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Posting deadline: 18th December at 9am UTC - may be the 17th in your time zone
Story reveal: 25th December
Author reveal: 1st January

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Bullets Dodged

[(Anonymous)]

Requests lurking in the summary that you're really glad you weren't matched to.

Re: Bullets Dodged

[(Anonymous)]

There are canons that I'm overflowing with plotbunnies for. And then there are a couple canons where I really, really need something to go off of for what my recip wants. The request for a canon in the latter category did not have something to go off of.

Re: Bullets Dodged

[(Anonymous)]

The fandom was clearly nominated by the person who wanted A/B because only A and B are in the tagset. They posted their letter pretty early.

The other two requests, both of which had unlisted letters that there was no reason they couldn't have linked, only request A and ask for A/C.

People!!! Why do you do this? Nominate C yourself or maybe skip the fandom this time if the tagset didn't work out your way? Anyone who wanted to write for the letter would have risked matching to them smh. I feel bad for people who assumed everyone in the fandom wanted A/B this year and offered it in good faith only to match to...that.

Re: Bullets Dodged

[(Anonymous)]

That one person who wrote like she was having an orgasm over her request, complete with smileys.

I mean, I get being excited for Yuletide, but come on.

(...I got the feeling she wrote it one-handedly)

Re: Bullets Dodged

[(Anonymous)]

Holy shit, this person:

tornadox

Mark (Moon-Spinners - Stewart)

Mark is gay. It's my head-canon that he was on a date with a cute guy during the robbery. He hides his preferences during the adventure in Greece. Whether he is out of the closet (before and/or after canon), whether other characters know or not, is up to you.

I'd love a story of post-canon Mark back in England trying to rebuild his life. Perhaps Nicola (or any other character from the book or movie)comes for a visit; perhaps Mark is trying to reconnect with an ex-boyfriend. Can be anything from slice-of-life to a completely new adventure. AUs okay. No rating preference.

DNW: Mark as twink, prissy, or fussy stereotype.

This book is a het romance, and almost anyone offering would surely have offered Nicola and Mark (or *maybe* one of the two other nominated friend characters). Nobody could have seen this coming. Technically within the rules, but I'm hella glad I didn't include the offer after all.

Re: Bullets Dodged

[(Anonymous)]

The majority of the Venom requests are bad. I don't think it'll get a lot of fic for Yuletide this year and would expect it to be the MFMM of defaults like we had a couple years back. Maybe some ODAO types will use it as a chance to write a popular for Yuletide story but I don't know why they would wait for December to post instead of getting their stuff out there now.

Re: Bullets Dodged

[(Anonymous)]

The Iron Fist request where the only thing they want is an issuefic race-bending AU.

Re: Bullets Dodged

[(Anonymous)]

One of the requests where I had offered any and all their prompts were for characters who weren’t nominated and they didn’t have anything for any of the nommed characters and just said do whatever you want. I would have no idea what to do with that because all the unnominated characters and prompts were not something I could have ever done. And apparently they did this with another fandom so I have pity for their author.

Re: Bullets Dodged

[(Anonymous)]

I both love and fear the person who requested Belinda Blinked and whose only detail in their signup is "Please go full Rocky."

Re: Bullets Dodged

[(Anonymous)]

A request where the person added “no slash” to their DNWs but then asked for a canon where there is a canon slash pairing in it.

Re: Bullets Dodged

[(Anonymous)]

All the placeholder letters.

/coalie who has to finish their gift fic within 2 weeks due to RL stuff.

Re: Bullets Dodged

[(Anonymous)]

The Ex Machina one demanding genderswap and nothing else.

Re: Bullets Dodged

[(Anonymous)]

"I haven’t written any prompts for this yet but I’ll write them soon!" in a signup with no letter link.

Re: Bullets Dodged

[(Anonymous)]

all i want from this is some kind of exploration of Mulan's gender identity. i don't have any hard and fast headcanons for you to ruin, i just want a fic that acknowledges that a) Mulan isn't cis and b) Shang is sooo gay for her and c) they are very very queer and happy together. can be modern au or canon compliant or whatever, i don't really care, you choose.

This one.

Re: Bullets Dodged

[(Anonymous)]

Oh, it's the tiny fandom I love... and the only prompt is for crossovers with megafandoms I'm not into.

Re: Bullets Dodged

[(Anonymous)]

Spoiled for choice between a) prompt I've seen before and still don't think I could address to my satisfaction and b) prompt I could easily write because I have before, but the requester hasn't kudosed or commented on those fics so they probably aren't into my take on the characters.

Re: Bullets Dodged

[(Anonymous)]

hakuen's incredible misuse of Any for Escaflowne is a bullet I'm very glad to have dodged.

Re: Bullets Dodged

[(Anonymous)]

DNW: Graphic sex, violence, main character death.Also just friendship between the main characters.


Am I reading this right? Like, "DNW the implication that the main characters are just friends?" Because that is a REALLY bold thing to DNW when you've requested any for Father Ted.

Re: Bullets Dodged

[(Anonymous)]

Everything about this request.


Request by lmizutani
Fandom:Game Night (2018)


OK with spoilers from the movie if necessary for the story

Although I have not watched the movie, I am what one may call a "Board Game Geek".

Writer can view my board game related activities at Board Game Geek's website (https://boardgamegeek.com/user/lmizutani/). Had played Pathfinder but not Dungeons and Dragons. Can have them play Deception, Murder in Hong Kong (they can look up the game at the Board Game Geek website) or Mysterium as I am familiar with both games and believe (from the movie's IMDB page) if they do not want to do spoilers they can bounce off these games instead using the movie's characters.


https://archiveofourown.org/collections/yuletide2018/requests?page=156&sort_column=prompter&sort_direction=ASC

Re: Bullets Dodged

[(Anonymous)]

"Please tag for potential triggers."

ANYTHING can be a potential trigger. How should I know what applies to you? Also, how about you don't dictate how I tag my fics?

Re: Bullets Dodged

[(Anonymous)]

characters replying “point” to something
mouth to mouth kissing animals

LOL, these DNWs... I really wonder what the story is behind the first one.

Re: Bullets Dodged

[(Anonymous)]

The fandom where I nominated the protagonist and the villain because I ship them. No one else seems to have nominated but all the requests are just for protagonist with optional details asking for protagonist/canon love interest. Perfectly legitimate, but I'm glad I unoffered.

Re: Bullets Dodged

[(Anonymous)]

I read "Poor Unfortunate Souls", the alternate take on the Little Mermaid was a book that came out this year, and I've wanted to see more in that verse.

That's cool but why didn't you nominate and request that instead of Disney's Little Mermaid.

Re: Bullets Dodged

[(Anonymous)]

Misuse of Any in a fandom with a large character set. They mention a (very small) handful of characters. I wish they would take Any away.

Re: Bullets Dodged

[(Anonymous)]

The 12 Dancing Princesses request that really wants a kpop AU.

So glad I missed that.