Dear Yuletide Writer 2018

[scorpiod]

Dear Yuletide 2018 writer,

Thank you so much for writing for me! I'll try to keep this letter at a manageable length but I usually tend to ramble a lot. There's a lot of things I like and only a few dealbreakers, so if none of my prompts spark your interest, feel free to go with another idea or something else, as long as my DNWs aren't hit. I generally love a lot of prompts, they help me write, so I try to include as much as I can for my potential writer--but if you have another idea that you want to write, that you think I’ll like, go for it!

I mainly use this journal for exchange letters; I’m mostly on tumblr these days. I’ve also used LJ in the past, though I am trying to use my DW more now. Some sections of this letter are just longer because there are more characters I'm requesting, or the canon is bigger, but trust me, all my fandoms had to get in a cage match to the death to decide if I'd request them or not, and I'm as excited for everyone one of these requests.

Warning: This letter will contain spoilers for all fandoms involved!

General Likes

+ I love backstory fic, missing scenes, future fic, codas, snapshots, vignettes and character studies. Pre-series/pre-canon, post canon, “what now?” fic. Happy endings, bittersweet endings, downer endings. Melancholy vibes. Canon-divergence AUs. Five times fic. Epistolary fic. Unreliable narrators.

+ I am a multishipper at heart. I ship m/m, f/m, f/f, and poly fic. I love fic of all ratings. I LOVE porn, so if you're in the mood to write a PWP, go ahead, but if that's not your bag, or you don't wanna write shippy fic, that's okay. I’d adore gen about my faves as well, be it character studies or two (or more) people interacting, bouncing off each other and/or clashing.


+ First times. Awkward wooing. Awkward first times. Fumbling first times. Pining. Casual sex. Reunions. Friends with benefits. Friends to lovers. Enemies to friends to lovers. Enemies to lovers. Reluctant friends. Reluctant partners. Found families.

+ Codependency. Dysfunctional people who love each other. “Us against the world” dynamics. People doing terrible things for one another.

+ Slow burns. UST. Fake married. Fake dating. Forced to share a bed together. Huddling for warmth. Snowed in. Banter. Domesticity.

+ Hurt/comfort is my fave, though I prefer an emphasize on the comfort over the hurt. I love one person stitching another person up, or taking care of a sick friend or partner, or something more weird, like helping your decomposing friend, or feeding a sickly or hungry vampire.

+ Travel. Roadtrip aesthetics. Abandoned places. Ocean, beach, forests, deserts. Motels and diners and rest stops. Long stretches of road. The liminal spaces of truck stops.

+ + I love horror stories! Not all my prompts lend themselves to horor but my canons all have horror elements, so feel free to go full dark, no stars if you would like. I love body horror, transformations, eldritch abominations, people turning into monsters, cannibalism, undead people (vampires and revenants mainly; I do not care for brainless zombies). Humans who are monsters deep down and monsters trying to be humans. Moral ambiguity or moral corruption. Descents into the underworld, or moral descents. Claustrophobia. Coping with trauma. Unhealthy coping mechanisms. Exploration of trauma.

Smut Likes:

Physicality. Exploration of sexuality. Hands, grabbing on tight, nails digging in or scratching. Blood, bloodkink, bloodplay (go wild with vampire characters honestly), any kind of biting. Guns and gun kink. Knife play. Rough sex, public sex, wall sex. Sex in weird places. Intercrural. Bruises and marking, physical signs of someone else on the body. Scar kink. Scent kink. First times. Inexperience. Showing someone what’s hot for them and what they like in bed. Fingering, fingering someone in inappropriate places. Blowjobs. Cunnilingus. Body worship. Breastplay. Mutual mastrubation, frottage. Messy sex. Barebacking. Making someone come without touching them (or only touching their nipples). Sex with clothes on. Sensory overload, overstimulation. Somnophilia. Competency kink. Light bondage (ropes and handcuffs and blindfolds, mainly). Breathplay and choking. Praise kink. Dirty talk.

DNWS

Unrequested AUs, unrequested ships.

Animal cruelty. I’m fine if a vampire has to eat an animal to survive, but in that case I would prefer no detailed descriptions of the act.

Graphic depictions of abuse. The aftereffects abuse or trauma of abuse is okay though. Characters coping with abuse is okay. Really, I just don't want a blow by blow account.

Graphic depictions of child death. Alluded to, or as part of the plot is okay, though.

Cancer, or any terminal illnesses. Doctors tending to other characters with terminal illnesses in Vampyr is fine, though.

Deathfic of requested characters (I don’t consider it deathfic if someone dies and then comes back in the same fic, or lingers as a ghost, or an undead thing)

Miscommunication as a plot point

Cross-gen incest, bestiality, a/b/o, watersports, scat, humiliation (sexual or otherwise)

Noncon. I’m okay with dub-con though, and several of my prompts could go that way—either messy and fucked up stuff with one character taking advantage of the other, sex pollen or magic made them do it situations, or “we all got drunk and had sex together, whoops”.

From Dusk Till Dawn: The Series
Requested Characters: Scott Fuller (FDTD TV)

Tell me a story about my favorite vampire christian rock star! I'd love to see him with his band and how he forms it, or anything set after Kate's death and mourning and moving on, any kind of growing pains as he adjusts to being a vampire and surviving the twister, AU where he does turn Kate in s2, or any kind of post S3 fic as he figures himself out.

I ship Scott with Carlos, Kate, Seth, Richie, Rafa and Tommy, I have a lot of platonic feels about Scott & Kate, and I always wanted him to interact meaningfully with Kisa, so if you wanna work any of those dynamics in, feel free!

I love Scott and I'm desperate for more fic about him. I usually request as many characters as I can for FDTD whenever I do request it for an exchange, but this year, I really just want something focused on Scott. I ship him with a lot of people, especially Carlos and Kate, so while I would love ship fic, as long as it's a story about Scott, I'll be happy. I dont give prompts for all the ships I listed, but rest assured I'll be happy with any ship listed or gen.

FANGLORIOUS FIC. Scott and his vigilante vampire christian rock band! IT’S LIKE CATNIP TO ME. I want so much more fic about Scott and his rock band. I love Scott going from an angry, violent kid in season one to this magnetic, smooth talking, rock star preacher--anything focusing on that transformation would be awesome. How did he form his band? Did he turn everyone in it into culebras? I would be all over fic about Scott finding lost souls to recruit for his rock band. But I would also just love to read a day in the life of them, or fic about them ‘hunting’ and avenging other people or picking out murderers and rapists to eat specifically. I ship Scott with all of his bandmates in an OT4 orgy thing, and I have a soft spot for Scott/Tommy in particular, so if you wanna go there, feel free!

In general, I am very interested in any kind of post s2 fic--where does Scott go after Kate dies? What did he do when he couldn’t find his sister’s body to bury? I’d love a fic of Scott just walking the earth and trying to figure out who he is now in the wake of everything he's lost. I also would love an AU where he stayed in Houston, maybe hanging around Seth and Richie and becoming part of culebra society. I love Scott's anger towards them, so I rather not undermine that, but I would love a deeper exploration of both their dynamics together, especially Scott & Richie since they both watched Kate die, inching towards some kind of understanding and forgiveness.

AU where Scott succeeds in turning Kate, either mid S2 or in the S2 finale. What happens after? Is she angry at him? Does she forgive him? What kind of strain does it put on their relationship? I really ship them, and would love any kind of twisty vampire incest, but any direction you wanna take that would be gold.

Post Season 3 fic. I want to know what happens to Scott after saving the world and reuniting with his sister only to part ways again. Does he go back to his band? Wander aimlessly and reinvents a new identity? Do he and Kate eventually meet up again years down the line?

One specific thing I'd like is Scott sticking with Kisa at the end of S3. I’d love an AU where he follows her as she rebuilds culebra society, not quite sure what to do himself now that he’s broken off from his band and his sister has rejected him. In general, I was always sad that Kisa and Scott never got to have any interactions with each other, given that Kisa is Scott’s vampire grandma! I’d love anything that just lets them TALK TO EACH OTHER. A missing scene moment where they exchange words in the finale, canon divergent AUs where she catches him snooping in the Twister and thus, Scott never gets to report back to Carlos (maybe she gets Scott to work for her instead; maybe she takes him with her when they leave the twister!), maybe bonding over both of them having their true names stolen from them, maybe just bonding over what a shit Carlos is

Speaking of Carlos, I really loved the period of time they were together. I'd love anything that focuses on Scott and Carlos, either gen or shippy. I love creepy vampire mentorship fun times. Maybe something set during their time working together in season two, how Scott chose to come back to Carlos and follow him, or post S3 with Carlos wanting to follow Scott and try to get back in his good graces. I'd love to see Carlos teach Scott how to be a culebra, showing him how to feed, teaching him about his vampire powers, favoring him over Narciso, but also being a manipulative asshole. I really love creep Carlos seducing Scott. I’d love to read Carlos taking advantage of Scott’s need for belonging to seduce him on his side, or just plain seduce him. Feel free to go AU, you don't need to stick within the confines of canon, though I prefer canon divergence AUs over whole setting AUs.

I’d love a missing scene about Scott vs his bullies from season 2. I don’t necessarily want gore fic exactly but I’d love to read more about the aftermath of his killing spree, before he goes to find Carlos--does he ever feel guilty and question himself, like he did after eating Jessica? Or does he fully own what he did with no remorse? In general I love the aesthetic of undead Scott coming back to the small town full of bullies that he hates, his whole family gone, and just fucking it up. Maybe he takes longer in his revenge than just one night. Tell me a horror story (and feel free to include Kate because I love Scott&Kate so so much).

The three months Scott was chained up in the twister is something I always wanted to know more about. What happened in that time? I want to see him struggling to navigate Narciso and/or Malvado. I would love an AU where he tries to gain Malvado’s favor instead of Carlos.

Nina Forever (2015)
Requested Characters: Holly (Nina Forever (2015)), Nina (Nina Forever (2015))

This movie was such a mixture of all my fucked up kinks. I'm fascinated by the twisted complicated dynamic between Nina and Holly and I'd love see what the future holds for Holly, now that Nina is attached to her and not Rob, as some kind of dark psychosexual baggage that comes out whenever she has sex. I'd love to see Holly trying to fuck other people, and Nina coming out to ruin it all, or more of Nina getting under Holly's skin and taking longer to leave once she shows up. I'm interested in future Holly/Nina down the line, as the few only people who are tied up and twisted around each other against their will and now that draws them into closer codependency.

I am also interested in an AU where Holly, Nina and Rob manage to make a threesome relationship work together in the long term, with them getting some kind of happy ending.

Goddamn, this movie. This movie hit so many of my weird kink id buttons The attempt at canon poly with your boyfriend’s dead girlfriend, bloody and somewhat decaying, showing up RIGHT in the middle of sex, the grody gross details of Nina’s body, the way Holly tries so desperately to accept her. I am definitely into the weird almost necrophilia with Nina--I love that she always ruins the sheets when she shows up, that she can't quite move right, that her body is a mess like she just got out of the car crash, so please don't feel like you need to shy away from those details. I loved this movie’s themes about the nature of grief and emotional and psychological baggage, and Holly and Robs ability or inability to move on, how it’s not even Nina’s fault she's ruining their relationship but theirs.

I would love anything from Nina’s perspective. Where does she go when she is not emerging in the middle of sex. I am fascinated by her inability to rest, and how she's not quite a ghost and not quite a zombie. I love the notion that she's not choosing to haunt anyone, it’s Rob, or Holly, keeping her around. I would love more exploring that.

I would love anything from the time period where Holly is just desperately trying to make her relationship with Rob work, and trying so hard to be accepting of Nina and kind to her. I'd love to see more of the mindset that leads her to getting Nina tattooed on her body, or more of the weird domesticity they managed together for some time, or show me at what point Nina becomes her baggage, her own repressed desires, over Rob’s.

Holly/Nina porn. I loved the part where Holly tried to touch Nina sexually because she thought if she satisfied her, if she accepted her, maybe she'd eave. Feel free to handwave that Nina cant feel anything because she's dead. Maybe she starts feeling what Holly feels, due to the intensity of their relationship, maybe they develop some kind of emotional soulbond due to Holly’s attachment to her. I’d love an AU where Holly is able to give Nina some kind of pleasure like she wants to, but I would also love Nina getting bored and getting Holly off in bed. Does Nina come out when Holly mastrubates and orgasms on her own--I love something exploring that as well.

I really do wish they could have made their trio relationship work and I would love an AU where it does manage to work out in the long term, with Holly dating Rob, and the two of them just accepting and making room for their now dead not ex girlfriend in their lives. I also really enjoy any time Nina and Holly are snipping at each other in bed while Rob just lies there awkwardly and not sure what to do about them. Snapshots from their time together as a threesome would be awesome.

Vampyr (Video Game)
Requested Characters:Edgar Swansea, Geoffrey McCullum, Jonathan Reid, Sean Hampton

I am not copy & pasting my prompts from my sign up here, since I rather just expand on what I wrote in the sign up and I feel like I'll be redundant otherwise. I love this strange little canon, the almost apocalyptic London, the vampire mythology, the dark irony of the more you know an npc the stronger feeding on them will make you, the struggle between Jonathan's hippocratic oath and his new nature. I love vampire narratives and stories about becoming a monster--either just physiologically or morally--which is why I picked these four characters, since they all get turned into vampires depending on the various different outcomes of the game. I ship Jonathan with all three of these dudes, but if that's not in your wheelhouse, there's so much more I'm interested in regarding this canon. I am not super attached to any of the endings, so if you wanted to make up your own or go full AU, I would welcome that.

Geoffrey McCullum

I love the thought of Geoffrey being turned into a vampire and would love any fic exploring how he handles that, the game did not give me nearly enough. I would love to see him continue to be a vampire hunter and work for his order despite it, trying to hide it from his men. I love his line about being able to become the most feared vampire hunter in the world now. But I would also be equally interested in something darker, struggling with his thirst or what he's become. I love the thought of him having an identity crisis because of it. I find Geoffrey's tragic backstory fairly horrifying and I find the thought of him becoming a vampire horribly inevitable, in the best way.

I ship Jonathan/Geoffrey hardcore, and love to see him mentor Geoffrey, with Geoffrey fighting him and being stubborn or enjoying being a vampire more than he wants to admit. I'm happy with an I hate you vampire dad type of relationship but I also loved how Geoffrey was happy with his new strength the last time we saw him, and how much chill he seemed to be with being a vampire--I would love see something that fills in the gaps with him being turned and that moment they met up again, or something with him warming up to Jonathan after everything.

I loved the whole Judas Kiss scene. Everytime I rewatch it in lets plays or videos or gifs, I'm struck by how cruel it is, the way Geoffrey desperately wants not to be turned, how he begs to be killed instead, the way Jonathan is getting off on some level on punishing Geoffrey by making him feel what he's felt, the way he forced it to be so intimate. I would love anything that focuses on that as well, the emotions both of them must have experienced, the immediate aftermath.

If you're not interested in that, I also love the idea of human Geoffrey working with Jonathan to fight evil. I would love to see Geoffrey slowly come to trust and befriend Jonathan following being spared by him after their fight and would love it if they developed an odd partnership. I love it whenever Geoffrey snarks and bickers with Jonathan, and I love Jonathan trying to be patient with him. I love how confused Geoffrey was that Jonathan chose to spare him and would love to see him forced to reconcile that with his worldview.

I would definitely be interested in Geoffrey/Jonathan porn, especially something set after Geoffrey becomes a vampire. Rough sex, bloodplay, kinking on Jonathans claws, or some kind desperate feeding situation. I have an interest in newborn vampire Geoffrey and love the thought of him seeking out Jonathan for rough angry sex after he's turned, but I also love the thought human Geoffrey having to offer his blood to keep Jonathan alive, or help him return to full strength for a battle. This doesn't even have to be porny, I'm just weak for that scenario.

Edgar Swansea

I adore amoral researcher science types like Edgar and would love to see what he does post game. I found Edgar so charming and his reasons for his deception understandable, and I like to see something set during or before the game, with him learning about vampires and becoming fascinated, or using vampire blood to try to cure patients or just further falling the unethical rabbit hole.

I always hate to kill him in the game, so I prefer fic exploring the aftermath of Jonathan turning him. I LOVE how excited he was to be a vampire and how Jonathan was trying to punish him and make him feel guilty but it's everything Edgar wanted, so it backfired. I would love fic set exploring that longing of his, and if it's something Edgar was in denial about until that moment, or if he was secretly dreaming up ways to be turned beforehand. I am also really interested in his desire to keep running experiments and researching and experimenting on HIMSELF post game and want to see what he does.

I would also love something set in the future with him and Jonathan still being friends, whether Jonathan is fairly moral and disapproves of Edgar's methods and unethical science experiments, or has gone fully off the edge like the bad ending shows--I think the juxtaposition would be really interesting, with how they both adapt to immortality. I'd love to see them both in modern times, living in modern day London, with Edgar loving all the new science and medical research.

If you don't want to write vampire Edgar, I would also appreciate fic set during the game, with Edgar being fascinated by what Jonathan is and fanboying him. I love their weird friendship and how they worked together, and I would love to see more of that. I prefer to see the dynamic as Edgar using Jonathan but also genuinely interested in him as a friend, and potentially interested in hm romantically. I would love to see him fanboy Jonathan both for being a famous doctor and also for being a vampire and for Edgar to develop a crush on him. Anything with Edgar having a crush on Jonathan and having to hide his feelings for him would be awesome.

I would also love it if Edgar ended up in a situation where Jonathan needs him or needs his blood to stay alive, or Jonathan comes down with some kind of vampire illness and Edgar has to take care of him. I'd love to see them negotiate that and Edgar being nervous about the risks to him but also turned on and/or thrilled about feeding Jonathan.

Sean Hampton

I love Sean! Like with Jonathan and his do no harm oath, I find the juxtaposition between RELIGIOUS CANNIBAL VAMPIRE and pillar of the community who genuinely wants to help others incredibly fascinating. Give me more Skal Sean! Give me him helping others and then having to find dead people to eat. Give me more of him justifying and rationalizing his existence using scripture. Give me him interacting with other skals and seeking out ways to manage his new unlife.

I felt some kind of way when Jonathan forced Sean to kneel and drink his blood for his own good. That was hot and I would love a more shippy take on that scene, like both of them coming away feeling closer to each other because of that, or Jonathan's blood acting also as some kind of aphrodisiac, or Sean being able to hear Jonathan in his head like Jonathan can hear his own maker. Alternatively, I would also really love to see more of Sean's perspective on that scene, as he really didn't want to drink Jonathans blood and feels he was forced into it, but got really into the blood drinking itself.

I also wish we got to have more meaningful interactions between Jonathan and Sean after that, and would love to see fic of them being friends I'd love to see them interact more further down the line, with Jonathan helping Sean more and more with his cravings.Sean claims he doesn't feel any more cravings but maybe he was lying and Jonathan finds out. Maybe Sean needs to periodically feed from Jonathan to keep from turning into a feral skal. I'd love for them to grow closer.

This prompt is a bit of a longshot but I think it'd be awesome if all four of them were together in the same room, especially if some, or all of them, are vampires. I'd love to see Geoffrey have to try to deal with Sean and Jonathan protecting Sean from Geoffrey, or vampire Geoffrey running into vampire Edgar and both of them jealous of each other, or Edgar's anger for nearly being killed by Geoffrey's men. Give me all the unlikely interactions.

I'd love to read future fic of what happens with Jonathan after the game, and feel free to disregard any of the established endings and make up a new one entirely. I am okay with portraying Jonathan as someone still fighting his bloodlust, as or a fully embraced fiend, murdering people left and right. I went for the first one with my playthrough, because I love the juxtaposition of a doctor who's sworn to do no harm and having to kill to survive, but I also love corruption arcs. I'm interested in all facets of Jonathan. One of my favorite lines of the game is Jonathan exclaiming he's barely been reborn as a vampire for an hour and already Geoffrey's men were hunting him, with Geoffrey countering back that he's barely been alive as a vampire for minutes and already he murdered an innocent woman. I'm just so fascinated with the horror of that, how those who become vampires seem to murder their own families, even the lead.

Basically, I love angst and horror and monster transformations and identity crises, so if none of my prompts work for you, anything with those themes would be awesome.

They don't all have to be in the same story. I will be just as happy to read a fic that only focuses on any other combination of the four requested pairs. If you wanted to write a threesome or foursome, that would be amazing. I don't dislike Elisabeth at all, but I am not a fan of Jonathan/Elisabeth and I prefer she'd not be included in a shippy way.

That's it! Thank you for reading this letter! I am looking forward to what you come up and hope you have a happy yuletide!