Dear Yuletide Author,

Hello hello, dearest author, and welcome to my letter! ♥ Let's get this out of the way early on: I absolutely love Yuletide, and it is my dearest wish to have everyone have as enjoyable and fun of an experience with it as I do. So if you get an idea you're really excited about and it doesn't quite fit with any of prompts below... look, follow your heart!! I think my requests are pretty flexible this year, and above all, what I really enjoy reading are stories that someone clearly really loved writing. So what I want to receive is a story you feel passionately about and that you had a great time writing. Everything else is secondary!

Now, having said that, let's get to the secondary content, shall we? :")

Broadly speaking, the things usually I want out of Yuletide are character- rather than plot-driven stories (not that the two can't happily coexist, of course, but my favorite stories tend to follow an emotional arc or a relationship development rather than characters dealing with an external conflict or a really intricate plot) with happy or at least hopeful endings (I'm fine with a more bittersweet hinting-at-the-light-at-the-end-of-the-tunnel type ambiguity, but would strongly prefer more overt happiness, and I really and truly do not want any serious or lasting tragedy involved).

My major DNWs are needles (I have a huge phobia and would deeply rather no mention of them at all, but if it does come up, please please please keep it brief and be sure to clearly warn for me!) and serious issues beyond those explored in canon (e.g., racism, homophobia, character death, serious assault/injury, etc. etc.). By which I mean, say, there's quite a bit of fantastic racism in Carnival Row that certainly can't be sidestepped too much, so while I wouldn't want that to be too much of a focus, I'm fine with not having it entirely brushed over; on the other hand, any kind of homophobia and/or racism in a John Mulaney/Tan France story would definitely not be my jam!

More specifically, here are some overall likes and dislikes:

Likes: banter, UST/pining/slow burn, first kisses/makeouts that don't immediately lead to sex (either by design or by accidental interruption), gross fluffy ridiculous romcom-y tropes, people being very competent at what they do (and other people, ahem, enjoying it), little canon easter eggs, found families, intricate tangles of relationships among large groups of people, cute animals, puns, and the general concept of hope and humanity's essential goodness triumphing over darkness and existential despair!

Dislikes: misogyny in m/m relationships/demonization of female characters for the sake of m/m, misogynistic dirty talk (e.g., "slut"/"whore"), noncon/dubcon, infidelity, excessive jealousy/possessiveness, excessive kinky elements, A/B/O, mpreg, daddy kink, first- or second-person POV, and contrived miscommunication conflicts that could be resolved with a single, simple statement of clarification!

Some additional resources in terms of things I like: my trope and kink sorters (feel free not to take the rankings on those too seriously; the first seven or so on both lists are pretty solidly interchangeable as Favorite Things To Read). I... basically have no public fannish presence anymore and I'm so sorry about that, but here's my AO3 and my liveblog Twitter, which will almost certainly be of no use to you, ha, but if you want to see me yell about stuff as I read/watch it--! :")

SO having said all that-- let's get to the fandoms!! (Should go without saying, but SPOILERS BELOW! SPOILERS BELOW! IF YOU HAVEN'T CONSUMED THE FANDOMS BELOW, DON'T READ ANY FURTHER!)

( Elemental Blessings Series - Sharon Shinn )

( Carnival Row (TV) )

( Miracle Workers (TV) )

( Dressing Funny RPF )