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Dear Yulegoat Letter
Nov. 13th, 2010 12:00 pmDear mystery author,
Hi! I love Yuletide! I love you! Thank you for offering to write a story for me! Hopefully my requests aren't making you tear out your hair or regret ever volunteering for that fandom, but I promise you, I love all these fandoms and all these characters and I will love you forever for writing them.
Um, so I guess I should give you some general info on what I like. Basically, happy endings. I want everybody to be happy or at least not overtly miserable at the end of the fic. They can suffer and be angsty in the beginning or middle but please please please let the ending be sunshine and rainbows or the promise of sunshine and rainbows on the not-too-distant horizon. I'm also happy to get a fic that's 100% fluffy sunshine and rainbows all the way through. I like characters bantering with each other and goofing off and being total dorks! And I love love love characters showing how much they love each other. It can be romantic, it can be familial, it can be friendship, but give me people who really care about each other and worry and hover and bully in a loving manner and just generally want to make each other happy.
Other things that I like! Crazy AUs are always great. Want to write the fic where they're ice-skaters or porn stars or hookers or college students? GO FOR IT! Reach into that box of cliches and pull one out at random if you feel like it, because I eat them up like candy. That said! I also really like stuff that stays super close to canon, but I am a tiny bit picky about things being accurate if you go this route. (I know, right? Anyone who's this into lunatic Alternate Universes has no ground to be fussing about canon compliance.) But anyway, if you are very familiar with the fandom and you're comfortable writing something that sticks obsessively close to canon, I love that too. Seriously, I like it when people put footnotes on their fic so I can check their references. I'm weird like that. (Also I did a meme a while back about "stuff I like in fic" so if you think that could be helpful, it's here.)
Things I don't like: pretty small list. No deathfic, please. No woman-bashing. No gay-bashing. If you want to try addressing something difficult like internalized misogyny or homophobia or racism, feel free, but do it carefully, okay? (I know it seems like that should go without saying but JUST IN CASE.) I'm a bit of a grammar nazi (I know, it's a character flaw) so if that's something you know you have issues with, get a beta to give it a quick scrub. :)
and now, onto the requests!
( cut because my requests are ridiculously long )
To wrap up: all details are totally optional, have a wonderful time with whatever you end up writing and I know I will love it too! Thank you sooooooooo much, and I can't wait until it's Yuletide and I get to read what you've written for me!
Hi! I love Yuletide! I love you! Thank you for offering to write a story for me! Hopefully my requests aren't making you tear out your hair or regret ever volunteering for that fandom, but I promise you, I love all these fandoms and all these characters and I will love you forever for writing them.
Um, so I guess I should give you some general info on what I like. Basically, happy endings. I want everybody to be happy or at least not overtly miserable at the end of the fic. They can suffer and be angsty in the beginning or middle but please please please let the ending be sunshine and rainbows or the promise of sunshine and rainbows on the not-too-distant horizon. I'm also happy to get a fic that's 100% fluffy sunshine and rainbows all the way through. I like characters bantering with each other and goofing off and being total dorks! And I love love love characters showing how much they love each other. It can be romantic, it can be familial, it can be friendship, but give me people who really care about each other and worry and hover and bully in a loving manner and just generally want to make each other happy.
Other things that I like! Crazy AUs are always great. Want to write the fic where they're ice-skaters or porn stars or hookers or college students? GO FOR IT! Reach into that box of cliches and pull one out at random if you feel like it, because I eat them up like candy. That said! I also really like stuff that stays super close to canon, but I am a tiny bit picky about things being accurate if you go this route. (I know, right? Anyone who's this into lunatic Alternate Universes has no ground to be fussing about canon compliance.) But anyway, if you are very familiar with the fandom and you're comfortable writing something that sticks obsessively close to canon, I love that too. Seriously, I like it when people put footnotes on their fic so I can check their references. I'm weird like that. (Also I did a meme a while back about "stuff I like in fic" so if you think that could be helpful, it's here.)
Things I don't like: pretty small list. No deathfic, please. No woman-bashing. No gay-bashing. If you want to try addressing something difficult like internalized misogyny or homophobia or racism, feel free, but do it carefully, okay? (I know it seems like that should go without saying but JUST IN CASE.) I'm a bit of a grammar nazi (I know, it's a character flaw) so if that's something you know you have issues with, get a beta to give it a quick scrub. :)
and now, onto the requests!
( cut because my requests are ridiculously long )
To wrap up: all details are totally optional, have a wonderful time with whatever you end up writing and I know I will love it too! Thank you sooooooooo much, and I can't wait until it's Yuletide and I get to read what you've written for me!
