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ermingarden) wrote2024-02-27 11:28 pm
ermingarden) wrote2024-02-27 11:28 pm
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Dear Worldbuilder
I'm so excited to see what new additions to one of these worlds you come up with!
General likes and DNWs
I love epistolary fic, academic pastiche, social media pastiche, outsider POV, slice-of-life fic, primary source documents, academic debates, monks, mysticism, humor, and hopeful endings.
DNW: Explicit sex scenes, anything sexual involving children, BDSM.
The Silmarillion
Manuscripts and manuscript transmission, archaeology of Beleriand, Tol Himling after the War of Wrath
I'm fascinated by the question of (a) what survives the sinking of Beleriand, (b) how it survives, and/or (c) how the surviving material is interpreted and reinterpreted by future scholars (and laypeople!) to recreate the history of Beleriand. What are the gaps that still need to be filled in? Where is the guesswork right – and where is it wrong? Why were these things preserved and not others – was it chance? If it was deliberate, who decided what was to be preserved, and how did they make that decision? Are there questions of authenticity and suspected forgeries? What new meanings did objects (and places!) from Beleriand take on in the Ages after the War of Wrath?
The Lord of the Rings
The rebuilding of Annúminas
I'm interested in just about every aspect of the rebuilding of Annúminas, and Tolkien doesn't show us much of it at all! On a practical level, how was it accomplished? What is the architecture like, and what is the relationship between the design of the new Annúminas and the ancient city - and what inspiration might be drawn from Minas Tirith? Who ends up living in the new Annúminas, and what is daily life like there? And even well before the city is rebuilt, what power does the dream of a rebuilt Annúminas have for the Rangers?
Star Wars Legends
Holocrons, Centerpoint Station
Centerpoint Station absolutely fascinates me. What is it like to live in the hollow interior of a space station the size of a planet? Who were the first people to live in Centerpoint, and why did they choose to settle there?
And I've been kind of obsessed with holocrons for a while now – the Legends version of holocrons, that have one or more personalities within them. How sentient really are holocrons? What role do they play in Jedi society – both in the Old Republic and in the rebuilt Jedi Order? What is it like to interact with the holographic echo of someone you knew in life?
Chronicles of Narnia
The guinea pigs in the Wood Between the Worlds
This prompt is pretty self-explanatory, but I'm just curious: What happened to the guinea pigs? Did they ever find their way out of the Wood - and if not, what is it like to dwell in that kind of in-between place? What happens to a person there - or to a guinea pig, as the case may be?
General likes and DNWs
I love epistolary fic, academic pastiche, social media pastiche, outsider POV, slice-of-life fic, primary source documents, academic debates, monks, mysticism, humor, and hopeful endings.
DNW: Explicit sex scenes, anything sexual involving children, BDSM.
The Silmarillion
Manuscripts and manuscript transmission, archaeology of Beleriand, Tol Himling after the War of Wrath
I'm fascinated by the question of (a) what survives the sinking of Beleriand, (b) how it survives, and/or (c) how the surviving material is interpreted and reinterpreted by future scholars (and laypeople!) to recreate the history of Beleriand. What are the gaps that still need to be filled in? Where is the guesswork right – and where is it wrong? Why were these things preserved and not others – was it chance? If it was deliberate, who decided what was to be preserved, and how did they make that decision? Are there questions of authenticity and suspected forgeries? What new meanings did objects (and places!) from Beleriand take on in the Ages after the War of Wrath?
The Lord of the Rings
The rebuilding of Annúminas
I'm interested in just about every aspect of the rebuilding of Annúminas, and Tolkien doesn't show us much of it at all! On a practical level, how was it accomplished? What is the architecture like, and what is the relationship between the design of the new Annúminas and the ancient city - and what inspiration might be drawn from Minas Tirith? Who ends up living in the new Annúminas, and what is daily life like there? And even well before the city is rebuilt, what power does the dream of a rebuilt Annúminas have for the Rangers?
Star Wars Legends
Holocrons, Centerpoint Station
Centerpoint Station absolutely fascinates me. What is it like to live in the hollow interior of a space station the size of a planet? Who were the first people to live in Centerpoint, and why did they choose to settle there?
And I've been kind of obsessed with holocrons for a while now – the Legends version of holocrons, that have one or more personalities within them. How sentient really are holocrons? What role do they play in Jedi society – both in the Old Republic and in the rebuilt Jedi Order? What is it like to interact with the holographic echo of someone you knew in life?
Chronicles of Narnia
The guinea pigs in the Wood Between the Worlds
This prompt is pretty self-explanatory, but I'm just curious: What happened to the guinea pigs? Did they ever find their way out of the Wood - and if not, what is it like to dwell in that kind of in-between place? What happens to a person there - or to a guinea pig, as the case may be?