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Dear Pen Pal (Unsent Letters 2026)
Feb. 28th, 2026 01:51 pmHello, thank you for creating for me! I'm also primeideal on Ao3. Treats are enabled.
Note for this particular exchange: I hope to be traveling at the time gifts are revealed, I may not be able to comment promptly. I look forward to savoring my gift when I have time to sit at a computer and read!
DNWs:
Dune Movies
Chani & Liet
(Formats: Books/Articles, Journals/Diaries, Letters/Emails/Audio/Video transcripts)
Chani doesn't have a last name in movie canon, so if you're working just from the movies--what relationship do these two have? Something comparing and contrasting their relationships to Fremen religion/prophecy/fate versus free will, or interactions with the empire, could be neat. Scientific articles that Liet writes? Is she training Chani as a successor?
Alternatively: in book canon, Liet is Chani's father, suggesting that movie!Liet could be Chani's mother, which adds another layer of delicious wrinkles to everything. Letters they write when Liet is away on empire business? Is Chani curious or resentful about her family elsewhere in the galaxy? What hopes does Liet have for Chani, even if they never leave the pages of her journal?
Stormlight Archive
Shallan & any
(Formats: Books/Articles, Journals/Diaries, Letters/Emails/Audio/Video transcripts)
I think there's a lot of potential for correspondence in the post-canon era, with Shallan trying to communicate via seons from the Cognitive Realm. Worrying about Adolin? Theorizing with Navani or Jasnah as to what this might mean for the Radiants? Mentoring Gaz or some of her other squires remotely? Negotiating with Thaidakar? (I'm familiar with the rest of the Cosmere if you want to work in characterization/worldbuilding from other Cosmere books.) Trying to track down her family?
If you're interested in Shallan/Adolin, feel free to make it shippy, but I'm not interested in poly-shipping for this request. I subscribe to (and enjoy) the theory that Shallan is pregnant when we see her last, so I'd be happy with an OC kid showing up, but no need to include that if it's not something you're interested in.
It would also be neat to see more from Shallan's journals/sketchbooks/research during canon. Assignments she completed for Jasnah in Kharbranth? More of the spanreed notes from when she was "texting" Adolin in his self-imposed jail term? Research articles about the Radiants or Unmade?
I'm not super interested in Shallan's alter egos, so I'd prefer if they weren't a focus (mentions are fine).
Worst Journey
Birdie & Cherry & Wilson, Birdie/Cherry
(Formats: Books/Articles, Journals/Diaries, Letters/Emails/Audio/Video transcripts)
I love the contrast of all the different character voices--not just narrator!Cherry writing a decade after the fact, but also diary!Cherry in the moment and epistolary!Bowers being very proud of his cute green hat. Maybe another incident with different POVs on the same event, whether it be future!Cherry interweaving his voice with present!Cherry or just the contrast between different voices in people's respective diaries/letters home? (Doesn't have to be limited to the requested characters, outside POV from other crew is also great!) Letters they wrote to each other after the return party turned back, for dramatic irony and sadness?
For the tag "books and articles" in particular I'm imagining canon-divergence AUs. Everyone lives and Wilson gets to write nerdy research papers about the penguin eggs? The Winter Journey ends in tragedy, and maybe that changes the approach the polar party takes? Atkinson leads the group to search for Campbell's party in late 1912 and the world doesn't find out for years (or ever?) how close Scott et. al got? (Any of these premises could also work for other formats, of course!)
Note for this particular exchange: I hope to be traveling at the time gifts are revealed, I may not be able to comment promptly. I look forward to savoring my gift when I have time to sit at a computer and read!
DNWs:
-explicit sex (but 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
-themes of cynicism or futility, or that the (canon's) main plotlines "are for nothing"
Chani & Liet
(Formats: Books/Articles, Journals/Diaries, Letters/Emails/Audio/Video transcripts)
Chani doesn't have a last name in movie canon, so if you're working just from the movies--what relationship do these two have? Something comparing and contrasting their relationships to Fremen religion/prophecy/fate versus free will, or interactions with the empire, could be neat. Scientific articles that Liet writes? Is she training Chani as a successor?
Alternatively: in book canon, Liet is Chani's father, suggesting that movie!Liet could be Chani's mother, which adds another layer of delicious wrinkles to everything. Letters they write when Liet is away on empire business? Is Chani curious or resentful about her family elsewhere in the galaxy? What hopes does Liet have for Chani, even if they never leave the pages of her journal?
Stormlight Archive
Shallan & any
(Formats: Books/Articles, Journals/Diaries, Letters/Emails/Audio/Video transcripts)
I think there's a lot of potential for correspondence in the post-canon era, with Shallan trying to communicate via seons from the Cognitive Realm. Worrying about Adolin? Theorizing with Navani or Jasnah as to what this might mean for the Radiants? Mentoring Gaz or some of her other squires remotely? Negotiating with Thaidakar? (I'm familiar with the rest of the Cosmere if you want to work in characterization/worldbuilding from other Cosmere books.) Trying to track down her family?
If you're interested in Shallan/Adolin, feel free to make it shippy, but I'm not interested in poly-shipping for this request. I subscribe to (and enjoy) the theory that Shallan is pregnant when we see her last, so I'd be happy with an OC kid showing up, but no need to include that if it's not something you're interested in.
It would also be neat to see more from Shallan's journals/sketchbooks/research during canon. Assignments she completed for Jasnah in Kharbranth? More of the spanreed notes from when she was "texting" Adolin in his self-imposed jail term? Research articles about the Radiants or Unmade?
I'm not super interested in Shallan's alter egos, so I'd prefer if they weren't a focus (mentions are fine).
Worst Journey
Birdie & Cherry & Wilson, Birdie/Cherry
(Formats: Books/Articles, Journals/Diaries, Letters/Emails/Audio/Video transcripts)
I love the contrast of all the different character voices--not just narrator!Cherry writing a decade after the fact, but also diary!Cherry in the moment and epistolary!Bowers being very proud of his cute green hat. Maybe another incident with different POVs on the same event, whether it be future!Cherry interweaving his voice with present!Cherry or just the contrast between different voices in people's respective diaries/letters home? (Doesn't have to be limited to the requested characters, outside POV from other crew is also great!) Letters they wrote to each other after the return party turned back, for dramatic irony and sadness?
For the tag "books and articles" in particular I'm imagining canon-divergence AUs. Everyone lives and Wilson gets to write nerdy research papers about the penguin eggs? The Winter Journey ends in tragedy, and maybe that changes the approach the polar party takes? Atkinson leads the group to search for Campbell's party in late 1912 and the world doesn't find out for years (or ever?) how close Scott et. al got? (Any of these premises could also work for other formats, of course!)
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As usual, all of this is optional, anything about these fandoms/relationships will be great. Thanks for creating for me!
