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kormanticI say, what incredibly close election that may or may not be decided before Yuletide goes live? LALALALALALALALA
::gathers everyone close:: Hugs all around, my people. Bring your fluffiest fluff. Nope, fluffier than that. Theeeeere we go. THAT'S thefluff stuff.
Yeah, this year I'm gonna need a double order of comfort with a side of high comedy. Gimme the banter, the gentle hugs, the besties, the lovers, the found families. Let everyone be kind to one another this season. ::grabby hands::
Star Trek: Lower Decks
If you could do a SNW 3D human people version of Mariner and Boimler helping (or, probably, also hindering) a heist that would be so fun. Why are they on Earth in North America in 2010? who knows? Maybe they slurp the Leverage gang onto the Enterprise somehow when they inevitably end up back there because of Space Shenanigans? Nate doesn't have to be there. Any of the Leverage: Redemption kids are very welcome (including Jeri Ryan hahahah Mariner would be out of her mind between Tara and Sophie and she and Parker would be bungee-buds for sure!)
If you have no idea who the gang from Leverage is, than just Mariner and Boimler galore will be great - I loved the live action crossover SO MUCH so if they come back, or we get additional scenes of their first trip, it'll all be good. (Mariner and Erica being bros and like fighter piloting together or racing or something? Boimler and Spock sciencing it up some more? Or haha Boimler giving... relationship... advice to spock? NOOOooooaOoooo ahahah)
Extraordinary
Jen is a wonderfully terrible human. Let's see how she does when she starts just pretending to have powers. Not to her friends of course, but the bus driver, a barmaid, just pretending she's psychic or can see the future, going so far as to set up a hotline or a spot in the park to do "readings" and gulling the crowd. Her mum would be LIVID. I love all of them and I feel like Kash would have Ideas about how to achieve the best effect, and Carrie would give in and cheat a little for her to get Jen inside info with the occasional dead person to lend an air of authenticity, and Jizzlord would just be happy to be on the team, really. In fact, Carrie would have to be Very Stern about not letting Jen teach him how to pick pockets.
Abbott Elementary
Anything you like. I adore Ava; she is so fun and ridiculous and crafty. I love Janine. I adore how soft Gregory is for her, and her tiny kitten is a LION-ness. Barb reframing Ava, talking shit with Melissa, critiquing something Gregory is trying and valiantly failing at. All of them striving to do something more, to bring kids the best education they can possibly wrest from a grasping world.
The energy and optimism, the goofy charm, the way they all seem like such real people, how gentle and weird and try-hard the new kids are in a mean world, how fiercely Barb and Melissa love their students. I love them all, and if you write about them, let me see what you love about them, too.
The Queen's Thief - Megan Whalen Turner
So, since Return of the Thief is in the world, please feel free to add to that pantheon in anyway you'd like. Now, MWT gave us Gen's thumbnail of what Attolia and MOW think of each other post-Trial, but I would not be averse to reading that scene in more detail. Meanwhile, Costis/Kamet: please write any/all of it, from TAT or fill us in on Costis fretting about Kamet the whole time he's trying to report intelligence to his king/trying to get back to Kamet before the Namreen reach him in ROTT. I hope Gen found the time to tease Costis about his little spy sweetheart, and perhaps muse aloud that Costis sure seems to like bitchy little brown-skinned geniuses... ::koff,koff:: Poor Costis.
How did Relius and Teleus meet? Relius was Irene's first advisor, of course - he would have helped Attolia choose her next captain, so. Pheris hanging around with The Magus, of course! Relius and The Magus and Ornon training Kamet and Pheris to be the next Secretaries of the Archives? ::grabby hands:: (Hey, what happened to Baron Hippias, y'all?????)
Gen while possessed by The Thief - how does it work? Does Gen have memory of it? Is he the driving force and the God merely the vehicle he's using to mow Medes down?
Attolia and Irene, both pregnant, pacing the floors back in Attolia, waiting to hear of Gen... I'd love some more of their sisterhood.
SPEAKING OF SISTERS, HOLY SWEET GOOD GODDAMN!!!! The constant refrain that Helen would be supported as long as she had the Minister of War at her back... is cast in a whole new light when IT IS AN OPEN SECRET that she is very probably HIS Daughter!?!?! And of course that Gen is quite possibly the king's son.
THEIR ENTIRE FATHER/SON RELATIONSHIP HAS SO MANY NEW LEVELS AAAAAAAHHHHHH.
And that the next king and the thief are brother and sister... ::dabs eyes::
I love temple stories, so feel free to sing me a song of the gods! Attolia telling Gen a story (in bed in the afterglow), Kamet telling Costis a story (hmmm, a little Immakuk/Ennikar? They were in those mountain passes for like, 11 days. I feel like we were shorted a LOT of "huddling for warmth", don't you?) that leads to bed, Phresine telling a story to someone's children... before bed. I feel sure Eddis and Sophos will have a million adorable kiddos and Attolia and Gen. Well. Those two will have their ears full of tales from the very cradle, won't they?
Obviously I will read anything about Gen doing anything: practicing his pickpocketing skills at court, teasing Costis, braiding Attolia's hair. I also love Eddis and Gen being bros and just chatting and sniping back and forth.
Would you/could you write a Leverage/Queen's Thief fusion?
If Eugenides (the man or the god) joined the team for An Impossible Job? Or honestly, just Sophie talking to the god - because she would definitely dedicate earrings at an altar. But I mean, the canon and all the bonkers things they do - how could they be done if they weren't under the protection of a god? Whether they don't know about gods, or don't believe in gods, if the gods just observe and talk smack about them, or if it's an AU where the QT folks are the Leverage team: Helen , if she's there, Helen (grifter), Sophos (hacker), Gen (thief, brains, grifter, hitter, soldier, spy - hacking could be his Horse in this setting!), Costis (hitter), Kamet (evil lawyer or forensic accountant!!)
I would be extra happy for the Leverage OT3 and I super dug Redemption and kind of loved the team without Nate (SOPHIE 5EVA) and Breanna is The Best but please keep Hardison on hand even so! (Um. Maybe he and Eliot could have a push up competition? For no good reason? Shirtlessly?? Oh man ONE HANDED PUSH UPS YES PLEASE)
Stealing a super yacht, causing the Evergiven to block the canal, stealing a soccer/football team (ha Ted Lasso could come to them and they could steal Rupert's new team and/or Nate back from the darkside!) Leverage: Rehabilitation! (Sophie would turn that Nate right around, I tell you!!)
Anyway. Just some ideas. But honestly, anything you have bubbling up there will be splendid.
Punk made me a template of what I like and it works with every fandom! "I'm betting you probably want hugs, and maybe some good times. UST. Sweetly awkward first dates [HELEN AND SOPHOS, I'M LOOKING AT YOU]. A quest to find the perfect sweater [in Gen's case, something striking to distract an enemy, or in Attolia's to intimidate someone she needs a favor from]. Followed by a quest to defeat evil [Gen isn't just going to let the Braeling's scuttle off and pretend THE ASSASSINATION ATTEMPT THAT KILLED MANY OF HIS FRIENDS didn't happen...]. Handholding. Friendship. Make outs in the backseat of a car [maybe canoodling in a temple? SALACIOUS SCANDALOUS SACRALICIOUS but I'm pretty sure the gods would be cool with it ]. Sharing a soda in the library [GEN WILL CUT YOU IF YOU SPILL COFFEE ON HIS SCROLLS]. Rollerskating. Ice cream socials. CLAMBAKES. Finding a mysterious thing in the closet [AND STEALING IT]. Teamwork. [TEAMWORK!] A literal roll in the hay. [YESSSSSS, ATTOLIA WILL GET STRAW IN HER HAIR AND GEN WILL LAUGH AND LAUGH]"
Dublin Murder Squad Series - Tana French
Fix-Its, crossovers, and fusions strongly encouraged. Antoinette and Fleas undercover? YESSSSSSSSS
Punk's template: "I'm betting you probably want hugs, and maybe some good times [yes and YES]. UST. Sweetly awkward first dates [RICHIE AND MICK, I'M LOOKING AT YOU! Although, honestly Antoinette/Steven or Cassie/Sam (how on god's green did Frank get Olivia to date him?)]. A quest to find the perfect sweater [that matches fibers found at the crime scene, natch]. Followed by a quest to defeat evil [it's only their MAIN JOB]. Handholding. Friendship. Make outs in the backseat of a car [Mick would surely say no to this... but could he be persuaded?]. Sharing a soda in the library. Rollerskating [Um. Not seeing this. Ice skating seems like a Cassie thing, though?]. Ice cream socials. CLAMBAKES. Finding a mysterious thing in the closet [AND REMEMBERING SOME DARK HAUNT FROM THE PAST YOU THOUGHT YOU'D SET BEHIND YOU GOOD AND ALL]. Teamwork. [TEAMWORK!] A literal roll in the hay. [Sam seems like a hayride sort, doesn't he?]"
(And you know, The Witch Elm wasn't my cuppa, but I did like Cal from The Searcher and should some Dublin kids come to town, because I'm pretty sure Donie is going to be implicated/an accomplice to at least one more murder, because that's just Donie, then I'd be fascinated to see them interact. He'd adore Cassie, of course, and Rob would annoy him (this timeline is very fluid) and Scorcher would amuse him but he'd see the chops behind the pomp. Richie and Stephen and Sam he'd want to mentor like whoa. Antoinette would be like who he would have imagined a daughter of his following in his cop footsteps would be like... And for whatever reason he'd run into Frank, well. Respect would be there, and drinks would be had, and they'd have a dick measuring contest of some sort for sure. (And Frank and Mart would look at each other and JUST KNOW each other down to the marrow...) And now, Antoinette or Frankie boy seeing something in Trey and nudging that child to a life in the law...
MacDonald Hall - Gordon Korman
Hijinx? Shenanigans? A heist? A judicious amount of pining? Bruno and Boots are going to separate schools for undergrad for sure. Whaaaaat, how did pretend boyfriends get in here?? Shoo. You go on, get out of here. Ha ha ha, fake relationships? Who even likes those? Not me! (BUT... WILL THEY FALL IN LOVE???)
Bruno and Boots would be SUPERB in Lower Decks. Boimler and Boots would be besties for sure and Mariner and Bruno would haaaaaaaaaate each other. MAKE IT SO (actually LD, SNW and/or TNG would all work beautifully, I know it in my bones).
Punk's template: "I'm betting you probably want hugs, and maybe some good times [yes and YES]. UST. Sweetly awkward first dates [I can't even!! They're such dorks. Bruno is so romantic, it's going to kill Boots. I mean, Boots is going to have to talk him out of getting a tattoo for SURE.] A quest to find the perfect sweater [for Boots. To go on a date with that USURPER. Bruno is a bro, though, he will wingman the shit out of this first date. And that means that nice one Boots got from his Aunt. It's cashmere, fancy but approachable, really brings out his eyes, shows off his shoulders. And not sneakers! Make an EFFORT.]. Followed by a quest to defeat evil [Bruno will surely have the bit in his teeth for climate change, or voter suppression, corporate monopolies, oligarchy in general...]. Handholding. Friendship. Make outs in the backseat of a car [Bruno and Boots would either both own electric cars or not own cars at all. Which would make backseat makeouts challenging, to say the least.] Sharing a soda in the library. Rollerskating [I feel like Bruno and Boots would both definitely know how to ice skate, feel free to put them on a hockey team or a YOI AU of some kind?? and rollerskates must surely show up as a cog in a complex Bruno campaign?]. Ice cream socials. CLAMBAKES. Finding a mysterious thing in the closet [and realizing that it means BRUNO/BOOTS LOVED BOOTS/BRUNO ALL ALONG *GASP*]. Teamwork. [TEAMWORK! Cathy and Diane can help!!] A literal roll in the hay. [Bruno loves hayrides, decorative gourd season, Halloween, rescuing old farms from The Man; I mean, really, having them NOT get up to shenanigans around hay bales seems more unlikely.] FYI, Gordon Korman is my namesake/NEMESIS, so NO PRESSURE.
Now, here are some more ideas about what I like to find under the tree/in my stocking Yuletide Morn:
What genre (sff/action/romance/procedural/character study, etc) do you like/dislike?
I like everything! I am not kidding. Every time I'm like, eh, that's not my favorite, then someone will write something amazing and I'll be all, hey! THAT'S PRETTY GOOD. I would say what my actual least favorite is, but I fear you'd take it as a gauntlet being thrown.
Do you have any squicks/triggers/things generally you don't want?
I don't like humiliation or hate or physical suffering (I would probably make an exception in Gen's case, since his work is so dangerous/demanding) or misogyny, but I feel like you'd never write stuff like that anyway, Yule Santa!!
How do you feel about het/gen/slash/femslash?
Yes, please! I can be persuaded of poly (por ejemplo, Cassie/Rob/Sam... ::koff, koff::), but in general, I like to keep it to two people (who love each other!) in bed at a time.
What ratings do you prefer?
I love all ratings, and dig the most modest to the most explicit; sometimes just having someone brush the backs of their fingers against the back of someone else's hand can be infinitely sigh-deeply satisfying; I might find TRIPLE X a little jarring in, say, Queen's Thief and Mac Hall, but hey, I can be persuaded.
What kind of stories do you like/dislike, what you like about these particular fandoms/characters, fandom-specific prompts?
While I have found a cathartic cry both beautiful and satisfying, at the end of the day, I will always prefer a happy ending. I don't care for maiming injuries or major character deaths (drawing room murders and/or ghosts and *ahem* the perils of thieving don't apply to this, natch). I love any kind of close relationship, be it best friends or passionate lovers. I just want everyone to be happy, basically.
Do you have tropes/details/kinks you particularly like?
"Happy Ending" is probably my main trope. I don't think that's even a trope, really, but. I love me a good body swap, actually, and maybe above all others PRETEND BOYFRIENDS/GIRLFRIENDS. WILL THEY FALL IN LOVE???? I think that could work in just about every fandom I've ever been in.
Well, maybe there's no way Dublin Murder Squad could make it lighthearted. But. I believe in you! And they could pretend for work reasons! And/or do a heist! I love me a heist.
What do you like about the canon? What do you like about the characters, if you specified?
The Queen's Thief
I love that Gen GROWS UP. He stops being a brash, willful little self-involved punk (even though his intentions were always good). He BECOMES. I love that Attolia lets herself love him and lets herself trust the world again, even though the threats against her and her nation are probably greater than ever. I love that Eddis is their friend before she's a ruler. I love that Costis loved Gen (enough to CHANGE HIS RELIGION) ages before he knew he did, and that Gen loves him unswervingly, and maybe did (just a little) even before he chose poor Costis as his unwitting linchpin. I love that Sophos is going to blush every time he touches Eddis's hand for, like, a solid year. And holy oh my gods, Kamet is going to be so tired of pretending to be exasperated by Costis being the best boyfriend ever. EMBRACE YOUR ADORABLE SERVICE TOP, KAMET ::grabby hands::
Star Trek: Lower Decks
Boimler and Mariner have the most amazing sibling energy. Their chaotic bickering and bone deep loyalty to one another are truly a platonic ship of epic proportions. They can thrive anywhere in any au, as long as they’re together. And that’s why I love them.
Extraordinary
Jen and Carrie being friends is lovely to behold. Jen’s hilarious and knee-jerk defensive meanness is earned and understandable and tempered greatly by her love of Carrie, and Carrie‘s dutiful big sister energy is just with Jen needs in her life. And Carrie loves to take care of people so it works out. As a person who deals with the dead on the daily, I am sure she understands just how important it is to have the kind of friend who would absolutely help you hide the body. Meanwhile, Kash, that charming, goofy manchild, is actually learning and growing as a person. And Jizzlord, that wide eyed and simple hearted chaos gremlin, is just fun to have around.
Abbott Elementary
The energy and optimism, the goofy charm, the way they all seem like such real people, how gentle and weird and try-hard the new kids are in a mean world, how fiercely Barb and Melissa love their students. I love them all, and if you write about them, let me see what you love about them, too.
Dublin Murder Squad
The characters are flawed but always well-intentioned. Well. Maybe except for Rob. Fuckin' Rob, man. French's writing is vivid and alluring and visceral and hypnotically good--it's like a sensory hallucination sometimes. I love the characters with crippling self-doubt who power through, trying to fake it til they make it (Rob, Scorcher) and the sweethearts who do dumb shit trying to help someone out (Cassie, Richie, Stephen), I love the cynical bastards who love fiercely (Frank, Antoinette) and I love that in a dark world, they still try to carry the light, they still search for something to right the wrongs.
MacDonald Hall
I love how much Bruno loves his school, how passionate he is about righting perceived wrongs. I love how long-suffering Boots is, even though he mostly enjoys the hijinx, and how loyal to each other they are. I like how The Fish genuinely likes them, and is sincerely interested in doing well by his students.
How do you feel about crossovers and AUs of various sorts?
I love crossovers. Fusionfic! College AUs. Coffeeshops! I dig an elegant mashup, man. And since characterization is my FAVORITE, and clever AUs can make characters pop, bring it on! His Dark Materials (daemons for everyone!), Inception (IT IS A MIND HEIST), Brooklyn 99? GLOW? Jonathan Strange and Mr. Norrel (what is magic like in 2022?), Pacific Rim (the Dublin kids would be amazing here, so much DRIFT COMPATIBLE ANGST)? Holy oh my god, Bruno and Boots TEENWOLF AU?? Bake off? Bruno's cakes would be riDONKulous and Boots would be so steady and precise; Cathy would spin out early, and Diane would win every technical. Miss Scrimmage's Finishing School for Young Ladies HOSTS THE DERRY GIRLS FOR SOME REASON AHAHAHAHA (why am I so sure that Michelle would take it into her head to tackle Boots and TERRIFY HIM and that she'd try for Bruno in an effort to make Boots jealous while Bruno has been FUMING the whole time, Cathy would snog Clare, Diane would adopt James...)
Feel free to tweak any ask to make it something you absolutely dig. I am sure to love anything you give me, as long as you like it yourself.
::gathers everyone close:: Hugs all around, my people. Bring your fluffiest fluff. Nope, fluffier than that. Theeeeere we go. THAT'S the
Yeah, this year I'm gonna need a double order of comfort with a side of high comedy. Gimme the banter, the gentle hugs, the besties, the lovers, the found families. Let everyone be kind to one another this season. ::grabby hands::
Star Trek: Lower Decks
If you could do a SNW 3D human people version of Mariner and Boimler helping (or, probably, also hindering) a heist that would be so fun. Why are they on Earth in North America in 2010? who knows? Maybe they slurp the Leverage gang onto the Enterprise somehow when they inevitably end up back there because of Space Shenanigans? Nate doesn't have to be there. Any of the Leverage: Redemption kids are very welcome (including Jeri Ryan hahahah Mariner would be out of her mind between Tara and Sophie and she and Parker would be bungee-buds for sure!)
If you have no idea who the gang from Leverage is, than just Mariner and Boimler galore will be great - I loved the live action crossover SO MUCH so if they come back, or we get additional scenes of their first trip, it'll all be good. (Mariner and Erica being bros and like fighter piloting together or racing or something? Boimler and Spock sciencing it up some more? Or haha Boimler giving... relationship... advice to spock? NOOOooooaOoooo ahahah)
Extraordinary
Jen is a wonderfully terrible human. Let's see how she does when she starts just pretending to have powers. Not to her friends of course, but the bus driver, a barmaid, just pretending she's psychic or can see the future, going so far as to set up a hotline or a spot in the park to do "readings" and gulling the crowd. Her mum would be LIVID. I love all of them and I feel like Kash would have Ideas about how to achieve the best effect, and Carrie would give in and cheat a little for her to get Jen inside info with the occasional dead person to lend an air of authenticity, and Jizzlord would just be happy to be on the team, really. In fact, Carrie would have to be Very Stern about not letting Jen teach him how to pick pockets.
Abbott Elementary
Anything you like. I adore Ava; she is so fun and ridiculous and crafty. I love Janine. I adore how soft Gregory is for her, and her tiny kitten is a LION-ness. Barb reframing Ava, talking shit with Melissa, critiquing something Gregory is trying and valiantly failing at. All of them striving to do something more, to bring kids the best education they can possibly wrest from a grasping world.
The energy and optimism, the goofy charm, the way they all seem like such real people, how gentle and weird and try-hard the new kids are in a mean world, how fiercely Barb and Melissa love their students. I love them all, and if you write about them, let me see what you love about them, too.
The Queen's Thief - Megan Whalen Turner
So, since Return of the Thief is in the world, please feel free to add to that pantheon in anyway you'd like. Now, MWT gave us Gen's thumbnail of what Attolia and MOW think of each other post-Trial, but I would not be averse to reading that scene in more detail. Meanwhile, Costis/Kamet: please write any/all of it, from TAT or fill us in on Costis fretting about Kamet the whole time he's trying to report intelligence to his king/trying to get back to Kamet before the Namreen reach him in ROTT. I hope Gen found the time to tease Costis about his little spy sweetheart, and perhaps muse aloud that Costis sure seems to like bitchy little brown-skinned geniuses... ::koff,koff:: Poor Costis.
How did Relius and Teleus meet? Relius was Irene's first advisor, of course - he would have helped Attolia choose her next captain, so. Pheris hanging around with The Magus, of course! Relius and The Magus and Ornon training Kamet and Pheris to be the next Secretaries of the Archives? ::grabby hands:: (Hey, what happened to Baron Hippias, y'all?????)
Gen while possessed by The Thief - how does it work? Does Gen have memory of it? Is he the driving force and the God merely the vehicle he's using to mow Medes down?
Attolia and Irene, both pregnant, pacing the floors back in Attolia, waiting to hear of Gen... I'd love some more of their sisterhood.
SPEAKING OF SISTERS, HOLY SWEET GOOD GODDAMN!!!! The constant refrain that Helen would be supported as long as she had the Minister of War at her back... is cast in a whole new light when IT IS AN OPEN SECRET that she is very probably HIS Daughter!?!?! And of course that Gen is quite possibly the king's son.
THEIR ENTIRE FATHER/SON RELATIONSHIP HAS SO MANY NEW LEVELS AAAAAAAHHHHHH.
And that the next king and the thief are brother and sister... ::dabs eyes::
I love temple stories, so feel free to sing me a song of the gods! Attolia telling Gen a story (in bed in the afterglow), Kamet telling Costis a story (hmmm, a little Immakuk/Ennikar? They were in those mountain passes for like, 11 days. I feel like we were shorted a LOT of "huddling for warmth", don't you?) that leads to bed, Phresine telling a story to someone's children... before bed. I feel sure Eddis and Sophos will have a million adorable kiddos and Attolia and Gen. Well. Those two will have their ears full of tales from the very cradle, won't they?
Obviously I will read anything about Gen doing anything: practicing his pickpocketing skills at court, teasing Costis, braiding Attolia's hair. I also love Eddis and Gen being bros and just chatting and sniping back and forth.
Would you/could you write a Leverage/Queen's Thief fusion?
If Eugenides (the man or the god) joined the team for An Impossible Job? Or honestly, just Sophie talking to the god - because she would definitely dedicate earrings at an altar. But I mean, the canon and all the bonkers things they do - how could they be done if they weren't under the protection of a god? Whether they don't know about gods, or don't believe in gods, if the gods just observe and talk smack about them, or if it's an AU where the QT folks are the Leverage team: Helen , if she's there, Helen (grifter), Sophos (hacker), Gen (thief, brains, grifter, hitter, soldier, spy - hacking could be his Horse in this setting!), Costis (hitter), Kamet (evil lawyer or forensic accountant!!)
I would be extra happy for the Leverage OT3 and I super dug Redemption and kind of loved the team without Nate (SOPHIE 5EVA) and Breanna is The Best but please keep Hardison on hand even so! (Um. Maybe he and Eliot could have a push up competition? For no good reason? Shirtlessly?? Oh man ONE HANDED PUSH UPS YES PLEASE)
Stealing a super yacht, causing the Evergiven to block the canal, stealing a soccer/football team (ha Ted Lasso could come to them and they could steal Rupert's new team and/or Nate back from the darkside!) Leverage: Rehabilitation! (Sophie would turn that Nate right around, I tell you!!)
Anyway. Just some ideas. But honestly, anything you have bubbling up there will be splendid.
Punk made me a template of what I like and it works with every fandom! "I'm betting you probably want hugs, and maybe some good times. UST. Sweetly awkward first dates [HELEN AND SOPHOS, I'M LOOKING AT YOU]. A quest to find the perfect sweater [in Gen's case, something striking to distract an enemy, or in Attolia's to intimidate someone she needs a favor from]. Followed by a quest to defeat evil [Gen isn't just going to let the Braeling's scuttle off and pretend THE ASSASSINATION ATTEMPT THAT KILLED MANY OF HIS FRIENDS didn't happen...]. Handholding. Friendship. Make outs in the backseat of a car [maybe canoodling in a temple? SALACIOUS SCANDALOUS SACRALICIOUS but I'm pretty sure the gods would be cool with it ]. Sharing a soda in the library [GEN WILL CUT YOU IF YOU SPILL COFFEE ON HIS SCROLLS]. Rollerskating. Ice cream socials. CLAMBAKES. Finding a mysterious thing in the closet [AND STEALING IT]. Teamwork. [TEAMWORK!] A literal roll in the hay. [YESSSSSS, ATTOLIA WILL GET STRAW IN HER HAIR AND GEN WILL LAUGH AND LAUGH]"
Dublin Murder Squad Series - Tana French
Fix-Its, crossovers, and fusions strongly encouraged. Antoinette and Fleas undercover? YESSSSSSSSS
Punk's template: "I'm betting you probably want hugs, and maybe some good times [yes and YES]. UST. Sweetly awkward first dates [RICHIE AND MICK, I'M LOOKING AT YOU! Although, honestly Antoinette/Steven or Cassie/Sam (how on god's green did Frank get Olivia to date him?)]. A quest to find the perfect sweater [that matches fibers found at the crime scene, natch]. Followed by a quest to defeat evil [it's only their MAIN JOB]. Handholding. Friendship. Make outs in the backseat of a car [Mick would surely say no to this... but could he be persuaded?]. Sharing a soda in the library. Rollerskating [Um. Not seeing this. Ice skating seems like a Cassie thing, though?]. Ice cream socials. CLAMBAKES. Finding a mysterious thing in the closet [AND REMEMBERING SOME DARK HAUNT FROM THE PAST YOU THOUGHT YOU'D SET BEHIND YOU GOOD AND ALL]. Teamwork. [TEAMWORK!] A literal roll in the hay. [Sam seems like a hayride sort, doesn't he?]"
(And you know, The Witch Elm wasn't my cuppa, but I did like Cal from The Searcher and should some Dublin kids come to town, because I'm pretty sure Donie is going to be implicated/an accomplice to at least one more murder, because that's just Donie, then I'd be fascinated to see them interact. He'd adore Cassie, of course, and Rob would annoy him (this timeline is very fluid) and Scorcher would amuse him but he'd see the chops behind the pomp. Richie and Stephen and Sam he'd want to mentor like whoa. Antoinette would be like who he would have imagined a daughter of his following in his cop footsteps would be like... And for whatever reason he'd run into Frank, well. Respect would be there, and drinks would be had, and they'd have a dick measuring contest of some sort for sure. (And Frank and Mart would look at each other and JUST KNOW each other down to the marrow...) And now, Antoinette or Frankie boy seeing something in Trey and nudging that child to a life in the law...
MacDonald Hall - Gordon Korman
Hijinx? Shenanigans? A heist? A judicious amount of pining? Bruno and Boots are going to separate schools for undergrad for sure. Whaaaaat, how did pretend boyfriends get in here?? Shoo. You go on, get out of here. Ha ha ha, fake relationships? Who even likes those? Not me! (BUT... WILL THEY FALL IN LOVE???)
Bruno and Boots would be SUPERB in Lower Decks. Boimler and Boots would be besties for sure and Mariner and Bruno would haaaaaaaaaate each other. MAKE IT SO (actually LD, SNW and/or TNG would all work beautifully, I know it in my bones).
Punk's template: "I'm betting you probably want hugs, and maybe some good times [yes and YES]. UST. Sweetly awkward first dates [I can't even!! They're such dorks. Bruno is so romantic, it's going to kill Boots. I mean, Boots is going to have to talk him out of getting a tattoo for SURE.] A quest to find the perfect sweater [for Boots. To go on a date with that USURPER. Bruno is a bro, though, he will wingman the shit out of this first date. And that means that nice one Boots got from his Aunt. It's cashmere, fancy but approachable, really brings out his eyes, shows off his shoulders. And not sneakers! Make an EFFORT.]. Followed by a quest to defeat evil [Bruno will surely have the bit in his teeth for climate change, or voter suppression, corporate monopolies, oligarchy in general...]. Handholding. Friendship. Make outs in the backseat of a car [Bruno and Boots would either both own electric cars or not own cars at all. Which would make backseat makeouts challenging, to say the least.] Sharing a soda in the library. Rollerskating [I feel like Bruno and Boots would both definitely know how to ice skate, feel free to put them on a hockey team or a YOI AU of some kind?? and rollerskates must surely show up as a cog in a complex Bruno campaign?]. Ice cream socials. CLAMBAKES. Finding a mysterious thing in the closet [and realizing that it means BRUNO/BOOTS LOVED BOOTS/BRUNO ALL ALONG *GASP*]. Teamwork. [TEAMWORK! Cathy and Diane can help!!] A literal roll in the hay. [Bruno loves hayrides, decorative gourd season, Halloween, rescuing old farms from The Man; I mean, really, having them NOT get up to shenanigans around hay bales seems more unlikely.] FYI, Gordon Korman is my namesake/NEMESIS, so NO PRESSURE.
Now, here are some more ideas about what I like to find under the tree/in my stocking Yuletide Morn:
What genre (sff/action/romance/procedural/character study, etc) do you like/dislike?
I like everything! I am not kidding. Every time I'm like, eh, that's not my favorite, then someone will write something amazing and I'll be all, hey! THAT'S PRETTY GOOD. I would say what my actual least favorite is, but I fear you'd take it as a gauntlet being thrown.
Do you have any squicks/triggers/things generally you don't want?
I don't like humiliation or hate or physical suffering (I would probably make an exception in Gen's case, since his work is so dangerous/demanding) or misogyny, but I feel like you'd never write stuff like that anyway, Yule Santa!!
How do you feel about het/gen/slash/femslash?
Yes, please! I can be persuaded of poly (por ejemplo, Cassie/Rob/Sam... ::koff, koff::), but in general, I like to keep it to two people (who love each other!) in bed at a time.
What ratings do you prefer?
I love all ratings, and dig the most modest to the most explicit; sometimes just having someone brush the backs of their fingers against the back of someone else's hand can be infinitely sigh-deeply satisfying; I might find TRIPLE X a little jarring in, say, Queen's Thief and Mac Hall, but hey, I can be persuaded.
What kind of stories do you like/dislike, what you like about these particular fandoms/characters, fandom-specific prompts?
While I have found a cathartic cry both beautiful and satisfying, at the end of the day, I will always prefer a happy ending. I don't care for maiming injuries or major character deaths (drawing room murders and/or ghosts and *ahem* the perils of thieving don't apply to this, natch). I love any kind of close relationship, be it best friends or passionate lovers. I just want everyone to be happy, basically.
Do you have tropes/details/kinks you particularly like?
"Happy Ending" is probably my main trope. I don't think that's even a trope, really, but. I love me a good body swap, actually, and maybe above all others PRETEND BOYFRIENDS/GIRLFRIENDS. WILL THEY FALL IN LOVE???? I think that could work in just about every fandom I've ever been in.
Well, maybe there's no way Dublin Murder Squad could make it lighthearted. But. I believe in you! And they could pretend for work reasons! And/or do a heist! I love me a heist.
What do you like about the canon? What do you like about the characters, if you specified?
The Queen's Thief
I love that Gen GROWS UP. He stops being a brash, willful little self-involved punk (even though his intentions were always good). He BECOMES. I love that Attolia lets herself love him and lets herself trust the world again, even though the threats against her and her nation are probably greater than ever. I love that Eddis is their friend before she's a ruler. I love that Costis loved Gen (enough to CHANGE HIS RELIGION) ages before he knew he did, and that Gen loves him unswervingly, and maybe did (just a little) even before he chose poor Costis as his unwitting linchpin. I love that Sophos is going to blush every time he touches Eddis's hand for, like, a solid year. And holy oh my gods, Kamet is going to be so tired of pretending to be exasperated by Costis being the best boyfriend ever. EMBRACE YOUR ADORABLE SERVICE TOP, KAMET ::grabby hands::
Star Trek: Lower Decks
Boimler and Mariner have the most amazing sibling energy. Their chaotic bickering and bone deep loyalty to one another are truly a platonic ship of epic proportions. They can thrive anywhere in any au, as long as they’re together. And that’s why I love them.
Extraordinary
Jen and Carrie being friends is lovely to behold. Jen’s hilarious and knee-jerk defensive meanness is earned and understandable and tempered greatly by her love of Carrie, and Carrie‘s dutiful big sister energy is just with Jen needs in her life. And Carrie loves to take care of people so it works out. As a person who deals with the dead on the daily, I am sure she understands just how important it is to have the kind of friend who would absolutely help you hide the body. Meanwhile, Kash, that charming, goofy manchild, is actually learning and growing as a person. And Jizzlord, that wide eyed and simple hearted chaos gremlin, is just fun to have around.
Abbott Elementary
The energy and optimism, the goofy charm, the way they all seem like such real people, how gentle and weird and try-hard the new kids are in a mean world, how fiercely Barb and Melissa love their students. I love them all, and if you write about them, let me see what you love about them, too.
Dublin Murder Squad
The characters are flawed but always well-intentioned. Well. Maybe except for Rob. Fuckin' Rob, man. French's writing is vivid and alluring and visceral and hypnotically good--it's like a sensory hallucination sometimes. I love the characters with crippling self-doubt who power through, trying to fake it til they make it (Rob, Scorcher) and the sweethearts who do dumb shit trying to help someone out (Cassie, Richie, Stephen), I love the cynical bastards who love fiercely (Frank, Antoinette) and I love that in a dark world, they still try to carry the light, they still search for something to right the wrongs.
MacDonald Hall
I love how much Bruno loves his school, how passionate he is about righting perceived wrongs. I love how long-suffering Boots is, even though he mostly enjoys the hijinx, and how loyal to each other they are. I like how The Fish genuinely likes them, and is sincerely interested in doing well by his students.
How do you feel about crossovers and AUs of various sorts?
I love crossovers. Fusionfic! College AUs. Coffeeshops! I dig an elegant mashup, man. And since characterization is my FAVORITE, and clever AUs can make characters pop, bring it on! His Dark Materials (daemons for everyone!), Inception (IT IS A MIND HEIST), Brooklyn 99? GLOW? Jonathan Strange and Mr. Norrel (what is magic like in 2022?), Pacific Rim (the Dublin kids would be amazing here, so much DRIFT COMPATIBLE ANGST)? Holy oh my god, Bruno and Boots TEENWOLF AU?? Bake off? Bruno's cakes would be riDONKulous and Boots would be so steady and precise; Cathy would spin out early, and Diane would win every technical. Miss Scrimmage's Finishing School for Young Ladies HOSTS THE DERRY GIRLS FOR SOME REASON AHAHAHAHA (why am I so sure that Michelle would take it into her head to tackle Boots and TERRIFY HIM and that she'd try for Bruno in an effort to make Boots jealous while Bruno has been FUMING the whole time, Cathy would snog Clare, Diane would adopt James...)
Feel free to tweak any ask to make it something you absolutely dig. I am sure to love anything you give me, as long as you like it yourself.
