Yuletide Dear Author Letter 2024!

[thetruebard]

Hello, Author!

First and foremost, thank you so much for generously pouring time and talent into a fic for me! Yuletide is one of my favorite things in the universe and I can't wait to see what you come up with. On the note of you coming up with stuff: treat the following prompts as suggestions. If you find yourself wanting to take your story in a different direction, go for it!

SFW Likes

• Gen
• Christmas themed stories (it is Yuletide, after all)
• Post-series fic
• Multiple character POVs
• Crush realization/admission

NSFW Likes

• Happy gen smut
• Bi encouragement (women encouraging m/m) 
• Bi realization (women or men realizing they're attracted to members of the same gender and acting on it)
• Crossdressing
• Orientation play (straight to gay or LGD)
• Spanking or slapping (handprints OK), toys, bondage, mild degradation (name calling, dirty talk), forced exhibitionism, ENF
• Tops/bottoms briefly letting "the mask" slip: tops are secretly nice, bottoms are secretly loving it

DNWs

• AU
• Cheating/jealousy/breakups
• Graphic violence
• Unhappy endings

NSFW DNWs:

• Bruises, welts, punching/kicking
• Crying
• Water play, scat, other bodily fluid stuff
• Edge play, burning, all that stuff
• Degradation intended to upset the partner

That's pretty much it! Now, for the fandoms. Remember, if you find these prompts restrictive or off-putting, toss 'em. And if you want to feature characters that aren't tagged, that's cool, too!

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WORLD WAR Z

Characters: Worldbuilding



This is a pretty broad request for obvious reasons. I'm curious about people and themes other characters referenced but Max Brooks didn't go into in detail. You could structure this as another interview, or you could go meta with it and use in-universe news coverage, magazine features, a wiki entry, etc.

• Would love to hear from a Quisling. How exactly do Quislings fit into post-war society? Are they segregated into their own communities, institutionalized and "deprogrammed," etc.? 
• Todd Wainio described "last men on earth" (LaMOEs), dudes who consider themselves the last remnants of society and act accordingly. Some even arranged themselves in communities-one of the largest being in the Sears Tower. How do the LaMOEs themselves explain and defend their actions? Particularly if they ended up killing innocent people/well-meaning soldiers? Were there any pitched battles between soldiers and LaMOEs?
• While the virus goes unnamed in WWZ, its predecessor The Zombie Survival Guide named it Solanum. I'd love to hear from a virologist or other researcher about their experiences researching it. What did attempts to isolate and cure the virus look like, during and after the war? Is research ongoing? What kind of experiments might a scientist perform-and how would the public react?

AZUMANGA DAIOH

Characters: Sakaki, Mihama Chiyo, Mihama Chiyo's Father

• Would love to know what Sakaki and Chiyo are up to post-high school. Each has their own journey-veterinary college for Sakaki, university in the USA for Chiyo-so what does that look like? Cameos from unlisted characters are fine, whatever helps you tell the story.
• Chiyo's dad visits Sakaki once again.
• Chiyo's dad visits Chiyo for the first time.

WOTAKOI: LOVE IS HARD FOR OTAKU

Characters: Nifuji Hirotaka, Momose Narumi, Koyanagi Hanako, Kabakura Tarou

I love the dynamic between the main cast in this show and want to see more of 'em hanging out in basically any context where they get to let their geek flags fly.

• A new convention in Nagano gives Narumi and Hanako opportunities to show off to a new audience...and an opportunity to visit an onsen town.
• At the girls' insistence, Kabakura and Hirotaka end up crossplaying. Much debate ensues over which characters fit them best. Who do they end up picking, and how does a public appearance go?
• Somehow, all four of our leads end up making out-particularly Hirotaka/Kabakura and Narumi/Hanako. What circumstances lead to this happening? Could be smut, could be comedy. Just has to involve everyone kissin' (and enjoying it).
• Explicitly NSFW suggestion: Drunken gaming/anime night. Leads to debate over which yaoi/yuri roles each partner would take-who is seme, who is uke, who is crimson rose, etc. Arguments ensue-and one or both partners decide to prove they fit the roles.

SCHOLOMANCE

Characters: Orion Lake, Galadriel "El" Higgins, Worldbuilding

I would love to know how Orion and El look to a new generation of students.

• Just how much do new kids know about The Scholomance's strange disappearance, its reappearance, and the groundskeeper who can kill mals with a flick of his hand? What do they think of the prickly woman who visits him from time to time?
• It must be tough to be a mal in the Scholomance these days. Do the smarter mals talk to each other about Orion Lake? 
• How does the school itself feel about its new circumstances? It's been trying to protect its students from mals for decades. Now a human maw-mouth stalks its grounds. To the kids, he must look like a hero. To the school, the most dangerous mal it's ever encountered is constantly following its students around.

COWBOY BEBOP

Even post-finale, Bebop's setting lends itself well to one-off adventures with wildly differing tones. Horror, westerns, comedy, all of it is on the table. A couple suggestions:

• Faye, Jet, and a re-recruited Ed pursue one of the solar system's highest bounties in years...and it's Santa Claus?
• Ed, with Ein in tow, considers her new lot in life as she once again wanders Earth, and ends up engaging in some bounty hunting of her own.

GHOST IN THE SHELL: STAND ALONE COMPLEX

I'm a sucker for Batou/Kusanagi gen and Tachikoma adventures, either in the form of a mission or a slice-of-life moment between missions. This could be either set during the first season or after Solid State Society, but please do not set it during the events of 2nd GIG. I'd like the Major to be a full-time member of Section 9, and not distracted by Kuze.

• A routine mission or training exercise ends with a Batou/Kusanagi kiss. How romantic that kiss is, and the circumstances leading up to it, are up to you.
• The Tachikomas find themselves discussing the nature of Batou/Kusanagi's relationship. Shippers and anti-shippers in the form of walking tanks.

THANK YOU FOR WHATEVER YOU WRITE! <3