Dear Yuletide Santa
Firstly, and most importantly, THANK YOU!
Secondly, optional details are optional details. As long as the story's about my favourite two characters, I will love it dearly.
General likes & loves:
I love my OTP's and stories about how they get together. I like a little bit of angst so long as there's a happy ending (for my character or OTP) at the end. I like third person POVs and enjoy R and NC17 ratings if the rating is relevant to the plot. I love touching, making out, fighting (physical and/or verbal), sexing (fade to black or not), banter/good dialogue, and characters who are competent. Five times styled fics are awesome, as are the more traditional beginning-middle-end.
Tropes et al (aka, things I'm a sucker for):
There was only one bed... marriage of convenience... aliens or sex-pollen made them do it... fix-it fic... yelling 'because I love you' unexpectedly in an argument... fake dating... time travel fixes everything... stranded alone together... forced to work together... it's the apocalypse... groundhog day time loops... only calling each other by rank/surname until one of them gets injured then using their real/first name... road trip fic... snuggling for warmth because it's freezing... natural disasters... affairs because even though they're already taken they just can't resist the other any longer... <3 <3 <3
Do Not Want:
AUs where everyone's in high school, or the wild west, or they're all vampires, or running coffee shops, etc; established relationships, character deaths and/or relationships other than the ones requested (unless otherwise noted); first/second POVs; character bashing; porn without plot (PWP), BDSM, non-con, sub/dom, anal, rape, abuse, gore, child harm/abuse/death, beastiality, A/B/O, etc.
Aliens (1986), Dwayne Hicks, Ellen Ripley (Aliens)
Prompt suggestions:
- "Alien3" fix-it fic: the egg is still on board but Ripley and Hicks (and Newt) are able to wake before the alien causes the fire...
- Ripley refuses to go back to LV426; Hicks (and some of the others?) survive the mission somehow; the alien threat stretches across the stars to Earth. How do these changes change nothing at all?
My favourite movie of all time. The end.
Seriously. I love everything about this movie. I love that Ripley is strong and broken and unrelenting. I love that she has PTSD and smokes constantly and is too busy and afraid to sleep. I love that she sees danger and terror everywhere, and that it's real, which is why she will use anything she can find or learn to defend herself and hers. And I love that Hicks is her perfect match, that he is exactly the same, and that he sees all her strengths and faults and never doubts her for a second.
Do Not Want:
- Ripley suddenly being a non-smoker.
The Stand (TV 2020), Fran Goldsmith, Stu Redman
Prompt suggestions:
- Falling in love on the journey to Boulder.
- Post-series, traveling around America.
I have some serious issues with this new version of The Stand but at the end of the day it is based on one of my favourite ever novels so there's a lot of love here too. And I would really, really, really love a story that shows Frannie and Stu falling in love on their journey to Boulder. The series skips straight from them meeting/reuniting to them already being happy and settled together in Boulder -- and that's great, sure -- but I'm after the story of how they got there first. The trope-ridden, sneaking around, making out, falling head-over-heels, romance-in-an-apocalypse love story.
Do Not Want:
- Frannie's condescending attitude in Boulder (see: asking Nadine if she would be Leo's guardian WHEN SHE ALREADY WAS) and magical fixes that exist just so the characters can get away with doing stupid things (see: Frannie climbing on top of the well cover and the ghost of young Mother Abigail healing her when she inevitably falls through).
World War Z (2013), Gerry Lane, Segen
Prompt suggestions:
- Gerry and Segen's journey from Wales to safety. I loved the country hopping in the movie, so a journey with lots of stops and backtracks and not-so-shortcuts would be awesome. How do they survive in unfamiliar locations in an apocalyptic nightmare? Do they visit any other locations from the book? Does Nova Scotia remain a safe zone or is it eventually broken and a new safe zone created?
- # Christmases Gerry and Segen survive together.
Yup, I 'ship it: Gerry/Segen, but in a slow burn sense. Like, if the movie had been greenlit for a trilogy, I imagine Karin would have tragically died in movie two, and movie three would have ended with Gerry and Segen walking off into a zombie free sunset together (and if not necessarily romantically walking off, then with the hope that it could go that way after the fade to black).
Karin is great, and I do believe that Gerry loves her and their marriage, so please no character bashing or adultery. Just kill her off respectfully (and easily -- there is a zombie plague after all, and the movie ends with the idea that they're all going to go around injecting each other with fatal diseases, heh) and have Gerry move on appropriately. Or, you know, keep her in Nova Scotia with the kids, and instead focus the story on Gerry and Segen's one true partnership as they traverse the world, learning and killing zombies and surviving.
Do Not Want:
- While I know this is a zombie movie, I do not want any baby or child deaths (or babies/children turning into zombies), or gore (decapitate the dead, sure, but please don't describe every piece of rotting or severed flesh in excruciating detail).
Starship Troopers (1997), Johnny Rico, Dizzy Flores
Prompt suggestions:
- Dizzy lives. She lives, and she and Johnny are together, and (for all intents and purposes) invincible, and just damn epic at killing bugs together.
- A 'what if' where Johnny doesn't enlist straight after high school. In an attempt to get over Johnny, Dizzy enlists to get as far away from him as possible, but then the bugs attack Buenos Aires... how does she cope with the 'death' of the guy she loves? And, more importantly, what happens next when she runs into him later, and realises he's not only alive but has also enlisted? And why is he suddenly acting like he's missed her almost as much as she's missed him...?
I've written in this fandom a couple of times for Yuletide, and requested it once before (but not received), so here I am again for this cracky movie that I love so damn much. I remember going to see this at least half a dozen times the summer it came out in the cinemas, and hating Dizzy's death (and her final words) each and every time. I've given two "what if" suggestions above but feel free to choose your own adventure here because all I really need is an alive Dizzy, a Johnny who's a little smarter (emotionally), and a bug-killing super-couple who are just as awesome at making out as they are at marine-ing.
Do Not Want:
- Jonny in love with Carmen and settling for Dizzy.
Stargate Atlantis RPF, Torri Higginson, Joe Flanigan
Prompt suggestions:
- An affair during filming the show.
- Slow burn 'ship fic. Tension and wanting and feelings that neither will admit out loud until they can't deny it any longer.
My favourite ever RPF OTP, hands down; I just love the chemistry these two have on set and at conventions and implied in interviews.
As far as I'm concerned the fic for these two is at its best when it's all about them having an affair. A happily-ever-after is great and wanted, but what I live for here is the flirting that crosses a line, the angst of falling for a married co-star, the inappropriateness of wanting someone else when you're already taken. Give me the inability to stop thinking about each other, or wanting to touch each other, that eventuates into sneaking around and the danger of being caught. This is definitely a reciprocated 'ship in my head in that they both fall head-over-heels for the other, but when it's Joe being the one to actually instigate something? And when they're both initially clueless about the other's feelings? Perfection.
Do Not Want:
- Erasing Kath from the situation just to make things less wrong or easier.
Links:
My fic: AO3
My recs: Pinboard
Again: thank you!!
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Secondly, optional details are optional details. As long as the story's about my favourite two characters, I will love it dearly.
General likes & loves:
I love my OTP's and stories about how they get together. I like a little bit of angst so long as there's a happy ending (for my character or OTP) at the end. I like third person POVs and enjoy R and NC17 ratings if the rating is relevant to the plot. I love touching, making out, fighting (physical and/or verbal), sexing (fade to black or not), banter/good dialogue, and characters who are competent. Five times styled fics are awesome, as are the more traditional beginning-middle-end.
Tropes et al (aka, things I'm a sucker for):
There was only one bed... marriage of convenience... aliens or sex-pollen made them do it... fix-it fic... yelling 'because I love you' unexpectedly in an argument... fake dating... time travel fixes everything... stranded alone together... forced to work together... it's the apocalypse... groundhog day time loops... only calling each other by rank/surname until one of them gets injured then using their real/first name... road trip fic... snuggling for warmth because it's freezing... natural disasters... affairs because even though they're already taken they just can't resist the other any longer... <3 <3 <3
Do Not Want:
AUs where everyone's in high school, or the wild west, or they're all vampires, or running coffee shops, etc; established relationships, character deaths and/or relationships other than the ones requested (unless otherwise noted); first/second POVs; character bashing; porn without plot (PWP), BDSM, non-con, sub/dom, anal, rape, abuse, gore, child harm/abuse/death, beastiality, A/B/O, etc.
Aliens (1986), Dwayne Hicks, Ellen Ripley (Aliens)
Prompt suggestions:
- "Alien3" fix-it fic: the egg is still on board but Ripley and Hicks (and Newt) are able to wake before the alien causes the fire...
- Ripley refuses to go back to LV426; Hicks (and some of the others?) survive the mission somehow; the alien threat stretches across the stars to Earth. How do these changes change nothing at all?
My favourite movie of all time. The end.
Seriously. I love everything about this movie. I love that Ripley is strong and broken and unrelenting. I love that she has PTSD and smokes constantly and is too busy and afraid to sleep. I love that she sees danger and terror everywhere, and that it's real, which is why she will use anything she can find or learn to defend herself and hers. And I love that Hicks is her perfect match, that he is exactly the same, and that he sees all her strengths and faults and never doubts her for a second.
Do Not Want:
- Ripley suddenly being a non-smoker.
The Stand (TV 2020), Fran Goldsmith, Stu Redman
Prompt suggestions:
- Falling in love on the journey to Boulder.
- Post-series, traveling around America.
I have some serious issues with this new version of The Stand but at the end of the day it is based on one of my favourite ever novels so there's a lot of love here too. And I would really, really, really love a story that shows Frannie and Stu falling in love on their journey to Boulder. The series skips straight from them meeting/reuniting to them already being happy and settled together in Boulder -- and that's great, sure -- but I'm after the story of how they got there first. The trope-ridden, sneaking around, making out, falling head-over-heels, romance-in-an-apocalypse love story.
Do Not Want:
- Frannie's condescending attitude in Boulder (see: asking Nadine if she would be Leo's guardian WHEN SHE ALREADY WAS) and magical fixes that exist just so the characters can get away with doing stupid things (see: Frannie climbing on top of the well cover and the ghost of young Mother Abigail healing her when she inevitably falls through).
World War Z (2013), Gerry Lane, Segen
Prompt suggestions:
- Gerry and Segen's journey from Wales to safety. I loved the country hopping in the movie, so a journey with lots of stops and backtracks and not-so-shortcuts would be awesome. How do they survive in unfamiliar locations in an apocalyptic nightmare? Do they visit any other locations from the book? Does Nova Scotia remain a safe zone or is it eventually broken and a new safe zone created?
- # Christmases Gerry and Segen survive together.
Yup, I 'ship it: Gerry/Segen, but in a slow burn sense. Like, if the movie had been greenlit for a trilogy, I imagine Karin would have tragically died in movie two, and movie three would have ended with Gerry and Segen walking off into a zombie free sunset together (and if not necessarily romantically walking off, then with the hope that it could go that way after the fade to black).
Karin is great, and I do believe that Gerry loves her and their marriage, so please no character bashing or adultery. Just kill her off respectfully (and easily -- there is a zombie plague after all, and the movie ends with the idea that they're all going to go around injecting each other with fatal diseases, heh) and have Gerry move on appropriately. Or, you know, keep her in Nova Scotia with the kids, and instead focus the story on Gerry and Segen's one true partnership as they traverse the world, learning and killing zombies and surviving.
Do Not Want:
- While I know this is a zombie movie, I do not want any baby or child deaths (or babies/children turning into zombies), or gore (decapitate the dead, sure, but please don't describe every piece of rotting or severed flesh in excruciating detail).
Starship Troopers (1997), Johnny Rico, Dizzy Flores
Prompt suggestions:
- Dizzy lives. She lives, and she and Johnny are together, and (for all intents and purposes) invincible, and just damn epic at killing bugs together.
- A 'what if' where Johnny doesn't enlist straight after high school. In an attempt to get over Johnny, Dizzy enlists to get as far away from him as possible, but then the bugs attack Buenos Aires... how does she cope with the 'death' of the guy she loves? And, more importantly, what happens next when she runs into him later, and realises he's not only alive but has also enlisted? And why is he suddenly acting like he's missed her almost as much as she's missed him...?
I've written in this fandom a couple of times for Yuletide, and requested it once before (but not received), so here I am again for this cracky movie that I love so damn much. I remember going to see this at least half a dozen times the summer it came out in the cinemas, and hating Dizzy's death (and her final words) each and every time. I've given two "what if" suggestions above but feel free to choose your own adventure here because all I really need is an alive Dizzy, a Johnny who's a little smarter (emotionally), and a bug-killing super-couple who are just as awesome at making out as they are at marine-ing.
Do Not Want:
- Jonny in love with Carmen and settling for Dizzy.
Stargate Atlantis RPF, Torri Higginson, Joe Flanigan
Prompt suggestions:
- An affair during filming the show.
- Slow burn 'ship fic. Tension and wanting and feelings that neither will admit out loud until they can't deny it any longer.
My favourite ever RPF OTP, hands down; I just love the chemistry these two have on set and at conventions and implied in interviews.
As far as I'm concerned the fic for these two is at its best when it's all about them having an affair. A happily-ever-after is great and wanted, but what I live for here is the flirting that crosses a line, the angst of falling for a married co-star, the inappropriateness of wanting someone else when you're already taken. Give me the inability to stop thinking about each other, or wanting to touch each other, that eventuates into sneaking around and the danger of being caught. This is definitely a reciprocated 'ship in my head in that they both fall head-over-heels for the other, but when it's Joe being the one to actually instigate something? And when they're both initially clueless about the other's feelings? Perfection.
Do Not Want:
- Erasing Kath from the situation just to make things less wrong or easier.
Links:
My fic: AO3
My recs: Pinboard
Again: thank you!!
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