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Dear Yuletide,
Sorry this is late, I hope it's still useful!
Everything below is because it helps me when I have some idea of who I'm writing for, but really, the main thing is just to have fun writing it. That said...
Gen, het, slash/femslash-- it's all good. In general, I like specific characters (and the pairings/moresomes that involve them) rather than being a solid OTP-er. It doesn't have to always be love or forever, but I want even the bad-idea relationships to be bad-idea-but-what-I-need-right-now.
Good gen is always a joy as well. I like tropefic, especially fic that takes a fresh look on tropes, crack taken seriously and speculative fanfiction in general (genderswitch! huddle-together-for-warmth! inappropriate mythical beings! aliens! sudden telepathy!), people taking care of people and affection that's read in actions rather than heard with words.
I don't necessarily go for pure fluff (I like the endings to feel deserved), but I definitely prefer a happy ending-- or at least, an ending that's no darker than canon. I don't like AUs that are less interesting than canon and something set in space is always going to be more interesting to me than something set in starbucks. An AU where someone is so different as to be utterly OoC doesn't work for me at all-- at that point, it's just someone else with the same name. Not a fan of dystopias or grimdark worlds.
I'm also not a fan of biology-is-destiny (not in RL and not in fic). I have read some good fic that uses some of those tropes (ABO, BDSM aus, etc.) that I loved that played with that tropes, but I've read a lot more than made me back-button so fast... Similiarly, soulbond stuff can really work for me, but soulmates (by which I mean one OTP for everyone in the world that trumps all other relationships and without any choice or change in it at all), as concept, I find... well, dystopic. That said, I do like specualting on how [trope] has cultural variations, how even if you're going to have a universal effect, it's not going to be the same for everyone.
Sapphic Girls Stereotypes Alignment Chart - bedupolker
Opposites attract! And then sometimes actually work together! Much to mutual shock!
There's obviously a lot of freedom to play with when the canon is so small. I dunno, I just like the idea of them getting together and then, to mutual surprise, that it keeps happening.
Also for what it's worth, I'm happy with them being any flavour of sapphic - exclusively w/w, bi, pan, etc.
Samurai Champloo
Gen or OT3. It's that found-family/rag-tag band of misfits thing, that they are connected to each other, in a way that they were alone before. Something post-show, maybe, with them falling back into each other's orbit? Figuring out how they'll work next (not least with Fuu being the only one with experience of regular, people-not-trying-to-kill-you-but-still-getting-paid work looks like). I love when they're a team, that they do have different strengths, but can help each other.
The Strange Case of Starship Iris (Podcast)
There's so much potential with this series! It's still so new, and there's some great stuff there (I love the relationships, I love the crew, I love the found family). For this show, that's what I'd like more of - who they are, how they are in this universe, how they connect with each other.
I really would also be super interested is more worldbuilding. Like the war is just a few years ago, was maybe "the closest-won war" (from the human side), but nobody aside from Arkady seems to have, you know, lost anyone, even though canonically, there was massive loss of life.
There's not really a sense, aside from the political, of the effects of it. Or if there are other alien cultures, what they thought of it. More of that would be super good.
Also, anything with the nanites! Very alien, alien intelligences are always fun.
Welcome to Our Village Please Invade Carefully
Welcome to the very obscure BBC Radio fandom corner of the internet!
So I just really like this show, and I really liked Katrina and Lucy and I liked Ravenna as well. I'd be really happy with futurefic or epidsodefic or canon!AUs. Ravenna/Katrina or gen (no Lucy/Katrina, please - I like how they are in canon).
Also, bonus points for anything that includes Katrina's love of literature, Ravenna's general competence or Lucy's stealth competence.
Sorry this is late, I hope it's still useful!
Everything below is because it helps me when I have some idea of who I'm writing for, but really, the main thing is just to have fun writing it. That said...
Gen, het, slash/femslash-- it's all good. In general, I like specific characters (and the pairings/moresomes that involve them) rather than being a solid OTP-er. It doesn't have to always be love or forever, but I want even the bad-idea relationships to be bad-idea-but-what-I-need-right-now.
Good gen is always a joy as well. I like tropefic, especially fic that takes a fresh look on tropes, crack taken seriously and speculative fanfiction in general (genderswitch! huddle-together-for-warmth! inappropriate mythical beings! aliens! sudden telepathy!), people taking care of people and affection that's read in actions rather than heard with words.
I don't necessarily go for pure fluff (I like the endings to feel deserved), but I definitely prefer a happy ending-- or at least, an ending that's no darker than canon. I don't like AUs that are less interesting than canon and something set in space is always going to be more interesting to me than something set in starbucks. An AU where someone is so different as to be utterly OoC doesn't work for me at all-- at that point, it's just someone else with the same name. Not a fan of dystopias or grimdark worlds.
I'm also not a fan of biology-is-destiny (not in RL and not in fic). I have read some good fic that uses some of those tropes (ABO, BDSM aus, etc.) that I loved that played with that tropes, but I've read a lot more than made me back-button so fast... Similiarly, soulbond stuff can really work for me, but soulmates (by which I mean one OTP for everyone in the world that trumps all other relationships and without any choice or change in it at all), as concept, I find... well, dystopic. That said, I do like specualting on how [trope] has cultural variations, how even if you're going to have a universal effect, it's not going to be the same for everyone.
Sapphic Girls Stereotypes Alignment Chart - bedupolker
Opposites attract! And then sometimes actually work together! Much to mutual shock!
There's obviously a lot of freedom to play with when the canon is so small. I dunno, I just like the idea of them getting together and then, to mutual surprise, that it keeps happening.
Also for what it's worth, I'm happy with them being any flavour of sapphic - exclusively w/w, bi, pan, etc.
Samurai Champloo
Gen or OT3. It's that found-family/rag-tag band of misfits thing, that they are connected to each other, in a way that they were alone before. Something post-show, maybe, with them falling back into each other's orbit? Figuring out how they'll work next (not least with Fuu being the only one with experience of regular, people-not-trying-to-kill-you-but-still-getting-paid work looks like). I love when they're a team, that they do have different strengths, but can help each other.
The Strange Case of Starship Iris (Podcast)
There's so much potential with this series! It's still so new, and there's some great stuff there (I love the relationships, I love the crew, I love the found family). For this show, that's what I'd like more of - who they are, how they are in this universe, how they connect with each other.
I really would also be super interested is more worldbuilding. Like the war is just a few years ago, was maybe "the closest-won war" (from the human side), but nobody aside from Arkady seems to have, you know, lost anyone, even though canonically, there was massive loss of life.
There's not really a sense, aside from the political, of the effects of it. Or if there are other alien cultures, what they thought of it. More of that would be super good.
Also, anything with the nanites! Very alien, alien intelligences are always fun.
Welcome to Our Village Please Invade Carefully
Welcome to the very obscure BBC Radio fandom corner of the internet!
So I just really like this show, and I really liked Katrina and Lucy and I liked Ravenna as well. I'd be really happy with futurefic or epidsodefic or canon!AUs. Ravenna/Katrina or gen (no Lucy/Katrina, please - I like how they are in canon).
Also, bonus points for anything that includes Katrina's love of literature, Ravenna's general competence or Lucy's stealth competence.