Well, I'm not writing depressing litfic about a white woman finding inner strength, that's for sure. I can't avoid postcolonialism in the premise, obviously, but I do want the thing to tend toward action and if not Robin Hood, well, at least Che? S&A fic generally speaking has two modes, farce and elegy for love lost, and I think this only makes sense as farce.

The Bolivia thing... well, bear in mind that S&A is never the most realistic of shows, nor is it the most geopolitically sensitive of shows. The final season has a subplot involving a Bolivian folk music troupe that's trapped in Canada when there's a revolution back home, and Anna ends up getting quasi-accidentally thrown into a relationship with one of the musicians because she doesn't speak Spanish. I imagine the answer to "Why Bolivia" is precisely because the region has not been involved with violent regime change recently, and the writers were looking to avoid any relationship with reality.

S&A likes to loosely follow Shakespearean plots, and I kind of think something based on Coriolanus makes the most sense as the play that is more or less about a proletarian revolution? But some other play might be cool, too, I guess?

So where does that leave me? I guess I'm looking for a dark action farce plot based loosely on Coriolanus, set in a fantasyland/tropeland South America. With Bolivian music if possible? And if I can thrown in magical realist elements I'm sure it'd work, but I don't actually know the Popul Vuh, so if you want to point me in that direction remember to give me resources on how to learn more about that.