donutsweeper | 2024 Yuletide Letter

Thank you for creating for me!

I am

donutsweeper. I have gifts enabled and welcome treats.

In general I like stories that focus on character development and interactions, hurt/comfort, competence (it's always great to read stories where people do their jobs and do it well even under extreme circumstances), missing scenes, and plotty adventures. Humor, snappy dialog and/or snark are all wonderful and canon type violence is fine. When it comes to worldbuilding, I love it when tiny asides or minor details are fleshed out or anytime a "wait, but how does that work/what did they mean when they said 'X'?" kind of thing or situation is explained.

All Souls (TV) Any (characters in tagset: Mitchell Grace, Glory St. Clair, All Souls Hospital)

Haunted hospitals and unethical experimentation are perfect stepping stones for good storytelling and there was such potential in the ones we saw in "All Souls." There was so many things hinted at in this show that I'd loved to see explored further. What other sorts of ghosts or otherworldly things wander the halls of All Souls? There are times that it really seems the hospital has some sort of sentience and is alive, is it? How does that effect all the experiments that have been done there through the years? How does Mitch tie in to it all and what role does Glory play?

On the less supernatural side of things, I loved the interactions between Mitch and Grace and their implied, only briefly touched upon, history together. A story between Grace and a young Mitch from back then or something where they reminisce about his father would be wonderful as would just an everyday kind of slice of life snippet now that they've reconnected.

DNW omegaverse, genderswap, graphic violence, mpreg, covid/pandemic references or situations, permanent death of canon characters, rape or xeno.

Only six episodes of this show were ever made, which is such a shame because the world it build in that short amount of time was fascinating but so much was left unexplained and unanswered. Just how prevalent were the hospital's hauntings? How is All Souls a "special place" and what did Glory mean when she said "the dead have power here"? Is Glory actually just a normal, everyday person and if not who/what was she? Why do we see her talking with/acknowledging the ghosts and sometimes the hospital itself? How is she tied to All Souls? What is All Souls? What was the story behind the black veiled lady with the pram? How often does Lazarus make appearances? Why is Mitch the spitting image of the doctor in the picture from the Civil War? Has Doctor Ambrosius really been there that whole time and if so what are his powers? What exactly was that creature he was commanding in "The Deal" and are there similar creatures elsewhere in the hospital? Do the staff and patients notice all the hospital's oddities or is it just people like Mitch and Glory who do? I have so many questions and I'd love to read a story that went into... well, any of that.

Unfortunately All Souls has never been released on DVD but all episodes have been put up on youtube. The order they aired was: the pilot, "Spineless", "The Deal", "Bad Blood", "Running Scared", and "One Step Closer to Roger".

In which a Visitor proves a Nuisance - David Malki! (Webcomic) Sully, Time Traveling Assassin, Worldbuilding (any of these characters may appear)

There is a quite a lot going on in this short comic and I am so curious about all of it. Who are the Timecops and how did Sully become one? Is he supposed to have (at least somewhat) befriended someone he's been assigned to save? How did that kind of assignment even work? Does he have many people he's regularly protecting and are all as nonchalant about it as the muttonchop sporting man and the woman he was talking to?

Who is the Time Traveling Assassin? Is there a specific, coordinated group of them or have various different assassins from different points in history and/or agencies? Why do they decide to assassinate the people they do? How (and why) do the Timecops track and stop them? Why the diving helmets and, of all things, a sickle? How does any of the technology work? Is the future they return to stagnant or change with every success and/or failure? I have so many questions.

DNW omegaverse, D/s, E rated fic, explicitly described torture, genderswap, graphic violence, covid/pandemic references or situations, PWP, rape or xeno.

I don't really have anything else to say besides what I put in my signup other than I love this comic and the greater world it implies and want to read a million takes on it.

In which a Visitor proves a Nuisance can be read here.

Nightmare Cafe Any (characters in tagset: Blackie, The All Night Cafe, and Worldbuilding)

What exactly is the All Night Cafe? How does it work? How is it tied to Blackie? Do the two communicate? How is it decided where the Cafe goes and who is drawn to it? How many previous cooks and waitresses has it had? Does the Cafe's appearance change as it moves to different places? What about as the years go by? In the opening voice over Blackie says he's "been here from the beginning" but just how long has that been and what exactly does that mean? What is the Cafe's beginnings?

Please feel free to include Frank and Fay in anything created for me, they are great and very interesting characters but I just didn't have enough slots to nominate them both and couldn't choose between them to only nominate one.

DNW omegaverse, D/s, E rated fic, explicitly described torture, genderswap, graphic violence, covid/pandemic references or situations, permanent death of canon characters, PWP, rape or xeno.

This show fell into an interesting place between being somewhere between horror and scifi/fantasy but there's also a little hopepunk aspect to it as well where things can be changed for the better and those who do wrong might just get their comeuppance and have to pay.

I want to know how the Cafe works, not just where it chooses to go and whose lives it decides to meddle in or how its doors can open into various different places, but everything about how it actually, physically, works like where does its food and other supplies come from? What about its water and power? Who chose the records for its jukebox? How can the cash register always make change? Frank and Fay sometimes just materialize into their roles, in the middle of whisking eggs or making coffee or whatever, does it pull them from their beds? How? From where? How does Blackie know everything about where the Cafe has appeared and what they'll find there? Does he have a hand in any of those kinds of decisions? I am just so curious about the logistics of it all.

Of course, as Nightmare Cafe was cancelled after only six episodes, it didn't really get much of a chance to delve into any of that, but the potential's there and I'd love to read about it!

Nightmare Cafe was never released on DVD but thankfully all its episodes are available online in various places- some are on dailymotion (s1e1 Pilot, s1e2, Dying Well is the Best Revenge s1e3, Fay & Ivy, s1e4 The Heart of the Mystery), and all its episodes are on youtube via this youtube playlist (however those videos require a youtube account to watch).