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Nov. 18th, 2011 10:27 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png)
Dear lovely Yuletide person,
Thanks very much in advance for writing something for me! I'm very excited to see what you come up with! This is my first time participating so I apologise if I am giving too much detail or too little - but basically I'd be overjoyed to read anything in any of the fandoms I've requested, so if you get inspired for something that doesn't match my suggestions, no worries! Do your thing!
Here are some things I like in fic in general:
* Femslash, femgen, female friendship, woman being awesome singly and in pairs or groups
* Character studies, back story, finding out what makes characters tick
* Shenanigans, running around having adventures, silly costumes, disguises
* Romance, cuteness, people having fun being together or falling in love, smut of any rating
* Happy fic, sad fic that's not too sad (ie nothing that's completely unrelentingly miserable all the way through), bittersweet fic, silly fic
Things I'm less keen on:
* I'd prefer not to see strong violence depicted in detail, although fight scenes are fun if they're not too graphic.
* I'd prefer non-con, dub-con and abuse (of all kinds) not to form a large part of the story, but I have no problem with it being alluded to if it's necessary to the plot.
* I'd prefer not to see incest, bestiality or necrophilia.
A note on -isms:
I don't mind if sexism, racism, and other -isms are portrayed in fic as long as they're dealt with. For example, it's ok if someone thinks Character A can't do something because she's a girl, as long as the story as a whole clearly doesn't agree!
Sally Lockhart - Philip Pullman
Adelaide Bevan, Becky Winter
I'd love anything about Adelaide and Becky together, or about either of them alone. I love back story and character studies. I'd love to see missing scenes from their time together in The Tin Princess. Or I'd love to see what they did afterward. AUs where they went off together at the end and had fabulous adventures around Europe, or where Adelaide stayed and ruled, rock. I'd like to see them in ten years, or in twenty. I like them equally as friends or as a couple. I like them at any rating.
Basically what I love about Adelaide and Becky is the way that they're both young women who know their position in life and don't really expect to ever have anything different, and when they're both thrown into extraordinary situations, they just get on with it and do things that they never expected they could do. And they stick together and become so close because they are the only two who know what it feels like. Adelaide inspires Becky and Becky supports Adelaide and they both do wonderful things.
I don't dislike Jim or the role he plays in their story, but I'd love to see more of Becky and Adelaide together without him getting in the way. Having said that I don't want any Jim-bashing either! Jim is fine by me as long as he's not actively interfering. ;)
That said, if you don't want to write femslash I honestly do love them just as much as friends, since their friendship is what makes me love the book so much in the first place! :D
Jam and Jerusalem
Sal Vine, Yasmeen Vine, Eileen Pike, Tip Haddem
Basically what I love about this show is watching the day-to-day lives of the characters and their interactions, and so almost any fic is bound to delight me. I'd love fic where the Guild get up to shenanigans. I love Tip and Sal together, as friends or friends with benefits. I'd love to see a story exploring Eileen's unrequited feelings for Sal. I'd love gen/character study/slice of life about any combination of anyone. I'd love fic that explores Yasmeen's character, back story and place in the community. A Christmas-themed story could be fun. Any rating works for me.
Jam and Jerusalem is my most-adored Bechdel-passing show. I love that it centres completely around the relationships between women. (Also, if you matched with me on a different fandom but you're not inspired, I love that it only takes 10 hours to watch the whole thing ;))
It's my head-canon that Eileen is secretly in love with Sal, but obviously if that's tricky for you to write, not at all a requirement. I also love her dedication to the Guild and to the community, and I'm interested in her new-found relationship with her family. I'd love to know if she is the person she thought she would be.
As far as Yasmeen goes, I'm interested in her as a potential successor to Sal - I like the way she looks out for Sal when Tash and James forget to, and I like her dogged determination to find ways around her issues with her work at the surgery. I also like that although she spends a lot of time with the Guild, she's still in some ways an outsider with an outside perspective on all the wackiness that goes on.
Sal and Tip, I just love, full stop. I love their affection for the Guild in spite of their mockery of it, I love their matter-of-fact way of being there for each other. Any fic that involves them interacting would be awesome for me.
Cybill
Maryann Thorpe, Cybill Sheridan
I am interested in any and all aspects of the epic friendship between Cybill and Maryann. I'd like to see them get into some kind of hilarious scrape, or help each other out in a tough spot, or be there for each other, or just hang out. I'd love to see some moments from their friendship that weren't in the show - either from the past or future or just in between episodes. I'd also go mad for femslash. I'd like a sad story as long as it ended ok. I'd like a silly story. I'd like a heartfelt story. Any rating. Basically as long as they're in it, it'd be hard to go wrong.
My favourite thing about this show is that, with all of the family drama and the ex-husbands and the dating and the wacky escapades, at its heart it's the story of the (canonically platonic) love story between two grown-up women. Their relationship is front and centre, and time and again they make it clear that they would do anything for each other.
I also love the silliness - I love that in between doing anything for each other, Cybill and Maryann just enjoy spending time together and making stupid jokes and having fun.
I love Cybill's new-agey-ness and Maryann's scepticism. I love that Cybill has a career that she works hard at. I love that Maryann, having worked hard to support her family in the past, now gets to enjoy her wealth. I love Maryann's inventiveness. I love Cybill's ideas and fads. I'd love to see a story that explores any aspect of their relationship at all.
Have lots of fun, awesome Yuletide person! :D