Yuletide 2017
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carolinecraneHello! A very happy Yuletide season to you. Thank you very much in advance for writing for me! I hope you have a lot of fun and don't stress at all, because I am honestly pretty easy to please. My username is carolinecrane on tumblr, LJ, DW, and AO3, though I am mostly only active on tumblr these days.
Things I enjoy in fic:
Generally speaking I’m a big fan of romance. Most of my fannish likes tend to be pairing-based, but I understand if that’s not your thing. Hopefully something I’ve mentioned here will help give you a direction if you need it, but if you’d rather do your own thing and surprise me, go for it.
I’m a big fan of fluff, so if that’s your jam, you are in the right place. I will read ALL the fluff without a hint of shame. Anything goes, pretty much, G rating all the way up to NC17. I will read kidfic and curtain fic, kinky porn and disgustingly romantic vanilla porn. AUs of all varieties (except porn star or hooker AUs, those aren't my favorite), get-together or established relationship, I am down. If that sounds too much like ‘I love anything!’, I promise to give specific prompts below to make it a little easier. But honestly, I love pretty much anything.
Tropes I really love: fake/pretend relationship, accidental baby acquisition, bedsharing, Canadian shack, Groundhog Day, soulbonding, wing fic, bodyswap, h/c, mpreg, sex pollen. I’m fine with dubcon, and noncon doesn’t bother me as long as it’s not between a requested pairing.
My bulletproof dynamic is probably codependency. I don’t even care how unhealthy it is, I am a total sucker for characters who cannot live without each other and are embarrassing and desperate about it, especially when it manifests itself in possessive behavior. This is probably why I love soulmate AUs so much.
Kinks I Enjoy:
I am into marking (including bruising, watersports, and biting), desperation, size kink, come inflation, A/B/O, scar worship, body worship, overstimulation, possessiveness, touch starvation, sex toys/object insertion, fisting, knotting, clothed/semi-clothed sex, sleepy sex/somnophilia, rimming, fingering, tattoos/scarification, semi-public sex, rough sex, h/c, romantic/funny/awkward sex, old married couple sex.
This is far from an exhaustive list, so if there’s something you want to throw in there, go for it. Maybe I’ll discover a new favorite.
Dislikes:
My only hard DNWs are incest, cheating, animal harm, and BDSM as a lifestyle. Light bondage or a little painplay is fine, but I'm not really into the power dynamics of BDSM. I don’t mind angst, but at Yuletide season I crave happy endings, so if that’s possible, I would love you all the more. Other than that I’m pretty easy.
If you want to look through past years’ letters, my DW tag is here and my LJ tag is here. The most recent letters are on DW and older stuff is on LJ.
Alex Delaware Series
Characters: Milo Sturgis, Rick Silverman
Milo is one of my favorite fictional characters of all time, and I love his relationship with Rick. They're so *solid* in spite of all the awfulness circling around them all the time, and I love that about them. I love that Kellerman lets them have that when even Alex doesn't really get that with Robin, because so much of Milo's backstory is so tragic. He deserves nice things! I really want him to have nice things.
I have read all of these books at least once, and most of them more than that, so I'm very familiar with the characters. That said, my favorite character in the universe (and one of my all-time faves, tbh) is Milo. I love him so much, from his tragic backstory to his love affair with food to his gruff exterior.
Having said that, the way Kellerman writes Milo is sometimes so relentlessly tragic that I need a break. I think Milo needs a break, too. He's got this great, solid relationship with a wonderful guy, so there must be plenty of light moments in his life that we never get to see. I'd love to see some of them, is what I'm saying.
-- There's some discussion in one of the books about whether Milo and Rick would ever get married, if it were legal. Now that it is, do they talk about it? Do they go through with it? Is it a quick JP service like Holt's on Brooklyn 99, where they want to get through the ceremony before the law changes again? Do any of their colleagues show up?
-- Is Rick's family in the picture at all? Do they ever have exhausting and/or intrusive house guests? Does Milo hide at Alex's place until they're gone?
-- I love Old Married People porn, if you're into that. By that I mean I love it when the characters are so familiar with each other that they can just sort of move in sync. I love that feeling that they're totally in tune through years of being together, having worked out all the kinks along the way. I also love Old Married People cuddling and grocery shopping and arguing over the paper or who left their towel on the bathroom floor again. I am so interested in every aspect of their lives.
-- Please feel free to dump ALL the h/c on me for this fandom. Milo's a cop and Rick's an ER doctor, it's like they're asking for h/c fic.
-- Of course Alex is the one who usually deals with kids in the books, considering his profession, but I have such a thing for gruff, Alpha Male characters interacting with kids. Do you want to write an AU where Milo and Rick take in a troubled youth? Maybe a foster kid that Milo meets during a case? How does that affect their relationship?
-- College!Milo is so appealing to me. We know he has an English degree, so if you want to leave Rick out of things and explore Milo's college experience a little, that could be interesting. Or if you felt like writing an AU where Milo and Rick meet while Rick's in med school and Milo's a grad student (or even a professor) I'd be down with that. As far as I'm aware there are no AUs at all for these two, which isn't surprising considering there are only 10 fics on AO3, so really any AU at all would be fun.
Halloweentown
Characters: Any (Marnie Piper, Dylan Piper, Ethan Dalloway, Luke)
This is one of those nostalgia fandoms I want to snuggle up with and sink into. I want to read about literally any part of the universe you'd like to explore. Halloweentown itself, Witch University, the Bureaucracy that goes along with being a supernatural creature, what it's like to be a citizen of both Halloweentown and the mortal world.
There's lots more detail in my letter if you want it, but basically anything goes with this fandom. You can go dark or as fluffy as the movies, set it any time during or after (or before!) canon, with any characters you like.
I love the world of Halloweentown and I always want to know more about it. So if you're into worldbuilding, you've come to the right place. I also love the characters in this universe, though, so if you want to tell me a story about any of them you are also in the right place.
Please don't feel you are limited to the characters in the tagset. I nominated my favorites, but I sincerely love everyone in the canon, so if you have a particular favorite that's not listed here, you have my full permission to write about them instead.
-- Do they celebrate other holidays in Halloweentown? What's that like?
-- What other creatures call Halloweentown home, and what's their day-to-day experience? It seems like the witches run the show. Is there a secret underground rebellion? Or just a club where other creatures get together and bitch about the Cromwells?
-- If you want to explore a ship, I would welcome it and be thrilled. My preferred pairings for this fandom are Marnie/Luke and Dylan/Ethan, but I'm interested in any relationships you want to explore. (I have a particular yearning for Aggie/Professor Periwinkle femslash, either when they were young or later on during their Dominion-hunting years. But neither of them are in the tagset so I am definitely not suggesting anyone write it!Unless they really want to.)
-- Surely there's a dark side to Halloweentown lurking. What sort of Eldritch horrors live there?
-- One of my favorite scenes in the first movie is the ghost in the sauna at the gym. Tell me more about him. What does he get up to when he's not being harrassed by meddling baby witches? Does he have a nice cottage or does he rattle around an old abandoned haunted mansion at the edge of town? Does he go to the farmer's market? Does he recycle?
-- Once the portal between worlds is open, do some of the more human-passing Halloweentown residents visit the mortal world more often? Are they hiding in plain sight to scare humans, or do they just really like that one brand of toothpaste they can only find at CVS?
-- Coffee shop for monsters! Or just what goes down at the local Halloweentown coffee shop/diner/bakery. I'd love to get a glimpse into the daily life of the locals that way.
-- If you feel like writing a crossover, I've seen a couple fun ones. Drop your favorite characters in Halloweentown and let them explore if you want. I don't have to know the other canon.
Kitchen Confidential
Characters: Any (Seth, Jim, Teddy, Ramon, Jack, Steven, Tanya, Mimi)
Things I would love to see in this fandom: Drunken orgies. All the kinky sex. Food-related shenanigans (naked or otherwise). Pre-canon explorations of how Jack/Steven/Teddy/Seth (or any combination thereof) became friends/bros/colleagues/whatever. Awkward hookups. Magic realism. Jim/Ramon (ship of my heart!) There’s a lot more in my letter, but basically anything goes.
This show. THIS SHOW. It was one of FOX’s short-lived original sitcoms, aired during the era when FOX killed new shows on purpose with alarming regularity, so only four episodes were ever aired, I think. This request is a repeat from last year, because I scored two (!) amazing fics and I am greedy for more. So if you read last year's letter, this is a shameless repeat.
The series revolves around the kitchen staff of a trendy NYC restaurant called Nolita. Bradley Cooper headed the cast as Jack Bourdain, the fictional version of Anthony Bourdain. The cast had pretty amazing chemistry, and the pairings are pretty much endless. Normally I am hopelessly serially monogamous, so I don’t generally enjoy poly relationships, but with this fandom pretty much all bets are off. It’s the only fandom I’ve ever written fisting orgy porn for, if that tells you anything.
So if you’re in the mood to write crazy, drunken, kinky porn, you are in the right place. But only if you want to! If everyone keeps their clothes on, that’s okay too. I am down with whatever characters you want to write, in whatever combinations. I’ll confess to a particular fondness for Jim/Ramon, and I am fond of everything John Cho chooses to be, including Teddy Wong, but truly, I’m down for whatever. If you want some specific ideas, however, I’ve got a few:
-- Jack/Steven/Teddy/Seth before Nolita. How did they all meet? Tell me about previous kitchens, or previous hookups. Was there ever a booze-fueled Vegas weekend that ended in getting kicked out of a hotel and not being able to look each other in the eye for days? I would take the booze-fueled shenanigans (naked or otherwise) or the awkward road trip to get back home. I am kind of into the idea of road trip fic for these idiots, I don’t know why. And if you want to throw Jim (or anyone else) in there, for initiation purposes, maybe? I would not complain, is what I'm saying.
-- Teddy/Seth pining. I’m into it, particularly if Seth is doing the pining. Do they casually hook up after long nights in the kitchen? Does Seth wish it was more than casual? Is Teddy just using Seth so he has someplace to crash that’s not populated by all his cousins taking up every inch of space? Or does Teddy sort of reluctantly love Seth too, even if he doesn’t really want to admit it? How did they meet? Were they culinary school rivals? Did they hate each other at first, or hit it off right away? So many questions.
-- Jim/Ramon: I mean, the possessiveness is canon, and I’m really into Ramon being kind of obsessed with Jim? I guess I just want to see sweet, naive, innocent Jim broken. I’m a terrible person. But the heart wants what it wants, and this heart wants Jim besmirched and losing his innocence in service of Ramon. This is my favorite pairing in this fandom, and I can buy it as either dubconny and kind of dark, or weirdly romantic and secretly sweet.
-- Jim/Seth/Tanya: I like the idea of this threesome mainly because Tanya’s so sweet, Jim’s nervous and innocent, and Seth’s not above taking what he can get, but the only one who wouldn’t be embarrassed about it is Tanya. That dynamic appeals to me for reasons I can’t really explain. Late night drinking games in the kitchen that devolve into porn, maybe, or strip poker featuring heavy amounts of blushing, or even just dessert-related food porn in the kitchen after hours. I wouldn’t complain about Seth/Tanya with a side of Jim accidental voyeurism, either.
-- I think it's pretty clear the show was heading in an eventual Jack/Mimi direction, but I never really cared for that particular train wreck. Though it would be a *hilarious* train wreck, which actually might be kind of fun. I did really love Mimi and Tanya's relationship, if you wanted to explore it. There's a lot of testosterone in that kitchen, maybe they need a little break? With makeouts? Or maybe Mimi gets an eyeful of Tanya/anyone in the kitchen and has Opinions.
-- Top Chef AU! It would be hilarious and a complete disaster, let’s face it.
-- Crazy sex pollen shenanigans! Maybe Steven finds a less-than-reputable (read: supernatural) source for the restaurant’s meat and everyone gets dosed. Or only some people get dosed.
-- Magic mushrooms accidentally fed to the entire restaurant? What would the kitchen staff's hallucinations be like? Honestly any supernatural shenanigans you want to throw into the mundane setting would be fun. If there are leprechauns or fae or a coven in New York selling organic kale or humanely raised poultry, Steven’s going to find them.
-- Really, any hijinks, magical or otherwise, food-related or not, would be welcome.
So basically what I’m saying here is that Jim/anyone is my jam, and also anyone/anyone, or everyone/everyone, or no pairing at all. Feel free to ignore the characters nominated and write about whoever. I mean that 100%.
The Mighty Ducks
Characters: Dean Portman, Fulton Reed
I guess I'm having a nostalgia fandoms kind of year, and this is another one of those for me. These movies are so cheesy and mistake-riddled (absolutely you can rollerblade from Stillwater to the Mall Of America, sure, TOTALLY believable!) but I love them all the more for it. They're so relentlessly silly, but they have such heart, and any time I watch them it's a little like visiting old friends. So basically I just want to hang out with these characters in their world, whatever part of it you want to show me.
Obviously I ship them like FedEx, so if you do too, feel free to show me their romance.
My very favorite thing about these dumb movies is, of course, the Bash Brothers. Their silly rivalry in the beginning that settles into a solid partnership appeals to the part of me that loves enemies-to-lovers, and the fact that the third film takes place in a boarding school? My kryptonite!
-- They work out their differences by the end of the second movie. Do they also hook up at the Goodwill Games? How does Fulton feel when he finds out Portman's not coming to Eden Hall with the others?
-- When Portman does show up at Eden Hall and they reunite, my heart grows three sizes. Do they pick up where they left off? Is there resentment about being abandoned for half the school year? How long do they dance around each other?
-- Room sharing? Bed sharing? Any boarding school-related shenanigans you want to explore will make me really happy. Any rating is cool with me. (I realize, looking back at the handful of fics I wrote in this fandom, that nearly all of them were porn. Oops. I like reading PG fic too, honest!)
-- Portman's from Chicago, while Fulton's not far from home (the movies say he's from Stillwater, but that's seriously not commuting distance for a peewee hockey team based in St. Paul. That detail has always irritated me). Does he take Portman home with him for Thanksgiving? Christmas? Spring break? Do they spend their summer apart and pine while all their friends mock them?
-- What about when they graduate from Eden Hall? Do they get recruited by separate colleges? What does it do to their relationship, whatever it may be?
-- If you feel like writing future fic, do they both end up in the NHL? Maybe they lose touch over their college years and meet up again in the Minors, either on the same team or as opponents. I don't know that much about hockey, so don't feel like you need to write sports fic here (unless that is your thing, then go for it) but I am very interested in how their relationship might grow and change over the years.
-- Maybe you feel like writing a Cutting Edge AU. I would eat that up with a spoon and I'm not ashamed. Or maybe you feel like writing some other kind of AU. Fulton's a quiet single dad and Portman is his kid's peewee hockey coach! Fulton's a struggling writer and Portman runs the coffee shop where he's trying to finish his novel without the distractions of his irritating roommates! Some weird fusion of Mighty Ducks/that one show where Elden Henson's playing a Guy in the Chair now or whatever! I will happily read whatever you come up with.
Santa Claus: The Movie
Characters: Any (Corny, Joe, Anya Claus, Santa Claus)
This is the cheesy 80s Christmas movie of my heart and I love literally everything about the universe, including the horrible class disparities and evil John Lithgow. I would welcome any exploration about the universe at all, particularly Joe and Corny's adventures at the North Pole post-canon. I want to hear all about their idyllic childhood with Santa and Mrs. Claus!
If you want to tell the story through the eyes of Santa or Anya, that would be a-okay with me too. I'm so interested in their thoughts and feelings on instant parenthood, and what it's like to have kids underfoot when they've got the responsibility of all of Christmas on their shoulders.
I would love any kind of worldbuilding, and if you're down to ship Joe and Corny, so am I.
Okay, so last year, after however many years of requesting this fandom, someone finally wrote me a gorgeous fic featuring pre-canon Anya and Claus. It was so lovely, y'all. I sort of waffled on whether or not to request it again this year, but in the end I just couldn't leave it off my list, so here we are.
I love this movie so much that I would basically be happy with any exploration or continuation of canon. If you feel like aging up Corny and Joe and writing their romance, I would love you forever. They canonically have crushes on each other, so it’s not even a stretch. If you’d rather tell the story of their year at the North Pole (and, I hope, subsequent adoption by Santa and Mrs. Claus) then I would love that too. Or maybe you’d rather explore what life was like for Joe or Corny pre-canon. Neither of their lives had much joy, and even though they got a happy ending, there was plenty of suffering before they got there. It would be interesting to explore that.
There are plenty of dark themes in this film, which I suppose is typical, considering the time period. The evil uncle, the exploding candy, the badly made toys, the homeless kid, orphans, problematic class distinctions, and the fact that Anya and Claus actually froze to death in order to become Santa and Mrs. Claus. My point is that there's plenty of dark stuff going on, but the characters never give up hope, and that's what makes you root for them. So if you want to explore the darkness that would be cool, but if you want to keep the lightness of the film at the core of your story, that would be great too.
I didn't nominate John Lithgow's character, but if you’re interested in him, go for it. Dude floats off into space at the end of the movie. Where does he end up? If you want to drop him at the North Pole and (try to) redeem him through the magic of Christmas, go for it. Would he plot against goodness and light while pretending to be reformed? Would he become a super fab North Pole dandy like the Snow Miser? Is he still a villain? Would Santa see through him? Would Patch fall for it? Would Corny and Joe have to save the day?
This version of the North Pole is one of my favorites, but we don't really get to see much of it. So if you want to focus on the setting itself, that would be fantastic. I'd love to see Joe and Corny exploring their new home. Feeding the reindeer, toy building shenanigans, hanging out with the elves, Mrs. Claus’ feelings at finally being a mother, Santa and Anya adjusting to their afterlife in the North Pole...I will take any of it and love it as much as I do the original.
I really love this movie an embarrassing amount, so basically you can’t go wrong.
Veritas: The Quest
Characters: Nikko Zond, Calvin Banks
I’ve shipped Cal/Nikko since 2003. I’m very loyal to my tiny rarepairs, what can I say. The reason I love them so much is because I have a fondness for enemies to friends to lovers, and their dynamic is so well-suited to that. They’re both so jealous of each other for basically the same reason, and the fact that neither of them can see that makes me want to smack their heads together. I mean the Daddy Issues, come on.
They’re both kind of brats, but they manage to overcome that when it counts and work together, so if you felt like doing something with that dynamic I’d love it. I love the Found Family aspects of the show, too. Nikko's Two Dads, Calvin's jealousy of Nikko and Solomon's relationship, the weird sibling rivalry Nikko and Cal have going...I love all of it.
Veritas: The Quest was a 2003 series following the adventures of archaeologist Solomon Zond and his intrepid team of adventurers. That team included his teenage son Nikko, who was booted out of his most recent boarding school at the start of the series. There were 13 episodes in total, and you can watch them all on youtube if you have a weekend to kill and don’t love yourself enough.
The main draw for me in this fandom is Calvin/Nikko and their hateship. They’re not peers, exactly, but they’re at similar places in their lives regardless, and they have a lot of the same issues. That’s what causes them to butt heads so much, and of course it generates the crazy amounts of sexual tension between them. The fact that they’re so often thrown into life-threatening situations means that they can’t help resolving that tension eventually, right?
This is one of my perennial Yuletide fandoms because I have gotten such amazing fic for it in the past, so I keep coming back to it. I would read a million soulmate AUs. I would read all the huddling for warmth, ALL the hurt/comfort, and all the pining and jealousy. Pining is my lifeblood, ask anyone.
-- If there was ever a fandom that screamed for a post apocalyptic AU, it is Veritas. You can throw in zombies if that’s what you’re into. Does the team stay together? Do they hole up in the city or head out to search for the key to saving the world? Is Dorna still on their heels, and if so, do they finally decide to work together or does Dorna just want to watch the world burn?
-- I am never going to ask anyone to solve the mystery of what the hell was going on with Nikko in the finale, but if you have some burning need to explore that storyline, I would love to hear your theories.
-- If you’re in the mood to write some porn, there’s the obvious hatesex vibe these two have going. They’re also jealous of each other almost constantly, and given the thin line between love and hate, I think when the dam did break there would probably be a lot of rough, possessive claiming happening. Marking/bruising is a bonus, and scar worship is my jam. Considering how many times they’ve nearly died, they’ve likely both got plenty of marks to remind them.
-- If you prefer a gentler approach, the hurt/comfort is actually canon in this fandom. Somebody nearly dies in almost every episode, after all, so there are plenty of emotional scars to go along with the physical ones. I am into both physical and emotional h/c, so if you feel like exploring that, I am here for it.
-- Ancient artifacts made them do it! Dubcon and its aftermath is fine and also welcome, or feel free to ignore all the angst and use it as a vehicle to make them admit their ~feelings.
-- I have already gotten soulmates fic for this fandom and I loved it so, SO much, so I feel a little bad about listing it again, but man, I love soulmates so much. I’d read a million different takes on it, is what I’m saying, and love every single one. (You don’t understand; I have written wingfic soulbonding. I will read ALL the soulbonding.)
-- If you really want to write something wacky (or angsty, or magical) accidental baby acquisition might be super fun. There are so many crazy magical artifacts in this canon that it could totally happen, and we already know Nikko’s great with kids.
It’s hard for me to even give decent prompts for this fandom, because honestly when I think about what I’d like to see in a Veritas fic, I think ‘All The Things’ every time. There just needs to be more and more and more, because I’m greedy and unashamed. So honestly, I will take pretty much whatever you come up with in this fandom too, as long as Calvin and Nikko are in there somewhere sniping at each other. Or, you know, making out. I’m not that picky.
Things I enjoy in fic:
Generally speaking I’m a big fan of romance. Most of my fannish likes tend to be pairing-based, but I understand if that’s not your thing. Hopefully something I’ve mentioned here will help give you a direction if you need it, but if you’d rather do your own thing and surprise me, go for it.
I’m a big fan of fluff, so if that’s your jam, you are in the right place. I will read ALL the fluff without a hint of shame. Anything goes, pretty much, G rating all the way up to NC17. I will read kidfic and curtain fic, kinky porn and disgustingly romantic vanilla porn. AUs of all varieties (except porn star or hooker AUs, those aren't my favorite), get-together or established relationship, I am down. If that sounds too much like ‘I love anything!’, I promise to give specific prompts below to make it a little easier. But honestly, I love pretty much anything.
Tropes I really love: fake/pretend relationship, accidental baby acquisition, bedsharing, Canadian shack, Groundhog Day, soulbonding, wing fic, bodyswap, h/c, mpreg, sex pollen. I’m fine with dubcon, and noncon doesn’t bother me as long as it’s not between a requested pairing.
My bulletproof dynamic is probably codependency. I don’t even care how unhealthy it is, I am a total sucker for characters who cannot live without each other and are embarrassing and desperate about it, especially when it manifests itself in possessive behavior. This is probably why I love soulmate AUs so much.
Kinks I Enjoy:
I am into marking (including bruising, watersports, and biting), desperation, size kink, come inflation, A/B/O, scar worship, body worship, overstimulation, possessiveness, touch starvation, sex toys/object insertion, fisting, knotting, clothed/semi-clothed sex, sleepy sex/somnophilia, rimming, fingering, tattoos/scarification, semi-public sex, rough sex, h/c, romantic/funny/awkward sex, old married couple sex.
This is far from an exhaustive list, so if there’s something you want to throw in there, go for it. Maybe I’ll discover a new favorite.
Dislikes:
My only hard DNWs are incest, cheating, animal harm, and BDSM as a lifestyle. Light bondage or a little painplay is fine, but I'm not really into the power dynamics of BDSM. I don’t mind angst, but at Yuletide season I crave happy endings, so if that’s possible, I would love you all the more. Other than that I’m pretty easy.
If you want to look through past years’ letters, my DW tag is here and my LJ tag is here. The most recent letters are on DW and older stuff is on LJ.
Alex Delaware Series
Characters: Milo Sturgis, Rick Silverman
Milo is one of my favorite fictional characters of all time, and I love his relationship with Rick. They're so *solid* in spite of all the awfulness circling around them all the time, and I love that about them. I love that Kellerman lets them have that when even Alex doesn't really get that with Robin, because so much of Milo's backstory is so tragic. He deserves nice things! I really want him to have nice things.
I have read all of these books at least once, and most of them more than that, so I'm very familiar with the characters. That said, my favorite character in the universe (and one of my all-time faves, tbh) is Milo. I love him so much, from his tragic backstory to his love affair with food to his gruff exterior.
Having said that, the way Kellerman writes Milo is sometimes so relentlessly tragic that I need a break. I think Milo needs a break, too. He's got this great, solid relationship with a wonderful guy, so there must be plenty of light moments in his life that we never get to see. I'd love to see some of them, is what I'm saying.
-- There's some discussion in one of the books about whether Milo and Rick would ever get married, if it were legal. Now that it is, do they talk about it? Do they go through with it? Is it a quick JP service like Holt's on Brooklyn 99, where they want to get through the ceremony before the law changes again? Do any of their colleagues show up?
-- Is Rick's family in the picture at all? Do they ever have exhausting and/or intrusive house guests? Does Milo hide at Alex's place until they're gone?
-- I love Old Married People porn, if you're into that. By that I mean I love it when the characters are so familiar with each other that they can just sort of move in sync. I love that feeling that they're totally in tune through years of being together, having worked out all the kinks along the way. I also love Old Married People cuddling and grocery shopping and arguing over the paper or who left their towel on the bathroom floor again. I am so interested in every aspect of their lives.
-- Please feel free to dump ALL the h/c on me for this fandom. Milo's a cop and Rick's an ER doctor, it's like they're asking for h/c fic.
-- Of course Alex is the one who usually deals with kids in the books, considering his profession, but I have such a thing for gruff, Alpha Male characters interacting with kids. Do you want to write an AU where Milo and Rick take in a troubled youth? Maybe a foster kid that Milo meets during a case? How does that affect their relationship?
-- College!Milo is so appealing to me. We know he has an English degree, so if you want to leave Rick out of things and explore Milo's college experience a little, that could be interesting. Or if you felt like writing an AU where Milo and Rick meet while Rick's in med school and Milo's a grad student (or even a professor) I'd be down with that. As far as I'm aware there are no AUs at all for these two, which isn't surprising considering there are only 10 fics on AO3, so really any AU at all would be fun.
Halloweentown
Characters: Any (Marnie Piper, Dylan Piper, Ethan Dalloway, Luke)
This is one of those nostalgia fandoms I want to snuggle up with and sink into. I want to read about literally any part of the universe you'd like to explore. Halloweentown itself, Witch University, the Bureaucracy that goes along with being a supernatural creature, what it's like to be a citizen of both Halloweentown and the mortal world.
There's lots more detail in my letter if you want it, but basically anything goes with this fandom. You can go dark or as fluffy as the movies, set it any time during or after (or before!) canon, with any characters you like.
I love the world of Halloweentown and I always want to know more about it. So if you're into worldbuilding, you've come to the right place. I also love the characters in this universe, though, so if you want to tell me a story about any of them you are also in the right place.
Please don't feel you are limited to the characters in the tagset. I nominated my favorites, but I sincerely love everyone in the canon, so if you have a particular favorite that's not listed here, you have my full permission to write about them instead.
-- Do they celebrate other holidays in Halloweentown? What's that like?
-- What other creatures call Halloweentown home, and what's their day-to-day experience? It seems like the witches run the show. Is there a secret underground rebellion? Or just a club where other creatures get together and bitch about the Cromwells?
-- If you want to explore a ship, I would welcome it and be thrilled. My preferred pairings for this fandom are Marnie/Luke and Dylan/Ethan, but I'm interested in any relationships you want to explore. (I have a particular yearning for Aggie/Professor Periwinkle femslash, either when they were young or later on during their Dominion-hunting years. But neither of them are in the tagset so I am definitely not suggesting anyone write it!
-- Surely there's a dark side to Halloweentown lurking. What sort of Eldritch horrors live there?
-- One of my favorite scenes in the first movie is the ghost in the sauna at the gym. Tell me more about him. What does he get up to when he's not being harrassed by meddling baby witches? Does he have a nice cottage or does he rattle around an old abandoned haunted mansion at the edge of town? Does he go to the farmer's market? Does he recycle?
-- Once the portal between worlds is open, do some of the more human-passing Halloweentown residents visit the mortal world more often? Are they hiding in plain sight to scare humans, or do they just really like that one brand of toothpaste they can only find at CVS?
-- Coffee shop for monsters! Or just what goes down at the local Halloweentown coffee shop/diner/bakery. I'd love to get a glimpse into the daily life of the locals that way.
-- If you feel like writing a crossover, I've seen a couple fun ones. Drop your favorite characters in Halloweentown and let them explore if you want. I don't have to know the other canon.
Kitchen Confidential
Characters: Any (Seth, Jim, Teddy, Ramon, Jack, Steven, Tanya, Mimi)
Things I would love to see in this fandom: Drunken orgies. All the kinky sex. Food-related shenanigans (naked or otherwise). Pre-canon explorations of how Jack/Steven/Teddy/Seth (or any combination thereof) became friends/bros/colleagues/whatever. Awkward hookups. Magic realism. Jim/Ramon (ship of my heart!) There’s a lot more in my letter, but basically anything goes.
This show. THIS SHOW. It was one of FOX’s short-lived original sitcoms, aired during the era when FOX killed new shows on purpose with alarming regularity, so only four episodes were ever aired, I think. This request is a repeat from last year, because I scored two (!) amazing fics and I am greedy for more. So if you read last year's letter, this is a shameless repeat.
The series revolves around the kitchen staff of a trendy NYC restaurant called Nolita. Bradley Cooper headed the cast as Jack Bourdain, the fictional version of Anthony Bourdain. The cast had pretty amazing chemistry, and the pairings are pretty much endless. Normally I am hopelessly serially monogamous, so I don’t generally enjoy poly relationships, but with this fandom pretty much all bets are off. It’s the only fandom I’ve ever written fisting orgy porn for, if that tells you anything.
So if you’re in the mood to write crazy, drunken, kinky porn, you are in the right place. But only if you want to! If everyone keeps their clothes on, that’s okay too. I am down with whatever characters you want to write, in whatever combinations. I’ll confess to a particular fondness for Jim/Ramon, and I am fond of everything John Cho chooses to be, including Teddy Wong, but truly, I’m down for whatever. If you want some specific ideas, however, I’ve got a few:
-- Jack/Steven/Teddy/Seth before Nolita. How did they all meet? Tell me about previous kitchens, or previous hookups. Was there ever a booze-fueled Vegas weekend that ended in getting kicked out of a hotel and not being able to look each other in the eye for days? I would take the booze-fueled shenanigans (naked or otherwise) or the awkward road trip to get back home. I am kind of into the idea of road trip fic for these idiots, I don’t know why. And if you want to throw Jim (or anyone else) in there, for initiation purposes, maybe? I would not complain, is what I'm saying.
-- Teddy/Seth pining. I’m into it, particularly if Seth is doing the pining. Do they casually hook up after long nights in the kitchen? Does Seth wish it was more than casual? Is Teddy just using Seth so he has someplace to crash that’s not populated by all his cousins taking up every inch of space? Or does Teddy sort of reluctantly love Seth too, even if he doesn’t really want to admit it? How did they meet? Were they culinary school rivals? Did they hate each other at first, or hit it off right away? So many questions.
-- Jim/Ramon: I mean, the possessiveness is canon, and I’m really into Ramon being kind of obsessed with Jim? I guess I just want to see sweet, naive, innocent Jim broken. I’m a terrible person. But the heart wants what it wants, and this heart wants Jim besmirched and losing his innocence in service of Ramon. This is my favorite pairing in this fandom, and I can buy it as either dubconny and kind of dark, or weirdly romantic and secretly sweet.
-- Jim/Seth/Tanya: I like the idea of this threesome mainly because Tanya’s so sweet, Jim’s nervous and innocent, and Seth’s not above taking what he can get, but the only one who wouldn’t be embarrassed about it is Tanya. That dynamic appeals to me for reasons I can’t really explain. Late night drinking games in the kitchen that devolve into porn, maybe, or strip poker featuring heavy amounts of blushing, or even just dessert-related food porn in the kitchen after hours. I wouldn’t complain about Seth/Tanya with a side of Jim accidental voyeurism, either.
-- I think it's pretty clear the show was heading in an eventual Jack/Mimi direction, but I never really cared for that particular train wreck. Though it would be a *hilarious* train wreck, which actually might be kind of fun. I did really love Mimi and Tanya's relationship, if you wanted to explore it. There's a lot of testosterone in that kitchen, maybe they need a little break? With makeouts? Or maybe Mimi gets an eyeful of Tanya/anyone in the kitchen and has Opinions.
-- Top Chef AU! It would be hilarious and a complete disaster, let’s face it.
-- Crazy sex pollen shenanigans! Maybe Steven finds a less-than-reputable (read: supernatural) source for the restaurant’s meat and everyone gets dosed. Or only some people get dosed.
-- Magic mushrooms accidentally fed to the entire restaurant? What would the kitchen staff's hallucinations be like? Honestly any supernatural shenanigans you want to throw into the mundane setting would be fun. If there are leprechauns or fae or a coven in New York selling organic kale or humanely raised poultry, Steven’s going to find them.
-- Really, any hijinks, magical or otherwise, food-related or not, would be welcome.
So basically what I’m saying here is that Jim/anyone is my jam, and also anyone/anyone, or everyone/everyone, or no pairing at all. Feel free to ignore the characters nominated and write about whoever. I mean that 100%.
The Mighty Ducks
Characters: Dean Portman, Fulton Reed
I guess I'm having a nostalgia fandoms kind of year, and this is another one of those for me. These movies are so cheesy and mistake-riddled (absolutely you can rollerblade from Stillwater to the Mall Of America, sure, TOTALLY believable!) but I love them all the more for it. They're so relentlessly silly, but they have such heart, and any time I watch them it's a little like visiting old friends. So basically I just want to hang out with these characters in their world, whatever part of it you want to show me.
Obviously I ship them like FedEx, so if you do too, feel free to show me their romance.
My very favorite thing about these dumb movies is, of course, the Bash Brothers. Their silly rivalry in the beginning that settles into a solid partnership appeals to the part of me that loves enemies-to-lovers, and the fact that the third film takes place in a boarding school? My kryptonite!
-- They work out their differences by the end of the second movie. Do they also hook up at the Goodwill Games? How does Fulton feel when he finds out Portman's not coming to Eden Hall with the others?
-- When Portman does show up at Eden Hall and they reunite, my heart grows three sizes. Do they pick up where they left off? Is there resentment about being abandoned for half the school year? How long do they dance around each other?
-- Room sharing? Bed sharing? Any boarding school-related shenanigans you want to explore will make me really happy. Any rating is cool with me. (I realize, looking back at the handful of fics I wrote in this fandom, that nearly all of them were porn. Oops. I like reading PG fic too, honest!)
-- Portman's from Chicago, while Fulton's not far from home (the movies say he's from Stillwater, but that's seriously not commuting distance for a peewee hockey team based in St. Paul. That detail has always irritated me). Does he take Portman home with him for Thanksgiving? Christmas? Spring break? Do they spend their summer apart and pine while all their friends mock them?
-- What about when they graduate from Eden Hall? Do they get recruited by separate colleges? What does it do to their relationship, whatever it may be?
-- If you feel like writing future fic, do they both end up in the NHL? Maybe they lose touch over their college years and meet up again in the Minors, either on the same team or as opponents. I don't know that much about hockey, so don't feel like you need to write sports fic here (unless that is your thing, then go for it) but I am very interested in how their relationship might grow and change over the years.
-- Maybe you feel like writing a Cutting Edge AU. I would eat that up with a spoon and I'm not ashamed. Or maybe you feel like writing some other kind of AU. Fulton's a quiet single dad and Portman is his kid's peewee hockey coach! Fulton's a struggling writer and Portman runs the coffee shop where he's trying to finish his novel without the distractions of his irritating roommates! Some weird fusion of Mighty Ducks/that one show where Elden Henson's playing a Guy in the Chair now or whatever! I will happily read whatever you come up with.
Santa Claus: The Movie
Characters: Any (Corny, Joe, Anya Claus, Santa Claus)
This is the cheesy 80s Christmas movie of my heart and I love literally everything about the universe, including the horrible class disparities and evil John Lithgow. I would welcome any exploration about the universe at all, particularly Joe and Corny's adventures at the North Pole post-canon. I want to hear all about their idyllic childhood with Santa and Mrs. Claus!
If you want to tell the story through the eyes of Santa or Anya, that would be a-okay with me too. I'm so interested in their thoughts and feelings on instant parenthood, and what it's like to have kids underfoot when they've got the responsibility of all of Christmas on their shoulders.
I would love any kind of worldbuilding, and if you're down to ship Joe and Corny, so am I.
Okay, so last year, after however many years of requesting this fandom, someone finally wrote me a gorgeous fic featuring pre-canon Anya and Claus. It was so lovely, y'all. I sort of waffled on whether or not to request it again this year, but in the end I just couldn't leave it off my list, so here we are.
I love this movie so much that I would basically be happy with any exploration or continuation of canon. If you feel like aging up Corny and Joe and writing their romance, I would love you forever. They canonically have crushes on each other, so it’s not even a stretch. If you’d rather tell the story of their year at the North Pole (and, I hope, subsequent adoption by Santa and Mrs. Claus) then I would love that too. Or maybe you’d rather explore what life was like for Joe or Corny pre-canon. Neither of their lives had much joy, and even though they got a happy ending, there was plenty of suffering before they got there. It would be interesting to explore that.
There are plenty of dark themes in this film, which I suppose is typical, considering the time period. The evil uncle, the exploding candy, the badly made toys, the homeless kid, orphans, problematic class distinctions, and the fact that Anya and Claus actually froze to death in order to become Santa and Mrs. Claus. My point is that there's plenty of dark stuff going on, but the characters never give up hope, and that's what makes you root for them. So if you want to explore the darkness that would be cool, but if you want to keep the lightness of the film at the core of your story, that would be great too.
I didn't nominate John Lithgow's character, but if you’re interested in him, go for it. Dude floats off into space at the end of the movie. Where does he end up? If you want to drop him at the North Pole and (try to) redeem him through the magic of Christmas, go for it. Would he plot against goodness and light while pretending to be reformed? Would he become a super fab North Pole dandy like the Snow Miser? Is he still a villain? Would Santa see through him? Would Patch fall for it? Would Corny and Joe have to save the day?
This version of the North Pole is one of my favorites, but we don't really get to see much of it. So if you want to focus on the setting itself, that would be fantastic. I'd love to see Joe and Corny exploring their new home. Feeding the reindeer, toy building shenanigans, hanging out with the elves, Mrs. Claus’ feelings at finally being a mother, Santa and Anya adjusting to their afterlife in the North Pole...I will take any of it and love it as much as I do the original.
I really love this movie an embarrassing amount, so basically you can’t go wrong.
Veritas: The Quest
Characters: Nikko Zond, Calvin Banks
I’ve shipped Cal/Nikko since 2003. I’m very loyal to my tiny rarepairs, what can I say. The reason I love them so much is because I have a fondness for enemies to friends to lovers, and their dynamic is so well-suited to that. They’re both so jealous of each other for basically the same reason, and the fact that neither of them can see that makes me want to smack their heads together. I mean the Daddy Issues, come on.
They’re both kind of brats, but they manage to overcome that when it counts and work together, so if you felt like doing something with that dynamic I’d love it. I love the Found Family aspects of the show, too. Nikko's Two Dads, Calvin's jealousy of Nikko and Solomon's relationship, the weird sibling rivalry Nikko and Cal have going...I love all of it.
Veritas: The Quest was a 2003 series following the adventures of archaeologist Solomon Zond and his intrepid team of adventurers. That team included his teenage son Nikko, who was booted out of his most recent boarding school at the start of the series. There were 13 episodes in total, and you can watch them all on youtube if you have a weekend to kill and don’t love yourself enough.
The main draw for me in this fandom is Calvin/Nikko and their hateship. They’re not peers, exactly, but they’re at similar places in their lives regardless, and they have a lot of the same issues. That’s what causes them to butt heads so much, and of course it generates the crazy amounts of sexual tension between them. The fact that they’re so often thrown into life-threatening situations means that they can’t help resolving that tension eventually, right?
This is one of my perennial Yuletide fandoms because I have gotten such amazing fic for it in the past, so I keep coming back to it. I would read a million soulmate AUs. I would read all the huddling for warmth, ALL the hurt/comfort, and all the pining and jealousy. Pining is my lifeblood, ask anyone.
-- If there was ever a fandom that screamed for a post apocalyptic AU, it is Veritas. You can throw in zombies if that’s what you’re into. Does the team stay together? Do they hole up in the city or head out to search for the key to saving the world? Is Dorna still on their heels, and if so, do they finally decide to work together or does Dorna just want to watch the world burn?
-- I am never going to ask anyone to solve the mystery of what the hell was going on with Nikko in the finale, but if you have some burning need to explore that storyline, I would love to hear your theories.
-- If you’re in the mood to write some porn, there’s the obvious hatesex vibe these two have going. They’re also jealous of each other almost constantly, and given the thin line between love and hate, I think when the dam did break there would probably be a lot of rough, possessive claiming happening. Marking/bruising is a bonus, and scar worship is my jam. Considering how many times they’ve nearly died, they’ve likely both got plenty of marks to remind them.
-- If you prefer a gentler approach, the hurt/comfort is actually canon in this fandom. Somebody nearly dies in almost every episode, after all, so there are plenty of emotional scars to go along with the physical ones. I am into both physical and emotional h/c, so if you feel like exploring that, I am here for it.
-- Ancient artifacts made them do it! Dubcon and its aftermath is fine and also welcome, or feel free to ignore all the angst and use it as a vehicle to make them admit their ~feelings.
-- I have already gotten soulmates fic for this fandom and I loved it so, SO much, so I feel a little bad about listing it again, but man, I love soulmates so much. I’d read a million different takes on it, is what I’m saying, and love every single one. (You don’t understand; I have written wingfic soulbonding. I will read ALL the soulbonding.)
-- If you really want to write something wacky (or angsty, or magical) accidental baby acquisition might be super fun. There are so many crazy magical artifacts in this canon that it could totally happen, and we already know Nikko’s great with kids.
It’s hard for me to even give decent prompts for this fandom, because honestly when I think about what I’d like to see in a Veritas fic, I think ‘All The Things’ every time. There just needs to be more and more and more, because I’m greedy and unashamed. So honestly, I will take pretty much whatever you come up with in this fandom too, as long as Calvin and Nikko are in there somewhere sniping at each other. Or, you know, making out. I’m not that picky.
