Dear Worldbuilder (2024)
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primeidealDear Creator,
Hello! I am also primeideal on Ao3, and I am requesting fic and in-universe meta for all fandoms. Anything involving the requested tags/characters will be wonderful, so feel free to use as little or as much of this as is helpful. Treats are enabled on my Ao3 account.
Farscape
(John, Moya, Pilot, Zhaan; any/no characters, OCs)
Some of these characters fit naturally with some prompts, but please don't feel limited to those--if you want to write about Rygel studying the Delvian Seek or Crais researching wormholes, go for it!
Delvian Seek
What are the different "levels" like? Do people from other species ever join the Delvian religion? What were the reactions to Zhaan's crime? What aspects of their practice are more devotional, versus more magical?
Moya communicating with the crew
To what extent are Moya's mishaps/health issues normal for Leviathans, versus a consequence of Peacekeeper captivity, versus having all these weird aliens aboard? What does she think of some of the shenanigans they get up to? How do the DRDs fit into this--are they more individuals, extensions of Moya's body, something in between? What about Pilot--what happens when they disagree? How do they come to an understanding? Or are they by now more the same person than different?
Pilot and Leviathan evolution
Pilots appear to be born on a planet where they exist independently from Leviathans. Leviathans were created (?) by the godlike species from the "Princess" trilogy. Bonding can potentially cost Pilots centuries of their lives, but at least some of them feel like it's worth it to see the stars. How does any of this work from an evolutionary perspective?
Wormholes
We see wormholes as weapons with the potential to destroy the universe, wormholes as portals to the "unrealized realities," wormholes sending people through time and space...I'd love anything related to this. Slice-of-life worldbuilding from an unrealized reality? John's attempts at documentation as to how to control or summon wormholes? What were the Ancients thinking when they instilled wormhole knowledge in John's head?
Tigana
(any/no characters, OCs)
Magic in post-canon era
Does Palm magic really work differently from Barbadian or Ygrathen magic? Are there alternatives to mutilating hands? What roles do Erlein or Sandre (if he's not dead) play in the new society? What kind of legends still persist among non-magicians, whether or not they're true?
Religious legends of the Palm
I like how the different provinces have related but slightly different tales--Adaon and Micaela, Mount Sangarios, marriage to the sea, the Night Walkers...Anything along these lines, with each province seeing itself as the most important/center of history, would be great. Maybe something drawing on the different associations with each deity: Eanna is sometimes "Eanna of the Stars" or "Eanna of the Names," Morian is associated with portals but also death and change, Adaon with the earth, but also sacrifice and rebirth--how do the Triad's stories change to encompass new associations?
Religious practices of the Palm
We see the importance of songs and liturgy with the "Lament" and the other funeral rites--what other kinds of sacred music are there? What kind of astronomy goes on at Eanna's temple? More about the clergy under the Tyrants--are they corrupt and compromising with dictators? Rightly focused on higher things and not concerned with petty nationalism? Somewhere in between?
Tress of the Emerald Sea
(Fort, Tress; any/no characters, OCs)
Deaf culture and sign language
At one point, "Huck" mentions that Fort uses sign language to communicate with a Deaf community on one of the islands, and one of the princesses Charlie tries to bore is Deaf--but Fort's board is one-of-a-kind "wizard" technology. Is there one signed language or many? Are there islands where everyone signs? What other aspects of culture have emerged in the Deaf community?
Dragons
Xisis has lived beneath the spores for at least three hundred years; he has the power to grant all kinds of boons in trade (but not challenge the Sorceress), does lots of research on spores, and has a bunch of servants working for him who aren't afraid of spores. Hoid says that almost every culture across the Cosmere has the same mental image of dragons, because dragons make sure to show themselves early in a culture's history and make long-lasting impressions, and they horde ideas rather than wealth. I would be interested in anything else about dragons either on this world or elsewhere in the Cosmere (I've read most of Sanderson's other stuff, so feel free to work that in, but obviously not expected). More books like the one Crow read? OCs working in Xisis' lair? Post-canon Crow becoming a spore scholar?
Spores not seen in canon
I mean, go wild here. I assume every moon has a different set of spores that influence one-twelfth of the surface below--most of them have the potential to be dangerous but not inherently catastrophic, there seems to be an important mental/intentionality factor, and beyond that, the sky's the limit! Fort mentions that there's a legendary type of "bone spore" that counts as a thirteenth, but other people dismiss it as just a myth--what's going on there?
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Again, please don't feel limited to this, anything related to these topics would be great. Thank you very much!
Hello! I am also primeideal on Ao3, and I am requesting fic and in-universe meta for all fandoms. Anything involving the requested tags/characters will be wonderful, so feel free to use as little or as much of this as is helpful. Treats are enabled on my Ao3 account.
I have many previous dear author letters from which much of this is copied, pasted, and endlessly rewritten. I've written/blogged more heavily about several of these fandoms than others at times, but I would be equally delighted with a gift for any of them.
General Likes:
-canon-divergence AUs
-five things
-dialogue
-wit and wordplay
-nonstandard formats (documentation, epistolary, etc.)
-happy endings
-sad endings (character death, melodrama, heartbreak!)
General DNWs:
-explicit on-screen sex (fade-to-black or innuendo is fine)
-underage characters having sex
-rape/noncon
-moralizing/didactic stories (characters Learning An Important Lesson about the value of tolerance, etc.)
-non-canonical allegories of current events and/or contemporary politics
-character bashing
Farscape
(John, Moya, Pilot, Zhaan; any/no characters, OCs)
Some of these characters fit naturally with some prompts, but please don't feel limited to those--if you want to write about Rygel studying the Delvian Seek or Crais researching wormholes, go for it!
Delvian Seek
What are the different "levels" like? Do people from other species ever join the Delvian religion? What were the reactions to Zhaan's crime? What aspects of their practice are more devotional, versus more magical?
Moya communicating with the crew
To what extent are Moya's mishaps/health issues normal for Leviathans, versus a consequence of Peacekeeper captivity, versus having all these weird aliens aboard? What does she think of some of the shenanigans they get up to? How do the DRDs fit into this--are they more individuals, extensions of Moya's body, something in between? What about Pilot--what happens when they disagree? How do they come to an understanding? Or are they by now more the same person than different?
Pilot and Leviathan evolution
Pilots appear to be born on a planet where they exist independently from Leviathans. Leviathans were created (?) by the godlike species from the "Princess" trilogy. Bonding can potentially cost Pilots centuries of their lives, but at least some of them feel like it's worth it to see the stars. How does any of this work from an evolutionary perspective?
Wormholes
We see wormholes as weapons with the potential to destroy the universe, wormholes as portals to the "unrealized realities," wormholes sending people through time and space...I'd love anything related to this. Slice-of-life worldbuilding from an unrealized reality? John's attempts at documentation as to how to control or summon wormholes? What were the Ancients thinking when they instilled wormhole knowledge in John's head?
Tigana
(any/no characters, OCs)
Magic in post-canon era
Does Palm magic really work differently from Barbadian or Ygrathen magic? Are there alternatives to mutilating hands? What roles do Erlein or Sandre (if he's not dead) play in the new society? What kind of legends still persist among non-magicians, whether or not they're true?
Religious legends of the Palm
I like how the different provinces have related but slightly different tales--Adaon and Micaela, Mount Sangarios, marriage to the sea, the Night Walkers...Anything along these lines, with each province seeing itself as the most important/center of history, would be great. Maybe something drawing on the different associations with each deity: Eanna is sometimes "Eanna of the Stars" or "Eanna of the Names," Morian is associated with portals but also death and change, Adaon with the earth, but also sacrifice and rebirth--how do the Triad's stories change to encompass new associations?
Religious practices of the Palm
We see the importance of songs and liturgy with the "Lament" and the other funeral rites--what other kinds of sacred music are there? What kind of astronomy goes on at Eanna's temple? More about the clergy under the Tyrants--are they corrupt and compromising with dictators? Rightly focused on higher things and not concerned with petty nationalism? Somewhere in between?
Tress of the Emerald Sea
(Fort, Tress; any/no characters, OCs)
Deaf culture and sign language
At one point, "Huck" mentions that Fort uses sign language to communicate with a Deaf community on one of the islands, and one of the princesses Charlie tries to bore is Deaf--but Fort's board is one-of-a-kind "wizard" technology. Is there one signed language or many? Are there islands where everyone signs? What other aspects of culture have emerged in the Deaf community?
Dragons
Xisis has lived beneath the spores for at least three hundred years; he has the power to grant all kinds of boons in trade (but not challenge the Sorceress), does lots of research on spores, and has a bunch of servants working for him who aren't afraid of spores. Hoid says that almost every culture across the Cosmere has the same mental image of dragons, because dragons make sure to show themselves early in a culture's history and make long-lasting impressions, and they horde ideas rather than wealth. I would be interested in anything else about dragons either on this world or elsewhere in the Cosmere (I've read most of Sanderson's other stuff, so feel free to work that in, but obviously not expected). More books like the one Crow read? OCs working in Xisis' lair? Post-canon Crow becoming a spore scholar?
Spores not seen in canon
I mean, go wild here. I assume every moon has a different set of spores that influence one-twelfth of the surface below--most of them have the potential to be dangerous but not inherently catastrophic, there seems to be an important mental/intentionality factor, and beyond that, the sky's the limit! Fort mentions that there's a legendary type of "bone spore" that counts as a thirteenth, but other people dismiss it as just a myth--what's going on there?
---
Again, please don't feel limited to this, anything related to these topics would be great. Thank you very much!
