Dear Yuletide Author 2022

Dear Author,

Yuletide season is always a wonderful time of year! Thank you so much for offering to write one of my beloved small fandoms, and I look forward to seeing whatever you choose to write. Feel free to depart from my given prompts if you've got an idea you've been hoping to write, too, but if you're a prompt person I hope these ones are useful!

If you wish to find me elsewhere I am lady_ragnell and theladyragnell. If you are here thinking about treats, I'm very delighted that my prompts inspired you so much, and I have gifts enabled!

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, and stories about the moments where they shift! That can mean a shift from friends (or enemies or rivals or indifferent strangers) to lovers, or a growth in trust or respect in gen relationships.
• 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 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.
• Off that last one, I love epistolary fic (particularly if you'd like to do epistolary for Dracula), and other found documents types of stories: letters, journals, recordings, voicemails, logs, anything of that nature is wonderful.
• 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 situations and the classic "overworked to the point of fainting"), 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 these elements up to and including the level they're at in a canon, but don't like them introduced, pushed further, or focused on:

• 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
• 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 )

( A Countess Below Stairs - Eva Ibbotson )

( Dracula - Bram Stoker )

( Tom Corbett: Space Cadet Series - Carey Rockwell )

Thank you again for writing for me, author! I'll look forward to whatever you come up with, and happy writing!