dear yuletide writer!

some things i really like: any kind of team-based AU, very accurate/intensely researched/specifically detailed AUs, wacky hijinks, sappy romcom nonsense, really close friendships, quasiplatonic relationships, explorations of LGBTQ identities, feels about being queer, genderfuck, fake dating, soulbonding, pining, ensemble/group dynamics, casual touching, platonic bed-sharing, found families, complicated polyamory, settings that feel like characters, religious/spiritual elements, people taking care of each other, lovers to enemies to friends, backstory, character studies, plants, men doing emotional labour, supernatural stuff, robots, healing after pain, time travel, magical weirdness in otherwise mundane settings, marriage of convenience, fantasy/scifi settings, painplay, bondage/restraints, non-sexual kink, people being bad at feelings but feeling a lot anyway

my bookmarks are a really good indication of my taste.

please warn for: character death, self-harm, coming out stories involving parents, sexual assault and related trauma, homophobia in religious settings

please no: grimdark, pregnancy, focus on taking care of children, power play, cross-generational incest, discussion of diets/exercise regimens/body maintenance/weight management/etc, possessive behaviour, humiliation, misogyny/racism/homophobia/transphobia/etc in historical settings for ~accuracy, infidelity, power imbalance, characters lying about a big part of their identity or pretending to be someone else particularly to pursue a romantic relationship

the adventure zone (dust) - all

i love TAZ for many reasons, but the tone is a huge one. i love that, especially in dust, it is very emotionally harrowing while always maintaining a certain lightheartedness and whimsy and like, belief in goodness and kindness and Doing The Right Thing. and the worldbuilding!! i really like the werewolf/vampire/etc mythology here. i care deeply about dylan/jeremiah and anne/jeremiah and dylan/jeremiah/anne, ot3 of my heart. i appreciate Sad Gays as much as the next queer but I'd really like a story that's ultimately hopeful and uplifting. if you wanted to go AU and have jeremiah not die OR turn into a ghost OR some other cool weird supernatural tomfoolery i would be very into that. role reversals, also good. idk i think the only thing i wouldn't enjoy is like a straight up Anne And Jeremiah Are In Love And Dylan Is Sad About It kinda fic.

dirty computer - jane, zen, ché 

literally anything. anything!!!! i am so fascinated by the world and our heroes' place in it. here for the ot3 of course - tell me about their adventures pre/post/during the emotion picture, quiet moments in between the action, who they were before all this started, how they fell in together and fell in love, what kind of future they build together. romance!! obviously i'd enjoy them as a straightforward balanced triad, but if you wanted to complicate the setup i would be extremely into that. i love complicated polyamory!!!

to all the boys i loved before (movie) - lara jean, margot, kitty, peter

SIBLING. FEELINGS. this film absolutely devastated me with lara jean's relationship with her sisters, and i would love to know all about them! i also adore lara jean/peter and shippy fic would be great. canon is cool, but this is one fandom i would be extra into AUs for. put them in space! make peter a secret romance novel writer! send them to hogwarts! these are just a few off the top of my head, i can't picture an AU i wouldn't enjoy.

monster factory - the final pam

pam is love, pam is life. i really want something in the spirit of monster factory's absolute batshittery. crossovers? yes PLEASE. pam tearing her way through various media properties would be a gift. canon compliant stuff is good too though i'm not sure what counts as canon here?? the fallout four videos? monster factory as a whole? i really enjoy that she turns up in that one where dark souls is pizza, and the implications of her existing in this like, wider monster factory universe.