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Dear Yuletide Author,

Thanks in advance for writing for me! I’m firstlovelatespring on ao3, and I’m requesting The Bear, Bottoms, and Moneyball. There is a somewhat obvious thread that connects 2 of these fandoms, but what I really see as the commonality between them is the intense, fraught, and sometimes contentious relationships that play a central role between the characters I’m requesting. So, while I would love something of a romantic or sexual nature between these pairs, I’ll be thrilled any fic that gets a little deeper into that dynamic, whether that be exploring how it came to be, filling in missing scenes, or looking to the future.

DNW

Anal sex involving women
Women performing oral sex on men
Mentions of live-action pornography
Setting-change AUs

General likes

Third or first person POV
Happy endings, sad endings, ambiguous endings
Pining, requited or unrequited
Getting together, established relationship, breaking up
Relationships that are intense and ill defined
Missing scenes and other canon-typical things
Forced proximity, from “having to play on the same team” to “being stuck in an elevator together”

Smut likes

Kissing
Fingering
Non-realistic dildos and strap-ons, used for vaginal penetration (but not oral sex)
Oral sex between women
Frottage
Clothed or partially clothed sex
One character sitting on a table or counter while the other is between their legs
Semi-public sex without a real fear of being caught

Also, I imagine all of the female characters in my signup having pubic hair. You don’t have to mention it, but I’d prefer if you didn’t outright contradict the idea.

Bottoms (2023)
PJ, Josie, Hazel
I would be ok with just PJ and Josie OR just PJ and Hazel. Or, or course, all 3!

Well that was hilarious. I loved everything about this movie, but especially PJ and Josie’s friendship, and whatever PJ and Hazel had going on. I drove home from the theater and immediately pulled up the tag on AO3.

For PJ and Hazel, I am very interested in how they navigate their relationship post-kiss, especially PJ’s process of adjusting her expectations. I imagine her like that story of the kid who has a crush and writes them a note that says “get out of my school.” I also love how unapologetically horny PJ is, and I think her excitement and eagerness to try everything would go well with Hazel’s more laid-back approach. I don’t really imagine them staying together through college, and I think they probably realize that too, but I do imagine them having, at least, one incredible senior summer.

I loved the way PJ and Josie play off of each other. And all the history they have - I would love a story that follows them through the years, whether that’s before or after the movie. I do imagine they would stay in touch through college, at least at first. And I think it would be fun to follow them through a series of firsts, rehashing everything that happens with Hazel and Isabel.

The Bear
Sydney Adamu, Carmen “Carmy” Berzatto

I loved this show, especially the relationship between Sydney and Carmy. They make each other better, and they make each other worse. I would love any fic that explores their competitive, collaborative, insane relationship.

I would love something from Sydney’s point of view, of her sorting through her jealousy of Claire, who is taking away not only her business partner, but someone that she might have other feelings for. And what it means to her to watch someone else struggle to balance being a chef with having a life. To me, Sydney’s rejection of Marcus was a rejection of the idea of having a life, or of the idea that working at The Bear is just a job. Up to you whether her feelings for Carmy are requited.

I could also go for a fic about Carmy’s (possibly unrequited) feelings for Sydney! She’s this dynamic young chef, a real person he vibes with and bounces off of, but she also represents a choice, the idea of totally giving himself over to the restaurant. And I imagine him feeling guilty about his feelings for Sydney. Someone who is younger and less experienced than him, someone who maybe resents being pulled into his personal family drama struggling restaurant.

You could also, of course, actually get them together. I don’t just like guilt and repression and unrequited pining. I would love future fic about what happens with the new restaurant, whether that means thriving and paying off their debts or going down in flames (literally?). Or missing scenes during the show, taking moments of tension further than what we got onscreen. I just love them in any form!!

Moneyball (2009)
Billy Beane, Peter Brand

How can you not be romantic about baseball? And its corollary: What’s sexier than sabermetrics?

I love the way Billy and Peter obsess over the team. I think they should also obsess over each other. I would love missing scenes set during the season, or future fic set after Peter has left Oakland. (I do love the fics that already exist - I just want more!!!)

The backdrop of baseball is very welcome and appreciated. I would even be interested if you wanted to transpose Billy and Peter elsewhere in baseball, like the minor leagues, or even as overcompetitive little league coaches.

Dear Yuletide Author,

Thanks in advance for writing for me! I’m firstlovelatespring on ao3. I decided to go for a bit of a theme this year — I’m requesting Moneyball (2011), The Natural - Bernard Malamud, and New York Mets RPF.

For all my requests, I’m generally very interested in the setting of baseball. Go ahead and ascribe emotional meaning to baseball actions and all that. What I’m not really interested in is stories about coming out or being outed, to the public or to team members. I don’t mind if a teammate or two is aware of the situation, I just don’t want this to be the focus of the story.

Things I like:

Happy endings, unhappy endings, ambiguous endings
Getting together, breaking up, established relationship, relationship firsts, pre-relationship
Third or first person point of view
Pining of any flavor, including unrequited
Antagonistic or competitive relationships
5 times
Forced proximity, from “having to play on the same team” to “being stuck in an elevator together”

I’m not really interested in PWP, but I don’t mind the presence/absence of smut in general. For these fandoms, I’m more interested in the emotional meaning of sex scenes than in any particular details.

DNW
Setting-change AUs (i.e., making them not in baseball)
Death of requested characters (except Roy Hobbs)

Moneyball (2011)
Billy Beane, Peter Brand

The book Moneyball is about the art of winning an unfair game. The movie Moneyball is about that too, but it is also about the love story between Billy Beane and Peter Brand. I love them as an unlikely duo that are forced to work together, to great success and begrudging mutual fondness. Moneyball is also the first movie where I fully understood the appeal of Brad Pitt. What’s sexier than sabermetrics?

I’d love missing scenes or anything canon-typical for them. I also think 5 times would work particularly well here, with all the repetitiveness of the baseball season, 162 variations on a theme.

The Natural - Bernard Malamud
Roy Hobbs

Now, I put in an exception to my death DNW for Roy Hobbs because you can do anything you like to him, up to and including death. He’s been through a lot.

In terms of prompts for this book... anything, really. Subject Roy to more events and ailments. Kill him, injure him, break his heart. Have him fix things with Memo and end up deeply miserable behind a white picket fence. Or, maybe fill in some of the time between when he got shot and when he ended up on the Knights?

The one thing I’m not so interested is fix-it fic; I think Roy is really defined as a character by this inability to grow up, being physically 35 but still kind of frozen at 18. So like... he can evolve into having new miseries. But let the man be miserable.

New York Mets RPF
Jeff McNeil, Francisco Lindor

When Jeff McNeil was called up, I fell for his shaggy hair and high batting average. He quickly became one of my favorite players, despite his squirrelish looks.

I was a little more skeptical about Francisco Lindor. I’m always skeptical about huge, long-term free agent deals, and I’d never even heard of this guy before, him having been in the American League. Well… that skepticism didn’t even last until the end of spring training. He won me over by the end of a single in-game interview. Gary Cohen called him effervescent, and I agreed.

The rat or raccoon argument of 2021 was what got me thinking about this ship, instead of just separately enjoying my favorite players. What were they really arguing about in the tunnel? I'd love to read the fallout from that, or anything leading up to it.

I’d also love to read moments during the season, in the dugout or on an airplane, or hanging around during a rainout. I could buy them having a somewhat difficult relationship, especially in 2021. Or having a sort of normal and boring dislike for each other. Or one being totally indifferent, while the other is privately pining. I really don’t mind if you don’t get them together, whether that’s gen, pre-slash, pining, rejection, etc.

So, they’re both married. Any of these options for dealing with that is fine with me: not mentioning it either way, explicitly pretending they were never married, or including angst about cheating. What I don’t want is a big presence of the wife (or kids) in the story, or a story that ends with either of them planning to break off the marriage. I also don’t really like an acknowledged arrangement where the wife knows about things with other players and is cool with it. Basically, you don’t have to mention infidelity, but if you do, I want the guy to feel bad about it.

Dear Yuletide Author,

Thanks in advance for writing for me! I’m firstlovelatespring on ao3. I’m requesting Attachments - Rainbow Rowell, The Longshot - Katie Kitamura, and New York Mets RPF. I’m so excited about all three of these fandoms that I’m sure I’ll love anything you write, but I do have many thoughts and prompts about them.

DNW

Explicit sexual content between characters younger than 16
Setting-change AUs
Toilet humor

General likes

5+1 times
Forced proximity
Getting together
Missing scenes

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Thanks in advance for writing for me! I’m also at firstlovelatespring on ao3. I’m requesting 7 vírgenes | 7 Virgins (2005), Attachments - Rainbow Rowell, The Inbetweeners, Mosquita y Mari (2012), and The View from Saturday - E. L. Konigsburg. I’ve included a lot of thoughts and prompts on these fandoms, but I’m really very easy to please, so I’m sure I’ll be thrilled with whatever you write, be that shipfic or gen.

DNW

Explicit sexual content between characters younger than 16
Incest
Major character death
PDA, especially in front of family. Public or semi-public intimacy that involves a risk of being caught.
Pregnancy or kidfic (de-aging or giving the characters kids)
Setting-change AUs
Third parties to a relationship saying things like “be safe!”, or being over-invested or deeply involved in the ship.
Toilet humor
Unrequested gender/sexuality headcanons

General Likes

5+1 times
Bed sharing
Bodyswap
Casefic or other canon-typical adventures
Characters getting drunk or high together
Fake dating
Forced proximity
Getting together
Minor magical abilities
Road trips

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Thanks for writing for me! I’m at firstlovelatespring on ao3, and my past letters can be found here on dreamwidth as well (although I don’t think I’ve ever written a letter requesting any of these canons before.) My general likes include 5 times, getting together, secret relationship, forced proximity, bed sharing, minor magical abilities, and casefic, but I am pretty easy to please. Below are some more specific thoughts on and prompts for my requested fandoms, but feel free to take or leave what you like.

I'm requesting 7 vírgenes | 7 virgins (2006), Man Like Mobeen, The Inbetweeners, and The View from Saturday. ( Details within )

Dear Yuletide Author,

I’m Sarah, or firstlovelatespring on ao3. I’ve included a lot of specific prompts here but really am very easy to please, so take or leave what you like. Thanks in advance!

DNW
More than canon-level allusion to pregnancy, character death, suicide or self-harm, eating disorders. Non-con, kidfic. M/M or F/M explicit sex. PDA in front of family, or any over the top PDA at all. Non-canonical nicknames/pet names.

GENERAL LIKES
5 times, getting together, revealing a relationship to friends/coworkers, fake dating, mentions of baseball, secret relationship, missing scenes, casefic, other canon-typical shenanigans and/or hijinks.

Also, if you’re writing slash or femslash, I generally prefer the characters to have already come out (at least to themselves) and for feelings for a specific person to be the internal conflict, not feelings for someone of the same gender in general.

( American Vandal )
( Galavant )
( IT Crowd )

Dear Netflix Originals Exchange author,

Thanks for writing for me! My ao3 is firstlovelatespring and I'm very much looking forward to whatever you write. I'm requesting American Vandal, Arrested Development, and GLOW. I've included a lot of specific prompts, but feel free to take or leave what you like. Be advised, this letter contains spoilers for GLOW season 3!

DNW: More than canon-level allusion to pregnancy, character death, suicide or self-harm, sexual assault. PDA in front of family, or any over the top PDA at all. Pure fluff or non-canonical nicknames/pet names.

General likes: 5 times, getting together, revealing a relationship to friends/coworkers, fake dating, secret relationship, casefic, other canon-typical shenanigans and/or hijinks.

( American Vandal )
( Arrested Development )
( GLOW )

Hi! I'm Sarah, or

irenesides on ao3. Thanks in advance, author!

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Hi yuletide writer!

I'm Sarah (driedflowers on ao3, bethecowgirl on tumblr). This is my first year participating in yuletide so I hope this letter is alright! I'm super excited for whatever you write for me but I do of course have a few comments. My biggest request is something in the same tone as the source material. Something in script format would be cool but either way I would prefer something relatively light and plot-heavy over something very introspective and focused a lot on a character's thoughts. Some other general tropes I like are 5+1, missing scenes, revealing a relationship to friends/coworkers, and get-togethers.

In terms of general DNW.... porn isn't my first choice honestly but if that's where your inspiration takes you I'd say just keep it pretty vanilla lol. DNW any slash or het porn but femslash is ok. Also, please no character death, suicide, self harm, or eating disorders. If any of that occurs in canon it's fair game but either way I don't want any of those to be the focus of the fic (GLOW being the exception, see below). I'm also generally not a fan of AUs. And I know this is a yuletide exchange but please no Christmas fic.

Powerless

I love the light tone of Powerless and definitely felt like the canon was moving towards a love triangle between Green Fury, Emily, and Teddy. I would love something about that love triangle, with Teddy or Emily being jealous. Or I would also love something that's just Emily/Green Fury. Maybe something about having to do with Emily and Green Fury saving each other's lives in a variety of zany ways..... I love the backdrop of superheroes. Another thing I would really love to read is Emily introducing Green Fury as her girlfriend to her coworkers at a work party. I prefer endgame Emily/Green Fury but I also think Emily/Teddy can be cute so whichever you prefer really.

American Vandal

I binged this show in the beginning of October and I loved it! I'd prefer a work set during season 1, and something I would really love is canon divergence where Sam and Peter get together while filming the documentary, or have been together the entire time and are just subtle about it (although if you do write something with established relationship i'm not really into pure fluff). Right now I'm very into fics in the tone of the original source material so something in the same format / with the same energy as the show would blow me away! I would also love a fic of several missing scenes between scenes of the show that fill in the details of their relationship. Oh or also.... maybe something where Peter is looking through the footage as he's editing and realizing through that that he has feelings for Sam, with, like, cut scenes written in between, if that makes sense? Really anything about getting together would make me very happy. Also any type of casefic would be really fun! Something from a hypothetical season 3, or even just small mysteries. Another specific prompt I have for this is based around the "case" Sam made against Peter lol. I really thought that was going to be the show's gross teenage boy way of revealing Peter's sexuality which is honestly an understandable mistake even without gay characters goggles so it would be cool to read something where instead of saying Ashley Hansen, Sam says the name of some random guy and actually surprise Peter was out gay the whole time! And just like some other scenes where that comes up. Could end up gen or slash.

For this show I have an extra DNW which is that I would prefer if you don't refer to him as "Pete" a lot and mostly use "Peter" unless it's especially important that you use the short form. This is just because that's my dad's name lol. Also, please nothing rated above a high T.

GLOW

I watched GLOW for the first time in September and as soon as I finished I started again from episode 1. I don't usually like dramas but I just fell in love with the characters and the wrestling storylines! I'd love something that worked with/around the main plot about the actual wrestling show. It's not necessary to include all the characters and I'd be equally happy to receive something Ruth/Debbie or Arthie/Yolanda or gen so do what you will.

For Debbie/Ruth I would like something in set in about the middle of the series, when they're not fighting so intensely any more but still are kind of mad at each other. Like, the angry energy turns into chemistry, that type of thing. Or also something when they're friends would be good, but either set before things get weird between Ruth and Sam or just ignoring Ruth/Sam entirely. I would also love something in which Ruth confronts Debbie about sabotaging her relationship with the cameraman who I can't remember the name of and they get into a fight and Debbie admits she was doing it because she's jealous of him and all that comes out. Honestly Debbie/Ruth can be requited or not for any scenario you choose, and they don't necessarily have to end up together.

For Arthie/Yolanda I would love a missing scenes fic, or really just anything more about how they developed feelings for each other and got together! The show left a lot of blanks to be filled in for them. Also Arthie coming to terms with her sexuality would be great. For this pairing I really just want a happy ending.

Finally if you're interested in writing gen I think it would be very interesting to read something about Debbie's relationship with food + body image over the years. However if you have no experience or way too much experience in this area I ofc get if you don't want to write about it and will be equally happy with anything else suggested here! Another gen thing that might be nice is Ruth celebrating Hanukkah. I definitely don't see her as religious enough to go to shul (especially not on Hanukkah) but I can imagine her lighting the menorah and maybe calling her parents, especially if she's upset over wrestling or over her relationship with Debbie.

Thanks in advance!