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Yuletide Letter
Oct. 21st, 2018 01:46 amHello, Yuletide writer! Thank you for writing for me!
I've erred on the side of giving more prompts than less, and I hope it's not too much. Feel free to take bits and pieces from any of them, or come up with something different. I like a lot of different things! They are just there to give you jumping-off points.
General likes:
- For the most part, the thing I love about these canons is the characters and their relationship to each other. Be it romantic, platonic, positive, negative- exploring the way characters interact is one of my favorite things.
- I am also happy with plot-focused fic!
- I love me a good trope. Huddling for warmth, undercover married (especially when there's serious danger if they're caught), sex pollen, aliens made them do it... and while I like these as romantic tropes, they don't have to be! Having to huddle for warmth with an enemy or awkward interactions with your crewmates the aftermath of a ship-wide sex pollen incident is also interesting to me.
- Human/nonhuman relationships (you may notice there's one in each request). I love exploring how you might navigate a relationship where you're not the same species, or one of you doesn't have a body, etc etc. (That includes, but is in no way limited to! sex- please feel free to get real weird with it, if you wanna.)
- Canon divergent AUs (eg, what if Hilbert or Maxwell had survived, what if Michael Waters had succeeded in the ritual, etc)
Do Not Wants:
- nominated character death (except the canonically dead ones)
- rape/noncon (though I am totally cool with dubcon or just general skeeviness for some ships)
- AUs that change the canon setting (eg, werewolf soulmate AU where they work in a coffee shop)
- non-canon trans headcanons
- non-humans getting human/oid bodies
- ageplay
Archive 81 - Nicholas Waters, Christine Anderson, Static Man
Podcast | Transcripts
First off, you do not need to include all three characters (although you can!). I'm happy with any combo or any single character.
I love Archive 81 for just how dang *weird* it is. It seems to get weirder every season; it's great. The weirdness of The City, more bizarre and freaky rituals, surreal otherworldly liminal spaces, the sense of trying to understand and control something that cannot be fully understood or controlled... I love all of that. I also love how gross and disturbing it often is, so feel free to get just as dark and unsettling as the podcast does. (because this is a frequent DNW, I'll explicitly note animal harm is fine. If Christine needs to sacrifice three bunnies on an oak stump to cure her sore throat, that's fine by me.)
( Archive 81 prompts )
*The Strange Case of Starship Iris - any
Podcast | Transcripts | Vignettes (did you know there were some short stories on the tumblr? I didn't know until recently! They are good, you should read them.)
Ugh, I love this whole dorky crew so much. Again, I'm happy with any combo of characters! General aspects I particularly like are any exploration of Dwarnian culture (or other aliens?), stuff about the swarm, and Brian being a big ol' linguistics nerd. Really, any kind of nerdery of the "let's figure out how this thing works" kind is great. Also, I do not have a particular image for what Dwarnians look like (aside from purple) so do what you like there.
( Starship Iris prompts )
Wolf 359 - any
Podcast | Transcripts
Okay, fair warning. This is much longer than the others, and I want to assure you that it's not because I'm more excited about it than the others! There are just a lot more characters, and also I've written for it so I've spent a lot of time thinking about it and getting various plotbunnies. But I am excited about all these fandoms, so do not sweat it if you didn't match on this one.
Again, I'm cool with any combination of characters, though for this one I'm much more interested in at least two than a focus on a single character. ETA: also, even if I don't have a specific prompt for it, feel free to take any combination of characters to feature. Each of these characters has an interesting relationship with every other character, so if have an idea about, idk, Kepler and Eiffel, or Lovelace and Hera, or whatever-- go for it, even if I didn't specifically bring it up. (Hilbert is not in the tag set, so he's not mentioned, but feel free to include him or not as you prefer.)
a second ETA: a DNW that just occurred to me: please no relapses for Eiffel. (When it comes to alcohol, anyway, if the guy wants a cigarette when he's back on Earth, that's cool.)
( Wolf 359 prompts )
I've erred on the side of giving more prompts than less, and I hope it's not too much. Feel free to take bits and pieces from any of them, or come up with something different. I like a lot of different things! They are just there to give you jumping-off points.
General likes:
- For the most part, the thing I love about these canons is the characters and their relationship to each other. Be it romantic, platonic, positive, negative- exploring the way characters interact is one of my favorite things.
- I am also happy with plot-focused fic!
- I love me a good trope. Huddling for warmth, undercover married (especially when there's serious danger if they're caught), sex pollen, aliens made them do it... and while I like these as romantic tropes, they don't have to be! Having to huddle for warmth with an enemy or awkward interactions with your crewmates the aftermath of a ship-wide sex pollen incident is also interesting to me.
- Human/nonhuman relationships (you may notice there's one in each request). I love exploring how you might navigate a relationship where you're not the same species, or one of you doesn't have a body, etc etc. (That includes, but is in no way limited to! sex- please feel free to get real weird with it, if you wanna.)
- Canon divergent AUs (eg, what if Hilbert or Maxwell had survived, what if Michael Waters had succeeded in the ritual, etc)
Do Not Wants:
- nominated character death (except the canonically dead ones)
- rape/noncon (though I am totally cool with dubcon or just general skeeviness for some ships)
- AUs that change the canon setting (eg, werewolf soulmate AU where they work in a coffee shop)
- non-canon trans headcanons
- non-humans getting human/oid bodies
- ageplay
Archive 81 - Nicholas Waters, Christine Anderson, Static Man
Podcast | Transcripts
First off, you do not need to include all three characters (although you can!). I'm happy with any combo or any single character.
I love Archive 81 for just how dang *weird* it is. It seems to get weirder every season; it's great. The weirdness of The City, more bizarre and freaky rituals, surreal otherworldly liminal spaces, the sense of trying to understand and control something that cannot be fully understood or controlled... I love all of that. I also love how gross and disturbing it often is, so feel free to get just as dark and unsettling as the podcast does. (because this is a frequent DNW, I'll explicitly note animal harm is fine. If Christine needs to sacrifice three bunnies on an oak stump to cure her sore throat, that's fine by me.)
( Archive 81 prompts )
*The Strange Case of Starship Iris - any
Podcast | Transcripts | Vignettes (did you know there were some short stories on the tumblr? I didn't know until recently! They are good, you should read them.)
Ugh, I love this whole dorky crew so much. Again, I'm happy with any combo of characters! General aspects I particularly like are any exploration of Dwarnian culture (or other aliens?), stuff about the swarm, and Brian being a big ol' linguistics nerd. Really, any kind of nerdery of the "let's figure out how this thing works" kind is great. Also, I do not have a particular image for what Dwarnians look like (aside from purple) so do what you like there.
( Starship Iris prompts )
Wolf 359 - any
Podcast | Transcripts
Okay, fair warning. This is much longer than the others, and I want to assure you that it's not because I'm more excited about it than the others! There are just a lot more characters, and also I've written for it so I've spent a lot of time thinking about it and getting various plotbunnies. But I am excited about all these fandoms, so do not sweat it if you didn't match on this one.
Again, I'm cool with any combination of characters, though for this one I'm much more interested in at least two than a focus on a single character. ETA: also, even if I don't have a specific prompt for it, feel free to take any combination of characters to feature. Each of these characters has an interesting relationship with every other character, so if have an idea about, idk, Kepler and Eiffel, or Lovelace and Hera, or whatever-- go for it, even if I didn't specifically bring it up. (Hilbert is not in the tag set, so he's not mentioned, but feel free to include him or not as you prefer.)
a second ETA: a DNW that just occurred to me: please no relapses for Eiffel. (When it comes to alcohol, anyway, if the guy wants a cigarette when he's back on Earth, that's cool.)
( Wolf 359 prompts )
