Dear Yuletide Writer!

Dear Yuletide writer, hello! Here’s to the best time of the year, and to hoping you’ll find something to inspire you and make your writing a lovely experience below. I’ve tried to provide some prompts to give you a general idea of what I like, but if nothing speaks to you, feel free to mix and match! I love those fandoms and I’m sure there are hundreds of ideas and scenarios that I did not think about, and I want to see them! As long as my DNWs are met, ODAOs are fine and good.

Things I like:
- Hurt/comfort in all its forms is always a sure bet. All the hurt/comfort, you can't do wrong (or be too hardcore) with it. Physical h/c, emotional h/c, captivity scenarios, caretaking, whipping, dungeons, bullet wounds, wilderness survival, whatever. I love hurt/comfort mostly within the context of a relationship (not necessarily romantic - filial ties, friendship, brothers-in-arms comradeship, whichever fits), as an opening for one character to be hurt and for the other to be outraged/terrified/comforting on their behalf. The only thing I'm particular about is who in a particular gets whumped.
- Found families, tight friendships, us-against-the-world, people finding and keeping each other, providing kindness and warmth against the dark.
- Hope and kindness, Clair universes, stories where the entropy tries its hardest but doesn't win.
- Loyalty in all forms! From ritualized (oaths, kneeling, ring-kissing, knights and bodyguards and henchmen and so on) to more casual ways, like standing up for your friends.
- Self-sacrifice (metaphorical and quite literal) and martyrdom (ditto).
- Tropey AUs - space opera! high fantasy! historical! pirates!
- Outsider POVs.

DNWs:
- Hurt no comfort
- Partner betrayal of any kind or infidelity
- Unhappy endings and permanent character death
- A/B/O, hurtcomfortverse, any other 'verses with built-in biology-based inequality
- Hanahaki AUs and variations thereof
- Soulmate AUs
- Mundane AUs
- PWPs

And some links, if you're so inclined:
- My fics at egelantier
- My bookmarks
- Exchange sign-ups, Dear Writer letters, recs etc.

The Tarot Sequence - K. D. Edwards
Rune Saint John (The Tarot Sequence - K. D. Edwards)
Brand (The Tarot Sequence - K. D. Edwards)
Addam Saint Nicholas (The Tarot Sequence - K. D. Edwards)

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The Collared Knight - Tara McGolden
Farnesse (The Collared Knight)

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バチカン奇跡調査官 | Vatican Kiseki Chousakan | Vatican Miracle Examiner (Anime)
Hiraga Josef Kou (Vatican Miracle Examiner (Anime))
Roberto Nicholas (Vatican Miracle Examiner (Anime))

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The Goblin Emperor - Katherine Addison
Maia Drazhar

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Psmith - P. G. Wodehouse
Rupert Psmith
Mike Jackson

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Fuck Them All - Mylène Farmer (Music Video)

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