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Yuletide 2023
Oct. 21st, 2023 08:23 pmHello dear author, I prommy I'll write more but for now I just need a link <3
General Likes:
I read this whole trilogy in a week, and then immediately started rereading it, so you can imagine how normal I felt about it. For me the characters and their interpersonal relationships are honestly the highlight, but I also love a spot of worldbuilding. Definite I love this things are Tension, Fucked Up People Fucking Up, Trauma! At The Spaceship, Intricate Rituals, Complicated Relationships.
If you're gonna pick one character, make it Seivarden, she's absolutely Blorbo Of The Year.
Here's some opinions I have that might give you a bit of inspiration:
Re: Seivarden (and Brevarden):
Recently reread this formative piece of literature, and honestly... I should have realised some stuff sooner. Give me anything, cause I love it all. Bonus for keeping it Pratchett, extra bonus of Mal genderfuckery and Polly/Mal.
Willow (2022)
If Seivarden is Blorbo of the Year 2023, Boorman was Blorbo of the Year 2022. I love charismatic failures, and he Sure Is That. You can also make it sad if you want, cause this man has a lot of guilt I feel.
Also love: Kit As Arrogant Princeling and the growth she goes through from that point. Dunking Sad Wet Cat Graydon in the tub again (he's so traumatised). Anything that makes it feel like the show, which honestly felt like the best kind of D&D campaign, where the stakes are treated seriously, but also the players are dumb fucking assholes (affectionate).
Teixcalaan
Had to put the book away after finishing the second to get mad at Mahit for being a useless lesbian. I just want Mahit and Reeds to kiss and be happy maybe.
This Is How You Lose The Time War
Funky formats (love a good epistolary) and tense, complicated relationships. Give me whatever, but obviously bonus for gay stuff.
The Masquerade
Honestly, give me anything that hurts a little bit, and feels like the canon. I love that everyone is a little bit terrible, or a lot terrible, and I love dykes who do a man's job with a wink and a smile (Tain Hu, Tain Hu, you will always be famous)
Fandom Specific DNWs: I don't expect the rest to have creepy crawlies, but I can not deal with fly larvae (to the point of even just the m-word being Bad Times) and deal badly with other similar things.
General Likes:
- Fic That Feels Like The Source Material
- Complicated Relationships (loyalty, co-dependence, the inability to be normal about the other person/people)
- Lesbians
- Pining. Yearning, even.
- Competent Failures and Charismatic Losers
- Funky Formats
- Character Focus
- Plot
- Porn (preferable with plot)
- Polyamory
- Enemies to Lovers
- Canon atypical violence, gore, transphobia and homophobia. Unrequested crossovers, "other setting" AUs (coffee shop etc), focus on asexual HCs, bio penis, pregnancy/childrearing stuff, het or f/m relationships, noncon, crack, fly larvae and similar crawlies, detailed injury/illness descriptions
I read this whole trilogy in a week, and then immediately started rereading it, so you can imagine how normal I felt about it. For me the characters and their interpersonal relationships are honestly the highlight, but I also love a spot of worldbuilding. Definite I love this things are Tension, Fucked Up People Fucking Up, Trauma! At The Spaceship, Intricate Rituals, Complicated Relationships.
If you're gonna pick one character, make it Seivarden, she's absolutely Blorbo Of The Year.
Here's some opinions I have that might give you a bit of inspiration:
Re: Seivarden (and Brevarden):
- A Former Hotshot Noble Daughter Is Something That Can Be So Personal
- Seivarden and Fraction/Aja Clint Barton Is The Same
- Seivarden Really Said "Our Meeting Was Predestined And I'm Gonna Be So Normal About It"
- Seivarden Believes In Fate
Recently reread this formative piece of literature, and honestly... I should have realised some stuff sooner. Give me anything, cause I love it all. Bonus for keeping it Pratchett, extra bonus of Mal genderfuckery and Polly/Mal.
Willow (2022)
If Seivarden is Blorbo of the Year 2023, Boorman was Blorbo of the Year 2022. I love charismatic failures, and he Sure Is That. You can also make it sad if you want, cause this man has a lot of guilt I feel.
Also love: Kit As Arrogant Princeling and the growth she goes through from that point. Dunking Sad Wet Cat Graydon in the tub again (he's so traumatised). Anything that makes it feel like the show, which honestly felt like the best kind of D&D campaign, where the stakes are treated seriously, but also the players are dumb fucking assholes (affectionate).
Teixcalaan
Had to put the book away after finishing the second to get mad at Mahit for being a useless lesbian. I just want Mahit and Reeds to kiss and be happy maybe.
This Is How You Lose The Time War
Funky formats (love a good epistolary) and tense, complicated relationships. Give me whatever, but obviously bonus for gay stuff.
The Masquerade
Honestly, give me anything that hurts a little bit, and feels like the canon. I love that everyone is a little bit terrible, or a lot terrible, and I love dykes who do a man's job with a wink and a smile (Tain Hu, Tain Hu, you will always be famous)
Fandom Specific DNWs: I don't expect the rest to have creepy crawlies, but I can not deal with fly larvae (to the point of even just the m-word being Bad Times) and deal badly with other similar things.
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