yuletide 2023

[sodomhipped]

dear author,

happy yuletide! first things first: thank you so much for creating (or considering creating) for me. i hope you have fun!

all details in this letter should be regarded as 100% optional (except the DNW list, please!), so feel free to cherry pick anything that speaks to you, whether it be from my general likes or from fandom-specific things. so although i’ve included some thoughts and prompts for canons, characters, ships, and tropes—but please don’t feel bound to those ideas. also, please don’t think that any pairing/character having more bullet points means i want it more than others—i want everything i requested! in general, i will enjoy any gift (so long as it doesn’t include things on my Do Not Want list).

(the letter is now done! for fandoms that don’t have very many prompts, please feel free to go with your heart or lean on my general likes. my brain was just a little too fried to come up with scenarios this holiday season for things i am requesting for the first time…)

thank you again!
- reclamation @ ao3

p.s. i am grateful for any treats!

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overview: do not wants ✮ fic likes ✮ trope likes ✮ smut/kink likes

fandom-specific thoughts & prompts:

• blood blockade battlefront
  requesting: one or more of my chosen characters
  requested character(s): chain sumeragi, steven a. starphase, zapp renfro
  preferred ship(s): chain/steven, chain/zapp, steven/zapp, chain/steven/zapp


• elden ring
  requesting: all of my chosen characters
  requested character(s): d, hunter of the dead, sorcerer rogier
  preferred ship(s): d/rogier


• gungrave
  requesting: one or more of my chosen characters
  requested character(s): brandon heat, bunji kugashira, harry macdowell, balladbird lee
  preferred ship(s): brandon/bunji, brandon/harry


• mozart l'opéra rock
  requesting: all of my chosen characters
  requested character(s): antonio salieri, wolfgang amadeus mozart
  preferred ship(s): mozart/salieri


• tokyo babylon
  requesting: all of my chosen characters
  requested character(s): sakurazuka seishirou, sumeragi subaru
  preferred ship(s): seishirou/subaru


• war and peace
  requesting: one or more of my chosen characters
  requested character(s): anatole vasilyevich kuragin, fyodor "fedya" ivanovich dolokhov, pyotr "pierre" kirillovich bezukhov
  preferred ship(s): anatole/dolokhov, dolokhov/pierre, anatole/dolokhov/pierre

overview

do not wants

• unrequested gender identity headcanons or interpretations (note for reasoning: i have plenty of gender issues of my own and it can have a negative effect on me)


• unrequested AUs that change the setting (i.e. i’m not interested in coffee shop au or university au but i love canon divergent works that keep the same general setting with something changed)


• unrequested non-canon ships that conflict with requested ships (including unrequested poly ships)


• unrequested underage characters in sexual situations or sexualizing youth (including age regression, ageplay, infantilization, etc)


• unrequested kidfic (e.g. parenthood plots, anything that centers on child characters, characters as children)


• unrequested pregnancy and related things (including childbirth, breeding, oviposition)


• A/B/O (including knotting, heats)


• watersports/scat/emeto (i.e. this DNW is specifically for sexual contexts; mentions of someone having to urinate or vomiting are fine)


• lactation/milking


• xeno/alien genitalia


• monster fucking (including tentacle sex)


• extreme weight gain or weight-related kink (i.e. it’s alright if a character gains some weight during the story for plot-related reasons, but i’d rather not linger on it in a sexual context)

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fic likes

• length: fic of any size (e.g. anything from a drabble to an epic)


• povs: second and third person narratives


• rating: anything from gen to explicit


• tone: everything from angst to fluff


• endings: whatever suits the story—happy, sad, ambiguous, or anything in-between


• genres: romance, horror, drama, slice-of-life, introspection


• narrators: unreliable, complicated, conflicted


• relation to canon: canon compliant and canon divergence

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general trope likes

• getting together: any permutation of this, including first times (kiss/sex/etc), confessions


• falling apart: last times (sex/kiss/etc), justified break ups or infidelity (e.g. if the character can/does explain their actions to themselves, i’m all on board)


• unequal interest or love: any permutation of this, including pining on one or both sides, seemingly unrequited, actually unrequited, one person being more into the relationship than the other


• complicated feelings and relationships: complicated/unhealthy/co-dependent relationships, fake relationships/dating, friends/enemies to lovers


• internal struggles: repression, internalized homophobia, trying and failing at any goal, emotional vulnerability


• forced intimacy: having to work towards a common goal even when they don’t want to, sharing small spaces/bed, soulbonds (especially those that take a novel approach)


• the passage of time: reunions after a separation, bitter exes


• apologies: given by those who are not good at apologizing or admitting they're wrong, misconstrued by those receiving them, straightforward apologies that are a little too late


• other tropes: deal with the devil, bets/wagers, role reversal

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smut/kink likes

• non-penetrative sex: intercrural, oral sex, fingering, frottage, masturbation


• penetrative sex: any dynamic unless otherwise stated (if i have happen to have a preference, i’ll specify in the fandom-specific section)


• romantic & playful sex: teasing, body worship (especially when focused on one part/aspect of the body), servicing/pleasuring their partner, laughing together during sex


• rough sex: possessiveness, being held down, sex during or after an argument, manhandling, holding by the throat


• poor sexual decision-making: unprotected sex, hate sex, choosing to have sex for poor reasons (e.g. “i know this will break my heart later,” or “i don’t even like this person that much but why not,” or any other variation), under-discussed and under-negotiated sex


• sexual proxies & sublimation: fucking strangers because they can't have who they want, using a third party to be in a sexual situation together, talking about sex in detail instead of doing it, masturbating in the same room


• denial of feelings: pretending sex doesn’t mean anything when it does, choosing not to tell someone their feelings for whatever reason


• novel experiences: first times (e.g. first time having sex, first time doing a specific sexual act, etc), feeling overwhelmed by emotion and sensation


• complicated consent: dubcon, [aliens/bad guys/whatever flimsy plot device] makes them do it, agreeing to sex when they know they shouldn’t, noncon (preferably in which the victim is aroused by the end)


• vulnerability: kneeling, tenderness, intimacy, offering one's emotions/body in any fashion


• unsexy sexual situations: underwhelming first time, not everyone is equally satisfied, not being into something

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fandom-specific thoughts & prompts

blood blockade battlefront

requested characters:

• chain sumeragi
• steven a. starphase
• zapp renfro

preferred pairing(s):

• chain/steven/zapp
• chain/steven
• chain/zapp
• steven/zapp

fandom/pairing-specific clarifications:

1. DNW clarification: please feel free to include steven having had a past relationship with klaus. (i.e. my DNW for non-canon ships that conflict with requested ships does not apply here.)

prompts:

• how do they get together?


• humorous shenanigans (such as the infamous handcuff sequence from the manga) in which they have to work together to varying degrees of success.


• chain works out her feelings for steven without actually telling him. maybe she starts a sexual relationship with zapp, because steven doesn’t seem obtainable/available/etc. maybe steven seems more obtainable after and she isn’t sure what she wants anymore.


• they go out drinking together.

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elden ring

requested characters:

• d, hunter of the dead
• sorcerer rogier

preferred pairing(s):

• d/rogier

fandom/pairing-specific clarifications:

1. DNW clarification: please feel free to include rogier having had a past or present relationship with fia. (i.e. my DNW for non-canon ships that conflict with requested ships does not apply here.)

prompts:

• d clearly respects (or respected) rogier at one time, calling him a “formidable spellblade.” what happened to earn this trust and respect?


• what do they admire in each other? hate in each other? how does that change over time?


• they meet again after the breakup but before rogier is dying.


• bitter ex sex.


• how do they decide to go their separate ways? who decides to go?


• how did d and rogier meet? what were their first impressions of each other?

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gungrave

requested characters:

• brandon heat
• bunji kugashira
• harry macdowell
• balladbird lee

preferred pairing(s):

• brandon/bunji
• brandon/harry

fandom/pairing-specific clarifications:

1. DNW clarification: i am fine with brandon having had past/present/concurrent relationships with harry and/or bunji. i also welcome balladbird/harry or balladbird/bob. (i.e. my DNW for non-canon ships that conflict with requested ships does not apply here.)

canon-specific thoughts:
this is probably my smallest fandom, so if you're gungrave-curious or are trying to refresh on the basics, i have a "why you should watch gungrave" post and a short primer that i use for exchanges/requests. you can find some more rambling (particularly for harry/brandon and bunji/brandon) on my trick or treat 2023 letter.

prompts:

• anything in which they are doing their normal (violent) day-to-day mafia life, especially when someone is inappropriately in their feels about interpersonal matters.


• bunji is jealous of harry’s position in brandon’s life. bunji will take whatever he can get.


• bunji or harry discovers more about brandon's interior life and is surprised/not surprised.


• a friendly competition at the shooting range. maybe made more interesting by a bet.


• any combination of characters survives. but they are all very different and a lot of time has passed. what happens?


• after digging up brandon's grave, bunji goes looking for answers. maybe from harry—or from brandon himself.


• canon divergence in which brandon stops harry's plan from coming to fruition. maybe he stops him before it gets bad or maybe he wins in the elevator. what happens next?


• around the time of brandon's death, harry reminisces on more simple times with brandon. maybe this is why he orchestrates their last date to revisit the places of their youth.


• any time loop. what would be do differently? what the pov character do differently? what would he be too stubborn to change?


• instead of growing up together, harry and brandon meet in millenion.


• brandon tends to protect people with his body (e.g. standing in front of big daddy/harry to take shots meant for them) or with his gun. harry, however, works more in his head (e.g. getting ahead of bunji via mind games/tactics while exposing himself to physical threat). show me a time they each protected each other in their own way.

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mozart, l'opéra rock

requested characters:

• antonio salieri
• wolfgang amadeus mozart

preferred pairing(s):

• mozart/salieri

prompts:

• what if mozart and salieri had to work on a collaboration together?


• mozart haunts salieri after his death—is it real or a manifestation of guilt in salieri's head?


• what would it take for salieri to express his admiration and/or desires to mozart?


• mozart and salieri have to travel together.


• to everyone's surprise, mozart doesn’t die at the end. salieri, not one for apologies, does his best to make amends.


• salieri seems to believe he wants to humble mozart, but it does not make him happy once he's accomplished it. maybe what he needs instead is for mozart to humble him instead.


• a creepy take on the requiem mass. mozart believes it is a premonition and tells salieri. perhaps salieri has to atone through supernatural means to save mozart's life.


• mozart doesn't realize salieri is a virgin until he's in the middle of seducing him.

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tokyo babylon

requested characters:

• sakurazuka seishirou
• sumeragi subaru

preferred pairing(s):

• seishirou/subaru

fandom/pairing-specific clarifications:

1. DNW clarification: i am very interested in their relationship at all stages (whether it be platonic, romantic, or sexual), so please feel free to explore this however you like. (i.e. my DNW for underage characters in sexual situations does not apply here.)


2. general preferences: i am familiar with x/1999 as well, so feel free to pull from both canons as you like.

prompts:

• were there any points that seishirou even suspected he might be losing his own bet? did he ever try to give subaru a real chance to win or was he always holding back?


• how does seishirou view subaru in post-canon? does he miss the naive boy he destroyed? does he find those remaining glimmers of innocence in subaru attractive?


• if breaking subaru’s arm was no different than breaking a glass cup, i’d love to see this extended into the realm of the sexual. this could look like a lot of things–maybe dirty talk, reminding subaru he is a meaningless object even as he’s used for seishirou’s pleasure. or maybe subaru turns the idea back on seishirou, pushing for what he wants and reminding seishirou that it shouldn’t matter if he’s an object.


• seishirou (wrongly) assumes that subaru was saving himself or disinterested in anyone other than himself. maybe this comes up in conversation or while they are beginning sex and subaru corrects him and gets to enjoy the jealousy/possessiveness that follows.


• the manga takes subaru’s pov, what does a day in the life of seishirou look like?


• do seishirou and subaru sleep together before the betrayal or not? does that make it better or worse?


• is there any way things could have gone differently for them? with or without external intervention?

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war and peace

requested characters:

• anatole vasilyevich kuragin
• fyodor "fedya" ivanovich dolokhov
• pyotr "pierre" kirillovich bezukhov

preferred pairing(s):

• anatole/dolokhov
• dolokhov/pierre
• anatole/dolokhov/pierre

fandom/pairing-specific clarifications:prompts:

• the early parties sounded quite wild. what was the wildest night that Tolstoy doesn’t tell us about?


• alternate endings to the canon. where might they meet up again?


• dolokhov makes a bet with anatole and/or pierre (over cards or whatever else).

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