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Yuletide Letter 2018
Oct. 2nd, 2018 06:13 pmHello writer/s!
I'm Lingua, and you can find me as linguamortua on the AO3 and lingua-mortua on Tumblr.
General information
Things I like in fic: I am an avid consumer of darkfic; I read and write dubcon, manipulation, age differences, moral grey areas and dilemmas, power plays, secrets, lies, and messed up power dynamics. Plot twists, trope inversion and clever metatextual references are all great fun for me. Generally I prefer my fic to be canon-compliant or canon-adjacent. I love femslash and woman-centric fic! Sex and PWPs are more than fine by me. Smut things I like: size differences, choking, dirty talk, cunnilingus, D/s elements (although rarely formal D/s play).
Things I don't want to receive: pregnancy or mpreg, forced feminization, public humiliation, fluff, kidfic. I don't like anything which focuses on having or coping with a mental illness, especially depression, but realistic references to canon mental illness is fine. I'm not wild about M/f. More specifically: please, no pet names, aggressive verbal slurs or humiliation, medical kink or settings, lifestyle BDSM, polyamory, A/B/O, scat, watersports or incest.
Call Me by Your Name
Elio/Oliver
I was so taken with how sensuous and patient this film was, and how well it captured the unspeakable nightmare of being seventeen. What a great adaptation of a great book. One thing I especially enjoyed was Elio's teenage tendency to treat Oliver appallingly because he couldn't work out how to deal with him. The physicality of both Oliver and Elio is lovely, too - there are times when they shove each other and wrestle that you're reminded that Oliver is really not past that kind of rough-housing play either.
What would I like in a fic? Both the book and film were very much from Elio's perspective, so something that tells us what Oliver was thinking would be brilliant. Alternatively, take Elio's basically non-stop internal monologue and run with it. For this pairing, I am not really fussy about whether or not penetration happens. If it does, a first-time fic could be neat. More generally speaking, I love me an overwhelmed twink who doesn't know what to do with himself. I would be crazy about a fic where they have to be very quiet while having sex. I would also love anything in which Elio realises that what he thinks are horrible perversions are actually quite commonplace (Oliver: that's hilarious, have you ever thought about this). Also: dirty talk would be just great for this pairing.
Return to Night - Mary Renault
Hilary Mansell/Julian Fleming
Julian is kind of obnoxious but so wretchedly adorable. I crave fic that makes him suffer in some way, or in which Hilary deliberately keeps him off-balance. Although the fic is set in an historical period where Hilary, as a doctor, is an anomaly among women, I think her age and experience gives her power over him and I would welcome any fic that explored that. I do dearly love F/m and he's kind of the perfect candidate.
Silence (2016)
Cristóvão Ferreira, Francisco Garrpe, Kichijiro, Sebastião Rodrigues
Past letters will tell you that I love this movie for the religious and physical suffering and the general sense of futility. Tropes or themes I would love to see in this:
- A fic set when Rodrigues and Garrupe first met, or when they were back in Portugal.
- A story that shows their relationship with Ferreira.
- Ferreira has always liked one of them more than the other.
- An alternate story where they escape.
- Losing or regaining faith.
- Anything that expands on Kichijiro and his strategy for handling the Jesuits
Luke Cage
Cornell Cottonmouth Stokes, Darius "Comanche" Jones, Mariah Dillard, Shades Alvarez
I do like a good sinister, lurking henchman. Shades particularly intrigues me because he's in a curious position relative to Stokes, with an element of power via a shadowy master. There have been some great fics bouncing off the end of season 2 with Shades and Mariah, and what all my favourite fics have in common is showing how Shades might be willing to temporarily subordinate himself to someone for an advantageous position later in the game.
- What does Stokes want from Shades, and what price will Shades exact for it?
- Or, conversely, what might Shades have to do in order to get close to Stokes?
- Can Shades serve two masters - or mistresses - without getting found out?
- I'd also be interested in a fic where Shades plays Mariah and Stokes off against one another.
- I was amazed by the Shades/Comanche storyline. If you're so inspired, tell me about their relationship. How it begins, how they maintain it in prison, how it ends. I'd also love an alternate path, where Shades has to juggle Mariah and Comanche at the same time, without Mariah finding out.
Venom (Movie 2018)
Eddie Brock/Venom Symbiote
Seeing the film threw me back about ten years when I got briefly into one of the unfortunately less sexy comic book runs. Wow, this is a great pairing. I'm a darkfic kind of gal, so if that's your bag then go nuts with this pairing. If not, PWP is always great, particularly if weird alien tentacle freakiness or a sex pollen type vibe is something you'd write. Otherwise - surprise me! Y'know, just fuck me up.
