[femslash12 author letter!]
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femslash12 author: eeee yay you're writing me a fic! I love you already. :D I am going to babble a little bit about what I like in fic in general before moving on to what I like about the specific fandoms and pairings I listed; if you already have some ideas, please feel free to ignore the second part of this altogether and write whatever floats your boat.
In general I am pretty willing to read anything, from wacky AUs to deep psychological explorations, as long as they're grounded in solid characterization and without serious grammar issues. While I like both angst and happy fic, I really dislike stories where the two characters fall in love at first kiss. I am also not a fan of kidfic.
I like both plotty fic and single-moment vignettes. I totally love cliché fic and think femslash needs more of it, so if you want to go for aliens-made-them-do-it (slight dub-con is okay) or huddling-for-warmth or whatever might be appropriate in any of these fandoms, cool! I like consummated relationships and I like yearning from afar. I like established relationships and I like first times. I love backstory – either fic that fills in a moment we saw on screen/page, or fic that takes into account layers of previous encounters between the two.
I will keep up-to-date on the two current fandoms – The Good Wife and Captain Marvel – so you can feel free to incorporate or ignore any plot developments that happen without worrying about spoiling me.
Warehouse 13 - H.G. Wells/Myka Bering (tag: tv: world's most dangerous antiques)
Warehouse and H.G. and Myka are kind of my latest whirlwind fandom loves. I have so many capslocky feelings! I will seriously love anything about this pairing – fix-it fic, futurefic, happyfic, sadfic, teamfic with them as a backdrop – as long as it keeps in mind that there are like eight billion different layers of meaning operating in everything H.G. and Myka say to each other. I would prefer not to have a story set entirely during the holo!H.G. period.
The Good Wife - Kalinda Sharma/Sophia Russo, Kalinda Sharma/Lana Delaney, Kalinda Sharma/Diane Lockhart, Kalinda Sharma/Alicia Florrick (tag: tv: that's a Chicago defense)
You may notice a common denominator here. :P Kalinda is made of awesome and I love her "flirt with all the ladies!" philosophy (though what drives it?). If you want to write about just one of these relationships or about more than one, either would be awesome! I feel like each relationship would have its own very specific flavour, as it were – with Sophia, Kalinda is almost happy; with Lana, there's a very interesting power dynamic; with Diane it would be practically politicized; with Alicia, there is just a surfeit of feelings that Kalinda is not quite sure what to do with.
Sanctuary/Warehouse 13 - Helen Magnus/H.G. Wells (tags: tv: world's most dangerous antiques, tv: sanctuary for all)
Take two canonically queer genius Victorian feminists. Have one live through the entirety of the 20th century (twice). Have one put in suspended animation for a hundred years. Smush together and watch the results. There are so many possibilities for what these two could get up to. Does Helen run into H.G. during the period where Helen's gone back in time? Do they know each other in the Victorian era? Do they meet again in the 21st century? Were they lovers in the past who parted badly, only to meet in the present and reconnect – or not? Are they each the other's only connection to a world long dead? All of the above? None of the above?
Captain Marvel - Carol Danvers/Helen Cobb, Carol Danvers/Jessica Drew (no tag yet!)
I kind of love this series as a metacommentary on what I want more of in comics – awesome female characters having awesome multifaceted relationships with other female characters, written by awesome female writers, etc etc. I'm not currently reading much in the Marvelverse other than this, though I am tangentially aware of a lot of it, so bringing in other characters is fine, but what I'm interested in is Carol herself and her relationship to 'traditionally male' activities like flying, superheroics, and so forth. How does that play out in her relationships, how was it built up in her, who helps her work through those issues. That bit in issue 1 with Helen thinking about how "folks want to blame someone for gals like us" together with the occurrences in issue 4? Hmm. Or Carol and Jess as two supergals sticking together on a testosterone-heavy team? Hmm hmm. ;)
femslash12 author: eeee yay you're writing me a fic! I love you already. :D I am going to babble a little bit about what I like in fic in general before moving on to what I like about the specific fandoms and pairings I listed; if you already have some ideas, please feel free to ignore the second part of this altogether and write whatever floats your boat.In general I am pretty willing to read anything, from wacky AUs to deep psychological explorations, as long as they're grounded in solid characterization and without serious grammar issues. While I like both angst and happy fic, I really dislike stories where the two characters fall in love at first kiss. I am also not a fan of kidfic.
I like both plotty fic and single-moment vignettes. I totally love cliché fic and think femslash needs more of it, so if you want to go for aliens-made-them-do-it (slight dub-con is okay) or huddling-for-warmth or whatever might be appropriate in any of these fandoms, cool! I like consummated relationships and I like yearning from afar. I like established relationships and I like first times. I love backstory – either fic that fills in a moment we saw on screen/page, or fic that takes into account layers of previous encounters between the two.
I will keep up-to-date on the two current fandoms – The Good Wife and Captain Marvel – so you can feel free to incorporate or ignore any plot developments that happen without worrying about spoiling me.
Warehouse 13 - H.G. Wells/Myka Bering (tag: tv: world's most dangerous antiques)
Warehouse and H.G. and Myka are kind of my latest whirlwind fandom loves. I have so many capslocky feelings! I will seriously love anything about this pairing – fix-it fic, futurefic, happyfic, sadfic, teamfic with them as a backdrop – as long as it keeps in mind that there are like eight billion different layers of meaning operating in everything H.G. and Myka say to each other. I would prefer not to have a story set entirely during the holo!H.G. period.
The Good Wife - Kalinda Sharma/Sophia Russo, Kalinda Sharma/Lana Delaney, Kalinda Sharma/Diane Lockhart, Kalinda Sharma/Alicia Florrick (tag: tv: that's a Chicago defense)
You may notice a common denominator here. :P Kalinda is made of awesome and I love her "flirt with all the ladies!" philosophy (though what drives it?). If you want to write about just one of these relationships or about more than one, either would be awesome! I feel like each relationship would have its own very specific flavour, as it were – with Sophia, Kalinda is almost happy; with Lana, there's a very interesting power dynamic; with Diane it would be practically politicized; with Alicia, there is just a surfeit of feelings that Kalinda is not quite sure what to do with.
Sanctuary/Warehouse 13 - Helen Magnus/H.G. Wells (tags: tv: world's most dangerous antiques, tv: sanctuary for all)
Take two canonically queer genius Victorian feminists. Have one live through the entirety of the 20th century (twice). Have one put in suspended animation for a hundred years. Smush together and watch the results. There are so many possibilities for what these two could get up to. Does Helen run into H.G. during the period where Helen's gone back in time? Do they know each other in the Victorian era? Do they meet again in the 21st century? Were they lovers in the past who parted badly, only to meet in the present and reconnect – or not? Are they each the other's only connection to a world long dead? All of the above? None of the above?
Captain Marvel - Carol Danvers/Helen Cobb, Carol Danvers/Jessica Drew (no tag yet!)
I kind of love this series as a metacommentary on what I want more of in comics – awesome female characters having awesome multifaceted relationships with other female characters, written by awesome female writers, etc etc. I'm not currently reading much in the Marvelverse other than this, though I am tangentially aware of a lot of it, so bringing in other characters is fine, but what I'm interested in is Carol herself and her relationship to 'traditionally male' activities like flying, superheroics, and so forth. How does that play out in her relationships, how was it built up in her, who helps her work through those issues. That bit in issue 1 with Helen thinking about how "folks want to blame someone for gals like us" together with the occurrences in issue 4? Hmm. Or Carol and Jess as two supergals sticking together on a testosterone-heavy team? Hmm hmm. ;)
