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Dear Yule Writer
Oct. 24th, 2014 11:01 pmHello, wonderful Yule Writer! I am so glad you're writing a story for me! As I've said before, what I most like is spending time in these worlds and with these characters and any story you write will have that. Optional details are optional. But if you're looking for info on my tastes or for some ideas, you'll find them below.
Vorkosigan Saga – Lois McMaster Bujold
Characters: Cordelia Naismith Vorkosigan
I want Cordelia shocking folks and kicking ass in her own inimitable Betan way. I’m only part way through the Vorkosigan books and I’m reading them in chronological order rather than publication order, so I loved Cordelia and Aral well before meeting Miles. It frustrates me that Miles focuses on living up to his father’s reputation when, IMHO, it’s his mother who is the more badass one. After all, she’s the one who is thought to have somehow killed Ges Vorrutyer while chained naked to his bed and she’s the one who ended the Vordarian pretendership by strolling into the Imperial Residence through a back door and walking out with Vordarian’s head in a shopping bag.
Possible prompts: Cordelia & Aral share a private joke or a private moment? Cordelia stomps some Barayarran intrigue threatening her family by simply thinking outside their narrowly proscribed Barayarran boxes? Cordelia imparts her scandalous galactic perspective to Miles on some topic that is controversial on Barayar but well solved elsewhere? Someone underestimates Cordelia to their, perhaps fatal, detriment?
What I like: The humor. The way the characters defy their world’s stereotypes, not just Cordelia and the Barayarran sexist stereotypes but Miles and disability stereotypes and Aral and patriarchal or heterosexual stereotypes. Layered schemes and the protagonists out-thinking their enemies by reimagining the boundaries of the situation. Characters who are smart and strong and wise.
Julia Child RPF
Characters: Julia Child
I love Julia’s joy, her zest for life, her enjoyment of pleasures grand and small, her sensual appreciation for food, her try-and-try-again attitude of rolling with the mistakes and her determination to keep at it until she gets things just right.
Possible prompts: Despite working for OSS during WWII, Julia claims not to have been a spy. But what if she was? What if she was training to be the culinary Mati Hari, seducing key people through her cooking, dazzling their senses with food and wine and then pumping them with innocent seeming dinner conversation? A lost episode of The French Chef in which Julia cooks and eats some mythological/fantasy/alien creature or plant? Want to write porn? Paul and Julia making love? A naked second honeymoon breakfast in bed? Crack!fic porn? Paul and Julia making love and exchanging gastronomic food metaphors, comparing each other’s tastes, smells, and textures to fine foods and wines?
What I like: humor, vicarious foodie experiences, Julia’s resilience and good humor, romance.
Research Institute (Lego)
Characters: Any
I think this is one of those Yuletide nominations that could inspire fabulous random creativity and I am curious to see what people do with it. I would love any kind of lady lego scientist shenanigans. Ideally I would like them to be friends and colleagues rather than rivals, but I’m not wed to that if your plot bunnies require lego lady cat fights.
Want some prompts? Our heroines band together to overcome some petty administrative or departmental hassle. Lego lady social life with scientists out on the town looking for lego love? Lego lady social life featuring scientist geek girls gaming or D&D night? Lego scientist con scene? Our heroines get themselves out of some fix by MacGyvering just the right tools from their lab or classroom equipment, taking humorous meta advantage of the fact that they live in a lego world?
What I like: humor (sense a theme here?), science, academia, girl power, geek culture, legos.
General info about my likes/dislikes:
I read all of gen, het, slash, and femslash and any rating from G to X is fine by me.
Turn-ons: humor – from witty banter to wry commentary to farce to crack!fic; drooling over a fine fictional meal; period details; romance; seduction; first times; happy endings; swashbuckling, capers, and our heroines kicking ass in their own particular ways
Turn-offs: major character death; rape; unresolved angst; love that is still unrequited at the end of the story; stories that depend on characters being hopelessly dense or not communicating unless done for humor
Vorkosigan Saga – Lois McMaster Bujold
Characters: Cordelia Naismith Vorkosigan
I want Cordelia shocking folks and kicking ass in her own inimitable Betan way. I’m only part way through the Vorkosigan books and I’m reading them in chronological order rather than publication order, so I loved Cordelia and Aral well before meeting Miles. It frustrates me that Miles focuses on living up to his father’s reputation when, IMHO, it’s his mother who is the more badass one. After all, she’s the one who is thought to have somehow killed Ges Vorrutyer while chained naked to his bed and she’s the one who ended the Vordarian pretendership by strolling into the Imperial Residence through a back door and walking out with Vordarian’s head in a shopping bag.
Possible prompts: Cordelia & Aral share a private joke or a private moment? Cordelia stomps some Barayarran intrigue threatening her family by simply thinking outside their narrowly proscribed Barayarran boxes? Cordelia imparts her scandalous galactic perspective to Miles on some topic that is controversial on Barayar but well solved elsewhere? Someone underestimates Cordelia to their, perhaps fatal, detriment?
What I like: The humor. The way the characters defy their world’s stereotypes, not just Cordelia and the Barayarran sexist stereotypes but Miles and disability stereotypes and Aral and patriarchal or heterosexual stereotypes. Layered schemes and the protagonists out-thinking their enemies by reimagining the boundaries of the situation. Characters who are smart and strong and wise.
Julia Child RPF
Characters: Julia Child
I love Julia’s joy, her zest for life, her enjoyment of pleasures grand and small, her sensual appreciation for food, her try-and-try-again attitude of rolling with the mistakes and her determination to keep at it until she gets things just right.
Possible prompts: Despite working for OSS during WWII, Julia claims not to have been a spy. But what if she was? What if she was training to be the culinary Mati Hari, seducing key people through her cooking, dazzling their senses with food and wine and then pumping them with innocent seeming dinner conversation? A lost episode of The French Chef in which Julia cooks and eats some mythological/fantasy/alien creature or plant? Want to write porn? Paul and Julia making love? A naked second honeymoon breakfast in bed? Crack!fic porn? Paul and Julia making love and exchanging gastronomic food metaphors, comparing each other’s tastes, smells, and textures to fine foods and wines?
What I like: humor, vicarious foodie experiences, Julia’s resilience and good humor, romance.
Research Institute (Lego)
Characters: Any
I think this is one of those Yuletide nominations that could inspire fabulous random creativity and I am curious to see what people do with it. I would love any kind of lady lego scientist shenanigans. Ideally I would like them to be friends and colleagues rather than rivals, but I’m not wed to that if your plot bunnies require lego lady cat fights.
Want some prompts? Our heroines band together to overcome some petty administrative or departmental hassle. Lego lady social life with scientists out on the town looking for lego love? Lego lady social life featuring scientist geek girls gaming or D&D night? Lego scientist con scene? Our heroines get themselves out of some fix by MacGyvering just the right tools from their lab or classroom equipment, taking humorous meta advantage of the fact that they live in a lego world?
What I like: humor (sense a theme here?), science, academia, girl power, geek culture, legos.
General info about my likes/dislikes:
I read all of gen, het, slash, and femslash and any rating from G to X is fine by me.
Turn-ons: humor – from witty banter to wry commentary to farce to crack!fic; drooling over a fine fictional meal; period details; romance; seduction; first times; happy endings; swashbuckling, capers, and our heroines kicking ass in their own particular ways
Turn-offs: major character death; rape; unresolved angst; love that is still unrequited at the end of the story; stories that depend on characters being hopelessly dense or not communicating unless done for humor
