Veni Vidi Vivi

Which I will absolutely update soon!


Things I Love:

• Gen to smut and anything in between - if it's a good story, I don't care whether there are sexy times or not.
• Redemption arcs
• Villains (I love villains. They can be grey, all bad, or on their way to better, but I love flawed, angry people who lash out in complex ways.)
• Hurt/comfort
• Enemies to lovers
• Canonical characterization (you can do an AU if you need to, so long as the characters are very in character, if that makes sense)
• Two people finding out that despite their seemingly huge differences, they slot together to make each other whole
• Two people who are "it's you and me against the world".
• Ridiculous ensemble shenanigans
• Found family

Things I Dislike:
Super graphic violence (think torture or super explicit fights - plain old fights are fine)
Animals getting hurt
Not a fan of extreme kink, but mild exploration is a-okay, especially if it is in character/canon
Too much fluff - a little fluff is great, but I like some comedy or cool discussion or a bit o' angst to bracket the fluff.
Out of character representations - if it's just an interpreted projection onto a familiar character, then I'd rather go to the library.

Oh, Yuletide Author, you are a wonderful person. Thank you for writing for my story!

I requested:

1. Revenge
   with a focus on the awesomeness that is Nolan Ross


2. Newsflesh
   trilogy by Mira Grant featuring Mahir Gowda, who I want to know more about


3. Beautiful Thing
   (1996) as a continuation into the future


4. Actor RPF - James Dean, Natalie Wood, and Sal Mineo based on this picture from the set of
   Rebel without a Cause
   .

I am very excited, as I am every year, about Yuletide. I skipped last year because of reasons, and I am glad to be back! I am pretty easy to write for. My sign up descriptions gave you some specific details you need, but ( here is a little bit more. )

Have fun, Yuletide Author, and thank you in advance!

Dear Yuletide Author,

( Yay, you are participating in Yuletide! )

In conclusion, have fun. Enjoy Yuletide. I will appreciate your story, no matter what you write for me.

So let's get down to some serious Yuletide business! I am still having a hard time commenting to the stories themselves, and I haven't even gotten as far as attempting to read anyone other stories. I have a feeling this Yuletide season will be an elongated one in which I get to savor the stories a good long while. See how I look on the positive side of things?

( In which I warble about and recommend the wonderful stories written for me )

I'm so very grateful for everyone who wrote for me. I've enjoyed these pieces written just for me.

Hokay. Now I'm going to try to read a few you guys have been warbling about and recommending.

Ahahaha. I am halfway to 1000 for Yuletide. PHEW. I was worried I wasn't going to get anything down at the rate I was fretting. This year, I am not going to sweat going too much beyond 1000. As long as I make the requirement and write something decent, I'm golden. I am getting there, I think, and fulfilling my recipient's wishes. So.

In other writing news, I have been thinking about folks who write copious amounts and have a lot of work behind them. When the LJ servers moved, I realized that I have written copious amounts in the past four years, via RP. My work is just slightly more ephemeral than what others might have in files on their computers. Since I've had limited success with using LJ Archive for a couple of my RP journals, and since I can't archive my main community, I am undertaking a ridiculously large archiving project. I am going through my memories. All of them. I expand all the threads under the main post, and I then save the entire web page with a dating convention and brief summary. Then I'll burn everything to disc, and I will have my writing and my collaborative writing in files I can access no matter what happens to servers or with hackers or with the Intarwebs exploding.

It will make me happy.

It will also take OMG a long time. If anyone from milliways_bar wants to join in, I think it would be cool. We could get a good deal of the community archived if we worked together. I'd be happy to coordinate.

Ah, Yuletide, you harsh mistress, you. My mistake assignment had me full of glee. GLEE, I tell you. Then my real one came and I said... "Noooooo, oh dear God, FLAIL". Just like every year! Ahahahaha. FUN.

Anyway, I would like to address my own Santa now.

Dear Yuletide Santa,

Thank you so much already! I've participated in this challenge every year it's been around, and I love it so so much. I've never been disappointed with one of my gift fics. Every year, I look forward to reading my fic with much excitement, and every year I finish it and I say "WOW, that was a great present!"

Here is a list of general likes and dislikes, but really, have fun writing, and don't worry so much about trying to get it "right". Write a story you enjoy, and I guarantee you that I will like it.

Likes:
Gen fic
Character introspection
Missing scenes or different POVs in existing scenes
Fade to black romance (though I don't mind R-rated details at all)
Wistfulness (I love happy endings, but I also love sad ones, too, if they make sense)
Attention to canon detail
Strong female characters

Dislikes:
I'm not too crazy about slash, unless you can sell me on the emotional underpinnings of the relationship.
Graphic violence


And yeah, that's about it.

THANKS FOR WRITING ME A FIC!!!

Viv