2022 Yuletide Letter
Thank you for writing for me!
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In general I like stories that focus on character development and interactions, hurt/comfort, competence (it's always great to read stories where people do their jobs and do it well even under extreme circumstances), missing scenes, and plotty adventures. Humor, snappy dialog and/or snark are all wonderful and canon type violence is fine. When it comes to worldbuilding, I love it when tiny asides or minor details are fleshed out or anytime a "wait, but how does that work/what did they mean when they said 'X'?" kind of thing or situation is explained.
Graphic violence and rape can be a trigger of mine, so I'd appreciate if you did not include either in a story written for me. Other DNWs include A/B/O, character death, genderswap, mpreg, covid/pandemic references or situations, or xeno.
All Souls (TV) Any (characters in tagset: Mitchell Grace, Glory St. Clair, Worldbuilding)Haunted hospitals and unethical experimentation are perfect stepping stones for good storytelling and there was such potential in the ones we saw in "All Souls." There was so many things hinted at in this show that I'd loved to see explored further. What other sorts of ghosts wander the halls of All Souls? What other experiments had been done there? How does Mitch tie in to it all and what role does Glory play?
On the less supernatural side of things, I loved the interactions between Mitch and Grace and their implied, only briefly touched upon, history together. A story between Grace and a young Mitch from back then or something where they reminisce about his father would be wonderful as would just an everyday kind of slice of life snippet now that they've reconnected.
DNW A/B/O, character death, genderswap, graphic violence, mpreg, covid/pandemic references or situations, rape or xeno.
Only six episodes of this show were ever made, which is such a shame because the world it build in that short amount of time was fascinating but so much was left unexplained and unanswered. Just how prevalent were the hospital's hauntings? How is All Souls a "special place" and what did Glory mean when she said "the dead have power here"? Was Glory even real and if so (or if not) who/what was she? Why do we never see her talking with someone other than Mitch? How is she tied to All Souls? What was the story behind the black veiled lady with the pram? How often does Lazarus make appearances? Was Mitch really somehow the reincarnated doctor who had been there during the Civil War? Has Doctor Ambrosius really been there the whole time and if so what are his powers? What exactly was that creature he was commanding in "The Deal" and are there similar creatures elsewhere in the hospital? Do the staff and patients notice all the hospital's oddities or is it just people like Mitch and Glory who do? I have so many questions and I'd love to read a story that went into... well, any of that.
All six All Souls episodes have been put up on youtube. The order they aired was: the pilot, "Spineless", "The Deal", "Bad Blood", "Running Scared", and "One Step Closer to Roger".
Měl jsem psa a kočku | From the Point of View of a Cat - Karel Čapek Any (characters in tagset: Cat, Man, Worldbuilding)For such a short work there's so much to this - on the most basics of levels, it's just a brief glimpse of the life of cat and its Man and the cat's thoughts and opinions on the things the Man does, but when looked at a little deeper there's the "mysterious and magic voices" and the "dark voices" the cat hears and the possibility it's not just a cat being weird or sensing normal things differently. Is the cat even a cat and its Man a man?
Is this a ghost story? Is the cat a spirit of some kind? A muse? A protector? Is its Man a simply a writer or perhaps some kind of witch or alchemist or something else? Does this story take place on Earth, in the 1930s when it was written and is the "sharp black claw" a fountain pen or is the setting different, centuries ago, and it is a quill, or perhaps years from now and it is something else entirely?
DNW A/B/O, character death, graphic violence, mpreg, covid/pandemic references or situations, rape or xeno.
For such an incredibly short story, I think there's a lot of completely different ways to explore and expand on it, ranging from a fairy tale type plucky hero cat to typical cat staring-at-nothing behavior, to a darker, horroresque tale of it seeing looming monsters in the shadows and everywhere in between.
From the Point of View of a Cat can be read here or here and is available to listen to on AO3 here.
What Ever Happened to Corporal Cuckoo - Gerald Kerch Any (characters in tagset: Corporal Cuckoo, Kerch, Worldbuilding) What Ever Happened to Corporal Cuckoo is a fascinatingly different tale of immortality than how it's usually portrayed. He was just an ordinary guy, not overly smart or ambitious, who suddenly had immortality thrust upon him but unable to improve and therefore kind of just stuck, forever, as he was.
What other adventures has Cuckoo had? Does he keep trying to create the Digestive through the centuries, over the millennia? In some far future is Cuckoo still scraping by, talking about the idea of raising space chickens on some distant planet? What about Kerch? Does anyone believe his story? Does he ever question if he misremembered the whole incident or invented it whole cloth? Does he become a scifi writer as a result?
DNW A/B/O, character death, genderswap, graphic violence, mpreg, covid/pandemic references or situations, rape or xeno.
Fandom specific DNW: Cuckoo's immortality being discovered in a way that results in his being captured or experimented on.
I really don't know what to ask for besides what was in my optional details other than to say I'm just fascinated by Cuckoo and how his immortality is presented and the worldbuilding of it all so if you have any ideas other than what I've suggested, please run with them.
Whatever Happened to Corporal Cuckoo can be read here
吸血鬼鬼盲盒 | The Vampires (TV) Any (characters in tagset: Fuca, Su Tanya, Xiaoling and Worldbuilding)A canon that combines Vampires and Cultivators has so much potential for storytelling but we only get the vaguest glimpse into the world 'The Vampires' exists in and I would love to see more set in it. We meet Xiaoling, 148th generation disciple of the Mount Wuling Sect but only gets hints to her training and skills. Vampires are presented as being able survive without having to kill because they can get lemon ginger blood tea and blood layer cake delivered, just how common is the need for such foods in this world, and why? There are guardian spirits, soulfire candles, powerful wards and ghosts, how do they fit into the world and does the typical person aware of them? I'd love to know more about any of these things.
What other sorts of adventures did Fuca and Su Tanya have, with or without A-Mo and Xingming? Has Xiaoling battled other vampires or creatures? And then there's that final scene with Xiaoling and Jiang Tianyue standing outside the ship, what exactly did that imply? Did the night spent with Fuca, Su Tanya and Xingming happen? Is it going to happen again? Can they change its events?
DNW A/B/O, D/s, E rated fic, explicitly described torture, genderswap, graphic violence, covid/pandemic references or situations, PWP, rape or xeno.
Fandom specific DNW: Anything more than a passing mention of the deaths of Fuca, Su Tanya or Xingming that resulted their turning.
This 8 episode webdrama packs such an interesting story into its short, 41 minute total runtime. It seems to take place in what is mostly the modern day with food delivery and smart phones and whatnot, yet since a major ingredient of some of the food delivered is blood and the fact at least one cultivation sect still exists there are definitely some differences.
For character driven prompts rather than worldbuilding, I'd love to read more about Fuca and Su Tanya and their time together or more about Xioling's being a cultivator in the modern world and what all that entails.
Links to watch The Vampires can be found on this carrd