I like humor, I like fluff, I really like weird meta, and crack. I also like quiet character studies, and angst, and epic, and all sorts of things.
Most important: I am very easy to please! I am quite excited that someone out there in the world is writing me a story. :)
General notes: Please no AUs, graphic violence, slavery, miscarriage (unless tagged, i just don't want to be surprised), or sexual assault.
The Martian <\/h2>
I have a problem, which is that I keep rereading The Martian and need something else like it in my life. :) I listen to the audiobook, so I can just kind of... do it a lot. I really don't mean to keep reading it, but I want to share it with someone I'm on a road trip with, or I'm driving while exhausted and I need something engaging and comforting that I won't put me to sleep but it's okay if I don't hear all the words... after I submitted my yuletide requests, I watched it on the plane, and cried a lot. Again.
I got a festivid for The Martian! http:\/\/fv-poster.livejournal.com\/296096.html<\/a>
Until I get something else like The Martian in my life, well, here we are!
I love sci-fi so much. I love space colonization so much. I've written Mars colonization fic.
Things that sound cool:
- Mark's adventures in the future (such as teaching tiny future astronauts as the movie ended.) The adventures of his students! His relationship with his former students as they go forth in life, and possibly to Mars.
- Ares IV! Ares V! Fuck it, Ares VI! I adore Martinez.
- Dealing with the aftereffects of everything on the long journey home on the Hermes
Those are just some ideas, I am not married to those, I'm really flexible!
Romance: I am not a strong shipper in this fandom, but I am not opposed! If you want to go there, go ahead. Just no non-consensual adultery please (poly okay), and I'd prefer not to have \"leaving your spouse for someone else\".
Uprooted <\/h2>
I'm going to copy in what I wrote last year, it's not changed. :)
well, i unexpectedly fell hard for canon het (good job Naomi)? i would adore something there, of any rating. especially higher ratings. :)
If you're not interested in that, i loooove plotty gen (or any plotty stuff). so much! i got into fandom as a wee child who had zero interest in sex or romance, so that's actually where my roots are. Agnieszka's future, Kasia's adventures in her new life, Alosha past, future, or present, basically anything expanding on what we saw in the book.
I love time travel and intrigue! I love world building! I love detailed intimate relationship building! (Not necessarily sexual, but intimate.)
i'm really into the-importance-of-platonic-female-friendship in this book, like sobbing hysterically over it, so (oddly! very oddly!) i am not interested in romantic\/sexual Agnieszka\/Kasia. (Believe me, no one is more surprised than I am.)
I have never said this before, but I would totally be happy with babies! Or kids! Whether growing their own or acquiring kids in some other ways or adventures in babysititng. Also domesticity sounds fun. Hijinks, sitcom stuff, wacky misunderstandings, elaborate ruses, all great. Fairly serious stuff about dealing with the complexity of their relationship and their lives, also great! Or stuff around fertility. I'm not squicked by anything involving pregnancy and childbirth.
- sex is good! I've never really asked for sex (or babies!) in yuletide, so i guess i should list kinks I'm not super into? bodily fluid related kink is the main one, any kind of permament bodily modification, and maybe stay away from temporary stuff? (Magic stuff related to this is probably not going to set me off in the same way.) Magic sex is *great*. I adore the possibilities set up in the (small amount!) of sexual content we got in the book. :) Anything that is generally cosidered kind of light-to-middle-ground kink is probably fine. :) I beta read this fic last year and loved every bit of it: http:\/\/archiveofourown.org\/works\/5512190<\/a> This one wasn't sex but I also beta read it and loved it. :) http:\/\/archiveofourown.org\/works\/5482808<\/a> That's all I've read though - I see there's been a bunch more, but I'm not going to read that before this yuletide for sure. :)
Please no AUs, graphic violence, slavery, miscarriage (unless tagged, i just don't want to be surprised), or sexual assault.
Stranger Things <\/h2>
First off, please don't worry about Stranger Things 2 if you want to write before that! I am very happy to read post-season one fic that is not canon compliant!
I have not actually ready any other ST fic, so please don't be worried about fanon or things that feel repetitive to you if it's what strikes your fancy - it will be new to me!
I love plot! I love character studies! I love scientific ethics! I love d&d and kids and sad kids who have never had any love in their lives. I love eggos! I love weird metaphysics, I love the upside down, i love pretty much everything about this show. well, sometimes it was too scary >.< But that's a audio\/visual thing, I don't get scared in the same way from writing.
(BTW I really really love time travel!)
Characters: I feel like pretty much everyone has something interesting to explore, except maybe Steve's shitty friends? :) I don't know how much I care about their inner lives ;-)
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THIS IS ACTUALLY EXPANDED FROM MY AO3 SIGNUP.<\/b> Just adding in to
that form here on LJ felt like a good way to format it. This is where the real details live!
You can check out my previous letters if you like, anything about prefrences is almost
certainly still true. (2013 is deeply useless, please skip that one, heh. http:\/\/laura47.livejournal.com\/tag\/dear%20yulegoat<\/a>
Request 1 by laura47<\/h4>Fandom:<\/span>Loki: Agent of Asgard<\/a><\/h5>
- No rating<\/span><\/span><\/a><\/li>
- Choose Not To Use Archive Warnings<\/span><\/span><\/a><\/li>
- No category<\/span><\/span><\/a><\/li>
- Request Unfulfilled<\/span><\/span><\/a><\/li>
<\/ul>10 Oct 2016<\/p><\/div>
Tags<\/h6><\/ul>Summary<\/h6>The bullet points below are what I wrote in 2015, when I was... maybe halfway through Agent of Asgard?
Since then, I've finished AoA, read the first two of the political "Vote Loki" miniseries, and a tiny bit of things with Jane!Thor. I'm holding off on anymore, including finishing "Vote Loki", for now. Comics are complicated when characters keep going. Everything from Kieron Gillen is magic and wonderful and 100% "my Loki." :) Having finished AoA, yup, that's "my Loki" too, with the twists along the way. Post that... well, when does a character change creators and identity enough to just be a different character? Because I loved JMS's Thor run, but that Loki is not quite "my Loki"? And with the way Loki changes and recreates, they are rather well suited to a kind of formalized "different Loki" - because JitM kid Loki is of course very different from later kid Loki etc. So, what does this all mean? I'm not even sure, dear author, I'm not even sure. I love where AoA left Loki, with the changes and the gender and the stories, and I'd love to go from there. You can absolutely continue with where the new authors take Loki if that feels good and right to you - if you do so, can you please leave an author's note on what I should read for context? I will go read it right away, including things that aren't in Unlimited yet, I'll just buy the regular digital copy.
Okay from there I can probably just toss you back into last year's notes. :) Oh, my only fic loki is still astolat's loki, if you want any other Loki inspiration or what not.<\/div>
- This is the comic-line that got me to actually be a regular comics reader. I heard "bisexual" and "gender fluid" and "Loki" and I picked up a digital subscription, started reading, and was just really kind of confused about backstory and wandered off. Then awhile later I picked up a Marvel Unlimited subscription, started with the JMS run of Thor because I'm a big Babylon 5 fan, and next thing you know I was all over comics. :) I finished Journey Into Mystery months ago and I still get upset when I think about it. I'm not currently caught up on Agent of Asgard, but I will be well before Christmas. (I'm trying to read everything that feels relevant in Axis and I just get so bogged down in these crossover events I give up. But this is the perfect motivation to get me back on track!)<\/span><\/li>
- I'm particularly into gender and sexuality and fluidity thereof, and questions of identity, and what it means to be good or evil or ethical or moral<\/span><\/li>
- Speaking of identity, I think undoing what JiM did at the end would probably be too... too much, in some way? I sometimes things that are "fix it fic" just become stuck in my head as my canon and then it's hard to continue on with the original source. I would love if that hadn't had to happen, but since it did... but, if you wind up with some kind of complicated reality rewriting time travel complicated thing, and it's culmination of something big, do what you think is right. I just don't know how I would feel about just starting with "that never happened" or something like that. And at this point, things have gotten so complicated with identity that... I don't even know. (Sorry this is my most rambly and emotionally confused yuletide request ever.)<\/span><\/li>
- I did come at this as a Loki movie fan, so you are free to have that as an inspiration if you like, but movie Loki's got nothing on this one. I do wish we could just have a tv show with Hiddleston going through this, but he'd never have the time. ah well. Pretty much the only Loki fic I've read is astolat's, and that is a different Loki than this, but if I have a headcanon for movie Loki, it's that, for whatever that says.<\/span><\/li>
- I think Odin's a shitty father and a shitty ruler and I'd prefer not to deal with him at length, though if you have something you think is awesome, that is critical of their relationships and does something interesting, go for it. You can do pretty much anything you want with Thor except go for the worst versions of Thor as a oafish goon jock who never thinks. You don't need to include Thor, or you could make this all an exploration of Thor and Loki's relationship. Honestly there's no one that I would be heartbroken if they weren't included. I'm particularly fond of Hela, and Verity.<\/span><\/li>
- You can throw Loki into the rest of the marvel comics universe (whatever the hell that is these days, or previous days), you can have Loki writing slash like he mentioned back in the first issue, you can... send Loki to Mars? I'm really really flexible about setting is what I'm saying. :) I don't know about full on AU, but feel free to change things around.<\/span><\/li>
- 2016 note: My other requests say "Please no AUs, graphic violence, slavery, miscarriage (unless tagged, i just don't want to be surprised), or sexual assault." I'm actually more okay with those things here, but please tag them. And see above about AUs - not really looking for a coffeeshop AU, but something where AoA Loki is playing around with fic tropes and the idea of a coffeshop AU which still being "my Loki" is totally okay. Have fun!<\/li>
<\/ul>
If by some chance you haven't read kid Loki and would like to, (or anyone else reading this) here's a guide: http:\/\/journey-into-mystery.tumbl<\/a><\/span>r.com\/post\/30097993112\/kidlokiguide It's all on Marvel Unlimited, and I think you get a month for $10? I would totally reimburse you for a couple months of that afterwards, if that's not weird? If that's weird, forget I asked. :)<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote><\/p><\/li>
Request 2 by laura47<\/h4>Fandom:<\/span>Uprooted - Naomi Novik<\/a><\/h5>
- No rating<\/span><\/span><\/a><\/li>
- Choose Not To Use Archive Warnings<\/span><\/span><\/a><\/li>
- No category<\/span><\/span><\/a><\/li>
- Request Unfulfilled<\/span><\/span><\/a><\/li>
<\/ul>10 Oct 2016<\/p><\/div>
Tags<\/h6><\/ul>Summary<\/h6>well, i unexpectedly fell hard for canon het (good job naomi)? i would adore something there, of any rating. especially higher ratings. :)<\/p>
If you're not interested in that, i loooove plotty gen (or any plotty stuff). so much! i got into fandom as a wee child who had zero interest in sex or romance, so that's actually where my roots are. Agnieszka's future, Kasia's adventures in her new life, Alosha past, future, or present, i'll try to add more ideas in my letter. :)<\/p>
I love time travel and intrigue! I love world building! I love detailed intimate relationship building! (Not necessarily sexual, but intimate.)<\/p>
i'm really into the-importance-of-platonic-female-friendship in this book, like sobbing hysterically over it, so (oddly! very oddly!) i am not interested in romantic\/sexual Agnieszka\/Kasia. (Believe me, no one is more surprised than I am.)
Borrowing a bit from my Sense8 request, but while I'm not all about "oh yeah i want wacky baby fic" in this situation, I would totally be okay with it, so here is what I said there: "I have never said this before, but I would totally be happy with babies! Or kids! Whether growing their own or acquiring kids in some other ways or adventures in babysititng. Also domesticity sounds fun. Hijinks, sitcom stuff, wacky misunderstandings, elaborate ruses, all great. Fairly serious stuff about dealing with the complexity of their relationship and their lives, also great! Or stuff around fertility. I'm not squicked by anything involving pregnancy and childbirth."
- sex is good! I've never really asked for sex (or babies!) in yuletide, so i guess i should list kinks I'm not super into? bodily fluid related kink is the main one, any kind of permament bodily modification, and maybe stay away from temporary stuff? (Magic stuff related to this is probably not going to set me off in the same way.) Magic sex is *great*. I adore the possibilities set up in the (small amount!) of sexual content we got in the book. :) Anything that is generally cosidered kind of light-to-middle-ground kink is probably fine. :) I beta read this fic last year and loved every bit of it: http:\/\/archiveofourown.org\/works\/5512190<\/a> This one wasn't sex but I also beta read it and loved it. :) <\/span>http:\/\/archiveofourown.org\/works\/5482808<\/a> That's all I've read though - I see there's been a bunch more since last yuletide, but I'm not going to read that anytime soon. :)<\/span><\/p>Please no AUs, graphic violence, slavery, miscarriage (unless tagged, i just don't want to be surprised), or sexual assault.<\/p>
<\/p><\/blockquote><\/li>
Request 3 by laura47<\/h4>Fandom:<\/span>Sense8 (TV)<\/a><\/h5>
- No rating<\/span><\/span><\/a><\/li>
- Choose Not To Use Archive Warnings<\/span><\/span><\/a><\/li>
- No category<\/span><\/span><\/a><\/li>
- Request Unfulfilled<\/span><\/span><\/a><\/li>
<\/ul>10 Oct 2016<\/p><\/div>
Tags<\/h6>
- Daniela Velasquez<\/a><\/li>
- Lito Rodriguez<\/a><\/li>
<\/ul>Summary<\/h6>(If you're wondering why Hernando isn't on the list, it's because AO3 wouldn't let me select him and I decided to just move on. Obviously this means you don't *have* to include him, but I would certainly like it. :) )
So, these three! I love them. :) I want them to be happy, at least in the end.
To jump to the awkward parts!
- Everyone except Hernando behaved poorly in some ways in season one. (Hernando is literally perfect, best I can tell.) Daniela was super inappropriate in filming them, and Lito was shitty in letting her suffer for him. I don't want to excuse that, but I certainly don't need to dwell on it. Or even mention it, necessarily?
- Also, sexuality, it's a thing. You do not have to do anything sexual or dealing with sexual identity, but if you do, I am totally find with sexuality being a complicated fluid thing. People's actions don't define their sexual identity - asexuals can have sex and still be asexual, monosexual people can have homosexual experiences and still be monosexual. So I would be totally fine with some kind of sexuality between Daniela and either Hernando or Lito, with that have no real effect on their identity, deciding maybe they are bi or homoflexible, anything *except* "oh now i'm heterosexual". Oof, no. To summarize - no sex or sexual identity is fine, but if you do that, I am very flexible, with anything except "sudden heterosexuality". :)
Now, what is less awkward! Hopefully, eventually, these three! To start off, YOU CAN DO BASICALLY ANYTHING YOU WANT. I want you to have fun! But here's some general guidelines, which are only guidelines, not rules. We good there? :)
- I'm okay with working in stuff with the other 7, or not. They can swap in for periods of time, or be hanging out offering advice or snark or commentary, or (consesual) voyeurism or even (consensual) body hoping during sex or something like The Big Orgy. (which i believe was the first scene they shot for Lito? Mercy!) The three of them can run off to be physically with some or all of the rest of them, go on adventures, be part of a big ensemble piece, as long as they get a good chunk of the focus. (And if you want to write something very long, I am fine with it just being a good chunk of time in word count, and not necessarily total percentage. Like, if you wrote 30,000 words or something wild, I would not need it to be 20,000 about these three!)
- I would like for them to have some happy time post season 1, and a generally happy ending? Not "the season finale ends and then suddenly they all get arrested" or something. Angst and drama is fine in there, especially if it's a longer piece.
- Like so many fangirls, I love found\/chosen family.
- I have never said this before, but I would totally be happy with babies! Or kids! Whether growing their own or acquiring kids in some other ways or adventures in babysititng. Also domesticity sounds fun. Hijinks, sitcom stuff, wacky misunderstandings, elaborate ruses, all great. Fairly serious stuff about dealing with the complexity of their relationship and their lives, also great! Or stuff around fertility. I'm not squicked by anything involving pregnancy and childbirth.
- I'm not jonesing for "Lito is outed and it's horrible", but if that's the thing you're most inspired by, go for it. I'm not sure how I feel about the lesser version of "coming out to parents and it's horrible forever." I'm totally down for the three of them trying to have friends individually - i like the three of them together, but I'm generally a fan of people having friendships outside their relationships. :) Which risks getting outed, but well. I'm also okay with "Lito got outed and it sucked but they are moving on with their lives." Maybe he's making smaller films and happy, maybe they are living off his money and he's doing local theater, maybe he's not even acting right now.
- sex is good! I've never really asked for sex (or babies!) in yuletide, so i guess i should list kinks I'm not super into? bodily fluid related kink is the main one, any kind of permament bodily modification, and maybe stay away from temporary stuff? Anything that is generally cosidered kind of light-to-middle-ground kink is probably fine. :)
- Please no AUs, graphic violence, slavery, miscarriage (unless tagged, i just don't want to be surprised), or sexual assault.<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote><\/li>
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15-25 October - Signups
15 January - Submission deadline
28 January - Go live
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also, what are the big f\/f ships these days?
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* do you have a better term for non-digital? I don't. here's what they say on what types of games people write. "Historically most Game Chef games have been tabletop roleplaying games or live action games, but innovative designers like you are constantly breaking down and re-envisioning the divisions between different types of games (board games, card games, roleplaying games, live action games, etc.) Feel free to push the boundaries of what counts as a roleplaying game, an analog game, or a game."<\/span><\/p>\n\nCrossposted from Dreamwidth. Most commenting still happens on LJ. http:\/\/laura47.dreamwidth.org\/1081891.html","comments":"https:\/\/laura47.livejournal.com\/1292211.html?view=comments#comments"},{"guid":"https:\/\/laura47.livejournal.com\/1286655.html","pubDate":"Mon, 18 Jan 2016 10:37:51 GMT","title":"Festivids Reveal!","author":"laura47","link":"https:\/\/laura47.livejournal.com\/1286655.html","description":"
"All This and Heaven Too", Inside Out, for Festivids 2015-2016<\/a> from Laura 47<\/a> on Vimeo<\/a>.<\/p>
Download from dropbox: https:\/\/www.dropbox.com\/s\/p5u7w1pohajn9k6\/laura47%20signed%20inside%20out%20all%20this%20and%20heaven%20too%20festivids%202015-2016.mp4?dl=0<\/a>
I swore after last year I was just going to make happy action vids, likely to animated movies, because my Lego Movie vid was so much less stressful to make than previous years and it was well received.
And Inside Out seemed like a great source to offer.
BUT ALL THE FEELINGS. It is, of course, literally *about* feelings in the most literal sense possible, but somehow I just offered it anyway, even though I cried watching it in a theater. I wound up making something very emotional for me, and apparently it's hit some viewers emotionally as well. There wasn't anyway to vid this that wasn't going to be emotional, by definition, so I felt a bit silly, but I'm quite happy with where it all went!
I was quite aways into the process of this vid when I realized I was confused about what the vid was about, because that's how my creative processed works sometimes. :) I started out thinking I was making a vid about the importance of lower-case-s sadness, then i realized I was making a vid about the importance of sadness and Joy coming to understand that, then I scrapped some stuff and added more Joy because clearly it was about Joy, Sadness, and Joy understanding the importance of sadness and also Sadness, and also also Sadness understanding the importance of S\/sadness. Then, awhile after that, I realized I was ridiculous and the feeling I never knew existed before was the joy-and-sadness feeling (i put literally clips down and went WAIT THAT'S THE THING I may have shouted, my spouse and friends are used to it). So the vid was actually about Joy, Sadness, Joy understanding sadness, Joy understanding Sadness, I'm losing track of things but also joy-and-sadness, lowercase. Which is terirbly amusing for me, because my little nephew loves this movie and calls it \"joy and sadness\" instead of the proper name. Adorably, my mom was using the context of the movie to try and talk to him about what his dad might be feeling, attending the football game we were watching. If this movie helps kids talk about feelings and develop empathy a bit better or a bit sooner, then booyah. :)
As for the song, I just didn't know what to do, and I asked various friends to make suggestions for me.I'd been asking for songs that felt both sad and then happy, and all sorts of complicated things, and really was thinking about it in the wrong way. I was driving over to ![\"[personal](\"https:\/\/imgprx.livejournal.net\/a580d05b30b3066034cd3251b4ba38a78ce806d33d5d344b70329d66b8beb929\/P2WlxyVijxKgh2ts9sZSUkMdsf-ah7h0zACGVbdSgsfa9wzc2863DwUvDUA4DUR9vQ1cmDjQdwpRBB0Zjh0psVYBjDXS:BStuftnIIy2w-rmhjrd9kg\")
<\/a>shati<\/b><\/a><\/span>'s house for vidding, having done more clipping and arranging than I'd ever done before because I was still songless, and I made a playlist of all the songs people had suggested to listen to in the car. And then I clicked on a playlist I'd been working on for a LARP character, and this song came on, and I said to myself \"Yes Laura, you've wanted to do a Florence vid all along, you've even thought about this song in passing but thought you couldn't pull it off, and it's time to just make the vid you want to make.\" So of course I think got external validation of a my closest advisors saying it could work, and that's how I found my song. :)
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And gives me things I've always wanted.
IT'S SO GOOD AND I CAN'T STOP THINKING ABOUT IT ALSO DREAMING ABOUT IT.
places to buy it: http:\/\/www.naominovik.com\/2014\/09\/pre-order-uprooted-by-naomi-novik\/
I've never regretted not requesting something for yuletide this much.
I actually stopped so I could prolong the experience of the book. And because I decided I couldn't read it on amtrak with someone next to me, given the things i was likely to feel, and i cried reading it on the previous amtrak trip (with no seatmate)
I am reading on kindle and own three hardcover copies for my spouse and lending out. well, one is still in the mail.
sequel: "“It’s not out of the question but not currently planned either!”" <\/strong>http:\/\/www.naominovik.com\/2015\/08\/ask-naomi-will-you-write-a-sequel-to-uprooted\/<\/span><\/font>
<\/strong><\/div>
* i did check her livejournal to confirm she's not hiding her identity anymore. I'm so happy she can be published and so successful while still writing the fic she does. :-D
“Wild, thrilling, and deeply, darkly magical. An instant classic.”—Lev Grossman<\/span>, #1 New York Times<\/em> bestselling author of the Magicians Trilogy<\/em><\/p>“Reading Uprooted was like rediscovering a favorite old sweater, familiar and beloved. It feels as if it has always existed and has been waiting patiently for me to return to it.”—Maggie Stiefvater<\/span>, #1 New York Times<\/em> bestselling author of the Shiver Trilogy<\/em><\/p>“Uprooted is one of those tales you come back to over and over again because it’s just that enchanting. The adventure builds with such tension that you are peeking through your hands at the end, hoping it will all be okay, and Naomi Novik delivers a conclusion that’s deeply satisfying, earning a permanent space on my bookshelf that I’ll revisit often.”—Kevin Hearne<\/span>, New York Times<\/em> bestselling author of Shattered<\/strong><\/p>“Magical and practical, otherworldly and planted in the real, I could not stop reading this book and neither will you!”—Tamora Pierce<\/span>, New York Times<\/em> bestselling author of Trickster’s Choice<\/strong> and Trickster’s Queen<\/strong><\/p>“Uprooted by Naomi Novik is enchanting, in every sense of that fine old word. A charming and inviting story that looks unflinchingly at the strangling roots of hurt and revenge.”—Robin Hobb<\/span>, bestselling author of Fool’s Assassin<\/strong><\/p>
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Requests:
Gattaca (1997) [Movie]<\/h3>This movie gives me chills. I am huge SF fan, and especially about the societal effects of new technology and science and stuff like that. I found it visually striking as well. I am pretty happy with anything - if this is what you matched on, you might want to check back later, I hope to rewatch it? Which is horribly vague and you don't have to. :) But it's been a few years. One time I saw it at a SF marathon and someone broken down so much at the ending that they had to be helped out of the theater, and I don't blame them. I hate the injustice of the society, of course.
Jane The Virgin [TV]<\/h3>[I am not caught up but I will be! As I write this I'm on 1x16, I think.]
I feel like I should just jump to the love plot question right off, by saying I'm team Rafael (as of 1x16), but all that means is that I'd prefer not to get an actual Jane\/Michael shipping vid. And sadly, I can't believe any of them pulling off poly, sigh. But otherwise, I have no bans on any characters. I'm generally happy with most things except that one listed above. I'll just go through some characters, eh?
Jane: I love Jane to itty bitty little pieces (wait that phrase is so weird, huh). I love how she has wacky adventures and misunderstanding but they mostly come from such a good place. I want no one to ever lie to her or hurt her in anyway. I don't wish ill on anymore, but I want nothing but perfect happiness for all of the Villanueva women. I love how real and complex all of her feelings and struggles are, I love how she's so different from most TV characters, I love how despite living very different lives and having many different values, I adore the hell out of her. I love her passion for writing, and for teaching, and for the idea of romance without being an idiot about it. :)
Xiomara: I just want to hug her and tell her she's a good mom. I love all of her flaws, and how aware she is of them, and her relationship with...herself, really, and all her actions and history and family and lovers (and not many friends, huh). The way she falls into being a child fighting with her mother and her desperate desire to be perfect for Jane and how she wants to support Jane but also fears her making bad decisions, how she can still pursue her dreams after so many years of not making it, I just love her.
Alba: See, somehow, despite coming from a Catholic family and being a bitter ex-Catholic athiest and hating Catholic sex shaming more than most things in the world, I still love Alba. Which is just a testament to so much about this show and the characters. She just wants the best for her family, and misses her husband, and is still a little scared of America,and is scared of being deported (does she have a doctor who ignores her immigration status, or has she just not had medical care in decades, god I don't even know how this works, it's not like I'm not angry about immigration policies at least weekly but thisjust breaks my heart all over again.)
Michael: okay, while i understand hating Rafael for being with the woman he loves, I can't abide by his actions there. One of my biggest issues with various fiction is that cops breaking the law or abusing their authority or skipping search warrants or mistreating suspects if a huge huge problem for me. I made it through literally one episode of Hawaii Five-O, for instance. There was shark cage involved. Knowing as an audience that someone is guilty changes nothing, and makes me angry on a meta level because I'm sure it influences people to being more okay with police misconduct when they totally look guilty (or were convicted or confessed or anything.) And don't even get me started on torture, the point is I have issues there so if we could avoid any scenes of even mild police misconduct that would be awesome. :) Otherwise, I get why he was lying to Jane about Petra, but I'd probably dump someone over that, when it was about something as huge as the future happiness of my child, so I can't fault Jane and don't like what he did. But! He's often sweet and caring and he loves Jane and i don't wish ill on him (I keep saying these things as if I have any say, I think it's the soapy nature of the show, drawing me in.)
Rafael: Also far from perfect, but he is, as a friend of a friend said, "disney prince handsome". Like just look at him. And he's trying so hard to make up for who he was, and, like, okay so much with Luisa. (where i am she recently ran off with Rose.) He loved her and trusted her enough to risk everything he had financially (which he was working so hard on to get his father's approval and prove himself) to give her what she needed to get her life on track. In that little bit in the first episode before everything goes down, you can see such closeness between them, and it really breaks his heart the way she fucks up. And then he's too quick to send her away after she comes back, but honestly it looked really terrible. If this were fic I'd want sibling stuff maybe, didn't realize this till i wrote this paragraph, ha. tl;dr: i am well aware of rafael's flaws but like him anyway, because this show writes good characters.
Luisa: Oh, how they handled mental health and the institution was not my favorite, you can include parts if you do a Luisa vid because it's important but I'd prefer those scenes not be handled as comedy, despite what the show did?
Rose: I dunno, she's a pretty terrible person, but somehow I want her and Luisa to be happy, while what i should be wanting is luisa to have an actually reasonable relationship. I blame Bridget Regan and her acting. Also her face. (Blew my mind when i realized she was Dottie and Kahlan.)
Petra: Damn, I did not expect to come around on her so much. I still don't like how she treats people sometimes, but I have a lot of sympathy for her and long term I'd like her to be stable in her own right and have a good balanced relationship and be able to chill out some. (I know this keeps sounding like a yuletide request, sorry! I don't expect you to construct anything here, I just wanted to talk about how I feel about them.)
Petra's Mom: I have no idea what her deal is. I'm expecting to see her back before the end of the season. ;-)
The Martian [Movie]<\/h3>I laughed, I cried, I reread the book, it was better than cats. In addition to being a huge SF fan about societal changes as mentioned above, I am passionate about space and extra-planetary exploration. The book was described as "engineering porn" and yes, absolutely. I have a bachelor of science in media studies, because my alma mater only gives out SBs, so i m not a scientist or engineer, but i have a basic background, and am surrounded by such people and am a huge fan.
I'm generally happy with anything, but some ideas:- the majesty of space travel<\/li>
- the triumph of the human spirit<\/li>
- being a clever bastard<\/li>
- just Mars herself<\/li>
- the NASA side of things!<\/li>
- the ares 3 crew<\/li>
- weird constructed reality with other damon roles? interstellar is the obvious one, but nothing pops there, and i found that character fairly heartbreaking actually. but especially given that jessica chastain was in that. If it inspires you, go for it!<\/li>
- something sciency! <\/li>
- overlaying quotes from the book or audio from the audiobook (which i really liked)<\/li><\/ul>but really, anything that inspires you. Instrumental music might be cool here, but only if you like that!
Ms. Marvel US (2014-) [Still Image]<\/h3>tl;dr: anything :)
ReBoot [TV]<\/h3>tl;dr: anything :)
Young Avengers [Still Image]<\/h3>i've only (so far) read the more recently one (2014? 2013?) comic, with Loki, but I'll go read earlier stuff before golive. I'm a big Loki fan, which is why I wound up there, but I really liked every one else. team feels, gay stuff, loki's sad story and character arc, whatever you like. bringing in other comics is 110% okay. if you do, can you please list the issues\/series used so i can read them? thank you ever so much.:) You can read some more about my Loki feels here: http:\/\/laura47.livejournal.com\/1282266.html
<\/div> <\/p>\n\nCrossposted from Dreamwidth. Most commenting still happens on LJ. http:\/\/laura47.dreamwidth.org\/1072159.html","comments":"https:\/\/laura47.livejournal.com\/1282368.html?view=comments#comments","category":"festivids"},{"guid":"https:\/\/laura47.livejournal.com\/1282266.html","pubDate":"Tue, 27 Oct 2015 05:39:17 GMT","title":"Dear Yuletide Author","author":"laura47","link":"https:\/\/laura47.livejournal.com\/1282266.html","description":"UPDATE: MORE JOE BIDEN CANON: http:\/\/www.theonion.com\/article\/biden-to-cool-his-heels-in-mexico-for-a-while-17996<\/a><\/strong>
Joe Biden as written by The Onion - <\/strong><\/span>
- oh my god I love this. I nominated it. No idea if anyone will offer it. :) Current Biden, Future Biden, maybe Biden as senator? I think being VP or former VP is funnier. Maybe he can just sort of refuse to leave after Obama's out? The Onion never mentions his wife (who is awesome) and I think that is actually probably for the best? A lot of his behavior would make for a shitty husband, and Jill doesn't deserve that. I'd prefer nothing about his recent family tragedy, because that's not funny. I guess this doesn't *have* to be funny? I'm not really sure how to make something serious out of this. :) They have been very ambiguous about backstory, whether he has all this history as a roadie and a pot dealer and also was a senator, or if this random dude just elected VP, i'm fine with either.<\/li>
- Crossovers are great, or something like "Joe Biden gets matched on pairing he hates in Yuletide" or "Joe Biden's cosplay disrupts convention masquerade", Joe Biden interacting with fannish things, or Joe Biden LARPing or Joe Biden doing pretty much anything?<\/li>
- You can write in any form that appeals, articles like the onion, or tweets, or tumblr, or just narrative, or epistolary, or, I dunno, college syllabus? that one probably doesn't make sense but hopefully demonstrates how open I am to ideas. :-) Basically, if your story is about TheOnion!JoeBiden, I'll likely be overjoyed. :)<\/li>
- Some of my favorites:<\/li>
<\/ul>http:\/\/www.theonion.com\/article\/biden-worries-legalized-weed-in-dc-will-cut-into-h-38210<\/a>
http:\/\/www.theonion.com\/article\/biden-arrives-early-to-set-up-state-of-the-union-f-37812<\/a>
http:\/\/www.theonion.com\/article\/biden-tossed-out-of-car-passing-by-white-house-37494<\/a>
http:\/\/www.theonion.com\/article\/biden-gets-grow-light-delivered-to-white-house-und-36597<\/a>
http:\/\/www.theonion.com\/article\/biden-loses-control-of-butterfly-knife-during-comm-36053<\/a>
http:\/\/www.theonion.com\/article\/frantic-biden-searching-dog-shelter-for-bo-look-al-35161<\/a>
http:\/\/www.theonion.com\/article\/biden-frantically-hitting-up-cabinet-members-for-c-34515<\/a>
http:\/\/www.theonion.com\/article\/nude-biden-wakes-up-on-cold-slab-in-dc-morgue-34243<\/a>
http:\/\/www.theonion.com\/article\/biden-has-guy-named-worm-sit-in-for-him-at-cabinet-33250<\/a>
http:\/\/www.theonion.com\/article\/biden-investigated-for-questionable-workers-comp-c-32571<\/a>
http:\/\/www.theonion.com\/article\/biden-working-his-way-through-scratch-off-tickets--30973<\/a>
Two Monks Inventing Things<\/strong>
- OMG you offered this! Or maybe I'm on pinch hits or you're browsing letters. If the latter, well, this is a series of humor pieces at The Toast. It's a quick read! The concept is that two monks are creating works of art, and... it's hilarious? They exist sort of out of time and space, creating works of art and encouraging each other to make weird decisions. Mallory, the author, is clearly someone with a lot of humanities education, much like myself. :)<\/span>
It's here: <\/span>http:\/\/the-toast.net\/tag\/two-monks-inventing-things\/<\/a>
Reading any one will let you know if you like this kind of thing, I expect.<\/span>
What do I want? Anything.<\/span>
* Monks inventing something not art - shoes, operating systems, far future civilizations, dystopias, media. It's a great format to lovingly call out the flaws\/weird decisions of something you love, if you have an idea, run with it. (If you're concerned you might be being obscure and you want to include explanatory links on top that would be rad, I'll read things! [ [edit: eek there's a new one i hadn't seen, about the inventing church denominations! INVENT ALL THE THINGS]<\/span>
* Monks inventing art - more of the same, or different art! Modern art? Fanart? That could be fun<\/span>
* A serious character study about the lives of these monks, whether in one time and place or bouncing all over. Are they immortal? Are they archetypes? Are they trapped in church bureaucracy that makes them effectively immortal? Are they positions passed down throughout the ages? Are they in love? Do they just sort of exist with little awareness that they are living through different times and places? ARE THEY COMPUTER SIMULATIONS? Don't worry about getting too weird for me!!! I like weird.<\/span>
* Crazy world building? GO FOR IT. SERIOUSLY. <\/span>
HAVE FUN AND INVENT THINGS<\/span><\/li>
<\/ul>Loki: Agent of Asgard
- This is the comic-line that got me to actually be a regular comics reader. I heard "bisexual" and "gender fluid" and "Loki" and I picked up a digital subscription, started reading, and was just really kind of confused about backstory and wandered off. Then awhile later I picked up a Marvel Unlimited subscription, started with the JMS run of Thor because I'm a big Babylon 5 fan, and next thing you know I was all over comics. :) I finished Journey Into Mystery months ago and I still get upset when I think about it. I'm not currently caught up on Agent of Asgard, but I will be well before Christmas. (I'm trying to read everything that feels relevant in Axis and I just get so bogged down in these crossover events I give up. But this is the perfect motivation to get me back on track!)<\/span><\/li>
- I'm particularly into gender and sexuality and fluidity thereof, and questions of identity, and what it means to be good or evil or ethical or moral<\/span><\/li>
- Speaking of identity, I think undoing what JiM did at the end would probably be too... too much, in some way? I sometimes things that are "fix it fic" just become stuck in my head as my canon and then it's hard to continue on with the original source. I would love if that hadn't had to happen, but since it did... but, if you wind up with some kind of complicated reality rewriting time travel complicated thing, and it's culmination of something big, do what you think is right. I just don't know how I would feel about just starting with "that never happened" or something like that. And at this point, things have gotten so complicated with identity that... I don't even know. (Sorry this is my most rambly and emotionally confused yuletide request ever.)<\/span><\/li>
- I did come at this as a Loki movie fan, so you are free to have that as an inspiration if you like, but movie Loki's got nothing on this one. I do wish we could just have a tv show with Hiddleston going through this, but he'd never have the time. ah well. Pretty much the only Loki fic I've read is astolat's, and that is a different Loki than this, but if I have a headcanon for movie Loki, it's that, for whatever that says. <\/span><\/li>
- I think Odin's a shitty father and a shitty ruler and I'd prefer not to deal with him at length, though if you have something you think is awesome, that is critical of their relationships and does something interesting, go for it. You can do pretty much anything you want with Thor except go for the worst versions of Thor as a oafish goon jock who never thinks. You don't need to include Thor, or you could make this all an exploration of Thor and Loki's relationship. Honestly there's no one that I would be heartbroken if they weren't included. I'm particularly fond of Hela, and Verity. <\/span><\/li>
- You can throw Loki into the rest of the marvel comics universe (whatever the hell that is these days, or previous days), you can have Loki writing slash like he mentioned back in the first issue, you can... send Loki to Mars? I'm really really flexible about setting is what I'm saying. :) I don't know about full of AU, but feel free to change things around. <\/span><\/li>
<\/ul>
If by some chance you haven't read kid Loki and would like to, (or anyone else reading this) here's a guide: http:\/\/journey-into-mystery.tumblr.com\/post\/30097993112\/kidlokiguide<\/a> It's all on Marvel Unlimited, and I think you get a month for $10?
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JUST WATCH HANNIBAL.
Guys I can't handle horror movies but I watch this. I look away and get by, there is rarely any jump horror, and it is all so worth it. Having now seen the finale, I knoooow some of you would love this more than your realize, I know the LARP characters you play and the fic you like and this is it. This is it and it is such beautiful art, I swear it is amazing and transcendent.
(and they stay away from sexual violence and dog killing as a rule, they rewrote a villain to take out any explicit sexual violence, its fucked up but they try really hard on those two. Probably want perfect, but it did make me feel safe in one way).
And relationship that goes with it, the person who brings out that darknes in you, and challenges you and makes you know yourself, however fucked up that is? The person who defines you and all you can do is figure out what you do with that? Yeah. Yeah.
I'm going to rewatch it, and maybe even vid it. I am not done with this story, hell it might wind up beating Utena for show I watch the most times. You want to try it but are intimidated or want company or whatever? Talk to me.
Hannibal. It's really as amazing as we act like it is.
Hannibal.
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I recently wasn't backing any kickstarters and didn't notice. This is only the second time that's been true since I started this all, and last time it made me feel all weird and unhappy. This time I didn't notice. This is probably better. I really love helping people produce cool things and live their dreams outside mainstream methods, which can really enforce dominant sorts of voices and not encourage diversity, so backing kickstarters really makes me feel happy, and that's why I'll back some for low amounts and no reward - I want my friends to see it on my backed list, and to up their numbers a little.
If you want my advice after all this kickstartering, it's this:
(1) No kickstarter is a guarantee or preorder. Treat it accordingly. You are investing in a (varingly) risky venture! Don't put any money if you can't afford to lose.
(2) Never look at dates. If you need something by a specific date, do *not* use kickstarter. If you never look at dates and so never expect things to be \"on time\" you will (almost certainly) be so much happier. I see creators begging people to stop being horrible to them because they, like hundreds of kickstarters before them, are stuck in customs limbo or can't communicate with Chinese suppliers, and I can't imagined what entitled jerks their backers are. Sure, some kickstarters squander resources and are jerks, but I have *never* seen that happen and I do have a decent sample size (though as we will see, it is limited to a few wedges of the kickstarter project type pie).
If you follow those two suggestions, I think it will really eliminate the majority of angst I see.
I'm intending to go chronologically, but here's a link to the only active one I've got, a horror tabletop roleplaying game. https:\/\/www.kickstarter.com\/projects\/shiftyginger\/ten-candles-a-tragic-horror-storytelling-game<\/a>
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I'm sorry, I'm having the worst week I've had all year, with a variety of unexpected crisises. I have plans to work on my letter with a friend on Saturday, my apologies! My old letters are probably useful?
Thank you!
Laura
Dear Yulegoat!
THANK YOU SO MUCH! I'm so glad you want to write something for something I requested. When in doubt, please don't worry, I'll be happy with pretty much anything. :)
Request 1 by laura47
Two Monks Inventing Things (The Toast)
Monk #2 (Two Monks Inventing Things) Monk #1 (Two Monks Inventing Things)
Summary
OMG you offered this! Or maybe I'm on pinch hits or you're browsing letters. If the latter, well, this is a series of humor pieces at The Toast. It's a quick read! The concept is that two monks are creating works of art, and... it's hilarious? They exist sort of out of time and space, creating works of art and encouraging each other to make weird decisions. Mallory, the author, is clearly someone with a lot of humanities education, much like myself. :)
It's here: http:\/\/the-toast.net\/tag\/two-monks-inventing-things\/<\/a>
Reading any one will let you know if you like this kind of thing, I expect.
What do I want? Anything.
* Monks inventing something not art - shoes, operating systems, far future civilizations, dystopias, media. It's a great format to lovingly call out the flaws\/weird decisions of something you love, if you have an idea, run with it. (If you're concerned you might be being obscure and you want to include explanatory links on top that would be rad, I'll read things! [ [edit: eek there's a new one i hadn't seen, about the inventing church denominations! INVENT ALL THE THINGS]
* Monks inventing art - more of the same, or different art! Modern art? Fanart? That could be fun
* A serious character study about the lives of these monks, whether in one time and place or bouncing all over. Are they immortal? Are they archetypes? Are they trapped in church bureaucracy that makes them effectively immortal? Are they positions passed down throughout the ages? Are they in love? Do they just sort of exist with little awareness that they are living through different times and places? ARE THEY COMPUTER SIMULATIONS? Don't worry about getting too weird for me!!! I like weird.
* Crazy world building? GO FOR IT.
HAVE FUN AND INVENT THINGS
Request 2 by laura47
Only Lovers Left Alive (2013)
Adam (Only Lovers Left Alive) Eve (Only Lovers Left Alive)
Summary
I loved the feel of the movie, the dreamy languid sense of it all, the way it didn't care about rushing through a plot, the sense that there's so much history we don't know about, all that negative space for fic writing.
I'd love some kind of chosen vampire family, or old school backstory. i love stories of long lived characters and how that affects their relationships, perspectives, and interactions with the world.
I'd love an AU where Ian gets turned instead of killed, I think that has amazing potential.
I'd also love post-movie fic, with Adam and Eve dealing with the consequences of turning the two young lovers, hopefully there's some anger and confusion and eventually a functional family.
Really I'm pretty into family. Making Ava more reasonable, on her own of because she turned Ian? You could do something a hundred years down the line, dealing with yet another world, new challenges, new family? Eventually technology tends makes it harder and harder to live in the margins and for people to hide their identities, which is clearly already complicated in the early 21st century. Maybe a reunion with old friends and family (who might be new friends and family at the time of the movie). Maybe big societal changes! Maybe weird vampire stuff! I'm pretty flexible. :)
Addition:<\/b>
Request 3 by laura47
The Birdcage (1996)
No rating
Choose Not To Use Archive Warnings
No category
Request Unfulfilled
20 Oct 2014Tags
Agador (The Birdcage) Val Goldman Armand Goldman Albert Goldman
Summary
I'd like some family fic, either set in the future, about the extended families of the Goldmans and inlaws, or maybe backstory about Val growing up and Armand and Albert figuring out their lives as fathers. I just want more of these characters, I would have requested more if more than 4 had been nominated, I love every character. Well, not the reporters. ;)
Addition:<\/b> Characters listed are really "Or", not "And", I don't mean to be restrictive!
Request 4 by laura47
Sleep No More - Punchdrunk
No rating
Choose Not To Use Archive Warnings
No category
Request Unfulfilled
20 Oct 2014Tags
Summary
I've seen this three times in Boston and New York and I have no idea how to write for it. Useless prompt, sorry! Go wherever your heart takes you! Stories within the established cannon, bringing in new shakespeare or gothic romance or whatever, weird meta things, I... whatever you want. :)
Addition:<\/b>
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Dear Festividder,
Thank you for making me a vid, or considering making me a vid if you're just passing through. :) I'm very easy to please. You can do crossovers, meta, spoken word instead of music, weird experimental stuff, don't hold back. :)
My requests:
- Babylon 5<\/li>
here's what i wrote in two previous years:
B5 is so near and dear to my heart. I watched it as a teenager, and was just head over heals about it. I'm not super fond of non-Sheridan station commanders (Sinclair and Lochley), though it is not out of great love for Sheridan, I just don't like them. I love Londo and G'Kar and their EPIC GROWTH and their friendship. I am fond of Delenn. My ultimate love is Susan Ivanova, <3 <3 <3. So much love. My Ivanova tshirt is one of my most treasured garments. I love Susan on her own, I love Susan with Marcus or Talia. I also loved Marcus in a somewhat teenage girl sort of way, and got a college essay over fighting with the high school yearbook over a quote from him. Have you read that story JMS published, \"Space, Time, and the Incurable Romantic\"? I both love that and am a little squicked? I also love many other characters, I'll elaborate more in my dear festividder letter.
I can't even begin to really explain my love of B5. It was my first
real serious epic (before LOTR, for me!). It meant so much to me, in
the way that only your first huge sweeping epic can, back when life
was simpler and moral ambiguity was novel. I love the hugeness of it,
and i love the small intimate moments. I really love the relationships
between people, and what happens to people and relationships in
stressful times. I love the people, I love the station. I love
everything, I did a B5 cross stitch, for serious. I was always fond of
Delenn and Sheridan's relationship, but mostly in the way that you
might really love what a great relationship your parents have? I don't
know. I sort of hero worshipped Ivanova, while totally seeing her
flaws and loving her for them, not despite them, even though I never
wanted to make those decisions. I <3 Vir, and his evolution, and have
you read the centauri books by peter david, based on JMS's outlines?
Because you should. I was deeply sad about Lennier's decision, and I
wished that Marcus could be there for him, in a totally platonic way.
Just do whatever you want, really. :-)
- LEGO Marvel Super Heroes [Game]<\/li>
I love Marvel and this game is a delight. My only real complaint is the way they've designed the \"smart\" character aspect. I'd love villians, I'd love heroes, i'd love SHIELD, I'd love ensemble, I'd love over the top weird, I'd love ironic, I'd love pretty much anything. I love Natasha and Steve and Loki and Thor and Tony and Bruce and Coulson and Fury and basically all the X-Men. i love getting to see characters from the different movie universes together on screen. The Fantastic Four have never really grabbed me, and Deadpool... I dunno, we don't have the same sense of humor.
- Moonrise Kingdom [Movie]<\/li>
I love Wes Anderson films. For whatever reason, they just tug on my heart strings, specifically my heart strings related to family and dysfunction, and trying to fix things. I If you want to try and make me cry, that's cool. I see this movie as \"Broken Wes Anderson protagonists, if you managed to get ahold of them and have them do the life-changing thing at 12 instead of as adults\".
- The Royal Tenenbaums [Movie]<\/li>
And this is what happened when no one helps then when they are 12. :-( I don't know if I would even like any of these people if I met them in real life? I love the picture of their family, sad, dysfunctional, but family. I'd love something about family and how it hurts us and helps us, how it holds us back and defines us and lets us grow, or a character piece on any of the characters would be cool too.
- Only Lovers Left Alive (2013) [Movie]<\/li>
This is my Festivids\/Yuletide crossover this year! I love having one. :)
Here's what I said for Yuletide, which basically sums up what I like, and do whatever you like.
it has spoilers so
I loved the feel of the movie, the dreamy languid sense of it all, the way it didn't care about rushing through a plot, the sense that there's so much history we don't know about, all that negative space for fic writing.
I'd love some kind of chosen vampire family, or old school backstory. i love stories of long lived characters and how that affects their relationships, perspectives, and interactions with the world.
I'd love an AU where Ian gets turned instead of killed, I think that has amazing potential.
I'd also love post-movie fic, with Adam and Eve dealing with the consequences of turning the two young lovers, hopefully there's some anger and confusion and eventually a functional family.
Really I'm pretty into family. Making Ava more reasonable, on her own of because she turned Ian? You could do something a hundred years down the line, dealing with yet another world, new challenges, new family? Eventually technology tends makes it harder and harder to live in the margins and for people to hide their identities, which is clearly already complicated in the early 21st century. Maybe a reunion with old friends and family (who might be new friends and family at the time of the movie). Maybe big societal changes! Maybe weird vampire stuff! I'm pretty flexible. :)
<\/a>
- Seaquest [TV]<\/li>
I know I keep saying this, but I was really very obsessed with this. (I really didn't have hobbies besides obsessing over TV in middle school). I loved Lucas. I really loved Darwin. I loved the first two seasons more than the third, um, I loved it all. I loved O'Neill, and Captain Bridger, I think I loved everyone in the first two seasons.
- X-Men: The Animated Series (1992) [TV]<\/li>
Just seeing the words makes the theme song start playing through my head. I loved this show to bits. I super shipped Rogue\/Gambit as a little preteen. It was possibly my earliest ship! If you don't like that, maybe just a Rogue vid? I loved her so very much.
Nothing wrong with Charles\/Magneto, of course. I was also fond of Wolverine and Storm, less so of Jubilee and and Cyclops and Jean Grey. I liked the Mystique of this incarnation. Oh, and Mystique and Rogue!
Follow you heart! Thank you!
<\/ol>
So what do I like?
I like deep, meta vids, I did media studies in college and I love thinking hard.
I also like vids that are just full of pretty visuals, especially with really strong colors.
Comedy, also good! Things about friendships and other relationships, I'm a sucker
for them! Sentimental and sappy is usually okay, I am a sucker for it.
Action is cool too! I really don't have any big \"No\"s, I just like things. :)
Old letters:
one where I talk about music: http:\/\/laura47.livejournal.com\/1191525.html<\/a>
http:\/\/laura47.livejournal.com\/1248772.html<\/a>
http:\/\/laura47.livejournal.com\/1191525.html<\/a>
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You can read my story here: http:\/\/archiveofourown.org\/works\/1095609<\/a>
It's 7300 words and I'm actually quite proud of it. It's called \"Grace and Sally\" and all you need to know is this tiny comic:
![](\"https:\/\/imgprx.livejournal.net\/07e543d02adf979f3a36adc0ba6bf0928966d96b469e335709812828c62bbceb\/P2WlxyVijxKgh2ts9sZSUkMdsf-ah7h0jRrMSrdXhtGd5w3Zl823RkkpDQhjC0BzulBqkWrOYgJUNGVUrUkp7F8d0yLAadbUvQoergFmaA8:3mY82LFsRB-V27rmPJ2i7Q\")
If anyone knows the original author of the comic pleeeeease tell me!
This story really flowed once I decided what I was doing. I had SO MANY IDEAS and decided to just start writing a few with write or die\/written kitten and see what stuck. As usual, I hid out from my family on Christmas Eve trying to finish, but this time, Peter was with me so I abandoned him to my brother's inlaws. :) I went for a stealth crossover - in the first draft I mentioned in in the first paragraph (it was a cheesy paragraph to get me started), and I know I would have gotten more hits if I'd tagged it, but I liked the surprise. Trying to decide if I should tag it now, thoughts?
Anyway, I think it's a sweet story, and I hope you'll give it a look. :)
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\"They have called this day the eleventh of March! And whomsoever of you gets through this day, unless you are shot in the head or somehow slain, you will stand at tiptoe when e\u2019er you hear the name again! And you will get excited at the name March the eleventh! We happy few, we few, we band of brothers. Our names will be as like household names! And those who are not here, be they sleeping or doing something else, they will feel themselves sort of crappy! Because they are not here to join the fight on this day the eleventh of March!\"
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- I want lots of families with interesting interactions, and ideally strong family characters, or at least stereotypes<\/li>
- I want lots of love plots, and potentially a tension between arranged marriages and love marriages<\/li>
- I want politics, but it doesn't have to be as high epic as civil war or choosing a king<\/li>
- I probably want 20-40 characters. I want to try writing a big game again<\/li>
- This is where it gets hard: I don't want a super patriarchal society. I could possibly AU an existing society to be more gender equal. But... fuck that, why should every game that has the things I already listed be gender fucked? I want to play a game like that and play a woman and not be fighting against gender expectations if I want to have agency beyond family matters. <\/li>
- I have a much weaker preference towards a setting without a lot of religion, or a chill and non-contentious religion. <\/li>
- I'd like there to be other interesting world building to grab onto, but also some negative space for me to add things.<\/li><\/ul>So, anyone have any ideas?
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<\/a>mllelaurel<\/b><\/a><\/span> at \u00a1Fiestaval! Brandeis Festival of the LARPs 2014 <\/a>Originally posted by <\/a>staystrong62805<\/b><\/a><\/span> at \u00a1Fiestaval! Brandeis Festival of the LARPs 2014 <\/a>Originally posted by <\/a>in_water_writ<\/b><\/a><\/span> at \u00a1Fiestaval! Brandeis Festival of the LARPs 2014 <\/a>Originally posted by <\/a>in_water_writ<\/b><\/a><\/span> at \u00a1Fiestaval! Brandeis Festival of the LARPs 2014<\/a>
Larpers! You are cordially invited to a Fiestaval!<\/div>¡Fiestaval! is the ninth Festival of the LARPs, an annual LARP convention held at Brandeis University.<\/div>
Bids are open! Bid your game now HERE<\/a><\/b>.<\/div>
Registration for the convention is open! Register now at 2014.festivalofthelarps.com<\/a><\/b>!<\/div>
Registration is free and open to the general public. Limited crash space is available upon request.<\/div>
This year, Festival sign-ups will be tiered.<\/div>
On Tuesday, March 18th<\/b> you can sign up for one game at 7pm.<\/div>On Wednesday, March 19th<\/b> you can sign up for up to two games at 7pm.<\/div>On
I'm going to copy in what I wrote last year, it's not changed. :)
well, i unexpectedly fell hard for canon het (good job Naomi)? i would adore something there, of any rating. especially higher ratings. :)
If you're not interested in that, i loooove plotty gen (or any plotty stuff). so much! i got into fandom as a wee child who had zero interest in sex or romance, so that's actually where my roots are. Agnieszka's future, Kasia's adventures in her new life, Alosha past, future, or present, basically anything expanding on what we saw in the book.
I love time travel and intrigue! I love world building! I love detailed intimate relationship building! (Not necessarily sexual, but intimate.)
i'm really into the-importance-of-platonic-female-friendship in this book, like sobbing hysterically over it, so (oddly! very oddly!) i am not interested in romantic\/sexual Agnieszka\/Kasia. (Believe me, no one is more surprised than I am.)
I have never said this before, but I would totally be happy with babies! Or kids! Whether growing their own or acquiring kids in some other ways or adventures in babysititng. Also domesticity sounds fun. Hijinks, sitcom stuff, wacky misunderstandings, elaborate ruses, all great. Fairly serious stuff about dealing with the complexity of their relationship and their lives, also great! Or stuff around fertility. I'm not squicked by anything involving pregnancy and childbirth.
- sex is good! I've never really asked for sex (or babies!) in yuletide, so i guess i should list kinks I'm not super into? bodily fluid related kink is the main one, any kind of permament bodily modification, and maybe stay away from temporary stuff? (Magic stuff related to this is probably not going to set me off in the same way.) Magic sex is *great*. I adore the possibilities set up in the (small amount!) of sexual content we got in the book. :) Anything that is generally cosidered kind of light-to-middle-ground kink is probably fine. :) I beta read this fic last year and loved every bit of it: http:\/\/archiveofourown.org\/works\/5512190<\/a> This one wasn't sex but I also beta read it and loved it. :) http:\/\/archiveofourown.org\/works\/5482808<\/a> That's all I've read though - I see there's been a bunch more, but I'm not going to read that before this yuletide for sure. :)
Please no AUs, graphic violence, slavery, miscarriage (unless tagged, i just don't want to be surprised), or sexual assault.
Stranger Things <\/h2>
First off, please don't worry about Stranger Things 2 if you want to write before that! I am very happy to read post-season one fic that is not canon compliant!
I have not actually ready any other ST fic, so please don't be worried about fanon or things that feel repetitive to you if it's what strikes your fancy - it will be new to me!
I love plot! I love character studies! I love scientific ethics! I love d&d and kids and sad kids who have never had any love in their lives. I love eggos! I love weird metaphysics, I love the upside down, i love pretty much everything about this show. well, sometimes it was too scary >.< But that's a audio\/visual thing, I don't get scared in the same way from writing.
(BTW I really really love time travel!)
Characters: I feel like pretty much everyone has something interesting to explore, except maybe Steve's shitty friends? :) I don't know how much I care about their inner lives ;-)
Crossposted from Dreamwidth. Most commenting still happens on LJ. https:\/\/laura47.dreamwidth.org\/1091581.html<\/a>","comments":"https:\/\/laura47.livejournal.com\/1301820.html?view=comments#comments","category":["dear yuletide author","yuletide","dear yulegoat"]},{"guid":"https:\/\/laura47.livejournal.com\/1296309.html","pubDate":"Mon, 10 Oct 2016 06:48:28 GMT","title":"Dear Yuletide Author!","author":"laura47","link":"https:\/\/laura47.livejournal.com\/1296309.html","description":"
THIS IS ACTUALLY EXPANDED FROM MY AO3 SIGNUP.<\/b> Just adding in to
that form here on LJ felt like a good way to format it. This is where the real details live!
You can check out my previous letters if you like, anything about prefrences is almost
certainly still true. (2013 is deeply useless, please skip that one, heh. http:\/\/laura47.livejournal.com\/tag\/dear%20yulegoat<\/a>
Request 1 by laura47<\/h4>Fandom:<\/span>Loki: Agent of Asgard<\/a><\/h5>
- No rating<\/span><\/span><\/a><\/li>
- Choose Not To Use Archive Warnings<\/span><\/span><\/a><\/li>
- No category<\/span><\/span><\/a><\/li>
- Request Unfulfilled<\/span><\/span><\/a><\/li>
<\/ul>10 Oct 2016<\/p><\/div>
Tags<\/h6><\/ul>Summary<\/h6>The bullet points below are what I wrote in 2015, when I was... maybe halfway through Agent of Asgard?
Since then, I've finished AoA, read the first two of the political "Vote Loki" miniseries, and a tiny bit of things with Jane!Thor. I'm holding off on anymore, including finishing "Vote Loki", for now. Comics are complicated when characters keep going. Everything from Kieron Gillen is magic and wonderful and 100% "my Loki." :) Having finished AoA, yup, that's "my Loki" too, with the twists along the way. Post that... well, when does a character change creators and identity enough to just be a different character? Because I loved JMS's Thor run, but that Loki is not quite "my Loki"? And with the way Loki changes and recreates, they are rather well suited to a kind of formalized "different Loki" - because JitM kid Loki is of course very different from later kid Loki etc. So, what does this all mean? I'm not even sure, dear author, I'm not even sure. I love where AoA left Loki, with the changes and the gender and the stories, and I'd love to go from there. You can absolutely continue with where the new authors take Loki if that feels good and right to you - if you do so, can you please leave an author's note on what I should read for context? I will go read it right away, including things that aren't in Unlimited yet, I'll just buy the regular digital copy.
Okay from there I can probably just toss you back into last year's notes. :) Oh, my only fic loki is still astolat's loki, if you want any other Loki inspiration or what not.<\/div>
- This is the comic-line that got me to actually be a regular comics reader. I heard "bisexual" and "gender fluid" and "Loki" and I picked up a digital subscription, started reading, and was just really kind of confused about backstory and wandered off. Then awhile later I picked up a Marvel Unlimited subscription, started with the JMS run of Thor because I'm a big Babylon 5 fan, and next thing you know I was all over comics. :) I finished Journey Into Mystery months ago and I still get upset when I think about it. I'm not currently caught up on Agent of Asgard, but I will be well before Christmas. (I'm trying to read everything that feels relevant in Axis and I just get so bogged down in these crossover events I give up. But this is the perfect motivation to get me back on track!)<\/span><\/li>
- I'm particularly into gender and sexuality and fluidity thereof, and questions of identity, and what it means to be good or evil or ethical or moral<\/span><\/li>
- Speaking of identity, I think undoing what JiM did at the end would probably be too... too much, in some way? I sometimes things that are "fix it fic" just become stuck in my head as my canon and then it's hard to continue on with the original source. I would love if that hadn't had to happen, but since it did... but, if you wind up with some kind of complicated reality rewriting time travel complicated thing, and it's culmination of something big, do what you think is right. I just don't know how I would feel about just starting with "that never happened" or something like that. And at this point, things have gotten so complicated with identity that... I don't even know. (Sorry this is my most rambly and emotionally confused yuletide request ever.)<\/span><\/li>
- I did come at this as a Loki movie fan, so you are free to have that as an inspiration if you like, but movie Loki's got nothing on this one. I do wish we could just have a tv show with Hiddleston going through this, but he'd never have the time. ah well. Pretty much the only Loki fic I've read is astolat's, and that is a different Loki than this, but if I have a headcanon for movie Loki, it's that, for whatever that says.<\/span><\/li>
- I think Odin's a shitty father and a shitty ruler and I'd prefer not to deal with him at length, though if you have something you think is awesome, that is critical of their relationships and does something interesting, go for it. You can do pretty much anything you want with Thor except go for the worst versions of Thor as a oafish goon jock who never thinks. You don't need to include Thor, or you could make this all an exploration of Thor and Loki's relationship. Honestly there's no one that I would be heartbroken if they weren't included. I'm particularly fond of Hela, and Verity.<\/span><\/li>
- You can throw Loki into the rest of the marvel comics universe (whatever the hell that is these days, or previous days), you can have Loki writing slash like he mentioned back in the first issue, you can... send Loki to Mars? I'm really really flexible about setting is what I'm saying. :) I don't know about full on AU, but feel free to change things around.<\/span><\/li>
- 2016 note: My other requests say "Please no AUs, graphic violence, slavery, miscarriage (unless tagged, i just don't want to be surprised), or sexual assault." I'm actually more okay with those things here, but please tag them. And see above about AUs - not really looking for a coffeeshop AU, but something where AoA Loki is playing around with fic tropes and the idea of a coffeshop AU which still being "my Loki" is totally okay. Have fun!<\/li>
<\/ul>
If by some chance you haven't read kid Loki and would like to, (or anyone else reading this) here's a guide: http:\/\/journey-into-mystery.tumbl<\/a><\/span>r.com\/post\/30097993112\/kidlokiguide It's all on Marvel Unlimited, and I think you get a month for $10? I would totally reimburse you for a couple months of that afterwards, if that's not weird? If that's weird, forget I asked. :)<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote><\/p><\/li>
Request 2 by laura47<\/h4>Fandom:<\/span>Uprooted - Naomi Novik<\/a><\/h5>
- No rating<\/span><\/span><\/a><\/li>
- Choose Not To Use Archive Warnings<\/span><\/span><\/a><\/li>
- No category<\/span><\/span><\/a><\/li>
- Request Unfulfilled<\/span><\/span><\/a><\/li>
<\/ul>10 Oct 2016<\/p><\/div>
Tags<\/h6><\/ul>Summary<\/h6>well, i unexpectedly fell hard for canon het (good job naomi)? i would adore something there, of any rating. especially higher ratings. :)<\/p>
If you're not interested in that, i loooove plotty gen (or any plotty stuff). so much! i got into fandom as a wee child who had zero interest in sex or romance, so that's actually where my roots are. Agnieszka's future, Kasia's adventures in her new life, Alosha past, future, or present, i'll try to add more ideas in my letter. :)<\/p>
I love time travel and intrigue! I love world building! I love detailed intimate relationship building! (Not necessarily sexual, but intimate.)<\/p>
i'm really into the-importance-of-platonic-female-friendship in this book, like sobbing hysterically over it, so (oddly! very oddly!) i am not interested in romantic\/sexual Agnieszka\/Kasia. (Believe me, no one is more surprised than I am.)
Borrowing a bit from my Sense8 request, but while I'm not all about "oh yeah i want wacky baby fic" in this situation, I would totally be okay with it, so here is what I said there: "I have never said this before, but I would totally be happy with babies! Or kids! Whether growing their own or acquiring kids in some other ways or adventures in babysititng. Also domesticity sounds fun. Hijinks, sitcom stuff, wacky misunderstandings, elaborate ruses, all great. Fairly serious stuff about dealing with the complexity of their relationship and their lives, also great! Or stuff around fertility. I'm not squicked by anything involving pregnancy and childbirth."
- sex is good! I've never really asked for sex (or babies!) in yuletide, so i guess i should list kinks I'm not super into? bodily fluid related kink is the main one, any kind of permament bodily modification, and maybe stay away from temporary stuff? (Magic stuff related to this is probably not going to set me off in the same way.) Magic sex is *great*. I adore the possibilities set up in the (small amount!) of sexual content we got in the book. :) Anything that is generally cosidered kind of light-to-middle-ground kink is probably fine. :) I beta read this fic last year and loved every bit of it: http:\/\/archiveofourown.org\/works\/5512190<\/a> This one wasn't sex but I also beta read it and loved it. :) <\/span>http:\/\/archiveofourown.org\/works\/5482808<\/a> That's all I've read though - I see there's been a bunch more since last yuletide, but I'm not going to read that anytime soon. :)<\/span><\/p>Please no AUs, graphic violence, slavery, miscarriage (unless tagged, i just don't want to be surprised), or sexual assault.<\/p>
<\/p><\/blockquote><\/li>
Request 3 by laura47<\/h4>Fandom:<\/span>Sense8 (TV)<\/a><\/h5>
- No rating<\/span><\/span><\/a><\/li>
- Choose Not To Use Archive Warnings<\/span><\/span><\/a><\/li>
- No category<\/span><\/span><\/a><\/li>
- Request Unfulfilled<\/span><\/span><\/a><\/li>
<\/ul>10 Oct 2016<\/p><\/div>
Tags<\/h6>
- Daniela Velasquez<\/a><\/li>
- Lito Rodriguez<\/a><\/li>
<\/ul>Summary<\/h6>(If you're wondering why Hernando isn't on the list, it's because AO3 wouldn't let me select him and I decided to just move on. Obviously this means you don't *have* to include him, but I would certainly like it. :) )
So, these three! I love them. :) I want them to be happy, at least in the end.
To jump to the awkward parts!
- Everyone except Hernando behaved poorly in some ways in season one. (Hernando is literally perfect, best I can tell.) Daniela was super inappropriate in filming them, and Lito was shitty in letting her suffer for him. I don't want to excuse that, but I certainly don't need to dwell on it. Or even mention it, necessarily?
- Also, sexuality, it's a thing. You do not have to do anything sexual or dealing with sexual identity, but if you do, I am totally find with sexuality being a complicated fluid thing. People's actions don't define their sexual identity - asexuals can have sex and still be asexual, monosexual people can have homosexual experiences and still be monosexual. So I would be totally fine with some kind of sexuality between Daniela and either Hernando or Lito, with that have no real effect on their identity, deciding maybe they are bi or homoflexible, anything *except* "oh now i'm heterosexual". Oof, no. To summarize - no sex or sexual identity is fine, but if you do that, I am very flexible, with anything except "sudden heterosexuality". :)
Now, what is less awkward! Hopefully, eventually, these three! To start off, YOU CAN DO BASICALLY ANYTHING YOU WANT. I want you to have fun! But here's some general guidelines, which are only guidelines, not rules. We good there? :)
- I'm okay with working in stuff with the other 7, or not. They can swap in for periods of time, or be hanging out offering advice or snark or commentary, or (consesual) voyeurism or even (consensual) body hoping during sex or something like The Big Orgy. (which i believe was the first scene they shot for Lito? Mercy!) The three of them can run off to be physically with some or all of the rest of them, go on adventures, be part of a big ensemble piece, as long as they get a good chunk of the focus. (And if you want to write something very long, I am fine with it just being a good chunk of time in word count, and not necessarily total percentage. Like, if you wrote 30,000 words or something wild, I would not need it to be 20,000 about these three!)
- I would like for them to have some happy time post season 1, and a generally happy ending? Not "the season finale ends and then suddenly they all get arrested" or something. Angst and drama is fine in there, especially if it's a longer piece.
- Like so many fangirls, I love found\/chosen family.
- I have never said this before, but I would totally be happy with babies! Or kids! Whether growing their own or acquiring kids in some other ways or adventures in babysititng. Also domesticity sounds fun. Hijinks, sitcom stuff, wacky misunderstandings, elaborate ruses, all great. Fairly serious stuff about dealing with the complexity of their relationship and their lives, also great! Or stuff around fertility. I'm not squicked by anything involving pregnancy and childbirth.
- I'm not jonesing for "Lito is outed and it's horrible", but if that's the thing you're most inspired by, go for it. I'm not sure how I feel about the lesser version of "coming out to parents and it's horrible forever." I'm totally down for the three of them trying to have friends individually - i like the three of them together, but I'm generally a fan of people having friendships outside their relationships. :) Which risks getting outed, but well. I'm also okay with "Lito got outed and it sucked but they are moving on with their lives." Maybe he's making smaller films and happy, maybe they are living off his money and he's doing local theater, maybe he's not even acting right now.
- sex is good! I've never really asked for sex (or babies!) in yuletide, so i guess i should list kinks I'm not super into? bodily fluid related kink is the main one, any kind of permament bodily modification, and maybe stay away from temporary stuff? Anything that is generally cosidered kind of light-to-middle-ground kink is probably fine. :)
- Please no AUs, graphic violence, slavery, miscarriage (unless tagged, i just don't want to be surprised), or sexual assault.<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote><\/li>
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15-25 October - Signups
15 January - Submission deadline
28 January - Go live
details here: http:\/\/festivids.livejournal.com\/113619.html<\/a>\n\nCrossposted from Dreamwidth. Most commenting still happens on LJ. http:\/\/laura47.dreamwidth.org\/1085406.html","comments":"https:\/\/laura47.livejournal.com\/1295520.html?view=comments#comments","category":["festivids","vidding","vids"]},{"guid":"https:\/\/laura47.livejournal.com\/1292593.html","pubDate":"Thu, 09 Jun 2016 03:17:40 GMT","title":"[fic] Asking for a friend...","author":"laura47","link":"https:\/\/laura47.livejournal.com\/1292593.html","description":"anyone ever read any good bsg fic? it was one of those fandoms where i never read fic, and a friend wants some :)
also, what are the big f\/f ships these days?
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* do you have a better term for non-digital? I don't. here's what they say on what types of games people write. "Historically most Game Chef games have been tabletop roleplaying games or live action games, but innovative designers like you are constantly breaking down and re-envisioning the divisions between different types of games (board games, card games, roleplaying games, live action games, etc.) Feel free to push the boundaries of what counts as a roleplaying game, an analog game, or a game."<\/span><\/p>\n\nCrossposted from Dreamwidth. Most commenting still happens on LJ. http:\/\/laura47.dreamwidth.org\/1081891.html","comments":"https:\/\/laura47.livejournal.com\/1292211.html?view=comments#comments"},{"guid":"https:\/\/laura47.livejournal.com\/1286655.html","pubDate":"Mon, 18 Jan 2016 10:37:51 GMT","title":"Festivids Reveal!","author":"laura47","link":"https:\/\/laura47.livejournal.com\/1286655.html","description":"
"All This and Heaven Too", Inside Out, for Festivids 2015-2016<\/a> from Laura 47<\/a> on Vimeo<\/a>.<\/p>
Download from dropbox: https:\/\/www.dropbox.com\/s\/p5u7w1pohajn9k6\/laura47%20signed%20inside%20out%20all%20this%20and%20heaven%20too%20festivids%202015-2016.mp4?dl=0<\/a>
I swore after last year I was just going to make happy action vids, likely to animated movies, because my Lego Movie vid was so much less stressful to make than previous years and it was well received.
And Inside Out seemed like a great source to offer.
BUT ALL THE FEELINGS. It is, of course, literally *about* feelings in the most literal sense possible, but somehow I just offered it anyway, even though I cried watching it in a theater. I wound up making something very emotional for me, and apparently it's hit some viewers emotionally as well. There wasn't anyway to vid this that wasn't going to be emotional, by definition, so I felt a bit silly, but I'm quite happy with where it all went!
I was quite aways into the process of this vid when I realized I was confused about what the vid was about, because that's how my creative processed works sometimes. :) I started out thinking I was making a vid about the importance of lower-case-s sadness, then i realized I was making a vid about the importance of sadness and Joy coming to understand that, then I scrapped some stuff and added more Joy because clearly it was about Joy, Sadness, and Joy understanding the importance of sadness and also Sadness, and also also Sadness understanding the importance of S\/sadness. Then, awhile after that, I realized I was ridiculous and the feeling I never knew existed before was the joy-and-sadness feeling (i put literally clips down and went WAIT THAT'S THE THING I may have shouted, my spouse and friends are used to it). So the vid was actually about Joy, Sadness, Joy understanding sadness, Joy understanding Sadness, I'm losing track of things but also joy-and-sadness, lowercase. Which is terirbly amusing for me, because my little nephew loves this movie and calls it \"joy and sadness\" instead of the proper name. Adorably, my mom was using the context of the movie to try and talk to him about what his dad might be feeling, attending the football game we were watching. If this movie helps kids talk about feelings and develop empathy a bit better or a bit sooner, then booyah. :)
As for the song, I just didn't know what to do, and I asked various friends to make suggestions for me.I'd been asking for songs that felt both sad and then happy, and all sorts of complicated things, and really was thinking about it in the wrong way. I was driving over to <\/a>shati<\/b><\/a><\/span>'s house for vidding, having done more clipping and arranging than I'd ever done before because I was still songless, and I made a playlist of all the songs people had suggested to listen to in the car. And then I clicked on a playlist I'd been working on for a LARP character, and this song came on, and I said to myself \"Yes Laura, you've wanted to do a Florence vid all along, you've even thought about this song in passing but thought you couldn't pull it off, and it's time to just make the vid you want to make.\" So of course I think got external validation of a my closest advisors saying it could work, and that's how I found my song. :)
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And gives me things I've always wanted.
IT'S SO GOOD AND I CAN'T STOP THINKING ABOUT IT ALSO DREAMING ABOUT IT.
places to buy it: http:\/\/www.naominovik.com\/2014\/09\/pre-order-uprooted-by-naomi-novik\/
I've never regretted not requesting something for yuletide this much.
I actually stopped so I could prolong the experience of the book. And because I decided I couldn't read it on amtrak with someone next to me, given the things i was likely to feel, and i cried reading it on the previous amtrak trip (with no seatmate)
I am reading on kindle and own three hardcover copies for my spouse and lending out. well, one is still in the mail.
sequel: "“It’s not out of the question but not currently planned either!”" <\/strong>http:\/\/www.naominovik.com\/2015\/08\/ask-naomi-will-you-write-a-sequel-to-uprooted\/<\/span><\/font>
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* i did check her livejournal to confirm she's not hiding her identity anymore. I'm so happy she can be published and so successful while still writing the fic she does. :-D
“Wild, thrilling, and deeply, darkly magical. An instant classic.”—Lev Grossman<\/span>, #1 New York Times<\/em> bestselling author of the Magicians Trilogy<\/em><\/p>“Reading Uprooted was like rediscovering a favorite old sweater, familiar and beloved. It feels as if it has always existed and has been waiting patiently for me to return to it.”—Maggie Stiefvater<\/span>, #1 New York Times<\/em> bestselling author of the Shiver Trilogy<\/em><\/p>“Uprooted is one of those tales you come back to over and over again because it’s just that enchanting. The adventure builds with such tension that you are peeking through your hands at the end, hoping it will all be okay, and Naomi Novik delivers a conclusion that’s deeply satisfying, earning a permanent space on my bookshelf that I’ll revisit often.”—Kevin Hearne<\/span>, New York Times<\/em> bestselling author of Shattered<\/strong><\/p>“Magical and practical, otherworldly and planted in the real, I could not stop reading this book and neither will you!”—Tamora Pierce<\/span>, New York Times<\/em> bestselling author of Trickster’s Choice<\/strong> and Trickster’s Queen<\/strong><\/p>“Uprooted by Naomi Novik is enchanting, in every sense of that fine old word. A charming and inviting story that looks unflinchingly at the strangling roots of hurt and revenge.”—Robin Hobb<\/span>, bestselling author of Fool’s Assassin<\/strong><\/p>
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Requests:
Gattaca (1997) [Movie]<\/h3>This movie gives me chills. I am huge SF fan, and especially about the societal effects of new technology and science and stuff like that. I found it visually striking as well. I am pretty happy with anything - if this is what you matched on, you might want to check back later, I hope to rewatch it? Which is horribly vague and you don't have to. :) But it's been a few years. One time I saw it at a SF marathon and someone broken down so much at the ending that they had to be helped out of the theater, and I don't blame them. I hate the injustice of the society, of course.
Jane The Virgin [TV]<\/h3>[I am not caught up but I will be! As I write this I'm on 1x16, I think.]
I feel like I should just jump to the love plot question right off, by saying I'm team Rafael (as of 1x16), but all that means is that I'd prefer not to get an actual Jane\/Michael shipping vid. And sadly, I can't believe any of them pulling off poly, sigh. But otherwise, I have no bans on any characters. I'm generally happy with most things except that one listed above. I'll just go through some characters, eh?
Jane: I love Jane to itty bitty little pieces (wait that phrase is so weird, huh). I love how she has wacky adventures and misunderstanding but they mostly come from such a good place. I want no one to ever lie to her or hurt her in anyway. I don't wish ill on anymore, but I want nothing but perfect happiness for all of the Villanueva women. I love how real and complex all of her feelings and struggles are, I love how she's so different from most TV characters, I love how despite living very different lives and having many different values, I adore the hell out of her. I love her passion for writing, and for teaching, and for the idea of romance without being an idiot about it. :)
Xiomara: I just want to hug her and tell her she's a good mom. I love all of her flaws, and how aware she is of them, and her relationship with...herself, really, and all her actions and history and family and lovers (and not many friends, huh). The way she falls into being a child fighting with her mother and her desperate desire to be perfect for Jane and how she wants to support Jane but also fears her making bad decisions, how she can still pursue her dreams after so many years of not making it, I just love her.
Alba: See, somehow, despite coming from a Catholic family and being a bitter ex-Catholic athiest and hating Catholic sex shaming more than most things in the world, I still love Alba. Which is just a testament to so much about this show and the characters. She just wants the best for her family, and misses her husband, and is still a little scared of America,and is scared of being deported (does she have a doctor who ignores her immigration status, or has she just not had medical care in decades, god I don't even know how this works, it's not like I'm not angry about immigration policies at least weekly but thisjust breaks my heart all over again.)
Michael: okay, while i understand hating Rafael for being with the woman he loves, I can't abide by his actions there. One of my biggest issues with various fiction is that cops breaking the law or abusing their authority or skipping search warrants or mistreating suspects if a huge huge problem for me. I made it through literally one episode of Hawaii Five-O, for instance. There was shark cage involved. Knowing as an audience that someone is guilty changes nothing, and makes me angry on a meta level because I'm sure it influences people to being more okay with police misconduct when they totally look guilty (or were convicted or confessed or anything.) And don't even get me started on torture, the point is I have issues there so if we could avoid any scenes of even mild police misconduct that would be awesome. :) Otherwise, I get why he was lying to Jane about Petra, but I'd probably dump someone over that, when it was about something as huge as the future happiness of my child, so I can't fault Jane and don't like what he did. But! He's often sweet and caring and he loves Jane and i don't wish ill on him (I keep saying these things as if I have any say, I think it's the soapy nature of the show, drawing me in.)
Rafael: Also far from perfect, but he is, as a friend of a friend said, "disney prince handsome". Like just look at him. And he's trying so hard to make up for who he was, and, like, okay so much with Luisa. (where i am she recently ran off with Rose.) He loved her and trusted her enough to risk everything he had financially (which he was working so hard on to get his father's approval and prove himself) to give her what she needed to get her life on track. In that little bit in the first episode before everything goes down, you can see such closeness between them, and it really breaks his heart the way she fucks up. And then he's too quick to send her away after she comes back, but honestly it looked really terrible. If this were fic I'd want sibling stuff maybe, didn't realize this till i wrote this paragraph, ha. tl;dr: i am well aware of rafael's flaws but like him anyway, because this show writes good characters.
Luisa: Oh, how they handled mental health and the institution was not my favorite, you can include parts if you do a Luisa vid because it's important but I'd prefer those scenes not be handled as comedy, despite what the show did?
Rose: I dunno, she's a pretty terrible person, but somehow I want her and Luisa to be happy, while what i should be wanting is luisa to have an actually reasonable relationship. I blame Bridget Regan and her acting. Also her face. (Blew my mind when i realized she was Dottie and Kahlan.)
Petra: Damn, I did not expect to come around on her so much. I still don't like how she treats people sometimes, but I have a lot of sympathy for her and long term I'd like her to be stable in her own right and have a good balanced relationship and be able to chill out some. (I know this keeps sounding like a yuletide request, sorry! I don't expect you to construct anything here, I just wanted to talk about how I feel about them.)
Petra's Mom: I have no idea what her deal is. I'm expecting to see her back before the end of the season. ;-)
The Martian [Movie]<\/h3>I laughed, I cried, I reread the book, it was better than cats. In addition to being a huge SF fan about societal changes as mentioned above, I am passionate about space and extra-planetary exploration. The book was described as "engineering porn" and yes, absolutely. I have a bachelor of science in media studies, because my alma mater only gives out SBs, so i m not a scientist or engineer, but i have a basic background, and am surrounded by such people and am a huge fan.
I'm generally happy with anything, but some ideas:- the majesty of space travel<\/li>
- the triumph of the human spirit<\/li>
- being a clever bastard<\/li>
- just Mars herself<\/li>
- the NASA side of things!<\/li>
- the ares 3 crew<\/li>
- weird constructed reality with other damon roles? interstellar is the obvious one, but nothing pops there, and i found that character fairly heartbreaking actually. but especially given that jessica chastain was in that. If it inspires you, go for it!<\/li>
- something sciency! <\/li>
- overlaying quotes from the book or audio from the audiobook (which i really liked)<\/li><\/ul>but really, anything that inspires you. Instrumental music might be cool here, but only if you like that!
Ms. Marvel US (2014-) [Still Image]<\/h3>tl;dr: anything :)
ReBoot [TV]<\/h3>tl;dr: anything :)
Young Avengers [Still Image]<\/h3>i've only (so far) read the more recently one (2014? 2013?) comic, with Loki, but I'll go read earlier stuff before golive. I'm a big Loki fan, which is why I wound up there, but I really liked every one else. team feels, gay stuff, loki's sad story and character arc, whatever you like. bringing in other comics is 110% okay. if you do, can you please list the issues\/series used so i can read them? thank you ever so much.:) You can read some more about my Loki feels here: http:\/\/laura47.livejournal.com\/1282266.html
<\/div> <\/p>\n\nCrossposted from Dreamwidth. Most commenting still happens on LJ. http:\/\/laura47.dreamwidth.org\/1072159.html","comments":"https:\/\/laura47.livejournal.com\/1282368.html?view=comments#comments","category":"festivids"},{"guid":"https:\/\/laura47.livejournal.com\/1282266.html","pubDate":"Tue, 27 Oct 2015 05:39:17 GMT","title":"Dear Yuletide Author","author":"laura47","link":"https:\/\/laura47.livejournal.com\/1282266.html","description":"UPDATE: MORE JOE BIDEN CANON: http:\/\/www.theonion.com\/article\/biden-to-cool-his-heels-in-mexico-for-a-while-17996<\/a><\/strong>
Joe Biden as written by The Onion - <\/strong><\/span>
- oh my god I love this. I nominated it. No idea if anyone will offer it. :) Current Biden, Future Biden, maybe Biden as senator? I think being VP or former VP is funnier. Maybe he can just sort of refuse to leave after Obama's out? The Onion never mentions his wife (who is awesome) and I think that is actually probably for the best? A lot of his behavior would make for a shitty husband, and Jill doesn't deserve that. I'd prefer nothing about his recent family tragedy, because that's not funny. I guess this doesn't *have* to be funny? I'm not really sure how to make something serious out of this. :) They have been very ambiguous about backstory, whether he has all this history as a roadie and a pot dealer and also was a senator, or if this random dude just elected VP, i'm fine with either.<\/li>
- Crossovers are great, or something like "Joe Biden gets matched on pairing he hates in Yuletide" or "Joe Biden's cosplay disrupts convention masquerade", Joe Biden interacting with fannish things, or Joe Biden LARPing or Joe Biden doing pretty much anything?<\/li>
- You can write in any form that appeals, articles like the onion, or tweets, or tumblr, or just narrative, or epistolary, or, I dunno, college syllabus? that one probably doesn't make sense but hopefully demonstrates how open I am to ideas. :-) Basically, if your story is about TheOnion!JoeBiden, I'll likely be overjoyed. :)<\/li>
- Some of my favorites:<\/li>
<\/ul>http:\/\/www.theonion.com\/article\/biden-worries-legalized-weed-in-dc-will-cut-into-h-38210<\/a>
http:\/\/www.theonion.com\/article\/biden-arrives-early-to-set-up-state-of-the-union-f-37812<\/a>
http:\/\/www.theonion.com\/article\/biden-tossed-out-of-car-passing-by-white-house-37494<\/a>
http:\/\/www.theonion.com\/article\/biden-gets-grow-light-delivered-to-white-house-und-36597<\/a>
http:\/\/www.theonion.com\/article\/biden-loses-control-of-butterfly-knife-during-comm-36053<\/a>
http:\/\/www.theonion.com\/article\/frantic-biden-searching-dog-shelter-for-bo-look-al-35161<\/a>
http:\/\/www.theonion.com\/article\/biden-frantically-hitting-up-cabinet-members-for-c-34515<\/a>
http:\/\/www.theonion.com\/article\/nude-biden-wakes-up-on-cold-slab-in-dc-morgue-34243<\/a>
http:\/\/www.theonion.com\/article\/biden-has-guy-named-worm-sit-in-for-him-at-cabinet-33250<\/a>
http:\/\/www.theonion.com\/article\/biden-investigated-for-questionable-workers-comp-c-32571<\/a>
http:\/\/www.theonion.com\/article\/biden-working-his-way-through-scratch-off-tickets--30973<\/a>
Two Monks Inventing Things<\/strong>
- OMG you offered this! Or maybe I'm on pinch hits or you're browsing letters. If the latter, well, this is a series of humor pieces at The Toast. It's a quick read! The concept is that two monks are creating works of art, and... it's hilarious? They exist sort of out of time and space, creating works of art and encouraging each other to make weird decisions. Mallory, the author, is clearly someone with a lot of humanities education, much like myself. :)<\/span>
It's here: <\/span>http:\/\/the-toast.net\/tag\/two-monks-inventing-things\/<\/a>
Reading any one will let you know if you like this kind of thing, I expect.<\/span>
What do I want? Anything.<\/span>
* Monks inventing something not art - shoes, operating systems, far future civilizations, dystopias, media. It's a great format to lovingly call out the flaws\/weird decisions of something you love, if you have an idea, run with it. (If you're concerned you might be being obscure and you want to include explanatory links on top that would be rad, I'll read things! [ [edit: eek there's a new one i hadn't seen, about the inventing church denominations! INVENT ALL THE THINGS]<\/span>
* Monks inventing art - more of the same, or different art! Modern art? Fanart? That could be fun<\/span>
* A serious character study about the lives of these monks, whether in one time and place or bouncing all over. Are they immortal? Are they archetypes? Are they trapped in church bureaucracy that makes them effectively immortal? Are they positions passed down throughout the ages? Are they in love? Do they just sort of exist with little awareness that they are living through different times and places? ARE THEY COMPUTER SIMULATIONS? Don't worry about getting too weird for me!!! I like weird.<\/span>
* Crazy world building? GO FOR IT. SERIOUSLY. <\/span>
HAVE FUN AND INVENT THINGS<\/span><\/li>
<\/ul>Loki: Agent of Asgard
- This is the comic-line that got me to actually be a regular comics reader. I heard "bisexual" and "gender fluid" and "Loki" and I picked up a digital subscription, started reading, and was just really kind of confused about backstory and wandered off. Then awhile later I picked up a Marvel Unlimited subscription, started with the JMS run of Thor because I'm a big Babylon 5 fan, and next thing you know I was all over comics. :) I finished Journey Into Mystery months ago and I still get upset when I think about it. I'm not currently caught up on Agent of Asgard, but I will be well before Christmas. (I'm trying to read everything that feels relevant in Axis and I just get so bogged down in these crossover events I give up. But this is the perfect motivation to get me back on track!)<\/span><\/li>
- I'm particularly into gender and sexuality and fluidity thereof, and questions of identity, and what it means to be good or evil or ethical or moral<\/span><\/li>
- Speaking of identity, I think undoing what JiM did at the end would probably be too... too much, in some way? I sometimes things that are "fix it fic" just become stuck in my head as my canon and then it's hard to continue on with the original source. I would love if that hadn't had to happen, but since it did... but, if you wind up with some kind of complicated reality rewriting time travel complicated thing, and it's culmination of something big, do what you think is right. I just don't know how I would feel about just starting with "that never happened" or something like that. And at this point, things have gotten so complicated with identity that... I don't even know. (Sorry this is my most rambly and emotionally confused yuletide request ever.)<\/span><\/li>
- I did come at this as a Loki movie fan, so you are free to have that as an inspiration if you like, but movie Loki's got nothing on this one. I do wish we could just have a tv show with Hiddleston going through this, but he'd never have the time. ah well. Pretty much the only Loki fic I've read is astolat's, and that is a different Loki than this, but if I have a headcanon for movie Loki, it's that, for whatever that says. <\/span><\/li>
- I think Odin's a shitty father and a shitty ruler and I'd prefer not to deal with him at length, though if you have something you think is awesome, that is critical of their relationships and does something interesting, go for it. You can do pretty much anything you want with Thor except go for the worst versions of Thor as a oafish goon jock who never thinks. You don't need to include Thor, or you could make this all an exploration of Thor and Loki's relationship. Honestly there's no one that I would be heartbroken if they weren't included. I'm particularly fond of Hela, and Verity. <\/span><\/li>
- You can throw Loki into the rest of the marvel comics universe (whatever the hell that is these days, or previous days), you can have Loki writing slash like he mentioned back in the first issue, you can... send Loki to Mars? I'm really really flexible about setting is what I'm saying. :) I don't know about full of AU, but feel free to change things around. <\/span><\/li>
<\/ul>
If by some chance you haven't read kid Loki and would like to, (or anyone else reading this) here's a guide: http:\/\/journey-into-mystery.tumblr.com\/post\/30097993112\/kidlokiguide<\/a> It's all on Marvel Unlimited, and I think you get a month for $10?
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JUST WATCH HANNIBAL.
Guys I can't handle horror movies but I watch this. I look away and get by, there is rarely any jump horror, and it is all so worth it. Having now seen the finale, I knoooow some of you would love this more than your realize, I know the LARP characters you play and the fic you like and this is it. This is it and it is such beautiful art, I swear it is amazing and transcendent.
(and they stay away from sexual violence and dog killing as a rule, they rewrote a villain to take out any explicit sexual violence, its fucked up but they try really hard on those two. Probably want perfect, but it did make me feel safe in one way).
And relationship that goes with it, the person who brings out that darknes in you, and challenges you and makes you know yourself, however fucked up that is? The person who defines you and all you can do is figure out what you do with that? Yeah. Yeah.
I'm going to rewatch it, and maybe even vid it. I am not done with this story, hell it might wind up beating Utena for show I watch the most times. You want to try it but are intimidated or want company or whatever? Talk to me.
Hannibal. It's really as amazing as we act like it is.
Hannibal.
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I recently wasn't backing any kickstarters and didn't notice. This is only the second time that's been true since I started this all, and last time it made me feel all weird and unhappy. This time I didn't notice. This is probably better. I really love helping people produce cool things and live their dreams outside mainstream methods, which can really enforce dominant sorts of voices and not encourage diversity, so backing kickstarters really makes me feel happy, and that's why I'll back some for low amounts and no reward - I want my friends to see it on my backed list, and to up their numbers a little.
If you want my advice after all this kickstartering, it's this:
(1) No kickstarter is a guarantee or preorder. Treat it accordingly. You are investing in a (varingly) risky venture! Don't put any money if you can't afford to lose.
(2) Never look at dates. If you need something by a specific date, do *not* use kickstarter. If you never look at dates and so never expect things to be \"on time\" you will (almost certainly) be so much happier. I see creators begging people to stop being horrible to them because they, like hundreds of kickstarters before them, are stuck in customs limbo or can't communicate with Chinese suppliers, and I can't imagined what entitled jerks their backers are. Sure, some kickstarters squander resources and are jerks, but I have *never* seen that happen and I do have a decent sample size (though as we will see, it is limited to a few wedges of the kickstarter project type pie).
If you follow those two suggestions, I think it will really eliminate the majority of angst I see.
I'm intending to go chronologically, but here's a link to the only active one I've got, a horror tabletop roleplaying game. https:\/\/www.kickstarter.com\/projects\/shiftyginger\/ten-candles-a-tragic-horror-storytelling-game<\/a>
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http:\/\/laura47.dreamwidth.org\/1055730.html<\/a>
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I'm sorry, I'm having the worst week I've had all year, with a variety of unexpected crisises. I have plans to work on my letter with a friend on Saturday, my apologies! My old letters are probably useful?
Thank you!
Laura
Dear Yulegoat!
THANK YOU SO MUCH! I'm so glad you want to write something for something I requested. When in doubt, please don't worry, I'll be happy with pretty much anything. :)
Request 1 by laura47
Two Monks Inventing Things (The Toast)
Monk #2 (Two Monks Inventing Things) Monk #1 (Two Monks Inventing Things)
Summary
OMG you offered this! Or maybe I'm on pinch hits or you're browsing letters. If the latter, well, this is a series of humor pieces at The Toast. It's a quick read! The concept is that two monks are creating works of art, and... it's hilarious? They exist sort of out of time and space, creating works of art and encouraging each other to make weird decisions. Mallory, the author, is clearly someone with a lot of humanities education, much like myself. :)
It's here: http:\/\/the-toast.net\/tag\/two-monks-inventing-things\/<\/a>
Reading any one will let you know if you like this kind of thing, I expect.
What do I want? Anything.
* Monks inventing something not art - shoes, operating systems, far future civilizations, dystopias, media. It's a great format to lovingly call out the flaws\/weird decisions of something you love, if you have an idea, run with it. (If you're concerned you might be being obscure and you want to include explanatory links on top that would be rad, I'll read things! [ [edit: eek there's a new one i hadn't seen, about the inventing church denominations! INVENT ALL THE THINGS]
* Monks inventing art - more of the same, or different art! Modern art? Fanart? That could be fun
* A serious character study about the lives of these monks, whether in one time and place or bouncing all over. Are they immortal? Are they archetypes? Are they trapped in church bureaucracy that makes them effectively immortal? Are they positions passed down throughout the ages? Are they in love? Do they just sort of exist with little awareness that they are living through different times and places? ARE THEY COMPUTER SIMULATIONS? Don't worry about getting too weird for me!!! I like weird.
* Crazy world building? GO FOR IT.
HAVE FUN AND INVENT THINGS
Request 2 by laura47
Only Lovers Left Alive (2013)
Adam (Only Lovers Left Alive) Eve (Only Lovers Left Alive)
Summary
I loved the feel of the movie, the dreamy languid sense of it all, the way it didn't care about rushing through a plot, the sense that there's so much history we don't know about, all that negative space for fic writing.
I'd love some kind of chosen vampire family, or old school backstory. i love stories of long lived characters and how that affects their relationships, perspectives, and interactions with the world.
I'd love an AU where Ian gets turned instead of killed, I think that has amazing potential.
I'd also love post-movie fic, with Adam and Eve dealing with the consequences of turning the two young lovers, hopefully there's some anger and confusion and eventually a functional family.
Really I'm pretty into family. Making Ava more reasonable, on her own of because she turned Ian? You could do something a hundred years down the line, dealing with yet another world, new challenges, new family? Eventually technology tends makes it harder and harder to live in the margins and for people to hide their identities, which is clearly already complicated in the early 21st century. Maybe a reunion with old friends and family (who might be new friends and family at the time of the movie). Maybe big societal changes! Maybe weird vampire stuff! I'm pretty flexible. :)
Addition:<\/b>
Request 3 by laura47
The Birdcage (1996)
No rating
Choose Not To Use Archive Warnings
No category
Request Unfulfilled
20 Oct 2014Tags
Agador (The Birdcage) Val Goldman Armand Goldman Albert Goldman
Summary
I'd like some family fic, either set in the future, about the extended families of the Goldmans and inlaws, or maybe backstory about Val growing up and Armand and Albert figuring out their lives as fathers. I just want more of these characters, I would have requested more if more than 4 had been nominated, I love every character. Well, not the reporters. ;)
Addition:<\/b> Characters listed are really "Or", not "And", I don't mean to be restrictive!
Request 4 by laura47
Sleep No More - Punchdrunk
No rating
Choose Not To Use Archive Warnings
No category
Request Unfulfilled
20 Oct 2014Tags
Summary
I've seen this three times in Boston and New York and I have no idea how to write for it. Useless prompt, sorry! Go wherever your heart takes you! Stories within the established cannon, bringing in new shakespeare or gothic romance or whatever, weird meta things, I... whatever you want. :)
Addition:<\/b>
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Dear Festividder,
Thank you for making me a vid, or considering making me a vid if you're just passing through. :) I'm very easy to please. You can do crossovers, meta, spoken word instead of music, weird experimental stuff, don't hold back. :)
My requests:
- Babylon 5<\/li>
here's what i wrote in two previous years:
B5 is so near and dear to my heart. I watched it as a teenager, and was just head over heals about it. I'm not super fond of non-Sheridan station commanders (Sinclair and Lochley), though it is not out of great love for Sheridan, I just don't like them. I love Londo and G'Kar and their EPIC GROWTH and their friendship. I am fond of Delenn. My ultimate love is Susan Ivanova, <3 <3 <3. So much love. My Ivanova tshirt is one of my most treasured garments. I love Susan on her own, I love Susan with Marcus or Talia. I also loved Marcus in a somewhat teenage girl sort of way, and got a college essay over fighting with the high school yearbook over a quote from him. Have you read that story JMS published, \"Space, Time, and the Incurable Romantic\"? I both love that and am a little squicked? I also love many other characters, I'll elaborate more in my dear festividder letter.
I can't even begin to really explain my love of B5. It was my first
real serious epic (before LOTR, for me!). It meant so much to me, in
the way that only your first huge sweeping epic can, back when life
was simpler and moral ambiguity was novel. I love the hugeness of it,
and i love the small intimate moments. I really love the relationships
between people, and what happens to people and relationships in
stressful times. I love the people, I love the station. I love
everything, I did a B5 cross stitch, for serious. I was always fond of
Delenn and Sheridan's relationship, but mostly in the way that you
might really love what a great relationship your parents have? I don't
know. I sort of hero worshipped Ivanova, while totally seeing her
flaws and loving her for them, not despite them, even though I never
wanted to make those decisions. I <3 Vir, and his evolution, and have
you read the centauri books by peter david, based on JMS's outlines?
Because you should. I was deeply sad about Lennier's decision, and I
wished that Marcus could be there for him, in a totally platonic way.
Just do whatever you want, really. :-)
- LEGO Marvel Super Heroes [Game]<\/li>
I love Marvel and this game is a delight. My only real complaint is the way they've designed the \"smart\" character aspect. I'd love villians, I'd love heroes, i'd love SHIELD, I'd love ensemble, I'd love over the top weird, I'd love ironic, I'd love pretty much anything. I love Natasha and Steve and Loki and Thor and Tony and Bruce and Coulson and Fury and basically all the X-Men. i love getting to see characters from the different movie universes together on screen. The Fantastic Four have never really grabbed me, and Deadpool... I dunno, we don't have the same sense of humor.
- Moonrise Kingdom [Movie]<\/li>
I love Wes Anderson films. For whatever reason, they just tug on my heart strings, specifically my heart strings related to family and dysfunction, and trying to fix things. I If you want to try and make me cry, that's cool. I see this movie as \"Broken Wes Anderson protagonists, if you managed to get ahold of them and have them do the life-changing thing at 12 instead of as adults\".
- The Royal Tenenbaums [Movie]<\/li>
And this is what happened when no one helps then when they are 12. :-( I don't know if I would even like any of these people if I met them in real life? I love the picture of their family, sad, dysfunctional, but family. I'd love something about family and how it hurts us and helps us, how it holds us back and defines us and lets us grow, or a character piece on any of the characters would be cool too.
- Only Lovers Left Alive (2013) [Movie]<\/li>
This is my Festivids\/Yuletide crossover this year! I love having one. :)
Here's what I said for Yuletide, which basically sums up what I like, and do whatever you like.
it has spoilers so
I loved the feel of the movie, the dreamy languid sense of it all, the way it didn't care about rushing through a plot, the sense that there's so much history we don't know about, all that negative space for fic writing.
I'd love some kind of chosen vampire family, or old school backstory. i love stories of long lived characters and how that affects their relationships, perspectives, and interactions with the world.
I'd love an AU where Ian gets turned instead of killed, I think that has amazing potential.
I'd also love post-movie fic, with Adam and Eve dealing with the consequences of turning the two young lovers, hopefully there's some anger and confusion and eventually a functional family.
Really I'm pretty into family. Making Ava more reasonable, on her own of because she turned Ian? You could do something a hundred years down the line, dealing with yet another world, new challenges, new family? Eventually technology tends makes it harder and harder to live in the margins and for people to hide their identities, which is clearly already complicated in the early 21st century. Maybe a reunion with old friends and family (who might be new friends and family at the time of the movie). Maybe big societal changes! Maybe weird vampire stuff! I'm pretty flexible. :)
<\/a>
- Seaquest [TV]<\/li>
I know I keep saying this, but I was really very obsessed with this. (I really didn't have hobbies besides obsessing over TV in middle school). I loved Lucas. I really loved Darwin. I loved the first two seasons more than the third, um, I loved it all. I loved O'Neill, and Captain Bridger, I think I loved everyone in the first two seasons.
- X-Men: The Animated Series (1992) [TV]<\/li>
Just seeing the words makes the theme song start playing through my head. I loved this show to bits. I super shipped Rogue\/Gambit as a little preteen. It was possibly my earliest ship! If you don't like that, maybe just a Rogue vid? I loved her so very much.
Nothing wrong with Charles\/Magneto, of course. I was also fond of Wolverine and Storm, less so of Jubilee and and Cyclops and Jean Grey. I liked the Mystique of this incarnation. Oh, and Mystique and Rogue!
Follow you heart! Thank you!
<\/ol>
So what do I like?
I like deep, meta vids, I did media studies in college and I love thinking hard.
I also like vids that are just full of pretty visuals, especially with really strong colors.
Comedy, also good! Things about friendships and other relationships, I'm a sucker
for them! Sentimental and sappy is usually okay, I am a sucker for it.
Action is cool too! I really don't have any big \"No\"s, I just like things. :)
Old letters:
one where I talk about music: http:\/\/laura47.livejournal.com\/1191525.html<\/a>
http:\/\/laura47.livejournal.com\/1248772.html<\/a>
http:\/\/laura47.livejournal.com\/1191525.html<\/a>
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You can read my story here: http:\/\/archiveofourown.org\/works\/1095609<\/a>
It's 7300 words and I'm actually quite proud of it. It's called \"Grace and Sally\" and all you need to know is this tiny comic:
If anyone knows the original author of the comic pleeeeease tell me!
This story really flowed once I decided what I was doing. I had SO MANY IDEAS and decided to just start writing a few with write or die\/written kitten and see what stuck. As usual, I hid out from my family on Christmas Eve trying to finish, but this time, Peter was with me so I abandoned him to my brother's inlaws. :) I went for a stealth crossover - in the first draft I mentioned in in the first paragraph (it was a cheesy paragraph to get me started), and I know I would have gotten more hits if I'd tagged it, but I liked the surprise. Trying to decide if I should tag it now, thoughts?
Anyway, I think it's a sweet story, and I hope you'll give it a look. :)
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\"They have called this day the eleventh of March! And whomsoever of you gets through this day, unless you are shot in the head or somehow slain, you will stand at tiptoe when e\u2019er you hear the name again! And you will get excited at the name March the eleventh! We happy few, we few, we band of brothers. Our names will be as like household names! And those who are not here, be they sleeping or doing something else, they will feel themselves sort of crappy! Because they are not here to join the fight on this day the eleventh of March!\"
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- I want lots of families with interesting interactions, and ideally strong family characters, or at least stereotypes<\/li>
- I want lots of love plots, and potentially a tension between arranged marriages and love marriages<\/li>
- I want politics, but it doesn't have to be as high epic as civil war or choosing a king<\/li>
- I probably want 20-40 characters. I want to try writing a big game again<\/li>
- This is where it gets hard: I don't want a super patriarchal society. I could possibly AU an existing society to be more gender equal. But... fuck that, why should every game that has the things I already listed be gender fucked? I want to play a game like that and play a woman and not be fighting against gender expectations if I want to have agency beyond family matters. <\/li>
- I have a much weaker preference towards a setting without a lot of religion, or a chill and non-contentious religion. <\/li>
- I'd like there to be other interesting world building to grab onto, but also some negative space for me to add things.<\/li><\/ul>So, anyone have any ideas?
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Larpers! You are cordially invited to a Fiestaval!<\/div>¡Fiestaval! is the ninth Festival of the LARPs, an annual LARP convention held at Brandeis University.<\/div>
Bids are open! Bid your game now HERE<\/a><\/b>.<\/div>
Registration for the convention is open! Register now at 2014.festivalofthelarps.com<\/a><\/b>!<\/div>
Registration is free and open to the general public. Limited crash space is available upon request.<\/div>
This year, Festival sign-ups will be tiered.<\/div>
On Tuesday, March 18th<\/b> you can sign up for one game at 7pm.<\/div>On Wednesday, March 19th<\/b> you can sign up for up to two games at 7pm.<\/div>On
THIS IS ACTUALLY EXPANDED FROM MY AO3 SIGNUP.<\/b> Just adding in to
that form here on LJ felt like a good way to format it. This is where the real details live!
You can check out my previous letters if you like, anything about prefrences is almost
certainly still true. (2013 is deeply useless, please skip that one, heh. http:\/\/laura47.livejournal.com\/tag\/dear%20yulegoat<\/a>
Request 1 by laura47<\/h4>Fandom:<\/span>Loki: Agent of Asgard<\/a><\/h5>
- No rating<\/span><\/span><\/a><\/li>
- Choose Not To Use Archive Warnings<\/span><\/span><\/a><\/li>
- No category<\/span><\/span><\/a><\/li>
- Request Unfulfilled<\/span><\/span><\/a><\/li>
<\/ul>10 Oct 2016<\/p><\/div>
Tags<\/h6><\/ul>Summary<\/h6>The bullet points below are what I wrote in 2015, when I was... maybe halfway through Agent of Asgard?
Since then, I've finished AoA, read the first two of the political "Vote Loki" miniseries, and a tiny bit of things with Jane!Thor. I'm holding off on anymore, including finishing "Vote Loki", for now. Comics are complicated when characters keep going. Everything from Kieron Gillen is magic and wonderful and 100% "my Loki." :) Having finished AoA, yup, that's "my Loki" too, with the twists along the way. Post that... well, when does a character change creators and identity enough to just be a different character? Because I loved JMS's Thor run, but that Loki is not quite "my Loki"? And with the way Loki changes and recreates, they are rather well suited to a kind of formalized "different Loki" - because JitM kid Loki is of course very different from later kid Loki etc. So, what does this all mean? I'm not even sure, dear author, I'm not even sure. I love where AoA left Loki, with the changes and the gender and the stories, and I'd love to go from there. You can absolutely continue with where the new authors take Loki if that feels good and right to you - if you do so, can you please leave an author's note on what I should read for context? I will go read it right away, including things that aren't in Unlimited yet, I'll just buy the regular digital copy.
Okay from there I can probably just toss you back into last year's notes. :) Oh, my only fic loki is still astolat's loki, if you want any other Loki inspiration or what not.<\/div>
- This is the comic-line that got me to actually be a regular comics reader. I heard "bisexual" and "gender fluid" and "Loki" and I picked up a digital subscription, started reading, and was just really kind of confused about backstory and wandered off. Then awhile later I picked up a Marvel Unlimited subscription, started with the JMS run of Thor because I'm a big Babylon 5 fan, and next thing you know I was all over comics. :) I finished Journey Into Mystery months ago and I still get upset when I think about it. I'm not currently caught up on Agent of Asgard, but I will be well before Christmas. (I'm trying to read everything that feels relevant in Axis and I just get so bogged down in these crossover events I give up. But this is the perfect motivation to get me back on track!)<\/span><\/li>
- I'm particularly into gender and sexuality and fluidity thereof, and questions of identity, and what it means to be good or evil or ethical or moral<\/span><\/li>
- Speaking of identity, I think undoing what JiM did at the end would probably be too... too much, in some way? I sometimes things that are "fix it fic" just become stuck in my head as my canon and then it's hard to continue on with the original source. I would love if that hadn't had to happen, but since it did... but, if you wind up with some kind of complicated reality rewriting time travel complicated thing, and it's culmination of something big, do what you think is right. I just don't know how I would feel about just starting with "that never happened" or something like that. And at this point, things have gotten so complicated with identity that... I don't even know. (Sorry this is my most rambly and emotionally confused yuletide request ever.)<\/span><\/li>
- I did come at this as a Loki movie fan, so you are free to have that as an inspiration if you like, but movie Loki's got nothing on this one. I do wish we could just have a tv show with Hiddleston going through this, but he'd never have the time. ah well. Pretty much the only Loki fic I've read is astolat's, and that is a different Loki than this, but if I have a headcanon for movie Loki, it's that, for whatever that says.<\/span><\/li>
- I think Odin's a shitty father and a shitty ruler and I'd prefer not to deal with him at length, though if you have something you think is awesome, that is critical of their relationships and does something interesting, go for it. You can do pretty much anything you want with Thor except go for the worst versions of Thor as a oafish goon jock who never thinks. You don't need to include Thor, or you could make this all an exploration of Thor and Loki's relationship. Honestly there's no one that I would be heartbroken if they weren't included. I'm particularly fond of Hela, and Verity.<\/span><\/li>
- You can throw Loki into the rest of the marvel comics universe (whatever the hell that is these days, or previous days), you can have Loki writing slash like he mentioned back in the first issue, you can... send Loki to Mars? I'm really really flexible about setting is what I'm saying. :) I don't know about full on AU, but feel free to change things around.<\/span><\/li>
- 2016 note: My other requests say "Please no AUs, graphic violence, slavery, miscarriage (unless tagged, i just don't want to be surprised), or sexual assault." I'm actually more okay with those things here, but please tag them. And see above about AUs - not really looking for a coffeeshop AU, but something where AoA Loki is playing around with fic tropes and the idea of a coffeshop AU which still being "my Loki" is totally okay. Have fun!<\/li>
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If by some chance you haven't read kid Loki and would like to, (or anyone else reading this) here's a guide: http:\/\/journey-into-mystery.tumbl<\/a><\/span>r.com\/post\/30097993112\/kidlokiguide It's all on Marvel Unlimited, and I think you get a month for $10? I would totally reimburse you for a couple months of that afterwards, if that's not weird? If that's weird, forget I asked. :)<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote><\/p><\/li>
Request 2 by laura47<\/h4>Fandom:<\/span>Uprooted - Naomi Novik<\/a><\/h5>
- No rating<\/span><\/span><\/a><\/li>
- Choose Not To Use Archive Warnings<\/span><\/span><\/a><\/li>
- No category<\/span><\/span><\/a><\/li>
- Request Unfulfilled<\/span><\/span><\/a><\/li>
<\/ul>10 Oct 2016<\/p><\/div>
Tags<\/h6><\/ul>Summary<\/h6>well, i unexpectedly fell hard for canon het (good job naomi)? i would adore something there, of any rating. especially higher ratings. :)<\/p>
If you're not interested in that, i loooove plotty gen (or any plotty stuff). so much! i got into fandom as a wee child who had zero interest in sex or romance, so that's actually where my roots are. Agnieszka's future, Kasia's adventures in her new life, Alosha past, future, or present, i'll try to add more ideas in my letter. :)<\/p>
I love time travel and intrigue! I love world building! I love detailed intimate relationship building! (Not necessarily sexual, but intimate.)<\/p>
i'm really into the-importance-of-platonic-female-friendship in this book, like sobbing hysterically over it, so (oddly! very oddly!) i am not interested in romantic\/sexual Agnieszka\/Kasia. (Believe me, no one is more surprised than I am.)
Borrowing a bit from my Sense8 request, but while I'm not all about "oh yeah i want wacky baby fic" in this situation, I would totally be okay with it, so here is what I said there: "I have never said this before, but I would totally be happy with babies! Or kids! Whether growing their own or acquiring kids in some other ways or adventures in babysititng. Also domesticity sounds fun. Hijinks, sitcom stuff, wacky misunderstandings, elaborate ruses, all great. Fairly serious stuff about dealing with the complexity of their relationship and their lives, also great! Or stuff around fertility. I'm not squicked by anything involving pregnancy and childbirth."
- sex is good! I've never really asked for sex (or babies!) in yuletide, so i guess i should list kinks I'm not super into? bodily fluid related kink is the main one, any kind of permament bodily modification, and maybe stay away from temporary stuff? (Magic stuff related to this is probably not going to set me off in the same way.) Magic sex is *great*. I adore the possibilities set up in the (small amount!) of sexual content we got in the book. :) Anything that is generally cosidered kind of light-to-middle-ground kink is probably fine. :) I beta read this fic last year and loved every bit of it: http:\/\/archiveofourown.org\/works\/5512190<\/a> This one wasn't sex but I also beta read it and loved it. :) <\/span>http:\/\/archiveofourown.org\/works\/5482808<\/a> That's all I've read though - I see there's been a bunch more since last yuletide, but I'm not going to read that anytime soon. :)<\/span><\/p>Please no AUs, graphic violence, slavery, miscarriage (unless tagged, i just don't want to be surprised), or sexual assault.<\/p>
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Request 3 by laura47<\/h4>Fandom:<\/span>Sense8 (TV)<\/a><\/h5>
- No rating<\/span><\/span><\/a><\/li>
- Choose Not To Use Archive Warnings<\/span><\/span><\/a><\/li>
- No category<\/span><\/span><\/a><\/li>
- Request Unfulfilled<\/span><\/span><\/a><\/li>
<\/ul>10 Oct 2016<\/p><\/div>
Tags<\/h6>
- Daniela Velasquez<\/a><\/li>
- Lito Rodriguez<\/a><\/li>
<\/ul>Summary<\/h6>(If you're wondering why Hernando isn't on the list, it's because AO3 wouldn't let me select him and I decided to just move on. Obviously this means you don't *have* to include him, but I would certainly like it. :) )
So, these three! I love them. :) I want them to be happy, at least in the end.
To jump to the awkward parts!
- Everyone except Hernando behaved poorly in some ways in season one. (Hernando is literally perfect, best I can tell.) Daniela was super inappropriate in filming them, and Lito was shitty in letting her suffer for him. I don't want to excuse that, but I certainly don't need to dwell on it. Or even mention it, necessarily?
- Also, sexuality, it's a thing. You do not have to do anything sexual or dealing with sexual identity, but if you do, I am totally find with sexuality being a complicated fluid thing. People's actions don't define their sexual identity - asexuals can have sex and still be asexual, monosexual people can have homosexual experiences and still be monosexual. So I would be totally fine with some kind of sexuality between Daniela and either Hernando or Lito, with that have no real effect on their identity, deciding maybe they are bi or homoflexible, anything *except* "oh now i'm heterosexual". Oof, no. To summarize - no sex or sexual identity is fine, but if you do that, I am very flexible, with anything except "sudden heterosexuality". :)
Now, what is less awkward! Hopefully, eventually, these three! To start off, YOU CAN DO BASICALLY ANYTHING YOU WANT. I want you to have fun! But here's some general guidelines, which are only guidelines, not rules. We good there? :)
- I'm okay with working in stuff with the other 7, or not. They can swap in for periods of time, or be hanging out offering advice or snark or commentary, or (consesual) voyeurism or even (consensual) body hoping during sex or something like The Big Orgy. (which i believe was the first scene they shot for Lito? Mercy!) The three of them can run off to be physically with some or all of the rest of them, go on adventures, be part of a big ensemble piece, as long as they get a good chunk of the focus. (And if you want to write something very long, I am fine with it just being a good chunk of time in word count, and not necessarily total percentage. Like, if you wrote 30,000 words or something wild, I would not need it to be 20,000 about these three!)
- I would like for them to have some happy time post season 1, and a generally happy ending? Not "the season finale ends and then suddenly they all get arrested" or something. Angst and drama is fine in there, especially if it's a longer piece.
- Like so many fangirls, I love found\/chosen family.
- I have never said this before, but I would totally be happy with babies! Or kids! Whether growing their own or acquiring kids in some other ways or adventures in babysititng. Also domesticity sounds fun. Hijinks, sitcom stuff, wacky misunderstandings, elaborate ruses, all great. Fairly serious stuff about dealing with the complexity of their relationship and their lives, also great! Or stuff around fertility. I'm not squicked by anything involving pregnancy and childbirth.
- I'm not jonesing for "Lito is outed and it's horrible", but if that's the thing you're most inspired by, go for it. I'm not sure how I feel about the lesser version of "coming out to parents and it's horrible forever." I'm totally down for the three of them trying to have friends individually - i like the three of them together, but I'm generally a fan of people having friendships outside their relationships. :) Which risks getting outed, but well. I'm also okay with "Lito got outed and it sucked but they are moving on with their lives." Maybe he's making smaller films and happy, maybe they are living off his money and he's doing local theater, maybe he's not even acting right now.
- sex is good! I've never really asked for sex (or babies!) in yuletide, so i guess i should list kinks I'm not super into? bodily fluid related kink is the main one, any kind of permament bodily modification, and maybe stay away from temporary stuff? Anything that is generally cosidered kind of light-to-middle-ground kink is probably fine. :)
- Please no AUs, graphic violence, slavery, miscarriage (unless tagged, i just don't want to be surprised), or sexual assault.<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote><\/li>
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15-25 October - Signups
15 January - Submission deadline
28 January - Go live
details here: http:\/\/festivids.livejournal.com\/113619.html<\/a>\n\nCrossposted from Dreamwidth. Most commenting still happens on LJ. http:\/\/laura47.dreamwidth.org\/1085406.html","comments":"https:\/\/laura47.livejournal.com\/1295520.html?view=comments#comments","category":["festivids","vidding","vids"]},{"guid":"https:\/\/laura47.livejournal.com\/1292593.html","pubDate":"Thu, 09 Jun 2016 03:17:40 GMT","title":"[fic] Asking for a friend...","author":"laura47","link":"https:\/\/laura47.livejournal.com\/1292593.html","description":"anyone ever read any good bsg fic? it was one of those fandoms where i never read fic, and a friend wants some :)
also, what are the big f\/f ships these days?
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* do you have a better term for non-digital? I don't. here's what they say on what types of games people write. "Historically most Game Chef games have been tabletop roleplaying games or live action games, but innovative designers like you are constantly breaking down and re-envisioning the divisions between different types of games (board games, card games, roleplaying games, live action games, etc.) Feel free to push the boundaries of what counts as a roleplaying game, an analog game, or a game."<\/span><\/p>\n\nCrossposted from Dreamwidth. Most commenting still happens on LJ. http:\/\/laura47.dreamwidth.org\/1081891.html","comments":"https:\/\/laura47.livejournal.com\/1292211.html?view=comments#comments"},{"guid":"https:\/\/laura47.livejournal.com\/1286655.html","pubDate":"Mon, 18 Jan 2016 10:37:51 GMT","title":"Festivids Reveal!","author":"laura47","link":"https:\/\/laura47.livejournal.com\/1286655.html","description":"
"All This and Heaven Too", Inside Out, for Festivids 2015-2016<\/a> from Laura 47<\/a> on Vimeo<\/a>.<\/p>
Download from dropbox: https:\/\/www.dropbox.com\/s\/p5u7w1pohajn9k6\/laura47%20signed%20inside%20out%20all%20this%20and%20heaven%20too%20festivids%202015-2016.mp4?dl=0<\/a>
I swore after last year I was just going to make happy action vids, likely to animated movies, because my Lego Movie vid was so much less stressful to make than previous years and it was well received.
And Inside Out seemed like a great source to offer.
BUT ALL THE FEELINGS. It is, of course, literally *about* feelings in the most literal sense possible, but somehow I just offered it anyway, even though I cried watching it in a theater. I wound up making something very emotional for me, and apparently it's hit some viewers emotionally as well. There wasn't anyway to vid this that wasn't going to be emotional, by definition, so I felt a bit silly, but I'm quite happy with where it all went!
I was quite aways into the process of this vid when I realized I was confused about what the vid was about, because that's how my creative processed works sometimes. :) I started out thinking I was making a vid about the importance of lower-case-s sadness, then i realized I was making a vid about the importance of sadness and Joy coming to understand that, then I scrapped some stuff and added more Joy because clearly it was about Joy, Sadness, and Joy understanding the importance of sadness and also Sadness, and also also Sadness understanding the importance of S\/sadness. Then, awhile after that, I realized I was ridiculous and the feeling I never knew existed before was the joy-and-sadness feeling (i put literally clips down and went WAIT THAT'S THE THING I may have shouted, my spouse and friends are used to it). So the vid was actually about Joy, Sadness, Joy understanding sadness, Joy understanding Sadness, I'm losing track of things but also joy-and-sadness, lowercase. Which is terirbly amusing for me, because my little nephew loves this movie and calls it \"joy and sadness\" instead of the proper name. Adorably, my mom was using the context of the movie to try and talk to him about what his dad might be feeling, attending the football game we were watching. If this movie helps kids talk about feelings and develop empathy a bit better or a bit sooner, then booyah. :)
As for the song, I just didn't know what to do, and I asked various friends to make suggestions for me.I'd been asking for songs that felt both sad and then happy, and all sorts of complicated things, and really was thinking about it in the wrong way. I was driving over to <\/a>shati<\/b><\/a><\/span>'s house for vidding, having done more clipping and arranging than I'd ever done before because I was still songless, and I made a playlist of all the songs people had suggested to listen to in the car. And then I clicked on a playlist I'd been working on for a LARP character, and this song came on, and I said to myself \"Yes Laura, you've wanted to do a Florence vid all along, you've even thought about this song in passing but thought you couldn't pull it off, and it's time to just make the vid you want to make.\" So of course I think got external validation of a my closest advisors saying it could work, and that's how I found my song. :)
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And gives me things I've always wanted.
IT'S SO GOOD AND I CAN'T STOP THINKING ABOUT IT ALSO DREAMING ABOUT IT.
places to buy it: http:\/\/www.naominovik.com\/2014\/09\/pre-order-uprooted-by-naomi-novik\/
I've never regretted not requesting something for yuletide this much.
I actually stopped so I could prolong the experience of the book. And because I decided I couldn't read it on amtrak with someone next to me, given the things i was likely to feel, and i cried reading it on the previous amtrak trip (with no seatmate)
I am reading on kindle and own three hardcover copies for my spouse and lending out. well, one is still in the mail.
sequel: "“It’s not out of the question but not currently planned either!”" <\/strong>http:\/\/www.naominovik.com\/2015\/08\/ask-naomi-will-you-write-a-sequel-to-uprooted\/<\/span><\/font>
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* i did check her livejournal to confirm she's not hiding her identity anymore. I'm so happy she can be published and so successful while still writing the fic she does. :-D
“Wild, thrilling, and deeply, darkly magical. An instant classic.”—Lev Grossman<\/span>, #1 New York Times<\/em> bestselling author of the Magicians Trilogy<\/em><\/p>“Reading Uprooted was like rediscovering a favorite old sweater, familiar and beloved. It feels as if it has always existed and has been waiting patiently for me to return to it.”—Maggie Stiefvater<\/span>, #1 New York Times<\/em> bestselling author of the Shiver Trilogy<\/em><\/p>“Uprooted is one of those tales you come back to over and over again because it’s just that enchanting. The adventure builds with such tension that you are peeking through your hands at the end, hoping it will all be okay, and Naomi Novik delivers a conclusion that’s deeply satisfying, earning a permanent space on my bookshelf that I’ll revisit often.”—Kevin Hearne<\/span>, New York Times<\/em> bestselling author of Shattered<\/strong><\/p>“Magical and practical, otherworldly and planted in the real, I could not stop reading this book and neither will you!”—Tamora Pierce<\/span>, New York Times<\/em> bestselling author of Trickster’s Choice<\/strong> and Trickster’s Queen<\/strong><\/p>“Uprooted by Naomi Novik is enchanting, in every sense of that fine old word. A charming and inviting story that looks unflinchingly at the strangling roots of hurt and revenge.”—Robin Hobb<\/span>, bestselling author of Fool’s Assassin<\/strong><\/p>
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Requests:
Gattaca (1997) [Movie]<\/h3>This movie gives me chills. I am huge SF fan, and especially about the societal effects of new technology and science and stuff like that. I found it visually striking as well. I am pretty happy with anything - if this is what you matched on, you might want to check back later, I hope to rewatch it? Which is horribly vague and you don't have to. :) But it's been a few years. One time I saw it at a SF marathon and someone broken down so much at the ending that they had to be helped out of the theater, and I don't blame them. I hate the injustice of the society, of course.
Jane The Virgin [TV]<\/h3>[I am not caught up but I will be! As I write this I'm on 1x16, I think.]
I feel like I should just jump to the love plot question right off, by saying I'm team Rafael (as of 1x16), but all that means is that I'd prefer not to get an actual Jane\/Michael shipping vid. And sadly, I can't believe any of them pulling off poly, sigh. But otherwise, I have no bans on any characters. I'm generally happy with most things except that one listed above. I'll just go through some characters, eh?
Jane: I love Jane to itty bitty little pieces (wait that phrase is so weird, huh). I love how she has wacky adventures and misunderstanding but they mostly come from such a good place. I want no one to ever lie to her or hurt her in anyway. I don't wish ill on anymore, but I want nothing but perfect happiness for all of the Villanueva women. I love how real and complex all of her feelings and struggles are, I love how she's so different from most TV characters, I love how despite living very different lives and having many different values, I adore the hell out of her. I love her passion for writing, and for teaching, and for the idea of romance without being an idiot about it. :)
Xiomara: I just want to hug her and tell her she's a good mom. I love all of her flaws, and how aware she is of them, and her relationship with...herself, really, and all her actions and history and family and lovers (and not many friends, huh). The way she falls into being a child fighting with her mother and her desperate desire to be perfect for Jane and how she wants to support Jane but also fears her making bad decisions, how she can still pursue her dreams after so many years of not making it, I just love her.
Alba: See, somehow, despite coming from a Catholic family and being a bitter ex-Catholic athiest and hating Catholic sex shaming more than most things in the world, I still love Alba. Which is just a testament to so much about this show and the characters. She just wants the best for her family, and misses her husband, and is still a little scared of America,and is scared of being deported (does she have a doctor who ignores her immigration status, or has she just not had medical care in decades, god I don't even know how this works, it's not like I'm not angry about immigration policies at least weekly but thisjust breaks my heart all over again.)
Michael: okay, while i understand hating Rafael for being with the woman he loves, I can't abide by his actions there. One of my biggest issues with various fiction is that cops breaking the law or abusing their authority or skipping search warrants or mistreating suspects if a huge huge problem for me. I made it through literally one episode of Hawaii Five-O, for instance. There was shark cage involved. Knowing as an audience that someone is guilty changes nothing, and makes me angry on a meta level because I'm sure it influences people to being more okay with police misconduct when they totally look guilty (or were convicted or confessed or anything.) And don't even get me started on torture, the point is I have issues there so if we could avoid any scenes of even mild police misconduct that would be awesome. :) Otherwise, I get why he was lying to Jane about Petra, but I'd probably dump someone over that, when it was about something as huge as the future happiness of my child, so I can't fault Jane and don't like what he did. But! He's often sweet and caring and he loves Jane and i don't wish ill on him (I keep saying these things as if I have any say, I think it's the soapy nature of the show, drawing me in.)
Rafael: Also far from perfect, but he is, as a friend of a friend said, "disney prince handsome". Like just look at him. And he's trying so hard to make up for who he was, and, like, okay so much with Luisa. (where i am she recently ran off with Rose.) He loved her and trusted her enough to risk everything he had financially (which he was working so hard on to get his father's approval and prove himself) to give her what she needed to get her life on track. In that little bit in the first episode before everything goes down, you can see such closeness between them, and it really breaks his heart the way she fucks up. And then he's too quick to send her away after she comes back, but honestly it looked really terrible. If this were fic I'd want sibling stuff maybe, didn't realize this till i wrote this paragraph, ha. tl;dr: i am well aware of rafael's flaws but like him anyway, because this show writes good characters.
Luisa: Oh, how they handled mental health and the institution was not my favorite, you can include parts if you do a Luisa vid because it's important but I'd prefer those scenes not be handled as comedy, despite what the show did?
Rose: I dunno, she's a pretty terrible person, but somehow I want her and Luisa to be happy, while what i should be wanting is luisa to have an actually reasonable relationship. I blame Bridget Regan and her acting. Also her face. (Blew my mind when i realized she was Dottie and Kahlan.)
Petra: Damn, I did not expect to come around on her so much. I still don't like how she treats people sometimes, but I have a lot of sympathy for her and long term I'd like her to be stable in her own right and have a good balanced relationship and be able to chill out some. (I know this keeps sounding like a yuletide request, sorry! I don't expect you to construct anything here, I just wanted to talk about how I feel about them.)
Petra's Mom: I have no idea what her deal is. I'm expecting to see her back before the end of the season. ;-)
The Martian [Movie]<\/h3>I laughed, I cried, I reread the book, it was better than cats. In addition to being a huge SF fan about societal changes as mentioned above, I am passionate about space and extra-planetary exploration. The book was described as "engineering porn" and yes, absolutely. I have a bachelor of science in media studies, because my alma mater only gives out SBs, so i m not a scientist or engineer, but i have a basic background, and am surrounded by such people and am a huge fan.
I'm generally happy with anything, but some ideas:- the majesty of space travel<\/li>
- the triumph of the human spirit<\/li>
- being a clever bastard<\/li>
- just Mars herself<\/li>
- the NASA side of things!<\/li>
- the ares 3 crew<\/li>
- weird constructed reality with other damon roles? interstellar is the obvious one, but nothing pops there, and i found that character fairly heartbreaking actually. but especially given that jessica chastain was in that. If it inspires you, go for it!<\/li>
- something sciency! <\/li>
- overlaying quotes from the book or audio from the audiobook (which i really liked)<\/li><\/ul>but really, anything that inspires you. Instrumental music might be cool here, but only if you like that!
Ms. Marvel US (2014-) [Still Image]<\/h3>tl;dr: anything :)
ReBoot [TV]<\/h3>tl;dr: anything :)
Young Avengers [Still Image]<\/h3>i've only (so far) read the more recently one (2014? 2013?) comic, with Loki, but I'll go read earlier stuff before golive. I'm a big Loki fan, which is why I wound up there, but I really liked every one else. team feels, gay stuff, loki's sad story and character arc, whatever you like. bringing in other comics is 110% okay. if you do, can you please list the issues\/series used so i can read them? thank you ever so much.:) You can read some more about my Loki feels here: http:\/\/laura47.livejournal.com\/1282266.html
<\/div> <\/p>\n\nCrossposted from Dreamwidth. Most commenting still happens on LJ. http:\/\/laura47.dreamwidth.org\/1072159.html","comments":"https:\/\/laura47.livejournal.com\/1282368.html?view=comments#comments","category":"festivids"},{"guid":"https:\/\/laura47.livejournal.com\/1282266.html","pubDate":"Tue, 27 Oct 2015 05:39:17 GMT","title":"Dear Yuletide Author","author":"laura47","link":"https:\/\/laura47.livejournal.com\/1282266.html","description":"UPDATE: MORE JOE BIDEN CANON: http:\/\/www.theonion.com\/article\/biden-to-cool-his-heels-in-mexico-for-a-while-17996<\/a><\/strong>
Joe Biden as written by The Onion - <\/strong><\/span>
- oh my god I love this. I nominated it. No idea if anyone will offer it. :) Current Biden, Future Biden, maybe Biden as senator? I think being VP or former VP is funnier. Maybe he can just sort of refuse to leave after Obama's out? The Onion never mentions his wife (who is awesome) and I think that is actually probably for the best? A lot of his behavior would make for a shitty husband, and Jill doesn't deserve that. I'd prefer nothing about his recent family tragedy, because that's not funny. I guess this doesn't *have* to be funny? I'm not really sure how to make something serious out of this. :) They have been very ambiguous about backstory, whether he has all this history as a roadie and a pot dealer and also was a senator, or if this random dude just elected VP, i'm fine with either.<\/li>
- Crossovers are great, or something like "Joe Biden gets matched on pairing he hates in Yuletide" or "Joe Biden's cosplay disrupts convention masquerade", Joe Biden interacting with fannish things, or Joe Biden LARPing or Joe Biden doing pretty much anything?<\/li>
- You can write in any form that appeals, articles like the onion, or tweets, or tumblr, or just narrative, or epistolary, or, I dunno, college syllabus? that one probably doesn't make sense but hopefully demonstrates how open I am to ideas. :-) Basically, if your story is about TheOnion!JoeBiden, I'll likely be overjoyed. :)<\/li>
- Some of my favorites:<\/li>
<\/ul>http:\/\/www.theonion.com\/article\/biden-worries-legalized-weed-in-dc-will-cut-into-h-38210<\/a>
http:\/\/www.theonion.com\/article\/biden-arrives-early-to-set-up-state-of-the-union-f-37812<\/a>
http:\/\/www.theonion.com\/article\/biden-tossed-out-of-car-passing-by-white-house-37494<\/a>
http:\/\/www.theonion.com\/article\/biden-gets-grow-light-delivered-to-white-house-und-36597<\/a>
http:\/\/www.theonion.com\/article\/biden-loses-control-of-butterfly-knife-during-comm-36053<\/a>
http:\/\/www.theonion.com\/article\/frantic-biden-searching-dog-shelter-for-bo-look-al-35161<\/a>
http:\/\/www.theonion.com\/article\/biden-frantically-hitting-up-cabinet-members-for-c-34515<\/a>
http:\/\/www.theonion.com\/article\/nude-biden-wakes-up-on-cold-slab-in-dc-morgue-34243<\/a>
http:\/\/www.theonion.com\/article\/biden-has-guy-named-worm-sit-in-for-him-at-cabinet-33250<\/a>
http:\/\/www.theonion.com\/article\/biden-investigated-for-questionable-workers-comp-c-32571<\/a>
http:\/\/www.theonion.com\/article\/biden-working-his-way-through-scratch-off-tickets--30973<\/a>
Two Monks Inventing Things<\/strong>
- OMG you offered this! Or maybe I'm on pinch hits or you're browsing letters. If the latter, well, this is a series of humor pieces at The Toast. It's a quick read! The concept is that two monks are creating works of art, and... it's hilarious? They exist sort of out of time and space, creating works of art and encouraging each other to make weird decisions. Mallory, the author, is clearly someone with a lot of humanities education, much like myself. :)<\/span>
It's here: <\/span>http:\/\/the-toast.net\/tag\/two-monks-inventing-things\/<\/a>
Reading any one will let you know if you like this kind of thing, I expect.<\/span>
What do I want? Anything.<\/span>
* Monks inventing something not art - shoes, operating systems, far future civilizations, dystopias, media. It's a great format to lovingly call out the flaws\/weird decisions of something you love, if you have an idea, run with it. (If you're concerned you might be being obscure and you want to include explanatory links on top that would be rad, I'll read things! [ [edit: eek there's a new one i hadn't seen, about the inventing church denominations! INVENT ALL THE THINGS]<\/span>
* Monks inventing art - more of the same, or different art! Modern art? Fanart? That could be fun<\/span>
* A serious character study about the lives of these monks, whether in one time and place or bouncing all over. Are they immortal? Are they archetypes? Are they trapped in church bureaucracy that makes them effectively immortal? Are they positions passed down throughout the ages? Are they in love? Do they just sort of exist with little awareness that they are living through different times and places? ARE THEY COMPUTER SIMULATIONS? Don't worry about getting too weird for me!!! I like weird.<\/span>
* Crazy world building? GO FOR IT. SERIOUSLY. <\/span>
HAVE FUN AND INVENT THINGS<\/span><\/li>
<\/ul>Loki: Agent of Asgard
- This is the comic-line that got me to actually be a regular comics reader. I heard "bisexual" and "gender fluid" and "Loki" and I picked up a digital subscription, started reading, and was just really kind of confused about backstory and wandered off. Then awhile later I picked up a Marvel Unlimited subscription, started with the JMS run of Thor because I'm a big Babylon 5 fan, and next thing you know I was all over comics. :) I finished Journey Into Mystery months ago and I still get upset when I think about it. I'm not currently caught up on Agent of Asgard, but I will be well before Christmas. (I'm trying to read everything that feels relevant in Axis and I just get so bogged down in these crossover events I give up. But this is the perfect motivation to get me back on track!)<\/span><\/li>
- I'm particularly into gender and sexuality and fluidity thereof, and questions of identity, and what it means to be good or evil or ethical or moral<\/span><\/li>
- Speaking of identity, I think undoing what JiM did at the end would probably be too... too much, in some way? I sometimes things that are "fix it fic" just become stuck in my head as my canon and then it's hard to continue on with the original source. I would love if that hadn't had to happen, but since it did... but, if you wind up with some kind of complicated reality rewriting time travel complicated thing, and it's culmination of something big, do what you think is right. I just don't know how I would feel about just starting with "that never happened" or something like that. And at this point, things have gotten so complicated with identity that... I don't even know. (Sorry this is my most rambly and emotionally confused yuletide request ever.)<\/span><\/li>
- I did come at this as a Loki movie fan, so you are free to have that as an inspiration if you like, but movie Loki's got nothing on this one. I do wish we could just have a tv show with Hiddleston going through this, but he'd never have the time. ah well. Pretty much the only Loki fic I've read is astolat's, and that is a different Loki than this, but if I have a headcanon for movie Loki, it's that, for whatever that says. <\/span><\/li>
- I think Odin's a shitty father and a shitty ruler and I'd prefer not to deal with him at length, though if you have something you think is awesome, that is critical of their relationships and does something interesting, go for it. You can do pretty much anything you want with Thor except go for the worst versions of Thor as a oafish goon jock who never thinks. You don't need to include Thor, or you could make this all an exploration of Thor and Loki's relationship. Honestly there's no one that I would be heartbroken if they weren't included. I'm particularly fond of Hela, and Verity. <\/span><\/li>
- You can throw Loki into the rest of the marvel comics universe (whatever the hell that is these days, or previous days), you can have Loki writing slash like he mentioned back in the first issue, you can... send Loki to Mars? I'm really really flexible about setting is what I'm saying. :) I don't know about full of AU, but feel free to change things around. <\/span><\/li>
<\/ul>
If by some chance you haven't read kid Loki and would like to, (or anyone else reading this) here's a guide: http:\/\/journey-into-mystery.tumblr.com\/post\/30097993112\/kidlokiguide<\/a> It's all on Marvel Unlimited, and I think you get a month for $10?
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JUST WATCH HANNIBAL.
Guys I can't handle horror movies but I watch this. I look away and get by, there is rarely any jump horror, and it is all so worth it. Having now seen the finale, I knoooow some of you would love this more than your realize, I know the LARP characters you play and the fic you like and this is it. This is it and it is such beautiful art, I swear it is amazing and transcendent.
(and they stay away from sexual violence and dog killing as a rule, they rewrote a villain to take out any explicit sexual violence, its fucked up but they try really hard on those two. Probably want perfect, but it did make me feel safe in one way).
And relationship that goes with it, the person who brings out that darknes in you, and challenges you and makes you know yourself, however fucked up that is? The person who defines you and all you can do is figure out what you do with that? Yeah. Yeah.
I'm going to rewatch it, and maybe even vid it. I am not done with this story, hell it might wind up beating Utena for show I watch the most times. You want to try it but are intimidated or want company or whatever? Talk to me.
Hannibal. It's really as amazing as we act like it is.
Hannibal.
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I recently wasn't backing any kickstarters and didn't notice. This is only the second time that's been true since I started this all, and last time it made me feel all weird and unhappy. This time I didn't notice. This is probably better. I really love helping people produce cool things and live their dreams outside mainstream methods, which can really enforce dominant sorts of voices and not encourage diversity, so backing kickstarters really makes me feel happy, and that's why I'll back some for low amounts and no reward - I want my friends to see it on my backed list, and to up their numbers a little.
If you want my advice after all this kickstartering, it's this:
(1) No kickstarter is a guarantee or preorder. Treat it accordingly. You are investing in a (varingly) risky venture! Don't put any money if you can't afford to lose.
(2) Never look at dates. If you need something by a specific date, do *not* use kickstarter. If you never look at dates and so never expect things to be \"on time\" you will (almost certainly) be so much happier. I see creators begging people to stop being horrible to them because they, like hundreds of kickstarters before them, are stuck in customs limbo or can't communicate with Chinese suppliers, and I can't imagined what entitled jerks their backers are. Sure, some kickstarters squander resources and are jerks, but I have *never* seen that happen and I do have a decent sample size (though as we will see, it is limited to a few wedges of the kickstarter project type pie).
If you follow those two suggestions, I think it will really eliminate the majority of angst I see.
I'm intending to go chronologically, but here's a link to the only active one I've got, a horror tabletop roleplaying game. https:\/\/www.kickstarter.com\/projects\/shiftyginger\/ten-candles-a-tragic-horror-storytelling-game<\/a>
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http:\/\/laura47.dreamwidth.org\/1055730.html<\/a>
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I'm sorry, I'm having the worst week I've had all year, with a variety of unexpected crisises. I have plans to work on my letter with a friend on Saturday, my apologies! My old letters are probably useful?
Thank you!
Laura
Dear Yulegoat!
THANK YOU SO MUCH! I'm so glad you want to write something for something I requested. When in doubt, please don't worry, I'll be happy with pretty much anything. :)
Request 1 by laura47
Two Monks Inventing Things (The Toast)
Monk #2 (Two Monks Inventing Things) Monk #1 (Two Monks Inventing Things)
Summary
OMG you offered this! Or maybe I'm on pinch hits or you're browsing letters. If the latter, well, this is a series of humor pieces at The Toast. It's a quick read! The concept is that two monks are creating works of art, and... it's hilarious? They exist sort of out of time and space, creating works of art and encouraging each other to make weird decisions. Mallory, the author, is clearly someone with a lot of humanities education, much like myself. :)
It's here: http:\/\/the-toast.net\/tag\/two-monks-inventing-things\/<\/a>
Reading any one will let you know if you like this kind of thing, I expect.
What do I want? Anything.
* Monks inventing something not art - shoes, operating systems, far future civilizations, dystopias, media. It's a great format to lovingly call out the flaws\/weird decisions of something you love, if you have an idea, run with it. (If you're concerned you might be being obscure and you want to include explanatory links on top that would be rad, I'll read things! [ [edit: eek there's a new one i hadn't seen, about the inventing church denominations! INVENT ALL THE THINGS]
* Monks inventing art - more of the same, or different art! Modern art? Fanart? That could be fun
* A serious character study about the lives of these monks, whether in one time and place or bouncing all over. Are they immortal? Are they archetypes? Are they trapped in church bureaucracy that makes them effectively immortal? Are they positions passed down throughout the ages? Are they in love? Do they just sort of exist with little awareness that they are living through different times and places? ARE THEY COMPUTER SIMULATIONS? Don't worry about getting too weird for me!!! I like weird.
* Crazy world building? GO FOR IT.
HAVE FUN AND INVENT THINGS
Request 2 by laura47
Only Lovers Left Alive (2013)
Adam (Only Lovers Left Alive) Eve (Only Lovers Left Alive)
Summary
I loved the feel of the movie, the dreamy languid sense of it all, the way it didn't care about rushing through a plot, the sense that there's so much history we don't know about, all that negative space for fic writing.
I'd love some kind of chosen vampire family, or old school backstory. i love stories of long lived characters and how that affects their relationships, perspectives, and interactions with the world.
I'd love an AU where Ian gets turned instead of killed, I think that has amazing potential.
I'd also love post-movie fic, with Adam and Eve dealing with the consequences of turning the two young lovers, hopefully there's some anger and confusion and eventually a functional family.
Really I'm pretty into family. Making Ava more reasonable, on her own of because she turned Ian? You could do something a hundred years down the line, dealing with yet another world, new challenges, new family? Eventually technology tends makes it harder and harder to live in the margins and for people to hide their identities, which is clearly already complicated in the early 21st century. Maybe a reunion with old friends and family (who might be new friends and family at the time of the movie). Maybe big societal changes! Maybe weird vampire stuff! I'm pretty flexible. :)
Addition:<\/b>
Request 3 by laura47
The Birdcage (1996)
No rating
Choose Not To Use Archive Warnings
No category
Request Unfulfilled
20 Oct 2014Tags
Agador (The Birdcage) Val Goldman Armand Goldman Albert Goldman
Summary
I'd like some family fic, either set in the future, about the extended families of the Goldmans and inlaws, or maybe backstory about Val growing up and Armand and Albert figuring out their lives as fathers. I just want more of these characters, I would have requested more if more than 4 had been nominated, I love every character. Well, not the reporters. ;)
Addition:<\/b> Characters listed are really "Or", not "And", I don't mean to be restrictive!
Request 4 by laura47
Sleep No More - Punchdrunk
No rating
Choose Not To Use Archive Warnings
No category
Request Unfulfilled
20 Oct 2014Tags
Summary
I've seen this three times in Boston and New York and I have no idea how to write for it. Useless prompt, sorry! Go wherever your heart takes you! Stories within the established cannon, bringing in new shakespeare or gothic romance or whatever, weird meta things, I... whatever you want. :)
Addition:<\/b>
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Dear Festividder,
Thank you for making me a vid, or considering making me a vid if you're just passing through. :) I'm very easy to please. You can do crossovers, meta, spoken word instead of music, weird experimental stuff, don't hold back. :)
My requests:
- Babylon 5<\/li>
here's what i wrote in two previous years:
B5 is so near and dear to my heart. I watched it as a teenager, and was just head over heals about it. I'm not super fond of non-Sheridan station commanders (Sinclair and Lochley), though it is not out of great love for Sheridan, I just don't like them. I love Londo and G'Kar and their EPIC GROWTH and their friendship. I am fond of Delenn. My ultimate love is Susan Ivanova, <3 <3 <3. So much love. My Ivanova tshirt is one of my most treasured garments. I love Susan on her own, I love Susan with Marcus or Talia. I also loved Marcus in a somewhat teenage girl sort of way, and got a college essay over fighting with the high school yearbook over a quote from him. Have you read that story JMS published, \"Space, Time, and the Incurable Romantic\"? I both love that and am a little squicked? I also love many other characters, I'll elaborate more in my dear festividder letter.
I can't even begin to really explain my love of B5. It was my first
real serious epic (before LOTR, for me!). It meant so much to me, in
the way that only your first huge sweeping epic can, back when life
was simpler and moral ambiguity was novel. I love the hugeness of it,
and i love the small intimate moments. I really love the relationships
between people, and what happens to people and relationships in
stressful times. I love the people, I love the station. I love
everything, I did a B5 cross stitch, for serious. I was always fond of
Delenn and Sheridan's relationship, but mostly in the way that you
might really love what a great relationship your parents have? I don't
know. I sort of hero worshipped Ivanova, while totally seeing her
flaws and loving her for them, not despite them, even though I never
wanted to make those decisions. I <3 Vir, and his evolution, and have
you read the centauri books by peter david, based on JMS's outlines?
Because you should. I was deeply sad about Lennier's decision, and I
wished that Marcus could be there for him, in a totally platonic way.
Just do whatever you want, really. :-)
- LEGO Marvel Super Heroes [Game]<\/li>
I love Marvel and this game is a delight. My only real complaint is the way they've designed the \"smart\" character aspect. I'd love villians, I'd love heroes, i'd love SHIELD, I'd love ensemble, I'd love over the top weird, I'd love ironic, I'd love pretty much anything. I love Natasha and Steve and Loki and Thor and Tony and Bruce and Coulson and Fury and basically all the X-Men. i love getting to see characters from the different movie universes together on screen. The Fantastic Four have never really grabbed me, and Deadpool... I dunno, we don't have the same sense of humor.
- Moonrise Kingdom [Movie]<\/li>
I love Wes Anderson films. For whatever reason, they just tug on my heart strings, specifically my heart strings related to family and dysfunction, and trying to fix things. I If you want to try and make me cry, that's cool. I see this movie as \"Broken Wes Anderson protagonists, if you managed to get ahold of them and have them do the life-changing thing at 12 instead of as adults\".
- The Royal Tenenbaums [Movie]<\/li>
And this is what happened when no one helps then when they are 12. :-( I don't know if I would even like any of these people if I met them in real life? I love the picture of their family, sad, dysfunctional, but family. I'd love something about family and how it hurts us and helps us, how it holds us back and defines us and lets us grow, or a character piece on any of the characters would be cool too.
- Only Lovers Left Alive (2013) [Movie]<\/li>
This is my Festivids\/Yuletide crossover this year! I love having one. :)
Here's what I said for Yuletide, which basically sums up what I like, and do whatever you like.
it has spoilers so
I loved the feel of the movie, the dreamy languid sense of it all, the way it didn't care about rushing through a plot, the sense that there's so much history we don't know about, all that negative space for fic writing.
I'd love some kind of chosen vampire family, or old school backstory. i love stories of long lived characters and how that affects their relationships, perspectives, and interactions with the world.
I'd love an AU where Ian gets turned instead of killed, I think that has amazing potential.
I'd also love post-movie fic, with Adam and Eve dealing with the consequences of turning the two young lovers, hopefully there's some anger and confusion and eventually a functional family.
Really I'm pretty into family. Making Ava more reasonable, on her own of because she turned Ian? You could do something a hundred years down the line, dealing with yet another world, new challenges, new family? Eventually technology tends makes it harder and harder to live in the margins and for people to hide their identities, which is clearly already complicated in the early 21st century. Maybe a reunion with old friends and family (who might be new friends and family at the time of the movie). Maybe big societal changes! Maybe weird vampire stuff! I'm pretty flexible. :)
<\/a>
- Seaquest [TV]<\/li>
I know I keep saying this, but I was really very obsessed with this. (I really didn't have hobbies besides obsessing over TV in middle school). I loved Lucas. I really loved Darwin. I loved the first two seasons more than the third, um, I loved it all. I loved O'Neill, and Captain Bridger, I think I loved everyone in the first two seasons.
- X-Men: The Animated Series (1992) [TV]<\/li>
Just seeing the words makes the theme song start playing through my head. I loved this show to bits. I super shipped Rogue\/Gambit as a little preteen. It was possibly my earliest ship! If you don't like that, maybe just a Rogue vid? I loved her so very much.
Nothing wrong with Charles\/Magneto, of course. I was also fond of Wolverine and Storm, less so of Jubilee and and Cyclops and Jean Grey. I liked the Mystique of this incarnation. Oh, and Mystique and Rogue!
Follow you heart! Thank you!
<\/ol>
So what do I like?
I like deep, meta vids, I did media studies in college and I love thinking hard.
I also like vids that are just full of pretty visuals, especially with really strong colors.
Comedy, also good! Things about friendships and other relationships, I'm a sucker
for them! Sentimental and sappy is usually okay, I am a sucker for it.
Action is cool too! I really don't have any big \"No\"s, I just like things. :)
Old letters:
one where I talk about music: http:\/\/laura47.livejournal.com\/1191525.html<\/a>
http:\/\/laura47.livejournal.com\/1248772.html<\/a>
http:\/\/laura47.livejournal.com\/1191525.html<\/a>
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You can read my story here: http:\/\/archiveofourown.org\/works\/1095609<\/a>
It's 7300 words and I'm actually quite proud of it. It's called \"Grace and Sally\" and all you need to know is this tiny comic:
If anyone knows the original author of the comic pleeeeease tell me!
This story really flowed once I decided what I was doing. I had SO MANY IDEAS and decided to just start writing a few with write or die\/written kitten and see what stuck. As usual, I hid out from my family on Christmas Eve trying to finish, but this time, Peter was with me so I abandoned him to my brother's inlaws. :) I went for a stealth crossover - in the first draft I mentioned in in the first paragraph (it was a cheesy paragraph to get me started), and I know I would have gotten more hits if I'd tagged it, but I liked the surprise. Trying to decide if I should tag it now, thoughts?
Anyway, I think it's a sweet story, and I hope you'll give it a look. :)
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\"They have called this day the eleventh of March! And whomsoever of you gets through this day, unless you are shot in the head or somehow slain, you will stand at tiptoe when e\u2019er you hear the name again! And you will get excited at the name March the eleventh! We happy few, we few, we band of brothers. Our names will be as like household names! And those who are not here, be they sleeping or doing something else, they will feel themselves sort of crappy! Because they are not here to join the fight on this day the eleventh of March!\"
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- I want lots of families with interesting interactions, and ideally strong family characters, or at least stereotypes<\/li>
- I want lots of love plots, and potentially a tension between arranged marriages and love marriages<\/li>
- I want politics, but it doesn't have to be as high epic as civil war or choosing a king<\/li>
- I probably want 20-40 characters. I want to try writing a big game again<\/li>
- This is where it gets hard: I don't want a super patriarchal society. I could possibly AU an existing society to be more gender equal. But... fuck that, why should every game that has the things I already listed be gender fucked? I want to play a game like that and play a woman and not be fighting against gender expectations if I want to have agency beyond family matters. <\/li>
- I have a much weaker preference towards a setting without a lot of religion, or a chill and non-contentious religion. <\/li>
- I'd like there to be other interesting world building to grab onto, but also some negative space for me to add things.<\/li><\/ul>So, anyone have any ideas?
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Larpers! You are cordially invited to a Fiestaval!<\/div>¡Fiestaval! is the ninth Festival of the LARPs, an annual LARP convention held at Brandeis University.<\/div>
Bids are open! Bid your game now HERE<\/a><\/b>.<\/div>
Registration for the convention is open! Register now at 2014.festivalofthelarps.com<\/a><\/b>!<\/div>
Registration is free and open to the general public. Limited crash space is available upon request.<\/div>
This year, Festival sign-ups will be tiered.<\/div>
On Tuesday, March 18th<\/b> you can sign up for one game at 7pm.<\/div>On Wednesday, March 19th<\/b> you can sign up for up to two games at 7pm.<\/div>On
- No rating<\/span><\/span><\/a><\/li>
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<\/ul>10 Oct 2016<\/p><\/div>
Tags<\/h6>
- <\/ul>
- This is the comic-line that got me to actually be a regular comics reader. I heard "bisexual" and "gender fluid" and "Loki" and I picked up a digital subscription, started reading, and was just really kind of confused about backstory and wandered off. Then awhile later I picked up a Marvel Unlimited subscription, started with the JMS run of Thor because I'm a big Babylon 5 fan, and next thing you know I was all over comics. :) I finished Journey Into Mystery months ago and I still get upset when I think about it. I'm not currently caught up on Agent of Asgard, but I will be well before Christmas. (I'm trying to read everything that feels relevant in Axis and I just get so bogged down in these crossover events I give up. But this is the perfect motivation to get me back on track!)<\/span><\/li>
- I'm particularly into gender and sexuality and fluidity thereof, and questions of identity, and what it means to be good or evil or ethical or moral<\/span><\/li>
- Speaking of identity, I think undoing what JiM did at the end would probably be too... too much, in some way? I sometimes things that are "fix it fic" just become stuck in my head as my canon and then it's hard to continue on with the original source. I would love if that hadn't had to happen, but since it did... but, if you wind up with some kind of complicated reality rewriting time travel complicated thing, and it's culmination of something big, do what you think is right. I just don't know how I would feel about just starting with "that never happened" or something like that. And at this point, things have gotten so complicated with identity that... I don't even know. (Sorry this is my most rambly and emotionally confused yuletide request ever.)<\/span><\/li>
- I did come at this as a Loki movie fan, so you are free to have that as an inspiration if you like, but movie Loki's got nothing on this one. I do wish we could just have a tv show with Hiddleston going through this, but he'd never have the time. ah well. Pretty much the only Loki fic I've read is astolat's, and that is a different Loki than this, but if I have a headcanon for movie Loki, it's that, for whatever that says.<\/span><\/li>
- I think Odin's a shitty father and a shitty ruler and I'd prefer not to deal with him at length, though if you have something you think is awesome, that is critical of their relationships and does something interesting, go for it. You can do pretty much anything you want with Thor except go for the worst versions of Thor as a oafish goon jock who never thinks. You don't need to include Thor, or you could make this all an exploration of Thor and Loki's relationship. Honestly there's no one that I would be heartbroken if they weren't included. I'm particularly fond of Hela, and Verity.<\/span><\/li>
- You can throw Loki into the rest of the marvel comics universe (whatever the hell that is these days, or previous days), you can have Loki writing slash like he mentioned back in the first issue, you can... send Loki to Mars? I'm really really flexible about setting is what I'm saying. :) I don't know about full on AU, but feel free to change things around.<\/span><\/li>
- 2016 note: My other requests say "Please no AUs, graphic violence, slavery, miscarriage (unless tagged, i just don't want to be surprised), or sexual assault." I'm actually more okay with those things here, but please tag them. And see above about AUs - not really looking for a coffeeshop AU, but something where AoA Loki is playing around with fic tropes and the idea of a coffeshop AU which still being "my Loki" is totally okay. Have fun!<\/li>
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If by some chance you haven't read kid Loki and would like to, (or anyone else reading this) here's a guide: http:\/\/journey-into-mystery.tumbl<\/a><\/span>r.com\/post\/30097993112\/kidlokiguide It's all on Marvel Unlimited, and I think you get a month for $10? I would totally reimburse you for a couple months of that afterwards, if that's not weird? If that's weird, forget I asked. :)<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote> <\/p><\/li>
Request 2 by laura47<\/h4>
Fandom:<\/span>Uprooted - Naomi Novik<\/a><\/h5>
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<\/ul>10 Oct 2016<\/p><\/div>
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Request 3 by laura47<\/h4>
Fandom:<\/span>Sense8 (TV)<\/a><\/h5>
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<\/ul>10 Oct 2016<\/p><\/div>
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- Daniela Velasquez<\/a><\/li>
- Lito Rodriguez<\/a><\/li>
<\/ul>Summary<\/h6>
(If you're wondering why Hernando isn't on the list, it's because AO3 wouldn't let me select him and I decided to just move on. Obviously this means you don't *have* to include him, but I would certainly like it. :) )
So, these three! I love them. :) I want them to be happy, at least in the end.
To jump to the awkward parts!
- Everyone except Hernando behaved poorly in some ways in season one. (Hernando is literally perfect, best I can tell.) Daniela was super inappropriate in filming them, and Lito was shitty in letting her suffer for him. I don't want to excuse that, but I certainly don't need to dwell on it. Or even mention it, necessarily?
- Also, sexuality, it's a thing. You do not have to do anything sexual or dealing with sexual identity, but if you do, I am totally find with sexuality being a complicated fluid thing. People's actions don't define their sexual identity - asexuals can have sex and still be asexual, monosexual people can have homosexual experiences and still be monosexual. So I would be totally fine with some kind of sexuality between Daniela and either Hernando or Lito, with that have no real effect on their identity, deciding maybe they are bi or homoflexible, anything *except* "oh now i'm heterosexual". Oof, no. To summarize - no sex or sexual identity is fine, but if you do that, I am very flexible, with anything except "sudden heterosexuality". :)
Now, what is less awkward! Hopefully, eventually, these three! To start off, YOU CAN DO BASICALLY ANYTHING YOU WANT. I want you to have fun! But here's some general guidelines, which are only guidelines, not rules. We good there? :)
- I'm okay with working in stuff with the other 7, or not. They can swap in for periods of time, or be hanging out offering advice or snark or commentary, or (consesual) voyeurism or even (consensual) body hoping during sex or something like The Big Orgy. (which i believe was the first scene they shot for Lito? Mercy!) The three of them can run off to be physically with some or all of the rest of them, go on adventures, be part of a big ensemble piece, as long as they get a good chunk of the focus. (And if you want to write something very long, I am fine with it just being a good chunk of time in word count, and not necessarily total percentage. Like, if you wrote 30,000 words or something wild, I would not need it to be 20,000 about these three!)
- I would like for them to have some happy time post season 1, and a generally happy ending? Not "the season finale ends and then suddenly they all get arrested" or something. Angst and drama is fine in there, especially if it's a longer piece.
- Like so many fangirls, I love found\/chosen family.
- I have never said this before, but I would totally be happy with babies! Or kids! Whether growing their own or acquiring kids in some other ways or adventures in babysititng. Also domesticity sounds fun. Hijinks, sitcom stuff, wacky misunderstandings, elaborate ruses, all great. Fairly serious stuff about dealing with the complexity of their relationship and their lives, also great! Or stuff around fertility. I'm not squicked by anything involving pregnancy and childbirth.
- I'm not jonesing for "Lito is outed and it's horrible", but if that's the thing you're most inspired by, go for it. I'm not sure how I feel about the lesser version of "coming out to parents and it's horrible forever." I'm totally down for the three of them trying to have friends individually - i like the three of them together, but I'm generally a fan of people having friendships outside their relationships. :) Which risks getting outed, but well. I'm also okay with "Lito got outed and it sucked but they are moving on with their lives." Maybe he's making smaller films and happy, maybe they are living off his money and he's doing local theater, maybe he's not even acting right now.
- sex is good! I've never really asked for sex (or babies!) in yuletide, so i guess i should list kinks I'm not super into? bodily fluid related kink is the main one, any kind of permament bodily modification, and maybe stay away from temporary stuff? Anything that is generally cosidered kind of light-to-middle-ground kink is probably fine. :)
- Please no AUs, graphic violence, slavery, miscarriage (unless tagged, i just don't want to be surprised), or sexual assault.<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote><\/li>
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15-25 October - Signups
15 January - Submission deadline
28 January - Go live
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also, what are the big f\/f ships these days?
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* do you have a better term for non-digital? I don't. here's what they say on what types of games people write. "Historically most Game Chef games have been tabletop roleplaying games or live action games, but innovative designers like you are constantly breaking down and re-envisioning the divisions between different types of games (board games, card games, roleplaying games, live action games, etc.) Feel free to push the boundaries of what counts as a roleplaying game, an analog game, or a game."<\/span><\/p>\n\nCrossposted from Dreamwidth. Most commenting still happens on LJ. http:\/\/laura47.dreamwidth.org\/1081891.html","comments":"https:\/\/laura47.livejournal.com\/1292211.html?view=comments#comments"},{"guid":"https:\/\/laura47.livejournal.com\/1286655.html","pubDate":"Mon, 18 Jan 2016 10:37:51 GMT","title":"Festivids Reveal!","author":"laura47","link":"https:\/\/laura47.livejournal.com\/1286655.html","description":"
"All This and Heaven Too", Inside Out, for Festivids 2015-2016<\/a> from Laura 47<\/a> on Vimeo<\/a>.<\/p>
Download from dropbox: https:\/\/www.dropbox.com\/s\/p5u7w1pohajn9k6\/laura47%20signed%20inside%20out%20all%20this%20and%20heaven%20too%20festivids%202015-2016.mp4?dl=0<\/a>
I swore after last year I was just going to make happy action vids, likely to animated movies, because my Lego Movie vid was so much less stressful to make than previous years and it was well received.
And Inside Out seemed like a great source to offer.
BUT ALL THE FEELINGS. It is, of course, literally *about* feelings in the most literal sense possible, but somehow I just offered it anyway, even though I cried watching it in a theater. I wound up making something very emotional for me, and apparently it's hit some viewers emotionally as well. There wasn't anyway to vid this that wasn't going to be emotional, by definition, so I felt a bit silly, but I'm quite happy with where it all went!
I was quite aways into the process of this vid when I realized I was confused about what the vid was about, because that's how my creative processed works sometimes. :) I started out thinking I was making a vid about the importance of lower-case-s sadness, then i realized I was making a vid about the importance of sadness and Joy coming to understand that, then I scrapped some stuff and added more Joy because clearly it was about Joy, Sadness, and Joy understanding the importance of sadness and also Sadness, and also also Sadness understanding the importance of S\/sadness. Then, awhile after that, I realized I was ridiculous and the feeling I never knew existed before was the joy-and-sadness feeling (i put literally clips down and went WAIT THAT'S THE THING I may have shouted, my spouse and friends are used to it). So the vid was actually about Joy, Sadness, Joy understanding sadness, Joy understanding Sadness, I'm losing track of things but also joy-and-sadness, lowercase. Which is terirbly amusing for me, because my little nephew loves this movie and calls it \"joy and sadness\" instead of the proper name. Adorably, my mom was using the context of the movie to try and talk to him about what his dad might be feeling, attending the football game we were watching. If this movie helps kids talk about feelings and develop empathy a bit better or a bit sooner, then booyah. :)
As for the song, I just didn't know what to do, and I asked various friends to make suggestions for me.I'd been asking for songs that felt both sad and then happy, and all sorts of complicated things, and really was thinking about it in the wrong way. I was driving over to
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And gives me things I've always wanted.
IT'S SO GOOD AND I CAN'T STOP THINKING ABOUT IT ALSO DREAMING ABOUT IT.
places to buy it: http:\/\/www.naominovik.com\/2014\/09\/pre-order-uprooted-by-naomi-novik\/
I've never regretted not requesting something for yuletide this much.
I actually stopped so I could prolong the experience of the book. And because I decided I couldn't read it on amtrak with someone next to me, given the things i was likely to feel, and i cried reading it on the previous amtrak trip (with no seatmate)
I am reading on kindle and own three hardcover copies for my spouse and lending out. well, one is still in the mail.
sequel: "“It’s not out of the question but not currently planned either!”" <\/strong>http:\/\/www.naominovik.com\/2015\/08\/ask-naomi-will-you-write-a-sequel-to-uprooted\/<\/span><\/font>
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* i did check her livejournal to confirm she's not hiding her identity anymore. I'm so happy she can be published and so successful while still writing the fic she does. :-D“Wild, thrilling, and deeply, darkly magical. An instant classic.”—Lev Grossman<\/span>, #1 New York Times<\/em> bestselling author of the Magicians Trilogy<\/em><\/p>
“Reading Uprooted was like rediscovering a favorite old sweater, familiar and beloved. It feels as if it has always existed and has been waiting patiently for me to return to it.”—Maggie Stiefvater<\/span>, #1 New York Times<\/em> bestselling author of the Shiver Trilogy<\/em><\/p>
“Uprooted is one of those tales you come back to over and over again because it’s just that enchanting. The adventure builds with such tension that you are peeking through your hands at the end, hoping it will all be okay, and Naomi Novik delivers a conclusion that’s deeply satisfying, earning a permanent space on my bookshelf that I’ll revisit often.”—Kevin Hearne<\/span>, New York Times<\/em> bestselling author of Shattered<\/strong><\/p>
“Magical and practical, otherworldly and planted in the real, I could not stop reading this book and neither will you!”—Tamora Pierce<\/span>, New York Times<\/em> bestselling author of Trickster’s Choice<\/strong> and Trickster’s Queen<\/strong><\/p>
“Uprooted by Naomi Novik is enchanting, in every sense of that fine old word. A charming and inviting story that looks unflinchingly at the strangling roots of hurt and revenge.”—Robin Hobb<\/span>, bestselling author of Fool’s Assassin<\/strong><\/p>
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Requests:Gattaca (1997) [Movie]<\/h3>This movie gives me chills. I am huge SF fan, and especially about the societal effects of new technology and science and stuff like that. I found it visually striking as well. I am pretty happy with anything - if this is what you matched on, you might want to check back later, I hope to rewatch it? Which is horribly vague and you don't have to. :) But it's been a few years. One time I saw it at a SF marathon and someone broken down so much at the ending that they had to be helped out of the theater, and I don't blame them. I hate the injustice of the society, of course.
Jane The Virgin [TV]<\/h3>[I am not caught up but I will be! As I write this I'm on 1x16, I think.]
I feel like I should just jump to the love plot question right off, by saying I'm team Rafael (as of 1x16), but all that means is that I'd prefer not to get an actual Jane\/Michael shipping vid. And sadly, I can't believe any of them pulling off poly, sigh. But otherwise, I have no bans on any characters. I'm generally happy with most things except that one listed above. I'll just go through some characters, eh?
Jane: I love Jane to itty bitty little pieces (wait that phrase is so weird, huh). I love how she has wacky adventures and misunderstanding but they mostly come from such a good place. I want no one to ever lie to her or hurt her in anyway. I don't wish ill on anymore, but I want nothing but perfect happiness for all of the Villanueva women. I love how real and complex all of her feelings and struggles are, I love how she's so different from most TV characters, I love how despite living very different lives and having many different values, I adore the hell out of her. I love her passion for writing, and for teaching, and for the idea of romance without being an idiot about it. :)
Xiomara: I just want to hug her and tell her she's a good mom. I love all of her flaws, and how aware she is of them, and her relationship with...herself, really, and all her actions and history and family and lovers (and not many friends, huh). The way she falls into being a child fighting with her mother and her desperate desire to be perfect for Jane and how she wants to support Jane but also fears her making bad decisions, how she can still pursue her dreams after so many years of not making it, I just love her.
Alba: See, somehow, despite coming from a Catholic family and being a bitter ex-Catholic athiest and hating Catholic sex shaming more than most things in the world, I still love Alba. Which is just a testament to so much about this show and the characters. She just wants the best for her family, and misses her husband, and is still a little scared of America,and is scared of being deported (does she have a doctor who ignores her immigration status, or has she just not had medical care in decades, god I don't even know how this works, it's not like I'm not angry about immigration policies at least weekly but thisjust breaks my heart all over again.)
Michael: okay, while i understand hating Rafael for being with the woman he loves, I can't abide by his actions there. One of my biggest issues with various fiction is that cops breaking the law or abusing their authority or skipping search warrants or mistreating suspects if a huge huge problem for me. I made it through literally one episode of Hawaii Five-O, for instance. There was shark cage involved. Knowing as an audience that someone is guilty changes nothing, and makes me angry on a meta level because I'm sure it influences people to being more okay with police misconduct when they totally look guilty (or were convicted or confessed or anything.) And don't even get me started on torture, the point is I have issues there so if we could avoid any scenes of even mild police misconduct that would be awesome. :) Otherwise, I get why he was lying to Jane about Petra, but I'd probably dump someone over that, when it was about something as huge as the future happiness of my child, so I can't fault Jane and don't like what he did. But! He's often sweet and caring and he loves Jane and i don't wish ill on him (I keep saying these things as if I have any say, I think it's the soapy nature of the show, drawing me in.)
Rafael: Also far from perfect, but he is, as a friend of a friend said, "disney prince handsome". Like just look at him. And he's trying so hard to make up for who he was, and, like, okay so much with Luisa. (where i am she recently ran off with Rose.) He loved her and trusted her enough to risk everything he had financially (which he was working so hard on to get his father's approval and prove himself) to give her what she needed to get her life on track. In that little bit in the first episode before everything goes down, you can see such closeness between them, and it really breaks his heart the way she fucks up. And then he's too quick to send her away after she comes back, but honestly it looked really terrible. If this were fic I'd want sibling stuff maybe, didn't realize this till i wrote this paragraph, ha. tl;dr: i am well aware of rafael's flaws but like him anyway, because this show writes good characters.
Luisa: Oh, how they handled mental health and the institution was not my favorite, you can include parts if you do a Luisa vid because it's important but I'd prefer those scenes not be handled as comedy, despite what the show did?
Rose: I dunno, she's a pretty terrible person, but somehow I want her and Luisa to be happy, while what i should be wanting is luisa to have an actually reasonable relationship. I blame Bridget Regan and her acting. Also her face. (Blew my mind when i realized she was Dottie and Kahlan.)
Petra: Damn, I did not expect to come around on her so much. I still don't like how she treats people sometimes, but I have a lot of sympathy for her and long term I'd like her to be stable in her own right and have a good balanced relationship and be able to chill out some. (I know this keeps sounding like a yuletide request, sorry! I don't expect you to construct anything here, I just wanted to talk about how I feel about them.)
Petra's Mom: I have no idea what her deal is. I'm expecting to see her back before the end of the season. ;-)The Martian [Movie]<\/h3>I laughed, I cried, I reread the book, it was better than cats. In addition to being a huge SF fan about societal changes as mentioned above, I am passionate about space and extra-planetary exploration. The book was described as "engineering porn" and yes, absolutely. I have a bachelor of science in media studies, because my alma mater only gives out SBs, so i m not a scientist or engineer, but i have a basic background, and am surrounded by such people and am a huge fan.
I'm generally happy with anything, but some ideas:- the majesty of space travel<\/li>
- the triumph of the human spirit<\/li>
- being a clever bastard<\/li>
- just Mars herself<\/li>
- the NASA side of things!<\/li>
- the ares 3 crew<\/li>
- weird constructed reality with other damon roles? interstellar is the obvious one, but nothing pops there, and i found that character fairly heartbreaking actually. but especially given that jessica chastain was in that. If it inspires you, go for it!<\/li>
- something sciency! <\/li>
- overlaying quotes from the book or audio from the audiobook (which i really liked)<\/li><\/ul>but really, anything that inspires you. Instrumental music might be cool here, but only if you like that!
Ms. Marvel US (2014-) [Still Image]<\/h3>tl;dr: anything :)
ReBoot [TV]<\/h3>tl;dr: anything :)
Young Avengers [Still Image]<\/h3>i've only (so far) read the more recently one (2014? 2013?) comic, with Loki, but I'll go read earlier stuff before golive. I'm a big Loki fan, which is why I wound up there, but I really liked every one else. team feels, gay stuff, loki's sad story and character arc, whatever you like. bringing in other comics is 110% okay. if you do, can you please list the issues\/series used so i can read them? thank you ever so much.:) You can read some more about my Loki feels here: http:\/\/laura47.livejournal.com\/1282266.html
<\/div><\/p>\n\nCrossposted from Dreamwidth. Most commenting still happens on LJ. http:\/\/laura47.dreamwidth.org\/1072159.html","comments":"https:\/\/laura47.livejournal.com\/1282368.html?view=comments#comments","category":"festivids"},{"guid":"https:\/\/laura47.livejournal.com\/1282266.html","pubDate":"Tue, 27 Oct 2015 05:39:17 GMT","title":"Dear Yuletide Author","author":"laura47","link":"https:\/\/laura47.livejournal.com\/1282266.html","description":"UPDATE: MORE JOE BIDEN CANON: http:\/\/www.theonion.com\/article\/biden-to-cool-his-heels-in-mexico-for-a-while-17996<\/a><\/strong>
Joe Biden as written by The Onion - <\/strong><\/span>- oh my god I love this. I nominated it. No idea if anyone will offer it. :) Current Biden, Future Biden, maybe Biden as senator? I think being VP or former VP is funnier. Maybe he can just sort of refuse to leave after Obama's out? The Onion never mentions his wife (who is awesome) and I think that is actually probably for the best? A lot of his behavior would make for a shitty husband, and Jill doesn't deserve that. I'd prefer nothing about his recent family tragedy, because that's not funny. I guess this doesn't *have* to be funny? I'm not really sure how to make something serious out of this. :) They have been very ambiguous about backstory, whether he has all this history as a roadie and a pot dealer and also was a senator, or if this random dude just elected VP, i'm fine with either.<\/li>
- Crossovers are great, or something like "Joe Biden gets matched on pairing he hates in Yuletide" or "Joe Biden's cosplay disrupts convention masquerade", Joe Biden interacting with fannish things, or Joe Biden LARPing or Joe Biden doing pretty much anything?<\/li>
- You can write in any form that appeals, articles like the onion, or tweets, or tumblr, or just narrative, or epistolary, or, I dunno, college syllabus? that one probably doesn't make sense but hopefully demonstrates how open I am to ideas. :-) Basically, if your story is about TheOnion!JoeBiden, I'll likely be overjoyed. :)<\/li>
- Some of my favorites:<\/li>
<\/ul>http:\/\/www.theonion.com\/article\/biden-worries-legalized-weed-in-dc-will-cut-into-h-38210<\/a>
http:\/\/www.theonion.com\/article\/biden-arrives-early-to-set-up-state-of-the-union-f-37812<\/a>
http:\/\/www.theonion.com\/article\/biden-tossed-out-of-car-passing-by-white-house-37494<\/a>
http:\/\/www.theonion.com\/article\/biden-gets-grow-light-delivered-to-white-house-und-36597<\/a>
http:\/\/www.theonion.com\/article\/biden-loses-control-of-butterfly-knife-during-comm-36053<\/a>
http:\/\/www.theonion.com\/article\/frantic-biden-searching-dog-shelter-for-bo-look-al-35161<\/a>
http:\/\/www.theonion.com\/article\/biden-frantically-hitting-up-cabinet-members-for-c-34515<\/a>
http:\/\/www.theonion.com\/article\/nude-biden-wakes-up-on-cold-slab-in-dc-morgue-34243<\/a>
http:\/\/www.theonion.com\/article\/biden-has-guy-named-worm-sit-in-for-him-at-cabinet-33250<\/a>
http:\/\/www.theonion.com\/article\/biden-investigated-for-questionable-workers-comp-c-32571<\/a>
http:\/\/www.theonion.com\/article\/biden-working-his-way-through-scratch-off-tickets--30973<\/a>
Two Monks Inventing Things<\/strong>- OMG you offered this! Or maybe I'm on pinch hits or you're browsing letters. If the latter, well, this is a series of humor pieces at The Toast. It's a quick read! The concept is that two monks are creating works of art, and... it's hilarious? They exist sort of out of time and space, creating works of art and encouraging each other to make weird decisions. Mallory, the author, is clearly someone with a lot of humanities education, much like myself. :)<\/span>
It's here: <\/span>http:\/\/the-toast.net\/tag\/two-monks-inventing-things\/<\/a>
Reading any one will let you know if you like this kind of thing, I expect.<\/span>
What do I want? Anything.<\/span>
* Monks inventing something not art - shoes, operating systems, far future civilizations, dystopias, media. It's a great format to lovingly call out the flaws\/weird decisions of something you love, if you have an idea, run with it. (If you're concerned you might be being obscure and you want to include explanatory links on top that would be rad, I'll read things! [ [edit: eek there's a new one i hadn't seen, about the inventing church denominations! INVENT ALL THE THINGS]<\/span>
* Monks inventing art - more of the same, or different art! Modern art? Fanart? That could be fun<\/span>
* A serious character study about the lives of these monks, whether in one time and place or bouncing all over. Are they immortal? Are they archetypes? Are they trapped in church bureaucracy that makes them effectively immortal? Are they positions passed down throughout the ages? Are they in love? Do they just sort of exist with little awareness that they are living through different times and places? ARE THEY COMPUTER SIMULATIONS? Don't worry about getting too weird for me!!! I like weird.<\/span>
* Crazy world building? GO FOR IT. SERIOUSLY. <\/span>
HAVE FUN AND INVENT THINGS<\/span><\/li>
<\/ul>Loki: Agent of Asgard- This is the comic-line that got me to actually be a regular comics reader. I heard "bisexual" and "gender fluid" and "Loki" and I picked up a digital subscription, started reading, and was just really kind of confused about backstory and wandered off. Then awhile later I picked up a Marvel Unlimited subscription, started with the JMS run of Thor because I'm a big Babylon 5 fan, and next thing you know I was all over comics. :) I finished Journey Into Mystery months ago and I still get upset when I think about it. I'm not currently caught up on Agent of Asgard, but I will be well before Christmas. (I'm trying to read everything that feels relevant in Axis and I just get so bogged down in these crossover events I give up. But this is the perfect motivation to get me back on track!)<\/span><\/li>
- I'm particularly into gender and sexuality and fluidity thereof, and questions of identity, and what it means to be good or evil or ethical or moral<\/span><\/li>
- Speaking of identity, I think undoing what JiM did at the end would probably be too... too much, in some way? I sometimes things that are "fix it fic" just become stuck in my head as my canon and then it's hard to continue on with the original source. I would love if that hadn't had to happen, but since it did... but, if you wind up with some kind of complicated reality rewriting time travel complicated thing, and it's culmination of something big, do what you think is right. I just don't know how I would feel about just starting with "that never happened" or something like that. And at this point, things have gotten so complicated with identity that... I don't even know. (Sorry this is my most rambly and emotionally confused yuletide request ever.)<\/span><\/li>
- I did come at this as a Loki movie fan, so you are free to have that as an inspiration if you like, but movie Loki's got nothing on this one. I do wish we could just have a tv show with Hiddleston going through this, but he'd never have the time. ah well. Pretty much the only Loki fic I've read is astolat's, and that is a different Loki than this, but if I have a headcanon for movie Loki, it's that, for whatever that says. <\/span><\/li>
- I think Odin's a shitty father and a shitty ruler and I'd prefer not to deal with him at length, though if you have something you think is awesome, that is critical of their relationships and does something interesting, go for it. You can do pretty much anything you want with Thor except go for the worst versions of Thor as a oafish goon jock who never thinks. You don't need to include Thor, or you could make this all an exploration of Thor and Loki's relationship. Honestly there's no one that I would be heartbroken if they weren't included. I'm particularly fond of Hela, and Verity. <\/span><\/li>
- You can throw Loki into the rest of the marvel comics universe (whatever the hell that is these days, or previous days), you can have Loki writing slash like he mentioned back in the first issue, you can... send Loki to Mars? I'm really really flexible about setting is what I'm saying. :) I don't know about full of AU, but feel free to change things around. <\/span><\/li>
<\/ul>
If by some chance you haven't read kid Loki and would like to, (or anyone else reading this) here's a guide: http:\/\/journey-into-mystery.tumblr.com\/post\/30097993112\/kidlokiguide<\/a> It's all on Marvel Unlimited, and I think you get a month for $10?
Crossposted from Dreamwidth. Most commenting still happens on LJ. http:\/\/laura47.dreamwidth.org\/1071929.html<\/a>","comments":"https:\/\/laura47.livejournal.com\/1282266.html?view=comments#comments","category":["dear yuletide author","yuletide","dear yulegoat"]},{"guid":"https:\/\/laura47.livejournal.com\/1280051.html","pubDate":"Fri, 04 Sep 2015 04:51:24 GMT","title":"So you like dark?","author":"laura47","link":"https:\/\/laura47.livejournal.com\/1280051.html","description":"You like intense character stories about the darkness people are capable of, and struggling with your place in it all, and fighting what is in you and what you could be while wanting to embrace it?
JUST WATCH HANNIBAL.
Guys I can't handle horror movies but I watch this. I look away and get by, there is rarely any jump horror, and it is all so worth it. Having now seen the finale, I knoooow some of you would love this more than your realize, I know the LARP characters you play and the fic you like and this is it. This is it and it is such beautiful art, I swear it is amazing and transcendent.
(and they stay away from sexual violence and dog killing as a rule, they rewrote a villain to take out any explicit sexual violence, its fucked up but they try really hard on those two. Probably want perfect, but it did make me feel safe in one way).
And relationship that goes with it, the person who brings out that darknes in you, and challenges you and makes you know yourself, however fucked up that is? The person who defines you and all you can do is figure out what you do with that? Yeah. Yeah.
I'm going to rewatch it, and maybe even vid it. I am not done with this story, hell it might wind up beating Utena for show I watch the most times. You want to try it but are intimidated or want company or whatever? Talk to me.
Hannibal. It's really as amazing as we act like it is.
Hannibal.
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I recently wasn't backing any kickstarters and didn't notice. This is only the second time that's been true since I started this all, and last time it made me feel all weird and unhappy. This time I didn't notice. This is probably better. I really love helping people produce cool things and live their dreams outside mainstream methods, which can really enforce dominant sorts of voices and not encourage diversity, so backing kickstarters really makes me feel happy, and that's why I'll back some for low amounts and no reward - I want my friends to see it on my backed list, and to up their numbers a little.
If you want my advice after all this kickstartering, it's this:
(1) No kickstarter is a guarantee or preorder. Treat it accordingly. You are investing in a (varingly) risky venture! Don't put any money if you can't afford to lose.
(2) Never look at dates. If you need something by a specific date, do *not* use kickstarter. If you never look at dates and so never expect things to be \"on time\" you will (almost certainly) be so much happier. I see creators begging people to stop being horrible to them because they, like hundreds of kickstarters before them, are stuck in customs limbo or can't communicate with Chinese suppliers, and I can't imagined what entitled jerks their backers are. Sure, some kickstarters squander resources and are jerks, but I have *never* seen that happen and I do have a decent sample size (though as we will see, it is limited to a few wedges of the kickstarter project type pie).
If you follow those two suggestions, I think it will really eliminate the majority of angst I see.
I'm intending to go chronologically, but here's a link to the only active one I've got, a horror tabletop roleplaying game. https:\/\/www.kickstarter.com\/projects\/shiftyginger\/ten-candles-a-tragic-horror-storytelling-game<\/a>
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http:\/\/laura47.dreamwidth.org\/1055730.html<\/a>
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I'm sorry, I'm having the worst week I've had all year, with a variety of unexpected crisises. I have plans to work on my letter with a friend on Saturday, my apologies! My old letters are probably useful?
Thank you!
Laura
Dear Yulegoat!
THANK YOU SO MUCH! I'm so glad you want to write something for something I requested. When in doubt, please don't worry, I'll be happy with pretty much anything. :)
Request 1 by laura47
Two Monks Inventing Things (The Toast)
Monk #2 (Two Monks Inventing Things) Monk #1 (Two Monks Inventing Things)
Summary
OMG you offered this! Or maybe I'm on pinch hits or you're browsing letters. If the latter, well, this is a series of humor pieces at The Toast. It's a quick read! The concept is that two monks are creating works of art, and... it's hilarious? They exist sort of out of time and space, creating works of art and encouraging each other to make weird decisions. Mallory, the author, is clearly someone with a lot of humanities education, much like myself. :)
It's here: http:\/\/the-toast.net\/tag\/two-monks-inventing-things\/<\/a>
Reading any one will let you know if you like this kind of thing, I expect.
What do I want? Anything.
* Monks inventing something not art - shoes, operating systems, far future civilizations, dystopias, media. It's a great format to lovingly call out the flaws\/weird decisions of something you love, if you have an idea, run with it. (If you're concerned you might be being obscure and you want to include explanatory links on top that would be rad, I'll read things! [ [edit: eek there's a new one i hadn't seen, about the inventing church denominations! INVENT ALL THE THINGS]
* Monks inventing art - more of the same, or different art! Modern art? Fanart? That could be fun
* A serious character study about the lives of these monks, whether in one time and place or bouncing all over. Are they immortal? Are they archetypes? Are they trapped in church bureaucracy that makes them effectively immortal? Are they positions passed down throughout the ages? Are they in love? Do they just sort of exist with little awareness that they are living through different times and places? ARE THEY COMPUTER SIMULATIONS? Don't worry about getting too weird for me!!! I like weird.
* Crazy world building? GO FOR IT.
HAVE FUN AND INVENT THINGS
Request 2 by laura47
Only Lovers Left Alive (2013)
Adam (Only Lovers Left Alive) Eve (Only Lovers Left Alive)
Summary
I loved the feel of the movie, the dreamy languid sense of it all, the way it didn't care about rushing through a plot, the sense that there's so much history we don't know about, all that negative space for fic writing.
I'd love some kind of chosen vampire family, or old school backstory. i love stories of long lived characters and how that affects their relationships, perspectives, and interactions with the world.
I'd love an AU where Ian gets turned instead of killed, I think that has amazing potential.
I'd also love post-movie fic, with Adam and Eve dealing with the consequences of turning the two young lovers, hopefully there's some anger and confusion and eventually a functional family.
Really I'm pretty into family. Making Ava more reasonable, on her own of because she turned Ian? You could do something a hundred years down the line, dealing with yet another world, new challenges, new family? Eventually technology tends makes it harder and harder to live in the margins and for people to hide their identities, which is clearly already complicated in the early 21st century. Maybe a reunion with old friends and family (who might be new friends and family at the time of the movie). Maybe big societal changes! Maybe weird vampire stuff! I'm pretty flexible. :)
Addition:<\/b>
Request 3 by laura47
The Birdcage (1996)
No rating
Choose Not To Use Archive Warnings
No category
Request Unfulfilled
20 Oct 2014Tags
Agador (The Birdcage) Val Goldman Armand Goldman Albert Goldman
Summary
I'd like some family fic, either set in the future, about the extended families of the Goldmans and inlaws, or maybe backstory about Val growing up and Armand and Albert figuring out their lives as fathers. I just want more of these characters, I would have requested more if more than 4 had been nominated, I love every character. Well, not the reporters. ;)
Addition:<\/b> Characters listed are really "Or", not "And", I don't mean to be restrictive!
Request 4 by laura47
Sleep No More - Punchdrunk
No rating
Choose Not To Use Archive Warnings
No category
Request Unfulfilled
20 Oct 2014Tags
Summary
I've seen this three times in Boston and New York and I have no idea how to write for it. Useless prompt, sorry! Go wherever your heart takes you! Stories within the established cannon, bringing in new shakespeare or gothic romance or whatever, weird meta things, I... whatever you want. :)
Addition:<\/b>
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Dear Festividder,
Thank you for making me a vid, or considering making me a vid if you're just passing through. :) I'm very easy to please. You can do crossovers, meta, spoken word instead of music, weird experimental stuff, don't hold back. :)
My requests:- Babylon 5<\/li>
here's what i wrote in two previous years:
B5 is so near and dear to my heart. I watched it as a teenager, and was just head over heals about it. I'm not super fond of non-Sheridan station commanders (Sinclair and Lochley), though it is not out of great love for Sheridan, I just don't like them. I love Londo and G'Kar and their EPIC GROWTH and their friendship. I am fond of Delenn. My ultimate love is Susan Ivanova, <3 <3 <3. So much love. My Ivanova tshirt is one of my most treasured garments. I love Susan on her own, I love Susan with Marcus or Talia. I also loved Marcus in a somewhat teenage girl sort of way, and got a college essay over fighting with the high school yearbook over a quote from him. Have you read that story JMS published, \"Space, Time, and the Incurable Romantic\"? I both love that and am a little squicked? I also love many other characters, I'll elaborate more in my dear festividder letter.
I can't even begin to really explain my love of B5. It was my first
real serious epic (before LOTR, for me!). It meant so much to me, in
the way that only your first huge sweeping epic can, back when life
was simpler and moral ambiguity was novel. I love the hugeness of it,
and i love the small intimate moments. I really love the relationships
between people, and what happens to people and relationships in
stressful times. I love the people, I love the station. I love
everything, I did a B5 cross stitch, for serious. I was always fond of
Delenn and Sheridan's relationship, but mostly in the way that you
might really love what a great relationship your parents have? I don't
know. I sort of hero worshipped Ivanova, while totally seeing her
flaws and loving her for them, not despite them, even though I never
wanted to make those decisions. I <3 Vir, and his evolution, and have
you read the centauri books by peter david, based on JMS's outlines?
Because you should. I was deeply sad about Lennier's decision, and I
wished that Marcus could be there for him, in a totally platonic way.
Just do whatever you want, really. :-) - LEGO Marvel Super Heroes [Game]<\/li>
I love Marvel and this game is a delight. My only real complaint is the way they've designed the \"smart\" character aspect. I'd love villians, I'd love heroes, i'd love SHIELD, I'd love ensemble, I'd love over the top weird, I'd love ironic, I'd love pretty much anything. I love Natasha and Steve and Loki and Thor and Tony and Bruce and Coulson and Fury and basically all the X-Men. i love getting to see characters from the different movie universes together on screen. The Fantastic Four have never really grabbed me, and Deadpool... I dunno, we don't have the same sense of humor. - Moonrise Kingdom [Movie]<\/li>
I love Wes Anderson films. For whatever reason, they just tug on my heart strings, specifically my heart strings related to family and dysfunction, and trying to fix things. I If you want to try and make me cry, that's cool. I see this movie as \"Broken Wes Anderson protagonists, if you managed to get ahold of them and have them do the life-changing thing at 12 instead of as adults\".
- The Royal Tenenbaums [Movie]<\/li>
And this is what happened when no one helps then when they are 12. :-( I don't know if I would even like any of these people if I met them in real life? I love the picture of their family, sad, dysfunctional, but family. I'd love something about family and how it hurts us and helps us, how it holds us back and defines us and lets us grow, or a character piece on any of the characters would be cool too.
- Only Lovers Left Alive (2013) [Movie]<\/li>
This is my Festivids\/Yuletide crossover this year! I love having one. :)
Here's what I said for Yuletide, which basically sums up what I like, and do whatever you like.
it has spoilers so
I loved the feel of the movie, the dreamy languid sense of it all, the way it didn't care about rushing through a plot, the sense that there's so much history we don't know about, all that negative space for fic writing.
I'd love some kind of chosen vampire family, or old school backstory. i love stories of long lived characters and how that affects their relationships, perspectives, and interactions with the world.
I'd love an AU where Ian gets turned instead of killed, I think that has amazing potential.
I'd also love post-movie fic, with Adam and Eve dealing with the consequences of turning the two young lovers, hopefully there's some anger and confusion and eventually a functional family.
Really I'm pretty into family. Making Ava more reasonable, on her own of because she turned Ian? You could do something a hundred years down the line, dealing with yet another world, new challenges, new family? Eventually technology tends makes it harder and harder to live in the margins and for people to hide their identities, which is clearly already complicated in the early 21st century. Maybe a reunion with old friends and family (who might be new friends and family at the time of the movie). Maybe big societal changes! Maybe weird vampire stuff! I'm pretty flexible. :)
<\/a>
- Seaquest [TV]<\/li>
I know I keep saying this, but I was really very obsessed with this. (I really didn't have hobbies besides obsessing over TV in middle school). I loved Lucas. I really loved Darwin. I loved the first two seasons more than the third, um, I loved it all. I loved O'Neill, and Captain Bridger, I think I loved everyone in the first two seasons.
- X-Men: The Animated Series (1992) [TV]<\/li>
Just seeing the words makes the theme song start playing through my head. I loved this show to bits. I super shipped Rogue\/Gambit as a little preteen. It was possibly my earliest ship! If you don't like that, maybe just a Rogue vid? I loved her so very much.
Nothing wrong with Charles\/Magneto, of course. I was also fond of Wolverine and Storm, less so of Jubilee and and Cyclops and Jean Grey. I liked the Mystique of this incarnation. Oh, and Mystique and Rogue!
Follow you heart! Thank you!
<\/ol>
So what do I like?
I like deep, meta vids, I did media studies in college and I love thinking hard.
I also like vids that are just full of pretty visuals, especially with really strong colors.
Comedy, also good! Things about friendships and other relationships, I'm a sucker
for them! Sentimental and sappy is usually okay, I am a sucker for it.
Action is cool too! I really don't have any big \"No\"s, I just like things. :)
Old letters:
one where I talk about music: http:\/\/laura47.livejournal.com\/1191525.html<\/a>
http:\/\/laura47.livejournal.com\/1248772.html<\/a>
http:\/\/laura47.livejournal.com\/1191525.html<\/a>
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You can read my story here: http:\/\/archiveofourown.org\/works\/1095609<\/a>
It's 7300 words and I'm actually quite proud of it. It's called \"Grace and Sally\" and all you need to know is this tiny comic:
If anyone knows the original author of the comic pleeeeease tell me!
This story really flowed once I decided what I was doing. I had SO MANY IDEAS and decided to just start writing a few with write or die\/written kitten and see what stuck. As usual, I hid out from my family on Christmas Eve trying to finish, but this time, Peter was with me so I abandoned him to my brother's inlaws. :) I went for a stealth crossover - in the first draft I mentioned in in the first paragraph (it was a cheesy paragraph to get me started), and I know I would have gotten more hits if I'd tagged it, but I liked the surprise. Trying to decide if I should tag it now, thoughts?
Anyway, I think it's a sweet story, and I hope you'll give it a look. :)
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\"They have called this day the eleventh of March! And whomsoever of you gets through this day, unless you are shot in the head or somehow slain, you will stand at tiptoe when e\u2019er you hear the name again! And you will get excited at the name March the eleventh! We happy few, we few, we band of brothers. Our names will be as like household names! And those who are not here, be they sleeping or doing something else, they will feel themselves sort of crappy! Because they are not here to join the fight on this day the eleventh of March!\"
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- I want lots of love plots, and potentially a tension between arranged marriages and love marriages<\/li>
- I want politics, but it doesn't have to be as high epic as civil war or choosing a king<\/li>
- I probably want 20-40 characters. I want to try writing a big game again<\/li>
- This is where it gets hard: I don't want a super patriarchal society. I could possibly AU an existing society to be more gender equal. But... fuck that, why should every game that has the things I already listed be gender fucked? I want to play a game like that and play a woman and not be fighting against gender expectations if I want to have agency beyond family matters. <\/li>
- I have a much weaker preference towards a setting without a lot of religion, or a chill and non-contentious religion. <\/li>
- I'd like there to be other interesting world building to grab onto, but also some negative space for me to add things.<\/li><\/ul>So, anyone have any ideas?
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Bids are open! Bid your game now HERE<\/a><\/b>.<\/div>
Registration for the convention is open! Register now at 2014.festivalofthelarps.com<\/a><\/b>!<\/div>
Registration is free and open to the general public. Limited crash space is available upon request.<\/div>
This year, Festival sign-ups will be tiered.<\/div>
On Tuesday, March 18th<\/b> you can sign up for one game at 7pm.<\/div>On Wednesday, March 19th<\/b> you can sign up for up to two games at 7pm.<\/div>On
- Seaquest [TV]<\/li>
- I'm particularly into gender and sexuality and fluidity thereof, and questions of identity, and what it means to be good or evil or ethical or moral<\/span><\/li>
- This is the comic-line that got me to actually be a regular comics reader. I heard "bisexual" and "gender fluid" and "Loki" and I picked up a digital subscription, started reading, and was just really kind of confused about backstory and wandered off. Then awhile later I picked up a Marvel Unlimited subscription, started with the JMS run of Thor because I'm a big Babylon 5 fan, and next thing you know I was all over comics. :) I finished Journey Into Mystery months ago and I still get upset when I think about it. I'm not currently caught up on Agent of Asgard, but I will be well before Christmas. (I'm trying to read everything that feels relevant in Axis and I just get so bogged down in these crossover events I give up. But this is the perfect motivation to get me back on track!)<\/span><\/li>
- OMG you offered this! Or maybe I'm on pinch hits or you're browsing letters. If the latter, well, this is a series of humor pieces at The Toast. It's a quick read! The concept is that two monks are creating works of art, and... it's hilarious? They exist sort of out of time and space, creating works of art and encouraging each other to make weird decisions. Mallory, the author, is clearly someone with a lot of humanities education, much like myself. :)<\/span>
- oh my god I love this. I nominated it. No idea if anyone will offer it. :) Current Biden, Future Biden, maybe Biden as senator? I think being VP or former VP is funnier. Maybe he can just sort of refuse to leave after Obama's out? The Onion never mentions his wife (who is awesome) and I think that is actually probably for the best? A lot of his behavior would make for a shitty husband, and Jill doesn't deserve that. I'd prefer nothing about his recent family tragedy, because that's not funny. I guess this doesn't *have* to be funny? I'm not really sure how to make something serious out of this. :) They have been very ambiguous about backstory, whether he has all this history as a roadie and a pot dealer and also was a senator, or if this random dude just elected VP, i'm fine with either.<\/li>
- Lito Rodriguez<\/a><\/li>
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Summary<\/h6>
well, i unexpectedly fell hard for canon het (good job naomi)? i would adore something there, of any rating. especially higher ratings. :)<\/p>
If you're not interested in that, i loooove plotty gen (or any plotty stuff). so much! i got into fandom as a wee child who had zero interest in sex or romance, so that's actually where my roots are. Agnieszka's future, Kasia's adventures in her new life, Alosha past, future, or present, i'll try to add more ideas in my letter. :)<\/p>
I love time travel and intrigue! I love world building! I love detailed intimate relationship building! (Not necessarily sexual, but intimate.)<\/p>
i'm really into the-importance-of-platonic-female-friendship in this book, like sobbing hysterically over it, so (oddly! very oddly!) i am not interested in romantic\/sexual Agnieszka\/Kasia. (Believe me, no one is more surprised than I am.)
Borrowing a bit from my Sense8 request, but while I'm not all about "oh yeah i want wacky baby fic" in this situation, I would totally be okay with it, so here is what I said there: "I have never said this before, but I would totally be happy with babies! Or kids! Whether growing their own or acquiring kids in some other ways or adventures in babysititng. Also domesticity sounds fun. Hijinks, sitcom stuff, wacky misunderstandings, elaborate ruses, all great. Fairly serious stuff about dealing with the complexity of their relationship and their lives, also great! Or stuff around fertility. I'm not squicked by anything involving pregnancy and childbirth."
- sex is good! I've never really asked for sex (or babies!) in yuletide, so i guess i should list kinks I'm not super into? bodily fluid related kink is the main one, any kind of permament bodily modification, and maybe stay away from temporary stuff? (Magic stuff related to this is probably not going to set me off in the same way.) Magic sex is *great*. I adore the possibilities set up in the (small amount!) of sexual content we got in the book. :) Anything that is generally cosidered kind of light-to-middle-ground kink is probably fine. :) I beta read this fic last year and loved every bit of it: http:\/\/archiveofourown.org\/works\/5512190<\/a> This one wasn't sex but I also beta read it and loved it. :) <\/span>http:\/\/archiveofourown.org\/works\/5482808<\/a> That's all I've read though - I see there's been a bunch more since last yuletide, but I'm not going to read that anytime soon. :)<\/span><\/p>Please no AUs, graphic violence, slavery, miscarriage (unless tagged, i just don't want to be surprised), or sexual assault.<\/p>
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- Choose Not To Use Archive Warnings<\/span><\/span><\/a><\/li>
- I'm particularly into gender and sexuality and fluidity thereof, and questions of identity, and what it means to be good or evil or ethical or moral<\/span><\/li>
Summary<\/h6>
The bullet points below are what I wrote in 2015, when I was... maybe halfway through Agent of Asgard?
Since then, I've finished AoA, read the first two of the political "Vote Loki" miniseries, and a tiny bit of things with Jane!Thor. I'm holding off on anymore, including finishing "Vote Loki", for now. Comics are complicated when characters keep going. Everything from Kieron Gillen is magic and wonderful and 100% "my Loki." :) Having finished AoA, yup, that's "my Loki" too, with the twists along the way. Post that... well, when does a character change creators and identity enough to just be a different character? Because I loved JMS's Thor run, but that Loki is not quite "my Loki"? And with the way Loki changes and recreates, they are rather well suited to a kind of formalized "different Loki" - because JitM kid Loki is of course very different from later kid Loki etc. So, what does this all mean? I'm not even sure, dear author, I'm not even sure. I love where AoA left Loki, with the changes and the gender and the stories, and I'd love to go from there. You can absolutely continue with where the new authors take Loki if that feels good and right to you - if you do so, can you please leave an author's note on what I should read for context? I will go read it right away, including things that aren't in Unlimited yet, I'll just buy the regular digital copy.
Okay from there I can probably just toss you back into last year's notes. :) Oh, my only fic loki is still astolat's loki, if you want any other Loki inspiration or what not.<\/div> - Choose Not To Use Archive Warnings<\/span><\/span><\/a><\/li>