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Yuletide Letter 2021
Oct. 19th, 2021 12:18 pmAO3 username: spicy_stockings
Fandoms and characters:The Inside Man (KnowB4 Series): Mark In the Realms of the Unreal - Henry Darger: Worldbuilding Måneskin (Band): Damiano David
Dear Yuletide writer,
Thank you so much for writing for me! I’m so thrilled we share one of these small fandoms and I know I’ll love anything you come up with. I’ve shared some general likes and prompts but if you have a prompt that took hold of your brain and demanded to be written, please go for it. I'm really easy to please!
General likes/opt-ins: worldbuilding, politics, poetry/epistolary/etc., complex and messy characters and their relationships, whump, omegaverse, Groundhog Day trope/time loop, 5 things/5 times/5+1, canon divergence/What If AU, enemies-to-friends, enemies-to-lovers, seasonal and winter holiday themes, poly relationships, informal and casual relationships, characters with wildly different communication styles learning how to communicate, casual touching
Smut/kink likes: accidental kink discovery, bondage, orgasm control and denial, enthusiastic and obedient subs, impact play, character getting overwhelmed/pushing their limits on purpose/having to safeword out, clothing kink, genderplay and crossdressing, collaring, comeplay
DNWs (Do Not Wants): infidelity, on-page rape/noncon, character/ship bashing, focus on characters dealing with terminal illness
The Inside Man (KnowB4 Series)
Characters: Mark
Please tell me someone else has heard of/seen this because I am lowkey obsessed. I love Mark the socially-stunted human punching bag, I love his dynamics with AJ and Maurice, I love every single dork at Khromacom and everyone’s hilarious families: AJ's nan! Fiona's mum! And if anyone else has seen through season three: THAT ANSGTY BACKSTORY.
Fandom-specific DNWs: character death for any of the named characters in the show
Prompts:Season 1 era, Mark being menaced by Maurice is always good. How did Maurice find and recruit Mark? (Feel free to bring in ALL the S3-era backstory if you’ve seen it!)
I absolutely one million percent ship Mark/Maurice and would read anything from confused pining to outright smut; is Mark kind of into it when Maurice threatens Mark and makes Mark call him “Mom”? S2/S3 era with Mark trying to navigate whether he really trusts the way Maurice has changed is also very welcome.
Again: that backstory. I’ll keep things deliberately vague to avoid spoilers but give me more of Mark right after he escapes or just more of David-and-Violet-against-the-world.
Mark and AJ bonding and AJ helping Mark learn how to relax and enjoy himself. Mark and AJ dating! Maybe AJ reintroducing Mark to his nan as his boyfriend?
Another prompt if you’ve seen S3: I’m opting into something not focused on Mark but rather on Coco and her past with Maurice. I just love her and I want to know what’s going on there!
What is this? It’s corporate IT security training, Jim, but not as we know it. This is a hilarious, dramatic, amazing 3-season (so far) miniseries where the educational elements are mostly just incidental. It stars "Mark", a black-hat hacker sent to infiltrate a corporation who starts questioning his loyalties when he realizes he actually likes his new coworkers. It has absolutely lovable characters and so much potential for whump and angst that I cannot even begin to tell you.
How do I access it? S1 is available on Amazon Prime in some countries. Otherwise I think you’ll have to work for a company that uses this for training unfortunately. Seriously though, this should be on all the streaming networks!
In the Realms of the Unreal - Henry Darger
Characters: Worldbuilding
I was so thrilled to see this in the tagset. I’m a longtime fan but would never have thought to nominate this for Yuletide so thank you, nominator, whoever you may be! Anything in this colorful world of splendor and warfare and mythical creatures and sisterhood would delight me. Canon-typical violence is fine and canon-typical genderfuckery is A+. I don’t have strong preferences about how you treat the Catholic themes in canon, that’s really up to you.
Fandom-specific DNWs: alternate-setting AUs; anything set in the real world where the Realms are just Henry Darger's fantasy or anything else where they don't actually exist/it's all a dream/it's someone's D&D campaign, etc.
Prompts:Something from the history of Abbieannia. How did the Abbieannians come to befriend the Blengins? How did the conflict start with Glandelinia? Why do the cities have names like Jennie Richie and Vivian Wickey? Who brought Catholicism to them—have they had other encounters with people from our world before?
How exactly does gender work in this world?
An artifact from within the canon world. This would be a really cool canon to show me historical documents or scientific reports or ancient maps or epic poetry, whatever comes to mind.
What was Annie Aronburg’s campaign like?
Fast forward to well after the end of the war (good ending or bad ending), how are the Vivians coping?
Or...fast forward a lot and show me what the Realms of the Unreal look like post-urbanization. Something urban fantasy- or noir-tinged in this world would be amazing.
What is this? This is reclusive self-taught writer and artist Henry Darger’s illustrated fantastical war epic set in the Realms of the Unreal, where Abbieannian child soldiers—aided by the author(!) and the magical, dragon-like Blengigomeneans—battle their evil Glandelinian overlords.
How do I access it? So here's the thing...you can’t. The work as a whole has never been publicly accessible—that’s the whole fun in it. As a fanwork creator you have total creative freedom to take what little bits of it we can see and develop your own vision. [Wikipedia summary] [short excerpts and art] [some not-particularly-readable scans from the manuscript] [TVTropes page] [art at MoMa] [more art at the American Folk Art Museum] [another short excerpt] (cw: many of the art pieces contain violence/gore and child nudity)
Måneskin
Characters: Damiano David
I’m obsessed. I still feel like this band emerged from my teenage fantasies, in leather and feathers and eyeliner, to shred on the guitar and write catchy songs and touch each other constantly. I ship them as an OT4 and I also really like, well, every combination but my faves are Damiano/Thomas, Damiano/Victoria, and Damiano/Thomas/Victoria—so I’ve just requested Damiano to make room for any of those combinations or any other ship you'd like to write. If you want to write ship fic and/or smut, I usually pretend their IRL partners don’t exist but I’m also fine with them being nonmonogamous.
Fandom-specific DNWs: permanent character death, anyone in the band being asexual
Prompts:Show me your limits and we’ll cross that line again. Damiano thinks his kink has a hard limit but is eager to test that with his bandmate(s). (Dealer’s choice but some suggestions: pain? CNC? Bondage?)
After Austria, Damiano discovers he has a thing for wearing lingerie.
Meeting the other Eurovision contestants and making friends. Who won the epic ping-pong tournament?
I love when we get to see them swimming together (NSFW). Maybe it turns sexy? Maybe it's just a relaxed friendship vibe with Damiano goofing off with his bandmates.
L’altra dimensione video AU: the members of Måneskin are part of a secret underground society of bohemians(/possibly fae folk?) that kidnaps humans for wild rituals and lets them live their hidden desires. Maybe Damiano is the fae king who demands tribute?
What is this? Måneskin are the Italian rock band who won Eurovision 2021 with their song Zitti e Buoni. They’re Damiano (singer), Thomas (guitar), Victoria (bass), and Ethan (drums), four best friends who have (mostly) known each other since middle school and developed a following after they participated in X Factor Italia as teenagers. They're so comfortable with each other that they have posed naked together (NSFW) more than once (NSFW). The name is Danish for "moonshine". Oh yeah, and they rock out.
How do I access it? Some songs and videos: Zitti e Buoni, Vent’anni, Fear for Nobody, Morirò da Re, Chosen, I Wanna Be Your Slave (NSFW), MAMMAMIA (very NSFW, cartoonish violence/gore warning + epilepsy warning). Performing I Wanna Be Your Slave and Zitti e Buoni live from the studio. Måneskin Fanpage and deea vjbes on YouTube have tons of translated interviews, concert footage, and other assorted footage of them being adorable best friends. Here they are being cutie pies at Eurovision. Here’s Victoria’s little dog Chili for no reason at all.
Once again, thank you and may you have a wonderful, festive Yuletide!
-mouse
Fandoms and characters:
Dear Yuletide writer,
Thank you so much for writing for me! I’m so thrilled we share one of these small fandoms and I know I’ll love anything you come up with. I’ve shared some general likes and prompts but if you have a prompt that took hold of your brain and demanded to be written, please go for it. I'm really easy to please!
The Inside Man (KnowB4 Series)
Characters: Mark
Please tell me someone else has heard of/seen this because I am lowkey obsessed. I love Mark the socially-stunted human punching bag, I love his dynamics with AJ and Maurice, I love every single dork at Khromacom and everyone’s hilarious families: AJ's nan! Fiona's mum! And if anyone else has seen through season three: THAT ANSGTY BACKSTORY.
Fandom-specific DNWs: character death for any of the named characters in the show
Prompts:
What is this? It’s corporate IT security training, Jim, but not as we know it. This is a hilarious, dramatic, amazing 3-season (so far) miniseries where the educational elements are mostly just incidental. It stars "Mark", a black-hat hacker sent to infiltrate a corporation who starts questioning his loyalties when he realizes he actually likes his new coworkers. It has absolutely lovable characters and so much potential for whump and angst that I cannot even begin to tell you.
How do I access it? S1 is available on Amazon Prime in some countries. Otherwise I think you’ll have to work for a company that uses this for training unfortunately. Seriously though, this should be on all the streaming networks!
In the Realms of the Unreal - Henry Darger
Characters: Worldbuilding
I was so thrilled to see this in the tagset. I’m a longtime fan but would never have thought to nominate this for Yuletide so thank you, nominator, whoever you may be! Anything in this colorful world of splendor and warfare and mythical creatures and sisterhood would delight me. Canon-typical violence is fine and canon-typical genderfuckery is A+. I don’t have strong preferences about how you treat the Catholic themes in canon, that’s really up to you.
Fandom-specific DNWs: alternate-setting AUs; anything set in the real world where the Realms are just Henry Darger's fantasy or anything else where they don't actually exist/it's all a dream/it's someone's D&D campaign, etc.
Prompts:
What is this? This is reclusive self-taught writer and artist Henry Darger’s illustrated fantastical war epic set in the Realms of the Unreal, where Abbieannian child soldiers—aided by the author(!) and the magical, dragon-like Blengigomeneans—battle their evil Glandelinian overlords.
How do I access it? So here's the thing...you can’t. The work as a whole has never been publicly accessible—that’s the whole fun in it. As a fanwork creator you have total creative freedom to take what little bits of it we can see and develop your own vision. [Wikipedia summary] [short excerpts and art] [some not-particularly-readable scans from the manuscript] [TVTropes page] [art at MoMa] [more art at the American Folk Art Museum] [another short excerpt] (cw: many of the art pieces contain violence/gore and child nudity)
Måneskin
Characters: Damiano David
I’m obsessed. I still feel like this band emerged from my teenage fantasies, in leather and feathers and eyeliner, to shred on the guitar and write catchy songs and touch each other constantly. I ship them as an OT4 and I also really like, well, every combination but my faves are Damiano/Thomas, Damiano/Victoria, and Damiano/Thomas/Victoria—so I’ve just requested Damiano to make room for any of those combinations or any other ship you'd like to write. If you want to write ship fic and/or smut, I usually pretend their IRL partners don’t exist but I’m also fine with them being nonmonogamous.
Fandom-specific DNWs: permanent character death, anyone in the band being asexual
Prompts:
What is this? Måneskin are the Italian rock band who won Eurovision 2021 with their song Zitti e Buoni. They’re Damiano (singer), Thomas (guitar), Victoria (bass), and Ethan (drums), four best friends who have (mostly) known each other since middle school and developed a following after they participated in X Factor Italia as teenagers. They're so comfortable with each other that they have posed naked together (NSFW) more than once (NSFW). The name is Danish for "moonshine". Oh yeah, and they rock out.
How do I access it? Some songs and videos: Zitti e Buoni, Vent’anni, Fear for Nobody, Morirò da Re, Chosen, I Wanna Be Your Slave (NSFW), MAMMAMIA (very NSFW, cartoonish violence/gore warning + epilepsy warning). Performing I Wanna Be Your Slave and Zitti e Buoni live from the studio. Måneskin Fanpage and deea vjbes on YouTube have tons of translated interviews, concert footage, and other assorted footage of them being adorable best friends. Here they are being cutie pies at Eurovision. Here’s Victoria’s little dog Chili for no reason at all.
Once again, thank you and may you have a wonderful, festive Yuletide!
-mouse
