pameluke | Dear Yuletide author (Reply)

Hi!

I'm excited about Yuletide and I hope you are too! I did my best to offer a wide array of likes and prompts in my letter. Don't feel obliged to write everything for one prompt or fandom. Most of all, I hope you have fun with creating things we both love!

I can be found on AO3 as pameluke and tumblr as pameluke.

KATE DANIELS | A GATHERING OF DRAGONS | DE TOEKOMSTTRILOGIE | WOLF IN NIGHT |

GENERAL LIKES

SMUT LIKES

Violent (and bloody) sex is fine, and I can deal with angst, but I'd like to have some kind of happy resolution at the end, even if it's Happy For Now.

DNW's

No Requested Characters Doing Non-Con
No Non-Canonical Violence Between Characters I've requested
No Humiliation
No Infantilization, please don't describe adults as boys or girls
No Non-Canonical Character Death
No AUs outside of the canon setting. Canon Divergences are very welcome. (Magical/Supernatural stuff added to the canon setting is always great)

I’m fine with explicit violence and gore.

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KATE DANIELS WORLD - ILONA ANDREWS

Who I requested: Owen and Troy from the Wilmington Years books.

Why I love this canon and these characters: I love the magic system, the world-building, and the amazing character development almost all characters go through. I love the snark, the found family aspects, and I'm deeply invested in all canon relationships. It's one of those series where I've actually yelled at characters for making hard choices I disagreed with, and yet loved them even more for it. I'm completely caught up with all novellas, the final book, both the Hugh Spin-off and Blood Heir, and the Wilmington Years.

I really liked the banter between these two, and then accidentally gave myself a lot of Tank/Healer feelings, coupled with a bunch of Big Herbivore/Small Predator horny thoughts, and here I am, in small pairing hell. I'm also really intrigued by Troy being both a Healer AND a render in training, because the discrepancy between having sworn an oath to aid everyone while at the same time being a specialized killer monster is delicious to me. Coupled with Owen's whole relaxed attitude about everything (while also meditating to not fall into rage), I feel like there's a lot that could be explored there.

PROMPTS

All the angry discussions lead to all the angry fucking, lead to accidentally maybe having feelings. Or THANK FUCK YOU'RE ALIVE frantic fucking on the battlefield with accidental love confessions.
They argue and they spar it out and the sexual tension builds and builds until they can't anymore.
Some case leads to them having to rough it out in nature and they kind of grow closer while surviving in the (magical) wilderness (hiking! Rockclimbing! Forest survival, huddling for warmth, hunting food, honest conversations by the fireside, oh no there is only one tent/bedroll in the cave).
Pack dynamics and courting rituals! I don't think we've ever seen Clan Heavy or Herbivore courting rituals. How would those even look? But also all the traditional food related stuff, combined with that Wilmington Pack (mostly safe-house) life. Maybe one of them catches feelings and starts a wooing campaign. Or maybe they've had a casual fucking thing, but something happens that makes one of them decide to go for it for real.
I'm into allllll the animalistic sex and urges you can think of. Scenting, biting, knotting, claiming, comeplay, bloodplay. Partially shifting during sex, sex in half-form or fully shifted, one or both parties.
I'm really interested in how different their species and Clan's are, and how that might translate in courting rituals, or just them understanding each other's thinking patterns and body language, and the misunderstandings that might come from that.
Owen getting hurt and Troy having to heal him hands on, while struggling with his attraction/feelings. Troy having a hard time with Owen always putting himself at risk and throwing himself head first into danger.
Both of them getting a little out of control during a magic flare.
Fic that explores why they chose to leave Atlanta for Wilmington, how they feel about all the Pack politics and mayhem, why they chose to become renders.
Crack fic where one or both of them catches feelings and ends up going to Kate for relationship advise. Kate Daniels, Pack Matchmaker is one of my favorite tropes :)

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A GATHERING OF DRAGONS - MILLA VANE

Requested: Ardyl and Kelir,

What I love about the fandom and characters: BARBARIAN ROMANCE! Dinosaurs in the background! I really like how Milla Vane (aka Meljean Brook) builds words, and this series is no exception. I like the political maneuvering, I like the wildness and the violence. I love that this is a world recovering from a terrible event. I love Marrek and Yvette and the found family around them.

Which brings me to Ardyl and Kelir. They caught my eye the moment they took someone else to their beds, and the more the love between them became clearer, the more I became invested. The mutual love and pining that isn't quite pining. DELICIOUS. I also really, really love the importance of truth and honesty in this series, because it bares so many emotions that usually stay hidden. They're just so upfront about their feelings, while at the same time also being quiet about it.

The tension between their oath and loyalty to Maddek vs. their obviously deepfelt feelings for each other, and how they navigate that by having threesomes where they don't touch is just so fucking appealing to me. For fic that gets them actually together, I like the explanation Ardyl gives in book 2, that their oath to Maddek would always trump any oaths they could make to each other, but… BUT. They love each other already! It hasn't gone away! They swore their oats together! Surely there is a way that they can be together, within their oaths and loyalty towards Maddek. It can happen on their current mission, it can happen in the far future, when the Destroyer is defeated and the world is better. Maybe one of them almost dies, maybe they all almost die, maybe they finally kiss on the final battlefield! Maybe it happens when they are older or when Maddek is no longer the Ran, when they're grey and their joints are creaky...

Let them love each other!

I prefer Canon Setting fic for these two, but feel free to diverge all you want!

PROMPTS

fic that explores their youth. How they came to be part of Maddek’s Dragon. When did they realize that they loved each other? How did they decide that they never would act on it? Did they talk about this or did they never speak of it directly to one another?
fic that actually gets them together. I like the explanation Ardyl gives in book 2, that their oath to Maddek would always trump any oaths they could make to each other, but... BUT. They love each other already! It hasn’t gone away! They swore their oats together! Surely there is a way that they can be together, within their oaths and loyalty towards Maddek. It can happen on their current mission, it can happen in the far future, when the Destroyer is defeated and the world is better. Maybe one of them almost dies, maybe they all almost die, maybe they finally kiss on the final battlefield... Maybe it happens when they are older or when Maddek is no longer the Ran, when they’re grey and their joints are creaky...
One way all these feelings could be explored could be through the people they shared their beds and hearts with. Who was the first woman they shared a bed with? Who was the first man? Did they ever share Maddek between them? Ardyl mentions they both have big hearts, who else did they love or feel affection for? How did sharing their bed with a third person become the way they express the love between them? (I'm not specifically interested in the monk character who has a crush on them, but he can totally be part of a wider exploration).
The super angsty version where one of them is taken and the other has to keep their oath and can't go rescue them. Terrible things happen, but eventually, they get free/are rescued and are reunited, and dramatic love confessions happen.
Adventures on the road. They left their home behind, how do they view their fellow travelers? What do they think about the lands they travel through? How do their fellow Parsathians view their relationship? How many dinosaurs do they kill? Some kind of travelogue about their adventures on the road would be awesome. Also, since book 1 is canonically put into song by book 2, I am totally here for a bard type of character putting the story of the star-crossed barbarians to song.

CANON SPECIFIC DNWs:

Oath-breaking. Please let them stay loyal to Maddek.
No AUs outside of the canon setting. Canon Divergences are very welcome.

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DE TOEKOMST TRILOGIE - THEA BECKMAN

Who I requested: Elvira andTjalf

What I love about the canon: 80s Feminist Environmentalist Post-Apocalyptic sci-fi set in Greenland, what's not to love? Seriously these are the first sci-fi books I ever read, and I've loved them since. I love the straight up "men have screwed up ruling for 1000s of years, we're giving ALL positions of power to women". I love that this mentality gets questioned during the novels, and balanced out a bit, but that the base still remains. I love all the hiking through nature, and waging war with the elements and nature. I love that the love-interest is the first two books is an Inuit woman, who ROCKS, both as a captain, and later as a guerilla war strategist . I love that she's still rocking as a great-grandmother in book 3. I love all the female friendships (the sisters in book 3 are so awesome).

25 years after first reading them I still read them on occasion, and I still love this series to death.

What I love about them:

Fuck, these two. Honestly, I still speed read book 3 just to get to the scene where he's all, "Elvira don't leave, I can't miss your kindness". Argh. I just really love how kindness is the most coveted and appreciated trait in these books. And I always found it so frustrating that we never got see them later in life, because culture clash!!

PROMPTS

Anything, seriously. Since this is a Dutch series that's barely been translated, feel free to write in Dutch (I'm from Belgium) if you'd find that easier, but English is definitely okay as well.

Fic that explores the world-building and expands on the plot. All the rebuilding after the third invasion. How has Thule fundamentally changed? How does the world change? Do the political agreements stick?
Or fic more focused on the country and nature. Hikes in the wild, romantic dates, family dates, just exploring Thule. I really like the traveling parts of these books, and now that Elvira is actually a part of the country, I'd love to see Thule through her eyes now she's no longer constantly fearing for her life.
Tjalf and Elvira building a life together, including all the culture clashes. Elvira might have fallen in love with Thule and Tjalf, they're both very different people from very different cultures and social classes. How do they deal with this? What will they do in life? Where will they live? Just, Elvira settling in in Thulean culture.
All the romance. Thulean wooing must be a thing, and I always was super bummed that it was mostly glossed over in the books. They have that glorious moment at the end of book three, but argh, let there be more romancing.
All the first time fic, especially first times that aren't fraught but a little clumsy and nice. Outdoors sex, because hell yeah nature. Pegging because YES, and also Tjalf seems like someone who'd ask for that himself. I think it'd be fun for Elvira to wrap her head around that and then fully embrace it :) I'm really into the idea of Elvira letting the restraints of Baden go, and exploring her sexuality and finding freedom in that.

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WOLF IN NIGHT - TARA K. HARPER

Who I requested: Condari Rahnbada neKeatus Brithanas and Noriana Ember maDione,

What I love about the fandom and characters:
I love the nature and the adventures in the wild these books have. The rock-climbing, the traveling on dnu, the wildness of the environment. I ADORE the wolfwalking, telepathic animals were my thing as a teenager, and I never got over it when it came to these books. I love all the different counties and cultures and the fact that there's nine moons and that those mess up the tides. I love that these books have always been about family and found families. I love the extremely convoluted politics, and that everybody is always playing at something. I love the hinted at history, and that there are actual aliens on this planet, who screw things up.

I love Nori's loyalty to her family, both by blood and by choice, and how she struggles now that she needs to calculate Rishte into her loyalties. I love her struggle with the alien inside her head, and the expectations put upon her. She's many things for many people, but I always felt the book set her up for finding out who she wanted to be for herself. I love her relationship with her brother as well, supportive siblings are my weakness.

I love how Condari is built out of contradictions. Rich and spoiled and comfortable, yet totally willing to do his own dirty work, or hiking through the woods. I like how he's obviously interested in Nori, and while pursuing her rather determinately, still always respects her boundaries.

I love, love, love the sexual tension between these two. Their backgrounds are so different, and their goals only seldom truly line up, but the tension and attraction and respect is so palpable between them.

This book so obviously set things up for Things to happen, and then it stopped. I WANT MORE. WHAT HAPPENS NEXT?

PROMPTS

I prefer Canon Setting fic for these two, but feel free to diverge all you want!

Building directly on the open ending of the book: Will Nori eventually give Condari his shirt back? Will Condari manage to hire Nori as a scout? The politics of this series are so complicated and convoluted, I'd love something that ran with that, and made sense of everything that was set-up in the Wolf in Night Book.
The sexual tension between these two is so palpable, at some point in their future together it is so going to break. Possibly at the worst possible moment. Ideally somewhere in the wilderness, so they can roll through the leaves, pin each other against trees and destroy some bushes in the process. Blood and violence optional.
Another possible scenario for the UST to break would be sparring turning into sex. Have them playfight, train, be all sweaty and filled with adrenaline, and BOOM Condari's nice clothes get shredded. Twice, because obviously Nori was wearing his shirt.
Obviously the telepathic wolves are canon, but I would love an AU where either one of them is some kind of animal shifter. Cue even more animalistic desires. You can go all out here, empathy, telepathy, throw in soul bonds. The whole plethora of shifter romance tropes are awesome, like Heats, Knotting, Scent Marking, Claiming Bites etc.
They're both from different countries, so I'm totally here for a political marriage, where they're both convinced the other is only doing it for the political motivations, and all the angst and pining and messy things that come with that.
Related: the world has a lot of weird and complicated social structures, so I would like to read about them getting married (either established relationship, or arranged marriage for political reasons), and that involving Ritual Sex. There's the whole canon thing of having stones grafted on the breastbones, so I feel like Public Ritual Sex wouldn't be that far off.
Adventures on the road. These books are filled with rock-climbing, fighting raiders, fighting nature, lots of exciting traveling. I would love for more of that, and them having to work together to survive in the wilderness. Rishte being fond of Hunter would be extra cherries on top.
I've always really liked that Rishte sees Nori's companions as her pack, and how his perspective of rank and place and function is really different from Nori's. I like how he sees Condari too, and I'm totally into the idea that the telepathic bond influences how Nori sees the people in her life.
Related to above, I love the idea that under influence of the wolf bond with Rishte, or maybe under influence of her alien connection, Nori and Condari have mate bonded. Only they didn't realize until they split up and now they need to work with this, even though they are not officially political allies.

CANON SPECIFIC DNWs

No AUs outside of the Canon setting. Canon Divergences, or AUs in the same setting very welcome. Ex: shifters, a/b/o, vampires, soulmates etc... all super cool, as long as it's on the same alien world, preferably with the telepathic wolves included.

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