264 - EOS 10 (Podcast), Queen's Thief-Turner, Spinning Silver - Novik

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Request 1 by Colourofsaying

EOS 10 (Podcast) 

Akmazian (EOS 10), Ryan Dalias

I've just gotten into EOS10, and I am REALLY enjoying it. This is a very specific prompt: Akmazian, Alliance spy, is at the Academy while preparing for his next mission. He runs across Academy!Ryan, overworked, and dangerously self-destructive (I think that Ryan's self-destructiveness probably began long before his accident - his accident just gave him a specific way to express it)... and a competitive swimmer. Akmazian, of course, tries to hit on that, and falls flat on his face (metaphorically). Because he is not suave. He is cute, and that is usually enough for people to sleep with him, but Ryan is Not Having It. And soon, it becomes a game...

Letter: http://hello-delicious-tea.tumblr.com/post/178933721804/dear-yuletide-author

Request 2 by Colourofsaying

The Queen's Thief - Megan Whalen Turner 

Attolia | Irene

More Irene. This one, I'd kind of like a character study for, or a scene from her perspective, or a challenge she has to face that we don't see or don't really see in the books. This one might be good as kidfic! Or maybe not. Very open here - Irene at any age, at any stage in her career, with or without Eugenides, with or without Helen. My ship for this fandom IS Irene/Eugenides, but I love seeing her friendship with Helen as well.

Letter: http://hello-delicious-tea.tumblr.com/post/178933721804/dear-yuletide-author

Request 3 by Colourofsaying

Spinning Silver - Naomi Novik 

Miryem Mandelstam, Irina (Spinning Silver), The Staryk Lord (Spinning Silver), Wanda (Spinning Silver)

I love me some of Naomi Novik's lovely fairytale novels. However, I just... can't help but feel like all of her women would be better off with women. So, I'd either love to see a story that looks at just how complicated it would be to be in a relationship with either the Tsar (that boy is SCREWED UP) OR the Starek Lord, after all they've been through, OR a story where Miryem and the Starek Lord rule platonically, and Miryem and Irina fall in love, and the Tsar gets the time he needs to be the person he's never had a chance to become. Or Miryem and Wanda fall in love and Miryem lives with her wife and rules the Starek kingdom by day!

Letter: http://hello-delicious-tea.tumblr.com/post/178933721804/dear-yuletide-author

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