life is fucking nuts, isn't it?

ETA: treats so welcome! <3 <3 <3

Will I ever use this account again for anything but yuletide? Idk, but weirdly I've actually been semi-active in a writing/posting sense on tumblr lately -- hmu if you want that account info.

In the meantime,

Likes: close-to-canon canon divergence, missing scenes, awkward conversations about feelings, close relationships that don't map to family structures, people figuring out (usually belatedly) how to Deal With Their Shit. Feel free to poke around on my Ao3/bookmarks for vibes.

DNWs: Brain damage or memory loss, graphic sexual violence, permanent main character death

( Yuletide letter by fandom! )

...about trying to reacclimatize myself to posting more here is that I keep feeling like I ought to have a fun pic to post, but since I don't have a good pic hosting place, it would have to be something already online, and then I would have to THEMATICALLY TIE IT IN TO THE POST, and then posting becomes a whole thing. Probably I should start posting project pics to Tumblr, so I can link them here. Or maybe I just need some new icons that reflect recent stuff I'm into, idk.

lots of boring-for-now but maybe eventually interesting work stuff going on (several potential new jobs in the works, don't look now but by next month I might be making enough to actually cover all my expenses on a regular basis instead of falling short for months and then pulling in a new freelance thing to make up the difference, why on earth did I decide to live like this) who can say? And my housemates are out of town for a few days, so their cat, who is very particular about her people and, despite basically trusting me, has mostly not warmed up to me in the three years we've been living with her, has wanted to hang out! So that has been lovely.

I need to get back into writing mode since Yuletide is fast approaching, but I keep finding myself just wanting to read more, and take more in. Who all is yuletiding this year? Are you all further along than me? I have a concept and a hazard series of notes in my notes app, but that is IT.


MEDIA I'VE BEEN INTO LATELY( Read more... )

Maybe my toxic trait is that a part of me thinks that the internet peaked when I was seventeen or so. But there's something that blows me away about the fact that people still send their secrets in to that address, analogue, written in their handwriting. I love it. The twee, early two-thousands vibe where there are, like, decals of bicycles everywhere and getting really into recycling was cool, there's a part of me that was formed by that that never decided that that thing was cringe.




I'm watching this -- oh, because I have covid, right, forgot to share that part -- so I have covid, and I'm watching a '90s cop show starring Robert Carlyle, because I never got over Trainspotting. Also, the first episode's writing is credited to a Daniel Boyle, but wiki assures me he's not to be confused with Danny Boyle, so no Trainspotting connection there. Probably-predictably, the Ao3 tag is all full of Once Upon A Time stuff -- I'm v happy for Robert Carlyle that he got that gig, but it's not what I want to read. When looking for a clip to illustrate the show on youtube, though, I found a handful of vids for what appears to be the main canonical couple (the other character played by Shirley Henderson, who, of course, was also in Transpotting).

Anyway, it's lots of fun, and let's see if I can drag myself into the habit of posting here a little more often than just to post my yuletide letter. Anyone have any recs for other things to watch while I have covid? My taste in sick-movie fare is exclusively things I might have seen on PBS in 2003, if that's helpful.

edited to add: this is one of the less coherent things I've ever committed to the internet -- let's call it an illness-side-effect and let bygones be bygones, shall we? Ugh, I really do feel like hot garbage.

dear yuletide writer,

Thank you thank you thank you in advance for whatever fabulous thing you're about to create for whichever one of these fandoms I care so much about! I'm so sorry this letter is a few days late going up!

Blanket DNWs: I can't do brain damage/memory loss-centric stories (and I'm also not jazzed about brain damage jokes, tee bee haitch), and I'd prefer to avoid non-canonical main character death, if that's cool. Other than that, go wild.

Hey, so, before we go any further, prompts here are for if you want them (I know looking at what other people love about these super obscure stories is one of my favorite parts of yuletide), but please don't let yourself feel constrained by them, or get stressed about using all or any specific parts of what I'm saying here -- optional details are the most optional thing, we're all here to have a good time, you know the drill.

Gonna grab a general likes paragraph from a previous year's letter: General likes: missing scenes, close-to-canon AUs, more wild AUs that use canonical details in interesting ways, fic that explores how characters’ personalities formed, family stuff both found and otherwise, stories about the moment when someone starts to feel like they’ve really grown up, reconnection stories, established relationship stories and stories where the characters getting together isn’t where it ends, complicated-but-affectionate relationships, people in bands, domesticity.

I’m on Ao3 under the same name, if you want to poke around there, too!

If ship fic speaks to you, I’m so very down for that, but I also do adore gen, so if that’s not your jam, or if we don’t line up in our shipping preferences, totally

And on to our contestants!

The Casson Family

I am definitely picturing the character selection as either/or, here: Tom and Indigo or Eve and Linda, although if you feel like shuffling it up — Eve and Indigo, Linda and Indigo, or really any combination of these characters that strikes your fancy, but totally don’t feel any pressure to include all of this group of people!

W/r/t Indigo and Tom: I do ship it, but ALSO, if you do not, I would totally love to read your thoughts/feelings about their friendship — either how they stay in touch over the years, or how they reconnect later. Maybe the stories Francis hears, growing up, about her big brother’s English friend? Or Indy doing a year of study abroad with Tom’s family? Or Tom’s famous and famously-absent mother making a surprise visit at a time when Indigo and Tom are together. I’d love to see college fic, I’d love to see them staying in touch via music — basically, if you can imagine a way for them to interact, in that warm you-are-so-different-from-me-but-I-know-you way, I want to read it. The only thing I’m really not here for is a romantic relationship between Tom and Rose when they’re older.

If you go the other way, I’d love to hear a little more about Eve and Linda growing up, or Eve and Linda and Bill’s tangled romantic web before all the kids came along, the parts of it that were messy and hard, and maybe some of the parts that were beautiful.

Die

Hey WOW, so that final issue sure did happen, didn’t it?? The paragraph under the cut is going to include spoilers, but if you’re just following the trades, I’ll be delighted to read whatever you want to write that uses the canon up through vol. 3. Some basics: according to me, Ash and Sol are a little bit in love. Whether that’s something that can or should translate into a romantic relationship at any point is up to you, but I love all the layers of teenage intensity and investment in each other that just got frozen in time for all those years, and the way it just sort of rockets back into place for both of them the moment they reconnect. I’d love to hear more about Sol creating the world, and the ways it’s for and about Ash, and the ways it’s for and about himself.

( Die spoilers!!! )

MacGuffin & Co.: Protagonish

Jonny and Sasha said it best, that moment when they described their characters, caught each other’s eyes, and said, “Are we in love?”

“Eh, it’s more of a will-they, won’t they.”

I’d love something more about the thing Sasha was doing where, every time Harper thought Austin did something hot, Harper got a new layer of sexy grime over his clean-cut-ness. I’d love to see if Austin has an equivalent. Maybe they have to do something which requires going to dinner with Austin’s dad, ….SATAN. Maybe they meet a problem that even Harper’s really cool jacket can’t help bluff their way out of and they have a pre-famous-last-stand heartfelt moment.

All Creatures Great and Small (TV 1978)

Hey, so I do have this idea in my head — based on a lot of things! — that Tristan and James and Helen are all in love. Is that something that speaks to you at all? If not, Please feel free to disregard that thought and write some wacky gen hijinks, or something about James and Helen as the stable center of all that Farnon chaos, would be wonderful.

If you do have any interest in Helen/James/Tristan: one thing I really love is how close Helen and Tristan are in the show, and I do think that’s part of it. The bit where Tristan rescues the cat, and begs James to operate to save it, and then Helen adopts the cat was just a really good episode for me. But in general, I do love how Tristan is such a hurricane, and it does feel like he depends on both James and Helen’s steadiness, and the way they’re both so affectionately indulgent with him, even when he’s being an asshole.

One thought I’ve had in my head is the idea of more of a modern AU where instead of figuring out the angle with historical accuracy about attitudes around sex and sexuality, James Herriot takes a new job as a vet in a new town at a more recent point in history, moves to the Yorkshire Dales, and falls in love — twice. I love the idea of James and Helen the established couple realizing they have feelings for Tristan, but I’d also love to see all three of them collide with each other at once. Really, if any one single part of this rambling series of paragraphs speaks to you, I am going to be over the moon.

Anyway, thanks in advance, yuletide writer, I’m so excited to see what you come up with. Happy winter!!

Hi, hello, thank you in advance for writing me a story! Like pretty much all of us who do this challenge, I love reading stories that other people have loved writing, so please feel free to ignore anything in here that doesn't really work for you. I'm really excited about the fandoms I've requested this year, and I'm excited to be watched with someone who's as excited about one of them as I am.

General likes: I'm pretty flexible about tropes and genres and things I'm into - I can find a story I like that fits pretty much any description, from High School AU to space opera to meticulously-close-to-canon AU to missing scene fic. Mostly the thing that really does it for me is characters having conversations, no matter what the setting is. There was a point in my life when I couldn't write a fic without having people talk on the phone in it, and while I've mostly grown out of it, you still can't beat fic with a lot of dialogue for me. I think trope fic is lots of fun, if that's your thing, and I do love crossovers, so feel free to poke around at my journal or ao3, If I've mentioned something even once, I'd be totally down for a crossover or fusion, if that's what floats your boat.

General dislikes: The only thing I really don't do is brain damage or memory loss stories. I'd love to avoid stories with totally bleak endings - either positive or ambiguous would be great, but other than that, the field is pretty much wide open.

So I've done what I've always done, which is, pretty much, explode all of my feelings about a fandom into my optional details boxes in sign-up. I'm going to reprint those here, and then maybe throw in a couple of prompts at the end. You should totally feel free to ignore them, but I also don't want to be one of those recipients that's completely unhelpful, so they're there for inspiration if you want.

Sing Street, requested characters: Conor "Cosmo" Lalor, Raphina, Eamon

There are a bunch of different things I'm interested in seeing about this hugely charming movie, but there are two big ones. One of them is Raphina getting her own turn to find the kind of belonging Conor found with the band within the movie, because it was so very much a boy's coming of age tale, and I loved the way it was about finding a place for yourself in the world, and building one if there wasn't one to find, and building a gang of friends that makes you feel invincible. All of that was great, but Raphina was in need of that just as much as Conor, if not more, and she got to be along for the ride a little, but I'd really love to see her find some equivalent of that, whether it's in a band of her own after they get to London (if they make it, I see Conor probably going back before too long to deal with his family, probably, but that girl was OUT of there), or something else she stumbles into on her quest for a modeling job, or even just a job waiting tables with a very tight-knit staff.

Another thing I'd be just as thrilled to see explored is Eamon's blindingly massive crush of Conor, whether it's eventually requited or just stays un-. "Want to write a song?" "Always," I mean, I know he loves music, but come ON, kid. Other things about Eamon I'd love to read fic about: what it's like when his father gets out of rehab, whether playing music together was a bonding thing for him and his father, how his mother feels about his music obsession (I was sensing a little bit of resentment early on), and what's actually the deal with all the rabbits? (I know, I know, he just loves them, be still my HEART.)

Okay, um, prompts - I guess I already gave a few: Raphina in a band, Eamon's massive crush on Conor, what's up with the bunnies? What about an epistolatory story where Raphina stays in London but Conor ends up going home to try to sort things out with his family? Or Conor's sister - in some ways, this was not a great movie to be a woman in, and it was frustrating to see her character get no fleshing out at all, so what if she and Eamon strike up a friendship after Conor and Raphina skip town? And hey, does Conor ever try to go by Cosmo again? So many questions ;)

The Bright Sessions requested characters: Chloe, Damien, Adam, Caleb

I have no idea what to say for really specific prompts because I have no idea what season 3 is going to bring for these characters. I will say that I really am the most interested in Damian and Chloe when they interact with each other. They're such good bright mirror/dark mirrors for each other, and I love the thought of Chloe starting to grapple with the moral ambiguity that can come with using her power. The way she didn't even want to entertain the idea that there could be any early on was totally fascinating to me, and being around Damien, whose power is inherently creepy in a more obvious way makes her confront it, and I love that. And for Damien, I'd be really interested to see how using his power changed from the time it first manifested to now. He seems like someone who wants to be the embodiment of "absolute power corrupts absolutely," but he's so petty and small, in some ways, he can't even manage to be the evil he aspires to be.

On the other hand, Adam and Caleb. Oh my god, they're sweet like puppies, but they have their own blindingly massive issues, don't they? Even leaving aside that thing I'm hoping season 3 fixes really fast. I'd love to see those two figure out how to navigate their relationship in a more healthy way (because "I want to be responsible for your feelings" is, like, a sentiment that could go wrong very fast, Caleb, no matter how affectionately it's intended, that shit is not sustainable or even respectful, really.) I'd love to see Adam start to get some help, and I'd really love to see the two of them trying to figure all of this out in the context of their high school, interacting with their peers.

I'd also love to see more of Caleb and Chloe interacting, since I bet there's a weird kind of balance in their interactions that neither of them really gets with anyone else, what with their powers.

Really, I'm up for most anything you feel like writing about any of these characters, though.

Okay, so I claimed to have no ideas about specific prompts, but that's not entirely true. What about a school dance? What about if Damien runs into Chloe on a date and mindfucks his way into joining them? What about if Chloe and Caleb end up talking about Caleb and Adam's breakup when doing art therapy with Frank, and Frank ends up having the best relationship advice around? Or a story about Adam investigating his parents in earnest? There are a whole lot of stories I'm interested in when it comes to these characters, and pretty much any combination of them interacting with each other would be super cool.


OKAY, that was as far as I got this morning, but I wasn't quite expecting for assignments to have gone out already, so I'm going to try to rush to finish this. Sorry about that, secret author!

Lovely Little Losers requested characters: Bea, Ben, Balthazar, PeterPedro

I love group fic, and ensemble casts, and how much all these kids love each other, so if you're drawn to write something like that, I'm so up for it. That said, again, there are a few things I'm especially interested in. Like, okay, Peter and Balth, what are they actually like as a couple, after all of the fuss of getting them together in the series? I have a feeling working on their communication issues is going to take longer than just the end of the show to resolve, and I'd love to see some of that happen. They've both been pretty good at avoiding expressing themselves, but I feel like for Peter, it was more of an aberration because he was a little lost for a while, and didn't have the reserves of confidence I feel like usually bolster him through a hard conversation. For Balthazar, though, I feel like it's more of a way of life, and more of something that could be an issue later. I'm not just interested in how they work out their conflicts, though - I'd also love to hear about Balth going to Peter's shows, Peter coming to Balth's gigs (or even tagging along on his first tour? Balth's opening for this band and Peter comes along and sells merch?) the two of them hanging out with Rosa, or John, or Rosa AND John, cooking together, Peter being a massive cuddle monster, whatever weird thing is going on with Peter's family, I am interested in it ALL.

As for Bea and Ben, if that's a direction you're inspired to take, I LOVE Bea in all of her wrathfully protective glory over Hero, and I'd love to see the first time she turns that furious protectiveness over Ben, because you know she does, and you know it's massive and blinding, and some part of Ben may not actually have been expecting it. Other things I'd love: them being supportive of each other, hijinks involving a false-alarm pregnancy scare, or, alternately, ace!Ben who (this was my secret theory through much of LoLiLo) instituted the rules to give himself some extra time to figure out how to talk to Bea about his sexuality (I'm not married to this idea, but I am interested in it).

Well, again, I guess there are definitely some specific prompt ideas in there. Other tropetastic thoughts I'd love to see: meet the parents! Well, I guess that idea is more about US meeting their parents, since presumably all our characters have already met each other's families while growing up together. Maybe not, though, their school doesn't seem that small. I guess the one I'm most interested in is our resident free-spirit Balthazar Jones meeting the uptight-but-affable people I'm presuming spawned Peter, for some reason. Ben freaking out over Bea's parents could be fun, too, though. Other thoughts: Does Peter pursue acting? Does Peter continue to go by Peter, or transition back to Pedro? Oooh, Ben and Hero getting a little bonding time in would be rad. This is all a bit of a mess of a prompt, isn't it? I'm sorry. Anyway, there are a lot of things just off the top of my head that it makes me giddy to think of reading about, so hopefully if this is where we match, there's something to spark your interest.

Casson Family requested character: Indigo

I love the whole family so much, and I love the way they all interact with each other from here to infinity, but Indigo is my boy, always has been, always will be. As the sole relatively quiet kid in a family full of big personalities (in some ways I think he resembles Eve in temperament, only, like, a thousand times more practical and pragmatic) I'd really love to see a little bit about how he figures out how to differentiate himself from his family and work out what his individual identity is as he grows up. Not very into the Indigo/Sarah thing (in fact, I kind of vaguely ship Indigo/Tom, in a nebulous, maybe-in-the-future sort of way), but pretty much anything else you might feel inspired by about this kid, especially as he grows up, would be so adored.

Specific things I'm interested in: future fic! Maybe university, what's that like, living away from home, and being in a totally different environment where your personality can no longer be defined by your very colorful family? Does he stay friends with Marcus? How about Tom, when does he get to see Tom again? And Bill--of all of the children, Indigo is the one Bill always seemed the most disconnected from, to me, do they ever communicate a little bit more? Does Indigo stay in a band? Does he ever write music? Does Tom? Do they have a little international song-writing club? Does Indigo play a gig in the states that for some strange reason is attended by Tom's estranged mother? So many questions. And anything about Indigo and Rose, or Indigo and Saffy, or Caddy, or all of them together, or in any configuration, as they grow, would make my heart grow three sizes.

Anyway, hey secret author, I hope some of this mess is somewhat helpful, and I hope you have a ton of fun writing whatever you end up writing, I can't wait to read it.

Thanks in advance,
-pc

Dear my yuletide match,

Hi! How are you this fine day? I'm so excited to read whatever you come up with--for some reason, yuletide is exempt from my general grinchiness around the holidays, and everything about participating thrills me. First, I want to say that I am totally a believer in optional details being optional--with the exception of the few things that I have a genuine problem reading (which I'll list below), I would pretty much always prefer for you to completely forget everything in this letter and write a story you're really invested in telling than to force yourself to write something that fits my tastes.

The only things I'm not really up for in the fic I read are brain damage, mind control or amnesia, and I'd prefer not to read anything that involves my favorite characters committing acts of sexual violence. Other than that, the playing field is pretty wide-open.

I'm a confirmed multishipper, so if there's a particular ship in any of these fandoms that you either want to try out or are really into, chances are I'll be totally down for that. I also read a lot of gen, so if shipping isn't your cup of tea, either in general or in whatever fandom we match up in, that's awesome too.

Fresh Meat (Oregon Shawcross, Vod Nordstrom)

These girls, man, they slay me. I usually try to stay kind of ship-neutral in these letters so my writer doesn't feel pressured, but I'll admit it here, I totally ship it. Truly, madly, deeply. If you feel like going in a gen direction that's totally cool, too--I bet they'd have some rad gen hijinks, maybe getting their first apartment together out of school, say, or protest-hopping to trawl for boys. Like, I'm not knocking the appeal of their straight, unadulterated friendship. But if you feel like writing them into a relationship, or just into bed, I would be in no way at all displeased. Just throwing that out there.

What I love about these two when they interact is that even when they're bad for each other, even when they fuck each other up, when Vod expects Oregon to do her homework or Oregon lies about her identity or they have a falling-out while backpacking (and I'm totally curious about how that vacation of theirs really went down) there's such caring underlying the ways that they're awful to each other that there's never any question that they'll move past it. I'd love to see Vod pursue acting, I'd love to see Oregon not being a good writer and knowing it and keeping on writing anyway, I'd love to see them supporting each other in a myriad of all-encompassing, over-the-top, ridiculous, round-about ways. I want Vod to start taking some hesitating, clumsy steps towards dealing with some of the issues her mother left her with. I want them to have dinner with Oregon's parents. Basically, I want anything at all you can throw at me, so if this show is your show, come at me, bro. Do your worst.

(I also love every other character on the show, p. much, so if you feel like moving in an ensemble direction, that's perfect too [though if there's any Josie-bashing I will probably cry--my friend I watch the show with is pretty anti-Josie and idgi at all--she's my delusional-sunshine-murder-baby].)

Poldark (TV 1975) (Demelza Carne, Jinny Carter, Francis Poldark, Ross Poldark)

Poldark. Okay, massive overshare/storytime. The Poldark series had a weirdly massive influence on my childhood--when I was a kid, my mom used to check the VHSs of it out from the library and watch it after I went to bed when I was in elementary school. Since I was a teeny tiny insomniac, I would lie awake in the next room and listen to the whole thing. I would do this with a lot of the movies she watched, but for some reason, Poldark was the one that I couldn't take just listening to without being able to see, so a couple of nights (and episodes) in, I got out of bed and walked in to the living room. I was expecting my mom to send me back to bed, and I still don't know why she didn't, but she moved over on the couch and let me sit and watch with her for hours. I can't say I totally understood all of it at the time, but I was pretty enthralled anyway, and there were scenes from it stuck in my head for years and years afterwards.

Fast forward to this past summer, me just graduated from college and at loose ends and living with my mom while I figure out my next step. I heard that there was going to be a reboot starring Aiden Turner, and I got really excited. I told my mom, and we spent an entire night looking up everything else the actors in the original cast had ever done. The next day, I went in to the local library I hadn't been to since I left for school and braved my years-ignored library fine to check out the DVDs. We watched them all in a rush, and I was as charmed by the show's overblown sentiment and '70s-interpretation-of-period-hair hair as I was the first time, but it kept hitting me that the pace just moved so fast, there wasn't time to explore these character dynamics fully. Basically, what I'm saying is that if our match-up fandom is Poldark, no matter what you do, I'm going to just be so incredibly gratified to get a peek into someone else's thoughts about the show (and if you feel like chatting about it post-yuletide, I'd be totally up for that).

I think Demelza is one of the most fascinating characters in the world, and anything you feel like writing about her will thrill me. Jinny is actually my favorite, I'd be so interested in anything from her point of view. I'm also interested in Ross's relationship with her entire family, so if that's something you feel like grappling with, feel free. Ross is a pretty odd, intense dude, so it makes sense that pretty much all of his relationships are likewise odd and intense. I'm always intrigued by his relationship with Francis, who always grows on me in the strangest way as the series goes on. Francis's actions are so tied up in Ross's reactions and pushing Ross's buttons, whereas Ross barely seems to think about Francis at all--until the scene with the cards, that is, when he notices Francis being picked on and sweeps in in a way that feels habitual to me, like that was their dynamic in childhood. I didn't have enough character options to nominate Verity, too, but if you felt like looking at her relationships with Francis and/or Ross, I'd also be into that.

Political Animals (Anne Ogami, Douglas Hammond, TJ Hammond)

Like the entirety of tumblr, I have a massive weakness for Sebastian Stan right now, which is why I embarked on my Political Animals rewatch this summer. By the end of it, though, I realized that as much as I love TJ, my stand-out favorite at this point is Anne. I'd love anything about her carving out a place for her in the Hammond/Barrish family, especially anything where she spends some time with TJ, or more interactions with Margaret, and anything that addresses how messed up it was when the family chased her and Douglas down to crash their elopement would definitely be something I'd be into. I'm also really intrigued by TJ and Douglas's relationship, so if Anne's not as interesting to you as she is to me, I'd also love to read anything about those two growing up.

Hanna (Hanna Heller, Sophie)

Basically anything about these two reconnecting as adults, or about what Hanna does next after the end of the movie. Honestly, if you're into AUs, I'd be interested in that for these two, too. Feel free to take it to a shippy place, but no pressure. I'm also into crossovers if I have any familiarity with the other fandom, so if that's what you're into, feel free to poke around in my journal or my AO3 bookmarks. Basically, if this is where we match up, I'm up for pretty much anything, though it'd make me extra pleased if it could end happily or at least ambiguously--poor Hanna deserves a break, you know?

Boyhood (Mason Evans, Olivia Evans, Mindy Welbrock, Randy Welbrock)

I enjoyed this movie so much, and one of the reasons was that it put things on-screen that I could really connect to, types of relationships that I hadn't really seen depicted in fiction before, and was only familiar with from my life. One of those things was the way Mason and Samantha and Mindy and Randy interacted in that brief period when their parents were married--less than family and more than friends, close in a way that was slightly forced but still genuine. The way it was their parents' relationships that completely dictated their own because they were children and their connections to each other had always been out of their control. I'd love either a closer look at those kids finding ways to fit together when they were kids, and trying to find a dynamic that worked for all of them, or maybe a story about them reconnecting later in life somehow.

Bad Education (Chantelle Parsons, Frank Grayson, Stephen Carmichael)

Chantelle and Stephen's friendship is pretty much my favorite thing in the world, I'd love a closer look at that, and if you felt like getting into how they got to know each other, that'd be awesome, too. I'd also love more of Frank and Stephen's relationship--if there's one thing about this last season that surprised me, it was how much it hurt to hear Frank Grayson say "I'm not pedigree." I mean, I still laughed, but it was one of those choking, incredulous types of laughs that stuck in my chest. This is one of those absurd, over-the-top shows that doesn't stray into genuine emotion very often. I'm not sure whether I'd more like to read a story that's as absurd as the show, or one that digs into the characters a little more and fills them out. Either one would be fantastic. Both would be transcendent. If you feel like writing about these three characters spending time together at some point, though, that's something I would love.


So hey, mystery writer! I hope I haven't overwhelmed you here--I've had exchange assignments light on details enough to make me nervous, and I don;t want to do that to someone else, but seriously, feel free to ignore any of this you don't want to deal with.

Thank you in advance for writing my story!

<3

-pc