Yuletide!
Oh man, it's Yuletide time already!
To my author, it's important to me that you have fun, so if there's anything in my sign-up or letter that you find obnoxious or whatever please feel free to toss it out the window and go with what you need. Read as much as you need & want to and no more :) I will be very happy with anything in my requested pairings/characters, so if the muse takes you in a different direction from my prompts and letter, please do just go with it.
General Likes
- For the purposes of Yuletide, hopeful (or outright happy) endings are my jam. I would prefer for all of my requested characters to still be alive at the end of the story. I don't mind if the story goes in a darker or angstier direction before that, though (in fact I quite like it).
- I love many of the classic slash tropes, especially fake dating, wake up married, kidfic, emotional misunderstandings, pining. Wacky dilemma tropes like bodyswap, sudden mind reading, cursed to tell the truth, etc are also really fun for me.
- breakup-makeup/getting back together stories are the greatest trope of all time. I love the agony of the break-up and then the cautious learning to trust again.
- I like a range of different tones, many different styles of AU, etc. I like reading stuff close to the tone of whichever canon and I like reading stuff that takes those characters and puts them in stories of different tones - darker, lighter, different contexts, pornier, etc
- I love canon-divergence AUs where one thing happened differently and then ...
- If the porn muse takes you, go with it with my blessing. My significant squicks are bloodplay and scat, and although I love noncon I think probably not for the fandoms I'm requesting this year. Dubcon is not a squick.
General Dislikes
- I don't enjoy rape recovery as a plotpoint
- Deathfic, sickfic, and H/C are also things I would prefer not to receive.
This year I was a little bit more effusive in my sign-up so don't feel the need to add too much to my requests, and this section basically replicates my sign-up.
Stardew Valley
Haley, Penny, Sam, Elliott
First off, I absolutely struggled to pick characters for my sign-up, so please, if my requests/letter inspire you to write something similar about a character I didn't request (especially any of the characters available to date/marry), feel free to write that story! Also, you don't have to struggle to work all four characters here in; if only one or a couple feel right to you, do that.
I adore the feeling you get in Stardew Valley that beneath every semi-stereotypical tiny sketch of a character there are actually deeply layered personalities and relationships, dealing with PTSD, depression, feeling like they don't have worthy skills, feeling unloved, feeling neglected, the desire to get out and make something of yourself but not the knowledge (or, perhaps, ability, financial or otherwise) to do so. I would love anything that explored some of these layers in the young people of Stardew Valley.
I am especially fond of slash and femslash stories because it's just such a joy to play a game where I can romance everyone without worrying about gender but I'll like any story that takes these characters and their dilemmas seriously, like is there a solution for Penny's unhappiness with her living situation that doesn't involve her leaving town, or would that be what's best for her? Does Haley discover her secret depths without romance, is she already highly internally critical but stuck without a roadmap to change her habits? Can Elliott ever actually write anything? Does Sam need to leave Pelican Town to fulfill his dreams, or should his dreams stay dreams?
Contrariwise, I'm also super into the idea of putting any two Stardew Valley characters into any classic dilemma trope or pairing dynamic. Imagine Haley and Penny waking up married! (Did they drink a little too much at one of SDV's festivals?) They'd have a stunning odd couple dynamic but I think Penny could uncover Haley's secret tenderness and Haley could let Penny shine. Sam and Elliot find mysterious sex pollen in the woods. Or a baby washes ashore and Elliot has to figure out how to care for it. Or Or Or. The sky's the limit - and, again, I don't have strong ships in this fandom, so feel free to mix and match with different characters if you prefer.
Young Wizards
Nita, Kit, Ronan
I love this OT3 and all its permutations. Give me Kit and Nita awkwardly proposing occasional casual sex to Ronan. Give me angsty and passionate falling in love and misunderstandings and awkward, awkward conversation. Give me Kit and Ronan banging when Nita's out of town and Nita and Ronan banging because Kit's busy and all three of them banging because: yeah. Give me complicated relationship negotiating and trinary coparenting and Ronan going dancing with Kit when Nita doesn't want to. Give me futurefic or fic set just after current canon or whatever you like, teenage years, college years, Kit and Nita break up and both start dating Ronan and that's what brings them back together, Ronan's secret 10-year crush on both of them, sexual misadventures, sex pollen, aliens making them do it and revealing things none of them realised about themselves, the three of them getting trapped on a planet for 100 subjective years and when they come out they can't yet unspin themselves ... or any ideas you have!
If you can't feel the OT3, I understand. I ship Nita/Kit and Kit/Ronan really hard and I'd love anything you'd like to do. I love adventure stories in this fandom and problem-solving, I secretly want schmoopy wedding or kidfic for Nita/Kit, I adore their frienship and also Kit and Ronan's bromance. Maybe Kit and Ronan bond over fixing the Edsel or go on a roadtrip after a Nita/Kit breakup. (Kit/Ronan might be my exception to my deathfic rule: I think I could just about understand if, a very long time after Nita dies, Kit and Ronan got together. But I'd probably prefer a breakup.)
Sense8
Kala, Wolfgang
Ahhh I love these kids so much and it absolutely kills me that we didn't get to see them meet in person or get their happily-ever-after. I would love to see them meet, or a later snapshot of them in a happy moment even if on the run with the other sensates. I would love to read the heist of the cluster rescuing Wolf or an improbably happy future with babies and homeownership. I adore Kala's good heart and her scientific brilliance and her willingness to push boundaries for her cluster, that unexpected core of steel. I love how Wolf's goodness is hidden even from himself, I love his scary darkness and the tenderness he has for his cluster.
Obviously I love everyone in the cluster and would be overjoyed with any of them who appeared (along with Amanita and Hernando). I don't have a preference for how you handle Kala's marriage; ignore its existence or dispose of it in a sentence or investigate it thoroughly and break them up slowly - it's all good for me. Or even a poly situation though I tend to think there's enough of that within the cluster and Wolf is right that Kala doesn't really love him.
I read pretty much any rating and don't mind canon-typical porn or violence levels :)
Thanks again, dear author, and I hope you have a great time this Yuletide. You can stalk me as required labellementeuse here/AO3/LJ/twitter and birdhead on my (rarely updated) tumblr.
This entry is crossposted from https://labellementeuse.dreamwidth.org/378991.html, where there are
comments.
To my author, it's important to me that you have fun, so if there's anything in my sign-up or letter that you find obnoxious or whatever please feel free to toss it out the window and go with what you need. Read as much as you need & want to and no more :) I will be very happy with anything in my requested pairings/characters, so if the muse takes you in a different direction from my prompts and letter, please do just go with it.
General Likes
- For the purposes of Yuletide, hopeful (or outright happy) endings are my jam. I would prefer for all of my requested characters to still be alive at the end of the story. I don't mind if the story goes in a darker or angstier direction before that, though (in fact I quite like it).
- I love many of the classic slash tropes, especially fake dating, wake up married, kidfic, emotional misunderstandings, pining. Wacky dilemma tropes like bodyswap, sudden mind reading, cursed to tell the truth, etc are also really fun for me.
- breakup-makeup/getting back together stories are the greatest trope of all time. I love the agony of the break-up and then the cautious learning to trust again.
- I like a range of different tones, many different styles of AU, etc. I like reading stuff close to the tone of whichever canon and I like reading stuff that takes those characters and puts them in stories of different tones - darker, lighter, different contexts, pornier, etc
- I love canon-divergence AUs where one thing happened differently and then ...
- If the porn muse takes you, go with it with my blessing. My significant squicks are bloodplay and scat, and although I love noncon I think probably not for the fandoms I'm requesting this year. Dubcon is not a squick.
General Dislikes
- I don't enjoy rape recovery as a plotpoint
- Deathfic, sickfic, and H/C are also things I would prefer not to receive.
This year I was a little bit more effusive in my sign-up so don't feel the need to add too much to my requests, and this section basically replicates my sign-up.
Stardew Valley
Haley, Penny, Sam, Elliott
First off, I absolutely struggled to pick characters for my sign-up, so please, if my requests/letter inspire you to write something similar about a character I didn't request (especially any of the characters available to date/marry), feel free to write that story! Also, you don't have to struggle to work all four characters here in; if only one or a couple feel right to you, do that.
I adore the feeling you get in Stardew Valley that beneath every semi-stereotypical tiny sketch of a character there are actually deeply layered personalities and relationships, dealing with PTSD, depression, feeling like they don't have worthy skills, feeling unloved, feeling neglected, the desire to get out and make something of yourself but not the knowledge (or, perhaps, ability, financial or otherwise) to do so. I would love anything that explored some of these layers in the young people of Stardew Valley.
I am especially fond of slash and femslash stories because it's just such a joy to play a game where I can romance everyone without worrying about gender but I'll like any story that takes these characters and their dilemmas seriously, like is there a solution for Penny's unhappiness with her living situation that doesn't involve her leaving town, or would that be what's best for her? Does Haley discover her secret depths without romance, is she already highly internally critical but stuck without a roadmap to change her habits? Can Elliott ever actually write anything? Does Sam need to leave Pelican Town to fulfill his dreams, or should his dreams stay dreams?
Contrariwise, I'm also super into the idea of putting any two Stardew Valley characters into any classic dilemma trope or pairing dynamic. Imagine Haley and Penny waking up married! (Did they drink a little too much at one of SDV's festivals?) They'd have a stunning odd couple dynamic but I think Penny could uncover Haley's secret tenderness and Haley could let Penny shine. Sam and Elliot find mysterious sex pollen in the woods. Or a baby washes ashore and Elliot has to figure out how to care for it. Or Or Or. The sky's the limit - and, again, I don't have strong ships in this fandom, so feel free to mix and match with different characters if you prefer.
Young Wizards
Nita, Kit, Ronan
I love this OT3 and all its permutations. Give me Kit and Nita awkwardly proposing occasional casual sex to Ronan. Give me angsty and passionate falling in love and misunderstandings and awkward, awkward conversation. Give me Kit and Ronan banging when Nita's out of town and Nita and Ronan banging because Kit's busy and all three of them banging because: yeah. Give me complicated relationship negotiating and trinary coparenting and Ronan going dancing with Kit when Nita doesn't want to. Give me futurefic or fic set just after current canon or whatever you like, teenage years, college years, Kit and Nita break up and both start dating Ronan and that's what brings them back together, Ronan's secret 10-year crush on both of them, sexual misadventures, sex pollen, aliens making them do it and revealing things none of them realised about themselves, the three of them getting trapped on a planet for 100 subjective years and when they come out they can't yet unspin themselves ... or any ideas you have!
If you can't feel the OT3, I understand. I ship Nita/Kit and Kit/Ronan really hard and I'd love anything you'd like to do. I love adventure stories in this fandom and problem-solving, I secretly want schmoopy wedding or kidfic for Nita/Kit, I adore their frienship and also Kit and Ronan's bromance. Maybe Kit and Ronan bond over fixing the Edsel or go on a roadtrip after a Nita/Kit breakup. (Kit/Ronan might be my exception to my deathfic rule: I think I could just about understand if, a very long time after Nita dies, Kit and Ronan got together. But I'd probably prefer a breakup.)
Sense8
Kala, Wolfgang
Ahhh I love these kids so much and it absolutely kills me that we didn't get to see them meet in person or get their happily-ever-after. I would love to see them meet, or a later snapshot of them in a happy moment even if on the run with the other sensates. I would love to read the heist of the cluster rescuing Wolf or an improbably happy future with babies and homeownership. I adore Kala's good heart and her scientific brilliance and her willingness to push boundaries for her cluster, that unexpected core of steel. I love how Wolf's goodness is hidden even from himself, I love his scary darkness and the tenderness he has for his cluster.
Obviously I love everyone in the cluster and would be overjoyed with any of them who appeared (along with Amanita and Hernando). I don't have a preference for how you handle Kala's marriage; ignore its existence or dispose of it in a sentence or investigate it thoroughly and break them up slowly - it's all good for me. Or even a poly situation though I tend to think there's enough of that within the cluster and Wolf is right that Kala doesn't really love him.
I read pretty much any rating and don't mind canon-typical porn or violence levels :)
Thanks again, dear author, and I hope you have a great time this Yuletide. You can stalk me as required labellementeuse here/AO3/LJ/twitter and birdhead on my (rarely updated) tumblr.
This entry is crossposted from https://labellementeuse.dreamwidth.org/378991.html, where there are
comments.