Source ideas!
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once_upon_ficSign ups are on the horizon which means you're going to need sources for your stories!
Here's some starting places:
And this year, though it was always allowed previous years but not emphasized, you can nominate a mythological animal instead of a story! You just have to provide me with a comprehensive enough 'source' for the spreadsheet and your writer.
Here's some places to start (if they exist only, in say, Hellboy they're not eligible):
AS WELL:
PREVIOUS SOURCES:
Here's some starting places:
- Children's Myths, Fairy Tales, etc. (Bookshelf) Children's Bookshelf on Gutenberg - Several eligible fairytale and legend sources from around the world!
- The Color Fairy Books by Andrew Lang https://sacred-texts.com/neu/lfb/index.htm - The entire collection on Sacred-texts! (You can also find these books on gutenberg for download for your ereader of choice!)
- http://www.sacred-texts.com/neu/index.htm - speaking of Sacred-texts, they also have some pretty extensive archives themselves!
- Homer, Virgil, Hesiod, all these and other classics can be found here at http://classics.mit.edu/Browse/index.html
- Folkore and Mythology Electronic Texts http://www.pitt.edu/~dash/folktexts.html
And this year, though it was always allowed previous years but not emphasized, you can nominate a mythological animal instead of a story! You just have to provide me with a comprehensive enough 'source' for the spreadsheet and your writer.
Here's some places to start (if they exist only, in say, Hellboy they're not eligible):
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Legendary_mammals
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Mythological_hybrids
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Monsters
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Dragons
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Fantasy_creatures
AS WELL:
- The Aberdeen Bestiary - a medieval Christian bestiary, with pictures, transcription, and translation
- A set of public domain bestiary texts - one of these may have a creature that intrigues you
- A public-domain scholarly work on Japanese and Chinese dragons, published in 1913 (you could nominate a specific dragon or type of dragon from this book)
- The Wikipedia article on the Chupacabra - EXAMPLE. This is fine as it is well-referenced and not a stub article
PREVIOUS SOURCES:
- 2015's spreadsheet of sources for the fics that year.
- 2016's spreadsheet of sources for the fics that year.
- 2017's spreadsheet of sources for the fics that year.
- 2018's spreadsheet of sources for the fics that year.
- 2019's spreadsheet of sources for the fics that year.
- 2020's spreadsheet of sources for the fics that year.
- 2021's spreadsheet of sources for the fics that year.
