yuletide 2020, whaaaaat!

[delga]

it's coming, i promise.
eta 28 Oct: this weekend! i swear! HERE IT IS!

dear yuletide writer, i am so excited you got matched with me! you can see all my previous letters at my yuletide tag, and maybe that will give you an indication of what i like. my tumblr is linked in some of those - it's almost definitely not going to be useful to you, if only because i've been on an 18-month star trek bender. oops.

that said, i'm back for yuletide after a year away, and my first rule applies: please have fun! if you have a plotbunny, chase it down that rabbithole. as long as it doesn't hit my DNWs, i promise you i will love it.

(i always try to include a couple of films so if we didn't match on those, but what we did match on doesn't appeal to you all that much, those might be quick to get up to speed on?)

i will read basically anything, and i have, but i very strongly prefer not to read: sexual assault; abuse; vomit; zombies; schmoop; unhappy endings. (i don't mind D/s, and i do read it, but i'd suggest staying away from the SM portions of BDSM, just because my tastes are contextual and fickle.)

otherwise, it really sort of is a free-for-all. in my ships i like angst with a happy ending, especially mutual pining; in all cases i love backstory, plotty fics, character-specific fics, slice-of-life, ep-tags, AUs, everything. i read all ratings, and het/slash/femslash. everything!

my requests were both vague and specific, weren't they? i signed up under time constraints, but hopefully this letter will help.

• tenet. look. i loved the construction of this film a lot! i thought ultimately nolan was rubbish with women (what's new?) but i loved the idea a lot, and i especially, especially loved the idea that the first time the protagonist meets neil is the last time neil meets the protagonist - and potentially vice versa. i would love a fic that explores that; the way it's possible for two people to move towards one another from opposite ends of their lives; the way the middle of their story is the place where they are most equal, and how that affects them.
  
  barring that, i would love fic that fleshes out the filmverse in some way - past or future, or a pov in the film's events. i feel like you could really play with non-linear narrative in fun ways; the film lends itself to that.
  
  
• the gentlemen (2019). i maybe watched this film, like, 7 times over the span of 3 weeks. i'm not an apologist; if we matched on this, then you liked it too! but i really liked a few things about it more than others, and that was mostly visual. (ray's tailoring? look, we all have our foibles, okay?)
  
  i'd really enjoy more of the same, frankly. what happens after the end of the film? what are they like in ten years? lord, what were they like ten years ago? how does someone like ray meet someone like mickey? how does that allegiance become a thing? how do you build loyalty in a world where no one really trusts one another? i will never get over that scene in the car where ray faffs over mickey's car belt, things like that.
  
  i know there's only three characters selected, and that's because of the tag set, but if you want to throw ros, or coach, or basically anyone else in, please do. what a violent, motley, rag-tag bunch they all are.
  
  (i don't ship anyone with anyone, but, like, i'll read it? joyfully? i prefer zero ros erasure, though, and no ray/fletcher.)
  
  
• justified. i've asked for this the past few yuletides and i figured i'll request it until it stops being nominated or eligible. it's a weird year to request what is essentially a cop show, especially one in which the lines get so spectacularly bent, but. well. i am anyway.
  
  lifting directly from my previous letter: i love tim and i love rachel, and i loved their working partnership. i enjoyed how understated they both were next to some of the larger characters on the show, and i have a real kink for enduring competency which both of them hit for me in a big way. any partnership has teething troubles: what were theirs? is this purely a working relationship or did they have a friendship that lasted past their roles in lexington? is tim a lifer in this job? is rachel? if she helms her own ship one day, do they have the kind of working relationship where they can still call out to each other for favours? if not, what happens when one of them does?
  
  
• the half of it (2020). what a lovely, lovely film about making connections, and about missing them, and about what happy endings look like in life. i would love pretty much what i put in the request: some sort of future fic, That One Reunion, or the many times they fall in and out of ech others lives. what a tender, lovely thing this film was! what a kindness! i would like more - more kindness, more bittersweetness, more of everything delicate and dancing that made up these lonely people whose lives intersected right at the point where they had to leave each other.
  
  thanks so much, friend! look forward to chatting to you in the after; have fun!
  
  delga <3