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Hello, dear Yulegoat
Another year, another Yuletide letter.
So, I’m skipping the general likes thing this time in favour of just going to chat about each specific requested canon. Of course I’m going to hope for something along the lines of what I prompt or similar, but honestly? As long as you don’t trip a DNW and as long as you include the requested character - let me see what you come up with? I’m curious. Go wild, Yulegoat.
General DNWs: non-con (dub-con, on the other hand, is lovely); a/b/o, seme/uke, sub/dom and any and all similar power dynamic tropes; very kinky sex (heavy bdsm, watersport, etc.); underage; kidfic; bestiality; mpreg; plot-what-plot; genderswap; incest; OC love interests; unprompted AUs other than canon-divergence
If you're the sort of person who likes to stalk your recipient, you'll have the most luck looking at my tumblr.
Requests
Freddy & Monstrene - Dennis Jürgensen
Freddy
I would love a story about Freddy as a grown-up - does he still believe in monsters? Has he convinced himself (possibly with the aid of a lot of therapy) that monsters definitely do not exist and he never had any of those adventures as a kid? And in that case, what happens when he meets the monsters again? Do they come back to Denmark because Dracula’s castle has gotten overrun with tourists who keep having parties in the castle at night? Alternatively, what if he - post-canon, but still as a kid - runs into another bunch of monsters - are they also nice or are they nasty? Does Freddy the monster lover grow up to become a monster hunter?
Ah, Freddy & Monstrene - aka those ridiculous and perhaps not that good children’s novels from the 80s by our very productive Mr. Jürgensen. For those unfamiliar, they are the story of a just barely teenage boy with a great interest in the Hammer horror movies, who discovers that the local wax museum is secretly home to the great monsters, except they are nice and need his help to navigate the human world. They are very silly books. Dracula is restricted to drinking raspberry sodas because there’s too many chemicals in humans these days and they keep a burping dragon for a pet, that sort of silly.
Anyway, I really would love a story of Freddy the grown-up in whichever way he’s turned out in his mind. I’d also very much adore - if you are familiar with them - a crossover with another of Jürgensen’s series, Krøniker fra Kvæhl, where monsters are also real and far more unpleasant. Alternatively, if you want, I’d also be happy for more canon-similar stories - the monsters need help, shenanigans happen - LARPing was also taking off in Denmark back then, perhaps a bunch of actual monsters accidentally stumbling upon a bunch of people playing at being fake ones?
The Judge Dee Mysteries - Robert van Gulik
Dee Jen-djieh | Di Renjie aka Judge Dee
I'd love a story where the good Judge is confronted with something from outside his normal, sensible context. This could be something genuinely supernatural - maybe a fox spirit wants its day in court, a ghost wants revenge and won't stop bothering him until it happens, a god actually getting involved with mortals for a bit, Sun Wukong causing trouble in Judge Dee's latest district - or it could be someone from far away, from some culture not already seen in the books. We're a few centuries too early for a particularly adventurous Viking, but I know Byzantium had some sort of embassies to China in this period, or maybe someone from sub-Saharan Africa or a particularly anachronistically located Native American?
So, this is a repeat from last year, not because I did not love the story I got - I did - but that was more a MDZS with extra Judge Dee for spice and while I do like crossovers (and I would be very happy to read another MDZS or maybe a Word of Honor crossover with this canon), then I’d really like a story where the main focus is on this canon, you know?
Anyway, these novels are fun murder mysteries, though - let’s just say that Gulik has his idiosyncrasies (leaving you thinking that about two-thirds of all women in Tang dynasty China spent time as prostitutes is - definitely one of the weirder ones), and then there are the prejudices that I’m not even sure whether are his or accurate to the time period his writing about (I suspect the China-is-superior racism is accurate enough, I could have lived without the surprise predatory lesbian, especially when he talks about “yay! I included the period typical sapphism some of my readers were asking about” in the afterword). Basically, I’m not DNW’ing canon typical anything, but I would prefer - less of that?
Anyway, apart from all that, I was repeatedly frustrated by how the novels would dangle supernatural themes - weretigers, ghosts, random magic guqin playing - just out of reach, then offering realistic explanations, because apparently the supernatural has no place in proper modern literature and will alienate modern audiences. Yeah - how about I really, really would have liked utterly rationalist Judge Dee coming face to face with the undeniably supernatural.
The Ouroboros Cycle - G. D. Falksen
Babette Varanus
My favourite ridiculous mad scientist vampire lady. I’m slightly offended on her behalf that the canonical tag leaves out her title of Dr. Ah well. For this, well, I would of course love a story with Varanus herself, though I am also fond of both her husbands - the Living and the dead - as well as both Luka and Ekaterine. They are all very welcome. Plotwise, I’d love perhaps something involving Varanus finally learning about her werewolf roots? Meeting certain thought long lost relatives? Or perhaps a tale with her husbands somehow working together? (Assuming that Korbinian is not just a very long lived hallucination.) Or perhaps something ridiculous and canon-stylish happening sometime in the not-covered-by-the-novels time?
For those unfamiliar with The Ouroboros Cycle, they are a series of - they are labelled steampunk, but frankly I hesitate to call them that, despite the main character being a mad scientist in her own right. If anything they’re gothpunk, if such a thing exists - werewolves and vampires and ghosts, oh my. And mad scientists, not just Varanus, but also her son (who has his very own gothic castle). The main character is a bit of a goth kitchen sink herself - werewolf ancestry, vampire by marriage, haunted by the ghost of her first husband - and her story is very entertaining and accompanied by very nice illustrations. They’re not especially deep novels, but they’re fun. They do skip forward in time between novels a bit too fast for my liking, so anything set in the early timeskips would be welcome.
Yuukoku no Moriarty | Moriarty the Patriot (Manga)
Sherlock Holmes, William James Moriarty
My favourite part of this manga is the long dance between Sherlock and William, from the time they become aware of one another and until the entire mess that is Milverton starts the final problem storyline rolling. I’d love a story set in that time period - or something going astray during that period, meaning I’d love a canon divergence tale having stuff happen elsewise. Perhaps Sherlock finds himself in a particularly messy situation and decides the only gamble he’s got left is to seek out the Lord of Crime himself and ask for his help? Or Sherlock finds himself a more or less voluntary guest at the manor? (I would for no particular reason like to point to the “dub-con is delicious” bit mentioned elsewhere in this prompt, and mention - for no particular reason - that I absolutely ship Sherlock/William, and that Moran in particular is also a very welcome addition - ahem). Alternatively a canon divergence story starting at the end of the final problem, with the person fishing the two idiots out of the river being someone else, and the story going from there.
For the record, I’ve read the manga up to Chapter 63. I’ve watched the anime as well, but I’m mostly looking for manga fic - the anime skipping lots of background stuff annoyed me, though it’s very pretty, and I would not object to a canon divergence story sending the boys to Switzerland post-final problem. Anyway, Moriarty the Patriot aka that manga set in a Victorian England with a class system that mostly reminded me of how Western media sometimes portray India’s caste systems, with my favourite Moriarty ever being an anime pretty boy doing a very bloodthirsty take on the Robin Hood/Leverage trope, and where reading the manga just left me with the feeling that it’s basically “everybody loves William (Yes, even his two brothers) to a possibly unhealthy degree”, and that was before Sherlock appears on stage.
It’s fun, a little fucked up at times, and frankly the overwhelming focus on one specific social issue (which is treated so weirdly - in this alternate universe everybody in high positions must be upper class, so famous actresses and primadonnas are apparently from the upper class. In Victorian England. Uhm. Yeah, sure.), and the entire ending with “now we’ve saved the British empire” is a bit - oh, William, that is a) not something to be proud of and b) there are so many other issues about to show up, like emancipation and that entire colonial empire having opinions about being a colonized empire. And still I find the entire thing quite entertaining.
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Another year, another Yuletide letter.
So, I’m skipping the general likes thing this time in favour of just going to chat about each specific requested canon. Of course I’m going to hope for something along the lines of what I prompt or similar, but honestly? As long as you don’t trip a DNW and as long as you include the requested character - let me see what you come up with? I’m curious. Go wild, Yulegoat.
General DNWs: non-con (dub-con, on the other hand, is lovely); a/b/o, seme/uke, sub/dom and any and all similar power dynamic tropes; very kinky sex (heavy bdsm, watersport, etc.); underage; kidfic; bestiality; mpreg; plot-what-plot; genderswap; incest; OC love interests; unprompted AUs other than canon-divergence
If you're the sort of person who likes to stalk your recipient, you'll have the most luck looking at my tumblr.
Freddy & Monstrene - Dennis Jürgensen
Freddy
I would love a story about Freddy as a grown-up - does he still believe in monsters? Has he convinced himself (possibly with the aid of a lot of therapy) that monsters definitely do not exist and he never had any of those adventures as a kid? And in that case, what happens when he meets the monsters again? Do they come back to Denmark because Dracula’s castle has gotten overrun with tourists who keep having parties in the castle at night? Alternatively, what if he - post-canon, but still as a kid - runs into another bunch of monsters - are they also nice or are they nasty? Does Freddy the monster lover grow up to become a monster hunter?
Ah, Freddy & Monstrene - aka those ridiculous and perhaps not that good children’s novels from the 80s by our very productive Mr. Jürgensen. For those unfamiliar, they are the story of a just barely teenage boy with a great interest in the Hammer horror movies, who discovers that the local wax museum is secretly home to the great monsters, except they are nice and need his help to navigate the human world. They are very silly books. Dracula is restricted to drinking raspberry sodas because there’s too many chemicals in humans these days and they keep a burping dragon for a pet, that sort of silly.
Anyway, I really would love a story of Freddy the grown-up in whichever way he’s turned out in his mind. I’d also very much adore - if you are familiar with them - a crossover with another of Jürgensen’s series, Krøniker fra Kvæhl, where monsters are also real and far more unpleasant. Alternatively, if you want, I’d also be happy for more canon-similar stories - the monsters need help, shenanigans happen - LARPing was also taking off in Denmark back then, perhaps a bunch of actual monsters accidentally stumbling upon a bunch of people playing at being fake ones?
The Judge Dee Mysteries - Robert van Gulik
Dee Jen-djieh | Di Renjie aka Judge Dee
I'd love a story where the good Judge is confronted with something from outside his normal, sensible context. This could be something genuinely supernatural - maybe a fox spirit wants its day in court, a ghost wants revenge and won't stop bothering him until it happens, a god actually getting involved with mortals for a bit, Sun Wukong causing trouble in Judge Dee's latest district - or it could be someone from far away, from some culture not already seen in the books. We're a few centuries too early for a particularly adventurous Viking, but I know Byzantium had some sort of embassies to China in this period, or maybe someone from sub-Saharan Africa or a particularly anachronistically located Native American?
So, this is a repeat from last year, not because I did not love the story I got - I did - but that was more a MDZS with extra Judge Dee for spice and while I do like crossovers (and I would be very happy to read another MDZS or maybe a Word of Honor crossover with this canon), then I’d really like a story where the main focus is on this canon, you know?
Anyway, these novels are fun murder mysteries, though - let’s just say that Gulik has his idiosyncrasies (leaving you thinking that about two-thirds of all women in Tang dynasty China spent time as prostitutes is - definitely one of the weirder ones), and then there are the prejudices that I’m not even sure whether are his or accurate to the time period his writing about (I suspect the China-is-superior racism is accurate enough, I could have lived without the surprise predatory lesbian, especially when he talks about “yay! I included the period typical sapphism some of my readers were asking about” in the afterword). Basically, I’m not DNW’ing canon typical anything, but I would prefer - less of that?
Anyway, apart from all that, I was repeatedly frustrated by how the novels would dangle supernatural themes - weretigers, ghosts, random magic guqin playing - just out of reach, then offering realistic explanations, because apparently the supernatural has no place in proper modern literature and will alienate modern audiences. Yeah - how about I really, really would have liked utterly rationalist Judge Dee coming face to face with the undeniably supernatural.
The Ouroboros Cycle - G. D. Falksen
Babette Varanus
My favourite ridiculous mad scientist vampire lady. I’m slightly offended on her behalf that the canonical tag leaves out her title of Dr. Ah well. For this, well, I would of course love a story with Varanus herself, though I am also fond of both her husbands - the Living and the dead - as well as both Luka and Ekaterine. They are all very welcome. Plotwise, I’d love perhaps something involving Varanus finally learning about her werewolf roots? Meeting certain thought long lost relatives? Or perhaps a tale with her husbands somehow working together? (Assuming that Korbinian is not just a very long lived hallucination.) Or perhaps something ridiculous and canon-stylish happening sometime in the not-covered-by-the-novels time?
For those unfamiliar with The Ouroboros Cycle, they are a series of - they are labelled steampunk, but frankly I hesitate to call them that, despite the main character being a mad scientist in her own right. If anything they’re gothpunk, if such a thing exists - werewolves and vampires and ghosts, oh my. And mad scientists, not just Varanus, but also her son (who has his very own gothic castle). The main character is a bit of a goth kitchen sink herself - werewolf ancestry, vampire by marriage, haunted by the ghost of her first husband - and her story is very entertaining and accompanied by very nice illustrations. They’re not especially deep novels, but they’re fun. They do skip forward in time between novels a bit too fast for my liking, so anything set in the early timeskips would be welcome.
Yuukoku no Moriarty | Moriarty the Patriot (Manga)
Sherlock Holmes, William James Moriarty
My favourite part of this manga is the long dance between Sherlock and William, from the time they become aware of one another and until the entire mess that is Milverton starts the final problem storyline rolling. I’d love a story set in that time period - or something going astray during that period, meaning I’d love a canon divergence tale having stuff happen elsewise. Perhaps Sherlock finds himself in a particularly messy situation and decides the only gamble he’s got left is to seek out the Lord of Crime himself and ask for his help? Or Sherlock finds himself a more or less voluntary guest at the manor? (I would for no particular reason like to point to the “dub-con is delicious” bit mentioned elsewhere in this prompt, and mention - for no particular reason - that I absolutely ship Sherlock/William, and that Moran in particular is also a very welcome addition - ahem). Alternatively a canon divergence story starting at the end of the final problem, with the person fishing the two idiots out of the river being someone else, and the story going from there.
For the record, I’ve read the manga up to Chapter 63. I’ve watched the anime as well, but I’m mostly looking for manga fic - the anime skipping lots of background stuff annoyed me, though it’s very pretty, and I would not object to a canon divergence story sending the boys to Switzerland post-final problem. Anyway, Moriarty the Patriot aka that manga set in a Victorian England with a class system that mostly reminded me of how Western media sometimes portray India’s caste systems, with my favourite Moriarty ever being an anime pretty boy doing a very bloodthirsty take on the Robin Hood/Leverage trope, and where reading the manga just left me with the feeling that it’s basically “everybody loves William (Yes, even his two brothers) to a possibly unhealthy degree”, and that was before Sherlock appears on stage.
It’s fun, a little fucked up at times, and frankly the overwhelming focus on one specific social issue (which is treated so weirdly - in this alternate universe everybody in high positions must be upper class, so famous actresses and primadonnas are apparently from the upper class. In Victorian England. Uhm. Yeah, sure.), and the entire ending with “now we’ve saved the British empire” is a bit - oh, William, that is a) not something to be proud of and b) there are so many other issues about to show up, like emancipation and that entire colonial empire having opinions about being a colonized empire. And still I find the entire thing quite entertaining.
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