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cookiegirl) wrote2021-10-23 01:47 am
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Dear Yuletide writer!
Hello esteemed Yuletide writer! :)
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cookiegirl from Ao3! Thanks so much in advance for writing something for me! I hope you have a good time, and I can't wait to see what you come up with! I love these three fandoms and am really excited at the idea of receiving something for any of them!
I've tried to make this letter as clear as I can but if you have any questions please feel free to reach out through the mods and I will get back to you ASAP!
For romantic ships, I also love:
More In-depth thoughts on kink likes (feel free to skip):
DO NOT WANTS:
FANDOMS!
MAKE IT OR BREAK IT
Fandom-specific DNWs:
Thoughts!
- I'd love to see Payson and Sasha getting together, perhaps with Sasha having issues/reluctance/trying to restrain himself from falling for her due to the age gap and power imbalance, then eventually coming around to it.
- Exploration of the power imbalance between Payson and Sasha? How does their relationship affects her gymnastics? Do they keep it a secret?
- Training sessions with UST and pining; fiery arguments during training?
- Sasha or Payson discovering they like it when she calls him sir
- Sasha patching Payson up after getting hurt (physically or emotionally)
- Hiding/discovering an injury
- Payson and Sasha having to share a bed for some reason (maybe they book the wrong amount of hotel rooms for a gymnastics competition? Maybe Payson gets annoyed with her roommates?)
- Canon divergence eg. from the point of the kiss, or from the point where Sasha returns from Romania and knocks on her hotel room, etc
- My preference would be for fic set mostly during the series rather than afterwards, if possible
SMASH
Fandom-specific DNWs:
I would prefer no focus on Tom/Sam or Tom/Kyle (though if you wanted to write a domestic discipline relationship with Tom (mostly?) topping for either of these, I would definitely waive the DNW and be very happy!). Also, no huge focus on Derek/Ivy please (mentions are okay)
Thoughts!
I adore Tom Levitt. I love his excitability, his passion for writing, his willingness to take on anything and to take charge, his sense of humour, and his petulance and brattiness.
I love Tom and Derek's complicated working relationship and rivalry. I think there's a lot of unexplored history and chemistry between them, and I would love to see more of them together. There's so much animosity and hurt from things (mostly undefined by the show) that have happened in the past, and so many creative differences, but I also think they reluctantly respect each other's work and that there may be an attraction between them. I love the shifting power dynamic and how they are both always trying to be in charge. Gen or pre-slash or slash is fine, I would just like to see their relationship explored.
I also love Tom's friendships with Julia and Ivy. I like his loyalty to his friends and happiness for them when they succeed, the way he sees them as family, his co-dependence with Julia, his sweetness and gentleness, and his willingness to look after them. I love how Tom is firm with Julia sometimes and tries to get her to stay away from Michael. I adore the scene after she walks out on their anniversary 'date' (1x10, I think). And I love that he doesn't just give in to Julia's demand to fire Michael, because he thinks the good of the show and the cast is more important, and that he stands firm with Ivy when she doesn’t want her mother involved in the show and when she doesn’t want to take direction from him.
Prompts!
- I'd be really interested in a getting-together fic for Tom and Derek, I imagine any relationship beginning would be fraught and reluctant and hard-won. How does it start? Do they sleep together when drunk or low one night and then try to deny any feelings, only to realise that feelings are indeed there?
- I would love to see some D/S with Tom and Derek. Maybe pre-slash where Tom or Derek realizes they actually kind of likes it when Derek orders Tom around at work or manhandles him...?
- I would adore any form of discipline, with either or both of them in charge. I see Derek as topping more often but would definitely enjoy seeing the other way around!
- A corporal punishment at work or D/S AU where one of them is at charge at work (because director comes before writer, or vice versa). One finally has to discipline the other for undermining him before the rest of the cast lose respect for him?
- Derek and Tom trapped in an elevator/on a roadtrip/in a rehearsal room. Disagreements are had, bridges are built?
- Derek and Tom forced to share a bed in a hotel room
- Derek and Tom undercover as a couple for Some Reason? Is Derek furious about it? Does Tom find it hilarious or is he equally irritated?
- I would just generally like to see Tom and Derek fighting, addressing their history, learning to work together, annoying each other and making up (as friends or more-than-friends)
- Tom stepping in with Julia or Ivy and stopping a self-destructive behaviour.
- Tom finding out about how bad Ivy felt at the end of season 1 is also something I would really like to see explored. Or Ivy relying on pills more and Tom helping her through it.
SPINNING OUT
Fandom-specific DNWs:
Thoughts!
I loved this show and I'm gutted there is no season 2 planned. The relationships are so complex and beautifully drawn. I really felt for Serena's character - such a difficult home life, and so often feeling simultaneously overlooked and over-pressured, but still trying her hardest to be positive - and I liked Mitch a lot. I was not happy with him leaving! I'd love to see anything between them that explores their developing relationship as coach-skater and/or surrogate father-daughter. Them against the world, him protecting her, looking after her when she's upset or injured.
Prompts!
- I would love to see Mitch coming back, either before or because of finding about Serena's revelation in the finale, and his reaction to that situation. And I'd love to see them working together to restore her confidence and self-worth in the weeks or months after that, and him reassuring her that she is perfect.
- A discipline/spanking fic would be awesome, set during season 1 maybe? Maybe Serena is taking too many risks, skating dangerous jumps without supervision, etc? Or maybe she's putting her career or health in jeopardy some other way? Or possibly, she asks for some motivation to keep her on track?
- Mitch patching Serena up after being injured
I know the Spinning Out section is slightly shorter than the others, but I promise I want it just as much! :)
I've tried to make this letter as clear as I can but if you have any questions please feel free to reach out through the mods and I will get back to you ASAP!
General Likes:
- fic that concentrates on the characters and their relationships
- spanking & discipline (especially over-the-knee, though even a single swat or a playful threat included in any fic will make me very happy! Consensual or non-consensual are both fine!)
- hurt/comfort (physical or emotional)
- protectiveness
- possessiveness
- found family
- surrogate father figures
- reluctant care-takers and caretakees
- characters trying to look tough but turning out be vulnerable
- snark and banter
- angst and fluff combined
- characters working through tricky emotions and having happy endings
- us against the world
- gift-giving
- 5 times or 5+1
- undercover as a couple/as parent and child
- forced to spend time in one space together, leading to working through issues
For romantic ships, I also love:
- getting together
- D/S (especially with a bratty sub)
- domestic discipline
- sexual spanking especially with discipline roleplay, or spanking for stress relief or guilt
- kink negotiation
- age difference
- strength
- man-handling
- first time doing something for one or both participants
More In-depth thoughts on kink likes (feel free to skip):
I love over-the-knee spanking best, and I am happy with consensual or non-consensual! I love reading about the closeness and trust of a domestic discipline relationship, and the conflicting feelings that a spankee might have (the urge to push against the rules and the desire to be brought back into line, the need to be spanked but the squirmy embarrassment and reluctance when it comes down to it, etc.), and I adore detailed descriptions of the scene. I prefer a hand spanking (with the possible addition of a hairbrush) rather than anything really harsh like belts or canes/institutional-type things like paddles. Other things I love:
- spankees feeling embarrassed, vulnerable, reluctantly relieved to be taken care of
- quick warning swats or threats
- threats/swats being overheard by others
- punished in front of witnesses (e.g in corporal punishment at work AU)
- scolding/emphasis of how important spankee is
- wriggling
- spankee's hand held behind the back
- crying/emotional release/catharsis
- back stroking/cuddling/reassuring of love afterwards
- strengthening of the relationship/realising that their love is unconditional
DO NOT WANTS:
- pregnancy or babies
- unhappy endings
- hurt without comfort
- deaths of requested characters
- terminal illnesses of requested characters
- suicide (mentions are okay)
- permanent injury causing paralysis
- incest
- weddings or engagements as a major plot point
- identity headcanons
- unrequested changes to a character's gender
- first or second person narration
- fic set many years after canon ends
- fic that ends with requested characters going their separate ways/to different countries
- different setting AUs (e.g. coffee shop or space; but D/S or corporal punishment AUs are great and highly encouraged!)
- covid-19
- shibari
- fisting
- ball gags & hoods
- cross-dressing
- non-con (mentions are ok)
- face-sitting
- the words c--t and p-ssy
- counting spanks
FANDOMS!
MAKE IT OR BREAK IT
- If you're in the US, you can watch it on Freeform for free here
- 3 seasons, 48 episodes total, but you could easily skip season 3 and write based on the first 2
- If you wanted to watch only one episode and write on that, episode 1x4 would fit a discipline story!
- Highly recommended fanvids: Love You Better Now; I Should Go; The Best of Sasha Belov
Fandom-specific DNWs:
- Summer or Rigo to be a central character
- Payson or Sasha in a relationship with someone else unless it's on the way to Payson/Sasha endgame
- NC17-rated sex
- Payson and Sasha to already be married
- Sasha to have zero qualms about starting a relationship
- Payson to be 'aged-up' by several years so the gap between them is less
Thoughts!
I miss this show! I love Sasha, and his relationships with the girls as he grows to care for them and struggles to be the sort of coach and friend that each of them need. I love his dedication to them, his protectiveness, his integrity, his sense of humour, and his refusal to put up with any crap. (1x04 when he locks them in the gym for the day? Awesome).
I adore Sasha and Payson together so much, both as coach & gymnast, and also as potential romantic partners. I love Sasha's dedication to her and the way he helps Payson move forward after her accident, and how he makes her feel beautiful and protected. I'm interested in his potential feelings for Payson, when/if he realises he has them and the accompanying angst/guilt/soul-searching etc! As for Payson, I love her strength and determination and straightforwardness, her vulnerability, her burgeoning crush on Sasha, her innocence and and her insecurities.
(I also love Sasha's relationship with the other gymnasts if you prefer to write about them - I love the scene early in the series where Emily does a trust fall with Sasha, and I was sad that we didn’t get to see Sasha and Emily talking more after he found out she had a job, or that she was pregnant. And I find Sasha and Lauren’s relationship really interesting (I love when she admits she leaked the tape). And Sasha and Kaylie’s relationship, both before and after her eating disorder comes to light.)
Prompts!
- I would love a discipline/spanking fic with Sasha and any of the girls. For anything canon/risking their life with a gymnastics thing/practising dangerous techniques while alone/etc. This could be gen, or if it's Payson it could be the catalyst for them getting together later, or happen while they are romantically involved
- I'd love to see Payson and Sasha getting together, perhaps with Sasha having issues/reluctance/trying to restrain himself from falling for her due to the age gap and power imbalance, then eventually coming around to it.
- Exploration of the power imbalance between Payson and Sasha? How does their relationship affects her gymnastics? Do they keep it a secret?
- Training sessions with UST and pining; fiery arguments during training?
- Sasha or Payson discovering they like it when she calls him sir
- Sasha patching Payson up after getting hurt (physically or emotionally)
- Hiding/discovering an injury
- Payson and Sasha having to share a bed for some reason (maybe they book the wrong amount of hotel rooms for a gymnastics competition? Maybe Payson gets annoyed with her roommates?)
- Canon divergence eg. from the point of the kiss, or from the point where Sasha returns from Romania and knocks on her hotel room, etc
- My preference would be for fic set mostly during the series rather than afterwards, if possible
SMASH
- 2 seasons of 32 episodes; feel free to write based only during season 1 if you've only seen that (15 eps)
- It's streaming free on Amazon Prime US
- Fanvids: Tom and Derek hating each other; Tom and Julia being an iconic duo; Tom being iconic
Fandom-specific DNWs:
I would prefer no focus on Tom/Sam or Tom/Kyle (though if you wanted to write a domestic discipline relationship with Tom (mostly?) topping for either of these, I would definitely waive the DNW and be very happy!). Also, no huge focus on Derek/Ivy please (mentions are okay)
Thoughts!
I adore Tom Levitt. I love his excitability, his passion for writing, his willingness to take on anything and to take charge, his sense of humour, and his petulance and brattiness.
I love Tom and Derek's complicated working relationship and rivalry. I think there's a lot of unexplored history and chemistry between them, and I would love to see more of them together. There's so much animosity and hurt from things (mostly undefined by the show) that have happened in the past, and so many creative differences, but I also think they reluctantly respect each other's work and that there may be an attraction between them. I love the shifting power dynamic and how they are both always trying to be in charge. Gen or pre-slash or slash is fine, I would just like to see their relationship explored.
I also love Tom's friendships with Julia and Ivy. I like his loyalty to his friends and happiness for them when they succeed, the way he sees them as family, his co-dependence with Julia, his sweetness and gentleness, and his willingness to look after them. I love how Tom is firm with Julia sometimes and tries to get her to stay away from Michael. I adore the scene after she walks out on their anniversary 'date' (1x10, I think). And I love that he doesn't just give in to Julia's demand to fire Michael, because he thinks the good of the show and the cast is more important, and that he stands firm with Ivy when she doesn’t want her mother involved in the show and when she doesn’t want to take direction from him.
Prompts!
- I'd be really interested in a getting-together fic for Tom and Derek, I imagine any relationship beginning would be fraught and reluctant and hard-won. How does it start? Do they sleep together when drunk or low one night and then try to deny any feelings, only to realise that feelings are indeed there?
- I would love to see some D/S with Tom and Derek. Maybe pre-slash where Tom or Derek realizes they actually kind of likes it when Derek orders Tom around at work or manhandles him...?
- I would adore any form of discipline, with either or both of them in charge. I see Derek as topping more often but would definitely enjoy seeing the other way around!
- A corporal punishment at work or D/S AU where one of them is at charge at work (because director comes before writer, or vice versa). One finally has to discipline the other for undermining him before the rest of the cast lose respect for him?
- Derek and Tom trapped in an elevator/on a roadtrip/in a rehearsal room. Disagreements are had, bridges are built?
- Derek and Tom forced to share a bed in a hotel room
- Derek and Tom undercover as a couple for Some Reason? Is Derek furious about it? Does Tom find it hilarious or is he equally irritated?
- I would just generally like to see Tom and Derek fighting, addressing their history, learning to work together, annoying each other and making up (as friends or more-than-friends)
- Tom stepping in with Julia or Ivy and stopping a self-destructive behaviour.
- Tom finding out about how bad Ivy felt at the end of season 1 is also something I would really like to see explored. Or Ivy relying on pills more and Tom helping her through it.
SPINNING OUT
- 1 season of 10 episodes
- Streaming on Netflix
- Serena fanvids: Runaway Baby; Scene Finder
Fandom-specific DNWs:
- any sexual activity with Mitch and Serena (Serena having a crush is fine, non-sexual spanking is more than fine)
- Mitch blaming Serena for the situation with the doctor (unless he very quickly realises why that's not ok)
Thoughts!
I loved this show and I'm gutted there is no season 2 planned. The relationships are so complex and beautifully drawn. I really felt for Serena's character - such a difficult home life, and so often feeling simultaneously overlooked and over-pressured, but still trying her hardest to be positive - and I liked Mitch a lot. I was not happy with him leaving! I'd love to see anything between them that explores their developing relationship as coach-skater and/or surrogate father-daughter. Them against the world, him protecting her, looking after her when she's upset or injured.
I'd enjoy anything set during canon, but am also really interested in the period immediately following the end of season 1.
Prompts!
- I would love to see Mitch coming back, either before or because of finding about Serena's revelation in the finale, and his reaction to that situation. And I'd love to see them working together to restore her confidence and self-worth in the weeks or months after that, and him reassuring her that she is perfect.
- A discipline/spanking fic would be awesome, set during season 1 maybe? Maybe Serena is taking too many risks, skating dangerous jumps without supervision, etc? Or maybe she's putting her career or health in jeopardy some other way? Or possibly, she asks for some motivation to keep her on track?
- Mitch patching Serena up after being injured
I know the Spinning Out section is slightly shorter than the others, but I promise I want it just as much! :)
Thanks for reading and happy Yuletide!