Dear Author Letter Yuletide 2022

Dear Yuletide Author,

Thank you so much for offering to write in my fandoms! I am also SunriseMagpie on AO3.

My definite Do Not Wants: rape/non con, self-harm, incest, graphic descriptions of violence. Unless otherwise indicated, please also no character death.

Things I LOVE in fics:
You might get a good idea of what I'm about by looking at my bookmarked fics on AO3, but I always want to gush about what I love in fiction.

• I love stories told through ephemera, whether that's through email, social media, case notes, whatever. I'm not as much of a fan of epistolary stories told solely through one person's journal/diary, but I'm a big fan of stories where that's just one aspect of the story.
• I'm a big fan of people who are just WILD about the people they like, whether that's romantic/sexual/platonic/whatever.
• I love puns!! I love language shenanigans, but I do recognize that is a very difficult thing to pull off.
• I adoooooore stories about relationship negotiation as people are becoming friends or becoming lovers--I see this a lot in polyamory fics and I wish I saw more of this kind of story in other areas!! Relationships are constantly shifting and I love seeing how different characters deal with these changes and come out stronger, more honest, more accurate-to-who-they-are.
• I'm a big fan too of FAKE DATING for parental/family/business benefit, especially if that goes along with SHARING A BED. Also a fan of "pretending we aren't dating" for similar reasons.
• I love Outsider POV and all stripes of kidfic. (Pregnancy fic is also fine!)
• I adore Hurt/Comfort, but I always want a HEFTY dose of comfort on the back-end. Generally I prefer long denouements of contentedness in any story, and this is especially important in things on the whumpy end of the scale.
• What I'm always looking for out of a yuletide fic is something that when I go back to it, makes me feel happy and smiley, so ultimately uplifting and yeah, probably a bit cheesey.

Fandom Info:

Fandom: The Bloodright Trilogy - Emily Skrutskie
Characters: Ettian Nassun, Gal emp-Umber, Hanji Iwam, Wen Iffan
Why I love this: This trilogy is SO tightly plotted and it is a TRAGEDY that covid meant it didn't get the attention it deserved. The political lines, the tragedy of it all, the morality of ultimate power, the thesis that the scale is too fucking boggling and you can never forget the human cost but also if you only focus on the human cost you WILL go insane. The series also seriously considers the One Good Kick concept, and how you DO need That One Person to come in and get the dominoes prepped and then hand it over to the machinery of group to make it happen. 
Request: Post-canon fic please!!! I want to know how everything turns out for the galaxy!!! I wanna know ALL the political machinations of reshaping the galaxy!! I wanna know how Iva reacts!! More importantly, I want to know more about their lives as they settle into adulthood. (Gen is great, and if shipfic, Ettian/Gal and Hanji/Wen, please.)

Prompts:

• A story told through messages back and forth between them all.
• So Wen and Hanji hooked up at some point, either in canon or after, RIGHT??? How did that happen?
• Fucked up power dynamic sex between Gal and Ettian when one was prisoner of the other. (Though please paired with, like, a post-canon comfort scene where they're stupid goopy and on the same page.)
• The boys choosing their new anonymous names (like, how terrible are they??)
• Wen having to navigate a diplomatic event, with Hanji being as unhelpful as possible on the surface but supporting Wen regardless

Canon Info: Trilogy of books, available in all the regular book places. Book 1: Bonds of Brass, Book 2: Oaths of Legacy, Book 3: Vows of Empire.

Fandom: Home Economics (TV)
Characters: Denise, Marina, Sarah, Tom
Why I love this: This show is my COMFORT SHOW. I love how even when shit is FALLING APART, everybody is supportive of each other at the end of the day. I love getting to see how much everyone respects their partner and their siblings(-in-law) even when they Do Not Get Each Other At All. I also really appreciate how little cringe humor there is. It all feels very relatable and I adore that.
Request: Feel free to include the kids, Lupe, or Connor as well! (Please stick to canon ships, though gen is also totally great!!) Marina is 100% my favorite character, so I'd prefer to have the fic focus on her and/or her relationship with the others, even if you don't include EVERYONE. I would love to see anything focusing on her relationship with Tom, how she feels about the different turns their lives have taken, or watching their kids grow up. I appreciated the window into her relationship with Denise that we got in the wedding episode (especially the bit about the wine. Perfection) so anything that dives a little deeper into that relationship would make me happy too! Marina and Sarah haven't had a whole lot of canon spotlight on their relationship, but Sarah WAS one of Marina's 18 bridesmaids, so that whole thing is FREE REAL ESTATE.

Prompt ideas:

• Marina finding out she's pregnant and telling various members of the family. (Did Tom freak out? Who did Marina tell first? Did Denise find out by accident like in the season 2 scare at the restaurant?)
• Tom getting his first book deal
  
• Sarah and Denise adopting Shamiah and Kelvin--did Marina bury them in food delivery? Did Connor attempt to send them the stupidest fanciest stroller on the market? Did Tom cry?
• Marina has a baking disaster. Who does she turn to for help? What is causing her stress? How do they all fix it together?

Canon Info: half hour comedy airing on ABC in the USA, currently in its third season. Available to stream on Hulu in the USA.

Fandom: Everything Everywhere All At Once
Characters: Joy Wang
Why I love this: I saw so much of myself in Joy. Like most people, the rocks made me ugly cry, but the nihilism of that scene in particular really really hit home. Then to later see Evelyn turn it around and make it beautiful, and not hopeless, was so life-affirming and validating.
Request: I just want Joy to have good things!!! I want her to be happy and fearless and know that she deserves good things happening to her!!!
Canon Info: 2022 film, unsure where it is available for streaming.

Fandom: Rivers of Light (Disney Parks Attraction)
Characters: Water Shaman | Aseema, Water Acolyte | Ambu, Fire Shaman | Aditya, Fire Acolyte | Ketu
Why I love it: The original concept, that the park visitors are attending a lantern festival and hearing a story told by the local storytellers, is SUCH a good one. On nights when all of the effects worked correctly, it was MAGICAL to see images appear to leap from waterscreen to boat and back again. The lasers, especially when the smaller lotuses are shooting up irregular streams, looked so freaking cool and really did look like the Aurora. Plus the music makes me FEEL EMOTIONS.
Request: I would love to know what exactly the story being told is. I'd love to know why the shamans/acolytes ended up in charge of this storytelling. What do they do the rest of the day? Is this festival a once a year event? Do the storytellers live on their boats? How did they become shamans? What sort of study do they do? Do they tell other stories? In-universe, are they magicking the lotuses? In universe, who is narrating?? Who makes their clothes?

I think this could work really well as Outsider POV, of someone coming to see the lantern festival. I think a story told through notes on study materials could be really neat too.

Canon Info: (copied from my entry on the promo post)
What is it, in summary?: A sadly now-discontinued "evening spectacular" at Disney World's Animal Kingdom that never quite lived up to the high-tech pitch.

Media: Originally, performances at Disney's Animal Kingdom from 2017-2018. Now, recorded performances viewable on YouTube. (Do be aware that they retooled the show at one point to take out the human performers, which made it more lame, and then made it even lamer by adding Disney IP stuff. This is about the superior original version.)

Approx length: 15 minute "preshow" (very boring to watch, unless the video manages to interact with the performers as they enter the amphitheater and light the lanterns) and 15 minute show itself.

Where to find it: Video of part of the preshow and the whole show, as viewed from audience right, high up. (Start at 9m44s if you want to just watch the show itself.)
Video of a sliver of the preshow and the whole show, as viewed from audience right, up front.
(There are also oodles of other videos, but some are of nights when not all of the effects worked, or the music cuts out, or the videography is terrible.)

Are there sections of canon (rather than the whole canon) that can be consumed by themselves to fulfil your requests, or that showcase particular characters and relationships?:The whole of canon is fairly short, but there are also some additional materials from Disney that help enhance the story. (And have close up photos of the INCREDIBLY DETAILED costumes.) Costumes post is here. Behind the scenes sneak peak is here.

Content warnings (ie, rape, incest, racism, gore/violence):
Intense clip in the middle section of a lion chasing a mama cheetah (from the Disneynature big cats film) but mama cheetah reunites with her babies unharmed.