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The survey for the Advent Calendar prompts is now open! This survey will take place from July 11 to August 1, 2018. A poll to finalize the prompts will follow. Please fill out the survey only once; we will not collect any personal information. For full rules for the Advent Calendar, please see our Rules page.
The survey can be found here!
Please reblog and spread the word, so that we can have plenty of responses ❤️ Keep in mind that we would like general prompts instead of pairing-specific ones, so that everybody can take part!
Hello, and welcome to the YOI Advent Calendar 2018! We have gathered up all the wonderful prompts you submitted and will now have a public poll to vote for the Advent Calendar prompts.
The calendar will be 27 days long, and each day will have two prompts. Seven of those days will be free days and will have one additional prompt. Thus, we will select the top 47 prompts from the poll.
The prompt poll will be open from August 8 to August 29, 2018. The final prompts for the calendar will be announced on September 5, 2018. You may vote for as many of the options as you like. If you have any questions, please let us know.
Wow, all the responses we received are amazing! Thank you so much for filling out our prompt survey. The prompts are spectacular ❤️
We did have a couple of questions, which we'll go ahead and answer now.
❤️ Question: is it possible to have a discord server set up so we can meet others and even pass around ideas?
Answer: We are planning on a discord server! We'll set it up closer to the holidays. ❤️
❤️ Question: What is love? Baby don't hurt me, don't hurt me, no more
Answer: Oh, I don't know, what can I do? What else can I say, it's up to you ❤️
😘 With enough entries, we'll open up the final poll for prompts on August 8 through August 29. We look forward to your responses then. Thank you for your wonderful support!
This is the third of my five planned ficlets for @yoiadventcalendar. This one is set in my Royalty AU series and was written for the Day 15 theme - Decorating. Other parts of the series can be found on AO3 (https://archiveofourown.org/series/1035840).
Victor wakes to the sensation of a single finger running over his cheek, tracing a careful line along his neck and into the hollow of his collarbone. He stirs, blinking back the weight of sleep, and turns his head.
The dim light that creeps through the curtains around his bed illuminates the sweetest face beside him. Yuuri’s dark hair looks beautiful spilling across Victor’s pillow, almost as gorgeous as the way his lashes fan out across his cheeks, which tinge with pink the moment he sees that Victor is watching him.
Victor’s heart swells at the sight, his lips tugging up into a half-smile. They’ve been married a few months now, but it’s still a delight to wake up like this each morning, and he knows that his husband feels much the same.
“Good morning, sire,” Yuuri murmurs, a playful bite to the honorific. He squirms even closer, tucking himself into Victor’s side as his fingertips continue to roam.
“Good morning,” Victor whispers, voice rough from sleep, and wraps his arm around Yuuri’s shoulders. The light crawling across their pillows is grey. Through a gap in the curtains, he can make out a heavy blanket of dark clouds covering the sky outside. Looks like snow. “Are you trying to cuddle, or are you only using me for my body heat?” Now that he’s noticed, the air in the bedroom is quite crisp.
“I’ve been up a while thinking.” Yuuri’s fingers skim the line where Victor’s underclothes would rest, if he bothered to wear any. “Does Nikiv celebrate the midwinter solstice?”
“Mmmm… no, not as such. I think celebrations used to be more common, but it overlaps with my natal day. Usually, there are too many festivals and parties planned for that week already.” He rolls onto his side and tucks a few stray hairs back behind Yuuri’s ear. “If you wanted to see a solstice celebration here, you’d need to leave the city.”
“Oh.” Yuuri’s tone dips, and his eyes crease at the corners. He’s clearly pondering something, but he doesn’t volunteer what it is. Regardless, he lets Victor soothe the lines and frowns away with gentle fingers and swift kisses until the maid taps at the door to summon them for breakfast.
After breakfast, Victor and Yuuri part for the day to go about their separate business in the castle. As a foreign spouse, Yuuri still has lessons with Yakov and Yuri on local language and customs to attend. Once Yakov has chased Victor from the classroom, waving his sword-cane in mock rage, Victor finds his way down to Lord Christophe’s rooms.
He enters without knocking and drops onto the lounge before Chris can even rise from his desk. “I need your help,” he says, apropos of nothing.
Chris sighs and puts aside his pen, coming over to lean on the back of the sofa. “Yakov kicked you out of the classrooms again?”
“He says I’m distracting.” Victor tilts his head back to make doe eyes at Christophe, exaggerating his pout. “Do you find me distracting?”
“Considering I was getting work done until you let yourself in, very much so,” Chris replies. His mouth is wry, but his tone is teasing. “What can I help you with, my Prince?”
“What do you know about midwinter traditions in Katsu?”
Chris hums to himself, shaking his head. “You should really know these things without asking… after all, your own husband is from there. You’re so thoughtless.”
“Christophe,” Victor lets a note of whining creep into his voice. “Please. I can’t ask Yuuri, or it won’t be a surprise, and I don’t have time to write a letter.”
Chris heaves an unnecessarily loud sigh and begins to comb his fingers through Victor’s hair. “Well, the midwinter holiday in Katsu is more about private celebration than public, to my understanding. It’s a time for couples. There are a few traditional food items for the celebration, and I believe there’s also some decoration.” He shrugs and pulls his hand away even as Victor tilts his face into the touch. “If you want more than that, you’d need to ask Yakov.”
“No, I think that’s enough,” Victor says. He hops to his feet, new inspiration already beginning to brew, and steals Chris’ hand back to kiss his knuckles in gratitude. “Thank you. I’ll get out of your hair now.”
As he bounds for the door, his advisor calls out after him, “Don’t get into too much trouble!”
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Victor knows the second that Yuuri enters their quarters, because he hears the thunk of whatever ridiculous history tome Yakov assigned him falling to the floor. “Victor,” Yuuri calls out, the pitch of his voice climbing.
From the bedroom, Victor replies, “In here!” He hops down from the bed and steps back to admire his handiwork. The whole room sparkles with refracted light.
“Why is there a whole roast chicken in our antechamber?” Yuuri asks, then stops again in the bedroom doorway. His brown eyes go wide as saucers as he takes in the changes all around them.
Every corner and surface of their furniture is draped with the shiniest things Victor could find in the castle - silver, gold, and all manner of sparkling jewels catch the lamplight and throw little rainbows onto the floor and ceiling.
Yuuri’s mouth hangs open slightly as he looks around. “What’s going on? What’s all this?”
“Do you like it?” Victor grins, beaming with pride. There’s a certain primitive joy in this that he didn’t expect when he started - showing off for his love, proving that he can provide whatever Yuuri needs.
In answer, Yuuri starts to laugh, lines of mirth creasing his eyes as he grins. It might have hurt Victor’s feelings, but it’s such a joyful sound, and his Yuuri is so endearing like this, split apart with happiness. Victor can’t resist crossing the room and pulling his husband into a tight embrace, feeling him shake still with quieting laughter.
“Where did you get all this?” Yuuri gasps. “And why?”
“I wanted you to have a nice midwinter,” Victor says. “Cook was thrilled to get a chance to try her hand at new versions of so many dishes from Katsu.”
“And the decorations?”
“Mother’s jewels,” Victor says. When Yuuri goes pale in his arms, he rushes to explain. “They’re the ones she doesn’t wear much. She won’t miss them for a few days.”
Yuuri eyes the room with suspicion nonetheless. “Maybe we’ll return them sooner than that. Just in case.” Noticing that Victor is still looking at him expectantly, Yuuri rises on his toes and gives Victor a brief kiss. “Thank you for all of this. I’m so glad I get to spend this midwinter together with you.”
He runs a hand down Victor’s arm and laces their fingers together, then turns to pull Victor back, leading him further into the bedroom. Victor looks back over his shoulder, confused. “Don’t you want to eat dinner?”
Yuuri’s cheeks are tinged pink as he continues to tug Victor toward the bed. “If we’re celebrating the solstice early, shouldn’t you get to open your gift early as well?”
Thankfully, the feast still tastes good when the food has long gone cold.
November 29 has begun in some places already... and so will the Advent Calendar! (Happy birthday, Yuuri!)
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We’re pleased to announce the final prompt list for the 2018 YOI Advent Calendar! Since we had so many fun and amazing prompts, and because of a certain character’s birthday, we decided to add an extra day, stretching the calendar from November 29 to December 26! That’s four weeks of fun and entertainment for everyone!
Thank you again to everyone who joined in on our survey and poll. ❤️
Without further ado, the prompt list:
❤️ Day 1 (November 29): Bed sharing | First snowfall [Yuuri's birthday]
❤️ Day 2 (November 30): Winter spirits | Distractions
❤️ Day 3 (December 1): Free day! | Mistletoe
❤️ Day 4 (December 2): Frosted windows | Sweaters
❤️ Day 5 (December 3): Lights | Stuck in a cabin
❤️ Day 6 (December 4): Holiday traditions around the world | Fireplace
❤️ Day 7 (December 5): Candles | Ballet Tickets
❤️ Day 8 (December 6): Cuddling | Cultural differences
❤️ Day 9 (December 7): Holiday outfits/lingerie | Getting drunk
❤️ Day 10 (December 8): Free day! | Miracles
❤️ Day 11 (December 9): Baking cookies | First holiday together
❤️ Day 12 (December 10): Gift giving | Warmth
❤️ Day 13 (December 11): Winter myths | Holiday drinks
❤️ Day 14 (December 12): Family dinner | Music
❤️ Day 15 (December 13): Cold/Flu | Decorating/Decorations
❤️ Day 16 (December 14): Snowball fights | Christmas market
❤️ Day 17 (December 15): Free day! | Festivals
❤️ Day 18 (December 16): Christmas tree | Cold temperatures
❤️ Day 19 (December 17): Winter/Christmas horrors | Family time
❤️ Day 20 (December 18): Snowed in | Kotatsu
❤️ Day 21 (December 19): Absence | Stargazing
❤️ Day 22 (December 20): Fireside confessions | Marriage proposal
❤️ Day 23 (December 21): Magic | Locked out in the cold
❤️ Day 24 (December 22): Free day! | Big red bow
❤️ Day 25 (December 23): Free day! | A soft kind of love is born
❤️ Day 26 (December 24): Free day! | Caroling/Singing
❤️ Day 27 (December 25): Free day! | Giving yourself as a gift [Viktor's birthday]
❤️ Day 28 (December 26) (BONUS): What is Christmas pudding? | Gift exchange with the skaters goes awry because someone switched out all the name tags! [Georgi's birthday]
What kind of prompts are you looking for? Like sentence long prompts EX: Yuuri and Victor go ice staking and some guy doesn't realize they're professionals or like more inspirational prompts EX: winter snuggles.
Hello! Thank you so much for your question ❤️
We are looking for general/inspiration prompts that anybody can fill for any pairing. So the second example of “winter snuggles” would be much easier, because it’s not specific to one pairing, and any number of works can be created for it. Does that help?
We have had so many wonderful responses! Some have responded with pairing-specific prompts, but no worries! We can still pull out the idea behind the pairing prompt so that it can be used for everyone.
The survey closes on August 1, so please send in your prompts here if you haven’t already! ❤️
Hello, friends! Thank you so much for following us. We hope you are excited as we are for the Advent Calendar later this year!
In the meantime, we have a survey open! We have many wonderful responses so far, but we would love to hear more from you. The survey will be open until August 1, 2018, so you have plenty of time.
We prefer open-ended prompts, so that anybody can fill it with their pairing of choice, but all prompts are welcome! If we get enough responses, we will have a poll later on. Remember, any prompt is a good prompt. ❤️ Thank you!
