Hello, prospective future Yuletide writer! I am erinptah on the AO3, and here is my gift!fic wishlist this year.


General likes:

• hurt/comfort
• time travel
• culture clashes, especially one character in a fish-out-of-water situation
• taking a weird fantasy/SF situation and earnestly thinking through the logistics
• crossovers
• crossdressing + gender-nonconformity

General DNWs:

• joyless issuefic
• character-bashing
• hurt where the hurt character's close family/friends/loved ones never care about offering comfort
• mundane AUs (unless specifically prompted) for fantasy/SF canons
• heavy references to IRL politics
• zombies

Oz books

Characters: Dorothy, Ozma

Likes: Dorothy coming into her own as a magic-user. The developing magitech of Oz. Diplomatic relationships with neighboring countries, especially Ev (Ozma of Oz) and the country of the Great Jinjin (Tik-Tok of Oz). Toto's deep nonverbal connection with Dorothy.

Shippy or gen is fine! Please don't pair up Dorothy or Ozma with anyone but each other; aside from that, any pairings are good.

Any take on Gender Feelings for Ozma is fine, but I'd like to see her after the "trying to figure it out" phase. I've already read (and received) (and written!) a good amount of "uncertain Ozma does gender-related experiments" fics -- show me an Ozma who already found a comfortable gender space and is joyfully inhabiting it.

I did a major Baum reread a few years ago; there are reaction posts on my land-of-Oz tag. Feel free to mine that for other canon feelings/potential story hooks.

Optional specific prompts:

- Dorothy/Ozma wedding fic. If Ozma's birthday was a book-defining event, the Royal Wedding of Oz must be even more extravagant. What are the Oz traditions here? What elements do Henry and Em suggest from Kansas-style weddings? How many more different magical countries (maybe from crossover series -- Narnia, Labyrinth, Wonderland, Arendelle) send guests? Who tries and fails to crash the party?

- A mini-adventure with Dorothy and the Patchwork Girl. Something that shows off how Scraps has brains as good as the Scarecrow, she's just a lot more whimsical in how she uses them.

- Dorothy goes back to the US for a visit (maybe to see all-grown-up Cousin Zeb? or his descendants?), and it's nothing but culture clashes now that she's grown up with Oz norms. Extra bonus points if she brings Ozma, who has it even worse.

Moon Knight (Comics)

Characters: Marc, Steven, Jake, House of Shadows

Likes: Headmates who love and support each other -- no matter how much heckling, power-struggling, and bickering they put each other through. Superhero characters who need therapy, and are actually getting it (and it's not a magic fix, but it sure is better than nothing). Characters who only interacted with one member of Team Moon Knight in the past, getting cautiously introduced to the whole system. Unlikely friendships between all the different weird types of people that exist in the Marvel universe.

Any combination of gen or shipping between Marc+Steven+Jake is good with me. References to other romances they've had (canon or not) are also fine, just please don't make them the focus.


Optional specific prompts:

- The House of Shadows enthusiastically taking care of its new residents. Does an eldritch interdimensional piece of sentient architecture understand what squishy depressed mortals need? Not really! Is it going to do its very best anyway? Sure is. Feel free to take this in a "wacky hijinks" direction, or a "psychological horror hurt/comfort" direction.

- Just, everyone in their life getting to meet (and be a little creeped out by) the House. Dr. Sterman visits for a bonus "family therapy" session. Daredevil or Black Panther stops in for a surprise spot-check, and Marc has to chastise the House not to eat them. Tigra does her very best to resist scratching up the House's furniture.

- Headspace sex, making use of the different internal settings we've seen. I'm thinking they have fun with scenarios like "Jake shows up to fix the plumbing at Steven's office, seduces him on his desk" or "stealing Captain Spector's spacecraft, flying it to the Sea of Makeouts, and getting it on in the back seat." Maybe when Steven or Jake is fronting, the other one has to keep Marc distracted so he doesn't get in the way...

Mage & Demon Queen (Webcomic)

Characters: Malori, Velverosa

Likes: Malori's shameless thirst. The other demons' shameless shipping. The comedy in general. I loved the long-term slow-burn of Vel coming to accept Malori's feelings, but I'm also delighted that they Actually Got Together and the comic is still going. Not super gripped by the political intrigue, other than hoping it all works out. I do like Leora, though.

Read the comic for free here!


Optional specific prompts:

- Vel/Malori, sex with hijinks! Are they trying to hide from a nosy underling? Are human and demon kinks/erogenous zones/basic sexual functions different in surprising ways? Does Vel uncontrollably turn into a dragon when she's turned-on enough? Make it magic, make it weird, make it fun.

- Reverse isekai where Malori gets summoned into Cerik's world. Maybe she has some form of communication with her friends back home, so Cerik can give advice (and everyone else can try to give advice)? But the fish-out-of-water awkwardness is strong.

- Setting AU that give Malori/Vel a different dynamic than human/demon. Sci-fi where Vel is the alien queen? Cyberpunk where Vel is a sentient virus? Superhero where Vel is that one powerful politician who's trying to get heroes canceled? (Last year, I wrote "Locked Tomb AU where Vel is a Resurrection Beast" mostly as a joke, this year Nona the Ninth has come out and I'm all, wait...)