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Likes: I love stories with

• angst
• yearning
• unrequited pining
• earned happy ending
• unhealthy relationships (with or without growing into healthy ones)
• dubious consent
• power imbalances
• selfish and determined female characters
• characters who are too selfless for their own well-being
• enemies to lovers
• character studies
• 5 + 1
• angsty smut along the lines of that one tumblr post that goes, “the plot of this smut fic is that character A believes himself abandoned by God."
• fairy tale retellings
• animal metaphors
• soulmate aus
• timeloop aus
• historical accuracy
• loss of innocence
• corruption
• loyalty
• tender face touches
• hand kisses
• arranged marriage
• marriage of convenience
• unreliable narrators
• people having to make hard choices
• disability
• and any relationship that could be categorized as "fucked up tender."
  

Fandom Promo Post: https://candyheartsex.dreamwidth.org/15846.html?thread=354278#cmt354278

Prompts: I really want to see them interact again post-canon!! I think their relationship could develop into something deeper outside of the school environment -- maybe if they meet again after Tom is done with college? What does Laura do after her divorce? How would they connect after years apart? I really think they could make it -- they have such chemistry, and I'd love to see them more. Also the Candida references in the original play -- if you find a way to keep that going, I would love that. I'd really love to see a happy ending for them!

Alternatively, if you want to write what happened immediately after "Years from now, when you speak of this, and you will, be kind," I would most certainly not be opposed to that at all. I think them sleeping together would be so achingly tender and satisfying after so much build up.

Fandom: Oklahoma! (Rodgers/Hammerstein)

I'm so sad we didn't get more time with Vicki and Steven (I'm still upset about Vicki's exit!) I love their banter, and how they're both slightly mean with each other in a very good natured way. I would love just more of that. I also think a lot about how Vicki grew up very isolated--and here is this very good-looking boy, a little bit older than her, who she spends every day with for months probably. I think she should get to explore with him, and he should initially put her off, and then get too tempted and fall into it with her. I also think a lot about how Vicki becomes Cressida, and Steven is called Diomedes--and in the play Troilus and Cressida, Cressida is unfaithful to Troilus with Diomedes. I want a different ending to Vicki's final serial so badly! I also think it would be fascinating to have Steven, fed up with the doctor, having seen two women die in front of him, and one get left in a very turbulent time period, yell at the doctor and go no, fuck no, I'm not leaving Vicki, I'm going back for her. I love them. :(

I think Jamie and Victoria are so cute!! I just love how they bounce off of each other. I love how Victoria's first established with almost fairy tale vibes, and then how a lot of season 5 has serials that take influence from classic horror films. I think it would be fun to play with those tropes! I also love how they're almost from the same general time period and location--but not really. I think culture shocks could be fun for them! I also just love how she clings onto him whatever chance she gets.

DNWs: The last serial I finished is The Web Of Fear, so please, no explicit spoilers for anything past that point! I don't know how either Jamie or Victoria leave the show, so I'd like to be unspoiled for that.

Fandom: The Fantasticks - Schmidt/Jones

Characters Requested: El Gallo (The Fantasticks), Luisa (The Fantasticks)Fandom: Buffy the Vampire Slayer (TV)

Pairings Requested: Xander Harris/Buffy Summers

Of all the pairings I could love most on this show, for some reason, it ended up being Xander/Buffy! I love the initial tension between how they're genuinely very good friends with a good rapport and Xander's dumb teenage boyness. I love how later that grows and steadies. I love that moment where Xander is lying in his bed huffing because he got rejected--and then he is the one to go ask Angel for help, even taking a cross with him, because he loves Buffy truly, outside of just a crush, a true love for her. I love the moments when they are dumbass4dumbass. I love how Xander is aware of her capacity for violence almost from the start. I think about how Xander is the one to bring Buffy back over and over again--I'm haunted by this parallel with 2x01 and 2x04 (https://pureanonofficial.tumblr.com/post/715887796367278080/buffy-the-vampire-slayer-2x01-2x04).  I love when Xander makes Buffy laugh with his silly jokes. I want them to dance together, genuinely, without the When She Was Bad stuff! I'm haunted by how the show doesn't ever address what happened in The Pack. I would love to see them address it, especially why it doesn't seem to effect their friendship going forward. (And if you wanted to make it worse--where hyena!Xander goes farther, and then human!Xander has to deal with the guilt of that--I would be extremely down.) I also love them post-canon, with both their partners dead, having to find their place in the world. Maybe learning to co exist in peace together. Maybe not the romance of a lifetime--but something solid, something there. Something they can rely on when the chips are down. And that's what they are to each other.

Fandom: Emily of New Moon - L. M. Montgomery

Pairings Requested: Dean Priest/Emily Byrd Starr (LMM)

Dean and Emily--I am haunted for them forever. I don't think I'll ever be normal about them. I can't get over how they talk and interact together--kindred spirits almost, but separated by their different desires. I love how they're the LMM couple with the most sexual magnetism, how they're the couple where sex is most explicitly mentioned with them (how much Dean thinks about not kissing her, how Emily is warned that the Priests have twins, the intensity between them always). I want something different for them than canon. I think a lot about how Emily could possibly live in the house they built together without being constantly reminded of him--Teddy strange and out of place in the world that Dean built for her. I think about Emily living in Montreal, hating it, longing for home--the home DEAN built. I think about how they could have wandered the world together. I think about them having children--Emily's mixed feelings on that, Dean's pride (man with a breeding kink I gotta say--and how they could possibly create a happy home together. I think of Emily's writing, of Dean keeping in contact with her solely through reading her work. I think of what could have happened if Emily hadn't healed fully, if Emily had been disabled, if Dean and Emily at last found an equal ground in that. Dean is shaped so by disability, and so I always wonder if perhaps they could have. I also think about what could have happened if Dean broke his restraint and kissed her in their engagement--would he have won her? Would he have been able to stop at a kiss? Or what if Emily, concerned by his lack of taking liberties, kissed him first? What if they married while she was still uncertain? How long would it take to find happiness? I know they would--but it might take some time.

I adore them utterly and completely.

Fandom: The Fantasticks - Schmidt/Jones

Pairings Requested: El Gallo (The Fantasticks)/Luisa (The Fantasticks)

What I find most fascinating about the show is Luisa and El Gallo's relationship. El Gallo is both the narrator and the villain -- Luisa is young and "incurably insane," in the way young people are, and is fascinated by bandits and the romance that they present. And El Gallo's job is to be the villain that hurts her, and forces her to grow up -- only, only that becomes increasingly distasteful to him as he knows her. She breaks through the mask of the villain to what he is underneath. He is not bad, merely playing a role -- but that role begins to hurt him as well as her. And he kisses her upon the eyes, and tells her he will return, and the story must be played out, and the girl must be left, and the villain must hurt her, but that does not mean it does not hurt him too.

I want anything that involves them interacting more. I think their dynamic is just so utterly compelling, and anything that involves them will interest me.

Some vague ideas I have include El Gallo remembering Luisa as he wanders through other stories. Something about her spoke past the villain facade, past the narrator role, all the way through to the human heart of him. That would leave a mark. Especially since he has her mother’s necklace. I also like the idea of El Gallo sticking around for a while, while Matt wanders, and he and Luisa striking up a romance/friendship. I’d love for the lines between the story and reality to blur a bit, as El Gallo puts the story on hold in order to be with Luisa longer. I’d also love to see them get to wander the world, have a “lovely, real romance,” as they say in Round and Round. Escape the narrative, together! Also anything exploring the vibes of Round and Round could be so fun. The show really has big Labyrinth vibes there, and I think that’s horribly intriguing.

Fandom: Grease - Jacobs & Casey & Farrar

Pairings Requested: Sandy Dumbrowski/Kenickie (Grease - J & C & F)

I know this is an oddball pairing, but I do think they have so much potential. In a way, they're both the most mature of their respective groups, and I like how they're both concerned for the other one's feelings? In the original Broadway script, which is the version I like of the show (not very fond of revisions or the movie) Kenickie says to Rizzo "Come off it, Rizzo. Whattaya tryin' to do, make us think she's like you?" And Sandy says "Do you really believe that? Didn't you see Kenickie's face when he left here?" They notice each other, in an interesting way. Kenickie also seems to be one of the few who doesn't think Sandy would be better if she was like all the other Pink Ladies. The makeover at the end of the show, unsurprisingly, bothers me, especially because Danny quit the track team. I'd love to see Sandy discover she really doesn't want to be Danny's dream girl, and come into her own--and if Kenickie is involved in that, well. He's no good but he's not as bad as Danny. I think there's hope for him yet. I also think about how Kenickie was ready to step up if Rizzo was pregnant--and I think about how Danny might not do the same for Sandy. I'd love to see a marriage of convenience situation with them. I'd love to see them carve out a life together.

DNWs: Please don't set this story in California like the movie did; Grease is a Chicago story through and through!

Dear Yuletide Writer,

Thank you so much for writing something for me! This is my third Yuletide, and last year was a blast, so I am excited to go onto the next! I hope my prompts will be interesting to you!

Likes: I love stories with

• angst
• yearning,
• unrequited pining
• earned happy ending
• unhealthy relationships (with or without growing into healthy ones)
• power imbalances
• selfish and determined female characters
• characters who are too selfless for their own well-being
• enemies to lovers
• character studies
• 5 + 1
• angsty smut along the lines of that one tumblr post that goes, “the plot of this smut fic is that character A believes himself abandoned by God."
• fairy tale retellings
• animal metaphors
• soulmate aus
• timeloop aus
• historical accuracy
• loss of innocence
• corruption
• loyalty
• tender face touches
• hand kisses
• arranged marriage
• marriage of convenience
• unreliable narrators
• people having to make hard choices
• and any relationship that could be categorized as “fucked up tender.”

DNWs: Voluntary, self-inflicted amputation, miscarriages, anal sex, character bashing, non-con (I find dub-con to be a fascinating way to explore both characters, but non-con is too far for me) and modern aus.

My promo posts linked below contain a lot of detail about the canons if you're unfamiliar with them, so definitely give them a read if that is so! I've got in-depth gushing and links to where you can find these.

Fandom: The Warrender Saga - Mary Burchell

Characters Requested: Any (Gail Rostall, Oliver Bannister,  Kate Grayson | Katherine Gray, Carlo Etlinger

Fandom Promo Post: https://yuletide.dreamwidth.org/303660.html?thread=4768812#cmt4768812

Prompts: I'd really love to see endgame Gail/Oliver or Kate/Carlo!! I think Gail and Oliver have such chemistry, and I adore their banter; I'd really love to see them work together more? I'd love to see Gail make the switch to musical theater -- musical theater is my first love, and I think she could really shine there. I'd love to see Oliver perhaps work on a book musical too, not just a revue? I can see him getting into more experimental musicals as well.

Suddenly they were all three talking together and, with Oliver playing on the piano and Tom striking out words and substituting others on his battered piece of paper, they then and there worked out the song which was to capture all London in less than a year’s time.

It was late when Oliver took her home, and they walked hand in hand through the cool autumn night, while the stars seemed to lean out of heaven. And inevitably he kissed her goodnight when he left her.

They're just darling, and I'd love to see them interact more.

For Kate/Carlo, I'm very interested in her actually going on that tour with him!!! I really do think both of them could grow so much; both as artists and human beings. They're both so young and passionate, but Kate is willing to work for her goals, and I think she could teach Carlo to be industrious too. The strange, sexual tension between them is so intriguing, and rare for Burchell -- if you want to explore that as well, I shall not mind. :PI also think something even just post-canon could be interesting -- if you have Kate realize what an ass Van is, I will be very happy. XD

He laughed and, getting up from his chair, came to stand beside her at the piano. For her part, Kate was suddenly strangely excited and very faintly scared, though she was not sure why. She picked out a note or two on the piano and said, ‘I’m just trying to remember how it goes——’ ‘Take it from here.’ He leaned across her so that he was unexpectedly close, and sketched a phrase or two. ‘Yes, I’ve got it!’ She began to play, and all at once that warm, seductive baritone voice was addressing her personally in a melody which had captured the world long before she was born. Good musical discipline made her join in accurately at the right point. But then something she had never before experienced warmed and coloured her voice with a sort of sensuous excitement that was totally alien to Kate Grayson, and entirely in keeping with the infatuated Nedda. She had to respond, she had to let Silvio know that she loved him and, casting all her humdrum life aside, would go with him. The beautifully blended voices soared to a triumphant peak and came to a stop. And at that point Carlo picked her right up in his arms and kissed her several times—laughing, breathless and in some curious way exultant. ‘You see?’ he said, still holding her close against him. ‘That’s how it should be done! You’re learning, my little Kate—you’re learning!’ And, as she disentangled herself from his embrace, she was nearly sure that he was referring to something other than just singing.

Fandom: The Fantasticks - Schmidt/Jones

Characters Requested: El Gallo (The Fantasticks), Luisa (The Fantasticks)

Fandom Promo Post: https://yuletide.dreamwidth.org/303660.html?thread=4588332#cmt4588332

Prompts: What I find most fascinating about the show is Luisa and El Gallo's relationship. El Gallo is both the narrator and the villain -- Luisa is young and "incurably insane," in the way young people are, and is fascinated by bandits and the romance that they present. And El Gallo's job is to be the villain that hurts her, and forces her to grow up -- only, only that becomes increasingly distasteful to him as he knows her. She breaks through the mask of the villain to what he is underneath. He is not bad, merely playing a role -- but that role begins to hurt him as well as her. And he kisses her upon the eyes, and tells her he will return, and the story must be played out, and the girl must be left, and the villain must hurt her, but that does not mean it does not hurt him too.

I want anything that involves them interacting more. I think their dynamic is just so utterly compelling, and anything that involves them will interest me.

Some vague ideas I have include El Gallo remembering Luisa as he wanders through other stories. Something about her spoke past the villain facade, past the narrator role, all the way through to the human heart of him. That would leave a mark. Especially since he has her mother’s necklace.

I also like the idea of El Gallo sticking around for a while, while Matt wanders, and he and Luisa striking up a romance/friendship. I’d love for the lines between the story and reality to blur a bit, as El Gallo puts the story on hold in order to be with Luisa longer. Much angst could be gleaned from this prompt, I suspect. XD

I’d also love to see them get to wander the world, have a “lovely, real romance,” as they say in Round and Round. Escape the narrative, together!

Also anything exploring the vibes of Round and Round could be so fun. The show really has big Labyrinth vibes there, and I think that’s horribly intriguing.

Fandom: Tea and Sympathy - Anderson

Characters Requested: Tom Lee (Tea and Sympathy - Anderson),  Laura Reynolds

Fandom Promo Post: https://yuletide.dreamwidth.org/303660.html?thread=4632108#cmt4632108

Prompts: I really want to see them interact again post-canon!! I think their relationship could develop into something deeper outside of the school environment -- maybe if they meet again after Tom is done with college? What does Laura do after her divorce? How would they connect after years apart? I really think they could make it -- they have such chemistry, and I'd love to see them more. Also the Candida references in the original play -- if you find a way to keep that going, I would love that.

Alternatively, if you want to write what happened immediately after "Years from now, when you speak of this, and you will, be kind," I would most certainly not be opposed to that at all. I think them sleeping together would be so achingly tender and satisfying after so much build up.

Fandom: Rags - Schwartz/Stein/Strouse

Characters Requested: Any (Rebecca Hershkowitz, David Hershkowitz, Nathan Hershkowitz, Saul (Rags - Schwartz/Stein/Strouse)
 

Fandom Promo Post: https://yuletide.dreamwidth.org/303660.html?thread=4767788#cmt4767788

Pleasant writing, dear Yuletide writer!