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vmarigoldabrams). (For this exchange, I've signed up under the merryghoul psued, but most of my fic is in the V psued, if you'd like to look at it.) Whether you're my assigned writer, pinch-hitting or you've found your way here to write me treats, thank you so much for writing for me in advance.
I'm not a picky person. If you can't work with my prompts, I'll take anything you can write for me, as long as you abide by what I don't want in my fic.
Below is my do no want list, kinks and whatnot again, along with requests for Breaking Bad, Fallen London (Echo Bazaar), Greek mythology, Luther, Orphan Black and Sleepy Hollow.
Here's a list of things that I don't want:
The number one thing I hate is character bashing. I really hate it.
In terms of kinks, I don't want alpha/beta/omega fic or vomitplay. Anything else is fine. Seriously.
No crossovers (especially with something not in this letter).
Unless it's Fallen London, I'm not fond of anything written in the second person.
Not all of my prompts would fit the Misses Clause challenge, so don't stretch yourelf trying to get a fic into that collection. But if you feel you can make a fic get into that collection, I don't mind. (I'm not sure if Chromatic Yuletide's going to run this year, but the same would apply: not all my prompts would fit that challenge, either, and you shouldn't strain yourself trying to make the fic fit in that collection.) If you can, I'm always down for explicit fills/porn (PWP or with some sort of plot), and if you want to write that, I'll be happy as well. (And you can add that fill to the Yuleporn challenge, if you desire.)
If you do decide to do porn, as long as it's not vomitplay or ABO, I won't complain. But I have a list of kinks I really like:
Bondage (especially with wrist and ankle restraints)
Knifeplay
Begging
Vanilla sex
I've seen all the episodes aired for the television canons I'm requesting. There's more information on Fallen London for that section of my letter.
Here are the prompts, in alphabetical order:
Breaking Bad
Jesse Pinkman, Mike Ehrmantraut
I liked these two working together in Season 3. As twisted as it sounds, Gus putting the two together was a brilliant idea. It seemed like, for a short while, Jesse found something else he was good at, and he was gaining a bit of confidence--just enough confidence to scare Walt into tricking Jesse into thinking Gus was worse than he was. I'd like to see some story set while they were still working with each other, like bodyguard work, Mike needing to eliminate one of Gus' enemies with Jesse in tow, Mike needing to plant bugs somewhere. Even the two sharing some downtime and actually having fun during a job would be great with me.
Fallen London
Affectionate Devil, Quiet Deviless, Rubbery Man
Note: In Fallen London, I play a female character that gets involved in relationships with male and female characters, but if you want to create a Player character that's not female and/or bisexual, I'm happy with that. For Fallen London, I'm a Person of Some Importance; I've played most of the lower level storylines. If it's vital to your Fallen London fic, I'm also pursuing the Bag a Legend! ambition. And I'm a murderer! Also, the Rubbery Man doesn't have to be a male character; it can be a female character or a character that doesn't identify with a gender.
I know other people have asked for something similar to this before for Yuletide, but I personally have not asked for this at all. The Player is being seduced by the Devil, the Deviless and a Rubbery Man. It can be similar to the Intimate of Devils storyline. The Devil and Deviless will do anything to take your soul, while the Rubbery Man wants...something else. (This doesn't have to be sexually explicit if you're not comfortable with that.)
If you're not comfortable with that prompt, I have another idea. The Devil and the Deviless are well informed in gossip, and I'd like to see a fic where one or the both of them are going around London, acquiring tidbits of gossip while working on the Player's newspaper--very much like the Editor of Newspapers storyline, but focused on the Devils instead. Along the way, they discover a Rubbery Man's involved in some scandal, and they have to track the Rubbery Man down. (And feel free to create some outlandish name for the Player's newspaper, like the game does!)
If you've never played Fallen London, there are a couple of wikis that can help you out: the Wikidot wiki and the Wikia wiki. But it does help to play the game, since Failbetter Games doesn't allow the text of the game (or anything that requires the actual exchange of money) to be printed in full.
Greek Mythology
Demeter
I adore Demeter. I feel a lot of writers (especially professional writers) portray her as either grieving or possessive, but that's because a lot of them only focus on Persephone being kidnapped. Demeter can be as awful as any of the other Greek gods; she's turned people into creatures and killed people with roof tiles over her wrath. Comprehensive mythology books like Cassell's Dictionary of Classical Mythology, The Concise Dictionary of Classical Mythology and The Routledge Handbook of Greek Mythology as well as Theoi.com have some stories with Demeter that don't involve her role in Persephone's kidnapping.
I'd love a retelling of a story with Demeter in it. I'm fine with retelling parts of Demeter wandering the earth looking for Persephone or other tales she's involved in. However, I don't want a retelling of Persephone being kidnapped by Hades, and especially a story where Demeter's a bystander in their story.
I'm impartial to gangster/1920s-30s, noir/1940s, pornstar and modern AUs, but if you want to set your retelling elsewhere, or tell a tale from Demeter's POV and keep the story in Ancient Greece, I'll still be happy.
(Clarifying the above prompt: Some ideas for AUs for this prompt: gangster/1920s-30s, noir/1940s, pornstar and modern. But if you want to set your retelling elsewhere, or tell a tale from Demeter's POV and keep the story in Ancient Greece, I'll still be happy.)
Luther
Alice Morgan, John Luther
(I have some Pinboard recs for this show, and I've also written fic in it.)
I'd like a fic on Alice and John traveling together. Where do they go? What do they do? Do they revisit all the places Alice's went after her absence, or do they go to new places? And are they being hunted down by police, or are they being left alone by the authorities?
If you've seen the third series, I'd like for the fic to be set post-series three, but if not, don't worry about it.
Orphan Black
Helena
I have to be honest: she's my favorite clone. Everything about her to me is fascinating. Her childlike behavior, the way she can come up with crazy gambits, how she can impersonate different accents at the drop of a hat.
I wouldn't mind reading anything with her in it. Specifically, any insight into her life pre-series would be great. But if you don't feel like writing pre-series fic, I give you free rein to write any story you'd like with her.
Feel free to add any other characters you'd like to the fic as needed. Everyone on this show's awesome.
Sleepy Hollow (TV)
Abbie Mills, Ichabod Crane, Katrina Crane
This canon is still developing, but feel free to write something that doesn't adhere to canon; it's fine with me!
I'd love to see Katrina find some way of being able to get the three of them in the same dimension to fight some sort of evil. Maybe she has this one chance to pull them into the realm she's stuck in, or maybe she's able to escape this one time to the real world.
Or, alternatively, I'd love for the three of them to somehow be involved in a romantic triad, even if it is threesome fling sex.
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A reminder: If these prompts don't work for you, write whatever you can with the characters I have. That's all I ask.
Have fun with the assignment! ♥
merryghoul and merryghoul and merryghoul (I'm not a picky person. If you can't work with my prompts, I'll take anything you can write for me, as long as you abide by what I don't want in my fic.
Below is my do no want list, kinks and whatnot again, along with requests for Breaking Bad, Fallen London (Echo Bazaar), Greek mythology, Luther, Orphan Black and Sleepy Hollow.
Here's a list of things that I don't want:
Not all of my prompts would fit the Misses Clause challenge, so don't stretch yourelf trying to get a fic into that collection. But if you feel you can make a fic get into that collection, I don't mind. (I'm not sure if Chromatic Yuletide's going to run this year, but the same would apply: not all my prompts would fit that challenge, either, and you shouldn't strain yourself trying to make the fic fit in that collection.) If you can, I'm always down for explicit fills/porn (PWP or with some sort of plot), and if you want to write that, I'll be happy as well. (And you can add that fill to the Yuleporn challenge, if you desire.)
If you do decide to do porn, as long as it's not vomitplay or ABO, I won't complain. But I have a list of kinks I really like:
I've seen all the episodes aired for the television canons I'm requesting. There's more information on Fallen London for that section of my letter.
Here are the prompts, in alphabetical order:
Breaking Bad
Jesse Pinkman, Mike Ehrmantraut
I liked these two working together in Season 3. As twisted as it sounds, Gus putting the two together was a brilliant idea. It seemed like, for a short while, Jesse found something else he was good at, and he was gaining a bit of confidence--just enough confidence to scare Walt into tricking Jesse into thinking Gus was worse than he was. I'd like to see some story set while they were still working with each other, like bodyguard work, Mike needing to eliminate one of Gus' enemies with Jesse in tow, Mike needing to plant bugs somewhere. Even the two sharing some downtime and actually having fun during a job would be great with me.
Fallen London
Affectionate Devil, Quiet Deviless, Rubbery Man
Note: In Fallen London, I play a female character that gets involved in relationships with male and female characters, but if you want to create a Player character that's not female and/or bisexual, I'm happy with that. For Fallen London, I'm a Person of Some Importance; I've played most of the lower level storylines. If it's vital to your Fallen London fic, I'm also pursuing the Bag a Legend! ambition. And I'm a murderer! Also, the Rubbery Man doesn't have to be a male character; it can be a female character or a character that doesn't identify with a gender.
I know other people have asked for something similar to this before for Yuletide, but I personally have not asked for this at all. The Player is being seduced by the Devil, the Deviless and a Rubbery Man. It can be similar to the Intimate of Devils storyline. The Devil and Deviless will do anything to take your soul, while the Rubbery Man wants...something else. (This doesn't have to be sexually explicit if you're not comfortable with that.)
If you're not comfortable with that prompt, I have another idea. The Devil and the Deviless are well informed in gossip, and I'd like to see a fic where one or the both of them are going around London, acquiring tidbits of gossip while working on the Player's newspaper--very much like the Editor of Newspapers storyline, but focused on the Devils instead. Along the way, they discover a Rubbery Man's involved in some scandal, and they have to track the Rubbery Man down. (And feel free to create some outlandish name for the Player's newspaper, like the game does!)
If you've never played Fallen London, there are a couple of wikis that can help you out: the Wikidot wiki and the Wikia wiki. But it does help to play the game, since Failbetter Games doesn't allow the text of the game (or anything that requires the actual exchange of money) to be printed in full.
Greek Mythology
Demeter
I adore Demeter. I feel a lot of writers (especially professional writers) portray her as either grieving or possessive, but that's because a lot of them only focus on Persephone being kidnapped. Demeter can be as awful as any of the other Greek gods; she's turned people into creatures and killed people with roof tiles over her wrath. Comprehensive mythology books like Cassell's Dictionary of Classical Mythology, The Concise Dictionary of Classical Mythology and The Routledge Handbook of Greek Mythology as well as Theoi.com have some stories with Demeter that don't involve her role in Persephone's kidnapping.
I'd love a retelling of a story with Demeter in it. I'm fine with retelling parts of Demeter wandering the earth looking for Persephone or other tales she's involved in. However, I don't want a retelling of Persephone being kidnapped by Hades, and especially a story where Demeter's a bystander in their story.
(Clarifying the above prompt: Some ideas for AUs for this prompt: gangster/1920s-30s, noir/1940s, pornstar and modern. But if you want to set your retelling elsewhere, or tell a tale from Demeter's POV and keep the story in Ancient Greece, I'll still be happy.)
Luther
Alice Morgan, John Luther
(I have some Pinboard recs for this show, and I've also written fic in it.)
I'd like a fic on Alice and John traveling together. Where do they go? What do they do? Do they revisit all the places Alice's went after her absence, or do they go to new places? And are they being hunted down by police, or are they being left alone by the authorities?
If you've seen the third series, I'd like for the fic to be set post-series three, but if not, don't worry about it.
Orphan Black
Helena
I have to be honest: she's my favorite clone. Everything about her to me is fascinating. Her childlike behavior, the way she can come up with crazy gambits, how she can impersonate different accents at the drop of a hat.
I wouldn't mind reading anything with her in it. Specifically, any insight into her life pre-series would be great. But if you don't feel like writing pre-series fic, I give you free rein to write any story you'd like with her.
Feel free to add any other characters you'd like to the fic as needed. Everyone on this show's awesome.
Sleepy Hollow (TV)
Abbie Mills, Ichabod Crane, Katrina Crane
This canon is still developing, but feel free to write something that doesn't adhere to canon; it's fine with me!
I'd love to see Katrina find some way of being able to get the three of them in the same dimension to fight some sort of evil. Maybe she has this one chance to pull them into the realm she's stuck in, or maybe she's able to escape this one time to the real world.
Or, alternatively, I'd love for the three of them to somehow be involved in a romantic triad, even if it is threesome fling sex.
A reminder: If these prompts don't work for you, write whatever you can with the characters I have. That's all I ask.
Have fun with the assignment! ♥
