Dear Yuletide Writer letter
Oct. 21st, 2023 03:50 pmDear Author,
Thank you so much for writing for me! With all these fandoms I’ll be happy with anything that avoids my DNWs, so the prompts below should be taken as suggestions only - if none of them speak to you I’m happy with you writing something that does.
General likes:
I like angst, complicated feelings, stories that dive into a character and what motivates them, questions of loyalty and of how the past affects the present. Fluff and humour are fine too! Happy with any degree of smut from ‘none at all’ to ‘E-rated’. Other things I like in fics: parenthood/kidfic (prefer if it’s about the emotional feels of the adult characters rather than cute kid things); canonverse AUs of the ‘what if this thing happened differently?’ variety; worldbuilding in fantasy/sci-fi fandoms; and established relationships being complicated. I am cool with shippy stories about characters getting together, but my absolute favourite thing at the moment is characters trying to make established relationships (canon or otherwise!) work. I am also a big fan of ships overlapping or otherwise getting all mixed up together whether that’s in terms of painful emotional feels or cheating or all flavours of angst - go wild. I prefer things not to get neat resolutions and I love ambiguous endings.
DNWs:
Bashing of characters or ships (individual characters can say what they like about whatever but I’d prefer the narrative wasn’t weighing in behind them); traumatic birth or pregnancy loss; omegaverse; noncon as a major plot element (dubcon is fine); heavy dom/sub dynamics with a male dom and female sub (if it’s more of an undertone I’m fine with it); underage; watersports and scat. I prefer my AUs to be canonverse but I’m not 100% wedded to that one, as long the characters feel recognisable to you.
( Rings of Power )
( Archer's Goon )
( The Expanse )
( For All Mankind )
( Elidor )
( Station Eleven )
Cat (eye_of_a_cat on AO3)