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zana16Dear Author,
Thank you thank you thank you for writing me a story! Optional-details-are-optional, so feel free to ignore anything below. I will love anything that involves my favorite characters, so no worries.
I love gen, het, slash; any rating. Deathfic is okay though not preferred, but non-con is not a story I want as a gift; mention of it is fine (and canonical for several of the characters) but nothing on-screen please. I prefer happy endings -- but you should write the story you want to write!
Hustle, Ash Morgan
Okay, so, I have a thing. It is a thing for grizzled older men who are super-competent, who the world has pushed around more than their fair share, who go on being stubborn and broken and super-competent. It's a thing that holds true in fiction and in real life: John Munch is one of my favorite fictional characters of all time, and there was one time at a Tom Russell concert where he was signing CDs and I could not say a single word to him when I handed him my CDs because I knew if I did, I would offer to run away with him and he's just nuts enough that he might take me up on it. Anyways, I digress... Ash Morgan is one of these men, for me.
I really can't say exactly why I love Ash so much. It has something to do with his crooked smile, and the fact that he is the one who Gets Shit Done. He is so quietly competent at what he does, every episode; he never misses a detail. And then you add in his guilt about what happened to June -- and his relief that it didn't happen to him -- and he knows that this family he's created is crazy and dangerous and addictive and he wouldn't give them up for anything -- and I love him to bits.
I would love any sort of story about Ash. If you want to write relationship, I think he pairs well with Stacie -- though she'd have to initiate it because Ash is too professional to do more than look from the sidelines -- and then of course he wouldn't think she'd be interested; Ash is getting old and Stacie has her thing with Mickey, whatever it is, and really he's always believed that Stacie was out of all of their leagues... There would be more than a little insecurity for him to get through!
I could also see him paired with Albert or Mickey. I'm not fond of Danny, and the Kennedys are still iffy to me, so I'm going to ask you not to pair him with them. (Unless, of course, it is the story of your heart. I'm flexible.)
And the this-is-a-little-out-there suggestion: when I watched Law & Corruption (season 3, episode 6), there was the scene where Ghost and Ash met, and they immediately hit it off because there was this professional respect; they're both experts and again, that quiet competence, and I realized that this is what slash goggles are when I started shipping them in my head. So, I'd love to see that play out, or get Ash's thoughts on the way things went down in the episode, or what happened afterwards.
Law & Order Mothership - Ben Stone and/or Mike Logan
Ben Stone fascinates me. He's constructed his moral framework entirely on the legal code, and his whole identity is wrapped up in the law and his position as an ADA. The tunnel vision eventually gets someone killed, and he falls apart because the center of his universe no longer holds. I'd love to see a story set after he left, while he's trying to rebuild.
Some ideas: His relationship with Dr. Olivet; he clearly felt awful for attacking her on the stand, but his principles demanded that the law be paramount. It would be interesting to see how they got back to a working relationship. Or his relationship with Paul Robinette; Ben's unthinking racism and blindness to the white privilege built into the law he loves, when he and Paul also have such regard for each other, is another fascinating story.
Mike Logan lost two partners, has an angst-filled backstory, and got exiled from the police force for punching a councilman in the face. It took him decades to work his way back from exile, and he wasn't always the nicest person along the way (ie, Exile). I'd like to see him anywhere along his timeline.
The two of them together are one of my favorite pairings, if you'd like to write slash. There's only a few stories out there, and I love every one of them.
Anything you write with either of these characters will be loved. As a comforting story to tell myself at bedtime, I once plotted out an epic where Ben Stone, Elizabeth Olivet, Mike Logan, and Lenny Briscoe were in a loose polyamorous conglomerate, complicated when Lenny was framed and went to prison and thus the balance got fractured, and there was much angst and some unusual kinky coping mechanisms. I'm just saying; I'll love serious stories, but I'll love crack just as much.
The Well-Wishers (Edward Eager) - Lydia Green
I would love to see Lydia Green as she grows up. Any sort of futurefic, magic or nonmagic or something in between like the books are. Maybe Lydia trying to make her own brand of magic in this world, now that she's not a kid anymore with the shortcut of a wishing well.
I have always shipped her with Dicky, but it's not an easy match: they're both stubborn and abrasive and from very different social classes. Probably she would go to college and he wouldn't, and probably she would travel and be an artist and he would be stuck trying to support his family. They would have a lot of stuff to work out if they were to get together; I'd love to see that played out.
The Boxcar Children (Gertrude Chandler Warner) - Jessie Alden and John Carter
This is another heroine-grows-up request. A lot of Jessie's identity is being mother to her brothers and sister, and I think it would be interesting to see how that changes as they reach adulthood.
She has a schoolgirl crush on John Carter, and I'd love a story that explores whether that's something that's just a child's fantasy and how/whether it could work when she's grown up.
Thank you in advance! I know I am going to love the story you write.
Thank you thank you thank you for writing me a story! Optional-details-are-optional, so feel free to ignore anything below. I will love anything that involves my favorite characters, so no worries.
I love gen, het, slash; any rating. Deathfic is okay though not preferred, but non-con is not a story I want as a gift; mention of it is fine (and canonical for several of the characters) but nothing on-screen please. I prefer happy endings -- but you should write the story you want to write!
Hustle, Ash Morgan
Okay, so, I have a thing. It is a thing for grizzled older men who are super-competent, who the world has pushed around more than their fair share, who go on being stubborn and broken and super-competent. It's a thing that holds true in fiction and in real life: John Munch is one of my favorite fictional characters of all time, and there was one time at a Tom Russell concert where he was signing CDs and I could not say a single word to him when I handed him my CDs because I knew if I did, I would offer to run away with him and he's just nuts enough that he might take me up on it. Anyways, I digress... Ash Morgan is one of these men, for me.
I really can't say exactly why I love Ash so much. It has something to do with his crooked smile, and the fact that he is the one who Gets Shit Done. He is so quietly competent at what he does, every episode; he never misses a detail. And then you add in his guilt about what happened to June -- and his relief that it didn't happen to him -- and he knows that this family he's created is crazy and dangerous and addictive and he wouldn't give them up for anything -- and I love him to bits.
I would love any sort of story about Ash. If you want to write relationship, I think he pairs well with Stacie -- though she'd have to initiate it because Ash is too professional to do more than look from the sidelines -- and then of course he wouldn't think she'd be interested; Ash is getting old and Stacie has her thing with Mickey, whatever it is, and really he's always believed that Stacie was out of all of their leagues... There would be more than a little insecurity for him to get through!
I could also see him paired with Albert or Mickey. I'm not fond of Danny, and the Kennedys are still iffy to me, so I'm going to ask you not to pair him with them. (Unless, of course, it is the story of your heart. I'm flexible.)
And the this-is-a-little-out-there suggestion: when I watched Law & Corruption (season 3, episode 6), there was the scene where Ghost and Ash met, and they immediately hit it off because there was this professional respect; they're both experts and again, that quiet competence, and I realized that this is what slash goggles are when I started shipping them in my head. So, I'd love to see that play out, or get Ash's thoughts on the way things went down in the episode, or what happened afterwards.
Law & Order Mothership - Ben Stone and/or Mike Logan
Ben Stone fascinates me. He's constructed his moral framework entirely on the legal code, and his whole identity is wrapped up in the law and his position as an ADA. The tunnel vision eventually gets someone killed, and he falls apart because the center of his universe no longer holds. I'd love to see a story set after he left, while he's trying to rebuild.
Some ideas: His relationship with Dr. Olivet; he clearly felt awful for attacking her on the stand, but his principles demanded that the law be paramount. It would be interesting to see how they got back to a working relationship. Or his relationship with Paul Robinette; Ben's unthinking racism and blindness to the white privilege built into the law he loves, when he and Paul also have such regard for each other, is another fascinating story.
Mike Logan lost two partners, has an angst-filled backstory, and got exiled from the police force for punching a councilman in the face. It took him decades to work his way back from exile, and he wasn't always the nicest person along the way (ie, Exile). I'd like to see him anywhere along his timeline.
The two of them together are one of my favorite pairings, if you'd like to write slash. There's only a few stories out there, and I love every one of them.
Anything you write with either of these characters will be loved. As a comforting story to tell myself at bedtime, I once plotted out an epic where Ben Stone, Elizabeth Olivet, Mike Logan, and Lenny Briscoe were in a loose polyamorous conglomerate, complicated when Lenny was framed and went to prison and thus the balance got fractured, and there was much angst and some unusual kinky coping mechanisms. I'm just saying; I'll love serious stories, but I'll love crack just as much.
The Well-Wishers (Edward Eager) - Lydia Green
I would love to see Lydia Green as she grows up. Any sort of futurefic, magic or nonmagic or something in between like the books are. Maybe Lydia trying to make her own brand of magic in this world, now that she's not a kid anymore with the shortcut of a wishing well.
I have always shipped her with Dicky, but it's not an easy match: they're both stubborn and abrasive and from very different social classes. Probably she would go to college and he wouldn't, and probably she would travel and be an artist and he would be stuck trying to support his family. They would have a lot of stuff to work out if they were to get together; I'd love to see that played out.
The Boxcar Children (Gertrude Chandler Warner) - Jessie Alden and John Carter
This is another heroine-grows-up request. A lot of Jessie's identity is being mother to her brothers and sister, and I think it would be interesting to see how that changes as they reach adulthood.
She has a schoolgirl crush on John Carter, and I'd love a story that explores whether that's something that's just a child's fantasy and how/whether it could work when she's grown up.
Thank you in advance! I know I am going to love the story you write.