Once Upon a Fic Letter 2022
Feb. 7th, 2022 06:48 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
flo_neljaDear Once_Upon_Fic Writer,
I'm glad we have fairy tales and myths in common! I'm sure you will write an awesome story! I signed as Nelja-in-English, Nelja is my usual pseud.
What I like: Worldbuilding, characters being clever and witty, foreshadowing, weird surrealist crack that makes sense, dreams or illusion themes, characters knowing and understanding each other well, unreliable narrators, ethical dilemmas, strong women, queer themes, horror themes.
What I prefer not to read: AUs except for canon divergence, character bashing, pandemics, cheating, humor based on misunderstandings or incompetence, post-canon/AU with a sad ending when the canon has a happy one (except specified otherwise), bashing of either science/rationality or magic/spirituality to make the other one look better.
Encantado
Links : https://www.savacations.com/myths-legends-amazons-pink-river-dolphin/
https://www.rainforestcruises.com/jungle-blog/the-legend-of-the-pink-river-dolphin
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/River_dolphin#South_America
I love everything about them. Especially when it's male dolphins seducing young girls, since usually we get the reverse as sexy supernatural creatures go. But of course I'm all for a queer version too.
I'm fascinated by the horror part: the hypnosis, the fact that they can make people crazy just by following them.
But I'll also take a good interspecies romance story, there is so few content for them!
Dynd-Kongens Datter | The Marsh King's Daughter - Hans Christian Andersen
Link: https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Hans_Andersen%27s_fairy_tales_(Robinson)/The_Marsh_King%27s_Daughter
Characters: Helga
I love very much Helga's weird condition at the beginning of the tale, and I would be really interested in a fic exploring this duality. Does she have two sets of memories, or does she remember at days what her nights are like, and vice versa? How does she feel about it? If she doesn't remember, what does day!Helga think when other people talk about their dreams or their nights, and what does night!Helga know about the world?
Pure introspection is good, daily life scenes with her parents or the storks are good too! Dark themes are okay, but no bashing, and please don't kill any animal in the fic, especially not baby storks.
Jorogumo (creature)
Wikipedia link: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jor%C5%8Dgumo
I'd love to see more interiority of the jorogumos, any stories (or an original one, of course) from their PoV. A big part of their stories is about seducing male humans. Do they pretend to have feelings just for eating Do they actually fall in love but it's still in spider nature to eat their mates? Or only when they get bored? Did one person (man or woman) managed to not get eaten by the jorogumo they were courting once, and what made this story different?
Historical or modern are both good. Though I'd like to see at least some reference to the classic story, it doesn't have to be a rewriting, it can be just some jorogumos talking together, maybe taking care of their fire spiders.
La Montagne Verte | The Green Mountain (Fairy Tale)
Link: https://flo-nelja.dreamwidth.org/735435.html
Characters: The Devil's Blonde Daughter (The Green Mountain)
She's my fave. I love a character who can be like "it's the moment to put to use my skill of not dying when I'm boiled alive into a cauldron". It can be played for laughs, it can be played for horror. How does the devil raise a girl? How did she learn magic? What are her links to her family? How did she get so good at predicting things, is it magic too, or cleverness? Why did the hero forget her, what is the magic involved here, her father's curse, her inhuman nature, something else?
Fandom-specific DNW: the headcanon where's she's an adopted/kidnapped human and not a supernatural creature.
Смерть Кощея Бессмертного | The Death of Koschei the Deathless (Fairy Tale)
Link: https://www.surlalunefairytales.com/book.php?id=124&tale=4066
Characters: Koschei
I really love Koschei. the whole concept of a man who hid his death in a box can be used as well for humor, with fruitless assassinations attempts, that for angst, about losing humanity. I'd like a tale about how he hid his death.
Other things that I would like to explore: His interactions with Baba Yaga when he was guarding her horses (or at any other moment), how Marya caught him in the first place.
I'm glad we have fairy tales and myths in common! I'm sure you will write an awesome story! I signed as Nelja-in-English, Nelja is my usual pseud.
What I like: Worldbuilding, characters being clever and witty, foreshadowing, weird surrealist crack that makes sense, dreams or illusion themes, characters knowing and understanding each other well, unreliable narrators, ethical dilemmas, strong women, queer themes, horror themes.
What I prefer not to read: AUs except for canon divergence, character bashing, pandemics, cheating, humor based on misunderstandings or incompetence, post-canon/AU with a sad ending when the canon has a happy one (except specified otherwise), bashing of either science/rationality or magic/spirituality to make the other one look better.
Encantado
Links : https://www.savacations.com/myths-legends-amazons-pink-river-dolphin/
https://www.rainforestcruises.com/jungle-blog/the-legend-of-the-pink-river-dolphin
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/River_dolphin#South_America
I love everything about them. Especially when it's male dolphins seducing young girls, since usually we get the reverse as sexy supernatural creatures go. But of course I'm all for a queer version too.
I'm fascinated by the horror part: the hypnosis, the fact that they can make people crazy just by following them.
But I'll also take a good interspecies romance story, there is so few content for them!
Dynd-Kongens Datter | The Marsh King's Daughter - Hans Christian Andersen
Link: https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Hans_Andersen%27s_fairy_tales_(Robinson)/The_Marsh_King%27s_Daughter
Characters: Helga
I love very much Helga's weird condition at the beginning of the tale, and I would be really interested in a fic exploring this duality. Does she have two sets of memories, or does she remember at days what her nights are like, and vice versa? How does she feel about it? If she doesn't remember, what does day!Helga think when other people talk about their dreams or their nights, and what does night!Helga know about the world?
Pure introspection is good, daily life scenes with her parents or the storks are good too! Dark themes are okay, but no bashing, and please don't kill any animal in the fic, especially not baby storks.
Jorogumo (creature)
Wikipedia link: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jor%C5%8Dgumo
I'd love to see more interiority of the jorogumos, any stories (or an original one, of course) from their PoV. A big part of their stories is about seducing male humans. Do they pretend to have feelings just for eating Do they actually fall in love but it's still in spider nature to eat their mates? Or only when they get bored? Did one person (man or woman) managed to not get eaten by the jorogumo they were courting once, and what made this story different?
Historical or modern are both good. Though I'd like to see at least some reference to the classic story, it doesn't have to be a rewriting, it can be just some jorogumos talking together, maybe taking care of their fire spiders.
La Montagne Verte | The Green Mountain (Fairy Tale)
Link: https://flo-nelja.dreamwidth.org/735435.html
Characters: The Devil's Blonde Daughter (The Green Mountain)
She's my fave. I love a character who can be like "it's the moment to put to use my skill of not dying when I'm boiled alive into a cauldron". It can be played for laughs, it can be played for horror. How does the devil raise a girl? How did she learn magic? What are her links to her family? How did she get so good at predicting things, is it magic too, or cleverness? Why did the hero forget her, what is the magic involved here, her father's curse, her inhuman nature, something else?
Fandom-specific DNW: the headcanon where's she's an adopted/kidnapped human and not a supernatural creature.
Смерть Кощея Бессмертного | The Death of Koschei the Deathless (Fairy Tale)
Link: https://www.surlalunefairytales.com/book.php?id=124&tale=4066
Characters: Koschei
I really love Koschei. the whole concept of a man who hid his death in a box can be used as well for humor, with fruitless assassinations attempts, that for angst, about losing humanity. I'd like a tale about how he hid his death.
Other things that I would like to explore: His interactions with Baba Yaga when he was guarding her horses (or at any other moment), how Marya caught him in the first place.
