RemixRedux 7 signups are open! (also, babble about my femgenficathon plot bunny)

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RemixRedux 7 signups are open from now until the end of June 6th. Go sign up! I promise it's a lot of fun. Also, the more people sign up (and the more fandoms they sign up in) the better everyone's chances of getting something interesting to write. *grin*

Assignments will go out by June 13th and stories are due by the end of July 12th, which gives you roughly one month to write.

The idea behind RemixRedux is simple: you are assigned a remixee, you pick one of her (or his) completed stories -- WIPs are off limits -- and you retell it the way you would have written it. (Meanwhile, someone else is doing the same to one of your stories.) This rewriting can be as simple as using a different character's POV or as complicated as identifying a main theme and basic plotline -- like, say, "Character A and Character B talk about vengeance and forgiveness, in context of Character A's quest to find the truth behind her brother's death" -- and dropping or changing pretty much everything else.

You aren't allowed to change a story's pairings, but you can foreground or background them as you choose. You must be very judicious if you want to take a story AU. But other than that, it's basically up to you. (If you have questions, I presume you can run a plot bunny past the mods for approval.)

Also, be warned: the matching is only done by fandom. You may end up assigned to a writer whose character tastes, pairing tastes, or general plot tastes really don't match yours. I think this is part of the fun. It's also stressful, because even though I rarely hate characters or pairings, I definitely find some less interesting than watching linoleum peel... but it's good to take on a challenge now and then!

So go sign up. Trust me, the experience is worth it.

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In other ficathon news, I have chosen a story idea for femgenficathon and sketched out a very, very rough outline. I make no guarantees that I won't change my mind before October, but at the moment, the plan is to write the definitive (for me, anyway) backstory about Jadis and her sister in the last days of Charn. See, I've read a few versions of that, and they've never worked for me. Either the writers make Jadis's sister a genuinely good person (which makes no sense to me, since they were both raised as entitled royalty in the same terribly twisted culture -- remember that Charn is an empire built on blood and conquest, on slavery, paranoia, utter subjugation, might-makes-right, and quite possibly human sacrifice) or they leave the sister as a cipher and focus only on Jadis.

I would like to point out that the river of Charn ran red for three days during that last battle, and that the civil war had apparently raged for quite some time before that. I am convinced that even if Jadis had not spoken the Deplorable Word -- if her sister had killed her immediately instead of taking a moment to boast of her military victory -- the world would still have taken generations to recover, and might have sunk into anarchy and plague and ended without magic to help its death along. It took both those women to destroy their world. Jadis made the final choice, but I am willing to bet her sister might have done the exact same thing if she had been the magician and Jadis the warrior.

Anyway, I want to write about trust and betrayal, and death, and torture, and war, and black magic, and how people can twist themselves into believing horrific actions are not only necessary but right.

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They really, really do. The Magician's Nephew is a very silly book in some ways, but the two chapters in Charn made a strong impression on me -- Lewis manages to create the impression of a vast, weighty history with only a few quick details, and I always wanted to know more about that world, and how it flourished for generations under its dying sun.