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Dear Yuletide Writer,

Hello! Thank you so much for writing for me! And for taking the time to read this letter! It felt more natural for me to lay my requests out properly in a letter like this, so this is where my prompts are really prompting.
I'm so excited to see what you create, and really hope you have fun with it. That's what matters. This is my first Yuletide so I'm just happy to be here :)


My Likes and DNWs

I have a handful of notes about these. 1) As a general rule, anything I've written or bookmarked on AO3 as agletbaby, particularly post-2020, gives you a fairly good idea of what my vibe is. 2) I only summarised the headlines of my DNWs in the prompts on AO3, and have added a bit more detail here. There isn't a hierachy to what I've listed where, though - I simply don't want any of these! 3) On the other hand, please feel free to ignore as many of my likes as you want/need. None of them are must haves, they're just things I know I enjoy.

DNWs

PWP, underage sex, incest, sex/romance that isn't within the remit/tone of the original work (so no a/b/o stuff or soulmate AUs), permanent major character death, mourning, sickfic, pregnancy, character bashing

Things I like:

Character studies, experimental structures, experimental forms, outsider POV, time travel/loops/paradoxes, genfic, post-canon, missing scenes, canon divergence, case fic, attention to the tone of the original work, bittersweetness, myths and legends about characters, humour, metaphorical growth
 

 

My Requests

Always Coming Home - Worldbuilding

I'd just really love to see worldbuilding in the style of the original text.
If you need a starting point, some themes that interest me include: archiving in the Valley; examples of writing and storytelling; probing anthropology as a discipline; trains; Pandora and what it means to do academic research in the present vs in the Valley.
 

Palm Springs - Sarah, Nyles

I'd be completely happy with anything character studyish you might want to write. Getting in a timeloop man, that's not healthy.
However, there are a couple of particular scenarios I'd like to read:
1) I love the bit in this fic - https://archiveofourown.org/works/28134495 - where Phil Connors from Groundhog Day pops up, and I'd be interested to see something which expands on that idea, featuring characters from various other timeloop/time paradox movies. Include anything you like: I've seen a lot, and am always on the look out for recommendations.
2) Time travel, as well as/rather than looping. Nyles and Sarah's Excellent Adventure. Let them meet dinosaurs, or Joan of Arc, that kind of vibe.
BTW this request is the reason I've awkwardly listed 'permanent' major character death in my DNWs - I'm fine with timeloop deaths happening, I just don't want to read anything extensive on grief or mourning.
 

Dragonriders of Pern - Menolly or Lessa

I'd like to see something focused on Menolly or Lessa, whether that's a character study, a missing scene, or something exploring their reputation in Pern, like when Lessa is written into song in the Harpers Hall books. I'd like this to be broadly based in canon, but I don't mind canon divergence.
I'm happy for other characters to feature, but I don't want anything too focused on romance, I'm really interested in their relationships with the world and all its politicking and new discoveries.
My favourite concepts from the series are 'timing it' and when fire lizards are cute. I also like when Menolly gets to sail.
I've only read the original trilogy and the Harpers Hall trilogy so far, so I'd really appreciate it if you stuck to bits from those books.
 

Challengers - Tashi, Patrick, Art

I have two self-indulgent and specific things I'd like to request here.

1) I just wanna see some mixed doubles tennis. The idea that Patrick or Art (but not both...) can play professionally with Tashi is so juicy to me. Probably in a Tashi-isn't-injured AU, to make it work. I love romantic tension, so I'd enjoy if this focused on building that tension on-court or at the tournament venue.
2) An entirely different world AU: in a high fantasy setting, having duels and doing quests, or on a far future space station.
I'm picky about Challengers, because I think the movie's basically perfect. Nothing I want to see added to it. As a result, I'm only really interested in AUs, and I like to see the characters' canon relationship dynamics maintained, but refracted or heightened (is that even possible?) by their new situation. I'm a big believer that all three characters are fundamental to the story and each other, so I'd really like them all to feature, in any of their various combinations. I am more than happy for people to be 'offscreen', though: as in, they are not physically present, but they are thought about (I love this). Finally, my favourite dynamic is between Tashi and Patrick. I like when they fight and get really close.

:D


Happy Yuletide (and Halloween, I guess, that being the imminent holiday as I'm writing this), have fun, and thank you again!
Catrin agletbaby