YULETIDE 2016 LETTER

[rosecake]

Hello Yuletide writer!

I'm rosecake on AO3 and rose-cake on Tumblr!

As a general note, please feel free to disregard the letter if you already know what you'd like to do based on the fandom and characters we matched on. I like a very wide range of story types - I like fluff, I like tragedy, I like friendship, I like explicit porn, etc. I'm sure I'll enjoy whatever it is you want to write!

General Likes:
- femslash/slash/het/gen
- ratings from G to NC-17
- everything from meaningful hand-holding to pwp (and there's somewhat more detailed smut preferences here if you're so inclined)
- action & adventure
- comedy
- tragedy
- mysteries
- backstories
- five things fics
- canon-divergence AUs
- mirrorverse AUs
- bodyswap
- timeloops/time travel
- hurt/comfort
- domesticity & curtainfic
- holiday fic
- fluff
- family fic
- team bonding
- huddling for warmth
- fake dating & accidental/convenience/forced marriages
- sex pollen
- empathic bonds
- loyalty & betrayal
- sacrifice
- pining
- threesomes
- uniforms/costumes
- mind control
- ghosts & hauntings
- bondage
- captivity
- violence
- death fic
- torture
- choking
- somnophilia
- biting
- scars & losing limbs
- corruption & demonic possession
- dubcon/noncon

General Dislikes/DNW:
- explicit underage porn/loli/shota/deaging
- a/b/o & lifestyle bdsm AUs
- mundane AUs (unless it's an RPF fandom, in which case I enjoy them)


Important Note: I'm aware that Yuletide runs on "and" matching, and I love all of the characters I've nominated together either as pairings or as gen. However, I also really love all of these characters as individuals, so if you have a story that only includes one of the nominated characters that is fine by me!


ATOMIC BLONDE
Delphine Lasalle, Lorraine Broughton
I loved everything about this movie, from the glorious neon-noir aesthetic to the soundtrack to the amazing, captivating characters ♥ I fell in love with both Delphine and Lorraine, and I really enjoyed how they both have such different relationships to the work they do. As with nearly every movie I've ever loved, my only complaint is that we only get such a brief look at the characters and their lives. I would love any sort of missing scene from the film, or any sort of backstory for either character about how they got into their profession, or how they currently feel about it. Or, for more specific prompts:

* Delphine survives somehow! Instead of being killed, maybe she's taken and interrogated and that gives Lorraine a chance to rescue her. Or maybe Lorraine interrupts the assassination attempt? Or something where Delphine figures out a way to save herself.
* I would also love a story where Delphine still dies, but her memory haunts Lorraine. Or something with her ghost literally haunting her!
* I would love casefic of them having to solve a mystery or hunt down an enemy spy together! Or some sort of survival run, where one of them is injured and the other one has to make sure they escape the bad guys on their heels.
* If they both survive, what happens to them after the movie? Would they both still be involved in spy work? Or would one or both of them give it up and try to live normally?
* I'd love something where Lorraine tries to leave Delphine after the events of the film because ~she's too dangerous to be around~ and Delphine just isn't having any of it.



DEATH STRANDING RPF
Hideo Kojima, Mads Mikkelsen
My obsession with them is probably in a lot of ways my own fault for being excessively hyped about Death Stranding, but I can't help myself! They're so cute together! I almost want Death Stranding to take a decade to come out so I can stretch out all the press/promotional together between the two of them. Going through Hideo's twitter really is a delight, I really love how genuinely excited he gets about the things he thinks are cool, including Mads. I really love reality distortion/surrealism/magical realism in my RPF, or any kind of AUs. For more specific prompts:

* Eventually Death Stranding is going to come out, and they'll probably do some sort of press tours then, right? I would love to read about that! I would happily read just 10k of Mads trying to explain the plot of the game to a reporter.
* Anything with twitter hijinks! Or press tours and promotional photos that imply there's more going on in the background?
* AU where instead of a video game, it's actually Hideo filming his first movie!
* Anything with the lines between the game itself and their filming it getting blurred!
* Heist AU! Something where Hideo isn't just making a video game, he's assembling a team because reasons.



THE EXORCIST
Marcus Keane, Tomas Ortega
I'll be up to date with the show as it's airing, so feel free to include any spoilers that might pop up. Or, if you don't like writing for ongoing canon, I'm also cool with you pretending the second season doesn't exist and doing your own thing! This is one of my favorite shows of all time, it honestly seems like someone designed specifically to appeal to me! I love how Tomas and Marcus struggle with both their faith and the hierarchy of the Church, as well as either other, but they're still both so driven to do the right thing. There's never any respect for personal space in any of their scenes and I really love that, and I love all the heightened emotional intensity that comes from fighting demons! I like that they argue, but their arguing almost always comes down to how much they care about each other and the people they're trying to help. For more specific prompts:

* One of them gets possessed by a demon, and the other has to perform an exorcism on him!
* I would love backstory for either of them - what was Marcus's childhood like, and his training as an exorcist? How does that influence how he tries to train Tomas? Or I'd love more about Tomas trying to find his way in the Church hierarchy when he was first starting out.
* I would love any kind of case fic about them performing exorcisms, or trying to figure out if a certain case is really supernatural in nature of it it's just normal human evil and deception.
* I would love more about what exactly happened with Marcus after the ending of last season, or more of the two of them and Bennett trying to unravel and fight the conspiracy within the Vatican.
* I would also love something with either or both of them following up with the Rance family and bonding over their shared experiences.



LEGEND OF THE GALACTIC HEROES
Walter von Schenkopp, Yang Wenli
I don't have any strong feelings about how their names are spelled, so go with whatever version you're used to. Anyway, this canon is massive, and there's still so much I want to know about the characters and their lives! There's so much room for backstory and missing scenes, or so many places where you can go with interesting what-ifs. I tried narrowing my request down to my favorites, which was a brutal process, but I really love these two and how well their strengths work together. I love the intensity of Schonkopf's dedication to Yang, and I loved the way Yang was willing to trust in him when so many others weren't. I ship them pretty hard, but I'm also into Yang/Frederica, Yang/Dusty, and Schonkopf/Dusty if you want to write those instead! For more specific prompts:

* I'd love something set right after they first take Iserlohn, back when they're still getting a feel for each other.
* AU where they don't die! Either where they both survive until the end of the show, or only one of them does. How do things go if Yang isn't killed on the way to meet Reinhard? How does that change the course of Schonkopf's life too? Or, what if Schonkopf dies before Yang does?
* I really enjoy the way the narration of the show/story works like a historical text, and I'd love something based on that. How do people in the future look back at the characters and their relationships?
* I would love more backstory for either of them! How does Schonkopf feel about his family and their defection from the Empire? How does he feel about the way the Rosen Ritter are viewed? Or I'd love to see more about Yang's early days in the Academy, or more about how he related to his parents.
* I'd love something slice-of-life, set either in the quieter periods of life on Iserlohn, or anything with them interacting while they were under observations on Heinessen.



SNOTGIRL
Lottie Person, Caroline | Coolgirl, Misty Sutton | Cutegirl
I'm an issue or two behind right now because my LCS keeps getting short-ordered and I had to special order them online, but I will be all caught up by winter! This series has me hooked so hard! I can't get over what a great protagonist Lottie is. She's terrible, and most of her problems are entirely self-inflicted, but she's still so sympathetic in spite of all that. And I love the whole cast, with all their foibles, and the sense of something dark and uncertain going on underneath it all. How much of it is really happening, and how much of it is the already neurotic Lottie losing her grip on reality? I really love her frienemyship with Misty, and I love how uncertain and disorienting everything about her relationship with Coolgirl is. And I ship all possible combinations of these three! For more specific prompts:

* So what is up with Caroline? I'd love something with her relationship with Lottie where Lottie increasingly can't tell how much of it is real or not, or anything that expands on their dynamics.
* Caroline and Misty! Them sniping with each other? Each of them trying to undermine Lottie's relationships with anyone else? Something where they're interacting and it turns into some weird conspiracy in Lottie's head? Threesomes???
* Any kind of straight comedy with Lottie and Misty running their blogs! Or them low-key/high-key undermining each other for status.
* Murder mysteries! Who dies, who's alive but Lottie thought they died, who did it, and how did it happen? Is everything we see in the comic happening in the order Lottie thinks it is, or is she confusing her own timeline?
* Anything with any of the girls dressing up or getting ready for photoshoots with each other!



STAR WARS RPF
Ben Mendelsohn, Mads Mikkelsen
I was really charmed by them doing press together, and now I live in hope that they'll do another movie together and I'll get more joint interviews! Especially since Ben seems so genuinely excited about everything to do with the movie and their characters, and he also seems so handsy in all the press and photoshoots? All the buildup to Rogue One was a really delightful time to be a fan. I really love reality distortion/surrealism/magical realism in my RPF, or any kind of AUs. For more specific prompts:

* I would love any kind of press tour adventures!
* Or any kind of behind-the-scenes while they were filming the movie! How did their first meeting go? How many of their scenes got lost or changed by all the re-shoots?
* AU of the best timeline where Gareth Edwards convinces someone to let him actually do the Catalyst movie, or Catalyst prestige cable mini-series, or anything involving the two of them having to work together a ton. Or just them working on something totally unrelated in the future!
* Something with Ben wearing the cape EVERYWHERE. Or singing to Mads!
* Some sort of time period AU - like what if they'd filmed the movies in chronological order, so all this is going on in the seventies?