Jenni

Dear Yuletide Santa,

Welcome to my letter of questionable helpfulness! I was just rereading the things I put in last year's, and it basically amounted to – "I like stuff :D", and this year's is probably not going to be any different. I am similarly excited for my story, that's for sure!

First off, just some general things! I love character studies of any kind, I love realism, I love banter, I love platonic relationships, but of course, shippy would not go amiss, in the right situations! Bromance, fights, hurt/comfort and mantears pushes my buttons like you wouldn't believe. I am such a sucker for happy endings, however, there is a special place in my heart for things that rip out my heart and trod all over it :D

Speed Racer, Rex Racer/Racer X, Speed Racer, Inspector Detector
Rex/X is my absolute favourite, and anything involving him I would lap up eagerly! I love his relationship with Speed and the Inspector in the movie, but there were some very rigidly defined identities at work – some further exploration of how the X + Speed and Rex + the Inspector dynamics work would be delicious. If possible, I'd love to avoid Racercest here – the familial love and the bromance is most interesting to me!

Ace Attorney, Maya Fey, Phoenix Wright
Oh Maya, how I have missed her. Possibly because of the lack of Feys in Apollo Justice, I haven't managed to finish that game :( (Hobo Nick was my favourite thing about it, as previously mentioned). I'd always wondered where Maya was during that time, though, given their closeness, where she was when Nick really needed someone, with the disbarring and Trudy and everything. Fill the gaps for me? :)

Nick/Maya has been a longstanding but always-unfulfilled OTP of mine, but on the other hand, gosh, their friendship is such that I wouldn't mind that part staying unfulfilled a little longer!

Ugly Betty, Betty Suarez, Daniel Meade
The cancellation of this show broke my heart. I loved that... karmic callback, I guess you could call it, of the finale, but it left me wanting. I wanted to see a successful, mature Betty interacting with the new and old people in her life. I wanted to see her relationship with Daniel reach a satisfying point for both of them. It felt unfinished, and I'd love to see some kind of continuation!

Of course, these are mere suggestions – any fic in any of these fandoms would make me beyond happy, and thank you in advance for the story you are about to write!

♥ Jenni

Guise I want this pretty hard. So tempted to get it for Christmas. Of course, there's the issue of the camera. Which takes precedence over Who, but still.

Dad is trapped in Beijing. Or he was, because of massive snow, really unusual for this time of year (it's not even li dong yet! What is this crazy). All the flights out had been grounded, and he was tranferred to Shanghai this morning, then to Hong Kong this afternoon, to catch a ~12am flight back to Brisbane. These past couple of days have been fun for him.

This week, I foresee studying not being done until the last minute.

ETA Yuletide! Sign ups are imminent! I'm getting myself really psyched up for this :D :D

Apparently if you buy Empire from Coles this month you get a back-issue for free. Which is great for the new fans and people who don't collect, but pretty redundant for me. Oh well! I can live with having two issues of May 2007 Empires.

And now today's drabble.

Fandom: Fables
Characters: Prince Charming, Sinbad
Word count: 360
Note: As requested by ittykat, kind of. Spoiler warning for... the latest four issues? This is what I desperately hope think actually happened.

( Prince Charming is always dishonourable. )

November is the month of NaNo, right, and I plan on getting into the spirit of things. Not actually a NoWri of it, since last year's attempt failed miserably, and I realised that I don't have the attention span for 50,000 words. Nor will I do the blogging thing, since it'll most likely end up being "so today I have some fantastic lamb chops for dinner but before that I had a nap" for the majority of it.

Instead November will be A Drabble A Day month. Anything is fair game, and I'll even take requests. You should request something here :D

So yea. Pirates. When did Will get that earring? 'Cause I'm pretty sure he didn't have it in the second one. Maybe he thought he'd look more badass like a pirate.

Anyway. I came home, sprawled out on my bed, and wrote this very quickly. Then I had more bunnies, so there's every chance that this will become a series of drabbles. If I am not lazy.

Title: First Piece of Nine: Arrival
Characters/Pairings: Elizabeth, Will
Rating: PG (pre-emptively for later chapters)
Spoiler alert: if you haven't seen At World's End yet, it's recommended that you don't read this. Unless you want spoilers.
Summary: This is hard to summarise without spoiling, so what you need to know is that this takes place after PotC3, from before the credits --> beyond the bit after the credits.


( In small villages, new faces never went unnoticed. )

Title: Like Toy Soldiers
Characters/Pairings: Illyria, mostly. With cameos by Gunn, Spike and Angel.
Rating: PG
Warnings: Character death
Spoiler alert: Spoilers for... the last half of season 5 of Angel, if not most of it.
Summary: The missing ending of Angel, I suppose. Of course, I'd rather hoped that it would turn out the Joss Whedon way ( spoiler. ) but hey.


( The last day on Earth... )

Title: Futures and Truths
Characters/Pairings: Hiro, Peter, various cameos.
Rating: PG
Warnings: Character death
Spoiler alert: Spoilers for episode 4, Collision.
Summary: He wasn't keeping count, but Hiro had met Peter 188 times.
Author's note: Un-betaed. This is the first real fic I've written in about two years. >.> + Obligatory disclaimer, not mine, NBC's, used without permission and so on.


( So, I'm a hero now. )