admittedly, their relationship would probably be a fucked-up one, but hey, what god-relationship isn't? Or I'd love a story about Colin doing what he does best and being the god of tricky fuckers, or maybe about Colin meeting Derrick?
If the optional details didn't give it away, let me first of all make it clear that I will be happy with any 1, 2 or 3 of the characters in any combination you can think of.
Anyway, there are several things I love about the Almighty Johnsons - the three characters I wished for, of course - and others - George who is Punga, Agnetha. I love that the main focus is on interpersonal relationships more than some run-of-the-mill save the world style plot. And I love how the series show, again and again, how well it knows it's Norse Mythology, how very well researched it is, even as it plays around with stuff. I love that. And I am currently still squeefull about there going to be a third season, so, yeah, just.
Crazy Christmas Cabaret
Dr. van Helsingør from Elsinore
I want proper fourth-wall-cheerfully-breaking-into-bits-and-pieces-meta-crack-fic. I want the good Dr. and his mangled Danglish. I want the bad puns and the below the belt humour and the crazy of it all. I want the hygge and the uhygge and the phonecall from Daisy, perhaps the dame in all her glory or the skrækkelige skurk dropping by. I want anything and everything, as long as it's Crazy Christmas Cabaret.
Okay, so this is my annual something-I-doubt-anybody-outside-of-Denmark-will-even-know-what-is prompt. For those unfamiliar with it, the Crazy Christmas Cabaret is an annual show created by a British expat in Denmark, based on the British panto tradition with loads of crazy and hygge and below-the-belt humour. If you ever find yourself in the Copenhagen area around november-december, you should definitely go see.
Anyway, I have seen every cabaret since 2000's Spaced Out (and I have tickets for this year's, so yay!). Some (Dracula - or a pain in the neck (2003), Bored of the rings (2006)) have been better than others (Look No Hans (2005)), but that's the thing about annual shows. What I'm trying to say, I'm not picky - feel free to set the story in any of the shows 2000 and forward, or make up your own tale. I picked Dr. Bent van Helsingør for a character because he's really the only recurring one (not counting the actors, I suppose) - but honestly, there's been plenty of one-off characters I liked to: the relationship between Legoklods and Arrogant, David Bateson's ex-Nazi officer who will slam his heels and say thank you anytime he gets boo'ed, Vivienne McKee's Lola Lieberdich. Just - give me a Crazy Christmas Cabaret story, dear Author - give me anything and everything and may the hygge be with you.
Norse Mythology
I would like a story exploring the dark side of Norse Mythology. I would love something fucked-up and creepy and maybe borderline Lovecraftian. Alternatively, a story about the Norse gods returning to Midgard in present day, focused on the inevitable clash of values and morals, because the Norse gods are many things, but good according to modern day morality? Not even close. Just - tell me a tale, dear Author, a tale to make me fear the darkness beyond where the light from the fire reaches, the winter dark of the North. Just tell me a tale.
Okay, dear Author, I should probably warn you that I am a bit of a purist when it comes to Norse myth. Which is not to say that I don't love when people play with and subvert the stories, it's just - it is so very easy to tell the difference between someone who has actually read the original stories before starting their own (The Almighty Johnsons) and those who, well, didn't (like Marvel's Thor - yeah, they've added quite a lot over time, but it is still blindingly obvious that the original superhero Thor was created by someone who really didn't know his mythology).
Anyway, the main thought behind my prompt is that I have gotten tired of retellings and reenvisionings of Norse myth which, well, Disney-fy it, by which I mean has a tendency to make the Aesir and Vanir good guys and the Jotun bad guys. Marvel, of course, is spectacularly guilty of this, but so is for instance Stargate. And the thing is - that's nowhere in the mythology. Yes, some Jotun are bad, but others? Mostly come across as, well, basically human. And the gods? Well, their king is a genocide (Ymir) murderer and thief (Suttung's mead), rapist (Rind), and there's the fact that his stick is causing wars with the specific intent of having as many warriors die in them as possible. Thor? Well, he comes across as a bit of psycopath, what with killing people for the terrible crime of accidentally getting in his way - and then there's the children he takes for slaves and the frankly unhealthy relationship he has with his goats. Baldr - if you trust Snorri, sure, he's a nice guy - read Saxo and suddenly he's a creep who got what was coming to him. And let's not even get into the way Freyr got his wife...
And yeah, I know you shouldn't psycoanalyse mythologies, shouldn't judge them by our standards - but thing is? That's what I want. I want something that takes a long, hard look at this mythology, at the darkness inherent in it and what tvtropes calls values dissonance - either as a straightforward clash of values or something more subtle. And what characters you want to write about, if you want to explore one of the very well-known tales or develop one of the many tantalizing hints the mythology overflows with or something else, that's all up to you, dear Author. Just make it dark.
To start of, a few general likes and dislikes:
Likes: crossovers, slash, snark, tricksters, asexuals, crack, character focused tales, twisting plots, happy endings
Squicks: non-con, slave-fic, A/B/O-verse and similar, mpreg, always-a-girl/boy-AUS, character bashing, very kinky sex (as in very BDSM, watersports, etc), lack of actual plot.
And on to the actual prompts.
The Almighty Johnsons
Olaf Johnson, Mike Johnson, Colin Gunderson
I would love a story about Olaf's past - the guy is in his nineties, he would have been a young man and a very new god during WWII, I would love a story exploring that, or pretty much any point in his long life. Or I'd love a story about Mike and Olaf's first meeting after Mike turned 21 - how did he, the freshly-abandoned by his mother and responsible for three brothers god Ullr, react to granddad Baldr? Or a story of Mike and George being BAMF? Or I'd love a slash story about Mike and Colin - because after season two, I am firmly convinced that Colin likes Mike (He gives him a bar! He creepily watches him have sex! He saves his life!) - admittedly, their relationship would probably be a fucked-up one, but hey, what god-relationship isn't? Or I'd love a story about Colin doing what he does best and being the god of tricky fuckers, or maybe about Colin meeting Derrick?
If the optional details didn't give it away, let me first of all make it clear that I will be happy with any 1, 2 or 3 of the characters in any combination you can think of.
Anyway, there are several things I love about the Almighty Johnsons - the three characters I wished for, of course - and others - George who is Punga, Agnetha. I love that the main focus is on interpersonal relationships more than some run-of-the-mill save the world style plot. And I love how the series show, again and again, how well it knows it's Norse Mythology, how very well researched it is, even as it plays around with stuff. I love that. And I am currently still squeefull about there going to be a third season, so, yeah, just.
Crazy Christmas Cabaret
Dr. van Helsingør from Elsinore
I want proper fourth-wall-cheerfully-breaking-into-bits-and-pieces-meta-crack-fic. I want the good Dr. and his mangled Danglish. I want the bad puns and the below the belt humour and the crazy of it all. I want the hygge and the uhygge and the phonecall from Daisy, perhaps the dame in all her glory or the skrækkelige skurk dropping by. I want anything and everything, as long as it's Crazy Christmas Cabaret.
Okay, so this is my annual something-I-doubt-anybody-outside-of-Denmark-will-even-know-what-is prompt. For those unfamiliar with it, the Crazy Christmas Cabaret is an annual show created by a British expat in Denmark, based on the British panto tradition with loads of crazy and hygge and below-the-belt humour. If you ever find yourself in the Copenhagen area around november-december, you should definitely go see.
Anyway, I have seen every cabaret since 2000's Spaced Out (and I have tickets for this year's, so yay!). Some (Dracula - or a pain in the neck (2003), Bored of the rings (2006)) have been better than others (Look No Hans (2005)), but that's the thing about annual shows. What I'm trying to say, I'm not picky - feel free to set the story in any of the shows 2000 and forward, or make up your own tale. I picked Dr. Bent van Helsingør for a character because he's really the only recurring one (not counting the actors, I suppose) - but honestly, there's been plenty of one-off characters I liked to: the relationship between Legoklods and Arrogant, David Bateson's ex-Nazi officer who will slam his heels and say thank you anytime he gets boo'ed, Vivienne McKee's Lola Lieberdich. Just - give me a Crazy Christmas Cabaret story, dear Author - give me anything and everything and may the hygge be with you.
Norse Mythology
I would like a story exploring the dark side of Norse Mythology. I would love something fucked-up and creepy and maybe borderline Lovecraftian. Alternatively, a story about the Norse gods returning to Midgard in present day, focused on the inevitable clash of values and morals, because the Norse gods are many things, but good according to modern day morality? Not even close. Just - tell me a tale, dear Author, a tale to make me fear the darkness beyond where the light from the fire reaches, the winter dark of the North. Just tell me a tale.
Okay, dear Author, I should probably warn you that I am a bit of a purist when it comes to Norse myth. Which is not to say that I don't love when people play with and subvert the stories, it's just - it is so very easy to tell the difference between someone who has actually read the original stories before starting their own (The Almighty Johnsons) and those who, well, didn't (like Marvel's Thor - yeah, they've added quite a lot over time, but it is still blindingly obvious that the original superhero Thor was created by someone who really didn't know his mythology).
Anyway, the main thought behind my prompt is that I have gotten tired of retellings and reenvisionings of Norse myth which, well, Disney-fy it, by which I mean has a tendency to make the Aesir and Vanir good guys and the Jotun bad guys. Marvel, of course, is spectacularly guilty of this, but so is for instance Stargate. And the thing is - that's nowhere in the mythology. Yes, some Jotun are bad, but others? Mostly come across as, well, basically human. And the gods? Well, their king is a genocide (Ymir) murderer and thief (Suttung's mead), rapist (Rind), and there's the fact that his stick is causing wars with the specific intent of having as many warriors die in them as possible. Thor? Well, he comes across as a bit of psycopath, what with killing people for the terrible crime of accidentally getting in his way - and then there's the children he takes for slaves and the frankly unhealthy relationship he has with his goats. Baldr - if you trust Snorri, sure, he's a nice guy - read Saxo and suddenly he's a creep who got what was coming to him. And let's not even get into the way Freyr got his wife...
And yeah, I know you shouldn't psycoanalyse mythologies, shouldn't judge them by our standards - but thing is? That's what I want. I want something that takes a long, hard look at this mythology, at the darkness inherent in it and what tvtropes calls values dissonance - either as a straightforward clash of values or something more subtle. And what characters you want to write about, if you want to explore one of the very well-known tales or develop one of the many tantalizing hints the mythology overflows with or something else, that's all up to you, dear Author. Just make it dark.