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Dear Author Letter: Yuletide 2021
Sep. 30th, 2021 11:12 pmYuletide Letter for CorpseBrigadier on Ao3
Dear Author,
Hello! Thank you so much for taking the time to write 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) | Final Fantasy Tactics | The Woman in White | Wuthering Heights | Mini-Challenge Specific Prompts
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.
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Where to Find It (and Canon Review Resources): You can read the entirety of The Woman in White for free at Project Gutenberg. While I haven't given any of the free versions at Librivox a try, you might also check there if you want to enjoy the book in audio form.
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Where to Find It (and Canon Review Resources): As with The Woman in White, the text is free at Project Gutenberg, and an audio version is available via Librivox.
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Dear Author,
Hello! Thank you so much for taking the time to write 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) | Final Fantasy Tactics | The Woman in White | Wuthering Heights | Mini-Challenge Specific Prompts
General (DNWs, Likes, Opt-Ins, Etc...)
( 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.
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The Woman in White
The Canon: The Woman in White is an 1859 sensation novel that I love as I do all sensation novels. I adore all melodrama, terrible twists, shocking secrets, and gothic ambiance, and Woman in White delivers on all fronts. I love in particular how it really takes advantage of its epistolary format, and how it plays around with the weirdness of character doubles and a surprising amount of fluidity re: gender roles. I also just love Marian Halcombe a lot because everyone loves Marian, even and especially the villain of the text.Where to Find It (and Canon Review Resources): You can read the entirety of The Woman in White for free at Project Gutenberg. While I haven't given any of the free versions at Librivox a try, you might also check there if you want to enjoy the book in audio form.
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Wuthering Heights
The Canon: Wuthering Heights is one of my absolute favorite novels of all time. The prose is just achingly beautiful; I love the intense, miserable, messy nature of everyone's intertwining tragedies; and I'm incredibly enamored of the nested narrative form in which we can never quite reach Cathy and Heathcliff and what their relationship was like. I'm a huge fan in particular of the suggestions of the supernatural throughout, the constant doubling and replication of characters through names and circumstances, and pretty much every quotable line that gets tossed around to explain what people mean by a capital R "Romantic."Where to Find It (and Canon Review Resources): As with The Woman in White, the text is free at Project Gutenberg, and an audio version is available via Librivox.
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