Yuletide 2024 Letter

Details on my general likes are at this Dreamwidth post

This letter is pretty much exactly what I put in the requests; but since they're hidden for now, I'm putting it in a letter to make it more accessible. There are also links to the podcasts.

Fandoms requested:

Three podcasts:
Vampire the Masquerade Port Saga podcast (two seasons)
Sinkhole podcast (two seasons plus an extra bonus episode)
Achewillow podcast (seven seasons)

Three novels: (these all can stand alone, though there may be connected other work by the respective authors that you are free to consult or not as you prefer)
Siren Queen by Nghi Vo
The Space Between Worlds by Micaiah Johnson
Diaspora by Greg Egan


Request 1 by Gammarad
Fandom: Vampire: The Masquerade Port Saga (Podcast)

My gift must feature all of my chosen character tags (if 0: any from tag set)

Nominated characters: Titus Reed, Edmund Glass, Constance, Adelaide Hale, Lysander Valentine

I really loved Port Saga, how it portrayed Malkavians especially, but and the other clans as well; the twistiness and tension it had, the main character Titus and many of the supporting characters (including all nominated ones as well as Erin MacKenna, Ezra Knox, Rebel Everhart, Lawrence Bennet, Marlowe Voight, Dante Mendoza, Primogen Zelda, and Keisha Troy. I'd be happy with a story focusing on any of these characters listed as well as any of the nominated ones. Any canon typical topic is fine; ship fic ideally would be complicated and messy rather than fix-it and happy, given that, any f/f or m/m ship is welcome; noncon and dubcon are fine.

DNWs: (my DNWs are different per request, please check carefully)
- AUs making the vampire characters not vampires; AU setting changes;
- crossovers that take the characters out of the canon setting; focus on characters from other fandoms, including related world of darkness fandoms (having them as background characters is fine);
- anything requiring the "underage" archive warning;
- f/m ship as the focus (background f/m ships are fine).



Request 2 by Gammarad
Fandom: Sinkhole (Podcast)

My gift must feature all of my chosen character tags (if 0: any from tag set)

Nominated characters: Narrator, Worldbuilding

I love this podcast so much, with the lecturing, exasperated tone the narrator takes, I can listen to it over and over. I love the way the worldbuilding is built up over multiple episodes and things are hinted at. The various concepts of the Jackson Millennium building's oddness, how it sets fires, people get lost in it, and then it falls into a mysterious hole that makes weird sounds, and the narrator's science fictional disability keeping them from fully participating in the NEV.

Nonbinary narrator being out of touch with the world because of having missed so many years is also a great way to get the listeners in to the story. And the shocker at the end with the narrator's shady past being hinted at... I'd love to read more about any aspect of the setting, what it's like for or more about what kind of experiments they were doing (and still are) in the JMB or Sinkhole protected area)


DNWs: (my DNWs are different per request, please check carefully)
- explicit rating or any smut;
- changing canon genders or pronouns of any canon character (use whatever you want for OCs)
- anything requiring noncon or underage warnings
- setting change AUs of any kind
- intentional harm done to pets or children; threats made to pets or children to emotionally affect them or others
- crossovers (exception: using background characters from other fandoms is fine)


Request 3 by Gammarad
Fandom: Siren Queen - Nghi Vo

Selected Characters: Tara Lubowski,Luli Wei | Narrator (Siren Queen)
My gift must feature one or more of my chosen character tags (giver's choice)

I love the stylishness and the storytelling of Siren Queen, the world of moviemaking with the influx of myth, legend, and traditional stories as part of the living world. I have not read anything else by the author, but I've heard there's other stories with the same worldbuilding, feel free to use that information or not as you choose.

Any canon typical topic is fine; I like both gen fic and ship fic; with ship fic I prefer complicated and messy rather than fix-it and happy - given that, any f/f ship you'd like to focus on is welcome; dubcon is fine; any canon ships are fine, too, to appear as you like.

Who are the true gods of the land who have to be propitiated, and how does everything work so smoothly and yet so weird


DNWs: (my DNWs are different per request, please check carefully)
- explicit underage sex
- characters changing gender or sexual orientation from canon
- mundane AUs that take away the magic, or any AUs that make the characters younger than in the book
- crossovers of any kind


Request 4 by Gammarad
Fandom: The Space Between Worlds - Micaiah Johnson

My gift must feature all of my chosen character tags (if 0: any from tag set)

Nominated Characters: none

I love this story's multiple levels of world building as it creates many worlds, a main one, and several secondary ones that the characters travel to. I love the relationship between Cara and Dell. I love all the minor and secondary characters. Feel free to stick to the main world or to explore any of the others, and to use any characters from the book, and to make up original characters as needed.

After a quick check, there is a follow up novel to this that seems to be in the same (or connected) setting, but I haven't read it (I will be reading it soon so no worries about spoilers though). Please feel free to either include or exclude it as a basis of what you create for me, I don't mind either way.

My general exchange likes are here

DNWs: (my DNWs are different per request, please check carefully)
- incest between siblings or between generations of a family
- any ship fic between main character Cara and someone other than Dell


Request 5 by Gammarad
Fandom: Diaspora - Greg Egan

My gift must feature all of my chosen character tags (if 0: any from tag set)

Nominated characters: Yatima, Hermann, Worldbuilding

I love the story from the beginning where Yatima is born through the algorithm and then grows up, to the part where the characters are exploring the multiverse. The part where two characters go into mechanical bodies to interact with the last physical humans is really great, as are all the parts with discovering and talking to aliens. That said, the way the virtual-people society itself works is the most interesting thing of all.

DNWs (my DNWs are different per request, please check carefully): smut, explicit sex, romance or couples focus ("shipfic") (background ships are fine), changing canonical pronouns used for characters


Request 6 by Gammarad
Fandom: Achewillow (Podcast)

My gift must feature all of my chosen character tags (if 0: any from tag set)

Nominated characters: Ophelia, Helen Edna, Miriam DuFour, Agnes

Miriam is an infuriating protagonist as she almost never seems to learn from her experiences, but instead returns to her habits as if the things didn't happen. Still, she's vastly enjoyable to listen to and spend time with, and her food sounds amazing.

I also like lots of other characters, especially Annabel. Feel free to put everyone you want in the story, as long as at least one of the nominated characters gets a reasonably major role.

Ship fic is also fine; feel free to pair the characters up with anyone who you see them with, their canon love interests or someone else. For this fandom, I'm good with f/f or f/m ship as the focus. I also think I'd like Miriam with any of the other three nominated characters.


DNWs (my DNWs are different per request, please check carefully):
- anything that you would estimate requires the "underage" or "noncon" archive warnings
- any characters outright stating a sexual orientation in dialogue or reported dialogue
- AUs taking the characters out of the town of Achewillow, or sending them to school (but an AU exploring different professions would be fine)