Dear Yuletide Author

[lacksley]

(Complete as of 11/19/2019)

lacksley

Hello dear creator! Thanks for offering at least one of my ships! Below are a list of my general likes and Do Not Wants, but I also wanted to say a few things up here first.

I realize I ask a lot of questions in my prompts; don't feel like you have to answer them! They are thoughts I have about canon, about character interactions, that can be a guide for what I want to see in a work and how you can think about what you want to create. This isn't a test, I'm not going to be checking to see if every question has an answer! I am always okay with other characters being included that weren't specifically requested, as long as they aren't the focus of the work.

I'm okay with smut or no smut, but I usually prefer at least 50% of the work to not be smut (aka Porn With Plot). For threesomes and moresomes, I'm totally fine reading polyamory or "one night stands", aka committed relationships with 3+ people or single sexual ventures with 3+ people. Either is fine! There are interesting aspects to both that I love to read.

Please remember that optional details are optional! If you are unsure about something that you are writing, you can always contact my friend pugglemuggle, who can give you advice without spoiling anything for me! I do also have anonymous messaging turned on on tumblr, but do note that the mods discourage contacting your recipient directly, even if anonymously.


General likes (in no particular order):

• Reincarnation/past lives: I love when people are so destined for each other that they keep meeting even after they die and are reborn. Not even death can keep them apart.
• Soulmates: seeing colors (gray scale to colorful world, or not being able to see the color of their soulmates eyes until they meet), marks (names, first/last words, non-permanent markings, where they are first touched by each other), countdown timers. Bonus points for society having structure about these things: do arranged marriages still exist? Should you hide your marks from other people? Is it frowned upon if you date people other than your soulmate? Are soulmates determined by fate, or is it that the person you fall in love with becomes your soulmate?
• Mundane superpowers ("gifts"), like being able to stay warm when it's cold, or small object summoning. Little superpowers.
• In-universe crossovers: characters that have never met in canon (but are part of the same canon) randomly meeting without knowing how they are connected, but they're in line at the grocery store, or waiting for the bus, something mundane and unexpected instead of some amazing climactic meeting.
• In anime fandoms (or wherever applicable), characters still on a last name basis using the first name of a character they care about in times of crisis, like when they're sick or if they're unconscious and can't hear the other person. See this tweet: https://twitter.com/kzabrekker/status/1190735345819758592
• Identity porn
• Magical realism: improbable things that are just probable enough to happen without magic, but it really is magic. Things that wouldn't work in real life, like rituals or wishes or prayers, that work here, in fiction.
• Epistolary/multimedia: whether that be incorporating social media elements, a series of letters, text message exchanges, images what have you, I like it! I would prefer that the entire work not be all texting/messaging, (as I am exhausted by the glut of textfics/chatfics), and that there at least be some overarching narrative if there is no typical prose included.
• A "lightbulb" moment: when character A does something that's so endearing/typical/unexpected that character B just instantly falls in love with them, so quickly that it's like a lightbulb turning on. "Oh! I love them." (a fun variation is "oh no, they're hot")

Tropes that I like (in no particular order):

• emotional hurt/comfort
• secret relationships (bonus for long term)/established relationships
• character A has nightmares that only stop when they share a bed with character B
• angst with happy endings (there can be as much suffering as you want in the beginning and middle but I always want a happy, or tending towards happy ending)
• plenty of healthy communication (though miscommunication followed by communication is fine)
• size difference
• things that are realistically awkward being awkward
• mutual pining
• sharing a bed
• snowed in
• ferris wheel dates/confessions

Do Not Wants:

• character/ship bashing
• permanent break-ups (either of relationships or friendships)
• rape/non-con
• incest (including adopted relatives and step-relatives)
• snuff/necrophilia
• non-canonical major character death (unless otherwise specified)
• scat/vomit
• vore/guro/sexual gore/cannibalism
• torture (exceptions will be explicitly stated)
• daddy kink/pet play/dom-sub lifestyle dynamics/slavery (mentions of canonical slavery is okay)
• de-aging/age regression/kidfic
• pregnancy/mpreg
• texting/chatfics (I do not want to read a log of your discord/skype/RP conversation with your friend that has the usernames changed)
• intentional badfic (crack errs on this, so please don't write it if you don't know me well)

Now that that's out of the way, on to the requests! (don't worry about the additional comments being empty, that's just a place for me to put any extra thoughts if I have any after sign ups, but I usually don't). If you have matched with me on more than one request, please know that I have not listed these in order of preference. Unfortunately this year I wasn't able to get all of my request optional details into the sign up form, which is why some of them are blank, but not to worry! I have provided them here.


Request 1: Kaze ga Tsuyoku Fuiteiru/Run with the Wind

• Characters: Hirata Akihiro, Iwakura Yukihiko, Kiyose Haiji, Kurahara Kakeru
• Request: "I'm so excited to finally have a sports anime set in college, and with running no less! I used to run track as well so I relate to this show so hard (particularly with Prince and Nico-chan) and I just-- !!! I just love it. I love the team's slow, steady improvement. I love how hard Haiji works for them, so I would love to see them throwing some love back his way (you may interpret that however you wish). I love how everyone is getting better, not just physically fit, but they're changing their lives too. Nico quitting smoking, Kakeru letting people in... I ship the "adults" -- Yuki and Nico. Their dynamic is really good, Yuki saying he hates the smoke but then he misses it when it's gone... !! It's so good. I also love Haiji/Kakeru, Kakeru opening up more and expressing himself and Haiji letting people take care of him, letting people support him, because I really feel like they bring out the best in each other and I'd love to see more of that!"
   
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Request 2: Castlevania

• Characters: Lisa, Dracula, Trevor Belmont, Sypha Belnades
• Request: "Please know that I would have also requested Alucard if I could because I love Sypha/Trevor/Alucard. I usually find myself not shipping threesomes but this ship just really works for me, all of them can take the piss out of each other and be soft with each other when it's needed. It would be fun to see them fixing up the castle, or roaming around adventuring. Polyamory negotiations are also A+. (However, if you did not offer Alucard I am perfectly happy with just Trevor/Sypha.)
  
  I also love Dracula and Lisa, I honestly was smitten with them in the first minute of the show and I just want to see more! I just want them to be together and be happy ;A; I would love to see some of their life together, getting to know each other and falling in love... I also have to wonder what would have happened if he'd gotten to Lisa in time to save her? How that experience would have changed them, and what Drac's response to humanity might have been; is he still "kill all humans"?
  
  Also please know that I have not played any of the games and have only seen the first two seasons of the show."
   
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Request 3: Demon Slayer: Kimetsu no Yaiba

• Characters: Tamayo, Yushiro
• Request: For this request specifically, DNW manga spoilers.
  
  I apologize for not getting my request into my actual sign up, but here we are! I find these two really fascinating, two people outside demon society, trying to retain their humanity despite their nature. Trying to be ethical in how they survive. What happened when they first met? How does Tamayo really feel about Yushiro? He's obviously beyond devoted for her, but how deep is her attachment to him? What do you see their future being like?

Request 4: Kanata no Astra

• Characters: Ulgar Zweig, Luca Esposito, Funicia Raffaeli, Zack Walker
• Request: I am a fool and only realized that I requested the wrong sister in my signup. I meant to request Quitterie instead of Funicia, but if you did not offer Quitterie no worries! I'll stand by my blunder. I really loved Ulgar's development with Luca and Funicia. He started off in such a dark place, and changed so much by the time they got back home. I would love to see more of the in-between, the days in space that we didn't get to see. Funicia really became his first friend, and that is just so cute. I really love the relationship potential between Luca and Ulgar too, they had to put such vulnerable parts of themselves out there before they even really knew each other and I think that's a really interesting basis for a relationship.
  
  Also, and this is extra extra optional, but I would die to see some fluff between Quitterie and Zack (again, if you didn't offer her, please ignore!). He's just so earnest, and she gets so flustered. They've been engaged since they were kids!! That is so cute!!!

Request 5: Wotaku ni Koi Wa Muzukashii

• Characters: Koyanagi Hanako, Kabakura Tarou, Nifuji Hirotaka, Momose Narumi
• Request: For this request specifically, DNW manga spoilers.

I really love seeing how people who've known each other for a long time navigate intimacy. Honestly I just want more of the show but with a bit more detail (for example, does Narumi ever wear matching underwear, and does Hirotaka ever see it?)

Request 6: Given 

• Characters: Satou Mafuyu, Uenoyama Ritsuka, Kaji Akihiko, Nakayama Haruki
• Request: For this request specifically, DNW manga spoilers.

Oh these sweet stupid boys. I love them and how realistic the progression of their relationships are. The conversation Uenoyama had with Kaji about sexuality was great, and I'd love to see Kaji giving him more advice as he and Mafuyu get closer. And maybe Kaji should have a talk with Mafuyu too? He's a very good older brother type. It's really interesting to me that Haruki is pining so hard, but doesn't make any moves, just as Kaji seems completely uninterested in him in a romantic sense. Is he choosing to ignore that since he's kinda sorta in a relationship with the violin guy?