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So I was not going to post a Dear Doer of Darkness letter, because I put tons of information into my sign-up already, but then I remembered how much I enjoy reading other people's Dear Author letters and decided to do it after all!

SO HEY KALEIDOSCOPE AUTHOR/ARTIST/VIDDER,

First of all: I pre-emptively love you! From this very moment, I love you! You are great! I am incredibly excited to see whatever it is that you are going to put in my eyes and/or ears.

That is the most important part; everything else I'm going to say is just guidelines or suggestions, basically. In general -- and I think these are all pretty relevant to all my requests - I love team-building, and found families, and women being friends, and romantic partners who respect each other, and character development, society-building, especially when it involves people being responsible about government and politics and the world they live in.

I am definitely not opposed to darkness and serious themes, but I also love people having senses of humor, which is something that plays out in all these canons too!

7 Seeds
What I said in sign-ups:

I would love pretty much anything for this fandom! But I know that is unhelpful, so here are a few ideas:

- I love how Team Summer B (TEAM ADORABLE FAILBOATS) have become such a functional group and how they manage to have fun with life; anything about their team dynamics would be great. Natsu and her arc of growing into herself as a person is one of my favorites, but . . . I really love all of them . . . I'M SORRY THIS IS HARD

- I am very curious about how things are going in the Team Summer A/Spring/Autumn village now! Haru and Koruri are adorable and I would be happy to see anything with them; I also love Ban and find him hilarious; I also also really love Ran and Nijiko (and I totally ship them, although you don't have to. But amoral architect lesbians!) But in general stuff about rebuilding society makes me very happy, and the village seems the place at the moment where that's most likely to happen.

- anything focused on any of the ladyfriendships! Ran and Nijiko I already mentioned, but also Natsu and Matsuri, Hana and Fujiko and Chisa, Koruri and team friendship bracelet (*sob*)...

I don't have much to what I already said, but if it helps, looking at my Yumi Tamura tag will unearth a giant pile of 7 Seeds feelings which may give you more inspiration!

Capital Scandal

What I said in sign-ups:

I love everyone in this show and would be really happy to receive fanwork featuring any of them, but Cha Song Joo is well in the running for favorite character of all time and I would be especially, incredibly thrilled to receive either a fic or a vid that focused on her - her relationship with Lee Su Hyun hits all my id-buttons like crazy, but I also really love her close friendship and mentoring of Na Yeo Kyeung and Young Ran, her teamwork with poor long-suffering Geun Duk, and her hilarious friendship with platonic soulmate Woo Wan. Any and all of the above! Or none of the above, for that matter, since Cha Song Joo by herself is just as awesome.

(...I would also welcome AUs/contorted contrivances/denial logic for "she totally isn't dead," if you wanted to go that way. Just saying.)

Again, don't think I've got much more to say here, except that I LOVE CHA SONG JOO but also that there just needs to be more Capital Scandal fanworks in the world, in general, always and forever.

Sungkyunkwan Scandal

What I said in sign-ups:

Okay, I actually do have a very specific request for this fandom: what I would really love is post-canon fic about Cho Seon's life as a SUPERHERO VIGILANTE PAMPHLETEER. In my heart, Hyo Eun becomes her sidekick (or maybe . . . girlfriend?) and gets the excitement and adventure she always wanted. And there can be cameos from everyone else post-canon too! I am all about that. (Moon Jae Shin being hilariously unsure whether he wants to stop her, or mentor her and teach her how to have better handwriting!) But I am especially all about Cho Seon Being Awesome, Hyo Eun Being Awesome Too an amazing extra bonus.

However if this does not float your boat I would ALSO love to receive any postcanon fic about Yoon Hee's postcanon life as a awesome crossdressing scholar and her academic rival husband, so please feel free to run with that as well and I will be equally delighted!

Now, don't get me wrong, I love everybody in SKKS and would be happy to get fic about any of them. But I asked for Cho Seon because I feel like her story is really just beginning, and I would like to see more of it! And Hyo Eun's, too -- one of the things I really liked about the show is that Hyo Eun was never demonized being silly and romantic and in love with the wrong person. She has a ton of room for growth, and I want her story, too.

Dragon of the Lost Sea

What I said in sign-ups:

I have been wishing for some kind of fanwork for these books for almost as long as I can remember, so anything will make me incredibly happy. If you'd like some more specific prompts, then for fic, I'd love to see anything that deals with the emotional and political complications as Shimmer, Thorn and Indigo rebuild postcanon. But I would also love to get a close examination at Civet at any time during canon, and anything in Monkey's voice is always excellent too! OR ANYTHING THAT INSPIRES YOU. As far as art or fanmixes go, man, pretty much anything would make me happy. I realize that is unhelpful, but it's true!

I keep asking for this in Yuletides and Kaleidoscopes every year and I am going to KEEP ASKING FOR IT until I get it! Because these books are brilliant -- they hit all my found-family buttons, and all my unapologetically-cranky-girls buttons, and all my rebuilding-yourself-from-the-ground-up buttons. And while I'm not much of a love triangle person generally, it turns out I am totally okay with it when the complicated emotional triangle is between a boy, a girl and the dragon they are both in love with?! BUT ALSO MONKEY. BUT ALSO CIVET. Too many awesome characters, too little time!

Twelve Kingdoms

What I said in sign-ups:

I love almost everything about Twelve Kingdoms, but Yoko is hands-down my favorite thing about it - character growth is a huge thing for me, and I love that her biggest flaw is that she always wants to try to please everyone, that this is recognized as a flaw, and how hard she works to overcome it and grows into a stronger person. I also love how important responsibility is in these books, and how everything about the magically-destined-king-of-a-magical-land trope is complicated and not at all easy. So I would love to see her ruling, and coping with the problems of government, and being an amazing king! If you decide to go the Yoko/Rakushun route, I will be thrilled - I very rarely see fic for them (MYSTERIOUSLY, what fandom there is for this series seems to prefer the stoic blond bishounen or the suave playboy king to the cheery giant were-rat! PUZZLING), and I always love seeing relationships that grow out of genuine respect and trust and encouragement. I also really love that Yoko gets female friends her own age, and how Suzu and Shoukei and Yoko all parallel each other in their character development - so anything about these three girls just being teenaged friends, in the aftermath of all the serious events of the series, would make me very happy. (For the record, I emphatically do not ship Yoko/Keiki, given the backstory; I emphatically do ship Keiki/hilarious social incompetence.)

Man, I wrote a book here about my YOKO FEELINGS, didn't I? But if you want an even longer book about YOKO FEELINGS then you can check out my Fuyumi Ono tag.

And . . . I think that's it! HAVE FUN, awesome doer of darkness. I am so excited to see what you come up with!

(And if you haven't signed up for Kaleidoscope yet, there are still two days left in which to do so. :D)