The Aurors Prompt-Fest!!

[starlady]

First: The Aurors Prompt-Fest is open for signups and prompts!!

Are you fan of cop dramas on TV? Is Mad-Eye Moody one of your favorite Harry Potter characters? Ever wish the series had chucked Quidditch in favor of more Defense Against the Dark Arts?

Then you would like The Aurors, the TV show that, alas, never existed. Except here, in fanfic form! This is a prompt meme inspired by that fan "trailer," for readers and writers who would love to see a grittier, more adult Harry Potter, focused on the men and women (and possibly some non-humans, too) who defend both the wizarding and Muggle worlds against evil magic.

Signups are open now; close on December 8th at 8 p.m. EST; stories are due by the same time on January 8th, and will be opened for reading on the 9th. They'll be anonymous to begin with; author reveal will follow a week later.

swan_tower and I are your hosts. Please leave prompts if you have them, sign up if you see any that tickle your fancy, and spread the word!

Comments

[swan-tower.livejournal.com]

Starlady knows (because I've been picking her brain about it <g>) that I'm dealing with that "different view of reality" thing in a Japanese context, for an urban fantasy proposal. WASP U.S./British assumptions (because 99% of the urban fantasy I've seen is set in one of those two countries -- mostly the U.S.) for what people think of as "real" and what they think of as "magic" are not universal by a long shot, and that changes the whole genre landscape.

[recessional]

Yeah, it's something I'm much less squidgy about touching in my own original stuff; it helps that, frankly, my view of reality is not based on those WASP US/Brit assumptions. My position isn't that of a FN reader immersed in FN culture, but in some ways it's closer to it*. (This DOES make a huge chunk of fantasy really aggravating and insulting to me, as it happens - if I bothered to rant about every time a story I read commits viewpoint!fail, my journal might be nothing but.)

With HP, I'm stuck with the assumptions of canon. And what's what I mean when I say I'm not sure I could respectfully integrate them (which in turn is different from saying I'm not sure if they COULD be respectfully integrated - I'm just such an outsider, it makes me nervous.)

(Also, that proposal sounds awesome.)

*that is, non-standard-WASP-Christian, non-monotheistic, non-easily-divided-into-"gods"-and-other-things etc etc viewpoint. Reading modern fantasy, especially modern urban fantasy, has not been a rewarding experience for me.

[swan-tower.livejournal.com]

. . . dammit, now you have me wondering if I can find a way to do a story about something Mesoamerican (which is the New World region I know the best, in terms of indigenous beliefs). But I actually don't know the modern, mainstream culture of Mexico or Guatemala very well at all. >_<

[recessional]

Bwahaha. Sorry. I do that. *offers tea in apology*