Dear Yuletide Writer: 2017
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aunt_zeldaHello stranger! Happy Yuletide!
Here's the quick basics:
I'm gonna be so happy with whatever you create. I know writing for a stranger can be scary and anxiety-inducing, but the fact that you're writing for one of these fandoms at all is gonna light up my day.
I ship a lot of ships. (Lately my motto’s been “ship all the ships” for most of my fandoms. I can see the potential in almost any ship.) M/M, F/F, F/M, threesomes, moresomes, gen … it’s all good to me. I'm comfortable with a lot of kinks. And I LOVE getting smut as a gift. But I am completely fine with gen if you're not comfortable writing smutty stuff! A commitment to the universe and a faithfulness to the characters is what's most important to me.
My Squicks/Stuff To Avoid: major character death, major character illness, adultery/cheating, medical play, eye torture, gaslighting, incest, fridging female characters, demonizing female characters for "getting in the way" of a m/m pairing, Rape As Drama, A/B/O verse (I’m fine with it sometimes but only in very specific ways, so probably best to just avoid it for Yuletide), brutal unhappy endings with no hope in sight (except for The Screw Job fandom.)
Stuff I Like/Stuff I Love/Stuff I’d Enjoy Seeing: cuddling, bondage, whipping, knifeplay, gunkink, threesomes, femdom, FoeYay, female-character focal fic, cisswap fic, Christmas fluff, domestic fluff/curtain fic, kink negotiation, character A teaching character B to defend themselves, bandaging someone’s wounds, polyamory, couple locked in a room, first time, aftercare, role reversal AU, characters cooking dinner for each other, longtime crushes becoming longtime relationships, platonic sleeping together, general character exploration*
* You don’t need to include any of these, I'm just listing some things I like so you get a better sense of me.
If you are up for writing smut or kinky fic, here is a link to my Yuleporn post for additional details.
Please note, I migrated to dreamwidth last year from LJ, but haven't been updating either very much, I need to copy/paste more of my tumblr activity to my dreamwidth. My tumblr is where I'm most active, my updates are random and about many things, but if you wanna get a better sense of who I am and what I’m watching, that’s the place to do it. If you're thinking of writing something smutty or kinky, the sexy stuff I like to look at on tumblr is usually listed under the When Y'all Learn Way Too Much About My Kinks tag (warning: VERY NSFW!)
My most recent fanfics are on AO3, and my bookmarks are there too for what I'm currently reading. Sometimes I bookmark things I don't 100% like, so don't take my favoriting a fic as an endorsement of everything in it.
~*~
Onto the fandoms I requested and some prompts. Please don’t worry about trying to follow any of my prompts or adhering to them. These are just some ideas to get your creativity going if you want, and a way to show you my tastes:
Siberia
Irene, Sabina, Daniel, Sam
(You are NOT obligated to write ALL of the characters I've requested, any combinations of these three are fine with me, or just one of them.)
First off: OMG YOU HAVE SEEN THIS SHOW YAY. Small fandom is SMALL. After Yuletide please do follow me on tumblr so we can talk about this show and scheme to get it brought back, maybe picked up by Netflix or something, because my gods does it need more seasons.
Secondly, I nominated this show so I really care about it, a lot. If you write anything at all for this I will be over the moon. Here is my promotion comment on the member post where I talk about why I love the show: https://yuletide.dreamwidth.org/91869.html?thread=467421#cmt467421
If you watched the show and felt drawn to other characters than those I nominated, by all means include them in your work. I picked the four I liked the most to nominate, but I adored the whole cast, if I could have I would have nominated everyone.
I ship Daniel/Irene so much. They're so precious and important. I'd also be up for Sabina/Daniel, Sabina/Irene, Sabina/Sam, or Sabina/Daniel/Irene. (See my Yuleporn comment for more details if you are comfortable writing smut.)
There’s a lot to work with here, depending on what you like to write. Here’s some ideas (again, you don’t need to take these if you don’t like them, just some potential starting off points) :
1) Detailed character exploration of one or some or all of the characters I requested. Their life prior to the show, during the show, after the show, whatever you like.
2) Your take on what happened after the end. Theories, possible ideas for what’s going on with that show, anything that strikes your fancy.
3) Daniel and Irene, a rare private moment of intimacy on such a crowded show.
4) Sabina and Daniel in the woods, trying to find answers.
5) Cuddlepile for warmth, anyone or everyone.
6) Sam and Sabina feeling protective of Daniel and Irene in parental ways.
Mr. Right
Francis Munch, Hopper, Martha, Shotgun Steve
(You are NOT obligated to write ALL of the characters I've requested, any combinations of these four are fine with me, or just one of them.)
As soon as the end credits rolled, I knew that I'd be nominating this movie for Yuletide. Assassin Romantic Comedies are my favorite subgenre. I love the weird contrast between violent assassinations and adorable eccentric love. This film fulfills both those requirements, with the weird but oddly perfect pairing of Sam Rockwell (as Francis/Mr. Right) and Anna Kendrick (as Martha). Best of all, Martha has a talent for violence herself, as revealed during a strangely sexy knife throwing scene with Francis, and instead of "curing" Francis or something, they run away together to travel the world and continue battling government hitmen for the rest of their days. (I love happy endings. : D) There's also a funny henchman called Shotgun Steve, who survives the film because he's not rude like all the other bad guys, and also Tim Roth is there as the villain. This movie is great.
Here’s my promotion comment: https://yuletide.dreamwidth.org/91869.html?thread=467165#cmt467165
I ship Francis/Martha, but also Francis/Hopper and Martha/Francis/Hopper ... if they all stopped trying to kill each other. (See my Yuleporn comment for more details if you are comfortable writing smut.)
Here’s some ideas (again, you don’t need to take these if you don’t like them, just some potential starting off points) :
1) Hopper's been tracking Francis for a long time, and seen the bodies pile up in his wake. What are Hopper's thoughts on this situation?
2) Francis and Martha's favorite travel spot, and least favorite.
3) DARK AU: Hopper succeeds in capturing Francis and dragging him to a government facility to reprogram him into a killing machine. He thought Martha was irrelevant, but he thought wrong. Martha tracks them down and breaks in to rescue Francis, but the clock is ticking on how long Francis can resist Hopper's reprogramming tactics.
4) CANON DIVERGENCE AU: Instead of being shot, Hopper gets hit on the head during the climactic battle. When he comes to, he tells Francis and Martha that his mission now is to keep them safe from Francis' former handlers, and he joins them on their travels around the world. (Whether he actually suffered amnesia or is faking it so he can be around Francis without Francis shooting him is up to you.)
5) ROLE REVERSAL AU: Martha is the quirky dancing assassin who crashes into the recently-dumped awkward Francis.
6) Shotgun Steve Has a Nice Day, Because He Deserves One, Dammit.
The Screw Job – Critical Role
any characters
I nominated this fandom with a friend, and risked an evidence post to get it in the tagset. So I care very much about it. I just really want more content with these characters, any of them, and Yuletide seemed the ideal time for it. This is the one fandom this Yuletide where I’ll accept dark or tragic endings.
Here’s the promotion comment I made for The Screw Job: https://yuletide.dreamwidth.org/91869.html?thread=557789#cmt557789
I put 0 characters on the sign-up because I really just want more content overall, and I couldn’t whittle the characters down to 4 slots on my sign-up. If you already know what you want to write with this fandom and these characters, go for it! (See my Yuleporn comment for more details if you are comfortable writing smut.)
However, here’s some ideas/specifics if you feel so inclined:
1) Devan/Dren, they do run away together after all. What’s life like for the gambling addict and assassin-turned-poet on the run?
2) Delweth turns the tide of the fight and kills Tarvis. Does she decide to let Devan and Dren run, or kill everyone in the room?
3) Tarvis and Obby the Rat’s past missions together for the Clasp.
4) Spireling Shen’s behind the scenes shenanigans managing these backstabby rogues and general business in Emon’s underworld.
5) The Shrew’s life during all of this. Taking in her granddaughter, kicking her out, and dealing with the Clasp.
6) SMUT PROMPT: Delweth and Tarvis have hatesex, which Tarvis doesn’t realize is hatesex.
7) AU SMUTTY PROMPT: Devan seduces Delweth instead to help her escape. Do they betray each other?
8) SMUT PROMPT: Devan and Dren try out some roleplay where Dren is the prisoner and Devan is the captor.
9) ROLE REVERSAL AU: Devan is the owner of the independent crime business, and kicks out her gambling freeloading grandmother. The Clasp picks up Adelaide and breaks into the house to steal from Devan.
10) DARK AU: The Shrew resurrects the crew and magically enslaves them to protect her from the Clasp. The team must work together to break free.
11) SECRET AU: In the show, Obby the Rat had no secret agenda. Write a fic where he did have a secret agenda like everyone else, and how that would have impacted the plot.
12) OT3 AU: Delweth helps Dren and Devan escape and runs off with them. Devan has two stabby girlfriends now.
Dread: Sagas of Sundry
Raina, Darby Trellis, Kayden, Sat
(You are NOT obligated to write ALL of the characters I've requested, any combinations of these four are fine with me, or just one of them.)
Ah, Dread. What a delightful little spooky show! I’m so happy Geek & Sundry made it, and I had a lot of fun watching it this summer. I love all the Dread kiddos so much, they broke my heart and got me so invested so quickly.
If you don’t know what Dread is, here’s the promo comment for it about what it is and where to watch it: https://yuletide.dreamwidth.org/91869.html?thread=561373#cmt561373
I had a hard time narrowing my choices, ‘cause there’s five kids, but I eventually settled on these four. Obviously you’re free to mention Tanner, it’d be weird if he wasn’t mentioned, but as per the rules: no fic focusing on him please. (Let’s be real, there’s already quite a bit of fic focusing on Tanner, let’s give the others some time to shine.)
If you already have ideas for Dread, go for it! (See my Yuleporn comment for more details if you are comfortable writing smut.)
If not, here’s some prompts for things I’d like to read, to get your creativity going:
1) How Darby and Raina fell for each other and started dating.
2) How Sat and Kayden fell for each other and started dating.
3) Raina gets a massive crush on Sat and doesn’t know what to do.
4) Raina gets a massive crush on Sat and Kayden and doesn’t know what to do.
5) Darby and Raina move in together after college and meet their greatest challenge: assembling furniture together.
6) Kayden and Sat move in together after the events of Dread and try to figure out this whole adulting thing.
7) The four hop in a van together and travel the countryside hunting supernatural events and helping people.
8) Darby and Kayden working out a timeshare for their mutual girlfriends.
9) They all go to an 80s concert and shenanigans ensue.
10) Sat, Kayden, and Darby get Raina high for the first time. How does she react?
11) DARK AU: Darby goes deeper into the supernatural and the spooky voice in Kayden’s head comes back.
12) SMUT PROMPT: any of the above prompts, but with smut.
~*~
So ... yeah. Kind of a mixed bag. I think I gave enough information, so long as you avoid the stuff on my squicks-list I will be happy. Please don’t agonize about covering one of my prompts if you’re just not feeling it. Honestly, someone writing for any of these fandoms will make me very happy. I worked hard on my list, these are my top choices and I will be happy with anything.
Hope I've kept it open enough that you find something you're comfortable with and are excited to tackle.
Happy writing!
Here's the quick basics:
I'm gonna be so happy with whatever you create. I know writing for a stranger can be scary and anxiety-inducing, but the fact that you're writing for one of these fandoms at all is gonna light up my day.
I ship a lot of ships. (Lately my motto’s been “ship all the ships” for most of my fandoms. I can see the potential in almost any ship.) M/M, F/F, F/M, threesomes, moresomes, gen … it’s all good to me. I'm comfortable with a lot of kinks. And I LOVE getting smut as a gift. But I am completely fine with gen if you're not comfortable writing smutty stuff! A commitment to the universe and a faithfulness to the characters is what's most important to me.
My Squicks/Stuff To Avoid: major character death, major character illness, adultery/cheating, medical play, eye torture, gaslighting, incest, fridging female characters, demonizing female characters for "getting in the way" of a m/m pairing, Rape As Drama, A/B/O verse (I’m fine with it sometimes but only in very specific ways, so probably best to just avoid it for Yuletide), brutal unhappy endings with no hope in sight (except for The Screw Job fandom.)
Stuff I Like/Stuff I Love/Stuff I’d Enjoy Seeing: cuddling, bondage, whipping, knifeplay, gunkink, threesomes, femdom, FoeYay, female-character focal fic, cisswap fic, Christmas fluff, domestic fluff/curtain fic, kink negotiation, character A teaching character B to defend themselves, bandaging someone’s wounds, polyamory, couple locked in a room, first time, aftercare, role reversal AU, characters cooking dinner for each other, longtime crushes becoming longtime relationships, platonic sleeping together, general character exploration*
* You don’t need to include any of these, I'm just listing some things I like so you get a better sense of me.
If you are up for writing smut or kinky fic, here is a link to my Yuleporn post for additional details.
Please note, I migrated to dreamwidth last year from LJ, but haven't been updating either very much, I need to copy/paste more of my tumblr activity to my dreamwidth. My tumblr is where I'm most active, my updates are random and about many things, but if you wanna get a better sense of who I am and what I’m watching, that’s the place to do it. If you're thinking of writing something smutty or kinky, the sexy stuff I like to look at on tumblr is usually listed under the When Y'all Learn Way Too Much About My Kinks tag (warning: VERY NSFW!)
My most recent fanfics are on AO3, and my bookmarks are there too for what I'm currently reading. Sometimes I bookmark things I don't 100% like, so don't take my favoriting a fic as an endorsement of everything in it.
~*~
Onto the fandoms I requested and some prompts. Please don’t worry about trying to follow any of my prompts or adhering to them. These are just some ideas to get your creativity going if you want, and a way to show you my tastes:
Siberia
Irene, Sabina, Daniel, Sam
(You are NOT obligated to write ALL of the characters I've requested, any combinations of these three are fine with me, or just one of them.)
First off: OMG YOU HAVE SEEN THIS SHOW YAY. Small fandom is SMALL. After Yuletide please do follow me on tumblr so we can talk about this show and scheme to get it brought back, maybe picked up by Netflix or something, because my gods does it need more seasons.
Secondly, I nominated this show so I really care about it, a lot. If you write anything at all for this I will be over the moon. Here is my promotion comment on the member post where I talk about why I love the show: https://yuletide.dreamwidth.org/91869.html?thread=467421#cmt467421
If you watched the show and felt drawn to other characters than those I nominated, by all means include them in your work. I picked the four I liked the most to nominate, but I adored the whole cast, if I could have I would have nominated everyone.
I ship Daniel/Irene so much. They're so precious and important. I'd also be up for Sabina/Daniel, Sabina/Irene, Sabina/Sam, or Sabina/Daniel/Irene. (See my Yuleporn comment for more details if you are comfortable writing smut.)
There’s a lot to work with here, depending on what you like to write. Here’s some ideas (again, you don’t need to take these if you don’t like them, just some potential starting off points) :
1) Detailed character exploration of one or some or all of the characters I requested. Their life prior to the show, during the show, after the show, whatever you like.
2) Your take on what happened after the end. Theories, possible ideas for what’s going on with that show, anything that strikes your fancy.
3) Daniel and Irene, a rare private moment of intimacy on such a crowded show.
4) Sabina and Daniel in the woods, trying to find answers.
5) Cuddlepile for warmth, anyone or everyone.
6) Sam and Sabina feeling protective of Daniel and Irene in parental ways.
Mr. Right
Francis Munch, Hopper, Martha, Shotgun Steve
(You are NOT obligated to write ALL of the characters I've requested, any combinations of these four are fine with me, or just one of them.)
As soon as the end credits rolled, I knew that I'd be nominating this movie for Yuletide. Assassin Romantic Comedies are my favorite subgenre. I love the weird contrast between violent assassinations and adorable eccentric love. This film fulfills both those requirements, with the weird but oddly perfect pairing of Sam Rockwell (as Francis/Mr. Right) and Anna Kendrick (as Martha). Best of all, Martha has a talent for violence herself, as revealed during a strangely sexy knife throwing scene with Francis, and instead of "curing" Francis or something, they run away together to travel the world and continue battling government hitmen for the rest of their days. (I love happy endings. : D) There's also a funny henchman called Shotgun Steve, who survives the film because he's not rude like all the other bad guys, and also Tim Roth is there as the villain. This movie is great.
Here’s my promotion comment: https://yuletide.dreamwidth.org/91869.html?thread=467165#cmt467165
I ship Francis/Martha, but also Francis/Hopper and Martha/Francis/Hopper ... if they all stopped trying to kill each other. (See my Yuleporn comment for more details if you are comfortable writing smut.)
Here’s some ideas (again, you don’t need to take these if you don’t like them, just some potential starting off points) :
1) Hopper's been tracking Francis for a long time, and seen the bodies pile up in his wake. What are Hopper's thoughts on this situation?
2) Francis and Martha's favorite travel spot, and least favorite.
3) DARK AU: Hopper succeeds in capturing Francis and dragging him to a government facility to reprogram him into a killing machine. He thought Martha was irrelevant, but he thought wrong. Martha tracks them down and breaks in to rescue Francis, but the clock is ticking on how long Francis can resist Hopper's reprogramming tactics.
4) CANON DIVERGENCE AU: Instead of being shot, Hopper gets hit on the head during the climactic battle. When he comes to, he tells Francis and Martha that his mission now is to keep them safe from Francis' former handlers, and he joins them on their travels around the world. (Whether he actually suffered amnesia or is faking it so he can be around Francis without Francis shooting him is up to you.)
5) ROLE REVERSAL AU: Martha is the quirky dancing assassin who crashes into the recently-dumped awkward Francis.
6) Shotgun Steve Has a Nice Day, Because He Deserves One, Dammit.
The Screw Job – Critical Role
any characters
I nominated this fandom with a friend, and risked an evidence post to get it in the tagset. So I care very much about it. I just really want more content with these characters, any of them, and Yuletide seemed the ideal time for it. This is the one fandom this Yuletide where I’ll accept dark or tragic endings.
Here’s the promotion comment I made for The Screw Job: https://yuletide.dreamwidth.org/91869.html?thread=557789#cmt557789
I put 0 characters on the sign-up because I really just want more content overall, and I couldn’t whittle the characters down to 4 slots on my sign-up. If you already know what you want to write with this fandom and these characters, go for it! (See my Yuleporn comment for more details if you are comfortable writing smut.)
However, here’s some ideas/specifics if you feel so inclined:
1) Devan/Dren, they do run away together after all. What’s life like for the gambling addict and assassin-turned-poet on the run?
2) Delweth turns the tide of the fight and kills Tarvis. Does she decide to let Devan and Dren run, or kill everyone in the room?
3) Tarvis and Obby the Rat’s past missions together for the Clasp.
4) Spireling Shen’s behind the scenes shenanigans managing these backstabby rogues and general business in Emon’s underworld.
5) The Shrew’s life during all of this. Taking in her granddaughter, kicking her out, and dealing with the Clasp.
6) SMUT PROMPT: Delweth and Tarvis have hatesex, which Tarvis doesn’t realize is hatesex.
7) AU SMUTTY PROMPT: Devan seduces Delweth instead to help her escape. Do they betray each other?
8) SMUT PROMPT: Devan and Dren try out some roleplay where Dren is the prisoner and Devan is the captor.
9) ROLE REVERSAL AU: Devan is the owner of the independent crime business, and kicks out her gambling freeloading grandmother. The Clasp picks up Adelaide and breaks into the house to steal from Devan.
10) DARK AU: The Shrew resurrects the crew and magically enslaves them to protect her from the Clasp. The team must work together to break free.
11) SECRET AU: In the show, Obby the Rat had no secret agenda. Write a fic where he did have a secret agenda like everyone else, and how that would have impacted the plot.
12) OT3 AU: Delweth helps Dren and Devan escape and runs off with them. Devan has two stabby girlfriends now.
Dread: Sagas of Sundry
Raina, Darby Trellis, Kayden, Sat
(You are NOT obligated to write ALL of the characters I've requested, any combinations of these four are fine with me, or just one of them.)
Ah, Dread. What a delightful little spooky show! I’m so happy Geek & Sundry made it, and I had a lot of fun watching it this summer. I love all the Dread kiddos so much, they broke my heart and got me so invested so quickly.
If you don’t know what Dread is, here’s the promo comment for it about what it is and where to watch it: https://yuletide.dreamwidth.org/91869.html?thread=561373#cmt561373
I had a hard time narrowing my choices, ‘cause there’s five kids, but I eventually settled on these four. Obviously you’re free to mention Tanner, it’d be weird if he wasn’t mentioned, but as per the rules: no fic focusing on him please. (Let’s be real, there’s already quite a bit of fic focusing on Tanner, let’s give the others some time to shine.)
If you already have ideas for Dread, go for it! (See my Yuleporn comment for more details if you are comfortable writing smut.)
If not, here’s some prompts for things I’d like to read, to get your creativity going:
1) How Darby and Raina fell for each other and started dating.
2) How Sat and Kayden fell for each other and started dating.
3) Raina gets a massive crush on Sat and doesn’t know what to do.
4) Raina gets a massive crush on Sat and Kayden and doesn’t know what to do.
5) Darby and Raina move in together after college and meet their greatest challenge: assembling furniture together.
6) Kayden and Sat move in together after the events of Dread and try to figure out this whole adulting thing.
7) The four hop in a van together and travel the countryside hunting supernatural events and helping people.
8) Darby and Kayden working out a timeshare for their mutual girlfriends.
9) They all go to an 80s concert and shenanigans ensue.
10) Sat, Kayden, and Darby get Raina high for the first time. How does she react?
11) DARK AU: Darby goes deeper into the supernatural and the spooky voice in Kayden’s head comes back.
12) SMUT PROMPT: any of the above prompts, but with smut.
~*~
So ... yeah. Kind of a mixed bag. I think I gave enough information, so long as you avoid the stuff on my squicks-list I will be happy. Please don’t agonize about covering one of my prompts if you’re just not feeling it. Honestly, someone writing for any of these fandoms will make me very happy. I worked hard on my list, these are my top choices and I will be happy with anything.
Hope I've kept it open enough that you find something you're comfortable with and are excited to tackle.
Happy writing!
