When the muse descends....

Last night I went to bed, then had a truly disturbing series of notions which prompted me to slip out of bed, run to the living room, and write another 350 words of Cthulhu-story... without bothering to put so much as a stitch of clothing on, first.

When the words come, you have to use them right away, or they go away again.

Dear Yulegoat;

This year I requested:


Brother Cadfael - Ellis Peters
Characters: Brother Cadfael, Hugh Beringar
Details: I like monastic fiction, and the sedate pace of contemplative life. I like debate, banter, and conflict. I like Cadfael's understanding of human nature. And I love casefic.

The books do a lot of artificially or situationally putting Hugh and Cadfael on different sides of a conflict. I would like to see them genuinely disagreeing about something and working against one another (in a friendly but still serious way), as they did in One Corpse Too Many.


Batgirl (Comic)
Characters: Cassandra Cain. Stephanie Brown
Details: Cass and Steph are my favorite bat-characters. I like caper stories and casefic, and I like watching them interact with one another, and the rest of the bat-family as well (especially Tim, Damian, and Dick). I am unlikely to complain about any story that includes those elements, whether it's gen, het, or femslash.


The Book of the New Sun - Gene Wolfe
Character: Severian
Details: What I like most about these books is the lush, byzantine weirdness of the worldbuilding. Any story about Severian that includes Wolfe-esque complexity and imagination would be much appreciated.

( more details, all optional! )