Yuletide letter
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morvidraHello, dear Yuletide author!
(I just set up this account to put my letter up, so apologies if the formatting goes weird or anything)
Thank you so much for writing for me this year! I'm sure I will love whatever you give me, but I've written up a few notes for you here in case you're the sort of person (like me) who likes to have some pointers to start with. Feel free to ignore them! (And hey, if there's a fic you're burning to write with the characters then WRITE THAT!)
Firstly, we'll get the DO NOT WANTs out of the way:
- No graphic sex please! I'm quite happy with fade-to-black or "overheard from the next room", but explicit scenes are very hit-or-miss for me.
- Following on from the above: No rape/non-con or incest elements please! Again, these are things I'm prepared to
Now some GENERAL NOTES:
- A happy ending would be great, but if you want to put characters though hell in the meantime be my guest, the original author probably did worse. ;)
- The fandom specific notes can be taken or left as you wish - I've put some ideas in in case you want a pointer, but if you get an idea in another direction go for it!
- I like the canon ships in general but some fandom-specific shipping notes are below.
On to the fandoms!
DERKHOLM
Elda, Claudia, Olga, Flury
Flury actually appearing is kind of optional here - he's such a quiet character it's a bit hard to come up with ideas for him (as I learned, trying to write these prompts). So if you have a similar problem, feel free to omit him.
In the book, Flury is constantly annoying Elda by being meek and humble, so... more courting differences? Elda was raised by humans and never learned griffin courting, so does Flury keeps trying to court Elda and failing worse each time? For that matter, does Elda even like Flury? I'm good either way.
How about a team-up project with Olga and Cludia? Olga's air elementals and Claudia's travel magic lead to them inventing some way to fly, which is going great until...? And then Elda and Flury have to team up to help get them out of trouble... or into more trouble.
Honestly you could pick the corniest teen movie trope and write it with these characters and I'd still love it. Elda, Olga and Claudia have a class project and badger Flury for his help?
The hints of future Elda/Flury and Claudia/Blade at the end of the book can be explored or ignored as you wish.
Any of Elda's various family members, classmates and teachers are welcome to cameo if you feel like having them. Olga's father is decidedly not welcome (I had enough of him in the book) but if you want to explore Olga's recovery from trauma then go for it!
FIRE AND HEMLOCK
Polly, Fiona, Granny, Tom
Any combination of characters would be fine.
I was thinking about how in the world Polly is going to explain everything to Fiona after the events of the book, and then I thought: for that matter, how's she going to explain to GRANNY?
I'd quite like Tom to actually meet Fiona and her to be soundly unimpressed (but at least he's better than Seb, she says to Polly later)
Or maybe a conversation between Fiona and Granny before Polly and Fiona go off to uni, because they've both noticed Polly's been a bit odd lately. It's laid on Granny not to tell, but no-one's laid anything on Fiona...
Polly/Tom should be regarded as optional - I feel as though they have a lot to work through before they can really have a relationship, not least of which is Laurel's prohibition on any such thing happening, but I'm not against the idea!
JEEVES
Bertie, Jeeves, Gussie, Madeline
Gussie gets Bertie into strife with Madeline, Jeeves saves the day. (How many Wodehouse books could this be a summary for, I wonder?)
I tried to come up with prompts for this but they all ended up sounding like: "Bertie disguises himself in order to get a compromising letter back from a Hampshire Newt-Fancier who Gussie wrote to in a moment of misguided passion, ONLY TO FIND that Madeline Bassett is the HNF's girlhood chum" and so on, SO BASICALLY write what you like, these four characters can only end in shenanigans.
Bonus points: Bertie has an item of clothing/musical instrument/accessory that Jeeves finds objectionable; poetic misquotation; incoherent telegrams.
Jeeves and Bertie can be in a relationship or not, I like both.
MAGIDS
Maree, Rupert, Nick, Rick Corrie
Any combination of these characters would be fine. Maree is my favourite though. :)
There's a scene in the book where Maree is talking to Rick and he buys her a drink and is quite startled to find she's actually 20 rather than early-teens like Nick, and they nerd out over their shared love of horror fantasy. And then when you get that same scene from Rupert's POV he sees this happen and thinks Rick fancies Maree and wow what terrible taste he must have. So I wondered what might have been going on in Rick's mind during that scene - was he flirting? being kind to someone who looked lonely? just having a nice sit-down in between crises?
Incidentally... what DOES Rick Corrie remember of the convention? Does he run into Rupert and Maree some time later and have one of those "how do I know those two, there's this weird gap in my mind from living on a Naywards world" moments? Or what was his view of the convention happenings at the time?
Maree and Rupert settle in to life on the farm, but how is living together going? Maree's messy, plus she's trotting off for Magid lessons and he's left with all these animals she keeps acquiring AND a visiting Nick, who is no help at all.
Nick causes weird stuff to happen and Maree and Rupert have to go sort it out, Rick Corrie gets swept up in it.
Any of Rupert's or Maree's extended family are welcome to appear also.
RIVERS OF LONDON
Molly, Foxglove, Thomas, Abigail
A bit of Folly dynamic would be amazing with these four.
Thomas and Molly have been there for years, while Abigail and Foxglove are quite new - how do they learn to work together?
Does Abigail learn some of her fox-magic from the two Fae ladies, with Thomas having to translate a bit? What is Foxglove's view on the Folly and the wizards?
Alternatively, something comes up while Peter is off with Bev and these four need to sort it out by pooling their knowledge/abilities/powers.
FYI: I haven't yet read October Man or Water Weed.
Cameos from other Folly habitues are welcome.
LORD PETER WIMSEY
Harriet, Miss Martin, Hilary Thorpe
I really just want to see these three interacting!
Perhaps Harriet has Hilary and Miss Martin to tea as Hilary is considering options for university study.
Or maybe Harriet visits Shrewsbury while Hilary is a student and Miss Martin needs her help with a(nother) College Mystery.
Since Hilary also wants to be a writer, do she and Harriet collaborate on a book at some point?
Or perhaps Hilary has written a book and Harriet gets asked to do one of those "Foreword by the distinguished author in the field", which she hates doing but Hilary being her husband's protegee, she can't really say no...
Other Faculty and Family are welcome to appear.
(I just set up this account to put my letter up, so apologies if the formatting goes weird or anything)
Thank you so much for writing for me this year! I'm sure I will love whatever you give me, but I've written up a few notes for you here in case you're the sort of person (like me) who likes to have some pointers to start with. Feel free to ignore them! (And hey, if there's a fic you're burning to write with the characters then WRITE THAT!)
Firstly, we'll get the DO NOT WANTs out of the way:
- No graphic sex please! I'm quite happy with fade-to-black or "overheard from the next room", but explicit scenes are very hit-or-miss for me.
- Following on from the above: No rape/non-con or incest elements please! Again, these are things I'm prepared to
Now some GENERAL NOTES:
- A happy ending would be great, but if you want to put characters though hell in the meantime be my guest, the original author probably did worse. ;)
- The fandom specific notes can be taken or left as you wish - I've put some ideas in in case you want a pointer, but if you get an idea in another direction go for it!
- I like the canon ships in general but some fandom-specific shipping notes are below.
On to the fandoms!
DERKHOLM
Elda, Claudia, Olga, Flury
Flury actually appearing is kind of optional here - he's such a quiet character it's a bit hard to come up with ideas for him (as I learned, trying to write these prompts). So if you have a similar problem, feel free to omit him.
In the book, Flury is constantly annoying Elda by being meek and humble, so... more courting differences? Elda was raised by humans and never learned griffin courting, so does Flury keeps trying to court Elda and failing worse each time? For that matter, does Elda even like Flury? I'm good either way.
How about a team-up project with Olga and Cludia? Olga's air elementals and Claudia's travel magic lead to them inventing some way to fly, which is going great until...? And then Elda and Flury have to team up to help get them out of trouble... or into more trouble.
Honestly you could pick the corniest teen movie trope and write it with these characters and I'd still love it. Elda, Olga and Claudia have a class project and badger Flury for his help?
The hints of future Elda/Flury and Claudia/Blade at the end of the book can be explored or ignored as you wish.
Any of Elda's various family members, classmates and teachers are welcome to cameo if you feel like having them. Olga's father is decidedly not welcome (I had enough of him in the book) but if you want to explore Olga's recovery from trauma then go for it!
FIRE AND HEMLOCK
Polly, Fiona, Granny, Tom
Any combination of characters would be fine.
I was thinking about how in the world Polly is going to explain everything to Fiona after the events of the book, and then I thought: for that matter, how's she going to explain to GRANNY?
I'd quite like Tom to actually meet Fiona and her to be soundly unimpressed (but at least he's better than Seb, she says to Polly later)
Or maybe a conversation between Fiona and Granny before Polly and Fiona go off to uni, because they've both noticed Polly's been a bit odd lately. It's laid on Granny not to tell, but no-one's laid anything on Fiona...
Polly/Tom should be regarded as optional - I feel as though they have a lot to work through before they can really have a relationship, not least of which is Laurel's prohibition on any such thing happening, but I'm not against the idea!
JEEVES
Bertie, Jeeves, Gussie, Madeline
Gussie gets Bertie into strife with Madeline, Jeeves saves the day. (How many Wodehouse books could this be a summary for, I wonder?)
I tried to come up with prompts for this but they all ended up sounding like: "Bertie disguises himself in order to get a compromising letter back from a Hampshire Newt-Fancier who Gussie wrote to in a moment of misguided passion, ONLY TO FIND that Madeline Bassett is the HNF's girlhood chum" and so on, SO BASICALLY write what you like, these four characters can only end in shenanigans.
Bonus points: Bertie has an item of clothing/musical instrument/accessory that Jeeves finds objectionable; poetic misquotation; incoherent telegrams.
Jeeves and Bertie can be in a relationship or not, I like both.
MAGIDS
Maree, Rupert, Nick, Rick Corrie
Any combination of these characters would be fine. Maree is my favourite though. :)
There's a scene in the book where Maree is talking to Rick and he buys her a drink and is quite startled to find she's actually 20 rather than early-teens like Nick, and they nerd out over their shared love of horror fantasy. And then when you get that same scene from Rupert's POV he sees this happen and thinks Rick fancies Maree and wow what terrible taste he must have. So I wondered what might have been going on in Rick's mind during that scene - was he flirting? being kind to someone who looked lonely? just having a nice sit-down in between crises?
Incidentally... what DOES Rick Corrie remember of the convention? Does he run into Rupert and Maree some time later and have one of those "how do I know those two, there's this weird gap in my mind from living on a Naywards world" moments? Or what was his view of the convention happenings at the time?
Maree and Rupert settle in to life on the farm, but how is living together going? Maree's messy, plus she's trotting off for Magid lessons and he's left with all these animals she keeps acquiring AND a visiting Nick, who is no help at all.
Nick causes weird stuff to happen and Maree and Rupert have to go sort it out, Rick Corrie gets swept up in it.
Any of Rupert's or Maree's extended family are welcome to appear also.
RIVERS OF LONDON
Molly, Foxglove, Thomas, Abigail
A bit of Folly dynamic would be amazing with these four.
Thomas and Molly have been there for years, while Abigail and Foxglove are quite new - how do they learn to work together?
Does Abigail learn some of her fox-magic from the two Fae ladies, with Thomas having to translate a bit? What is Foxglove's view on the Folly and the wizards?
Alternatively, something comes up while Peter is off with Bev and these four need to sort it out by pooling their knowledge/abilities/powers.
FYI: I haven't yet read October Man or Water Weed.
Cameos from other Folly habitues are welcome.
LORD PETER WIMSEY
Harriet, Miss Martin, Hilary Thorpe
I really just want to see these three interacting!
Perhaps Harriet has Hilary and Miss Martin to tea as Hilary is considering options for university study.
Or maybe Harriet visits Shrewsbury while Hilary is a student and Miss Martin needs her help with a(nother) College Mystery.
Since Hilary also wants to be a writer, do she and Harriet collaborate on a book at some point?
Or perhaps Hilary has written a book and Harriet gets asked to do one of those "Foreword by the distinguished author in the field", which she hates doing but Hilary being her husband's protegee, she can't really say no...
Other Faculty and Family are welcome to appear.
