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st_aurafinaYuletide Lucky Thirteen! Who'da thunk? Hey, author! Hi! We have fandoms in common and that's great.
Don't be startled by the length of this thing. I write long letters – that's my way of flailing earnestly about the things I love. If there are things in my request that don't work for you, I am good with optional details being optional. I am going to be okay with what you write. We love the same thing. Please don't stress out about this assignment. I want you to have fun.
I've got my general likes and dislikes pinned down by now, so I'm cutting and pasting them here.
Things that generally tickle my fancy:
People! Gen, slash, femslash, het. Friendship fic, relationship fic, frenemies, enemies, sexy enemies. People putting their differences aside to work with each other. Backstory, AUs (though not so much the mundane kind), crossovers (see![[archiveofourown.org profile]](https://p.dreamwidth.org/b164c54b26e4/-/archiveofourown.org/favicon.ico)
st_aurafina for fandoms), teamwork.
Plot! Big sweeping plot, small canon-compliant plot, things for the characters to do while they're snarking at each other, things going on around them while they're getting it on. I like stuff to happen.
Competence! I have a huge competence kink. I love seeing people being really, really good at stuff. I love lateral thinkers and characters who follow their instincts and people putting their skills to use in unexpected ways.
Ladies! BAMF female characters who don't have to bring other female characters down to be BAMFs. Mothers and sisters and girlfriends and girlfriends and wives. Women with agency. Women treated with respect.
Representation! People of colour. People outside the gender binary. Queer identities and culture. Non-nuclear families, found families, poly families, family that is family because you get to define it.
Things that I don't like as much (but can handle if the story takes you there):
Sad endings, character death, angst, embarrassment.
Things I'd rather you didn't write:
Cross-gen relationships, incest, teacher/student, employee/employer, non-con, terminal illness.
Onto the specific fandoms. I've written more about some than others – please don't take this as an indication that I have a favourite. Some of them are big canons! Sometimes I have lots of ideas! I definitely do not have a preference for one over the other. I would genuinely love work about any of these fandoms.
The Thing in the Walls Wants Your Small Change
This is an adorable short story, which you can read here:
The Thing in the Walls Wants Your Small Change – Virginia M Mohlere
Tiny ferocious dragon, omg! I'm hoping for expansion on this story, and more insight into magical life in Chicago and Louisiana. F/F is welcome, gen is lovely. Please no actual encounters with Caro's mother, though musing on her impact on the family or her visit to Caro's place are fine.
This story hits all my buttons for urban fantasy: small magics woven into daily life, tiny wonderful things that only you know about, queerness visible but not needing any explanation, and communities of found family looking out for each other.
I love the tiny dragon and how it slowly starts to trust Caro – I'd love to see more of their relationship as her life goes on. I imagine it's sometimes helpful (like in the story) and sometimes not. Does it get along with Aly in the end?
I'm not from the USA but the culture shift from Louisiana to Chicago was fascinating to me, and I wonder what the full year has in store for Caro in this respect. When Caro has her first Chicago winter, does she learn a thing or two about surviving the cold from that little fellow?
(And where do apartment dragons come from? Are there giant sleeping dragon parents living in the foundations? Was it hatched from an egg? Once you've seen the tiny apartment dragons of Chicago, what other small magics do you come across?)
The non-rat-seeing artist neighbour is wonderful, with her calm acceptance of the magic present in the building, and her utter refusal to leave Caro in danger. I bet she's seen a thing or two in her time here, and I would love to know more.
Caro's gran is lovely, and clearly fighting her own battle against the damage done by her daughter. Does she ever come to visit Caro? What does the dragon make of her, and what does she make of Chicago's food scene?
---
Good Luck, Roomba Witch (Artwork)
Anything about this charming scenario would be lovely – more world building, character expansion or stories of technowitches set within the world.
This is a piece of art: good luck, roomba witch by ofsparrows.
I have a clear image of this poor guy disk-surfing, wobbling like a beginner surfer but determinedly keeping up with the rest of his coven. Tell me more about this guy. Is he routinely this unlucky in his life? Are his parents (who sold the vacuum cleaner) not themselves witches? Or are they traditionalists, and if it's not a hickory broom, young man, it's not happening under this roof.
I like the interstitial space of the painting, with the fox balancing on the air conditioner, the sparrows, and the tight press of buildings. I like the idea that there's a lot of stories crammed into those narrow spaces, and I'd love some exploration of the kind of traffic that passes through them. Do vendors fly up and down? Postmen?
---
16 Ways to Kill a Vampire at McDonalds (Interactive Fiction)
Anything that builds on the weirdly prosaic vampire universe we learn about here. Found family and vampire mythos. Femslash or gen would be lovely.
This is an interactive fiction game, very droll and genre savvy. You can find it here: 16 Ways to Kill a Vampire at McDonalds
How did Lucy (the narrator) end up in this weird family of vampire hunters? I'd love some background on Lucy and her team. Did Luke or Maggie realise she had this ability to hear the screams of dead vampire hunters? Did something terrible happen to someone Lucy knows, to give this ability?
Lucy definitely has chemistry with Claire, the cute and perky McDonalds worker. Do they have a follow-up date? I'll bet they don't go to McDonalds. Does Lucy have bad luck, running into vampires at inconvenient moments? How does Claire deal with dating a vampire hunter?
The thing about vampire stories that always fascinates me is the minutiae of the craft, and the place where myth intersects with reality: does garlic work, do you have to be Christian for crosses to work, what about sanctified ground? (What if you built a McDonalds inside a church?) Anything that explores the somewhat eclectic aspects of this world's rules would be lots of fun.
If you wanted to write a crossover, the Yuletide vampire fandoms I'm familiar with are Anita Blake, the Priest movie, Blood Ties books and TV series, the various Dracula iterations, as well as spooky vampire adjacent fandoms like Hellblazer, Constantine and Rivers of London. (If I don't know the fandom, I'm happy to roll with it, but if you want, you're welcome to check withlilacsigil for more details.)
---
The Haunting of Hill House (TV 2018)
I'm all about Theo in this show, and I'd love anything about her. Alternatively, something about the Crain children in the months and years after the finale. Nothing too dark, and nothing Stephen-centric, please.
It's weird to say "Nothing too dark please" in a horror fandom, but the thing that caught my eye about this show was the family dynamics. I am fascinated by the weird way that Hill House changed them, and would love to know more about their recovery after the events of the show. I'd like to see Shirley opening up and trying to be more frank with her husband and I wonder how it will affect her relationship with her own kids. I also wonder whether it will change her reaction to the children of customers at the funeral home who are clearly seeing ghosts of their own. What does Luke choose to do with his new sobriety? I liked the small glimpses we were given of the person he was outside of addiction – someone very gentle and determined, I think. I'd like to see what it's like to rediscover yourself when that constant fear is gone.
Of all the kids, my favourite is Theo, so if we're on the same wavelength there, I'd be thrilled with a Theo-centric piece. I love the way her psychic ability manifests, and I'd love to know more about how she deals with it, especially after the finale when she puts those gloves (and the distance they force her to keep) aside for good. If you want to write about her past, I'd love to know what college was like for her, and how she developed the kind of undercover relationship she obviously maintains with law enforcement for the sake of kids at risk.
My favourite kind of horror is the kind we saw in this series, where the phenomena are dark analogies of real-life issues, and where the supernatural is more than just jump-scares and great special effects. I would love to see a post-finale interpretation of this where the Crain kids are able to find a kind of peace in the way they interact with the dead. Less despair and confusion, more interactivity and resolution for the entities they might encounter in the future.
---
Imperial Radch series – Ann Leckie
The new band of AI cousins forming the (Provisional) Republic of Two Systems, Seivarden bashing her way towards mental health, the Translators upsetting everyone and being weirdly and disturbingly profound, Kalr Five's relationship with ceramics, What Anaander Did Next.
No Seivarden/Breq, please, though Seivarden/Ekalu is fine.
My great loves are the ships and station AIs, and especially their developing culture in the Republic of Two Systems. (I'm sorry – the Provisional Republic of Two Systems.) Tell me a story of these new cousins all thrown together in various stages of acceptance of their new situation. Sphene learning to handle a human crew alongside its ancillaries, Athoek Station negotiating its new autonomy, or those three AI cores which could potentially be new cousins. (What's it like to be a fully autonomous AI growing up in the new Republic with a bunch of older cousins?) Or anything Breq. Breq is a constant delight for me – so certain of herself, and then completely blindsided by unpredictable human feelings.
I love Seivarden and her cranky, one step forward two steps back approach to addiction and adjusting to life one thousand years in the future. I loved it any time that Seivarden's past impacted on her interactions - when she sounds like the hero from a historical drama, or when she despairs at what they're teaching children these days. At the same time, I adore how competent she is in a crisis, even if she falls in a heap once the pressure comes off.
The Translators, omg, the batshit weird Translators. Give me Zeiat throwing back whole unshucked oysters and generally doin' it rong in the Radch. Zeiat returning to the new Republic and intruding on Tisarwat's attempted life as a brilliant young thing on Athoek Station would be wonderful.
Kalr Five's relationship with the dishes was an amazing and unexpected part of Ancillary Sword, and I want to know more about this. Much more. A Kalr Five POV story would be wonderful – her views on the Fleet Captain's obstinancy and loyalty, her opinion of the new Republic and of the other AIs at the Station, as well as ceramics she has loved in her life. I'm sure Five has Opinions on the tea shops of Athoek station – is it possible she posts anonymous reviews, Gossip Girl style?
What happened to teenage!Anaander? Since nobody will take her on board their ship, does she have to get a work assignment and earn her keep in the new Republic? Now that she's presumably cut off from herself, what's it like having to be a normal human after being a 3000-year-old dictator?
---
The Strange Case of Starship Iris - Podcast
Violet and Arkady slowly forming a functional relationship around their intense chemistry, Crewman Jeeter/Krejjh being totally sympatico, Arkady and Captain Tripathi loyalty kink.
The podcast is just eight episodes so far, and you can find them here: The Strange Case of Starship Iris. There are transcripts, if you're not an audio person: Starship Iris transcripts.
This is a jewel of a podcast, that brings the kind of desperate hopeful scramble that I like in a space-based team of rebels. I love all the crewmembers of the Rumour, and would be delighted by a smuggling/rebellion adventure that brings all of their expertise to the forefront.
I felt the chemistry between Violet and Arkady in the first seconds of their first conversation. I love Violet's attention to detail and Arkady's millions of aliases – when two people with very different fields of expertise have attraction like that, I want to mash them together and make them fight crime! I'd adore a little side adventure for these two: something where both of their skill sets come into play, or something where they're jammed into a small space together and have to talk (or make out, or whatever), or something where an alias of Arkady's comes back to bite them, Violet has to play along and Arkady is surprised at how good she is at improvising. Or something when they have some down time to recover and heal from injuries and be gentle with each other.
Krejjh is a gem!! I love their puzzlement with the language differences between Dwarnian and humans. I love their rock-solid relationship with Brian Jeeter, and I love the hints of a dark past or rocky family relationship. Best of all is their puzzled and delighted fascination with the quirks of human culture.
I'd love them to have a happy adventure with Brian, where they get to do all the weird fun human stuff that Brian sometimes forgets is new and exciting to Krejjh. Maybe they could visit whatever passes for a state fair or ag show in this world, where Krejjh can puzzle over why humans are obsessed with the cuteness of some baby animals (cute little piglets which they then happily eat) and not with others (like maggots), and what is the difference between popcorn and packing material anyway?
Sana and Arkady, loyalty kink. Omg, when one character would happily die for another, but that other character is the kind of person who will always find a way to get the both of them out alive. I love their history, and the fact that Arkady feels that whatever tenuous grip she has on morality has come from working with Sana. I don't ship them romantically, but I have no problems seeing them seeking physical comfort with each other as a thing that soldiers do when they're at war. I'd love backstory on their meeting, or anything that shows how that loyalty developed.
I'm just going to put this here, then go away to weep:
Landers never stand down
If the canon we've matched on doesn't work for you, there are a couple of small canons that could be easy to take in.
The Strange Case of Starship Iris is a short podcast – just eight episodes.
The Strange Case of Starship Iris. (Audio)
Starship Iris transcripts
16 Ways to Kill a Vampire in McDonalds is a text-based interactive fiction story that doesn't take long to play through.
It's here: 16 Ways to Kill a Vampire at McDonalds
Good Luck, Roomba Witch is an artwork by ofsparrows, here: good luck, roomba witch
The Thing That Lives in Your Walls Wants Your Small Change is a short story, found here: The Thing in the Walls Wants Your Small Change – Virginia M Mohlere
You can find me most places under st_aurafina: I'mst_aurafina and ![[tumblr.com profile]](https://www.tumblr.com/favicon.ico)
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All my previous Dear Author letters are here: Dear Author. If you have any questions, you're welcome to go through the mods or message my partner,lilacsigil. She won't tell. She's good that way.
Thanks for coming along this Yuletide! I hope you enjoy writing, and I hope you have a great fest.
Don't be startled by the length of this thing. I write long letters – that's my way of flailing earnestly about the things I love. If there are things in my request that don't work for you, I am good with optional details being optional. I am going to be okay with what you write. We love the same thing. Please don't stress out about this assignment. I want you to have fun.
I've got my general likes and dislikes pinned down by now, so I'm cutting and pasting them here.
Things that generally tickle my fancy:
People! Gen, slash, femslash, het. Friendship fic, relationship fic, frenemies, enemies, sexy enemies. People putting their differences aside to work with each other. Backstory, AUs (though not so much the mundane kind), crossovers (see
Plot! Big sweeping plot, small canon-compliant plot, things for the characters to do while they're snarking at each other, things going on around them while they're getting it on. I like stuff to happen.
Competence! I have a huge competence kink. I love seeing people being really, really good at stuff. I love lateral thinkers and characters who follow their instincts and people putting their skills to use in unexpected ways.
Ladies! BAMF female characters who don't have to bring other female characters down to be BAMFs. Mothers and sisters and girlfriends and girlfriends and wives. Women with agency. Women treated with respect.
Representation! People of colour. People outside the gender binary. Queer identities and culture. Non-nuclear families, found families, poly families, family that is family because you get to define it.
Things that I don't like as much (but can handle if the story takes you there):
Sad endings, character death, angst, embarrassment.
Things I'd rather you didn't write:
Cross-gen relationships, incest, teacher/student, employee/employer, non-con, terminal illness.
Onto the specific fandoms. I've written more about some than others – please don't take this as an indication that I have a favourite. Some of them are big canons! Sometimes I have lots of ideas! I definitely do not have a preference for one over the other. I would genuinely love work about any of these fandoms.
The Thing in the Walls Wants Your Small Change
This is an adorable short story, which you can read here:
The Thing in the Walls Wants Your Small Change – Virginia M Mohlere
Tiny ferocious dragon, omg! I'm hoping for expansion on this story, and more insight into magical life in Chicago and Louisiana. F/F is welcome, gen is lovely. Please no actual encounters with Caro's mother, though musing on her impact on the family or her visit to Caro's place are fine.
This story hits all my buttons for urban fantasy: small magics woven into daily life, tiny wonderful things that only you know about, queerness visible but not needing any explanation, and communities of found family looking out for each other.
I love the tiny dragon and how it slowly starts to trust Caro – I'd love to see more of their relationship as her life goes on. I imagine it's sometimes helpful (like in the story) and sometimes not. Does it get along with Aly in the end?
I'm not from the USA but the culture shift from Louisiana to Chicago was fascinating to me, and I wonder what the full year has in store for Caro in this respect. When Caro has her first Chicago winter, does she learn a thing or two about surviving the cold from that little fellow?
(And where do apartment dragons come from? Are there giant sleeping dragon parents living in the foundations? Was it hatched from an egg? Once you've seen the tiny apartment dragons of Chicago, what other small magics do you come across?)
The non-rat-seeing artist neighbour is wonderful, with her calm acceptance of the magic present in the building, and her utter refusal to leave Caro in danger. I bet she's seen a thing or two in her time here, and I would love to know more.
Caro's gran is lovely, and clearly fighting her own battle against the damage done by her daughter. Does she ever come to visit Caro? What does the dragon make of her, and what does she make of Chicago's food scene?
---
Good Luck, Roomba Witch (Artwork)
Anything about this charming scenario would be lovely – more world building, character expansion or stories of technowitches set within the world.
This is a piece of art: good luck, roomba witch by ofsparrows.
I have a clear image of this poor guy disk-surfing, wobbling like a beginner surfer but determinedly keeping up with the rest of his coven. Tell me more about this guy. Is he routinely this unlucky in his life? Are his parents (who sold the vacuum cleaner) not themselves witches? Or are they traditionalists, and if it's not a hickory broom, young man, it's not happening under this roof.
I like the interstitial space of the painting, with the fox balancing on the air conditioner, the sparrows, and the tight press of buildings. I like the idea that there's a lot of stories crammed into those narrow spaces, and I'd love some exploration of the kind of traffic that passes through them. Do vendors fly up and down? Postmen?
---
16 Ways to Kill a Vampire at McDonalds (Interactive Fiction)
Anything that builds on the weirdly prosaic vampire universe we learn about here. Found family and vampire mythos. Femslash or gen would be lovely.
This is an interactive fiction game, very droll and genre savvy. You can find it here: 16 Ways to Kill a Vampire at McDonalds
How did Lucy (the narrator) end up in this weird family of vampire hunters? I'd love some background on Lucy and her team. Did Luke or Maggie realise she had this ability to hear the screams of dead vampire hunters? Did something terrible happen to someone Lucy knows, to give this ability?
Lucy definitely has chemistry with Claire, the cute and perky McDonalds worker. Do they have a follow-up date? I'll bet they don't go to McDonalds. Does Lucy have bad luck, running into vampires at inconvenient moments? How does Claire deal with dating a vampire hunter?
The thing about vampire stories that always fascinates me is the minutiae of the craft, and the place where myth intersects with reality: does garlic work, do you have to be Christian for crosses to work, what about sanctified ground? (What if you built a McDonalds inside a church?) Anything that explores the somewhat eclectic aspects of this world's rules would be lots of fun.
If you wanted to write a crossover, the Yuletide vampire fandoms I'm familiar with are Anita Blake, the Priest movie, Blood Ties books and TV series, the various Dracula iterations, as well as spooky vampire adjacent fandoms like Hellblazer, Constantine and Rivers of London. (If I don't know the fandom, I'm happy to roll with it, but if you want, you're welcome to check with
lilacsigil for more details.) ---
The Haunting of Hill House (TV 2018)
I'm all about Theo in this show, and I'd love anything about her. Alternatively, something about the Crain children in the months and years after the finale. Nothing too dark, and nothing Stephen-centric, please.
It's weird to say "Nothing too dark please" in a horror fandom, but the thing that caught my eye about this show was the family dynamics. I am fascinated by the weird way that Hill House changed them, and would love to know more about their recovery after the events of the show. I'd like to see Shirley opening up and trying to be more frank with her husband and I wonder how it will affect her relationship with her own kids. I also wonder whether it will change her reaction to the children of customers at the funeral home who are clearly seeing ghosts of their own. What does Luke choose to do with his new sobriety? I liked the small glimpses we were given of the person he was outside of addiction – someone very gentle and determined, I think. I'd like to see what it's like to rediscover yourself when that constant fear is gone.
Of all the kids, my favourite is Theo, so if we're on the same wavelength there, I'd be thrilled with a Theo-centric piece. I love the way her psychic ability manifests, and I'd love to know more about how she deals with it, especially after the finale when she puts those gloves (and the distance they force her to keep) aside for good. If you want to write about her past, I'd love to know what college was like for her, and how she developed the kind of undercover relationship she obviously maintains with law enforcement for the sake of kids at risk.
My favourite kind of horror is the kind we saw in this series, where the phenomena are dark analogies of real-life issues, and where the supernatural is more than just jump-scares and great special effects. I would love to see a post-finale interpretation of this where the Crain kids are able to find a kind of peace in the way they interact with the dead. Less despair and confusion, more interactivity and resolution for the entities they might encounter in the future.
---
Imperial Radch series – Ann Leckie
The new band of AI cousins forming the (Provisional) Republic of Two Systems, Seivarden bashing her way towards mental health, the Translators upsetting everyone and being weirdly and disturbingly profound, Kalr Five's relationship with ceramics, What Anaander Did Next.
No Seivarden/Breq, please, though Seivarden/Ekalu is fine.
My great loves are the ships and station AIs, and especially their developing culture in the Republic of Two Systems. (I'm sorry – the Provisional Republic of Two Systems.) Tell me a story of these new cousins all thrown together in various stages of acceptance of their new situation. Sphene learning to handle a human crew alongside its ancillaries, Athoek Station negotiating its new autonomy, or those three AI cores which could potentially be new cousins. (What's it like to be a fully autonomous AI growing up in the new Republic with a bunch of older cousins?) Or anything Breq. Breq is a constant delight for me – so certain of herself, and then completely blindsided by unpredictable human feelings.
I love Seivarden and her cranky, one step forward two steps back approach to addiction and adjusting to life one thousand years in the future. I loved it any time that Seivarden's past impacted on her interactions - when she sounds like the hero from a historical drama, or when she despairs at what they're teaching children these days. At the same time, I adore how competent she is in a crisis, even if she falls in a heap once the pressure comes off.
The Translators, omg, the batshit weird Translators. Give me Zeiat throwing back whole unshucked oysters and generally doin' it rong in the Radch. Zeiat returning to the new Republic and intruding on Tisarwat's attempted life as a brilliant young thing on Athoek Station would be wonderful.
Kalr Five's relationship with the dishes was an amazing and unexpected part of Ancillary Sword, and I want to know more about this. Much more. A Kalr Five POV story would be wonderful – her views on the Fleet Captain's obstinancy and loyalty, her opinion of the new Republic and of the other AIs at the Station, as well as ceramics she has loved in her life. I'm sure Five has Opinions on the tea shops of Athoek station – is it possible she posts anonymous reviews, Gossip Girl style?
What happened to teenage!Anaander? Since nobody will take her on board their ship, does she have to get a work assignment and earn her keep in the new Republic? Now that she's presumably cut off from herself, what's it like having to be a normal human after being a 3000-year-old dictator?
---
The Strange Case of Starship Iris - Podcast
Violet and Arkady slowly forming a functional relationship around their intense chemistry, Crewman Jeeter/Krejjh being totally sympatico, Arkady and Captain Tripathi loyalty kink.
The podcast is just eight episodes so far, and you can find them here: The Strange Case of Starship Iris. There are transcripts, if you're not an audio person: Starship Iris transcripts.
This is a jewel of a podcast, that brings the kind of desperate hopeful scramble that I like in a space-based team of rebels. I love all the crewmembers of the Rumour, and would be delighted by a smuggling/rebellion adventure that brings all of their expertise to the forefront.
I felt the chemistry between Violet and Arkady in the first seconds of their first conversation. I love Violet's attention to detail and Arkady's millions of aliases – when two people with very different fields of expertise have attraction like that, I want to mash them together and make them fight crime! I'd adore a little side adventure for these two: something where both of their skill sets come into play, or something where they're jammed into a small space together and have to talk (or make out, or whatever), or something where an alias of Arkady's comes back to bite them, Violet has to play along and Arkady is surprised at how good she is at improvising. Or something when they have some down time to recover and heal from injuries and be gentle with each other.
Krejjh is a gem!! I love their puzzlement with the language differences between Dwarnian and humans. I love their rock-solid relationship with Brian Jeeter, and I love the hints of a dark past or rocky family relationship. Best of all is their puzzled and delighted fascination with the quirks of human culture.
I'd love them to have a happy adventure with Brian, where they get to do all the weird fun human stuff that Brian sometimes forgets is new and exciting to Krejjh. Maybe they could visit whatever passes for a state fair or ag show in this world, where Krejjh can puzzle over why humans are obsessed with the cuteness of some baby animals (cute little piglets which they then happily eat) and not with others (like maggots), and what is the difference between popcorn and packing material anyway?
Sana and Arkady, loyalty kink. Omg, when one character would happily die for another, but that other character is the kind of person who will always find a way to get the both of them out alive. I love their history, and the fact that Arkady feels that whatever tenuous grip she has on morality has come from working with Sana. I don't ship them romantically, but I have no problems seeing them seeking physical comfort with each other as a thing that soldiers do when they're at war. I'd love backstory on their meeting, or anything that shows how that loyalty developed.
I'm just going to put this here, then go away to weep:
Landers never stand down
If the canon we've matched on doesn't work for you, there are a couple of small canons that could be easy to take in.
The Strange Case of Starship Iris is a short podcast – just eight episodes.
The Strange Case of Starship Iris. (Audio)
Starship Iris transcripts
16 Ways to Kill a Vampire in McDonalds is a text-based interactive fiction story that doesn't take long to play through.
It's here: 16 Ways to Kill a Vampire at McDonalds
Good Luck, Roomba Witch is an artwork by ofsparrows, here: good luck, roomba witch
The Thing That Lives in Your Walls Wants Your Small Change is a short story, found here: The Thing in the Walls Wants Your Small Change – Virginia M Mohlere
You can find me most places under st_aurafina: I'm
All my previous Dear Author letters are here: Dear Author. If you have any questions, you're welcome to go through the mods or message my partner,
lilacsigil. She won't tell. She's good that way. Thanks for coming along this Yuletide! I hope you enjoy writing, and I hope you have a great fest.