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corpsebrigadierDear Creator,
This exchange is absolutely 1,000% my jam, and I'm excited for pretty much anything you might wish to make for it. My requests for this are extremely broad, as each one is either open to the possibility of any fandom or to any freeform you might wish to choose. I am eager to receive both work for fandoms that I have never experienced and in formats with which I am unfamiliar. Consider this an invitation to create something for the fandom of your heart or to finally get to experiment with a medium with which you're particularly smitten.
I would be very appreciative if you craft your fanwork with an eye towards reaching an audience unfamiliar with the canon if its a canon with which you suspect I will be unfamiliar. You might do this by making a work that doesn't rely on canon knowledge, or by providing a canon primer and/or links to relevant review resources. Please note that it might take me a little longer than usual to comment should I need to familiarize myself with a canon to appreciate a fanwork.
I should also note that I am open to works for my fandoms even if you are unfamiliar with them, and will gleefully accept works based on your osmosis of the two twenty-year-old JRPGs I am requesting. If you feel inspired to craft some production based on promotional art, weird character names, half-viewed Let's Plays, complaints you have read on GameFAQs, or any other brief and incomplete experience with these canons, please do so. I am stoked about both canons to the point that I am happy for any new content for them and for any new take upon them.
Lastly, my own fanworks are all up for grabs, and you should feel free to remix, repurpose, and generally play around with them as you see fit. (If you want to do something meta that comments on the exchange itself on some level, you might want to consider my fanworks for it from last year.)
Again, I'm unbelievably hyped for this exchange and for whatever you might wish to create for it. I'm hoping you have fun with whatever it is that you decide to make, and I look forward to seeing the results!
Do Not Wants: All DNWs are suspended for works with where you are choosing the fandom. Go nuts. I am happy to read through whatever depravity, violence, weird kink, or writing quirks you wish to deploy.
For Final Fantasy Tactics and Vagrant Story, I would prefer it if you avoid ageplay (underage characters and age gaps are fine); incestuous relationships written as completely healthy and normal (messed up, maladaptive incest is TOTALLY WELCOME); omegaverse; pregnancy-related kinks; and scat/emeto (watersports are okay; unsexy mentions of vomit are okay; all poop is a no go)
Opt-Ins: ANYTHING that is not a DNW. This includes all archive warnings, any perspective/person/tense, and gender/sexuality headcanons.
General Likes: bittersweetness; black humor; character death; complex family relationships; hurt/comfort; illness and injury (plague and head bashing in particular); fever dreams; existential despair; non-kinky explorations of pregnancy, childbirth, and parenthood; stoicism in the face of terrible things; surreal imagery; torture; religious, mythological, and/or plant-based symbolism; whump
Smut Likes: awkward, bad, or inept sex that's still enthusiastic; blasphemy/sacrilege kink; clothed or partially clothed sex; hate sex; non-con/dubcon in general; undead sex
Art Likes: I like things with dynamic poses; things that are cute/cartoonish; things that do something offbeat and a little bit exaggerated/surreal; and things that are a little over-stylized and dripping with symbolic imagery. Limited palettes and starkly inked black and white pieces are close to my heart as I am a rotten colorist and have an affinity for styles I could conceivably emulate. I also tend to like things that are de-saturated or a washed out looking. As with my general likes, I'm a sucker for anything that has cool symbolism with plants and religion in it.
Additional Note: If you are uncertain if something will be welcome/okay, please don't hesitate to ask the mod for reassurance. I know I've been reiterating that anything is welcome a lot here, but if you have a moment of thinking "Anything? Surely they don't mean _______ when they say anything?" I'm happy to clarify and to offer direction as to my general preference via a mod.
Contents
Canons I Pick
• Final Fantasy Tactics
• Vagrant Story
Canons You Pick
• Herbals, Grimoires, Bestiaries, etc...
• Audio/Visual Productions
• Records and Evidence
• Manifestos, Primers, and Meta
• Interactive Fiction
• Recipes
• Creator's Choice of Everything
Canon Review Resources: I have no idea what ports of the game are/are not garbage these days, but you can check out scripts of the dialogue here (PSX translation) and here (PSP translation). There are also a very comprehensive Let's Plays here (PSX translation) and here (PSP translation). If you have an emulator and wish to skip to specific save states, somebody put together a nice collection of them here.
ANY Freeform
I will accept any freeform whatsoever for this canon, and I will enjoy any combination of characters (or no characters--worldbuilding is absolutely welcome). If you would prefer to focus on elements of the canon of which I'm particularly fond, I'm a huge fan of works featuring the older Beoulve brothers and/or the Folles siblings, and my major ships are Wiegraf/Zalbag, Dycedarg/Ruvelia, and Alma/Ovelia, although I'm also a fan of more popular ships like Delita/Ramza and Agrias/Ovelia. If you have no idea what the crap I'm expecting from Wiegraf/Zalbag and you forgot who Ruvelia even was, you may wish to check out the Wiegraf/Zalbag shipping manifesto I made for this very exchange last year or another shipping manifesto that I have it on good authority will manifest itself on May 16th.
I'm extremely open to remixes of my own fanworks for this canon, and if you're interested in some sort of surreal Unconventionalfanworksception scenario, you might want to give the FFT Interactive Fiction piece I made last year a look (which might be especially helpful if you're interested in pivoting off of something that doesn't require actual canon knowledge). I should also note that I'm also really into minor characters and pieces of in game lore, so feel free to build off of things like the in game sound novels, text about the artifacts you get from jobs, or bar rumors about the Fifty Years War (God, I love the Fifty Years War), feel free to do so.
Again though, I really am up for anything. A love poem to Worker 8; your generic units' reddit history; Beowulf's Universal Dragonfuckers Handbook: it's all good. If you are unfamiliar with the game and want to create something anyway, don't let that unfamiliarity deter you. I'm open to works produced via osmosis. If you happen to be somebody into the recently released Final Fantasy the kids are all hyped for these days, I should note that Cloud Strife is a playable bonus character in Final Fantasy Tactics, and I welcome fanworks concerning him and his undoubted confusion as to why the world is suddenly so sepia-toned and filled with medieval backstabbery.
Some ideas you might want to consider based on freeforms:
Animal Husbandry Guide, Bestiary, Demon-Hunting Lore Entry, Herbal, Magical Grimoire, Religious/Spiritual Text, Travel Guide: How do people in this universe think of the various monster types? What are the actual nuts and bolts of the Glabados faith in terms of day to day worship where everything isn't fretting about the religion's demonic underpinnings? What's up with all the various item types and their histories and properties? How do people explain how magic works and how things like the obviously shamantistic oracle class mesh with a world very much tied to its Catholic state religion? I'd love bits of worldbuilding that bridge the gap between in game mechanics and how plots in JRPGs actually function.
Recipe(s): Look. I'm not gonna lie. I'm particularly interested in mushroom recipes here because I'm a dweeb who finds fictitious patricide entertaining. I'd be game for some actual recipes for the kids bread/adult bread artifacts if you want something directly in canon, and themed mixed beverages, things featuring a lot of herbs, and drinks featuring tall glasses of wholesome milk are also welcome.
Letters, Reports, History Books, etc...: There's so much intrigue and drama going on in this game, and I'd love something that explored it via letters and documents: particularly if they are works that could conceivably be used by either Olan or Alazlam as historical sources. There's a lot of stuff that we are shown in the game that Olan (or even Ramza) do not immediately witness, and creating records of things like the Templarate's various bouts of scheming or the conflict between the older Beoulves would be very welcome, as would anything that sheds light on the events the game doesn't show up. Something that explain's Delita's infiltration of the Blackram Knights or that explores the Order of the Ebon Eye or the Khamja would all be wonderful.
Board Game Design, Honey Heist Hack, Interactive Fiction, Micro RPG, Visual Novel: Give me a game about a game. Help me explore characters via IF. Send me on a dungeon crawl. I'd love something that takes a video game canon and looks at it through different mechanics. What would the narrative of FFT look like if it were suddenly bereft of all the grid-based battles that surround it.
Horoscope; Tarot Card Design; Tarot Card Reading; Star Chart: This game is absolutely saturated in astrology. Why not either expand upon that or saturate it in even more occult systems by exploring it via tarot? Tell me about the zodiac as a cultural force within Ivalice. Design a deck or do a reading based on all the many many archetypal character types positioned within the narrative. Explain to me how the hell Galaxy Stop works. If you're into remixes, you could even do something with the tarot-themed, war-crime-filled story I did for last year's![[community profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/community.png)
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Political Pamphlet, Propagandistic Writing: Please tell me how to join the Corpse Brigade (or Death Corps) and why noblemen deserve to be strangled with their own entrails.
Fan Poem Set to Music, Filk Written to Existing Tune, Instrumental music, Remix of Canon Music: I love the shit out of "Antipyretic" and I am always trying to track down more versions to go jogging to; "Memories" is also a major favorite of mine. Ivalice is also a dark world full of war and religion, and things like church hymns, battle songs, dirges, and folk songs would fit into it well.
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Canon Review Resources: There's a compilation of all the cutscenes here and an FAQ containing the complete game script here. Given that the game is very spartan in its characterization, you might also want to check out this translation of the Ultimania Guide for ideas (although don't feel obligated to adhere to anything not explicitly shown in the game itself).
ANY Freeform
As with FFT, I will accept any freeform whatsoever for this canon, and I will enjoy any combination of characters (or no characters--worldbuilding is absolutely welcome). If you would prefer to focus on elements of the canon of which I'm particularly fond, I'm really into Grissom the tragic priest/zombie, and I'm a sucker for the angstatic stylings of both major members of Müllenkamp (Sydney and Hardin). I will ship all three of them with just about anything (including each other) if it makes them miserable. As I have a particular soft spot for Grissom's misery in particular, Sydney/Grisson, unspeakable manifestations of the Dark/Grissom, and random bad guys/Grissom are all welcome here.
If you are unfamiliar with this canon, I'm open to osmosis works for it, and I'm game for anything you wish to come up with. A lot of the game is its evocative atmosphere, and I certainly came up with a lot of weird ideas about it before I finally bit the bullet and subjected myself to all the hours of weapons crafting and combo attacks it requires. Don't be afraid to do something based on the general mood of this canon instead of delving deeply into canonical materials; mood counts for a lot here.
Some ideas you might want to consider based on freeforms:
Animal Husbandry Guide, Bestiary, Herbal, Magical Grimoire, Travel Guide: So much of this world is shrouded in mystery, as we only see one little slice of it in the form of a very very cursed city. Are there people in Valendia who catalog all of these goblins/wraiths/animate armours? Are there theories as to how all of these Dark magic entities function in relation to the world's seemingly dominant religion? Has anyone outside of the game's cast written a cool examination of the Dark? All those items you use, the bulbs and the roots and whatsnot: what's up with them? I'm interested in anything that fleshes out the Vagrant Story world beyond what we see.
Religious/Spiritual Text: I really want to know what's up with the religion founded around St. Iocus, and I would love it in particular if I learned in such a way as to provide exposition regarding the Crimson Blades characters. Alternately, stuff detailing the inner workings of Müllenkamp and what it looks like beyond two dudes wandering around putting sigils on things would be fascinating. Super massive bonus points if you can tie either religion to other Ivalice games.
Cross-stitch Design: I want to put the Rood and/or the Blood Sin on everything. It's such an iconic, classy piece of visual design and I would love instructions as to how to have it all over my possessions. (Note: I don't actually have cross-stitch supplies at present, and it will take a bit of time to accrue some. If you opt for this, it would be great if you could create something that could be adapted to knitting or other crafts that follow similar grid-based patterning.)
Font Set: Kildean runes. What do they look like? Make something stylish for me to emblazon on every den and dovecote.
Board Game Design, Honey Heist Hack, Interactive Fiction, Micro RPG, Visual Novel: Give me a game about a game. Help me explore characters via IF. Immerse me in some Vagrant Story experience where I don't have to forge eight of my swords together to deal more than ten damage to a boss. Something that shows various characters before they hit Leá Monde would be excellent, as would something that explores what its like to some uninvolved dude living their life in the world of Valendia.
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Freeforms:
• In-Universe Publication - Anatomical Chart
• In-Universe Publication - Animal Husbandry Guide
• In-Universe Publication - Anthropological Report
• In-Universe Publication - Bestiary
• In-Universe Publication - Demon-Hunting Lore Entry
• In-Universe Publication - Herbal
• In-Universe Publication - Magical Grimoire
• In-Universe Publication - Religious/Spiritual Text
• In-Universe Publication - Travel Guide
I love worldbuilding, and I'd love something that might give me a sense of what a canon's setting feels like even if it doesn't touch on its actual narrative. As there is a catch all "Any Canon/Any Freeform" request, feel free to use freeforms that explore your world in ways I haven't anticipated. I'm a lore-happy bastard who will love whatever snippets you can throw my way.
Anatomical Chart, Animal Husbandry Guide, Bestiary, Demon-Hunting Lore Entry: Tell me about the critters and creatures that inhabit your canon: how you care for them, how you hunt them, how you avoid them, or how you study them. Tell me fascinating facts about footprints. Write me an identification key about their skulls. Tell me how to summon something to make an infernal pact.
Herbal: I am actually a really cruddy gardener and a bottom tier herbalist, but I really really really like plants on a narrative level. Tell me about herbs. Tell me about poisons. Give me information as to how to grow and/or find these things. Invent a language of flowers, or tell me about plant symbolism. Feel free to throw in a recipe if you see fit.
Anthropological Report, Travel Guide: Tell me about people and places. Explain strange societies or distant realms. Give me ideas about how I might explore the world of your canon and who I might meet there. Feel free to make your author here unreliable, biased, and/or misinformed if the fancy strikes you. I'd love to be told some lies.
Magical Grimoire, Religious/Spiritual Text: Please tell me neat facts about spirituality and/or magic. I'd love to hear about doctrinal disputes, heresies, prayers, penances, curses, benedictions, sigils, spells, reagents, occult systems, and/or catalogs of demons and saints.
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Freeforms:
• Audio and/or Visual - Any Visual Media Type
• Audio and/or Visual - Animatic
• Audio and/or Visual - Comic
• Audio and/or Visual - Fake Trailer
• Audio and/or Visual - Music Vid
• Audio and/or Visual - Podfic
• Audio and/or Visual - Sleep talkdown
• Audio and/or Visual - Vid
• Music and Lyrics - Canon Poem Set to Music
• Music and Lyrics - Fan Poem Set to Music
• Music and Lyrics - Filk Written to Existing Tune
• Music and Lyrics - Instrumental music
• Music and Lyrics - Remix of Canon Music
I'm open to any visual/audio media type, but I wanted to spotlight a few that I feel work really well as an introduction to an unfamiliar canon.
Animatic/Fake Trailer/Music Vid/Vid: I'd love something that plunges me into a fandom with some sort of dramatic, immediately understandable dynamics. Show me how gut-wrenchingly good your OTP is. Give me a fake trailer that introduces me to the world you love. Use my potential unfamiliarity to your advantage and set up a cliffhanger. I'm a fan of things that have a lot of sharp transitions between a series of stills or almost stills (I love animatics), and I dig fanvids that play into the beat of the song as much as they do the lyrics.
Comic: A comic is a good way to communicate setting really quickly, and I'd love something that has a protagonist or character moving through some manner of landscape or place that really show off the visual feel of your canon. A stark, punchy piece of drama, or a brief fight scene would work well for this. If you want to showcase some neat character dynamics, I'd love an argument, a fight, or a sex scene.
Sleep Talkdown: Having your favorite character (or some other character you deem appropriate) gradually sink me into the void of unconsciousness is a great way to connect me to a world and narrative you love. It invites a direct interaction between me and a character, and it is also just a really intense way to communicate something to another human being through fanworks.
Podfic: Feel free to use the medium of podfic to introduce me to some fic you think I might enjoy. Feel super extra free to use the medium of podfic to transform my own fic.
Canon Poem Set to Music, Fan Poem Set to Music, Filk Written to Existing Tune, Instrumental music, Remix of Canon Music: I'd love any musical production you're interested in making, whether it be something that tells me about a world via lyrics or introduces me to the mood and feel of a canon through an instrumental piece. I have a taste for morbid, folksy pieces, so please feel free to go whole hog if you're hankering to write a murder ballad or a tragic, lyrical account of a battle.
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Freeforms:
• In-Universe Personal Documents - Any In-Universe Personal Document Type
• In-Universe Professional and Academic Documents - Any In-Universe Prof and Aca Document Type
• Style - Epistolary
• In-Universe Personal Documents - Journal or Notes Taken By Character
• In-Universe Personal Documents - Letters
• In-Universe Personal Documents - Postcards
• In-Universe Personal Documents - Sketches or art journal made by character
• In-Universe Professional and Academic Documents - Investigative Report
• In-Universe Professional and Academic Documents - Medical Record
• In-Universe Professional and Academic Documents - Meeting Minutes
• In-Universe Professional and Academic Documents - Mission Report
• In-Universe Professional and Academic Documents - Police Report
• In-Universe Professional and Academic Documents - Scientific Sketches
• In-Universe Professional and Academic Documents - Therapist's Notes
• In-Universe Publication - Academic Paper
• In-Universe Publication - Obituary
• In-Universe Publication - Philosophy Paper
• In-Universe Social Media and Communication - Correspondence via defacement of official documents
• In-Universe Social Media and Communication - Correspondence via Post-It Notes
• In-Universe Social Media and Communication - Text Message Conversation
I adore epistolary fiction. Bram Stoker and Wilkie Collins are my home boys, and I will never get sick of storytelling through letters, found documents, transcripts of gravestones, telegrams, newspaper clippings, etc. I'm open to pretty much any document you might wish to compose, and the admittedly hefty list above is just a run though of the items that struck me as most conducive to epistolary narratives. Feel absolutely free to use things not on the list above or to combine multiple forms into one composition. For this request, I've listed some of my ideas on general techniques and moves that might be interesting rather than attempting to break things down by freeform(s).
Shifting Point of View: Multiple documents or documents with more than one author allow one to play around with unreliability, differences in perception, and conflicts between accounts. I would really dig two reports/letters/accounts of the same event from different perspectives or a person coming back to comment on older observations they once had. One of my favorite moments in epistolary storytelling is the chilling moment when you reach the end of Marian Holcombe's diary in The Woman in White and findCount Fosco's completely creeptastic commentary he's written after her final entry . Things where documents are a site for conflict and disagreement are great.
Missing the Point: I love it when you get the perspective of an outsider character or an obviously uninformed character: somebody who doesn't understand the ramifications of what they're describing. A great example is the moment in Dracula in which a newspaper article that mentions the local humane society's interest in the giant black dog that just so happened to leap off of a ship the audience knows was carrying a vampire. Compositions that are a little bit comedic in their ignorance, that set up a growing sense of foreboding, or that offer a logical but completely mistaken interpretation of the facts would all be great for this sort of storytelling.
Codes and Hidden Messages: Puzzles, ciphers, and things one might miss on first glance delight me, and I'd love a document that has multiple meanings or that takes a few passes to understand. Feel free to hide things visually with CSS or to introduce some sort of narrative device to add underlying meaning to a document.
Narrative Lacunae: Something else I really enjoy about the epistolary form is how you can have documents that circle around a narrative event that is never explicitly shown. Having people react through various mediums to some never-directly-narrated something can imbue that something with a sense of horror or mystery. I'd be very interested in something that might evoke strong feelings about an event with which I'm unfamiliar.
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Freeforms:
• Fandom - Fandom Primer
• Fandom - Meta
• Fandom - Meta About A Popular Trope Or Piece Of Fanon
• Fandom - Meta About Something That Disappointed You
• Fandom - Ship Manifesto
• Fandom - Timeline of In-Universe Events
• Fandom - Worldbuilding
This is the section where I really just want to hear you geek out as to your thoughts about canon. I love meta, and I love intensely detailed analyses of just about anything. Seriously, do not think there is anything too minor over which one might be obsessed. I want to hear everything from a basic breakdown as to what a canon is to a robust outpouring of praise for your OTP to a conspiratorial document about how the change in a character's shoe-tying patterns forebodes their eventual fall to the powers of darkness. I love thinking about things that I love way too much, and I love watching other people do the same.
If you go this route, it would be helpful if you included applicable links to websites, transcripts, summaries, Let's Plays, Project Gutenberg documents, and whatever other resources you can bring together to let me get a sense of your canon and potentially consume it. If you don't opt to, that's fine, but it will take me a little longer to familiarize myself with your canon and comment on your work.
Fandom Primer, Ship Manifesto, Timeline: Please just tell me excitedly about a canon and/or the relationships within it. I would love to be served a canon in microcosm, with a lot of description as to what it is that makes it engaging and enjoyable, and I would love a description of a ship I ought be shipping and why it ought be shipped. I'm also a complete nerd, and I really enjoy timelines, lists, charts, and infographics that explain the nuts and bolts of how a canon works. Feel free to go wild with all manner of timelines, math facts, and sets of images with conspiratorial red lines drawn between them.
Meta: Tell me your opinions! Give me a rundown as to why the things you think about this canon are right and how your nuanced close readings of the text improve upon it! I would love in depth analyses of minor points of narrative and setting, merciless debunking of fanon you dislike, zealous support of fanon you do like, and generally anything you wish to do by way of commenting on something about which you're passionate.
Worldbuilding: I mentioned liking worldbuilding above in relation to the "Herbals, Grimoires, Bestiaries, etc..." section, and I want to mention it again here. Feel free to just drop on me your opinions about how the worlds you love should work beyond what we're shown in canon. Tell me about how magical economies actually function, about the inter-relations of characters' unseen families, or about how physics and time have to alter to accommodate superpowers. I'm always interested in seeing how people build upon the fictional settings that they are given, and I'd love to see how you continue to create things in an already created world.
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Freeforms:
• Audio and/or Visual - Visual Novel
• Style - Interactive Fiction
• Style - Choose Your Own Adventure
I absolutely and utterly adore IF, and I'm always happy when I see it in exchanges. I'm a Twine person myself. While I am admittedly not an expert in things outside of it, I'm eager to play any sort of interactive fiction you wish to create in any sort of medium. I'm good for both Choose Your Own Adventure Style games and things that employ a parser, although I'd greatly appreciate a walkthrough in the case of the second one.
In terms of what I enjoy in IF, I really appreciate things that take advantage of unique or innovative mechanics, and I have a soft spot for games that acknowledge the pre-determined nature of their narratives and don't really try to be "fair." Having decisions that feel meaningful but that won't save you from a bad outcome are really up my alley, as are choices you make resulting in different outcomes than you might like. My ideal game in any medium is one that provides me with a sense that I'm not being given precisely what I initially want but that I'm not being treated unfairly or having things made difficult for the sake of being difficult. Don't be afraid to make something where there are no completely satisfactory endings.
In general, though, feel free to use IF as a means to experiment and play around. I like IF a lot as a medium for fanworks because it can open up so many possibilities that aren't typical of most written or visual compositions. I'd love things that exploit the different ways one might feel when the medium forces a certain level of identification with a player character, or that layer in ambiguity through multi-pathing and multiple endings.
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Freeforms:
• Crafts and Games - Recipe
• In-Universe Personal Documents - Recipe(s)
I really like making things, and I find particular joy in creating some tangible with my hands. I also just like... eating food. A lot. I'd be delighted by anything that allows me to craft and create something, but for fandoms with which I might not be familiar, I'm particularly interested in things that I can eat or drink.
I used to do a lot of themed cooking where I'd try to find recipes for food mentioned in books or folklore: stuff like trying to replicate the curry from Vanity Fair or making up something weird with garlic when I was was about to spend a weekend binging on vampire films. If you have a canon that you feel lends itself to a themed recipe, I'm up to make and eat either something appearing within a work or something inspired a work.
In terms of the logistics of things I can conceivably make, I should note that I'm a better baker than a cook, but that I have an awful lot of kitchen gadgets and will probably be able to concoct whatever you outline if it doesn't require anything too outrageous. I'm fine if it requires a stand mixer or a food processor. I might not be able to make something right off the bat that requires, say, a sous vide cooker and some molecular gastronomy equipment. I don't have any dietary restrictions, although most of the dishes I consume are coincidentally vegetarian. I have the equipment (if not always the alcohol) to make cocktails and mocktails, and will be happy to go through the hassle of making simple syrups for them as necessary.
In terms of foods I enjoy eating, I enjoy stuff with a lot of herbs (including anise/licorice), cooking with booze, sweet/savory combinations, and seafood (esp. octopus... if you have a canon that lends itself to tentacles).
In general though, I'm open to almost anything so long as it has some sense of thematic cohesion and relates to a fandom. I have a pretty wide-ranging palette, and I'm very keen on trying new things. As I've indicated throughout most of this letter, feel free to experiment!
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ANY Freeform
This exchange is absolutely 1,000% my jam, and I'm excited for pretty much anything you might wish to make for it. My requests for this are extremely broad, as each one is either open to the possibility of any fandom or to any freeform you might wish to choose. I am eager to receive both work for fandoms that I have never experienced and in formats with which I am unfamiliar. Consider this an invitation to create something for the fandom of your heart or to finally get to experiment with a medium with which you're particularly smitten.
I would be very appreciative if you craft your fanwork with an eye towards reaching an audience unfamiliar with the canon if its a canon with which you suspect I will be unfamiliar. You might do this by making a work that doesn't rely on canon knowledge, or by providing a canon primer and/or links to relevant review resources. Please note that it might take me a little longer than usual to comment should I need to familiarize myself with a canon to appreciate a fanwork.
I should also note that I am open to works for my fandoms even if you are unfamiliar with them, and will gleefully accept works based on your osmosis of the two twenty-year-old JRPGs I am requesting. If you feel inspired to craft some production based on promotional art, weird character names, half-viewed Let's Plays, complaints you have read on GameFAQs, or any other brief and incomplete experience with these canons, please do so. I am stoked about both canons to the point that I am happy for any new content for them and for any new take upon them.
Lastly, my own fanworks are all up for grabs, and you should feel free to remix, repurpose, and generally play around with them as you see fit. (If you want to do something meta that comments on the exchange itself on some level, you might want to consider my fanworks for it from last year.)
Again, I'm unbelievably hyped for this exchange and for whatever you might wish to create for it. I'm hoping you have fun with whatever it is that you decide to make, and I look forward to seeing the results!
Do Not Wants: All DNWs are suspended for works with where you are choosing the fandom. Go nuts. I am happy to read through whatever depravity, violence, weird kink, or writing quirks you wish to deploy.
For Final Fantasy Tactics and Vagrant Story, I would prefer it if you avoid ageplay (underage characters and age gaps are fine); incestuous relationships written as completely healthy and normal (messed up, maladaptive incest is TOTALLY WELCOME); omegaverse; pregnancy-related kinks; and scat/emeto (watersports are okay; unsexy mentions of vomit are okay; all poop is a no go)
Opt-Ins: ANYTHING that is not a DNW. This includes all archive warnings, any perspective/person/tense, and gender/sexuality headcanons.
General Likes: bittersweetness; black humor; character death; complex family relationships; hurt/comfort; illness and injury (plague and head bashing in particular); fever dreams; existential despair; non-kinky explorations of pregnancy, childbirth, and parenthood; stoicism in the face of terrible things; surreal imagery; torture; religious, mythological, and/or plant-based symbolism; whump
Smut Likes: awkward, bad, or inept sex that's still enthusiastic; blasphemy/sacrilege kink; clothed or partially clothed sex; hate sex; non-con/dubcon in general; undead sex
Art Likes: I like things with dynamic poses; things that are cute/cartoonish; things that do something offbeat and a little bit exaggerated/surreal; and things that are a little over-stylized and dripping with symbolic imagery. Limited palettes and starkly inked black and white pieces are close to my heart as I am a rotten colorist and have an affinity for styles I could conceivably emulate. I also tend to like things that are de-saturated or a washed out looking. As with my general likes, I'm a sucker for anything that has cool symbolism with plants and religion in it.
Additional Note: If you are uncertain if something will be welcome/okay, please don't hesitate to ask the mod for reassurance. I know I've been reiterating that anything is welcome a lot here, but if you have a moment of thinking "Anything? Surely they don't mean _______ when they say anything?" I'm happy to clarify and to offer direction as to my general preference via a mod.
Contents
Canons I Pick
• Final Fantasy Tactics
• Vagrant Story
Canons You Pick
• Herbals, Grimoires, Bestiaries, etc...
• Audio/Visual Productions
• Records and Evidence
• Manifestos, Primers, and Meta
• Interactive Fiction
• Recipes
• Creator's Choice of Everything
Canons I Pick
Final Fantasy Tactics
I really really really like this game, and I have oh so very very many feelings about all the vaguely sepia-toned, noseless pixel people who are doomed to die within it. I love its fakey JRPG Catholic church horror. I love that its filled with biological and found families with a variety of complicated relationship issues. I love how labyrinthine and full of details the plot and character interactions are. I love that the whole thing is generally a big downer, and that the resolution is, even at its happiest, still more bittersweet than joyous. I love pretty much everything about this game, and I love explorations of its darker facets in fanworks.Canon Review Resources: I have no idea what ports of the game are/are not garbage these days, but you can check out scripts of the dialogue here (PSX translation) and here (PSP translation). There are also a very comprehensive Let's Plays here (PSX translation) and here (PSP translation). If you have an emulator and wish to skip to specific save states, somebody put together a nice collection of them here.
ANY Freeform
I will accept any freeform whatsoever for this canon, and I will enjoy any combination of characters (or no characters--worldbuilding is absolutely welcome). If you would prefer to focus on elements of the canon of which I'm particularly fond, I'm a huge fan of works featuring the older Beoulve brothers and/or the Folles siblings, and my major ships are Wiegraf/Zalbag, Dycedarg/Ruvelia, and Alma/Ovelia, although I'm also a fan of more popular ships like Delita/Ramza and Agrias/Ovelia. If you have no idea what the crap I'm expecting from Wiegraf/Zalbag and you forgot who Ruvelia even was, you may wish to check out the Wiegraf/Zalbag shipping manifesto I made for this very exchange last year or another shipping manifesto that I have it on good authority will manifest itself on May 16th.
I'm extremely open to remixes of my own fanworks for this canon, and if you're interested in some sort of surreal Unconventionalfanworksception scenario, you might want to give the FFT Interactive Fiction piece I made last year a look (which might be especially helpful if you're interested in pivoting off of something that doesn't require actual canon knowledge). I should also note that I'm also really into minor characters and pieces of in game lore, so feel free to build off of things like the in game sound novels, text about the artifacts you get from jobs, or bar rumors about the Fifty Years War (God, I love the Fifty Years War), feel free to do so.
Again though, I really am up for anything. A love poem to Worker 8; your generic units' reddit history; Beowulf's Universal Dragonfuckers Handbook: it's all good. If you are unfamiliar with the game and want to create something anyway, don't let that unfamiliarity deter you. I'm open to works produced via osmosis. If you happen to be somebody into the recently released Final Fantasy the kids are all hyped for these days, I should note that Cloud Strife is a playable bonus character in Final Fantasy Tactics, and I welcome fanworks concerning him and his undoubted confusion as to why the world is suddenly so sepia-toned and filled with medieval backstabbery.
Some ideas you might want to consider based on freeforms:
Animal Husbandry Guide, Bestiary, Demon-Hunting Lore Entry, Herbal, Magical Grimoire, Religious/Spiritual Text, Travel Guide: How do people in this universe think of the various monster types? What are the actual nuts and bolts of the Glabados faith in terms of day to day worship where everything isn't fretting about the religion's demonic underpinnings? What's up with all the various item types and their histories and properties? How do people explain how magic works and how things like the obviously shamantistic oracle class mesh with a world very much tied to its Catholic state religion? I'd love bits of worldbuilding that bridge the gap between in game mechanics and how plots in JRPGs actually function.
Recipe(s): Look. I'm not gonna lie. I'm particularly interested in mushroom recipes here because I'm a dweeb who finds fictitious patricide entertaining. I'd be game for some actual recipes for the kids bread/adult bread artifacts if you want something directly in canon, and themed mixed beverages, things featuring a lot of herbs, and drinks featuring tall glasses of wholesome milk are also welcome.
Letters, Reports, History Books, etc...: There's so much intrigue and drama going on in this game, and I'd love something that explored it via letters and documents: particularly if they are works that could conceivably be used by either Olan or Alazlam as historical sources. There's a lot of stuff that we are shown in the game that Olan (or even Ramza) do not immediately witness, and creating records of things like the Templarate's various bouts of scheming or the conflict between the older Beoulves would be very welcome, as would anything that sheds light on the events the game doesn't show up. Something that explain's Delita's infiltration of the Blackram Knights or that explores the Order of the Ebon Eye or the Khamja would all be wonderful.
Board Game Design, Honey Heist Hack, Interactive Fiction, Micro RPG, Visual Novel: Give me a game about a game. Help me explore characters via IF. Send me on a dungeon crawl. I'd love something that takes a video game canon and looks at it through different mechanics. What would the narrative of FFT look like if it were suddenly bereft of all the grid-based battles that surround it.
Horoscope; Tarot Card Design; Tarot Card Reading; Star Chart: This game is absolutely saturated in astrology. Why not either expand upon that or saturate it in even more occult systems by exploring it via tarot? Tell me about the zodiac as a cultural force within Ivalice. Design a deck or do a reading based on all the many many archetypal character types positioned within the narrative. Explain to me how the hell Galaxy Stop works. If you're into remixes, you could even do something with the tarot-themed, war-crime-filled story I did for last year's
fortune_favors.Political Pamphlet, Propagandistic Writing: Please tell me how to join the Corpse Brigade (or Death Corps) and why noblemen deserve to be strangled with their own entrails.
Fan Poem Set to Music, Filk Written to Existing Tune, Instrumental music, Remix of Canon Music: I love the shit out of "Antipyretic" and I am always trying to track down more versions to go jogging to; "Memories" is also a major favorite of mine. Ivalice is also a dark world full of war and religion, and things like church hymns, battle songs, dirges, and folk songs would fit into it well.
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Vagrant Story
Vagrant Story is the most recent twenty-year-old, bleakly gothy Ivalice game I've fallen in love with, and I love it for reasons that both do and do not parallel my passion for FFT. I'm into its sense of foreboding, atmospheric ambiguity, and how it does so much to create a sense of dread and desolation with just a few narrative strokes. As with FFT, I really dig the darker aspects of it in particular, and I'd love just about anything that explored them in fanworks.Canon Review Resources: There's a compilation of all the cutscenes here and an FAQ containing the complete game script here. Given that the game is very spartan in its characterization, you might also want to check out this translation of the Ultimania Guide for ideas (although don't feel obligated to adhere to anything not explicitly shown in the game itself).
ANY Freeform
As with FFT, I will accept any freeform whatsoever for this canon, and I will enjoy any combination of characters (or no characters--worldbuilding is absolutely welcome). If you would prefer to focus on elements of the canon of which I'm particularly fond, I'm really into Grissom the tragic priest/zombie, and I'm a sucker for the angstatic stylings of both major members of Müllenkamp (Sydney and Hardin). I will ship all three of them with just about anything (including each other) if it makes them miserable. As I have a particular soft spot for Grissom's misery in particular, Sydney/Grisson, unspeakable manifestations of the Dark/Grissom, and random bad guys/Grissom are all welcome here.
If you are unfamiliar with this canon, I'm open to osmosis works for it, and I'm game for anything you wish to come up with. A lot of the game is its evocative atmosphere, and I certainly came up with a lot of weird ideas about it before I finally bit the bullet and subjected myself to all the hours of weapons crafting and combo attacks it requires. Don't be afraid to do something based on the general mood of this canon instead of delving deeply into canonical materials; mood counts for a lot here.
Some ideas you might want to consider based on freeforms:
Animal Husbandry Guide, Bestiary, Herbal, Magical Grimoire, Travel Guide: So much of this world is shrouded in mystery, as we only see one little slice of it in the form of a very very cursed city. Are there people in Valendia who catalog all of these goblins/wraiths/animate armours? Are there theories as to how all of these Dark magic entities function in relation to the world's seemingly dominant religion? Has anyone outside of the game's cast written a cool examination of the Dark? All those items you use, the bulbs and the roots and whatsnot: what's up with them? I'm interested in anything that fleshes out the Vagrant Story world beyond what we see.
Religious/Spiritual Text: I really want to know what's up with the religion founded around St. Iocus, and I would love it in particular if I learned in such a way as to provide exposition regarding the Crimson Blades characters. Alternately, stuff detailing the inner workings of Müllenkamp and what it looks like beyond two dudes wandering around putting sigils on things would be fascinating. Super massive bonus points if you can tie either religion to other Ivalice games.
Cross-stitch Design: I want to put the Rood and/or the Blood Sin on everything. It's such an iconic, classy piece of visual design and I would love instructions as to how to have it all over my possessions. (Note: I don't actually have cross-stitch supplies at present, and it will take a bit of time to accrue some. If you opt for this, it would be great if you could create something that could be adapted to knitting or other crafts that follow similar grid-based patterning.)
Font Set: Kildean runes. What do they look like? Make something stylish for me to emblazon on every den and dovecote.
Board Game Design, Honey Heist Hack, Interactive Fiction, Micro RPG, Visual Novel: Give me a game about a game. Help me explore characters via IF. Immerse me in some Vagrant Story experience where I don't have to forge eight of my swords together to deal more than ten damage to a boss. Something that shows various characters before they hit Leá Monde would be excellent, as would something that explores what its like to some uninvolved dude living their life in the world of Valendia.
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Canons You Pick
Herbals, Grimoires, Bestiaries, etc...
Freeforms:
• In-Universe Publication - Anatomical Chart
• In-Universe Publication - Animal Husbandry Guide
• In-Universe Publication - Anthropological Report
• In-Universe Publication - Bestiary
• In-Universe Publication - Demon-Hunting Lore Entry
• In-Universe Publication - Herbal
• In-Universe Publication - Magical Grimoire
• In-Universe Publication - Religious/Spiritual Text
• In-Universe Publication - Travel Guide
I love worldbuilding, and I'd love something that might give me a sense of what a canon's setting feels like even if it doesn't touch on its actual narrative. As there is a catch all "Any Canon/Any Freeform" request, feel free to use freeforms that explore your world in ways I haven't anticipated. I'm a lore-happy bastard who will love whatever snippets you can throw my way.
Anatomical Chart, Animal Husbandry Guide, Bestiary, Demon-Hunting Lore Entry: Tell me about the critters and creatures that inhabit your canon: how you care for them, how you hunt them, how you avoid them, or how you study them. Tell me fascinating facts about footprints. Write me an identification key about their skulls. Tell me how to summon something to make an infernal pact.
Herbal: I am actually a really cruddy gardener and a bottom tier herbalist, but I really really really like plants on a narrative level. Tell me about herbs. Tell me about poisons. Give me information as to how to grow and/or find these things. Invent a language of flowers, or tell me about plant symbolism. Feel free to throw in a recipe if you see fit.
Anthropological Report, Travel Guide: Tell me about people and places. Explain strange societies or distant realms. Give me ideas about how I might explore the world of your canon and who I might meet there. Feel free to make your author here unreliable, biased, and/or misinformed if the fancy strikes you. I'd love to be told some lies.
Magical Grimoire, Religious/Spiritual Text: Please tell me neat facts about spirituality and/or magic. I'd love to hear about doctrinal disputes, heresies, prayers, penances, curses, benedictions, sigils, spells, reagents, occult systems, and/or catalogs of demons and saints.
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Audio/Visual Productions
Freeforms:
• Audio and/or Visual - Any Visual Media Type
• Audio and/or Visual - Animatic
• Audio and/or Visual - Comic
• Audio and/or Visual - Fake Trailer
• Audio and/or Visual - Music Vid
• Audio and/or Visual - Podfic
• Audio and/or Visual - Sleep talkdown
• Audio and/or Visual - Vid
• Music and Lyrics - Canon Poem Set to Music
• Music and Lyrics - Fan Poem Set to Music
• Music and Lyrics - Filk Written to Existing Tune
• Music and Lyrics - Instrumental music
• Music and Lyrics - Remix of Canon Music
I'm open to any visual/audio media type, but I wanted to spotlight a few that I feel work really well as an introduction to an unfamiliar canon.
Animatic/Fake Trailer/Music Vid/Vid: I'd love something that plunges me into a fandom with some sort of dramatic, immediately understandable dynamics. Show me how gut-wrenchingly good your OTP is. Give me a fake trailer that introduces me to the world you love. Use my potential unfamiliarity to your advantage and set up a cliffhanger. I'm a fan of things that have a lot of sharp transitions between a series of stills or almost stills (I love animatics), and I dig fanvids that play into the beat of the song as much as they do the lyrics.
Comic: A comic is a good way to communicate setting really quickly, and I'd love something that has a protagonist or character moving through some manner of landscape or place that really show off the visual feel of your canon. A stark, punchy piece of drama, or a brief fight scene would work well for this. If you want to showcase some neat character dynamics, I'd love an argument, a fight, or a sex scene.
Sleep Talkdown: Having your favorite character (or some other character you deem appropriate) gradually sink me into the void of unconsciousness is a great way to connect me to a world and narrative you love. It invites a direct interaction between me and a character, and it is also just a really intense way to communicate something to another human being through fanworks.
Podfic: Feel free to use the medium of podfic to introduce me to some fic you think I might enjoy. Feel super extra free to use the medium of podfic to transform my own fic.
Canon Poem Set to Music, Fan Poem Set to Music, Filk Written to Existing Tune, Instrumental music, Remix of Canon Music: I'd love any musical production you're interested in making, whether it be something that tells me about a world via lyrics or introduces me to the mood and feel of a canon through an instrumental piece. I have a taste for morbid, folksy pieces, so please feel free to go whole hog if you're hankering to write a murder ballad or a tragic, lyrical account of a battle.
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Records and Evidence
Freeforms:
• In-Universe Personal Documents - Any In-Universe Personal Document Type
• In-Universe Professional and Academic Documents - Any In-Universe Prof and Aca Document Type
• Style - Epistolary
• In-Universe Personal Documents - Journal or Notes Taken By Character
• In-Universe Personal Documents - Letters
• In-Universe Personal Documents - Postcards
• In-Universe Personal Documents - Sketches or art journal made by character
• In-Universe Professional and Academic Documents - Investigative Report
• In-Universe Professional and Academic Documents - Medical Record
• In-Universe Professional and Academic Documents - Meeting Minutes
• In-Universe Professional and Academic Documents - Mission Report
• In-Universe Professional and Academic Documents - Police Report
• In-Universe Professional and Academic Documents - Scientific Sketches
• In-Universe Professional and Academic Documents - Therapist's Notes
• In-Universe Publication - Academic Paper
• In-Universe Publication - Obituary
• In-Universe Publication - Philosophy Paper
• In-Universe Social Media and Communication - Correspondence via defacement of official documents
• In-Universe Social Media and Communication - Correspondence via Post-It Notes
• In-Universe Social Media and Communication - Text Message Conversation
I adore epistolary fiction. Bram Stoker and Wilkie Collins are my home boys, and I will never get sick of storytelling through letters, found documents, transcripts of gravestones, telegrams, newspaper clippings, etc. I'm open to pretty much any document you might wish to compose, and the admittedly hefty list above is just a run though of the items that struck me as most conducive to epistolary narratives. Feel absolutely free to use things not on the list above or to combine multiple forms into one composition. For this request, I've listed some of my ideas on general techniques and moves that might be interesting rather than attempting to break things down by freeform(s).
Shifting Point of View: Multiple documents or documents with more than one author allow one to play around with unreliability, differences in perception, and conflicts between accounts. I would really dig two reports/letters/accounts of the same event from different perspectives or a person coming back to comment on older observations they once had. One of my favorite moments in epistolary storytelling is the chilling moment when you reach the end of Marian Holcombe's diary in The Woman in White and find
Missing the Point: I love it when you get the perspective of an outsider character or an obviously uninformed character: somebody who doesn't understand the ramifications of what they're describing. A great example is the moment in Dracula in which a newspaper article that mentions the local humane society's interest in the giant black dog that just so happened to leap off of a ship the audience knows was carrying a vampire. Compositions that are a little bit comedic in their ignorance, that set up a growing sense of foreboding, or that offer a logical but completely mistaken interpretation of the facts would all be great for this sort of storytelling.
Codes and Hidden Messages: Puzzles, ciphers, and things one might miss on first glance delight me, and I'd love a document that has multiple meanings or that takes a few passes to understand. Feel free to hide things visually with CSS or to introduce some sort of narrative device to add underlying meaning to a document.
Narrative Lacunae: Something else I really enjoy about the epistolary form is how you can have documents that circle around a narrative event that is never explicitly shown. Having people react through various mediums to some never-directly-narrated something can imbue that something with a sense of horror or mystery. I'd be very interested in something that might evoke strong feelings about an event with which I'm unfamiliar.
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Manifestos, Primers, and Meta
Freeforms:
• Fandom - Fandom Primer
• Fandom - Meta
• Fandom - Meta About A Popular Trope Or Piece Of Fanon
• Fandom - Meta About Something That Disappointed You
• Fandom - Ship Manifesto
• Fandom - Timeline of In-Universe Events
• Fandom - Worldbuilding
This is the section where I really just want to hear you geek out as to your thoughts about canon. I love meta, and I love intensely detailed analyses of just about anything. Seriously, do not think there is anything too minor over which one might be obsessed. I want to hear everything from a basic breakdown as to what a canon is to a robust outpouring of praise for your OTP to a conspiratorial document about how the change in a character's shoe-tying patterns forebodes their eventual fall to the powers of darkness. I love thinking about things that I love way too much, and I love watching other people do the same.
If you go this route, it would be helpful if you included applicable links to websites, transcripts, summaries, Let's Plays, Project Gutenberg documents, and whatever other resources you can bring together to let me get a sense of your canon and potentially consume it. If you don't opt to, that's fine, but it will take me a little longer to familiarize myself with your canon and comment on your work.
Fandom Primer, Ship Manifesto, Timeline: Please just tell me excitedly about a canon and/or the relationships within it. I would love to be served a canon in microcosm, with a lot of description as to what it is that makes it engaging and enjoyable, and I would love a description of a ship I ought be shipping and why it ought be shipped. I'm also a complete nerd, and I really enjoy timelines, lists, charts, and infographics that explain the nuts and bolts of how a canon works. Feel free to go wild with all manner of timelines, math facts, and sets of images with conspiratorial red lines drawn between them.
Meta: Tell me your opinions! Give me a rundown as to why the things you think about this canon are right and how your nuanced close readings of the text improve upon it! I would love in depth analyses of minor points of narrative and setting, merciless debunking of fanon you dislike, zealous support of fanon you do like, and generally anything you wish to do by way of commenting on something about which you're passionate.
Worldbuilding: I mentioned liking worldbuilding above in relation to the "Herbals, Grimoires, Bestiaries, etc..." section, and I want to mention it again here. Feel free to just drop on me your opinions about how the worlds you love should work beyond what we're shown in canon. Tell me about how magical economies actually function, about the inter-relations of characters' unseen families, or about how physics and time have to alter to accommodate superpowers. I'm always interested in seeing how people build upon the fictional settings that they are given, and I'd love to see how you continue to create things in an already created world.
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Interactive Fiction
Freeforms:
• Audio and/or Visual - Visual Novel
• Style - Interactive Fiction
• Style - Choose Your Own Adventure
I absolutely and utterly adore IF, and I'm always happy when I see it in exchanges. I'm a Twine person myself. While I am admittedly not an expert in things outside of it, I'm eager to play any sort of interactive fiction you wish to create in any sort of medium. I'm good for both Choose Your Own Adventure Style games and things that employ a parser, although I'd greatly appreciate a walkthrough in the case of the second one.
In terms of what I enjoy in IF, I really appreciate things that take advantage of unique or innovative mechanics, and I have a soft spot for games that acknowledge the pre-determined nature of their narratives and don't really try to be "fair." Having decisions that feel meaningful but that won't save you from a bad outcome are really up my alley, as are choices you make resulting in different outcomes than you might like. My ideal game in any medium is one that provides me with a sense that I'm not being given precisely what I initially want but that I'm not being treated unfairly or having things made difficult for the sake of being difficult. Don't be afraid to make something where there are no completely satisfactory endings.
In general, though, feel free to use IF as a means to experiment and play around. I like IF a lot as a medium for fanworks because it can open up so many possibilities that aren't typical of most written or visual compositions. I'd love things that exploit the different ways one might feel when the medium forces a certain level of identification with a player character, or that layer in ambiguity through multi-pathing and multiple endings.
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Recipes
Freeforms:
• Crafts and Games - Recipe
• In-Universe Personal Documents - Recipe(s)
I really like making things, and I find particular joy in creating some tangible with my hands. I also just like... eating food. A lot. I'd be delighted by anything that allows me to craft and create something, but for fandoms with which I might not be familiar, I'm particularly interested in things that I can eat or drink.
I used to do a lot of themed cooking where I'd try to find recipes for food mentioned in books or folklore: stuff like trying to replicate the curry from Vanity Fair or making up something weird with garlic when I was was about to spend a weekend binging on vampire films. If you have a canon that you feel lends itself to a themed recipe, I'm up to make and eat either something appearing within a work or something inspired a work.
In terms of the logistics of things I can conceivably make, I should note that I'm a better baker than a cook, but that I have an awful lot of kitchen gadgets and will probably be able to concoct whatever you outline if it doesn't require anything too outrageous. I'm fine if it requires a stand mixer or a food processor. I might not be able to make something right off the bat that requires, say, a sous vide cooker and some molecular gastronomy equipment. I don't have any dietary restrictions, although most of the dishes I consume are coincidentally vegetarian. I have the equipment (if not always the alcohol) to make cocktails and mocktails, and will be happy to go through the hassle of making simple syrups for them as necessary.
In terms of foods I enjoy eating, I enjoy stuff with a lot of herbs (including anise/licorice), cooking with booze, sweet/savory combinations, and seafood (esp. octopus... if you have a canon that lends itself to tentacles).
In general though, I'm open to almost anything so long as it has some sense of thematic cohesion and relates to a fandom. I have a pretty wide-ranging palette, and I'm very keen on trying new things. As I've indicated throughout most of this letter, feel free to experiment!
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Creator's Choice of Everything
ANY Freeform
This is it: the Any Freeform/Any Fandom request. If you have a vision, this is the place to implement it. While I've made a number of requests that should hopefully outline my interests and likes, I am prepared for and excited about something that steps beyond them and introduces me to something I hadn't contemplated in the drafting of this letter. This is your invitation to go wild and make any fanwork for any fandom you see fit with impunity.
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