Antediluvian

Hello lovely Mystery Yuletide Writer! I am so psyched you're going to be writing for me and please be reassured that I'm going to love my gift - I only ever request fandoms I feel super fannish about, so I'm going to be absolutely thrilled to receive a fic for them. This letter is meant in the spirit of suggestions intended to inspire; I want you to enjoy your Yuletide writing experience, so if you have an idea that doesn't match my desires exactly, please feel free to follow your heart (as long as it doesn't include any of my DNWs) and we will both have a brilliant Yuletide. <3

In general, I prefer fics written in third person and I don't mind whether it's past or present tense. I love character- and relationship-driven stories over plot-driven ones (not that I don't love a long and involved story, but I find the emotional beats in it a lot more satisfying than plot intricacies) and for Yuletide I strongly prefer happy endings, or at least hopeful/optimistic ones. I don't mind if you put the characters through hell first, but I need that to be resolved happily at the end and with enough length to enjoy the resolution.

I am happy with any rating and I love both genfic and shipfic. However, please don't break up existing canonical relationships or include non-canon pairings unless specifically requested.

Some particular things I love in fic: slice of life, found family, everyday and mundane themes combined with the extraordinary or magical, power dynamics with a positive impact on everyone involved, explicit and enthusiastic consent, slow burn attraction, loyalty kink, elaborate descriptions of scenery, competency kink ("they're so efficient and I'm so into it!"), pushing people around consensually during sex, daemon AUs, soulbond AUs, university AUs with elements of the canon world.Things I Do Not Want: focus on character death (during or after), angst without happy endings, noncon, character bashing, humour fic, a/b/o, misogynistic dirty talk, misogyny in m/m, characters described as "slutty" or "trash", humiliation kink, angsty infidelity, descriptions of hipbones, lengthy/explicit poly negotiations (poly is very fine, just no long conversations about how the poly dynamic will work please), homophobia (internalised or external), holocaust fic

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