Dear Yuletide Author

Oct 18, 2015 13:48

Hello, lovely Yuletide author! This is my second year doing Yuletide, and I'm super excited :) Thank you so much for writing for me!

This letter is still somewhat under construction.

My AO3 account is also LeaperSonata.

Likes: FEMSLASH. Fluff. Monster girls (a moment of silence for the slot I didn't have to spare for Monster High). Domestic stuff. Parenting and babies and people suddenly having to take care of children - generally characters parenting. Found family. Polyamory. Physical affection. Cheerfully antagonistic affection ('hey asshole' 'what do you want loser'). Friends to lovers. Enemies to friends to lovers. Canon divergence.
Dislikes/DNWs: People angsting about being queer. Explicit sex involving men. Any naked men. Coming out stories. Noncon. Embarassment/humiliation. Drugs/alcohol.

Indifferents: 1st/3rd person, past/present tense. Write in whatever you're comfortable with! (Second person okay in anything but porn.)

Smut/yuleporn likes/dislikes section at the end under a cut, because I'm self-conscious.

October Daye Series - Seanan McGuire
Characters: Jasmine "Jazz" Patel, May Daye
I love the Toby Daye books. They're great. I love the setting, I love the different types of fae everywhere. I love the stuff that gets revealed later - May's heritage? SO GREAT. (Aaaah and she can't be party to her family's lives anymore because [spoilers] aaaaah POOR MAY.) Jazz not caring if her girlfriend is an omen of death 'in her spare time'? SO VERY GREAT. I love Jazz and May to death. I love how bouncy and chipper and interestingly punky May is. I love that there are Ravenmaids and they have flocks and they're as mischevious as any corvid. CUTE PSYCHOPOMPS IN LOVE. That is what I want. If the psychopomp part actually comes into play, I will be completely delighted, because PSYCHOPOMPS. (This means other people can die and as long as May and Jazz stay reasonably happy I will still count it as fluff. Because they're psychopomps and death is inevitable. I like the word psychopomp almost as much as the concept. Psychopomp.) Reasonably cheerful day in the life of some kind - Jazz with her flock? May meeting the flock? May and Jazz thrift shopping or combing antique stores? Jazz helping May dye her hair improbable colors? I would also really love something about exactly what being a psychopomp involves for Jazz. (Like, someone dies and Jazz needs to go deal with their soul and May tags along?) (Presumably the Raven-maids deal with human souls, since the fae have the night-haunts...)
I love Toby too, and I'm happy to have her play a role. Same goes for Tybalt, Quentin, Dean, Raj, Arden, Marcia, and the Luidaeg. As long as the fic revolves around May and Jazz, I'm happy. I'd rather not have Sylvester and Luna involved, because things feel way too loaded on that front at this point in canon.

Velveteen - Seanan McGuire
Characters: Victoria "Victory Anna" Cogsworth, Yelena "Sparkle Bright"
I love Torrey and Lena. They're so sweet. Torrey's fallen in love with Lena twice, really, and that's half adorable and half heartbreaking - how does she mourn for her girlfriend when her girlfriend is also right in front of her? Is it worse when Sparkle Bright!Lena does something just like Original!Polychrome!Lena did, or worse when she does or says something that her first Polychrome never would have? (This is mildly difficult to talk about now that Lena has changed her hero name to Polychrome in the main universe. Seanan, name your universes so I have something handy to identify Yelenas by! I'll go with O!Lena and N!Lena, I guess, for the duration of this letter.) What customs has Torrey hung onto from her original universe, and does Lena participate in them? Does she still worship Epona in a world where Epona has never existed? I would be happy with an exploration of that sort of thing, or just Torrey and Lena going on a date (or dates) and learning their waay around each other when they first start dating - Torrey having to remember that N!Lena isn't the same as O!Lena, and Lena getting past her uncertainty about having to live up to the spectre of... herself. They're such an adorable couple, and I love them a lot. Torrey has a type, and that type is Lena, and that's adorable.
Note: I am 100% up to date on canon posted on livejournal.

Ever After High
Characters: Any (Apple White, Cerise Hood, Darling Charming, Duchess Swan, Ginger Breadhouse, Kitty Cheshire, Madeline "Maddie" Hatter, Raven Queen)
Ever After High is all on Youtube and Netflix!
This fandom gets a LONG SECTION because Any and SO MANY CHARACTERS. Once more unto the breach!
Character love section:
I like how conflicted Apple has gotten to be. One of her greatest strengths is that she believes in people, and it can be a downfall, too - she definitel put too much trust in Headmaster Grimm. But I love that she's been able to come around on the Destiny front and accept that just because she likes hers doesn't mean everyone should be forced into theirs, and I loved her pure belief in Raven being a good person in Way Too Wonderland.
Cerise! Cerise is great. I love how happy her family is, and I'm so rooting for her to be able to be herself without apology or feeling like there's something wrong with her because of who her parents are. I really like the stuff with her going running with (sibling?) wolves, and that athleticism is a thing for her.
Ginger is adorable. She just wants to make people happy with delicious things! Baking is great. She's kind of stuck in the same box as Raven, with being expected to follow an evil path she has no interest in - and one with an end at least as nasty as Raven's, given that Hansel & Gretel generally involves the witch shoved into her own oven!
I adore Maddie. I love her Riddlish and her talking to the narrators and her completely not caring what anyone thinks of her and her out of the blue tea parties. And I think she and Raven have a fabulous dynamic. (Please don't include anyone being a jerk to Maddie about her being 'crazy'.)
Raven's powers and agonizing about wanting to be a good person and escape her heritage are great. And so is when she embraces her heritage somewhat and smites the fuck out of people with magic. I sympathize with the Rebel cause way more than the Royals, and Raven is obviously the emblem of that. She's trying to find herself, and I can relate to that.
Darling is great. I love that she wants to be the hero that's traditionally limited as a male role. (SO RIPE FOR FEMSLASH.) I love that she's femme in giant armor, but I would also love a butched up Darling. Also: buff Darling. BUFF DARLING.
(Oh god, I just thought of a gif I saw a while back. http://i.imgur.com/xRLzf67.gifv IMAGINE THIS, BUT DARLING AND DUCHESS.)
Speaking of Duchess! Duchess is great. So insecure and catty, wavering between good-hearted and complete bitchy diva. I do like it when the heart of gold side shows more, especially if it's in a romance. Catty is more than fine, fucking with people is fine, just more 'fucking with people' and less 'trying to completely fuck up people's lives'.
And speaking of catty: KITTY. Kitty is delightful. I love the blue and orange Wonderland morality she has going on, and I wish canon explored moral shades of grey more - it seems like they can't let her be a prankster without it being Bad. I would love for her to be a snarky prankster, super unpredictable and Wonderland, but not in the Evil box. Recent stuff seems to have just wholesale dropped her onto the Good side and started ignoring all the prankster stuff (giving it to Courtly instead, I guess), and I would love for her to be able to keep some of that mischief.
I do love *all* of the female characters in EAH, so if you want to include other girls - Lizzie, Briar, Courtly, Bunny, etc - feel free!

Ship love section:
I ship Raven/Maddie massively. I also ship Kitty/Cerise (i.e. Kitty is being such a jerk to Cerise because she has a giant crush and it makes her feel vulnerable so she tries to push her away) and Darling/Duchess, and I am entirely open to being convinced of other ships. (Darling/Apple seems like it has a lot of potential...) Lizzie wasn't nominated, but I love her too, and I'd be delighted with basically any combination of the Wonderland girls as a ship (including poly ships - Kitty/Maddie/Lizzie?). (Courtly/Lizzie I want you/I want to be you?) (Darling/Apple, Apple/Raven, Raven/Maddie, Maddie/Kitty, Kitty/Cerise? Sure! All in one fic? GO WILD.) Seriously, if there's a ship you're passionate about that I haven't mentioned, go for it. I will be delighted. If there are girls kissing, I'm happy.

Scenario ideas section:
Tea parties, having lunch, studying in the library. Birthdays. Ever After or Wonderland specific holidays. School play. School musical! A calamity befalls Ever After and Our Heroines have to work to fix it. My one thing with this canon that I don't super love is plots revolving entirely around teenagers having Stereotypical High School Drama About Relationships And Frenemies. I didn't enjoy high school, and that kind of thing is just a little too reminiscient. (Hell, if you want to age them up and take out the high school element entirely, you're more than welcome to!)
Shippy prompts: Character A is celebrating a holiday that is important to their family; fluffy love interest(s) who are unfamiliar with it ask about it/are invited to participate and/or antagonistic love interest(s) try to interfere, or keep randomly showing up in the way because they're curious, until Character A convinces them to participate. Character A has lost something important to them; fluffy love interest(s) help them look and/or antagonistic love interest(s) stole it themselves (so they could 'find' it and A would like them more?) and/or antagonistic love interest(s) find it and just leave it in their room anonymously because I DON'T LIKE YOU OR ANYTHING. Ever After High is having a dance, and Character A doesn't know who to go with; they ask one of their friends who secretly has a crush on them and/or they intend to just go by themselves for fun but then love interest asks them to dance. It's Character A's birthday; their love interest(s) can't figure out what to get them for a present, or collaborate (with each other if multiple or with friends if not) to throw them the perfect party. A complication of Character A's story has arisen, and they've been cursed to sleep/be turned into a monster/be trapped in another dimension/be evil/something else; love interest(s) figure out how to save them/provide True Love's kiss/remind them who they really are/love them no matter what they look like.
Also, Boo York Boo York has shown us (even more than Cupid's transfer already did) that the Monster High and Ever After High universes are connected - if you want to bring over some of the ghouls to Ever After, or have someone fable-ous transfer to Monster High, I am totally open to it! (I feel like Cerise could really benefit from talking to Clawdeen, for one thing. And I bet Raven would love to meet Casta. Courtly or Kitty and Toralei meeting would be a very entertaining disaster. And I don't think Headmistress Bloodgood would approve of how Headmaster Grimm treats his students.) (Also: Consider EAH girls playing Skulltimate Roller Maze. Cerise. Duchess. Briar. Darling.)

Dragon Age: Blood Mage no Seisen | Dragon Age: Dawn of the Seeker
Characters: Any (Avexis, Regalyan D'Marcall)
I love this movie. I don't understand why it's so small and ignored in Dragon Age fandom, it is a delight. Galyan is such a roguish charming asshole with a heart of gold, I love him. And Avexis really got shafted, didn't she? Not by the writing, just by... life. I would love fic about Galyan growing up in the Circle and what made him so devoted to it. I would also love fic about Avexis growing up and discovering her talents. Or what it was like for her while she was kidnapped, or how she re-adjusts to the Circle afterwards. Or a story about her as an adult! (In a relationship with a female OC, if you want.) If you know DAI, I'd love to know what you think happened with her after the events of the mage rebellion! (Without her or any love interest dying, preferably.) And for both, I like to believe that Galyan is protective of the children in the Circle because he remembers how it was growing up and I would love to see something with him worrying about Avexis during the plot, or helping nurse her back to mental and physical health afterwards, or keeping an eye on her and the other children before the movie.
Or! Cassandra is ineligible and so unnominated, but if you're into the Cassandra/Galyan ship, so am I! I would love fic with them together. I would love fic with them looking out for Avexis together. I would love fic with them with kids. If you've played Inquisition, I was really disappointed that Galyan wasn't in it, and I would be delighted to see him worked somewhere into the plot there. (I know he canonically dies at the conclave, but I refuse to accept that, because GALYAN. NO. NO DEAD GALYAN.) I'd be perfectly happy with fic without her, but if you want to include her, go ahead!
Basically, I love everything about this movie, and I just want there to be *more*. Anything you write I will be delighted with, there's so little fic for it!

Yuleporn section:
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Likes: BREATHPLAY. BREATHPLAY IS MY FAVORITE. In order of preference (though I love all three): People not being allowed air except from the mouth/lungs of their partner through hot breathplay makeouts, choking (hng), and people just being told to hold their breath. (Combinations of the first two: !!!! *_*) People being pinned against a wall. Bondage. Begging. Flogging. D/s. Inhuman traits. Knifeplay.
Dislikes: A/B/O, watersports, scat, vomit. Men. 2nd person POV smut. Exhibitionism. Anything anal.

Fandom-specific:

October Daye:
Ramifications of Maye's ability to survive almost literally anything, y/y? More 'ordinary' smut also more than fine.

Velveteen:
It seems unlikely that Torrey hasn't built sex machines of some variety. And what all can Lena do with her light? Mad science lesbians! More 'ordinary' smut also more than fine.

Ever After High:
They're underage, obviously, but I'm fine with things getting PG13, or them being aged up and getting M-rated. (Yes, I'm mixing rating systems here, oops.)
Maddie seems to be able to manipulate gravity, and that seems ripe for being made interesting use of.
Raven has massive magic powers that could do fun things. Gotta admit I am more than a little heart eyes at floaty ultra-magic evil Raven in the Wonderland movie/series thing. That was badass. I would be fiiiine with Raven using being all dark and floaty and pretending to coerce someone with evil magic. (Or Raven being all dark and floaty and love interest just fucking melting because it's so hot.)
Cerise has lycanthropy going on. Claws and fangs and inhuman eyes. *_*
Darling is just begging to be portrayed as super buff and able to bench-press love interests.
Kitty has excellent teleportation abilities, and a love of mischief.
As above, I am open to basically any femslash ship. Raven/Maddie, Kitty/Cerise, and Darling/Duchess are my favorites, but I am totally happy with other ships, or with threesomes/moresomes. Also fine with other female EAH characters being brought in - Lizzie, Briar, Courtly, etc. (Some antagonistic "I hate your morals but you're really hot" between Raven and Courtly?) (Or 'we're totally using each other for our own evil ends' Faybelle/Courtly...)

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