Hey, it's a babble post.

( Tortall )

( Eureka )

( Harry Potter )

ETA: The long babble post is up (about 1.5 pages, single-spaced). Also, I found the Ivory Tower Rowena story, and it's linked below.

Hi Author!

I'm already really excited about this, and I will love you for writing me any of the threesomes I'm requesting (especially since, beside the Eureka one, they don't seem to exist on the internet). So, this is mostly my bubbling over, because this time of year is always my excuse to ramble on about fic. Hopefully you'll find it useful!

This is the general part of the letter, and it covers the major points, if you want to stop reading here. I'll be putting up a second part that rambles on about my specific requests more later (this time of the year is also my excuse to ramble on about my fandoms), but, seriously, don't read that one unless you like meta and/or detailed prompts.

( Cut for people who don't need to read )

Stories/Recs
(I should probably mention that none of these (except the Eurekas) are precisely the threesomes I'm requesting, hence why I'm requesting them! They're mostly stories that have shaped my vision of the characters or fit that vision near-perfectly.)

Harry Potter:
Godric/Rowena/Salazar: Luna’s Passing Through Nature to Eternity, copperbadge's Gathering, and a short old AU with Rowena as an absentminded tower-bound (but powerful!) scholar and Helga as the pragmatic warrior sent to protect her that I cannot for the life of me find again :( , by Andrea13 and persephone_kore.
Harry/Hermione/Padma: acadine’s Oral History, edenfalling’s Definitions of Romance, parkergray’s Heart-Shaped World, woldy’s All The Syllables of Loss (note the story good enough to get me past my infidelity issues; this is rare).

Tortall: Kel/Neal/Yuki: Lyss’s waking dreams of snow. There is not enough fic in this fandom, and with my particular trouble finding fic that recognizes the importance of Kel’s relationships with both Neal and Yuki (try finding that on FFN), I do a pretty limited amount of reading.

Eureka: Allison/Jack/Nathan: serene_quill’s A Modest Proposal, gin200168’s Legacy, havocthecat's The Eureka Field Guide to Zombie Invasions.

Also, this may not be evident from the stories recced above, but I like happy stories. A lot. Almost always, in fact. I just have trouble finding them sometimes.

I've made my nominations for Yuletide, and I'm ridiculously excited.

David Weber - Safehold series
Dhoom 2
Tale of Genji aka Genji monogatari
Heather Alexander - Faerie Queen (song)
Saiunkoku Monogatari
Shakespeare - Cymbeline (I can't believe no one had ever nominated this...)

And I'm trusting that other people won't change their nominations of Honor Harrington and Alera, since I might want to request those. Oh, dear, requests are going to be so difficult. Oh, also, sylleptic, someone's already nominated Freedom and Necessity, and the only person other than the core four who's listed is Engels. You might actually get that fic...you know you want to do Yuletide.

In other news, I'm dithering about doing 3_ships. I have a truly absurd number of threesome ships, but so many of them are for small fandoms that I just don't know. Still, it's an awesome exchange and really cool fic comes out of it every year, so...

In other, other news, I don't get religious fundamentalism. At all. (And apparently monotheistic religions don't actually have a monopoly on it.) I mean, I know intellectually that one can think there is one true answer, end of story, but the idea of forbidding other people room to argue and interpret and find their own right answers is just so opposed to everything I think. And I hate not understanding, because I know it's a blind spot, and it makes me wonder if this is my own version of that same trait. *sigh*

My belated squee. I'm really, really sorry for being a horrible person who can't keep deadlines, but if you're by any chance also on an academic schedule and haven't figured out what you're writing yet, well... Maybe it'll be useful? Anyway, if you have, don't worry about this.

Here goes:

( Amara, Gaius, and Alera )



( Lee, Laurin, and The Worlds )



( Murasaki, Tō no Chūjō, and Heian Japan )



( LePic, Theisman, and Haven )

Squee! Thank you for agreeing to write a story for me. I'm honestly equally enthusiastic about all four of these fandoms and you could count the fic for all four of them put together on the fingers on one hand, so any story will make me so veryvery happy.
 
On that note, please believe me when I say my prompts are just to get you thinking. A story about any of them would make me ecstatic, but if you have a plot bunny that you’d love to write, I know I’d love to read it. I think I might have scared my author off last year, so I want to emphasize this a lot. You're writing this fandom (I hope!) because you love it as much as I do, and a story coming out of that will be awesome.

( If you still feel like reading... )

And now, on to fandom-specific babble.

( Honorverse )

( Stealing the Elf-King's Roses )

( Alera )

( Tale of Genji )

Huh. In retrospect, all of the prompts except the Genji one have a common thread of "They love their jobs, they're kick-ass at their jobs, and hopefully they can fit in a life around their jobs, but the job comes first." Which could be a source of angst, but, really, doesn't have to be, and the characters already know that (Lee!) or really ought to (re)discover it (*cough*Amara*cough*). I'm now wondering what this says about me.

 EDIT: I might have gone into analytical mode while writing this. If I did and it sounds like I dislike everything, I'm really, really sorry, and will try to fix that by creating a post by this weekend of all of the giggly squee that got cut out of this thing for length. I'm spending too much time in academia. Sorry!

EDIT2: Here be happiness!

* I thought that since I'm snagging liviapenn 's icons, I might as well use the form of address, too.

If you want an online copy of the Poetic Edda, there's one here with links to important names. As for the Prose Edda, Project Gutenberg has a copy here and one combined Poetic/Prose Edda that's rather literal, but seems accurate here.

There are also online copies of the Honor Harrington series. If you're one of the few souls who likes science-fiction and hasn't discovered it yet, the Baen Free Library is here; just go to Authors, then to David Weber, and the first two books, On Basilisk Station and The Honor of the Queen, will be there. Then browse and rejoice that there are so many wonderful free books online. If you want the rest of the series, go to The Fifth Imperium and download (or browse) the At All Costs CD (#9), which has all of the Honor Harrington books. So, you really don't need the Free Library, but I can't stand not telling people about it. 

For the Bourne series, I really can't help, and there are a bunch of Law and Order episode guides out there, but I've never found any one that I'm particularly attached to. 

Good luck and thank you!