Yuletide letter
Oct. 21st, 2021 09:52 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
luzulaWelcome, and I am so happy that we share this rare fandom! And I hope you have fun writing. : )
In general, I enjoy both gen and shippy fic, and when it comes to the latter, explicit sex or fade-to-black are both fine. Given the endings of the first two canons, tragedy and character death is fine, but I do like there to be some sense of meaning and hope and warmth between characters.
Flemington by Violet Jacob (Archie Flemington, James Logie, Captain Callandar)
I ship Archie Flemington/James Logie and Archie Flemington/Captain Callandar about equally, and would be very happy to receive fic about either pair of characters. Or hey, you could also have Callandar and Logie interacting more afterwards, if you want! Don't feel like you have to include all three of them. Some ideas: What if Flemington and Logie met on the Muir of Pert, or before that, at some point during the war? What if they didn't meet on Inchbrayock, so that Logie doesn't know that Flemington is a spy, and still trusts him? What if Logie tries to save Flemington? Basically, I want all the fork-in-the-road AU:s. As for Flemington and Callandar, you could write a missing scene between them, or try to figure out if there's some way out of that ending. Or some other idea I'm not thinking of. Things I like: conflicts between honour and duty and love, hurt/comfort, geeky historical detail, and landscape description.
The Jacobite Trilogy by D K Broster (any characters)
It feels weird that my main fandom now is actually a Yuletide-sized fandom! I have no specific prompts--since I've been writing so much for the fandom, I suppose I just want to read something I wouldn't come up with myself? So, here's what I love about the canon: Obviously I ship Ewen and Keith--the enemies-to-friends-to-lovers aspects, the way they are torn between their duty and their love, the hurt-comfort. Broster knew how to write fannish catnip, is what I'm saying. But you don't have to write a shippy Keith/Ewen story! I also like Ewen/Alison, if that is something you're into, or I'd be happy to get a gen story about Aunt Margaret, or about familial relationships, or backstory, or some missing scene from canon, or some worldbuilding exploring the supernatural aspects of canon. Also, I love landscape description and geeky historical detail.
The Left Hand of Darkness by Ursula K. Le Guin (Worldbuilding)
Maybe you have some aspect of the worldbuilding which fascinates you, in which case go for it! Otherwise, here are some ideas. I am intrigued by Gethen's relationship to technology, where they are very slow to adopt new things and yet they have very useful stuff such as the Chabe stove (I would love to have one). How does their conservative approach work in practice? Was Chabe an inventor, and what is their story? Or maybe Chabe wasn't a person but a hearth with an engineering collective that fine-tuned the stove for long generations? Or maybe have an observer from another planet contrast Gethen's approach to technology with their own. I would also love to get more Gethenian mythology and folk tales. Or politics is also interesting: how does the Karhide-Orgoreyn situation evolve? On my last reread, I thought the book had a lot of interesting things to say about nationalism. How does Gethen react to more contact with the Ekumen, going forward? Or further worldbuilding about the gender system is also welcome. Or what about fic about the earlier observers on Gethen, before Genly Ai came there? I like documentation-style fic, which can lend itself well to worldbuilding, but straight-up story is great too. Perhaps relevant here is that I like vivid setting and nature description, and I love the whole sequence when they're up on the ice.
DNW: Change of setting AU:s (but canon divergence AU is fine, as is adding supernatural elements to the first two canons).
In general, I enjoy both gen and shippy fic, and when it comes to the latter, explicit sex or fade-to-black are both fine. Given the endings of the first two canons, tragedy and character death is fine, but I do like there to be some sense of meaning and hope and warmth between characters.
Flemington by Violet Jacob (Archie Flemington, James Logie, Captain Callandar)
I ship Archie Flemington/James Logie and Archie Flemington/Captain Callandar about equally, and would be very happy to receive fic about either pair of characters. Or hey, you could also have Callandar and Logie interacting more afterwards, if you want! Don't feel like you have to include all three of them. Some ideas: What if Flemington and Logie met on the Muir of Pert, or before that, at some point during the war? What if they didn't meet on Inchbrayock, so that Logie doesn't know that Flemington is a spy, and still trusts him? What if Logie tries to save Flemington? Basically, I want all the fork-in-the-road AU:s. As for Flemington and Callandar, you could write a missing scene between them, or try to figure out if there's some way out of that ending. Or some other idea I'm not thinking of. Things I like: conflicts between honour and duty and love, hurt/comfort, geeky historical detail, and landscape description.
The Jacobite Trilogy by D K Broster (any characters)
It feels weird that my main fandom now is actually a Yuletide-sized fandom! I have no specific prompts--since I've been writing so much for the fandom, I suppose I just want to read something I wouldn't come up with myself? So, here's what I love about the canon: Obviously I ship Ewen and Keith--the enemies-to-friends-to-lovers aspects, the way they are torn between their duty and their love, the hurt-comfort. Broster knew how to write fannish catnip, is what I'm saying. But you don't have to write a shippy Keith/Ewen story! I also like Ewen/Alison, if that is something you're into, or I'd be happy to get a gen story about Aunt Margaret, or about familial relationships, or backstory, or some missing scene from canon, or some worldbuilding exploring the supernatural aspects of canon. Also, I love landscape description and geeky historical detail.
The Left Hand of Darkness by Ursula K. Le Guin (Worldbuilding)
Maybe you have some aspect of the worldbuilding which fascinates you, in which case go for it! Otherwise, here are some ideas. I am intrigued by Gethen's relationship to technology, where they are very slow to adopt new things and yet they have very useful stuff such as the Chabe stove (I would love to have one). How does their conservative approach work in practice? Was Chabe an inventor, and what is their story? Or maybe Chabe wasn't a person but a hearth with an engineering collective that fine-tuned the stove for long generations? Or maybe have an observer from another planet contrast Gethen's approach to technology with their own. I would also love to get more Gethenian mythology and folk tales. Or politics is also interesting: how does the Karhide-Orgoreyn situation evolve? On my last reread, I thought the book had a lot of interesting things to say about nationalism. How does Gethen react to more contact with the Ekumen, going forward? Or further worldbuilding about the gender system is also welcome. Or what about fic about the earlier observers on Gethen, before Genly Ai came there? I like documentation-style fic, which can lend itself well to worldbuilding, but straight-up story is great too. Perhaps relevant here is that I like vivid setting and nature description, and I love the whole sequence when they're up on the ice.
DNW: Change of setting AU:s (but canon divergence AU is fine, as is adding supernatural elements to the first two canons).
