Dear Yuletide Writer
Dec. 25th, 2008 12:00 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
petraDear Yuletide Writer,
You must be an individual of great discernment and taste. Thank you for offering to write for me!
I truly like all manner of stories, as I noted in my request fields. I was working with something of a leitmotif, to be sure, but if you don't feel the vibe there, please don't feel obligated to push yourself. I would rather read something you're truly proud of than something you feel is less than your best work that matches the letter of my request.
In general, here are some tropes I love:
- "I love you more than anything" and all other markers of One True Love make me cringe in real life and in fiction. Feel free to play this for horror, but a story in which love conquers all will leave me perplexed and somewhat displeased.
- I'd rather read the one where X and Y love each other and/or have sex and it doesn't make anything better.
- Oh, the ways in which people can express affection and still have plausible deniability about it, because if they were open about their affection it would be bad in some concrete and awful way.
- A and B are in a relationship, but A's take on said relationship is different than B's.
- A and B are so doin' it but at least one of them does not define it as such.
- Everyone thinks A is superior to B except for A, who knows more/better or merely has an inferiority complex.
- And though it doesn't apply (much) to my requests, it would be an understatement to say that I quite like mentor/student pairings.
As for what I don't like, I can't think of many things that apply to my requested fandoms. Incest generally doesn't work for me. While I don't need a happy ending to be satisfied, any deaths that happen to main characters should have due narrative weight.
Other data on my likes and dislikes may be inferred from my really embarrassingly large amount of stories in various fandoms.
The comments on this entry are open; I am not logging IP addresses. If you need to know something and you're comfortable leaving an anonymous comment, step right up.
Thank you again!
You must be an individual of great discernment and taste. Thank you for offering to write for me!
I truly like all manner of stories, as I noted in my request fields. I was working with something of a leitmotif, to be sure, but if you don't feel the vibe there, please don't feel obligated to push yourself. I would rather read something you're truly proud of than something you feel is less than your best work that matches the letter of my request.
In general, here are some tropes I love:
- "I love you more than anything" and all other markers of One True Love make me cringe in real life and in fiction. Feel free to play this for horror, but a story in which love conquers all will leave me perplexed and somewhat displeased.
- I'd rather read the one where X and Y love each other and/or have sex and it doesn't make anything better.
- Oh, the ways in which people can express affection and still have plausible deniability about it, because if they were open about their affection it would be bad in some concrete and awful way.
- A and B are in a relationship, but A's take on said relationship is different than B's.
- A and B are so doin' it but at least one of them does not define it as such.
- Everyone thinks A is superior to B except for A, who knows more/better or merely has an inferiority complex.
- And though it doesn't apply (much) to my requests, it would be an understatement to say that I quite like mentor/student pairings.
As for what I don't like, I can't think of many things that apply to my requested fandoms. Incest generally doesn't work for me. While I don't need a happy ending to be satisfied, any deaths that happen to main characters should have due narrative weight.
Other data on my likes and dislikes may be inferred from my really embarrassingly large amount of stories in various fandoms.
The comments on this entry are open; I am not logging IP addresses. If you need to know something and you're comfortable leaving an anonymous comment, step right up.
Thank you again!