Dear Ladypalooza Writer/Artist
Note: I am repurposing my stock Yuletide letter here, which is why some of the sections may seem slightly off-topic for a single fandom exchange.
Hi, and thank you in advance for creating a story or artwork for me! I'm pretty easy to please -- unless you write a context-free sex scene, I'll be thrilled just to get something in response to one of my prompts. Optional details are optional, after all! *grin* But I realize that's not terribly helpful, so here's the (very!) long version. (I am sorry for the tl;dr, but I like to talk about things I love and I figure more details are better than fewer.)
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General Information:
1. I will read anything when it comes to pairings -- het, slash, femslash, threesomes, poly, whatever, so long as you put in a bit of character development so the relationships don't seem to come out of nowhere -- but I tend to skim sex scenes because the non-sex parts of the story are almost always more interesting to me. (Note: If you want to write an interrupted hate-makeout for the ashen porn prompt, that is fine! Just... only written porn, please. If art, let's keep it PG-13ish. Like, naked bitey kisses are good; full-frontal writhing bulges, not so much.)
2. I enjoy all kinds of genres and moods, from schmoopy fluff to angsty deathfic, but my favorite endings are bittersweet and a little complicated. (...Okay, bittersweet leaning toward happy. Except in the alpha timeline, for obvious reasons.)
3. I fall in love with worlds and themes as much as I fall in love with characters, if not more, so any world-building you can sneak in around the edges of a story or in the background details of a picture will be received with great joy.
4. Stuff I really, really like: This can be boiled down to, 'Please treat characters as intelligent people who have understandable motives for their actions, please take the worlds seriously as settings, and please remember that there's more to life than sex. Also, ethics, metaphysics, and world-building are dead cool.'
5. Stuff I'm not so keen on: authorial hatred for characters seeping into the narrative; sex or romantic love with no in-story justification; gratuitous angst/torture/rape (i.e., bad stuff that comes out of nowhere and is not necessary to make the plot or character arc work); idiot plots (i.e., problems that could be solved in five minutes if the characters asked one or two obvious questions); and predestination, prophecies, and anything else that denies free will. (I admit that that last dislike is tricky since Homestuck is practically built on predestination paradoxes, but if you include any, please let the characters be annoyed at the constriction of their choices.)
6. If you want more information on what I think about Homestuck, here is a post on various ships I made in July 2012 (so it has nothing about the Dancestors), here is all my Homestuck fic, and here is my homestuck tag on this journal.
Okay. On to specific prompts.
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A) Jade English's adventures in the Medium: I would like to see Jade exploring Hellmurder Island, discovering the portals into the Medium, and having adventures in the strange new universe of Sburb. How much of the game exists before the players enter? Did she have any contact with the Black Queen, or had the Condesce already conquered Derse? Did she have any contact with the White Queen? How and why did she steal Jack Noir's fourth wall? If the Denizens existed (instead of being retroactively created upon the players' entries), were they awake and open to conversations? How much did she tell Rose and Dave about her adventures? (Did she take pictures of Roxy and Dirk so they would have some tangible record of their timelost wards?) Did she try to spark a resistance among the Dersites the way she founded a resistance movement on Earth? I have so many questions and would love some answers!
I think this is fairly clear as it stands. But to elaborate a touch more, I'm not hugely interested in reading about Jade's relationships with Jake, John, Rose, or Dave, except as a small part of a story focused on something else. I am also not hugely interested in angst or a story focused on Jade's feelings. I want to read about her DOING something -- going out into the world and making shit take place, whatever said shit may be.
This applies similarly to art: I'd prefer a picture of Jade doing something awesome over a more portrait-like picture. Which is not to say it would have to be an action scene! It could be something quiet like Jade in a meteor lab, or at a computer trying to reverse-engineer Sburb, or on Prospit meeting with the White Queen, or whatever. Jade piloting a battleship with her stolen loot, or strifing with the skeleton zombies, or exploring the Sburb-related parts of Hellmurder Island would be extra awesome. (Bonus if she has copies of The Complacency of the Learned, Dave's movies, or John's old TV show lying around in the background or in her backpack or whatever, regardless of the main action. *grin*)
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B) Terezi-Aradia-Vriska ashen porn: I would like some Terezi-Aradia-Vriska ashen porn, however you interpret 'porn' of an explicitly non-sexual relationship. They are a glorious collective trainwreck and I need this to happen! If you can fit this into canon somehow, my hat is off to you. If you want to do a canon divergence, I am all for that. If you want to go wildly AU, that is cool too. All I ask is that they remain trolls. I don't particularly care who is mediating between whom: all three potential arrangements are fascinating in their own ways, and any form of variable middle-leaf setup would also be completely plausible to me.
The thing about this trio is that I don't particularly ship any of the component characters with each other outside of it. Well, maybe red Terezi/Aradia could be cute. But I am firmly in the camp that thinks Terezi and Vriska are the most dysfunctional friendship in paradox space, not a failed red, black, or pale romance. And Vriska and Aradia on their own are obviously dysfunctional in the extreme.
Anyway, I think the most obvious starting point, if you're coming from a canon or canon-like setup, is Terezi mediating between Aradia and Vriska... but depending on circumstances I can see Terezi and Vriska having a horrible falling out (which I highly doubt would turn into a stable black pairing), or even Terezi and Aradia fighting over ethics and meddling and retributive versus redistributive justice or something. So the precise internal dynamics of the ashen trio are up to you. I just want to see them in action as somebody jumps into a fight, yanks all that stewing black tension and focus onto herself, and sublimates it into something else. Again, the exact mechanics are up to you -- I want to know how you envision ashen porn.
I'm not quite sure how this prompt would work for non-sequential art. Maybe the middle leaf physically holding the other two apart, with some signs of blood and scuffles? Intensity and direction of attention are probably key here. Other than that, I leave it up to your discretion!
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C) Jade and Jane: I would like a story about Jade and Jane getting to know each other as friends and family. Maybe they open a restaurant where Jade provides the locally-grown produce (and locally hunted game?) for Jane to cook. Maybe Jane files patents for Jade's mad science inventions and sweet-talks investors into funding a start-up company. Maybe they start a prank war against their friends. Or anything else you can think of; there are lots of options! I just want to see these two girls learn to get along and do something fun and/or impressive together.
First up, it is entirely your choice what type of familial relationship they settle on, though I think cousins might be the closest approximation. Anyway, Jane and Jade's relationship interests me because they don't have any pre-existing emotional ties to each other's alternate timeline versions to fall back on, so they have neither the expectations nor the drive to connect the way the Lalondes do, or the way Jade does with Jake and Jane does with John. But they do have a fair bit in common: determination in spades, some inclination toward running a business (and the ability to do so), a cheerful outlook that is as much chosen as innate, an appreciation for weird Strider humor, a vein of irritation at some of their friends' more stupid or unbelievable actions, an interest in music, etc. Also, Jade did spend some time with Nannasprite on the yellow yard, while Jane was at least aware of Grandma English as a former business rival to Crockercorp.
(I think it is obvious that I want this to be a canon-based future fic? In case that was not obvious, I am saying it outright now: I want this to be a canon-based future fic.)
As for art, if you're not up for comics, a picture of Jane and Jade hanging out in any capacity would be cool. Particularly hanging out in a kitchen, garden, or laboratory of some sort, either concentrating fiercely or in the midst or aftermath of a comical disaster.
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So... yeah. This is what I want and I will love you forever for filling one of these prompts. ♥
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Hi, and thank you in advance for creating a story or artwork for me! I'm pretty easy to please -- unless you write a context-free sex scene, I'll be thrilled just to get something in response to one of my prompts. Optional details are optional, after all! *grin* But I realize that's not terribly helpful, so here's the (very!) long version. (I am sorry for the tl;dr, but I like to talk about things I love and I figure more details are better than fewer.)
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General Information:
1. I will read anything when it comes to pairings -- het, slash, femslash, threesomes, poly, whatever, so long as you put in a bit of character development so the relationships don't seem to come out of nowhere -- but I tend to skim sex scenes because the non-sex parts of the story are almost always more interesting to me. (Note: If you want to write an interrupted hate-makeout for the ashen porn prompt, that is fine! Just... only written porn, please. If art, let's keep it PG-13ish. Like, naked bitey kisses are good; full-frontal writhing bulges, not so much.)
2. I enjoy all kinds of genres and moods, from schmoopy fluff to angsty deathfic, but my favorite endings are bittersweet and a little complicated. (...Okay, bittersweet leaning toward happy. Except in the alpha timeline, for obvious reasons.)
3. I fall in love with worlds and themes as much as I fall in love with characters, if not more, so any world-building you can sneak in around the edges of a story or in the background details of a picture will be received with great joy.
4. Stuff I really, really like: This can be boiled down to, 'Please treat characters as intelligent people who have understandable motives for their actions, please take the worlds seriously as settings, and please remember that there's more to life than sex. Also, ethics, metaphysics, and world-building are dead cool.'
5. Stuff I'm not so keen on: authorial hatred for characters seeping into the narrative; sex or romantic love with no in-story justification; gratuitous angst/torture/rape (i.e., bad stuff that comes out of nowhere and is not necessary to make the plot or character arc work); idiot plots (i.e., problems that could be solved in five minutes if the characters asked one or two obvious questions); and predestination, prophecies, and anything else that denies free will. (I admit that that last dislike is tricky since Homestuck is practically built on predestination paradoxes, but if you include any, please let the characters be annoyed at the constriction of their choices.)
6. If you want more information on what I think about Homestuck, here is a post on various ships I made in July 2012 (so it has nothing about the Dancestors), here is all my Homestuck fic, and here is my homestuck tag on this journal.
Okay. On to specific prompts.
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A) Jade English's adventures in the Medium: I would like to see Jade exploring Hellmurder Island, discovering the portals into the Medium, and having adventures in the strange new universe of Sburb. How much of the game exists before the players enter? Did she have any contact with the Black Queen, or had the Condesce already conquered Derse? Did she have any contact with the White Queen? How and why did she steal Jack Noir's fourth wall? If the Denizens existed (instead of being retroactively created upon the players' entries), were they awake and open to conversations? How much did she tell Rose and Dave about her adventures? (Did she take pictures of Roxy and Dirk so they would have some tangible record of their timelost wards?) Did she try to spark a resistance among the Dersites the way she founded a resistance movement on Earth? I have so many questions and would love some answers!
I think this is fairly clear as it stands. But to elaborate a touch more, I'm not hugely interested in reading about Jade's relationships with Jake, John, Rose, or Dave, except as a small part of a story focused on something else. I am also not hugely interested in angst or a story focused on Jade's feelings. I want to read about her DOING something -- going out into the world and making shit take place, whatever said shit may be.
This applies similarly to art: I'd prefer a picture of Jade doing something awesome over a more portrait-like picture. Which is not to say it would have to be an action scene! It could be something quiet like Jade in a meteor lab, or at a computer trying to reverse-engineer Sburb, or on Prospit meeting with the White Queen, or whatever. Jade piloting a battleship with her stolen loot, or strifing with the skeleton zombies, or exploring the Sburb-related parts of Hellmurder Island would be extra awesome. (Bonus if she has copies of The Complacency of the Learned, Dave's movies, or John's old TV show lying around in the background or in her backpack or whatever, regardless of the main action. *grin*)
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B) Terezi-Aradia-Vriska ashen porn: I would like some Terezi-Aradia-Vriska ashen porn, however you interpret 'porn' of an explicitly non-sexual relationship. They are a glorious collective trainwreck and I need this to happen! If you can fit this into canon somehow, my hat is off to you. If you want to do a canon divergence, I am all for that. If you want to go wildly AU, that is cool too. All I ask is that they remain trolls. I don't particularly care who is mediating between whom: all three potential arrangements are fascinating in their own ways, and any form of variable middle-leaf setup would also be completely plausible to me.
The thing about this trio is that I don't particularly ship any of the component characters with each other outside of it. Well, maybe red Terezi/Aradia could be cute. But I am firmly in the camp that thinks Terezi and Vriska are the most dysfunctional friendship in paradox space, not a failed red, black, or pale romance. And Vriska and Aradia on their own are obviously dysfunctional in the extreme.
Anyway, I think the most obvious starting point, if you're coming from a canon or canon-like setup, is Terezi mediating between Aradia and Vriska... but depending on circumstances I can see Terezi and Vriska having a horrible falling out (which I highly doubt would turn into a stable black pairing), or even Terezi and Aradia fighting over ethics and meddling and retributive versus redistributive justice or something. So the precise internal dynamics of the ashen trio are up to you. I just want to see them in action as somebody jumps into a fight, yanks all that stewing black tension and focus onto herself, and sublimates it into something else. Again, the exact mechanics are up to you -- I want to know how you envision ashen porn.
I'm not quite sure how this prompt would work for non-sequential art. Maybe the middle leaf physically holding the other two apart, with some signs of blood and scuffles? Intensity and direction of attention are probably key here. Other than that, I leave it up to your discretion!
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C) Jade and Jane: I would like a story about Jade and Jane getting to know each other as friends and family. Maybe they open a restaurant where Jade provides the locally-grown produce (and locally hunted game?) for Jane to cook. Maybe Jane files patents for Jade's mad science inventions and sweet-talks investors into funding a start-up company. Maybe they start a prank war against their friends. Or anything else you can think of; there are lots of options! I just want to see these two girls learn to get along and do something fun and/or impressive together.
First up, it is entirely your choice what type of familial relationship they settle on, though I think cousins might be the closest approximation. Anyway, Jane and Jade's relationship interests me because they don't have any pre-existing emotional ties to each other's alternate timeline versions to fall back on, so they have neither the expectations nor the drive to connect the way the Lalondes do, or the way Jade does with Jake and Jane does with John. But they do have a fair bit in common: determination in spades, some inclination toward running a business (and the ability to do so), a cheerful outlook that is as much chosen as innate, an appreciation for weird Strider humor, a vein of irritation at some of their friends' more stupid or unbelievable actions, an interest in music, etc. Also, Jade did spend some time with Nannasprite on the yellow yard, while Jane was at least aware of Grandma English as a former business rival to Crockercorp.
(I think it is obvious that I want this to be a canon-based future fic? In case that was not obvious, I am saying it outright now: I want this to be a canon-based future fic.)
As for art, if you're not up for comics, a picture of Jane and Jade hanging out in any capacity would be cool. Particularly hanging out in a kitchen, garden, or laboratory of some sort, either concentrating fiercely or in the midst or aftermath of a comical disaster.
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So... yeah. This is what I want and I will love you forever for filling one of these prompts. ♥
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