27twinsister | Yuletide 2024 Letter (Reply)

Hi, I'm 27twinsister, welcome to my letter for Yuletide 2024! I have decided to go all-in on nostalgic commercials this Yuletide. I'll be providing links to the commercials on YouTube as well.

The only romance (and smut, if you find a way to make it work) I'm requesting is the Broom and Rake in the Swiffer commercial. Otherwise, blanket DNW on Smut and Romance as I haven't suggested any pairings for them.

General Likes: Fluff, Hurt/Comfort, Angst with a Happy Ending, Pre-Canon, N Times/N Things

General DNWs: Major Character Death, Graphic Blood/Injury, Pregnancy, Genderswaps, Unrequested Romantic Relationships, Unrequested Gender/Sexuality Headcanons

I often make an exception "references to canon deaths are okay" for Major Character Death but nobody dies in these fandoms so that exception doesn't apply. Nobody should die in a gift.

Swiffer Sweeper "Garage (Who's That Lady)" Commercial

Link to YouTube

Characters: Broom, Rake (My gift must feature all of my chosen character tags; or it may use exceptions I explain in the form)

Fandom-Specific DNW: Human AUs

I'm not DNW-ing smut for this fandom but I also have no idea what it would look like, if you figure out a way to depict sex between a broom and a rake (or masturbation/horniness) then go right ahead lol.

I remember seeing this commercial in particular on TV a lot and it's so funny. It's been randomly coming to mind lately and I think it's funny and cute. How long has Rake been in the garage waiting for someone? How did they set up that date (literally, they don't have arms, how are they having that dinner date)? Are they soulmates? What kind of soulmate indicators do they have if they're still inanimate objects? Feel free to depict only one of them in pre-canon/pre-relationship with things like Rake waiting for someone and Broom doing work as a broom.

In terms of genders, keeping them gender-neutral (using they/them or it/its pronouns) makes the most sense to me, but if you do gender them, make Broom male (he/him) and Rake female (she/her) because that's what the commercial does.

Concerned Children's Advertisers "House Hippo" PSA Commercial

Link to YouTube

Characters: Any (In tagset are: Worldbuilding, House Hippo) (My gift must feature all of my chosen character tags (if 0: any from tag set))

I am a simple Canadian with simple needs. This PSA gives a lot of information about house hippos, but it's only a minute long and was made over 20 years ago, I'm sure there's more information out there now. Do house hippos avoid humans and other animals on purpose? Do they have their own house hippos societies living in the walls of Canadian houses? Has a house hippo ever somehow ended up at a zoo and met a hippo there? How would that go?

I'm sure house hippos have breeding/mating rituals but I'd rather that not be the focus of the story.

Geico "Happier than a Camel on Wednesday" Commercial

Link to YouTube

Characters: Caleb the Camel (only character in tagset) (My gift must feature all of my chosen character tags)

Fandom-Specific DNW: Human AUs

Why is there a camel working in an office? Does he have an actual job there? What was it like when he first showed up and got excited on Wednesday? Has he always liked Wednesdays? How long did it take his human coworkers to adjust to this camel being there? In the commercial they seem very used to it but surely that takes getting used to. Or does every company just have a camel and that's just how this world works?

Kellogg's Rice Krispies "Singing With the Bars" Commercials

Link to YouTube (playlist)

Characters: Crackle (Kellogg's) (My gift must feature all of my chosen character tags)

Crackle is my favourite Rice Krispies mascot in general so he's the only one I selected but of course Snap and Pop are allowed too.

I'm mostly interested in the in-universe competition aspect of this. How did the competition go? Did Snap, Crackle, and Pop take it seriously/are they competitive about it? Did they write the songs (in-universe) or did someone else write them and they're just performing? Crackle usually won because Rainbow is obviously the best, would that effect his ego? (I couldn't find many commercials announcing who won but I found 2 that said Rainbow, pick whatever makes the best narrative for other seasons.)

Thank you for being at least mildly interested in my silly nostalgic commercials, I look forward to seeing what you make!