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I know I'm not the only one thinking about this already!
I have two interesting thoughts for Yuletide requests next year.
One, if Anne McCaffrey is still eligible, would be to fix the horrible misogynist fate of Mirrim, who was one of my very favorite characters in the early books. I was thrilled when she impressed a fighting dragon. But lo! She then turned into a horrible bitch whom everyone hated, and the nicest thing even her best friend Menolly could say about her was that she might be nicer once she gotraped laid.
My possible Yuletide request: Write dragonrider Mirrim the way McCaffrey should have written her.
Dragonsong (The Harper Hall Triology)
Two, George R. R. Martin's "Thousand Worlds" series: his '70s space opera stories, all far-flung planets and romantic sense of wonder and doom. Original characters would be fine, since his mostly die.
Dreamsongs: Volume I
ETA: Three thoughts.
Three, Red Cliff. Zhuge Liang/Zhou Yu. Slashy slash slash!
View Red Cliff on Amazon: BATTLE OF RED CLIFF PART 1 & PART 2 ENGLISH SUBTITLES - 2 DVDS
What are your preliminary desires?
I have two interesting thoughts for Yuletide requests next year.
One, if Anne McCaffrey is still eligible, would be to fix the horrible misogynist fate of Mirrim, who was one of my very favorite characters in the early books. I was thrilled when she impressed a fighting dragon. But lo! She then turned into a horrible bitch whom everyone hated, and the nicest thing even her best friend Menolly could say about her was that she might be nicer once she got
My possible Yuletide request: Write dragonrider Mirrim the way McCaffrey should have written her.
Dragonsong (The Harper Hall Triology)
Two, George R. R. Martin's "Thousand Worlds" series: his '70s space opera stories, all far-flung planets and romantic sense of wonder and doom. Original characters would be fine, since his mostly die.
Dreamsongs: Volume I
ETA: Three thoughts.
Three, Red Cliff. Zhuge Liang/Zhou Yu. Slashy slash slash!
View Red Cliff on Amazon: BATTLE OF RED CLIFF PART 1 & PART 2 ENGLISH SUBTITLES - 2 DVDS
What are your preliminary desires?
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What happened with Mirrim reminds me of what fanfic writers do to characters they don't like and want to get away from the character with whom they are in lust. Except that it was the same author ... .
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Okay, maybe that's just me.
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I find poor Menolly sadly asexual, despite how much I loved her as a POV character in my teens. But I'll agree that Sebell is even worse.
Meanwhile, someone needs to write me Black Lagoon fic. Or P.C. Hodgell fic. Or something. (I was so pleased with my Legal Drug stocking stuffers last year!)
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I won't laugh at yours if you don't laugh at mine! > cough! <
XD
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(As opposed to the "nice" guy, who is Robinton, ultimately.)
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Menolly/Robinton, on the other hand----I never believed that it could work if it had gone anywhere, as the potential for disaster and imbalance was immense, but I did believe the emotional resonance.
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...
*massive sweatdrop*
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(Also, deeply creeped out by the bronzerider who had apparently been 'grooming' her to be his lover from the time she was scarily young.)
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I'm also seriously considering asking for 'Oishinbo' fic. You know, for sheer crack value.
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I hadn't thought about it, but I'd probably offer to write it if it were a request. XD
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I don't know, I just have this vision of her really wearing the pants in that relationship.
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Mmm, Chess.
(I am waiting very impatiently for my local PBS station to show the concert version on Great Performances.)
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(I loved the Great Performances showing so much that I went out and bought the 2 CD version of it the next day and am, in fact, listening to it right now.)
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I've gotten, or written, so many of the fics I've really wanted in the last couple of years that I've got nearly a clean slate this time round, which is both freeing and daunting. I know I want Vorkosigan fic. I think I may request the story where Aral's past catches up with Miles. I don't care how.
I've also got a preliminary list of things that ought to get nominated, dammit, whether I actually want to write them or not. So far all I've got on it is Jokes-- Sven and Ole and Lena (because I really am that Midwestern, apparently), and. Um. The Sime/Gen series. Because vampire tentacle soul-bonding slavefic cold war adventure stories could actually be awesome if the writing didn't suck so very deeply.
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Also, I do plan to offer Dragonlance again.
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I live in terror that someone will demand that I write actual sex instead of fade-to-black. (The slash in this assignment is something I introduced for...plot considerations. Shoot me now.)
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Except, I don't really feel like discussing the book and just want to revel in the CRACK that is Katniss/(spoiler character)... and I'm thinking it's not going to happen there given that any relationship discussion will likely focus on Katniss/Peeta & Katniss/Gale.
...and now I will stop hijacking Rachel's comments. orz
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My current list is Condor Hero, Planet Ladder, Ayatsuri Sakon, Slan by A.E. van Vogt (prompted by seeing that there's a hack sequel coming out that I expect to be painfully bad), Romance of Red Dust and The Handsome Siblings. I don't think anything's coming off the list just yet, and I may well add to it between now and fall.
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L.J. Smith, Night World
Phantom Dream
The Decemberists, The Hazards of Love
What happens to Margaret and William's child? Does it become the Forest Queen's next son? What would it be like if Margaret were the forest's daughter and William was the river's son? What happened afterwards? How did the Queen meet the Rake? Set the story somewhere and somewhen else.
Nightschool
Constantine
Gabriel after the fall
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The Decemberists thing sounds great. Do you have to see the show, or can you just buy the album?
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Nightschool is the latest manga by Svetlana Chamkova of Dramacon. Big ensemble piece. I'm digging the setup so far.
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Apart from that, I still want the particular Dorothy Sayers femmeslash no one is ever going to write me.
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