Dear Yuletide Author

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Firstly: OMG. Thank you so much for participating this year! I am absurdly excited for whatever you write me. I love every one of my prompts and their sources and I know I'm going to be delighted with what you produce. I hope you enjoy writing for me and have fun with it!

Secondly, I know things are really tight this year. I've tried to make my

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[theviolonist]

I really really love lady knights (and Kristen Stewart, and Kristen Stewart with Charlize Theron), and usually I'm a very good audience, but I seriously couldn't suspend my disbelief for this one. Like, I can forget the ravens and the milk bath (though really, cliché much?), the completely vague mysticism, but the gaping plotholes? The plot didn't make any sense! I was so upset because I was actually really excited and anxious to see what they were going to do with the concept and the amazing actors, but then... as for the anachronisms, I didn't pick up any historical time period, but it was something about religion? I don't actually remember exactly what it was, since I saw it so long ago, but basically there was two different types of religious practices which definitely didn't belong to the same historical period (such a rookie mistake! Urgh.). Even Snow and Ravenna's relationship. There relationship was so oversimplified! They had a lot in common, and it would've been so easy to build on a sort of kinship between the two, maybe even thwart the old argument about beauty being the most important thing in the world... (I don't actually remember how the final battle scene in Ravenna's tower happened either, because I rewrote it at some point and it got jumbled in my mind. But she ages and dies? There was a nice ambiguity to that scene.) The thing is, there was so much potential, what with Ravenna's backstory, her killing the king (okay, two things, though. One, her name. Really, couldn't they be more obvious? Second, her backstory. Super interesting! So badly exploited!), her relationship with Snow, the women-fighting theme... I get upset about these things. It's like, I remember seeing The Reader and being so disappointed because it wasn't at all what I thought it was. But I remember leaving he cinema after SWATH laughing, because there wasn't one scene that made me emotional, and that is very rare for me. I legitimately wondered how it'd gotten past whatever committee sees these things before they're released, and it made me angry because I felt like as a spectator, I was treated like I was way more stupid than I actually am. *shrug* /end rant

Hi hi : ) I don't know if this is a good first impression, but... how are you? :)