Dear Yuletide Writer:
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violsvaHi! Thanks so much for writing for me, and congratulations on your evident good taste!
If you want to benignly internet-stalk me to get an idea of my interests, Tumblr and AO3 (both linked in the sidebar) are probably a better idea than DW. However, my previous Yuletide-related posts are tagged here.
This year I requested The Comfortable Courtesan, A Brother's Price, Tales of the Five Hundred Kingdoms, and Silk (comic). All of these are fandoms in which I would absolutely love to see any fic at all, so do not worry if the prompts below aren't specifically inspiring to you. I am also happy with any fic rating or length.
A large and random list of things I like in general: worldbuilding, hurt/comfort, huddling for warmth, teamwork, adventure, lesbians, ethical dilemmas, loyalty conflicts, people being clever, twisty plots, gender, sibling or sibling-like relationships, epistolary fic, backstory, pining, physical affection, queerness, philosophy, romance, feminism, UST, found families, mythological allusions, polyamory, slash, het, femslash, hidden worlds, cities, banter, complicated plans, beautiful landscapes, angst, puns, magical realism, history, social class issues, passionate platonic friendships, older women with major roles, case fic, period accuracy, gen, smut, pwp, diversity, secret identities, fairy tales, specific sense of place... Feel free to use any of these.
Dislikes: I do not want child-focused fic. I have a major embarrassment squick, I don't like incest, and I'm not interested in graphic depictions of rape or gore or torture. However, I can be sold on most consensual kinks.
Generally I am all for alternate universes, but (with one stated exception) in these fandoms the setting is a lot of the draw for me, so perhaps not.
Fandom specific thoughts and optional details:
The Comfortable Courtesan - Madame C- C-
Available online here.
Characters: Mrs F-, Mr MacD-, Matt Johnson, Lord G- R-
I love everything about this story. I love the characters with their own individual strengths and weaknesses and abilities, and how so many of them are excellent at helping other people with their problems and terrible at dealing with their own. I love the casual inclusion of diversity. I also love all of the characters individually.
I requested my top four characters, but decision making was hard and I am happy to have the others included. You also certainly do not need to include all the requested characters. I am also happy to receive fic about Sandy and Maurice post-canon.
The only thing I specifically don't want is Eliza's last illness.
Specific prompts, all of them optional if you have a better idea: (expanded slightly since original post)
More of Mr and Mrs F-'s backstory. Anything about Mrs F- at all, really.
Sandy's or Lord G- R-'s backstory, or hanging out with revolutionary/scholarly/gay friends, either before or after meeting each other
Sandy and Matt Johnson: they fight crime!
--perhaps with Matt Johnson's POV on his never-acted-on crush on Sandy.
Madame C- and Sandy (and G-?) bantering, or protecting each other from gossip
Eliza helping with or inspiring Clorinda's fiction.
Smut in any canon relationship
Details or snippets from Clorinda's novels or plays, or various characters' reactions when they first read it
A Brother's Price - Wen Spencer
[No characters nominated]
I'm more interested in worldbuilding than any individual character here, but please don't think I wouldn't also like the story about [canon character] that you've been dreaming of writing. That would be great! The following is just areas you could focus on.
(Except, I don't want to read about Keifer's abuse of the princesses, please.)
Worldbuilding, though. Especially queer worldbuilding. What's it like being gay when you might only meet two or three other men in your life? What happens to a nice respectable boy in a nice respectable marriage who can't perform sexually? Are there boys who have run away and cross-dressed like Shakespearean heroines? (If you want a specific prompt, THIS.) Here, the social difficulties for gay men specifically fascinate me.
I find this book interesting because I think in some ways Spencer still fails to carry through her premise, and falls into our-world stereotypes (for example, Jerin's sisters being more interested in clothes than he is). So feel free to go beyond what's onscreen.
Tales of the Five Hundred Kingdoms - Mercedes Lackey
[no characters nominated]
Again, what I'm interested in for this is not specifically the characters but the setting and worldbuilding, but please don't think I wouldn't also like the story about [canon character] that you've been dreaming of writing. That would be great! The following is just areas you could focus on.
I want to know more about stories and the Tradition and especially what Traditional paths exist for queer people and what happens to people who fall into/fight them. There are roles for queer people, or at least heavily coded queer people, in fairy tales, though a lot of them are tragic, and there are also stories of close friendship that are about half an inch away from being queer. What does that look like from the inside if you know about the Tradition? What does it look like if you don't? What does it look like to a Godmother on the outside?
You may also be interested in this list of polyamorous fairy tale prompts.
Silk (comics)
Cindy Moon
I haven't requested Felicia because I don't insist that she be included; but I certainly don't object to her being included, or to shipping her with Cindy. I am also interested in Cindy's relationship with Bobbi Morse, though of course she is even more optional than the rest of this. I would also love cameos from Lola and Rafferty.
This is a pretty open request. Cindy is great and I want all the stories about her. And here I am happy to read AUs - historical, fantasy, science fiction - preferably not completely mundane modern AUs, but anything where she has interesting things to do is great.
I am really into hurt/comfort at the moment (especially physical hurt), and Cindy/Felicia (or Cindy & Felicia, or Cindy /& Bobbi) hurt/comfort would be great. Either (or both!) being hurt; all of them have trust issues that I would really love to see them having to deal with/work around/step on in the process.
Basically I just want to see Cindy having adventures or fighting crime or committing crime (for good reason! probably!) or screwing around in the multiverse or recovering from injuries obtained during all of that.
If you want to benignly internet-stalk me to get an idea of my interests, Tumblr and AO3 (both linked in the sidebar) are probably a better idea than DW. However, my previous Yuletide-related posts are tagged here.
This year I requested The Comfortable Courtesan, A Brother's Price, Tales of the Five Hundred Kingdoms, and Silk (comic). All of these are fandoms in which I would absolutely love to see any fic at all, so do not worry if the prompts below aren't specifically inspiring to you. I am also happy with any fic rating or length.
A large and random list of things I like in general: worldbuilding, hurt/comfort, huddling for warmth, teamwork, adventure, lesbians, ethical dilemmas, loyalty conflicts, people being clever, twisty plots, gender, sibling or sibling-like relationships, epistolary fic, backstory, pining, physical affection, queerness, philosophy, romance, feminism, UST, found families, mythological allusions, polyamory, slash, het, femslash, hidden worlds, cities, banter, complicated plans, beautiful landscapes, angst, puns, magical realism, history, social class issues, passionate platonic friendships, older women with major roles, case fic, period accuracy, gen, smut, pwp, diversity, secret identities, fairy tales, specific sense of place... Feel free to use any of these.
Dislikes: I do not want child-focused fic. I have a major embarrassment squick, I don't like incest, and I'm not interested in graphic depictions of rape or gore or torture. However, I can be sold on most consensual kinks.
Generally I am all for alternate universes, but (with one stated exception) in these fandoms the setting is a lot of the draw for me, so perhaps not.
Fandom specific thoughts and optional details:
The Comfortable Courtesan - Madame C- C-
Available online here.
Characters: Mrs F-, Mr MacD-, Matt Johnson, Lord G- R-
I love everything about this story. I love the characters with their own individual strengths and weaknesses and abilities, and how so many of them are excellent at helping other people with their problems and terrible at dealing with their own. I love the casual inclusion of diversity. I also love all of the characters individually.
I requested my top four characters, but decision making was hard and I am happy to have the others included. You also certainly do not need to include all the requested characters. I am also happy to receive fic about Sandy and Maurice post-canon.
The only thing I specifically don't want is Eliza's last illness.
Specific prompts, all of them optional if you have a better idea: (expanded slightly since original post)
More of Mr and Mrs F-'s backstory. Anything about Mrs F- at all, really.
Sandy's or Lord G- R-'s backstory, or hanging out with revolutionary/scholarly/gay friends, either before or after meeting each other
Sandy and Matt Johnson: they fight crime!
--perhaps with Matt Johnson's POV on his never-acted-on crush on Sandy.
Madame C- and Sandy (and G-?) bantering, or protecting each other from gossip
Eliza helping with or inspiring Clorinda's fiction.
Smut in any canon relationship
Details or snippets from Clorinda's novels or plays, or various characters' reactions when they first read it
A Brother's Price - Wen Spencer
[No characters nominated]
I'm more interested in worldbuilding than any individual character here, but please don't think I wouldn't also like the story about [canon character] that you've been dreaming of writing. That would be great! The following is just areas you could focus on.
(Except, I don't want to read about Keifer's abuse of the princesses, please.)
Worldbuilding, though. Especially queer worldbuilding. What's it like being gay when you might only meet two or three other men in your life? What happens to a nice respectable boy in a nice respectable marriage who can't perform sexually? Are there boys who have run away and cross-dressed like Shakespearean heroines? (If you want a specific prompt, THIS.) Here, the social difficulties for gay men specifically fascinate me.
I find this book interesting because I think in some ways Spencer still fails to carry through her premise, and falls into our-world stereotypes (for example, Jerin's sisters being more interested in clothes than he is). So feel free to go beyond what's onscreen.
Tales of the Five Hundred Kingdoms - Mercedes Lackey
[no characters nominated]
Again, what I'm interested in for this is not specifically the characters but the setting and worldbuilding, but please don't think I wouldn't also like the story about [canon character] that you've been dreaming of writing. That would be great! The following is just areas you could focus on.
I want to know more about stories and the Tradition and especially what Traditional paths exist for queer people and what happens to people who fall into/fight them. There are roles for queer people, or at least heavily coded queer people, in fairy tales, though a lot of them are tragic, and there are also stories of close friendship that are about half an inch away from being queer. What does that look like from the inside if you know about the Tradition? What does it look like if you don't? What does it look like to a Godmother on the outside?
You may also be interested in this list of polyamorous fairy tale prompts.
Silk (comics)
Cindy Moon
I haven't requested Felicia because I don't insist that she be included; but I certainly don't object to her being included, or to shipping her with Cindy. I am also interested in Cindy's relationship with Bobbi Morse, though of course she is even more optional than the rest of this. I would also love cameos from Lola and Rafferty.
This is a pretty open request. Cindy is great and I want all the stories about her. And here I am happy to read AUs - historical, fantasy, science fiction - preferably not completely mundane modern AUs, but anything where she has interesting things to do is great.
I am really into hurt/comfort at the moment (especially physical hurt), and Cindy/Felicia (or Cindy & Felicia, or Cindy /& Bobbi) hurt/comfort would be great. Either (or both!) being hurt; all of them have trust issues that I would really love to see them having to deal with/work around/step on in the process.
Basically I just want to see Cindy having adventures or fighting crime or committing crime (for good reason! probably!) or screwing around in the multiverse or recovering from injuries obtained during all of that.