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frankincense) wrote2024-10-06 06:16 pm
frankincense) wrote2024-10-06 06:16 pm
dear yuletide writer
Dear Yuletide writer,
Happy Yuletide! I'm so pleased we've matched on one of these fandoms, and I'm looking forward to reading your fic.
General Likes:
- Historical and setting-specific detail
- Historical, political, and cultural context
- Historically/culturally-specific understandings of gender and sexuality
- Morally grey characters
- M/M and F/F
- Complicated, toxic, love/hate relationships
- Enemies to lovers, lovers to enemies, or any variation thereof
- Class difference, rank difference, age difference, and other power differentials
- Hurt/comfort, hurt/no comfort
- Non- or under-negotiated bdsm
- Power dynamics being negotiated through sex
General Do Not Wants:
- Physically impossible/supernatural kinks and tropes (omegaverse, mpreg, genderswap, inflation, vore, etc)
- Scat
- Bestiality
- Ageplay
- Necrophilia
- Sex involving characters under 18 (with an exception for Medieval English Royalty RPF: see fandom-specific details)
- Setting AUs (modern, school, fantasy/sci-fi, different historical period, etc)
- Trans headcanons
- Focus on fertility, pregnancy, childbirth, parenthood, etc
- Characters taking their own lives
Requests
The Favourite (2018): Abigail Hill Masham, Queen Anne
My gift must feature all of my chosen character tags
Fandom-specific DNWs:
M/F sex/romance. Focus on Abigail and Anne's marriages (minor references are fine). F/F/M poly/threesomes/love triangles. While I DNW focus on fertility, pregnancy, childbirth, parenthood, etc, I'm fine with brief references to Anne's children.
Background:
I love the troubled monarch/unsuitable favourite dynamic, so I'm especially pleased that The Favourite gives us a version of that with canon F/F. I appreciate how morally ambiguous Abigail and Anne are — we're left to speculate as to whether Abigail was planning it all from the beginning or just taking opportunities as they came, how much Anne knew about Abigail's machinations at any given point, if Anne ever really cared for Abigail or if she was just using her to make Sarah jealous, if Abigail ever really cared for Anne or if she was just using her for her own advancement. They're both warped by past suffering, and even as they indulge in immediate pleasures — wining and dining, cake-eating, dancing, fucking — they can't help making things worse. I think the final scene of the film is perfect — Abigail on her knees in front of Anne, realising she's got exactly what she wanted, and now she has to live with it.
Prompts:
- I'm fascinated by the negotiations of power in the film's sex scenes — Abigail making gestures of submission to Anne, assuming the role of the sweet, gentle carer, in order to extract enough personal affection to cash in for a favour. (But then the favours only make her more necessary to Anne…) I'd love any kind of missing-scene exploration of how their sex life evolves over the course of the film, and how their struggles for courtly/political power are mirrored in bed. Feel free to make the sex as explicit as you want. Early 18th century England was really horny.
- The depiction of Anne's illness and disability really compels me — I've always been interested in the idea of the king's two bodies, and The Favourite offers a complex portrait of how Anne's body influences her queenship and vice versa, how she navigates between public and private in the setting of the royal court, and how her relationship with Abigail complicates this. I'd enjoy anything dealing with Anne's embodied experience, and these intersections of politics/illness/sex.
- I'd welcome anything that merges the film with the history it's inspired by. I'm not especially knowledgeable about the actual history of Queen Anne's reign, so if you happen to be, and you know of any historical details or events that make you think, 'That should have been in The Favourite!' I'd love to read your take on that.
I'm Alan Partridge (TV): Alan Partridge, Peter Baxendale Thomas
My gift must feature all of my chosen character tags
Fandom-specific DNWs:
Rape/noncon. PWP/explicit sex — I just can't think of Alan Partridge characters that way! (I'm fine with canon levels of sexuality.) 'Fat Alan' jokes, focus on Alan's weight and eating disorder. Anything involving actual incest/inbreeding.
Background:
One of my favourite things about 'I'm Alan Partridge' is how regionally specific it is — it's a loving homage to the ordinary East Anglia of the late 90s and early 00s, with its travel taverns and petrol stations and ring roads. Alan's feud with the local farmers is a classic bit, and I think his interview with Peter Baxendale Thomas in 'Watership Alan' is one of the funniest scenes in the series — Alan's utter refusal to back down in the face of Peter's really quite eloquent defence of farmers, Peter's utter exhaustion and disgust, Peter's cutting insults ('I don’t care what you call your sordid little grief hole') and Alan's hopelessly immature rejoinders ('You are a big posh sod with plums in your mouth. And the plums have mutated and they've got beaks'). I think it's evidence of how good 'I'm Alan Partridge' is that it takes what could have been a tired routine about backwards Norfolk farmers and turns it on its head, making Alan the butt of the joke. I only wish Peter was a recurring character.
Prompts:
- Obviously I think this is ripe for an enemies to lovers situation. How exactly that would happen, given that Peter walks out of the interview after Alan accuses him of keeping big sheds full of twenty foot high chickens, I have no idea, so I'll leave it up to you.
- Alternately, what if the reason their interview goes so poorly is because something already happened between them that neither of them are quite ready to acknowledge?
- If you are really passionate about agriculture and want to write about all of the actual issues that Peter has to deal with as a farmer, I would love that.
- Something in the vein of the Valentine's Day episode ('Alan Attraction'), except Alan invites Peter to Christmas dinner at the travel tavern. I mean, he's already booked in, he might as well.
Medieval English Royalty RPF: Richard II of England, Robert de Vere Duke of Ireland
My gift must feature all of my chosen character tags
Fandom-specific DNWs:
Rape/noncon. M/F sex/romance. Focus on Richard and Robert's marriages (brief references are fine). M/M/F poly/threesomes/love triangles. Richard and/or Robert having children, including adoption or accidental baby acquisition. This fandom is an exception to my general DNW for sex involving characters under 18: I'm happy to receive sexually explicit fic in which Richard is aged 14-18.
Background:
As mentioned earlier, I simply love a troubled monarch and their unsuitable favourite. There seems to have been genuine affection between Richard and Robert — I'm obsessed with the account of Richard ordering Robert's coffin to be opened when it was brought back to England so that he could look at him and touch him one last time. Shakespeare's Richard II only covers the very end of Richard's reign, when Richard was in his thirties, and productions tend to cast Bushy, Bagot and Green in the same age range, so I find it interesting to consider the historical relationships between the young King Richard and his older male favourites, especially Robert. Why was Richard obsessed to the point of self-destruction with this minor noble who was totally unqualified for the honours and responsibilities bestowed on him? We'll never know the truth, but it would make a lot of sense if the relationship was romantic/sexual.
Prompts:
- The first time Richard has sex, it's with Robert. Maybe they're sharing a bed and one thing leads to another (I love medieval bed sharing), or maybe Richard decides ahead of time that he wants to have sex with Robert and schemes to make it happen. Maybe Robert is reluctant to make free with the king's person, or maybe he's a self-assured seducer.
- The last time Richard and Robert have sex. Maybe before Robert leaves to levy troops on Richard's behalf in November of 1387 — or maybe, if we want to stretch historical plausibility, they find some way to meet between the Battle of Radcot Bridge and Robert's escape to France?
- Robert entered the royal household as a child, and would have been close to Richard during the most important events in Richard's early life, including the deaths of his father and grandfather, his coronation, and the Peasants' Revolt. I'd love to read about how Richard and Robert's relationship changes through childhood, adolescence, and adulthood, and how their perceptions of each other change as they grow up.
- Something set during the Christmas season, which of course can include Richard's birthday. I love reading about medieval festivities — I'm especially interested in how they show the interplay between religion and secular culture — and Richard loved his lavish celebrations. Feel free to combine this with any of the above prompts, if you are so inspired.
My AO3 account is here. I am able and willing to receive treats.
Happy Yuletide! I'm so pleased we've matched on one of these fandoms, and I'm looking forward to reading your fic.
General Likes:
- Historical and setting-specific detail
- Historical, political, and cultural context
- Historically/culturally-specific understandings of gender and sexuality
- Morally grey characters
- M/M and F/F
- Complicated, toxic, love/hate relationships
- Enemies to lovers, lovers to enemies, or any variation thereof
- Class difference, rank difference, age difference, and other power differentials
- Hurt/comfort, hurt/no comfort
- Non- or under-negotiated bdsm
- Power dynamics being negotiated through sex
General Do Not Wants:
- Physically impossible/supernatural kinks and tropes (omegaverse, mpreg, genderswap, inflation, vore, etc)
- Scat
- Bestiality
- Ageplay
- Necrophilia
- Sex involving characters under 18 (with an exception for Medieval English Royalty RPF: see fandom-specific details)
- Setting AUs (modern, school, fantasy/sci-fi, different historical period, etc)
- Trans headcanons
- Focus on fertility, pregnancy, childbirth, parenthood, etc
- Characters taking their own lives
Requests
The Favourite (2018): Abigail Hill Masham, Queen Anne
My gift must feature all of my chosen character tags
Fandom-specific DNWs:
M/F sex/romance. Focus on Abigail and Anne's marriages (minor references are fine). F/F/M poly/threesomes/love triangles. While I DNW focus on fertility, pregnancy, childbirth, parenthood, etc, I'm fine with brief references to Anne's children.
Background:
I love the troubled monarch/unsuitable favourite dynamic, so I'm especially pleased that The Favourite gives us a version of that with canon F/F. I appreciate how morally ambiguous Abigail and Anne are — we're left to speculate as to whether Abigail was planning it all from the beginning or just taking opportunities as they came, how much Anne knew about Abigail's machinations at any given point, if Anne ever really cared for Abigail or if she was just using her to make Sarah jealous, if Abigail ever really cared for Anne or if she was just using her for her own advancement. They're both warped by past suffering, and even as they indulge in immediate pleasures — wining and dining, cake-eating, dancing, fucking — they can't help making things worse. I think the final scene of the film is perfect — Abigail on her knees in front of Anne, realising she's got exactly what she wanted, and now she has to live with it.
Prompts:
- I'm fascinated by the negotiations of power in the film's sex scenes — Abigail making gestures of submission to Anne, assuming the role of the sweet, gentle carer, in order to extract enough personal affection to cash in for a favour. (But then the favours only make her more necessary to Anne…) I'd love any kind of missing-scene exploration of how their sex life evolves over the course of the film, and how their struggles for courtly/political power are mirrored in bed. Feel free to make the sex as explicit as you want. Early 18th century England was really horny.
- The depiction of Anne's illness and disability really compels me — I've always been interested in the idea of the king's two bodies, and The Favourite offers a complex portrait of how Anne's body influences her queenship and vice versa, how she navigates between public and private in the setting of the royal court, and how her relationship with Abigail complicates this. I'd enjoy anything dealing with Anne's embodied experience, and these intersections of politics/illness/sex.
- I'd welcome anything that merges the film with the history it's inspired by. I'm not especially knowledgeable about the actual history of Queen Anne's reign, so if you happen to be, and you know of any historical details or events that make you think, 'That should have been in The Favourite!' I'd love to read your take on that.
I'm Alan Partridge (TV): Alan Partridge, Peter Baxendale Thomas
My gift must feature all of my chosen character tags
Fandom-specific DNWs:
Rape/noncon. PWP/explicit sex — I just can't think of Alan Partridge characters that way! (I'm fine with canon levels of sexuality.) 'Fat Alan' jokes, focus on Alan's weight and eating disorder. Anything involving actual incest/inbreeding.
Background:
One of my favourite things about 'I'm Alan Partridge' is how regionally specific it is — it's a loving homage to the ordinary East Anglia of the late 90s and early 00s, with its travel taverns and petrol stations and ring roads. Alan's feud with the local farmers is a classic bit, and I think his interview with Peter Baxendale Thomas in 'Watership Alan' is one of the funniest scenes in the series — Alan's utter refusal to back down in the face of Peter's really quite eloquent defence of farmers, Peter's utter exhaustion and disgust, Peter's cutting insults ('I don’t care what you call your sordid little grief hole') and Alan's hopelessly immature rejoinders ('You are a big posh sod with plums in your mouth. And the plums have mutated and they've got beaks'). I think it's evidence of how good 'I'm Alan Partridge' is that it takes what could have been a tired routine about backwards Norfolk farmers and turns it on its head, making Alan the butt of the joke. I only wish Peter was a recurring character.
Prompts:
- Obviously I think this is ripe for an enemies to lovers situation. How exactly that would happen, given that Peter walks out of the interview after Alan accuses him of keeping big sheds full of twenty foot high chickens, I have no idea, so I'll leave it up to you.
- Alternately, what if the reason their interview goes so poorly is because something already happened between them that neither of them are quite ready to acknowledge?
- If you are really passionate about agriculture and want to write about all of the actual issues that Peter has to deal with as a farmer, I would love that.
- Something in the vein of the Valentine's Day episode ('Alan Attraction'), except Alan invites Peter to Christmas dinner at the travel tavern. I mean, he's already booked in, he might as well.
Medieval English Royalty RPF: Richard II of England, Robert de Vere Duke of Ireland
My gift must feature all of my chosen character tags
Fandom-specific DNWs:
Rape/noncon. M/F sex/romance. Focus on Richard and Robert's marriages (brief references are fine). M/M/F poly/threesomes/love triangles. Richard and/or Robert having children, including adoption or accidental baby acquisition. This fandom is an exception to my general DNW for sex involving characters under 18: I'm happy to receive sexually explicit fic in which Richard is aged 14-18.
Background:
As mentioned earlier, I simply love a troubled monarch and their unsuitable favourite. There seems to have been genuine affection between Richard and Robert — I'm obsessed with the account of Richard ordering Robert's coffin to be opened when it was brought back to England so that he could look at him and touch him one last time. Shakespeare's Richard II only covers the very end of Richard's reign, when Richard was in his thirties, and productions tend to cast Bushy, Bagot and Green in the same age range, so I find it interesting to consider the historical relationships between the young King Richard and his older male favourites, especially Robert. Why was Richard obsessed to the point of self-destruction with this minor noble who was totally unqualified for the honours and responsibilities bestowed on him? We'll never know the truth, but it would make a lot of sense if the relationship was romantic/sexual.
Prompts:
- The first time Richard has sex, it's with Robert. Maybe they're sharing a bed and one thing leads to another (I love medieval bed sharing), or maybe Richard decides ahead of time that he wants to have sex with Robert and schemes to make it happen. Maybe Robert is reluctant to make free with the king's person, or maybe he's a self-assured seducer.
- The last time Richard and Robert have sex. Maybe before Robert leaves to levy troops on Richard's behalf in November of 1387 — or maybe, if we want to stretch historical plausibility, they find some way to meet between the Battle of Radcot Bridge and Robert's escape to France?
- Robert entered the royal household as a child, and would have been close to Richard during the most important events in Richard's early life, including the deaths of his father and grandfather, his coronation, and the Peasants' Revolt. I'd love to read about how Richard and Robert's relationship changes through childhood, adolescence, and adulthood, and how their perceptions of each other change as they grow up.
- Something set during the Christmas season, which of course can include Richard's birthday. I love reading about medieval festivities — I'm especially interested in how they show the interplay between religion and secular culture — and Richard loved his lavish celebrations. Feel free to combine this with any of the above prompts, if you are so inspired.
My AO3 account is here. I am able and willing to receive treats.