yuletide! yuletide!
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neveralarchHello hello, prospective fic writer and also people on my reading page. I hope you're ready for Yuletide.
Let me make this easy-ish: I'm probably going to be happy with whatever you're thinking of writing. In general terms, I really like humor and happiness, but I like serious stuff too. I'm not a huge fan of hurt-comfort or angst, 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 (although I do have some notes about pairings in my requests).
Some specific things I hope you'll avoid: I generally can't read things with horror (esp body horror), acute embarrassment, hyperfocus on character death, incest, underage character/of age character, 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've had to stop reading/watching many things because there were zombies. (It's mostly the cannibalism that gets me.) Sorry about this! I know that I'm requesting some fandoms where some of these things come up in canon. In those fandoms, I've made a couple notes that will hopefully help you out. In general, if you're at all concerned that your passing mention of a zombie etc is going to freak me out, the answer is probably not. But maybe don't make lingering descriptions of a zombie the main focus, haha.
Specific requests reproduced for your convenience:
Johannes Cabal
Johannes Cabal, Horst Cabal, Zarenyia, Miss Smith
(If this isn't your fandom but you might want to write it - it's a five book series, sorry! Big commitment!)
I'm a huge sucker for amoral nerds who are also really bad at things. Especially amoral nerds who are really bad at things while not recognizing that they are bad at things. I want more of this content!
I definitely don't need a fic with all of these characters, but I will take whatever configuration you come up with. I'm very invested in Johannes and Horst's relationship, especially first-book Horst (rather than fifth-book Horst), and I'd love some more combative sibling adventures. I ship Zarenyia/Johannes so much it is actually painful, and I need more of it in the world. I'm also very interested in Zarenyia/Miss Smith, Johannes and Miss Smith being necromancer bros, Horst having a meaningful relationship with a woman who isn't dead...
A couple caveats: I really like the necromancy aspect, but I am unable to deal with cannibalistic zombies or serious body horror. More specifically, I was fine with the zombies in the first book, but I had to distract myself from some parts of the second book. Hopefully that gives you a good baseline? I'd also prefer you to steer away from Cabalcest (gen sibling fic is great for me), and I really prefer assertive/confident women in het relationships if you go that route.
The Traitor Baru Coromant
Baru Coromant, Tain Hu, Muire Lo, Purity Cartone
(If this isn't your fandom but you might want to write it - it's just one very good book! But with some serious content warnings, please check out a review before you dive in.)
I love this book, but it is a little... sad. Heavy. I'd really like something fun with these characters, or at least bittersweet.
If you really want to rock my Yuletide, I desperately want a coffee shop AU where Baru Coromant is the Starbucks rep infiltrating Tain Hu's independent coffee shop and taking it over for the empire. (Ably assisted/harried by Muire Lo and Purity Cartone, if you can find space for them.) But I'd also love other lighter AUs (band AU band AU band AU), or more serious canon fic. I really want more Baru/Tain Hu, or something from Baru's time working with Muire Lo, or future fic with Baru trying to work with Purity Cartone. I'm very interested in the themes of Baru extracting service from the people she's around and how willingly/unwillingly they give that service; a more serious fic incorporating all of these characters' relationships with Baru would be awesome.
Disney Ducks (Comics)
Gladstone Gander, Magica de Spell
(If this isn't your fandom but you might want to write it - there are a lot of comics, but you could read this comic and this fancomic and have most of what I want)
I started shipping Gladstone/Magica really hard because of modmad's tumblr comics. As usual, cynical people who like each other despite themselves is entirely my jam. I'd love a fic with more of Gladstone's conman-like use of luck, or Magica's schemes to get Scrooge's dime, but in general I just want Gladstone/Magica sniping at each other and maybe accidentally making out.
Let me make this easy-ish: I'm probably going to be happy with whatever you're thinking of writing. In general terms, I really like humor and happiness, but I like serious stuff too. I'm not a huge fan of hurt-comfort or angst, 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 (although I do have some notes about pairings in my requests).
Some specific things I hope you'll avoid: I generally can't read things with horror (esp body horror), acute embarrassment, hyperfocus on character death, incest, underage character/of age character, 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've had to stop reading/watching many things because there were zombies. (It's mostly the cannibalism that gets me.) Sorry about this! I know that I'm requesting some fandoms where some of these things come up in canon. In those fandoms, I've made a couple notes that will hopefully help you out. In general, if you're at all concerned that your passing mention of a zombie etc is going to freak me out, the answer is probably not. But maybe don't make lingering descriptions of a zombie the main focus, haha.
Specific requests reproduced for your convenience:
Johannes Cabal
Johannes Cabal, Horst Cabal, Zarenyia, Miss Smith
(If this isn't your fandom but you might want to write it - it's a five book series, sorry! Big commitment!)
I'm a huge sucker for amoral nerds who are also really bad at things. Especially amoral nerds who are really bad at things while not recognizing that they are bad at things. I want more of this content!
I definitely don't need a fic with all of these characters, but I will take whatever configuration you come up with. I'm very invested in Johannes and Horst's relationship, especially first-book Horst (rather than fifth-book Horst), and I'd love some more combative sibling adventures. I ship Zarenyia/Johannes so much it is actually painful, and I need more of it in the world. I'm also very interested in Zarenyia/Miss Smith, Johannes and Miss Smith being necromancer bros, Horst having a meaningful relationship with a woman who isn't dead...
A couple caveats: I really like the necromancy aspect, but I am unable to deal with cannibalistic zombies or serious body horror. More specifically, I was fine with the zombies in the first book, but I had to distract myself from some parts of the second book. Hopefully that gives you a good baseline? I'd also prefer you to steer away from Cabalcest (gen sibling fic is great for me), and I really prefer assertive/confident women in het relationships if you go that route.
The Traitor Baru Coromant
Baru Coromant, Tain Hu, Muire Lo, Purity Cartone
(If this isn't your fandom but you might want to write it - it's just one very good book! But with some serious content warnings, please check out a review before you dive in.)
I love this book, but it is a little... sad. Heavy. I'd really like something fun with these characters, or at least bittersweet.
If you really want to rock my Yuletide, I desperately want a coffee shop AU where Baru Coromant is the Starbucks rep infiltrating Tain Hu's independent coffee shop and taking it over for the empire. (Ably assisted/harried by Muire Lo and Purity Cartone, if you can find space for them.) But I'd also love other lighter AUs (band AU band AU band AU), or more serious canon fic. I really want more Baru/Tain Hu, or something from Baru's time working with Muire Lo, or future fic with Baru trying to work with Purity Cartone. I'm very interested in the themes of Baru extracting service from the people she's around and how willingly/unwillingly they give that service; a more serious fic incorporating all of these characters' relationships with Baru would be awesome.
Disney Ducks (Comics)
Gladstone Gander, Magica de Spell
(If this isn't your fandom but you might want to write it - there are a lot of comics, but you could read this comic and this fancomic and have most of what I want)
I started shipping Gladstone/Magica really hard because of modmad's tumblr comics. As usual, cynical people who like each other despite themselves is entirely my jam. I'd love a fic with more of Gladstone's conman-like use of luck, or Magica's schemes to get Scrooge's dime, but in general I just want Gladstone/Magica sniping at each other and maybe accidentally making out.
