Fandom: Dear Yuletide Author 2011

Dear Yuletide Author,

Thank you so much for writing for me! Yuletide is my favorite fannish time of year, and I am definitely looking forward to the joy of it. (I seem to have lost some of my fannish joy in the second half of 2011, but the more I think about and prepare for Yuletide, the more it returns, so yay!)

In general, I like girl slash, gen, and het more than boy slash, mostly because I really love stories about women being awesome. I also like werewolves, stories about families being loving and protective and a little snarly with each other because they trust each other to always be there, and smart flirtations. I like stories of all ratings, I'm a fan of consensual kink, and I love stories about oral sex and pegging and women who really love sex. I love poly stories, threesomes and foursomes and moresomes, as long as it is consensual and not cheating. I adore intricate plots and mysteries to solve and friends teaming up to save the world. I like straightforward prose, lyrical pieces, and experimental work. I love adoption stories when adoption is treated as something totally normal and not a BIG DRAMATIC SECRET to up the tension. I love siblings as friends and families who are super tight and friends as family and created families. I love the ocean, full moons, surfing, autumn, Halloween, horror movies, and long roadtrips.

I love motorcycles and mechanics and beaches and surfing and Hawaii and Washington state and woods and camping and full moons. My favorite time of year is October 1 through February 1 because it encompasses all sorts of things I love, from the month long festival that is Halloween movie marathons and Halloween episodes of tv shows to spending time with loved ones and openly talking about what makes us thankful at Thanksgiving (though Thanksgiving itself, highly problematic) to the December holidays with all their lights to birthdays to New Year's Eve. Good times, even though I hate winter and the cold and snow.

I love women being awesome, bisexual characters (particularly women) treated with respect, happy and healthy polyamory, characters of color treated with respect, people having adventures, and apocalypses.

I adore crossovers, the more twisty and complicated the better.

I dislike embarrassment/humiliation, rape, non-con, misogyny, racism, ableism, sizeism, character-bashing, and women feeling guilty about enjoying sex. I am particularly frustrated right now by depictions of mental illness and crazy = bad and dangerous. I dislike misogyny and Man Angst, especially White Man Angst.

For Yuletide, I mostly prefer stories that are more light than dark and stories with happy endings, though that doesn't mean it has to be a traditionally happy ending. As long as the characters are happy, that's the sort of ending I want.

I tag everything, so if you want to know more, take a look at the tags. They're pretty user friendly, I think.

I just want to say again that I will love your story. Like I said, this is my favorite time of year and Yuletide is a huge part of that. No pressure! I always love the stories I receive and I really, really want you to have fun with it. Promise. Write a story that you enjoy, and I will be happy.

Now for my specific requests.

( Jurassic Park (Movies), Protector of the Small - Tamora Pierce, The Village (2004), Roseanne )