Dear Yuletide Writer (2024)

Oct. 17th, 2024 00:45
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Hello and welcome!

I hope you have a lot of fun participating this year, and the below is meant to help you with that! As usual, the only things that are hard lines are the squicks listed on the Yuletide form, but I'd prefer if you respected my other dislikes/squicks as well, even if our likes don't match and you chose not to use any of these prompts! Feel free to mix and match what you like ;)

I'm a very wordy person overall, so I mostly tried to place things as bulletpoints. I'd rather you have plenty to choose from and a good grasp on my likes/dislikes if you don't have an idea in mind already, than you wanting ideas and not finding any you like!

As a warning, the fandom-specific sections are exactly as in the form! They're here mostly for treats and archiving, so there is no need to read them again if you already went through the assignment info!

I hope you have a great time!

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( Dear Yuletide Writer, here's some general likes and dislikes! )
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( If you're going for smut )
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( Fandom: Kaleidoscope of Death )
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( Fandom: Alien Prequels )
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( Fandom: My Journey To You )
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I hope you have a fun time!
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Dear Yuletide Writer (2023)

Oct. 15th, 2023 23:15
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Hello and welcome to my long rambling letter!

I hope you have a lot of fun participating this year, and the below is meant to help you with that! As usual, the only things that are hard lines are the squicks listed on the Yuletide form, but I'd prefer if you respected my other dislikes/squicks as well, even if our likes don't match and you chose not to use any of these prompts! Feel free to mix and match what you like ;)

I tried to place things mostly under bullet points in an effort to cut down on my rambling but, uh, I'm a very wordy person overall. I'd rather you have plenty to choose from and a good grasp on my likes/dislikes if you don't have an idea in mind already, than you wanting ideas and not finding any you like, though!!

I hope you have an excellent time!

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( Dear Yuletide Writer, here's some general stuff! )
( If you're going for smut... )
( Runemarks! ) ( Lilo & Stitch! ) ( Gekkan Shoujo Nozaki-kun! )

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Thank you so much for staying with me this far! I hope you have a fantastic time this Yuletide, and that you end up loving your own requested fic as well!

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Dear Yuletide Writer (2022)

Oct. 19th, 2022 23:12
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Hi and welcome to my long rambling letter!

I hope you have a lot of fun participating this year, and the below is meant to help you with that! As usual, the only things that are hard lines are the squicks listed on the Yuletide form, but I'd prefer if you respected my other dislikes/squicks as well, even if our likes don't match and you chose not to use any of these prompts! Feel free to mix and match what you like ;)

This year I tried to place things mostly under bullet points in an effort to cut down on my rambling but, uh, I don't think I succeeded. I'd rather you have plenty to choose from and a good grasp on my likes/dislikes if you don't have an idea in mind already, than you wanting ideas and not finding any you like, though!!

I hope you have an excellent time!

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( dear yuletide writer, here's some general stuff )
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( fandom specific: Runemarks )

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( fandom specific: Prose Edda )

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( fandom specific: Recess )

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Thank you so much for staying with me this far! I hope you have a fantastic time this Yuletide, and that you end up loving your own requested fic as well!


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Dear Yuletide Writer (2021)

Oct. 23rd, 2021 12:50
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Hello, dear writer! I hope this Yuletide gives you a break from the hell year it's been, and that you have fun with your assignment!

Below the cut you'll find squicks and kinks, as well as a few prompts and character dynamics ;) Obviously you don't have to follow any of these (though I hope you'll respect my squicks!) but hopefully this letter will help you out!

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( dearest yuletide writer, here we go! )
thank you so much for staying with me this far! i hope you have a fantastic time this yuletide, and that you end up loving your own requested fic as well!
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cinq d'épées, a princess and the frog fanfiction

Jan. 1st, 2021 23:53
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SO YULETIDE REVEAL IS FINALLY HERE AND AT LAST I CAN PROMO MY CHARLOTTE/FACILIER 13K TINY BEHEMOTH OF A GIFT FIC. IT'S HERE. IT'S A THING. PLEASE ENJOY IT.

this piece was written for LunaFanWork! warning for like.... dark themes, background necromancy, the usual stuff for those who know me, and then some extra as requested. the tags are important on this one, folks. i mean it.

general thoughts on the challenge itself: it was a bit of a puzzle to put together, because like 80% of the yuletide letter were kinks that definitely were not my kinks, and for the bits i liked and/or could stomach i had to turn it this way and that to find a way to make it work. i'm actually fairly pleased with how it turned out! (even though i had to rewrite a few bits last minute because of confusing/conflicting prompts and DNWs, special shoutout to the mods for giving me an extra day!) it's definitely not the lottie i'd have written if the request did not ask specifically for it, though.

also, my mental english voice has been speaking in a southern accent since december because of this fic, so that's been fun.

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“Are you gonna try and lecture me on this, Shadowman?” She scowls. “You ain’t a saint yourself, either.”

“Not at all, dearest Charlotte,” he says smoothly, and bows low to press a dragging kiss to the back of her hand. His voice is a raspy, burning thing, intense enough to send red heat up her cheeks. If she didn’t know better, she’d think he meant it. “With a motive like that, darling? A woman after my own heart.”

“You mean you have one?” she shoots back haughtily, and snatches her hand from between his.

Facilier smirks at her, unmoved. “Widely debated, I hear.”


 
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actually, you know what? personal psoh yuletide party!

Oct. 26th, 2020 21:22
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i've already mentioned here how sad it makes me that psoh wasn't a nominated fandom for this year's yuletide. i know several fans (old and new and with myself very much included) really look forward to this time of the year to get new fics for a long-dead fandom.

that is not going to happen this year, unfortunately.

what i'm thinking is to maybe put in the effort and write several new fics for psoh myself on this time frame. it's not the same thing at ALL, and my writing is definitely not everyone's cup of tea, but gods, it's surely better than nothing. and i know not a lot of people on here are still into psoh, much less ones i've managed to friend, but if anyone has any prompts they desperately wish to see for a psoh short fic then send them my way and i'll try to see what i can do.

just a word of warning: this is NO guarantee i'll actually get any writing done. work is hell and hell is work, and muses are very fickle things, and i have my own official yuletide fic to work on once they send out assignments! i just feel terrible and Very Bad Indeed that there will probably be no new fics otherwise. just please don't ask me to write sofu i hate him
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speaking of yuletide

Oct. 22nd, 2020 16:39
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i'm so heartbroken psoh wasn't nominated this year. i never remember on time to nominate it myself or there would be a lot more obscure fandoms on the listings but psoh has been consistently listed on the tag set every year for as long as i remember and i'm sad to see it go. 

laziness speaking on top of love and nostalgia, but it's also That One Fandom i always volunteer to write for, if only because i know the characters so well that they're fairly easy to write in comparison to other fandoms :'D

that and i always get a mighty headache trying to figure out the fandoms to volunteer for while juggling all of my Very Specific parameters:
  1. what am i willing to write for this fandom/characters? anything? or is there a specific sort of thing that is likely to be asked that i would absolutely hate to do?
  2. how well do i know this world and these characters? is it one of the fandoms i was so obsessed with for so long that i'm confident in writing for those worlds (harry potter is not on yuletide but that's an extensive world i know a little too well, w.i.t.c.h. comics are another one, at least until they took a turn for the terrible, etc) or is it something i will be terribly afraid of making mistakes and will have to research literally every little thing in order not to get too anxious about it (slice of life anime full of japanese cultural references, canon in historical eras, characters in the military or other specific careers, extensive sprawling canon, etc)? do i remember the source material well enough to write for it even though it's something i used to love?
  3. how likely is it that i'll be asked for something entirely out of character that would make me scream and cry to actually write?
  4. are the prevalent tropes for that fandom something i vibe with at all?
  5. do i have any ideas to fall back on for that fandom/characters if the yuletide letter doesn't specify anything?
  6. how easy will it be for me to get inspired and write something for this?
it's a bit of a gamble every year, not gonna lie. i already changed my sign-up like three times on the past day or so because i kept changing my mind about certain fandoms and my motivation to write for them. i finally did decide to include his dark materials in one of my fandoms even though i haven't read it in a full decade, so i guess i just saddled myself with not one, not two, but three books to reread if i'm assigned to write for it: i'm not sure if i'll have the head for it, but i'm also salivating at the characters/ship i picked for HDM so.

my love for rarepairs wins once more, i guess.
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Dear Yuletide Writer (2020)

Oct. 21st, 2020 14:49
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Hi! Thanks for signing up for Yuletide despite the hell year it’s been, I hope you have fun with your assignment!

I ramble a lot so everything is below the cut. Obviously you don’t have to follow any of this (though I hope you’ll respect my squicks) but hopefully this will help you out!
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( dear yuletide writer, here's some stuff )

thank you so much for staying with me this far! i hope you have a grand time this yuletide, and that you enjoy your own requested fic as well!


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Dear Yuletide Writer (2019)

Nov. 1st, 2019 12:55
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hello and thank you for signing up for yuletide, i hope you have fun during the challenge!

i ramble a lot so my letter is under a readmore (i put everything in one post so you don’t have to juggle links around). obviously you don’t have to follow any of the things i put in here, but hopefully this will help you out!

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( dearest writer, here's some stuff )

thank you for reading all my rambling, and i hope you have fun!


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Dear Yuletide Writer (2018 Archive)

Oct. 20th, 2018 23:10
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I just noticed I didn't cross-post my first Yuletide letter here, so... for archival purposes *drumrolls*

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