Dear Author - Yuletide 2020

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Dear Author, 

Happy Yuletide! I've tried to give you thoughts to spark ideas, but if you have a bunny that you've been burning to write, please ignore my silly prompts and write that instead. As long as you avoid my DNWs, I prefer to get a fic that someone enjoyed writing to something where they had to backbend to please some random suggestion of mine.

I love all of these fandoms -- please don't take more words about a particular one as indication that I like it more. I just had more to say about some than about others. A fic in any one of them would make me extremely happy!




1. Fandom: Scumbag System

Requested Pairing(s): Shen Qingqiu, Liu Qingge

Favorite Genre(s): Adventures, Backstory, Cave Time, 'Meridian Clearing', Identity Reveals!

Ratings: PG to NR

Please No: non-con, but dub-con of the 'Dual Cultivate or Die' and sex pollen sort is okay for this pairing

Available: On youtube or Tencent's website with English subtitles

Optional Details:

Oh man, where do I start with how much I love this fandom? I've read the novel and am a happy Bingqiu shipper, but as this is for the donghua and that ship hasn't sailed yet, I'm looking forward to exploring the glorious awkwardness and old-married-couple bickering of Liushen :D

I love how well the donghua has nailed Shen Qingqiu. He is such a drama!cat, acting all cool and elegant on the surface while constantly freaking out inside. Enjoying the chance to look cool in front of his favorite characters as he slowly starts to think of them as real people. And of course, constantly at odds with the System. I was worried about how the show would portray him, but I think he's perfect. 

And holy macrame, do I love how the donghua is portraying Liu Qingge. So often in fics he gets relegated to a sort of dumb jock role. I love that he's smart, perceptive, and no-nonsense. Like, it took only a hot minute of him watching Shen Qingqiu play peacemaker for him to be suspicious. But even before that, I love the whole back and forth between them in Lingxi Cave. I could seriously watch Shen Qingqiu's little smirk as he says 'Shidi' like a billion times.

So yeah, I'd love something that explores more of that relationship, either romantic or not -- maybe LQG investigating his suspicions while he clears SQQ's meridians of the effects of Without a Cure, or going out night hunting together. I'd love anything that continues the mood of their cave encounter (with Shen Qingqiu having fun playing against expectation, and LQG wondering if one or the other of them has gone insane) or after the Sha Hualing attack (with Shen Qingqiu getting peeved over LQG's casual one-upmanship). Feel free to include LQG thinking back to his encounters with the Original Goods (Shen Jiu), but I'd like the focus to be his developing relationship with Shen Yuan.

I'm a sucker for Transmigrator Identity Reveals in this fandom, so feel free to incorporate that if it fits -- how might things be different if LQG knows what Shen Qingqiu is doing/up against. Can they cooperate to change the plot and foil the system? And how would LQG feel if he knew he was supposed to die (well, it's LQG, he might just shrug and go 'what's next?')

You're also welcome to have Luo Binghe there with whatever level of one-sided pining you are comfortable with, but I'd prefer no shipping with LBH while he's underage and still SQQ's disciple. 

As I'm writing this, they've only released up to episode 7 (well, 8 with the VIP pass), but I assume the season will be done by the time assignments are due. I suspect that this season is going to end at the Endless Abyss -- that's as far as we get in the credits clips, and it's a reasonable stopping point for a season. But in any event, assume I'm all caught up to whatever they've given us.


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2. Fandom: Sungkyunkwan Scandal

Favorite Pairing(s): Moon Jae Shin, Gu Yong Ha

Favorite Genre(s): Romance/smut, casefic, Sungkyunkwan hijinks

Ratings: PG to NR

Please No: non-con

Available: On Viki with English subtitles

Optional Details: My perennial request, because even though I've gotten great fics, I just crave MORE of these two. I'm happy with friendship hijinks and non-serious flirting if you don't ship these two, but I kind of feel like this pairing is about as canon as you can get. However, we didn't get the same kind of resolution that we got with Kim Yoon Hee and Lee Soon Joon. I'd love some of that resolution love. If you can work in some of the series tropes - Gu Yong Ha being fabulous and tricksterish, Moon Jae Shin back in his scruffy Geol-oh attire and getting his vigilante on - that would be fantastic. I'm perfectly fine with you bringing in other characters from the series, so long as these two and their friendship (or friendship-turned-romance) are the focus.

Possible prompts:

As part of the guard, Moon Jae Shin is investigating something that leads him to discover that Gu Yong Ha is a gumiho. Or really, any plot that involves Gumiho!Gu Yong Ha.

One or both of them need to go undercover as a gisaeng.

Origin fic about their early years and how their friendship developed, maybe as a series of vignettes.


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3. Fandom: You're Beautiful

Requested Character(s):  Go Mi Nam, Hwang Tae Gyeong, Kang Shin Woo

Favorite Genre(s): Band shenanigans, crazy costumes, fan run-ins, mistaken identity fun

Ratings: PG to NR

Please no: non-con

Available: On Viki with English subtitles

Optional Details:

I specifically requested Go Mi Nam because while I like Go Mi Nyu, what I'm really hoping for is something that explores post-canon and Go Mi Nam's integration into the band. I'd love to see something where Shin Woo transfers his feels for Go Mi Nyu to the newly-arrived Go Mi Nam. Or something about Tae Gyeong struggling with his attraction to both twins. If you're feeling sort of meta, writing/expanding on one of the fanfics that exists in the show would be fun and hilarious.

If you are not feeling shippy, then band hijinks and house bonding would make me super happy. All the boys loved Go Mi Nyu in their own way, but we never get an idea of how Go Mi Nam feels about that -- does he feel isolated and alone? How does he end up bonding with the other members of A.N.JELL?

While I'm usually down for the twincest, it's not really where my heart is at with this fandom. Not quite a Do Not Want, more of a meh.



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As for more general notes:


Things That Are Yay: Shippyness! Banter! Plot! (Casefic, etc. If you have the time and energy -- I know it can be a lot of work.) Fic that could fit into canon; Drama, up to and including aaaaaangst; Witty humor; Porn, especially if the characters have important character conversations/development and/or banter during sex; Verbal power games with consensual physical interactions/sex; Science and Magic; Time-travel (especially closed-system time travel); Identity Porn; the tropes of fake-dating, fake-marriage, bed-sharing, temporary amnesia, soulmates (especially fics that interrogate the idea), and body-sharing/body-swapping.

Things That Are A-okay: violence, up to a point (see below); Dub-con of the sex-pollen and fuck-or-die sort (but not drunk!sex); Non-explicit sex; AUs of the "what if this event went differently?" sort; Inclusion of nominated characters I didn't request; Inclusion of canonical characters who haven't been nominated; Original characters as needed for the story; Most tenses, narrative formats, etc.

Things That Are Meh: straight-up character introspection; Nonfiction-style worldbuilding; overuse of epithets (sorry, it's just a peeve of mine). 

DNWs: Second person PoV; radical AUs like coffee shop or pirates (unless requested); Genderswaps (unless  requested); Mpreg; Omegaverse dynamics; Gross-out humor or silliness; Non-Con or drunk!sex (but dub-con of the sex-pollen and fuck-or-die type is okay); Humiliation; Torture porn, especially with female victims; Homophobia or transphobia; Pandemic-themed stories.

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I'm kitsunealyc on AO3, so feel free to look at what I've got there if you need more data on what I like. And above all: have fun!