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DEAR YULETIDE LETTER
Dear Yuletide Author,
This is my first time participating in the exchange, so permit me not having THE coolest letter of all time. My AO3 is Haro. If someone feels so inclined, treats and gifts are also enabled on my account.
I've been writing and reading fanfiction for twenty-two years.
In the past year I've gotten extremely into Chinese dramas, so all my requests are based on them. Like many people, I started out with The Untamed. I watched it in late 2021, and I do love MXTX and all her works, but they are far from small fandoms.
However, it was actually Love Between Fairy and Devil that got me really into them. I watched it in early 2023, and the rest was history. I watched Word of Honor and Who Rules the World while I had COVID in February, and from then on I was fully obsessed. I favor costume dramas (in fact, I've only watched one non-costume drama).
I'm a millennial lesbian living in the midwest US with my long time girlfriend and our menagerie of kitty cats. Cats are a welcome addition to ANY prompt I give. As far as I'm concerned all my faves are cat lovers, even if they don't know it yet.
Amyway, here's my prompts!
Till the End of the Moon
Tantai Jin/Li Susu only, please. I would also welcome appearances Pian Ran and Ye Qingyu, if you can fit them in (it might be hard, all things considered, but I love them as a pairing too). Any side characters that need to appear for plot reasons are also fine.
I'd love fix it works more than anything else. These can be canon divergence, or they can just be happier ending resolutions that take place after canon. I just want them to have the ending they deserve. If canon divergence, I'd prefer it to diverge during the immortal arc and not back when he was emperor.
I LOVE these two so much. I love their bickering, I love their enemies to lovers vibe, I love the palpable chemistry, and I love their sweet moments. In the end I just think both of them deserve the world, and I want to see that for them. I want to see their growth reflected; Tantai Jin's emotional growth and Li Susu's development into someone who can fully believe in and trust him. At the end of the series, they're both also extremely powerful figures, so it would be fun to see something that explores that. I admit, I love when my faves are OP.
My Journey to You
The two chosen characters as a romantic relationship, please.
Can also feature Gong Zishang and Jin Fan, or the other brothers and Back Hill boys in supporting roles. Would prefer no other pairings but Yun Weishan and Gong Ziyu UNLESS it's Gong Zishang/Jin Fan. Considering the prompt I gave, Wufeng members as well as YWS's sister can also pop up.
(I noticed that, horrifyingly, my autocorrect changed Jin Fan to Jing Fan in my app. Please rest assured I can spell his name correctly!)
I'd love to just see some resolution on the post-series... whatever that ending was. I'd prefer a happy or hopeful resolution. Yun Weishan is my fave, so something more focused on her would be ideal. She deserves love and tenderness (but she also deserves to kick butt, so I'd love to see that too).
Zhang Linghe said that at the end of the series, when the gates open, the reaction he was acting was as if he saw 'two Yun Weishans', so certainly something exploring that concept; Yun Weishan coming back to The Gong family with her twin sister, would be interesting.
I'd also be up for anything that critiques the foundations of the Gong family. Early on Gong Ziyu points out how the Gong family traditions are harmful to both those in and outside of the family; their isolation, the fact that certain people can't even leave the compound, their unwillingness to help other sects, etc. I would hope that a Gong Ziyu as sword wielder would want to dismantle some of that; maybe with the help of Yun Weishan and his family. I enjoyed the series, but I really wanted it to do more with this.
Mysterious Lotus Casebook
This is my first time participating in the exchange, so permit me not having THE coolest letter of all time. My AO3 is Haro. If someone feels so inclined, treats and gifts are also enabled on my account.
I've been writing and reading fanfiction for twenty-two years.
In the past year I've gotten extremely into Chinese dramas, so all my requests are based on them. Like many people, I started out with The Untamed. I watched it in late 2021, and I do love MXTX and all her works, but they are far from small fandoms.
However, it was actually Love Between Fairy and Devil that got me really into them. I watched it in early 2023, and the rest was history. I watched Word of Honor and Who Rules the World while I had COVID in February, and from then on I was fully obsessed. I favor costume dramas (in fact, I've only watched one non-costume drama).
I'm a millennial lesbian living in the midwest US with my long time girlfriend and our menagerie of kitty cats. Cats are a welcome addition to ANY prompt I give. As far as I'm concerned all my faves are cat lovers, even if they don't know it yet.
Non-series specific likes: Found families, friends to lovers, mutually requited pining, teamwork, equality in relationships, mutual protection, physical affection (kissing, hugs, cuddling, holding hands, cute stuff like that), battle couples, home being a person and not a place, established relationship fic, angst and hurt comfort with a happy ending. I'm also a sucker for stories where characters triumph against impossible odds, as well as stories where free will > fate.
Dislikes: noncon, dubcon, cheating, drawn out miscommunication (unless it's funny), major character death (except what already exists in canon). Unrequited relationships, love triangles, stories about one partner outliving the other by a lot, descriptions of pregnancy (a character being pregnant for part of a story is great, but just don't write about it in detail), detailed descriptions of baby rearing (see last point), kids as a FOCAL point (kids are okay but the story should be more about the parents than the kids).
I'm also not really interested in smut fic. Allusions to sex, mentions of it, sensuality, and fade to black are okay and welcomed though! I want all my faves to have great sex lives, I just don't find smut that interesting to read. Amyway, here's my prompts!
Till the End of the Moon
Tantai Jin/Li Susu only, please. I would also welcome appearances Pian Ran and Ye Qingyu, if you can fit them in (it might be hard, all things considered, but I love them as a pairing too). Any side characters that need to appear for plot reasons are also fine.
I'd love fix it works more than anything else. These can be canon divergence, or they can just be happier ending resolutions that take place after canon. I just want them to have the ending they deserve. If canon divergence, I'd prefer it to diverge during the immortal arc and not back when he was emperor.
I LOVE these two so much. I love their bickering, I love their enemies to lovers vibe, I love the palpable chemistry, and I love their sweet moments. In the end I just think both of them deserve the world, and I want to see that for them. I want to see their growth reflected; Tantai Jin's emotional growth and Li Susu's development into someone who can fully believe in and trust him. At the end of the series, they're both also extremely powerful figures, so it would be fun to see something that explores that. I admit, I love when my faves are OP.
My Journey to You
The two chosen characters as a romantic relationship, please.
Can also feature Gong Zishang and Jin Fan, or the other brothers and Back Hill boys in supporting roles. Would prefer no other pairings but Yun Weishan and Gong Ziyu UNLESS it's Gong Zishang/Jin Fan. Considering the prompt I gave, Wufeng members as well as YWS's sister can also pop up.
(I noticed that, horrifyingly, my autocorrect changed Jin Fan to Jing Fan in my app. Please rest assured I can spell his name correctly!)
I'd love to just see some resolution on the post-series... whatever that ending was. I'd prefer a happy or hopeful resolution. Yun Weishan is my fave, so something more focused on her would be ideal. She deserves love and tenderness (but she also deserves to kick butt, so I'd love to see that too).
Zhang Linghe said that at the end of the series, when the gates open, the reaction he was acting was as if he saw 'two Yun Weishans', so certainly something exploring that concept; Yun Weishan coming back to The Gong family with her twin sister, would be interesting.
I'd also be up for anything that critiques the foundations of the Gong family. Early on Gong Ziyu points out how the Gong family traditions are harmful to both those in and outside of the family; their isolation, the fact that certain people can't even leave the compound, their unwillingness to help other sects, etc. I would hope that a Gong Ziyu as sword wielder would want to dismantle some of that; maybe with the help of Yun Weishan and his family. I enjoyed the series, but I really wanted it to do more with this.
Mysterious Lotus Casebook
Can feature any other MLC character, but I want to see the focus on Di Feisheng and Li Lianhua. FDB will probably be there, and that's great as well. I imagine them all traveling together in Lotus Tower for as long as possible.
Post series, Li Lianhua lives. I'd love to see something with Di Feisheng finally coming to grips with the fact that Li Xiangyi really is gone, but he still loves the man that remains, Li Lianhua.
This is a fairly specific prompt, so I don't have much more to add, but if it doesn't ping you, any post-series Feihua would be welcome. Their dynamic is everything.
Lost You Forever
This is a fairly specific prompt, so I don't have much more to add, but if it doesn't ping you, any post-series Feihua would be welcome. Their dynamic is everything.
Lost You Forever
The only romantic pairing I'm interested in is Xiaoyao and Tushan Jing. I'm always a fan of anything gentle with them. They are the only characters that the gift must feature.
Otherwise, I'm kind of interested in Xiang Liu and Tushan Jing's dynamic, so something non-romantic with them could be cool. I think they could be friends, in another life.
Any side characters that need to appear for plot reasons are also fine. I don't have much specific to say here. I love the tenderness and the healing of the relationship between Xiaoyao and Tushan Jing. I have not read the novel, but if there is anything you want to weave in from it, I'm not opposed to it. I'd PREFER the fic be established relationship.
Also I know in the series itself (because Cdrama), Tushan Jing knew Xiaoyao was a woman all along, but in my mind he did not know she was one until she revealed it. He still fell in love of course. Tushan Jing bisexual king is very important to me.
Love Between Fairy and Devil
Also I know in the series itself (because Cdrama), Tushan Jing knew Xiaoyao was a woman all along, but in my mind he did not know she was one until she revealed it. He still fell in love of course. Tushan Jing bisexual king is very important to me.
Love Between Fairy and Devil
Any other cast members as supporting characters is a-okay, but I want the focus to be on those two. Please no other pairings outside of Dongfang Qingcang/Xiao Lanhua, and if it makes its way in, a little Jieli/Shangque is also fine.
Would just love to see some post canon DFQC/XLH content! Anything with them ruling Cangyan Sea together, DFQC helping XLH with her goddess duties, anything about glazed fire (or with them as a battle couple), standing up to Yunzhong, getting married, something directly post his resurrection, them just being in love, etc. An assertive XLH that knows who she is in her role as the goddess and as the Moon Queen, is extremely loved (but of course, she should still be her cheery, sweet self when it comes down to it).
DNW specific to this series: Anyone calling Xiao Lanhua 'Xiyun' outside of maybe someone like Yunzhong. If it's her friend or anyone in the moon tribe though, it's Xiao Lanhua or one of her titles.
Also, I deeply want them to have an amazing sex life of course, but DFQC is canonically a virgin who is still very much trying to figure out this 'being a human with emotions and desires' thing, so unless it's way post-series, I'd prefer that be kept in mind when characterizing it (aka no super dominant, overly confident and experienced DFQC). I'm firmly of the opinion that XLH knows a lot more about sexual intimacy than he does, considering their lives up to that point.
Thank you so much! I hope some of my prompts have inspired you.
Have a happy winter holidays,
Haro
Thank you so much! I hope some of my prompts have inspired you.
Have a happy winter holidays,
Haro