Dear Yuletide Writer Letters 2022

[morbane]

It's letters time! If you're writing a letter along with your Yuletide sign-up, you can comment here with a link to your letter and also enter the details in the 2022 tagset app. For browsing convenience, the app also generates a google spreadsheet you can access directly.

What's the deal with letters?
Letters are an optional tradition of Yuletide. When you sign up to the event, there's a space in the form for linking to somewhere in your own space (journal, tumblr, etc) where you can go into detail about what you like in fic and fandom. This post collects these links. The prompts on AO3 are hidden through sign-ups, but letters are visible as soon as you want them to be.

Letters are an optional extra in Yuletide. If you only post a letter here, you haven't signed up. To get an assignment and a gift, you need to sign up at the collection - open roughly October 14-22.


What makes a good letter?
Mileage varies. We encourage you, at minimum, to include your AO3 name, the fandoms and characters you're requesting, and your Do-Not-Wants. Read through other letters and follow the styles that work for you. Additional tips: here & here & here (DNWs specifically).


How to post your letter

1. Finish your letter and make sure it's publicly visible. Here's the tagset to check what you can request


2. Enter it in the app*! You can edit your letter after submitting it - save the key, or ask the mods for the key if you lose it


3. Comment below! Include:
   • Your AO3 name
   
   
   • A link to your letter
   
   
   • The fandoms you are requesting (3-6)
   
   
   • The characters you are requesting in your fandoms (1-4, or Any)
   
   If you post to the app first, it will spit out a handy chunk of text with all these details for you to use when commenting.
   

*Please reach out here if you're having trouble with the app! Characters can be selected by clicking on them.


If for whatever reason you can only comment on a post, then please include the following line in your comment:

Mods, please add my letter to the app.


We will sweep the post occasionally and add letters to the app.

Warning: Locked or placeholder letters may be removed.

If you have a question, contact a mod on Discord or comment here


Mini-challenges
As mini-challenges are posted, they will be added below.
( See links to this year's mini-challenges under the cut. )

The opening (and closing) of sign-ups will be announced at the admin comm.

Enjoy! And thank you to karanguni for the app!

ETA: Now that all requests are out, the app will show the letters that were linked in requests. Letters added to the app that were not linked in your requests will not display. If you linked a letter in your sign-up and you want to signal that it's completed, you're still welcome to comment to this post.

Yuletide Comes At Least Once A Year: Yuleporn 2022

[karanguni]

What is Yuleporn?

In an exchange as large and diverse as Yuletide, it usually turns out that a lot of people would love to write or receive explicit stories but aren't comfortable asking for them or writing them without a little more information. Yuleporn is a mini-challenge that exists to help unite Yuletiders in requesting, writing, and reading the porn of their Yuletide dreams. Have no Optional Details fear, Yuleporn is here!

How Do I Participate?

• Leave a comment on this post linking your letter if you are interested in getting an explicit fic for YT.
• Add any optional details you want in the comment -- additional prompts, favourite kinks, DNWs, &c..
• If you don't have a letter or are a pinch-hitter, you can still leave prompts here, but make sure to include your AO3 name, your fandoms, and the characters you requested
• When it comes time to upload, tag your fics with "Yuleporn" on AO3 so other interested parties can easily find all the good stuff when the collection opens.
• Enjoy.

Here's a totally optional copy-paste form if you like forms!

<strong>AO3:</strong> <strong>Letter link:</strong> <strong>Likes:</strong> <strong>DNWs:</strong> <strong>Fandom specific details:</strong>

As always, you don't have to participate in Yuleporn to write or request porn - it's just here to make things easier - and Yuleporn is 100% open to all kinks (or lack thereof).

(Credit to Lanna for the title this year. This post is mostly copypasta from time immemorial; please let me know if any language needs to be updated!)

Webcomic fandoms you can offer/request in Yuletide 2022

[erinptah]

All the webcomic fandoms in the tag set -- plus the characters -- plus plus links to where you can read them online.

I tried to flag everything that was (a) NSFW and/or (b) at least partly paywalled. If I missed any of those, or just skipped any webcomics in general, please let me know!

( Comics, on the web, mostly easy to get and free to read )

악녀는 두 번 산다 | The Villainess Lives Twice - Han Mint

1. Artezia Rozan
2. Cedric Evron

여주인공의 오빠를 지키는 방법 - 킨 | The Way to Protect the Female Lead's Older Brother - Kin

1. Cassis Pedelian
2. Dion Agriche
3. Maria Agriche
4. Roxana Agriche
5. Sierra Agriche

Phoebe and Her Unicorn Series - Dana Simpson

1. Dakota (Phoebe and Her Unicorn)
2. Marigold Heavenly Nostrils
3. Phoebe Howell

World's Strangest Meet Cute - tooquirkytolose (Tumblr)

1. Child in Wheeled Chair (World's Strangest Meet Cute)
2. Child with Prosthetic Leg (World's Strangest Meet Cute)
3. Knight (World's Strangest Meet Cute)
4. Warlock (World's Strangest Meet Cute)