Tales from the Loathly Lady

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!

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

Dear author,

I have loved fairy tales my whole life, and I love doing this fest not least because I get to see all the incredible and interesting takes authors have on the stories I love. So if you are excited about an idea and it's not something I specifically request, please consider this permission to run with it! I'll give plenty of likes and dislikes and prompts down below, but I hope you write something you are excited to write.

General Likes and Dislikes

Likes:

• I love happy endings, especially for characters who don't always get them because they're written out of the story or because they were villains who didn't (yet) redeem themselves--angst along the way is more than fine, and acknowledging the darkness of fairy tales, but a happy ending when all is done is my biggest love, or a hopeful one, if the story can't get to happy.


• AUs! Especially for fairy tales, a new setting is always amazing. Space, a specific time period, college, add or subtract some magic, have them meet online, really any new setting makes for a fresh take on a story. I haven't given any specific AU prompts other than a few canon divergences, but you can assume that they are always okay.


• Relationships--whether friendship or romance or family, what I really love is to see characters caring about each other, or learning to do so, and interacting. Found families are great for me, and teams of people coming together, and of course I'm always here for a good love story, especially if it comes with some pining.


• Worldbuilding is great--feel free to delve into the worlds around any of these stories, the kingdoms (or space stations, or online forums, or whatever) where they happen, how the magic does or doesn't work, really anything. I am always here for worldbuilding.


• New perspectives and the spaces around stories--missing scenes, focus on side characters, focus on main characters through a side character's POV, what happens before or during or at the same time.

Dislikes:

• Terminal illness, particularly of a parent or parental figure. If a character's parents need to die in a story, that's fine, but please don't focus on it.


• Darkness without hope, or darkness where things only ever get worse instead of better. Fairy tales can get really dark, and I encourage you to explore that, but I like hope and growth and optimism too much to want to do without it.
• As a general rule, if the following appear in the original tale it is fine to mention them, but I'd rather not have a focus on them: major character death, gore/graphic violence, horror-type elements, infidelity, incest, graphic depictions of abuse, and non-con

A few general notes:

• If you choose to focus on romance, I don't care if it's f/f, f/m, m/m, or polyamorous, so whatever works for the story and works for you is wonderful for me! If you want to make a princess into a prince or vice versa, that is absolutely fine. Wherever the story takes you!


• Rating also does not matter to me--I'll take the G-est of G and I'll take E (though for this challenge I love the tales so much that I'd prefer not to have PWP--porn WITH plot is fine, though)


• Feel free to do fairy tale crossovers--if you want to write a minor character having adventures and you want to steal another tale or a minor character from that tale to do so, that's awesome! If you are writing a minor character having adventures and you make up your own original story for them, that is also amazing!

And now for the tales themselves!

( Cinderella )

( Kate Crackernuts )

( The Princess and the Pea )

( Rumpelstiltskin )

( The Twelve Dancing Princesses )

Thank you again for writing for me, author! I hope you enjoy it.

Hello, dear author!

I loved doing this fest last year, and am so happy to be doing it again. I am a lover of fairy tales, folktales, and everything else this fest offers, so the first thing I want to tell you is that if you should follow your heart! If you have inspiration for something we matched on that doesn't quite match my prompts, feel free to run with it--I love the tales I'm asking for and want you to love exploring them. But if you want some guidelines, I've got both general likes/dislikes below, as well as prompts for each tale (if you happened to see my letter last year, a lot of things are repeated, so if something seems familiar, that is likely why).

If you want to know more about me and my taste in things, you can find me at lady_ragnell on the AO3 and theladyragnell on tumblr.

General Likes and Dislikes

Likes:

• I love happy endings, especially for characters who don't always get them because they're written out of the story or because they were villains who didn't quite get to redeem themselves--angst along the way is more than fine, and acknowledging the darkness of fairy tales, but a happy ending when all is done is my biggest love, or at the very least a hopeful one.


• AUs! Especially for fairy tales, a new setting is always amazing. Space, a specific time period, college, add or subtract some magic, have them meet online, really any new setting makes for a fresh take on a story.


• Relationships--whether friendship or romance or family, what I really love is to see characters caring about each other, or learning to do so, and interacting. Found families are great for me, and teams of people coming together, and of course I'm always here for a good love story, especially if it comes with some pining.


• Worldbuilding is great--feel free to delve into the worlds around any of these stories, the kingdoms (or space stations, or online forums, or whatever) where they happen, how the magic does or doesn't work, really anything. I am always here for worldbuilding.


• New perspectives and the spaces around stories--missing scenes, focus on side characters, focus on main characters through a side character's POV, what happens before or during or at the same time.

Dislikes:

• Terminal illness, particularly of a parent or parental figure. If a character's parents need to die in a story, that's fine, but please don't focus on it.


• Darkness without hope, or darkness where things only ever get worse instead of better. Fairy tales can get really dark, and I encourage you to explore that, but I like hope and growth and optimism too much to want to do without it.

Things that do not impact my enjoyment one way or the other, so do what YOU like:

• If you choose to focus on romance, I don't care if it's f/f, f/m, m/m, or polyamorous, so whatever works for the story and works for you is wonderful for me! If you want to make a princess into a prince or vice versa, that is absolutely fine. Wherever the story takes you!


• Rating also does not matter to me--I'll take the G-est of G and I'll take E (though for this challenge I love the tales so much that I'd prefer not to have PWP--porn WITH plot is fine, though)


• Fairy tale crossovers--if there's a prompt for a minor character having adventures and you want to steal another tale or a minor character from that tale to do so, that's awesome! If there's a prompt for a minor character having adventures and you make up your own original story for them, that is also amazing!

And now for the tales themselves!

( Allerleirauh | All-Kinds-of-Fur )

( Gold-tree and Silver-tree )

( One-eye Two-eyes and Three-eyes )


( Puddocky )

( The Silent Princess )

( The Twelve Dancing Princesses )


Thank you again for writing for me, author, and I hope you have fun writing!

Dear Author,

When I heard about this fist, I was so excited! I love fairy tales and folktales and all the ways people retell them, so if we match on a story and you get an idea that inspires you, the first thing I want to tell you is that you don't have to match any of my prompts. I'm most going to enjoy reading something that you enjoy writing. But obviously that's not always a helpful thing to say, so here are some general likes and dislikes and some prompts for the specific tales I requested.

If you want to know more about me and my taste in things, you can find me at lady_ragnell on the AO3 and theladyragnell on tumblr.

General Likes and Dislikes

Likes:

• I love happy endings, especially for characters who don't always get them because they're written out of the story or because they were villains who didn't quite get to redeem themselves--angst along the way is more than fine, and acknowledging the darkness of fairy tales, but a happy ending when all is done is my biggest love, or at the very least a hopeful one.


• AUs! Especially for fairy tales, a new setting is always amazing. Space, a specific time period, college, add or subtract some magic, have them meet online, really any new setting makes for a fresh take on a story.


• Relationships--whether friendship or romance or family, what I really love is to see characters caring about each other, or learning to do so, and interacting. Found families are great for me, and teams of people coming together, and of course I'm always here for a good love story, especially if it comes with some pining.


• Worldbuilding is great--feel free to delve into the worlds around any of these stories, the kingdoms (or space stations, or online forums, or whatever) where they happen, how the magic does or doesn't work, really anything. I am always here for worldbuilding.


• New perspectives and the spaces around stories--missing scenes, focus on side characters, focus on main characters through a side character's POV, what happens before or during or at the same time.

Dislikes:

• Terminal illness, particularly of a parent or parental figure. If a character's parents need to die in a story, that's fine, but please don't focus on it.


• Darkness without hope, or darkness where things only ever get worse instead of better. Fairy tales can get really dark, and I encourage you to explore that, but I like hope and growth and optimism too much to want to do without it.

Things that do not impact my enjoyment one way or the other, so do what YOU like:

• If you choose to focus on romance, I don't care if it's f/f, f/m, m/m, or polyamorous, so whatever works for the story and works for you is wonderful for me! If you want to make a princess into a prince or vice versa, that is absolutely fine. Wherever the story takes you!


• Rating also does not matter to me--I'll take the G-est of G and I'll take E (though for this challenge I love the tales so much that I'd prefer not to have PWP--porn WITH plot is fine, though)


• Fairy tale crossovers--if there's a prompt for a minor character having adventures and you want to steal another tale or a minor character from that tale to do so, that's awesome! If there's a prompt for a minor character having adventures and you make up your own original story for them, that is also amazing!

And now for the tales themselves!

( 12 Dancing Princesses )( One-eye Two-eyes and Three-eyes )( King Lindorm )

( Puddocky )( The Twelve Huntsmen )Thank you so much for writing for me, dear author! I can't wait to read whatever you come up with, and I hope you have fun.

Dear Author,

First of all, thank you for offering any of these fandoms that we happened to match on! I love all of these canons so much, and I am so excited to see whatever you come up with. If you have an idea for one of them that you've been itching to try, feel free to run with it! A story that you enjoy writing will definitely make me happy, and I get wordy because I love all these canons, but please don't feel pressured to do anything super specific that I happen to toss out there.

This is my second year participating in Yuletide, though I've enjoyed the wealth of things it had to offer for several years. If you want to see what I write to get an idea of what I like to read, here's my AO3 profile. If you want clarification about my likes/dislikes/anything, samyazaz is the person to ask, on her tumblr.

General Likes and Dislikes

Yes Please: Happy endings are definitely my biggest! Happy or hopeful. I don't mind angst for spice in the story, but I like to feel like everyone is going to be okay. I love romance, especially the tropey piney sort (of any rating), but don't feel pressure on that front, I will also happily consume gen. I love worldbuilding, getting to see settings and hinted-at things explored, and the gaps in canons explored as well, what happens before and after and in the spaces in between episodes/seasons/etc. I love ensembles, strong friendships, close relationships, basically people being on each other's side. I love people getting to be competent and creative at what they do. I love hurt/comfort, marriage tropes, pining, humor, epistolary fic, banter, UST, romcoms, get-togethers, and in general, as many tropes as you care to give me. AUs are also great for me! Timeline changes, what-ifs, or full on setting changes are always wonderful, though again, as with romance, please don't feel pressured! I love all of these canons and their settings very much.
*Note: I mention poly in a few of these fandoms. If you aren't comfortable with that, don't worry! I don't tend to ship poly unless I happily ship all the pairings within it, so if I request A/B/C and you only feel comfortable with B/C or A/C, that is 100% fine with me.

No Thank You: Explicit major character death, especially due to terminal illness and specifically cancer, is my biggest thing to avoid. Deaths that have canonically happened are fine to acknowledge, but a fic focusing on them probably won't make me happy. I also prefer not to read: infidelity, incest, non-con, medical horror or experimentation, emotional or physical domestic/partner abuse, or graphic/brutal violence (again, for any of these, if it happened in the canon it's fine to acknowledge it, but I prefer that it not be the focus). If you decide to write porn, as long as there's consent I'm pretty open to wherever the spirit movies you, but I prefer no watersports, bloodplay, or scat.

Fandom-specific likes/dislikes/requests are below the cuts!

( Galavant )

( iZombie )

( Killjoys )

( Selfie )

Happy writing, author! I hope you've found something in here to catch your interest, and I look forward to seeing whatever you come up with.