[yuletide letter!]
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tellitslantYay, Yuletide! As always, I am requesting stories about a bunch of women, and I am excited that you're going to write me one! I can't wait to see what you come up with.
If you have a story in mind already, then please run with it, but if you want some ideas, I have many behind these wonderful cuts. ;)
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do not want
I do not want to read: rape; explicit abuse; animal abuse or death; self-harm; kid!fic. I am okay with violence in service to the story; I am okay with canon-typical violence (because boy there is a lot in some of these canons!). I'm also not interested in complete AUs (ie, coffee-shop-type AUs). I do enjoy AUs where one thing in canon is changed and we explore the ramifications of it.
I’m not a big fan of the heteronormative assumption that there’s only one way to progress a relationship and anyone in a relationship must necessarily want co-habitation and homeownership and marriage and children. In fact, I’m really not interested in stories about child-rearing, though dealing with adult children already established in canon can be interesting.
do want
I love stories about women relying on each other. I like seeing moments in fic that give deeper meaning to moments we see on screen. I like porn; I like gen; I like ratings in between. I strongly prefer more developed stories rather than shorter vignettes strung together on a theme.
I like happy endings, but I don't need one - sad and/or melancholy works just as well, but I'd prefer something that's not entirely hopeless.
If you feel like going for some good old tropes, some of my favourites include: bedsharing; road trips; huddling for warmth; mutual pining that gets resolved.
The Old Guard (comics) - Andy, Noriko
I'm most interested in a post-vol 2 story about Andy and Noriko. Spoilers, but: Andy is so broken down at the end of vol 2! It's such a huge contrast to the way we've already seen her. How does she cope with being back with Noriko? How does Noriko cope with an Andy who's so different from her past self - or has Andy gone through a period like this before? Is Noriko reluctantly drawn to caring for Andy like this, or is she just doubly angry about it? This is not going to be a healthy relationship regardless, so feel free to lean into the darkness here. This is where you might bump up against my 'explicit abuse' DNW, especially in a post-vol 2 scenario. I get that. I would prefer not to see explicit sexual abuse or dubcon.
If you don't want to write post-canon, I am also very open to an Andy/Noriko historical fic! I would love to read about the adventures they had throughout the ages. We know canonically that the team do split up and come back together sometimes - I'd love to read Andy and Noriko reconnecting after some time apart, maybe telling each other tall tales of what they got up to...
Wonder Woman (comics) - Diana, Barbara Ann Minerva
Please consider this an OR rather than an AND request. You can write about the characters together or apart.
I am a long long long-time Wonder Woman fan, so honestly you could write something set in any era, but I am assuming it's most likely going to be the current comics, which is great. Because, omg, Barbara Ann Minerva is an incredible queer angst-fest and I adore her. Rucka's re-launch really made it clear just how tragic her story is - she starts out so genuinely full of wonder, and then she's so rudely tricked by Urzkartaga, and she suffers so much. I would love to read almost anything off-panel about her: more about her search for the Amazons, more about her struggles with Urzkartaga, more about the early days with Diana (and Etta). I'd love to read about what might happen if Barbara did find Themyscira. I love that despite the friends-to-enemies core of their relationship, neither she nor Diana have ever really let go of the 'friends' part, and it keeps tripping Barbara up.
If you don't want to write about Barbara, I've really been enjoying some of the supernatural elements of Diana lately, so something exploring that would be cool (Circe, maybe?). (This could also involve Barbara, of course, but if you want an out.)
Please feel free to write this as a friendship or more. Or less - if you want to give me a moment where they're as far from being friends as they've ever been and it's horribly sad, I would love that too.
Birds of Prey and the Fantabulous Emancipation of One Harley Quinn - Helena, Renee
I will admit to being a fan of this in the comics and wanting to explore how it plays out in the film, but if you don't know the comics at all that is TOTALLY FINE. I just want to see the two of them interact more. Helena is so awkward and Renee is so dorkily enthusiastic. What can they teach each other? What edges do they rub off each other? How do their coping methods interact?
Renee clearly knows all about the Bertinelli Massacre - how does that influence how she acts around Helena? Helena needs new mentorship in crimefighting now that she's killed all the people on her hit list - how does Renee work with her? How do they decide on their snazzy crimefighting costumes (leather kink, sure)? Do they and Dinah all live together someplace bought with Bertinelli money (omg they were roommates)? I would love to read Renee/Helena, but Renee&Helena is great too. Also please feel free to include the other Birds as secondary characters.
I don't know if this matters to you, but a couple of these requests are repeated from the Femslash Exchange. I have repeated them because I don't know if I'm getting them and, even if I do, I would love to read more takes on them. But if you would like to know whether someone has already written a take on one of these, check back on my DW or AO3 after 14 November, when the FSEx fics are revealed. But that's totally optional and only if you want to - even if I get the exact same thing both times I will be thrilled both times. Two cakes!
There is a possibility that I will be out of internet range over the early part of reveals. If that happens, I will update this letter as well as my journal to say so, and I'll comment as soon as I get back!
I can't wait to read whatever you'll write. Thank you so much!
If you have a story in mind already, then please run with it, but if you want some ideas, I have many behind these wonderful cuts. ;)
I am
do not want
I do not want to read: rape; explicit abuse; animal abuse or death; self-harm; kid!fic. I am okay with violence in service to the story; I am okay with canon-typical violence (because boy there is a lot in some of these canons!). I'm also not interested in complete AUs (ie, coffee-shop-type AUs). I do enjoy AUs where one thing in canon is changed and we explore the ramifications of it.
I’m not a big fan of the heteronormative assumption that there’s only one way to progress a relationship and anyone in a relationship must necessarily want co-habitation and homeownership and marriage and children. In fact, I’m really not interested in stories about child-rearing, though dealing with adult children already established in canon can be interesting.
do want
I love stories about women relying on each other. I like seeing moments in fic that give deeper meaning to moments we see on screen. I like porn; I like gen; I like ratings in between. I strongly prefer more developed stories rather than shorter vignettes strung together on a theme.
I like happy endings, but I don't need one - sad and/or melancholy works just as well, but I'd prefer something that's not entirely hopeless.
If you feel like going for some good old tropes, some of my favourites include: bedsharing; road trips; huddling for warmth; mutual pining that gets resolved.
The Old Guard (comics) - Andy, Noriko
I'm most interested in a post-vol 2 story about Andy and Noriko. Spoilers, but: Andy is so broken down at the end of vol 2! It's such a huge contrast to the way we've already seen her. How does she cope with being back with Noriko? How does Noriko cope with an Andy who's so different from her past self - or has Andy gone through a period like this before? Is Noriko reluctantly drawn to caring for Andy like this, or is she just doubly angry about it? This is not going to be a healthy relationship regardless, so feel free to lean into the darkness here. This is where you might bump up against my 'explicit abuse' DNW, especially in a post-vol 2 scenario. I get that. I would prefer not to see explicit sexual abuse or dubcon.
If you don't want to write post-canon, I am also very open to an Andy/Noriko historical fic! I would love to read about the adventures they had throughout the ages. We know canonically that the team do split up and come back together sometimes - I'd love to read Andy and Noriko reconnecting after some time apart, maybe telling each other tall tales of what they got up to...
Wonder Woman (comics) - Diana, Barbara Ann Minerva
Please consider this an OR rather than an AND request. You can write about the characters together or apart.
I am a long long long-time Wonder Woman fan, so honestly you could write something set in any era, but I am assuming it's most likely going to be the current comics, which is great. Because, omg, Barbara Ann Minerva is an incredible queer angst-fest and I adore her. Rucka's re-launch really made it clear just how tragic her story is - she starts out so genuinely full of wonder, and then she's so rudely tricked by Urzkartaga, and she suffers so much. I would love to read almost anything off-panel about her: more about her search for the Amazons, more about her struggles with Urzkartaga, more about the early days with Diana (and Etta). I'd love to read about what might happen if Barbara did find Themyscira. I love that despite the friends-to-enemies core of their relationship, neither she nor Diana have ever really let go of the 'friends' part, and it keeps tripping Barbara up.
If you don't want to write about Barbara, I've really been enjoying some of the supernatural elements of Diana lately, so something exploring that would be cool (Circe, maybe?). (This could also involve Barbara, of course, but if you want an out.)
Please feel free to write this as a friendship or more. Or less - if you want to give me a moment where they're as far from being friends as they've ever been and it's horribly sad, I would love that too.
Birds of Prey and the Fantabulous Emancipation of One Harley Quinn - Helena, Renee
I will admit to being a fan of this in the comics and wanting to explore how it plays out in the film, but if you don't know the comics at all that is TOTALLY FINE. I just want to see the two of them interact more. Helena is so awkward and Renee is so dorkily enthusiastic. What can they teach each other? What edges do they rub off each other? How do their coping methods interact?
Renee clearly knows all about the Bertinelli Massacre - how does that influence how she acts around Helena? Helena needs new mentorship in crimefighting now that she's killed all the people on her hit list - how does Renee work with her? How do they decide on their snazzy crimefighting costumes (leather kink, sure)? Do they and Dinah all live together someplace bought with Bertinelli money (omg they were roommates)? I would love to read Renee/Helena, but Renee&Helena is great too. Also please feel free to include the other Birds as secondary characters.
I don't know if this matters to you, but a couple of these requests are repeated from the Femslash Exchange. I have repeated them because I don't know if I'm getting them and, even if I do, I would love to read more takes on them. But if you would like to know whether someone has already written a take on one of these, check back on my DW or AO3 after 14 November, when the FSEx fics are revealed. But that's totally optional and only if you want to - even if I get the exact same thing both times I will be thrilled both times. Two cakes!
There is a possibility that I will be out of internet range over the early part of reveals. If that happens, I will update this letter as well as my journal to say so, and I'll comment as soon as I get back!
I can't wait to read whatever you'll write. Thank you so much!
