pameluke | Yuletide 2019

Dear Yuletide author,

I can't believe it's that time of year again, how do the years run by so fast? This year I'm requesting mostly old fandoms of my heart, that I've loved and adored for a long time. I've requested them all before, but that's because I love them so much. And why I'm looking forward to your gift so much! I write long letters, but don't be daunted, I'm super easy to please! 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 on AO3 as

Pameluke

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 Non-Canonical 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 Canons, 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 and/or 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 are 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 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.

They haven't interacted much in the first Catalina book, but that moment at the end, where all Bern's stuff is ruined and Bug moves his way to comfort him?? THAT IS MY JAM. My shipping heart was reinvigorated.

Sidenote here: I think IA was putting the first signs of a Runa/Bern romance out there, which I wouldn't mind, and I am genuinely here for Bug/Bern/Runa if that is something you want to explore. Although lbr, the real romance of Sapphire Flames was Runa/Catalina, so feel free to add some background R/C in there too if that's your jam.

Prompts:

Anything related to the rebuilding of the Warehouse, specifically, Bug wooing Bern with rebuilding his electronica. Maybe one of them accidentally moves in with the other why this happens? Bug comforting Bern with a loss only he truly understands? ALL THAT LOST DATA AND HARDWARE.
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.
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. Especially if this all happens while they're also dealing with all the security and everything else that comes looking while preparations for the wedding are afoot.
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.

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 determinately, 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.

And the 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. Honestly, this is one of my perennial requests because my love for them never stills.

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.

DE TOEKOMST TRILOGIE | THE FUTURE TRILOGY - THEA BECKMAN

Who I nominated: Elvira and Tjalf

What I love about the canon: 80s Feminist Environmentalist Post-Apocalyptic sci-fi set in Greenland, what's not to love? Seriously these are the sci-fi books I ever read, and I've loved them since. I love the straight up "men have screwed up ruling for 1000s of years, we're giving ALL positions of power to women". I love that this mentality gets questioned during the novels, and balanced out a bit, but that the base still remains. I love all the hiking through nature, and waging war with the elements and nature. I love that the love-interest is the first two books is an Inuit woman, who ROCKS, both as a captain, and later as a guerilla war strategist . I love that she's still rocking as a great-grandmother in book 3. I love all the female friendships (the sisters in book 3 are so awesome).

20 years after first reading them I still read them on occasion, and I still love this series to death.

What I love about them:

Fuck, these two. Honestly, I still speed read book 3 just to get to the scene where he's all, "Elvira don't leave I can't miss your kindness". Argh. I just really love how kindness is the most coveted and appreciated trait in these books. And I always found it so frustrating that we never got see them later in life, because culture clash!!

Prompts:

Anything, seriously. Since this is a Dutch series that's never been translated, feel free to write in Dutch (I'm from Belgium) if you'd find that easier, but English is definitely okay as well.

The setting is so rich, I'd love some wordlbuilding fic, just exploring nature, the wildness of Thule. All the rebuilding after the third invasion. How has Thule fundamentally changed? How does the world change? Do the agreements stick?
Hikes in the wild, romantic dates, family dates, just exploring Thule. I really like the travelling parts of these books, and now that Elvira is actually a part of the world, I'd love to see Thule through her eyes now she's no longer constantly fearing for her life.
Tjalf and Elvira building a life together, including all the culture clashes. Elvira might have fallen in love with Thule and Tjalf, they're both very different people from very different cultures and social classes. How do they deal with this? What will they do in life? Where will they live? Just, Elvira settling in in Thulean culture.
All the romance. Thulean wooing must be a thing, and I always was super bummed that it was mostly glossed over in the books. They have that glorious moment at the end of book three, but argh, let there be more romancing.
Alllll the first time fic, especially first times that aren't fraught but a little clumsy and niiiiice. Outdoors sex, because hell yeah nature. Pegging because YES, and also Tjalf seems like someone who'd ask for that himself. I think it'd be fun for Elvira to wrap her head around that and then embrace it :)