thedeadparrot

My dearest Yulegoat,

Thank you so much for writing for me! I hope you're not crying to yourself over my particular requests!

( more details (fandoms: Harold and Kumar, Hawaii 5-0, The Middleman) )

Anyway, anything you could write with these characters would make me really happy! These guidelines are just there for your benefit if you should choose to use them.

Happy yuletiding!
-thedeadparrot

For Yuletide, I received Grift Sense, which is Hustle fic, and it is excellent Hustle fic, all about the early days between Albert and Mickey, and it is exactly what I wanted and omg, I want to hug it and feed it cookies. The voices are excellent, and the slick, cool attitude is just perfect.

I also have Yuletide Madness treats which I am impatiently expecting. Hmpf. But in the meantime, there is plenty of fic to swim through! Yay!

(Also, um, Merry Christmas to everyone who celebrates it!)

I HAVE A FIRST DRAFT OF YULETIDE FIC.

*Snoopy dances*

Uh, now just to type it up and make it not suck while desperately trying not to fail my finals and also obtain this strange new concept called "a job."

Dear Yule Goat,

I hope you do not hate me forever and ever for my requests! My preferences are pretty flexible. If you write me something in these fandoms with these characters, I will be happy.

General likes/dislikes: I like: joy in small pleasures; things that can be left unsaid; baking; quiet, understated friendships; palatable absences; clever dialogue; crack; magical realism; identity issues; competence; cursing; affectionate insults; near-incomprehensible, domain-specific slang; sunlight in the mornings; rainy afternoons; bittersweet moments; hard-won happiness; good advice.

I dislike: really intense hurt/comfort; easily solved miscommunication problems; soul bonds; first-person POV; being unable to live on after your significant other has died; obsessions with virginity; character bashing.

Anyway, I am sure I will love you for whatever you write in these fandoms, and I hope you get great joy out of writing them as well!

( Specific requests! )

Anyway, I hope this helps! If you want to get a sense of the fic I write, you can look up what I've recently written on parrotfic.

Love,
me

Also, I have been on an Arthurian legend kick, as one does. At the moment, I'm reading through Mists of Avalon, which is rather quite good. Yay for feminist reworkings. However, I do spend a lot of time wanting to punch Guinevere in the face, which is unfortunate. Like, I don't usually hate her, even as she's cheating on my woobie favorite character, Arthur, but in this one she just aggravates me ALL THE TIME. Please tell me I'm not the only one who reacted that way.

Anyway, I wrote three (3) stories for Yuletide this year. I doubt any of you have read any of them (unless you've betaed them or I've told you), but if you want to give it a shot and you get it right, I can write you fic, I guess.

Also, I'm kind of in the mood to make icons, so I might open myself up to icon requests in the near future. We'll see.

Merlin is cracktastic and ridiculously fun. I really adore retellings of my favorite stories, and it does that in quite interesting ways! I loved what they did with Excalibur, and I desperately hope that they make Arthur pull that damn thing out of a stone by the end of this. I may even have to write that fic myself.

Also! I turned in my yuletide story a few days ago, so I did not run into any difficulties there. I'm glad to see everyone else on my flist made it as well! Go us!

I am also going to attempt to write a Yuletide Treat. I think. Maybe. Or even just a pinch hit. WE'LL SEE. Who else is with me in this insanity?

Coming out of my pseudo-isolation to let you know that someone wrote me a NYR fic (OMG I've gotten three stories now, and I have no idea what I did to deserve this).

It's Dune-fic, Paul introspection, and it's just wonderful.

Go read.

Yeah, so yuletide authors are up, and I can now say that I wrote The Beginnings of All Things Are Small, a Batman Begins story that introduces Dick Grayson into this particular Batverse.

I'd really like to thank ignited for the beta job, even though she was busy, and all the RL friends who listened to me whine about how much this was stressing me out, even if they never end up reading this. Apologies to Cicero for stealing one of his quotes for the title.


So, the year in fic meme, (now with self-indulgent author's notes!):

( all the fic sorted by fandom )
( the actual meme )

So fannish resolutions for next year! Write more, interact more, feedback more. I really have to shake off my bad lurker habits.

OMG yuletide!

My Santa wrote me the best fic, like, ever. It's A Jianghu Fairytale, and it's just awesome. I've totally been craving Crouching Tiger fic since forever, and not just Crouching Tiger fic, but Crouching Tiger fic about Li Mu Bai and Shu Lien, who are just about the most kick ass people in existence. And my Santa got them down perfectly, which makes me oh, so happy.

A sample:

Shu Lien liked to think of that later, much later, when Li Mu Bai was famous and the man who would be her husband was dead. Sometimes she mentioned it, when they were together. She'd say, "Remember when we met? Remember when you were dying?"

And he would say, "I remember you."

So, yes. Go read everything. And be happy.

Dear Yuletide Santa,

Thank you so much for doing this. I greatly hope that my request(s) are to your liking, and that you do not wish to disembowel me at the moment, because that would suck. A lot. :(

About my requests, I would extraordinarily happy if you actually wrote the situations, but I would also be very, very happy just to recieve a anything with those characters. Seriously. So if you can't write the specific situations I asked for, don't sweat it too much. :)

I like gen/het/slash/whatever, so don't worry about that, either.

If you have any clarification questions about anything, I totally wouldn't mind if you asked the Yuletide mods to ask me.

- thedeadparrot



Re: my assignment.

I, by some miraculous twist of fate, can write two of my assignee's requests, though I'm nervous about whether I can write either of them with any degree of skill.