15. dear yuletide writer 2022
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slowpartsGreetings, dearest Yuletide writer! Here we are again... the wheel of time turns ever on... last year I was not 30, and now I am. How about that!
I hope that the year has been good to you—if not consistently, then at least enough for it to break even. At least, you know, where it counts.
I thank you from the bottom of my heart for making something for me this year, and please know that it is okay to default if you need to. Time... is precious.
All of my individual prompts and ramblings are below, but honestly any of the ships/canons I'm requesting mixed with one or a few of the tropes listed below is guaranteed to be a smash hit.
The TL;DRs of my prompts:
- Super 8 gets the IT Chapter 2 treatment. Friends reunite, trauma is unpacked, feelings are had, Joe and Alice are in love.
- Anything, literally anything at all about Noa and Asuma from obscure 90s mecha anime Patlabor which I know I will not be receiving because nobody on this planet but me has watched it.
- Satoru and Kenya from ERASED get together. Not picky on how it happens. Bonus points if Kenya also has Revival and was trying to use it to save Satoru.
- Hastings and Poirot have a travelogue where murders do not happen. Japp finds out that they are Companions, or knew all along, and is cool about it.
- Gay Luke Sanderson character study.
I AM INTO (ODAO): healing from grief and trauma, the pining-longing-yearning triptych, character studies, ship studies, the 5 times + 1 time format, nonlinear narratives, almost kisses, drunken confessions, developing romance, angst with a happy ending, emotional hurt/comfort, fake/pretend dating leads to feelings, snark and banter, found families, FRIENDSHIPS (especially unlikely ones), friends to lovers, expansions of canon, WOMEN, unresolved romantic/emotional tension, WOMEN, things like love and friendship daring to exist even in dire circumstances, nature imagery, "What Comes After" as a concept (basically anything post-canon)
I AM NOT INTO (DNWs): big ones first—rape, incest, underage, abuse. beyond that—heavy or detailed gore, marriage/pregnancy fic, established relationship fic (with certain exceptions), first person POV (unless it's epistolary), character bashing, angst with no happy ending, actually unrequited love (for any ships I request), high school/college/coffee shop/florist/tattooist AUs, modern AUs (for fandoms that take place in the past/a fantasy world/whatever)
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Agatha Christie's Poirot (TV)
requesting: Hercule Poirot, Arthur Hastings
I feel like even when I was like nine years old watching Poirot with my mom for the first time I knew that these two were married. I have been rewatching all of the series since COVID began and it has been eye-opening. Really adore the scene in "Double Sin" where the two salt-of-the-earth type blokes see Poirot and Hastings in the tea parlor and go, "Ooooh!" like a pair of teen girls who Know.
My favorite Poirot mysteries are the ones involving travel and I would love to see Hastings and Poirot getting to go on a nice little travelogue without a crime occurring. It can be anywhere, any continent! Though I would love to see Poirot take Hastings to Belgium and show him around... all of the ordinary beloved corners, bittersweet but still beautiful.
My favorite side character is definitely Inspector Japp so if you're inclined to involve him in whatever you concoct I would certainly not object. I know those were Different Times and all, but I think it could be sweet if Hastings and Poirot see him as a safe figure to make privy to their relationship (maybe Hastings has more faith in him than Poirot does), and they're very nervous and worked-up about it, and then it turns out Japp was more or less already aware and takes no issue with it—in his endearing, comedically plain Japp way.
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Thank you very, very much for taking a stab at writing for me this year. I can't wait to see what you write. I hope that the winter treats you kindly, and I cannot wait to thank you personally when the new year comes around!!
Take it easy, xoxo.
Gwen
I AM NOT INTO (DNWs): big ones first—rape, incest, underage, abuse. beyond that—heavy or detailed gore, marriage/pregnancy fic, established relationship fic (with certain exceptions), first person POV (unless it's epistolary), character bashing, angst with no happy ending, actually unrequited love (for any ships I request), high school/college/coffee shop/florist/tattooist AUs, modern AUs (for fandoms that take place in the past/a fantasy world/whatever)
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Super 8 (2011)
requesting: Joe Lamb, Alice Dainard
2013 was my first Yuletide, and I requested Super 8 because it was my favorite movie at the time. Lo and behold I did get a fic for it, which was stupendous. I ended up re-watching this tiny gem of a film last year in honor of its ten-year anniversary (God) and my love for it was rekindled, albeit from a different angle. Namely: what are the kids like when they are twenty-somethings and still have not processed their trauma? So that is what I would LOVE to read about.
Joe and Alice's relationship was very special to me and the way it was written was brilliant: how she is the first one to look his grief in the eye, without apology but with total kindness, and how he is the first one to look at hers right back. What are their lives like ten or so years on? Did they drift apart and then find each other again? (My favorite scenario.) Is there a high school reunion in Lillian that brings all the friends back together, and do they end up confronting what they went through, at the bar that's been there forever or on the living room floor of someone's parents' house or out in an empty field at midnight, all of them half drunk and half in love with each other? I want to see this movie get the It Chapter Two treatment. I want to see Alice and Joe fall in love as adults who've been through more than anyone else can understand. I want to see Joe and Charles, still the best of friends even if time and distance have separated them for a while. I just want to know what happens to all of them, and I want it to be about friendship and love and getting better, and being the only few people in this world who look up at the stars and see something nobody else does.
requesting: Joe Lamb, Alice Dainard
2013 was my first Yuletide, and I requested Super 8 because it was my favorite movie at the time. Lo and behold I did get a fic for it, which was stupendous. I ended up re-watching this tiny gem of a film last year in honor of its ten-year anniversary (God) and my love for it was rekindled, albeit from a different angle. Namely: what are the kids like when they are twenty-somethings and still have not processed their trauma? So that is what I would LOVE to read about.
Joe and Alice's relationship was very special to me and the way it was written was brilliant: how she is the first one to look his grief in the eye, without apology but with total kindness, and how he is the first one to look at hers right back. What are their lives like ten or so years on? Did they drift apart and then find each other again? (My favorite scenario.) Is there a high school reunion in Lillian that brings all the friends back together, and do they end up confronting what they went through, at the bar that's been there forever or on the living room floor of someone's parents' house or out in an empty field at midnight, all of them half drunk and half in love with each other? I want to see this movie get the It Chapter Two treatment. I want to see Alice and Joe fall in love as adults who've been through more than anyone else can understand. I want to see Joe and Charles, still the best of friends even if time and distance have separated them for a while. I just want to know what happens to all of them, and I want it to be about friendship and love and getting better, and being the only few people in this world who look up at the stars and see something nobody else does.
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Kidou Keisatsu Patlabor | Mobile Police Patlabor
requesting: Shinohara Asuma, Izumi Noa
God, if you're here and you want to write me Patlabor I am going to need to know your name and address so that I can come to your house and propose marriage, assuming that's not weird. I love how everyone in this show is so adult and real, and so mundane in the most gorgeous of ways. I love the tentative ways in which they connect with each other, over their work just as much as their pasts. I love the extremely realistic bureaucracy of the Labor Divisions and how Labors function in society.
As for Noa and Asuma... GOD I LOVE THEM. They are so perfectly silent and chill about their devotion to each other and it makes me nuts. I would love to read about how they navigate their relationship, I would love to read about pining and Noa being oblivious and Shinohara thinking the absolute world of her, which is canon and quite frankly exquisite. Noa is just such a wonderfully human character, and I would be thrilled to read anything about her; I'm fascinated by how she handled that whole ordeal with Bud and the Griffon, which seemed to affect her deeply in a way we hadn't seen anything quite affect her before. Shinohara, too, has a lot of hidden depths that I find compelling both for personal reasons and just because of the way they're revealed to us—when he brought Noa to his brother's grave it knocked me right on my ass.
Basically, anything about these two becoming closer would make my year. That can be emotional talks, coming to terms with their feelings for each other, comical miscommunications, a series of will-they-or-won't-they misunderstandings with their coworkers, close calls in the line of duty, late nights drinking beer at each other's apartments, straight-up kissing, clumsy friends-to-lovers sex, Goto meddling to drive Asuma into a corner that makes him confess his feelings, I don't care!
requesting: Shinohara Asuma, Izumi Noa
God, if you're here and you want to write me Patlabor I am going to need to know your name and address so that I can come to your house and propose marriage, assuming that's not weird. I love how everyone in this show is so adult and real, and so mundane in the most gorgeous of ways. I love the tentative ways in which they connect with each other, over their work just as much as their pasts. I love the extremely realistic bureaucracy of the Labor Divisions and how Labors function in society.
As for Noa and Asuma... GOD I LOVE THEM. They are so perfectly silent and chill about their devotion to each other and it makes me nuts. I would love to read about how they navigate their relationship, I would love to read about pining and Noa being oblivious and Shinohara thinking the absolute world of her, which is canon and quite frankly exquisite. Noa is just such a wonderfully human character, and I would be thrilled to read anything about her; I'm fascinated by how she handled that whole ordeal with Bud and the Griffon, which seemed to affect her deeply in a way we hadn't seen anything quite affect her before. Shinohara, too, has a lot of hidden depths that I find compelling both for personal reasons and just because of the way they're revealed to us—when he brought Noa to his brother's grave it knocked me right on my ass.
Basically, anything about these two becoming closer would make my year. That can be emotional talks, coming to terms with their feelings for each other, comical miscommunications, a series of will-they-or-won't-they misunderstandings with their coworkers, close calls in the line of duty, late nights drinking beer at each other's apartments, straight-up kissing, clumsy friends-to-lovers sex, Goto meddling to drive Asuma into a corner that makes him confess his feelings, I don't care!
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僕だけがいない街 | Boku dake ga Inai Machi | ERASED (Anime & Manga)
requesting: Fujinuma Satoru, Kobayashi Kenya
This is such a good winter anime. I still remember the thrill of watching it weekly way back when it was airing! I think craftsmanship-wise it is just very good but it also speaks to a very specific part of me psychologically, which is that I also grew up in a small town shortly after the murder of a local child occurred and it was a senseless, horrifying, deeply tragic and traumatic thing, and truly stole the innocence from the world I knew. I think this anime does an incredible job of conveying that emotion, and that kind of environment, in a way I've never seen anything else achieve. I think that Satoru's power, which enables him to go back in time and prevent harm from coming to others is so thematically relevant and so achingly relatable. His survivor's guilt, his need to express his trauma through storytelling, his joy and grief as he relives the mundanity of his childhood while also reliving from an adult perspective the horror that his insular world was trying to protect him from... it's really rich and interesting. He absolutely should not date that teenage girl, though.
I think Kenya is the character I find most compelling in a story full of compelling characters. He is so mysterious! I still have my conspiracy theory board about him in the basement of my mind. What did he know? Did he have Revival, too?! What if all that time, he was trying to protect Satoru... but then Satoru deviated trying to protect Kayo and Kenya didn't know what to do?! Also, can you believe that he became a lawyer just because he wanted to solve the mystery of who hurt Satoru... OML... down bad!
I would love a fic that explores their adult lives after Gaku has been put away. I think they both have a lot of trauma that needs unpacking and healing but especially Satoru. I am of the opinion that Kenya would have pined after him for years and Satoru would be oblivious until Kayo or Hiromi tipped him off. Is there a reunion/celebration dinner at an izakaya or at Sachiko's after Gaku is tried and convicted? Do drunken cuddles or confessions or cold walks to somebody's apartment happen?
Employing flashbacks to the childhood timeline, especially to how they first became baby friends, would be more than welcome!
requesting: Fujinuma Satoru, Kobayashi Kenya
This is such a good winter anime. I still remember the thrill of watching it weekly way back when it was airing! I think craftsmanship-wise it is just very good but it also speaks to a very specific part of me psychologically, which is that I also grew up in a small town shortly after the murder of a local child occurred and it was a senseless, horrifying, deeply tragic and traumatic thing, and truly stole the innocence from the world I knew. I think this anime does an incredible job of conveying that emotion, and that kind of environment, in a way I've never seen anything else achieve. I think that Satoru's power, which enables him to go back in time and prevent harm from coming to others is so thematically relevant and so achingly relatable. His survivor's guilt, his need to express his trauma through storytelling, his joy and grief as he relives the mundanity of his childhood while also reliving from an adult perspective the horror that his insular world was trying to protect him from... it's really rich and interesting. He absolutely should not date that teenage girl, though.
I think Kenya is the character I find most compelling in a story full of compelling characters. He is so mysterious! I still have my conspiracy theory board about him in the basement of my mind. What did he know? Did he have Revival, too?! What if all that time, he was trying to protect Satoru... but then Satoru deviated trying to protect Kayo and Kenya didn't know what to do?! Also, can you believe that he became a lawyer just because he wanted to solve the mystery of who hurt Satoru... OML... down bad!
I would love a fic that explores their adult lives after Gaku has been put away. I think they both have a lot of trauma that needs unpacking and healing but especially Satoru. I am of the opinion that Kenya would have pined after him for years and Satoru would be oblivious until Kayo or Hiromi tipped him off. Is there a reunion/celebration dinner at an izakaya or at Sachiko's after Gaku is tried and convicted? Do drunken cuddles or confessions or cold walks to somebody's apartment happen?
Employing flashbacks to the childhood timeline, especially to how they first became baby friends, would be more than welcome!
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Agatha Christie's Poirot (TV)
requesting: Hercule Poirot, Arthur Hastings
I feel like even when I was like nine years old watching Poirot with my mom for the first time I knew that these two were married. I have been rewatching all of the series since COVID began and it has been eye-opening. Really adore the scene in "Double Sin" where the two salt-of-the-earth type blokes see Poirot and Hastings in the tea parlor and go, "Ooooh!" like a pair of teen girls who Know.
My favorite Poirot mysteries are the ones involving travel and I would love to see Hastings and Poirot getting to go on a nice little travelogue without a crime occurring. It can be anywhere, any continent! Though I would love to see Poirot take Hastings to Belgium and show him around... all of the ordinary beloved corners, bittersweet but still beautiful.
My favorite side character is definitely Inspector Japp so if you're inclined to involve him in whatever you concoct I would certainly not object. I know those were Different Times and all, but I think it could be sweet if Hastings and Poirot see him as a safe figure to make privy to their relationship (maybe Hastings has more faith in him than Poirot does), and they're very nervous and worked-up about it, and then it turns out Japp was more or less already aware and takes no issue with it—in his endearing, comedically plain Japp way.
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The Haunting (1963)
requesting: Luke Sanderson
Luke Sanderson is gay. Or at the very least queer. I become more and more convinced of this every time I watch this film, which is one of my absolute favorites. "Sorry, honey, but you're not the type I keep." "I majored in [martinis] at college." "The tall, draped... (looks at Dr. Markway and clears his throat) masculine type is old Hugh Crain." Come on! Russ was making choices.
This request is so niche and I truly do apologize if we got matched on it, lol, but I just really want to read a character study of Luke during and after the events of the film through the lens of him being gay. I am of the mind that he and Markway were fooling around for the duration of the story. (My roommate made a great joke about this that is now my headcanon; feel free to incorporate it if you feel so inclined.) Is his sexuality why he's the so-called "black sheep" of the Sanderson family? Is his staunch unwillingness to accept the supernatural a metaphor for his denying or struggling to accept that sexuality? Do he and Markway maintain any kind of relationship after their ill-fated stay at Hill House? I didn't request Markway because I wanted the fic to be Luke-focused if possible, but if you want to write a relationship study for them I would definitely still be happy.
Although I'm sad that Theodora wasn't nominated this year and I can't request her and Luke as mean gay besties, I do believe that they would be mean gay besties, if that helps.
requesting: Luke Sanderson
Luke Sanderson is gay. Or at the very least queer. I become more and more convinced of this every time I watch this film, which is one of my absolute favorites. "Sorry, honey, but you're not the type I keep." "I majored in [martinis] at college." "The tall, draped... (looks at Dr. Markway and clears his throat) masculine type is old Hugh Crain." Come on! Russ was making choices.
This request is so niche and I truly do apologize if we got matched on it, lol, but I just really want to read a character study of Luke during and after the events of the film through the lens of him being gay. I am of the mind that he and Markway were fooling around for the duration of the story. (My roommate made a great joke about this that is now my headcanon; feel free to incorporate it if you feel so inclined.) Is his sexuality why he's the so-called "black sheep" of the Sanderson family? Is his staunch unwillingness to accept the supernatural a metaphor for his denying or struggling to accept that sexuality? Do he and Markway maintain any kind of relationship after their ill-fated stay at Hill House? I didn't request Markway because I wanted the fic to be Luke-focused if possible, but if you want to write a relationship study for them I would definitely still be happy.
Although I'm sad that Theodora wasn't nominated this year and I can't request her and Luke as mean gay besties, I do believe that they would be mean gay besties, if that helps.
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Thank you very, very much for taking a stab at writing for me this year. I can't wait to see what you write. I hope that the winter treats you kindly, and I cannot wait to thank you personally when the new year comes around!!
Take it easy, xoxo.
Gwen
