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Dear Yuletide Author
Dear Yuletide Author,
OMG YULETIDE IS HEEEERE!!! Thank you, fellow fan, for loving one of these little fandoms enough to write me fic for it. ♥ You are welcome to ignore my optional details, of course, but if you like having some hints and prompts and guidelines, read on!
SQUICKS
incest - my absolute hardline squick; if you try to write this for me, I will inevitably fail out after a few pages at most, dnw
amputation - while there are multiple amputee characters that I adore (Furiosa, Bucky, Luke Skywalker, etc etc), I've found that reading about the actual trauma of amputation/permanently disabling injuries and their immediate aftermath is super upsetting for me and would like to skip reading things through my metaphorical fingers for Yuletide
infidelity/adultery - also a thing that I can read, but which almost always makes me loathe the betraying character, which is no fun. Please avoid!
LOVES
competence
partnership
pining
worldbuilding
friendship (especially complex, difficult, or between female characters)
epistolary
loyalty
teams/found families
hurt/comfort
trust issues
amnesia
outsider POV
how-they-met backstory
banter & good dialogue
cons, heists, and spy shenanigans (c.f. my competence kink)
I mostly have no preference between gen and shippy stories, and love any range of (a)sexuality, kinks, and relationship types that seem in-character based on canon. If I do ship something (mentioned in the fandom details below), please don't feel obliged to write it if you don't ship it - I will enjoy gen for any of these characters just as much, and you should get to write a story you love, too. Optional details are optional!
Banlieue 13
any character
I adore these ridiculous movies, and would be happy with literally any fic about them, the characters, or the world! If you'd like more of a hint than than, please see my Yuletide letter.
I really do mean *anything* with this fandom - I've requested it for EVERY Yuletide I've participated in, which is...eight this year, geez. I'm partial to Damien/Leito, because hello hoyay, competence, and enemies-to-super-loyal-friends trope. I love Lola and her fierce strength, and reading about what happened to her after the first movie. I even love the weird dystopian setting and the hope of fixing it - you could probably do some fun solarpunk stuff with B13, now that I think about it. If you want to tell me about, idk, Gassman's secretary going to therapy to deal with having someone drive a car through her office, or Tao's childhood, or the kids who hero worship Leito, I would adore any of it.
Temeraire
Lady Allendale, Jane Roland
I would kill for some fic about their background friendship/alliance from the books. There's plenty from canon to play with - that dinner party, Lady Allendale helping Jane set up her house - or you could do something post-canon: Dragon politics! London society shenanigans! Emily's disastrous/hilarious come-out ball! I want some badass ladies getting shit done and possibly drinking together while being incredibly opposite in their approaches to life.
There's so much unexplored in this friendship: I want Jane being competent and blunt and bulldozing her way through the London power structure, and I want Lady Allendale planning dinner parties like military campaigns and advising Jane on where she should compromise (like the house and the ball) and where she should give no fucks, I want them awkwardly not!talking about Laurence (or talking about it, for hilarity's sake, because Jane totally would), and recruiting society ladies into the Corps. Any or all of this would make me happy.
Think of England
Archie Curtis, Daniel da Silva, Patricia Merton, Fenella Carruth
Post-book adventures, please! Maybe Pat and Fen fall into one of Daniel's investigations by accident, or maybe they call in a favor with the boys because they need help, or maybe they get hired by Archie's uncle for being obviously more competent than them, idk, I just want a reunion and spy shenanigans!
If any book was ever begging for a sequel, it's this one. You don't *have* to write a casefile, although I'd love one, but I think the four of them meeting again and being competent is the key bit for me.
Memoirs of Lady Trent
Isabella, Suhail
I would LOVE some porn if that's a thing you like to write - there's a sad lack in the fandom currently - but if you aren't comfortable with that, their relationship is sufficiently full of adorable nerdy affection that I'm cool with anything.
Seriously, after like two books packed with pining and competence porn, I was so frustrated to check AO3 and not find any fic elaborating on their carefully-elided wedding night (curse you, fake-Victorian memoir restrictions on canon), and then the last book kept them apart for so much of the story. I'd really love a PWP, but I think what's most appealing to me is having them be intimate, in that private kind way that Isabella can't publically write about.
If there's anything that's really confusing or stymying you about my prompts, please feel free to PM inmyriadbits (DW, Tumblr). She's my twin sister, so she knows all my preferences and can guide you - and will probably be delighted to keep the secret from me and then tell me all about it after reveals ;)
OMG YULETIDE IS HEEEERE!!! Thank you, fellow fan, for loving one of these little fandoms enough to write me fic for it. ♥ You are welcome to ignore my optional details, of course, but if you like having some hints and prompts and guidelines, read on!
SQUICKS
incest - my absolute hardline squick; if you try to write this for me, I will inevitably fail out after a few pages at most, dnw
amputation - while there are multiple amputee characters that I adore (Furiosa, Bucky, Luke Skywalker, etc etc), I've found that reading about the actual trauma of amputation/permanently disabling injuries and their immediate aftermath is super upsetting for me and would like to skip reading things through my metaphorical fingers for Yuletide
infidelity/adultery - also a thing that I can read, but which almost always makes me loathe the betraying character, which is no fun. Please avoid!
LOVES
competence
partnership
pining
worldbuilding
friendship (especially complex, difficult, or between female characters)
epistolary
loyalty
teams/found families
hurt/comfort
trust issues
amnesia
outsider POV
how-they-met backstory
banter & good dialogue
cons, heists, and spy shenanigans (c.f. my competence kink)
I mostly have no preference between gen and shippy stories, and love any range of (a)sexuality, kinks, and relationship types that seem in-character based on canon. If I do ship something (mentioned in the fandom details below), please don't feel obliged to write it if you don't ship it - I will enjoy gen for any of these characters just as much, and you should get to write a story you love, too. Optional details are optional!
Banlieue 13
any character
I adore these ridiculous movies, and would be happy with literally any fic about them, the characters, or the world! If you'd like more of a hint than than, please see my Yuletide letter.
I really do mean *anything* with this fandom - I've requested it for EVERY Yuletide I've participated in, which is...eight this year, geez. I'm partial to Damien/Leito, because hello hoyay, competence, and enemies-to-super-loyal-friends trope. I love Lola and her fierce strength, and reading about what happened to her after the first movie. I even love the weird dystopian setting and the hope of fixing it - you could probably do some fun solarpunk stuff with B13, now that I think about it. If you want to tell me about, idk, Gassman's secretary going to therapy to deal with having someone drive a car through her office, or Tao's childhood, or the kids who hero worship Leito, I would adore any of it.
Temeraire
Lady Allendale, Jane Roland
I would kill for some fic about their background friendship/alliance from the books. There's plenty from canon to play with - that dinner party, Lady Allendale helping Jane set up her house - or you could do something post-canon: Dragon politics! London society shenanigans! Emily's disastrous/hilarious come-out ball! I want some badass ladies getting shit done and possibly drinking together while being incredibly opposite in their approaches to life.
There's so much unexplored in this friendship: I want Jane being competent and blunt and bulldozing her way through the London power structure, and I want Lady Allendale planning dinner parties like military campaigns and advising Jane on where she should compromise (like the house and the ball) and where she should give no fucks, I want them awkwardly not!talking about Laurence (or talking about it, for hilarity's sake, because Jane totally would), and recruiting society ladies into the Corps. Any or all of this would make me happy.
Think of England
Archie Curtis, Daniel da Silva, Patricia Merton, Fenella Carruth
Post-book adventures, please! Maybe Pat and Fen fall into one of Daniel's investigations by accident, or maybe they call in a favor with the boys because they need help, or maybe they get hired by Archie's uncle for being obviously more competent than them, idk, I just want a reunion and spy shenanigans!
If any book was ever begging for a sequel, it's this one. You don't *have* to write a casefile, although I'd love one, but I think the four of them meeting again and being competent is the key bit for me.
Memoirs of Lady Trent
Isabella, Suhail
I would LOVE some porn if that's a thing you like to write - there's a sad lack in the fandom currently - but if you aren't comfortable with that, their relationship is sufficiently full of adorable nerdy affection that I'm cool with anything.
Seriously, after like two books packed with pining and competence porn, I was so frustrated to check AO3 and not find any fic elaborating on their carefully-elided wedding night (curse you, fake-Victorian memoir restrictions on canon), and then the last book kept them apart for so much of the story. I'd really love a PWP, but I think what's most appealing to me is having them be intimate, in that private kind way that Isabella can't publically write about.
If there's anything that's really confusing or stymying you about my prompts, please feel free to PM inmyriadbits (DW, Tumblr). She's my twin sister, so she knows all my preferences and can guide you - and will probably be delighted to keep the secret from me and then tell me all about it after reveals ;)