lielac | Dear Yuletide Author (2021)

Dear Yuletide Author!

Letter last updated: 2021 Oct. 24, 10:45 PM Eastern Time, FINAL

I'm

lielac on AO3 as well as Dreamwidth. This is my first Yuletide, although I've been aware of Yuletide for years. This letter is just my signups collated into one post, or perhaps my signups are the relevant parts of this letter duplicated across every fandom I'm requesting.

General likes:

Canon friendships getting screentime
"You can't prove this didn't happen" missing scenes
Happy endings
Characters who in canon get put through the wringer getting nice days where nothing bad happens
Canon-divergent AUs
Cracky crossovers taken seriously
Cracky premises, in general, taken seriously
Time travel
Fluff
Cats
Epistolary fiction, especially for worldbuilding. Mock scientific reports, news article format, letters... it's great, do that.

DNW:

Incest
Harm to children (12 and younger)
Anything above PG-13 for sexual content or violence.
Unrequested shipfic. Mentioning canonical relationships is fine, background couples existing are fine.
Setting-change AUs (e.g. all human, no magic, coffeeshop, etc)

Mini-challenge comments: Two for One (Crossover Challenge), Make the Yuletide Gay, Wrapping Papper (art treats)

Bionicle (Generation 1)

Characters requested: Anybody! The whole tagset!!! I love them all!!!!! (Nominated: Hahli, Jaller, Matau, Matoro, Nokama, Tahu, Vakama, and Worldbuilding)

In general: write Bionicle fic and I will LOVE YOU
No objection to non-nominated characters showing up! Particular favorites not in nominated characters' Toa teams: Mata Nui, Kiina, Kotu, the entire Chronicler's Company

I love the Power of Friendship and how even as the series darkened later on there was always hope, always the good guys being good guys and working together. Top-notch moments include "Matau talking Vakama back from the dark side", "Matoro's sacrifice" (never forget), "every time a Matoran takes on something or somebody twice their size with absolute ferocity, from Jaller pointing a spear at Tahu in 2001, to the Chronicler's Company, to the Voya Nui resistance".

Note: If you create OCs with elemental affiliations, please feel free to throw the canonical gender restrictions out the nearest window.

Prompts:

I would like to feel emotions about Matoro. Happy emotions, sad emotions, just EMOTIONS. He's a very good Toa-hero and I love him and he deserves good things said about him, especially by his teammates but also by everybody.
I will happily read a thousand words of worldbuilding about the Matoran Universe. How do you think new Matoran are made? What weird things lurk beneath Metru Nui? Pick a random named island and wax rhapsodic about its inhabitants!
What sort of things might have happened on the island of Mata Nui in the thousand years between the Great Rescue and the Coming of the Toa? Rahi troubles, Makuta causing problems on purpose... there's a lot of room for missing scenes. And for short robots with no elemental powers to be three ounces of whoop-ass.
So! The Reforming! Mashed several different cultures together on one big ol' ball of rock and said "ok get along"! That... will surely have gone swimmingly. The Turaga of Mata Nui have nothing better to do than break up fights! They probably have a lot of practice.
Tahu probably has as many as several thoughts about no longer being a Toa Nuva. He's matured since the days of "getting into a big slapfight with Kopaka and everyone storming off because screw Unity", but he's gotta be grumpy! How can he be the leader of the Toa Nuva if he's not even Nuva anymore?

DNW:

Incest
Anything above PG-13 for sexual content or violence.
Unrequested shipfic. Mentioning canonical relationships is fine, background couples existing are fine.
Setting-change AUs (e.g. all human, no magic, coffeeshop, etc)

Dwarf Fortress

Characters requested: Any! (Nominated: Forgotten Beast, Necromancer, Overseer, and Worldbuilding)

This game is buck-wild and it's great. I go in more for the "D is for Dwarf" fanon than whatever Threetoe's written, which I admit I haven't read. Elves are tree-hugging hippies, lava is the best weapon, dwarves are possibly a little bit of a hive mind (although deaths only being announced on sighting of a body has dinged that), cats and cat-lovers must be carefully controlled for fear of splosions. Stupid dwarf tricks are delightful enough to read about when people are just relaying their misadventures on the forum; they're even better when a narrative spin is put on them.

Prompts:

What's it like as a Forgotten Beast? Do they have internal lives, or are they just ravening monsters? Is it lonely, being the only one of their kind?
Those dwarves who come into being at the start of the world as adults: what's that like? Do they have fake histories, do they come into being with only procedural knowledge...?
How do you, dear author, think "Overseers" work? Are they just Some Dwarf, are they the spirit of the fortress, are they a god, are they aspects of Armok?
Necromancers: cartoon villains who desire to overrun the world with zombies, or just goth dudes chilling with their decaying friends?
Building a Stupid Dwarf Trick: what's it like, as a dwarf on the ground?

DNW:

Incest
Anything above PG-13 for sexual content or violence. I know this game can get gory, but don't focus on it.
Unrequested shipfic. Background couples existing are fine.
Setting-change AUs (e.g. all human, no magic, coffeeshop, etc)

Leif & Thorn (Webcomic)

Characters requested: Hazel Cherieshnya, Hyacinth Lavande

No objection to non-requested characters showing up!

This webcomic!! What a wonderful secondary world fantasy where people are mostly not assholes, except for the vampires who are definitely assholes. People talk to each other about their issues! The underage characters have responsible, supportive adults in their lives! Also there are unicorns and dragons and ducks with teeth.

Prompts:

Hazel and Hyacinth are ADORABLE and should SMOOCH. These goths should go on a DATE. Or a ""not date"". Going out on a date? Staying in on a date? Whichever, they should do activities together just the two of them.
More of them being adorable about macabre subjects, e.g. "cooing over animal skulls" or "Hazel drew more bloody corpses and Hyacinth praises her art skills to high heaven".
Hyacinth being supportive about Hazel's chronic pain, especially if it flares up at an inconvenient time as chronic pain is wont to do.
If you don't ship them, friends doing friend stuff is cool too.

DNW:

Incest
Anything above PG-13 for sexual content or violence.
Unrequested shipfic. Mentioning canonical relationships is fine, background couples existing are fine.
Setting-change AUs (e.g. all human, no magic, coffeeshop, etc)

October Daye Series - Seanan McGuire

Characters requested: May Daye, October Daye, Quentin Sollys, Tybalt

No objection to non-requested characters showing up!

Toby has been through so much shit. Please give this woman a break. She deserves as many as several more months where the worst thing she has to deal with is rogue faerie dogs and nobles who think she's a way to contact her mother (ha ha ha). Canon is great but sometimes exhausting with how much Happens.

Prompts:

Just... just give Toby a nice night where nothing bad happens and she only bleeds a little.
Unless you crossover with the Goose. Then play Yakety Sax at full blast.
So! Toby's married now! .... Kidfic. I would LOVE some adorable fluffy kidfic. Possibly including literal fluffy kids, what do you mean the Dochas Sidhe is likely to override the Cait Sidhe, shhhhh. I know "better mom than Amandine" is an incredibly low bar but Toby and Tybalt should get to be GOOD PARENTS, feat. May as aunt and Quentin as big brother.
A Quentin's-eye view of some of the sheer nonsense Toby's been through since they met would be delightful.

DNW:

Harm to children (12 and younger), excepting canonical events
Incest, excepting canon-typical mentions and discussion
Anything above PG-13 for sexual content or violence, excepting canon-typical violence.
Unrequested shipfic. Mentioning canonical relationships is fine, background couples existing are fine, I know Toby's married now.
Setting-change AUs (e.g. all human, no magic, coffeeshop, etc)

Untitled Goose Game (Video Game)

Characters requested: Goose

No objection to non-requested characters showing up!

Causing problems!! Causing PROBLEMS. God this game is so funny. I love the goose's mild assholery that does little more than inconvenience and annoy people. Even though I do feel bad about terrorizing the boy with the glasses. (Not bad enough not to go out of my way to do it, but I'm a gremlin.)

Prompts:

I've seen Goose POV, but how about a villager's POV on the Goose? What do these poor sods think of the chaos bird in their midst, beyond putting up No Goose signs everywhere?
Is the Goose front page of the village newspaper? Well they OUGHT to be, and they will MAKE IT SO
The co-op mode is the funniest thing. Are the two geese friends, lovers, siblings, rivals?
Is this goose a normal goose? Is the goose a spirit of mischief incarnate, a feathery demon, a curse, a blessing? What is the goose and why does it love bells??
Crossover with any of my other requested fandoms would be hilarious and delightful. Cause more people problems, Goose!!!

DNW:

Incest
Anything above PG-13 for sexual content or violence.
Unrequested shipfic. Mentioning canonical relationships is fine, background couples existing are fine.
Setting-change AUs (e.g. all human, no magic, coffeeshop, etc)