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Hello dear Yulegoat.
THANK YOU!!!! for being the person to write for me. I can't wait to see what you come up with.
Things I generally like in fic: slash and gen; plot; snark; fluff; banter; happy endings; awesome characters being awesome; crack; twisty plots; AUs of the if-this-single-thing-had-gone-differently type; surprises.
Dislikes & squicks: non-con; a/b/o, seme/uke, sub/dom and any and all similar power dynamic tropes; very kinky sex (heavy bdsm, watersport, etc.); anachronisms; underage; kidfic; bestiality; mpreg; pwp; genderswap; incest; OC love interests; high-scool and coffeeshop AUs.
If you're the type to stalk your Yuletide victim before pouncing, your best bet these days would be to take a look at my tumblr.
Right, onwards to the prompts?
Freddy & Monstrene - Dennis Jürgensen
Freddy
I'd love a story about Freddy as a grown-up - possibly having finally convinced himself/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.
So, this is a repeat prompt from a couple of years ago (nobody wrote it for me then, but seeing as I'm an incurable optimist - maybe this time?). If you're unfamiliar with the fandom, it's a series of wacky children's novels from the 80s about an 11 year old horror fanboy who befriends a group of monsters who spend their days pretending to be exhibits at a local wax cabinet.
I loved these books as a kid. I must have read them 20 times or something. But the implications of the ending saddens me - the monsters have gone off to live in Transsylvania and Freddy is an 11-year-old boy left in an mundane world that already views his Hammer Horror fanboyisness as something odd, and he has nothing except a couple of tiny newspaper articles to prove that anything happened. And he's 11 - even if he doesn't end up saying the wrong thing and spending the next decade in therapy (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 imagine his childhood adventures will just - fade. And then he meets the monsters again...
If that story idea doesn't catch you, dear Yulegoat, I do really mean it when I say I'll love to bits almost anything. It's a nostalgia fandom for me, this one. I quite enjoyed Dracula and Eddie the werewolf always being snarky and Sir Arthur being sensible - basically the chosen family dynamics of the monsters. Or you could write me a crossover with Krøniker fra Kvæhl (the original version, not whatever Jürgensen changed in the new editions with the wrong, wrong, wrong cover art - sorry, that went off on a tangent) - maybe Freddy meet Arnold and Catharina during that aforementioned therapy? Or... basically, anything. Don't worry about including Freddy if you get a brilliant idea for a story where he's not in. Go for it.
Out of the Dark - David Weber
Stephen Buchevsky, Mircea Basarab | Vlad Drakulya
These two. Just - more of these two. I mean, you've got Stephen the African-American US Marine, good son of a Methodist preacher, and then you've got Mircea-who-is-actually-Dracula and who adores Stephen so much, and I just - more of these two. Actual slash, missing scenes (Stephen waking up a vampire?), what happens after the novel? Anything.
I do adore this novel (well, most of it - the frankly ridiculous amounts of heavy armaments porn gets a bit dull after a while). It's a little odd, reading reviews of it, though, because most of them seem to be written by sf fans who were clearly expecting something more purely science fiction and were unprepared for the genre blending of aliens vs. vampires. Mostly, they seem to agree that David Weber couldn't think of a sf out to his storyline. On the other hand, I think he set out to write exactly what he wrote, not least because it started life as a long short story and because he's dedicated it to Fred Saberhagen, who wrote both military sf and one of my favourite vampire book series. But I digress.
Anyway - the thing I adore most in this novel is without a doubt the relationship between Stephen Buchevsky, US Marine who ends up leading a group of US soldiers who crash in the Balkans when the aliens invade, and Mircea Basarab, the local guerilla leader who turns out to be so much more and so much older. And that's basically what I want more of - that relationship. Slash or BFFs, I don't really care, just - I have a canon where where Mircea keeps calling Buchevsky "My Stephen" and in the end we've got Stephen asking his friend to please not tell his preacher dad that Stephen's run off to be a vampireand boyfriends - okay, that's just my headcanon with Dracula. Please. Can I have some more? Fluff, h/c, action - whatever you feel like, dear Yulegoat.
European National Libraries (Anthropomorphic)
The Royal Library of Denmark, The State Library of Denmark
Arranged marriage, Regency Romance style. I'm just asking for all the crack and all the fluff, really. Let it be elegant and silly and with all the happy endings for everybody, yes?
Okay, so this one probably requires a bit of background. See, where most countries has one national library - British Library, Library of Congress, Bibliotque Nationale, Kungliga Biblioteket - Denmark has for over a century been one of the ones who opted to split the burden between two libraries. Specifically, the Royal Library (founded in 1648, located in Copenhagen and merged with the Copenhagen University Library (founded 1482) in 2005, it's huge and heavily focused on print, preserving legal deposit books, for instance - oh, it has more modern things - the Danish internet archive for one - but it's huge and old and prestigious and fairly high culture) and the State Library (opened in 1902 and became the University Library for Aarhus University when it was founded in 1928, definitely the new kid on the block, it functions among other things as the top of the public library network and as deposit library for audiovisual media). Two very different, yet complementary libraries.
And then, this very september, the Danish government announced that they are to merge.
And that's basically what made me nominate this as a fandom, dear Yulegoat. Because I want to hear the story of what these two libraries themselves actually think about this business. Is the old dowager worried about loosing her crown and marrying below her status? Is there inevitable tension between the Jutlandish tech/farmgirl and the big city Copenhagen lass? Is it all a conspiracy on the part of Kungliga Biblioteket to become the only remaining Scandinavian Royal Library? Won't somebody think of the children (the Royal is just in the process of adopting an artistic youth in their early 200s aka the Danish National Art Library - how do they feel about their adoptive parent getting married to someone younger than them)? Just to be clear - I'm not looking for doom and gloom and real world repercussions or opinions on the merger - for this, I really want crack. Comedy of manners, regency romance, maybe cyberpunk? Urban fantasy? Please?
One-Eyed Jack - Elizabeth Bear
The American | Sebastian, The Russian | Nikita
I would like to see a story set after the book, in the time when the media ghosts have time to slow down and settle. I'd like to see them adjusting to being Sebastian and Nikita instead of the American and the Russian, I'd like to see them adjusting to living in the early 21st century instead of the 60s, I'd like to see them adjusting to living in an urban fantasy world instead of the spy show reality they came out of.
One of the tropes that are pretty much guaranteed to make me interested in a work of fiction is the trope of someone from a past period ending up in the present (or at least, from their perspective, the future) and coping with that. Reacting to changes of technology and society, adjusting, being horrified and/or amazed. Adapting. And that's basically what I'm hoping to get out of this fandom.
If you're not familiar with the novel, it's urban fantasy set in early 21st century Las Vegas and is all about a small war between the genii loci or Las Vegas and LA, featuring of cast of, among other things, the ghosts of historical people, Elvis as a vampire, and the media ghosts. The Russian and the American. Not quite specific fictional characters, more - archetypes given life through the telling and retelling of their tales, dragged from their not-quite-real world of 60s spy drama into a very different future world. And let's be honest, I am quite curious about how the pair adjust to their new life, their new names! I'd really like to see them figuring out who Sebastian and Nikita are more than just media ghosts.
For obvious reasons, I imagine this book might appeal to fans of the old Man from UNCLE tv show - which is why I should probably note, that I am really really not looking for fic about Napoleon Solo and Illya Kuryakin. For one thing, I've never even seen the old show, and while I did enjoy the new movie, I don't feel particularly fannish about it. I wouldn't be able to appreciate any in-jokes you put in the tale, and I just really wouldn't be the right audience for that fic. But what fascinates me about the media ghosts is how they are never quite the fictional characters, but, as I said, archetypes, and that their story arc in the novel is all about becoming somebodies instead of shadows. Being given the names of Sebastian and Nikita. Becoming themselves. Don't get me wrong, it might be fun seeing them, say, navigating a fan con, but as Sebastian and Nikita. Please.
If the media ghosts aren't appealing to you, I'd also quite enjoy a story featuring the One-Eyed Jack and his boyfriend the Suicide King, genii loci of Las Vegas. Maybe a new adventure, maybe an old one? Perhaps something involving gangsters?
THANK YOU!!!! for being the person to write for me. I can't wait to see what you come up with.
Things I generally like in fic: slash and gen; plot; snark; fluff; banter; happy endings; awesome characters being awesome; crack; twisty plots; AUs of the if-this-single-thing-had-gone-differently type; surprises.
Dislikes & squicks: non-con; a/b/o, seme/uke, sub/dom and any and all similar power dynamic tropes; very kinky sex (heavy bdsm, watersport, etc.); anachronisms; underage; kidfic; bestiality; mpreg; pwp; genderswap; incest; OC love interests; high-scool and coffeeshop AUs.
If you're the type to stalk your Yuletide victim before pouncing, your best bet these days would be to take a look at my tumblr.
Right, onwards to the prompts?
Freddy & Monstrene - Dennis Jürgensen
Freddy
I'd love a story about Freddy as a grown-up - possibly having finally convinced himself/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.
So, this is a repeat prompt from a couple of years ago (nobody wrote it for me then, but seeing as I'm an incurable optimist - maybe this time?). If you're unfamiliar with the fandom, it's a series of wacky children's novels from the 80s about an 11 year old horror fanboy who befriends a group of monsters who spend their days pretending to be exhibits at a local wax cabinet.
I loved these books as a kid. I must have read them 20 times or something. But the implications of the ending saddens me - the monsters have gone off to live in Transsylvania and Freddy is an 11-year-old boy left in an mundane world that already views his Hammer Horror fanboyisness as something odd, and he has nothing except a couple of tiny newspaper articles to prove that anything happened. And he's 11 - even if he doesn't end up saying the wrong thing and spending the next decade in therapy (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 imagine his childhood adventures will just - fade. And then he meets the monsters again...
If that story idea doesn't catch you, dear Yulegoat, I do really mean it when I say I'll love to bits almost anything. It's a nostalgia fandom for me, this one. I quite enjoyed Dracula and Eddie the werewolf always being snarky and Sir Arthur being sensible - basically the chosen family dynamics of the monsters. Or you could write me a crossover with Krøniker fra Kvæhl (the original version, not whatever Jürgensen changed in the new editions with the wrong, wrong, wrong cover art - sorry, that went off on a tangent) - maybe Freddy meet Arnold and Catharina during that aforementioned therapy? Or... basically, anything. Don't worry about including Freddy if you get a brilliant idea for a story where he's not in. Go for it.
Out of the Dark - David Weber
Stephen Buchevsky, Mircea Basarab | Vlad Drakulya
These two. Just - more of these two. I mean, you've got Stephen the African-American US Marine, good son of a Methodist preacher, and then you've got Mircea-who-is-actually-Dracula and who adores Stephen so much, and I just - more of these two. Actual slash, missing scenes (Stephen waking up a vampire?), what happens after the novel? Anything.
I do adore this novel (well, most of it - the frankly ridiculous amounts of heavy armaments porn gets a bit dull after a while). It's a little odd, reading reviews of it, though, because most of them seem to be written by sf fans who were clearly expecting something more purely science fiction and were unprepared for the genre blending of aliens vs. vampires. Mostly, they seem to agree that David Weber couldn't think of a sf out to his storyline. On the other hand, I think he set out to write exactly what he wrote, not least because it started life as a long short story and because he's dedicated it to Fred Saberhagen, who wrote both military sf and one of my favourite vampire book series. But I digress.
Anyway - the thing I adore most in this novel is without a doubt the relationship between Stephen Buchevsky, US Marine who ends up leading a group of US soldiers who crash in the Balkans when the aliens invade, and Mircea Basarab, the local guerilla leader who turns out to be so much more and so much older. And that's basically what I want more of - that relationship. Slash or BFFs, I don't really care, just - I have a canon where where Mircea keeps calling Buchevsky "My Stephen" and in the end we've got Stephen asking his friend to please not tell his preacher dad that Stephen's run off to be a vampire
European National Libraries (Anthropomorphic)
The Royal Library of Denmark, The State Library of Denmark
Arranged marriage, Regency Romance style. I'm just asking for all the crack and all the fluff, really. Let it be elegant and silly and with all the happy endings for everybody, yes?
Okay, so this one probably requires a bit of background. See, where most countries has one national library - British Library, Library of Congress, Bibliotque Nationale, Kungliga Biblioteket - Denmark has for over a century been one of the ones who opted to split the burden between two libraries. Specifically, the Royal Library (founded in 1648, located in Copenhagen and merged with the Copenhagen University Library (founded 1482) in 2005, it's huge and heavily focused on print, preserving legal deposit books, for instance - oh, it has more modern things - the Danish internet archive for one - but it's huge and old and prestigious and fairly high culture) and the State Library (opened in 1902 and became the University Library for Aarhus University when it was founded in 1928, definitely the new kid on the block, it functions among other things as the top of the public library network and as deposit library for audiovisual media). Two very different, yet complementary libraries.
And then, this very september, the Danish government announced that they are to merge.
And that's basically what made me nominate this as a fandom, dear Yulegoat. Because I want to hear the story of what these two libraries themselves actually think about this business. Is the old dowager worried about loosing her crown and marrying below her status? Is there inevitable tension between the Jutlandish tech/farmgirl and the big city Copenhagen lass? Is it all a conspiracy on the part of Kungliga Biblioteket to become the only remaining Scandinavian Royal Library? Won't somebody think of the children (the Royal is just in the process of adopting an artistic youth in their early 200s aka the Danish National Art Library - how do they feel about their adoptive parent getting married to someone younger than them)? Just to be clear - I'm not looking for doom and gloom and real world repercussions or opinions on the merger - for this, I really want crack. Comedy of manners, regency romance, maybe cyberpunk? Urban fantasy? Please?
One-Eyed Jack - Elizabeth Bear
The American | Sebastian, The Russian | Nikita
I would like to see a story set after the book, in the time when the media ghosts have time to slow down and settle. I'd like to see them adjusting to being Sebastian and Nikita instead of the American and the Russian, I'd like to see them adjusting to living in the early 21st century instead of the 60s, I'd like to see them adjusting to living in an urban fantasy world instead of the spy show reality they came out of.
One of the tropes that are pretty much guaranteed to make me interested in a work of fiction is the trope of someone from a past period ending up in the present (or at least, from their perspective, the future) and coping with that. Reacting to changes of technology and society, adjusting, being horrified and/or amazed. Adapting. And that's basically what I'm hoping to get out of this fandom.
If you're not familiar with the novel, it's urban fantasy set in early 21st century Las Vegas and is all about a small war between the genii loci or Las Vegas and LA, featuring of cast of, among other things, the ghosts of historical people, Elvis as a vampire, and the media ghosts. The Russian and the American. Not quite specific fictional characters, more - archetypes given life through the telling and retelling of their tales, dragged from their not-quite-real world of 60s spy drama into a very different future world. And let's be honest, I am quite curious about how the pair adjust to their new life, their new names! I'd really like to see them figuring out who Sebastian and Nikita are more than just media ghosts.
For obvious reasons, I imagine this book might appeal to fans of the old Man from UNCLE tv show - which is why I should probably note, that I am really really not looking for fic about Napoleon Solo and Illya Kuryakin. For one thing, I've never even seen the old show, and while I did enjoy the new movie, I don't feel particularly fannish about it. I wouldn't be able to appreciate any in-jokes you put in the tale, and I just really wouldn't be the right audience for that fic. But what fascinates me about the media ghosts is how they are never quite the fictional characters, but, as I said, archetypes, and that their story arc in the novel is all about becoming somebodies instead of shadows. Being given the names of Sebastian and Nikita. Becoming themselves. Don't get me wrong, it might be fun seeing them, say, navigating a fan con, but as Sebastian and Nikita. Please.
If the media ghosts aren't appealing to you, I'd also quite enjoy a story featuring the One-Eyed Jack and his boyfriend the Suicide King, genii loci of Las Vegas. Maybe a new adventure, maybe an old one? Perhaps something involving gangsters?