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Yuletide Letter 2019
Dear Yuletide writer,
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kutsushita. Thank you for writing for me! I hope you have a good Yuletide.
Direct links to each fandom section:
19th Century American Medicine RPF
Baseball Highlights 2045
Dragon Quest Builders 2
The Folly of the World
This letter contains some extra info on my likes and ideas/prompts if you find those useful. 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:
Some more likes:
bad decisions • baseball • betrayal • body horror • canon divergence • casefic • characters fucking up • didn't realize they were already dating • dysfunctional relationships • forced to work together • getting together • grey morality • imperfect/complicated but happy relationships • in denial about feelings • love confessions • manipulation • mindfuck • misunderstandings • physical vulnerability • power imbalances • psychological horror • secret relationships • shifting power dynamics • sickfic • slow burn • trapped/stuck together • trope subversions • unreliable memories/cognition • unreliable narrator • UST • WAFF • weird embodiment • worldbuilding
Some porn likes:
abuse • amputation • awkward sex • bad sex • body worship • coercion • copious cum • crying • deep tonguing • degradation • desk/table sex • desperation • dirty talk • dubcon • drunk sex • embarrassment • extreme object insertion • face-fucking • first-time sex • fullness • gaslighting • gangbangs • grooming (abuse) • groping • guro • held down/overpowered • humiliation • inexperience • inflation • noncon • objectification • oviposition • phone sex/sexting/cybersex • praise • punishment • rape • shaming • sick sex • size kink • slutty/needy sex • snuff • stealthing • tear-licking • tentacles • torture • under/un-negotiated kink/sex • underage • unsafe vaginal sex • vore • wall sex • xeno
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. These experiments ultimately yielded important research into human digestion, despite the ethical issues.
You can find basic info on these two on their Wikipedia pages or in this podcast episode. If you want extra info there are a lot of free books & historical documents about Beaumont on google books. Here is a great (real) letter from Beaumont to St. Martin. I also really enjoyed the historical fiction novel Open Wound: The Tragic Obsession of Dr. William Beaumont. Note that a lot of these resources, especially the historical books/documents, contain period-typical racism.
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 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 of them but don't let it constrain your visual headcanons. Most other images of them look pretty different and I don't mind how they look anyway.)
Some ideas: power imbalance • medical experimentation • language barrier • class difference • codependency • weird historical medicine • dubious ethics • pining • florence nightingale effect • stockholm syndrome • unrequited feelings • obsession • legal/financial abuse • psychological abuse • medical abuse • gaslighting • 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:
Characters: n/a
A deckbuilding card/board game about a hypothetical future version of baseball, in which the game has been shorted to 6 innings and there are robot and cyborg players along with "naturals." The first page of the game's manual further summarizes the worldbuilding premise, and here is a bit more on the player types. There is also a mobile app version of the game which is fairly cheap if you'd like to check it out at a lower cost than the physical edition.
I didn't nominate/request any characters for this one as I'm mostly interested in the worldbuilding setup it provides. (But of course you may use characters from the cards or invent some OCs, or you could write a fic that doesn't focus on any characters.) I love baseball and a future of shortened baseball games featuring robot+cyborg+natural players is so interesting. And this game is a lot of fun. I especially love how the naturals adopt a random combination of names from famous past baseball players. Really anything set in this world would be fantastic. I own all the expansions so feel free to reference any player/coach/ballpark from any of them or to invent your own.
Some ideas: documentary • epistolary • history • meta • play-by-play • slice of life • sports action • worldbuilding
Or prompts:
Characters: Female Builder, Malroth
An adorable action RPG building game for Nintendo Switch and PS4. Kind of a fusion of regular Dragon Quest, Minecraft, Stardew Valley, and Animal Crossing. Follows a novice Builder washed up on a deserted island who joins forces with an amnesiac fighter named Malroth. I went into this game just expecting to build some stuff and was blown away by how much I loved the characters, world, and epic plot. (And yeah, the building was really fun too!)
I played as the female Builder with the default pigtails hairstyle (but prefer no mention of her hair color). Any kind of Builder/Malroth shipfic (post-canon, missing scene, or canon divergence AU) would be great. Some kind of future buddy comedy adventure would also be awesome. Or canon divergence AUs or missing scenes from any point in the story. Malroth was definitely my favorite character and I both loved and agonized over what he went through in the game. By the end I was completely swooning over him all the time, built a private house for him and the Builder to share, and made his face my island flag, lol. As far as supporting characters, Britney is my next favorite (she's great comic relief), and the only one I'd prefer not to see is Ordelia. DNW Malroth or Builder character death (anyone else is fine).
Note: Major spoilers for the game follow!
Noncon preferences: I'm only into Malroth nonconning the Builder if he's his evil destruction god version at the time. Don't like Builder nonconning Malroth. Either of them nonconned by an outside party is fine, or the two of them being forced to fuck (against their will, but they like each other) is also good. Otherwise if it's Builder/Malroth porn I'd prefer it consensual.
Some ideas: building • bodyswap • canon divergence • missing scenes • casefic • didn't realize they were already dating • getting together • humor • hurt/comfort • whump • time loop • physical vulnerability • sickfic • imprisonment • stranded/trapped together • romance • dirty talk • high fives • drunk sex • enthusiastic rough sex • monster sex • vore • torture • pregnancy/kidfic • friends to lovers
Or prompts:
Characters: any (Jan Tieselen, Jolanda, Sander Himbrecht)
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.
This book has lots of great weird creepy stuff. 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 • 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:
My AO3 username is
19th Century American Medicine RPF
Baseball Highlights 2045
Dragon Quest Builders 2
The Folly of the World
This letter contains some extra info on my likes and ideas/prompts if you find those useful. 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
bad decisions • baseball • betrayal • body horror • canon divergence • casefic • characters fucking up • didn't realize they were already dating • dysfunctional relationships • forced to work together • getting together • grey morality • imperfect/complicated but happy relationships • in denial about feelings • love confessions • manipulation • mindfuck • misunderstandings • physical vulnerability • power imbalances • psychological horror • secret relationships • shifting power dynamics • sickfic • slow burn • trapped/stuck together • trope subversions • unreliable memories/cognition • unreliable narrator • UST • WAFF • weird embodiment • worldbuilding
Some porn likes:
abuse • amputation • awkward sex • bad sex • body worship • coercion • copious cum • crying • deep tonguing • degradation • desk/table sex • desperation • dirty talk • dubcon • drunk sex • embarrassment • extreme object insertion • face-fucking • first-time sex • fullness • gaslighting • gangbangs • grooming (abuse) • groping • guro • held down/overpowered • humiliation • inexperience • inflation • noncon • objectification • oviposition • phone sex/sexting/cybersex • praise • punishment • rape • shaming • sick sex • size kink • slutty/needy sex • snuff • stealthing • tear-licking • tentacles • torture • under/un-negotiated kink/sex • underage • unsafe vaginal sex • vore • wall sex • xeno
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. These experiments ultimately yielded important research into human digestion, despite the ethical issues.
You can find basic info on these two on their Wikipedia pages or in this podcast episode. If you want extra info there are a lot of free books & historical documents about Beaumont on google books. Here is a great (real) letter from Beaumont to St. Martin. I also really enjoyed the historical fiction novel Open Wound: The Tragic Obsession of Dr. William Beaumont. Note that a lot of these resources, especially the historical books/documents, contain period-typical racism.
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 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 of them but don't let it constrain your visual headcanons. Most other images of them look pretty different and I don't mind how they look anyway.)
Some ideas: power imbalance • medical experimentation • language barrier • class difference • codependency • weird historical medicine • dubious ethics • pining • florence nightingale effect • stockholm syndrome • unrequited feelings • obsession • legal/financial abuse • psychological abuse • medical abuse • gaslighting • 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:
- 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
- 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 or the nature of Alexis's wound, that's cool too. I'd love AUs of them!
Baseball Highlights 2045
Characters: n/a
A deckbuilding card/board game about a hypothetical future version of baseball, in which the game has been shorted to 6 innings and there are robot and cyborg players along with "naturals." The first page of the game's manual further summarizes the worldbuilding premise, and here is a bit more on the player types. There is also a mobile app version of the game which is fairly cheap if you'd like to check it out at a lower cost than the physical edition.
I didn't nominate/request any characters for this one as I'm mostly interested in the worldbuilding setup it provides. (But of course you may use characters from the cards or invent some OCs, or you could write a fic that doesn't focus on any characters.) I love baseball and a future of shortened baseball games featuring robot+cyborg+natural players is so interesting. And this game is a lot of fun. I especially love how the naturals adopt a random combination of names from famous past baseball players. Really anything set in this world would be fantastic. I own all the expansions so feel free to reference any player/coach/ballpark from any of them or to invent your own.
Some ideas: documentary • epistolary • history • meta • play-by-play • slice of life • sports action • worldbuilding
Or prompts:
- A retelling of a specific game, series, or even just a single spectacular play, could also work as interactive fiction maybe
- Following the career of a player, manager, or even an engineer who designs & repairs the robots
- If you need/would like an idea for a character to use, the Madison Price card caught my eye. Her life, career, interactions with teammates or fans, what kinds of modifications does she go through to perfect that sinker, or what are the circumstances when she hits that first home run in a major league park?
- A pastiche of a news/magazine article, or an epistolary collection of snippets, letters, etc.
- Maybe a crossover with popular baseball nonfiction pieces, like Ken Burns's baseball documentary, or Jon Bois's youtube videos: something in the style of one of these, about 2045 baseball
- A player naming themselves after two past mediocre/obscure players rather than all the famous ones featured in the game would be funny
- What are other ways that baseball changes along the way? Whether in the sport's rules, the players, the fans, the larger cultural/economic structures around it, etc.
- The tensions/balance between the different types of players
- A young fan attending a baseball game for the first time in 2045
- Beyond 2045, how does the game change even more?
Dragon Quest Builders 2
Characters: Female Builder, Malroth
An adorable action RPG building game for Nintendo Switch and PS4. Kind of a fusion of regular Dragon Quest, Minecraft, Stardew Valley, and Animal Crossing. Follows a novice Builder washed up on a deserted island who joins forces with an amnesiac fighter named Malroth. I went into this game just expecting to build some stuff and was blown away by how much I loved the characters, world, and epic plot. (And yeah, the building was really fun too!)
I played as the female Builder with the default pigtails hairstyle (but prefer no mention of her hair color). Any kind of Builder/Malroth shipfic (post-canon, missing scene, or canon divergence AU) would be great. Some kind of future buddy comedy adventure would also be awesome. Or canon divergence AUs or missing scenes from any point in the story. Malroth was definitely my favorite character and I both loved and agonized over what he went through in the game. By the end I was completely swooning over him all the time, built a private house for him and the Builder to share, and made his face my island flag, lol. As far as supporting characters, Britney is my next favorite (she's great comic relief), and the only one I'd prefer not to see is Ordelia. DNW Malroth or Builder character death (anyone else is fine).
Note: Major spoilers for the game follow!
Noncon preferences: I'm only into Malroth nonconning the Builder if he's his evil destruction god version at the time. Don't like Builder nonconning Malroth. Either of them nonconned by an outside party is fine, or the two of them being forced to fuck (against their will, but they like each other) is also good. Otherwise if it's Builder/Malroth porn I'd prefer it consensual.
Some ideas: building • bodyswap • canon divergence • missing scenes • casefic • didn't realize they were already dating • getting together • humor • hurt/comfort • whump • time loop • physical vulnerability • sickfic • imprisonment • stranded/trapped together • romance • dirty talk • high fives • drunk sex • enthusiastic rough sex • monster sex • vore • torture • pregnancy/kidfic • friends to lovers
Or prompts:
- When monster!Malroth threatened to eat the Builder, I was totally into that, and would love non-fatal vore (noncon or consensual, doesn't need to be set right then, maybe Malroth later figures out how to assume his monstrous form at will)
- Monster sex (Hargon can come too if it's noncon) is also cool, and again it could be with evil Malroth or set later
- Missing scenes or an AU set in Skelkatraz: Torture? Finding comfort together in the prison? Another way they escape? They don't escape and are stuck there? They escape but wind up marooned on some other island together?
- A drunken hookup after a night at the bar on Khrumbul-Dun
- I can't remember how many times I tried to get into Malroth's prison cell on Moonbrooke. An AU or missing scene based around that arc? The Builder will stop at nothing to break Malroth out? (maybe this leads to a time loop any time she is successful?) Warwick disguises himself as the Builder and taunts Malroth?
- Other islands they discover: what adventures happen there?
- The future development of the Island of Awakening
- They thought everything would be peaceful after finally thwarting Hargon, but then they stumbled upon the hidden temple under the Hairy Hermit's mountain
- Any plot reason you wanna come up with for the two of them to get stranded/trapped somewhere together (a building mishap, a portal, another shipwreck, etc)
- They bodyswap and it's A Struggle, especially when it comes to their proclivities for building/destruction
- The Builder loves building elaborate houses for the two of them to destroy through having very energetic sex XD (maybe it's some kind of consent play involving Malroth's monster form and the Builder's hammer)
The Folly of the World
Characters: any (Jan Tieselen, Jolanda, Sander Himbrecht)
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.
This book has lots of great weird creepy stuff. 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 • 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