Yuletide 2023 Dear Author Letter
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bardicraven//'allo, O Wondrous YuleGoat Author of Awesomeness!!!!
Thank you so much for writing for me!!!! I love story, and having stories written for me, so no worries, I will enjoy whatever you create for me.
That said, below find some things that may help you find it easier to write and create for me. I am aware that Optional Details Are Optional. I also strongly desire that you create and write the story that pleases you the most, so outside of DNWs (which you are encouraged to ask questions about if you are conuse/confused or curious in any way), write the story that excites and pleases you the most.
I will be guaranteed to love it, becauase/because authorial excitement is pleasantly contagious.
So here goes! Following is a list of DNWs, followed by what I call DWWs (Definitely Would Wants) followed by some suggesi/suggestions for prompts.
Prrrompts!!!!
Optional, as all details are. Here are some thoughts to potentially help get the Mewsely Thoughts flowing.
💚 🌻 💚
Fandom Exchange Stages (Anthropomorphic)
Nominations (Exchange Stages Anthro)
Sign-ups (Exchange Stages Anthro)
Creation Period (Exchange Stages Anthro)
Reveals (Exchange Stages Anthro)
My gift must feature all of my chosen character tags (if 0: any from tag set)
Prrrompts: As you can tell by looking at my works, especially of late, I love me a fandom exchange! So excited by this being a Fandom this year. Anything you’d like to write showing the stages and how they interact with the writers and themselves would be amazing and wonderful and totally loved upon!
💚 🌻 💚
Fiber Arts (Anthropomorphic)
Yarn (Fiber Arts Anthropomorphic)
Crochet (Anthropomorphic)
Embroidery (Anthropomorphic)
Weaving (Anthropomorphic)
My gift must feature one or more of my chosen character tags (giver's choice)
Prrrompts: Would love for Yarn to play with one (or more!) of the Fiber Arts nominated, as you and your Mewses decide.
I love playing with sticks and string. I’ve done all three fiber arts, to varying degrees of success and varying degrees of skill. Easily susceptible to Yarn Fumes, especially when the Yarn Fumes are coming from hand-dyed yarn. Any of the Arts (the more the merrier!) that you’d like to have play with Yarn would be loverly and beloved.
💚 🌻 💚
Hilda the Plus-Size Pin-up Series - Duane Bryers
Hilda (Hilda the Plus-Sized Pin-Up)
Hilda's Cat (Hilda the Plus-Sized Pin-Up)
Hilda's Dog (Hilda the Plus-Sized Pin-Up)
Squirrel (Hilda the Plus-Sized Pin-Up)
My gift must feature one or more of my chosen character tags (giver's choice)
Prrompts: Would love for Hilda to be joined by one (or more!) of her beloved animal friends as you and your Mewses decide. Or a day in the life of any of them (or all of them!)! If you'd like to have the Cow join in, feel free! All the Hilda love is loverly and loved.
💚 🌻 💚
Fonts (Anthropomorphic)
Comic Sans (Fonts Anthropomorphic)
Papyrus (Fonts Anthropomorphic)
Times New Roman (Fonts Anthropomorphic)
Wingdings (Fonts Anthropomorphic)
My gift must feature one or more of my chosen character tags (giver's choice)
Fandom Specific DNW: No hating on Comic Sans! It’s not their fault they’ve been overused over the years.
Prrrompts: I’m a typesetter, among my many and varied skillz, so when I saw this come up as a Fandom, I just had to pounce.
Outside of the Fandom-based DNW of no hating on Comic Sans, I don’t have a lot to suggest here, except to say 'Font Love! Give me all the Font Love!'. One thought would be how Wingdings and the other fonts get along. Are they appreciated for their differences or is there conflict of some sort? How do the commonly used fonts like Times Roman and Comic Sans deal with their popularity?
💚 🌻 💚
Enchanted Forest Chronicles - Patricia Wrede
Kazul (Enchanted Forest)
Morwen (Enchanted Forest)
Morwen's Cats (Enchanted Forest)
Worldbuilding (Enchanted Forest Chronicles)
My gift must feature one or more of my chosen character tags (giver's choice)
Prrrompts: I just love the Enchanted Forest series, so anything you can give me will be appreciated. Anybody else you'd like to include - including original characters - would be welcome and appreciated .
💚 🌻 💚
Valdemar Series - Mercedes Lackey
Alberich (Valdemar)
Kantor (Valdemar)
Myste (Valdemar)
My gift must feature all of my chosen character tags (if 0: any from tag set)
Prrrompts: I love tales of Alberich and the people around him. A tale of how he relates to those who care for him and he for them would be loverly. Purrhaps some of the difficulties of loving a man like him and how his Companion and his beloved handle that? A tale of how they all celebrate the Winter Hollydays, both Valdemaren and Karsite?
Any Warrl snark you'd like to include would be loverly, tho' obviously extra-optional. Purrhaps he's commenting to Kantor about how oblivious Alberich is being (or Myste, for that matter)?. Or confused by Winter Hollyday customs? Or enjoying Winter Hollyday customs?
💚 🌻 💚
Thank you so much for writing for me!!!! I love story, and having stories written for me, so no worries, I will enjoy whatever you create for me.
That said, below find some things that may help you find it easier to write and create for me. I am aware that Optional Details Are Optional. I also strongly desire that you create and write the story that pleases you the most, so outside of DNWs (which you are encouraged to ask questions about if you are conuse/confused or curious in any way), write the story that excites and pleases you the most.
I will be guaranteed to love it, becauase/because authorial excitement is pleasantly contagious.
So here goes! Following is a list of DNWs, followed by what I call DWWs (Definitely Would Wants) followed by some suggesi/suggestions for prompts.
Some general Goodness:
🌟 I have signed up for / am opting in for extra treats!🌟 🌟 🌟 🌟 🌟 🌟
No Thank Yous or DNWs (Do Not Want)
🌟 No bashing of any character or species - especially the ones that look less like humans
🌟 Uncalled-out speciesism/racism, sexism, etc..
🌟 Uncalled-out discrimination or other hate on the basis of magickal or psychic ability.
🌟 Unresolved infidelity or disloyalty (as in, recovering/coming back together from past event/breaking up = acceptable, in the middle of a sneaking around = no)
🌟 Major disloyalty that is not sinceriously thought to be in service of the person who is being betrayed (as in, betrayer being forced into it = acceptable, just betraying because = no, grey areas in-between = please ask)
🌟 Vow-breaking, especially on the part of religious
🌟 Animal abuse or death/Monster abuse or death
🌟 Domestic violence - physical, verbal, emotional, economic
🌟 Unhealthy ongoing relationships
🌟 Calling animals ‘it’. Calling nonhumans 'it' unless they do so themselves by choice as a specific designation.
🌟 Uncalled-out major disrespect of animals or non-humans
🌟 Crack not treated seriously.
🌟 A/B/O | PWP | dubcon/noncon
🌟 Hurt without Comfort
🌟 Angst without a Happy Ending
🌟 Hopeless or Unhappy Endings (for this moment, prefer no bittersweet, tho’ that’s negotiable)
🌟 Uncalled-out Bullying | Embarrassment | Humiliation
🌟 Horror | Gore
🌟 Uncalled-out Othering
🌟 Forcing yourself to write a story that is not you/that you’re not thrilled about writing.
💙 🌟 💙
Loves or DWWs (Definitely Would Want)
🌟 Competency
🌟 Found Families
🌟 Healthy Polyamory
🌟 Healthy Relationships of all kinds
🌟 Loyalty/Fidelity
🌟 Character-driven stories
🌟 Slice of life
🌟 Fluff!!!! All the Fluff!!!!
🌟 Animal characters and non-humans being referred to as ‘they’ or gendered or their chosen pronouns, as appropriate
🌟 Animal characters and non-human characters being respected as their own amazing selves
🌟 Standing Up/Speaking Out – for self, for others
🌟 Successfull calling-out of things like speciesism, racism, other isms.
🌟 Slash that emphasizes emotions over sex.
🌟 Hurt WITH Comfort – heavy on the comfort is even better!
🌟 Angst WITH a happy ending!
🌟 Happy Endings period!!!!
🌟 Worldbuilding
🌟 Cross-species interactions working well and working out well
🌟 Coffeeshop or Restaurant AUs
🌟 Other retail AUs (bookshop, etc.)
🌟 Epistolary/Letter-fic (whether as sections of a prose story or the whole thing, either way)
🌟 Writing me the story that calls to you!
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Again, the story I will enjoy the most is the one that Calls to you the most. So, mind the basic DNWs and have at it!
Chirp, chirp!
BardicRaven🌟 🌟 🌟 🌟 🌟 🌟 🌟 🌟 🌟
Prrrompts!!!!
Optional, as all details are. Here are some thoughts to potentially help get the Mewsely Thoughts flowing.
💚 🌻 💚
Fandom Exchange Stages (Anthropomorphic)
Nominations (Exchange Stages Anthro)
Sign-ups (Exchange Stages Anthro)
Creation Period (Exchange Stages Anthro)
Reveals (Exchange Stages Anthro)
My gift must feature all of my chosen character tags (if 0: any from tag set)
Prrrompts: As you can tell by looking at my works, especially of late, I love me a fandom exchange! So excited by this being a Fandom this year. Anything you’d like to write showing the stages and how they interact with the writers and themselves would be amazing and wonderful and totally loved upon!
💚 🌻 💚
Fiber Arts (Anthropomorphic)
Yarn (Fiber Arts Anthropomorphic)
Crochet (Anthropomorphic)
Embroidery (Anthropomorphic)
Weaving (Anthropomorphic)
My gift must feature one or more of my chosen character tags (giver's choice)
Prrrompts: Would love for Yarn to play with one (or more!) of the Fiber Arts nominated, as you and your Mewses decide.
I love playing with sticks and string. I’ve done all three fiber arts, to varying degrees of success and varying degrees of skill. Easily susceptible to Yarn Fumes, especially when the Yarn Fumes are coming from hand-dyed yarn. Any of the Arts (the more the merrier!) that you’d like to have play with Yarn would be loverly and beloved.
💚 🌻 💚
Hilda the Plus-Size Pin-up Series - Duane Bryers
Hilda (Hilda the Plus-Sized Pin-Up)
Hilda's Cat (Hilda the Plus-Sized Pin-Up)
Hilda's Dog (Hilda the Plus-Sized Pin-Up)
Squirrel (Hilda the Plus-Sized Pin-Up)
My gift must feature one or more of my chosen character tags (giver's choice)
Prrompts: Would love for Hilda to be joined by one (or more!) of her beloved animal friends as you and your Mewses decide. Or a day in the life of any of them (or all of them!)! If you'd like to have the Cow join in, feel free! All the Hilda love is loverly and loved.
💚 🌻 💚
Fonts (Anthropomorphic)
Comic Sans (Fonts Anthropomorphic)
Papyrus (Fonts Anthropomorphic)
Times New Roman (Fonts Anthropomorphic)
Wingdings (Fonts Anthropomorphic)
My gift must feature one or more of my chosen character tags (giver's choice)
Fandom Specific DNW: No hating on Comic Sans! It’s not their fault they’ve been overused over the years.
Prrrompts: I’m a typesetter, among my many and varied skillz, so when I saw this come up as a Fandom, I just had to pounce.
Outside of the Fandom-based DNW of no hating on Comic Sans, I don’t have a lot to suggest here, except to say 'Font Love! Give me all the Font Love!'. One thought would be how Wingdings and the other fonts get along. Are they appreciated for their differences or is there conflict of some sort? How do the commonly used fonts like Times Roman and Comic Sans deal with their popularity?
💚 🌻 💚
Enchanted Forest Chronicles - Patricia Wrede
Kazul (Enchanted Forest)
Morwen (Enchanted Forest)
Morwen's Cats (Enchanted Forest)
Worldbuilding (Enchanted Forest Chronicles)
My gift must feature one or more of my chosen character tags (giver's choice)
Prrrompts: I just love the Enchanted Forest series, so anything you can give me will be appreciated. Anybody else you'd like to include - including original characters - would be welcome and appreciated .
💚 🌻 💚
Valdemar Series - Mercedes Lackey
Alberich (Valdemar)
Kantor (Valdemar)
Myste (Valdemar)
My gift must feature all of my chosen character tags (if 0: any from tag set)
Prrrompts: I love tales of Alberich and the people around him. A tale of how he relates to those who care for him and he for them would be loverly. Purrhaps some of the difficulties of loving a man like him and how his Companion and his beloved handle that? A tale of how they all celebrate the Winter Hollydays, both Valdemaren and Karsite?
Any Warrl snark you'd like to include would be loverly, tho' obviously extra-optional. Purrhaps he's commenting to Kantor about how oblivious Alberich is being (or Myste, for that matter)?. Or confused by Winter Hollyday customs? Or enjoying Winter Hollyday customs?
💚 🌻 💚
