Dear Yuletide Writer 2025
Oct. 15th, 2025 08:41 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
evewithanappleThank you for writing for me!
I am, for the record, 110% down for Yuleporn. I'm also down for G-rated fluff, if that's what gets your writing engine going! Also note that, in any of the m/f or m/m pairings, I would be VERY into rule 63 making them f/f.
More general likes and DNWs (these are just suggestions - again, don't feel pressured to include all of them!):
LIKES:
-loyalty kink
-hurt/comfort
-established relationships
-family fic - I'm not sure what the precise term for this would be? Not kidfic, exactly, but stories where the characters have formed a family unit, which may or may not include having/raising kids. So yeah, I guess kidfic.
-cuddling
-history! If you're a nerd for any of the periods these canons take place in, please go nuts with the background detail. Tell me all about what political pamphlets are getting passed around Montmartre, or the makeup techniques Kiya, Nefertiti, and Akhenaten are using. I want it all.
DNWs:
-animal death/abuse
-incest
-character death
-A/B/O
-modern AUs (if canon is fantasy/historical)
-noncon/dubcon
Waking the Moon - Elizabeth Hand
Sweeney Cassidy, Dylan Furiano, Oliver Crawford
Waking the Moon is an extremely formative book for me. I go back and read it every summer. The collision of the modern and the mythic, the secret societies, the longing to return to a time when things were simpler paired with the knowledge that you can't - it just gets better and more bittersweet for me the older I get. For this canon, I would love anything about Sweeney and Dylan's lives after the end of the book - what happens when you live past the end of your myth, or past the end of a myth you were never meant to be part of? I would also adore any kind of character study of Oliver, whether intersecting with Sweeney and Dylan or just on her own - she is such a fascinating character, and due to the structure of the book, we don't get a ton of insight into her self-image and thought process, so that would be a lot of fun.
I am, for the record, 110% down for Yuleporn. I'm also down for G-rated fluff, if that's what gets your writing engine going! Also note that, in any of the m/f or m/m pairings, I would be VERY into rule 63 making them f/f.
More general likes and DNWs (these are just suggestions - again, don't feel pressured to include all of them!):
LIKES:
-loyalty kink
-hurt/comfort
-established relationships
-family fic - I'm not sure what the precise term for this would be? Not kidfic, exactly, but stories where the characters have formed a family unit, which may or may not include having/raising kids. So yeah, I guess kidfic.
-cuddling
-history! If you're a nerd for any of the periods these canons take place in, please go nuts with the background detail. Tell me all about what political pamphlets are getting passed around Montmartre, or the makeup techniques Kiya, Nefertiti, and Akhenaten are using. I want it all.
DNWs:
-animal death/abuse
-incest
-character death
-A/B/O
-modern AUs (if canon is fantasy/historical)
-noncon/dubcon
Waking the Moon - Elizabeth Hand
Sweeney Cassidy, Dylan Furiano, Oliver Crawford
Waking the Moon is an extremely formative book for me. I go back and read it every summer. The collision of the modern and the mythic, the secret societies, the longing to return to a time when things were simpler paired with the knowledge that you can't - it just gets better and more bittersweet for me the older I get. For this canon, I would love anything about Sweeney and Dylan's lives after the end of the book - what happens when you live past the end of your myth, or past the end of a myth you were never meant to be part of? I would also adore any kind of character study of Oliver, whether intersecting with Sweeney and Dylan or just on her own - she is such a fascinating character, and due to the structure of the book, we don't get a ton of insight into her self-image and thought process, so that would be a lot of fun.
Shakespeare RPF | Elizabethan & Jacobean Theater RPF
William Shakespeare (Shakespeare RPF), Christopher Marlowe (Shakespeare RPF)
[under construction]
This book was an absolutely delightful surprise to me, and one of my favourites of 2023. I've always been fascinated by turn-of-the-century American labour history (I wrote a term paper on it in undergrad) so of course the setting had me glued to the book. And as a friends-to-lovers connoisseur, I was giggling and kicking my feet over Little Ash and Uriel all the way through. I always love relationship dynamics where the characters change each other - where they start in one place, and then their feelings for their partner steer them towards becoming a better person. And that's obviously the arc for these two, in both directions. I also loved how much of their partnership was built on scholarship, because I am a nerd at heart and I find nerdy arguments over the finer points of history/religion extremely romantic. Of course, that's not the only romance they've got going on - they deserve their chance to go dancing! Truly anything infused with the spirit of the book would make me happy, because "queer angel/demons interact with turn-of-the-century socialists" is already such a perfect pitch, I just want to curl up in the middle of it and stay there.
Moulin Rouge! (2001)
Satine (Moulin Rouge!), Christian (Moulin Rouge!)
First note: I nominated/requested the movie, but please feel entirely free to bring in as much or as little of the stage version as suits you.
Secondly: I would love love love any kind of queer reading of this story - the movie is, obviously straight, but beyond the general queer/camp sensibility of the whole thing, the Moulin Rouge itself also has a fascinating queer history that I wish more people delved into. So should you feel the urge to write either a cis swap or Christian as a trans woman, please give into it. It would delight me forever.
If not: I am also 110% into that, especially explorations of the Bohemian subculture the characters are living in, the Belle Epoque more generally (there were anarchists everywhere!) and sort of how this is reflected in the experiences the characters are living in and how their relationship is also a reflection of the place and time (breaking with tradition, the emphasis on "freedom, beauty, truth, and love," etc) and just generally more in the world of this movie. I love it so much!
William Shakespeare (Shakespeare RPF), Christopher Marlowe (Shakespeare RPF)
[under construction]
When the Angels Left the Old Country - Sacha Lamb
Uriel (When the Angels Left the Old Country), Little Ash (When the Angels Left the Old CountryThis book was an absolutely delightful surprise to me, and one of my favourites of 2023. I've always been fascinated by turn-of-the-century American labour history (I wrote a term paper on it in undergrad) so of course the setting had me glued to the book. And as a friends-to-lovers connoisseur, I was giggling and kicking my feet over Little Ash and Uriel all the way through. I always love relationship dynamics where the characters change each other - where they start in one place, and then their feelings for their partner steer them towards becoming a better person. And that's obviously the arc for these two, in both directions. I also loved how much of their partnership was built on scholarship, because I am a nerd at heart and I find nerdy arguments over the finer points of history/religion extremely romantic. Of course, that's not the only romance they've got going on - they deserve their chance to go dancing! Truly anything infused with the spirit of the book would make me happy, because "queer angel/demons interact with turn-of-the-century socialists" is already such a perfect pitch, I just want to curl up in the middle of it and stay there.
Moulin Rouge! (2001)
Satine (Moulin Rouge!), Christian (Moulin Rouge!)
First note: I nominated/requested the movie, but please feel entirely free to bring in as much or as little of the stage version as suits you.
Secondly: I would love love love any kind of queer reading of this story - the movie is, obviously straight, but beyond the general queer/camp sensibility of the whole thing, the Moulin Rouge itself also has a fascinating queer history that I wish more people delved into. So should you feel the urge to write either a cis swap or Christian as a trans woman, please give into it. It would delight me forever.
If not: I am also 110% into that, especially explorations of the Bohemian subculture the characters are living in, the Belle Epoque more generally (there were anarchists everywhere!) and sort of how this is reflected in the experiences the characters are living in and how their relationship is also a reflection of the place and time (breaking with tradition, the emphasis on "freedom, beauty, truth, and love," etc) and just generally more in the world of this movie. I love it so much!
