pameluke | Dear Yuletide Letter (Reply)

Dear Yuletide author,

I’m looking forward to your gift so much! I’m so glad it’s this time of the year again, and we can all happily roll around in the small fandoms of our hearts. I’m very excited, and while I write long letters, I’m super easy to please!

My letters always work as sort of a buffet so you can pick and select whatever catches your fancy and write something we’ll both enjoy.

I’m a firm believer in Optional Details are Optional, so as long as you respect my few DNWs it’s going to be great!

I can be found elsewhere as

pameluke,

janoda and

janoda.

GENERAL DNW’S

Regarding violence and other possible triggering things, if it happens to characters in canon, I can deal with it happening to them in fic. Basically, I can deal with everything as long as it at the same intensity level of canon.

No Requested Characters Doing Non-Con
No Power Imbalance between requested characters, so if Under Influence (alcohol, drugs, heats, sex-pollen… I prefer ALL of them to be Under Influence)
No Violence Between Characters I’ve requested
No Humiliation
No Infantilisation, please don’t describe adults as boys or girls

Otherwise, I’m game. The rating can be as high or low as you want, as long as it’s consensual I’m okay with any kink, and the fouler the language the better.

GENERAL LIKES, TROPES, AND AUs

I love canon fic, slice of life fic, expansion on world building, adventures in nature, food and cooking related fic, loyalty kink, competence kink, hurt-comfort, found families, random domesticity and slice of life fic.

I love fic in which a relationship is explored, and don’t mind if that’s the main plot. I can deal with angst, but I’d like to have some kind of happy resolution at the end, even if it’s Happy For Now.

I’d prefer all fic to be set in their respective Canon Settings, but I definitely love Alternate Canons and Canon Divergences. Some of my favorite tropes:

Soulbonds, in all forms, with marks or no marks, with relationships between the actual bonds or out of them, telepathic powers, or only bad side-effects.
Fake relationships that turn real. In all forms. For all reasons.
Living by the Nile, or “What feelings? Me? No Way, Good Sir, Never (I love you)”
Elaborate Plans Gone Wrong.
Awkward Flirting
Awkward Sex
Competent People and the People who fall for them, all the Competence Kink, seriously
N Times Characters Did A Thing
Marriage/Relationship of convenience, turned REAL
Interspecies Relationships, especially when there’s lots of cultural differences.

GENERAL PORN KINKS & LIKES

General Things I like for all pairings and fandoms I’ve requested.

Enthusiastic consent, this is my biggest kink always
Awkward Sex, Awkward Sexual Situations, especially if there’s a lot of laughter during sex
Biting, Claiming Bites, Marking
Body Worship
Desperate Arousal/Sexual Frustration, Desperate Sex
Manhandling/Shows of Athleticism During Sex
Outdoor Sex, Sex in Nature
Pegging, Sex Toys
Reunion Sex
Something Made Them Do It (All of them)

In general, I like narrative sex and a little plot with my porn. I love character introspection, character development, and relationship development through sex. For me, sex is both about the pleasure people can derive from each other and about the emotional connection that can be made.

Everything is hotter when emotions are involved.

You can ignore everything that’s not to your liking or doesn’t inspire you. On to the fandom-specific stuff, YAY.

HIDDEN LEGACY SERIES - ILONA ANDREWS

Who I requested: Bern Baylor, Abraham “Bug” Levine

What I love about the Canon:
Everything about the setting is amazing. I love the House politics, the importance of genetics, the small and big ways use of magic has changed the world, the international politics of it all. I love the Baylors and their complicated but loving family life. I love Rogan and his loyal standing army and I love pretty much every character we've run into so far.
What I love about them:

I have a weakness for tech-wizz characters, and they’re both such delicious variants of the trope. I’m super interested in Bug and his relationship with his Swarm, how it helps him, how he manages to co-exist, why he volunteered for certain death in the first place… The man is a mystery, and I love how we see glimpses here and there throughout the books. I like how quickly he became loyal to Rogan and to Nevada, and how he’s becoming healthier and happier and finding a place in the world.

I love Bern’s logical way of doing everything, I love how he reports on cases, I love that he just wants to learn and learn, and genuinely seems to like college. I love that he looks like a giant wrestler, gives his family bearhugs and plays silly computer games with them, while he’s also a genius analyst, who seems to be serious all the time. He’s just such a starchy hero, and I’m dying to see him unstarched.

NGL, I really, really ship them, because they seem to like each other, have similar but very different ways of looking at data, and I love the competition and genuine admiration between them. Also, imagine what they could do if they really, genuinely worked together? No database would be safe.

Also, Bug deserves one of those hugs.

Prompts:

I’d be super into anything that explores their magic and their relationship with it. More about Bern and his parents, more about his college experience and what becoming a House means to him. How do his fellow college students react? How does his magic feel to him?
Anything about Bug’s time in the Army, why he chose to do the Swarm thing, his life with Rogan. How he found his dog, the transition from being pretty much insane to a more regular life. How Bern fits in that…
Them working on a case together, and being competitive (boyfriends) about it. I just want them to have fun together while they solve something through sexy data crawling and hot analysis. Flirting through tech speak while catching bad people.
Like I said, a big part of my attraction to these two is them fitting the Starchy Hero meeting the Opposite of Starchy Hero, and getting unstarched despite himself in a whirlwind kind of romance trope. The birth of House Baylor and the whole Caesar plot has already rocked Bern's boat, now I want all the resulting messy stuff of having Bug in his life.
With the whole House Baylor thing, I’m sure both Bern and Bug are doing a lot of work behind the scenes to protect the House and make sense of the madness. All the hot nerds learning about possible enemies, gathering data on dangerous Houses, and kicking ass and taking names together. I’d be super into them disabling a plot before it can be put in motion, because they’re just so good when they put their brains together.
Honestly, I’d also be into all the secret dating, trying to hide their budding relationship from a House of Detectives and Security experts sounds like fun.
Either one of them rescuing the other. Bern has the training and physique, Bug has the training and experience, but neither of them is used to be in the front lines much. A dramatic rescue with dramatic kissing would totally be my jam.
Also, Bug deserves all the hugs and affection and great orgasms, so I’m here for some good old pwp as well, if that floats your boat.

KATE DANIELS - ILONA ANDREWS

Who I requested: Barabas Gilliam, Christopher Steed

Why I love this canon: I love the magic system, the world-building, and the amazing character development almost all characters go through. I love the snark, the found family aspects, and I’m deeply invested in all canon relationships. It’s one of those series where I’ve actually yelled at characters for making hard choices I disagreed with, and yet loved them even more for it. I’m completely caught up with all novellas and the latest book, which sky-rocketed my emotional enjoyment to new levels.

Why I love them:
I’ve liked Barabas since he started as one of Kate’s dedicated Bouda’s, but I think I really fell in love with him when he came to Andrea’s rescue like an Avenging Angel Lawyer of Doom. What a crowning moment of awesome. I love that’s he as fiery as his hair, but also calculated and observing and great at lawyering. I love how he always falls for emotionally unavailable people, knows it, and yet repeats his mistake all over again. I love how he avoids his own problems by helping other people with theirs. He’s so human, weremongoose or not.

Christopher was always a bit of a mystery, because his mind was so fucked up, but I loved how he managed to be kind and generous despite that. Him being the one to make the panacea was such a twist, I’m still in awe of that. And now, with the whole Deimos thing and him turning out to have been Roland’s right hand… So much possibilities! I love how these books let people redeem themselves, and I’m hoping that’ll be the case for Christopher as well.

I shipped them from the moment Barabas pulled Christopher from his cage and Christopher thought he was an angel. I love how caring for Christopher centered Barabas in a way, and I love how Barabas panicked completely once Christopher fixed his brains and threw feelings in the mix. Christopher saying “I love him” nearly killed me, seriously.

Prompts

I love the scene where Barabas is all “I don’t need to see him in a suit” because Christopher will be irrestistable, and I assume he wants to figure out his feelings first. I’d love fic where Barabas Sees Christopher In A Suit. I’m assuming that happened on Kate’s wedding anyway, but any other occasion is fine too. Just Barabas and Christopher getting together and facing their feelings through the power of suit-porn
It’s really cliché, but argh I’m so here for the healing power of love. They both have a bunch of issues, and both could use someone to just love them and take care of them, do genuinely nice things just because. I think they could be so good for one another, in a slow burn, tender, careful kind of way. (If you want to throw some Healing Cocks in there, I’m super game too)
I love their relationship with food, Barabas making sure Christopher eats at all, Christopher helping out in the kitchen because Barabas is a terrible cook. Now that they’re both in a better place, I’d love those aspects thrown together with the shapeshifter courting traditions. What to weremongoose even do to show their affection?
Them getting to terms with the fact that Christopher was indeed the Right Hand to an Evil Overlord, had ambitions, was the best Vampire pilot of his generation… He has regrets and while Kate is fine with Christopher being a new person, I think Barabas might need some time to wrap his head around that.
Barabas having to come to Christopher’s rescue being all lawyery and competent, and Christopher being equally awed by Barabas’ brilliance as Barabas is in awe of Christopher’s genius.
If you’re in the mood to write some smut, feel free! I think they’d be prime candidates for THANK FUCK YOU’RE ALIVE, LET’S FUCK sex, to only afterwards deal with their feelings. I'd love for them to Not Deal with all the things between them, until a battle/the big battle, after which everything kind of explodes into THANK FUCK YOU’RE ALIVE, LET’S FUCK sex, to only afterwards deal with their feelings. Or not deal with them for a while still and just fuck a lot.
I'd be totally there for Christopher ending up in Barabas' bed when he was still not in his right mind, Barabas struggling with denying him, naked cuddling gone too far, Christopher making moves on a sleeping Barabas. All sweet and caring and tender, but still kind of dub con and totally messing with Barabas' guilt, and later when Christopher returns to himself messing with his head as well, which is why things are awkward between them. I'm into it for the guilt and still doing it anyway factor. You can go as fucked up as you like with this one, as long as they at least somewhat resolve it between them once they are both able to consent.
Christopher has obviously been touch starved, and hasn't yet let himself be touched overly much. I like to think that once that dam breaks, it really breaks and Barabas is his choice provider of affection, hugs, body heat, kisses, sex and all other kind of touches, going from hair braiding to playing footsy.
We're talking about a Weremongoose and a flying greek demi-god with fangs. So I'm all over the biting kink, the animalistic sex, weird dicks (knotting, those cat-like dicks, anything really,) wing kink, tentacles.... anything not quite human about their bodies that can be used during sex.

WOLF IN NIGHT - TARA K. HARPER

Who I requested: Condari Rahnbada neKeatus Brithanas, Noriana Ember maDione

What I love about the canon:
I love the nature and the adventures in the wild these books have. The rock-climbing, the traveling on dnu, the wildness of the environment. I ADORE the wolfwalking, telepathic animals were my thing as a teenager, and I never got over it when it came to these books.

I love all the different counties and cultures and the fact that there’s nine moons and that those mess up the tides. I love that these books have always been about family and found families. I love the extremely convoluted politics, and that everybody is always playing at something. I love the hinted at history, and that there are actual aliens on this planet, who screw things up.

Why I love them:

I love Nori's loyalty to her family, both by blood and by choice, and how she struggles now that she needs to calculate Rishte into her loyalties. I love her struggle with the alien inside her head, and the expectations put upon her. She’s many things for many people, but I always felt the book set her up for finding out who she wanted to be for herself. I love her relationship with her brother as well, supportive siblings are my weakness.
I love how Condari is built out of contradictions. Rich and spoiled and comfortable, yet totally willing to do his own dirty work, or hiking through the woods. I like how he’s obviously interested in Nori, and while pursuing her rather determently, still always respects her boundaries.
I love, love, love the sexual tension between these two. Their backgrounds are so different, and their goals only seldom truly line up, but the tension and attraction and respect is so palpatable between them. This book so obviously set things up for Things to happen, and then it stopped. I WANT MORE. WHAT HAPPENS NEXT?

Prompts:

Will Nori eventually give Condari his shirt back? Will Condari manage to hire Nori as a scout? The politics of this series are so complicated and convoluted, I’d love something that ran with that, and made sense of everything that was set-up in the Wolf in Night Book.
The sexual tension between these two is so palpatable, at some point in their future together it is so going to break. Possibly at the worst possibly moment. Ideally somewhere in the wilderness, so they can roll through the leaves, pin each other against trees and destroy some bushes in the process.
Obviously the telepathic wolves are canon, but I wouldn’t mind an AU where either one of them is some kind of animal shifter. Cue even more animalistic desires. Non-Human Genitalia only make things more interesting, so Heats, Knotting, Scent Marking, Claiming Bites and other things can all be part of this.
The world has a lot of weird and complicated social structures, so I would like to read about them getting married (either established relationship, or arranged marriage for political reasons), and that involving Ritual Sex. There’s the whole canon thing of having stones grafted on the breastbones, so I feel like Public Ritual Sex wouldn’t be that far off.
Another possible scenario for the UST to break would be sparring turning into sex. Have them playfight, train, be all sweaty and filled with adrenaline, and BOOM Condari’s nice clothes get shredded. Twice, because obviously Nori was wearing his shirt.

KING ARTHUR (2004)

Who I requested: Bors/Dagonet/Vanora

What I love about canon:
I really love the whole Sarmatian Auxiliary to the Roman army angle of King Arthur. 15 years of fighting in a war that is not yours, in a country that isn’t yours, for a country that is not yours. I love the easy friendship between all the knights, but also how very different they look upon their time in Britain. So much drama and fucked-upness right there.

What I love about them:
There’s this moment relatively early in the movie, when Vanora sings, and Bors and Dagonet share a look, and every time I get fucking emotional about it. And just, they just want to go home, but the Romans fuck them over, and then Dagonet sacrifices himself and I drown in tears.

I love the obvious affection Bors feels for both Vanora and Dagonet, I love how Dagonet is this mountain of silent, but deep feelings, and I love how Vanora is possibly the only sensible person in that whole castle. I have a mighty need for the three of them to LIVE happily ever after. Fuck, they’d be hot, and awesome and glorious together.

Prompts:

I’d seriously love an Everybody Lives Canon Divergence, or a fic set before the movie. I’d rather avoid a fic set during the movie, because I’d rather not deal with Dagonet dying. DAGONET LIVES!!!
I have a theory that obviously Bors’ 12 children are at least 50% strays Dagonet picked up. I’d love a slice of life type fic, where the three (try to) find an escape from the daily chaos of raising 12 children to get laid. Extra kudos if there’s a couple of awkward walk-ins and some failed attempts because sudden interruption. Sex in the outdoors seems like one possible solution to this problem.
I’d really like to know more about Vanora in general. The possibilities are all so intriguing. What we know is that she’s kind and caring and raising 11 kids. Since she’s relatively young, I always assume a couple of those at least are adopted. She sings about Home and it’s implied she’s singing about Sarmatia, but since we don’t see any girls being displaced by the Romans, I think that she’s the daughter of a former Sarmatian knight with a British woman. Which I love because Culture Clash! Speaking of Sarmatia, apparently they were known for having Warrior Women, so a fic where Vanora is definitely in charge when it comes to the sex would be awesome.
I did love all the fighting scenes a lot, and angsty fic when someone gets wounded, and the other two comfort them and each other would be delicious. Without the angst I’d also love Post-Battle victory sex, Thank God We’re Alive sex and Dammit, Looking at you fight makes me really horny sex. Could also be Post-Training sex, because I imagine Vanora to be an interested spectator whenever Bors and Dagonet spar. I’m convinced they’d have competitions between them to have the honor of eating Vanora out that evening.
I really like seduction fic, so a story of how two of them seduce the third would be totally my jam. The Romancing and Seduction of one Silent Stoic Soldier called Dagonet, by means of Stray Children, Foul Language and Excellent Sex, a novel by Vanora, with annotations by Bors, would be glorious.
I’d love a Soulbond AU, or an Animal Shifter AU, or both. Especially if there’d be cultural differences between the Britons and Sarmatians in how was dealth with this. I love me some Fantasy Non-Human Genitalia, so feel free to go as weird and kinky as you want. I’m also really into all the marking and claiming and possessiveness, especially if it’s mutual and in all directions.
I love the physicality of this canon, there’s all the fighting of course, but these three are also so very affectuous with each other, I like to think that carries over to their sex-life. All the manhandling, rolling around, struggling for being on top. I like to think Vanora makes up for her lack of physical strength (in comparison) with the strength of her personality. I requested Double Penetration and Spitroasting, but by no means does that have to mean that Vanora has to be the centerpiece. I like it when characters switch around, medieval dildo’s were a thing, so pegging is a definite possibility. I mean Bors is such an epicurist, I’m sure that once the fighting is over, they take their time to experiment a lot.

DIFFICULT PEOPLE (TV)

Who I requested: Billy Epstein, Todd Ross

What I love about the canon:
I love the friendship between Billy and Julia. I love the other people in their life. I love how New York isn't only a setting, but pretty much a character. I love the humor and all the cultural references. I love Arthur and everything he chooses to be.
What I love about them:

I have a weakness for asshole characters falling for asshole characters and being assholes together. Which is basically the premise of the entire show. I love the humour in this show, love all the references, I love Billy and Julie’s friendship, I love Julie’s relationship with Arthur, and I love Billy’s disaster zone love life. But like I said, I have a weakness for assholes falling for other assholes, so the addition of Todd really makes this season for me (especially thanks to my weakness for John Cho).

I fucking love them together. Their confrontation in Todd’s office was hilarious and awesome, I love how they admired each other’s evilness from the get go, and once they made it to making out, I love how quickly it was settled for both of them that this was one of their people. I like that Todd is rich and Billy is broke, and that it doesn’t really matter (that scene of them cleaning Billy’s tiny apartment together was amazing). I love that they don’t need to hold back with one another and can just be mean assholes, and that that’s why they’re less of an asshole with one another. I like, that while they fit so well together, sometimes their assholeness still throw the other for a loop. The finally really moved me, and while I wished their relationship got a little more time in it, that just means there’s room for all the fic!

Prompts:

How did they get back together after Billy’s stint in LA? No way did Todd just take him back, I’m assuming some epic fights and even more epic make-up sex was involved.
I think these two aren’t super aware of how they feel, especially with Billy overthinking all the things, so I’m all here for either of them suddenly realising they’re in love, and not dealing well with it. I’m amused how long they took to do an actual sleepover, even when they’re obviously super into each other, so I’m all here for fic exploring how terribly they are at feelings, but how they get there anyway.
Billy and Todd separately are forces to be reckoned with, together I’m assuming they can swipe the floor with anyone they meet. Even more fun if it’s a meet the family type of thing, or Todd at the cafe. Billy and Todd on a date, facing off with other people on a similar date. Billy and Todd vs. The world. Billy and Todd vs. each other’s exes.
Just honestly, Billy and Todd being obnoxious together, while being obnoxiously in love.
We've seen Billy deal with Todd's co-workers, but I'm curious how Todd deals with Billy's circle. Todd meeting Matthew sounds like a gift.
Also, ngl, I’d be into some smut between these two, mostly because I think it would both be hilarious and hot. From the probably still a little angry sex from when they first start out, to accidentally making love, and everything in-between. I'm into their size-difference, I'm into their terrible taste in underwear, I'm into them in hot suits, impatiently getting the other out of them.
I'm into them trying to have sex in Billy's closet of an appartment.

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