1. The epic story of how the colonization of America was affected by the existence of magic -- including things like the relationship of Native American wizards to Native American Muggles (because I'm convinced the international statute of secrecy was a European and Middle Eastern thing extended to the rest of the world by colonial fiat, not something organic to the Americas); why European wizards felt a need to emigrate (were they Muggle-born? how did this affect their social organization?); issues with Muggle-born slave wizards and witches; how to make magical philosophies from Europe, the Americas, Africa, and Asia mesh in a useful system of education; etc. I'm not writing this because I have no plot and no characters, and the idea requires so much historical research and racial/cultural sensitivity that it has at least a 90% chance of blowing up in its author's face. But oh, I want to read it!
2. An epic Naruto story wherein Sakura's family, though still civilians, have a connection to some big complicated plot that will overturn the entire ninja world. She's torn between family loyalty (saving her parents, and also thinking that the civilian revolution may have a point) and loyalty to the ninja system and her teammates and friends, we get to learn about her family background and the civilian half of Konoha, Sakura gets to go undercover as a spy among her cousins and her family's sponsors, and for once she gets to be the star of the story and the boys are playing support to her traumas and choices. ...Actually, if I ever think of a reasonable plot, I may write that myself, but so far, I have nothing. So I wish someone else would think of the plot and write it for me. :-)
3. The story where instead of Peter, Susan, Edmund, and Lucy Pevensie, we have Mary, Stephen, Edith, and Laurence Pevensie. Same basic character traits as expressed via opposite genders and constrained and influenced by the expected roles of those genders in 1930s-1940s England. Laurie finds a way into Narnia; Edith follows him later and meets the White Witch. Eventually all four end up going through the wardrobe, and things change, because Edith won't react the same way Edmund did, nor for the same reasons. And some of Lewis's plot contrivances won't work, because even if Mary is the leader and a warrior, Stephen wouldn't go off with Laurie and abandon his sister the way Susan is so easily absent from the battle. So maybe Edith goes to the Stone Table instead, and watches Aslan's sacrifice as Edmund never did. You see? I want to follow the implications all the way through HHB, where it's Stephen and Edith in Tashbaan instead of Susan and Edmund, and just watch the changes. It would be fascinating. It would also be a very delicate dance, and I don't have the time or the patience to do the idea justice. But I'd read it in a heartbeat.
4. On a lighter note, I want a White Collar/Chuck crossover where Bryce Larkin and Neal Caffrey were identical twin orphans separated shortly after birth and adopted by different families. Bryce is not, in fact, dead, and somehow they get tangled in the same case from different angles, and hijinks and character development occur and, I dunno, stuff. I'm not writing that because I don't have anything like a good enough grasp on either canon.
5. And on a self-indulgent note, a continuation of More Subtle Than Any Beast of the Field, because I love Slytherin!Harry stories but have yet to find one (besides "Laocoon's Children") that makes only the necessary and logical changes without veering too dark, or too romancy, or otherwise falling too far away from Rowling's tone -- I don't want somebody else's idea of what the wizarding world ought to be like. I want to see what Harry in Slytherin would do to Rowling's world as shown in her books. And I also want Ginny to play a bigger role in the series from the word go, because sidelining her in the first four books made her importance later on feel imbalanced and awkward in all kinds of ways. I'm not writing this because the last thing I need is a 7-book WIP series hanging around my neck like an albatross.
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Date: 2010-08-19 03:54 am (UTC)2. An epic Naruto story wherein Sakura's family, though still civilians, have a connection to some big complicated plot that will overturn the entire ninja world. She's torn between family loyalty (saving her parents, and also thinking that the civilian revolution may have a point) and loyalty to the ninja system and her teammates and friends, we get to learn about her family background and the civilian half of Konoha, Sakura gets to go undercover as a spy among her cousins and her family's sponsors, and for once she gets to be the star of the story and the boys are playing support to her traumas and choices. ...Actually, if I ever think of a reasonable plot, I may write that myself, but so far, I have nothing. So I wish someone else would think of the plot and write it for me. :-)
3. The story where instead of Peter, Susan, Edmund, and Lucy Pevensie, we have Mary, Stephen, Edith, and Laurence Pevensie. Same basic character traits as expressed via opposite genders and constrained and influenced by the expected roles of those genders in 1930s-1940s England. Laurie finds a way into Narnia; Edith follows him later and meets the White Witch. Eventually all four end up going through the wardrobe, and things change, because Edith won't react the same way Edmund did, nor for the same reasons. And some of Lewis's plot contrivances won't work, because even if Mary is the leader and a warrior, Stephen wouldn't go off with Laurie and abandon his sister the way Susan is so easily absent from the battle. So maybe Edith goes to the Stone Table instead, and watches Aslan's sacrifice as Edmund never did. You see? I want to follow the implications all the way through HHB, where it's Stephen and Edith in Tashbaan instead of Susan and Edmund, and just watch the changes. It would be fascinating. It would also be a very delicate dance, and I don't have the time or the patience to do the idea justice. But I'd read it in a heartbeat.
4. On a lighter note, I want a White Collar/Chuck crossover where Bryce Larkin and Neal Caffrey were identical twin orphans separated shortly after birth and adopted by different families. Bryce is not, in fact, dead, and somehow they get tangled in the same case from different angles, and hijinks and character development occur and, I dunno, stuff. I'm not writing that because I don't have anything like a good enough grasp on either canon.
5. And on a self-indulgent note, a continuation of More Subtle Than Any Beast of the Field, because I love Slytherin!Harry stories but have yet to find one (besides "Laocoon's Children") that makes only the necessary and logical changes without veering too dark, or too romancy, or otherwise falling too far away from Rowling's tone -- I don't want somebody else's idea of what the wizarding world ought to be like. I want to see what Harry in Slytherin would do to Rowling's world as shown in her books. And I also want Ginny to play a bigger role in the series from the word go, because sidelining her in the first four books made her importance later on feel imbalanced and awkward in all kinds of ways. I'm not writing this because the last thing I need is a 7-book WIP series hanging around my neck like an albatross.