Dear Yuletide Author 2020

Dear Author,

It's Yuletide season once again! Thank you for writing for me, author, first of all--this exchange is always such a good note to end the year on, and I love getting to read about some tiny fandoms. I love all of these fandoms so much, and I am so excited to see what you come up with for wherever we matched.

If you're curious about my taste in stories or other fandoms, I am lady_ragnell on the AO3 and theladyragnell on tumblr!

General Likes and Dislikes

Likes

• Stories about relationships, whether that means romance, or siblings, or friendships, or rivalries or co-workers. I love seeing characters play off of each other, whether that means reluctantly working together to get over mistrust or falling in love or anything else! And if it involves having some banter, that's always delightful too.
• Happy or hopeful endings! Angst along the way is just fine by me (I am a huge fan of hurt/comfort, especially with more focus on the comfort than the hurt), but I like everything to be okay in the end.
• Worldbuilding! I love anything that adds depth to the world of a canon, or explores something canon didn't have the time for. I'm also a huge fan of in-universe media: news articles, pop culture, anything along those lines.
• I'm also fond of AUs! This year, I'm enjoying the thought of a trip to space, since I've ended up requesting all sci fi, so I'd rather not go for a full setting change unless you've got an idea you can't shake, but canon divergence AUs are always amazing, or AUs that add things to the setting or change people's professions within the setting, etc. are fine.
• The spaces around canons--things that were implied to happen, or that will likely happen afterwards, but weren't shown in the piece of media. Missing scenes, future fic either about the immediate or long-standing consequences of canon events, or even public perception of canon events. I'm a fan of outsider POV, especially from canon characters.
• Some of my favorite tropes and story elements include: any and all marriage tropes (arranged, convenient, Vegas, fake), found family, hurt/comfort (especially in survival-type situations), anything about loyalty or fealty, pining, banter, dancing or Fancy Party Episodes, political/court intrigue, and epistolary.
• Any ratings, G to E! I'm perfectly happy to receive porn, if that's your wheelhouse, and also happy to read gen, or romance where they don't do any more than hold hands, so whatever makes you happy to write, I've got no preferences there! If you do go for porn, though, I would prefer that it be part of the story rather than the whole of the story, and for all characters involved to be older than 18.
• Other porn likes: characters having fun together during sex, light informal d/s or bondage (especially if partners switch off who's "in charge"), dub-con of the sex pollen type, oral.

Dislikes

My overall guidance is that I'm fine with keeping the tone of and referencing dark things that happen in canon, up to canon-typical levels, but that I'm not very into focusing on those elements or making them any darker, but more specifically, I would prefer not to receive:

• Character death, particularly through a terminal illness, especially where it's not present in the canon.
• Major illness in general (with exceptions for canonical character chronic illness or disability): usually this means I'd like to steer clear of fic about characters dealing with cancer, but this being 2020, I would also prefer not to read about COVID-19 or any fantasy/sci-fi/historical plagues.
• Abuse (emotional or physical, especially between partners), infidelity, incest, non-consensual sex/rape.
• Gore. I'm fine with violence at a canon level, duel scenes, that kind of thing, but not lingering details of injuries or dead bodies.
• Horror elements.
• Porn-specific DNWs: non-con, formal d/s arrangements, a/b/o, bloodplay, watersports.

Fandom Specific Likes and Prompts

( Barbie: Star Light Adventure (2016) )

( Killjoys (TV) )

( Tom Corbett: Space Cadet - Carey Rockwell )

( UFO Victorian Ladies (eeBoo Jigsaw Puzzle) )

Happy writing, author! Thank you in advance for writing for me, and I can't wait to see whatever you come up with. <3