Dear Yuletide Writer,
Thank you so much for writing a story for me! I've tried to put plenty of information for each fandom, but if you would like to write something completely different please feel free! I am also happy for you to include as many or as few of the nominated characters as you wish. If you're not sure about anything, or want to do a crossover with another fandom and need to check if I know it, just ask my partner![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png)
st_aurafina.
Things I enjoy: stories about female characters, plot, character interaction, gen fic, slash, femslash, female-centric het, exploring a canon world. I also like OCs as a way to expand the canon universe, so if that's a direction you want to go, that would be great. AUs are awesome – both in the sense of a deviation from canon and a completely different world – as long as they're not mundane AUs. Coffee shop no, superpowered coffee shop yes.
Do Not Wants: non-con or rape; non-canon character deaths (canon deaths are fine); mentor/student, adult/teen or adult/child sexual interaction; zombies; apocalyptic or post-apocalyptic AUs; mundane AUs; cancer.
Baker Street
This is one fandom where I desperately wish there was more: everything about the world is dropped in hints and background art, but the violent collision of Victorian mores (and not just the posh ones) and punk sensibility is gorgeously grim and intensely fascinating. Having open-minded, calm Susan in Watson's role as the narrator/diarist brings a lot of cohesion to the violent story and Sharon Ford's deductive reasoning, but it also means that we don't get to see a lot outside that POV. What is Sharon's uneasy connection to Lady Noir, and why is Sharon able to work with the police? Why is Sam so desperate and violent and her revelation such a surprise to everyone but Sharon? Is there no other way out for her? What is it like to live in this grimy London and what happened to make it that way? What is the rest of the world like? Why is Sharon choosing to live the way she does, and what does that say about women's roles in this world? (And what do Sam's actions say about perceptions of trans people – I am definitely open to a better or just different ending for her!)
I suppose I just want to know everything about how it all works, whether through a mystery or backstory or a character study or an OC, to see how the aggressive social Darwinism of the Victorian era and the DIY anarchist ethos of punk pull together to make this world.
Daredevil (comics)
My major request here is that Foggy's battle with cancer is not part of the story, not even in the background, not even a mention. You are welcome to set this story in any era of Daredevil (or a mish-mash), and include any other Marvel comics crossovers or cameos you would like. Canon and non-canon pairings are all welcome! I've really requested some different things here, so feel free to run with any small part and don't feel at all obligated to try to get more things in.
Kirsten McDuffie is a wonderful character who takes no shit from Matt and is the superhero of her own life, so I would love to see her, too - maybe Kirsten and the Night Nurse having an adventure, or involved in the logistics of superhero support? I can't imagine that someone who was thrilled to get their own nemesis is going to be content with regular life again, or that she ever was even before meeting Matt. If you do write in the San Francisco era, Kirsten/Matt/Foggy in a V or a threesome is fine, but I want to the focus to be on Kirsten, please.
Becky Blake is a character I haven't seen in many stories, but I think she's great. She's someone who is very tough on the outside but she has to work herself up to that - it doesn't come naturally. I would love a story about her working with (or behind the back of) Nelson & Murdock when she was a secretary, or taking on her own cases as part of Nelson, Blake & Murdock. More recently she quit (thanks to Matt shenanigans) so I would love to see what she's doing now. She has met other superheroes including the highly-connected Black Widow, so if you want to have Becky on an adventure with any other superhero, that would be great, too! I'm not American, and my knowledge of US law is very much on a superficial, TV-based level, so don't feel that you have to be incredibly accurate about New York law to write about Becky (or Foggy or Kirsten for that matter!)
Milla Donovan was very short-changed in the comics, with the timeskip just after she starts dating Matt and then getting attacked and (permanently?) hospitalised thanks to fear gas. Why was she so enthusiastic about dating a superhero, even with some very clear indications of what it was like? She worked in public housing, so urban social justice must be something important to her, but how does that stack up with vigilante violence? Matt often talks about having to "hide" who he is to be a "regular" blind person - was he some kind of wish fulfillment fantasy for Milla? What did she see as a future for them, or even just for her? If you want to see this while she's institutionalised, I would prefer to see some hope of or progress towards recovery; and if it's afterwards, I would like the whole episode not to be just brushed off, but still affect her, even if just in memories.
Elektra Natchios acts like she's a force of nature, but her interactions with the characters of this cast are a lot more complicated than she would like, and I love the way that she tried (and often fails) to balance her recklessness and aggressiveness with her need for human contact. In recent years, she seems to be trending towards heroism, in her own brutal way, so I would love to see that as a conflict with another character, or one of her many attempts to turn the Hand from a death cult to something different and under her control. What do the Hand think about that? Especially when they followed Matt so easily in Shadowlands, but constantly resist and undermine Elektra?
The Defenders (TV)
My TV highlight of the year! I have requested any character for this fandom because, honestly, I would be thrilled with a story about any or all of them. The thing I liked best about the show was all these attempted loners (plus Danny the sunny extrovert who still occasionally has fits of brooding!) having to work as a team. I would love to see any two or more of them working together, whether it be solving crime, fighting evil or trying to share a motel room without murdering each other. This includes Elektra – she constantly tried to get Matt onside (though murdering Stick and drugging everyone didn't help!) and seeing her interact with any of the Defenders – maybe Jessica? – would be superb. Feel free to bring in any other characters as well, since I feel that having all of them stuck in Misty's precinct together but barely interacting was a terrible waste of an opportunity! And seeing more of the Five plotting against the world and (even more so) each other would be great, too.
By the time Yuletide rolls around, Daredevil S3 will have been on, but feel completely free to ignore that, or indeed any development post-Defenders if you want! The individual shows have quite different dynamics, and it's the interaction of The Defenders that I'm looking for here. Ignoring the ending or setting more teamwork in a nebulous timeframe is entirely welcomed!
Hawkeye (comics)
Kate's turn as an LA detective is absolutely awesome, and I love it. In the tradition of Hawkeye, everything goes strictly not to plan, and Kate shoots her way out of the chaos…into more chaos! I would love to see her and Whitney Frost (either in Kate's clone body or in her regular body) battling each other whether it be verbally by a Beverley Hills swimming pool, physically in a dingy warehouse, or perhaps even after hours…in bed.
Other things I would like from this fandom are cameos from any of Kate's super-friends, Hawkeye Investigations investigating, derring-do and trick arrows, Kate's complicated and dubious relationship with her parents and Kate helping people. Or, if you prefer Whitney Frost, weird science, fixation on Kate, fixation on super powers, cameos from Kate's super-friends or Whitney's villainous past (or even Tony Stark!), or a grand plan to take over the world! Or LA! Or even just Kate!
I happily ship Kate with Whitney Frost, America Chavez, Nova or Eli Bradley (in varying degrees of seriousness!), so any or none of these are very welcome. I also enjoy her mentor-mentee relationship with Clint (and would love a visit from him and Lucky!), but Kate/Clint falls under my DNW list so please don't write me that.
Jessica Jones (TV)
Wow, that was an action-packed second season! Transformations all round! I have requested Trish because I was super interested in the path she took and the kinds of heroism she values – and how ruthlessly she pursued that, for the good of others no matter what they actually wanted.
Trish was having such a massive crisis in her life – nobody takes her seriously, she can't help anyone, everyone else does more important things than she does – and she makes the decision that we see people in superhero comics make all the time, to risk her life and be a hero. Trish, though, does it in the most epically harmful way that she possibly could, using drugs for superpowers then turning to the man who experimented on her sister. While I don't think she could have reasonably foreseen where her need to make herself the centre of the story would lead, she then tried to take the hero role again and dealt with "the problem"…who was indeed a problem but also Jessica's mother.
Trish has destroyed her professional career (again), severely damaged her relationships with Jessica and with Malcolm, broke up with her boyfriend because she wanted to be him, not date him, and yet the last we see her she's thrilled and excited because she's finally, finally, got powers. She feels inherently important. She's going to make a difference. Is this a superhero origin story or a supervillain origin story? Are these powers going to make Trish happy? What even are they? I would love to see where Trish goes next, or the factors that brought her here, or her perspective on the events of the season. A Patsy-era flashback (either to "I really want to be your friend" or "Hey, hey, I want your cray-cray" eras) would also be very welcome, seeing why Trish was grabbing onto that stardom despite her troubled relationship with her stage mother and with fame.
No Trish/Jessica, please – femslash with other characters is very welcome, but I see them as sisters.
Twin Peaks
I have only nominated one character for this fandom because I would love to see more of her, but please feel free to bring in absolutely anyone else that you want! If you would like a starting point, Audrey Horne, Albert Rosenfield, Sarah Palmer and Laura Palmer are all characters I find particularly interesting.
Tammy Preston is a fascinating character and I think we only just started to see her capabilities in the show: she was in the apprentice role, and I would love to see that developed further, as she takes her Blue Rose experiences to her own investigations, or delves into the Blue Rose world of strangeness. Her strange, abrupt manner and lack of hesitation accepting Albert and Gordon's theories, and her immediate and violent reaction to tulpa Diane's attack put together a very odd picture, of someone very uncomfortable and uncertain about who they are, and yet intellectually very capable and determined. Who is Tammy Preston, and why is she in the FBI? What has she done apart from the Blue Rose investigation? What does she do next? There were so many story threads left open: does she take up one of them, or move on to other investigations? Are there any other Blue Rose investigations? Does Gordon even have the right idea of how things work? Albert seems far less interested in conjecture and far more interested in evidence, and it was he who was directly mentoring Tammy through the investigation. Where does she fit in?
I have read the supplementary books by Mark Frost but I only consider what is on the screen to be canon: you may or may not want Tammy to spend a year observing Twin Peaks, and I'm happy either way.
Thank you so much for writing a story for me! I've tried to put plenty of information for each fandom, but if you would like to write something completely different please feel free! I am also happy for you to include as many or as few of the nominated characters as you wish. If you're not sure about anything, or want to do a crossover with another fandom and need to check if I know it, just ask my partner
st_aurafina.Things I enjoy: stories about female characters, plot, character interaction, gen fic, slash, femslash, female-centric het, exploring a canon world. I also like OCs as a way to expand the canon universe, so if that's a direction you want to go, that would be great. AUs are awesome – both in the sense of a deviation from canon and a completely different world – as long as they're not mundane AUs. Coffee shop no, superpowered coffee shop yes.
Do Not Wants: non-con or rape; non-canon character deaths (canon deaths are fine); mentor/student, adult/teen or adult/child sexual interaction; zombies; apocalyptic or post-apocalyptic AUs; mundane AUs; cancer.
Baker Street
This is one fandom where I desperately wish there was more: everything about the world is dropped in hints and background art, but the violent collision of Victorian mores (and not just the posh ones) and punk sensibility is gorgeously grim and intensely fascinating. Having open-minded, calm Susan in Watson's role as the narrator/diarist brings a lot of cohesion to the violent story and Sharon Ford's deductive reasoning, but it also means that we don't get to see a lot outside that POV. What is Sharon's uneasy connection to Lady Noir, and why is Sharon able to work with the police? Why is Sam so desperate and violent and her revelation such a surprise to everyone but Sharon? Is there no other way out for her? What is it like to live in this grimy London and what happened to make it that way? What is the rest of the world like? Why is Sharon choosing to live the way she does, and what does that say about women's roles in this world? (And what do Sam's actions say about perceptions of trans people – I am definitely open to a better or just different ending for her!)
I suppose I just want to know everything about how it all works, whether through a mystery or backstory or a character study or an OC, to see how the aggressive social Darwinism of the Victorian era and the DIY anarchist ethos of punk pull together to make this world.
Daredevil (comics)
My major request here is that Foggy's battle with cancer is not part of the story, not even in the background, not even a mention. You are welcome to set this story in any era of Daredevil (or a mish-mash), and include any other Marvel comics crossovers or cameos you would like. Canon and non-canon pairings are all welcome! I've really requested some different things here, so feel free to run with any small part and don't feel at all obligated to try to get more things in.
Kirsten McDuffie is a wonderful character who takes no shit from Matt and is the superhero of her own life, so I would love to see her, too - maybe Kirsten and the Night Nurse having an adventure, or involved in the logistics of superhero support? I can't imagine that someone who was thrilled to get their own nemesis is going to be content with regular life again, or that she ever was even before meeting Matt. If you do write in the San Francisco era, Kirsten/Matt/Foggy in a V or a threesome is fine, but I want to the focus to be on Kirsten, please.
Becky Blake is a character I haven't seen in many stories, but I think she's great. She's someone who is very tough on the outside but she has to work herself up to that - it doesn't come naturally. I would love a story about her working with (or behind the back of) Nelson & Murdock when she was a secretary, or taking on her own cases as part of Nelson, Blake & Murdock. More recently she quit (thanks to Matt shenanigans) so I would love to see what she's doing now. She has met other superheroes including the highly-connected Black Widow, so if you want to have Becky on an adventure with any other superhero, that would be great, too! I'm not American, and my knowledge of US law is very much on a superficial, TV-based level, so don't feel that you have to be incredibly accurate about New York law to write about Becky (or Foggy or Kirsten for that matter!)
Milla Donovan was very short-changed in the comics, with the timeskip just after she starts dating Matt and then getting attacked and (permanently?) hospitalised thanks to fear gas. Why was she so enthusiastic about dating a superhero, even with some very clear indications of what it was like? She worked in public housing, so urban social justice must be something important to her, but how does that stack up with vigilante violence? Matt often talks about having to "hide" who he is to be a "regular" blind person - was he some kind of wish fulfillment fantasy for Milla? What did she see as a future for them, or even just for her? If you want to see this while she's institutionalised, I would prefer to see some hope of or progress towards recovery; and if it's afterwards, I would like the whole episode not to be just brushed off, but still affect her, even if just in memories.
Elektra Natchios acts like she's a force of nature, but her interactions with the characters of this cast are a lot more complicated than she would like, and I love the way that she tried (and often fails) to balance her recklessness and aggressiveness with her need for human contact. In recent years, she seems to be trending towards heroism, in her own brutal way, so I would love to see that as a conflict with another character, or one of her many attempts to turn the Hand from a death cult to something different and under her control. What do the Hand think about that? Especially when they followed Matt so easily in Shadowlands, but constantly resist and undermine Elektra?
The Defenders (TV)
My TV highlight of the year! I have requested any character for this fandom because, honestly, I would be thrilled with a story about any or all of them. The thing I liked best about the show was all these attempted loners (plus Danny the sunny extrovert who still occasionally has fits of brooding!) having to work as a team. I would love to see any two or more of them working together, whether it be solving crime, fighting evil or trying to share a motel room without murdering each other. This includes Elektra – she constantly tried to get Matt onside (though murdering Stick and drugging everyone didn't help!) and seeing her interact with any of the Defenders – maybe Jessica? – would be superb. Feel free to bring in any other characters as well, since I feel that having all of them stuck in Misty's precinct together but barely interacting was a terrible waste of an opportunity! And seeing more of the Five plotting against the world and (even more so) each other would be great, too.
By the time Yuletide rolls around, Daredevil S3 will have been on, but feel completely free to ignore that, or indeed any development post-Defenders if you want! The individual shows have quite different dynamics, and it's the interaction of The Defenders that I'm looking for here. Ignoring the ending or setting more teamwork in a nebulous timeframe is entirely welcomed!
Hawkeye (comics)
Kate's turn as an LA detective is absolutely awesome, and I love it. In the tradition of Hawkeye, everything goes strictly not to plan, and Kate shoots her way out of the chaos…into more chaos! I would love to see her and Whitney Frost (either in Kate's clone body or in her regular body) battling each other whether it be verbally by a Beverley Hills swimming pool, physically in a dingy warehouse, or perhaps even after hours…in bed.
Other things I would like from this fandom are cameos from any of Kate's super-friends, Hawkeye Investigations investigating, derring-do and trick arrows, Kate's complicated and dubious relationship with her parents and Kate helping people. Or, if you prefer Whitney Frost, weird science, fixation on Kate, fixation on super powers, cameos from Kate's super-friends or Whitney's villainous past (or even Tony Stark!), or a grand plan to take over the world! Or LA! Or even just Kate!
I happily ship Kate with Whitney Frost, America Chavez, Nova or Eli Bradley (in varying degrees of seriousness!), so any or none of these are very welcome. I also enjoy her mentor-mentee relationship with Clint (and would love a visit from him and Lucky!), but Kate/Clint falls under my DNW list so please don't write me that.
Jessica Jones (TV)
Wow, that was an action-packed second season! Transformations all round! I have requested Trish because I was super interested in the path she took and the kinds of heroism she values – and how ruthlessly she pursued that, for the good of others no matter what they actually wanted.
Trish was having such a massive crisis in her life – nobody takes her seriously, she can't help anyone, everyone else does more important things than she does – and she makes the decision that we see people in superhero comics make all the time, to risk her life and be a hero. Trish, though, does it in the most epically harmful way that she possibly could, using drugs for superpowers then turning to the man who experimented on her sister. While I don't think she could have reasonably foreseen where her need to make herself the centre of the story would lead, she then tried to take the hero role again and dealt with "the problem"…who was indeed a problem but also Jessica's mother.
Trish has destroyed her professional career (again), severely damaged her relationships with Jessica and with Malcolm, broke up with her boyfriend because she wanted to be him, not date him, and yet the last we see her she's thrilled and excited because she's finally, finally, got powers. She feels inherently important. She's going to make a difference. Is this a superhero origin story or a supervillain origin story? Are these powers going to make Trish happy? What even are they? I would love to see where Trish goes next, or the factors that brought her here, or her perspective on the events of the season. A Patsy-era flashback (either to "I really want to be your friend" or "Hey, hey, I want your cray-cray" eras) would also be very welcome, seeing why Trish was grabbing onto that stardom despite her troubled relationship with her stage mother and with fame.
No Trish/Jessica, please – femslash with other characters is very welcome, but I see them as sisters.
Twin Peaks
I have only nominated one character for this fandom because I would love to see more of her, but please feel free to bring in absolutely anyone else that you want! If you would like a starting point, Audrey Horne, Albert Rosenfield, Sarah Palmer and Laura Palmer are all characters I find particularly interesting.
Tammy Preston is a fascinating character and I think we only just started to see her capabilities in the show: she was in the apprentice role, and I would love to see that developed further, as she takes her Blue Rose experiences to her own investigations, or delves into the Blue Rose world of strangeness. Her strange, abrupt manner and lack of hesitation accepting Albert and Gordon's theories, and her immediate and violent reaction to tulpa Diane's attack put together a very odd picture, of someone very uncomfortable and uncertain about who they are, and yet intellectually very capable and determined. Who is Tammy Preston, and why is she in the FBI? What has she done apart from the Blue Rose investigation? What does she do next? There were so many story threads left open: does she take up one of them, or move on to other investigations? Are there any other Blue Rose investigations? Does Gordon even have the right idea of how things work? Albert seems far less interested in conjecture and far more interested in evidence, and it was he who was directly mentoring Tammy through the investigation. Where does she fit in?
I have read the supplementary books by Mark Frost but I only consider what is on the screen to be canon: you may or may not want Tammy to spend a year observing Twin Peaks, and I'm happy either way.
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