Dear Julegoat

[extrapenguin]

I'm ExtraPenguin and this is my juletide letter!

Likes

• Same-sex relationships, especially F/F.
• Narratives of reconstruction: fixing something, whether that be a country, a piece of equipment, a relationship, or a person.
• Journeys of discovery, whether the discoverers be the characters or the reader.
• Redemption arcs. Rehabilitative justice.
• Narratives where something happens; plot. External conflicts. Casefic. Action/adventure.
• Comedy of Errors -type things.
• [record scratch SFX] So You're Probably Wondering How I Got Into This Situation: the fic
• Madcap adventure
• Crack taken seriously.
• Untitled Goose Game crossovers of the type where the goose comes to visit the canon.
• Alien settings: Dyson spheres, ringworlds, planets tidally locked to their red dwarf stars, artificial habitats on otherwise inhospitable planets, planets with large axial tilts, planets that are actually moons of gas giants, etc.
• Engineering, especially of the sort that keeps civilization running – sewage, maintenance, transport etc – plus infrastructure design stuff.
• Failure analysis/unraveling the causes of catastrophe, e.g. "why did the plane crash?" (yes, I like Mayday and Admiral Cloudberg)
• Characters expressing caring for each other by feeding each other/giving each other tea.
• Established relationships.
• Good mentor figures/teachers who have their students' best interests at heart and succeed.
• Class issues and other tensions between origins and current presentation.
• Worldbuilding!
• Weird physics.
• Tea.
• Competence porn.
• Enthusiasm in general.
• Xenobiology, aliens, very alien aliens.
• Loyalty, loyalty kink, people loyal way past the point of reasonableness.
• Loving descriptions of small details/of how systems run; insertion of Shown Their Work details.
• Happy endings.

I like both shipfic and gen. If you're choosing between something you think the characters would do in a situation and something on my likes list, please err on the side of what you feel is right for the characters and story in general.

DNW

• Setting change AUs (eg: Hogwarts AU, Coffee Shop AU)
• Christianity, mentions of "sinning".
• Humiliation, especially public.
• Unrequested incest, including foster/adopted and master/padawan relationships.
• Motherhood (childcare etc) as a woman's sole or main motivation or purpose.
• Unrequested het between humans or humanoid creatures. (Dolphins are fine, spiders are fine, people having parents is fine, the fabric of society being canonical and het-enabling is fine. Bit part OCs in het relationships are also fine.)
• PIV sex.
• Requested characters being presented as/rendered utterly helpless; the "damsel in distress" trope; woobiefication.
• Stories about mourning unwelcome changes to/realizations about the body, with "body" defined broadly, (ex: acquiring a disability, infertility, weight gain) and the associated grief/angst.
• Stories about mourning a dead person.
• Requested characters dying.
• Stories where the characters have never loved or could never love anyone but each other, incl. soulmates, demisexuality, single-target sexuality, etc. (Exception: soulmate-bestowing geese/geese bullying characters into getting together with someone is okay.)
• Alternate character origin story AUs (e.g. always a Jedi Maul, never a Jedi/slave Anakin, etc)

Getting up to speed on the canons

Legend of Yunze: Two ~1h miniseries. Engsubs for season 1 and season 2.
Changge Xing: Manhua with 61 chapters; currently incomplete.
Uplift series: Series of 6 books and a sequel novella. For Creideiki, you can probably just read book #2, Startide Rising. For the worldbuilding prompts, you probably also want to read books #5 (Infinity's Shore) and #6 (Heaven's Reach) plus the novella Temptation.
Yoko Tsuno: Long-running Franco-Belgian bande dessinee that to my knowledge hasn't been properly translated into English, alas.

云泽传 | Legend Of Yunze (TV)

Jiang Zhaoyun
This was great! The ending is screaming for a fix-it (Jiang Zhaoyun uses her demonic powers to cure A-Ze? They go visit the Daoist who took A-Ze in as a child?) and I'd like canon divergences and pre-canon as well! So Zhaoyun and A-Ze saving more towns from hauntings or finding missing cultivational objects, or Zhaoyun's time as a trainee in her sect. Or sex, that's good as well!

长歌行 - 夏达 | Cháng Gē Xíng | Legend of Li Changge - Xia Da (Manhua)

Ashina Sun
(DNW note: canon-typical levels of het are fine, including Ashina Sun/Li Changge)

I really like the depiction of a multiethnic society and the tensions therein. I also like Sun's investigation of his Khitan heritage! What if he'd arrived before his grandmother died? What sorts of discussions does he have with his aunt, uncle, and cousin? Does he have any other people who remember his parents whom he might want to track down?

Uplift Series - David Brin

Creideiki, Worldbuilding
Note: Please don't dwell on Creideiki's head injury. It's okay if he has it, but I don't want a fic that's All About him having a head injury and how he copes with it – I'd prefer fic about his adventures instead.

• I'd love to see more of Creideiki & co's galactic escape adventure! How do they reach Earth?
• Does their escape adventure/some training cruise of Creideiki's go through E-Space, and perhaps yield them with some new knowledge of how E-Space works? Or do they actually encounter a mad sentient who prefers it to other modes of hyperspace travel?
• Are there still Progenitor relics to be found? Did the Progenitors all unifiedly disappear one day, or did they gradually fade out? Does their find in the Shallow Cluster lead them to another set of clues, or did Creideiki's hunch to investigate the Shallow Cluster come from some prior experience with Progenitor relics?
• How did Creideiki and Hikahi first meet? (I do ship it!)
• Do they stumble across some (illegal) Uplift process? Or a failure/"failure" of an Uplift process?
• What's it like to think in Trinary all day? What does a Trinary courtship look like? What are Creideiki's and Hikahi's (and Chissis's and Tkett's) favorite wordplays?
• Do they have some additional encounters with Galactic bureaucracy, either before or after the whole "everyone wants to murder Earthclan" thing?

For worldbuilding, I'd be especially interested in Trinary, the Whale Dream, the Buyur plan for Jijo, and the Progenitors! What's it like to think in Trinary all day and is the Whale Dream simply the songs of the humpbacks, or is it something internal and intrinsic to every fin? What happened to the Progenitors and are any still around? Is the Buyur plan simply what they said it would be in Temptation, or is there yet another layer hidden there?

Yoko Tsuno (Comics)

Yoko Tsuno
I love how Yoko's an engineer who rolls with all the weird shit she ends up in and befriends a bunch of people wherever she goes. Her spirit of adventure is amazing. I like the technological settings of the adventures and Yoko solving people's problems. This is a major nostalgia canon and I'd love some Yoko adventures, especially in the Andromeda galaxy. I mostly ship Yoko/Khâny, but tbh Yoko/any of the adult women she interacts with is also great.

• Yoko & co discover something new and exciting around Vinéa? A new superweapon on Earth? Time travel into the future?
• Waking up Vinéans from hibernation/participating in the reconstruction efforts? Some new astronomical phenomenon near Vinéa that Khâny requests Yoko's assistance with?
• Some sort of cast herd crossover, with time travel on Vinéa, or e.g. Khâny joining for an Earth time travel adventure?
• Investigating a Vinéan colony from their own galaxy?
• A spy adventure on Earth with stolen military technology? Some baddie Yoko has to stop from destroying the planet?