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Yuletide 2017, Dear Author...
Oct. 2nd, 2017 10:20 pmDear Yuletide Author,
Firstly, thank you for writing for me. I hope all your Yuletide wishes come true!
I have no real squicks/ DNWs: if you enjoy writing it, it's a strong bet I'll enjoy reading it. Feel free to let any long-standing plot bunnies run wild.
I'm happy to receive fic rated extra Mature with a cherry on the top, right the way down the ratings: all the AUs, all the kinks. Throw me some vampires, werewolves, ghosts. Seriously, whatever works for you...
I particularly enjoy stories that are rich in local and/or period detail. I enjoy both plotty adventures and writing that is more character or relationship-focussed. Lastly, don't feel obliged to write me a happy ending if your story pans out another way.
As above, I'm very open to reading whatever it is you want to create. Nonetheless here are a few fandom-specific prompts that appeal to me.
Jane Eyre - Charlotte Brontë
Jane Eyre
Edward Rochester
Helen Burns
[*It's not necessary to include all of the requested characters for fic in this fandom if your story works best with only one or two of them]
I first met Jane when I was still at school, and I've loved her headstrong ways ever since. The intensity of Jane and Helen's friendship at Lowood School is one of the most memorable aspects of the story for me. Jane/Rochester is a fabulous pairing, although I reckon that these two would have faced plenty of ups and downs post-canon!
- What if the first Mrs Rochester never really existed? Bertha Mason could be a projection of Jane's own feverish imagination, a cover for Jane's own acts of violent insanity. Echoes of the Turn of the Screw, or an all-out cross-over, would work here.
- Could Helen Burns have survived the horrors of Lowood School? If Helen unexpectedly arrived at Thornfield (during or post-canon) how would this impact upon Jane/Rochester? Jane/Helen or Jane/Rochester/Helen would work for me.
- Fic about Helen's illness and death, and Jane's response to the loss of her friend, as told from the POV of Mycobacterium tuberculosis.
- Post-canon Jane/Rochester domestic fluff. Hurt/Comfort fic in which Jane helps her husband come to terms with the loss of his sight? The pair exploring each other's bodies relying only on their sense of touch?
- Pregnancy fic for Jane, set at a time when Rochester is beginning to regain his sight.
The Doctor's Wife - Mary Elizabeth Braddon
Isabel Sleaford
While it's probably not Braddon's most technically accomplished work, I've long been a fan of this novel, loose ends and all. I love all of the inside jokes about Sensation fiction and of course the high drama of the denouement!
- I'm intrigued by the links with Madame Bovary and would enjoy any kind of cross-over or play with that connection. What if Isabel actually embarked upon an adulterous affair with Roland Landsell? Could she reconcile this with her sense of Christian morality?
- How about a modern-day AU in which, rather than lose herself in romantic novels, Isabel becomes obsessed with slashy fanfic? Could the progress of her disastrous marriage (and her flirtation with Roland) be recorded in her online journal / blog? Would Sigismund Smith be a fandom BNF?
- After the deaths of both George and Roland, Isabel is tormented by The Doctor's Wife with zombies.
- More about Isabel's travels overseas at the end of the book, her personal growth.
- What about Isabel's relationship with Gwendoline? Do the two of them progress to more-than-just-friends post-canon?
Rebecca - Daphne du Maurier
Narrator
Rebecca de Winter
This book is another long-term favourite of mine, although I probably relate to Rebecca's character way more than I should. I can imagine an enemies-to-lover dynamic for these two, and I reckon that Rebecca would be particularly good at kinky hate sex! But bring these two together any way you like...
- Because of [insert clever plot twist here] Rebecca survived unbeknownst to the world. What if she arrived at Manderley to confront her husband's new wife?
- Or what if it was ghost!Rebecca who arrived on the scene?
- Rebecca has left a "treasure hunt" of clues hidden around Manderley, which the second Mrs de Winter now begins to unravel.
- Rebecca is a (literal) vampire.
- Canon divergent fic in which the unnamed narrator encounters Rebecca and Maxim while working as a Lady's companion in Monte Carlo. Could a relationship blossom between the three of them?
I've loved my Yuletide/NYR gifts past, so if you want to know more about what makes me tick, feel free to check out the following:-
Brian's War by Dynapink (New Tricks - UK TV)
The Lower Atherton Mystery by lost_spook (The Moonstone - Wilkie Collins)
Crossing the Bar by zlot (Affinity - Sarah Waters)
Four Doors Catherine Warren Left Open and One She Rushed Right Through by Mme Bahorel (Mrs Warren's Profession - Shaw)
Lydia Gwilt in the American Melodrama Novel by blueinkedfrost (Armadale - Wilkie Collins)
For what it's worth, my own past Yuletide/NYR fic is here:-
The Tale of the Salmon and the Impatient Farmer's Son (The King of Ireland's Son - Colum) | Lost Souls (New Tricks - UK TV) | Spring Cleaning (Lady Audley's Secret - Braddon) | Wicked Hands (Armadale - Collins) | Uncle Indefer's Role in the Matter (Cousin Henry - Trollope) | Appraise Me (Pokemon GO) | All Shapes and Sizes (Sense8).
Again thank you for writing for me, and I look forward to reading whatever you create!
