affection is a conviction

Some general likes and DNWs (these are just suggestions - don't feel pressured to include all of them!):

LIKES:
-loyalty kink
-hurt/comfort
-established relationships
-family fic - I'm not sure what the precise term for this would be? Not kidfic, exactly, but stories where the characters have formed a family unit, which may or may not include having/raising kids. So yeah, I guess kidfic.
-cuddling
-history! If you're a nerd for any of the periods these canons take place in, please go nuts with the background detail.

DNWs:
-animal death/abuse
-character death
-A/B/O
-modern AUs (if canon is fantasy/historical)
-noncon/dubcon

18th Century CE Austrian Royalty RPF

I was so excited when I saw this in the tagset because I knew immediately what characters would be nominated. And I was right! I read about Maria Christina and Isabella for the first time in high school, in one of those cheap "scandalous affairs of history" books that you pick up off the sale table at Barnes and Noble. And of course I was struck by them - how could I not be? It's such a classic, almost fairytale story - lovers torn apart because one has to marry someone she doesn't love. In my head, they look like this.

Obviously the canon (such as it is) lends itself to epistolary fiction, so that's one tack you could take. Or you could write an AU where Isabella hadn't died young - how might life have unfolded for her, for both of them? Or if you're feeling inclined towards smut, you could write . . . well, smut lol. Sneaking away at a masquerade, playing in the palace gardens, etc. Or even just a conversation between the two of them - we know they were both very smart, and Isabella in particular was tuned into politics and philosophy. What did they talk about when they were together? So much of their relationship is lost to time, you have a lot of wiggle room in how you want to write it.

Stigmata (1999)


I found this movie purely by chance on Netflix, and I love it so much. Stories about being torn between conscience and responsibility always fascinate me, especially when they take place as the protagonist is slowly realizing that the system they work for is antithetical to what they believe in. Of course I like to hope that Robert made it out of Poland and found Arek, but what happened after that? Where did they go, how did they live? How did they (and especially Robert) re-calibrate their lives once they're no longer living behind the Iron Curtain? And for that matter, what does their relationship look like in the aftermath - they've only known each other for a few months at most, and under false pretenses for the majority of it, so they kind of have to get to know each other all over again. What does that process look like? So yeah, basically anything exploring the aftermath of the movie would make me happy.

Title: New Road
Music: “Love My Way" by the Psychedelic Furs
Fandom: Operation Hyacinth (20210
Summary: They just want to steal us all and take us all apart.
Warnings: Police brutality, homophobia, suicide.



Notes:

[Saoirse Ronan "women" voice] gay noir . . .

I edited this whole thing in a single afternoon, which should really tell you how much this movie has eaten my brain. Film noir is a genre I've always been drawn to, and one which feels extremely queer - it's about life in the shadows, the inherent hypocrisy and violence of "polite" society, being on the outside looking in, corruption - and yet it's a genre with a notable dearth of explicitly queer characters. A big part of that is because the golden age of noir was also the time period in which the Hayes Code was in effect, which meant that queerness was simply not permitted onscreen at all. Another part, I think, is that the tension between what the protagonists say and what they think offers an extra oomph to the general twistiness of your story, so why make it explicit when you can rely on that? One of my favourite neo-noir films is L.A. Confidential, a movie which I would absolutely argue is deliberately coding its lead character as queer - but they still never say it in so many words. And L.A. Confidential, a movie about a policeman in his father's shadow discovering the deep-rooted corruption in the system and having to decide whether to stay or walk away from it, feels like a natural precursor to Operation Hyacinth. I might have a vid in me about that.

Title: Me and the Devil
Fandom: The Wind (2018)
Music: Me and the Devil by Soap and Skin
Summary: And then there was one.
Warnings: blood, guns, gore, dead animals

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Favourite tropes:

(Some of this is c/p'd from me Yuletide letter because I am nothing if not consistent with my requests.)

( dear shipswapper )

Hi there, scribbler! So I keep a handy list of Tropes I Like and Tropes I Don't for exchanges like this- you can read it here. Don't feel pressured to include everything- they're just suggestions! In general, I like fluff, cuddling, happy people in love, awesome ladies, and just people enjoying each other in general. I don't like angst (especially for queer characters- I get why it exists, but it exhausts me), death fic, or darkfic in general. I'm pretty chill when it comes to fic.

( fandom specifics )

Hello, yulegoat! First let me say that if we share any one of the fandoms on this list, you already seem like a cool person, and I'm sure we have stuff in common. I'm not terribly fussy about fic, and I've loved every story I've gotten in past Yuletides, so don't stress about it! If you'd like some suggestions, here is list of my kinks and anti-kinks. Don't feel pressured to include ALL of those- just think of them as a guideline. The only really hard "rule" I have is that I really don't like darkfic or stuff with sad endings. I'm fine with sad things happening in-story (though it's not something I tend to seek out) but sad endings will put me down for hours afterwards, so I try to avoid them where possible. Apart from that (and my general non-kinkiness- I've written PWP before, so you can see from there how I tend to swing re: sex in fic) just about anything you choose to do is good!

[Anon commenting is ON for this entry, both on LJ and DW, so you can sneak in and ask for clarification if you want: I won't know it's you!]

( here we come a-fanficcing )