Dear yuletide author:
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ravenDear Yuletide author,
Hi! Thank you for writing for me. I appreciate it very much. As I say every year, nothing here is to be taken as gospel - I am a firm believer that a) optional details are optional and b) it does me good to read things I didn't expect.
That said, if you're the sort of person for whom extra information is helpful, read on. Generally, about me: I like people. I like characters being competent at what they do; I like worldbuilding; I like sparkling dialogue. If you want to write a cheerful, happy story I like those; if you want to write a grim angstfest I like those too. I like stories about ladies, and their internal lives. I pretty much like everything, don't mind me.
Details about me that might be useful for the particular fandoms, yes. I have no triggers generally, and specifically, was not unable to read anything in Code Name Verity. And I am a Hindi speaker. If you wrote for 3 Idiots and did a whole story in Hindi I perhaps wouldn't be able to read it without a little more concentrated effort than I'm usually capable of on Christmas Day, but short passages, I can handle.
Additional commentary on the fandoms:
Nation - Terry Pratchett
-Ermintrude "Daphne" Fanshaw
-Mau (Nation)
I've put both, but feel free to write either of them rather than both - what I'd like is to see the post-book world, the world they've created.
Yes. I love the characters in this book, but what I love most is the world: I love the optimism of this universe where the centre of the intellectual world is on a small island in thePacific Pelagic. Tell me anything about this new world and I will be happy: how Daphne and her father got along, now they're royalty; what Mau does next, as the scientists of the world begin to arrive at the Nation; or maybe something after they're long dead, how the twentieth century unfolds differently (were there world wars, in this history?); or what about the children right at the end, standing watch? Anything, anything at all.
3 Idiots (2009)
-Phunsukh Wangdu
-Raju Rastogi
-Pia Sahastrabudhhe
-Farhan Qureshi
So what happens now? Out in Leh-Ladakh under that glorious sky? Of course they keep in touch, now, and of course Rancho and Pia have to get married - what's that like? And do they return to Delhi, even for a while? Tell me!
Oh my god, yuletide author, I LOVE THIS MOVIE, basically you and I are already gonna be friends. I love this movie SO MUCH, I watch it every couple of months and hum "aaaaaal iz well" to myself to annoy my partner, I love it.
Anyway, so. I love that ending so much, I just want details about what happened next, I really do. I'd like to read something in the optimistic spirit of the movie, I just love how it's such a celebration of belief, intellectual endeavour and joy. To me, nothing encapsulates it better than that final scene under that endless intense sky. Oh. Basically, anything after. I will be happy.
Code Name Verity - Elizabeth Wein
-Maddie Brodatt | Kittyhawk
-Julia Beaufort-Stuart | Verity
Something about their friendship is all I want! I love them so. I am happy with post-book - clearly their friendship transcends death - and I love Maddie's pragmatism and loyalty and Julie's sparkling competence and how brave and wonderful they are and how good they are for each other.
I love AUs, so if that's your thing please go right ahead! The only thing I'd ask, dear author, is that while I was heartbroken by the end of the book, I do think that the heartbreak is the soul of it in a way. It's a novel about just how devastating war is, and about Julie's "dirty work" and why it's described as such; so can I ask, if you do go AU with it, can I ask that it's not all fluffiness and light? The tragedy, to me, is irrevocable.
Thursday Next - Jasper Fforde
-Thursday Next
I've always been surprised at the enormous gaps in Thursday's life in the books - what happened when Friday was born? When he and Tuesday were young? How did Landen and the kids first find out about Thursday's problem with Jenny? What adventures did she have in the BookWorld as Bellman?
I forgot to nominate this fandom, and I wish I hadn't, because the character set is just Thursday! I love her, though - I think she's an astonishing protagonist, who comes off in the books sometimes as rather flat because she is so pragmatic, competent and damn marvellous. She's the only female action-hero protagonist I can think of who lives with a mental illness - maybe she's the only female action-hero protagonist I can think of at all. Anyway, I love her, I love her family - Landen, Friday, Joffy and Miles! aren't they great - I love her adventures in Jurisfiction. I'm not so keen on the SpecOps adventures, maybe, and I definitely mean the Outlander Thursday as opposed to the written Thursday, but really, write whatever you like about her and I will probably love it.
I should mention - I haven't read The Woman Who Died A Lot yet, but all the others multiple times.
That's all I can think of. Basically, have fun writing it, I will have fun reading it, and that is all there is, really.
thank you again!
Raven
Hi! Thank you for writing for me. I appreciate it very much. As I say every year, nothing here is to be taken as gospel - I am a firm believer that a) optional details are optional and b) it does me good to read things I didn't expect.
That said, if you're the sort of person for whom extra information is helpful, read on. Generally, about me: I like people. I like characters being competent at what they do; I like worldbuilding; I like sparkling dialogue. If you want to write a cheerful, happy story I like those; if you want to write a grim angstfest I like those too. I like stories about ladies, and their internal lives. I pretty much like everything, don't mind me.
Details about me that might be useful for the particular fandoms, yes. I have no triggers generally, and specifically, was not unable to read anything in Code Name Verity. And I am a Hindi speaker. If you wrote for 3 Idiots and did a whole story in Hindi I perhaps wouldn't be able to read it without a little more concentrated effort than I'm usually capable of on Christmas Day, but short passages, I can handle.
Additional commentary on the fandoms:
Nation - Terry Pratchett
-Ermintrude "Daphne" Fanshaw
-Mau (Nation)
I've put both, but feel free to write either of them rather than both - what I'd like is to see the post-book world, the world they've created.
Yes. I love the characters in this book, but what I love most is the world: I love the optimism of this universe where the centre of the intellectual world is on a small island in the
3 Idiots (2009)
-Phunsukh Wangdu
-Raju Rastogi
-Pia Sahastrabudhhe
-Farhan Qureshi
So what happens now? Out in Leh-Ladakh under that glorious sky? Of course they keep in touch, now, and of course Rancho and Pia have to get married - what's that like? And do they return to Delhi, even for a while? Tell me!
Oh my god, yuletide author, I LOVE THIS MOVIE, basically you and I are already gonna be friends. I love this movie SO MUCH, I watch it every couple of months and hum "aaaaaal iz well" to myself to annoy my partner, I love it.
Anyway, so. I love that ending so much, I just want details about what happened next, I really do. I'd like to read something in the optimistic spirit of the movie, I just love how it's such a celebration of belief, intellectual endeavour and joy. To me, nothing encapsulates it better than that final scene under that endless intense sky. Oh. Basically, anything after. I will be happy.
Code Name Verity - Elizabeth Wein
-Maddie Brodatt | Kittyhawk
-Julia Beaufort-Stuart | Verity
Something about their friendship is all I want! I love them so. I am happy with post-book - clearly their friendship transcends death - and I love Maddie's pragmatism and loyalty and Julie's sparkling competence and how brave and wonderful they are and how good they are for each other.
I love AUs, so if that's your thing please go right ahead! The only thing I'd ask, dear author, is that while I was heartbroken by the end of the book, I do think that the heartbreak is the soul of it in a way. It's a novel about just how devastating war is, and about Julie's "dirty work" and why it's described as such; so can I ask, if you do go AU with it, can I ask that it's not all fluffiness and light? The tragedy, to me, is irrevocable.
Thursday Next - Jasper Fforde
-Thursday Next
I've always been surprised at the enormous gaps in Thursday's life in the books - what happened when Friday was born? When he and Tuesday were young? How did Landen and the kids first find out about Thursday's problem with Jenny? What adventures did she have in the BookWorld as Bellman?
I forgot to nominate this fandom, and I wish I hadn't, because the character set is just Thursday! I love her, though - I think she's an astonishing protagonist, who comes off in the books sometimes as rather flat because she is so pragmatic, competent and damn marvellous. She's the only female action-hero protagonist I can think of who lives with a mental illness - maybe she's the only female action-hero protagonist I can think of at all. Anyway, I love her, I love her family - Landen, Friday, Joffy and Miles! aren't they great - I love her adventures in Jurisfiction. I'm not so keen on the SpecOps adventures, maybe, and I definitely mean the Outlander Thursday as opposed to the written Thursday, but really, write whatever you like about her and I will probably love it.
I should mention - I haven't read The Woman Who Died A Lot yet, but all the others multiple times.
That's all I can think of. Basically, have fun writing it, I will have fun reading it, and that is all there is, really.
thank you again!
Raven
