Season’s Treatings mini-challenge

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Do you love receiving or writing end of year holiday stories? Are you prompting a snowed in Hanukkah celebration or an Australian New Year's beach party? Season's Treatings may be for you!

This mini-challenge is all about November, December and January holidays, traditions, and cultural celebrations big and small and all over the globe--and perhaps some fantasy worlds, who knows. If you want to prompt it, someone may want to write it.

When you comment, please include:

AO3 Name:
Letter Link (if applicable):
Holiday(s) Requested:
Fandom and character(s):
Prompts:

When you upload, tag it as Season's Treatings so we can all find them.

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Requesting Christmas/Midwinter celebrations

[celamity]

AO3 name:Celamity

Letter: https://celamity.dreamwidth.org/211917.html

Holiday: Christmas or equivalent midwinter celebration
Fandoms:
* Bone - Jeff Smith (Comics): Lunaria Harvestar, Rose | Granma Ben, Thorn
* Tři oříšky pro Popelku | Three Wishes for Cinderella (1973): Any (Dora, Popelka | Cinderella, Prince, Queen)

I would absolutely love a Christmas/midwinter story of any length from these two fandoms! (TBH, I'd love to see it in any of my other requests as well - but these two have the setting already there and ready to go)
I always watch Three Wishes for Cinderella on Christmas eve. It's winter, there's a castle, there's a little magic; Christmas in that setting would be amazing! And Bone? Christmas is canon there, with sudden snow that falls in one big whump, presents and dancing and good food and quiche for the lucky. (Here's the six page Bone holiday special, free online)

I don't have any particular prompts for this, other than celebrating. Or maybe enjoying a quiet midwinter night once things have settled down. I'd want something warm and cheery and maybe a bit funny, and there'd be nothing wrong with good-natured shenanigans. And maybe some reminiscing and feels.

[dauntlessshadowice]

AO3 Name: DauntlessShadowIce
Letter Link (if applicable): https://dauntlessshadowice.dreamwidth.org/29626.html
Holiday(s) Requested: Christmas, (Lunar) New Year, Hanukkah, Chanukkah, Christmas/New Years (Australia edition)
Fandom and character(s): Degrassi the Next Generation, Lies Like Poison - Chelsea Pitcher, Red Band Society (US TV), Roseanne (TV 1988), This Lie Will Kill You - Chelsea Pitcher, Short Term 12 (2013)
Prompts:
* some of the Degrassi crew go to Australia for winter break. Fiona’s family could afford it; maybe she brings people along?
* The Conner family goes all out for Halloween—but what about Christmas?
* what’s Christmas/New Years at Short Term 12 like?

[aelisheva]

AO3 Name: aelisheva
Letter:
https://aelisheva.dreamwidth.org/945.html

The Familiar - Leigh Bardugo
Luzia Cotado, Guillén Santángel

I would also love a Season's Treatings Mini-Challenge story about these two celebrating Chanukah.

Beetlejuice (Movies)
Jeremy (Beetlejuice), Astrid Deetz

If you want to do Season's Treatings, I've always headcanoned Lydia as Jewish due to the background of her actress, Winona Ryder. This applies to Astrid and Richard too. I'd love to see Chanukah headcanons for this branch of the Deetz family.

Ready or Not (2019)
Daniel Le Domas (Ready or Not 2019), Grace Le Domas (Ready or Not 2019)

This is the only fandom on the list I do not want any Jewish headcanons for, though. I still would love Season's Treatings about New Year's or Winter Solstice.

[kobesoar]

AO3 name: Kobesoar

Letter Link: https://kobesoar.dreamwidth.org/276.html

Holidays Requested: Christmas, New Year's (broadly interpreted), Unspecified Midwinter Celebration(s)

Fandoms and characters:

10th Kingdom: any nominated characters (Prince Wendell, Tony, Victoria, Wolf)
--Fandom-specific prompt: I would love to see winter holiday celebrations/traditions across the 9 Kingdoms! Please feel free to go wild and wacky (after all, a world with a town all about Valentine's Day has to have some other creative tourist attractions!)

Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World: Jack Aubrey, Stephen Maturin
--Fandom-specific prompt: this one lends itself a little less to holidays than my other two requests, but I would still love to receive holiday fic. Either holidays at sea or a shore leave when Jack and Stephen find themselves spending the holidays together by choice or default would make me very happy! Gen or slash both appreciated.

Oxford Time Travel Universe - Connie Willis: Ned Henry, Verity Kindle
--Fandom-specific prompt: I really see this one lending itself to Christmas-themed stories, whether it be Ned and Verity going back in time to spend a holiday with the Merings or Terrence, or being called upon to help prepare the newly-rebuilt Cathedral for its first holiday season.

[invisiblestring]

AO3 Name: ifiwereabell
Letter Link (if applicable):https://invisiblestring.dreamwidth.org/332.html
Holiday(s) Requested: Thanksgiving, Christmas, New Years Eve
Fandom and character(s): Dial M for Murder (1954) - Margot Wendice, Guys and Dolls (1955) - Sky Masterson and Sarah Brown, The Big Country (1958) - Jim McKay and Julie Maragon
Prompts:

Dial M for Murder: Did Margot spend Christmas in prison? What is it like for her with Tony vs. later with Mark? She's British, what's her first Thanksgiving with Mark (and any friends/family he has!) like? Does the New Year feel like a true new beginning after all she went through?

Guys and Dolls: Sky and Sarah get married after knowing each other for such a short time, and I'm sure they have conflicting holiday traditions/experiences! Explore any of them.

The Big Country: This being set in the 1880s makes me think the way they would celebrate would be quite a bit different than how my other two prompts do! Explore the cultural differences, what Jim maybe brings from the East for holiday traditions, etc!

[klinger]

AO3 Name: orzammar
Letter Link: https://klinger.dreamwidth.org/1450.html

Holiday(s) Requested: Any festive-style celebration that you like, doesn't have to be specifically Christmas. You could even invent one - one of these canons includes alien characters, who knows what their festivities might be?

Fandom and character(s):
Starred Up! - Eric Love.
This movie takes place entirely inside a prison, some kind of holiday fic that either takes place inside or Eric navigating his first holidays outside would be interesting.

Pandora - Ralen, Matta, Jax Zhou, Jett Annamali
There's a lot of fun to be had here - Ralen and Matta are Zatarian alien characters, they've not been exposed to many Earth holidays (honestly, I just want Matta in a paper hat). Alternatively, fic exploring what a holiday on Zatar could be very fun. On a different note, we don't learn an awful lot about Jett's backstory, perhaps he could introduce the others to holiday traditions of his own?

Shardlake - Jack Barak, Matthew Shardlake
Snowed in shenanigans anyone? Matthew and Jack getting caught out when having to travel for a case is a prime opportunity to be closed off and celebrating something together.

Slow Horses - Louisa Guy, River Cartwright
I'm really fond of their mildly dysfunctional dynamic in which they love and cherish each other but also don't really want to admit it. I could see a scenario where one or both of them realise they don't really have another place they want to be over a festive celebration, and go to seek the other out.

[bring_me_sugar]

AO3 Name: Missy
Letter Link (if applicable): https://bring-me-sugar.dreamwidth.org/20774.html
Holiday(s) Requested: Christmas, Christmas Eve, New Year's Eve, New Year's Day; Boxing Day
Fandom and character(s): A Room with a View (1985), Head and Shoulders "Hates Your Dandruff Loves Your Hair" Commercial, Crazy in Love (1992), Warlock (1989), Tale of a Vampire (1992)
Prompts: In letter!

[quailfence]

AO3 Name: QuailFence
Letter Link (if applicable): https://quailfence.dreamwidth.org/50261.html
Holiday(s) Requested: Any
Fandom and character(s): Leif & Thorn, Ghost Trick, But I'm A Cat Person
Prompts: For L&T in particular, I would love some exploration on the various cultures' winter celebrations. Don't have any specific prompts for Ghost Trick or Cat Person, but would be interested in something for those fandoms as well

[wanderlustlover]

AO3: Wanderlustlover
Letter link: Here
Likes/DNWs: In Letter

Altered Carbon: I'd love to see a Takeshi/Kristin Christmas! Or even one where the Elliot's drags Takeshi & Kristin into having one. Or what about Poe suddenly decorating The Raven all out in Christmas decor!

Farscape: I'd love to see John trying to have Baby D's first Christmas, and taking Aeryn through a 'happier' Christmas that her first one on Earth. Especially as it'll be in space, and different.

The Night Circus by Erin Morgenstern: Christmas tent someone? Christmas letters? Anything! Everything! I love Christmas, and I love, love, love, love this book so hard. Smash it together somehow and I will adore it.

Starling House by Alix E. Harrow: Arthur, Opal, & Jaspers 1st Christmas in the house please!! That house all loved up, decorated, and warm, too, since it's basically it's own person, too???

Alex Stern: I would love a Christmas with Alex, Darlington, and Pamela together and still fighting the good fight! I would love the warm, happy, absolutely magical house in on it. Something soft, sweet, and heartwarming.

Scholomance by Naomi Novik: I'd love some Orion & El Winter holiday times. Maybe there's a visit/vacation for them together during one of these season post-book three. I'd love something small and seasonally fun for them.

[celaenos]

AO3 Name: celaenos
Letter Link (if applicable): letter here!
Holiday(s) Requested: christmas, yule, fantasy midwinter celebrations, new years.
Fandom and character(s): Babblebrook - Goodnight Moon. (characters Belladonna | Nightshade Witch, and Queen Deirdre). House of Hollow - Krystal Sutherland. (characters: Iris Hollow and Grey Hollow). Peter Pan - J.M. Barrie. (characters: Wendy Darling and Mary Darling).
Prompts: for Babblebrook: yule/winter celebrations!! what rituals does bella do regularly? a snippet of her seeing deirdre during the apprenticeship? she seemed lonely and misunderstood when she was younger, and that drew bella to her, maybe bella tries to give her their own little celebration? teach her a spell specific to yule/winter time? either bella or deirdre looking back on that in the present and lonigng for it/lonely/still doing a little ritual they did together alone? for House of Hollow: childhood christmases with the hollow siblings. how do they figure out this new ritual? is christmas important to them? does that change at all over the years as the older sisters leave? the girls drag iris to a new year's party? what yule/winter celebrations happened back in their world, if any? for Peter Pan: christmas traditions before neverland v. celebrations after? how do they differ as wendy ages?

[geri_chan]

AO3 Name: geri_chan
Letter Link: https://geri-chan.dreamwidth.org/242274.html
Holiday(s) Requested: Christmas, (and for Vivant) New Year's

Fandom and character(s):

Hudson & Rex (TV): Charlie Hudson (Hudson & Rex), Rex (Hudson & Rex), Sarah Truong: Charlie, Sarah, and Rex spending their first Christmas together after Charlie and Sarah get together. And/or they have to work a case on Christmas--possibly something where someone dressed as Santa is either the suspect or the victim?

休日のわるものさん | Kyuujitsu no Warumono-san | Mr. Villain's Day Off (Webcomic): Akatsuki Red, Shogun (Mr. Villain's Day Off): Shogun/The General has canonically met Santa in the manga (apparently in a dream, but with hints that it really happened). So perhaps he and Red both end up helping Santa one Christmas? Or the two of them celebrate Christmas together--perhaps Red calls a truce so he can give a Christmas present to the General as thanks for the times that he's helped Red when Red got lost.

Vivant (TV 2023): Nogi Yusuke, Nozaki Mamoru: I didn't put any holiday-related prompts in my letter, but it just occurred to me that Christmas is more of a romantic holiday in Japan, so perhaps Nogi and Nozaki have a Christmas date? Or they simply wind up spending time together on Christmas for whatever reason--working together on a mission, or just getting together for a friendly visit (that perhaps turns romantic). Or, since New Year's is more of a big holiday in Japan, they spend New Year's Eve/Day together, and/or visit a shrine together? Again, it can either be because they're working together or something more personal.

[caras_galadhon]

AO3 Name: Galadriel
Letter Link: https://caras-galadhon.dreamwidth.org/513650.html

Holiday(s) Requested: Midwinter celebrations (December through January)
Fandoms and characters:
• Interview with the Vampire (TV 2022) RPF - Sam Reid, Jacob Anderson
• Killjoys (TV) - Johnny Jaqobis, Dutch|Yalena Yardeen, Khlyen
• Constantine (TV) - John Constantine, Manny
• L.A. By Night (Web Series) - Vannevar Thomas, Suzanne Rochelle, Chaz Price

Prompts: Please see my letter for more details, but here's more specific info for Season's Treatings...

I really love the secular parts of midwinter celebrations. I love the pomp and circumstance, the ritual, the decorations, and the time set aside to spend with friends and family. I also love how cozy being inside in front of a fire (or a decorated tree) while curled up with your loved ones is, and I have a huge soft spot for stories where the characters are (comfortably) snowed in at a cabin, mansion, or other beautiful setting. Certainly, 3 of my 4 requested fandoms are set in modern times, and the characters are at least aware of, if not actively participating in the holidays we all know. The 4th, Killjoys, may not take place on earth, but that doesn't mean they don't have their own similar traditions. I would love a story that focuses on that kind of celebratory coziness, or the dazzle of a fancy party, or something where all the pieces of the beautiful, perfect celebration are there, but everything is going wrong (whether for heavy plot-related reasons, or because the turkey is still frozen, someone is exhausted from the party, or being snowed in wasn't exactly anyone's idea of a good time).

[specialagentartemis]

AO3 handle: ArtemisTheHuntress
My letter is here: https://www.pillowfort.social/posts/5463171

For The Pasithea Powder, I think a "Christmas during the war" or "first Christmas together post-canon" could be fun and bittersweet. Especially incorporating Mexican Christmas traditions.

As for Akkadian Empire RPF, the only seasonal holidays I know of are Zagmuk (spring) and Dumuzid (summer), neither of which qualify, but new-moon-based sacrifices and specific offerings and rituals were practiced, especially probably by Enheduanna, the high priestess of the Moon God. So a new moon ritual in winter would be on-topic and interesting!

[reeby10]

AO3 Name: reeby10
Letter Link: https://reeby10.dreamwidth.org/237954.html
Holiday(s) Requested: Yule, fantasy midwinter holidays
Fandoms:
✦ Hellboy (Movies 2004-2008)
✦ The Last Witch Hunter (2015)
Prompts:
✦ rituals, traditions (especially building new ones)
✦ coziness
✦ community celebrations
✦ holidays at the Troll Market

[(Anonymous)]

Ao3 name: WyvernQuill

Letter link: https://docs.google.com/document/d/e/2PACX-1vSQOtUa2FU_LtH8LXaUsIG18CMZF247WZDAdpiSGw0zylICiqRvJIlh6VWbg5OQeKW9MLTrSiMl9z6J/pub

Holidays requested: Christmas (including Christmas Eve, Boxing Day, general run-up to Christmas etc. and related myths/stories), Dies Natalis Solis Invicti (fictional midwinter holiday from The Hidden Almanac)


Fandoms and characters:
- Blackadder, with Edmund Blackadder (Goes Forth) and Kevin Darling (Goes Forth)
- Dot (BBC radio), with Dot and Millicent Hillary Hillary Jones
- The Goes Wrong Show, with Chris Bean and Robert Grove (but my additional tag offers the "exception" to write about any other character(s) in the cast instead, if you so wish!)
- The Hidden Almanac, with Reverend Mord and Pastor Drom


Prompts (the fandom-specific ones are also sometimes more detailed in my letter):

- generally, I enjoy the winter season and snowy weather, festiveness and stories/myths/etc. related to Christmas or midwinter generally, and both celebrations that are surprisingly sentimental, or ones that are just utterly awful (but maybe there's a moment of happiness at the end, anyway). Stupid/fun/overly formalised/meaningful traditions or horrible/well-meaning family appearances are also all delightful!

- [Blackadder] something featuring the ghost from Blackadder's Christmas Carol trying to reform the Blackadder family line again could be fun! Or generally something set during Christmas-time at the front.
- [Dot] maybe a gift exchange at the Cabinet War Rooms goes very, *very* wrong, and shenanigans ensue in order to save the day? Or a twig of unfortunately-placed mistletoe is causing a lot of upset?
- [The Goes Wrong Show] they put on Christmas plays so often, I'd love something in that spirit! Or a very miserable Christmastime for the characters where lots of things go wrong, which also seems like it'd be in the Cornley spirit... also possible would be something set during one of those more festive plays they've put on, or the radio segment "The Christmas That Goes Wrong" (which is sadly not very accessible though, due to it being radio with, as far as I know, no commercial release, and only one recording on the currently-unavailable Internet Archive...)
- [The Hidden Almanac] I'd love to know more about the podcast's fictional winter holiday, and how Mord and Drom might celebrate it! Feel free to invent new traditions here, or draw on various real-life traditions, the way the few references we get in the show do.

[tigerlily]

AO3 Name: LittleRaven
Letter Link (if applicable): https://tigerlily.dreamwidth.org/67378.html
Holiday(s) Requested: any canonical winter holiday—a madeup one if there isn’t; Christmas for Gods of Jade and Shadow
Fandom and character(s):
Black Magician Trilogy - Trudi Canavan
Sonea (Black Magician Trilogy)

Pellinor - Alison Croggon
Maerad of Pellinor
Zelika (Pellinor)

Gods of Jade and Shadow - Silvia Moreno-Garcia
Casiopea Tun

Prompts: Gifts, warm drinks and/or food, feasts, sleigh rides, cozy inside while snow falls, the holidays in another city/town/village/country