Dear Author - Fic Corner
Dear author
Welcome! And thank you for offering to write for one or more of these books, because these books are awesome and so are you.
If you already have something in mind for one these prompts, then by all means, write it. And if you don't, or if you'd like a little more guidance, then here's some stuff that I hope will help. In all cases I've requested my favourite characters; feel free to pick and choose among them and to throw in anyone else you like.
What I love: friendship or mentoring relationships, especially between women; worldbuilding; fics dealing with identity, tough choices, chosen family or the concept of "home"; characters who knew each other as children meeting again as adults; missing moments from canon.
What I'd rather not read (generally, or specifically for these books): rape and character death are the big ones.
Generally: I think the highest rating I requested was Teen and Up, but if the story needs a higher rating, go for it. My tastes don't really lean towards graphic violence or porn for the sake of porn, but I also think sex scenes in particular can be used to illustrate a relationship between characters, if that makes any sense at all.
I'm tallshipandstar at Tumblr, although it tends to be fairly TV oriented.
The Chalet School
The Tyrolean era books are, on the whole, my favourite of the series, and these two always stood out to me because they had such strong personalities and seemed like so much fun. Margia seems to have spent most of her childhood trailing around Europe behind her father, with only her sister for a friend - what was it like for her to come to the Chalet School and suddenly have a stable place in her life? Evvy is written as thoroughly 'American' (or the author's perception of American) yet it's mentioned at one point that her mother is Tyrolean, or at least was born there - what's that about? How does it influence Evadne's identity, her concept of who she is?
How did each of them cope with the changes that happened in Exile? Margia was watching from a distance as the school was first moved up to the Sonnalpe and then left the Tiernsee together but Evvy, in contrast, is in the group that flees Austria on foot - what impact did these events have on them?
If you're more interested in exploring them at adults, what about one or both of them (possibly with the rest of the Quintette) returning to the Tiernsee for the first time? Or one of them mentoring or helping a future CS girl, maybe Margia giving advice to one of the musical girls (Jacynth, Gay, or Nina Rutherford who was quite the Margia fangirl) or Evadne quietly giving a girl her own personal scholarship to help her attend the school.
Bloomability
What I love best about this book is Dinnie's strength and the way she changes during her time in Switzerland. I'd love to see what that meant for her when she returned home at the end of the story, because she's not the person her family remembers her as. Or what would it mean for Dinnie to choose to return to Switzerland - making the choice to go back there, to have experiences that her family can only dream of, is totally different from being "kidnapped" and being sent against your will.
A reunion between Dinnie and her classmates at some point in the future would be interesting - what path did each of them choose to take, and how did their time in Switzerland affect each of them?
The Dubious Hills
Every time I read this book I notice something else about it, like that some or all of the inhabitants of the Dubious Hills have "greeny-dark" skin, or hints of unconventional family structures - there's a mention of something along the lines of "Niss and Jonat and the children who lived with them" - are those all Niss and Jonat's children, and if not, whose are they? Tangents aside, I'd love a story that expounded on some of those little details - we see a lot about how the community functions from Arry's point of view, but what about from Jony's? Jony and Arry are probably fairly close in age, but their provinces are very, very different - how does Jony's knowledge affect the way she interacts with the community? How does Jony make the transition from childhood to adulthood when, unlike Arry, she wasn't thrust into it? Why did she accept Halver's offer?
How did Arry discover her province? Feeling everyone's pain seems like a traumatic thing to discover but Arry seems resigned to it because that's how things work - did she ever wish for it to be taken away, or did she appreciate the attention it brought her? She would have suddenly become an equal to Halver, her teacher, and to people like Mally, so what was that like for her?
Also, Arry/Jony? I totally ship it, either as teenagers or as adults.
Marlows
I would love to see anything with any of these characters individually, or any combination thereof. They are all my favourites, for different reasons - Miranda's devotion to Janice, the way Janice holds herself apart from the school (yet seems to be fairly well respected by the younger crowd, ie Nicola), Rowan's practicality and competence and the way Esther is, well, Esther.
I'd love to see Rowan and Janice during their school days, coping with the routines and the politics and looking forward to the future, or Miranda and Esther thrown into each other's company without any else around, or the evolution of Miranda's feelings for Janice, or Janice's backstory, or Esther and Janice being "volunteered" into an activity neither of them want to do, or, well, anything. (Because they're my favourites, and I love them!)
Welcome! And thank you for offering to write for one or more of these books, because these books are awesome and so are you.
If you already have something in mind for one these prompts, then by all means, write it. And if you don't, or if you'd like a little more guidance, then here's some stuff that I hope will help. In all cases I've requested my favourite characters; feel free to pick and choose among them and to throw in anyone else you like.
What I love: friendship or mentoring relationships, especially between women; worldbuilding; fics dealing with identity, tough choices, chosen family or the concept of "home"; characters who knew each other as children meeting again as adults; missing moments from canon.
What I'd rather not read (generally, or specifically for these books): rape and character death are the big ones.
Generally: I think the highest rating I requested was Teen and Up, but if the story needs a higher rating, go for it. My tastes don't really lean towards graphic violence or porn for the sake of porn, but I also think sex scenes in particular can be used to illustrate a relationship between characters, if that makes any sense at all.
I'm tallshipandstar at Tumblr, although it tends to be fairly TV oriented.
The Chalet School
The Tyrolean era books are, on the whole, my favourite of the series, and these two always stood out to me because they had such strong personalities and seemed like so much fun. Margia seems to have spent most of her childhood trailing around Europe behind her father, with only her sister for a friend - what was it like for her to come to the Chalet School and suddenly have a stable place in her life? Evvy is written as thoroughly 'American' (or the author's perception of American) yet it's mentioned at one point that her mother is Tyrolean, or at least was born there - what's that about? How does it influence Evadne's identity, her concept of who she is?
How did each of them cope with the changes that happened in Exile? Margia was watching from a distance as the school was first moved up to the Sonnalpe and then left the Tiernsee together but Evvy, in contrast, is in the group that flees Austria on foot - what impact did these events have on them?
If you're more interested in exploring them at adults, what about one or both of them (possibly with the rest of the Quintette) returning to the Tiernsee for the first time? Or one of them mentoring or helping a future CS girl, maybe Margia giving advice to one of the musical girls (Jacynth, Gay, or Nina Rutherford who was quite the Margia fangirl) or Evadne quietly giving a girl her own personal scholarship to help her attend the school.
Bloomability
What I love best about this book is Dinnie's strength and the way she changes during her time in Switzerland. I'd love to see what that meant for her when she returned home at the end of the story, because she's not the person her family remembers her as. Or what would it mean for Dinnie to choose to return to Switzerland - making the choice to go back there, to have experiences that her family can only dream of, is totally different from being "kidnapped" and being sent against your will.
A reunion between Dinnie and her classmates at some point in the future would be interesting - what path did each of them choose to take, and how did their time in Switzerland affect each of them?
The Dubious Hills
Every time I read this book I notice something else about it, like that some or all of the inhabitants of the Dubious Hills have "greeny-dark" skin, or hints of unconventional family structures - there's a mention of something along the lines of "Niss and Jonat and the children who lived with them" - are those all Niss and Jonat's children, and if not, whose are they? Tangents aside, I'd love a story that expounded on some of those little details - we see a lot about how the community functions from Arry's point of view, but what about from Jony's? Jony and Arry are probably fairly close in age, but their provinces are very, very different - how does Jony's knowledge affect the way she interacts with the community? How does Jony make the transition from childhood to adulthood when, unlike Arry, she wasn't thrust into it? Why did she accept Halver's offer?
How did Arry discover her province? Feeling everyone's pain seems like a traumatic thing to discover but Arry seems resigned to it because that's how things work - did she ever wish for it to be taken away, or did she appreciate the attention it brought her? She would have suddenly become an equal to Halver, her teacher, and to people like Mally, so what was that like for her?
Also, Arry/Jony? I totally ship it, either as teenagers or as adults.
Marlows
I would love to see anything with any of these characters individually, or any combination thereof. They are all my favourites, for different reasons - Miranda's devotion to Janice, the way Janice holds herself apart from the school (yet seems to be fairly well respected by the younger crowd, ie Nicola), Rowan's practicality and competence and the way Esther is, well, Esther.
I'd love to see Rowan and Janice during their school days, coping with the routines and the politics and looking forward to the future, or Miranda and Esther thrown into each other's company without any else around, or the evolution of Miranda's feelings for Janice, or Janice's backstory, or Esther and Janice being "volunteered" into an activity neither of them want to do, or, well, anything. (Because they're my favourites, and I love them!)