Dear Yulegoat 2020
Oct. 25th, 2020 08:52 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
mme_hardyWell. It's certainly being a year, isn't it? I know you're as exhausted as I am. Every year I say this, but I mean it even more than most years: Have fun. Write the fic you have always wanted to read. Go to the farthest frontiers of your imagination and wallow in whatever makes you happiest. Write your id. Write that fic nobody ever wrote for you. Write the fic that scratches all your itches. Let your freak flag fly. This is the year for it. Nothing you write can be weirder than this year we're all suffering through. AUs? In Spaaaace? Everybody is microorganisms? Blobfish/shark forbidden love? Half the cast from the 1920s and the other half from the Ancien Régime? Let's see it. A sonnet cycle? Wow, are you a better writer than I am.
In general, operatic and melodramatic conventions make me happy. Masked balls. Swordfights. Whispering behind fans. Leaping out of windows. Climbing up into windows.
I am happy to get gen or shipfic, anything from G to XX-rated.
Having said "let your freak flag fly", well, I'm exaggerating a bit.
Do not want: Cruelty. Emotional manipulation. Rape (dubcon is fine as long as everybody is secretly enjoying themselves). Urine or feces or vomit. Forced infantilization/ forced re-gendering. Childplay.
My requests this year:
The Queen's Thief. These books are mostly about Eugenides being clever and dumb in distressingly equal proportions. Eugenides is a great leading character, but there are so many interesting side characters! I've asked for Phresine and Heiro because they have influence in the plot without taking direct action. What are they doing when they aren't managing Eugenides? Do they know each other? Do they work on parallel paths without ever directly interacting? Are they friends?
Cyrano de Bergerac. This is pretty much my id-play. I want to shake Roxane, Cyrano, and Christian for various reasons, but the panache of it all hits me hard. I've only requested Cyrano, because I love him so much, but feel free to add in anybody else you want. What I love about Cyrano is his passion, his poetry, and his rage. What I don't love about him is How can you be such an incredible dumbass, kiss the girl already! It's not a tragedy without the triangle, of course. Just write me Cyrano's viewpoint. Perhaps it isn't about his love life at all; perhaps it's about how bad the local bakery is, or his last big duel, or his opinions about Paris. If it's about his love, that's fine, too. Let me see inside his head.
The Geefs Brothers' Satan Sculptures, Le génie du mal. I mean, duuuuuuude. Just, duuuuuude. Go apeshit. I have faith in you.
In general, operatic and melodramatic conventions make me happy. Masked balls. Swordfights. Whispering behind fans. Leaping out of windows. Climbing up into windows.
I am happy to get gen or shipfic, anything from G to XX-rated.
Having said "let your freak flag fly", well, I'm exaggerating a bit.
Do not want: Cruelty. Emotional manipulation. Rape (dubcon is fine as long as everybody is secretly enjoying themselves). Urine or feces or vomit. Forced infantilization/ forced re-gendering. Childplay.
My requests this year:
The Queen's Thief. These books are mostly about Eugenides being clever and dumb in distressingly equal proportions. Eugenides is a great leading character, but there are so many interesting side characters! I've asked for Phresine and Heiro because they have influence in the plot without taking direct action. What are they doing when they aren't managing Eugenides? Do they know each other? Do they work on parallel paths without ever directly interacting? Are they friends?
Cyrano de Bergerac. This is pretty much my id-play. I want to shake Roxane, Cyrano, and Christian for various reasons, but the panache of it all hits me hard. I've only requested Cyrano, because I love him so much, but feel free to add in anybody else you want. What I love about Cyrano is his passion, his poetry, and his rage. What I don't love about him is How can you be such an incredible dumbass, kiss the girl already! It's not a tragedy without the triangle, of course. Just write me Cyrano's viewpoint. Perhaps it isn't about his love life at all; perhaps it's about how bad the local bakery is, or his last big duel, or his opinions about Paris. If it's about his love, that's fine, too. Let me see inside his head.
The Geefs Brothers' Satan Sculptures, Le génie du mal. I mean, duuuuuuude. Just, duuuuuude. Go apeshit. I have faith in you.
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Date: 2020-10-26 05:28 am (UTC)I have my fingers crossed for you so hard.
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Date: 2020-10-26 05:44 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2020-10-26 05:47 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2020-10-26 07:01 pm (UTC)I am so disappointed in the modern appreciation of sculpture.
Good luck with the rest!