Yuletide - the most wonderful time of the year! (DYW)
Hello dear Yuletide person,
First of all, I already love you for your great taste and you may just be my new favorite person, whether we matched on books, RPF, or TV. Thank you ever so much for writing for me. I’m so excited to be receiving a story in one of my tiny fandoms, no matter which one I end up getting. I’m sure that you’ll make my Yuletide with whatever you end up writing me. But if you’re like me and have no idea where to start, here are a few optional details to go with my requests!
First of all, here's a list of things I really, really like: makeouts, found families, friendship turning into more/best friends falling in love, any and all romcom tropes (for example: secretly married!!, accidentally married/married for convenience, drunken love declarations, road trips, having to share a hotel bed, fake relationships that turn into real ones, secret relationships), high school/college AUs, angst that is resolved by the end, banter, anything from G to NC17 in terms of rating, gen or romance.
There are very few things I don't like and most of them shouldn't come up, but just in case: character bashing, misogyny and non-con are the three major ones. I also have a big embarrassment squick, so I would love if you’d avoid putting the characters into situations that could possibly give someone major second-hand embarrassment.
I’ve been slacking on internet things where you can stalk me this year, but I will link appropriate tumblr tags and/or goodreads shelves for all of my requests where content actually exists!
But now, without further ado, here are the fandoms I requested this year in alphabetical order:
Dancing with the Stars (US) RPF (Meryl Davis, Maksim Chmerkovskiy)
Meryl/Maks are A LOT!!!!! Full disclaimer? I’ve never watched a single season of Dancing with the Stars US. I watched some of season 18, but I got into Meryl/Maks through a YouTube video that a friend of mine linked and I mostly stuck with the Meryl and Maks YouTube Show. It was their week 6 tango that introduced me to them, and needless to say, I was obsessed pretty much immediately. I loved everything we got to see from them on camera, from her calming him down and ‘hold my hand’ to him professing that he wants to have babies with Meryl, to his jealousy at her dancing with his brother. And then, as if that weren’t enough, their freestyle in the last week was SO MUCH, and then their relationship continued AFTER DWTS and they JUST HAD DINNER. It’s all A LOT and there’s so much I could ask for with them. Mostly, I’d like to have a look at their relationship. Did they date/hook up while on DWTS? (If you’re comfortable writing sex scenes, I would not be opposed to one, but no worries if not, I’m happy with whatever-rated fic you write!) Did they not hook up during the show, but afterwards? Victory celebrations that turn into more? Seriously, there is barely any fic for them (and JUST them), so if this is the fandom we matched on, I am so pleased.
My only thing is that I never shipped Meryl/Charlie in a romantic way. If you want to include Charlie in the fic, feel free- he’s clearly very important to her. I’d just rather there was no romantic history between them if that’s at all possible.
If you need more references, here is a compilation of all of Meryl and Maks' DWTS pre-performance packages and here's my tumblr tag for them.
Figure Skating RPF (Tessa Virtue, Scott Moir)
So, I was SUPER DUPER OBSESSED with these two during the Winter Olympics (and afterwards), and I'd never even seen ice dancing before or been aware of it being a thing (hey, I'm from a country where people only care about downhill skiing). But then of course I got sucked into the vortex and I loved all of their present and past routines (CARMEN. Umbrellas of Cherbourg. All of their gala performances), I love that they've KNOWN EACH OTHER FOR 17 YEARS (probably 18 at this point!), but most of all, I loved their SUPER TROPEY AND AMAZING "reality show". It was what dreams are made of, essentially. So, one idea for this request - I'd love some deleted scenes that they had to get rid of for ~personal reasons. I'd also super love to get a look at them post-retirement. I'd love to see them realize that oh, cool, they CAN date now because they're no longer competitive partners. I'd love some initial awkwardness, but I'd also love them to click immediately because of how well they know each other. I'd love a lot of makeouts! I'd love victory sex from the 2010 Olympics, if that's your cup of tea. Any romcom tropes you can put them in? Great! Fret not, I'm happy with any rating and even with just very friendshippy fic if that's what you'd prefer writing. Anything you can give me for them will be amazing because there's so very little.
If you need any more reference of what I love about them, here's my tumblr tag for them.
The Flash (Iris West, Barry Allen)
MY PUPPIES!!!!!!!!!!!! Again, as for other fandoms, if you’re not comfortable writing shipfic, gen is completely acceptable. Just show me why they work so well as best friends. If you are a shipper, though: BEST FRIENDS FALLING IN LOVE. Pretty much all I want/need in terms of shipfic from this fandom. I would prefer that Iris find out Barry is the Flash before they start anything romantic, just for the record, but anything where these two puppies put their faces together will be beautiful. I would love to see the beginning of their romantic relationship most of all. Bonus points if you put them in formal wear somewhere, or put them in any kind of romcom situation. Accidentally online dating each other? Having to share a bed? Fake relationship that turns into a real one? Anything goes. I know this is a canon that is still airing new episodes, and there have only been two, so I will reserve the right to update this letter with additional prompts as the season goes on. Just know that any of the prompts I already listed will stand, I won’t change those if this is the fandom we matched on and you’re someone who likes to start writing early.
If this isn’t the fandom we matched on and you’re not familiar with this, but you don’t like the prompt for whatever fandom we did match on, this show is in its first season and presently [October 17th] only has two episodes out, so it’s fairly easy to catch up on.
If you need more references, here's my (as of right now very small) tumblr tag for them.
The Office (US) RPF (B.J. Novak, Mindy Kaling)
These two have been RUINING MY LIFE for years, but even more so than usual during the past year or so. So many things were TOO MUCH. From her interview on Howard Stern to her signing his book (and him re-signing it), to their numerous Instagram pictures together. Everything is a lot. Also, this compilation is a great example why they’re the worst thing to ever happen to me. Basically, what I’m looking for with this request is any kind of tropey situation you can put them in. If you’re not comfortable writing them in a romantic context, I’m happy to receive gen in any way, shape, or form; but if you’re up for romance stuff, here are a few ideas: they’ve been secretly married for years, they somehow became roommates and that turned into more again, if you know/have watched the Mindy Project episode he was in - what he may have thought of that, his reaction to the Howard Stern interview if your headcanon is that they weren’t together at that point. Whatever you can think of, believe me, I will love it! I've received great fic for them in the past, but there is still so little fic for them and I'm greedy. :)
If you need more references, here's my tumblr tag for them. And here's a compilation of a lot of the things that are great about them.
Psy-Changeling series - Nalini Singh (Judd Lauren, Brenna Kincaid, Sahara Kyriakus, Kaleb Krychek)
Ahhhh, this book series is a lot and kind of ruined me for the first half of the year. For Psy-Changeling, I really don’t mind what characters I end up receiving because I pretty much love them all (I’m not overly fond of book 7, but otherwise my statement stands), but if it could involve these four in any capacity, that would be AMAZING. Any kind of party/formal setting would be amazing, same with road trip fic with those four (look, I know the dudes have TK capabilities, but the ladies want what the ladies want, and don't tell me there isn't a lot of comedy in them having to share a small space for a number of hours, no teleporting out allowed). Other characters I super love that you may or may not want to include are Sascha, Lucas, Mercy, Riley, Hawke, Sienna, Walker, and/or Lara. Also any of the others that had books dedicated to them. Also Kit and any and all of the adorable younger children. Obviously you don’t have to do any of that because those weren’t my requests and all, I’m just saying that if you love other people in this series as much as I do (or more!), then by all means, go nuts :)
If you need any more reference points, my goodreads profile is here and I have short reactions/reviews up for almost all books in the series.
In case you'd like to have a look, here's a link to my read in 2014 goodreads shelf . I read all Psy-Changeling books between March 6 and June 7.
Sports Night (Dan Rydell, Natalie Hurley)
I’m sorry if this is my shortest and possibly oddest request, but I shipped these two so hard, and while it’s been a while since I last watched the show (I’ve watched it a bunch, fret not), I still ship them SO MUCH and there’s like no fic at all for them. So, anything you can do, preferably post (but not too-post) canon would be amazing. Again, romcom tropes are awesome, as are stories about their friendship that may or may not turn into more. Just, give me more Dan/Natalie in any capacity. Show me their first date? Show me them as roommates? Show me how he tries to ~woo her? Anything is fair game! The show was too short-lived and I am convinced that these two would have been soooooo good for each other, so anything you could possibly write me for them would be beautiful.
I sadly do not have a tumblr tag for them because there's so little canon material for them already, and even less of that is on tumblr, but I really do super love them, I promise!
Phew, that's it! I hope the length of my letter didn't scare you off and that there are at least a few useful things in there for you. Please just know that no matter what I said in the letter, I'll love absolutely anything you write for me, and I cannot wait for December 25th. Thank you so much again, and I hope you have a beautiful Yuletide!