this year's yuletide

[holli]

Not shockingly, I have already decided what I want to request for Yuletide at the end of 2013. Which means I have until, what, October to convince people these fandoms are awesome?

1. Top Ten, because I am going to keep goddamn asking for Top Ten until someone who is not me writes it.

2. Pushing Daisies, because HOW has no one written the fix-it fic where Ned and Chuck get to touch without anyone dying?

3. 20th Century RPF-- no, hold on, hear me out. Basically someone needs to write the story where Julia Child and Roald Dahl are Improbably Tall Spies. Because that is a thing that ACTUALLY HAPPENED during WWII, and just because they probably never met in real life doesn't mean they can't in fic.

Comments

[petra]

If someone writes the story where Julia Child, Roald Dahl, and Christopher Lee hang during WWII, it will be Amazing.

[holli]

OMG Christopher Lee. IMDB says he is absolutely tall enough to be Improbably Tall Spies with Julia and Roald.

[neotoma]

Yes, but Lee wasn't a spy. He was a commando -- which means he would have been shot as a spy if he was caught, but he was really more of a saboteur.

[holli]

Clearly that means he is leading the spy mission. Julia is the brains, Roald's the charm.

[zana16]

!!!! THIS IS A NEED I DID NOT KNOW I HAD.

[ellen_fremedon]

YES PLEASE.

[sporky_rat]

Okay, you've now hit that I NEED THIS button in my life.

[skygiants]

Can we also throw in Leslie Howard, aka The Original Scarlet Pimpernel?

[holli]

Depends. How tall was he?

[skygiants]

I thought he was fairly tall, but my research says only 5'10", so perhaps not tall enough? Alas!

[holli]

He will have to be a Spy of Average Height somewhere else, then. Alas, indeed.

[newredshoes]

Ohmyheart, that last one. Why wait for Yuletide? I need it now!

[holli]

I KNOW. Apparently in the early days of WWII, before the US was fighting, Dahl was assigned to DC to, basically, seduce Senators' wives. Because he was tall and dashing and handsome and good at securing vital intel. THERE NEEDS TO BE FIC.

[brownbetty]

I didn't know Dahl was Tall!

[holli]

6'6"! And Child was 6'2", and Lee 6'5". They would LOOM OVER BAD GUYS really well.

[hannah]

I'm sorry, but for that last one we'd need to either resurrect MFK Fisher or get Jeffrey Steingarten on the line, because no one else could get the food porn right. Because with the two of them - oh, lord, would there be food porn.

One of the I'm Not Writing It, No Really, I Swear fics that lives in my head is a rather explicit Ned/Chuck piece that demonstrates care and affection and love through mutual understanding of kink. Possibly hardcore kink, depending on how one defines fisting. Safe sex, of course.

[holli]

If it's set during the war, Child actually wouldn't be much of a cook yet, would she? She learned to cook after the war.

(I am maaaaaaybe writing a story about Steve and food culture, in which he mentions having dinner with Julia Child in London during the war. But he doesn't see what all the fuss is about-- it wasn't that great a meal!)

[hannah]

That's true - and it's also true Dahl loved him some food porn. Toad-In-The-Hole from Danny the Champion of the World...mmmm.

(Yay for food culture fic! I look forward to it.)

[glinda]

I couldn't write the last one at all, but I would read the heck out of it if it existed. Improbably Tall Spies! :D

[annaalamode]

I love the post-yuletide this is what I want next yuletide thing. Even though by October I have totally forgotten what I wanted in January.

[holli]

Hence writing it down! I would totally forget otherwise.