Yuletide 2020 Letter!
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1001paperboxes here! Thank you so much for writing me a thing! I can't wait to see what you come up with!
Under the cut, you'll find a general list of my likes and dislikes, and then some added info on each of my prompts. I hope there's something that sparks your interest. <3
Dramacon is 15 years old this year, and doesn't have a single work on AO3. I'd love to see some love for it, if you are up for the challenge.
There's a few different fun ways to play with this 15 years theme. I'd equally love to see some "where are they now?" type stuff, or a reinvention of the canon, updating and seeing what (if anything) in the story would change with the way the world is now versus when it was written. Stuff just generally set in this slice-of-life universe is also very welcome; some slightly more specific prompts below.
I'd love to see everyone reconnecting at a convention again, whether it's one, ten, or fifteen years later. Is it Chrissie's first time appearing as a guest, or is she still just a regular congoer/doing AA? Did Chrissie and Matt manage to actually stay in contact over the course of a whole year for once? Is anyone married with children, and do their kids attend conventions yet? (And if so, how many pictures has Monica taken of them?) Has Sexy Joe been banned yet? Or is he still running around in up to his old tricks?
Focusing on any of the canon relationships would be lovely. Want to show how Matt and Christie's relationship evolves post canon? Great! Wanna catch us up on how things are working out between Beth and Raj? Great! Wanna go over how Sandra and Greta's relationship began? Amazing! A very nerdy wedding for any of these couples would also be really neat to see, if you want to guide them through something like that.
There are also some great secondary characters that we never really get to learn enough about, particularly Firebird Studio and Greta. I'd absolutely adore if you dug into one or more of them. Tell me how Firebird Studio got off the ground, or show me the Green siblings' relationship from Greta's perspective, for example, and I'll absolutely adore it.
Holiday-wise... Okay, so, where I'm from, there's a tiny industry-run convention that happens every year in December, and generally manages to be little more than an overcrowded dealer's room and everyone showing up in their slightly-more-Christmassy-than-usual cosplays. If you wanted to do a take on that with the cast, and have them all show up in holiday cosplay and try to buy each other Christmas presents (and/or exchange ones gotten at other times) I would gleefully adore it. Of course, a more full-scale con would also be a lot of fun, but there is something about the absolute trash of a "dealer's room and not much else" convention that I think could make for a fun disaster. Of course, conventions are not all there is to life. If you'd like to explore, say, Christie spending Christmas with the Greens, that could be a delight. One thing I'd actually really love is Raj celebrating Diwali. Bonus points if he very self-consciously brings Beth along. Bonus bonus points if the the rest of the Firebird Studio is there too, peanut gallerying.
In short, give me just about anything from Beth figuring out how to rebuild and strengthen her relationship with her mom while staying true to herself, to Christie finally learning how to make a good cosplay, and I will be equally excited and overjoyed to see what you created.
Some notes:
My number one request for this fandom is for OT4 fic. I mean, Narumi, Hirotaka, Hanako, and Tarou have all admitted to be dating each other's normal type. And with the shipping and fanservice between the boys, and how well the girls just go together.... yeah. Just. OT4 Fic, please.
Give me them getting together and figuring it out, or being together on a group date or group sex or exactly what they did as friends except together. For that matter, I'd take it all platonic, too, but the OT4 potential is too strong and I want it. ToT
I'd also love to see some Naoya/Kou content. Very much their own thing and not OT6, mind, but an adorable fluffy thing with them, or just Naoya showing up and being his adorable not-a-nerd-but-a-nerd-enthusiast self would be great. (I would not at all complain if you went with Naoya and Kou instead of the main four; my desire for the OT4 is just too great for me not to make it my #1 choice.)
Holiday-wise, Christmas is a holiday for children and lovers in Japan, and means a lot of limited edition seasonal merch and drops, and I'd love fic focusing on any of those. Want to show Narumi and Hitotaka trying to negotiate their way through their first Christmas together? Go for it. Want to show everyone bumping into each other at Animate trying to get cool stuff for themselves and/or each other? Go for it. Want show the Nifuji siblings (with possible bonus Narumi) getting ready for Christmas? Go for it! Want to show them fighting over Kouhaku Uta Gassen and getting together to ring the new year in together? Absolutely go for it!
For other ideas... either couple moving in together, or some of Hanako and Tarou's wedding prep (I've not read this bit of manga yet, but I know it's a thing), or figuring out cosplays, or something with flashbacks to Narumi and one or both Nifujis as children.... the possibilities are endless! I'd take just about any plot involving some combination of these six so long as there's fun and/or heartwarming moments to be had, so if you have a fun idea, please go for it. But yes; there's a lot of good in this fandom and I'd love to see more of it in general.
Some notes:
Fangs is such an adorable webcomic, and I love the way that Sarah Andersen has played with vampire and werewolf tropes in making this universe, and how she's created such an adorable and quirky couple. Playing around with vampire and werewolf lore, and having them compare and contrast their experiences to those in classics and popular fiction is definitely encouraged, as is just seeing Jimmy and Elsie figuring each other out and negotiating their relationship.
Thanks to the rather snapshot-ish nature of canon, there's a lot in the comics that could be more fully explored. If you wanted to take one or more individual episodes and expand upon them (like Full Moon, or Selfie, or Return, or literally any other one) that could be lovely.
There's a lot of relationship milestones that could be fun to explore as well. We know they move in together from the shared closet; what was that process like? Do you think that they will eventually get married? Have children? What is that like? I'd especially love to see their respective pre-wedding celebrations and rituals, or to have them decide to adopt a third type of supernatural creature, if you'd be interested in either of these options.
On that note, it'd be neat to see more of Jimmy's pack, or to explore vampire society a bit more, or in general how monsters exist within the world of Fangs. Are they well-known to exist within society, or is it more of an underground subculture? How many of their own kind do Jimmy and Elsie know? (And how popular, exactly, is the Odditorium with humans and monsters alike?)
If you want to go into Jimmy or Elsie's past; how they became the monsters that they are, feel free. If you want to show the future, and what it's like for Jimmy to age while Elsie stays eternally 26, feel free as well.
If you'd like to go a little holiday-y, what are their respective rituals like, and how do they introduce them to each other? Do they try to blend them together in their new relationship at all? I'd love to see any vampire or werewolf-specific holidays, and/or Elsie still keeping some traditions from the late 17th century and Jimmy having his own rather minimalistic view of Christmas or Hanukkah, or whatever else, and how they make their own traditions together.
There's just so much to explore within this webcomic, and I'm sad that it's a short as it is. Any exploration of Jimmy and/or Elsie is welcome, and I'm sure I'll adore whatever you create.
Some notes:
Under the cut, you'll find a general list of my likes and dislikes, and then some added info on each of my prompts. I hope there's something that sparks your interest. <3
General Notes
- I particularly like fluff, slice of life, and hurt/comfort, and generally things that can make me laugh and/or want to hug someone.
- I like relatively happy endings. Please do not leave me in heartbreak and with people dead everywhere. (People dead everywhere in the beginning and rebuilding together is much better. XD)
- On that note, if doing hurt/comfort, please focus on the comfort and not on the hurt.
- If you want to have sex involved, I certainly won't say no, but I'd appreciate very enthusiastic consent. Please no rape/non-con. Kink, humour, and banter during sex are wonderful and very appreciated.
- 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 someone or everyone. Or just figuring out how to holiday in general. I will enjoy every bit of it. I've given some holiday-y examples for everyone, but the sky is honestly the limit here.
- You may have noticed that I've requested no specific characters. This is the first time I've made this choice, but it's very much a conscious decision. For all three of these fandoms, I'd love fics about anyone in the tag set, and I've tried to include a variety of prompts that reflect such. I hope that you find something you like there, but if you have a favourite bit of that fandom that you'd like to explore, please do so and have fun!
Dramacon (Manga)
Dramacon is 15 years old this year, and doesn't have a single work on AO3. I'd love to see some love for it, if you are up for the challenge.
There's a few different fun ways to play with this 15 years theme. I'd equally love to see some "where are they now?" type stuff, or a reinvention of the canon, updating and seeing what (if anything) in the story would change with the way the world is now versus when it was written. Stuff just generally set in this slice-of-life universe is also very welcome; some slightly more specific prompts below.
I'd love to see everyone reconnecting at a convention again, whether it's one, ten, or fifteen years later. Is it Chrissie's first time appearing as a guest, or is she still just a regular congoer/doing AA? Did Chrissie and Matt manage to actually stay in contact over the course of a whole year for once? Is anyone married with children, and do their kids attend conventions yet? (And if so, how many pictures has Monica taken of them?) Has Sexy Joe been banned yet? Or is he still running around in up to his old tricks?
Focusing on any of the canon relationships would be lovely. Want to show how Matt and Christie's relationship evolves post canon? Great! Wanna catch us up on how things are working out between Beth and Raj? Great! Wanna go over how Sandra and Greta's relationship began? Amazing! A very nerdy wedding for any of these couples would also be really neat to see, if you want to guide them through something like that.
There are also some great secondary characters that we never really get to learn enough about, particularly Firebird Studio and Greta. I'd absolutely adore if you dug into one or more of them. Tell me how Firebird Studio got off the ground, or show me the Green siblings' relationship from Greta's perspective, for example, and I'll absolutely adore it.
Holiday-wise... Okay, so, where I'm from, there's a tiny industry-run convention that happens every year in December, and generally manages to be little more than an overcrowded dealer's room and everyone showing up in their slightly-more-Christmassy-than-usual cosplays. If you wanted to do a take on that with the cast, and have them all show up in holiday cosplay and try to buy each other Christmas presents (and/or exchange ones gotten at other times) I would gleefully adore it. Of course, a more full-scale con would also be a lot of fun, but there is something about the absolute trash of a "dealer's room and not much else" convention that I think could make for a fun disaster. Of course, conventions are not all there is to life. If you'd like to explore, say, Christie spending Christmas with the Greens, that could be a delight. One thing I'd actually really love is Raj celebrating Diwali. Bonus points if he very self-consciously brings Beth along. Bonus bonus points if the the rest of the Firebird Studio is there too, peanut gallerying.
In short, give me just about anything from Beth figuring out how to rebuild and strengthen her relationship with her mom while staying true to herself, to Christie finally learning how to make a good cosplay, and I will be equally excited and overjoyed to see what you created.
Some notes:
- First of all, kudos to the tagset wrangling mods to noted this as (Manga); this actually works on meta levels as an original English-language (OEL) Manga that brings up the debate on OEL manga within its pages, and makes me super happy.
- Incidentally, Baba Yetu is also 15 years old this year. Bonus points, therefore, for Matt and/or Christie trolling the other one by claiming it's their song, or for it to be an inside joke between the two of them.
- While it's not an absolute necessity, the more bits of nerdery you can throw in, absolutely the better. Bonus points if you follow the book's style of off-brand names like Pawky and Sailing Moon.
- Keeping the main focus to the characters in the tagset would be ideal, though love for other minor characters (like Brett, Opal, or Sexy Joe) would also be fun.
- I'd especially prefer if we stay away from the exes, except perhaps in passing mention. A brief scene with Derek or Emily is fine. A fic centered around them, though, would be best left avoided.
- Matt finally in goth loli, however, is completely acceptable (and even encouraged).
ヲタクに恋は難しい | Wotaku ni Koi wa Muzukashii | Wotakoi: Love is Hard for Otaku (Anime & Manga)
My number one request for this fandom is for OT4 fic. I mean, Narumi, Hirotaka, Hanako, and Tarou have all admitted to be dating each other's normal type. And with the shipping and fanservice between the boys, and how well the girls just go together.... yeah. Just. OT4 Fic, please.
Give me them getting together and figuring it out, or being together on a group date or group sex or exactly what they did as friends except together. For that matter, I'd take it all platonic, too, but the OT4 potential is too strong and I want it. ToT
I'd also love to see some Naoya/Kou content. Very much their own thing and not OT6, mind, but an adorable fluffy thing with them, or just Naoya showing up and being his adorable not-a-nerd-but-a-nerd-enthusiast self would be great. (I would not at all complain if you went with Naoya and Kou instead of the main four; my desire for the OT4 is just too great for me not to make it my #1 choice.)
Holiday-wise, Christmas is a holiday for children and lovers in Japan, and means a lot of limited edition seasonal merch and drops, and I'd love fic focusing on any of those. Want to show Narumi and Hitotaka trying to negotiate their way through their first Christmas together? Go for it. Want to show everyone bumping into each other at Animate trying to get cool stuff for themselves and/or each other? Go for it. Want show the Nifuji siblings (with possible bonus Narumi) getting ready for Christmas? Go for it! Want to show them fighting over Kouhaku Uta Gassen and getting together to ring the new year in together? Absolutely go for it!
For other ideas... either couple moving in together, or some of Hanako and Tarou's wedding prep (I've not read this bit of manga yet, but I know it's a thing), or figuring out cosplays, or something with flashbacks to Narumi and one or both Nifujis as children.... the possibilities are endless! I'd take just about any plot involving some combination of these six so long as there's fun and/or heartwarming moments to be had, so if you have a fun idea, please go for it. But yes; there's a lot of good in this fandom and I'd love to see more of it in general.
Some notes:
- I would adore if you can keep the same decently light tone of the original, but if you want to have some heaviness, that's perfectly fine as well.
- Exploring Kabakura getting over his internalized [male/male] homophobia would be A+.
- The more nerdy content here, the better. * o * (2.5 stages? Preparing cosplays and doujin for the next convention? In-game holiday events? Buying the kind of merch each other likes? GO WILD.)
Fangs (Webcomic)
Fangs is such an adorable webcomic, and I love the way that Sarah Andersen has played with vampire and werewolf tropes in making this universe, and how she's created such an adorable and quirky couple. Playing around with vampire and werewolf lore, and having them compare and contrast their experiences to those in classics and popular fiction is definitely encouraged, as is just seeing Jimmy and Elsie figuring each other out and negotiating their relationship.
Thanks to the rather snapshot-ish nature of canon, there's a lot in the comics that could be more fully explored. If you wanted to take one or more individual episodes and expand upon them (like Full Moon, or Selfie, or Return, or literally any other one) that could be lovely.
There's a lot of relationship milestones that could be fun to explore as well. We know they move in together from the shared closet; what was that process like? Do you think that they will eventually get married? Have children? What is that like? I'd especially love to see their respective pre-wedding celebrations and rituals, or to have them decide to adopt a third type of supernatural creature, if you'd be interested in either of these options.
On that note, it'd be neat to see more of Jimmy's pack, or to explore vampire society a bit more, or in general how monsters exist within the world of Fangs. Are they well-known to exist within society, or is it more of an underground subculture? How many of their own kind do Jimmy and Elsie know? (And how popular, exactly, is the Odditorium with humans and monsters alike?)
If you want to go into Jimmy or Elsie's past; how they became the monsters that they are, feel free. If you want to show the future, and what it's like for Jimmy to age while Elsie stays eternally 26, feel free as well.
If you'd like to go a little holiday-y, what are their respective rituals like, and how do they introduce them to each other? Do they try to blend them together in their new relationship at all? I'd love to see any vampire or werewolf-specific holidays, and/or Elsie still keeping some traditions from the late 17th century and Jimmy having his own rather minimalistic view of Christmas or Hanukkah, or whatever else, and how they make their own traditions together.
There's just so much to explore within this webcomic, and I'm sad that it's a short as it is. Any exploration of Jimmy and/or Elsie is welcome, and I'm sure I'll adore whatever you create.
Some notes:
- As hinted above, exploration of other monsters within this world is definitely welcome. Perhaps not as a fic unto itself, but within Jimmy and Elsie's experience, certainly.
- I will 100% bend my "no character death" rule here for some talk of Ellie and her previous, erm, conquests. Just keep it in line with the tone of canon if you do so, please.
- Don't be afraid to go a little dark here, so long as there's a happy or hopeful ending. If you can mix a little humour in, all the better.
