Yuletide 2022 Letter

[desertscribe]

Dear Yuletide Writer,

This letter is currently a work in progress. I aim to have it finished by October 28.

I'm so glad that we share a small fandom, and I can't wait to see what you decide to write! All of the prompts in this letter are just suggestions intended to hopefully provide some inspiration if you want it. They are entirely optional. Honestly, I love getting stories that I never would have thought of on my own, so you are totally welcome to ignore all my prompts in favor of something else if you have some other idea that you're excited to write about these fandoms/characters.

AO3 Name: DesertScribe

Do Not Wants: incest (mentions of Jack/Diane for Blood Drive are fine, but I don't want it to be a major focus of the work), rape/non-con/sexual violence/sexual assault, scat/watersports/ABDL/bodily waste, characters under 18 years of age in sexual situations, omegaverse, unrequested modern/mundane AUs, spanking, cancer, Covid-19, infantilism/age play/mental age regression


Some of My Likes:

-happy endings
- bittersweet endings
- unavoidably tragic endings
- stories that give a good view of a character's thought process
- women who aren't afraid to ask for what they want in bed
- lovers who have fulfilling sex lives without sex being the sole basis for their relationship
- foreplay
- sex which occurs as a natural progression of the plot
- fading to black if the sex would disrupt the flow of the rest of the story
- cuddling (either between lovers or platonically between close friends or between a human and a friendly animal)
- found families
- quiet domestic scenes
- wild action scenes
- humor
- horror
- scheming villains
- scheming heroes
- creative problem solving
- partnerships of equals (or at least something close)
- characters being at least as competent as they were in canon
- character growth
- people learning from their mistakes (and then sometimes going on to make completely different mistakes)
- people playing to their strengths and acknowledging their weaknesses (at least to themselves, unless that level of self-awareness would be OOC)
- people attempting to communicate with each other even if they don't always succeed
- verbal sparring/banter
- earned respect, with or without earned friendship
- rivals-to-friends story arcs
- a sense of place
- situations where what a person doesn't say is just as important as what they do say
- backstory
- missing scenes from canon
- post-canon adventures
- casefic
- slice of life stories
- time travel (physical or Peggy Sue-style) and its repercussions
- monsters that aren't as bad as they seem
- monsters that are even worse than they seem
- genre-savvy characters
- genre-bending weirdness
- occasional moral ambiguity
- subverted tropes or clichés
- tropes or clichés played straight but lampshaded
- cracktastic premises played straight
- fictional characters interacting with historical figures
- characters dealing with the consequences of having been in situations which brought out aspects of their personalities, either positive or negative, which they had not previously realized they had
- storytelling and/or stories as either a theme or a plot point
- characters comparing scars, either literally or metaphorically
- vacations gone awry
- accidental animal acquisition
- enemies forced to join forces with each other against a common foe
- road trips
- fake relationships that don't become real relationships
- canon-divergent AUs
- worldbuilding


My Requests:
Jackalope Wives series - Ursula Vernon
Vide Noir - Lord Huron (Album)
Blood Drive (TV)
Dark Matter (TV)
Jekyll and Hyde (TV)
Z Nation (TV)

Jackalope Wives series - Ursula Vernon

Characters:
Grandma Harken

I'm interested in anything starring Grandma Harken, whether it's delving into her backstory, or more magical adventures like what we got in canon, or magical non-adventures where she is just encountering magic beings or phenomena without conflict during day to day life, or mundane interactions (good or bad) with her neighbors in town, or life with the Cholla-bone Girl, or anything about her friendship with Anna, or anything about her relationship with any of her family members (husbands, descendants, in-laws, or jackalope relatives), or cuteness with Spook-cat, or any combination of those things.

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Vide Noir - Lord Huron (Album)

Characters:
Worldbuilding
The Narrator
The Fortune Teller
The Emerald Star

[request text]

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Blood Drive (TV)

Characters:
Julian Slink
Arthur Bailey
Grace d'Argento
Aki 8.5X11

[request text]

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Dark Matter (TV)

Characters:
Alternate Portia Lin
Alternate Marcus Boone
Two
Three

I love how adamant Two and Three are about not being Portia and Boone and all the identity issues (and general similarities and differences between their universes' timelines) that can be played with in terms of comparing and contrasting Two and Three versus Alternate Portia and Alternate Boone. I would love to see any kind of missing episode from season 2 or 3 or post-canon adventure with the Two and Three working against or grudgingly teaming up with Alternate Portia and Alternate Boone, whether it's "saving the universe" type action or small time crime or anything in between. I enjoy reading about any/all of the Raza crew and other recurring characters from the show, so include whoever you want as supporting characters in the story. I'm equally fine with gen or romance. If you do decide to go with shipfic, then I'll happily read any romantic combination(s) of characters that isn't One/Two, One/Three, or Five/anyone.

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Jekyll and Hyde (TV)

Characters:
Isabella "Bella" Charming
Robert Jekyll
Ravi Najaran
Olalla Hyde

For this one, I'm most interested in post-canon fic. This can take the form of something that takes place immediately post-canon to explain a fix-it for that whole "oops, looks like everyone in the cast is dead now" ending of the final episode, or if you want you can set a story when more time has passed and just handwave everyone's survival as a fact which needs no explanation while sending them off on some other adventure, maybe something to do with whatever was going on in Bella's past that had her and her father being known quantities to both Captain Dance and MI-O, or maybe something with trying to find Louis Hyde and what the repercussions of succeeding at that might be (revelations about what had been going on back in the Victorian era? or a simple deluge of family feels?) or failing to find him and encountering something else which sends the plot off in an entirely different direction instead. Feel free to include whatever other characters you want in supporting roles. Gen fic is great. If you want to include romance, I ship Robert(|Hyde)/Bella, Robert/Max (if you felt like doing a fix-it for Max's death), Hils/Lily, Hils/Bella, Bella/Lily, Mr. Sackler/Mr. Wax, and Captain Dance/Fedora.

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Z Nation (TV)

Characters:
Roberta Warren

I would love to read pretty much anything at all about Roberta Warren, whether it's pre-canon during the earlier part of the zompocalypse, a missing adventure from the various times Operation Bitemark was criss-crossing the country (Serious? Ridiculous? A little bit of both? It's all good), or something post-canon as she learns to understand her own personal new normal and the new normal for the wider world as humans and talkers work together to rebuild society. My favorite Warren ships are Warren/Murphy and Warren/George, but I'll happily ship Warren with pretty much anyone except 10k or Lucy. Totally gen fic is great too. Either way, this is one of my "I love everybody in this bar" fandoms, so include whoever you want as supporting characters in the story.

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