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Yuletide Letter 2025

2025-10-24T19:40:17Z

Dearest Yulegiver, I would first like to say thank you in advance!! I know I give pretty vague guidance, but genuinely I'm not hard to please at all, especially when being the gift of something in one of these very small fandoms! My main hope is that you have fun and enjoy writing it in the knowledge I'm going to have fun reading it.

GENERAL LIKES

Character heavy stories, competency porn, codependency, happy or bittersweet endings, queer people as a normal facet of life, banter, worldbuilding, weird magic, women having genuine agency, bravery in the face of defeat, sparring (especially as a source of sexual tension).

GENERAL DISLIKES

No death of children or rape as a central storyline please. I'm okay with it being included (and know it comes with the territory of some of the fandoms I've requested) just prefer it to not be a main focus. I would also prefer a story that isn't truly bleak or grim dark - I do love a tragic story but prefer if the getting there makes the ending earned and their lives still having been worth living rather than just rocks into a void, if that makes sense? Bittersweet endings very welcomed, happy ones too!

THE EAGLE OF THE NINTH

I love the story of this (both book and movie form!) and will never be tired of looking for more of it! I'd love to see something featuring Cottia, whether that's during or before or after the story's events. I love all three of them as a trio together, whether romantically or platonically, and am so curious about the life they'll build together afterwards!

SWORD AT SUNSET

Everything about this was so haunting and desperately driven, but in particular I'd love anything focusing on Guenhumara and everything she went through. I would also absolutely accept anything about the weird, weird magical stuff and other women in the story in a heartbeat, even if it doesn't feature Guenhumara!

HARDY BOYS

I'm just terribly fond of these two nonsense codependent teenage detectives and am absolutely fascinated by what happens to them as they get older! As you may be able to tell from my own writing, I'm happy for it to be platonic or romantic.

IN OTHER LANDS

I have been obsessed with this story since it was coming out in livejournal posts a.... look, a long time ago. I love the main trio so, so much, and I would happily read anything about them or honestly a story from another character's POV entirely where they're getting up to nonsense in the background. I'd particularly be tickled with something set during Serene's time away with her people, it's such a fascinating piece of culture building and would be so fun to see expanded on further. (PS, if you haven't read Tears Waiting to Be Diamonds, a free story set a few years after the book, and you love this book as much as I do, you absolutely have to. Here's Part One.)

PELLINOR

Expounding on anything from the appendices and what happens after the story ends would make me delighted! I'm particularly interested in Maerad and Cadvan and their lives, which seem to have been both entwined and separate, and worldbuilding around the Bards and their schools and the varying kinds of magic! Worldbuilding centric or Maerad centric or a combination thereof is top of my list but I have a great fondness for all the characters and will be happy for anything.

ALEX RIDER

The books left an indelible imprint on me a long time ago and I really, really enjoyed the show and it's adapting of them! I was especially delighted by the addition of Kyra and would love to see some more exploration of her - show canon only, show canon with book canon brought in, however you like. I'd also be delighted for something that focuses on the very real trauma that Alex has been through and how he's handling it, or a fun romp where Alex and Tom and Kyra get to actually just be teenagers together for a bit, or honestly any number of things those are just the three that first spring to mind.

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yuletide letter 2024

2023-10-21T17:26:40Z

I shall try to add a little more detail to this eventually but honestly I am very happy with so many things.

HARDY BOYS

Look, I just love Joe and Frank being their codependent nonsense selves. And as may be apparent in my own writing, I'm fine with it being entirely platonic or not at all.

IN OTHER LANDS

If you have not read Tears Waiting To Be Diamonds and love this book, you should, it's free online, and also it will hurt you. Regardless, I just want anything about these three in the period post book and whatever happened for that whole thing. Doesn't even have to be all of them (though ideally yes).

THE LIBRARY TRILOGY

I don't know what to tell you, dear writer. This book devoured my soul and I loved it and need more. More of any part of it, but would especially be delighted by Livira and Malar as The Thing occurs or as they wait, or Evar and his siblings, or - honestly anything. I've been dragging my heels on reading the second book but if nothing else I will make it my job to read it before Yuletide drops so nobody has to worry about spoilers.

PELLINOR

I love that we have appendices and also I would love more detail on what happens to them after the story ends! Anybody in the story, really, though I admit a particular fondness for Maerad and Cadvan and what they did afterwards. I'd also be interested in a Saliman centric story, either before books or post books or both! Similar with Hekibel.

EAGLE OF THE NINTH (2011)

Look, I loved this movie, I love the book it's based on (and all of her other work), you could write me anything about the characters from movie or book or mingled and I would be thrilled.

ALCHEMICAL JOURNEYS SERIES

I adored the dynamic we had between Roger and Dodger and Erin for the brief stretch it was all of them and then in Seasonal Fears, I will take anything at all that involves the three of them and their weird messy dynamic!

GENERAL DNWs/LIKES

As much as I love angst I also love there to be some amount of hope! I'd prefer no straight up rape storylines.

I love competency, I love codependency, I love worldbuilding and weird magic. I love so many things and have very few deal breakers tbh, so mostly I just want you to enjoy writing whatever you write!

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narnia exchange letter, circa 2021/22/23/24/25

2021-07-24T18:38:44Z

~~is it actually 2021? is this really the 14th year of the exchange? oh wow~~.

~~oh god it's already 2022 and i am a deeply lazy person. i've done some more specific prompts/requests in the form this year but will re use this letter for my general likes and dislikes.~~

~~how the actual fuck is it 2023~~

~~i give up, time is a weird soup and i don't understand how it keeps happening~~

the time does just keep happening somehow

I love a truly wide array of stories and story types, so please just find whatever in my interests Sparks Joy for you in writing and have fun <3. If it fulfills even one of the "things I like" then I'm going to be happy. I love a good Narnia story.

Narnia Specific Dislikes: please treat the Problem of Susan with sympathy for Susan and her siblings and no vilification of any of them if it should come up. I personally don't like Aslan portrayed as benevolent all kindly god - he's not a Tame Lion, after all, and gods work in mysterious ways.

Narnia Specific Likes: this place has so much weird mythology and history that we don't really get to see explored, and I'm here for all of it. I love Susan and Edmund together as kind of the shadowy siblings, I'm fascinated by how the Pevensies built and maintained the Golden Age. I think my interests these days tend more Narnia centric in terms of setting but that is not to say I'm opposed to England stories, especially AU's (Susan and Edmund both survive and cope together is a fave, but there are SO MANY good options). The women of Narnia don't get enough centrism in the stories, so I'm particularly happy whenever stories make them the main character. Charn is so weird??? What the fuck is up with stars? How many gods are there hanging out in Narnia? The fuck is up with the Wood Between Worlds? we have SO MANY unanswered questions and I love stories that try to answer them, or just world build some back story. Sentient Cair Paravel is a concept I love and anything kind of similar is probably also going to land very well for me. Recently I've become fascinated by Swanwhite as the last Queen of Narnia before the Telmarines invaded and also just the general time frame of the Telmarine invasion! Genuinely there is so much lore going on in this place and I would be delighted for a story that explores any of it.

General Things I Love In Stories: character studies, worldbuilding heavy stories, competency, codependency, I do love a good crossover, banter, happy endings, bittersweet endings, there is always some hope, lgbtq+ people being just a normal facet of life. Also, when I say I love a good crossover I mean it, please do not hesitate to do a crossover if that's something you like. I've done or read crossovers for Narnia with Doctor Who, BBC Merlin, Supernatural, The Book That Wouldn't Burn, Leverage, Lord of the Rings, Star Wars, Inception, The Dark Is Rising - probably more. Narnia works so well as a crossover. Narnia crosses over so well with so much - Arthurian mythology! Lewis' weird space trilogy! Mythology of all kinds! I don't even know, just know that as long as I have a vague knowledge of the given fandom I'll be happy with it. This is not to pressure you into a crossover, I just want it to be clear that it's genuinely fine.

This poem is one of my biggest Narnia feelings. Also this one.

Things I Do Not Want: truly grimdark stories (i love tragedy but i also like some hope). No explicit noncon.

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vid: few and far between (dune)

2013-10-22T02:25:03Z

Title: few and far between
Vidder:be_themoon
Fandom: Chronicles of Dune
Music: "Steel" by Charlotte Martin
Spoilers: For the whole miniseries.
Summary: The women of House Atreides stand tall.
Notes: Originally posted here.

( under here. )

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be_themoon @ 2013-09-22T02:35:00

2013-09-22T06:48:06Z

casually writing some poetry again lately which is a nice feeling! i can't tell if i like it or don't, but i think i'm just going to keep writing and editing and editing some more and writing some more and see how it goes.

( look i have a revolutions thing okay it comes out even in poetry )

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icons (susan pevensie)

2013-09-10T18:11:34Z

51 susan pevensie icons

preview:

( under here )

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forward unto dawn icons [57]

2013-04-14T17:04:39Z

watched it for anna popplewell's face, rapidly developed a problem. a crying problem. also there was unexpected osric chau, which was fun.

[6] jj, sully, dimah
[6] thomas lasky
[12] colonel mehaffey
[10] chyler silva
[22] april orenski

preview:

( anna popplewell has a perfect sass face )

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be_themoon @ 2013-03-30T02:26:00

2013-03-30T06:32:49Z

i just finished mass effect 3

nothing will ever be okay again oh my god this gaaaame this trilogy i can't

my heart hurts so much and it was all so beautiful, seriously.

hello my spring break has been going pretty well! apart from finishing mass effect today kind of sucked because i had a really bad migraine all day but all in all my upped dose has been going well and i've had a lot of time to myself and to hang out with a couple friends and to play me3 and rp and sleep, and hopefully this next quarter will be a lot easier!

how are you guys?

who wants to talk mass effect!

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hey hey there everyone

2013-03-16T23:40:05Z

so once upon a time long ago i advanced a concept of a tv show and started working on it, and lately i revisited it and went 'yes i like lots of this but other things do not snag me as they should TIME TO FIX IT'

SO Cabin Fever remains very similar in most ways but also changed in some others and agh I just want to write more of it or for it to be real either of the above

not that i have actually done a great deal but here is the little bit i have done because i would like to share it with you guys for hey also happy things are happening purposes

( i just have a lot of feelings okay )

and written for meto:

( story snippets! )

meto i am totally writing you more things as soon as finals are doooone i am also super open to the idea of prompts or whatever because i want to do exploring in this and sort out the changes and how they work over spring break yes

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be_themoon @ 2013-03-12T12:34:00

2013-03-12T16:37:22Z

HEY GUYS it's 3-sentence ficathon, aka the only place I will probably write fanfiction all year, aka that one awesome explosion of joy and just throwing yourself out there to have fun! I can't do almost any actual fills until Wednesday but when I can I'm going to be all over this and you guys should leave all sorts of fantastic prompts so I can chinhands at them all, and then fill some yourself, and it'll all be really great YOU SHOULD DO THIS

THREE SENTENCE FICATHON AW YEAH

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be_themoon @ 2012-12-09T13:21:00

2012-12-09T19:26:11Z

man defaulting from a fanfiction challenge for the first time ever feels really weird. so sorry, yuletide! but i am just not cut out for fanfiction this year, which i should have realized earlier. i may browse through and see if i can write some treats, but i really just do not seem to have fanfiction mojo. it's a weird feeling!

i am so bad at regularly updating, and at checking my flist. it's hard to remember to keep up multiple platforms of contact with friends! twitter, plurk, email, dreamwidth, livejournal, aim - all sorts of places with friends i want to talk to. and there are only so many hours in a day!

perhaps i should set up a "if i'm not around dreamwidth i am in these places!" post so that it is always to reach me one way or another.

in assorted things!

+ new TARDIS interior nooo I'm sure the new one will be beautiful (Gallifreyan!) but I have so much fondness for the old one and its steampunk self and that old typewriter and the glass column I will miss it a great deal.

+ I have been watching through Life with a friend, and it is a beautiful beautiful show, oh wow. I am loving it so much. Only three episodes to go what will I do when it's over? Weep, probably.

+ I have been watching Elementary too, with said friend, and it is doing fantastic. You guys should all be watching it I think, I am pretty sure the majority of people I know would really enjoy it a lot! The relationships are complicated and done really well and the acting is beautiful and it's a very very human Holmes who's been through a lot. BASICALLY I REALLY LOVE IT AND IF YOU WANT ME TO WORD VOMIT ON YOU I WILL.

+ Sometimes I feel sad I broke up with Supernatural but then I don't. Except it's a longer more complicated emotional moment than that. Oh shows and feelings about them.

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be_themoon @ 2012-10-31T12:40:00

2012-10-31T16:40:57Z

the placeholderest of placeholders for dear yuletide person thank you letter

( hi ilu )

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be_themoon @ 2012-06-22T12:14:00

2012-06-22T00:15:17Z

PRIORITY NUMBER ONE: punching the flu in the face

PRIORITY NUMBER TWO: keeping myself from dying of boredom and fever

PRIORITY NUMBER THREE: not move too much because of said flu and also because my right ribs hurt because i fell off a couch onto a coffee table yes i am a real adult. the best adult!

PRIORITY NUMBER FOUR: resolutely ignore family stuff because there is nothing i can do about it at the moment

PRIORITY NUMBER FIVE: read ALL THE COMICS mostly Flash ones because Wally West is legitimately fantastic guys

let me spam you really quickly here with his awesome

( no look you don't understand he is RIDICULOUSLY GREAT )

hi guys how are y'all?

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/stares at everyone

2012-03-15T01:41:15Z

wow I am the worst at keeping up with stuff. THE WORST.

HI EVERYONE I would like to say hi and uh.

I am also the worst at being remotely interesting, I have been doing literally nothing but working and RPing for a while now.

... no I am still pretty uninteresting.

but hi guys! how are you?

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be_themoon @ 2012-01-12T22:03:00

2012-01-12T09:46:55Z

In the interest of staving off imminent self-loathing, can I ask you guys to participate in a sort-of-meme for me briefly?

Namely, drop me some sort of writing prompt! A quote, a color, song lyrics, whatever.

It's going to be original stuff - if you want to see it just note in your comment and I'll reply with whatever I come up with. If you don't want to be bothered with whatever I churn out just drop the prompt and keep on your merry way!

If you have any preferences among my original projects you can mention that and I might go for that instead of the characters from the list. I could possibly also be interested in writing for Hardy Boys or SPN:TNG too, but I'm not really sure. Maybe, who knows.

Basically the only important part of this whole post is the bolded bit, the rest is just me rambling. I think I might go get some sleep, and then write lots in the morning, and I will feel awesome. THIS IS HOW LIFE WILL GO AND YOU CAN'T TELL ME DIFFERENT.

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surviving the way that made them bitter

2012-01-09T10:09:40Z

Title: waiting for(ward)
Original Text(s) Erased: Waiting For the Great Leap Forward
Erased By: be_themoon
Original Text By: woldy
Fandom (of original text): Harry Potter
Fandom (of erasure): N/A

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this is a post about fic and comics. oops.

2012-01-03T12:58:51Z

First up! There were some beautiful things written for me recently.

( written for me + two vid recs + comic rec )

( stuff I've written recently )

And while I don't feel like tracking down all the stuff I wrote this year, I figure I might as well answer the end-of-year writing questions meme because why not?

( talking about fic )

Um, I'm also going to declare this free-for-all on asking me anything about anything I've written. I kind of doubt there are questions, but if there are feel free to ask, or tell me that I got something wrong, or other stuff.

Happy New Year, everyone!

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be_themoon @ 2011-12-17T14:39:00

2011-12-17T02:54:42Z

Right, so, I finally have longer than half an hour on the computer to do ALL OF MY STUFF.

I'm in the library at Rotarua, where it is pouring down rain, holy crap there is so. much. rain. The internet is kind of crappy and reallyyyy slow, but oh well. It is serving my purposes.

So firstly I wanted to give my massive, massive thanks for everything you guys said in the anonymous love meme. I don't even know what to say beyond flailing and thank you because it really means an incredible amount to me, everything you said and just. <33333333 I love you guys all so much.

So yeah, I'm travelling again. I don't know when I won't be travelling for the next month and a half, actually. I may be back at at the hostel for a few days inbetween travelling and going home for my sister's wedding. Then I'm home for the wedding from January 18 and I'm back like... Feb. 1stish? to begin work at the hostel again.

Also I wrote Supernatural/Leverage fic while pinch-hitting for the Crossover Exchange, and it is up on A03 and I'm running out of time so can't link to it, but yeah. It is there! It is Dean/Eliot.

I love all you guys an immense amount! See you around.

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be_themoon @ 2011-12-16T16:13:00

2011-12-16T03:17:52Z

Travelling again. Up in the North Island, got my ears pierced, camping, playing computer games, stuff.

Drop me a note here if there's something I need to know. I'm getting to internet about once a day.

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be_themoon @ 2011-12-12T15:07:00

2011-12-12T02:12:53Z

So, the anonymous Holiday Love Meme is going.

My thread is here.

I... could kind of really use the confidence boost? I've been slipping a lot the past few days and just generally having issues with my emotions and everything. I'm never sure if I'm going to start laughing hysterically or sobbing. A couple of times it's been both simultaneously. Nice things sounds really good right now.

God, that sounds horrifically selfish, but yeah, I'd really appreciate it if you'd drop by and leave a note for me.

And please do link me to yours! I'm trying to write college essays, so I haven't been looking through all the pages, but I'd like to say nice things about all of you guys. <3333

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be_themoon @ 2011-12-09T20:40:00

2011-12-09T05:39:57Z

Back from camp, done with the last day of work, HOLIDAYS.

oh yeah also Mary broke her collarbone. so. um. that happened.

Also Crossover Exchange!

Nevcolleil wrote me a lovely Criminal Minds/Inception crossover, Life Ain't A Dream, about Spencer and Arthur and their tangled life together. You guys should go check it out, it's really nice and I love the idea of Spencer and Arthur being childhood friends who wreaked havoc together before turning into something more.

I wrote The Curious Case of the Time Agent and His Sister for turkeyish, a Torchwood/Narnia fic which is actually set roughly in the same universe as that other Torchwood/Narnia fic I did ages ago, To Go Nowhere With You. (I strongly suspect there will be an Edmund/Ianto coda to this fic prettyyy soon. Also there is the fic that is specifically a sequel to TGNWY.) I am also writing a pinch hit which will show up sometime soon. Also I want to thank flyakate again for being an invaluable and wonderful beta. That fic was in a horrific state when she got it, and she did a quick turnaround and a very good beta on it at the same time. <3333

ALSO erasureathon has started and the person erasing for me is amazing and has already done one. xenoamorist erased Far From His Home and turned it into as small as a world and as large as alone, which is an amazing, beautiful piece of poetry about Castiel and Dean being in love and the awkwardness of bodies and it is really, stupendously well done. YOU SHOULD GO READ IT.

ps I am sort of watching TV but mostly just sitting around joining Aidan and Mary in their epic Battlestar Galactica watch. It mostly goes like this. "Betsy is it going to get better? At all?" "... Well, no, not really." "ARGH." *puts on another episode*

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be_themoon @ 2011-12-05T08:43:00

2011-12-04T19:43:11Z

will be at camp and not around for the next four days. see you guys when I get back. <333

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GUESS WHAT IS THE MOST FUN THING

2011-12-02T05:25:17Z

EVERYONE

THIS IS

It's a low-key, relaxed, everyone play in everyone else's sandbox ficathon. There's big fandoms prompted and tiny ones and crossovers that make you go "... they are ALL INSANE, aren't they?"

and it is all just the best thing. Spread the news! The more people know about it, the more people around who might, just might know that one tiny fandom you have been wanting fic for forever.

(ps if you want to write MORE than three sentences that is totally allowed, as are multiple fills, shenanigans, and absurdity. it is the most low key and fun ficathon eveeeer.)

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whoooo!

2011-11-30T09:17:13Z

it is probably telling that it ended on my MC telling off and threatening the collective governments of earth for not being nearly good enough people and then going and destroying a facility experimenting on posthumans. and by destroying I mean completely and totally levelling it piece by piece after getting everyone out.

It's not so much a coherent story as this wide, sprawling collection of things that are a big part of this universe I'm building around it, but I think it's a pretty fair amount of work for one month.

( beta request, don't look if you're in crossover exchange )

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right so

2011-11-23T09:40:08Z

I am going to do a kind of big post right here. This is partially because I have been absolute crap at updating recently and therefore have a lot to, but also because I am procrastinating on a) NaNo, b) college essay, c) Crossover Exchange, and d) Yuletide. (I know, right, I just received my assignment and I'm already procrastinating. Even though I like my prompt. I'm a GENIUS at this stuff.)

FIRST OFF omg omg you guys you know the book Avalon High by Meg Cabot? ( spoilers for book and movie )

So yes I think you should all go watch that, or just like skip through anything that's not about her being awesome and then write fic about it because LADY. KING. ARTHUR. guys.

...( sadfacing about brain )

anyways I love you all and someday I will write a PROPER update that involves things like Stuff That I'm Doing instead of just lists of things I'm procrastinating on and crying about. I promise.

oh and yes I also made like. a MASSIVE icons post. it is HERE.

it includes:
7 Avalon High (Allie as King Arthur)
16 Fables (Cinderella) (remind me to talk to you guys about Fables, DCnU, and Once Upon a Time at some point)
20 Alex Rider
7 Batman Beyond (Max Gibson)
7 Young Justice (Artemis)
7 The Authority
27 Miscellaneous Comics (Lady Sabre, X-Factor, Young Avengers, Birds of Prey, Ice, Wonder Woman, Stephanie Brown, Cassandra Cain, Aquagirl, Gunnerkrigg Court)

here are some of the icons in it

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