DEAR YULETIDE WRITER, fall 2017

[somethingaboutsewing]

 ANOTHER YEAR ANOTHER YULETIDE, let's get into it!

 

REQUESTS!

 

[1] The Good Place: Janet, Jianyu Li / Jason Mendoza

 

The Good Place!  And that TWIST, at the end of the first season, (and, uh, spoilers I guess), that they've restarted 802 times, that they're teaming up with Michael, that every week reveals something new and surprising, whether it's a giant character moment or it's the name of the new clam chowder place.  I was close to requesting Any on this and calling it a day so if you want to include the whole gang, feel free to go for it, but I'd really like something that features Jason and Janet, weirdos of my heart, either shippy, or not.  She's a robot!  She's not a robot!  She's increasing her social awareness!  She's the most advanced Janet in the universe!  And JASON, beautiful sweet summer child, Jason!  Just wants to play ipad!  Just wants to know the fate of the Jacksonville Jaguars!  Just wants to profess his love!  She is not human and he has the emotional capacity of of a twelve year old and probably it is weird to want to know everything about their inner lives, and probably it is weird to want to know everything about what friendship (and in the case of some reboots: marriage) would entail for them but whoops, here we are. 

 

[2] Imposters: Ezra Bloom, Jules Langmore, Maddie Jonson, Richard Evans

 

FIRST OF ALL if we matched on this show, come be my friend, because the only other person I know who watches this is tired of listening to me talk about how much I love everyone.  Because, yuletide stranger, I LOVE! EVERYONE!  I love that Maddie so hoodwinked all of her spouses they'd abandon their lives to come chase her down, I love that the spouses are sort of best pals now, I love that they still all sort of love Maddie but also still want to be moving on, I love that there is so much potential for fake relationships and undercover hinjinx, I love that Jules, Ezra, and Richard were all sort of terrible at spycraft in the beginning but are getting better, I love that Maddie went to the bus station at the end of the last episode, I love that she didn't get on.  Prompts: what happens next?  Do they find Maddie, again?  Does Maddie find them?  Does the FBI track them down?  Do they move on? Do they all get hoodwinked into working for the feds, to bring down the bigger bads?  Do they hook up, either all at once, or separately, in smaller groups (I ship everyone in all combos except for prob Jules/dudes, so go to town, if that's your thing).

 

[3] Simon vs. the Homo Sapiens Agenda: Abby Suso, Bram Greenfeld, Simon Spier

 

This booooook!  I love Simon's voice, how natural and chatty and sprawling his narration and letters felt, I love how shy and contained and sure Bram's was, I love Abby's ease and friendship with Simon, and how much she cheered on any/all of his potential relationships.  I'd love to see something post-book with Bram and Simon continuing to be super happy super mushy boyfriends, I'd love to see Simon figuring out how to balance having a boyfriend without inadvertently ignoring all of his friends, I'd love to see Abby and Simon cheering/heckling soccer games/scrimmages/practices now that they're free of their after school play rehearsals, I'd love to see how excited and nerdy everyone gets about Junior Prom, or, how they each spend their summers.  Or: flashback fic, how Abby came to befriend Simon and the rest of his lunchtable crew, how Bram felt about everything, the events of the book, or the events from before the book, and the point when he realized, or hoped, that Jacques was Simon.

 

[4] Superstore: Dina Fox, Garrett McNeill 

 

Superstore, GOSH.  SUPERSTORE!  I love this gem of a show, I love everyone in it, and I especially love Dina and Garrett.  Dina is so confident!  She is so utterly the star of her own life!  Garrett is so chill!  He is so excellent at recognizing (and loudspeakering) all of the out-there things happening around him.  Gen, shippy, they hate each other, they love each other (they hate and love each other), I'd love love love to receive anything featuring these two.  A high school AU!  Fancy dress AU!  A day of hijinx where they work with (or against!) each other!  First time fic!  First time they realized sleeping together was going to be a ongoing continuing thing fic!  First time they met!  All the stuff that did, or didn't, happen between the tornado and re-opening!  Did they see each other?  Did they not see each other?  Did they want to see each other?  Did they want to never again see each other?  Did they not even think of each other?  I love that their thing is so casual, and I love that they are maybe not entirely on the same page, feelings-wise.

 

[5] Twister: Bill Harding, Jo Harding

I didn't know I wanted fic for this movie until I saw it in the tagset and now BOY DO I EVER!  I love breakup fic, I love getting back together fic, I love second chances/second time fics, I love post-movie fic.  Does doing it all over again actually work out for them?  Do they ever get tired of chasing storms?  Does Jo ever buy a new white shirt?  Or, if the end of the movie doesn't happen, if they don't end up making out inside of a giant tornado: what happens?  Do they still find their way back to each other?  Does Bill get married?  Do they run into each other again, ten or fifteen or twenty years down the road?  Do they think of each other?  I love how slow-burny their rediscovery of feelings for each other was in the film, I love the angst of Bill needing/wanting her to sign the divorce papers, I love how much they loved chasing storms, how good they are at it. I love that they probably had super intense getting-back-together sex.  I will love anything you write about these two.

 

LIKES!  Every year I think I have no strong general likes or dislikes, and then I write this letter and see the patterns that emerge, so: tropes!  AUs!  First times!  Angst!  Porn!  Fluff!  Shippiness!  Gen!

DISLIKES!  Noncon!  Violence against women!  Misogyny, internalized or otherwise!

MISC OTHER THINGS!  At least a few of these are active shows that are airing currently and that seems like a very stressful prospect, to be writing, or trying to plan how to be writing, when the canon is constantly changing.  If you want to incorporate things that are happening, awesome, or if you'd prefer to go AU from a set episode, that's great too.  Also in general, if you have an idea that really grabs you that you want to write, rather than build off my prompts, go for it.  Whatever works for you works for me.  I love each of these fandoms and each of these characters, and am going to be so delighted to receive fic for any of them, I promise.

WHERE TO FIND ME!  I exist here on dreamwidth, sort of, or I'm somethingaboutsewing on tumblr and petragem on ao3.

HAPPY YULETIDING, YULE FRIEND!  XO.