Yuletide 2020 Letter

[thrillingdetectivetales]

Hi there, Yuletide Writer!

First things first: thank you so much for participating in Yuletide this year, and for being willing to write a story for lil’ old me! I’ve compiled a couple of general lists of my favorite tropes and my DNW’s for easy perusal, with fandom-specific requests underneath:

YES-PLEASES

• friends-to-lovers
• getting together fic
• didn’t know they were dating
• fake/pretend relationships
• werewolves/shapeshifter AUs
• soulmate AUs
• person questioning/figuring out their sexuality (whether vanilla “I never thought I wasn’t straight until now” all the way to “turns out I’m really into being sexually submissive in a very kinky way, who knew?”)
• building queer communities
• experienced characters showing inexperienced characters the ropes (metaphorically, or literally if you want to go the bondage route ;) )
• character wrestling with their sexuality/religion

DO-NOT-WANTS

• major focus on character death
• non-canon/unrequested character death in general
• graphic depictions of torture/injury
• A/B/O
• pregnancy/mpreg
• non-canon child characters/kidfic
• scat/watersports
• slave!fic
• infidelity
• treating female characters as villains/ malicious hindrances to queer male romance
• infantilazation (including daddy kink)
• pedophilia
• explicit non-con/rape*
• vore
• fat-shaming
• degrading dirty talk (i.e.: "You're a filthy little slut" etc.)
• somnophilia/paralysis
• necrophilia
• modern AUs of period media
• gay bashing

Most other stuff is fair game. If you have a question about a particular trope/kink/topic, I’m always open to answering questions.

*Dub-con, of the flavor where a character is unsure but willing to go with it, or like, sex-pollen/drunk/etc. variety is fine, so long as there's not explicit focus on someone feeling taken advantage of.

Alright! Now let’s get on the fandom specific requests, shall we? (I’m pretty open to whatever at the end of the day, so long as enough legwork/worldbuilding/character development has been done to make me believe that a certain scenario would actually happen, so feel free to use the below as guidelines more than strict rules.)

FURY: Don “Wardaddy” Collier/Boyd “Bible” Swan

Would prefer Don/Boyd on this, but also welcome Boyd-centric character studies. I’d love an “everybody lives” AU that explores life for these incredibly damaged men post-war, as well as pre-movie fic that explores their time in North Africa. Double extra love for fic that shows Boyd exploring the place where his love for Don intersects with his love for his faith and figuring out how to let himself have both. Would prefer AU ending in general, or if not, no major focus on the fact that everyone except Norman dies in a terrible, poorly planned tank battle.

THE NICE GUYS: Jackson Healy/Holland March

Again, prefer the slash pairing on this one, but am open to gen!fic as well. For this, I’d love post-canon case!fic, Holly!POV get-together fic, Holly!POV casefic in a future where March and Healy have been together for awhile, or maybe a rewrite of film canon where March and Healy already know each other and have sexual tension (either because they’ve worked together before/have run across each other on jobs but never acted on anything or because they’ve slept together). Likewise would enjoy a “we keep sleeping together in the aftermath of strenuous situations and we’re not talking about it but we’re also slowly wending our way toward an actual relationship and neither of us wants to talk about that, either” style fic. Frankly, I’m pretty open to whatever. Maybe March and Healy don’t meet during film canon but March has to hire Healy after the fact because now that he’s responsible for accidentally cracking open a huge case against them, the Detroit Auto Manufacturers ^™ are sending assassins after him? I don’t know, go nuts.

LETTERKENNY: Jonesy/Reilly and/or Katy/Bonnie McMurray

The fic of my heart for this fandom would be a slow-burn “Jonesy and Reilly are totally dating but don’t fully realize it and then eventually they start sleeping together too out of convenience (coughcoughloveandromancecoughcough) and it takes them forever and no small amount of input from the rest of the town to figure it out.” But I would be equally enamored of fake dating for either pairing—maybe Bonnie is sick of all the dudes in town hitting on her so she enlists Katy as her fake girlfriend because she knows Katy is bi and while they’re pretending she figures out some stuff about herself? Maybe Reilly and Jonesy get mistaken for a couple and then have to keep up the charade as LGBT hockey ambassadors? Feel free to throw both pairings into the same fic, if you’d like. Maybe there’s some kind of bet between the four of them that somehow ends up in everyone getting together? Do your worst.

BON COP BAD COP: David Bouchard/Martin Ward

Oh man. Give me post-film one where Martin and David get suspended and Martin winds up crashing on David’s couch because of trauma. Give me an AU where David is a private investigator or an actual criminal informant and not just pretending to be one. Give me both of them getting fired and starting their own PI business and slowly falling in love. Give me them going undercover as a couple. I will take ANYTHING* at this point, anon, because the pickings in this fandom are so slim and the movies are such tremendous pieces of media they deserve better, frankly. Quintuple bonus points for Suzy (David's ex) trying to hook them up/being supportive of the relationship, and minus points if she's used as a naysayer/foil of the same.

Hopefully that gives you a pretty good taste of what I enjoy. I know I listed quite a few tropes up top but honestly, totally mundane curtain fic is good too, so long as everyone is having a good time.

Thanks again and happy writing!
-Tec