Yuletide Writer Letter
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graygriffinDear Writer,
Hi, and thanks so much for writing for one of these little fandoms I like! This is my first Yuletide, so I hope I can give you enough to work with.
In general
Likes: I really like worldbuilding! I also love stories that feel like another episode or chapter of canon, although exploring the unseen side/further future is also always fun. Format-wise, I do enjoy epistolary stories a lot, especially fake research papers or similar "official documentation." I love crossovers, so feel free to throw some in if you'd like!
DNWs:
Above canon-typical levels of violence/gore
Porn/smut-focused stories
Explicit underage (below-18) sex
Noncanon minor/adult relationships (canon relationships can be brought up, but not focused on) (18-year-olds with 16/17-year-olds are generally fine for me)
Noncanonical noncon (canon events can be referred to, but not focused on)
Incest, including adoptive incest and surprise reveal incest
Pure poetry works
Kamisama no Iutoori
I'm really annoyed that it took me some time to realize there was an actual tag on AO3 for this manga. Despite everything about it, I still love a lot of the characters. I'm actually most interested in worldbuilding and alternate timelines here-I really want to see your ideas of what unseen games might have been played, or what might have happened if different characters ended up advancing during the Rock-Paper-Scissors game.
I also love a lot of the more minor characters, such as Fukumitsu, Susie, Fathma and Mert, and even super-minor characters such as the grocer's kid or the son of the glasses salesmen. I'd love to see you give them more depth! While I do prefer Ushimitsu and Akashi as a protag duo and have selected them in my request, I don't require you to write them if you'd rather do a minor-character focused story!
Crossover-wise, I'd be interested in seeing different casts go through the death games, or an exploration of the Kamisama cast meeting characters from other death games.
Series-specific DNWs:
Relationship-focused stories (by this I mean the story's primary genre shouldn't be romance, though I don't have anything against any particular ships)
Any interpretation of Tenma Yuu as a cis crossdressing male (you don't have to use or mention her at all if you'd prefer, and villainous/asshole characters can misgender her in-story but should be treated as obviously in the wrong)
Setting change AUs (basically anything that puts the characters in a world where the death game doesn't exist)
Hamster Princess
Ursula Vernon's books are always fun to read, and this is no exception! I'd love to see you tackle how Harriet handles something like Beauty and the Beast or Little Red Riding Hood. Heck, I'd even love to see how you could make a story like Bluebeard canon-appropriate!
I'm also somewhat interested in the idea of futurefic. I'm a big queer dork, so I'd love for an older Harriet to get paired up with a female character! Or for a longer timeskip, Harriet passing on exaggerated stories of her exploits to her children.
Crossover-wise, I'd be most interested in crossovers with some of Ursula Vernon's other work, such as Digger, Castle Hangnail, or Danny Dragonbreath! I'd also be interested in crossovers with T. Kingfisher's fairy tale adaptations.
Series-specific DNWs:
Major character death
Anything above PG-13
Harriet being paired with a male character
Unhappy/bittersweet endings
Humanized AUs
The Fairyland Series - Catherynne M. Valente
I fell in love with this series from the very first book as a young teen, and I'm so glad that I finally got to finish the main series. This is a series I'd really love worldbuilding for, exploring all the little nooks and crannies of Fairyland our Narrator didn't have time to bring us to. Of course, some plain post-canon fic about September's family adjusting to Fairyland would also be very fun. Or even some prequel fic about how September's aunt got to Fairyland and what she did there.
Crossover-wise, I feel you could throw someone from almost any canon into here and it would be interesting.
Series-specific DNWs:
Permanent character death
Spoilers for the Mallow prequel book
Unhappy endings
Nonmagical AUs
Craobh-Òir agus Craobh-Airgid | Gold Tree and Silver Tree
A canonically polyamorous fairytale! I've read this so many times that if the webpage was a book it'd be worn out from all the flipping through. I don't have any particular preferences for this, honestly, I'm sure whatever you write will be lovely!
Crossover-wise, I'd be so chuffed if you wrote an AU of your own favorite polyam ship in this fairytale. Don't worry about me not getting it, I've read lots of fairytale AUs for fandoms I don't know and loved them anyways.
Series-specific DNWs:
Noncanonical character death (fairytale-type one-liner "and they lived happily until they died" endings are fine)
Unhappy endings
V-shaped polyamory (the relationship starting out at that stage and slowly developing into a triangle is fine)
No polyamory
The Best Worst Ever Series
Ah, this series. The Herdmans are such delightfully horrid kids but they make really good points sometimes. I've read the first book in this series in multiple languages by now and love it every time. One of these days I need to properly watch the movie.
For this, I'm most interested in content related to the first book, but if you'd prefer to do something more lighthearted with the second book that's fine too. While Imogene is a requested character for me, I don't mind if she's not the main focus of the story. I'd honestly be really interested in seeing the reactions of different characters other than the narrator to the Christmas pageant in the first book. I'd also be pretty interested in a futurefic where we get to see where the older Herdmans have ended up.
Crossover-wise, I'd honestly find it very very funny if you threw in some super-wholesome characters from other children's series and had them bounce off the Herdmans.
Series-specific DNWs:
Major character death
Any explicit sexual content (kids talking about sex as a concept is fine)
Unhappy endings
Spoilers for The Best Halloween Ever
Once again, thanks for writing for me! I'm sure that whatever you write will be excellent!
Thanks,
Gray
Hi, and thanks so much for writing for one of these little fandoms I like! This is my first Yuletide, so I hope I can give you enough to work with.
In general
Likes: I really like worldbuilding! I also love stories that feel like another episode or chapter of canon, although exploring the unseen side/further future is also always fun. Format-wise, I do enjoy epistolary stories a lot, especially fake research papers or similar "official documentation." I love crossovers, so feel free to throw some in if you'd like!
DNWs:
Above canon-typical levels of violence/gore
Porn/smut-focused stories
Explicit underage (below-18) sex
Noncanon minor/adult relationships (canon relationships can be brought up, but not focused on) (18-year-olds with 16/17-year-olds are generally fine for me)
Noncanonical noncon (canon events can be referred to, but not focused on)
Incest, including adoptive incest and surprise reveal incest
Pure poetry works
Kamisama no Iutoori
I'm really annoyed that it took me some time to realize there was an actual tag on AO3 for this manga. Despite everything about it, I still love a lot of the characters. I'm actually most interested in worldbuilding and alternate timelines here-I really want to see your ideas of what unseen games might have been played, or what might have happened if different characters ended up advancing during the Rock-Paper-Scissors game.
I also love a lot of the more minor characters, such as Fukumitsu, Susie, Fathma and Mert, and even super-minor characters such as the grocer's kid or the son of the glasses salesmen. I'd love to see you give them more depth! While I do prefer Ushimitsu and Akashi as a protag duo and have selected them in my request, I don't require you to write them if you'd rather do a minor-character focused story!
Crossover-wise, I'd be interested in seeing different casts go through the death games, or an exploration of the Kamisama cast meeting characters from other death games.
Series-specific DNWs:
Relationship-focused stories (by this I mean the story's primary genre shouldn't be romance, though I don't have anything against any particular ships)
Any interpretation of Tenma Yuu as a cis crossdressing male (you don't have to use or mention her at all if you'd prefer, and villainous/asshole characters can misgender her in-story but should be treated as obviously in the wrong)
Setting change AUs (basically anything that puts the characters in a world where the death game doesn't exist)
Hamster Princess
Ursula Vernon's books are always fun to read, and this is no exception! I'd love to see you tackle how Harriet handles something like Beauty and the Beast or Little Red Riding Hood. Heck, I'd even love to see how you could make a story like Bluebeard canon-appropriate!
I'm also somewhat interested in the idea of futurefic. I'm a big queer dork, so I'd love for an older Harriet to get paired up with a female character! Or for a longer timeskip, Harriet passing on exaggerated stories of her exploits to her children.
Crossover-wise, I'd be most interested in crossovers with some of Ursula Vernon's other work, such as Digger, Castle Hangnail, or Danny Dragonbreath! I'd also be interested in crossovers with T. Kingfisher's fairy tale adaptations.
Series-specific DNWs:
Major character death
Anything above PG-13
Harriet being paired with a male character
Unhappy/bittersweet endings
Humanized AUs
The Fairyland Series - Catherynne M. Valente
I fell in love with this series from the very first book as a young teen, and I'm so glad that I finally got to finish the main series. This is a series I'd really love worldbuilding for, exploring all the little nooks and crannies of Fairyland our Narrator didn't have time to bring us to. Of course, some plain post-canon fic about September's family adjusting to Fairyland would also be very fun. Or even some prequel fic about how September's aunt got to Fairyland and what she did there.
Crossover-wise, I feel you could throw someone from almost any canon into here and it would be interesting.
Series-specific DNWs:
Permanent character death
Spoilers for the Mallow prequel book
Unhappy endings
Nonmagical AUs
Craobh-Òir agus Craobh-Airgid | Gold Tree and Silver Tree
A canonically polyamorous fairytale! I've read this so many times that if the webpage was a book it'd be worn out from all the flipping through. I don't have any particular preferences for this, honestly, I'm sure whatever you write will be lovely!
Crossover-wise, I'd be so chuffed if you wrote an AU of your own favorite polyam ship in this fairytale. Don't worry about me not getting it, I've read lots of fairytale AUs for fandoms I don't know and loved them anyways.
Series-specific DNWs:
Noncanonical character death (fairytale-type one-liner "and they lived happily until they died" endings are fine)
Unhappy endings
V-shaped polyamory (the relationship starting out at that stage and slowly developing into a triangle is fine)
No polyamory
The Best Worst Ever Series
Ah, this series. The Herdmans are such delightfully horrid kids but they make really good points sometimes. I've read the first book in this series in multiple languages by now and love it every time. One of these days I need to properly watch the movie.
For this, I'm most interested in content related to the first book, but if you'd prefer to do something more lighthearted with the second book that's fine too. While Imogene is a requested character for me, I don't mind if she's not the main focus of the story. I'd honestly be really interested in seeing the reactions of different characters other than the narrator to the Christmas pageant in the first book. I'd also be pretty interested in a futurefic where we get to see where the older Herdmans have ended up.
Crossover-wise, I'd honestly find it very very funny if you threw in some super-wholesome characters from other children's series and had them bounce off the Herdmans.
Series-specific DNWs:
Major character death
Any explicit sexual content (kids talking about sex as a concept is fine)
Unhappy endings
Spoilers for The Best Halloween Ever
Once again, thanks for writing for me! I'm sure that whatever you write will be excellent!
Thanks,
Gray
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Date: 2021-10-17 02:28 am (UTC)Was it you who nominated Gold Tree and Silver Tree? That's so cool! I read the story for the first time as a result of this year's Yuletide. It's such a rare kind of fairy tale, the ending is great.
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Date: 2021-10-19 06:43 am (UTC)