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herbertbestI'm currently writing this letter while half-awake (yay, new baby) so I hope it makes sense. My name's Marie, I continue to love to read and write fanfiction, and these are my Yuletide requests!
Like I said last year (and the year before, etc.) - I'm very open when it comes to what I like and would like to read; cracky stuff is extra awesome though, and I really love silliness bunches! Smut is fun, if you can work it in, of course. The only things I really don't like are incest, underage smut, snuff, rape plots and unequal d/s dynamics.
I also have some crossover ideas in the crossover challenge, and have post to Wrapping Paper and Yuleporn!
Fandom name: Nancy (Comics):
Characters: Sluggo, Nancy
I'm in love with Olivia James' take on the comic, but I'll never turn down something that feels like Ernie Bushnell's work! I just really love the dry, absurdist
Prompts!!
1: Nancy and Sluggo have to team up for a class project, and they each try to do everything they can to get out of completing the work. Do they fail? Succeed?
2: Nancy pursues justice in some manner or way - for a friend, for her classmates, for a lost animal. Does Sluggo get caught up in her cause or does he oppose her?
3: It's the holidays and they're trying to figure out what to buy one another. What do they pick?
4: Tell me more about Sluggo's home life and family. We know a lot about Fritzi and Nancy's world, but not about his.
5: A day trip out of town - what do they do, and what, if anything, do they learn?
6: How did Nancy end up in Fritzi's care?
Fandom name: Beast of Burden - Bette Midler (Music Video)
Characters Requested: Bette, Mick, The Girl who Flirts with Mick
Look at this slice of goofiness! I think we all want to live in a world in which Bette Midler and Mick Jagger are carrying on a torrid affair that he wants to leave - but he can't resist staying with her, because she's just that magnetic!
I'm not looking for flat-out RPF here, but have as much fun as you want playing with their public images, past lovers and the like.
Prompts!!
1: How did they get together? At a charity ball? In a seedy dive bar? During a singing competition in a studio or at karaoke night? Introduced to one another by the sheik character? Twilight tandeming by their agents that turns all too real?
2: Bette has to cope with Mick's phalanx of kids, or one of his exes. I bet she becomes fast friends with them all. Or does she?
3: They come together to create a full album. Is it a disaster? A success? Do they mesh their styles together? Does he get her writing songs? Does Keith Richards get pissy because she's distracting him from the next Stones album?
4: A big red carpet debut, and all of the messiness that follows! Or doesn't!
5: Mick follows Bette to the set of her latest movie. Who's her co-stars? How do they react to the tabloid-related madness that follows the two of them around.
6: Mick's first Chanukah! What do they do? How do they feel about it?
7: Mock newspaper articles or magazine covers featuring the rise and fall (or rise again) of their relationship.
8: What is the girl who flirts with Mick thinking? Does she mind being cast aside for Bette again? Does she go on to have a torrid affair with the coat?
Fandom name: Blades of Glory (2007)
Characters Requested: Jimmy, Chazz, Katie
Prompts!!
I love this goofy movie so very much but I love the characters and their interplay even more. It's my perpetual Yuletide request for a reason.
1: What the hell happens when Jimmy and Chazz land after the movie ends? Was it a hallucination? What even occurred?
2: Brotherly bonding! This could be a missing scene or something that happens after the movie. What does a movie night look like with these two?
3: a Katie/Chazz/Jimmy committed poly situation, and all the weirdness that would entail.
4: Katie and Jimmy getting closer, him proposing or her proposing!
5: Chazz becoming a big brother figure to Katie and Jimmy's offspring, them forming an extended close-knit family since all they have is each other (this would be an ideal way to write Christmas fic for them!) Basically every found family trope ever, please.
6: Chazz and Jimmy's training process for the next World Winter Sports Games.
7: Katie being badass and assertive as an assistant, with Chazz as her biggest advocate on the team.
8: They try another sport. Doesn't even have to be a winter sport. Just try to imagine Chazz and Jimmy synchronized swimming!
9: Katie's view on being part of Jimmy's life, and leaving her biological family behind.
10: Canon AU where Katie starts out as Chazz' coach and they take Jimmy under their wing after his adopted father all but disowns him.
Fandom name: This is Spinal Tap (1984):
Characters: Janine, Nigel, David, Derek
These delightfully ridiculous, self-deluded yet awesome dudes rocking on have made my life so much better and I really, really want something that's as funny and fun as the movie, though angst wouldn't be unwelcome either! I got a wonderful story in this fandom two years ago, but I love it and would love more!
Prompts!!
1: David and Nigel slash; it's all but canon, that sexual tension is there. After-practice semi-hate-sex wallsex? Body worship? Drunken, miserable handjobs in the back of a bus? On the less sexual side: two old rocker dudes trying to deal with the shifting musical world and clinging to each other; tea and yoga; cuddling sessions. Soulmate AUS!
2: Spinal Tap deals with the viral music age. Do they have a poorly-managed Soundcloud filled with weird pastiche music that never gets off the ground? Is their Youtube mostly David pontificating about the world at large while Nigel gives impractical tuning tips for impractical musical instruments while Derek does his thing in the background?
3: Janine. Poor, poor ambitious Janine. She is in way, way over her head for most of the movie but she mostly keeps it together until the amusement park amphitheater disaster. What the heck made her decide to manipulate the out-of-touch David into doing her bidding? What are her ultimate goals in life? What does happiness look like to her, down the line? Does she try to manage other acts after her failure? Does she manage to claw her way up to the top?
4: Janine/Nigel/David hatesex or soulmates or A/B/O or negotiated v-shaped poly messiness. Make it messy! Have fun with it! How would the three of them even work together as a committed unit?!
5: Spinal Tap's slow, slow slide back to where they were or their rocketing further up the charts from their Japanese success. What does it look like? What are some of their songs? Do they have to share a bill with the Ramones? Do they cope and thrive no matter where they land this time?
6: David and Nigel are followed around on the eve of their wedding by Janine's son with Marty, an ambitious filmmaker whose documentary roots are less Marty Scorsese than Werner Herzog.
7: Tap hosts a telethon. What do you mean no one watches telethons anymore?!
8: David and Nigel's songwriting process. Is it a mess? Who comes up with the titles, who comes up with the melody? Do they achieve greatness? How much booze and drugs are involved, or are there not enough of either?
9: David tries to write a novel. It...happens. What's it about, and do any of the characters resemble Janine or his bandmembers?
10: Janine and David get back together. Nigel pines. And everywhere, there is bad sushi. Can this unresolved tension be solved?!
11: Derek is always the voice of reason - well, except for the whole cucumber thing. What does he think of the band's chaotic ways?
12: 'Tap does CBGBs. Chaos ensues.
Fandom name: Mystery Science Theatre 3000
Characters Requested: Any (Pearl, Frank, Joel, Tom, Crow, Dr. Forrester, Mike, Gypsy)
Prompts!! Had to pick Any this time out!
1: Pearl pre-show, struggling to raise Clay and going through her multitude of husbands; or after, trying to run Qatar.
2: How did Joel develop a knack for inventions? Did it start with a relative? Did he try to teach the bots how to invent things or did they learn how to replicate themselves all on their own?
3: Frank has to team up with Joel to complete a mission, something silly and simple or something groundbreaking.
4: Tom peruses a singing career! Things turn out as badly or as wonderfully as you imagine it might!
5: What led Frank to involve himself in Clay's quest to take the world over via cheesy movies?
6: And what the heck is second-banana heaven like? The hierarchy is kind of addressed but I'd like some more world building.
7: Pearl and Frank being BFFs, doing anything from some mild world domination to sharing an afternoon meal.
8: Joel takes Frank under his wing and tries to teach him how to be good - well, as close to good as he can get....Or Frank tries to teach Joel the wonders of mild evil!
9: Tom dealing with Joel's being human and, well, aging. That can be as bittersweet as you want it to be.
10: Ensemble fics! Everyone together trying to do absolutely anything, accomplish any goal, save or wreck anything!
11: Gypsy as a chanteuse, or a business...well, bot, struggling with the corporate world post-show.
12: Mike as bot-dad, taking care of Crow and Tom post-series.
13: There was an accident on the way to second-banana heaven - the real sidekick was Clay all along!
14: The show introduces the concept of second banana heaven towards the end of its run on Comedy Central. Tell me how that afterlife works! What's the hierarchy like? What do the sidekicks spend eternity doing besides collecting souls?
Fandom name: Venture Brothers
Characters Requested: Hank, Brock, Sheila, H.E.L.P.eR
The rich worldbuilding and great characters keep me coming back to this show, and I tend to think of it as more of an ensemble thing than anything, so I've got a lot of group-based prompts circulating about in my head for this one.
1: Sheila's forced to team up with Brock for a mission. How does it go? What happens? Who are they fighting against?
2: Hank as The Bat - does he fight crime, or just stink at trying to fight crime?
3: Sheila from any stage in her life - from her early seconding days all the way to her time at the head of the Guild.
4: What is going on in H.E.L.P.eR's mind most of the time? Anything at all? Does he have memories? Know about Hank being a multi-timed clone?
5: Sheila reprograms helper for purposes nefarious or not. Who notices? Who doesn't? Does he explode or deliver valuable information?
6: Brock as an old man. Is he still in touch with Dean and Hank? Still working for OSI?
Like I said last year (and the year before, etc.) - I'm very open when it comes to what I like and would like to read; cracky stuff is extra awesome though, and I really love silliness bunches! Smut is fun, if you can work it in, of course. The only things I really don't like are incest, underage smut, snuff, rape plots and unequal d/s dynamics.
I also have some crossover ideas in the crossover challenge, and have post to Wrapping Paper and Yuleporn!
Fandom name: Nancy (Comics):
Characters: Sluggo, Nancy
I'm in love with Olivia James' take on the comic, but I'll never turn down something that feels like Ernie Bushnell's work! I just really love the dry, absurdist
Prompts!!
1: Nancy and Sluggo have to team up for a class project, and they each try to do everything they can to get out of completing the work. Do they fail? Succeed?
2: Nancy pursues justice in some manner or way - for a friend, for her classmates, for a lost animal. Does Sluggo get caught up in her cause or does he oppose her?
3: It's the holidays and they're trying to figure out what to buy one another. What do they pick?
4: Tell me more about Sluggo's home life and family. We know a lot about Fritzi and Nancy's world, but not about his.
5: A day trip out of town - what do they do, and what, if anything, do they learn?
6: How did Nancy end up in Fritzi's care?
Fandom name: Beast of Burden - Bette Midler (Music Video)
Characters Requested: Bette, Mick, The Girl who Flirts with Mick
Look at this slice of goofiness! I think we all want to live in a world in which Bette Midler and Mick Jagger are carrying on a torrid affair that he wants to leave - but he can't resist staying with her, because she's just that magnetic!
I'm not looking for flat-out RPF here, but have as much fun as you want playing with their public images, past lovers and the like.
Prompts!!
1: How did they get together? At a charity ball? In a seedy dive bar? During a singing competition in a studio or at karaoke night? Introduced to one another by the sheik character? Twilight tandeming by their agents that turns all too real?
2: Bette has to cope with Mick's phalanx of kids, or one of his exes. I bet she becomes fast friends with them all. Or does she?
3: They come together to create a full album. Is it a disaster? A success? Do they mesh their styles together? Does he get her writing songs? Does Keith Richards get pissy because she's distracting him from the next Stones album?
4: A big red carpet debut, and all of the messiness that follows! Or doesn't!
5: Mick follows Bette to the set of her latest movie. Who's her co-stars? How do they react to the tabloid-related madness that follows the two of them around.
6: Mick's first Chanukah! What do they do? How do they feel about it?
7: Mock newspaper articles or magazine covers featuring the rise and fall (or rise again) of their relationship.
8: What is the girl who flirts with Mick thinking? Does she mind being cast aside for Bette again? Does she go on to have a torrid affair with the coat?
Fandom name: Blades of Glory (2007)
Characters Requested: Jimmy, Chazz, Katie
Prompts!!
I love this goofy movie so very much but I love the characters and their interplay even more. It's my perpetual Yuletide request for a reason.
1: What the hell happens when Jimmy and Chazz land after the movie ends? Was it a hallucination? What even occurred?
2: Brotherly bonding! This could be a missing scene or something that happens after the movie. What does a movie night look like with these two?
3: a Katie/Chazz/Jimmy committed poly situation, and all the weirdness that would entail.
4: Katie and Jimmy getting closer, him proposing or her proposing!
5: Chazz becoming a big brother figure to Katie and Jimmy's offspring, them forming an extended close-knit family since all they have is each other (this would be an ideal way to write Christmas fic for them!) Basically every found family trope ever, please.
6: Chazz and Jimmy's training process for the next World Winter Sports Games.
7: Katie being badass and assertive as an assistant, with Chazz as her biggest advocate on the team.
8: They try another sport. Doesn't even have to be a winter sport. Just try to imagine Chazz and Jimmy synchronized swimming!
9: Katie's view on being part of Jimmy's life, and leaving her biological family behind.
10: Canon AU where Katie starts out as Chazz' coach and they take Jimmy under their wing after his adopted father all but disowns him.
Fandom name: This is Spinal Tap (1984):
Characters: Janine, Nigel, David, Derek
These delightfully ridiculous, self-deluded yet awesome dudes rocking on have made my life so much better and I really, really want something that's as funny and fun as the movie, though angst wouldn't be unwelcome either! I got a wonderful story in this fandom two years ago, but I love it and would love more!
Prompts!!
1: David and Nigel slash; it's all but canon, that sexual tension is there. After-practice semi-hate-sex wallsex? Body worship? Drunken, miserable handjobs in the back of a bus? On the less sexual side: two old rocker dudes trying to deal with the shifting musical world and clinging to each other; tea and yoga; cuddling sessions. Soulmate AUS!
2: Spinal Tap deals with the viral music age. Do they have a poorly-managed Soundcloud filled with weird pastiche music that never gets off the ground? Is their Youtube mostly David pontificating about the world at large while Nigel gives impractical tuning tips for impractical musical instruments while Derek does his thing in the background?
3: Janine. Poor, poor ambitious Janine. She is in way, way over her head for most of the movie but she mostly keeps it together until the amusement park amphitheater disaster. What the heck made her decide to manipulate the out-of-touch David into doing her bidding? What are her ultimate goals in life? What does happiness look like to her, down the line? Does she try to manage other acts after her failure? Does she manage to claw her way up to the top?
4: Janine/Nigel/David hatesex or soulmates or A/B/O or negotiated v-shaped poly messiness. Make it messy! Have fun with it! How would the three of them even work together as a committed unit?!
5: Spinal Tap's slow, slow slide back to where they were or their rocketing further up the charts from their Japanese success. What does it look like? What are some of their songs? Do they have to share a bill with the Ramones? Do they cope and thrive no matter where they land this time?
6: David and Nigel are followed around on the eve of their wedding by Janine's son with Marty, an ambitious filmmaker whose documentary roots are less Marty Scorsese than Werner Herzog.
7: Tap hosts a telethon. What do you mean no one watches telethons anymore?!
8: David and Nigel's songwriting process. Is it a mess? Who comes up with the titles, who comes up with the melody? Do they achieve greatness? How much booze and drugs are involved, or are there not enough of either?
9: David tries to write a novel. It...happens. What's it about, and do any of the characters resemble Janine or his bandmembers?
10: Janine and David get back together. Nigel pines. And everywhere, there is bad sushi. Can this unresolved tension be solved?!
11: Derek is always the voice of reason - well, except for the whole cucumber thing. What does he think of the band's chaotic ways?
12: 'Tap does CBGBs. Chaos ensues.
Fandom name: Mystery Science Theatre 3000
Characters Requested: Any (Pearl, Frank, Joel, Tom, Crow, Dr. Forrester, Mike, Gypsy)
Prompts!! Had to pick Any this time out!
1: Pearl pre-show, struggling to raise Clay and going through her multitude of husbands; or after, trying to run Qatar.
2: How did Joel develop a knack for inventions? Did it start with a relative? Did he try to teach the bots how to invent things or did they learn how to replicate themselves all on their own?
3: Frank has to team up with Joel to complete a mission, something silly and simple or something groundbreaking.
4: Tom peruses a singing career! Things turn out as badly or as wonderfully as you imagine it might!
5: What led Frank to involve himself in Clay's quest to take the world over via cheesy movies?
6: And what the heck is second-banana heaven like? The hierarchy is kind of addressed but I'd like some more world building.
7: Pearl and Frank being BFFs, doing anything from some mild world domination to sharing an afternoon meal.
8: Joel takes Frank under his wing and tries to teach him how to be good - well, as close to good as he can get....Or Frank tries to teach Joel the wonders of mild evil!
9: Tom dealing with Joel's being human and, well, aging. That can be as bittersweet as you want it to be.
10: Ensemble fics! Everyone together trying to do absolutely anything, accomplish any goal, save or wreck anything!
11: Gypsy as a chanteuse, or a business...well, bot, struggling with the corporate world post-show.
12: Mike as bot-dad, taking care of Crow and Tom post-series.
13: There was an accident on the way to second-banana heaven - the real sidekick was Clay all along!
14: The show introduces the concept of second banana heaven towards the end of its run on Comedy Central. Tell me how that afterlife works! What's the hierarchy like? What do the sidekicks spend eternity doing besides collecting souls?
Fandom name: Venture Brothers
Characters Requested: Hank, Brock, Sheila, H.E.L.P.eR
The rich worldbuilding and great characters keep me coming back to this show, and I tend to think of it as more of an ensemble thing than anything, so I've got a lot of group-based prompts circulating about in my head for this one.
1: Sheila's forced to team up with Brock for a mission. How does it go? What happens? Who are they fighting against?
2: Hank as The Bat - does he fight crime, or just stink at trying to fight crime?
3: Sheila from any stage in her life - from her early seconding days all the way to her time at the head of the Guild.
4: What is going on in H.E.L.P.eR's mind most of the time? Anything at all? Does he have memories? Know about Hank being a multi-timed clone?
5: Sheila reprograms helper for purposes nefarious or not. Who notices? Who doesn't? Does he explode or deliver valuable information?
6: Brock as an old man. Is he still in touch with Dean and Hank? Still working for OSI?
