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Yuletide Letter
Oct. 22nd, 2022 03:26 amHi!
This is my first Yuletide and also my first fan exchange. I don't actually know what details are helpful or not, so this is my best guess and hopefully its close enough. One thing I love about fandom is getting to see all of the great ideas and directions that people take things; don't be afraid to write the story that you want to write. I'm icysilverthread everywhere I have a fandom identity: here, on AO3, on Discord, and possibly a few obsolete accounts.
DNWs
- Explicit sexual content / porn (E-rated fic)
- Noncon, canon-atypical graphic violence, A/B/O
- Infidelity (mutually consenting polyamory is OK!)
- Alternate Universe X Setting (eg coffeshop AU, in space AU, high school AU)
- Time Travel
General Likes:
- Non-canon OCs you made up for the story
- Casefic, banter, adventures
- Friendship, found family
- Missing scenes and alternative points of view on existing scenes
- Queerness and queer and trans characters
Chalion Saga (Iselle and Betriz)
Its about the childhood friendship turned into adult trust and devotion. It's about the mischief and fun and keeping each other safe. It's about Iselle's deep water port and Betriz's hand-knitted mittens. I would be delighted by a platonic or romantic fill for these two.
InCryptid (Antimony and James)
(specific DNW: Annie/James romantic shipping fic)
Its about the nerdery! The mutual imposter syndrome and magic geeking out and experimenting, and teaching each other what they know. It's about Annie's ever-present homesickness and James's desire to leave and never look back. It's the whirlwind life changes that take time to settle into. It's about them adopting each other as siblings and never letting go. It's James going "how is this my life now" and Annie not knowing how the world looks to someone who doesn't make their own luck.
Emelan (Worldbuilding)
(specific DNW: shipping any of Sandry/Daja/Briar/Tris with each other)
(specific DNW: exploration of Namornese bride kidnapping beyond canonical events)
I am leaning into the fact that Worldbuilding is on offer here to pose my most pressing questions about the fascinating magic system. Feel free to pick one of these, or make up your own; feel free to make up characters to explore them, or pick a canon character to go with. My favorites from canon are all of the main four: Daja, Sandry, Briar, and Tris, in case it matters, but I am requesting specifically Worldbuilding on purpose.
What does it look like to practice and master a craft without having ~magic~? How does that work socially?
What's something that would be really weird to be an ambient mage of?
Did anyone before Sandry manipulate magic directly, the way she spun the Four together? Did she ever teach that skill to a later student of hers? In either case, what did they do with it?
What might have happened if Sandry was less successful in separating their magics back out again, in Daja's book?
How did Winding Circle become such a center for ambient magic? Is that recent? Does it date back to the origin of the temple, whatever that was?
What was going on around Honored Huath (and associates?) that led to the earthquake?
Have people other than Daja become trangshi? What did they do afterwards; what was their story?
This is my first Yuletide and also my first fan exchange. I don't actually know what details are helpful or not, so this is my best guess and hopefully its close enough. One thing I love about fandom is getting to see all of the great ideas and directions that people take things; don't be afraid to write the story that you want to write. I'm icysilverthread everywhere I have a fandom identity: here, on AO3, on Discord, and possibly a few obsolete accounts.
DNWs
- Explicit sexual content / porn (E-rated fic)
- Noncon, canon-atypical graphic violence, A/B/O
- Infidelity (mutually consenting polyamory is OK!)
- Alternate Universe X Setting (eg coffeshop AU, in space AU, high school AU)
- Time Travel
General Likes:
- Non-canon OCs you made up for the story
- Casefic, banter, adventures
- Friendship, found family
- Missing scenes and alternative points of view on existing scenes
- Queerness and queer and trans characters
Chalion Saga (Iselle and Betriz)
Its about the childhood friendship turned into adult trust and devotion. It's about the mischief and fun and keeping each other safe. It's about Iselle's deep water port and Betriz's hand-knitted mittens. I would be delighted by a platonic or romantic fill for these two.
InCryptid (Antimony and James)
(specific DNW: Annie/James romantic shipping fic)
Its about the nerdery! The mutual imposter syndrome and magic geeking out and experimenting, and teaching each other what they know. It's about Annie's ever-present homesickness and James's desire to leave and never look back. It's the whirlwind life changes that take time to settle into. It's about them adopting each other as siblings and never letting go. It's James going "how is this my life now" and Annie not knowing how the world looks to someone who doesn't make their own luck.
Emelan (Worldbuilding)
(specific DNW: shipping any of Sandry/Daja/Briar/Tris with each other)
(specific DNW: exploration of Namornese bride kidnapping beyond canonical events)
I am leaning into the fact that Worldbuilding is on offer here to pose my most pressing questions about the fascinating magic system. Feel free to pick one of these, or make up your own; feel free to make up characters to explore them, or pick a canon character to go with. My favorites from canon are all of the main four: Daja, Sandry, Briar, and Tris, in case it matters, but I am requesting specifically Worldbuilding on purpose.
What does it look like to practice and master a craft without having ~magic~? How does that work socially?
What's something that would be really weird to be an ambient mage of?
Did anyone before Sandry manipulate magic directly, the way she spun the Four together? Did she ever teach that skill to a later student of hers? In either case, what did they do with it?
What might have happened if Sandry was less successful in separating their magics back out again, in Daja's book?
How did Winding Circle become such a center for ambient magic? Is that recent? Does it date back to the origin of the temple, whatever that was?
What was going on around Honored Huath (and associates?) that led to the earthquake?
Have people other than Daja become trangshi? What did they do afterwards; what was their story?
