Innumerable Stars 2024

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Dear IS creator,

 

Hello and thank you so much for making a gift for me!

I am very easy to please; I like lots of canons and characters (hence the ridiculous number of tags) and I enjoy all types of fanwork – brief character studies; quiet conversations; what-ifs; plotty adventures; horror; romance; smut; portraits; comics; moodboards...I'm happy with anything. I'd be equally thrilled to get something about any of the tags and characters I've selected so please don't read anything into the length of the prompts, or whether I've requested the characters or fandoms for previous exchanges.

(NB – all of the requests are for art or fic. If you are kind enough to be contemplating a treat, then any medium is welcome, including podfic, vids, fanmixes, etc..)

 

DNWs

• Anything to do with eating disorders or disordered eating
• Focus on bodily fluids and functions (blood from injuries is an exception)
• Focus on childbirth, pregnancy, or babies (unless specifically noted as an exception within a particular fandom)
• The Fëanorions (and the Noldor in general) depicted as straight-up villains who deserved everything they got. 
• The Valar depicted as perfect, infallible, and right in all they do.
• Unrequested AU that significantly changes the canon setting - for example, A/B/O or mermaid AU. (Canon divergence is great, as is post-canon exploration - I don't consider Elves/Ainur in history or canon artefacts turning up in charity shops to be AU.)

 

A WORD ABOUT MY PERSONAL PREFERENCES AND CANON INTERPRETATIONS

Please write or draw the occupants of Tolkien's worlds in any way that you wish. Diverse skin tones; non-Western cultural influences; disabilities; different body types; trans, intersex and genderqueer headcanons – go for it.

I am open to unrequested relationships and unprompted crossovers (including with non-Tolkien canons, if that takes your fancy).

OCs are great.  Add them in wherever you like.

If you want to push the boundaries of traditional fic/art, I am absolutely your person.  Want to create abstract art to represent a character’s state of mind, splice photo manips of supernatural beings into the diary entries of your modern OC, or reimagine the tale of Sir Orfeo as a pixel art game?  I’m here for it.

There are a few things that, while perhaps not canon in the purest sense, are either canon to me or a very strong preference.  Absolutely fine not to mention these things if your take is different, but just for reference…

• Maedhros/Fingon, if they appear or are mentioned - I don’t need them to be monogamous or for their relationship to be straightforward, but “just friends” or married to/in love with other people are not my preferred takes.
• Maglor survives at the end of the First Age and sticks around for a good long time afterwards.  Unless we’re dealing with the period immediately after the War of Wrath, I prefer to see him compos mentis and capable, not mad/broken/weeping by the sea forever more.
• LaCE is not a biological imperative or the default stance among all Elves.
• The experiences, opinions and agendas of the in-universe narrator(s) (e.g. Pengolodh, Ælfwine) significantly influenced what they recorded and how they worded it - and what they left out.

 

GENERAL LIKES

 

• A sense of history and wonder
• Communication and travel between worlds and across time
• Elves/Ainur/immortal beings in history
• Fic, art etc. inspired by my own fanworks: remixes, based on, set in the same 'verse, using the same plotline, borrowing an OC, podfic recording, etc.
• Food, drink and celebration
• Fusions of science and magic
• Ghosts, hauntings (literal and metaphorical)
• Liminal places; portals; the borders of the numinous
• Myth, folklore and fairy-tale
• Objects and places with special significance
• Original characters
• Setting as character - feel free to take this literally, I love sentient nature and architectural horror
• Shining a light into places canon doesn't show us, or barely touches on – going off the edge of the map
• Suggestion and implication, whether this is hints of backstory, a figure hiding in the shadows, or a slightly ambiguous ending – I love it when my imagination can get to work filling in the gaps
• The supernatural and the uncanny
• Unprompted appearances from characters in canons that aren't strictly their own (Silm characters rocking up in the Third Age; Middle-earth characters turning up in non-ME canons; characters from the other canons travelling to Middle-earth; characters from multiple small canons meeting up somehow...)
• Unprompted crossovers between requests
• Witchy, fey and eldritch beings

 

ART LIKES

 

• Abstract art
• Action shots
• Anything that plays with colour, light, shadow, space and movement
• Art as character study, or illustrating the dynamics of a relationship
• Beams of light; strangely shaped shadows
• Calligraphy/illumination/runework
• Close ups of tiny details like stitching, beading, engraving, etc.
• Clothing, jewellery and hair
• Comic panels; sets of linked drawings that tell a story
• Craft and sculpture
• Depictions of the natural world; tiny characters in vast landscapes
• Facial expressions conveying more than one emotion at once
• Fashion design
• Focus on a part of the body that isn't the face, e.g. a character's fingertips lightly brushing their lover's ear
• Group shots
• Intricate detailing on weaponry, armour, buildings, engravings, musical instruments...
• Limited colour palette; jewel tones; monochrome
• Maps, architectural drawings, floor plans, designs for a toy or new invention, etc.
• Portraits
• Unusual perspectives – through a window, over a gate, down a tunnel, from a distance...

 

FIC LIKES

 

• Adventure and peril
• Anything to do with languages, linguistics and alphabets
• Canon divergence AUs
• Capable/competent characters being casually excellent
• Complex character dynamics
• Conflicting motivations
• Curious characters who just want to know things
• Fables
• Fairy tale motifs
• Found families/families of choice
• Grief and tragedy
• Hope and reconciliation
• In-world myths and legends
• In-world meta (see section below)
• Mercy/pity/kindness
• Mysteries and investigations
• Philosophical musings; academic discussions and debates
• Politics, on any scale
• Solace
• Unexpected friends/allies/relationships
• Unreliable narrators and quirky narrative structures – for example, epistolary, fragmented narratives, stories told through found documents, framing devices, stories told out of chronological order; playing with canon narrative bias/intent
• Unusual perspectives, minor characters and textual ghosts
• Wry humour; finding something to smile over when times are bleak

 

IN-UNIVERSE META IDEAS

 

• “Filling in the gaps” e.g. fragments of documents complete with in-world commentary
• Bestiaries and spellbooks
• Catalogues
• Contracts and agreements
• Diary entries; project journals
• Essays
• Etymology
• History
• In-world scholarship
• Instructions and recipes
• Laws and proclamations
• Letters
• Literary criticism and analysis
• Maps
• Marginalia
• Working papers and project notes

 

RELATIONSHIP LIKES

 

(A lot of my requests are for single characters but I am open to unrequested ships.)

 

General/SFW:

 

• Ambiguous relationships
• Banter and teasing
• Bedsharing; huddling for warmth
• Characters being utterly fascinated by one another (doesn't have to be romantic; could be admiration of craft/skill, or being impressed by someone's intellect, or something else altogether)
• Developing friendships – especially unlikely friendships
• Emotional reunions after long separations
• Enemies/rivals to lovers/friends
• Fierce loyalty and devotion, to the point of one character doing something incredibly stupid to help or save somebody they love
• Fighting back-to-back
• Forehead kisses
• Grey relationships that don't sit neatly in a box
• Hurt/comfort
• Quiet moments between people who care about each other, especially during or after huge events shaking their world
• Situational relationships – enemies having to work together, or people who wouldn't normally be drawn to each other forming a bond through circumstance
• “The little things” - light brushes with fingertips, smiles across a room...
• Tempestuous, complex or unhealthy relationships (see section on darker stuff)

 

Smut Likes:

 

• Aftercare
• Banter in bed
• Bathing
• Biting and scratching
• Blood play
• Breath play
• Comfort sex; sex between friends who are just having fun
• Differing experience levels
• Drinking wine in bed together
• Enthusiastic consent
• Gags; blindfolds; light bondage
• Hair brushing/washing/braiding
• Helplessness
• Knifeplay
• Neck kissing; collarbone kissing
• Nipple play
• Orgasm delay/denial
• Piercings
• Pillow talk
• Porn as character study
• Reading erotic literature together
• Sensation play
• Sex exploring power dynamics and/or deeply informed by characters' history together
• Sex in or near water
• Swimming
• “Thank god you're alive” sex; sex after serious injury

 

More ideas in my old Smut4Smut letters if your muse bends that way!

 

DARKER STUFF

 

• Apocalypse
• Apotheosis, consensual or otherwise
• Abandoned places; ruins; haunted houses/objects
• Being trapped in a small dark space, possibly with something terrifying lurking nearby
• Body horror. Especially pretty body horror, like flowers growing out of bodies, or being consumed from the inside by starlight.
• Body modification
• Canon divergence that initially seems like it will fix things but then makes everything worse.
• Dark fairy tale elements
• Dark magic and curses
• Dreams and nightmares bleeding into reality
• Dubious consent
• Folk horror
• Incest
• Malevolent ghosts and hauntings
• Memory loss, or memories being fake/unreliable
• Murder - mysteries; studies of killers; any of it
• Possession
• Resurrection and necromancy
• Ritual and sacrifice
• Seances
• Sentient nature, especially if it loves you and also wants to eat you or drown you
• The road to hell being paved with good intentions
• Torture
• Trauma and survivor's guilt
• Unhealthy relationships/relationships with troubling dynamics, including obsession, jealousy and co-dependency
• Vore

 

And now for the fandoms!

 

THE ADVENTURES OF TOM BOMBADIL

 

Characters/Groups:

 

• Badger-brock (ATB)
• Fisher Blue (ATB)
• Group: Elven-knights of Aerie and Faerie (ATB)
• Group: Firiel & Firiel's Mother (ATB)
• Group: Goldberry & Mrs. Bunce (ATB)
• Group: Goldberry & The River (ATB)
• Group: Lintips (ATB)
• Group: Mrs. Bunce & the Man in the Moon (ATB)
• Group: The Gleaming Spirits of Tavrobel (ATB)
• Group: The Silver Dishes and Spoons (ATB)
• Mrs. Bunce (ATB)
• Old Man Willow (ATB)
• Old Swan of Elvet-isle (ATB)
• Oliphaunt (ATB)
• Otter-lad (ATB)
• The Dancing Horned Cow (ATB)
• The Dragon in the Cherry Tree (ATB)
• The River-Woman (ATB)
• The Shadow-Bride (ATB)
• Willow-wren (ATB)

 

Optional Worldbuilding Prompts:

 

• Worldbuilding: Elvet-isle (ATB)
• Worldbuilding: Feasts and celebrations in the Shire (ATB)
• Worldbuilding: Hobbit Animal Fables (ATB)
• Worldbuilding: How does the Man in the Moon get in and out of the sky? (ATB)
• Worldbuilding: Nature spirits and other magical beings visiting the Shire (ATB)
• Worldbuilding: Powers and Properties of Shadows and Reflections (ATB)
• Worldbuilding: Relations between the Shire and Faery (ATB)
• Worldbuilding: River-daughters (ATB)
• Worldbuilding: Tavrobel (ATB)
• Worldbuilding: The Month of May (ATB)

 

There is such a sense of possibility and of things unseen/unexplored in this collection of poems!  I love the mixture of tones – comic, melancholy, magical, spooky – and the hints of mystery.  Are the creatures of the Old Forest that Tom Bombadil interacts with just a little more ‘magical’ than your average bird or badger?  Why do the Elves offer Firiel a seat on their boat?  What do the Hobbits make of their peculiar neighbours in the Old Forest (and beyond)?  What are lintips?  Who are Goldberry’s parents?  Where is Elvet-isle?

I admit the dragon in the cherry tree is a bit of a deep cut as it technically didn’t make it into the final published volume, but there’s a copy of the poem here if you want to check it out.  Maybe you can give him a happy ending?!

 

SELLIC SPELL

 

Characters/Groups:

 

• Grinder (Sellic)
• Grinder's Dam (Sellic)
• Group: Grinder's Dam/The Queen of the Golden Hall
• Original Character(s) (Sellic)
• Original Giant (Sellic)
• Original Scientist Character(s) (Sellic)
• The Queen of the Golden Hall (Sellic)
• Unfriend

 

Optional Worldbuilding Prompts:

 

• Worldbuilding: Blood Magic (Sellic)
• Worldbuilding: Body Horror (Sellic)
• Worldbuilding: Deconstructions Retellings and Narrative Bias (Sellic)
• Worldbuilding: Fate (Sellic)
• Worldbuilding: Gender magic (Sellic)
• Worldbuilding: Genderfluidity and nonbinary people (Sellic)
• Worldbuilding: Nixes (Sellic)
• Worldbuilding: Ogre Blood (Sellic)
• Worldbuilding: Smithcraft (Sellic)
• Worldbuilding: The Sword Forged By Giants (Sellic)

 

I love this strange little folk-tale reworking of Beowulf. I have previously requested this canon in a number of darkfic and horror exchanges as I do feel it lends itself to that – I'm especially interested in depictions of monstrousness and otherness, so perhaps something about Grinder or his dam, their origins, and their perspective on events? You could get seriously into body horror, magical corruption, traumatic transformation, even cannibalism and so on if you wanted to – or go down the folk horror route, if that appeals.

That said, I would be just as delighted with something warmer and lighter in tone – an evening of storytelling in the Golden Hall? Feel free to re-interpret and re-frame the story yet again, or take a look at events from a different point of view – maybe through the eyes of the Queen, or an OC. If you want to draw on Beowulf itself as well, I'm more than fine with that; you could get really meta and explore how Tolkien's version solves some of the puzzling/tonally inconsistent elements of Beowulf.

I loved the gender magic and genderfluidity tags that were nominated this time and would be delighted with anything exploring those, for any of the characters.  For art, I would love an illustration of any scene that strikes your fancy, or if you wanted to render part of the tale in pretty lettering, that would be incredible!

This fandom is an exception to my pregnancy DNW.

 

THE FATHER CHRISTMAS LETTERS

 

Characters/Groups:

 

• Cave Bear (TFCL)
• Father Christmas (TFCL)
• Grandfather Yule (TFCL)
• Group: Goblins (TFCL)
• Group: The Great Bear & The Great Seal (TFCL)
• Group: The Snow People (TFCL)
• Ilbereth
• Original Character(s) (TFCL)
• The Great Bear (TFCL)
• The Great Seal (TFCL)
• The Green Brother (TFCL)

 

Optional Worldbuilding Prompts:

 

• Worldbuilding: Elements of Norse Mythology & Folklore (TFCL)
• Worldbuilding: Embodiments of Belief (TFCL)
• Worldbuilding: Father Christmas’s Workshop (TFCL)
• Worldbuilding: Goblin mischief
• Worldbuilding: lives and mortality of the Snowmen (TFCL)
• Worldbuilding: Mortality/immortality of different races at the North Pole
• Worldbuilding: North Pole Cave Art (TFCL)
• Worldbuilding: The Flow of Time on Christmas Eve (TFCL)
• Worldbuilding: The North Pole Postal System (TFCL)
• Worldbuilding: The Realm of the Great Seal (TFCL)

 

I could quite happily have chosen all of the worldbuilding tags for this fandom so please don’t feel bound to the ones I’ve pulled out; if you have a different idea, please go for it.  A selection of prompts from previous exchange letters…

 

• I can't help wondering if the Green Brother is an “older” version of Father Christmas – the version we see dressed in green and crowned with holly, before being replaced in the popular mind by our modern red-clad version? Or maybe he's some kind of summer spirit, or Green Man, or the leader of the Wild Hunt (is he Oromë!?). What's his relationship with Father Christmas like? Where is his domain?
• The Flow of Time on Christmas Eve - how does it work? Does Grandfather Yule help with this, or perhaps the Great Bear and Great Seal? (They sound like they might be Ainur-adjacent...)
• The snowmen – do they melt!?  How do the (presumably) immortal Elves and Gnomes cope with this?  (How long do bears live, while we’re at it, and who/what in the world is the Great Seal?)
• Who is in charge of Father Christmas's workshop? Do they still make everything by hand, or have they modernised? Who looks after all those letters? (Epistolary format could be a lot of fun here!) Maybe most importantly of all, how do they get around everybody on Christmas Eve!?
• What did the land at the North Pole look like before Christmas as we know it? Was it once a darker, scarier place? Who is Grandfather Yule, and what does he do these days?
• Anything with goblin tunnels (including The Hobbit) makes me think of George MacDonald's dark and magical fairy story, The Princess and the Goblin. I'd love to know what the goblins are planning, and whether they're related to the goblins of Middle-earth. Does Father Christmas know more about them than he lets on to the Tolkien children? Are the goblins hoping to reach the “real world” through Father Christmas's realm – and if they are, what for? If you're making art, pictures of their underground realm would be amazing, and for meta, maybe there are some dusty records somewhere at the North Pole of their historic invasions and attacks?

 

THE HOMECOMING OF BEORHTNOTH BEORHTHELM’S SON

 

Characters/Groups:

• Aelfwine (HBBS)
• Group: The Monks of Ely (HBBS)
• Group: Tidwald & the Abbot of Ely (HBBS)
• Group: Tidwald & the Monks of Ely (HBBS)
• Group: Torhthelm & the Monks of Ely (HBBS)
• Group: Torhthelm & the Abbot of Ely (HBBS)
• Group: Torhthelm & Tidwald & the Abbot of Ely (HBBS)
• Group: Torhthelm & Tidwald & the Monks of Ely (HBBS)
• Group: Torhthelm & Tidwald
• Group: Torhthelm/Aelfwine (HBBS)
• Offa (HBBS)
• Original Character(s) (HBBS)
• Original corpse-stripper character (HBBS)
• Original Dane Character (HBBS)
• Original Soldier (HBBS)
• The Abbot of Ely (HBBS)
• Tídwald
• Torhthelm

Optional Worldbuilding Prompts:
 

• Worldbuilding: Bards and Skalds (HBBS)
• Worldbuilding: Consolation (HBBS)
• Worldbuilding: do the monks believe in troll-shapes and hell-walkers? (HBBS)
• Worldbuilding: Dream-Visions (HBBS)
• Worldbuilding: Ely (HBBS)
• Worldbuilding: Maldon Sea Salt (HBBS)
• Worldbuilding: Ofermode (HBBS)
• Worldbuilding: The Interaction of Pagan and Christian Traditions (HBBS)
• Worldbuilding: Troll-Shapes and Hell-walkers (HBBS)
• Worldbuilding: Witch-sight (HBBS)

 

There is some great potential for spooky, unsettling art here – I'm thinking corpse-strippers sneaking around in the shadows, or Totta and Tída in the wagon with their lord's body, holding a single lamp, perhaps with fog whispering around the wheels or a barrow-wight sneaking out of the dark. There's some wonderful imagery in The Battle of Maldon itself, too, that Totta and Tída reflect on – maybe you could draw Beorhtnoth on the causeway, facing the Viking hordes, while Totta and Tída remember in a corner, or the margins. Or for something quietly uplifting, how about the two of them approaching the abbey at Ely as the sun rises?

If you're making fic then I don't have any specific prompts beyond those I've pulled from the tag set – honestly, I'd be interested in anything you'd like to make. I feel this canon lends itself to unusual formats so if you want to continue in the verse drama mode, or tell a story through found documents, be my guest – I'd be delighted!

 

THE STORY OF KULLERVO

 

Characters/Groups:

• The Blue-Robed Lady of the Forest (Kullervo)
• Group: Kullervo and Wanona's Brother and Sister (Kullervo)
• Group: Kullervo/Wanona (Kullervo)
• Group: The Men of Magic (Kullervo)
• Kalervo's Swan-mother (Kullervo)
• Kullervo (Kullervo)
• Musti (Kullervo)
• Sari (Kullervo)
• Sikki (Kullervo)
• Untamo (Kullervo)
• Wanona (Kullervo)

 

Optional Worldbuilding Prompts:

• Worldbuilding: Curses (Kullervo)
• Worldbuilding: Gifts and Bequests (Kullervo)
• Worldbuilding: Ghosts (Kullervo)
• Worlbuilding: Magical Dogs (Kullervo)
• Worldbuilding: Musical Enchantments (Kullervo)
• Worldbuilding: Prophecy (Kullervo)
• Worldbuilding: Smithcraft (Kullervo)
• Worldbuilding: Swans and their broods (Kullervo)
• Worldbuilding: The Magic of the Woods and Trees (Kullervo)
• Worldbuilding: When Magic Was Yet New (Kullervo)

“Hapless Kullervo” makes Túrin Turambar look like a good luck charm. I feel like this small canon doesn't get the love it deserves, especially since there are BoLT levels of barmy brilliance going on...an eagle steals a baby cygnet from a mother swan and flies off with it, and somehow that cygnet grows up to become Kalervo, Kullervo's father!?!

There are plenty of more familiar notes too – a mysterious fay woman in a forest, sentient talking weapons, a loyal magical dog, a wicked sorcerer, tragic destinies, unwitting incest, and power in music. I don't mind what you want to play with here; I promise I'll be delighted with any of it.

 

SIR ORFEO

 

Characters/Groups: 

• Group: Heurodis/Faërie Ladies (Orfeo)
• Group: Heurodis/Orfeo (Orfeo)
• Group: The King of Faërie/Orfeo/Heurodis/Faërie Ladies (Orfeo)
• Group: Heurodis/Orfeo/The King of Faerie/The Queen of Faerie (Orfeo)
• Group: The Sixty Ladies of Faërie (Orfeo)
• Heurodis (Orfeo)
• Orfeo (Orfeo)
• Original Character(s) (Orfeo)
• Original Character(s) from Faërie (Orfeo)
• Original Court Retainers (Orfeo)
• Original Handmaiden of Heurodis (Orfeo)
• The King of Faërie (Orfeo)

Optional Worldbuilding Prompts:
 

• Worldbuilding: Faërie Hunts (Orfeo)
• Worldbuilding: Lineage and Genealogy (Orfeo)
• Worldbuilding: Manuscripts – transmission and corruption (Orfeo)
• Worldbuilding: Minstrelsy (Orfeo)
• Worldbuilding: Modern day character in the Sir Orfeo version of Faery (Sir Orfeo)
• Worldbuilding: Role Swap - Heurodis has to retrieve Orfeo from the other-world (Orfeo)
• Worldbuilding: The Border Between Life and Death (Orfeo)
• Worldbuilding: The Border Between Our World and Faërie (Orfeo)
• Worldbuilding: The Influence of Ancient Greece and Rome (Orfeo)
• Worldbuilding: Winchester (Orfeo)

Medieval kingdoms!  Abducted queens! A very scary take on Faërie! Be still, my heart...what's not to love here?!

I'd be delighted to receive something about Heurodis's time in Faërie and would absolutely be down for smutty goodness with some ladies of the Faërie Court (participation of Orfeo and the King an optional and delicious extra). I'm a sucker for outsider POV and there are plenty of OC tags to pick from here, whether you'd prefer to explore further afield in Faërie or delve into life at Orfeo's court. Or how about a character from modern times ending up in Faërie, and interacting with its court and King? (If you feel like drawing on elements of Smith of Wotton Major here too, that would be very welcome indeed.)

If you want to get meta, I would be very interested in an exploration of different versions of this myth – I nominated the “influence of ancient Greece and Rome” tag but don't stop there, there are plenty of variants of this story from across the globe and throughout history.

Art-wise – I admit I am particularly fond of this passage:

 

"Sum stode withouten hede...

And sum were in water adreynt,

And some with fire al forschreynt."

 

A Faërie castle full of corpses feels like it is begging to be illustrated, but there are so many other options too – a depiction of the Hunt, or a recreation of a manuscript of the poem, perhaps?

 

PEARL

 

Characters/Groups:
 

• Original Character (Pearl)
• The Pearl-maiden (Pearl)
• The Pearl Poet (Pearl)
• The Narrator (Pearl)

 

Optional Worldbuilding Prompts:

• Worldbuilding: The Border Between Life and Death (Pearl)
• Worldbuilding: Dream Visions (Pearl)
• Worldbuilding: The World of the Dream-Vision (Pearl)
• Worldbuilding: The Apocalypse (Pearl)
• Worldbuilding: Sacrifice (Pearl)
• Worldbuilding: Properties of Flowers and Herbs (Pearl)
• Worldbuilding: Gemology (Pearl)

This is certainly a smaller, quieter, reflective text; there's no cast of thousands, no epic adventures, but still plenty to explore. Who sent the Dream Vision? Who is the Pearl Poet – are they also the Gawain poet, or are they someone else? Is the poem an elegy, an allegory, both? Something completely different? Where is the Pearl-maiden, what is her name, and what are the circumstances where the boundaries between life and death might thin to allow for communication?

You could potentially go for some in-universe meta here, if that interests you; people much brighter than me have pointed out that part of the poem reads like a lapidary. For art, maybe you could do something like a medieval illumination, or an illustration in the style of a stained glass window? Or calligraphy of a passage you particularly like?

 

THE NOTION CLUB PAPERS

 

Characters/Groups:
 

• Alwin Arundel Lowdham (NCP)
• Group: Alwin Arundel Lowdham & Zigur (NCP)
• Group: Frankley/Dolbear (NCP)
• Group: Ramer/Guilford (NCP)
• James Jones (NCP)
• Mr. Green (NCP)
• Original Character (NCP)
• Original Immortal Character (NCP)
• Original Oxford Academic (NCP)
• Original Oxford Undergraduate (NCP)
• Original Scientist Character(s) (NCP)
• Philip Frankley (NCP)
• Rupert Dolbear (NCP)
• Wilfrid Trewin Jeremy (NCP)
• Zigur (NCP)

 

Optional Worldbuilding Prompts:
 

• Worldbuilding: 2012 as viewed/interpreted from the early-mid 20th century (NCP)
• Worldbuilding: Authors' responsibilities to unfinished texts (NCP)
• Worldbuilding: Lost Civilisations (NCP)
• Worldbuilding: Lucid dreaming (NCP)
• Worldbuilding: Magic as science we don't understand yet (NCP)
• Worldbuilding: Names and Naming (NCP)
• Worldbuilding: Oxford (NCP)
• Worldbuilding: Reincarnation (NCP)
• Worldbuilding: Telepathy (NCP)
• Worldbuilding: the flow of time in different dimensions (NCP)

 

I really have nothing beyond the worldbuilding prompts here, but I would love to get something for this canon - it's such a delightful oddity!


ROVERANDOM

 

Characters/Groups:

 

• Artaxerxes
• Group: Dragons (Rover)
• Group: Elves (Rover)
• Group: Little Boy Two & Moon Rover & Roverandom & Sea Rover (Rover)
• Group: Little Boy Two's Mother & Rover
• Group: Mer-folk (Rover)
• Group: The Man on the Moon & Original Character(s) (Rover)
• Mew (Rover)
• Moon Rover (Rover)
• Mrs. Artaxerxes (Rover)
• Psamathos Psamathides
• Roverandom (Rover)
• Sea Rover (Rover)
• The Sea Serpent (Rover)
• Tinker (Rover)
• Uin (Rover)

 

Optional Worldbuilding Prompts:

 

• Worldbuilding: Dream-Realities (Rover)
• Worldbuilding: East Asian Folklore (Rover)
• Worldbuilding: Elvenhome (Rover)
• Worldbuilding: Kamikakushi / Journeys in the Spirit Realm (Rover)
• Worldbuilding: Magical realms co-existing unseen alongside our known world/reality (Rover)
• Worldbuilding: Memories and half-forgotten things on the Dark Side of the Moon (Rover)
• Worldbuilding: Moon Trees (Rover)
• Worldbuilding: Norse and/or Slavic Mythology and Folklore (Rover)
• Worldbuilding: Queer Coves (Rover)
• Worldbuilding: The Multiple Childhoods of Wizards (Rover)

 

Come on, who doesn’t adore Roverandom!? 

I’m thinking along more light-hearted lines for this request, though a bit of gentle melancholy or some subtle shades of darkness would be very welcome.  I'm fascinated by the dream-travel aspect (parallels to the Notion Club Papers!?) and the magic inherent in the landscapes.  The worldbuilding in this canon is absolutely gorgeous and lends itself to either fic or art; you really can’t go wrong here.

 

CROSSOVERS

 

Characters/Groups:
 

• Chrysophylax Dives (Giles) in a setting of your choice
• The Dragon in the Cherry Tree (ATB) in a setting of your choice
• Group: Agravain (SGGK) & Gawain (Arthur)
• Group: Any Female Elf (Silm)/Kalervo's Swan-mother (Kullervo)
• Group: Bingo Boffin (LOTRO) & Saruman (LotR books)
• Group: Changeling Child (LAI) & any character from The Father Christmas Letters
• Group: Daeron (Silm) & Geoffrey Bache Smith (Tolkien 2019)
• Group: Descendants of Ungoliant (Crossovers)
• Group: Dírhaval (Silm) & Totta (HBBS)
• Group: Edith Bratt (Tolkien 2019)/Lúthien (Silm)
• Group: Entwives (LotR books)/Tauriel (Hobbit movies)
• Group: Fëanor (Silm) & Joseph Wright (Tolkien 2019)
• Group: Fimbrethil (LotR books)/Yavanna (Silm)
• Group: Geoffrey Bache Smith (Tolkien 2019) & Rover (Rover)
• Group: Gilmith (LotR books)/Uinen (Silm)
• Group: Otter-folk (ATB) & Otter Skin-Changers (LSG)
• Group: Tauriel (Hobbit movies)/Vana/Yavanna (Silm)
• Group: The Corrigan (LAI) & Ungoliant (Silm)
• Group: The Dragon in the Cherry Tree (ATB) & Rover (Roverandom)
• Houseless Elves (Silm) at the North Pole (TFCL)

 

Optional Worldbuilding Prompts:
 

• Worldbuilding: Ancient Seats of Learning (Crossovers)
• Worldbuilding: Dragons (Crossover)
• Worldbuilding: Echoes of Ages Past (Crossover)
• Worldbuilding: England and Faery (Crossovers)
• Worldbuilding: Ghosts and Hauntings (Crossovers)
• Worldbuilding: Liminal Spaces Between Worlds (Crossovers)
• Worldbuilding: Magical Forests (Crossovers)
• Worldbuilding: Survivor’s Guilt (Crossovers)
• Worldbuilding: Swans (Crossovers)
• Worldbuilding: Water Magic (Crossover)
  

There’s not much of a theme to this request – there’s potential for exploring all sorts, from tree sex to spooky Christmas tales, from dragon adventures to deep linguistic discussions, from fairy-tale fun to cosmic horror - possibly via interdimensional travel and/or puppy cuddles.  Some of the pairings were irresistible for their parallels; others have nothing obvious in common, I just think it would be fun to put them together.  Pick a tag (or two, or three…), pick a worldbuilding prompt, shake well and enjoy.