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Dear Yuletide Writer 2022
Dear Yuletide Writer,
Thank you so much for signing up for this! I hope you enjoy writing for me. I listed the ships I like below every fandom, please don't include ships that aren't on the lists.
Apart from that, please take anything I say below as only a suggestion. If you have something you're excited to write, go for it! My suggestions are only things I like and you are in no way obligated to write them.
In general, I like dark, angsty, emotionally-heavy pieces. I'm not interested in fluff, but I love unhealthy relationships, obsession, addiction, emotional manipulation, blackmail, guilt, coercion, abuse of authority and hate-flirting/black rom.
I also really like AUs, but please no mundane AUs (office, flower shop, coffee shop, etc). I prefer AUs of the canon, like what-if X happened or didn't happen. Outsider POV is awesome!
Scholomance - Naomi Novik:
SHIPS: Balthasar/Li, Gwen/Ophelia, El/Orion, Aadhya/El, Liu/El, Liesel/El, Chloe/Aadhya, Liu/Chloe, Liesel/Chloe, Balthasar/Ophelia, Alfie/Orion, Jack/Orion
Galactik Football
I ship Rocket/Sinedd super hard and would LOVE something dark set during the Netherball arc when Rocket has gone dark side thanks to Sinedd’s temptations. Maybe even after he breaks Sinedd’s ankle? Dark, fucked up and absolutely unhealthy is how I like this pairing, thank you!
Otherwise, if you prefer to write gen, anything to do with Rocket or Sinedd during the Netherball arc would be fantastic!
Temeraire - Naomi Novik
SHIPS: ...I'm mostly ship neutral here, I just like gen with the dragons. The dragons are my favorite characters, I'll be honest, and their interactions with their humans. I do like Napoleon/Laurence and Granby/Laurence, or Mianning/Tharkay, Yongxing/Tharkay, Rankin/Tharkay, but that's about it. I am 100% happy with gen, don't feel like you need to write shippy stuff!
iZombie
Ships: Any combination of 2 chars from the list.
So I’m very fond of Lowell and would love to see him shipped with ANYONE. Ravi, Blaine, Vaughn, it’s all good! Actually, any pair from Ravi, Blaine, Vaughn and Lowell would be great.
Gallows humor is my favorite here. Especially with Ravi being part-zombie. Maybe something where Ravi and any of the other three chars have to pretend to be a couple for some undercover reason? Or they all taste the same brain and end up sharing visions?
Kim - Rudyard Kipling
No ships please.
Anything where Kim thinks better of his loyalties and decides he’s more ‘native’ than ‘Sahib’, please. I’m South Asian and this was one of my FAVORITE books as a kid, and I still really love the writing, but I wince a little at how ready Kim is to turn on the Indians to spy for the British. I’d love to see something where an older Kim rethinks his choices and changes sides.
Macdonald Hall - Gordon Korman
Ships: Bruno/Boots, Cathy/Diane.
Cracky humor, please, in the style of the original! I’m a sucker for Boots getting dragged into Bruno’s ridiculous plans, whether that’s in Macdonald Hall or after they’ve graduated.
Thank you so much for signing up for this! I hope you enjoy writing for me. I listed the ships I like below every fandom, please don't include ships that aren't on the lists.
Apart from that, please take anything I say below as only a suggestion. If you have something you're excited to write, go for it! My suggestions are only things I like and you are in no way obligated to write them.
In general, I like dark, angsty, emotionally-heavy pieces. I'm not interested in fluff, but I love unhealthy relationships, obsession, addiction, emotional manipulation, blackmail, guilt, coercion, abuse of authority and hate-flirting/black rom.
I also really like AUs, but please no mundane AUs (office, flower shop, coffee shop, etc). I prefer AUs of the canon, like what-if X happened or didn't happen. Outsider POV is awesome!
Scholomance - Naomi Novik:
SHIPS: Balthasar/Li, Gwen/Ophelia, El/Orion, Aadhya/El, Liu/El, Liesel/El, Chloe/Aadhya, Liu/Chloe, Liesel/Chloe, Balthasar/Ophelia, Alfie/Orion, Jack/Orion
- Balthasar Lake - maybe a scene from Orion’s childhoood, when he was trying to make Orion be a normal kid/took time off from work to play with Orion? The conversation with Ophelia where she told him what she was going to do to the embryo, or the conversation where he found out if she hadn’t told him ahead of time? The scene where El meets him for the first time from his perspective?
- Alfie: He wants to be a hero that Orion is. One-sided crushing on Alfie's part would be amazing. Otherwise, a solo story about what it's like to grow up being a descendent of the Scholomance founder, or where El couldn't find a way for him to pay the debt so he ends up following her around as aun unwanted minion?
- Li Shanfeng (Scholomance) - crack ship but I would love something with Li/Balthasar. If you’d rather write gen, then maybe an AU where he ended up raising El somehow? Or the politics of gathering all that mana to build a second school!
- Aadhya (Scholomance) - I love her and her family and everything about her. Write me anything you want. Only please avoid her dead sister, that’ll wreck me.
- Chloe Rasmussen - Chloe crushing on El a little, Chloe dating Aadhya or Liu, Chloe joining in actively on the raising of the Golden Enclaves, Chloe’s multiple attempts to befriend Orion when they were younger out of real gratitude and the failure thereof?
- Liu: The little story about her and her cousins was the cutest. I'd really some more family stuff with her and the freshman twins, maybe their POV on her and El? I ship Liu/El hard too, so an AU where El is a malificer and Liu teams up with her would be great, or something where Liu befriends her because she is taking the malificer path and thinks El is too, but then realizes her mistake but by then it's too late because she's in love?
- Galadriel "El" Higgins - I love AUs! Maybe where Ophelia finds Galadriel young and/or where El is raised with the Sharmas? Where she does go evil? Where she’s the school hero from the start and Orion is weird loner with a mal-obsession? Where she actually does show off her powers (accidentally?) in the first year and everyone is terrified except Orion and her original squad?
- Liesel - future fic where she DOES take down the Domina of Munich and her father and her father’s wife! Doesn’t have to be death, I am fine with exposure and shaming. I just want to see Liesel get some vengeance for her mother.
- Ophelia Rhys-Lake - I ship her with Gwen, if you feel like writing that! If not, I’d love scenes of her seeing Orion grow up and realizing he’s not right, or AUs where she gets her hand on El and raises her alongside Orion or warps her into a maleficer only to have El take her down anyway.
- Orion: More stories of his childhood and Orion realizing he's not like other kids? Or AUs where he's introduced to El far earlier, or he befriends her in the first year of school because she's sharp-edged in a blurry world and he can't stop following her? Or Jack/Orion, if you feel like being ridiculously indulgent and writing awful malificer boy trying to charm and manipulate Orion but failing.
Galactik Football
I ship Rocket/Sinedd super hard and would LOVE something dark set during the Netherball arc when Rocket has gone dark side thanks to Sinedd’s temptations. Maybe even after he breaks Sinedd’s ankle? Dark, fucked up and absolutely unhealthy is how I like this pairing, thank you!
Otherwise, if you prefer to write gen, anything to do with Rocket or Sinedd during the Netherball arc would be fantastic!
Temeraire - Naomi Novik
SHIPS: ...I'm mostly ship neutral here, I just like gen with the dragons. The dragons are my favorite characters, I'll be honest, and their interactions with their humans. I do like Napoleon/Laurence and Granby/Laurence, or Mianning/Tharkay, Yongxing/Tharkay, Rankin/Tharkay, but that's about it. I am 100% happy with gen, don't feel like you need to write shippy stuff!
- Napoléon Bonaparte - I still can’t believe Novik basically wrote OC/Napoléon and made me ship it. Because I definitely do. I’d love something where Napoléon successfully seduces Laurence to stay, or gets Temeraire to convince Laurence to say, or even the Chinese Embassy threatens war with England if they execute the Emperor’s Son so Laurence gets sent to France instead in exile. ANYTHING. Dark and obsessive is my favorite flavor but I’ll take anything.
- Demane — he and Sipho make me so happy. Anything with their brotherly bond would be awesome.
- Iskierka — I LOVE HER, SHE’S SO COOL. Her bickering with Temeraire is always hilarious and also her dressing up of Granby. Something that hits both of those, or her being a matchmaker with Temeraire, or jealous of Perscitia getting so much attention/time from Temeraire, would be great!
- John Granby - this poor long-suffering man. Make him suffer more under Iskierka’s idea of fashion, please. Or maybe suffering under a one-sided crush on Laurence?
- Kulingile, Perscitia, Temeraire, Volatilus, Arkady, the ferals AND ANY OTHER DRAGONS YOU WANT: look, I just love all the dragons together and their interactions. A gen piece of them being their wonderful chaotic selves would be lovely. Maybe Temeraire’s first ball, maybe an attempt to overthrow certain laws (gay marriage would be nice! women should be allowed to vote!) with Volly being his adorable little bird-brained self.
- William Laurence - Post-series fic where Laurence is dealing with politician!Temeraire would be amazing! Humor, preferably. AUs where Temeraire is a different type of dragon would also be cool.
- Alice Pemberton - Okay, this is ridiculous, but hear me out -- Pemberton as an aviator or a Member of Parliament. I would LOVE to see her getting some power and cutting people dead with her perfect manners and austerity. Especially working as a team with Perscitia!
- Tenzing Tharkay - I have a lot of feelings about Tenzing and most of them involve going LET HIM BE HAPPY PLEASE. Tenzing deserves a happy ending. AU where he was raised by his mother's side only, or met Laurence when they were younger, would be great too!
iZombie
Ships: Any combination of 2 chars from the list.
So I’m very fond of Lowell and would love to see him shipped with ANYONE. Ravi, Blaine, Vaughn, it’s all good! Actually, any pair from Ravi, Blaine, Vaughn and Lowell would be great.
Gallows humor is my favorite here. Especially with Ravi being part-zombie. Maybe something where Ravi and any of the other three chars have to pretend to be a couple for some undercover reason? Or they all taste the same brain and end up sharing visions?
Kim - Rudyard Kipling
No ships please.
Anything where Kim thinks better of his loyalties and decides he’s more ‘native’ than ‘Sahib’, please. I’m South Asian and this was one of my FAVORITE books as a kid, and I still really love the writing, but I wince a little at how ready Kim is to turn on the Indians to spy for the British. I’d love to see something where an older Kim rethinks his choices and changes sides.
Macdonald Hall - Gordon Korman
Ships: Bruno/Boots, Cathy/Diane.
Cracky humor, please, in the style of the original! I’m a sucker for Boots getting dragged into Bruno’s ridiculous plans, whether that’s in Macdonald Hall or after they’ve graduated.