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I'm so excited that you'll be writing for me! I can't wait to see what you come up with.
Prompts are optional; if you get another idea, just run with it! The most important thing is that you have fun and love what you write/draw, I'm sure I will love it too.
What I generally love to see in fanworks:
For art: Visual depictions of any of the prompts would be really good - I've tried to give prompts that can be depicted as art in some way. But mainly I'm interested to see your vision of the setting and the characters. I am utterly indifferent to conventional beauty standards and would in fact prefer to see age lines where appropriate, as well as people of varying sizes, shapes, and skin tones.
I absolutely adore maps and architecture; I draw clumsy layouts of houses and lands when I need to visualise where in a space people might be, and I would love anything you can come up with -- a layout of Himring, a map of Rivendell, architectural plans for Bag End, etc, etc.
I'm especially interested in art as character study: what a character wears, carries, is using, is doing, says so much about who they are as a person.
If you'd like to draw me smuttier art, I love suggestive clothing just as much as full nakedness and am always on board for one partner being fully clothed while the other one is naked. I love rumpled garments, clothing half off, blissful expressions on faces, arms around each other, hard nipples on men and women, erections for men, women who are visibly wet. I adore hair - long hair on heads, underarm hair, beards where relevant, women with muff. I would be in the seventh heaven to receive art depicting any scene from my own fic.
Regarding romance/sex:
I love kink and smut! I'm cool with any kind of ship: poly relationships, het, femslash, and slash, as well as of course solo masturbation and sex that doesn't really fall into the above categories at all, including smut involving trans and intersex characters. I'm cool with very slight underage but all characters must have been through puberty and be old enough to understand what they are doing and what it means. I adore teacher/student dynamics or situations where the parties involved have unequal levels of power (especially if it's Complicated). Loyalty kink is my FAVE, and I like it to be mutual.
Some other things I love include consent play, especially consensual non-consent, pregnancy or breeding talked about in a kinky way (no actual pregnancy please), praise kink, one person giving instructions to the other about what they want, power bottoms and service tops, bratty subs and indulgent dom/mes, competence kink, master/servant or husband/wife role-play, playing with gender roles and presentation, cross-dressing and/or kinking on not conforming to gender expectations/roles, gender and sexual identity being messy and complicated.
I prefer mind or power games to whips and chains, or alternatively, playful experimentation rather than Serious BDSM Is Serious. Dubious consent can also be fun to play with, especially somnophilia or scenarios that involve sex pollen or being forced to have sex by a third party. I love seeing characters so mutually overwhelmed by desire that they can't resist each other. I have no real boundaries when it comes to kink or sex acts (other than my DNWs) and will happily read anything, though I particularly enjoy:
For ships involving only men: auto-anal and auto-fellatio, rimming, watersports, comeplay of all kinds, nipple sucking (especially ritualised), intercrural sex, frottage (especially clothed frottage including coming in pants), and lovingly described blowjobs. Anal sex is great too, but I prefer it not be considered the be-all and end-all of sex between men.
For ships involving only women: cunnilingus, any kind of anal play, especially rimming, strap-on play, nipple play, and tribadism.
For ships involving a man and a woman: femdom, pegging, cunnilingus, especially queening, vaginal sex, anal sex, and nipple play. I like it when the pair are either both equally in control or a woman is but that doesn't necessarily mean she has to be on top. Not a fan of het fic where the man is totally in control and the woman is virginal and sort of swept away by him, I like men who are more submissive than dominant, or who at the very least are more concerned with their partner's pleasure than their own.
For threesomes/moresomes involving men and women, or people who don't really fall into the above categories: Double penetration is fun, but equally non-penetrative sex including frottage, oral sex, intercrural sex, or handjobs.
And then, there are some things I don't love and would rather not see in fic:
Onward to the fandoms!
Leaf by Niggle
Group: Niggle/Parish
I really ship these two and would love to see them falling into a happy, no-strings-attached, relationship while they create Niggle's Parish, maybe with an exploration of how they were attracted to each other back home but each of them repressed it or felt they couldn't express it.
Group: Niggle/Parish/Parish's Wife
Same as above, except, threesome! :D
Worldbuilding tags:
Worldbuilding: Niggle's Painting
Worldbuilding: Niggle's Legacy
Worldbuilding: The Tree
Worldbuilding: Beyond the Mountains
The Adventures of Tom Bombadil
Group: Mee/Shee
I'd love to see Mee and See being able to meet, instead of dancing as reflections of each other forever. What powers do their respective reflections of each other hold, and how can they use them?
Narrator of The Sea-Bell
Is it Frodo, or Maglor, or someone else? What does this poem say about Valinor, and what does it say about the mental state of the Narrator? Where is the moral failure in this very dark poem about depression (why does no one HELP HIM omg???)?
Worldbuilding tags:
Worldbuilding: Powers and Properties of Shadows and Reflections (ATB)
Worldbuilding: Poems As Cautionary Tales (ATB)
Worldbuilding: Hobbit Ethics As Portrayed In Poetry
Smith of Wootton Major
Group: Alf Prentice & Smith (Smith)
Group: Alf Prentice & Rob Rider (Smith)
Group: Alf Prentice & Nell (Smith)
I love our Faery King so much and I'm always fascinated by his choices and what he was doing in the world. Tell me about him bonding with Nell, Smith, or Rob Rider, or about his years as Master Cook, or about what his greater purpose.
I'd love to see art of him baking or of him doing some kind of magic at a festival, or of him stepping over the border between Faery and our world, becoming Alf Prentice.
Worldbuilding tags:
Worldbuilding: The Borders between Faery & Wootton Major
Worldbuilding: Craft in Wootton Major
Worldbuilding: Traditional Festivals in Wootton Major
The Silmarillion
Group: Curufin/Eöl
I'd love to see some belligerent snarking between these two. Maybe they met long before the canon scene? Maybe they kissed angrily and then had angry hatesex where they hated each other and fought all the way through it but both actually really liked it?
Group: Tuor/Voronwë
Huddling for warmth in the cold, cold winter! Give me slowly building sexual tension between them, both of them awkward about it, virginal, unsure, but knowing they feel something they cannot quite contain.
Group: Daeron/Maglor
I would love for these two to meet again long after canon, and kind of laugh at how they've both ended up wandering on beaches for thousands of years. They develop a relationship that's at first based on "well, we're both alone, both good-looking, and I don't hate you, let's fuck" and then they catch ~feelings~ about it.
Group: Fëanor/Fingolfin
I am ALWAYS always here for Fëanor/Fingolfin being super sarcastic and witty at each other, both of them trying to tear the other one apart with words, and both of them being really hot for each other over it.
Group: Maedhros/Maglor
I'd love to see something set around the Battle of Sudden Flame, where Maedhros comforts Maglor over the loss of his people and lands, and then it gets ~sexual~ -- I'd like for them to have had sparks before but never really given in to it before this point.
Group: Barahir/Emeldir
These two are DEF a power bi couple. I'd adore a fic where they come to realise that they are the perfect match for each other in so many ways.
Group: Maglor/Maedhros/Finrod/Fingon
I'd love to see some stuff around hair kink for this lovely foursome.
Worldbuilding tags:
Worldbuilding: Elves In Space
Worldbuilding: Canon-Divergence Fëanorians Win AU
Worldbuilding: Hair and customs/kinks around it
Worldbuilding: Law and Bureaucracy among the Eldar
Worldbuilding: Valarin as the Language of Cosmic Horror and Sorcery
Crossovers
Group: Finrod (Silm) & Frodo Baggins (LotR)
I always love it when Finrod and Frodo meet in Valinor, but what if Finrod was SECRETLY in Rivendell at the time of the Council? What advice would he give Frodo (and Sam, if you like) for going into Sauron's lair?
Group: Gandalf (LotR Books) & the House of Fëanor (Silm) AND/OR Group: Gandalf (LotR Books) & Fëanor (Silm)
Gandalf's fanboy crush on Fëanor is so genuinely wonderful and makes me very happy. I would love to see him seeking out Fëanor or any of his house at any point, or maybe something like 5 times Gandalf visited the House of Fëanor?
Group: Beowulf & Maedhros
I'd love to see them FIGHT MONSTERS together and then talk about relevant philosophical things.
Group: Fëanor & Niggle
Fëanor is sent to Niggle's Parish for healing and rest, and helps Niggle with his Tree. Niggle likes having help from someone who asks good questions, and Fëanor finds it restful to not be in charge of a project for once.
Worldbuilding tags:
Worldbuilding: Sentient Weapons & Jewelry
Worldbuilding: dragons and monsters
Worldbuilding: Elves &/or Ainur in History
Worldbuilding: Fragments of Ancient Worlds
Worldbuilding: Portals and Passageways
The Lord of the Rings
Group: Aragorn/Arwen
I love the idea of Aragorn and Arwen being ~secretly married~ long before the Ring War, and the whole idea that Arwen was the one to reforge Narsil. I'd love to see her journeying with him somewhere and sharing in his burdens more fully than she's allowed to in the book.
Group: Boromir/Faramir
Late 3rd Age Gondor must have been a weird time to be alive, with the looming threat of Mordor hanging overhead throughout. I'm very interested in the ways that Boromir and Faramir cling to each other, and find safety and security when they are together.
Group: Aragorn/Theoden
I've always thought Aragorn/Theoden had so much potential, as they must've known each other when Theoden was young. Maybe Aragorn was his first crush? Then they meet again and Theoden is an old man, whereas Aragorn is in the prime of his life. Must be difficult.
Worldbuilding tags:
Worldbuilding: Aragorn's many names and identities
Worldbuilding: Arwen reforged Narsil
Worldbuilding: Elven magic and art and technology
Worldbuilding: Late Third Age Rohan
Worldbuilding: Rohirric Elf-legends
Worldbuilding: Late Third Age Gondor
The Homecoming of Beorhtnoth Beorhthelm’s Son
Torhthelm | Totta, Tídwald | Tída
What do these two do when they're not collecting the bodies of dead lords? Alternatively, how about a time travel adventure -- how would they react to the future (or the past aka the age of LOTR or the Silm)?
Worldbuilding tags:
Worldbuilding: Torhthelm's Dream
Worldbuilding : hear the tears through the harp's twanging
I'm so excited that you'll be writing for me! I can't wait to see what you come up with.
Prompts are optional; if you get another idea, just run with it! The most important thing is that you have fun and love what you write/draw, I'm sure I will love it too.
What I generally love to see in fanworks:
- Loyalty and genuine devotion.
- Meaningful sacrifice.
- When repressed emotion comes out, especially if it's about love that the character thinks is unrequited but turns out to be requited.
- A strong sense of love and caring.
- Hope in the midst of despair.
- Endearments and affection.
- Desperate need or longing for love (that is then provided).
- Rescues from the brink of death.
- Eucatastrophe (the opposite of catastrophe - a sudden joyous turn in a story).
- Quarrels and fights, high emotional stakes and risks, passion raging out of control, desperation, and sudden impulses.
- Canon-divergence! (Especially Fëanorians Win AUs.)
- Meeting someone for the first time and feeling an instant kinship with them.
- Loyalty or devotion to a cause or a person.
- Working together like a well-oiled machine.
- Battlefield friendships.
- Enemies working together to defeat a common greater enemy (then figuring out that they aren't really enemies anymore).
- Admiring someone's skill or competence.
- Compassion, mercy, and pity as themes.
- Geopolitics, maps, layouts of houses and lands.
- Fashion and landscape descriptions.
- Thinking outside the box: coming up with new and different takes and spins on events, characters, and concepts. Wanna write something you think is a bit cracktastic? I'm your person.
- Trans (including non-binary) and intersex characters, especially explorations of the Elven concept of gwegwin.
- Fic inspired by my own fic: remixes, based on, set in the same 'verse, using the same plotline, etc.
For art: Visual depictions of any of the prompts would be really good - I've tried to give prompts that can be depicted as art in some way. But mainly I'm interested to see your vision of the setting and the characters. I am utterly indifferent to conventional beauty standards and would in fact prefer to see age lines where appropriate, as well as people of varying sizes, shapes, and skin tones.
I absolutely adore maps and architecture; I draw clumsy layouts of houses and lands when I need to visualise where in a space people might be, and I would love anything you can come up with -- a layout of Himring, a map of Rivendell, architectural plans for Bag End, etc, etc.
I'm especially interested in art as character study: what a character wears, carries, is using, is doing, says so much about who they are as a person.
If you'd like to draw me smuttier art, I love suggestive clothing just as much as full nakedness and am always on board for one partner being fully clothed while the other one is naked. I love rumpled garments, clothing half off, blissful expressions on faces, arms around each other, hard nipples on men and women, erections for men, women who are visibly wet. I adore hair - long hair on heads, underarm hair, beards where relevant, women with muff. I would be in the seventh heaven to receive art depicting any scene from my own fic.
Regarding romance/sex:
I love kink and smut! I'm cool with any kind of ship: poly relationships, het, femslash, and slash, as well as of course solo masturbation and sex that doesn't really fall into the above categories at all, including smut involving trans and intersex characters. I'm cool with very slight underage but all characters must have been through puberty and be old enough to understand what they are doing and what it means. I adore teacher/student dynamics or situations where the parties involved have unequal levels of power (especially if it's Complicated). Loyalty kink is my FAVE, and I like it to be mutual.
Some other things I love include consent play, especially consensual non-consent, pregnancy or breeding talked about in a kinky way (no actual pregnancy please), praise kink, one person giving instructions to the other about what they want, power bottoms and service tops, bratty subs and indulgent dom/mes, competence kink, master/servant or husband/wife role-play, playing with gender roles and presentation, cross-dressing and/or kinking on not conforming to gender expectations/roles, gender and sexual identity being messy and complicated.
I prefer mind or power games to whips and chains, or alternatively, playful experimentation rather than Serious BDSM Is Serious. Dubious consent can also be fun to play with, especially somnophilia or scenarios that involve sex pollen or being forced to have sex by a third party. I love seeing characters so mutually overwhelmed by desire that they can't resist each other. I have no real boundaries when it comes to kink or sex acts (other than my DNWs) and will happily read anything, though I particularly enjoy:
For ships involving only men: auto-anal and auto-fellatio, rimming, watersports, comeplay of all kinds, nipple sucking (especially ritualised), intercrural sex, frottage (especially clothed frottage including coming in pants), and lovingly described blowjobs. Anal sex is great too, but I prefer it not be considered the be-all and end-all of sex between men.
For ships involving only women: cunnilingus, any kind of anal play, especially rimming, strap-on play, nipple play, and tribadism.
For ships involving a man and a woman: femdom, pegging, cunnilingus, especially queening, vaginal sex, anal sex, and nipple play. I like it when the pair are either both equally in control or a woman is but that doesn't necessarily mean she has to be on top. Not a fan of het fic where the man is totally in control and the woman is virginal and sort of swept away by him, I like men who are more submissive than dominant, or who at the very least are more concerned with their partner's pleasure than their own.
For threesomes/moresomes involving men and women, or people who don't really fall into the above categories: Double penetration is fun, but equally non-penetrative sex including frottage, oral sex, intercrural sex, or handjobs.
And then, there are some things I don't love and would rather not see in fic:
- Outright and graphically described/depicted rape/noncon, grooming of underage characters, torture, extreme physical or mental suffering, 'misery porn', or grimdark.
- Harm to animals that goes beyond what's expected in canon. Fine to note that a horse was killed in battle, or that a rabbit was shot and cooked for food, or that an Elf defended themselves from a bear attack, but no graphic or senseless harm to animals, especially cats or dogs.
- A focus on sickness or illness, pregnancy and babies, or very young children (except where specifically prompted). Okay to mention these things as they are part of life, but I don't want a fic all about them.
- Extreme, out-of-character, romantic angst or miscommunication. If the problem keeping the lovers apart can be solved with one straightforward conversation which they totally have opportunity to have and just keep not having, then it's gone too far. Legitimate misunderstanding or miscommunication is entirely fine.
- For smut: scat, vomiting, ritualised whipping or beating, using safewords during play that isn't specifically consent play (a 'no' or 'stop' should suffice in all other cases).
- Homophobia, biphobia, transphobia, racism, sexism or the effects thereof as a major part of the story.
- Character-bashing. Don't do it to any character, but especially not to the Fëanorians. I love them and want them to be happy.
- Redemption, sorrow for "sin," angsting forever by the seaside, the Valar being right and good in everything they do, and characters needing to suffer for the things they've done. In general, the concept of 'sin' in Tolkien's work is something I'd rather not see at all. Maglor can angst a little by the seaside if it's necessary for the story (as a treat) but ultimately he should move on with his life in whatever way.
Onward to the fandoms!
Leaf by Niggle
Group: Niggle/Parish
I really ship these two and would love to see them falling into a happy, no-strings-attached, relationship while they create Niggle's Parish, maybe with an exploration of how they were attracted to each other back home but each of them repressed it or felt they couldn't express it.
Group: Niggle/Parish/Parish's Wife
Same as above, except, threesome! :D
Worldbuilding tags:
Worldbuilding: Niggle's Painting
Worldbuilding: Niggle's Legacy
Worldbuilding: The Tree
Worldbuilding: Beyond the Mountains
The Adventures of Tom Bombadil
Group: Mee/Shee
I'd love to see Mee and See being able to meet, instead of dancing as reflections of each other forever. What powers do their respective reflections of each other hold, and how can they use them?
Narrator of The Sea-Bell
Is it Frodo, or Maglor, or someone else? What does this poem say about Valinor, and what does it say about the mental state of the Narrator? Where is the moral failure in this very dark poem about depression (why does no one HELP HIM omg???)?
Worldbuilding tags:
Worldbuilding: Powers and Properties of Shadows and Reflections (ATB)
Worldbuilding: Poems As Cautionary Tales (ATB)
Worldbuilding: Hobbit Ethics As Portrayed In Poetry
Smith of Wootton Major
Group: Alf Prentice & Smith (Smith)
Group: Alf Prentice & Rob Rider (Smith)
Group: Alf Prentice & Nell (Smith)
I love our Faery King so much and I'm always fascinated by his choices and what he was doing in the world. Tell me about him bonding with Nell, Smith, or Rob Rider, or about his years as Master Cook, or about what his greater purpose.
I'd love to see art of him baking or of him doing some kind of magic at a festival, or of him stepping over the border between Faery and our world, becoming Alf Prentice.
Worldbuilding tags:
Worldbuilding: The Borders between Faery & Wootton Major
Worldbuilding: Craft in Wootton Major
Worldbuilding: Traditional Festivals in Wootton Major
The Silmarillion
Group: Curufin/Eöl
I'd love to see some belligerent snarking between these two. Maybe they met long before the canon scene? Maybe they kissed angrily and then had angry hatesex where they hated each other and fought all the way through it but both actually really liked it?
Group: Tuor/Voronwë
Huddling for warmth in the cold, cold winter! Give me slowly building sexual tension between them, both of them awkward about it, virginal, unsure, but knowing they feel something they cannot quite contain.
Group: Daeron/Maglor
I would love for these two to meet again long after canon, and kind of laugh at how they've both ended up wandering on beaches for thousands of years. They develop a relationship that's at first based on "well, we're both alone, both good-looking, and I don't hate you, let's fuck" and then they catch ~feelings~ about it.
Group: Fëanor/Fingolfin
I am ALWAYS always here for Fëanor/Fingolfin being super sarcastic and witty at each other, both of them trying to tear the other one apart with words, and both of them being really hot for each other over it.
Group: Maedhros/Maglor
I'd love to see something set around the Battle of Sudden Flame, where Maedhros comforts Maglor over the loss of his people and lands, and then it gets ~sexual~ -- I'd like for them to have had sparks before but never really given in to it before this point.
Group: Barahir/Emeldir
These two are DEF a power bi couple. I'd adore a fic where they come to realise that they are the perfect match for each other in so many ways.
Group: Maglor/Maedhros/Finrod/Fingon
I'd love to see some stuff around hair kink for this lovely foursome.
Worldbuilding tags:
Worldbuilding: Elves In Space
Worldbuilding: Canon-Divergence Fëanorians Win AU
Worldbuilding: Hair and customs/kinks around it
Worldbuilding: Law and Bureaucracy among the Eldar
Worldbuilding: Valarin as the Language of Cosmic Horror and Sorcery
Crossovers
Group: Finrod (Silm) & Frodo Baggins (LotR)
I always love it when Finrod and Frodo meet in Valinor, but what if Finrod was SECRETLY in Rivendell at the time of the Council? What advice would he give Frodo (and Sam, if you like) for going into Sauron's lair?
Group: Gandalf (LotR Books) & the House of Fëanor (Silm) AND/OR Group: Gandalf (LotR Books) & Fëanor (Silm)
Gandalf's fanboy crush on Fëanor is so genuinely wonderful and makes me very happy. I would love to see him seeking out Fëanor or any of his house at any point, or maybe something like 5 times Gandalf visited the House of Fëanor?
Group: Beowulf & Maedhros
I'd love to see them FIGHT MONSTERS together and then talk about relevant philosophical things.
Group: Fëanor & Niggle
Fëanor is sent to Niggle's Parish for healing and rest, and helps Niggle with his Tree. Niggle likes having help from someone who asks good questions, and Fëanor finds it restful to not be in charge of a project for once.
Worldbuilding tags:
Worldbuilding: Sentient Weapons & Jewelry
Worldbuilding: dragons and monsters
Worldbuilding: Elves &/or Ainur in History
Worldbuilding: Fragments of Ancient Worlds
Worldbuilding: Portals and Passageways
The Lord of the Rings
Group: Aragorn/Arwen
I love the idea of Aragorn and Arwen being ~secretly married~ long before the Ring War, and the whole idea that Arwen was the one to reforge Narsil. I'd love to see her journeying with him somewhere and sharing in his burdens more fully than she's allowed to in the book.
Group: Boromir/Faramir
Late 3rd Age Gondor must have been a weird time to be alive, with the looming threat of Mordor hanging overhead throughout. I'm very interested in the ways that Boromir and Faramir cling to each other, and find safety and security when they are together.
Group: Aragorn/Theoden
I've always thought Aragorn/Theoden had so much potential, as they must've known each other when Theoden was young. Maybe Aragorn was his first crush? Then they meet again and Theoden is an old man, whereas Aragorn is in the prime of his life. Must be difficult.
Worldbuilding tags:
Worldbuilding: Aragorn's many names and identities
Worldbuilding: Arwen reforged Narsil
Worldbuilding: Elven magic and art and technology
Worldbuilding: Late Third Age Rohan
Worldbuilding: Rohirric Elf-legends
Worldbuilding: Late Third Age Gondor
The Homecoming of Beorhtnoth Beorhthelm’s Son
Torhthelm | Totta, Tídwald | Tída
What do these two do when they're not collecting the bodies of dead lords? Alternatively, how about a time travel adventure -- how would they react to the future (or the past aka the age of LOTR or the Silm)?
Worldbuilding tags:
Worldbuilding: Torhthelm's Dream
Worldbuilding : hear the tears through the harp's twanging