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Hello Yulegoat
Looks like you're stuck with me this year. I'm delighted to have you and looking forward to seeing what you'll come up with.
General likes: slash and gen; plot; snark; fluff; banter; happy endings; awesome characters being awesome; crack; twisty plots; angst; canon divergence AUs; surprises.
General DNWs: anachronisms,including gender and sexuality terminology; 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; unprompted AUs other than canon-divergence
If you're the sort of person, who likes to stalk your recipient, you'll have most luck looking at my tumblr. Probably don't stalk my DW - the fact that my two previous Yulegoat letters are still on the recent entries should tell you how often I post here.
Right, well - on to the requests, shall we?
Requests
Far til fire i byen
Peter Mortensen, Erik Holm
I confess, I am terribly shallow - for this request, I crave slash or threesome-with-Søs fic with the two pretty boys. Does the tiny jealousy drama of canon twist into something else? And how does the extremely family friendly 50s universe of this movie series handle that? Are we talking torrid affair or etablished move into together or elope to Paris shenanigans here?
Canon-specific DNW: Søs-bashing in any way, shape or form. It's not her fault she's the mom-coded character in a 50s family friendly movie.
For those unfamiliar, the original Far til fire (Father of four) series of movie from the 50s (they've been rebooted several times over) are these - extremely family friendly movies with frankly terrible child acting and the occasional memorable song. And I grew up on them, terribly sorry, I love them with all their flaws, these stories of a widower and his four kids and their mostly quiet, ridiculous life.
Now, the two characters I've requested - Peter Mortensen is a regular character through the entire series, the med student (and in the last movies doctor), who is the love interest and eventual husband of the oldest daughter, Søs. Erik Holm only appears in this movie, an architecture student renting a room from the family when they have temporary money troubles, and turning Søs's head a bit. Now, the thing is - the actors were two of the biggest heart throbs on the Danish movie scene back then. And also - queer rep wasn't really a big thing in Danish movies then. I mean, yes, Ib Mossin did play a rent boy in Bundfald, and ironically, Ebbe Langberg was gay, even as all the teenage girls covered their rooms in his pictures, but you don't get that sort of stuff in this movie's universe at all. So - I'm not sure what I'm trying to say, but I am terribly shallow for this canon, okay?
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?
My perennial request for the 80s comedy horror children's book series, about Freddy the boy who adores Hammer horror movies who befriends the nice versions of the monsters from them. They are terribly silly books. Dracula is restricted to a diet of red soda, because modern blood has too many chemicals, that should tell you the level of silly, and if not the burping dragons should do the trick.
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?
Kan mænd undværes? - Emmy Carell
Max, Nisse
Please consider this request OR. For this canon, I would really like some fix-it fic. I mean, I like both of these ladies and they just - really, really deserve better endings than what they get in the novel. I mean, Nisse's just got this 'nobody will ever love her back' thing going on, and Max? Just - get them something happier, yes?
Canon specific DNW: end-game Max/Maja - Max deserves better. Also, not quite a DNW, but I would prefer no Max/Nisse - I really don't see them working as a couple.
In the likely case that you're not familiar with this novel, Kan mænd undværes? (Are men expendable?) (a title picked by the publisher, not the author) is a Danish Lesbian novel from 1921. It tells the story of Esther, who after spending some years in a pow-camp with her French officer husband returned home to Denmark to have her child. Here she encounter's Maja the bisexual Swedish movie star, and the novel then turns into an epistolary novel mostly telling Esther's side of their love affair, Maja's infidelity and their eventual split.
It should be said that the novel was published in 1921 and banned as pornographic in 1922 (it's not - it's explicit about sex happening, it's referred to, but there's never anything on-screen, so to speak). It was a scandal success, and common wisdom back then was that it was a roman à clef about the author and the real life Swedish actress Maja Cassel, who just so happened to have been in Copenhagen in 1920 to shoot a film.
Also, it has to the best of my knowledge not been translated into English (and it's still not out of copyright, so I am not getting into that game), but it is available for download at the Royal Danish Library's website in a nice OCR copy.
Now, while the story ends well enough for the protagonist, who untangles herself from the seductress, and for Maja the said seductress, who goes off to presumably seduce again, it is less happy for the two characters I've requested. Nisse (a nickname, we never get her real one, meaning House Elf) is a nice, butch woman, who comes to Copenhagen to keep house for Maja, and who is terminally unlucky in love. In fact, the main plot gets rolling when she meets and gets a crush on Esther, who turns her down with a polite "she's not into women" excuse - and when Nisse retells that story to Maja, Maja decides to take that as a challenge. And then there's Max - oh Max. An 18 year old Swedish girl who wears men's clothes, is only known by a fake male name and is so utterly gender non conforming of the garconne type, to pick a period appropriate descriptor. Who ends up committed in an institution by her parents, apparently for life, instead of getting to go to Berlin or Paris or America, some place she could have been herself.
Looks like you're stuck with me this year. I'm delighted to have you and looking forward to seeing what you'll come up with.
General likes: slash and gen; plot; snark; fluff; banter; happy endings; awesome characters being awesome; crack; twisty plots; angst; canon divergence AUs; surprises.
General DNWs: anachronisms,including gender and sexuality terminology; 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; unprompted AUs other than canon-divergence
If you're the sort of person, who likes to stalk your recipient, you'll have most luck looking at my tumblr. Probably don't stalk my DW - the fact that my two previous Yulegoat letters are still on the recent entries should tell you how often I post here.
Right, well - on to the requests, shall we?
Far til fire i byen
Peter Mortensen, Erik Holm
I confess, I am terribly shallow - for this request, I crave slash or threesome-with-Søs fic with the two pretty boys. Does the tiny jealousy drama of canon twist into something else? And how does the extremely family friendly 50s universe of this movie series handle that? Are we talking torrid affair or etablished move into together or elope to Paris shenanigans here?
Canon-specific DNW: Søs-bashing in any way, shape or form. It's not her fault she's the mom-coded character in a 50s family friendly movie.
For those unfamiliar, the original Far til fire (Father of four) series of movie from the 50s (they've been rebooted several times over) are these - extremely family friendly movies with frankly terrible child acting and the occasional memorable song. And I grew up on them, terribly sorry, I love them with all their flaws, these stories of a widower and his four kids and their mostly quiet, ridiculous life.
Now, the two characters I've requested - Peter Mortensen is a regular character through the entire series, the med student (and in the last movies doctor), who is the love interest and eventual husband of the oldest daughter, Søs. Erik Holm only appears in this movie, an architecture student renting a room from the family when they have temporary money troubles, and turning Søs's head a bit. Now, the thing is - the actors were two of the biggest heart throbs on the Danish movie scene back then. And also - queer rep wasn't really a big thing in Danish movies then. I mean, yes, Ib Mossin did play a rent boy in Bundfald, and ironically, Ebbe Langberg was gay, even as all the teenage girls covered their rooms in his pictures, but you don't get that sort of stuff in this movie's universe at all. So - I'm not sure what I'm trying to say, but I am terribly shallow for this canon, okay?
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?
My perennial request for the 80s comedy horror children's book series, about Freddy the boy who adores Hammer horror movies who befriends the nice versions of the monsters from them. They are terribly silly books. Dracula is restricted to a diet of red soda, because modern blood has too many chemicals, that should tell you the level of silly, and if not the burping dragons should do the trick.
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?
Kan mænd undværes? - Emmy Carell
Max, Nisse
Please consider this request OR. For this canon, I would really like some fix-it fic. I mean, I like both of these ladies and they just - really, really deserve better endings than what they get in the novel. I mean, Nisse's just got this 'nobody will ever love her back' thing going on, and Max? Just - get them something happier, yes?
Canon specific DNW: end-game Max/Maja - Max deserves better. Also, not quite a DNW, but I would prefer no Max/Nisse - I really don't see them working as a couple.
In the likely case that you're not familiar with this novel, Kan mænd undværes? (Are men expendable?) (a title picked by the publisher, not the author) is a Danish Lesbian novel from 1921. It tells the story of Esther, who after spending some years in a pow-camp with her French officer husband returned home to Denmark to have her child. Here she encounter's Maja the bisexual Swedish movie star, and the novel then turns into an epistolary novel mostly telling Esther's side of their love affair, Maja's infidelity and their eventual split.
It should be said that the novel was published in 1921 and banned as pornographic in 1922 (it's not - it's explicit about sex happening, it's referred to, but there's never anything on-screen, so to speak). It was a scandal success, and common wisdom back then was that it was a roman à clef about the author and the real life Swedish actress Maja Cassel, who just so happened to have been in Copenhagen in 1920 to shoot a film.
Also, it has to the best of my knowledge not been translated into English (and it's still not out of copyright, so I am not getting into that game), but it is available for download at the Royal Danish Library's website in a nice OCR copy.
Now, while the story ends well enough for the protagonist, who untangles herself from the seductress, and for Maja the said seductress, who goes off to presumably seduce again, it is less happy for the two characters I've requested. Nisse (a nickname, we never get her real one, meaning House Elf) is a nice, butch woman, who comes to Copenhagen to keep house for Maja, and who is terminally unlucky in love. In fact, the main plot gets rolling when she meets and gets a crush on Esther, who turns her down with a polite "she's not into women" excuse - and when Nisse retells that story to Maja, Maja decides to take that as a challenge. And then there's Max - oh Max. An 18 year old Swedish girl who wears men's clothes, is only known by a fake male name and is so utterly gender non conforming of the garconne type, to pick a period appropriate descriptor. Who ends up committed in an institution by her parents, apparently for life, instead of getting to go to Berlin or Paris or America, some place she could have been herself.