Yuletide Dear Creator Letter
Oct. 15th, 2022 07:55 pmHello dear creator! Thank you for reading my letter! Also, treats are absolutely welcome!
General things I like, regardless of fandom:
- Bickering, bantering
- Battle couples/moresomes
- Sparring leading to making out
- Porn With Plot
- Polyamory (either a web of relationships, or everyone-with-everyone)
- Soulmate AUs (especially if they are unconventional - say, you fall in love with someone who is not your Soulmate, and going against societal expectations, or poly soulmates)
- Romance, love and fluff and kisses and cuddles
- That italicized oh, especially if followed with oh no or oh fuck
- characters looking at themselves and going “really?!?!! we have to develop feelings for them?!?!!?”
- “oh the idiots are out early… oh shit it’s MY idiot” dynamic
- codependency. characters who’d let the world burn, as long as they can be together
- okay, so maybe they will probably do the right thing - provided their lover is safe first.
- chaotic gremlins or originally evil characters forcibly made behave, because they got attached to a ray of sunshine and THIS WOULD BE SO MUCH EASIER IF THEY HADN’T BEEN INFLICTED WITH MORALS GODDAMNIT
- fantasy AUs - dragons and magic and all of it
- Sci-fi AUs - especially to the style of Firefly, spaceships with small crews traveling alongside each other. Maybe all falling in love with each other, during the long times in deep space
- sedoretu AU
- Pacific Rim AU
- I love “weird” romances. One of them is a sentient spaceship. Or a robot. Or one of them is possessing the other. I love some good ol’ fashioned monsterloving too.
- Hurt/comfort
General DNWs, regardless of fandom:
- cheating, any shape or form
- animal abuse. if it’s say, an adventure story where giant spiders attack the cast, and they have to kill it, that’s fine, but any other way, no
- A/B/O, unless you are focusing on the societal aspects of it
- noncon
- sad endings, unless otherwise specified.
And now fandom-specific stuff. These are not in any particular order.
Bartimaeus Trilogy:
Bartimaeus/Kitty/Nathaniel: I love this OT3 so much. Can be taking place during canon, can be a continuation - either as Nathaniel returning somehow, or Bartimaeus and Kitty dealing with the loss. This is one of the exemptions from the “sad endings” rule, if you want to keep it canon-compliant. If you want it either taking place when Bartimaeus and Nathaniel are sharing a body, or maybe handwave it in such a way that that’s the only way Nathaniel can return, feel free!
Fandom-specific DNW: if you write an AU where you place them into a different setting, please keep Bartimaeus as nonhuman.
Fantasy Heroine Series:
Generally: Anything more in the spirit of the shorts, with Captain Collins and Rosamund getting into more tropey shenanigans, much to Caroline’s glee!
Caroline/Rosamund: ok alternatively what if Rosamund falls in love with the writer instead, much to her chagrin. She’d prefer to actually fall in love with Leo! Or the Hot Childhood Friend. Either of them, but Caroline, for heavens’ sake!
Fandom-specific DNW: nothing too sad for this one. Keep it light and fun, just like the shorts!
It's fine to not have all requested characters show up in the work.
Tomb of the Sea:
Wu Xie/Xie Yuchen: I love terrifying power couple playing everyone for fools. I’d like to see more of them working together in this era
Wu Xie/Wang Pangzi/Zhang Qiling: give me the pain in this timeline I love to see it, whole lots of pining and being kept apart
Liang Wan/Zhang Rishan/Yin Nanfeng: I love them so much. I would love to see them kiss. You can also add Su Nan on, let Rishan have all the ladies. And let the ladies all kiss other too.
Li Cu/Su Wan/Yang Hao: I just again, love the small trio being no braincell idiots and adjusting their new lives.
Fandom-specific DNW:
absolutely no background pairing where only two of the iron triangle are a thing romantically. Either all three of them should be romantic with each other or none of them.
For HuaXie: I want no replacement romance here. I’d prefer if Irontri should still be background poly, and you can add background HeiHua too.
No shipping Zhang Rishan with anyone without Liang Wan also being part of the ship. No explicitly cis Xie Yuchen (would prefer trans Wu Xie too). It's fine not mentioning it, but do not make them explicitly cis.
It's fine to not have all requested characters show up.
Detective L:
Luo Fei/Qin Xiaoman: I love their murder-reenactments. Especially when they get sexy. And just generally them bouncing off from each other.
Ben Jieming/Luo Fei/Qin Xiaoman: Ben deserves all the kisses, and he was so happy that his boyfriend got himself a girlfriend
Huo Wensi/Luo Fei/Qin Xiaoman: ……I got nothing. I’d love to have Huo Wensi be forcibly reintegrated to the good side. Or something. Maybe the two of them end up loving him too much to give up on him.
Fandom specific DNW: Luo Fei and Qin Xiaoman not being in a romantic relationship, while they are with someone else.
It's fine to not have all requested characters show up in the work.
Kamen Rider OOO:
Ankh/Eiji:
Okay. I’d just love to see them just… hang out. Be happy. Together.
Or, going by the movie, here’s an AU idea: and keep Ankh in Eiji’s body, with Eiji also being present. Ankh doesn’t want to let him go. Idk Handwave, It'll Be Fiiiiine
Or an AU where Eiji does end up being a Greeed in the end - Greeed power couple maybe? Trying to get their senses back somehow? Hanging out with the other Greeed? (Maybe the original five Greeed used to be a messy polycule that Ankh flounced from, and now both him and Eiji enter/reenter it? With Ankh and Eiji both having experience with their senses fully restored... but I'd still love the focus to be on Ankh/Eiji)
Funnier idea: Ankh trying to seduce Eiji. Too bad his ideas of seduction are coming from his birdbrain - dressing up prettier and flashier, coming from his peacock side, for example. Eiji has no idea what Ankh is getting at, and Ankh is getting increasingly more and more frustrated.
Also... many birds, including condors and hawks mate for life. Food for thought.
And some sexier prompts: yeah okay I’m absolutely here for the general idea of Ankh discovering other things while in the human body. I for one think Ankh would love to pretend to be a top while being the whiniest, bitchiest, most demanding bottom in the universe and Eiji would love to pamper him while keeping him in check. I think Eiji would be the world’s sweetest dom, and Ankh would love to pretend this isn’t the case, but he is gone gone.
On the flipside: Eiji thinking about Ankh - in those times when he had only known him as an arm, and Eiji might have a bit of a thing for that arm. Does he fantasize about what it would feel like, that arm touching him all over? Does he try imagining what the rest of Ankh’s body looks like? And can he get it out of his head, once he can actually put it together?
Note: if you are not comfortable with them actually having sex while Ankh is in Shingo's body, I'm fine with them actually not going through with it, in that case, you can just focus on their desires (hah!), and the frustrations that ensue, because Ankh just wants so much, and Eiji wants him so much as well, but Eiji being overly conscious about the fact that it's not Ankh's body... I'm fine with it either way, either they end up going for it in that situation or not. (If it makes you more comfortable, you can bring Shingo into the equation somehow, if you want to eliminate the dubcon element, but I'd prefer the focus to be on Ankh and Eiji regardless.)
Ankh/Eiji/Hina: I just think there’s a lot of potential. Feel free to lean into the awkwardness or maybe Hina feeling a bit guilty about it, but can't help falling for Ankh? How long is she telling herself she is only in love with Eiji at most, but Eiji and Ankh are a package deal and really, she only wants to keep Shingo's body safe... oh but it's getting easier and easier to look at Ankh, and /not/ see Shingo instead, and only seeing Ankh... which makes her feel even guiltier.
The aforementioned movie-AU idea: maybe all the guilt is gone, with Ankh and Eiji being in the same body. Even if it'll be very different.
I’d like this to be a closed triad, with everyone loving everyone, and not just an “Ankh and Hina are sharing Eiji” situation.
Gotou - I just love him, your honor. Especially interested in Ankh/Gotou/Eiji ot3. Date can absolutely tag along. Or even Hina.
Also a more general prompt: Ankh getting the chasing of new sensations to dumb heights, such as licking a lamppost in winter, or throwing himself into a ballpit and refusing to get out of there. Comedy and shenanigans of a bird having fun with different sensations. Eiji gets a scalp massager, uses it on Ankh, and he almost melts to the ground. That sort of thing.
Another general prompt: forcefully rehabilitating the rest of the Greeed too. Chiyoko could branch out and use a few more employees! Maybe Mezool and Chiyoko could kiss. Or Mezool and Satonaka. Or all three of them. Uva and Kazari could kiss too. Gamel gets to be happy too, somehow. These ships are not set in stone, you can surprise me. Just the idea of all these idiots trying badly to act like humans, and all the humans (Eiji, Hina, Gotou, Date, maybe even Satonaka) herding them. What is worse than herding cats? Herding five Greeed, only one of whom is a cat, that's what.
Fandom specific DNW: Ankh and Eiji not being in love.
Also if you write a complete AU, like placing them in a different setting, please keep Ankh (and the rest of the original Greeed gang if they show up) as nonhuman.
It's fine to not have all requested characters show up in the work.