Yuletide Letter 2023

(Context: Yuletide is an annual fanfiction gift exchange for fandoms with relatively few fics, notable for its large number of participants and the high average quality of stories. I’m attempting to participate once more, focusing once again on public domain poetry fandoms.)

Dear Yulemouse,

Thank you for offering to write in at least one of these fandoms. You are totally awesome for doing this. I can only hope you enjoy writing about it as much as I will reading it—for certainly, squees will ring off the mountains and echo down the canyons when it arrives given, yanno, it’s in a fandom I want yet find so rarely.

The best way to please me is to have fun. Wit, sex, dramatic irony, and cracktasticly silly rom-com are all possibilities, but go with whatever floats your boats. Gen, het, slash (including femslash), multi, and poly are all great, as clean or smutty as you want (so yes, Yuleporn and Three Turtle Doves both fine). As a partial guide to the sort of things I like, my stories from past Yuletides are as good as anything. Turn-offs (Do Not Want!) are humiliation-based humor, sadism, explicit torture, and A/B/O (plus one specific to a canon, detailed below). Find something and make it your own, the thing you love writing, and it’s easy odds I’ll like it.

And to make it explicit: poetry (aka Yulepoem) is gleefully accepted—I mean, these fandoms are all poems—but not in the least required. Also, again to be explicit, I welcome treats, which get double the thanks for going above and beyond.

The rest of this is basically expansion on my Optional Details Are Optional, with notes on resources.

( Hymn to Hermes - Homer )

( The Odyssey - Homer )

( 木蘭辭 | Mùlán Shī | Ballad of Mulan )

( Lyke-Wake Dirge (Traditional Song) )

( The Waste Land - T. S. Eliot )