va'esse deireádh aep eigean, va'esse eigh faidh'ar

Hello friend, it is time for Tolkien fic and I am so excited to see what you will write for me! If you want inspiration beyond this letter I am also kimaracretak, where I have a small but reflective-of-things-I-like set of bookmarks, and kimaracretak on 8tracks if you want #aesthetic musical inspiration.

I love Tolkien for the worldbuilding and mytharcs as well as their characters and relationships, and I am 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! Some of these prompts are reused from old letters, and if you have written them for me before, rest assured that I loved your fic, I am simply greedy and would like to see every possible take on my favourite scenarios. A lot of my prompts are very horror-slanted, I suppose because it's August and I'm in the Samhaim Mood already, but if your muse is inclined to things less murderous, feel free!

I love everything from short introspection bits to long plotty missionfic to sex scenes as ways to explore character/setting/worldbuilding, and 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. Please no unrequested ships unless specifically allowed for, but feel free to combine any compatible ones from my requested ones.

Likes || Dark Likes || Smut Likes || DNWs || Tolkien-specific notes


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General: It's the 'drop Goldberry into the Silm' request set! I always forget she's technically LotR based instad of Silm/Histories based, she feels more Silm-y to me with the edges of danger and possibility than the frozen decay of the Third Age. Just write me eldritch Goldberry and I'm totally happy!

Worldbuilding: Portals & passageways

( Goldberry & Lalaith, Goldberry & or / Melian, Goldberry/Aredhel, Goldberry/Celebrian, Goldberry/Nimrodel )


General: I am here mostly for the creepy things in the forest, and for the (maybe fewer) creepy things under the lake! I tend to think the movies were a bit, hm, too on-the-nose with the whole 'hello naughty dwarves it is Scary Mirkwood Time' thing, and prefer stories about the slowly growing horror of things that aren't Quite Right (think: Necromancer as menacing skeleton-in-shadows rather than Necromancer-as-giant-firey-ball-of-sfx).

Worldbuilding: Daily life of the Mirkwood Guard (Hobbit Movies), The effects of Smaug's corpse on the surrounding nature/towns, The Greenwood becoming Mirkwood (Hobbit Movies), The magic of the Elves of Mirkwood, The ruins of Lake-Town

( Tauriel, Tauriel/Sigrid, Tauriel/Original Female Mirkwood Guard(s), Tauriel/Original Female Avarin )


General: I am here mostly for the creepy things in the forest, and for the (maybe fewer) creepy things under the lake! I tend to think the movies were a bit, hm, too on-the-nose with the whole 'hello naughty dwarves it is Scary Mirkwood Time' thing, and prefer stories about the slowly growing horror of things that aren't Quite Right (think: Necromancer as menacing skeleton-in-shadows rather than Necromancer-as-giant-firey-ball-of-sfx).

Worldbuilding: Hauntings of Middle-earth - Third Age, Nature Spirits of Middle-earth, Motivations of Sentient Trees, The creation of Barrow-wights

( Barrow-wight(s), Houseless Elves, The Dead of Dunharrow, Goldberry & Belladonna Took, Goldberry & Tom Bombadil & Old Man Willow, Goldberry/Arwen, Goldberry/Galadriel, Goldberry/Lady of the Blue Brooch, Old Man Willow, Queen Beruthiel's Cats )


Worldbuilding: Cosmology, Elves at the End of the World, Elven magic & technology, Hauntings of Middle-earth, Ice and Darkness, In-universe history and lore, Nan Dungortheb, Nature spirits and sentient nature, Magic in Doriath, Sentient Jewellery, Song power, Vampires and Skin-Changers

( Aredhel/Thuringwethil, Arien/Thuringwethil, Celebrían/Nimrodel, Eilinel/Thuringwethil, Galadriel/Melian, Galadriel/Nimrodel, Haleth/Lúthien, Ilmarë/Thuringwethil, Luthien/Thuringwethil, Nimrodel/Mithrellas, Thuringwethil/Varda )


General: Numenor fun (or not so fun!) times! I love the idea of a land in decay, of politics slowly growing more and more twisted and faith growing more and more improbable. Some of these are prompts for character who dies in canon survives AUs, but that survival doesn't have to mean anything is better :3

Worldbuilding: Hauntings of Middle-earth, Late Numenor, Nature spirits and sentient nature, Númenor & Lindon, Survival at Sea

( Elwing/Uinen, Elwing/Varda, Erendis/Uinen, Tar-Miriel/Uinen, Tar-Miriel/Varda )

Hello friend, it is time for incest/selfcest fic and I am so excited to see what you will write for me! If you want inspiration beyond this letter I am also kimaracretak, where I have a small but reflective-of-things-I-like set of bookmarks, and kimaracretak on 8tracks if you want #aesthetic musical inspiration.

I've by and large chosen canons I love for their worldbuilding and mytharcs as well as their characters and relationships, and I am 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! Some of these prompts are reused from old letters, and if you have written them for me before, rest assured that I loved your fic, I am simply greedy and would like to see every possible take on my favourite scenarios.

I love everything from short introspection bits to long plotty missionfic to sex scenes as ways to explore character/setting/worldbuilding, and 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. Please no unrequested ships unless specifically allowed for, but feel free to combine any compatible ones from my requested ones.

Likes || Smut Likes || DNWs || A Song of Ice and Fire || Chilling Adventures of Sabrina || Goblin Market - Christina Rossetti || Lord of the Rings - J. R. R. Tolkien ||Secret History - Donna Tartt || Star Trek: Deep Space Nine || Star Wars: Sequel Trilogy || The Magnus Archives || Under the Pendulum Sun - Jeanette Ng


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General: I'm fine with permadeath for Cersei if it's a murder-suicide dying-in-each-other's-arms deal with Jaime. I love the vast worldbuilding of the books, everything from the wild witchy bits up north to the more mundane aspects of King's Landing courtly life, so feel free to lean into either aspect as much as you like!

Fandom-specific DNW: Show canon, valonqar!Tyrion, Cersei dying while Jaime lives/Jaime dying while Cersei lives.

( Cersei/Jaime )


General: Please refer to Lilith as Lilith (rather than Madam Satan) for fic from her POV/from the POV of people who know she's no longer Mary Wardwell. 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.

( Edward/Zelda, Edward/Zelda/Lilith )


General: The poem is relatively short and here for easy reference, or if you are feeling unenthused about the request of mine you initially matched on and want to do something different. I love the way the poem plays with obsession and adoration and change and how people are dragged into and out of the weird spaces between life and death. I am also 100% here for an IN SPACE AU for this poem, so if you too would like a goblin market IN SPACE feel free to run with that! I have some freeforms in last year's Darkest Night letter that are fair game, including the setting-change AU ones. I am fine with permadeath of any of the requested characters here.

( Lizzie/Laura, Jeanie/Lizzie/Laura )


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!

( Arwen/Luthien )


General: I have a slight preference for pre-canon or during-canon fic, but if you want to write post-canon, go for it! I like the ridiculousness of the group like ... re-creating Victoriana boarding school tropes at a 1980s university, and really love fics that delve into the sort of person one has to be to cultivate that sense of deliberate earnest pretentiousness. I like fics about the mundane academic and the weird mythology equally, so lean into whichever you prefer. Feel free to include the rest of the group and Julian, but I'd prefer no OT3s for the twins this time.

( Camilla/Charles )


General: I prefer fics that don't make such a strong connection between mirrorverse sexualities and evil like the show did. I love, love, love canon-divergent AUs for DS9, especially where Bajor discovers the wormhole (and its possibilities for inter-universe travel earlier). Whether that's Kira's 'The Federation will be gone in a week and so will you' prediction coming true, or maybe Bajor has known about the mirrorverse for forever and have been getting secret help against the Cardassians from various mirrorverse factions or something else entirely, have fun with the what-ifs! I've read most of the season 8 novels, including the mirrorverse ones, and I'm overall lukewarm on them - feel free to use/ignore relevant bits as you want. I'm also kinda :/ at mirror versions of characters being killed off so frequently, it closes so many interesting storylines, so feel free to ignore any of those deaths.

Fandom-specific DNW: Prime or Mirror!Bashir, Prime!Dukat, post-series fic where prime!Bajor has joined the Federation/Kira has joined Starfleet for real (fic set when she's temporarily commissioned during s7 is okay).

( Kira/Iliana Ghemor, Kira/Mirror Kira, Winn Adami/Mirror Winn Adami )


General: Sith/Jedi AUs are great in any combination - I like the angst of the twins trying to reach each other across the light/dark divide, but terrifyingly competent murdertwins united on one side of the battle is also excellent. I have a slightly easier time seeing Sith!Amilyn than Jedi!Amilyn but I will read either with equal delight. Force-sensitive Amilyn is amazing always, but just vaguely-witchy Amilyn is also great. AUs with Dark Empress/Sith Lord Padmé at Palpatine's right hand instead of Anakin, or where she lives to found the Rebllion (and exploring what that means for the twins) are always gleefully accepted. I ship Rey/Kylo and Finn/Rose and am happy to see them as background relationships in compatible requests. I'm thoroughly indifferent to Han/Leia so feel free to presume it never happened/open marriage/amicable divorce/Han's death as is convenient.

Fandom-specific DNW: Ben being Luke & Leia's child, Rey being related to any pre-existing characters other than possibly Palpatine, references to/acknowledgement of Amilyn's death.

( Leia/Luke, Amilyn/Leia/Luke, Leia/Luke/Rey )


General: I love horror canons and eldritch things and unconventional formatting and pretty much everything about this story! I read rather than listen and am only up to 115 where the official transcripts end so I'd prefer something set before then. Permanent death for Sasha is totally fine here.

( Sasha/Not Sasha )


General: Oh hey this weird book about fucked-up missionary siblings in clockwork Fairyland snuck into my life and ruined me and I would love to be further ruined by any fic you write! I really, really loved the Changeling!Cathy faux-reveal and was a bit put out by its last-chapter reversal (all books can do with more weird changelings, lbr), so any Changeling!Cathy fic - or fic where she's human but grappling with the fact that she enjoyed elements of the time when she thought she was a soulless creature - is always adored. Canon-compliant deathfic for Ariel is fine - especially if it leads to Mab further manipulating/fucking with Cathy, and Cathy continuing to spiral about her identity, but I am also thrilled by any AU you come up with where she survives or is brought back.

( Cathy/Laon, Ariel/Cathy/Laon, Cathy/Laon/Mab, Kasdaye/Penemue )