Yuletide 2020

[hearteating]

Dear Yuletide Author,

Thanks for writing for me! I'm hearteating here and on AO3. Below are my likes and DNW, and then fandom-specific prompts and ideas. I'm looking forward to whatever you produce, and I hope you have fun with your assignment. Don't be afraid to get self-indulgent, either! I love reading stories where it's clear the author is just having the time of their life.
 

General/Narrative Likes: monsters; magical realism; larger-than-life characters/scenarios; canon-divergent AUs; non-mundane AUs; future-fic; adventure; character studies; need vs want vs have; missing scenes; ethical dilemmas; friendship; found/made family; competence; cooking; dream sequences (that aren’t the entire fic); banter; fight sequences; introspection; worldbuilding; time travel; loyalty (to people or to causes); casefic

 

Ship-related Likes: Complicated feelings; bad at feelings; friends-to-lovers; enemies-to-lovers; slow burn; awkward flirting; fake relationships turned real; intimacy; sensory details; handholding; pining; forehead-touching

 

Smut Stuff: intercrural; orgasm delay/denial; multiple orgasms; overstimulation; awkward sex; hand kink; oral; messy sex; nonpenetrative sex; bloodplay; manhandling; hair kink; power dynamics; laughter during sex; body worship; consent issues due to outside forces; eye contact during sex

 

DNW: Pregnancy; body horror or body modification beyond canon-levels; A/B/O; incest; major character death (permanent); infidelity/cheating as a focus or plot point; medical kink; underage (15 and under); hopeless endings; mundane AUs; issuefic, cannibalism ft discussion of different cuts of meat

Fandoms: Killjoys, Daniel Blackland series, 12 Monkeys, Always Crashing in the Same Car

Daniel Blackland series
Any (Gabriel Argent, Max, The Hierarch, Daniel Blackland)

I love the worldbuilding in these books. Bone eating! Cannibalism! Water magic through signs and sigils! Bureaucracy! The alternate history! There's so much hinted at and ripe for exploration. I've received a fic for this series before, and it was absolutely fantastic, and now I crave more.

I love what a bureaucratic nerd Gabriel is, and Max's progression from hound to AD of the Water Dept. I definitely ship Gabriel and Max, and love their loyalty to each other. We don't see much of the Hierarch, but his touch is everywhere; he's ruined so many lives. And Daniel, for all that he's the main character, has a fair amount of only-hinted-at backstory I think could be explored.

Prompts if you want them:

• "Are you fucking my hound?"- Considering how Gabriel was very careful in trying to establish a sense of equality between him and Max, and not to make Max feel like he was a thing, how would their relationship change if they were fucking (from the start)? Would it be a power play on one of their parts? Gabriel trying to keep Max loyal or Max trying to make sure Gabriel finds him useful? Would it change things down the line?
• Osteomancer!Gabriel AU- I feel like this would be pretty dark, but I'm also very intrigued by how osteomancer!Gabriel would be different from how he is in canon. How would his and Max's relationship be different, considering Max's sensitive nose and Gabriel's relatives?
• What happened during the ten years between California Bones and Pacific Fire? What sort of power plays went down in LA that the new Director of the Water Department and his Assistant Director had to deal with? How did the progression from allies to best friends go, and did they even notice the progression? How many attempts on Gabriel's life have they had to deal with (or on Max's life)? How many people assume they're fucking, and are they/did they?
• What was Max's life like before he became a hound?
• Character study of the Heirarch- after all this time and all those bodies, what is life like? Can he still taste anything? Was he always like that? Does he have any family sentiment?
• Exploration of Daniel's childhood as a tool for his uncle?
• AU where the Heirarch takes Daniel, and all the children of osteomancers, into his home as his "heirs," where everyone is aware he's simply keeping them for food.
• Worldbuilding- Walt Disney is an osteomancer in this series, and I would love to know more about that! Just Walt building his empire of bone magic and wonder, and also maybe eating his rivals

Killjoys
D'avin Jaqobis, Fancy Lee

Killjoys is one of my favorite sci-fi shows- I like the visuals, the dialogue, and the wordbuilding. I love how tropey and fun it can be, and it has some great emotional beats that feel like a punch in the gut. The characters are all larger-than-life, but it works with the feel of the show and the world. The relationships between the leads are strong and well-done and I don't think there's a main character I actively dislike. All other characters are more than welcome to show up, especially the rest of Team AwesomeForce, Turin, Weej, Jaq, and the Lady. I've received some wonderful fics for this fandom in the past, but it never gets old. Fandom specific DNW: No Johnny/Dutch, please.

 

D'avin was a surprise favorite- his first appearance made me afraid he’d take over the spotlight from Dutch, but he turned out to be a lot of fun- a goofball jock with a big heart. I love his willingness to go to extremes for the people he loves, in particular.

 

I liked Fancy from the start: handsome, competent, self-aware, and wry. I was delighted to see more of him in S2, traveling with Khlyen and being Hullen, and even more delighted to see him in S3, dealing with the aftermath.

 

I like both characters on their own, but D'avin and Fancy together? Excellent. From their 'allies, I guess' interactions in S1, to their antagonistic relationship in S2, to their trust and understanding in S3 and S4, these two have fantastic chemistry and bring out the best/worst in each other. Their banter is great, and even if S4 didn’t give Fancy the screentime I wanted for him, I really enjoyed their limited time together. Also, if you hadn’t guessed, I ship them.

 

Prompts if you want them:

• Fancy gets Hullenized again, and D'avin uses his power over the Green to de-Hullenize him again (From a distance? With his dick? Originally from a distance but, as things go on, D'avin's Magical DeHullenizing Dick makes an appearance? You decide!).
• Canon-divergent Red 17 fic, ft Fancy as a new Hullen and D'avin as a medical curiosity/prisoner, desperate for familiarity
• Fancy and D'avin go on a mission together. This could be canon-divergent, a 'missing mission,' or whatever else strikes you! Maybe they're trying to gather intelligence for the war, or maybe they're collecting a bounty, or maybe they stumbled onto something by accident and are now stuck together.
• Something exploring the similarities and differences between them. There was that great moment in S3 where D'avin shared how he understood what it was like to be controlled by something in your head, to live with that shame and knowledge, and I am 100% interested in hearing more about it.
• More about what life is like for the Cleansed! I felt cheated that we only got hints about what life was like for them, and I'd love a Fancy-focused fic on what life is like, and what it means that D'avin wants them to fight in the war.
• Lotus-eater fic in the Lady’s AU we saw at the end of S4. Maybe Fancy and D’avin are currently partnered Killjoys, maybe they’re still rivals, maybe they’ve never met (but are about to). I’d love to see them breaking loose from the Lady’s AU- subtle and not-so-subtle hints that something is wrong
• Fancy backstory! D'avin isn't necessary if you choose this option- I love Fancy and I'd be excited for any backstory for hijm.
• Post series fic!

Feel free to get dark, get weird, and/or get tropey. I’d love shipfic (and smut) for them, but their bitchy mutual-respect is the most important thing.


Always Crashing in the Same Car
James Booth, Bill Mackinnon

I love this short, with Jim's panic and desperation and Bill's almost unsettling calm. How many other panicked calls in the middle of the night have there been, and what has Bill made Jim do in exchange for having everything taken care of? Does he keep holding the tapes over Jim's head?

Prompts if you want them:

• It's implied in the short that Bill has been the man behind the curtain for several years. How did it start? Did he handpick James, or has Bill always gone after the person at the top, whoever they are? Both options are really interesting to me.
• What does Bill do with the tapes? Are there any further instances of James fucking up and Bill cleaning up after him? Post-short fic would be great!
• I like the canon setting, but also...space opera AU
• Just straight up smut

I can't think of any other prompts, so if you already have an idea of what you want to write, go for it. There are a lot of directions I think you could go for this canon, and I'd love to read any take on it.


12 Monkeys
Hannah "Zeit" Jones, Emma Kirschner

What a show to watch in 2020, right? Time traveling to stop a terrible pandemic and often just making things worse. I watched 12 Monkeys for the first time earlier this year and I absolutely loved it. The time travel was so cool, and the way the plotlines came together at the end was absolutely masterful. It was funny and action-packed and made me tear up on several occasions.

The episode "Daughters" really caught my imagination, and made me want fic about Hannah and Emma. I wound up shipping them based on their interactions, but I'd love friendship fic or even something just exploring their similarities and differences. Because of how the show  is, my prompts are generally AU/canon-divergence, but if you have something that would work in canon, you better believe I want to read it!

Prompts if you want them:

• Hannah and Emma get caught in a time loop...and fall in love. They both know once they break the loop they can't be together, but that doesn't stop the feelings
• AU where Hannah and Emma spend more time together before meeting Matthew, learning more about each other and coming to understand one another
• Emma keeps looking for traces of Hannah's mother and father in her, and Hannah has questions about them she isn't sure she wants to ask
• Full AU! Emma is a princess born to be a weapon, and Hannah is a warrior who is supposed to be dead. Adventure and romance ensue