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Yuletide 2020 Letter
Dear Yulegoat,
Thanks so much for writing for me! I will be thrilled to receive a story in any of these tiny canons. If you already have an idea you're fired up to write, please get started! Finding out what other people love about a canon is one of the things I like about fandom.
Stuff I Like: people working together to overcome obstacles, snark and snappy dialogue, banter, darkfic, place as character, postapocalyptic, N Times Characters Did A Thing. Solving love triangles with OT3s. Worldbuilding. Food descriptions! I have a bulletproof love of competence, including competence at being villainous, and characters finding connections and trusting each other. If crossovers and fusions are your things, go for it: I am a fan.
Do Not Wants: PWP, bloodplay, coffeeshop AU, high school/college AU, explicit descriptions of sexual assault, cross-generation (May-December) ships, violence much more intense than canon-typical levels.
Gen or Shippy? Add "in bed" to any of the likes and ship away. I am in favor of consenting adults enjoying each others' company and quirks (and kinks).
Happy Yuletide!
Prompts below, with comments for color:
Ivory Series - Doris Egan: I'm just here for the adventures of a Pyrenese misfit turned Athenian scholar turned Ivoran... many things. Slice of life, during one of the three novels? Someone Theo meets during that slog up the coast? A moment with Ran during their adventures in the Northwest Sector? Life after the Salad Incident, or after Stereth and Cantry take up residence in the Capital? Or after the Porath situation?
I read these novels when I was much younger than Theodora, and now I am rather older than she is in these stories. But I still very much like the narrative voice and Theodora as a charcter. I would very much enjoy spending more time with Theo and the people around her: Ran, Kylla (Kylla!), Grandmother, Stereth, etc.
The Paladin - C. J. Cherryh:: TAIZU. Stubborn plain not-a-demon Taizu, who gets the revenge arc and survives it! What's it like, to be the "demon wife of Saukendar"? What stories are told, true or distorted, in the years after? In the future, do historians argue about Taizu? What do those arguments look like?
A recurring thread in The Paladin is the difference between the romantic stories of Master Saukendar and Shoka who knows the "reality" behind the stories Taizu knows. Shoka uses that gap to his advantage when he and Taizu leave the mountain to persue her revenge - and Taizu capitalizes on it in her final battle in the capital. How does that play out, after the fact?
Fall of Ile-Rien - Martha Wells: I would not be adverse to the ongoing adventures of a household in Cineth, including but not limited to a bunch of foreigners, a Chosen Vessel, and his companion(s). Where these "adventures" may be as exciting as Who Is Going To Deal With Visolela; cultural traditions and differences between the Syprians, Aelin, and one Rien sometimes-playwright; or work of the Chosen Vessel. Slice of life before and during the trilogy also would be lovely!
...I don't know what else to say, beyond "ghosts and wizards and holidays (Syprian holidays!) and homesickness for pre-war Vienne and food taboos and wonderful secondary and tertiary characters, eee!" Just arguing about How To Run A Household and Who Will Bake The Bread (and/or other symbolic significant foods) would probably bring out the witty banter all by itself.
Thanks so much for writing for me! I will be thrilled to receive a story in any of these tiny canons. If you already have an idea you're fired up to write, please get started! Finding out what other people love about a canon is one of the things I like about fandom.
Stuff I Like: people working together to overcome obstacles, snark and snappy dialogue, banter, darkfic, place as character, postapocalyptic, N Times Characters Did A Thing. Solving love triangles with OT3s. Worldbuilding. Food descriptions! I have a bulletproof love of competence, including competence at being villainous, and characters finding connections and trusting each other. If crossovers and fusions are your things, go for it: I am a fan.
Do Not Wants: PWP, bloodplay, coffeeshop AU, high school/college AU, explicit descriptions of sexual assault, cross-generation (May-December) ships, violence much more intense than canon-typical levels.
Gen or Shippy? Add "in bed" to any of the likes and ship away. I am in favor of consenting adults enjoying each others' company and quirks (and kinks).
Happy Yuletide!
Prompts below, with comments for color:
Ivory Series - Doris Egan: I'm just here for the adventures of a Pyrenese misfit turned Athenian scholar turned Ivoran... many things. Slice of life, during one of the three novels? Someone Theo meets during that slog up the coast? A moment with Ran during their adventures in the Northwest Sector? Life after the Salad Incident, or after Stereth and Cantry take up residence in the Capital? Or after the Porath situation?
I read these novels when I was much younger than Theodora, and now I am rather older than she is in these stories. But I still very much like the narrative voice and Theodora as a charcter. I would very much enjoy spending more time with Theo and the people around her: Ran, Kylla (Kylla!), Grandmother, Stereth, etc.
The Paladin - C. J. Cherryh:: TAIZU. Stubborn plain not-a-demon Taizu, who gets the revenge arc and survives it! What's it like, to be the "demon wife of Saukendar"? What stories are told, true or distorted, in the years after? In the future, do historians argue about Taizu? What do those arguments look like?
A recurring thread in The Paladin is the difference between the romantic stories of Master Saukendar and Shoka who knows the "reality" behind the stories Taizu knows. Shoka uses that gap to his advantage when he and Taizu leave the mountain to persue her revenge - and Taizu capitalizes on it in her final battle in the capital. How does that play out, after the fact?
Fall of Ile-Rien - Martha Wells: I would not be adverse to the ongoing adventures of a household in Cineth, including but not limited to a bunch of foreigners, a Chosen Vessel, and his companion(s). Where these "adventures" may be as exciting as Who Is Going To Deal With Visolela; cultural traditions and differences between the Syprians, Aelin, and one Rien sometimes-playwright; or work of the Chosen Vessel. Slice of life before and during the trilogy also would be lovely!
...I don't know what else to say, beyond "ghosts and wizards and holidays (Syprian holidays!) and homesickness for pre-war Vienne and food taboos and wonderful secondary and tertiary characters, eee!" Just arguing about How To Run A Household and Who Will Bake The Bread (and/or other symbolic significant foods) would probably bring out the witty banter all by itself.