Dear Yuletide 2025 Writer!

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Dear Yuletide Writer!

Thank you for writing for me! Whichever of the fandoms we matched on, yay, fandom friend!

Generally, I tend to be more focused on plot and theme than straight-up romance, but I certainly don't mind sex or romance. (For romance and sex, I am into weird powerplays or into people being stalker for stalker for each other. I'm into romance that moves at a rather slowburn pace or where these two idiots have spent forever together and are only now figuring out they might have feelings for each other, or when so much has happened to these characters in the course of a couple days that they fast tracked relationship building.)

I tend to love politics and have figured out that if you just add the words "systemic change," chances are I will be into it. Alternatively, the world involves so much politics and systemic change already that something soft is in order, still set in the backdrop of that world.

General DNWs:
please no omegaverse

For summary, this year, I am requesting:
French Revolution RFP - Joseph Fouche, Gilbert Romme, Joseph Lakanal, and Jean-Paul Marat
The Stars My Destination - Alfred Bester (novel)- worlldbuilding or any relationship you like
Tai Sui - Priest (novel) - Xie Chu| The Blind Wolf King x Xi Zhengde x Cui Jinjin
Guardian - Priest (novel) - Shen Wei, Shennong's Bowl, Snake Fourth Uncle, The Magistrate

French Revolution RPF
For this, I want it to focus on any of the following four characters and them doing their things.
Joseph Fouche
Gilbert Romme
Joseph Lakanal
Jean-Paul Marat
For Joseph Fouche, Gilbert Romme and Joseph Lakanal, I would prefer it be set in 1793-1794 (though you could have it be equally split between the French Revolution and the fall of the Directory for Fouche. For Marat, you could have it set whenever. It can be shippy or gen! I'm fine with either!

• Joseph Fouche is a very interesting figure - on one hand, he came up with equality bread to ensure that everyone got nutrition, and he loved his wife a lot and later on his kids, and he was a brilliant spymaster and brilliant at being Minster of the Interior. On the other, he did the Massacre of Lyon, he was one of the orchestraters of Thermidor. He was also on the far-left of the Revolution, was spying on and I think genuinely support Babeuf and the Conspiracy of Equals, still believed in a Republic under Napoleon and told Napoleon as much, and then believed in France enough to oversee negotiations of what came after Napoleon alongside Talleyrand. He is just an interesting figure, and I would love to get some of those contradictions, and maybe him setting up what was to become his spy network.
• Romme was the one who softened equality bread to make it more tolerable and more likely to be accepted. He was also the one that came up with the Calendar (though not the names for the days) and part of the metric system.
• Lakanal was on education and trying to figure out how state-led education was going to work.

Their Committee meetings must have involved so little sleep and so much bitching at each other!

• Marat. What can I say about Marat? The man put out an eight page journal every day that he somehow could make accurate accusations of corruption in. Nobody knows how his informant network worked, including people who set off to prove he wasn't that special, he just had a good informant network. He was also theorizing years ahead of his time. 

I would prefer whatever you do at least mention the politics they were all working on during this time period. If you'd like, JP Gross's Fair Shares for All: Jacobin Egalitarianism in Practice goes into the politics.

Frev Specific DNWs:
please do not soap opera this. Decision made because of politics were made because of politics.
please do not write this from either a historical or modern right-wing political perspective. That includes Schama. 

The Stars My Destination - Alfred Bester (novel)
I'm requesting world building for this fandom. If you want, do any of the characters you like, but doesn't have to involve any of the characters! I just want some aspects of this world explored further:
Potential Ideas (but certainly not limited to these):

• maybe you are into the body horror of the Mr. Presteigns.
• maybe you are into the demonstration of conspicuous consumption that is how Presteign gets downtown from Central Park, NYC
• maybe the sheer nerve of Presteign building that mansion of his in Central Park
• maybe it is how technology advanced in some areas but didn't in others, e.g. there not being an easy way to remove tattoos (or could that just have been Jiz being cheap)
• or cover what Dagenheim's relationships look like given he is radioactive
• or how other jaunters in classes like Robin Wednesday's lost their abilities
• or even, what do vacations and day-to-day life of working and middle classes look like

Or something else. Entirely up to you!

Tai Sui - Priest (novel)
The Blind Wolf King x Xi Zhengde X Cui Jinjin relationship is introduced rather late in the book, but still became one of the potential ships that stood out for me. I'd love to see more of them!
This could go either into canon-divergence either pre-the main story or at some point during the main story.

• What would have happened if Xi Zhengde and Cui Jinjin had taken up the Blind Wolf King's offer? Could baby Zhou Ying have made it along with them? How would that have gone? What would the repercussions of that have looked like?
• Or maybe at some point during the novel, they started talking with the Blind Wolf King again.

Guardian - Priest (novel) 
Shen Wei,
Shennong's Bowl,
Snake Fourth Uncle,
The Magistrate

Shennong's Bowl, Snake Fourth Uncle and The Magistrate all have a rather interesting relationship with Shen Wei in the novel, namely they know what he is and have watched him grow over the year and but also make mistakes. At least two of them know something about Shen Wei's promise, maybe all three.
What did they think of him at various points?

Potential optional prompt: what did they think of the Shen San incident? Did Wei demand/order/beg any of them to find a way to kill him, as just being around him had been enough to kill Kunlun's reincarnation? Did one of them have to comfort him or show him that Kunlun's incarnation was still reincarnating?
Alternatively, did Shennong's Bowl decided to make an ill-advised comment?

Or did Wei find a broken bowl in Shennong's encampment with an inkling of consciousness and decided to help it cultivate? 

DNWs:
please novel only characterization and names - e.g. the character is called Gui Mian not Ye Zun in the novel and Shen Wei does not really want to think about him. Papa Zhao instead of Zhao Xinci (if you are doing its through current day)