Rarewomen Dear Author letter
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meganbmooreHello, and sorry this wasn't up when assignments went out. Thank you for offering for one of my semi-obscure fandoms!
General stuff:
-Lady-centric is obvious, given the nature of this exchange.
-I prefer fic with multiple women, but if you get struck with something that focuses primarily on one character, that's cool too.
-Both platonic and romantic/pre-romantic relationships are cool (canon or otherwise, f/f or f/m-I don't think any of these fandoms have pairings I object to) but i'm one of those stranfe people who will shout "Will you just have sex already!" at my screen, then zips through actual sex scenes when they happen, so preferably nothing more than pg-13 rated should the fancy strike you.
-No anti-other female characters, please. It's one thing if the character who is the focus of the fic canonically dislikes another character, but please no "bitch" or "slut" or trying to make one charcter better than another. (Most likely not an issue with this exchange, just throwing it out there.)
-While there are two instances of sexual asssault in one of my canons and an arranged marriage in another, I'd prefer no rape, sexual assult, abuse or "rising above it makes her stronger than other women" in the fic itself.
-Generally, I'm mostly interested in post-canon for these, but have no objection to something taking place within or before the canon in any of them.
-But mostly, have fun!Feel free to write something really plotty, short and funny, bonding over something totally random, character studies, whatever strikes your fancy.
On to my fandoms!
Chihayafuru:
Ayase Chihaya, Wakamiya Shinobu, Hanano Sumire, Oe Kanade, Yamamoto Yumi
This is my latest huge love that not many people know of, and I adore pretty much everything about it. For individual characters: I love how both Chihaya and Shinobu are so totally obsessed with karuta that it affects everything in their life all over the place (including their ability to interact with others and how they can form bonds), but that they came to it and it gets expressed are so totally different. These two being forced to spend time together and it not involve karuta in any way could be great. For Kanade, I love her dedication to "traditional" things and art, and also her ruthlessness for getting her way, whether it's blatant or subtle manipulation, bribery, or just sitting people down and talking to them. I also like how she can break into both Sumire and Chihaya's own little worlds and bring them out of it. For Sumire, I never grow tired of her worldview in which she's a shoujo heroine and Chihaya is her beautiful rival even though Chihaya is so NOT "beautiful shoujo rival" material. But I also like how it's ok that she so materialistic and it's considered useful, even though she's still blundering her way through the whole karuta thing, and the way she's getting into it. I admit to being less attached to Yumi than the others, but I find her interesting, and like Chihaya and Shinobu, I think it'd be interesting to see her interact with her rivals outside of the karuta world. (Though she wouldn't find it utter torture to interact with a rival and it not involve karuta in any way to be torture like certain others.)
To Aru Hikushi e no Tsuiko | The Princess and the Pilot
Fana Del Moral
I'm interested in how Fana deals with her new life post-movie/book. She becomes regarded as the bestest queen ever (and so presumably her life eventually has her able to outright reject the "perfect silver princess" persona that she's been forced into, which we see the beginnings of at the end) but nothing is said of her husband or how long he lived, and we're allowed that tiny hope of "no one knows how their lives ended" for Fana and Charles. I'm also watching The Pilot's Love Song, which is set in the same world. If you're watching that and want to draw on the connections between the two series, that'd be cool, too. (I'm only on episode 5 now, but, will be current/finished-depending on how long the series is-by the time stories are revealed.)
Ookami Kodomo no Ame to Yuki | The Wolf Children Ame and Yuki
Yuki, Hana
I think this film is wonderful and lovely, but I didn't like that Yuki didn't get to say goodbye to Ame, or the implication that they never saw each other again after he went to become the mountain's protector. I'm also very curious to see how Yuki adjusts to life in the city. While she has been around humans most of her life, it's been in an environment where she could transform and cut lose when she needed to, and she won't have that now. (Hopefully this ends up much better for her than it did for her father.) i'm also curious about what Hana does with all her free time now that she doesn't have any half-wolf children running around and getting into things.
Hanasaku Iroha
Matsumae Ohana, Wakura Yuina, Tsurugi Minko, Shijima Sui, Matsumae Satsuki
Some of the things I really like about Hanasaku Iroha are the traditional inn setting, the rejection of the idea that children are bound to take over the family businesses, the intergenerational relationships (Yuina and her grandmother, Ohana and her mother and grandmother), and, of course, the friendship between the main girls. I'm rather partial to the Ohana and Yuina friendship because they are such friends, instead of rivals like most shows would make them, but also Ohana and Minko and Minko's extreme devotion to being a tsundere. (I knew I had a favorite when we learned that she had a notebook she used to brainstorm different ways to insult people.) I also like that, while it isn't "ok" for Sui and Satsuki to not be very good mothers, it isn't viewed as something that makes them wholly unlikable or unsympathetic, like most shows would do, but instead the shows takes time to explain how and why they ended up that way, and I think it'd be interesting to see how the mother/daughter dynamics evolve post-series.
Gyeongseong Scandal | Capital Scandal
Cha Song Joo, Na Yeo Kyeong
So, this one was actually a last-minute addition for me. I had been meaning to watch this series for years with the utter conviction that I would love it (based on feedback from friends) but I kept, well, not watching it. A few days before signups closed, I started it and when I saw that none of my other requests had offers yet, so I added this in, having a good idea of what was coming, and sure that I'd enjoy fic even though I wasn't very far into it yet. However! If you got matched with me for this, you shouldn't think you got the one i'm least interested in, because it would have still been one of my requests had I already finished it. I only requested Cha Song Joo and Na Yeo Kyung because Miyuki hadn't shown up yet and Young Ran was, in those first few episodes, mostly that cute girl who liked to hang around Wan, but I ended up very fond of those characters, too. My absolute favorite part of the series is the friendship between Song Joo and Yeo Kyung and how it grows, and I also adore the Song Joo>Yeo Kyung>Young Ran mentorship relationship, and I really disliked how the last episode focused the grieving for Song Joo on Wan and Su Hyun, with Yeo Kyung and Young Ran (and the other girls at the gisaeng house) having far less attention paid to their grief. So anything dealing with any of those would be great.
General stuff:
-Lady-centric is obvious, given the nature of this exchange.
-I prefer fic with multiple women, but if you get struck with something that focuses primarily on one character, that's cool too.
-Both platonic and romantic/pre-romantic relationships are cool (canon or otherwise, f/f or f/m-I don't think any of these fandoms have pairings I object to) but i'm one of those stranfe people who will shout "Will you just have sex already!" at my screen, then zips through actual sex scenes when they happen, so preferably nothing more than pg-13 rated should the fancy strike you.
-No anti-other female characters, please. It's one thing if the character who is the focus of the fic canonically dislikes another character, but please no "bitch" or "slut" or trying to make one charcter better than another. (Most likely not an issue with this exchange, just throwing it out there.)
-While there are two instances of sexual asssault in one of my canons and an arranged marriage in another, I'd prefer no rape, sexual assult, abuse or "rising above it makes her stronger than other women" in the fic itself.
-Generally, I'm mostly interested in post-canon for these, but have no objection to something taking place within or before the canon in any of them.
-But mostly, have fun!Feel free to write something really plotty, short and funny, bonding over something totally random, character studies, whatever strikes your fancy.
On to my fandoms!
Chihayafuru:
Ayase Chihaya, Wakamiya Shinobu, Hanano Sumire, Oe Kanade, Yamamoto Yumi
This is my latest huge love that not many people know of, and I adore pretty much everything about it. For individual characters: I love how both Chihaya and Shinobu are so totally obsessed with karuta that it affects everything in their life all over the place (including their ability to interact with others and how they can form bonds), but that they came to it and it gets expressed are so totally different. These two being forced to spend time together and it not involve karuta in any way could be great. For Kanade, I love her dedication to "traditional" things and art, and also her ruthlessness for getting her way, whether it's blatant or subtle manipulation, bribery, or just sitting people down and talking to them. I also like how she can break into both Sumire and Chihaya's own little worlds and bring them out of it. For Sumire, I never grow tired of her worldview in which she's a shoujo heroine and Chihaya is her beautiful rival even though Chihaya is so NOT "beautiful shoujo rival" material. But I also like how it's ok that she so materialistic and it's considered useful, even though she's still blundering her way through the whole karuta thing, and the way she's getting into it. I admit to being less attached to Yumi than the others, but I find her interesting, and like Chihaya and Shinobu, I think it'd be interesting to see her interact with her rivals outside of the karuta world. (Though she wouldn't find it utter torture to interact with a rival and it not involve karuta in any way to be torture like certain others.)
To Aru Hikushi e no Tsuiko | The Princess and the Pilot
Fana Del Moral
I'm interested in how Fana deals with her new life post-movie/book. She becomes regarded as the bestest queen ever (and so presumably her life eventually has her able to outright reject the "perfect silver princess" persona that she's been forced into, which we see the beginnings of at the end) but nothing is said of her husband or how long he lived, and we're allowed that tiny hope of "no one knows how their lives ended" for Fana and Charles. I'm also watching The Pilot's Love Song, which is set in the same world. If you're watching that and want to draw on the connections between the two series, that'd be cool, too. (I'm only on episode 5 now, but, will be current/finished-depending on how long the series is-by the time stories are revealed.)
Ookami Kodomo no Ame to Yuki | The Wolf Children Ame and Yuki
Yuki, Hana
I think this film is wonderful and lovely, but I didn't like that Yuki didn't get to say goodbye to Ame, or the implication that they never saw each other again after he went to become the mountain's protector. I'm also very curious to see how Yuki adjusts to life in the city. While she has been around humans most of her life, it's been in an environment where she could transform and cut lose when she needed to, and she won't have that now. (Hopefully this ends up much better for her than it did for her father.) i'm also curious about what Hana does with all her free time now that she doesn't have any half-wolf children running around and getting into things.
Hanasaku Iroha
Matsumae Ohana, Wakura Yuina, Tsurugi Minko, Shijima Sui, Matsumae Satsuki
Some of the things I really like about Hanasaku Iroha are the traditional inn setting, the rejection of the idea that children are bound to take over the family businesses, the intergenerational relationships (Yuina and her grandmother, Ohana and her mother and grandmother), and, of course, the friendship between the main girls. I'm rather partial to the Ohana and Yuina friendship because they are such friends, instead of rivals like most shows would make them, but also Ohana and Minko and Minko's extreme devotion to being a tsundere. (I knew I had a favorite when we learned that she had a notebook she used to brainstorm different ways to insult people.) I also like that, while it isn't "ok" for Sui and Satsuki to not be very good mothers, it isn't viewed as something that makes them wholly unlikable or unsympathetic, like most shows would do, but instead the shows takes time to explain how and why they ended up that way, and I think it'd be interesting to see how the mother/daughter dynamics evolve post-series.
Gyeongseong Scandal | Capital Scandal
Cha Song Joo, Na Yeo Kyeong
So, this one was actually a last-minute addition for me. I had been meaning to watch this series for years with the utter conviction that I would love it (based on feedback from friends) but I kept, well, not watching it. A few days before signups closed, I started it and when I saw that none of my other requests had offers yet, so I added this in, having a good idea of what was coming, and sure that I'd enjoy fic even though I wasn't very far into it yet. However! If you got matched with me for this, you shouldn't think you got the one i'm least interested in, because it would have still been one of my requests had I already finished it. I only requested Cha Song Joo and Na Yeo Kyung because Miyuki hadn't shown up yet and Young Ran was, in those first few episodes, mostly that cute girl who liked to hang around Wan, but I ended up very fond of those characters, too. My absolute favorite part of the series is the friendship between Song Joo and Yeo Kyung and how it grows, and I also adore the Song Joo>Yeo Kyung>Young Ran mentorship relationship, and I really disliked how the last episode focused the grieving for Song Joo on Wan and Su Hyun, with Yeo Kyung and Young Ran (and the other girls at the gisaeng house) having far less attention paid to their grief. So anything dealing with any of those would be great.