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worldbuildingex 2020
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.
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.
Likes || Smut Likes || Smut Likes || DNWs || Chilling Adventures of Sabrina || Critical Role || The Magnus Archives || The Silmarillion & Other Histories of Middle Earth || Stargate Atlantiss || Star Trek: Rihannsu || Star Wars Legends - All Media Types
General: I like worldbuiling and pre-canon stories, especially stories about Lilith slowly siphoning witches away from Satan, stories where Sabrina (or Zelda, or the Weird Sisters) sign their name over to Lilith directly rather than into the Book of the Beast, and stories about centuries of history and the distinctly inhuman perceptions and desires of witches and demons. There's so many levels of glorious fucked-up obsessive mentorship here along with, you know, the gore and the deification-via-cannibalism and I love all of them. Murder + in-fic resurrection/came back wrong is fine for any of these prompts. Permadeath of original characters entirely fine for Feast of Feasts worldbuilding, as is fic about Mildred's canon suicide.
Fandom-specific DNW: Referring to Lilith as 'Madam Satan', season 3 canon.
Ships I like: Lilith/Sabrina, Lilith/Zelda, Edward/Zelda, Edward/Zelda/Lilith, Prudence/Sabrina, Prudence/Lilith, Sabrina/Agatha, Prudence/Agatha/Dorcas, Sabrina/Nick, Prudence/Nick, Sabrina/Prudence/Nick, Zelda/Diana, Lilith/Diana. Some of these have ship prompts in past letters if you want to include them.
Creation and Acquisition of spellbooks: Sabrina's clearly 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? What do spellbooks from witches from other countries look like? Can spellbooks be destroyed?
Dream Sharing: 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, or what dreams look like for Desmelda since she's so isolated. Is there any sort of precognition associated with dreams, and does that change when dreams are shared? How does dreaming/dream-sharing interact with astral projection - can psychopomps enter dreams?
Other covens: 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. Or the Church of Lilith - what would that look like, in the (better) version of s3 where Lilith's reign is permanent
The Feast of Feasts: 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. What does the Feast look like in a Church of Lilith, or for other covens? Did any high priests before Edward push back against it - perhaps one who had a daughter or sister chosen as queen? What do some of the other queen/handmaiden dynamics look like - was there jealousy, devotion, relief on the handmaid's part?
The Greendale Wood: 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). Agatha remembers being dead and in the dirt and keeps running to the woods because no one else understands her! 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.
General: I don't watch Talks and am only vaguely familiar with the campaign guide, so if you want to take elements of those things as canon for worldbuilding purposes, feel free, but also feel free to completely ignore them and do your own thing! I adore 4e's epic destinies and would love it if you explored what relevant ones for the requested characters would look like in Exandria if they existed (Matt doesn't use them mechanically for his PCs but that doesn't mean they're impossible). Special love for World Tree Guardian!Keyleth, Master of the Eternal Hunt!Vex, and Archspell!Delilah with Finger of Death, but, yknow, go wild!
Ships I like: Any femslash, Delilah/Sylas, Kashaw/Keyleth, Kashaw/Vesh, Keyleth/Vax, Vax/Allura, Vex/Saundor
Fandom-specific DNW: Scanlan, Percy, Percy/Vex (even as mentions/background - AU where they never got together only please), ace!Keyleth
The Arcana Pansophical: 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: 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!
Life in the Feywild or Shadowfell: Most of the things I loved initially about the Feywild & Shadowfell come from the various 4E sourcebooks - Heroes of the Feywild, Gloomwrought and Beyond, etc, and if you want to take some of those elements and explore how they might manifest in Exandria, that would be fine! What cities are there - we know about Syngorn and Thar Amphala, respectively, but what other ones? What are dryad societies like? Does the Raven Queen have priestesses in the Shadowfell, and how do they spend their days? What was life like when the realms first came into being? Who discovered the first plane shift spell? What are magic academies in those planes like?
Pre-Calamity: 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: 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: 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?
General: Yessss my creepyweird horrorshow! I read rather than listen, so anything overly-reliant on audio bits is likely lost on me. Statement fic and more traditional fic are both very welcome, as is any type of IF (a build-your-own-statement kind of game?)
Ships I like: Gertrude/Sasha, Gertrude/Mary, Sasha/NotSasha, Helen/NotSasha, Melanie/Sasha, Melanie/Georgie, any other femslash you can think of, really.
Ghosts: I'm trying to say something clever about this besides 'yes!!' Ghosts that Melanie meets. Ghosts that are remnants of dead Avatars. Ghosts that are being puppeteered by Entities. The very first time an Entity made a ghost and how pleased it was with itself. Ghosts that exist independent of entities, and how DISpleased the entities are about that. Just. GHOSTS.
Other departments in the Magnus Institute: Gods do I love weird academia and weird bureaucracy, and boy does TMA offer me many possibilities for the intersection of the two! Feel free to pick a department we've already seen some of (Artefact Storage?) or write about one that you think must exist.
People replaced by the NotThem: I want to know where they go! Weird Spiral-Stranger intersections, connections to Changeling stories, selfcest if that's what you're feeling.
The Rituals: Up to you whether you want to write Smirke discovering or creating the Rituals - personally I lean toward him discovering them, and, as such, I'd really love an Entity POV for this - how do you, a semi-sentitent THING that relies on human fears, put together enough information about what makes you in order to remake yourself and the world? Or, pre-Smirke, did an Avatar suggest something that would be a first ritual in order to show devotion to their Entity?
The Spiral: One of my favourites of the entities! Focus on Michael or Helen, or statement fic from an OC, you truly can't disappoint me here.
General: I love the lush expansiveness of Tolkien's work, the history and the care and the sheer amount of space characters are allowed to take up and that we are able to fill in. My favourite bits are the horror and the weird fey things, but moments of levity and happy couples dealing with supernatural things (happy couples murdering other things :D) are also excellent! Feel free to play pick-and-choose with various bits of history from the Silm/Unfinished Tales/etc as you like - I'm familiar with everything. I have no infidelity-related squicks, so feel free to handle canon relationships with death/divorce/never married/open marriage/whatever's convenient for you if you would like to write me femslash. That being said, of the husbands who are most likely to come up, I dislike Eol, like Elrond and Earendil, and am indifferent to Celeborn, Thingol, and Gorlim. Ghost!Lalaith would not hit my DNWs.
Ships I like: Any femslash, Turin/Nienor
Ghosts & wights: Either and/or both! I am fond of sad ghostbaby Lalaith, making friends with nature spirits and watching her siblings grow up (and make their terrible choices) (would a ghost even think of them as terrible choices?) in art or fic. How are they created? Who gets to become a ghost? What ghost stories are told, and how do the stories line up with reality (if at all)?
Hauntings of Middle-Earth: Oh man, Middle-Earth is so full of ruins and history and just - pick your favourite bit, honestly. I like ghosts and exploration of ruins and art that plays with shadows and lights and psychological horror and people being haunted by creepy dreams.
Hithlum: So ... not to be all Lost Tales 2 about it, but I'm obsessed with the Lost Elves and the ruins of Hithlum and all the potential for extra weird spooky stuff. But pre-War of the Wrath Hithlum is great too - women of the House of Hador? Battle plans? Art of the cities? Creepy or not-so-creepy nature spirits in Lake Mithrim?
Nature spirits & sentient nature: Goldberry was an early formative fave, so if you want to take advantage of the 'any' character tag to drop her somewhere in the Silm eras I'd be delighted! If you'd like to combine this with the ghosts or hauntings tag to do something horror-flavoured that would be lovely as well - spirits of the Entwives lingering? Trees-as-portals? Rivers that know exactly who or what they're drowning? Yavanna creating/awakening spirits and then losing control of them? How does the Girdle affect nature spirits in Doriath? Did the sinking of Numenor change/kill/awaken any nature spirits that lived there?
Portals & passageways: Extremely vague, I know, but I love how malleable space-time is for so much of the early Silm, and how that might affect (help or hinder?) the creation of these. I feel like there could be something fun and horror-y to do with failed creation of passageways on the Helcaraxe. Ungoliant trying to pry apart the Girdle?
Vampires & other skin-changers: Look, you can never go wrong with giving me vampires, and Tolkien not only gave me proper monstrous vampires he also gave me lady vampires, and I am here to ask for more. More about Thuringwethil! More about what effect wearing a vampire's skin has on you! How to create more vampires! (Chomp elves? Chomp Maia? Do something that involves no chomping at all?) Someone (Aredhel?) hunting a vampire. Art of vampires or someone hunting them. How do vampires get along with other skin-changers? Beorn pops up in the Hobbit rather than the Silm, but maybe something about his ancestors in the Silm eras? Or entirely original skin-changers who turn into different animals?
General:
Ships I like: Elizabeth/Kate, Elizabeth/Teyla, Elizabeth/Helia, Elizabeth/Original Wraith Queen, Teyla/Original Wraith Queen, Teyla/Kate
Atlantis: 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: 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?
The oceans of Lantea: Yknow how Coldamber slept down there for thousands of years? What else was down there. What did she make friends with and/or eat. What do the not-whales think about this giant city that has suddenly decided it lives on the ocean floor now. What kind of research papers have various marine biologists for the Atlantis expedition tried (and perhaps failed?) to write. What other sentient creatures - Lantean or Wraith or neither - might have tried to make a home there (been forced to try to make a home there after a ship crash lands?). Does Teyla point out sea creatures similar to ones she's seen on other planets while Elizabeth indulges her? Do more small Wraith girls come visit to walk the ocean floor and dream of the day they'll be the new Queen Death? What relationship might a sentient Atlantis have with a not-not sentient ocean? Just ... tell me weird ocean stories please and thank you.
Wraith Civil War: Oh, gods, anything and everything. Tell me about Todd's friends and Queens, how history books wrote about the war.
Wraith Queens: MY FAVES. You can write about a specific one or an original one, or, hell, even Teyla. I liked the more mysterious/subtle wraith of seasons 1-3 when they were more like weird amoral spaceship gods - queens who are their ships, queens who don't need to announce their power with That Hair (Listen. I love Coldamber. But.) and I'd love something that gets into that side of the Wraith rather than the . Wraith queens who are consumed by their ships when they die and who are born out of the flesh-metal of the old queens! Wraith queens who wear the same sort of gown Elizabeth slept for ten thousand years in! Wraith queens who have to deal with the loss of their ships, or who utterly fail to do so! Wraith queens draped in starlight and the flesh of their ships who are the end of all things and of you! Wraith queens freed from Joe Mallozzi's nonexistent imagination! W R A I T H Q U E E N S. Have a fanmix and also another one.
General: I love these books, y'all. I love the history and myths and LADIES and the Rihannsu written by someone who loves them for what they are, and not the weird Roman Empire But In Space blandness the shows ended up doing. Honestly, as long as they're Rihannsu and not Romulans, I am close to impossible to disappoint!
Ships I like: Any femslash.
Development of the Rihannsu Matriarchy: I love the political science aspects of this, ngl, all the women-and-war and women-as-nation stuff. Academia stuff would be really fun here, essays and history books and oral histories.
Ecology of ch'Rihan and ch'Havran: Tidal-locked planets! Exploration! Weird flora and fauna! That biology nerd who knew better than to put that thing in their mouth but definitely did anyway! Exploration! Alien planet nerdery.
Effects of the war on Vulcans & Rihannsu:
Rihannsu language development and teaching: On the topic of nerdery: language and linguistics nerdery! Language and identity politics are close to my heart and I want more of how they play out with the Rihannsu. Super extra optional bonus points for this also being an Ael &-or-/ Uhura story.
The Journey: Preparations, shipboard life, weird space things encountered along the way.
The Sundering: In-universe documents would be great here, whether nonfictional oral histories/journals, or excerpts of fiction written about it.
Ship-clans: People who love their ships too much, I am weak. People who chose to stay on their ships, instead of settling on land? Differences between people from different ships?
TTraditional/Internal Rihannsu Warfare & Customs Related To It:
General: Hi my name is Kimara and I really fucking love weird eldritch Force shenanigans! I have requested some of my fave darksiders who are most apt to be getting up to weird Force shenanigans (or becoming them, Nihilus), but if you have other faves who you would like to get up to weird Force shenanigans, feel free to write about them instead, or write from the POV of the Force, or something equally weird!
Ships I like: F!Exile/F!Revan, F!Exile/Kreia, F!Inquisitor/Darth Zash, pretty much any femslash you can think of.
Fandom-specific DNW: Male PCs from KOTOR/SWTOR, even if they're not the main character (e.g. no M!Revan, M!Agent, etc).
Force visions & precognition: Who has these abilities? Are precognitive visions ever wrong? Can Sith manipulate others' visions? Can they be averted, and what happens if they are (temporary or permanent? does averting a vision of the future require life-drain, from the person with the vision or just by them?)
Hyperspace lanes: FTL travel is SO WEIRD and SO FUN and I just want to dwell in it for a while! Academic papers about the creation and discovery of hyperspace lanes? Journals from some of the first travelers to use them? Logs from ships responsible for creating new ones? Someone thinks they've found a hyperspace lane but then it's something weirder? Way in which the Force interacts with or is absent from hyperspace, especially something that draws on what KOTOR(2) does with the Rakata? Eldritch creatures what live in them, possibly including Force ghosts? Just. HYPERSPACE.
Life at the Sith Academy at Korriban: Academia with murder, yes please! I love unconventional formats for all my requests, but I think they'd be super fun here - homework assignments, essay prompts & responses, an IF day-in-the-life game. Something from Ragate's POV would be fun, since she's been there so long - her recounting previous students who have survived or died in the rite of blood and bone? Something about or from the POV of the Academy founders? A former student who left and founded a secret competing Academy talks about what they're going to do better?
Old Republic Era Jedi Culture:
Sith Sorceresses: MY FAVE GIRLS (initial typo that was not quite incorrect: fae girls, I love weird fey interpretations of the Sith and especially the witches/sorceresses).
The Great Hyperspace War: Look, I would Die for a KOTOR2-style Great Hyperspace War game, but in the meantime, I want to see whatever fic or meta about it you come up with! Battle plans or ship logs or the post-war lives of Sith exiles or more about what was going on on Empress Teta or something about the role that hyperspace itself played in the war. Just ... it's one of my fave eras, I will love anything set during it!
The Rite of Blood and Bone: It's such a tiny sidequest, and I was SO overleveled for it, but it made an outsize impression on me. HOw Ragate formed it (if she was the one who did), students reflecting on their trial, others reflecting on students who failed.
Wounds in the Force: Oh, it's everything I love all in one! THE VOID? Yes. Ladies? Yes. Weird cosmology? Yes. I'm interested in people like Nihilus who have put consious effort into being wounds, into how they're something of-but-apart-from the Sith
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.
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.
Likes || Smut Likes || Smut Likes || DNWs || Chilling Adventures of Sabrina || Critical Role || The Magnus Archives || The Silmarillion & Other Histories of Middle Earth || Stargate Atlantiss || Star Trek: Rihannsu || Star Wars Legends - All Media Types
- Mentorship and loyalty dynamics, including ladies' suicidal world-saving or world-breaking devotion to other ladies, #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), architectural horror
- Vampires, magic, witchcraft, rituals, eldritch things, fey things, eerie things, cosmic 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
- First- and second-person pov, unreliable narrators
- Politics, worldbuilding
- Flirting, domesticity, sensuality, friends-and-lovers
- Canon-divergent/what-if AUs
- Conflicted loyalties, moral ambiguity, hero/villain and villain/villain relationships, 'I am the only one allowed to hurt you' hero/villain relationships
- Darkfic
- 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
- 'You don't get to save me but you will kill me' types of relationships, especially when the killing doesn't actually happen and they both have to live with that
- Getting back together after messy breakups
- 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.
- Characters who expected to die coping with not actually having died
- Goddess/prophet relationships
- Accidental apotheosis, non-consensual apotheosis
- Blood magic, blood kink, blood rituals, blood as art medium
- Body horror
- Conflicted loyalties, abuse of loyalties, loyalty leading people into really bad decisionmaking
- Died and came back wrong, died multiple times and comes back wronger each time
- Doomed ships, ghost ships, ships that should be abandoned but aren't, cursed ships (spaceships/airships/sailing ships all good!)
- Eerily pristine abandoned places, ruined castles/fortresses/villages, other eldritch places
- Folk horror
- Ghosts
- Human sacrifice, ritual scarification, what happens when sacrifices to higher powers aren't accepted
- Identity Issues, especially those stemming from close bonds with another person
- In-universe regional horror, myths, (urban) legends, and folklore
- Killing and eating your gods as a form of worship
- Memory loss
- Nature that wants to crawl inside you and never come out, nature that wants to eat you, sentient malevolent nature
- Necromancy, the unpleasant aftereffects/costs of necromancy
- Oneiromancy, dreamsharing, dreams that bleed into reality, cursed dreams, prophetic dreams
- One character dressing another up to die
- Repeatedly killed and resurrected
- Ritual gone wrong
- There's something dangerous about the boredom of teenage girls trope
- Unhealthy Coping Mechanisms
- Unintended consequences of having your future told
- Hair braiding, hair pulling
- Bathing, washing, bath/shower sex
- Painplay, bloodplay, knifeplay, wax play, edgeplay, edgeplay to the edge of death
- Mirror sex, identity porn
- Bondage, shibari/kinbaku, suspension, honour bondage, blindfolds, gags, 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
- Overstimulation
- 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.
- Characters slowly learning how to ask for what they want out of sex
- Characters who want entirely different things out of their sexual relationship
- Unrequested m/m or m/f ships
- Rape/noncon (dubcon is fine)
- Permanent death of female characters (ghosts count as dead unless otherwise specified, references to pre-canon dead female characters fine unless otherwise specified).
- Kidfic, breeding, pregnancy including unconventional forms like fpreg/oviposition, age-regression and time-travel to see kid versions of characters
- Scat, watersports, emetophilia, enemas
- A/B/O
- Food in/on genitalia or used as sex toys, weight gain/stuffing kink (fantasy body horror and metaphors are fine)
- 'Only one destined true love' AUs like soulmates or hanahaki disease
- Detailed descriptions of injuries to feet, amputated feet (minor/referenced injuries are fine)
- Zombie apocalypse fic, day-to-day survival in the postapocalyptic wasteland fic (Fic dealing with the aftermath of the Conclave's arrival, or general Vecna-won AUs would probably not hit this, but feel free to ask via mods if you're unsure. Canon-style undead from Critical Role are fine, things like the Stargate team exploring ruins of a Wraith-decimated civilisation are fine, things like Melanie and Jon as the last survivors after a Ritual would hit the DNW.)
- Issuefic, fic focussing on characters' romantic/sexual/gender identities, characters describing themselves with anachronistic sexuality/gender terms
- 'It was all a dream' sort of mindfuckery
- 'I am too old to be loved' angst in age-gap ships
- Bodyswap fic, crackfic
- Sex involving under-16s.
- Mentions of Brexit in contemporary canons
- Setting-change AUs
General: I like worldbuiling and pre-canon stories, especially stories about Lilith slowly siphoning witches away from Satan, stories where Sabrina (or Zelda, or the Weird Sisters) sign their name over to Lilith directly rather than into the Book of the Beast, and stories about centuries of history and the distinctly inhuman perceptions and desires of witches and demons. There's so many levels of glorious fucked-up obsessive mentorship here along with, you know, the gore and the deification-via-cannibalism and I love all of them. Murder + in-fic resurrection/came back wrong is fine for any of these prompts. Permadeath of original characters entirely fine for Feast of Feasts worldbuilding, as is fic about Mildred's canon suicide.
Fandom-specific DNW: Referring to Lilith as 'Madam Satan', season 3 canon.
Ships I like: Lilith/Sabrina, Lilith/Zelda, Edward/Zelda, Edward/Zelda/Lilith, Prudence/Sabrina, Prudence/Lilith, Sabrina/Agatha, Prudence/Agatha/Dorcas, Sabrina/Nick, Prudence/Nick, Sabrina/Prudence/Nick, Zelda/Diana, Lilith/Diana. Some of these have ship prompts in past letters if you want to include them.
Creation and Acquisition of spellbooks: Sabrina's clearly 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? What do spellbooks from witches from other countries look like? Can spellbooks be destroyed?
Dream Sharing: 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, or what dreams look like for Desmelda since she's so isolated. Is there any sort of precognition associated with dreams, and does that change when dreams are shared? How does dreaming/dream-sharing interact with astral projection - can psychopomps enter dreams?
Other covens: 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. Or the Church of Lilith - what would that look like, in the (better) version of s3 where Lilith's reign is permanent
The Feast of Feasts: 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. What does the Feast look like in a Church of Lilith, or for other covens? Did any high priests before Edward push back against it - perhaps one who had a daughter or sister chosen as queen? What do some of the other queen/handmaiden dynamics look like - was there jealousy, devotion, relief on the handmaid's part?
The Greendale Wood: 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). Agatha remembers being dead and in the dirt and keeps running to the woods because no one else understands her! 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.
General: I don't watch Talks and am only vaguely familiar with the campaign guide, so if you want to take elements of those things as canon for worldbuilding purposes, feel free, but also feel free to completely ignore them and do your own thing! I adore 4e's epic destinies and would love it if you explored what relevant ones for the requested characters would look like in Exandria if they existed (Matt doesn't use them mechanically for his PCs but that doesn't mean they're impossible). Special love for World Tree Guardian!Keyleth, Master of the Eternal Hunt!Vex, and Archspell!Delilah with Finger of Death, but, yknow, go wild!
Ships I like: Any femslash, Delilah/Sylas, Kashaw/Keyleth, Kashaw/Vesh, Keyleth/Vax, Vax/Allura, Vex/Saundor
Fandom-specific DNW: Scanlan, Percy, Percy/Vex (even as mentions/background - AU where they never got together only please), ace!Keyleth
The Arcana Pansophical: 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: 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!
Life in the Feywild or Shadowfell: Most of the things I loved initially about the Feywild & Shadowfell come from the various 4E sourcebooks - Heroes of the Feywild, Gloomwrought and Beyond, etc, and if you want to take some of those elements and explore how they might manifest in Exandria, that would be fine! What cities are there - we know about Syngorn and Thar Amphala, respectively, but what other ones? What are dryad societies like? Does the Raven Queen have priestesses in the Shadowfell, and how do they spend their days? What was life like when the realms first came into being? Who discovered the first plane shift spell? What are magic academies in those planes like?
Pre-Calamity: 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: 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: 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?
General: Yessss my creepyweird horrorshow! I read rather than listen, so anything overly-reliant on audio bits is likely lost on me. Statement fic and more traditional fic are both very welcome, as is any type of IF (a build-your-own-statement kind of game?)
Ships I like: Gertrude/Sasha, Gertrude/Mary, Sasha/NotSasha, Helen/NotSasha, Melanie/Sasha, Melanie/Georgie, any other femslash you can think of, really.
Ghosts: I'm trying to say something clever about this besides 'yes!!' Ghosts that Melanie meets. Ghosts that are remnants of dead Avatars. Ghosts that are being puppeteered by Entities. The very first time an Entity made a ghost and how pleased it was with itself. Ghosts that exist independent of entities, and how DISpleased the entities are about that. Just. GHOSTS.
Other departments in the Magnus Institute: Gods do I love weird academia and weird bureaucracy, and boy does TMA offer me many possibilities for the intersection of the two! Feel free to pick a department we've already seen some of (Artefact Storage?) or write about one that you think must exist.
People replaced by the NotThem: I want to know where they go! Weird Spiral-Stranger intersections, connections to Changeling stories, selfcest if that's what you're feeling.
The Rituals: Up to you whether you want to write Smirke discovering or creating the Rituals - personally I lean toward him discovering them, and, as such, I'd really love an Entity POV for this - how do you, a semi-sentitent THING that relies on human fears, put together enough information about what makes you in order to remake yourself and the world? Or, pre-Smirke, did an Avatar suggest something that would be a first ritual in order to show devotion to their Entity?
The Spiral: One of my favourites of the entities! Focus on Michael or Helen, or statement fic from an OC, you truly can't disappoint me here.
General: I love the lush expansiveness of Tolkien's work, the history and the care and the sheer amount of space characters are allowed to take up and that we are able to fill in. My favourite bits are the horror and the weird fey things, but moments of levity and happy couples dealing with supernatural things (happy couples murdering other things :D) are also excellent! Feel free to play pick-and-choose with various bits of history from the Silm/Unfinished Tales/etc as you like - I'm familiar with everything. I have no infidelity-related squicks, so feel free to handle canon relationships with death/divorce/never married/open marriage/whatever's convenient for you if you would like to write me femslash. That being said, of the husbands who are most likely to come up, I dislike Eol, like Elrond and Earendil, and am indifferent to Celeborn, Thingol, and Gorlim. Ghost!Lalaith would not hit my DNWs.
Ships I like: Any femslash, Turin/Nienor
Ghosts & wights: Either and/or both! I am fond of sad ghostbaby Lalaith, making friends with nature spirits and watching her siblings grow up (and make their terrible choices) (would a ghost even think of them as terrible choices?) in art or fic. How are they created? Who gets to become a ghost? What ghost stories are told, and how do the stories line up with reality (if at all)?
Hauntings of Middle-Earth: Oh man, Middle-Earth is so full of ruins and history and just - pick your favourite bit, honestly. I like ghosts and exploration of ruins and art that plays with shadows and lights and psychological horror and people being haunted by creepy dreams.
Hithlum: So ... not to be all Lost Tales 2 about it, but I'm obsessed with the Lost Elves and the ruins of Hithlum and all the potential for extra weird spooky stuff. But pre-War of the Wrath Hithlum is great too - women of the House of Hador? Battle plans? Art of the cities? Creepy or not-so-creepy nature spirits in Lake Mithrim?
Nature spirits & sentient nature: Goldberry was an early formative fave, so if you want to take advantage of the 'any' character tag to drop her somewhere in the Silm eras I'd be delighted! If you'd like to combine this with the ghosts or hauntings tag to do something horror-flavoured that would be lovely as well - spirits of the Entwives lingering? Trees-as-portals? Rivers that know exactly who or what they're drowning? Yavanna creating/awakening spirits and then losing control of them? How does the Girdle affect nature spirits in Doriath? Did the sinking of Numenor change/kill/awaken any nature spirits that lived there?
Portals & passageways: Extremely vague, I know, but I love how malleable space-time is for so much of the early Silm, and how that might affect (help or hinder?) the creation of these. I feel like there could be something fun and horror-y to do with failed creation of passageways on the Helcaraxe. Ungoliant trying to pry apart the Girdle?
Vampires & other skin-changers: Look, you can never go wrong with giving me vampires, and Tolkien not only gave me proper monstrous vampires he also gave me lady vampires, and I am here to ask for more. More about Thuringwethil! More about what effect wearing a vampire's skin has on you! How to create more vampires! (Chomp elves? Chomp Maia? Do something that involves no chomping at all?) Someone (Aredhel?) hunting a vampire. Art of vampires or someone hunting them. How do vampires get along with other skin-changers? Beorn pops up in the Hobbit rather than the Silm, but maybe something about his ancestors in the Silm eras? Or entirely original skin-changers who turn into different animals?
General:
Ships I like: Elizabeth/Kate, Elizabeth/Teyla, Elizabeth/Helia, Elizabeth/Original Wraith Queen, Teyla/Original Wraith Queen, Teyla/Kate
Atlantis: 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: 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?
The oceans of Lantea: Yknow how Coldamber slept down there for thousands of years? What else was down there. What did she make friends with and/or eat. What do the not-whales think about this giant city that has suddenly decided it lives on the ocean floor now. What kind of research papers have various marine biologists for the Atlantis expedition tried (and perhaps failed?) to write. What other sentient creatures - Lantean or Wraith or neither - might have tried to make a home there (been forced to try to make a home there after a ship crash lands?). Does Teyla point out sea creatures similar to ones she's seen on other planets while Elizabeth indulges her? Do more small Wraith girls come visit to walk the ocean floor and dream of the day they'll be the new Queen Death? What relationship might a sentient Atlantis have with a not-not sentient ocean? Just ... tell me weird ocean stories please and thank you.
Wraith Civil War: Oh, gods, anything and everything. Tell me about Todd's friends and Queens, how history books wrote about the war.
Wraith Queens: MY FAVES. You can write about a specific one or an original one, or, hell, even Teyla. I liked the more mysterious/subtle wraith of seasons 1-3 when they were more like weird amoral spaceship gods - queens who are their ships, queens who don't need to announce their power with That Hair (Listen. I love Coldamber. But.) and I'd love something that gets into that side of the Wraith rather than the . Wraith queens who are consumed by their ships when they die and who are born out of the flesh-metal of the old queens! Wraith queens who wear the same sort of gown Elizabeth slept for ten thousand years in! Wraith queens who have to deal with the loss of their ships, or who utterly fail to do so! Wraith queens draped in starlight and the flesh of their ships who are the end of all things and of you! Wraith queens freed from Joe Mallozzi's nonexistent imagination! W R A I T H Q U E E N S. Have a fanmix and also another one.
General: I love these books, y'all. I love the history and myths and LADIES and the Rihannsu written by someone who loves them for what they are, and not the weird Roman Empire But In Space blandness the shows ended up doing. Honestly, as long as they're Rihannsu and not Romulans, I am close to impossible to disappoint!
Ships I like: Any femslash.
Development of the Rihannsu Matriarchy: I love the political science aspects of this, ngl, all the women-and-war and women-as-nation stuff. Academia stuff would be really fun here, essays and history books and oral histories.
Ecology of ch'Rihan and ch'Havran: Tidal-locked planets! Exploration! Weird flora and fauna! That biology nerd who knew better than to put that thing in their mouth but definitely did anyway! Exploration! Alien planet nerdery.
Effects of the war on Vulcans & Rihannsu:
Rihannsu language development and teaching: On the topic of nerdery: language and linguistics nerdery! Language and identity politics are close to my heart and I want more of how they play out with the Rihannsu. Super extra optional bonus points for this also being an Ael &-or-/ Uhura story.
The Journey: Preparations, shipboard life, weird space things encountered along the way.
The Sundering: In-universe documents would be great here, whether nonfictional oral histories/journals, or excerpts of fiction written about it.
Ship-clans: People who love their ships too much, I am weak. People who chose to stay on their ships, instead of settling on land? Differences between people from different ships?
TTraditional/Internal Rihannsu Warfare & Customs Related To It:
General: Hi my name is Kimara and I really fucking love weird eldritch Force shenanigans! I have requested some of my fave darksiders who are most apt to be getting up to weird Force shenanigans (or becoming them, Nihilus), but if you have other faves who you would like to get up to weird Force shenanigans, feel free to write about them instead, or write from the POV of the Force, or something equally weird!
Ships I like: F!Exile/F!Revan, F!Exile/Kreia, F!Inquisitor/Darth Zash, pretty much any femslash you can think of.
Fandom-specific DNW: Male PCs from KOTOR/SWTOR, even if they're not the main character (e.g. no M!Revan, M!Agent, etc).
Force visions & precognition: Who has these abilities? Are precognitive visions ever wrong? Can Sith manipulate others' visions? Can they be averted, and what happens if they are (temporary or permanent? does averting a vision of the future require life-drain, from the person with the vision or just by them?)
Hyperspace lanes: FTL travel is SO WEIRD and SO FUN and I just want to dwell in it for a while! Academic papers about the creation and discovery of hyperspace lanes? Journals from some of the first travelers to use them? Logs from ships responsible for creating new ones? Someone thinks they've found a hyperspace lane but then it's something weirder? Way in which the Force interacts with or is absent from hyperspace, especially something that draws on what KOTOR(2) does with the Rakata? Eldritch creatures what live in them, possibly including Force ghosts? Just. HYPERSPACE.
Life at the Sith Academy at Korriban: Academia with murder, yes please! I love unconventional formats for all my requests, but I think they'd be super fun here - homework assignments, essay prompts & responses, an IF day-in-the-life game. Something from Ragate's POV would be fun, since she's been there so long - her recounting previous students who have survived or died in the rite of blood and bone? Something about or from the POV of the Academy founders? A former student who left and founded a secret competing Academy talks about what they're going to do better?
Old Republic Era Jedi Culture:
Sith Sorceresses: MY FAVE GIRLS (initial typo that was not quite incorrect: fae girls, I love weird fey interpretations of the Sith and especially the witches/sorceresses).
The Great Hyperspace War: Look, I would Die for a KOTOR2-style Great Hyperspace War game, but in the meantime, I want to see whatever fic or meta about it you come up with! Battle plans or ship logs or the post-war lives of Sith exiles or more about what was going on on Empress Teta or something about the role that hyperspace itself played in the war. Just ... it's one of my fave eras, I will love anything set during it!
The Rite of Blood and Bone: It's such a tiny sidequest, and I was SO overleveled for it, but it made an outsize impression on me. HOw Ragate formed it (if she was the one who did), students reflecting on their trial, others reflecting on students who failed.
Wounds in the Force: Oh, it's everything I love all in one! THE VOID? Yes. Ladies? Yes. Weird cosmology? Yes. I'm interested in people like Nihilus who have put consious effort into being wounds, into how they're something of-but-apart-from the Sith