Yuletide 2023 LetterHi! Thank you for writing something for me this year!
I like things gen or shippy, and shippy works can run from we’re in a relationship but focusing on plot to tooth rotting fluff made entirely of sugar and rainbows. I'm a total multi and poly shipper so I'm very open to pairings, threesomes, or moresomes if you're feeling shippy. Plot is welcome but totally not needed.
Likes:
Tropes are great played straight or inverted some I like are:
• character interaction
• fix-it fic
• casefic or the equivalent for the fandom
• coffee shops
• crack fic taken seriously or not
• soulmates
• telepathy (accidental or a normal part of the universe)
• sex pollen
• cuddle pollen
• curtain fic
• unusual reactions to pet names
• hurt comfort that’s heavy on the comfort.
• cuddling and snuggling especially with a side of touch starvation
• the soulmate goose (a goose the comes and encourages you to confess to your soulmate by being, well, an invulnerable goose with an interest in true love)
• the Untitled Goose Game Goose being horrible
• they’re all good.
Any rating but if you go E please keep them talking to each other or dealing with the emotional aspect of sex in some other way.
Extra characters from canon or OC’s that help the plot (shop keepers, citizens in need of saving etc.) are fine but not needed. Similarly I know Yuletide uses AND matching but you don't have to include every character in your fic if you get an idea that needs to leave someone out.
Have fun. I'm pretty easy to please. You’re starting from a point of OMG I got fic!
Yes, I welcome extra Yuletide treats.
Do Not Want:
• permanent character death
• sad endings
• second hand embarrassment
• hurt without comfort
• dark fic
• zombies - (Jason Todd's zombie jokes, and all the other canonical returns from the dead DC has, don't count for the purposes of this DNW)
• Shipping members of the Batfamily together (ships from outside the famiy are fine)
• Anything past 2nd base with minors (Up to you how old Jason Todd and Cassandra Cain are, DC certainly doesn't know.)
• “you can see color when you meet your soulmate” (just that one all other soulmate versions I’ve run across are fine)
• infidelity/cheating
• teacher/student especially if the student is under age
• rape
• blood play, scat, watersports, vomit.
• hanahaki
• quarantine, serious illness (things that can be cured with chicken soup and TLC are fine)
Fandom Specific Notes:
(Please feel free to ignore my prompts if you have an idea of your own. Optional Details Are totally Optional.)
Batman: Wayne Family Adventures (Webcomic)Characters: Any
The Batfamily is Canon and I haven't been this excited about something actually paid for by a major comics company since the first Avengers movie. I love everything about this but some highlights are: Batman types his post-it notes, cookies if you all come back unharmed, and every family interaction they've had so far. What, that's the whole comic? — ^.^; I tried.
Some possible prompts:
• A collection of other notes Bruce has left for his kids over the years.
• How the others try to help Duke feel better after Damian stops guarding his door.
• Jon and Skylar meeting. With or without Damian involved.
Star Trek: Lower Decks (Cartoon)This show is brilliant and I love the focus on what should be the B plots of other Star Trek shows and characters we'd see for five minutes a season normally. It's great seeing how everyone really loves being in Starfleet but that comes out in so many different ways.
Some possible prompts:
• An elaboration of any of Mariner's stories.
• Tendi and Rutherford geeking out about some piece of technobabel.
• An exploration of the fact that T'Ana is obviously a brilliant doctor who's seen literally everything and is on the Cerritos because no Captain wants to deal with her or her lack of filter.
• Mission fic featuring your favorite of the nominated characters. Maybe having to deal with an alien species that speaks only in limericks?
FAKE (Manga)I hadn't thought of this series in years but when I saw it in the tagset I had to request it. Dee's relentless but genuine and kindhearted pursuit of Ryo was ridiculous in the best ways and I'd love anything you care to write for these two.
Some possible prompts:
• Another vacation to somewhere you wouldn't in the least bit expect two NYC cops to vacation to. (With or without the peril that follows them everywhere.)
• This series has so many time skips and you could fill in any of them.
• Post (or not Post because of how far in the future Bikky and Carol's story stretches) series fic where Ryo is the romantic o
• More nonsensical things that Dee did to try to get Ryo's attention and how they backfired on him (or didn't).
Gargoyles (Cartoon)There's a castle at the top of a skyscraper and it has strange shapes flying from it all the time and this is somehow not the heart of every news cycle in New York City! If you're going the worldbuilding route please address all teh stuff that the rest of the world has been ignoring for at least a thousand years. Otherwise I ship Goliath/Eliza, Fox/Xanatos, and Lex & Alex as ?Best babysitter and chaos child who;s grown up with magic and a dozen people doting on him.
Some possible prompts:
• Semi-reformed Xanatos scheming for...good, yeah this is definitely a plan that will help people done in the shadiest way possible because that's just how his mind works.
• Avalon while the Magus and the others were raising the Avalon Clan.
• Got a favorite story or place that was missed during Eliza and Goliath's Avalon adventure? Add it to the itinerary! Or have the trio take a trip to Avalon and get lost on the way back too.
Darkwing Duck (Cartoon 1991)Who didn't love the tale of actually broke but still fully geared Batman and his heterosexual life partner who has never met a plane he couldn't crash? His attempts to remain (not)grim and (not)dark even as his life filled up with people he cared about and who cared about him is excellent and I love their family dynamic (yes, including Honker).
Some possible prompts:
• Darkwing and Launchpad on a mission while also trying to help Gosalyn and Honker with a school assignment.
• Drake Mallard having to do anything normal and suburban for the first time.
• The teenaged (or adult but lets face it Darkwing wouldn't be able to keep them in that long) adventures of Quiverwing Quack and Arrow Kid. (With a more grownup name everyone refuses to call him.)
Tales of the Five Hundred Kingdoms - Mercedes LackeyThe world building on this series is simultaneously insane and makes so much sense and I love it. The Tradition's combination of 5 year old who knows exactly how this story is supposed to go, and will throw a fit if you try to tell it in any other way, and a sailor who knows the dirty versions of all the songs has always cracked me up and anything that explores that will thrill me.
Some possible prompts:
• Your favorite fairy tale and what parts The Tradition sees as most important when forcing people to fit into it's mold.
• A character trying to work around their story to get the outcome they want (and maybe becoming a Fairy Godmother in the process).
• Straight up out of universe meta of how the heck this works.
• There's plenty of other things that aren't The Tradition and if you wanted to do something with the Fairy Godmother's books or just what a section of not fantasy!Europe looks like in this world that would be great.
Thank you again and happy Yuletide!
~Kit
P.S. Sorry for the long placeholder. Life got in the way of the beginning of Yuletide.