Dear Yuletide Author 2019

Dear Author,

First of all, thank you for writing for me! I am always so excited to do this exchange and get to read and write fic for some of my favorite small fandoms,and I always love the results. If you have an idea for one of these canons/sets of characters that you were hoping to write when you offered them, and it's not or not quite among my prompts, please feel free to run with it! Something you enjoy writing is always wonderful.

If you're curious about my taste, or what I've written in the past, you can find me on the AO3 as lady_ragnell and on tumblr as theladyragnell.

General Likes and Dislikes

Likes

• Stories about relationships, be they gen or shippy! I love seeing characters interact and play off each other: romances, rivalries, families and found families and friendships and co-working relationships are all amazing for me, particularly if it's about people working together (if sometimes reluctantly). Especially if there's banter involved!
• Happy endings! I am happy for characters to earn their happiness along the way with angst (I'm always a fan of hurt/comfort), but a happy or hopeful ending is always going to be my preference.
• Worldbuilding! I love to read fics that explore worldbuilding that's already there more deeply and fics that add lore and depth to canons whose worldbuilding is more glossed over. I love to see in-world pop culture and academia and news articles, and just generally to revel in the worlds of canons I love.
• I also love AUs. That could mean canon-divergence what-if AUs, a small or large divergence, or setting change AUs. I'm particularly fond of space AUs, the addition of small magical elements in a world that otherwise looks much like canon, and modern AUs where the author gets to use some interest or expertise to flesh out the setting, so if you just read a book about marine biology or know a whole lot about being a summer camp counselor, feel free to make use of it if you'd like. (Note: I tend to be pretty picky about soulmate AUs, so unless you've got an idea you're very attached to there, it wouldn't be my first choice.)
• Exploration of the spaces around canons: what happened before? What happens after--either immediate aftermath or months or years later? What's public perception of the canon's or fic's events like, or what does an outsider with an intimate view of the events think? (In that last case, I tend to prefer if the outsider POVs are canon characters, but if an OC jumps fully-fleshed-out into your mind, that is also fine.)
• And I am a sucker for classic tropes: hurt/comfort, fake dating, pretty much any marriage trope you will care to give me (arranged, marriage of convience, waking up married ... I will take it all), huddling for warmth or other survival-type situations. Basically, they are classics for a reason and I am always happy to see them!
• Any rating, G to E! Don't feel the need to avoid porn or adult subjects, but don't by any means feel pressure to include them either. With porn, I would prefer that any of the underage characters I've requested be overage when any porn takes place, though.

Dislikes

Character death through terminal illness, particularly cancer, is my biggest no, especially where it's not present in the canon. I also prefer not to read character death in general, cancer or other major illness in general even when the character survives it, infidelity, incest, graphic depictions of abuse, non-con, horror-type elements, and gore. My general preference is to acknowledge the darkness of a canon--I definitely don't want things sanitized--but not focus on it or make it darker. I'm not one for Crueltide, basically!

Fandom Specific Likes and Prompts

( The Author of the Acacia Seeds - Ursula K. Leguin )

( A Countess Below Stairs - Eva Ibbotson )

( Killjoys (TV) )

( Tom Corbett: Space Cadet Series - Carey Rockwell )

( White Boots - Noel Streatfeild )

Happy writing, author! I am so excited to see whatever you come up with for these canons, and thank you again for whatever you choose to write. <3