Yuletide 2023

[violetvain]

Dear Creator,

Thank you for writing/considering writing for me! I haven’t taken part in any exchanges in a while and I’m really excited to be signed up for Yuletide! Whatever we matched on or if you’re considering creating a treat for me (my account has the setting that allows treats enabled), I can’t wait to see what you end up creating.

My ao3 username is VioletVain.

General Likes

Genre/Format/Narrative style likes: Any (first, second or third) POV, any tense (past, present, future), distinctive narration, epistolary fic, nonlinear narratives, Rashomon-style stories, character studies, fluff, emotional hurt/comfort, comfort no hurt, angst with a happy ending, ambiguous endings, plot heavy fic, missing scenes, romance, gen

Physical intimacy likes: cuddling, touch starved characters getting cuddled, cuddle piles, casual intimacy, hand holding, hair petting, bed sharing, three plus people sharing a bed, huddling for warmth

Relationship likes (gen and romance): Queer relationships, femslash, poly relationships, compersion, families of choice, adopted kidfic, mutual (oblivious) pining, enemies to friends to lovers, rivalry, loyalty, praise kink, characters learning how to trust, lonely characters making friends, characters who think nobody could love them being loved, two characters who are already dating start dating a third

Alternative Universe likes: canon divergent AUs, daemon AUs, everybody lives AUs, crossovers/fusions between requested fandoms, magic/superpowers/SF elements added to existing setting without removing existing setting elements, childhood friends AUs, Peggy Sue AUs

Sexuality/Gender likes: LGBT characters, trans/non-binary characters, transfeminine characters, bi/pan characters, internalised homophobia/biphobia (and/or overcoming it)

My list of likes is far from comprehensive and is just included to give a general idea of what I tend to like. There are so many things that I like that the letter would be way too long if I listed all of them. Even for things I usually don’t like good execution can carry you a long way.

Do Not Wants

DNWS: Explicit sexual content featuring characters who are under eighteen or non-consenting or non-sapient, Real Person Fiction, unrequested complete setting change AUs

For Real Person Fiction references and minor appearances of historical or public figures are not an issue. Otherwise if a real person appears in a work that I have requested I’m happy for them to appear to the extent they appear in canon.

For unrequested complete setting changes AU I don’t consider canon-divergence, adding additional fantastical elements on top of the existing setting or changing individual or multiple elements of the setting while keeping the broader setting intact to fall under that. For AUs once the setting is recognisable and it retains more setting details than just place names from the canon setting I’m on board.

In the canon specific sections that follow I’ve tried to convey a little of what I love about the works I’m requesting in the hopes it will help inspire you but feel free to take your story in a different direction.

Always Human

Always Human is a webcomic set in the future about two girls falling in love. I’ve requested Austen and Sunati for this fandom.

I ship Austen/Sunati but if you want to write something that isn’t focused on romance that’s cool too. I’ve requested worldbuilding here but once it keeps the setting there doesn’t need to be a heavy focus.

I’m familiar with the bonus copies from the print release if you want to incorporate anything from them but there’s no need to if you don’t want to.

Prompts:

• An Austen/Sunati romance in the modern day would be fun (worldbuilding not required for this one)
• Anything set in the fourteen months between the last chapter and epilogue. Sunati on Enceladus! Austen using the journal Sunati gave her! Pining as they’re literally planets apart! (Given the logistics of this prompt I’m cool with only one of them appearing if you run with this)
• Post-canon stuff set after the epilogue. How do their lives develop after the story ends?
• Missing moments set during canon.
• AU where the age difference is flipped and Austen meets a college student Sunati.

Pale

Pale is a recently completed webserial by Wildbow that begins with three teenage girls inducted into the magical world tasked with looking into a murder where none of the suspects can lie. Solving the murder turns out to only be the beginning of their problems.

Pale is excellent and I always look forward to new chapters being posted. I love the rotating points of view and how different each girl’s viewpoint is, I love the magic system and all the details we get for it, and I love the extended cast especially Liberty and Snowdrop.

I’m familiar with Pact/Poke and other snippets that have been posted about this universe so if you want to incorporate setting details from them that’s not a problem,

My prompts here lean towards the low-stakes but something heavier would be just as appreciated; my mind just isn’t coming up with ideas in that direction right now.

If you’re writing them under eighteen canon typical references to sex/sexuality are fine but please not smut. Smut is fine if they’re eighteen plus.

I’ve requested any of the nominated characters and would love anything focused on whatever subset of them you want to write about.

Prompts

• Post-epilogue fic about any or all of the girls when they’ve grown up. I’d love to see more of Verona’s bookshop, Avery’s travel/her family or Lucy attending college.
• A normal day anywhere where the girls have fun without having a crisis happening or looming over them.
• Any of the girls getting an implement, familiar or demesne or showing Lucy’s familiar ritual with Grandfather which we never go to see.
•  Anything set during the various epilogue time skips.
• Fic about Liberty a girlfriend, or a boyfriend or both (it could be Avery or a Liberty/Avery/Nora triad or someone else entirely)
• “Remember when we sold ourselves to the Faerie, back when I was twelve and Liberty was ten… Or when Libs and I got into a fight and tried to forswear each other? … Oh!  When we had our classmate sell her hand in marriage to that really hot Oni prince?” Literally anything about these situations or anything else the Tedd sisters dragged poor J.T. into.
• Verona and Mcauleigh becoming platonic life partners with benefits.
• Avery having a date or traveling somewhere with Nora.
• Something about Lucy and her family.
• A day in the life of Snowdrop as a Goblin Sage.
• Parahumans AU where the protagonists are a cluster trigger.

Twig

Twig is also a webserial by Wildbow. Set in a biopunk universe the year is 1921 and it follows a group of precocious children who have been experimentally modified or created and do spying/dirty work for the Academies/Crown that rule over most of the world.

I love Twig and the Lambs. Mary and Lillian’s relationships is one of the most interesting parts of it for me. If you want to write a character study or Mary pining for Lilian I’m fine with only one of them appearing.

In terms of shipping I’m a poly Lambs shipper, I particularly love Mary/Lillian, Sy/Jessie and Sy/Lillian but am up for any combinations appearing.

Canon typical references to sex/sexuality are fine and if it’s post-canon and everyone is over eighteen smut is fine.

Prompts

• I said above I ship Mary/Lillian and I really do but I also think a dynamic where Mary is romantically in love with Lillian but Lillian doesn’t view her romantically could be really interesting.
• Anything about Mary and Lillian in the period after Jessie and Sy had left the Lambs but before they reunited.
• Anything post-canon focused on the Lambs adjusting to their new positions as Lords and Ladies.
• Or something much further in the future. How do their plans fare in the longer term?
• If you want to write smut I like Mary/Lillian with a dynamic where Lillian is a dom. Let me look up that one line: "Saying that you share her bed.  That you’re her servant, following her around like a dog.” Anything with Mary serving Lillian sexually or pet play or just Lillian dominating Mary would be great. Please keep in mind that per my DNWs I’d want them over eighteen if you write this.
• Any small quiet moments (optional romance) with Mary and Lillian or the Lambs as a group