The Dragon Traykor

Thanks for writing for me! I love Yuletide and I love treats too.

A few notes to start:
I sure do love a good world build, and this year that's a focus of the picks, as these are all 5 minute fandoms.

I like romance that is present but takes a back seat to friendship, or slow burns. I adore found family, and people being good parents. I like hurt comfort, and people taking care of each other.

Happy endings only please. Do be as funny or as zany as you like. These songs and art are mostly already on the way to silly.

Do Not Wants:

AUs that change the setting, POVs. or professions--high school AU, Coffee Shop AU types, modern set aus.

I absolutely do no want porn. Romance is fine, fade to black for the sex like you're on broadcast TV.  No infidelity.

No non-canon character death, and definitely no killing either song heroine. 

Please keep sexual violence to aired on TV levels too--in general think 'safe for network broadcast'.

Do not give any protagonist a problem with drugs or alcohol, or treat narcotic use for pain as bad. 


The Outlandish Knight (Traditional Ballad):
Playlist: www.youtube.com/playlist

Take your pick of versions--"Lady Isabel & the Elf Knight" is what Child titled the set, so feel free to pick and choose from the 8 variants, but I prefer the elements from the Outlandish Knight versions such as the parrot. I really like that sassy parrot.

How did she get a snarky parrot anyway? Do also keep her alive--there's the one variation where he does manage to kill her, my least favorite--but you don't have to have the knight dead if you want to play around with it.

If you want to do a bigger worldbuild, both Isabel and Margaret are names used in a lot of ballads. Are they the same? different?
Do they all meet for tea every other Tuesday with the rest of the ladies from ballads and complain about the men in their lives?

Don't Make Me - Malinda (Music Video)
https://youtu.be/QQAbzby4hZk?si=UgJMd_a6P3NIJFc0

Tell me everything and anything about this princess/queen and her dirty rotten husband. Does she take over with her handmaidens? How did she get into this mess?

White Reflection - Two-Mix (Music Video)
https://youtu.be/ZNSOcPjL-Gw?si=JgaGfGJ2k8EqVw6N

What even is going on here? I've loved this video for decades now, I love how it tells a story of these two musicians and their journey even if you don't know Japanese. I love it so much, build as much more or little of the story as you like. What are the lights? Who are the musicians? What happens to them?

can't believe u forgot the scrolls, how am i supposed to resurrect the dragon now?
https://www.artstation.com/artwork/Ka5nnW
I adore Tomislav's quirky art. Please, tell me about this necromancer, his giant minion, and this poor dead dragon. Or recently resurrected dragon.
Fandom specific DNW: no evil dragon. Be on the dragon's side.

Thanks for writing for me!

A few notes to start:
I sure do love a good world build, and this year that's a focus of the picks, as these are all 5 minute fandoms.

I like romance that is present but takes a back seat to friendship, or slow burns. I adore found family, and people being good parents. I like hurt comfort, and people taking care of each other.

Happy endings only please. Do be as funny or as zany as you like. These songs are mostly already on the way to silly.

Do Not Wants:

AUs that change the setting or professions--high school AU, Coffee Shop AU types, modern set aus.

I absolutely do no want porn. Romance is fine, fade to black for the sex like you're on broadcast TV.  No infidelity.

No non-canon character death, and definitely no killing either song heroine. 

Please keep sexual violence to aired on TV levels too--in general think 'safe for network broadcast'.

Do not give any protagonist a problem with drugs or alcohol, or treat narcotic use for pain as bad. 


Lady Isabel & the Elf Knight (Traditional Ballad):
Playlist: www.youtube.com/playlist

Or Lady Margaret. Take your pick of their names, and take your pick of versions--"Lady Isabel & the Elf Knight" is what Child titled the set, so feel free to pick and choose from the 8 variants. Do include the parrot if you like. I really like that sassy parrot. How did she get a snarky parrot anyway? Do also keep her alive--there's the one where he does manage to kill her, my least favorite--but you don't have to have the knight dead if you want to play around with it.
If you want to do a bigger worldbuild, both Isabel and Margaret are names used in a lot of ballads. Are they the same? different?
Do they all meet for tea every other Tuesday with the rest of the ladies from ballads and complain about the men in their lives?

FAQ: The "Snake Fight" Portion of Your Thesis Defense - Luke Burns
So, I'm in academia. I oversee a writing center, including all our citation guidance material university wide.I also deal with doctoral studies a lot. I have feelings on IRB and APA and everything.
What does IRB look like in a world where you fight the snake? How panicy are students over their AQR and APA review if a bad one means a venomous snake? Tell me the tales of academic minutia!

Lupin (TV 2021)
I love Assane so much. He's so perfectly a gentleman thief. I'd love to learn more about how he got all the skills we see.

I've only asked for Assane to keep things open: I liked Claire, if you want to keep to canon ships. I really liked both Ben and Youssef. How is Ben dealing with the events of season 3?

Youssef is intrigued and fascinated by our thief, in the long tradition of upstanding detectives being a bit charmed by dashing rouge thieves. There are all kinds of ways for Assane to flirt with him too. Youssef also seems the sort to bend the law a bit to be morally right when the law is wrong. How does he feel finally catching his thief?

If you're crossover inclined:
There's a fine tradition of phantom thieves teaming up. How would Assane do crossing paths with Neal Caffrey? Or the Leverage crew, who would probably have a high five for him for the rich guy take down (Assane & Hardison: BFFs?). Also amusing would be Lupin III and his crew, or Kaito Kid (either Kaitou or his parents, Chikage was a French thief to start). Assane should come out on top of course, it's his story. Also fun would be Assane vs. a detective from my other fandoms. For a more concrete prompt: Assane got so skilled by training with other phantom thieves.

Thanks for writing for me!

A few notes to start:
I love a good world build, though I totally forgot to nominate that as a tag for anything, oh well.

I love casefic and heists. I like romance that is present but takes a back seat to friendship, or slow burns. I adore found family, and people being good parents. I like hurt comfort, and people taking care of each other.

I love crossovers, and if it's a detective show that's:

1. Available in the US, in English, on some form of streaming service

2. Not set in the US

I've probably seen at least one episode. You can also check previous year's letters for lists of favorites, or favs spotted in this year's tagset:
Brokenwood, Father Brown, Poirot, Foyle's War, My Life is Murder, New Tricks, Shetland, and Enola Holmes.

Detective team ups are wonderful. Crack detective team ups are love (and I mean that. You want to toss Detective Pikachu in there? go for it). .

Happy endings only please (a solved case counts).

Do Not Wants:

AUs that change the setting or professions--high school AU, Coffee Shop AU types, or anything where detectives aren't detectives anymore. I'm fine with most other AU/canon divergences.

I absolutely do no want porn. Romance is fine, fade to black for the sex like you're on broadcast TV.  No infidelity.

No canon-character death (please kill OCs for your murder victims if you're going for that)--if they're alive still in canon they should remain so.

Please keep sexual violence to aired on TV levels too--in general think 'safe for network broadcast'.

Do not give any protagonist a problem with drugs or alcohol, or treat narcotic use for pain as bad. 

I particularly dislike the tropes of 'accuse the detective of a crime' and detectives breaking moral codes/otherwise becoming villains (the law and moral codes aren't the same).

Lupin:

I love Assane so much. He's so perfectly a gentleman thief. I'd love to learn more about how he got all the skills we see.

I've only asked for Assane to keep things open: I liked Claire, if you want to keep to canon ships. I really liked both Ben and Youssef.

If you're feeling slashy, Ben & Assane feels more like friends with benefits than committed monogamous relationship to me, but there is lots of fun to have there. Ben clearly puts up with a lot getting pulled along trying to keep up with Assane, but he also clearly really adores him. I'd love more from their past heists.

Youssef is intrigued and fascinated by our thief, in the long tradition of upstanding detectives being a bit charmed by dashing rouge thieves. There are all kinds of ways for Assane to flirt with him too. Youssef also seems the sort to bend the law a bit to be morally right when the law is wrong.

If you're crossover inclined:
There's a fine tradition of phantom thieves teaming up. How would Assane do crossing paths with Neal Caffrey? Or the Leverage crew, who would probably have a high five for him for the rich guy take down (Assane & Hardison: BFFs?). Also amusing would be Lupin III and his crew, or Kaito Kid (either Kaitou or his parents, Chikage was a French thief to start). Assane should come out on top of course, it's his story. Also fun would be Assane vs. a detective from my other fandoms. For a more concrete prompt: Assane got so skilled by training with other phantom thieves.

Mystery Case Files:

Character: Master Detective

So, I'm a hidden object game addict. MCF is one of my favorites of the many series I play, especially the classic Ravenhearst saga ones, and Dire Grove, which is the best game they've done.
I'd love background or history on the detective, or how they came to be a master detective. I'd love any kind of interactive fic or choose your own adventure for this particular fandom.

Now that we've had a bit more revealed in the recent games, we still don't have a lot on how this universe works, and who is really behind what is going on.

McDonald & Dodds:

Characters: McDonald & Dodds

This is a super short series so far, so if you want to get into a new canon there are only 5 episodes.
I love Lauren as a detective and character! She's so cool. She's smart, she's politically savvy, she knows how to play with the brass. She will stick a knife in the back of anyone who crosses her and smile while she does. We get the idea more went down in London than she's said. What was it?

Dodds is so understated. We don't even know his first name. He reads as on the spectrum or otherwise neuroatypical, and I think that's intentional, it would be interesting to lean into that.
I would love a story with Lauren learning more about him as a person. He keeps having surprising aspects to his story that we get little glimpses of.
He has been a detective a *long* time. Old case comes back to haunt them?

Their relationship is a riot. Please don't make it romantic, she's his direct superior so that's a no go for me.

I'd love a casefic. Or a bit of peril for either one. A crossover would be a delight, lots of reasons for other characters to show up in Bath.

Is this the only time I post each year? Just about!

A few over all notes to start:
I love crossovers, and if it's a detective show that's:
1. Available in the US, in English, on some form of streaming service
2. Not set in the US
I've probably seen at least one episode. You can also check previous year's letters for lists of favorites, or favs spotted in this year's tagset:
Brokenwood, Midsomer, Father Brown, Marple, Death in Paradise, and hey everyone's into Enola this year....
Detective team ups are wonderful. Casefic is awesome, crack detective team ups are love (and I mean that. You want to toss Detective Pikachu in there? go for it), I also like character profiles, or backstory, and worldbuilding. Happy endings only please (a solved case counts). This year is dark enough, add some light.
I DNW AUs if the detectives stop being detectives. I'm fine with most other AU/canon divergences.
I DNW porn. No canon-character death (please kill OCs for your murder victims if you're going for that)--if they're alive still in canon they should remain so. Please keep sexual violence to aired on TV levels--in general think 'safe for network broadcast' for both sex and violence. Don't maim the detectives (but feel free to beat them up). I particularly dislike the tropes of 'accuse the detective of a crime' and detectives breaking moral codes/otherwise becoming villains.

Shetland
Characters: Jimmy Perez and Duncan
I do in fact ship Jimmy/Duncan, but don't feel you have to go that way, I will not be at all disappointed by gen or canon ships. Not keen on Jimmy/Tosh since it's superior/subordinate. If you're inclined to the slash, I'd love a how they got together fic, or a casefic, or even just something atmospheric about Shetland and life on the islands.

Mystery Case Files
Character: Master Detective
So, I'm a hidden object game addict. Seriously. If you play these, poke me after Yuletide and we can be friends. MCF is one of my favorites of the many series I play, especially the classic Ravenhearst saga ones, and Dire Grove, which is the best game they've done. I'd love background or history on the detective, or how they came to be a master detective. I'd love any kind of interactive fic or choose your own adventure for this particular fandom.

Dark Parables
Character: Fairy Tale Detective
See above re: HO games. For this series, I love the world the detective travels to. Her poor long suffering horses.I'd love a revisit of any of the many characters (like the Riding Hood Sisters) we meet, or history or background on the detective. I'd love any kind of interactive fic or choose your own adventure for this particular fandom.

Queens of Mystery
Character: Matilda Stone
Matilda is still a fav detective, her and all her busybody aunties. I wish there was more than one season. They left a LOT of questions unanswered. So feel free to answer any of them. Who's the crow's owner? Who's her dad really? What became of mom? Or more about any of the aunts, they've had long lives. Have they solved crimes when Matilda was little? Small Matilda and the aunties vs. some bumbling cops and A Murder. It's pretty clear from the DCI's intro that the aunties have A History of Meddling.
Matilda totally solved odd petty mysteries like lost dogs as a kid.

Magic Kaito  

• Hakuba Saguru

I really do adore this detective (okay, so I love detectives in general, but he's a favorite). I prefer him gay if you're going to be shippy, with Kaito or Shinichi or even Heiji (or any combo there of, should you feel like tossing DC characters in there), or an OC even. I'd love a story where Hakuba figures out about the evil group after Kaito and decides to help, or a romance, or a casefic. There's a lot of variety in how people characterize his back story, since we aren't given much in canon, but I rather like him to have had friends and a social life back in England. I have a headcanon that he's actually already taken his A level exams (a year early, given he's a genius), and that's why he starts the year late in Japan.

I adore crossovers, especially detective team-up crossovers. If it's British and a detective mystery available on Netflix, Acorn, or Britbox, I have likely seen it--or will watch it for this. The only detectives I don't care for are ones that completely lose their way morally (Marcella, Luthor, The Level such like). Given the shared magic/illusionist thing, as cross between Jonathan Creek and Magic Kaito would be certainly a thing I'd love--either with Hakuba back in England and running across Jonathan and Adam (with or without Kaito), or Adam and Jonathan preforming in Japan during some point before Jonathan leaves the business.

White Reflection - Two-Mix (Music Video)  

• Minami Takayama (White Reflection)
• Shiina Nagano (White Reflection)

Video is here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x15TXBJ_EXM
Lyrics: http://www.animelyrics.com/jpop/twomix/whitereflection.htm
I've always loved this video! I feel like there's a whole lot of story packed into a 5 minute video here. What is the glowing ball of light? Where did the floating platform come from? What else goes on during this journey to chase it? Tell me more about these musicians!
I've named the two characters after the artists in Two-Mix, since it says Two-Mix on the sheet music.

Jonathan Creek (TV)  

• Adam Klaus
• Jonathan Creek

Jonathan gets to involved in some of the oddest murders! I rather adore him in all his oddness. His relationship with Adam is pretty hilarious too. I'd love casefic, or mad adventure, or even just Jonathan snarking at everyone and everything. I prefer the earlier seasons to the most recent one, with Jonathan more on the misanthropic end of things. I am not very fond of Polly.
I adore crossovers, especially detective team-up crossovers, if you are so inclined. If it's British and a detective mystery available on Netflix, Acorn, or Britbox, I have likely seen it--or will watch it for this. The only detectives I don't care for are ones that completely lose their way morally (Marcella, Luthor, The Level such like). Given the shared magic/illusionist thing, as cross between Jonathan Creek and Magic Kaito would be certainly a thing I'd love--either with Hakuba back in England and running across Jonathan and Adam (with or without Kaito), or Adam and Jonathan preforming in Japan sometime before Jonathan left the business.


DNW:
PWP or explicit fic in general for this pseud. Adultery on the part of a hero (poly is not adultery so that's fine, it's partner betrayal I can't stand). Adultery as motive for murder is fine. Nothing that would require archive main warnings. Happy endings please, it's Christmas.

Dear Yuletide Writer!

Thanks for writing for me.
As you can see by the fandom list, I love a detective. I love all kinds of detectives, and these are just a few. I love case fic, and slice of life, and musings. For these fandoms I'm not interested in porn, and I try to limit what is attached to this name due to the ease of finding my brickspace id. As for romance, Magic Kaito is they only one where I wouldn't mind romance as a focus. The others--shipping is not why I like these shows.
In general, I like happy endings (or at least a solved case). I dislike gore, and unmitigated angst. I can't handle good characters committing adultery. Feel free to make cheating a plot point for a case/murder, but not, say, have Tom cheat on Joyce.
Please don't kill any requested character, or other canon main characters. Kill all the minor, side, and OC's you need for a good murder.
I do not like AUs of the sort where settings and all get swapped--if any detective is no longer a detective, I'm no longer interested.
I adore crossovers, especially detective team ups, and would love any of these shows mixed with each other, or any of a number of other detective shows (in the spirit of Yuletide though, Yuletide noms or would be eligible ones only). Such as: Marple, Poirot, Broadchurch, Death in Paradise, Dr. Blake, Kung Fu the legend continues, Line of Duty, Murdoch, Hinterland, Shetland, Loch Ness, Deep Water, Winter, Wallander, Law and Order (any), Forever, Lucifer, Cold Case, Murder She Wrote, Murder in the First, or Janet King.
International police conferences are a thing, and I got a really lovely story along those lines last year, but I am a greedy person and want another.

Fandoms:
Crossing Lines
     Loose ends, we have a few. More than a few. A story tying any of them up would be nice. Is Eva dead? Where is Carl now? Or the others of the old team? Feel free to ignore Louis' death or anyone else's from the main cast, or just give me the actual emotional fall out of the end of season 2 that we didn't get. I have no ship feels for this show, mix and match at will, and include anyone else of the series regulars you like. I like Carl best, but add anyone you like. Also, this show seems ready designed for crossovers!

Midsomer Murders
   My seemingly eternal request, that actually got filled last year! But this fandom is tiny so I'm going to ask for more. Tom and John are an either/or or both as you please--I like them both, but feel free to pick just one if you like. No breaking up Tom and Joyce, or John and Sarah, but other than that I have no ship opinions. I love how unflappable these two are, so a really weird case would be fun.

Magic Kaito
  Hakuba gets overshadowed in a lot of fic by Hattori and Shinichi, but he's my favorite, so let him be the focus and win any deduction battles should you choose to include any other DC/MK detectives (I'd rather Shinichi not show up at all actually, he gets lots of fic!). I'd love something that more explores the tension he must have being half British and having grown up in England. It seems to get glossed over that there must be things that are culturally odd to him. Even better if his cross cultural knowledge could be key to solving a case. I have no firm OTP for him, and have happily read him with Kaito, Aoko, Akako, Sera, Shinichi, and even Hattori. So ship as you like!
Alternatively, I'd love to see any of the English based detective shows have to deal with the kid!

Hope it was a peaceful day.

Being laid up from gallbladder removal sucks, but at least now I have time to watch Magic Kaito finally.

We put Jasper to sleep this morning. He was 15 years old, and had stopped eating.
I miss him

Watching the hobbit behind the scenes stuff makes me really want to go to New Zealand. I really enjoyed the movie.

It is high costume season! Two events down, just the big 40 cast musical to go. Designing crane and dragonfly costumes at the moment, making the rest. 60 costume total I've got for this one, which explains where all my free time has gone....

 So far we have seen:
Lots of squirrels (red, black, and gray)
A white tail deer
Beavers
Rabbits
Ravens, crows, hawks
A bald eagle
Two raccoons who were trying to get in the skylight of our bed and breakfast (up close therefore)
And four wolves.

The wolves of course are the coolest.

 So, things I have learned about canada: they love coffee in BC. 
No really, they love coffee. There is coffee every block. There are corners with 3 cafes. You can run across 10 Tim Hortons in 20 minutes walking. There is coffee everywhere. 

A---- and I are going to Canada! We arrive in Vancouver on the 25th, then head for Jasper by train, then to Toronto by train. Anyone have recommendations on things to see? A---, do you want to see Niagra falls? I've been, but it was nice.