Yuletide letter
Oct. 9th, 2017 10:10 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
luzulaYay, we share a small fandom! My Yuletide letter is basically just my sign-up details so that they are visible to anyone else who wants to read them. Anyway, there are some story ideas below, but if you have some idea already that you want to write, go for it--I hope I've given you some sense of what I would enjoy. And I hope you have fun writing!
Aubrey/Maturin series - Patrick O'Brian (Diana Villiers)
I find Diana fascinating, and would love to read more about her. Some concrete ideas: Diana/Clarissa has always struck me as an interesting possibility. Clarissa canonically doesn't enjoy sex with men; could it be because she's a lesbian? I am sure Diana and Stephen could come to some sensible arrangement for the times when they are apart. I would also love further exploration of Diana's relationship with Stephen; I really ship them together, especially in the later parts of the series. I also like Diana and Sophie together, but usually not in a slashy sense. (Though feel free to go there if you really ship them--actually, it would be cool with a sedoretu-style group marriage.) You could also write Diana gen, that would also be very welcome: Diana being competent, flamboyant, independent, emotional, and occasionally selfish, but also occasionally great-hearted. Or however you see her.
Do not wants: Please don't have Diana die! Also, Diana and Stephen's relationship doesn't have to be front and center at all--you could write a story just about her. But please don't break up Diana and Stephen's relationship or kill off Stephen. Also, I would prefer a story where jealousy doesn't play a large role.
Paksenarrion trilogy - Elizabeth Moon (Paksenarrion)
Basically, I just love Paksenarrion and want more stories about her. The Paksenarrion books are comfort reading for me, and I love following Paks' character development through the book. I also love that the books are so entirely gen, and that Paks is basically asexual without much fuss being made of it, because that's not what the story is about. You could write about one of her quests just after the ending of the book, or a glimpse of her when she's older and more experienced. I think my dream story in this fandom would be a fic in which Paksenarrion was older and had a female paladin-candidate, because I love stories about older woman-younger woman mentor relationships. But if that doesn't appeal to your muse, just go with whatever does! For example, much as I love Paks POV, an outside POV of her would be cool, too--like, someone she inspires during a quest, for example. I'm also fascinated by the Kuakganni, and something involving them would be interesting. I've read the first two books of the more recent series, but I like the original trilogy much better.
Do-not-wants: Please, no romance or sex involving Paksenarrion!
Mars trilogy by Kim Stanley Robinson (any characters)
I don't remember feeling fannish about these before, but on reread, I suddenly am! Ideas:
- An AU where Ann and Sax got together on Antarctica. How does this influence the terraforming debate?
- Arkady on Antarctica, pretending to be boring and hiding his revolutionary anarchist plans. His inner monologue is probably hilarious...
- Marina/Ursula/Vlad - what does that relationship look like? We don't get any of their POV:s, but it's made pretty clear that theirs is a poly relationship. Also it would be fun to hear them working on their ecological economics.
- Frank/John/Maya. They are not actually my favorite characters, but Frank/John is a slash pairing that cries out for someone to write it.
- Nadia is one of my favorite characters, so maybe just tell me a story about her solving an engineering problem?
Or tell me whatever story interests you most! : ) I really like all the landscape description and technical detail in the books, so feel free to pastische that if you want, but you don't have to (I get that it could be daunting!). I also like all the people and communities and political debate in the Martian underground. I think character and setting is what I'm most interested in here.
Do-not-wants: I would prefer a story that isn't centered around someone's death. Sex is fine, but I would prefer not to get a PWP fic. Also, maybe relevant is that my political opinions are to the left, so if you tell me a story dismissing everything about the Martian revolutions as wrong, I am probably not going to appreciate that. Although of course politics doesn't have to come into the story at all, if you're not interested in that.
Aubrey/Maturin series - Patrick O'Brian (Diana Villiers)
I find Diana fascinating, and would love to read more about her. Some concrete ideas: Diana/Clarissa has always struck me as an interesting possibility. Clarissa canonically doesn't enjoy sex with men; could it be because she's a lesbian? I am sure Diana and Stephen could come to some sensible arrangement for the times when they are apart. I would also love further exploration of Diana's relationship with Stephen; I really ship them together, especially in the later parts of the series. I also like Diana and Sophie together, but usually not in a slashy sense. (Though feel free to go there if you really ship them--actually, it would be cool with a sedoretu-style group marriage.) You could also write Diana gen, that would also be very welcome: Diana being competent, flamboyant, independent, emotional, and occasionally selfish, but also occasionally great-hearted. Or however you see her.
Do not wants: Please don't have Diana die! Also, Diana and Stephen's relationship doesn't have to be front and center at all--you could write a story just about her. But please don't break up Diana and Stephen's relationship or kill off Stephen. Also, I would prefer a story where jealousy doesn't play a large role.
Paksenarrion trilogy - Elizabeth Moon (Paksenarrion)
Basically, I just love Paksenarrion and want more stories about her. The Paksenarrion books are comfort reading for me, and I love following Paks' character development through the book. I also love that the books are so entirely gen, and that Paks is basically asexual without much fuss being made of it, because that's not what the story is about. You could write about one of her quests just after the ending of the book, or a glimpse of her when she's older and more experienced. I think my dream story in this fandom would be a fic in which Paksenarrion was older and had a female paladin-candidate, because I love stories about older woman-younger woman mentor relationships. But if that doesn't appeal to your muse, just go with whatever does! For example, much as I love Paks POV, an outside POV of her would be cool, too--like, someone she inspires during a quest, for example. I'm also fascinated by the Kuakganni, and something involving them would be interesting. I've read the first two books of the more recent series, but I like the original trilogy much better.
Do-not-wants: Please, no romance or sex involving Paksenarrion!
Mars trilogy by Kim Stanley Robinson (any characters)
I don't remember feeling fannish about these before, but on reread, I suddenly am! Ideas:
- An AU where Ann and Sax got together on Antarctica. How does this influence the terraforming debate?
- Arkady on Antarctica, pretending to be boring and hiding his revolutionary anarchist plans. His inner monologue is probably hilarious...
- Marina/Ursula/Vlad - what does that relationship look like? We don't get any of their POV:s, but it's made pretty clear that theirs is a poly relationship. Also it would be fun to hear them working on their ecological economics.
- Frank/John/Maya. They are not actually my favorite characters, but Frank/John is a slash pairing that cries out for someone to write it.
- Nadia is one of my favorite characters, so maybe just tell me a story about her solving an engineering problem?
Or tell me whatever story interests you most! : ) I really like all the landscape description and technical detail in the books, so feel free to pastische that if you want, but you don't have to (I get that it could be daunting!). I also like all the people and communities and political debate in the Martian underground. I think character and setting is what I'm most interested in here.
Do-not-wants: I would prefer a story that isn't centered around someone's death. Sex is fine, but I would prefer not to get a PWP fic. Also, maybe relevant is that my political opinions are to the left, so if you tell me a story dismissing everything about the Martian revolutions as wrong, I am probably not going to appreciate that. Although of course politics doesn't have to come into the story at all, if you're not interested in that.
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