2019 Dear Yuletide Author Letter
Another year another Yuletide! Hello! I'm so excited you'll be writing something or me.
Here are my standard things I say every year, give or take some variations:
Things I’m never into: death fic (unless it’s in the canon source material), non-con/rape, darkfic, unhappy endings (unless it’s in the canon source material), unrealistic dialogue, crying at the drop of a hat, misunderstandings to the point of disbelief
Things I don’t necessarily gravitate towards except on occasion: bdsm, a/b/o
Things I’m always into: dirty talk, phone sex/sexting, pining, romance, happy endings, makeouts, wall sex, smoking up, AU's, meet-cutes, grand gestures, mixtapes.
Tropes I'm never into: Wingfic
Tropes I adore: fake dating/married, fuckbuddies/friends with benes to lovers, woke up married, kidfic, college aus, soulmate aus
Tropes I'm less into: bed sharing, amnesia fic
Also note: I'm totally okay with pwp's.
My tumblr is here, if you need that for anything. Although I'm not very active on it anymore.
Here’s what I said during my sign-up and I’ll comment additionally on each. But as always remember you’re not bound by anything here! If you have a specific idea of your own, please run with it!
1. Mary Poppins (Movies) - Jane/Michael
What I said: I am probably the only badwrong person who shipped these two Mary Poppins Returns (never would've considered it before that) but I couldn't help it. I loved Jane's devotion to Michael, how much she's always been there for him.
For potential (optional!) prompts, I'd love to see a delicate slide into deeper intimacy and them knowing how wrong it is, but it makes sense in their world -- a world that hasn't really made too *much* sense, what with magical things happening when they were children and then their suppression of it because obviously it couldn't have been real. Maybe they've suppressed their feelings, too, and now with Mary Poppins back and Michael finally starting to live again -- a shift occurs.
Additional comments: I'd be pretty surprised if we were matched on this, and if we were you probably weren't going to take it to the siblingcest place, maybe? I'd be fine with something mild or implied if we happened to get matched and you weren't expecting this kind of prompt. I'm not into sibcest fic being handled without care and tact anyway (so basically i'd never expect a 'we're suddenly boning! pwp' with this one, an expection to my 'totally ok with pwps' note above). That’s not to say I wouldn’t be happy with an explicit fic if you feel so inclined! But I’d love plot too. Don't really have too much else to add aside from the above!
2. Sports Night - Dan/Casey
What I Said: I’m big into Dan angst and dan + therapy and Dan pining over Casey (which (upon my rewatch of the show recently is totally how Josh played him, along with totally bi, imo), and Dan learning to be happy and Casey being really fucking in love with him. In terms of more specific prompts -- I'd love to see a first time getting together, and navigating friends to lovers. Perhaps post canon. I'm also always down for fake dating (received a lovely one last year!!).
Additional comments: I'd honestly take anything at all with these two. I adore them so much. Pre-canon, during, post, today. Whatever! I made a lot of mixes recently, which can all be found here, if you’re interested in those. And I wrote a few fics (cherryvanilla on ao3 :D)
3. Pulp - Common People (song) - Girl from Greece/Narrator
What I Said: You could do a straight up expansion of the song - the initial flirting, that supermarket, the hookup. What happens when he meets her dad? How long do they last, if at all? Or you could take it to other places - a character study of the narrator or the girl from Greece. A future fic in which they meet up again (alumni reunion?? I’m always a sucker for school reunions). Anything you come up with would be amazing!!
Additional comments: Don't really have any! If you write me something for this, I'd be more than happy! Don't care what!! Feel free to make the 'narrator' Jarvis or give him a different name entirely.
4. Spider-man (Tom Holland Movies) RPF - Tom/Jake
What I Said: These two have been an absolute gift. I'd love any and all first time getting together fic. Tom with a crush the size of Australia, Jake so utterly charmed. Wooing? First dates? Terrible flirting? ANYTHING.
Additional comments: What struck me so much about this press tour was the ammount of times Jake was like 'i love him, it's a romance, we're getting married' etc etc etc. I started thinking about a "5 times Jake tried to come out that he was dating his co-star + 1 time people finally believed him'. So yeah, that's one specific prompt! Plus anything with social media as these two can't seem to stop flirting on it. But seriously, whatever you come up with would be a gift. Here's some inspiration:
5. Backstreets - Bruce Springsteen (Song) - Terry/Narrator
What I Said: It's been a long time since I've requested this song. My favorite one of all time, and such a gorgeous account of young queer love, if you read it that way (as I always have). You could have the narrator as Bruce, or give him a different name -- either is fine by me. Let the story in the lyrics take you wherever you want it to, i'd love any of it!
Additional comments: Young love, heartache, hot summer nights, two of us against the world. This song is just made for fic. Run with it however you wish. Here's my favorite performance of the song -- during a period of shows in which he'd include long monologues to Terry - godddd, my heart.
backstreets live
6. A Series of Unfortunate Events (TV) - Klaus/Violet
What I Said: It was pretty impossible for me not to ship these two in the show. They have that "we're each other's whole world" siblings thing going for them which is my bulletproof kink. Also they just kept getting jealous anytime someone else tempted the other's affections. It was a lot.
For optional prompts, I'd love to see the slow slide into realizing they love each other way more than they should. Perhaps post-canon on the island when it really is just them and Sunny now. Huddling for warmth on chilly beach nights? Eyes lingering too long on bare skin as they change into bathing suits? That terrifying yet exhilirating first kiss? I'd be happy with anything you come up with!! Bonus for it containing the fear, guilt, and hestitation incest fics should, but with ultimately a love conquers all ending.
Additional comments: Although I say above that I generally don't gravitate toward bedsharing, i'd be more than happy with it here. Also I'd prefer not a pwp when it comes to sibcest, as I like it handled with more tact. UNLESS you're doing extreme future fic and lay out great exposition of how they got together. Don’t get me wrong, please run with an explicit fic, I’d love it, as long as there’s also plot :D Kidfic is obviously great here too and all the domesticity of raising Sunny together, basically being her parents and that slow glide into even more intimacy than they already had with each other. I'd also be fine with a complete AU in terms of time period, etc. Last year someone wrote an incredible regency AU for yuletide and it's what basically got me wanting to read more of these two! I know I'll love whatever you come up with!!
Here are my standard things I say every year, give or take some variations:
Things I’m never into: death fic (unless it’s in the canon source material), non-con/rape, darkfic, unhappy endings (unless it’s in the canon source material), unrealistic dialogue, crying at the drop of a hat, misunderstandings to the point of disbelief
Things I don’t necessarily gravitate towards except on occasion: bdsm, a/b/o
Things I’m always into: dirty talk, phone sex/sexting, pining, romance, happy endings, makeouts, wall sex, smoking up, AU's, meet-cutes, grand gestures, mixtapes.
Tropes I'm never into: Wingfic
Tropes I adore: fake dating/married, fuckbuddies/friends with benes to lovers, woke up married, kidfic, college aus, soulmate aus
Tropes I'm less into: bed sharing, amnesia fic
Also note: I'm totally okay with pwp's.
My tumblr is here, if you need that for anything. Although I'm not very active on it anymore.
Here’s what I said during my sign-up and I’ll comment additionally on each. But as always remember you’re not bound by anything here! If you have a specific idea of your own, please run with it!
1. Mary Poppins (Movies) - Jane/Michael
What I said: I am probably the only badwrong person who shipped these two Mary Poppins Returns (never would've considered it before that) but I couldn't help it. I loved Jane's devotion to Michael, how much she's always been there for him.
For potential (optional!) prompts, I'd love to see a delicate slide into deeper intimacy and them knowing how wrong it is, but it makes sense in their world -- a world that hasn't really made too *much* sense, what with magical things happening when they were children and then their suppression of it because obviously it couldn't have been real. Maybe they've suppressed their feelings, too, and now with Mary Poppins back and Michael finally starting to live again -- a shift occurs.
Additional comments: I'd be pretty surprised if we were matched on this, and if we were you probably weren't going to take it to the siblingcest place, maybe? I'd be fine with something mild or implied if we happened to get matched and you weren't expecting this kind of prompt. I'm not into sibcest fic being handled without care and tact anyway (so basically i'd never expect a 'we're suddenly boning! pwp' with this one, an expection to my 'totally ok with pwps' note above). That’s not to say I wouldn’t be happy with an explicit fic if you feel so inclined! But I’d love plot too. Don't really have too much else to add aside from the above!
2. Sports Night - Dan/Casey
What I Said: I’m big into Dan angst and dan + therapy and Dan pining over Casey (which (upon my rewatch of the show recently is totally how Josh played him, along with totally bi, imo), and Dan learning to be happy and Casey being really fucking in love with him. In terms of more specific prompts -- I'd love to see a first time getting together, and navigating friends to lovers. Perhaps post canon. I'm also always down for fake dating (received a lovely one last year!!).
Additional comments: I'd honestly take anything at all with these two. I adore them so much. Pre-canon, during, post, today. Whatever! I made a lot of mixes recently, which can all be found here, if you’re interested in those. And I wrote a few fics (cherryvanilla on ao3 :D)
3. Pulp - Common People (song) - Girl from Greece/Narrator
What I Said: You could do a straight up expansion of the song - the initial flirting, that supermarket, the hookup. What happens when he meets her dad? How long do they last, if at all? Or you could take it to other places - a character study of the narrator or the girl from Greece. A future fic in which they meet up again (alumni reunion?? I’m always a sucker for school reunions). Anything you come up with would be amazing!!
Additional comments: Don't really have any! If you write me something for this, I'd be more than happy! Don't care what!! Feel free to make the 'narrator' Jarvis or give him a different name entirely.
4. Spider-man (Tom Holland Movies) RPF - Tom/Jake
What I Said: These two have been an absolute gift. I'd love any and all first time getting together fic. Tom with a crush the size of Australia, Jake so utterly charmed. Wooing? First dates? Terrible flirting? ANYTHING.
Additional comments: What struck me so much about this press tour was the ammount of times Jake was like 'i love him, it's a romance, we're getting married' etc etc etc. I started thinking about a "5 times Jake tried to come out that he was dating his co-star + 1 time people finally believed him'. So yeah, that's one specific prompt! Plus anything with social media as these two can't seem to stop flirting on it. But seriously, whatever you come up with would be a gift. Here's some inspiration:
5. Backstreets - Bruce Springsteen (Song) - Terry/Narrator
What I Said: It's been a long time since I've requested this song. My favorite one of all time, and such a gorgeous account of young queer love, if you read it that way (as I always have). You could have the narrator as Bruce, or give him a different name -- either is fine by me. Let the story in the lyrics take you wherever you want it to, i'd love any of it!
Additional comments: Young love, heartache, hot summer nights, two of us against the world. This song is just made for fic. Run with it however you wish. Here's my favorite performance of the song -- during a period of shows in which he'd include long monologues to Terry - godddd, my heart.
backstreets live
6. A Series of Unfortunate Events (TV) - Klaus/Violet
What I Said: It was pretty impossible for me not to ship these two in the show. They have that "we're each other's whole world" siblings thing going for them which is my bulletproof kink. Also they just kept getting jealous anytime someone else tempted the other's affections. It was a lot.
For optional prompts, I'd love to see the slow slide into realizing they love each other way more than they should. Perhaps post-canon on the island when it really is just them and Sunny now. Huddling for warmth on chilly beach nights? Eyes lingering too long on bare skin as they change into bathing suits? That terrifying yet exhilirating first kiss? I'd be happy with anything you come up with!! Bonus for it containing the fear, guilt, and hestitation incest fics should, but with ultimately a love conquers all ending.
Additional comments: Although I say above that I generally don't gravitate toward bedsharing, i'd be more than happy with it here. Also I'd prefer not a pwp when it comes to sibcest, as I like it handled with more tact. UNLESS you're doing extreme future fic and lay out great exposition of how they got together. Don’t get me wrong, please run with an explicit fic, I’d love it, as long as there’s also plot :D Kidfic is obviously great here too and all the domesticity of raising Sunny together, basically being her parents and that slow glide into even more intimacy than they already had with each other. I'd also be fine with a complete AU in terms of time period, etc. Last year someone wrote an incredible regency AU for yuletide and it's what basically got me wanting to read more of these two! I know I'll love whatever you come up with!!