A letter to my Yuletide santa

[thuviaptarth]

Dear Yuletide Santa,

Thank you so much for writing my story! I am very excited. Mostly what I want to say here is that I am fine with gen if you don't think you can do the pairings I requested. Or if you feel you can do flirtation but not consummation, or a story that features the pairing in the background but not as the main plot, that is also fine. The prompts are all optional. I'm sorry they are all also kind of lame; I really don't have good ideas for these stories, which is why I wanted to see someone else write one of them.

I would prefer not to have a story centered around Christmas, although if you are dying to do something with The Nutcracker Suite for Princess Tutu, don't worry about restraining yourself. That seems like a perfectly sensible exception to me.

Here is a nonexhaustive list of my story kinks, in case it is helpful; I am offer it as another kind of prompt possibility, and do not consider it binding, and you don't have to do any of them, let alone all of them (it would be kind of scary if you tried to do all of them):

unresolved sexual tension; sexual tension resolved with rage and lust; unspoken longing; unexpected tenderness; girls dressed as boys; men in glasses; the shift from stubbled to unstubbled skin; undeclared sacrifice; honor above love and justice above personal loyalty; masquerades; cold women and vulnerable men; strong women; women who kick ass; sex against walls; kisses on pulse points; double-crosses and triple-crosses; fairy tales; competent characters; sudden shifts from fierceness to vulnerability; bare feet; changing leaves; water imagery; the color of the sky; unusual and delicious foods; rainy days; old-growth forests; transformations and transmutations; elaborate re-uses of canonical imagery.

I am including a list of previous Yuletide stories I have written because people seem to consider it useful, but I like many more different kinds of stories than I am capable of writing, so do not feel compelled to use any of them as a model. I care more about character and atmosphere than plot, but I admire a well-turned plot very much indeed. I am in awe of people who can write banter or even just wit.

Again, thank you so much!

--m.

My Yuletide Stories
Bake Sale: A Mixed Media Collage (Joan of Arcadia, 2004)
The Language of Angels (Angel Sanctuary, 2004)
Wild Dogs (Wild Adapter, 2005)
The Field Trip (Harlem Beat Come Dawn, 2006)
Stories Darkness Tells You (Fray, 2006)
Sacrifice (Scott Westerfeld - Uglies series, stocking stuffer, 2006)

Comments

[nestra.livejournal.com]

you don't have to do any of them, let alone all of them (it would be kind of scary if you tried to do all of them)

You could probably cover all of them with Yami no Matsuei. Except maybe the ones about women, alas. But you could do it with an OC.

[thuviaptarth.livejournal.com]

I think you can do all of them with Angel Sanctuary, which is why is the cracked and Gothic object of my devotion.

[oyceter]

See, I think "can" here should be "should," but that is because I like Angel Sanctuary and want more crack!

[thuviaptarth.livejournal.com]

I think canon does 90% of them already!