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Dear Yuletide writer
Oct. 21st, 2023 06:37 pmthank you so much for offering one of my rare fandoms! I'm Mary_the_gardener on Ao3 as well. I am super excited to read something for any of them! So don't worry too much, I'm easy to please and obviously fic-starved, I'm sure I'll love whatever you'll write for me!
First of all, I want you to know that I'm quite easy to please, just follow my DNWs and you'll be sure to succeed and make me very happy with your gift! In case you like to have prompts, I will leave you some further down, but it's totally ok if you prefer to ignore them and surprise me with something else!
Index:
DNWs
General Likes
Opt-Ins
About smut
Fandom sections:
Los Espejos Venecianos
Avril Lavigne & Collaborators RPF
Detective Anna
My So-Called Life
The Silver Skates
(I know the section for one fandom is considerably longer than the others, but that's only due to how recently I consumed the canon and how many characters I'm interested in. I am truly, equally interested in all my requested fandoms)
DNWs:[return]
- romantic marriage proposals and weddings
- MPreg
- prolonged and repeated adultery
- Mafia AUs and Darkfic in general
- Royalty Aus
Not really a hard DNW but something that I don't appreciate much is when a fic ends with the "Do you want to be my girlfriend/boyfriend?" question. Anything less explicit and formal is okay though. Same goes for fluff: established relationship fic where characters are just being sappy to each other or cuddling fluffy animals? Not really my kind of jam. By this I do not mean that I absolutely don't want any of that in my gift, but just that I'd prefer if it wasn't the main focus of the fic.
Clarification on my adultery DNW and RPF fandoms:
Let's say I'm requesting A/B, but A has a relationship with X. I'm generally okay with ignoring the existence of X, or with acknowledging it and setting the fic in times before/after the relationship, or just letting A/X be and have B pining hopelessly from afar. Or maybe A gets together with X only because they thinks they have no chances with B (whether this is true or not). It's also okay to diverge from the "canon" and shorten/lengthen/move in time A/X's relationship to fit your plot. In general I'm ok with most things as long as you don't make A cheat on X with B for long periods. But for example A cheating on X with B and then shortly after ending things with B (or with X) is okay.
General likes:[return]
fake dating, arranged marriage, wrongnumber, and they were roommates, there was only one bed, mutual or onesided pining, unresolved sexual tension, flirting, hopelessly oblivious characters, misunderstandings and miscommunication, family dynamics, friendship and friendship-related angst, metaphors, introspection and internal monologues, ace and/or aro characters, alternate dimensions and time travelling, time jumps and messed up timelines, missing scenes, questioning of one's principles, epiphanies, road trips, casefics, cooking and food vlogs, magical realism, modern with magic aus, coven aus (of witches, not vampires!), historical aus, hospital aus, actors aus (struggling to make it, theatre, got stuck in method acting), carnival and masquerade balls, soulmates, bodyswap, doppelgangers stories and uncanny circumstances, recovery from physical injuries or only partial recovery and how one mentally deals with it, flowers symbolism and metaphors or similes or anything that has to do with flowers in general, extra bonus if it's daffodils or wisteria.
If you're having some wild ideas and aren't sure I would be ok with that, here's a list of Opt Ins:[return]
treats; unusual povs (outisder pov, 1st and 2nd person...); unconventional fanworks & unusual formats (epistolary, podfics, essays, articles, texting or socmed fics, things that require a work skin, interactive fiction...); songfics; a work written in: italian, french, spanish or russian; open, ambiguous or unhappy endings.
If you want to write a crossover, you can check my works, gifts and bookmarks on Ao3 to see which fandoms I know.
If you can't decide which tense to write your story in, know that I currently have a preference for present tense, but if you're otherwise inspired go ahead.
About Smut:[return]
If you want to write smut, I'm open to it for any of my requests.
What I do no not like: lingerie kink; women being passive and not reciprocating; unprotected sex outside of a longterm, exclusive relationship; daddy kink; sex pollen; somnophilia; incest; bellybulge caused by come inflation (it's ok if caused by dick).
What I do like: talk during sex (not necessarily dirty talk but also just communication about how they feel, or even random chatting); spanking; appreciation of backs, extra points if they're nicely bendy; characters being very eager to give head; appreciation of forearms.
Fandoms section:
Los Espejos Venecianos [return]
requested characters: 0; tagset characters: 0
I’m particularly fascinated by the mirrors and how they work, both in reality and in Giovanni's dreams. I'd love more stories involving them!!
The same goes for Beatrice: how were her last days? Or her life before when she was healthy even, did she plan to hide her death well in advance? What was her relationship with the people that hid her body behind the mirror? How did she feel, knowing she was the last of her family, was it a heavy weight, would she have lived her life differently, had there been another descendant?
I'd love a canon divergent au in which she said fuck you to the traditions of her time and grew up a kid with her name.... and what if from that the line of descendants arrived till Giovanni's time? Or a time travelling AU in which Giovanni, instead of breaking the mirrors, uses them to travel to her time?
Avril Lavigne & Collaborators RPF[return]
requested characters: Avril lavigne, Evan Taubenfeld
I ship this pairing so much and I can’t believe it’s so hard to find any work about them. I love how even they used to joke about the relationship between them, cue the vid (I promise I'll link it if I manage to dig it out of youtube) where Avril holds up a cardboard cutout of herself and tells Evan that he can kiss it. And I love how they kept collaborating during the years, showing how deep their friendship is.
So, in brief, I'm starved and I will love literally anything you write about them, both / and & are ok. A look into how Evan feels about her various marriages would be interesting!
Detective Anna[return]
requested characters: 0; tagset characters: Anton Korobeynikov, Ivan Skryabin, Nina Nezhinskaya, Viktor Mironov (I'm ok with any subset of the tagset characters, including fic focused on a single character; I'm ok with non-nominated characters as long as they're not the main focus of the fic - them being the POV character is ok)
First of all, some general thoughts:
I think they tied up the first season pretty well, the only thing I’m not convinced of is the role of Alice. How did she know Yakov’s safe house? And was she looking for the file of Mr Brown there? Who sent her? She said to Anna that she’ll tell her who she truly is and then got interrupted, and I really feel like there’s an untold story there. Is she even really the same girl that was locked in a cell for years? Or is she someone else who took her place.
As for the second season… I’d rather pretend that the “One month later” scene at the end of episode 40 doesn’t exist. My reason for that is that I liked Doctor Skryabin. I simply refuse to let them ruin his character like that! And Polina being Krutin made total sense. Yes, of course there’s the open issue of the box buried in the snow, but I think they could have solved it in some other way.
Ivan Skryabin
So, yeah, let's ignore the part where they tried to turn him into the bad guy. I really like his character and I'd like to think that, while a bit grumpy and apparently detached, his actions were actually genuine. I would love to read a charterer study on him, you could explore how he feels settling in Zadonsk and slowly discovering the weird things that constantly happen in the town. Or you could explore either his past or his future: what shaped his character? What made him leave Saint Petersburg? He leaves the capital and then after only a short period in Zadonsk he's on the move again: is he running from something (either real of just a ghost of the past)? I would also love to read about his work in Turkestan.
I can definitely ship him with Anna, in fact I think he won me over the moment he broke into Anna's room and started screaming things at her. He kept a detached facade but it was obvious that he was doing it for her, that he knew she would react and get herself together. Which means that he cared. He cared enough to go all the way to her house and put up that scene. And then he cared enough to offer to tie himself to her forever to grant her freedom from her father. I really would have liked for them to go to Turkestan together. Fake/pretend relationship is one of my fave tropes.
Nina Nezhinskaya
About the very last scene of ep40s2, we can pretend she's actually dead, though I honestly don’t mind her having faked it, even if I can’t phantom how she did it. Maybe Yakov helped her somehow? I understand that it was the only way for her to avoid the prison, but it was also a way to free Yakov of his marriage and at the same time granting a future to her son. So it was convenient for both of them… And in that case, if Yakov helped her fake it, would he tell Anna?
I think Nina’s character is quite well rounded: in the beginning she seems rather flat, and I can’t deny that I didn’t like her at all, but how can I not like her when I see her desperation, how she’s trapped in the grip of the Prince? A position she consciously got herself in to save Yakov. Yes, she’s often ruthless and cold blooded, but she has to be like that to survive.
She also told Anna that in Saint Petersburg she was the one helping Yakov, and I would like to see some of her adventures at court and how they fell in love. Was Nina already involved with the Prince or did she tie herself to him to save Yakov from his cards debt?
If you want to dwell on her relationship with Yakov while in Zatonsk I'd prefer if it were in Nina's pov. It must have been really hard for her to see him get closer to Anna and farther from herself, and being unable to do anything about it because of how she's in debt with the Prince.
Anton Korobeynikov
Anton is one of my favourite characters. You can call him naive but I’d call him pure. He’s always such a gentleman, and in the first season I often thought that he deserved Anna way more than Yakov did! He never belittled her, never doubted her and her world. And then, in the second season we find out that he proposed to her, and we didn't get to see it!? Outrageous! He deserves the girl!! Can’t she see how husband material he is!?
Furthermore, he’s extremely loyal; when asked to write a report to incriminate Yakov, he writes one praising and thanking him instead. And when Yakov disappears, he desperately searches for him, you can see how heartbroken he is!
I would love either a romantic or platonic story of the two. On the romantic side, my heart races every time they hug, and I totally lost it when in the episode about the werewolf they make a comment about Yakov smelling his garlic breath, as if they regularly kissed. On the friendship side, I would love some extra angst about how mad at Yakov he is when he reappears out of nowhere at the beginning of season 2. It would also be nice to see how he adjusts to working without Yakov in between the seasons, how he deals with the new power and responsibilities that he inherits along with Yakov's position.
Viktor Mironov
I really, really admired Viktor in the first season, the way he grew Anna up, the way he dealt with his drunkard brother and the way he sticks to his principles when doing his job. And then season two happened and they just had to destroy his character with that stupid affair. So, if you want to ignore the affair with Liza, that's very much ok with me, but you can also address the issue, I would very much like to know what he duck was going on in that head of his!
My So-Called Life[return]
requested character: Jordan Catalano
I watched the show for the first time over ten years ago, did my share of rewatches, and hungrily consumed all the fics I could find on FFN or Ao3, but I just can't get enough! If you maybe have doubts about my adultery DNW, just know my view on this: what happened between Rayanne and Jordan... there's not way that was cheating.
I'm ok with mostly anything (just maybe avoid writing the umpteenth version of what happens after Angela gets into Jordan's car), but lately I've been particularly interested into what goes on in Jordan's brain and I would really love to read something from his POV! Even an AU would be great, there's not nearly enough of them in this fandom! And if you need some ideas, here's a couple of prompts:
-Pre-canon of the first time Angela saw Jordan and fell for him.
-What goes on in Jordan's brain when he first speaks with Angela at that party and later when he sees her getting in the police's car.
-Some Jordan-Shane-Tino time.
-Fic about Jordan's background and family. All we know is that his father used to beat him up. But what else? What about his mum? And how did he get his car? Or a Life Unexpected fusion fic, where Jordan's learning issues come from a concussion he got in some domestic environment
-Patty's thoughts and impressions on Jordan.
The Silver Skates[return]
requested character: Alexey "Alex" Tarasov
I'm really fascinated by his character and interested in the reasoning behind his actions. I have the scene of his shooting mid-hair imprinted in my eyelids. It's just such a cool moment.
And I have so many questions about it! Even trying to consider how people related to death in that period... did Alex think about ending like that? Did he imagine his death in some other, heroic (not that that one isn't!) way? And why did he decide to do it, why not try to escape too, maybe jumping from the other side of the boat? Did he deem his life less worthy of Matvey and Alisa's? Or maybe was he just disillusioned by the world? Did his gang mourn him? It would also be interesting to see a canon divergent au in which he somehow survives: what would become of him, and how would he fit in the events of the early XX century?
I'd also like to know more about his background: how did he end up living like that?
I really hope you liked my prompts and found them inspiring, and whatever you'll make of it I'll be
your happy receiver
Mary_the_gardener
First of all, I want you to know that I'm quite easy to please, just follow my DNWs and you'll be sure to succeed and make me very happy with your gift! In case you like to have prompts, I will leave you some further down, but it's totally ok if you prefer to ignore them and surprise me with something else!
Index:
DNWs
General Likes
Opt-Ins
About smut
Fandom sections:
Los Espejos Venecianos
Avril Lavigne & Collaborators RPF
Detective Anna
My So-Called Life
The Silver Skates
(I know the section for one fandom is considerably longer than the others, but that's only due to how recently I consumed the canon and how many characters I'm interested in. I am truly, equally interested in all my requested fandoms)
DNWs:[return]
- romantic marriage proposals and weddings
- MPreg
- prolonged and repeated adultery
- Mafia AUs and Darkfic in general
- Royalty Aus
Not really a hard DNW but something that I don't appreciate much is when a fic ends with the "Do you want to be my girlfriend/boyfriend?" question. Anything less explicit and formal is okay though. Same goes for fluff: established relationship fic where characters are just being sappy to each other or cuddling fluffy animals? Not really my kind of jam. By this I do not mean that I absolutely don't want any of that in my gift, but just that I'd prefer if it wasn't the main focus of the fic.
Clarification on my adultery DNW and RPF fandoms:
Let's say I'm requesting A/B, but A has a relationship with X. I'm generally okay with ignoring the existence of X, or with acknowledging it and setting the fic in times before/after the relationship, or just letting A/X be and have B pining hopelessly from afar. Or maybe A gets together with X only because they thinks they have no chances with B (whether this is true or not). It's also okay to diverge from the "canon" and shorten/lengthen/move in time A/X's relationship to fit your plot. In general I'm ok with most things as long as you don't make A cheat on X with B for long periods. But for example A cheating on X with B and then shortly after ending things with B (or with X) is okay.
General likes:[return]
fake dating, arranged marriage, wrongnumber, and they were roommates, there was only one bed, mutual or onesided pining, unresolved sexual tension, flirting, hopelessly oblivious characters, misunderstandings and miscommunication, family dynamics, friendship and friendship-related angst, metaphors, introspection and internal monologues, ace and/or aro characters, alternate dimensions and time travelling, time jumps and messed up timelines, missing scenes, questioning of one's principles, epiphanies, road trips, casefics, cooking and food vlogs, magical realism, modern with magic aus, coven aus (of witches, not vampires!), historical aus, hospital aus, actors aus (struggling to make it, theatre, got stuck in method acting), carnival and masquerade balls, soulmates, bodyswap, doppelgangers stories and uncanny circumstances, recovery from physical injuries or only partial recovery and how one mentally deals with it, flowers symbolism and metaphors or similes or anything that has to do with flowers in general, extra bonus if it's daffodils or wisteria.
If you're having some wild ideas and aren't sure I would be ok with that, here's a list of Opt Ins:[return]
treats; unusual povs (outisder pov, 1st and 2nd person...); unconventional fanworks & unusual formats (epistolary, podfics, essays, articles, texting or socmed fics, things that require a work skin, interactive fiction...); songfics; a work written in: italian, french, spanish or russian; open, ambiguous or unhappy endings.
If you want to write a crossover, you can check my works, gifts and bookmarks on Ao3 to see which fandoms I know.
If you can't decide which tense to write your story in, know that I currently have a preference for present tense, but if you're otherwise inspired go ahead.
About Smut:[return]
If you want to write smut, I'm open to it for any of my requests.
What I do no not like: lingerie kink; women being passive and not reciprocating; unprotected sex outside of a longterm, exclusive relationship; daddy kink; sex pollen; somnophilia; incest; bellybulge caused by come inflation (it's ok if caused by dick).
What I do like: talk during sex (not necessarily dirty talk but also just communication about how they feel, or even random chatting); spanking; appreciation of backs, extra points if they're nicely bendy; characters being very eager to give head; appreciation of forearms.
Fandoms section:
Los Espejos Venecianos [return]
requested characters: 0; tagset characters: 0
I’m particularly fascinated by the mirrors and how they work, both in reality and in Giovanni's dreams. I'd love more stories involving them!!
The same goes for Beatrice: how were her last days? Or her life before when she was healthy even, did she plan to hide her death well in advance? What was her relationship with the people that hid her body behind the mirror? How did she feel, knowing she was the last of her family, was it a heavy weight, would she have lived her life differently, had there been another descendant?
I'd love a canon divergent au in which she said fuck you to the traditions of her time and grew up a kid with her name.... and what if from that the line of descendants arrived till Giovanni's time? Or a time travelling AU in which Giovanni, instead of breaking the mirrors, uses them to travel to her time?
Avril Lavigne & Collaborators RPF[return]
requested characters: Avril lavigne, Evan Taubenfeld
I ship this pairing so much and I can’t believe it’s so hard to find any work about them. I love how even they used to joke about the relationship between them, cue the vid (I promise I'll link it if I manage to dig it out of youtube) where Avril holds up a cardboard cutout of herself and tells Evan that he can kiss it. And I love how they kept collaborating during the years, showing how deep their friendship is.
So, in brief, I'm starved and I will love literally anything you write about them, both / and & are ok. A look into how Evan feels about her various marriages would be interesting!
Detective Anna[return]
requested characters: 0; tagset characters: Anton Korobeynikov, Ivan Skryabin, Nina Nezhinskaya, Viktor Mironov (I'm ok with any subset of the tagset characters, including fic focused on a single character; I'm ok with non-nominated characters as long as they're not the main focus of the fic - them being the POV character is ok)
First of all, some general thoughts:
I think they tied up the first season pretty well, the only thing I’m not convinced of is the role of Alice. How did she know Yakov’s safe house? And was she looking for the file of Mr Brown there? Who sent her? She said to Anna that she’ll tell her who she truly is and then got interrupted, and I really feel like there’s an untold story there. Is she even really the same girl that was locked in a cell for years? Or is she someone else who took her place.
As for the second season… I’d rather pretend that the “One month later” scene at the end of episode 40 doesn’t exist. My reason for that is that I liked Doctor Skryabin. I simply refuse to let them ruin his character like that! And Polina being Krutin made total sense. Yes, of course there’s the open issue of the box buried in the snow, but I think they could have solved it in some other way.
Ivan Skryabin
So, yeah, let's ignore the part where they tried to turn him into the bad guy. I really like his character and I'd like to think that, while a bit grumpy and apparently detached, his actions were actually genuine. I would love to read a charterer study on him, you could explore how he feels settling in Zadonsk and slowly discovering the weird things that constantly happen in the town. Or you could explore either his past or his future: what shaped his character? What made him leave Saint Petersburg? He leaves the capital and then after only a short period in Zadonsk he's on the move again: is he running from something (either real of just a ghost of the past)? I would also love to read about his work in Turkestan.
I can definitely ship him with Anna, in fact I think he won me over the moment he broke into Anna's room and started screaming things at her. He kept a detached facade but it was obvious that he was doing it for her, that he knew she would react and get herself together. Which means that he cared. He cared enough to go all the way to her house and put up that scene. And then he cared enough to offer to tie himself to her forever to grant her freedom from her father. I really would have liked for them to go to Turkestan together. Fake/pretend relationship is one of my fave tropes.
Nina Nezhinskaya
About the very last scene of ep40s2, we can pretend she's actually dead, though I honestly don’t mind her having faked it, even if I can’t phantom how she did it. Maybe Yakov helped her somehow? I understand that it was the only way for her to avoid the prison, but it was also a way to free Yakov of his marriage and at the same time granting a future to her son. So it was convenient for both of them… And in that case, if Yakov helped her fake it, would he tell Anna?
I think Nina’s character is quite well rounded: in the beginning she seems rather flat, and I can’t deny that I didn’t like her at all, but how can I not like her when I see her desperation, how she’s trapped in the grip of the Prince? A position she consciously got herself in to save Yakov. Yes, she’s often ruthless and cold blooded, but she has to be like that to survive.
She also told Anna that in Saint Petersburg she was the one helping Yakov, and I would like to see some of her adventures at court and how they fell in love. Was Nina already involved with the Prince or did she tie herself to him to save Yakov from his cards debt?
If you want to dwell on her relationship with Yakov while in Zatonsk I'd prefer if it were in Nina's pov. It must have been really hard for her to see him get closer to Anna and farther from herself, and being unable to do anything about it because of how she's in debt with the Prince.
Anton Korobeynikov
Anton is one of my favourite characters. You can call him naive but I’d call him pure. He’s always such a gentleman, and in the first season I often thought that he deserved Anna way more than Yakov did! He never belittled her, never doubted her and her world. And then, in the second season we find out that he proposed to her, and we didn't get to see it!? Outrageous! He deserves the girl!! Can’t she see how husband material he is!?
Furthermore, he’s extremely loyal; when asked to write a report to incriminate Yakov, he writes one praising and thanking him instead. And when Yakov disappears, he desperately searches for him, you can see how heartbroken he is!
I would love either a romantic or platonic story of the two. On the romantic side, my heart races every time they hug, and I totally lost it when in the episode about the werewolf they make a comment about Yakov smelling his garlic breath, as if they regularly kissed. On the friendship side, I would love some extra angst about how mad at Yakov he is when he reappears out of nowhere at the beginning of season 2. It would also be nice to see how he adjusts to working without Yakov in between the seasons, how he deals with the new power and responsibilities that he inherits along with Yakov's position.
Viktor Mironov
I really, really admired Viktor in the first season, the way he grew Anna up, the way he dealt with his drunkard brother and the way he sticks to his principles when doing his job. And then season two happened and they just had to destroy his character with that stupid affair. So, if you want to ignore the affair with Liza, that's very much ok with me, but you can also address the issue, I would very much like to know what he duck was going on in that head of his!
My So-Called Life[return]
requested character: Jordan Catalano
I watched the show for the first time over ten years ago, did my share of rewatches, and hungrily consumed all the fics I could find on FFN or Ao3, but I just can't get enough! If you maybe have doubts about my adultery DNW, just know my view on this: what happened between Rayanne and Jordan... there's not way that was cheating.
I'm ok with mostly anything (just maybe avoid writing the umpteenth version of what happens after Angela gets into Jordan's car), but lately I've been particularly interested into what goes on in Jordan's brain and I would really love to read something from his POV! Even an AU would be great, there's not nearly enough of them in this fandom! And if you need some ideas, here's a couple of prompts:
-Pre-canon of the first time Angela saw Jordan and fell for him.
-What goes on in Jordan's brain when he first speaks with Angela at that party and later when he sees her getting in the police's car.
-Some Jordan-Shane-Tino time.
-Fic about Jordan's background and family. All we know is that his father used to beat him up. But what else? What about his mum? And how did he get his car? Or a Life Unexpected fusion fic, where Jordan's learning issues come from a concussion he got in some domestic environment
-Patty's thoughts and impressions on Jordan.
The Silver Skates[return]
requested character: Alexey "Alex" Tarasov
I'm really fascinated by his character and interested in the reasoning behind his actions. I have the scene of his shooting mid-hair imprinted in my eyelids. It's just such a cool moment.
And I have so many questions about it! Even trying to consider how people related to death in that period... did Alex think about ending like that? Did he imagine his death in some other, heroic (not that that one isn't!) way? And why did he decide to do it, why not try to escape too, maybe jumping from the other side of the boat? Did he deem his life less worthy of Matvey and Alisa's? Or maybe was he just disillusioned by the world? Did his gang mourn him? It would also be interesting to see a canon divergent au in which he somehow survives: what would become of him, and how would he fit in the events of the early XX century?
I'd also like to know more about his background: how did he end up living like that?
I really hope you liked my prompts and found them inspiring, and whatever you'll make of it I'll be
your happy receiver
Mary_the_gardener
