pameluke | Dear Yuletide Author 2020 (Reply)

Hi!

I'm excited about Yuletide and I hope you are too! I did my best to offer a wide array of likes and prompts in my letter. Don't feel obliged to write everything for one prompt or fandom. I write long letters, but don't be daunted, I'm 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!

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Violent (and bloody) sex is fine, as long as there is some kind of positive resolution at the end.

DNW's

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 Infantilization, please don't describe adults as boys or girls
No (Permanent) Character Death

Regarding non-sexual violence and other possible triggering things, a good baseline is 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 is at the same intensity level of canon.

A GATHERING OF DRAGONS - MILLA VANE
Requested: Ardyl, Keril
What I love about the fandom and characters: BARBARIAN ROMANCE! Dinosaurs in the background! I really like how Milla Vane (aka Meljean Brook) builds words, and this series is no exception. I like the political maneuvering, I like the wildness and the violence. I love that this is a world recovering from a terrible event. I love Marrek and Yvette and the found family around them. Which brings me to Ardyl and Keril. They caught my eye the moment they took someone else to their beds, and the more the love between them became clearer, the more I became invested. The mutual love and pining that isn't quite pining. DELICIOUS. I also really, really love the importance of truth and honesty in this series, because it bares so many emotions that usually stay hidden.

PROMPTS

fic that explores their youth. How they came to be part of Maddek’s Dragon. When did they realize that they loved each other? How did they decide that they never would act on it. Did they talk about this or did they never speak of it directly to one another?
fic that actually gets them together. I like the explanation Ardyl gives in book 2, that their oath to Maddek would always trump any oaths they could make to each other, but… BUT. They love each other already! It hasn’t gone away! They swore their oats together! Surely there is a way that they can be together, within their oaths and loyalty towards Maddek. It can happen on their current mission, it can happen in the far future, when the Destroyer is defeated and the world is better. Maybe one of them almost dies, maybe they all almost die, maybe they finally kiss on the final battlefield… Maybe it happens when they are older or when Maddek is no longer the Ran, when they’re grey and their joints are creaky…
One way all these feelings could be explored could be through the people they shared their beds and hearts with. Who was the first woman they shared a bed with? Who was the first man? Did they ever share Maddek between them? Ardyl mentions they both have big hearts, who else did they love or feel affection for? How did sharing their bed with a third person become the way they express the love between them? (I'm not specifically interested in the monk character who has a crush on them, but he can totally be part of a wider exploration).
The super angsty version where one of them is taken and the other has to keep their oath and can't go rescue them. Terrible things happen, but eventually, they get free/are rescued and are reunited, and dramatic love confessions happen.
Adventures on the road. They left their home behind, how do they view their fellow travelers? What do they think about the lands they travel through? How do their fellow Parsathians view their relationship? How many dinosaurs do they kill? Some kind of travelogue about their adventures on the road would be awesome. Also, since book 1 is canonically put into song by book 2, I am totally here for a bard type of character putting the story of the star-crossed barbarians to song.
fic where they fight a dinosaur because fuck yeah

Fandom specific DNW: Oath-breaking. Please let them stay loyal to Maddek.

INNKEEPER CHRONICLES - ILONA ANDREWS
Requested: Maud Demille, Arland Krahr
What I love about the fandom and characters: VAMPIRES IN SPACE!! Okay, so I love the mix of magic and sci-fi that is the innkeeper series. I love Gertrude's magic and Dina and the whole concept of inn's as magical places where weary space travelers can rest their heads. But I only really got fannish when we went with Maud to the vampire world, because POLITICS. MARTIAL ORIENTED POLITICS. I just love everything about the 4th innkeeper book so much. I'm just a sucker for culture clashes and diplomacy and violent cultures trying to be not violent. I really love Maud and Arland as a pairing because they're so obviously in love, but at the same time they're also realistic about their situation, and so the pining while trying to figure out if they can work out long time really worked for me. I'm also a sucker for couples who work together, so Mauds new political position in House Krahr works so well for me.

PROMPTS

Fic related to Maud’s new function. All the Space Diplomacy with various alien species in the new Space Station, while she’s navigating the vampire politics and her in-laws meddling.
Arland’s sister goes missing, possibly due to aliens and Maud and Arland have to go on a rescue mission while also avoiding a new galactic war (or starting a new Vampire conflict because it turned out to be Vampires, not aliens, and nobody messes with House Khrahr. The more Lady Ilemina and her consort are involved the better (or worse).
Maud and Arland are obviously in love, but they figured that out in very difficult circumstances, so now that the waters have calmed a little, what do they learn about each other. How does their life together look like? How does Helen fit in? How does their relationship develop?
I am weak for battle couples. Any excuse for a big sprawling battle where they both get to up their kill count, maybe save each other’s life and afterward have wild life-affirming sex would be great. Bathing in the blood of their enemies optional.
Maud and Arland started their courting while fighting and sparring together, so a fic that explores this further, how the nature of their sparring changes along with their relationship, maybe even some outsider POV on this, or a n times kind of fic. Sparring turning into slightly violent sex very welcome.
Outsider POV on Arland and Maud's relationship, by any of Arland's family. How has Arland changed since meeting Maud? We know his uncle really liked her from the start, but why? How do they feel about some of her more human behaviors?

No fandom specific DNW's.

DE TOEKOMST TRILOGIE | THE FUTURE TRILOGY - THEA BECKMAN

Who I nominated: Elvira, 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 barely 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.

Fic that explores the world-building and expands on the plot. All the rebuilding after the third invasion. How has Thule fundamentally changed? How does the world change? Do the political agreements stick?
Or fic more focused on the country and nature. Hikes in the wild, romantic dates, family dates, just exploring Thule. I really like the traveling parts of these books, and now that Elvira is actually a part of the country, 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.
All the first time fic, especially first times that aren't fraught but a little clumsy and nice. 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 fully embrace it :) I'm really into the idea of Elvira letting the restraints of Baden go, and exploring her sexuality and finding freedom in that.

No fandom specific DNW's

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:

Building directly on the open ending of the book: 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 palpable, at some point in their future together it is so going to break. Possibly at the worst possible 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. Blood and violence optional. 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.
Obviously the telepathic wolves are canon, but I would love an AU where either one of them is some kind of animal shifter. Cue even more animalistic desires. You can go all out here, empathy, telepathy, throw in soul bonds. The whole plethora of shifter romance tropes are awesome, like Heats, Knotting, Scent Marking, Claiming Bites etc.
They're both from different countries, so I'm totally here for a political marriage, where they're both convinced the other is only doing it for the political motivations, and all the angst and pining and messy things that come with that.
Related: 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.
Adventures on the road. These books are filled with rock-climbing, fighting raiders, fighting nature, lots of exciting traveling. I would love for more of that, and them having to work together to survive in the wilderness. Rishte being fond of Condari would be extra cherries on top.

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