Yuletide 2022
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This is the Yuletide 2022 letter for Labocat on AO3 - I'm so glad we've made it this far and thank you so much for signing up and I hope we matched on something you're excited about!
In General: I’m really happy with anything! And by anything, I really do mean just about anything; it’s hard to find something that I absolutely don’t like hard stop. I'm good with all ratings, as well as with all takes on most tropes I enjoy, whether it be straight or subversive or somehow finagling it to fit a canon you wouldn't expect to find it in.
Please feel free to take the general tropes as all-purpose prompts for all fandoms and characters!
Some tropes I adore that are relevant (non-comprehensive):
Smut likes: I really enjoy size difference, blindfolds, light bondage, orgasm denial/delay, sex pollen or aphrodisiacs, messy/sloppy sex, desperate sex, intercrual, oral, semi-public sex (like in a closet or alley), praise kink, service kink, size kink, sensory deprivation, breathplay, toys (especially hidden plugs/vibes), marking/possessiveness, overstimulation, body worship, slow, drawn-out sex that can really tie in with the aforementioned body worship, or awkward first times.
Extra Optional: dubcon, vore/gore, tentacles and xenophilia, oviposition, comeplay, come inflation, heats and a/b/o, bloodplay, threesomes/moresomes, double/multiple penetration, degradation, non-con body mods.
DNWs: Permanent major character death (temporary is fine), story focus on real-life illnesses (canon-esque illness or canon-typical focus is fine, but no further), pregnancy/kids as major plot focus
Also, past letters are fair game to check if I've requested a fandom before! I've requested a few of these before in different exchanges, and while what I ask for may have shifted, I'm still interested for the same reasons and in for similar prompts, especially for freeform exchanges.
All of my canons have been put up for Yuleporn, and some are up for Crueltide - some canon-specific details/more prompts are at the bottom of each request, but as always, those are non-restrictive and non-comprehensive, just guidelines! Please feel free to use them as inspiration as well!
Tsurune
Can Ci Pin
Nancy Drew
Dracula
NU:Carnival
Tsurune:
Narumiya Minato, Takigawa Masaki
How to Consume: Available for streaming on Crunchyroll
I am obsessed with the parallels between Narumiya and Masa and the interactions of the two of them together, from both of them inspiring each other and learning from each other all the ways that kyuudo is important to them, both as athletes and people, to simply drawing each other out of the shells they'd withdrawn in and didn't really know where to go from there. Okay also look, Narumiya's early release is such a good opportunity for hand-holding guidance on holding his stance for longer and getting him to focus on something other than his target panic when he draws. I'm also super here for anything having to do with Masa's role as a priest at the shrine! Magical realism curses! Festivals! Gifting a charm and not knowing what the intent behind it is! I am also here for an ensemble piece; the whole team is great, as is Shuu, who is such an awkward duckling who just doesn't know how to share friends.
Yuleporn coda: Late nights at the shrine! Barely held-back lust any time either of them shoot with one shoulder bared! Narumiya's general awe of Masa's draw! I'm here for basically anything lmao
Can Ci Pin:
Lu Bixing, Lin Jingheng
How to Consume: Original novel on JJWXC | English translation on Google Docs and Wattpad
Fandom-specific DNW: The Rainbow Virus is fair game, especially as a tool for whump, but please do not focus on either of the pandemic outbreaks or the public panic response to the outbreak as the major plot focus.
This book really does just have it all: from discussion of the repetitions of evolutions in human society and progress of technology and how that changes or doesn't as humanity expands into a galactic scale, to revolutions and plots spanning decades, to human experimentation and giant mechs, to the impact of found family and connections and making a place where you can belong and grow, to one optimistic, charismatic space engineer and one reticent, dedicated space commander-turned-rogue, it's just so rich and lovely and I'm in love with everything about it. I love how well everything is woven together, from the increase in scale to how it all reflects on both Lu Bixing and Lin Jingheng's origins and character development and relationship.
Lu Bixing has my heart, my whole heart: I love this charismatic space scientist and his boundless optimism, how everything he has gone through hasn't erased his optimism and has instead tempered it, that he's stronger for having had to go through so much pain and loss and choosing to work through that by finding what he can to progress forward and change things for the better.
Lin Jingheng and his slow melting is one of the other best progresses of the novel, of learning why he's built up those walls and watching Lu Bixing get around every one of them and how that slowly means opening up more and more to the rest of the people around him, that his sense of responsibility is only good for when the people he's protecting knows he cares about them too.
I love them both as the galaxy's power couple as well as the Eighth Galaxy's Prime Minister and the Commander of the Eight Galaxy Defense, and just the power and responsibility and they've both fought for and wield and how so much of it was for each other AHHHHHHHHH. I cannot believe how many times Lu Bixing had to bring up proposals before Lin Jingheng got the point, and also HOLY FUCK their conversations in book 5 and having to re-learn each other and readjust are just some of my favorite things. That they do actually talk to each other and that it's not things that are easy to resolve but they both want their relationship and each other enough to be so torn about it just gets me like a punch to the heart. I also just adore how much they let down around each other, how playful they are (and how much it always catches Lu Bixing off-guard when Lin Jingheng teases back), and the softer sides they don't show anyone else. I would love anything for them, from mid-canon catching time together, to thoughts about each other during the separation (feel free to make this hurt), to post-canon retirement or dealing with their collected menagerie of people and animals.
Crueltide coda: Biochip malfunctions, anything playing with the very thin line of morals in Lu Bixing's experimentations at various points, set between books 4 and 5 and not actually knowing the other's status, Nuwa-project-related resurgence/body horror
Yuleporn coda: whispers again missing scenes, missing sceeeeeeeeenes. I ADORE the fact that both of them enjoy their relationship so much and that there's a sense of trust and enthusiasm to the experimentation with new things and situations. Lu Bixing is just so ready and enthusiastic to try anything as long as it's with Lin Jingheng, and can talk Lin Jingheng into anything and both of them know it.
Nancy Drew:
Carson Drew, Ryan Hudson
How to Consume: Available on HBO Max and the CW
So a friend told me I needed to watch the CW Nancy Drew series and I was dubious. But I watched it with bad movie friends and am now OBSESSED. It's chaotic in the most hilarious and exhausting way and once it starts going, reaches new peaks of WTF. But almost nothing will compare to Carson and Ryan having to co-parent, with Ryan trying to be "the cool dad" while still having just fucked one of Nancy's best friends and having flirted with Nancy as well. And then there's Carson, trying to deal with Nancy's outbursts and "you're not my real dad" and suddenly having to parent multiple adults. And THEN there's Ryan leaning in to SMELL Carson cooking him breakfast. And we're not even talking about Ace getting involved. Or the fact that they both just kind of shrug and go "yeah sure" when Nancy comes in and goes "hey I need to hold a seance to summon a demon in the house so we can swap souls because George is possessed by a French lesbian ghost and a demon I fought when I was 8 is in a child's toy and my ancestor who bathed in my blood to stay young is trying to open a hole in the backyard" I CANNOT TELL YOU HOW MUCH I LOVE THIS SHOW. It's ridiculous.
I just want them failing at parenting in this ghost-ridden, magic-overrun town, where your coworkers will lock you in the walk-in freezer as the closest thing to horny jail that they can find because you got possessed by a sex pollen wedding dress. There's absolutely no way they could ever control any of the people or happenings in this town, but they are doing their best. They are both very much doing their best and trying their best, but how do you navigate all the interpersonal stuff with all of the supernatural stuff interrupting you? The issues of trying to figure out how to be a family and where to go from here seem small when compared to saving the town, but it's what they've got (and since Nancy never tells them anything...).
Yuleporn coda No one in this show is particularly subtle when they've fucked someone, but maybe Ryan and Carson (and Ace if you want to include him) have to try to hide it at first, since there are a lot of people living under the Drew roof for a while. Or bring back the sex pollen dress! Or really, any artifact that you want to utilize, or make one up! I'm here for a good time, not a sensical one.
Dracula (Novel 1897):
Mina Murray Harker
How to Consume: Public domain book
Minaaaaaaaaaa, the true hero of this book in my mind, for all the Lucy is the center of the most unhinged polycule of the 19th century. I considered requesting any, since there's so much going on with the whole cast, but to me, Mina is the one I'm most interested in - sensible in the face of just about everything, strong-willed and loving, and somehow able to wrangle this herd of cats into a common goal the fastest of anyone else. So please feel free to include anyone else from the tagset! I love how everyone instantly is like "yes, this woman is fantastic and competent and wonderful" when they meet her, with Jonathan in the background nodding along furiously. I love that she inspires Jonathan in just about everything he does and somehow manages to bring out all of the best in everyone else, regardless of their differing personalities and priorities. Basically anything you want to do here is cool with me, but I would ask that if you pair Mina with anyone but Jonathan that it's not viewed as "cheating" or cuckolding him. Part of what I love so much about them is how loyal they are to each other while still being loving and accepting of everyone else along for this weird ride. (on that note, I do kind of love that Mina and Dracula have the same taste in men and women, so do with that what you will)
Crueltide coda: I do feel like vampires kind of automatically count here, but here is your permission to really lean into the irrational, animalistic side of vampires as Stoker presents them, the possessive, hypnotic nature, blood and death and murder and all.
Yuleporn coda: sexy vampire sex and/or bloodplay thank you very much
NU: Carnival:
Yakumo
How to Consume: App available for download on the official website
Yakumo truly feels like a character created in a laboratory specifically to target me. A snake demon who just wants to protect his loved ones but can't always control his power or possessive urges, who 100% has a vore kink and loves to cook, and who is a shy but naturally skilled top to Eiden's enthusiastic bottoming. Every single card story that comes out for him feels more and more targeted and I love it.
I know the game pairs him with Eiden, and I love Eiden with all of my heart (he is the best possible eroge protagonist known to man and I will stand by that), but I am also open to him with anyone else! I do think he needs someone to bring him out of his shell, but honestly, feel free to go where your heart leads you! I'm also happy with solo fic (however you want to interpret that ;)) or making use of the uh...environment.
Yuleporn coda: Obviously in requesting this, I am here for porn, but my signature in-game is "where is Yakumo's hemipene", just as a starting point. I feel like the game itself has been so rich in ideas and utilizing everything it could as a starting point for essence going haywire, so feel free to go wild!
Crueltide coda: Yakumo's possessive side is so fun. As is the thought of what would happen if the snake demon truly got out of control, but there's also Rin wandering around with who knows what plans for the clan members, and how would that go?
This is the Yuletide 2022 letter for Labocat on AO3 - I'm so glad we've made it this far and thank you so much for signing up and I hope we matched on something you're excited about!
In General: I’m really happy with anything! And by anything, I really do mean just about anything; it’s hard to find something that I absolutely don’t like hard stop. I'm good with all ratings, as well as with all takes on most tropes I enjoy, whether it be straight or subversive or somehow finagling it to fit a canon you wouldn't expect to find it in.
Please feel free to take the general tropes as all-purpose prompts for all fandoms and characters!
Some tropes I adore that are relevant (non-comprehensive):
- pining (preferably mutual and resolved, but I am not at all picky)
- hurt/comfort and whump (assorted fave freeforms from h/c exchange: accepting injury to protect someone, trapped together while one is injured, character pushes themselves too hard while injured and relapses, character doesn't realize how hurt they are until they collapse (bonus: other character catching them as they do so), carrying hurt character)
- alternate PoVs of scenes
- pre-canon backstory
- curtainfic/established relationship
- casefic
- fake relationship/arranged marriage/accidentally married/accidental confessions
- found family
- enemies/rivals to lovers (also friends to lovers)
- secret relationships/friendships
- reincarnation/fated/soulbonds
- trapped somewhere together/canadian shack
- loyalty
- magically bonded together (either physically or telepathically)
- redemption or corruption
- road trips
- the 90s anime onsen episode
- pollen/aphrodisiacs (sex or truth, but oh man, forced to choose between sex and truth pollen is especially good)
- sharing a bed, either by choice or circumstance
- focus on scars/wounds(recent or old), field surgery or first aid
- blood, just anything involving blood, whether it be biting, injuries, crying blood, smearing blood on people's faces IDC IT'S ALL GOOD
- timeloops (one-day loop, upon (temporary) character death or anything, really!)
- canon-typical cannibalism/bloodplay/vore ideation
- canon-typical body horror
Smut likes: I really enjoy size difference, blindfolds, light bondage, orgasm denial/delay, sex pollen or aphrodisiacs, messy/sloppy sex, desperate sex, intercrual, oral, semi-public sex (like in a closet or alley), praise kink, service kink, size kink, sensory deprivation, breathplay, toys (especially hidden plugs/vibes), marking/possessiveness, overstimulation, body worship, slow, drawn-out sex that can really tie in with the aforementioned body worship, or awkward first times.
Extra Optional: dubcon, vore/gore, tentacles and xenophilia, oviposition, comeplay, come inflation, heats and a/b/o, bloodplay, threesomes/moresomes, double/multiple penetration, degradation, non-con body mods.
DNWs: Permanent major character death (temporary is fine), story focus on real-life illnesses (canon-esque illness or canon-typical focus is fine, but no further), pregnancy/kids as major plot focus
Also, past letters are fair game to check if I've requested a fandom before! I've requested a few of these before in different exchanges, and while what I ask for may have shifted, I'm still interested for the same reasons and in for similar prompts, especially for freeform exchanges.
All of my canons have been put up for Yuleporn, and some are up for Crueltide - some canon-specific details/more prompts are at the bottom of each request, but as always, those are non-restrictive and non-comprehensive, just guidelines! Please feel free to use them as inspiration as well!
Tsurune
Can Ci Pin
Nancy Drew
Dracula
NU:Carnival
Narumiya Minato, Takigawa Masaki
How to Consume: Available for streaming on Crunchyroll
I am obsessed with the parallels between Narumiya and Masa and the interactions of the two of them together, from both of them inspiring each other and learning from each other all the ways that kyuudo is important to them, both as athletes and people, to simply drawing each other out of the shells they'd withdrawn in and didn't really know where to go from there. Okay also look, Narumiya's early release is such a good opportunity for hand-holding guidance on holding his stance for longer and getting him to focus on something other than his target panic when he draws. I'm also super here for anything having to do with Masa's role as a priest at the shrine! Magical realism curses! Festivals! Gifting a charm and not knowing what the intent behind it is! I am also here for an ensemble piece; the whole team is great, as is Shuu, who is such an awkward duckling who just doesn't know how to share friends.
Yuleporn coda: Late nights at the shrine! Barely held-back lust any time either of them shoot with one shoulder bared! Narumiya's general awe of Masa's draw! I'm here for basically anything lmao
Lu Bixing, Lin Jingheng
How to Consume: Original novel on JJWXC | English translation on Google Docs and Wattpad
Fandom-specific DNW: The Rainbow Virus is fair game, especially as a tool for whump, but please do not focus on either of the pandemic outbreaks or the public panic response to the outbreak as the major plot focus.
This book really does just have it all: from discussion of the repetitions of evolutions in human society and progress of technology and how that changes or doesn't as humanity expands into a galactic scale, to revolutions and plots spanning decades, to human experimentation and giant mechs, to the impact of found family and connections and making a place where you can belong and grow, to one optimistic, charismatic space engineer and one reticent, dedicated space commander-turned-rogue, it's just so rich and lovely and I'm in love with everything about it. I love how well everything is woven together, from the increase in scale to how it all reflects on both Lu Bixing and Lin Jingheng's origins and character development and relationship.
Lu Bixing has my heart, my whole heart: I love this charismatic space scientist and his boundless optimism, how everything he has gone through hasn't erased his optimism and has instead tempered it, that he's stronger for having had to go through so much pain and loss and choosing to work through that by finding what he can to progress forward and change things for the better.
Lin Jingheng and his slow melting is one of the other best progresses of the novel, of learning why he's built up those walls and watching Lu Bixing get around every one of them and how that slowly means opening up more and more to the rest of the people around him, that his sense of responsibility is only good for when the people he's protecting knows he cares about them too.
I love them both as the galaxy's power couple as well as the Eighth Galaxy's Prime Minister and the Commander of the Eight Galaxy Defense, and just the power and responsibility and they've both fought for and wield and how so much of it was for each other AHHHHHHHHH. I cannot believe how many times Lu Bixing had to bring up proposals before Lin Jingheng got the point, and also HOLY FUCK their conversations in book 5 and having to re-learn each other and readjust are just some of my favorite things. That they do actually talk to each other and that it's not things that are easy to resolve but they both want their relationship and each other enough to be so torn about it just gets me like a punch to the heart. I also just adore how much they let down around each other, how playful they are (and how much it always catches Lu Bixing off-guard when Lin Jingheng teases back), and the softer sides they don't show anyone else. I would love anything for them, from mid-canon catching time together, to thoughts about each other during the separation (feel free to make this hurt), to post-canon retirement or dealing with their collected menagerie of people and animals.
Crueltide coda: Biochip malfunctions, anything playing with the very thin line of morals in Lu Bixing's experimentations at various points, set between books 4 and 5 and not actually knowing the other's status, Nuwa-project-related resurgence/body horror
Yuleporn coda: whispers again missing scenes, missing sceeeeeeeeenes. I ADORE the fact that both of them enjoy their relationship so much and that there's a sense of trust and enthusiasm to the experimentation with new things and situations. Lu Bixing is just so ready and enthusiastic to try anything as long as it's with Lin Jingheng, and can talk Lin Jingheng into anything and both of them know it.
Carson Drew, Ryan Hudson
How to Consume: Available on HBO Max and the CW
So a friend told me I needed to watch the CW Nancy Drew series and I was dubious. But I watched it with bad movie friends and am now OBSESSED. It's chaotic in the most hilarious and exhausting way and once it starts going, reaches new peaks of WTF. But almost nothing will compare to Carson and Ryan having to co-parent, with Ryan trying to be "the cool dad" while still having just fucked one of Nancy's best friends and having flirted with Nancy as well. And then there's Carson, trying to deal with Nancy's outbursts and "you're not my real dad" and suddenly having to parent multiple adults. And THEN there's Ryan leaning in to SMELL Carson cooking him breakfast. And we're not even talking about Ace getting involved. Or the fact that they both just kind of shrug and go "yeah sure" when Nancy comes in and goes "hey I need to hold a seance to summon a demon in the house so we can swap souls because George is possessed by a French lesbian ghost and a demon I fought when I was 8 is in a child's toy and my ancestor who bathed in my blood to stay young is trying to open a hole in the backyard" I CANNOT TELL YOU HOW MUCH I LOVE THIS SHOW. It's ridiculous.
I just want them failing at parenting in this ghost-ridden, magic-overrun town, where your coworkers will lock you in the walk-in freezer as the closest thing to horny jail that they can find because you got possessed by a sex pollen wedding dress. There's absolutely no way they could ever control any of the people or happenings in this town, but they are doing their best. They are both very much doing their best and trying their best, but how do you navigate all the interpersonal stuff with all of the supernatural stuff interrupting you? The issues of trying to figure out how to be a family and where to go from here seem small when compared to saving the town, but it's what they've got (and since Nancy never tells them anything...).
Yuleporn coda No one in this show is particularly subtle when they've fucked someone, but maybe Ryan and Carson (and Ace if you want to include him) have to try to hide it at first, since there are a lot of people living under the Drew roof for a while. Or bring back the sex pollen dress! Or really, any artifact that you want to utilize, or make one up! I'm here for a good time, not a sensical one.
Mina Murray Harker
How to Consume: Public domain book
Minaaaaaaaaaa, the true hero of this book in my mind, for all the Lucy is the center of the most unhinged polycule of the 19th century. I considered requesting any, since there's so much going on with the whole cast, but to me, Mina is the one I'm most interested in - sensible in the face of just about everything, strong-willed and loving, and somehow able to wrangle this herd of cats into a common goal the fastest of anyone else. So please feel free to include anyone else from the tagset! I love how everyone instantly is like "yes, this woman is fantastic and competent and wonderful" when they meet her, with Jonathan in the background nodding along furiously. I love that she inspires Jonathan in just about everything he does and somehow manages to bring out all of the best in everyone else, regardless of their differing personalities and priorities. Basically anything you want to do here is cool with me, but I would ask that if you pair Mina with anyone but Jonathan that it's not viewed as "cheating" or cuckolding him. Part of what I love so much about them is how loyal they are to each other while still being loving and accepting of everyone else along for this weird ride. (on that note, I do kind of love that Mina and Dracula have the same taste in men and women, so do with that what you will)
Crueltide coda: I do feel like vampires kind of automatically count here, but here is your permission to really lean into the irrational, animalistic side of vampires as Stoker presents them, the possessive, hypnotic nature, blood and death and murder and all.
Yuleporn coda: sexy vampire sex and/or bloodplay thank you very much
Yakumo
How to Consume: App available for download on the official website
Yakumo truly feels like a character created in a laboratory specifically to target me. A snake demon who just wants to protect his loved ones but can't always control his power or possessive urges, who 100% has a vore kink and loves to cook, and who is a shy but naturally skilled top to Eiden's enthusiastic bottoming. Every single card story that comes out for him feels more and more targeted and I love it.
I know the game pairs him with Eiden, and I love Eiden with all of my heart (he is the best possible eroge protagonist known to man and I will stand by that), but I am also open to him with anyone else! I do think he needs someone to bring him out of his shell, but honestly, feel free to go where your heart leads you! I'm also happy with solo fic (however you want to interpret that ;)) or making use of the uh...environment.
Yuleporn coda: Obviously in requesting this, I am here for porn, but my signature in-game is "where is Yakumo's hemipene", just as a starting point. I feel like the game itself has been so rich in ideas and utilizing everything it could as a starting point for essence going haywire, so feel free to go wild!
Crueltide coda: Yakumo's possessive side is so fun. As is the thought of what would happen if the snake demon truly got out of control, but there's also Rin wandering around with who knows what plans for the clan members, and how would that go?