yuletide 2025

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thank you for offering one of my fandoms and thank you so much in advance for writing something for me, i can't wait to read whatever you come up with!

i've tried to keep my requests easy and open, so consider them suggestions, not guidelines. please feel free to ignore the prompts if nothing inspires you or if you already have an idea you'd love to write. i'm very easy to please and i'm going to love whatever you create!

also please don't take the order or relative length of each fandom section as any indicator as to what i more. i chose all four fandoms because i love them and would be thrilled to read a fic about any of them.

(and i guess this is where i awkwardly mention that i have gifts enabled and treats are welcome)

this letter is currently a mess and a work in progress but i'm hoping to get it finished in the next few days and will update accordingly with a note once it's finally complete!


the basics
general likes

character & relationship studies, narrative foils & parallels

glimpses into events or perspectives not provided by canon, precanon & backstories, missing scenes, canon divergence, timeskips, futurefic

5+1 fics, vignettes, epistolary fic (including correspondence, in-universe articles, social media), trope subversion/inversion, nonlinear story-telling, experimental storytelling

developing relationships (romantic & friendship), sexual/romantic tension that is eventually resolved

friends to idiots to lovers, old marrieds

meet uglies, break ups & make ups, exes, enemies to friends to lovers

rivalries & antagonistic friendships

found family/families of choice

casual intimacy, emotional vulnerability, unexpected kindness, unconventional gestures of affection

caretaking, domesticity, food as a love language, cooking as an act of love & care

characters having fun, slice of life

pining of all kinds (mutual, seemingly unrequited, actually unrequited), sex first and feelings after, getting back together after messy breakups

complicated motivations and relationships, messy or fucked up dynamics/relationships, codependency, messy coping mechanisms, self-destructive tendencies, irrational ugly emotions

unreliable narrators, trauma narratives, exploration of trauma, hurt/comfort/recovery, levity as a way of dealing with trauma

characters fighting to retain/reclaim agency, moral ambiguity, conflicting moral compasses

horror, body horror, magical realism, time loops

bittersweet stories, hopeful endings, ambiguous endings



smut likes

character/relationship study through porn, porn with feelings, porn with plot, porn what plot

visual proof of arousal (clothed bulges/messiness/etc), licking or other stimulation through underwear, mutual masturbation, penetrative (vaginal & anal) and nonpenetrative (frottage, intercrural) sex, bad or awkward sex that's still enjoyable

spitting in mouths

wet & messy, comeplay, squirting

edgeplay, orgasm control, talked to orgasm, coming untouched, premature ejaculation, overstimulation, sex crying

exhibitionism, showing off, competitive sex, endurance testing sex

kink exploration/discovery, D/s (negotiated, under/non-negotiated, undertones), service tops, service submission, subspace

femdom, face sitting, cunnilingus, pegging

rimming, anal play (ass worship/fingering/prostate milking)

watersports, piss kink, omorashi, bladder control

bathing, washing, shaving, dressing, pampering

unexpected tenderness, emotional intimacy

rough body play, marking (bruising/biting/come/scent), impactplay, spanking

aftercare

ill advised sex, sex as unhealthy coping mechanism, dubious consent, consent issues

yuleporn opt-in



dnws
racism, homophobia, transphobia, mundane AUs (unless requested), omegaverse, slavefic, soulmate tropes, love triangles, group chat fic, first person pov

general dislikes
romance being a fix-all, characters betting on whether people will get together/have sex, shovel talks, crack that’s played only for humor

smut dnws
degradation involving racism/homophobia/transphobia/ableism, bimbofication, bloodplay, medical play, inflation, infantilism/abdl, birthing, necrophilia, coprophilia/scat, figging





requests

違国日記 - ヤマシタトモコ | Ikoku Nikki - Yamashita Tomoko (Manga)
Koudai Makio, Koudai Minori, Takumi Asa, Nara Emiri

sis, is it okay to hold dear that same girl you held dear? all the ways minori haunts the narrative. conversations makio never had with her sister; conversations asa ended up having with her aunt instead of her mother

all the ways makio and asa say i love you. domesticity & meals together.

missing scenes, time skips, future fic. five years, ten years.

makio as a writer. her writing slumps, her character ruby. writing as escapism and writing as catharsis.

makio and daigo's friendship

asa and emiri's friendship

i've got this dream... it's just a dream, but... i'd like to work with her someday. with koudai-sensei or with other sort folks i like. makio & emiri. the queer movies makio recommended, emiri coming out to her. emiri in 10 years.

OPT-IN crossover/fusion with skip & loafer



薬屋のひとりごと | Kusuriya no Hitorigoto | The Apothecary Diaries (Anime)
Maomao, Loulan | Shisui, Ah Duo, Anshi

maomao and the women in her life, sisters and mothers, her friendship with xiaolan, female relationships + court politics

MAOMAO/JINSHI listen if there's a maomao/jinshi fic you've been wanting to write pls go for it!!!! unexpected moments of softness or vunerability, maomao realizing her feelings for jinshi are changing/have changed, maomao/jinshi outsider pov. shenanigans, quiet moments of domesticity. sickfic, maybe it's aphrodisiacs or poison or accidental sex pollen, with hurt/comfort & caretaking

maomao mushroom fun time! feel free to get super nerdy about it, cooking or poison

casefic, palace intrigue, mysteries, ghosts & hauntings

anshi character study, her trauma & hate, cycles of abuse & motherhood. what if she did curse the previous emperor? horror/supernatural au, could be a fun fusion with the singing hills cycle.

anshi & jinshi & ah-duo

ah-duo character study. how she loves & inspires love, her relationship with the emperor and how it changed throughout their lives, her love for her son and the things she was willing to do for him, her and lishu, her and fengming & her ladies in waiting who were willing to do anything for her.

ah-duo and motherhood. her and jinshi, her and anshi's son, her and the emperor caring for lishu as a daughter. her and the shi clan children.

ah-duo & suirei

ah-duo & the emperor. before and/or after being the emperor's consort. their love for eachother and how her love for him changed throughout their lives, her departure as his consort. being given the southern imperial villa. their goodbyes. her short return as jinshi's double.

shisui character study. bugs & foxes. ghosts and things that haunt. her mother. her sister. her father.

shisui & jinshi, as mirrors and foils, as people with identities to hide from their name/title and familes with a dark history, as people who love maomao and have given her a hairpin. either's pov on the other. maomao's thoughts on both of them.

maomao's slowburn realization that she loves both jinshi & shisui. the hairpin between them.

shisui/maomao. SHISUI/MAOMAO!!!!

shisui & suirei

OPT-INs crossover/fusion with nghi vo's singing hills cycle series, raven of the inner palace, or ooku: the inner chambers, yuleporn, and crueltide



光が死んだ夏 | Hikaru ga Shinda Natsu | The Summer Hikaru Died (Anime)
Tsujinaka Toshinori, Indou Kouhei

i'm current with the manga so no worries about spoilers!

TOSHINORI/KOUHEI (requited or not)

toshinori seeing himself & kouhei in their sons, generations curses, heteronormativity as horror

did toshinori leave for tokyo before or after kouhei got married? how did kouhei feel about him leaving and then returning with a family of his own. toshinori's time in tokyo & at univerity, did he let himself explore his sexuality? tokyo nightlife, anonymous sex with men, maybe a boyfriend? struggling with internalized homophobia & past externalized homophobia & guilt/shame. meeting satoko, their relationship and the decision to get married and return to kubitachi.

toshinori & kouhei & fatherhood, the distance between toshinori & yoshiki and yoshiki being closer to kouhei, kouhei's feelings about his family's history and the sin he has given his son. .

kouhei deciding to end the ritual, toshinori & the aftermath of kouhei's death

what if toshinori was right and kouhei was murdered by the village elders for wanting to end the indou ritual

what if toshinori did become a writer instead of taking over the family business

OPT INs crueltide & yuleporn


凸变英雄X | To Be Hero X (Cartoon)
ANY (Ah Sheng, Dragon Boy, Lin Ling, Little Johnny, Liu Zhen, Lucky Cyan, Luo Li | Loli, Micky, Original Nice, Queen, Shang Chao, Shang De, Wang Nuonuo, Wang Yi | Ghostblade, Worldbuilding, Wreck, X, Yan Mo | Rock, Yang Cheng, Zac)

worldbuilding, especially in regards to trust value. trust value as horror, as a loss of autonomy, as body horror.

CEO FIC. character study of Your CEO of Choice. the history & relationships between them. their machinations. abuses of power & fucked up dynamics between CEOs and Heroes, corruption arcs.

shang de &/nice. shang de turning his grief for his son into vengeance & turning nice into a weapon he hopes to use. (crueltide opt-in is mostly for them tbqh)

hero relationships (platonic, romantic/sexual, secret third thing). queen & lucky cyan. ghostblade & johnny. x and anyone tbh (but especially smile, ahu, nice, or queen).

(fandom specific dnws: nice/lin ling, and a fic solely focused on nice's suicide, thanks!)

OPT INs crueltide, yuleporn, and crossover/fusion with Tiger & Bunny or Samurai Flamenco.