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I'm also Quillori on AO3.
I had a terrible time narrowing my requests down from 7 to 6, so all fandoms are definitely equally wanted - my perennial requests have longer prompts, because I work them over every year, adding a bit here and a bit there, but that doesn't mean I'm not equally keen on the new-this-year ones.
Requested fandoms (links go directly to the relevant portion of the letter):
Le città invisibili | Invisible Cities - Italo Calvino
Táng Cháo | Tang Dynasty RPF
Kitaab 'alf layla wa-layla | One Thousand and One Nights
Omar Rayyan - Works
The Reluctant Widow - Georgette Heyer
Liáo zhâi zhì yì | Strange Tales from a Chinese Studio - Pú Sônglíng
Likes and DNWs
Le città invisibili | Invisible Cities - Italo Calvino - Berenice (Invisible Cities), Euphemia (Invisible Cities)
Tell me something about the trade in memories, or about the entwined decadence and puritanism of Berenice. Or world building about the history or culture of either city. Or the diplomatic relations between cities. (Feel free to take this as 'or' matching, and only write about one of them if you like.)
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Táng Cháo | Tang Dynasty RPF - Li Ho | Li He
I'm fascinated by the imagery of Li He's poems, and what I would really love is a story where that imagery is real - where Li He's life follows much the course it did in reality, but he truly saw a world of ghosts and demons and almost unutterably strange things.
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كتاب ألف ليلة وليلة | Kitaab 'alf layla wa-layla | One Thousand and One Nights - جعفر بن یحیی برمکی | Ja'far ibn Yahya al-Barmaki
Famous for his power and wealth, and the favour of his Caliph, famed too for his eloquence and liberality, but led suddenly away to death in the midst of all his prosperity by that same Caliph. What sort of man was Ja'far, and did he live always with the knowledge he might fall, or was it an unthinkable betrayal?
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Omar Rayyan - Works - Lady in Furs, Spanish Mackerel
A tragic young princess of an underwater kingdom, or a haunting young lady who is more than she seems... One offers worldbuilding (a beautiful and unsettling world almost, but not quite, like ours), one horror impinging on everyday life. Feel free to take this as OR matching, and only write about one.
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The Reluctant Widow - Georgette Heyer - Francis Cheviot
More Francis Cheviot! Going to his tailor, playing cards, spying, seducing French agents … anything at all.
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Liáo zhâi zhì yì | Strange Tales from a Chinese Studio - Pú Sônglíng - Any
I'm interested to see whatever you choose to make of this. Retell one of Pu Songling's stories or tell one of your own. Play around with language and allusions or concentrate on plot or on character. You could do something with the ever present fox spirits - they're viewed in such a range of ways, from meriting death through to the ambivalence of stories such as Cut Sleeve to admirable heroines (e.g. in Lotus Fragrance). Or you could do something with the relation of dreams to reality, or the extent to which stories are a type of dream. If you want to stick to a single story, you could look at Shican and Huang's relationship in Cut Sleeve - there's a lot of emotional ground at the end of that story the remains unexamined. Make your language as densely allusive or as simple as you please, your tone as light or as dramatic as you want. Gen, slash, het; light-hearted, bitingly satirical, restrained or sly or melancholy ... anything that strikes your fancy.
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In General
I really would prefer you to write the best story you can, and one you're happy with, rather than trying unsuccessfully to do something that doesn't suit you to fit what I asked for. I'm most interested in what you, dear writer, make of the source material.
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I had a terrible time narrowing my requests down from 7 to 6, so all fandoms are definitely equally wanted - my perennial requests have longer prompts, because I work them over every year, adding a bit here and a bit there, but that doesn't mean I'm not equally keen on the new-this-year ones.
Requested fandoms (links go directly to the relevant portion of the letter):
Le città invisibili | Invisible Cities - Italo Calvino
Táng Cháo | Tang Dynasty RPF
Kitaab 'alf layla wa-layla | One Thousand and One Nights
Omar Rayyan - Works
The Reluctant Widow - Georgette Heyer
Liáo zhâi zhì yì | Strange Tales from a Chinese Studio - Pú Sônglíng
Likes and DNWs
Le città invisibili | Invisible Cities - Italo Calvino - Berenice (Invisible Cities), Euphemia (Invisible Cities)
Tell me something about the trade in memories, or about the entwined decadence and puritanism of Berenice. Or world building about the history or culture of either city. Or the diplomatic relations between cities. (Feel free to take this as 'or' matching, and only write about one of them if you like.)
( Read More )
Táng Cháo | Tang Dynasty RPF - Li Ho | Li He
I'm fascinated by the imagery of Li He's poems, and what I would really love is a story where that imagery is real - where Li He's life follows much the course it did in reality, but he truly saw a world of ghosts and demons and almost unutterably strange things.
( Read More )
كتاب ألف ليلة وليلة | Kitaab 'alf layla wa-layla | One Thousand and One Nights - جعفر بن یحیی برمکی | Ja'far ibn Yahya al-Barmaki
Famous for his power and wealth, and the favour of his Caliph, famed too for his eloquence and liberality, but led suddenly away to death in the midst of all his prosperity by that same Caliph. What sort of man was Ja'far, and did he live always with the knowledge he might fall, or was it an unthinkable betrayal?
( Read More )
Omar Rayyan - Works - Lady in Furs, Spanish Mackerel
A tragic young princess of an underwater kingdom, or a haunting young lady who is more than she seems... One offers worldbuilding (a beautiful and unsettling world almost, but not quite, like ours), one horror impinging on everyday life. Feel free to take this as OR matching, and only write about one.
( Read More )
The Reluctant Widow - Georgette Heyer - Francis Cheviot
More Francis Cheviot! Going to his tailor, playing cards, spying, seducing French agents … anything at all.
( Read More )
Liáo zhâi zhì yì | Strange Tales from a Chinese Studio - Pú Sônglíng - Any
I'm interested to see whatever you choose to make of this. Retell one of Pu Songling's stories or tell one of your own. Play around with language and allusions or concentrate on plot or on character. You could do something with the ever present fox spirits - they're viewed in such a range of ways, from meriting death through to the ambivalence of stories such as Cut Sleeve to admirable heroines (e.g. in Lotus Fragrance). Or you could do something with the relation of dreams to reality, or the extent to which stories are a type of dream. If you want to stick to a single story, you could look at Shican and Huang's relationship in Cut Sleeve - there's a lot of emotional ground at the end of that story the remains unexamined. Make your language as densely allusive or as simple as you please, your tone as light or as dramatic as you want. Gen, slash, het; light-hearted, bitingly satirical, restrained or sly or melancholy ... anything that strikes your fancy.
( Read More )
In General
I really would prefer you to write the best story you can, and one you're happy with, rather than trying unsuccessfully to do something that doesn't suit you to fit what I asked for. I'm most interested in what you, dear writer, make of the source material.
( Read More )
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