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I neglected to nominate Real Genius for Yuletide, and no one else did either! :( But adding Eyal to Covert Affairs was worth it, I hope.
Dear Yuletide author: Thank you! Aside from what I said in my specific requests and as indicated by my fairly vague prompts, I focus most on character. I love plot, but I also love angst and hijinks. Other things I like: flawed heroes; cliche-fic like bodyswap that shows why the cliche is useful for revealing character; the Gift of the Magi; getting the thing that you want the most except that it’s broken; characters who recognize that they have powerful emotions but think what they want is irrelevant because they despair of changing the conditions giving rise to their unfulfilled desires; banter; telling the truth in a way that the hearer doesn’t believe it; characters who think they’re lying but aren’t; shaggy dog stories; love and blood and rhetoric; and so on.
I do not mind unhappy endings. I love melodrama and characters who defy melodrama. Although I primarily read slash these days, as you can see from my requests I am also happy with het, and pretty much my only relationship request, if you choose to include one, is not to use female characters as bad guys in order to bring a m/m pairing together.
Dear Yuletide author: Thank you! Aside from what I said in my specific requests and as indicated by my fairly vague prompts, I focus most on character. I love plot, but I also love angst and hijinks. Other things I like: flawed heroes; cliche-fic like bodyswap that shows why the cliche is useful for revealing character; the Gift of the Magi; getting the thing that you want the most except that it’s broken; characters who recognize that they have powerful emotions but think what they want is irrelevant because they despair of changing the conditions giving rise to their unfulfilled desires; banter; telling the truth in a way that the hearer doesn’t believe it; characters who think they’re lying but aren’t; shaggy dog stories; love and blood and rhetoric; and so on.
I do not mind unhappy endings. I love melodrama and characters who defy melodrama. Although I primarily read slash these days, as you can see from my requests I am also happy with het, and pretty much my only relationship request, if you choose to include one, is not to use female characters as bad guys in order to bring a m/m pairing together.
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