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dear Yuletide Entity
Dear Yuletide Entity:
First, the cut-and-paste: I like happy or at least hopeful endings. I'm usually okay with slash, het, or gen; I'm not crazy about 'cest. Gore and graphic violence are squicks; I'd rather not read about any non-con sex that isn't in the source material.
Specifics:
Oliver Goldsmith, The Vicar of Wakefield: This is one of those books that I only read because it was mentioned in Little Women, and it stuck with me enough that I like to reread it every few years. I have no particular preferences; I just want fic for it to exist. Standard what-happens-next; non-canon het or slash relationships in the background; cross-time crossover with Vicar of Dibley; retelling as a modern commentary on the C of E; whatever you come up with, I'll be happy.
Alexandre Dumas, Count of Monte Cristo: I love this book deeply, but every time I reread, I find myself annoyed about the standard Mercédès is held to. Mercédès gets screwed over by the story for the sin of being a woman who decided to go on with her life after losing her beloved (and reasonably believing him to be dead!!!), and I want a happy ending for her. Maybe Edmond returns to her as a widower many years later and they finally marry; maybe she finds a true vocation as a nun and rejoices to have become a bride of Christ; maybe she gets a hot young man as a fantastic lover and life partner; maybe she discovers a talent she hadn't realized she had and creates some really cool stuff. In any case, I want to see her rising above the tragedies of her past to build an amazing and happy life for herself.
Jean Merrill, The Pushcart War: Anything about General Anna would be interesting. What was her earlier life like? Does she ever meet Alice Myles (the possible future Pushcart Queen)? How does she adapt to life post-war, for the few years she lives?
Baroness Orczy, The Scarlet Pimpernel: The character I'd really like to know more about is Reuben the Jew, but anything is fine -- backstories, secret romances, what happened next, whatever!
First, the cut-and-paste: I like happy or at least hopeful endings. I'm usually okay with slash, het, or gen; I'm not crazy about 'cest. Gore and graphic violence are squicks; I'd rather not read about any non-con sex that isn't in the source material.
Specifics:
Oliver Goldsmith, The Vicar of Wakefield: This is one of those books that I only read because it was mentioned in Little Women, and it stuck with me enough that I like to reread it every few years. I have no particular preferences; I just want fic for it to exist. Standard what-happens-next; non-canon het or slash relationships in the background; cross-time crossover with Vicar of Dibley; retelling as a modern commentary on the C of E; whatever you come up with, I'll be happy.
Alexandre Dumas, Count of Monte Cristo: I love this book deeply, but every time I reread, I find myself annoyed about the standard Mercédès is held to. Mercédès gets screwed over by the story for the sin of being a woman who decided to go on with her life after losing her beloved (and reasonably believing him to be dead!!!), and I want a happy ending for her. Maybe Edmond returns to her as a widower many years later and they finally marry; maybe she finds a true vocation as a nun and rejoices to have become a bride of Christ; maybe she gets a hot young man as a fantastic lover and life partner; maybe she discovers a talent she hadn't realized she had and creates some really cool stuff. In any case, I want to see her rising above the tragedies of her past to build an amazing and happy life for herself.
Jean Merrill, The Pushcart War: Anything about General Anna would be interesting. What was her earlier life like? Does she ever meet Alice Myles (the possible future Pushcart Queen)? How does she adapt to life post-war, for the few years she lives?
Baroness Orczy, The Scarlet Pimpernel: The character I'd really like to know more about is Reuben the Jew, but anything is fine -- backstories, secret romances, what happened next, whatever!