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Dear Author Letter, Yuletide 2023
Dear author:
Hello and happy Yuletide! Thanks for choosing one of my fandoms and thanks in advance for the story! I always find that the writing is the most enjoyable, rewarding part of Yuletide and I hope you feel the same way.
The prompts are here purely for your convenience and to get the plot bunnies stirring. If none of them appeal to you, it's fine to go in a different direction.
For the shippy requests, it is totally fine to include sexual content as long as it's not just porn without plot. Porn rooted in plot or in characterization is my preference if you want to write porn at all. But porn is by no means necessary--I will happily read any rating.
In all cases, I am fine with you including any additional characters from the canon so long as the focus is on one or more of the requested characters.
I love canon divergence, but please no AUs that change the setting--I don't want to read stuff set in high school or coffee shops or with superheroes or whatever.
DNWS: PWP, character-bashing, infidelity, "onscreen" rape/non-con (dubcon of the shag-or-die/sex pollen or we're-forced-to-have-sex-due-to-circumstances are okay if it's between mentioned ships), AUs that change the setting (adding fantastical elements to a setting--a zombie apocalypse, a character having superpowers, etc.--is just fine, but I want these characters to be shaped by their canon settings, please), unmitigated fluff (some fluff is fine, but please temper it with other things), humiliation, broad humor, OOC, baby fic (meaning fic that focuses on the ship having/adopting a child. Incidental children are fine). For porn, I like dom/sub dynamics, but other than that, I'm not really into kinky stuff.
General likes: angst, especially if it ends happily; hurt/comfort; mutual pining; in character characters; complicated relationships between women; good worldbuilding; outsider povs; location/setting as character; good people trying to do the right thing; bad people trying to do the right thing; found families; total devotion/us against the world dynamics; religion/faith/doubt treated seriously and complicatedly; Jewish takes on anything.
Fandom tropes I'm into: mutual pining, arranged marriages, soulbonds of whatever kind, post-apocalyptic stuff (as long as it's within the overall canon), forced proximity, enemies to lovers, amnesia fic.
The Unselected Journals of Emma M. Lion - Beth Brower
Characters: Emma M. Lion, "Young" Nigel Hawkes, Mary Bairrage, worldbuilding
My gift must feature one or more of my chosen character tags (giver's choice)
My new obsession of 2024! I read the first 7 installments all in a great big gulp this year, and I am madly in love with them. If we match on this, let's be friends so we can talk about the series!
I'm not asking for anything shippy for this fandom unless you want to write about Mary and her Professor. I would thoroughly enjoy that. But I don't want anything focused on Emma falling/being in love (I suspect we're going to get quite enough of that from the series itself) and I'm not asking for Emma/Hawkes. I just picked three of my very favorite characters from the series, so write about any/all of them as you desire.
And I love every single character in the series, so please include anyone and everyone you want to include!
I also looooove the worldbuilding of St. Crispian's, the weirdness of the disappearing objects, all their silly and lovable traditions, etc. Anything that lets us explore that world more would make me happy!
Some prompts:
+ Mary and her professor falling in love. Do they know they're falling in love? Do they talk about anything besides their work? What is going on with them?
+ Hawkes backstory. This is sure to be Jossed later, but who cares? I just love him so much and I'd love to hear about his childhood, his university days, how he settled into St. Crispian's, whatever
+ Emma's growing up years!
+ Emma somehow starts a new St. Crispian's tradition
+ More about the ghost or St. Crispian holidays or anything at all
+ Mary backstory! How did she meet Jack? What was her childhood like?
+ The Jane Eyres!
+ Really anything will make me happy!
Fandom: Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell - Susanna Clarke
Characters: Worldbuilding
*bangs on the table* WORLDBUILDING. With this fandom, I am ravenous for anything that replicates the feel of the book (footnotes welcome!), especially the wild, fae York-adjacent magic. If you want to bring in some canon side characters like the Raven King, Catherine of Winchester, etc. that would be great, but I am not really wanting anything focused on the characters from the novel. I'm all about the atmosphere, the eerie magic, the sense of history, the scholarly bent, the pastiche of the 19th century novel, etc.
I don't have any specific prompts to share with you, but since you're brave enough to agree to offer worldbuilding for this fandom, I am confident that anything you write will be wonderful.
Fandom: Seventy-Two Letters - Ted Chiang
Characters: Worldbuilding
This short story made me feel some kind of way. For HaShem’s sake, someone tell me what’s going on in the margins of this world! Either turn it Jewish or turn it queer, I’m not picky!
So the rich white dudes are busy turning Kabbalistic ideas about naming into a science for ends in capitalism or eugenics. Horrifying! But I do not believe that Jews are just sitting around pouting about how their holy exercise in mysticism is being misused. Is there a Marx figure who’s writing manifestos about how an intrinsically Jewish practice has been stolen by the worst of the goyim? Is there a Herzl figure searching for a political solution? Are there women demanding more egalitarian access to Kabbalah as a way of preserving it? Is there an overlap between Bund activism and the need to take back Kabbalah? Is an anarchist collective marrying the exploitation of the proletariat and the exploitation of intrinsically Jewish spirituality and getting really, really pissed off about it?
And what about the past? This has clearly been going on for some centuries (probably since the Renaissance?) so how has it affected the standing of Jewish communities in various parts of the world? Are they treated worse or better?
Alternately: I am not wild about this enforcement of the sexual binary! What is going on with trans people in this world????
Fandom: Life with Derek
Characters: Casey McDonald, Derek Venturi
I am but a simple Dasey shipper. Yes, I am basic. The way these two are so obsessed with each other but can't admit it because of Reasons is so delicious. I would prefer not to have a real AU for them--the fact that they've been living together for years and have all this history is what makes this ship so appealing to me, so I'm not interested in a story where they aren't stepsiblings. Something set during the show (I ignore the movie) or post-show would work equally well for me.
Prompts:
+ Anything with Derek being protective of Casey
+ Actually, anything with Casey being protective of Derek
+ Angsty pining!
+ Angsty pining followed by finally getting together!
+ Secretly banging and Not Talking About It (while pining)
+ I really am so basic about them!
손 : The Guest (TV)
Characters: Choi Yoon, Kang Gil Young, Yoon Hwa Pyung
Perfect OT3! This one doesn't have to be explicitly romantic/sexual if you don't want it to be, I just want all three of them together and loving each other! They're each others' people and no one else will ever understand any one of them the way the other two do! It's very important to me that, no matter what you write, that all three centered by the text--I don't want to see one neglected (lbr, it would probably be Gil Young, and that would infuriate me!).
There is SO much room for hurt/comfort in this fandom! And so many ways you can go: canon divergence, missing scene, time-skip scene, post-canon. Any of these would be great!
Some prompts:
+ Any of the three becomes possessed and taunts/hurts the other two. If you want to have them hurt each other, I ask that it not be too serious--no limbs getting cut off, no followed-through rape (though threats are fine), etc. Everyone needs to be able to physically recover eventually.
+ Codependency of any kind would make me happy
+ Yoon and Gil Young manage to save Hwa Pyung from drowning and drag him back to shore and take care of him
+ Yoon gets defrocked and the other two comfort him
+ Honestly it would be hard to go wrong here!
Fandom: Summers at Castle Auburn - Sharon Shinn
Characters: Coriel Halsing, Kent Ouvrelet
I won't lie, I'm really just requesting this for either some missing scenes between Corie/Kent or a canon divergence about them. I really like this pairing and yet I don't think that we saw enough of their interactions "onscreen." They're just two such good people who have lots of priorities besides each other and are both very concerned about justice and fairness and compassion. I'd like to see more of them learning to appreciate each other, becoming close, falling in love, etc.
Hello and happy Yuletide! Thanks for choosing one of my fandoms and thanks in advance for the story! I always find that the writing is the most enjoyable, rewarding part of Yuletide and I hope you feel the same way.
The prompts are here purely for your convenience and to get the plot bunnies stirring. If none of them appeal to you, it's fine to go in a different direction.
For the shippy requests, it is totally fine to include sexual content as long as it's not just porn without plot. Porn rooted in plot or in characterization is my preference if you want to write porn at all. But porn is by no means necessary--I will happily read any rating.
In all cases, I am fine with you including any additional characters from the canon so long as the focus is on one or more of the requested characters.
I love canon divergence, but please no AUs that change the setting--I don't want to read stuff set in high school or coffee shops or with superheroes or whatever.
DNWS: PWP, character-bashing, infidelity, "onscreen" rape/non-con (dubcon of the shag-or-die/sex pollen or we're-forced-to-have-sex-due-to-circumstances are okay if it's between mentioned ships), AUs that change the setting (adding fantastical elements to a setting--a zombie apocalypse, a character having superpowers, etc.--is just fine, but I want these characters to be shaped by their canon settings, please), unmitigated fluff (some fluff is fine, but please temper it with other things), humiliation, broad humor, OOC, baby fic (meaning fic that focuses on the ship having/adopting a child. Incidental children are fine). For porn, I like dom/sub dynamics, but other than that, I'm not really into kinky stuff.
General likes: angst, especially if it ends happily; hurt/comfort; mutual pining; in character characters; complicated relationships between women; good worldbuilding; outsider povs; location/setting as character; good people trying to do the right thing; bad people trying to do the right thing; found families; total devotion/us against the world dynamics; religion/faith/doubt treated seriously and complicatedly; Jewish takes on anything.
Fandom tropes I'm into: mutual pining, arranged marriages, soulbonds of whatever kind, post-apocalyptic stuff (as long as it's within the overall canon), forced proximity, enemies to lovers, amnesia fic.
The Unselected Journals of Emma M. Lion - Beth Brower
Characters: Emma M. Lion, "Young" Nigel Hawkes, Mary Bairrage, worldbuilding
My gift must feature one or more of my chosen character tags (giver's choice)
My new obsession of 2024! I read the first 7 installments all in a great big gulp this year, and I am madly in love with them. If we match on this, let's be friends so we can talk about the series!
I'm not asking for anything shippy for this fandom unless you want to write about Mary and her Professor. I would thoroughly enjoy that. But I don't want anything focused on Emma falling/being in love (I suspect we're going to get quite enough of that from the series itself) and I'm not asking for Emma/Hawkes. I just picked three of my very favorite characters from the series, so write about any/all of them as you desire.
And I love every single character in the series, so please include anyone and everyone you want to include!
I also looooove the worldbuilding of St. Crispian's, the weirdness of the disappearing objects, all their silly and lovable traditions, etc. Anything that lets us explore that world more would make me happy!
Some prompts:
+ Mary and her professor falling in love. Do they know they're falling in love? Do they talk about anything besides their work? What is going on with them?
+ Hawkes backstory. This is sure to be Jossed later, but who cares? I just love him so much and I'd love to hear about his childhood, his university days, how he settled into St. Crispian's, whatever
+ Emma's growing up years!
+ Emma somehow starts a new St. Crispian's tradition
+ More about the ghost or St. Crispian holidays or anything at all
+ Mary backstory! How did she meet Jack? What was her childhood like?
+ The Jane Eyres!
+ Really anything will make me happy!
Fandom: Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell - Susanna Clarke
Characters: Worldbuilding
*bangs on the table* WORLDBUILDING. With this fandom, I am ravenous for anything that replicates the feel of the book (footnotes welcome!), especially the wild, fae York-adjacent magic. If you want to bring in some canon side characters like the Raven King, Catherine of Winchester, etc. that would be great, but I am not really wanting anything focused on the characters from the novel. I'm all about the atmosphere, the eerie magic, the sense of history, the scholarly bent, the pastiche of the 19th century novel, etc.
I don't have any specific prompts to share with you, but since you're brave enough to agree to offer worldbuilding for this fandom, I am confident that anything you write will be wonderful.
Fandom: Seventy-Two Letters - Ted Chiang
Characters: Worldbuilding
This short story made me feel some kind of way. For HaShem’s sake, someone tell me what’s going on in the margins of this world! Either turn it Jewish or turn it queer, I’m not picky!
So the rich white dudes are busy turning Kabbalistic ideas about naming into a science for ends in capitalism or eugenics. Horrifying! But I do not believe that Jews are just sitting around pouting about how their holy exercise in mysticism is being misused. Is there a Marx figure who’s writing manifestos about how an intrinsically Jewish practice has been stolen by the worst of the goyim? Is there a Herzl figure searching for a political solution? Are there women demanding more egalitarian access to Kabbalah as a way of preserving it? Is there an overlap between Bund activism and the need to take back Kabbalah? Is an anarchist collective marrying the exploitation of the proletariat and the exploitation of intrinsically Jewish spirituality and getting really, really pissed off about it?
And what about the past? This has clearly been going on for some centuries (probably since the Renaissance?) so how has it affected the standing of Jewish communities in various parts of the world? Are they treated worse or better?
Alternately: I am not wild about this enforcement of the sexual binary! What is going on with trans people in this world????
Fandom: Life with Derek
Characters: Casey McDonald, Derek Venturi
I am but a simple Dasey shipper. Yes, I am basic. The way these two are so obsessed with each other but can't admit it because of Reasons is so delicious. I would prefer not to have a real AU for them--the fact that they've been living together for years and have all this history is what makes this ship so appealing to me, so I'm not interested in a story where they aren't stepsiblings. Something set during the show (I ignore the movie) or post-show would work equally well for me.
Prompts:
+ Anything with Derek being protective of Casey
+ Actually, anything with Casey being protective of Derek
+ Angsty pining!
+ Angsty pining followed by finally getting together!
+ Secretly banging and Not Talking About It (while pining)
+ I really am so basic about them!
손 : The Guest (TV)
Characters: Choi Yoon, Kang Gil Young, Yoon Hwa Pyung
Perfect OT3! This one doesn't have to be explicitly romantic/sexual if you don't want it to be, I just want all three of them together and loving each other! They're each others' people and no one else will ever understand any one of them the way the other two do! It's very important to me that, no matter what you write, that all three centered by the text--I don't want to see one neglected (lbr, it would probably be Gil Young, and that would infuriate me!).
There is SO much room for hurt/comfort in this fandom! And so many ways you can go: canon divergence, missing scene, time-skip scene, post-canon. Any of these would be great!
Some prompts:
+ Any of the three becomes possessed and taunts/hurts the other two. If you want to have them hurt each other, I ask that it not be too serious--no limbs getting cut off, no followed-through rape (though threats are fine), etc. Everyone needs to be able to physically recover eventually.
+ Codependency of any kind would make me happy
+ Yoon and Gil Young manage to save Hwa Pyung from drowning and drag him back to shore and take care of him
+ Yoon gets defrocked and the other two comfort him
+ Honestly it would be hard to go wrong here!
Fandom: Summers at Castle Auburn - Sharon Shinn
Characters: Coriel Halsing, Kent Ouvrelet
I won't lie, I'm really just requesting this for either some missing scenes between Corie/Kent or a canon divergence about them. I really like this pairing and yet I don't think that we saw enough of their interactions "onscreen." They're just two such good people who have lots of priorities besides each other and are both very concerned about justice and fairness and compassion. I'd like to see more of them learning to appreciate each other, becoming close, falling in love, etc.