Yuletide Letter 2023

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Hello Yuletide Writer!

Thanks for signing up to this exchange and offering to write for me. I’ve included a couple of suggestions for things I’d love to see but those are all just if you want extra guidance. Feel free to do whatever you like but please don’t include romantic ships I haven’t listed. ^^;;

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!

DO NOT WANT:

• mistreatment of a mentally disabled person

• animal abuse/death

• A/B/O

• age play

• sexualization of children

• soulmates

• reincarnation

• pregnancy

• polyamory
  
• office/coffeeshop AUs
  
• heavy religious themes (mentions are okay, please not an entire thing about religion though or where religion is a major theme/driving plot point)

FANDOMS:

The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes - Suzanne Collins

Any TWO chars from the list paired together work ie Coryo/Sej, Marcus/Sej, Coryo/Jessup, etc, or different ships like current Cory/Sej and past Marcus/Sej! Prompts which you are absolutely free to discard and are optional:

• Marcus and Sejanus were involved in 2 and Sejanus unburdens himself about it to Corialanus.
• Jessup and Marcus discussing an alliance versus the merits of trying to escape.
• AU where Coriolanus is the one selling himself instead of Tigris
• AU with Coryo/Sej where Sej keeps giving Coryo gifts and Coryo thinks it’s transactional/prostitution but Sej thinks it’s a real relationship

Newsflesh Series - Mira Grant

I’m starved for South Asian chars getting to be awesome so really, I’ll be happy with anything you write about him! No suffering for him, please, he has suffered enough. If you want inspo, I’ve got some prompts:

• Mahir and his family
• The conversation with the scientist who shot himself after saying they could’ve taken back India and Mahir’s thoughts in the aftermath
• Learning about Dr. Kiran Patel and how he invented the blood test in history class (in person or online, either is fine) and if Mahir had already been taught it by his parents or if he’s surprised.

Scholomance - Naomi Novik

I struggled so much to figure out which chars to nom for this, I love most of them, but I decided to indulge my love of terrible toxic M/M relationships, South Asian chars and ruthless women. Please make it as unhealthy and awful as you feel comfortable doing, thank you! Couple of prompt ideas, just in case:

• Jack decides he needs a big boost of malificer energy and the best option is to seduce Orion so he can feed off him. Orion can either fall for it or be totally indifferent!
• Orion thinks he has a weird crush on Jack and he’s not sure why (it’s the malia, he’s just interested in the malia). Jack takes advantage of that.
• Ophelia raises El.
• Jack crushing one-sidedly on Orion.
• Arjun survives instead of Gwen (maybe El is born early?) and Ophelia comes for the baby. Everyone fights back.
• Arjun and Ophelia don’t get on even as fellow students in the Scholomance.

Temeraire - Naomi Novik

• Demane and Kulingile dealing with racism
• Above but with Tharkay offering advice
• AU where Iskierka chose Tharkay as her captain
• Demane being underestimated until someone sees Kulingile
• Someone being rude to Demane and Iskierka oh so graciously steps in on Kulingile’s behalf
• Ensemble piece where any chars of your choice come to Demane’s defense when someone he can’t just punch is being rude to him

Fence (Comics)

• Jesse/Aiden, two boys with daddy issues hooking up and using each other as substitutes for the people they really want
• Jesse/Seiji, one-sided and dark, where Jesse’s used to having anyone he wants but Seiji’s the one person he can’t afford to lose (and he loses him anyway)
• Nick/Seiji, one-sided Jesse/Seiji, with Jesse just being painfully jealous of Nick
• Jesse/Aiden meeting across the bargaining table at a business meeting when they’re older
• esse/Nick, Jesse just wants to know what Seiji sees in Nick and tries to kiss/assault him, Nick successfully fights him out?
  I don’t want Jesse bastardized! I do like him and feel sorry for his rough relationship with his father, I just like that relationship tilting him into not being a great person either.

Mighty Ducks (Movies)

• Riley/Scott hatesex, where Riley takes out his bad moods on Scott and Scott’s enough of a masochist to allow it
• Riley/Scott abusive relationship, Adam tries to intervene to stop Riley
• Riley/Scott with Riley getting on Scott’s case about having a soft spot for the Ducks/not backing up the team properly and confusing Cole
• Riley/Scott, with Riley getting jealous because he thinks Scott likes Adam