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cyphomandraDear Yuletider,
Thanks so much for writing for me! I really enjoy Yuletide - it's my longest-standing seasonal tradition that doesn't involve food : D I look forward to seeing what you write and, although I've put some suggestions, all I really want is more from these fandoms, be that a fresh look or a revisiting of old favourites. Go with what intrigues you.
If you match on one of the others and get stuck - Some Velvet Morning is under four minutes long, listenable to here, and the lyrics are here.
General comments
I like humour that cares about the characters. I like characters who are outsiders in some way, and I love seeing them become part of something larger - a cause, a community. I like food as a way of showing character or worldbuilding. I like bittersweet endings. I like pretty much any style of writing - epistolary, experimental, Dickensian - and although I've previously been unkeen on second person narrators this would be fine as an option for Dark Parables, or indeed either of the others if it works for the story.
DNWs - animal or child death. Significant earthquakes.
Some Velvet Morning. The first time I heard this I had to stop the car to listen to it. Such an odd song, disturbing and compelling; I really want to know more about it. Who (or what, given that she uses plural pronouns) is Phaedra? What powers does she have, and what did she do to the male narrator? Where is he now, what is the gate he's talking about (literal/metaphorical) and who is he talking to? What happened, and what will happen next?
I think you could go anywhere with this - pick your genre, from sf to noir to magical realism to Greek myth (given Phaedra's name), pick your characters, pick your ending. I would really like something that takes the song somewhere I don't expect. I am happy with a sexual and/or dysfunctional relationship between the characters (as well as nonsexual or something else entirely!) but would prefer no outright noncon.
The Chronicles of Thomas Covenant. My perennial request! I realise the canon is problematic (to put it mildly) but I am still very fond of the second chronicles (I have read only two of the third). The Wounded Land was a hugely formative book for me and Linden was the first adult female human lead I encountered in fantasy whom I could really identify with.
I would like; more Linden! On Earth or visiting the Land, and I'm happy to ignore the third series or go AU from the second if you have a better idea. I do like the third chronicles' idea of time-travelling within the Land's history, if you wanted to do that, and would love exploring more of the Land anyway - the sandgorgons are my favourites, but I always have time for the giants. Outside the Land, I wonder how Linden reconciles her experiences with her everyday life on returning to our world, especially her healthsense given her job, and I'd like to see her finding some peace or happiness there, having healed from her past. I am curious about how Covenant and Linden were summoned to the Land, and how porous the borders can become - what happens if characters from the Land show up in Linden's world?
I do actually like Covenant as well, but I understand he isn't everyone's cup of tea, and I haven't nominated him. I don't have strong feelings about him showing up or not, but he is important to Linden and I don't want that erased.
(also, no obligation to match Donaldson's style on this, but feel free to sling in the occasional "telic" or "mien")
Dark Parables (video games). Obviously if I ever needed to stop someone getting into a room I would take the incredibly ornate key, break it into 17 pieces, and conceal them all in a conveniently located display, then require the person actually opening the door to solve a puzzle first. These games totally speak to that part of me, as well as my fondness for slightly twisted fairytales and quasi-magical kingdoms. I have played through to the end of The Thief and the Tinderbox (apart from the last half of The Little Mermaid due to computer problems) and I have Requiem and Return of the Salt Princess waiting for me to play them in the next month.
As stated, I love the contrivances of the games (how would these actually work? Why can I only use each object (usually) once? What would happen if I just broke a window and crawled through that) as well as the world-building. Rapunzel is probably my favourite game, but I really like the idea of the Red Riding Hood sisters and would happily revisit them. But I've only nominated the Fairytale Detective themselves (happy to go for male or female), because I wanted to leave it open to whatever you wanted to go with - no need to stick to just the existing worlds! And what about the Detective themselves? How did they get the job? What was their first case? How do they relax in between cases? Do they ever revisit people or places? Who is the person who briefs them? Do they ever manage to take a form of transport without it crashing or being destroyed in some way?
I mentioned second person as a possibility in this canon, and I'm also open to alternative story-telling formats, including IF. Go wild.
Thanks again. I wish you all the best.
Thanks so much for writing for me! I really enjoy Yuletide - it's my longest-standing seasonal tradition that doesn't involve food : D I look forward to seeing what you write and, although I've put some suggestions, all I really want is more from these fandoms, be that a fresh look or a revisiting of old favourites. Go with what intrigues you.
If you match on one of the others and get stuck - Some Velvet Morning is under four minutes long, listenable to here, and the lyrics are here.
General comments
I like humour that cares about the characters. I like characters who are outsiders in some way, and I love seeing them become part of something larger - a cause, a community. I like food as a way of showing character or worldbuilding. I like bittersweet endings. I like pretty much any style of writing - epistolary, experimental, Dickensian - and although I've previously been unkeen on second person narrators this would be fine as an option for Dark Parables, or indeed either of the others if it works for the story.
DNWs - animal or child death. Significant earthquakes.
Some Velvet Morning. The first time I heard this I had to stop the car to listen to it. Such an odd song, disturbing and compelling; I really want to know more about it. Who (or what, given that she uses plural pronouns) is Phaedra? What powers does she have, and what did she do to the male narrator? Where is he now, what is the gate he's talking about (literal/metaphorical) and who is he talking to? What happened, and what will happen next?
I think you could go anywhere with this - pick your genre, from sf to noir to magical realism to Greek myth (given Phaedra's name), pick your characters, pick your ending. I would really like something that takes the song somewhere I don't expect. I am happy with a sexual and/or dysfunctional relationship between the characters (as well as nonsexual or something else entirely!) but would prefer no outright noncon.
The Chronicles of Thomas Covenant. My perennial request! I realise the canon is problematic (to put it mildly) but I am still very fond of the second chronicles (I have read only two of the third). The Wounded Land was a hugely formative book for me and Linden was the first adult female human lead I encountered in fantasy whom I could really identify with.
I would like; more Linden! On Earth or visiting the Land, and I'm happy to ignore the third series or go AU from the second if you have a better idea. I do like the third chronicles' idea of time-travelling within the Land's history, if you wanted to do that, and would love exploring more of the Land anyway - the sandgorgons are my favourites, but I always have time for the giants. Outside the Land, I wonder how Linden reconciles her experiences with her everyday life on returning to our world, especially her healthsense given her job, and I'd like to see her finding some peace or happiness there, having healed from her past. I am curious about how Covenant and Linden were summoned to the Land, and how porous the borders can become - what happens if characters from the Land show up in Linden's world?
I do actually like Covenant as well, but I understand he isn't everyone's cup of tea, and I haven't nominated him. I don't have strong feelings about him showing up or not, but he is important to Linden and I don't want that erased.
(also, no obligation to match Donaldson's style on this, but feel free to sling in the occasional "telic" or "mien")
Dark Parables (video games). Obviously if I ever needed to stop someone getting into a room I would take the incredibly ornate key, break it into 17 pieces, and conceal them all in a conveniently located display, then require the person actually opening the door to solve a puzzle first. These games totally speak to that part of me, as well as my fondness for slightly twisted fairytales and quasi-magical kingdoms. I have played through to the end of The Thief and the Tinderbox (apart from the last half of The Little Mermaid due to computer problems) and I have Requiem and Return of the Salt Princess waiting for me to play them in the next month.
As stated, I love the contrivances of the games (how would these actually work? Why can I only use each object (usually) once? What would happen if I just broke a window and crawled through that) as well as the world-building. Rapunzel is probably my favourite game, but I really like the idea of the Red Riding Hood sisters and would happily revisit them. But I've only nominated the Fairytale Detective themselves (happy to go for male or female), because I wanted to leave it open to whatever you wanted to go with - no need to stick to just the existing worlds! And what about the Detective themselves? How did they get the job? What was their first case? How do they relax in between cases? Do they ever revisit people or places? Who is the person who briefs them? Do they ever manage to take a form of transport without it crashing or being destroyed in some way?
I mentioned second person as a possibility in this canon, and I'm also open to alternative story-telling formats, including IF. Go wild.
Thanks again. I wish you all the best.
