Dear Yuletide Writer

[minutia_r]

Dear Yuletide Writer,

Hi there! Thank you for offering to write in one of my beloved fandoms!

Here are some things I like: Families, established relationships, magical adventures, smart people being smart and competent people being competent. Here are some things I'd rather not get: Stereotypical gender roles in relationships, porn without plot (but see Russian Stories), dark fic (but see Russian stories), crossovers, mundane AUs.

Fandom: Schooled -- Gordon Korman
Characters: Hugh Winkleman, Zach Powers, Darryl Pennyfield, Capricorn Anderson

This is my unabashed slash request. Hugh and Zach are such devious little weasels; they totally deserve each other. I will happily read anything about them. My ideal Zach/Hugh story would be one where they're secret boyfriends until a Korman-style katamari of wackiness forces them to a) come out and b) admit they actually like each other, and are not just together because it's easier than anything else.

Or, I would be thrilled to get a story about Darryl. Either Darryl/Cap, or Darryl's unrequited crush on/doomed attempts to seduce Cap (because I suspect Cap is actually straight) or just Darryl being fabulously gay because he is.

If you are going to go beyond hand-holding and chaste kisses--and please feel free, although I don't insist on it--I would really prefer if you aged the guys up a few years at least.

Fandom: Russian Stories -- CJ Cherryh
Characters: Eveshka Uulamets, Pyetr Ilitch Kochevikov, Sasha Vasilyevitch Misurov

I just want Eveshka/Pyetr/Sasha. That is all. Porn, domestic fluff, magical adventures; warm-and-fuzzy, angsty, fucked-up, all the hurt/comfort in the world; I don't care, I just want to read about these three as a threesome.

Fandom: Chronicles of Chretomanci -- Diana Wynne Jones
Characters: Any. No, seriously, any, I love them all.

I'd love some ensemble fic, and there are so many great ensembles available--Gabriel's staff, Christopher and the young enchanters, the Castle Family (if you're going to write about the Castle Family post-Pinhoe Egg, don't forget about Klartch, okay?) If you write me a story about the cats of Casa Montana, I will probably cackle with glee.

Or, I like shippy fic too. My favorite ships are Christopher/Conrad, Millie/Christopher/Conrad, Mordecai/Rosalie, and Julia/Janet, but I will take anything. As long as it's not intergenerational, and doesn't involve Gwendolen. I mean, I will happily read fic in which Gwendolen is a character, or even the main character, but I don't want to see her paired with anyone. It's just . . . no.

Other than that, I'll take whatever you've got. My love of all things Chrestomanci is indiscriminate.

Fandom: Girl Genius -- Phil and Kaja Foglio
Characters: Gilgamesh Wulfenbach, Sleipnir O'Hara, Theo DuMedd, Zeetha Daughter of Chump

So . . . ensembles. I'd really like some adventures of the kids on Castle Wulfenbach pre-canon. Or I'd like to know what Sleipnir and Theo were up to after they left Castle Wulfenbach but before they rejoined the main cast. Or I'd like anything Gil-centric or Zeetha-centric, because they are awesome. (And I will read Agatha paired with either of them. But . . . probably not both at the same time?)

I'd rather not read anything post-canon, what with the future of canon being so uncertain and all. (Not that stories set in the past aren't going to get just as jossed, but.) And I don't really like Tarvek. I don't want to see him bashed or anything, I'd just rather not read about him at all.

And I think that's it! Thank you once again, dear yuletide writer; you are in all probability the best, and I hope you get what you want for yuletide too!