LadySilver's Fanfic

Dear Yuletide Writer:

First of all, thank you so much for signing up! We already have at least one fandom in common, which is the important part. It's like cake. Cake is my favorite part. I hope the rest of what follows is just frosting.

I'm trying something different with my letter this year. Rather than providing specific prompts for my fandoms, I'm going to detail a couple of my favorite tropes and what I like in stories in general. If you prefer sentence prompts, feel free to plumb any of my other exchange letters, ask me, or hit up htbthomas, who both knows my tastes and knows how to keep a secret.

Overall, what I like in a story is plot; that is, I want something to happen. Beyond that, the reins are pretty loose. I like h/c and whump, angst, drama, humor, casefic, action/adventure, and romance. I'm open to gen, het, slash, poly—though I do have some fandom-specific preferences, which are listed below. I love pairings and I also love strong friendship and (pseudo)parent-child relationships. Ratings from G to hard-R are great. Crossovers are fantastic, though not anything I ever expect. I prefer canon based stories or canon-divergent AUs, and I prefer third-person storytelling, though I don't care if it's in past or present tense.

( Trope Wants )

( Do Not Wants )

( Fandoms: The Tomorrow People 1973, 1992, 2013; H2O: Just Add Water; Mako Mermaids; My Secret Identity )

I want to make this as easy for you as possible. If you have a different idea for a story that you think I'd like, go for it! Thank you again for signing up.

Though I'm still working my way through the archive, I wanted to start compiling some recs. Everything is gen unless otherwise noted.

I must start with my gifts this year. I got two :)

My Secret Identity - Extreme Circumstances - “Dr. J said they could only be used in extreme circumstances. You hid your powers from me, your best friend, for two whole years. Today absolutely qualifies.”

Quite simply, this is a story I've been waiting more than 20 years to read, and I love every inch of it. The author nails the character voices and the relationship between the two friends. There's a fun plot that's perfectly in keeping with the show, and tons of callbacks to the canon for anyone who's seen it recently. (The story is understandable even if you haven't.) There's also a stealth crossover to another one of my fannish shows. Can you find it?

The Tomorrow People - Echoes in My Head - Stephen talks to one of his counselors, a woman he can't read.

This is a crossover between the 2013 Tomorrow People and the 1992 version. Set early in the 2013 run, the author positions Stephen to discuss his changing life with an expert whom he doesn't know is an expert. The questions raised about what it means to be a Tomorrow Person are intriguing without being heavy-handed, and the scenario makes wonderful use of the crossover to give us some insight into the main character.

( Other Stories - The Amazing Spider-Man, Arrow, Ghost Soup Infidel Blue, Highlander: the Raven )

This year, I participated in four seasonal exchanges: tw_fallharvest, tw_holidays, hlh_shortcuts, and yuletide, and wrote five fics across four different fandoms. The following are the gifts I gave in order:

( Story listing with meta notes )

In order of receipt:

Title: Once for the Devil
Author: hardticket
Fandom: Teen Wolf
Characters/Pairings: Scott/Isaac, Stiles, Derek
Event: Teen Wolf Fall Harvest
Word Count: 2000
Rating: R
Warnings: sex pollen, dub con
Summary: Scott and Isaac get hit with some funky Wolfsbane. Stiles may or may not be to blame.

Title: Tangled Words in Twilight Worlds
Author: lirren
Fandom: Teen Wolf
Characters/Pairings: Scott/Stiles with background Scott/Allison
Event: Teen Wolf Holidays
Word Count: 3450
Rating: R
Warnings: Discussion of canon character death
Summary: Trapped together by a spell gone awry, Scott and Stiles realign the boundaries of friendship to regain their freedom, and in the process learn something about each other and themselves.

Title: He Dreams
Author: morgynleri
Fandom: Highlander
Characters: Methos, Lorien, John Sheridan, The Morrigan, Henry V of England, The Brigid, Joe Dawson, Anat, Gollum, Frodo Baggins, Samwise Gamgee, JRR Tolkien
Event: Highlander Holiday Short Cuts
Word Count: 1000
Rating: PG-13
Warnings: Character death
Summary: He walks dreams and he dreams reality, and one turns into the other and back again.

Title: Underneath My Skin
Author: teaandhoney
Fandom: BtVS/AtS
Characters: Connor, Dawn, Willow, Kit, Carlos
Events: Wishlist
Word Count: ?
Rating: PG
Warnings: none
Summary: "Connor is learning to trust his instincts again - well worn paths in his brain, burnt in savagely for survival when he was growing up in Quor'Toth , that were shadowed and muted the past few years but have now lit up again brightly. They are useful but he must keep that side of himself under check because he has seen were it all lead before, doesn't particularly like the person he used to be."

Title: Who We Are
Author: brutti_ma_buoni
Fandom: BtVS/AtS
Characters: Dawn, Conoor
Event: In Small Packages
Word Count: 400
Rating: PG
Summary: in fulfillment of the prompt: "we are who we are."

Title: Anything for a Friend
Author: daylightfire
Fandom: The Listener
Characters: Oz, Toby
Event: Yuletide
Word Count: 3812
Rating: PG
Summary: When Oz decides to observe Ramadan, Toby finds the only way to help him is to join him. Will the two survive 30 days of fasting?

Title: Something Old, Something New
Author: carolinecrane
Fandom: My Secret Identity
Characters: Andrew, Dr. J, Erin
Event: Yuletide Madness
Word Count: 551
Rating: G
Summary: No wedding ever goes off without a hitch.

( Dear Yuletide Writer, )

( Fandom - My Secret Identity )

( Fandom - H2O: Just Add Water )

( Fandom - The Listener )

Thank you again for signing up. I hope you have fun writing. Happy Yuletide!

Summary: Where does Derek end and Jackson begin?
Word Count: 2088
Notes: Written for temperance_k for yuletide based on a request for Derek/Jackson fic. Also, tried to incorporate preferences for explorations of Derek's bittersweet childhood and Jackson's dark side.

( He was going to get caught. He could hide for a little while, but not forever. Never forever. )

yuletide is here!

( Long Yuletide Letter is Long )