Dear Yuletide Author

 Hello! Thank you so much for writing for me! This is my very first year doing this challenge, though I've known about it for quite a while. I'm so excited to finally participate, and I hope to not make your life too difficult. I'll be so happy to read whatever you write!

Things I love:

*Things that make sense with and/or don't disrupt cannon, as far as what things have happened or how the world works. I love expansions on or deep dives into cannon, and I love things that make a world more diverse and that increase represntation of marginalized communities. But I don't love, for example, characters backstories being completely rewritten (for an example of what I'm talking about, I mean how superhero movies often now have characters who have nothing in common with their previous story except their name, even having different origin stories).

*Worldbuilding. I absolutely love deep and detailed world-building.

*Similarly, my favorite thing in a story is a good and solid sense of place, to the point where the location feels like a character itself. Some examples of what I mean are Stars Hollow from Gilmore Girls; the Enterprise D from Star Trek TNG; Hogwarts, The Burrow, Number 12 Grimmauld Place from Harry Potter (I know, I know, I'm trans myself, believe me, I know) ; the desert in The Wood Wife by Terry Windling, and Sigil (and to a lesser extent other planes) in the D&D Planescape Campaign Setting; and Stardew Valley.

*Diversity and representation of marginalized characters and identities of any and all kinds. However, I especially love seeing disabled and trans characters. And I love seeing an increase of BIPOC characters in European inspired medieval or renaissance fantasy settings.

*Stories where people treat each other well and nothing much bad happens. Seriously. In a way, I like boring. My favorite parts of books are usually the beginning, before everything gets bad, and the end when it returns to normal -- and I often wish those parts extended throughout the book.

Things I am fine with:

*Only one character being included, or only worldbuilding. I mentioned this for each of the fandoms that I requested specific tagged characters for, but in places where I requested more than one character, it's perfectly fine to only include one of the characters I requested.

*Kink and/or erotica. One of the fandoms I requested has that as an integral part of it, and I don't mind reading it, but it's not required, even for that fandom.

*Ignoring my sugestions and/or prompts. With the exceptions of my few DNWs, write whatever you like.

Things I don't like:

*Lore or plot holes. There's not much I dislike less. For me, this includes rewritng the past or the way things work in a way that undoes, or doesn't mesh with cannon, as opposed to expanding on or enhancing it, or providing insight into how or why characters work (those last three are all things I love)

*Racism, sexism, ablesism, classism, sizism, ageism, anti-semitism, homophobia, transphobia, Islamophobia, or misogyny. I realize sometimes these things happen, both in real life, and in some of the cannons I've chosen. It's okay to include them if it makes sense for the sake of the story, but I strongly prefer that they not be represented as good things. 

 

Do Not Wants (which are included in my requests) :

*No plagues, pandemics, or epidemics because the pandemic isn't over for me, and I prefer not to read about similar subjects in fiction right now.

*No excessive violence, gore, or cruelty (which does not apply if it is specifically in a kinky context, particularly if you wind up writing for that fandom)

*If you do write kink or erotica, which is not required, no kids, animals, rape, scat, snuff, or permanent life-altering injuries. 


I think that's it! Again, thank you so much for writing my Yuletide fanfic! I hope you have a great time, and happy Yuletide!