Dear Yulegoat (or other ruminant),

 Firstly as you can tell I'm an awkward person who doesn't use his lj
any more.  Feel free to look at senji.livejournal.com if you want
though :-).

 In general I'm big on interesting genfic.  Plot preferred over 'ship,
but I'm not averse to shipfic, or even a good PWP.  Het, Slash,
Femslash, Groupsex, BDSM, sex-with-aliens, sex-with-chthonic-entities,
and horrible Polytangles all fine, but not required. 


OK, requests:

Alliance-Union - C. J. Cherryh

  Anything with Signy Mallory in.  We get some nice insights into her
 in Merchanter's Luck and Downbelow Station, and the odd comment here
 or there elsewhere, but I feel she's a main character who's only given
 a minor character's worth of screentime.  I don't care how and what
 you do, but remedy this injustice.


Anathem - Neal Stephenson

  A.k.a "The book I was reading during last yuletide"!.  I've been
 following Stephenson's work for years now; I feel Anathem is probably
 his best so far, but I may be being biased by being both a slightly
 academic type and inclined towards the monastic lifestyle....

  Inside the Math interests me more than the Saecular Power, but a
 story set around an Apert, a Voco, or an Anathem could work very
 well.  There's almost too many things to consider for me to want to
 stifle creativity with any suggestions, but if you're running low
 then I note that a story is referred to early on during discussion of
 CDS where the Ten-Millennial Math Aperted through a previously
 unopened door completely unexpectedly.  That could be an interesting
 story to write.


Fire - Kristin Cashore

  Kristin Cashore was my big author discovery for the year.  And my
 what a discovery.  Short, dense fiction full of interesting ideas,
 interesting plot, and character development.  Also she's entirely
 happy with people writing fanfiction (so long as they don't make her
 read it), yay!

  I actually argued that this and Graceling should be put together as
 a fandom for yuletide but other arguments won out... so if you wanted
 to write what would (for yuletide) count as a crossover feel free
 (but note the 35 year time gap between the books!)

  It's hard to give a prompt, there's just so much interesting and
 unexplored here, never mind the possibility of continuation fic or
 going back to write about Cansrel or even earlier....  Pick something
 that interests you in the story, and write about that!


Dungeons and Dragons (Cartoon)

  Back to childhood here, I remember this cartoon from when it was
 first shown (looking at the airdates and extrapolating for UK ones I
 must have been quite young at the time!), and have been a fond fan
 ever since.  It still has a lot of magic to it though, the
 characterization manages to capture the young age of the characters
 quite well, but the plots still present them with some complex
 ethical questions to overcome (which they do, naturally!).

  In case you haven't encountered it the original script for the
 "last" episode (which does not involve Satan, duh) is available
 online ( http://www.michaelreaves.com/requiem_preface.htm ), feel
 free to regard this as canonical or not as you wish.  Without it the
 series is very open to simple continuation fic, with it it's still
 open, but in different directions.

  Anything in the general mold of the original would be good --
 continuation or between-episodes -- as would afterwards fic (how do
 they adapt to being back in the real world?  What room is there for a
 Barbarian in the city?).  Or there's the more humorous options like
 "what happened to the party when D&D 4 arrived?" (potentially
 tempting if you're an RP gamer geek as well as a fic author).
 Fundamentally, though, and this applies to all four requests, but
 this one the most, the best fic is likely to be the fic you have fun
 writing....


Right, so you've read all that and you don't like what I've written
for the fandom we've been matched for?

 Option 1)  Optional Details are OPTIONAL.  I'm not going to cry,
           stress, drama, or flounce if you complete ignore what I've
           written above.
 Option 2)  Pick another fandom!  Cashore or D&D is probably the place
           to go if you take this option.  _Fire_ is a single 480 page
           book (in HB edition).  _Dungeons_and_Dragons_ is a 27 episode
           cartoon series.  Either or both might be available from
           your local library, both are available from Amazon (and I'd
           be surprised if D&D wasn't torrentable, if you do that
           thing).
            Do *not* attempt to pick up _Anathem_ from scratch during
           Yuletide, unless you're a very fast and bright reader.
    http://www.amazon.com/Fire-Graceling-Kristin-Cashore/dp/0803734611/
    http://www.amazon.com/Dungeons-Dragons-Complete-Willie-Aames/dp/B002DH20Q0/


Finally, if you come to #yuletide IRC for a beta I'm usually online
there and I may be hippoing.  My nick will generally be some variant
on 'Senji'.

Senji.