Dear Yuletide Author 2021

Dear Author,

Hello and thank you for writing for me, and for offering any of these fandoms in the first place, since they are all dear to my heart! I hope you enjoy, and I look forward to seeing whatever you come up with. If you wish to find me elsewhere, my AO3 is lady_ragnell and my tumblr is theladyragnell. My likes, DNWs, and fandom-specific prompts follow!

General Likes and Dislikes

Likes

• Stories about relationships, be they romantic or platonic! I love banter, characters playing off of each other, relationships that feel lived-in. I also love relationships growing and changing! That can mean a shift from friends (or enemies or rivals or indifferent strangers) to lovers, or a growth in trust or respect. In any case, I love stories about the moments those shifts happen in.
• Happy or hopeful endings! I am perfectly happy with a lot of angst along the way, but I like to leave a story knowing that the characters are going to be okay.
• AUs, especially of the canon-adjacent kind (canon divergences and fix-its, roleswaps, things like that), but setting change AUs are also delightful! Putting a canon in space (well, 3/4 of the ones I'm requesting are already there, but still) is always a delight, and I am also very fond of things like You've Got Mail AUs and other romcom fusions.
• Worldbuilding! I haven't requested it specifically, but anything you want to fit in is great, I love it when fics focus in on details of worldbuilding canons didn't have time to do much with and extrapolate them out, or quote from in-universe media or mythology.
• Any rating, G to E, wherever you are most comfortable writing, from gen to non-porny romance to porn (though I would prefer porn as garnish to other things rather than PWP, and for any younger characters to be aged up to 18+).
• Assorted tropes and story elements I am fond of include: any and all marriage tropes (arranged, convenient, Vegas, fake), found family, hurt/comfort with lots of comfort (especially in survival-type situations and the oh-no-I'm-overworked-and-I-have-fainted type), time travel tropes (going back to fix things, time loops, etc), anything about loyalty or fealty, pining, banter, dancing or Fancy Party Episodes, political/court intrigue, outsider POV (preferably from canon characters), and epistolary.
• Assorted things I enjoy in porn, should you choose that route, include: non-penetrative sex (penetrative is also fine! But I very much enjoy oral, frottage, etc.), characters having fun and laughing during sex, light informal d/s or bondage (particularly if partners switch off who's in charge), sex pollen in any of the space canons, phone sex or dirty talk (though I prefer the latter not be humiliation-related).

Dislikes

Overall, I am fine with dark and unpleasant elements up to and including the level they're at in a canon, but don't like them pushed further or focused on. More specifically, though, I would prefer to avoid:

• Major character death, especially where not canonical
• Terminal or other major illness, particularly cancer
• Epidemics/pandemics, whether COVID-19 or any sci-fi/fantasy/historical plagues
• Abuse, particularly between partners (several characters I have requested have emotionally and/or physically abusive parents or parental figures, it is fine referencing that abuse, I'd just prefer not to focus on it)
• Infidelity
• Incest
• Rape/non-consensual sex
• Gore (violence is fine to a canon point, but detailed descriptions of injuries or dead bodies is not)
• Horror (I have a very low tolerance for creep factor, alas)
• Porn-specific DNWs: humiliation, kink without appropriate negotiation or aftercare or that is or is implied to be a 24/7 arrangement, daddy kink (or baby kink), a/b/o, bloodplay, watersports.

Fandom Specific Likes and Prompts

( Barbie: Star Light Adventure (2016) )

( Jupiter Ascending (2015) )

( Killjoys (TV) )

( White Boots - Noel Streatfeild )

Happy writing, author! I can't wait to see what you come up with.