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Dear Unsent letters writer,
Mar. 7th, 2021 09:47 pmthank you for writing for me and offering one of my fandoms.
I got extremely excited as soon as I found out about this exchange: letters fascinate me in so many ways.
I love long, deep messages sent on messaging apps in comparison with the usual brief and fast chatting more common these days, as I love long and sparse exchanges of email. Internet made communication really fast, but I think there's more to it, I think that taking a little bit of time to order our thoughts down before expressing them can give them a whole new depth. I also love traditional letters, the way this kind of correspondence is forcefully slow, but also the physical aspect of it, the charm of picking a specific letter paper that would reflect the content, and also the ink. And then there's one more thing, that's generally included in "slow mail", but that has its own peculiar features: postcards. Postcards are slow mail indeed, but they are also so different from letters: while the content of letter is concealed by an envelope, protected from outer eyes, postcards are open, visible for everyone to see and read, and they are bound to be shorter, there's only so much you can cram in the little cardboard, there's no space for extra ramblings. A postcard is a little "I'm thinking of you", correlated with a few other sentences who are entrusted to say all that is left unspoken, only aided, sometimes, by the eventual meaningfulness of the picture on the other side of the card.
But there's also another thing peculiar to letters and the likes: they have the power to rely a message even when the sender can't possibly do it himself, they can carry their message through time and space. I find this to be an incredible power. I can write a message, and then leave it somewhere, and it will be read in a different time, no matter what happened to me, I may even be dead, but my words, a part of my mind, will reach the receiver. Isn't this amazing?
I may have less to say about them, but I certainly won't mind a social media fic, a journal or a book/article format... a book about someone/your relationship with them is something that I find extremely fascinating.
I know the name of this exchange is not binding, and that the letters may be sent as well, but I particularly like the idea of them being unsent. To me, there's something particularly sweet in the unsaid, and in all the reason that there may be to it. This maybe be influenced also by the fact that I am an absolute sucker for unfulfilled love and doomed relationships; characters going their separate ways but still never forgetting of each other is my kind of thing.
Age of innocence
This novel has exactly the kind of thing I was mentioning above, and I would love to see your take on the things Archer would want to say to Ellen, but never daring too, maybe not even daring to put it down on actual paper, but only composing an imaginary letter in his head; it would be nice to see this set among the scenes of the first part of the book - e.g. all the things he planned to tell her when he goes to pick her up at the station - or even in the span of time between that part and the ending.
If you prefer to dwell on the relationship between May and Ellen I would love to see that as well, as I would love a piece showing us what actually goes on in that pretty head of May.
Why R U?
One thing that I love is Saint's ease in talking, so if you need a prompt I would like to see a scenario in which, for some reason, he feels the need to talk less to Zee and to try to restrain himself he ends up writing (or just imagining it in his head) to Zee.
Also, I've recently fell in love with texting fics so if you wanna go for a stragers to lover AU with that format (description in between is appreciated) I might just have to build you a statue!
Papillon
I think this canon has great basis for both sent and unsent letters, or even books. Sent letters could be the papers Dega slip into the bottles of Papi's sack: what did he write in there? Did Papi ever get to read them or maybe for some accident they were lost before he could do so? Unsent may be what Dega wished to say to Papi after he left: how much must he think of his friend once he's left alone on Devil's island! Maybe he could write a diary and fill it with thoughts of Papi, or maybe he would entrust his thoughts to the ocean...
And then there's Papi's side: once he left, once he jumped, he has no way of ever getting back in touch with Dega, we can see the sorrowful consciousness of this in his eyes on the cliff scene, so maybe he could seek some relief in writing his thoughts down on paper... or even in a whole book... after all, this movie does come from a book (which I've read and I'm familiar with btw).
I hope you like my ideas and takes on these fandoms, and if you need more info on my general likes take a look at my previous letters down below. Whatever you will make of it, I'm sure I'll be
your happy receiver
Mary_the_gardener
I got extremely excited as soon as I found out about this exchange: letters fascinate me in so many ways.
I love long, deep messages sent on messaging apps in comparison with the usual brief and fast chatting more common these days, as I love long and sparse exchanges of email. Internet made communication really fast, but I think there's more to it, I think that taking a little bit of time to order our thoughts down before expressing them can give them a whole new depth. I also love traditional letters, the way this kind of correspondence is forcefully slow, but also the physical aspect of it, the charm of picking a specific letter paper that would reflect the content, and also the ink. And then there's one more thing, that's generally included in "slow mail", but that has its own peculiar features: postcards. Postcards are slow mail indeed, but they are also so different from letters: while the content of letter is concealed by an envelope, protected from outer eyes, postcards are open, visible for everyone to see and read, and they are bound to be shorter, there's only so much you can cram in the little cardboard, there's no space for extra ramblings. A postcard is a little "I'm thinking of you", correlated with a few other sentences who are entrusted to say all that is left unspoken, only aided, sometimes, by the eventual meaningfulness of the picture on the other side of the card.
But there's also another thing peculiar to letters and the likes: they have the power to rely a message even when the sender can't possibly do it himself, they can carry their message through time and space. I find this to be an incredible power. I can write a message, and then leave it somewhere, and it will be read in a different time, no matter what happened to me, I may even be dead, but my words, a part of my mind, will reach the receiver. Isn't this amazing?
I may have less to say about them, but I certainly won't mind a social media fic, a journal or a book/article format... a book about someone/your relationship with them is something that I find extremely fascinating.
I know the name of this exchange is not binding, and that the letters may be sent as well, but I particularly like the idea of them being unsent. To me, there's something particularly sweet in the unsaid, and in all the reason that there may be to it. This maybe be influenced also by the fact that I am an absolute sucker for unfulfilled love and doomed relationships; characters going their separate ways but still never forgetting of each other is my kind of thing.
Age of innocence
This novel has exactly the kind of thing I was mentioning above, and I would love to see your take on the things Archer would want to say to Ellen, but never daring too, maybe not even daring to put it down on actual paper, but only composing an imaginary letter in his head; it would be nice to see this set among the scenes of the first part of the book - e.g. all the things he planned to tell her when he goes to pick her up at the station - or even in the span of time between that part and the ending.
If you prefer to dwell on the relationship between May and Ellen I would love to see that as well, as I would love a piece showing us what actually goes on in that pretty head of May.
Why R U?
One thing that I love is Saint's ease in talking, so if you need a prompt I would like to see a scenario in which, for some reason, he feels the need to talk less to Zee and to try to restrain himself he ends up writing (or just imagining it in his head) to Zee.
Also, I've recently fell in love with texting fics so if you wanna go for a stragers to lover AU with that format (description in between is appreciated) I might just have to build you a statue!
Papillon
I think this canon has great basis for both sent and unsent letters, or even books. Sent letters could be the papers Dega slip into the bottles of Papi's sack: what did he write in there? Did Papi ever get to read them or maybe for some accident they were lost before he could do so? Unsent may be what Dega wished to say to Papi after he left: how much must he think of his friend once he's left alone on Devil's island! Maybe he could write a diary and fill it with thoughts of Papi, or maybe he would entrust his thoughts to the ocean...
And then there's Papi's side: once he left, once he jumped, he has no way of ever getting back in touch with Dega, we can see the sorrowful consciousness of this in his eyes on the cliff scene, so maybe he could seek some relief in writing his thoughts down on paper... or even in a whole book... after all, this movie does come from a book (which I've read and I'm familiar with btw).
I hope you like my ideas and takes on these fandoms, and if you need more info on my general likes take a look at my previous letters down below. Whatever you will make of it, I'm sure I'll be
your happy receiver
Mary_the_gardener
