Dear Yuletide Author '23

 

Hi there! I am extremely happy you offered one of my fandoms, and very excited to see what you come up with!

General likes: Fairy tales, gothic literature, film noir, revenge tragedies, bodice rippers, melodrama, dark comedy, heroine/villain/hero love triangles, heroine/villain dynamics, rescue romance, mythology, maledom (non and dubcon are welcome), bdsm, bondage, character studies, what-if AUs, genre swapping AUs, vampires, folklore, knight and lady dynamics, epistolary fic,  interactive fiction.

 

DNWs: Pushing away female characters, fetish universes, character bashing, fully mundane AUs for fantastical settings, unrequested identity headcanons, Christmas or other Christian holiday-themed fic, abrupt character death (character death fully earned and explored is fine), A/B/O, scat, watersports, comeplay.

 

I’m open to both Crueltide and Yuleporn, but I’m also okay with getting neither of those.

BraveStarr

BraveStarr, J.B. McBride, Tex Hex, Thirty-Thirty

Such a fun show, and it’s criminal that it’s so obscure! If you want to do a canon-typical escapade for the gang that would be fun, or you can experiment with alternate setups. I would love to see all these characters in a Spaghetti Western! Or play the terrifying Stampede for eldritch horror, and our heroes as a Call of Cthulhu party! (Try not to kill off the heroes, though.) I was extremely happy for BraveStarr/JB to be confirmed in the movie, and would be happy to see more of that, though friendship is also okay if you’re feeling genfic. And what about Tex Hex teetering on the verge of redemption? I will honestly just be super happy to get fic for this fandom at all!

Regarding characters, you can drop any single one except BraveStarr if your story demands it.

The Invitation

Evie Jackson, Walter de Ville, Lucy Billington

Nobody ever needs to make a sexy Dracula movie ever again, this is the definitive one! For art, channel the most indulgent tween vampire lover inside you! For fic, some possible prompts:

• An AU based on the vampire media of your choice! How would this be different if they were Anne Rice vampires? Or Vampire the Masquerade vampires? Or What We Do in the Shadows vampires?

• I did get a little annoyed at the throwaway use of the names Jonathan and Mina Harker, so I'd be all for you using the real Harkers in a crossover with the original Dracula novel! This could be still in the modern day, or an AU where it all goes down during the 1890s. Evie would be the absolute heart of that friend group/polycule! (Just don't make the Dracula heroes racist towards her, please!) Might Lucy have originally been Lucy Westenra?

• If you're interested in dubcon or consensual-but-a-bad-idea smut with Walter/Evie or Walter/Evie/Lucy, I would be all for that.

• Is there any way Lucy could have survived? 
  
  You can drop Lucy if she doesn't fit in the story.

Red Eye

Jackson Rippner, Lisa Reistert

This was THE movie for awful villain/heroine ships! Sexual tension turns dangerous, and danger turns into sexual tension. I was extremely happy and also creeped out when he said “I may have to steal you!” My DNW for this movie is dwelling on the fate of the politician and his family- even if this is a version where Jackson wins, I don’t need the details. Or maybe Lisa still saves them, but Jackson tries to keep her rather than kill her for it? Or could she make some kind of bargain where she offers herself to her infatuated foe in exchange for their or her father’s life? The story can end with either Jackson or Lisa winning, or ambiguously, I’m fine with whatever. If you really don’t want to write shipfic, I’d be happy to read something where they continue their cat and mouse games through future confrontations. And seeing genre or time period AUs are always welcome!

The Wrong Earth

Dragonflyman, The Dragonfly, Deuce | Lady Dragonflyman

I am so happy to have found this comic series capitalizing on the inherent comedy in the differences between Batman incarnations, and I think there’s even more hilarity to be had! I love The Dragonfly not being totally cold-hearted, Dragonflyman not being a total fool, and I love every single thing about Deuce (including shipping her with the Dragonfly!) While I didn’t specifically request Stinger, I’m happy to see him interacting with any of the above, as well. What new situations can you put them in? How would any of them react to another Batman/Dragonfly world- Arkham Asylum a Serious House on Serious Earth? 40s Batman serials? The Dark Knight Returns? Or how would you tie up the currently ongoing plot? I obviously love the humor of this setup, but you can take a more serious examination of how insane this all must be to go through. There’s a lot to have fun with!

Waxwork

Sarah, China, Dracula, Marquis de Sade

Such a fun, silly movie!  And absolutely perfect for anyone who likes to read or write Problematic Fanfiction.  You can write about all four of those characters, or just focus on one of the two heroine/villain ships (China/Dracula or Sarah/de Sade.)  The movie (and its sequel) have lots of references and homages to classic horror movies, so that would be fun to see here!  In any case, this is a great place to pile on all the gothic tropes and aesthetics your heart desires. If you write sex, I know the real life Marquis de Sade was into some of my DNWs, but try to steer clear of them if you can.

Some ideas:

• Sarah and China are very much positioned as the Virgin and the Whore, respectively, but surely there must be some more to their characters than that!  What if they were the two survivors who had to rally troops of monster-hunters against the forces of darkness?  (Mark can be there too if you want, I have nothing against him.)  How would Sarah deal with being put in a position of leadership?  How would China deal with having to think about the well-being of people other than herself?

• Tell me about the women whose situations the girls found themselves in, Dracula’s victim and the Marquis’ plaything.  Tell me how they ended up in those situations.  Alternately, what if they found themselves in America in the 1980s when Sarah and China took their places?

• Explore the darkly sexy situations Sarah and/or China were in if the camera hadn’t cut away (China) or Mark hadn’t been there to rescue them (Sarah.)  Straightforward porny stuff is fine, or you could spin it into a full story of the aftermath.  (I know the Marquis plans to whip Sarah to death, but I’d rather that didn’t happen- he can spare her life or she can escape, whatever you want.)  This can be a seductive dom-sub scene, full on noncon, or anything in between.

• The sequel has characters hopping between times and alternate universes, so if you want to bring that into the events of the first movie, that could be fun.  Sarah and China find themselves running from one sexy horror movie scene to the next, having to deal with a whole range of hot villains interested in them!
  
  If you want, you can just use Dracula and China or Sarah and the Marquis

Matthew Bourne's Sleeping Beauty: A Gothic Romance

This ballet was just made for me, just absolutely made for me.  A love triangle between a kindhearted maiden, a predatory vampire and an innocent youth?  That’s just my favorite dynamic ever!  And everything was so pretty!

Some ideas:

 

• Give me the darkest, wickedest captivity story about Aurora and Caradoc.  Rescue at the end by Leo is welcome but optional.

• If Leo has rescued Aurora, where are they going to go from there?  How are they doing to heal together?

• Caradoc just impotently pining is fun, too.

• Flesh out a bit about the vampire world.  How are a pair of sweet kids like Aurora and Leo going to adjust to what they have become?  Will they be outcasts in vampire society or come to rule it?

• How will all the characters integrate- or not- to waking up in the 21st century?