tangeriner | Dear Author (Yuletide 2019)

Hello! Thanks so much for writing something for me! I'm very excited! I am also extremely easygoing and easy-to-please, so no worries! :)

Some things I particularly love: happy endings, gratuitous nudity, shippy stuff, sexy stuff, first times, pining, gazing, casual swearing, long hair, friendship romps, tropes, true love.

If you need ideas for tropes: snowed in, locked in, huddle for warmth, fake relationships, friends to lovers, first times, coming of age, fuck or die (provided other partner is 100% willing to help out), love serum/potion (ditto), handcuffed together, pining (with eventual payoff), truth or dare, hurt/comfort, road trips, fix its, bodyswap, only one bed.

I do prefer canon-stories more than AUs, but it's not a strong preference, and I don't have any AU settings I don't like. I do prefer third person a little more strongly, present or past. Any rating is fine, up to and including explicit.

DNWs: non-con/dub-con (except the tropes noted above), A/B/O, gender/sexswap, darkfic, deathfic, unhappy endings, underage sex, mpreg, incest, power imbalances between the characters.

Here are some plot bunnies/suggestions, should you need them, but again, I'm pretty easygoing. I'm also pretty relaxed about canon, especially when it comes to comics, so feel to ignore things you do not like or want to write or want to think about.

Un Point C'est Toi - Zazie (Music Video) - Zazie, Woman in Blue Bonnet, Man in Red Vest, Man in Grey Coat

So this music video is basically lost to history, except two not-so-great versions on Dailymotion and my memories. Basically, in the mid-90s, I was watching French Kiss on Much Music (a half hour show dedicated to showing French music videos), which usually aired in the late morning on weekdays. I didn't, at the time, understand a word of French, so I don't know why I even had it on. This video played. This video is extremely NSFW. I am fairly confident I can trace my love of naked people and the regency era to this music video.

This is best version I've found that has both the song and the (fuzzy) video:
https://www.dailymotion.com/video/x1bku4

This one has the clearest image, but it's a karaoke version with subtitles:
https://www.dailymotion.com/video/x1lr9bz

So, really, anything. Romance-y if possible. I would prefer if the two gentlemen remain together (who are they? what is their relationship? do they have a happy ending?). I randomly picked which of the main character's friends to include (and called the main character Zazie in my nominations, probably a mistake, so feel free to make up a name if you like), so you can pair up any of the ladies if you want to go the f/f route (or the f/f/f route or the f/f/f/f route). Is the MC scandalized? Is she curious? Is one of her friends willing to help her out? Can marriages of convenience help both the gentlemen and the ladies out with society none the wiser?

You don't have to include all the characters.

Y tu mamá también - Julio Zapata, Tenoch Iturbide

I love this movie, but I am less in love with the ending, so if you are itching to write a fix-it, I would be all over that. Maybe they recreate their road trip, five or ten years later, and finally have their shit together. Or maybe just a look at either one of their lives? (Slight preference for Julio over Tenoch, if you only want to write one character, but I am fond of them both). Maybe they meet again at some sort of event (wedding?) and hook up again. Or maybe they just re-kindle their friendship. That would be great, too. Anything to make these guys happy!

Draft Day - Vontae Mack, Ray Jennings, Ali, Sonny Weaver Jr.

Draft Day is in my top three comfort movies, and I watch it often, and it's almost entirely because of Vontae Mack. That scene where he's drafted gives me life! You don't have to include every character, but I'd like Vontae to be in it for sure. I wish this movie had a sequel, haha.

How does Vontae's first season go? Or how does his last season go? Or how is the day after the draft, when it sinks in that he went first overall and what all of that means and has to do press. Are Vontae and Ray able to lead the team to playoff success as rookies? Do they get a super bowl ring? I'd love to see any of Vontae's relationships with the other characters explored. If you want to write a romance option with Vontae or Ray, please only Vontae/Ray. When Vontae retires, does he take a front office job and get mentored by Ali or Sonny? I am particularly fond of Ali.

Oh, and I also don't know anything about football, so the level of detail about the game is whatever you feel like writing. I would rather nobody get a concussion in the story though.

Epic NPC Man - Ben the Adventurer, Rowan the Adventurer, Greg the Garlic Farmer, Bodger the Blacksmith

You don't have to use every character. If you want to go the romance route, I would prefer Ben/Rowan or Greg/Bodger. But if you wanna fit all four in, by all means! Also a character study would be amazing, too! Sorry I am so bad at prompts haha! Basically, I love this web series and all the long-running in-jokes and all the NPCs, and I would love absolutely anything!

For Ben and/or Rowan: so I watched Horse Pocket and laughed myself sick and then thought to myself, wow, I want more of these two. Unsurprisingly, there was no fic about Ben schooling Rowan on questionable game mechanics. I'd love an exploration of a similar situation or the world they're living in. Maybe an adventure goes wrong (surly dragon? blood-thirsty unicorn? lurching undead?), Ben's knowledge of game mechanics fails him, and some hurt/comfort ensues. If you want to go shippy with this, I am on board with that. Or just snippy friends gen fic, where they are having a very bad day! Maybe they get mugged by muggers?

For Greg and/or Bodger: I basically nominated them both because of Size Matters and The Present. I love their dynamic and how they play off each other and how they pretty much can't escape each other haha. Maybe a new NPC moves in nearby and their dynamic is threatened. Maybe they go an escort quest together and the escort abandons them. To repeat what I said about Ben and Rowan: If you want to go shippy with this, I am on board with that. Or just snippy friends gen fic, where they are having a very bad day! Maybe they get mugged by muggers?