Unconventionyule

[mimihylea]

Unconventionyule is a mini-challenge to help people who like unconventional formats find one another's requests, whether that’s poetry, epistolary, spreadsheets, social media, puzzles, or other unusual mediums. Please remember that works in the main collection must still be at least 1000 words, but shorter works can be submitted to the Madness collection!

To participate, simply copy-paste the following into a comment:
AO3 Name:
Letter Link:
Requested Fandoms:
Format(s): (e.g. epistolary, poetry, spreadsheets, social media)
(Optional) Prompts:

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[scribefindegil]

AO3 Name: scribefindegil
Letter Link: https://scribefindegil.dreamwidth.org/343.html
Requested Fandoms: Ancillary Trilogy, The Raven Tower, The Library of Babel , Rivers of London
Format(s): poetry/filk, in-universe documents, articles, codes/puzzles, interesting use of paratext
(Optional) Prompts: I loooove unusual formats, so would be really excited to get anything in this vein, but here are some specific ideas!
The Library of Babel: I think this has the most possibilities for unconventional stories out of my requested fandoms. The original short story is framed as an in-universe document, and I'd love to see some other perspectives: the journal of a librarian, the manifesto of a specific philosophical sect, poetry about the Library (I feel like fixed forms with repeats like villanelles, senstinas, and ballades are especially suitable but would love anything), letters between travelers who occasionally pass through the same hex . . .
In addition, there is an online version of the Library of Babel where you can search for text strings and find their location in the Library, so it's possible to direct someone to a page with a specific message. Would love to have this incorporated into all or part of a fic. Is it a message from a librarian? From the Library itself? Something else? I've used this site to send messages before and find the process of navigating to wall, book and page very eerie and immersive. Everything you could possibly say is already in the Library, somewhere. What books will you point me to?
Ancillary Trilogy: Lots of opportunities for in-universe documents and messages between characters. The books already do some interesting things with point of view, and this could be explored further: what is the point of view of a ship without ancillaries like? How about a station? Part of the translation conceit of the books is that poetry (primarily song lyrics, which the main character collects) are rendered as if they were somewhat stilted literal translations. It can be fun to take a famous song or poem and create the 'literal-translation-from-Radchaai' version, and I'd love to see this either as an integrated part of a fic or as a lyric title.
The Raven Tower: Folklore, in-universe texts about gods (especially if this doesn't match up exactly with what we know about gods from the narration), stories within stories, folk/filk ballads.