melannen | (no subject)

Entry tags:

fandom:yuletide

(no subject)

Today I found myself thinking "Man, this is getting annoying - coughing and sneezing more than usual, stuffy nose turning into post-nasal drip that's giving me a sore throat, and ears that don't *quite* hurt but feel like they're about to, plus I've been feeling like butter-over-too-much bread, like I need to get more sleep except I can't when I try, and my appetite is gone and my digestion's feeling picky - I hope I don't get sick."

And then I stopped and thought about that list of symptoms and went, wait, what more would I have to *get* to qualify as "sick"? Basically the only symptom left is a fever, and I almost never get fevers.

(The things is, it's all just right at the level where as long as I keep busy, I don't consciously notice it - but if I stop moving for a few minutes, I realize I'm miserable. And really it's all only maybe one tick above my usual level of "damn you physical body" anyway. So I'm actually maybe even getting more done than usual, because I don't want to stop moving long enough to notice that I feel bad. So I'm not *really* sick. Right? Right.)

...of course reading kaiju drift hangover fic whenever I can't sleep probably isn't helping the weird oogy feeling. :P

ANYWAY on to important things. Like Yuletide.

The extra two request slots are screwing me up! I have, I think, five requests I know I'm asking for (the four things I nominated: paleontology RPF, Bran/Tru, Arm Joe, Lovelace and Babbage + Lucky Starr) but that leaves one slot open, and I have to *decide*! Augh.

Here's my current list of possibles for request six:

Mairelon the Magician - Patricia Wrede,
Perilous Gard - Elizabeth Marie Pope
The Secret Garden - Frances Hodgson Burnett,
The Sherwood Ring - Elizabeth Marie Pope,
Star Trek: Rihannsu - Diane Duane,
Tattooed Potato and Other Clues - Ellen Raskin,
Those Who Hunt the Night - Barbara Hambly,
Young Wizards - Diane Duane,
Literary Trysts It Gives Me Great Joy To Think About RPF,
Otzi the Iceman RPF,
Time Team RPF,
Casablanca (1942),
Citizen Kane (1941),
The Lone Gunmen (TV),
Mathnet,
Rosemary and Thyme,
The Thick of It (TV)

This is your chance to talk me into one of them. :P

And, just for fun, my extremely preliminary offers list:
Eroica Yori Ai o Komete | From Eroica with Love, レ・ミゼラブル少女コゼット | Les Misérables: Shōjo Cosette, Alan Mendelsohn the Boy from Mars - Daniel Pinkwater, Black Ships - Jo Graham, The Cat in the Hat - Dr. Seuss, Catherine Called Birdy - Karen Cushman, Cats of Grand Central - Diane Duane, Chronicles of Amber - Roger Zelazny, Chronicles of Prydain - Lloyd Alexander, The Dead Isle - Sam Starbuck, Discworld - Terry Pratchett, The Dresden Files - Jim Butcher, The Ear The Eye And The Arm - Nancy Farmer, Effluent Engine - N. K. Jemisin, Enchanted Forest Chronicles - Patricia Wrede, Farmer Giles of Ham - J.R.R. Tolkien, Frontier Wolf - Rosemary Sutcliff, Gil's All Fright Diner - A. Lee Martinez, Goblin Market - Christina Rossetti, Green Sky Trilogy - Zilpha Keatley Snyder, Hainish Cycle - Ursula K. Le Guin, Hand of Isis - Jo Graham, Have Space Suit—Will Travel - Robert A. Heinlein, Humanx Commonwealth - Alan Dean Foster, Illuminatus! Trilogy - Robert Shea & Robert Anton Wilson, The Instrumentality of Mankind - Cordwainer Smith, John the Balladeer - Manly Wade Wellman, The Left Hand of Darkness - Ursula K. Le Guin, Little Fuzzy Series - H. Beam Piper, Lord Peter Wimsey - Dorothy L. Sayers, Lucky Starr - Isaac Asimov, Mabinogion (Myth), Mairelon the Magician - Patricia Wrede, Matilda - Roald Dahl, Nation - Terry Pratchett, Perilous Gard - Elizabeth Marie Pope, Redshirts - John Scalzi, Rod Allbright Alien Adventures - Bruce Coville, Ronja Rövardotter | Ronia the Robber's Daughter - Astrid Lindgren, The Secret Garden - Frances Hodgson Burnett, The Sherwood Ring - Elizabeth Marie Pope, The Silver Branch - Rosemary Sutcliff, Snarkout Boys - Daniel Pinkwater, Star Trek: Fortunes of War - Diane Carey, Star Trek: Rihannsu - Diane Duane, A Study in Emerald - Neil Gaiman, Sword at Sunset - Rosemary Sutcliff, Tattooed Potato and Other Clues - Ellen Raskin, Those Who Hunt the Night - Barbara Hambly, Three Hearings on the Existence of Snakes in the Human Bloodstream - James Alan Gardner, True Meaning of Smekday - Adam Rex, The Witch's Brat - Rosemary Sutcliff, Young Wizards - Diane Duane, Thrilling Adventures of Lovelace and Babbage, Oglaf, Hark! A Vagrant, Delilah Dirk and the Turkish Lieutenant, Calvin & Hobbes, Phonogram, Nextwave (Comic), Desert Peach, Cryptozoology RPF, Literary Trysts It Gives Me Great Joy To Think About RPF, Otzi the Iceman RPF, Poetry RPF, Time Team RPF, Casablanca (1942), Citizen Kane (1941), The Eagle | The Eagle of the Ninth (2011), It's a Wonderful Life (1946), John Carter (2012), The Librarian (Movies), Faerie Queen - Heather Alexander (song), Lawyers Guns and Money - Warren Zevon (Song), Piano Man - Billy Joel (Song), Tam Lin (Traditional Ballad), Alien Life (Anthropomorfic), ALMA-TADEMA Lawrence - Works, The Bugle (podcast), The Calling of St. Matthew - Caravaggio, Dinosaurs (Anthropomorfic), Ghost Soup Infidel Blue, The Influence of Immanuel Kant on Evidentiary Approaches in 18th Century Bulgaria (Journal Article), Les Misérables (radio play 1937), The Pierley/Redford Dissociate Affect Diagnostic, Solar System (Anthropomorfic), Space Vehicles, The Witch's Son - auroaronkitten, WTF Evolution (Tumblr), All's Well That Ends Well - Shakespeare, As You Like It - Shakespeare, A Little Night Music - Sondheim/Wheeler, Much Ado About Nothing - Shakespeare, Romeo And Juliet - Shakespeare, Rosencrantz & Guildenstern are Dead - Stoppard, Sonnets - Shakespeare, The Tempest - Shakespeare, Boston Legal, Doctor Who: The Curse of Fatal Death, Hogan's Heroes, The Lone Gunmen (TV), Mathnet, Rosemary and Thyme, Sarah Jane Adventures, Sesame Street (TV), The Thick of It (TV), Arm Joe, Cookie Clicker, A Dark Room (Doublespeak Games), Minesweeper

(Note: my offers list is generated according to a set of rules, more-or-less as follows:
1. I can acquire canon relatively easily, and
2. review it relatively quickly;
3. it doesn't have an active fandom of any kind I'd feel like I had to familiarize myself with;
4. either I know the fandom and have been wanting to write fic for it already, or
5. it's been on my to-read/to watch list for too long, or
6. just seeing the fandom name on the list made me long to write for it;
7. I can't imagine any prompts for it that I would actively not want to work with;
8. if it will probably result in a match with someone I know, I've read their YT letters and know I can write what they want; and
9. I have not yet written or received it for yuletide.
Which is why some fandoms you might expect aren't on there and some you might not expect are.
I basically just let Yuletide pick my November/December fandom for me at random. It's the best part of the season!)

Flat | Top-Level Comments Only

As the person who, with a certain amount of embarrassment, nominated Otzi the Iceman RPF, I am ridiculously excited that someone other than me might be interested! \o/

That was an *excellent* nomination! Every time I read something about Otzi I want fanfic about his story. Even if I don't request it I'm *definitely* offering it.

Mairelon the Magician - Patricia Wrede

Voting for thisssss!

If I request that, it'll be for "Renee D'Auber and Mairelon being queer. Preferably in the same room as each other".

...But I suspect that's a request you could also get behind.

I would be 125% in favor of this, OMG.

Rihannsu!

You know you want to celebrate The Year They Finally Let Us Have Rihannsu In Yuletide by asking for it.

I don't knoooow, though. I want *really specific* things out of Rihannsu fic though and they are all things that would be hard to get in a 1000 word yuletide fic. :P

Ah, okay. At this point I'm just so thrilled to have the chance at Rihannsu fic that my desires are basically A STORY WITH RIHANNSU IN IT.

What would you be looking for, out of curiosity?

COMPLICATED RIHANNSU POLITICS
SOMETHING THAT FOLLOWS THE EMPRESS THROUGH THE NEXT TEN YEARS OF HER REIGN
AT LEAST 200000 WORDS PLEASE
ALSO FFAIRL AND ARRHAE SHOULD HAVE BABIES
AWKWARD HALF-ARRANGED WEDDING WHERE ONE OR THE OTHER IS SUSPECTED OF NOT BEING RIHANNSU AND THEY PROVE IT BY MARRYING AND BEING CROSS-FERTILE
BECAUSE AFTER ALL *BOTH* OF THE EMPRESS'S TOP ADVISORS CAN'T SECRETLY BE HUMAN THAT'S ONE COINCIDENCE TOO MUCH
AND THEN THEY FALL IN LOVE
AMONG COMPLICATED RIHANNSU POLITICS
WHICH ARE VERY PLOTTY AND FULL OF ROMAN PARALLELS
AND INVOLVE AEL BEING AWESOME
AND NOT SLEEPING WITH KIRK EVEN THOUGH EVERYBODY IS WAITING FOR IT
MCCOY AND H'DAEN ARE THE GODPARENTS
(OF BOTH THE BABIES AND THE NEW EMPIRE)
THEY EMBARRASS EVERYONE BY FLIRTING CONSTANTLY
SPOCK IS JEALOUS

...yeah I dunno about writing a yuletide letter for that one. :P

(or FW crossover but can't ask for only crossovers...)

Are you kidding, that sounds like THE BEST STORY. THE BEST. I see how it might be difficult to ask for, though.

(You would think Ffairl and Arrhae having human children would give the game away, though...)

Ha, I mentioned Frontier Rihannsu. You might match me! *cackles, rubs hands together gleefully*

POSSIBLY
...if I match you you might actually get Frontier Rihannsu at long last.

And honestly Ffairl and Arrhae don't really make sense in general. Like, at all, politically or tactically or biologically. But I LOVE THEM ANYWAY. If they can somehow give them green blood that stays green for years and causes no immune reactions and also increase their body temperature a little bit and change their digestive chemistry enough to manage the diet, they can have green-blooded babies. :P

(...also I hope you didn't get the idea that that was anything other than unmediated idfic. :P)

Edited 2013-10-10 02:58 (UTC)

That sounds so fantastic.

Seconding this!

Perilous Gard!

Perilous Gard!

(...honestly I am leaning more toward Sherwood Ring as something I'd want fic for but they are both good)

Heh. I hear you on the being sick thing. I have really bad sinuses, and so for me, being sick is pretty much always accompanied by sinus trouble. So, last winter, I had a day where I was kind of achy, and my stomach and intestines hurt, and I'd feel hot and then feel cold, and I was finding it hard to concentrate, and (the list goes on), but I did not have sinus problems. I didn't realize until later that I was sick, because my sinuses were fine!

Re: requests. I love Casablanca, and there has been some exceptionally fine Casablanca fic written for Yuletide over the years. But oddly enough, that would (for me) argue against requesting Casablanca. First, because it's a movie everybody knows, so therefore even someone who doesn't match on it will probably know it (or be able to get ahold of it easily) and may choose to write it as easier than one of your other choices even if that other choice is what you matched on. (I have felt similar temptations in the past, where I was stretching myself in the offers but wasn't sure if I had stretched myself too far when I got my assignment.) Second, the high quality of Yuletide stories in the past would be a hindrance to me. Is this new story going to be just rehashing what they have already done so well, or is it going to be covering new ground? I guess it depends on what characters you select and what optional details.

I think the most critical thing you have to consider before requesting any fandom for your sixth slot is, "If I get a fic in this fandom, will I be disappointed that it wasn't in one of the other fandoms I requested?"

"If I get a fic in this fandom, will I be disappointed that it wasn't in one of the other fandoms I requested?"

Yeah, I know a lot of people worry about that, but that's never been an issue for me. I think I suffer from an excess of enthusiasm or something, I am really equally delighted when people write me fic, no matter what fandom it is. :P So for me this is really more about coming up with fandoms where I could easily come up with good yuletide prompts that I really want than about the fandoms per se?

With Casablanca it would be Ilsa/Laszlo/Rick, which, much to my very great shock, nobody has ever written that I can find, despite the fact that there was a scene in the movie where Ilsa was clearly about two seconds away from suggesting they solve everything with a threesome, and everybody in that movie having scorching chemistry with everything in sight. So it wouldn't be a rehashing. (I'd put in "anything about Sam" as my non-pairing-specific backup request - Sam fic has been written before for yuletide, and very very well, but I don't actually believe there can be too much of it. :P)

Wait, what scene was that? Clearly, my slash goggles have failed me.

Oh, I'm sure I was watching with very very thick OT3 goggles at the time. :P But the end of the scene where Ilsa and Rick are in Rick's apartment in Casablanca? And she's finally told the whole story to someone, and Rick has just realized that maybe the strong emotion he feels about Lazslo isn't 100% hate any more? And then Ilsa talks about how she loves them both so much, and she doesn't know what's right any more, and Rick is going to have to decide for all three of them now?

(note that this is happening the same night that Lazslo basically gave her tacit permission to sleep with Rick if she thought it best)

That's when Rick says his "Here's looking at you, kid" line. But every time I watch the movie, I expect either Ilsa to follow that train of thought a tiny bit farther before she gives up. Or Rick to think past his own sads far enough to realize where she was trying to lead him. And then am very sad when that doesn't happen.

And then the next scene is Rick inviting *Laszlo* in and testing him out to see if he's really good enough for Ilsa, and instead Laszlo offers to step back and let Rick have her. And I keep expecting, okay, in the last scene Rick wasn't sure about Laszlo, so he deflected, but now he's decided that yes, this could work, and he's going to go in for the OT3.

But alas still no.

I mean, I love the canon ending with Rick and Renault going off into the sunset together, but every time I watch the movie I still want the ending where Renault hands Rick a third set of papers and shoos him onto the plane with them :P

Otzi the Iceman RPF! I'd like to see someone write fic for it, anyway.

So would I! It's the only one on that list with no requests yet, which is sad.

Flat | Top-Level Comments Only