The Unstuck Country (KR Kiva) part 3

After a bout of problems in RL, I’m back on track. There’s a lot of talking in here, a bit of background, and a character that I’ve been swearing I’d get in finally gets in.

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Crossposted from Ramblings Yet Once More here.

Getting ready for Yuletide

ETA: As a side note to all this, it does look like I either missed two of the Power Rangers series (RPM and SPD), or they were hiding. So, PR authors, wanna do Yuletide?

I love Yuletide. This is my third year or so, and it's something I enjoy doing. Given the controversies this year, I thought I might talk about my own processes for choosing fandoms to write in (I haven't decided which fandoms to ask for, though I suspect that I should at least ask for Mio min Mio and Final Fantasy II).

* I must have either heard of it, or thought it was easy to find the source material for, or it intrigued me. There are several anthropomorfic "fandoms" I'm including on my tentative list, a web comic or two, and a music video that I want to see.

* I had to exclude most movie (and a lot of TV) fandoms because I didn't have access to the movie/series in question. I'd love to write fanfic for "Sneakers", for example, but I don't own a copy. As soon as the MPAA stops being so stupid, maybe I can start buying movies again :(

* It has to be a version I'm familiar with. I'm vaguely familiar with the Gokusen manga canon, but not enough to write fic for it; Gokusen (tv) is questionable, but I can get my hands on copies. Likewise, I can more easily access my NSTP stuff and not my OSTP stuff, but only OS is being offered this year.

* If it's a book fandom, either the author has to have said that fanfic is okay, or the author has to be dead. I respect authors' rights not to have fanfic written of their stories. I figure they'll also respect my right not to buy their stuff because they're anti-fanfic. (This unfortunately includes Diana Gabaldon, George R.R. Martin, and Robin McKinley. Sorry, McKinley's "Blue Sword" is one of my favorite novels ever, but....)

So, here is my tentative list for offered fandoms. I suspect I will be winnowing this down, as I need to double-check an author or two for deadness and/or okayness with fanfic, and one or two of these I'm not sure of.

( My list )