Yuletide Letter 2018

[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.

Links to each fandom section:

19th Century American Medicine RPF
The Folly of the World
Imperial Radch


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


• graphic porn/PWP


• psychologically brutal noncon/abuse porn

Longer likes list:

bad decisions • banter • 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 • weird embodiment • 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, 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 (real) 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 cool too. 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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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 situation 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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Imperial Radch

Characters: Breq, Seivarden, Mercy of Kalr

A sci-fi novel trilogy about an AI who used to be a spaceship, at first on a revenge quest, then figuring out how she now fits into the changing universe. The characters I've requested are the main AI Breq (aka Justice of Toren One Esk Nineteen), Seivarden Vendaai, a drug-addicted once-prominent member of Radch society who used to serve as an officer on the ship Breq once was, and Mercy of Kalr, the AI of a ship Breq later captains and Seivarden serves on. The trilogy consists of Ancillary Justice, Ancillary Sword, and Ancillary Mercy. Here's some places to get them: paperback, ebook.

I was completely thrilled with the development of the relationship(s) between these three in Ancillary Mercy, and would love shipfic (ship shipfic?) of them. I greatly enjoyed Breq and Ship's total unfamiliarity with these kinds of feelings or relationships, the differing types of embodiment and consciousness all three characters experience, and how what they formed together is still very new and sure to be full of learning, growth, and compromise. On the subject of physical sex, I know it wasn't an element in their relationship in the book, and I am fine with it remaining that way, but I am also happy with sex being introduced. Additional background relationships are also fine, including Seivarden/Ekalu. Tisarwat is my favorite character aside from the three I requested, and there aren't any characters I dislike. (Note: Like with my 19th Century American Medicine RPF header, this header art, found here, need not match up with your headcanons.)

Some ideas: shipfic/romance • working at relationships & making compromises • casefic • characters fucking up • imperfect/complicated but happy relationships • misunderstandings • oblivious to one's own feelings • physical vulnerability • complexities of embodiment/consciousness • slow burn • porn • masturbation • hand kink • D/s • time loops • trapped/stuck together • building a society • worldbuilding

Or prompts:

• The three of them dealing with figuring out their new relationship(s), and probably sucking at it


• Exploration of the power dynamics in the relationship and how each of them feels about it (D/s kink is also cool by me)


• The ways each character's sense of personhood & distribution of consciousness intersects with their relationship as a new construction of collaborative/distributed embodiment (being "things the other is missing" and so on)


• Ways that shared aspects of embodiment relate to sex (mentally sharing sexual sensations, non-physical sex, etc.)


• Breq or Ship developing a desire to explore physical sex in some way


• Bare hand touching kink, especially with it being more intense/meaningful for Seivarden than Breq (or Ship)


• Casefic that arises while trying to build their new society, or futurefic dealing with the conclave


• AI kidfic: they find or build something to put one of the unused AI cores in, creating a new baby AI (or several)


• I loved the side story "She Commands Me and I Obey" and I would be totally into an ensemble sports bonding activity of some kind in their new society