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[anthusiasm]

Guess what I finally made an author thread!

General Writing Style Notes

1. I strongly prefer character-and-relationship-based boxes to setting-based boxes.

2. If we’re going to play around with worldbuilding I prefer explorations of cultural worldbuilding stuff to, like, “let’s exploit the fuck out of this magic system!” (The latter is interesting to read sometimes but I just do not have it in me to write it).

3. In the same vein: I don’t tend to like playing with settings/magic systems with a lot of fiddly bits that are difficult to keep track of, because I will probably not be able to keep track of them and that will make me feel dumb.

4. I am the flakiest person alive and also constantly guilty about it, so writing with me will probably entail (1) me disappearing for weeks on end and (2) me apologizing profusely for disappearing for weeks on end.

5. This is because glowfic kind of scares me! My writing process involves a lot of editing and fine-tuning (if I were a daeva I’d be an angel), and I get nervous when I can’t go back and change things.

6. I will probably need someone else to be the world unless we’re playing in a setting I have a particular obsession with (example: the Disney channel original movie Descendants).

7. Actually you know what if we’re doing Descendants I insist on being the world.

Gilmore Girls

Disclaimer: I’m only halfway through season five

I’m basically willing to RP anyone from Gilmore Girls (caveat being that, as I said above, I’m only about halfway through season five). The degree to which I’m playing fast and loose with canon characterization is up to the judgment of the reader. A note: I have characters mentally divided between “characters who are in a drama” and “characters who are in a comedy” and, with some exceptions, I’m not going to do anything particularly grimdark with any of the comedy characters. Basically: I’m not putting Sookie in the Hunger Games.

The Girls Themselves, aka Emily, Lorelei, and Rory

Emily:
--manipulative Society Lady
--tends to wield Traditionally Feminine forms of power (social manipulation, charitable organizations, etc).
--deeply vulnerable beneath her steely exterior
--Well-intentioned but terrible parent, fraught relationship with daughter
--Pins all her expectations, hopes, and dreams on her granddaughter (from my mental Rory: it’s fine :) :) :) )
--Bad Decision Emily happens when she prioritizes The Way Things Ought To Be over, like, the actual needs and desires of the people she loves

Lorelei:
--Emily’s only daughter, which means there are Standards that she is expected to meet and decidedly can’t/won’t.
--Baseline plot arc: gets pregnant at sixteen, refuses to marry the father, runs away from home, makes a life for herself in quirky small town.
--Genuinely delighted by things like snow and bad TV/movies and small-town rituals and tacky decorations.
--Has Secret Self-Hatred
--Aggressively cheerful, constantly cracks jokes even when she’s sad.
--Loves her daughter very very much and lives vicariously through her to an extent (from my mental Rory: IT’S FINE :) :) : ) :) :) :) )
--Bad Decision Lorelei happens when her sad feels are too intense for her to process or when she feels the need to rebel against her parents/society

Rory
--Lorelei’s daughter
--Good-hearted and bookish
--Perennial straight man (in the comedy sense; she’s a bisexual woman)
--Because of all the pressure and expectations she has to deal with (two grandparents pinning all their hopes and dreams for a legacy they can be proud of on her, a mother who treats her like the center of the universe and also and lives vicariously through her, and an entire Quirky Small Town watching her every move and waiting for her to do something that’ll set the gossip mills a-turning) (mental Rory: IT’S! FINE! :)! :)! :)! :)! :)! :)! ) she is simultaneously extremely self-centered and terrified of screwing up.
--Bad Decision Rory happens when Rory is too self-absorbed to understand the potential consequences of her actions, or when her desire to be a protagonist overwhelms her ever-present guilt

The Love Interests

Luke Danes:
--Hufflepuff and angry about it
--So bad at feelings he pined for Lorelei for years and didn’t notice
--Has a thing where he wants to Help and Fix people
--Easily flustered, grumpy

Paris Gellar:
--Intense, driven, ambitious, will destroy anyone and anything that gets in her way
--Blunt and bad at people
--Does not care about your feelings
--(Cares about Rory’s feelings though)
--I am not satisfied with this description of Paris and will probably edit this later

Richard Gilmore:
--Like his wife, very invested in The Way Things Ought To Be
--Not About all the drama that happens though
--Just let him read his newspaper in peace

Dean Forester:
--A simple guy with simple needs and a nice face
--Yells too much

Jess Mariano:
--Likes to read
--Thinks he’s better than everyone because he reads and wears leather jackets
--Further characterization will probably happen once I read that one fanfic about trans girl Jess

Logan Huntzberger:
--Asshole
--But a complex asshole?
--Further characterization will happen once I finish the series

[Again, not satisfied with the descriptions of any of the boyfriends, will probably edit later]

Lane Kim
--Not technically a love interest (her crush on Rory is unrequited) but I didn’t want to make a third category
--She rebels against her conservative mother by secretly hiding rock CDs in her floorboards and coming up with convoluted schemes to go on secret dates and I think that tells you most of what you need to know about her
--Total sweetheart


Fortunomancy

Lutan:
--Is Kind the way rationalfic protagonists are Smart but doesn’t have the Niceness Aesthetic
--Has a weird combination of being good at reading people and bad at etiquette/social norms
--Cares a lot about Masculinity or universe-equivalent, but is too queer/feelings-y to fulfill the Masculine Ideal and still be happy
--Starts out socially conservative but tends to get rid of the parts of that that hurt people
--Template attractor: only appears attached to some sort of Magical Destiny

Lady Clarissa:
--Lives in misogynistic (or universe equivalent) societies and hardcore internalizes it
--Brilliant and good at magic but deeply insecure
--Bad at social skills, likes rigid etiquette/social rules because they provide scripts
--Has a more charismatic and arrogant but equally brilliant male twin who is injured in some kind of magic accident, blames herself
--Ends up in an abusive marriage, also blames herself for that
--Is secretly a ball of pent-up rage which she only expresses in socially appropriate ways
--Has a thing about Self-Sufficiency and highly values honesty once she leaves her husband

Souzan:
--Daughter of a powerful crime lord, does hitwoman stuff
--Strongly believes that it’s necessary to go outside the law to achieve justice
--Strictly adheres to a personal code of conduct despite her disregard for the law (she’ll kill cops but not civilians, she won’t sleep with anyone who might feel coerced, etc)
--Deeply loyal (and trusting almost to a fault), brutally honest

Nahouk:
--Born a slave-or-societal-equivalent
--Subjected to painful and traumatic mind control because of rebelliousness
--Reticent and suspicious due to tragic backstory
--Secretly a Magical Prodigy
--Would probably be a good spy or politician if he weren’t so invested in Fucking Shit Up

Katsu:
--Comes from a highly privileged background
--Transitions from being a socially awkward kid whose only friends are books to an attractive, talkative socialite
--Another Magical Prodigy but, unlike Nahouk and Lady Clarissa, her talents are encouraged (although she does have a template attractor for having an affinity for a Forbidden or Socially Stigmatized type of magic, which she practices in secret)
--Self-centered, selfish, and stubborn, which can be both negative (it’s very hard to convince her that she’s wrong about something) and positive (the people she cares about are hers and no one gets to fuck with her stuff)

Other miscellaneous templates that I’m not going into detail about because that would be a ridiculous amount of characters:
--Traumatized Art Siblings (currently featured in this semi-abandoned sandbox with Marri https://glowfic.com/posts/57)
--The valkyries (currently featured in this probably-permanently-abandoned sandbox with Moriwen https://glowfic.com/posts/70)
--Alicorn has suggested that I template the cast of Galavant so if anyone’s interested in those characters I’m willing to take a stab at that (I’ve written fanfic about some of them here http://archiveofourown.org/works/8892082)

Incomplete list of settings I’m interested in:

Eclipse
Harry Potter
Divergent
Disney Descendants (I might make a setting post for this at some point)
Redwall
The Hunger Games
Various fairy tales
Shadopolis 2.0?

[Kappa]

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[Alicorn]

I wanna do things! All your characters seem neat! Eclipse is on that list!

[anthusiasm]

Yes definitely we should do things! PM me!