[FLAAAAAIL!}

I CAN HAS YULETIDE ASSIGNMENT!

[runs around the room like a wind-up toy]

dear lovely yuletide writer

(I don't have anything against "Dear Yule Goat", you understand, but I don't know, somehow in my head, despite all the evidence from everyone about the honest-to-god Yule Goat and everything, small ruminants don't say "festive". Go figure.)

BUT. This is a letter elaborating on my details for my lovely new Yuletide friend.

DEAR LOVELY NEW YULETIDE FRIEND,

Hi! As I've said in other years, the very fact that you are writing me a story is just the most marvelous thing and yay. If you write a story you like in one of the fandoms we share, I will be pleased. But in case you really can't go on without Additional Guidance, I'll repeat what I said last year about ( Things You Might Want To Avoid If Your Purpose Is Specifically To Please Fox: )

Oh, dear, specifics about specific fandoms, beyond what's in the optional-details-are-optional. Hmm.

( Let's see. )

Very broadly speaking, I like the slash. Boys or girls, whichever seems called for. I also like the het and the gen if that's what the story needs. Please don't worry about that either. Other things I like, in a list from last year that happens for some reason to include only things beginning with "s":

• scruffy. longitudinal studies have shown that in TV and movies, I like when the boys don't shave for a couple of days. Make of that what you will.
  
• stoicism. (I didn't request Wimseyverse, but one time I was talking to someone about Dorothy L Sayers, and saying how I love Peter Wimsey best because he was so brave all that time he was in love with Harriet and she wasn't in love with him. Extrapolate as needed.)
  
• snark, but I do like it better witty than snippy.
  
• um. This is where I turn it over to my flist, who are welcome to comment on this post or whom you are welcome to contact in whatever mod-compliant ways exist. The best able to analyze my sensibilities is almost certainly ellen_fremedon (and sanj, but she is swamped with schoolwork, aie!). If she can't help you, she can at least probably -- possibly after tricking me with well-disguised hypothetical questions -- point you at someone who can.

waters of mars

( Spoilers? Why, yes. )