Yuletide letter
Oct. 20th, 2023 09:32 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
harborshoreIt is YULETIDE. Best and most terrifying time of the year, huh?
First! Thank you for offering one of my fandoms, and I'm so excited to see what you come up with. Please write something you're excited about - any prompts offered here are only meant to help, not hinder.
Things I like in no particular order:
OT3s if the fandom lends itself to them, well-earned happy endings (I love a bit of conflict and complications), found families, AUs, spies, pining (if a pairing fic), plotty gen, mystery stories, hurt/comfort, cuddling for warmth, heist stories, cleverness, magic, unexpected crossovers, action, a story about people having food together and talking, etc. I'm eclectic in what fandoms I read and what genres I read.
Particular fandom things I like:
Mary Russel - Laurie King
Gabriel, Alistair and Iris Hughenfort (story must feature all of them)
When I saw this fandom offered and these characters in particular, I shrieked. I have wanted fix-it fic for this book (Justice Hall) since I read it - it's a fantastic book, but the tragic backstory of it cries out for a kindly fic writer to make sure Gabriel doesn't die. The thought of that poor kid, dying alone--augh. So. some way of fixing this would be lovely. Whether that's his uncle showing up in the nick of time - maybe the priest managed to write to him? - or his mum, or anything. (I'd be fine with fic also including Henry Hughenfort, obviously, he wasn't in the Yuletide tagset but I love this little unconventional family quite a lot, so feel free to include him as well.) So if you fix this for me, Yuletide writer, you will have my undying gratitude.
Green Men series - KJ Charles
Saul Lazenby and Randolph Glyde (story must feature both of them)
God I love these two. They found each other after so much awfulness, and now they get to save the world, I guess. I love Green Men case fic (I've chatficced some), I also love quiet moments, the lull of the storm, and a particular favorite is when a fic writer figures out a way to let them save the world. (We want the rest of the series, yes we do, but we can't have it (yet? I live in hope), so we must write it.) I also adore this setting and all the weird magic/old ghosts. Love sex between these two, so if you want to write that, I'd be delighted.
Dark is Rising
Bran Davies and Will Stanton
Oh, another two people who found each other in the midst of a very difficult time. I LOVE THEM. I kind of want this to be post-canon, because I particularly adore them as adults, but if you've carried around a plot bunny for a fic set during Silver on the Tree, or something else, by all means, go for it, I'm sure it's wonderful (Yuletide is a great time for writing those things). I ship them (quite madly) but if you do not, gen is totally fine. But yes, post-canon Bran Remembers fic is a favorite genre, and maybe the Dark IS rising again and the son of Pendragon is needed (again). Or perhaps it's just an ordinary day and Bran remembers because of the way the light falls on their breakfast table. Or perhaps they meet again randomly and--yeah, anything in this genre would thrill me.
DNWS: Rape, explicit torture, bleakness - specifically situations where there's no light at all, so to speak, major character death, bashing female characters. And no centering a story on grief, please, though it can absolutely be present in the story. I also cannot do major illness right now, particularly cancer, though moderately serious injuries are fine.
First! Thank you for offering one of my fandoms, and I'm so excited to see what you come up with. Please write something you're excited about - any prompts offered here are only meant to help, not hinder.
Things I like in no particular order:
OT3s if the fandom lends itself to them, well-earned happy endings (I love a bit of conflict and complications), found families, AUs, spies, pining (if a pairing fic), plotty gen, mystery stories, hurt/comfort, cuddling for warmth, heist stories, cleverness, magic, unexpected crossovers, action, a story about people having food together and talking, etc. I'm eclectic in what fandoms I read and what genres I read.
Particular fandom things I like:
Mary Russel - Laurie King
Gabriel, Alistair and Iris Hughenfort (story must feature all of them)
When I saw this fandom offered and these characters in particular, I shrieked. I have wanted fix-it fic for this book (Justice Hall) since I read it - it's a fantastic book, but the tragic backstory of it cries out for a kindly fic writer to make sure Gabriel doesn't die. The thought of that poor kid, dying alone--augh. So. some way of fixing this would be lovely. Whether that's his uncle showing up in the nick of time - maybe the priest managed to write to him? - or his mum, or anything. (I'd be fine with fic also including Henry Hughenfort, obviously, he wasn't in the Yuletide tagset but I love this little unconventional family quite a lot, so feel free to include him as well.) So if you fix this for me, Yuletide writer, you will have my undying gratitude.
Green Men series - KJ Charles
Saul Lazenby and Randolph Glyde (story must feature both of them)
God I love these two. They found each other after so much awfulness, and now they get to save the world, I guess. I love Green Men case fic (I've chatficced some), I also love quiet moments, the lull of the storm, and a particular favorite is when a fic writer figures out a way to let them save the world. (We want the rest of the series, yes we do, but we can't have it (yet? I live in hope), so we must write it.) I also adore this setting and all the weird magic/old ghosts. Love sex between these two, so if you want to write that, I'd be delighted.
Dark is Rising
Bran Davies and Will Stanton
Oh, another two people who found each other in the midst of a very difficult time. I LOVE THEM. I kind of want this to be post-canon, because I particularly adore them as adults, but if you've carried around a plot bunny for a fic set during Silver on the Tree, or something else, by all means, go for it, I'm sure it's wonderful (Yuletide is a great time for writing those things). I ship them (quite madly) but if you do not, gen is totally fine. But yes, post-canon Bran Remembers fic is a favorite genre, and maybe the Dark IS rising again and the son of Pendragon is needed (again). Or perhaps it's just an ordinary day and Bran remembers because of the way the light falls on their breakfast table. Or perhaps they meet again randomly and--yeah, anything in this genre would thrill me.
DNWS: Rape, explicit torture, bleakness - specifically situations where there's no light at all, so to speak, major character death, bashing female characters. And no centering a story on grief, please, though it can absolutely be present in the story. I also cannot do major illness right now, particularly cancer, though moderately serious injuries are fine.