Fandom & Character(s): Moths - Ouida | Vere Herbert, Raphael de Corrèze | fandom promo post & free on Google books Request details: This novel was published in 1880 and takes place contemporaneously (the clearest indication of setting is that some characters mourn the passing of the Second Empire). It deals with ~scandalous~ issues like prostitution, divorce, and adultery and tries (not very coherently) to look at politics and class as well. It is delicious. I'd really love something that takes seriously Vere's penchant for maths; in the opening scene, her mother derisively refers to her as "a Girton guy". Incorporating women's education into a post-canon story would be great! In a different direction, something about political unrest and different varieties of affiliation would be very cool -- there are the Nihilists being sent off to Siberia who arouse Vere's sympathy while in Russia; one character says of Corrèze that "he might be a Communist"; yet other passages compare Vere's nobility and grace to now-obsolete models like those sent to the guillotine(!!!) and Elizabeth of Hungary. (I said it was incoherent :D) A story about crusading Corrèze and Vere, working for mass liberation now that Vere is free, would be *amazing*.
Fandom & Character(s): POKEMON Detective Pikachu | Tim Goodman & Detective Pikachu Request details: A historical AU would be delightful -- I'm most conversant with and interested in postwar US cultural history; Anglophone 19th century history; and the Bolshevik/early Soviet period. Solving mysteries and befriending Pokemon in any of those settings would blow my mind.
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Fandom & Character(s): Moths - Ouida | Vere Herbert, Raphael de Corrèze | fandom promo post & free on Google books
Request details: This novel was published in 1880 and takes place contemporaneously (the clearest indication of setting is that some characters mourn the passing of the Second Empire). It deals with ~scandalous~ issues like prostitution, divorce, and adultery and tries (not very coherently) to look at politics and class as well. It is delicious. I'd really love something that takes seriously Vere's penchant for maths; in the opening scene, her mother derisively refers to her as "a Girton guy". Incorporating women's education into a post-canon story would be great! In a different direction, something about political unrest and different varieties of affiliation would be very cool -- there are the Nihilists being sent off to Siberia who arouse Vere's sympathy while in Russia; one character says of Corrèze that "he might be a Communist"; yet other passages compare Vere's nobility and grace to now-obsolete models like those sent to the guillotine(!!!) and Elizabeth of Hungary. (I said it was incoherent :D) A story about crusading Corrèze and Vere, working for mass liberation now that Vere is free, would be *amazing*.
Fandom & Character(s): POKEMON Detective Pikachu | Tim Goodman & Detective Pikachu
Request details: A historical AU would be delightful -- I'm most conversant with and interested in postwar US cultural history; Anglophone 19th century history; and the Bolshevik/early Soviet period. Solving mysteries and befriending Pokemon in any of those settings would blow my mind.