Yuletide-a-licious

[tellitslant]

Dear Yuletide writer,

Hi! You are awesome. :D

So, a little of my likes and dislikes in fic! I like puppies, long walks on the beach, and getting lost in the rain.. oh wait. OK.

I like dark and twisty and morally ambiguous stories, and dark twisty morally ambiguous characters. Not to say happiness is a bad thing, but dark, twisted happiness? For the win. ;) And dark humour. I think basically all of these requests tend to the dark, at least a bit.

I like smut. I like plot. I like them together or apart, really.

I prefer contained stories to drabbles or snapshots, but that's totally not a deal-breaker.

I haaate poor grammar and stupid spelling mistakes and the like.

I am a particular fan of backstory and behind-the-scenes type stuff, especially if they explain part of a character's, um, character, as it were. *g*

To be fandom-specific:

James Bond
Basically I would like to see Judi Dench's M kicking ass and taking names. If she does this alongside Bond, platonically or non, that is awesome; if she does it from behind her desk through political machinations, or in backstory explaining how she got her job, or in any other way that you come up with, that is equally awesome.

True Blood
So I've read some of the books on which the series is based and would love it if you could work some of that into character backstory or sex or something, but I know this is a totally out-there request so I'm pretty open. Anything would really make me go :D! What I love best about this show is how it is too serious to be serious - I find it hysterically funny - so satire or comedy in this one would totally be cool.
ETA: in case you're returning to this, given the way things are developing, Maryann/Tara would be awesomecakes (but no pressure).

Jacqueline Carey
I really enjoyed the glimpses of Phedre and Nicola we got in the second trilogy and would love to see them fleshed out, particularly around the area of Nicola being Phedre's confidante in a way no one else can. This obviously ties in with anguissette-play, but that doesn't have to be emphasized hardcore if it's not your thing. If you haven't read the second trilogy - wel, first, why not? *g* But second, I think there is also a lot to be explored in what we know of them from the first trilogy.

Sweeney Todd RPF
If you are actually writing this, I imagine you probably Get It, but: you know how Johnny Depp and Helena Bonham Carter are ridiculously sexy and keep playing characters that have amazing sexual tension and are totally completely disturbingly weird? Hi, playing with that would be amaaaazing. I imagine they probably have a pretty good dry sense of humour about the whole thing and a certain level of self-awareness that totally doesn't stop them from being stupidly into each other during every movie. If you can work their other roles in in any way, awesome, but obviously just during Sweeney Todd would also be incredible, playing in with the characters or something. Anything. I am basically so thrilled to see this as an offer that anything would be gold.

I haven't written anything in any of the fandoms, but if you want to get a sense of how I write in general, my fic is all tagged under - shock - fic. ;)

Um, yes. Basically that is the size of things. The above are totally general guidelines, though, and I am fairly sure that anything you write will be incredibly happy-making just because it is FOR ME.

So thank you, and I hope you enjoy what you write, because that's the best part. ;)

xx