dear yuletide author made of win:
Dear Most Fabulous Yuletide Writer:
you are awesome. no, really. i kind of had a smorgasbord of requests this year - i missed the nomination round and didn't get to nominate my perennial requests, though i *did* find fandoms that i, of course, adore. which is AWESOME. which is why you are AWESOME. because you like these fandoms too!
the four most important things to know about me:
1. please no boyslash
2. please no incest
3. please feel free to get all dark and twisted
4. please, if you are putting in any historical or psychological reference, pretty PLEASE research well!
(you know how some people are jerked out of a story if there is bad punctuation? i am shot to neptune when the history/psych doesn't make sense/is factually wrong.)
this is also to say that i am okay with pretty much everything else. i mean it. kill people off, have horrible things happen (with the exception of smekday) - ask anyone, dark and twisted are my twin loves. (for all questions i refer you to
gamesiplay and fox1013 - one is the male half of my brain, the other understands my complete devotion to YA. and let's be honest, YA is where some of the best writing is happening these days.)
but i know you are going to be awesome, YT writer. you know how i know? i just do. kind of like patrick jane. only not with the circus background.
onto the requests!
1. Richelle Mead - Vampire Academy
so i honestly think this is one of the most overlooked series out there. the writing is brilliant, the characters are amazing, and each book builds, releases and maintains tension, which is pretty awesome. like i said, i will be reading "last sacrifice" as soon as it comes out, but i know the release date and deadline are close, so don't worry about that - it's just if you were afraid to spoil me or anything, no worries!
rose hathaway is one of my favorite heroines ever. i love her agency, her sense of self, her guilt, her love, her strength. i love her mom, i adore abe. i don't really care for romance all that much, so it's a testament to how much i love these books - but what i mean to say is, please don't focus on D. i know, i know, that's asking a lot when asking for rose, but i feel the books do a very good job with that and i am not left wanting more of that relationship. what i do find myself wanting more of is: adrian, adrian and rose, adrian and lissa, adrian invading dreams, christian and rose teaming up, rose and lissa, black lissa and rose, the first "shadow kissed", mia, rose, lissa and mia, rose and mia, etc. etc. basically i would love anything you conjure except adrian slash, christian slash, or a lissa/christian focused story. i also think road trips are AWESOME, so one before the books or after the books? totally love. i mean, basically, anything where there are kick ass women. such a great series.
2. Adam Rex - The True Meaning of Smekday
VOCABULARY LESSONS. oh, be still my beating heart. i love j.lo with a complete dedication. gratuity is the best grade school kid out there. PIG is a HERO. i love this entire world, i love the humor, i love the subtle references to our world today, i love what smekday IS, i love love disney (though i prefer disneyland to disney world, i have been to both, so).
basically this is the first fandom i have ever requested where i don't necessarily want dark and dreary. i would be happy with humor here, because that's why i love the book.
so really, you can't go wrong. if they are old and dying, i'll take it. if there's another attack, i'll take it. if you want to have j.lo learning holiday traditions? GIVE IT TO ME.
there is no wrong or right here. anything, anything you write will make me happy. i adore adam rex so hard. and this story! the PICTURES! AHHH.
3. Dead Poet's Society
so, when this movie was released in movie theaters, i scared myself silly and left. (we were late to the movie and, not being a fan of anything scary, was already worried about something that had "dead" in the title.) but then, i had my first celebrity crush. oh, robert sean leonard, how you STILL have my heart.
obviously, this is the fandom where the real psychological kink stuff can happen - though it doesn't have to. i love neil, and i find knox the cutest thing ever. i also love love poetry, i love the idea of ideas inciting action, of truly engaging with a text, and i had a teacher at my all girls boarding school that was very mr. keating. I LOVE THIS MOVIE. i love the characters, and i am VERY VERY EXCITED to see what you do with them.
(just please don't slash any of them. and keep all the others, with the exception of keating and possibly todd, to a minimum? i don't see slash in this movie because of when i saw it and the thought of slashing them just ruins me a little. plus i never really liked pitts.)
i am actually easy to please. ;) don't let my blathering scare you. i am just prone to rambling about things, and you know. IT IS YULETIDE! i will love whatever you write, and i hope you are as excited to write one of the fandoms as i am to read something in there.
NOTE: i will be traveling for the holidays and will have limited internet - if i don't comment right away, or only leave a brief one, please don't get worried - i will just be a little stuck. but then! I WILL BE FREE TO SING YOUR PRAISES FOR YEARS.
rock on in the yuletide spirit, my friend.
you are awesome. no, really. i kind of had a smorgasbord of requests this year - i missed the nomination round and didn't get to nominate my perennial requests, though i *did* find fandoms that i, of course, adore. which is AWESOME. which is why you are AWESOME. because you like these fandoms too!
the four most important things to know about me:
1. please no boyslash
2. please no incest
3. please feel free to get all dark and twisted
4. please, if you are putting in any historical or psychological reference, pretty PLEASE research well!
(you know how some people are jerked out of a story if there is bad punctuation? i am shot to neptune when the history/psych doesn't make sense/is factually wrong.)
this is also to say that i am okay with pretty much everything else. i mean it. kill people off, have horrible things happen (with the exception of smekday) - ask anyone, dark and twisted are my twin loves. (for all questions i refer you to
gamesiplay and fox1013 - one is the male half of my brain, the other understands my complete devotion to YA. and let's be honest, YA is where some of the best writing is happening these days.)but i know you are going to be awesome, YT writer. you know how i know? i just do. kind of like patrick jane. only not with the circus background.
onto the requests!
1. Richelle Mead - Vampire Academy
so i honestly think this is one of the most overlooked series out there. the writing is brilliant, the characters are amazing, and each book builds, releases and maintains tension, which is pretty awesome. like i said, i will be reading "last sacrifice" as soon as it comes out, but i know the release date and deadline are close, so don't worry about that - it's just if you were afraid to spoil me or anything, no worries!
rose hathaway is one of my favorite heroines ever. i love her agency, her sense of self, her guilt, her love, her strength. i love her mom, i adore abe. i don't really care for romance all that much, so it's a testament to how much i love these books - but what i mean to say is, please don't focus on D. i know, i know, that's asking a lot when asking for rose, but i feel the books do a very good job with that and i am not left wanting more of that relationship. what i do find myself wanting more of is: adrian, adrian and rose, adrian and lissa, adrian invading dreams, christian and rose teaming up, rose and lissa, black lissa and rose, the first "shadow kissed", mia, rose, lissa and mia, rose and mia, etc. etc. basically i would love anything you conjure except adrian slash, christian slash, or a lissa/christian focused story. i also think road trips are AWESOME, so one before the books or after the books? totally love. i mean, basically, anything where there are kick ass women. such a great series.
2. Adam Rex - The True Meaning of Smekday
VOCABULARY LESSONS. oh, be still my beating heart. i love j.lo with a complete dedication. gratuity is the best grade school kid out there. PIG is a HERO. i love this entire world, i love the humor, i love the subtle references to our world today, i love what smekday IS, i love love disney (though i prefer disneyland to disney world, i have been to both, so).
basically this is the first fandom i have ever requested where i don't necessarily want dark and dreary. i would be happy with humor here, because that's why i love the book.
so really, you can't go wrong. if they are old and dying, i'll take it. if there's another attack, i'll take it. if you want to have j.lo learning holiday traditions? GIVE IT TO ME.
there is no wrong or right here. anything, anything you write will make me happy. i adore adam rex so hard. and this story! the PICTURES! AHHH.
3. Dead Poet's Society
so, when this movie was released in movie theaters, i scared myself silly and left. (we were late to the movie and, not being a fan of anything scary, was already worried about something that had "dead" in the title.) but then, i had my first celebrity crush. oh, robert sean leonard, how you STILL have my heart.
obviously, this is the fandom where the real psychological kink stuff can happen - though it doesn't have to. i love neil, and i find knox the cutest thing ever. i also love love poetry, i love the idea of ideas inciting action, of truly engaging with a text, and i had a teacher at my all girls boarding school that was very mr. keating. I LOVE THIS MOVIE. i love the characters, and i am VERY VERY EXCITED to see what you do with them.
(just please don't slash any of them. and keep all the others, with the exception of keating and possibly todd, to a minimum? i don't see slash in this movie because of when i saw it and the thought of slashing them just ruins me a little. plus i never really liked pitts.)
i am actually easy to please. ;) don't let my blathering scare you. i am just prone to rambling about things, and you know. IT IS YULETIDE! i will love whatever you write, and i hope you are as excited to write one of the fandoms as i am to read something in there.
NOTE: i will be traveling for the holidays and will have limited internet - if i don't comment right away, or only leave a brief one, please don't get worried - i will just be a little stuck. but then! I WILL BE FREE TO SING YOUR PRAISES FOR YEARS.
rock on in the yuletide spirit, my friend.