Dear Yuletide Author - 2017

Dear Yuletide Author,

Thank you so much for writing for me! I look forward to reading your story, and I hope that writing it brings you as much joy as I know it will bring me.

Here are some general preferences and fandom-specific preferences that I hope will be helpful.

I love "slice of life" stories, little windows that peek into the characters' "off-screen" or "off-page" lives or that delve into their thoughts. There's just something I've always loved, especially in tv shows, about those scenes when we see the characters "at home" or just hanging out together.

I also love plotty fic that explores the characters and the setting.

I love gen stories a lot, but stories with pairings/multiples are welcomed with open arms. Het, slash, femslash, mix and match, non-binary, etc. and forever - all welcome. I prefer that stories not be solely about pairing or gathering up of lovers, but romance is nice!

I love stories about women being their awesome selves.

I love team stories and stories about strong bonds and close friendships.

For fics that are not gen, I definitely don't mind sex in the story, so long as it's not the whole point of the story.

I love unusual or out-of-the-box formats for stories - "five things" is a favorite of mine, as is the epistolary style (either letters, or a series of emails, or a set of IMs, or an exchange of notes or something like that.) Fic written as taking place on social media, partly or entirely. Stories with odd narrative structures, stories that play with time, stories that play with voice. I'm a fan of the surreal.

Nothing exceptionally dark. Danger, tension: yes, please; really violent violence: no, thank you. No sexual violence, especially. I enjoy bittersweet endings and stories that end with a sting - I just like a little room for the potential of a happier ending somewhere down the line.

On to specifics!

The OA - pretty much all the questions. I'd love anything that explores Prairie's world, her existence, her mind, what happened after she was shot, anything.

The worlds that the angels go to when they experience their NDEs - how do they work? Why are they different? What did Prairie see in the many other NDEs she had while being experimented on by HAP? How are the four boys and BBA connected to the NDEs, and why did they respond to Prairie the way they did? What happened after Prairie was taken in the ambulance, and Steve chased after her? The whooshing in the trees - what was that? was it the switching between universes? What was up with the psychiatrist dude being in Prairie's house?! And the braille writing on his office wall? I'd also love conversation fic or slice of life fic with Prairie and any of the boys or BBA. A picnic in the old house? Practicing the Movements together? I'm fascinated by the Movements, so any way to work those in would thrill me.

Twin Peaks

I'd really love something about Audrey in The Return, but fic about young Audrey is always awesome. I love pairing her with Cooper, either as love interests or partners in adventure. I was so very much waiting for them to meet again, but darn it, David Lynch!! What happened to Audrey?

Goblin: The Great and Lonely God

I love the four main characters and DeokHwa as well. The Goddess and the God fascinate me, too. I'd love to see EunTak have a good birthday, or all of them to go on a picnic together. I just want so much happiness for all the characters! I love the slow, unfolding beauty of the show, and the quick-witted banter. I'd love to read about Goblin magic or EunTak's connection to the spirit world, or EunTak having magic of her own right, not just from Shin.

I hope these notes help a little! Thanks again, and Happy Yuletide!