Hello! I'm Rosencrantz on AO3 and this is my Yuletide letter! Thank you for reading it!

DNW: Dub/noncon, underage (-18/-18 sexual, -18/+18 anything)
WANT: Casefic, adventure, romance, epistolary, ghosts, heavy character interaction.

ALSO: Treats very welcome!

ALSO ALSO: I have opted in for the IF mini-challenge (all my fandoms, but especially Citizen Kane) and the unusual formats challenge (all my fandoms! Academia stuff especially for BPRD), and Yulebuilding (the worldbuilding challenge! Just Hellboy for that one)


Fandoms:

• Hellboy (Comics)


• X-Men: The Animated Series (1992)


• Citizen Kane

( The prompts! )

Hello, thank you for reading my letter! I'm Rosencrantz on AO3


I took a look into the other fandoms available for Yuletide this year and I found a lot with interesting premises I didn't know well enough to ask for but loved the concept, so I'm offering them up here as AU/Plot ideas if you want to use them! I'll explain after each one what I liked about it.

• Haunted House Flippers - I love haunted houses, I love the idea of the characters having to deal with one for some sort of refurbishing or selling it


• Welcome To Our Village, Please Invade Carefully - non-catastrophic alien invasion that is awkward sounds fun


• Batman: Wayne Family Adventures - Mundane, family stuff that still deals with the more wild aspects of canon


• Clue - someone in this room... IS THE KILLER


• Epcot/Disney Rides - theme park stuff. Sounds fun.


• Japanese Local Hero City Mascots - Being a mascot, being hunted by a mascot, strange shenanigans involving mascots


• Humans are Space Orcs - Humans and how they can be unique in a setting is interesting to me


• When you see a lore video for a franchise you know nothing about - I would love, especially in worldbuilding prompts, see the characters from the outside.


• X-Files - someone trying to figure out their deal


• Jeeves and Wooster - silly social shenanigans

Exchanges I have loved that would also make fic prompts:

• Alternate Universe Exchange (using the fandom list above as ideas)


• Invisible Libraries (fiction of fiction from inside the universe)


• Epistolatory (fiction told entirely through documents, ephemeral)

I enjoy: casefic, spooky, adventure, romance, worldbuilding, and stories that could only take place in the canon.

DNW: Dub/noncon, underage (-18/-18 sexual, -18/+18 anything), my chosen characters being the villain of the fic.


FANDOMS:

1. Gargoyles


2. The Darkside Detective


3. My Little Pony Generation 1


4. Murder She Wrote


5. Ranma 1/2


6. X-Men: The Animated Series (Cartoon 1992)

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Hi! I'm Rosencrantz on AO3 and thanks for reading my letter!

My likes: Adventure, casefic, horror, mystery, character banter.
My DNWs: Dub/noncon, underage (under 18/under 18 sex, under 18/adult anything), and unhappy endings.


Special note: I'm trying out the worldbuilding tag this year! I understand it's a bit of a wibbly wobbly thing to define, so as long as you involve the wider world in your story, I'll be perfectly happy.

Crossovers: You could mix any of these if you want to! All of them are pretty compatible, I think! As a bonus round, you can also mix any of these you'd like to with Murder She Wrote as long as it involves a (positive) Jessica Fletcher.

Unconventional fanworks: I love meta stuff! Reports, bibliographies, epistolary, you can write any of that for my prompts! If you want to make a twine game, I would absolutely be cool with that. Note: Nothing that involves audio, please.

Fandoms are:

• Hellboy (comics)


• City of Heroes


• Darkside Detective

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Dear Yulegoat, many happy returns.

I am Rosencrantz on AO3 and I'm happy you're reading my letter! Thank you!

My likes: Casefic, adventures, spooky ghosts, and lightheartedness
My DNWS: Non/dubcon, unhappy endings, a/b/o, underage.

Blanket permission: For crossovers between all my choices and/or Untitled Goose Game.

FANDOMS:

• Midsomer Murders


• Murder, She Wrote


• Murdoch Mysteries


• Agatha Christie's Poirot


• All Creatures Great and Small (TV)


• Father Brown

( Characters and prompts follow )

Dear Yulegoat: Hi! I'm Rosencrantz on AO3 and I'm SO glad you're willing to write for me!

Likes: Happy endings, adventures, casefic, mysteries, ghosts, kisses, missing scenes.

Good with: Gen, F/F, M/M, F/M, and NB in any configuration with the others.

DNWS: Rape, underage, slavery, incest, and major character death.

On with the prompts! (NOTE: Most were taken from previous letters, formatting, phrasing may change due to the relentless march of time)

( Phule's Company )

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( Murder She Wrote )

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( Fantasia - Pastoral Symphony sequence )

Hey, Yuletide writer! I am Rosencrantz on AO3!

I hope that my letter helps you with your story and thank you so much for giving me this gift.

Likes: Worldbuilding, family, friendship, adventure, exploring a concept.
Dislikes: rape, incest, underage, slavery.
TOTALLY COOL WITH: romance and gen!


Okay! So my fandoms are:

• Fashion Star Fillies (Repeat)


• LEGO Detective Office


• The Neverending Story by Michael Ende

( Fashion Star Fillies! )



( LEGO Detective Office )




( The Neverending Story by Michael Ende )

Hello, Yuletide Writer!

I'm Rosencrantz and I'm looking forward to what you write! Super excited, actually.



I'll start off with the nitty gritty:

• Likes: Family ties, adventures, mysteries, friendships, and humour. Slash and het too, but don't feel obligated to put in a pairing unless you ship it.



• Dislikes: Sex crimes (by which I mean, if this sex act gets you arrested in Canada, I don't wanna read it), gore, omegaverse.

I like stories that don't go above teen, but if the spirit moves you, I will not mind.


And now, the fandoms:

• Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's Sherlock Holmes

This film is by the same people who did Sharknado, and at one point Sherlock faces a robot t-rex. Now you know what level of literary brilliance I'm expecting for this.

The world in this movie is bizarre, with tortured logic at its core. I'd love something that fits that. A weird mystery for Robert Holmes, or something else along those lines.

What would the Redheaded League be like if it operated under the insane rules of this universe? How many explosions would be involved?

Is the dancing men a code from Mars?

Does Watson ever get a suit that fits?

• Doctor Who And The Curse of Fatal Death

I wanna see the adventures of Patsy Stone as the Doctor/Joanna Lumley Doctor. Or her adventures with the Master. Or whatever she and the Master get up to after exiting stage left.

I just want something funny, really. I said Patsy Stone up above, but you don't have to make her like the Ab Fab character at all. I mean, she was totally sober in the show.

What is her next companion like, maybe?

How does she do against the Daleks?

What DID happen with the Master?

• Puss In Boots

The text

This is a favourite fairytale of mine that I'd love to see an AU version. Any twist you can think of (caveat: I'd prefer not a dark twist) would be cool to see.

Au ideas: Western (this worked great for Rapunzel in Rapunzel's Revenge by Shannon Hale), Space, Noir*, Werecat**, Human in boots while everyone is a cat, go wild.

*You may have noticed I have also written a Noir version, but I would be totally excited to get another one set like that because it's such a fun genre.
**this is the only instance I would not be alarmed at Human/Cat

• Gender/Sexbent Disney - Ripushko

The pictures: Part 1, part 2, and part 3

Choose any princess you want! Even ones not nominated!

I want to see how the stories would have gone with the sexes reversed. Ideas:

If you happen to choose to do Mulan, I'd love to see what if Shang was the woman in disguise as a man.

Belle the man and Beast the woman, perhaps! What changes? What's the same?

Snow White, is he more beautiful than his stepmother, or is it his stepfather, or is it some entirely different reason why she wants to kill him off? To keep the throne?

ALSO, though, if you want, Briar Rose/Aurora would be great because back when I was a girl, she was MY princess. Would Princess Philippa do things the same as Prince Philip? I do, in fact, have art of this (not by Ripushko, this is just here for the purposes of Inspiration): Art by Dorodraws (and if the pictures won't load because old tumblr posts DO THAT for some reason, here's a direct link)

• BPRD

I would like them during happier, pre-apocalypse times, if possible. Maybe something involving an urban legend?

If you choose to do something involving vampires, could you use a vampire legend from another culture in the world? There's a ton of really cool ones, like the jenglong (little vampire dolls in Indonesia), or the hopping corpse from China.

I also like creatures like sirens.

The scene where Hellboy pulls Abe from the tank back when they weren't even sure Abe was sapient is something that really stuck with me. Or when Hellboy hugged lil' Liz when she was alone and scared. Hellboy is a character I really love that I'd like to see more of that kind, strong for others side of him.

Also: if the spirit moves you to Abe/Hellboy, I would be very happy. But I know that isn't for everyone!

• Discworld PYRAMIDS

I nominated one character here: Pteppic.

I want to see what happens to him after the book. Does he check back often? Where does he end up? Does he end up with anyone? Does he end up with no one? Any mishaps? What does he do for a living since killing is out?

Like I said in the letter, I'm happy with gen, het, and slash, and all I want is for Pteppic to be happy at the end. This was my favourite book and I'm sad he just kinda went poof.

(Note: I do not want to see Pteppic/Ptraci, but I would be happy if Ptraci appears!)




Thank you and have fun! Also, since I got asked another time, I don't mind crossovers at all!

Dear Yulegoat:

Hello! I'm real glad you're assigned to me. It's right kind of you. Also, if you need any refresher material for the canons, I can hook you up. Check out under each fandom.

Let's get down to the nitty gritty.

Fandom 1: Hamlet by Shakespeare

Link to the source material!

Now, I said all the characters available for it because why not, right? But what I'd really like to see for Hamlet, is a genderbent version. Whole thing or just Hamlet, it's fine. I just like that sort of thing and think it'd be keen. However, I'll live if you don't want to. Whatever you end up doing, if Ophelia could have a happier ending, I'd like that.

Fandom 2: Murder, She Wrote

LINK TO THE SOURCE MATERIAL: I have no link. I watch it on Netflix, which has the entire series. Until I've seen the whole series, Netflix owns me. Okay, all of Murder, She Wrote and All Creatures Great and Small because James Herriot makes me happy.

I'm not even sure I should have requested this, because I'm having a horrible time thinking of a prompt. I do know that my love of Jessica Fletcher (Angela Lansbury and her raw animal magnetism and all that) is pretty much unironic (my spellcheck tried to change that to unicorn) so mocking would make me a sad hamster. Any sort of adventure for her would be nice. I love adventure fic. Sorry for the vagueness!

Fandom 3: Neverending Story by Michael Ende

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Second time's the charm, right? Like last year, I'm asking for worldbuilding for this book. There's so many times in the book where they mention something and then go 'but that's a story for another time' and I would love to see one of those stories. It's such a beautiful book every time I finish rereading it, I want to see more of that world. It's okay not to use the Childlike Empress, btw, I just put her in there because she's such an intrinsic part of Fantasia.

Fandom 4: Chronicles of Chrestomanci by Diana Wynne Jones

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I love this series so so much. Maybe Cat's first day on the job as Chrestomanci? Cat and Marianne have an adventure? Janet and Julia get some spotlight time? They have bikes, who knows where they could get to, right? Anyway, I'd love an adventure set in that world. If there's lots of Millie, that's even better because she is awesome and used to be a goddess, damnit. Maybe something with Millie, Janet, and Julia.


That done, I must tell you what makes me very upset in a story and my general preferences.

For the most part, my preferred rating for reading is G-PG-13. I'm not a huge fan of major violence or porn, which are not the same thing I know (porn being a much happier thing than violence, but it's not very interesting to me is all, as opposed to extreme violence which I am adverse to. However, if you want to write porn because you want to, that is FINE. Because I am a big kid and porn doesn't ruin anything and I want you to be happy with what you wrote because you're doing this as a gift and it's wonderful) but they're what usually get those higher ratings.

My squicks: Rape, hate crimes, extreme violence, big age differences (exception: if both members are over thirty, I don't care how big the difference is) and especially underage sex (any adult with someone under eighteen, by my definition).

Things that make me go :D: A character having a moment of badassery or triumph, a lot of focus on female characters, ADVENTURES, a light mood to the story.

Stuff what is fine either way: Slash, het, no pairing, canon pairings, non-canon pairings, it's all the same to me. Go for it. Exception: if it's Chrestomanci, I'd like Millie and Christopher to stay together.

EDITS since original writing: I've added links to source material, as well as added to my list of squicks and likes. Hopefully I'm all done with editing now. I'm so glad I'm such a packrat. I have a billion paper and e-versions of everything, so when I saw other people were linking their source materials in their letters...