Highly Atypical

Dear Yuletide Writer,

Thank you for writing for me! You clearly have great taste. ;)

First of all, I want to say that I truly don't want any single request more than any other one that's listed here. I realize some of my requests are much longer than others, but that's primarily due to the number of characters nominated in each. So if you got matched on Periodic Table anthro and are looking at the length of my Alphas prompts, put it out of your mind, I will love what you write just as much regardless of how long the requests are. Second, I usually alphabetize my prompts by fandom, but Farscape is a last-minute addition and I'm not about to copy and paste everything in a different order from the signup form, so it is what it is.

( General likes/dislikes )

I'm open to all ratings, so write whatever you're comfortable writing, and while my prompts tend to lean toward gen-ness, I do like to read romance as well, so if you're a shipper of any sort, please don't feel obligated to avoid it for my sake.

Also, I am completely open to treating and all forms of fanart/IF/whatever, I just perennially forget to opt in.

The prompts themselves are below, along with some commentary on what I love about each source material. Caution: here be spoilers.

Alphas - Anna Levy, Gary Bell - Giver's choice

( Alphas )

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Black Mirror: Hated in the Nation - Any from tagset (Blue Coulson, Karin Parke, Shaun Li)

( Black Mirror: Hated in the Nation )

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Lock In - John Scalzi - Any from tagset (Chris Shane, Leslie Vann)

( Lock In - John Scalzi )

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Periodic Table of Elements (Anthropomorphic) - Chlorine, Fluorine - All characters

( Periodic Table of Elements (Anthropomorphic) )

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Farscape - Aeryn Sun, Moya, Talyn - Giver's choice

( Farscape )

Thanks again for matching to me, dear writer, and I look forward to "meeting" you in December.

-Neb (aka HopefulNebula on AO3)

Dear Yuletide Writer,

Thank you for writing for me! You clearly have great taste. ;)

First of all, I want to say that I truly don't want any single request more than any other one that's listed here. I realize some of my requests are much longer than others, but that's primarily due to the number of characters nominated in each. So if you got matched on Periodic Table anthro and are looking at the length of my Alphas prompts, put it out of your mind, I will love what you write just as much regardless of how long the requests are.

Second, this is my first time in a while doing one spoiler cut per prompt. Wish me HTML luck.

On to the letter itself.

( General likes/dislikes )

I'm open to all ratings, so write whatever you're comfortable writing, and while my prompts tend to lean toward gen-ness, I do like to read romance as well, so if you're a shipper of any sort, please don't feel obligated to avoid it for my sake.


The prompts themselves are below, along with some commentary on what I love about each source material. Caution: here be spoilers.


Alphas - Gary Bell, Anna Levy

( Alphas )

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Black Mirror - USS Callister - Any

( Black Mirror - USS Callister )

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The Darkside Detective - Any


( The Darkside Detective )

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Exit/Corners - Any

( Exit/Corners )

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Periodic Table (anthropomorphic) - Any

( Periodic Table (anthropomorphic) )



Thanks again for matching to me, dear writer, and I look forward to "meeting" you in December.

-Neb (aka HopefulNebula on AO3)

Dear Yuletide Writer,

Hi there! If you're reading this, you have pretty great taste in at least one fandom. So thank you in advance for writing for me!

I really don't have too much introductory to say this time. You may notice that I've copied and pasted a lot of this from previous years' prompts and letters - it's been a very busy/rough year for me and I'm running especially low on spoons as the weather gets colder. Please don't take this as me preferring one fandom over another, or anything like that.

As usual, I've got general things in the first cut and actual prompts & further info in the second one. The third cut is content warnings for one of my requests, since the source material is amazing but risks touching on triggers for a lot of people.

( General likes and dislikes )

And with that, on to the spoilery stuff.


( Cut for length and spoilers for Alphas, Exit/Corners, His Dark Materials, Jake 2.0, and Sunshine (2007) )

Thanks again for writing for me! I look forward to seeing what you have in store. If you have questions or need to reach me, you can go through the mods.

Love and bunnies,

Neb.


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( Previously mentioned, spoilery content warnings for Exit/Corners )

Dear Yuletide Writer,

Thank you so much for writing for me! You clearly have the best taste in all of Yuletide. My letter, with prompts and general likes/dislikes included, is behind the cut. As usual, much of this is copy/pasted from previous letters, so if you get the feeling you've read this before, you're probably right.

(Also of note, this letter isn't in the same order as my signup proper -- I edited one of my prompts in after signing up and I don't want to risk screwing things up by reordering the signup to make it alphabetical.)

( Cut for length and spoilers for Alphas, Black Mirror [Hated in the Nation], His Dark Materials, and Sunshine (2007) )

Thank you so much for writing for me! I hope you have lots of fun. As usual, feel free to contact the mods if you have any questions; they'll pass them along and preserve your anonymity.

<3,
Neb.

Much of this is recyled from years previous, but I've changed all the stuff that needs changing. :)

Dear Yuletide Writer:

Thank you for writing for me! Or thank AO3's matching algorithm for making you write for me. Or something. Here's my letter (with prompts included for easy reference/what-have-you), full of joy and "omg this bit is THE BEST" and all the usual stuff like that.

( Cut for length and spoilers for Alphas, His Dark Materials, Jake 2.0, Lock In - John Scalzi, and The Martian - Andy Weir )

Thank you so much for writing for me! I hope you have lots of fun. As usual, feel free to contact the mods if you have any questions; they'll pass them along and preserve your anonymity.

<3,
Neb.

Athena's connected the word "quesadilla" to "that yummy human food my human gives me sometimes."

I may never have a quiet lunch again.

( Cheese? )

On the latest (black-and-white striped, with a white-and-black striped shirt and a black-and-white polka dot tie) monstrosity Don Cherry is wearing:

"He controls the vertical. He controls the horizontal. He thinks he controls what language people should speak. ...The Coach's Corner. Please stand by."

I haven't even watched The Outer Limits since (mumble) years ago.

The good news: I'm scheduled for surgery! October 29th.

The bad news: I have to prepay for the damn thing.

I am absolutely getting a lower-deductible health insurance next year.

An unrelated question: The Avs are now on their backup backup goalie. If this one gets injured too, do we just put the coach in?

So the dermatologist (I see her every year for exactly this reason) biopsied one of my moles a couple weeks ago. And it came back as precancerous. I've been through that much before, it's why I see the dermo (at a minimum) annually. What's new is that this is the first time the biopsy didn't catch it all so I have to go back to their surgeon. So I get to spend the entire week waiting for a phone call.

In other news, the biopsy site still has a big ol' scab over it (which is normal, as there were no stitches). And it ITCHES. And it's on my BACK. Why does it gotta be on my back? (The answer to that: so you can't scratch it, Neb, you dumbass.)

Anyway, it's PSA o'clock for all of you who're reading this. Know your skin. Nearly everybody has some spots, and it's important to know where they are and what they're like.

The warning signs, keeping in mind that I am Not A Doctor Myself, nor do I play one on TV:
Asymmetry - It may not be perfectly round, but it should be fairly symmetrical. Oval is cool. Blob-shaped is right out.
Border - The border on any moles and the like should be uniformly well-defined. If it's fuzzy, if it's uneven, if it looks like someone broke an egg yolk and now it's spilling everywhere, see a doctor. (If you have no previous personal or family history of skin cancer, you may be able to get away with seeing your GP; otherwise, see a dermatologist.)
Color - Each of your moles should be uniform in color. If it's more than one color, see a doctor. If it takes on a bluish hue, see a doctor. If you have several moles in one part of your body and one of them is colored differently than the others, keep an extra-close eye on it.
Diameter - If it's wider than 6mm (the eraser at the end of your pencil), see a doctor.
Evolution - This is the big one. If any of the above traits changes over time, see a doctor. Full stop, end of story.

Melanoma (not the most common form of skin cancer, but the form I personally am most likely to develop) has a 95% cure rate (that's not remission, that's cure) if it's caught and removed early, but it's nearly impossible to get rid of once it spreads. The good thing about skin is that it's nearly 100% visible, so it can be very easy to catch nasty things early, so long as you know what to look for.

Oh, and wear some damn sunscreen if you're going outside. SPF 15-30 is good for most people, but use a higher one if you're very prone to burning or are otherwise at high risk. (With anything higher than 60, you get diminishing returns, but I use 75 because between my personal history and my city's altitude it's just a good idea for me.) Use more sunscreen than you think you need. Reapply it often, especially if you've been exercising.

For more information (from actual professionals, even!): http://www.skincancer.org/

Dear Yuletide Writer:

Thank you for writing for me! Or thank AO3's matching algorithm for making you write for me. Or something. Here's my letter (with prompts included for easy reference/what-have-you), full of joy and "omg this bit is THE BEST" and all the usual stuff like that.

( Cut for length and spoilers for Alphas, His Dark Materials, Ink (2009), and Sunshine (2007) )

So yeah, that's pretty much it. Feel free to ask me any questions via the admins (I don't bite and neither do they, seriously they're awesome).

<3,

hopefulnebula