Dear Secret Santa
Nov. 3rd, 2006 02:12 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
quasar273I like almost every Yuletide story I've read in any fandom that I know and love, so I'll probably be happy with pretty much anything that matches my request. But you can try to include some of this other stuff if you feel like it:
I love action/adventure and plotty stories best of all. And I realize that's almost impossible to do in a short story. But I can also get lots of enjoyment from a vignette that just hints at adventure happening all around; they're on the run from off-screen enemies, or they're searching for an important thing for reasons not included in the story, that sort of thing. Missing scenes from canon are also a good way of implying plot and action in a story that's too short to show it in full.
I don't need a lot of detailed smut to make me happy. Good affectionate friendship fic, love stories with no sex at all, or implied sex where the bedroom door closes before the clothes come off . . . those can all be very satisfying. But smut, when appropriate and well-written, is like spackle that can fill in any number of plot holes. So I won't have a problem with pretty much any rating, so long as the characters have some genuine feeling for each other.
And . . . maybe I should have left it at three requests. That fourth request I don't care about quite as much as the others. But I couldn't think of anything else to ask for (until after I'd finished signup and couldn't face the thought of going through it again, of course). If the fourth request is the only one you can fill, I'll still be happy with it. But if you have a choice to make, just add a little weight to the first three requests, okay?
I love action/adventure and plotty stories best of all. And I realize that's almost impossible to do in a short story. But I can also get lots of enjoyment from a vignette that just hints at adventure happening all around; they're on the run from off-screen enemies, or they're searching for an important thing for reasons not included in the story, that sort of thing. Missing scenes from canon are also a good way of implying plot and action in a story that's too short to show it in full.
I don't need a lot of detailed smut to make me happy. Good affectionate friendship fic, love stories with no sex at all, or implied sex where the bedroom door closes before the clothes come off . . . those can all be very satisfying. But smut, when appropriate and well-written, is like spackle that can fill in any number of plot holes. So I won't have a problem with pretty much any rating, so long as the characters have some genuine feeling for each other.
And . . . maybe I should have left it at three requests. That fourth request I don't care about quite as much as the others. But I couldn't think of anything else to ask for (until after I'd finished signup and couldn't face the thought of going through it again, of course). If the fourth request is the only one you can fill, I'll still be happy with it. But if you have a choice to make, just add a little weight to the first three requests, okay?
