Yuletide letter
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lea_hazelDear author!
This is very exciting, isn't it? Yuletide is very exciting. I always request fandoms that I'm broadly interested in, so most anything you produce is likely to entertain me. When it comes to small fandoms I am easy to please.
I have very few major squicks and almost no triggers, although I'm disinterested in gore and sexualized violence. I do tend to have a bad reaction to any scenarios of violence or abuse that are framed (by the characters) as "for your own good" or similar. And I do not like dub-con at all.
Easy ways to make me produce high-pitched sounds include bisexual characters, poly ships, gender ambiguity or nonbinary gender, found family stories, and stories that prioritize and emphasize nonromantic love.
1) Glitch: I played Glitch briefly not long before it was shut down, and remain nostalgic for stories of great imagination. I also play the alpha of Children of Ur. You may or may not find this relevant. The cooperative and constructive nature of the game appealed to me (still does) and so I nommed and requested the three Giants closest to my heart, those responsible for crops, herbs and horticulture of all kinds. Esquibeth is the prophet of Grendaline. She had a quest dedicated to her but her story was rather brief, so I'd love to read something from her point of view. You can also check out the #glitch tag on my side blog at skymaw.tumblr.com.
2) Seven Kingdoms: The Princess Problem. I love everything about this game. I am not exaggerating. Since the rules of Yuletide declare that I can only request a very limited number of characters, I emphasized Mrs. White and Sayra, because I'm drawn to their contained expression and fascinated by their mysterious pasts. Whether this is directly related to the secret storylines in the game or not, I am interested either way.
When it comes to speculations about a possible connection between the two characters, and whether they play a larger role in the plot, I could go either way. Any choice you prefer suits me.
Yvette is a neglected character and so I'd love anything at all from her POV, as long as it doesn't frame her as a tragic character because of her disability.
The Revaire widow is my favorite background. I like manipulative, ambitious characters a lot, but don't feel like you need to hew closely to the game mechanics. Past stories about her childhood, her marriage and her time at court are very welcome. Canon divergence A/Us are wonderful. Any canon characters or OCs you want to include are great. Any canon love interest, or political path, or whatever.
3) The Royal Trap: Madeleine/Dolores isn't properly a canon pairing, but I love it anyway. I'm talking about Dolores's good end, where she and Madeleine leave the palace together and end up living and working together. I am good with romantic, friendship or ambiguous relationship. Even an intense rivalry. Canon divergence A/Us are fine, and stories about the two of them within the context of any of the other paths are also fine. I'd be interested to see how they relate to each other within any context where Madeleine stays in Gwellinor. Dolores isn't exactly sweetness and light, but then, that's what I like about her.
4) The Adventure Zone: Team Sweet Flips. In my mind, they've been involved together for a long time before the beginning of the story. I like established relationship stories. If you see it differently and want to write a courtship story, that's great too. I like the idea of them befriending Noelle and helping her get used to the BoB and the moon base and make peace with everything that's happened to her. Romance can be background if you prefer. Including the boys is highly optional.
I love the podcast's wacky hijinks humorous tone, but if you'd rather write something with a more dramatic tone that's cool with me.
5) Killjoys: Clara. Worldbuilding stuff about what hack-mods are and how they came to be. Backstory stuff about her childhood and how she ended up where and how she is. Shenanigans with Johny post-finale. All good by me. Anything from her POV about the killjoys and how she sees them is also good. Basically, I love her and want to see her fleshed out the way she couldn't be on the show.
6) Books of the Raksura: Wow, yeah. I tore through four books of this series earlier this year like it was my job. I love the Raksura, I love their world and their worldbuilding, all the little nitty-gritty details of their culture and societal structure, and every, damn, character. That said. There's a reason I requested the characters I did. They are people who are close to Moon and Jade but still have a different perspective on their repeated entanglements and misadventures.
Chime is a favorite of mine and I'd love to read more about the changes in his life biologically and socially, and how he deals with them. Balm is kind of always a presence, but I never got a good feeling of her internal perspective, other than being Jade's warrior and being supportive of her faction versus Pearl's. I like to see River's interactions with the other Aeriat both before and after he lost favor with Pearl, and also his interactions with the Arbora, which are less obvious. And I would love love love to see Shade having some more complex interactions with people he's not necessarily related to.
Come to think about it, an interaction of any kind between River and Shade would be amazing.
Pairings or ships of any kind are optional, whether canonical (Moon/Jade, Moon/Chime) or otherwise (basically anything else, I suppose). Original characters are also fine by me, or any of the very minor book characters, of the kind basically known by name only.
And that's about it, I guess. Once again, I'm almost guaranteed to love anything you write for these fandoms and characters, so go as wild as you like.
This is very exciting, isn't it? Yuletide is very exciting. I always request fandoms that I'm broadly interested in, so most anything you produce is likely to entertain me. When it comes to small fandoms I am easy to please.
I have very few major squicks and almost no triggers, although I'm disinterested in gore and sexualized violence. I do tend to have a bad reaction to any scenarios of violence or abuse that are framed (by the characters) as "for your own good" or similar. And I do not like dub-con at all.
Easy ways to make me produce high-pitched sounds include bisexual characters, poly ships, gender ambiguity or nonbinary gender, found family stories, and stories that prioritize and emphasize nonromantic love.
1) Glitch: I played Glitch briefly not long before it was shut down, and remain nostalgic for stories of great imagination. I also play the alpha of Children of Ur. You may or may not find this relevant. The cooperative and constructive nature of the game appealed to me (still does) and so I nommed and requested the three Giants closest to my heart, those responsible for crops, herbs and horticulture of all kinds. Esquibeth is the prophet of Grendaline. She had a quest dedicated to her but her story was rather brief, so I'd love to read something from her point of view. You can also check out the #glitch tag on my side blog at skymaw.tumblr.com.
2) Seven Kingdoms: The Princess Problem. I love everything about this game. I am not exaggerating. Since the rules of Yuletide declare that I can only request a very limited number of characters, I emphasized Mrs. White and Sayra, because I'm drawn to their contained expression and fascinated by their mysterious pasts. Whether this is directly related to the secret storylines in the game or not, I am interested either way.
When it comes to speculations about a possible connection between the two characters, and whether they play a larger role in the plot, I could go either way. Any choice you prefer suits me.
Yvette is a neglected character and so I'd love anything at all from her POV, as long as it doesn't frame her as a tragic character because of her disability.
The Revaire widow is my favorite background. I like manipulative, ambitious characters a lot, but don't feel like you need to hew closely to the game mechanics. Past stories about her childhood, her marriage and her time at court are very welcome. Canon divergence A/Us are wonderful. Any canon characters or OCs you want to include are great. Any canon love interest, or political path, or whatever.
3) The Royal Trap: Madeleine/Dolores isn't properly a canon pairing, but I love it anyway. I'm talking about Dolores's good end, where she and Madeleine leave the palace together and end up living and working together. I am good with romantic, friendship or ambiguous relationship. Even an intense rivalry. Canon divergence A/Us are fine, and stories about the two of them within the context of any of the other paths are also fine. I'd be interested to see how they relate to each other within any context where Madeleine stays in Gwellinor. Dolores isn't exactly sweetness and light, but then, that's what I like about her.
4) The Adventure Zone: Team Sweet Flips. In my mind, they've been involved together for a long time before the beginning of the story. I like established relationship stories. If you see it differently and want to write a courtship story, that's great too. I like the idea of them befriending Noelle and helping her get used to the BoB and the moon base and make peace with everything that's happened to her. Romance can be background if you prefer. Including the boys is highly optional.
I love the podcast's wacky hijinks humorous tone, but if you'd rather write something with a more dramatic tone that's cool with me.
5) Killjoys: Clara. Worldbuilding stuff about what hack-mods are and how they came to be. Backstory stuff about her childhood and how she ended up where and how she is. Shenanigans with Johny post-finale. All good by me. Anything from her POV about the killjoys and how she sees them is also good. Basically, I love her and want to see her fleshed out the way she couldn't be on the show.
6) Books of the Raksura: Wow, yeah. I tore through four books of this series earlier this year like it was my job. I love the Raksura, I love their world and their worldbuilding, all the little nitty-gritty details of their culture and societal structure, and every, damn, character. That said. There's a reason I requested the characters I did. They are people who are close to Moon and Jade but still have a different perspective on their repeated entanglements and misadventures.
Chime is a favorite of mine and I'd love to read more about the changes in his life biologically and socially, and how he deals with them. Balm is kind of always a presence, but I never got a good feeling of her internal perspective, other than being Jade's warrior and being supportive of her faction versus Pearl's. I like to see River's interactions with the other Aeriat both before and after he lost favor with Pearl, and also his interactions with the Arbora, which are less obvious. And I would love love love to see Shade having some more complex interactions with people he's not necessarily related to.
Come to think about it, an interaction of any kind between River and Shade would be amazing.
Pairings or ships of any kind are optional, whether canonical (Moon/Jade, Moon/Chime) or otherwise (basically anything else, I suppose). Original characters are also fine by me, or any of the very minor book characters, of the kind basically known by name only.
And that's about it, I guess. Once again, I'm almost guaranteed to love anything you write for these fandoms and characters, so go as wild as you like.
