DEAR YULETIDE WRITER
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arysteiaHappy Yuletide!
Thanks for matching with me on something tiny and underappreciated. I dearly love everything I've requested this year, so whatever you choose to write will be a delight. Feel free to work with the spirit rather than the letter of any prompts, or to use anything I suggest to set the mood rather than dictate a plot. I don't want to cramp your style too much, so please just take this as a wish list that you can mix and match from as suits you. Hopefully I've given you somewhere to start.
It shouldn't really be an issue with this year's requests, but I dislike mundane and/or modern AUs, so please keep the characters in their own settings or time periods and retain their own backstories and abilities/powers. Also, please, no non-con, no infidelity, no unasked for kinks. I do enjoy reading explicit sex scenes in fic, though as a general rule as part of character development rather than pure PWP, so if you enjoy writing them please go ahead. If you prefer lower ratings then super intense feelings and emotions tickle my id just as well.
I have a basic preference for third person narration, and also for a fairly tight POV, rather than an omniscient narrator. That’s not a hard and fast rule though, so don’t feel bound by it if it doesn’t suit the story you want to tell.
General Likes:
• found family/families of choice
• friends to lovers, enemies to lovers, enemies to friends to lovers
• characters knowing each other really well
• size/strength difference even when it's only a bit or especially if it's surprising
• first times
• reconciliations after rifts
• breakups followed by makeups
• loyalty
• you and me against the world
• identity porn
• fork in the road AUs
General Dislikes:
• infidelity
• non-con
• major character death
• unasked for kinks
• mundane AUs
• bdsm
• obliviousness/drawn out pining/misunderstandings
• parental incest or any related kink
*****
Whitechapel
Joseph Chandler, Ray Miles
I'm five years late to this fandom, with tiger balm, and frankly quite broken hearted that we'll never get to see just where it was all going. I marathoned the whole show over Easter, and loved just about everything about it. I've liked Rupert Penry-Jones since I first saw him in Cambridge Spies as a teenager, but I was particularly delighted to see Phil Davis again, who I remember loving to hate as Prince John in Robin of Sherwood even longer ago. Their relationship was everything I like in mismatched colleagues turned loyal friends, from the initial terrible start, to sharing confidences and trusting each other with weaknesses, to firmly having each other's backs by the end. Miles trying to reassure Chandler in the sewer that his coat was salvageable tugged on my heartstrings in the final episode. How far they've come!
I like the whole team, and all their strengths and weaknesses, and would be happy to see any or all of them play a part in your story. I don't mind Kent's crush on Chandler as long as it stays firmly in the doe eyed hero worship sector, but any sort of reciprocation is a hard DNW for me. Please keep this request gen.
I love the sudden swerve the show took in the final season, and would enjoy seeing it more fully explored, but equally, I've always been a fan of serial killers, both historical and modern, and would be happy with a continued focus on more earthly policing. I would be interested, in either case, in the whereabouts of Commander Anderson, and the ongoing impact on Chandler's once promising career.
Lastly, I remain a sucker for faves in peril, so if something ghastly (but recoverable!) happens to Chandler and Miles has to rescue him that'd be grand. Otherwise, facing danger together or with the team, all great in my book.
*****
Good Will Hunting (1997)
Will Hunting, Chuckie Sullivan
I love this film so much, and more than anything I adore Will and Chuckie's relationship. Chuckie's part in the movie is comparatively small, but he speaks a thousand words with every grin, smirk, and glare, and I am an absolute sucker for his brand of love and loyalty combined with straight talking and the ability to give a shove where required. It seems very obvious, without much exposition, that he and Will have known each other forever, and always been there for each other through thick and thin. He's also a big enough person to let Will go – heck, make him go – though of course I am selfishly asking you to undo that somehow and get them back together. Sorry, not sorry.
Sean summed it up well when Lambeau was complaining about Will's choice to hang out with a "retarded gorilla" and he responded, "That retarded gorilla would take a bat to your head if he asked him to." [We've come quite some way in understanding inappropriate slurs since 1997 but I think the sentiment is still clear.] Likewise when one of the other boys hesitates about getting into a fight to support Will, and Chuckie says something to the effect, "When I'm done with them I'm coming for you." It's like catnip to my love of found family, "you and me against the world" friendships, and undying loyalty in the face of all common sense.
Anyway, there is so little fic available featuring these two that pretty much anything you can come up with would be very welcome indeed. I would love fic where Will and Chuckie are together, whether they get together before, during, or after the film. I'd prefer for them not to break up, though I'm more than happy for them to make up or get back together after a separation. I'd prefer Skylar be dealt with as briefly and respectfully as possible, whether via off screen break up or simple, time honoured, assuming that's been dealt with and moving forward.
I guess my major question is: where to from the end of the movie? What happens next? Given that Chuckie was so set on Will leaving, and more importantly not wasting his gifts and opportunities, it seems like he wouldn't accept Will just giving up on California and coming home to the same old same old. So what changes? Does Chuckie follow him out there? Does Will come home but to a new life in Boston? Can Will help Chuckie realise a few dreams of his own? What kind of life can they build together? Is it, by choice or necessity, a closeted life? When and how does that change?
That brings me to one of the other things that intrigues me, namely how much the world has and hasn't changed between 1997 and today. So I'm interested in that too. If you want to set your fic in 1997 or shortly thereafter, great; if you want to look in at what the guys are doing now, that'd also be awesome. Please, please, don't write them as having not spoken or seen each other for huge chunks of time in those intervening years though, I can't bear that thought.
If you are interested in writing smut for this pairing you are a hero indeed, so please feel free to check out the relevant section of my letter for Smut Swap where I let my id flag fly on the subject.
*****
The Dukes of Hazzard (TV)
Bo Duke, Luke Duke
Speaking of debauchery...
I would love to see any sort of scenario where Bo and Luke realise their feelings towards each other aren't exactly cousinly. Love, lust, and all the associated guilt that comes with it, thanks both to the 'cousin thing' and also the 'guy thing'. I can't imagine either of the cousins having modern ideas about sexuality or the terminology to express them, so however clumsily they fumble through these realisations and come to act upon them is fine. Inclusion of both internalised homophobia and the fear of discovery by a hostile community both also fine. If you wanted to use Boss and Roscoe and the fact that the boys are technically still on parole as a serious threat and legitimate source of fear then that would be welcome too, but again not necessary.
I like first times but don't kink on virginity, so inexperience coupled with enthusiasm would be preferred. If Luke has some experience from his time in the Marines that'd be cool, but I'm not into age gaps or power imbalances, so playing up his feelings as the older cousin corrupting Bo isn't really something that would do much for me. I'd prefer they both stumble along on an even-ish playing field there. That said, I feel like I'm getting a bit prescriptive now, so really, wherever the muse takes you would be great. Explicit fic very welcome, pile on as much angst as you like, ultimately a happy-ish ending would be great, but bittersweet with ongoing secrecy fine too.
An exception to my general dislike of AUs, it suddenly occurred to me the other day that a sort of fusion (not crossover) with Supernatural could be hilarious. I don't want to see Daisy on the farmhouse ceiling, but Bo and Luke roaming the highways and byways of the south in the General, saving people, hunting things... That could work.
One last thought: Growing up in New Zealand I didn't have much context for the civil war iconography that's present in the show. I understand it a lot better now, but for Yuletide I'd prefer to think of Hazzard County as a fairytale place somewhat out of time, divorced from historical background. There's enough reality in real life right now.
*****
Hopefully there's something here that will be useful to you. Anything within the general spirit of these prompts would please me very much. Have fun, and enjoy the exchange. I very much look forward to seeing what you come up with.
Thanks for matching with me on something tiny and underappreciated. I dearly love everything I've requested this year, so whatever you choose to write will be a delight. Feel free to work with the spirit rather than the letter of any prompts, or to use anything I suggest to set the mood rather than dictate a plot. I don't want to cramp your style too much, so please just take this as a wish list that you can mix and match from as suits you. Hopefully I've given you somewhere to start.
It shouldn't really be an issue with this year's requests, but I dislike mundane and/or modern AUs, so please keep the characters in their own settings or time periods and retain their own backstories and abilities/powers. Also, please, no non-con, no infidelity, no unasked for kinks. I do enjoy reading explicit sex scenes in fic, though as a general rule as part of character development rather than pure PWP, so if you enjoy writing them please go ahead. If you prefer lower ratings then super intense feelings and emotions tickle my id just as well.
I have a basic preference for third person narration, and also for a fairly tight POV, rather than an omniscient narrator. That’s not a hard and fast rule though, so don’t feel bound by it if it doesn’t suit the story you want to tell.
General Likes:
• found family/families of choice
• friends to lovers, enemies to lovers, enemies to friends to lovers
• characters knowing each other really well
• size/strength difference even when it's only a bit or especially if it's surprising
• first times
• reconciliations after rifts
• breakups followed by makeups
• loyalty
• you and me against the world
• identity porn
• fork in the road AUs
General Dislikes:
• infidelity
• non-con
• major character death
• unasked for kinks
• mundane AUs
• bdsm
• obliviousness/drawn out pining/misunderstandings
• parental incest or any related kink
*****
Whitechapel
Joseph Chandler, Ray Miles
I love Joe and Miles, and the whole course of their relationship, from terrible first impressions and stereotyped assumptions, to loyalty and support, to genuine friendship. Tell me more about how these two very different people find common ground and fight the good fight together.
Is the police station built on a Hellmouth? Did Original Flavour Jack the Ripper leave some kind of psychic taint on the vicinity, like calling to like? Is the mythology of the place just a self fulfilling prophecy that affects the easily suggestible? Or is it all the inevitable result of poverty and neglect? The final few episodes making explicit what had been creeping in round the edges opened up a whole new world to explore. Is it "real" though, in the sense of demonic activity on earth, or are we witnessing some sort of folie a deux/mass hysteria/psychic assault etc?
What happened next? How does it all resolve? Commander Anderson disappeared as the genre shift ramped up, but I imagine he's still watching; where next for Joe's career? Are the team ever going to bring their villain in?
DNW: any hint of Chandler/Kent.
I'm five years late to this fandom, with tiger balm, and frankly quite broken hearted that we'll never get to see just where it was all going. I marathoned the whole show over Easter, and loved just about everything about it. I've liked Rupert Penry-Jones since I first saw him in Cambridge Spies as a teenager, but I was particularly delighted to see Phil Davis again, who I remember loving to hate as Prince John in Robin of Sherwood even longer ago. Their relationship was everything I like in mismatched colleagues turned loyal friends, from the initial terrible start, to sharing confidences and trusting each other with weaknesses, to firmly having each other's backs by the end. Miles trying to reassure Chandler in the sewer that his coat was salvageable tugged on my heartstrings in the final episode. How far they've come!
I like the whole team, and all their strengths and weaknesses, and would be happy to see any or all of them play a part in your story. I don't mind Kent's crush on Chandler as long as it stays firmly in the doe eyed hero worship sector, but any sort of reciprocation is a hard DNW for me. Please keep this request gen.
I love the sudden swerve the show took in the final season, and would enjoy seeing it more fully explored, but equally, I've always been a fan of serial killers, both historical and modern, and would be happy with a continued focus on more earthly policing. I would be interested, in either case, in the whereabouts of Commander Anderson, and the ongoing impact on Chandler's once promising career.
Lastly, I remain a sucker for faves in peril, so if something ghastly (but recoverable!) happens to Chandler and Miles has to rescue him that'd be grand. Otherwise, facing danger together or with the team, all great in my book.
*****
Good Will Hunting (1997)
Will Hunting, Chuckie Sullivan
With less than ten fics in existence, the world is our oyster.
Tell me more about Will and Chuckie. Backstory or where to from here. Chuckie especially is a blank slate I'd love to see filled in. I ship it pretty hard, so any variation of a romance between them would be great, from a situation where they've totally been doing it on the sly since they were kids, to post-California, older and wiser.
I love this film so much, and more than anything I adore Will and Chuckie's relationship. Chuckie's part in the movie is comparatively small, but he speaks a thousand words with every grin, smirk, and glare, and I am an absolute sucker for his brand of love and loyalty combined with straight talking and the ability to give a shove where required. It seems very obvious, without much exposition, that he and Will have known each other forever, and always been there for each other through thick and thin. He's also a big enough person to let Will go – heck, make him go – though of course I am selfishly asking you to undo that somehow and get them back together. Sorry, not sorry.
Sean summed it up well when Lambeau was complaining about Will's choice to hang out with a "retarded gorilla" and he responded, "That retarded gorilla would take a bat to your head if he asked him to." [We've come quite some way in understanding inappropriate slurs since 1997 but I think the sentiment is still clear.] Likewise when one of the other boys hesitates about getting into a fight to support Will, and Chuckie says something to the effect, "When I'm done with them I'm coming for you." It's like catnip to my love of found family, "you and me against the world" friendships, and undying loyalty in the face of all common sense.
Anyway, there is so little fic available featuring these two that pretty much anything you can come up with would be very welcome indeed. I would love fic where Will and Chuckie are together, whether they get together before, during, or after the film. I'd prefer for them not to break up, though I'm more than happy for them to make up or get back together after a separation. I'd prefer Skylar be dealt with as briefly and respectfully as possible, whether via off screen break up or simple, time honoured, assuming that's been dealt with and moving forward.
I guess my major question is: where to from the end of the movie? What happens next? Given that Chuckie was so set on Will leaving, and more importantly not wasting his gifts and opportunities, it seems like he wouldn't accept Will just giving up on California and coming home to the same old same old. So what changes? Does Chuckie follow him out there? Does Will come home but to a new life in Boston? Can Will help Chuckie realise a few dreams of his own? What kind of life can they build together? Is it, by choice or necessity, a closeted life? When and how does that change?
That brings me to one of the other things that intrigues me, namely how much the world has and hasn't changed between 1997 and today. So I'm interested in that too. If you want to set your fic in 1997 or shortly thereafter, great; if you want to look in at what the guys are doing now, that'd also be awesome. Please, please, don't write them as having not spoken or seen each other for huge chunks of time in those intervening years though, I can't bear that thought.
If you are interested in writing smut for this pairing you are a hero indeed, so please feel free to check out the relevant section of my letter for Smut Swap where I let my id flag fly on the subject.
*****
The Dukes of Hazzard (TV)
Bo Duke, Luke Duke
I'm going to just cut right to the chase and say that I am in a mood to have my cherished childhood memories utterly debauched. I have no real ideas for a plot, nor do I really require one unless something calls out to you, in which case feel free. Any sort of caper or mcguffin would do the trick. Include as many car chases, exploding arrows, and Boss Hogg shenanigans as you see fit, or spend most of your focus on Bo and Luke's little shared bedroom at the farmhouse with its gingham curtains and twin beds (or the stables, or the back of the General Lee, or out by the creek, or anywhere else that takes your fancy).
Speaking of debauchery...
I would love to see any sort of scenario where Bo and Luke realise their feelings towards each other aren't exactly cousinly. Love, lust, and all the associated guilt that comes with it, thanks both to the 'cousin thing' and also the 'guy thing'. I can't imagine either of the cousins having modern ideas about sexuality or the terminology to express them, so however clumsily they fumble through these realisations and come to act upon them is fine. Inclusion of both internalised homophobia and the fear of discovery by a hostile community both also fine. If you wanted to use Boss and Roscoe and the fact that the boys are technically still on parole as a serious threat and legitimate source of fear then that would be welcome too, but again not necessary.
I like first times but don't kink on virginity, so inexperience coupled with enthusiasm would be preferred. If Luke has some experience from his time in the Marines that'd be cool, but I'm not into age gaps or power imbalances, so playing up his feelings as the older cousin corrupting Bo isn't really something that would do much for me. I'd prefer they both stumble along on an even-ish playing field there. That said, I feel like I'm getting a bit prescriptive now, so really, wherever the muse takes you would be great. Explicit fic very welcome, pile on as much angst as you like, ultimately a happy-ish ending would be great, but bittersweet with ongoing secrecy fine too.
An exception to my general dislike of AUs, it suddenly occurred to me the other day that a sort of fusion (not crossover) with Supernatural could be hilarious. I don't want to see Daisy on the farmhouse ceiling, but Bo and Luke roaming the highways and byways of the south in the General, saving people, hunting things... That could work.
One last thought: Growing up in New Zealand I didn't have much context for the civil war iconography that's present in the show. I understand it a lot better now, but for Yuletide I'd prefer to think of Hazzard County as a fairytale place somewhat out of time, divorced from historical background. There's enough reality in real life right now.
*****
Hopefully there's something here that will be useful to you. Anything within the general spirit of these prompts would please me very much. Have fun, and enjoy the exchange. I very much look forward to seeing what you come up with.
