Hiding fandom in the underwear drawer since 1977

Dear Yuletide author

 Thanks so much for offering to write a story for me! I hope that you have fun with the suggestions and if you have a concern or worry, please know that I love everything to bits and have always been so happy with what I’ve received in exchanges. I do hope you have fun with the prompts.  I always worry thinking that my writer is unhappy and stressed.   

 General requests across all stories:  I prefer happy or contemplative endings to angst.  I love mixed media, OCs, humor, witty banter, competence, tricksters, worldbuilding,  fake history and invented theology, and historical and/or scientific detail fetish. I don’t like dub con and non-canonical character death and prefer romance and sex over violence and humor over angst. I love crossovers and stories where there are portals (magical, technological, or otherwise) to other places/times/dimensions.  I'm more interested in character than I am in continuity.  That last means I'll go along with just about anything, including gender bending, AU, the road not taken, and the same story told in new ways and new places, and from different points of view. 

 As to the specific requests:

 Temeraire:  Everything and anything is better with dragons.  I asked for Temeraire as a character, but really even he is optional.  I would be delighted with talking, sentient dragons of the Temeraire verse, any time or place, war or peace, AUs, OCs, and crossovers, too.  If you've ever wanted to do Dragons in Coffee Shop AU, Jo March’s dragon, General Eisenhower’s dragon, or classic ACD Sherlock Holmes with added dragon, now is your chance.  If you would rather stick to Temeraire himself during his known timeline, that's great, too!  Feel free to add any of the other nominated dragons, or Maximus and/or Lily. 

Elementary:  I adore the ladies of Elementary and Ms. Hudson is the special favorite with a fabulous untold backstory. Ms. Hudson is a housekeeper and so very much more (though I'm sure she takes great pride in being a wonderful housekeeper). She's an autodidact, has merit badges (was she an Eagle scout?), is a muse, and knits for Clyde, and surely took care of Romulus, and Remus. If you would like to add Joan, that's lovely because she is awesome. I'm sure they are very good friends. (Optional, there are two other women not nominated who I also love, Gay the gay geologist and Pam the snow plow driver.   Feel free to add them or others.  Perhaps they all get together on Saturdays for manis and pedis and go to the farmer’s market or go bowling or do something other than talk about Sherlock.  Maybe they solve a mystery!)  I do see this as a Gen story.

Indiana Jones:  I am going to request this again because this series is such fun.  I love Indy and/or Marion adventuring, whether separate or together.   I think Sallah, Henry, Sr., and Marcus have terrific, untold backstories and we know Indy was in the OSS. Marion did an awful lot in between her times with Indy.  I also love all the possibilities of a young Indiana Jones adventurer. I love historical events and historical figures. No aliens, please. Indy goes great with espionage, wild cross overs, magic, portals, World War 2, curses, archeology, natural history museums, and the Cold War.  Also, dragons (see above about Temeraire).

 Chalion: I received a wonderful Chalion treat in 2012 and so I’m going to ask again.  I have practically memorized Curse of Chalion and Paladin of Souls.   Any of the nominated characters would be terrific, in any combination, whether as point of view or observed from an outsider perspective.  I love the theology, Caz’s cunning and multi-faceted personality, how Ista finds so much after she has lost everything (I love her demon horse, Demon, too), and Iselle and Betriz’s friendship and adventuresome spirits, and the ways the romances with Bergon and with Illvin both unfold for daughter and mother respectively. Both stories are told so solidly from single points of view, there are lots and lots of ways to give us a fresh perspective.  I will love the little character insights, the backstories, the untold stories, worldbuilding, theology, and meta.   Anything with the Bastard (I love trickster gods) would be awesome.  I will gently ask that if you go romance here, please stick to the canon pairings. 

Thank you so much!  If you have any questions, feel free to leave me an anon message.