A Letter to My Yuletide Writer
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bleedingheartcrowDearest Yuletide Writer:
Thanks for writing for me! This is my first time doing Yuletide and my first step away from just being a fandom lurker, and I'm really excited! I hope my requests aren't too weird, but I figure Yuletide is the kind of place where I can ask for really crazy fic and hopefully people will understand me.
Here are some things I really like in fic:
1) Weird stuff happening! I'd rather read a strange plot twist than a common trope any day, and I like it when tropes are averted by people acting sensibly and cutting misunderstandings off at the pass and things like that. I also like explorations of how the canon really works, especially for magic/super-science systems, and going places the canon didn't.
2) I like happy or satisfying endings, on the whole, but I do like darkness as long as it's sort of unrealistic darkness, if that makes sense? I find realistic violence and angst uncomfortable to read, but over-the-top action violence and angst about ridiculous fanfic situations? Go right ahead! Still, it's nice if it's all resolved, or at least resolved enough for people to go on.
3) I like people doing their best when things are getting ridiculous or silly around them. I like people who are competent, whether that means badass or not. People with professional skills are awesome! (My guilty pleasure is reality TV shows where people with a neat professional skill show it off or compete.) I like people in love, and trying their best to love, even when everything says they shouldn't be.
4) When it comes to porn, I mostly like affectionate stuff, but I'm cool with a lot of kink! I like voyeurism/exhibitionism (when everyone involved is in on it and okay with it), threesomes/group sex, and quasi-group-sex where some people are just watching and occasionally touching people, stroking hair, giving encouragement, and that kind of thing. I'm okay with both preg and mpreg; lactation/breastfeeding really isn't my thing, but if you gloss over the fluids and focus on the nurturing part, that's all right. Transformation and expansion are cool, and sex with non-humans is fine as long as they're fully sentient (no real bestiality, please!).
Here are some dislikes:
1) Idiot Plots! If you don't know what that means, it's a term for plots where major plot points require that everyone involved is an idiot. Not everyone in the story needs to be super-smart -- if you want to write dumb people getting into problems, that's fine -- but if characters are supposed to be intelligent and capable, I want them to have good IC reasons for the mistakes they make.
2) Like I said above, realistic violence isn't my thing in fic. That goes double for sexual violence and non-consensual sex, which is a huge turnoff for me even if it's not realistic and the victim recovers or really enjoys it. I know this is weird because I'm requesting Corruption of Champions, but I'll explain in the prompt!
3) I don't like BDSM and powerplay stuff in fic, even if it's all safe, sane, and consensual. Just not my bag, sorry!
4) A few miscellaneous kinks that aren't my thing: incest, bodily fluid play, underage, mind-control/mental transformation/"bimboizing", and domestic-animal genitalia. (I know this might come up in CoC if you use an animal-morph character, but don't go into too much detail if you do need to use something like that.)
I hope this doesn't come off as too picky, because I swear I won't be picky! Anything you write will be awesome. I just have some squicks along with my kinks, that's all.
Here are my prompts:
Fandom: Corruption of Champions
Character(s): The Champion (Corruption of Champions)
My Prompt: I know this is like the craziest Yuletide request EVER, but could I have some gen worldbuilding fic about CoC, please? I think the setting, history, and races are pretty neat and would like to see more about them than the canon gives us. I requested the Champion, but they don't have to feature if they don't fit! Here are some ideas:
* Day-in-the-life fic about Tel'Adre or some other uncorrupted settlement, where even though it's safe, life gets... weird. How do people get by and do their best to live good lives? What is the new normal?
* A fic set after the Champion succeeds in defeating the demons and the world begins to recover. Things aren't ever going to return to the way they were, but maybe some of what was lost to corruption can be recovered? The goblins can return to sanity (maybe an enclave of sane goblins returns to help their sisters?), the rebirth of a purified Faun race from the Satyrs, a reunification of the bovine races... basically, the birth of healthy, if still very sexual, races from the corrupted ones.
* The Champion finding some friendship in Mareth! This could be the "buddy" part of "fuckbuddy," with the various camp followers, or maybe true platonic friendship. (Maybe a Champion with the Religion History striking up a friendship with Jojo and meditating together?) You can't live by sex alone!
Like I said, I knowing asking for CoC gen is crazy, so if you want to write porn, feel free! I'm pretty open about pairings, but I'd prefer no demon involvement, a relatively pure-route Champion if you choose to use them, and consensual, happy sex, maybe even with some romance too. In a place like Mareth, you need intimacy as much as ever, even if you're having sex ten times a day. Something where the characters can take comfort and strength from their intimacy would be wonderful! Slash, femslash, het, herm sex, or weirder things are all just fine, and the Champion can be whoever you want them to be, although I'd prefer a lack of corruption overall.
My Notes: This is the request I'm most worried about, because I know people writing CoC want to write super-kinky stuff, and I'm asking for day-in-the-life. I know it's weird, but... well, I'll be honest. I was never able to get into the actual game because of all the rape content, even though there's a lot of stuff in it that I really like, so I've mostly read the Wiki. That's what got me hungry for more setting detail! There's a lot of cool stuff in this game I could never quite get into for itself. Most of the prompt speaks for itself, and I hope asking for gen or affectionate smut is okay.
As for character preferences, I also feel a little crazy, but the characters I'm interested in reading are mostly not the nominated ones. My preferences are for the Champion (relatively pure, but otherwise, whatever gender/orientation/body-part setup you want!) and the relatively affectionate companions, lovers, and camp followers. I would prefer not to see demons or worms show up at all, and the Farm isn't generally my thing, although if you want to use Marble as a tragic character seeking her purification, that's cool.
Fandom: Hatoful Kareshi | Hatoful Boyfriend
Character(s): Hunter-Gatherer Girl | Tosaka Hiyoko
My Prompt: This canon is crack with the heart of a real story, and that's why I love it so much. I'd really like to see some post-canon fic about Hiyoko taking her place as an advocate of bird/human relations! This can be gen or pairing fic, although I think it'd be really sweet if one of the pairings from the game turned out to last! Shuu obviously wouldn't work here, and Oko and Nageki are questionable, but otherwise I think most of the options for pairing with Hiyoko are cute and workable. I would prefer no porn if Hiyoko's love interest remains a regular bird... but there is some pretty crazy super-science in this setting, so maybe he could be a test subject in a project to transform birds into more human-like forms, and things could go from there?
If you're taking Bad Boys Love as the "true" path, that's cool; I'd like to see a fic about Ryouta and Hiyoko somehow being saved or finding a way out of their predicament and moving on from there. Life after BBL is going to be pretty weird, but what else is new?
My Notes: First things first: YOU DO NOT HAVE TO WRITE ANTHRO BIRD PORN. It was just an idea, because regular-bird porn just doesn't work for me, but it's not required at all! I'll absolutely love gen character study, gen worldbuilding, or regular safe-for-work pairing fic. I promise.
For this fandom, I think I really want a story that feels like the canon to me: extremely weird, but sincere and straight-faced in its weirdness. Replicating the feel is the most important thing to me, and if you get to use all the weird science and miscellaneous worldsetting detail, that only makes it better! A strong emotional core is also great. Hiyoko is a really earnest, sincere person who feels things deeply, and I love her that way.
Like I said in the request, I'd prefer that the Shuu path not be used as a jumping-off path, and I'm not sure about the Oko path either -- it's goofy even by the standards, and I'm not sure where you could go from there. Nageki is a little more workable, though! I'm not sure if you could find a way to bring Nageki back, but a gen fic (or an alternate pairing) where Hiyoko remembers how much Nageki meant to her would be great.
A tiny note: like my screenname implies, I'm kind of a bird person. Ornithological details are great! I especially love corvids and pigeons, but in Hatoful fandom, who doesn't?
Fandom: Captain Scarlet and the Mysterons
Character(s): Paul Metcalfe | Captain Scarlet
My Prompt: What I find most fascinating about this canon is its mixture of silliness and very real darkness. It's a goofy Gerry Anderson show with all the puppetry and gadgets, but when it comes down to it, the Mysteron War is pretty terrible, and Captain Scarlet kind of has the worst of it. There's got to be more to being a Mysteron duplicate than just being immortal. Are there side effects? Body horror about Scarlet dealing with his inhumanity would be so amazing.
If you want something lighter-hearted, a really weird adventure story in the style of the canon would be fun too! Bonus points for Scarlet dying in increasingly convoluted ways, Colonel White being the biggest badass in SPECTRUM, and Blue piloting a silly vehicle.
I'd prefer gen in this fandom, if possible. If you want to do pairing fic or porn, I'd prefer that it address the darker concepts I mentioned above -- are pleasure and love something Scarlet can even still experience, something he desperately fakes, or something he does his best to avoid?
My Notes: Captain Scarlet, to me, is just a mesmerizingly strange television artifact, and there are so many angles you can take on it. I know my prompt goes both ways, but I swear, I'd be delighted either with serious darkfic about being a Mysteron duplicate or goofy fic with backwards-steering vans and box deathtraps. Or a mix of the flavors! The canon supports that, God bless it.
For the record, while I only asked for Captain Scarlet, I'm cool with the rest of SPECTRUM staff and whoever else you need showing up. Colonel White and Lieutenant Green are always welcome to be hyper-competent (and maybe a tiny bit UST-y?), Doctor Tawny might be useful for a body-horror plot, and Captain Blue... well, Captain Blue is himself. Shine on, you crazy diamond.
Thanks for writing for me! This is my first time doing Yuletide and my first step away from just being a fandom lurker, and I'm really excited! I hope my requests aren't too weird, but I figure Yuletide is the kind of place where I can ask for really crazy fic and hopefully people will understand me.
Here are some things I really like in fic:
1) Weird stuff happening! I'd rather read a strange plot twist than a common trope any day, and I like it when tropes are averted by people acting sensibly and cutting misunderstandings off at the pass and things like that. I also like explorations of how the canon really works, especially for magic/super-science systems, and going places the canon didn't.
2) I like happy or satisfying endings, on the whole, but I do like darkness as long as it's sort of unrealistic darkness, if that makes sense? I find realistic violence and angst uncomfortable to read, but over-the-top action violence and angst about ridiculous fanfic situations? Go right ahead! Still, it's nice if it's all resolved, or at least resolved enough for people to go on.
3) I like people doing their best when things are getting ridiculous or silly around them. I like people who are competent, whether that means badass or not. People with professional skills are awesome! (My guilty pleasure is reality TV shows where people with a neat professional skill show it off or compete.) I like people in love, and trying their best to love, even when everything says they shouldn't be.
4) When it comes to porn, I mostly like affectionate stuff, but I'm cool with a lot of kink! I like voyeurism/exhibitionism (when everyone involved is in on it and okay with it), threesomes/group sex, and quasi-group-sex where some people are just watching and occasionally touching people, stroking hair, giving encouragement, and that kind of thing. I'm okay with both preg and mpreg; lactation/breastfeeding really isn't my thing, but if you gloss over the fluids and focus on the nurturing part, that's all right. Transformation and expansion are cool, and sex with non-humans is fine as long as they're fully sentient (no real bestiality, please!).
Here are some dislikes:
1) Idiot Plots! If you don't know what that means, it's a term for plots where major plot points require that everyone involved is an idiot. Not everyone in the story needs to be super-smart -- if you want to write dumb people getting into problems, that's fine -- but if characters are supposed to be intelligent and capable, I want them to have good IC reasons for the mistakes they make.
2) Like I said above, realistic violence isn't my thing in fic. That goes double for sexual violence and non-consensual sex, which is a huge turnoff for me even if it's not realistic and the victim recovers or really enjoys it. I know this is weird because I'm requesting Corruption of Champions, but I'll explain in the prompt!
3) I don't like BDSM and powerplay stuff in fic, even if it's all safe, sane, and consensual. Just not my bag, sorry!
4) A few miscellaneous kinks that aren't my thing: incest, bodily fluid play, underage, mind-control/mental transformation/"bimboizing", and domestic-animal genitalia. (I know this might come up in CoC if you use an animal-morph character, but don't go into too much detail if you do need to use something like that.)
I hope this doesn't come off as too picky, because I swear I won't be picky! Anything you write will be awesome. I just have some squicks along with my kinks, that's all.
Here are my prompts:
Fandom: Corruption of Champions
Character(s): The Champion (Corruption of Champions)
My Prompt: I know this is like the craziest Yuletide request EVER, but could I have some gen worldbuilding fic about CoC, please? I think the setting, history, and races are pretty neat and would like to see more about them than the canon gives us. I requested the Champion, but they don't have to feature if they don't fit! Here are some ideas:
* Day-in-the-life fic about Tel'Adre or some other uncorrupted settlement, where even though it's safe, life gets... weird. How do people get by and do their best to live good lives? What is the new normal?
* A fic set after the Champion succeeds in defeating the demons and the world begins to recover. Things aren't ever going to return to the way they were, but maybe some of what was lost to corruption can be recovered? The goblins can return to sanity (maybe an enclave of sane goblins returns to help their sisters?), the rebirth of a purified Faun race from the Satyrs, a reunification of the bovine races... basically, the birth of healthy, if still very sexual, races from the corrupted ones.
* The Champion finding some friendship in Mareth! This could be the "buddy" part of "fuckbuddy," with the various camp followers, or maybe true platonic friendship. (Maybe a Champion with the Religion History striking up a friendship with Jojo and meditating together?) You can't live by sex alone!
Like I said, I knowing asking for CoC gen is crazy, so if you want to write porn, feel free! I'm pretty open about pairings, but I'd prefer no demon involvement, a relatively pure-route Champion if you choose to use them, and consensual, happy sex, maybe even with some romance too. In a place like Mareth, you need intimacy as much as ever, even if you're having sex ten times a day. Something where the characters can take comfort and strength from their intimacy would be wonderful! Slash, femslash, het, herm sex, or weirder things are all just fine, and the Champion can be whoever you want them to be, although I'd prefer a lack of corruption overall.
My Notes: This is the request I'm most worried about, because I know people writing CoC want to write super-kinky stuff, and I'm asking for day-in-the-life. I know it's weird, but... well, I'll be honest. I was never able to get into the actual game because of all the rape content, even though there's a lot of stuff in it that I really like, so I've mostly read the Wiki. That's what got me hungry for more setting detail! There's a lot of cool stuff in this game I could never quite get into for itself. Most of the prompt speaks for itself, and I hope asking for gen or affectionate smut is okay.
As for character preferences, I also feel a little crazy, but the characters I'm interested in reading are mostly not the nominated ones. My preferences are for the Champion (relatively pure, but otherwise, whatever gender/orientation/body-part setup you want!) and the relatively affectionate companions, lovers, and camp followers. I would prefer not to see demons or worms show up at all, and the Farm isn't generally my thing, although if you want to use Marble as a tragic character seeking her purification, that's cool.
Fandom: Hatoful Kareshi | Hatoful Boyfriend
Character(s): Hunter-Gatherer Girl | Tosaka Hiyoko
My Prompt: This canon is crack with the heart of a real story, and that's why I love it so much. I'd really like to see some post-canon fic about Hiyoko taking her place as an advocate of bird/human relations! This can be gen or pairing fic, although I think it'd be really sweet if one of the pairings from the game turned out to last! Shuu obviously wouldn't work here, and Oko and Nageki are questionable, but otherwise I think most of the options for pairing with Hiyoko are cute and workable. I would prefer no porn if Hiyoko's love interest remains a regular bird... but there is some pretty crazy super-science in this setting, so maybe he could be a test subject in a project to transform birds into more human-like forms, and things could go from there?
If you're taking Bad Boys Love as the "true" path, that's cool; I'd like to see a fic about Ryouta and Hiyoko somehow being saved or finding a way out of their predicament and moving on from there. Life after BBL is going to be pretty weird, but what else is new?
My Notes: First things first: YOU DO NOT HAVE TO WRITE ANTHRO BIRD PORN. It was just an idea, because regular-bird porn just doesn't work for me, but it's not required at all! I'll absolutely love gen character study, gen worldbuilding, or regular safe-for-work pairing fic. I promise.
For this fandom, I think I really want a story that feels like the canon to me: extremely weird, but sincere and straight-faced in its weirdness. Replicating the feel is the most important thing to me, and if you get to use all the weird science and miscellaneous worldsetting detail, that only makes it better! A strong emotional core is also great. Hiyoko is a really earnest, sincere person who feels things deeply, and I love her that way.
Like I said in the request, I'd prefer that the Shuu path not be used as a jumping-off path, and I'm not sure about the Oko path either -- it's goofy even by the standards, and I'm not sure where you could go from there. Nageki is a little more workable, though! I'm not sure if you could find a way to bring Nageki back, but a gen fic (or an alternate pairing) where Hiyoko remembers how much Nageki meant to her would be great.
A tiny note: like my screenname implies, I'm kind of a bird person. Ornithological details are great! I especially love corvids and pigeons, but in Hatoful fandom, who doesn't?
Fandom: Captain Scarlet and the Mysterons
Character(s): Paul Metcalfe | Captain Scarlet
My Prompt: What I find most fascinating about this canon is its mixture of silliness and very real darkness. It's a goofy Gerry Anderson show with all the puppetry and gadgets, but when it comes down to it, the Mysteron War is pretty terrible, and Captain Scarlet kind of has the worst of it. There's got to be more to being a Mysteron duplicate than just being immortal. Are there side effects? Body horror about Scarlet dealing with his inhumanity would be so amazing.
If you want something lighter-hearted, a really weird adventure story in the style of the canon would be fun too! Bonus points for Scarlet dying in increasingly convoluted ways, Colonel White being the biggest badass in SPECTRUM, and Blue piloting a silly vehicle.
I'd prefer gen in this fandom, if possible. If you want to do pairing fic or porn, I'd prefer that it address the darker concepts I mentioned above -- are pleasure and love something Scarlet can even still experience, something he desperately fakes, or something he does his best to avoid?
My Notes: Captain Scarlet, to me, is just a mesmerizingly strange television artifact, and there are so many angles you can take on it. I know my prompt goes both ways, but I swear, I'd be delighted either with serious darkfic about being a Mysteron duplicate or goofy fic with backwards-steering vans and box deathtraps. Or a mix of the flavors! The canon supports that, God bless it.
For the record, while I only asked for Captain Scarlet, I'm cool with the rest of SPECTRUM staff and whoever else you need showing up. Colonel White and Lieutenant Green are always welcome to be hyper-competent (and maybe a tiny bit UST-y?), Doctor Tawny might be useful for a body-horror plot, and Captain Blue... well, Captain Blue is himself. Shine on, you crazy diamond.
