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Complete as of Oct 27, 2020.

Dear Yuletide Creator,

It’s my favorite fannish time of year: Yuletide.

Below, I provide Do Not Wants and general likes, then fandom-specific details. If there is a discrepancy between the DNWs and general likes and the fandom-specific information, go with the fandom-specific information. Mixing and matching fandoms and prompts more than welcome.

My absolute favorite things: werewolves, crossovers and alternate universes, and monsters and magic.

My AO3 name is also [archiveofourown.org profile] escritoireazul.



General Likes

+ stories about women, including f/f, gen, and het
+ werewolves, werewolf packs as families, and werewolf alternate universes in any canon
+ Halloween and horror movies, particularly horror movie alternate universes in any canon
+ chosen families and adoption stories where adoption is treated as totally normal, adoption and chosen families = real families, and the adoption is not a BIG DRAMATIC SECRET
+ alternate universes, a non-exhaustive list: werewolves, witches and witch hunters, IN SPACE, horror movies, haunted summer camps, ghost hunters (including this state-mandated idea), portal fantasies, monsters, canon divergence, weird west/wild west (I particularly like the outlaw feel of it, untamed and wild, big spaces with nowhere to hide, big woods claustrophobic around you, danger at every turn, as long as the AU avoids the magical Indian/savage Indian/white savior bullshit that can show up in weird west and westerns in general)
+ polyam families, threesomes, foursomes, and moresomes, in all configurations (Vs, triangles, dodecahedrons)
+ monsters of the week, casefic, adventure stories, mysteries
+ friends and family teaming up to save the world, particularly on road trips
+ crossovers and fusions so long as my requested characters are the main characters
+ tropes, a non-exhaustive list: wilderness survival, huddling for warmth, forced proximity, friends to lovers, enemies to friends (to lovers), there’s only one bed oh no, fake dating, survival horror, abandoned ships, burial at sea, burial by fire, crashed on a deserted island, ghost ships, not-so-safe harbour, locked-room mysteries, came back wrong
+ kink (female top/dom only except for biting and bloodplay): biting, light bondage, impact play, rough body play, bloodplay for supernatural characters, fireplay, marking, sensory overload, orgasm denial/control, pegging




Do Not Wants

+ characters dealing with racism, sexism, homophobia, biphobia, transphobia, fat hate, or ableism within the story
+ character bashing or villainizing
+ rape, non-con, and dub-con
+ embarrassment/humiliation
+ animal cruelty or death (except for where it would be appropriate for farm animals or wild animals to be harmed by a non-human monster -- no matter what, though, no harm to dogs)
+ permanent character death for my requested characters
+ incest
+ big age difference in romantic relationships (except for supernatural characters), particularly an older man/younger woman
+ a/b/o or werewolf stories with Big Tough Alpha Male tropes
+ pregnancy, including mpreg
+ spiders


Requests

There are spoilers below for each of my requests, which are:

The Ghost and the Darkness (1996): Helena Patterson, John Henry Patterson
A Knight’s Tale (2001): Kate
Nancy Drew and the Hidden Staircase (2019): Nancy Drew, Helen Corning
Renault Clio “30 Years in the Making” Commercial: Gemma, Sieza
Tremors (1990): Rhonda LeBeck
Willow (1988): Sorsha



The Ghost and the Darkness (1996): Helena Patterson, John Henry Patterson

What I Like About the Source Material: John Patterson in all his love for his wife, Africa, and building bridges, and how he comes in, bright eyed and a little naive but learns to love the area for what it is, not what he thinks Africa itself should be. Helena Patterson in her love for her husband and his obsessions, and how strong she is in letting him go do the things he loves, in having a baby on her own with her beloved husband so far away, in traveling to him alone with a baby because she wants him to see his son and she wants to see him and the great things he builds. Their love for each other is overwhelming.

I also enjoy John’s relationships with Samuel and Charles Remington, particularly how he has to learn to work with each of them in very different ways.

Prompts:

Post-canon adventures: John continues to build bridges and adore his wife and child; Helena goes with him to more and more locations. Things always go wrong, and sometimes John solves them and sometimes Helena does. They see beautiful, remote locations. Samuel travels with them and finds all sorts of things for them to do. Samuel calls them back for help when something else goes wrong. John and Helena must survive some great disaster in their travels, relying on each other to save themselves and the people around them.

AUs and crossovers: IN SPACE! The Ghost and the Darkness are supernatural creatures and all the ways that changes the story and doesn’t change the story. Their bites, their scratches, turn people into monsters. Weird west vibes in different locations. John and Helena travel the world building bridges and hunting monsters, maybe with Samuel and/or Charles Remington, who manages to survive, even if he becomes a monster himself.

Ship-driven: John/Helena forever. Their romance before their marriage and in the early years after. Long letters back and forth filled with emotion and desire. The moments they snatch together between his jobs. The freedom they have on location when propriety and the eyes of their society are very far away. John worships Helena, and she tops the hell out of him in all sorts of ways.




A Knight’s Tale (2001): Kate

What I Like About the Source Material: The found family aspect of it is my favorite part. I love how William Thatcher brings all these disparate people together around him, people who believe in him and what he’s doing, his secrets and how he’s trying to change his stars. I especially love how this is echoed in, and furthered by, Kate. She, too, is fighting to change things, her own stars, but on a much higher scale. William’s change focuses on him, his place, being able to be a knight, and he achieves that through his deeds but is given it through the existing societal structures. Kate, meanwhile, creates her own space as a woman who is also a blacksmith, a woman who is despised by her peers and mistrusted, a woman who creates this armor that turns the tide of expectations and abilities.

(I love this exchange:

Kate: It is romantic though.
Roland: Are you a woman or a blacksmith?
Kate: Sometimes I’m both.)

I also love the combination of modern and medieval and how the movie embraces the ridiculousness and fun.

Prompts:

Post-canon adventures: Okay, William Thatcher is a knight now, and a celebrated one recognized by the crown. Kate’s made him amazing, new armor. Is she now in demand with everyone? Everyone keeps traveling together to other tournaments, to other adventures. Kate keeps changing the world, encouraging little girls to learn to blacksmith, to armor, to fight, encouraging William (and the crown) to recognize them as fighters, as knights. Their little family ends up trapped in a storm, or snowed in, or fighting to protect the weak, and they must rely on each other to survive, as always.

AUs and crossovers: IN SPACE! Supernatural creatures already haunt the woods, or start, and Kate and friends have to save people, have to survive the monsters. Kate herself is a monster, and a blacksmith, and a woman. Weird west vibes. William is secretly a woman dressed as a man to fight and survive, and she and Kate bond over this secret.

Ship-driven: I’m pretty easy when it comes to shipping. I love canonical William/Jocelyn, but when focusing on Kate, I ship her with Christiana, Jocelyn, William and Jocelyn, and pretty much any woman knight you can imagine. Romance during long trips between tournaments, romance in the smithy with all that steam and hot metal and sweat, romance with swords and armor and riding off to adventure, quiet romance. Her husband, and how they met, and how they loved.




Nancy Drew and the Hidden Staircase (2019): Nancy Drew, Helen Corning

What I Like About the Source Material: I did not expect this movie to be as fun and charming as I found it. This Nancy Drew is a delight, snarky and smart and kind and good, but her emotions get away from her sometimes, her anger and her worry. I love her friendships with Bess and George, and the pranks she pulls to protect them. I love how she works her way through the mystery, and how much she loves her father even when they clash.

And Nancy and Helen’s enemies to friends (to lovers) is the absolute best part.

Prompts:

Post-canon adventures: The sequel is clearly set up at the end of the movie with that Mystery at the Lilac Inn reference, so that story with these iterations of the characters would be wonderful. There’s a treasure trove of mysteries to choose from in other Nancy Drew works. There’s high school adventures, too, mysteries or no mysteries, sweet and fun like this, darker like Veronica Mars, anything, really. Now that Nancy and Helen (and Bess and George) have somewhat reluctantly become friends, that has to change the shape of what they’re like together at school.

AUs and crossovers: IN SPACE! Ghosts are actually real. Weird west vibes. Helen’s secretly a werewolf. Nancy’s building her own coven. Nancy and Helen are snarky, antagonistic Jaeger pilots who didn’t want to be drift compatible but are really good together. Secret society members, or Nancy trying to get to the bottom when her society sisters start disappearing. I’m always down for a good marching band AU, too.

Ship-driven: I did not expect to come out of the movie shipping the hell out of Nancy/Helen, but I did. I love the way they’re sharp together but then soften a little, how neither of them fully change for the friendship, they are both still a mix of good and bad traits, and they will hurt each other, but they care for each other, too. I love high school stories, prom and Homecoming and football games, secret parties, sneaking drinks. And all the tropes, of course. Huddling for warmth, bed sharing, enemies to friends to lovers, arranged marriage, fake dating, it’s all good.




Renault Clio “30 Years in the Making” Commercial: Gemma, Sieza



What I Like About the Source Material: This is one of the sweetest queer girl love stories I’ve seen in awhile, and it’s in a goddamn commercial. Thank you, Renault. Thank you. It’s adorable. I love how Gemma and Sieza go from this shy greeting as kids to young lovers taking risks to adults finally coming back together romantically. And visually, it’s just a lovely story.

Prompts:

Note: I’d rather this be light on the angst, especially anything tied to the apparent homophobia Gemma faces from her dad or to the Sieza’s marriage. I prefer a bisexual/pansexual/queer Sieza than a lesbian who feels forced to hide her sexuality through a marriage.

Canon and post-canon adventures: We see little snippets of their lives, and I want to know more about them growing up. The fun games they played as children. How they come into each other’s lives, meet friends, see their homes. What brought them from sweet teenagers in love to Sieza marrying someone else. How they make their lives work when they get back together. It looks like Sieza uproots her entire life to move closer to Gemma, and that has to be a lot to deal with even before the whole leaving a marriage behind.

AUs and crossovers: IN SPACE! Ghost hunters. Weird west vibes. Secret werewolves or witches or vampires. Gemma’s a selki and Sieza learns that before their first kiss. Sweet, careful Jaeger pilots who didn’t expect to fall in love after learning they’re drift compatible.

Ship-driven: Anything. Everything. All the dates between their first kisses and Sieza’s wedding. All the kisses that come after they get back together. Romantic nights at home with their daughter asleep in her room. Love letters and stolen private moments and awkward and sweet proposals. And all the tropes, of course. Huddling for warmth, bed sharing, enemies to friends to lovers, arranged marriage, fake dating, it’s all good.




Tremors (1990): Rhonda LeBeck

What I Like About the Source Material: I love stories about people coming together as a temporary group (that maybe grows into a chosen family) while trying to survive some sort of horror, especially wilderness horror. Rhonda forever. She’s a nerdy seismologist who is smart and brave and daring. Underground monsters hunting via vibrations are terrifying and perfect. The mix of humor and horror.

Prompts:

Post-canon adventures: More monsters. Rhonda using science to track down more monsters. Rhonda trying to explain her findings to the university where she studies. Rhonda becoming part of grad-student lore with all her monster stories. Rhonda bonding with Mindy throughout the years as Mindy grows up knowing that sometimes monsters do exist and science can help save you. Rhonda bonding with Heather over survival and prepping.

AUs and crossovers: Rhonda the monster hunter. Worm-creatures in space. With all the dust and desert and horse riding, this could easily be an older weird west story without even as much technology as they have. Rhonda’s brought in when seismological events start hinting at trouble for Jurassic World.

Ship-driven: I ship Rhonda/Val/Earl and Rhonda/Val and Rhonda/Mindy-all-grown-up. Mostly for shippy things, I want to see them having more adventures but this time with make-outs and sex. Quiet moments around campfires. Looking at stars and making up constellations. We’ve survived and now we must celebrate with our bodies. And all the tropes, of course. Huddling for warmth, bed sharing, enemies to friends to lovers, arranged marriage, fake dating, it’s all good.




Willow (1988): Sorsha

What I Like About the Source Material: Everything. Sorsha and her swords, her prowess in battle, her drive to prove herself to a mother who disregards her at every turn and uses her only for her power. How shocked she is when Madmartigan compliments her while he’s under the spell, and her anger when it goes away. The way she turns on her mother to save the world.

The worldbuilding, the magic and warriors and brave Willow and just everything.

Prompts:

Post-canon: More adventures. Sorsha and Madmartigan are raising and protecting Elora Danan by the end of the movie. As the child grows, surely others will come for her, too, eager to control that power and the prophecies that may rise around her. Sorsha and Mardmartigan go into battle again and again. Magic brings new monsters. Willow needs their help. Terrible storms come onto the lands and they must find a way to survive. Sorsha before the movie, so desperate for her mother's approval, fighting (and fucking?) her way through the world.

AUs and crossovers: Sorsha and all the women warriors from other fandoms. IN SPACE! Weird west. They’re turned into wolves instead of pigs, or another predator, and the traits of that predator lingers. Bavmorda banishes Elora, and Sorsha and the team have to find another way to defeat her. Superheroes. Monster hunters.

Ship-driven: We survived celebratory sex. Fighting turns to fucking. We’re raising a princess and have a castle at our disposal, how many places can we fuck without being caught. Sorsha topping the hell out of Madmartigan, and Madmartigan loving it. Sorsha topping the hell out of both Madmartigan and Airk, Mardmartigan loving it, and Airk loving it despite himself. Enemies to lovers. Sex magic. And all the tropes, of course. Huddling for warmth, bed sharing, enemies to friends to lovers, arranged marriage, fake dating, it’s all good.

I ship Sorsha/Madmartigan and Sorsha/Madmartigan/Airk.

Date: 2020-10-25 09:22 pm (UTC)
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From: [personal profile] havocthecat
<3 I always love seeing what you come up with for prompts.
Edited Date: 2020-10-25 09:23 pm (UTC)

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