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lezridaxDear Yuletide author,
Thanks so much for writing for me! Sorry this took a while for me to update - it's been a very busy week for me! But here you finally are. I will go by fandom in the order they are listed in my sign-up.
Previous Yuletide letters:
2024
2023
Please use the 2024 letter, along with the sign-up, for general details about what I like and dislike. There are also some important feelings about how I feel about broader questions like dubcon (in terms of my rape/non-con DNW), my standards for historical accuracy with historical fandoms, and so on.
All but two of my fandoms from my sign-up are listed in one of those letters. Here are some additional details on characters that I did not include in the previous sign-ups -
A Dangerous Man: Lawrence After Arabia (1990)
Nothing really to add here, everything that I put in my 2023 Yuletide letter for this fandom applies here as well!
Wayfarers Series - Becky Chambers
Since I signed up for Wayfarers the previous time, I have also read books 2 and 4! I was really fascinated by Roveg in the fourth book - his complicated, fraught history as an exile from his homeland, and where he goes from the end of that book. While I would also love Rosemary/Sissix romance or smut, or general worldbuilding, I'm also very interested in what you do with him here! It could be romance, could be friendship, could be innovating new art as an exile, could be none of the above...but I want a general focus on him moving forward and finding a new niche for himself.
The Wire (TV 2002)
In this version of things, in addition to Omar and Mouzone, I also requested Avon Barksdale and Stringer Bell, wanting a story about them together if you choose them. Basically, I ship it and think more work exploring what would happen if there were a sexual/romantic tinge to their frenemies (or friends to enemies, rather) relationship would be fascinating. Have they been messing around since adolescence? Is it a more recent thing? How does the turn against each other affect that? Does it make that turn all the more bitter? What kind of feelings are there - is it purely sexual, is it one-sided romance? How is this complicated by the aggressive homophobia they clearly buy into? Go to town with all the messy possibilities! Absolutely does not have to have a happy ending (just like in canon, lol) - I want mess!!!
Also a clarification that in my sign-up, I said I didn't want canonical character deaths. That's mostly with regard to Omar's death, but I'm fine with exploring Stringer's so you can disregard that (if you're allowed to do that. If not, just explore it up to that point. I would prefer not to give him a different ending, though).
New fandoms!
The Gilded Age (TV 2022)
Canon is a 3-season period live-action TV series produced by HBO (and airing there in the USA), focusing on various characters - both wholly fictional and based on real people - living in the 1880s in New York City.
You can see my Just Married 2025 letter for details on what I want with this fandom. However, that sign-up largely focused on Larry/Marian and I also requested Peggy and Oscar, so here are some more details on what I'd like with them!
Peggy/Marian - I think this is an interesting, underappreciated ship, given how close they are to each other. What if, even while they advise and support each other in their relationships with men, they're also exploring their sexuality with each other? What do they make of that? What kinds of feelings are there, or are there not? How is the racial divide of 1880s New York complicating this relationship? What degree of awareness of what this is vs. deeply internalized homophobia comes into play here? Do they see it as "practice," "not real sex," etc. or something real, that nevertheless has to go by the wayside for their hetero relationships? (I don't really want an ending with this where they don't end up with their canon male love interests, as I like those too, but I think it's interesting as something going on at the same time as that. Or, alternately, maybe they get back together much later in life, widowed, or something like that.)
Peggy/Kirkland - I thought their relationship was really cute and their getting-together at the end of s3 was swoonily romantic. So just...go forward from there! Explore what their life looks like after this point, and how they deal with the reactions of everyone around them!
Oscar - I'd love to read about anything relating to his sexuality: how he figured it out, his first fumblings, maybe how he first discovered and got into a relationship with John Adams (though I find him kind of a dull character so I'd prefer not to dwell on him too much). Alternately, look at where he goes forward after John Adams' death - how he mourns even if he has to do privately, who he is able to talk with about this, does he get into a lavender marriage with Enid and does he share the truth of his sexuality and his past love with her? And who is the man who comes after? I'd love to see some romance between Oscar and some OCs, but also just some general Oscar character exploration.
The Gentleman's Guide to Vice and Virtue Series - Mackenzi Lee
Canon is a 3-book historical fantasy novel series by Mackenzie Lee: The Gentleman's Guide to Vice and Virtue, The Lady's Guide to Petticoats and Piracy, and The Nobleman's Guide to Scandal and Shipwrecks, each focusing on a different sibling in the Montague family (Henry "Monty," Felicity and Adrian). I have read all three.
My requested characters are Monty and his best friend/love interest Percy Newton, from the first book, who I'd like written about together; and Simmaa "Sim" Aldajah and Johanna Hoffmann, who are supporting characters in the second book, and where I'd like either Sim and Johanna together or Sim alone.
A lot of what I love so much about these books is the accurate exploration of queer, neurodivergent and other diverse ways of being in the context of 18th century Europe. The characters rarely feel to me like modern people inserted into that era - they feel like how people of that time who have these identities would be then. That's something I really appreciated and would like to explore further with these characters.
With Monty/Percy, basically I just want more of their love and romance - a continuation of where their life goes forward from the first book. We see bits of them in books two and three, but I'd love you to fill in the gaps, or even continue to let us watch Monty and Percy grow old together after book 3. What kind of life do they have together? How open are they (or can they be) about who they are to each other? What kind of relationship do they have going forward with Felicity, Adrian or anyone else? I'd love to see your answers to these questions - but most of all I'd like sweet, swoony love between them (and more smut is great too!)
With Sim, the idea of a lesbian North African Muslim pirate queen is just so intriguing and yet we only get small portions of this in the second and third books. I'd really love to see a story that focuses wholly on Sim, and especially on her relationships with women. We see her flirting with Felicity but being rebuffed since Felicity is aroace - but who does she actually have a chance with? I like the idea of her with Johanna, so if you bring Johanna into it I think that would be really cool to explore. But it would also be great to see her with an OC, or multiple OCs! I especially like a focus on cultural differences with her lovers, but you could also - similarly to Oscar above - do something exploring her earlier life and how she recognized she was into women, and her earliest relationships with girls.
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Thanks so much for writing for me and your patience while I completed this letter! I can't wait to see what you come up with in a couple months :)
Thanks so much for writing for me! Sorry this took a while for me to update - it's been a very busy week for me! But here you finally are. I will go by fandom in the order they are listed in my sign-up.
Previous Yuletide letters:
2024
2023
Please use the 2024 letter, along with the sign-up, for general details about what I like and dislike. There are also some important feelings about how I feel about broader questions like dubcon (in terms of my rape/non-con DNW), my standards for historical accuracy with historical fandoms, and so on.
All but two of my fandoms from my sign-up are listed in one of those letters. Here are some additional details on characters that I did not include in the previous sign-ups -
A Dangerous Man: Lawrence After Arabia (1990)
Nothing really to add here, everything that I put in my 2023 Yuletide letter for this fandom applies here as well!
Wayfarers Series - Becky Chambers
Since I signed up for Wayfarers the previous time, I have also read books 2 and 4! I was really fascinated by Roveg in the fourth book - his complicated, fraught history as an exile from his homeland, and where he goes from the end of that book. While I would also love Rosemary/Sissix romance or smut, or general worldbuilding, I'm also very interested in what you do with him here! It could be romance, could be friendship, could be innovating new art as an exile, could be none of the above...but I want a general focus on him moving forward and finding a new niche for himself.
The Wire (TV 2002)
In this version of things, in addition to Omar and Mouzone, I also requested Avon Barksdale and Stringer Bell, wanting a story about them together if you choose them. Basically, I ship it and think more work exploring what would happen if there were a sexual/romantic tinge to their frenemies (or friends to enemies, rather) relationship would be fascinating. Have they been messing around since adolescence? Is it a more recent thing? How does the turn against each other affect that? Does it make that turn all the more bitter? What kind of feelings are there - is it purely sexual, is it one-sided romance? How is this complicated by the aggressive homophobia they clearly buy into? Go to town with all the messy possibilities! Absolutely does not have to have a happy ending (just like in canon, lol) - I want mess!!!
Also a clarification that in my sign-up, I said I didn't want canonical character deaths. That's mostly with regard to Omar's death, but I'm fine with exploring Stringer's so you can disregard that (if you're allowed to do that. If not, just explore it up to that point. I would prefer not to give him a different ending, though).
New fandoms!
The Gilded Age (TV 2022)
Canon is a 3-season period live-action TV series produced by HBO (and airing there in the USA), focusing on various characters - both wholly fictional and based on real people - living in the 1880s in New York City.
You can see my Just Married 2025 letter for details on what I want with this fandom. However, that sign-up largely focused on Larry/Marian and I also requested Peggy and Oscar, so here are some more details on what I'd like with them!
Peggy/Marian - I think this is an interesting, underappreciated ship, given how close they are to each other. What if, even while they advise and support each other in their relationships with men, they're also exploring their sexuality with each other? What do they make of that? What kinds of feelings are there, or are there not? How is the racial divide of 1880s New York complicating this relationship? What degree of awareness of what this is vs. deeply internalized homophobia comes into play here? Do they see it as "practice," "not real sex," etc. or something real, that nevertheless has to go by the wayside for their hetero relationships? (I don't really want an ending with this where they don't end up with their canon male love interests, as I like those too, but I think it's interesting as something going on at the same time as that. Or, alternately, maybe they get back together much later in life, widowed, or something like that.)
Peggy/Kirkland - I thought their relationship was really cute and their getting-together at the end of s3 was swoonily romantic. So just...go forward from there! Explore what their life looks like after this point, and how they deal with the reactions of everyone around them!
Oscar - I'd love to read about anything relating to his sexuality: how he figured it out, his first fumblings, maybe how he first discovered and got into a relationship with John Adams (though I find him kind of a dull character so I'd prefer not to dwell on him too much). Alternately, look at where he goes forward after John Adams' death - how he mourns even if he has to do privately, who he is able to talk with about this, does he get into a lavender marriage with Enid and does he share the truth of his sexuality and his past love with her? And who is the man who comes after? I'd love to see some romance between Oscar and some OCs, but also just some general Oscar character exploration.
The Gentleman's Guide to Vice and Virtue Series - Mackenzi Lee
Canon is a 3-book historical fantasy novel series by Mackenzie Lee: The Gentleman's Guide to Vice and Virtue, The Lady's Guide to Petticoats and Piracy, and The Nobleman's Guide to Scandal and Shipwrecks, each focusing on a different sibling in the Montague family (Henry "Monty," Felicity and Adrian). I have read all three.
My requested characters are Monty and his best friend/love interest Percy Newton, from the first book, who I'd like written about together; and Simmaa "Sim" Aldajah and Johanna Hoffmann, who are supporting characters in the second book, and where I'd like either Sim and Johanna together or Sim alone.
A lot of what I love so much about these books is the accurate exploration of queer, neurodivergent and other diverse ways of being in the context of 18th century Europe. The characters rarely feel to me like modern people inserted into that era - they feel like how people of that time who have these identities would be then. That's something I really appreciated and would like to explore further with these characters.
With Monty/Percy, basically I just want more of their love and romance - a continuation of where their life goes forward from the first book. We see bits of them in books two and three, but I'd love you to fill in the gaps, or even continue to let us watch Monty and Percy grow old together after book 3. What kind of life do they have together? How open are they (or can they be) about who they are to each other? What kind of relationship do they have going forward with Felicity, Adrian or anyone else? I'd love to see your answers to these questions - but most of all I'd like sweet, swoony love between them (and more smut is great too!)
With Sim, the idea of a lesbian North African Muslim pirate queen is just so intriguing and yet we only get small portions of this in the second and third books. I'd really love to see a story that focuses wholly on Sim, and especially on her relationships with women. We see her flirting with Felicity but being rebuffed since Felicity is aroace - but who does she actually have a chance with? I like the idea of her with Johanna, so if you bring Johanna into it I think that would be really cool to explore. But it would also be great to see her with an OC, or multiple OCs! I especially like a focus on cultural differences with her lovers, but you could also - similarly to Oscar above - do something exploring her earlier life and how she recognized she was into women, and her earliest relationships with girls.
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Thanks so much for writing for me and your patience while I completed this letter! I can't wait to see what you come up with in a couple months :)
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