Yuletide Letter 2022

Mon, 17 Oct 2022 08:58:28 GMT

Hello Yuletide author! This is my very first time participating in this exchange, so I am still learning the ropes. However, I have participated in podfic winter holiday exchanges for nearly a decade so I'm hoping this one is just as joyful and creatively inspiring. If you want to find me elsewhere I am also averytree on tumblr and averytree8 on twitter. I have am open to treats, I have gifts enabled :3

Here are some general things I like in fic:
I love stories that make me laugh, but also make me ache a little. Humor mixed with big feelings.
I love a wacky hijink, a heist, a stupid or clever plot with high or low stakes.
Idiots-to-lovers or enemies-to-allies-to-friends-to-lovers trope.
Also love gen stories, where what is explored primarily is a friendship or group dynamic.
Also love established relationships.
I'm open to open endings, or ambiguous/bittersweet endings, especially if the story is very short.
Fake dating and mutual pining are fun.
I love sci-fi AUs, from one AU element to generic space to literally a Star Trek setting.
Happy to get a story with a poly trio (or more!)
Bisexual characters, pansexual characters, trans characters, nonbinary characters, aro and ace characters.
I like when it's obvious the fic writer has a ton of niche knowledge about something and decided to put it ALL into the story.
A lot of what I nominated was Kpop music videos; if you choose to write for one of them, I prefer when the characters are written as culturally Korean, and in my reading I try to prioritize stories set in Korea, or if they live in another country, it is explained why/how the whole Korean friend group ended up there. I don't want an American high school or college AU where the characters could easily be replaced by white characters.

Do Not Want/Hard No:
Omegaverse.
Rule 63.
Pregnancy- any gender.
Characters parenting biological children.
Character death and/or very serious medical emergencies.
Love triangles in which one person is doomed to be unhappy/alone/excluded.
Non-con or dub-con.
Serious BDSM, extreme kink (scat, watersports, vore, etc)
Underage.
Zombie based apocalypse AUs.
Excessive pain/torture/abuse (PG-13 level violence is okay)
Derogatory or demeaning language between lovers.

A bit more clarification for the gender stuff- if a character's gender is going to be changed from the canon, I want that character to be written as trans or nonbinary or agender and for the story to explore that. I don't want a Rule 63 story that's plain cis-swap.

Onto some fandom specific stuff!

Teixcalaan Series - Arkady Martine
I just read this series this year and loved it! There isn't very much fic for these characters yet, so honestly I'll probably be happy with anything you want to explore. I'd take a canonverse Three Seagrass/Mahit story; I'd also be happy with them in an AU; I'd take a gen story about Eight Antidote; a gen story about Mahit & Yskandr; a friendship exploration of Nine Hibiscus & Twenty Cicada; a glimpse into whatever was going on with Yskandr, Nineteen Adze and/or Six Direction... I think with those three characters I would be more interested in a story set in canon. But I'd also read a friendship story about Hibiscus and Cicada in an AU setting. If the story has a F/M ship, I'd prefer it be rated no higher than teen. If the ship is not F/M, any rating is good.

HOT MV - Seventeen
In this MV in particular, Jeonghan, Seungcheol, and Minghao's costume design intrigue me the most, but again, I like all of the members of this group, so I won't be unhappy with anything you write! My favorite SVT ships are Seungkwan/Vernon, Jeonghan/Seungcheol, Jeonghan/Mingyu, Seungcheol/Mingyu, Mingyu/Jihoon, Mingyu/Minghao, but please don't feel limited by this list, or the need to write a ship story necessarily. I also love Hoshi and Jun because they are such funny oddball guys. Also very open to poly ships. There are so many possibilities! Don't hold back! Any rating is good.

Various MVs - Stray Kids
I am so mesmerized by the hinted at plots in the Maniac MV, Christmas Evel MV, and Thunderous Trailer. Feel free to combine multiple of them if you so choose. I also signed up to write for all three, so I might be working on a parallel story! I love all the Stray Kids, but my three favorite characters to read about are Jisung, Minho, and Hyunjin, so I would love if the story was centered around one or more of them, and if there is a ship, for one or more of them to be involved in it. However, I do not want to stifle your creativity if you have a different fav ship. My one ask is that if Jeongin is involved in a ship, that the story be rated no higher than teen because I prefer to read him as an aro or ace spec character. With other ships, any rating is good.

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