I love good guys

Dear hlh_shortcuts author,

Thank you for sharing your Highlander love and creativity this year!

TLDR: My personal tip-top favorites are: gen; PG-13 and below; first through third seasons; Duncan, Tessa, Richie, Darius; Duncan/Tessa; good guys being good; the power of friendship; history, historical references, and flashbacks; grief and bereavement; fighting the good fight; and the struggles of the immortality fantasy as hyperbole/metaphor for real life struggles. I also enjoy other characters and story elements, so it's fine if none of those click for you.

( Likes, dislikes, crossovers & prompts )

Again, thank you! Whatever you love best in HL, celebrate that, and I'm sure to enjoy it.

Dear saturdaymorningex Author:

Hi! Thank you for sharing these fandoms! I’m sure that whatever you most want to celebrate and explore in these characters and their worlds will make a lovely story. If you’d like more story thoughts from me, read on.

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Thank you very much!

Dear hlh_shortcuts author,

Thank you for sharing your HL love and creativity this year! This post is essentially an extra-large version of the official fest sign-up form, with additions and digressions.

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In case you find that you'd like yet more chattering about what I love in HL, you might try last year's HLH_Shortcuts letter, which was more of an essay, or my "fanfic likes & dislikes" tag, which includes all my previous "Dear Author" letters for all fic events of all kinds, all of which include HL if it was eligible, and many of which include specific HL scenario requests.

Again, thank you very much! Whatever you love best in HL, celebrate that, and I'm sure to enjoy it! ♥

Dear Everywoman Author:

Hi! Thank you for sharing these fandoms and loving their female characters! I’m sure that whatever you most want to celebrate in these characters and their worlds will make a lovely story! If you’d like more story thoughts from me, read on.

Across fandoms

I usually most enjoy stories with the feel of canon, whether an incident or interlude that could have been there all along, or a different choice or chance that diverges from canon to somewhere new. To engage me with a full-on (not divergent) AU, a good tactic is to play up where the original themes thrive in the new concept.

With a few specific exceptions, I usually prefer gen to romance. Mystery, drama, history, reflection, confrontation, growth, discovery, tragedy! The quiet times between adventures! For romance, I have fairly vanilla tastes. I value fidelity, mutuality, and complementarity. Except for Journey to the West, which is a comedy, I do opt in for tragedy, including requested character death; I like stories of continuing on from bereavement.

Where appropriate, I especially love bits where heroes incidentally, without thinking they’re doing anything special, show that they value others highly — that is, not only their own loved ones, but the dignity and abundant life of all people, especially those on the margins.

Please do mix and match the requested characters with each other and added appropriate characters to build your story as you need! Please don't feel confined to "solo introspection" for characters requested outside pairs and groups.

D&DC | HL | BSG78 | FK | YB | JTTW | PoGPO

Fandom & character-specific

( D&DC: Dungeons & Dragons (the ‘80s cartoon) )
( HL: Highlander: The Series )
( BSG78: Battlestar Galactica (the original) )
( FK: Forever Knight )
( YB: Young Blades )
( JttW: Journey to the West )
( PoGO: Pokemon GO )

Do Not Want (DNW)

Thank you for taking these into consideration; I appreciate it!

Villains should do villainy, of course, and that can make awesome stories! But when villains win, I feel that it's properly a tragedy, not a triumph; please don't ask me to root for evil. Also, no second-person, please (unless you're crafting something super clever).

• No pro-evil, including pro-bigotry (and pro-vampirism, where relevant)
• No non-con or dub-con
• No incest, underage, adult/child, mentor/student, boss/employee, monarch/subject, vampire/human, vampire maker/convert, or similar power discrepancies
• No BDSM or other activities commonly referred to as kinks
• No mpreg, ABO, or similar mechanisms
• No “plotless” violence or sex, and no violent sex (vampire biology excepted, where relevant)
• No anti-religion

Thank you very much!

> "In your own space, update your fandom information!"

I choose to take this prompt as an invitation to chatter at great length about miscellaneous things I like. :-)

As you're here, you likely already know that the fandoms I most actively write, request, and interact with are Forever Knight (1992-1996), Highlander (1992-1998), Dungeons & Dragons (1983-1985) (the cartoon), Battlestar Galactica (1978-1979) (the original), and (hope springs eternal) Young Blades (2005). You probably also know that I fell hard for Pokemon GO and wandered out from it into the wide (oh! so wide) Pokemon universe.

Beyond those dearest fandoms, I don't much write or read fanfic for other things that I watch and read, and so I don't often mention those other things here. They do exist...

( Chatter about other canons and fandoms and such )

How about you? Do you enjoy any of these?