Dear Yuletide Writer,

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Dear Yuletide Writer,

Firstly, thank you so much for writing my yuletide fic this year, I super appreciate it and whatever you write I am sure I’ll love it. Pretty easy to please. I would also like to congratulate you on your fantastic taste for whichever fandom/s we matched up on. First and most importantly, have fun with this. I’ve never yet been disappointed with my yuletide lot, and I have absolute faith that that trend is going to continue. :D

General stuff! I'm the biggest fan in the universe of Hurt/Comfort - as long as the comfort is equal if not more so than the hurt. I am a sucker for rape recovery fic - though obviously that's not everyone's cup of tea - and am more interested in the AFTER of traumas. If you do go the rape/sexual assault recovery, you don’t even need to include the initial assault. I really am ALL about the comfort, the healing, the growing. It’s a heavy thing to take on, so by no means feel obligated. But if you’re up for it, comfort all the way!

I'm pretty easy going in what I'll read; sort of a 'give everything a shot once' type of thing so I guess it'd be easier to go with what I can't/don't read.

Please no character death in fic - any of the requested characters anyway, if you have to kill of minor baddies or background for the purpose of plot I won't hold it against you or even particularly care but I dislike major character death in fic because I'm a soft touch. I have an embarrassment squick the size of China so please no humiliation, public or otherwise.

Crossovers - I'm not a huge fan in general. But I’ve seen great ones done before, so if you get a spark, take it and run with it. I won’t stand in the way of artistic inspiration!

I'm a very big fan of loyalty and friends/lovers standing up for and defending their friends/lovers against everything - even tiny slights. It works well for me!

Sidenote I do not enjoy when this is taken to be person A overriding the feelings and decisions of person B in order to defend/stand up for/protect. If this does take place, please for the love of god have it be addressed IN FIC as being a Not Good Thing to do. It’s one of those things that just throws me out entirely.

Overall I really just like happy endings - though you can be as angsty as you want up til that point. Issue-fic is fine too - any kind, as long as the end is not gut wrenchingly painful. I like my happy hopeful endings. They only have to JUST barely get there if you struggle with that sort of thing, but it's a Christmas fic so, IF YOU WOULD BE SO KIND :D

PORN: I enjoy it greatly. DO NOT FEEL OBLIGATED TO INCLUDE IT. I am well aware it’s not everyone’s thing and that many writers struggle with sex scenes. So please don’t think I will be disappointed if there is none present. BUT if you do want to include it:

I am not a fan of scat, watersports or humiliation play (as above). I am wary of hardcore D/S because I very much dislike power imbalances in relationships but if the D/S is strictly a sex thing, or you feel as though you can write D/S relationships without making it feel unbalanced for a layman who has no personal experience in the scene, go ahead.

My bullet proof kinks are: desperate frottage through clothes, biting and rough sex (not violent, more ‘so turned on I can’t be gentle’ kind of deal) and one partner holding the other down, or against a surface. CONSENT is also a bulletproof kink of mine. I like it asked for often, and given freely and with great pleasure.

That was enormous, I AM SORRY, but I greatly prefer to have lots of detail in my own yuletide letter, so I tend to do that myself. As always, you can ignore everything, this is absolutely optional. I would really, really appreciate it if you just avoided the squick stuff, however.

ONWARD TO THE PROMPTS.

 

The Losers – Cougar, Jensen.

I love The Losers. I have hundreds of unfinished fic for it on my hard drive. I read anything new that comes out with unhindered glee. So there REALLY is very little you could write for this lot that wouldn't make my year.

But I am especially fond of Jensen/Cougar pairing fic. I really love fic with the rest of the team, especially pre-the Losers film itself, mostly because I enjoy Roque though that leaves me sans Aisha. I like fic that deals with the differences between the two and how they fit together anyway.

I super love fic where one has to rescue the other and goes off the rails trying to get them back. If you don't feel like writing slash between the two, I'm totally cool with a BFF relationship fic too. Basically I just love seeing them BE THEM and be with their team and be unfailingly loyal. Seeing something from after the movie where they have to deal with the whole Roque's betrayal wouldn't go astray either - I like fic where they comfort one another.

I have a soft spot for the POV character in Cougar/Jensen fic to be someone else - either in the team or not, and their observations and insights.

 

Hellboy – John Myers, Nuada.

This is a weird match of characters, I am well aware and I apologise. But I’ve read a small amount of these two together and it’s always fascinated me and been extremely enjoyable. I assume though if someone matched me on this, that they either offered any (in which case, I am very sorry) or they too have been a fan of this pairing of characters before.

SO. I do like the sexual relationship between these two in fic. But I am not unaware of how much would have to go into getting there. So do not feel like I’m pushing for that. If you want to try it, I will love you forever. But that forever love is guaranteed for anything at this point either way.

I loved the character of Myers in the first movie, his quiet and understated self. He was competent and intelligent, but unsure and nervous and definitely not all that aware of his own value. I was sad that he was ousted from the sequel. I’d love to read about what happened to him, how it made him feel to be transferred after finding his place with the team. Any way you want to go.

With Nuada – he’s a tough character and it’s a big ask, but I would really like to see him come around, to somewhat of a cliché, but learn the value of humanity by seeing the goodness in someone/some ones. See that hope is not lost. You absolutely don’t have to do this and can come at it however you like. But I am very fond of the bitterness, the brokenness of Nuada and how much hate there is in his heart, and how blind it has made him. Writing around his death can be done anyway you want, if you even want to do it, but I confess I’d enjoy it if was set post the second movie.

It was done in a fic once, the idea that Myers was part elf, way back. I REALLY LIKE THAT CONCEPT. So you know. Just throwing that out there if you need some ideas :D 

Person of Interest – John Reese, Joss Carter

I am very, very fond of Joss Carter and John Reese. I love their interactions, and the way they behave together. I love Reese’s obvious affection and admiration of Carter, and I love Carter’s grudging but honest affection for him in return.

If you write these two, I would LOVE for them to come together as a couple. I loved the episode with Carter’s son and I feel that there are a lot of places a person could go with writing them together, discovering more about each other, and growing closer.

In the same vein, I adore their friendship so if you want to stick to that, well, same thing really. They’re both fiercely competent people who stick to their guns and want to help people, they’ve been through some terrible shit and came out the other side, and they’re loyal to the bone. I would love anything that has them learning or recognizing those qualities in the other, or finding comfort/peace/solace in the other because of it.

Case fic, character focused, slice of life, I’m not fussy when it comes to these two. Anyway you want to play it, go ahead.

So that’s it! I am just ecstatic to get any fic at all, so again, don’t stress overmuch and really enjoy it. I hope it goes well for you, and that you have a great yuletide. Thank you so much for giving me this great gift and I can’t wait to read it.

Good luck!.

G