Kappa's Author Thread

[Kappa]

All the cool kids are doing it.

My Characters

• List of my characters and templates on the Glowfic Constellation (some characters not pictured)
• Collection of all my dreamwidth journals (complete as far as I know)
• Explanations of my dreamwidth usernames (some usernames not pictured)

Misc Setting Descriptions

• Viath (lizards, Tamadh)
• Inner Worlds
• Gruesome Magical Girls
• Miresta (Shift-elements thing)
• 3x7 (tentatively Gateway, aka the gay stargate)
• Kingdoms of Night and Day
• taieli
• Aetherline (fractal planets thing)
• Mysterious (lindworm thing)
• Nightmare (mara thing)
• Damanisenna (not-wasteland thing)
• Mareth (reified Corruption of Champions)
• Kaon (Practical Demonology)
• Downside
• Fantasy Life (Slut Life retake) (might need better setting name)
• alchemic metals thing (needs setting name)
• dyson sphere with demons thing (needs setting name)

Settings with Barrayar-alikes

• Imbria (Reified Spellweaver) (Faessaya)
• Sile (Reified Sims) (unnamed nation)
• Rythe (Fair Folk/not-fae thing) (Haela)
• Nuime (soul artifacts thing) (Nuime)
• Kitaloei (ThanksJam) (Kitaloei)
• Threefold (elements thing) (Eianvar)
• Suranse (clam planet) (Aluvanna)
• skeleton ezar thing (Ashevar)
• Seraine (Little Mermaid retake) (Seraine)

Serg-Focused Settings

• Nenassa (Arlin Tenairakai's world)
• Spellfray (Sleeping Beauty retake; Siran Tavaryse's world)
• Godstar (YA dystopia thing; Tael Ismani's world)
• Curse (Beauty and the Beast retake; Tarakova Imerin's world)
• Swansong (Swan Lake retake; Serik Tanaikon's world)
• Skygarden (Solekaran's world)
• Landkeeper (Imar Taokano's world) (thread incomplete)
• victorian vampires thing (needs setting name; Tasfal's world)
• world ruled by vampires (needs setting name)
• ascensions thing (needs setting name)
• Underhill (hollow earth thing, might need better setting name; Takireo's world)
• Greatsoul (various mythical creatures thing, might need better setting name; Zekanare's world)
• Rahne (seasons thing; Tazirae's world)
• the thing with rhythm-based magic (needs setting name)
• atlantis thing (needs setting name)

Misc settings that still need worldbuilding threads

• Vivaria (Terraria retake)
• Reified Gemcraft (needs setting name)
• wishcoins retake (needs setting name)
• video game afterlife thing (needs setting name)
• berserker/mantles thing (needs setting name)
• frog people thing (needs setting name)
• reified Submerged (needs setting name)
• noble furries thing (needs setting name)
• weird fucktopia (needs setting name)

Half-baked setting notions that never went anywhere

• Thirteen (pantheon thing, may be renamed)
• weird gods thing
• witches thing

Things I Want To Glowfic (this list is going to be incomplete and out of date forever, but might still be useful)

• The Waves Arisen, a Naruto fanfic - requires someone who knows the setting, because I sure don't
• Fullmetal Alchemist with Vorkosigans as Elrics - requires someone who knows the setting better than I do
• Garth Nix's Old Kingdom series
• Nenassa
• fucking Psychonauts oh my god
• Imbria
• Sunshine by Robin McKinley
• something with the StevenChainsaw template, especially the Sunny edition

[Bluelantern]

Well the traditional question for this thread is sorting the hogwarts houses your characters got in, but that would take a while...

[Kappa]

I will tell you only that Arals Go To Durmstrang.

[Bluelantern]

I will tell you only that Arals Go To Durmstrang.

That must have been a weird day for the sorting hat xD

Cordelias go to Hogwarts... right?

[Kappa]

The sorting hat did not sort him, because he went to Durmstrang.

Cordelias might be Muggles. They probably aren't British either way.

[Kappa]

Updated list of things I want to glowfic; added Viath worldbuilding thread.

[Timepoof]

I would also like a Suranse reference, should I make the thread (maybe even collect the existing stuff?) to provide a trivial impetus?

[Kappa]

No, I need to be the one who makes the thread because that way I'll be able to edit the first post. But thank you for the thought. XD

[Unbitwise]

Would you care to say more about “the fae-like creatures that need to participate in narratives to survive”?

[Kappa]

So, the not-fae!

They might deserve their own worldbuilding thread, but here's the shortish version:

There is a species(? I'm not sure how they reproduce) of eldritch beings with powerful magic. They have a fae-like aesthetic but I don't want to call them fae or anything that sounds like fae so they've been working-titled "not-fae".

They need a specific kind of attention from human or humanlike minds in order to survive; "need to participate in narratives" is one possible summary of what kind. Another way of putting it would be: they need humanlike minds to parse their actions (or mostly-accurate descriptions of their actions) as a narrative and find that narrative emotionally compelling on its own merits. Analogous forms of attention from other not-fae don't work. Otherwise-appropriate forms of attention from humans being mind-controlled into having the right reactions don't work.

Also, they really, really don't understand humans. They have an incredibly hard time figuring out how we tick.

All together, this leads to... interesting... sets of strategies.

Somewhere on the planet where not-fae live, there is a region where the local not-fae are divided into a Good team and an Evil team and locked in an eternal struggle which is 100% a show for the benefit of local humans. They don't kill humans much if they can avoid it (killing humans is Very Bad because it means fewer humans which means less attention to go around), but the Evil team does do things construed to be Evil. It wouldn't be as emotionally compelling if they didn't.

Somewhere else on that planet, there is a region where the local humans live in paradise, all their needs provided for by magic, with broad-strokes emotional manipulation encouraging them to be generally happy with their lives - the not-fae don't understand people well enough to do anything finesse-y, but they can manage "make everyone here more contented than they would have been otherwise" - and the local not-fae meddle incessantly in their social drama and sustain themselves on the resulting gossip.

I haven't pinned down their magic system completely, but I think they can do illusions and matter manipulation and assorted other powerful stuff, and one thing they can definitely do is personally appear in any physical form they choose.