Yuletide 2025 letter - Happy Yuletide!

[mildredmost]

Happy Yuletide to whoever receives this assignment!  I've put some likes and prompts and ramblings about the canons I've requested, but as ever, these are only ideas. If you have a story you want to tell about the characters I've requested that don't fit any of my prompts, please go for it. 

First and foremost, my DNWs are the same for all canons:

• No pregnancy or babies
• No underage sex
• No modern AUs for canons with historical settings

My likes:

- all ratings
- dub-con
- silent, agonised pining
- hurt/comfort - especially physical things like comforting food, warm baths, cuddling
- huddling for warmth
- finding trust after betrayal
- spanking, whipping, corporal punishment, whether non-con or not
- whump
- power sharing
- competency
- loyalty to the point of self sacrifice
- people who are fuck-ups, fucking other people up.
- magical sex pollen
- physical reactions to stress - feeling faint, throwing up
- please feel free to go full woobie. I love a woobie. Especially a stoic woobie.
- frantic sex, sex where they don't quite manage to undress, sex where they don't quite manage to get a room, frottage.
- delayed orgasms
- overstimulation and desperation
- clothing porn
- crossdressing
- wrists getting kissed or touched. And people unfastening cuffs to get at the wrist to kiss it
- kissing. Oh god I love long drawn out kissing sessions that make the person completely overwhelmed.


Whyborne and Griffin - Jordan L Hawk
Characters: Griffin Flaherty, Percival Whyborne

I love these two. Whyborne is so eccentric and awkward and endearing, and I love his self doubt and his constant confusion that Griffin thinks he's the hottest thing he's ever seen. And Griffin! Talk about a stoic woobie (my favourite type of woobie). They work so well together and they are so besotted. I love that they are good at very different things, the contrast in their backgrounds, and their physical contrasts too.

I'd be happy with a slice of life - just them kissing on the couch for an hour, or taking a day trip to do something Whyborne finds faintly horrifying, or celebrating a holiday or a birthday, and it all going a little...Widdershins. Watching each other work and just kind of adoring the competence. I love it when Whyborne's immaculate clothing gets messed up in some way. Do feel free to write something filthy! I especially love rampagingly horny just-done-some-sorcery Whyborne who tops the hell out of Griffin, and how Griffin absolutely melts at the thought of it. Or jealous Griffin, making sure Whyborne knows how much he wants him. I would be thrilled to get post-canon adventures (and please include any other characters from the books or Widdershins wider universe if your story takes you there - happy to see anyone!) Do they only powershare only when the world is ending, or do they do it at home where no one can see? Are they celebrated in Widdershins after their victory at saving the town? We know from the Rath and Rune books that gay couples have much more freedom to be themselves after Whyborne and Griffin save the world, so what does that look like?


God Eaters - Jesse Hajicek
Characters: Ashleigh Trine, Kieran Trevarde

This book gave me a hangover, the love story was so intense. The hurt, the comfort, the passionate unfolding of their love! Also, when they're both feeling well they're kind of insatiable in bed. Didn't they go about 4 times a night? Anyway!

The ending left me longing for more about their recovery from the horrendous mental and physical trials they've just been through. Hurt/comfort is always a favourite. Or day to day details - how do they make a home together, how do they get along when they're not in constant mortal peril? Or more about their power sharing. I loved the last few lines where Ash said "there's nothing here" and Kieran replied "There will be." So much promise and potential! What do they put there? A farm? A house? Does danger return in some way?

Or I mean, I'd be very happy with good old PWP either before they escape prison or any time during their adventures, or post-novel.


The Limehouse Golem (2016)
Characters: Dan Leno, John Kildare, George Flood

This show could have been made for me. Murky crime in murky Victorian London. Melancholy detectives, music hall bawdiness, queer characters, ruthless characters...all so very much my cup of tea. I mainly want fix-its and what-ifs! Can George and John solve the case earlier and stop (some) of Lizzie's murders? Does Dan help? I love Dan so much and his unwavering determination that the show must go on - I am rooting for him to be the toast of Music Hall London! I don't even mind if they save the awful John Cree.

I'm just as interested in a slice of life in the theatre, or post-canon moments for George and John at work as the dust settles. Does John ever tell? Or does George begin to suspect? I ship them all in any configuration, if that's something you're interested in! I'm also happy for any other character not listed to be included in the story, just not as the main character. And finally, You don't have to include all three characters to the same degree in your story, but as long as they all turn up, I'm happy.