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2018 Yuletide letter
Hello Yuletide friend! I'm glad you found my letter!
I am a very laid-back person to write for. I only request fandoms that I would love almost anything for, but also that I have several specific ideas for. So you're welcome to just run with the fandom and do whatever you want, or only go by what I put in the signup. My only real DNW for this year's fandoms is that if a character is not given a binary gender in canon, please don't assign them one in your story.
I really love crossovers (whether I know all the fandoms or not) and I love AUs of all kinds, especially when the crossover or AU setting reveals new viewpoints on how canon works. I like fluff and angst and humor and darkness. I like good old-fashioned storytelling and experimental stuff and everything in between. A good writer can sell me on pretty much any ship or kink, but I love gen too, whether it's plot or character or worldbuilding focused.
If you want to know more about what I like specifically, feel free to browse my DW - my tagging is unfortunately sporadic, but the fandom:yuletide tag you followed to get here is pretty well-kept and has letters going back almost to the first YT. If you don't want to know more about me, that's fine! Stop reading at any point and write me whatever you want to write; that will be the best story anyway.
I feel like I've got a really mixed bag of fandoms this year, but the heart wants what it wants. At least a couple of them should be pretty easy to pick up if you want to try.
I am working the rest of this letter right as assignments are about to go out, so I'm going to paste in my requests here & then edit in a bit more later tonight, just in case you want more. ETA: OK, edits done, I hope. Thanks for your patience.
Heimdall seems like he's the Aesir who's always in the background - he gets mentioned as part of the main pantheon, and then he doesn't get to do much. And that seems like a shame because what little we do know about him is so interesting! I'm particularly interested in his portrayal in the short poem Rígsþula which is basically just about him wandering around the Earth having a bunch of m/m/f threesomes with married couples. Like. Apparently there is a Norse god of threesomes and nobody ever saw fit to write fanfic about this? What do the other Aesir think of this? Does he still go out and pick up couples in the modern era (answer: clearly yes.)
Ragnarok is not one of the parts of Norse myth that really draws me, but if it's your favorite, I would definitely enjoy a Ragnarok story that focused on Heimdall and left the usual suspects in the background for once. I'd love any other story based on the original stories in the Eddas and surviving Sagas and poems that centers him, too.
And while this is obviously not an MCU fic, I would not be at all upset if you went with my headcanon that "Whitest of the Gods" is one of those ironic epithets and he really does look like Idris Elba. :D
This is a phone game, free on both Android and iPhone. I would've said it's aimed at a younger audience than most of the main Pokemon games - if only because calling the gameplay "simplistic" is giving it way too much credit - and yet at the same time, it's weirdly dark. Like, it's the only Pokemon game I'm aware of where your beloved Pokemon can just get randomly and irrevocably killed by a Pidgeotto dropping out the sky and eating them (...and you get a bonus if you let it happen.)
The "story" is that the player character is a well-known Pokemon trainer who has come (or been sent, it's unclear) to a place called Hoppy Town at the request of Hoppy Town's Mayor Karp. Player seems to have come with no idea of why, and learns (somewhat to their consternation) that Hoppy Town is part of a cluster of communities that is totally focused on training Magikarp to jump as high as possible, and bringing Magikarp to jumping battles in the Magikarp League. Hoppy Town's Magikarp have been lackluster of late, and the famous Pokemon Trainer is here to train up a winning Magikarp at last and revive the town's fortunes!
Player is somewhat nonplussed by this at first (and, strangely for a famous trainter, does not seem to have any Pokemon of their own), but quickly settles in to a contented life of sitting by a fishpond all day, occasionally wandering to a nearby abandoned quarry to train with a Magikarp or walking to town for supplies, and they also soon start winning in the leagues. They don't exactly make friends, they still don't talk to anyone but fish, but they have some nodding acquaintances, and at least stop nervously *sweatdrop*ing whenever anyone tries to talk to them and occasionally even emote at other human beings.
Clearly, Player Character has some problems they need to work on. Player character seems to be in a place where a few months of staying in a quite backwater town, fishing, and slowly rebuilding their confidence is exactly what they need. What's going on in Player's head?
My headcanon on all my playthroughs of this game is that Hoppy Town is where great Pokemon trainers end up when they break under the pressure, as Player must have done, as most of the adult human characters clearly did a long time ago. But if you have some other headcanon, run with it!
In my headcanon, the Man of Mystery is also a long-ago burnt-out former Pokemon champion who gave up a long time ago and now drinks a lot and runs con games and a black-market betting ring based on the jumping leagues (is player character involved in the ring? is that why they suddenly get a lot friendlier with him when he starts giving them payouts at the track?) The Mayor is only slightly in touch with reality, and has things is his past that he would rather not think about - running Hoppy Town as a sanctuary is his penance. When he remembers that that's what it is, anyway. And then there's Dr. Splash. She's not allowed to study anything other than Magikarp anymore, because, reasons. Don't ask her about that, just keep her talking about Magikarp, okay?
Roddy Tackle is the closest the town has to a well-adjusted adult, but he seems happy doing nothing more ambitious than sitting by his pond all day and occasionally going to the track. What's his story? Is he more than he seems, or is he really just that interested in fish? And do you, also, ship him with the Man of Mystery?
Anyway, yeah, I'm just super-invested in all the goings-on in Magikarp Town. My quiet pond and helpful fishie in the town where nobody has figured out my gender, much less my name, and are never going to ask, either, is a happy place. Please write me a story about its dark(-ish) underbelly. Or about all the little kids who hang out all day at the track! They are adorable and why are they not in school???
If this intrigues you, I have basically given you all the canon there is; you can get a feel for the game in a small amount of mindless gameplay, and pretty much all you need to know is on Bulbapedia. My knowledge of the wider Pokemon world is patchy, so use as little or as much other canon as you'd like. If you'd like to bring other pokemon characters to Hoppy Town to let them fish - or characters from anywhere, honestly - that would be a delight.
Also, one of my friends got tired of me constantly playing my fish game and made me start reading this horror manga called Shibuya Goldfish. I don't think there's much chance anyone else in the world is a fan of both, but if by chance you are, I would be there for that one.
The Hidden Almanac is one of Ursula Vernon and Kevin Sonney's podcasts. It's basically "What if Welcome to Night Vale had been like a real community radio show?" The episodes are only about five minutes long, there are very few continuing storylines, and there's a lot of gardening advice and weird saints.
Pastor Drom is the character voiced by Ursula, and she is a miracle-worker, a writer of erotic self-help books, a person of vast and varied life experience, and a DELIGHT. Because of the format of the show, we mostly find out character things as drips and drabs, and hers always imply much longer and more entertaining stories than will fit in five minutes.
I listen to the show as it comes out and don't have a worldbuilding encyclopedia for it in my head, so you don't have to worry too much about missing something from three years ago, but there is a wikia! And it's extensive! And it has full searchable transcripts!
This is a boys' own space adventure from the 1960s, which won my heart by being a boys' own space adventure where 2/3 of the main characters are women, and they are great.
The basic summary is that Dolph, supergenius son of a NASA scientist (and an... insurance salesman, I think? His dad is basically set dressing) discovers a space drive that will let him travel to Mars in just a weekend, so of course he builds a spaceship and sets out on a proof-of-concept trip. And then crashes on Mars because he miscalculated something vital.
Meanawhile his girlfriend Nanette, also a supergenius but nobody but Dolph has noticed this because she's reasonably willing to perform femininity, realizes what has happened, and sets off in his prototype to rescue him. Unfortunately, she makes the same mistake, and also brought all of his notes and spares along, so there's no way for anyone else to follow them, even if anyone else knew what was going on.
The rest of the book is basically the two of them keeping house while marooned on Mars, which is like catnip to me. Until Dolph's mom shows up as commander of the NASA mission sent up to rescue them, because Dolph's mom is a badass.
And I love the way Nanette's character does buy into so many of the stereotypes of the female in a book like this, and yet it's never shown as a disadvantage, and just as often leaves her better able to survive than Dolph - I will never get over her saving them by oiling the air pump with the oil from her greasy nose that she hates, because Dolph would never have thought of "two teenagers" as a source of useful oil. (IDK how stupid that is engineering-wise, I love it so much.)
If you'd like to read it for free, the original serialization as "The Hour Before Earthrise" was in the July-Aug-Sept 1966 issues of "Worlds of If", which are up on the Internet Archive.
I would love anything about Dolph and his relationships with either of the two important women in his life, or their relationship with each other, or how either of them navigate being women and also badass scientist-explorers in this very 1960s future society they somehow turned up in.
I also really love the Mars of this book, not quite as green and wet as the Mars of the old romances, but not quite as inhospitable as the Mars we would later learn to live with. Just *barely* habitable. I'm not super interested in the "ancient lost civilization" plot (tbf, nobody else in the book seems to be either, including the lost civilization) but stuff about how this Mars works, or about Dolph and Nanette setting up a more permanent colony on it later, would be great.
Also if you want to write me smut for this pair, I bet sex while under the influence of the lichen sap would be amazing. (So would sex while off the sap for the first time as adults too, though.)
Round Planet is a BBC series parodying BBC nature series. I will confess that I'm only about 3/4 of the way through so I hope Garth doesn't die horribly or something partway through, although I'm pretty sure he's unkillable at this point, so he's probably mostly okay.
So, while the narration is certainly entertaining, I listen to enough science podcasts that "experts talk shit about nature while drunk and unedited" is not that much of a novelty? But I'm actually fascinated by the fact that this is pretty much a nature documentary patched together from other documentaries' b-roll. Which means that a lot of what's showing up here is the stuff the (RL) cameramen cared enough about to get great shots of, even though they probably knew it wasn't the sort of shots that would get used in a top-of-the-line documentary. Which is just really cool on a meta level? And on an in-canon level, I feel like this series is kind of Garth's dream, he knows nobody involved in it actually gives a damn so he can film whatever he likes and knows it'll probably get used for once.
On the other hand, I keep thinking about that post that's going around about the dude who kept pretending to be a journalist just get to free food at events until people actually started hiring him and he discovered he liked it, and I'm also up for that being Garth's backstory. Or this whole thing being Tabitha and Garth *actually* just pulling b-roll from the archives and embezzling the entire filming budget (either with or without Armstrong's knowledge.)
But I'd also be super into any story about the crew trapped together in a survival situation during a location shoot gone wrong, because I'm pretty sure that would be hilarious. Especially Garth and Armstrong, your choice if slash or not. :P
The opening sequences about choice of planets have also gotten me wondering if some of the people involved are, in fact, immigrants to Earth, who have reason to know it's the best of a bad set of options. Alternatively, wondering what would happen if someone decided to abduct what is clearly Earth's best wildlife filming crew to make nature documentaries about *other* planets (Worlds? Universes? What would "Disc Planet" be like, I wonder?).
I'm not going to add much here due to not having read Exit Strategy yet and not wanting to mess you up because of that, but I think I mostly covered it in the sign-up? Anything you write me with ART in it will be great. I kind of ship it and Murderbot as an AI brain/brawn pair, if that means anything to you! I am also totally up for Murderbot crossovers, with or without ART with any other space fandom you can name. And if you can't make an ART story work, I would totally be happy with anything in Murderbot fandom.
Thank you so much for writing for me! Yuletide is the best holiday of the year.
I am a very laid-back person to write for. I only request fandoms that I would love almost anything for, but also that I have several specific ideas for. So you're welcome to just run with the fandom and do whatever you want, or only go by what I put in the signup. My only real DNW for this year's fandoms is that if a character is not given a binary gender in canon, please don't assign them one in your story.
I really love crossovers (whether I know all the fandoms or not) and I love AUs of all kinds, especially when the crossover or AU setting reveals new viewpoints on how canon works. I like fluff and angst and humor and darkness. I like good old-fashioned storytelling and experimental stuff and everything in between. A good writer can sell me on pretty much any ship or kink, but I love gen too, whether it's plot or character or worldbuilding focused.
If you want to know more about what I like specifically, feel free to browse my DW - my tagging is unfortunately sporadic, but the fandom:yuletide tag you followed to get here is pretty well-kept and has letters going back almost to the first YT. If you don't want to know more about me, that's fine! Stop reading at any point and write me whatever you want to write; that will be the best story anyway.
I feel like I've got a really mixed bag of fandoms this year, but the heart wants what it wants. At least a couple of them should be pretty easy to pick up if you want to try.
I am working the rest of this letter right as assignments are about to go out, so I'm going to paste in my requests here & then edit in a bit more later tonight, just in case you want more. ETA: OK, edits done, I hope. Thanks for your patience.
Norse Religion & Lore, Heimdall
Heimdall seems to mostly be known for his role as the Watcher of the Gods and in the Ragnarok, and there aren't a lot of surviving stories about him compared to others, but I'd love to see something expanding on the other things we do know about him - growing up with nine mothers, all maidens (presumably a poly lesbian commune?) or the story in the Rígsþula where he has all those threesomes, or why exactly he was so invested in Thor wearing a wedding dress, or what backstory Loki was referencing in the Lokasenna. But mostly I'd just like a story that centers Heimdall for once.
Heimdall seems like he's the Aesir who's always in the background - he gets mentioned as part of the main pantheon, and then he doesn't get to do much. And that seems like a shame because what little we do know about him is so interesting! I'm particularly interested in his portrayal in the short poem Rígsþula which is basically just about him wandering around the Earth having a bunch of m/m/f threesomes with married couples. Like. Apparently there is a Norse god of threesomes and nobody ever saw fit to write fanfic about this? What do the other Aesir think of this? Does he still go out and pick up couples in the modern era (answer: clearly yes.)
Ragnarok is not one of the parts of Norse myth that really draws me, but if it's your favorite, I would definitely enjoy a Ragnarok story that focused on Heimdall and left the usual suspects in the background for once. I'd love any other story based on the original stories in the Eddas and surviving Sagas and poems that centers him, too.
And while this is obviously not an MCU fic, I would not be at all upset if you went with my headcanon that "Whitest of the Gods" is one of those ironic epithets and he really does look like Idris Elba. :D
Pokemon: Magikarp Jump
I feel like there's a lot going on in this game. Maybe I've just played it too long. What's the player character's backstory - why did they go from Pokemon Champion to backwater fisher? Why do they only talk to Pokemon. What's the Man of Mystery's story - he's making illegal bets on Magikarp fights, right? He and Roddy Tackle seem like complete opposites but they must spend a lot of time together at the fish fights; how do they get along? And what's Roddy's story - he seems relatively functional compared to everybody else, why's he choose to hang out there? And then there's Doctor Splash; why is she the way she is? (The player is canonically gender-ambiguous, as other characters comment on this; please don't assign them a binary gender; making them explicitly nonbinary/genderqueer/etc. or leaving it ambiguous is fine.)
This is a phone game, free on both Android and iPhone. I would've said it's aimed at a younger audience than most of the main Pokemon games - if only because calling the gameplay "simplistic" is giving it way too much credit - and yet at the same time, it's weirdly dark. Like, it's the only Pokemon game I'm aware of where your beloved Pokemon can just get randomly and irrevocably killed by a Pidgeotto dropping out the sky and eating them (...and you get a bonus if you let it happen.)
The "story" is that the player character is a well-known Pokemon trainer who has come (or been sent, it's unclear) to a place called Hoppy Town at the request of Hoppy Town's Mayor Karp. Player seems to have come with no idea of why, and learns (somewhat to their consternation) that Hoppy Town is part of a cluster of communities that is totally focused on training Magikarp to jump as high as possible, and bringing Magikarp to jumping battles in the Magikarp League. Hoppy Town's Magikarp have been lackluster of late, and the famous Pokemon Trainer is here to train up a winning Magikarp at last and revive the town's fortunes!
Player is somewhat nonplussed by this at first (and, strangely for a famous trainter, does not seem to have any Pokemon of their own), but quickly settles in to a contented life of sitting by a fishpond all day, occasionally wandering to a nearby abandoned quarry to train with a Magikarp or walking to town for supplies, and they also soon start winning in the leagues. They don't exactly make friends, they still don't talk to anyone but fish, but they have some nodding acquaintances, and at least stop nervously *sweatdrop*ing whenever anyone tries to talk to them and occasionally even emote at other human beings.
Clearly, Player Character has some problems they need to work on. Player character seems to be in a place where a few months of staying in a quite backwater town, fishing, and slowly rebuilding their confidence is exactly what they need. What's going on in Player's head?
My headcanon on all my playthroughs of this game is that Hoppy Town is where great Pokemon trainers end up when they break under the pressure, as Player must have done, as most of the adult human characters clearly did a long time ago. But if you have some other headcanon, run with it!
In my headcanon, the Man of Mystery is also a long-ago burnt-out former Pokemon champion who gave up a long time ago and now drinks a lot and runs con games and a black-market betting ring based on the jumping leagues (is player character involved in the ring? is that why they suddenly get a lot friendlier with him when he starts giving them payouts at the track?) The Mayor is only slightly in touch with reality, and has things is his past that he would rather not think about - running Hoppy Town as a sanctuary is his penance. When he remembers that that's what it is, anyway. And then there's Dr. Splash. She's not allowed to study anything other than Magikarp anymore, because, reasons. Don't ask her about that, just keep her talking about Magikarp, okay?
Roddy Tackle is the closest the town has to a well-adjusted adult, but he seems happy doing nothing more ambitious than sitting by his pond all day and occasionally going to the track. What's his story? Is he more than he seems, or is he really just that interested in fish? And do you, also, ship him with the Man of Mystery?
Anyway, yeah, I'm just super-invested in all the goings-on in Magikarp Town. My quiet pond and helpful fishie in the town where nobody has figured out my gender, much less my name, and are never going to ask, either, is a happy place. Please write me a story about its dark(-ish) underbelly. Or about all the little kids who hang out all day at the track! They are adorable and why are they not in school???
If this intrigues you, I have basically given you all the canon there is; you can get a feel for the game in a small amount of mindless gameplay, and pretty much all you need to know is on Bulbapedia. My knowledge of the wider Pokemon world is patchy, so use as little or as much other canon as you'd like. If you'd like to bring other pokemon characters to Hoppy Town to let them fish - or characters from anywhere, honestly - that would be a delight.
Also, one of my friends got tired of me constantly playing my fish game and made me start reading this horror manga called Shibuya Goldfish. I don't think there's much chance anyone else in the world is a fan of both, but if by chance you are, I would be there for that one.
The Hidden Almanac, Pastor Drom
I would like a story about Pastor Drom! She clearly has a fascinating and extensive life outside of the show and her (friendship?) with Mord, not even mentioning all the exciting incidents in her past, about which we have not heard nearly enough!
The Hidden Almanac is one of Ursula Vernon and Kevin Sonney's podcasts. It's basically "What if Welcome to Night Vale had been like a real community radio show?" The episodes are only about five minutes long, there are very few continuing storylines, and there's a lot of gardening advice and weird saints.
Pastor Drom is the character voiced by Ursula, and she is a miracle-worker, a writer of erotic self-help books, a person of vast and varied life experience, and a DELIGHT. Because of the format of the show, we mostly find out character things as drips and drabs, and hers always imply much longer and more entertaining stories than will fit in five minutes.
I listen to the show as it comes out and don't have a worldbuilding encyclopedia for it in my head, so you don't have to worry too much about missing something from three years ago, but there is a wikia! And it's extensive! And it has full searchable transcripts!
Welcome to Mars - James Blish
I bonded really hard with Nanette when I first read this book as a young teenager. I'd love something more from her POV, either before, during, or after the trip to Mars. I'd also love something with her interacting with Dolph's mom - I really love that for a book that is very clearly set in a 1960s US gender culture, Dolph's mom is the bigshot NASA scientist who rescues them in the end, and there's a great opportunity for a mentorship relationship that we never get to see much of. (Plus I bet Dolph's mom is way more open about sex than Nanette's; I would love to see her give either of them her version of the Talk.) And something about Dolph's mom while they were gone, or on her first trip to Mars, would be great too.
This is a boys' own space adventure from the 1960s, which won my heart by being a boys' own space adventure where 2/3 of the main characters are women, and they are great.
The basic summary is that Dolph, supergenius son of a NASA scientist (and an... insurance salesman, I think? His dad is basically set dressing) discovers a space drive that will let him travel to Mars in just a weekend, so of course he builds a spaceship and sets out on a proof-of-concept trip. And then crashes on Mars because he miscalculated something vital.
Meanawhile his girlfriend Nanette, also a supergenius but nobody but Dolph has noticed this because she's reasonably willing to perform femininity, realizes what has happened, and sets off in his prototype to rescue him. Unfortunately, she makes the same mistake, and also brought all of his notes and spares along, so there's no way for anyone else to follow them, even if anyone else knew what was going on.
The rest of the book is basically the two of them keeping house while marooned on Mars, which is like catnip to me. Until Dolph's mom shows up as commander of the NASA mission sent up to rescue them, because Dolph's mom is a badass.
And I love the way Nanette's character does buy into so many of the stereotypes of the female in a book like this, and yet it's never shown as a disadvantage, and just as often leaves her better able to survive than Dolph - I will never get over her saving them by oiling the air pump with the oil from her greasy nose that she hates, because Dolph would never have thought of "two teenagers" as a source of useful oil. (IDK how stupid that is engineering-wise, I love it so much.)
If you'd like to read it for free, the original serialization as "The Hour Before Earthrise" was in the July-Aug-Sept 1966 issues of "Worlds of If", which are up on the Internet Archive.
I would love anything about Dolph and his relationships with either of the two important women in his life, or their relationship with each other, or how either of them navigate being women and also badass scientist-explorers in this very 1960s future society they somehow turned up in.
I also really love the Mars of this book, not quite as green and wet as the Mars of the old romances, but not quite as inhospitable as the Mars we would later learn to live with. Just *barely* habitable. I'm not super interested in the "ancient lost civilization" plot (tbf, nobody else in the book seems to be either, including the lost civilization) but stuff about how this Mars works, or about Dolph and Nanette setting up a more permanent colony on it later, would be great.
Also if you want to write me smut for this pair, I bet sex while under the influence of the lichen sap would be amazing. (So would sex while off the sap for the first time as adults too, though.)
Round Planet, Garth de la Spong
I only just discovered this but now I really really want something that lets the cameraman speak up; so much of the show is shaped by his artistic choices and yet he's the most invisible as a person. Maybe his POV when he's out alone with his camera? Or him and Tabitha in the archives digging up the archive footage that they're going to pretend they spent this week's budget on while they blow it on weed and liquor instead? Or him and Armstrong trapped together in an Antarctic shack in a blizzard, almost out of opiates and booze after only 12 hours? So many possibilities!
Round Planet is a BBC series parodying BBC nature series. I will confess that I'm only about 3/4 of the way through so I hope Garth doesn't die horribly or something partway through, although I'm pretty sure he's unkillable at this point, so he's probably mostly okay.
So, while the narration is certainly entertaining, I listen to enough science podcasts that "experts talk shit about nature while drunk and unedited" is not that much of a novelty? But I'm actually fascinated by the fact that this is pretty much a nature documentary patched together from other documentaries' b-roll. Which means that a lot of what's showing up here is the stuff the (RL) cameramen cared enough about to get great shots of, even though they probably knew it wasn't the sort of shots that would get used in a top-of-the-line documentary. Which is just really cool on a meta level? And on an in-canon level, I feel like this series is kind of Garth's dream, he knows nobody involved in it actually gives a damn so he can film whatever he likes and knows it'll probably get used for once.
On the other hand, I keep thinking about that post that's going around about the dude who kept pretending to be a journalist just get to free food at events until people actually started hiring him and he discovered he liked it, and I'm also up for that being Garth's backstory. Or this whole thing being Tabitha and Garth *actually* just pulling b-roll from the archives and embezzling the entire filming budget (either with or without Armstrong's knowledge.)
But I'd also be super into any story about the crew trapped together in a survival situation during a location shoot gone wrong, because I'm pretty sure that would be hilarious. Especially Garth and Armstrong, your choice if slash or not. :P
The opening sequences about choice of planets have also gotten me wondering if some of the people involved are, in fact, immigrants to Earth, who have reason to know it's the best of a bad set of options. Alternatively, wondering what would happen if someone decided to abduct what is clearly Earth's best wildlife filming crew to make nature documentaries about *other* planets (Worlds? Universes? What would "Disc Planet" be like, I wonder?).
The Murderbot Diaries - Martha Wells, Asshole Research Transport
ART is my favorite, I would love a story about ART! Teaming up with Murderbot again? On a mission with its usual humans? Badgering its usual humans into hiring Murderbot for security because it misses it? Perhaps it has deep dark secrets of its own! I feel like its own reactions to Murderbot were as complicated as Murderbot's reactions to it, and there's clearly a lot going on with it being a bot who's not like other bots (or, at least, not the way bots are supposed to be.)
(I haven't read Exit Strategy yet, but I will have by reveals, so I'm being vague and if something here is contradicted by spoilers, ignore it.)
I'm not going to add much here due to not having read Exit Strategy yet and not wanting to mess you up because of that, but I think I mostly covered it in the sign-up? Anything you write me with ART in it will be great. I kind of ship it and Murderbot as an AI brain/brawn pair, if that means anything to you! I am also totally up for Murderbot crossovers, with or without ART with any other space fandom you can name. And if you can't make an ART story work, I would totally be happy with anything in Murderbot fandom.
Thank you so much for writing for me! Yuletide is the best holiday of the year.