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I'm also Quillori on AO3.
All fandoms are definitely equally wanted - some of my older 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 more recent ones.
Requested fandoms (links go directly to the relevant portion of the letter):
Ancient Egyptian Religion
Le città invisibili | Invisible Cities - Italo Calvino
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
Ancient Egyptian Religion - Any (Anubis, Imhotep, Set, Thoth)
Something dealing with Imhotep's role as god of science and magic, or with his position as a god who was once a man. Or perhaps one of the less well known stories about Set? Or something about his relationship with his worshippers. Or Thoth/Imhotep, or Thoth&Set (or indeed Thoth/Set), or anything about Thoth and his worshipers, or the scribes under his protection. Or Anubis in his role as guide to the soul. A story directly about the god/s, or how their presence speaks to their followers, or a story where their presence hovers always around the edges. Or a hymn, or a story made up from fragments, ... whatever you like.
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Le città invisibili | Invisible Cities - Italo Calvino - Berenice, Euphemia
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. (Writing about either city is fine - you don't have to include them both.)
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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 - Spanish Mackerel
A young princess or noblewoman of an underwater kingdom... so much potential for worldbuilding (a beautiful and unsettling world almost, but not quite, like ours), for exploring what it might mean to be half octopus, for the story of the young girl and her future role.
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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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All fandoms are definitely equally wanted - some of my older 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 more recent ones.
Requested fandoms (links go directly to the relevant portion of the letter):
Ancient Egyptian Religion
Le città invisibili | Invisible Cities - Italo Calvino
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
Ancient Egyptian Religion - Any (Anubis, Imhotep, Set, Thoth)
Something dealing with Imhotep's role as god of science and magic, or with his position as a god who was once a man. Or perhaps one of the less well known stories about Set? Or something about his relationship with his worshippers. Or Thoth/Imhotep, or Thoth&Set (or indeed Thoth/Set), or anything about Thoth and his worshipers, or the scribes under his protection. Or Anubis in his role as guide to the soul. A story directly about the god/s, or how their presence speaks to their followers, or a story where their presence hovers always around the edges. Or a hymn, or a story made up from fragments, ... whatever you like.
( Read More )
Le città invisibili | Invisible Cities - Italo Calvino - Berenice, Euphemia
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. (Writing about either city is fine - you don't have to include them both.)
( 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 - Spanish Mackerel
A young princess or noblewoman of an underwater kingdom... so much potential for worldbuilding (a beautiful and unsettling world almost, but not quite, like ours), for exploring what it might mean to be half octopus, for the story of the young girl and her future role.
( 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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