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shadowkeeperGreetings! Yuletide author!
As a quick introduction, here is my tumblr, and my pinboard (i read a lot of fic, so perhaps we have some overlapping interests that can help spark something. I'm bad at tagging tropes on my pinboard unless it's an AU, but mayhaps it'll be useful to see if I ever read a kind of fic if you want to write something.
Broadly,
My picks this year are all ones I feel like "that's a mood" about. Not so much different than other years, but I'm leaning into it more as part of the ask. Feel free to write at whatever rating you'd like.
For fic's at Yuletide, I tend to prefer canon-set or canon-adjacent settings rather than full different world AUs (so like nah to highschool AUs, but wouldn't mind daemon! AUs if that makes sense)
Things I Love include: moodiness, gothiness, snarky author/narrator voice (if tonally appropriate for the story), found families, angry stabby women, morally grey-to-dark characters, & deep dives into a character's POV.
Things I do not love include: schmoopy fluff, crack-fic, redemption arcs of a dark character into pure sweet personalities, kids showing up.
I don't have any major DNWs- I'll read almost anything if written well or interestingly, so feel free to get dark if that's your writing headspace this year. My picks sort of lends itself to that. And if you want to go the opposite way and don't want to write anything that resembles any current real world reality, that's absolutely understandable as well.
I hope that writing yuletide this year is something fun to do and not a chore, and a respite from the rest of the world outside your doors.
My Fandom Picks
The Locked Tomb Trilogy | Gideon the Ninth Series - Tamsyn Muir
I, as a someone who was a high school goth and never recovered, who finds Halloween season the time to pick up home decor pieces to keep up year around, love the whole universe in this world so much. I want to live in this book's world like I live in my bones. I love all the ludicrously dramatic corners, from dead planets to decaying space cathedrals, to asteroid ossuaries with bones everywhere.
I pulled Harrow as the character I'd love to read about, and anyone is welcome to join her, but I'd love to devour anything more about someone who thinks to solve her problem with marrow soup. I'd love to get any part of Harrow, and she stalks through a gothic setting with a unwieldy sword, maybe as she has to deal with another breathing human instead of bone servants.
I realize asking for a mood piece in yuletide may be a little too out there, so random prompts of things that would delight me include: a) more group dinners (no justification needed, just awkwardness and mayhaps assassination attempts) b) Harrow having to deal with the 1-2 hit of Gideon and her dad God, c) Harrow suffering Ianthe, d) Conversations with the Necrolord that they both think are deep and mysterious, but for different reasons. e) Harrow exploring her surroundings and comparing it to the comforting darkness and familiarity of the Ninth. Please be as gothic, dramatic, and/or moody as you want to be!
Circe- Madeline Miller
So, I love this book because I love Circe so much, but then thinking about the book again while trying to draft this letter, I also remembered it's about a woman (caged) living alone in isolation for centuries before she finally gets to invite a couple people into her home, then gets to venture out into the world.
So
If that's where thinking about this book takes you, I'd happily read that.
But if you don't want to go there, and want to explore Circe herself, please- I love her. I saw her as a woman with so much rage in her that she never really gets an outlet for, from suffering through all of the injustices just casually piled on her. But her learning to use that rage to create her own powers and building her own escape from the life she was trapped in. She's so lonely, but not enough that she'd take any companionship and suffer abuse for it.
Any exploration of Circe would be amazing- from her early life, to her island life, to even her life after she goes out into the world. Circe's relationship with Penelope seems fascinating and seems such fertile ground to explore. Deep nerdy dives into greek mythology will be not only welcome but celebrated.
The Monster of Elendhaven by Jennifer Giesbrecht
I love characters that are dark and darker just feeding off each other's energies and dragging each other further down into the void. The book was so short, and there's so much room for world expansion and more character development, but the bones (and flesh) of what's there is already what I love. Excepted to see it built upon. Johann feels so visceral he could feel like the darker of the pair, but Florian meets that with so much scope and vision.
I'd love to get to explore Florian and Johann together, seeing some of their development between them that was hinted at through the course of the novella (even if you don't get explicitly shippy), or one of them individually as you dive deeper into their POV,, or I'd also love to see them exist in their gloomy dark decaying city. And hey. If you get the urge to go post- ending with the two running off after Florian's plan succeeds (and what that entails), I will read it.
As a quick introduction, here is my tumblr, and my pinboard (i read a lot of fic, so perhaps we have some overlapping interests that can help spark something. I'm bad at tagging tropes on my pinboard unless it's an AU, but mayhaps it'll be useful to see if I ever read a kind of fic if you want to write something.
Broadly,
My picks this year are all ones I feel like "that's a mood" about. Not so much different than other years, but I'm leaning into it more as part of the ask. Feel free to write at whatever rating you'd like.
For fic's at Yuletide, I tend to prefer canon-set or canon-adjacent settings rather than full different world AUs (so like nah to highschool AUs, but wouldn't mind daemon! AUs if that makes sense)
Things I Love include: moodiness, gothiness, snarky author/narrator voice (if tonally appropriate for the story), found families, angry stabby women, morally grey-to-dark characters, & deep dives into a character's POV.
Things I do not love include: schmoopy fluff, crack-fic, redemption arcs of a dark character into pure sweet personalities, kids showing up.
I don't have any major DNWs- I'll read almost anything if written well or interestingly, so feel free to get dark if that's your writing headspace this year. My picks sort of lends itself to that. And if you want to go the opposite way and don't want to write anything that resembles any current real world reality, that's absolutely understandable as well.
I hope that writing yuletide this year is something fun to do and not a chore, and a respite from the rest of the world outside your doors.
My Fandom Picks
The Locked Tomb Trilogy | Gideon the Ninth Series - Tamsyn Muir
I, as a someone who was a high school goth and never recovered, who finds Halloween season the time to pick up home decor pieces to keep up year around, love the whole universe in this world so much. I want to live in this book's world like I live in my bones. I love all the ludicrously dramatic corners, from dead planets to decaying space cathedrals, to asteroid ossuaries with bones everywhere.
I pulled Harrow as the character I'd love to read about, and anyone is welcome to join her, but I'd love to devour anything more about someone who thinks to solve her problem with marrow soup. I'd love to get any part of Harrow, and she stalks through a gothic setting with a unwieldy sword, maybe as she has to deal with another breathing human instead of bone servants.
I realize asking for a mood piece in yuletide may be a little too out there, so random prompts of things that would delight me include: a) more group dinners (no justification needed, just awkwardness and mayhaps assassination attempts) b) Harrow having to deal with the 1-2 hit of Gideon and her dad God, c) Harrow suffering Ianthe, d) Conversations with the Necrolord that they both think are deep and mysterious, but for different reasons. e) Harrow exploring her surroundings and comparing it to the comforting darkness and familiarity of the Ninth. Please be as gothic, dramatic, and/or moody as you want to be!
Circe- Madeline Miller
So, I love this book because I love Circe so much, but then thinking about the book again while trying to draft this letter, I also remembered it's about a woman (caged) living alone in isolation for centuries before she finally gets to invite a couple people into her home, then gets to venture out into the world.
So
If that's where thinking about this book takes you, I'd happily read that.
But if you don't want to go there, and want to explore Circe herself, please- I love her. I saw her as a woman with so much rage in her that she never really gets an outlet for, from suffering through all of the injustices just casually piled on her. But her learning to use that rage to create her own powers and building her own escape from the life she was trapped in. She's so lonely, but not enough that she'd take any companionship and suffer abuse for it.
Any exploration of Circe would be amazing- from her early life, to her island life, to even her life after she goes out into the world. Circe's relationship with Penelope seems fascinating and seems such fertile ground to explore. Deep nerdy dives into greek mythology will be not only welcome but celebrated.
The Monster of Elendhaven by Jennifer Giesbrecht
I love characters that are dark and darker just feeding off each other's energies and dragging each other further down into the void. The book was so short, and there's so much room for world expansion and more character development, but the bones (and flesh) of what's there is already what I love. Excepted to see it built upon. Johann feels so visceral he could feel like the darker of the pair, but Florian meets that with so much scope and vision.
I'd love to get to explore Florian and Johann together, seeing some of their development between them that was hinted at through the course of the novella (even if you don't get explicitly shippy), or one of them individually as you dive deeper into their POV,, or I'd also love to see them exist in their gloomy dark decaying city. And hey. If you get the urge to go post- ending with the two running off after Florian's plan succeeds (and what that entails), I will read it.
