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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! 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
Dimension 20: A Court of Fey and Flowers
Exandria Unlimited: Calamity
Stargate Atlantis
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, non-canonical incest (including between adopted or foster family members and biological family members who don’t know they’re related)
• 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
• 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
Andor
Characters
• Mon Mothma
• Leida Mothma
• Perrin Fertha
• Tay Kolma
Tags:
• Chandrilan community on Coruscant
• Imperial Politics on Coruscant
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
• Golden Age Society
• Effects of the 100 Year Winter on the various peoples of Narnia
• Talking Animal customs
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?
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?
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Dimension 20: A Court of Fey and Flowers
Characters
• Any Court of Craft Member
• Any Seafoam Court Member
• BINX Choppley
• Original character(s)
Tags:
• Portals to the Material Plane
• The Court of Craft
• The role of the Weaver of Fate
• The Seafoam Court
I am intrigued by the different courts of the Feywild! How does the Seafoam Court work? How much of it is aquatic and how much of it is on land? What sort of fey creatures belong to the court? How structured and hierarchical is it? What obligations do members have, and what benefits do they get from being part of a court? What does the Wavemaster do as leader of the court?
I am also very interested in similar questions for the Court of Craft, regarding who is in it, how is it structured, what occupations aside from bringing the cocoa and blankets can the fey have within the court, but also, what happens when they return to the Feywild? How does the new Court of Craft under BINX’s leadership look? Do any of them stay on the Material Plane? How do they relate to the Court of Wonder after everything that they did to them? And how come they were all on the Material Plane where they got stuck in the first place? What does the Weaver of Fate do, within the court and as its outward voice? How literal is the Weaver of Fate part, or is it figurative?
And how do portals work under normal circumstances, when they aren’t being influenced by the Court of Wonder? How are they created, are they open all the time or just under specific circumstances, what do they look like, how prevalent are they? Do they just happen, or do they have to be created deliberately, and, if so, how? Can they be opened from both sides, or just from one or the other? Are there any unidirectional portals, or are they all bidirectional? How often do people use them to cross from one side to another? What is the process like for Fey and for peoples of the Material Plane – is it different?
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Exandria Unlimited: Calamity
Characters
• Nydas Okiro
• Eaedalus Okiro
• Any resident of Cathmoira
• Any Gau Drashari
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?
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Stargate Atlantis
Characters
• Aiden Ford
• Elizabeth Weir
• Evan Lorne
• Any Atlantis Expedition member
• Radek Zelenka
Tags:
• Atlantis Downtime
• Daily life on Atlantis
• Relationship between Atlantis expedition and Pegasus galaxy societies
• Stargate support operations & procedures
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 Sheppard’s team, but what is life like for those who don’t leave the base? How does the fact that it’s an international cooperation influence the culture of the expedition? What technology do they use to keep the base and the gate running, and how much do they do themselves versus rely on Ancient tech? How is the work divided between personnel? What do gate team members do between missions?
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! 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
Dimension 20: A Court of Fey and Flowers
Exandria Unlimited: Calamity
Stargate Atlantis
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, non-canonical incest (including between adopted or foster family members and biological family members who don’t know they’re related)
• 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
• 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
Andor
Characters
• Mon Mothma
• Leida Mothma
• Perrin Fertha
• Tay Kolma
Tags:
• Chandrilan community on Coruscant
• Imperial Politics on Coruscant
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
• Golden Age Society
• Effects of the 100 Year Winter on the various peoples of Narnia
• Talking Animal customs
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?
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
Dimension 20: A Court of Fey and Flowers
Characters
• Any Court of Craft Member
• Any Seafoam Court Member
• BINX Choppley
• Original character(s)
Tags:
• Portals to the Material Plane
• The Court of Craft
• The role of the Weaver of Fate
• The Seafoam Court
I am intrigued by the different courts of the Feywild! How does the Seafoam Court work? How much of it is aquatic and how much of it is on land? What sort of fey creatures belong to the court? How structured and hierarchical is it? What obligations do members have, and what benefits do they get from being part of a court? What does the Wavemaster do as leader of the court?
I am also very interested in similar questions for the Court of Craft, regarding who is in it, how is it structured, what occupations aside from bringing the cocoa and blankets can the fey have within the court, but also, what happens when they return to the Feywild? How does the new Court of Craft under BINX’s leadership look? Do any of them stay on the Material Plane? How do they relate to the Court of Wonder after everything that they did to them? And how come they were all on the Material Plane where they got stuck in the first place? What does the Weaver of Fate do, within the court and as its outward voice? How literal is the Weaver of Fate part, or is it figurative?
And how do portals work under normal circumstances, when they aren’t being influenced by the Court of Wonder? How are they created, are they open all the time or just under specific circumstances, what do they look like, how prevalent are they? Do they just happen, or do they have to be created deliberately, and, if so, how? Can they be opened from both sides, or just from one or the other? Are there any unidirectional portals, or are they all bidirectional? How often do people use them to cross from one side to another? What is the process like for Fey and for peoples of the Material Plane – is it different?
return to top
Exandria Unlimited: Calamity
Characters
• Nydas Okiro
• Eaedalus Okiro
• Any resident of Cathmoira
• Any Gau Drashari
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
Stargate Atlantis
Characters
• Aiden Ford
• Elizabeth Weir
• Evan Lorne
• Any Atlantis Expedition member
• Radek Zelenka
Tags:
• Atlantis Downtime
• Daily life on Atlantis
• Relationship between Atlantis expedition and Pegasus galaxy societies
• Stargate support operations & procedures
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 Sheppard’s team, but what is life like for those who don’t leave the base? How does the fact that it’s an international cooperation influence the culture of the expedition? What technology do they use to keep the base and the gate running, and how much do they do themselves versus rely on Ancient tech? How is the work divided between personnel? What do gate team members do between missions?
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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