Yuletide 2020
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fajrdrakoMy tastes and desires don't change much from year to year, though new fannish loves get added to the mix. Do some get lost in time? I don't think so. I still love the things I loved at four years old - I'm thinking "Winnie-the-Pooh" here, though there are other things.
I'm always happy to get new prompts for stories about beloved characters, and always happy to get stories, so it's a good trade.
As last year, the template here is taken fromtriplesalto.
Hello and welcome to my Yuletide letter! Thank you for writing for me.
AO3 name: fajrdrako
General likes: Competence, heroism, adventures, slow burn romance, passionate feelings, first times, five-times fics, happy endings. Good grammar and good spelling and that more nebulous thing, good style, are all very important to me - more important than story content. I love in-character fanfic that makes me feel I know a character better than I did before.
Smut Likes: Detailed explicit sex, sex in which the characters are really eager for it, M/M, F/F, MMF, FFM, threesomes or sexual groupings of any configuration, bisexual characters, teasing, romantic sex, passionate feelings, bondage, sexual tension and/or delayed gratification.
DNWs: unhappy endings, character death, rape, extreme changes from canon characterization, explicit gore and violence.
Fandoms Requested this year:The Queen's Thief - Megan Whalen Turner, Six of Crows Series - Leigh Bardugo, Swordspoint Series - Ellen Kushner, The Anarchy RPF, The King (2019), and Warchild Series - Karin Lowachee.
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Fandom 1: The Queen's Thief - Megan Whalen Turner
Beloved books, beloved characters. I particularly love Eugenides, and would love to see an exploration of his relationships and his situation. I also love seeing how Attolia deals with his more outrageous exploits, the ways in which she needs him.
If it's useful, there is a wiki for The Queen's Thief series here.
~~~
Fandom 2: Six of Crows - Leigh Bardugo
I loved the world of Ketterdam with all its aspects - the lowlife and the rich, the vagrants and the foreigners. Most of all, I adored Kaz Brekker, with his vulnerability and strength, his problems and his unutterable cleverness. I also loved Inej, with her skills and her courage, and her determination to meet her goals. I'd like to more of their problematic realtionship, or, really, Kaz's troubled relationships with anyone.
Aspects I find particularly interesting:
- The relationship between Kaz and Inej - a little bit like Rogue and Gambit. Is their love impossible? Can the situation be resolved, and if so, how?
- Will Inej succeed in her anti-piracy ambitions? How will that play out? With there be complications?
- I'd be interested in seeing the whole team a year after the ending of "Crooked Kingdom". How will they have changed? How will their feelings towards each other (and the events of the books) have evolved? Will they be in a better situation, or a worse one?
~~~
Fandom 3: Swordspoint series - Ellen Kushner
I love Katherine and her take on life. I'd love more about her, her relationships, her reactions, and the trouble she can get into.
~~~
Fandom 4: The Anarchy RPF
What a time! Henry Fitzempress is my favourite, but there were so many interesting situations and people. A few things I'd like to see explored (though not necessarily in the same fic):
(a) A meeting between Henry and King Stephen
(b) Something about the relationship between Matilda and Geoffrey Plantagenet (A moment of resolution? A clash of titans? Love/hate?)
(c) Henry's relationship with his mother - were they partners in war, or was it edgier?
~~~
Fandom 5: The King (2019) (Comics)
What makes Henry tick? What matters most to him? I'd like to see an explorations of his feelings, thoughts, relationships (especially intimate or important ones), his ambitions, or his regrets.
~~~
Fandom 6: Warchild Series - Karin Lowachee
Cairo Azarcon is one of my favourite heroes, the Macedon one of my favourite ships. I'd love to know more of his story. I also loved Yuri, Jos and Ryan.
Things I would like to see explored:
- Azarcon in any sort of emotional conflict - between his wife and his ship? in his relationship with Ryan? in his feelings regarding Yuri or Falcone?
- Azarcon's choosing crew for the Macedon - and how the individuals fit in with their various difficulties (PTSD, etc.)
- his conflict(s) with the government, and the reasons he makes the choices he makes
- Anything featuring Azarcon's past and how it affects his present
- What happens after the end of "Cagebird"?
~~~
I'm always happy to get new prompts for stories about beloved characters, and always happy to get stories, so it's a good trade.
As last year, the template here is taken from
triplesalto.Hello and welcome to my Yuletide letter! Thank you for writing for me.
AO3 name: fajrdrako
General likes: Competence, heroism, adventures, slow burn romance, passionate feelings, first times, five-times fics, happy endings. Good grammar and good spelling and that more nebulous thing, good style, are all very important to me - more important than story content. I love in-character fanfic that makes me feel I know a character better than I did before.
Smut Likes: Detailed explicit sex, sex in which the characters are really eager for it, M/M, F/F, MMF, FFM, threesomes or sexual groupings of any configuration, bisexual characters, teasing, romantic sex, passionate feelings, bondage, sexual tension and/or delayed gratification.
DNWs: unhappy endings, character death, rape, extreme changes from canon characterization, explicit gore and violence.
Fandoms Requested this year:The Queen's Thief - Megan Whalen Turner, Six of Crows Series - Leigh Bardugo, Swordspoint Series - Ellen Kushner, The Anarchy RPF, The King (2019), and Warchild Series - Karin Lowachee.
~
Fandom 1: The Queen's Thief - Megan Whalen Turner
Beloved books, beloved characters. I particularly love Eugenides, and would love to see an exploration of his relationships and his situation. I also love seeing how Attolia deals with his more outrageous exploits, the ways in which she needs him.
If it's useful, there is a wiki for The Queen's Thief series here.
~~~
Fandom 2: Six of Crows - Leigh Bardugo
I loved the world of Ketterdam with all its aspects - the lowlife and the rich, the vagrants and the foreigners. Most of all, I adored Kaz Brekker, with his vulnerability and strength, his problems and his unutterable cleverness. I also loved Inej, with her skills and her courage, and her determination to meet her goals. I'd like to more of their problematic realtionship, or, really, Kaz's troubled relationships with anyone.
Aspects I find particularly interesting:
- The relationship between Kaz and Inej - a little bit like Rogue and Gambit. Is their love impossible? Can the situation be resolved, and if so, how?
- Will Inej succeed in her anti-piracy ambitions? How will that play out? With there be complications?
- I'd be interested in seeing the whole team a year after the ending of "Crooked Kingdom". How will they have changed? How will their feelings towards each other (and the events of the books) have evolved? Will they be in a better situation, or a worse one?
~~~
Fandom 3: Swordspoint series - Ellen Kushner
I love Katherine and her take on life. I'd love more about her, her relationships, her reactions, and the trouble she can get into.
~~~
Fandom 4: The Anarchy RPF
What a time! Henry Fitzempress is my favourite, but there were so many interesting situations and people. A few things I'd like to see explored (though not necessarily in the same fic):
(a) A meeting between Henry and King Stephen
(b) Something about the relationship between Matilda and Geoffrey Plantagenet (A moment of resolution? A clash of titans? Love/hate?)
(c) Henry's relationship with his mother - were they partners in war, or was it edgier?
~~~
Fandom 5: The King (2019) (Comics)
What makes Henry tick? What matters most to him? I'd like to see an explorations of his feelings, thoughts, relationships (especially intimate or important ones), his ambitions, or his regrets.
~~~
Fandom 6: Warchild Series - Karin Lowachee
Cairo Azarcon is one of my favourite heroes, the Macedon one of my favourite ships. I'd love to know more of his story. I also loved Yuri, Jos and Ryan.
Things I would like to see explored:
- Azarcon in any sort of emotional conflict - between his wife and his ship? in his relationship with Ryan? in his feelings regarding Yuri or Falcone?
- Azarcon's choosing crew for the Macedon - and how the individuals fit in with their various difficulties (PTSD, etc.)
- his conflict(s) with the government, and the reasons he makes the choices he makes
- Anything featuring Azarcon's past and how it affects his present
- What happens after the end of "Cagebird"?
~~~
