Dear Unsent Letters writer 2024
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elen_nareDear Unsent Letters Writer,
First, thank you so much for this! Here are general notes, and some ideas for each fandom. This may seem long, but I'm just trying to make it as detailed as possible in case that makes it easier for you. I adore each and every one of these fandoms, so getting fic for any of them will make me a very, very happy person!
General stuff:
A character piece, a plotty story, an exploration of friendship or romance, an adventure, a quiet moment, a missing scene, a different POV to the canon... Any and all of these are great! Gen, het, slash, femslash, are all fine. Ratings-wise, I’m fine with anything. I’m happy with (of age, consensual) sex scenes if that’s where the story’s going - though gen fic is equally awesome! I’m not too fond of highly detailed graphic violence, but if it’s absolutely necessary to your fic, go ahead.
Feel free to look through my journal for inspiration :) You can also find me on AO3 and on Tumblr.
Things I like: friendship, friends helping each other out, humour, banter, nerdiness, science, happy (or happy-ish at least, not overwhelming despair) endings, sibling love (and family interactions in general), found families, friends-to-lovers, mutual pining that resolves in friends-to-lovers… and a great many other things! These were just the first that came to mind.
Do Not Wants: suicide - I’d prefer it if you didn’t kill any major characters (other than canon deaths), but if you absolutely must, please avoid suicide! - , noncon/dubcon, incest, gratuitous graphic violence, underage sex, unrelieved gloom and angst, character/ship bashing, AUs. While I'm fine with “reasonable” crossovers with fandoms I know (same world and time period, or canonical time/world change shenanigans), please keep the main focus on the requested fandom.
A brief “where do I find these things” in case you’d like to check out any of the other things I've requested:
Fandom specific:
Listed in alphabetical order. Obviously, all optional details are optional! I'm just giving them in case you're interested (or utterly stuck for ideas and wondering why you ever offered to write this fandom :P). They’re absolutely not intended to be mutually exclusive, nor exhaustive - mix, blend, combine, as you like, or throw them out the window! I include them in my letters because I’ve found them really useful myself :) Spoilers abound I’m afraid, so if there’s something on here you’re interested in reading/watching and haven’t yet, I’d avoid that section. Feel free to include any other characters, nominated or not.
Anne of Green Gables
Format: Letters
Format: Letters
Format: Letters or (or and, if you feel like it!) diaries
Format: Letters
Format: Letters/ Emails, or/and Texts and Social Media
I would love to see any combination of Luella, Frank, and Sebastian!
Format: Letters
First, thank you so much for this! Here are general notes, and some ideas for each fandom. This may seem long, but I'm just trying to make it as detailed as possible in case that makes it easier for you. I adore each and every one of these fandoms, so getting fic for any of them will make me a very, very happy person!
General stuff:
A character piece, a plotty story, an exploration of friendship or romance, an adventure, a quiet moment, a missing scene, a different POV to the canon... Any and all of these are great! Gen, het, slash, femslash, are all fine. Ratings-wise, I’m fine with anything. I’m happy with (of age, consensual) sex scenes if that’s where the story’s going - though gen fic is equally awesome! I’m not too fond of highly detailed graphic violence, but if it’s absolutely necessary to your fic, go ahead.
Feel free to look through my journal for inspiration :) You can also find me on AO3 and on Tumblr.
Things I like: friendship, friends helping each other out, humour, banter, nerdiness, science, happy (or happy-ish at least, not overwhelming despair) endings, sibling love (and family interactions in general), found families, friends-to-lovers, mutual pining that resolves in friends-to-lovers… and a great many other things! These were just the first that came to mind.
Do Not Wants: suicide - I’d prefer it if you didn’t kill any major characters (other than canon deaths), but if you absolutely must, please avoid suicide! - , noncon/dubcon, incest, gratuitous graphic violence, underage sex, unrelieved gloom and angst, character/ship bashing, AUs. While I'm fine with “reasonable” crossovers with fandoms I know (same world and time period, or canonical time/world change shenanigans), please keep the main focus on the requested fandom.
A brief “where do I find these things” in case you’d like to check out any of the other things I've requested:
- Anne of Green Gables: 8 books, all available on Faded Page (some on project Gutenberg, too).
- Chalet School: 50ish books., many also on Faded Page!
- High Rollers Aerois: A long canon, at 191 3h episodes. On youtube as videos, also available as a podcast on Spotify. And we have a Wiki! Still a work in progress, but we have Mark's recaps transcribed for all episodes and are working on full recaps, plus character pages, items, and so on.
- Shakespeare & Hathaway: Four 10-episode series. Looks like Amazon and YouTube may have it?
- Swallows and Amazons: 12 books, all on Faded Page, or in print.
Fandom specific:
Listed in alphabetical order. Obviously, all optional details are optional! I'm just giving them in case you're interested (or utterly stuck for ideas and wondering why you ever offered to write this fandom :P). They’re absolutely not intended to be mutually exclusive, nor exhaustive - mix, blend, combine, as you like, or throw them out the window! I include them in my letters because I’ve found them really useful myself :) Spoilers abound I’m afraid, so if there’s something on here you’re interested in reading/watching and haven’t yet, I’d avoid that section. Feel free to include any other characters, nominated or not.
Anne of Green Gables
Format: Letters
- Anne Shirley/Gilbert Blythe - Letters we didn’t see from the Windy Poplars years? Later letters, while one of them’s away?
- Marilla Cuthbert & Anne Shirley - Letters while Anne’s at Queens (feel free to include Matthew too!)? While she’s at Redmond? After she’s married?
- Susan Baker & Rebecca Dew - I love that these two dears have a canonical correspondence, and would love to see more of it!
Format: Letters
- Elisaveta Arsonira Helston & Any - Elisaveta writing to her friends over the holidays? After she’s had to leave school? Letters to her father after they’ve both emigrated?
- Hilda Annersley/Nell Wilson - The year Nell’s already in the Oberland while Hilda is still at St Briavel’s immediately sprang to mind! Or while Hilda’s on that educational tour? Or smaller letters, little notes they leave for each other? Basically I love them and their relationship.
- Jane Carew & Any - Letters to her family, her friends in the troupe? Or to her school friends? If Jane writes like she talks they’ll be delightful!
- Joey Bettany & Simone Lecoutier & Frieda Mensch & Marie von Eschenau - school holiday letters? Or later, when they’re married and scattered? Feel free to focus on any subset of the quartette!
- Margia Stevens & Jacynth Hardy - I like the idea of the two first musical geniuses of the school corresponding (I may have forgotten Nina when I assembled this nomination in a rush - bring her in if you feel like it!)
Format: Letters or (or and, if you feel like it!) diaries
- Margot Maynard & Len Maynard & Con Maynard - surely they wrote while Margot was in Canada? Later on, when they’re grown up? Or if they keep diaries, the same event from different perspectives?
- Robin Humphries & Any (Chalet School) - Holiday letters? Letters after she enters the convent? Or a diary - she has a very eventful life!
Format: Letters
- Any (Stormchasers) & Any (Stormchasers) - I would love to see letters between all the party, or any subset of it! I can imagine Nova writing long rambling essays, Sentry nice caring "are you taking care of yourself" letters, Lucius fussing about his handwriting, Aila blunt and minimal, Quill replying super late...
- Lucius Virion-Elluin Elenasto & Edea Elenasto - maybe correspondence is how the twins grow closer? Does Lucius write to her during his adventures? Perhaps post-canon, Edea wants to see a bit of the wider universe, does some travelling?
- Lucius Virion-Elluin Elenasto/Aridan Irisen-Pelony Starsorrow - I love the idea of them courting through letters! Perhaps Lucius is casual about dangers they’ve faced that nearly give Aridan heart attacks when he reads about them?
- Nova V'Ger & Any (V'Ger family) - we know Nova writes to her family - letters during their adventures? Or post-canon, when she’s off exploring the stars?
- Qillek Ad Khollar & Mireeka Ad Khollar - increasingly irate letters from Mireeka interspersed with the occasional Sending from Quill? Or maybe Quill actually starts writing back? (He lost his dominant hand - is Nova’s wing a good replacement for writing? Does he hire a scribe? Bully/beg one of his friends into writing for him?)
Format: Letters/ Emails, or/and Texts and Social Media
I would love to see any combination of Luella, Frank, and Sebastian!
- Email chain about a case?
- Trying to give the agency a social media presence (and possibly it backfiring)?
- Group text, sending something to the group text they didn’t mean to?
Format: Letters
- Dorothea Callum & Titty Walker - letters while at school? Maybe Dot sends Titty Outlaw of the Broads instalments? Or later, when they’re grown up and at university - or in WWII?
- Jim Turner & Molly Blackett - Jim is not perhaps the best correspondent, but he tries - letters while he’s away, Molly telling him about the girls?
- Nancy Blackett/John Walker - my forever OTP, you cannot go wrong. Same as Titty & Dot, letters at school (maybe under cover, would they be allowed to write to each other?)? When John’s training for the Navy, Nancy… maybe at Oxford or Cambridge? Or during the war? Letters from John at sea?
- Susan Walker & Peggy Blackett - Same as Titty & Dot - sharing recipes, plans for improving their camping?
- Titty Walker & Any - We know Titty’s the best/keenest letter writer of the Swallows - her letter to Daddy at the very start? Letters to her friends, her siblings?
- Tom Dudgeon & Bess "Port" Farland & Nell "Starboard" Farland - I love the friendship between these three! Do they write while at school, make plans for the club? Do the twins write from Paris? (If you fancy a crossover, I would enjoy the twins going to the Chalet School instead!)
- Tom Dudgeon/Dorothea Callum - Another recipient of Outlaw of the Broads instalments? And/or of Coot Club plans?
