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Hi, Yuletide author! I'm in love with all of these fandoms and I'd be so happy to receive fic for any of them! ♡( ◡‿◡ )

REQUESTED FANDOMS (see below for prompts/in no particular order)
Love or Hate (Webcomic)
Mr. Heart (TV)
Bad Genius The Series (TV)
Project S: SPIKE! (TV)
The Shipper (TV)
The Story About You x Me (Webcomic)

LIKES + DISLIKES
In general, I love canon fics. I am open to any canon divergence or alternate realities rooted in the canon setting. That being said, if AUs are more your jam, I like those too! I just really enjoy these characters/fandoms and I want more of them in any form. With all prompts and likes, feel free to mix and match as you please!

If you'd like to look at my own fic for inspiration, it's both here (esports RPF and Thai drama fic) and here (kpop).

Likes: Characters developing a grudging respect for each other, enemies or rivals forced to work together for a common goal, coming of age stories, place or profession specific AUs (feel free to show me how much you know about accounting or your favorite vacation spot), characters visiting a new place together, alternate realities where characters work in roles adjacent to their real life roles (e.g. an idol who is a vocal coach in an AR), first times, established couples encountering challenges together, and navigating relationships and feelings within the entertainment industry or other complicated life circumstances.

If this all sounds too serious, I enjoy many lighthearted tropes like fake dating for no good reason, (mostly cheerful?) arranged marriages, EGG BABIES (as in the high school project, not like….babies), first kisses or first times, and mundane fantasy AUs. I'm also a fan of 5+1 fics.

Porn related likes: Frottage and clothed sex, sex in semi-public places, fumbling or awkward sex, friends with benefits, fingering, sexual inexperience, sleepy sex, teasing, non-penetrative sex.

DNWs: Character death as a central plot, death by suicide (or suicide attempts), terminal illness, sex involving bodily waste or blood, first person POV. Also issues or characterization related to asexuality, or any sexual hangups related to the amount of desired sex or lack of attraction should be avoided.

Dislikes: Outside of these hard limits, I generally don't enjoy fic centered on serious issues that are not central to the canon, e.g., rape/abuse as backstory, gender identity, or self-harm. I'm not interested in rape/non-con setups, though I am fine with dubious consent (such as ambiguous or begrudging consent, one partner guilt tripping another) or hate-tinged sex scenes. Also no children, soulmates, or ABO.

FANDOMS

Love or Hate (Webcomic)
러브 오어 헤이트 | Love or Hate (Webcomic)
Characters: Choi Joowon, Lee Haesoo
Love or Hate is an ongoing Korean webtoon written by Youngha and illustrated by Bakdam. It features a journalist, Haesoo, and an actor, Joowon, who met as teenagers when their parents married. They start off as typical spiteful teens but start hooking up, which continues after their parents divorce. The series is available for purchase on Lezhin and pirateable elsewhere.

The series has evolved a lot from my request last year but I am still a sucker for their previously codependent relationship and the way they're currently coping with being apart. Joowon saying: "I thought this was the only way to protect us. I wanted to keep us safe." OUCH. As you can tell, I'm not really interested in Taekyung beyond how he causes a rift in between Joowon and Haesoo and I'm not particularly interested in reading fic where he is a main character. Also, since it's kind of a defining feature of the story and their relationship, I'd like for them to remain step-brothers even in an AU setting.

(Content notes: while the whole comic leans dubious, there are some scenes with more explicit dubious consent. I'm happy to provide more info if you need.)

Prompts:

1. Canon. I want to know more about the intermediary years between the high school flashbacks we've seen and the present. I know they stopped seeing each other for a while but Haesoo re-entered Joowon's life while he was supposedly was at rock bottom. What's that story?
   
2. Canon-adjacent? They don't continue seeing each other after their parents get divorced but Haesoo gets assigned to write an article about him and it's the first time they're in touch in years.
   
3. Joowon's reaction to reading Haesoo's first piece about him.
   
4. "Even though it's been weeks since I saw Joowon, he always treats me as if it's only been a day"--this line stuck out to me. I'd like to see more of their adult relationship, the kind of not quite dating but kind of dating scenes.

Mr. Heart (TV)
미스터 하트 | Mr. Heart (TV)
Characters: Jinwon, Sangha
Mr. Heart is a short n sweet Korean BL centered around a marathon runner, Jinwon, and the pacemaker, Sangha, assigned to train with him. Because it's only about 80 minutes total, it's perhaps too ambitious in its attempt to mix angst and fluff, but I found it so charming in spite of that. Sangha is the heart of this show and I adored his unapologetic love for Jinwon, his relentless positivity in the face of his difficult life circumstances, HIS SMILE. And in return, I loved Jinwon's emerging feelings and complete inability to express care without being a dick. Available with English subs on Viki.

(My only complaint about the series is the punch in the last episode felt really tonally off and weird to me! I'd prefer if we ignored that.)

Prompts:

1. Canon divergence/AU. I feel like the high school scenes perfectly lent themselves to a "we know each other but we don't know we know each other" setup. Like maybe Jinwon's training route intersects with Sangha's milk route and they end up running together, while Sangha continues to secretly leave milk for Jinwon.
   
2. Any missing scenes! The plot is flimsy, but that leaves a lot of room for missing scenes and additional character development. I'd love something from Jinwon's POV showing his changing feelings for Sangha.
   
3. More bedsharing, and Jinwon becoming accustomed to Sangha's lack of personal space. Especially set during the training field trip.

Bad Genius The Series (TV)
ฉลาดเกมส์โกงเดอะซีรีส์ | Bad Genius: The Series (TV)
Characters: Lin
Bad Genius The Series is the TV adaptation of the 2017 film Bad Genius. The series maintains the film's central conceit (two geniuses team up with two rich kids to cheat on exams) but extends it much further while also giving some dimension to the relationships between characters. It's fantastic—beautifully filmed, well acted, completely thrilling. Available on WeTV in Southeast Asia and pirateable elsewhere.

I love Lin's mix of coldness and compassion. She's not a devious person by nature, but it also comes to her so easily. I also adore her relationships with each of the main characters. Bank and Lin...I'm kind of in love with the idea of "girl who kind of ruined boy's life" as a ship dynamic, but I was also smitten with the stolen glances, puppy love side of their relationship too. Grace willing to do anything to stay in Lin's good graces. Pat's mix of sleaze and genuine love for Grace and how that interacts with Lin. With any prompts, gen or any of these three pairings is fine.

(TBH, I strongly debated choosing any here instead of just Lin, and I am more than happy to receive Bank/Pat. Just to throw that out there. Also a note on names: the WeTV subs romanized Lin's name like I've used it here, but Lynn is fine.)

Prompts:

1. Anything involving the team of four working together to pull something off. Another cheating plot or a heist(!!), Inception-style theft, etc. Feel free to age the characters up slightly or alter the circumstances that bring them together.
   
2. Bank and Lin during the period leading up to their GATT-PATT night. How did they interact with each other after everything that happened in Australia? Could Lin see how Bank was too deep into the plan? OR Bank and Lin after Bank gets out of juvie, piecing their relationship back together. I'd love if they continued to correspond after Lin's visit to the detention center.
   
3. I kind of thought Bank and Lin were perfect for The Social Network kind of relationship and fallout—young geniuses, one becomes too interested in the product or start-up idea and screws the other over.
   
4. Grace and Lin, literally anything. Sleepovers and practicing lines in the early stages of their friendship, first times, forbidden romance when Grace's parents prevent her from seeing Lin after their arrests, Lin finding herself caught between Grace and Pat.

Project S: SPIKE! (TV)
โปรเจกต์ เอส เดอะซีรีส์ | Project S The Series (TV)
Characters: Puen
Spike is the first installment in the Project S series, a Thai series about characters growing through sports. (If you can handle a show about debilitating depression and suicidality, I highly recommend Project S: SOS...but that's not what this request is about!) Spike centers around Puen, an orphaned loner who finds friends and meaning through volleyball—until his best friend, Singha, abandons him for the rival school. Enter freshman Than, who clashes with Puen at first but then helps him reconnect to volleyball and the team. Available on GDH's YouTube channel with English subtitles.

The series strongly hints at Puen having romantic feelings for Singha and possibly a budding relationship between Puen and Than. That's very much the lens with which I interpreted the series, but I am open to gen interpretations as well! I adore all the side characters and will happily accept any cameos from Jern, Leng, or Nao.

Prompts:

1. Puen and Singha during their junior year. Singha teaching Puen how to play volleyball, Puen slowly opening up to Singha and learning to rely on him, the core four team members becoming close. I would love some feelings realization if you're into that, and I am fine with the feelings being unrequited in this timeframe.
   
2. Or Puen and Singha in college. I would love for them to play as rivals like Puen said at the end of the series, but I think it would also be neat to explore them as teammates again and how their time apart and everything went down would affect their working relationship.
   
3. Puen and Than. I'd love anything set during their time playing together. The gradual trust! Than wanting to prove himself to Puen! Or anything after—Puen continuing to coach and work with Than to develop his skill, introducing Than to Singha.
   
4. Volleyball team beach outing featuring Puen/Than. Bonus bed sharing and late night talks.

The Shipper (TV)
จิ้นนายกลายเป็นฉัน | The Shipper (TV 2020)
Characters: Kim, Way
Oh, The Shipper. I honestly do not know how to sell this show! It was initially promoted with the focus on arguably the most dubious plot point of the show—two girls write fics about two of their male classmates. One of the shippers, Pan, gets into a motorcycle accident with one of the boys she ships, Kim, and then through some angel of death fuckery, ends up in his body. The trailer makes it seem like she will use his body to push her ship's agenda, but as the show unfolds, it becomes more about Pan realizing that she doesn't know all that much about Kim at all. It's certainly a polarizing show, but I ended up weirdly attached to it anyway! I loved the family dynamics, Pan and Soda's friendship, the humor and the color palette, and of course Way and Kim. Available on GMMTV's YouTube channel with English subtitles.

Way and Kim are the characters I nominated and requested. If you're planning on writing this, you probably know that they don't get a happy ending, but I DESPERATELY NEED ONE. I found their relationship really special. That they were each other's first real friend, how loyal they were to each other, that Way confessed to (who he thought was) Kim via soccer ball. The show gave me bittersweet but now I just want sweet. While I am requesting an "everybody lives" AU, I have no strong preferences about how everybody lives. You're welcome to change the show's ending or pretend the motorcycle accident never happened.

Prompts:

1. I would loooove to see something from Kim's POV about developing feelings for Way. How did they become so close that Kim would stand up to Way's dad like that? How did they start to open up to each other? I don't mind a little jealousy over Pingping, but please no character bashing.
   
2. Anything that incorporates this bit of Fluke's headcanon about Way's jacket. It was the first time anyone remembered his birthday!!!
   
3. Way's confession scene, this time with the real Kim.
   
4. Future fic—Kim presents his plan for the future to Way and they go off in separate directions to grow up on their own. Anything about them keeping in touch, meeting after not seeing each other for a long time, missing each other.

The Story About You x Me (Webcomic)
顾事与你：值日300天 | The Story About You x Me (Webcomic)
Characters: Gu Ze, Ye Ruchuan
The Story About You x Me is a recently completed, slice-of-life manhua about two high school boys. Gu Ze is a troublemaker with bad grades and Ye Ruchuan is the diligent vice president. As a punishment, Ye Ruchuan makes Gu Ze serve on class duty with him. Through this arrangement, they form a gradual friendship and then romantic relationship. It's a slowburn romance with some excellent humor (seriously, some of the expressions crack me up) and lovely art. The comic is available with English translations on Mangadex and the Chinese raws are free on Dongman Manhua.

I adore both of them and how their relationship has progressed. Gu Ze slowly warming up to Ruchuan, the vulnerability they've each shown each other, the trust and reliance!! I am resisting the urge to add more exclamation points!! I also adore their interactions with other classmates. I'd love any mentions of Gu Ze's friends (Chen Pan and Wang Shenghui) or Chen Baiqing and Lin Lin.

Prompts:

1. I would love a redo of their amusement park date! Gu Ze convincing Ruchuan to get on a roller coaster and holding his hand the whole time, winning prizes at carnival games, haunted houses. Or really I'd be happy with any slice-of-life date day or night.
   
2. Chapters 82 and 83 had me [eyes emoji]. I want to know what happened after Gu Ze invited Ruchuan in. I'd love some inexperienced, fumbling first times or heavy petting. And sharing a bed after <3
   
3. Anything set during their before-friendship before-dating period. Trapped together in the archives office! Forced bonding! Tutoring!
   
4. I love the serious conversations they've had together so please show me more! I'd love something that deals with Gu Ze's abandonment issues and establishes how much they mean to each other.