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Dear LBD Creator
Thanks for creating things for me! Should you so want, I can be found at both Tumblr and AO3 also as ChronicBookworm, for any stalking purposes.
In general, I like most things. I’m a multishipper, and I read slash, het, femslash, and gen. I also like most genres: fluff, angst, adventure, case fic, humour, get-together, established relationship, character study, slice of life/domestic, you name it – or a mix of them all! I’m very fond of long, plotty fic, but I also like short and sweet things!
The prompts below are there to help, not box you in, so please feel free to write/make something different if none of my prompts below grab your imagination or inspiration strikes you in a different direction.
The length of the sections has nothing to do with how much I want the request, only with how many different prompts I have for each. I want to read them all very badly, so I’m sure I’ll love whatever you write!
This got quite long – feel free to just read the parts that are relevant to you.
General likes
DNWs
A Song of Ice and Fire/Game of Thrones
Stargate Atlantis
Downton Abbey
Mansfield Park
• found families
• loyalty, both strong, reciprocated loyalty, and more complicated forms such as conflicting loyalties, loyalty to the undeserving, etc.
• ride or die friendships
• co-dependency
• “us against the world” plots and relationships (whether it’s true or just what the characters imagine)
• friends to lovers
• arranged marriages (that can either lead to love or strong friendship)
• marriages of convenience (that can either lead to love or strong friendship)
• pining
• hurt/comfort
• trauma recovery
• characters with low self-worth being loved and accepted
• characters being shown warmth and kindness when they’re expecting or used to being belittled, bullied or abused
• characters uniting forces against a common enemy
• complicated politics and shifting alliances
• partisan and resistance movements, small groups of people going up against or being pursued by large, powerful governments or organisations
• complicated and messy relationships (can be platonic, romantic or familial)
• secrets (both kept and revealed)
• characters working with limited knowledge
• competent characters, characters being recognised for their competence
• women supporting other women
• canon divergence
• outsider POV
• case fic/mission fic (however that applies to the canon in question)
• time travel (both Peggy Sue style and physical time travel)
• worldbuilding
• longfic
DNWs
• explicit sex (fade to black or references to sex are fine)
• changes to human anatomy or physiology (such as mpreg, a/b/o, soulmarks, etc.)
• teacher/student (shouldn't be a problem given the characters I've selected, but if you want to write relationships between characters with a teacher/student relationship, please set any romance some time after they've stopped being teacher/student)
• non-canonical incest (including between adopted or foster family members and biological family members who don’t know they’re related - cousin incest is OK for Jane Austen canons)
• adultery, infidelity or jealousy (real or imagined)
• massive age gaps in ships (the rule of “half the older character’s age plus seven” as a limit usually works quite well, although for teenagers a max of 2-year age-gap works better)
• sex involving characters under 15, setting a date when the character is considered "old enough"/"legal" for sex and fixating on that date
• modern-day terminology for sexual and gender identities in historical or fantasy canons
• characters being ostracised by their friends and loved ones
• important and deep relationships going sour due to rumours, assumptions, misunderstandings, miscommunication or a failure to communicate (relationships starting off based on or influenced by assumptions, misunderstandings etc. as well as long-standing relationships going sour due to genuine differences in opinions, wants, and needs are fine and fun!)
• public embarrassment, humiliation
• character or ship bashing
• hopeless endings, grimdark tone
• unrequested setting change AUs (merging the universes into one or having characters from one universe dimension travel to the other by either hand-wavey or explained means are all fine)
• Fandom-specific DNW for Narnia: the rift between Susan and her family, the end of TLB (let me pretend everyone’s alive and happy)
•Fandom-specific DNW for Downton Abbey: any reference to the kiss between Jimmy and Thomas
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• Sansa Stark
• LBD/M
• LBD/F
• LBD/M/F
• LBD/M/M
• LBD/F/F
• Crossovers with
o Chronicles of Narnia
o Lord of the Rings
o Tortall – Tamora Pierce
o Emelan – Tamora Pierce
o Avatar the last Airbender
• Incest
• Sex involving characters under 15
• Petyr
• Sandor
• Cersei
Sansa is one of my favourite characters in ASOIAF/GoT – I’d love to see a story that doesn’t gloss over the horrors she’s suffered, but also doesn’t reduce her to them. She’s clever and cunning, and she’s learnt to play the game, but she’s still managed to keep her kindness and compassion, despite everything she’s suffered. I like stories where she’s able to heal and move on from the traumas she’s suffered and reclaim her agency.
I also like stories that deal with politics and playing the game of thrones, especially ones that allow Sansa to demonstrate that she actually knows how to play – ones where she demonstrates her cunning and agency earlier in Kings Landing, and somehow manages to save her family, or stories where she’s older and has come into her own in a position of power, maybe as Lady of Winterfell or some other castle, or as a member of the Small Council to Robb, Daenerys, Jon, Aegon, Stannis, Tommen or whoever you choose to give a crown to, maybe as Queen in the North, or maybe even Queen of the Seven Kingdoms.
I have a lot of prompts for Sansa paired with various characters from A Song of Ice and Fire and Game of Thrones as well as crossovers with The Chronicles of Narnia in previous letters, including Willas, Doran, Oberyn and/or Ellaria, Arianne, Quentyn, Jaime, Tyrion, Gendry, Theon, Loras, Daenerys, Margaery, Brienne, Peter Pevensie, Susan Pevensie, Edmund Pevensie and probably more that I’m forgetting now – however, if you want to pair her with someone else, by all means, go ahead!
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• Evan Lorne
• LBD/M
• LBD/F
• LBD/NB
• LBD/M/F
• LBD/M/M
• LBD/F/F
• LBD/NB/NB
• LBD/NB/M
• LBD/NB/F
• Crossovers with Stargate SG1
• Original Characters
• Incest
• Underage
• Inter-species relationships (Wraith, Goa'uld, Asgard, etc.)
• Parrish
I love Lorne! I love how steady he is, how he’s there being competent in the background to Sheppard’s and McKay’s antics, and how he keeps his wits about him under pressure. I love his dry humour, his compassion, and his unquestioning loyalty and support for the others! I would love to see something where he’s in focus and where he gets to be the hero, for once. I really don’t mind who you pair him with: another Atlantis expedition member, someone from the SGC, a Pegasus native, someone from the Milky Way, or a civilian from Earth – the galaxy is the limit!
I love the potential of the world-building of SGA, so anything that builds off that would be great – the idea of a floating/flying city, the way they never seem to have enough resources, the way they can lose contact with Earth at any given moment and are so reliant on the Stargates, the way different societies react differently to the Wraith threat, and the place of the Atlanteans in the Pegasus galaxy, etc., so anything that works that in would be amazing!
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• Thomas Barrow
• LBD/M
• LBD/M/M
• Original servant or working-class characters
• Incest
• Underage
• Age-gap ships
• Jimmy
• Edward Courtenay
• Philip Crowborough
Perhaps early season Thomas finds love and acceptance earlier than in canon, possibly with William, Branson, or Andy, or with an OC, or with him meeting Chris Webster, Richard Ellis or Guy Dexter early. Does it soften his rough edges when he’s no longer feeling like he’s fighting against the whole world? How open can they be about their relationship Downstairs – we see that he gained some level of acceptance from most of the staff, but does that change when it’s not just a theoretical boyfriend, but an actual one?
Or possibly something about what Thomas and Guy get up to in Hollywood post-canon, and how they make the relationship work, or and AU where he ends up with Webster or Ellis. Who is Chris Webster? What does he do when he’s not dancing with pretty men in underground gay bars? How would Ellis and Thomas make it work, with Ellis in London in the Royal household, and Thomas at Downton?
The two major Thomas ships that I’m not really into are Thomas/Jimmy and Thomas/Courtenay. Feel free to have Thomas pining for Jimmy, but I don’t want it requited, and I also don’t want Thomas kissing an unwitting Jimmy – I don’t really mind how you deal with it: change the circumstances so the possibility never arises because he’s already found requited love by then, have his friends talk him out of it, keep everything the same but just pretend it never happened, or some other way are all fine with me.
Historical accuracy very optional - as long as there's a general sense of the early 20th century, I'll be happy (of course, I won't say no if you do want to painstakingly research what daily life below stairs would be like, but that part is definitely not required)!
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• Fanny Price
• LBD/M
• LBD/F
• LBD/M/F
• LBD/M/M
• LBD/F/F
• Crossover ships with
o characters from other Jane Austen canons that the narrative sympathises with (e.g. Eliza Williams or Charles Bingley, but not Lucy Steele or George Wickham)
o Any officer on the HMS Surprise from Master and Commander 2003
o James Norrington from Pirates of the Caribbean
• Original characters
• Cross-generational or sibling incest (cousin incest is fine for this request)
• Underage
• Age-gap ships
None
Fanny is probably Austen’s most divisive heroines, but I love her! I like that she’s quiet, and unassuming, and self-sacrificing to a flaw, but she still won’t budge when everyone around her is trying to persuade her into something she thinks is wrong. I like that inner strength she has, that allows her to endure both Mansfield and Portsmouth.
I’d really like a story that highlights those qualities – and I’d also really like her to be happy and valued. Maybe post-canon, and Edmund learns to not put how own wants above her needs? Or maybe a canon divergence, in which Henry actually goes to Everingham and not to London, and reforms enough to be the kind of husband she deserves? Or there is another man who would be a better husband to her than either Edmund or Henry? Maybe she falls in love with a redeemed Tom, or Maria, or Julia? Or maybe she becomes the companion to another rich lady, one who values her and enjoys her company, and they fall in love? Or maybe you have another idea in mind for what happens to her – I’m open to anything, as long as she’s happy! Feel free to make this a crossover with any other Austen canon, Pirates of the Caribbean for Fanny/Norrington prompts (there are prompts in past letters), or Master and Commander 2003 (I have prompts for Fanny/Pullings in past letters, but for this exchange I am opening up to any officer of the Surprise, i.e., also Mowett, Aubrey or Maturin).
return to top
In general, I like most things. I’m a multishipper, and I read slash, het, femslash, and gen. I also like most genres: fluff, angst, adventure, case fic, humour, get-together, established relationship, character study, slice of life/domestic, you name it – or a mix of them all! I’m very fond of long, plotty fic, but I also like short and sweet things!
The prompts below are there to help, not box you in, so please feel free to write/make something different if none of my prompts below grab your imagination or inspiration strikes you in a different direction.
The length of the sections has nothing to do with how much I want the request, only with how many different prompts I have for each. I want to read them all very badly, so I’m sure I’ll love whatever you write!
This got quite long – feel free to just read the parts that are relevant to you.
General likes
DNWs
A Song of Ice and Fire/Game of Thrones
Stargate Atlantis
Downton Abbey
Mansfield Park
General likes
• found families
• loyalty, both strong, reciprocated loyalty, and more complicated forms such as conflicting loyalties, loyalty to the undeserving, etc.
• ride or die friendships
• co-dependency
• “us against the world” plots and relationships (whether it’s true or just what the characters imagine)
• friends to lovers
• arranged marriages (that can either lead to love or strong friendship)
• marriages of convenience (that can either lead to love or strong friendship)
• pining
• hurt/comfort
• trauma recovery
• characters with low self-worth being loved and accepted
• characters being shown warmth and kindness when they’re expecting or used to being belittled, bullied or abused
• characters uniting forces against a common enemy
• complicated politics and shifting alliances
• partisan and resistance movements, small groups of people going up against or being pursued by large, powerful governments or organisations
• complicated and messy relationships (can be platonic, romantic or familial)
• secrets (both kept and revealed)
• characters working with limited knowledge
• competent characters, characters being recognised for their competence
• women supporting other women
• canon divergence
• outsider POV
• case fic/mission fic (however that applies to the canon in question)
• time travel (both Peggy Sue style and physical time travel)
• worldbuilding
• longfic
DNWs
• explicit sex (fade to black or references to sex are fine)
• changes to human anatomy or physiology (such as mpreg, a/b/o, soulmarks, etc.)
• teacher/student (shouldn't be a problem given the characters I've selected, but if you want to write relationships between characters with a teacher/student relationship, please set any romance some time after they've stopped being teacher/student)
• non-canonical incest (including between adopted or foster family members and biological family members who don’t know they’re related - cousin incest is OK for Jane Austen canons)
• adultery, infidelity or jealousy (real or imagined)
• massive age gaps in ships (the rule of “half the older character’s age plus seven” as a limit usually works quite well, although for teenagers a max of 2-year age-gap works better)
• sex involving characters under 15, setting a date when the character is considered "old enough"/"legal" for sex and fixating on that date
• modern-day terminology for sexual and gender identities in historical or fantasy canons
• characters being ostracised by their friends and loved ones
• important and deep relationships going sour due to rumours, assumptions, misunderstandings, miscommunication or a failure to communicate (relationships starting off based on or influenced by assumptions, misunderstandings etc. as well as long-standing relationships going sour due to genuine differences in opinions, wants, and needs are fine and fun!)
• public embarrassment, humiliation
• character or ship bashing
• hopeless endings, grimdark tone
• unrequested setting change AUs (merging the universes into one or having characters from one universe dimension travel to the other by either hand-wavey or explained means are all fine)
• Fandom-specific DNW for Narnia: the rift between Susan and her family, the end of TLB (let me pretend everyone’s alive and happy)
•Fandom-specific DNW for Downton Abbey: any reference to the kiss between Jimmy and Thomas
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A Song of Ice and Fire/Game of Thrones
Character(s):
• Sansa Stark
Categories:
• LBD/M
• LBD/F
• LBD/M/F
• LBD/M/M
• LBD/F/F
Opt-ins:
• Crossovers with
o Chronicles of Narnia
o Lord of the Rings
o Tortall – Tamora Pierce
o Emelan – Tamora Pierce
o Avatar the last Airbender
Opt-outs:
• Incest
• Sex involving characters under 15
Ship DNWs (including poly configurations):
• Petyr
• Sandor
• Cersei
Prompts:
Sansa is one of my favourite characters in ASOIAF/GoT – I’d love to see a story that doesn’t gloss over the horrors she’s suffered, but also doesn’t reduce her to them. She’s clever and cunning, and she’s learnt to play the game, but she’s still managed to keep her kindness and compassion, despite everything she’s suffered. I like stories where she’s able to heal and move on from the traumas she’s suffered and reclaim her agency.
I also like stories that deal with politics and playing the game of thrones, especially ones that allow Sansa to demonstrate that she actually knows how to play – ones where she demonstrates her cunning and agency earlier in Kings Landing, and somehow manages to save her family, or stories where she’s older and has come into her own in a position of power, maybe as Lady of Winterfell or some other castle, or as a member of the Small Council to Robb, Daenerys, Jon, Aegon, Stannis, Tommen or whoever you choose to give a crown to, maybe as Queen in the North, or maybe even Queen of the Seven Kingdoms.
I have a lot of prompts for Sansa paired with various characters from A Song of Ice and Fire and Game of Thrones as well as crossovers with The Chronicles of Narnia in previous letters, including Willas, Doran, Oberyn and/or Ellaria, Arianne, Quentyn, Jaime, Tyrion, Gendry, Theon, Loras, Daenerys, Margaery, Brienne, Peter Pevensie, Susan Pevensie, Edmund Pevensie and probably more that I’m forgetting now – however, if you want to pair her with someone else, by all means, go ahead!
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Stargate Atlantis
Characters/ships
• Evan Lorne
Categories:
• LBD/M
• LBD/F
• LBD/NB
• LBD/M/F
• LBD/M/M
• LBD/F/F
• LBD/NB/NB
• LBD/NB/M
• LBD/NB/F
Opt-ins:
• Crossovers with Stargate SG1
• Original Characters
Opt-outs:
• Incest
• Underage
• Inter-species relationships (Wraith, Goa'uld, Asgard, etc.)
Ship DNWs (including poly configurations):
• Parrish
Prompts:
I love Lorne! I love how steady he is, how he’s there being competent in the background to Sheppard’s and McKay’s antics, and how he keeps his wits about him under pressure. I love his dry humour, his compassion, and his unquestioning loyalty and support for the others! I would love to see something where he’s in focus and where he gets to be the hero, for once. I really don’t mind who you pair him with: another Atlantis expedition member, someone from the SGC, a Pegasus native, someone from the Milky Way, or a civilian from Earth – the galaxy is the limit!
I love the potential of the world-building of SGA, so anything that builds off that would be great – the idea of a floating/flying city, the way they never seem to have enough resources, the way they can lose contact with Earth at any given moment and are so reliant on the Stargates, the way different societies react differently to the Wraith threat, and the place of the Atlanteans in the Pegasus galaxy, etc., so anything that works that in would be amazing!
return to top
Downton Abbey
Characters/Ships
• Thomas Barrow
Categories:
• LBD/M
• LBD/M/M
Opt-ins:
• Original servant or working-class characters
Opt-outs:
• Incest
• Underage
• Age-gap ships
Ship DNWs (including poly configurations):
• Jimmy
• Edward Courtenay
• Philip Crowborough
Prompts:
Perhaps early season Thomas finds love and acceptance earlier than in canon, possibly with William, Branson, or Andy, or with an OC, or with him meeting Chris Webster, Richard Ellis or Guy Dexter early. Does it soften his rough edges when he’s no longer feeling like he’s fighting against the whole world? How open can they be about their relationship Downstairs – we see that he gained some level of acceptance from most of the staff, but does that change when it’s not just a theoretical boyfriend, but an actual one?
Or possibly something about what Thomas and Guy get up to in Hollywood post-canon, and how they make the relationship work, or and AU where he ends up with Webster or Ellis. Who is Chris Webster? What does he do when he’s not dancing with pretty men in underground gay bars? How would Ellis and Thomas make it work, with Ellis in London in the Royal household, and Thomas at Downton?
The two major Thomas ships that I’m not really into are Thomas/Jimmy and Thomas/Courtenay. Feel free to have Thomas pining for Jimmy, but I don’t want it requited, and I also don’t want Thomas kissing an unwitting Jimmy – I don’t really mind how you deal with it: change the circumstances so the possibility never arises because he’s already found requited love by then, have his friends talk him out of it, keep everything the same but just pretend it never happened, or some other way are all fine with me.
Historical accuracy very optional - as long as there's a general sense of the early 20th century, I'll be happy (of course, I won't say no if you do want to painstakingly research what daily life below stairs would be like, but that part is definitely not required)!
return to top
Mansfield Park
Character:
• Fanny Price
Categories:
• LBD/M
• LBD/F
• LBD/M/F
• LBD/M/M
• LBD/F/F
Opt-ins:
• Crossover ships with
o characters from other Jane Austen canons that the narrative sympathises with (e.g. Eliza Williams or Charles Bingley, but not Lucy Steele or George Wickham)
o Any officer on the HMS Surprise from Master and Commander 2003
o James Norrington from Pirates of the Caribbean
• Original characters
Opt-outs:
• Cross-generational or sibling incest (cousin incest is fine for this request)
• Underage
• Age-gap ships
Ship DNWs (including poly configurations):
None
Prompts:
Fanny is probably Austen’s most divisive heroines, but I love her! I like that she’s quiet, and unassuming, and self-sacrificing to a flaw, but she still won’t budge when everyone around her is trying to persuade her into something she thinks is wrong. I like that inner strength she has, that allows her to endure both Mansfield and Portsmouth.
I’d really like a story that highlights those qualities – and I’d also really like her to be happy and valued. Maybe post-canon, and Edmund learns to not put how own wants above her needs? Or maybe a canon divergence, in which Henry actually goes to Everingham and not to London, and reforms enough to be the kind of husband she deserves? Or there is another man who would be a better husband to her than either Edmund or Henry? Maybe she falls in love with a redeemed Tom, or Maria, or Julia? Or maybe she becomes the companion to another rich lady, one who values her and enjoys her company, and they fall in love? Or maybe you have another idea in mind for what happens to her – I’m open to anything, as long as she’s happy! Feel free to make this a crossover with any other Austen canon, Pirates of the Caribbean for Fanny/Norrington prompts (there are prompts in past letters), or Master and Commander 2003 (I have prompts for Fanny/Pullings in past letters, but for this exchange I am opening up to any officer of the Surprise, i.e., also Mowett, Aubrey or Maturin).
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