dear yuletide creator

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thank you for writing for me! copy-pasting from my previous Yuletide letter:

In general: I like both gen and ship fic in about equal measure, and will read pretty much any rating. I like reading about found families and their dynamics, whether they're an adventuring group that's been together for a while now or a bunch of asshole superheroes that are trying to make things work. I like hurt/comfort, I even like breaking a character (Winter Soldier AUs are my brand at this point) for lots of angst, but my one solid caveat is that there has to be a happy ending. It doesn't need to be completely happy, but I just want everyone to be alive. I love everybody lives AUs bc I'm a wimp who can't stand major character death. I love AUs in general. pls feed them to me.

Do Not Want: gore way above canon-typical violence, bathroom kinks, parent kink, A/B/O and BDSM AUs, bestiality, incest when it would seem OOC for the characters, underage sex where one character is underage and the other is not, graphically depicted noncon, permanent major character death, tentacles, mpreg, knotting

The Defenders (Marvel TV)
Requested Characters: Danny Rand, Matt Murdock, Luke Cage, Jessica Jones
Story Requests:

I love Netflix MCU with all my sad little heart. I especially love the dynamic between the four of them, what little we got of it, and in general I just really badly want team fic. pls let me see Matt, Jessica, Luke and Danny have to team up again to take down Stilt-Man. pls, I'm not kidding, if none of the below ideas strike your fancy, at least let me see these shits taking on Stilt-Man. preferably with Elektra in the mix bc I love her and she deserves so much better. also, regarding ships, I ship Matt with Foggy mostly, but I also love a good Matt/Elektra fic. Jessica/Luke and Jessica/Trish are literally my only Jessica ships. anyway:

role reversal AU: Matt's the one who died at the end of Daredevil s2, and Elektra picks up the mantle of Daredevil instead. how does this change the dynamics between the Defenders? what happens when the Hand starts to make their play, with a mysterious new assassin who can seemingly tell what they're going to do before they do it? how does Elektra interact with New York, and with the people that Matt left behind? for this year, since Elektra's not the requested character: what about Matt? how does he deal with suddenly being resurrected and pushed into killing people? does he break, does he get twisted like Elektra did, does he retain his humanity and conscience?

this doesn't involve the requested four too much, but what did everyone who was at the precinct even do there? we didn't see much in the way of their interactions, so I wanna see what they were all doing to pass the time. do they bond over freaky-ass superhero bullshit happening around them? do they even talk about that or just hint vaguely around it? pls god, let me see the supporting casts hanging out and making fun of their asshole superheroes.

Matt and Jessica swap backstories and thus abilities: Matt loses his father at a young age bc of a car accident that also gave him super-strength, while Jessica saves some poor sucker from getting killed and gets radioactive waste in her eyes that blinds her but also turns her other senses all the way up. how do they develop from there? is Jessica still a private eye? is Matt still approached by the Chaste, or is that Jessica now? does Kilgrave still approach Jessica, or does he now go after helpful Matt Murdock who has a secret darkness inside him that could seem delicious? pls note that I do not want graphic noncon, but having a character deal with the aftermath of it is fine by me.

of all the Defenders, Jessica Jones is the only one who survives the Snap. give me what happens next, if she's the only one and half the supporting casts have vanished. what does she do in the next five years? how does she cope (or not cope)? how does she interact with the other survivors? (you have leeway on who else gets snapped or not besides Jessica, but I would like to see Foggy surviving the Snap and also being all alone now that Karen and Matt are gone, and Trish also surviving the Snap bc I want that fraught relationship goddammit.) what happens once the other Defenders come back? how do Danny, Luke and Matt adjust to a world that's gone on without them?

Critical Role (Web Series) RPF
Requested Characters: Any
Story Requests:

THIS IS THE BEST CAST I love them so much, I love that they love this game and the fans that have sprung up around it, I love their little found family dynamic and how ready they are to leap to each other's defense. they're such good people. (A NOTE: please do not involve the cast's kids or non-cast spouses as characters in any stories you might write for me. it's enough for me to know that they exist somewhere on the periphery. thank.)

this Tumblr post made me immediately want the fic where they're all immortals or, like, at least not quite mortal in some way. it also made me want the fic where none of them realize the others are Like Them until something crazy goes down and everyone's like WHAT. HOLY SHIT. WHAT. WHAT WAS THAT. possibly involving, like, Travis, bc of the whole cast I would absolutely buy Travis accidentally stumbling on some way to blow the cover off the whole immortality thing. Taliesin's too practiced at it by now.

I secretly want the crack fic where the cast accidentally swaps bodies with their characters, either Mighty Nein or Vox Machina, and has to figure out how to unswap bodies and also get back home. pls note that if Mighty Nein, I want Molly to be there, alive and whole and not dead. who knows, maybe Taliesin swaps with Caduceus and Molly just stumbles on the Mighty Nein and yells GUYS WHERE HAVE YOU BEEN, and then has to help the assholes in his friends' bodies find their way back home. meanwhile, for either scenario, Matt is suddenly saddled with some very freaked out and suspicious adventurers, and also, it's Thursday. pls be gentle.

Arden (Podcast)
Requested Characters: Julie Capsom, Ralph Montgomery

GOD I love this podcast. it’s such a fun, irreverent poke at the true crime podcast genre and Shakespeare all at once, featuring fun protagonists and a case that astounded me with every twist and turn. however, it’s also very good at fleshing out its characters and grounding the fun and shenanigans with real pathos and real-life problems. me, I immediately beelined for Julie and Ralph’s love story, because it’s Romeo and Juliet only modernized and also, everyone LIVES, and I am a sucker for that. thank you Wheyface Industries for my fuckin life. anyway.

what I really want most is Julie and Ralph in the aftermath of the finale. like, we got SOME of it, but not quite exactly what I wanted? they have a kid now! Julie is not on super good terms with her father! Ralph has so much explaining to do! I want them to figure out where they’re going to go now and how they plan to stick together and keep their baby girl safe. they can’t run away again, can they? and how have they grown in the time since Julie disappeared ten years ago?

role reversal: Julie as an actress trying to make it big, Ralph as the rich heir to a throne he doesn’t actually want. how do things change? how do they stay the same? how are they perceived when they disappear off the face of the Earth?

what was their married life even like? I imagine that after the shine of eloping had worn off they had to figure out how to actually live with each other warts and all. considering they’ve stuck together for so long, they absolutely did, but I want to see the growing pains. arguments over small things and big things! problems with the house! problems with their daughter! homesickness! I want it ALL.

Jane The Virgin (TV)
Requested Characters: Jane Villanueva, Michael Cordero Junior, Rafael Solano

listen, for all its flaws, I love this show, it’s super charming and sweet. that having been said, holy shit did I want a threesome so so badly. why!! did they not!! just have a fuckin threesome!! it would’ve solved so many problems about the love triangle in one go!!!! also I want gen fic about them figuring out how to like, be a Family too. and maybe a fix to that amnesia plotline? it needed way more time to actually live up to all that angst potential in my opinion. also, I do not want Rose/Luisa, or character bashing of Jane’s family, including Petra. lord.

how would you have written the Michael with amnesia plotline? Winter Soldier-style AU? fake amnesia? real amnesia but somewhere other than Bumfuck Country Town? slow and steady reclamation of identity? anything goes!

role reversal AU: instead of Michael running into Rose that day, it was Jane. Michael has to deal with the seeming loss of his wife and having to help raise Mateo with Rafael, as well as perhaps finishing her novel, if she was working on one when she “died”. unexpectedly, though, he and Rafael fall in love as well, and start dating. then Rose tells Rafael that Jane’s alive...

growing pains of a polyamorous relationship when there’s a kid in the mix, go! would especially love to see it from Mateo’s perspective, the kid’s got some opinions.

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