Read all my recipient’s fic for the fandom, read selected works from their back catalogue to get a feel for their taste, read stories in the fandom tag that they commented on to see what they specifically like, now reading the wiki biography of someone they mentioned in one of their stories and considering reading a work by them, still need to rewatch canon and maybe a couple of movies in the general tone I’m aiming for…

does everyone treat their Yuletide assignment like a research paper/thesis on the fandom or just me