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moon_custafer) wrote2019-10-25 08:27 pm
moon_custafer) wrote2019-10-25 08:27 pm
It’s That Time of Year Again
Dear Yule Writer—
First off, thanks for volunteering to write a fic for me. I am moon_custafer on AO3 as I am here.
General likes:
Mild hurt-comfort;
Cuddling and conversation;
Period-specific details;
Friendship;
Small, reserved gestures of affection (kissing or touching hands, foreheads, etc.);
Ghosts or supernatural;
Found family;
Casefic or plotfic;
Low-key immortals or demi-mortals passing for human
Do Not Wants:
ABO;
Vore;
Non-con or dub-con;
Underage (although age difference between characters who are both definitely adults is ok);
Fusions or AUs that deviate strongly from the canon setting, i.e. high-school/different-century/IN SPAAACE” AUs
Requests below the cut:
The Woman in White - Wilkie Collins
Characters: Laura Fairlie, Marian Halcombe, Walter Hartright
IMO the plot of Woman In White depends upon all the heroes being over-conscientious people who second-guess themselves until pretty late in the story: Walter, as an art tutor, already worries he’s crossed a line in falling for his pupil Laura even before he learns she’s spoken for, so it’s a simple (if not an easy) decision for him to withdraw so he won’t be tempted; Marion’s creepdar goes off the moment she meets Sir Percival Glyde, but in the absence of any documented red flags she falls back on telling herself she’s just being jealous and over-protective of her half-sister; Laura is easy-going in most matters, but if she believes she has a moral obligation to do something, she will stubbornly do it, against the wishes of her own heart and the worries of her nearest and dearest.
Not without reservations, though: Marion double- and triple-checks Sir Percival’s background; Laura attempts to provoke him into breaking off their engagement by telling him of her feelings for Walter, and the first time her new husband strikes her she has no qualms about contacting her half-sister for help in leaving him— she doesn’t consider herself obligated to stick by him once he’s broken the marriage vows. Walter is off the edge of the page for many chapters but he survives a doomed expedition to South America, kept alive against the odds by the inner feeling that at some point Laura and Marion are going to need his help.
Trying to figure out where I’m going with this– I guess I’d like stories that explore: rule-based morality vs. instinct, and the possibility that Laura is on the AS/ADHD spectrum, as is her half-sister Ann.
Alternately: many fics pair Marion with Walter but I think she feels some attraction to Laura and her guilt over this contributes to her fear that she’s personally motivated to think the worst of Sir Percival.
I’d also be fine with an extract from Walter’s harrowing adventures in the Amazon.
People Will Talk (1951)
Characters: Dr. Noah Praetorius, Professor Lionel Barker, Debra Higgins, Shunderson
“I've known you intimately for 10 years, and I can't even guess what you were up to the day before I met you.” There’s a lot to unpack there. I’d like to see some pre-cannon for these two, maybe including their first meeting (which have been around 1941); maybe some backstory for Barker. Slash ok but not required.
Other possibilities: Shunderson as observer; post-cannon (possibly with Noah, Lionel and Debra as OT3) also good, but that’s what I usually write for myself in this fandom, so you may wish to explore other avenues. Original movie viewable on YouTube.
Kong: Skull Island (2017)
Characters: Earl Cole, Glenn Mills, Preston Packard, Hank Marlow
I missed this when it came out last year, and watched it a couple of months ago mainly due to a newfound hyperfixation on Shea Whigham, who did not disappoint, except that I’d have liked more of his character (Cole), maybe some backstory– I can’t tell if he’s a deliberate example of “smarter/saner than everyone thinks,” or if the script itself wavers back and forth on whether to treat him as the unit cut-up or as a war-weary veteran who’s begun to suspect his side is wrong. Also, I don’t know a lot about Vietnam-era US military protocol, but was it odd for someone of Cole’s age and rank to still be out in the field (same goes for Col. Packard I suppose)?
So, more Cole and Mills, or Cole/Mills if you like, and I’d also enjoy some interactions with the other Sky Devils and/or their commander, or that other eccentric character, Hank Marlow (I think there’s time for a missing scene between the meet-up between Packard’s and Conroy’s groups, and Packard striking out in search of Chapman and the weapons).
Post-canon flashbacks also a possibility.
The Time of Your Life (1948)
Characters: Joe, Nick, Kitty Duval, Mary L.
I’m fascinated by Cagney’s performance as Joe – someone who barely moves from his chair for most of the story shouldn’t, by rights, be so mercurial. Is he an ex-gangster? An ex-Time Lord? But I’d sort of like his past to remain mysterious but for hints.
I like watching Joe’s interactions with Nick, with the other bar patrons (including his brief platonic romance with Mary L), and the interactions between Nick and the others.
Alternately: Nick seems the most grounded of the movie’s characters—we know he has a family outside the bar, because his mother and his little daughter both come by to visit him. What happens when his home life and work overlap, possibly with Joe in the mix as well?
So, there you go, hope one of theses prompts pings something. Thanks again!
First off, thanks for volunteering to write a fic for me. I am moon_custafer on AO3 as I am here.
General likes:
Mild hurt-comfort;
Cuddling and conversation;
Period-specific details;
Friendship;
Small, reserved gestures of affection (kissing or touching hands, foreheads, etc.);
Ghosts or supernatural;
Found family;
Casefic or plotfic;
Low-key immortals or demi-mortals passing for human
Do Not Wants:
ABO;
Vore;
Non-con or dub-con;
Underage (although age difference between characters who are both definitely adults is ok);
Fusions or AUs that deviate strongly from the canon setting, i.e. high-school/different-century/IN SPAAACE” AUs
Requests below the cut:
The Woman in White - Wilkie Collins
Characters: Laura Fairlie, Marian Halcombe, Walter Hartright
IMO the plot of Woman In White depends upon all the heroes being over-conscientious people who second-guess themselves until pretty late in the story: Walter, as an art tutor, already worries he’s crossed a line in falling for his pupil Laura even before he learns she’s spoken for, so it’s a simple (if not an easy) decision for him to withdraw so he won’t be tempted; Marion’s creepdar goes off the moment she meets Sir Percival Glyde, but in the absence of any documented red flags she falls back on telling herself she’s just being jealous and over-protective of her half-sister; Laura is easy-going in most matters, but if she believes she has a moral obligation to do something, she will stubbornly do it, against the wishes of her own heart and the worries of her nearest and dearest.
Not without reservations, though: Marion double- and triple-checks Sir Percival’s background; Laura attempts to provoke him into breaking off their engagement by telling him of her feelings for Walter, and the first time her new husband strikes her she has no qualms about contacting her half-sister for help in leaving him— she doesn’t consider herself obligated to stick by him once he’s broken the marriage vows. Walter is off the edge of the page for many chapters but he survives a doomed expedition to South America, kept alive against the odds by the inner feeling that at some point Laura and Marion are going to need his help.
Trying to figure out where I’m going with this– I guess I’d like stories that explore: rule-based morality vs. instinct, and the possibility that Laura is on the AS/ADHD spectrum, as is her half-sister Ann.
Alternately: many fics pair Marion with Walter but I think she feels some attraction to Laura and her guilt over this contributes to her fear that she’s personally motivated to think the worst of Sir Percival.
I’d also be fine with an extract from Walter’s harrowing adventures in the Amazon.
People Will Talk (1951)
Characters: Dr. Noah Praetorius, Professor Lionel Barker, Debra Higgins, Shunderson
“I've known you intimately for 10 years, and I can't even guess what you were up to the day before I met you.” There’s a lot to unpack there. I’d like to see some pre-cannon for these two, maybe including their first meeting (which have been around 1941); maybe some backstory for Barker. Slash ok but not required.
Other possibilities: Shunderson as observer; post-cannon (possibly with Noah, Lionel and Debra as OT3) also good, but that’s what I usually write for myself in this fandom, so you may wish to explore other avenues. Original movie viewable on YouTube.
Kong: Skull Island (2017)
Characters: Earl Cole, Glenn Mills, Preston Packard, Hank Marlow
I missed this when it came out last year, and watched it a couple of months ago mainly due to a newfound hyperfixation on Shea Whigham, who did not disappoint, except that I’d have liked more of his character (Cole), maybe some backstory– I can’t tell if he’s a deliberate example of “smarter/saner than everyone thinks,” or if the script itself wavers back and forth on whether to treat him as the unit cut-up or as a war-weary veteran who’s begun to suspect his side is wrong. Also, I don’t know a lot about Vietnam-era US military protocol, but was it odd for someone of Cole’s age and rank to still be out in the field (same goes for Col. Packard I suppose)?
So, more Cole and Mills, or Cole/Mills if you like, and I’d also enjoy some interactions with the other Sky Devils and/or their commander, or that other eccentric character, Hank Marlow (I think there’s time for a missing scene between the meet-up between Packard’s and Conroy’s groups, and Packard striking out in search of Chapman and the weapons).
Post-canon flashbacks also a possibility.
The Time of Your Life (1948)
Characters: Joe, Nick, Kitty Duval, Mary L.
I’m fascinated by Cagney’s performance as Joe – someone who barely moves from his chair for most of the story shouldn’t, by rights, be so mercurial. Is he an ex-gangster? An ex-Time Lord? But I’d sort of like his past to remain mysterious but for hints.
I like watching Joe’s interactions with Nick, with the other bar patrons (including his brief platonic romance with Mary L), and the interactions between Nick and the others.
Alternately: Nick seems the most grounded of the movie’s characters—we know he has a family outside the bar, because his mother and his little daughter both come by to visit him. What happens when his home life and work overlap, possibly with Joe in the mix as well?
So, there you go, hope one of theses prompts pings something. Thanks again!