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 Hi, thank you so much for writing for me. This is my first Yuletide and I'm really looking forward to it! I've tried to include some information on each of the canons I'm requesting below, along with some prompts/ideas, my likes, and DNWs.

I'm open to treats!

Likes:

• Canon divergences; fix-it fic; make-it-worse fic.
• Destructive relationships; overwhelming emotional connections; characters becoming inseparable due to shared experiences and/or traumas.
• Deep bonds between two people who should (and maybe do) hate one another but feel like the other is the only one who understands them.
• Traumatic events bringing two people closer in a way that makes them feel like no one else understands them.
• Tragic endings for characters inevitably caused by their own choices (especially if they know they could have avoided their end if they had made other choices).
• Forced intimacy (including sex pollen, Bad Guys Made Them Do It, Scarpia ultimatum, etc.).
• Noncon and dubcon scenarios of all kinds (including but not limited to: gangbangs, drugged/drunk sex, blackmail, marital abuse, and unnegotiated kink/BDSM).
• Outsider POV on a taboo or forbidden relationship.
• Captive or hostage situations; rival/enemy characters trapped in a confined place and forced to team up for survival.
• Enemies/rivals forced to work together.
• Arranged marriage; political marriage; forced marriage.
• Enemies to reluctant allies; enemies to friends; enemies to lovers.
• Characters who were once close reuniting after many years and difficulties that parted them.
• Explorations into different historical sexual mores and different understandings of sex across cultures and time periods.
• Found families and families of choice; characters finding community and belonging with one another.
• Time loops, particularly where one character snaps, doing things they never usually would consider, due to the continued torment of the loop.
• Dreamscapes and imaginary worlds (particularly when characters are trapped in these, or it’s ambiguous as to how “real” what is happening to them within the dream world may be).
• Circular/recursive narratives; narratives that refer back to previous events after having revealed new context that allows the reader to see the first iteration in a different light.

DNWs:

• Scat, emetophilia, vore, disembowelment.
• Castration, cock & ball torture, penile chastity devices, sounding.
• Rimming.
• Raceplay.
• Explicit depictions of sexual acts featuring characters under the age of 17 (references or implications are fine, as is kissing).
• Modern AU for historical or fantasy canons; mafia AU; sci-fi AU.

 

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Wuthering Heights - Emily Bronte

Catherine Linton (Wuthering Heights - Bronte)
Heathcliff (Wuthering Heights - Bronte)

Context:

Wuthering Heights focuses on the devastating consequences of the tumultuous relationship between Catherine (Cathy) Earnshaw and Heathcliff, an outsider brought home by her father. Following a misunderstanding in their youth, Heathcliff abandons Cathy and she instead marries her neighbour, Edgar Linton.

Shortly after Heathcliff’s return triggers delirium for Cathy, she gives birth to a daughter, Catherine Linton. Cathy dies soon after, leaving Heathcliff distraught and haunted by her ghost. To get his revenge for her death, he plots to marry young Catherine to his own son, her cousin Linton Heathcliff, and keeps her trapped in Wuthering Heights until she agrees.

The novel can be read online at Project Gutenburg.

Prompts:

I’d be very interested to read a twisted, psychosexual dynamic between Heathcliff and Catherine – perhaps she reminds him of her mother with her “Earnshaw eyes”, or perhaps there’s even a lingering possibility that she could be his daughter. I also love the implication from Nelly the maid that Linton’s love letters to Catherine are written by a “more experienced source” (i.e., his father).

Perhaps Catherine realises (or suspects) a relationship between Heathcliff and her mother and confronts him about it. Perhaps she tries to get through to him after he locks himself in his room near the end of the book. Or perhaps Heathcliff plans to exact revenge on his rival Edgar Linton by marrying Catherine himself, rather than having Linton marry her.

For a gen perspective, I’d be interested to read something where Heathcliff grows fonder of Catherine, despite the blame he places on her for her mother’s death, and struggles to reconcile his feelings. Or else something where Catherine struggles with her own mixed feelings following Heathcliff’s death.

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Winter’s Tale - Shakespeare

Camillo (Winter's Tale)
Polixenes (Winter's Tale)

Context:

The Winter’s Tale is one of Shakespeare’s late comedies, which starts very like a tragedy – the King of Sicily, Leontes, becomes obsessed with the idea that his dear friend Polixenes, King of Bohemia, is having an affair with Leontes’ wife Hermione. Irrational and unwilling to listen to reason, he condemns Hermione to death, and commands his servant Antigonus to expose his newborn daughter (whom he believes was fathered by Polixenes) to the elements. Unbeknownst to him, Antigonus instead leaves the baby in Bohemia, where she is adopted by a shepherd and his son.

Meanwhile, Leontes’ adviser Camillo helps Polixenes to escape Sicily, and flees with him. He spends the next few years living in exile in Polixenes’ court and becomes a trusted adviser – even accompanying Polixenes on an undercover trip to find out what his son Florizel is up to… and which young shepherd girl he’s been courting.

The play can be read online at the Folger Shakespeare Library.

Prompts:

I absolutely love the scene where Camillo and Polixenes go undercover to crash Perdita’s party – I love Polixenes being an overprotective dad, and Camillo being the one who tries to reason with Polixenes and advocate for Florizel, even as he scolds Florizel for not listening to his father.

I’ve always been intrigued by the idea of the two of them raising Florizel together as his fathers (whether there’s a romantic relationship between Polixenes and Camillo or not; I ship them but I’m also keen to read gen or pre-slash takes).

I’d be interested to read something set in Florizel’s childhood, with Polixenes struggling with parenthood and Camillo trying his best to help. Or maybe something post-canon, where Camillo and Polixenes have to deal with being parted/saying goodbye to one another (or perhaps there could be a different ending, where Camillo decides to return to Bohemia with Polixenes, or Polixenes decides to stay in Sicily)?

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關於我和鬼變成家人的那件事 | Marry My Dead Body (2023)

Mao Pang-yu
Wu Ming-han

Context:

Marry My Dead Body is a Taiwanese comedy-drama film featuring the prejudiced policeman Wu Ming-han, who accidentally finds himself trapped in a ghost marriage with a gay man, Mao Pang-yu. Mao Pang-yu died in a hit and run, and his ghost appears to torment Wu Ming-han into helping him find his killer. As he gets to know Mao Pang-yu, Wu Ming-han’s prejudices are challenged and he begins to grow closer to his ghost husband.

The film is available to watch on Netflix. You can watch the trailer on YouTube.

Prompts:

I ship them, and I also love their canon dynamic of platonic/ambiguously romantic soulmates.

I’d love to read any kind of fix-it fic for this canon with Mao Pang-yu sticking around after the end of the movie (either as a ghost or restored to life). Something where they end up as private detectives after the events of the movie, working together to solve crimes, would be really fun!

I’d equally love anything set mid-canon – maybe they do kiss in that scene in the gay bar, and have to deal with the fall-out from that, whether that’s realising that they do have romantic feelings for each other, or Wu Ming-han coming to terms with his sexuality and/or feelings for Mao Pang-yu?

Or, for a darker prompt, maybe the crime boss responsible for Mao Pang-yu’s death forces Wu Ming-han into a sexual situation with a henchman, and Mao Pang-yu possesses the guy and takes over in an attempt (maybe unsuccessful) to make things easier and less horrific for Wu Ming-han?

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아가씨 | The Handmaiden (2016)

Fujiwara (The Handmaiden)

Context:

A film reimagining the events of Sarah Waters’ novel Fingersmith in Japanese-occupied Korea. It features the maid Sook-hee, who goes to work for the rich lady Hideko, whose uncle hides his dark secrets in plain sight. Sook-hee is hiding secrets of her own – she’s working with the fake nobleman Fujiwara to scam Hideko by encouraging her to marry Fujiwara so that he can assume control of her fortune and put her in a mental hospital to get rid of her.

As Sook-hee grows closer to Hideko, she begins to doubt her original plans… but she’s not the only one Fujiwara has been working with, and a twisted tale of betrayal and loyalty ensues when Sook-hee, Hideko, and Fujiwara flee Hideko’s uncle.

It can be watched on Amazon Prime (with a 7-day free trial of BFI Player).

Prompts:

I find Fujiwara such a fascinating character – he is an antagonist and an unreliable, feckless, often cruel man, but he ultimately allies himself with the female protagonists over the other male antagonist. He meets a grim fate, refusing to give up any information on Hideko and Sook-hee’s whereabouts to Hideko’s uncle.

I find it really interesting that he plays such a pivotal role as a villain and a sexual threat, but also has a kind of grudging respect for Hideko’s tenacity, and he has also the kind of moral complexity and charisma that makes me root for him in the final confrontation between him and Hideko’s uncle.

I’d love to read anything relating to Fujiwara as an unreliable narrator of his own life/backstory; how he views his own actions and their consequences as he approaches his death; or his outsider POV as he notices Hideko and Sook-hee growing closer.

Or I’d also be interested to read an AU where he survives the movie’s events, and what his life looks like after that (maybe he goes to Shanghai and meets Hideko and Sook-hee – or views them from a distance)?