yuletide letter 2023

(For letter-lurkers: this has been edited with more detail after initial posting but before assignments went out. Treats are very welcome!)

Hello dear writer, and thank you! Below are my general likes and DNWs, as well as some specific ideas and prompts for the fandoms I've requested. All of these are just suggestions: if you've got a different idea, I'd love to see it! I will always be happy to read scenes that could have come before, after, or during the story's canon. In general I love all the characters for my nominated fandoms, so unless I specifically mention not wanting to see someone, I'll be happy to have other characters included. I've tried to give some sense of what I like about the characters and their relationships to help guide you.

Smut is also always welcome; I especially love exploring character and relationship through physical intimacy. I love angst as long as there's at least a little hope at the end, and I don't mind things getting pretty dark, so aside from things specified in my DNWs, you can go nuts.

General likes
Post-canon, canon-compliant background, "missing" scenes
Polyamory/open relationships
Difficult conflicts where neither person is fully right or wrong
Hurt/comfort and whump
Nonverbal expressions of love
Enemies to lovers, enemies who are fuckbuddies
Modern and scifi AUs
Porn as character study/relationship study
Sex tears

DNWs
pregnancy, breeding kinks
sad/bad ending, except where noted in prompts
gender swap or gender identity focus
A/B/O
soulmark/soulmate AUs
fantasy/supernatural AUs
plots revolving around misunderstandings
extreme gore, body horror, mutilation
kinks involving body fluids (including menstruation and other bloodplay, watersports, scat, spitting/saliva play, cum inflation) - I'm fine with typical presence of sexual fluids, just not as the focus


Prompts

Kiseki
Characters: Any

I really don't have any specific wishes for this: I just love all these characters and want so much more of them than 13 short episodes! Any combination is great, whether you pick one of the romantic pairs, or the friendship between Bai Zong Yi and Ai Di. Feel free to throw Zhang Teng in there too if you wish! (Is he really dead? Does he have to be?)

Between Ai Di and Chen Yi I love the push and pull, how desperate Ai Di is to be close to Chen Yi and how terrified he is, especially now, of getting his hopes up and being hurt. The one-sided pining from Ai Di to Chen Yi and Chen Yi to their boss is delicious to me.

Between Zong Yi and Zhe Rui I love how bold and direct Zong Yi is, his refusal to take any bullshit, and his confidence, once they get there, that Zhe Rui sincerely loves him. I love how hard Zhe Rui tries to be "responsible," meanwhile he's so starved for love and for Zong Yi specifically.

As of now there are three more episodes to air so I may edit this with more ideas as we get through the end of the series.


Oh No! Here Comes Trouble
Characters: Any

I love Pu Yiyong and Cao Guangyan as either a friendship or a romantic relationship. I love Chen Chuying and her friendship with the boys, but don't want to see her romantically paired with either of them. I'd enjoy a get-together story with the two of them awkwardly finding their way around their feelings, or some time with the two or three of them adjusting together after Yiyong wakes up (again.) The blend of comedy and grief in this show is one of the reasons I loved it so much, so feel free to work with either or both mood.

Lin Yongchuan, the tattoo guy played by Fandy Fan, also seized my whole heart, and I'd love a story about him: maybe a fix-it, alternate timeline or reincarnation fic, maybe a scene from his life, happy or sad or both. The tattoo artist said he loved him: what did he mean? What was their relationship like?


Be My Favorite
Characters: Kawi, Pisaeng

This show was a surprise gem of the year for me! I loved the consistent themes of kindness, honesty, and courage. I love how up in his head Kawi gets both about being accepted and about doing the right thing, and how he has to learn to let go and accept the good and bad in his life. I love the angst of Pisaeng knowing he's gay and fighting with the social and parental pressures to stay closeted, even to himself.

My favorite scene in the whole show is the rooftop when Pisaeng finally confesses to Kawi, and it strengthens their friendship even though Kawi turns him down. I love that, in that timeline, Pisaeng celebrates the anniversary of that confession, because it was so important in his life.

I'll be happy with any fic about these two at any point in their story, but I'd especially love to explore some of the other timelines. For example:
* In the timeline where Pisaeng is about to marry Pear but comes and kisses Kawi on the wedding morning. What was their friendship like? What took Pisaeng to the breaking point? There must have been so much angsty pining and I would like to see it.
* More of the times Kawi got drunk and kissed Pisaeng, in the timeline where he's a rock star. Did it ever go further than that?

It would be really cool to read an AU where we stay in one of those earlier timelines, and Kawi and Pisaeng find their way together afterward.


Midnight Museum
Characters: Khatha + your pick of Dome, Chan, The One, Boon

I only named Khatha because he's the character I'm centrally interested in, but I'd love to get some exploration of his relationship with Dome or Chan or The One or Boon, or any combination of those. A Khatha character study would also be very welcome: I love the weight of his guilt and regret, and how desperately he hangs on to the memory of Chan through many lifetimes.

This universe offers some great possibilities for sex magic and I'd be delighted to see that explored. It can get as dubconny as you please, and again could be with any or all of other characters mentioned above.

I'm also interested in the complicated feelings Khatha might have around loving Dome vs. loving Chan: how much is he projecting his feelings for Chan onto Dome, as opposed to loving him for himself? This could be Khatha fretting (we know he's good at that!) or Dome being unsure, or some combination of the two.