Dear Yuletide 2022 Author(s)

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updated 10.21.2022 with crossover prompts

Wheeyay! Thank you so much for offering / plotting to write for me! I'm ribbons at AO3. I am thrilled by treats as well as luck of the draw. :)

Optional details are optional -- if your bunny hares off to some other destination, go whither it wilt. :D

Likes: competence, characters astounding or annoying others by being matter-of-fact, characters being matter-of-fact about being extra, older women being terrifyingly awesome and awesomely terrifying

DNW: incest, underage, preg/babies/kids center stage, humiliation, unhappy ending, slavefic

Poirot - Agatha Christie - Maud Dane Calthorp
I love her! If you'd rather write her pre-Pale Horse (i.e., Moving Finger) and post this as a Marple instead of Poirot universe story, that would totally be cool with me. She's wonderful at either age (and before, and beyond). To see her inflicting her candor / eccentricity / perceptiveness on other Christie characters or OCs or people/creatures in my other fandoms would be glorious. I haven't seen the TV adaptations, so please stick with book canons.


Cynster Family Saga - Therese Osbaldestone
I love her! She steals every scene she's in. I'm particularly fond of her involvement with the characters in the Christmas chronicles, with Caro Sutcliffe, and with Devil's Brood, but I'll be delighted at any glimpse of her machinations, counselling, etc.


Page & Sommers - Mrs. Patel
I love her! The glimpses we got of her in Missing Page were maddeningly, tantalisingly brief. Please show me more of her being fabulous at her job and making things happen!


Sins of the Cities - Justin Lazarus & Mark Braglewicz
I love the glimpses we get of the working vibe between these two. I want more, please. I'm familiar with Lilywhite Boys, so feel free to move the action forward and to involve members of the younger generation. If you want to add characters from other universes (KJC's England World, other Victorian/Edwardian-era mysteries, etc.) to amp up the mayhem, I'm all for it.


Periodic Table (Anthropomorphic)- Zirconium
This one's pure ego: I'm "zirconium" on Twitter and other platforms, and not gonna lie, I like showing up in stories.

Hard, lustrous, silvery . . . but will burn in air. - Emsley, The Elements

Fandom-specific DNW: Let us not speak of #MinCup. Too soon.

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Here are a handful of random prompts to spark ideas. Since all of my requests are gen, I daresay these are more likely to apply to situations the characters may be observing or solving...

'"I have come," said the man, who was Wildeve. "You give me no peace. Why do you not leave me alone? I have seen your bonfire all the evening." The words were not without emotion, and retained their level tone as if by a careful equipoise between imminent extremes.' (Thomas Hardy, Return of the Native)

"But way back where I come from, we never mean to bother
We don't like to make our passions other people's concern
And we walk in the world of safe people
And at night we walk into our houses and burn" (Dar Williams, "Iowa")

"At some time in the late 1940s, on the occasion of a concert in Cambridge, I was told of two graduate students in English at Harvard who had built what I believe was a clavichord. Such reports usually arrive with an invitation to inspect a cherished and totally unplayable instrument. Having contrived politely to dodge the invitation, I never found out what the qualities of this instrument might have been." (Ralph Kirkpatrick, foreword to Frank Hubbard's Three Centuries of Harpsichord Making)

"Just had a visit from the Dutchman who works here & writes poetry incessantly. I hope he wasn't one of your problems too. One poem this time is about his soul fermenting in a barrel of sauerkraut. He's so grateful to God for sending him such marvelous ideas, but personally I'm afraid God is playing tricks on him." (Elizabeth Bishop, letter to Robert Lowell, 18 July 1950)

"I think it's a huge mistake to think you have to burn bright for your whole life. You cannot sustain it. It's exhausting, and it's not very realistic." (Drew Barrymore, interviewed by Laura Brown, 2016)

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Crossover prompts (should the Two for One mini-challenge be your kind of jam)

Potential Fandom Combinations: Cynster Family Saga / Society of Gentlemen, Cynster Family Saga / Band Sinister, Cynster Family Saga / creator's choice of fandom, Poirot - Agatha Christie / Page & Sommers, Page & Sommers / Will Darling Adventures, Sins of the Cities / England World, Sins of the Cities / Sherlock Holmes, Sins of the Cities / creator's choice of fandom

Prompts:
I am here for Therese Osbaldestone terrorizing gentlemen in any universe. (I don't mind spoilers and am willing to enjoy things canon-blind.)

Same with Maud Dane Calthorp getting on with some of the women in Page & Sommers' circles.

Same with Justin and Mark investigating or countermanding weird or merely sordid ish in other Victorian- or Edwardian era realms.

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Again, thank you for offering to write for me. I look forward to opening my gift on Christmas!

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