platinum_firebird | Yuletide Letter 2025

Thanks for reading my letter! Please don't be put off if I have more ideas for one ship/character than another - I have been requesting some for a long time, and I can promise I am equally enthusiastic about all the ideas I've put down here! Also, my account is open for treats! My AO3 is platinum_firebird.

LIKES:

pining

friends to lovers

having 'casual' sex while secretly pining

adventures and casefic

plotty fic

hurt/comfort

helping someone with an injury while pining

presumed dead

praise kink

dirty talk

first times

virginity kink

breeding kink

desperate sex

handholding

angst with a happy ending

sex pollen

omegaverse

loyalty kink

slow burn

bittersweet to happy endings (unless otherwise indicated)

found family

lush description of landscapes/settings

worldbuilding

DNWs

ABDL

scat/watersports

24/7 dom/sub relationships

de-aging

incest

underage with anyone under 15

knifeplay

age regression

parasites

non-con (unless requested- dubcon of the sex pollen/fuck or die kind is good!)

vore

anal tearing/bleeding

modern AU

high school AU

Star Wars: Visions Vol 2
Toul, Loi'e, Daal, Aau the Korban

I absolutely loved all four of these characters and their stories! What I would really love for all four of them is to see where they go next.

Toul - I would love to see Toul staying together with Ara and having adventures together. I would be equally happy for you to ship them together or have them stay best friends! I would love to see Toul deepening his knowledge as a Jedi, and for Ara to reconcile or learn more about her own heritage. How do they continue to help the Jedi against the Sith? I'm fully on board with any weird Force shenanigans or magic you want to throw in!

Loi'e - Desperate to see her continued attempts to reunite and reconcile with her son! I imagine it'll be a difficult, painful process, but hopefully worth it. I would also love to see the continued actions of her and her band in aid of the Rebellion! Or maybe rebuilding efforts once the war against the Empire is won?

Daal - Absolutely fascinated by the possibilities of who Daal could become as a Sith. I'm really into Sith who don't turn into one-note moustache twirling villains, and nuanced takes on the Dark Side. What does she learn from the Sith, and how does she put it into practice? What kind of Sith does she become? Does she ever go back for her friends? If so, does she find them, or have they moved on - or has tragedy struck? I think it would be fascinating to see Daal the full-fledged Sith reunite with her old friends, or to see her faced with the choice of whether or not to recruit her own apprentice. As I said above, I'm totally up for weird Force stuff or digging deeper into the magical side of the Force!

Aau - I loved Aau oh so much and I would love to see her become a Jedi! I would love to see anything from her training or her as a full Jedi. Or maybe something about her exploring the galaxy? Would love to see how she grows in confidence and confronts the challenges of the wider galaxy. Always up for more odd or fun Force goings on!

Kyle Murchison Booth Stories

Kyle Murchison Booth, John Pelham Ratcliffe

I love the classic horror stories vibe of this canon, and all its creepiness, and how much Booth resents and fears being caught up in all of it. I also love how he's genre-savvy most of the time, with his general knowledge about ghosts/demons/the supernatural, even when he’s also very afraid.

Prompts:

- Just any case-fic, ghost story, or monster-of-the-week type story! Take your favourite type of ghost story, or folklore creature/monster, and have Booth encounter it!

- Vampires. I love vampires, and Booth’s already encountered werewolves, so why not their (supposed) natural enemies? A very hot vampire gentleman flirting with and menacing Booth would be ideal.

- Post-canon for A Theory of Haunting - Booth visiting Alexis? Or I would also love to see an AU where Alexis didn't have a nervous breakdown as in canon - what does he do next? Does Booth see him again? Maybe another Alexis & Booth ghost adventure? I loved how Alexis was confident about his abilities but came to work with Booth - maybe Booth becoming a somewhat unwilling mentor figure?

- I do ship Booth/Ratcliffe so feel free to go there in any way you see fit! Awkward flirting/first times? Get togethers? Casefic with a romantic element? I'd love all of that.

- If you wanted to go for smut I would love that! Either fluffy/romantic between Ratcliffe/Booth or Booth/OMC, or I would also be very into non- or dub-con between Booth and an antagonistic OMC, especially if the OMC is monstrous somehow! (Non-con DNW doesn't apply for this particular prompt!)

Fandom Specific DNWs:

- Booth/any female character or OC (shipping him with a male OC is fine and encouraged though!)

- Ivo Balthasar on-screen or in an on-screen relationship with Booth. I don't mind their relationship playing out as it did in canon, and I also would love to see Booth remembering what happened and healing from it, but I don't want any story where they meet again somehow, or an AU that gets them together.

Nausicaä of the Valley of the Wind
Nausicaä

- I would love some worldbuilding for the people and groups in this world - how does the world work? The valley where Nausicaä lives? What are the other countries/human settlements, how do they interact with each other?

- I absolutely love the way the history of this world is remembered and immortalised in the tapestry that we're shown in the opening credits. I would love something that digs into the meaning behind any of those images, what people remember and/or are taught about them, or about the ancient world in general. What knowledge has survived, been passed down, or been rediscovered?

- I would love to see more of Nausicaä's adventures and explorations of the forest and the world outside the valley, whether that's before or after canon. Seeing post-canon Nausicaä grow into a champion for responsibly exploring the legacy left by the ancient world would be amazing.

- I'm also so here for the amazing flora! Any exploration of that, and how the jungle works, would be awesome. Or Nausicaä somehow reconnecting with or learning more about the Ohm, later in life?

Campaign

I picked any - I'm happy with any character from the tagset!

- Just more silly canon-esque Shenanigans would be perfect for me, no matter who the character(s) are! Whether it's a missing scene from the podcast timeline, or something during the time before the show, or post-canon - any setting would be great! Just any of them having wild and wacky adventures :D This is one of my all time favourite podcasts so like, literally anything about these guys would be awesome!

- Post-canon Mynock crew holiday shenanigans on Elo - I'm sad we never got the Campaign Beach Episode, and I think that should be fixed! I vaguely remember a mention of them possibly running a resort there (I think in the final Binbon & Jubna episode? It's been a while since I listened to that) so how did that happen?

- Alternately, if you wanted to go in a different post-canon direction, I would be totally cool with that! Take the Mynock to your favourite Star Wars location and let loose the havoc xD I would also be super interested in the characters meeting up with other NPCs from the show again, like Talon or Rendezvous, and/or any other canon characters you think it'd be funny for these guys to meet.

- Maybe the Mynock crew finally get back to the actual Rebellion?

- Possible hijinks of a post-canon arc where they actually follow through on dropping Nemo off with Zara?

- Or a post-canon arc where they have to get D20 back from Kamino, including a lot of wrangling with the Empire and angst for Bacta over going back to his "homeworld"? (This podcast happened before certain things happened in Bad Batch, so you can either go with that canon or handwave it).

- Either post-canon idea above, but from the perspective of the Bluebird crew?

- Or maybe the Bluebirds get their own post-canon adventure?

- For shipping, I like Zero/Blue, Tryst/Bacta, Sneak/Tubaik, Lyn/hot women, and Tryst/the most unadvisable person you can think of xD (I don't mind Tryst/Aava or Bacta/Rendezvous or Bacta/Sian being a thing, I just don't actively ship them and would prefer these ships not be the focus of the story).

Dark Matter - Michelle Paver

Gus Balfour

Jack Miller

I love everything about this book, from the plot to the setting to the characters to the horror. Go as scary as you like with your fic, I will love it! I love Jack and his prickly exterior that hides a softer centre, and how determined he is to not let everybody else down and to complete their task out on the island. I love how he’s either not really aware of being in love with Gus at first, or tries to hide it in his written journals. I love how Gus is like an action hero but doesn’t seem to realise it, and he’s just so earnest and well-meaning despite sometimes putting his foot in his mouth.

Prompts:

- Any kind of Gus Lives!AU. Maybe Jack manages to save him right at the end?

- I would love some post-canon AU feels where Gus and Jack work out they’re into each other and how to go forward with their lives.

- I would absolutely love if by some circumstance Algie had to leave Gruhuken sometime after they arrived (perhaps he’s the one who gets appendicitis?) which leaves Gus and Jack on their own confronting the monster. Would love if this included any sort of huddling for warmth/Canadian shack type tropes, or saving one another from the monster, or helping each other hold onto their sanity when they think they’re going mad. And I would love if Algie came in at the eleventh hour to save them just like in canon (but no one dies please!)

- I would also love any AU that transposes these characters and their situation to a different setting while keeping the isolated, creepy vibe of canon! Maybe the middle of the wilderness? On top of a mountain? On the bottom of the sea? In space?

Fandom Specific DNW: Isaak dying or any bad things happening to him.

Thanks for reading, and Happy Yuletide!