slumber

Thank you so much for signing up this year, and I’m so excited to have you assigned to me! I'm Slumber on AO3 as well, and it's my fifth time signing up for Yuletide, which has been nothing but a fantastic time for me, so I hope it is for you as well.

For what it’s worth I’m incredibly easy to please, so feel free to run away with whatever ideas you may already have! But if you wanted some prompts, I hope this letter helps inspire you.

Ratings: G to E are fine!

Likes. It depends on the ship and the dynamics that attracted me to them in the first place, but I quite love canon-centric studies of relationships and dynamics and seeing the different nuances other people have on a character over AUs.

Tonally I gravitate to lighter fare, but I'm also very happy with pieces that go deep into character studies and introspection are more than welcome too!

If you would prefer to do something lighter and warm-hearted, I'm always up for those tried-and-true romcom tropes of idiots in love, mutual pining, friends to lovers, fake dating, didn't know they were dating, practically married, etc. 5+1 fics are great too! I love domesticity but not established relationship, so anything in that vein would be amazing too!

I'm a bit of a heavy shipper but in case you're not up for the ships I've listed, you're more than welcome to go the genfic route as well, no worries!

DNWs. There isn’t a lot that I don’t like — name a trope and I’d probably be able to come up with at least one work I’ve read in it that has stayed with me. That said, I don’t always seek out fic with first-person POV, BDSM elements, noncon elements, pregnancy, dark themes for darkness' sake, and kink-centered PWPs. I've got to be in a specific mood for Major Character Death, terminal illness, wedding fic and kidfic (I know, I know), so I'd rather not have any of them. I also would prefer it when people don't say "I love you" and instead have it shown/understood through their actions/obliquely. I'd really also not prefer unhappy endings — bittersweet & hopeful is fine! Light angst is okay, things don't always have to be easy, but I'm here for good vibes mostly.

The Prompts. Here’s a blanket disclaimer on the prompts here — feel free to absolutely ignore them and run away with your own ideas! If something I’ve said sparks an offshoot kind of idea, please pursue it! All I’d be truly happy for is another round at reliving these characters in their worlds, and I am SO looking forward to what you come up with whether it’s from one of these prompts or not! So please consider them starting points, if anything, or some way to get a sense of what drew me to these characters/fandoms to start. Thank you so much! <3

And with that, feel free to navigate to the fandom that makes sense to you!

{{ BecomeAManAgain (Twitter) }} {{ Chihayafuru }} {{ Exit's That Way (Webcomic) }}
{{ I Ship My Adversary X Me }} {{ Shota Oni }} {{ Skip to Loafer (Anime) }}

Alpha Male, Beta Male

General: ODAO! If you're not familiar with this "canon", I mean specifically these tweets. I just think we need to break the sexual tension that's clearly building between Beta Male and Alpha Male. Please pick any of their tweets as inspiration, or branch off entirely. I'd love it all! (This does not have to be omegaverse, by the way, but I wouldn't be mad if it is. They can be named Alpha and Beta, or have actual names of their own. Please don't use identifiable names from existing canons/ships! I didn't nominate a tag for worldbuilding because honestly, I'm not 100% sure I understand what that entails, but if you want to build out the lore of this BecomeAManAgain universe, I would platonically kiss you on the lips in gratitude.)

Possible prompts:
+ None of Alpha Male's usual moves seem to work on Beta Male. Are they just speaking different languages??
+ Beta Male and Alpha Male and their different love languages.
+ Beta Male in a tight red dress, with heels and those earrings ;)
+ Beta Male is tired of the way Alpha Male treats him, and decides changes are in order.

Mashima Taichi

General: ODAO! I'm allllll caught up in the manga so no worries on spoilers there, and Taichi after all this time is still my one true boy. I love the way karuta is a sport for everyone, and I LOVE the way their relationships and friendships have developed over the course of the series. I'm an OT3 shipper, but if push came to shove, I do prefer Chihaya with Taichi, ALTHOUGH I am also very much NOT opposed to Taichi/Hisashi, as I think there's some interesting dynamics there, nor Taichi/Arata. I love Taichi, and I'm not sorry for it ~~I mean someone's gotta ahahaha~~.

Would be VERY happy with genfic character study of Taichi through all of this — I'd love your take on him through the series so far, or even where you think he'll be in a future fic, regardless of what the ending of the manga left us with. Does he follow the path his mother set him out on, or does he learn to carve one out for himself, and if so, what does that look like? Who would still be there in the future, if that were the case?

Possible prompts:
+ OT3? Or gen! Taichi showing up for Chihaya and Arata, the three of them learning what they want/need from and can offer/give to each other. I want to know your take on that resolution, if you're so inclined?
+ Some years into the future, a retrospective of this time in all their lives. Where are they now? What did they learn from karuta? Friendships? Who they were?
+ A reunion a few years later, maybe now they are different people who may or may not be better equipped to face each other :'3
+ Anything dealing with the developing of relationships between either Chihaya/Taichi/Arata, Chihaya/Taichi, Taichi/Hisashi, or Taichi/Arata.

Cha Hong, Noh Seung-ah

General: ODAO! I have been following this webtoon and I'm a little gutted that it looks like it's getting dropped at the end of the current season, so I would love, love, LOVE to see more of them in any way, shape or form. (PWPs very welcome here, not even gonna try to pretend otherwise here.)

Possible prompts:
+ Cha Hong finds out about what really caused Noh Seung-ah's break from acting. (OK to go dark, or go for comfort)
+ A scandal threatens to break when a photo of Noh Seung-ah lands in the hands of the top entertainment gossip rag in Korea! But.... just what is the photo showing? (Could play this one straight, could subvert it!)
+ Noh Seung-ah is actually even more spoiled than before, now that she and Cha Hong are officially dating.
+ Or... how come Cha Hong is even harder to be lovey-dovey with, now that she and Noh Seung-ah are officially dating??
+ Noh Seung-ah is insatiable and keeps forgetting where they are!!
+ Any or all of these: on-set shenanigans, sneaking around, stolen kisses in the middle of awards ceremonies or in-between shoots/interviews/etc.

Gu Yiliang, Wei Yanzi

General: ODAO! NIANGZI IS RIO!!!

TBH I don't know what I'd like here because I don't know how far the story's gotten, so I don't know what I'm missing so far? I got up to the translations until they were on hiatus, though, and I'm caught up with the manhua! But I adore how WYZ is such a sweetheart, and just the comedy of miscommunication that's going on with them so far!

Possible prompts:
+ NiangZi fall into bed together for reasons, but are confused about what it means. Cue confusion and mutual pining and mild angst that is ultimately resolved :'3
+ A scandal threatens Gu Yiliang's reputation, but Wei Yanzi comes in to..... save the day...?? Even he is surprised how!
+ Xianxia AU? Niangzi are disciples from competing sects that must work together after some kind of accident at a Sect Alliance Conference. Wei Yanzi, who has held many assumptions about Gu Yiliang, begin to see each of them challenged and broken down :'3

Tsubaki, Yuu

General: ODAO! This is such a sweet little manga and I think Tsubaki's crush on Yuu is the most adorable thing in the world. I would LOVE to skip ahead to a few years later ~~doesn't have to be THAT far in the future >.>~~ and Tsubaki's all grown up. How does he change? Do his feelings? What about Yuu's? I think growing up, and the changes around how we think, and how other people think of us, is super interesting and would be a fun point of exploration, especially when it comes to developing feelings for someone who you didn't see that way before. (That said, I would also be down for a canon-setting story that follows the same vein of the manga, too, or maybe even wherever else your heart leads you!)

Possible prompts:
+ One of them goes away for a few years and returns to find things have changed in their absence.
+ Many, many, many years later, Tsubaki's crush on Yuu is now a fond little story everyone brings up for nostalgia/fun/light-hearted teasing, sometimes even around Tsubaki's girlfriends, who can't believe the cool, athletic Yuu used to have a crush on his older neighbor! But all kids went through phases like that, and it was always just a phase. Right?
+ Maybe a canon setting fic or just a short bit after canon where Tsubaki tries to act older than he is and make Yuu think differently of him, and how his efforts end~
+ Tsubaki grows closer to friends his own age and Yuu starts feeling some kind of way about this. Can be set anytime.

Egashira Mika, Nao-chan

General: ODAO! I absolutely adore everyone in this show, but I think Mika and Nao-chan's relationship is the most interesting for me. I love it in both the shippy as well as the non-shippy way, and I'd love to see this explored a bit more, especially as Nao-chan sees herself in Mika, a little bit, and has taken her under her wing, and Mika feels a little bit more at ease showing her vulnerabilities to Nao-chan. I really like that they're a little less polite, a little more honest with each other, in ways that maybe they don't let themselves be when they're with Mitsumi. (For this canon, I'm OK with all ratings from canon setting to later.)

Possible prompts:
+ Mika approaches Nao to tell her about all her firsts. (Maybe it's just that, maybe this time Mika wants Nao to be one of her firsts.)
+ It's Nao's turn to open up.
+ Nao and Mika really do share a lot of things in common.
+ Outside POV on Nao and Mika's strange-but-makes-sense relationship.