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fandomonymous) wrote2012-10-31 12:37 pm
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Dear Yuletide Writer 2012
...This letter is COMING SOON after I get full time Internet back from the clutches of Hurricane Sandy.
If you're here for Mindcrack, I'm alsomindcrack_love, if that helps you.
Edit, November 2: Even after getting full time power/Internet back, real life is a little crazy, so it may be difficult (if not impossible) for me to update this to a "proper" letter for a few days. For now, relevant linkdumps:
My letter in 2011, which should give some general know-how about myself, as well as some flailing about Ghost in the Shell (SAC-specific and focused on Motoko, which is not the focus this year, though I specified an SAC-only character as my preference. If you want to write one of these Motoko prompts instead of a Tachikoma prompt THAT IS OKAY. If you want to write something else entirely other than Motoko or Tachikomas THAT IS ALSO OKAY. I LOVE THIS MULTIVERSE TOO DAMN MUCH.)
My initial flailings about Math Girls upon first reading it
My name on Reddit, where I flail about Mindcrack (and occasionally other things too) | My name on Youtube, where I comment on Mindcrackers and other LPers (and Vi Hart, if you're writing Math Girls)Also I may or may not be starting up some LPs once I get power and Internet back, kappa..
Fandom intros I've written: Ghost in the Shell SAC (for Yuletide 2011, including some description on why I think the Tachikomas are awesome), Math Girls, and Mindcrack. Also, have a MC Gamer primer at![[community profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/community.png)
mindcracklove.
My prompts follow the cut (admittedly mostly stolen from myfandom_helps and past Yuletide letters), for those coming here from the Dear Yuletide Writer collection post on LJ.
Math Girls - Hiroshi Yuki: Tetra
Prompt 1 - basically explain another concept the Math Girls way, in a way that would be fine to give to the Bento Books contest that happened a few months back. If you can do that, that's awesome. It's TOTALLY NOT NECESSARY for my fic request, though. Heck, you probably could write this fandom without a perfect grasp of the math, though the math helps the plot make better sense. >.>
Prompt 2 - tell something in the Math Girls 'verse in the eyes of someone who isn't the narrator (preferably Tetra), and explore the non-math parts of their lives.
I'm a Tetra fan - I love her tenacity and her passion, and her crush on the narrator is ADORABLE. I also share her fascination with foreign languages, though not her skill. Perhaps Tetra offers to help the narrator with English after a semester of him helping her with mathematics? Perhaps she finds herself in a bookstore picking up an original English copy of Gödel, Escher, Bach or The Fractal Geometry of Nature (or whatever other math book carries your fancy; it doesn't even have to be in English, as I don't think the author ever specified what language(s) Tetra studied). GEB of course can lead to a discussion of self reference and recursion; and fractals are indeed awesome (feel free to get inspired by everything Vi Hart has ever done).
But I'm not exclusive at all, and if Tetra doesn't inspire you, that's okay! Miruka is awesome, one part fierce mathematician, one part tsundere, one part normal teenage girl. What possesses her to kick Tetra when they first meet? Does she actually have some feelings for our narrator? What's her relationship with Ay-Ay? And yes, her musical skill and knowledge intrigues me too (again, I share her fascination but not her skill - music, language, and math is a very logical combination!) To play on the GEB theme, perhaps she and Ay-Ay perform a crab canon or a sloth canon? Or to look again towards Vi Hart, what are her thoughts on the science of sound itself? Will she imagine a world where music is structured differently than an octave, much like she imagines a world with only two primes?
I did say that music, language, and math are a pretty logical combination, and that all of them fascinate me. If nothing else I've said above inspires you, how about origami? Origami and its math - whether it be using paper folding as an alternative to straightedge and compass, or the axioms of flat folding, or the intricate planar graphs that make up a crease pattern - all of these are dear to my heart, and anything where the Math Girls characters fumble around with paper would make me squee as well.
No matter where you go with it, as I said, tell me more about these characters, their interests, and their lives beyond math. I'm so excited to hear what you have in store for me. <3
Mindcrack: SuperMCGamer
Purely by even considering this fandom you have made me the happiest of kappa. Anime smiley face! ^_^
Um. Anyway. MC has grown a lot - from a derpy kid who would beg Avidya to become a mod of Reddit Public to a well respected and well known LPer and charity organizer. How did this happen? How did he balance his occasional asocial tendencies and his desire to spread joy and happiness to others? How did he make friends? Answer any or all of these questions and you'll make me very happy.
If you want to go the shippy route, I am an avowed MC/Nebris shipper and exploring their friendship/relationship - the way they sling references at each other on each others' livestreams, their contrasts and protectiveness of each other in CobbleHaters, the craziness surrounding the Death Games, the fact that MC seems to be the only other person capable of navigating Nebris' base - and feel free to look into that. (Or any other relationship, or even none at all. Seriously, up to you!)
Also, I'm the moderator ofmindcracklove. Use that information accordingly. ;) (This does mean that if MC doesn't inspire you for whatever reason you are MORE THAN WELCOME to write whoever you'd like however you'd like. :D)
Ghost in the Shell: Tachikoma
I love the Tachikomas to bits. I will be more than happy with Tachikoma-centric cuteness/crack/omg these are badass robots with the personalities of children, or even serious stuff. Things you could tell me about: the end of season 1 and the assertion of their self-sacrifice, or between season 2 and Solid State Society and how the Tachikomas fared floating in the Net after sacrificing their AI satellite to save the world, or even things in Solid State Society like how Motoko *finds* the Tachikomas floating in the Net in her time away from Section 9 and gets them to serve her again, and/or the fates of Max and Musashi (the two named non-blue Tachis), who we never see outside of Motoko's comm-link before she "rejoins Section 9".
You can also explore how the other members of S9 treat the Tachikomas and react to their increasing humanity - are they scared? Confused? Intrigued? Or just, as I said, more interaction and cuteness between them, Tachikomatic Days made fanfic or some such. Have fun with it!
If you're here for Mindcrack, I'm also
mindcrack_love, if that helps you.Edit, November 2: Even after getting full time power/Internet back, real life is a little crazy, so it may be difficult (if not impossible) for me to update this to a "proper" letter for a few days. For now, relevant linkdumps:
My letter in 2011, which should give some general know-how about myself, as well as some flailing about Ghost in the Shell (SAC-specific and focused on Motoko, which is not the focus this year, though I specified an SAC-only character as my preference. If you want to write one of these Motoko prompts instead of a Tachikoma prompt THAT IS OKAY. If you want to write something else entirely other than Motoko or Tachikomas THAT IS ALSO OKAY. I LOVE THIS MULTIVERSE TOO DAMN MUCH.)
My initial flailings about Math Girls upon first reading it
My name on Reddit, where I flail about Mindcrack (and occasionally other things too) | My name on Youtube, where I comment on Mindcrackers and other LPers (and Vi Hart, if you're writing Math Girls)
Fandom intros I've written: Ghost in the Shell SAC (for Yuletide 2011, including some description on why I think the Tachikomas are awesome), Math Girls, and Mindcrack. Also, have a MC Gamer primer at
mindcracklove.My prompts follow the cut (admittedly mostly stolen from my
fandom_helps and past Yuletide letters), for those coming here from the Dear Yuletide Writer collection post on LJ. Math Girls - Hiroshi Yuki: Tetra
Prompt 1 - basically explain another concept the Math Girls way, in a way that would be fine to give to the Bento Books contest that happened a few months back. If you can do that, that's awesome. It's TOTALLY NOT NECESSARY for my fic request, though. Heck, you probably could write this fandom without a perfect grasp of the math, though the math helps the plot make better sense. >.>
Prompt 2 - tell something in the Math Girls 'verse in the eyes of someone who isn't the narrator (preferably Tetra), and explore the non-math parts of their lives.
I'm a Tetra fan - I love her tenacity and her passion, and her crush on the narrator is ADORABLE. I also share her fascination with foreign languages, though not her skill. Perhaps Tetra offers to help the narrator with English after a semester of him helping her with mathematics? Perhaps she finds herself in a bookstore picking up an original English copy of Gödel, Escher, Bach or The Fractal Geometry of Nature (or whatever other math book carries your fancy; it doesn't even have to be in English, as I don't think the author ever specified what language(s) Tetra studied). GEB of course can lead to a discussion of self reference and recursion; and fractals are indeed awesome (feel free to get inspired by everything Vi Hart has ever done).
But I'm not exclusive at all, and if Tetra doesn't inspire you, that's okay! Miruka is awesome, one part fierce mathematician, one part tsundere, one part normal teenage girl. What possesses her to kick Tetra when they first meet? Does she actually have some feelings for our narrator? What's her relationship with Ay-Ay? And yes, her musical skill and knowledge intrigues me too (again, I share her fascination but not her skill - music, language, and math is a very logical combination!) To play on the GEB theme, perhaps she and Ay-Ay perform a crab canon or a sloth canon? Or to look again towards Vi Hart, what are her thoughts on the science of sound itself? Will she imagine a world where music is structured differently than an octave, much like she imagines a world with only two primes?
I did say that music, language, and math are a pretty logical combination, and that all of them fascinate me. If nothing else I've said above inspires you, how about origami? Origami and its math - whether it be using paper folding as an alternative to straightedge and compass, or the axioms of flat folding, or the intricate planar graphs that make up a crease pattern - all of these are dear to my heart, and anything where the Math Girls characters fumble around with paper would make me squee as well.
No matter where you go with it, as I said, tell me more about these characters, their interests, and their lives beyond math. I'm so excited to hear what you have in store for me. <3
Mindcrack: SuperMCGamer
Purely by even considering this fandom you have made me the happiest of kappa. Anime smiley face! ^_^
Um. Anyway. MC has grown a lot - from a derpy kid who would beg Avidya to become a mod of Reddit Public to a well respected and well known LPer and charity organizer. How did this happen? How did he balance his occasional asocial tendencies and his desire to spread joy and happiness to others? How did he make friends? Answer any or all of these questions and you'll make me very happy.
If you want to go the shippy route, I am an avowed MC/Nebris shipper and exploring their friendship/relationship - the way they sling references at each other on each others' livestreams, their contrasts and protectiveness of each other in CobbleHaters, the craziness surrounding the Death Games, the fact that MC seems to be the only other person capable of navigating Nebris' base - and feel free to look into that. (Or any other relationship, or even none at all. Seriously, up to you!)
Also, I'm the moderator of
mindcracklove. Use that information accordingly. ;) (This does mean that if MC doesn't inspire you for whatever reason you are MORE THAN WELCOME to write whoever you'd like however you'd like. :D)Ghost in the Shell: Tachikoma
I love the Tachikomas to bits. I will be more than happy with Tachikoma-centric cuteness/crack/omg these are badass robots with the personalities of children, or even serious stuff. Things you could tell me about: the end of season 1 and the assertion of their self-sacrifice, or between season 2 and Solid State Society and how the Tachikomas fared floating in the Net after sacrificing their AI satellite to save the world, or even things in Solid State Society like how Motoko *finds* the Tachikomas floating in the Net in her time away from Section 9 and gets them to serve her again, and/or the fates of Max and Musashi (the two named non-blue Tachis), who we never see outside of Motoko's comm-link before she "rejoins Section 9".
You can also explore how the other members of S9 treat the Tachikomas and react to their increasing humanity - are they scared? Confused? Intrigued? Or just, as I said, more interaction and cuteness between them, Tachikomatic Days made fanfic or some such. Have fun with it!