Dear Yuletide Writer
Oct. 19th, 2021 08:05 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
selenayDear Yuletide writer,
Thank you for writing for me! I'm so excited to read your fic. I've put together a few basic things that I always love in any fic, with more detailed fandom thoughts below. My DNWs are pretty strong, so please try to avoid them.
If you've got an idea that isn't in any of my prompts and fits the things I love, go for it!
Loves:
- Competency porn
- Cheesy tropes!
- AUs
- Intense, passionate, world-shattering kissing
- Flirting, banter, humour
- Relationships with a strong base of friendship at the core
- Happy endings
Do not wants:
- Deathfic, suicide, and sad endings
- Rape and dubcon
- Graphic violence, blood play, cannibalism, animal abuse etc.
- Incest, underage (under 18), ageplay, raceplay, bestiality
- Watersports, scat, feeding/inflation and related kinks
- Humiliation, adultery/cheating
- Character bashing
民国奇探 | My Roommate is a Detective
(Bai Youning, Lu Yao, Qiao Chusheng)
I watched the last episode of this and my immediate reaction was "but where's the rest? Where is the scene where they turn the boat around to reunite and solve the new mystery that landed in Chusheng's lap? Or the scene where he dashes off to follow Bai Younging and Lu Yao and help them with the mysteries they inevitably find?"
My second reaction was to check the Yuletide tagset and breathe a sigh of relief that it's a Yuletide fandom :D
I was shipping these three as an OT3 from very early in the show, but if that's not your thing, I also just adore the friendship between them. Some of my favourite scenes are where they're sitting in Lu Yao's kitchen eating breakfast or dinner, throwing ideas around and teasing each other mercilessly. It's the core of what I loved about this show, so what I want more than anything else for this fandom is the "what happened next" wish fulfilment with a lot of domestic scenes between these three.
成化十四年 | The Sleuth of the Ming Dynasty
(Sui Zhou, Tang Fan)
My thing this year appears to be "I want to know what happened next", because that's also my wish for Sleuth. I shipped Sui Zhou and Tang Fan so hard. When Sui Zhou worried that if he died, nobody would cook for Tang Fan (and vice versa), I knew it was love. Food is a metaphor for love in so many ways in Sleuth. I had to watch this with snacks at hand to avoid getting hungry!
At the end of the last episode, Tang Fan got a message about a new mystery with possible zombies (I'm sure there will be a perfectly reasonable yet weird explanation for them), and I'd love to read the adventure where Sui Zhou and Tang Fan investigate and solve the mystery. Preferably with at least one cooking-for-Tang-Fan scene, because I love that for Sui Zhou.
Alternatively, if AUs are your thing, I've wondered what would happen in a modern AU if (just to take a random example I haven't thought about an unhealthy amount) Tang Fan was a writer taking refuge in a coffee shop/bakery for the free wifi and Sui Zhou was the baker/cook who can't resist feeding him and possibly falling for him. It's just a thought :D
HIStory3 - 圈套 | HIStory3: Trapped
(Meng Shaofei, Tang Yi)
I did not predict I'd fall for a cop and his gang leader boyfriend, but here we are in 2021 and this happened to me. I know there are stories out there about what happens after Tang Yi is released from prison, but there can't be too many of them, IMO.
It fascinated me that there was never a time for Meng Shaofei and Tang Yi where they could really plan for a future together or find a stable life together, but they decided that it was something they wanted anyway. There was everything we saw on screen, then the trial, then knowing Tang Yi would go to prison...their time together was always short and overshadowed by knowing difficult things were coming at them.
I'd love to read about them both adjusting to life after Tang Yi is released. How has Tang Yi changed, and what will he do next? How does Meng Shaofei adjust to having his boyfriend with him full-time without a time limit on their time together? How do they make their relationship work in the context of Shaofei's career and Tang Yi's past? I'd love to see them working through it and learning how to just be together, building a future together. If you can also work in some Tang Yi cooking scenes, that would be the icing on the cake.
Thank you for writing for me! I'm so excited to read your fic. I've put together a few basic things that I always love in any fic, with more detailed fandom thoughts below. My DNWs are pretty strong, so please try to avoid them.
If you've got an idea that isn't in any of my prompts and fits the things I love, go for it!
Loves:
- Competency porn
- Cheesy tropes!
- AUs
- Intense, passionate, world-shattering kissing
- Flirting, banter, humour
- Relationships with a strong base of friendship at the core
- Happy endings
Do not wants:
- Deathfic, suicide, and sad endings
- Rape and dubcon
- Graphic violence, blood play, cannibalism, animal abuse etc.
- Incest, underage (under 18), ageplay, raceplay, bestiality
- Watersports, scat, feeding/inflation and related kinks
- Humiliation, adultery/cheating
- Character bashing
民国奇探 | My Roommate is a Detective
(Bai Youning, Lu Yao, Qiao Chusheng)
I watched the last episode of this and my immediate reaction was "but where's the rest? Where is the scene where they turn the boat around to reunite and solve the new mystery that landed in Chusheng's lap? Or the scene where he dashes off to follow Bai Younging and Lu Yao and help them with the mysteries they inevitably find?"
My second reaction was to check the Yuletide tagset and breathe a sigh of relief that it's a Yuletide fandom :D
I was shipping these three as an OT3 from very early in the show, but if that's not your thing, I also just adore the friendship between them. Some of my favourite scenes are where they're sitting in Lu Yao's kitchen eating breakfast or dinner, throwing ideas around and teasing each other mercilessly. It's the core of what I loved about this show, so what I want more than anything else for this fandom is the "what happened next" wish fulfilment with a lot of domestic scenes between these three.
成化十四年 | The Sleuth of the Ming Dynasty
(Sui Zhou, Tang Fan)
My thing this year appears to be "I want to know what happened next", because that's also my wish for Sleuth. I shipped Sui Zhou and Tang Fan so hard. When Sui Zhou worried that if he died, nobody would cook for Tang Fan (and vice versa), I knew it was love. Food is a metaphor for love in so many ways in Sleuth. I had to watch this with snacks at hand to avoid getting hungry!
At the end of the last episode, Tang Fan got a message about a new mystery with possible zombies (I'm sure there will be a perfectly reasonable yet weird explanation for them), and I'd love to read the adventure where Sui Zhou and Tang Fan investigate and solve the mystery. Preferably with at least one cooking-for-Tang-Fan scene, because I love that for Sui Zhou.
Alternatively, if AUs are your thing, I've wondered what would happen in a modern AU if (just to take a random example I haven't thought about an unhealthy amount) Tang Fan was a writer taking refuge in a coffee shop/bakery for the free wifi and Sui Zhou was the baker/cook who can't resist feeding him and possibly falling for him. It's just a thought :D
HIStory3 - 圈套 | HIStory3: Trapped
(Meng Shaofei, Tang Yi)
I did not predict I'd fall for a cop and his gang leader boyfriend, but here we are in 2021 and this happened to me. I know there are stories out there about what happens after Tang Yi is released from prison, but there can't be too many of them, IMO.
It fascinated me that there was never a time for Meng Shaofei and Tang Yi where they could really plan for a future together or find a stable life together, but they decided that it was something they wanted anyway. There was everything we saw on screen, then the trial, then knowing Tang Yi would go to prison...their time together was always short and overshadowed by knowing difficult things were coming at them.
I'd love to read about them both adjusting to life after Tang Yi is released. How has Tang Yi changed, and what will he do next? How does Meng Shaofei adjust to having his boyfriend with him full-time without a time limit on their time together? How do they make their relationship work in the context of Shaofei's career and Tang Yi's past? I'd love to see them working through it and learning how to just be together, building a future together. If you can also work in some Tang Yi cooking scenes, that would be the icing on the cake.
