Dear Yuletide Writer!
I have listed several obscure, small canons and there is little fic in any of these fandoms. In short, I will love almost anything you write, and please don't be put off by the wall of text below. It's cut into sections and there to be helpful if you need it, but I'm sure I'll love whatever you come up with. Please don't feel you need to hew close to my prompts at all. Write what inspires you!
Should you want to write a crossover between any of these fandoms or interactive fiction or drabbles, I would absolutely love that. If you just want to write a regular fic, I would love that too.
Doppelganger Duology - Marie Brennan
Characters (any): Eclipse | Kerestel (Doppelganger), Mirage | Seniade (Doppelganger), Mirei (Doppelganger), Naspeth-Urishin (merged) (Doppelganger)
Canon (first story) on Beneath Ceaseless Skies: http://www.beneath-ceaseless-skies.com/stories/dancing-the-warrior-pt-i-by-marie-brennan/
Remaining canon on Amazon: http://www.amazon.com/Marie-Brennan/e/B001JSHJ9M/ref=ntt_dp_epwbk_0
Dancers and warriors and magic and deep characterization and ethical issues and serious study of said magic and engaged deity and all of it, just yes, please.
I am fascinated by the entire new focus the Void ray is going to be taking on moving forward and how to incorporate this whole new aspect of Starfall's culture. I want a post-duology story where the newly merged Naspeth-Urishin (preferably with a name) interacts with Mirei, where we see the new aspects to the Void ray or more research into Void magic, especially with Mirei, but also will take Naspeth-Urishin, or any of the canonical researchers. I'm into the worldbuilding here and how this affects everything.
And please more of the Starfall hunting school and the interaction among Mirei, Eclipse, and Jaguar regarding it (I adored his claim on half of Mirei at the end of the second book). How this all works together with raising the girls together just fascinates me.
Alternatively, I LOVE the Mirei/Eclipse pairing and want more, more, more-characterization, intimacy, working out new boundaries, sorting out history from present relationship, adult situations yes please, and them working together at Starfall. More about Sen and Kerestel's history between Dancing the Warrior and the books would also be welcome.
To Kiss the Granite Choir - Michael Anthony Ashley
Characters (any): Eroico of the Baremescre, Cantiléna of the Baremescre, Imre Usaym Balgas
Canon on Beneath Ceaseless Skies: http://www.beneath-ceaseless-skies.com/stories/to-kiss-the-granite-choir-pt-i-by-michael-anthony-ashley
I kind of adore all the hidden cultural connotations, the brotherly/friendly relationship between Imre and Eroico, but especially the huge cultural misunderstandings and obvious growing relationship with Cantiléna. I would love Cantiléna's point of view, more Eroico being adorable, or (I would love you FOREVER) fix-it where Imre doesn't completely transform and lose so much in the process. Goodness, I'd take worldbuilding meta for this story, I love it so much.
I love the idea of the Baremescre and their songs and I love the fact that Cantiléna falling for Imre seems to have a lot of social implications she's conflicted about dealing with. I'd love to know what she was thinking when she first started falling for him, which seemed to be his impassioned words at their first encounter when he stole her song and you'd think she would have been upset about it enough to not be attracted. And I cannot tell you how much I'd love to know what was going through her and Eroico's head as he was translating.
I can't help but think the brother and sister are close and Eroico clearly loved the idea of Imre as a brother in law. Did he and Cantiléna talk all the time? Was that why he liked Imre so well?
And did I mention I'd adore fix-it where Imre didn't misunderstand and go too far with the transformation and Ariosa didn't die? I'd love, love, love seeing him and Cantiléna on equal footing and in a marriage at last where they could live as married. If that's not something that interests you, I'd settle for canonical and it would be interesting to see how they worked out the power dynamics of him needing caretaking, him being better at song, and the pain of how to work out being married in their circumstances. Oh, Imre. :shakes head sadly:
Razor Sharp (2006)
Characters (any): Bryce (Razor Sharp), Dex (Razor Sharp), Isis (Razor Sharp), Veronica Sharpe
Canon on Vimeo: https://vimeo.com/37095779
Family fic, found family fic, heist fic, backstory… I'll take just about anything for this fandom. It's a 25 minute short movie about a banged up thief operation where Veronica Sharpe (who inherited the business and old family friend + Russian supercomputer sister from her dad) has morals and will happily grift some tech from a corporation but she doesn't touch art and she certainly isn't going to steal what sleazy Dex (played by the Pretender) has in mind. (Well, she will, but not hand it over afterward.)
I really have a hankering for chosen family fic with Isis settling into the family dynamic. I'd love to keep the humor and banged up nature of their operation and see more of the worldbuilding between the chinks of the short movie. Tech love, hacker shenanigans, mission fic, and Veronica backstory/continuing story all super, super welcome.
I'd love to know more about Tokyo, see Veronica loving shopping ("Your Macy's card" cracks me up every time), the relationship she had with her father, or even her mental relationship with him now and the ghost presence he leaves in her working relationships because of his moral brand. I'd love to see her and Isis bonding, her becoming big sister/mom, dealing with Isis' personal trauma and the aftermath of that.
Hurt/comfort, jumpiness, and even PTSD in the midst of child genius would be awesome. Isis bonding with Bruce or them going at each other/bantering over his equipment and her trying to fix it and him not appreciating it. I'd love anything here, so long as it's gen.
Awesome dialogue would be my number one wish. I don't write it half as well as the writer of Razor Sharp and I just LOVED the style of humor in here. Wouldn't mind a crossover with Leverage if that makes it easier to write, as it's a world of grifters, so yeah, but if that's not helpful, no problem. Would love to see Veronica introducing Isis to Macy's and Isis introducing Veronica to dumpster diving.
Stryka (2015 short film)
Characters (any): Callen (Stryka), Stryka (Stryka)
Canon on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R9kBsfsO2UU
This little short just struck me so hard. I'd love to see more before or after the story or even Callen's POV during it. I'd love to see where their relationship came from or the decisions they made after, relationship moments, or the kind of culture where who you go heisting with is such a critical and important person in your life. The worldbuilding fascinates me, from what's looked down on or considered more socially acceptable to the way Stryka told her story at the beginning or her family and her conversation with her mother. I just want more. I'd be curious to know how the two of them met or how the meet the parents encounters went.
Rose is Rose (Comics)
Characters (any): Pasquale Gumbo, Pasquale's Guardian Angel, Peekaboo
Can I have fluff? Can I have sweet, domestic family fic and love notes and the kitten being adorable/awful or dreamships and kitten caught up in it and guardian angel being funny and just comfort fic? Please?
Peekaboo is the adorable and problematic family kitten who can stretch to ridiculous lengths to enjoy sunshine, laps, snubbing meals, and knocking over objects in the feline version of art and a job well done. She attends the kitten support group for stepped on tails, chasing the songbirds (delightful) and squirrels (exasperating), and gets her claws snagged on clothing, curtains, etc. to be left hanging in adorable fashion.
Pasquale is just all fun little boy and plays with his guardian angel, makes weather suggestions, which said guardian angel implements via heavenly software (really), and forgets unwelcome suggestions when little Pasquale-lookalike guardian angel goes into huge, heavenly warrior mode.
I would love to see family fic, dealing with Peekaboo, Peekaboo and the guardian angel interacting, but most of all, Pasquale in his dream ship when he nods off to sleep and goes on adventures. I would love anything as fluffy and sweet without sap that this comic is. It's my uplifting note for the day so often, and that's what I would hope for in fic.
General squicks, triggers, and loves by category.
General:
I like deep characterization and backstory, family, deep platonic bonds, worldbuilding, chosen family, digging into a character's mental/emotional space, asexual romance, romance, established relationships, developing trust, character studies, identity exploration, character competence, fluff, angst, and situational humor.
Please don't write embarrassment, graphic violence or gore, body-related humor, betrayal/infidelity, tragedy/deathfic, horror, character or ideology bashing, PWP (with plot, more than fine), first person fic, on-screen uncensored profanity. I also have no problem with assassination but do have a problem with murder. I know. Fine line.
Tropes:
I like soulmates, soulmarks (not names), soulbonds, secret relationship, sharing a bed, domestic fic, holiday fic, arranged marriage, fake marriage, friends to lovers, rivals to lovers, AIs, accidental relationships, time travel with consequences, animal transformations/shapeshifter, brainwashing, amnesia. I like well thought out crossovers and the occasional fusion, canon-divergent AUs more than total AUs.
I don't mind coffee shop AU, school AU, reincarnation, historical AU.
Please don't write alternate gender norms, mind control, zombie, supernatural, daemons, post-apocalyptic, instalove.
Kinks:
I like bondage, breathplay, sensory deprivation, bloodplay, weapons play, delayed orgasm, some D/s, situational power dynamics type dub-con.
I'll read but am not a fan of pain play, dirty talk, oral, and cock rings/cages.
Please don't write scat, water sports, bodily fluids other than blood, lifestyle D/s, ageplay, mpreg, consent play, incest, underage, a/b/o, straight up dub-con.
Again, thank you for writing for me!
Should you want to write a crossover between any of these fandoms or interactive fiction or drabbles, I would absolutely love that. If you just want to write a regular fic, I would love that too.
Doppelganger Duology - Marie Brennan
Characters (any): Eclipse | Kerestel (Doppelganger), Mirage | Seniade (Doppelganger), Mirei (Doppelganger), Naspeth-Urishin (merged) (Doppelganger)
Canon (first story) on Beneath Ceaseless Skies: http://www.beneath-ceaseless-skies.com/stories/dancing-the-warrior-pt-i-by-marie-brennan/
Remaining canon on Amazon: http://www.amazon.com/Marie-Brennan/e/B001JSHJ9M/ref=ntt_dp_epwbk_0
Dancers and warriors and magic and deep characterization and ethical issues and serious study of said magic and engaged deity and all of it, just yes, please.
I am fascinated by the entire new focus the Void ray is going to be taking on moving forward and how to incorporate this whole new aspect of Starfall's culture. I want a post-duology story where the newly merged Naspeth-Urishin (preferably with a name) interacts with Mirei, where we see the new aspects to the Void ray or more research into Void magic, especially with Mirei, but also will take Naspeth-Urishin, or any of the canonical researchers. I'm into the worldbuilding here and how this affects everything.
And please more of the Starfall hunting school and the interaction among Mirei, Eclipse, and Jaguar regarding it (I adored his claim on half of Mirei at the end of the second book). How this all works together with raising the girls together just fascinates me.
Alternatively, I LOVE the Mirei/Eclipse pairing and want more, more, more-characterization, intimacy, working out new boundaries, sorting out history from present relationship, adult situations yes please, and them working together at Starfall. More about Sen and Kerestel's history between Dancing the Warrior and the books would also be welcome.
To Kiss the Granite Choir - Michael Anthony Ashley
Characters (any): Eroico of the Baremescre, Cantiléna of the Baremescre, Imre Usaym Balgas
Canon on Beneath Ceaseless Skies: http://www.beneath-ceaseless-skies.com/stories/to-kiss-the-granite-choir-pt-i-by-michael-anthony-ashley
I kind of adore all the hidden cultural connotations, the brotherly/friendly relationship between Imre and Eroico, but especially the huge cultural misunderstandings and obvious growing relationship with Cantiléna. I would love Cantiléna's point of view, more Eroico being adorable, or (I would love you FOREVER) fix-it where Imre doesn't completely transform and lose so much in the process. Goodness, I'd take worldbuilding meta for this story, I love it so much.
I love the idea of the Baremescre and their songs and I love the fact that Cantiléna falling for Imre seems to have a lot of social implications she's conflicted about dealing with. I'd love to know what she was thinking when she first started falling for him, which seemed to be his impassioned words at their first encounter when he stole her song and you'd think she would have been upset about it enough to not be attracted. And I cannot tell you how much I'd love to know what was going through her and Eroico's head as he was translating.
I can't help but think the brother and sister are close and Eroico clearly loved the idea of Imre as a brother in law. Did he and Cantiléna talk all the time? Was that why he liked Imre so well?
And did I mention I'd adore fix-it where Imre didn't misunderstand and go too far with the transformation and Ariosa didn't die? I'd love, love, love seeing him and Cantiléna on equal footing and in a marriage at last where they could live as married. If that's not something that interests you, I'd settle for canonical and it would be interesting to see how they worked out the power dynamics of him needing caretaking, him being better at song, and the pain of how to work out being married in their circumstances. Oh, Imre. :shakes head sadly:
Razor Sharp (2006)
Characters (any): Bryce (Razor Sharp), Dex (Razor Sharp), Isis (Razor Sharp), Veronica Sharpe
Canon on Vimeo: https://vimeo.com/37095779
Family fic, found family fic, heist fic, backstory… I'll take just about anything for this fandom. It's a 25 minute short movie about a banged up thief operation where Veronica Sharpe (who inherited the business and old family friend + Russian supercomputer sister from her dad) has morals and will happily grift some tech from a corporation but she doesn't touch art and she certainly isn't going to steal what sleazy Dex (played by the Pretender) has in mind. (Well, she will, but not hand it over afterward.)
I really have a hankering for chosen family fic with Isis settling into the family dynamic. I'd love to keep the humor and banged up nature of their operation and see more of the worldbuilding between the chinks of the short movie. Tech love, hacker shenanigans, mission fic, and Veronica backstory/continuing story all super, super welcome.
I'd love to know more about Tokyo, see Veronica loving shopping ("Your Macy's card" cracks me up every time), the relationship she had with her father, or even her mental relationship with him now and the ghost presence he leaves in her working relationships because of his moral brand. I'd love to see her and Isis bonding, her becoming big sister/mom, dealing with Isis' personal trauma and the aftermath of that.
Hurt/comfort, jumpiness, and even PTSD in the midst of child genius would be awesome. Isis bonding with Bruce or them going at each other/bantering over his equipment and her trying to fix it and him not appreciating it. I'd love anything here, so long as it's gen.
Awesome dialogue would be my number one wish. I don't write it half as well as the writer of Razor Sharp and I just LOVED the style of humor in here. Wouldn't mind a crossover with Leverage if that makes it easier to write, as it's a world of grifters, so yeah, but if that's not helpful, no problem. Would love to see Veronica introducing Isis to Macy's and Isis introducing Veronica to dumpster diving.
Stryka (2015 short film)
Characters (any): Callen (Stryka), Stryka (Stryka)
Canon on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R9kBsfsO2UU
This little short just struck me so hard. I'd love to see more before or after the story or even Callen's POV during it. I'd love to see where their relationship came from or the decisions they made after, relationship moments, or the kind of culture where who you go heisting with is such a critical and important person in your life. The worldbuilding fascinates me, from what's looked down on or considered more socially acceptable to the way Stryka told her story at the beginning or her family and her conversation with her mother. I just want more. I'd be curious to know how the two of them met or how the meet the parents encounters went.
Rose is Rose (Comics)
Characters (any): Pasquale Gumbo, Pasquale's Guardian Angel, Peekaboo
Can I have fluff? Can I have sweet, domestic family fic and love notes and the kitten being adorable/awful or dreamships and kitten caught up in it and guardian angel being funny and just comfort fic? Please?
Peekaboo is the adorable and problematic family kitten who can stretch to ridiculous lengths to enjoy sunshine, laps, snubbing meals, and knocking over objects in the feline version of art and a job well done. She attends the kitten support group for stepped on tails, chasing the songbirds (delightful) and squirrels (exasperating), and gets her claws snagged on clothing, curtains, etc. to be left hanging in adorable fashion.
Pasquale is just all fun little boy and plays with his guardian angel, makes weather suggestions, which said guardian angel implements via heavenly software (really), and forgets unwelcome suggestions when little Pasquale-lookalike guardian angel goes into huge, heavenly warrior mode.
I would love to see family fic, dealing with Peekaboo, Peekaboo and the guardian angel interacting, but most of all, Pasquale in his dream ship when he nods off to sleep and goes on adventures. I would love anything as fluffy and sweet without sap that this comic is. It's my uplifting note for the day so often, and that's what I would hope for in fic.
General squicks, triggers, and loves by category.
General:
I like deep characterization and backstory, family, deep platonic bonds, worldbuilding, chosen family, digging into a character's mental/emotional space, asexual romance, romance, established relationships, developing trust, character studies, identity exploration, character competence, fluff, angst, and situational humor.
Please don't write embarrassment, graphic violence or gore, body-related humor, betrayal/infidelity, tragedy/deathfic, horror, character or ideology bashing, PWP (with plot, more than fine), first person fic, on-screen uncensored profanity. I also have no problem with assassination but do have a problem with murder. I know. Fine line.
Tropes:
I like soulmates, soulmarks (not names), soulbonds, secret relationship, sharing a bed, domestic fic, holiday fic, arranged marriage, fake marriage, friends to lovers, rivals to lovers, AIs, accidental relationships, time travel with consequences, animal transformations/shapeshifter, brainwashing, amnesia. I like well thought out crossovers and the occasional fusion, canon-divergent AUs more than total AUs.
I don't mind coffee shop AU, school AU, reincarnation, historical AU.
Please don't write alternate gender norms, mind control, zombie, supernatural, daemons, post-apocalyptic, instalove.
Kinks:
I like bondage, breathplay, sensory deprivation, bloodplay, weapons play, delayed orgasm, some D/s, situational power dynamics type dub-con.
I'll read but am not a fan of pain play, dirty talk, oral, and cock rings/cages.
Please don't write scat, water sports, bodily fluids other than blood, lifestyle D/s, ageplay, mpreg, consent play, incest, underage, a/b/o, straight up dub-con.
Again, thank you for writing for me!