drink more gin

First off, hi, hello! Thank you for writing for me! Second, thinking of prompts and putting together my letter are some of my favorite parts of Yuletide and I can throw out A LOT of ideas, but what I want most to read is a story you want to write. It could be one you’ve been tinkering with for years or maybe one of my ideas catches your imagination. Whatever the case, please think of these prompts as guidelines: there if you need them, but don’t worry about writing all them in one fic or following them down to the letter.

Have fun writing and I’m looking forward to reading what you come up with!

( Narrowing down my requests was particularly challenging this year! )

WELL. This has certainly been A Year, but I'm so excited that it's Yuletide season once again. Let's get started, shall we? :D

First off, hi! Thank you for writing for me! Second, thinking of prompts and writing my letter is one of my favorite parts of Yuletide and I can get a smidge carried away, but what I want most to read is a story you want to write. It could be one you’ve been tinkering with for years, something that you just thought of yesterday, or maybe one of my ideas catches your imagination. Whatever the case, please think of these prompts as guidelines: there if you need them, but don’t worry about following them to the letter.

Have fun writing and I’m looking forward to reading what you come up with :)

( Look at these shiny new fandoms I'm requesting :D )

It’s finally fall and Yuletide letters are going up, which makes this officially my favorite time of the year ;D

First off, thank you for writing for me! Above all else, I most want to read a story you want to write. It could be one you’ve been thinking about for years and years or maybe a prompt grabbed you yesterday. Either way, please think of my prompts as guidelines: there if you need them, but don’t worry about taking them in a different direction I didn’t think of. Besides steering clear of my DNWs listed below, have at my requests and I’m looking forward to read whatever you come up with :)

( A surfeit of 'B'-titled fandoms this year )

First of all, thank you for writing for me :D

Second, I most want to read the story that you actually want to write. So if you already have an idea in mind, feel free to ignore my prompts! Or if a prompt does catch your fancy, please take it in whatever direction you like. They’re only suggestions on my part.

Good luck writing and I can’t wait to see what you come up with!
( Getting way better at this shorter letter thing )

First of all, thank you for writing for me! Second, above all else, I want to read the story that you most want to write. So, if that means getting inspiration from my letter or finally wrangling that plot bunny stashed away on your hard drive into actual fic, it’s all good with me :)

I will do my best to provide a few prompts, but feel free to take any of them in whatever direction you want; they're only suggestions on my part.

For reference, I'm hellabaloo at AO3, but historiograph on tumblr.

General Likes: I am probably embarrassingly easy to please, because I like tons of stuff. Give me your AUs (in space! spies! amnesia! for want of a nail! gladiator! dueling dance crews! Iron Chef!), gapfillers, or character studies. Tropey fic might be my actual fav (soulbonds! groundhog day! identity porn! arranged marriage/marriage of convenience!), but I love unexpected or interesting subversions of tropes, too. I love stories with tension and chemistry and fics that really explore characters’ relationships with each other, be they good and healthy or bad and dysfunctional. Long and plotty or short and sweet, I will love it either way.

I ship all the pairings I’ve requested romantically, but I'd be more than happy to see gen fic, too.

Past vs. present tense isn't a big deal to me, although generally I prefer third-person narration.

General Dislikes: Rape/non-con, mpreg, terminal illness/deathfic (non-canonical deaths especially; I'm okay with mentions of characters dying, just nothing that focuses exclusively on death please), character bashing, character flaws being glossed over, and characters assuming the worst of each other through lack of communication.


( Phew! only 2k ;P )

Just an fyi, I used to be in various fandoms and write fic under the name penniform. I'm going to leave that lj up rather than migrating my fic, because I am lazy.

Some people can't help changing their tumblr urls, I have trouble sticking to a fic-writing alias.

I'll be crossposting to my new lj from here.