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Creator Letter: Yuletide 2024
Oct. 5th, 2024 09:37 pmHello Yuletide writer!
Thanks for making me something, I can’t wait to see what you create.
Here’s some things you need to know about me…
My AO3 handle is RainbowObsidian, and treats are welcome!!
General stuff (fandom specifics below)
Tropes / themes / ideas I love
- Found family
- Hurt/comfort
- Mutual pining
- Oblivious characters pining for each other
- Pining characters touching hands for the first time
- Older adult queer awakening
- Epistolary / text messaging / news articles / social media feeds
- Pining touch-starved character A only wants B to touch them
- Helping object of pining get ready for a date with someone else
- Non-sexual intimacy
- Accidentally catching feelings
- Established relationships
- Mention of other canon characters
- Acts of service
- Acts of service whilst pretending not to care
- Seasonal rhythms
- There was only one bed
- OMG they were roommates
- Patching up after injury
- Second chance romance
- Fake dating
- Snuggling on the couch
- Aged up characters
- Getting together
- Unreliable narrators
- Painting each others nails
- Competency kink
Smut likes
- Intercrural sex
- Frottage
- Mutual masturbation
- Coming from breast/nipple play only
- Penetrative sex
General DNW
- Modern day AU for historical works, AU for modern works (canon divergence is great!)
- Kidfics
- Age gap unless canon
- Unrequested polyamory
- Readerfic
- Second person narrative
- Cannibalism
- Explicit torture
- Gratuitous graphic depictions of violence
- Hurt no comfort, unless requested specifically
Smut DNW
- Necrophilia
- Scat/Watersports/Emeto
- Incest
- Rape (non-explicit mention of previous assault ok)
- Sounding
- Sexual content with Under 16 year olds
- Unrequested non-con or dub-con
- Unrequested monster fucking porn without plot
- Gang bangs
- Porn no plot
Will Darling Adventures
Likes
- Will/Kim
- Maisie/Phoebe
- Will/Alfie Greenaway
- Kim/Tom Mungo
- Will/Teddy
- Any combination of &
- Missing scenes
- Canon scenes from Kim POV
- Cross dressing
- Will and Kim going dancing
- Kim and Phoebe talking about Will and Maisie
- Will and Kim engaging Teddy as a third
- Will and Maisie are friends in their youth and have unspoken crushes on each other for years and then life happens and they don’t see each other for years. Will meets Phoebe when a local paper runs an article on shabby bookshops and the bright young things decide it sounds simply bohemian. Maisie meets Kim when he comes into her shop, looking for a hat for his fiancee. Will and Maisie are reunited many years later and both decide, fuck it, they were the one that got away, now is my chance.. And then it’s like… kissing your sibling. Anyway they wipe their mouths and go out for a drink and a dance and a chat and by the end of the night they say “I have this friend…”
- 3 times Will and Alfie almost said they had feelings for each other and 1 time it was too late
- Will, Kim, Maisie and Phoebe’s adventures on the continent
- Young Kim seeking comfort from Mrs Mungo
- Kim and Tom Mungo adventures
- Sad Kimothy
- Will’s forearms
- Body/scar worship
- Crossovers with DitS
Death in the Spires
Likes
- Nicky/Jem
- Past Nicky/Toby okay, and Toby can cause Nicky grief, but preferably with a solid positive Jem/Nicky moment by the end
- Any of the other DITS spires can be written in
- Any combo of Nicky & Toby & Ella childhood shenanigans
- Body worship
- Nicky reading poetry to Jem
- Crossovers with WDA
- Jem being oblivious about how much everyone loves him
Spires Series
Likes
- Alfie/Fen
- Ash/Darian
- Single character introspection
- Alfie seeing Fen kneeling on the floor of the flower shop under very different circumstances
- Missing scene: Fen on the beach with his mum when she doesn’t recognise him
- Missing scene: Fen’s mum’s last moments with Fen and Aidan at her side
- Alfie learning to hug other men, maybe initiating one with Aidan
- Fix it scene: Ash tells everyone at the wedding to fuck off, instead of going along with their taunts and making the burger reference
- Some kind of crossover situation between the four or any combination of the two
- Ash meets Fen when he takes Darian away for a mini break and decides to buy him some flowers
- Any other Spires MCs that can be slotted into a story
Likes
- Alfie/Fen
- Ash/Darian
- Single character introspection
- Alfie seeing Fen kneeling on the floor of the flower shop under very different circumstances
- Missing scene: Fen on the beach with his mum when she doesn’t recognise him
- Missing scene: Fen’s mum’s last moments with Fen and Aidan at her side
- Alfie learning to hug other men, maybe initiating one with Aidan
- Fix it scene: Ash tells everyone at the wedding to fuck off, instead of going along with their taunts and making the burger reference
- Some kind of crossover situation between the four or any combination of the two
- Ash meets Fen when he takes Darian away for a mini break and decides to buy him some flowers
- Any other Spires MCs that can be slotted into a story
