How I Wonder

Hi!! I've been doing this for a long time, and am so excited to participate in it again!!

Likes/dislikes:

I prefer plot, but I like character vignettes, too. I'm fond of allusions to canon and other related works. Tropes are my JAM--trope-tastic, inverted, subverted; the more lampshades the better! I love stories that mess around with perspective and time.

I love gen, het, and slash, but I would prefer nothing very explicit, crack-tastic, or very AU (I am not a fan of high school/college or coffee shop AUs, for example). I adore explorations of the world(s) that the authors and creators have built!

I love stories that are about thriving, not just survival. Stuff about how power works, managing cultural expectations and ambition and fear. I love people trying to do the best they can in the face of extremely long odds--although, again, not just about surviving, but actually making something of the situation?

But really--I love Yuletide most of all. :)

Thanks, yuletide writer!!


More specifics for this year, if you're curious:

Dreamblood Series - N.K. Jemisin
Would love some post-novel explorations of what any of these amazing women are up to. If the ones who have met, ever meet again; if they don't. Where are the places they fit now?

Gargoyles
I didn't nominate this one, but when I saw it I was really excited that someone had!!! Obviously, as with my other requests, I'm most interested in the woman of color; I'd love to see her exploring mythologies on her own, or how she's managing years on down the line from the show. I'm not looking for anything particularly shippy out of this set of characters; it's much more interesting to me that some of them are immortals! I love the mythology of the Gargoyles universe and mythology in general, so anything that highlights those connections would be great.

The Good Place
Kamilah, Tahani, Hydrogen, Vicky
The one prompt that leaped into my head was: Kamilah definitely goes to the Bad Place. Vicky is there.
Or, you know, I love love Vicky-the-diva; what's karaoke night like in the Bad Place (besides terrible? I have a friend whose go-to is some godawful really long Nickelback song XD)

Yuletide!!! So psyched to be a part of this again. Thank you, writer, for contributing to any of these tiny great fandoms!!

General fanfic likes/dislikes:

I love stories that mess around with perspective and time. I prefer plot, but I like character vignettes, too. I'm fond of allusions to canon and other works, related or not. Tropes are my JAM--trope-tastic, inverted, subverted; the more lampshades the better!

I love gen, het, and slash, but I would prefer nothing very explicit, crack-tastic--though in Galavant I'm willing to suspend more disbelief, ofc--or very AU (I am not a fan of high school or coffee shop AUs, for example).

Elder Scrolls Online

Raynor & Kireth's adventures in Tamriel or Coldharbour?

Or...

Something fun about Razum-dar and Queen Ayrenn? How they met, a disguised night out on the town, terrible advice Razum-dar has given his Queen?

Or...smashing the four together post-Coldharbour, as Raynor & Kireth wander across borders into the Aldmeri Dominion?

I ADORE Raynor & Kireth Vanos so much. (I'm actually planning a Skyrim character to be a descendant of theirs.) Kireth's spirit and Raynor's...Raynor-ness had me searching for every opportunity to hang out with them in ESO. How did they get started as adventurers? Were they the sort of kids who read wild adventure stories as an antidote to their boring lives? Where did they go prior to meeting the Vestige? Or after getting out of Coldharbour? (I've only done the Orsinium and Thieves guild DLC. No incest please!)

Razum-Dar and Ayrenn: Well, Razum-Dar is just great, and there's something really compelling to me about Ayrenn's relative novice status but steadfast devotion to leading her people. I actually haven't finished the Aldmeri Dominion side of ESO yet, but I'm okay with spoilers. Mainly I just want to see Razum-Dar and Ayrenn having some fun: as friends, as lovers, either is fine.

Tigana
Tigana is the first Guy Gavriel Kay novel I ever read, and it is still my absolute favorite. Honestly, anything about the amazing women who fight for history would be great.

Galavant

Galavant-style meta-anachronistic song-and-dance shenanigans about women's work in a pseudo-medieval context? :)

Huh, I guess my theme for Yuletide this year is Badass Royal Women. (And other equally great non-royal women!) So...what are the women of the realm up to after the end of the show? Are Isabella and Roberta really going to hang up their swords? Where has Gwynne gone? Or, what's it like to learn how to be an evil queen?

( two gifts and 27 recs )
(guess who forgot how to cut text in lj and had to redo this like five times)

In undergrad, right around my sophomore and junior years, I would procrastinate the hell out of papers by writing other stuff. A quick dive into my XF fic folder (oh lord there are some real bad ones in there) puts a lot of them as written right around midterms or finals.

And now here I am, thirteen/fourteen years later, trying to compel myself to write a frigging 4-5 page, double-spaced essay (and, tbh, the rest of an IRB proposal) and I keep finding myself working on my Yuletide fic instead. As in, RescueTime tells me I've put in at least 7 hours over the last five days into the fic, and...like...an hour and a half on the IRB...and forty-five minutes on the outline for the essay.

Well, at least I know I can actually bang out a bunch of words when the spirit moves, right? Let's hope I can channel this into prospectus writing next semester.

(HA.)

It's that time again!! Hooray!! Thanks, yuletide author, for signing on for this round of tiny fandom shenanigans :D

General fanfic likes/dislikes:

I love stories that mess around with perspective, time, 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 very AU (I am not a fan of high school/coffee shop AUs, for example).

I love critiques of social inequalities (probably best suited for Sleepy Hollow and Dreamsnake, but Eureka has possibilities for this too) and narratives of resistance.

Specific fandoms:
( Sleepy Hollow )

( Dreamsnake )

( Eureka )

Is it Yuletide nomination season already? Why, it nearly is! That's weird. I'm so unprepared. I've been very fortunate to receive most of everything that I've wanted over the past few years...so what is it I want now? And what do I want to write????? Hmmm.