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Hello writer!

I am working on setting up individual letters for each of my existing fandoms, but for now, know that you can find everything you need to know re: writing for me this year in my past letters for this exchange:

For Garashir, Kira/Winn, Kira/Damar and Disko (Dukat/Sisko), please consult my 2023 letter.
For all other ships, please consult my 2024 letter.

If there are any discrepancies, go with the signup! Or check out other letters within my DS9 tag.

Thanks so much for writing for me!

-SoT

Dear 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 :)

Dear writer,

Thanks for creating for me - whether you are my assigned writer or creating a treat, I really appreciate it and can't wait to see what you've made!

General Preferences:

LIKES:

This varies a bit by fandom, so please see those specific sections (for instance, there are some specific fandoms/ships where I prefer darker stuff, and most stuff below is relatively fluffy/lighthearted) but here are some general ideas of what sort of fic I enjoy.

I love a lot of the fandom cliches, particularly Only One Bed, fake dating turned real, friends to lovers. Can never get enough of those.
I’m a big fan of reading about characters in a relationship growing as people together, discovering new sides to themselves, figuring out how to live or raise kids together, etc.
I like soulmate AUs a LOT so long as the characters still get some chance to develop feelings organically, whether or not they are already aware of their soulmate status. Stuff where they find out before they are in love and kind of fight it at first, but end up getting to know and falling for the person anyway — love it, can’t get enough.
Big into people falling in love with someone they'd never expect.
I really love outside character perspectives/reactions on a particularly unexpected relationship.
If you have characters from different cultures, countries, worlds, planets, etc. I really really love stuff that explores cultural differences in relationship norms (regardless of the nature of the specific relationship, I love this between friends, colleagues, etc. too as well as lovers) and where characters share their cultures with each other.
Some things I really like for smut fic: Oral sex, especially cunnilingus or rimming. Strap-ons. Motorboating, nipple play (no clamps though), boobs/chest focus. Marking, including/especially scent-marking but also stuff like leaving scars. Femdom in F/M. Creative and weird uses of non-human biology in sex in sci-fi and fantasy scenarios.

GENERAL DNWs, no exceptions:

ABO/Omegaverse of any kind| Ace/aro/demisexual/demiromantic headcanons | Animal death/abuse/harm | Autistic or neurodivergent headcanons as main focus of the story | Bathroom kinks | Breathplay or other potentially life-threatening kink | Child sexual abuse, including in backstories (unless it is canonical. Note that a character having been abused as a child in some other way does not mean that "child sexual abuse" is canonical) | Daddy kink | Detailed violence/torture/gore | Explicit physical abuse | Extreme underage (i.e. younger than the age when teens typically start having consensual sex IRL) | Feederism or other weight-fetishization | Focus on feminine grooming rituals (such as doing each others' hair/makeup) in F/F | Genital mutilation (such as sounding) | Issuefic. Feel free to give your characters strong opinions and explore fraught issues, but the key word there is explore; I don't want to feel like I'm being lectured to or taught a lesson | Jewish or Muslim characters with uncircumcised penises | Loss of intelligence/Flowers for Algernon plots | Making canonically LGBTQ+ characters cis/straight | Men domming women | Mpreg-specific: butt babies, surprise uteruses, or other stuff that's implausible to whatever fictional universe you're in | Negative/stigmatizing discussion of abortion | Pre-relationship/UST that never resolves in romance/ship fic | Pregnancy in a female character (unless in the background) | Rape/non-con | Sexual orientation headcanons that "contradict" their romantic and sexual relationships or "if it's you, it's okay" | “Soulmate AUs” where the main couple are not actually soulmates | Using feminizing terms for male characters | Women giving up their ambitions/careers/dreams for a relationship treated as romantic/desirable/ideal, especially in F/M

GENERAL DNWs, with specific exceptions for specific fandoms/characters:

Amnesia/memory loss (okay with this for Utena, as long as the memories come back by the end) | AUs that change the setting or central relationship significantly* (exception: a less-bigoted version of the canon is fine for historical fiction or historically-inspired fantasy like FE3H, but not modern AUs or otherwise moving them into a fundamentally different setting/time period. except with Faisal/Lawrence I'm fine with modern AUs!) | Lifestyle BDSM (okay with and in fact big into this with Faisal/Lawrence, so long as Faisal is the dom) | PIV in smut (this is not really my personal preference ever, but I'm fine with it in requested het ships unless otherwise noted, and taking my other smut preferences into account) | Trans/non-binary headcanons for focus characters (specifically headcanons, does not apply to canonically trans/non-binary characters) (exception: fine with it in any fandoms where it isn't prohibited in the signup, provided it isn't used to make same-gender combos F/M or to add in more PIV)

*Setting changes means like significant shifts in place/time or worldbuilding, like a sci-fi AU for a realistic fiction work, or moving a historical or futuristic work to the present day. It does not mean plot-divergence, or smaller worldbuilding changes (e.g. a soulmate AU) in an otherwise similar universe. You can use your best judgment on where to draw the line, obviously. "Central relationship" changes are stuff like changing people's ages, genders/sexes, species, etc. or "reversing" in-canon character dynamics (like giving characters each other's jobs or social roles).

Usually DNW, with broader exceptions for certain fandoms or ships, please look at the specific fandom:

Abusive relationships between requested characters/pairings/that are non-canonical | Big power differentials between members of the main couple in ship fic | Cheating on main couple in ship fic | Major Character Death | Whump/dark fic (as stated in some of the fandom sections, I'm never really a fan of full-on "Hurt No Comfort," but I'm cool with and even prefer darker themes for some fandoms)

Additional caveats:

Consent: Characters do not have to give explicit verbal consent to be considered "consenting." Characters being drunk/high/stoned is fine as long as they're both clearly into it, and as long as they're not clearly way past the point where they could say no IRL (just use your best judgment here, I'm just really tired of fics where one beer is treated like a "dubcon" situation).

Dubcon: I do not want any outright non-con/rape, but I am fine with some degree of dubcon as long as it's a situation where the person would be interested in that other person if they were clear-headed (or whatever the case may be), where it's more of a catalyst to acting on real feelings, and also where whomever is not "dubconned" isn't intentionally taking advantage of the other party. I prefer mutual dubcon, and I especially enjoy the classic tropes like "sex pollen," pon-farr/fuck-or-die stuff with sci-fi and fantasy races, etc.

Historical accuracy: I'm someone who has a strong interest in history, including in the periods for historical fiction works here. I don't expect exacting historical accuracy, but please don't get basic and broad things wrong: some examples would be which countries existed, having people use overly modern slang, etc. My one caveat is anything involving music, as that is my own area of academic expertise. If you're going to incorporate something involving music history or music trivia please make sure you really and truly know it (as in, are not just relying on something you saw online or you remember your high school band teacher telling you) because it will truly take me out of the fic if people get things wrong there! Characters talking about music, playing it, going to concerts, etc. is fine, but if they are going to make a fact claim about it, fact-check it if it's intended to be accurate (obviously, if you intend the character to be wrong or unsure, that's fine). (For the purposes of this exchange, this section applies most to A Dangerous Man: Lawrence After Arabia and The Gilded Age. FE3H is set in its own medieval fantasy world that I don’t expect to be overly similar to the historical Middle Ages any more than the original game is, so go to town.)

Fandom-Specific Preferences:

So I requested most of these for previous exchanges, and my preferences are pretty similar this time around! Here are the letters for those. Just keep in mind the marriage nature of this particular exchange when looking at these ideas/prompts:

Star Trek DS9: Star Trek Holidays 2023
Fire Emblem: Three Houses: Purim Gifts 2024 for F/F ships, Just Married 2023 for all ships
Revolutionary Girl Utena: Yuletide 2023
A Dangerous Man: Lawrence After Arabia: Yuletide 2023
The Gilded Age: This is my first time requesting this fandom! Go based on what my sign-up says, and know that my preferences are fairly similar to other period/historical fandoms other than that I'm not really into the AUs here. I want it set in the time period and setting of the show, and preferably fairly close to "canon." Caveat is that as of this writing, I don't yet know what season 3 has in store, so "close to canon" in the sense of "where the show is at at the end of season 2." But feel free to draw on the events of season 3 if you want! I'm sure I'll still love it so long as it still adheres to my DNWs from the sign-up. (And don't worry about spoilers: I'm a spoilerphile, and I'll also be watching this season week by week as it airs in the U.S.)

Dear writer

Thanks for creating for me - whether you are my assigned writer or creating a treat, I really appreciate it and can't wait to see what you've made!

General Preferences:

LIKES:

This varies a bit by fandom, so please see those specific sections (for instance, there are some specific fandoms/ships where I prefer darker stuff, and most stuff below is relatively fluffy/lighthearted) but here are some general ideas of what sort of fic I enjoy.

I love a lot of the fandom cliches, particularly Only One Bed, fake dating turned real, friends to lovers. Can never get enough of those.
I’m a big fan of reading about characters in a relationship growing as people together, discovering new sides to themselves, figuring out how to live or raise kids together, etc.
I like soulmate AUs a LOT so long as the characters still get some chance to develop feelings organically, whether or not they are already aware of their soulmate status. Stuff where they find out before they are in love and kind of fight it at first, but end up getting to know and falling for the person anyway — love it, can’t get enough.
Big into people falling in love with someone they'd never expect.
I really love outside character perspectives/reactions on a particularly unexpected relationship.
If you have characters from different cultures, countries, worlds, planets, etc. I really really love stuff that explores cultural differences in relationship norms (regardless of the nature of the specific relationship, I love this between friends, colleagues, etc. too as well as lovers) and where characters share their cultures with each other.
Some things I really like for smut fic: Oral sex, especially cunnilingus or rimming. Strap-ons. Motorboating, nipple play (no clamps though), boobs/chest focus. Marking, including/especially scent-marking but also stuff like leaving scars. Femdom in F/M. Creative and weird uses of non-human biology in sex in sci-fi and fantasy scenarios.

GENERAL DNWs, no exceptions:

ABO/Omegaverse of any kind | Animal death/abuse/harm | Autistic or neurodivergent headcanons as main focus of the story | Bathroom kinks | Breathplay or other potentially life-threatening kink | Child sexual abuse, including in backstories (unless it is canonical. Note that a character having been abused as a child in some other way does not mean that "child sexual abuse" is canonical) | Daddy kink | Detailed violence/torture/gore | Explicit physical abuse | Extreme underage (i.e. younger than the age when teens typically start having consensual sex IRL) | Feederism or other weight-fetishization | Focus on feminine grooming rituals (such as doing each others' hair/makeup) in F/F | Genital mutilation (such as sounding) | Issuefic. Feel free to give your characters strong opinions and explore fraught issues, but the key word there is explore; I don't want to feel like I'm being lectured to or taught a lesson | Jewish or Muslim characters with uncircumcised penises | Lifestyle BDSM | Loss of intelligence/Flowers for Algernon plots | Making canonically LGBTQ+ characters cis/straight | Men domming women | Mpreg-specific: butt babies, surprise uteruses, or other stuff that's implausible to whatever fictional universe you're in | Negative/stigmatizing discussion of abortion | Pre-relationship/UST that never resolves in romance/ship fic | Pregnancy in a female character (unless in the background) | Rape/non-con | Sexual orientation headcanons that "contradict" their romantic and sexual relationships or "if it's you, it's okay" | “Soulmate AUs” where the main couple are not actually soulmates | Using feminizing terms for male characters | Women giving up their ambitions/careers/dreams for a relationship treated as romantic/desirable/ideal, especially in F/M

GENERAL DNWs, with specific exceptions for specific fandoms/characters:

Ace/aro/demisexual/demiromantic headcanons (exception: I'm fine with ace and/or aro Yang in LOGH if he's not in a ship) | Amnesia/memory loss (okay with this for Sailor Moon or Utena, as long as the memories come back by the end) | AUs that change the setting or central relationship significantly* (exception: a version of the canon where bigotries around sexuality/gender exist less or don't exist is fine for LOGH) | PIV in smut (this is not really my personal preference ever, but I'm fine with it in requested het ships unless otherwise noted, and taking my other smut preferences into account) | Trans/non-binary headcanons for focus characters (specifically headcanons, does not apply to canonically trans/non-binary characters) (exception: fine with it in any fandoms where it isn't prohibited in the signup, provided it isn't used to make same-gender combos F/M or to add in more PIV)

*Setting changes means like significant shifts in place/time or worldbuilding, like a sci-fi AU for a realistic fiction work, or moving a historical or futuristic work to the present day. It does not mean plot-divergence, or smaller worldbuilding changes (e.g. a soulmate AU) in an otherwise similar universe. You can use your best judgment on where to draw the line, obviously. "Central relationship" changes are stuff like changing people's ages, genders/sexes, species, etc. or "reversing" in-canon character dynamics (like giving characters each other's jobs or social roles).

Usually DNW, with broader exceptions for certain fandoms or ships, please look at the specific fandom:

Abusive relationships between requested characters/pairings/that are non-canonical | Big power differentials between members of the main couple in ship fic | Cheating on main couple in ship fic | Major Character Death | Whump/dark fic (as stated in some of the fandom sections, I'm never really a fan of full-on "Hurt No Comfort," but I'm cool with and even prefer darker themes for some fandoms)

Additional caveats:

Consent: Characters do not have to give explicit verbal consent to be considered "consenting." Characters being drunk/high/stoned is fine as long as they're both clearly into it, and as long as they're not clearly way past the point where they could say no IRL (just use your best judgment here, I'm just really tired of fics where one beer is treated like a "dubcon" situation).

Dubcon: I do not want any outright non-con/rape, but I am fine with some degree of dubcon as long as it's a situation where the person would be interested in that other person if they were clear-headed (or whatever the case may be), where it's more of a catalyst to acting on real feelings, and also where whomever is not "dubconned" isn't intentionally taking advantage of the other party. I prefer mutual dubcon, and I especially enjoy the classic tropes like "sex pollen," pon-farr/fuck-or-die stuff with sci-fi and fantasy races, etc.

Fandom-Specific Preferences:

So I requested most of these for previous exchanges, and my preferences are pretty similar this time around! Here are the letters for those:

Fire Emblem: Three Houses: Purim Gifts 2024 for F/F ships, Just Married or Sakura Exchange 2023 for all ships
Ginga Eiyuu Densetsu / Legend of Galactic Heroes: Yuletide 2023 (I requested somewhat different characters there, but should still give a good idea of what I like in terms of general tropes and dynamics)
Revolutionary Girl Utena: Yuletide 2023
Sailor Moon: This is my first time requesting this somehow? So I don't have a preexisting letter, though I'm working on these for other fandoms. The main thing here is to follow what I discuss in the signup prompt, and earlier in this letter for my general fandom preferences. I'm a big fan with these ships of soulmates/connections to their past lives in the Moon Kingdom. More specifically with particular ships: I love stuff with Haruka/Michiru about how they initially get together and discover their lesbian identities, and also am most into smut with this ship; with Ami/Rei and Minako/Rei I'm big into opposite-attracts stuff, and with Ami/Rei stuff set relatively early in season 1, soon after Rei is first awakened as a Senshi. With Kunzite/Zoisite, I would also love to see backstory - does their relationship date back to their time in the Moon Kingdom, and when they were Prince Endymion's friends before the Dark Kingdom recruited them? Whether or not you go that route, how did they get together, and what's caused their relationship to last? What do they love so much about each other? I overall prefer stuff to focus on the anime or the manga, but not Sailor Moon Crystal; and in Minako/Rei's case, I also like the live-action TV series' take on them.
Merry Christmas, Mr. Lawrence: Go based on what's in the letter. In terms of prompts, I'd really like both missing-scenes that explore a sexual or romantic relationship between Celliers and Yonoi, but also potential alternate, happier endings where they're able to be together. Also big on smut here, and angst! (but with a happy ending.) If you don't think you can make a happy ending happen here, I am fine with it happening mid-canon without where they eventually go from there specified.

Dear spacer,

Thanks for creating for me - whether you are my assigned writer or creating a treat, I really appreciate it and can't wait to see what you've made!

General Preferences:

LIKES:

This varies a bit by fandom, so please see those specific sections (for instance, there are some specific fandoms/ships where I prefer darker stuff, and most stuff below is relatively fluffy/lighthearted) but here are some general ideas of what sort of fic I enjoy.

I love a lot of the fandom cliches, particularly Only One Bed, fake dating turned real, friends to lovers. Can never get enough of those.
I’m a big fan of reading about characters in a relationship growing as people together, discovering new sides to themselves, figuring out how to live or raise kids together, etc.
I like soulmate AUs a LOT so long as the characters still get some chance to develop feelings organically, whether or not they are already aware of their soulmate status. Stuff where they find out before they are in love and kind of fight it at first, but end up getting to know and falling for the person anyway — love it, can’t get enough.
Big into people falling in love with someone they'd never expect.
I really love outside character perspectives/reactions on a particularly unexpected relationship.
If you have characters from different cultures, countries, worlds, planets, etc. I really really love stuff that explores cultural differences in relationship norms (regardless of the nature of the specific relationship, I love this between friends, colleagues, etc. too as well as lovers) and where characters share their cultures with each other.
Some things I really like for smut fic: Oral sex, especially cunnilingus or rimming. Strap-ons. Motorboating, nipple play (no clamps though), boobs/chest focus. Marking, including/especially scent-marking but also stuff like leaving scars. Femdom in F/M. Creative and weird uses of non-human biology in sex in sci-fi and fantasy scenarios.
Gen stuff: Character exploration, introspection, anything worldbuilding-centric about alien characters. Slices of everyday life on a ship or space station, or other planet. Per the stuff about cultural differences, I love delving deeper into the politics, religion, history, and especially the arts (music, theater, literature, visual art, whatever) of sci-fi and fantasy cultures!

GENERAL DNWs, no exceptions:

ABO/Omegaverse of any kind | Amnesia/memory loss | Animal death/abuse/harm | Autistic or neurodivergent headcanons as main focus of the story | Bathroom kinks | Big power differentials between members of the main couple in ship fic | Breathplay or other potentially life-threatening kink | Child sexual abuse, including in backstories (unless it is canonical. Note that a character having been abused as a child in some other way does not mean that "child sexual abuse" is canonical) | Daddy kink | Detailed violence/torture/gore | Explicit physical abuse | Extreme underage (i.e. younger than the age when teens typically start having consensual sex) | Feederism or other weight-fetishization | Focus on feminine grooming rituals (such as doing each others' hair/makeup) in F/F | Genital mutilation (such as sounding) | Issuefic. Feel free to give your characters strong opinions and explore fraught issues, but the key word there is explore; I don't want to feel like I'm being lectured to or taught a lesson | Jewish or Muslim characters with uncircumcised penises | Lifestyle BDSM | Loss of intelligence/Flowers for Algernon plots | Making canonically LGBTQ+ characters cis/straight | Men domming women | Mpreg-specific: butt babies, surprise uteruses, or other stuff that's implausible to whatever fictional universe you're in | Negative/stigmatizing discussion of abortion | Pre-relationship/UST that never resolves in romance/ship fic | Pregnancy in a female character (unless in the background) | Rape/non-con | Sexual orientation headcanons that "contradict" their romantic and sexual relationships or "if it's you, it's okay" | “Soulmate AUs” where the main couple are not actually soulmates | Using feminizing terms for male characters | Women giving up their ambitions/careers/dreams for a relationship treated as romantic/desirable/ideal, especially in F/M

GENERAL DNWs, with specific exceptions for specific fandoms/characters:

Ace/aro/demisexual/demiromantic headcanons (exception: I'm fine with ace and/or aro Yang in LOGH if he's not in a ship) | AUs that change the setting or central relationship significantly* (exception: a version of the canon where bigotries around sexuality/gender exist less or don't exist is fine for LOGH) | PIV in smut (this is not really my personal preference ever, but I'm fine with it in requested het ships unless otherwise noted, and taking my other smut preferences into account) | Trans/non-binary headcanons for focus characters (specifically headcanons, does not apply to canonically trans/non-binary characters) (exception: fine with LOGH and AOS provided it isn't used to make same-gender combos F/M or to add in more PIV)

*Setting changes means like significant shifts in place/time or worldbuilding, like a sci-fi AU for a realistic fiction work, or moving a historical or futuristic work to the present day. It does not mean plot-divergence, or smaller worldbuilding changes (e.g. a soulmate AU) in an otherwise similar universe. You can use your best judgment on where to draw the line, obviously. "Central relationship" changes are stuff like changing people's ages, genders/sexes, species, etc. or "reversing" in-canon character dynamics (like giving characters each other's jobs or social roles).

Usually DNW, with broader exceptions for certain fandoms or ships, please look at the specific fandom:

Abusive relationships between requested characters/pairings/that are non-canonical | Cheating on main couple in ship fic | Major Character Death | Whump/dark fic (as stated in some of the fandom sections, I'm never really a fan of full-on "Hurt No Comfort," but I'm cool with and even prefer darker themes for some fandoms)

Additional caveats:

Consent: Characters do not have to give explicit verbal consent to be considered "consenting." Characters being drunk/high/stoned is fine as long as they're both clearly into it, and as long as they're not clearly way past the point where they could consent IRL (just use your best judgment here, I'm just really tired of fics where one beer is treated like a "dubcon" situation).

Dubcon: I do not want any outright non-con/rape, but I am fine with some degree of dubcon as long as it's a situation where the person would be interested in that other person if they were clear-headed (or whatever the case may be), where it's more of a catalyst to acting on real feelings, and also where whomever is not "dubconned" isn't intentionally taking advantage of the other party. I prefer mutual dubcon, and I especially enjoy the classic tropes like "sex pollen," pon-farr/fuck-or-die stuff with sci-fi and fantasy races, etc.

Fandom-Specific Preferences:

So I requested most of these for previous exchanges, and my preferences are pretty similar this time around! Here are the letters for those:

Star Trek DS9: Star Trek Holidays 2023
Ginga Eiyuu Densetsu / Legend of Galactic Heroes: Yuletide 2023 - I requested slightly different characters/ships for this, but should still give you a general idea of what I like! I elaborate on some of the additional ones in the signup. (I'll probably eventually make this one its own page since I request it a lot)
Star Trek AOS: I haven't requested this before, so go based on the signup in terms of what I'm interested in and what I DNW.

Here's the solo fandom letter for this one!

Canon is a 26-episode fantasy-romance anime series from 2002-2003. I am not familiar with additional stuff like the manga, that one "sequel" fanfic, etc.

I am a longtime, huge fan of this anime, so I'm excited to finally request it for some exchanges! This should give you an idea of what I like here, but in general, this is a fandom where I'm pretty flexible. I generally like stuff that sticks close to canon here, as I think the canon of the anime is pretty much perfect, but there are some exceptions: if you can find a way to let Fakiru continue into the future, bring Ahiru back as a human so they can be together, etc. go ahead! I'm also good with both gen and shipping fic.

Ships I Like:

Fakir/Ahiru (Fakiru), Rue/Mytho (Ruetho), Ahiru/Rue (Ahirue), Fakir/Mytho, Autor/Fakir, Autor/Fakir/Mytho, Autor/Fakir/Ahiru, Autor/Rue, Autor/Rue/Mytho, Fakir/Ahiru/Rue/Mytho

But again, this isn't a fandom where I feel particularly strong about something NEEDING to be ship fic. If you're focused on Fakir and Ahiru, for instance, I'd prefer there be a shippy dynamic with them - and they're one of the big ones where I'd love to see continuations/fix-its - but overall I'm truly fine with both gen and shipping here.

Prompts:

As per above, where do these characters go after the ending and the "fairytale" is over?
With F/F and M/M ships, experimenting/messing around/grappling with gay feelings - the kind of stuff that us same-sex-attracted people get up to in boarding school stories
Feelings Realization!
Falling in love with people you never expect and the awkwardness that ensues - really fun to deal with in some of these, for instance, with Fakiru, Ahirue, etc.
How Autor's realization of feelings for Fakir, Rue, etc. shifts his attitudes about the story and Drosselmeyer
Turning duo ships poly in the case of the poly ones - how that happens! (Though please don't do "polyamory negotiations" in the kind of tedious rules-making kind of way. Just, what happens that makes these people want to be together as an OT3 or OT4 rather than a couple. What makes them realize those feelings!)
Fighting Drosselmeyer and "the story" to be in love
For gen fic about Drosselmeyer: who is he? what is his backstory? What made him become a writer and want to write such tragic things? How did he get this way? And how did he get these magic powers?

Fandom-Specific DNW:

Sad/ambiguous/unhappy endings for main characters/ships
Sex other than in far-future fic with aged-up characters ("messing around," second-base type of stuff is fine with the characters during their "canon" ages)
All the "usually DNW" stuff from the main post applies here - except that if you can make it work, I think trans headcanons might be pretty interesting here?

I am going to start putting some fandoms that have had evolving preferences in their own entries, which I will then link to in letters when I request them for a particular exchange. The first I'm going to do this with is Wayfarers, since my requests have been shifting a lot as I've been reading more books in the series - making it inconvenient to keep making people go back to some earlier letter where that wasn't the case, etc.

Canon is a sci-fi novel series by Becky Chambers, set in the same universe but largely stand-alone. There are four books: #1 The Long Way to a Small, Angry Planet, #2 A Closed and Common Orbit, #3 Record of a Spaceborn Few and #4 The Galaxy and the Ground Within. As of this most recent edit (July 2024) I have read all of these books except for #3.

Rosemary/Sissix:

(Featured in book #1)

This is my OTP for the series, essentially; I just really love their relationship, which presses so many of my buttons as a yuri and alien lover, and I want more than their book gave us! I would love stuff that delves deeper into how they click, including by incorporating worldbuilding involving Sissix's culture or other alien cultures. How does their relationship going forward from the first book fit in with Sissix's culture's norms about relationships? Where do they go from there?

If you go for smutty stuff (which I am A-OK with here), I love stuff that focuses on differences in alien biology from human biology, especially in exploring Sissix's reptilian body and all that entails.

I love the exploration-focused sci-fi plots, so feel free to have the Wayfarer explore more strange new worlds with Rosemary, Sissix and their relationship as a central focus. I really love the worldbuilding in this series and would love fics that explore it further!

Specific Prompts:

Delving further into Aandrisk (or future human) culture, history, geography, art/media, etc.
Rosemary and Sissix exploring different cultural norms around relationships, relationship milestones, etc.
The Wayfarer goes on new adventures where Rosemary and Sissix are featured
How lesbian sex works between a human and a reptilian alien ;)

Ashby/Pei:

(Featured in books #1 and #4)

A lot of similar preferences here to Rosemary/Sissix, with the additional caveat that I'm fascinated by how Pei got into such a relationship given the strong taboos against romantic/sexual relationships with aliens in Aeluon culture. I'd really love stuff that focuses on how they first get together, first begin to realize they care more about each other than they know what to do with, and how Pei navigates that relationship.

Similar stuff from Ashby's perspective, too! What are his initial feelings for Pei and how does he feel about being a dirty little secret in the beginning? When do his feelings start to change? What kinds of relationships has he had before and what makes him so willing to try this with Pei? What do each of his crewmates think about it and how does he feel about that? (Book #1 delves into that last question a little bit, but I'd love to see more!)

The bulleted stuff at the end with R/S also applies here: how you can incorporate Aeluon vs. human Exodan culture/history/etc., how those cultural differences play out in their relationship, the anatomical fun of human/alien sex ;) and how this impacts both their ships' futures and missions. In terms of anatomical/biological stuff, I'm particular curious about how the Aeluon lack of "hearing" (and the way their implants don't hear conventionally, but rather translate sound into something they can understand) affects their relationship - perhaps when exchanging cultural ideas? What does an Aeluon think of human music, for instance?

I also love post-book-4 stuff with these two as well, with Pei's decision at the end of the book suggesting she's willing to give up quite a lot of her cultural norms to be with Ashby. Does that move them into a more serious relationship going forward? Are they able to tell more people? What happens next? And what is the fallout of those choices?

Fandom-Specific DNW:
Sad/ambiguous/unhappy endings for requested characters
The "usually DNWs" all apply here.

Dear creator: Yeah, I'm super sorry about this, my computer issues ended up lasting way longer than I thought and then my month was crazy busy with all the traveling and conferencing I had to do (on the academic job market and hustling hard), so this completely slipped my mind.

Hopefully you were able to get some idea from my other letters and from my sign-up on AO3 itself!

You can use the tags to navigate, but some places I'd particularly suggest going that are relatively recent for each are:

Star Trek DS9: Star Trek Holidays 2023
Wayfarers Series: Purim Gifts 2024 and Yuletide 2023 - I'll also add with this that I've now also completed the second book and am about halfway through the fourth book, if that helps give an idea in terms of which characters I'm familiar with! (Though again, I don't mind spoilers, so long as it wouldn't be confusing if you haven't read book 3 at all.)
Ginga Eiyuu Densetsu/LOGH: Yuletide 2023
Cowboy Bebop: Purim Gifts 2024 and 90s TV Exchange 2023

If those conflict in any way with the AO3 sign-up, refer to what's in the AO3 sign-up.

Thanks so much, I really appreciate you writing for me - truly - and sorry that I've been too busy to think up new prompts or stuff! But everything you should need to create something lovely (which I'm sure you will do anyway) should be there in these other letters <3

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With each fandom, I'm going to list at the top what the media is, and where you can find it. For movies and TV shows, it will be legal options as they are available in the United States; I unfortunately don't know as much about how to find them in other countries.

Contents:

1. General DNWs
2. A Dangerous Man: Lawrence After Arabia (1990)
3. Shoujo Kakumei Utena | Revolutionary Girl Utena
4. Wayfarers series - Becky Chambers
5. Ginga Eiyuu Densetsu | Legend of Galactic Heroes
6. Oniisama e... | Dear Brother
7. The Wire

GENERAL DNWs, no exceptions:

ABO/Omegaverse of any kind | Animal death/abuse/harm | Autistic or neurodivergent headcanons as main focus of the story | Bathroom kinks | Breathplay or other potentially life-threatening kink | Child sexual abuse, including in backstories (unless it is canonical. Note that a character having been abused as a child in some other way does not mean that "child sexual abuse" is canonical) | Detailed violence/torture/gore | Extreme underage (i.e. younger than the age when teens typically start having consensual sex) | Feederism or other weight-fetishization | Focus on feminine grooming rituals (such as doing each others' hair/makeup) in F/F | Genital mutilation (such as sounding) | Issuefic. Feel free to give your characters strong opinions and explore fraught issues, but the key word there is explore; I don't want to feel like I'm being lectured to or taught a lesson | Jewish or Muslim characters with uncircumcised penises | Loss of intelligence/Flowers for Algernon plots | Men domming women | Mpreg-specific: butt babies, surprise uteruses, or other stuff that's implausible to whatever fictional universe you're in | Negative/stigmatizing discussion of abortion | PIV in smut | Pre-relationship/UST that never resolves in romance/ship fic | Pregnancy in a female character (unless in the background) | Rape/non-con | “Soulmate AUs” where the main couple are not actually soulmates | Using feminizing terms for male characters

GENERAL DNWs, with specific exceptions for specific fandoms/characters:

Ace/aro/demisexual/demiromantic headcanons (exception: Yang Wenli in Legend of Galactic Heroes) | Amnesia/memory loss (exception: Revolutionary Girl Utena) | AUs that change the setting or central relationship significantly* (exception: some AUs are fine with A Dangerous Man, please see details in that section) | Daddy kink (exception: Faisal/Lawrence in A Dangerous Man) | Lifestyle BDSM (exception: Faisal/Lawrence in A Dangerous Man) | Unrequested poly (exception: Rosemary/Sissix in Wayfarers with their canonically poly relationship) | Trans/non-binary headcanons for focus characters (exceptions: Revolutionary Girl Utena and Oniisama e...)

*Setting changes means like significant shifts in place/time or worldbuilding, like a sci-fi AU for a realistic fiction show, or moving a historical or futuristic show to the present day. It does not mean plot-divergence or smaller worldbuilding changes (e.g. a soulmate AU) in an otherwise similar universe. You can use your best judgment on where to draw the line, obviously. "Central relationship" changes are stuff like changing people's ages, genders/sexes, species, etc. or "reversing" in-canon character dynamics (like giving characters each other's jobs or social roles).

Usually DNW, with broader exceptions for certain fandoms, please look at the specific fandom:

Abusive relationships between requested characters | Big power differentials between members of the main couple in ship fic | Cheating on main couple in ship fic | Major Character Death | Whump/dark fic (as stated in some of the fandom sections, I'm never really a fan of full-on "Hurt No Comfort," but I'm cool with and even prefer darker themes for some fandoms)

A Dangerous Man: Lawrence After Arabia (1990)

Requested: Faisal bin Hussein bin Ali al-Hashemi, T.E. Lawrence (must use all)

Canon is a made-for-television movie that aired on UK TV in the early 1990s, designed as a sequel to the 1962 Lawrence of Arabia film, but you do not need to watch that for this film to make sense. It's available in the U.S. on Amazon Prime.

I love this movie so much; both of the mains' performances are so beautiful and they do such a great job of building such a fascinating relationship between these two men that is intertwined with their diplomatic dreams and failures.

I'd really love a version of this where the subtext between the two of them becomes text! (It may as well be text, with some of the moments between them...) Write their private moments at night in-between meetings, write them kissing right after that final shot, write a way for them to be together? I'm fine with stuff that deviates from the historical reality of what happened to them if it allows for more romance. I'm also totally fine with if you want to get NSFW; Faisal/Lawrence are the one ship where I really like BDSM, including lifestyle BDSM.

Despite being really interested in the period, I'm open to AUs here, including modern AUs, AUs in a more accepting (less homophobic, for instance) version of the time period, even an AU where they somehow succeed at getting what Faisal wants from the Paris Peace Conference? (I continue to think that "what if the UK and France didn't continue to insist on colonialism but instead gave more of the non-Western nations what they wanted" is one of the best unrealized alternate-history scenarios, so if you can make that happen, go ahead.) While the big thing I want here is romance between the leads, I'm also super into the geopolitics of this story.

Specific Prompts:

What happens immediately after the camera stops (since it always seems to me like they're about to kiss there)
How could Faisal and Lawrence manage to be together as a couple after the events of the story?
AU where Faisal manages to win his fight for decolonization in some way, and Lawrence joins him there - exploring their relationship and the geopolitical implications of this change
Grappling with Lawrence's beliefs about politics and empire in the context of him being in a relationship with Faisal
"Missing scenes" of them being romantically affectionate/intimate during the events of the story
AU where the time period/historical events are otherwise the same except homophobia is less present and maybe same-sex marriage is even allowed: does this allow Faisal/Lawrence to be together or do they still encounter obstacles to their relationship because of the political situation? You could even have a situation where they do get married with Faisal as some sort of monarch, and how this complicates Lawrence's situation back in the UK
Modern AU that still preserves their dynamic to some degree (an example of one of these that I like is nerdypipsqueak's The Modern Royalty AU that Nobody Asked For)

Fandom-Specific DNWs:
Anything that tries to romanticize colonialism | De-aging | Dom/top Lawrence | Gender changes/Rule 63 | Historical inaccuracies that are not intentional (It doesn't have to be exacting detail, but don't get basic facts wrong like which countries existed, don't have them use overly-modern speech, etc. unless you're intentionally changing that aspect of the history/in an AU. I'm super interested in this particular time period, so it really takes me out of the story if it comes across like the author just doesn't know that history) | Lawrence being attracted to women | Major Character Death | Mpreg | Non-mundane AUs (e.g. sci-fi, fantasy, etc. AUs) | Orientalist depictions of Faisal and his culture (what I mean by this is just do not treat the Islamic World/Middle East as a cultural monolith, respect cultural sensitivities as best you can, I've read too many terrible fics involving Muslim characters where people are conflating, for instance, Arab and Persian culture in a way that is just distracting and offensive if you know the first thing about that part of the world!) | Sad/ambiguous/unhappy endings
The "usually DNW" all apply here except for the "big power differentials" (as long as Faisal is the one with more power there).

Shoujo Kakumei Utena | Revolutionary Girl Utena

Requested: Any nominated character(s)

Canon is a 39-episode anime television series that aired in Japan in 1997. It is currently available in the U.S. from Nozomi Entertainment's YouTube channel for free. (This may change over the course of this year's Yuletide as Nozomi Entertainment is in the process of being bought out by Crunchyroll; I'll update this entry if that is the case.) I strongly recommend watching the Japanese dub with English subtitles, rather than the English dub.

This is my favorite anime of all time, and I went for "any character" because I really, genuinely do love every character on this show. I'm very interested in a lot of the relationships that are both canon and implied. In terms of romantic or sexual ones, my favorites are Juri/Shiori, Touga/Saionji, Utena/Anthy, Miki/Touga (one-sided on Miki's part or reciprocal), Mikage/Mamiya, and any combination of Kozue/Nanami/Shiori. In terms of other kinds, Miki's relationship with his sister Kozue, Wakaba's friendship with Utena (which you can make more shippy if you want), and anything centered on Nanami, Juri, or Mikage.

I enjoy things that lean into the dark, messy nature of a lot of the relationships in the show. In fact, I would prefer not to have something overly fluffy, or if you want to go there, at least give me some smut 🙂 I am 100% ok with pure smut/PWP in this fandom.

I like explorations of anyone's sexuality, as long as it's not in a didactic way or one that focuses overmuch on specific labels. But stuff where they might have to deal with attraction they didn't anticipate, wonder what this means about them, how it relates to hang-ups they have about gender... great stuff and the sort of thing that Utena is all about, really!

I am familiar with the original anime series, the original manga, the Adolesence of Utena series and accompanying manga, and the After the Revolution "sequel" manga from a few years ago. I'm starting to read the light novels. I'd prefer a work based on the anime series, but if you want to include elements from those other works, that's cool too. I'm not familiar with any other Utena canons, but I'm fine with spoilers and so on so dropping in stuff from there is cool with me, so long as it doesn't require me to have read/watched/played/etc. the thing in order to understand it.

Specific Prompts:

Introspective/character study. I would really love this focused on ANY character, but if you do need some specific characters, my current personal favorites are Juri, Saionji, Mikage, Miki, Nanami, Wakaba and the two mains, Anthy and Utena.
Soulmate AUs that really lean into the messy, coercive nature of universe-assigned soulmates (with the caveat that the main couple still needs to be each other's soulmates per the rule of that universe, per the DNWs)
Any focus significantly on the Black Rose arc or the Black Rose duelists, as that is my favorite arc of the series
Saionji or Shiori grappling with being gay rather than bisexual (if you would rather write them as the latter that's fine, but I'd be realllllly interested in a more introspective fic that focuses on the former)
Juri dealing with the fact that the woman she's in love with is kind of a terrible person, and coming to terms with that - ideally with some messy smut thrown in
Juri/Shiori somehow making it work? But hopefully with some toxicity along the way - I looooove "toxic yuri" more than few other things in fanfiction
Touga/Saionji somehow making it work - ideally post-canon
Touga/Saionji having various messy false starts during canon, while slowing realizing that their feelings are for each other
One of my friends suggested a reading of Kozue as trans, especially based on the After the Revolution manga. I think that would be realllllly cool to explore in fanfiction, especially in how that influences her relationship with her brother.
I genuinely don't think that the Miki/Kozue is a case where they actually want to do incest with each other; I think those feelings are proxy for other stuff. If you'd like to explore what exactly those feelings mean and how they figure that out, and even if they make some mistakes about their attraction and feelings to each other and act on them along the way, be my guest. I would prefer it not be a case where Miki/Kozue incest is the endgame, but it as a stop along the way in their character journeys I find really interesting.
Nanami being queer in some way and how she figures that out

Fandom-Specific DNWs:
Any characters being portrayed as exclusively heterosexual | Explicit physical abuse. Emotional/mental abuse and manipulation OK | Fluff. Make it messy and/or smutty, please. | Juri being attracted to men | Mpreg | Non-canonical MCD | Unrelenting misery (darkfic is OK otherwise. I do enjoy these characters being awful people, but I'm not interested in a fic that's just "Character X Suffers") | Woobification. I like these characters for their faults!
None of the "usually DNW" apply here.

Wayfarers series - Becky Chambers

Requested: Rosemary Harper, Sissix Seskethet, Worldbuilding (must use all)

Canon is a sci-fi novel series by Becky Chambers, set in the same universe but largely stand-alone. The characters that I requested appear in the first book, A Long Way to a Small, Angry Planet.

This is my first time requesting this fandom for an exchange, but I really love the romantic relationship between Rosemary and Sissix! I would love stuff that delves deeper into that, including by incorporating worldbuilding involving Sissix's culture or other alien cultures. How does their relationship going forward from the first book fit in with Sissix's culture's norms about relationships? Where do they go from there?

If you go for smutty stuff (which I am A-OK with here), I love stuff that focuses on differences in alien biology from human biology, especially in exploring Sissix's reptilian body and all that entails.

I have read the first book. I haven't yet read the other books in the series, but I am planning to and I don't mind plot spoilers.

I love the exploration-focused sci-fi plots, so feel free to have the Wayfarer explore more strange new worlds with Rosemary, Sissix and their relationship as a central focus. I really love the worldbuilding in this series and would love fics that explore it further!

Specific Prompts:

Delving further into Aandrisk (or future human) culture, history, geography, art/media, etc.
Rosemary and Sissix exploring different cultural norms around relationships, relationship milestones, etc.
The Wayfarer goes on new adventures where Rosemary and Sissix are featured
How lesbian sex works between a human and a reptilian alien ;)

Fandom-Specific DNW:
Sad/ambiguous/unhappy endings for requested characters
The "usually DNWs" all apply here.

Ginga Eiyuu Densetsu | Legend of the Galactic Heroes

Requested: Reinhard von Lohengramm, Siegfried Kircheis, Yang Wenli, Hildegard von Mariendorf (if you use Kircheis, Reinhard must also appear; otherwise, writer's choice among these four characters)

Canon is a 1980s sci-fi novel series and two anime series, one from the 1980s-90s and one from the 2010s. I would prefer if you focus on the first anime series, which is available in its entirety in Japanese with English subtitles on HIDIVE.

My interest in this fandom is in a deeper exploration of their character arcs and how the politics and worldbuilding shape who they are, their ideals and ways of looking at the world, and their relationships with each other. I especially love stuff that further explores the queer subtext of this series. I'm a big fan of ReinKir (Reinhard von Lohengramm/Siegfried Kircheis) and in making that relationship more textual, but I love exploring the queerness of these other characters as well.

I also like fix-its where Reinhard or Yang lives, and possibly where Yang goes on to play a role in Reinhard's future rule over the galaxy (especially interesting if you go for a Reinhard/Yang relationship).

You can go relatively canon-compliant in terms of the social mores of their world (and maybe explore them further than the show canon does?) OR you can do a world that is more accepting of same-sex marriage, even in specific circumstances (like a Reinhard/Yang alliance marriage after the war).

I have some basic knowledge of German (and intermediate knowledge of Japanese) if that helps in terms of dialogue choices or names or whatever, though obviously (and also per the rules of the exchange) please write the fic in English.

Specific Prompts:

Reinhard/Kircheis: subtext becomes text - how they start hooking up
Reinhard/Kircheis: fix-it fic where Kircheis lives - how does their relationship affect Reinhard's political journey? can they ever be open about it?
Reinhard/Kircheis: Kircheis grappling about his feelings for Annerose vs. Reinhard and his sexuality, perhaps realizing what he thought was a crush on the sister was really a way to get closer to the brother
Reinhard/Yang: political/arranged marriage, rivals to lovers
Reinhard and Hildegard, or Yang and Frederica, as a lavender marriage
How Hildegard first gets interested in politics
Hildegard as a lesbian or otherwise interested in women
Yang introspective fic about his political journey, how he got interested in history, etc.
Yang AU where he gets to study history/go to the future's equivalent of grad school in some way or another (including possibly post-canon in a fix-it where he lives?)
Yang dealing with Julian having one-sided feelings for him
Yang-focused fic where he's had a romantic history with Dusty and/or Jessica Edwards
Yang fic that focuses on him being gay or asexual
Exploring what the specific societal mores are about sexuality/LGBTQIA+ identities in the Empire, the Alliance, or both
AUs where one or both are more accepting of alternate sexualities than they are in canon, or possibly, where a future Reinhard or Yang government helps that come about

Fandom-Specific DNWs:

Author (not characters) doing apologetics for monarch/authoritarianism, suggesting it's better than democracy, etc. | Mpreg | Sad/ambiguous/unhappy endings for requested characters
The "usually DNW" apply here - and the MCD DNW includes canonical character deaths.

Oniisama e... | Dear Brother

Requested: Misonoo Nanako, Asaka Rei, Shinobu Mariko, Orihara Kaoru (must use either Nanako and Rei, OR Mariko and Kaoru; other two requested characters you can add in or not per writer's choice)

Canon is a manga from the 1970s by Ikeda Riyoko (of Rose of Versailles fame) and a 1990s anime adaptation directed by Dezaki Osamu. I would prefer a focus on the latter, which is available in its entirety in Japanese with English subtitles on RetroCrush.

The thing I'd really like for this fandom is to give these characters the sort of happy ending they didn't get in the original story - a version of the story where Nanako and Rei can be happily in love without Rei's death, or where Mariko and Kaoru have a real romance. Any sort of variation where it's a version of the story where the characters can be openly queer without being doomed to tragedy is great, but that's the one I'd most like to see!

Specific Prompts:

Fix-it fic where Rei lives, and looking at how Nanako and Rei's relationship develops from there
Fix-it where Rei lives, but she and Nanako do not stay together; however, Nanako remembers her fondly as her first lesbian relationship as she goes on to have other, more balanced relationships with women
Fix-it fic where Kaoru and Mariko get to be together
Anything that features Fukiko in a major supporting role
Rei/Nanako that features Tomoko in a major supporting role, including possibly as a love triangle?

Fandom-Specific DNW:
Woobification. I like these characters for their faults! | Writing any of these characters as straight | Writing any of them as ending up with men in this story (even if they did canonically)
The "usually DNWs" apply here with the exception of "big power differentials." The MCD DNW includes canonical character deaths.

The Wire

Requested: Omar Little, Brother Mouzone (must use all requested characters)

Canon is a 5-season drama/crime TV show that aired on HBO in the United States 2002-2008. It is available in its entirety on Max in the U.S.

I always thought there was a lot of subtext between these two, or that there could potentially be something between them. I'm really interested in a fic that explores that possibility. Alternately, a fic that involves the two of them in a significant way that goes into one of Omar's other romantic/sexual relationships with men/his sexuality. I appreciated what the show gave us there and that that wasn't all there was to his character, but it would've been cool to see more.

I'm very familiar with Baltimore, so I also love stuff that uses the location to great effect if you are familiar enough with it for your writing to be convincing to a local.

I'll be honest, I meant to also request Kima Greggs and Jimmy McNulty, so I'd be fine with them appearing as background characters in this somehow. I also enjoy stuff focusing on any of the tagset characters as possible. If you'd like to treat with a Greggs- or McNulty-centric fic (if that is allowed? this is my first time doing Yuletide), I'm cool with that, too.

Specific prompts:

Omar/Mouzone fall for each other while working together
Omar/Mouzone grappling with different beliefs about homosexuality, especially as per Mouzone's religious beliefs (or maybe he's fine with it?)
Omar/Mouzone wondering if the other person sees this as just a temporary thing to earn the other's trust (or maybe figuring out if they see it that way themselves or not)
Omar/Mouzone as Mouzone's first gay experience
Omar/Mouzone - fix-it fic where Omar lives, and they seek each other out post-canon

Fandom-Specific DNW:
Explicit physical abuse. Emotional/mental manipulation OK | Mpreg | Unrelenting misery (I'm fine with dark themes, given the nature of this show, but I don't want a fic that's nothing but the requested characters suffering) | Woobification. I like these characters for their faults! | Writing Omar as interested in women/not gay
The "usually DNWs" apply here with the exception of power differentials, abuse and dark fic. The MCD DNW includes canonical character deaths.

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Alright, on the off-chance you still haven't come up with an idea for it, I'm finally doing this! Thanks so much for your patience, my life has just eaten all my fic-related brainspace.

I won't rehash the DNWs, you saw that in the AO3 sign-up.

The main thing to know on top of what I wrote in the sign-up is that I am fine with the traditional romantic stuff for Ken/Stewy but prefer something messier for my other ships.

Some general things I like:

Fandom cliches: Only One Bed, fake dating turned real, friends to lovers (though here I'm only really into the straightforward romantic version of that with Ken/Stewy)
Sex pollen I can often take or leave, but I loooooove it with ships like this where I prefer things a bit messy and like the idea of characters giving into their worst instincts, the worst part of their id :) (and while I don't like full-on non-con, I'm fine with some dubcon)
Outside character perspectives/reactions
Introspection/character study
Soulmate AUs. I got a great one of these in an exchange recently for Romangerri, so would prefer it for a different ship if you go that route, but if you have a great idea for that there go ahead. With these ships, please make them demented and weird and uncomfortable! (That said, as spelled out in DNWs, I don't like the "main characters aren't actually soulmates" variation, so don't do that.)
Some things I really like for smut fic: Oral sex, especially cunnilingus or rimming. Strap-ons. Motorboating, nipple play (no clamps though), boobs/chest focus. Leaving scars and other marks. Men getting pegged.

Ship-By-Ship:

Tomgreg: My OG Succession ship! I love anything that just plays into the insane amount of subtext and chemistry between them and it reaching a boiling point. Anything that plays into how deranged Tom is about Greg. While I can see Greg returning his attractions, I have a hard time buying stuff that's too traditionally romantic for them, so please make it awkward as all-get-out. A good way to put it as I see these two as "soulmates (derogatory)." Like, yeah, they belong together, but it's a mess because they're a mess.
Romangerri: This is probably my favorite Succ ship along with Kenstewy. I love me an older woman/younger man pairing and it's just such a bad, bad idea but the chemistry is off the charts and Gerri deserves to have that messy younger man if she wants, and I love how much Roman is into her. And yet it's such a terrible idea. And yet it's so irresistible to watch unfold!
Kenstewy: I came out of the final shipping this HARD. Stewy seems to be the one person who truly cares for Kendall, and there's such a great room for friends messing around to lovers here, for Kendall realizing that Stewy is who he belongs with over time. This is the one pairing where I'm into something more traditionally romantic. Give me those cute friends-to-lovers tropes or that classic slowburn, though I'm also game for something silier, more humorous with them.
Naomi/Ken/Stewy: This is mostly that I really like Kendall with both Stewy and also Naomi - I love the two black sheep of warring political media families making terrible decisions together. I tend to prefer this as V-shaped with Kendall in the middle, but if all three are involved together that's also fine.
Gerri/Shiv: A situation where Gerri wants someone a little smarter than and whom she feels "gets her" more than Roman, or perhaps that just starts as a way to mess with him and then they realize they're really into it?

Specific Prompts By Ship

Tom/Greg: soulmate AU (derogatory), they're fucking behind the scenes the whole time, how the relationship evolves post-canon, Greg feeling conflicted about what he feels for Tom, Tom having some unrealistic romantic fantasy in his head that we know Greg isn't into
Romangerri: The hookups we didn't see on screen, Roman reconciling with her post-canon, Roman catching real feelings (and not liking that) but feeling convinced Gerri doesn't feel the same. Pegging is a big smut like here!
Kenstewy: Messing around in college (kissing guys on molly) and catching feelings but not knowing what to do with them, Kendall cheating on other partners with Stewy and grappling with his feelings, Stewy pining away and only at the end of the fic realizing Kendall returns his feelings, and all the classic friends-to-lovers stuff like first kiss, first time, romantic slow burns. Really into post-canon scenarios here as well! Stewy deserves a BJ for sticking by his friend :)
Naomikenstewy: Smut's the main idea I have here. Things getting complicated if Naomi realizes that Kendall is more into Stewy than her
Gerrishiv: Shiv as Gerri's rebound after Roman but Shiv being okay with that, one taking it more seriously than the other, messing with Roman turns into something more, Shiv having her first lesbian experience with a mature woman