I thought I'd bump this to tease the lot of you.
I'll be posting my second fan fic piece to Bakker's blog tomorrow. In all the years I've been reading Bakker I've only ever had three really good fan fic ideas. The first is the aforementioned Untitled, dealing with the advent of the skin-spies in Atrithau. This next has the only little more original title, A Tale of Swayali (unless something better comes before tomorrow), dealing with the First School of Witches, the challenges this poses to a patriarchal society and to the persecuted female Few become Witches in digesting and embodying this change in social dynamic. The third (when ever I feel the creative fire in time to come) will be about the Inrithi who take up the Tusk to hunt Schoolman during one of the Scholastic Wars.
Cheers. Thanks to the Bakker & Women threads on Westeros for first inciting me to write something akin to the Swayal idea because the trials of women aren't as easily addressed in Bakker's world as people seem to think they should be. And for Quinthane, Somnambulist, and FB for really kicking me in my ass and fueling my fire with their intense and awe-inspiring artistic renditions of Bakker's narrative.