Dear Everywoman Writer...
Jun. 6th, 2018 06:06 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
fleurlbHello!
Thank you so much for participating in this fun exchange. It would seem that we have some overlap in fandom loves (or perhaps you're an intrepid soul who is stretching outside your normal fandoms). In any case, I hope that you're happy with your assignment and am providing some prompts and thoughts here to help. If you prefer to strike out on your own without a map, that's totally cool just please mind the do-not-wants and enjoy the journey. I am pretty easy because I love stories, especially ones that are written for me.
Thank you so much for participating in this fun exchange. It would seem that we have some overlap in fandom loves (or perhaps you're an intrepid soul who is stretching outside your normal fandoms). In any case, I hope that you're happy with your assignment and am providing some prompts and thoughts here to help. If you prefer to strike out on your own without a map, that's totally cool just please mind the do-not-wants and enjoy the journey. I am pretty easy because I love stories, especially ones that are written for me.
In general, I like...
Last Tango in Halifax - This show is my emotional happy place. Which is perhaps weird because I am so disappointed with the decisions made in Season 3 to kill Kate to bring the family back together. So ridiculous. So yeah, I ship Kate and Caroline like whoa and would love fix-it fic/AU where the senseless death does not happen. Basically, I love the people on this show and just want more of them interacting and being messy but loving and just trying to figure out life.
Happy Valley - Catherine is the kick-ass awesome woman of my dreams. She doesn't always get it right, but she tries so hard. She is the epitome of "be brave and be kind". Her relationship with Clare is so real to me - any slice of life fic there would be much appreciated. And I'd love to see a story where Catherine mentors and mothers Ann - where's the line between trying to make up for Kirsten? What was it like when Becky died? When did Clare move in and how did that go? Back story, front story, contemporary story - I am happy with whatever as long as there is more Catherine.
Kiri - You might see a theme here - I pretty much love Sarah Lancashire and think she's brilliant in everything she does. Kiri was such a heart-breaking story but it ends on a weird note of fragile hope for Miriam, who is going to move her mother in with her. I'd love to see how well that goes. I'd also love to see more of Miriam with her past social work clients - she was so gentle and kind with the one whose name is escaping me.
Crossover - Last Tango in Halifax and Kiri - Miriam and Caroline - How about a backstory where Miriam tries to get a client into Caroline's fancy school on a scholarship. Or what if one of Miriam's clients is the kid who hit Kate? Or Miriam and Caroline end up volunteering at the same place and swapping tragic stories. Anything that has the two of them interacting would be fantastic.
Crossover - Last Tango in Halifax and Happy Valley - One of my greatest joys in life is reading fan fic that contains two characters that are played by the same actor. I especially love when everyone else remarks on the similarities but the characters themselves don't see it. I imagine these two characters traveling in the same circles and whether it's official police business or not, I'd like to see them get off on the wrong foot but come around to grudging respect for each other. (Perhaps Catherine has to arrest a pupil at Caroline's new school and Caroline protects the student the same way that she would've in the posh school.)
Crossover - Friday Night Lights and Happy Valley - I picture Julie going over to Yorkshire as a young reporter, meeting Catherine, and wanting to write a story about her. How does Catherine cut through Julie's naivety? Does Julie rush headlong into danger and need to be pulled back with a stern talk and a stiff drink? I don't know, I just think that Julie would really respect Catherine (and have fun with Ann) but she'd make Catherine feel a bit old and tired.
Crossover - Jyn Erso and Leia Organa - I love these two both so much - they're fierce, opinionated asskickers who can take care of themselves. I'd love to see Leia trying to recruit Jyn away from Sol. Or I'd love a post-Rogue-One situation where Jyn has somehow survived and meets up with Leia post-Death Star destruction.
angst, UST, longing looks, long-repressed feelings that explode one day, kid fic, teamy goodness, well-done hurt/comfort, AUs, roads not taken in canon, zombies, wacky road trips, old friends, handsome strangers, ghost stories, crossovers, crazy decisions that are right even though they seem so very wrong, 2nd person narratives, porn that reveals more than just naked bodies, unreliable narrators, awesome ladies being awesome, found families, BFFs, opening your presents on Christmas Day rather than Christmas Eve, and long deep slow kisses that last three days.
I do not want..
passivity, first-person narration, incest, non-con, non-canon slash, porn without plot, child death or grevious injury, dog death, and misusing the words less and fewer.
See, I told you I was mostly easy. Now, the prompts. First, some general prompts that would apply to any of my fandoms:
A natural or manmade disaster strikes and characters must work together to save themselves and others
AU - The Zombie Apocalypse strikes - what is life like and how do the characters manage?
Wacky roadtrip, a la "Planes, Trains, and Automobiles"
Character backstories - I love a good backstory!
The road not taken...what happens when a character makes a different decision than in canon. How does the story (and more importantly, the character) change as a result of the decision.
First times - first kisses, first loves, first day of school/prison/the army/whatever
5+1 (As in Five times X happened and 1 time it didn't) is a tried and true format - I'd eat any 5+1 with a spoon. (And it doesn't have to be 5 +1, it could be 3 or 7 or whatever works for you.)
Song fic - I don't even need to know the song. (But if you're a fan of The National, you literally cannot go wrong with any of their songs.)
Crossovers - I love crossovers like Whoa! They are seriously my favourite fandom genre. I would be delighted to see crossovers between any of my requests or with any of these fandoms: Friday Night Lights, Supernatural, Crazy Ex-Girlfriend, The Good Place, My So-Called Life, Homeland (although I'm only current to season 5), Stranger Things, Orange is the New Black, Sons of Anarchy, or Leverage.
And now the fandom-specific prompts:
The Americans (Paige, Elizabeth, Martha, Kimmy) - Please feel free to write any of these characters. I really want to know, more than anything, what happens to Paige next. How does she survive? What does she do? Does she ever see her brother or parents again? We know the world is going to change faster than they think, and the Iron Curtain won't be impenetrable forever, but that doesn't mean that Paige is going to want to see her parents. What does she think about what she has become? How does Elizabeth fit into Moscow? Does she ever run into Martha? Does the story of the spies who got away make the news? And if so, does Kimmy ever recognise that she was with a spy for all those years?Last Tango in Halifax - This show is my emotional happy place. Which is perhaps weird because I am so disappointed with the decisions made in Season 3 to kill Kate to bring the family back together. So ridiculous. So yeah, I ship Kate and Caroline like whoa and would love fix-it fic/AU where the senseless death does not happen. Basically, I love the people on this show and just want more of them interacting and being messy but loving and just trying to figure out life.
Happy Valley - Catherine is the kick-ass awesome woman of my dreams. She doesn't always get it right, but she tries so hard. She is the epitome of "be brave and be kind". Her relationship with Clare is so real to me - any slice of life fic there would be much appreciated. And I'd love to see a story where Catherine mentors and mothers Ann - where's the line between trying to make up for Kirsten? What was it like when Becky died? When did Clare move in and how did that go? Back story, front story, contemporary story - I am happy with whatever as long as there is more Catherine.
Kiri - You might see a theme here - I pretty much love Sarah Lancashire and think she's brilliant in everything she does. Kiri was such a heart-breaking story but it ends on a weird note of fragile hope for Miriam, who is going to move her mother in with her. I'd love to see how well that goes. I'd also love to see more of Miriam with her past social work clients - she was so gentle and kind with the one whose name is escaping me.
Crossover - Last Tango in Halifax and Kiri - Miriam and Caroline - How about a backstory where Miriam tries to get a client into Caroline's fancy school on a scholarship. Or what if one of Miriam's clients is the kid who hit Kate? Or Miriam and Caroline end up volunteering at the same place and swapping tragic stories. Anything that has the two of them interacting would be fantastic.
Crossover - Last Tango in Halifax and Happy Valley - One of my greatest joys in life is reading fan fic that contains two characters that are played by the same actor. I especially love when everyone else remarks on the similarities but the characters themselves don't see it. I imagine these two characters traveling in the same circles and whether it's official police business or not, I'd like to see them get off on the wrong foot but come around to grudging respect for each other. (Perhaps Catherine has to arrest a pupil at Caroline's new school and Caroline protects the student the same way that she would've in the posh school.)
Crossover - Friday Night Lights and Happy Valley - I picture Julie going over to Yorkshire as a young reporter, meeting Catherine, and wanting to write a story about her. How does Catherine cut through Julie's naivety? Does Julie rush headlong into danger and need to be pulled back with a stern talk and a stiff drink? I don't know, I just think that Julie would really respect Catherine (and have fun with Ann) but she'd make Catherine feel a bit old and tired.
Crossover - Jyn Erso and Leia Organa - I love these two both so much - they're fierce, opinionated asskickers who can take care of themselves. I'd love to see Leia trying to recruit Jyn away from Sol. Or I'd love a post-Rogue-One situation where Jyn has somehow survived and meets up with Leia post-Death Star destruction.
