Dear Yuletide Author: 2017 Edition
Hi, dear writer! Thank you so much for making awesome fic for me. I just know I'm gonna love it.
I am the kind of trashpanda that likes:
Domesticity, mpreg, tentacles, porn with plot, porn without plot, snark, banter, witty dialogue, teasing, threesomes/moresomes, hurt/comfort, happy endings, kidnapping, mysteries.
I do not like:
Drug use, watersports, scat, character death, cancer.
Hellboy - Nuada/John or Hellboy/John(/Liz?)
I request this ship every year, without fail, until it somehow becomes popular enough that it's no longer eligible. Until then, it will be my first pick forever.
I really liked John from the first movie. He's the wholesome Boy Scout with a heart of gold who brings a bit of hope to the horrors of the world. Despite them never meeting in cannon, there's a unique dynamic between John and Prince Nuada (2nd movie) that I love seeing explored. Their personalities are polar opposites and I love seeing how John lightens Nuada.
I also love John shipped with Hellboy if that's your thing (with or without Liz). You don't have to be comics-compliant with Hellboy's character. This is the movie-verse after all and I've only read some of the comics. (Have seen the cartoons though.) In this aspect, John's the balancing force for Hellboy that keeps him reigned in and pulls him back from the darkness that people try to force on Hellboy.
I love AUs in this fandom, either complete AUs or just "what if"s of what would have happened if John had been around during the second movie and if he could have dealt with Nuada a different way. Or what if the supernatural world never stepped back, but stayed integrated. What if John and Nuada are BRPD coworkers. Let your imagination run wild here.
Valdemar by Mercedes Lackey - Tylendel/Vanyel
It's tragic what happened to these boys in the novels. I adore AUs for this, where the boys end up in a happy relationship sans death. Or at least relatively happy. Vanyel will always find something to angst about.
I love seeing twists on the original storyline where things don't go to hell or complete AUs. Harry Potter AU? Awesome! Modern-day high school AU? Cool! Coffeeshop AU? Alrighty! Have at! Run wild!
Things from the novels that I do like being explored: Vanyel escaping his abusive home life, Savil being a complete badass, Tylendel loving Vanyel for the broken boy that he is and filling in the cracks to make Vanyel whole again.
Die Hard (movies) - John/Matt
I'm relatively newish to this pairing in that I don't read it often, so most of this fandom's tropes are still new to me. I like seeing John and Matt pick up the pieces of their lives after the firesale. I adore stories where they have to move in together for some reason, or where John rescues Matt from some new crisis, or Matt bringing John up to speed on the digital age.