shut up and let me see your jazz hands

So I have still been trying to think up prompts for the transfic mini fest, and instead I just come up with stuff I want to write (and yeah, I could still leave that as a prompt, but I am unlikely to write it in the time before the fest is over, so). Gah.

Anyway, I will almost certainly write both of these eventually. Probably sooner than later, though I would really like to finish the two Korra kinkmeme prompts I started, as well as the Community fic I started for the female character tropefest.

1. ( SGA )

2. ( Homestuck )

Why didn't I think of this in time for Kaleidoscope nominations?

So, today I went karaoke and while browsing artists, came across Yuzu and was like, oh hey, I love them, I should sing some of their songs! And then my next thought was, oh man, what is that song where Kitagawa is in drag and it is awesome? Because they usually have the real video for that, as opposed to a cheesy karaoke video. And the book had a little star next to the song, which is supposed to mean it has the video, so I excitedly entered it and then was super disappointed when it was just a karaoke video (one that had played for a different song earlier, no less!).

Anyway, when I got home, I found the video on youtube and watched it through several times and I really, really want fic about this video. But, I want fic where the main character is a trans woman. So it probably wouldn't be exactly the story in the video. I could see that being her dream, and she actually sings at a bar or something, idk. (Or you could modernise it, in which case I could see her actually becoming a star, but a large part of the charm is the showa aesthetic.) Really, I just want ALL the fic about her.

I think I might end up nominating it for Yuletide, but I feel like it might have gotten a better chance of being written for Kaleidoscope. (Or maybe someone just wants to write it for me as a random present? :D :D :D? You don't even need to know Japanese because the song doesn't tell the story of the video, just the visuals do that.)

(Also every time I watch Yuzu videos, I just want Yuzu slash. I know nothing about them, though Wikipedia tells me they are both married to women, and not each other, but they are always so incredibly adorkable with each other and seem to sing to each other a lot. XD)

I want to try and finish up one of my many wips for my March writing, but I am also thinking of maybe writing something for yuri_challenge as well, so I'm posting the prompts that most interest me here.

Aoi Hana, Fumi/Akira, on a date, sleepover, reading
Azumanga Daioh, Sakaki/Kaorin, "I always had the biggest crush on you"
Bleach, Soi Fon/Yoruichi, AU
Death Note, Misa/Sayu, “I don’t think of you as a sister”
Digimon, Mimi/Sora, back to real life
Hourou Musuko, Saorin/Nitorin, unrequited love
Kimi ni Todoke, Ayane/Chizu, big mouth
Kimi ni Todoke, Ayane/Chizu, you & me against the world
K-On!, Mio/Azusa, Out of all of Azusa's sempais, Mio-sempai is the only one she really respects
Nana, Nana K./Misato, her biggest fan
Naruto, Ino/Sakura, rivalry
One Piece, Nami/Robin, a quieter moment

Feel free to comment if there's one you'd particularly like to see. I'm not really at the "having ideas" stage yet, so I haven't settled on anything and am easily influenced.

Collecting for my reference, so I don't have to keep looking through the meme as it gets larger. (Also includes the prompts from yesterday, so I can keep them all in one place.)

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Oh man, that wait was hard. But eruthros was up earlier than I'd expected, handing out cards again. That's dedication!

( Table & discussion under the cut! )

It's that time of year again! lgbtfest is collecting prompts for their third round and I'm pretty excited. I'm going to collect prompts I'm interested in here so I can ponder them before signups.


Babysitter's Club, Kristy Thomas, in college, Kristy's no longer in the Babysitter's Club, but she does still babysit. When she gets a job sitting for a boy who insists he's a girl, she's forced to confront things about herself she'd repressed. [LOL I commented to the person who posted this one saying how awesome it was...and then realised the reason I loved it so much is that it's one of my own prompts from last year that this person reposted! XD It's still on my list... >_>]

Beezus & Ramona (Cleary's bookverse), Both, One's a dyke, the other's trans, and nothing's ever easy between them.

Big Bang Theory, Sheldon hates being called Shelly, because once he was an identical twin, but he and Missy have never matched on the inside. His mother took a while to accept this, but his Meemaw always understood he was a boy. (Sheldon is FtM).

The Big Bang Theory, Sheldon Cooper, Sheldon’s mother has reluctantly accepted that she has to refer to her former daughter as a man to avoid unwanted questions from others, but she refuses to stop calling him ‘Shelly’ – much to Sheldon’s annoyance. He didn’t really expect that she’d ever fully understand, but he hates being reminded of that part of his past every time he talks to her.

Hana Kimi, Nakatsu Shuichi, Nakatsu accepted his homosexuality for Mizuki's sake. What does he do now that he knows Mizuki was a girl all along?

Harry Potter, any character, With magic, there are many ways to change one's body; a trans character is determined to bring those avenues to muggle trans folk, in direct opposition of Ministry laws governing muggles/magic.

Harry Potter, Either Fred and George, Padma and Parvati or Lorcan and Lysander, How do you tell the person who's most like you in all the world that you want to be a member of the opposite sex?

Leverage, Tara, Tara is having enough trouble gaining trust and acceptance from Natan's team; she really doesn't want them to know she used to be a man. Problem is, if information exists in electronic form anywhere, Hardison will eventually find it.

Modern Family, Alex Dunphy, there's more to her dislike of girly things than everyone thinks.

Supernatural, Ellen Harvelle, The story is that Jo's father died while hunting. Ellen's been living as a woman for a long time now, and as far as she knows, no one's caught on yet. What happens when someone does?


I already reposted all my prompts from last year and the year before (minus ones reposted by other people and ones that were answered already) and now I need to ponder some more. I'm sure I can come up with a bunch.

You all should go leave prompts, too! Even if you don't plan on writing anything, prompt away!

Regretsy thought this (NSFW) was regrettable, but I think it's a plot bunny waiting to happen...

I am having trouble getting comfortable today, and thus having trouble settling down to do any work. Boo. Anyway, so here are some things I was thinking about today.

1. I suddenly had the desire to write a John/Rodney AU (I say John/Rodney, because they seem to be my go-to for AUs, but I'd be interested in hearing who else you think it might work for) where John is a teacher and Rodney is a troubled student. I was thinking something twisted (could be part of this universe, actually, though I hadn't been thinking of football coach!John), mainly brought on by listening to Teenagers and thinking about the line "what you've got under your shirt will make them pay for the things that they did", though Rodney would go for homemade bombs and such rather than a gun. Anyway! Talk to me about it! Is the school so desperate for a counselor, they've roped John into it? Is Rodney's revenge against John or against other students and John tries to stop or help him or doesn't care about anything except taking advantage of Rodney?

2. Ever since I started reading Holmes fic I have been having "omg this is so much like Vampire Chronicles" moments, but today it came to me that you could seriously make a case for VC as a Holmes/Watson vampire AU. I mean, not that I think that's what Anne Rice was doing, but the way that AUs often pick and choose what canon to focus on (I think cathexys calls it three-point characterisation). So imagine an author who didn't care a bit about the mystery aspect of Holmes, but just liked the characters and wanted to write them in a vampire AU and you could totally make it work.

Before I go into that, though, I'll talk a little about what was first reminding me of VC. Of course there's the common first-person narration in fics, which is pretty rare in other fandoms, but because both VC and Holmes are written in first person, it makes sense to write fic in first person as well. There's also the aspect of unreliable narrators. With VC, it was a way not just to handwave things you didn't like about canon, but often necessary to make sense of conflicting canon. I have seen the same thing come up in Holmes fandom. (For one thing, it makes sense as a way to get rid of Watson's pesky wives. They were a smokescreen he wrote in to deflect suspicion from him and Holmes!) When your canon is supposed to be written by your character(s), it gives you a lot of leeway.

Then I started noticing the characterisation. Now, mind, I'm only going from fanon Holmes characterisation here (and the new movie, of course), not having read the books, but since I'm more interested in comparing fannish portrayals anyway, that's just fine. It's less easy to match up Watson and Louis, I think, but it can be done. They are the anchors for Holmes and Lestat. Lestat and Holmes, though. Both manic-depressive, both artistic, both secretive and haughty. Both ~*~sensitive~*~. I read one fic where Holmes has a tragic childhood and is on bad terms with his family (except for Mycroft). Is any of that canon? Because that would be another point, as Lestat's abusive childhood is canon. Oh, and the way Holmes and Watson have both hurt each other. Watson getting married. Holmes pretending to be dead. It can't quite compare to all the hurt Louis and Lestat have done to each other, but then they've had hundreds of years.

The way Watson and Holmes interact in these stories reminds me of a lot of VC fanfic set in the present day, where Louis and Lestat have reconciled, and at the same time often reminds me of stuff set during Interview (minus Claudia, of course). I just read a story where Holmes talks about saying hurtful things to Watson and being able to see it happen, but not stop the words coming out of his mouth, and oh, that is so Interview-era!Lestat to a T.

Anyway, I don't really have anywhere I'm going with this except that perhaps this is why I have fallen so hard for this fandom, because Holmes and Watson are precisely the character types I love. Also, anyone else noticed the similarities?

(Comments off on LJ for this one, because I'd rather have discussion in one place.)

1. I was determined not to write any Holmes fic, but this discussion about trans!Holmes (ftm or mtf!) in a recent post makes me really want to write some!

2. Speaking of Holmes and fic, I wonder if the interest in Jude/RDJ fic might be having a spillover effect on other Jude pairings? Out of the blue I've had a couple people comment on old Jude/Ewan stuff of mine. Could it be my time has come!? Maybe I didn't write those dozens of fics in a super obscure pairing for nothing! XD

3. But what really prompted this post is that I was catching up on Comics Curmudgeon posts tonight and was suddenly struck with the desire to request it for Yuletide next year. But how to go about it? I wouldn't want to request individual strips, lest I get matched with someone who liked them unironically (!?), but omg I would love to read fic for Mary Worth, Mark Trail, Apartment 3-G, and all the rest of the gang using the Comics Curmudgeon interpretations.

I mean think about it. The commentary for these two Mary Worth strips is "These two strips on either side of the transition to 2010 promise that we’ll be seeing father and son teaming up to become a pair of demon hunters, purging the earth of sinister supernatural forces once and for all." Awesome! I would read about that!

Or how about a strip where Margo goes into a church to pay her respects to Eric and we get "Against all expectations, Margo managed to enter a church without bursting into flame and crumbling into dust. This can only mean that, while we were wasting our time with the Professor’s boring love life, Margo beat God in a fight off panel." Margo vs God! Yes! Will her finger quotin' skills be what gives her the edge?

Or Mark Trail. You really don't even need to know context! "Mark and Rusty managed to survive only because this gentle small-town sheriff was too much of a wimp to shoot an unarmed man in the back. I was all excited when it seemed like only Rusty’s head would be saved, leaving him a malformed skull in a jar that Mark would have to tote from place to place." Head-in-a-jar!Rusty!

Guys. I can hardly wait!