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[seekingferret]

Dear fic_corner Author,

Thanks for writing a story for me. I am not a very demanding recipient, since if I were, my demands would be ridiculous and impossible. Have fun, write a story you enjoy, and we'll all be fine. Here's some prompts as suggestions in case you want them, feel free to disregard entirely.

Cyber.kdz - Bruce Balan

Tereza (Cyber.kdz)
Sanjeev (Cyber.kdz)

I love Sanj and Tz's friendship, how Tereza is sort of Sanjeev's better self, and how Tereza admires Sanjeev for his integrity and casual brilliance. But really, there's a lot I love about the Cyber.kdz series and not a lot that I dislike. Fundamentally the series is about tech as this great equalizer of culture and class and credo, as well as about the way the internet was carving out a new culture and the cyber.kdz determination that that new culture play by appropriate rules of openness and respect and fairness- netiquette, in a word.

We live in the world now of wikileaks and Aaron Swartz, of internet gambling and Stuxnet and Anonymous, and Cyber.kdz kind of quietly anticipated all of it, and vowed to work toward a different future anyway, united by the power of friendship.


The Grounding of Group Six - Julian F. Thompson

Ha... This story is great on so many levels. What I would really love, I think, is something super-fluffy and sentimental that we would then point people to and say "I love this story, and you don't need to know canon to get it." And they would read it and have the horribly distorted idea that Grounding is just a book about teenagers who went to private school together. That would make me laugh. Even better, if you come up with some fakeout idea about what 'grounding' is.

But that's mostly me being silly. I would also like non-trolly stories about the characters and their relationships and how they continue to be beautiful and broken together.


Kid-TV series - Barbara Adams

Minnie O'Reilly

I think so much of what makes Minnie interesting in these books is that she is not quite a teenager, which gives her perspective on teenage life a lot of its underlying dramatic irony. I would like to see Minnie as a teenager, struggling with stupid crushes and rivalries with friends and AP bio homework, and still rocking out Kid-TV.


The View from Saturday - E. L. Konigsburg

I am a quiz bowl nerd. If you are, too, I would greatly enjoy a VFS fic that replaced Konigsberg's whimsical version of quiz bowl with something more realistic. The Souls at NAQT! The Souls vs. the Great Auk (Oh man, Noah discovering Great Auk jokes is the best idea I've ever had)! The Souls bomb a TRASH tournament!

If you are not a quiz bowl nerd, just tell me another story about the Souls and the way they support each other against life. I would particularly enjoy a story that plays on the religious backgrounds of the characters.

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[dragonfly]

since if I were, my demands would be ridiculous and impossible

LOL. May I steal this for future Dear Writer letters?

[seekingferret]

Steal away.