shifty_gardener | Yuletide letter!!!!!

Hello! Thanks for writing for me this year! If you already have an idea of what you want to write, feel free to ignore my prompts.

Likes/dislikes:

I like it when characters who supposedly don't have feelings or have less of them go out of their way for another character/show their feelings through action. I just find it super romantic and adorable. One character making someone else's life easier by like, killing other people or picking up the dry cleaning or arranging their moving to another apartment because they're so busy at work is just wonderful imo. Also taking care of things when one person is sick or injured! Basically partnership is super great and I love it.

I also love body positivity (like, ordinary people being hot), cuddling, drunken/drugged cuddling, bedsharing, verklempt narrators, repressed narrators, outsider narrators, hurt/comfort, possessiveness/territorial jealousy, competence (or other characters being into the other one's competence), bickering, domesticity, accidental dating, protagonist-centric morality, and friend side characters.

I'd rather not read about death, drug addiction, time travel or embarassing situations.

I am totally fine with handwaving of canon timelines! So long as your fic is internally consistent, I will be happy.

Canons!

Alien: Covenant
Daniels/Walter

I'd like fixit fic for the ending. ;_____; I shipped Daniels/Walter really hard while watching this because I loved the slow build of loyalty and attention each paid the other, and I would basically love to see how they could have a happily ever after or gotten together in a different scenario. I would love domesticity and Walter doing things for Daniels to show his love~ including, like, killing people on her behalf or making her her favourite food on her birthday. I really have a thing for competence, which I think would work really well with this. Any kind of AU you could think of would probably be great, too, so long as you kept the general relationship dynamics the same.

I would find either POV equally indulgent, but if you didn't want to write too far into the future, something on from Walters' POV on falling in love with Davis would be super romantic. ;____; I was so happy when I realized partway through the movie that Walter's subtle thing for her wasn't just me reading subtext in nothing. THEY WERE SO CUTE. Ahem.

If you're not into complete canon divergent AUs, I don't need everything to be super perfectly happy, but I'd like it if Walter managed to survive, get on the ship and live out a life with Daniels untouched by the general ravaging the aliens are going to do on the new world. Like, them building a wood cabin in a remote, unaccessible place and not seeing other people? Great.

Sprig Muslin

Gareth Ludlow

I loved the way Amanda and Hildebrand sort of accidentally became Gareth's niece and nephew and quickly came to impose on him and one another. Their bantering and seeking approval from Gareth was great.

How does their pseudo-family relationship come up in the future? Does Gareth have to (fondly) endure random callings on from them in London? Do they send letters asking for life advice or complaining about one another? Do they meet his actual blood relatives? How do other people react to seeing them be so familiar with Gareth/one another?

Feel free to include side characters! I really enjoyed Amanda's fiancee, Hester and Amanda's grandfather.

Sungkyunkwan Scandal
Moon Jae Shin/Gu Yong Ha

Here's a ridiculous picspam of them I made at one point, for your viewing pleasure.

I love how these two are super loyal friends despite the socioeconomic + political divide <333 they believe in one another no matter what and it's adooorbs.

I feel like throughout the show there were a bunch of points where Gu Yong Ha was worried sick about Moon Jae Shin and Moon Jae Shin was all, "nbd," leaving Gu Yong Ha in distress. With that in mind, I'd love a story where Gu Yong Ha gets into some kind of danger or situation where Moon Jae Shin has to worry about him and ~realizes ~his feelings. Or maybe something where Gu Yong Ha is (pretending to?) date someone else and Jae Shin is jealous or Moon Jae Shin realizes he's been taking Gu Yong Ha for granted or something that incorporates Gu Yong Ha having a bad day and then feeling better when he's around Moon Jae Shin. <3 Hurt/comfort would be very appreciated, as would be Gu Yong Ha whump, provided there's ample comfort afterwards.

I'm fine with canon-divergent AUs (or any sort of AU that takes place in the same time period, like one of them being a different class or being a male gisaeng or smth) or the OT4 friendship :3