let us be calm and wise

Hello, dear Yuletide writer!

Thank you so much for being willing to write for me! If seeing previous letters and recs is helpful, they're all in my Yuletide tag. I am jenett if you want to look at what I've written.

First, do not feel you need to include all of my requested characters: I love them all, but sometimes they do not fit in the same story. It's fine to focus on one or two or whatever.

Several of my requests this year lend themselves to non-narrative formats - if an exchange of letters, a series of journal entries, or some other structure appeals to you, go for it.

Two of my requests (The England Series and the Will Darling Adventures, both by K.J. Charles) have canon joined by a single epilogue (and I've repeated related requests for this under both canons, since they're linked but also separate focus...) First, these requests do include some spoilers for each other and the epilogue out of necessity to make a request or two I'd love.

Second, despite my obvious interest in that particular epilogue and it's implications (hello, catnip for my brain), I also want to say up front I love all three of the canons I've requested, and would be delighted with anything about any of them.

( General notes )
( England Series - K. J. Charles )
( The Will Darling Adventures - K.J. Charles )
( Temple of the White Rat Universe - T. Kingfisher )

This year, I wrote Before, During, After, a look at Pat and Fen before, during, and after the events of K.J. Charles' book, Think of England (Pat and Fen also appear in her Proper English.)

They were absolutely delightful to spend time with, even if the story ended up being longer than I was expecting (at a bit more than 7000 words, it's my longest single story now.)

I'm particularly pleased that multiple commenters were delighted by how much I got Pat's voice.

(Also, in moments of hilarity, I was working on this at the same time as one of the current original works set in 1906, which made the research a little easier in a couple of places.)

The core of 'what am I doing with this prompt' started when I did the canon reread (a joy, all of it), and had this sudden realisation that a) Pat's brother Bill and Archie were roughly the same age, but had gone to different universities and b) that there is absolutely no clear indication of why Pat and Fen were at Peakholme in the first place.

Hello dear Yuletide author (and anyone else reading this)!

I adore the range of creativity and amazingness that comes out of Yuletide every year - I've been doing Yuletide since 2011, and reading since rather earlier than that. I am here for stories exploring things in new ways, people delighting in sharing things they love, and all the things I didn't know I wanted that come out of Yuletide requests.
( General notes and background )
( Lord Peter Wimsey - Dorothy L. Sayers )
( Society of Gentlemen - K. J. Charles )
( Shadowscapes Tarot )
( Rivers of London - Ben Aaronovitch  )

Time for me to post my recs!

( My gifts, which were all awesome )

( Things I liked )

Yay! Hello, dear Yuletide author (and whoever else might be reading this.)

I love Yuletide, it’s one of the highlights of the year for me, seeing all the amazing stories and snippets and scenes and explorations people come up with. I’ve loved all my gifts so far, and I bet I’ll love yours, too.

( Background and general notes )
( Agatha Christie's Marple )
( Rivers of London )
( Sparrow Hill Road )
( Society of Gentlemen - K.J. Charles )
( Medieval manuscript illustrations )

Yay, it’s time for Yuletide again!

I love both the process of writing for Yuletide, and then getting to read all the other creative things people have come up with in so many different fandoms. I’m looking forward to what this year brings too.

This is a bit lengthy, but I hope it's the helpful sort of lengthy, and you can just focus on the bits of particular interest to you. 

( Rather a lot more inside )

In which I discuss my requests and some other notes for the following fandoms: The Young Visiters (a book by Daisy Ashford), The Librarians (TV show), Constellations (Anthropomorfic), and Tower Prep (TV show)

( Thank you for writing for me! )

Dear Yuletide Writer,

Hello! Thank you for writing for me!

Most of my journal is locked, and I know that makes Yuletide a litlte trickier because it's hard to get a sense of me. A good place to start is my Yuletide tag, which has past letters and comments about fic I got, gave, and read. You can generally also assume that things in the past letters still apply to me, but feel free to check via a mod if you've got any questions.

( More inside )

Recs for:

- Books: Anne of Green Gables, Cadfael Chronicles, Chalet School, Lammas Night, Chalion, The Giver, Lord Peter Wimsey, Malory Towers, The Odyssey, Newsflesh, The Princess Bride, Tam Lin.
- Movies: Addams Family, Agora, Galaxy Quest, Ghostbusters.
- Other: Arthurian Mythology, Greek Prose Composition, Lego, Libraries (Anthropomorfic).

I also liked an awful lot of the things in the Chalion, Miss Fisher's Murder Mystery, and Forever fandoms. (And Wimsey and Newsflesh remain reliably solid goodnesses in Yuletide.)

( Recs within )

[Edited for some clarity and further ideas October 25th]

So, apparently, the desires of my heart at the moment involve mentoring relationships or extreme competence. Or both. Right, then.

I am currently having a really hard fall. But one of the things I am thinking about a lot is how the people we learn from, learn how to do things with, change us. We hope, for the better. Sometimes that’s about formal education, but a lot of the time, it’s about something more complicated and faceted - and fascinating.

When I went through the Yuletide tag list for ‘things I want to remember are options this year’, it’s these three that jumped out at me. And one of the things that really strikes me is how they’re all about incredibly competent people sharing what they know in interesting ways. Or making choices based on what they know, are committed to, are passionate about.

So. Yeah. Basically, fic that does something with that is the thing I want. People being awesome at knowing their things, people caring about what they do, trusting other people to do it with them. That. :insert waving hands here:

You can feel free to take a look at my previous Yuletide letters and recs for things I’d like, but actually, while most of the details still apply to me, they don’t really apply to my requests this year.

If you got matched with me on any of these fandoms, I'm pretty sure that what you're inclined to write will be awesome.

But in case you’d like some more details, there's more below. Two of these three canons are quite easy to pick up quickly (one is a movie, one is a single volume book. The other one’s more complicated, alas.) I’ve included some general background for people reading because of one request who might also find the others interesting.

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