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Thanks for offering to write one of my tiny fandoms! These are all fandoms of my heart; I love them, and I love the characters I asked for, so I would pretty much be happy with anything about them. I want you to have fun writing, and not feel too stressed out by what you think I want -- I want you to be only as stressed as you'd like to be :)

If you're the kind of writer who wants more specifics in a request, I've put some things I like and don't like

Some random things I like and don't like, in no particular order:

Things I like include, but are not limited to:
Slash (boy- and girl-) and threesome/moresomes and queer gen and plotty gen. (I'm not looking for het in any of these fandoms, but I won't freak out at background het or anything.)

Kinkfic, when the kinks are taken seriously and are part of the characterization. It's not the only thing I read, so don't feel any pressure; I just wanted to let you know that if you want to write kink you should feel free to go for it. (I co-mod

kink_bingo, and pretty much won't be squicked by anything on the kink list there. I'm not a big fan of tickling, though.)

All kinds of first-time relationship fic, from sweet!quiet!yearning!fic to stories where two characters just sort of accidentally fall into bed to misunderstandings and confusion.

Bodies! I'm really into the ways that bodies affect people, and into embodied senses of space, and the ways in which people's lives change their bodies. (This is one of my favorite things about the Dead Zone in particular, the way in which Johnny gets to feel what it's like to be pregnant, gets to feel what Bruce is feeling.)

Well-characterized women and people of color. Especially when they're kicking ass.

Worldbuilding. (this is mostly relevant to the Steerswoman and Dead Zone.)

Robots and spaceships and clones and visions and bodyswap! (Not applicable to all fandoms.)

Gender, race, and sexuality critiques -- if you want to take on problematic parts of any of these fandoms, go for it, and feel free to use different characters than the ones I requested. Again, really don't feel obligated to do this if it's not your bag, it's just something that I wanted to clearly indicate that I would not object to. (If you want to write a Steerswoman story from a post-colonial pov, for example, or think about women in Pogo, or something.) I'm not big on the Afterschool Special, though -- I like it best when the critique is a story with characters I love.

All the things I have tagged on delicious.

I don't like:
Sitcom-style social embarrassment, where people are humiliated and I'm supposed to laugh at it. (I do, however, read erotic humiliation.)

Dialect in most circumstances. (This is most relevant to Pogo; Walt Kelly often really overdid the dialect, and I'd almost always prefer a little flavor of it to outsider attempts. Native-speaker dialect is a different issue.)

The Celluloid Closet tropes of queerness, where queer people end up dead or straight or addicted to drugs or serial killers or ruined for life (Note: this does not apply to real people, and I don't expect anyone to write out Che Guevera's death.)

Christmas-themed stories.

If you're having some yuletide-I-matched-on-what panic, here is an overview of my fandoms and how to get ahold of them:
Rosemary Kirstein - The Steerswoman Series. The series is now four books, but the first two (The Steerswoman and The Outskirter's Secret) are collected in omnibus form in The Steerswoman's Road. The books are not widely available, but powells.com and amazon.com usually have them.

The Motorcycle Diaries/Diarios de motocicleta. This is a standard-length film, about two hours, in (mostly) Spanish and (a little) Quechua with English subtitles. It's available from netflix and also *cough* some on-line spaces *cough*.

The Dead Zone (tv). This is a long series (six seasons) of television, but I'm mostly interested in the relationships and characters as they are in the first few seasons -- up to episode 4x01, which is about 24 episodes (the first and third season are half-seasons).

Pogo (comic). Pogo is a daily comic strip that started in the 1940s, ran about thirty years, and is collected in, like, fifty (overlapping and best-of and character-based) volumes. So there's a lot of canon, but I'm more interested in character and flavor so you could probably get away with reading just one, if you can find one -- there's a complete series coming out in 2010, but for now they're almost all out of print and only available used. Someone posted a few comics here, but the Sunday colored comics there are far from Walt Kelly's best work.

And finally, because I'm the sort of person who loses important email, I reproduce the requests here:

Rosemary Kirstein - The Steerswoman Series, Bel
I love Bel to pieces in this series; I love her competence and her strength and her joy in the world, I love her [spoilery thing involving her names] and her poetry. I missed her all the way through "The Lost Steersman" -- I want to know what she was doing and how she was being awesome! I would love to see a Bel character study, or Bel and her relationship with the outskirts, or Bel saving the world, or really any part of Bel's story, especially during the gap in the third book. I'm into Bel/Rowan femmeslash or gen friendship fic, too -- it's so obvious that they love each other and rely on each other -- so I'd be happy to see Rowan, or Bel thinking about Rowan, in the story.

Motorcycle Diaries/ Diarios de motocicleta, Ernesto/Alberto
This movie combines so many of my favorite things! It's a road trip movie that's filled with hurt/comfort and a deep and abiding friendship, for a start, but it's also about a political awakening (and in my reading, a parallel queer awakening). I would love Ernesto/Alberto slash, at any point in their road trip, with the sense of wonder and openness to discovery that the movie as a whole has. (If you can't do slash, a gen story that focuses on their friendship would be cool, too.)

Dead Zone, Bruce/Johnny
I <3 Bruce times a million, and I really love the concept of the show overall. So I guess that what I'm really looking for is something that thinks about the way that Johnny's visions work in the context of Bruce and Johnny's (preferably slashy) relationship. What I want more than anything: I want Bruce being awesome and competent, good at what he does both in terms of PT and how he understands bodies, and in terms of how he understands Johnny in particular. I want the story where, like, when Johnny touches Bruce he's having a vision of having sex with himself, or the story where they share visions, or the story where Bruce's hands on Johnny manipulating his body for PT can manipulate his visions too, can feed Johnny specific scenes, can do foreplay with careful hands and careful visions, the story where they have to figure out a case and there's action and adventure and running around and love and dedication. Basically: Bruce/Johnny! And visions! And bodies!

Pogo, Pogo/Porky
So, I was thinking about reading Pogo compilations as a kid, and I realized that it really ought to be a yuletide fandom. And then I remembered Porky and Pogo, and their friendship and commitment to each other, and I went "awww." Porky brings Pogo a flower every Christmas and then pretends it was an accident and it's no big deal! So that's the space I'm in. I'm thinking about a quiet, sweet, slow, yearning story about Porky and Pogo realizing they love each other, in a sort of innocent, nonsensical Okefenokee way. My favorite parts of Pogo are the surrealism, and the misunderstandings, and the complete nonsense. (Note: You really don't need to attempt Walt Kelly's pseudo-dialect.)