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Yuletide 2023
Oct. 20th, 2023 08:42 pmHello, writer!
I'm so excited to see what you come up with for this exchange! Hope you have a great time with it. Prompts are here if you want them, but if you have another idea that's inspiring you I'm happy to see that too.
If you have any questions or concerns, please contact me through the mods. I'm also sincereously on AO3.
General likes:
Worldbuilding (especially religious and cultural worldbuilding)
Canon divergence
Bickering, friendly and not-so-much
Introspection
Unreliable narrators
Moments of quiet intimacy during breaks in the action (especially good for missing scenes in between what we see in canon)
Complicated women, and complicated relationships between complicated women
Slowly building intimacy/respect together - slow burn in general
Taking care of injured people
Forced proximity (undercover together, trapped together, accidental/arranged marriage, fake dating, only one bed, etc.)
Elaborate plans that may or may not work out
Improvising new plans as you go along
"That's an extremely bad plan, of course I'm in" type situations and interpersonal dynamics
Getting in way over your head but throwing yourself headfirst into the plan anyway
Repressed characters learning to let go
Struggling against temptation (and giving into it)
Unusual formats, including in-universe documents
Five + one things structure
General DNWs:
Character bashing
Canon-divergent death of any requested characters (canonical deaths are fine)
Non-canonical child death
Setting change AUs (ex. coffeeshop, high school, modern AU, etc.)
Time travel AUs
Formalized dom/sub relationships
Humiliation during sex
Ageplay
Raceplay
Omegaverse
Excretory kinks
Rape/noncon (dubcon - sex pollen with both/all characters dosed, sex in arranged marriages, fuck-or-die, etc. - are fine)
Underage under 15 and unrequested non-canonical ships with 20+ year age gaps (mentions of canon examples of both are acceptable, but please don't make them the focus of the fic)
Cross-gen incest
Animal abuse
Fic devoted primarily to examining real-world issues/-isms (please don't feel that you have to avoid them, but I'd rather they not be the entirety of what the work is about)
Hopeless endings (endings can be dark, but not without any shred of hope)
Please keep the level of violence at about what it is in canon.
FANDOMS
Dreamgirls
Requests: Effie White, Deena Jones, Lorrell Robinson
Ship and group notes: I'm good with gen, canon pairings, and/or Effie/Deena. I'm also happy to have any combination of requested characters, including leaving one or two of the requested characters offstage or in the background if it makes more sense to focus on only one or two requested characters.
About the canon: See 2021 promo post here!
The summary I gave in the promo post doesn't really do justice to the women and their relationships, which I love. I love how headstrong and indomitable Effie is, and how Deena builds her confidence and comes into her own, and how Lorrell has a snarky streak in her sunny personality. The whole show is about their dreams and their struggles and successes in making those dreams a reality, and it's so fun to watch them grow and change over the course of the show.
I'm also interested in the setting: the 1960s-1970s R&B and pop music industry as interpreted by 1980s Broadway. There's room for social commentary (among other things, the Black leads get one of their early songs covered and buried by a white group), drama (secret affairs and Curtis' payola operations), and Broadway glitz (look at the costumes! often with super-fast costume changes!).
I'm good with basing the fic off of any production you want. In addition, while I requested the stage show for this, the movie sticks very closely to the stage version and I would be fine with more movie-influenced fic as well, if you're having trouble finding/watching the stage musical.
Prompts:
- How did the girls first come together as a group? Were they all friends growing up (Effie talks about her and Deena once being each other's closest friends), or did they meet later on and bond over their shared desire to sing? I'd love to hear about their successes and failures pre-fame, and them sharing their big dreams with each other.
- How did Deena and Lorrell handle the interim time period between Act I and Act II, where they're going on international tours as the Dreams, adjusting to Michelle replacing Effie, and dealing with Deena's wedding to Curtis as well as Lorrell's continuing relationship with Jimmy?
- Effie mentions that she saw Deena at Deena's mother's funeral and wanted to talk to her, but there were "too many people in the way". What would have happened if they had had the chance to talk? What would that conversation have been like?
- When the show ends, they've reconciled but they're also on different paths. What would happen if they reunite again a few years later, while Effie's rising in the music business again and Deena's in her movie career and Lorrell's pursuing a life without Jimmy in it? Anything about them rebuilding their friendships and how them going after their own dreams is turning out. (I didn't request Michelle here, but you can also bring up what she's doing at this point).
- Curtis was supposed to love Effie. So was Deena. (Take that however you will).
Fiddler on the Roof
Requests: Golde, Tevye
Ship and group notes: I'd like to see the canon ships remain in place for this canon, but you can definitely focus as much or as little on romance as you'd like!
About the canon:
This is one of my favorite shows, hopeful and heartbreaking all at once. With Tevye and Golde specifically, I really love their strong personalities, the hilarious way they clash and the quieter sweet moments they sometimes find, and the strong dedication they both have to their family and to making a life together despite it all.
I'm good with basing the fic off of any production you want. In addition, while I requested the stage show for this, the movie sticks very closely to the stage version and I would be fine with more movie-influenced fic as well, if you're having trouble finding/watching the stage musical.
Prompts:
- Honestly, any slice-of-life of them in Anatevka would be great! Looking after their daughters, celebrating birthdays and religious holidays and other villagers' weddings, mending and scrimping through a hard winter, debating one of Tevye's assertions about what the Good Book says - any of that would be fun.
- Anything about their early marriage! They don't seem to have met before their wedding - did one of them have to move to Anatevka from somewhere else, and if they did, what was their first impression of their home and their new spouse-to-be? What was their wedding like? When they finally had to live together, what growing pains did they have to manage and what compromises did they have to find? How did they work together as new parents?
- Post-canon, how did they adjust to life in America with Bielke and Shprintze? So much of their lives have been built on a specific routine they created together over the years - how do they change together to fit a new city with a very different way of life than Anatevka? Did they ever reconnect with Tzeitel and/or Hodel and/or Chava in person again? (While I know what happened in the original stories, I'm looking for something different here).
- As much as they live their lives by TRADITION, do they ever come up with little traditions between themselves? Things like running jokes at their own or each other's or someone else's expense, or specific favorite foods that they try to get for each other on special occasions, or even just a familiar argument that they can basically quote the other person's dialogue for by now (but they still pick the fight sometimes anyway because it's comfortable and honestly kind of amusing to them at this point).
- Outsider POV would be a lot of fun too! What did their matchmaker see in them to put them together? How do their daughters see their marriage, and how does that affect what they want in the matches they eventually choose for themselves?
Gypsy
Requests: Louise, June, Rose
Ship and group notes: I'm good with gen, canon pairings, and/or f/f pairing one of the requested characters with Tessie, Mazeppa, Electra, or OCs. I'm also happy to have any combination of requested characters, including leaving one or two of the requested characters offstage or in the background if it makes more sense to focus on only one or two requested characters.
About the canon: See 2021 promo post here!
I love how wonderfully complex the women are, especially Rose. It's fun watching her smash her way through all obstacles through a mix of manipulation and just plain grandstanding, but her talent for deception also includes deceiving herself, to the detriment of her relationship with June and Louise. With June and Louise, I love them growing up and figuring out how to break free and find their own dreams, even if it's not what Rose had in mind for them. I love the complex mix of love and self-centered ambition that Rose has for her daughters, and the mix of love and frustration and hunger for approval that the girls feel for Rose. These women all do deeply care about each other, but man, sometimes they have a very dysfunctional way of showing it.
I'm good with basing the fic off of any production you want. In addition, while I requested the stage show for this, the movie(s) sticks very closely to the stage version and I would be fine with more movie-influenced fic as well, if you're having trouble finding/watching the stage musical.
Prompts:
- Any missing scenes of the family, Herbie, and the boys (and all their animals!) on the road - practicing the routines together, conning their way out of jams, exploring the new cities they perform in.
- Any part of Rose's backstory before the events of the play. So much of Rose's issues in her parenting seem related to the fact that her own mother walked out on her, after all. I'd also love to see Rose as unreliable narrator!
- Rose teaching her daughters the things she thinks they need to learn, and the lessons that they learned from her without her meaning to. (I also like the moments where June and especially Louise are taking a page from Rose's books to get what they want, and where they're more alike than they might want to acknowledge).
- What was Louise's life like in between that first striptease show and the high life we see in the final scenes? How did she get comfortable with this new way of performing? What kind of tactics did she use to get bookings and advance her career, and how did she start using and enjoying her rising fame and fortune?
- How did June deal with being on her own with Tulsa once she escaped the troupe? For better or for worse it'd be the first time in her life she'd ever been away from Mama and Louise - that has to turn up some intense emotions.
- I'd also be interested in seeing the women reunite and reflect on how their lives have gone at some point after canon, particularly a reunion for the sisters or for Rose and June. (I tend to see the musical characters as separate from the real-life figures, so you can take as much or as little as you want from the real peoples' history here, including inventing something new).
I'm so excited to see what you come up with for this exchange! Hope you have a great time with it. Prompts are here if you want them, but if you have another idea that's inspiring you I'm happy to see that too.
If you have any questions or concerns, please contact me through the mods. I'm also sincereously on AO3.
General likes:
Worldbuilding (especially religious and cultural worldbuilding)
Canon divergence
Bickering, friendly and not-so-much
Introspection
Unreliable narrators
Moments of quiet intimacy during breaks in the action (especially good for missing scenes in between what we see in canon)
Complicated women, and complicated relationships between complicated women
Slowly building intimacy/respect together - slow burn in general
Taking care of injured people
Forced proximity (undercover together, trapped together, accidental/arranged marriage, fake dating, only one bed, etc.)
Elaborate plans that may or may not work out
Improvising new plans as you go along
"That's an extremely bad plan, of course I'm in" type situations and interpersonal dynamics
Getting in way over your head but throwing yourself headfirst into the plan anyway
Repressed characters learning to let go
Struggling against temptation (and giving into it)
Unusual formats, including in-universe documents
Five + one things structure
General DNWs:
Character bashing
Canon-divergent death of any requested characters (canonical deaths are fine)
Non-canonical child death
Setting change AUs (ex. coffeeshop, high school, modern AU, etc.)
Time travel AUs
Formalized dom/sub relationships
Humiliation during sex
Ageplay
Raceplay
Omegaverse
Excretory kinks
Rape/noncon (dubcon - sex pollen with both/all characters dosed, sex in arranged marriages, fuck-or-die, etc. - are fine)
Underage under 15 and unrequested non-canonical ships with 20+ year age gaps (mentions of canon examples of both are acceptable, but please don't make them the focus of the fic)
Cross-gen incest
Animal abuse
Fic devoted primarily to examining real-world issues/-isms (please don't feel that you have to avoid them, but I'd rather they not be the entirety of what the work is about)
Hopeless endings (endings can be dark, but not without any shred of hope)
Please keep the level of violence at about what it is in canon.
FANDOMS
Dreamgirls
Requests: Effie White, Deena Jones, Lorrell Robinson
Ship and group notes: I'm good with gen, canon pairings, and/or Effie/Deena. I'm also happy to have any combination of requested characters, including leaving one or two of the requested characters offstage or in the background if it makes more sense to focus on only one or two requested characters.
About the canon: See 2021 promo post here!
The summary I gave in the promo post doesn't really do justice to the women and their relationships, which I love. I love how headstrong and indomitable Effie is, and how Deena builds her confidence and comes into her own, and how Lorrell has a snarky streak in her sunny personality. The whole show is about their dreams and their struggles and successes in making those dreams a reality, and it's so fun to watch them grow and change over the course of the show.
I'm also interested in the setting: the 1960s-1970s R&B and pop music industry as interpreted by 1980s Broadway. There's room for social commentary (among other things, the Black leads get one of their early songs covered and buried by a white group), drama (secret affairs and Curtis' payola operations), and Broadway glitz (look at the costumes! often with super-fast costume changes!).
I'm good with basing the fic off of any production you want. In addition, while I requested the stage show for this, the movie sticks very closely to the stage version and I would be fine with more movie-influenced fic as well, if you're having trouble finding/watching the stage musical.
Prompts:
- How did the girls first come together as a group? Were they all friends growing up (Effie talks about her and Deena once being each other's closest friends), or did they meet later on and bond over their shared desire to sing? I'd love to hear about their successes and failures pre-fame, and them sharing their big dreams with each other.
- How did Deena and Lorrell handle the interim time period between Act I and Act II, where they're going on international tours as the Dreams, adjusting to Michelle replacing Effie, and dealing with Deena's wedding to Curtis as well as Lorrell's continuing relationship with Jimmy?
- Effie mentions that she saw Deena at Deena's mother's funeral and wanted to talk to her, but there were "too many people in the way". What would have happened if they had had the chance to talk? What would that conversation have been like?
- When the show ends, they've reconciled but they're also on different paths. What would happen if they reunite again a few years later, while Effie's rising in the music business again and Deena's in her movie career and Lorrell's pursuing a life without Jimmy in it? Anything about them rebuilding their friendships and how them going after their own dreams is turning out. (I didn't request Michelle here, but you can also bring up what she's doing at this point).
- Curtis was supposed to love Effie. So was Deena. (Take that however you will).
Fiddler on the Roof
Requests: Golde, Tevye
Ship and group notes: I'd like to see the canon ships remain in place for this canon, but you can definitely focus as much or as little on romance as you'd like!
About the canon:
This is one of my favorite shows, hopeful and heartbreaking all at once. With Tevye and Golde specifically, I really love their strong personalities, the hilarious way they clash and the quieter sweet moments they sometimes find, and the strong dedication they both have to their family and to making a life together despite it all.
I'm good with basing the fic off of any production you want. In addition, while I requested the stage show for this, the movie sticks very closely to the stage version and I would be fine with more movie-influenced fic as well, if you're having trouble finding/watching the stage musical.
Prompts:
- Honestly, any slice-of-life of them in Anatevka would be great! Looking after their daughters, celebrating birthdays and religious holidays and other villagers' weddings, mending and scrimping through a hard winter, debating one of Tevye's assertions about what the Good Book says - any of that would be fun.
- Anything about their early marriage! They don't seem to have met before their wedding - did one of them have to move to Anatevka from somewhere else, and if they did, what was their first impression of their home and their new spouse-to-be? What was their wedding like? When they finally had to live together, what growing pains did they have to manage and what compromises did they have to find? How did they work together as new parents?
- Post-canon, how did they adjust to life in America with Bielke and Shprintze? So much of their lives have been built on a specific routine they created together over the years - how do they change together to fit a new city with a very different way of life than Anatevka? Did they ever reconnect with Tzeitel and/or Hodel and/or Chava in person again? (While I know what happened in the original stories, I'm looking for something different here).
- As much as they live their lives by TRADITION, do they ever come up with little traditions between themselves? Things like running jokes at their own or each other's or someone else's expense, or specific favorite foods that they try to get for each other on special occasions, or even just a familiar argument that they can basically quote the other person's dialogue for by now (but they still pick the fight sometimes anyway because it's comfortable and honestly kind of amusing to them at this point).
- Outsider POV would be a lot of fun too! What did their matchmaker see in them to put them together? How do their daughters see their marriage, and how does that affect what they want in the matches they eventually choose for themselves?
Gypsy
Requests: Louise, June, Rose
Ship and group notes: I'm good with gen, canon pairings, and/or f/f pairing one of the requested characters with Tessie, Mazeppa, Electra, or OCs. I'm also happy to have any combination of requested characters, including leaving one or two of the requested characters offstage or in the background if it makes more sense to focus on only one or two requested characters.
About the canon: See 2021 promo post here!
I love how wonderfully complex the women are, especially Rose. It's fun watching her smash her way through all obstacles through a mix of manipulation and just plain grandstanding, but her talent for deception also includes deceiving herself, to the detriment of her relationship with June and Louise. With June and Louise, I love them growing up and figuring out how to break free and find their own dreams, even if it's not what Rose had in mind for them. I love the complex mix of love and self-centered ambition that Rose has for her daughters, and the mix of love and frustration and hunger for approval that the girls feel for Rose. These women all do deeply care about each other, but man, sometimes they have a very dysfunctional way of showing it.
I'm good with basing the fic off of any production you want. In addition, while I requested the stage show for this, the movie(s) sticks very closely to the stage version and I would be fine with more movie-influenced fic as well, if you're having trouble finding/watching the stage musical.
Prompts:
- Any missing scenes of the family, Herbie, and the boys (and all their animals!) on the road - practicing the routines together, conning their way out of jams, exploring the new cities they perform in.
- Any part of Rose's backstory before the events of the play. So much of Rose's issues in her parenting seem related to the fact that her own mother walked out on her, after all. I'd also love to see Rose as unreliable narrator!
- Rose teaching her daughters the things she thinks they need to learn, and the lessons that they learned from her without her meaning to. (I also like the moments where June and especially Louise are taking a page from Rose's books to get what they want, and where they're more alike than they might want to acknowledge).
- What was Louise's life like in between that first striptease show and the high life we see in the final scenes? How did she get comfortable with this new way of performing? What kind of tactics did she use to get bookings and advance her career, and how did she start using and enjoying her rising fame and fortune?
- How did June deal with being on her own with Tulsa once she escaped the troupe? For better or for worse it'd be the first time in her life she'd ever been away from Mama and Louise - that has to turn up some intense emotions.
- I'd also be interested in seeing the women reunite and reflect on how their lives have gone at some point after canon, particularly a reunion for the sisters or for Rose and June. (I tend to see the musical characters as separate from the real-life figures, so you can take as much or as little as you want from the real peoples' history here, including inventing something new).