Chromatic Yuletide 2025

[moontyger]

Chromatic Yuletide is a collection post for Yuletide requests that include characters of colour. Posting here doesn't obligate you to do anything, but it helps writers find your requests and treat you.

Posting requirements:

Your request centers around at least one character of colour.

(I acknowledge there are some shortcomings with the "person of colour" descriptor. I'm also not going to police who is or isn't a character of colour; please just use your best judgment.)

To participate, simply copy-paste the following into a comment:

AO3 name:
Letter link:
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What is it? description of canon or a link to a canon promo (optional)
What kind of thing am I requesting? also optional

<strong>AO3 name:</strong> <strong>Letter link:</strong> <strong>Fandom:</strong> <strong>Characters:</strong> <strong>What is it?</stong> description of canon or a link to a canon promo (optional) <strong>What kind of thing am I requesting?</strong> also optional

If you post a fic for Yuletide with one or more POC characters, tag it with Chromatic Yuletide so people can find it easily!

Comments

Scholomance by Naomi Novik, The Lazarus Project, Warrior (TV 2019)

[keerawa]

AO3 name: keerawa
Letter link: https://keerawa.dreamwidth.org/6744.html

Fandom: Scholomance by Naomi Novik
Characters: Guo Yi Liu
What is it? Book Trilogy. The first book is the unholy love-child of Harry Potter and Lord of the Flies. In THIS school for magic, it's every child for themself, the school is full of monsters that want to kill you (if one of your fellow students doesn't off you first), and the school itself punishes you for late or missing work in very ... creative ways. Novik's narrator, El, is a cynical young woman who is trying really, really hard to avoid her destiny as the dark queen of the world, even though mass destruction is the only thing she's good at.
What kind of thing am I requesting? An exploration of Guo Yi Liu's family and culture, or her POV on a dark ritual from the 3rd book.

Fandom: The Lazarus Project (TV)
Characters: Shiv
What is it? This 8-episode British TV series is the smartest time loop story I've ever seen, with a side of James Bond spy thriller and action. I love the brilliant multi-racial cast in modern London and the truly surprising plot twists as a tiny group of people try to keep the human race from wiping itself out. It includes sharp tension between the greater good and personal happiness - bring on the angst.
What kind of thing am I requesting? Shiv negotiating a world that time loops when he was the only one who perceived it, or an exploration of his relationships with others on his team.

Fandom: Warrior (TV 2019)
Characters: Ah Toy, Wang Chao
What is it? Like Peaky Blinders, spaghetti Westerns, and/or kung-fu films? You'll love this! Bruce Lee was the original creator of this sexy, pulpy, action-filled genre series that highlights the history of Chinese immigrants in 1870's San Francisco. Enjoy the canonically queer characters, complex characterization, and some of the best martial arts action I've ever seen. The show doesn't shy away from the ugliness of period-typical racism, sexism and sexual exploitation in a city poised on the edge of a race war, a class war, or both. There is political intrigue among the ruling class of San Francisco, the Tongs and business interests of Chinatown, the Irish police, and the Irish 'Working Men' fighting furiously for the jobs Chinese immigrants will work for less.
What kind of thing am I requesting? Ah Toy and Wang Chao are my two favorite characters. Both of them are incredibly clever and brave; they arrived in San Francisco with nothing and somehow carved out space, wealth, power, and independence in a world where that is incredibly difficult. Show me how they managed it!