Hello, Amazing Bringer of Yuletide Joy!
I hope you are delighted with and excited about your assignment (me! yay!) and not clutching your head with despair about this impossible task (still me, but now I feel bad about it). Either way, please be assured that I am super easy to please!
General hints for making me happy: HAPPY ENDINGS, PLEASE. Like, it doesn’t have to be over the top, party balloons of joy, but you know. Don’t leave me crying into my mashed potatoes, please. (You can angst it up before the happy ending if you want to!) I really love it when people are fond of each other, even while they are driving each other crazy. I'm perfectly happy with either AU or canon-compliant stories.
Specific fandomy things (optional details are OPTIONAL!):
The Raven Cycle
Please add in any other characters that you want! Like, I really love Ronan and Gansey as BFFs, and I am also partial to Ronan/Gansey the ship. And I am ALSO partial to Ronan/Noah and Ronan/Adam and THE OT5, and it's all really very lovely. Feel free to ship or not ship as you like. (If you DO go in a shippy direction and pair Ronan with someone who is not Gansey, then of course feel free to go with Gansey/Blue if that is your thing. I am NOT partial to Kavinsky as anything other than a blip on the radar, apologies!) Pre-series, post-series, mid-series: all good. Be as angsty or as fluffy or as ridiculous as your heart desires, but I would definitely prefer a happy ending.
So hey, Ronan is my favourite favourite. I know he is kind of a shit, and it’s cool if you write him that way, but I like to think of him as a loveable shit? And I know Gansey is equally problematic, but he tries? And I love their weird codependent relationship - it seems like Ronan is the way more dependent one, so maybe you want to write about what Gansey gets out of the Ronan of it all? Or maybe you want to write about an OT5 adventure? Beach trip? Movie night at Monmouth Manufacturing? The advantages of living with a temperature-lowering ghost in the summer? Snowball fight: Team Rich Boys vs. Team Poverty Twins? Ronan accidentally pulls an extremely cheerful version of himself out of his dreams and it weirds everyone out? Really anything. I know I just gave you a bunch of silly scenarios, but feel free to go serious.
Macdonald Hall
Bruno and Booooooooots! They're just great. I love them as best friends and I also love them as boyfriends, so do whatever you want with that. Add in any other characters you want! It's okay to pair them off with the girls if you really want to! I have no favoured time period, it's okay to go AU if you want to, I am really pretty easy here. Bruno and Boots!
I don’t even know where to start with this one, because I LOVE IT ALL. Bruno and Boots forever! I love them when they are boyfriends, and I love them when they are platonic life partners, and I love them I love them I love them. I'm really a big fan of the OTPness of Bruno&Boots, whether in a romantic sense or just in a best friends forever sense, so anything that explores that would be lovely, even/especially in the midst of the hysteria that generally surrounds the two of them. I'm keen on any time frame, whether it's their very first meeting or years after the Hall has passed into happy memory.
Sleepy Hollow
My favourite thing in Sleepy Hollow is when things are funny and my OTHER favourite thing in Sleepy Hollow is how much the core characters all love each other. I would probably like something on the lighter side, not too shippy, but pretty much: do as you will. I just like it when they are fond of each other and ridiculous, really, but if you want to write a terrifying adventure, go for it! I will like that, too. :) Oh, and add in any other characters you want to.
I know I said to go light on the shippy business, but you can totally be shippy if you want. I have high hopes for Abbie/Ichabod, and could also be persuaded in the direction of Jenny/Ichabod. I just wasn’t looking for a specific romance story, is all. I really, intensely love all three of the requested characters, they are all the best and my favourites. I can’t even give you a general direction. Give me 1,000 words of Mills/Crane family dinner. Give me a case fic. Oh god, give me a body swap fic! Give me ridiculousness. Give me whatever makes you happy. It’s all good!