Yuletide 2017 Exchange Letter
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yuuagoDear Yuletide writer:
Hi! I'm looking forward to what you're writing for me. I've provided some general likes, and some prompts for each of the fandoms I've requested, to give you a few ideas of what I might enjoy. Please don't think that you need to adhere strictly to the suggestions I've posted here. If you have a cool idea of your own, feel free to write that, even if it doesn't align with any of my prompts. As long as it doesn't hit anything on the Do Not Want list, we're good!
Questions/comments/requests for clarification are welcome.
If you're interested in doing art treats for the Wrapping Paper Art Challenge, I have left some art prompts here.
For reference, Ao3 username is yuuago.
Things I Like
-Exploration/development of friendships and familial relationships
-Low-key shipping with emphasis on feelings
-Lots of emphasis on landscape/season/setting + using it to build mood
-Subtle/minimal physical contact. With some characters, even just the touch of a hand can mean so much!
-Slice-of-life scenarios
-Hurt/comfort/caretaking scenarios
-Cooking or sharing food as a gesture of affection
-Characters reading/telling stories to one another
-Happy reunions
-Moments of happiness or comfort in the middle of a horrible situation
-Characters travelling, or preparing for travel
-Canon-typical horror and canon-typical violence
-Near-death situations
-Nightmares or dealing with the aftermath of nightmares
-"Presumed dead" scenarios
-Atypical fic formats, such as drabble sequences or letters/diary entries or poetry (But regular prose is also great)
-Interactive fiction/choose your own ending formats
-Any POV is okay; any tense is also okay. Both 3rd person past and more atypical formats are equally welcome.
Please Do Not Include
-Unrequested AUs/Crossovers
-Unrequested noncanon pairings
-Unrequested character death
-Unrequested sexual violence
-Dialogue written in languages other than English
-Forest fires/house fires
Canon info: A Place Called Winter is an M/M novel set in Saskatchewan shortly before and after WWI | Amazon.com | Goodreads
Requested Characters: Harry Cane & Ursula | Little Bear
Relationships I like: Harry & Ursula; for / relationships, Harry/Paul is welcome as long as the focus of the story is on Harry and Ursula's friendship.
Other Details: I appreciate the direction the ending of the novel took with Harry and Paul, but what happened to Ursula broke my heart. I'd like a happy ending for Ursula if at all possible, even if you have to stretch realism a little in order to make it happen.
Prompts:
- Somehow, Ursula joins Harry on his farm near Winter. Things fall into place for both of them, and they're able to find comfort, healing, and happiness. It's up to you whether this happens through canon divergence (such as a situation where Ursula does not attempt suicide, and the two of them are later released) or future scenarios (postcanon, Ursula is later released, or escapes somehow).
- Slice-of-life development of Harry and Ursula's friendship during their time at the asylum. I loved the scenes that we had with them in the novel, and I'd like more along the same lines.
- Reincarnation AU; Harry and Ursula meet again in another life, in a more modern time, and have another chance to become friends. Paul can come too. :) If you do this one, please keep the canon genders/sexualities.
Canon info: Valiant Hearts is a side-scrolling video game set in France and Belgium during the First World War. It's available for multiple platforms (PC/PS/iOS/Android). | Website | Character Profiles
Requested Characters: Any. Available characters: Anna, Emile, Freddie, Karl
Relationships I like: Any & relationship would be welcome. For / relationships, I like Karl/Marie, Freddie/Margaret, Freddie/Anna, Anna/Marie/Karl, Anna/Emile, or Freddie/Emile.
Other Details: I'd love literally anything for this canon. Feel free to include characters who aren't in the tagset, such as Walt or Marie or Margaret. I'm also familiar with the Dogs of War comic, and would be happy to receive something set during that time if you're interested. Fic set at any time, including postcanon, would be equally welcome. "Emile lives!" AU would be lovely if you feel like writing something canon-divergent. I've requested fic for this fandom on other occasions; if you would like more ideas, you can look through my previous exchange letters.
Prompts:
- The summer before the war. Karl coming to work on Emile's farm, meeting Marie, falling in love. Karl and Marie's romance would be great; exploring Karl's developing friendship and familial relationship with Emile would also be great. Slice-of-life family goodness.
- Snapshots of moments during any of the times that Anna nursed Karl; their developing friendship, growing closer over time. (Possibly with a side of "We have to stop meeting like this" ;p )
- Backstory for Freddie, exploring his relationship with Margaret. Happier times, though not without conflict. Alternately, postcanon fic with Freddie - fighting alongside his brother, surviving the war, what happens next? Do he and Anna stay friends?
- Letters home: epistolary option, similar to what we see in the game, set during or after canon; letters exchanged between the various characters, or sent abroad in Freddie's case. Diary entries would also be wonderful.
Canon info: Year in Hereafter is a fantasy webcomic inspired by Finnish folklore and the Kalevala, taking place in parallel worlds. | YiH Website
Requested Characters: Veeti Harmonsuo & Sakari Harmonsuo
Relationships I like: Focus on Veeti & Sakari's sibling relationship preferred; other & relationships in addition to that are welcome. For / relationships, I like Sakari/Jaakko or Veeti/Jaakko, if you want to incorporate either of those somehow.
Other Details: There are a lot of bits of story that we've received hints about, but haven't been explored, and I'd love to read something related to that, even if it will inevitably be jossed by canon eventually. Feel free to go forward in the timeline, if you want to explore/invent the story after our current canon point. Also, if you only want to focus on one of the requested characters, that's okay!
Prompts:
- Sakari and Veeti reunion. When Sakari and Mika return, I expect that Veeti will have quite the reaction to finally seeing the brother that he had thought was dead. Please show me some of that. ;) (Extra love if there's some "I'm never going to let you out of my sight again" feeling going on there.)
- Sakari's disappearance - the circumstances, the emotional fallout back in Lapland, Veeti being completely broken up over it and trying (and failing) to deal with it.
- Cozy precanon slice-of-life: Cute brotherly interaction between Sakari and Veeti while they were growing up. (If Sakari's "death" hit Veeti so hard, they must have gotten along very well, right?)
Hi! I'm looking forward to what you're writing for me. I've provided some general likes, and some prompts for each of the fandoms I've requested, to give you a few ideas of what I might enjoy. Please don't think that you need to adhere strictly to the suggestions I've posted here. If you have a cool idea of your own, feel free to write that, even if it doesn't align with any of my prompts. As long as it doesn't hit anything on the Do Not Want list, we're good!
Questions/comments/requests for clarification are welcome.
If you're interested in doing art treats for the Wrapping Paper Art Challenge, I have left some art prompts here.
For reference, Ao3 username is yuuago.
Likes and Dislikes :｡･:*:･ﾟ'☆
Things I Like
-Exploration/development of friendships and familial relationships
-Low-key shipping with emphasis on feelings
-Lots of emphasis on landscape/season/setting + using it to build mood
-Subtle/minimal physical contact. With some characters, even just the touch of a hand can mean so much!
-Slice-of-life scenarios
-Hurt/comfort/caretaking scenarios
-Cooking or sharing food as a gesture of affection
-Characters reading/telling stories to one another
-Happy reunions
-Moments of happiness or comfort in the middle of a horrible situation
-Characters travelling, or preparing for travel
-Canon-typical horror and canon-typical violence
-Near-death situations
-Nightmares or dealing with the aftermath of nightmares
-"Presumed dead" scenarios
-Atypical fic formats, such as drabble sequences or letters/diary entries or poetry (But regular prose is also great)
-Interactive fiction/choose your own ending formats
-Any POV is okay; any tense is also okay. Both 3rd person past and more atypical formats are equally welcome.
Please Do Not Include
-Unrequested AUs/Crossovers
-Unrequested noncanon pairings
-Unrequested character death
-Unrequested sexual violence
-Dialogue written in languages other than English
-Forest fires/house fires
A Place Called Winter - Patrick Gale :｡･:*:･ﾟ'☆
Canon info: A Place Called Winter is an M/M novel set in Saskatchewan shortly before and after WWI | Amazon.com | Goodreads
Requested Characters: Harry Cane & Ursula | Little Bear
Relationships I like: Harry & Ursula; for / relationships, Harry/Paul is welcome as long as the focus of the story is on Harry and Ursula's friendship.
Other Details: I appreciate the direction the ending of the novel took with Harry and Paul, but what happened to Ursula broke my heart. I'd like a happy ending for Ursula if at all possible, even if you have to stretch realism a little in order to make it happen.
Prompts:
- Somehow, Ursula joins Harry on his farm near Winter. Things fall into place for both of them, and they're able to find comfort, healing, and happiness. It's up to you whether this happens through canon divergence (such as a situation where Ursula does not attempt suicide, and the two of them are later released) or future scenarios (postcanon, Ursula is later released, or escapes somehow).
- Slice-of-life development of Harry and Ursula's friendship during their time at the asylum. I loved the scenes that we had with them in the novel, and I'd like more along the same lines.
- Reincarnation AU; Harry and Ursula meet again in another life, in a more modern time, and have another chance to become friends. Paul can come too. :) If you do this one, please keep the canon genders/sexualities.
Valiant Hearts: The Great War :｡･:*:･ﾟ'☆
Canon info: Valiant Hearts is a side-scrolling video game set in France and Belgium during the First World War. It's available for multiple platforms (PC/PS/iOS/Android). | Website | Character Profiles
Requested Characters: Any. Available characters: Anna, Emile, Freddie, Karl
Relationships I like: Any & relationship would be welcome. For / relationships, I like Karl/Marie, Freddie/Margaret, Freddie/Anna, Anna/Marie/Karl, Anna/Emile, or Freddie/Emile.
Other Details: I'd love literally anything for this canon. Feel free to include characters who aren't in the tagset, such as Walt or Marie or Margaret. I'm also familiar with the Dogs of War comic, and would be happy to receive something set during that time if you're interested. Fic set at any time, including postcanon, would be equally welcome. "Emile lives!" AU would be lovely if you feel like writing something canon-divergent. I've requested fic for this fandom on other occasions; if you would like more ideas, you can look through my previous exchange letters.
Prompts:
- The summer before the war. Karl coming to work on Emile's farm, meeting Marie, falling in love. Karl and Marie's romance would be great; exploring Karl's developing friendship and familial relationship with Emile would also be great. Slice-of-life family goodness.
- Snapshots of moments during any of the times that Anna nursed Karl; their developing friendship, growing closer over time. (Possibly with a side of "We have to stop meeting like this" ;p )
- Backstory for Freddie, exploring his relationship with Margaret. Happier times, though not without conflict. Alternately, postcanon fic with Freddie - fighting alongside his brother, surviving the war, what happens next? Do he and Anna stay friends?
- Letters home: epistolary option, similar to what we see in the game, set during or after canon; letters exchanged between the various characters, or sent abroad in Freddie's case. Diary entries would also be wonderful.
Year in Hereafter :｡･:*:･ﾟ'☆
Canon info: Year in Hereafter is a fantasy webcomic inspired by Finnish folklore and the Kalevala, taking place in parallel worlds. | YiH Website
Requested Characters: Veeti Harmonsuo & Sakari Harmonsuo
Relationships I like: Focus on Veeti & Sakari's sibling relationship preferred; other & relationships in addition to that are welcome. For / relationships, I like Sakari/Jaakko or Veeti/Jaakko, if you want to incorporate either of those somehow.
Other Details: There are a lot of bits of story that we've received hints about, but haven't been explored, and I'd love to read something related to that, even if it will inevitably be jossed by canon eventually. Feel free to go forward in the timeline, if you want to explore/invent the story after our current canon point. Also, if you only want to focus on one of the requested characters, that's okay!
Prompts:
- Sakari and Veeti reunion. When Sakari and Mika return, I expect that Veeti will have quite the reaction to finally seeing the brother that he had thought was dead. Please show me some of that. ;) (Extra love if there's some "I'm never going to let you out of my sight again" feeling going on there.)
- Sakari's disappearance - the circumstances, the emotional fallout back in Lapland, Veeti being completely broken up over it and trying (and failing) to deal with it.
- Cozy precanon slice-of-life: Cute brotherly interaction between Sakari and Veeti while they were growing up. (If Sakari's "death" hit Veeti so hard, they must have gotten along very well, right?)
Yuu. Fic writer & book lover. M/Canada.