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Dear Yuletide writer
Nov. 3rd, 2019 01:51 pmThank you so much for writing me a story! I'm super easy to please, I promise. Just having heard of/wanting to write one of my fandoms wins you a million points, so I'm sure I'll like whatever you write. All optional details really are optional - if none of my ideas are working for you or you already have a story you are dying to write, I'm sure I'll like that too! But here are some ideas to get you going, anyway. :)
Things I like: slash, femslash, OT3s, gen, complicated, intense, and fucked up relationships (romantic and otherwise), complex, messy, but ultimately loving family relationships, unconventional romance, plotty adventures and casefic, character studies, team-as-family, dub-con, consensual hate-sex, aaaaaall the hurt/comfort. I am always okay with porn, plotty or otherwise.
Things I don't like so much (any prompt-specific exceptions noted below): non-con, extremely graphic violence or gore, character bashing (especially female characters), BDSM, humiliation, non-canonical deaths/deathfic, issue-fic and identity headcanons, a/b/o, modern AUs
More fandom specific thoughts:
1. Murder Most Unladylike Series - Robin Stevens: Hazel Wong, Daisy Wells
I discovered this series this year and immediately fell in love with how completely charming and fun they are, while still managing to cover some pretty serious material, both in terms of the crimes and what we learn about the Deepdean girls and Hazel and Daisy's personal experiences. And for me, the heart of it is totally Daisy and Hazel's friendship - I love what an intense, slightly messed-up person Daisy is, and that we see how rare it is for her to trust someone as much as she does Hazel and how important that friendship is to her, and on Hazel's side, I love that we see her come into her own as a person because of her friendship and experiences with Daisy, and that some of that is being able to stand up for herself and push back when Daisy's running roughshod over her. I'd really like to see something about the two of them together as adults after they are out of school - maybe when the war breaks up they end up getting recruited by Felix for espionage. Or maybe after things have settled down they start a detective agency together, solving all the crimes the police can't figure out. I'd love Daisy/Hazel, but them just being really great friends is awesome too, although I'd prefer no focus on other love interests.
2. Oxenfree (Video Game): Anna Shea, Margaret "Maggie" Adler
Anna and Maggie's story is super fascinating to me - it's so central to what happened to the Sunken and what is happening now to Alex and her friends, but all we see of it is little fragments, and all of them are so, so sad. The Morse code messages especially broke my heart, knowing that while Maggie blamed herself for failing Anna and running away, Anna was still trying to reach out and signing all her codes with "love". I'm really interested in seeing some of time travel shenanigans/fix-it AUs for this one where their attempt to contact the Sunken goes a little bit differently than it did in canon. Maybe instead of Anna getting absorbed, Maggie and Anna get stuck in their own time loop the way Alex did, and have to try to find ways to escape it and fix things? Or maybe Anna still gets trapped, but some of her messages get through, and Maggie starts investigating every way she can think of to send messages back, and try to pull her out again? Feel free to get weird and have fun with the game/time glitch mechanics for this one, for sure! I'd really love Maggie/Anna for this one.
3. In the Forests of Serre - Patricia A. McKillip: Euan Ash, Unciel (Forests of Serre)
This was the very first McKillip book I ever read, years and years ago, and it's still my very favorite - it's such a lovely, elegiac, mystical little fairy tale. And in the middle of all the kings and witches and monsters and people getting thrown out of windows and turning into birds, I love how quiet and domestic Euan and Unciel's scenes at the cottage are. I feel like this is very much a story about healing, and I love that healing for Unciel, who has faced an unspeakable evil, is about puttering in the garden growing things and sitting with the cat and eventually, painfully, finding ways to speak about it. And I will always adore Euan, who has so much wonder and fondess for Unciel (and kind of a crush?) and has these wild, visionary dreams even though he's otherwise the kind of person who puts his boots in the same place every time. I'd love to see something about what they do after the end of the book, now that Unciel's monster has finally been exorcised - do they stay at the cottage, gardening and writing down his stories and teaching Euan how to cook without throwing everything in one pot? Does Unciel go back out into the world to do more wizard things, now with his new assistant/biographer? Does Euan learn more about magic? I'd also really love to see how their relationship changes in the wake of what happened and how they've come to know each other - Unciel/Euan would be totally welcome here!
4. Stellar Firma (Podcast): Trexel Geistman, David 7
I would love to see some Trexel/David 7 that is just as bonkers and ridiculous as the show. Trexel is such a terrible, incompetent, selfish person, but I think in his own completely awful way he does actually really care about David, somehow, and I'd love to see him trying to act on that in the most Trexel way possible - inept, embarrassing courtship rituals, bizarre ideas for a romantic date with someone who has barely ever left his room, completely terrible, damp, weird sex. Meanwhile, David is a person whose human interaction is 90% Trexel and 9% IMOGEN (and 1% Hartro being terrifying), so he's certainly got some weird ideas of how relationships and sex are supposed to work on his end too, along with his own weird kinks and frustrations to work out on Trexel. I'm totally down for Dom!David/sub!Trexel for this one, but mostly just have fun with it.
Things I like: slash, femslash, OT3s, gen, complicated, intense, and fucked up relationships (romantic and otherwise), complex, messy, but ultimately loving family relationships, unconventional romance, plotty adventures and casefic, character studies, team-as-family, dub-con, consensual hate-sex, aaaaaall the hurt/comfort. I am always okay with porn, plotty or otherwise.
Things I don't like so much (any prompt-specific exceptions noted below): non-con, extremely graphic violence or gore, character bashing (especially female characters), BDSM, humiliation, non-canonical deaths/deathfic, issue-fic and identity headcanons, a/b/o, modern AUs
More fandom specific thoughts:
1. Murder Most Unladylike Series - Robin Stevens: Hazel Wong, Daisy Wells
I discovered this series this year and immediately fell in love with how completely charming and fun they are, while still managing to cover some pretty serious material, both in terms of the crimes and what we learn about the Deepdean girls and Hazel and Daisy's personal experiences. And for me, the heart of it is totally Daisy and Hazel's friendship - I love what an intense, slightly messed-up person Daisy is, and that we see how rare it is for her to trust someone as much as she does Hazel and how important that friendship is to her, and on Hazel's side, I love that we see her come into her own as a person because of her friendship and experiences with Daisy, and that some of that is being able to stand up for herself and push back when Daisy's running roughshod over her. I'd really like to see something about the two of them together as adults after they are out of school - maybe when the war breaks up they end up getting recruited by Felix for espionage. Or maybe after things have settled down they start a detective agency together, solving all the crimes the police can't figure out. I'd love Daisy/Hazel, but them just being really great friends is awesome too, although I'd prefer no focus on other love interests.
2. Oxenfree (Video Game): Anna Shea, Margaret "Maggie" Adler
Anna and Maggie's story is super fascinating to me - it's so central to what happened to the Sunken and what is happening now to Alex and her friends, but all we see of it is little fragments, and all of them are so, so sad. The Morse code messages especially broke my heart, knowing that while Maggie blamed herself for failing Anna and running away, Anna was still trying to reach out and signing all her codes with "love". I'm really interested in seeing some of time travel shenanigans/fix-it AUs for this one where their attempt to contact the Sunken goes a little bit differently than it did in canon. Maybe instead of Anna getting absorbed, Maggie and Anna get stuck in their own time loop the way Alex did, and have to try to find ways to escape it and fix things? Or maybe Anna still gets trapped, but some of her messages get through, and Maggie starts investigating every way she can think of to send messages back, and try to pull her out again? Feel free to get weird and have fun with the game/time glitch mechanics for this one, for sure! I'd really love Maggie/Anna for this one.
3. In the Forests of Serre - Patricia A. McKillip: Euan Ash, Unciel (Forests of Serre)
This was the very first McKillip book I ever read, years and years ago, and it's still my very favorite - it's such a lovely, elegiac, mystical little fairy tale. And in the middle of all the kings and witches and monsters and people getting thrown out of windows and turning into birds, I love how quiet and domestic Euan and Unciel's scenes at the cottage are. I feel like this is very much a story about healing, and I love that healing for Unciel, who has faced an unspeakable evil, is about puttering in the garden growing things and sitting with the cat and eventually, painfully, finding ways to speak about it. And I will always adore Euan, who has so much wonder and fondess for Unciel (and kind of a crush?) and has these wild, visionary dreams even though he's otherwise the kind of person who puts his boots in the same place every time. I'd love to see something about what they do after the end of the book, now that Unciel's monster has finally been exorcised - do they stay at the cottage, gardening and writing down his stories and teaching Euan how to cook without throwing everything in one pot? Does Unciel go back out into the world to do more wizard things, now with his new assistant/biographer? Does Euan learn more about magic? I'd also really love to see how their relationship changes in the wake of what happened and how they've come to know each other - Unciel/Euan would be totally welcome here!
4. Stellar Firma (Podcast): Trexel Geistman, David 7
I would love to see some Trexel/David 7 that is just as bonkers and ridiculous as the show. Trexel is such a terrible, incompetent, selfish person, but I think in his own completely awful way he does actually really care about David, somehow, and I'd love to see him trying to act on that in the most Trexel way possible - inept, embarrassing courtship rituals, bizarre ideas for a romantic date with someone who has barely ever left his room, completely terrible, damp, weird sex. Meanwhile, David is a person whose human interaction is 90% Trexel and 9% IMOGEN (and 1% Hartro being terrifying), so he's certainly got some weird ideas of how relationships and sex are supposed to work on his end too, along with his own weird kinks and frustrations to work out on Trexel. I'm totally down for Dom!David/sub!Trexel for this one, but mostly just have fun with it.