primeideal

Hi! This is a lighthearted/absurd event, feel free to go crazy with whatever delights you about these fandoms/characters, don't take it too seriously. In particular, the "optional tags" are just things I saw in the tagset that struck me as maybe interesting--for Debrief, I think the range of tags pretty much encompasses everything I love about the canon and the potential tones you can go for. For Anathem and the Stormlight Archive, there's a lot more to do with these characters so don't feel limited to that!

DNWs:

-for Anathem: mentions of allswell or other mind-altering drugs. (Something like Jules and Lise drinking Laterran alcohol together is fine.)

-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 (Alderidge has hot takes about Winston Churchhill, fine; Alderidge has hot takes about a Rishi Sunak stand-in, no thanks.)

-character bashing

( prompts are spoilery )
As usual, all of this is optional, anything about these fandoms/characters will be great. Thanks for creating for me and/or contemplating crimes!

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!

Dear 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.

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

Clue

(any characters)

How Clue-Sharing Works; Logistics of Finding the Culprit to Be Yourself

Anything to do with the absurdity of this situation! For "finding the culprit to be yourself"--Professor Plum commited the crime and forgot about it? The suspects are just unreliable narrators, or they're not willing to confess but they're too honorable to dispute something that's logically proven? "Clue-sharing"--are they honor-bound to share any evidence that could lead to a solution, or are they just happy to poke holes in someone else's ability? Why does turn order matter?

Feel free to bring in anything else from the game (secret passages? roll-and-move rules? the weirdness of getting to form a hypothesis after you've been teleported somewhere?), I just thought these tags were the most over-the-top delightful!

Farscape

(Moya, Pilot, any/no characters, OCs)

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?

Goblin Emperor

(Habrobar; any/no characters, OCs)

Habrobar's people

He's tiny, he's gray, he's been making signet rings for five hundred years. What is his deal?! Where are his people from, or do they not have a specific homeland? What brought him to the Ethuveraz? What has his POV been about elvish politics through the centuries, or outsider POVs on him?

Hellspark

(Maggy; any/no characters, OCs)

Sentient computers

I think it's sweet, and fitting, that a story about first contact and trying to determine whether the sprookjes are sentient turns into a story about the first computer being recognized as sentient! More about Maggy learning language, how she's childlike in some ways but adult in others, forming (mis)conceptions through her books? Experiencing physicality between the ship and the spider body, since she isn't limited to being in one place? How does she mentor the upcoming generation of extrapolative computers, and how do they see her?

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Again, please don't feel limited to this, anything related to these topics would be great. Thank you very much!

Dear Creator,

Hello! I am also primeideal on Ao3, and I am requesting fic and IF for all fandoms. Anything involving the requested characters/relationships/worldbuilding 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.

General Likes:

-canon-divergence AUs

-five things

-worldbuilding

-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 (Ryland complains about Stratt and the UN, fine; Ryland complains about a Joe Biden stand-in, no thanks.)

-character bashing

IF specific notes: I prefer clickthrough formats (like Twine or multi-chapter view in Ao3) to open-ended parsers.

Anathem:

Daban Urnud

So much potential for worldbuilding on an polycosmic ship! How do they handle the slight differences in elements/oxygenation/laws of nature between the zones? What's it like to work on the nuclear propulsion engines? What kind of cultures and traditions have developed among the shipborn generations? The "parallel universes" bleedthrough/one-in-ten-thousand nonsense could be a great premise for interactive fic!

For this request: DNW mention of allswell or other mind-altering drugs.

Dune (Villeneuve movies)

Liet Kynes

What was her scientific career like when the Harkonnens were in charge? How does she get along with Stilgar and the southerners? Did she meet Duncan Idaho when he came ahead to scout Arrakis, and if so, what did they make of each other? What if she'd survived--would she have continued to admire and respect Paul, or would their different goals eventually diverge?

Farscape:

Aeryn Sun
Zotoh Zhaan
John Crichton/Aeryn Sun
Bialar Crais & Talyn
Aeryn Sun & Pilot
Moya & Pilot
Delvian Seek
Impact of first contact on Earth religions

Aeryn

What was she doing between seasons 3 and 4, and how did she become so loyal to those comrades? What was her life in the PKs like after selling out Velorek to become a Prowler pilot again? "N things" exploring her relationship with different members of the crew? Learning human games/phrases/mannerisms from John? AU Aeryn in an unrealized reality? Tragedy where the heat delirium is uncontrollable?

Zhaan

More of her experiences in prison (besides hoping that the crazy Luxan monster would kill her)? Wrestling with her faith over the course of the series? How did she get all that cool jewelry? Other weird biomes/stars where being a photosynthesizer is a problem or a benefit? How would the later seasons have been different if she'd survived?

John/Aeryn

The other crew members' POV/misunderstandings about their relationship? Aeryn contrasting her relationships with the two clones? Post-canon adventures--what does a "normal" day look like for John and Aeryn when they're not running for their lives? Do they ever return to some of the planet-of-the-week locations from canon? (I'm not really a fan of the "Harvey" plotlines so I would prefer if he wasn't a focus, mentions are fine.)

Crais and Talyn:

Anything that leans into the tragic melodrama of canon would be great, but also, fix-it is good too. I'd especially like something that depicts Talyn as a character in his own right rather than just anxious beeping noises mediated through Crais--it doesn't necessarily have to be from his POV, but something that shows he has a POV, if that makes sense. How does Stark's temporary link with Talyn contrast with Crais' long-term bond? Does Crais explain his role in creating the hybrid program, and how does Talyn react? What does a relatively peaceful, happy day look like for them? Talyn's POV on their last couple episodes?

Pilot & Moya, Pilot & Aeryn:
There's no way that "our" Pilot can just be named "Pilot"--what was his identity before he bonded with Moya? What are their sensory experiences like, communicating with each other and with the crew? What's his POV on donating his DNA to save Aeryn; how does that change her? Did he vote for her to be captain in 4.6? We hear very little from Moya directly--I'd love to see something from her POV about the weird tiny aliens living inside her and the trouble they cause.

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?

Impact of first contact on Earth religions:

I enjoyed "A Constellation of Doubt" (4.17) for the look at what Earth makes of Moya and the crew--some positive and some negative reactions, somewhere in between. The Buddhist talking head was fun, and the line about "Do religions hate each other?" "Of course not, but their followers do." Oof. I'd like to see something that engages thoughtfully and isn't just "obviously the existence of extraterrestrial life means these stupid religious people are wrong," but feel free to be playful, too. It's Farscape, fart jokes are encouraged!

Project Hail Mary

Ryland Grace & Rocky

Science nerds working together to save the worlds! I'm not super interested in the flashback Earth chapters, but anything about Grace and Rocky's time together in space or on Erid, or the worldbuilding in general, would be great. How did Rocky stay sane during the decades in isolation? What other bits of Earth science, or culture, come as surprises? Does Grace ever tell Rocky about the real reason he "volunteered" for the mission? Try to explain the significance of the ship's name? There's a good chance that Rocky will live long enough to get transmissions/visitors from Earth after the epilogue--what happens then?

Eridian-Human Diplomacy

Lots of things that could come up in the post-canon era: Eridians have much longer lifespans than humans, and they generally organize by "thrums" rather than having structured government. Did Stratt's "benevolent dictatorship" on Earth continue? Did old countries and structures come back? Did humans figure out a new system? What kind of culture and technology do the planets exchange with each other, and what are they surprised by?

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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!

Hello, thank you for writing for me! I'm also primeideal on Ao3, and I'm requesting fic for all fandoms.

Feel free to use as much or as little of these ideas as you like; if you're inspired for a freeform/character or pairing combination that I didn't specifically elaborate on, that's great too!

General Likes:

-worldbuilding

-dialogue

-nonstandard formats (documentation, epistolary, etc.)

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

-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 (AMarco flirts with the governor of California: fine; Marco flirts with the governor and this is a metaphor for the Newsom administration: no thanks.)

-second person POV (in "normal" fic, fine with it in IF or similar!)

-character bashing

-cliffhanger endings

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

Animorphs

Aximili-Esgarrouth-Isthill & Jake Berenson & Cassie & Marco & Rachel & Tobias (Animorphs)

Cassie & Rachel (Animorphs) (Animorphs)

Aximili-Esgarrouth-Isthill & Tobias (Animorphs)

Elfangor-Sirinial-Shamtul/Loren (Animorphs)

Jake Berenson & Marco (Animorphs)

Jake Berenson/Cassie (Animorphs)

Rachel/Tobias (Animorphs)

Battle Royale Fusion
Characters are aware they are characters but are also themselves (Thursday Next AU)
Time Traveling Team Assembled from Various Eras AU
Werewolf/Mafia Game Played With Real Deaths
No subtemporal grounding in Megamorphs 4

Battle Royale: idiot teenagers with a death wish! Could be a no-aliens AU, or maybe it's a setting where lots of people have morphing powers. Feel free to go tragic, or have people working together to break the game and escape.

Characters aware they are characters: Marco seems like the kind of person to sigh and complain about the fourth wall. Maybe lampshading how the introductions are formulaic but there's also more than enough information to narrow them down? (I'm currently in the process of reading the Thursday Next series and will be several books in by reveals, so feel free to cross over specific plot devices like SpecOps or Jurisfiction.)

Time Traveling Team Assembled From Various Eras: this could be a fun opportunity to revisit some of the canonical alternate universes/time travel mechanics, or make up your own! The "eras" don't necessarily have to be too far apart, if you want to do something where they're still teenagers but in slightly different timelines.

Werewolf/Mafia Game Played With Real Deaths: A Yeerk who was smarter/less impulsive than Temrash would have perfect knowledge of how to imitate one or more of the Animorphs without giving themselves away, seems like a great opportunity for some high-stakes social deduction. (You could also have more characters being infested in the "night phase" instead of dying.)

No Subtemporal Grounding: I like the premise of Megamorphs 4, but Cassie's "anomalous" sense of something being off and bringing the group together felt like a contrived way to make the book wrap up quickly, that never came up again. ;) So anything that expands on this universe without that feature would be great; Tobias' life as a Controller, Rachel and Marco's love life, Ax's woes in the human world... whether or not it resolves the larger plotline.

Harry Potter

Regulus Black (HP - JKR)

Canon Divergence - Minor Character Fatality Survives and Becomes Major Character
Time Travel Fix-It
Regulus Black Lives

Regulus lives and has to deal with life as a traitor! Does he reach out to Sirius for help, or try to push forward on his own? Does he realize that there are more Horcruxes to deal with? Does he go back in time to fix his mistakes, or does someone else from the future save him? Does the rest of the first war go off-track?

Star Wars OT:

Bail Organa & Breha Organa & Leia Organa (SWOT)

Bail Organa & Breha Organa & Luke Skywalker (SW:OT)

Leia Organa & Darth Vader (SWOT)

Leia Organa & Luke Skywalker & Han Solo (SWOT)

Leia Organa & Yoda (SW:OT)

Luke Skywalker & Darth Vader (SWOT)

Time Traveling Team Assembled from Various Eras AU
Alderaan Is Not Destroyed

Darth Vader Is Redeemed Earlier

Darth Vader Lives

Darth Vader raises Luke and Leia

Force Ghost Obi-Wan Takes A More Active Role
ANH Obi-Wan Tells Everyone The Truth About Everything

Leia raised on Tatooine while Luke raised on Alderaan

Luke and Leia raised together

Luke Skywalker is successfully captured by Darth Vader

Padmé Amidala Lives

ROTS Anakin switches bodies with Darth Vader

I think most of these are self-explanatory: anything involving the Skywalker (extended) family drama would be great! Feel free to bring in any other film characters, but I'm not familiar with TV canon so I'd prefer no focus on that. For the "time traveling team assembled from various eras," feel free to have one or more characters be traveling back from the ST era (and trying to prevent it?), but otherwise I'm not interested in the ST era for these prompts.

Wheel of Time books:

Asmodean (WoT - RJ)

Egwene al'Vere (WoT - RJ)

Rand al'Thor (WoT - RJ)
Verin Mathwin (WoT - RJ)

Anathem (Neal Stephenson) AU
Book of the New Sun Fusion
Canon is actually a TRPG played by a group of kids
Like canon but with less determinism/more free will
Probabilities in Universe Skew to 5+1 Things Dynamic

Anathem: is Egwene a Unitarian or a Tenner trying to learn all she can from her mentors? Is Verin an Orolo-type character who seems just an absentminded professor but is actually spying on an alien spaceship? Did Asmodean join the Millenarians in search for immortality, and/or is he a bell ringer? Did the Ogier journey to our universe on a polycosmic ship?

Book of the New Sun: Rand wandering around with his "sword that is not a sword" and flirting with all the women in sight? Asmodean putting on musical theater productions that are actually about the heroes of past Ages? Maybe some of the women can have their own interior lives and goals, that would be fun ;)

Canon is actually an RPG: This would be fun with either the protagonists as the overpowered player characters, or the Forsaken trying to serve the Great Lord but always distracted by petty infighting.

Like canon but with less determinism/more free will: I sometimes find the contrasts between prophecy and "oh, free will is important actually" unconvincing. What might have been different for Rand if he hadn't been expecting to die? If Egwene's dreams were just her subconscious acting out? If Verin hadn't been reading the "Karaethon Cycle" and insisting that only five people go to Falme in book two?

Probabilities in Universe Skew to 5+1 Things Dynamic: The ta'veren's probability weirdness breaking the fourth wall is already similar enough that this feels plausible. Five Emond's Fielders and one outsider? 5+1 alternate realities that people saw via the Portal Stones or other ter'angreal like the Accepted test?

Dune Movies:

Alia Atreides & Paul Atreides & Jessica (Dune Movies)

Paul Atreides/Chani (Dune Movies)

Character deals with a canonical difficult situation better than in canon
Like canon but with less determinism/more free will
Prophecy subverted/denied/unfulfilled AU
Take a bad thing that happened to a character in canon and make it better

I'm interested in the worldbuilding, especially the Fremen, but it's hard to get invested when a lot of the plot is "I can't go south, if I do something terrible will happen" -> *goes south anyway*. So I'm interested in something where the plot goes off the rails, for better or for worse. Paul finds a way to stop being seen as the Mahdi? He doesn't drink the Water of Life? Jessica doesn't use the Voice on Chani, or Chani finds a way to throw it off, and Paul stays dead? When Stilgar is trying to get Paul to challenge him for leadership, maybe Chani defeats him instead and stops the jihad? What would happen to Alia if Jessica hadn't drunk the Water of Life?

Rogue One:

Cassian Andor & Jyn Erso (SW Rogue One)

Cassian Andor & Jyn Erso & Chirrut Îmwe & Baze Malbus & Bodhi Rook (Rogue One)

Cassian Andor & K-2SO (SW Rogue One)

Chirrut Imwe/Baze Malbus (SW Rogue One)

Canon Divergence Using Original Creator's Publicly Acknowledged Discarded Plan
Some or all of Rogue One team are carbon frozen and thawed out years later
Werewolf/Mafia Game Played With Real Deaths

Discarded Plan/Carbon Freezing: see this link for alternate endings that were proposed. Jyn and Cassian (or other characters) are being pursued by the Empire and decide to blow up their spaceship so they can't be tortured for information! Or they set off a bomb to put themselves in carbon freeze and aren't thawed out for years or decades, which explains why they're not in the OT! Feel free to bring in other OT or even ST characters to interact with.

Werewolf/Mafia Game Played With Real Deaths: who's secretly a traitor? Is Chirrut cold-reading people even without seeing their body language? Is K-2SO ignored by the humans even when he provides strategic analysis with 72.1% accuracy?

Farscape:

John Crichton & Zotoh Zhaan

Feel free to bring in any other characters you want, I just think these two are neat in their parallels as peacemakers and scholars.

Anathem (Neal Stephenson) AU
Arctic (or Antarctic) Research Station AU
Characters are aware they are characters but are also themselves (Thursday Next AU)
Werewolf/Mafia Game Played With Real Deaths

Anathem: maybe they meet at a Convox? John is irreligious like Raz and Zhaan is a Matarrhite? Does D'Argo practice vale lore? Will Rygel eat anything, even food from another cosmos? Are humans the "more Platonic" versions of the violent Sebaceans?

Arctic/Antarctic research station AU: they're both nerds who would make the most of their research, but maybe succumb to cabin fever on occasion. Does John snap and make pop culture allusions no one understands? Does Zhaan pray or meditate to get through the long night? Or what happens when she sees the sun for the first time in months and can't contain herself?

Characters are aware they are characters: John compares himself to a bunch of fictional characters already, would he just sigh and be like "figures, that's my luck"? Or try to find a way to sneak into other franchises and borrow some of their technology? (I'm currently in the process of reading the Thursday Next series and will be several books in by reveals, so feel free to cross over specific plot devices like SpecOps or Jurisfiction.)

Werewolf/Mafia Game Played With Real Deaths: there are several instances of "spot the impostor," I'd love to see some more game mechanics thrown in!

Wheel of Time (TV)

Egwene al'Vere/Mat Cauthon (WoT TV)

Egwene al'Vere/Perrin Aybara (WoT TV)

Egwene al'Vere/Perrin Aybara/Mat Cauthon (WoT TV)

Perrin Aybara/Mat Cauthon (WoT TV)

Canon is actually a TRPG played by a group of kids
Soulmates -- as in "The Luminaries" (Eleanor Catton)
Wheel of Time: Different Two Rivers character is the Dragon Reborn

Canon is actually an RPG: I feel like this would be a perfect explanation for the ta'veren's unique powers and tendency to be at the center of the narrative. Maybe the GM has ideas for which characters are fated to get together and the players are like "actually, we have our own ships."

Soulmates--as in "The Luminaries": The idea here is that when two people were born under "the same sky" (same place and time), they're astral soulmates--and the first time they sleep together, it creates a bond, such that when one is shot or overdoses, the other feels the effects. This could tie in well with the existing focus on bonds and "oh, the Pattern has decreed you share a destiny." Also, canonically, they're so close in age that Moiraine doesn't know who's the chosen one--what if two or three of them had the exact same birthday and now have a bond that even the Aes Sedai don't understand, and have to figure that out along with all the other plot shenanigans? And/or, what if Rand had also slept with one/several of them, and it didn't trigger a bond, and that was the first clue that he wasn't actually born in the same place as the others...?

Different Two Rivers character is the Dragon Reborn: How would this play into Mat's refusal of the call? Perrin's guilt and fear about killing his wife, as an early precursor to his madness/breaking the world? Siuan's line about "ugh, this would be so much easier with a woman we knew how to train" while Egwene is on the other side of the continent in damane captivity? Nynaeve looking at everyone else like "I may be doomed by the narrative but at least I don't have relationship drama"?

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Again, this is all optional, feel free to use as much or as little as is helpful. I look forward to reading your story!

Hello, thank you for creating for me! I'm also primeideal on Ao3, and I'm requesting fic for all fandoms.

Most of these are fandoms where I'd be happy to mix and match freeforms, I've elaborated on a few prompts for each fandom, but if you see an idea that strikes you for a different fandom than I've requested, go for it. (The tags I'm interested in for "Debrief" have less overlap with the others.)

I opt into Major Character Death and Graphic Descriptions of Violence for all of these, and opt out of Rape/Non-con and Underage. In general I'm not interested in receiving explicit sexual content, but happy with kissing/fade-to-black for / ships!

When it comes to unhappy endings, I like "rocks fall, everyone dies;" "due to plot circumstances someone needs to die to save the world," "due to even more contrived circumstances someone needs to kill their friend/partner/comrade-in-arms to save the world," whump and angst! I'm not really interested in endings where the primary unhappiness is "this relationship didn't work out," "this misunderstanding was never resolved," cliffhangers, "nothing matters, what's the point," "we failed and now everything is doomed forever" (although starting the story in a post-apocalyptic/villains have already won setting is great!)

Treats are enabled on Ao3.

Tags for some or all of Animorphs, Farscape, Harry Potter, Star Wars Original Trilogy:

A forced to choose between B and the greater good - chooses greater good because it's what B wants

A promised to kill B in circumstances that until now they thought would never happen

Both/All Of Us Dying Was Always The Plan; Only One Actually Did

Canon Divergence - A Different Character Dies

Canonical Tragic Ending Not Averted - Path to that Ending Explored

Character A Doesn’t Know How To Help Hurt B Because Of Their Nonhuman Biology

Character realizes crucial information that recontextualizes everything

Cradling A Loved One As They Die In Your Arms

Dealing with Death of Closest Friend(s)

Dimensional Travel - Having To Impersonate Alternate Evil Version of Self

Emotional Distress After Meeting An Evil Version Of Yourself From An Alternate Universe

Ensemble cast killed off one by one

Experimented on in an evil lab

Hypothermia

leaving to save the world

Meeting An Evil Version of a Loved One

Realizing the Person You Love Can't Be Redeemed and You Have To Kill Them

Roaring Rampage of Revenge (but it won't bring them back)

Soulmate AU - last words soulmarks

The only way Character A can help Character B is by killing Character B

Time Loops - Breaking the Loop Requires Letting a Loved One Die

Time Travel Fix-It Goes Wrong

Time Travel Plan Fails

Trapped on a deserted space station

Winter Setting Sets Desolate/Ominous Mood

Animorphs

Aximili-Esgarrouth-Isthill & Jake Berenson & Cassie & Marco & Rachel & Tobias

Aximili-Esgarrouth-Isthill/Menderash-Postill-Fastill

Solo: Elfangor-Sirinial-Shamtul

Aximili-Esgarrouth-Isthill & Tobias

Cassie & Rachel

Jake Berenson & Marco

Jake Berenson/Cassie

Rachel (Animorphs)/Tobias

-Some of the "canon AUs" from book 41, 7, Megamorphs 3 or 4, expanded on further?

-Menderash dealing with the body horror of sacrificing his Andalite self for Ax, and the fallout

-Time-travel shenanigans

-Crayak whisks them off to some horrific death trap planet as part of some deal with the Ellimist
-Jake and Rachel have the talk in book 26 about "your morph is probably the only one that can stop me if the Howler instincts are out of control," what a vibe.

Harry Potter

Cedric Diggory/Harry Potter
Luna Lovegood/Harry Potter
Regulus Black

-Character realizes crucial information that recontextualizes everything: How does Regulus figure out what the Horcruxes are? Does Voldemort have other evil plans that make a lot more sense in retrospect?
-Luna and Harry being imprisoned together in Malfoy Manor seems like a great opportunity for "one of us has to kill the other to prevent a worse fate at the Death Eaters' hands." Maybe the escape plan doesn't work and they're stuck there indefinitely?
-For Cedric/Harry in a GoF timeframe, I'm amused by the idea of them having chemistry and being more interested in helping each other than competing, and everyone else is just like "oh come on" until things go completely off the rails. I'd also be interested in an AU where Cedric survives GoF and he and Harry get together a year or two down the line, but then the war is tragic anyway. Time travel is great for expanding the timeframe in all sorts of ways, but for this request, I'm not interested in "Cursed Child" as canon.

Star Wars Original Trilogy

Bail Organa & Breha Organa & Leia Organa
Leia Organa & Darth Vader
Leia Organa & Luke Skywalker
Leia Organa & Luke Skywalker & Darth Vader
Leia Organa & the Rebel Alliance
Leia Organa/Han Solo
Luke Skywalker & Darth Vader
Luke Skywalker
Luke Skywalker & the Rebel Alliance

-Any of the Skywalker family connections could have come out in (differently) disastrous circumstances! How does the rebellion react, or Alderaan?
-Freezing to death on Hoth?
-Vader doesn't interfere in time to save Luke from Palpatine and has to live with the consequences, or not?
-I'm primarily interested in OT-era action, but "one of the characters is a time traveler from the sequel trilogy era and is trying to prevent that future but at terrible cost" could also be fun.

Farscape

John Crichton/Aeryn Sun
Pilot & Aeryn Sun
Bialar Crais & Talyn

-For John, I'm not really interested in the whole Harvey/mind control aspects of his plotline, but feel free to come up with new and exciting ways for Scorpius to experiment on him in an evil lab!
-Canonical Tragic Ending Not Averted - Path to that Ending Explored: I'd be interested in something canon-compliant from Talyn's POV, giving him more of a characterization and showing us more of what he thinks about Crais and the galaxy.
-Pilot gets sick and Aeryn has to help him because they share DNA now, but it's not enough? Or the other direction, something goes wrong with Aeryn and normal Sebacean/human methods can't fix her because of her Pilot DNA?
-The whole "please kill me before the heat delirium becomes uncontrollable" setup seems like a great opportunity for Chekhov's gunning, with Aeryn or for that matter Crais.

Debrief RPG

George Russell & or / Robert Alderidge
(I'm requesting both the & and / versions, I'm fine with any level of shippiness or lack thereof. "not romantic not platonic but some weird third thing" also great.)

A & B Make Emotionally Significant Promise to Each Other When Younger; Promise Is Later Broken

Character realizes crucial information that recontextualizes everything

Characters' inability/refusal to discuss past conflict between them makes resentment fester

Complicated relationships of love and loyalty and hurt and resentment

Dealing with Death of Closest Friend(s)

Farewells

Feelings Realization (Come Too Late)

From now on we're strangers/enemies (optional I still care about you anyway)

Ghosts are actually the memory of a building or place; character meets the ghost of their trauma

good old fashioned manipulation and betrayal

Keeping a promise to a dead loved one even though the promised thing has stopped mattering

Keeping a promise to a friend-turned-enemy even though the promised thing has stopped mattering

Love Turns To Hatred (But The Love Never Goes Away)

We were once so close but now we're practically strangers (optional I still love you anyway)

You Were Everything I Believed In; What Am I Supposed To Do Now?

So on the one hand, RPGs can be kind of difficult to prompt for, in that everyone's playthroughs are different and will result in slightly different characterizations; on the other hand, I have so many feelings about these guys and would absolutely love any version. A retelling of your playthrough, what happened next, more backstory, fix-it, "fix-it" that makes it worse...
-Even in the best possible situations there is still going to be a lot of grief and mourning!
-Character realizes crucial information that recontextualizes everything: I love the dramatic irony of seeing the same incidents from different POVs in the character sheets, and then trying to talk about it just makes it worse. (The Catholic Underground in Spain, Courtenay's investigation.) Anything expanding on those or another memory that they technically share but actually remember differently.
-AU where ghosts work differently and it's more focused on the site itself rather than specific people; how does being a spirit medium work? How do Alderidge or other mundane people experience the ghosts of Weston or the Eastern Front?

-Note: some of the DNWs I've listed for other exchanges do not apply to this request. For instance, I think the use of second-person POV works very well in the character sheets, so I enthusiastically opt in to second-person POV fic here! (As well as first or third.) Also, go as dark as you want in terms of "possible outcomes include ghosts being destroyed forever with the disruptor, or haunting the world until they decay and lose all coherence."

Again, feel free to ignore this as needed, and don't hold back with the melodrama. Thank you in advance for the woe!

Dear Yuletide Writer,

Optional details are optional! Please feel free to write anything about these fandoms/characters, this is just to provide some suggestions if you're interested. I have treats enabled on my Ao3 account.

I'm also primeideal on Ao3 (and Tumblr), and Ember Nickel on FFN. 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.

For the fandoms where it's relevant (Anathem, Debrief, False Doctrine), I'm checking the box for "one or more chosen tags," ie, if you want to focus on one character/worldbuilding tag and not include the others, that is very welcome! (That's also the case for The Celebrant.")

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 (character death, melodrama, heartbreak!)

General DNWs: (see fandom-specific notes for further details)

-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 (Alderidge has hot takes about Winston Churchhill, fine; Alderidge has hot takes about a Rishi Sunak stand-in, no thanks.)

-character bashing

Anathem

Erasmas, Jad, Orolo, Worldbuilding

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?

Worldbuilding: I'm primarily interested in the world of the concents pre-canon. Weird bell patterns! Giant clock towers! Math and science! Bizarre dictionary definitions! Whatever it is the Ita are up to! But if there's something you have ideas for in terms of the Daban Urnud or polycosmic travel, go for it.

For this request: DNW discussion of allswell or other mind-altering drugs.

The Celebrant

Any (Jackie|Yakov, Mathewson) nominated

My self-indulgent request: I want them to be friends and be happy! To me the tension of the book doesn't come from the baseball, which is "already" established history, but the difficulty of communicating their mutual respect when one is a national celebrity and the other has Jackie's shyness issues. Even if it ends in tragedy, I'd like to see a little more of them acknowledging each other's idealism.

-AU where Jackie never hurts his arm, he becomes a professional baseball player too, and they meet as teammates or rivals?
-Clara lives and Mathewson has to come up with some other conversational starter, because come on.
-More about Jackie and Edith's relationship, which is mostly offscreen. What does she see in him? Is she drawn to his creativity and intensity too?
-A very silly idea: Jackie and Mathewson somehow wind up in the 21st century, Mathewson is scandalized by FanDuel/legalized gambling/etc. and keeps railing about how this is going to cause problems, Jackie has to run interference somehow...?
-I love baseball so if you want to throw in any RL baseball history that didn't make it into the book, that would be wonderful but is absolutely not expected!

Debrief

George Russell, Robert Alderidge, Worldbuilding

-I love the dramatic irony of seeing the same incidents from different POVs in the character sheets, and then trying to talk about it just makes it worse. (The Catholic Underground in Spain, Courtenay's investigation.) Anything expanding on those or another memory that they technically share but actually remember differently.

-From Alderidge's sheet: "Bykov has the distinction of being the only human on Earth, apart from George Russell, who has ever known you in any meaningful sense." What's going on with these two? How much does Bykov know about the OUC? Is there hatesex?

-Does any of this ever get declassified? How much do Dora or Jean, or the kids, ever figure out, correctly or incorrectly?

-Worldbuilding! What kind of research is the OUC (or the Soviets) doing into ghost technology? What are spirit mediums doing in other parts of the world? At rates of ~one in ten thousand, it's unlikely you'd ever run across another unless there was some effort--but there are also more people who acknowledge ghosts and auras even if they can't directly witness them.

For me, the disruptor was an important focal point of the playthrough--my version of Russell is increasingly horrified at the thought of using it on Alderidge, meanwhile, Alderidge is insisting that it's this great tool of mercy and it's not clear whether he's talking about himself. Then once my Russell admits to himself that getting Alderidge to cross over and get closure is more important to him than anything else, he gets his act together in kind of a ruthless Pascal's Wager-y way. The sense they both have of "okay well here's when I draw the line, it's different when it's you at risk" is part of what I love about this dynamic, so anything touching on that (or the disruptor in general) would be great, but obviously everyone's characterization will be different!

Feel free to lean into the shippy aspects, or not, as you prefer; I don't really want anything too anachronistic or setting-changey, but Alderidge's level of candor (or Russell's level of having-a-clue) can be anywhere on the scale, it's all good.

Note: some of the DNWs I've listed for other exchanges do not apply to this request. For instance, I think the use of second-person POV works very well in the character sheets, so I enthusiastically opt in to second-person POV fic here! (As well as first or third.) Also, go as dark as you want in terms of "possible outcomes include ghosts being destroyed forever with the disruptor, or haunting the world until they decay and lose all coherence."

False Doctrine series

Evvie, Sara

So maybe this was an osmosis failure, but I'm not sure I completely understood Evvie's plotline. At first, her conviction that she's called to the monastic life could have been a case of "I know what I'm called to do in life, other people [and their heteronormative stereotypes] might not understand, but that's okay." But then she meets "Fee," who "fills the void in her life," and Charlie and Hal, who maybe open her mind to different vocations and ways of serving God in the world. And there's Sara's whole thing about "I can't marry George, I think I'm the handsome rake," and the demon pointing out that Evvie finds people like Daphne attractive. It sort of seemed to be setting up an Evvie/Sara endgame? Then in the the last chapter, there's the quick swerve from "not exactly a yes" (about going back to Patmos) to "actually, talking to Charlie made me decide I want to be a nun after all..."?

So with that:
-I would be interested in an Evvie/Sara AU where Evvie realizes that maybe her vision isn't really telling her what to do anymore, and considers other alternatives for what to do next.
-Alternatively, something canon-compliant, where Evvie talks more with Sara and/or Kit on the voyage back to Patmos. Kit and Evvie comparing notes about their relationships with their half-siblings? Or Sara and Evvie staying friends and pen pals, post-canon? (I'll admit I don't know a great deal about Greek Orthodoxy, I'm assuming nuns aren't so cloistered that they can't have friends and pen pals in the outside world?)
-More about Sara's relationships with any of the "From All False Doctrine" characters. Does her love for fabricating completely unnecessary details come from Uncle Peachy? What does Elsa make of the events of "Neither Have I Wings," once she's all caught up? Was there more going on with "Hal's" appearance to young Sara than we knew? Does Uncle Sven have advice on living with a disability?

Quatrevingt-treize

Gauvain

I have a lot of feelings about doomed moral-victor idealists and he definitely qualifies!

Pre-canon fic showing how he became the kind of leader he is? Interactions with Cimourdain or Lantenac? What do Radoub and the other soldiers think of him?

An AU where things diverge from canon much earlier? What if he'd been deployed to Paris rather than the Vendée? What if his aristocratic background had disqualified him from service?

For this fandom, I think there could be some humor from having Gauvain interact with characters from other canons of the same era, and/or putting him in a different setting, and seeing what form his principles take. Gauvain meets the Conventionist from Les Misérables, and/or survives until the events of that novel? He interacts with the "Hamilton" versions of Lafayette or Jefferson as they argue what path to take with regards to the revolution? 21st-century Gauvain's struggles to keep his idealism intact on Twitter? (Again, I don't want a serious focus on modern real-world issues or people, but if it's done for humor, then feel free.) The Reign of Terror in space?

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Again, this is all optional, feel free to use as much or as little as is helpful. I look forward to reading your story!

Dear Creator,

Hello! Thank you very much for writing/mapping/documenting/plotting/whatever-ing for me! I'm also primeideal on Ao3.

I would be happy with either more typical fanworks or basically any kind of in-universe documentation for any of these fandoms and characters, so consider these prompts very much a starting point, and feel free to mix and match. If you have an idea that fits with my opt-ins, go wild!

My dear author tag has more examples of tropes and prompts that I'm into, although some of these are characters/ships that I'm prompting for the first time. (Much of this letter is a copy of 2023, 2022, 2021, and 2020, but I've changed up several fandoms since then! I've received some amazing fanworks for this exchange in the past but am always excited for more.)

General likes

-canon-divergence AUs

-five things

-worldbuilding

-dialogue

-wit and wordplay

-nonstandard formats (documentation, epistolary, etc.)

-time travel

-happy endings

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

General dislikes

-explicit sex

-underage sex

-rape/noncon

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

-allegories of current events and/or contemporary politics

-second person POV (in "normal" fic, fine with it in IF or similar!)

-character bashing

-cliffhanger endings

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

Blade Runner

Worldbuilding

Opt-ins:

Unique Rules - Map: Any

Unique Rules - Interactive Fiction - Web-based choice-based IF not hosted on AO3

Unique Rules - Interactive Fiction - Twine

Writing - Any In-Universe Documents That Fit the Canon Setting

Writing - Grammar Sketch

Writing - Interactive Fiction - AO3 style Choose Your Own Adventure

Writing - Reddit: In-Universe Reddit Post On Any Subreddit (Post + Replies),

Writing - Worldbuilding Headcanon

Worldbuilding: how does the baseline test work for others, or the Voight-Kampff? What's going on in the colonies? We've seen what Los Angeles looks like both in 2019 and 2049, how are the other parts of the world faring? Tell me about Cityspeak, the creole!

Other medium ideas

-Police records of the wanted replicants. What the LAPD has concluded, what they don't know.

-Technical specs/outlines for how the Tyrell and/or Wallace Corporations create replicants. What parts of the process have changed, what is the same? How does Ana create memories?

-if you want to go meta, in-universe speculation about whether Deckard is a replicant, playing up the differences between the different cuts

Dune (2021)

Liet Kynes

Opt-ins:

Illustrated Text: Excerpts from a Journal/Notebook/Sketchbook

Illustrated Text: Field Report

Illustrated Text: In-Universe Scientific Documents

Unique Rules - Interactive Fiction - Twine

Unique Rules - Interactive Fiction - Web-based choice-based IF not hosted on AO3

Writing - Any In-Universe Documents That Fit the Canon Setting

Writing - Interactive Fiction - AO3 style Choose Your Own Adventure

What was her scientific career like when the Harkonnens were in charge? Did she meet Duncan Idaho when he came ahead to scout Arrakis, and if so, what did they make of each other? What if she'd survived--would she have continued to admire and respect Paul, or would their different goals eventually diverge?

Alternate medium ideas:

-notes on creatures she's studied on Arrakis. Shai-Hulud? Muad'Dib the mouse?

-correspondence to and from the Empire

-Fremen religious prophecies she's interpreted, looking for the Mahdi

Ender series

Worldbuilding

Writing - Any In-Universe Documents That Fit the Canon Setting

Writing - Official Workplace Documentation

Writing - Reddit: In-Universe Reddit Post On Any Subreddit (Post + Replies)

Writing - Worldbuilding Headcanon

I have read all the sequels (but not the co-written prequels); I would be interested both in works based on "Ender's Game" alone, as well as those that incorporate later canon.

-What does a "normal" experience in Battle School look like in the years before canon? The fights, the RPGs, other games?

-What did first contact look like from the perspective of the Formics, or the pequeninos?

-Between the leguminids, Wang-Mu, and the tree-swingers, there seem to be a lot of different versions of humans by the end of the later-canon era. What are the implications of that for the galaxy, or looking backwards, for the stakes of the war?

-How have different generations viewed Ender, as a hero or villain? Do these interpretations ever come together?

-What are the impacts of relativistic travel on people like Mazer?

Alternate-medium ideas:

Peter or Valentine's Reddit history

Excerpts from Valentine's history of the Formic Wars, and/or the Speaker's writings on the Hive Queen and the Hegemon.

Psychological evaluations of the Battle School applicants. The ones we see, people like Peter or Valentine who didn't make the cut, OCs, Pinual who died at the Giants' Drink?

Emails/chat transcripts like the beginning-of-the-chapter excerpts

Farscape

Aeryn Sun & Talyn (Farscape)

Bialar Crais & Talyn (Farscape)

D'Argo Sun-Crichton & Princess Katrana (Farscape TV)

John Crichton & Aeryn Sun & Zotoh Zhaan (Farscape)

John Crichton & John Crichton (Farscape)
John Crichton/Aeryn Sun (Farscape)

John Crichton/Aeryn Sun & D'Argo Sun-Crichton (Farscape TV)

John Crichton/John Crichton (Farscape)

John Crichton/John Crichton/Aeryn Sun (Farscape)

Moya (Farscape) & Pilot (Farscape)

Pilot & Aeryn Sun (Farscape)

Rygel XVI & Utu Noranti Pralatong (Farscape)

Solo: Aeryn Sun (Farscape)
Solo: Pilot (Farscape)

Solo: Zotoh Zhaan (Farscape)

WB: Bond between pilot and leviathan (Farscape)

Illustrated Text (Art & Writing) - A Page From An Herbal

Unique Rules - Interactive Fiction - Twine

Unique Rules - Interactive Fiction - Web-based choice-based IF not hosted on AO3

Writing - Any In-Universe Documents That Fit the Canon Setting

D'Argo Sun-Crichton & Princess Katrana

"Katrana"'s name is not in primary canon; this is a secondary-canon name for Princess Katralla's daughter (using John's DNA). Feel free to call her whatever you like.

So in the distant future, an elderly D'Argo gets to meet his long-lost sister. How much has John told him about the circumstances of her conception, and how much does he tell her? Do they get along or bicker like siblings? Are there any weird Sebacean-human hybrid quirks where they can be like "finally, someone else who understands"?

Rygel & Noranti

These two have the potential to be very annoying individually, but as a team, they're a lot of fun--it helps that one loves to cook and one loves to eat, and Noranti saves Rygel's life with the cure in 4x19. More of their adventures on Earth? Their first meeting, after Noranti joins Moya in the chaos from the Command Carrier's destruction? Maybe Rygel finally reclaims his throne and appoints her royal chef? Or other post-canon adventures?

John & John

John/John

John/John/Aeryn

This is presumably about the two Johns that resulted from the cloning in 3.6 and persist for most of Season 3, but for what it's worth, if you want to make this about the Neanderthal Crichton and/or jerk future Crichton from 2.10 instead, I'm here for that too!

What if they had been stuck together and had to get used to each other? Do they exaggerate small differences to develop their identities as different people? Continue taking a competitive "there can only be one" approach? If you're interested in the / version--maybe it starts as a joke and then gets more serious, neither one wants to back down and look like a wimp if his clone is into it, after all! How does Aeryn react when she finds out? Is she grossed out, voyeueristic, or does she want to join in? (I'm not interested in explicit porn, but banter/innuendo/fade to black/awkward morning afters are all great!)

Moya & Pilot

Pilot & Aeryn
Solo: Pilot

Worldbuilding: Bond between Pilot and Leviathan

There's no way that "our" Pilot can just be named "Pilot"--what was his identity before he bonded with Moya? What are their sensory experiences like, communicating with each other and with the crew? What's his POV on donating his DNA to save Aeryn; how does that change her? Did he vote for her to be captain in 4.6? We hear very little from Moya directly--I'd love to see something from her POV about the weird tiny aliens living inside her and the trouble they cause.

John/Aeryn

John/Aeryn and D'Argo Sun-Crichton

Post-canon adventures! Does D'Argo have the wormhole-making power? What does a "normal" day look like for John and Aeryn when they're not running for their lives? Do they ever return to some of the planet-of-the-week locations from canon? Contrasting POVs on canon events in the early days of their relationship?

John & Aeryn & Zhaan

I love the contrasts between their backgrounds and the ways they approach problems: John, the peaceful scientist; Aeryn, the hardened warrior; and Zhaan, the sensual priest. Anything contrasting these approaches would be great. What was the aftermath of John and Zhaan sharing unity? To what extent does Aeryn's relationships with John and/or Pilot factor into Zhaan's decision to sacrifice herself for Aeryn?

Aeryn

Zhaan

Aeryn & Talyn

Crais & Talyn

Talyn, my glorious spaceship problem child! I love his and Crais' arc--anything that leans into the tragic melodrama of canon would be great, but also, fix-it is good too. I'd especially like something that depicts Talyn as a character in his own right rather than just anxious beeping noises mediated through Crais--it doesn't necessarily have to be from his POV, but something that shows he has a POV, if that makes sense.

Aeryn and Talyn: talking about his name, either in the aftermath of the Xhalax stuff from S3 or just whenever? Bonding over being part-Peacekeeper, part-something new? The negotiations between S1 and S2 when she gets Crais' help, in exchange for letting him stay with Talyn? Trying to explain her relationship with John (or lack thereof) after 3.8?

Crais and Talyn: how does Stark's temporary link with Talyn contrast with Crais' long-term bond? Does Crais explain his role in creating the hybrid program, and how does Talyn react? What does a relatively peaceful, happy day look like for them? Talyn's POV on their last couple episodes?

Alternate-medium ideas:

-a herbal depicting medicinal plants that Zhaan uses in her healing, or Noranti uses in her cooking?

-Aeryn's military records, before or after she's declared "irreversibly contaminated"

-letters that D'Argo Sun-Crichton has written over the years, to send to his sister in the future

-in-universe literal ship manifestos for Moya or Talyn

The Prestige

Robert Angier/Alfred Borden

Opt-ins:

Art--Technical Drawing

Illustrated Text--Excerpts from a Journal/Notebook/Sketchbook

Illustrated Text--In-Universe Scientific Documents

Unique Rules - Interactive Fiction - Web-based choice-based IF not hosted on AO3

Unique Rules - Interactive Fiction - Twine

Writing - Any In-Universe Documents That Fit the Canon Setting

Writing - Interactive Fiction - AO3 style Choose Your Own Adventure

Writing - Screenplay

Writing - Script

I like the vibe of "friends to enemies to increasingly obsessed enemies" with Angier/Borden. I'm fine with "dubious consent due to identity issues," but please no violent non-con nor incest.

Angier/Borden: what if they'd gotten together earlier on and disaster was averted? Do the two Bordens take turns with Angier--who likes him more? Do they catch on? What do their assistants/the outside world think of their "rivalry?" Or maybe there's just one Borden but he's obsessed enough to plot his own death as long as it gets Angier killed too. Or there really is a "teleporter" coming to Borden's rescue.

Alternate medium ideas:

-more from Borden's journal? How does the cipher work? What if Angier had been stuck decoding it on his own?

-Tesla's schematics and machine diagrams

-legal documents from the murder trial

Project Hail Mary

Original Blip-A Crew Member

Ryland Grace & Rocky

Worldbuilding

Opt-Ins:

Writing - Worldbuilding Headcanon

Writing - Grammar Sketch

Unique Rules - Interactive Fiction - Twine

Unique Rules - Interactive Fiction - Web-based choice-based IF not hosted on AO3

Writing - Any In-Universe Documents That Fit the Canon Setting

Writing - Interactive Fiction - AO3 style Choose Your Own Adventure

Original Blip-A Crew member: What was life like on the first Eridian spaceship in the early days? What were some of the other specialties the crew was chosen for? How did they react when the mysterious illness set in? A fix-it where more than one of them are alive when the Hail Mary gets there--do they disagree over how to interact with the squishy aliens?

Worldbuilding: more technologies that are commonplace on Erid but unknown on Earth, or vice versa? What kind of other creatures might have evolved on Planet Adrian? How does Earth adapt and develop new technologies during the interim? (Of the Earth characters, my favorite is Steve Hatch, the "Beetles" engineer who's so over-the-top optimistic and enthusiastic about technology even by the standards of an Andy Weir book...but feel free to bring in anyone.)

Alternate-medium ideas:

-In-universe ship manifesto (the transit kind!) What do Eridians pack for the journey to Tau Ceti?

-Language nerdery! What sorts of nuances come up in a musical-chord language?

-Any of the Earth news articles/gossip/scientific research that result after the Beetles arrive.

Remembrance of Earth's Past Trilogy

Cheng Xin/Yun Tianming (Remembrance of Earth's Past Trilogy)

Solo: Original Galactic Human(s) (Remembrance of Earth's Past Trilogy)

Solo: Yang Dong (Remembrance of Earth's Past Trilogy)

Solo: Ye Wenjie (Remembrance of Earth's Past Trilogy)

WB: Fairy Tales from Earth (In-Universe Book) (Remembrance of Earth's Past Trilogy)

WB: Higher- Or Lower-Dimensional Regions of the Universe (Remembrance of Earth's Past Trilogy)

WB: Three-Body (In-Universe Video Game) (Remembrance of Earth's Past Trilogy)

Medium Opt-In: Art - Any Technical Drawing
Medium Opt-In: Unique Rules - Map - Any

Medium Opt-In: Unique Rules - Interactive Fiction - Twine

Medium Opt-In: Unique Rules - Interactive Fiction - Web-based choice-based IF not hosted on AO3

Medium Opt-In: Writing - Interactive Fiction - AO3 style Choose Your Own Adventure

Medium Opt-In: Writing - Any In-Universe Documents That Fit the Canon Setting

Cheng Xin/Yun Tianming:

Fix-it where they don't miss each other?! Exploring the worlds around "their star" together, maybe with Ai AA and Guan Yifan? Or having adventures in the pocket universe or elsewhere in our universe? What did Cheng Xin see in Yun Tianming when they were students together?

Original Galactic Human(s):
Are humans fundamentally different for having left their homeworld under these circumstances? Do the crew of Gravity and Blue Space make a difference between their origins once they've merged? Do they have alien encounters that go better than the Trisolarans'? If "A Past Outside of Time" is Cheng Xin's legacy and testament to the new universe, do the galactic humans leave behind records of their own? What are the important parts of their history that they choose to highlight?

Yang Dong:
For someone who has very little time "on screen," she casts a long shadow over all of the books. More about her friendship with the programmer from "Death's End," and/or with Luo Ji? What if she'd survived--what would she have made of her mother's betrayal? How would things have gone with Ding Yi?

Ye Wenjie:

Secrets at Red Coast Base? Some more of the "declassified" documents? The early days of the ETO? What did she work out about Dark Forest theory before meeting Luo Ji? What if Yang Dong had talked to her about the documents she'd sneaked a look at? Or if Ye had lived long enough to discover more of Deterrence theory herself?

Fairy Tales from Earth:
There were dozens or hundreds of other stories that Yun Tianming wrote to disguise his insights. Tell me some of those! Do any of them contain other hints about physics, or are they just red herrings? Do the Galactic humans ever read them, and what do they make of them?

Higher- or lower-dimensional regions of the universe:
What's going on in the "bubbles"? There's mention of aliens who modify themselves to survive dimension-reduction strikes; what is that process like? Maybe the solar system survived after all and they're doing fine but just can't communicate with three-dimensional space? Other than immense-scale warfare, what technologies have aliens adopted for making use of extra dimensions?

Three Body (in universe video game):
Who are some of the other Earth scientists/theories that show up? Do any players try strategies that the Trisolarans or ETO hadn't prepared for, and if so, what happens to them? What about people who still aren't sympathetic to the Trisolarans' cause even after they progress through several levels?

Alternate medium ideas:
-the first few players of "Three Body" reaching out on internet forums to discuss strategy
-maps of a two-dimensional region
-Trisolarans' analysis of what insights about humanity "Fairy Tales from Earth" might reveal
-"multiple dimensions of time allows us to make multiple sets of decisions" seems like a great premise for interactive fic!

Stranger Things

Eddie & Eleven

Erica & Lucas

The Party

Will & Eddie

Will & Eleven

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Unique Rules - Interactive Fiction - Twine

Unique Rules - Interactive Fiction - Web-based choice-based IF not hosted on AO3

Writing - Any In-Universe Documents That Fit the Canon Setting

Writing - Interactive Fiction - AO3 style Choose Your Own Adventure

I especially love the "kids' generation" plotline, and I like how Season 4 brought us Erica being part of the D&D world as well as Eddie showing them how even high schoolers aren't too cool for gaming. Also, between El's opening narration about "we're all time travelers" and the Eddie-Nancy-Steve-Robin group winding up in the past of the Upside Down in Nancy's house, I think time travel would be a great plot for any combination of these characters, just saying!

Eddie & Eleven and/or Will: so they never got to meet in canon :( but maybe a fix-it where they get to be unapologetic weirdos together. Eddie teaches El how to play guitar? She piggybacks into his mind and they have to collaborate? Eddie showing Will that you can be a (super-senior) high schooler and still not outgrow RPGs? The kids try to clear Eddie's name?

Erica & Lucas: more parallels of how they both succeed in different ways. Erica showing up for Lucas' games even though he's a benchwarmer is classic "you're my sibling so you exasperate me but I'm always here for you" vibes--more of this dynamic? Erica's POV on Lucas/Max? Lucas being overprotective and/or maybe "she's [almost?] as old as I was when we first fought the demogorgon..."?

The Party: picking up the pieces and taking the fight to Vecna after S4? Time travellers from different points in the series trying to coordinate a fix-it? Outsider POV on "what's the deal with all these kids?"

Will & El: missing scenes from their time in California? Bonding over their relationship to the Upside Down early in the series? Will introduces El to something "normal" she's never seen in the lab?

Alternate-medium ideas:

In-universe TTRPG campaign! Eddie's notes from the Hellfire saga? Or what sorts of character sheets would represent the characters themselves?

Epistolary fic from the other Party members to the California gang, between seasons 3 and 4?

The basketball team or Eddie's band get written up in the local newspaper.

Wheel of Time (books)

Asmodean

Egwene al'Vere

Egwene al'Vere/Aviendha

Opt-ins:

Audio - Original Fan Music

Poetry - Song Lyrics - Filk/Parody

Poetry - Song Lyrics - Original

Unique Rules - Interactive Fiction - Twine

Unique Rules - Interactive Fiction - Web-based choice-based IF not hosted on AO3

Writing - Any In-Universe Documents That Fit the Canon Setting

Writing - Interactive Fiction - AO3 style Choose Your Own Adventure

Egwene: 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?

Egwene/Aviendha: They're cute and they learn from each other! And I like the idea of people's romantic relationships not being as predetermined by prophecies as canon has it. Secret meetings in Tel'aran'rhiod? How do the rebel Aes Sedai view Aviendha? Post-canon fix-it where Egwene helps co-parent Aviendha's kids?

Asmodean: The motivation of "former child prodigy wants to live forever to fulfill his potential" is such a fascinating origin story, and I felt like we could have gotten an amusing/unwitting redemption arc with him. Was there ever a moment during the Age of Legends when he was like "yes, this is going to be my magnum opus, joining the Forsaken was totally the right call"? What sorts of skills does he teach Rand? How does he view the others on the Rhuidean journey, or how do they view him? What's it like to get balefired and return to the timestream? What if he'd lived longer--would he have grudgingly returned to the light, or continue to try to advance the Dark One's cause despite the difficulties?

Alternate-medium ideas:

-Asmodean's compositions, from the Age of Legends or the age of Jasin Natael

-How is Egwene remembered in the Tower archives? In the secret Thirteenth Depository records versus the official ones? Are they ever declassified?

-the different futures Aviendha saw for herself in the three rings could be a neat IF setting

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Again, there are so many great mediums and character dynamics that I could go on all day, so please don't feel limited by this. Thanks for creating for me!

Dear Creator,

Hello! I am also primeideal on Ao3. I am requesting fic for all combos, or also art for Animorphs/Farscape. 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.

Art likes:
black and white art
bright/bold colors
traditional or digital art
objects that represent/are strongly associated with characters
fantastic/speculative worldbuilding elements
in-universe artifacts/sketches that the characters might have drawn

Fic 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 (see note for Dune)

-rape/noncon

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

-neopronouns

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

-non-canonical allegories of current events and/or contemporary politics (Marco flirts with the governor of California: fine; Marco flirts with the governor and this is a metaphor for the Newsom administration: no thanks.)

-character bashing

-cliffhanger endings

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

Animorphs/Pitch

Mike Lawson/Rachel

I feel like the Animorphs' hometown is plausibly San Diego (ocean+big zoo+various California hints), Mike used to be married to a sports journalist named Rachel in San Diego...if you screw with the timelines enough, it could happen. Feel free to weave in any other characters from either fandom. And having them break-up or divorce is fine too, as long as they are or were together for part of the narrative.

General fic ideas:

-They're each used to being the center of attention and it's a nice break when the spotlight is on their partner instead

-People give Mike a hard time when Ginny steals the spotlight and Rachel is just like "it's about time"

-Rachel starts dating Mike as a rebound from Tobias/to get away from the war and is surprised when real feelings develop

-if you want to have Rachel Patrick be a different character from Animorphs Rachel, a broadcast/news report the former puts on about "oh man my ex Has A Type"

Animorphs/Farscape

Alloran & Bialar Crais & Talyn
Aximil & Rygel
Elfangor & Zhaan

I'm kind of imagining this in the pre-canon/spinoff timeframe for Animorphs, but if you want to bring in the main cast and/or other characters, that would be great. Any interactions between these fandoms would be fun.

Alloran & Crais & Talyn: disaster antiheroes with their cute ships. <I named this sexy inanimate object after my beautiful wife!> "Aww, that's so sweet. Uh, my disgraced former subordinate named this traumatized child after her dead dad." <Bro.> "Bro." If you want to bring in Esplin and the Yeerks, maybe they're involved somehow with Scorpius' mind chips?

Aximili & Rygel: let them enjoy food and eating things. How does being a military "Prince" compare to being a hereditary "Dominar"? Is Ax disgusted by Rygel's cowardice, or does he inspire Rygel to be a better teammate? What are the instincts like when you morph Hynerian?

Elfangor & Zhaan: beautiful blue friends! (I think this could be a fun juxtaposition for art.) Do they commiserate over their past struggles, or wind up mentoring younger allies together? Do they ever have to "share unity"? (I don't really see these two as a long-term / ship, but something like Zhaan & John's canon interactions would be cool.)

Dune/Star Wars Sequel Trilogy

Rey/Alia Atreides

What do their different schools of magic have to teach each other? Does Rey's influence help pull Alia out of the darkness? Or is Rey more haunted, post-Episode IX, than she lets on? What does Rey think of Fremen water discipline, or Alia think of Niima Outpost?

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All of this is optional, feel free to use as little or as much as is useful. Thank you for creating for me!

Dear Author,

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)

-neopronouns

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

-character bashing

-cliffhanger endings

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

Animorphs:

Elfangor

Dealing with new senses/experiences on Earth? Inadvertently changing the course of history/technology, like with the computer interfaces? Trying to handle his newfound fame when he returns to the Andalite fleet, despite all the secrets he can't tell them? His relationship with Ax? How do the Andalites discover Earth the second time, and what's he thinking as the GalaxyTree travels there? More shenanigans with the Time Matrix?

Aftran/Cassie

How would anything post-29 have been different if Aftran had stayed either in Cassie or elsewhere in the human world? How does Aftran decide who to trust in the Peace Movement with the Animorphs' secret? One of the "canon AUs" (the 41 dystopia, time travel stuff) if Aftran had been there?

Ax & Tobias

Ax's misunderstandings about human culture? Tobias visits the Andalite homeworld with Ax post-canon? Some human developments encroach on the scoop and they have to move?

Dune:

I'm primarily interested in the first book, but if you want to bring in characterization/plot elements from the sequels, please feel free! Likewise, I have seen both of the Villeneuve movies and would be fine with references to those, but obviously not expected!

Chani & Stilgar

Some of Chani's status/privileges as a warrior stems from her being Stilgar's niece. Are other women her age envious, or is this something she was pressured into? How does she feel about the leadership threat that Paul poses to Stilgar? What did their relationship look like before the Atreides came to Arrakis, or during the timeskips?

Hasimir & Margo & child

How does Hasimir feel about raising a child who isn't his? Does the kid ever learn about her relatives? The appendix says that Hasimir followed Emperor Shaddam into retirement--is Margot still plotting behind the scenes somewhere?

Liet

I'm fascinated by the way he blends science and religion for a centuries-long terraforming plan, and--at least for a while--successfully "serves two masters." What did his responsibilities to the Empire look like when the Harkonnens were in charge? How much of his leadership role is something Pardot originated, and how much is Fremen tradition? What if he'd survived and met up with Paul and Jessica later--would he have recognized the danger Paul posed to the terraforming plan, or would he too have believed in the prophecy?

Project Hail Mary:

Ryland & Rocky

BFFs being nerds and saving each other's lives! How, if ever, does Grace tell Rocky the truth about his "volunteering" for the mission, or the irony/significance of his name? What's something that one takes for granted, and the other is shocked by? Do they ever have a serious argument--what was it about, and how did they reconcile?

Steerswoman:

Bel & or / Rowan

There are lots of great tropey moments with Bel and Rowan that can be either shippy or gen: huddling for warmth, teaching each other swordplay, taking care of each other when they get dysentery! If you're so inclined, I'd be interested to see a shippy expansion on any of these, or something else along these lines. Another misunderstanding with the courtship gifts outside the tent?

Outskirter culture

I love all the complexities of Outskirter society, and the differences among the various tribes--the ones who border the Inner Lands raiding their neighbors, Bel dismissing that as dishonorable, Face People being shockingly sexist in some ways and yet also having preserved the entire list of line names, their relationship to poetry and lore. Anything expanding on what we see in "The Outskirter's Secret" or contrasting different tribes' cultures would be great.

Uprooted:

Agnieszka/Kasia

There is so much going on here! Kasia was "supposed" to be the special chosen one, Agnieszka got taken instead, they're both bitter about it. When Kasia is threatened, Agnieszka takes crazy risks to rescue her from the Wood, they have to establish a psychic link and share each other's emotions to survive. Kasia keeps vigil when Agnieszka passes out! Agnieszka hugs and kisses and cries on Kasia! I would love to see any of these moments, or something post-canon, expanded on and made romantic.

Wheel of Time:

Egwene

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

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?

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?

Egwene/Aviendha

They're cute and they learn from each other! And I like the idea of people's romantic relationships not being as predetermined by prophecies as canon has it. Secret meetings in Tel'aran'rhiod? How do the rebel Aes Sedai view Aviendha? Post-canon fix-it where Egwene helps co-parent Aviendha's kids?

Moiraine/Siuan

Staying in touch in the early years after New Spring, as they both work to protect the Dragon in their own way? Outside POV of other Aes Sedai misinterpreting their relationship? Siuan's reaction when Moiraine returns, or Moiraine's when she hears that Siuan was stilled and Healed? Post-canon fix-it? (If you do something in the canon timeframe, feel free to just ignore their male partners, or write those relationships as platonic. For this prompt I'm interested in Moiraine/Siuan as more than "just a phase," even if it ends in tragedy.)

Nynaeve/Lan

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?

Perrin/Faile

Again, I like how they don't really need fate or destiny to come together. Missing scenes like Faile talking to the Women's Circle about whether their engagement is valid, or rallying the rest of the Two Rivers to come to the defense of Emond's Field? More traditions like the anniversary picnic, introducing each other to their homeland's customs? Perrin adjusting to the responsibilities of leadership post-canon?

Rand & Galad

Chosen One with three lovers and supremely chaste do-gooder discover they're long-lost family, hilarity ensues. They meet through Elayne and try to be polite for her sake but they're obviously not hitting it off? Does Rand introduce himself in the post-canon timeframe? Does Galad have any memories of Tigraine to share? What if Galad shows up at the Black Tower? (Some of the descriptions of his duel with Valda seem a little bit like channelers' awareness...)

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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!

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?

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Again, please don't feel limited to this, anything related to these topics would be great. Thank you very much!

Dear Creator,

General Likes:

-canon-divergence AUs

-five things

-worldbuilding

-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 (Ryland complains about Stratt and the UN, fine; Ryland complains about a Joe Biden stand-in, no thanks.)

-character bashing

IF specific notes: I prefer clickthrough formats (like Twine or multi-chapter view in Ao3) to open-ended parsers. For the canons with more specific characters, I'm sort of imagining a choose-your-own-adventure type story that's more narrative based than game-y, just with different paths. But for FTL and Into the Breach in particular, if you want to create something more gamelike, feel free to go wild!

Farscape:

Aeryn Sun
Zotoh Zhaan
John Crichton/Aeryn Sun
Bialar Crais & Talyn

Aeryn

Zhaan

John/Aeryn

Crais and Talyn:

Anything that leans into the tragic melodrama of canon would be great, but also, fix-it is good too. I'd especially like something that depicts Talyn as a character in his own right rather than just anxious beeping noises mediated through Crais--it doesn't necessarily have to be from his POV, but something that shows he has a POV, if that makes sense. How does Stark's temporary link with Talyn contrast with Crais' long-term bond? Does Crais explain his role in creating the hybrid program, and how does Talyn react? What does a relatively peaceful, happy day look like for them? Talyn's POV on their last couple episodes?

FTL

Lanius
Human/Lanius
Mantis & Engi
Federation worldbuilding

Lanius, Human/Lanius

A Lanius crewmember on a multispecies ship could be played for either comedy or tragedy, and I'm here for either or both! Do they get exiled into a room by themselves so as not to steal everyone's oxygen? Are they sent to fight boarders, or teleported onto uncrewed ships? How do the human and Lanius partners forge a relationship when they can't breathe the same air? Epistolary emails? Comms chatter that annoys the captain? Or does the human die in the Lanius' arms after a hull breach?

Mantis & Engi

They have complementary skillsets; do they respect each other or look down on each other? How does Engi emotionlessness contrast with Mantis militarism? Unexpected moments of culture shock, or finding common ground?

Federation worldbuilding

Were the species already united when humanity made first contact, or did that come later? What percentage of their budget is spent on new spacecraft designs, versus adjudicating different conflicts between the species? Are they ever tempted to go their separate ways, even without the rebellion? Any kind of worldbuilding leaning into the game's absurd humor would be great.

Into the Breach

Ariadne
Kazaaakpleth
Mafan

For any of these characters: what is their "future" timeline like? Are they familiar with surviving Earth humans? Why did they choose to travel into the past? How do they relate to their fellow mech fighters, and how much is the language barrier a problem? What do they think about the Vek? What are their favorite weapons? If you're familiar with FTL, feel free to bring in any character/worldbuilding canon from there, but obviously not expected!

Project Hail Mary

Ryland Grace & Rocky

Science nerds working together to save the worlds! I'm not super interested in the flashback Earth chapters, but anything about Grace and Rocky's time together in space or on Erid, or the worldbuilding in general, would be great. How did Rocky stay sane during the decades in isolation? What other bits of Earth science, or culture, come as surprises? Does Grace ever tell Rocky about the real reason he "volunteered" for the mission? Try to explain the significance of the ship's name? There's a good chance that Rocky will live long enough to get transmissions/visitors from Earth after the epilogue--what happens then?

A Wrinkle in Time (2018)

Charles Wallace Murry
Kate Murry

I have read and enjoy the book series as well, so feel free to draw from those if you'd like, but obviously not expected!

Charles Wallace

Charles Wallace is so compelling, both as himself and as IT's tool. What's going through his head when he tries to make a deal with IT? How much of IT!Charles Wallace is his own arrogance and isolation? How does he adjust to returning to Earth, without losing his sense of wonder? What's his relationship with Meg or Calvin like afterwards?

Kate

I'm fascinated by movie!Kate because she seems so chill around the Mrs. W's. Has she had pre-canon adventures with them, or similar cosmic friends? Is she just genre-savvy and trusts that they mean well? How does she balance her own research with being a single parent, or how do she and Alex start to recover after his homecoming?

Dear Yuletide Writer,

For the fandoms where it's relevant (Debrief, Steerswoman), I'm checking the box for "one or more chosen tags," ie, if you want to focus on one character/worldbuilding tag and not include the others, that is very welcome! (That's also the case for "Worst Journey.")

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 (character death, melodrama, heartbreak!)

General DNWs: (see fandom-specific notes for further details)

-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 (Alderidge has hot takes about Winston Churchhill, fine; Alderidge has hot takes about a Rishi Sunak stand-in, no thanks.)

-character bashing

Children of the Star

Noren

What I love about it: the complicated themes of science and faith, and how there's more to "heresy" than just wanting to burn the system down; the twisty reveals, especially in the first book; the way Stefred functions as a compelling antagonist.

-An expansion of any of the scenes fast-forwarded through in the last few chapters (The Archpriest, being an outcast even among the Scholars, new ceremonies like drinking groundwater and how they change in future generations.)

-Interacting with the First Scholar via memories/computers

-Helping Lianne or another recruit through the visions

-Post-canon shippiness with Lianne

-Outside POV on him from a Futurity settler

-His childhood friendship with Kern, nurturing each other's heretical ideas

-How would his research have been different (or the same) if Talyra had lived?

-Noren and Stefred get an opportunity to collaborate freely without Stefred having to pretend to be against him

-In the event you happen to also be familiar with "Steerswoman": Rowan and Noren meet by some handwavium and compare notes about their "sufficiently advanced technology" experiences? ;-)

Debrief

George Russell, Robert Alderidge, Worldbuilding

-Does any of this ever get declassified? How much do Dora or Jean, or the kids, ever figure out, correctly or incorrectly?

Steerswoman

Rowan, Bel

I love all the complexities of Outskirter society, and the differences among the various tribes. More about Bel's approach to life as a warrior and a bard--in her own tribe? With Kammeryn's people? How do Outskirters who only know her through her poetry imagine her? How did she learn to appreciate the "once upon a time" structure when adapting to the Inner Lands?

Rowan's time in the Archives as a student? Learning to draw and take measurements? A situation in which the Steerswomen's vow of honesty gets her in trouble? Something post-canon-so-far where she is able to communicate more with the "demons" or actually make some progress in learning about what's going on with the world?

There are lots of great tropey moments with Bel and Rowan that can be either shippy or gen: huddling for warmth, teaching each other swordplay, taking care of each other when they get dysentery! If you're so inclined, I'd be interested to see a shippy expansion on any of these, or something else along these lines. Another misunderstanding with the courtship gifts outside the tent?

In the event you happen to also be familiar with "Children of the Star," maybe Rowan and Noren meet by some handwavium and compare notes about their "sufficiently advanced technology" experiences? ;-)

The Worst Journey In The World

Apsley Cherry-Garrard, Henry Robertson "Birdie" Bowers ("any" with only these characters nominated)

What I like about it: the contrast between 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. Here is a tl;dr Google Doc I put together with some of my favorite quotes/over-the-top moments/tropes.

I enjoy both shipfic and gen for these two! Please no poly-shipping.

-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 Bowers and Cherry's voices.

-Bowers writes a candid letter to his mom and overshares some details about the crew's personal life

-Testing the idea of a two- or three-man sleeping bag (as proposed by Fridtjof Nansen). Huddling for warmth...and for science.

-The Winter Journey ends in tragedy. (Does this change the approach to the Pole and wind up saving lives in the long run?)

-AU where Atkinson leads the group to search for Campbell's party in late 1912 and they don't find out for years how close Scott et. al got.

-Cherry mentions that he had a conversation with Bowers about potentially "doing himself in with a pickaxe if necessity arose." What was that talk like?

-I love how polar exploration fandom runs with weird fantastical tropes (time loop, body swap, ghost shenanigans) because it's Antarctica and the aurora did it. Anything along these lines is great.

Again, this is all optional, feel free to use as much or as little as is helpful. I look forward to reading your story!

Dear Creator,

Hello! Thank you very much for writing/mapping/documenting/plotting/whatever-ing for me! I'm also primeideal on Ao3.

I would be happy with either more typical fanworks or basically any kind of in-universe documentation for any of these fandoms and characters, so consider these prompts very much a starting point, and feel free to mix and match. If you have an idea that fits with my opt-ins, go wild!

My dear author tag has more examples of tropes and prompts that I'm into, although some of these are characters/ships that I'm prompting for the first time. (Much of this letter is a copy of 2022, 2021, and 2020, but I've changed up several fandoms since then! I've received some amazing fanworks for this exchange in the past but am always excited for more.)

General likes

-canon-divergence AUs

-five things

-worldbuilding

-dialogue

-wit and wordplay

-nonstandard formats (documentation, epistolary, etc.)

-time travel

-happy endings

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

General dislikes

-explicit sex

-underage sex

-rape/noncon

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

-allegories of current events and/or contemporary politics

-second person POV (in "normal" fic, fine with it in IF or similar!)

-character bashing

-cliffhanger endings

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

Animorphs

I love the glimpses of all kinds of diverse alien species, crazy timeline shenanigans, and the themes of hope even in the midst of terrible struggle. For this fandom, I'm happy with fix-its as well as "rocks fall, everyone dies," but I'm not interested in cliffhangers or "both sides are equally terrible" posturing.

Worldbuilding
Ax & Elfangor
Aftran & Cassie
Ax & Tobias
Loren & Visser Three
Marco/Rachel
Rachel/Tobias
The Ellimist

Opt-ins:

Unique Rules - Interactive Fiction - Web-based choice-based IF not hosted on AO3
Unique Rules - Interactive Fiction - Twine
Writing - Any In-Universe Documents That Fit the Canon Setting
Writing - Grammar Sketch
Writing - Interactive Fiction - AO3 style Choose Your Own Adventure

Writing - Reddit: In-Universe Reddit Post On Any Subreddit (Post + Replies),

Writing - Worldbuilding Headcanon

Ax & Elfangor: growing up in Elfangor's shadow and resenting it? Coming to terms with Elfangor's legacy (and/or hirac delest?) post-canon? Not understanding weird human habits Elfangor picked up?

Aftran & Cassie: how would anything post-29 have been different if Aftran had stayed either in Cassie or elsewhere in the human world? How does Aftran decide who to trust in the Peace Movement with the Animorphs' secret? One of the "canon AUs" (the 41 dystopia, time travel stuff) if Aftran had been there?

Ax & Tobias: Ax's misunderstandings about human culture? Tobias visits the Andalite homeworld with Ax post-canon? Some human developments encroach on the scoop and they have to move?

Loren & Visser Three: what if Esplin had infested Loren instead of Chapman on the Taxxon homeworld? (Did she sell Earth out instead, or is he using her to get close to Elfangor and Alloran?) Maybe he follows up on her after the invasion begins, worried that she still remembers? They meet during the Visser's imprisonment?

Marco/Rachel: I'm intrigued by the idea that Marco's feelings for her are more serious than he lets on but he hides them because he's "the funny one" and because she and Tobias are good for each other. One-sided attraction? More from the Megamorphs 4 AU but without the weird timeline-breaking aspects? One day the banter just goes too far?

Rachel/Tobias: outsider POV on "who's that kid Rachel is dancing with, didn't he used to be in our class"? Tobias has to interact with Rachel's dad or sisters and is flustered? AU where Rachel survives but they're both struggling to pick up the pieces?

The Ellimist: Has he told anyone else the "Chronicles" like he told Rachel? Did any of the small-scale events of the books have butterfly-effect ramifications on the galactic war? What's it like being a hivemind/how do his different component entities make themselves known?

Worldbuilding: what changes (or doesn't) in the human world after the invasion is revealed? Anything expanding on alien culture and society, main characters or otherwise? More about the canon-AU worlds?

Alternate-medium ideas:
-declassified documents from the Yeerk or Andalite militaries
-language stuff! How does Galard work? What about the Hork-Bajir mishmashes?
-the terms of the Ellimist and Crayak's "games" as if they were a legal document or RPG rulebook

Discworld

Worldbuilding: Campanology

Opt-ins:

Art - Any Technical Drawing

Art - Floorplan/Architectural Style Drawing

Writing - Any In-Universe Documents That Fit the Canon Setting

Okay, so, this is kind of a specific prompt, but bear with me. According to Rob Wilkins' biography of Terry Pratchett, one of the abandoned drafts Pratchett was toying with was: "Clang! a story of revolution on Discworld, with campanology as the main means of communication from place to place."

We've seen revolution on Discworld, we've seen new communication methods (the clacks!); I would love to see what bell-ringing looks like in that context. (I happen to be a nerd, if an uncoordinated nerd, when it comes to the British style of change ringing, an incredibly weird and cool combination of mathematical/musical/religious/physical activity, so any allusions to RL campanology will be entirely appreciated but not at all expected.) Does Bloody Stupid Johnson design towers? Does the Band With Rocks In take up ringing in an alternate timeline?

Some of my favorite Discworld characters are Death and Susan, Rincewind, and the University faculty, but feel free to bring in anyone or everyone, including OCs.

Alternate medium ideas:
-blueprints for towers
-musical notations/transcription for counting up to 7+1 bells
-Moist von Lipwig's memos for keeping up with the technological competition
-priests of the small gods preaching about (or against) the newfangled bells

Dune (2021)

Liet Kynes

Opt-ins:

Illustrated Text: Excerpts from a Journal/Notebook/Sketchbook

Illustrated Text: Field Report

Illustrated Text: In-Universe Scientific Documents

Unique Rules - Interactive Fiction - Twine

Unique Rules - Interactive Fiction - Web-based choice-based IF not hosted on AO3

Writing - Any In-Universe Documents That Fit the Canon Setting

Writing - Interactive Fiction - AO3 style Choose Your Own Adventure

Imperial Planetologist and science nerd who's also fully embedded in Fremen life and religion, and takes agency in the plot=my fav! I have also read the original book and would be happy to see anything that works in some of that characterization/Liet's relationships with Pardot, Chani, etc, but obviously this is not expected!

What was her scientific career like when the Harkonnens were in charge? Did she meet Duncan Idaho when he came ahead to scout Arrakis, and if so, what did they make of each other? What if she'd survived--would she have continued to admire and respect Paul, or would their different goals eventually diverge?

Alternate medium ideas:
-notes on creatures she's studied on Arrakis. Shai-Hulud? Muad'Dib the mouse?
-correspondence to and from the Empire
-Fremen religious prophecies she's interpreted, looking for the Mahdi

Ender series

Worldbuilding (Any)

Writing - Any In-Universe Documents That Fit the Canon Setting

Writing - Official Workplace Documentation

Writing - Reddit: In-Universe Reddit Post On Any Subreddit (Post + Replies)

Writing - Worldbuilding Headcanon

I have read all the sequels (but not the co-written prequels); I would be interested both in works based on "Ender's Game" alone, as well as those that incorporate later canon.

-What does a "normal" experience in Battle School look like in the years before canon? The fights, the RPGs, other games?
-What did first contact look like from the perspective of the Formics, or the pequeninos?
-Between the leguminids, Wang-Mu, and the tree-swingers, there seem to be a lot of different versions of humans by the end of the later-canon era. What are the implications of that for the galaxy, or looking backwards, for the stakes of the war?
-How have different generations viewed Ender, as a hero or villain? Do these interpretations ever come together?
-What are the impacts of relativistic travel on people like Mazer?

Alternate-medium ideas:
Peter or Valentine's Reddit history
Excerpts from Valentine's history of the Formic Wars, and/or the Speaker's writings on the Hive Queen and the Hegemon.
Psychological evaluations of the Battle School applicants. The ones we see, people like Peter or Valentine who didn't make the cut, OCs, Pinual who died at the Giants' Drink?
Emails/chat transcripts like the beginning-of-the-chapter excerpts

Farscape

Aeryn Sun & Talyn (Farscape)

Bialar Crais & Talyn (Farscape)

D'Argo Sun-Crichton & Princess Katrana (Farscape TV)

John Crichton & Aeryn Sun & Zotoh Zhaan (Farscape)

John Crichton & John Crichton (Farscape)

John Crichton/Aeryn Sun & D'Argo Sun-Crichton (Farscape TV)

John Crichton/John Crichton (Farscape)

John Crichton/John Crichton/Aeryn Sun (Farscape)

Moya (Farscape) & Pilot (Farscape)

Rygel XVI & Utu Noranti Pralatong (Farscape)

Solo: Aeryn Sun (Farscape)

Solo: Zotoh Zhaan (Farscape)

WB: Bond between pilot and leviathan (Farscape)

Illustrated Text (Art & Writing) - A Page From An Herbal

Unique Rules - Interactive Fiction - Twine

Unique Rules - Interactive Fiction - Web-based choice-based IF not hosted on AO3

Writing - Any In-Universe Documents That Fit the Canon Setting

D'Argo Sun-Crichton & Princess Katrana

"Katrana"'s name is not in primary canon; this is a secondary-canon name for Princess Katralla's daughter (using John's DNA). Feel free to call her whatever you like.

Rygel & Noranti

John & John

John/John

John/John/Aeryn

Moya & Pilot

Worldbuilding: Bond between Pilot and Leviathan

There's no way that "our" Pilot can just be named "Pilot"--what was his identity before he bonded with Moya? What are their sensory experiences like, communicating with each other and with the crew? We hear very little from Moya directly--I'd love to see something from her POV about the weird tiny aliens living inside her and the trouble they cause.

Did Leviathans and Pilots evolve together? If not, how are they so compatible; if so, what's the deal with Pilots' truncated lifespans? How do DRDs fit into the Leviathan+Pilot system? Feel free to bring in the other examples we've seen (Moya's flashback pilot from 2.5, and 1812's original Leviathan from the beginning of Season 4).

John/Aeryn and D'Argo Sun-Crichton

Post-canon adventures! Does D'Argo have the wormhole-making power? What does a "normal" day look like for John and Aeryn when they're not running for their lives? Do they ever return to some of the planet-of-the-week locations from canon?

John & Aeryn & Zhaan

I love the contrasts between their backgrounds and the ways they approach problems: John, the peaceful scientist; Aeryn, the hardened warrior; and Zhaan, the sensual priest. Anything contrasting these approaches would be great. What was the aftermath of John and Zhaan sharing unity? To what extent does Aeryn's relationships with John and/or Pilot factor into Zhaan's decision to sacrifice herself for Aeryn?

Aeryn

What was she doing between seasons 3 and 4, and how did she become so loyal to those comrades? What was her life in the PKs like after selling out Velorek to become a Prowler pilot again? "N things" exploring her relationship with different members of the crew? Learning human games/phrases/mannerisms from John? AU Aeryn in an unrealized reality? Tragedy where the heat delirium is uncontrollable?

Zhaan

More of her experiences in prison (besides hoping that the crazy Luxan monster would kill her)? Wrestling with her faith over the course of the series? How did she get all that cool jewelry? Other weird biomes/stars where being a photosynthesizer is a problem or a benefit? How would the later seasons have been different if she'd survived?

Aeryn & Talyn
Crais & Talyn

Alternate-medium ideas:

-a herbal depicting medicinal plants that Zhaan uses in her healing, or Noranti uses in her cooking?
-Aeryn's military records, before or after she's declared "irreversibly contaminated"
-letters that D'Argo Sun-Crichton has written over the years, to send to his sister in the future
-in-universe literal ship manifestos for Moya or Talyn

Project Hail Mary

Original Blip-A Crew Member
Ryland Grace & Rocky
Worldbuilding

Opt-Ins:

Writing - Worldbuilding Headcanon

Writing - Grammar Sketch

Unique Rules - Interactive Fiction - Twine

Unique Rules - Interactive Fiction - Web-based choice-based IF not hosted on AO3

Writing - Any In-Universe Documents That Fit the Canon Setting

Writing - Interactive Fiction - AO3 style Choose Your Own Adventure

Grace and Rocky: Science nerds working together to save the worlds! I'm not super interested in the flashback Earth chapters, but anything about Grace and Rocky's time together in space or on Erid, or the worldbuilding in general, would be great. How did Rocky stay sane during the decades in isolation? What other bits of Earth science, or culture, come as surprises? Does Grace ever tell Rocky about the real reason he "volunteered" for the mission? Try to explain the significance of the ship's name? There's a good chance that Rocky will live long enough to get transmissions/visitors from Earth after the epilogue--what happens then?

Original Blip-A Crew member: What was life like on the first Eridian spaceship in the early days? What were some of the other specialties the crew was chosen for? How did they react when the mysterious illness set in? A fix-it where more than one of them are alive when the Hail Mary gets there--do they disagree over how to interact with the squishy aliens?

Worldbuilding: more technologies that are commonplace on Erid but unknown on Earth, or vice versa? What kind of other creatures might have evolved on Planet Adrian? How does Earth adapt and develop new technologies during the interim? (Of the Earth characters, my favorite is Steve Hatch, the "Beetles" engineer who's so over-the-top optimistic and enthusiastic about technology even by the standards of an Andy Weir book...but feel free to bring in anyone.)

Alternate-medium ideas:
-In-universe ship manifesto (the transit kind!) What do Eridians pack for the journey to Tau Ceti?
-Language nerdery! What sorts of nuances come up in a musical-chord language?
-Any of the Earth news articles/gossip/scientific research that result after the Beetles arrive.

Wheel of Time (books)

Asmodean
Egwene al'Vere
Egwene al'Vere/Aviendha

Opt-ins:

Audio - Original Fan Music

Poetry - Song Lyrics - Filk/Parody

Poetry - Song Lyrics - Original

Unique Rules - Interactive Fiction - Twine

Unique Rules - Interactive Fiction - Web-based choice-based IF not hosted on AO3

Writing - Any In-Universe Documents That Fit the Canon Setting

Writing - Interactive Fiction - AO3 style Choose Your Own Adventure

Egwene: 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?

Egwene/Aviendha: They're cute and they learn from each other! And I like the idea of people's romantic relationships not being as predetermined by prophecies as canon has it. Secret meetings in Tel'aran'rhiod? How do the rebel Aes Sedai view Aviendha? Post-canon fix-it where Egwene helps co-parent Aviendha's kids?

Asmodean: The motivation of "former child prodigy wants to live forever to fulfill his potential" is such a fascinating origin story, and I felt like we could have gotten an amusing/unwitting redemption arc with him. Was there ever a moment during the Age of Legends when he was like "yes, this is going to be my magnum opus, joining the Forsaken was totally the right call"? What sorts of skills does he teach Rand? How does he view the others on the Rhuidean journey, or how do they view him? What's it like to get balefired and return to the timestream? What if he'd lived longer--would he have grudgingly returned to the light, or continue to try to advance the Dark One's cause despite the difficulties?

Alternate-medium ideas:
-Asmodean's compositions, from the Age of Legends or the age of Jasin Natael
-How is Egwene remembered in the Tower archives? In the secret Thirteenth Depository records versus the official ones? Are they ever declassified?
-the different futures Aviendha saw for herself in the three rings could be a neat IF setting

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Again, there are so many great mediums and character dynamics that I could go on all day, so please don't feel limited by this. Thanks for creating for me!

Dear Author,

Hello! I am also primeideal on Ao3, and I am requesting fic for all fandoms. I'm very excited for this exchange because I love speculative books in general and these fandoms in particular; anything involving the requested characters/relationships/worldbuilding will be wonderful, so feel free to use as little or as much of this as is helpful. 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: (see fandom specific-notes for further details)

-explicit sex

-underage characters having sex

-rape/noncon

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

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

-non-canonical allegories of current events and/or contemporary politics (Ye Wenjie in the Cultural Revolution: fine; Cheng Xin comments on a Xi Jinping stand-in: no thanks. Marco flirts with the governor of California: fine; Marco flirts with the governor and this is a metaphor for the Newsom administration: no thanks.)

-character bashing

-cliffhanger endings

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

Animorphs

Aftran & or / Cassie

How would anything post-29 have been different if Aftran had stayed either in Cassie or elsewhere in the human world? How does Aftran decide who to trust in the Peace Movement with the Animorphs' secret? One of the "canon AUs" (the 41 dystopia, time travel stuff) if Aftran had been there?

the team

Lighthearted moments when they're able to enjoy life without the war encroaching? More weird time travel/alternate universe nonsense? Which of their adventures make the history books later, and which are censored even after the invasion is revealed?

Ax & Tobias

Ax's misunderstandings about human culture? Tobias visits the Andalite homeworld with Ax post-canon? Some human developments encroach on the scoop and they have to move?

Elfangor/Loren

-their time building a life on Earth. Elfangor's reaction to human tastes? How did they acquire DNA for him to morph? Are Tobias' aunt and uncle Loren's sibling(s)/that person's ex?/related to the fake husband that the Ellimist retcons in?

-they use the Time Matrix to go somewhere else--a new "pocket universe"? Elsewhere in the past or future of canon?

-Elfangor stays on Earth and they organize a human resistance as the Yeerk threat grows

-Loren gets her memories back somehow (the hirac delest shows up? Something like the utzum ritual? Ellimist nonsense?)

Rachel/Tobias

Outsider POV on "who's that kid Rachel is dancing with, didn't he used to be in our class"? Tobias has to interact with Rachel's dad or sisters and is flustered? AU where Rachel survives but they're both struggling to pick up the pieces?

Battle Royale

Mizuho Inada

More from her perspective, seeing the conflict as part of her fantasy? Her relationships with other students before the Program? What if she had teamed up with someone else? Or hey, this is an SFF exchange--what if the Program really was some kind of VR game where deaths aren't permanent, but the kids have to decide whether they can go through with murdering their classmates or dare to break the rules and defy the system? Her gaming experience might be just what the class needs!

Shogo Kawada

Shogo as an unreliable narrator: what was his relationship with Keiko (or lack thereof) really like, and how has it changed in Shogo's memories/attempts to manipulate Shuya, Noriko, the adults, others? What were the other important events of his first Program? Does he have any regrets or compunctions about hacking the collars, even knowing it might put his new class at risk? What if he'd survived--would he be able to adapt to freedom or resent the spotlight?

Children of the Star

Noren & Stefred

Stefred is such a compelling antagonist--deeply on Noren's side, but he can't show it! I'd be interested in seeing something from his POV on Noren's ordeals at any point during canon. What was his heresy experience like, and did he ever talk about it with Noren? Or maybe a relatively peaceful moment where they actually can collaborate as Scholars on the same side.

Noren/Talyra

What first attracted them to each other, when they were students and Noren was still grappling with his skepticism? Talyra has a way of seeing Noren's hopeful, faithful side even when he can't see it in himself--where else does that play out? What if Talyra had survived--how would that change the research trajectory?

Original Founder

The Founders watched their home solar system annihilated, some of their peers died from suicide, their leader has proposed an oppressive caste-based hierarchy, they're living on barebones rations for the first time, and now the leader is coming up with a weird martyrdom scheme. I feel like it would be very hard to stay sane in these circumstances, much less work with science and faith towards a brighter future, but they did it. Tell me what was going through their heads.

Original Futurity Settler

The adults of Futurity are villagers who revere Noren as a prophet even though he tries to downplay it, who have new rituals that set them apart from the villages and let them drink untreated water. The adopted children are City-born whose biology parents are all very smart and rebellion-minded. And the children born in Futurity have never known a world except the one with the Archpriest. How do any of these people understand their neighbors in the villages? The Prophecy? Noren? What new rituals develop in the new city?

Mistborn

I have read Era 2, so if you want to bring anything from that in, feel free, but not expected.

Sazed

Sazed's patient, scholarly attitude seems like it could make for an awkward contrast to the skaa thieves--what were the early days like with Kelsier's crew? What kinds of history did Sazed and Tindwyl pass on to each other? What are some of the other religions he's studied? Or, Harmony in the era between the trilogies, watching over the planet while trying to balance the opposing forces of Ruin and Preservation? For Era 2 stuff: watching other planets to see how technology is advancing? Calculating some of the potential extremes of Allomancy? (Like the "Lost Metal" climax.)

Feruchemical use of lerasium

Lerasium is Preservation's essence. Feruchemy "preserves" attributes by letting them travel through time. Atium was used to store age. What kind of weirdness could lerasium be used for? Time travel? Something like Hemalurgy, but less violent? Duplicating memories without losing the originals? Go crazy.

Project Hail Mary

Ryland Grace & or / Rocky

BFFs being nerds and saving each other's lives! How, if ever, does Grace tell Rocky the truth about his "volunteering" for the mission, or the irony/significance of his name? What's something that one takes for granted, and the other is shocked by? Do they ever have a serious argument--what was it about, and how did they reconcile?

Specifically for the shippy version: maybe Grace is touch-starved and Rocky wants to help, but they can't share each others' spaces, so...engineering to the rescue? (I'd prefer no infidelity, so Adrian isn't in the picture.)

Original Blip-A Crew Member

What was life like on the first Eridian spaceship in the early days? What were some of the other specialties the crew was chosen for? How did they react when the mysterious illness set in? A fix-it where more than one of them are alive when the Hail Mary gets there--do they disagree over how to interact with the squishy aliens?

Remembrance of Earth's Past

Cheng Xin

A fix-it where she doesn't miss Yun Tianming at their star? Any kind of outside POV on her and the many different hats she wears: Older men patronizing her during Project Staircase? The humans resenting her in Australia? Luo Ji and the museum? What if she'd stayed on the cylinder worlds near Jupiter where things felt "normal" and 2000s-y? Her relationship with Guan Yifan--is he really a different kind of human for having been to space, or are they more two sides of the same coin?

Ye Wenjie

Secrets at Red Coast Base? Some more of the "declassified" documents? The early days of the ETO? What did she work out about Dark Forest theory before meeting Luo Ji? What if Yang Dong had talked to her about the documents she'd sneaked a look at? Or if Ye had lived long enough to discover more of Deterrence theory herself?

Original Galactic Human

Are humans fundamentally different for having left their homeworld under these circumstances? Do the crew of Gravity and Blue Space make a difference between their origins once they've merged? Do they have alien encounters that go better than the Trisolarans'? If "A Past Outside of Time" is Cheng Xin's legacy and testament to the new universe, do the galactic humans leave behind records of their own? What are the important parts of their history that they choose to highlight?

Steerswoman

Bel, Bel/Rowan

I love all the complexities of Outskirter society, and the differences among the various tribes. More about Bel's approach to life as a warrior and a bard--in her own tribe? With Kammeryn's people? How do Outskirters who only know her through her poetry imagine her? How did she learn to appreciate the "once upon a time" structure when adapting to the Inner Lands?

There are lots of great tropey moments with Bel and Rowan that can be either shippy or gen: huddling for warmth, teaching each other swordplay, taking care of each other when they get dysentery! I'd be interested to see a shippy expansion on any of these, or something else along these lines. Another misunderstanding with the courtship gifts outside the tent?

What Has Passed Shall In Kinder Light Appear

Xie Baosheng/Qiqi

-Let them be happy! More of the afterlife/dream world/reunion stuff glimpsed in the epilogue.
-I'm not interested in a completely mundane AU, but I'd be interested in something set in the "real world" timeline where one or both characters have memories of their canon timestream, or feel like something is off in some way. Other kinds of time travel/time loops/weird paradoxes?
-Something from Qiqi's POV showing her life as a person beyond just Xie Baosheng's love interest.

Historical events elsewhere in the world

I didn't know a great deal about Chinese history when I read this story, but the way events like the Olympics and the USA's Middle East policy are world news, to say nothing of all the fandom/nerd references, I had no trouble figuring out what was going on! I'd love to see something that took this premise/style and adapted it to another place and/or time. Write what you know! And/or what you think would be neat to delve into!

Wheel of Time

Egwene

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

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?

Rand + Galad

Chosen One with three lovers and supremely chaste do-gooder discover they're long-lost family, hilarity ensues. They meet through Elayne and try to be polite for her sake but they're obviously not hitting it off? Does Rand introduce himself in the post-canon timeframe? Does Galad have any memories of Tigraine to share? What if Galad shows up at the Black Tower? (Some of the descriptions of his duel with Valda seem a little bit like channelers' awareness...)

Post-Canon 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?

White Tower worldbuilding

I love all the details of the magic school, and I'd be interested in seeing a "normal" day in the life while we aren't worried about the protagonists or the end of the Age. What are all the other depositories in the library like? What little traditions/decorations/traits are unique to each Ajah? What are some of the other items of Power locked away in the storerooms?

Crossovers

Rowan (Steerswoman) & Noren (Children of the Star)

Their stories and worlds are so similar in terms of "sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic"--I think they should hang out and compare notes! Feel free to handwave whether it's set more in Rowan's world or Noren's, or whatever.

-Noren is awed by the existence of the Steerswomen and is jealous that a low-tech society still has such rigorous scientific research
-Rowan's vow of honesty gets her in trouble with Noren's neighbors, or maybe she's just floored at the authorities not answering her questions
-Something contrasting the role that religion plays as a source of authority in Noren's world and a marginal institution in Rowan's
-Post-canon where one or both is a space traveler and laughing at how much more sense everything makes now

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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!

Dear Yuletide writer,

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!) See fandom-specific note for Project Hail Mary.

General DNWs: (see fandom specific-notes for further details)

-explicit sex

-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 (Ye Wenjie in the Cultural Revolution: fine; Cheng Xin comments on a Xi Jinping stand-in: no thanks. Columbus has issues: fine; Columbus has issues and this is a metaphor for the US educational system as a whole: no thanks.)

-character bashing

-cliffhanger endings

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

Crying Suns

Any character/worldbuilding (Ellys Idaho, Kaliban, Worldbuilding nominated for this fandom)

I enjoy the self-awareness of a roguelike that has an IC reason for being a roguelike, and Ellys' belief in free will and mercy despite everything the galaxy throws at him.

Ellys: his relationships with Okonkwo and/or Rebecca before the shutdown? What if things had gone differently at Ganyma? (I am fine with any combination of ships for these three.) What have some of the previous clones get up to with their Kalibans? Post-canon? (Any of the game's endings, or something else!)

Kaliban: what do the rest of the Odysseus' crew think of him? Were the Kalibans on Gehenna self-aware before the Shutdown? What's some of the other humorous unhelpful advice he gives Ellys about to deal with random events?

Worldbuilding: what's the deal with the pirates and their unions, anyway? What kind of technology is still present on Earth, and how much do they know about the rest of the galaxy? What's the deal with House Vicarelli, other than being the butt of everyone's jokes? If you happen to be familiar with FTL as well, I think a crossover comparing/contrasting their mechanics, or lampshading the parallels, would be funny, but this is obviously not expected!

FTL: Faster Than Light

Any character (The Captain, Engi, Mantis, Rock nominated)

I like this game's sense of humor--the whimsical music, the absurd situations, the destruction and mayhem. Anything from weird "what's the deal with the giant spiders anyway" worldbuilding to tragic "rocks fall, everyone dies, again" quests would be great. If you happen to be familiar with Crying Suns as well, I think a crossover comparing/contrasting their mechanics, or lampshading the parallels, would be funny, but this is obviously not expected!

The Captain: what are the in-universe reasons for some of the OOC mechanics stuff? Do they feel bad about committing war crimes? How do they hold together a very diverse crew?

Engi: So they're a robotic species--were they programmed by one of the species we know, an ancient precursor, or did they just evolve on their own? The awkward Engi specialist who has to explain "achieving a union" to the crew? An individual Engi who yearns to go against type and excel in hand-to-hand combat? Do they see themselves as individuals, nanobot assemblies, something in between?

Mantis: do their violent tendencies create difficulties for the Federation even in peacetime? There are several enemy ships that have a mostly-Mantis crew and maybe one or two Engi for repairs--do they complement each other or get on each others' nerves? Are their mating rituals as violent as their namesakes would suggest?

Rock: more on their religion/honor culture? Do they get annoyed with crewmates using them as fire extinguishers? Who approved the design of a spaceship without doors?

Pastwatch

Some things I liked about this book: the parent-child relationships, the twist of "oh dang what if our 'real' timeline is someone else's alternate history," and the premise of "for a world-affecting evil like slavery, it's not enough to take out one or two bad guys--you really have to go back centuries to put history on a better course" combined with "we have nothing to lose in this timeline, so let's do it!" (I feel like a lot of works that engage with these tropes either handwave the implications of "eh we just wiped out one timeline, but oh well" and/or send the message that "the evil is so pervasive that your only option is total self-abnegation, which is metaphysically impossible, have fun being complicit in evil forever!") I would be interested in anything that engages with these themes, with the canon characters or OCs using the Pastwatch technology.

Project Hail Mary

Worldbuilding, Rocky

Please treat this as an OR request--I would be happy to receive something that's worldbuilding-focused even if Rocky doesn't appear, or vice versa.

I was captivated by the "science the shit out of this" adventures throughout the book, as well as the deepening friendship between Rocky and Ryland. For this request, I'd like something canon-compliant--could be a missing scene during the book timeframe, something pre-canon with the Eridians' outbound journey or Rocky alone at Tau Ceti, or post-canon when Ryland is on Erid (or later human contact?) But I'm not interested in an AU where the mission fails and one or both of the planets is eventually doomed.

Rocky: what was going through his mind when he was isolated at Tau Ceti for decades? Does Grace ever tell him the truth about his "volunteering" for the mission, or the irony/significance of his name? Eridians have long lifespans, so it's possible by the time the planets make contact via astrophage-powered ships or lightspeed communications he might still be around--what happens next?

Worldbuilding: more technologies that are commonplace on Erid but unknown on Earth, or vice versa? What kind of other creatures might have evolved on Planet Adrian? How does Earth adapt and develop new technologies during the interim? (Of the Earth characters, my favorite is Steve Hatch, the "Beetles" engineer who's so over-the-top optimistic and enthusiastic about technology even by the standards of an Andy Weir book...but feel free to bring in anyone.)

Remembrance of Earth's Past/Three-Body Problem (三体)

Any character/worldbuilding (Ye Wenjie, Cheng Xin, Worldbuilding nominated for this fandom)

I enjoy the shifting scales and narrative voices: how the narrator notes that Bai Mulin betraying Ye Wenjie to the government actually altered the fate of humanity even if he never knew it, how we see just enough of Bronze Age to understand how Blue Space escaped. Anything from weird physics worldbuilding or small-scale character pieces is great, and both scales at once is also great! For this request, I'm not really interested in "The Redemption of Time" as canon--feel free to draw ideas from it if you like, but I don't want to take it as read.

Ye Wenjie: secrets at Red Coast Base? Some more of the "declassified" documents? The early days of the ETO? What did she work out about Dark Forest theory before meeting Luo Ji? What if Yang Dong had talked to her about the documents she'd sneaked a look at? Or if Ye had lived long enough to discover more of Deterrence theory herself?

Cheng Xin: A fix-it where she doesn't miss Yun Tianming at their star? Any kind of outside POV on her and the many different hats she wears: Older men patronizing her during Project Staircase? The humans resenting her in Australia? Luo Ji and the museum? What if she'd stayed on the cylinder worlds near Jupiter where things felt "normal" and 2000s-y? Her relationship with Guan Yifan--is he really a different kind of human for having been to space, or are they more two sides of the same coin?

Worldbuilding: More of the "video game" that taught people about Trisolaris--what were others' experiences like playing it? The aftermath of Gravity and Blue Space? The four-dimensional artifact Guan Yifan talks to? The legacy of the old universe in the new?

Steerswoman

Worldbuilding, Bel

Please treat this as an OR request--I would be happy to receive something that's worldbuilding-focused even if Bel doesn't appear, or vice versa.

I was thrilled by the worldbuilding in this series--the depiction of Rowan's scientific inquiry is great, even if our perspective as readers is different from the characters'. And I especially enjoyed the complexity of Outskirter society in "Steerswoman's Road"--the tribes closer to the Inner Lands growing more militaristic and less cultured, the Face People and Efraim's weirdness around women, the naming ceremony and recitation of ancestors, the importance of poetry and lore--that makes them much more than "wilderness raiders." I'd love to see more about Bel's approach to life as a warrior and a bard, whether that be with Kammeryn's tribe or others in the outskirts, or adapting to Inner Lands culture (Rowan being impressed by the way she learns the importance of the "once upon a time..." narrative was a really neat touch!) I'm open to shippy Bel/Rowan if you're so inclined, but gen is great too.

Something more worldbuilding-focused elsewhere in the world would also be neat--documents at the Archives? Steerswomen and wizards' POV on the same events? What does religion look like in a world where Christian symbols and language exist but most people don't remember their homeworld? (I'd prefer no authorial bashing of any specific belief system or lack thereof, but canon-typical disagreements/skepticism on different characters' part is fine and expected!)

Feel free to bring in any canon characters or OCs. Steffie's POV sometimes dragged for me so I would prefer if he wasn't a central character, but mentions are fine.

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Again, this is all optional, feel free to use as much or as little as is helpful. I look forward to reading your story!

*(I used to do limericks at the beginning of my Yuletide letters because I thought it was funny the first year and then I figured I had to keep going. Eventually I reached the point where it's like...this is maybe coming off as a little too tryhard. So if for whatever reason you're looking for one because it's tradition, I'm sorry for the disappointment.)

Dear Creator,

Hello! Thank you very much for writing/mapping/documenting/plotting/whatever-ing for me! I'm also primeideal on Ao3.

I would be happy with either more typical fanworks or basically any kind of in-universe documentation for any of these fandoms and characters, so consider these prompts very much a starting point, and feel free to mix and match. If you have an idea that fits with my opt-ins, go wild!

My dear author tag has more examples of tropes and prompts that I'm into, although some of these are characters/ships that I'm prompting for the first time. (Much of this letter is a copy of 2021 and 2020, but I've changed up several fandoms since then! I've received some amazing fanworks for this exchange in the past but am always excited for more.)

General likes

-canon-divergence AUs

-five things

-worldbuilding

-dialogue

-wit and wordplay

-nonstandard formats (documentation, epistolary, etc.)

-time travel

-happy endings

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

General dislikes

-explicit sex

-underage sex

-rape/noncon

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

-allegories of current events and/or contemporary politics

-second person POV (in "normal" fic, fine with it in IF or similar!)

-character bashing

-cliffhanger endings

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

Writing - Reddit: In-Universe Reddit Post On Any Subreddit (Post + Replies),

Writing - Worldbuilding Headcanon

Ax & Elfangor: growing up in Elfangor's shadow and resenting it? Coming to terms with Elfangor's legacy (and/or hirac delest?) post-canon? Not understanding weird human habits Elfangor picked up?

Aftran & Cassie: how would anything post-29 have been different if Aftran had stayed either in Cassie or elsewhere in the human world? How does Aftran decide who to trust in the Peace Movement with the Animorphs' secret? One of the "canon AUs" (the 41 dystopia, time travel stuff) if Aftran had been there?

Ax & Tobias: Ax's misunderstandings about human culture? Tobias visits the Andalite homeworld with Ax post-canon? Some human developments encroach on the scoop and they have to move?

Loren & Visser Three: what if Esplin had infested Loren instead of Chapman on the Taxxon homeworld? (Did she sell Earth out instead, or is he using her to get close to Elfangor and Alloran?) Maybe he follows up on her after the invasion begins, worried that she still remembers? They meet during the Visser's imprisonment?

Marco/Rachel: I'm intrigued by the idea that Marco's feelings for her are more serious than he lets on but he hides them because he's "the funny one" and because she and Tobias are good for each other. One-sided attraction? More from the Megamorphs 4 AU but without the weird timeline-breaking aspects? One day the banter just goes too far?

Rachel/Tobias: outsider POV on "who's that kid Rachel is dancing with, didn't he used to be in our class"? Tobias has to interact with Rachel's dad or sisters and is flustered? AU where Rachel survives but they're both struggling to pick up the pieces?

Worldbuilding: what changes (or doesn't) in the human world after the invasion is revealed? Anything expanding on alien culture and society, main characters or otherwise? More about the canon-AU worlds?

Alternate-medium ideas:
-declassified documents from the Yeerk or Andalite militaries
-language stuff! How does Galard work? What about the Hork-Bajir mishmashes?
-the terms of the Ellimist and Crayak's "games" as if they were a legal document or RPG rulebook

Arthurian Mythology

Dinadan
Galahad

Opt-Ins:

Medium Opt In: Poetry - Any Poetry Style of In-Universe RPF

Medium Opt In: Poetry - Ballad

Medium Opt In: Poetry - Ghazal

Medium Opt In: Poetry - In-Universe Poetry

Medium Opt In: Poetry - In-Universe Prayer

Medium Opt In: Poetry - Narrative Poem

Medium Opt In: Poetry - Rondeau

Medium Opt In: Poetry - Sonnet

Medium Opt In: Poetry - Sestina

Medium Opt In: Poetry - Villanelle

Unique Rules - Interactive Fiction - Twine

Unique Rules - Interactive Fiction - Web-based choice-based IF not hosted on AO3

Writing - Any In-Universe Documents That Fit the Canon Setting

Writing - Interactive Fiction - AO3 style Choose Your Own Adventure

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. (I'm mostly familiar with Malory, but feel free to draw on any source you're interested in!)

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?

Alternate-medium ideas:
-let's see the ballad Dinadan made to make fun of King Mark!
-what are Galahad's prayers like, before or after he's seen the Grail?
-I think any kind of poetry contrasting either or both of these two with more traditional courtly love would be neat.

Blade Runner

Worldbuilding
Rick Deckard/Rachael
Roy, Leon, Pris, & Zhora
Freysa, Sapper, & Rachael
Joshi/Luv
K/Luv
K/Mariette

Opt-ins:

Unique Rules - Map: Any
Unique Rules - Interactive Fiction - Web-based choice-based IF not hosted on AO3
Unique Rules - Interactive Fiction - Twine
Writing - Any In-Universe Documents That Fit the Canon Setting
Writing - Grammar Sketch
Writing - Interactive Fiction - AO3 style Choose Your Own Adventure

Writing - Reddit: In-Universe Reddit Post On Any Subreddit (Post + Replies),

Writing - Worldbuilding Headcanon

I love the worldbuilding of noir Los Angeles and all the hints of the larger universe these characters are in. I love replicants and the ways they struggle to assert their own personhood. I love the respect and admiration among all these weird characters, even (and especially) when they're trying to kill each other.

Rick/Rachael: How did they figure out she was different? What if she had lived--would she have tried to reunite with Rick, or go underground with Ana? Her perspective on the events of the original--why does she kill Leon? What makes her trust Rick?

Roy, Leon, Pris, & Zhora: deciding to rebel? What if some or any of them had lived and met the Nexus-8s? Do other replicants view them as heroes or idiots, or some of each?

Freysa, Sapper, & Rachael: their life in hiding? Were there philosophical disagreements, or were they all just as gung-ho about revolution as Freysa? Does not knowing she was a replicant for a while make Rachael approach things differently than the others?

Joshi/Luv: stoic fighting women gritting it out while trying to kill each other...look, I ship it. They clash on opposite sides of some other case? They cross paths and are attracted to each other before they realize each other's identities? They get turned on by violence in a slightly less deadly way? Or equally deadly whatever works.

K/Luv: comparisons and contrasts! K is the LAPD's reliable cop, Luv is Wallace's obedient sidekick, but neither of them are totally satisfied with it. Do they try to recruit each other for clandestine operations? Reluctantly save each other's life (like Luv with the drone attack)? Or find their own path away from the institutions? Like Joshi/Luv, I find the violence/conflict to be part of the allure, so feel free to go dark (but please no non-con).

K/Mariette: what motivates Mariette to join the rebellion--is she an idealist, looking for adventure, bored? Does she find any of that with K? Trying to convince K that she's more interesting than Joi? K isn't used to having someone who cares about him just for himself and is charmed?

Worldbuilding: how does the baseline test work for others, or the Voight-Kampff? What's going on in the colonies? We've seen what Los Angeles looks like both in 2019 and 2049, how are the other parts of the world faring? Tell me about Cityspeak, the creole!

Other medium ideas
-Police records of the wanted replicants. What the LAPD has concluded, what they don't know.
-Technical specs/outlines for how the Tyrell and/or Wallace Corporations create replicants. What parts of the process have changed, what is the same? How does Ana create memories?
-if you want to go meta, in-universe speculation about whether Deckard is a replicant, playing up the differences between the different cuts

Chess

Anatoly/Florence
Anatoly & Florence
Florence & Gregor
The Arbiter
Viigand

Opt-ins:

Unique Rules - Interactive Fiction - Web-based choice-based IF not hosted on AO3
Unique Rules - Interactive Fiction - Twine
Writing - Any In-Universe Documents That Fit the Canon Setting
Writing - Interactive Fiction - AO3 style Choose Your Own Adventure

Writing - Reddit: In-Universe Reddit Post On Any Subreddit (Post + Replies),

There are countless variations between productions and plotlines (life imitating art) but I see that as a feature, not a bug--feel free to borrow from any version, or smash them all together. I enjoy chess on its own without the musical context, so any allusions to the board game and/or its weird RL history would be welcomed but not required. Please no Freddie/Florence as a romantic partnership.

-Anatoly & or / Florence: their time together between acts (brief or not-so-brief, depending on the production). What if they hadn't been in love, but he still wanted to defect and she was mostly helping him for the political reasons? Do they reconnect after the fall of Communism?

-Florence & Gregor: reuniting after the Cold War (or maybe after the play, again depending on the production?)? Stuff he taught her about chess and/or life growing up? News of the outside world occasionally reaches him, he realizes (or not) Florence's connections and growing importance in the chess world?

-The Arbiter and/or Viigand: I feel like these guys are both like "I'm here for chess because chess is serious business, why is everything on fire." I'm intrigued by the Arbiter's "I don't like women, I don't take dope" line--did the KGB have a plan B or C or Z for bribing him? What does he think of Freddie's "One Night in Bangkok" opinions? How did Viigand and Anatoly meet, and how did Molokov prepare Viigand to face his former colleague/rival? Do they commiserate about "everyone else is crazy," or is the Arbiter too concerned about remaining impartial? Do they run across any of the other characters afterwards?

Alternate medium ideas:
-something making fun of all the different continuities? I feel like this could be a good basis for an interactive/choose your own adventure type of fanwork.
-frivolous or serious complaints that the Arbiter had to deal with, and his frivolous or serious responses
-paperwork related to passports, immigration, defection, etc. (Embassy Lament!)

Chip's Challenge

Chip
Chip & Melinda
Worldbuilding

Opt-Ins:

Illustrated Text: Excerpts from a Journal/Notebook/Sketchbook

Writing - Worldbuilding Headcanon

Unique Rules - Interactive Fiction - Twine

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So difficult and yet such a classic. "Bummer, dude." I'm also familiar with the second game, so if you happen to know it, feel free to incorporate the new puzzles (letting Melinda and Chip summon each other so they can get out of traps neither one could escape on their own, and so on); if not, absolutely not expected! Either allusions to specific levels from the original game or just generic "oh no, it's a monster" would be welcome. Maybe more peaceful postgame adventures once Chip is a Bit Buster in his own right?

Alternate-medium ideas:
-Melinda's sketchbook, how did she come up with/beta test/create all these things?
-Chip's increasingly frustrated diary as he beats his head against a wall/block of ice/force field?
-Any kind of bureaucratic "getting permission to use these creatures this way" documentation. Both Melinda's treatment of creatures and humans seems to stretch the bounds of science!

Dune (2021)

Liet Kynes

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The Prestige

I like the vibe of "friends to enemies to increasingly obsessed enemies" with Angier/Borden, and then on Tesla's end, the nonchalance of "I have no idea what's going on but sure, let's see if I can turn this to my advantage." For Angier/Borden, I'm fine with "dubious consent due to identity issues," but please no violent non-con nor incest.

Robert Angier/Alfred Borden
Robert Angier/Nikola Tesla

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Angier/Borden: what if they'd gotten together earlier on and disaster was averted? Do the two Bordens take turns with Angier--who likes him more? Do they catch on? What do their assistants/the outside world think of their "rivalry?" Or maybe there's just one Borden but he's obsessed enough to plot his own death as long as it gets Angier killed too. Or there really is a "teleporter" coming to Borden's rescue.

Angier/Tesla: Tesla realizes there's more to Angier's story than he's letting on but is content to roll with it? Tesla follows Angier back to London after Edison's minions sabotage him? Angier is insistent on seeing how the experimentation goes and Tesla has to explain the engineering process? Borden's reaction once things calm down--is he surprised that they got together, or did he plan it all along?

Alternate medium ideas:
-more from Borden's journal? How does the cipher work? What if Angier had been stuck decoding it on his own?
-Tesla's schematics and machine diagrams
-legal documents from the murder trial

Project Hail Mary

Ryland Grace & Rocky
Worldbuilding

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Science nerds working together to save the worlds! I'm not super interested in the flashback Earth chapters, but anything about Grace and Rocky's time together in space or on Erid, or the worldbuilding in general, would be great. How did Rocky stay sane during the decades in isolation? What other bits of Earth science, or culture, come as surprises? Does Grace ever tell Rocky about the real reason he "volunteered" for the mission? Try to explain the significance of the ship's name? There's a good chance that Rocky will live long enough to get transmissions/visitors from Earth after the epilogue--what happens then?

Alternate-medium ideas:
-In-universe ship manifesto (the transit kind!) What do Eridians pack for the journey to Tau Ceti?
-Language nerdery! What sorts of nuances come up in a musical-chord language?
-Any of the Earth news articles/gossip/scientific research that result after the Beetles arrive.

Stranger Things

Eddie & Eleven
Erica & Lucas
The Party
Will & Eddie
Will & Eleven

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I especially love the "kids' generation" plotline, and I like how Season 4 brought us Erica being part of the D&D world as well as Eddie showing them how even high schoolers aren't too cool for gaming. Also, between El's opening narration about "we're all time travelers" and the Eddie-Nancy-Steve-Robin group winding up in the past of the Upside Down in Nancy's house, I think time travel would be a great plot for any combination of these characters, just saying!

Eddie & Eleven and/or Will: so they never got to meet in canon :( but maybe a fix-it where they get to be unapologetic weirdos together. Eddie teaches El how to play guitar? She piggybacks into his mind and they have to collaborate? Eddie showing Will that you can be a (super-senior) high schooler and still not outgrow RPGs? The kids try to clear Eddie's name?

Erica & Lucas: more parallels of how they both succeed in different ways. Erica showing up for Lucas' games even though he's a benchwarmer is classic "you're my sibling so you exasperate me but I'm always here for you" vibes--more of this dynamic? Erica's POV on Lucas/Max? Lucas being overprotective and/or maybe "she's [almost?] as old as I was when we first fought the demogorgon..."?

The Party: picking up the pieces and taking the fight to Vecna after S4? Time travellers from different points in the series trying to coordinate a fix-it? Outsider POV on "what's the deal with all these kids?"

Will & El: missing scenes from their time in California? Bonding over their relationship to the Upside Down early in the series? Will introduces El to something "normal" she's never seen in the lab?

Alternate-medium ideas:
In-universe TTRPG campaign! Eddie's notes from the Hellfire saga? Or what sorts of character sheets would represent the characters themselves?
Epistolary fic from the other Party members to the California gang, between seasons 3 and 4?
The basketball team or Eddie's band get written up in the local newspaper.

Crossovers:

Alia Atreides/Rey

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Okay, look. They're both from desert worlds. They both are precociously magically gifted. They both have evil grandfathers, who they murder with their powers. Alia is haunted by her ancestors, including the grandfather who she murdered. Rey is "all the Jedi" and seems to have survived the encounter with Palpatine, despite his ominous "strike me down..." villain monologuing. What I'm saying is, they should get together. No preferences for whether it's more in the Star Wars galaxy or the Dune galaxy or a mix of the two! Prefer if Alia is aged up/it's made clear that she's an adult.

What do their different schools of magic have to teach each other? Does Rey's influence help pull Alia out of the darkness? Or is Rey more haunted, post-Episode IX, than she lets on? What does Rey think of Fremen water discipline, or Alia think of Niima Outpost?

Alternate medium ideas:
-Something from Irulan's (or others') in-universe histories of Alia
-Epistolary fic, they're on separate planets during their adventures and keep in touch via letters
-Medical evaluation of Alia's memories. How would they be understood in the Star Wars context?
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Again, there are so many great mediums and character dynamics that I could go on all day, so please don't feel limited by this. Thanks for creating for me!

Dear Author,

Thank you for writing for me! I'm also primeideal on Ao3, and I'm requesting fic for all fandoms.

I think some of these prompts speak for themselves, so I haven't elaborated on all of them. Please feel free to use as much or as little as is helpful, or mix and match prompts for different fandoms or characters than suggested.

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:

-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.)

-allegories of current events and/or contemporary politics

-character bashing

-cliffhanger endings

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

Animorphs:
Ax & Tobias

"Take Me Instead" Situation - shorms being idiots with a death wish!

Canonical Alternate Universe - one of the bad timelines from books 41 or Megamorphs 4?

Hurt/Comfort - Character A Doesn’t Know How To Help Hurt B Because Of Their Nonhuman Biology - this could go either way. Morphing fixes injuries but maybe there's an illness like yamphut, or they're just unable to morph for ~reasons.

Hurt/Comfort - Character A Lets Themself Get Tortured or Abused to Protect Character B - maybe more from the book 33 timeframe when Tobias has to morph Ax? But any other premise is good.

Long Lost/Secret Relatives - Tobias tells Ax about the events of book 23? They find Elfangor's hirac delest? Maybe a fix-it where Ax introduces Tobias to Noorlin and Forlay?

Mind Control - "I Know You're Still In There Somewhere" Fight - could be an AU infestation, or maybe post-canon with Tobias trying to rescue Ax from The One.

Post-Canon Fix-It - anything with a slightly happier ending for these two. Feel free to diverge as much or as little from canon as you want.

Harry Potter:

Albus Dumbledore and Minerva McGonagall

Cats - how did Minerva learn to be an Animagus? Does she ever use her new form for secret Order missions? Or just to make things more interesting at Hogwarts?

Character arranges own death for good of group; group isn't happy - I imagine McGonagall (and/or the rest of the staff) is fed up with Dumbledore's dramatic gestures in his last few years but is especially annoyed when they realize he just left them out of the loop about the fatal curse. Does she take out her frustrations on his portrait? Does he try to say his goodbyes without her realizing that's what's going on? Or does she figure it out and thwart him?

Dark Academia - doesn't need to be particularly dark, just "what's the day-to-day life of research and scholarship like at a magical school (with frequent interruptions by the Dark Arts)"? But anything with the neo-Gothic aesthetic would be fun.

Immature note passing during otherwise adult meetings - self-explanatory, feel free to bring any of the staff in!

Intelligent Characters Enthusing Over Learning New Things (Especially From Each Other) - ditto! Maybe something with "hey, there's a neat Muggle technology that parallels this magical one"?

Regulus Black & Harry Potter

Becoming an Accidental Father Figure - this could be early in Harry's childhood or during the timeframe of the Hogwarts years if Regulus survives somehow/time-travels/is around as a portrait or some other magical weirdness. Given Harry's track record with honorary father figures this could be great or could also be terrible.

Character Finds Out One of Their Mentor's Secrets - somehow Harry and Regulus already know each other when Harry learns more about Regulus' past. Does he have a similar "...he was my age, age isn't an excuse" moment from the books? Does he confront Regulus about it? Does he jump to the wrong conclusions?

Man Who Hates World Accidentally Adopts A Small Child - Regulus lives and is somehow in the picture when the Lily and James are killed, maybe Sirius' godfather connection comes into play? But he's still the arrogant Pureblood who doesn't really care about anybody besides maybe his house-elf. Antics ensue.

Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead:

Rosencrantz and Guildenstern

Alternate Universe - Expert Judgment on Markers to Deter... (Sandia Labs) Fusion - I feel like this crossover would be a hilarious mix of meaning and nonsense. Is this a message? Is it warning us about pirates or spooky ghosts? Who knows?

crack treated seriously - livestreamed murder/suicide/etc with ridiculous nonsensical weapons - any kind of "crack treated seriously" tag is great for R&G. Maybe the Players have something to do with this ("deaths for all occasions!") R&G are a little weirded out by the idea of the audience watching them...but maybe they're back the next day to do it all over again?

Identity Porn - Characters Know Each Other 3 Different Ways and Should Have Figured This Out By Now - anything with identity shenanigans (and/or memory shenanigans) would be great.

Time Loop - Only one of them remembers the past iterations - would be funny to see some other, maybe more "conventional," time travel tropes in this context. Or maybe the person who remembers is different each time. Doesn't necessarily have to be Rosencrantz or Guildenstern, what about the rest of the "Hamlet" gang?

Star Wars Original Trilogy:

Luke Skywalker, Leia Organa, and/or Darth Vader

in-universe nonfiction text - what does the future get right (or wrong) about the Skywalkers' relationships? (Feel free to be compliant with the sequel trilogy or go AU.)

Let's Steal a Spaceship! - shenanigans in space. Maybe one or both of the twins is stuck with Vader and has to find a way out, maybe the Millennium Falcon is having its hyperdrive repaired or being repossessed by the Hutts.

Long Lost/Secret Relatives - a classic for this gang. What if Vader had found out about Leia earlier/instead of Luke? What if R2 blabbed? What does the rest of the Alliance suspect?

POV Outsider - again, any kind of alternate POV on what the family is up to, jumping to the wrong (or right) conclusions!

Figran D'an and the Modal Nodes

Canon-typical shenanigans - they seem pretty unfazed by the wretched hive of scum and villainy that is Mos Eisley, where else have their travels brought them?

Inspired By Author's Choice Power Metal Song - I don't know anything about metal music but if you do, please go nuts!

Inspired By Author's Choice Symphonic Metal Song - ditto

POV Outsider - in this case, I imagine maybe they're the outsiders inadvertently witnessing history when Luke and Obi-Wan meet Han and Chewbacca. Have they run across other galactic figures this way?

Space bureaucracy - what kind of hoops do musicians have to jump through to get their gigs approved?

Spaceport City Infrastructure - how do they travel? Avoid groupies? Deal with the Empire's political woes?

Worldbuilding - anything about music in the galaxy far far away!

Stranger Things:
Will Byers & Eleven

Adopted Sibling Relationship - what is their relationship like after S3 when El moves in with the Byers?

Friendship tested by weekly board game night - I'm imagining this somewhere in the first couple seasons, with the Party being hardcore into their tabletop and other games. But maybe it's something Will and El connect with when it feels like his other friends are "outgrowing" their old hobbies.

Getting pizza after a cooking disaster - El loves her junk food, enough said!

Outsider POV - Time Travel From the POV of a Non-Time-Traveling Character - some of the speculation I've seen about upcoming seasons involves Hopper being stuck in the past in Russia and trying to make his way back, maybe at the same time as some of the earlier seasons are happening. The kids' POV on that would be neat. But could also be any other combination of characters engaged in "Back to the Future" type shenanigans!

Wheel of Time (TV):

I have read and loved the book series so if you want to bring in elements of that, that's fine in my book, but show-only canon is also great! Feel free to speculate on where their adventures might lead them next.

Moiraine Damodred & Lan Mandragoran

Alternate Universe - Expert Judgment on Markers to Deter... (Sandia Labs) Fusion - instead of interpreting ancient prophecies, maybe they have to make sense of ancient inscriptions or legends to figure out what's the deal with the haunted lands.

Intensely Important Nonsexual Nonromantic Relationship - what are some of the little ways they've been there for each other over the years? What happens after S1 with Moiraine unable to channel?

platonic power couple - I love the whole Aes Sedai and Warder dynamics when it comes to "we have very different skill sets but we use our strengths to fight together and make each other stronger." More battles! Or more non-battle situations where they still have to use their skills to complement each other!

Platonic Soulmates - What's it like to have such an intimate connection to someone else? Recognizing each others' pain even when the other won't admit to it? Do they have some more silly/playful uses for the bond?

Egwene al'Vere

Character has to fake being evil for reasons - Egwene is so earnest and dedicated that she'd throw herself into this 110%. What happens if she gets in too deep? Humor? Disaster?

Dreams - Symbolic and weird and revealing the character's subconscious - What's going through Egwene's mind in Shadar Logoth? Or travelling with the Tuatha'an? Or after they escape from the Whitecloaks? Make it weird!

Platonic Eurydice/Orpheus Inspired- going to hell to save a friend/family member - Again, I feel like Egwene is the kind of person who doesn't take no for an answer. If one of her Two Rivers friends is in danger, she'll take risks with the One Power or other weird magical systems to make things right.

Like I said, please don't feel limited to these, and feel free to mix and match across fandoms. Thank you!

Hello, thank you for creating for me! I'm primeideal on Ao3, and I'm requesting fic for all fandoms. Feel free to use as much or as little of this as is helpful.

( Content note: it's gore, yo )

So somehow this is my tenth Yuletide.

The years and the decade have...flied?

Any sort of a gift

Gives my spirits a lift

When the weather is iffy outside!

Dear Yuletide writer,

Optional details are optional! Please feel free to write anything about these fandoms/characters, this is just to provide some suggestions if you're interested.

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!)

I expanded more on some of the worldbuilding and darkfic tropes I'm interested in in the minichallenges posts.

General DNWs: (see fandom specific-notes for further details)

-explicit sex

-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 (Wayside School closing for cows: fine; Wayside School closing for COVID: no thanks; Ye Wenjie in the Cultural Revolution: fine; Cheng Xin comments on a Xi Jinping stand-in: no thanks.)

-character bashing

-cliffhanger endings

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

Adventures of Ledo and Ix

Any character/worldbuilding (Ledo, Ix, Worldbuilding nominated in this fandom)

This is a YouTube series that's less than an hour in total (one season of eight episodes, and a couple episodes in an unfinished second).

lemniskath wrote up a great promo post here, and...this entire canon is a trip. Anything leaning into the fourth-wall absurdity!

-Do they ever get the princess to her destination? By accident? While trying to accomplish something else?

-What does "winning" even look like in this context? Do they even want it?

-Maybe their self-awareness starts wearing off on others (temporarily? permanently?) and they have to deal with the chaos as all the tropes collapse.

-More horrific aspects of the glitches/world collapsing.

-This could be a fun fandom for some alternative formats/weirdness if you want to go down that road!

Crying Suns

Any character/worldbuilding (Ellys Idaho, Kaliban, Worldbuilding nominated for this fandom)

I enjoy the self-awareness of a roguelike that has an IC reason for being a roguelike, and Ellys' belief in free will and mercy despite everything the galaxy throws at him.

Redwall

Any (no characters nominated for this fandom)

I'm more interested in "new adventures in the Redwall world" than any specific character, so go crazy!

-I like the Salamandastron culture of honorable warriors, and especially characters like Russano the badger who see themselves as more peacetime leaders. How do those tensions play out? What happens to badgers or hares who aren't committed to a particular battle?

-The Guosim and their union struggles are amusing--I'd be interested to see more "political" type organizations transferred to the fantasy setting, as long as it's not too didactic.

-Quests and riddles and puzzles! Maybe with all the secrets that have been hidden over the years, someone stumbles on something they weren't supposed to, or come up with an interpretation that makes sense but isn't what the cluegiver had in mind?

-Villains with their own schemes. Maybe inside of trying to conquer Redwall for its own sake, they want to dam the rivers or construct their own fortress? Does battle ensue anyway? Or are creatures with long-term goals and planning ultimately not villainous enough to go to war?

-If you're interested in the religious aspects of "what makes this an abbey," anyway, with fathers and mothers and rituals, I'd be interested in that kind of worldbuilding. (What does faith look like in a universe where ghosts show up in people's dreams with practical advice?) But if this isn't your thing, no need to go down that path!

-If you're writing OCs: feel free to go against type--if you want to have a heroic searat or an evil hare, that's fine with me. (I'd rather it be something that just happens and not have the narrative dwell on it, though.)

Remembrance of Earth's Past/Three-Body Problem (三体)

Any character/worldbuilding (Ye Wenjie, Cheng Xin, Worldbuilding nominated for this fandom)

Steerswoman

Worldbuilding, Bel

Please treat this as an OR request--I would be happy to receive something that's worldbuilding-focused even if Bel doesn't appear, or vice versa.

Feel free to bring in any canon characters or OCs. Steffie's POV sometimes dragged for me so I would prefer if he wasn't a central character, but mentions are fine.

Wayside School

Miss Zarves, Dana, Sue, Bald Man in the Basement

Please treat this as an *OR* request--I would be very happy with fic that focuses on one of the requested characters, you don't need to include all four! But feel free to bring in any other characters, from the tagset or otherwise.

I enjoy the weird humor of these books, and especially the surreal contrast between the nonexistent nineteenth story and the rest of the school, which is only slightly less silly. Something during the canon timeframe would be great, but also feel free to age the younger characters up--is there a high-school or college equivalent of Wayside? How, if at all, do they eventually fit into the "adult world"?

Miss Zarves: Anything about Allison's time on the 19th story, with the whole Mark Miller|Benjamin Nushmutt doppelganger effect? The weird passage of time (especially given the real-world 25-year hiatus between volumes!) How did the 19th story deal with the Cloud of Doom? What does she think of Mr. Kidswatter, Miss Mush, and the "normal" staff--or does she even know they exist?

Dana: The chapter in "Falling Down" about Dana hating books but actually loving them resonated with me, as a kid who got too invested in/emotionally affected by sad endings. Dana seems to just trust Ms. Jewls' judgment, but does she ever discover that love in her own right? Become a writer or find some other way to make narratives she prefers? And (when they're older) does she really love John, too, or are they still frenemies?

Sue: she shows up in the "Wayside Arithmetic" spinoffs as a transfer student from the "normal" world who is not impressed. What's her take on the cow situation, or the substitutes, or the Cloud of Doom? What do the other students think of her? (Silly math is not expected but would be welcome!)

Bald Man in the Basement (and/or his fellow goons): What are they doing down there? How does Myron's "freedom" work? Are they aware of Miss Zarves? Is this a specifically Wayside thing, or are they just the equivalent of mysterious administrators at any other school?

Hopefully something here sparks your interest, but again, this is all optional--feel free to go in a different direction if you have ideas. Thanks, and hope you have a festive Yuletide!

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