HAVE FUN GUYS
I'm gonna have fun this year.  I took a few years off but wooooooo.  
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I'm really into ceremony and environment; with Nyarlathotep as a character, I prefer the Egyptian human-looking incarnation, or the god as Randolph Carter sees him in 'The Dream Quest of Unknown Kadath'.    Again, purple prose, even psychedelic prose would be interesting if you're up to it.  Played more straight, putting him in a modern (post 9/11?) setting or a cyberpunk or Ancient Near East are all possibilities I'm particularly fond of.

Sandia Labs Document:
Actually, kind of the same as the above.  If you want to do non-standard writing, I think this is the one.  

Silicon Valley (HBO):  
Okay.  This is the only one I even suggested a pairing.  If you want to add Tara in, too, and/or any random hookups Jared has, feel free!  Or don't!  Have them bro out!  Have them compare philosophies!  In that vein, though, I should warn you upfront that I am also a LaVeyan Satanist (although without theistic tendencies).  The show and Gilfoyle's portrayals are both not too far off reality, except for his drug use.  We don't dig illicits.   
Oh, and here's a link to the deleted scene: https://www.reddit.com/r/SiliconValleyHBO/comments/4w2p4z/new_deleted_scene_of_jared_and_gilfoyle_in_the/


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This is my final revision - I had a placeholder, then a letter I typed on my phone while at work, and now this one.  Sorry for the delay!  I worked a bunch of long overnight shifts and there's no DW access there.  

Please enjoy writing. I wrote a lot down here, and a bit of it's rambly. All of my requests have wiggle room in them, which is on purpose. I'd rather you enjoy writing - and not get locked into a really specific time or place setting in a fandom if I can help it - since this is a gift.

Generalities:
Yuletide is great.  I believe it is a sense of general creativity throughout and beyond big fandom.  I do not generally get involved in any meta stuff, and I'm not as prolific as I used to be under other names.   

I believe that the muse strikes sometimes in ways we cannot expect, especially with people we don't know well.  As such, I say that I bow to your knowledge of what you are comfortable writing and what your strengths and weaknesses are.  If you are inspired in a way I did not anticipate, go for it!

I really appreciate quality over quantity.  I'd be happier with a good, strong short piece than a rambling one that is really long.  I'm a huge short-story reader and I can love a novella and a three-page piece that makes me stop and think or gasp or visualize.  

Ratings:  I have pretty high tolerances for both smut and violence but I'm a.big fan myself of the 'fade to black' technique to let the imagination fill in, so if that's how you work, I get it.  If you do want to write smut, I've put some notes below all the other notes.

If you're like 'Ugh, this Marsh, not my thing at all,' I get that too.  I'm a big fan of pulpy fiction and set building and environments, as detailed below (and evident by my choices, really.)  

Request 1: Ghost B.C. (Band) - Fandom  
Characters: Papa Emeritus II, a Nameless Ghoul
This is a very small band fandom.  There is some raunchy stuff on Tumblr but it occasionally just gets removed.  Here's the deal: I love the cheesy, fake Satanic occult rock thing.  The costumes, the leering, the sets, the droning music.  I'd prefer a fix set in the world presumed by such a thing existing, dark and serious and everything the 1980s Satanic panic was about. There doesn't have to have sex or gore but a sense of doom or of utter hedonism would be ideal.
References: *MUSIC AUTOPLAY*: http://www.infestissumam.com/ (official site, streams entire second album.)
*VIDEO AUTOPLAY* Youtube Playlist: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dxr5sKyK8ys&list=RD02Dxr5sKyK8ys


Request 2: Motorcity
I have no real specific request for this.  The whole world, the setting, the crapsack and utopian worlds, ugh, they begged for a more mature setting than Disney could give them.  I'd love just worldbuilding or day in the life of a character from any subgroup or caste.  A treatment of how religion changes is one thing I've contemplated, among other things about how society changes when it goes through such a hugh shock.  Of course, optional bonus points for the Duke being skeevy.  Or just being himself.  Same thing.  Purple prose welcome with worldbuilding.  

Request 3: Cthulhu Mythos - H. P. Lovecraft  
Character: Nyarlathotep
Again, I'm really into ceremony and environment; with Nyarlathotep as a character, I prefer the Egyptian human-looking incarnation, or the god as Randolph Carter sees him in 'The Dream Quest of Unknown Kadath'.    Again, purple prose, even psychedelic prose would be interesting if you're up to it.  Played more straight, putting him in a modern (post 9/11?) setting or a cyberpunk or Ancient Near East are all possibilities I'm particularly fond of.
Reference Material: http://www.dagonbytes.com/thelibrary/lovecraft/nyarlathotep.htm
http://www.dagonbytes.com/thelibrary/lovecraft/thedreamquestofunknownkadath.htm


Request 4: Political RPF - US 21st c.  
Character: Julian Assange

This is the one request that I'd actually prefer no smut, versus a more 'anything goes' approach for the others.  This is a tricky sort of thing in that I never really wanted RPF because I thought it was kind of creepy.  But the world presented us with a man who is almost too much to be real, such an antihero or villain depending on one's POV.  A such, I'd kind of prefer a less real setting, a more obviously fictionalized one.  Sci-fi ala Gibson/Stephenson, or even weird fiction?  Go for it.

Sorry about this.  You know, if you have a good idea, just go for it.  Know that in my heart as long a you treat his beautiful, undyed hair well, I'll be happy.  

Thank you again, dear author.  Let the mind percolate well.

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( So you want to write porn... )

http://www.mspaintadventures.com/?s=6&p=007304

Specifically this bit:
ROSE: Of course thess stories are acutually bullshit. They didn't happen in realaity. But thef act that they'rare bullshit makes them more inshresting. 
ROSE: Men have crefted many stories that are bullshit out of symbols risen from the abyss of coinsciousness withou necesharily knowing whath e fuck they were doing or saying, as they flounered around for some truth. 
ROSE: Bust in spite of themseleves they would for howefer briefly cross through a ray of light regarless. Becuss of the sbymbols. Dave.. The symbols hol dall the power. 

JUNGIAN FANPERSONING 
There's actually a ton in the opus as a whole; I wish I had time and better grounding in order to do a real discussion of it.  As it is, I don't have formal academic training in psychology beyond a few required courses and one clinical rotation, so I don't really think I'm qualified to analyse the entire corpus.  Someone could, you know, fund me to do so, though.  

I had a dream a while ago - before I read Homestuck, in fact, before I reunited with The Artist who suggested it to me - that had a view very much like this. When I got to Dave's part and the view of his home, his city, the firey sky, I was immediately struck by the view, by the similiarities. I remember the awe of recognition, the climbing esophageal tingle, and I caught my breath and just stared at it.

Being a Jungian I am often trying to unpack my dreams, the nature of things that appear coincidental, and reading Homestuck, I find it very, very Jungian. Archetypes, a mythology, transformative experiences, mandalas, quadrants/things in sets of four, the specifics of character development, and and so on, it's so packed I'm surprised people haven't talked about it this way. I suppose that's because psychoanalytic styles are quaint now; CBT's all the rage, insurance doesn't like to pay for long-term therapy. (I met a guy giving a talk over at, of all places, the law school at my university, who described himself as a Freudian. Now that seemed antique!)

Anyhow, this dream seemed very important to me. It was before I started my new graduate program, but I think after I was accepted. It was a building with three levels. On the bottom, people were running, like in gym class or for a weird 5k training program. They ran in practice along the bottom level, back and forth in corridors like a school. It was dim. On the second level were two men, one of whom was a priest. They were discussing loopholes for sexual activity within the priesthood. On the third level, except it was so high up I could see the rest of the city, and the view was this hot, hot summer sunset, a steelworking region's violent summer sunset, the same as Dave's view, this icon here. This room was a laboratory, and it was being cleaned by a fleet of Soviet-seeming cleaning women, in preparation to be used again.

Anyway, I nabbed some icons. I don't really feel the kids too much, but Dave's the closest, but his desolate world strikes some chord in me that I haven't fully discovered the source of yet. So it'll be my default icon for now, because it is recognizable but doesn't really speak too much to any one character. And that's how I like it - I don't want to subscribe to one character more than another, since the whole thing is a journey epic, one without a real main character, just focal points. The journey is the story. The images are there, and they're pulled from so much history I wish I had the time and knowledge to really dissect it.

I've got a Pesterchum but still no icons for my journal.

How many years without icons?! I'm so indecisive.

I spent the night at a bar listening to mono-heteros complain about their sex lives, and then they think I have a complex setup.

Hi-larious.

I bet these guys don't retract any articles:
http://www.universalrejection.org/

Author of my fic:

AO3 is 502-ing constantly, so I'm putting my comment here.

Needless to say, this was a wonderment.

"Delicious author, what a delightful glimpse of that much-pursued evening - dare I say evenings? - you have given me. And Baudelaire is, without a doubt, a perfect pairing, sin and religion and forbidden erotic desires. The world has indeed tipped a little on its axis after this..."

Dear Yuletide Santa (Santus?)
SPECIAL NOTE ADDED 11/21:
I was not sure at signup if you needed to work in all the characters requested. I'm not asking for that for Oglaf or EBZ. I think it speaks for themselves what combinations of those characters work or don't work together. More details added below.

Please enjoy writing. I wrote a lot down here, and a bit of it's rambly. All three of my requests have wiggle room in them, which is on purpose. Exploratory fiction is more interesting than very defined fiction.

Once upon a time I did an exchange where what I had to write, based on the narrative of the book the fandom was from, involved two characters who really only had about a week together. And the author accounted for almost every minute of that week, which left me about three 'in game' hours to write a scene. It felt rushed and boring and I vowed not to do that to someone myself.

That being said, there's definitely a thread of erotica present in my thoughts as I pinged these requests, although if that's not your cup of tea, there's absolutely room to do other things...now, to the cut-tag!
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I fucked up some personal things today (not in a major way, but I think one of them is a 'you get this one fuckup' sort of pass) so I'm feeling a little sorry for myself. I promised that tomorrow (er, today, now) would be a day of super-productivity, including a mandatory blast through paperwork and at least 1 hour of writing or sketching.

That aside, I have been playing the 'Choice of Games' series for some time now. I notice that it's pretty hard for me to play choices that are not comfortable for me - not uncomfortable, per se, but it's almost like work. For example, I haven't yet played someone who played along well with marrying for money in the social-climbing Romance game. I tried playing a total asshole in the vampire game but definitely didn't pick the most extreme of some of the answers. It's interesting, what I will and won't do, like somehow it's being kept track of and reflects on me.