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oh! um. Dear Yuletider:
So, yeah, as assignments were coming out and then going back and then coming out again, I was in a haze of Running A Bonspiel, so I noted the mixup and reassignment and haven't got around to leaving a note for Santa (or whomever) until now. Sorry! (God, someone in my building is making popcorn or something, and it smells wonderful. Nom nom nom.)
So, ahem. Hello, Yuletide Santa!
First, let me say thank you! I always find the requesting part of![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-community.gif)
yuletide the hardest to do, so I have it in my head that my requests are somehow difficult to write to, and I hope that's not the case, but in any event thanks for putting up with me. I will say that you're ahead of the person who got me in 2004, when I thought it was somehow helpful to include no request details at all (because I didn't want to cramp anybody's style, see). Unless you are that person, which, hee, chickens come home to roost, eh? Anyway. I hope my request details are not a pain to you; I chose "any" for characters in each of my requests because I really, really, really don't want you to feel at all restricted into something you're going to find difficult. Guidelines. The things I mention in the details would please me, but on the other hand, so would any number of things it hasn't even occurred to me to imagine. The fact that you're writing me a story pleases me! So I hope "Will Fox like her story" is not among your stressors. The answer is, Yes. Yes, she will. Moving on to my specific requests.
1. As You Like It - I don't have a copy of my 2004 signup ready to hand, but I've found copies of 2005 and 2006, so I can accurately report that this is at least the third time this thing has been on my list. (Which I mention to illustrate how perseverence is a quality that appeals to me. Use that information as you see fit. [g]) The thing is this: the last couple of times I've seen As You Like It, Jacques has been relatively young, much more a contemporary of Orlando and Oliver than of Frederick and the Duke. And it seemed -- he was a lot sadder, I think, that way. Or, I mean, he was just incomparably snarky over most of the play, as he has to be, but when he was melancholy, it was really very sad, to think that someone that young was already that bitter. (At least when he's old, it makes sense that he's worn down, right?) And the last last time I saw it, Touchstone was a young guy, as well, and they were yin and yang, and it's not that I'd never noticed that before, but this production really highlighted it, and something clicked.
But as I've said before, maybe you have other ideas about where to go with AYLI. That's great too. I'm kind of a fan of all Shakespeare fanfic, really, which makes it sort of ironically amusing that my second request is
2. Mulan - I really, I don't know why I didn't sign up for Twelfth Night and call it a day. What interests me about Li Shang and Mulan is the Orsino/Cesario aspect of their relationship. And yet I'm much less interested in Orsino and Cesario than I am in Li Shang and Mulan. Maybe it's because Orsino/Cesario has been done to death. Maybe it's because a palace will never be as interesting as an army camp. Maybe it's because I've never seen a Disney drawing of Viola looking at her reflection in her father's sword. Who knows.
3. Grease - I surprised myself with this request, but then when I thought about it I was much less surprised. I am a big fan of non-happy endings -- which is not to say unhappy, although I can get behind a good unhappy ending if that's what seems reasonable; but I really appreciate when the resolution of a story is, And they lived ever after, and sometimes they were happy, but sometimes not so much, because that's showbiz, kid. If you see what I mean. The non-Hollywood ending, in other words. What if Rizzo hadn't found out she was safely not pregnant? What would she have done about it? What would Kenickie have done about it? What about their friends? (I admit this prompt also grew out of my past few years' fangirling of Stockard Channing, which may also be related to my last request -)
4. The American Presidnet - I'm not clever enough to write political Sorkin fic. I can handle the dialogue, just about, but not the actual topics. So I write some Sports Night here and there, and count on other people to write the American President and West Wing fic for me. There is no character I do not adore.
Thanks for being my Yuletide gift-giver! I hope the story you get from your writer makes you as happy as the story you write will make me. :-)
love from
Fox
So, ahem. Hello, Yuletide Santa!
First, let me say thank you! I always find the requesting part of
yuletide the hardest to do, so I have it in my head that my requests are somehow difficult to write to, and I hope that's not the case, but in any event thanks for putting up with me. I will say that you're ahead of the person who got me in 2004, when I thought it was somehow helpful to include no request details at all (because I didn't want to cramp anybody's style, see). Unless you are that person, which, hee, chickens come home to roost, eh? Anyway. I hope my request details are not a pain to you; I chose "any" for characters in each of my requests because I really, really, really don't want you to feel at all restricted into something you're going to find difficult. Guidelines. The things I mention in the details would please me, but on the other hand, so would any number of things it hasn't even occurred to me to imagine. The fact that you're writing me a story pleases me! So I hope "Will Fox like her story" is not among your stressors. The answer is, Yes. Yes, she will. Moving on to my specific requests.1. As You Like It - I don't have a copy of my 2004 signup ready to hand, but I've found copies of 2005 and 2006, so I can accurately report that this is at least the third time this thing has been on my list. (Which I mention to illustrate how perseverence is a quality that appeals to me. Use that information as you see fit. [g]) The thing is this: the last couple of times I've seen As You Like It, Jacques has been relatively young, much more a contemporary of Orlando and Oliver than of Frederick and the Duke. And it seemed -- he was a lot sadder, I think, that way. Or, I mean, he was just incomparably snarky over most of the play, as he has to be, but when he was melancholy, it was really very sad, to think that someone that young was already that bitter. (At least when he's old, it makes sense that he's worn down, right?) And the last last time I saw it, Touchstone was a young guy, as well, and they were yin and yang, and it's not that I'd never noticed that before, but this production really highlighted it, and something clicked.
But as I've said before, maybe you have other ideas about where to go with AYLI. That's great too. I'm kind of a fan of all Shakespeare fanfic, really, which makes it sort of ironically amusing that my second request is
2. Mulan - I really, I don't know why I didn't sign up for Twelfth Night and call it a day. What interests me about Li Shang and Mulan is the Orsino/Cesario aspect of their relationship. And yet I'm much less interested in Orsino and Cesario than I am in Li Shang and Mulan. Maybe it's because Orsino/Cesario has been done to death. Maybe it's because a palace will never be as interesting as an army camp. Maybe it's because I've never seen a Disney drawing of Viola looking at her reflection in her father's sword. Who knows.
3. Grease - I surprised myself with this request, but then when I thought about it I was much less surprised. I am a big fan of non-happy endings -- which is not to say unhappy, although I can get behind a good unhappy ending if that's what seems reasonable; but I really appreciate when the resolution of a story is, And they lived ever after, and sometimes they were happy, but sometimes not so much, because that's showbiz, kid. If you see what I mean. The non-Hollywood ending, in other words. What if Rizzo hadn't found out she was safely not pregnant? What would she have done about it? What would Kenickie have done about it? What about their friends? (I admit this prompt also grew out of my past few years' fangirling of Stockard Channing, which may also be related to my last request -)
4. The American Presidnet - I'm not clever enough to write political Sorkin fic. I can handle the dialogue, just about, but not the actual topics. So I write some Sports Night here and there, and count on other people to write the American President and West Wing fic for me. There is no character I do not adore.
Thanks for being my Yuletide gift-giver! I hope the story you get from your writer makes you as happy as the story you write will make me. :-)
love from
Fox