Dear Yuletide Writer
Oct. 21st, 2023 04:34 pmHELLO and I am sorry about the late letter! If you've already started, keep going and don't even look at this, likes and DNWs were already in my sign up and these are all just optional and extra.
DNWs: noncon, omegaverse, D/s with lots of formal negotiation, face-sitting, bathroom related bodily fluids, violence directed at genitals, pregnancy, bashing of canon love interests, daddy kink, permanent character death of named characters not dead in canon, spanking, setting change/no power AUs, non-canon permanent injuries (temporary/magically healed/etc ones are fine)
General likes: UST finally spilling over, first time/get together fics, unspoken feelings that stay unspoken but are blindingly obvious anyway, bedside vigils/general watching over someone, fraught handholding (especially combined with the bedside vigiling) angst and uncertainty leading into happy endings, sneaking around, sex pollen especially when it’s one-sided, bloodplay, knifeplay, clothes sharing, dramatic rescues/sacrifices, pining, rope bondage, breathplay, road trips, significant gestures, missing scenes/episode tags, time travel, Groundhog Day loops, True Love Saves the Day, 5 Things fics, crossroad deals/deals with the devil, any and all kinds of supernatural nonsense, unexpected acts of kindness, someone physically putting themselves between a loved one and harm, gore, creative use of superpowers, dreamsharing, canon divergent AUs
Treats very welcome as are fics of all ratings.
Everyone here I do ship, so shippy fic is definitely more than welcome, but I also love pre-ship stories and pining and intense relationships where no one is up to recognizing what they're feeling just yet, as well as just deep loyalty and friendship in general. All four relationships are similar in that they're people who have to depend on each other and count on each other in dangerous situations with enemies lined up against them, because that is who I am as a person, and I love those little moments of trust and care in those kinds of relationships.
Black Adam and Stargirl are fandoms I've requested many times before, so feel free to look at old letters if nothing here clicks.
Stargirl TV
Requested Characters: Richard Swift & Charles McNider
SHADENITE. I love these two so much and all the little hints of what he get of their past and what gets unsaid. Charles believes in the Shade so much, to the point that he tries to convince both Beth and Courtney in two separate conversations that they should maybe trust the Shade and that he's was different from the rest of the ISA. He's so shocked that people think the Shade killed him! And the Shade is such a wreck when he thinks Charles is dead because of him! I love them so much and would love anything with their backstory and what they do after the S3.
Special note for shippy fic: I generally go with the headcanon that Charles was lying through his teeth about his happy family life in S3, and in pre-canon as long as Myra isn't bashed I'm A-OK with Charles having feelings for Shade while he was married, it's pretty unavoidable!
Extra Prompts
- Any of those things we know must have happened but we don't get to see: the first time Shade calls him "Charles" and how he found out his real name; McNider finding out about the Shade's tragic backstory and what the Men of Tears did to him; McNider finding out the Shades real name; the Shade finding out that Eclipso killed Rebecca; the Shade finding out about McNider's eyes and his tragic backstory.
- Focus on how McNider sees and doesn't see, and his feelings about his blindness
- Focus on the Shade's powers: creative uses of them, him not being quite human anymore, etc. I like things like him being cold to the touch, having extra senses, being able to talk through the shadows, etc.
- Dr. Mid-Nite and the Shade having to rescue each other or depend on each other back in the bad old JSA/ISA days. I love seeing how they became friends/more and what exactly it was that the Shade did that convinced McNider that he was different from his running buddies.
- Anything dealing with Simon Culp and that possession storyline - the show never got to adapt it and I could read hundreds of versions without getting bored.
- Anything with the Men of Tears - them showing up again and trying to get the ritual right this time, them striking back in the JSA days and McNider realizing the Shade is in real trouble, just them causing a huge mess.
- Sylvester being brought back for real and not dealing well AT ALL with the new standard quo.
- Alan coming back to life and losing it at his kids being with Shade, Todd's powers, Charles defending him, all of it.
- Anything post S3 with McNider meeting the kids. the Shade getting in trouble and Todd/Jennie calling McNider in a panic, etc. Love it, can never get enough of it.
- Shade secretly still being burned up from the Shadowlands but McNider takes one look at him and knows.
- Anything at all with the night with the absinthe.
Black Adam
Requested Characters: Kent Nelson & Carter Hall
They packed so much history into the fifteen minutes of airtime these two got and I will be on my deathbed mourning that we will never get the movie trilogy they deserve. I love how they're both perfectly willing to sarifice themselves but the other is just simply not allowed to die. I love how the first mention of Kent is Carter saying he can't do this without him and Kent's first scene has him getting (giving himself, really!) a vision of Carter's horrible death. I love how their first time alone in a room together after who knows how many years has them take five seconds to fall back into rhythm. They're great.
It's not actually in the movie, but I love Carter having reincarnation trauma.
Extra Prompts
- Kent being brought back to life, obviously. Angst with a happy ending is my favorite thing
- Anything focusing on what a horrorshow wearing that helmet is for Kent, and Carter slowly finding out over time how hard the magic is on him.
- Wing Kink: Carter's wings, magic wings, wings wings wings
- Their early days in the Justice Society and how they became such close friends.
- I love any and all mission fic, especially mission gone wrong fic.
- Why Kent left, and what happened in that time period. Epistolary fic, maybe?
- Kent pining because he things Carter couldn't be attracted to him because of his age, and Carter being all "Seriously Kent, have you looked at yourself?" about it once he finds out.
- Similarly, Kent pining because he thinks Carter is destined for someone else.
- I really love mythological flavored stuff for them, Egyptian and otherwise - trips through the underworld, magical tests, that kind of thing.
- Kent in a lot of pain or wiped from a spell, or having to undergo a painful ritual, and Carter not being able to help but not leaving him anyway.
Requested Characters: Nick, Ellis
I love these two so much, their banters are so great. Are they possibly the archtypal example of "the grumpy one is soft for the sunshine one?" Yes. Is that sometimes exactly what you want in a gory zombie canon? Also yes. I love fic where Nick starts off seeing the other three as disposible meat shields because his life has taught him not to trust people, and him slowly thawing as time goes on (much to his horror.) I love Ellis' stories and how he is incapable of knowing the right time to tell them. I love desperate escapes into safe rooms and desperate hugs "Oh fuck, I thought you were dead!" fic. It's great, they're great.
I have gore listed as a like but just in case it was missed, this is the canon to go nuts with it, both with the zombies and with Nick and Ellis. Feel free to include all the lovingly described shotgun blasts and zombie decapitations and oozing clawmarks, and remember that there is apparently no injury in this game that cannot be healed with by a defribrilator shock and the proper application of medkit gauze. Severed artery? Wrap it in gauze. Crushed by a Tank? Shock him with the paddles, he'll be fine. This game operates on the same level of medical reality as Re-Animator and Evil Dead and that's the best part about it.
Please whump Nick, if you're going to whump one of them.
Extra Prompts:
- The plot of the game involves the four survivors trying to get to safety at an army base, and there used to be a popular headcanon that not only would the army base not be safe, but they would wind up experimenting on the survivors to try to find out the secret to the zombie immunity. I LOVED that and would deeply love Nick managing to get to a base (possibly by leaving the rest of the group behind!) and the other three finding out he's in deep trouble, or Nick and Ellis having to escape a base together.
- Nick getting ripped up by a Hunter or a Witch and and an out of medkits Ellis desperately trying to keep him from bleeding out/keeping him conscious while waiting for supplies, even if (especially if!) he's in danger from doing so.
- Nick getting hurt/separated from the group and being shocked when Ellis comes looking for him.
- Nick and Ellis alone in a safe room and adrenaline getting the better of them.
- The group running into other survivors who aren't nearly as friendly. I love Ellis killing a still living human to save Nick, and doing it without blinking.
- Any kind of evil experimentation to find out the source of the immunity, military or otherwise. Nick volunteering to save Ellis/the rest of the group would be great, especially if it's impulsive and even he doesn't realize why he does it.
- Nick hampered by an injury but Ellis refusing to leave him behind.
- Ellis telling Nick stories to keep him awake/make him laugh while they're waiting for Rochelle and Coach to get back with supplies.
- Nick going missing and Ellis losing it on the people who took him/hurt him, be they zombies or human.
Requested Characters: Komodo, General Grillo
Warriors of Virtue is a '90s portal fantasy about a boy who falls into a magical world after taking a dare and befrieds a squad of matial artist kangaoos and discovers that a mad wizard is destablizing the world by manipulating leylines. It has beautiful set design and costuming and is the kind of movie where an unamed mook tries to kill the plucky protagonist by throwing a halbard at him. I love this movie with my whole entire heart, and when I say this I mean that I love the two villains requested above with my whole entire heart. These two are the distilled essence of loyalty kink; Grillo loves his beautiful young out of his mind leader so much, with whatever defination of love you want to use there, and there's an incredible scene where Komodo has a just lucid moment enough to know that Grillo is the one in his snakepit of a court he can actually trust. Grillo is so crushed when Komodo (briefly) dies at the end, and then he comes back to life and they're both so happy!
I love this terrible movie so much.
Extra Prompts
- Grillo watching Komodo's slow descent into madness as he goes further into manipulating the leylines, knowing things will only get worse but also knowing no one else can be trusted to protect him.
- Post-movie fic, where Komodo has his mind back and has to face all the things he did, and not being able to understand how Grillo stood by him.
- Komodo ordering Grillo to do something terrible and Grillo doing it, no questions asked.
- Someone trying to assasinate Komodo - poisoning him, stabbing him with a poisoned blade, something slow but will be fatal - and Grillo burning down the world to save him.
- At one point Grillo is confronted by one of the heroes that he used to be "one of us" and how can he do Komodo's bidding now - what what THAT about? How did that happen? I love origin stories.
- Equally evil enemies taking advantage of Komodo's instabilty and capturing him and/or Grillo to find the secrets to his power, and Grillo protecting him/getting tortured for him/hiding him/etc, especially if it eventually breaks through the fog enough for Komodo to realize what Grillo is doing.
Thank you! I hope you have a great Yuletide!
DNWs: noncon, omegaverse, D/s with lots of formal negotiation, face-sitting, bathroom related bodily fluids, violence directed at genitals, pregnancy, bashing of canon love interests, daddy kink, permanent character death of named characters not dead in canon, spanking, setting change/no power AUs, non-canon permanent injuries (temporary/magically healed/etc ones are fine)
General likes: UST finally spilling over, first time/get together fics, unspoken feelings that stay unspoken but are blindingly obvious anyway, bedside vigils/general watching over someone, fraught handholding (especially combined with the bedside vigiling) angst and uncertainty leading into happy endings, sneaking around, sex pollen especially when it’s one-sided, bloodplay, knifeplay, clothes sharing, dramatic rescues/sacrifices, pining, rope bondage, breathplay, road trips, significant gestures, missing scenes/episode tags, time travel, Groundhog Day loops, True Love Saves the Day, 5 Things fics, crossroad deals/deals with the devil, any and all kinds of supernatural nonsense, unexpected acts of kindness, someone physically putting themselves between a loved one and harm, gore, creative use of superpowers, dreamsharing, canon divergent AUs
Treats very welcome as are fics of all ratings.
Everyone here I do ship, so shippy fic is definitely more than welcome, but I also love pre-ship stories and pining and intense relationships where no one is up to recognizing what they're feeling just yet, as well as just deep loyalty and friendship in general. All four relationships are similar in that they're people who have to depend on each other and count on each other in dangerous situations with enemies lined up against them, because that is who I am as a person, and I love those little moments of trust and care in those kinds of relationships.
Black Adam and Stargirl are fandoms I've requested many times before, so feel free to look at old letters if nothing here clicks.
Stargirl TV
Stargirl TV
Requested Characters: Richard Swift & Charles McNider
SHADENITE. I love these two so much and all the little hints of what he get of their past and what gets unsaid. Charles believes in the Shade so much, to the point that he tries to convince both Beth and Courtney in two separate conversations that they should maybe trust the Shade and that he's was different from the rest of the ISA. He's so shocked that people think the Shade killed him! And the Shade is such a wreck when he thinks Charles is dead because of him! I love them so much and would love anything with their backstory and what they do after the S3.
Special note for shippy fic: I generally go with the headcanon that Charles was lying through his teeth about his happy family life in S3, and in pre-canon as long as Myra isn't bashed I'm A-OK with Charles having feelings for Shade while he was married, it's pretty unavoidable!
Extra Prompts
- Any of those things we know must have happened but we don't get to see: the first time Shade calls him "Charles" and how he found out his real name; McNider finding out about the Shade's tragic backstory and what the Men of Tears did to him; McNider finding out the Shades real name; the Shade finding out that Eclipso killed Rebecca; the Shade finding out about McNider's eyes and his tragic backstory.
- Focus on how McNider sees and doesn't see, and his feelings about his blindness
- Focus on the Shade's powers: creative uses of them, him not being quite human anymore, etc. I like things like him being cold to the touch, having extra senses, being able to talk through the shadows, etc.
- Dr. Mid-Nite and the Shade having to rescue each other or depend on each other back in the bad old JSA/ISA days. I love seeing how they became friends/more and what exactly it was that the Shade did that convinced McNider that he was different from his running buddies.
- Anything dealing with Simon Culp and that possession storyline - the show never got to adapt it and I could read hundreds of versions without getting bored.
- Anything with the Men of Tears - them showing up again and trying to get the ritual right this time, them striking back in the JSA days and McNider realizing the Shade is in real trouble, just them causing a huge mess.
- Sylvester being brought back for real and not dealing well AT ALL with the new standard quo.
- Alan coming back to life and losing it at his kids being with Shade, Todd's powers, Charles defending him, all of it.
- Anything post S3 with McNider meeting the kids. the Shade getting in trouble and Todd/Jennie calling McNider in a panic, etc. Love it, can never get enough of it.
- Shade secretly still being burned up from the Shadowlands but McNider takes one look at him and knows.
- Anything at all with the night with the absinthe.
Black Adam
Black Adam
Requested Characters: Kent Nelson & Carter Hall
They packed so much history into the fifteen minutes of airtime these two got and I will be on my deathbed mourning that we will never get the movie trilogy they deserve. I love how they're both perfectly willing to sarifice themselves but the other is just simply not allowed to die. I love how the first mention of Kent is Carter saying he can't do this without him and Kent's first scene has him getting (giving himself, really!) a vision of Carter's horrible death. I love how their first time alone in a room together after who knows how many years has them take five seconds to fall back into rhythm. They're great.
It's not actually in the movie, but I love Carter having reincarnation trauma.
Extra Prompts
- Kent being brought back to life, obviously. Angst with a happy ending is my favorite thing
- Anything focusing on what a horrorshow wearing that helmet is for Kent, and Carter slowly finding out over time how hard the magic is on him.
- Wing Kink: Carter's wings, magic wings, wings wings wings
- Their early days in the Justice Society and how they became such close friends.
- I love any and all mission fic, especially mission gone wrong fic.
- Why Kent left, and what happened in that time period. Epistolary fic, maybe?
- Kent pining because he things Carter couldn't be attracted to him because of his age, and Carter being all "Seriously Kent, have you looked at yourself?" about it once he finds out.
- Similarly, Kent pining because he thinks Carter is destined for someone else.
- I really love mythological flavored stuff for them, Egyptian and otherwise - trips through the underworld, magical tests, that kind of thing.
- Kent in a lot of pain or wiped from a spell, or having to undergo a painful ritual, and Carter not being able to help but not leaving him anyway.
Left 4 Dead 2
Left 4 Dead 2Requested Characters: Nick, Ellis
I love these two so much, their banters are so great. Are they possibly the archtypal example of "the grumpy one is soft for the sunshine one?" Yes. Is that sometimes exactly what you want in a gory zombie canon? Also yes. I love fic where Nick starts off seeing the other three as disposible meat shields because his life has taught him not to trust people, and him slowly thawing as time goes on (much to his horror.) I love Ellis' stories and how he is incapable of knowing the right time to tell them. I love desperate escapes into safe rooms and desperate hugs "Oh fuck, I thought you were dead!" fic. It's great, they're great.
I have gore listed as a like but just in case it was missed, this is the canon to go nuts with it, both with the zombies and with Nick and Ellis. Feel free to include all the lovingly described shotgun blasts and zombie decapitations and oozing clawmarks, and remember that there is apparently no injury in this game that cannot be healed with by a defribrilator shock and the proper application of medkit gauze. Severed artery? Wrap it in gauze. Crushed by a Tank? Shock him with the paddles, he'll be fine. This game operates on the same level of medical reality as Re-Animator and Evil Dead and that's the best part about it.
Please whump Nick, if you're going to whump one of them.
Extra Prompts:
- The plot of the game involves the four survivors trying to get to safety at an army base, and there used to be a popular headcanon that not only would the army base not be safe, but they would wind up experimenting on the survivors to try to find out the secret to the zombie immunity. I LOVED that and would deeply love Nick managing to get to a base (possibly by leaving the rest of the group behind!) and the other three finding out he's in deep trouble, or Nick and Ellis having to escape a base together.
- Nick getting ripped up by a Hunter or a Witch and and an out of medkits Ellis desperately trying to keep him from bleeding out/keeping him conscious while waiting for supplies, even if (especially if!) he's in danger from doing so.
- Nick getting hurt/separated from the group and being shocked when Ellis comes looking for him.
- Nick and Ellis alone in a safe room and adrenaline getting the better of them.
- The group running into other survivors who aren't nearly as friendly. I love Ellis killing a still living human to save Nick, and doing it without blinking.
- Any kind of evil experimentation to find out the source of the immunity, military or otherwise. Nick volunteering to save Ellis/the rest of the group would be great, especially if it's impulsive and even he doesn't realize why he does it.
- Nick hampered by an injury but Ellis refusing to leave him behind.
- Ellis telling Nick stories to keep him awake/make him laugh while they're waiting for Rochelle and Coach to get back with supplies.
- Nick going missing and Ellis losing it on the people who took him/hurt him, be they zombies or human.
Warriors of Virtue
Warriors of VirtueRequested Characters: Komodo, General Grillo
Warriors of Virtue is a '90s portal fantasy about a boy who falls into a magical world after taking a dare and befrieds a squad of matial artist kangaoos and discovers that a mad wizard is destablizing the world by manipulating leylines. It has beautiful set design and costuming and is the kind of movie where an unamed mook tries to kill the plucky protagonist by throwing a halbard at him. I love this movie with my whole entire heart, and when I say this I mean that I love the two villains requested above with my whole entire heart. These two are the distilled essence of loyalty kink; Grillo loves his beautiful young out of his mind leader so much, with whatever defination of love you want to use there, and there's an incredible scene where Komodo has a just lucid moment enough to know that Grillo is the one in his snakepit of a court he can actually trust. Grillo is so crushed when Komodo (briefly) dies at the end, and then he comes back to life and they're both so happy!
I love this terrible movie so much.
Extra Prompts
- Grillo watching Komodo's slow descent into madness as he goes further into manipulating the leylines, knowing things will only get worse but also knowing no one else can be trusted to protect him.
- Post-movie fic, where Komodo has his mind back and has to face all the things he did, and not being able to understand how Grillo stood by him.
- Komodo ordering Grillo to do something terrible and Grillo doing it, no questions asked.
- Someone trying to assasinate Komodo - poisoning him, stabbing him with a poisoned blade, something slow but will be fatal - and Grillo burning down the world to save him.
- At one point Grillo is confronted by one of the heroes that he used to be "one of us" and how can he do Komodo's bidding now - what what THAT about? How did that happen? I love origin stories.
- Equally evil enemies taking advantage of Komodo's instabilty and capturing him and/or Grillo to find the secrets to his power, and Grillo protecting him/getting tortured for him/hiding him/etc, especially if it eventually breaks through the fog enough for Komodo to realize what Grillo is doing.
Thank you! I hope you have a great Yuletide!