Dear Yuletide Writer, 2018
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polkad0ttingHello, I’m polkad0tting (polkadot on AO3). Welcome to my little world!
I’m super excited about this exchange. I’m thrilled that you’re interested in writing for one of my requests, and I hope you have as much fun writing as I will undoubtedly have reading. :)
My slate:
NFL RPF – Stefon Diggs, Teddy Bridgewater
Tennis RPF - Madison Keys, Sloane Stephens
Nero Wolfe – Rex Stout - Fritz Brenner
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General likes:
• Competence, sports, friends-to-lovers, falling in love, comfortable established relationships filled with affection and in-jokes, couples kicking butt together and saving the team, people knowing each other and their strengths/weaknesses really well, banter, emotional support, plans, plans that don’t go according to plan, working together and using different strengths, coming-out stories, five-times fics.
• In romance: Snark, banter, fond teasing, zaniness, affection laced with humor, snuggling in bed, having sex on sports equipment/in the gym.
• In porn: Kissing, exploring a partner’s body, unexpected erogenous zones, talking during sex, sex that doesn’t go quite right but they run with it and make it awesome anyway, incoherent noises, morning sex, well-developed biceps and shoulders, fingering that's enjoyed for itself, wall-sex, multiple orgasms, laughter.
DNWs:
• Infidelity, bullying, cruel jokes, noncon, dubcon, incest, bestiality, underage, character death, graphic descriptions of character injury, unrequested ships, slutshaming, racial slurs, homophobia, transphobia, misogyny, depression and other mental illnesses.
• In romance: Unrequited love, gaslighting, characters who are in love but don’t seem to really like each other very much, A/B/O.
• In porn: Pain as a kink, someone not caring about their partner's comfort and pleasure, humiliation and/or degradation.
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On to the requests!
NFL RPF
I am a massive Vikings fan. I honestly love pretty much every guy on the team. I tried listing my top favorites, and once it got to 20 names I gave up. Probably my top five, chosen with great agony, are Teddy Bridgewater, Jet McKinnon, Everson Griffen, Stefon Diggs, and Linval Joseph. (Sadly two of those guys left this summer – Teddy ended up on the Saints and Jet on the 49ers – but I will love them forever, and am definitely rooting for them to do well on their new teams.) I’m only requesting Teddy and Stefon in this exchange, but feel free to expand the cast to include additional Vikings if you like! I love ensemble fic and any additional Vikings you might use as background characters would thrill me. I’m extremely easy to please in this fandom. :)
Stefon is a hoot. So confident and funny and irreverent! Yet simultaneously he’s an incredibly hard worker, a real family guy (including stepping up for his younger brothers when his dad died), and a big team player (despite the way he teases his teammates). I love his stylish fashion sense, and his dance moves, and his irrepressible laugh. And of course the Miracle made me cry with happy, happy tears.
Meanwhile, I adore Teddy. He’s such a genuine, sweet, funny guy, and he’s had such a great attitude after his horrific knee dislocation. It takes a special person to be a beloved team leader even while you’re sidelined for two seasons. Especially this past year when we went to the playoffs and had the Miracle and were trying to get to our home-stadium Super Bowl, and Teddy had to stay on the sidelines and be a loyal cheerleader, when every bone in his body must have been screaming for him to get out on the field. I’m still heartsick over the way his Vikings story ended, though of course I’m rooting for him to have an amazing future career.
So I would love to read about a universe where Stefon and Teddy were happy and in love (and preferably playing great on the field!) I’d be equally pleased to read alternate universes (like, if the injury didn’t happen, or if Teddy had been re-signed this offseason and Kirk had gone elsewhere), or current-universe (perhaps the two of them fell in love during Teddy’s rehab? Or futurefic in which they’re navigating a long-distance relationship during the 2018 season?)
I’m not wedded to any specific prompts, if you have an alternate idea, as long as Teddy and Stefon are happy and in love. But here are a few ideas:
• Teddy didn’t get injured. The 2017 season unfolds the way it did, except it’s Teddy who throws the Miracle to Stefon, Teddy who leads the team to the NFC Championship, and in this universe they win. Either established-relationship with Teddy and Stefon, or friends-to-lovers in which they fall in love along the way.
• Teddy and Stefon win the Super Bowl together. How does it happen? What’s the preparation and/or the game like? How do they celebrate together?
• Teddy and Stefon didn’t fall in love while they were on the Vikings together. But now that they’re no longer teammates, Stefon finds himself looking at Teddy with new eyes. They’re offseason-training together, or going on vacation together, and one thing leads to another…
• Coming-out fic! How does it happen? Do they kiss in the endzone after winning the Super Bowl? Are they facing off in a Vikings-Saints playoff game this year and one of them lets it slip in a pre- or post-game interview? Does one of them attend the other’s game during their bye week wearing their boyfriend’s jersey?
• Outside-POV from one/more of their teammates who gradually realizes that Teddy and Stefon are an item. (How? What are the give-aways? Are Teddy and Stefon even trying to be circumspect, or are their teammates just clueless that a real romance is being camouflaged by all the bromances and team bonding around them?) I love slow-reveal and outside-POV.
• Anything that incorporates their relationship into a 96 Questions episode. (For more on 96 Questions, see my Vikings Video compilation post.)
• I love The Amazing Race, so Teddy and Stefon going on TAR together would be amazing! I’d especially love a story in which they fell in love over the course of the race, but established relationship would also be awesome.
If you aren’t a shipper and would prefer to write gen, worry not! I am also interested in Teddy & Stefon as simply good friends, and a lot of my shippy prompts could be written as gen friendship as well. Winning the Super Bowl together, for instance, or going on Amazing Race together.
Fandom-specific DNWs:
• Injury-related angst. Passing mentions are okay, or fic set during Teddy’s injury years, but I’m already heartbroken about Teddy’s injury and what it did to his career. So a focus on the injury and/or a lot of injury-related angst wouldn’t be my jam. (Also, please don’t include Everson Griffen’s current absence from the team due to mental health; while I totally support & love Griff, a fic that focused on his illness would not be something I could read.)
• Teddy’s longtime girlfriend and/or Stefon’s daughter. I am uncomfortable with non-famous relatives being involved in RPF.
• Any homophobic reactions. The current Vikings locker room is very chill and comfortable in its masculinity, and I don’t think it’d be IC for them to react badly. (Except for Mike Priefer, the special-teams coach, who wants to nuke all the gays. Please leave him out entirely, because I dislike him greatly.) Though of course the team would tease, because they tease about everything. ;)
• Mentions and/or inclusions of Ben Roethlisberger, Adrian Peterson, the Washington team, and/or any other NFL players with allegations or convictions of sexual assault and/or domestic violence. I don’t care about minor drug allegations, though (so for example including Odell would be fine).
Tennis RPF
Madison Keys, Sloane Stephens
I absolutely adore these amazing women, and pretty much any story you write me about them would be AMAZING. I ship them like whoah (the medal ceremony after the US Open in 2017 was the best medal ceremony ever and ensured they’d forever be a tennis OTP for me), but I am also totally into gen friendship fic.
If you too ship them, I’d love to read any cute flirting, falling-in-love, tennis-girlfriends story. When did they start flirting? Did they text to keep each other’s spirits up during their injuries? Did they encourage other during their 2017 comebacks (only to end up facing each other on the biggest stage)? Or did their relationship go from friends to lovers only during the 2017 USO? How might Maddie have congratulated Sloane for her victory? ETC. Futurefic with Maddie winning her first Slam, and Sloane congratulating her (for any rating of congratulating, lol), would be absolutely wonderful too.
I also adore Naomi Osaka, so if you want to include her as a friend to Maddie & Sloane (whether you are shipping Maddie/Sloane or writing gen), I would be totally into that too. I am good with matchmaking fic, if that interests you, but not shovel talks. I also kinda ship Naomi/Michael B. Jordan, if that’s up your alley.
Anything inspired by my general likes would be great as well! A few more general prompts:
• Clandestine locker-room affection, whether that’s knowing glances, inside jokes, or snatched kisses when nobody’s around.
• Work hard, party hard!
• How a friendship deepens into love.
• Strength and athleticism in bed as a major turn-on.
• Pranks, shenanigans, tricks, goofing-off, etc.
• Sloane and Maddie having to figure out what it means that they keep falling into bed together.
• Coming-out fic (privately or publicly).
• Being competitive in the bedroom (because they obviously have competitive personalities!)
Fandom DNWS: CoCo Vandeweghe (except minor mentions of Maddie/Sloane/Naomi beating her), any American male tennis players appearing except Frances Tiafoe or Ernesto Escobedo (that includes Jack Sock, Sloane’s ex), Donald Trump congratulating Sloane, any mention of the umpire drama during Naomi’s 2018 USO win.
Nero Wolfe – Rex Stout
Fritz Brenner
I want to see the Nero Wolfe operation from Fritz's point of view! :D What does he think of Wolfe and Archie and their cases? Either in general, or in a particular case. (I think I've read all the books, and like them all, so pick any one to set a fic in, or of course you can create your own.)
I'd love to read about a day in Fritz’s life, with his primary job of cooking being interrupted off and on by the folderol in Wolfe's office (and by the occasional need for him to answer the door if Archie's out on business). Or perhaps a five-times fic, with whatever theme you like! (Five times Fritz had to answer the door when Archie was away, and one time Wolfe answered it himself/one time nobody was allowed to answer it? Five times Fritz made phenomenal dinners despite all distractions, and one time he regrettably burned the pudding? Five times Fritz was unflustered by a visitor, and once he lost his cool? SO MANY OPTIONS!)
I’d also particularly love to read a Wolfe/Archie story from Fritz’s perspective (I ship them so much). I think he’d be an amazing outside narrator. :D
Fandom DNWs: Fritz in a romantic relationship, power-play in a Wolfe/Archie relationship, detailed descriptions of meat dishes (detailed descriptions of non-meat dishes are on the other hand perfectly fine), heavy focus on the characters who don’t live in the brownstone (Cramer, Saul, Lily, etc).
Thank you for writing for me! I’m really excited. :D
I’m super excited about this exchange. I’m thrilled that you’re interested in writing for one of my requests, and I hope you have as much fun writing as I will undoubtedly have reading. :)
My slate:
NFL RPF – Stefon Diggs, Teddy Bridgewater
Tennis RPF - Madison Keys, Sloane Stephens
Nero Wolfe – Rex Stout - Fritz Brenner
General likes:
• Competence, sports, friends-to-lovers, falling in love, comfortable established relationships filled with affection and in-jokes, couples kicking butt together and saving the team, people knowing each other and their strengths/weaknesses really well, banter, emotional support, plans, plans that don’t go according to plan, working together and using different strengths, coming-out stories, five-times fics.
• In romance: Snark, banter, fond teasing, zaniness, affection laced with humor, snuggling in bed, having sex on sports equipment/in the gym.
• In porn: Kissing, exploring a partner’s body, unexpected erogenous zones, talking during sex, sex that doesn’t go quite right but they run with it and make it awesome anyway, incoherent noises, morning sex, well-developed biceps and shoulders, fingering that's enjoyed for itself, wall-sex, multiple orgasms, laughter.
DNWs:
• Infidelity, bullying, cruel jokes, noncon, dubcon, incest, bestiality, underage, character death, graphic descriptions of character injury, unrequested ships, slutshaming, racial slurs, homophobia, transphobia, misogyny, depression and other mental illnesses.
• In romance: Unrequited love, gaslighting, characters who are in love but don’t seem to really like each other very much, A/B/O.
• In porn: Pain as a kink, someone not caring about their partner's comfort and pleasure, humiliation and/or degradation.
On to the requests!
NFL RPF
I am a massive Vikings fan. I honestly love pretty much every guy on the team. I tried listing my top favorites, and once it got to 20 names I gave up. Probably my top five, chosen with great agony, are Teddy Bridgewater, Jet McKinnon, Everson Griffen, Stefon Diggs, and Linval Joseph. (Sadly two of those guys left this summer – Teddy ended up on the Saints and Jet on the 49ers – but I will love them forever, and am definitely rooting for them to do well on their new teams.) I’m only requesting Teddy and Stefon in this exchange, but feel free to expand the cast to include additional Vikings if you like! I love ensemble fic and any additional Vikings you might use as background characters would thrill me. I’m extremely easy to please in this fandom. :)
Stefon is a hoot. So confident and funny and irreverent! Yet simultaneously he’s an incredibly hard worker, a real family guy (including stepping up for his younger brothers when his dad died), and a big team player (despite the way he teases his teammates). I love his stylish fashion sense, and his dance moves, and his irrepressible laugh. And of course the Miracle made me cry with happy, happy tears.
Meanwhile, I adore Teddy. He’s such a genuine, sweet, funny guy, and he’s had such a great attitude after his horrific knee dislocation. It takes a special person to be a beloved team leader even while you’re sidelined for two seasons. Especially this past year when we went to the playoffs and had the Miracle and were trying to get to our home-stadium Super Bowl, and Teddy had to stay on the sidelines and be a loyal cheerleader, when every bone in his body must have been screaming for him to get out on the field. I’m still heartsick over the way his Vikings story ended, though of course I’m rooting for him to have an amazing future career.
So I would love to read about a universe where Stefon and Teddy were happy and in love (and preferably playing great on the field!) I’d be equally pleased to read alternate universes (like, if the injury didn’t happen, or if Teddy had been re-signed this offseason and Kirk had gone elsewhere), or current-universe (perhaps the two of them fell in love during Teddy’s rehab? Or futurefic in which they’re navigating a long-distance relationship during the 2018 season?)
I’m not wedded to any specific prompts, if you have an alternate idea, as long as Teddy and Stefon are happy and in love. But here are a few ideas:
• Teddy didn’t get injured. The 2017 season unfolds the way it did, except it’s Teddy who throws the Miracle to Stefon, Teddy who leads the team to the NFC Championship, and in this universe they win. Either established-relationship with Teddy and Stefon, or friends-to-lovers in which they fall in love along the way.
• Teddy and Stefon win the Super Bowl together. How does it happen? What’s the preparation and/or the game like? How do they celebrate together?
• Teddy and Stefon didn’t fall in love while they were on the Vikings together. But now that they’re no longer teammates, Stefon finds himself looking at Teddy with new eyes. They’re offseason-training together, or going on vacation together, and one thing leads to another…
• Coming-out fic! How does it happen? Do they kiss in the endzone after winning the Super Bowl? Are they facing off in a Vikings-Saints playoff game this year and one of them lets it slip in a pre- or post-game interview? Does one of them attend the other’s game during their bye week wearing their boyfriend’s jersey?
• Outside-POV from one/more of their teammates who gradually realizes that Teddy and Stefon are an item. (How? What are the give-aways? Are Teddy and Stefon even trying to be circumspect, or are their teammates just clueless that a real romance is being camouflaged by all the bromances and team bonding around them?) I love slow-reveal and outside-POV.
• Anything that incorporates their relationship into a 96 Questions episode. (For more on 96 Questions, see my Vikings Video compilation post.)
• I love The Amazing Race, so Teddy and Stefon going on TAR together would be amazing! I’d especially love a story in which they fell in love over the course of the race, but established relationship would also be awesome.
If you aren’t a shipper and would prefer to write gen, worry not! I am also interested in Teddy & Stefon as simply good friends, and a lot of my shippy prompts could be written as gen friendship as well. Winning the Super Bowl together, for instance, or going on Amazing Race together.
Fandom-specific DNWs:
• Injury-related angst. Passing mentions are okay, or fic set during Teddy’s injury years, but I’m already heartbroken about Teddy’s injury and what it did to his career. So a focus on the injury and/or a lot of injury-related angst wouldn’t be my jam. (Also, please don’t include Everson Griffen’s current absence from the team due to mental health; while I totally support & love Griff, a fic that focused on his illness would not be something I could read.)
• Teddy’s longtime girlfriend and/or Stefon’s daughter. I am uncomfortable with non-famous relatives being involved in RPF.
• Any homophobic reactions. The current Vikings locker room is very chill and comfortable in its masculinity, and I don’t think it’d be IC for them to react badly. (Except for Mike Priefer, the special-teams coach, who wants to nuke all the gays. Please leave him out entirely, because I dislike him greatly.) Though of course the team would tease, because they tease about everything. ;)
• Mentions and/or inclusions of Ben Roethlisberger, Adrian Peterson, the Washington team, and/or any other NFL players with allegations or convictions of sexual assault and/or domestic violence. I don’t care about minor drug allegations, though (so for example including Odell would be fine).
Tennis RPF
Madison Keys, Sloane Stephens
I absolutely adore these amazing women, and pretty much any story you write me about them would be AMAZING. I ship them like whoah (the medal ceremony after the US Open in 2017 was the best medal ceremony ever and ensured they’d forever be a tennis OTP for me), but I am also totally into gen friendship fic.
If you too ship them, I’d love to read any cute flirting, falling-in-love, tennis-girlfriends story. When did they start flirting? Did they text to keep each other’s spirits up during their injuries? Did they encourage other during their 2017 comebacks (only to end up facing each other on the biggest stage)? Or did their relationship go from friends to lovers only during the 2017 USO? How might Maddie have congratulated Sloane for her victory? ETC. Futurefic with Maddie winning her first Slam, and Sloane congratulating her (for any rating of congratulating, lol), would be absolutely wonderful too.
I also adore Naomi Osaka, so if you want to include her as a friend to Maddie & Sloane (whether you are shipping Maddie/Sloane or writing gen), I would be totally into that too. I am good with matchmaking fic, if that interests you, but not shovel talks. I also kinda ship Naomi/Michael B. Jordan, if that’s up your alley.
Anything inspired by my general likes would be great as well! A few more general prompts:
• Clandestine locker-room affection, whether that’s knowing glances, inside jokes, or snatched kisses when nobody’s around.
• Work hard, party hard!
• How a friendship deepens into love.
• Strength and athleticism in bed as a major turn-on.
• Pranks, shenanigans, tricks, goofing-off, etc.
• Sloane and Maddie having to figure out what it means that they keep falling into bed together.
• Coming-out fic (privately or publicly).
• Being competitive in the bedroom (because they obviously have competitive personalities!)
Fandom DNWS: CoCo Vandeweghe (except minor mentions of Maddie/Sloane/Naomi beating her), any American male tennis players appearing except Frances Tiafoe or Ernesto Escobedo (that includes Jack Sock, Sloane’s ex), Donald Trump congratulating Sloane, any mention of the umpire drama during Naomi’s 2018 USO win.
Nero Wolfe – Rex Stout
Fritz Brenner
I want to see the Nero Wolfe operation from Fritz's point of view! :D What does he think of Wolfe and Archie and their cases? Either in general, or in a particular case. (I think I've read all the books, and like them all, so pick any one to set a fic in, or of course you can create your own.)
I'd love to read about a day in Fritz’s life, with his primary job of cooking being interrupted off and on by the folderol in Wolfe's office (and by the occasional need for him to answer the door if Archie's out on business). Or perhaps a five-times fic, with whatever theme you like! (Five times Fritz had to answer the door when Archie was away, and one time Wolfe answered it himself/one time nobody was allowed to answer it? Five times Fritz made phenomenal dinners despite all distractions, and one time he regrettably burned the pudding? Five times Fritz was unflustered by a visitor, and once he lost his cool? SO MANY OPTIONS!)
I’d also particularly love to read a Wolfe/Archie story from Fritz’s perspective (I ship them so much). I think he’d be an amazing outside narrator. :D
Fandom DNWs: Fritz in a romantic relationship, power-play in a Wolfe/Archie relationship, detailed descriptions of meat dishes (detailed descriptions of non-meat dishes are on the other hand perfectly fine), heavy focus on the characters who don’t live in the brownstone (Cramer, Saul, Lily, etc).
Thank you for writing for me! I’m really excited. :D
