Yuletide Letter

[galadriel1010]

 

Dear creator,
I am really excited to see what you make, and I hope you enjoy this as much as I'm sure I will!

ETA: All characters across all fandoms are and/or matching.

I have also thrown my hat into the ring for Two-for-One, and am enthusiastically open to crossovers, particularly for Rivers of London and Class.

Standard DNWs:
Injuries to feet, extreme cold and hypothermia, death of children and pets.

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.

Fandoms:
David Blaize - E. F. Benson
The Radiant Emperor Series - Shelley Parker-Chan
Burning Kingdoms - Tasha Suri  
Rivers of London - Ben Aaronovitch
Class (TV 2016)
My Time At Portia (Video Game)


David Blaize - E. F. Benson
Fandom specific DNWS:
N/A

What I like about the fandom:
David Blaize is an absolute joy. I owe whoever recommended me the series a huge amount, although I still disagree with their assessment that it has too much cricket. The characters are just lovely people who have gentle adventures and disagreements, and even when it rains it's just a reason to have a good hot bath. I have read right through to the end of David of Kings, although I've not yet read David and the Blue Door, so anything from during the canon or into their future is right up my street. Frank is wonderful and needs someone to love him, and whilst I'd rather that be David I will accept anyone who accepts and loves him

Frank Maddox/Original Male Character(s) (David Blaize)
What I like about them:
A sort of catch all. I just want him to find love and happiness, and I don't really mind who with. If you feel like going incredibly nerdy on a specialism that I've not thought of, I eat up excessive historical detail like it's candy, but if you just want to give him a soft love in the country somewhere or on Capri or whatever, that is also extremely fine by me. Just let him be happy.

David Blaize/Frank Maddox (David Blaize - Benson)
What I like about them:
David is just sunshine personified, and Frank needs that. The relationship between them in the books is wonderful, I love the hero worship morphing into real and lasting friendship, and the genuine love between them. I'm so here for David getting a clue, however long that takes, and for them to find happiness together

David Blaize
What I like about them:
David is so precious, and so sunny, and hardly ever thinks a nasty thought about anyone, and even more obsessed with cricket than I am, which, I promise you, is a very high bar to clear. I love the way he sees the world, the ridiculous scrapes he gets himself into at school at university. I love that David of Kings has such an open ending, offering the chance for the pair of them to go off into the world together and do pretty much anything they want. I would love to see him become a celebrated author like he wants to, and/or play cricket as a gentleman.

Frank Maddox
What I like about them:
Please give Frank all the love he needs. I love how he tries to do the right thing and be a good person and make up for his mistakes, and how he's so desperately in love with David and so worried about but resigned to losing him. He's an archaeologist and cricketer, and honestly I could not have invented a character more perfectly targeted at my id. If you want to work cricket in there, obviously I will owe you my soul. 


Rivers of London - Ben Aaronovitch
Fandom specific DNWS:
Nightingale/Peter

What I like about the fandom:
Ben Aaronovitch has somehow taken all of my favourite things - magical realism, excessive levels of detail, murder mysteries, London, architecture and sarcasm - and blended them into a series of books I could reread endlessly. The characters are all so endearing and detailed, the narration is a joy, the theory behind it is both sound and confusing. Could only be improved by the addition of cricket, but that's a very minor omission. You can tell he knows and loves his city

David Mellenby
What I like about them:
I love everything we know about him, and I desperately want to know more. I'm pretty sure Aaronovitch has teased that we might get something set during their schooldays, but for now I will take whatever I can get my hands on for him. He's a nerd who does experiments on peas and possibly taught the foxes to talk, and he wanted to change things through science and spent time in Europe when things were hopeful and incredibly queer, and I want him to be happy and nerdy. And in love with Nightingale, but that is optional.

Mamusu "Rose" Grant
What I like about them:
I love Rose so much. I love the way she walks into a scene and owns it and everyone around her. She has such a unique perspective on what Peter gets up to, both culturally and as a mother who's more or less proud of her son but not entirely sure about what he's doing.

David Mellenby/Thomas Nightingale (Rivers of London)
What I like about them:
I realise that the author has made a decision, but since it's a stupid-ass decision I've decided to ignore it. Fixits for everyone! These two fascinate me, with the way that we're gradually being seeded information about David and his relationship with NIghtingale. I'm pretty sure it'll be canonised as romantic one day, but we shall see. For now, we have fanfiction. And if we're going fixit, that's a whole century in my favourite place in the world for them to explore and live and love. The different social circles they've moved in, the social and economic changes they've seen, the endlessly changing skyline

Tags:
Anniversary - Planned Date Cancelled Because A's Ill/Injured; B Comforts and Makes Evening Romantic, Anniversary - 50th Year (Golden), Anniversary, Elopement - Eloping to Gretna Green, Established Marriage - Old Married Couple, Established Marriage - Older Couple Looking Back On Their Life Together, Forbidden Marriage - Symbolic Marriage Ceremony Because Legal Marriage Is Not Permitted, Forbidden Marriage - Considering Themselves Married Even If In The Eyes Of The Law They're Not, Historical - Same-Sex Unions/Bonding Rituals, Marrying for Love - Getting Married After Having Been Together For Many Years, Marrying for Love - Getting Married Moment Gay Marriage is Legalised, Marrying for Love - Marrying Late in Life, Vow Renewal Ceremony - Impulsive Wartime "We Could Be Dead Tomorrow" Renewal of Vows

Dominic Croft
What I like about them:
I really love Shropshire and the Welsh Borders, and the very real and familiar way that Aaronovitch explores it. The landscape and the people, that border country between rural and urban, England and Wales, mundane and fae, absolutely fascinates me, and Dominic embraces it all so willingly and openly, and with such genuine curiosity, compassion and respect. I love him and I love it, and if you haven't read the short story about him and Victor in the Tales from the Folly collection, I'm not going to spoil it for you but it's delightful and I would love it if you went there.

Thomas Nightingale
What I like about them:
Nightingale is such a fascinating character who opens so many doors, because he's been knocking around London for so long. I'm a bit obsessed with London history, so anything about the change and development he's seen, any period you want to throw him into, whether it's the architectural history or queer history or the Edwardian changes, or whatever. I am, as always, a massive nerd for cricket, but also into morris dancing, art deco, the Arts and Crafts movement, Mods and Rockers of the 60s, urban expansion... Everything to do with London fascinates me.
If you want to explore crossover opportunities, I'm more than here for it, especially with Nightingale. The potential to hurl him at any detective of the last 100 years is almost too good to pass up. The ones I know that I think would be interesting crossovers include Campion, Mrs Bradley, Sherlock Holmes (any of them, I love Sherlock, the original stories, Jeremy Brett... maybe even the one with dinosaurs), Morse and Lewis, the various detectives of Midsomer Murders and Death in Paradise, the team in New Tricks, and probably a dozen more I'll think of as soon as I post this. You could even go for the Doctor Who universe and hook him up with Jack (not like that, unless...) or with the development at Canary Wharf for Torchwood One. And if you see my list and think there's something up my street I've not named, go ahead and introduce me to it.
 
Class (TV 2016)
Fandom specific DNWS:
N/A

What I like about the fandom:
This is the Doctor Who spin-off that basically no one has heard of. It was written by Patrick Ness, and is a YA series set in Coal Hill School, now Academy, in the aftermath of the Doctor's many visits. Time has worn thin, and the school now sits on top of a rift in time and space not unlike the one in Cardiff. The difference is that instead of an armed and experienced group of disaster bisexuals, Shoreditch has five teeenagers and a pissed off alien teacher who'd rather not be there to protect it. At the heart of the story are Charlie, an alien prince, and Miss Quill, his enslaved bodyguard who led a rebellion against Charlie's mother (which might have killed his father, depending on how you read it), who are the only survivors of an attack by the Shadowkin that consumed their entire planet. The Doctor saved them and brought them to Earth for a second chance, but they are followed by the Shadowkin, who believe that Charlie can destroy them. Not only do they have to save the world, but Miss Quill has to teach Physics to a load of uninterested sixth formers, and she's not letting Charlie out of his homework just because the aliens attacked before he could get to it.
The rest of the cast are great. There's April, who's carer for her badass disabled mum, a folk singer, and also dealing with Doctor Who-style shit, Ram, who is dealing with some Doctor Who-style shit, Tanya, who is grieving her dad and struggling to fit in as a scientific prodigy doing her A levels early and as a black teenager in London, and Matteusz, Charlie's Polish boyfriend who's dealing with homophobic parents and the effects of the Brexit vote.
This show deserved more than one series, but all it got was the 8 episodes, 6 hours long, so definitely worth checking out.

Matteusz Andrzejewski
What I like about them:
Matteusz is such a sweetheart, with such a strong sense of right and wrong and such determination to do the right thing even when it's hard. Even if I am still pissed off with him for walking out on Charlie just then. I would love to know where they went after that finale, what he wanted to do with his life and what he ended up doing.

Charlie Smith (Class)
What I like about them:
Charlie. Oh my god Charlie. I am so in love with this ridiculously morally twisted, hurting but hoping, ludicrous person. As well as discovering earth, and London, and all the magic they have to offer, it's also the first time he's ever had friends. And he isn't always right and finds it too easy to justify awful things, but he's also trapped in that situation by his responsibility to Quill, even whilst he is clearly terrified of her. I just want him to be happy, and much as I want to see him with Matteusz forever, I would also love to see him join up with other former companions of the Doctor, or travel with her, or anything.

Matteusz/Charlie
What I like about them:
They're such a wonderful, well-balanced couple, even so young. They both bend and flex with each other, accepting and supporting each other but also challenging when needed. I would love to see them outside of the madness of those few months in the show, given the chance to breathe and experience the challenges and opportunities of that cusp of adulthood.
 
My Time At Portia (Video Game)
Fandom specific DNWS:
N/A

What I like about the fandom:
My Time At Portia isn't the shortest game out there, and not a quick canon. I've done over 100 hours on it so far, although I'll admit that quite a lot of that was my attempt to hollow out an entire Abandoned Ruin (someone has done it, I have not yet managed it). I picked it up thinking it would be an alternative to Stardew Valley, and only discovered as I got into it that it's this full, cute, occasionally disturbing RPG. I loved exploring the landscape of Portia, getting to know the locals and make a difference to their lives, delveloping the sleepy little town into a buzzing trading port. I'm really looking forwards to My Time At Sandrock, haven't had a chance to get into the beta yet, and I also haven't played the last batch of sidequests they dropped but don't mind spoilers.

Female Builder (My Time At Portia)
What I like about them:
Please feel free to ship these ladies together in any combination you like, I am enthusiastic about all possibilities, but also happy with anything about them on their own.
I have only ever played a female builder, but I don't think there's anything different about a male builder's story? I really enjoyed exploring Portia as a newcomer to the town, getting to meet people and find out about the history and help to build their future. It was lovely to be able to contribute to the community so much.

Ginger (My Time At Portia)
What I like about them:
I married Ginger, and I love her to bits. She's so sweet and gentle, and deserves all the love in the world. I even enjoyed being mildly threatened by protective big brother Gust. I caught a cotton llama just so that I could take her out on dates to see the beach and the mountains, and go on hot air balloon rides under the stars. And then I adopted Pinky so she wouldn't be lonely whilst I was out at work, and set up our bedroom downstairs so she didn't have to go up and downstairs all the time, and moved my office upstairs and my garden terrace downstairs...

Sam (My Time At Portia)
What I like about them:
Sam can kick my ass and I'd thank her for it. I wanted to be able to go on adventures with her all the time. I'd love to have seen her childhood, growing up in Portia as it was settled and developed, and her eventual decision to join the Civil Corps. I lowkey ship her with Phyllis, and particularly enjoy the interpretation that they're basically married and Sam just hasn't noticed yet.

Emily (My Time At Portia)
What I like about them:
The amount of escaped chickens I've captured for this woman just tells you how much I like her. She has the most chill and down to earth life of anyone in Portia, despite the challenges of running her farm, and seems like the one most rooted in the land. And her granny made me pie, so what's not to like?
 
The Radiant Emperor Series - Shelley Parker-Chan  
Fandom specific DNWS:
N/A

Zhu Chongba | Zhu Yuanzhang, Ma Xiuying
What I like about them:
I haven't finished reading this book yet, and I have requested it purely in the hope that it finds someone who really wants to write it with carte blanche to do what you want, and because I know the author will be over the moon to know something was written for it for Yuletide.
 
Burning Kingdoms - Tasha Suri  
Fandom specific DNWS:
N/a


Worldbuilding (Burning Kingdoms), The Nameless God (Burning Kingdoms), Malini (Burning Kingdoms), Priya (Burning Kingdoms)
What I like about them:
I haven't finished reading this book yet, and I have requested it purely in the hope that it finds someone who really wants to write it with carte blanche to do what you want, and because I know the author will be over the moon to know something was written for it for Yuletide.