Yuletide GLEEE!
I be silly person. I signed up for Yuletide. Not getting emo about not really writing NaNo, so... Yuletide!
Dear lovely, wonderful, fandom sharer,
I hope my prompts have not caused you to run away just yet, because now there is Longest Yuletide Letter Ever Written As Procrastination:
Summary of waffle: My details are just suggestions, sparky ideas I thought up in the moment, not ones I've been lusting after in detail for a year. I'm not married to any of them. If you've got a story you want to tell, then tell that one. Have fun. All those question marks are there for a reason. Surprises are good.
Me: I'm a Catholic-raised atheist lesbian reader of kid lit and writer of twisting-childhood-fanfic. The Catholic-raised atheist lesbian bits might be important, since I mention god(s), religion and sex a bit, and don't want to offend you or think you'll offend me. The kid lit bits are rather obvious. (I do read the kids lit quite innocently, I just fic it non-innocently as a personal preference. You can fic it innocently and I'll love it.)
Why I love these (alphabetical) fandoms, and why I love you for writing any:
I suspect you are here as a Diana Wynne Jones fan, and if you are not I apologise for what must look a very bizarre, greedy, or limited list (and won't I be embarrassing in NYR). If you think I should have more unfilled fandom wishes than can be created by one author, you obviously haven't read her and therefore should. There is overlap in the reasons I love Quills and DWJ. There is subtlety to all these relationships, and DWJ can take kid lit to the same character revelation that Quills takes a very pretty sledge hammer. But with much less sex.
Diana Wynne Jones
In general I love DWJ's relationships. I love the strength of her kids. I love the ease with which they encounter terrible things, and are better than these adversaries. I *really* love her magic, because it is the most magical magic that ever touched the page. I love throw away lines about butchered mermaids. I love how often she defies genre. I love the percentage of tortured souls, who never have time to sit about whining about psychoanalytic theory and abusive childhoods. (In general and a spirit of TMI, I identify with most of them, so please don't write a story where David develops a loving relationship with his biological family. But also not one where Mordion is perfectly alright now, because I'm really fine with him being messed up. (I'm fine with them all whining, but I do love how DWJ can write what she does in kid lit, and her trick is to overcome it easily.))
Diana Wynne Jones - Dark Lord of Derkholm/Year of the Griffin (ANY)
Gen, slash, femslash, het, cross-species? No strong preferences for character or situation. If you are so inclined, a Querida romance, like Mara at uni (Mara did seem to know Querida's preferences well), or High Priest Urmu, or Talithan, or Callette... Querida/Anyone would be personified squee. But fiendishly difficult, so no pressure. Everything Else I'd love: Extended/missing scenes from the book, like Kit in the arena? Or something from Derk's experiments, or the family history? Something about Mara's universes? New adventure in the parody - the arrival of popular vampire fiction, and Derk being responsible for their creation? I prefer Dark Lord to Year of the Griffin, but if you signed up hoping to write uni!fic, that'll be good too. A point of view piece from Policant or transformed!assassins, or in-love!coat rack would be fun. Titus, Claudia and the marsh people? Lukin, King Luther and family? *nodnod*
The tone of Dark Lord is delightful, so twisty and spoofy, but twisted and dark at the same time. The content makes me so aware of what I write, what I think, and how David Eddings is responsible for all blue gods. It is such a *fun* book, except when it twists around and catches you in Blade's emotions during warfare, or Kit's, and all the cannon-fodder soldiers. Both tones are powerful. I like how the universe has got so much context - it's got economics, politics, opinions, social problems, and I especially like how the use of these pokes even more fun at the genre. DWJ magic would be just as great as an unnamed soldier's confused perceptions of this fantasy world before he gets killed. And there are so many fantastic characters to play with, and all the ideas. I especially like Kit, Blade, Lukin, Mara, Querida, Deucalion, Derk... Others. Seriously, all characters from Derkholm 'verse have a story to tell, and anything would be *brilliant*. Dragons? Mr Chesney? Our world's newspaper coverage? A demon or a god fic? Demonic romance? An in-world recipe book for stews? ANYTHING.
Diana Wynne Jones - Eight Days of Luke - Luke
I'd love something about the gods. I'm thinking a little American Gods/where are they now sort of thing. What are they up to, now that Ragnonak is not going according to schedule because David freeing Luke messed it up? Or the apocalypse happening, 70s-style, and David's got a role in it *because* he freed Luke? Mr Wedding's opinion of revisionist history through the ages? ...In fact, I'd love to see Luke and David reading Neil Gaiman. Or David being weird because Luke has far too many years to still be a boy, but maybe David is outgrowing him? Not Luke-centric would be fine. Gen or slash, het if there's a ship you want to tell.
Eight Days of Luke is glorious. I love how so many kids could read it, and not know what they've read. It feels like less of a puzzle that can be put together than other DWJ, so you either know who they all are, or you don't, but the difference isn't startling. The story doesn't confuse you enough that you keep at it until you figure it out (I'm looking at you, Fire and Hemlock). It's just there, to be understood if you've got the myths in your head. I love stories which use myth in unexpected ways, and I like that Neil Gaiman had the same idea, but DWJ did it first. Poor GNeil.
I especially like Astrid and David's relationship, and I think David's revelation about not having to feel grateful to his relations is the most clear presentation of this message DWJ has written. I *highly* enjoy Luke (and read as Luke most recently on the DWJ character test). Luke/David is good, though not necessary, and Alan/David (or Alan and David friendship) if you want to go that road. If you want to do dysfunctional Astrid/David, or Astrid/Luke, and were really hoping I'd ask, go for it. Or something about the rest of the gods, or the family? Something mythological? That's definitely cool. I am amused by images of David growing old and Luke pretending to, but then running off to use his walking stick in ingenious ways (old man crack!). Also of David assuming that at some point their friendship would turn sexual, and Luke being completely uninterested by the prospect (or the other way around). I think their dynamic has so much potential to be strange in new or weird ways.
Diana Wynne Jones - Hexwood - Mordion
Gen, slash, canon. I completely love all things Mordion, though pre-Hexwood would be most loved. Something in training? Snarky thoughts as he goes through a mission? Something entirely in the mind-communication? An outside narration of him, or an unreliable one from his pov? Any Reigner/Mordion is a secret, twisty wish. Mordion/Vierran dysfunctional quest trying-to-be-real-people would be interesting, but not as fluff please. Or Mordion meeting the Ninth Doctor just because? ...if my love of Mordion scares you, something general about the world, the Reigners, or Yam pov? I have much love for anything Hexwood, honest.
I love Mordion for many things. I love his history, I love the thoughts behind his blank faces, I love all the possible interactions he ever had with the Reigners. I find how he grew up utterly terrifying, but because it makes so much sense of his actions, his thought processes, and his relationships with everyone else (especially Hume). (If you're here because of Quills, may I recommend Hexwood? It's quite as twisty, and could have some psychologically terrific sex scenes if you wanted to write them - Reigner One (or Reigner Three)/Mordion comes to mind, or any Reigner/Reigner.)
I love how it's sci-fi parading as fantasy. I love the ideas and theory behind the Reigners, and the breeding programs. The first time I read about the training I a) missed my bus when it pulled up in front of me, and b) had an almost-nightmare, but in a good creeped-out way. I love the mind-talking situation, especially because it's such a non-eventful plot point. I love the conception of a Bannus. I love Yam. I love the retrospective obviousness of that revelation I won't spoil which everything built towards. And all the other revelations. The plot is so wonderfully convoluted, and every character has so many faces (literal or figurative but usually both). I don't mind post-book, though I've barely mentioned it. I am also on the bandwagon who pictures Mordion as Christopher Eccleston, hence my slightly-sarcastic-but-really-not-at-all wish to have him in the same room as Nine. (Reigner Nine? Who doesn't think the Reigners are Time Lords, or at least Gallifreyean renegades? *grin*)
I have written some Chrestomanci fic if that would help. I'm also NaNoing a novel where I make Christopher Chant a girl, so I'm not completely reverent to all things DWJ, and if you want to be irreverent I'm good with that.
Quills (2000 movie) - The Abbé du Coulmier
Gen, femslash, slash, het, threesomes, moresomes, objects, G-rated, smut. I love Quills for the darkness, the sexualities, the muddled Christianity, and the isolation of the asylum - anything touching on those would be fantastic. For the Abbé, something pre-movie in seminary school, or when he first came to the asylum? Abbé/Marquis would be great, or Abbé/Dr. Royer-Collard post-movie or during. (whisper: with confession kink??) I would really love to see the Abbé as a cameo or influential appearance in another character's story, especially a minor character. (He's a priest, running an asylum, he formed the world of every other character, or certainly thinks he does.) Things I would enjoy: An inmate's viewpoint, or interaction? Madeleine's mother after the movie, or during? Something about Royer-Collard, or Simone? A point of view piece from the marquise about her husband's incarceration?
To merge the kidlit with Quills, I once wrote a Remix for Artemis Fowl fandom, and the original story was inspired by Quills. Although I didn't watch Quills till after I finished, thematically I went to similar places. That is one of the ways I love it. My remix doesn't translate onto Quills well, but you can scroll down to the end where there are two highly manipulative bastards, one-way glass, attempts to control everything, and the whole thing soaked in jealousy. From the pov of the standardised-divine-authority character/Abbé-equivalent.
That type of story, which Quills tells so well, is utterly facinating. I also love the inmates, and the seduction(s) of Madeleine, and the Abbé's attempts to structure life on divine charity. All these mad humans, even the ones who aren't mad, trying so hard to segregate their behaviours into right and wrong, because otherwise they will turn mad/lose their place in society etc. I hope you also find that enticing. I find Quills disturbingly sexy. If you volunteered Quills to write some steamy, kinky, 18th century dildo, foursome smut (or whatever), go for it. I also think it suffered a drought of gay and lesbian, for a plot about sex (hopefully they didn't want to collate deviancy with homosexuality?), so if you want to remedy that... Good with het, too. These thoughts aren't actually in opposition to the one-shot/day-in-the-life/G-rated suggestions I gave in the actual prompt box, though I suspect they can't fit together and you don't have to try. I honestly would be really happy with a story about anyone.
I'm also not well informed (and the movie's hardly accurate) in history/manners/reality/politics of the time period, so fudge away at details all you want.
Likes:
Gen, slash, femslash, het, friendship, unrequited crushes. Incest, threesomes+, kink, BDSM, fetish. Adventure, crossovers, awesome magical children in Diana Wynne Jones. Religion, mythology, societies. Emotional/character-driven plot, but tangible plot is great too. Adopting friends for family. Loose threads within a story. Backstory. Extrapolated story: that one line from canon, let's write a novel! stories. Sensory confusion. Magic. Character death, darkfic, angst, but happily ever after works too. Fine with everything in That Care Bears Fic (including non-con, but I'd prefer the non-con was then *about* it being non-con, not sexy-and-non-con-titillation-kink). Crackfic, so if the tentacles/vampire!AU/everyone's actually a lawyer!AU/wingfic etc rabid bunny bites, I'll probably love it.
Dislikes:
- PWP in DWJ, not that I can see any obvious ones. Sex in DWJ is alright, but I'd rather not pure smut.
- Entirely introspection stories. If they talk, interact with someone, do something while thinking, that's fine.
- An overdose of fluff. Gen adventure fluff is fine, romantic fluff not so much (especially in established relationships). Lightness, silliness, optimism, happy endings are fine.
- Christmas themed stories. However, I'd be quite interested in a holiday-but-not-quite exploration or concept-fic set in DLoD/YotG. Or snarky Norse Gods crowded into Astrid's apartment, bitching about modern festivals, that would be fun. Not, you know, mistletoe kisses though.
Squicks:
Embarrassment humour.
(Meaning social embarrassment, humiliation, and anything which could be said by Ricky Gervaise or Adam Sandler. This is a real squick. I *really* can't watch The Office, Billy Madison, Jeeves & Wooster etc. Even specific episodes of otherwise favourite shows, because the plot revolves around character misunderstanding, mistaken identity awaiting embarrassing reveal, mocking character B etc.)
Rating: Anything from G -> NC-17. Write wherever is comfortable. If you want to illustrate a relationship with sex, het or femslash or slash or trans-species, that's great. If it is possible to write a G Quills fic, power to you. ...high rating for violence, language etc also fine.
Finding these fandoms:
I'd recommend looking around local libraries with decent YA/kids sections to find DWJ. Big university libraries usually stock something by her too, though rather arbitrarily. I'll also recommend *not* generically/without explanation asking for illegal copies of her work on DWJ communities, as you will get scorn; panicked!Yuletider might get sympathy, but probably not a link. Though I'm sure they're available somewhere, don't ask a fan where. Amazon / Amazon UK is good especially for second hand copies of these, or ordering books through retailers if you're in the UK (no idea about doing this in the US). Dark Lord and Year of the Griffin can both be read as autonomous books, so if you find one, don't be too panicked because it's a series. Quills should be rather straight forward to find or rent, it's not that obscure.
Yuletide = love! Screw NaNo!
Dear lovely, wonderful, fandom sharer,
I hope my prompts have not caused you to run away just yet, because now there is Longest Yuletide Letter Ever Written As Procrastination:
Summary of waffle: My details are just suggestions, sparky ideas I thought up in the moment, not ones I've been lusting after in detail for a year. I'm not married to any of them. If you've got a story you want to tell, then tell that one. Have fun. All those question marks are there for a reason. Surprises are good.
Me: I'm a Catholic-raised atheist lesbian reader of kid lit and writer of twisting-childhood-fanfic. The Catholic-raised atheist lesbian bits might be important, since I mention god(s), religion and sex a bit, and don't want to offend you or think you'll offend me. The kid lit bits are rather obvious. (I do read the kids lit quite innocently, I just fic it non-innocently as a personal preference. You can fic it innocently and I'll love it.)
Why I love these (alphabetical) fandoms, and why I love you for writing any:
I suspect you are here as a Diana Wynne Jones fan, and if you are not I apologise for what must look a very bizarre, greedy, or limited list (and won't I be embarrassing in NYR). If you think I should have more unfilled fandom wishes than can be created by one author, you obviously haven't read her and therefore should. There is overlap in the reasons I love Quills and DWJ. There is subtlety to all these relationships, and DWJ can take kid lit to the same character revelation that Quills takes a very pretty sledge hammer. But with much less sex.
Diana Wynne Jones
In general I love DWJ's relationships. I love the strength of her kids. I love the ease with which they encounter terrible things, and are better than these adversaries. I *really* love her magic, because it is the most magical magic that ever touched the page. I love throw away lines about butchered mermaids. I love how often she defies genre. I love the percentage of tortured souls, who never have time to sit about whining about psychoanalytic theory and abusive childhoods. (In general and a spirit of TMI, I identify with most of them, so please don't write a story where David develops a loving relationship with his biological family. But also not one where Mordion is perfectly alright now, because I'm really fine with him being messed up. (I'm fine with them all whining, but I do love how DWJ can write what she does in kid lit, and her trick is to overcome it easily.))
Diana Wynne Jones - Dark Lord of Derkholm/Year of the Griffin (ANY)
Gen, slash, femslash, het, cross-species? No strong preferences for character or situation. If you are so inclined, a Querida romance, like Mara at uni (Mara did seem to know Querida's preferences well), or High Priest Urmu, or Talithan, or Callette... Querida/Anyone would be personified squee. But fiendishly difficult, so no pressure. Everything Else I'd love: Extended/missing scenes from the book, like Kit in the arena? Or something from Derk's experiments, or the family history? Something about Mara's universes? New adventure in the parody - the arrival of popular vampire fiction, and Derk being responsible for their creation? I prefer Dark Lord to Year of the Griffin, but if you signed up hoping to write uni!fic, that'll be good too. A point of view piece from Policant or transformed!assassins, or in-love!coat rack would be fun. Titus, Claudia and the marsh people? Lukin, King Luther and family? *nodnod*
The tone of Dark Lord is delightful, so twisty and spoofy, but twisted and dark at the same time. The content makes me so aware of what I write, what I think, and how David Eddings is responsible for all blue gods. It is such a *fun* book, except when it twists around and catches you in Blade's emotions during warfare, or Kit's, and all the cannon-fodder soldiers. Both tones are powerful. I like how the universe has got so much context - it's got economics, politics, opinions, social problems, and I especially like how the use of these pokes even more fun at the genre. DWJ magic would be just as great as an unnamed soldier's confused perceptions of this fantasy world before he gets killed. And there are so many fantastic characters to play with, and all the ideas. I especially like Kit, Blade, Lukin, Mara, Querida, Deucalion, Derk... Others. Seriously, all characters from Derkholm 'verse have a story to tell, and anything would be *brilliant*. Dragons? Mr Chesney? Our world's newspaper coverage? A demon or a god fic? Demonic romance? An in-world recipe book for stews? ANYTHING.
Diana Wynne Jones - Eight Days of Luke - Luke
I'd love something about the gods. I'm thinking a little American Gods/where are they now sort of thing. What are they up to, now that Ragnonak is not going according to schedule because David freeing Luke messed it up? Or the apocalypse happening, 70s-style, and David's got a role in it *because* he freed Luke? Mr Wedding's opinion of revisionist history through the ages? ...In fact, I'd love to see Luke and David reading Neil Gaiman. Or David being weird because Luke has far too many years to still be a boy, but maybe David is outgrowing him? Not Luke-centric would be fine. Gen or slash, het if there's a ship you want to tell.
Eight Days of Luke is glorious. I love how so many kids could read it, and not know what they've read. It feels like less of a puzzle that can be put together than other DWJ, so you either know who they all are, or you don't, but the difference isn't startling. The story doesn't confuse you enough that you keep at it until you figure it out (I'm looking at you, Fire and Hemlock). It's just there, to be understood if you've got the myths in your head. I love stories which use myth in unexpected ways, and I like that Neil Gaiman had the same idea, but DWJ did it first. Poor GNeil.
I especially like Astrid and David's relationship, and I think David's revelation about not having to feel grateful to his relations is the most clear presentation of this message DWJ has written. I *highly* enjoy Luke (and read as Luke most recently on the DWJ character test). Luke/David is good, though not necessary, and Alan/David (or Alan and David friendship) if you want to go that road. If you want to do dysfunctional Astrid/David, or Astrid/Luke, and were really hoping I'd ask, go for it. Or something about the rest of the gods, or the family? Something mythological? That's definitely cool. I am amused by images of David growing old and Luke pretending to, but then running off to use his walking stick in ingenious ways (old man crack!). Also of David assuming that at some point their friendship would turn sexual, and Luke being completely uninterested by the prospect (or the other way around). I think their dynamic has so much potential to be strange in new or weird ways.
Diana Wynne Jones - Hexwood - Mordion
Gen, slash, canon. I completely love all things Mordion, though pre-Hexwood would be most loved. Something in training? Snarky thoughts as he goes through a mission? Something entirely in the mind-communication? An outside narration of him, or an unreliable one from his pov? Any Reigner/Mordion is a secret, twisty wish. Mordion/Vierran dysfunctional quest trying-to-be-real-people would be interesting, but not as fluff please. Or Mordion meeting the Ninth Doctor just because? ...if my love of Mordion scares you, something general about the world, the Reigners, or Yam pov? I have much love for anything Hexwood, honest.
I love Mordion for many things. I love his history, I love the thoughts behind his blank faces, I love all the possible interactions he ever had with the Reigners. I find how he grew up utterly terrifying, but because it makes so much sense of his actions, his thought processes, and his relationships with everyone else (especially Hume). (If you're here because of Quills, may I recommend Hexwood? It's quite as twisty, and could have some psychologically terrific sex scenes if you wanted to write them - Reigner One (or Reigner Three)/Mordion comes to mind, or any Reigner/Reigner.)
I love how it's sci-fi parading as fantasy. I love the ideas and theory behind the Reigners, and the breeding programs. The first time I read about the training I a) missed my bus when it pulled up in front of me, and b) had an almost-nightmare, but in a good creeped-out way. I love the mind-talking situation, especially because it's such a non-eventful plot point. I love the conception of a Bannus. I love Yam. I love the retrospective obviousness of that revelation I won't spoil which everything built towards. And all the other revelations. The plot is so wonderfully convoluted, and every character has so many faces (literal or figurative but usually both). I don't mind post-book, though I've barely mentioned it. I am also on the bandwagon who pictures Mordion as Christopher Eccleston, hence my slightly-sarcastic-but-really-not-at-all wish to have him in the same room as Nine. (Reigner Nine? Who doesn't think the Reigners are Time Lords, or at least Gallifreyean renegades? *grin*)
I have written some Chrestomanci fic if that would help. I'm also NaNoing a novel where I make Christopher Chant a girl, so I'm not completely reverent to all things DWJ, and if you want to be irreverent I'm good with that.
Quills (2000 movie) - The Abbé du Coulmier
Gen, femslash, slash, het, threesomes, moresomes, objects, G-rated, smut. I love Quills for the darkness, the sexualities, the muddled Christianity, and the isolation of the asylum - anything touching on those would be fantastic. For the Abbé, something pre-movie in seminary school, or when he first came to the asylum? Abbé/Marquis would be great, or Abbé/Dr. Royer-Collard post-movie or during. (whisper: with confession kink??) I would really love to see the Abbé as a cameo or influential appearance in another character's story, especially a minor character. (He's a priest, running an asylum, he formed the world of every other character, or certainly thinks he does.) Things I would enjoy: An inmate's viewpoint, or interaction? Madeleine's mother after the movie, or during? Something about Royer-Collard, or Simone? A point of view piece from the marquise about her husband's incarceration?
To merge the kidlit with Quills, I once wrote a Remix for Artemis Fowl fandom, and the original story was inspired by Quills. Although I didn't watch Quills till after I finished, thematically I went to similar places. That is one of the ways I love it. My remix doesn't translate onto Quills well, but you can scroll down to the end where there are two highly manipulative bastards, one-way glass, attempts to control everything, and the whole thing soaked in jealousy. From the pov of the standardised-divine-authority character/Abbé-equivalent.
That type of story, which Quills tells so well, is utterly facinating. I also love the inmates, and the seduction(s) of Madeleine, and the Abbé's attempts to structure life on divine charity. All these mad humans, even the ones who aren't mad, trying so hard to segregate their behaviours into right and wrong, because otherwise they will turn mad/lose their place in society etc. I hope you also find that enticing. I find Quills disturbingly sexy. If you volunteered Quills to write some steamy, kinky, 18th century dildo, foursome smut (or whatever), go for it. I also think it suffered a drought of gay and lesbian, for a plot about sex (hopefully they didn't want to collate deviancy with homosexuality?), so if you want to remedy that... Good with het, too. These thoughts aren't actually in opposition to the one-shot/day-in-the-life/G-rated suggestions I gave in the actual prompt box, though I suspect they can't fit together and you don't have to try. I honestly would be really happy with a story about anyone.
I'm also not well informed (and the movie's hardly accurate) in history/manners/reality/politics of the time period, so fudge away at details all you want.
Likes:
Gen, slash, femslash, het, friendship, unrequited crushes. Incest, threesomes+, kink, BDSM, fetish. Adventure, crossovers, awesome magical children in Diana Wynne Jones. Religion, mythology, societies. Emotional/character-driven plot, but tangible plot is great too. Adopting friends for family. Loose threads within a story. Backstory. Extrapolated story: that one line from canon, let's write a novel! stories. Sensory confusion. Magic. Character death, darkfic, angst, but happily ever after works too. Fine with everything in That Care Bears Fic (including non-con, but I'd prefer the non-con was then *about* it being non-con, not sexy-and-non-con-titillation-kink). Crackfic, so if the tentacles/vampire!AU/everyone's actually a lawyer!AU/wingfic etc rabid bunny bites, I'll probably love it.
Dislikes:
- PWP in DWJ, not that I can see any obvious ones. Sex in DWJ is alright, but I'd rather not pure smut.
- Entirely introspection stories. If they talk, interact with someone, do something while thinking, that's fine.
- An overdose of fluff. Gen adventure fluff is fine, romantic fluff not so much (especially in established relationships). Lightness, silliness, optimism, happy endings are fine.
- Christmas themed stories. However, I'd be quite interested in a holiday-but-not-quite exploration or concept-fic set in DLoD/YotG. Or snarky Norse Gods crowded into Astrid's apartment, bitching about modern festivals, that would be fun. Not, you know, mistletoe kisses though.
Squicks:
Embarrassment humour.
(Meaning social embarrassment, humiliation, and anything which could be said by Ricky Gervaise or Adam Sandler. This is a real squick. I *really* can't watch The Office, Billy Madison, Jeeves & Wooster etc. Even specific episodes of otherwise favourite shows, because the plot revolves around character misunderstanding, mistaken identity awaiting embarrassing reveal, mocking character B etc.)
Rating: Anything from G -> NC-17. Write wherever is comfortable. If you want to illustrate a relationship with sex, het or femslash or slash or trans-species, that's great. If it is possible to write a G Quills fic, power to you. ...high rating for violence, language etc also fine.
Finding these fandoms:
I'd recommend looking around local libraries with decent YA/kids sections to find DWJ. Big university libraries usually stock something by her too, though rather arbitrarily. I'll also recommend *not* generically/without explanation asking for illegal copies of her work on DWJ communities, as you will get scorn; panicked!Yuletider might get sympathy, but probably not a link. Though I'm sure they're available somewhere, don't ask a fan where. Amazon / Amazon UK is good especially for second hand copies of these, or ordering books through retailers if you're in the UK (no idea about doing this in the US). Dark Lord and Year of the Griffin can both be read as autonomous books, so if you find one, don't be too panicked because it's a series. Quills should be rather straight forward to find or rent, it's not that obscure.
Yuletide = love! Screw NaNo!