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Dear Fic Corner Scribbler,

Hello, there lovely person who is going to write a story in one of the fandoms I requested! Thank you so much, you are clearly awesome.

Please do not hesitate to ruin my childhood! (Actually I read most of these books for the first time as an adult; I just like kids’ books, okay.) I am also a dedicated multishipper, so if you want to include a pairing that I haven’t specifically asked for, it’ll be fine. I am not so keen on underage, though, so for the canons that have child characters I’d prefer if you aged them up if they are going to be doing anything more than holding hands and chaste kissing?

(Or you could write gen. I am totally cool with gen.)

I love crossovers, fusions, and canon-divergence AUs, but I don’t like mundane AUs of fantastical canons.

Okay, on to the prompts!

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Gordon Korman writes the premium-grade uncut pre-slash, doesn't he?

So, I spent yesterday morning reading Schooled. I've heard that Gordon Korman's more recent work isn't a patch on his older stuff, and in some ways that's true. In places it felt more like an outline of a book than a book; in other places it felt like he was trying too hard to be Jerry Spinelli to remember to be Gordon Korman. It was published in 2007, and the setting is presumably meant to be more-or-less contemporary, but if there are such things as cell phones or computers you wouldn't know it by this book. The hippie stuff revealed more half-assed grabbing after cliches than any real understanding of 1960's counterculture. There was a major plot development where I had to suspend disbelief approximately the size of a mountain from something approximately the size of a spiderweb. There was wackiness (the scene with Cap driving the bus was particularly good) but there wasn't the katamari of wackiness that's the reason one reads Gordon Korman in the first place.

AND YET. Ever since, my brain has been busily spinning out Zach/Hugh, with a side order of unrequited Darryl/Cap. (Seriously, Gordon Korman. That Darryl chapter. How do you know where all my buttons are? It's a little embarrassing.)

I am really supposed to be working on other things. I am working on other things. I certainly don't need to be getting into a new dead fandom now. So I am not going to write it. Damn it.