Once again, I only write in this thing when Yuletide comes around. Ah well, here we go.
Dear Yuletide Author:
Great to have you here, and super excited to read about whichever mutual fandom we have. I am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png)
thewreckofapoet on both AO3 and Tumblr. I'm super impressed with all the fandoms that have been suggested and can't wait to read/write whatever is on offer.
As far as preferences, I'll say what I say every year: my taste in fic tend towards the humorous. I love wit, whimsy, and wordplay. I'm tickled by meta-references and fourth-wall breaking. I adore surreal humor and patently absurd situations that a lone person points out while everyone else goes about their day. I also like fluffy and "slice of life" fics where people are just being normal. Bonus points if there's a juxtaposition of a fearsome, elegant, staid, or stodgy, etc. character and something utterly mundane or even silly. (For example, some of my favorite fics include: Stannis Baratheon playing the overprotective father and lecturing Rickon Stark for trying to take his daughter on a date, Yelp reviews for Ea-Nasir’s subpar copper, and Molly Weasley’s brothers going to the aquarium with Lucius Malfoy, who is having none of it.)
As you can tell from some of the above examples, I’m down with AU too, for the most part.
That doesn't mean I don't like more serious fics, of course. As far as romance goes, I tend to prefer a slow burn. I like my sexual tension like I like my actual sex: sulky and belligerent. I am totally more about sexual frustration than consummation, though I will say there is nothing better than a satisfying end to a hard-fought courtship/flirtation. I certainly don't mind smut, but it wouldn’t be my first choice. (I also have a bad habit of not finishing the smut I start out to write, so this could just be my frustration talking.) If you are struck by inspiration and want to write a sexual scene in your fic, by all means, write it. Above all, however, I adore thoughtful world-building! I love well-researched, immersive fic where the writer has really shown their work and enthusiastically engaged with the source material. I'm inspired by Tolkien and Kurosawa. I want answers to questions like, What kind of infrastructure does Middle Earth have? Has the Federation of Planets ever imposed trade embargoes on Cardassia? Shouldn't Luke Skywalker have grown up in better conditions considering that moisture would probably be priceless on a desert planet?
That being said, I know how hard it is to toil on a story, so I am sure that I will love and appreciate whatever it is you come up with!
General DNWs: fat-shaming, slut-shaming, racist/fascist/eugenicist apologia, situations where a naked person is paraded around for someone's amusement, sexual or otherwise (if they're naked by choice in an attempt to amuse other people, that's fine), child or animal abuse, dead children in general (references to children who have passed in canon are fine; just don't linger)
( Anyway, here we go! )
Dear Yuletide Author:
Great to have you here, and super excited to read about whichever mutual fandom we have. I am
thewreckofapoet on both AO3 and Tumblr. I'm super impressed with all the fandoms that have been suggested and can't wait to read/write whatever is on offer. As far as preferences, I'll say what I say every year: my taste in fic tend towards the humorous. I love wit, whimsy, and wordplay. I'm tickled by meta-references and fourth-wall breaking. I adore surreal humor and patently absurd situations that a lone person points out while everyone else goes about their day. I also like fluffy and "slice of life" fics where people are just being normal. Bonus points if there's a juxtaposition of a fearsome, elegant, staid, or stodgy, etc. character and something utterly mundane or even silly. (For example, some of my favorite fics include: Stannis Baratheon playing the overprotective father and lecturing Rickon Stark for trying to take his daughter on a date, Yelp reviews for Ea-Nasir’s subpar copper, and Molly Weasley’s brothers going to the aquarium with Lucius Malfoy, who is having none of it.)
As you can tell from some of the above examples, I’m down with AU too, for the most part.
That doesn't mean I don't like more serious fics, of course. As far as romance goes, I tend to prefer a slow burn. I like my sexual tension like I like my actual sex: sulky and belligerent. I am totally more about sexual frustration than consummation, though I will say there is nothing better than a satisfying end to a hard-fought courtship/flirtation. I certainly don't mind smut, but it wouldn’t be my first choice. (I also have a bad habit of not finishing the smut I start out to write, so this could just be my frustration talking.) If you are struck by inspiration and want to write a sexual scene in your fic, by all means, write it. Above all, however, I adore thoughtful world-building! I love well-researched, immersive fic where the writer has really shown their work and enthusiastically engaged with the source material. I'm inspired by Tolkien and Kurosawa. I want answers to questions like, What kind of infrastructure does Middle Earth have? Has the Federation of Planets ever imposed trade embargoes on Cardassia? Shouldn't Luke Skywalker have grown up in better conditions considering that moisture would probably be priceless on a desert planet?
That being said, I know how hard it is to toil on a story, so I am sure that I will love and appreciate whatever it is you come up with!
General DNWs: fat-shaming, slut-shaming, racist/fascist/eugenicist apologia, situations where a naked person is paraded around for someone's amusement, sexual or otherwise (if they're naked by choice in an attempt to amuse other people, that's fine), child or animal abuse, dead children in general (references to children who have passed in canon are fine; just don't linger)
( Anyway, here we go! )
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