Gen Freeform Exchange Dear Author Letter
Feb. 25th, 2021 01:56 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
galadriel1010Dear Gen Freeform Writer,
Thank you so much for writing for me! I'm so excited to see what you come up with, and I hope that you have as much fun writing it as I've had putting my sign-up together. The mood of my requests is generally people forming friendships and family bonds in unconventional circumstances and doing their best. For all my requests, any combination of the requested characters is up my street.
DNWs:
* Hypothermia and extreme cold
* Injuries to feet
General likes:
* Unconventional friendships
* Complicated but loving family dynamics
* Love letters to cities
* Technobabble that's good for the soul
* Intelligent characters getting to nerd out together
* Power duos and competent teamwork
* Pastiche, casefic, genre stories, genre fusions
* Weather, descriptions of landscapes, obscure historical details
* Opinions about tea.
The specific requests:
Crossover Fandom - Doctor Who Spin-offs collide
I'm very open to variations here, especially from the Big Finish canon that I don't know so well. I love both Classic Torchwood (S1&2) and the kids from Class, and want to see all the crossovers where characters from other parts of the Doctor Who universe join the team. The ones I've picked out specifically are:
Ace McShane (Class (2016)) & Team Torchwood (Torchwood)
Ace is just so cool. I'm not up to date with all her Bi Finish work, but I loved her Class appearance and would love to see her in Cardiff. She and Jack would get on well, I'd love to see her geek out with Tosh, and there's plenty of stuff in the 'Diff needs hitting with a baseball bat. Londoners in love with their city can be Taffies in love with their city here! Cardiff is just a wonderful place.
Jack Harkness (Torchwood) & Bunghole Defence Squad (Class (2016))
I love Class and all its tragically wasted potential. There's a Rift in time and space in Shoreditch! And its version of Torchwood is 4 human teenagers, their alien friend/boyfriend and their alien teacher, who hates them. Absolutely ripe for a Responsible Adult (TM) and who better than Jack?
Doctor Who (2005) - The Doctor's complicated Family Tree
Recent years and Big Finish have given the Doctor a family forest, never mind tree. I want to throw them all at each other and see what happens. See our favourites learning to be a parent, the timey-wimey tangles, geeking out together, rescues and adventures and unexpected meetings and an awful lot of running.
Amy and River - recalibrating their relationship to mother and daughter. Did River find a way to visit them? She's resourceful, and it's not like New York was hard to get to without a TARDIS
Thirteen and Jenny - The idea of Jenny travelling with the Doctor is so much fun, especially seeing them finding a way to be a family and how to relate to each other.
Jack/River and Jenny - Jack and River married in the Big Finish stories, so what does that mean for how they relate to Jenny? They'd have so much fun and brilliant adventures, but do they feel protective of her, or that they should feel protective of her?
Thirteen and Jack - I loved his cameo and wish he'd gone with her at the end. Apart from anything else, I wanted to see his cocktail lounge! Jack is one of my favourite Doctor Who characters ever, they've been through so much together and apart, he went to prison to get her out! Just friends bouncing around the universe together.
Sherlock (TV) - Clan Lestreade expands to fill the space available
Fandom specific DNW: Acrimonious break-ups and divorce.
Lestrade is a really interesting grounding influence on the whole Sherlock story, and the implications of that for his family and the other characters is really intriguing. If he's known Sherlock for five years before John meets him, presumably his family have seen that too, even before they watch him become a minor celebrity in his own right.
I'm a big Mystrade fangirl and would love to see Mycroft go from the strange and dysfunctional Holmes family to the heart of a chaotic but loving Lestrade family, and find himself welcomed by them. But if you just want to let Lestrade's kids loose in the centre of London or explore what his career has meant for his family, I am totally down for that too.
As for Greg and his wife, UK divorce law is complicated and London is expensive. Lots of couples end up having to live together post-split, and complicated still-friends but not in love break-ups are my bag. People trying to move on whilst legally still married, because they can't afford to move out and aren't waiting the 7 years (!) UK law requires for a divorce in those circumstances is entirely RTMI. I would love Greg and his wife realising that they've slid from madly in love to best friends and finding a way through that, staying family but not married any more, still encouraging and supporting each other and getting on better without the pressure of all the expectations of marriage on them. Sometimes love is waking your ex up so she doesn't get a bad back from sleeping on the sofa, and sometimes it's calling it a day and moving on before you start resenting each other. I am in love with the idea of her as someone not dissimilar to him, grounded and compassionate and patient, someone who can cope with Sherlock Holmes breaking into her kitchen for years.
Thank you so much for writing for me! I'm so excited to see what you come up with, and I hope that you have as much fun writing it as I've had putting my sign-up together. The mood of my requests is generally people forming friendships and family bonds in unconventional circumstances and doing their best. For all my requests, any combination of the requested characters is up my street.
DNWs:
* Hypothermia and extreme cold
* Injuries to feet
General likes:
* Unconventional friendships
* Complicated but loving family dynamics
* Love letters to cities
* Technobabble that's good for the soul
* Intelligent characters getting to nerd out together
* Power duos and competent teamwork
* Pastiche, casefic, genre stories, genre fusions
* Weather, descriptions of landscapes, obscure historical details
* Opinions about tea.
The specific requests:
Crossover Fandom - Doctor Who Spin-offs collide
I'm very open to variations here, especially from the Big Finish canon that I don't know so well. I love both Classic Torchwood (S1&2) and the kids from Class, and want to see all the crossovers where characters from other parts of the Doctor Who universe join the team. The ones I've picked out specifically are:
Ace McShane (Class (2016)) & Team Torchwood (Torchwood)
Ace is just so cool. I'm not up to date with all her Bi Finish work, but I loved her Class appearance and would love to see her in Cardiff. She and Jack would get on well, I'd love to see her geek out with Tosh, and there's plenty of stuff in the 'Diff needs hitting with a baseball bat. Londoners in love with their city can be Taffies in love with their city here! Cardiff is just a wonderful place.
Jack Harkness (Torchwood) & Bunghole Defence Squad (Class (2016))
I love Class and all its tragically wasted potential. There's a Rift in time and space in Shoreditch! And its version of Torchwood is 4 human teenagers, their alien friend/boyfriend and their alien teacher, who hates them. Absolutely ripe for a Responsible Adult (TM) and who better than Jack?
Doctor Who (2005) - The Doctor's complicated Family Tree
Recent years and Big Finish have given the Doctor a family forest, never mind tree. I want to throw them all at each other and see what happens. See our favourites learning to be a parent, the timey-wimey tangles, geeking out together, rescues and adventures and unexpected meetings and an awful lot of running.
Amy and River - recalibrating their relationship to mother and daughter. Did River find a way to visit them? She's resourceful, and it's not like New York was hard to get to without a TARDIS
Thirteen and Jenny - The idea of Jenny travelling with the Doctor is so much fun, especially seeing them finding a way to be a family and how to relate to each other.
Jack/River and Jenny - Jack and River married in the Big Finish stories, so what does that mean for how they relate to Jenny? They'd have so much fun and brilliant adventures, but do they feel protective of her, or that they should feel protective of her?
Thirteen and Jack - I loved his cameo and wish he'd gone with her at the end. Apart from anything else, I wanted to see his cocktail lounge! Jack is one of my favourite Doctor Who characters ever, they've been through so much together and apart, he went to prison to get her out! Just friends bouncing around the universe together.
Sherlock (TV) - Clan Lestreade expands to fill the space available
Fandom specific DNW: Acrimonious break-ups and divorce.
Lestrade is a really interesting grounding influence on the whole Sherlock story, and the implications of that for his family and the other characters is really intriguing. If he's known Sherlock for five years before John meets him, presumably his family have seen that too, even before they watch him become a minor celebrity in his own right.
I'm a big Mystrade fangirl and would love to see Mycroft go from the strange and dysfunctional Holmes family to the heart of a chaotic but loving Lestrade family, and find himself welcomed by them. But if you just want to let Lestrade's kids loose in the centre of London or explore what his career has meant for his family, I am totally down for that too.
As for Greg and his wife, UK divorce law is complicated and London is expensive. Lots of couples end up having to live together post-split, and complicated still-friends but not in love break-ups are my bag. People trying to move on whilst legally still married, because they can't afford to move out and aren't waiting the 7 years (!) UK law requires for a divorce in those circumstances is entirely RTMI. I would love Greg and his wife realising that they've slid from madly in love to best friends and finding a way through that, staying family but not married any more, still encouraging and supporting each other and getting on better without the pressure of all the expectations of marriage on them. Sometimes love is waking your ex up so she doesn't get a bad back from sleeping on the sofa, and sometimes it's calling it a day and moving on before you start resenting each other. I am in love with the idea of her as someone not dissimilar to him, grounded and compassionate and patient, someone who can cope with Sherlock Holmes breaking into her kitchen for years.
