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One of these days, I'll post something that's NOT a Yuletide letter and everyone will be shocked.
That is not this day, however.
Dear Yuletide Author,
Hi! If have or will browse through my other assorted Dear Author letters over the years, you'll probably notice I've cribbed a good portion of this letter from them, with some changes. You know how it goes. Besides, plagiarizing from yourself is the only plagiarizing that's actually reasonably ethical! :p
That said, hello! Welcome to my letter, I hope it helps to alleviate any possible stress over your assignment instead of making it worse.
If you're trying to glean my personality or general demeanor from my journal here, then I am extremely sorry for its sparseness over the last few years, but feel free to check out my tumblr or twitter if those are the kind of thing that helps you out. (Although I honestly barely use tumblr anymore, I haven't changed that much from when I did.) If you could care less, then great, carry on!
My general likes include banter, happy endings (although I am perfectly fine with bittersweet or even sad if that's where your muse takes you), throwing in little canon details that you might miss on first read but totally make you squee come the second time around, wit, humor, dramatic irony, missing scenes, and in-character-ness. (Of course, nobody ever actually tries to write a character OOC, outside of crackfic for the purpose, so don't fret too much about this point. As long as you make a good faith effort, you'll be fine.) I also like slice-of-life stuff, as is kind of evident in a lot of my requests this year.
As much as I love fic that feels like it could fit right into canon, I also have a soft spot for AUs, so if you get bitten by an AU bug, go right ahead, I'll more than likely adore it.
Dislikes aren't many. Not really a huge fan of major character death for Yuletide, even if I don't mind reading it on a normal basis. Also, and I really doubt this will be much of a problem, but in the interest of full disclosure, depiction of injury to fingernails or toenails skeeves me out more than I can even begin to describe, so if somehow you have a bunny where that might come up, even if it wouldn't really fit in the majority of the fandoms I requested, maybe try to avoid it? Other than that, though, I won't really have much trouble with where you decide to take the fic!
Also, don't feel tied down to the characters I've requested. You can totally feel free to add ones that aren't listed, even in a reasonably large capacity, as long as (this probably goes without saying) you keep the focus on the requests. :)
And now that I've blathered on quite long enough, on to my requests! It'll go as follows. The requests themselves, a little bit on the fandom, how to access it (should you either need a refresher or decide you just cannot write what we matched on and need to write something else badly!) and why I love it, and then a bit more elaboration on my requests themselves (And please, do not take the order or relative lengths of the various elaborations as any indicator as to which fandoms I want more. I would be overly thrilled with a gift in ANY of them).
Warbreaker - Brandon Sanderson
* Lightsong (Warbreaker)
* Llarimar (Warbreaker)
I would love to see more or less anything of the interaction between these two. And you can do it either after Lightsong's ascension to godhood or before... or even both! It would be interesting to see the shift in their relationship.
Warbreaker is an absolutely lovely fantasy novel (as I'm sure you're aware, if this is the one we matched on.) Brandon Sanderson's worldbuilding is ludicrously impeccable, and as awesome as it is, he doesn't skimp on populating those worlds with absolutely fabulous characters. And this one is no exception. Better yet? If you need a refresher on it, he himself has uploaded a PDF of this one to his website for free download! It's on this page, along with pretty much all of his drafts. (The final version is, of course, the one at the bottom of the 'versions' section.)
My prompt itself pretty much covers what I would love to see. Reading about these two really at any point in their timeline would be fascinating. Seeing them before the rather significant lifechanging event in their lives, knowing what's coming, and seeing how their interactions are different from how they end up? Awesome! Just seeing more of their interaction as we knew them in the novel? Also awesome! Just... these two in general make me happy, and their interplay was pretty great in the book, especially considering the gap in knowledge between them. Absolutely fascinating.
Shirokuma Cafe | Polar Bear's Cafe
* Grizzly (Shirokuma Cafe)
* Panda (Shirokuma Cafe)
* Penguin (Shirokuma Cafe)
* Shirokuma | Polar Bear (Shirokuma Cafe)
Something that feels like an episode would be lovely here. These guys hanging out in or out of the cafe, getting up to the kinds of shenanigans that they get up to, you know how it goes. Crazy fun!
Shirokuma Cafe! Available for streaming on Crunchyroll. Animals! Living side-by-side with humans! Having jobs and businesses! (Even if those jobs involve... being zoo displays!) It's hilarious and fun and absolutely wacky in a way that I just find great. I just love all the characters and how they interact and the real affection there even if they can get frustrated with each other sometimes.
I was originally going to request an Any on this one, but then it occurred to me that I'd feel kind of sad if any of these guys were left OUT, so requesting all of them it was. I know this makes character juggling a bit tricky, but I really don't mind if one or two of them are more in the spotlight, and the others take more of a background role. I'd just like all of them there, being themselves! They can just be hanging around at the cafe or at Grizzly's bar, or getting into wacky hijinks. Feel free to add other characters if you need them, or don't! Whatever you'd like, it's all good!
Fairway Solitaire (Video Game)
* Gary Snead (Fairway Solitaire)
* Jack Hogan (Fairway Solitaire)
* Tommy Morris (Fairway Solitaire)
This is one of the few apps that I never play on silent just because I love hearing the commentary! Really, anything featuring the interplay between these guys would be great, whether it's them up in the booth getting ready to announce a tournament or even out playing a round together themselves... or anything else!
Fairway Solitaire is a delightfully fun free mobile app where you're playing the variety of solitaire where you make ascending and descending runs to clear the board. This one has a golf theme and interesting hazards... and, most importantly for the purposes of Yuletide... commentators! They're a little bit cheesy, a little bit ridiculous, and a lot of fun.
My prompt says it all. I just want more of these guys without the limits of the prerecorded lines! I love the way they bounce off each other, and if you're writing for me in this fandom, I'm sure you do too. Whether you write them on the job or off the job or even in some strange AU that I never would have conceived of, just let their personalities shine through and I know I'm going to love it!
The Sandlot (1993)
* Benjamin Franklin Rodriguez
* Scotty Smalls
I'd love to see a window into the lives of adult Benny-the-ballplayer and Smalls-the-broadcaster and how they interact with one another walking the balance of being professionals while having the history that they do!
Baseball is my absolute favorite sport and this is one of the quintessential baseball movies, and how can you not love it! It's childhood and growing up and, yes, a whole lot of ball to wrap it up in a nice neat little package. And it doesn't completely neglect what happens after growing up, either. For canon refresh if necessary, it's available for download at all the usual suspects.
We know that Smalls and Benny had quite the eventful childhood friendship, but I am super interested in that ending, and how all those years later, they're still very much in each other's spheres. Who ended up working for the Dodgers first? Smalls as a broadcaster or the Jet as a player? What was the other's reaction the day their old neighborhood sandlot compatriot ended up joining them with the team? How crazy have their interviews been? Really, anything exploring their adult friendship (slash would be fine too if you are compelled to go that way, even if it's not my first preference in this case) and what it's like with the weight of history behind it.
In summary: More than any of my optional details (which are optional! You are not beholden to them!), the most important thing is that you have fun with writing whatever it is you're going to give me. If you enjoyed writing it, there is no doubt in my mind that I will enjoy reading it. Have a great Yuletide, and I hope it all works out flawlessly for you!
Sincerely,
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dizmo
Dear Yuletide Author,
Hi! If have or will browse through my other assorted Dear Author letters over the years, you'll probably notice I've cribbed a good portion of this letter from them, with some changes. You know how it goes. Besides, plagiarizing from yourself is the only plagiarizing that's actually reasonably ethical! :p
That said, hello! Welcome to my letter, I hope it helps to alleviate any possible stress over your assignment instead of making it worse.
If you're trying to glean my personality or general demeanor from my journal here, then I am extremely sorry for its sparseness over the last few years, but feel free to check out my tumblr or twitter if those are the kind of thing that helps you out. (Although I honestly barely use tumblr anymore, I haven't changed that much from when I did.) If you could care less, then great, carry on!
My general likes include banter, happy endings (although I am perfectly fine with bittersweet or even sad if that's where your muse takes you), throwing in little canon details that you might miss on first read but totally make you squee come the second time around, wit, humor, dramatic irony, missing scenes, and in-character-ness. (Of course, nobody ever actually tries to write a character OOC, outside of crackfic for the purpose, so don't fret too much about this point. As long as you make a good faith effort, you'll be fine.) I also like slice-of-life stuff, as is kind of evident in a lot of my requests this year.
As much as I love fic that feels like it could fit right into canon, I also have a soft spot for AUs, so if you get bitten by an AU bug, go right ahead, I'll more than likely adore it.
Dislikes aren't many. Not really a huge fan of major character death for Yuletide, even if I don't mind reading it on a normal basis. Also, and I really doubt this will be much of a problem, but in the interest of full disclosure, depiction of injury to fingernails or toenails skeeves me out more than I can even begin to describe, so if somehow you have a bunny where that might come up, even if it wouldn't really fit in the majority of the fandoms I requested, maybe try to avoid it? Other than that, though, I won't really have much trouble with where you decide to take the fic!
Also, don't feel tied down to the characters I've requested. You can totally feel free to add ones that aren't listed, even in a reasonably large capacity, as long as (this probably goes without saying) you keep the focus on the requests. :)
And now that I've blathered on quite long enough, on to my requests! It'll go as follows. The requests themselves, a little bit on the fandom, how to access it (should you either need a refresher or decide you just cannot write what we matched on and need to write something else badly!) and why I love it, and then a bit more elaboration on my requests themselves (And please, do not take the order or relative lengths of the various elaborations as any indicator as to which fandoms I want more. I would be overly thrilled with a gift in ANY of them).
Warbreaker - Brandon Sanderson
* Lightsong (Warbreaker)
* Llarimar (Warbreaker)
I would love to see more or less anything of the interaction between these two. And you can do it either after Lightsong's ascension to godhood or before... or even both! It would be interesting to see the shift in their relationship.
Warbreaker is an absolutely lovely fantasy novel (as I'm sure you're aware, if this is the one we matched on.) Brandon Sanderson's worldbuilding is ludicrously impeccable, and as awesome as it is, he doesn't skimp on populating those worlds with absolutely fabulous characters. And this one is no exception. Better yet? If you need a refresher on it, he himself has uploaded a PDF of this one to his website for free download! It's on this page, along with pretty much all of his drafts. (The final version is, of course, the one at the bottom of the 'versions' section.)
My prompt itself pretty much covers what I would love to see. Reading about these two really at any point in their timeline would be fascinating. Seeing them before the rather significant lifechanging event in their lives, knowing what's coming, and seeing how their interactions are different from how they end up? Awesome! Just seeing more of their interaction as we knew them in the novel? Also awesome! Just... these two in general make me happy, and their interplay was pretty great in the book, especially considering the gap in knowledge between them. Absolutely fascinating.
Shirokuma Cafe | Polar Bear's Cafe
* Grizzly (Shirokuma Cafe)
* Panda (Shirokuma Cafe)
* Penguin (Shirokuma Cafe)
* Shirokuma | Polar Bear (Shirokuma Cafe)
Something that feels like an episode would be lovely here. These guys hanging out in or out of the cafe, getting up to the kinds of shenanigans that they get up to, you know how it goes. Crazy fun!
Shirokuma Cafe! Available for streaming on Crunchyroll. Animals! Living side-by-side with humans! Having jobs and businesses! (Even if those jobs involve... being zoo displays!) It's hilarious and fun and absolutely wacky in a way that I just find great. I just love all the characters and how they interact and the real affection there even if they can get frustrated with each other sometimes.
I was originally going to request an Any on this one, but then it occurred to me that I'd feel kind of sad if any of these guys were left OUT, so requesting all of them it was. I know this makes character juggling a bit tricky, but I really don't mind if one or two of them are more in the spotlight, and the others take more of a background role. I'd just like all of them there, being themselves! They can just be hanging around at the cafe or at Grizzly's bar, or getting into wacky hijinks. Feel free to add other characters if you need them, or don't! Whatever you'd like, it's all good!
Fairway Solitaire (Video Game)
* Gary Snead (Fairway Solitaire)
* Jack Hogan (Fairway Solitaire)
* Tommy Morris (Fairway Solitaire)
This is one of the few apps that I never play on silent just because I love hearing the commentary! Really, anything featuring the interplay between these guys would be great, whether it's them up in the booth getting ready to announce a tournament or even out playing a round together themselves... or anything else!
Fairway Solitaire is a delightfully fun free mobile app where you're playing the variety of solitaire where you make ascending and descending runs to clear the board. This one has a golf theme and interesting hazards... and, most importantly for the purposes of Yuletide... commentators! They're a little bit cheesy, a little bit ridiculous, and a lot of fun.
My prompt says it all. I just want more of these guys without the limits of the prerecorded lines! I love the way they bounce off each other, and if you're writing for me in this fandom, I'm sure you do too. Whether you write them on the job or off the job or even in some strange AU that I never would have conceived of, just let their personalities shine through and I know I'm going to love it!
The Sandlot (1993)
* Benjamin Franklin Rodriguez
* Scotty Smalls
I'd love to see a window into the lives of adult Benny-the-ballplayer and Smalls-the-broadcaster and how they interact with one another walking the balance of being professionals while having the history that they do!
Baseball is my absolute favorite sport and this is one of the quintessential baseball movies, and how can you not love it! It's childhood and growing up and, yes, a whole lot of ball to wrap it up in a nice neat little package. And it doesn't completely neglect what happens after growing up, either. For canon refresh if necessary, it's available for download at all the usual suspects.
We know that Smalls and Benny had quite the eventful childhood friendship, but I am super interested in that ending, and how all those years later, they're still very much in each other's spheres. Who ended up working for the Dodgers first? Smalls as a broadcaster or the Jet as a player? What was the other's reaction the day their old neighborhood sandlot compatriot ended up joining them with the team? How crazy have their interviews been? Really, anything exploring their adult friendship (slash would be fine too if you are compelled to go that way, even if it's not my first preference in this case) and what it's like with the weight of history behind it.
In summary: More than any of my optional details (which are optional! You are not beholden to them!), the most important thing is that you have fun with writing whatever it is you're going to give me. If you enjoyed writing it, there is no doubt in my mind that I will enjoy reading it. Have a great Yuletide, and I hope it all works out flawlessly for you!
Sincerely,
dizmo
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The rein-handing was extremely recent. We had talked about it a few months back, and she was thinking about it at the time but hadn't decided. It was official as of only a few days ago, so I shall be bringing it back in the near future. :)
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