Yuletide Letter
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brigdhIt's Yuletide time! Hooray!
Hello and thank you for offering one of my fandoms! I'm looking forward to whatever you write, and if you want to completely ignore the rest of this letter, or pick and choose just a few things, that's totally fine. I've tried to write a shorter letter this year. If you want more information click here for previous years' letters. Anything I've asked for before I would still love to get.
AO3 name: Brigdh
Tumblr: Brigdh
Basics
– I love all ratings, from G to NC-17. A lot of the prompts I give below are focused on ships, but feel free to write me the characters as platonic friends instead if that's what you prefer. Gen and PWPs are both awesome!
– Feel free to include injury, illness, major character death, infidelity, racism, homophobia, classism, general dark and depressing tones, etc, as needed for your story. Or feel free to ignore such elements of the canons below and write me fluff! I'm good either way.
– A lot of my requested canons are historical fiction. I DO NOT require you to have done research to write them. Trust me, I won't care if you use a modern word or describe the wrong style of clothing. I'm not an expert either.
– For each of my requests, the characters are very much OR instead of AND. Want to write a story about Rose without Hannibal, Chime without Consolation, etc? Go ahead! You could probably guess this from the prompts I give below, but I wanted to be clear about it.
– Weird stylistic writing choices, like second person POV, a series of linked drabbles, unreliable narrators, five times fic, etc, are all totally okay. I enjoy reading experiments!
DNWs
– amnesia
– de-aging
– mpreg (I do love A/B/O fic, so if you choose to write that, feel free to mention mpreg in the worldbuilding. Just please don't make it the main focus of the fic)
– Groundhog Day AUs
– 24/7 lifestyle BDSM
Yes, please!
– AUs, especially: modern AU, historical AU (as in, any historical period other than the one in canon), A/B/O, pirates, Wild West, cyberpunk, postapocalypse, circuses, canon-divergence
– found families, families of choice, and loyalty kink. I especially love it when there are reasons why it's difficult or unusual for the characters to have a relationship, but they defy expectations by being devoted to one another anyway.
– I LOVE one character risking their life/sacrificing themselves to protect another. "I thought you were dead!" is also an excellent trope
– casefic would be great, especially if you could combine it with slowburn get-together of one of my ships. I realize that’s a lot to ask of a writer. But just in case you want to write long casefic: I would love to receive it!
– hurt/comfort of all kinds, especially if the comfort leads to a deepening relationship. People getting ill, people getting beat up, people choosing to be tortured to protect someone else, people hiding injuries while trying to soldier on, people enduring long-term poor conditions (especially cold! I HATE being cold, and so I deeply identify with a character barely avoiding hypothermia), last minute rescues, confessions of feelings due to thinking they're about to die, caretaking, giving the hurt character a bath (especially hair washing!), and characters learning to be loved.
– iron woobies, always and forever
– established relationships are my jam. Show me how comfortable people have gotten with each other, how they know one another well enough to know all of their jokes and triggers and erogenous zones. And established doesn't have to mean problem-free! There's all sorts of troubles that tend to come up in relationships long after the first time. For example, I'd love a story about a fight and working through it.
– arranged marriages/marriages of convenience and fake dating are some of my favorite stories. I love all of it: the awkwardness, the enforced intimacy, the pining over 'my feelings are real but yours are pretend', the trust despite the difficulty, the teaming up to put on a good show for outside observers.
– slice-of-life, domesticity, missing scenes, and curtain-fic are all wonderful. I am totally fine with a very low-stakes story, as long as I get to see my favorite characters going about a normal day, enjoying themselves with one another, making jokes, etc.
- I adore all sorts of silly fanfic tropes, but here are some of my favorites: Genderswap (particularly of the "always-a-girl/boy" type rather than "woke up one morning" type), crossdressing, roadtrips, huddling for warmth, masquerades/disguises/undercover, trapped together (snowed in cabin, handcuffs, etc), friends-to-lovers and especially FWB to more, sex pollen, and platonic bed sharing.
Porn: I love everything from PWP to fade-to-black to gen. If you want specifics, here's a link to my Yuleporn post.
Benjamin January Mysteries - Barbara Hambly – Benjamin, Rose, Hannibal
My ships: Ben/Rose/Hannibal (either as a true triangle or as a V), Ben/Hannibal, Ben/Rose, Rose/Hannibal, Hannibal/Dominique
My request: Some of my favorite things about this series are the amazing historical detail and world-building, the treatment of complex real-world issues, and the kindness and respect and love of the characters for one another, as well as their humor and total dorkiness. I love how huge the world is; you could write a story about any background character and I would be fascinated by it. With Rose, I love her determination and stubbornness to have the life she wants, and how she's capable of being utterly ruthless when the situation calls for it. I also love her awkward, logical kindness. She tends to prefer books to people, and I am SO THERE with her. I love how cool and unemotional she is in a crisis, and her wry sense of humor at others' more dramatic emotions.
With Hannibal, I love that he is SUCH a fucking failbucket, and yet utterly aware of it, and how he's so grateful to those who are friends with him anyway. I really like the times when he manages to subtly undercut the privileges of his position compared to the others. I love how he makes friends with absolutely everyone he meets, and I love the slow growth over the series of his natural empathy, from a passive, fatalistic sympathy to actively going out of his way to do what he can for others.
With Ben, I love how he is justly angry about the world he lives in, and yet how he manages to take that anger and turn it into working to make change happen. He has intense abandonment issues, and I love how important friends and family are to him, and how he is constantly striving to build a community around himself. I love his sense of pride, the way his desire to be seen as proper and respectable conflicts with his frequent attraction to people who are outcasts in one way or another. I love how good he is at code-switching and making people see what they want to see; he is a good man, but godDAMN he is sneaky when he needs to be.
Optional Prompts:
– I would love a first-time, getting together fic for my OT3 set immediately after Crimson Angel. It’s such a dramatic book, with a ton of lovely tender moments between all three of them and so many fun tropes (Rose pretending to be Hannibal’s concubine! Ben thinking Hannibal was dead! Dramatic rescues! Bullet wounds!) and I really would love to indulge in even more of it.
– I love canon-divergence AUs. One idea I was considering: what if Rose hadn’t been pregnant at the time of The Shirt on His Back? Would she have traveled with the others to Oregon? Or would Hannibal have stayed in New Orleans with her, leaving Ben and Shaw on their own? I would LOVE to see crossdressed Rose exploring the Wild West, but Rose and Hannibal forced to deal with his withdrawal on their own and despite societal disapproval would be excellent too.
– EPISTOLARY FIC PLZ. I always love it when Hambly includes notes written by the characters in the books; I’m so fascinated even by little details like how they address one another (‘amicus meus’ is so cute it kills me) or how they manage to include secret messages that outside observers wouldn’t understand (whether that’s slipping into Latin or Greek, or codewords, or Shakespeare quotations). They do send a lot of letters and short notes in the books, and I’d love to see more of them: Hannibal’s letters from Mexico, Ben’s letters from Oregon or Washington DC, short notes during a normal day around the city, whatever.
– Loyalty kink: there’s a lot of moments in the books where one character has to simply trust that another won’t betray them, because they’re unable to talk directly due to outsiders listening in or them being separated. There are so many societal factors holding these characters apart, and I love how they work around them (usually subtly and sneakily, but sometimes very blatantly!) to maintain their trust and friendship. This is my JAM. Especially if one character goes through a period of angst, believing they might have been betrayed or abandoned, before the other(s) proves their loyalty by coming through with a happy ending. Examples from canon: when Ben is afraid Hannibal has abandoned him in Sold Down the River, before finding out that Hannibal was really kidnapped; in Dead Water, when Ben and Hannibal are unable to speak directly to one another to maintain their cover story, and are confronted by Molloy and Davis unexpectedly. The way they manage to back up each other despite having no plan is delicious. I just want to wallow in a ton of angst and loyalty and trust.
– I realize she’s not nominated, but I would also LOVE to get fic from Livia’s POV. Either backstory (a story about her as a child, as a young woman, from when her children were young, etc) or her view on a scene from canon. Or what does she think about Rose, about Hannibal, about the OT3?
PS: I have already read 'Murder in July', so if you want to include details from that one, feel free!
Underground (TV) – Cato, Georgia, Rosalee
My ships: Cato/Noah/Rosalee (either as a true triangle or as a V), Cato/Noah, Cato/Rosalee, Noah/Rosalee, Elizabeth/Georgia, Cato/Devi
My request: I am so, so sad about this show getting canceled (though I am holding out hope some other channel picks it up!) and so I would love fanfic as a chance to spend a little more time with these characters. I love the heist take on the material, I love the big action sequences, the huge twists in practically every episode, the gray morality and that there are no clear lines between "good" characters and "bad" characters. I love the exploration of an underserved area of American history, but I also love that the show doesn't take itself too seriously and is willing to have fun with these characters and their melodrama.
Cato is probably my favorite character (though I love the others as well!). He’s completely self-serving, ruthless, manipulative, cunning, and I love that about him. I love his dry sarcasm and the way he’s constantly pushing at others, testing them, testing himself. I love how he refuses to trust anyone else, and the way we learn he’s been hiding a deep loss all along. I want to know why he does what he does, what's driving him – though I suspect even he doesn't really know.
I love Rosalee’s slow growth of confidence in herself, as she goes from shy and sheltered to independant and completely kickass. The way she finds these reserves of strength and determination and willpower that she never suspected in herself – ah, so great. I love how loyal she is, the way she’s willing to sacrifice herself to protect others. Her dedication to her family, in particular, is fantastic.
Optional Prompts:
– Backstory about Cato, since we know so little of his past. What was his relationship like with Noah before Episode One? Had he ever interacted with Rosalee before (it seems likely, since they both have relatively elevated positions)? What about his family or childhood?
– The episode in Season One where Cato and Rosalee dressed up and pretended to be rich was THE BEST THING EVER. I would love a missing scene set during that time, or an AU where they had to stretch the deception out longer. What if they’d had to spend the night together? Just tell me more about their awkward intimacy! :D
– I'm pretty fascinated by Cato and Devi's relationship. I want to know all about it – what does she see in him? what does he see in her? Fic about their time together while Cato spends fortunes and self-destructs across Europe would be GREAT. I'd also be completely head-over-heels for any backstory about Devi: her childhood, her previous relationships, why she decides to follow Cato to America, any of that.
– I totally ship Georgia/Elizabeth and fic about them would make my day. Fluffy, angsty, first-time, established relationship – any way you want to go with it would be awesome to me. Georgia backstory would also be great: how did she come to make the choice to pass for white? What was her husband like? What is her relationship with John Brown and family like?
– On another note, I absolutely love Clara and would be so very very into fic focusing on her. She's another deliciously ruthless character, and I am really enjoying seeing her learn how to get power and use it. Where does her story go?
–The show was obviously setting up to do the Harpers Ferry Raid in Season 3. Fic about that would be amazing. How do Elizabeth, Noah, Cato, Rosalee, Georgia, etc, fit into the historical narrative? Feel free to stick to the facts or go full AU and have the raid be much more successful.
Books of the Raksura - Martha Wells - Chime, Consolation
My ships: Jade/Moon/Chime, Stone/Rorra,
My request: This is very much an OR request (though if you can think of some reason to have them in the same room, I'm all for it!). In fact, I really love all of the characters in the tag set and would be happy with fic focusing on any of them; these two are just my favorites, which is why I chose them.
I love this fandom for its incredible worldbuilding; every single one of the books has some setpiece that just fascinates me with its originality and weirdness, from a city inside a tree to underground pyramids to giant sea-turtles with cities on their backs to, of course, the Raksura gender/caste politics. I also love Moon and his struggle to understand Raksuran culture and the emotional difficulties of being part of a family and a colony; I love Chime's sweet awkwardness; I love Consolation's determination and misguided attempts to do good.
Optional Prompts:
– I'd love more about Chime's transition from Mentor to Warrior, and all the many ways he must have had to adjust: mentally, physically, socially, etc. It might be interesting to see someone else's POV on that change too, or more about other people who have made the same change throughout history.
– Chime and Moon are obviously together, and Moon and Jade, but do Chime and Jade have any particular closeness? I'd love more on what they think of each other, or just see them spending time together, alone or with Moon as well. I could see this being either platonic or sexual, so feel free to go either way.
– I know this is probably what everyone will be asking for this Yuletide, but I am SO FASCINATED by Consolation. How does her setting up in a tree in the Reaches actually work? What about trading missions with other Raksura courts? Does she convince a consort to join her, and if so how? Do any Abora volunteer to join them and help them learn how to function? What does the next generation look like?
– I'd love a fic about Consolation as a young child. Maybe even from the POV of her father? What was that like, for him or for her, growing up in a place where they only had each other to understand them? A scene about her getting her name would break my heart in the best of ways. Or maybe a story about the father trying to teach her about the Raksura? Or one about Consolation making allies among the Kethal for the first time?
– I also really love Delin, and anything about him interacting with the Raksura would be excellent. Him asking questions to write his book? Him explaining to them about the Golden Isles or some other culture? Him helping out when they get into a tangle with another Raksura court? Just give me this fearless old nerd man and his curious lizard-bee friends and I will be ecstatic! His exasperated family is also A++.
PS: I have read all the short stories and also Martha Wells's Patreon, so feel free to include details from there as well!
Hello and thank you for offering one of my fandoms! I'm looking forward to whatever you write, and if you want to completely ignore the rest of this letter, or pick and choose just a few things, that's totally fine. I've tried to write a shorter letter this year. If you want more information click here for previous years' letters. Anything I've asked for before I would still love to get.
AO3 name: Brigdh
Tumblr: Brigdh
Basics
– I love all ratings, from G to NC-17. A lot of the prompts I give below are focused on ships, but feel free to write me the characters as platonic friends instead if that's what you prefer. Gen and PWPs are both awesome!
– Feel free to include injury, illness, major character death, infidelity, racism, homophobia, classism, general dark and depressing tones, etc, as needed for your story. Or feel free to ignore such elements of the canons below and write me fluff! I'm good either way.
– A lot of my requested canons are historical fiction. I DO NOT require you to have done research to write them. Trust me, I won't care if you use a modern word or describe the wrong style of clothing. I'm not an expert either.
– For each of my requests, the characters are very much OR instead of AND. Want to write a story about Rose without Hannibal, Chime without Consolation, etc? Go ahead! You could probably guess this from the prompts I give below, but I wanted to be clear about it.
– Weird stylistic writing choices, like second person POV, a series of linked drabbles, unreliable narrators, five times fic, etc, are all totally okay. I enjoy reading experiments!
DNWs
– amnesia
– de-aging
– mpreg (I do love A/B/O fic, so if you choose to write that, feel free to mention mpreg in the worldbuilding. Just please don't make it the main focus of the fic)
– Groundhog Day AUs
– 24/7 lifestyle BDSM
Yes, please!
– AUs, especially: modern AU, historical AU (as in, any historical period other than the one in canon), A/B/O, pirates, Wild West, cyberpunk, postapocalypse, circuses, canon-divergence
– found families, families of choice, and loyalty kink. I especially love it when there are reasons why it's difficult or unusual for the characters to have a relationship, but they defy expectations by being devoted to one another anyway.
– I LOVE one character risking their life/sacrificing themselves to protect another. "I thought you were dead!" is also an excellent trope
– casefic would be great, especially if you could combine it with slowburn get-together of one of my ships. I realize that’s a lot to ask of a writer. But just in case you want to write long casefic: I would love to receive it!
– hurt/comfort of all kinds, especially if the comfort leads to a deepening relationship. People getting ill, people getting beat up, people choosing to be tortured to protect someone else, people hiding injuries while trying to soldier on, people enduring long-term poor conditions (especially cold! I HATE being cold, and so I deeply identify with a character barely avoiding hypothermia), last minute rescues, confessions of feelings due to thinking they're about to die, caretaking, giving the hurt character a bath (especially hair washing!), and characters learning to be loved.
– iron woobies, always and forever
– established relationships are my jam. Show me how comfortable people have gotten with each other, how they know one another well enough to know all of their jokes and triggers and erogenous zones. And established doesn't have to mean problem-free! There's all sorts of troubles that tend to come up in relationships long after the first time. For example, I'd love a story about a fight and working through it.
– arranged marriages/marriages of convenience and fake dating are some of my favorite stories. I love all of it: the awkwardness, the enforced intimacy, the pining over 'my feelings are real but yours are pretend', the trust despite the difficulty, the teaming up to put on a good show for outside observers.
– slice-of-life, domesticity, missing scenes, and curtain-fic are all wonderful. I am totally fine with a very low-stakes story, as long as I get to see my favorite characters going about a normal day, enjoying themselves with one another, making jokes, etc.
- I adore all sorts of silly fanfic tropes, but here are some of my favorites: Genderswap (particularly of the "always-a-girl/boy" type rather than "woke up one morning" type), crossdressing, roadtrips, huddling for warmth, masquerades/disguises/undercover, trapped together (snowed in cabin, handcuffs, etc), friends-to-lovers and especially FWB to more, sex pollen, and platonic bed sharing.
Porn: I love everything from PWP to fade-to-black to gen. If you want specifics, here's a link to my Yuleporn post.
Benjamin January Mysteries - Barbara Hambly – Benjamin, Rose, Hannibal
My ships: Ben/Rose/Hannibal (either as a true triangle or as a V), Ben/Hannibal, Ben/Rose, Rose/Hannibal, Hannibal/Dominique
My request: Some of my favorite things about this series are the amazing historical detail and world-building, the treatment of complex real-world issues, and the kindness and respect and love of the characters for one another, as well as their humor and total dorkiness. I love how huge the world is; you could write a story about any background character and I would be fascinated by it. With Rose, I love her determination and stubbornness to have the life she wants, and how she's capable of being utterly ruthless when the situation calls for it. I also love her awkward, logical kindness. She tends to prefer books to people, and I am SO THERE with her. I love how cool and unemotional she is in a crisis, and her wry sense of humor at others' more dramatic emotions.
With Hannibal, I love that he is SUCH a fucking failbucket, and yet utterly aware of it, and how he's so grateful to those who are friends with him anyway. I really like the times when he manages to subtly undercut the privileges of his position compared to the others. I love how he makes friends with absolutely everyone he meets, and I love the slow growth over the series of his natural empathy, from a passive, fatalistic sympathy to actively going out of his way to do what he can for others.
With Ben, I love how he is justly angry about the world he lives in, and yet how he manages to take that anger and turn it into working to make change happen. He has intense abandonment issues, and I love how important friends and family are to him, and how he is constantly striving to build a community around himself. I love his sense of pride, the way his desire to be seen as proper and respectable conflicts with his frequent attraction to people who are outcasts in one way or another. I love how good he is at code-switching and making people see what they want to see; he is a good man, but godDAMN he is sneaky when he needs to be.
Optional Prompts:
– I would love a first-time, getting together fic for my OT3 set immediately after Crimson Angel. It’s such a dramatic book, with a ton of lovely tender moments between all three of them and so many fun tropes (Rose pretending to be Hannibal’s concubine! Ben thinking Hannibal was dead! Dramatic rescues! Bullet wounds!) and I really would love to indulge in even more of it.
– I love canon-divergence AUs. One idea I was considering: what if Rose hadn’t been pregnant at the time of The Shirt on His Back? Would she have traveled with the others to Oregon? Or would Hannibal have stayed in New Orleans with her, leaving Ben and Shaw on their own? I would LOVE to see crossdressed Rose exploring the Wild West, but Rose and Hannibal forced to deal with his withdrawal on their own and despite societal disapproval would be excellent too.
– EPISTOLARY FIC PLZ. I always love it when Hambly includes notes written by the characters in the books; I’m so fascinated even by little details like how they address one another (‘amicus meus’ is so cute it kills me) or how they manage to include secret messages that outside observers wouldn’t understand (whether that’s slipping into Latin or Greek, or codewords, or Shakespeare quotations). They do send a lot of letters and short notes in the books, and I’d love to see more of them: Hannibal’s letters from Mexico, Ben’s letters from Oregon or Washington DC, short notes during a normal day around the city, whatever.
– Loyalty kink: there’s a lot of moments in the books where one character has to simply trust that another won’t betray them, because they’re unable to talk directly due to outsiders listening in or them being separated. There are so many societal factors holding these characters apart, and I love how they work around them (usually subtly and sneakily, but sometimes very blatantly!) to maintain their trust and friendship. This is my JAM. Especially if one character goes through a period of angst, believing they might have been betrayed or abandoned, before the other(s) proves their loyalty by coming through with a happy ending. Examples from canon: when Ben is afraid Hannibal has abandoned him in Sold Down the River, before finding out that Hannibal was really kidnapped; in Dead Water, when Ben and Hannibal are unable to speak directly to one another to maintain their cover story, and are confronted by Molloy and Davis unexpectedly. The way they manage to back up each other despite having no plan is delicious. I just want to wallow in a ton of angst and loyalty and trust.
– I realize she’s not nominated, but I would also LOVE to get fic from Livia’s POV. Either backstory (a story about her as a child, as a young woman, from when her children were young, etc) or her view on a scene from canon. Or what does she think about Rose, about Hannibal, about the OT3?
PS: I have already read 'Murder in July', so if you want to include details from that one, feel free!
Underground (TV) – Cato, Georgia, Rosalee
My ships: Cato/Noah/Rosalee (either as a true triangle or as a V), Cato/Noah, Cato/Rosalee, Noah/Rosalee, Elizabeth/Georgia, Cato/Devi
My request: I am so, so sad about this show getting canceled (though I am holding out hope some other channel picks it up!) and so I would love fanfic as a chance to spend a little more time with these characters. I love the heist take on the material, I love the big action sequences, the huge twists in practically every episode, the gray morality and that there are no clear lines between "good" characters and "bad" characters. I love the exploration of an underserved area of American history, but I also love that the show doesn't take itself too seriously and is willing to have fun with these characters and their melodrama.
Cato is probably my favorite character (though I love the others as well!). He’s completely self-serving, ruthless, manipulative, cunning, and I love that about him. I love his dry sarcasm and the way he’s constantly pushing at others, testing them, testing himself. I love how he refuses to trust anyone else, and the way we learn he’s been hiding a deep loss all along. I want to know why he does what he does, what's driving him – though I suspect even he doesn't really know.
I love Rosalee’s slow growth of confidence in herself, as she goes from shy and sheltered to independant and completely kickass. The way she finds these reserves of strength and determination and willpower that she never suspected in herself – ah, so great. I love how loyal she is, the way she’s willing to sacrifice herself to protect others. Her dedication to her family, in particular, is fantastic.
Optional Prompts:
– Backstory about Cato, since we know so little of his past. What was his relationship like with Noah before Episode One? Had he ever interacted with Rosalee before (it seems likely, since they both have relatively elevated positions)? What about his family or childhood?
– The episode in Season One where Cato and Rosalee dressed up and pretended to be rich was THE BEST THING EVER. I would love a missing scene set during that time, or an AU where they had to stretch the deception out longer. What if they’d had to spend the night together? Just tell me more about their awkward intimacy! :D
– I'm pretty fascinated by Cato and Devi's relationship. I want to know all about it – what does she see in him? what does he see in her? Fic about their time together while Cato spends fortunes and self-destructs across Europe would be GREAT. I'd also be completely head-over-heels for any backstory about Devi: her childhood, her previous relationships, why she decides to follow Cato to America, any of that.
– I totally ship Georgia/Elizabeth and fic about them would make my day. Fluffy, angsty, first-time, established relationship – any way you want to go with it would be awesome to me. Georgia backstory would also be great: how did she come to make the choice to pass for white? What was her husband like? What is her relationship with John Brown and family like?
– On another note, I absolutely love Clara and would be so very very into fic focusing on her. She's another deliciously ruthless character, and I am really enjoying seeing her learn how to get power and use it. Where does her story go?
–The show was obviously setting up to do the Harpers Ferry Raid in Season 3. Fic about that would be amazing. How do Elizabeth, Noah, Cato, Rosalee, Georgia, etc, fit into the historical narrative? Feel free to stick to the facts or go full AU and have the raid be much more successful.
Books of the Raksura - Martha Wells - Chime, Consolation
My ships: Jade/Moon/Chime, Stone/Rorra,
My request: This is very much an OR request (though if you can think of some reason to have them in the same room, I'm all for it!). In fact, I really love all of the characters in the tag set and would be happy with fic focusing on any of them; these two are just my favorites, which is why I chose them.
I love this fandom for its incredible worldbuilding; every single one of the books has some setpiece that just fascinates me with its originality and weirdness, from a city inside a tree to underground pyramids to giant sea-turtles with cities on their backs to, of course, the Raksura gender/caste politics. I also love Moon and his struggle to understand Raksuran culture and the emotional difficulties of being part of a family and a colony; I love Chime's sweet awkwardness; I love Consolation's determination and misguided attempts to do good.
Optional Prompts:
– I'd love more about Chime's transition from Mentor to Warrior, and all the many ways he must have had to adjust: mentally, physically, socially, etc. It might be interesting to see someone else's POV on that change too, or more about other people who have made the same change throughout history.
– Chime and Moon are obviously together, and Moon and Jade, but do Chime and Jade have any particular closeness? I'd love more on what they think of each other, or just see them spending time together, alone or with Moon as well. I could see this being either platonic or sexual, so feel free to go either way.
– I know this is probably what everyone will be asking for this Yuletide, but I am SO FASCINATED by Consolation. How does her setting up in a tree in the Reaches actually work? What about trading missions with other Raksura courts? Does she convince a consort to join her, and if so how? Do any Abora volunteer to join them and help them learn how to function? What does the next generation look like?
– I'd love a fic about Consolation as a young child. Maybe even from the POV of her father? What was that like, for him or for her, growing up in a place where they only had each other to understand them? A scene about her getting her name would break my heart in the best of ways. Or maybe a story about the father trying to teach her about the Raksura? Or one about Consolation making allies among the Kethal for the first time?
– I also really love Delin, and anything about him interacting with the Raksura would be excellent. Him asking questions to write his book? Him explaining to them about the Golden Isles or some other culture? Him helping out when they get into a tangle with another Raksura court? Just give me this fearless old nerd man and his curious lizard-bee friends and I will be ecstatic! His exasperated family is also A++.
PS: I have read all the short stories and also Martha Wells's Patreon, so feel free to include details from there as well!
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Date: 2017-10-09 04:10 am (UTC)Off-topic, I'm sorry: HOW WAS IT?
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Date: 2017-10-11 02:20 am (UTC)Awwwwwwww!
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Date: 2017-12-28 03:07 am (UTC)It felt more substantial than some of the other recent novels, at least; I'd put it comparable to Crimson Angel for people being themselves as well as plot movements. And I enjoyed seeing more of Daniel Ben-Gideon, who had been one of the nicest parts of Ran Away for me.
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Date: 2017-10-09 10:11 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2017-10-10 05:22 pm (UTC)What happened was the channel (WGN America) that produced it decided to stop making original content entirely and just air old movies and syndicated shows. Fans have been trying to get somewhere else to pick it up, but it's apparently very expensive to produce (all the costumes and sets and actions sequences, I guess) and no one has so far. :(
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Date: 2017-10-10 07:56 pm (UTC)