Yuletide letter 2021

Hello! Sorry again about the late letter - this year's Yuletide signups coincided with some Stuff in my life, but I'm here and I'm psyched for my favorite time of year, and I'm very glad you're participating. Especially given how late I'm getting this to you, this is all just extra info if that's helpful for you - please feel free to work with only what I provided in my signup if that's your jam.

Things that I love: Friendships and family (found family and blood-related family alike), teams coming together, romance, domesticity; people being concerned about, caring for, and protecting each other. I'm a sucker for hurt/comfort and people just really liking each other, and companionable/loving squabbling! I love humor, competence, banter, and ridiculous fluffy tropes where appropriate (fake dating/fake married! cuddling for warmth! seasonal or holiday content where appropriate! fic with epistolary elements or that makes use of social media! ok those last few aren't tropes, but I appreciate them anyway). I realize this is a lot of fluffy stuff but I also really dig action and drama! I'm usually not a porn without plot person, but I'm absolutely here for sex scenes as long as they're part of the larger context of a story. Same goes for violence. I prefer a hopeful or happy ending but if you want to tug on my heartstrings getting there, I'm okay with that too!

Things that aren't my jam in a Yuletide fic: Incest, rape, infidelity, heavy focus on suicidal ideation (especially if it's not present in canon), non-canon character death, romantic relationships with big age or power imbalances (ie: boss/employee, teacher/student, a/b/o), cancer, the gay-for-you trope. I actually love alternate-setting AU's, but the canons that I've requested have such tiny fandoms that I'd prefer to read straight-up canon fic for them.

In other places on the internet, I'm wakeupnew and wakeupnew.

( Cherry Magic, Galaxy Quest, How to Be a Werewolf, NoPixel RP, Sins of the Cities by KJ Charles, Space Sweepers )