Two pinch hits still outstanding
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fic_cornerThere are 2 pinch hits currently outstanding.
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This pinch hits will now be due on 27 August at 11pm EDT. What time is that for me?
Pinch Hit 7
Request 1 by DaisyNinjaGirl
Hairy Maclary and Friends Series - Lynley Dodd
Hairy Maclary's Owner (Hairy Maclary), Slinky Malinky, Zachary Quack
Hairy Maclary's Owner: Who is this mysterious person? They're on hand to supply the veal alright, but what do they think of Hairy's gallivanting about?
Slinky Malinky: May we have another glorious/tragic escapade?
Zachary Quack: I'm quite fond of little Zachary - he's a duckling with relentless optimism and go. Perhaps a character study?
And a general prompt: These books have got a very White New Zealand sense of nostalgia about them. If you like writing original characters, how about introducing a Maori or Pacifica or Indian or Chinese family (and associated pets) into the Hairy Maclary universe?
Another general prompt: The cats of the series and the dogs of the series seem to inhabit two separate worlds that only sometimes interface with each other. How do they all feel about it?
Letter: http://daisyninjagirl.dreamwidth.org/21074.html
Request 2 by DaisyNinjaGirl
Howl Series - Diana Wynne Jones
Any Character
Could you give me a Day in the Life for the castle inhabitants, perhaps after All Is Revealed and Sophie realises that Howl knew who she was all along? What kind of friction comes from Sophie's forthrightness and Howl's slithering away-ness? What kinds of conversations happened before and after their decision to have Morgan?
Letter: http://daisyninjagirl.dreamwidth.org/21074.html
Request 3 by DaisyNinjaGirl
Ballet Shoes - Noel Streatfeild
Petrova Fossil, Matthew Brown
I would love a story about Petrova, who was always the coolest. We know that during WWII she was an Air Transport pilot - but what happened after? Was she happy? What did she do to get into the history books? Maybe she goes to Russia to find out what happened to her family after she was adopted? If Petrova isn't your thing, it might also be fun to have a story about Gum's overseas adventures - and why was he so dreadfully forgetful about writing?
Letter: http://daisyninjagirl.dreamwidth.org/21074.html
Request 4 by DaisyNinjaGirl
The Witch in the Cherry Tree - Margaret Mahy
The Witch (The Witch in the Cherry Tree)
I'm new to this book this year. It's such an incredible bookend to Mahy's famous Lion in the Meadow, with the boy inventing a make believe story out of details in his day, and I love how the mother's attitude in Cherry Tree is one of collaboratively joining in, instead of the Lion mother dismissively trying to shut her kid down and make him leave her to her cooking - here, the cooking is something they do together, and so is interacting with the Witch. So some suggestions for stories are either to go the meta route and write a story about a story and how the details around you build into it (if you'd like to go for a completely original mother/child/fantastic creature set that would be fine.) Another option would be to take the Witch completely literally, and write about her life up in the storm clouds with the rusty cake pans and her bright red stockings and the sustaining burnt cakes that David throws her.
Letter: http://daisyninjagirl.dreamwidth.org/21074.html
Pinch Hit 9
Request 1 by seekingferret
Cyber.kdz - Bruce Balan
Any Character
I love this fandom so much. The idea of the Net as this unregulated frontier where kids could make a difference because only their actions, not their appearances, mattered. And the found family, who bickered with each other endlessly but ultimately stood up for each other when someone needed it.
Request 2 by seekingferret
The Grounding of Group Six - Julian F. Thompson
My usual request for this fandom is pure trollfic: Write a fluffy school story with none of the darkness of the original canon and act like that's all that's there. To see if you can lure unsuspecting people into the ridiculousness that is this book. Basically write a fic as if the cover story from the end of the book, where Group Six was just overlooked and nobody remembered to recall them, were true.
I realize this is a deeply specific request and I am fine if you disregard it and write something that actually engages with the story as it actually exists.
Request 3 by seekingferret
Westing Game - Ellen Raskin
Any Character
I love everything about the Westing Game and its twisty, emotionally complicated payoff, and would love to see more about any character.
I also have this theory... let me dig it up.
Sam Westing is involved in a car accident leading up to his disappearance which is an extremely mysterious event. It is apparently real- Sykes's limp is real, not faked, per Chris, and the only limp in the book not the result of a Turtle kick. And it results in facial disfiguration for Sam, but of a sort that is dramatic enough to render him unrecognizable to his ex-wife when he is Sandy, but not enough that he cannot mask it (presumably with makeup?) when he is in his Northrup or Eastman guise. I do not understand the import of the accident. If the accident is what changed his outlook on life, why wait 20 years after for his revenge/game/reparations?
...For Turtle to be Sam's rightful heir, she has to ultimately 'win' the game, which most straightforwardly means either a)finding the fourth or b)beating Sam at chess, which JJ and Theo never managed and nobody else in the game ever attempted. But Sam is not the kind of person who happily loses games. Sam's game is set up so that neither Turtle nor JJ nor anyone else has to win, but... what happens to Eastman's money in that scenario, if Turtle loses? Does he have to set up another Westing game with new heirs to manipulate? Is there the possiblity that this is not the first Westing game he has run? Is the quest for heirs the thing which has occupied the twenty years since Westing's disappearance?
So basically I would love to see a take on a different Westing Game, a different grasping and overly manipulative attempt for redemption from Sam Westing.
Request 4 by seekingferret
Sizzle & Splat Series - Ronald Kidder
Hans Kleiman
Hans Kleiman is my favorite character in the series but I'll take anything with Sizzle and/or Splat. I love Kleiman's fusion of games and music, as a passionate enthusiast of both myself. I wish there were more of him, I wish he didn't have to die to impel the story's action, because his chemistry with Sizzle is wonderful.
Request 5 by seekingferret
Star Voyager Academy - William Forstchen
I think I'd like to actually see the war, you know? The part bizarrely skipped between books 2 and 3, where everything went to shit in utterly predictable but no less tragic ways.
i ship Matt/Justin, I ship Tanya/Justin, I ship Thor/Jason, I ship Tanya/Madison... Not so interested in Justin/Brian or Matt/Brian, I think. And I'd also love gen. Falcon fighting gen! Complicated morally ambiguous battle gen! Academy hijinks gen!
Please claim via pm or email to fic.corner@gmail.com and include the ph number, recipient's AO3 user name and your AO3 user name. Please do not claim in the comments to preserve anonymity.
This pinch hits will now be due on 27 August at 11pm EDT. What time is that for me?
Pinch Hit 7
Request 1 by DaisyNinjaGirl
Hairy Maclary and Friends Series - Lynley Dodd
Hairy Maclary's Owner (Hairy Maclary), Slinky Malinky, Zachary Quack
Hairy Maclary's Owner: Who is this mysterious person? They're on hand to supply the veal alright, but what do they think of Hairy's gallivanting about?
Slinky Malinky: May we have another glorious/tragic escapade?
Zachary Quack: I'm quite fond of little Zachary - he's a duckling with relentless optimism and go. Perhaps a character study?
And a general prompt: These books have got a very White New Zealand sense of nostalgia about them. If you like writing original characters, how about introducing a Maori or Pacifica or Indian or Chinese family (and associated pets) into the Hairy Maclary universe?
Another general prompt: The cats of the series and the dogs of the series seem to inhabit two separate worlds that only sometimes interface with each other. How do they all feel about it?
Letter: http://daisyninjagirl.dreamwidth.org/21074.html
Request 2 by DaisyNinjaGirl
Howl Series - Diana Wynne Jones
Any Character
Could you give me a Day in the Life for the castle inhabitants, perhaps after All Is Revealed and Sophie realises that Howl knew who she was all along? What kind of friction comes from Sophie's forthrightness and Howl's slithering away-ness? What kinds of conversations happened before and after their decision to have Morgan?
Letter: http://daisyninjagirl.dreamwidth.org/21074.html
Request 3 by DaisyNinjaGirl
Ballet Shoes - Noel Streatfeild
Petrova Fossil, Matthew Brown
I would love a story about Petrova, who was always the coolest. We know that during WWII she was an Air Transport pilot - but what happened after? Was she happy? What did she do to get into the history books? Maybe she goes to Russia to find out what happened to her family after she was adopted? If Petrova isn't your thing, it might also be fun to have a story about Gum's overseas adventures - and why was he so dreadfully forgetful about writing?
Letter: http://daisyninjagirl.dreamwidth.org/21074.html
Request 4 by DaisyNinjaGirl
The Witch in the Cherry Tree - Margaret Mahy
The Witch (The Witch in the Cherry Tree)
I'm new to this book this year. It's such an incredible bookend to Mahy's famous Lion in the Meadow, with the boy inventing a make believe story out of details in his day, and I love how the mother's attitude in Cherry Tree is one of collaboratively joining in, instead of the Lion mother dismissively trying to shut her kid down and make him leave her to her cooking - here, the cooking is something they do together, and so is interacting with the Witch. So some suggestions for stories are either to go the meta route and write a story about a story and how the details around you build into it (if you'd like to go for a completely original mother/child/fantastic creature set that would be fine.) Another option would be to take the Witch completely literally, and write about her life up in the storm clouds with the rusty cake pans and her bright red stockings and the sustaining burnt cakes that David throws her.
Letter: http://daisyninjagirl.dreamwidth.org/21074.html
Pinch Hit 9
Cyber.kdz - Bruce Balan
Any Character
I love this fandom so much. The idea of the Net as this unregulated frontier where kids could make a difference because only their actions, not their appearances, mattered. And the found family, who bickered with each other endlessly but ultimately stood up for each other when someone needed it.
Request 2 by seekingferret
The Grounding of Group Six - Julian F. Thompson
My usual request for this fandom is pure trollfic: Write a fluffy school story with none of the darkness of the original canon and act like that's all that's there. To see if you can lure unsuspecting people into the ridiculousness that is this book. Basically write a fic as if the cover story from the end of the book, where Group Six was just overlooked and nobody remembered to recall them, were true.
I realize this is a deeply specific request and I am fine if you disregard it and write something that actually engages with the story as it actually exists.
Request 3 by seekingferret
Westing Game - Ellen Raskin
Any Character
I love everything about the Westing Game and its twisty, emotionally complicated payoff, and would love to see more about any character.
I also have this theory... let me dig it up.
Sam Westing is involved in a car accident leading up to his disappearance which is an extremely mysterious event. It is apparently real- Sykes's limp is real, not faked, per Chris, and the only limp in the book not the result of a Turtle kick. And it results in facial disfiguration for Sam, but of a sort that is dramatic enough to render him unrecognizable to his ex-wife when he is Sandy, but not enough that he cannot mask it (presumably with makeup?) when he is in his Northrup or Eastman guise. I do not understand the import of the accident. If the accident is what changed his outlook on life, why wait 20 years after for his revenge/game/reparations?
...For Turtle to be Sam's rightful heir, she has to ultimately 'win' the game, which most straightforwardly means either a)finding the fourth or b)beating Sam at chess, which JJ and Theo never managed and nobody else in the game ever attempted. But Sam is not the kind of person who happily loses games. Sam's game is set up so that neither Turtle nor JJ nor anyone else has to win, but... what happens to Eastman's money in that scenario, if Turtle loses? Does he have to set up another Westing game with new heirs to manipulate? Is there the possiblity that this is not the first Westing game he has run? Is the quest for heirs the thing which has occupied the twenty years since Westing's disappearance?
So basically I would love to see a take on a different Westing Game, a different grasping and overly manipulative attempt for redemption from Sam Westing.
Request 4 by seekingferret
Sizzle & Splat Series - Ronald Kidder
Hans Kleiman
Hans Kleiman is my favorite character in the series but I'll take anything with Sizzle and/or Splat. I love Kleiman's fusion of games and music, as a passionate enthusiast of both myself. I wish there were more of him, I wish he didn't have to die to impel the story's action, because his chemistry with Sizzle is wonderful.
Request 5 by seekingferret
Star Voyager Academy - William Forstchen
I think I'd like to actually see the war, you know? The part bizarrely skipped between books 2 and 3, where everything went to shit in utterly predictable but no less tragic ways.
i ship Matt/Justin, I ship Tanya/Justin, I ship Thor/Jason, I ship Tanya/Madison... Not so interested in Justin/Brian or Matt/Brian, I think. And I'd also love gen. Falcon fighting gen! Complicated morally ambiguous battle gen! Academy hijinks gen!