Dear Yuletide Author

[lacksley]

(Complete as of 10/23/2022)

lacksley

Hello dear author! Thanks for offering one or more of my fandoms. Below are lists of my general likes and Do Not Wants, but I also wanted to note a couple things.

I ask a lot of questions in my prompts, but this is not a school essay; you don’t have to answer them! The questions I pose are just thoughts I have about canon or character interactions, a guide for what I might want to see in a work or how you can think about what you want to create.

I am always okay with non-requested characters making appearances as long as they don’t become the focus of the work.

Smut is welcome, as long as it’s consensual. I usually like a bit of build up before getting into the action (e.g. clothes are on in the opening paragraphs). Polyamory/threesomes/moresomes are also welcome! You are welcome to look at the bookmarks in my AO3 profile to get a better idea of what I like.

Please remember that optional details are optional! It’s always a joy to be given a gift of any kind. If there’s something you’re unsure about, you can always contact my friend pugglemuggle (aka rythyme), who can give you advice without spoiling anything for me.

General likes (in no particular order):

• Reincarnation/past lives: I love when people are so destined for each other that they keep meeting in every lifetime
• Soulmates: marks (like names, first/last words, where they’re first touched by each other), seeing colors (gray scale to full color, seeing every color except their soulmates eyes until they meet), or any other fun concept
• In-universe crossovers: characters that have never met in canon randomly meeting without knowing how they’re connected (like waiting next to each other in line somewhere, or sitting next to each other on the bus)
• Character A calling character B by their first name in a stressful/intimate moment when normally A would use B’s last name or title
• Epistolary/multimedia
• Character A doing something that makes character B’s heart swell and think “oh my god I love them”
• Secret relationships and/or established relationships
• Character A has trouble sleeping and can only get a good night’s sleep when they share a bed with character B
• Snowed in/sharing a bed
• Ferris wheel dates/confessions

Do Not Wants (also in no particular order):

• Unhappy/tragic/hopeless endings
• Permanent break-ups (of relationships or friendships)
• Rape/non-con
• Incest (including adopted relatives and step-relatives)
• Daddy kink, pet play, dom-sub lifestyle dynamics, slavery
• De-aging/age regression
• Kidfic, meaning characters having children or becoming children (Canonical child characters are okay)
• Non-canonical major character death (characters who are dead/die in canon are okay, as are random background characters/OC)
• Pet death
• Extreme graphic violence
• Pregnancy/mpreg
• Texting/chatfics (occasional short text conversations are fine but I do not want the entire body of work to be just texting)
• First person POV

On to the requests! These are not listed in order of preference. Also, the “additional comments” are just there in case I think of anything to add once sign-ups are closed.


Request 1: Wotakoi

• Characters: Momose Narumi, Nifuji Hirotaka, Koyanagi Hanako, Kabakura Tarou
• Request: 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?) I would love to see more soft intimate moments with Koyanagi and Kabakura too. Feel free to pick either couple, or do both!

  I am anime-only for this fandom but I don't mind manga spoilers. I probably won't recognize any references to events that happen in the manga.

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Request 2: Kanata no Astra | Astra Lost in Space

• Characters: Ulgar Zweig, Luca Esposito, Aries Spring, Kanata Hoshijima
• Request: I really love the relationship potential between Luca and Ulgar, 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.

I think Kanata and Aries are so sweet, and I'd love to see the progression of their relationship post-series. What other kinds of trouble do they get into together?

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Request 3: Severance

• Characters: Irving B, Burt G, Ms Casey, Helly R
• Request: What a show. What a cliffhanger!! A buddy of mine recommended this to me and I watched it a few months later and was left speechless. There's so much going on I don't even know where to start. The painting that Irving keeps making over and over, did he see that as his innie or his outie? Why does Ms. Casey get "stored" down there? How do you navigate life if you've only been awake for 107 hours? How do you even know anything?  Helly is so interesting too, finding out that your outie (arguably, the you that is more "you" than you) is the opposite of everything you stand for. I wonder what a conversation between them would be like.

Burt and Irving are very sweet (I keep thinking Bert and Ernie) and I was hoping at the beginning of the show that their outies were married to each other :( What happens when Burt opens the door? Did they know each other outside of work? Would love to see something a little bittersweet or heart-aching with these two.

Please feel free to include the rest of the cast! I would prefer any Helly/Mark to not go beyond the kiss (that kind of love triangle isn't interesting to me.)

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