Dear Yuletide....

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Congratulations! You got me as your recipient! Hopefully the prompts go well with your headcanons, and something sparks inspiration within you! If not, I apologise and wish you the best of luck.

(And if you stumbled upon this another way, and are interested in writing bonus treat fics, you can find me on AO3 at 1001paperboxes.)

No matter what, thank you in advance for writing me a fic. I'm sure it's going to be awesome.

General Notes

• I particularly like slice of life and hurt/comfort, and things that can make me laugh and/or want to hug someone.


• Unless specifically stated otherwise, I am perfectly fine with either gen or shippy stuff. That said, I would prefer no PWP if at all possible. (Sex as a thing that happens is perfectly fine, nonetheless!)


• I like relatively happy endings. Please do not leave me in heartbreak and with people dead everywhere. ...unless it's the ToQger-love-triangle prompt, in which case PLEASE MAKE IT AS MELODRAMATIC AS HUMANLY POSSIBLE.


• Similarly, please no rape/non-con. And if doing hurt/comfort, please focus on the comfort and not on the hurt.


• I've given some general plot ideas for the various fandoms, but I am fine with my gift not matching any of them.


• If you want to do an AU, please feel free! There's lots of interesting fun to be had there!


• If you feel like doing something holiday-y, rather than following my prompts exactly, that is an option for just about everything. Give me secret santas and tree decorating and trying to find the perfect gift for everyone. I will enjoy every bit of it.

Critical Role RPF

What I'm mainly after here is Liam and Sam as common-law husbands. Where we go with that... well, there's several possibilities included but not limited to:

• First meeting, first date, falling in love, getting together


• Making time for weekly date nights in an increasingly busy schedule


• Holidays with the O'Briegels (what holidays do you celebrate in a half-athesist lapsed Catholic, half-Jewish household? Do they have passive-aggressive decoration wars during the holidays? Does Sam always somehow win?)


• Growing old together


• Sam and Liam writing Sam/Liam slash fic. Or Liam/Sam slashfic. Bonus points if they spend time trying to figure out the proper order!

Some considerations:

• I'm assuming that if you're doing this prompt, you know about All Work No Play. If you don't, please give it a listen! It's full of lots of great stuff between these two (and also gives some Critical Role backstory!) It's also available on iTunes and other Podcast-y places.


• I am no alcohol expert, but I know those two might be (or at least more than me). Please feel free to be as specific or unspecific as you want to be if alcohol gets involved! (And please feel free to make Sam the kind of wine snob who would get all his friends wine aerators for Christmas. Because he literally has done that.)


• I am, however, a lover of musical theatre, and if you want them to partake in this as well (because they really are) I will love you.


• I would prefer that this fill not be specifically PWP smut. That said, it's those two, and sex might happen, and talking about sex and/or dicks will almost certainly happen. That is perfectly fine.


• That said, if you want to write them writing PWP smut, that is an entirely different story. ;)

Kyuranger

I need more Balance and Naga. The world needs more Balance and Naga. They are a wonderful, delightful team, and my favourite part of this season of Super Sentai.

Some plot ideas:

• The beginning of their journey together after leaving Naga's home planet


• Balance's ongoing attempts at teaching Naga emotion


• Aftermath of the evil Naga arc


• Anything involving those two cuddling


• Figuring out the definition of love (both trying to explain it to Naga, and trying to figure out how it works when one is mechanical and the other doesn't understand feelings)

Some considerations:

• I don't really care if things are platonic or romantic between them. So long as they're interacting positively with each other, I really don't care.


• Please don't set anything major during the evil Naga arc. I need them both to be happy and safe.


• Okay, I'd actually love the entire team to be happy and safe.


• That said, mentions of canonical angst or implications coming from such is more than fine. Just let things end well and happily.

If you would rather do a team centric thing, tell me about their holiday celebrations. Every time we get a season with people from another world, I want to learn all about their cultures:

• How is Garu keeping alive the traditions of a culture that no longer exists?


• Does Naga's world even have celebrations?


• Do those with families contact them on certain special days?


• How do Tsurugi and Kotaro's understanding of Earth celebrations compare? What has changed in 300 years?


• Are there any universal holidays because of, or in spite of, Jark Matter occupation?

Gokaiger

Moving this one up in order, because one of the things I'd love to see is a crossover between Gokaiger and Kyuranger.

• Do these two space resistance teams get along? Are there any rivalries?


• How much does Gai freak out? Does he try to help teach Naga emotions along with teaching everyone about ALL THE TEAMS? Is Tsurugi happy because FINALLY SOMEONE KNOWS WHO HE IS?


• Are the Zangyack Empire and Jack Matter related? Rivals? From different universes and have no clue about each other?


• No really. Just. SPACE RESISTANCE BUDDIES. They're not going to give us this crossover (I'm guessing) but SO MUCH SPACE RESISTANCE.


• Give Raptor the once-in-a-lifetime chance to wear that school uniform and make a high school AU!

My other request is for Jealousto fic

• We now have seen him interact with the Zyuohgers. Are he and Misao friends? Do they help each other get over the feeling of being literal and/or figurative trash?


• How is life with his wife and son?


• Tell me about Take Your Child To Work Day


• Does he ever contact anyone from the Zangyack Empire?


• What was his childhood like? Tell me tales of his school days with Insarn!

If neither of these speak to you, like with Kyuranger, tell me of the holidays and customs of the crew's home worlds:

• What did Marvelous grow up with on the various ships he lived upon growing up?


• Did Joe's home country have any customs that survived into the Zangyack occupation?


• How did Luka keep customs alive with her group of Orphans?


• Does Don even remember his home country's customs and holidays?


• How does Ahim try to keep an extinct country's customs alive?


• Gai teaching everyone Earth holidays.


• What weird hyrbrid of everything gets brought to life aboard the ship?

Some considerations:

• Not a lot here. Gokaiger is awesome. I love most things Gokaiger.


• I especially love Don, and have a soft spot for Ahim and Joe having a Princess and Knight kind of relationship, but I am up for most characterizations of everyone.

ToQger

Okay. So my first request here is for backstory on the melodramatic story between Ticket, Kaniros, and Jennifer:

• Give me a full-on love triangle full of as many tropes as possible.


• Frame it in the same way as the noir story we got canonically, or do it completely differently. Any way you like.


• Or just do an AU of the whole thing, again ending with the most tragic loss of Jennifer!

Otherwise, Hikari and/or the ToQgers as a group:

• How does Hikari feel that he fits in, when he's often the one off to the side? How does he deal with having the least amount of imagination?


• Give me a fic about them growing up. How do they transition from the kids that they are in ToQger to the adults we see in ToQger Returns? Is it jarring to know what they will become in time?


• Or just plain future fic. Do Tokatti and Mio stay together? Do Hikari and Kagura date? Are they all one big queerplatonic family?


• Show me them improvising how to celebrate just about anything on the train, or having a sleepover. Show me them dealing with nightmares, and their little superstitions. Show me them being kids trapped in adult bodies and being the best little family of friends.

Some considerations:

• My favourite three characters of the ToQgers are Tokatti, Hikari, and Kagura. This is in no particular order. If a fic has to be one ToQger-focussed, choosing one of those would be appreciated.


• I'm actually not the biggest Tokatti/Mio fan, but I'm perfectly happy with it so long as it's not the fic's main focus.


• That said, I love the ToQgers as an entire happy unit. Romantically (though probably just crushing unless it's in the future) or platonically or especially found family/queerplatonic. The idea of them all eventually living together and/or staying together because they [platonically] love each other and understand each other is wonderful.


• I also love all the secondary characters. If you want to include them and up the zaniness? Go right ahead!

Gekkan Shoujo Nozaki-kun

Thanks to Yuletide last year, I've become very interested in Mayu and Mikorin interacting. And thus, I see no better idea than to pass on the interest in this year's Yuletide!

• Want to make them date? Great! How does that work? How does Mayu's lazy attitude and Mikorin's mix of suaveness and awkward shyness work together romantically?


• In chapter 59, they both are texting each other with female pseudonyms, thinking the other one is a girl. Does anyone every catch on with what's happening? Do they ever find out who each other now?


• What if they really were female, and were Mayumayu and Mikorin? Have fun with a genderswap AU! (Is anyone else genderswapped, or just them?)


• Them just hanging out together is fine, too. Really, I'm good with anything with these two!

My alternate request, if those two really aren't working for you, is Secret Santa hijinks! Have fun deciding who gets who, and who asks who for help, and turning it into a GIANT MESS in true Nozaki-kun style.

Some considerations:

• To be honest, I expect silliness. If you want to take it any other direction, feel free. But this series was made for a bit of drama turned silliness, and I am 100% down for more of that.

Hustle Cat

So, back a year or two ago, Bustle Cat was introduced as an April Fools joke. I fell in love with the idea even so. (I actually am planning on cosplaying it, because I am that much of a nerd.) I would LOVE to see something set in that AU.

• How would the steampunk setting change the story?


• Does steampunk replace the magic, or just add another setting on which the story can unfold?


• Does anyone's magic change in this setting?


• Feel free to rewritewrite the entire game plotline, or someone's backstory in this new setting.

If you'd rather stick to the original setting, then give me something before or after the story, or something from someone else's POV.

• How does Hustle Cat's plot look from one of the other workers in A Cat's Paw?


• If Finley had her way, would they all become vigilantes? How would that work?


• What if Avery could teach all the cats magic at once, and make an OTEveryone [or aor/queerplatonic] ending? What would that be like?


• How does Christmas shopping and family visits work when you're a cat?


• Again. There's so much backstory and future story that we don't see. Fill in some gaps!

Some considerations:

• Okay. I'll admit it. My favourite character is Hayes. If you can do nice things for him, I'd love it, but I'm more interested in playing around with the universe than on specific characters, thus my not putting him in as a specific request.


• I love the idea of everyone [or everyone but Graves] as a giant cuddlepile. Give me queerplatonic love and I will be suuuuper happy.


• If doing someone/Avery, I'd kind of prefer Mason and Landry with a female Avery, Hayes with a male Avery. Less picky with headcanons for the other three. (If it's a larger group, then any gender is perfectly fine.)


• I'd prefer if Graves/Nacht was not a focus. Though acknowledging it as a thing that happened is perfectly fine.

And that's just about it!

Thanks again, good luck, and happy Yuletide!