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Dear Author Letter: Yuletide 2020
Oct. 14th, 2020 03:56 pmYuletide Letter for CorpseBrigadier on Ao3
Dear Author,
Hello! Thank you so much for taking the time to create something for me this Yuletide, and congratulations on your great taste in whatever cool canon it was that we both enjoy. This is an exchange for which I have a great deal of love, and I am exceedingly excited for whatever it is you end up making for me. I've tried my best throughout this letter to give some prompts/ideas for a wide range of writing styles. However, I really want to emphasize that I'm very interested in you feeling free to flex your creative muscles. If the prompts listed aren't quite doing it for you, I am a genuine believer in optional details being optional, and I would love to see whatever creative production you are inspired to make out of these canons/characters.
[NOTE: This letter is functionally complete at the time it was posted, but it may be tweaked through the end of sign-ups.]
General (DNWs, Likes, Opt-Ins) | The 13 Clocks | Betrayal at Krondor | Final Fantasy Tactics | Mini-Challenge Specific Prompts
Where to Find It (and Canon Review Resources): The book is available as an online library loan via the Open Library, and it is generally available at a not too hefty price from various booksellers.
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Where to Find It (and Canon Review Resources): The game used to be legally free via Sierra's website, but this was back in the 90s. You can get it on GOG for $5.99 though. There used to be a very helpful website called BAK Help Web that contained numerous information, walkthrough material, and NPC transcripts, but it is now offline. You can still find it in largely archived form here via the Wayback Machine. The "Text Web" section is very useful for finding story content.
( Read more... )
Where to Find It: If you haven't played FFT for a while or are unfamiliar with it and want to get an idea of what it's like, you can check out scripts of the dialogue here (PSX translation) and here (PSP translation). There's also a very comprehensive Let's Play here (PSX translations). If you have an emulator and wish to skip to specific save states, somebody put together a nice collection of them here.
( Read more... )
Dear Author,
Hello! Thank you so much for taking the time to create something for me this Yuletide, and congratulations on your great taste in whatever cool canon it was that we both enjoy. This is an exchange for which I have a great deal of love, and I am exceedingly excited for whatever it is you end up making for me. I've tried my best throughout this letter to give some prompts/ideas for a wide range of writing styles. However, I really want to emphasize that I'm very interested in you feeling free to flex your creative muscles. If the prompts listed aren't quite doing it for you, I am a genuine believer in optional details being optional, and I would love to see whatever creative production you are inspired to make out of these canons/characters.
[NOTE: This letter is functionally complete at the time it was posted, but it may be tweaked through the end of sign-ups.]
General (DNWs, Likes, Opt-Ins) | The 13 Clocks | Betrayal at Krondor | Final Fantasy Tactics | Mini-Challenge Specific Prompts
General (DNWs, Likes, Opt-Ins, Etc...)
( Read more... )The 13 Clocks
The Canon: This is one of my absolute favorite children's books, and it was quite possibly both the first book I read on my own with the intimidatingly adult reality of chapter divisions. I adore its phenomenal ability to intermingle both the absurd and the bittersweet, I love its witty, exuberantly playful use of language, and I love how it treats the inevitability of time and its passing.Where to Find It (and Canon Review Resources): The book is available as an online library loan via the Open Library, and it is generally available at a not too hefty price from various booksellers.
( Read more... )
Betrayal at Krondor
The Canon: This game was pretty influential in my youth, and the two main characters (Gorath and Owyn) were one of my earliest ships, even if they were visually portrayed by what seemed to be Dynamix office workers pulled aside to wear cheap Halloween wigs. I adore this canon's sense of an expansive, varied world; its focus on the growing relationship between two unlikely friends; and its willingness to brutalize the player with both unforgiving status ailments and a thoroughly crushing finale.Where to Find It (and Canon Review Resources): The game used to be legally free via Sierra's website, but this was back in the 90s. You can get it on GOG for $5.99 though. There used to be a very helpful website called BAK Help Web that contained numerous information, walkthrough material, and NPC transcripts, but it is now offline. You can still find it in largely archived form here via the Wayback Machine. The "Text Web" section is very useful for finding story content.
( Read more... )
Final Fantasy Tactics
The Canon: This is a 1998 tactical RPG by Square-Enix that I just really really like. I love how immensely unrepentantly bleak it is, how it's full of Church-flavored horror, and how it is just filled to the brim with unhappy families. I'm entirely here for political backstabbing and endless misery 24/7 in this sad little world of grid-based warfare. I love pretty much everything within it, and I would frankly be happy to receive almost anything for this fandom.Where to Find It: If you haven't played FFT for a while or are unfamiliar with it and want to get an idea of what it's like, you can check out scripts of the dialogue here (PSX translation) and here (PSP translation). There's also a very comprehensive Let's Play here (PSX translations). If you have an emulator and wish to skip to specific save states, somebody put together a nice collection of them here.
( Read more... )
