Dear Yuletide Author: 2017 edition!

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Dear Author, thank you for signing up for Yuletide! Whether it is your first year, or you've been signing up for years, I hope you have fun.

Overall things I love in fic, no matter the fandom: relationship negotiation, polyamory, threesomes/moresomes, snuggling/cuddling in romantic OR platonic ways, people cooking for others ('food as a metaphor for love' is the AO3 tag of my heart), fic where people pretend to be married or accidentally get married, soulbonds (platonic or otherwise!), magical realism, name-on-skin stories. Tropes, basically! All the tropes!

Gen, het, slash, I am pretty much open to anything, and any rating, so don't feel like you need to write something NC-17 or a genre that's that's not what you write at all. The only AUs I'm not into reading are the high school AU and A/B/O universes. Honestly, the only thing I really do not want to read in fic is kinks involving bathroom functions, super-angsty infidelity issues, and I'd prefer no character death unless it's already in canon.

The Way Way Back: As of this writing, no one has offered this fandom, and I think I was the only person to nominate it (again!). What I'd really love is a story where Duncan and Owen make out, could be that summer - Duncan's never been kissed, and wants to practice before he tries it on Susanna - or Duncan could come back to work another summer at the park. I also really love the found family vibe of the park employees, and would be into some sort of "it takes a village to raise a child" story about Caitlin and her baby.

Northern Exposure: I would really love something that goes even more into the magical realism of the show (double, triple the strange magical things! Go full-out Night Vale! Actually going full-out Night Vale with it is something I would be SUPER into). Character-wise, if you wanted to get kind of epistolary with Chris - like radio show excerpts mixed into the narrative - that would be amazing. I would also be excited about a Chris/Ed of any sort, gen Chris+Ed having some sort of adventure (maybe a road trip?), or Shelly/Holling just because I find them adorable together.

The Birds: I saw this for the first time a few months ago and thought, "I need fix-it fic where Mitch dies instead of Annie, and Annie goes with Melanie at the end." This could be Annie+Melanie friendship, or Annie/Melanie. (Sorry, Mitch, it's not like you're horrible or anything but I was annoyed that Annie died saving your sister.) Other ideas: I didn't nominate Mitch, but if you felt like writing Annie/Melanie/Mitch, I would be down with that. Or any of the tropes listed above, really, as long as Annie doesn't die!

The Avengers: Steed/Mrs. Peel, please. Any trope, any rating. I would be most interested in some sort of roleplay fic, such as they continue with whatever roles they were playing for that particular case, and bring it into their flirting (if you want to stay PG/PG-13), or all the way to the bedroom (if you'd like to write R/NC-17). If you don't want to write full-on John/Emma, how about - platonic soulmates?

Ocean's movies:
1) I see that Reuben's nominated but Basher isn't, but if you also want to include Basher because he basically writes Reuben love letters while Reuben's in a coma in O13 - I need to know more about this.
2) Reuben's "I have some remaindered furniture I want to send you" screams sugar daddy to me. Please tell me more about his relationships with Danny and Rusty when they were younger. Platonic or sexual/romantic, it doesn't matter to me.
3) "the thing with the guy in the place" - What did Danny and Rusty do for Reuben in Belize? Maybe only Rusty had to go to Belize for the thing, and Danny was doing his part somewhere else? Did they con someone, steal something, or maybe steal something back? I doubt Reuben is one to tell people he owes them lightly, so it must have really been something.

Master & Commander: !!!!!! Is "omg I love them?" enough of a prompt? No? Can you put them in space? What about Jack in space on a sentient ship? Really, if you're not entirely comfortable writing the Napoleonic era version of these guys, an AU of any sort would be great. (How about Jack Aubrey as Danny Ocean? I'm only slightly joking.) Either Jack/Stephen or Jack+Stephen as friends devoted to each other works for me, and if you'd also like to include Diana that would also be cool. (ETA: Thanks anonmeme for pointing out that I mixed up the book tagset and the movie tagset while writing my letter but whatever, if you want to write a story that includes Diana and/or Sophie, it's cool.)