Yuletide Letter 2017

[kutsutsu]

Dear Yuletide writer,

My AO3 username is kutsushita. Thank you for writing for me! I look forward to reading your fic and hope you have a good Yuletide. My letter contains spoilers for all manga fandoms if you are an anime-only fan.

Links to each fandom section:

19th Century American Medicine RPF
Chihayafuru
The Folly of the World
Mob Psycho 100
Namco High
Ookiku Furikabutte


Below is some extra info on my likes and ideas/prompts if you find those useful. Overall, my favorite fics focus on characters and their relationships/interactions. Fics of any length, format (including IF or with art), or POV are welcome. It's totally okay to also include things that aren't on my likes lists, and please don't feel you have to write to a specific prompt.


Some of my favorite things are:

• getting-together first-time shipfic with a happy ending


• what-ifs and canon divergence AUs


• time loops


• humor & character banter


• meta stuff


• underage including adult/underage character


• graphic porn/PWP


• psychologically brutal noncon/abuse porn

Longer likes list:

bad decisions • banter • baseball • betrayal • body horror • bodyswap • canon divergence • casefic • character-driven • characters fucking up • codependency • cosmic horror • crack • didn't realize they were already dating • drinking • dysfunctional relationships • fluff • forced to work together • genderswap • getting together • grey morality • humor • imperfect/complicated but happy relationships • in denial about feelings • love confessions • manipulation • meta • mindfuck • misunderstandings • oblivious to one's own feelings • physical vulnerability • pining • porn • power imbalances • psychological horror • PWP • secret relationships • shifting power dynamics • shipfic/romance • sickfic • slow burn • sports • time loops • trapped/stuck together • trope subversions • unreliable memories/cognition • unreliable narrator • UST • WAFF • what ifs • worldbuilding


Porn likes:

abuse • ageplay • amputation • anal • awkward sex • bad sex • belly bulge • body worship • bondage • clothed sex • coercion • consent play • crossdressing • crying • cum play • deep tonguing • degradation • desk/table sex • desperation • dirty talk • dubcon • drunk sex • embarrassment • enemas • extreme object insertion • face-fucking • facials • fantasizing • feeding • first-time sex • frottage • fucking machines • fullness • gaslighting • gangbangs • grooming (abuse) • groping • guro • held down/overpowered • humiliation • in public • incest • inexperience • inflation • intercrural/interlabial • masturbation • micro • necro • noncon • objectification • one-night stands • oral • oviposition • phone sex/sexting/cybersex • praise • public use • puppy play • rape • rimming • romantic sex • roleplay • rushed sex • sex pollen • sex toys • shaming • sick sex • size kink • slutty/needy sex • spontaneous sex • sneaky sex • snuff • sounding • spanking • stealthing • tear-licking • tentacles • threesomes • torture • under/un-negotiated kink/sex • underage • unsafe sex • vaginal • vomit • vore • wall sex • watersports • xeno

DNWs: issuefic, mundane AUs (e.g. coffee shop, high school if that's not already the setting, etc.)

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19th Century American Medicine RPF

Characters: William Beaumont, Alexis St. Martin

Historical RPF about an American doctor and his patient in the early 1800s. In 1822, 20-year-old French-Canadian fur trapper Alexis St. Martin was shot at close range with a shotgun on Mackinac Island, ripping up his torso and blasting a hole in his stomach. Everyone thought him likely to die and didn't want to waste time/resources on a poor illiterate indentured worker, but 36-year-old American army doctor Dr. William Beaumont took him into his care and (partially on his own dime) slowly nursed Alexis back to health. But Alexis's gut wound healed into a fistula, leaving a permanent hole open to his stomach. Beaumont became fixated on the opportunities this provided for medical research into digestion (and his own advancement in medical society) and thus engaged in a decade-plus-long fraught and codependent relationship with St. Martin while experimenting on him.

Information on this fandom is a little harder to collate since it's RPF. A good starting point is their Wikipedia pages (Beaumont, St. Martin) or this podcast. If you want extra info there are a lot of free books & historical documents about Beaumont on google books. I also really enjoyed the historical fiction novel Open Wound: The Tragic Obsession of Dr. William Beaumont (used, new/ebook) which features a particularly great wound-fingering scene (here and here) as well as a great letter from Beaumont to St. Martin. Note that a lot of these resources, especially the historical books/documents, contain period-typical racism.

You could go a lot of ways with this fandom and I would love all of them. I'm really interested in the basic building blocks comprising these two historical figures and their relationship, and you could build all sorts of different fiction on top of that. A lot of the keyword ideas I came up with are on the darker side but rest assured I would also love fluff. I'm just really into the idea of "doctor puts in considerable special effort to save patient, patient heals in a gross weird fashion ripe for medical experimentation, they fall into a long complicated entanglement with various power imbalance issues." They were both married irl but I don't care whether you keep that in a fic or change it. (Also: that header image is from a painting I was totally geeked to find of them but don't let it constrain your visual headcanons, lol.)

Some ideas: power imbalance • medical experimentation • language barrier • class difference • codependency • weird historical medicine • dubious ethics • guro • body horror • erotic wound fingering • wound fucking • pining • florence nightingale effect • stockholm syndrome • unrequited feelings • obsession • legal/financial abuse • psychological abuse • medical abuse • gaslighting • in denial about feelings • repressed feelings • secret relationship • epistolary • historical • setting AU • moral quandaries • romance • porn • religious hangups • sexual hangups • cultural differences • hubris • odd couple relationship • dubcon • noncon • coercion • trapped together • physical vulnerability

Or prompts:

• Weird medical details: go nuts. I love guro & gross stuff.


• Falling in love with repressed feelings/religious hangups/etc., especially if their power imbalance is still fraught in many ways


• Repressed feelings from one or both of them that are never fully expressed


• Beaumont becoming drunk with power and obsession and using his resources to control St. Martin every way he can, go as abusive/noncon as you like.


• Something focused on the contract Beaumont has Alexis sign to obey him in every way


• Something set during the time they're holed up together for months in that Washington D.C. hotel room


• Beaumont actually succeeded in taking Alexis with him to Europe


• Things go differently between them after Beaumont's book is published. Maybe Alexis doesn't leave. Or they exchange letters. Or later in life he comes back.


• If you want to change the setting, that's fine. Maybe an "In Space" AU of some kind? Another possibility if changing the setting is to change the nature of Alexis's wound. Maybe he can't die and Beaumont does horrific vivisection experiments on him?

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Chihayafuru

Characters: Ayase Chihaya, Sudou Akito, Mashima Taichi, Suou Hisashi

Chihayafuru is a sports manga and partial anime adaptation about people playing the competitive poetry memorization game karuta. The main character, Chihaya, is a high school girl 100% filled with passion for everything karuta related and kind of a ditz about everything else, and I adore her to pieces. This manga has really great characters all around and I love their relationships/interactions, the karuta matches, and the humor in the series. You can watch the anime here and read the manga here.

My request was inspired by recent manga chapters which have really highlighted two character relationships that weren't that developed before: Chihaya & Sudou, and Taichi & Suou. Although I requested all four characters I would be happy with fic for either of those two pairs. If there's Taichi/Chihaya in there too that's fine although I don't want a shipfic that focuses just on those two or on other characters.

Chihaya & Sudou: I was kind of into this as a crack pairing before when their main interactions were Sudou occasionally sadistically taunting Chihaya, but lately they've actually been hanging out and training together and I'm so into it! Chihaya is my favorite character in the series and I love everything about her. She's so earnest and passionate and kinda dumb and just the perfect sports manga protagonist, haha. I always enjoyed Sudou and his sadism from early on as well but it feels like he's become more of a fleshed-out character lately. I've really enjoyed all the scenes of them training together and how Chihaya no longer just takes Sudou's shit but dishes it out as well. They have some of my favorite banter between any two characters, and I liked how they had an increased awareness of each other and some silent communication going on in the match in recent chapters. I could dig this as either a kind of "bros" dynamic, or UST or porn would also be great.

Taichi & Suou: Their relationship has been in development for a bit longer. I absolutely flipped my shit when Taichi started his whole thing with imitating the way that Suou does everything. I have long loved Taichi and his warring impulses to be good/polite/etc. and that underlying pettiness and competitive drive. With Suou, I especially dig those moments where he gets kind of silly (like considering any girl who talks to him a potential "bride"). I REALLY love both of their karuta playing styles. I also dig this as porn, or the two of them having more interactions like in canon, especially if Suou takes digs at Taichi for trying to be things he's not. (And I love it when Taichi tries to be super cool and emotionless and then ends up embarrassed/flustered about something.)

Some ideas: training regimens • karuta matches • odd couples • banter • arguments • UST • roleplaying • dares • embarrassment • stubbornness • casual sex • friendship • confused feelings • stupid teenage drama

Or prompts:

• Okay, the current plot arc (through ch186 as of the current scanlations) is KILLING me with all the Chihaya, Sudou, and Taichi drama. And even though Suou isn't physically there he's present through Taichi. This may all be resolved by the time fics go live but I'd love a fic exploring more of this arc or its fallout.


• Further scenes from Chihaya & Sudou training together, especially if it leads into some UST (or resolved). Ditto for Taichi and Suou.


• Taichi trying to do everything the way Suou does has to include how he jerks off


• Futurefic of Sudou and Chihaya after she's graduated high school. Maybe they have some UST as high schoolers but something happens as adults?


• Suou and Taichi and hating karuta

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The Folly of the World

Characters: any

A historical weird horror novel that focuses on 1400s Holland following a catastrophic flood, featuring eerie atmosphere, eels, a pervasive sense of unease, and political drama. The main characters are a rope bondage & breathplay-loving violent criminal, his sociopathic politically scheming boyfriend, and a distrustful teenage girl diver who becomes entangled with them. Here's some places to get it: paperback, ebook.

I love creepy weird stuff and this book has plenty of that. I really like the eerie flooded area in the first part of the book, the lost/distorted memories, the inexplicable feelings of "wrongness"/things their brains couldn't quite comprehend, and the unresolved ending. Also especially love all the betrayal of trust in this book!! (Both the partner betrayal between Jan and Sander and Jan's manipulation of Jolanda.) Would love more creepy weirdness or just weird porn. Prefer no h/c: I just want hurt, not comfort.

Some ideas: noncon • dubcon • abuse • manipulation • codependency • gaslighting • mind games • unreliable memories • creepy atmosphere • eels • monsters • amputation • torture • bondage • breathplay • snuff • body horror • cosmic horror • psychological horror • on the run • in hiding • nightmares

Or prompts:

• Jan/Sander rough sex with rope bondage, breathplay, maybe snuff or threats of snuff


• More Jan molesting Jolanda & fucking with her head sexually/otherwise


• Weird eel porn: eels as tentacle porn, eel insertion, eel inflation, eel bondage, eel horrorterrors, etc.


• Sander & the "Belgians": body horror, maybe a noncon monster gangbang


• Amputation porn: with Sander's hand, or maybe post-canon Jan finds him and cuts more parts off (or Sander hallucinates that)


• Any other post-canon where Jan catches up with Sander and Jolanda and Bad Things Happen, or just Sander & Jolanda on the run and other fun psychological/cosmic horror stuff

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Mob Psycho 100

Characters: Kageyama "Mob" Shigeo, Kageyama Ritsu, Reigen Arataka

A web manga that's been partially adapted into an anime, about a 14-year-old boy nicknamed Mob with extremely strong psychic powers. He's afraid of hurting others with them and doesn't want to rely on them, and has developed an emotional complex as a result. He normally has a very flat affect until one of his emotions builds up inside him and reaches 100%, causing an explosion of power driven by that emotion. He works part-time for a 28-year-old professional psychic with no powers named Reigen who acts as his mentor. His younger brother Ritsu has a complex early on in the series because he wants to have powers like his idolized/feared/beloved older brother. And then lots of stuff happens! You can read it here or watch the anime here.

Mob is my absolute favorite in this series. I love everything about him and how he's developed over time, making friends and becoming able to more freely express his emotions and getting stronger with the body improvement club. I love his relationships with both Reigen and Ritsu, and I ship all possible subsets of these three characters. I love the complicated brother relationship between Mob and Ritsu and the recent updates in chapter 100 have been killing me. Both of them care so much about and look up to each other, even with the baggage that has existed between them in the past. I also love the mentor/student relationship between Reigen and Mob, how Reigen helped Mob so much even though he has no powers himself, and how they got to the point they're at now, especially past the separation arc, where maybe Mob doesn't need Reigen in that same way anymore but their relationship has gained a bit more give-and-take. And! Reigen and Ritsu are great too, especially Ritsu's distrust and jealousy of Reigen. I really enjoyed that omake recently where they went on a job together and Reigen's arm got bitten.

If you write RitsuMob it's okay if Reigen doesn't appear in the fic (though he'd still be welcome). Otherwise I'd like all three characters. In ReiMob if there's fucking I prefer Mob getting fucked. I prefer something set at their canon ages or in the past, and if you do age Ritsu or Mob up please don't go past high school. If you want to involve other supporting characters I mostly like the other kids from Mob's school.

Some ideas: casefic • humor • shipfic • incest • age difference • underage • canon divergence • getting together • christmas • hot springs • valentine's day • new year's • festival • romance • fluff • WAFF • porn • dubcon • crossdressing • sickfic • genderswap • bodyswap • 5 times/things • dating someone without them realizing it • obliviousness • body worship • slutty/needy sex • awkward sex • threesomes • sex pollen • slice of life • shopping • family • crushes • love confessions • repressed feelings

Or prompts:

• Humorous casefic, Ritsu helping Reigen and Mob out with a job maybe


• Romantic holiday fic (any holiday they'd potentially canonically celebrate)


• Getting together fic with a lot of bumps along the way


• Cute missing scenes of sibling interaction (with or without incest) between Mob and Ritsu


• Canon divergence from the car crash where Mob goes into a coma instead (with coma sex?)


• Encountering weird new psychic abilities


• What those orbs the aliens gave the telepathy club are for


• An AU that changes how psychic powers work


• Something set after the current arc involving what a future arc might be (something more with the government's control of psychics maybe?)


• I've been curious about ways to combine ABO and Mob Psycho 100, so if you're into ABO feel free to go there. I'm more interested in heats/cum/porn and less in strict societal roles/hierarchies, and am also particularly curious about subversions of the ABO system, like pairings that aren't alpha/omega, or unusual threesome situations, etc.


• Mob Psycho 100 baseball (feel free to incorporate the MobPuz outfits if you want; Dimple's unevolved ball form not pictured)


• Reigen or Ritsu cleaning/bathing Mob


• Possibly depending on how the current arc continues, something about the relationship between Mob, Ritsu, and ???%

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Namco High

Characters: Davesprite

A visual novel set in a high school filled mostly with Namco-Bandai video game characters. Also featured a few Homestuck characters since Homestuck's creator worked on it. You play as a Cousin of the Prince from the Katamari Damacy games. In each route you get a PG-rated romance with each character that ends in you saving the school together. It's cute and pretty quick to play through any given route. The original site was taken down but here's a mirror.

My requests are focused on Davesprite's route. I love Davesprite and I love the route's meta stuff, thought reading, swoonworthy romantic moments (I died when Davesprite smiled at me and loved that damn hand-holding), Davesprite's angsty drama, and especially the implied time loop when you restart the game after finishing Davesprite's route. Also, I'm all right with a Homestuck crossover but I'd prefer most of the focus be on Namco High.

Some ideas: time loops • meta • interactive fiction • humor • fluff • shipfic • getting together • meet-cutes • flirting • 5 things/times • hacking • game mechanics • fourth wall breaking • player insert • psychological horror • cloacae • katamari rolling

Or prompts:

• Davesprite tries out different meet-cutes on Cousin


• How to pass the time in Namco High when your route isn't chosen


• What happened after Namco High was taken offline


• They hack the game from within


• Good End: They escape from the game together


• Psychological Horror Bad End: Davesprite losing his mind stuck in the endlessly looping game


• Davesprite/Reader fourth-wall-breaking fic

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Ookiku Furikabutte (aka Oofuri)

Characters: Mihashi Ren, Haruna Motoki

A sports manga about a high school baseball team of first-years that's been partially adapted into an anime. The two main characters are Mihashi, a pitcher with amazing ball control but terrible self-esteem, and Abe, a control freak catcher who initially gets very exasperated with Mihashi's behavior. Their relationship and the whole cast/world all get fleshed out in very great depth as the story goes on and it's filled with great baseball as well. Haruna is a talented fastball pitcher at another school who used to play with Abe in the past, and Mihashi really admires him. You can read the manga here or watch the first season of the anime here.

Haruna is my favorite character and I love Mihashi as well (he's my town bicycle of Oofuri shipping). I love Haruna's physique, his dedication to his team and his training, his earnest but sometimes self-absorbed personality, and his awkward innocence that shows through in moments like his crush on that team manager senpai of his. I love Mihashi's determination and how hard he works even when his anxiety and low self-esteem hold him back, his love of baseball, and how he's found a team where he finally belongs. I also really love how both these characters and the cast of Oofuri in general are portrayed as realistic teenage boys and talk about stuff like what they jerk off to and how Mihashi is circumcised. XD I'm really interested in how Mihashi and Haruna are important/intriguing/attractive to each other. And I love how Haruna is canonically able to understand Mihashi pretty well right off the bat (to Abe's chagrin). I do ship them and would love shipfic too, whether awkward romantic fluff or some PWP porn. I'm also fine with either of them also having feelings for other characters (like Abe or Akimaru) though I don’t want a fic that just focuses on some other ship. I would also like a fic set while Mihashi is still in high school.

Some ideas: getting together • first time • first kiss • friends with benefits • casual sex • sexting/phone sex • didn't realize they were already dating • watching/looking at porn together • horny teenage boys • baseball • pitching practice • playing catch • training • going on a date • muscle touching/worship • size kink • held down • misunderstood feelings • nurse cosplay/roleplay • sex in public • spur-of-the-moment sex • embarrassment • awkward sex • hero worship • praise kink • bodyswap • WAFF

Or prompts:

• Haruna helps Mihashi with his pitching mechanics or training schedule (after finally contacting him through Abe)


• Mihashi wants to touch Haruna's muscles again and Haruna likes it, even if he doesn't understand why he likes it


• Haruna being way more of a clueless loser about his own developing feelings than Mihashi is great. As well as Mihashi being more experienced sexually (I kind of headcanon him and Tajima as friendly handjob buddies haha), or just having more exposure to porn/etc.


• Meeting by chance in a bathroom again sometime in the future


• A futurefic of their next game (practice or actual) against each other

Comments

[toft]

Thus is such a great letter! I hope all your dreams come true!!

[kutsutsu]

Same to you, friend! :D