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a puppet in my theatre of dimensions [worldbuildingex 2019]
Hello friend, it is time for WORLDBUILDING! Worldbuilding and mytharcs are generally what make me first fall in love with fandoms, and I am delighted to spend time in whatever expansions of those worlds you write for me! I am also ![[archiveofourown.org profile]](https://p.dreamwidth.org/b164c54b26e4/-/archiveofourown.org/favicon.ico)
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I am super easy to please as long as you stay away from my DNws (both general and canon-specific), so don't feel like you Have to write any of my specific prompts. Don't read anything into relative lengths of sections, I am equally happy to get something for anything in this letter! Even when not specifically requested I am totally happy to see original characters, or for characters to take a backseat to worldbuilding. I listed suggested characters next to each of my worldbuilding tags, but feel free to use totally different ones from my list of requested characters if you want!
If you go the character route and end up writing shipfic, I like everything from pre-ship feelings navigation to PWP, so for / relationships don't worry about whether they're shippy 'enough'. I don't need a lot of romance in my ships, sex for power, manipulation, or just between friends who want to have fun is also great.
Mentorship and loyalty dynamics, including ladies' suicidal world-saving or world-breaking devotion to other ladies, also especially #unavailable older women in positions of authority; femslash and female friendship in both the foreground and the background; nature and cities and houses and spacecraft as characters, especially when they would like to eat you because they love you; vampires, magic, witchcraft, rituals; eldritch things, fey things, eerie things, cosmic/eldritch horrors; feelings about embodiment and iconography, body horror (especially flowers growing out of people's bodies); epistolary fics, IF, poems for poetry canons, song lyrics for song/album canons; second-person pov; politics; flirting, domesticity, sensuality; canon-divergent/what-if AUs; conflicted loyalties, moral ambiguity, hero/villain and villain/villain relationships, darkfic; dream-sharing and dream-walking; arranged marriages, marriages of convenience, married by a technicality; relationships negotiated around characters' different vocabularies of trust and care; 'I hate you I love you I would like to wear your skin as a sign of my devotion' types of relationships; desire, women who aren’t afraid of desire, women who lean too far into desire, women who desire to kill and eat their gods; porn as character work.
Hair braiding, hair pulling; bathing, washing, bath/shower sex; painplay, bloodplay, edgeplay; mirror sex, identity porn; bondage, blindfolds, D/s dynamics (though not 24/7 bdsm lifestyle setups); jewellery and clothes kink; consent play, somnophilia; praise kink, loyalty kink, competency kink; public and semi-public sex, having to stay quiet; oral sex; biting, marking; first time with each other; sex for manipulation/political gain/conversion to the other political-military side (success optional); inappropriate use of magic and weapons, mutual masturbation, one person in a threesome directing the other two and getting off watching them.
Unrequested m/m or m/f ships; rape (dubcon is fine); permanent death of female characters; kidfic, breeding, pregnancy including unconventiional forms like fpreg/oviposition, age-regression and time-travel to see kid versions of characters; scat, watersports, emetophilia; food sex, feeding/stuffing kink; 'only one destined true love' aus like soulmates or hanahaki disease; feet-related gore; apocalypse and post-apocalypse fic, zombies; *isms, issuefic; 'it was all a dream' sort of mindfuckery; age gaps causing angst; bodyswap fic; crackfic; sex involving under-16.
Note: Permadeath of original characters entirely fine for Feast of Feasts worldbuilding, as is fic about Mildred's canon suicide. Please refer to Lilith as 'Lilith' rather than 'Madam Satan'
Ships I like: Lilith/Zelda, Lilith/Prudence, Lilith/Sabrina, Prudence/Sabrina, Prudence/Agatha/Dorcas
Consequences of Lilith's plan to overthrow Satan (Lilith, Sabrina, Prudence, Zelda): So the whole idea that Lilith is grooming Sabrina to replace her whilst she herself is planning to replace Satan is, imo, wildly underexplored at this point. What sort of power do creatures like Lilith draw from worship? Hell looks very different with a Lilith-queen, but do the mortal and witch worlds? How do you kill the unholiest of all gods? Does Lilith take Zelda as her queen and are they so very proud of General Sabrina leading hell's army?
Creation and Acquisition of spellbooks (Zelda, Prudence, Sabrina, Desmelda): Sabrina's clearl learnt quite a bit just from books/family before the show starts, and Ambrose has managed to acquire a huge library whilst under house arrest. Are there witch libraries? Do witches have their own personal spellbooks of their very favourite spells, or spells-in-progress? Can you learn magic not-from-books? Can anyone write a spell, and can anyone cast a spell they can read?
Dream Sharing (Lilith, Sabrina): Dream-sharing is quite clearly something witches can do, not just Lilith. I'd love to read about how dream-sharing/dream-walking first came to be a witch practise - was it a talent that Lilith bestowed on some witch a while ago? Is it learnable? Does she teach Sabrina? How much can a dreamwalker affect a shared dream? Can they pull objects into the real world, or bring objects into a dream? Are dream worlds separate from the astral plane passed through during projection rituals? I'd love Lilith teaching Sabrina how to dreamwalk in a more structured way, or maybe what happens when Sabrina (or Zelda) tries to enter Lilith's dreams.
Other covens (Desmelda, Lilith, Original past queen(s) of the feast): Lilith refers to the coven 'Mary' was supposedly excommunicated from as the Church of Shadows, and that's not really one of the things about her that makes Zelda suspicious, so we can safely assume there are other covens with other names, rituals, high priests, and so on. And while it seems frowned upon for an excommunicate to join another church/coven, it doesn't seem unheard of, so - tell me about those other covens! Covens that Lilith visited, covens that Desmelda tried to run away to, covens that past runaway queens founded.
Psychopomps (Lilith, Zelda, Prudence): I love weird in-between planes of existence and their guardians, and I love the lawful weird corvid guardians the astral plane has. Textbook extracts on psychopomps and astral projection, what happens when astral projection purposefully goes wrong. I'd love to see how psychopomps react to Lilith, or the result of Zelda projecting herself into Sabrina's room so often, or how to befriend psychopomps so you don't get carried off.
The Feast of Feasts (Prudence, Sabrina, Lilith, Desmelda, Original past queens): Okay I did not zoom Directly to the cannibalism - I stopped to sigh dreamily at Michelle Gomez first, as per always - but hey! There is CANON VAGEULY-EROTIC CANNIBALSIM, complete with femslashy d/s rituals, and I did not need this show to come so hard for my favourite things but I'm so happy it did. I am of course all over the queen and handmaiden dynamics for Prudence and Sabrina, but also with past queens - the ones with faith as unshakeable as Prudence's and the ones who feared and doubted as much as Desmelda, and everyone in between.
The Greendale Wood (Prudence, Sabrina, Lilith, Zelda, Desmelda): Witchy vaguely-sentient nature is my favourite thing in all canons, and this is no exception. The woods want to eat the coven to keep them safe! The woods hold secret gossip sessions about how much of a dick Faustus is! The woods are Desmelda's best friend! The woods are on a revenge mission against the Kinkle family! (That one's sort of canon). Tell me about the goblin-familiars that live there, how the woods allowed Desmelda to build a home there, why Greendale of all places drew Lilith into a tiny cottage and a schoolteacher's body.
Witch holidays and rituals (Prudence, Sabrina, Zelda): We see the Big Deal Events for the coven - the Dark Baptism, the Feast of Feast, the trial - but what about more everyday ones, Sabbaths and equinoxes and new moons? How did Zelda celebrate when she lived in different countries? What was Sabrina's first winter solstice like? What were holidays like for Prudence, growing up thinking herself an orphan?
Ships I like: Any femslash, Delilah/Sylas, Vax/Allura, Vex/Saundor
Fandom-specific DNW: Scanlan, Percy, Percy/Vex (even as mentions/background), ace!Keyleth
The Arcana Pansophical (Allura): I love anxious wizards and magical rules and shadowy sorta-government sorta-'better' groups and I'm dying to know more about the Arcana Pansophical and everyone in it. How was it founded? How did Allura join? How was the Truth of Magic developed? What happens to those who are found to violate the Truth? How do the mages reconcile the arcane with the provable divine? Allura was on the Tal'Dorei Council - how deep was her influence, and does the Arcana Pansophical have its fingers in other governments?
Ascension to Godhood (Raishan, The Traveller): Exandria fascinates me as far as D&D settings go because not only can people be clerics of explicitly not-gods, those not-gods have the mechanisms in place to BECOME gods. So I'd love an exploration of how that works - mainly with Jester helping the Traveler or with Keyleth and Allura (consensually or not) helping Raishan. Or gods from the current pantheon ascending, or ascension rituals that they've stopped - this can tie in with Pre-Calamity things!
Pre-Calamity (Saundor, The Traveller, Original Characters): Okay given that canon currently is, shall we say, ambiguous about who or what the Traveller is, it's entirely possible he would not have been around in that time, but y'know it's not NOT possible, so what was he up to back then? Pranking the Raven Queen? Trying to fuck up Vesh's shit? Time moves Weird(tm) in the Feywild, so Saundor would be an amazing conduit through which to explore how the calamity affected the Feywild too. Or go entirely with OCs - the mages and politicians of the early years of Exandria fascinate me, and I'd love to read anything about (or written by!) them.
The Shademurk Bog (Vex, Keyleth, Saundor): One of my biggest regrets from campaign 1 is that we didn't spend more time in the Feywild and especially with the ambiguously sentient/ambiguously moral BOG THAT PROBABLY WANTS TO EAT YOU! What did the Shademurk look like before Saundor made his home there? How much of the changes did he make willingly, and how much was the forest just picking up on his pain? What might the Shademurk have looked like had Vex accepted Saundor's offer? Did Keyleth ever go back there to try to help it heal? What other creatures make their homes there, and what do the nature spirits live in the Gilded Run think about what's happened to the land and their new task of keeping corruption away?
Vecna cults in Marquet (Delilah): How do you build a cult for a god? How do you gain trust as a grieving, near-powerless foreigner in a new country? What previous work had been done on the Marquet ziggurat, and what sort of structures might Delilah have found already in place?
Ships I like: Elizabeth/Kate, Elizabeth/Teyla, Elizabeth/Helia, Elizabeth/Original Wraith Queen, Teyla/Original Wraith Queen
Atlantis (Elizabeth, Teyla, Kate, Helia): I love this city! I love this weird wonderful obsessive probably-sentient city and how it loves its inhabitants. What happened to Elizabeth while she slept under the waves for ten thousand years? What does it think of its Replicant sister-city? What does it feel like to be a city that flies through space? what does it recognise in Teyla, and how does it feel about her Wraith-adjacency? What sort of notes does Kate keep for herself about all the safe places to hide and try to cope with how BIG the city and the galaxy are?
Life on Lantean ships during the Lantean-Wraith War (Helia): On the one hand, communal bonding and hope in the void in the middle of the end of everything they know. On the other, angst about being away from the city they love that they know is under constant bombardment. What was it like for Helia, knowing that they might have to sleep and maybe never wake up, or wake up to a whole new galaxy?
Wraith Civil War (Todd, Elizabeth, Original Wraith Queens): Oh, gods, anything and everything. Tell me about Todd's friends and Queens, how history books wrote about the war.
I am super easy to please as long as you stay away from my DNws (both general and canon-specific), so don't feel like you Have to write any of my specific prompts. Don't read anything into relative lengths of sections, I am equally happy to get something for anything in this letter! Even when not specifically requested I am totally happy to see original characters, or for characters to take a backseat to worldbuilding. I listed suggested characters next to each of my worldbuilding tags, but feel free to use totally different ones from my list of requested characters if you want!
If you go the character route and end up writing shipfic, I like everything from pre-ship feelings navigation to PWP, so for / relationships don't worry about whether they're shippy 'enough'. I don't need a lot of romance in my ships, sex for power, manipulation, or just between friends who want to have fun is also great.
Things I like
Mentorship and loyalty dynamics, including ladies' suicidal world-saving or world-breaking devotion to other ladies, also especially #unavailable older women in positions of authority; femslash and female friendship in both the foreground and the background; nature and cities and houses and spacecraft as characters, especially when they would like to eat you because they love you; vampires, magic, witchcraft, rituals; eldritch things, fey things, eerie things, cosmic/eldritch horrors; feelings about embodiment and iconography, body horror (especially flowers growing out of people's bodies); epistolary fics, IF, poems for poetry canons, song lyrics for song/album canons; second-person pov; politics; flirting, domesticity, sensuality; canon-divergent/what-if AUs; conflicted loyalties, moral ambiguity, hero/villain and villain/villain relationships, darkfic; dream-sharing and dream-walking; arranged marriages, marriages of convenience, married by a technicality; relationships negotiated around characters' different vocabularies of trust and care; 'I hate you I love you I would like to wear your skin as a sign of my devotion' types of relationships; desire, women who aren’t afraid of desire, women who lean too far into desire, women who desire to kill and eat their gods; porn as character work.
Things I like, smut edition
Hair braiding, hair pulling; bathing, washing, bath/shower sex; painplay, bloodplay, edgeplay; mirror sex, identity porn; bondage, blindfolds, D/s dynamics (though not 24/7 bdsm lifestyle setups); jewellery and clothes kink; consent play, somnophilia; praise kink, loyalty kink, competency kink; public and semi-public sex, having to stay quiet; oral sex; biting, marking; first time with each other; sex for manipulation/political gain/conversion to the other political-military side (success optional); inappropriate use of magic and weapons, mutual masturbation, one person in a threesome directing the other two and getting off watching them.
Things I do not want
Unrequested m/m or m/f ships; rape (dubcon is fine); permanent death of female characters; kidfic, breeding, pregnancy including unconventiional forms like fpreg/oviposition, age-regression and time-travel to see kid versions of characters; scat, watersports, emetophilia; food sex, feeding/stuffing kink; 'only one destined true love' aus like soulmates or hanahaki disease; feet-related gore; apocalypse and post-apocalypse fic, zombies; *isms, issuefic; 'it was all a dream' sort of mindfuckery; age gaps causing angst; bodyswap fic; crackfic; sex involving under-16.
Chilling Adventures of Sabrina
Note: Permadeath of original characters entirely fine for Feast of Feasts worldbuilding, as is fic about Mildred's canon suicide. Please refer to Lilith as 'Lilith' rather than 'Madam Satan'
Ships I like: Lilith/Zelda, Lilith/Prudence, Lilith/Sabrina, Prudence/Sabrina, Prudence/Agatha/Dorcas
Consequences of Lilith's plan to overthrow Satan (Lilith, Sabrina, Prudence, Zelda): So the whole idea that Lilith is grooming Sabrina to replace her whilst she herself is planning to replace Satan is, imo, wildly underexplored at this point. What sort of power do creatures like Lilith draw from worship? Hell looks very different with a Lilith-queen, but do the mortal and witch worlds? How do you kill the unholiest of all gods? Does Lilith take Zelda as her queen and are they so very proud of General Sabrina leading hell's army?
Creation and Acquisition of spellbooks (Zelda, Prudence, Sabrina, Desmelda): Sabrina's clearl learnt quite a bit just from books/family before the show starts, and Ambrose has managed to acquire a huge library whilst under house arrest. Are there witch libraries? Do witches have their own personal spellbooks of their very favourite spells, or spells-in-progress? Can you learn magic not-from-books? Can anyone write a spell, and can anyone cast a spell they can read?
Dream Sharing (Lilith, Sabrina): Dream-sharing is quite clearly something witches can do, not just Lilith. I'd love to read about how dream-sharing/dream-walking first came to be a witch practise - was it a talent that Lilith bestowed on some witch a while ago? Is it learnable? Does she teach Sabrina? How much can a dreamwalker affect a shared dream? Can they pull objects into the real world, or bring objects into a dream? Are dream worlds separate from the astral plane passed through during projection rituals? I'd love Lilith teaching Sabrina how to dreamwalk in a more structured way, or maybe what happens when Sabrina (or Zelda) tries to enter Lilith's dreams.
Other covens (Desmelda, Lilith, Original past queen(s) of the feast): Lilith refers to the coven 'Mary' was supposedly excommunicated from as the Church of Shadows, and that's not really one of the things about her that makes Zelda suspicious, so we can safely assume there are other covens with other names, rituals, high priests, and so on. And while it seems frowned upon for an excommunicate to join another church/coven, it doesn't seem unheard of, so - tell me about those other covens! Covens that Lilith visited, covens that Desmelda tried to run away to, covens that past runaway queens founded.
Psychopomps (Lilith, Zelda, Prudence): I love weird in-between planes of existence and their guardians, and I love the lawful weird corvid guardians the astral plane has. Textbook extracts on psychopomps and astral projection, what happens when astral projection purposefully goes wrong. I'd love to see how psychopomps react to Lilith, or the result of Zelda projecting herself into Sabrina's room so often, or how to befriend psychopomps so you don't get carried off.
The Feast of Feasts (Prudence, Sabrina, Lilith, Desmelda, Original past queens): Okay I did not zoom Directly to the cannibalism - I stopped to sigh dreamily at Michelle Gomez first, as per always - but hey! There is CANON VAGEULY-EROTIC CANNIBALSIM, complete with femslashy d/s rituals, and I did not need this show to come so hard for my favourite things but I'm so happy it did. I am of course all over the queen and handmaiden dynamics for Prudence and Sabrina, but also with past queens - the ones with faith as unshakeable as Prudence's and the ones who feared and doubted as much as Desmelda, and everyone in between.
The Greendale Wood (Prudence, Sabrina, Lilith, Zelda, Desmelda): Witchy vaguely-sentient nature is my favourite thing in all canons, and this is no exception. The woods want to eat the coven to keep them safe! The woods hold secret gossip sessions about how much of a dick Faustus is! The woods are Desmelda's best friend! The woods are on a revenge mission against the Kinkle family! (That one's sort of canon). Tell me about the goblin-familiars that live there, how the woods allowed Desmelda to build a home there, why Greendale of all places drew Lilith into a tiny cottage and a schoolteacher's body.
Witch holidays and rituals (Prudence, Sabrina, Zelda): We see the Big Deal Events for the coven - the Dark Baptism, the Feast of Feast, the trial - but what about more everyday ones, Sabbaths and equinoxes and new moons? How did Zelda celebrate when she lived in different countries? What was Sabrina's first winter solstice like? What were holidays like for Prudence, growing up thinking herself an orphan?
Critical Role
Ships I like: Any femslash, Delilah/Sylas, Vax/Allura, Vex/Saundor
Fandom-specific DNW: Scanlan, Percy, Percy/Vex (even as mentions/background), ace!Keyleth
The Arcana Pansophical (Allura): I love anxious wizards and magical rules and shadowy sorta-government sorta-'better' groups and I'm dying to know more about the Arcana Pansophical and everyone in it. How was it founded? How did Allura join? How was the Truth of Magic developed? What happens to those who are found to violate the Truth? How do the mages reconcile the arcane with the provable divine? Allura was on the Tal'Dorei Council - how deep was her influence, and does the Arcana Pansophical have its fingers in other governments?
Ascension to Godhood (Raishan, The Traveller): Exandria fascinates me as far as D&D settings go because not only can people be clerics of explicitly not-gods, those not-gods have the mechanisms in place to BECOME gods. So I'd love an exploration of how that works - mainly with Jester helping the Traveler or with Keyleth and Allura (consensually or not) helping Raishan. Or gods from the current pantheon ascending, or ascension rituals that they've stopped - this can tie in with Pre-Calamity things!
Pre-Calamity (Saundor, The Traveller, Original Characters): Okay given that canon currently is, shall we say, ambiguous about who or what the Traveller is, it's entirely possible he would not have been around in that time, but y'know it's not NOT possible, so what was he up to back then? Pranking the Raven Queen? Trying to fuck up Vesh's shit? Time moves Weird(tm) in the Feywild, so Saundor would be an amazing conduit through which to explore how the calamity affected the Feywild too. Or go entirely with OCs - the mages and politicians of the early years of Exandria fascinate me, and I'd love to read anything about (or written by!) them.
The Shademurk Bog (Vex, Keyleth, Saundor): One of my biggest regrets from campaign 1 is that we didn't spend more time in the Feywild and especially with the ambiguously sentient/ambiguously moral BOG THAT PROBABLY WANTS TO EAT YOU! What did the Shademurk look like before Saundor made his home there? How much of the changes did he make willingly, and how much was the forest just picking up on his pain? What might the Shademurk have looked like had Vex accepted Saundor's offer? Did Keyleth ever go back there to try to help it heal? What other creatures make their homes there, and what do the nature spirits live in the Gilded Run think about what's happened to the land and their new task of keeping corruption away?
Vecna cults in Marquet (Delilah): How do you build a cult for a god? How do you gain trust as a grieving, near-powerless foreigner in a new country? What previous work had been done on the Marquet ziggurat, and what sort of structures might Delilah have found already in place?
Stargate Atlantis
Ships I like: Elizabeth/Kate, Elizabeth/Teyla, Elizabeth/Helia, Elizabeth/Original Wraith Queen, Teyla/Original Wraith Queen
Atlantis (Elizabeth, Teyla, Kate, Helia): I love this city! I love this weird wonderful obsessive probably-sentient city and how it loves its inhabitants. What happened to Elizabeth while she slept under the waves for ten thousand years? What does it think of its Replicant sister-city? What does it feel like to be a city that flies through space? what does it recognise in Teyla, and how does it feel about her Wraith-adjacency? What sort of notes does Kate keep for herself about all the safe places to hide and try to cope with how BIG the city and the galaxy are?
Life on Lantean ships during the Lantean-Wraith War (Helia): On the one hand, communal bonding and hope in the void in the middle of the end of everything they know. On the other, angst about being away from the city they love that they know is under constant bombardment. What was it like for Helia, knowing that they might have to sleep and maybe never wake up, or wake up to a whole new galaxy?
Wraith Civil War (Todd, Elizabeth, Original Wraith Queens): Oh, gods, anything and everything. Tell me about Todd's friends and Queens, how history books wrote about the war.