alixtii | Entries tagged with yuletide

x. RAH -- World-as-Myth multiverse, Lapus Lazuli Long/Lorelai Lee Long**
x. RS+RAW -- The ILLUMINATUS! Trilogy, Miss Portinari
x. The Neverending Story Trilogy (movies), Bastian Bux/Nicole/Childlike Empress*
x. The Neverending Story (book), Childlike Empress/Xayide
x. FHB -- A Little Princess, Sara Crewe/Becky
x. Ultimate X-Men, Kitty Pryde/Jean Grey/Charles Xavier
x. Ultimate Spiderman, Kitty Pryde/Peter Parker/Mary Jane Watson/Jessica Drew
x. Spider-Man <3's Mary Jane, Mary Jane Watson/Gwen Stacey/Liz Allen/Felicia Hardy
x. Spider-Man <3's Mary Jane, Mary Jane Watson/Gwen Stacey/Liz Allen/Lindsay Leighton
x. GBS -- Pygmalion, Eliza Doolittle/Clara Eynsford-Hill
x. GBS -- Man and Superman, Violet Whitfield/Anna Whitfield
x. RPF, Joss Whedon/Summer Glau
x. GO -- Nineteen Eighty-Four, Julia
x. Where on Earth is Carmen Sandiego?, Carmen Sandiego/the Player*
x. OSC -- Ender's Game, Peter Wiggin/Valentine Wiggin*
x. The Parent Trap (1999), Hallie Parker/Annie James*
x. My Summer of Love, Mona/Tamsin/Phil/Sadie
x. The Truman Show, Truman Burbank/Sylvia
x. The Secret Garden (musical), Mary Lennox/Neville Craven*
x. MT -- Tom Sawyer, Tom Sawyer/Mary/Becky Thatcher
x. WS -- As You Like It, Celia/Rosalind/Touchstone
x. WS -- The Taming of the Shrew, Kate/Bianca
x. Into the Woods, Cinderella/Baker
x. D.E.B.S., Janet
x. RPF - D.E.B.S., Jill Ritchie/Jordana Brewster/Sara Foster
x. Gray Matters, Gray Baldwin/Sam Baldwin/Charlie Kelsey
x. Winter Passing, Reese Holden/Shelly
x. KDW -- Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm, Emma Jane Perkins/Rebecca Rowena Randall*
x. KDW -- Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm, Jane Sawyer/Miranda Sawyer
x. Beautiful Girls, Marty/Willy Conway
x. GCW -- The Boxcar Children, Henry/Violet/Jessie
x. Legally Blonde, Elle Woods/Vivian Kensington
x. Brides of Christ, Sister Catherine/Sister Paul
x. Brides of Christ, Rosemary Fitzgerald/Frances Heffernan/Brigid Maloney
x. Brides of Christ, Rosemary Fitzgerald/Lucy Mulcady
x. Sunshine Cleaners, Rose Lorkowski/Nora Lorkowski
x. Sunshine Cleaners RPF, Amy Adams/Emily Blunt
x. Escape to Witch Mountain (1975), Tia/Tony
x. Escape to Witch Mountain (1995), Anna/Danny
x. Race to Witch Mountain (2009), Sara/Seth
x. She's All That, Laney Boggs/Mackenzie Siler
x. She's All That, Mackenzie Siler/Zack Siler
x, RPF - She's All That, Rachel Leigh Cook/Anna Paquin
x. BC -- The A.I. Gang, Roger Philips/Rachel Philips
x. BC -- The A.I. Gang, Wendy Wendell III/Rachel Philips
x. BC -- The A.I. Gang, Wendy Wendell III/Ray Gammany
x. The Man in the Moon (1991), Dani Trant/Maureen Trant
x. Mars Attacks, Taffy Dale/Richie Norris
x. The Black Adder, Princess Leia of Hungary*
x. Small Wonder, Jamie/Harriet/Vicki/Vanessa
x. RPF - The Guild, Felicia Day/Teal Sherer/Michelle Boyd
x. Roswell, Maria DeLuca/Isabel Evans/Liz Parker
x. RPF - Roswell, Shiri Appleby/Majandra Delfino/Katherine Heigl
x. Ghostwriter, Lenni Frazier/Gabriella Fernández/Ghostwriter/Tina Nguyen
x. Arthurian Legend, Guinevere/Mordred
x. The Parent Trap II, Nikki Ferris/Mary Grand
x. Freaks and Geeks, Lindsey Weir/Millie Kentner
x. RPF - Freaks and Geeeks, Linda Cardellini/Sarah Hagan
x. The American President, Sydney Ellen Wade/Lucy Shepherd
x. Boy Meets World, Morgan Matthews
x. The Royal Tenenbaums, Margot Tenenbaum/Richie Tenenbaum
x. She's the Man, Olivia/Viola/Sebastian/Kia
x. Twelve Days of Christmas (song), Narrator/My True Love/Eight Maids-a-Milking/Ten Ladies Dancing
x. Naissance des pieuvres aka Water Lilies, Florianne/Marie
x. The Diary of Anne Frank, Anne Frank/Margot Frank/Otto Frank
x. RPF, Dakota Fanning/Kristen Stewart
x. Tart (2001), Grace Bailey/Eloise Logan/Cat Storm
x. Triple Dog (2009), Chapin/Eve/Liza/Sarah
x. Camp (2003), Vlad Baumann/Ellen Lucas/Jill Simmons/Fritzi Wagner
x. Phineas and Ferb, Vanessa Doofenshmirtz/Candace Flynn/Isabella Garcia-Shapiro/Stacey Hirano
x. The Adventures of Pete and Pete, Ellen Hickle/Nona F. Mecklenberg/Monica
x. The Amanda Show, Penelope Taynt
x. 'Tis Pity She's a Whore, Annabella/Giovanni
x. Gallagher Girls - Ally Carter, Rebecca Baxter/Macy McHenry/Cameron Morgan/Liz Sutton
x. Gallagher Girls - Ally Carter, Abigail Cameron/Rachel Morgan
x. Snow Crash - Neal Stephenson, Uncle Enzo/Hiro Protagonist/Juanita/Y.T.
x. Honor Harrington series - Abigail Hearns/Faith Harrington/James Harrington
x. Silver Linings Playbook - Matthew Quick,
x. Awoken - Serra Elinson, Bree/Chloe Bay/Scarlett Epistola/Andromeda Slate
x. The Squad - Jennifer Barnes, the twins(?)/Lucy(?)/Josh(?)
x. The Squad - Jennifer Barnes, Chloe(?)/Toby Klein
x. Fuzzy Nation - John Scalzi, Jack Holloway/Isabella(?)/Mark Sullivan
x. Nick and Norah's Infinite Playlist - Rachel Cohn & David Levithan, Nick O'Leary/Norah Silverberg/Tris
x. Greek Mythology, Apollo/Artemis/Daphne/Orion
x. Greek Mythology, Appollo/Artemis/Daphne/Eris
X. Interstellar (2014), Amelia Brand/Murphy Copper
X. Scott Pilgrim Vs.the World () RPF, Anna Kendrick/Aubrey Plaza
X. Half-Moon Hollow - Molly Harper, Ophelia Lambert/Georgie Lambert/Gigi Scanlon

*Written for me in Yuletide.
**Written for me in Yuletide as a Yuletide treat.

( more detailed requests )

Optional details are optional. That said, I like female characters being awesome (which can take many different forms!) and having agency; I like femslash and female friendship; I like fluff and darkfic and pretty much everything in between. I like gen and porn with plot and pretty much everything in between. I like polyamory where the women outnumber the men. I'm fine with noncon, dubcon, incest, and cross-gen. I don't mind experimental uses of tense, POV, or story structure or formatting. I have few squicks and no triggers.

If you're interested in what was going on in my head when I made my requests, read on. . . .

Fandom: Scott Pilgrim vs. the World (2010) RPF
Characters: Anna Kendrick, Aubrey Plaza
Request: Friends to lovers. Or friends with benefits. Or people who tolerate each other suprisingly well for people who engage in hatesex as much as they do. Or whatever other potentially difficult-to-classify relationship they might fall into together.

I nominated this as Scott Pilgrim RPF, since that's the most well-known film both Kendrick and Plaza were in together, but feel free to set this at any point in time: past, present, or future.

How is this pairing not already on the archive? They're canonical BFFs! They couldn't get any slashier if they tried, for the simple reason that they clearly are deliberately trying. (Maybe they'd be even slashier if they tried less?)

There's plenty of material for this pairing, starting of course with their own Twitter accounts, AnnaKendrick47 and evilhag, but I also want to recommend Kendrick's Vogue photo diary for the 2014 Oscars, and--well, Google is your friend. Trust me, there's plenty of material.

Fandom: Half-Moon Hollow - Molly Harper
Characters: Ophelia Lambert, Georgie Lambert, Gigi Scanlon
Request: The Lambert sisters and Gigi, with emphasis on Ophelia being Ophelia.

Ophelia Lambert is, hands down, my favorite character in this series. One of my bulletproof narrative kinks is the radically autonomous teenager, the adolescent (preferably adolescent girl) who acts as, and in as accepted as, the equal of the adults in the narrative. Obviously Ophelia (and to a lesser extent, Georgie and Gigi) feeds into this kink pretty well. I'm interested in the ways that Ophelia does and doesn't present herself as a teenager--and the ways that role ends up being more true than she would really like. She may be 400 years old, but that doesn't stop her from acting like a petulant child. I don't see her as either a villain or a woobie, but she clearly enjoys being in control and not being in control scares her more than she would ever admit.

If you set your fic after The Dangers of Dating a Rebound Vampire, then it would make sense to focus on Ophelia in college, making new enemies (or maybe even friends?) and trying to heal her relationship with Georgie and Gigi (and of course Jamie). But feel free to set it earlier in canon as well.

Fandom: A Brother's Price - Wen Spencer
Characters: Jerin Whistler, Rennsellaer, Halley, Odelia
Request: Jerin and his wives, post-novel.

I picked Rensellaer, Halley, and Odelia because I had to pick just three, but I love Trini and Lylia too, and would even be interested in seeing more of the younger sisters. All the sisters are great, with their complementary strengths and weaknesses and overall personalities. Halley in particular intrigues me, with her tragic backstory of still getting over her lover who couldn't accept her scarred face (and then left her for Kij!). But there's a lot to love in Odelia's flirty hedonism, Trini's practicality, and Lylia's idealism, too.

I feel like I should say something about worldbuilding here, because I know this fandom has been requested before for Yuletide with worldbuilding prompts. I feel like we can take it for granted that the author, the readers, and the main characters all know that buying and selling men isn't okay. Yes, the way the characters accept the social situation and find their own happy ending within it without disrupting the overall structure can be said to normalize it in ways which are problematic, but sometimes we need to let idfic be idfic. That said, there are a couple of areas of worldbuilding which do interest me:

Homosexuality. It seems fairly clear that, if not lesbianism per se, then at least situational female bisexuality is considered to be normal and accepted in the universe of the novel. Female prostitutes who serve other women are common. Halley has had a bad breakup with a former female lover. Indeed, I read Halley as being fairly high on the Kinsey scale, notwithstanding her real affection for Jerin (I don't think they know each other well enough to really call it love yet) and her being the first of the sisters to bear him a child.

Incest. Incest is still a taboo in the novel's society, but doesn't seem to be nearly as strong a taboo as in the actual world. It's treated more as a sexual indiscretion--something everyone knows happens but which polite people don't talk about--than a fundamental, instinctual prohibition. Eldie Porter "isn't really incestuous fruit" since their parents are closer to cousins/step-siblings than what we might recognize as brother and sister. Indeed, I'm not sure sex between sisters would be recognized as incestuous at all; after all, they're all already making love to the same man, and genetic consanguinity wouldn't be an issue since they can't get each other pregnant.

Religion. There are a lot of references to the gods (who seem to be based on the Greco-Roman pantheon) in the novel, but no one seems particularly devout. The gods' prohibitions (e.g., against adoption) seem to be accepted more due to their pragmatic purpose than out of piety as such. There's also a reference to the Prophets--with the nice touch of a token male prophet--which makes Queensland religiosity an interesting mix of Greco-Roman, Judeo-Christian, and secularizing elements.

It probably sounds at this point that I just want a big polyamorous incestuous orgy, which--well, I certainly wouldn't say no to that being part of the fic, but I'm also not looking for PWP or curtain fic. Just something which shows Jerin interacting with two or more of the sisters post-novel in a way which reveals character and speaks at least a little bit to the id. What type of intimacy you choose to show is totally up to you; honestly, I tend to just skim over most sex scenes. A bit of political intrigue and/or a domestic conflict between the sisters would be just right to get the fic rolling.

Fandom: Interstellar (2014)
Characters: Amelia Brand, Murphy Cooper
Request: Amelia and Murphy interacting, at any point in canon, twisting canon however much you have to in order to make it happen. Femslash or gen.

I'd like to see Murphy and Amelia interacting, bonding, and/or sexing--pretty much anything which passes the Bechdel test is good with me, femslash or gen or in-between. Feel free to diverge from canon and/or use relativistic effects to play with the ages of the characters as you see fit, although dirtybadwrong cross-gen would be just fine too. You could write a missing scene between Murphy and Amelia before the latter leaves for space, or an AU where Amelia stays behind and acts as mentor to Murphy, or some sort of epistolary romance, and/or have Murphy use science to be waiting for Amelia (with or without Joseph) on Edmunds' planet (which is how I actually expected the movie to end). Or you can go really wild and have Foy!Murphy and Chastain!Murphy both interacting with Amelia at the same time. I just really enjoyed these strong, intelligent characters and wished they had had more time on screen to interact. And that this fandom had more opportunities for femslash, ahem, or even any sort of meaningful female homosocial relationships. (The film itself arguably does pass the Bechdel test, but just barely.)

As with the other prompts, I'm not bothered by incest (and honestly, I can see both Amelia/John and Murphy/Joseph working).

Crossposts: http://alixtii.livejournal.com/372805.html http://alixtii.insanejournal.com/306510.html

The penultimate chapter of "Where the Heart Is," complete with the climax everybody's been waiting for (myself most especially)! Whew. Took me long enough. (Remember this fic was supposed to be written for Yuletide 2013.) Now I just need to finish the denoument/conclusion . . . and then I can start thinking about sequels/prequels.

Where the Heart Is (17979 words) by Alixtii
Chapter: 7/8
Fandom: Folgers Holiday Commercial (2009), Folgerscest - Fandom, Original Work, Ghost Soup Infidel Blue RPF
Relationship: Brother/Sister, Folgerscest
Summary: After spending five years in West Africa, a young man returns home to the United States for the holidays. But sometimes home isn't a place so much as it is a person.

The awkward morning after Gwen's drunken proposition. Then, a formalwear New Year's Eve party, and Lexie finally makes her decision.

( Where the Heart Is, 7/8 )

Crossposts: http://alixtii.insanejournal.com/306304.html

The antepenultimate chapter of "Where the Heart Is"! I was hoping to have the entire thing finished before this year's Yuletide assignments were sent out. I . . . don't think that's going to happen.

Where the Heart Is (15423 words) by Alixtii
Chapters: 6/8
Fandom: Folgers Holiday Commercial (2009), Folgerscest - Fandom, Original Work, Ghost Soup Infidel Blue
Relationships: Brother/Sister, Folgerscest
Summary: After spending five years in West Africa, a young man returns home to the United States for the holidays. But sometimes home isn't a place so much as it is a person.

Luke and Lexie go to the Hendersons' New Years Eve Eve party. But so does Gwen, and drama ensues.

( Where the Heart Is, 6/8 )

Crossposts: http://alixtii.insanejournal.com/305672.html

(N.B.: Portions of this letter have been lifted from previous years' letters: 2013 2012 2011 2010 2009 2008 2007.)

Thank you for signing up to write a story for me! You're one of a very small group of people who offered to write for one or more of my fandoms and I love you for that alone. All three of my requests this year are repeats, so you can be assured that whatever we matched on and/or you decide to write for me, it'll be something I'm looking forward to very, very much.

If you check out my userinfo, you'll find a 'thon policy which implores that you be true first and foremost to the prompt and your muse, and to consider whether I'd like a story as, at most, a secondary concern. I stand by that, but I also recognize there is a sense that a

yuletide story is explicitly a gift in a way which most 'thon fics aren't, so feel free to surf through this journal to get a feel for me, and here's a little bit more, if you are interested, to help you understand how I relate to the specific texts and characters in the fandoms I've requested and what I might like. OTOH, don't be intimitated; this letter might demonstrate that I've thought long and hard about why I want what I want, ~~because I'm full of myself and like to navel-gaze~~ so you can get a feel for my tastes, but the specifics of what I'd like are intentionally vague even in my own mind.

As a reader (and, for that matter, as a writer), I'm perhaps most interested in female characters--in particular, adolescent female characters with agency--and in the relationships between them. I'm also drawn to what I call will-to-poweriness, the adolescent fantasy, the desire to exceed oneself that also draws me to things like superhero comics (one of my fandoms is, indeed, X-Men) and fantasy shows like Buffy the Vampire Slayer (which is my main fandom). Female children and teenagers who prove themselves to be the equals (or betters) to adults because they are just that awesome are some of my favorite people to read about, and I think you can see this in many of my requests. I talk more about my love of radically autonomous young female characters in this post from 2006 and provide more examples of the specific dynamic I like and why I think it rings for me; I go on to talk about incest, but since that's not relevant for any of my requests this year you can feel free to ignore that part.

Beyond that, I like to think I'm easy to write for. I have few squicks--I'm fine with character death, BDSM, mpreg, dubcon, noncon, chan, incest--you name it, I'm probably okay with it. Just please no bashing of my favorite characters. Happy, uplifting fics are good, but so are soul-crushingly depressing ones so long as the pairings and characters get to be awesome. Ambivalent fics where we're not sure whether we should cheer or cry are probably best of all. If I didn't like existentialism and pseudo-nihilism in my fic, I wouldn't be a Joss Whedon fan.

( more on illuminatus! )

( more on rebecca of sunnybrook farm )

( more on tgwtg )

Thank you again for writing a story for me. Be true to your own muse, make sure the girls have agency, and I'm sure I'll love the result!

Yours in La Mancha,

alixtii/

alixtii
Alixtii O'Krul

Crossposts: http://alixtii.livejournal.com/371921.html

I left a comment on the Yuletide fandom promotion post advertising Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm. I'd also like to promote the other two fandoms I plan on nominating, The Illuminatus! Trilogy and That Guy With the Glasses, but I really don't have the least clue how to go about it. They're not easy fandoms to explain, exactly.

(All three fandoms are ones I made requests for last year, so my Dear Yulewriter Letter ought to be pretty easy to write this year. And whatever won't get written will qualify for the Some Day My Fic Will Come Challenge.)

In the meantime, I'm making last-minute edits to my

fic_corner story. Stories are supposed to go live tomorrow, but there's still one participant who hasn't yet gotten a fic written for them, so if you can write something for Dreamdark series - Laini Taylor, Snow Eyes series - Stephanie A. Smith, Toaru Kagaku no Railgun | A Certain Scientific Railgun, or Ultra Maniac then go here; if you can write for Dark Is Rising Sequence – Susan Cooper then go here.

Looking at the fandoms, it looks like the

fic_corner story written for me will be either Ender's Game or The A.I. Gang both of which would be awesome.

I had hoped to have completely finished Where the Heart Is by the time Yuletide assignments went out, but that's looking unlikely at this point. Although the antepenultimate chapter is mostly finished at this point, so hopefully I will get a chance to post it at least sometime in the next few weeks. I really do love those wacky incestuous kids. The sequel Where They Have to Take You In and prequel "One's Birthplace, Ratified by Memory" mostly just exist in my brain at this point. As does quite a bit of MCU fic, including a bunch of genderswap fic (Stephanie/Coulson, Toni/Natasha, Clint/girl!Thor) as well as sequels to The Caged Birds (including Coulson/Darcy, Tony/Pepper/Jane, and Bruce/Natasha fics).

Crossposts: http://alixtii.insanejournal.com/304562.html

So I'm working on the antepenultimate chapter of Where the Heart Is and I just found out that Côte d’Ivoire is in the northern hemisphere.

I went back over the previously posted chapters and I don't think I actually wrote anything incorrect. The 2nd sentence of the fic says "the very notion of a White Christmas seems more than a little alien" but that'd still be true no matter what.

But, still. Obviously with a fic like this one worries about being unintentionally appropriative--or at least more so than the source canon itself commits one to--but it never occurred to me that I might put a country in the wrong frakking hemisphere.

Oh, well. Disaster averted.

Crossposts: http://alixtii.livejournal.com/370384.html http://alixtii.insanejournal.com/303988.html

At long last, Chapter 5 of "Where the Heart Is" is up!

Where the Heart Is (11813 words) by Alixtii
Chapters: 5/8
Fandom: Folgers Holiday Commercial (2009), Folgerscest - Fandom, Original Work, Ghost Soup Infidel Blue
Relationships: Brother/Sister, Folgerscest
Summary: After spending five years in West Africa, a young man returns home to the United States for the holidays. But sometimes home isn't a place so much as it is a person.

Containing ice skating, a traumatic head injury, a dream sequence, a walk in the park, a meal at a fancy French restaurant, and hot car sex!

( Where the Heart Is, 5/8 )

Crossposts: http://alixtii.insanejournal.com/303159.html

So for Yuletide 2013, I wrote two fics. My main assignment was Where the Heart Is (Folgerscest) for

take_liberties, and I wrote Eternal Recurrence (Avalon High) as a treat for

amathela.

I got the idea for "Where the Heart Is" during last year's Yuletide, and desperately wanted to receive the Folgerscest assignment this year because I knew my idea was too ambitious for me to undertake it without being assigned it. Even as it was, I was forced to scale it back somewhat and only posted three chapters, hoping they could stand alone as a somewhat self-contained unit. My recipient did express interest in reading more when I completed it, though, so even before reveals happened I posted the fourth chapter, which is one of my favorites, and at this point I fully plan on writing the full eight chapters my original idea called for.

As of this writing, I have over 7K words posted to AO3, which if I may say so myself is pretty impressive considering the source canon is about 45 seconds long.

My original idea for "Where the Heart Is" was pretty simple: what if the brother had been away in West Africa for several years instead of months, and what if he asked his sister to go back to Africa with him? Percolating in my mind for a year meant that many little details began to develop and enrich the original premise, and I knew I would have enough material to fill eight chapters, one covering each of the eight days from Christmas Day to New Years Day. This became even more true as I began writing: the cousin Gwen, for example, was a relatively late addition, inspired by the Gwen Stacey debacle.

As I was preparing my sign-ups and reading letters, I was preparing possible fics I could write, any one of which I could write as a main assignment and/or a treat. I wanted to write Folgerscest as my main assignment desperately, but I had several different fic ideas in different fandoms ready to write: a Cinderella genderfuck piece, a Little Mermaid f/f fix-it, a Honor Harrington casefile, a Belle/Aurora college AU, etc. Many of these are started and may be completed at some future point.

One fic I more or less finished even before assignments went out, however, was "Eternal Recurrence." I enjoyed the Disney Channel movie Avalon High just as much as r

amathela did, and wanted to see more fanfic for much the same reasons. In particular, though, I shipped Allie/Jen, because I'm a femslasher and Arthur/Gwen is already canon. So one night at work an idea for a fic came to mind, and by the time I got home I had it pretty much all worked out in my head, from the use of the toy lightsaber to slice a watermelon to the game of truth and dare around the campfire. I immediately typed it all up (sans the flashback, which I filled in right before the deadline) when I got home, and then put it on the back-burner as I continued to work on "Where the Heart Is" and my other treat ideas.

I'd be interested in writing a continuation of "Eternal Recurrence," too, where Allie and Jen really need to come to terms with being married in a past life and in which Nina Mallory (briefly mentioned in my fic) is revealed to indeed be Nimue, but I'm definitely going to focus on finishing the expanded version of "Where the Heart Is" first.

Where the Heart Is (7194 words) for

take_liberties
by

Alixtii

Chapters: 4/8
Fandom: Folgers Holiday Commercial (2009) and Folgerscest - Fandom
Rating: Not Rated
Warnings: Choose Not To Use Archive Warnings
Relationships: Brother/Sister, folgerscest
Characters: Brother - Character, Sister, Father, Mother, Original Characters, Semi-Original Characters - Character
Additional Tags: Sibling Incest, Brother-Sister Relationships, Cousins, Homecoming, Leaving Home, Present Tense, POV Third Person Limited, Christmas, Christmas Morning, Christmas Presents, Christmas Dinner, Holidays, Family Drama, Dysfunctional Family, Family Secrets, Secret Relationship, Forbidden Love, Hetcest, yuleporn, Het, Folgerscest - Freeform, Shower Sex, Bathroom Sex, Television Watching, Watching Movies Together, Romance, Bathing/Washing, Difficult Decisions, Parent-Child Relationship, Cousin-Cousin Relationship, Yuletide 2013, Coffee, Card Games, United States, West Africa, Slow Build, Skype, Male Friendship, Old Friends, Reuniting with Friends, Poker, Rummy, Roman Catholicism, Catholic Guilt, Catholic Characters, POV Male Character, POV: Brother

Summary:

After spending five years in West Africa, a young man returns home to the United States for the holidays. But sometimes home isn't a place so much as it is a person.

Eternal Recurrence (1220 words) for amathela
by Alixtii

Chapters: 1/1
Fandom: Avalon High (2010)
Rating: Not Rated
Warnings: Choose Not To Use Archive Warnings
Relationships: Allie Pennington/Will Wagner, Lance Benwick/Jen, Allie Pennington/Jen, Guinevere/Arthur Pendragon, Guinevere/Lancelot du Lac
Characters: Allie Pennington, Will Wagner, Miles (Avalon High), Lance Benwick, Jen (Avalon High), Arthur Pendragon, Guinevere (Arthurian)
Additional Tags: Truth or Dare, Campfires, Watermelons, Past Lives, Underage Drinking, Kissing, POV Female Character, POV Third Person Limited, Past Tense, Plastic Lightsaber Toy, Excalibur, First Kiss

Summary:

A campfire, a six-pack, a watermelon, a game, and two first kisses.

Crossposts: http://alixtii.livejournal.com/368918.html

(N.B.: Portions of this letter have been lifted from previous years' letters: 2012 2011 2010 2009 2008 2007.)

Thank you for signing up to write a story for me! You're one of a very small group of people who offered to write for one or more of my fandoms (usually I give the stats, but what with bucket offers not showing up this year, I won't) and I love you for that alone.

If you check out my userinfo, you'll find a 'thon policy which implores that you be true first and foremost to the prompt and your muse, and to consider whether I'd like a story as, at most, a secondary concern. I stand by that, but I also recognize there is a sense that a

yuletide story is explicitly a gift in a way which most 'thon fics aren't, so feel free to surf through this journal to get a feel for me, and here's a little bit more, if you are interested, to help you understand how I relate to the specific texts and characters in the fandoms I've requested and what I might like. OTOH, don't be intimitated; this letter might demonstrate that I've thought long and hard about why I want what I want, ~~because I'm full of myself and like to navel-gaze~~ so you can get a feel for my tastes, but the specifics of what I'd like are intentionally vague even in my own mind.

As a reader (and, for that matter, as a writer), I'm perhaps most interested in female characters--in particular, adolescent female characters with agency--and in the relationships between them. I'm also drawn to what I call will-to-poweriness, the adolescent fantasy, the desire to exceed oneself that also draws me to things like superhero comics (one of my fandoms is, indeed, X-Men) and fantasy shows like Buffy the Vampire Slayer (which is my main fandom). Female children and teenagers who prove themselves to be the equals (or betters) to adults because they are just that awesome are some of my favorite people to read about, and I think you can see this in many of my requests. I talk more about my love of radically autonomous young female characters in this post from 2006 and provide more examples of the specific dynamic I like and why I think it rings for me; I go on to talk about incest, but since that's not relevant for any of my requests this year you can feel free to ignore that part.

Beyond that, I like to think I'm easy to write for. I have few squicks--I'm fine with character death, BDSM, mpreg, dubcon, noncon, chan, incest--you name it, I'm probably okay with it. Just please no bashing of my favorite characters. Happy, uplifting fics are good, but so are soul-crushingly depressing ones so long as the pairings and characters get to be awesome. Ambivalent fics where we're not sure whether we should cheer or cry are probably best of all. If I didn't like existentialism and pseudo-nihilism in my fic, I wouldn't be a Joss Whedon fan.

( more on illuminatus! )

( more on rebecca of sunnybrook farm )

( more on awoken )

( more on tgwtg )

( more on honor harrington )

Thank you again for writing a story for me. Be true to your own muse, make sure the girls have agency, and I'm sure I'll love the result!

Yours in La Mancha,

alixtii/

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Alixtii O'Krul

Crossposts: http://alixtii.livejournal.com/368597.html

So I decided to ditch my Tart nomination, in favor of a slate of nominations which now looks like this:

?! Illuminatus! Trilogy - Robert Shea & Robert Anton Wilson :

Characters
- ?! Miss Portinari
✔ Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm - Kate Douglas Wiggan :

Characters
- ✔ Rebecca Randall
- ✔ Emma Jane Perkins
✔ That Guy with the Glasses/Channel Awesome :

Characters
- ✔ Nostalgia Critic
- ✔ Nostalgia Chick
- ✔ Mara Wilson (That Guy with the Glasses/Channel Awesome)
- ✔ Evilina (That Guy with the Glasses/Channel Awesome)
?! Awoken - Serra Elinsen :

Characters
- ?! Bree (Awoken)
- ?! Andromeda Slate
- ?! Scarlett Epistola
- ?! Chloe Bay

Crossposts: http://alixtii.insanejournal.com/302476.html

As of this writing, my nominations for Yuletide are:

Illuminatus! Trilogy - Robert Shea & Robert Anton Wilson :

Characters
- ?! Miss Portinari
?! Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm - Kate Douglas Wiggan :

Characters
- ?! Rebecca Randall
- ?! Emma Jane Perkins
?! Tart (2001) :

Characters
- ?! Cat Storm
- ?! Eloise Logan
- ?! Grace Bailey
- ?! Heather von Strum
?! Awoken - Serra Elinsen :

Characters
- ?! Bree (Awoken)
- ?! Andromeda Slate
- ?! Scarlett Epistola
- ?! Chloe Bay

Comments, questions, requests?

Crossposts: http://alixtii.livejournal.com/367632.html

Yuletide nominations are upon us! That means its time for my annual post where I solicit suggestions as to which of my options as recorded in this list I ought to nominate. As in many years past, my nominating The ILLUMINATUS! Trilogy is pretty much certain, but everything else is at least potentially up for grabs.

I've made a few additions to my list of possible suggestions, so you might want to take a look at it. I'd especially appreciate it if you could provide any needed corrections for character names, since many of the books I added I only own in audiobook and don't always remember the last, and in some cases even the first, names of the character. I know The Squad in particular is in some disarray. *eyes

fox1013*

Again, the list is here.

Crossposts: http://alixtii.livejournal.com/367506.html

Thou Hast Wounded My Heart, My Sister (1806 words) by Alixtii
Chapters: 1/1
Fandom: Christian Bible (New Testament), Christian Myth & History
Rating: Not Rated
Warning: Author Chose Not To Use Archive Warnings
Relationships: James of Jerusalem/Jesus of Nazareth, James of Jerusalem/John the Baptist, Jesus of Nazareth/John the Baptist
Characters: James of Jerusalem, Jesus of Nazareth, Mary mother of Jesus, John the Baptist
Summary: When Yeshua wakes up from a nightmare, it falls to her older half-brother Ya'akov to comfort her. Incest

."Thou hast wounded my heart, my sister, my spouse, thou hast wounded my heart with one of thy eyes, and with one hair of thy neck." Song of Solomon 4:9.

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So, uh, yeah. This exists now. Actually. it's existed in my head for years at this point, I think. As early as when I was first working on The Myrrh-Bearer's Gospel I was playing around with other possibilities for genderswapped Biblefic, and at some point or other I happened on this particular idea, which really caught my imagination. If you know me and my fic at all, you really shouldn't be surprised at all.

wisdomeagle certainly wasn't.

A Moment in Time (1273 words) by Alixtii
Chapters: 1/1
Fandom: Phineas and Ferb
Rating: Not Rated
Warning: Author Chose Not To Use Archive Warnings
Relationships: Vanessa Doofenshmirtz & Stacy Hirano, Isabella Garcia-Shapiro & Stacy Hirano
Characters: Stacy Hirano, Vanessa Doofenshmirtz, Isabella Garcia-Shapiro, Ginger Hirano, Milly (Phineas And Ferb), Gretchen (Phineas And Ferb), Candace Flynn, Perry (Phineas And Ferb)
Summary: When Stacy, Vanessa, and the Fireside Girls are the only ones not affected by Dr. Doofenshmirtz' freezinator, they must work together to save not only themselves, but the entire Tri-State Area.

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I signed up for Phineas and Ferb offering only female characters (I think it was Candance and Isabella?). It's a fandom which really frustrates me with how often it fails the Bechdel test, so it was really important for me to include as many female characters as possible and focus on their homosocial relationships. (

wneleh asked for gen, even though I was really tempted to throw in some Stacy/Vanessa femslash, because guh.) My original plan was to write an angsty introspective fic split into three sections, with about 350 words each from Stacy's, Vanessa's, and Isabella's perspectives. But I quickly realized that their canon characterizations are so totally wrapped up in their relationships to the male characters on the show that I didn't really have anything to write about. Thus I decided to write a slightly more plotty fic (in that there's a problem which needs to be resolved) completely from Stacy's perspective in which all of the girls (except for Candace) have to work together, which allowed for the possibility of growth on Stacy's part and some nice bonding between Stacy and Vanessa and between Stacy and Isbella.

Crossposts: http://alixtii.insanejournal.com/301093.html http://alixtii.livejournal.com/367029.html

( Push, AO3 tags, Suri's Burn Book, Fairy Tales, Whip It, Dar Williams/West Wing, DC Comics, Underworld )

Crossposts: http://alixtii.livejournal.com/366653.html http://alixtii.insanejournal.com/300891.html

This yuletide, I've received Here's My Breast; Strike Home, which is the High School AU of 'Tis Pity She's a Whore you all know I've been wanting for a while now. It's told from Annabella's POV and is delicious and 'cesty, just like I wanted. Serious guh.

I wrote two fics this year for Yuletide. One's in the main collection, the other's in Madness. They both have pretty clear signs of my handiwork, one of them--ahem--perhaps especially so. If you're interested in guessing which I wrote, comments are screened. I'll unscreen any comments which aren't guesses unless you tell me not to.

Crossposts: http://alixtii.livejournal.com/366348.html http://alixtii.insanejournal.com/300757.html

(N.B.: Portions of this letter have been lifted from previous years' letters: 2011 2010 2009 2008 2007.)

Thank you for signing up to write a story for me! You're one of 4 people other than me who offered to write for 'Tis Pity She's a Whore or the one person other than me who offered to write for Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm, and I love you for that alone. Just like in 2011, it looks like I was the only one to offer for Tart, sadly, but I'll leave that part of my letter in too in case you decide you'd like to give that a try, or you are a pinch hitter or a treats writer. (The movie's available for free on Hulu, and is embedded below.) And it looks like I was the only one to offer The ILLUMINATUS! Trilogy this year too, but I'll leave it for the same reason, just in case you want to pick it up. If I'm not mistaken, the omnibus edition clocks in under a thousand plages, if you don't count the appendices--although since my request draws heavily on an appendix, I suppose you should count the appendices.

If you check out my userinfo, you'll find a 'thon policy which implores that you be true first and foremost to the prompt and your muse, and to consider whether I'd like a story as, at most, a secondary concern. I stand by that, but I also recognize there is a sense that a

yuletide story is explicitly a gift in a way which most 'thon fics aren't, so feel free to surf through this journal to get a feel for me, and here's a little bit more, if you are interested, to help you understand how I relate to the specific texts and characters in the fandoms I've requested and what I might like. OTOH, don't be intimitated; this letter might demonstrate that I've thought long and hard about why I want what I want, ~~because I'm full of myself and like to navel-gaze~~ so you can get a feel for my tastes, but the specifics of what I'd like are intentionally vague even in my own mind.

As a reader, I'm perhaps most interested in female characters--in particular, adolescent female characters with agency--and the relationships between them. I'm also drawn to what I call will-to-poweriness, the adolescent fantasy, the desire to exceed oneself that also draws me to things like superhero comics (one of my fandoms is, indeed, X-Men) and fantasy shows like Buffy the Vampire Slayer (which is my main fandom). Female children and teenagers who prove themselves to be the equals (or betters) to adults because they are just that awesome are some of my favorite people to read about, and I think you can see this in many of my requests. This, actually, is part of where my interest in incest comes from, if you've matched with 'Tis Pity She's a Whore: with these radically autonomized figures no real problematization of consent is possible, an argument I make more fully in this post from 2006.

Beyond that, I like to think I'm easy to write for. I have few squicks--I'm fine with character death, BDSM, mpreg, dubcon, noncon, chan, incest--you name it, I'm probably okay with it. Just please no bashing of my favorite characters. Happy, uplifting fics are good, but so are soul-crushingly depressing ones so long as the pairings and characters get to be awesome. Ambivalent fics where we're not sure whether we should cheer or cry are probably best of all. If I didn't like existentialism and pseudo-nihilism in my fic, I wouldn't be a Joss Whedon fan.

( more on rebecca of sunnybrook farm )

( more on 'tis pity she's a whore )

( more on illuminatus )

( more on tart )

Thank you again for writing a story for me. Be true to your own muse, make sure the girls have agency, and I'm sure I'll love the result!

Yours in La Mancha,

alixtii/

alixtii
Alixtii O'Krul

Nostalgia Chick Must Die! (4149 words) by

Alixtii
Fandom: Nostalgia Chick (webseries), That Guy with the Glasses
Rating: Not Rated
Warning: Author Chose Not To Use Archive Warnings
Relationships: Nella & Nostalgia Chick, Nostalgia Chick/Todd in the Shadows, Obscurus Lupa/Todd in the Shadows, Todd in the Shadows/Original Character
Characters: Nostalgia Chick, Nella (That Guy with the Glasses), Makeover Fairy, Cochram Block, Coquette Tease, Todd In The Shadows, Lord MacGuffin, Original Characters, Mignon (Nostalgia Chick's dog), Kelly Ripa, Justin Bieber, quasi-demonic intergalactic force of evil, Lindsay Ellis, BFF Inc.
Summary: When the Makeover Fairy uses Block and Tease to construct a Nostalgia Clone from Lindsay's DNA, Lindsay finds herself out in the cold--and vowing revenge.

Crossposts: http://alixtii.livejournal.com/364396.html http://alixtii.insanejournal.com/298668.html

Yuletide is upon us! I received Lead Me on a Merry Chase, a Where on Earth is Carmen Sandiego? fic which pairs Player and Carmen. While I was originally thinking of Carmen as an A.I., my Yulewriter had the interesting idea of re-considering the cartoon as more of a MMORPG with Carmen being played by another human--out there somewhere. Plus, the fic takes the chance to do some interesting things with disability, since we never actually see Player walk (or do anything other than sit in front of a computer, really). But most importantly, the fic captures that flirtiness between Player and Carmen which interested me in the pairing in the first place and spin it out into a full femslash relationship.

I wrote two stories of larger than 1,000 words. It's possible I might still write some treats before Madness closes, but at this point I'm beginning to doubt it.

If anyone is interested in guessing which stories I wrote, comments are screened. I may or may not provide prizes to those who correctly guess. If you leave a comment which is not a guess, I'll unscreen it immediately unless you specifically tell me not to.

Crossposts: http://alixtii.insanejournal.com/298035.html http://alixtii.livejournal.com/363786.html

All That Was Not, Is Not, and Will Not Be

?! Illuminatus! Trilogy - Robert Shea & Robert Anton Wilson :

Characters

✔ Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm - Kate Douglas Wiggan :

Characters

✔ That Guy with the Glasses/Channel Awesome :

Characters

?! Awoken - Serra Elinsen :

Characters

Illuminatus! Trilogy - Robert Shea & Robert Anton Wilson :

Characters

?! Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm - Kate Douglas Wiggan :

Characters

?! Tart (2001) :

Characters

?! Awoken - Serra Elinsen :

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