coronation ceremony letter [2018]
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kiphianaDear Coronation Ceremony author ...
My username on AO3 is bigsunglasses.
I like to be left happy or optimistic at the end of a story - please, no bitter or sad endings. Also nothing cracky. I am usually a stickler for canon, and attached to the settings as much as the characters, so avoid AUs/fusions, etc, unless I have specifically asked otherwise. I also prefer fics with some action or interaction, rather than ones that are just one character reflecting/introspecting. Finally, please don't write any ships that break up canon ships unless I have specifically asked otherwise.
Do not want.
Pregnancy loss, or difficulties. Rape. Character death (referencing a canon death in passing is fine, someone dying in the fic is not). Terminal illness. Infidelity. Explicit torture. Gore. Gaslighting. Humiliation. Incest.
Lovelist of general & specific things.
* Worldbuilding! History, cooking, wildlife …
* Friendship, fluff, romance, tenderness in general.
* Loyalty and protectiveness.
* H/C, whether physical or emotional.
* Creating and building things (families, meals, cities, houses, books … )
* Adventure and exploration.
* Themes of truth and justice and honesty.
* Touch starvation.
* Huddling for warmth.
* Marriages of convenience/fake!dating.
* Hair brushing.
* Non-sexual romantic touch – massages, holding hands.
* Rivers and oceans.
* Wilderness (countryside, trees, wildflowers).
Smut.
If the muse moves you towards smut, go for it! But I'd love there to be at least some plot or framing story, rather than outright PWP. I'm rarely interested in reading sex for sex's sake, but in reading how and why particular characters do sex. The emotional aspects of the scene need to be emphasised.
Onto my requests, which are all for fanfic, although if you are inspired to do an art treat, I would be happy.
Vedero & Idra
What's their relationship like? The Drazhada don't seem like a really close family - or is that just the older generations? I can imagine Varenechibel not wanting his bluestocking daughter infecting his grandson with her ideas. In fact, I can imagine Idra's mother also taking the same attitude. So if Vedero and Idra weren't close previously, how do the events of canon affect their connection? Does she educate about him about astronomy? Women's rights? Is it easy or hard for her to be an aunt? Or maybe they've always been close, ever since Idra was born. Did he turn to her for any kind of emotional support as his world fell apart over the course of canon?
Novels
Genres, tropes, styles, patrons, printers, reviewers, libraries, bookshops! What's popular? What's good?
* Who is writing insider gossip under a pen name about current scandals in the Court, thinly disguised as novels? Are the lawyers of the various people unmistakeably featuring in these novels trying to sue the printers to find out the author's identity?
* Whose writing was a dud in the Ethuveraz but very popular in Barizhan? Are they going on a publicity tour in the south?
* If you're a debut author, what reviewer in the Ethuveraz do you most want to impress and why?
Newspapers & Journalism
Pretty much any part of canon (or post-canon), rendered through the eyes of a journalist, would be gripping. I love outsider perspectives. Does anyone give a tell-all interview (and was it sanctioned in advance?)? Who tries to bribe the kitchen staff to find out the Emperor's eating habits? Who gets picked up by the Hezhethora for trying to sneak into the Alcethmeret?
And there are so many general ideas to explore, too! How many newspapers are there in the Ethuveraz? Who reads which papers? Are any national, or are they all regional? What are their political biases? How independent (or not) are they of royal/noble control? What content do they have apart from news? (advertisements, short/serialised stories, lists of the famous people who went to a big party, etc ... ) Who writes for the newspapers?
Natural History
An extract from a guidebook, or a nature handbook. Vedero's friends studying fossils, or ecological succession, or migration patterns. Maia liberating circus animals from strange lands, finding people who can look after them, and creating a free-range zoo. The Vizhenkas building a greenhouse so they can enjoy Barizheise plants that don't grow this far north. Beshelar doing wilderness survival training and encountering lots and lots of Nature. An elf going on a far-off diplomatic journey and exploring the seaside for the first time.
My username on AO3 is bigsunglasses.
I like to be left happy or optimistic at the end of a story - please, no bitter or sad endings. Also nothing cracky. I am usually a stickler for canon, and attached to the settings as much as the characters, so avoid AUs/fusions, etc, unless I have specifically asked otherwise. I also prefer fics with some action or interaction, rather than ones that are just one character reflecting/introspecting. Finally, please don't write any ships that break up canon ships unless I have specifically asked otherwise.
Do not want.
Pregnancy loss, or difficulties. Rape. Character death (referencing a canon death in passing is fine, someone dying in the fic is not). Terminal illness. Infidelity. Explicit torture. Gore. Gaslighting. Humiliation. Incest.
Lovelist of general & specific things.
* Worldbuilding! History, cooking, wildlife …
* Friendship, fluff, romance, tenderness in general.
* Loyalty and protectiveness.
* H/C, whether physical or emotional.
* Creating and building things (families, meals, cities, houses, books … )
* Adventure and exploration.
* Themes of truth and justice and honesty.
* Touch starvation.
* Huddling for warmth.
* Marriages of convenience/fake!dating.
* Hair brushing.
* Non-sexual romantic touch – massages, holding hands.
* Rivers and oceans.
* Wilderness (countryside, trees, wildflowers).
Smut.
If the muse moves you towards smut, go for it! But I'd love there to be at least some plot or framing story, rather than outright PWP. I'm rarely interested in reading sex for sex's sake, but in reading how and why particular characters do sex. The emotional aspects of the scene need to be emphasised.
Onto my requests, which are all for fanfic, although if you are inspired to do an art treat, I would be happy.
Vedero & Idra
What's their relationship like? The Drazhada don't seem like a really close family - or is that just the older generations? I can imagine Varenechibel not wanting his bluestocking daughter infecting his grandson with her ideas. In fact, I can imagine Idra's mother also taking the same attitude. So if Vedero and Idra weren't close previously, how do the events of canon affect their connection? Does she educate about him about astronomy? Women's rights? Is it easy or hard for her to be an aunt? Or maybe they've always been close, ever since Idra was born. Did he turn to her for any kind of emotional support as his world fell apart over the course of canon?
Novels
Genres, tropes, styles, patrons, printers, reviewers, libraries, bookshops! What's popular? What's good?
* Who is writing insider gossip under a pen name about current scandals in the Court, thinly disguised as novels? Are the lawyers of the various people unmistakeably featuring in these novels trying to sue the printers to find out the author's identity?
* Whose writing was a dud in the Ethuveraz but very popular in Barizhan? Are they going on a publicity tour in the south?
* If you're a debut author, what reviewer in the Ethuveraz do you most want to impress and why?
Newspapers & Journalism
Pretty much any part of canon (or post-canon), rendered through the eyes of a journalist, would be gripping. I love outsider perspectives. Does anyone give a tell-all interview (and was it sanctioned in advance?)? Who tries to bribe the kitchen staff to find out the Emperor's eating habits? Who gets picked up by the Hezhethora for trying to sneak into the Alcethmeret?
And there are so many general ideas to explore, too! How many newspapers are there in the Ethuveraz? Who reads which papers? Are any national, or are they all regional? What are their political biases? How independent (or not) are they of royal/noble control? What content do they have apart from news? (advertisements, short/serialised stories, lists of the famous people who went to a big party, etc ... ) Who writes for the newspapers?
Natural History
An extract from a guidebook, or a nature handbook. Vedero's friends studying fossils, or ecological succession, or migration patterns. Maia liberating circus animals from strange lands, finding people who can look after them, and creating a free-range zoo. The Vizhenkas building a greenhouse so they can enjoy Barizheise plants that don't grow this far north. Beshelar doing wilderness survival training and encountering lots and lots of Nature. An elf going on a far-off diplomatic journey and exploring the seaside for the first time.
