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Purimgifts Letter 2020
Jan. 9th, 2020 08:31 pmHello, dear Purimgifts creator!
Thank you so much for creating for me this year.
If you would like some of my thoughts and prompts on our mutual fandoms, read on below. On the other hand, feel free to ignore them and write the story you are enthusiastic about - I'm quite sure I will love whatever you produce!
Fandoms:
A Countess Below Stairs
I will love you forever if you give me Leo Rabinowitz, Susie and Tom, and/or the Honourable Olive in ANY combination or setting. Otherwise I adore Anna being her inimitable self, Minna Byrne being quietly practical, the servants being quietly awesome... heaps to choose from!
Amelia Peabody
Amelia herself is so amazing, but there are so many other women who do awesome things in these books. Evelyn mixing her roles of artist, wife, mother, total badass? Nefret's medical training? Katherine Vandergelt PLEASE - I adore her backstory of "semi-villain and con-artist medium", and her friendship with Amelia is lovely. Does she ever meet Evelyn?
Ballet Shoes
Future adventures for any the girls would be great. Otherwise, what about some backstories for the doctors or Theo? What was it like for Sylvia growing up in Gum's house with her widowed mother and Nana?
Check Please!
Denise "foxtrot" Ford is the musical-theatre loving, vintage-clothing wearing, terrifyingly organised darling of my heart, so anything with her would be amazing. Also Bitty's family has lots of strong-minded women (Suzanne, Aunt Judy, Moomaw) and I'd love to hear more about them. I can't remember offhand which of the characters are canonically Jewish (Holster maybe?) but go right ahead if you want to explore that side of things as well.
Dark is Rising
Jane, Jana, Juno, Jane - what happens to Jane? How much does she remember of their adventures after they lose their memories? Does she remember seeing the Greenwitch, for instance, or does she dream about it and not know what it was? Alternatively, what about a story about Will's sisters - Barbara especially always seemed like such a nice person.
Discworld
Huge, HUGE range of characters to pick from here. Lady Sybil, Cheery Littlebottom, Adora Belle Dearheart and Magrat are some of my favourites, so a story about any of those would be great. Monstrous Regiment is a book I adore as a whole, maybe explore what happened to any of the characters afterwards?
Enchanted Forest
Any stories about Morwen in the Enchanted forest dealing with magical problems in a practical way will be received with great affection. Seriously, I love Morwen. Also Cimorene, Alianora, Kazul, Morwen's cats and fellow witches... Throw in as many magical shenanigans as you like! If you want to throw in something like the Frying Pan of Doom, well... bonus points, I guess. :)
Emelan
I love all the ladies in the main cast, so feel free to pick and choose. Sandry and Lark working on threadcraft - maybe Sandry teaching Lark a new craft? Tris being grumpy bookworm, or maybe helping Rosethorn out by bringing a little rain to the garden? Anything at all with Lark and Rosethorn together - how did they meet/fall in love? I'm not sure how you'd go about having Jewish characters in Emelan (the religious worldbuilding is so tightly written already), but if you have an idea, I'd love to see it!
Fangirl
Cather is basically me, to a ridiculous extent. ANYTHING with Cath will be much loved. Have her interacting with Reagan, with Wren, meeting Levi's sisters and mother, in an imaginary dialogue with Penelope Bunce... literally anything. Alternatively, Reagan is awesome, and I really like Cath's writing professor - what about something from their POVs?
Good Omens (Book and TV)
I've listed both of these, but feel free to follow the common fandom practice of borrowing from each of them. I like the choices the TV show made, but I've been a fan of the book for years, so *shrugs* either/or, really. Having said that, if you write me a Jewish Greasy Johnson (book character) I will probably faint with delight. Otherwise Madame Tracy, Anathema, Pepper, Pepper's mum, Sister Mary Loquacious aka Mary Hodges... interacting in any capacity at all would be lovely.
Howl series
So I really like Sophie, but I also love her sisters. Especially Martha, even though we don't see her much, because her life choices are just so interesting. Also love Princess Beatrice - so practical! How did she learn to darn socks, anyway?? And honestly, I really relate to Charmain getting lost in books and forgetting about everything.
Lord of the Rings
Eowyn! Rosie Cotton! Ioreth! Galadriel and Arwen! aaaand, that's about all the female characters I can think of here, this is not a fandom overly supplied with them. Feel free to invent more. I love Middle-Earth as a setting, so anything exploring that will be lovely. I've also read some great fan-canon with Jewish Dwarves in Middle Earth, so exploring that further would be interesting.
Lord Peter Wimsey
An absolute plethora of interesting women here: the Dowager Duchess, Lady Mary, the Shrewsbury dons, Eiluned and Sylvia, Marjorie Phelps, Miss Climpson, Miss Murchison... and of course, not forgetting Harriet. Harriet meeting Miss Climpson would be fun to read, or what about some domestic bits with the Dowager and Lady Mary? Marjorie, Eiluned and Sylvia in Bloomsbury shenanigans? Harriet as a student at Shrewsbury in an interview with the Dean? Or how about exploring some of the canonically Jewish characters like Rachel Arbuthnot (nee Levy) and her family?
Rivers of London
I love Bev and her family, so any River-related shenanigans would be great. Or what about Abigail - any more ghost-hunting? What's the deal with the foxes, anyway? OR, maybe a story with Molly and Foxglove settling into the Folly?
Spinning Silver
Show me some more of Miryem and her family - maybe her childhood, or more about her grandparents? Does Wanda ever meet Irina? Or more of the Staryk, Rebakah bat Fleck perhaps?
Tortall
FYI I haven't yet read the Numair book. Song of the Lioness, Protector of the Small, and Provost's Dog are probably my favourite series' - I love the main characters in each of them. Show me some of Beka with Achoo, or with Kora and Aniki, or Goodwin. Show me Alanna with the Bazhir - how are Kara and Kourrem going as shamans? Show me Kel being patient and grumpy and organised and caring with her refugees, or dropping in to Lalasa's self-defence classes.
Thank you so much for creating for me this year.
If you would like some of my thoughts and prompts on our mutual fandoms, read on below. On the other hand, feel free to ignore them and write the story you are enthusiastic about - I'm quite sure I will love whatever you produce!
Fandoms:
A Countess Below Stairs
I will love you forever if you give me Leo Rabinowitz, Susie and Tom, and/or the Honourable Olive in ANY combination or setting. Otherwise I adore Anna being her inimitable self, Minna Byrne being quietly practical, the servants being quietly awesome... heaps to choose from!
Amelia Peabody
Amelia herself is so amazing, but there are so many other women who do awesome things in these books. Evelyn mixing her roles of artist, wife, mother, total badass? Nefret's medical training? Katherine Vandergelt PLEASE - I adore her backstory of "semi-villain and con-artist medium", and her friendship with Amelia is lovely. Does she ever meet Evelyn?
Ballet Shoes
Future adventures for any the girls would be great. Otherwise, what about some backstories for the doctors or Theo? What was it like for Sylvia growing up in Gum's house with her widowed mother and Nana?
Check Please!
Denise "foxtrot" Ford is the musical-theatre loving, vintage-clothing wearing, terrifyingly organised darling of my heart, so anything with her would be amazing. Also Bitty's family has lots of strong-minded women (Suzanne, Aunt Judy, Moomaw) and I'd love to hear more about them. I can't remember offhand which of the characters are canonically Jewish (Holster maybe?) but go right ahead if you want to explore that side of things as well.
Dark is Rising
Jane, Jana, Juno, Jane - what happens to Jane? How much does she remember of their adventures after they lose their memories? Does she remember seeing the Greenwitch, for instance, or does she dream about it and not know what it was? Alternatively, what about a story about Will's sisters - Barbara especially always seemed like such a nice person.
Discworld
Huge, HUGE range of characters to pick from here. Lady Sybil, Cheery Littlebottom, Adora Belle Dearheart and Magrat are some of my favourites, so a story about any of those would be great. Monstrous Regiment is a book I adore as a whole, maybe explore what happened to any of the characters afterwards?
Enchanted Forest
Any stories about Morwen in the Enchanted forest dealing with magical problems in a practical way will be received with great affection. Seriously, I love Morwen. Also Cimorene, Alianora, Kazul, Morwen's cats and fellow witches... Throw in as many magical shenanigans as you like! If you want to throw in something like the Frying Pan of Doom, well... bonus points, I guess. :)
Emelan
I love all the ladies in the main cast, so feel free to pick and choose. Sandry and Lark working on threadcraft - maybe Sandry teaching Lark a new craft? Tris being grumpy bookworm, or maybe helping Rosethorn out by bringing a little rain to the garden? Anything at all with Lark and Rosethorn together - how did they meet/fall in love? I'm not sure how you'd go about having Jewish characters in Emelan (the religious worldbuilding is so tightly written already), but if you have an idea, I'd love to see it!
Fangirl
Cather is basically me, to a ridiculous extent. ANYTHING with Cath will be much loved. Have her interacting with Reagan, with Wren, meeting Levi's sisters and mother, in an imaginary dialogue with Penelope Bunce... literally anything. Alternatively, Reagan is awesome, and I really like Cath's writing professor - what about something from their POVs?
Good Omens (Book and TV)
I've listed both of these, but feel free to follow the common fandom practice of borrowing from each of them. I like the choices the TV show made, but I've been a fan of the book for years, so *shrugs* either/or, really. Having said that, if you write me a Jewish Greasy Johnson (book character) I will probably faint with delight. Otherwise Madame Tracy, Anathema, Pepper, Pepper's mum, Sister Mary Loquacious aka Mary Hodges... interacting in any capacity at all would be lovely.
Howl series
So I really like Sophie, but I also love her sisters. Especially Martha, even though we don't see her much, because her life choices are just so interesting. Also love Princess Beatrice - so practical! How did she learn to darn socks, anyway?? And honestly, I really relate to Charmain getting lost in books and forgetting about everything.
Lord of the Rings
Eowyn! Rosie Cotton! Ioreth! Galadriel and Arwen! aaaand, that's about all the female characters I can think of here, this is not a fandom overly supplied with them. Feel free to invent more. I love Middle-Earth as a setting, so anything exploring that will be lovely. I've also read some great fan-canon with Jewish Dwarves in Middle Earth, so exploring that further would be interesting.
Lord Peter Wimsey
An absolute plethora of interesting women here: the Dowager Duchess, Lady Mary, the Shrewsbury dons, Eiluned and Sylvia, Marjorie Phelps, Miss Climpson, Miss Murchison... and of course, not forgetting Harriet. Harriet meeting Miss Climpson would be fun to read, or what about some domestic bits with the Dowager and Lady Mary? Marjorie, Eiluned and Sylvia in Bloomsbury shenanigans? Harriet as a student at Shrewsbury in an interview with the Dean? Or how about exploring some of the canonically Jewish characters like Rachel Arbuthnot (nee Levy) and her family?
Rivers of London
I love Bev and her family, so any River-related shenanigans would be great. Or what about Abigail - any more ghost-hunting? What's the deal with the foxes, anyway? OR, maybe a story with Molly and Foxglove settling into the Folly?
Spinning Silver
Show me some more of Miryem and her family - maybe her childhood, or more about her grandparents? Does Wanda ever meet Irina? Or more of the Staryk, Rebakah bat Fleck perhaps?
Tortall
FYI I haven't yet read the Numair book. Song of the Lioness, Protector of the Small, and Provost's Dog are probably my favourite series' - I love the main characters in each of them. Show me some of Beka with Achoo, or with Kora and Aniki, or Goodwin. Show me Alanna with the Bazhir - how are Kara and Kourrem going as shamans? Show me Kel being patient and grumpy and organised and caring with her refugees, or dropping in to Lalasa's self-defence classes.
