donutsweeper | Dear Yuletide Author

First off a HUGE thank you for writing! Overall, I'd really like if you have fun with this story and write something you'd like to read yourself. Stories that make me happy tend to concentrate on the characters being in character and acting and speaking like they would in canon. Overall I also lean towards the gen side of things. In general though, I love all three of these fandoms and would be thrilled to read any story written for them.

Big Valley (tv) Heath Barkley, Victoria Barkley

Canon never told us exactly why or when Heath started calling Victoria "Mother." A story that focused on that would be wonderful, but any story about the relationship between these two would be absolutely fantastic. Gen please.

Luckily S1 of Big Valley is also available at hulu because it doesn't air too often anymore. Even luckier, many, many episodes can be found here. I was always amazed how gracious Victoria was with Heath, she truly came to consider him one of her sons. I'd love to see any story about these two but in particular something that focused on their relationship as mother and son. What made her open her heart up to him in that way? Why did he go from calling her Ma'am to Mother? How did this new family and new mother affect his feelings towards his biological mother and the women who raised him?

Boiled down, I love this show and there is very little fic for it, anything you write for it, especially focused on Heath, would be appreciated.

New Amsterdam (tv) John Amsterdam, Omar York

Father and son interaction between the two please. Either subtly like we saw in the pilot when John gets Omar out of trouble with his bookie by making a desk or something more overt. Or maybe something about Omar when he started to become as old as John and then got older? We saw the first time he introduced his daughter to John, did she ever learn who John was? Did his grandson Cory? Anything along those lines. Gen please.

New Amsterdam only lasted eight episodes, but it should have been more. Luckily they are all up at Hulu so they didn't disappear completely. I loved how at first we thought Omar was just a bartender and a friend of John's, but then we learn differently. It's also great that in the second episode's flashback with Omar's mother, Lily, we learn that John's secretary at the time was (presumably) also his daughter. It's so rare for immortals in fiction to be able to have children (as seen in most vampire myths, the Highlander series, etc.) that dealing with this issue is fascinating to me. What was it like to have a father that was younger than you? To see your child grow up while you don't? Obviously John and Omar figured out their relationship, and it's such a wonderful one. I just love to see them interact.

Into the Woods - Sondheim/Lapine (theater) Baker's Wife, The Witch, Baker

How did the Baker's Wife really feel about living next to a witch? Did she have her over for tea and cake? I'd love something, anything with these two. Gen please.

Some clips of this wonderful musical can be found on youtube (mostly songs, examples here and here) and the entire musical is available via netflix streaming and DVDs.

The Baker's Wife seemed perfectly comfortable with living next door to a witch (after all it's her line "it's the witch from next door" that introduces the witch to us) but was she always? Before she found out about the curse on the Baker's father were she and the Witch friends?

Basically, I just loved the first act of the musical and the Baker's Wife as a character and I'd love to read a story about her.