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qweermonkey) wrote2025-10-15 07:55 pm
qweermonkey) wrote2025-10-15 07:55 pm
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yuletide letter 2025
dear yuletide writer (or others),
i'm so excited that you'll be making something for me (or are taking the time to read my letter)! i'm new to yuletide and dreamwidth in general, so apologies if anything's wonky. you can find me on ao3 or tumblr, and treats are very much welcome :3
please don't let me limit you! i want you to let what i've written get your brain juices flowing — mix prompts, use another fandom's, take inspration, etc. i'll likely enjoy whatever it is you write! trust your gut — if you're flip-flopping on a detail and it sounds like something i might like and avoids what i dnw, it probably is. please write something that you'll enjoy!
characters: joseph cooper, TARS
mini-challenges: queering the tide, transtide, unconventionyule
dnw: turning TARS and/or CASE into humans
i quite love this movie. it's so tightly written and you can feel so much for the characters. i'm not very big on the science of it, but the simple moral of love being the key just hits me right in the mushy part of my brain.
they have such little time together, but i was drawn by cooper and TARS' dynamic right away. i love that TARS isn't just a stock sci-fi robot, he's got a goofy personality and is loyal. cooper was a treat to me beacuse i have a fixation on emotionally devastated middle-aged fathers. put them together and you've got a pair that won't quit quipping and is a personal addiction of mine.
i'd also love to see the home life of the coopers, in some universe where coop is on earth but TARS is also there, maybe alongside any of the rest of endurance crew.
ideas:
characters: holland march, holly march, jackson healy
mini-challenges: queering the tide, transtide
the unseriousness of this film really gets me, like there's murder and there's pornstars but it's all treated with this lightness that's almost reminiscent of a daytime made-for-tv movie. i find it so funny. i'm also a sucker for depictions of america in past times, i've always been so curious about the minutiae of life before me, like the price of gas used to be or what was on airing on the television. the fashion is to die for, too.
march is a mess and i love that. i love that he gets punked on by his preteen daughter and drinks destructively to get over his ex-wife. i'm a glutton for found family and snarky characters so i was kept fed. healy is so lovable to me, and i love the idea that he straightens out march against reason because he's got a big heart.
ideas:
characters: brady, tanner
mini-challenges: queering the tide, transtide
dnw: explicit sexual content
honestly this and high school musical fight for my favorite dcom of all time. a staple from my childhood, i can hardly explain why i'm so drawn to this movie. namely i think it's the characters. they're simple but i think they have a great capacity for depth. and it's also the feel-good goofy vibe, like it's all fun all the time and quintessentially summer, though i do think there is ample opportunity to examine internal struggles, within lela and tanner especially.
tanner. what can i say? he's just so dumb and gay, i love him. lela too. brady is a class-clown, live in the moment type, that i think has hidden fear of change. i requested brady and tanner specifically because i think there's an unfortunate deficit of content focused on them, but i absolutely adore the dynamics of the group as a whole and would love seeing that explored. if you write slash, i encourage mack/lela as well, just if they're as/or less central as brady/tanner.
ideas:
i'm so excited that you'll be making something for me (or are taking the time to read my letter)! i'm new to yuletide and dreamwidth in general, so apologies if anything's wonky. you can find me on ao3 or tumblr, and treats are very much welcome :3
please don't let me limit you! i want you to let what i've written get your brain juices flowing — mix prompts, use another fandom's, take inspration, etc. i'll likely enjoy whatever it is you write! trust your gut — if you're flip-flopping on a detail and it sounds like something i might like and avoids what i dnw, it probably is. please write something that you'll enjoy!
likes
- alternate universes (e.g. omegaverse, fantasy, western)
- slash/femslash
- fluff
- hurt-comfort
- found family
- pining/yearning
- disabilities
- weight gain
- headcanons (e.g. race changes, queering)
- slice of life
- domesticity/casual intimacy
- awkwardness
- canon divergence
- characters study
- character study
- mpreg/pregnancy
- friendships
- casual touch
- queer themes
- kidfic
- casual worldbuilding
- banter
- pets/animals
- soulmates
- curtain fic
- stolen moments
- plotty fic
- sensory descriptions
- blood/gore
- age-regression (not physical de-aging)
- caretaking
- angst
- messy dynamics
- emotional turmoil
- strangeness
- regionalisms
- established relationships
- desperation
- tender/comfort sex
- sweet-talking
- sexual dysfunction
- oral sex
- body worship
- flustered characters
- breeding/pregnancy kink
- belly kink
- barebacking
- handjobs/fingering
- switching
- vanilla sex
- creampie
DNWs
- genuine unrequited feelings from a main ship
- requested characters in straight ships
- permanent character death
- hopeless endings
- character bashing
- current world affairs
- crossover
- polyamory
- incest
- aging characters down
- heavy whump
- slavery (sexual or otherwise)
- porn without plot/feelings
- sexual age-play
- sexual mommy/daddy play
- heavy humiliation
- voyeurism/exhibitionism
- non-con
- vomit/emeto
- scat
i am ship-brained, so i'd really love slash of my requested characters, but don't feel forced to write it if that's not your style — i'd still love to see you explore their dynamics in an ambiguous or gen way! unless otherwise specified, sexual content is more than welcome, though i'd like it to not take up the whole of a work. i love sex that contributes to the thematic elements of a story or characterization. i love examinations of characters as a sum of their lived experiences, and looks into their inner worlds. i also love seeing glimpses of the worlds they live in and how they work.
there is very little that will turn me off a story, and i don't squick easily. feel free to use any pov, story length, or non-standard formatting too; epistolary, nonlinear — whatever strikes you. i wouldn't like crossover, but a fusion of canons is okay, as long as i'm familiar with each. you can check my bookmarks for what i know. and this is yuletide after all, so wintry/holiday themed stories are welcome too! (season's treatings)
interstellar — 2hr 49m
characters: joseph cooper, TARS
mini-challenges: queering the tide, transtide, unconventionyule
dnw: turning TARS and/or CASE into humans
i quite love this movie. it's so tightly written and you can feel so much for the characters. i'm not very big on the science of it, but the simple moral of love being the key just hits me right in the mushy part of my brain.
they have such little time together, but i was drawn by cooper and TARS' dynamic right away. i love that TARS isn't just a stock sci-fi robot, he's got a goofy personality and is loyal. cooper was a treat to me beacuse i have a fixation on emotionally devastated middle-aged fathers. put them together and you've got a pair that won't quit quipping and is a personal addiction of mine.
i'd also love to see the home life of the coopers, in some universe where coop is on earth but TARS is also there, maybe alongside any of the rest of endurance crew.
ideas:
- how isolation brings TARS and cooper together. maybe cooper stayed out of the pods for longer, sent more videos down to his kids, and in that time he looks for a friendly voice to bounce off of
- maybe TARS pines after cooper? over-analyzing their few interactions, simulating conversations. time might factor differently in a machine's mind, either too fast or too slow, and 23 years is a long time to run a program
- au's: coop is still a pilot, TARS belongs to NASA, and they meet somehow during their tenure. or, TARS is formally decommissioned, but coop is a good enough mechanic to patch him up and bring him to life
- the coopers trying to be a happy family at the end of the world. the kind of quiet melancholy that might come from that. chance to explore the state of the world in canon
- post-canon exploration of TARS and cooper's journey to edmund's planet. potential is rife for a forced-proximity bonding here. maybe they take wacky detours along the way. when (or if) they get there, what next? maybe parallel brand and CASE to cooper and TARS?
the nice guys — 1hr 56m
characters: holland march, holly march, jackson healy
mini-challenges: queering the tide, transtide
the unseriousness of this film really gets me, like there's murder and there's pornstars but it's all treated with this lightness that's almost reminiscent of a daytime made-for-tv movie. i find it so funny. i'm also a sucker for depictions of america in past times, i've always been so curious about the minutiae of life before me, like the price of gas used to be or what was on airing on the television. the fashion is to die for, too.
march is a mess and i love that. i love that he gets punked on by his preteen daughter and drinks destructively to get over his ex-wife. i'm a glutton for found family and snarky characters so i was kept fed. healy is so lovable to me, and i love the idea that he straightens out march against reason because he's got a big heart.
ideas:
- a case fic would be more than lovely, though god knows we're not all little agatha christies. something dramatic and death-defying or something classic, maybe even silly
- or maybe the opposite! maybe the nice guys are going through a dry spot. how do march and healy exist around each other without the pretense of a work partnership? maybe they haven't hung out much before but find themselves yearning for that easy companionship?
- march and healy trying to navigate a growing relationship under societal (maybe internal) pressures while also trying to consider holly's feelings
- holly pov as she rationalizes her dad's new 'friend,' with teen angst? how does she relate this to her dead mom?? maybe even holly queer awakening???
- established older march/healy, maybe the nice guys are retired, what then? how's holly doing all grown up?
teen beach movie — 1hr 35m
characters: brady, tanner
mini-challenges: queering the tide, transtide
dnw: explicit sexual content
honestly this and high school musical fight for my favorite dcom of all time. a staple from my childhood, i can hardly explain why i'm so drawn to this movie. namely i think it's the characters. they're simple but i think they have a great capacity for depth. and it's also the feel-good goofy vibe, like it's all fun all the time and quintessentially summer, though i do think there is ample opportunity to examine internal struggles, within lela and tanner especially.
tanner. what can i say? he's just so dumb and gay, i love him. lela too. brady is a class-clown, live in the moment type, that i think has hidden fear of change. i requested brady and tanner specifically because i think there's an unfortunate deficit of content focused on them, but i absolutely adore the dynamics of the group as a whole and would love seeing that explored. if you write slash, i encourage mack/lela as well, just if they're as/or less central as brady/tanner.
ideas:
- how do lela and tanner handle interactions with modern/real world things? lots of 'born yesterday' antics to be had there. maybe address their battles with realization and personhood if you take a more serious tone
- brady was a huge wet side story fan, and now his favorite characters are his best friends. is there friction there? personally, i like to imagine brady isn't over his childhood crush on tanner and has to deal with that
- au's: college, either the group went through high school together or they only just meet in school. or, brady and mack exist in the world of wetside story, who's a biker and who's a surfer? how does the story play out with them at the center? or, what if mack caught lela and tanner caught brady?
- days in the life of mack and brady as they try to acclimate lela and tanner to living, cartoon-ish hijinx ensue
- maybe the movie's not about a feud between bikers and surfers, but vampires and werewolves, or cowboys and bandits, or capulets and montagues! go wild with it!
i wish you a happy writing and a very merry yuletide!