Dear Yuletide Author
Dear Yuletide Writer,
I signed up! I’ve never done this challenge before! It was just under the wire of the deadline! So, additional details ahoy, but I’m still very much in the process of writing individually about each fandom, so please consider this a placeholder post/letter for now. Check back in a few days and I should have more for you.
In general, I like all sorts of things, so I will probably love whatever you write! I love a good OT3, gen makes me very happy, slash is awesome, het is good too. I rarely read femslash but if the bunny bites, go for it! I love close-knit team dynamics and am usually not too into villains.
Do Not Wants are (endgame) very unequal relationships, humiliation kink or toilet kinks. Even though my prompts trend light, feel free to go as dark and/or kinky as you like, I’m pretty unshockable.
Please write what gives you joy to write! Got that one burning idea? Do it! Not sure if something’s exactly in line with my blathering here? Haha, I will not care, I promise! Characters not in the nominations? Pfft, whatever, I’m down for it.
That said, if you DO want prompts, etc. from me, read on:
NIGHT SUN TAROT DECK
I don’t know all that much about Tarot as a whole, but some friends and I got into this and you can officially consider me very intrigued. There are stories within stories in all of it, it seems.
Mix and match as the muse calls. I’m not at all stuck on the nominated characters, so for my part please feel free to play.
Prompts:
What if the creator of the deck was a real live prophet (a la Chuck from season 5 of Supernatural) having strange dreams of the people represented by each card?
Or like in Kevin (Probably) Saves The World, there are 36 righteous souls that must find each other to accomplish a great task.
The Star has lost their way, and needs others’ help to find direction.
Strength is looking for a Sword.
The Moon circles their way around the World, drawn to her life.
Knights draw close to the Tower, what adventure lies in store?
The Eight of Cups is popping up everywhere, what does she want to say?
WHEEL OF TIME - ROBERT JORDAN
I only finished reading the entire Wheel of Time series this past year. I was always wishing Rand and Perrin and Matt would interact more (I like Perrin, I know some don’t) and Rand’s weird poly marriage to three women would also be fun to explore. Also Tam was awesome.
How does the Two Rivers deal with getting back to normal, if normal is even possible after they were home to the Dragon and most of them have magic and they are their own land now and everything is different, but crops still need to be planted.
Elaine, Avhienda and Min coordinate going after Rand (or maybe they let him chill for a while first)
After everybody fatefully congregated at the Stone of Tear (the first time), what if they all actually hung out and talked to each other and shared relevant information? (Yeah, okay, it might be a stretch, but I like to dream!)
Or more about sharing dreams/that psychic link thing the ta’veren had/Warder bonds/feeling each other have sex, because this is a very rich field of subject matter that I feel was glossed over without sufficient detail, especially considering the final wordcount of this opus.
ROAD TO EL DORADO (2000)
Okay really from the very first time I saw this movie, I was like THREESOME!! My OT3-detector had only just gone active in my young fangirl innocence and all the bells and whistles went off for this movie. Two handsome bantering best-of-friends, and the girl who wades right in and matches them and says, no, don’t break up, just include me too! Where do they go next? Back to Spain? Central America? The Orient? What adventures lie in wait? I DON’T KNOW. Do they wind up on a pirate ship? Will there be smooching shared? Do they get to help set the tone for pirate culture to be more open-minded about unconventional relationships for the next few hundred years?
Note- I prefer closed relationship OT3s to, say, open smooching with everybody on the pirate ship. Maybe Miguel likes open smooching but it’s really about how the other two need to chase him down and make him know he’s theirs. ;)
TAM LIN - TRADITIONAL BALLAD
There are a lot of different versions, I put a few in a playlist:
https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLTC-cXHN4fWeIN1zryWrmBxLYXa0QuqKL
Basically there’s a lot of room for interpretation, and like most old folk tales, it might be surprisingly dark. You can go wild! Why did Janet run down to Carterhaugh? Why (and when) did she and Tam Lin decide they loved each other?
(If you’d like to go the bestiality route for the faerie trials, I support that legitimate reading of those lines... if I just squicked you and you can’t unsee it, sorry!)
BOOKS OF THE RAKSURA - MARTHA WELLS
I love these books so much! Moon being an odd duck-out-of-water, unconventional gender roles, the sheer vast size and scope of history in the Three Worlds.
I am a sucker for anytime Moon’s experience and skills from fending for himself come in handy, like that thing he does where he’s so paranoid he can feel people coming up behind him or he turns his back just to see if they’re going to attack him, but he’s really good at reacting faster than they expect if they do. Or swimming/fishing, blending in with groundling communities, baiting giant kethels into death-defying acrobatics along rocky cliff faces with his mother watching like at the end of the third book… that may have been one of my favorite scenes, because he was not even looking for rescue like any other consort would have, he’s just like this is what I do, this is who I am, when it comes down to it I’m going to fly like crazy and skate the edge for as much time as I can buy everyone.
Also basically all the times Raksura try to interact with groundlings who try not to be terrified of them/think they’re really weird. Yes please. AND/OR inter-court politics, and the ripples/waves Moon and Indigo Cloud have made therein.
TEMERAIRE - NAOMI NOVIK
Who does not love this dragon? I don’t even know what to prompt.
Temeraire and Lawrence’s partnership is probably going down in story and song for future generations to regard with awe; if you want to play with that direction that would be really really cool.
Lawrence getting to actually rebuild a relationship with his mother after everything they’ve gone through would be really sweet, too. Or spending more time in China, or decades-later, actually having built an effective dragon-human society in Australia or England. Or if you don’t want to focus on Lawrence and Temeraire, maybe a bit more of an inside view from the aerial corps at any point in the series, or the crew of a dragon transport (poor Riley!) would be really interesting.
Again, feel totally free to make something up and go with it!
I signed up! I’ve never done this challenge before! It was just under the wire of the deadline! So, additional details ahoy, but I’m still very much in the process of writing individually about each fandom, so please consider this a placeholder post/letter for now. Check back in a few days and I should have more for you.
In general, I like all sorts of things, so I will probably love whatever you write! I love a good OT3, gen makes me very happy, slash is awesome, het is good too. I rarely read femslash but if the bunny bites, go for it! I love close-knit team dynamics and am usually not too into villains.
Do Not Wants are (endgame) very unequal relationships, humiliation kink or toilet kinks. Even though my prompts trend light, feel free to go as dark and/or kinky as you like, I’m pretty unshockable.
Please write what gives you joy to write! Got that one burning idea? Do it! Not sure if something’s exactly in line with my blathering here? Haha, I will not care, I promise! Characters not in the nominations? Pfft, whatever, I’m down for it.
That said, if you DO want prompts, etc. from me, read on:
NIGHT SUN TAROT DECK
I don’t know all that much about Tarot as a whole, but some friends and I got into this and you can officially consider me very intrigued. There are stories within stories in all of it, it seems.
Mix and match as the muse calls. I’m not at all stuck on the nominated characters, so for my part please feel free to play.
Prompts:
What if the creator of the deck was a real live prophet (a la Chuck from season 5 of Supernatural) having strange dreams of the people represented by each card?
Or like in Kevin (Probably) Saves The World, there are 36 righteous souls that must find each other to accomplish a great task.
The Star has lost their way, and needs others’ help to find direction.
Strength is looking for a Sword.
The Moon circles their way around the World, drawn to her life.
Knights draw close to the Tower, what adventure lies in store?
The Eight of Cups is popping up everywhere, what does she want to say?
WHEEL OF TIME - ROBERT JORDAN
I only finished reading the entire Wheel of Time series this past year. I was always wishing Rand and Perrin and Matt would interact more (I like Perrin, I know some don’t) and Rand’s weird poly marriage to three women would also be fun to explore. Also Tam was awesome.
How does the Two Rivers deal with getting back to normal, if normal is even possible after they were home to the Dragon and most of them have magic and they are their own land now and everything is different, but crops still need to be planted.
Elaine, Avhienda and Min coordinate going after Rand (or maybe they let him chill for a while first)
After everybody fatefully congregated at the Stone of Tear (the first time), what if they all actually hung out and talked to each other and shared relevant information? (Yeah, okay, it might be a stretch, but I like to dream!)
Or more about sharing dreams/that psychic link thing the ta’veren had/Warder bonds/feeling each other have sex, because this is a very rich field of subject matter that I feel was glossed over without sufficient detail, especially considering the final wordcount of this opus.
ROAD TO EL DORADO (2000)
Okay really from the very first time I saw this movie, I was like THREESOME!! My OT3-detector had only just gone active in my young fangirl innocence and all the bells and whistles went off for this movie. Two handsome bantering best-of-friends, and the girl who wades right in and matches them and says, no, don’t break up, just include me too! Where do they go next? Back to Spain? Central America? The Orient? What adventures lie in wait? I DON’T KNOW. Do they wind up on a pirate ship? Will there be smooching shared? Do they get to help set the tone for pirate culture to be more open-minded about unconventional relationships for the next few hundred years?
Note- I prefer closed relationship OT3s to, say, open smooching with everybody on the pirate ship. Maybe Miguel likes open smooching but it’s really about how the other two need to chase him down and make him know he’s theirs. ;)
TAM LIN - TRADITIONAL BALLAD
There are a lot of different versions, I put a few in a playlist:
https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLTC-cXHN4fWeIN1zryWrmBxLYXa0QuqKL
Basically there’s a lot of room for interpretation, and like most old folk tales, it might be surprisingly dark. You can go wild! Why did Janet run down to Carterhaugh? Why (and when) did she and Tam Lin decide they loved each other?
(If you’d like to go the bestiality route for the faerie trials, I support that legitimate reading of those lines... if I just squicked you and you can’t unsee it, sorry!)
BOOKS OF THE RAKSURA - MARTHA WELLS
I love these books so much! Moon being an odd duck-out-of-water, unconventional gender roles, the sheer vast size and scope of history in the Three Worlds.
I am a sucker for anytime Moon’s experience and skills from fending for himself come in handy, like that thing he does where he’s so paranoid he can feel people coming up behind him or he turns his back just to see if they’re going to attack him, but he’s really good at reacting faster than they expect if they do. Or swimming/fishing, blending in with groundling communities, baiting giant kethels into death-defying acrobatics along rocky cliff faces with his mother watching like at the end of the third book… that may have been one of my favorite scenes, because he was not even looking for rescue like any other consort would have, he’s just like this is what I do, this is who I am, when it comes down to it I’m going to fly like crazy and skate the edge for as much time as I can buy everyone.
Also basically all the times Raksura try to interact with groundlings who try not to be terrified of them/think they’re really weird. Yes please. AND/OR inter-court politics, and the ripples/waves Moon and Indigo Cloud have made therein.
TEMERAIRE - NAOMI NOVIK
Who does not love this dragon? I don’t even know what to prompt.
Temeraire and Lawrence’s partnership is probably going down in story and song for future generations to regard with awe; if you want to play with that direction that would be really really cool.
Lawrence getting to actually rebuild a relationship with his mother after everything they’ve gone through would be really sweet, too. Or spending more time in China, or decades-later, actually having built an effective dragon-human society in Australia or England. Or if you don’t want to focus on Lawrence and Temeraire, maybe a bit more of an inside view from the aerial corps at any point in the series, or the crew of a dragon transport (poor Riley!) would be really interesting.
Again, feel totally free to make something up and go with it!