Dear Yuletide Writer 2016!

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Yuletide!!! So psyched to be a part of this again. Thank you, writer, for contributing to any of these tiny great fandoms!!

General fanfic likes/dislikes:

I love stories that mess around with perspective and time. I prefer plot, but I like character vignettes, too. I'm fond of allusions to canon and other works, related or not. Tropes are my JAM--trope-tastic, inverted, subverted; the more lampshades the better!

I love gen, het, and slash, but I would prefer nothing very explicit, crack-tastic--though in Galavant I'm willing to suspend more disbelief, ofc--or very AU (I am not a fan of high school or coffee shop AUs, for example).

Elder Scrolls Online

Raynor & Kireth's adventures in Tamriel or Coldharbour?

Or...

Something fun about Razum-dar and Queen Ayrenn? How they met, a disguised night out on the town, terrible advice Razum-dar has given his Queen?

Or...smashing the four together post-Coldharbour, as Raynor & Kireth wander across borders into the Aldmeri Dominion?

I ADORE Raynor & Kireth Vanos so much. (I'm actually planning a Skyrim character to be a descendant of theirs.) Kireth's spirit and Raynor's...Raynor-ness had me searching for every opportunity to hang out with them in ESO. How did they get started as adventurers? Were they the sort of kids who read wild adventure stories as an antidote to their boring lives? Where did they go prior to meeting the Vestige? Or after getting out of Coldharbour? (I've only done the Orsinium and Thieves guild DLC. No incest please!)

Razum-Dar and Ayrenn: Well, Razum-Dar is just great, and there's something really compelling to me about Ayrenn's relative novice status but steadfast devotion to leading her people. I actually haven't finished the Aldmeri Dominion side of ESO yet, but I'm okay with spoilers. Mainly I just want to see Razum-Dar and Ayrenn having some fun: as friends, as lovers, either is fine.

Tigana

The depths of love and rage, or something about what it takes to fight. I admit to being partial to redheads, but all of these women have amazing strength and determination in their own ways.

Tigana is the first Guy Gavriel Kay novel I ever read, and it is still my absolute favorite. Honestly, anything about the amazing women who fight for history would be great.

Galavant

Galavant-style meta-anachronistic song-and-dance shenanigans about women's work in a pseudo-medieval context? :)

Huh, I guess my theme for Yuletide this year is Badass Royal Women. (And other equally great non-royal women!) So...what are the women of the realm up to after the end of the show? Are Isabella and Roberta really going to hang up their swords? Where has Gwynne gone? Or, what's it like to learn how to be an evil queen?