eisoj5 | dear yuletide author!!

Thank you, dear yuletide author, for being part of my favorite fannish experience of the year!! I'm really glad you'll be writing for any one of these fandoms and I can't wait to read what you come up with :)

General fanfic likes/dislikes:

I love stories that mess around with perspective, with time, with expectations. I prefer plot, but I like character vignettes, too. I enjoy reading long descriptive passages; I like quick, challenging dialogue. I'm fond of allusions to other works, related or not, but detailed references to canon are also welcome.

I love gen, het, slash. I would prefer nothing very explicit or super crack-tastic, though! (I...don't like high school AUs at all, for example.)

This year my requests are pretty female-centric except for the last one. Not sure how that all fell out but I do love strong female characters :)

Here are my letters from previous years if you're curious:
2011
2009
2008
2007
2006

(I didn't write a letter in 2010 due to extenuating circumstances. If you do read last year's letter, there are some things that have carried over into this year's requests.)

Journeyman

Livia, to me, was one of the greatest things about Journeyman. What was her life like, before and after she started jumping around in time; how did her success in the future dovetail with a more repressive environment in the past? How did her (I'm presuming Chinese-American) ethnic background affect her perception of what life was like in the future?

This one is somewhat personal to me, so I understand if you don't want to take that on and write something else. I was really REALLY excited to see a woman of Asian descent in such an important and central role on Journeyman. Livia was beautiful, and smart, and she was mysterious—but she was mysterious not because she was Asian, but because she was supposed to be DEAD and then she was a TIME TRAVELER, OMG! And over the course of the show, it struck me that being with Dan in a future where she could become a District Attorney must have been very different than living in the 1940s, where that path would be closed to her.

I should mention that I was rooting for Dan/Livia all along, too. Not that I didn't like Katie, I just liked Livia a lot better :D

Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim

As the game goes, my character was assigned Lydia as a housecarl in Whiterun. But I already had a great friend and companion, so I had Lydia just stay at my house. When I'm home, she's upstairs in MY bedroom eating a sweet roll. What does she do the rest of the time, while I'm out adventuring? Is she throwing wild parties for the residents of Whiterun? Having adventures of her own and sneaking back before I get home? Or Elisif the Fair: what was her life like with Torygg? How does she navigate the political wilds after his death? What is her relationship like with Tullius, Rikke, Aldis, etc.?

It's almost a year later and my Skyrim obsession continues apace. I (still) haven't completed the Dark Brotherhood questline, and I just got Dawnguard, but I don't mind being spoiled since most of the fun is in how I get my characters there anyway! I also wouldn't mind something about Lydia's past, since she was likely hired by the Jarl of Whiterun before; was she fond of Irileth and Farengar? Did Balgruuf's kids get on her nerves too? What about Elisif? I rarely stop in at the Blue Palace these days. What's going on there?

Snow Queen Series - Joan D. Vinge
Mundilfoere was apparently quite important in the Brotherhood. What was her life like before/during her time with Reede? Or...what does Ananke do after the events of the Summer Queen? Or...what did Arienrhod do in her first years as the Snow Queen? I love the women of Tiamat and the Hundred Worlds, and anything about any of the ones that made it into the set would be lovely :)

I truly love these books, and the diversity of women within them. Anything you can write about their lives, past, present, future...any or all of it will be loved and probably incorporated into my headcanon. XD

Little Women series - Louisa May Alcott
I adored Dan in the books, and was terribly sad when a good portion of his life was skipped over to get to his death. I would love a story about how he lived in the West or how he worked with Native American people (without being the White Savior, please) or the battles he fought with the oppressive forces at work in that time.

Oh, Dan. The 'black sheep' of the boys. I always liked him best for his rough-around-the-edges, hardscrabble approach to life; sure, while the March sisters had it difficult growing up relatively poor, they managed to fall back on their goodness and winning ways to get through life. Dan...Dan's the kid in the back of the class who couldn't care less about being there, who tags a park bench and chucks a rock through a window...but is still, down deep, just trying to get by any which way he can. So like I said, disappointed that so much of his adulthood got glossed over in the last book and that mention of him ended with his quiet death. But really anything about his life would be wonderful (slash is perfectly fine here too.)