I am SUPER EASY to please and I just want you to have fun writing, so please don't worry about this letter too much! Optional details are obviously optional. I'm the kind of person who prefers too much information over too little and who loves prompts and hearing what people love about the characters/series they picked, so I threw in a bunch of stuff. If you've got a different idea, you go for it! I'm just happy you're writing something for me!
Yuletide is basically how I do Christmas, so I like happy fic for it -- it's hard to go wrong with me with happy fic. The tone of some of the canons I requested (In the Flesh, Runaways) can run towards melancholy, so if you wanted to stay true to that, that's fine, but if you could find the silver lining in the clouds and keep it hopeful too, that'd be wonderful. I tend to be more interested in characters than plot or worldbuilding, but that doesn't mean fic heavy on either of those isn't welcome! Really, I just want you to have fun and be comfortable.
Some general likes: fluff, holiday fic, families both blood-related and found, friendship, relationship exploration, superheroes being heroic and good at their jobs, hurt/comfort heavy on the comfort, tropes like pretending to be married or found a baby or soulbonding because I'm a ridiculous person. I love AUs! The more out there the better -- if you ever wanted to write like, a space florist AU, Yuletide writer, I wouldn't say no. I love fic set in canon equally, though, so no worries if you're not an AU person!
And general dislikes: hardcore kink, noncon or dubcon, extreme gore, character bashing, characters humiliated in the name of humor, infidelity. For Yuletide I would prefer not to get fic that is unending angst, or darkfic in general. Porn is one of those things I'm weirdly picky about so I never request it, but if that's your thing, yuletide writer, I'm not adverse. I don't care for crossovers, but fusions between my requested fandoms are a-okay.
I'm Traincat on Ao3 and on tumblr so please feel free to rummage through either of those hangouts if you want to get more of a feel for what I like! I tag pretty consistently on tumblr, so all of these series would be tagged there by name.
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Iron Man: Armored Adventures (gen)
Agent Hill looked her up and down, lips pursed, one eyebrow raised.
“Come with me,” she started, and breathlessly Pepper cut in with, “If you want to live?”
The corner of Agent Hill’s eye did this little twitchy thing, which looked incredibly smooth and secret agent-y. Pepper wondered if they taught you how to do that in SHIELD classes.
Agent Hill sighed and rubbed a hand to her forehead and said, “Come with me if you want to see Director Fury.”
That was so much better than Pepper could have ever wished.
This was my assignment this year and it was one of those things where, you look at the prompt and you go, this is the fic I know in my heart I have always wanted to write. Armored Adventures is such a fun series, and one of the things I love most about it is Pepper, who wants to be a SHIELD agent and is just so enthusiastic about EVERYTHING!!!!! Trying to capture her energy was a fun challenge, and I hope I succeeded.
style is eternal,
Clint came home to find teenagers sitting on the floor of his apartment. His dog was lying between them, getting skritches.
“I don’t think he likes the hat,” Kate said, holding something in her hands that looked like a giant satin triangle.
“Maybe the holes aren’t big enough for his ears,” the other kid, who Clint belatedly recognized as one of Wanda’s reincarnated brood, replied. “Pass the scissors?”
“Kate,” Clint said, coming up behind them. “And Kate's friend, Strange Teenager in My House With His Hands All Over My Dog.”
Look, doggie costumes are really cute, okay? This one was so much fun to write. Lucky's closet is probably way bigger than Clint's at this point.
Stay, Stay, Stay,
Young Avengers (Tommy & Eli, Eli/Kate/Tommy)
Teddy was cleaning when he found the sweatshirt.
“That’s Eli’s,” Tommy said. Teddy held it up to the light, frowning at it.
“Yeah,” he said. “Must’ve left it here, y’know. Before.”
Before Latveria, Teddy meant. He seemed strangely hesitant to say the word, like it might make Billy do something drastic, like hole himself up in his room and not talk to anyone. Like that ship hadn’t already sailed.
Tommy was sick of it.
A summary of my year: lies down, has Tommy Shepherd feelings. (Maybe more like: a summary of my life.) It's probably an understatement to say I have issues with the tone of the new run, so getting to write Tommy and Eli and Kate together again was like Christmas. In other news, I think I managed to limit myself to only titling one fic after a TSwift song this year, which is a great achievement.
Snow Day
Avengers Assemble (comic) (Carol/Jessica, Jessica & the Hulk)
Spoiler alert: I just really want Jess and the Hulk to have a secret handshake, and Jess and Carol to get married.“You fell through a dimensional rift,” Carol said. “We followed you.”
“Ugh,” Jessica said, planting her sharp chin on Carol’s shoulder. "Dimensional rift. That's just my luck."
There was a flurry of motion behind Carol’s back; she twisted around to find Jessica and the Hulk mid-fistbump.
“Do you guys have a secret handshake?” she asked.
Here's my first batch of Yuletide recs! These are the fics I received, which are all lovely and amazing and I want to roll around in them forever. Thank you so much to my Yuletide writers! I WANT TO MARRY ALL OF YOU. I can not say enough good things about any of them.
1. It’s All Relative(s) - Blue Beetle
Bianca Reyes teams up with La Dama and Peacemaker to rescue Jaime from an alien spaceship. IT’S EVERYTHING I’VE ALWAYS WANTED, with all the Reyes family feels I could ever hope for. The writer really went above and beyond filling my request. I was making flaily motions and squeaking under my breath the entire time I was reading it. Wonderful, perfect familyfic. <3
2. Dinner and a Movie (and Saving the World) - Young Avengers
Tommy and Eli team up to fight garbage slime monsters and then have dinner with Eli’s grandparents. Only in New York! Also, it’s not a date. (It’s a date.) This is ALSO everything I ever wanted and it’s a really lovely look at both Tommy and Eli and it really captured what I love about the original Young Avengers, especially Patriot. It gave me The Feelings. (True story, when I was trying to shake my presents, because I am that person, I was hoping the Eli/Tommy fic was for me and IT WAS. Yay!)
3. Radiance - Ultimate Comics Spider-Man
A lovely look at a canon divergent AU where Gwen has superpowers, complete with powerswaps. Gorgeous writing with wonderful voices (especially Gwen and Miles), and every mention of Jessica Drew was like a knife. Oh, my heart.
You have an easy assignment because I am going to love whatever you write! I love it already! I have all the Yuletide cheer! The most important thing to me is that you have fun writing, so as long as that happens I will be over the moon.
Every year I tell myself I am going to make some very coherent, eloquent requests that clearly express what I love about these series and characters. It hasn't happened yet. This year isn't looking too good either. In these requests I mostly just screech a lot about THINGS I LOVE ALL MY FEELINGS. I'm the kind of person who prefers too much information over too little, so I threw a bunch of prompts into all my requests, but if none of them are to your taste, please don't worry about it! Again, I'm sure I'm going to love whatever you write for me. I love shipfic, and I am totally down with that for most of my requests. (I would really prefer gen for Orphan Black, which is the exception to my general "shipping, aw yeah" rule.) Slash, het and femmeslash are all cool. I also love gen! I would prefer plot over porn, but I'm flexible on that. I'm super easy to please.
General likes: fluff, holiday fics, families (both blood and found), friendships, relationship explorations, gen, casefic, superheroes being heroic and good at their jobs, hurt/comfort that is heavy on the comfort, generally happy fic. AUs are awesome! Write me coffeeshop AUs, college AUs, AUs where everybody is secret agents! Write me SPACE AUs. Or pirate AUs! AUs are great. If you don't want to write an AU, that's great too, because I love all of these canons a ton.
General dislikes: hardcore kink, noncon or dubcon, gore, character death, character bashing, characters being humiliated for the sake of humor, excessive angst. I would prefer not to get PWPs or otherwise very explicit fic. Some porn with plot is okay, if that's your thing, though. Excessive grimdark and tragic endings aren't my thing.
Please feel free to poke around any of my web haunts if you want to get a feel for my tastes! I'm Traincat here, on Ao3 and on DW, and I'm spandextales on tumblr.
Please no crossovers, unless you want to crossover any of my other requests with Gravity Falls. Because that would be wonderful.
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If you need any other information, please feel free to contact
amielleon with whom I have a Yuletide pact. She knows my tastes super well and can accurately answer any of your questions. And she totally won't tell me anything, because she's no fun.
This journal is currently friends only. I like new people, so if you want to be friends, leave a comment and tell me where we know each other from or what interests we have in common.
1. First things first, Johnny wanted to make it clear: he did not intend to sleep with that photographer.
2. “We’re going to die.”
3. The car pulls up in front of Mary Jane’s house at half past midnight and starts honking, three short staccato blasts followed by two long ones.
4. “There’s nothing to this blasted place.”
5. “You’re not going on patrol tonight,” Bruce said flatly.
6. Arkoniel had been perfecting the leaf spell for hours.
7. In the end, Teddy was the only one who came to see him off.
8. Grodd was halfway through a rousing rendition of Toucha-Toucha-Touch Me when he saw the bat-shaped outline hulking just beyond the shower curtain.
9. Fury gave them all a big speech before they left, and finished it with a finger pointed square at the team.
10. His first mission with the Avengers took him to Latveria.
11. The cough started on Thursday.
12. Clint has this thing.
13. In retrospect, it was all Dum Dum Dugan’s fault.
14. This was how it started: Paco, in Arizona, kidnapped and wearing leopard print.
15. Kaede’s first night on the job, she got tossed into a building.
16. Their second day off the Fantastick, John got in a brawl.
17. “This is your twenty-four hour warning,” Billy declared, throwing himself down on the couch.
18. If the world was ending, then kissing Kon seemed like the thing to do.
19. “He’s just so mysterious.”
20. Everyone knew it was coming, and probably sooner rather than later, especially after Sebastian Shaw’s death in that unexpected boating accident.
21. Sometimes Lois thought she should take up a safer occupation.
To top it off, some first lines from some current WiPs:
1. It wasn’t the worst day of Tony’s life, not by a longshot.
2. This was how Phil and May met for the first time, at 8:17 PM, in a corner mart in Queens, during a stick-up.
3. Clint made a promise, twice, and said that everything would be all right.
4. Steve Rogers’ plane took off at 5 PM.
5. The thing nobody, not even his master, understands is that Tommy watched it all happen.
6. “A spaceship has just crashed in a nearby county,” Hank announced at the door, so excited his fur was practically on end.
I have a lot of unfinished Marvel fic.
Things I have learned from this: I like starting fic with dialogue, but not as much as I thought I did. A lot of my opening sentences are pretty sparse. You can pretty much call all my crackfic from the first sentence.
Stump the Writer!
A -- go to the list of my fics (near complete list here, or there's my fic post and meme tags) and pick out a line or three from one of my stories. (Must be a full line, please -- no sentence fragments or speech tags or other such nonsense.)
B -- I will respond with which story of mine I think it's from.
C -- A fic snip to anyone who stumps me.
OR
1. Give me a pairing
2. Give me a text from last night.
3. I'll write you a short fic based on the scenario.
If you're not sure if I'll write a fandom/pairing/character, feel free to ask. Multiple requests are totally cool.
2.) Give me a setting (AU or otherwise).
3.) I will write you a three-sentence fic.
Multiple prompts are more than cool!
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I dither a lot on my Young Avengers…