Yuletide Letter 2023
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bobcatmoranHello, Yuletide Author!
First of all, a pre-emptive "Thank you!"
As Ye Olde Yuletide saying goes, "Optional Details Are Optional," so if you've been bitten by the inspiration fairy (watch out, they have sharp teeth), go for it. But if you want some more guidance, read on!
In general:
If you choose to go the romance route, I am ok with couples or poly relationships of all shapes and sizes — M/F, M/M, F/F, nonbinary, trans, interspecies, etc. Friends-to-lovers is always awesome. I am not so down with big power differences (e.g. teacher/student), hatesex, incest, or noncon. However! If you don’t want to go the romance route, rest assured that I always and forever love me some genfic.
Other likes include found family, science fiction settings (space AUs for those canons that aren’t already in space are ok), canon divergence AUs (e.g. “What if Big Event Did Not Happen Or Happened Differently”), fish out of water tropes, and characters being snarky or bantering back and forth.
For a further idea of what sort of stuff I like (and some, IMO, really good reads), you can check out my Ao3 bookmarks, or my “read this fic it is good” and “read this story it is good” tags on Tumblr — the latter is for original fiction.
As for the individual fandoms…
ウルトラQ | Ultra Q
Any chraracter
Oh gosh. Almost anything, since there’s practically no fic for this series and I’d love to read some. You wanna write a kaiju story? Maybe with something from one of the later Ultra series? Go for it. You wanna write a slice of life thing with the main trio just hanging out? Go for it. You wanna do some sort of hard sci-fi plot? Go for it. You want to write the aftermath of one of the episodes? Go for it. You have some other idea in mind? Go for it. I’m ok with shipping the main trio in any combo if you feel like going that way, but I’m not hugely interested in romance being the focus of the story, and definitely want them to all stay on good terms with each other by the end of the fic. Please, no self-harm and no non-consensual sex.
You can watch this entire '60s science fiction series legally, for free with English subtitles on Tubi!
I think I mostly covered it there, but if you've seen this series + any other Ultra series, and you want to write something that has any/all of our main trio encountering an Ultraman in later years, I'd be down for that as well (I've finished the OG Ultraman series, Geed, Orb, Z, and Trigger and have seen giant chunks of X, Ultraseven, Tiga, the Zero movies, all Blazar episodes to date, and have at least a passing familiarity with most of the rest).
17776: What Football Will Look Like in the Future - Jon Bois
Juice, Nine, Ten
Sentient space probe fic, please. I’d love a fic with any/all of Juice, Nine, Ten, or even another unnominated space probe first achieving consciousness, or just space probe chit-chat (of which I am sure there are a few millennia’s worth). I'm ok with you including new stuff from 20020, but that’s definitely not necessary. I am also Not A Football Fan, so please keep that in mind if you decide to include any gameplay. I know juuuust enough to follow the canon sports goings-on, but not much more than that.
I admit it. I have a thing for space probes. It’s been an ongoing thing since I was a very wee Bobcat and fell in love with Voyager 2 and cried when I found out that Pioneer 11 was leaving the solar system and would be all alone. So you can imagine the pitch and volume of the shriek I emitted when I found out who Nine was. If you wanna include football in this, that’s awesome. If you don’t, that’s awesome, too. I just wanna see a thing with the sentient space ships hanging out, whether it be Nine getting more comfortable with its new situation, Juice being kind of an ass, heck, even bringing in space probes not listed like JST or New Horizons. Um. Maybe not sexytimes, as these characters are all a pretty substantial distance from each other, but if you can make it work, more power to you. And if you have no idea what I’m talking about, go here and read/watch the thing on an actual computer instead of mobile if you have a couple free hours. Also, if you get stuck on one of the other fandoms (it happens! I’ve written for fandoms I didn’t sign up for twice), this might be a good one to pick up as it’s relatively easy to access. Like I said in my signup, if you haven't read/watched the sequel, 20020, that's totally ok. If you wanna include stuff from that as well, though, that is also very ok.
Kamen Rider Zero-One
Any characters
I’d love a story that focuses on Humagears, especially any/all members of Metsuboujinrai, whether it be pre-canon, during canon era, afterwards, or even during the ReiGen movie AU. I’m not opposed to having humans in the fic, I’m just more interested in the narratives surrounding Humagears — the familial relationships they build, how they interact with human society for better or for worse, and, for some of them, trying to figure out what freedom would look like. If you want to ignore the V-Cines, I won’t complain. Please no shipping with Humagears that haven’t reached singularity, and no incest with characters that have familial relationships, i.e. Horobi and Jin.
I think I fairly well covered it here. Just want to reiterate that I consider any sort of shipping with Humagears that haven't reached singularity to be non-con, which is a big DNW for me. Also, FYI, this is another series where the entire thing is available to watch legally, with English subs, on Tubi.
王様戦隊キングオージャー | Ohsama Sentai King-Ohger
Any characters
I'd kind of love a little slice of life with any/all of the characters, whether during the course of the show or before it happens. Alternatively, Kaguragi canonically overthrew the previous king. Backstory on that would be awesome (I'm aware that the summer movie might have had more on that, but I haven't seen it, don't expect you to have seen it since AFAIK it's only been available in Japanese theaters a few months ago, and I love me a good AU anyhow). Something about how Yanma became President would also be cool, but I'm also game for whatever else you come up with! Please, no self-harm and no non-consensual sex.
Little did I know when I was writing that request that within less than 24 hours, we'd find out that we're getting more Yanma and Shiokara backstory. Whoops. If you want to elaborate on whatever the show gives us, though, go for it! Or go for any other story ideas you have! I love this show's Game of Thrones For Kindergarteners politics, Giant Bug Friends, the fact that all the Kingohgers are such strong personalities (which clash against each other a LOT some of the time, but they still band together when they need to), and hey, if you wanna poke some more at the worldbuilding, I wouldn't say no to that, either. One hard DNW from me though that I forgot to put in my request is Gira/Racules. Please, no incest. (Insects ok though, whether Shugods, Bugnarak, or Glactinsects! ^_^)
Kamen Rider Build
Kiryuu Sento, Banjou Ryuuga, Isurugi Misora, Takigawa Sawa
I’d love a little slice-of-life with the Nascita crew at any point in the series, whether it be early on, when it was just the Isurugis and the weirdo physicist who lived in their basement, towards the end, with the whole gang added in, or any time in between. Or! If you’d like to write post-series fic with Sento and Banjou getting to know the new world counterparts of their old friends, that’d be awesome, too. Basically, I love all these characters and I am a giant sucker for the Found Family trope. Gen or shipping at no more of a level than the series itself, please. Also, please don't include any self-harm or non-consensual sex.
This series devoured my brain with happy munching sounds when I first watched it, and it’s all because of the characters and their relationships — not romantically, as I’m not much of a shipper for this series, but the way that all these people who are messed up in their own ways found companionship and a new, optimistic view on life. How they were able to become better people together than they were individually. Basically, y’know that cookout they had on the rooftop? That sort of feeling. Also, I only left out Gentoku and Kazumin because I could only choose 4 characters. They're quite welcome to come along for the ride, I just didn't want to request "all" because I'm less interested in stories that focus on characters outside of the Nascita crew - I won't say no Utsumi or the Three Crows appearing, I just didn't really want something where they're the main characters, y'know?
Phew! I think that covers it! May your plot bunnies be many, the flow of words come easy, and have a happy Yuletide!
First of all, a pre-emptive "Thank you!"
As Ye Olde Yuletide saying goes, "Optional Details Are Optional," so if you've been bitten by the inspiration fairy (watch out, they have sharp teeth), go for it. But if you want some more guidance, read on!
In general:
If you choose to go the romance route, I am ok with couples or poly relationships of all shapes and sizes — M/F, M/M, F/F, nonbinary, trans, interspecies, etc. Friends-to-lovers is always awesome. I am not so down with big power differences (e.g. teacher/student), hatesex, incest, or noncon. However! If you don’t want to go the romance route, rest assured that I always and forever love me some genfic.
Other likes include found family, science fiction settings (space AUs for those canons that aren’t already in space are ok), canon divergence AUs (e.g. “What if Big Event Did Not Happen Or Happened Differently”), fish out of water tropes, and characters being snarky or bantering back and forth.
For a further idea of what sort of stuff I like (and some, IMO, really good reads), you can check out my Ao3 bookmarks, or my “read this fic it is good” and “read this story it is good” tags on Tumblr — the latter is for original fiction.
As for the individual fandoms…
ウルトラQ | Ultra Q
Any chraracter
Oh gosh. Almost anything, since there’s practically no fic for this series and I’d love to read some. You wanna write a kaiju story? Maybe with something from one of the later Ultra series? Go for it. You wanna write a slice of life thing with the main trio just hanging out? Go for it. You wanna do some sort of hard sci-fi plot? Go for it. You want to write the aftermath of one of the episodes? Go for it. You have some other idea in mind? Go for it. I’m ok with shipping the main trio in any combo if you feel like going that way, but I’m not hugely interested in romance being the focus of the story, and definitely want them to all stay on good terms with each other by the end of the fic. Please, no self-harm and no non-consensual sex.
You can watch this entire '60s science fiction series legally, for free with English subtitles on Tubi!
I think I mostly covered it there, but if you've seen this series + any other Ultra series, and you want to write something that has any/all of our main trio encountering an Ultraman in later years, I'd be down for that as well (I've finished the OG Ultraman series, Geed, Orb, Z, and Trigger and have seen giant chunks of X, Ultraseven, Tiga, the Zero movies, all Blazar episodes to date, and have at least a passing familiarity with most of the rest).
17776: What Football Will Look Like in the Future - Jon Bois
Juice, Nine, Ten
Sentient space probe fic, please. I’d love a fic with any/all of Juice, Nine, Ten, or even another unnominated space probe first achieving consciousness, or just space probe chit-chat (of which I am sure there are a few millennia’s worth). I'm ok with you including new stuff from 20020, but that’s definitely not necessary. I am also Not A Football Fan, so please keep that in mind if you decide to include any gameplay. I know juuuust enough to follow the canon sports goings-on, but not much more than that.
I admit it. I have a thing for space probes. It’s been an ongoing thing since I was a very wee Bobcat and fell in love with Voyager 2 and cried when I found out that Pioneer 11 was leaving the solar system and would be all alone. So you can imagine the pitch and volume of the shriek I emitted when I found out who Nine was. If you wanna include football in this, that’s awesome. If you don’t, that’s awesome, too. I just wanna see a thing with the sentient space ships hanging out, whether it be Nine getting more comfortable with its new situation, Juice being kind of an ass, heck, even bringing in space probes not listed like JST or New Horizons. Um. Maybe not sexytimes, as these characters are all a pretty substantial distance from each other, but if you can make it work, more power to you. And if you have no idea what I’m talking about, go here and read/watch the thing on an actual computer instead of mobile if you have a couple free hours. Also, if you get stuck on one of the other fandoms (it happens! I’ve written for fandoms I didn’t sign up for twice), this might be a good one to pick up as it’s relatively easy to access. Like I said in my signup, if you haven't read/watched the sequel, 20020, that's totally ok. If you wanna include stuff from that as well, though, that is also very ok.
Kamen Rider Zero-One
Any characters
I’d love a story that focuses on Humagears, especially any/all members of Metsuboujinrai, whether it be pre-canon, during canon era, afterwards, or even during the ReiGen movie AU. I’m not opposed to having humans in the fic, I’m just more interested in the narratives surrounding Humagears — the familial relationships they build, how they interact with human society for better or for worse, and, for some of them, trying to figure out what freedom would look like. If you want to ignore the V-Cines, I won’t complain. Please no shipping with Humagears that haven’t reached singularity, and no incest with characters that have familial relationships, i.e. Horobi and Jin.
I think I fairly well covered it here. Just want to reiterate that I consider any sort of shipping with Humagears that haven't reached singularity to be non-con, which is a big DNW for me. Also, FYI, this is another series where the entire thing is available to watch legally, with English subs, on Tubi.
王様戦隊キングオージャー | Ohsama Sentai King-Ohger
Any characters
I'd kind of love a little slice of life with any/all of the characters, whether during the course of the show or before it happens. Alternatively, Kaguragi canonically overthrew the previous king. Backstory on that would be awesome (I'm aware that the summer movie might have had more on that, but I haven't seen it, don't expect you to have seen it since AFAIK it's only been available in Japanese theaters a few months ago, and I love me a good AU anyhow). Something about how Yanma became President would also be cool, but I'm also game for whatever else you come up with! Please, no self-harm and no non-consensual sex.
Little did I know when I was writing that request that within less than 24 hours, we'd find out that we're getting more Yanma and Shiokara backstory. Whoops. If you want to elaborate on whatever the show gives us, though, go for it! Or go for any other story ideas you have! I love this show's Game of Thrones For Kindergarteners politics, Giant Bug Friends, the fact that all the Kingohgers are such strong personalities (which clash against each other a LOT some of the time, but they still band together when they need to), and hey, if you wanna poke some more at the worldbuilding, I wouldn't say no to that, either. One hard DNW from me though that I forgot to put in my request is Gira/Racules. Please, no incest. (Insects ok though, whether Shugods, Bugnarak, or Glactinsects! ^_^)
Kamen Rider Build
Kiryuu Sento, Banjou Ryuuga, Isurugi Misora, Takigawa Sawa
I’d love a little slice-of-life with the Nascita crew at any point in the series, whether it be early on, when it was just the Isurugis and the weirdo physicist who lived in their basement, towards the end, with the whole gang added in, or any time in between. Or! If you’d like to write post-series fic with Sento and Banjou getting to know the new world counterparts of their old friends, that’d be awesome, too. Basically, I love all these characters and I am a giant sucker for the Found Family trope. Gen or shipping at no more of a level than the series itself, please. Also, please don't include any self-harm or non-consensual sex.
This series devoured my brain with happy munching sounds when I first watched it, and it’s all because of the characters and their relationships — not romantically, as I’m not much of a shipper for this series, but the way that all these people who are messed up in their own ways found companionship and a new, optimistic view on life. How they were able to become better people together than they were individually. Basically, y’know that cookout they had on the rooftop? That sort of feeling. Also, I only left out Gentoku and Kazumin because I could only choose 4 characters. They're quite welcome to come along for the ride, I just didn't want to request "all" because I'm less interested in stories that focus on characters outside of the Nascita crew - I won't say no Utsumi or the Three Crows appearing, I just didn't really want something where they're the main characters, y'know?
Phew! I think that covers it! May your plot bunnies be many, the flow of words come easy, and have a happy Yuletide!
