Dear Worldbuilder 2021,
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chronicbookwormThanks 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!
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
Buffy the Vampire Slayer
Chronicles of Narnia
Killjoys
Stargate Atlantis
General likes
• found families
• loyalty
• 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/abused
• characters uniting forces against a common enemy
• complicated politics and shifting alliances
• complicated and messy relationships (can be platonic, romantic or familial)
• conflicts where neither part is completely right or completely wrong
• secrets (both being kept and being 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)
• worldbuilding
• longfic
DNWs (any canonical instances of a DNW is fine, unless otherwise stated)
• smut (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, incest
• 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" for sex and fixating on that date
• characters being ostracised by their friends and loved ones, including canonical instances
• characters’ loved ones being angry at them or thinking badly of them due to rumours, assumptions, misunderstandings, miscommunication or a failure to communicate (conflicts 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
• Fandom-specific DNW for Narnia: the rift between Susan and her family, the end of TLB (pretend everyone's alive and happy)
• Fandom-specific DNW for SGA: wraith/human relationships, focus on John/Rodney
Buffy the Vampire Slayer
Characters:
• Buffy Summers
• Dawn Summers
• Faith Lehane
• Rupert Giles
• Original Character(s)
• Any Slayer
Tags:
• Fate of non-Chosen potentials
• Structure and workings of the Watcher’s Council post-Chosen
In the series, we see those who are Chosen to become Slayers, and we see some Potentials before they’re Chosen – but what happens to those who aren’t Chosen? Those who have been raised by the Council, but grow too old to be potentials any longer? Do they join the Council as Watchers or in some other capacity? Are they cut off from the Council, left to integrate into mundane society as best they can? Does the Council help them readjust, and if so, how? Do they become demon hunters, and make do without supernatural powers, and how does that work out for them? What happens to their Watchers? Do they still stay with their Potentials, or are they reassigned as soon as it becomes obvious their Potential won’t be Chosen? How long do they wait to decide that a Potential won’t be Chosen?
And how does it work when there are no non-Chosen Potentials? How is the Watcher’s Council re-organised when they go from having an abundance of Watchers and just one (or two) Slayers, to having an abundance of Slayers, but far too few Watchers? Are the Slayers consolidated in supernaturally active locations, or are they spread out all over the continents? How centralised is the leadership and administration? How does training work – is there a year-round residential school, or are there summer camps, or after-school activities? How centralised or localised is the training? How young are the Slayers trained, and how old are they when they are allowed to be active? Do they work in groups with several Slayers to one Watcher? Do they work individually, with a central Hub for the Watchers? How do the Scoobies, especially Buffy, deal with suddenly being thrust into the leadership of a world-wide organisation?
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Chronicles of Narnia
Characters
• Edmund Pevensie
• Lucy Pevensie
• Peter Pevensie
• Susan Pevensie
Tags:
• Cultural Diversity within Narnia
• Golden Age Society
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?
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Killjoys
Characters
• Alvis Akari
• Any Scarback
• Rolly Desh
• Johnny Jaqobis
Tags:
• Scarback faith among non-Scarbacks
• Scarback religion - beliefs and practices
• Scarbacks in the Westerley resistance
• The Scarbacks
• Tunnel Rats and Scarback faith
The Scarbacks have always intrigued me. How is the religion structured and organised? How much leeway do individual Scarbacks have to act on their own convictions and how much do they organise together? What is the leadership of the faith like? Is it a top-down structure, or more egalitarian? Are there different schools of Scarback faith? Is the Monastery on Leith the only monastery, or are there others? How much contact do the monks in the wider galaxy have with the Monastery? How much influence does the faith have in the Quad? How involved are they with politics? Are the Scarbacks in the Westerley Resistance acting with the blessing of the leadership or not?
Are there other blessings than the Blood Blessing? What does the Blood Blessing mean to the Scarbacks? What does it mean to others? How do those who believe in Scarback faith, but aren’t Scarbacks themselves, worship? How common is Scarback faith among non-Scarbacks?
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Stargate Atlantis
Characters
• Any Atlantis expedition member(s)
• Aiden Ford
• Elizabeth Weir
• Evan Lorne
Tags:
• Atlantis Downtime
• Daily life on Atlantis
• Relationship between Atlantis expedition and Pegasus galaxy societies
I love the potential of the world-building of the show, 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.
How do the Atlanteans relate to different Pegasus galaxy society? What are their thoughts and opinions on the Altlanteans? Strangers who blunder in and make things worse? People who come to help? To what extent is there trade between Atlantis and the rest of the galaxy? How does the fact that the Atlantis expedition has an escape route back to Earth if things get too difficult impact the relationship?
I’m also really curious about how Atlantis works internally. The show focuses mostly on the missions of AR-1, but what is life like for those who don’t leave the base? What technology do they use to keep the base running, and how much do they do themselves? How is the work divided? How does the fact that it’s an international cooperation influence the culture of the expedition?
What is downtime like? How is it organised? What do people do for fun? How are mandatory rest days scheduled, and what downtime do they have outside them? How do they make sure the basic operations are still functioning during mandatory rest days? How did downtime work before mandatory rest days?
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!
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
Buffy the Vampire Slayer
Chronicles of Narnia
Killjoys
Stargate Atlantis
General likes
• found families
• loyalty
• 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/abused
• characters uniting forces against a common enemy
• complicated politics and shifting alliances
• complicated and messy relationships (can be platonic, romantic or familial)
• conflicts where neither part is completely right or completely wrong
• secrets (both being kept and being 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)
• worldbuilding
• longfic
DNWs (any canonical instances of a DNW is fine, unless otherwise stated)
• smut (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, incest
• 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" for sex and fixating on that date
• characters being ostracised by their friends and loved ones, including canonical instances
• characters’ loved ones being angry at them or thinking badly of them due to rumours, assumptions, misunderstandings, miscommunication or a failure to communicate (conflicts 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
• Fandom-specific DNW for Narnia: the rift between Susan and her family, the end of TLB (pretend everyone's alive and happy)
• Fandom-specific DNW for SGA: wraith/human relationships, focus on John/Rodney
Buffy the Vampire Slayer
Characters:
• Buffy Summers
• Dawn Summers
• Faith Lehane
• Rupert Giles
• Original Character(s)
• Any Slayer
Tags:
• Fate of non-Chosen potentials
• Structure and workings of the Watcher’s Council post-Chosen
In the series, we see those who are Chosen to become Slayers, and we see some Potentials before they’re Chosen – but what happens to those who aren’t Chosen? Those who have been raised by the Council, but grow too old to be potentials any longer? Do they join the Council as Watchers or in some other capacity? Are they cut off from the Council, left to integrate into mundane society as best they can? Does the Council help them readjust, and if so, how? Do they become demon hunters, and make do without supernatural powers, and how does that work out for them? What happens to their Watchers? Do they still stay with their Potentials, or are they reassigned as soon as it becomes obvious their Potential won’t be Chosen? How long do they wait to decide that a Potential won’t be Chosen?
And how does it work when there are no non-Chosen Potentials? How is the Watcher’s Council re-organised when they go from having an abundance of Watchers and just one (or two) Slayers, to having an abundance of Slayers, but far too few Watchers? Are the Slayers consolidated in supernaturally active locations, or are they spread out all over the continents? How centralised is the leadership and administration? How does training work – is there a year-round residential school, or are there summer camps, or after-school activities? How centralised or localised is the training? How young are the Slayers trained, and how old are they when they are allowed to be active? Do they work in groups with several Slayers to one Watcher? Do they work individually, with a central Hub for the Watchers? How do the Scoobies, especially Buffy, deal with suddenly being thrust into the leadership of a world-wide organisation?
return to top
Chronicles of Narnia
Characters
• Edmund Pevensie
• Lucy Pevensie
• Peter Pevensie
• Susan Pevensie
Tags:
• Cultural Diversity within Narnia
• Golden Age Society
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?
return to top
Killjoys
Characters
• Alvis Akari
• Any Scarback
• Rolly Desh
• Johnny Jaqobis
Tags:
• Scarback faith among non-Scarbacks
• Scarback religion - beliefs and practices
• Scarbacks in the Westerley resistance
• The Scarbacks
• Tunnel Rats and Scarback faith
The Scarbacks have always intrigued me. How is the religion structured and organised? How much leeway do individual Scarbacks have to act on their own convictions and how much do they organise together? What is the leadership of the faith like? Is it a top-down structure, or more egalitarian? Are there different schools of Scarback faith? Is the Monastery on Leith the only monastery, or are there others? How much contact do the monks in the wider galaxy have with the Monastery? How much influence does the faith have in the Quad? How involved are they with politics? Are the Scarbacks in the Westerley Resistance acting with the blessing of the leadership or not?
Are there other blessings than the Blood Blessing? What does the Blood Blessing mean to the Scarbacks? What does it mean to others? How do those who believe in Scarback faith, but aren’t Scarbacks themselves, worship? How common is Scarback faith among non-Scarbacks?
return to top
Stargate Atlantis
Characters
• Any Atlantis expedition member(s)
• Aiden Ford
• Elizabeth Weir
• Evan Lorne
Tags:
• Atlantis Downtime
• Daily life on Atlantis
• Relationship between Atlantis expedition and Pegasus galaxy societies
I love the potential of the world-building of the show, 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.
How do the Atlanteans relate to different Pegasus galaxy society? What are their thoughts and opinions on the Altlanteans? Strangers who blunder in and make things worse? People who come to help? To what extent is there trade between Atlantis and the rest of the galaxy? How does the fact that the Atlantis expedition has an escape route back to Earth if things get too difficult impact the relationship?
I’m also really curious about how Atlantis works internally. The show focuses mostly on the missions of AR-1, but what is life like for those who don’t leave the base? What technology do they use to keep the base running, and how much do they do themselves? How is the work divided? How does the fact that it’s an international cooperation influence the culture of the expedition?
What is downtime like? How is it organised? What do people do for fun? How are mandatory rest days scheduled, and what downtime do they have outside them? How do they make sure the basic operations are still functioning during mandatory rest days? How did downtime work before mandatory rest days?
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