percybysshes | Yuletide Letter TBC

Yuletide Author! I hope you have as good a winter holiday or if none apply winter time in general as is possible in the present circumstances and am So Happy that you're writing for me!

So! Yuletide has come again. I have requested some new fandoms for me and some lasting obsessions. I've given prompts because I personally find them helpful but obviously they are more, to quote a slightly tainted franchise, guidelines than rules (except the DNWs, natch). The most important thing is that you have fun and follow your joy. Thank you for choosing to offer one of these fandoms and I can't wait to read what you write.

Here's the lowdown of my general likes and dislikes:

LIKES

historical details and flavour, exploration of unhealthy or un-ideal power dynamics, gothic tropes and otherwise spooky spookiness, guilt (religious or otherwise), religious themes, loyalty (at the expense of life, ideals, and/or good decisions), dark humour, gallows humour, playing with medium (i.e. epistolary fics, in-universe documents etc, hurt/comfort, doomed lovers, unrequited love with the lover being Noble and Suffering, competence and the admiring of it, unpleasant people being unpleasant, wounded (physically, previously or currently, or psychologically) people being wounded, complicated people being complicated, ghosts, manipulation, rivalmances, dubcon/noncon

Kinks and smutlikes

characters with hand kinks, size kinks, clothes kinks, height/size differences, age differences; characters having/doing hatesex, partially-clothed or mostly-clothed sex, oral sex, handjobs, frottage, intercrural, rough sex, body worship, semi-public risky sex, breathplay, historical sexual practices, one-night stands and one-night stands that turn into something more, sex for comfort and solace; characters who like violence (face-slapping, mutual roughing up or getting roughed up, etc.); and friends/enemies/strangers with benefits, historical sexual practices and meeting places, fancy clothes and dressing/undressing. Oh and, and I cannot stress this enough, *manhandling*.

DNWs

first person POV generally unless the canon is in FP, unrequested modern/gender/fundamental things/crossovers or fusion!AUs (canon divergent events are good though), omegaverse/BDSMverse, pregnancy, mpreg, oviposition, scat, watersports etc, curtain!fic, kid!fic, marriage!fic (including woke up married, Vegas-married, and arranged marriage) This year I would also prefer no references to current politics or politicians, modern-style transphobia or homophobia, or anything around COVID-19.

And here's the fandom specifics:

The Green Knight

Historical flavour! Weeeeeeeiird experiences. What happens post-film? What if Gawain had actually played fair with the rules of the game with the Lord? Honestly I am up for some fun canon-style weirdness with this one, get green and lush and odd with it.

Lilywhite Boys

Alec and Jerry are up there on the list of Fave KJC Pairings, so honestly anything with them would be divine. Any shenanigans they can get into, any trouble they might find. Honestly you have carte blanche here, aside from the DNWs.

The Lion in Winter (1968)

This canon absolutely destroys me every time with the snapshot it gives of these lives, like insects in amber. I would love something that hews close to the heightened, poetic language of the film and play. Also, ultimate Christmas film!

Geoffrey is the great love of mine for the canon: Geoffrey always between the factions; Geoffrey playing both sides against each other; Geoffrey with leverage to bear but always that little worry of is it enough, is this going to be the moment his wits and words fail him; Geoffrey not quite strong enough to weather Richard's brute strength, Richard's immediate feelings about that and the shiftiness that comes of utter inabilities to treat each other with sincerity; just
Geoffrey, with anyone, doing literally anything.

This canon also lends itself to specifically Christmas fics, spirits of the season, medieval celebrations etc. so if you go down this route I would be Thrilled. What have previous Christmas courts been like for this horrible, horrible family? What happens the year after canon’s Christmas? The year before?

Pilgrimage (2017)

I would love a canon-divergence where the Mute is at the monastery before Diarmuid arrives there and Diarmuid is of an age when first encountering the Mute that his mind and body respond in ways he has no ways of dealing with. Cue Diarmuid getting very pink and blushy around the Mute and being unable to control his thoughts given the whole Monk thing on top of the whole same-sex sexuality being a sin etc. I would also love a post-canon weird fic where Diarmuid, a pure being capable of wielding holy weapons, gets another holy weapon in the form of a revenant Mute. Do they go back to the monastery, do they roam the wilds righting wrongs and bringing the power of God to bear to protect the land?

Shakespeare RPF | Elizabethan & Jacobean Theatre RPF

Look, every piece of media remotely related to these twerps I am here for and every time I hear/read the word Deptford I cry. Though! Happily, I like to cry so please feel free to kill Kit Marlowe. I am also here for:

- Period accurate bantz!

- Obsession and rivalry and spying! The third one is mostly Kit but if we're Will we could be blissfully unaware or suspicious or worried and trying desperately to hide it, any of these and I will be thrilled!

- Drunk bad idea sex! Always.

- This is one of the fandoms where my HISTORICAL DETAILS PLZ thing really comes into itself so the dangerous streets of London! Taverns! Evading the authorities about the spy stuff, the catholic stuff, the gay stuff!

Honestly with this one I’d love straight up smut or plotty playwriting/espionage stuff, anything; I will be thrilled.

Thank you so much for writing for me! I can't wait to see what I get.