Yuletide Letter (2022)

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(PS: Any treats are welcome!)


Dear Writer,

Hello and a happy Yuletide to you! I hope you like what we got matched on as much as I do.

I want to stress that my optional details and this letter are very much optional indeed and are only meant to serve as additional information in case you're looking for ideas. Aside of DNWs, you can go wherever your inspiration takes you and I'll be absolutely delighted with your gift.

I hope you have fun writing, and thank you!




GENERAL LIKES:

canon/canon divergence settings, character/relationship studies, unreliable narrators, mutual obsession!!, codependency, identity porn, found families, best friends in love, antagonists in love, slow build, competence porn, female friendships and female agency

on the more light-hearted side of things, i love banter and silly antics and domesticity and i love all the usual cliché tropes (mutual pining, mistaken to be dating, fake relationship, accidental relationship, accidental marriage, arranged marriage, marriage of convenience, soulbonding, bed-sharing, temporary amnesia, mistaken identity shenanigans, etc.)

on the more serious side of things: loyalty kink!!, king and lionheart dynamics!, people on a mission, morally gray characters, amoral characters, righteous characters, where do you put the line and what do you believe in and what are you willing to compromise on and what are you wiling to sacrifice, just the different ways people relate to right and wrong and guilt and responsibility and all that jazz; time travel shenanigans; unhealthy dynamics as long as they're recognized as such by the text if not by the characters; characters who aren't quite there yet—there being a healthy dynamic or being good or happiness—but want to work together or push each other towards it

GENERAL DISLIKES:

unhappy or generally depressing endings, character bashing, rape/non-con, (permanent) major character deaths, unrequited love, cheating*, outright PWPs, nominated characters being romantically or sexually involved with people outside of the ships requested
*a bit inevitable in some of the prompts but i'd rather it wasn't the focus
**you are welcome to bash, kill off or straight up never mention choi yoo jin's husband

• THE K2; choi yoo jin, kim je ha

My favorite noona romance!! Haha, I'm kidding... unless?

I just fell madly in love with their dynamic right from their first scenes together. She tries to have him killed but he escapes and goes to warn her off but she's laid a trap for him but he's prepared for it and takes her hostage to escape but then someone tries to kill her and he protects her and carries her out of a burning car??? The umbrella??? The way they grapple with each other, try to outsmart each other even once they agree to work together, the way they try to protect each other but are ultimately unwilling to compromise?

*chef's kiss*

I do ship the hell out of it but I'd be perfectly happy to read about them trying and failing to outsmart / kill each other, or you can wrap up a moral conflict in a bow and let them have fun with it, whatever you like!

(evil) queen and lionheart! *sobs* the umbrella!! *sobs*

i do not need them to kiss. i need them to know they have found their perfect match in each other, and their greatest enemy. i need them to know beyond doubt there can never be any common ground between his unwavering integrity and her need for power and control, and i need them to try to find it anyway. (they can also kiss)
 

possible prompts if you're looking for inspiration:
→ the one where she didn't [spoilers] and he's supposed to leave but doesn't
→ the one where he does stop working for her but keeps stopping her more morally dubious plans
→ the one where she divorced her husband or never married and still end up hiring kim je ha
→ the one where idk there's a mole in her organization and a dire threat to her life and they have to go on the run together and there's probably only one bed
→ the one where they have to pretend he's her boytoy for [reason]
→ the one where someone leaks to the press that they've having an affair, haha, how awkward, why would anyone think that!
→ the one with groundhog day or time travel fix-it?

• MY MISTER; lee ji an, park dong hoon

This drama. This drama!!

 this show and these characters and this relationship ruined me as a person. we see these two people who are so incredibly sad brought together by circumstances and helping each other through the most difficult moments of their lives, and then letting each other go, and it fucked me up.

i also do not need them to kiss. i need them to sit quietly in the same place and draw strength from each other. i need them to recognize themselves in each other. i need them to choose to be kind to each other. (they can also kiss)

i’d love just anything featuring the two of them. post-canon reunion? missing scene? canon with magical realism? a quiet moment in the neighborhood? i /would/ read an entire fic of park dong hoon walking somewhere in silence while she listens to him breathe.

 

possible prompts if you're looking for inspiration:
→ the one where their ‘affair’ was exposed
→ the one where he found out she was spying on him differently
→ the one where they run away for idk bad debt collector reasons
→ the one where they work together post-canon
→ the one where the neighborhood tries to matchmake them. are they good at it? they could be! are they discreet? no.

• THE SLEUTH OF THE MING DYNASTY; sui zhou, tang fan, wang zhi

I absolutely love these three and would love anything featuring them. I'd be happy with gen shenanigans or character studies, OT3 fic, Sui Zhou/Tang Fan & Wang Zhi. I'd feel a bit too sad for Sui Zhou to appreciate purely Tang Fan/Wang Zhi, but otherwise I'll like anything you write.

 i looooove these three. i love how wang zhi lives in a court intrigue palace drama, while tang fan's in a cooking show with a side of murder mystery and sui zhou's in a post-war psychological show slash romcom.

and i love every side of this triangle. i love how tang fan and sui zhou move in together and adopt a daughter and a goat within like, five minutes of their acquaintance. i love how tang fan and wang zhi understand each other and work so well off each other. i love sui zhou and wang zhi's relationship, how they sometimes grapple with their conflicting loyalties and codes of honor but still grow to have this quiet understanding and trust between them.

 

possible prompts if you're looking for inspiration:
→ the one where nothing bad happens and there are found family feelings and sui zhou cooks, probably
→ the one with case shenanigans? tang fan crossdresses, wang zhi schemes, sui zhou satisfies his loyalty/service kinks
→ the one with case shenanigans: the fake dating version? wang zhi plays the corrupt, lustful official, this is boy toy 1 and boy toy 2
→ the one where one of tang fan’s romance novels become wildly popular. did it draw inspiration from his own life and the people around him? maybe so!
→ the one where tang fan is In Danger, Again, and there is possibly Conflict between sui zhou and wang zhi on how to rescue him, and then they do rescue him/he rescues himself but the Conflict has not Resolved? they will need to Communicate?
→ the one where wang zhi needs help on a case post-canon
→ the one where wang zhi needs help on a lot of cases post-canon and maybe he's just Lonely, Actually?
→ the one where the emperor and imperial consort wan can tell from wang zhi's perfectly neutral letters that he's Wretchedly Lonely, Actually and decide to scheme/matchmake

• TURING'S CODE; guan yue, wen tianhe

I keep up with the manhua and I'm almost caught up to the English TL (around chapter 50) so if you've finished the novel one way or the other, I'd appreciate it if you could avoid specific spoilers?

the ultimate exes to lovers. each and every one of their scenes feels like balancing your heart on the edge of a very, very sharp knife. they loved each other so much, and they tried so hard to hold onto each other, and they couldn’t anymore but they still love each other /so goddamn much/.

i'd love to read just about any stage of their relationship, when they’re kids, when they’re living together in england pre-relationship, their early days as a couple, during their break-up, after their break-up, anytime, anyplace

 

possible prompts if you're looking for inspiration:
→ the classic ‘we broke up but we have to pretend to still be together for Reasons’
→ the one where they woke up married (get them drunk in vegas and you KNOW they would)
→ the one where there’s a terrible storm right when they go their separate way in (was it Tibet?) and the airport has shut down and they’ve broken up but there is Only One Bed at the nearest hotel
→ the sci-fi AU where wen tianhe is an engineer and guan yue an android (sorry, prometheus who i didn’t even think to nominate)
→ the one where prometheus tries to matchmake (even more) (results may vary)
→ the one where one of them has amnesia and forgets they broke up