sugarspankhorn | dear yuletide writer 2019 (Reply)

happy yuletide, dear writer!

right out the gate i’d like to thank you for your patience in waiting for me to write this letter! it really means a lot for you to offer to write for me this yuletide! it’s a busy time of year, so it really means the world to me that you’d take the time to write a little something! i really hope you have fun and i wish you all the best! i'm so excited to see what fandom we matched on, and gush endlessly about what you make! my username on ao3 is theultimateburrito!

here i've got some general likes and dislikes and my dnws. i also have a more specific breakdown of my fandoms and some prompts below! but if any of my likes strikes your fancy, please write that!

likes: canon compliance, nonlinear narrative, isolated together for a long period of time, slow burn, enemies-to-friends-to-lovers, friends-to-lovers-to-enemies, time loops, mutual pining, character studies, world building, fake dating, missing scenes, banter.

dislikes: 5-times-1-time formats (i do like vignettes though!), aus several degrees removed from canon (example: harry potter aus aren’t my thing but canon-divergence and what-if scenarios within the context of the source are great!), chatfic/groupchat fic, crack fic

DNW: non-con, torture, guro, character bashing, eating disorders, body dysphoria, suicide, crossovers, kidfic, genderswap/gender headcanons, abo dynamics

☆IT- stephen king ☆

eddie kaspbrak, mike hanlon, richie tozier

to put it succinctly, IT has become incredibly dear to my heart. the themes of trauma, cycles of abuse, memory and recovery resonated with me a lot and i find myself constantly re-visiting this book. picking a favorite character is impossible and having to select only three was an incredibly tall task! i’m deeply fond of every single one and their dynamics, so please feel inclined to explore that in any combination!

character studies abound… please i never want to stop reading about these characters and how they think and feel. ANY character study is welcome, but im particularly interested in mike, in how he believes so strongly in the bonds between himself and the rest of the losers that he feels this sense of responsibility to never forget. what goes through his mind in the years his friends have forgotten each other?
book reddie hits all of my buttons, the giant red button here being “things left unsaid”. eddie’s fear of things changing and clinging to familiarity, richie being so guarded with himself and his own feelings. we’ve got a good thing going, why ruin or complicate it? any sort of exploration into the complexities of their dynamic, how they’ve always been like this 🤞 and not knowing or recognizing their feelings for each other for what they are. i’m starved for this variety of reddie content, author. indulge me.
post-canon, exploring where the characters go and how they recover independent of each other. do they ever find a way back to each other without the worry of falling back into old roles and old habits? is it better that they don’t? not to be incredibly indulgent with my interests but anything based around this quote from the movie true stories 1986—
- I really enjoy forgetting. When I first come to a place, I notice all the little details. I notice the way the sky looks. The color of white paper. The way people walk. Doorknobs. Everything. Then I get used to the place and I don't notice those things anymore. So only by forgetting can I see the place again as it really is.

ship preferences: richie/eddie

☆ready or not (2019)☆

daniel le domas, grace le domas, alex de lomas, becky de lomas

this movie had me sold on entry with the dangerous game plot, but i had no idea i’d be so drawn in by it! there are just enough details peppered in about everyone to get you deeply invested and ranting about it to your friend the entire car-ride home from the theatre without it distracting from the film.

backstory fic! they’re all such interesting characters and there are so many fun things you can extrapolate from the source. daniel getting into his failing marriage mostly just because he didn’t think anyone would actually be cool with ritual murder? becky becoming a part of the family, seeing so much of herself in grace? i want to see that!
alex... alex. i’m so fascinated with how he perceives change as a series of literal actions and steps-- being with grace and her being kind and good made him kind and good, leaving the house and cutting off his family means that he has really cut them off in his heart. I would love any sort of character study of him, through the lens of his relationships with everyone.
there’s a smorgasbord of what-if scenarios as far as killing games go with this one so go absolutely buckwild with murder and mayhem or just a heated game of parchesi.
post-canon what-if where daniel lives. he and grace have a messy and complicated relationship but also feel like they only have each other and, in a way, they kind of do.

ship preferences: past alex/grace, daniel/grace (with the caveat that theyre not Traditionally Romantic! please color outside the lines with their dynamic!),

☆talented mr ripley (1999)☆

tom ripley, peter smith-kingsley, dickie greenleaf, marge sherwood

the fact that “the talented mr ripley” is a piece of yandere fiction hit me in the face like an oar. jokes aside, this is one of my favorite movies ever. the theme of how far you’ll go to make yourself lovable and appealing to others and not really having any sense of who you are outside of that? poetic cinema. i love how messy it is, i love how every inch oozes with tension! basically anything you could write that captures that sort of Weirdness would make my year.

tom ripley character study! boy what a field day that is!! how long has he been living as someone entirely separate from himself? his desperation to be wanted and appealing, wanting to shove away all of the scary, awful parts of himself— i can’t get enough of that.
marge sherwood is wonderful and i want nothing but happiness for her. she sees the good in everyone and believes the best of their intentions, but she’s also proactive and trusts her gut when it screams for her to fight. any sort of what-if scenario in which she can win or have some semblance of a good life… that’s my heart’s desire.
dickie/tom/marge, living together and skirting the edges of something resembling romantic but those edges are so fucking blurry because dickie is fickle, marge is devoted to dickie but loving to both, and tom is tom.
peter falling genuinely in love with tom and tom not knowing how to deal with anything approaching requited feelings toward him rather than his flavor-of-the-month persona. peter and tom’s relationship is, to my mind, sort of destined to fail because peter is honest in a way that tom can’t bring himself to be.