Yuletide 2025

[nemainofthewater]

Dearest Author,

Thank you so much for writing for me in advance! Please know that I will absolutely adore anything that you gift me and though I am going to provide more likes/dislikes and some general prompts further down, please feel free to combine prompts, or ignore them completely if you get inspired in a different direction! I’m Nemainofthewater on AO3 and most other fandom spaces.

Please go wild – I will literally adore anything that you make me. If you want to do something experimental (a series of drabbles, interactive fiction, art, etc…) I will be delighted to see it!

 

 

Things I like:

-Found family. I really love team-as-family, slice of life type stories where everything may be difficult (or not!) but at least they have each other.

-I love angst. Please put my blorbos through The Horrors ™ . So long as it is appropriately tagged, I am up for anything.

-Adventures: I love case fics or adventures where the characters work together to solve a problem. It doesn’t have to be anything important! Problem solving is wonderful at all levels, whether it’s something large like overtaking an empire or small like hunting for the perfect cake. Bonus for characters displaying unexpected knowledge/skills, or just being good at their jobs and their being appreciated.

-Canon divergence AUs or role reversal. I really like time travel and time loops as well as ‘for want of a nail’ type stories. I am fond of the type of modern day AUs that preserve the fantastical elements (ie, cultivation in the modern world type thing!)

-Bring your fandom to work. Are you interested in a thing? Do you want to gush about things through the medium of fic? Here is your chance!

-Crossovers, though I would prefer if the request canon is not completely overtaken. Even for requests where I have not requested a crossover, please feel free to add some in. The list of fandoms I know is on my AO3 profile, and I am happy to read fandom blind. I also adore canon fusions

-Characters who don’t take care of themselves being gently bullied into sleeping/eating/resting, or just generally just looking after themselves.

-Food or creating things as a love language (platonic or romantic).

-OT3s to solve love triangles or, conversely, to make things worse.

-Competence and competence porn!

-Multimedia! (meta, articles, etc). Outsider POV is also something that I love and if you feel intrigued by adding that and/or any multimedia bits please indulge yourself!

-Identity porn

-Wingfic, especially wingfic that looks at the practical things associated with wings/the (pseudo)biology/the social implications…

-Survival stories. Characters are trapped somewhere for a long period of time and have to work together to survive!

-Worldbuilding – please give me all the details that you ever wanted to share, nothing is too nerdy or too detailed.

 

 

DNWs: sibling (biological or otherwise) incest | underage (as defined by explicit sexual content from characters under 16) | character bashing (out of universe: it doesn’t count if characters don’t like each other in canon, for example) | racism*| sexism*| homophobia*| aphobia | transphobia | AI-generated content | Explorations of dementia or Alzheimer’s disease | Heavy explorations of cancer (mention is fine) | Scat | Watersports | Mundane Aus (ie coffee shop, college) though mundane with magic is fine

*Canon typical mentions are ok, but please don’t make the whole work about it and please don’t insert it if it wasn’t already there

 

I’ve added little bits about what I love about each canon to the prompt below, but please feel free to go off in a completely different direction if you are inspired to! I promise that I will love it. Length of thoughts or prompts don’t mean that I want one fandom over another, everything I have requested I would be ecstatic to receive.

Please also feel free to add in whichever characters you wish so long as the main requested character(s) is still front and centre.

I opt in to:

Recursive fic of my fic | Sequels/Prequels/recursive works of gifts I have received (with the author’s permission) | Any relationships (that don’t hit my DNWs) for Character requests | Crossovers with fandoms that I have previously created for/requested

 

 

Nine Worlds – Raphael

I would adore anything about Raphael. He is the saddest and soggiest person in the Nine Realms but he is slowly getting there! I love the contrast of his rich inner monologue in contrast to what he actually says out loud with his mouth to his friends, which is not a lot.

When I say literally anything would be amazing, I mean it.

-What is his relationship with Circe like outside of the three days or so in Till Human Voices Wake Us? He was apparently dating her (or at least his cover identity was dating her cover identity) until just before the beginning of the book – what was that like?

-Raphael and his friends post canon – how do they move forward? What happens?

-Raphael and his friends pre-canon. What adventures did they get into?

-Pick your favourite historical even and dump Raphael into it. Have things become better or worse?

-Kasian & Raphael please, or any of the rest of his family! Yes Damian, but also where was Pharia in all of this? What were his siblings like? Did no one look for him at all before Kasian? Or did they try and it just didn’t work?

-I have a huge spot for the academic rivalry between Emperor Artorin and the Lord of Ysthar

-What does it mean to be a Lord Magus of a world? Are there ever any meetings between all the Lords Magi (post canon perhaps?)

 

 

 

 

Critical Role: Araman Tyranny, Wicander Halovar

Hey platonic, romantic, siblings, I will take any interactions between these two. I would also love to see anything that explores the implications of Wicander having a Celestial as a grandfather (just saying, I am a huge fan of wingfic…)

I have been keeping up with episodes so far, so please don’t worry about spoilers! Equally I realise this canon is very much ongoing and so please know that even if things are not canon compliant I will still love everything and anything that I am gifted.

 

 

 

Ascending, Do Not Disturb Huan Zhong | Zhong Xi (ADND), Kong Hou (ADND), Wang Tong (ADND), Worldbuilding (ADND)

I just love this webnovel. If you haven’t read it, it can be found here https://dreamsofjianghu.ca/ascending-do-not-disturb/table-of-contents/ and I highly recommend it.

 

When I say that I will adore anything at all, I am not lying. Please give me more about any of the characters, the worldbuilding, the super chill Sect.

 

 

 

The Goblin Emperor Csevet Aisava

-Ok, but overnight Csevet went from courier to running the government. How is he dealing with this?

-Outsider POV!

-If you’re interested in it, I am also a huge fan of Csevet & Csethiro and also Csethiro/Maia/Csevet

-Seriously, the leadership of this government is pretty young and yet they are doing amazing things – what do the people think about this?

 

 

 

 

Dimension 20: Escape From the Bloodkeep Leiland, Maggie

 

-I am a huge fan of the wholesome vibes. I would love to see something about Leiland and Maggie co-parenting Leiland junior post canon

-Alternately, something very messed up in an alternate universe where Zaul’nazh decides that he wants and deserves a girlfriend AND a piece on the side, and how Leiland and Maggie deal with that (though I would prefer something where they end up on the same side eventually against their terrible lover as opposed to the entirety of the fic being about them hating each other)