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Dear Worldbuilder 2024
Thanks for creating for me! If you want, I can also be found at both Tumblr and AO3 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 don’t feel pressure, I’ll be just as happy with something short and sweet!
The prompts below are there to help, not box you in, so please feel free to write something different if none of my prompts below grab your imagination or inspiration strikes you in a different direction. Many of the tags can work as prompts in and of themselves – feel free to just pick one, or combine a couple, and write what strikes your fancy based on the tags. The general likes are also there for your inspiration if you prefer looser prompts - do absolutely feel free to use those rather than my prompt ideas if that's more helpful to you!
The length of the sections has nothing to do with how much I want the request, only with how many different ideas/questions 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
Andor
Chronicles of Narnia
Exandria Unlimited: Calamity
The Hunger Games (books/AMT)
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)
• conflicts between characters based on differences in opinions, wants, and needs (rather than misunderstandings or erroneous assumptions), conflicts between characters without easy solutions, conflicts between characters where neither side is completely right or completely wrong
• 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, omegaverse, 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
• public embarrassment, humiliation
• character or ship bashing
• hopeless endings, grimdark tone
• unrequested setting change AUs
Andor
Characters
• Mon Mothma
• Leida Mothma
• Perrin Fertha
• Tay Kolma
Tags:
• Chandrilan community on Coruscant
• Coruscant Politics
• Navigating Coruscant Politics as a Member of the Rebellion
I would love to read more about Chandrilans on Coruscant! Who are they? How centrally organised are they? How much is the Chandrilan Embassy for them, and how much is it a representation for the benefit of Coruscant and other citizens? Do they have another central point for their social life (a Chandrilan restaurant or marketplace, the home of another community figure, or something else)? Who are the other girls in Leida’s study circle, and who are their parents? Is there an equivalent for boys? How does Chandrilan and Coruscanti customs differ, and how do they adapt to Coruscant culture versus how much do they keep of Chandrilan culture? Are their conflicts within the community about this? What about the ones who don’t belong to Coruscant high society? Who re they? Where do they meet? How much contact do they have with the Embassy and their political representation?
Another aspect I’d love to see more of is Imperial politics – how does the Senate work? Does it have any purpose, or is it just a distraction from the real politics? Is it ever full, the way it was before the Empire, and, if so, when? Which factions exist, and how do they relate to each other? Are there any rebel factions in the Senate other than the one Mon Mothma and Bail Organa belong to? How open can they be? How engaged is the Emperor in politics? Does he take an active interest, or leave it to subordinates? Who has the ear of the Emperor, and how do those who don’t work to get their ideas and policies implemented? What are the limits to debate? We saw that some criticism of the Empire’s policies is allowed, but where are the boundaries? How often do Senators cross those boundaries, and what are the effects of that on the rest of the Senate?
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Chronicles of Narnia
Characters
• Edmund Pevensie
• Lucy Pevensie
• Peter Pevensie
• Susan Pevensie
Tags:
• Cultural Diversity within Narnia
• Talking Animal customs
• Golden Age Society
• Effects of the 100 Year Winter on the various peoples of Narnia
I would love to read more about the Golden Age, early days, middle days, or the end, it doesn’t matter. What was it like? What were the Pevensies like as Kings and Queens? How did society function? What did people do with their time? How did they make a living, and how did they spend their leisure? Or did they even have that division?
I’d also love an exploration of the fact that there are so many diverse species within Narnia – how did the Pevensies balance the sometimes competing needs of their subjects? To what extent does each species have its own culture, and to what extent is there a unifying Narnian culture? How do the various species get on? How do the various animalistic instincts of the Talking Animals and their physiological features influence their behaviour and customs? Are there differences between geographical regions that cut across species? Which differences matter more, regional or between species? Or does it vary?
Regarding the 100 year winter, what effect did that have on different creatures, both the ones that are adapted to winter climates, and the ones that aren't? How did the grazers find food? And what about creatures like bears, who hibernate? A lot of animals have their young in the spring - was there a babo boom once the winter was over?
return to top
Exandria Unlimited: Calamity
Characters
• Nydas Okiro
• Eaedalus Okiro
• Original Characters
Tags:
• Cathmoira between Replenishments
• The Replenishment
• The Gau Drashari during the Calamity
I would love to learn about Cathmoira! What’s the city like, how is it organised and run, what sort of occupations do people have? How much is magic a part of daily life – is it like Avalir where it’s omnipresent, or is it more low-key? Is there infrastructure for learning magic, or is that all in Avalir? How do residents of Cathmoira relate to its sister city? What is the wide open space on the mountaintop used for when Avalir isn’t there?
Or what is the Replenishment like when it doesn’t lead to the destruction of a continent? What celebrations are there? What does it look like and feel when Avalir deposits its gathered magic? How does that change Cathmoira, and how long does it last?
I’m also very interested in the Gau Drashari – what do they do when the purpose for their existence is gone? How do their abilities contribute to the fight against the Betrayer Gods? Do they travel around helping defend people against roving fiends, or do they find somewhere new to settle? Is this when they find the elemental rifts, and the Gau Drashari turn into the Ashari, even? Is it a conscious decision to seek out the rifts, or something that just happens?
return to top
The Hunger Games (books/AMT)
Characters
• Coriolanus Snow
• Mags
• Original characters
Tags:
• 11th Hunger Games
• Past Hunger Games
• Past victors
• Smuggling in the districts
These are two requests in the sign-up, but I’m bundling them together here in the letter as I don’t mind if you use the book or show canon for either request, and they are quite similar!
I am very intrigued by the 11th Hunger Games. The 10th Hunger Games introduced some changes to bring the Games more in line with what they were by the time Katniss volunteered, but there are still differences as the games moved from just punishment towards spectacle. Which of them were introduced now (which of them were Snow’s ideas) and which of them came later? What was Snow’s role in the Games as Gaul’s apprentice?
How long did they go on for? Was the arena still an arena, or did they now move it into a more naturalistic setting? What security measures were there? Did they still keep the tributes in the zoo, or had they moved to another setting yet? Who did they get in to mentor – presumably not the graduating students again, but there wouldn’t be enough Victors to mentor? How did Mags win? Who were the other tributes? How much did knowing about the sponsorship in advance change things?
How much publicity did Mags have in the Capitol after her win? What was the post-games interview like? How did the District receive her back, and how was that different to the previous years when the Victor had just been bundled off and sent back to their prior lives? What was the first Victory Tour like?
I’m also interested in past Hunger Games in general! When did the first seeds to training tributes start in D1, D2 or D4? How did Career training and attitudes towards Careers and Victors differ between the three districts? When did volunteering become a thing, or was it baked in from the start?
What kinds of arenas did the Gamemakers come up with? How did they go wrong?
When did the culture of selling victors start? How much did the past Victors see each other when they were in the Capitol? How did they settle back into their home districts as Victors? How did they cope with mentoring, and how did they cope with bringing home new Victors knowing the fate that awaited them?
Regarding smuggling in the districts, how did that work? How were contacts made between districts? How were the logistics sorted? Was D6 a hub, as the transport district, or did they arrange it some other way? How much did Victors get involved, since they could travel (to the Capitol at least) and potentially meet each other there? Were there Peacekeepers in on it for a take? What kind of goods were smuggled between districts? The same goods that were shipped to the Capitol, or different ones? Were there organised smuggling rings spanning multiple districts, or was it more disjointed and disorganised local efforts?
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 don’t feel pressure, I’ll be just as happy with something short and sweet!
The prompts below are there to help, not box you in, so please feel free to write something different if none of my prompts below grab your imagination or inspiration strikes you in a different direction. Many of the tags can work as prompts in and of themselves – feel free to just pick one, or combine a couple, and write what strikes your fancy based on the tags. The general likes are also there for your inspiration if you prefer looser prompts - do absolutely feel free to use those rather than my prompt ideas if that's more helpful to you!
The length of the sections has nothing to do with how much I want the request, only with how many different ideas/questions 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
Andor
Chronicles of Narnia
Exandria Unlimited: Calamity
The Hunger Games (books/AMT)
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)
• conflicts between characters based on differences in opinions, wants, and needs (rather than misunderstandings or erroneous assumptions), conflicts between characters without easy solutions, conflicts between characters where neither side is completely right or completely wrong
• 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, omegaverse, 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
• public embarrassment, humiliation
• character or ship bashing
• hopeless endings, grimdark tone
• unrequested setting change AUs
Andor
Characters
• Mon Mothma
• Leida Mothma
• Perrin Fertha
• Tay Kolma
Tags:
• Chandrilan community on Coruscant
• Coruscant Politics
• Navigating Coruscant Politics as a Member of the Rebellion
I would love to read more about Chandrilans on Coruscant! Who are they? How centrally organised are they? How much is the Chandrilan Embassy for them, and how much is it a representation for the benefit of Coruscant and other citizens? Do they have another central point for their social life (a Chandrilan restaurant or marketplace, the home of another community figure, or something else)? Who are the other girls in Leida’s study circle, and who are their parents? Is there an equivalent for boys? How does Chandrilan and Coruscanti customs differ, and how do they adapt to Coruscant culture versus how much do they keep of Chandrilan culture? Are their conflicts within the community about this? What about the ones who don’t belong to Coruscant high society? Who re they? Where do they meet? How much contact do they have with the Embassy and their political representation?
Another aspect I’d love to see more of is Imperial politics – how does the Senate work? Does it have any purpose, or is it just a distraction from the real politics? Is it ever full, the way it was before the Empire, and, if so, when? Which factions exist, and how do they relate to each other? Are there any rebel factions in the Senate other than the one Mon Mothma and Bail Organa belong to? How open can they be? How engaged is the Emperor in politics? Does he take an active interest, or leave it to subordinates? Who has the ear of the Emperor, and how do those who don’t work to get their ideas and policies implemented? What are the limits to debate? We saw that some criticism of the Empire’s policies is allowed, but where are the boundaries? How often do Senators cross those boundaries, and what are the effects of that on the rest of the Senate?
return to top
Chronicles of Narnia
Characters
• Edmund Pevensie
• Lucy Pevensie
• Peter Pevensie
• Susan Pevensie
Tags:
• Cultural Diversity within Narnia
• Talking Animal customs
• Golden Age Society
• Effects of the 100 Year Winter on the various peoples of Narnia
I would love to read more about the Golden Age, early days, middle days, or the end, it doesn’t matter. What was it like? What were the Pevensies like as Kings and Queens? How did society function? What did people do with their time? How did they make a living, and how did they spend their leisure? Or did they even have that division?
I’d also love an exploration of the fact that there are so many diverse species within Narnia – how did the Pevensies balance the sometimes competing needs of their subjects? To what extent does each species have its own culture, and to what extent is there a unifying Narnian culture? How do the various species get on? How do the various animalistic instincts of the Talking Animals and their physiological features influence their behaviour and customs? Are there differences between geographical regions that cut across species? Which differences matter more, regional or between species? Or does it vary?
Regarding the 100 year winter, what effect did that have on different creatures, both the ones that are adapted to winter climates, and the ones that aren't? How did the grazers find food? And what about creatures like bears, who hibernate? A lot of animals have their young in the spring - was there a babo boom once the winter was over?
return to top
Exandria Unlimited: Calamity
Characters
• Nydas Okiro
• Eaedalus Okiro
• Original Characters
Tags:
• Cathmoira between Replenishments
• The Replenishment
• The Gau Drashari during the Calamity
I would love to learn about Cathmoira! What’s the city like, how is it organised and run, what sort of occupations do people have? How much is magic a part of daily life – is it like Avalir where it’s omnipresent, or is it more low-key? Is there infrastructure for learning magic, or is that all in Avalir? How do residents of Cathmoira relate to its sister city? What is the wide open space on the mountaintop used for when Avalir isn’t there?
Or what is the Replenishment like when it doesn’t lead to the destruction of a continent? What celebrations are there? What does it look like and feel when Avalir deposits its gathered magic? How does that change Cathmoira, and how long does it last?
I’m also very interested in the Gau Drashari – what do they do when the purpose for their existence is gone? How do their abilities contribute to the fight against the Betrayer Gods? Do they travel around helping defend people against roving fiends, or do they find somewhere new to settle? Is this when they find the elemental rifts, and the Gau Drashari turn into the Ashari, even? Is it a conscious decision to seek out the rifts, or something that just happens?
return to top
The Hunger Games (books/AMT)
Characters
• Coriolanus Snow
• Mags
• Original characters
Tags:
• 11th Hunger Games
• Past Hunger Games
• Past victors
• Smuggling in the districts
These are two requests in the sign-up, but I’m bundling them together here in the letter as I don’t mind if you use the book or show canon for either request, and they are quite similar!
I am very intrigued by the 11th Hunger Games. The 10th Hunger Games introduced some changes to bring the Games more in line with what they were by the time Katniss volunteered, but there are still differences as the games moved from just punishment towards spectacle. Which of them were introduced now (which of them were Snow’s ideas) and which of them came later? What was Snow’s role in the Games as Gaul’s apprentice?
How long did they go on for? Was the arena still an arena, or did they now move it into a more naturalistic setting? What security measures were there? Did they still keep the tributes in the zoo, or had they moved to another setting yet? Who did they get in to mentor – presumably not the graduating students again, but there wouldn’t be enough Victors to mentor? How did Mags win? Who were the other tributes? How much did knowing about the sponsorship in advance change things?
How much publicity did Mags have in the Capitol after her win? What was the post-games interview like? How did the District receive her back, and how was that different to the previous years when the Victor had just been bundled off and sent back to their prior lives? What was the first Victory Tour like?
I’m also interested in past Hunger Games in general! When did the first seeds to training tributes start in D1, D2 or D4? How did Career training and attitudes towards Careers and Victors differ between the three districts? When did volunteering become a thing, or was it baked in from the start?
What kinds of arenas did the Gamemakers come up with? How did they go wrong?
When did the culture of selling victors start? How much did the past Victors see each other when they were in the Capitol? How did they settle back into their home districts as Victors? How did they cope with mentoring, and how did they cope with bringing home new Victors knowing the fate that awaited them?
Regarding smuggling in the districts, how did that work? How were contacts made between districts? How were the logistics sorted? Was D6 a hub, as the transport district, or did they arrange it some other way? How much did Victors get involved, since they could travel (to the Capitol at least) and potentially meet each other there? Were there Peacekeepers in on it for a take? What kind of goods were smuggled between districts? The same goods that were shipped to the Capitol, or different ones? Were there organised smuggling rings spanning multiple districts, or was it more disjointed and disorganised local efforts?
return to top