christycorr | Dear Yuletide Author (Reply)

Hello, mystery author!

I love Yuletide a lot and in this dumpster fire of a year, I’m incredibly grateful to have something that still sparks joy in the middle of all this—everything. Thank you so much for offering one of these fandoms! In case you worry about what to write or in case you already have an idea, let me say straight up: I’m a very non-picky recip and I will be happy with anything that you have fun with.

I did my best to come up with helpful ideas that (imo) aren’t overly detailed or constraining, but please feel free to go 100% Optional Details Are Optional regarding anything and everything in the prompts below. If these canons inspire you to write something in a totally different direction, I’ll be delighted to read it.

Things/tropes I love: UST, banter, angsty and/or fucked-up characters and interactions, clever characters actually being clever, open relationships, found families, awesome female characters, unusual world-building, time travel/time loops, outsider POV, sex magic, dubcon, infidelity, kidfic, domesticity, post-break-up second chances, fake relationship, enemies- or fuck-buddies-to-lovers, hatesex, denial/delay, voyeurism, pining, and soulbonds.

I love short PWPs and long plotty fics alike; go for any tense, rating and genre you prefer. I’m equally happy with gen and shippy fic. Feel free to go full-on AU if you wish, or to stick closely to canon; I’ll never mind either way. Also, regarding ships: I’m a multishipper at heart and will never be unhappy about your shipping choices, no matter what you go for.

Things I dislike: daddy kink, ‘cum,’ watersports, scat, rape as plot device to lead to h/c.

In case you happen to want to poke around my accounts, have at it:

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The Interdependency - John Scalzi

any characters

I found the worldbuilding in The Interdependency more interesting than any one specific character—so whoever and whatever fascinates you the most about that 'verse, tell me about it! I find it hilarious, in a #relatable dumpster fire sort of way, that the Interdependency was built like a galaxy-wide house of cards based on a very long con, trusting that people would be fundamentally very people about it all for the next few centuries. I liked seeing the different perspectives that each of the characters reveal to us about what the Interdependency even is to them, and what this means about who they themselves are, what they believe is or isn't possible, how they convince other humans to work towards something.

I have some prompt ideas below, but if you have other ideas, please feel free! You're very welcome to write about characters that aren't in the tag set if you like, too; I'm genuinely not attached to any of the ideas here. Most of these are post-canon but that's just because it was what was on my mind when I finished the last book—if you think of an idea for a missing scene or an AU, that would be great, too!

What kind of emperox is Kiva? Does she ever use prophecies herself to wrap up the Interdependency? What are her negotiations like, or her conversations in the Memory Room? What's a family dinner like for Kiva, Senia and her mother after she becomes emperox? What do they talk about?
What's Senia's role in the whole thing? Does she help Kiva with the migration, does she have an official title? How does it affect their relationship?
What does Marce's mission to Earth uncover about the Interdependency?
What is the Memory Room like for Cardenia after the end? How does she see the Interdependency now, what kind of feelings does she have now that she's gone? Rachela seemed to try to present herself as reasonable and dispassionate but still had a sizeable ego. What's it like for Cardenia? What are their conversations like?
In an AU where Cardenia never became emperox, what does the collapse of the Interdependency look like from the outside to Our Heroes? Or if there's nothing wrong with the Flow whatsoever, do they ever meet in some other way? If you want to do an enemies to lovers or similar Kiva/Senia fic in some other context, by all means go for it, those two are very fun :D
If you want to go for worldbuilding fic about the Interdependency itself, I'd especially love to hear more about its religion and how it was used to bring the worlds together. What are some of the rituals, objects and prophecies that they hold sacred? What was the underlying objective in emperoxs, Rachela or others, creating these back in the day?

Great Cities Series - N. K. Jemisin

Paulo | The Avatar of São Paulo

It made me a little sad, when reading The City We Became, to see New York get portrayed in a way that felt so vibrant, multifaceted and, well, alive, while São Paulo and Hong Kong barely got any depth at all. (Full disclosure: I am Brazilian and kind of love São Paulo—for all that it's an ungodly mess of a city—so my expectations for the former were way higher than N.K. Jemisin would probably expect of her average reader.)

So I'd like to hear more about cities other than New York! Any other city, honestly: I am fully aware that the parenthetical above may mean writing about São Paulo feels like too much pressure (sorry!), and I'm not remotely interested in stressing anyone out for Yuletide. It genuinely doesn't have to be about São Paulo—though if you want to go there, by all means, please do! What's Paulo like in his home town? What are his friends like, his ties to the city, his favourite places? What does he love and hate the most about it?

But if not São Paulo, then: tell me about a city you know and love—or have complicated feelings about—anywhere in the world, of whatever size. That would be brilliant! What would their avatar or avatars look and act like? How do you think they might be born? What kind of food would they be into, what kind of music, what kind of activities? What are their quirks?

It could be a random anecdote about a city; it could be two city running into each other on a train or a bus or whatever, anywhere. It could be old lovers or friends whose territories have been inching closer for centuries, or a funny or emotional moment between an avatar and a human who have barely known each other for a minute. Up to you!

魔道祖师Q | Módào Zǔshī Q (Cartoon)

Wei Ying | Wei Wuxian

I really loved the idea of Wei Wuxian writing a How to Survive in the Cloud Recesses guide. It would be great to see fic about this!

Some prompts (but by all means feel free to go in a different direction if you prefer):

What else does the book contain? What other inspired bits of creative rule-bending does it advise?
What if Cangse Sanren wrote her own version first, and Wei Wuxian finds it? Or if Lan Jingyi or Lan Sizhui find Wei Wuxian’s?
What if a grieving Lan Wangji decides to follow the book’s advice in an attempt to connect with the late Wei Wuxian?
What if older!Wei Wuxian ends up in charge of teaching Lan juniors a class on rule-bending and the spirit of the Lan rules?

(Note: this section is short not because I care less about MDZS than my other requests or anything like that, as my AO3 history for 2020 can attest—more like, if I start talking about it properly, I'll never shut up.)

Thank you so much, mystery author!