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Dear Yuletide Writer
Hi, thanks for writing for me! I hope this letter is useful. Some of it is recycled from last year, but I still really want everything I'm asking for! For reference, my AO3 name is lah_mrh, same as on here.
Likes: Humour, hurt/comfort, fluff, friendship, family relationships, gen, shipfic, friends to lovers, gay/bi characters, characters realising they're gay/bi and/or coming out, reunions, character studies, worldbuilding, mission/case fic, Christmas and other holiday fic, happy endings, post-canon fic, canon-divergent AUs and fix-it fic, telepathy/empathy, cultural differences, finding common ground between disparate characters/cultures, time travel/time loops and other sci-fi tropes
Dislikes/DNWs: Non con, character bashing, major character death, asexual/aromantic/trans/nonbinary headcanons, poly/open relationships, infidelity/breakups, unrequested non-canon het, romance-focused fic*, homophobic violence and slurs, real-world politics/current events/RPF, crossovers, non canon divergent AUs, unusual/non-prose formats, first and second POV, graphic violence and gore, explicit sex
* exception for What's It Gonna Be
Fandoms:
Chip's Challenge (Video Games)
Chip
I've loved this game for pretty much as long as I can remember. The in-game story is pretty slim - Chip wants to join Melinda's club, the Bit Busters, but has to prove his worth by making his way through the levels of her laboratory, avoiding monsters, killer floors, and the threat of being crushed by giant blocks. You can download the game here, or buy it on Steam (albeit as a slightly different version) if you're interested in giving it a try.
For fic, I'd love to see Chip's reaction to the monsters and other things he encounters, or maybe something about how he experiences the game mechanics - what happens when he "dies", for example? (Temporary character death okay for this fandom!) Does it bother him having to carry around keys and computer chips that are as big as he is? I'd also like to know how he feels about everything Melinda put him through. Does she make everyone who joins go through this madness? And why?
Please no Chip/Melinda.
The Strangers (Creepypasta)
None
You can read the story here.
Long story short, the protagonist follows a weird guy he meets on a train to the end of the line, finds himself in a kind of multiverse changing station, and travels through universe after universe trying to get back home.
Basically I just want all the worldbuilding for this. Tell me about all the different worlds! How do they differ from our own? How are they the same? What's better and what's worse? How do the people differ? (Feel free to go as weird as you like!) What is the "central hub", and who, if anyone made it? (And what happens after the protagonist decides to try and take it down?)
I'd love to see other "Strangers", especially ones from different worlds, and if/how they interact with each other. (The original Stranger says they're not supposed to, but he could be wrong/lying.) Are they all like the protagonist, tricked into it and trying to get home, or are some of them doing it deliberately? Do any of them decide to just settle down in a random world and try to make a life there? I feel like it's hinted that the protagonist isn't actually from our world, just a similar one (since his letter is here but he's apparently moved on) so something about that would be cool too.
OC-focused and outsider POV fic more than welcome for this fandom!
(The whole thing reminds me a little of The Homeward Bounders by Diana Wynne Jones, so if you know that canon and want to take any inspiration from there, feel free.)
Welcome to the Ark - Stephanie S. Tolan
Any - Douglas, Miranda, Taryn, Elijah
I first read this book when I was thirteen, and ever since I've wanted to know what happens next. I love the story of these four misfit kids who meet and form a connection and a family, (not to mention some pretty cool abilities) only for it all to be torn apart. The book ends with Miranda, Doug, and Taryn reuniting, but I've always wondered what happened to Elijah. Do they ever find him? And what about Noah and Abigail? They were important too, but they're barely mentioned in the ending. Do they get to see what their charges have become? I like to think they'd be proud. What plans do the now grown up kids have for saving the world? Do they try to set up a new Ark for kids like them?
I'd also be interested in worldbuilding - How many people like them are there out there? How/when did it start happening? Are all people with abilities driven to try and decrease the violence in the world, or are some of them out there trying to make it worse instead of better?
Any or all of the nominated characters are fine, in any combination. I'd prefer gen, but I'm okay with background Doug/Miranda or anyone/OC. Also, while worldbuilding/backstory would be cool for OCs, I'm not all that interested in backstory or canon-era fic for the main characters - what I'm really interested in is what happens to them once canon is over.
What's It Gonna Be - Shura (Music Video)
Shura, Sarah, Nick, Brad
Video here.
I really like this video, and if it was a full-length film I would see it in a heartbeat. I love how it starts out with the brother and sister pining after their het crushes and ends with them realising they'd rather have each other's crushes instead. I'd love to see pretty much anything about this; Shura and Nick planning out their campaign, Shura/Sarah and/or Nick/Brad get togethers, the four of them hanging out together or going on dates, how the rest of the school reacts to a nerdy girl dating a cheerleader or a nerdy boy dating a jock - feel free to throw in all the high school movie stereotypes you want! If you want to try and write the full-length version of this I would be thrilled, but even a snippet would be great.
I'm happy for you to focus on either Shura/Sarah or Nick/Brad if you can't do both (or even Shura&Nick with the pairings in the background), but please don't break either pairing up or have the characters dating anyone else.
Wonder (2017)
Auggie
I really loved this film. Auggie is sweet and funny, and I like how his condition doesn't define him - that it makes his life harder but he still gets to be a normal kid who has friends and loves science and is just like everyone else. I'd love anything exploring his life after the end of the film, especially his friendships with Jack Will, or Summer, or his relationship with his sister. How does sixth grade work out for him? Does his family ever get another dog? Do he and Jack create another kick-ass science fair project? What does he dress up as for next Halloween?
I'm okay with Auggie/Jack or Auggie/OMC, but please keep it very g-rated - he is only eleven, after all. Otherwise I totally love gen or, on a completely different note, Via and Miranda's relationship also intrigued me, and I'd totally be up for some background femslash.
Thanks again!
Likes: Humour, hurt/comfort, fluff, friendship, family relationships, gen, shipfic, friends to lovers, gay/bi characters, characters realising they're gay/bi and/or coming out, reunions, character studies, worldbuilding, mission/case fic, Christmas and other holiday fic, happy endings, post-canon fic, canon-divergent AUs and fix-it fic, telepathy/empathy, cultural differences, finding common ground between disparate characters/cultures, time travel/time loops and other sci-fi tropes
Dislikes/DNWs: Non con, character bashing, major character death, asexual/aromantic/trans/nonbinary headcanons, poly/open relationships, infidelity/breakups, unrequested non-canon het, romance-focused fic*, homophobic violence and slurs, real-world politics/current events/RPF, crossovers, non canon divergent AUs, unusual/non-prose formats, first and second POV, graphic violence and gore, explicit sex
* exception for What's It Gonna Be
Fandoms:
Chip's Challenge (Video Games)
Chip
I've loved this game for pretty much as long as I can remember. The in-game story is pretty slim - Chip wants to join Melinda's club, the Bit Busters, but has to prove his worth by making his way through the levels of her laboratory, avoiding monsters, killer floors, and the threat of being crushed by giant blocks. You can download the game here, or buy it on Steam (albeit as a slightly different version) if you're interested in giving it a try.
For fic, I'd love to see Chip's reaction to the monsters and other things he encounters, or maybe something about how he experiences the game mechanics - what happens when he "dies", for example? (Temporary character death okay for this fandom!) Does it bother him having to carry around keys and computer chips that are as big as he is? I'd also like to know how he feels about everything Melinda put him through. Does she make everyone who joins go through this madness? And why?
Please no Chip/Melinda.
The Strangers (Creepypasta)
None
You can read the story here.
Long story short, the protagonist follows a weird guy he meets on a train to the end of the line, finds himself in a kind of multiverse changing station, and travels through universe after universe trying to get back home.
Basically I just want all the worldbuilding for this. Tell me about all the different worlds! How do they differ from our own? How are they the same? What's better and what's worse? How do the people differ? (Feel free to go as weird as you like!) What is the "central hub", and who, if anyone made it? (And what happens after the protagonist decides to try and take it down?)
I'd love to see other "Strangers", especially ones from different worlds, and if/how they interact with each other. (The original Stranger says they're not supposed to, but he could be wrong/lying.) Are they all like the protagonist, tricked into it and trying to get home, or are some of them doing it deliberately? Do any of them decide to just settle down in a random world and try to make a life there? I feel like it's hinted that the protagonist isn't actually from our world, just a similar one (since his letter is here but he's apparently moved on) so something about that would be cool too.
OC-focused and outsider POV fic more than welcome for this fandom!
(The whole thing reminds me a little of The Homeward Bounders by Diana Wynne Jones, so if you know that canon and want to take any inspiration from there, feel free.)
Welcome to the Ark - Stephanie S. Tolan
Any - Douglas, Miranda, Taryn, Elijah
I first read this book when I was thirteen, and ever since I've wanted to know what happens next. I love the story of these four misfit kids who meet and form a connection and a family, (not to mention some pretty cool abilities) only for it all to be torn apart. The book ends with Miranda, Doug, and Taryn reuniting, but I've always wondered what happened to Elijah. Do they ever find him? And what about Noah and Abigail? They were important too, but they're barely mentioned in the ending. Do they get to see what their charges have become? I like to think they'd be proud. What plans do the now grown up kids have for saving the world? Do they try to set up a new Ark for kids like them?
I'd also be interested in worldbuilding - How many people like them are there out there? How/when did it start happening? Are all people with abilities driven to try and decrease the violence in the world, or are some of them out there trying to make it worse instead of better?
Any or all of the nominated characters are fine, in any combination. I'd prefer gen, but I'm okay with background Doug/Miranda or anyone/OC. Also, while worldbuilding/backstory would be cool for OCs, I'm not all that interested in backstory or canon-era fic for the main characters - what I'm really interested in is what happens to them once canon is over.
What's It Gonna Be - Shura (Music Video)
Shura, Sarah, Nick, Brad
Video here.
I really like this video, and if it was a full-length film I would see it in a heartbeat. I love how it starts out with the brother and sister pining after their het crushes and ends with them realising they'd rather have each other's crushes instead. I'd love to see pretty much anything about this; Shura and Nick planning out their campaign, Shura/Sarah and/or Nick/Brad get togethers, the four of them hanging out together or going on dates, how the rest of the school reacts to a nerdy girl dating a cheerleader or a nerdy boy dating a jock - feel free to throw in all the high school movie stereotypes you want! If you want to try and write the full-length version of this I would be thrilled, but even a snippet would be great.
I'm happy for you to focus on either Shura/Sarah or Nick/Brad if you can't do both (or even Shura&Nick with the pairings in the background), but please don't break either pairing up or have the characters dating anyone else.
Wonder (2017)
Auggie
I really loved this film. Auggie is sweet and funny, and I like how his condition doesn't define him - that it makes his life harder but he still gets to be a normal kid who has friends and loves science and is just like everyone else. I'd love anything exploring his life after the end of the film, especially his friendships with Jack Will, or Summer, or his relationship with his sister. How does sixth grade work out for him? Does his family ever get another dog? Do he and Jack create another kick-ass science fair project? What does he dress up as for next Halloween?
I'm okay with Auggie/Jack or Auggie/OMC, but please keep it very g-rated - he is only eleven, after all. Otherwise I totally love gen or, on a completely different note, Via and Miranda's relationship also intrigued me, and I'd totally be up for some background femslash.
Thanks again!