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Dear Yuletide writer, thank you so much in advance <3 I’m excited to see your take on these characters/fandoms. My general likes and DNWs are at the bottom of the letter. If you are interested in more specific prompts, I have some, but feel free to use as little of them as you’d like: no matter what we matched on, the fandoms are so small (meaning: I’m so used to making my own fun) that a new interpretation or scenario I haven’t thought of might be more welcome than anything I’ve thought up.

Lawrence of Arabia
* I would love to see Lawrence meet with Ali post-canon, either with Ali on a diplomatic mission during Lawrence's postwar stint at the Colonial Office, or after Lawrence retired from politics altogether. Basically, I think Ali’s the most tragic character in the movie, and I just want him to have a successful career in politics and to regain some of his misplaced idealism without needing to pin so many of his hopes on one clueless foreigner, okay? I like their relationship as either a romantic thing or an intense friendship.
* I would sell my hypothetical firstborn child for a contemporary AU. Lawrence as a war reporter covering a revolution? a grad student on a field trip? a research fellow at an international corporation or an NGO? Anyway, Lawrence being well-meaning, curious, and laden with a metric shit ton of romantic literary notions, but ultimately clueless in many ways that count (so, you know, just like the canon, but with a twitter account). Any genre / any heat level welcome.
* If you are at all interested in the historical T.E. Lawrence, I love accounts of his early days in the Middle East, the shenanigans surrounding the archeological site at Carchemish, the happy marriage between intelligence work and archeology (a team of archeologists exploring the area for the purpose of creating military maps, but masking it as research on ~Biblical sites~, etc.), and Lawrence’s relationship with Dahoum (“I loved you, so I drew these tides of men into my hands and wrote my will across the sky in stars,” etc.)

The Green Men series – K.J. Charles
I ship Max Isaacs/Hugh Barnaby hard. I love these two dorks who, for all intents and purposes, look like transplants from a more lighthearted book (one of Wodehouse’s, I suppose), until you find out that they are the only survivors of a military-occult experiment that landed them with tentacles and whatever it is that Barnaby has, a healthy distrust for authorities, both magical and mundane, and some perfectly understandable anger management issues.
If you are geeky about the cultural history of WWI, I would love to read about Max & Barney meeting some of the trench poets, or to see how their experience maps (or doesn’t, as the case might be) onto the central non-magical narratives about the war.
If you are into body horror as a sexy trope, I dig that very much indeed, and would love to read about them getting used to their new bodies (for sexy times purposes and in general). If not, I’d sell my soul for a domestic interlude of them playing cards or whatever, with underpinnings of dread and the hints of a magical apocalypse looming in the distance.

The Terror
For Bridgens/Peglar, I’m really curious about Bridgens’ backstory (boy do I have questions about his biography as presented in the novel). I would also like to read about the beginning of their relationship, either as an elaboration of the version presented in the book, or as a spin on the TV version, which leaves more room for interpretation and fun. Or, alternately, just a description of them discussing some book and possibly disagreeing because of their divergent backgrounds would be fantastic!
For Hickey/Goodsir, I’m really into this conflict between an idealist and an unhinged pragmatist. I’d take anything, AU or canon-based, from a relationship with Goodsir providing Hickey with enough sense of safety to discover his own non-murderous streak, to something much darker and not necessarily fully consensual set during Goodsir’s captivity in the mutineers’ camp. Basically, either Goodsir trying to lift Hickey up, or Hickey trying to break Goodsir down, I’m not picky.
If Terror’s what we matched on and you find neither pairing appealing, (a) there’s not a single pairing or character combo in the series that I dislike, so feel free to do your own thing; (b) for the gen route, I’m partial to war reporter AUs, and I find the idea of these characters as war reporters stuck in some hotel in the middle of a war zone appealing.

Watchmen (2009)
I like the mockumentary angle of the canon (see the montage of how some iconic images from our world changed in that ‘verse in the movie, or the interviews in the graphic novel). I find the differences between media accounts and lived experience fascinating, so any riffs on this theme are more than welcome. History textbooks describing the events of the movie? Interviews or magazine profiles of the characters? Tabloid rumours about the protagonists? Heck, the RPF section of a fic exchange set in the Watchmen universe? Anything goes XD



General likes: storyteller characters; the disconnect between various narratives and what we know as “real” experiences; unreliable narrators & outsider POVs; awkward sex, with the characters either eventually communicating their needs and resolving the issue, or not; the melancholy sense of history becoming legend and drifting into obsolescence, that sort of thing; bookish characters and literary quotes; characters who see themselves as cowards or pragmatists suddenly discovering courage or ideals, much to their own consternation.
General DNWs: daddy kink; graphic animal harm.