Tea and Ineffability

Dear Yuletide Writer,

I'm very excited that you exist, and are reading this letter! I've never done Yuletide before, so hopefully I've got this letter thing down okay. Before I talk about my requested fandoms, just some general info about what I like to read:

I definitely stay in the fluffy/humorous/rom-com side of the fandom pool. I can handle some light angst if there's a happy or at least hopeful resolution, but dark!fic, angst and hurt with no comfort are really not for me.

I enjoy banter, wordplay, dialogue too witty to be real, and cleverness in general. I especially like (kind-hearted) parodies and (especially sexual or romantic) farce. Also AUs, both the "slight change of canon makes everything different" kind AND the trope-rriffic "they're all high school students who moonlight as baristas in space. And also they're all cats, did I mention?" kind.

I read explicit porn, but I enjoy PG-13 romances and gen just as much. I am in general down for femslash, slash or het though I do have preferences about particular characters and I primarily read slash. Please no polyamory or open relationships.

WordGirl - Becky Botsford | WordGirl, Captain Huggy Face, Theodore "Tobey" McAllister III, Narrator

I'd be interested in a shippy story about Becky and Tobey, either set in the future or the awkward present. If set in the future, I'd love you forever for an as-adults story where their relationship is serious enough that Becky reveals that she's WordGirl (or maybe he's dating WordGirl and WordGirl reveals that she's Becky) and the fallout of that. I'd still like to see the other characters I requested in Becky/Tobey fic, because you know Bob and The Narrator have opinions about whatever happens! Cameos by any and all other characters welcome as well.

I also just love the heck out of the cleverness of this show, so I'd equally enjoy gen. My favorite part of every episode is Huggy's ridiculous dance after he illustrates a vocabulary word, and anything with, say, Huggy POV or lots of heroics or goofball antics for him would delight me. Maybe Tobey could build a robot!Huggy?

This would also be a great fandom for humor, maybe something playing around with a vocabulary theme, where WordGirl stops to define sexual terms like "figging" (age her up, please, if you go with a scenario like this) or fandom terms like "woobie".

Virgins by Caryl Rivers - Peggy Morrison, Sean McCaffrey, Constance Masters Wepplener

(11/3/2012 Edit For Extremely Dumb Mistake on My Part: So, my copy of Virgins is in storage and inaccessible at the moment, and when I went to nominate it for Yuletide I ended up resorting to hunting through people's Goodreads reviews to make sure I had the correct last names for the characters. I think I found Con's on a review of the sequel, actually, and I was worried it wasn't right, but I couldn't find a full name for her anywhere else online. Only today did it occur to me that I could look inside the Kindle edition of Virgins on Amazon to find it. (Duh.) And sure enough, Masters is her married name. OOPS. So, author, if you are writing for this fandom, I did indeed mean Con as in Constance Marie Wepplener, and it's not a sign that I only want a story that takes place after her wedding, or that you should keep waiting for another Con to appear in the book. It's just a sign that I made a dumb mistake during nominations. Mea culpa.)

This is my favorite book ever, and I'd be so happy to get any sort of fic for it! I most enjoy the relationship between Peggy and Sean, how great and functional it is considering how young they are, and how sexually repressed their world is, and all the other things going on in their lives. I also love Peggy and Con's friendship, how Con is simultaneously so worldly and so hungry for the security of normal. I mostly enjoy Peggy in how she relates to other characters, to be honest. It'd be great to see something set immediately or not long after the book, when Peggy's at college and Con's married and Sean's at the seminary, or maybe a wacky shenanigan or serious learning experience in line with many of the episodes in the book. I only nominated the three main characters but cameos from any of the minor book characters (like Sean's father, or Sister Justinian) would be a great bonus.

Please note that Virgins does have a sequel (Girls Forever Brave and True) but I prefer the characters in the Virgins era so did not nominate the sequel, and Virgins stands well all on its own, so familiarity with the sequel would have minimal benefit for a writer. (Basically, don't feel like you need to read the sequel, obviously, since I didn't nominate it, but also please don't worry that if something about your fic turns out to contradict what happens in Girls Forever Brave and True, I'll be upset, because I totally won't. Promise.)

Dinosaur Train - Buddy, Tiny

I ... ship Buddy/Tiny. So, if you're up for writing incest between dinosaur siblings of different species from a kids' show, yay! If not, that's cool, too! For gen I'd especially love a world-building focused story, not necessarily very serious, about how troodons managed to invent a time traveling train, or how dinosaur society deals with sentient species preying upon each other, or whether the time-traveling train means dinosaurs know about their inevitable mass extinction and how they deal with it (do they have religions focused on the hope represented by evolving into birds? does the train just refuse to go past a certain era?) Extend Buddy and Tiny's curiosity beyond the realm of different species!

If you are up for the incest, I'd like anything dealing with 1) when they first realize they have romantic/sexual/mating feelings for each other, and then become aware that it's wrong, unworkable, etc. (as a shipper I'd love for them to get past this but I'm okay with unresolved (mild) angst here) 2) how their family finds out or takes the news (again, as a shipper, I'd love it if they were ultimately accepting); 3) the issue of not being able to produce eggs together, possibly adopting dinosaurs of a bunch of different species in a similar way to how Buddy was adopted and raising them with curiosity and love of the dinosaur train; 4) making things work when Buddy is a full-grown T Rex and needs a different habitat, sleep environment, etc. from a pteranodon like Tiny.

It'd be fine with me to take one of my shippy prompts and have Buddy and Tiny spending their lives/raising kids together in a platonic way, as well. I enjoy their special bond and just want to see them having a future together.

Also, in case you can't tell, I do love this show, but I spend a good chunk of the time watching it asking "but ... how does it work?" so that's a great angle to approach pretty much any aspect of the show in a fic for me.

Classical Greek and Roman RPF - Marcus Vipsanius Agrippa

Agrippa's always been my favorite figure of the Augustan Era, because I think of him as being a bit low-key, fade-into-the-background, things-being-done-right-is-all-the-reward-necessary kind of person, and I love those traits! A character piece focused just on him, maybe going about his (relatively) unglamorous day as Augustus or whoever is a bit of a diva in the background, or anything with Agrippa being a competent and quiet BAMF who solves crises, would delight me no end. I am also fond of his relationship with Julia, and their sons, and if they show up, that'd be a lovely plus. Please, no slash pairing for Agrippa.

Title: Useless Talent (Sundial in the Shade Remix)
Author: ineffabilitea
Pairing: Remus/Sirius
Rating: PG/PG-13ish
Summary: Sirius wants Remus; Remus wants Sirius. Remus loves Sirius; Sirius loves Remus. So why aren't they together like James thinks they are? The answer hinges on confidence, and its lack.
Notes: This is a remix of torachan's double drabble Useless Talent.

( Useless Talent (Sundial in the Shade Remix) )

Anyone have a system or suggestions for posting mostly short (drabble-length+) fic bits for a prompts community (like scarvesnhats and the other Remus/Sirius seasonal comms) to AO3? I can't decide whether it's better to post each separately and tag them all "community: scarvesnhats" or call them a series (though they are not part of the same universe, and I think that's what the series feature is meant for) or maybe make a collection of some sort? Maybe post them as chapters of a story titled "Pieces written for Scarvesnhats"?

BTW, yes this means I've started posting stuff over at AO3. Only a few things for now, but it's a start. I know I'm not tagging enough, but I'm not sure what to tag my early Remus/Sirius stuff other than "embarassing".

Just realized I never posted my go_exchange 2009 fic here!

Title: A Series of Vignettes from the USS Enterprise (under the command of Captain Adam Young)
Author: ineffabili_tea
Gift for: littlewolfstar
Characters: The Them, Newt, Madame Tracy, Anathema, Agnes, Dog, Crowley, Aziraphale
Rating: G
Summary: Star Trek XI/Good Omens fusion.

( A Series of Vignettes )

Originally posted here for the prompt "Five Times Jim Kirk Thought He Might Not Be Completely Straight and the First Time He Acted on Those Thoughts"

( Five Times Plus One )

Originally posted here for the prompt "So I've been noticing that LJ has been posting a lot of stuff twice. It's happened so often, it can't just be user error, it has to be LJ's fault (and it's more fun to blame the computer anyway). So the Enterprise has the same problem. Everything's getting repeated, whether it's a computer or something wrong with the Universal Translator, or whatever, up to you, anon, but give me a repetition fic."


( Double Your Something )

Veil-fic. Prose poem as well as drabble. Formatting may look off if viewing in a very narrow style or window.

( Dog Days of Summer 2009 Prompt 6: that proud cur )

Um. Cross-dressing ahoy!

( Dog Days of Summer 2009 Prompt 4: and beauty now )

Title: Brightness (Extraordinary Holiday Remix)
Author: ineffabilitea/ineffabili_tea
Summary: Tony and Ezra take a holiday.
Rating: PG-13
Fandom: Good Omens
Pairing: Aziraphale/Crowley
Spoilers and/or Warnings: AU
Title, Author and URL of original story: Brightness by daegaer. You probably also want to check out daegaer's original story in this AU, Ordinary People.

( Brightness (Extraordinary Holiday Remix) )

penknife is running a 'quick and dirty' fic and meta challenge on her journal, based on the TV Tropes Wiki. I was assigned three possible tropes (Incest is Relative, Never Found The Body, and Where Are They Now Epilogue) to choose from.

( The Where Are They Now? Epilogue and the Motivations of Fan Fiction )

Title: The Boy With The Thorn In His Side
Rating: R
Pairing: Moody/Snape
Disclaimer: These characters belong to other people.
Summary: Asked to work together gathering evidence against Death Eaters in the aftermath of Voldemort's first defeat, two men with nothing in common discover that's not necessarily so.
Author's Note: Written for sweetmelodykiss in the hp_beholder exchange over at InsaneJournal. Title borrowed from The Smiths. Many thanks to my insightful beta, dbassassin, for all the help.

You should also check out the Moody/Ollivander (!!!) fic that spidermoth wrote for me, Breaking and Entering.

( Behind the hatred there lies a plundering desire )

Title: The Part-time Peluda and the Faint-hearted Fiancé: a Fractious Folk Tale
Author: ineffabili_tea
Rating: PG
Summary: Aziraphale and Crowley find a mutually satisfying way to solve the other's immediate problem.
Author’s Note: Written in the 2007 go_exchange for bea_sirius, whose prompt of ‘gargoyles’ kind of ran away with me. Researching gargoyles led me to this and then to this and the next thing I knew I was regaining consciousness in the back alleyways of Wikipedia with this story clutched in my hand. Thanks to such_heights for the beta.

( The Part-time Peluda and the Faint-hearted Fiancé: a Fractious Folk Tale  )

Title: Both Odd and Even (The f(x)=0 Remix)
Pairing: Aziraphale/Crowley
Summary: Aziraphale wants to kiss Crowley. He does.
Rating: R
Author's Note: Originally written for remix_redux 2007. A remix of Both Odd and Even by apple_pi

( Both Odd and Even (The f(x)=0 Remix) )

Title: Pennies From Heaven (Pound Notes From Hell)
Rating: PG
Pairing/characters: Warlock, Aziraphale & Crowley (could be read as Aziraphale/Crowley, but what can't?)
Summary: Warlock just wants to feel special again.
Author's Notes: My go_exchange 2006 fic, written for vibishan. Thanks to such_heights for the beta!


( Warlock could be stunningly self-centered )