Yuletide Place Holder: Here be dragons

[agoodmusekickin]

Greetings Dearest Yuletide Author,

Yuletide 2020 is quite literally my first rodeo, and so this is my very first Author letter. Here's to hoping I do this right...

First and foremost I want to thank you for writing for me. I can't wait to see what you do with this list of some of my favorite snippets of pop culture. I hope what I've written here sparks some truly enjoyable inspiration for you, and that you have as much fun writing as I know I will have reading what you've written.

Seriously, I've paid for the whole seat here, but I assure you I'm only using the edge.

A bit about me:
I am 100% a sucker for snappy dialog, wordplay, and jokes that make you laugh as you write them. If it makes you chortle for a five-count, I want to read it.
I enjoy romantic/sexual tension, but given what I've submitted I don't think it's the year for anything outside of the realm of the source material, ratings-wise. So that's a negative on anything overly graphic, be it sexual or violent in nature.

While I'm generally a fan of AUs, let's try to keep things as rooted in-universe as possible, but nothing has to be canon compliant.
I wouldn't do that to you.
(Though secretly my hope is that any of the following that you're not familiar with you will enjoy exploring regardless and maybe write about later.)
 

Letterkenny:
(Wayne, Katy, Daryl, Tanis)

If you haven't seen this show, you're in for a treat. The wordplay is fast and furious and oftentimes both crude and elegant. Jokes build from episode to episode, and season to season. Just...trust me when I say that Fartbook is the lowest point, and it's worth it to keep going.

Anyway, though I love the town of Letterkenny, its 5000 residents, and their problems my heart belongs to the Hicks and the farm. Are they summarizing the Marvel Cinematic Universe cold open alphabet style? Hanging out in the barn arguing if gif is pronounced with a hard or soft g? Sitting at the produce stand with a couple of Puppers waxing philosophical about sports, or the sociopolitical landscape of North America thus far into 2020? Only you know for sure, so by all means take that baby and run!

The only real limiting factors are the mores of the source material. Swearing, sexual innuendo, crude humor are all fine, but I'd rather nothing more violent than a donnybrook. Nothing more sexual than what you'd see on primetime network television.

If you're feeling up to writing some sexual tension, by all means Wayne and Tanis are right there. Let's leave siblings as siblings. Besides, Wayne would not be Katy's forte.

Calvin and Hobbes
(Susie Derkins, Mr. Bun)

Calvin and Hobbes is the delightful comic by Bill Watterson about a rambunctious little boy, his stuffed tiger, and the adventures that they go on. Along the way we meet his never named parents, an uncle, the school bully and Susie.

Susie serves as Calvin's foil, in that she does NOT truck with his brand of malarkey. She and her companion, a stuffed rabbit named Mr. Bun prefer less outrageous things like having tea.

But what if she didn't. What if she had as rich an inner imaginative life as Calvin? What if she went on adventures with Mr. Bun? And what if we got to witness them?

Does she reenact her favorite scenes from books, but with her specific no-nonsense spin on them? What about epic romances? Is she a super hero that brings down the patriarchy with her biting wit and bitey sidekick? An Atomic Blonde-style spy sneaking behind enemy lines? Are those lines a treehouse with a G.R.O.S.S. sign hanging from a window?

The only solid things I'm asking for here is that Susie be the star of her own adventure, and that she remain a child outside of the fantasy. So violence should be cartoony or 80s action movie in description. (i.e. gun shot wounds are bloodless, weapons never run out of ammo, and brutal damage knocks people unconscious.) I've no problem with romance, but I'd like it to stay age appropriate, with situations and social politics that kids could glean from popular culture.

The Middleman
I'm thinking for this one what I'd love to see is something, anything, Lacey-centric. What happens at the end of the show? What would an episode look like from her point of view? What if SHE was the Middleman, and not Wendy? Yeah, this...isn't any better than my placeholder, and for that I apologize.