Dear Yuletide Writer - 2022

[theobscurepotato]

Hello, Yuletide Writer! 

I am so excited that you are writing for me. This year’s letter is both a little late and a little shorter than I’d like–there is a very good chance that I’ll add more to this throughout the next few weeks.

Please take the contents of this letter as pure suggestion–I would be delighted by any & all content for my listed fandoms. I think the characters I selected are all very, very shippable, but I also really enjoy gen, particularly when a fic feels like a very natural extension of canon. 

Note: I read a wide variety of fic, but I especially love hurt/comfort fics. 

Coldfire:

I requested Coldfire last year, so everything from my 2021 letter holds. Lately I’ve been really interested in missing scenes from canon (or, in what I think is the more difficult ask, canon scenes from Gerald’s perspective). But if you love Coldfire, this is definitely a canon where I would be insanely delighted by any fic you dream up -- I will never get over Damien/Gerald.

Golden Kamuy:

This is the fandom that I removed my usual “no AU’s outside of canon setting” DNW for. I am obsessed with thinking of what Ogata/Yuusaku's dynamic would have been had things been slightly (or wildly!) different for them. A question I often ask myself is how much of Yuusaku’s “goodness” is real vs Ogata’s perception vs the role he feels he has to play…would enjoy reading a fic where Ogata sees Yuusaku for who he really is. 

Uprooted:

Fic introduced me to the wonder that is Solya/Marek, but I was also pleased to read the interview where Novik confirmed that the two of them had hooked up in Marek’s room before Agnieska showed up. I would love a fic that lets some vulnerability show, underneath them being, well, them, whether a missing canon scene or a fix-it (think of the hurt/comfort possibilities!) where they get to figure out their version of a happy ending. 

If you want to do any other stalking, I can be found on tumblr and ao3 as theobscurepotato.

Thank you again! I am very excited to see your story.