Dear Yuletide author 2020
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mayhapDear Yuletide author,
I am so pleased that we share an interest in one of these fandoms and I can’t wait to read whatever you write for me this Yuletide!
I enjoy a wide variety of stories, all year round but especially at Yuletide. I love short, punchy stories and longer, plotter stories, explicitly smutty and/or kinky stories and coy stories that are all about the teasing and the implications, stories with some kind of meta angle to them and stories that engage with the source material 100% on its own terms, stories with ships that are canon and stories with ships that aren’t.
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Colors in the Dreamweaver’s Loom series — Beth Hilgartner
Remarr
Vihena
The world of these books has always been so magical to me, especially the way that their quest brings Zan and the Five together in the first book. I love how Remarr and Vihena, the changelings, serve as foils to each other, and how they both have to deal with having their respective insecurities exposed by their companions’ mind-reading abilities. I remember assuming that they would get together when I was a kid and I’d still be interested in that, even as I’d be just as likely as an adult to read either or both of them as queer. Mostly, I’d like to see them finding a place of mutual respect that they never quite managed to maintain in the books, even if it’s difficult and painful.
Maybe they’re forced to work together again to help restore order to their world, or maybe Remarr composes a new song about Vihena’s great deeds with the sword, or maybe they’re already engaged and navigating two sets of wedding customs plus a whole clan of outraged Khedathi in-laws! I’d love absolutely anything that inspires you about these characters in this world.
The Great British Bake Off RPF
Mary Berry
Paul Hollywood
Paul and Mary were perfectly paired as judges and I’m still not over Mary leaving! They’re both so engaging on screen and they built up a delightful chemistry over the years. I particularly love to rewatch the Masterclass episodes, which are even more soothingly low-stakes than the main show, being composed entirely of baking and banter. I love all the usual things they tease each other relentless about, while at the same time being extremely courteous and appreciative as they go about their baking and sampling
If you fancy writing something more explicit, I’d love to read Mary cheerfully domming Paul as he plays up the mischief (but also shows off how good he is with his hands). Otherwise, I’d love absolutely anything that showcases the rapport of their working relationship, whether it be within the milieu of the show or not, perhaps wit a bit (or a lot) of classic GBBO innuendo.
DNW: References to Paul’s real-life relationship issues. Any other real-life biographical stuff is totally fine.
Green Sky Trilogy — Zilpha Keatley Snyder
Pomma D’ok
Teera Eld
I love the worldbuilding in these books, especially the cross-cultural friendship and partnership between Pomma and Teera. I love the radical utopianism of the Kindar but also how much they struggled with accepting the true nature of the Erdlings and integrating them into a new unified society. I'd really like to read a story about them growing up together as the Kindar and the Erdlings adjust to each other and return of spirit-powers, with as broad or as narrow a scope as you would like to imagine.
I think Pomma and Teera would be make an adorable couple and that you could also do incredibly fun setting-specific things with it—trying to keep your crush a secret from someone you can pense with? Gruntspreking to give you and your partner some privacy or engage in some bondage? Kiniporting sex toys, even? Not to mention differences in ideas about romantic relationships, which comes up in the books as well, athough of course only heterosexual relationships are mentioned. But it's also absolutely fine with me if you'd rather pair them off with other characters or with OCs or with no one; I wouldn't feel like you were breaking up my pairing or anything.
DNW: Incorporation of video game canon.
The Professor — Charlotte Brontë
Frances Evans Henri
Hunsden Yorke Hunsden
William Crimsworth
I am fascinated the role that Hunsden Yorke Hunsden plays in this story, who is of the things that makes it different from Vilette, which is essentially a heavily-revised second draft of The Professor. From the beginning he alternates between needling William and performing these extremely thoughtful favors for him, although it's not always easy for him to get under William's skin as William perversely enjoys some of his bluntness. He brings out such an interesting side of Frances when he meets her, too -- I love that promptly she gets into three arguments with him in a row, and the third time she doesn't even believe in the argument she's making; she just wants to fight with him!
I'm particularly interested in a story set when William and Frances are living in England and Hunsden is their neighbor. I love how he has apparently latched onto their family in lieu of starting their own, especially the way he seems to practically be a coparent to Victor when he’s at home. I would love more about their daily life as it's sketched all too briefly in that last chapter, or a story about something that happens as Victor gets older and goes to school, which William worries about.
I would also love threesome fic! William would be almost hopelessly scandalized by the prospect, I think, and surely Frances too, but then with the dynamic both she and Hunsden have with William where they love to tease him I can imagine it working out somehow. I do love stories where characters fumble their way into unusual relationships or sexual practices without quite knowing what they're doing or having the usual vocabulary to talk about it, which is sort of what I would picture here. But I absolutely would be just as happy with a story that explores the dynamic among them some other way.
Trouble Series — Stephanie Tromly
Philip Digby
Zoe Webster
I’m not ready to leave Planet Digby! I ship Zoe/Digby like it was written specifically for me, which it might as well have been, and I crave more. The bickering is amazing, obviously, but I also love the combination of earnestness and irony when it comes to like mental health and feelings, and the mixture of grounded realism and rule of cool when it comes to their adventures.
I’d love some coping with long-distance relationships, or meeting up for dates (and/or shenanigans) in New York City, or really anything at all as long as it’s set in the future and Zoe and Digby are together. Even the fade to black in the books is insanely hot to me, so if you want to write pure porn, I would also be thrilled. Zoe’s offhand mention of fandom in the first book never really come up again, but if you wanted to pick that thread up and do a fandom story, it could be fun (and I approve of her taste in Harry Potter femslash!). Really, anything would be great.
I am so pleased that we share an interest in one of these fandoms and I can’t wait to read whatever you write for me this Yuletide!
I enjoy a wide variety of stories, all year round but especially at Yuletide. I love short, punchy stories and longer, plotter stories, explicitly smutty and/or kinky stories and coy stories that are all about the teasing and the implications, stories with some kind of meta angle to them and stories that engage with the source material 100% on its own terms, stories with ships that are canon and stories with ships that aren’t.
I am also
Colors in the Dreamweaver’s Loom series — Beth Hilgartner
Remarr
Vihena
The world of these books has always been so magical to me, especially the way that their quest brings Zan and the Five together in the first book. I love how Remarr and Vihena, the changelings, serve as foils to each other, and how they both have to deal with having their respective insecurities exposed by their companions’ mind-reading abilities. I remember assuming that they would get together when I was a kid and I’d still be interested in that, even as I’d be just as likely as an adult to read either or both of them as queer. Mostly, I’d like to see them finding a place of mutual respect that they never quite managed to maintain in the books, even if it’s difficult and painful.
Maybe they’re forced to work together again to help restore order to their world, or maybe Remarr composes a new song about Vihena’s great deeds with the sword, or maybe they’re already engaged and navigating two sets of wedding customs plus a whole clan of outraged Khedathi in-laws! I’d love absolutely anything that inspires you about these characters in this world.
The Great British Bake Off RPF
Mary Berry
Paul Hollywood
Paul and Mary were perfectly paired as judges and I’m still not over Mary leaving! They’re both so engaging on screen and they built up a delightful chemistry over the years. I particularly love to rewatch the Masterclass episodes, which are even more soothingly low-stakes than the main show, being composed entirely of baking and banter. I love all the usual things they tease each other relentless about, while at the same time being extremely courteous and appreciative as they go about their baking and sampling
If you fancy writing something more explicit, I’d love to read Mary cheerfully domming Paul as he plays up the mischief (but also shows off how good he is with his hands). Otherwise, I’d love absolutely anything that showcases the rapport of their working relationship, whether it be within the milieu of the show or not, perhaps wit a bit (or a lot) of classic GBBO innuendo.
DNW: References to Paul’s real-life relationship issues. Any other real-life biographical stuff is totally fine.
Green Sky Trilogy — Zilpha Keatley Snyder
Pomma D’ok
Teera Eld
I love the worldbuilding in these books, especially the cross-cultural friendship and partnership between Pomma and Teera. I love the radical utopianism of the Kindar but also how much they struggled with accepting the true nature of the Erdlings and integrating them into a new unified society. I'd really like to read a story about them growing up together as the Kindar and the Erdlings adjust to each other and return of spirit-powers, with as broad or as narrow a scope as you would like to imagine.
I think Pomma and Teera would be make an adorable couple and that you could also do incredibly fun setting-specific things with it—trying to keep your crush a secret from someone you can pense with? Gruntspreking to give you and your partner some privacy or engage in some bondage? Kiniporting sex toys, even? Not to mention differences in ideas about romantic relationships, which comes up in the books as well, athough of course only heterosexual relationships are mentioned. But it's also absolutely fine with me if you'd rather pair them off with other characters or with OCs or with no one; I wouldn't feel like you were breaking up my pairing or anything.
DNW: Incorporation of video game canon.
The Professor — Charlotte Brontë
Frances Evans Henri
Hunsden Yorke Hunsden
William Crimsworth
I am fascinated the role that Hunsden Yorke Hunsden plays in this story, who is of the things that makes it different from Vilette, which is essentially a heavily-revised second draft of The Professor. From the beginning he alternates between needling William and performing these extremely thoughtful favors for him, although it's not always easy for him to get under William's skin as William perversely enjoys some of his bluntness. He brings out such an interesting side of Frances when he meets her, too -- I love that promptly she gets into three arguments with him in a row, and the third time she doesn't even believe in the argument she's making; she just wants to fight with him!
I'm particularly interested in a story set when William and Frances are living in England and Hunsden is their neighbor. I love how he has apparently latched onto their family in lieu of starting their own, especially the way he seems to practically be a coparent to Victor when he’s at home. I would love more about their daily life as it's sketched all too briefly in that last chapter, or a story about something that happens as Victor gets older and goes to school, which William worries about.
I would also love threesome fic! William would be almost hopelessly scandalized by the prospect, I think, and surely Frances too, but then with the dynamic both she and Hunsden have with William where they love to tease him I can imagine it working out somehow. I do love stories where characters fumble their way into unusual relationships or sexual practices without quite knowing what they're doing or having the usual vocabulary to talk about it, which is sort of what I would picture here. But I absolutely would be just as happy with a story that explores the dynamic among them some other way.
Trouble Series — Stephanie Tromly
Philip Digby
Zoe Webster
I’m not ready to leave Planet Digby! I ship Zoe/Digby like it was written specifically for me, which it might as well have been, and I crave more. The bickering is amazing, obviously, but I also love the combination of earnestness and irony when it comes to like mental health and feelings, and the mixture of grounded realism and rule of cool when it comes to their adventures.
I’d love some coping with long-distance relationships, or meeting up for dates (and/or shenanigans) in New York City, or really anything at all as long as it’s set in the future and Zoe and Digby are together. Even the fade to black in the books is insanely hot to me, so if you want to write pure porn, I would also be thrilled. Zoe’s offhand mention of fandom in the first book never really come up again, but if you wanted to pick that thread up and do a fandom story, it could be fun (and I approve of her taste in Harry Potter femslash!). Really, anything would be great.
