staygame | dear yuletide author:

Hi, Yuletide author! It's my favorite time of the year. 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)

Bad Genius The Series (TV)
Project S: SPIKE! (TV)
The Story About You x Me (Webcomic)
We Best Love (TV)
The Light in the Night - priest
To My Star (TV)

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 assorted BL 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, and first times.

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 A/B/O..

FANDOM PROMPTS
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:

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.
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.
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.
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.

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. It used to be available on GDH's YouTube channel with English subtitles but appears region-locked now ;_;

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:

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.
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.
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.
Volleyball team beach outing featuring Puen/Than. Bonus bed sharing and late night talks.

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 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:

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.
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
Anything set during their before-friendship before-dating period. Trapped together in the archives office! Forced bonding! Tutoring!
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.

永遠的第一名 | We Best Love (TV)
Characters: Pei Shouyi, Yu Zhenxuan
We Best Love is a two season (6 episodes each) Taiwanese drama mainly centered around Zhou Shuyi and his mortal enemy, Gao Shide. The antagonistic feelings are one-sided though, as Gao Shide has been crushing on Zhou Shuyi for years. They are adorable and messy and both actors have amazing chemistry, but it's Gao Shide's weird cousin and his love interest that I'm actually looking for. Pei Shouyi is a former doctor at a high school, a position he left after getting too involved with a reckless student, Yu Zhenxuan.

Most of the Pei Shouyi/Yu Zhenxuan development happens in S2 and in a follow up bonus episode, with a lot of missing pieces still left to show. What we've seen, though, is painful and probably unhealthy and yet tenderly romantic at times. Yu Zhenxuan wants Pei Shouyi's attention so badly, and Pei Shouyi is not as unwilling to give it as he'd like to appear.

I truly adore Gao Shide/Zhou Shuyi as a couple and I think that Gao Shide and Pei Shouyi have the best, funniest dynamic in the show, so I would be more than happy if they showed up as well.

Prompts:

12 years ago, school era. How did Yu Zhenxuan's feelings for Pei Shouyi develop? What was the final straw for Pei Shouyi that made him quit and cut Yu Zhenxuan off entirely? Or forget the introspection—a school clinic hookup.
How would things have been different if Yu Zhenxuan spotted Pei Shouyi on campus that day? (Towards the end of S1)
Anything set between Yu Zhenxuan trying to give back Pei Shouyi's things and the engagement party. How did they go from that to cautiously affectionate with each other?
The first time you get to have sex with the guy you've loved for 12 years.

默读 - priest | The Light in the Night - priest
Characters: Luo Wenzhou, Fei Du
Light in the Night / Silent Reading / Mo Du is a Chinese novel by priest. It's part psychological thriller, part crime mystery with a bonus rivals to lovers relationship at the center. Luo Wenzhou is a police captain and Fei Du is an eccentric CEO with a troubled past who has a knack for constantly becoming involved with the police. There are five books and an epilogue which have all been translated by E. Danglars (see link for trigger warnings). I went into the novel with no expectations and found myself hooked, largely in part thanks to the smooth translation.

I love the dynamic between Luo Wenzhou and Fei Du. They have an intriguing shared history but their early interactions are delightfully biting. As they get closer, their relationship is warm and funny and domestic, but there's also this exploration of trauma and nature vs nurture and accepting love. And they have two cats! I really enjoyed the team dynamic of the police as well and would be happy to see cameos from them.

Note: Given the nature of this novel, I don't mind if some of my DNWs are touched on, but I would rather character death or suicide not a central feature of a fic.

Prompts:

I would love to see more of young Fei Du and his early interactions with Tao Ran and especially Luo Wenzhou. (If you're into this, I'm kind of secretly into Luo Wenzhou/Fei Du/Tao Ran)
I'd also love to see anything from Fei Du's point of view when he was starting to fall for Luo Wenzhou or early in their relationship.
Anything set post-novel! I would be equally happy with something that deals with lingering trauma or just a cute look at their cohabitation. Or a blend of the two. I'll take anything set after the epilogue.
From the epilogue: The night was very long, and there were many accounts to settle. Oh ho ho? (But seriously I would be stoked to see the continuation of any fade to black scenes or any other moments of intimacy.

나의 별에게 | To My Star (TV)
Characters: Kang Seojoon, Han Jiwoo
To My Star is my favorite of the Korean BL miniseries. Seojoon, a celebrity in the middle of a scandal, temporarily moves in with Jiwoo, a chef. Seojoon is straightforward and affectionate, while Jiwoo is stoic, with walls put up from the complications hinted at in his life. It's not quite slice-of-life, but it somehow manages to feel warm and cozy and very real, particularly in the development of the relationship between Jiwoo and Seojoon. The chill OST, Son Woohyun's infinitely charming face, and a great kiss scene—10/10 overall, even if I wish they had a few more minutes to tie up loose ends.

Seojoon is such a fun character. He's got big puppy energy (literally waiting by the door for Jiwoo!!) but he's also a bit cocky, a bit afraid of being misunderstood, and a bit weird. Jiwoo is guarded and totally put off by Seojoon at first, but despite that, even early on he's accommodating towards Seojoon and a little protective. I love the hints of domesticity we see as they get closer. The cooking lessons and the basketball games and Jiwoo starting to smile! It's all just super satisfying for me.

I enjoyed all the side characters and I was especially intrigued by Hyungki and his dynamic with Jiwoo, so please feel free to include any of them.

Prompts:

My recurring BL drama request: I love exploration of either characters' sexuality, whether in relation to the other character or independently, if that makes sense. A lot of BL dramas either go for the "I'm not gay except for you" vibe or just kind of handwave the attraction to a male partner. I'd like more fic about characters being explicitly gay or bi. For example: formative crushes, early feelings stirring for their drama boyfriend, or navigating a first time relationship with a guy. I know that internalized homophobia may come with the territory for this type of fic, but I'd prefer something more light if possible!
More domesticity, whether that's pre-relationship or as an established couple. More basketball games, spending time in the kitchen together, drinking on the patio, etc.
AU - what if Seojoon met Jiwoo (in charge of craft services or something) on the set of a drama?
Coping with having an actor boyfriend and conflicting, busy schedules.