staygame | dear yuletide author ('22)

Hi, Yuletide author! It's my favorite time of the year and I'm stoked you're writing for me. ♡( ◡‿◡ )

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)
Blueming (TV)
Minato Shouji Coin Laundry (TV)
My Beautiful Man (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), internal conflicts over new or unexpected feelings, 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 most 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, characters locked inside places together, and friends with benefits. 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, discussions of dieting/body image/weight loss or weight gain. Also issues or characterization involving 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 totally happy 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.

블루밍 | Blueming (TV)
Characters: Hyeong Daun, Cha Siwon
Blueming is a short drama based on the webtoon Who Can Define Popularity?. It was directed by Hwang Daseul (To My Star 1+2, Where Your Eyes Linger) and written by Park Young (To My Star 1+2) which is how you know it's GOOD. Siwon is attempting to cope with his broken home by projecting a perfect image and Daun is the guy who seems like he has it all. It's a fairly simple, slice-of-life series, but there's something so quietly special about it to me. I loved Daun and Siwon's developing romance, especially in that pre-relationship part of the series where they're getting closer but not yet acting on their feelings. The series is available on iQIYI.

Other things I loved: Siyeong's crush on Yunjeong and Do Bawoo's existence. Please feel free to add some appearances from these characters.

Prompts:

More of them working together while filming My Running Bike! Late night shoots, Daun providing moral support to Siwon, the crew bonding.
Their first time together at the beach or the two of them returning to the beach after making up.
In the series, Daun is so reticent about his life and it's only until the last episode that we see him starting to open up. I'd love to see more of Daun being vulnerable or being unsure. Maybe calling Siwon because his parents aren't home again and he's lonely or feeling insecure because everything expects things to come easily to him with a filmmaker mom.

みなと商事コインランドリー | Minato Shouji Coin Laundry (TV)
Characters: Minato Akira, Katsuki Shintaro
Minato Shouji Coin Laundry is yet another slice-of-life property, starring two familiar faces from other Japanese BL dramas. Minato is a man approaching 30 (the MDL description calls him middle-aged which is deeply offensive) who has fled a corporate job in Tokyo to run his grandfather's beachside coin laundry. He then meets Shin, a precocious high school senior who is relentless in his pursuit of Minato. From a storytelling POV, the series would've benefited from being a few episodes shorter, but at the same time, I wanted to stay at the beach with Shin and Minato for even longer. I loved Minato, who can't move on from the shame and lingering feelings from high school, and Shin, with his absurd intensity and persistence. And I loved them together. The series is available on Gagaoolala.

Asuka was the perfect sidekick character and while I wasn't initially sold on Shuu, maybe his proximity to Asuka's cuteness wore me down because now I find them kind of delightful together. Please feel free to include them together or separately if you'd like!

Prompts:

I loved the moments of sexual tension we got pre-getting together and I want more. Minato's conflicting feelings looking at Shin and knowing he cannot (should not) touch him, Shin who wants to be touched so badly. I would love to see Shin asking some probing questions about sex, because he may be possessive but he's also a horny teen who wants accurate fantasies about Minato.
Their first time after getting together or any of their first times.
Slice of life established relationship! Shin basically moving in with Minato, still doing homework at the laundromat, cooking for each other.

美しい彼 | Utsukushii Kare | My Beautiful Man (TV)
Characters: Hira Kazunari, Kiyoi Sou
First of all, Yagi Yusei is in fact a beautiful man so this series is aptly named. My Beautiful Man is about Hira, a guy with a stutter on the bottom of the social totem pole, and Kiyoi, who popularity comes easy to. Hira becomes obsessed with Kiyoi and puts him on such a pedestal that Hira doesn't realize Kiyoi is also obsessed with him. Even if it was just a problematic trope, I probably still would've enjoyed it, but the show managed to give real depth to these characters and their relationship despite the short runtime. I love how much the misunderstanding after graduation conveys about each character: Hira, who can't accept that Kiyoi would offer him anything except pity, and Kiyoi, who couldn't say what he needed and expected Hira to pick up his clumsy hints. I love their weird, intense relationship. ♥ Stalker [affectionate]. The series is available on Viki and Gagaoolala.

Prompts:

I would be happy with any kind of porn, tbh. Sharing a bed back in high school, Hira wakes up hard and Kiyoi is mean about it, but gets him off anyway. Fucking after getting together, or maybe fucking when they each have a little more experience with each other under their belts.
Based on these extras, going on dates together.
Also inspired by that clip, Hira says that he used to be desperate to see Kiyoi and Kiyoi asks, "So that means you're no longer desperate?" I'd love to see how their dynamic changes and doesn't change after getting together.