Yuletide 2020 Letter

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Dear author,

I can't believe it's Yuletide time (Yuletime?) already! Thank you for writing for me, and I hope you get a fantastic gift haul in return.

As usual, all my prompts and rambling below are just suggestions. If you have an idea for any of these characters, please do feel free to go for it. Outside of my DNWs, I'm open to anything from lighthearted fluff to plotty casefic and worldbuilding to hardcore darkfic and smut. You can also take any of my general likes as prompts in themselves.

My AO3 username is Piinutbutter.

Table of Contents

- Likes -
- DNWs -

- The Adventure of Denchu Kozo -
- Tetsuo: The Iron Man -
- Yokai Rental Shop -

Likes

Narrative likes:

* Adventure / casefic
* Canon divergence / "what if?" AUs
* Backstory
* Post-canon
* Outsider POV
* Slice of life
* Hurt and/or comfort
* Reluctant allies / enemies having to work together
* Characters with complicated relationships, platonic or otherwise
* Interactive fiction formats (IF, CYOA, games, visual novels, etc). If you feel your story would work better in an interactive format, go for it!

Fluffy likes:

* Hair touching/brushing
* Affectionate insults / play-fighting
* Pretending to be dating/married
* Friends-to-lovers, or enemies-to-friends-to-lovers
* Physical affection, platonic or otherwise
* Emotional intimacy, platonic or otherwise
* Unusual gestures of affection
* Working together on a task/mission
* Loyalty kink

Darkfic likes:

* Dysfunctional relationships
* Kidnapping / stockholm syndrome
* Mind control
* Blood / gore / violence
* Angst / guilt / shame
* Manipulation / blackmail / gaslighting
* Eating disorders
* Body horror + psychological horror
* Loyalty kink (GONE WRONG)

Smutty likes:

* Dubcon, noncon, and enthusiastic consent are all welcome
* Xeno
* Bondage, D/s, S&M, etc.
* Impact play
* Praise kink
* Clothing kink
* Humiliation
* Weapon play (knife, sword, gun, whip, etc.)
* Blood play / blood drinking
* Rough sex
* Sex pollen
* Face-sitting
* Loyalty kink (GONE SEXUAL)

Do Not Wants

* Pregnancy
* Asexuality headcanons
* Unrequested crossovers
* References to real-world politics or social justice issues
* Unrequested genderswaps, including trans headcanons
* Second person POV smut - second person POV in anything that isn't smut is fine! (Fandom-specific exception for Tetsuo: The Iron Man)
* Biphobia (particularly calling bisexual characters "het," bashing bi characters for being in mixed-gender relationships, or writing canonically bi characters as gay or straight)

* Prompts *

The Adventure of Denchu Kozo

- Kondo -
- Hijikata -
- Okita -

I LOVE THESE SHIT-ASS FUCKING LOSER VAMPIRES. I do ship them all together, but I'd be equally happy with gen gang adventures. Given the comedic, over-the-top nature of their source canon, I certainly do not need srs business fic. Embrace the absurd!

Some specific prompts:

* Worldbuilding! Are vampires common in the future, or were these three unique? Were they cyborgs first and vampires second, or vice versa? How did they meet/join up? Maybe they were the result of some experiment gone wrong?

* How exactly did this gang of try-hard frat boys manage to take over an entire city? Did they try a bunch of other dumb failed schemes before (literally) dicking the sun into submission?

* Slice of life. Just, y'know, the life of a gang of horny edgelords asserting their dominance over their downtrodden human neighbors.

* No matter the context, please feel welcome to make as much use of Hijikata's ridiculous detachable drill dick as humanly possible. (If you care to go a shippy route, I would absolutely not be mad about a humorous "5 Times Hijikata's Dick Ruined A Perfectly Good Attempt to Get Laid.")

Tetsuo: The Iron Man

- The Salaryman -
- The Metal Fetishist -

(Fandom-specific DNW: Canon from Tetsuo: The Bullet Man, canon from Tetsuo II: Body Hammer other than borrowing a name or two if you'd like. You can totally use canon from Phantom of Regular Size, though - especially since the fetishist there is even more direct about his horniness for the salaryman. :P)

Why yes, I am requesting two separate movies in which a character played by Tomoroh Taguchi has a weaponized drill penis. I know what I'm about, son.

Okay, so. I know this is an oddball canon and isn't the simplest to write for. This is me telling you: GO FOR IT. I'd truly love to see whatever wacky, out-there, psychosexual surrealist horror you have to give! Or a more down-to-earth take on what is - despite the out-of-this-world visuals - a simple love/hate revenge story.

Please, do feel welcome to go all out with 1st person, 2nd person, or other weird narrative choices in order to get around the lack of canonical names. (Yes, this includes me waiving my 2nd-person porn DNW for this fandom, if that's where inspiration takes you! I ship these two metal weirdos just as hard as the film itself does.)

If you really want to use names... I've seen some people call the fetishist "Yatsu" (Japanese for 'guy,' which is how he's credited). I believe he's called "Tsukatani" in Phantom of Regular Size (the short film Tetsuo is a remake of). And the Body Hammer incarnation of the salaryman is named "Taniguchi," if you'd like to yoink that.

This would be a PERFECT fandom to whip out interactive fiction as a medium, too.

I don't have many specific plot-based prompts, but here goes: More detailed backstory for the fetishist and his outlook on the world or his relationship with the salaryman! The post-canon adventures of the two's giant metal dick tank! Canon divergence where the salaryman manages to get the upper hand on the fetishist before he goes full metal blob in the warehouse - what does he do to him then? 1000 words of bizarre body-horror-tastic dubcon horror smut, whether during their confrontation in the salaryman's apartment, or earlier in the plot when the fetishist is feeling the salaryman up in the claw woman's body! Just fuck me up, fam.

Yokai Rental Shop

- Enju -
- Nurarihyon -

I'm gonna lay my cards on the table and say that I do ship these two, in a terrible badwrong grooming way. That said, I'm equally happy to take a platonic look at their dysfunctional relationship!

I'm just really interested in how horrible of a dynamic there is between father and son here. Nurarihyon is terrifying, violent, manipulative, and controlling - but he's also literally the only one Enju thinks of as showing him any meaningful kindness. Enju's built his whole life and sense of self-worth around his father, and it shows.

Some specific prompts:

* A post-canon framing device where Enju's been reminiscing on his childhood to his brothers. Hiiragi has to inform him that, uh, no, he did not have a perfectly normal and healthy relationship with their father. Making Enju believe that is easier said than done.

* Also post-canon, Enju makes regular visits to his father in the spirit realm. Does Nurarihyon ever try to apologize or make any effort to not be a piece of shit to his son? Does Enju's blind worship of him ever wane or crack?

* Some creepy pre-canon slice of life, with Enju developing his powers and trying to understand his place in his father's palace and life, especially after seeing what happens to his other children.

* Anything leaning into Enju's -100 self esteem and body dysmorphia would be A+, especially if Nurarihyon encourages Enju's obsession with being beautiful for him. It's a good way to keep the plant monster in line, after all.