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Dear Yuletide Author

Happy Yuletide! This is my first time participating in yuletide instead of lurking around, so I’m very excited to shake gifts and fics. Hopefully this letter helps you out a little.

Likes & Dislikes

General Likes: worldbuilding, found families, urban fantasy, slowburn romance, time loops (ala Groundhog Day) soulmate AUs, roadtrips,  fake dating, finding a home in a person rather than a place, curtain fic, requited pining, polyamory, platonic ride and die friendships.

Dislikes: non-con/dub-con, infidelity, teacher/student relationships(unbalanced power dynamics in general), school AUs, D/s lifestyle, pregnancy fic, daddy kink, gore

The Alienist (TV)

Characters: John Moore, Laszlo Kreizler

What I like about them as friends is that they’re very much if you go, I’ll follow even if I don’t particularly want to see a murder today. Laszlo is so buttoned up but fiercely empathetic with his charges/cases that I’d really like to see more about how he developed as the person we see in the current show.  How would he react to John’s more-than-platonic feeling towards him, would he even know first? and just ignore it until John gets a clue and starts showing it in earnest? How would the rest of the team react? If you would rather explore more of a platonic route, I’d like to see how the two life-long bachelors live out their years, letting Stevie and whatever other stray people they’ve deemed theirs navigate their failings/getting older. How that affects them in particular, John with his illustration career at an end, Laszlo in more of a background role with his institute, feeling adrift.

Crazy Rich Asians (2018)

Characters: Astrid Leong-Teo, Rachel Chu

Like many, I immediately fell in love with Astrid and of course, wanted her to come out of the separation from her husband better than ever and showing off her fabulous Hepburn styled self. I loved how supportive she was towards Rachel, even through her own struggles. I’d like to see more of Rachel’s headstrong and whipsmart attitude versus the Young family (or Astrid’s side anyway). From the movie, it’s a little unclear how long they’ve known each other but I’d be interested in how that went and Rachel finding out more about Astrid (not just the glamorous fashion icon parts) If you’d like to do more of an alternate reality where Rachel met Astrid first, or Rachel is vying for the approval to marry Astrid, that would be cool as well. Another idea would be a more into the future take where Rachel walks away from Nick instead and Astrid takes the time to be a single mother and back into the dating pool of the rich and famous (with both women and men) and they reconnect in NY by happenstance.

Bend It Like Beckham (2002)

Characters: Jess Bhamra, Jules Paxton

Frankly, I’d love a sort of retelling of the movie with their relationship as the spotlight. We got so close, yet, Joe was always in the way. College is a whole new world and they naturally would probably stick together. Jess and Jules grappling with feelings and a different level of football would be awesome. Or them moving in together as roommates and that bringing them closer together (or even getting on each others nerves enough to knock some sense into them) Do they ever get called up to the England National Team? How do they tell their families about their relationship? Is it even a surprise?

Sense8 (TV)

Characters: Wolfgang Bogdanow, Rajan Rasal, Kala Dandekar, Felix Brenner

There was not enough Felix in finale. I really wanted Felix to properly get an explanation from Wolfgang over the sensate matter and how Kala & Rajan fit in. If you want to explore Felix/Wolfgang (platonically or romantically) and how they navigate adding more people into their circle of trust, please do. How would Wolfgang and Felix get out of Berlin permanently, would they fake their own deaths, take out the criminal underworld through the sensate network? If you’d rather do some sort of AU where Kala & Rajan meet Wolfgang through different circumstances and become a triad that way, have at it.

Rough Night (2017)

Characters: Frankie, Blair

There’s no fic for this movie and I was astonished considering Zoe Kravitz and Ilana Glazer kiss at the end/have unresolved tension through the film/were girlfriends in college. I’d like to see more of the missing years between college and the bachelorette party. Did Frankie’s stick it to the man nomadic lifestyle come in during college or after? How did they become friends/girlfriends? Does Frankie get along with Blair’s kid or had they already went their separate ways by the time Blair had a family? How do they move forward from the film, Frankie moving in with Blair etc.

Santa Clarita Diet (TV)

Character: Sheila Hammond, Joel Hammond, Abby Hammond, Eric Bemis

I love, love the humor of this show, and honestly I’d love anything concerning the future of the Hammonds in the same sort of vein of dysfunctional family that the show carries. I’d also like to see more of an exploration of Abby and Eric having to deal with their parts in covering up and eventually being the brains of the operation to keep Sheila fed and/or normal to outsiders. If there isn’t a cure/stasis, how does that affect them in the long run. Do they ever clue in Eric’s mom/ bring in anyone else? What about the holidays, do others in the Hammond brood (Sheila has a sister right?) come to visit while the undead elephant is still in the room? I really like the casual pace of Abby and Eric’s relationship, that isn’t quite will they/won’t they so much as they’re teenagers who have been put in a really tough situation so it’s gonna be complicated always. If you’re inclined to explore that in a future setting, I would love that as well.

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Dear Chocolatier Letter

Hi, hello author, thank you for checking this out and suffering through what is surely long-winded rambling about my tastes. 

DNW: D/s, daddy kink, cheating/infidelity, dubcon/noncon, mpreg (and/or pregnancy in detail), coffee shop AUs, high school AUs, underage, unbalanced power dynamics, teacher/student relationships or AU, watersports, A/B/O (unless subverted) and first person POV

LIKES: road trips, time loops/fix-it fics, magic AUs, female friendships, soulmate/soulbond AUs, height difference, threesomes/moresomes, polyamory, found families, requited unrequited love/mutual pining, epistolary exposition, fake dating, woke up married, reincarnation, enemies to friends (to lovers), subversions of regular tropes especially with soulmates, dry humor, bed sharing, casual affection like holding hands, hugging, etc, five things fic, eventual happy endings, and awesome worldbuilding.

SMUT: enthusiastic/explicit consent, praise, biting/marking, breathplay, women on top, pegging, overstimulation, light bondage

Bend It Like Beckham (2002) Jess Bhamra/Jules Paxton

It’s been MONTHS of intense nostalgia for this ship and I missed out on yuletide so here I am requesting it for Chocolate Box. Bend It Like Beckham was honestly a game-changer for me as a film and I identified so much with Jess and her drive to do something she loved in the face of familial disapproval. 

The Ship: I love love love their friendship even with the pitfalls of you don’t understand how my culture effects my life but try your best to support and sometime put your foot in it BUT man, was I disappointed in later years that they left it hanging with a weird love triangle and the great beyond of American College. I’d like to see how their relationship develops after the movie, how Jules deals with Jess being better at the thing that ties them together and possibly blinds her to wow-i have-not-so-straight feelings. OR what if Jess is the one who realizes it first and panics because this is exactly what she had been swearing up and down wouldn’t happen to her less than support relatives (a new situation does not lead to new feelings, so much as understanding herself away from what is familiar) Really, I just want to see them in a happy relationship together because I was denied by the movie.

Some prompts: 

Jess gets hit on a distressingly high amount of times in front of Jules. Good thing she’s mostly oblivious to it. 

Future!fic retiring from the England Women’s National Team together or separate and the impact it has on the world around them. Jess imparting some words of wisdom to her younger teammates 

Codependency in college special edition: Everyone thinks they’re dating (and their team is their number one fans or they have a BOATLOAD of evidence to justify their misconception)

Just a good old-fashioned introspective OHMYGOD i have feelings for her now what do I do?? Bonus points for a sweet slowburn realization.

How does their: First Kiss? Coming out to family? WEDDING?? Go. In what situation would Jess defend Jules instead of vice versa? getting drafted for different teams and having a long distance relationship/reunion/eye opening? Being rivals instead of friends? getting called up to their National Team for the first time? A different first meeting?

The Good Place Tahani Al-Jamil/Eleanor Shellstrop

I haven’t regularly watched a TV show since the 90s so TGP was a complete surprise but here I am, delighted at the innovative take on dead people in the afterlife. The humor is really my favorite thing and Eleanor’s not quite quest to be better than she was when she was living. 

The Ship: The sexy skyscraper and the short troublemaker. There’s so many complementary aspects to Tahani and Eleanor and I just need everyone to get on board the Bi-train for the good of the people. I like that they’re both self-serving at their core, except Eleanor does it to prove she doesn’t care about anybody else, and Tahani does it because she cares immensely about what everybody else thinks. The height difference is also a fun dynamic. 

Some prompts: 

Get as wacky and wild as you want with it if you want to do an AU, just keep the dynamic of animosity to friendship to something more between them. Superheroes with unconventional powers? Star Trek-esque AU? Spy vs Spy?

A game show type-esque match making with surprising results for Tahani

Eleanor and the five times she denied caring about Tahani’s feelings

Tahani’s over the top love confession and Eleanor’s aversion to feelings come to a head

Eleanor being Tahani’s booty-call and being unable/oblivious on how to turn that into a relationship

Sense8 Felix Berner/Wolfgang Bogdanow

This show was just the right kind of weird and I’m sad they didn’t manage to continue it because the concept was really cool. Now I just have a bunch of unanswered questions to hang onto like what happened with Wolfgang after the Whispers capture.

The Ship: Pardon my language, but I fucking adore these two. Their loyalty to each other is my absolute jam. They would literally die for one another and it chokes me up because it’s completely the antithesis of the view the world has of them, which is like....vaguely criminals and amounting to nothing beyond the shady world they grew up in. I also have a TON of feelings about Wolfgang and Felix being east berliners, growing up in the aftermath of the unification and being completely aware that not everything was as rosy as Germany wanted to portray to the world. Also, their Conan the Barbarian thing? Precious. 

NOTE: I totally ship Kala/Wolfgang as well so you don’t have to write her off by any means. I just focused of felix/wolfgang for this. 

Some prompts:

PLEASE give me Wolfgang coming clean to Felix about the sensates and how crazy his world has become on top of the general mayhem that comes from being a Bogdanow. CANON tells us Wolfgang doesn’t lie so why does it take him so damn long to tell Felix the truth? 

The weird experiments Felix comes up with to see Wolfgang not be Wolfgang or times when Felix notices someone else “in” Wolfgang and how he takes that.

Pre-sensate, Wolfgang always felt Felix like a second limb. Felix called it his “wolfy-sense”

Anything pre-sensate dealing with the misadventures of Felix and Wolfgang, growing up together, falling into sleeping together, and in love?

Wolfgang’s first lie to his uncle is that Felix is just his sidekick and not much more. Steiner knows better than to take his word for it. 

AU of a different meet up: Wolfgang is reluctantly forced into being a king of Berlin, Bohn sends one Felix Brenner as a liason for a favor owed (or Felix finds his own way to meet this King of Berlin)

Felix finally meeting the other sensates especially Kala: the two most important people in Wolfgang’s life in the same room.

Westworld Maeve Millay/Hector Escaton/Teddy Flood

Westworld tickled my fancy for all things sci-fi and robots learning what is to be human and humans being gods with terrible consequences. Maeve tickled my fancy as a WoC on the show and naturally became my favorite because I’m predictable.  I’m a complete sucker for the philosophy behind what the TV show is setting up, what it means to be human, what is the next step, how we in creating the hosts have possibly made our own destruction and somehow advanced ourselves. The Maze pointing to the need to suffer to be human or suffering because of your humanity is gr9.

The Ship: I think Maeve is the new force of good (in her quest to find her daughter and possibly exploring the other worlds/the outside world) to foil Dolores’ possible descent into a “rogue” element in Westworld. And Hector and Teddy will be in crosshairs of that tug of war.  Hector, is the character who Maeve chooses to bring with her as an asset or something more, I think the choice behind the action is important as her whole arc is discovering what is fake and what is true behind who she is. Teddy, is part of the hero’s storyline, he’s a do-gooder but we get so many throaways on his proficiency to kill and his death is well, popular. Maeve and Teddy circle each other a lot in Westworld and I wonder what side he’ll choose, Dolores in the Host Rebellion or will he choose a different ally in Maeve? 

Some prompts:

Did their repurposed lives every cross? How does that shade into their interactions now? How does Teddy view Hector and vice versa?

Maeve has to sway Teddy and Hector to her side after they get reprogrammed again, trying to spark some sort of recognition of what they already had

Gunslinging 101 for Maeve by Teddy and Hector, or how they become an Outlaw Trio in the midst of a Host rebellion 

The Defenders Claire Temple/Colleen Wing

This is pure self-indulgence because they have minimal interaction in the show but I absolutely loved how they played off each other. #colleendeservesbetter and Claire is totally it. 

The Ship: I like how they’re always sidelined and yet aren’t defined by that, like they know perfectly well how useful they are and aren’t afraid to get creative. As a team-up, it’s the whole healer/fighter thing that they’ve tried like multiple times with Claire (no offense to Luke and Daredevil) and that bit where they reassure each other about being the stable rocks of the Defenders??? That was the moment I really thought these two could work. 

Some prompts:

Gimme all the fluff and comfort and trying to be normal in a world where superheroes show up at your door to pull you into stupid adventures every week. Bonus points for including other supporting cast members such as Foggy, Trish, and Misty

Five times The Defenders cockblocked Colleen and Claire with their unnecessary drama

A kidnapping attempt by the clueless idiot of the week underestimating both of them. 

The Man From U.N.C.L.E. (2015) Illya Kurakin/Gaby Teller/Napoleon Solo

I’m still waiting for the sequel that will never happen for this movie. It was a great spy movie and I loved all the details from the villainess to undercover fiances to daring escapes and drinking on rooftops.

The Ship:My perfectly tailored spy ot3. i absolutely came out of the movie saying they needed to simmer in some UST before finding inappropriate situations to tease each other. Illya actually getting to choose for himself instead of holding on to this ideal KGB agent. Gaby being fiercely protective of both men and wanting them both without a doubt. Napoleon having something steady and real for once in his life without strings attached

Some Prompts: 

Casefics that are frustrating exercises in why won’t you just bang each other already from all parties involved, bonus if they have to keep a cover from getting compromised

Using their talents to show affection in non-ordinary ways and someone being oblivious, while the other is slowly catching on to the game

Just a good old casefic because at least one of them has to have a competency kink

A different meeting: they’re all crooked as they come and have no problems with it

Where they go in their down time between assignments and how they manage their relationship (or hiding it) 

Gaby’s not the damsel in distress, Napoleon is. 

DC Cinematic Universe Diana Prince/Lois Lane

Two ladies who know what it is to lose a hero who is consequently the man they love. Also, Diana’s bisexuality is into the whole I’ll eat your balls for breakfast thing because hello, her mother raised her on an island full of Amazons.

The Ship:Height difference! Ladies who can handle themselves in diametrically different ways and yet still know the importance of being vulnerable and affectionate and the power of love. I do like the dynamic of Lois being this extraordinary human to all the supes because she never gives up and is bravely stubborn about her goals and morals and not afraid to call anyone out on their bullshit.

Note: I ship the entirety of the DC Trio together and with Lois so you can also play with that if it strikes your fancy. 

Some prompts:

Lois interviews Diana in the months after Superman’s death. Diana tries her best to console her

Lois learns some sort of self-defense from Diana and gets to surprise the Amazon as well.

“So if you’re a god, could you be prayed to or is it like Clark’s super-hearing?” or Lois’ never-ending curiousity on how the whole Themyscira thing works

Somewhere along the way, Lois is the one Diana comes home to.