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Surpassing All the Stars: queer disabled witches speak, an anthology by and for queer disabled witches (edited by Alexeigynaix), seeks sixteen small pieces of witchcraft to tempt people to back the anthology crowdfunding campaign. We want essays. Poems. Memoir. Fiction. Spells. Rites. Drawings. Photos. Songs. Chants. Craft patterns. Et cetera! We want submissions from witches who are at least one of queer and disabled, and we want submissions by 2018 February 18.

dear once_upon_fic mythographer! [this letter is a work in progress]

Khairete! (Hail! Hello! Well met! with plural address in case more of you than my writer read this!)

My AO3 name is AlexSeanchai, and let me reassure you at the jump that optional details are optional.

I should advise you up front that I am a Hellenic polytheist, ancestor worshipper, and animist, and I am really hoping to see, anywhere it might come up, respect for my religious beliefs. (Yes, I'm skewing my requests in favor of the mythology underlying Hellenic polytheism. To me that's half of what this myths, folklore, and fairytales exchange is for!) This hope is an optional detail, but I want to highlight the DNW of "Disrespect to my religious beliefs".

I should also advise you up front that I am a queer trans feminist and disability activist standing firmly in opposition to fascism, capitalism, and white supremacy, and I am really hoping to see stories that dance to that tune. This hope is an optional detail (and also modern politics aren't necessarily relevant to the story you're writing at all, I observe), but I want to highlight the DNW of "Disrespectful treatment of [insert marginalized group here]."

Please do not take the extent to which I discuss any canon as indication of any sort of preference as to which canon I receive.

I am explicitly open to crossovers between my requests. I am also explicitly welcoming, if you are writing one of my Greek myth requests, inclusion of figures of Greek myth who are not nominated characters in the story you matched on or are looking to treat. (Focus on the nominated character(s), obviously! But, for instance, Hephaistos is a pretty significant presence in Pandora's story in Theogony, and I declined to nominate Him because I had limited character slots, and His absence in your Pandora story won't disappoint me but His presence will make me happy.)

I am totally here for art treats, poetry treats (or poetry full assignment if you are nuts like me—for srs I'm nuts), and interactive and/or choose-your-own-adventure fiction. Also genderbending, racebending, queer headcanons, trans and genderqueer headcanons, neurodivergent headcanons, and other flavors of respectful representation of marginalized people. Also AUs generally, with special highlight to what synecdochic refers to as the Ten Minutes AU, and special highlight to setting-change AUs (including but not limited to modern library, modern coffee shop, Library of Alexandria, Jonathan's Coffee-House...). (That said, don't take my examples of setting-change AUs as particular suggestions unless you want to! Though a Library of Alexandria AU or a Jonathan's Coffee-House AU of any of my requested stories would be fucking awesome, actually...)

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( Likes and Dislikes )

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( Requests! )

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( discussion of rape culture )

² It is likely safe to assume Gods are not bound by linear time. They can appear at any age They choose—see the Arachne story, for instance. Theogony alone, without reference to other sources, contains a contradiction: Zeus first married Metis, Who gave birth to Athena as the first of Zeus's children; Zeus married Hera last. Hera had some argument with Zeus and consequently bore Hephaistos without Zeus's intervention; in retaliation Zeus slept with Metis to conceive Athena! Oopsy, we seem to have stumbled into a paradox! —if we assume linear time.