dear yuletide author,

thank you in advance for the lovely fic you’re about to create for me! i will love and cherish it.

right out of the gate, here are the things that would prevent me from said loving and cherishing: overkill domesticity (think curtain fic), mpreg, daddy kink, feeding kink, a/b/o, kidfic, and self-harm. porn is fine and great, but a pwp, esp with no feelings, would make me a little sad. please don’t crossover fandoms (i don't consider intergroup interactions a crossover; kpop is one big fandom to me).

Now, here’s some generic stuff I do like!

• found families
• people making homes in/with each other
• soulbonds/soulmates (including platonic ones!)
• fake dating
• pining
• angst
• epistolary fic
• hidden/repressed feelings
• miscommunication
• polyamory
• character studies
• kissing
• leaving possessive marks on someone
• hurt/comfort

And here are some fandom-specific ideas:

&TEAM (ej, nicholas)

ohhhh the 02z. i love them. i love the way they have to work to understand each other and the rest of the team, and how they have the language learning in common. i like that nicholas is a same-age friend ej can rely on as a leader. i love when they flirt, and i'm constantly thinking about their mnet asmr video where they did each other's makeup and giggled a lot. perhaps that sparked something in them?

i would also love something about clothes-sharing, inspired by this tweet. nicho loves fashion, so ofc he's lending clothes to ej - but is he feeling something about it, esp when ej is wearing nicho's hoodie at home and that's Definitely not just to look cool? or perhaps nicholas finally wears something of ej's and ej is feral about it. this could be a confusing feralness or an established relationship variety (either way he fucks him wearing the sweater or whatever eventually).

i also love the found family of it all when it comes to &team. feel free to feature any and all of the other members and how much they think it's fate that they all found each other. nothing like some shared &audition trauma! this also makes an actual soulmate or soulbond AU a great concept for ej/nicho. it hurting to be apart? *screams*

JUST B (lim jimin)

i can't overstate how much i love my son limji. i would love to read a character study about his transition from soloist to leader to ace of the crewone (or any time period therein). it feels like it would be scary these days esp, as bluedot slowly sheds employees and just b is thrust over to another company and onto a survival show.

i think it's interesting to think about how much being an idol is just a Job, esp when you're not an international superstar and you actually could maybe sort of achieve a work-life balance. i think this is particularly interesting in limji's case because of his friendships with the 01z, most of whom are absolutely not achieving work-life balance ever. i imagine it would hurt to see all that success you don't have and yet also be comforting that you can sometimes do things your friends are missing out on. i also love how much of a gym rat limji is (see: hitting the gym wearing jeans while his members hang out in the pool. are you good, sir?) and how introspective he sometimes seems.

i didn't specify any other characters and you might not have offered them, so of course a romance is optional. however if you wanted to include one, i would be thrilled! limji/bain have a banter-y relationship i love (i'm thinking of this video in particular). limji & dy are always recommending music on weverse and i feel like they must have a lot to learn from each other (limji abt music production, dy abt idol life). and if you know these boys, i would kill for limji paired with heeseung, beomgyu, or jeongin. hell, if you want to teach me about younite eunho, he's also invited. sell me whatever! i'm buying.

범프 업 비즈니스 | Bump up Business (TV) (jihoon, eden)

okay, this show's concept had so much potential, and i do not think it lived up to all that. for that reason, any timestamps within the show's timeline would be great. i would love to read about the slow burn of it all as eden is slowly eased into his Feelings for jihoon sunbaenim. i loved nine's portrayal of jihoon's confidence and how smooth he was; the scene where he's interrogating eden about his Sexy Dream in the hallway lives in my head rent free. they probs should have had sex after that, don't you think? that would have been interesting. or maybe not, and jihoon didn't want eden to get his feelings twisted up with the performance of it all, and eden has to slowly break down jihoon's walls from his previous relationship and teach him that he will treat his heart with care.

i'm a basic millennial gay and i love angst and internalized homophobia (sorry). if you can relate to that, how abt a character study of eden slowly unlearning everything he thought he knew about being gay? this could even be a show post-script, because god knows we deserved them kissing at the end of all that and were deprived.

if you're also into onlyoneof, i would love fic that uses a parallel narrative with the bump up business storyline to explore wookjin and yongsoo having to portray not only their government-assigned ship of mill/nine, but also eden/jihoon, and how that affects their real life relationship. how much do the lines blur? does the Business Gay Performance turning into real feelings hit close to home? or is it totally foreign and ridiculous? you tell me, if you're so inclined.

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I hope there’s something here that tickles your fancy! Don’t worry too much; I threw ideas at the wall in case you like prompts, but I’m ready to read whatever you DO think is interesting - maybe it’s something I’ve never considered before.  I can’t wait to read your fic.

Lots of love,
Jenny thistidalwave