primeideal

Dear Author,

Hello! I am also primeideal on Ao3, and I am requesting fic for all fandoms. Prompts will be spoilery. 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 fic for any one of them.

General Likes:

-canon-divergence AUs

-five things

-worldbuilding

-dialogue

-wit and wordplay

-nonstandard formats (documentation, epistolary, etc.)

-interactive fiction--I prefer formats like Twine to open-ended parsers.

-happy endings

-sad endings (when providing some measure of closure or melodrama; I'm fine with character death!)

General DNWs:

-explicit sex (but fade-to-black or innuendo is fine)

-underage characters having sex

-rape/noncon

-second person POV (in "normal" prose, happy with it in IF or the like)

-moralizing/didactic stories (characters Learning An Important Lesson about the value of tolerance, etc.)

-non-canonical allegories of current events and/or contemporary politics (Shara complains about Parliament: fine; Shara complains about Parliament and this is a metaphor for the 21st century US Congress: no thanks.)

-character bashing

-cliffhanger endings

-themes of cynicism or futility, or that the (canon's) main plotlines "are for nothing"

Anathem

For this request: DNW mention of allswell or other mind-altering drugs. (Something like Jules and Lise drinking Laterran alcohol together is fine.)

Jules Verne Durand/Lise

A normal day on the Laterran sector in happier times? Their conflicts with the Pedestal faction? Fix-it where Lise lives and that has ripple effects for Orolo and the others?

Erasmas

What does his life look like in the post-canon era? Is he a mentor to future fids? What changes with the Second Reconstitution? More of his friendships with Sammann or Jules, or his family relationship with Cord?

Jad

What did a "normal" day in the life of a Millenarian look like, pre-canon? Is he bouncing around nearby "alternate universes," or moving farther up the Wick? Jad mentions that if it hadn't been for the Daban Urnud's arrival, Orolo would likely have become a Centenarian and then a Millenarian himself someday--what would their relationship have been like?

Orolo

How did he react when the Ita picked him to secretly spy on the Daban Urnud? What was actually going through his head in the early chapters that he couldn't tell Raz? Or during his death scene?

Mathic Life Before the Second Reconstitution

I love all the weird math monk stuff. Patterns for bells and sleeping arrangements! Clock towers! Labyrinths between the different tiers! Everything the Ita are doing behind the scenes to make it functional! Anything set in the world of the concents would be great. It sounds like Saunt Edhar's is more ascetic than some of the other concents, so something set elsewhere with different traditions could be a neat contrast.

Matarrhites

Given the themes of the book, the idea of a concent where people believe in god as well as in science is compelling--but we don't get to hear much from the "real' Matarrhites, just the fakeout. What is life like in their concents, besides the masks? Is their food really as bad as the rumors have it? How do they react to the arrival of the Daban Urnud and the polycosmic theory?

The Dictionary

I love the in-universe definitions, especially the ones that manage to pun on more than one word at once! (Anathem = anthem + anathema, concent = convent + concentric, etc.) More about the dictionary as it exists in the canon timeframe? The convoxes where Millennials have to summarize a thousand years' worth of language drift? Post-canon dictionaries as people react to new jargon from the Daban Arnud?

Divine Cities

Rada Smolisk

Okay yeah, she's definitely a villain, but I feel like the Strawman Has A Point sometimes--in a world where there's pretty direct evidence for the existence of deities, Pascal's Wager gets played with real stakes. More on her experiences in the battle of Bulikov? How she decides on her plan? AU where she succeeds/gets farther? Meets Voortya and has her mind changed (or not)?

Signe Harkvaldsson

The characterization of "long-lost Viking princes are out, economics nerds are in" is a great encapsulation of the technological and cultural change throughout the timeframe of the series. More about her time in Voortyashtan, or on the creepy island? Her engineering company trying to deal with mundane or not-so-mundane business problems? Fix-it AU?

Ahanas & Voortya

We see in "City of Blades" that their interactions had a major effect on Voortya, and the rites that the protagonists have to research are a combination of growth and bloodshed. The timeframe of their relationship from either POV? Worldbuilding about their miracles/rites/children(?) in later generations? Feel free to make this / instead of &, or a combination of the two.

Shara Komayd & Efrem Pangyui

Academia nerds! I love Pangyui's (and all the other) in-universe epigraphs. The two of them researching something scholarly or getting involved in spycraft together?

Signe Harkvaldsson/Turyin Mulaghesh

I think they're cute! It would be nice for both of them to have something to enjoy away from work, Mulaghesh especially should get to have nice things. Fix-it great, tragedy also great. Maybe Sigrud's reaction?

Continental cities before the Blink

Saypur

Technology/Industrialization/Infrastructure in the Continent

For all of these, feel free to go nuts. I like the Divinities' original combinations of attributes--I would rather see something leaning into what makes this particular setting unique than just "fantasy India" or "fantasy Russia," etc. But I also enjoy the way that technology progresses throughout the series--what's it like building a railway network or trying to push reforms through Parliament in what used to be a low-tech fantasy setting?

The Goblin Emperor

Aina Shulivar

How did he get turned onto Curneise philosophy? How did he decide to double-cross Tethimar? What's going through his mind as he reads about Maia's reforming ways and feels vindicated? What was his reaction to meeting Celehar? He used to be a clocksmith in Zhaö--did he ever meet the clocksmiths we see in canon? Could they have talked him into a more peaceful form of progress?

Hanevis Athmaza

He fought and won an epic magic duel against an usurper, knowing it would probably kill him, hung on just long enough to die in his emperor's arms, and people are still talking about him centuries later. Why did he become a nohecharis? What was the duel really like? What are some of the different ways that his story has been told through the years, and/or who else has been inspired by him?

Idra Drazhar & Ino Drazhin & Mireän Drazhin

More about their relationship with "Cousin Maia" through the years? How did they handle the deaths of their father, grandfather, and uncles? Their adventures visiting their other grandparents with the puppet theater?

Le Morte d'Arthur

I love these two individually and juxtaposed with each other--what do their (a)sexualities say about the Arthurian setting? Dinadan writing snarky songs and being "one of the guys" contrasts with Galahad's slightly out-of-this-world purity.

Dinadan
According to Malory, basically everyone liked him except the bad guys. What was he like as a jouster? How did he die? Did he write any other goofy songs?

Galahad
Growing up with his mother? His relationship with Lancelot? What do the other knights think of his obsession with the Grail, and what does he think of them joining on his quest? Does he feel like chastity is a struggle, or does he just not see what the fuss is about?

Wheel of Time

Egwene al'Vere

I love Egwene's journey as someone who chooses to join the adventure, rather than being dragged along by destiny, and learns from every opportunity she faces. Tell me more about her time among the Aiel? Dealing with headaches, literal and figurative? Her private war against Elaida, combining the different Ajahs' strengths and inspiring the novices around her? What if she'd survived--would she really have led the Tower for centuries, or move on to new horizons?

Verin Mathwin

We love an absentminded plump grandma triple agent! What was in some the other letters she sent? Her research on southeastern reptiles? The first time she realized she was in over her head with the Black Ajah, or the worst thing she's ever done to keep her cover? She was apparently a Moiraine/Siuan shipper back in the day, leaving out snacks while the Accepted studied...give me her POV on their relationship! A fix-it where the Oath Rod saves her?

Nynaeve al'Meara/Lan Mandragoran

This is one of my favorite canon ships because they come together relatively naturally without a lot of prophecy in the way. Missing scenes, like the Sea Folk marriage ceremony? Coming to realize their attraction to each other in the EotW timeframe? How Lan recognized the bond had been passed, or using the bond to stay connected post-canon?

Post-series Aiel

I am strongly of the opinion that Aviendha's vision was like the Ghost of Christmas Future in "A Christmas Carol"--these are only things that may be, not necessarily what will be. However, there's a lot to explore with the Aiel even in a peaceful setting. How do they adjust to the Wetlands? Do they form cities or remain nomadic? What is their relationship with the Tuatha'an like now, or with Cairhien? Do the Dragon's descendants have any special distinctions? What about the Shaido back in the Three-Fold Land: are they the "remnant of a remnant" that retain an Aiel identity in the old sense?

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Again, this is all optional--anything that excites you about these fandoms will be fascinating to me, too. Thanks for writing for me!