Actually a yuletide letter
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neveralarchHello! I am excited that we matched - you have good taste in movies/books/tv shows/ridiculous internet blogs.
In general terms, I really like humor and happiness, but I like serious stuff too. Basically, anything that's not ooc and over-the-top (though I know that sometimes over-the-top isn't ooc). I'm not a huge fan of hurt-comfort or angst foreverrr, but if it's well done I will totally read and enjoy it. I will also love your het, your gen, your femslash, or your slash.
Some specific things to avoid: I try to avoid reading things with horror, character injury/torture, other forms of abuse, acute embarrassment, character death, and rape/non-con. If it's something incidental, I can probably deal, but a fic focusing on any of these things would be really difficult for me to read. Also, zombies. I cannot do zombies at all - I recently had to stop reading a really good fantasy novel because there were zombies in it. Sorry to be so difficult! Hopefully you aren't jonesing for serious zombie writing action.
Repeating the requests for your convenience:
Bollywood/Hollywood:
I just really want a story about Grandma-Ji and her adventures with Shakespeare, okay. If it includes her giving confusing Elizabethan advice to everyone, that would make me really really happy. But Grandma-Ji in general would be amazing. A happy story about her being awesome preferred, but if you want to make it serious that is totally fine.
Tristam Shandy - Laurence Stern
There are a couple things that would make me really happy! Trim/Toby Shandy would be awesome - their adventures in the book are kind of the best part. Or Toby and Walter being brothers. They are excellent brothers, and I would like more of that, because THAT is the best part. But basically anything in this universe would be rad, like the ongoing attempts of Tristram to document his life. I think that actually this entire book is the best part.
There's a lot of stuff in the book about Toby's injury and what/where it is, and a lot of it's funny. But if you decide to write slash, I'm not super into hurt/comfort, especially when applied to a character with a permanent injury. Thank you!
Myths RETOLD - blog
This is specifically about this myth retelling: http://bettermyths.blogspot.com/2011/06/frog-prince-is-so-much-weirder-than-i.html
So, I love the rap battles and the ridiculousness, but I was INTRIGUED by Iron Heinrich and his iron bands. Also the moral of the myth. So if you could possibly write me Iron Heinrich/Youngest Princess, or even Youngest Princess/Iron Heinrich/Frog Prince, that would be beyond awesome. Or just gen of them being ridiculous and bad ass, that would also be perfect.
Carnivale
I left the characters blank because I'm really more interested in world-building, here. I'd like to know about what happened before Carnivale started and Ben Hawkins showed up. Or what it's like running a circus when there could be ghosts in the audience. Or whatever! I just love the atmosphere and the ideas in Carnivale, and I'd love to see more done with that.
Important: despite watching this show, I am bad at dealing with horror, character injury/torture, character death, and rape/non-con. (Admittedly, I watched a lot of Carnivale from between my fingers.) I'm not asking you to sanitize it, just not glory in it, you know? I'm sorry to be so difficult!
Also, I come from a migrant/entertainment background (renaissance faires), so realism and detail would be appreciated! I'm not going to nit-pick it, though, if you don't want to deal with all that.
I'm hoping I gave you enough to get you started/keep you interested. If you want to poke around my journal, though, feel free! No posts are locked, so you can learn a lot about my obsessions with fencing, history, Doctor Who, and ...stuff. I'm not sure if it's relevant at all, but if you want to write a story about fencing in Tristram Shandy etc, I'm sure not going to complain.
In general terms, I really like humor and happiness, but I like serious stuff too. Basically, anything that's not ooc and over-the-top (though I know that sometimes over-the-top isn't ooc). I'm not a huge fan of hurt-comfort or angst foreverrr, but if it's well done I will totally read and enjoy it. I will also love your het, your gen, your femslash, or your slash.
Some specific things to avoid: I try to avoid reading things with horror, character injury/torture, other forms of abuse, acute embarrassment, character death, and rape/non-con. If it's something incidental, I can probably deal, but a fic focusing on any of these things would be really difficult for me to read. Also, zombies. I cannot do zombies at all - I recently had to stop reading a really good fantasy novel because there were zombies in it. Sorry to be so difficult! Hopefully you aren't jonesing for serious zombie writing action.
Repeating the requests for your convenience:
Bollywood/Hollywood:
I just really want a story about Grandma-Ji and her adventures with Shakespeare, okay. If it includes her giving confusing Elizabethan advice to everyone, that would make me really really happy. But Grandma-Ji in general would be amazing. A happy story about her being awesome preferred, but if you want to make it serious that is totally fine.
Tristam Shandy - Laurence Stern
There are a couple things that would make me really happy! Trim/Toby Shandy would be awesome - their adventures in the book are kind of the best part. Or Toby and Walter being brothers. They are excellent brothers, and I would like more of that, because THAT is the best part. But basically anything in this universe would be rad, like the ongoing attempts of Tristram to document his life. I think that actually this entire book is the best part.
There's a lot of stuff in the book about Toby's injury and what/where it is, and a lot of it's funny. But if you decide to write slash, I'm not super into hurt/comfort, especially when applied to a character with a permanent injury. Thank you!
Myths RETOLD - blog
This is specifically about this myth retelling: http://bettermyths.blogspot.com/2011/06/frog-prince-is-so-much-weirder-than-i.html
So, I love the rap battles and the ridiculousness, but I was INTRIGUED by Iron Heinrich and his iron bands. Also the moral of the myth. So if you could possibly write me Iron Heinrich/Youngest Princess, or even Youngest Princess/Iron Heinrich/Frog Prince, that would be beyond awesome. Or just gen of them being ridiculous and bad ass, that would also be perfect.
Carnivale
I left the characters blank because I'm really more interested in world-building, here. I'd like to know about what happened before Carnivale started and Ben Hawkins showed up. Or what it's like running a circus when there could be ghosts in the audience. Or whatever! I just love the atmosphere and the ideas in Carnivale, and I'd love to see more done with that.
Important: despite watching this show, I am bad at dealing with horror, character injury/torture, character death, and rape/non-con. (Admittedly, I watched a lot of Carnivale from between my fingers.) I'm not asking you to sanitize it, just not glory in it, you know? I'm sorry to be so difficult!
Also, I come from a migrant/entertainment background (renaissance faires), so realism and detail would be appreciated! I'm not going to nit-pick it, though, if you don't want to deal with all that.
I'm hoping I gave you enough to get you started/keep you interested. If you want to poke around my journal, though, feel free! No posts are locked, so you can learn a lot about my obsessions with fencing, history, Doctor Who, and ...stuff. I'm not sure if it's relevant at all, but if you want to write a story about fencing in Tristram Shandy etc, I'm sure not going to complain.
