#and there are several requests for it in yuletide this year!

[stickpenalties]

this is how the goncharovposting makes me feel

[mochie85]

Blue Christmas

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Summary: You ask Loki to give you something special for Christmas. A/N: This is a Secret Santa gift for @divine-knight-hand. I wanted to give you everything you requested, my love, but I already wrote something similar a while ago. For the sake of not sounding repetitive, I altered your request just a little bit. I hope you still like it. However, please check out the other story because it checks off all your points! And is Christmas-themed! Mayari: If You Let Me. Also, sorry for the cringy title. I couldn't think of anything else. Pairing: Loki x Female Reader Word Count: Over 2.7k Warnings: Explicit. Smut. P in V. Jotunn Loki (yes, cuz he's a whole warning!)

You crossed your legs as the last rays of the sun were trickling down on your body. Your book was discarded on the ground as the condensation from your Pina Colada dripped down onto the side table.

Loki had surprised you and whisked you away to the Fiji Islands for Christmas— no more crowded New York streets. No more dirty ice falling onto you from the splash of an oncoming taxicab. And certainly, no more missions and assignments till the New Year.

It had been an exhaustive nineteen-hour flight. Especially since he didn’t tell you anything he was planning. When you came home to your room earlier that day, you were greeted by Loki with two suitcases on either side of him.

“Merry Yuletide, Darling,” he said as he rolled your luggage over to you and kissed you on your lips in greeting.

“Loki- what?”

“No time to explain, we need to leave now in order to catch our flight,” he said ushering you out the door by patting you on the bum. You jumped up with giddiness, planting a lipstick-stained kiss on his cheek. He was always surprising you with little trinkets and excursions.

“Thank you, sir,” you said in a deep voice.

“Ooh, you dangerous nymph. Go on. I need my wits about me till we get on the plane. I can’t have you distracting me.”

“Then, after?” you asked luring him to a sinful promise.

“After,” he promised in the same breathy tone.

That was two days ago. Loki had kept his promise, and then some- inducting you both into the mile-high club several times over.

Now, here you were in a private villa surrounded by an infinity pool that stretched towards the Pacific, watching your godly boyfriend come out of the water. He ran his hands through his hair, combing the droplets from his tresses. Beads fell down the defined lines of his muscles causing you to heat up in the already balmy weather.

The sight of Loki, wet and in nothing but short swim trunks, was enough to make you convulse. You were sure that if Michelangelo had a model for David, it would’ve been Loki. And knowing Loki, you wouldn’t have been surprised if it was him.

He came up to you, lounging on your chair, and shook his wet hair in front of you to tease you. “St-stop!” you laughed as you playfully pushed him before you got completely wet.

“Awe, come on, Darling. I thought you liked me wet?” he charmed as he sat next to you and leaned in for a kiss.

“I have to admit, it is kind of refreshing.” You said as your hands guided themselves around his slick body. “It’s so hot here. I might need something to cool me down,” you tempted.

There was a flash of understanding in his face. Nights of hedonistic pleasure and anticipation of his moods taught you how to read him. If you weren’t so attuned to him- so zealously infatuated with him and his praise over you, you would have missed it. But you didn’t.

“What’s wrong?” you asked.

“Nothing. I just-” he paused for a second, trying to find the right words. “There was a reason why I chose Fiji.”

“You mean, the beautiful waters and sandy beaches weren’t enough of a reason?” you joked.

“It’s in the southern hemisphere. Which means that it’s summer here whilst still cold and winter back home.”

“Why would the season be an issue?”

“Contingency.”

“Contingency, for what?” you asked confused.

“It was about what you wanted for Christmas,” he answered slowly. Confusion still clouding your memory. Little bits and pieces of a long-forgotten conversation nipped at your mind as you tried to piece together what you had asked him to give you.

As if to remind you, Loki raised his hand and cupped your face. As he did so, his fingers turned a beautiful shade of blue. It was fair, yet sharp. It reminded you of the color of blue thistles on a cold afternoon.

As he touched your cheek, a shiver ran down your skin making you shudder for the first time since you arrived. Realization struck you as you remembered the conversation you two had a month ago.

“I think I know what I want for Christmas,” you lured him in. “And what is that, my Darling?” Loki said absentmindedly while looking through his mission briefing. “You." “You already have me,” he scoffed, placing a kiss on your forehead. “I meant…all of you…the other you…” you trailed silently. Loki looked at you bewildered. There were many nights he had dreamt of taking you in his other form, wondering how you would react to him. He’s postponed showing you this long because he was afraid of his feral nature. He would be at the mercy of his urges and base needs. Loki wasn’t quite sure how to ease you into that new situation. Would he be too much for you? Knowing your adventurous spirit, you wouldn’t mind having his beastly side take you. “Why, you little nymph. Now, why would you want to see that side of me, hmm?”

Excitement bubbled up inside you. “Loki, I-” you started, but he quickly put a finger to your lips to quiet you.

“I want this, Darling. And I want it with you. So, if at any point in time, you want to stop, you know our safe word.” You nodded your head enthusiastically and Loki chuckled. “But I should let you know, that…there was a reason why I’ve waited this long to show you. I become somewhat different when I change. Jotunns, in their very nature, are severe. Harsher. They have to be, to live in the climate they do, and survive.”

You sat there, fervently hanging onto every word Loki was saying. “We relied upon each other for strength, for warmth, basic needs…” Loki trailed off, tracing your lower lip with his cold finger.  “You can imagine the creativity we had in finding ways to keep our blood warm and stave off the frigid climate.” You nodded solemnly at his words as if they were gospel.

“If we do this, I need you to be in control. Do you understand me, Darling?” he asked, inching closer to you. You felt a shiver run down your body. You focused on his eyes as his lips weaved a spell for you to follow. “I won’t know how much is too much. How rough is too rough.”

Loki grabbed your hips and sat you on his lap. The sudden move made you yelp into his arms. “Sorry, my dear. You see, I’m already too excited. My body is reacting to you.” He ran his nose up and down your neck. His cold hands encircled your back, caging you on top of him. “I’ve wanted to take you like this for so long.” His hands entwined themselves with your hair and pulled as his lips met yours in a crushing kiss.

You held on tightly, with your legs wrapped around his waist, as Loki stood up and walked both of you to the edge of your bed. When he broke the kiss, you heard him moan before he continued to suck a bruise onto your neck.

You felt his body change. The hairs atop your skin began to stand as the temperature began to drop. The once-sweltering heat that prickled your skin was replaced by the cool tingles of his touch. It surrounded you and enveloped you in a cold caress. You finally understood the need for a warmer climate. With a slight force, he released you from him, falling onto the soft mattress below.

That was when you had your first glimpse of his true self. The beautiful shade of blue you had seen earlier spread throughout his body. His form was somehow sharper, more jagged. Yet still soft and giving. He had markings defined by fine lines and grooves. They traced over his muscles and sinew, highlighting the best parts of himself. You followed them with your eyes as it led your stare down to his protruding cock. Your jaw went slack as you noticed how hard he was for you already.

Loki watched you appraise him. Your wanton eyes grew darker, and your breathing got quicker. His senses picked up every reaction that your body was going through. He was prepared to confront your fear or disgust, but he couldn’t see that in your face. Instead, he saw hunger and need. He could smell your desire growing for him and it made him feral. He wrapped his hands around his shaft, stroking himself to the sight of you, ready and waiting on his bed.

Loki felt ravenous as he knelt over you on top of the sheets. He spread your legs apart, seating himself in between the warmth of your thighs. His heavy cock resting atop your wet cunt. His hands eagerly tore up your swimsuit as they explored and venerated your body. His lip’s sole mission was to mark bruises where his hands had trailed, following the chill of his touch.

“…Loki…”

“Shh, Darling. I won’t hurt you. Unless you want me to,” he winked as he nipped the underside of your breast. Too many emotions. Too many thoughts. They were swirling at the forefront of his mind wanting to be said. His desire for you was overwhelming him.

In this form, he felt more primal. His emotions were stronger and almost frightening, but all he felt was fire. Everywhere. An all-consuming heat that wouldn’t dissipate until he had claimed you. His need for you was never as aggressive as it was right now. If he wasn’t careful, he knew he could easily hurt you. He needed you to be in control.

“Don’t stop,” you begged him.

“And what would you have me do my Darling?” he breathed onto your skin. “Tell me, and I will comply.” Loki was giving you the green light. The authority to take over because he wasn’t sure if he could be gentle enough not to harm you.

Oh, but the fire. The fire inside him wouldn’t relent. “Shall I force my cock down your throat till you gag for me to stop?” he suggested with a grin. You bit your lip and moaned as the image took hold in your mind. You moved your hips involuntarily, rubbing against his hefty shaft.

“Maybe I’ll edge you for the rest of our stay. Keep you here tied to our bed, my little slave, until I’ve properly bred you.” Loki seized your lips and held you down on the bed. His cold hands capture your wrist in an icy grip.

“S’cold,” you gritted.

“You can take it. You don’t mind a little bit of frostbite. Don’t you, my love?” He ground his hips as he bit into the soft flesh of your shoulder, leaving teeth marks in their wake. You felt his hard cock rub against your sensitive nub. It elicited the most erotic noise from your lips. Loki fought to keep his composure. With every moan you made, it got harder and harder for him to control his urges.

“I thought this was supposed to be my Christmas present,” you sighed, regaining some form of authority and clarity. You intertwined your fingers with his and signaled him to turn over with your hip. You pushed his shoulders down onto the bed as you straddled his waist.

Loki looked up at you in all your glory. Your beautiful face shining down with love and adoration was enough to heal the worry and anxiety he was feeling. “I want to admire my present,” you pouted as your eyes took all of him in.

His mischievous smile broke through as he raised his arms and placed his hands behind his head. “As you wish,” he hissed as the corded muscles in his biceps swelled.

You traced his beautiful blue markings down from his arms to his pecs. “You’re beautiful,” you whispered absent-mindedly, getting lost in the exploration of his body. Loki blushed at your words. He had never heard that word describe his Jotunn form before and it ignited a warm glow inside of him. Different than the fire, but still heated.

You leaned over him as your study led you to his neck and handsome face. You traced his dark lips as he opened them. His bright ruby eyes concentrated on you. “I love my present,” you whispered before you gently kissed him. “Thank you.”

Loki deepened the kiss, his tongue invading yours, as he wrapped his arms around you once again. His cold touch left a trail of goosebumps as he squeezed and grabbed your ass. He raised you slightly with one hand. And with the other, he guided himself into your entrance. The slick of your arousal coating the tip of his hard cock. “Are you ready for me?” he grunted. You nodded your head, keeping your lips on his, not wanting to break contact.

He thrust deep into your body. His heels held on against the mattress of the bed. He held your hips stable as he continued to drive upwards slowly- savoring how snug you were around him.  Every pull of your tight pussy made him moan your name. “…yes…”  he whined.

You sat up, holding onto his shoulders for support. “I need you, Loki,” you pleaded. Your nails dug into his dark skin as your hips took over his strokes. “…deeper…faster…”

“Take me then, Darling. Use me.” He closed his eyes and took a deep breath. He wanted to do this for you. To be good for you. With each push of your hips, he unraveled each time. Crowning to a tight knot in his abdomen.

You waited patiently for him to open his eyes and see the love and pride you had for him. When he did, you were met with an intense sparkle of carmine. Desire and vulnerability shone through, swirling in his gaze. His brows furrowed with pleasure as he bit his lip. “…oh, fuck…” he cried.

You moved faster. Your swollen clit rubbed against his dark curls adding to the already heightened pleasure you were building. You took his hands from your hips and guided them up your body. You placed them over your bouncing tits and he squeezed- rubbing your hardened nipple with his thumb.

“That’s my good little whore,” he gasped. “You like it rough don’t you?” You squeezed tighter around him in answer and Loki couldn’t stop the wolfish grin on his face.

He swallowed thickly watching you enjoy his touch. “Loki” you screamed. The only indication that you had reached your climax and was about to topple over. You trembled over his body screaming his name over and over as you came down from your bliss.

“Don’t stop, Darling.” He pushed harder into you. “Ride me,” he commanded. Loki watched as you clenched around his hard cock- disappearing into your wet folds. The sight was enough to make him tremble.

God, he was so much bigger in this form. You had to push hard to meet the hilt of his shaft. You raised your hips and dipped back down eliciting the deepest groan fleeing his lips. “That’s a good girl,” he whispered. “Fuckin’ good girl.” His head tilted back and the desire to claim you came back. He had to take you faster. Harder.

He dug his heels back into the mattress and slammed his hips upwards. The gasping air leaving your lungs, the wicked moans filling his ears. All of it coerced him to cum inside you- finally releasing his pent-up yearning. Loki couldn’t stop the moans or praises leaving his lips. Your name peppered in with teasing curses and praises.  “You always know how to make me feel good, don’t you, pet?” he prized as he took a deep breath to steady his exhaustion.

“Mmm, yes sir.” You kissed him ardently, taking his breath away from his already spent lungs. You trailed your kisses down to his neck and onto his panting chest. Each kiss made your lips tingle and chilly.

“We should probably get ready for dinner. What say you, my love?”

“Hmm? Maybe in a while…I’m not done playing with my Christmas gift yet.” You responded as your lips traveled further down towards his already hardening cock.

Loki smiled as he closed his eyes, savoring the feel of your warm tongue on his cool skin. “In a while,” he repeated. “Fuck…in a while.”

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[elizabethminkel]

For my second fan culture column for Atlas Obscura, I wrote about Yuletide! (The first was on 18th-century sentiment albums as proto-Tumblrs.) This piece features several longtime Yuletide participants, including Dr. Anna Wilson, who wrote this great TWC article (partly) about Yuletide, and fic writers Sandrine and Petronia:

“What I really love about Yuletide is the potential for kismet,” says Petronia, “the story that, as a recipient, I always wished existed, [and] turns out to be the story someone else always wanted to write. The idea that I always had percolating as a writer, that was too niche to put energy into, turns out to have an audience after all—even an audience of one, which is all I need.” Sandrine echoes that love of serendipitous connections. “It’s great when there’s an obscure fandom of your heart which you thought was something only you cared for, and then someone else offers it—or requests it!—and you realize it wasn’t actually a fandom of one after all.”

(Also a note: I'm aware of the irony of a fandom juggernaut being the lead image for a piece on a rare-fandom exchange. 😭 While I did not choose the image myself, I do mention it in the piece—The Untamed was a Yuletide fandom its first year!)

[george-weasleys-girl]

Yule request - I really like Aftermath and the Next Level, so as a follow up could it be the first Christmas after the war, and Fred proposes to reader whilst they have Christmas at the Weasleys? Reader doesn't have a family (well she does but they treated her badly so she was brought up by Shacklebolt which is how she works for him so he's her foster Dad or something?) so every year since she became adopted (a baby as Shaklebolt found her as a baby in Diagon Alley left in a bad way) she has spent it with Shaklebolt and the Weasleys as Shaklebolt and Arthur are best friends. ❤️

❄️Yuletide Celebration❄️

A Christmas Proposal

Fred Weasley x fem!reader

The sound of drunken Christmas carols echoed through the Burrow. "Oh, is it that time already?" Y/N laughed as Arthur and Kingsley Shacklebolt staggered around the corner into the kitchen where she and Fred were helping Molly finish up the baking.

Molly rolled her eyes. "I'm taking that bottle of mulled wine away from you two."

"She says that every year," Fred whispered to Y/N.

"And she never does," Y/N giggled and shook her head. "It's hard to believe those two are actually responsible adults. 'Cause right now, a good stiff breeze would blow them right over."

It was at that very moment the wind picked up, rattling the windows. "Shall we open the door and find out?" Fred waggled his eyebrows at Y/N.

"Be nice," Y/N elbowed him playfully in the side. "Though it is tempting," she added with a grin.

~•~

Every Christmas since Fred could remember, Y/N, along with her adoptive father and Arthur's best friend, Kingsley Shacklebolt, spent Christmas at the Burrow.

He and Y/N had grown up together, becoming best friends and confidants. Then, somewhere along the way, he fell for Y/N, and she fell for him. Though, it took a couple of years and a near-death experience for them to finally admit it to each other.

Fred kept a close eye on her as she made her way over to the sofa. Y/N had been using her cane quite bit recently and a few times had needed her wheelchair. The colder months were hard on her, causing the damaged nerves in her back to spasm relentlessly.

She hid it well, though, all smiles and laughter, and waving off her pain as if it was nothing. But not with him. Never with him. When the two of them were alone, it was only then that she let the mask fall away. So many times over the past months, he'd held her as she cried in pain or in frustration at all the things she could no longer do.

It broke his heart. She'd been through so much already. As an infant, she'd been left to die on Diagon Alley in the dead of winter by her worthless parents, and then they rejected for a second time when she reached out to them several years ago.

And now this.

"Hey, love," he slid in beside her on the sofa. She shuddered, closing her eyes for a moment. And he knew.

Fred stretched. "I think we're going to call it a night," he announced and stood.

Y/N smiled at him. "Thanks," she said once they were alone. "You always take such good care of me."

"And I always will," he pushed a stray hair behind her ear. "Now, let's get you in bed."

~•~

Fred waited until all the gifts were unwrapped before he announced there was one more. He glanced over at Shacklebolt, who smiled and gave an almost imperceptible nod. Then he turned and knelt before Y/N, holding out a small box containing a diamond ring.

"My dearest Y/N, you are the light that has brightened up my life in ways I never knew were possible. Together, we have shared so much, both good and bad. Even on the worst days, every day spent with you has been a gift. I can't imagine growing old with anyone else, nor do I want to. Will you marry me?"

Tears flowed down Y/N's cheeks. "Yes! Yes, Freddie! I'll marry you!"

The room erupted into cheers as Fred gathered her into a gentle embrace. "I love you, Y/N. Always and forever," he mummered, his own tears mingling with hers.

"I love you too," she smiled. "Always and forever."

~•~

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[rebelliousstories]

Yuletide

25 Days of Ficmas

Relationship: Corey Cunningham x Reader

Fandom: Halloween Ends

Request: No

Warnings: Fluff, Mentions of Paganism, Light Angst

Word Count: 1,445

Masterlist: Here

Summary: Christmas holds some rough memories for Corey. Luckily his lover has some ways to override Christmas memories of the past.

“Wait, so can you explain this again? I’m really trying to understand. I’m just having a hard time. I’m sorry.” Corey ducked his head as he asked for his girlfriend to repeat what she said for about the third time. He saw a hand rapidly approaching his face and flinched when he felt contact. But there was no stinging, just a gentle caress over his stubbly jaw.

“Of course. Don’t worry, I didn’t get it right away either.” She assured him, trying to reverse the years of damage any way she could. Grabbing her handwritten book, she opened up to a specific page and spoke slowly and carefully.

“So Yule is our version of Christmas. When the christians came upon the pagans living in Europe, they saw our festivals and celebrations and made their own versions to make it easier to convert the pagans. As opposed to a specific day, Yule is a time frame. It starts sundown of the winter solstice, and ends in the new year. We always have a big meal that first sundown and enjoy the festive time.” Her delicate writings and sketchy drawings that littered the pages in front of him, captivated his senses. Corey trailed his fingers over the ink that stained the pages in front of him.

“So christians took Yule, and turned it into Christmas?” He questioned,hoping to prompt more information out of his lover but he had no idea how or what to ask.

“Yeah, pretty much. Yule logs are a pretty obvious tie, but the reason there is always a big feast is because pagans would commemorate the solstice with a boar in honor of the wild hunt that takes place. Christmas trees were brought about because that’s what we use to offer thanks.” She explained further, watching as he kept his eyes on the pages before him. Corey opened and closed his mouth several times, like a fish gasping for air, but no words came from his throat.

“Do you… do you think, that-” came from the young man, but he never finished the thought. His hands messed with each other and he picked at his nails. However, his girlfriend reached her hand over and placed her own on top of his to steady them.

“Do I think what, Corey?” Her question was so soft and gentle, that he could not help but look up to see his lover gazing back at him.

“Do you think, maybe, I could. I don’t know. Maybe, I could come over and celebrate with you instead? I don’t have good memories with Christmas anyways.” Corey’s eyes dropped back to their hands that were joined together, and he fiddled with the rings that adorned his lover’s delicate fingers. It was quiet for a moment, as nothing but the sound of her breathing passing between them. Corey, on the other hand, was too afraid and anxious of her response to dare break his silence. But, he felt a kind kiss being pressed to his forehead.

“Of course you can! I would love to have some company.” He looked up at this, complete with a soft, boyish grin on his face. It grew into a smile that matched his lover’s as they sat there.

“Okay. Awesome. I’ll tell my mom, and then I’m all yours.” Corey looked so incredibly happy about coming over rather than spending the evening with his own family.

//

“No. Absolutely not. You are not leaving here Christmas Day.” And there it was, his mother’s veto that came with just about everything in life that Corey wanted. But he was an adult now, surely he could find the strength to tell his mother no. His hands shook, and he looked anywhere but here as he sought the strength he needed.

“Can’t even look me in the eyes and ask me. That just means you’re not serious, and you’re lying about having a girlfriend.” She continued to chastise and criticize her son, who still fought with his heart and his head. Yet soon, he thought about how excited his girlfriend was when he finally asked her to join her, how happy she looked to have him around.

“I am going to spend the day with her.” Corey stared his mother dead in the eyes, and fought with himself to not back down. She almost looked impressed, but she, too, did not back down.

“You really think that some girl is going to treat you the way I do? That some other girl will love you like I do? I am your mother. I am owed you being with me on the holidays.” Her tone turned deadly, and she shook her finger in his face. Corey wanted to run and apologize; his past experiences telling him that was the easiest path. But he did not want to let his lover down.

“I’m going, mom. I’m an adult and can make my own choices so I’ll be spending the day with her instead of here.” Before his mother could get another word out, Corey turned on his heels and went out the front door. There was still a couple days till Christmas, but he could not bear it in that house anymore. He got lost in his thoughts, and before he knew it, he arrived at the doorstep of his lover. Corey did not realize where he was walking and now he was here. Should he knock? Should he go? A sudden breeze blew by causing Corey to shiver and huddle closer, unknowingly kicking the door.

“Core?” A sweet and kind voice reached his ears. It was only then that he noticed that his girlfriend had opened the door to her apartment, and was reaching out to the man. He stepped inside once she touched his arm, and felt the warmth breathe into his bones.

“You alright, Core?” She questioned; her face full of concern. He smiled and shook off her worry as he placed his hands along her waist.

“Yeah. I’m alright. Just, needed out of the house. You know?” While his comment was vague, his girlfriend knew exactly what he meant.

“You had another fight with your mom?” Her question was rhetorical, but Corey nodded with a deep sigh, and pressed his head into her neck.

“Yeah.” His muffled voice tickled her lightly, causing a giggle to come out and a hand to start brushing through his curls.

“Well, you’re more than welcome to stay here. I still have you’re drawer and closet space. Want to help me decorate for Yule?” Pressing a gentle kiss to his head, his lover’s question was out of genuine interest and it made Corey happy. He nodded up and down into her neck, causing another fit of giggles over his stubble rubbing up against her. Pulling apart, Corey was eager to follow as he was dragged by the hand over to where some decorations laid in boxes.

“Okay. Let’s decorate.” The couple found themselves falling into an easy routine. Corey enjoyed being able to put up all the pine, holly, and runes around the rooms. At some point, he found himself hanging up a wreath above the television while she made a simmer pot on the stove. It provided an incredible smell to the whole home and made Corey enjoy this even more. His girlfriend came over at some point to take him away from his decorating skills with a dark blue and gold mug in each hand.

“Wassail?” She asked, holding the mugs up higher. Corey took one with glee and followed her onto the couch.

“Mhmm. What is this? This is amazing!” He complimented, watching his lover’s cheeks became set aflame as she tried to hid it in her mug.

“It’s basically spiced apple cider, brewed with intentions. It’s a traditional Yule drink, and it’s one of my favorite things about the season.” She explained, watching him drink even more of it.

“Well, I love it.” He concluded, and that led them into a moment of silence. Their eyes scanned the room and enjoyed what they saw. The decorations were hung up faster than usual having two people instead of one but it made them all that much better. Some of them were slightly taller than usual on account of Corey’s incredible height. The burst of color filled the bland apartment, and Corey just felt home. This was his home. Neither one spoke, just sipped their wassail, and enjoyed being with each other during the holidays. It felt oddly domestic for Corey, but he certainly was not turning it down. This was going to be his favorite Christmas, by far. As well as his first, of hopefully many, Yule celebrations.

[headcanonsandmore]

Tegan/Nyssa fic recommendations

Fic lists used to be a big deal in fandom circles, and I think it’s always good to share fic recommendations with people. So here’s my current list of recommendations for Tegan/Nyssa fanfics! 

If you have any others you want to recommend, please reblog with them! 😊😊

One Word More by Serenbex. Miss Nyssa Traken and Miss Tegan Jovanka come from very different places and very different walks of life. They have nothing in common and don't even really like each other very much. Can changing opinion and changing circumstances help them to better understand themselves and each other? Rated G for General Audiences. AU fic based on ‘North and South’; enemies-to-lovers, a bit of angst with some socialist themes thrown in. @serenbex is an amazing author and y’all should read my friends’ fic. 

In fact, check out all of Serenbex’s fics; they’re truly fantastic. Special shout-outs to their multi-series epic ‘From The Stars’ (which is still ongoing) and the adorable one-shot ‘Lost In Translation’.

Earthling Customs (and the Aliens that Love Them) by WearyOctopus. After time-engine trouble strands the Tardis in space for several hours, Nyssa claims that Tegan is more than 300 days into her adventures on the Tardis and, thus, due to celebrate Christmas. The four travelers agree to an elaborate yuletide spectacular, some more enthusiastically than others. In the hustle of preparations, Tegan and Nyssa are paired off and begin to sort out their as-yet unspoken feelings for each other. Rated G for General Audiences. Adorable fluff with some excellent ‘The Fifth Doctor is a single dad’ coding.

Keeper Of My Heart by darklioness82. On Terminus, Nyssa gave Tegan a very special parting gift from Traken. Reunited 30 years later, Tegan learns its true value and meaning. Rated G for General Audiences. (Check out darklioness82’s other fics as well; they’re amazing)

Our Times by Ellimac. Tegan meets a mysterious stranger on a plane and accidentally falls in love. Turns out she's an alien, but they can work around that. Multi-chapter AU fic. Rated G for General Audiences.

White Elephant by TechnicolorRevel. Nyssa and Tegan go looking for a gift, at the Doctor's request. They get a bit side tracked. Rated G for General Audiences. Fluff with a bit of grief mixed in.

Quiet by TechnicolorRevel. Tegan has some trouble sleeping her first night on the TARDIS. Rated G for General Audiences. Character study.

Like You I’m Indestructible by Netgirl_y2k. The one where Tegan stays on Terminus with Nyssa. Rated G for General Audiences. What it says on the tin.

in a dream your future had a voice by TechnicolorRevel. Nyssa borrows Tegan's lipstick. Rated G for General Audiences. Cute fluff with a slight of insecurities explored.

Basically, everything Tegan/Nyssa by TechnicolorRevel; they’re really great at writing the pairing.

Show Me More Of This Traken Thing Called Kissing by Doyle. Nyssa makes a formal bid for Tegan's romantic affections. Tegan isn't quite sure what to do with that, really. Rated T for Teen. Really fun fic dealing with cultural differences in regards to courtship rituals.

Drag Me Through The Best of Years by Aces. An exploration over time of Tegan and Nyssa’s relationship, building on missing moments through their time together. A really sweet fic. Rated G for General Audiences.

The Many Proposals Of Tegan And Nyssa by LonelySpaceAce. What it says on the tin; its literally just these two being in love and proposing multiple times. Rated G for General Audiences. @lonely-space-ace is amazing at writing these two being adorable dorks.

Just read everything by LonelySpaceAce, because they’re amazing.

Amsterdam by LissyStrata. Left alone in Amsterdam for the weekend, Nyssa gets into some substances she shouldn't and Tegan looks after her. (Takes place after Arc of Infinity). G for General Audiences, but does technically involve some drug usage. Fluff with some hurt/comfort. Very funny. @lissy-strata is great at this.

Frozen like me by Calapine. Tegan and Nyssa struggle to keep warm in freezing temperatures. This one was originally posted to LiveJournal back in 2004, so don’t ever think that Tegan/Nyssa is a recent fandom development.

to love the light, the fire's spark, you must first have been buried in the deep down dark by TechnicolorRevel. Nyssa might have been good at diplomacy, but she'd always felt like she wasn't very good at her own feelings. Rated T for Teen. Really excellent bit of character writing for Nyssa.

Day By Day (By Day) by Settiai. If the Doctor wanted to disappear for a week with Adric in tow, leaving Nyssa and Tegan alone in the TARDIS...... well, who were they to argue? Rated T for Teen. Really cute slice-of-life fluff.

Language Transparency by JohnAmendAll. The TARDIS's ability to translate everything you say, hear and read is so convenient. Why wouldn't you want it? Rated T for Teen. Mild angst with a lot of fluff (and even a little saucy towards the end).

We Found Wonderland by rorybluebox. Snippets of Tegan and Nyssa falling in love. Raedt G for General Audiences. Lots of sweet fluff.

Borrowed Anxiety by mylordshesacactus. A couple of “missing moments” style scenes between Tegan and Nyssa. Rated G for General Audiences.

First Snowfall by orphan_account (their AO3 homepage is discontinued, apparently). Nyssa's never seen snow before, and Tegan tries to rectify this. Rated G for General Audiences. Very sweet fluff.

A Very Silly Battle by evilqueenofgallifrey (MayFairy). Tegan teaches Nyssa about pillowfights. In addition to getting hit with pillows, they also both get hit with soft gay feelings. Rated G for General Audiences. Very cute fluff. Side note; this was one of the first Tegan/Nyssa fics I ever read because @evilqueenofgallifrey has a blog on Tumblr and posted this on here.

Hope you like these fics, everyone! Like I said, please reblog and comment with any others you’d like to recommend!

[punkpoemprose]

Homemade Holiday- A Kristanna Oneshot

Universe: Canonverse, Post F2

Rating: G (General/ All Ages)

Length: 1711 Words

Summary: Anna and Kristoff prepare tree decorations together.

A/N: Kristanna Advent Day 11, going to try to catch up tomorrow, pray for me. This fic is just cozy and sleepy. Highly recommend making your own ornaments this year with someone you love, even if that’s a four legged friend, it’s a great holiday tradition and a wonderful way to break through the winter gloom. If you search “scandanavian straw ornaments” and victorian card ornaments you can get an idea of what Kristoff and Anna are making. I have several straw stars on my tree and adore them.

All Arendelle was decorated to the nines with wreaths, trees, stockings, bows, and garland. Anna had coordinated with the local merchants’ guilds to make everything just so, and then Elsa had kindly visited from the forest to add a nice dusting of snow over the sidewalks and on the rooftops. She’d not created drifts or enough snow and ice to make travel difficult, she’d just managed to make things look a bit festive when mother nature had decided to be uncooperative.

Inside the castle, however, was a bit different than in the streets. It was heavily decorated too, the fancy royal heirlooms were in the same places her parents had always had them set, but in the royal wing, the private places no yuletide guest would reach, there was a very different air to the decorations.

“Ouch!”

Anna gave Kristoff a sheepish look, trying to express her appreciation for his work and encourage him to continue even though this was at least the third ouch she’d heard in the last hour.

“No one ever told me that stringing popcorn was such a dangerous tradition,” he said as he shook out his hand, willing the pain away from where he’d accidentally stabbed himself.

“Would you believe children do it?” Anna asked.

She’d offered to be the one who strung it, but Kristoff had vetoed that. He’d been kind enough not to mention how poor Anna was with a needle and thread, and instead had only teased her about how he was certain that she’d just eat all the popcorn as soon as he stopped watching her closely enough.

Instead of working on the garland, she’d set to the task of making ornaments. Before her, sitting on the library floor, were a variety of supplies and tools. She had scissors and paste, last year’s greeting cards and post cards (of which there were a great many), a small stack of papers in various colors and sizes, scraps of material and ribbons from her old gowns and the seamstress’s stash, buttons and glass beads, yarn and a variety of natural materials which Kristoff had gathered for her.

She’d been the one to insist on a homemade Christmas, and she’d been thrilled when Kristoff, who could not deny her any reasonable request, happily agreed. She had the sense, at first, that he had more experience with a homemade holiday than she did, and while she still suspected as such, he was as green as she was in many aspects of putting on a holiday without staff. She supposed that it was good that they were learning together, especially now when it was just the two of them and Elsa to worry about.

Kristoff grumbled something about mortal wounds and bad parenting but was clearly doing so just to see her laugh given the mischievous look on his face. When she couldn’t help but laugh, his smile was instant.

She finished cutting out a very pleased looking mouse wearing a Santa hat and showed the little paper creature to Kristoff.

“Do you think I should hang him as is, or should I paste a little beard on him?”

Kristoff looked up from his work and took stock of the little grey mouse.

“I like him the way he is, but if you wanted to add a beard I don’t think that would make him any less of an excellent ornament.”

Anna appreciated his answer, even if it was just leaving it up to her. He did have his job to do and she had hers after all, but that he took time to look, and had done so several times in the last couple of hours, brought Anna immense joy.

“I think I’ll let him be as he is then. There’s a few more mouse cards in here, and a couple with skiing foxes, and one with a bear juggling oranges. I think they’d all go well with the trees I’ve already made.”

Kristoff had set back to stringing the popcorn, his work slow and methodical now with his wounding in recent memory. His expression was thoughtful when she looked at him, his eyes narrowed slightly and his brow quirked.

“A woodland theme then?”

He sounded pleased with this turn of events. He busied himself with stringing a few pieces of popcorn more before slyly popping one into his mouth. She didn’t even have time to complain before he was learning over towards her and popping two pieces into her mouth, knowing with such certainty that she’d open her jaw to receive it that he didn’t even watch to see if he’d properly delivered it onto her tongue.

Anna loved it when they were on the same page. They disagreed very rarely about matters that concerned them both, and when they did have different opinions on a matter, they were usually able to find common ground and a compromise before long.

She crunched the lightly salted pieces and immediately craved more. He was, of course, right to have been the one stringing the popcorn.

“Are you still going to teach me how to make the straw stars?” she asked, feeling only a little bit anxious about the question. He’d offered to teach her when they’d met in the stable that afternoon, after their ride together through the village to check on the holiday preparations.

At the mention of the straw ornaments, his expression went a little soft and he set down the popcorn garland, leaving his spot on the library settee to join her on the floor. He took a little wooden spool of red thread with him when he went, as well as an embroidery needle.

He sat at her back, propping her up slightly on his chest and allowing her to get comfortable with relative ease. He’d collected the straw for her after lunch, and before the sky darkened for the evening, he’d ridden to the edge of the forest with Sven to retrieve pine bows, twigs, bird’s feathers and more small pieces of nature for her to add to her ornaments. She’d pasted some on here and there, and she’d quite enjoyed the scent of Earth that they’d put off in the small space.

“Grab some straw Anna,” he said, leaning forward slightly with her as she grabbed it from the pile in front of her at the moment of his request.

She felt his hands cover hers as soon as she leaned back, his fingers quick to pull little pieces of the sweet smelling straw from her bundle as he needed.

“Sorry, this is probably going to get all over your skirts.”

Anna couldn’t help but laugh at his concern.

“As if the maids will be surprised.”

At that, he chuckled himself, the sound low and warm, flowing through her and relaxing her like warm tea on a scratchy throat.

“Well then if that won’t be an issue…”

He set his straw pieces on her skirt, arranging them across each other and bidding her to do the same, just as he had.

He guided her hands, his palm slipping over her knuckles and gently pushing or pulling her into the space where the straw needed to lay. She liked the contact, and the butterflies in her stomach made it evident to her that she would never tire of the feeling of his focus being solely on her, particularly when he was guiding her. She was in charge of making the decisions for an entire nation, so in her limited free time, she loved the way that Kristoff was open to leading her, to helping her make decisions or, when she desired it most, making them for her.

“Okay, now you move these pieces like this,” he said, his voice in her ear as he leaned in close to show her how to cross the straw pieces together.

“Then you grab the string and tie off the sections until it looks like a star… we’ll do a simple one first and then I’ll show you more. Ma is better at it than me, but I can show you the basics and she can teach you all the patterns the next time we go to the valley of the living rock.”

Anna smiled at that. She should have known that he would have learned such a beautiful craft from his adoptive mother Bulda. She was, despite her stone fingers, very adept at all sorts of crafts and creations. Anna fully expected that she’d see her work shortly when she and Kristoff finally had their true troll wedding in the valley during the summer. She could hardly wait.

He guided her through the steps, helping her tie knots in the strings and trim them down. Together they made eight stars before tiring of the work.

“This will all be worth it tomorrow when we get our tree,” Anna said with a yawn. It had gotten quite late and they’d both managed quite a few prep tasks for the holiday.

“Well,” he said softly, “It will all be worth it when we get to look at the tree all finished and know that we did it all. I don’t know how content you’ll feel after getting the tree, the amount of effort it takes to saw one down is a bit tiring.

Her grin was sleepy, like everything else about her. She was more than ready for bed, particularly when he took her last finished star from her hands, placed it with the rest, stood and scooped her from the floor and into his arms.

“That’s nice,” she said sleepily, letting him tuck her into his chest, carrying her against himself with his arms under her rear end.

“Let’s get you to bed Princess.”

“Queen,” she replied, almost wishing she’d worn her crown to their crafting session so she could point at it as part of her joke.

He smiled and shook his head, “You could declare yourself empress of the world Anna, you’d still be my Princess Feisty pants.”

She teasingly batted at his chest with her hand, as if she were even slightly offended by what he’d said instead of feeling warm all over, which she did.

Some things, like Christmas tree decorations and terms of endearment were just better when they were homemade.

[lurking-latinist]

"Dear Villageswap Author" for the fanfic author ask, number 1 and 9

(For this ask game, about this fic.)

1: What inspired you to write the fic this way?

It was actually my first Yuletide exchange, and in retrospect it was kind of incredibly cocky to write a fic riffing on Yuletide traditions in my first year, but you see, that's the thing, I'd been immersing myself in the exchange and reading all about its traditions and what to do and, more importantly, what not to do. (You'll notice Katrina commits several no-nos in her letter--most noticeably vague and over-explained DNWs! She just seemed to me like the sort of person who would request "no badfic" and not see why that was unenforceable.) And I have a headcanon that Katrina is still a secret sci-fi nerd. I got a Star Wars person to help me figure out a good Star Wars thing to reference!

9: Were there any alternate versions of this fic?

Not really. If it hadn't worked this way, it wouldn't have worked at all, you know?

[caracalliope]

Dear Yuletide Writer letter 2023

Dear Author,

Hi! Thank you for writing for me. Hope the end of 2023 finds you well.

I’m requesting my absolute favorite things I’ve read and watched this year. My Optional Details are EXTREMELY optional: anything you write in these fandoms is going to bring me joy.  If you have any questions, anon asks are turned on.

My requests this year are: the Doctor Blake Mysteries, the Dom DM, Vespertine, Several People Are Typing..., The Seven (Dimension 20), Demon 79 (Black Mirror episode).

In general, I like romance! Kink! Friendship! Hurt/comfort! Characters knowing each other really well! Drama! Anguish! Loyalty! Weird AUs (especially BDSM AUs or historical/fantasy AUs)! Experimental or unusual formats (including 1st and 2nd person narration, epistolary, drabble sequences, etc.)! Ooh, also roleswap AUs.

Extremely optional specific details that please me:

Dogs. 

Kneeling, ritually or for any other reason.

Character A running a con on someone and character B rolling with it even though it wasn’t discussed beforehand.

Kisses on the wrist/shoulder/neck/knee/etc.

Painplay. Especially caning!

Characters having big feelings about their social role conflicting with what they want.

Righteous patricide (probably not applicable here, but if you can make it work, go for it)!

Characters learning about each other's passions and getting really into it.

General Do Not Wants: 

extremely unhappy endings with no hope of things ever changing, 

underage sex for characters 14 or younger,

ageplay where the character is roleplaying someone age 14 or younger,

drunk/high characters, 

noncon or abuse among the requested characters - it’s generally fine if it’s from a third party as a source of hurt/comfort,

and characters succumbing to uncontrollable instincts (heats, ruts, vampire instincts, ). This includes intense, all-consuming, uncontrollable, the-character-is-literally-a-different-person-now type subspace.

mentions of current IRL wars. Other current events are fine.

The Doctor Blake Mysteries

Characters: Lucien Blake, Jean Beazley

I am so pleased with this cozy show and its extremely creative, hard-working fandom! 

Lucien is a compelling lead; I love how much he loves his mom (even when he learns complicated things about her), and I enjoy his multifaceted kindness that coexists comfortably with him being an arrogant prick. Him changing his mind is delightful to me.

Jean is a magnificent foil and love interest. I love her many ties to the community, and the way she really understands people; her kindness is different than Blake’s, more pragmatic. I enjoy the way she defends him from threats, physical and otherwise. The scene where she calmly makes tea, and they negotiate with Hannam as a couple - magnificent!

For Yuletide, I’d love to read something adventurous or porny. Let them defeat enemies and fuck about it, is what I’m saying. Or if you prefer longing, I’d also love something about that period after they became friends but before they realized they’re in love.

I’d also enjoy a different-setting AU that explores their relationship. Feel free to throw in some more cool power differences there! You could also tilt the power in Jean’s favor if you like: say a D/s AU where she’s a dom but also his housekeeper, and Lucien is a sub but also a doctor! I like the way they navigate their canonical power difference with grace, but I’d also like to see it shook up a bit in fic.

Fandom-specific Do Not Wants:

Love triangles, jealousy. I like Mei Lin, but if she’s in the story, I prefer it to be set after the divorce, with Jean and Mei Lin being on relatively good terms.

Danny. A casual, one-off mention would be fine, but I would prefer him not to have any lines. All other secondary/supporting characters are 100% welcome (I love them all! Especially Charlie, Mattie, and Rose.)

Note: My blanket DNW for characters being drunk/high in the story does extend to Lucien! I know his drinking is a major characterization beat, and you’re welcome to mention it casually or delve into it. But for the duration of the fic, I’d prefer him to be sober.

A Dom DM - Make Some Noise (Sketch)

Any characters

Please feel free to treat it as an origific concept! You’re welcome to use any gender configuration for the characters. A good girl can be anybody.

Is this a nerdy couple who fuse their love of TTRPG with kink? How did this hobby fusion develop? Do they ever switch? Are there kinks they tried and decided they won’t do? What happens if they roll high?

(Very optionally, I like the headcanon that the sub’s failed kneeling roll is because of a physical disability. That sounds like a fun way for a couple to work out mid-scene communication! Maybe the dice are a metaphor?)

Or you could delve into it as an AU concept: maybe it’s characters trying kink in a universe operating under TTRPG rules? Or kink is innately tied in with magic somehow? Are there Kink Bards and Kink Rogues and Kink Level-Ups? Feel free to add any amount of convoluted fantasy/sci-fi worldbuilding to it. 

Fandom-specific Do Not Wants:

Outright RPF! I don’t mind RPF usually, but for this fandom, I prefer a degree of separation from the creators. Absolutely feel free to include other Brennan moments in your characterization (like his thoughts on DMing as submission). But please don’t have the dom character be named Brennan, and don’t base the other character on from the Dropout cast. 

Note: My noncon DNW applies, but I’d be perfectly happy with some bodice-ripping dubcon AU where the dom is a Dark Fuck Prince who is all “have them bathed and brought to my - hitherto dragonless - dungeons” and the sub is both horny and kind of hapless.

Vespertine Series - Margaret Rogerson

Characters: Artemisia, The Revenant, Leander

Absolutely obsessed with the FEELINGS between Artemisia and her revenant, as well as Artemisia and Leander. There is so much deliciousness packed into this book.

I love the revenant’s growing loyalty, the way its innate curiosity drove its need to understand its nun (my headcanon is that, when the Raven King was sundered, our revenant got his curiosity in the divorce); and conversely, Artemisia FINALLY found someone who sees all of her and understands the ways she tries to make the world better. She’s got all this strange, offputting kindness and resilience in her - she always did! And now she gets to nurture that and also take care of herself, and all that needed to happen was a lil bit of demonic possession. <3

Leander, meanwhile, is a loser, and I say this with all the love in my heart. I need him to be at least a little reverent about Artemisia. She’s his saint, he ought to kneel at her feet like a worm, etc. etc. but also he’s kind of micromanaging and she’s not doing anything the right and proper way. What’s a sad masochist to do!?!

In fic, I’d love to see the three of them build something love-filled and lasting. It’s up to interpretation exactly how the revenant and Leander would feel about each other! Speaking of sad masochists, I think this is a good OT3 - or platonic OT3 - for some kinkfic. Namely, Leander getting flogged by his saint, or, like in this post by Rogerson, offering up his body for Artemisia and the revenant to get to touch each other. ("Stop hitting Yourself!)

Fandom-specific Do Not Wants:

Please don’t give the revenant a separate permanent body! I like body sharing too much (see also: Malevolent podcast). Feel absolutely free to write a different-setting AU, but even if they’re high schoolers or space werewolves, let Artemisia and the revenant share a body.

Note: I like the revenant using it/its pronouns like in canon, but if that doesn’t work for you, please feel free to go with whatever you like! 

Several People Are Typing - Calvin Kasulke

Any characters

I’m so into this strange little Night Vale Does WFH Hell book, and I’m fond of all its characters. I nominated my faves, but if you’re fonder of someone else, please follow your heart. I like everyone in this office-slash-work-community-slash-layer-of-hell, and I like the way they’re all somewhat fond of each other. I love routine-loving Doug Smorin, Kerolyn of the skinks, and Louis C being too much of a dad to be fully involved in the Twilight Zone of it all.

Gerald/Pradeep is such a compelling gradual romance, I love that Gerald is the only one to call him Deepu, and I love the strange forced intimacy of, you know, just guys being dudes, taking each other of a good buddy’s flesh vessel while the good buddy has to find pleasure and maintain his humanity in the face of metaphorical and literal digital submersion of the self. I’d love to see more of their conversations. More weird intentional hedonism. Hanging out together. Finding meaning outside work or even, somehow, meaning in work.

Rob, meanwhile, has got the role of being the only sane one! Kind of! Who’s to say Lydia is any less real than Rob himself? Who’s to say she’s any less real than you or me? I love the surreality of the whole plotline. Maybe you could write about the wolves? Howling is a good theme for Yuletide.

Or write about dear, sweet, precious, horny Slackbot! It’s interesting that this book came out before ChatGPT got to be everywhere. Combine the two in some unholy way? 

I don’t know, please have fun. If you’d like to write an AU set at your job, or an AU where they’re all exchange mods or activists or members of a spreadsheet-centered polycule, that would be cool too.

Fandom-specific Do Not Wants:

Graphic descriptions of pet death. RIP to Bjärk loyalists but I’m different.

Please no fucking of Gerald’s body when nobody’s in it.

Fandom: Dimension 20: The Seven

Characters: Sam Nightingale, Antiope Jones

OKAY, I WON’T LIE: I ship these two like burning. I ship all of the Maidens on some level, but Sam/Antiope are my favorites and I think they fit together beautifully. BUT I also adore their friendship, and I would love to see more of their canon dynamic but in new situations.

Sam is a delight to me, the way she accurately recognizes when something is a terrible, self-destructive idea, and then she goes ahead to do it anyway. She’s got no reason to trust good things happening to her, and she lashes out preemptively because that’s better than trusting and getting screwed over (as by Penelope). BUT she’s also got a secret kindness and largesse, and I love the way it manifests towards Talura, towards Taffodil, possibly even towards random people they meet on their adventures.

And then Antiope is sort of the conceptual opposite of Sam: she KNOWS she’s loved and she knows where she belongs to - or, at least, where she’s supposed to belong to - but she’s struggling with her authentic sense of self. (Sam’s ALWAYS known who she is, and hence the conflict with her terrible mom, and maybe eventually the conflict with Penelope too.) Antiope is very practical and has BIG FEELINGS she’s keeping restrained, and I love the way she and Sam spark into conflicts, but Antiope is so dedicated to being a good leader, not just because she’s even-keeled but because she’s got a very good sense of the right justice/compassion balance.

In fic, I’d love to see them save each other from Situations. Whether they’re friends or lovers, I’d love them to have a femme-butch kind of dynamic? (If you watch Dirty Laundry, a recent episode had Aabria casually kiss a friend’s hand, and that is definitely, definitely something I can see Antiope doing too). Weird/wacky/sexy AUs seem especially interesting here, like goddess AUs, soulmate AUs, D/s AUs, etc.

Fandom-specific Do Not Wants:

Violent transphobia, worse than in canon. I loved Sam’s interactions with her mom, and her reluctance to be filmed, but I wouldn’t like to see transphobia interfere more intensely than that with her life.

Please no cheating/infidelity, or even friendship jealousy. I know Sam’s possessive, and I love that about her, but I’m not interested in “Antiope is spending more time with others” as a source of angst at this time.

Black Mirror: Demon 79 (TV 2023)

Characters: Nida Huq (Black Mirror: Demon 79), Gaap (Black Mirror: Demon 79)

I’ve been staring at this request like a deer in headlights for days now.

I just want more? Literally every second they spent together was perfect, and I want to revel in that feeling. So I apologize if this request turns out hazy: it’s not through a lack of love for the canon, I just don’t know in what direction to take my feelings.

Nida and Gaap? Are perfect. I have no idea if they’re friends or lovers or demon/apprentice or even some kind of subverted twisty demon/worshiper or whatever else. I’d love some post-canon fic set in the void. Bring in other demons? Make it hurt/comforty? Or just ignore the ending have them explore Earth. I love Gaap’s appearance being Boney M-inspired, and I think maybe the two of them should go clubbing. Or they could bring clubbing into the void? Oooh, or they could try out some outfits. Nida finally has a willing model, if she’s into that sort of thing.

I do appreciate the episode’s deeper themes too. Nida Versus Seventies British Fascism is a deeply satisfying story, and I love just how creepy and visceral that part turned out. I was initially going to say I don’t want a no-magic AU, but actually, I could really enjoy like a kitchen sink realism approach, as long as it still ends on SOME kind of victoriousness for Nida and Gaap.

The crux of this ship, to me, is that everything is almost entirely unbearable for Nida, but, she’s got a hammer and also a demon pal. And frankly the world is not worth saving if it keeps failing her.

Fandom-specific Do Not Wants:

Betrayal or perceived betrayal. They like each other despite everything, and even during their spat they’re sort of on each other’s side.

Edit: it also just occurred to me that they'd make for magnificent vampires together.

THANK YOU FOR READING

THIS LETTER GOT LONGER THAN I MEANT IT TO BE. I hope you find something here to spark an idea! But again feel free to go wherever your canon feelings take you

Hope you have a happy Yule!

[beatrice-otter]

Yuletide Recs! 60 fics in 46 fandoms

This year was amazing. All three of the fics written for me were absolutely perfect in their own way, exactly what I hoped for, and there was a fourth that wasn't written for me but felt like it was, because it matched a long-term request I've had in multiple ficathons over the last several years. (I also wrote two fanfics, one assignment and one treat, and I'm curious if anyone spotted either as possibly coming from me.)

Here are the fics I received:

Children of the Universe (4006 words) by Anonymous Fandom: A Wrinkle in Time (2018) Rating: Not Rated Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply Characters: Meg Murry O'Keefe, Calvin O'Keefe, Alex Murry, Charles Wallace Murry, Kate Murry, Mrs. Whatsit (Kairos)

Summary: Of course, people don't just go back to their lives, after experiences like theirs.

It's so perfect an encapsulation of the love and the pain together and trying to build something together and heal in the midst of it.

follow your memory upstream Fandom: A Wrinkle in Time (2018)

This is amazing and I love it. It's a wonderful conversation between the two of them, and I love that her dad validates her anger.

Employment (100 words) by Anonymous Fandom: Rivers of London - Ben Aaronovitch Rating: General Audiences Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply Characters: Mamusu "Rose" Grant, Elsie Winstanley Additional Tags: Alternate Universe, Yuletide Madness Drabble Invitational Summary:

One universe over when Peter is ten and Mamasu Grant’s future is about to take a new direction.

This next one wasn't exactly written for me, but it feels like it was; I've been asking for Mamusu-and-Elsie adventures for years, and making sure they're in fanwork exchange tagsets, and this year I was not the only one asking, and someone wrote it!

Bintumani Working in Freetown, Elsie gets a mysterious letter that sends her on a journey across Sierra Leone. Fandom: Rivers of London - Ben Aaronovitch

All the details about life in Sierra Leone and who Mamusu and Elsie are and an adventure, it's everything I've been wanting for years since first reading A Rare Book of Cunning Device.

Other fics I loved:

16th Century CE RPF Periapsides (2303 words) by Anonymous Rating: Teen And Up Audiences Warnings: Creator Chose Not To Use Archive Warnings Characters: Catherine of Aragon, Anne Boleyn Summary: Five things Catherine of Aragon and Anne Boleyn could have been to each other. I love all the what-ifs, they’re such interesting ideas. Ask A Manager Blog my wife doesn’t know I hench, the evil sex ray made my employees do it, and more (2007 words) by Anonymous Fandom: Hench - Natalie Zina Walschots, Ask a Manager Blog - Alison Green Rating: Teen And Up Audiences Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply Characters: Alison Green (Ask a Manager) Additional Tags: Worldbuilding, Llamas Summary:

It’s hench week at Ask a Manager!

Aubrey-Maturin Series - Patrick O'Brian Reconciling the Irreconcilable (1938 words) by Anonymous Rating: General Audiences Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply Characters: Jack Aubrey, Stephen Maturin Summary:

Jack and Stephen must rescue a double agent from prison, provoking an unusually frank conversation between them

Jane Austen Gratitude (5880 words) by Anonymous Fandom: Mansfield Park - Jane Austen, Persuasion - Jane Austen Rating: General Audiences Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply Relationships: Edmund Bertram & Fanny Price, Fanny Price & William Price, Henry Crawford & Fanny Price, James Benwick / Fanny Price Summary:

What if the Harvilles took Fanny in, instead of her spending three months with her parents in Portsmouth? This is a gift for everyone who wanted to see someone other than the Crawfords and the Bertrams being truly nice to Fanny. Constant (2183 words) by Anonymous Fandom: Persuasion - Jane Austen Rating: General Audiences Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply Relationships: Anne Elliot/Frederick Wentworth I love all the details of life at sea and how well it suits Anne. Righteousness and Respectability (10506 words) by Anonymous Fandom: Sense and Sensibility - Jane Austen Rating: Teen And Up Audiences Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply Relationships: Marianne Dashwood/John Willoughby, Marianne Dashwood/Colonel Brandon, Elinor Dashwood & Marianne Dashwood, Elinor Dashwood & Margaret Dashwood & Marianne Dashwood & Mrs. Dashwood Additional Tags: Period-Typical Racism, Period-Typical Sexism, Alternate Universe, Racebending, Age of Sail, Non-Consensual Kissing Summary:

The Dashwood ladies are mixed race. Some things change, but others do not.

Batman If I’m Shining Everybody Gonna Shine (3902 words) by Anonymous Rating: General Audiences Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply Relationships: Dick Grayson & Duke Thomas, Duke Thomas & Jason Todd, Duke Thomas & Bruce Wayne Characters: Duke Thomas Summary:

Duke is finally going to his first gala and needs some advice. The quality of advice some of his siblings give is questionable. Very questionable.

“You would be wise to listen to my advice, Thomas.” “Which is?” Duke asks. “Bring a weapon.”

Featuring the return of the Wayne Family’s inability to tie a tie.

Dance, then, wherever you may be (1431 words) by Anonymous Rating: General Audiences Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply Characters: Dick Grayson, Cassandra Cain, Damian Wayne Summary:

Dick understands why Cass loves to dance.

World’s Okayest Detective (2690 words) by Anonymous Rating: General Audiences Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply Summary:

Bruce tries to shake a present. Tries being the operative word.

proper rites (7215 words) by Anonymous Rating: General Audiences Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply Characters: Jason Todd, Damian Wayne, Alfred Pennyworth, Stephanie Brown Summary:

Being a cat for three weeks has repercussions, it turns out.

Jason snacks his way through one of them. Damian reads books. Both of them drink a lot of tea. It’s nice, mostly, which Jason finds highly suspicious.

can everyone please stop touching Bruce Wayne’s bust (2998 words) by Anonymous Rating: General Audiences Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply Characters: Bruce Wayne, Alfred Pennyworth, Stephanie Brown, Selina Kyle Summary:

Everyone in the family just can’t stop touching Bruce Wayne’s bust.

Wait, no, that’s not quite right…

Love the shenanigans and sibling fighting. Katie, Bar the Door (2915 words) by Anonymous Rating: Teen And Up Audiences Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply Characters: Jason Todd, Bruce Wayne, Duke Thomas, Batfamily Members Summary:

Duke’s never been to a hockey game. Jason thinks that’s a shame. Blackadder Private Party (2448 words) by Anonymous Rating: Teen And Up Audiences Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply Relationships: Edmund Blackadder/Kevin Darling Characters: Edmund Blackadder, Kevin Darling, Anthony Cecil Hogmanay Melchett, George Colthurst St. Barleigh, Baldrick (Blackadder) Summary: A dubiously merry Christmas in the trenches. The author has all their voices down cold! Cabaret From Cradle to Tomb (2193 words) by Anonymous Rating: General Audiences Warnings: Creator Chose Not To Use Archive Warnings Characters: Cliff Bradshaw, Emcee (Cabaret), Sally Bowles, Ernst Ludwig Summary:

In which Cliff finishes the first draft of his manuscript before he leaves Berlin, and receives advice from a friend.

Or: history is dust. You are not.

A fascinating look at all the ways Cabaret is about stories and storytelling. Cadfael Christmas Rose (3797 words) by Anonymous Rating: Teen And Up Audiences Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply Relationships: Hugh Beringar & Brother Cadfael, Aline Beringar/Hugh Beringar Summary:

Cadfael reminisces about an old investigation.

The characterization is lovely, and the mystery feels like the sort in canon. Chalion Saga Demon Touched (3634 words) by Anonymous Rating: Teen And Up Audiences Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply Characters: Adelis Arisaydia, Penric kin Jurald, Desdemona (Chalion), Nikys Khatai Summary:

Adelis’s entire life changes in an instant. Set somewhere post-current-canon.

The Inverted Chord (8705 words) by Anonymous Rating: Teen And Up Audiences Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply Characters: Penric kin Jurald, Nikys Khatai, Adelis Arisaydia, Desdemona Summary:

Adelis returns from leading Duke Jurgo’s army against the Rusylli to meet Penric again, this time as his brother-in-law.

I love this, both the insight into the Father here and the way Pen helps with Adelis’ lingering trauma over what happened to him.

A Christmas Carol Fellow Passengers (3453 words) by Anonymous Rating: General Audiences Warnings: Creator Chose Not To Use Archive Warnings Relationships: Tiny Tim & Ebenezer Scrooge, Jacob Marley & Ebenezer Scrooge Summary:

Paying Marley’s debt comes at a cost. Tim is a comfort.

This made me cry, and it really captures the Dickens voice. The Price of Salvation (5780 words) by Anonymous Rating: General Audiences Warnings: Creator Chose Not To Use Archive Warnings Relationships: Jacob Marley & Ebenezer Scrooge Summary:

Scrooge received only one visit from the Ghosts of Christmas Past, Christmas Present, and Christmas Yet to Come.

Jacob Marley came many times.

Angsty in the best way Dune (2021) hear them chant (burn the witch) (2295 words) by Anonymous Rating: Teen And Up Audiences Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply Characters: Duncan Idaho, Jessica (Dune), Leto Atreides I Summary:

the witch had to die.

I like the subtleties of this. Future Tense (1172 words) by Anonymous Rating: Teen And Up Audiences Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply Relationships: Paul Atreides/Duncan Idaho Summary:

“If I became Emperor, would you still serve me?” (Duncan lives!AU)

Enchanted Forest Chronicles Witchcraft and Dragons (10102 words) by Anonymous Rating: General Audiences Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply Characters: Morwen (Enchanted Forest), Archaniz (Enchanted Forest), Morwen’s Cats (Enchanted Forest), Kazul (Enchanted Forest), Deadly Nightshade Gardening Club Summary:

How Morwen arrived at the Enchanted Forest

The worldbuilding was perfect and so were the character voices, it felt like a part of canon! Enola Holmes i’ll hide underneath my pride (18834 words) by Anonymous Rating: Teen And Up Audiences Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply Relationships: Enola Holmes/Viscount “Tewky” Tewksbury Summary:

Enola doubted that when Tewksbury had invited her to his childhood friend’s countryside home for a weekend away that he had planned for her to solve the theft of a very important item. But luckily for everyone in attendance, Enola Holmes was always on the case.

Ethan of Athos Time Enough (20075 words) by Anonymous Rating: Mature Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply Relationships: Terrence Cee/Ethan Urquhart Summary:

Terrence Cee had spent most of his life feeling jumpship caught in the gravity well of a blackhole. Engines on full bore. Only able to keep out of the crushing center, but never able to escape. Now in his new life on Athos, he found himself unsure of how to find a new pace.

Ethan wondered if there was a way to get his love life gestating again. Not frozen like zygotes stored in a bio-freezer against some eventual future.

step by step (planet by planet) (950 words) by Anonymous Rating: General Audiences Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply Relationships: Terrence Cee/Ethan Urquhart Additional Tags: Mutual Pining, Unresolved, Oblivious Ethan Urquhart Summary:

“We’re being watched,” Cee said, and then, before Ethan could respond, “Don’t look.”

Fandom For Robots Stay In Touch (1019 words) by Anonymous Rating: General Audiences Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply Relationships: bjornruffian & Computron (Fandom for Robots) Summary:

Computron and bjornruffian stay in touch. Fiddler on the Roof firebrands (3894 words) by Anonymous Rating: General Audiences Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply Relationships: Hodel/Perchik (Fiddler on the Roof) Summary:

In a world where Hodel is also a revolutionary, she and Perchik fall in love.

I love this exploration of what Hodel could have been, and the exploration of her and Perchik’s relationship. The Goblin Emperor On the Twelfth Hour of Winternight (2060 words) by Anonymous Rating: General Audiences Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply Relationships: Csevet Aisava/Maia Drazhar Summary:

Edrehasivar smiled, and Csevet marveled and despaired in equal measure at how that smile still hit him like an arrow to the gut, even after all this time.

Or: Csevet’s emperor needs help fetching Winternight presents, and Csevet is only too happy to assist.

Really sweet, in the best way Need To Know (2151 words) by Anonymous Rating: General Audiences Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply Characters: Csethiro Ceredin, Maia Drazhar, Csevet Aisava Summary:

After Eshevis Tethimar tries to assassinate the Emperor at the Winternight Ball, information is shared on a need-to-know basis - and Csethiro needs to know.

it gets okay to praise the day (5770 words) by Anonymous Rating: Teen And Up Audiences Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply Characters: Thara Celehar, Iäna Pel-Thenhior, Maia Drazhar, Anora Chanavar, Velhiro Tomasaran, Othalo Rasaltezhen Summary:

Thara, while gradually recovering from the aftermath of his encounter with the revethavar, discovers that he is not so alone in the world as he tends to think.

The Grief of Knives (1841 words) by Anonymous Rating: General Audiences Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply Characters: Thara Celehar, Iäna Pel-Thenhior, Velhiro Tomasaran Summary:

The moment of catharsis in the Orshaneisei maze had lightened the pain Thara carried. It did not eliminate it. But this time, Iäna is there.

As long as thou com'st back (1438 words) by Anonymous Rating: General Audiences Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply Relationships: Thara Celehar/Iäna Pel-Thenhior Additional Tags: Pre-Relationship, Developing Relationship, Hopeful Ending, Canon Continuation Summary:

A man like Thara Celehar is worth waiting for. Iäna does.

A look at what their next interaction after The Grief of Stones might look like, from Iäna’s eyes.

Great Iäna perspective Imperial Radch Series - Ann Leckie favorites (3414 words) by Anonymous Rating: Teen And Up Audiences Warnings: Major Character Death Relationships: Justice of Toren & Original Character, Justice of Toren/Original Character Additional Tags: Identity Issues, Grief/Mourning, Canon-Typical Violence, Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder - PTSD Summary:

Justice of Toren and its favorite officers.

I love this perspective on what it was like to be a ship and all the ancillaries together and taking care of officers. Very interesting. Henry V I’ve no language left to say it (1014 words) by Anonymous Rating: Teen And Up Audiences Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply Relationships: Henry V/Montjoy Summary:

“Read for me, Montjoy?” He pushed it to the side. Montjoy picked up the letter.

“In English or in French, your highness?”

“En anglais, s'il vous plaît.”

Into the Woods careful the tale you tell (that is the spell) (2555 words) by Anonymous Rating: Teen And Up Audiences Warnings: Creator Chose Not To Use Archive Warnings Characters: Rapunzel (Into the Woods), Cinderella (Into the Woods), Baker (Into the Woods), Baker’s Mother (Into the Woods) Additional Tags: Post-Canon, Alternate Universe - Canon Divergence, Rapunzel Lives, Family, Parenthood, Trauma, Past Child Abuse Summary:

Rapunzel learns to tell her own story, and just what story it is she wants to tell.

Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell - Susanna Clarke The Lost Works of the Dry-Cræfticen of Wherwell: a New Approach (1450 words) by Anonymous Rating: General Audiences Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply Additional Tags: Worldbuilding, Magical Realism, Pseudo-History, Academia, Archaeology Summary:

An article from the book Female Magicians in Pre-Aureate England, published in 2006 by York University Press.

Really interesting worldbuilding The stones shall make a throne for me (5756 words) by Anonymous Rating: Teen And Up Audiences Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply Characters: Stephen Black, Original Characters, John Uskglass | The Raven King Summary:

The new king of Lost-hope is not like the last.

What a great perspective on the Nameless King and what he might do next. King’s Progress (3840 words) by Anonymous Rating: General Audiences Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply Characters: Stephen Black, John Uskglass | The Raven King, Original Characters Summary:

The man once Stephen Black, as the new King of Lost-Hope, decides to make a Royal Progress through his demesne on the advice of a raven after realizing how little he knows how to rule a fae court. He meets the Raven King himself with surprizing consequences for both.

I love the poetry in this. When Once We Are Buried, You Think We Are Dead (3186 words) by Anonymous Rating: General Audiences Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply Characters: John Uskglass | The Raven King, Catherine of Winchester, Martin Pale, John Childermass Summary:

The great Cathedral at Winchester seems as near timeless as any work of man in England. But time and magic can intersect…oddly.

L'Empereur (5043 words) by Anonymous Rating: General Audiences Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply Characters: John Childermass, Stephen Black Summary:

Childermass’s search for the meaning of the King’s Letters leads to an unexpected encounter.  

Kings (2009) All this, and love too, will ruin us (8080 words) by Anonymous Rating: Teen And Up Audiences Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply Relationships: Jack Benjamin/David Shepherd Summary:

Everyone thought him pampered beyond measure, but this…this was where Jack felt most alive: soldiering had been the first place he’d known who he was, and hardship and deprivation had never been punishing, not when he was with his men, his comrades in arms. His brothers. And that was what David was, right now—his brother in arms. His brother.

Little Women (2019 Movie - Gerwig) Happy (2144 words) by Anonymous Rating: Teen And Up Audiences Warnings: Creator Chose Not To Use Archive Warnings Relationships: Theodore Laurence/Amy March Summary:

“Anything interesting from the girls?” Aunt March says. They’re in the drawing room of the hotel, and Amy still has the letter from Jo held tightly in her hand. She carefully places it down on the writing desk.

“Oh, not much Aunt March,” Amy says, turning the information over in her mind. Beth is ill…and they’re not sure what to do, and mother has been called. “Beth is sick,” she says.  

Lord Peter Wimsey - Dorothy L. Sayers Scene on a Balcony (1965 words) by Anonymous Rating: General Audiences Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply Characters: Eiluned Price, Sylvia Marriott, Gerald Wimsey Viscount St George, Helen Duchess of Denver Summary:

8th October 1935 and it’s the wedding of the year - Lord Peter Wimsey and Miss Harriet Vane have finally tied the knot. But the wedding breakfast (served at the Dowager Duchess’ London house) is getting a little heated. So the balcony is an excellent place to which to escape.

A Little Princess Rajasi (2067 words) by Anonymous Rating: Teen And Up Audiences Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply Relationships: Becky/Sara Crewe Summary:

Four princesses Becky met, and one she loved.

MCU Moon Knight Scarlet and Moonlight (4769 words) by Anonymous Fandom: Moon Knight (Comics), Moon Knight (TV 2022) Rating: Teen And Up Audiences Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply Relationships: Marlene Alraune/Steven Grant, Gena Landers & Jake Lockley Additional Tags: Marvel 616/MCU Crossover, Comics AU Layla El-Faouly, Layla El-Faouly-centric, Multiplicity/Plurality, Team Moon Knight is in So Much Denial, Alternate Origin Story, POV Outsider Summary:

Phantom thief Layla has finally tracked a stolen artifact to some rich couple’s collection. Shouldn’t be too hard to break into their mansion and retrieve it, right? This Steven Grant and Marlene Alraune are probably total pushovers.

(Spoiler alert: they are not total pushovers.)

Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings (2021) Awkward (1775 words) by Anonymous Rating: Teen And Up Audiences Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply Relationships: Katy Chen/Xu Xialing, Katy Chen & Shang-Chi Summary:

It wasn’t that Katy was ashamed of her relationship with Xu Xialing. She was, in fact, rather proud of herself for locking that down. In a world of superhero tens, Xialing was an eleven. Brains, beauty, an entrepreneurial spirit combined with a hard work ethic—Xialing had it all.

It was just awkward.

I love the way they wrote Katy. Ms. Marvel (TV 2022) Three Times Kamala Thought About Revealing Her Identity And One Time She Didn’t (1312 words) by Anonymous Rating: General Audiences Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply Characters: Kamala Khan, Nakia Bahadir, Muneeba Khan, Yusuf Khan, Tyesha Hillman-Khan, Aamir Khan (Marvel), Sheikh Abdullah (Ms. Marvel) Summary:

Three times Kamala Khan thought about revealing her secret identity and one time she knew better.

Paristan (1166 words) by Anonymous Rating: General Audiences Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply Characters: Sana | Kamala Khan’s Grandmother, Muneeba Khan, Kamala Khan Summary:

Sana Ali leaves home behind, and finds home anyway.

Men’s Hockey RPF i’m your passenger (2382 words) by Anonymous Rating: General Audiences Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply Relationships: Joel Farabee/Travis Konecny Summary:

“I figured it out!” his staffer exclaims—Sarah, the tiny white embroidery on her polo reads—holding TK’s hand up like a prizefighter. “TK will fit.”

He blinks at her. “Fit where?”

One of the staffers steps back and he sees it: the neon orange fluffy monstrosity, slumped bonelessly against a chair.

(Or: Gritty needs a body. TK provides.)

Right Where You Left Me (9913 words) by Anonymous Rating: Teen And Up Audiences Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply Relationships: Carey Price/P. K. Subban Additional Tags: post-retirement, Age Regression/De-Aging, but not to childhood, Getting Together, Pining, Angst with a Happy Ending, totally ignoring vast swaths of real life Summary:

PK hasn’t seen Carey much in the past eight years, but he doesn’t remember him looking quite this young.

Grindin’ It Out (In the App) (6464 words) by Anonymous Rating: Explicit Warnings: Creator Chose Not To Use Archive Warnings Relationships: Jeff Carter/Mike Richards Summary:

A chance Grindr encounter leads - eventually - to a reunion.

Miss Marple Three Card Trick (3816 words) by Anonymous Rating: General Audiences Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply Characters: Jane Marple, Raymond West, Joyce Lemprière, Henry Clithering Summary:

A Christmas party and a small magical mystery.

An interesting little mystery, very much in the style of Miss Marple. Murderbot Diaries Heuristic Analysis (10965 words) by Anonymous Rating: General Audiences Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply Characters: SecUnit 3 (Murderbot Diaries) Summary:

Three makes some choices.

I love this whole thing. The worldbuilding of PUMNT. The way they build and raise baby AIs. The philosophy students having just enough knowledge to do some really stupid things. Three’s choices and reactions all the way through. Perfect. Paint Your Wagon Wandrin’ (3763 words) by Anonymous Rating: General Audiences Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply Relationships: Pardner/Ben Rumson/Elizabeth Rumson, Pardner/Elizabeth Summary:

It’s been five years since Ben Rumson was on the road to No Name City.

This sounds much more likely than Pardner and Elizabeth just settling down and becoming farmers. I love it! Philadelphia Story Unionville, PA. (2194 words) by Anonymous Rating: Teen And Up Audiences Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply Relationships: Tracy Lord & C K Dexter Haven & Macauley Connor, Tracy Lord & Liz Imbrie Summary:

“I have the most wonderful little house in Unionville. It’s up on a hill with a view that would knock you silly. I’m never there except in the hunting season, and not much then, and I’d be so happy to know that it was of some real use to someone….There’s a brook and a small lake, no size really, and a patch of woods, and in any kind of weather, it’s the most wonderful…”

RED Leave Room for Dessert (1721 words) by Anonymous Rating: Teen And Up Audiences Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply Relationships: Han Cho Bai/Victoria Winslow Summary:

Three times Han and Victoria enjoyed a meal together.

Singin’ in the Rain picture stars on parade (3383 words) by Anonymous Rating: Teen And Up Audiences Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply Relationships: Cosmo Brown/Don Lockwood/Kathy Selden Summary:

Cosmo’s dearest friends are busy making movies, and he would like to see more of them. Lots of musicians rendered unemployed by the coming of talking pictures are writing to him to try and get jobs, and the stock market just crashed. Why not try to solve every problem with a party? Smithsonian Conservation Biology Institute RPF Nest-wrecker (1053 words) by Anonymous Rating: Teen And Up Audiences Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply Characters: Chris Crowe (Smithsonian Conservation Biology Institute RPF), Walnut the Crane (Smithsonian Conservation Biology Institute RPF), Original Characters Summary:

Chris was pretty average looking, Nora thought, just a normal guy - but then, she wasn’t an endangered and horny white-naped crane, so what did she know? Star Trek: Strange New Worlds Fall Into Your Sunlight (3459 words) by Anonymous Rating: Teen And Up Audiences Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply Relationships: Number One | Una Chin-Riley/Christopher Pike Summary:

When a snowstorm interferes with the transporter, Pike and Number One are forced to take shelter in an abandoned cabin. Revelations ensue.

Star Wars salvage (2559 words) by Anonymous Fandom: Andor (TV), Star Wars - All Media Types Rating: Teen And Up Audiences Warnings: Creator Chose Not To Use Archive Warnings Relationships: Maarva Andor/Clem Andor, Maarva Andor & Cassian Andor, Cassian Andor & Clem Andor rief/Mourning, Relationship Study, Established Relationship, Yuletide, Yuletide 2022, Yuletide Treat, Background Cassian Andor/Bix Caleen Summary: It turns out that taking in this boy is like taming a wild Loth-cat. Clem tells her that, one night: “It has to be on his own terms, in his own time.” (A family study of the Andors, from initial adoption through what happens on Rix Road.) All Blue and Gold and Glittering (1635 words) by Anonymous Fandom: Andor (TV) Rating: General Audiences Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply Characters: Tay Kolma Summary: In search of a present for Mon Mothma, Tay Colma pays a visit to an antiques shop he’s been told she’s fond of. תנ"ך | Tanakh The Giant Killers (and marginalia) (13234 words) by Anonymous Rating: Teen And Up Audiences Warnings: Creator Chose Not To Use Archive Warnings Relationships: David | Dāūd/Yehonatan | Jonathan, David/Michal (Abrahamic Religions), Michal/OFM Summary:

Listen you children of exile, let not your ear close up. Listen now even in forced mirth. Hear a song that the weavers sing in their enforced labor. Hear how a princess of an Israel united in the company of a barbarian, a mighty hunter, a priest of great knowledge, a seer of Ein Dor, a princely warrior of pure and noble heart, and a musician blessed by YHWH, defeated giants that threatened all the lands of the earth.

This is AMAZING, I love all the historical details and the footnotes! And the adventure is great, and so is the queerness, this story makes me so happy. Temeraire an ever fixed mark (1216 words) by Anonymous Rating: General Audiences Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply Relationships: William Laurence & Temeraire, William Laurence/Temeraire Additional Tags: Possessive Behavior, Jealousy Summary:

In fact, Laurence realized, with no small amount of chagrin, by all accounts one would have to consider him the wife in their arrangement.

Watchmen now that we are dead (1636 words) by Anonymous Rating: Teen And Up Audiences Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply Relationships: Dan Dreiberg/Laurie Juspeczyk, Dan Dreiberg/Laurie Juspeczyk/Rorschach, Dan Dreiberg/Rorschach Additional Tags: Post-Karnak, Alternate Universe - Canon Divergence, Rorschach Lives (Watchmen), Suicide Attempt, Post-Apocalypse, Unhealthy Relationships, Unhealthy Coping Mechanisms Summary:

Rorschach tries to kill himself after Karnak.

Great job at showcasing the complex issues between them all. We Are A Picturesque Small Town And We Refuse To Be The Setting For Your RomCom (McSweeney’s) I’ll Be Home for Winter (4161 words) by Anonymous Rating: Teen And Up Audiences Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply Summary:

Terry Pratchett told us, “The theory of narrative causality…means that a story, once started, takes a shape. It picks up all the vibrations of all the other workings of that story that have ever been. This is why history keeps on repeating all the time.“

In other words, stories want to be told, and a few pesky rules aren’t going to stop them.

[ashenprofessor]

One slip of paper joins the requests, written in poor penmanship:

I'd like to have something that could make eating and giving food to others easier, something I could reuse time and time again. Of course, I'm not so greedy as to be picky about it. If you can't give me anything at all, I won't complain. It's enough to even have a chance at getting something like this. Thank you already, truly.

An interesting request from the often recluse student. Byleth hoped this meant that the mage wished to leave the relative safety of his quarters more frequently in the coming year. The note was still written in his typically self- deprecating tone but the mention of sharing with others was hopeful.

Wanting the gift to be the best they could find, Byleth decided to craft it themselves. The finished product was elegant in design though a little rough around the edges. The professor hoped it fulfilled the wishes of the sender.

Knocking on Pelleas' door, Byleth waited till it opened then thrust the wrapped present forwards. "Merry Yuletide. May you have a successful year and restful holiday" Gift delivered, Byleth didn't stick around to watch it being opened, not wanting to see Pelleas' reaction to their craftmanship.

The present contained what looked like a simple wooden box with decorative carvings on the top. If one looked closely you could see that it spelled out Pelleas. Opening it up revealed the inside to be split into several smaller compartments for the separate storage of food without contamination. tucked down the side was a case containing some cutlery and chopsticks. It was basically a bento style lunch box.

[subzeroiceskater]

Some the ideas and thoughts I wrote down after I saw my Yuletide prompts.

I'm not gonna join next time. It's gonna end up again where I feel like I'm forcing someone to read something they won't care for or else forcing else someone else to write something they obviously don't really care for. Basically it felt like I was taking away slots from getting them gifts they wanted to read or from writing stories they actually want to write.

The shitty thing is I wrote and planned to this for maximum fun and as easy for me.

I did not have fun. It was painful and I hated every moment writing but personal pride kept me going. I thought about what happened last year to RR last year and I remembered those words "don't sign up expecting to get a gift and not give one your one" and I saw somebody submitted a gift for me, and I had to keep going. It's stupid pride because Yuletide did not have those rules. There's a no fault default in place but as the deadline kept coming, I felt I lost my chance to gracefully exit. Sunken cost--I rewatched the show several times already, I even marathoned the original, I was eight thousand words into a draft (plus 1k story draft for the book they requested I thought might have been easier a prompt to fulfill--it wasn't)--if I gave out at that point, I'd just be inconveniencing somebody else to pick up my slack (treacherous thoughts, that my target probably would've been with the potential pinch hitter takes than any of mine).

Anyway, I managed to finish something. It really was a story that I could have written. Did anyone else like it? Not really, not by comparison. I stupidly took a look when it was anonymous and it did worse in number of hits/kudos/comments to the only other anonymos Yuletide fic. It did much worse than my previous fic last year and the previous fics in that fandom from last year. Maybe other factors contributed, but it's hard to not take personally.

People just don't care for what I have to say, anonymous or not.

So. no, not putting myself again. Unlike the characters in my story, no would care if this universe ends.

Great to get to write a canon non-binary character however.

[bookgirlfan]

Dear Yuletide Author 2023

Dear Yuletide author, 

Hello! Thank you so much for writing a story for me! Whatever you write, I’m sure that as long as you enjoy it, I’ll enjoy it, and it will be excellent! So please don’t stress too much about it. 

I am BookGirlFan on AO3, just as I am here. 

A few general guidelines: 

Found Family is one of my, if not my absolute, favourite trope. If you include this, I’m practically guaranteed to love whatever you write. 

Never be afraid of going too long. I read fast, so I’ll read everything you write, even if it’s a million word epic. (Not that I’m actually asking for a million word epic, just saying if that’s what you ended up writing, I would read it.) 

Hurt/comfort is my jam, and is nearly always a good prompt idea if you can't think of anything else. Romantic tropes turned platonic is generally also something that I love.

Do Not Wants: 

Something entirely around sex/romance, or something that places those kind of relationships as the ultimate kind of relationship.

Unhappy endings. 

Gore.

Benjamin January Mysteries - Barbara Hambly

I've read this series several times since I first found it a few years ago, though I haven't yet read Death and Hard Cider or anything after, so no spoilers for those please! I love the atmosphere of the books, the difficult morality of the cases, and the fabulous interactions between everybody, but especially January, Rose and Hannibal! I ship the three of them, but am also happy to read about any combination, as long as there's no cheating involved.

I've specifically asked for Rose and Hannibal, but if you'd like to include anyone else from the tagset, please do!

A few prompts, in case it helps:

Hannibal teaching Rose to pick locks, or another questionable but useful skill

Missing scenes, like Fever Season where they were both looking after her students, or Days of the Dead in the ride back to Mexico City after the main action

An adventure for the two of them - bonus if Rose has to rescue Hannibal (or January as well?) because she deserves to be the hero too sometimes

AU - of any kind, from different setting to superpowers, magic, crossover, etc.

An outfit swap - this is really vague, I just feel certain that in any kind of modern AU these two definitely swap clothes a lot, and even in canon it’s happened a time or two.

One Day At A Time (TV 2017)

I picked anyone in the tagset for this one, because I love all of them! This is such an amazing show, both really funny but also knows when to take things seriously.

I don't have prompts for this one, not because I love it less, but just because I only discovered the show a few months ago so haven't had time to come up with many! I really just want to see the relationships between this family, particularly between the Riera/Alvarez women and Schneider, because I can never have enough of that.

Famous Five - Enid Blyton

I have requested Julian and Anne, because they’ve always been my favourites. Growing up, I always wanted an older brother like Julian, and related to Anne as being the girly-girl of the family. You don’t have to include both of them, and you are also welcome to also include Dick, or George, or both! 

I do have an extra DNW for this one - no sex or romance, or at least nothing beyond the level of the books.

Prompts: 

An adventure is more dangerous than anticipated. Would be an excellent opportunity for hurt/comfort

Anne’s ‘girlyness’ is what saves the day. Maybe they need to use her sewing skills to get out of danger, or she cooks the bad guy a meal laced with knock-out drugs, or more disconnectedly, keeping track of food and expenses every holiday means she has an excellent head for numbers and accounting, so she’s the one who notices something’s up with their mysterious visitor’s books. 

The boys at school. We’ve seen a little bit of the Anne and George at school, but what’s it like over at the boys’ school? Does their propensity for adventures follow them there? 

What were the Kirrin siblings’ holidays like before they met George? 

[intosnarkness]

Dear Yuletide Letter

HI! You’re awesome! (And if you’re writing me a treat, which would be amazing, my name is saMaLander, not saLaMander - a few stories got misplaced a couple of years ago, and I don’t want to miss yours!)

General notes: I like relationships of all shapes and colors and sizes. Friendships, lovers, enemies, found families, weird combinations of the aforementioned lists. I want to see people interact, and how they fit their broken bits into the same space as everyone else’s.

My only hard nos are incest and graphic torture. (I can do violence, just please don’t go peeling fingernails off or whatever.) Anything else, I’m gonna be just fine.

Tropes I enjoy: Friends to lovers, Found Family, Magical Realism, Bed Sharing, lost memory, hurt/comfort. I’m like porn, if the spirit moves you.

Neverwhere - Marquis de Carabas

The Marquis is such an enigma and I love him to death. What is his life like when he's not on an adventure? Where does he call home? How did he come to be in London below, and how did he come to his position of power, such as it is? Who taught him? Feel free to extrapolate anything from canon - his relationships with Door's father, the Earl, Serpentine, and anyone else who tickles your fancy are all welcome.

Specific prompts:

A new adventure: someone comes to the Marquis with a problem that is, frankly, silly. How does he react to a request that is Beneath Him?

The Marquis knows something that someone else would like him to not know. They are willing to use force to make him forget.

Things are quiet in London Below, and the Marquis de Carabas needs a sandwich.

In the spirit of The Marquis of Carabas' Picture Book, someone named Puss in Boots is looking for the Marquis, to settle a long score.

Friday Night Lights - Eric Taylor

The way Eric molds young men is amazing to me. How he inspires them, how he relates to them. And how he helps them find the people that they want to be. I'd love to see his first coaching job ever, his last game before retirement, or just a soft winter night with his family when the girls are grown. Just anything that has him focused on as a dad is what really moves me.

Specific Prompts:

Gracie decides to play youth sports, and Coach is asked to lead her team. What changes for him when he's coaching 10-yaer-old girls?

Any of his former players has a kid, and comes to introduce the baby to their Uncle Eric.

Anything about him learning to be a dad to Julie while juggling his assistant coaching with Jason Street or any other hotshot QB.

When he's done coaching, and he stops, what does he do with the rest of his life? Where does he go, and what does he do there?

Severance - Ms. Casey

Ms. Casey breaks my heart. I have a terrible feeling that she is either being held against her will or a very realistic robot that Mark is going to end up decapitating. Either way - what does she feel about the people she councils? Does she feel anything for them? What is a Wellness session like for her? And does she have a connection to the MDR team since she spent one of her 4.5 days alive with them? Feel free to bring in any other characters here, I'd love to hear her inner monologue as she interacts with them.

Specific Prompts:

All the Wellness sessions are the exact same lies. Ms. Casey has started to slip in new information to see if anyone notices.

There's something about Mark S. that she just doesn't like.

The moment of waking - what is it like for her to not know how much time has passed between her sessions? What do they tell her about her outie?

Innies aren't supposed to dream, but Ms. Casey does.

Hadestown - Eurydice

Eurydice is a hungry young girl, but who was she before she was on this road? Where did she think she was going? What happened to the people who raised her, who kept her before she was on the railroad line? And with the way things have changed in Hadestown, what does she remember of a single red poppy?

Specific Prompts:

A lot can happen behind closed doors. Tell me about it. Feel free to get iddy with this, if you want. This is one place I wouldn't mind a little non-con if the spirit moves you.

How does Hadestown change after Orpheus unionized the workers? What is her life like below?

What actually made her love Orpheus? Was it just the song, or was there something else that changed her mind?

The Fates used to sing in the back of her mind, but since she went below, they've been quiet. What does it mean when one day she hears them again?

[george-weasleys-girl]

Yule request! ❄️ 🎄 🎁

It's coming up to Christmas at Hogwarts, and Umbridge is making life hell at Hogwarts. But reader and the twins have a few tricks up their sleeves for the last day before the Christmas break to make it a fun for everyone, besides the Slytherin's...

❄️Yuletide Celebration❄️

A Christmas To Remember

"It's been a year, and mum still hasn't gotten all of it out of everything," Y/N grinned.

"That's perfect!" George matched her mischievous smile.

"C'mon you two," Fred said. "Let’s get started!"

~•~

Umbridge held her hand up, halting the Inquisitorial Squad tiptoeing behind her. Pansy Parkinson had been tipped off that the insufferable Weasley twins and their ridiculous sidekick had some sort of Christmas pranks planned and where they would be happening.

"See anything, Professor?" Draco whispered.

"Shhhh!" Umbridge shushed him.

Not a sound could be heard. Not the wind. Not even the tiniest pindrop.

Umbridge braved a few more steps, now standing in the middle of the hallway. "Are you sure this is where they said it'd be?" She turned to Pansy.

"I - uh, yes, Professor," she stammered. "They said the second floor, west hallway. I'm certain of it."

"Well, maybe your source got it wrong. Or maybe this is the prank," Umbridge huffed. "Rather pathetic if you ask me. Alright, there's obviously nothing here." She began to shoo everyone back around the corner when a giggle echoed down the hall. Followed by another coming from the opposite direction.

Then muggle Christmas music began booming from every direction, and that's when things got interesting. A parade of what seemed like hundreds of Christmas baubles floated toward the group from both directions, ultimately hovering directly over them.

"What the - " Malfoy took in the odd scene.

Umbridge reached up and gingerly touched one. At first, nothing happened, and then the bauble began to hum. The group crowded around closer, curiousity over taking their sense of self-preservation.

It was as if that was what the little globe had been waiting for. Without warning, it exploded, showering them all in sparkling red and green glitter. The first explosion triggered the next, and the next, further dousing them in mountains of micro-fine glitter.

Screams rent the air as the group pounded down the hall, trying to outrun the seemingly endless glitter army as it followed them, keeping pace with the beleaguered squad.

Half-blinded, they stumbled into the main thoroughfare of the castle. The crowds parted, and students doubled over in laughter at the spectacle. Any unfortunate Slytherin that happened to be nearby was targeted by the festive, little heat-seeking missiles.

Not one Slytherin was spared.

~•~

Several Slytherins sneered at Y/N and the twins as they shuffled past their compartment.

"You're looking particularly festive, Malfoy!" Fred yelled. Draco shot his middle finger up at the redhead, illiciting raucous laughter from the pranksters and their friends.

"I heard they tried like twenty spells, and who knows how many showers, and they're still sparkly," Y/N laughed.

"Muggle tech for the win," George grinned and threw his arm around Y/N's shoulders. "This is turning out to be a Christmas to remember."

~•~

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[moscarific]

Yuletide Letter 2023!

Dear Exceptional Human,

I am beyond delighted that you’re writing for me! I’m a gold star Yuletide participant: I’ve signed up every year, and written at least one story every year, since the challenge began. That’s great news for you, because over the years, I’ve learned that the best Yuletide gifts are the ones that weren’t quite what I had expected, and also that gifts are satisfying and joyful for me as long as it’s clear that the author put effort and care into them. Basically, as long as you avoid my Do Not Wants and run spell check, I’m going to be over the moon with excitement at whatever you write for me.

My biggest non-obvious DNW is babyfic. No pregnancy, no babies, no little kids. I’m also a grumpy Jew, so I’d prefer not to receive stories with strong Christmas themes. The “five things” format is not my favorite. Please don’t center your story around ships that I did not ask for.

While questions of gender and sexuality are baked into several of my requests this year, I am not looking for issuefic centered around negotiating those identities. I’d rather read about queer and/or BIPOC folks doing stuff in the world. Should you bring up how race, gender, sexual orientation, disability, and body type figure into doing stuff? Yes, please. Should the entire fic be a Socratic dialogue about how marginalization impacts the characters’ lives? Not my first choice.

But I like a lot more things than I dislike! I usually read my Yuletide gift(s) while riding the L down to Chinatown for my family’s annual dim sum feast, so please give me something to make me smile, laugh out loud at, or feel uncomfortably aroused by on public transportation. Porn is optional, obviously, but: oral sex, eroticized hands, exhibitionism, shower sex, gender play. I like experimental structures and styles, as well as more standard ones, and I am fine with whatever POV and tense you choose. If you are the kind of person who does multimedia or interactive fiction, or just clever footnotes, I am all for that. I love worldbuilding, whether it’s adding detail to a sprawling superhero universe or fleshing out the local color of a small American town. I like stories that stick close to canon or present interesting “what if” canon divergences, and I also like superhero and In Space AUs.

I've been on a bit of a hiatus from fandom lately, but when I'm not, I tend to write the fic I want to see in the world. You’ll get a good sense of me by browsing my AO3 account. My AO3 bookmarks are a recs list, and therefore a great way to see what kinds of fic appeal to me and make me happy.

Here are the individual requests from my sign-up, with a little more detail added here and there. 

Some Like It Hot (1959 movie): Jerry "Daphne"

Every time I watch this movie, I'm more aware of Daphne being some kind of non-binary or genderqueer, and I would love a story that expands on that in some way. Tell about what happens to Daphne after the film - does he attempt to live as a woman, go back to presenting as a man, or find a period-consistent way to exist somewhere between the two? How does his marriage to Osgood work out? I will swoon for detailed historical accuracy, especially about 20th century queer subculture, jazz, or resort culture. Or go to another extreme, and retell the film's story In Space. I'm not sure it's possible to be as briskly and effortlessly funny as this movie, but I'd prefer a story that stays close to its silly, madcap tone. I have a sort of time-displaced horniness for young Jack Lemmon, so do with that what you will. Note that I'm using "he/him" for Daphne, because that's what he uses in the film, but feel free to use other pronouns if they fit your vision of the character better.

DNW: Stories centered around pregnancy, babies, or raising children. Strong Christmas/winter holiday themes. Prolonged despair, depression, self-harm, or suicide.  Extensive, graphic descriptions of homophobic violence or sexual violence. Phonetic representations of accents or “broken English” used for comedy (I’m especially sensitive to this when it comes to native Spanish speakers).

Poker Face (TV 2023): Charlie Cale

Charlie Cale immediately became one of my favorite TV detectives ever, and what I want from fic is simply more of her, solving mysteries in her quirky way. Basically, I want casefic, however you want to define that. Set the story in your hometown and bring it to life for me, or highlight a subculture you know a lot about. Or give me drag queens, figure skaters, or an academic conference, the weird cultures that are close to my heart. Crossovers with other fandoms are welcome, especially if they feature Charlie inserted into other media, solving a murder in that universe. (Poker Face in Discworld? Poker face on Deep Space Nine?) Keep the show's dry wit and down-to-earth tone as much as you can, and feel free to play with time and tell the story out of order, as the show often does. Explore how Charlie's lie detector powers and her talent for crime-solving have affected her, and how these abilities work in her head. What I'm looking for is a lost episode of Poker Face - either one that could be an actual episode of the show, or something improbable but fun.

DNW: Stories centered around pregnancy, babies, or raising children. Strong Christmas/winter holiday themes. Extensive, graphic descriptions of homophobic, transphobic, racist, or sexual violence. Phonetic representations of accents or “broken English” used for comedy (I’m especially sensitive to this when it comes to native Spanish speakers). Copaganda - depictions of the police as exceptionally noble or heroic, above the law, or justified in violence or manipulation. I'm not interested in more than passing references to romantic relationships for Charlie.

Gen V (TV 2023): Jordan Li

I'm in new fannish glow for this show, and I'll be excited to read anything that develops Jordan's character. They're an officious asshole, and I love them in their prickly, self-righteous, antihero messiness. In fact, one story I would love to read is Jordan doing something horrific, intentionally or by accident, and dealing with the consequences of that villain turn. I'm also very into all of Jordan's romantic and sexual relationships, the ones shown onscreen (primarily Marie) and the ones implied or suggested (Luke, Professor Brink). How do Jordan's ability and gender identity interact with their relationships? I'd like to learn more about Jordan's experiences at God U. before the show begins, or about what they're like many years into the future. Gen V is full of gratuitous gore and sex, so feel free to pile on the gross-out and grindcore elements if they're fun for you. If not, I'm happy to read about Jordan in a quieter moment. There's a lot of worldbuilding to be done in this universe, so another option is to use Jordan as the narrator or center point for exploring the world more broadly.

DNW: Stories centered around pregnancy, babies, or raising children - this includes stories about Jordan's childhood, and especially stories that make more than passing mention of childhood abuse or narcissistic parenting. Strong Christmas/winter holiday themes. Extensive, graphic descriptions of homophobic, transphobic, racist, or sexual violence. Some degree of sexual coersion and manipulation (dubious consent) is fine in this fandom, but no overtly non-consensual sex. Misgendering characters or using pronouns other than those established in canon.