Yuletide 2020 - Dear Author

Hi! Thank you so much for writing me a story! I love Yuletide and I hope you get to write something you'll have fun writing. Honestly the thing I want most is for you to write something you'll enjoy. Don't feel like you have to write humor if you're really more of an angst writer and don't feel like you have to write angst if you're really more of a humor writer, you know? I like a wide variety of stories: funny, fluffy, angsty, thinky, sexy, it's all good. I like small character moments and big tropey scenarios and stories that read like a middle chapter from something bigger that doesn't exist.

I don't have any triggers to avoid. There are a few common-ish story elements I dislike: pets and pet ownership, the giving of lavish or costly gifts, women having to dress up more feminine-ly to advance their romantic plots. Just not my thing.

The Avant Guards
Charlie Bravo

This comic is adorable and it needs to have fic about it! In the "college sports/gay romance" genre where the sport is basketball, the college is an art school, and the cast is full of queer people of color (which is more or less what I've said about it before). I asked for Charlie Bravo but I love the entire cast so anyone you want to focus on is great. I definitely ship Charlie/Liv and would be very into something romantic or pre-romantic about them but it could also be fun to find out more about the academic side of life at O'Keeffe or just some general college/team hijinks. I will admit I know basically nothing about basketball; if you *do* know things about basketball, feel free to write some basketball and dazzle me, otherwise feel free to totally leave out or gloss over any basketball content. The team could do a team-building exercise? Is someone failing a class, and needs someone else's help? Maybe there's a dance and some sexually-charged dancing! Maybe Tiffany accidentally casts a truth spell or love spell or something (or the team wants to convince her she did?)! Daemon AU! Someone is nude modeling for someone else's life drawing class! Bad blind date! There are like a thousand classic plots that could apply here and they would all be beautiful.

Chronin
Hatsu

I love everyone in this comic but am requesting Hatsu because I feel like I had less insight into her head than into Mirai's or Gilbert's and I just want *more* of her. I talked about Chronin volume 1 here and volume 2 here. I would love to see Hatsu's POV from any point during the story - when does she first realize she's interested in Mirai, and at what points does she consider acting on that? What's something that surprises her about the future, once she gets out of quarantine? How are her reactions to the future different than her mom's reactions? What is it like for Hatsu and Mirai to be beginning a relationship while Hatsu is going through three weeks of debriefing? How does Hatsu feel about seeing Gilbert again at the end? I do have a fondness for Hatsu/Mirai/Gilbert as the final ship situation, but I'll be just as happy either way if you'd prefer to write Hatsu and Mirai as an exclusive couple or Hatsu/Mirai/Gilbert as having a poly arrangement of some kind. Just please don't break up Hatsu and Mirai if you're writing post-canon. I also think there could be some very interesting canon divergence AUs here to explore - what if Mirai's beacon *does* work, at the start of volume 2? Does she ever come back? And where is Hatsu when she does? What if Azai is persuaded, and gives Gilbert back the backpack, but doesn't give them the three spare beacons? Does Mirai still go back to the future? And does she ever come back after *that*? And where is Hatsu when she does? (While we're here, let me admit to some minor confusion about names: Mirai addresses her as Hatsu while Hatsu calls her Mirai, but Hatsu's brother calls her Kako at one point, as does the professor at the end, which doesn't help clarify whether this is more or less familiar address. I think we-the-Chronin-fandom should just call her Hatsu since that's what Mirai calls her.)

Space Battle Lunchtime
Peony

This comic is adorable and it needs to have more fic about it! I love Peony/Neptunia and would love to see them together having adventures or quiet moments on Earth or out in space. Please don't write anything that breaks them up, although it's fine to write post-canon that just focuses on Peony if you'd prefer. I'd also be interested to see something from Peony's life before the first book. I am fine with stories that involve food or recipes (real or made-up) or stories that don't involve food. What would Peony's blog entries look like if she started a food blog? Funny kitchen disaster? What does Neptunia like or dislike about Earth? I have read volume 3 (yay!) so feel free to use or ignore that part of canon!

Ticket to Ride

I will admit, this is a last-minute addition - I never thought about fic for this game and then I found it in the tagset and now I can't stop thinking about it. If we match on this, I feel like a beautiful thing has already happened, and I see two great directions this could go.

A, what is it like to live and travel in the world of the game? Does everyone just take it for granted that you sometimes have to take enormously long and convoluted routes to go places, or are there freethinkers or rebels who suspect that travel could be simpler? Maybe a travel blogger is writing about their trip, or a high school or college team of some sort are trying to travel for a competition?

Or B, what do the AI players, if you play solo on the app, think is going on? How do they feel about it? What do they do when they're not playing? How do their strategies relate to their personalities? I like stories about ladies and am more interested in Marg Loughbot and Jane Stanbot (or BreretonBot, on the India board) than the AIs with more masculine icons. I play on the app a lot and have most of the achievements on most of the boards, some of which must seem particularly bizarre to the AIs, if they don't know about them.

Thank you so much! Yay Yuletide!