Dear Yuletide Author 2019

Nov 04, 2019 02:27

Dear Yuletide Creator,

Thank you so much for offering these fandoms and characters! I’m so excited for this, and I hope you enjoy the exchange! This letter is here to offer some thoughts and prompts if you want them, but feel free to go in the direction that makes you happy no matter what they say; I can’t wait to see what you think of!

My AO3 username is LittleRaven.

Likes


Parallels and contrasts between characters and their journeys.

Characters looking out for each other and rescuing each other, giving care and emotional support. Especially women receiving care and support, getting their needs made a priority by their loved ones.

Canon divergence and role reversals are loved, though I also enjoy other AUs.

More things I enjoy: fusions, CYOA, outside pov, story/fragments of story as told in-universe, IF/interactive fiction, poetry, vignettes, character studies, plotty stuff, angst, fluff, smut, adventure, characters talking to each other, enemies to lovers, friends/lovers to enemies to lovers/friends, pining, worldbuilding, quiet character moments, bittersweet endings, happy endings, open/ambiguous endings, quiet and subtle romance, the total opposite of quiet and subtle romance, psychological horror, messy and complicated dynamics, blurring between obligation/need and love, fear/horror/anger mixed with desire/love, politics, isolation, competitiveness, limited agency, legacy, manipulation, scheming, Force bonds, Force shenanigans, Force Ghosts, time travel, weird worlds/dimensions, time moves differently, scars, suspense, undercover, undercover as a couple, mission fic, teaching games, compromised sense of self, interpersonal tension, duty versus desire, love/hate, possessiveness, insecurity, secret relationships, secrets, choking, breathplay, bloodplay, biting, scratching, Ahsoka’s fangs, growling, blindfolding, chains, trust issues, implicit trust, emotional intimacy, casual displays of affection, shared beds, snuggling, sitting/lying in laps, jumping people, stories where the woman/women are a significant part of the man/men’s characterization, stories where the woman/women are a significant part of each other’s characterization, characters gathering each other’s backstory a little at a time, investigating each other, spying, sex and violence paired together, body heat sharing, loneliness, connecting to the force together, mutual pining, dreams, fix-it, parallel universes, parallel universe characters, us against the world, ghosts, rough kissing, neck kissing, kissing tears, kissing hands (back of or palm), nuzzling, afterglow cuddles, sexy baths, sexy showers, bruises, marks, hair-pulling, face-touching, arms around shoulders/waists

Smut Likes


character focus in smut, cunnilingus, competitive smut, ulterior motives for sex, scars, possessiveness, love/hate, Force/magic shenanigans, using the Force for sex, the divine as sex, choking, breathplay, bloodplay, biting, scratching, Ahsoka's fangs, growling, blindfolding, chains, trust issues, implicit trust, emotional intimacy, casual displays of affection, shared beds, snuggling, jumping people, sitting/lying in laps, sex and violence paired together, fucking in the same room as your enemies' corpse, body heat sharing, dreams, pining, mutual pining, ghost sex, feeling each others' sensations during sex, rough sex, rough kissing, lap sex, sex on furniture, sex against walls, slow sex, quick sex, gentle sex, neck kissing, kissing tears, kissing hands (back of or palm), nuzzling, afterglow cuddles, underwater sex, sexy baths, sexy showers, desperate sex, bruises, marks, hair-pulling, face-touching, arms around shoulders/waists

Art Likes


General:
any art style, rough sketches and clean line art both, color and composition to set mood, comics, scenery, single and group character poses, cute or actiony or romantic or moody or creepy, character expressions, body language, art of characters as tarot cards

Poses:
non-explicit poses like characters kissing (on the mouth, the temple, the top of the head, hands, the cheek, etc), holding hands, hugging, carrying each other (princess carry, fireman, piggyback, shoulder rides), and pressing their foreheads together, petting their faces/hair, arms around shoulders/waists

explicit poses involving anything in my smut likes

IF Likes


I rarely write about IF, so I hope this is helpful! I've played mostly games which rely on reading text and clicking on text/making choices--for example, like Alabaster, The Book of Guenevere, visual novels, dating sims, and paper books where you turn to a page for every choice--but I'm open to receiving something different if the program is small and easily accessible. I use Windows 7 and Apple mobile devices.

DNWs


bleak/hopeless endings, fpermanently dead female characters (where she’s not even a ghost), the concept of Anakin and Ahsoka as a father/daugher relationship, mpreg, detailed gore, detailed description of bodily fluids and excretions, watersports, scat, emetophilia, noncon (unless requested/prompted)-dubcon is fine, rape (except where specified below), a/b/o, rule 63’ing female characters, body horror, explicit torture, permanently damaging torture, maiming, mutilating, bashing of characters or ships, unrequited love (except if it's only unrequited in a characters' head), unrequested/unprompted ships (though mentions are okay), stories where nobody really cares about the woman/women in the ship, m/m outside of m/m/f ships, focus only on m/m interactions, a story where the f/f or m/f is secondary to the m/m, AUs which don't use canon settings (unless prompted/requested), underage (17+ is fine, whether you change canon ages or set things when the characters would be 17+), ageplay/infantilization, unrequested/unprompted humiliation, bestiality, Jedi Order as evil/immoral (versus deeply flawed institution, which is good), oviposition, monster sex, tentacle sex, flowery terms for body parts (love cave, love tunnel), sex without attraction, actually "mad" Daenerys, anal tearing

So Weird (TV)


Fiona "Fi" Phillips

This show has been on my mind again recently. I love Fi’s curiosity and determination-she’s like an American Luna Lovegood with her faith and her family tragedy, if without the outside calm and dreaminess. She’s brave and caring, and I enjoy her relationships with her family and fellow travelers: the bickering but clearly loving interactions with Jack, the understanding and care with her mother, Clu being a little less doubtful about the things she says are happening. I’d be happy with her and any of the characters! Adventures we didn’t see, backstory, what she’s up to after she leaves the show, an AU in which she stays, communications with Annie, what happens if she comes back during the third season or at any point afterwards. For ships, I like Fi/Clu and Fi/Annie, and original female characters would be okay by me too!

With regard to handling my DNW of underage, I’m fine with AU’ing her so she’s older in canon, or setting things when she’s older.

Crossover Challenge:

Between the nineties/2000s setting and the supernatural elements, I can’t help but think of a Buffy (the show incarnation) crossover. I’d love it if Buffy met Fi. What if Molly had a gig at the Bronze? Or if the characters ran into Buffy before she moved to Sunnydale, or when she fled to L.A. between seasons two and three? Shipping them would be absolutely okay by me!

I can’t think of a prompt for these, but if you’re intrigued by the idea of a Game of Thrones crossover or a Star Wars crossover, I love the characters of Daenerys, Brienne, Ahsoka, and Anakin.

Any of these fandoms would also be great as a setting AU for the So Weird characters!

W.I.T.C.H. (Cartoon)


Cornelia Hale (W.I.T.C.H. Cartoon)

I liked how firm and confident Cornelia is. She’s stubborn and proud, but devoted to her friends. I loved her dedication to Elyon and how she went through all that trouble alone to try to reach her. I’d be happy with anything: backstory with her and Elyon and/or the other girls before Will’s arrival, missing scenes between episodes. For shipping, I’m good with her canon relationship with Caleb, or pretty much any femslash, and here’s a link to my Cornelia/Phobos request for Fandom Growth this year. Also, I’m familiar with the comics, so if you want to take inspiration from there for some things, or draw from them for what Cornelia might’ve been up to in the show’s season three that never happened, that would all be perfectly good!

With regard to handling my DNW of underage, I’m fine with AU’ing her so she’s older in canon, or setting things when she’s older.

Crossover Challenge:

Girls fighting evil, multitple dimensions from which magical people and creatures originate: is it W.I.T.C.H. or is it Buffy (show incarnation specifically for this)? I’d really like if Cornelia met Buffy. They both have a similar backstory of being proud blondes into fashion who get destiny thrust upon them and prove themselves to be brave, loyal friends despite the apparent mismatch of their new roles with their personalities. It makes me think of how well Buffy and Cordelia seemed to get along at first; imagine how differently things might develop for Buffy and Cornelia, since they both have magical powers and Cornelia already has friends who aren’t just followers. Shipping them would be absolutely okay by me!

I can’t think of a prompt for these, but if you’re intrigued by the idea of a Game of Thrones crossover or a Star Wars crossover, I love the characters of Daenerys, Brienne, Ahsoka, and Anakin.

Any of these fandoms would also be great as a setting AU for the W.I.T.C.H. characters!

The Forgotten Beasts of Eld - Patricia A. McKillip


Sybel (Eld)

I love Sybel. I love her pursuit of knowledge, her taking to the animals, her living in solitude with the beasts she calls, her processing as she is drawn closer to the human world, and I love her almost taking revenge for the violations she was/would have been subjected to. I’d be happy with anything: a day in the life under her dome, her trying to adjust to living differently with Coren, her relationship to her magic. Or what if she’d decided to take her revenge on Drede immediately after escaping the wizard? On the shipping side, I’m good with her canon relationship with Coren, and if you want to do any femslash with an original character, that would be great too!

Crossover Challenge:

I’d love to see a crossover in which she meets Daenerys Targaryen! I’m mostly familiar with the show, but I’d enjoy a meeting with book Daenerys as well, or a combination of show and book elements. They both bond with legendary beasts, but in different ways, and they’re both beautiful white-haired ladies who exist at a kind of remove from everyone else, even if Daenerys is surrounded by people and tries to find belonging in her quest for queenship/saving the world, while Sybel was content to live with the beasts. Too, they both carry on different family legacies in a way: Daenerys carries the burden of her name and her desire to do better than her ancestors, and is the first in many years to be able to wake a dragon; Sybel takes to the ways of her family in her care and calling of beasts, and is doing so undisrupted until the events of the book. What if one of them were AU’d into the other’s setting, or both settings were fused together? Shipping them would be absolutely okay by me!

Or, what about a Star Wars crossover in which she meets Ahsoka Tano, or Anakin Skywalker? Ahsoka also has a relationship with a mystical creature in the form of Morai, and like Sybel, she does live in isolation seeking knowledge when she descends into Malachor. Or she and/or Anakin are on a mission which ends up involving a sorceress on an uncharted world. Plus, you could do things with how Force-sensitives feel things through the Force, because they’re all connected, and the meditation, and how Sybel has this space in her mind where she knows herself, and a clarity which allows her to call the beasts to her.

I can’t think of a prompt for these, but if you’re intrigued by her having her meet Brienne, or by the idea of a Buffy (show incarnation) crossover in which she meets Buffy, I’d love that too!

Any of these fandoms would also be great as a setting AU for the Forgotten Beasts characters!

Romeo x Juliet (Anime)


Juliet Fiammatta Arst de Capulet (Romeo x Juliet)

I love Juliet's path from vigilante to resistance leader, and in particular how she incorporated the first into the latter (with more success than when she tried so hard to just be the Capulet avenger her stewards and Tybalt all thought she should be at first.) I was also left really intrigued by her dynamics with Tybalt and Hermione. There was a friction that melted into a kind of respect and understanding, I think, and I'd love to see that explored. Or just backstory as she grew up in Montague-controlled Verona, and maybe her exploits with her theater friends! As to ships, I don’t really ship Juliet/Romeo but I’m okay with it, so it’s fine for that to be part of the story! I do ship her with Tybalt, Hermione, Emilia, and Cordelia, and I would be intrigued too by hate sex or marriage of convenience for her and Leontes.

With regard to handling my DNW of underage, I’m fine with AU’ing her so she’s older in canon, or setting things when she’s older.

Crossover Challenge:

Heirs to a family ousted from power and hunted down, tasked with the burden of restoring its name and destroying its enemies, having a deep empathy for people and a desire to perform heroics for them, good at inspiring speeches-it could be really cool if Juliet met Daenerys! What if one of them were AU’d into the other’s setting, or both settings were fused together? Shipping them would be absolutely okay by me!

I can’t think of a prompt for these, but if you’re intrigued by having her meet Brienne, or by the idea of a Star Wars or Buffy crossover, I’d love her to meet Anakin, Ahsoka, or Buffy.

Any of these fandoms would also be great as a setting AU for the Romeo x Juliet characters!

Once more, thank you so very much for your work! Best wishes!

ETA 1:
Dear Author,

I apologize for the delay! There wasn't much to go, but a family emergency has happened. We are moving through the end of the immediate stages now, and I hope to have it up by no later than this coming weekend.

November 6 2019

ETA 2:

Dear Author,

It is now complete and up. Thank you for your patience!

November 2019

ETA 3: I have learned that So Weird is available on Disney+! I didn't mention it in my promo posts because it hadn't happened yet, and it might not occur to anyone to check there, so it felt right to mention it here.

November 22 2019

dear author, yuletide

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