Dear Yuletide Author
Oct. 22nd, 2022 03:05 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
elisemDear Yuletide Author:
Thank you for writing a Yuletide something for me. I'm pretty much going to be delighted by anything at all, so go ahead and try things you've wanted to try, or do a cozy thing that might seem "too quiet," or whatever else you like, because it will make me happy that you tried a thing.
I have a couple of DO NOT WANTS. They are:
1. Please don't end with a character trapped in a hopeless-feeling situation. (It's odd that I need to say that, but I did get bit by it recently in a story. I'm not the audience for that kind of cliffhanger at all.)
2. Please don't give me non-consensual sexual activity. (Especially as tragic backstory.) Thanks.
3. Do not use a disability or disfigurement to signify that a character is eeeeevil. Thanks.
I have some DO WANTs, or maybe they are DO LIKEs:
1. Stories where characters risk being vulnerable. Maybe only a tiny bit, but a tiny bit can be a big deal sometimes.
2. Ensemble casts and the ways characters communicate to each other and take care of each other.
3. Stories "without enough action" are just fine with me. A set of related drabbles also works fine for me. Stories told in epistolary form, or in a series of quotes, or in a chronological set of museum labels if that's what you got -- whatever you do like that is probably going to make me coo with delight.
4. AU shenanigans, larking about with crossing worlds, breaking the fourth wall, building new walls in order to have the opportunity to break them, crossovers of many sorts, time travel that makes the narrative linear structure all wibbly-wobby: those are all fine with me! Have fun!
5. Characters telling us things we didn't know about them, or how something REALLY happened and why it got told the way it did before. I love stories that make me think about characters in new ways.
6. I like watching writers have fun.
7. I am not afraid of cozy stories and character studies and worldbuilding fics. Bring 'em on! Do whatever you are called to do, however it comes out!
Thank you so much, Yuletide Author. I really appreciate your time and work and imagination.
Love,
LionessElise
Thank you for writing a Yuletide something for me. I'm pretty much going to be delighted by anything at all, so go ahead and try things you've wanted to try, or do a cozy thing that might seem "too quiet," or whatever else you like, because it will make me happy that you tried a thing.
I have a couple of DO NOT WANTS. They are:
1. Please don't end with a character trapped in a hopeless-feeling situation. (It's odd that I need to say that, but I did get bit by it recently in a story. I'm not the audience for that kind of cliffhanger at all.)
2. Please don't give me non-consensual sexual activity. (Especially as tragic backstory.) Thanks.
3. Do not use a disability or disfigurement to signify that a character is eeeeevil. Thanks.
I have some DO WANTs, or maybe they are DO LIKEs:
1. Stories where characters risk being vulnerable. Maybe only a tiny bit, but a tiny bit can be a big deal sometimes.
2. Ensemble casts and the ways characters communicate to each other and take care of each other.
3. Stories "without enough action" are just fine with me. A set of related drabbles also works fine for me. Stories told in epistolary form, or in a series of quotes, or in a chronological set of museum labels if that's what you got -- whatever you do like that is probably going to make me coo with delight.
4. AU shenanigans, larking about with crossing worlds, breaking the fourth wall, building new walls in order to have the opportunity to break them, crossovers of many sorts, time travel that makes the narrative linear structure all wibbly-wobby: those are all fine with me! Have fun!
5. Characters telling us things we didn't know about them, or how something REALLY happened and why it got told the way it did before. I love stories that make me think about characters in new ways.
6. I like watching writers have fun.
7. I am not afraid of cozy stories and character studies and worldbuilding fics. Bring 'em on! Do whatever you are called to do, however it comes out!
Thank you so much, Yuletide Author. I really appreciate your time and work and imagination.
Love,
LionessElise
