Kryptontease's Letter for Fic in a Box 2021

Hello Potential Creator!

I hope you find something that inspires you in this letter. If you enjoy a less-is-more prompting style, use my AO3 signup details and throw everything else out! This letter is meant to give you a jumping off point if you’d like one. Otherwise, I’m excited to see what inspires you about these fandoms & ships. :D

The medium spotlights are opt-ins that I have a lot to say about--likes, ideas, and tutorial links if those are of interest to you. They aren’t the only mediums I’m requesting. All of my medium opt-ins can be found in the left-hand column of each fandom request. (Note: If you’re on mobile, medium opt-ins will be found before the prompts.)

Good luck & happy creating!
Kryptontease
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Requested Fandoms

Opt-In Medium Spotlights



 

General Likes

  • +   Shenanigans. I love when characters have bright ideas and then get up to No Good. I am thrilled to read about the fallout of these shenanigans. Please give me as wild a shenanigan as you want to go. Second-hand embarrassment is amazing. I love the feeling of reading through my fingers, or gently saying "oh no" when characters make Very Bad decisions.
  • +   Slow (Emotional) Burns. Characters taking a while to learn/figure out that someone else also likes them in my jam. This in no way precludes characters from having sex. In fact, I love characters who have sex--repeatedly!--and then have the emotional awareness to genuinely wonder, “do you think they could possibly like me back?”
  • +   Canons, but with sex. If I request a ship in a canon, I am 100% down to read a version of that canon’s missions, adventures, cases, or problems...but also with sex.
  • +   First times. Get-Togethers. For requested ships, I love when I get to see characters fall in love, or tumble into bed for the first time, or experience that first moment that makes them seek each other out. I am far more excited about get-togethers than established relationship fics.
  • +   Original Works that are plotty. I really enjoy when original works come with a heaping side of whatever kind of problem you want to throw at the ship or character.
  • +   Case fic (or mission fic). If you’re interested, you could write mysteries for any of the requests in this letter. I love mysteries so much. From the simple-to-solve rather mundane cases (“who ate the last of the cheese?”) to the conspiracy-spanning ones (“unicorns are actually a plot to invade this reality.”)
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Smut Likes

I consider everything on this list extremely optional. If you're interested in writing smut for the pairings I've requested, please feel free to write what you think works best. If you'd prefer just to write a kiss and then a fade-to-black, or a curtain falls, I'm very okay with that too. Most of the pairings I've requested are rare. I'd be thrilled just to read a fic where they share the same air and maybe look at each other. If you'd like some guidance on what I enjoy, please read on!
  • +   A variety of different sex acts. Frottage, Intercrural, Blowjobs, Handjobs, Fingering, Rimming, Anal Sex. Masturbation. Mutual Masturbation.
  • +   Fucking in odd semi-public places! Sex on rooftops, stairwells, bathroom stalls, abandoned buildings, vaults, dungeons, crypts, monuments, weird technological remnants of ancient civilizations are all fabulous. Characters pushed up against walls. Characters having sex in moving vehicles.
  • +   Clothing Kinks. Uniform Kink, Clothed/Unclothed.
  • +   Kinks that emphasize trust & control. Breathplay/Choking, Honor Bondage, Masks, Blindfolds & Blind masks, Pain Play, Face Slapping, Impact Play/Spanking.
  • +   Kinks that play with the border between fear & desire. Fights that become fucking. Characters that are trying to kill each other… and decide to resolve their differences by fucking instead. Anonymous sex. Identity play. Non-negotiated Kink. Kink that isn’t safe or sane.
  • +   Orgasm Denial. Edging. Ruined Orgasms. Shitty, Awful Sex. Interrupted Sex. One character falling asleep after sex. Only one character getting off.
  • +   Dubious Consent. I enjoy dubcon where both requested characters are coerced by external events/people/situations like fuck-or-die, or precursors-made-them-do-it, etc. Sex where characters aren't into it at first, but are fully onboard by the end.
  • +   Voyeurism. Sex in Semi-Public Places. One half of a ship watching the other with a third party, or by themselves.
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General Do Not Wants (DNWs)

  • -   sexual situations involving anyone younger than 16.
  • -   ageplay, de-aging or infantilization
  • -   mpreg, pregnancy, or A/B/O.
  • -   genderswaps or gender changes to requested characters.
  • -   noncon.
  • -   original characters being named Matt or Matthew.
  • -   fic that mainly focuses on characters' encounters with prejudice. This includes fic that is mainly about characters experiencing or reacting to bi-, homo-, ace- or transphobia; racism, sexism, misogyny, etc.
  • -   Unrequested Crossovers. I have a smattering of crossover requests that I like, and I've listed them in those sections.
  • -   Fauvism.
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Fandom-Specific DNWs

  •   Actual Size-Specific DNWs: Sexual content
  •   The Kiss-Specific DNWs: Animal Harm
  •   Ancient Greek Religion & Lore-Specific DNWs: For this fandom, I have only two DNWs: Teucer dying & sexual situations involving anyone younger than 16. Otherwise, none of my other general DNWs apply. Go wild!
  •   Assassin’s Creed-Specific DNWs: AUs where canonical assassins aren’t Assassins.
  •   His Greatest Adversary Yet-Specific DNWs: requested characters dying permanently, downer endings, no powers AUs
  •   Monument Valley-Specific DNWs: Gore, sexual content, Monument Valley 2 spoilers
  •   Original Work Solo Character-Specific DNWs: Gore, sexual content, requested character death
  •   Original Work Ships-Specific DNWs: sad/unhappy endings; requested character death; miscommunication plots leading to accusations of cheating/infidelity/breakups between requested characters
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Actual Size by Edward Ruscha

  • Rogue Can of Spam


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Quick, Before That Spam Gets Away!

General Likes

Ruscha pastiche • pop art that combines text & imagery • slice-of-life descriptions & illustrations • abstract & conceptual art • cans of spam getting up to shenanigans • puns • surreal, and geometric art • meta-commentary on art movements of the 20th century • art forgery & art heists • art crimes & the people who perpetrate them

The Actual Size-Specific DNWs

Sexual content

Prompts • • •

+ What is the rogue can of spam escaping from? I would love to see what the spam is escaping towards/escaping from. Can it free itself from the painting? Is it, in fact, actually-sized to a regular can of spam? What would it discover about this world it's escaped into.

+ Rogue Can of Spam Getting Up To Its Daily Life Still lifes, domestic scenes, interiors, landscapes...anything that just also happens to have a rogue can of spam in it as well would delight me basically forever.

+ Rogue Can of Spam, in a specific genre. A noir mystery, a hardboiled thriller, a soppy feel-good heartwarming story of friendship and forgiveness. Spam but medieval. Spam but in space.

+ I love crossovers for this fandom. A rogue can of spam gets loose in Among Us. The horrible goose from Untitled Goose Game encounters the spam. The spam in Monument Valley, or Journey, or Gris.

+ Casefic, with Actual Size as the stolen painting! I love art forgery and art heists. Instead of taking this painting as the canon, what if a forgery was found hanging in LACMA, and Ruscha's real Actual Size was nowhere to be found? The art thief/forger would obviously need to be caught! I’d love to read anything about this. (For example, a crossover with The Kiss would be amazing.)

+ Who is Edward Ruscha anyway? Actual Size is a self-portrait painted by the rogue can of spam. If you'd like to offer up any amount of wordcount of the Rogue Can of Spam narrating the artistic career it has had, I would be so thrilled.

Art Likes • • •

+ Many of the big 20th century art movements. Especially big favorites are cubism, Constructivism, De Stijl, Light and Space,

+ Pastiches of Edward Ruscha's other paintings, but now with a rogue can of spam on it.

+ Art that use text/typography in unusual ways.

+ Esoteric, geometric, and/or occult imagery, bonus points for artwork done in a limited palette! I love black, white (off-white or light beige), and gold artworks SO MUCH. It can be a hard style to describe, but you can find a bunch of it if you search for "geometric tattoo design". And for the visually inclined, here are some examples of this style: 1, 2, 3, 4

+ Artwork that uses surreal imagery to depict emotional states.

+ Shin Hanga-inspired scenes of domestic quietude.

+ A painting of a painter painting a painting! Go as meta as you’d like!

+ One of my fic prompts, but art. I love any and all styles that people can draw in, so don't worry if you don't want to concern yourself too much with stylistic experiments! I promise that I will love anything you might decide to art. :D

Some Opt-In Prompts • • •

+ Bestiary. Gravity-falls style notebook page(s) for the rogue can of spam would be delightful!

+ Comics. Something silly, or something serious; something experimental in style, or simple geometric shapes. I would love to see the Rogue Can of Spam going on a journey or a quest; or interacting with other artwork at a museum; or with the painter; or as a painter painting itself.

+ Warning Label or Sticker. Some art needs to come with a warning label! I love stickers that look like road signs, and dangerous/hazardous materials, and other kinds of iconic warning labels.

+ List of things (character) is not allowed to do. Rogue Cans of Spam often get themselves very banned from public places and museums alike!

+ Meta Infographic of made-up facts are one of my favorite things. Give a presentation on Actual Size and/or the Rogue Can of Spam with completely farcical facts? Yes, please! Tell me about how many crimes that can be attributed to the Rogue Can of Spam; how many attempts to escape that have been foiled; or give me a yarn about how the painting was stolen & recovered; totally fake stats for the number of people who leave actual cans of spam by the painting; or how many people hold up their hands next to the painting to pretend to be holding the can; or other kinds of (fake) data that tell me a little more about how you view the painting, or your reactions to it. What I'm not looking for are real facts...do not feel like you have to do ANY amount of research on this painting...unless that tickles you as well, and you think they'd make for a good story!



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The Kiss by Inna Ruda

  • The Man in Gold & His Cat
  • Worldbuilding: Any


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A very good Klimt pastiche of a very good cat

General Likes

Klimt pastiche • art nouveau • slice-of-life descriptions & illustrations • cat shenanigans • cats being embarrassed by their humans • abstract, surreal, and geometric art • art forgery & art heists • Cats living in a magical realism world where they can pretty much do whatever they want, talk if they want to, but they keep up the appearances around humans

The Kiss-Specific DNWs

Animal Harm

Prompts • • •

+ The Cat Acts Out To Get Kisses. I would love to see some Cat Shenanigans that are clearly aimed at earning the kisses they so clearly desire from their owner.

+ The Cat is getting punished with kisses. The cat takes care of the Man in Gold, keeps him company, makes sure his food isn’t poisoned, keeps his pillow warm (and his face too, when he’s asleep). And what does the cat get for his service? KISSES. Augh.

+ Casefic, but with cats! I love art forgery and art heists. Instead of taking this painting as the canon, what if it’s a forgery that’s found hanging one day in the Austrian Gallery Belvedere instead of Klimt’s real The Kiss? The art thief/forger is obviously begging to be caught! I’d love to read anything about this. (For example, is the cat in the painting the forger’s cat? How do they feel about being dragged into Art Crime?)

+ The Kiss is a self-portrait painted by the cat. Magical realism cat starts to paint portraits and leave them in the studio of their down-on-their-luck human! How does the “Man in Gold” react when he sees the painting? Does he attempt to sell it? Take credit for the artwork himself? I’d love anything about this, including the cat and the man in gold being duelling artists or art-world nemeses.

Art Likes • • •

+ Grumpy cats gettin’ smooches.

+ Klimt pastiches of all kinds!

+ The grumpy cat as an odalisque

+ Art Nouveau & Art Deco & Symbolist Styles and Paintings.

+ Shin Hanga-inspired scenes of domestic quietude.

+ Color palettes from the painting.

+ Gold. Gold foil. Gold leaf. Interference gold. Gold of all types. I love how this painting is dripping with it. Yellows, oranges, golds, are a favorite, especially when combined with violets & magentas!

+ Other famous paintings, but feat. a cat! Jacques Louis David, but a cat!

+ What would this cat paint, anyway?I’d love to see a series of small paintings that the cat did. Or collections of things they found. Or what cat-sized art supplies would look like. Where would it have to hide its little studio?

Some Opt-In Prompts & Likes • • •

+ Emoji. THAT CAT FACE would make a perfect emoji. Or cat+gold rays! A cat smooch emoji? I love and need all of the smooches, hugs, and pets that emojis could bear. I love a good abstract emoji too, so if you feel inspired to make something, please make it for me.

+ Interactive fic about cat things, or paintings! Outsmarting my enemies! Time-loops. Collecting paintings, or lost items around the house. Cat vs. The Man In Gold. Will Cat be able to outsmart owner, and escape the punishment kisses?

+ Isometric Rooms/Cityscapes. I would love to see the Klimt aesthetic brought to life as a room. Maybe the cat's room is an art studio? Maybe it's dripping with gold. What's the view like from the cat's home? I love things like Neko Atsume, so if you'd like to do a Neko Atsume-style house for the cat, I'd probably love you forever.

+ Mandala. Go as abstract or as concrete as you'd like! I love zentangles and color fields and geometric shapes as well as more traditionally-styled mandala.

+ Tarot Card. The grumpy cat as one of your favorite tarot cards? That grumpy face as the magician? Or perhaps the man as the hermit?? I dig the Rider-Waite-Smith and also Labyrinthos's deck designs. I love new takes on well-worn tarot imagery. And I also love minimal tarot decks (like this one!). Tarot likes include Dragon Age-inspired Tarot artwork, geometric and esoteric symbols. Artwork that uses surreal imagery to depict emotional states. If you have other decks that you love, please feel free to be inspired by them!



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Ancient Greek Religion & Lore

  • Ajax the Greater/Teucer
  • Teucer son of Telamon

  • Requesting:
  • Fiction
  • Fanart
  • Costume Design
  • Poetry: Alliterative Long Line
  • Poetry: Narrative Poem
  • Maps

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The War at Troy is a terrible place to discover love; it’s a much better place to discover dirtybadwrong sex.

General Likes

Homeric similes • The Battle at Troy • slice-of-life descriptions & illustrations • Red Figure Pottery • Badass Archery • Spoils of War • Competitions between the Acheans because you can’t always be fighting Troy • Teucer “canonical bastard” son of Telamon also being a bastard in the interpersonal sense too

Ancient Greek Religion & Lore-Specific DNWs

For this fandom, I have only two DNWs: Teucer dying & sexual situations involving anyone younger than 16. Otherwise, none of my other general DNWs apply. Go wild!

Prompts • • •

+ Archery competitions!. A fic that focuses on Teucer's archery, or some really cool feat that he pulled off… whether canon or completely made up, I’d love either!

+ Downtime during the Trojan war. Teucer and Ajax, or Teucer and Odysseus, or Teucer and (insert your Iliad fave here) just hanging out talking about the exploits.

Ship & Character-Specific Prompts • • • (click a box to expand!)


+ Ajax the Greater/Teucer Ajax and Teucer were both sons of Telamon, though Teucer was a bastard and illegitimate son. You could write any kind of backstory for them that you find plausible. Were they raised together? Separately? Did they know about each other when they were children, or did they only meet during the war. I have to admit, I'm a sucker for "they only met when they were both in Troy" narrative, because that makes for some juicy angst. But I leave those choices in your capable hands!

Prompts, if you'd like some!

+ Ajax/Teucer First time(s). I would love to see a fanwork that tackles Ajax and Teucer only becoming close/intimate while they are fighting together at Troy. Teucer uses Ajax’s great shield as protection during battle, and the other fighters, when they’re in need, think of Ajax and Teucer as a unit. You can’t have one without the other.

+ Any shippy tropes you can think of! Healing cock. Soulbonds. Fake relationship(s). Heats. Time travel. Journeying to the afterlife to save your lover.

+ Plot that is basically just porn setups! What if: Ajax got captured by Trojan soldiers who were outside of the city gates, and he was being held in a temple in a neighboring forest. Teucer having to come rescue him! Oh no, Ajax is blindfolded and tied up. What if Teucer decided to take advantage of this. I love masks, blindfolds, blind masks, bondage, identity play, deception, dubcon, and characters having sex under duress (that they come to enjoy as they are having it). I especially love it if Ajax is ashamed of/humiliated by his arousal. :D

+ Smut, as kinky as you’d like to go. Teucer’s had a close brush with death on the battlefield, and now Ajax is worked up. PWP is absolutely awesome. :D Smut likes: fight sex, rough sex, angry sex, destroying things during sex, anal sex, odd things being used as lube, frottage, handjobs, intercrural, all of the emotional baggage that Ancient Greek societies put on top/bottom roles, body worship, possessiveness, jealousy, Ajax attempting to humiliate Teucer for being a bastard, dirty talk, orgasm denial, impact play, knife play, breathplay/choking.

+ Sex Pollen, either dubcon or noncon. What doesn’t get fucked up when one of the Greek gods has a vendetta? Did Ajax accidentally violate a temple, or disrespect a god while he’s sacking Troy? Result: Ajax is sex pollen’d, and he’ll die if he doesn’t fuck someone. If you take this prompt in a noncon direction, I’d love the heck out of dubcon/noncon happening between Teucer and Ajax, rather than other characters.

+ Teucer son of Telamon Teucer being a badass archer during the Trojan War is one of my single favorite things in all of Western literature. I love anything to do with his archery, during battle, or when he's repairing his bow, or fletching arrorws, or as above: competing for prizes! I love all of the contests of strength versus skill to win a prize captured from Troy narratives that happen during the Iliad! I would love to have a series of events that are devised to go to the strongest, and then Teucer outsmarts his half-brother using Archery™.

Other prompt ideas:

+ Teucer returning home after the Trojan War, only to be banished for his half-brother’s death. A fic that focuses on Teucer’s life after Troy would be amazing. How does he deal with his grief over Ajax’s death, when he’s blamed for it?

+ Canon Divergence with a side-order of Major Character Death! What if: Ajax didn’t kill himself after he lost his mind and slaughtered the cattle? What if Agamemnon (or the Gods) tasked Teucer with killing his half-brother? BRING ON THE ANGST.

+ Any AU where Teucer is still an archer Seriously, as long as Teucer still shoots things with a bow, I’m golden.

Poetry Likes • • •

+ Alliteration. I love alliterative long line poetry from middle English.

+ Homeric similes.

+ If you enjoy the challenge of writing in meter, I enjoy epic meter (dactylic hexameter).

+ However, neither alliterative, nor epic meter is strictly required if you want to tackle poetry for me. I'm open to a range of poetic forms, as long as they capture narrative movement of some sort!

+ If you'd like to get a sense of what kind of poetry I like, The Shield of Achilles by W.H. Auden is one of my favorite poems.

Art Likes • • •

+ Red figure pottery. Black Figure Pottery is also rad!

+ Artwork that uses surreal imagery to depict emotional states.

+ E-rated art. Stylized pubic hair.

+ Tile mosaics.

+ Greek & Roman ornaments/border decorations.

+ Pillars! Crumbling or otherwise!

+ Kisses. Scenes of high emotion.

+ Hangin’ out with dick(s) out.

+ ARCHERY. Teucer with his bow. Teucer shooting his bow..

+ Teucer hiding behind Ajax’s shield during battle.



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Assassin's Creed

  • Ezio Auditore/Desmond Miles
  • Bayek/Solar Deity
  • Bayek

  • Requesting:
  • Fiction
  • Fanart
  • In-Universe Personal Documents
  • Recursive Fic of Any of My Fic
  • Ship Manifesto (the relationship kind)
  • Tarot Card
  • Mandala
  • Maps

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Meeting people! Making friends! Murdering them! Or, Get Assassins A Boyfriend 2k21

General Likes

Adventure fic • thievery and heists • historical settings & details • time travel • precursor tech • religion vs. science • Bayek and Ezio exploring temples unfathomably older than they are • deserts and oases • identity play & identity porn • solar deities and solar imagery • Egyptian architecture & art motifs

Assassin's Creed-Specific DNWs

AUs where canonical assassins aren’t Assassins.

General Prompts • • •

+ Trapped in a Precursor Vault. As you might have gathered, I love Precursor stuff. The precursor vaults in AC: Ezio trilogy were fantastic, and would love to see more precursor vaults. More vaults in Italy, or in Ancient Egypt. The ones that Bayek encountered didn’t seem to want anything from him, but what if he later found one of Juno or Minerva’s science experiments? Give me jumping puzzles! Give me all of the parkour in historical spaces!

+ Traveling across the Mediterraean. I would love post-canon fic where Bayek shows up in Rome and gets caught up in further developments in Roman history. Or post-canon fic where Ezio is traveling back to Italy from Masyaf. Or when he leaves Spain at the end of AC: Brotherhood, and returns to Italy. Just any amount of scenic adventures on a boat/traveling through the region.

+ The Solar Barque. Bayek dreams of fighting Apep the soul eater on an empty solar barque, that should have seated Ra and his defenders. Where were the gods? Have they abandoned their duties? Been killed? Been defeated by Apep? I would love to read a fic about this for just Bayek like it is in the game, or any of his nominated pairings. Does Bayek have to take up the fight against Apep again? Who might he meet while he’s in the Duat? Does this fight continue a thousand plus years later? What if Ezio and Desmond had to find their way to the solar barque to fight Apep? What would they think about confronting Egyptian god(s)?

+ Time Travel. Add a little time travel to anything, and I love it. Bayek transported back to the construction of the Pyramids? Bayek transported forward in time?? Desmond Miles, my perennial fave, traveling through time back to Renaissance Italy while he’s trying to (or already has) saved the world. Ezio ends up in modern-day Monteriggioni when Desmond travels there with Lucy, Shawn, and co? I especially love when time travel happens in a shippy context (one party is transported to the other's time, then has to make the decision to stay or go). Feel free to go as tropey as you like. :D

Ship & Character-Specific Prompts • • • (click a box to expand!)


+ Ezio Auditore/Desmond Miles. Something funky has to go down to make this ship happen; thankfully, there’s ancient Precursor tech, the Apple of Eden, and the Eye all ready to make that happen. I’m so curious about how Ezio would take Desmond, who may or may not be obviously out of time...but definitely anomalous in some way, shape, or form.

I’m really excited to learn more about time travel and to see characters struggling with communication barriers, but if those aren't your jam, feel free to completely handwave the time travel and/or communication issues as stuff that Precursor tech allowed to happen, or that Desmond learned Italian through the Animus, and get on with the Feels.

Here are two men who’ve spent a great deal of their lives (or in Desmond’s case, borrowed life), exploring the consequences of vengeance. Neither of them thought their lifepath was going to be one in the shadows. I’d be really excited to read about these two characters connecting.

I would also COMPLETELY love tropey romance. That stuff is my lifeblood. Fake/pretend relationships, accidental soulbonding, AUs that make Ezio and Desmond a little more proximate to each other (but they’re still assassins), Pride and Prejudice (+Assassins) AUs...all of that would be amazing. Not to mention stuff like mistaken-for-an-angel fic. Accidentally-became-an-angel fic. Wingfic.

I've requested this pairing quite a bit in past exchanges. If you'd like to read more prompts, you can find them here.

+ Bayek/Solar Deity. In AC:Origins, Bayek tracks a story of Apollo in the Halo of the Huntress, and an oracle gave a prophecy to Bayek… and this got me thinking. Who else was hot enough to be beloved of the Sun? The Eagle and the Sun are an iconic duo. Please go with the Solar deity of your choosing for this one! I am a fan of warriors falling for gods who aren’t from their pantheon, but I’m open to whatever ideas move you. Slow burn romances are good, but I’m also just into characters that set their sights on fucking the sun.

+ Bayek. Give me all of those canon feels. Character studies. Action-adventure fic. The Cat Petting Simulator aspect of AC:Origins. (Seriously, when you get into scritching position, you can attract SO MANY CATS.) I’m here for all of it!

One of the recurring questions I've had when playing this game is...How come Bayek doesn’t react to any of the first civilization stuff? Whenever Bayek encounters a message from the Precursors at the Siwa Temple, he acts pretty dang chill for someone watching old technology doing its thing. I’d be interested in a fic that delves into why does Bayek finds it completely normal (he’s desensitized to its wonders due to his grief over his son; or he thinks the gods are communicating something to someone else) or why he doesn’t find it normal, but still remains low-key about it (he thinks the gods are trying to communicate to him and doesn’t care about it while he’s still clouded with vengeance?). I’d love to delve into his relationship with the Precursors. Maybe he does think of them, but only after he finds peace for his son? Anything you might like to write that explores Bayek and the precursors (or gods!) would be fabulous.

And if that's not your speed, and you'd like to serve me up Bayek masturbating sadly in the desert. I will never say no to that. ♥

Art Likes • • •

+ Bayek smooching a grumpy cat. :D

+ E-rated art for my requested ships! If you'd like to see more of my smut likes, I'd be thrilled to see any of these arted!

+ Ancient Egyptian Art & Motifs. Ptolemaic Egyptian Art & Motifs. Renaissance Italy Art & Motifs.

+ Bayek, Ezio, or Desmond in the Assassin’s hood.

+ Isu Armor! I love the facemask, the glowing bits, the everything about it.

+ If you’re into it, PLEASE GIVE BAYEK A CHOCOBO THAT LOOKS RIGHT. The chocobo from AC:Origins gives me nightmares. D:

+ Shin Hanga-inspired scenes of domestic quietude.

+ Gold and black artworks. Gold foil. Gold leaf. Interference gold. Gold of all types. Yellows, oranges, golds, are a favorite, especially when combined with black and sometimes some accenting white or violets.

+ One of my fic prompts, but art.

Some Opt-in Prompts & Likes • • •

+ In-Universe Personal Documents. AC gives us a world positively filled with documents. Please feel free to stuff these characters' lives full of notes, memos, recollections, letters, histories, genelogies, financial transations, poems, commonplace books, papyri, memoirs, journals, diaries, to-do lists, or anything else you think would be interesting for these characters. A sketchbook or ledger that Ezio' keeps. Desmond's diary. Scrolls or wax tablets that Bayek keeps. (NB: I adore the history of writing surfaces, and the transition from scrolls to codices. However you don't have to do any historical research if that doesn't tickle your fancy! Don't feel that you have to rely solely on historical accuracy. Anything at any time is my motto.)

+ Maps. I love all of the maps we see in canon (both in-universe, and the ones we see in-game/in the Animus). Codex page maps. Treasure maps that Ezio has purchased from a vendor. Maps to hidden objects. Maps of where to buy the best art in Italy. I also love maps about a ship, like a travel map that has little handwritten notes about each location they stayed at, and where the character(s) met with happiness or misfortune. I just really love looking at maps. :D :D :D

+ Recursive fic of my fic. My AC works. As of the writing of this letter, I have only one fic published for AC. If it sparks anything for you, I'd love to read any sequels, prequels, reimaginings, or other kinds of work you have for it!

+ Ship Manifesto (the relationship kind) for either of my requested ships would be fabulous. Ezio/Desmond is a ship whose appeal can be hard to explain to people; and Bayek/Solar Deity is even a little more off the wall. I'd love to read the reasons why YOU think these ships are compelling. Likewise, I love the way that meta helps me reconnect with ships that I love. And, heck, you don't have to talk about why the whole ship should be shipped, if you don't want to. You could just start with whatever serious (or bonkers!) proposition that you think is a worthwhile place to start talking, and then spin me a yarn about it. One of my favorite pieces of fandom meta ever written is this, so pls know that whatever off-the-cuff thought you have, I'd love to hear it.

+ Tarot card versions of requested characters, especially using imagery from the Precursor/Isu tech, Apples of Eden, or the solar barque dream. Ezio holding the world in one hand and an Apple of Eden in the other? Desmond and his destroyed arm from AC 3? One of my ship requests as The Lovers? DESMOND AS THE TEN OF SWORDS??? Bayek holding his gold shining heart outside of his bloody body. I’M INTO IT.



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His Greatest Adversary Yet

  • Maxwell Missing/Joseph Nayar
  • Maxwell Missing
  • Joseph Nayar
  • Hexbeast

  • Requesting:
  • Fiction
  • Fanart
  • Any In-Universe Documents That Fit the Canon Setting
  • Comics
  • Conspiracy Board
  • Costume Design
  • In-Universe r/AmITheAsshole Post
  • List of Things (Character) is Not Allowed To Do
  • Location Interior Design
  • Pin-up Poster of Character
  • Playing Card
  • Propaganda Poster
  • Weapon Schematics
  • Coloring Page
  • In-Universe Infographic
  • Isometric Rooms/Cityscapes
  • Maps

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If "so this is where I've chosen to lay my affection" was a canon

General Likes

Uniforms • heists & mission fic • slice-of-life descriptions & illustrations • drawings & descriptions of rooms, labs, towers, and other locations • Max's past crimes • Hexbeat's past crimes • the social side of being a supervillain • identity porn, identity play and identity reveals • get-together fic • Happy or at least hopeful endings • Babbage • Warden Tower

His Greatest Adversary Yet-Specific DNWs

Requested characters dying permanently, downer endings, no powers AUs

Prompts • • •

+ Coffee Date! How will Joseph conceal his identity from EVERYONE ELSE ON THE PLANET (or at least from this rooftop bar) so he can have a casual date with Max? What the heck is Joseph going to say to Max once he confronts him, knowing he's Doctor Nowhere?

+ Casefic. How I love nothing more than cases or crimes and the supervillains that cause them and the superheroes that try to solve them. I'd adore some casefic or mission fic for this canon, possibly set before His Greatest Adversary Yet. I love characters crossing paths before they officially "meet" in canon, even if they don't come face-to-face. What if one of Hexbeast & Max's early heists had been of sensitive scientific equipment that got the Wardens on their case? What if Joseph thought he was going to solve an easy case during some of his downtime, only to end up stumped at the end? (I enjoy canon divergence and AUs in addition to canon-compliant fic, so if want to have Max and Joseph meet, that would be amazing.)

+ Any idea that you have for this canon. If there are other tantalizing details that you'd like to pull out of the story, I'd be thrilled to know more about them/see art of them! Like we get all of these mentions of stuff happening in space, but it seems so far-off and remote to the average citizen. And then, bam, a space ship shows up to steal the Pacific Ocean. I'd love to see snippets, scenes, comics, or artworks of Joseph and/or Max reacting to these crises and/or saving the day, as the case may be!

Character & Ship-Specific Prompts • • • (click a box to expand!)


+ Maxwell Missing/Joseph Nayar.

Yes, hello, I would like to introduce you to Maxwell Missing/Joseph Nayar. Joseph Nayar is the Beacon, a retired superhero who has left the whole world guessing what happened to him when he suddenly disappears. He's like Captain America and Superman all rolled up into one. He can project barriers and walls in various shapes, and so far, has never met a match for his powers. Maxwell Missing is the bank robber who can walk through walls and almost bested the Beacon, one time. They're not nemeses. Max is pretty clear on that. Except for the part where he built a gun just to kill the Beacon, should they ever meet again.

Except they DO meet again. And it goes wildly different than Max could have ever expected.

I love this ship, and want the best things for them. I would enjoy shipfic or gen fic for Joseph and Max. I'd love to read basically anything you'd like to write about them and any and all art you might like to make of them.

I've given some specific prompts up above with accord with canon, but I'm also 100% down for tropey superhero nonsense. Fake dating! Joseph returns to the Wardens and now has to keep his relationship with Doctor Nowhere a secret! Supervillains saving their favorite superheroes! Maxwell Missing going to a welcome-back soiree thrown in honor of The Beacon and them running off to neck in the closet! Maxwell Missing infiltrating the Wardens? Or DEXA?

If you want to give me a remix on canon, that would be lovely too. What if Max and Joseph had met under different circumstances? What if they'd met earlier in their careers? WHAT IF TIME TRAVEL?? I'm here for all of it.

Possible Prompts:

+ Conspiracy Boards. What if, when Max was snooping around Joseph's house, he found a conspiracy board that was trying to track down Doctor Nowhere's identity? How would that have played out? Would Max have tried to plant false leads? Or perhaps be incensed if Joseph was attributing crimes to him that he didn't commit/overlooking the ones that he did?

+ Canon divergence What if Joseph and Max's first confrontation had ended--not in a maze to a sleeping-gas grenade--but to Joseph himself? What if Joseph had decided to retire because he had an inadvisable hookup with a supervillain who's face he never saw?

+ Coffee date but with an Identity Porn swerve! Joseph does NOT know that Max is Doctor Nowhere when he offers to see him at the Watchtower. What the hell happens if Joseph finds out when they're literally out on the town together, and a minor supervillain crashes their fun?

+ Maxwell Missing. So we get to see Max's crisis of (sexuality, supervillainness?, his own ability to hold a conversation??) in canon, but we don't get to see much of his history prior to this revelation. What drove Max to crime? Why did he choose crime over literally anything else? I'd love to hear more about his thoughts on The Deep, or what he'd like to do when he's there. Dream narratives are amazing.

I'm also a huge sucker for crafting. Wanna just show us what Max is making in his underground lair? I'm all for it. I love schematics, drawings of item collections, drawings of a workbench, plans or sketches or fully rendered interiors. You name it. I'd love to see more of Max's world!

+ Joseph Nayar. Give me any and/or all of those little vignettes about his life. His big save from the tsunami. Character studies of him with his adoptive brother & sister. A mission of him leading the Wardens. What made him so goddamn successful for 30ish years? I want to see more of that. Or, heck, something much more domestic! Joseph Nayar was a quasi-military man for three decades of his life. Max saw all of the tell-tale signs of a man who doesn't know what to do with his life now that he's "retired". So tell me all about it, if you want! I love slice of life domestic fic. I'd also just love to see where Joseph is living. I'm such a fan of modern architecture. I'd love to get a glimpse inside of his cabin. See the things on his desk(s) or lack thereof. See his pottery experiments.

The very unsuccessful identity stuff that Joseph is attempting...I'd love to see him try to meet up with a pottery group. It would probably have to be a VERY murky setting. Or maybe, some really thick sunglasses. xD

And if you want to serve me up Joseph riled up from his meeting with Max, I'd love to see what the heck he got up to before he received Max's call. Sad/angry/frustrated masturbating? Yes please. :D :D :D

Possible Prompts:

+ Temporary De-powering! What if Joseph's retirement had been caused by a temporary loss of his powers? How would his six months in solitude have looked differently? I love narratives about superheroes trying to regain their powers, especially if they don't quite understand the source of where their power comes from.

+ Hexbeast doesn't get the hugest amount of screentime in canon (okay, we only get a couple mentions of her), but she has such an outsized influence on my enjoyment of His Greatest Adversary Yet. She's one of those tantalizing characters that exists mostly as worldbuilding. I'd love to have her backstory explored, if you're down for it!

Possible Prompts:

+ Pre-canon heist(s). Hexbeast and Max and Mercury Man got up to some shit prior to canon, of that I am sure. Anything about their pre-canon crimes would be great!.

+ Attending crime soirees. One of my favorite things about superhero media is those ever-present parties, charity balls, soirees, dos, dedications and all of the other kinds of parties that get thrown. So what if those, but for the supervillain world? What would a supervillain social calendar even look like? Does Hexbeast score the invites to a supervillain showing off their latest Warden-thwarting piece of technology? Please, write me anything about this.

Art Likes • • •

+ Tarot or Oracle Card-inspired artworks. This is such a fun trend in Dragon Age: Inquisition art, and this would be RAD AS HELL here.

+ Faves in knitwear. Sweaters. Ugly sweaters. Cozy Sweaters. Christmas Sweaters. Fair Isle Sweaters. Yeah, idk, I just love characters in knitted or crocheted items. If you're familiar with any of the images that were being shared in the #cursed channel on the We Die Like Fen Discord, that's exactly my jam. If you weren't there, here is a sampling: 1, 2, 3, 4.

+ E-rated artwork. Anything involving any of my smut likes would be amazing.

+ Princess carry poses. Joseph rescuing Max? Max rescuing Joseph??

+ Joseph's blue glowing barriers.

+ the DEEP :D

+ TRAINING MONTAGE. Max doing parkour! Hexbeast slapping things with her tentacles! How does Joseph get in shape?? Superhero/supervillain training montages are awesome.

+ Hexbeast's scribbly neon eyes that float around her. Seriously, she is so cool. I'd love to see some character art of Hexbeast (tentacles visible or not is up to you!)

+ Isometric interiors of canon locations (drawn, voxels, 3D--however you'd like to make 'em!) I would love to see the interior of Joseph's cabin in the woods; or Max's fancy abandoned subway hideout. Maybe a section of Warden Tower? It's described as being very art-deco-y, and I'd love to see more of it!

Some Opt-In Ideas • • •

+ Any In-Universe Documents That Fit The Setting. I'm so hungry for worldbuilding details. Want to make mission reports, or complaint forms for the Wardens? In-universe magazine spreads during the frenzy of speculation about what happened to the Blue Beacon? Tabloid stories about the Beacon and what he's been up to? Please feel free to go wild!

+ Conspiracy Board. Joseph's conspiracy board about Doctor Nowhere's identity or crimes? Max's conspiracy board about what DEXA is doing with its Joseph-replacements. Some other fan's conspiracy board about Hexbeast's & Max's heists. An in-universe celeb watcher who TOTALLY knows what's happened to Joseph that none of the other networks would report??? There are so many possibilities in this setting. A superhero universe practically begs for weird, pet theories! Feel free to get as bizarre as you'd like.

+ Costume Design. A labcoat-inspired costume for Max, perhaps? Or a very trim tunic-like costume for Joseph? We get some descriptions about what they look like in canon, but I'd love to see the villain and/or hero aesthetic realized on the page!

+ In-Universe Infographic. Infographics about Joseph's superheroing career, or infographics about the crimes/disasters that the Wardens have averted during and after Joseph's leadership of the Wardens. Infographics about crime committed in the city? Where DOES all of Max's money end up. I'm not saying that Max would be vain enough to make infographics about his own crimes, but, well, he sure does have a lot of free time. xD

+ Maps that characters might have drawn at various points in canon. Maps to Joseph's "grave"; Map to or of Echo Lake, with helpful annotations. Maps from one of Hexbeast's heists. Max drawing a map of how he commits a crime. Serious, funny, silly maps are all welcome.

+ Playing Card. Warden themed playing cards? Villains and Superheroes as suits? I adore playing card design, so I'd be curious to see which cards you see each character as.

+ Weapon Schematics. Schematics to Max's phase educer. He sure went through a lot of trouble to make a weapon to kill the Beacon. I wonder what the annotations would look like on the schematics, before Max understood just how thirsty he was for him.



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Monument Valley

  • Princess Ida & Totem
  • Princess Ida
  • Crows
  • Totem
  • Worldbuilding: Any


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Space-defying optical illusions in a lush isometric world

General Likes

sacred geometry • puzzles • slice-of-life descriptions & illustrations • gentle sunsets • voxel/hexel/isometric descriptions & artwork • characters sitting on totems • levels that feature rain & stormy seas • phases of the moon • Ida’s journey for forgiveness

Monument Valley-Specific DNWs

Gore, sexual content, Monument Valley 2 spoilers

Prompts • • •

+ Using the level titles as jumping-off points for a story. "In which Ida embarks on a quest for forgiveness" is one of my favorites. Once Ida decides to embark on the quest for forgiveness, she goes at it pretty hard. What is driving her towards her goal? Who does she need forgiveness from? The storyteller? The crows? Herself? Someone else?

+ "How far have you wandered, silent princess?" What has Princess Ida been doing for all of the years that she has been punished for stealing the sacred geometry? Why did she steal the sacred geometry from Monument Valley in the first place? Was there something she wished to achieve with it? Any amount of pre-canon speculation that you'd like to do is wonderful. Was Princess Ida using the Sacred Geometry to fight surreal battles that the Storyteller or the world-that-passed in Monument Valley wouldn't understand?

+ How do the level screens interact with the game? The level screens are these lovely intricate abstract buildings/temples. If you're interested in metafiction, or the way that game mechanics translate into the world of the game, I'd love to know more -- are these temples to the memory of Ida's journey that others (in-universe) can experience? Are the temples memories that Ida keeps locked inside of her? Are they physical places that Ida can visit in Monument Valley, before they send her to the space-defying puzzles?

+ What are the sacred geometry? Why did Ida need them so much that she stole them? Are the sacred geometry things, or are they sapient? Did they have any type of feelings about being stolen? Did they convince Ida to return them to the temples?

+ Post-canon stories! Stories from the perspective of the crows would be wonderful. The "thieving princess" chose to steal the sacred geometry, and the crows were punished with her crime. What was their perspective on Ida's quest for forgiveness? How do the crows feel now that Princess Ida has lifted the curse? Are they willing to welcome her back?

Art Likes • • •

+ Art that use text/typography in unusual ways. I also just dig the type design in the game itself. Incorporating that into a comic would be amazing.

+ Surreal or emotional journeys.

+ Abstract art.

+ Characters staring into a beautiful sunset.

+ Color palettes from the game; limited color palettes.

+ Small character moments. Princess Ida dangling her feet off of a Totem? Princess Ida alone in the Hidden Temple?

+ Artworks where you play around with time/space/viewer expectations. Where's Waldo, Monument Valley edition? I'm into it!

+ Title Screen or Level-Picker or Level Complete inspired art.

+ Art styles reminiscent of Land's End. I recently learned that the maker of MV created a VR game! Want to fuse these two together, please go wild!

Some Opt-In Prompts & Likes • • •

+ Isometric Rooms/Cityscapes and Location Interior Design. New levels & Reinterpretations of canon levels are equally amazing!! Have you ever wanted to try drawing your own Monument valley level? I'd love to see it! Do you think that one of the original levels would have been perfect with different colors? Or if a daytime level would look lovelier at night and vice-versa? GO FOR IT. I love the isometric space twisting of this game, and its haunting symmetry.

+ Maps. What does the Monument Valley look like from a bird’s eye view? Any style of map would be amazing. World maps. Isometric maps. Super Mario World pastiche maps. Explorer Maps. Allegorical Maps. Treasure Maps. An in-universe style map.

+ Tarot Cards, Lenormand or Oracle Card-inspired artworks. This is such a fun trend in Dragon Age: Inquisition art, and this would be RAD AS HELL here. I love Labyrinthos's decks and how they spark similar feelings as Monument Valley's artwork. Minimal or maximal art would be amazing, as would recasting parts of MV as locations in Tarot. (One of the levels as The Tower????)

+ Online Dress-Up Game. I love picrews!! Especially picrews of...unusual dress-up varieties. I love this bus stop picrew. Dress-up game for the totem? Dress up game for the totem where it gets to wear crows? Where the crows get to wear little hats?? This doesn't have to be very canon-compliant. I just like combining things. A tiny level picrew where you give me a cube and I get to dress it up with crenellations and a turret or a little door or a wallpaper/pattern or some crow friends would be so amazing.

+ Coat of Arms. I probably have too many things to say about crests. Any of the factions in MV getting a crest, coat of arms, or logo would be fabulous. I love armorials, where the crest is presented with the person's name (or other information) in a book.

+ Typeface Design. Love, love love the title design for this game. Elegant sans-serifs with a little bit of whimsy? YES PLEASE. Big likes include: geometric sans serifs, slab serifs, handwriting fonts, comic lettering fonts, fonts that have a lot of character because the letterforms are handdrawn instead of being constructed from box or line tools. Wanna give me a font that is the Crow's writing to each other? Or letters that the totem would draw into the ground by sliding in very prescribed ways? A typeface that is Princess Ida's hand? A typeface made up of a series of warning signs and symbols that you create for this world for people to warn about the dangers in Monument Valley? Yes, yes, and yes.



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Original Work: Solo

  • Garbage-Tier Magical Item
  • A Cute Frog of Your Choosing
  • Questing Knight Who Encounters Increasingly Deadly Traps When He Seeks Accommodations


Hard times don’t last. Cute creatures do.

General Likes

Shenanigans • solving puzzles • treasure chests full of shiny objects/loot • slice-of-life descriptions & illustrations • gentle sunsets • voxel/hexel/isometric descriptions & artwork • characters sitting on high places (bridges, cliffs, houses, etc) • rain & stormy seas (and the undersea life that is affected by neither) • phases of the moon • Large, dusty tomes • cute animals • characters who are trapped in dangerous situations • For characteres whose genders aren't specified, I love reading fic about all genders & identities • prefer they/them pronouns for NB characters

Original Work Ships-Specific DNWs

Gore, sexual content, requested character death.

General Prompts • • •

+ Time travel! Someone gets stranded out-of-time, and they have to find their way back home. I enjoy quests to return home, adventures in far-away times or places, and general wonderment (and fear) that such a journey might create.

+ Magical realism! Where the world is more magical and unusual that the one that we come from. Frogs can opine about the bad weather and plan for a new Frog Home.

+ Straight up Magic. What if a garbage-tier magical item came into the Queseting Knight's life? What if a questing knight just wanted to get a nice night’s rest, but kept being besieged by beds with spring-loaded axes, magical enchantments, and extremely inconvenient doppelgangers trying to steal his life? I’d love to read a magic-is-real adventure, and where it might take the protagonist.

+ Crossovers between Solo Character tags! If any of these solo characters seem like they’d have a great story if they met, I’d love it! Could the garbage-tier magical item help or harm the the knight? What if they started journeying together? Would the knight wonder if it was safer to get rid of the garbage tier magical item after the knight befell increasingly elaborate traps?

+ Bestiary. I love compendiums of creatures, with or without pictures. The many types of garbage-tier magical items that seem to flourish in dungeons, no matter how many of them you clear out? The kinds of traps that can be found in your local inns, nbd, it's just the old sword-over-the-bed-to-prove-that-you're-worthy inn?

Character-Specific Prompts • • • (click a character to expand!)


+ Garbage-Tier Magical Item. Give me your crappiest, most garbage-worthy magical items. Find one that you like at a random item generator? I'd love to hear about how it helped (or failed someone) in a dangerous situation.

Maybe the garbage tier magical item will eventually be eaten by a mimic, who will be very happy with it.

Setting ideas: Fantasy, urban fantasy, anything that you think would be spruced up by a little magic!

For this request, I enjoy books, orbs, knives, spears, cloaks, journal entries, epistolary fic.

+ A Cute Frog of Your Choosing.

Please send this cute frog on an adventure! I enjoy magical realism adventures (as magical as you'd like to go; anywhere from "frog needs to learn a new skil at Frog School" to "a frog has to discover the source of the scouring heat and journeys to/befriends the sun"). Please feel free to shoot that frog into space, or have that frog pull on a suit of armor, or send that frog to discover a forgotten library to deal with its Frog Problems.

This prompt lends itself well to non-fic mediums as well as fic. I adore frogs however you would present them. As emojis, fanart, in coloring pages. Frog maps of the best ponds. Frog maps of all of the refreshing places to hide around a house. (on top of door bells, in mailboxes, in the drip pan of an air conditioner. :D)

Prompt-specific likes:

+ Questing Knight Who Encounters Increasingly Deadly Traps When He Seeks Accommodation.

(This prompt is inspired in part by the Arthurian tale The Knight of the Cart, where Lancelot experienced harsh treatment from his hosts and an assortment of deadly traps beds that he wasn't supposed to sleep in.)

For this prompt, I'd enjoy reading about a knight just wanting to get a decent night's sleep, and finds himself beset by deadly traps.

I'd also enjoy reading about a knight who wants a decent night's sleep BUT ALSO has not a lick of sense in him, and he constantly chooses to sleep in forbidden places/cursed beds/hostile courts and wonders why LIFE IS SO HARD FOR HIM.

I'd also be interested in a knight has made some small, innocuous gaffe and it follows him around wherever he goes and leads to PROBLEMS SLEEPING. (e.g. he sits in the wrong chair in court, and now suddenly people are lining up to murder or imprison him for the ruler's honor.)

Any permutation on this prompt would be wonderful to read. :D

Traps could be realistic ones, magical ones. They could be set by his enemies who are trying to keep him from his ultimate goal (rescuing a queen? discovering a captured fairy knight?). The knight could be specifically cursed by something he chose to do.

If you want to draw inspiration from Arthurian works, I'm a huge fan of Chrétien de Troyes, Marie de France, the Gawain Poet, Mark Twain, Tennyson. If you want to draw on a historical canon for ideas, please stay away from crossing over with other canons. I'm interested in original characters/worlds. (Crossovers with other nominated solo characters are still okay!) I'm here for a knight in a world of your creation. If you want to do historical research for this prompt, I'm here for that too. Though none is required at all. I enjoy invented detail as much as historical detail! :D

Art Likes • • •

+ Any of my art likes from previous prompts that don’t violate the Original Works:Solo DNWs. Basically anything from my previous prompts that isn’t about sexual content is desired here!

+ Style pastiches. Some of my favorite styles are: Art Nouveau, Art Deco, Shin Hanga, Symbolist Painting, 1930s Magazine Covers, and the De Stijl movement, but there’s hardly an artist or art movement that I haven’t enjoyed (barring my one DNW, Fauvism). I also enjoy pastiches of the style of other canons I’ve requested.

+ Untitled Goose Game Pastiche or Crossover. Art that looks like Untitled Goose Game would be so rad! Goose shows up in a dungeon, completely ready to roll against the monsters therein. The Questing Knight moves from inn to inn, but he can't seem to shake this feathered interloper. A cute frog and a Goose meet and decide to do crime together.

+ Limited color palettes. Some favs are: gold, black and white; red, white, black. I also love palettes pulled from Julie Dillon paintings. Note: if you're making emoji, feel free to throw out my "limited palette" like. The best colors are often high-constrast colors, so they can show up at small sizes.

+ Collection pictures.You know those pics that are just the collection of items in someone's pack or pockets? I love those!

Some Opt-in Prompts & Likes • • •

+ Card Game Reskin. I'd love to see card game reskins! They'd be lovely for cute frogs, or garbage-tier magical items, but would be just as fun for a questing knight befalling traps (who could just be a knight for the purposes of a card game reskin!). Card games that I'm familiar with: Coin Age, Love Letter, Fluxx, Werewolf (and One-Night Ultimate Werewolf), Sushi Go!, Gloom, Selfish, How to Human, Point Salad, Snake Oil.

+ Emoji. I hunger endlessly for emojis. Especially frog emojis. But I need 'em all, even if it's just a [magical item], but small!

+ Isometric Rooms/Cityscapes. Want to give me one of those deadly accomodation traps? Or a frog's pond? Or the dungeon room where the garbage-tier magical item was discarded because it really wasn't helping out that adventurer? I love small isometric rooms, the intimacy of the small space. I find them inherently cozy, even if they're, uh, kind of grim (see: possible evidence that the garbage-tier magical item really DIDN'T help that adventurer out of a tight spot D:). I love seeing items in-place. The slice of life feeling of looking into a scene and getting to soak up all of the particulars of THIS SPECIFIC space are just one of my favorite things. I have more below about this specific medium opt-in, but you could basically make me anything in any style and I'll love it.

+ Narrative maps. I’d love a map that details a character's exploits development, whether allegorical, or a map of their world, with notes scribbled with the margins. Where do the characters go? What do they see? Where do they battle the forces of unimaginable evil?

+ Stained Glass. I am OVER THE MOON about stained glass artwork. Please give me anything you'd like to draw as a stained glass window. I adore everything from chapel windows to Frank Lloyd Wright's prairie windows to Tiffany glass. Sky's the limit, here!

+ Typeface design. Frog-themed font? Illustrated caps but there are little lily-pads inside? A font made up entirely of printers' ornaments of various garbage-tier magical items? A lovely rustic, blackletter-esque, or otherwise medieval-themed font for the questing knight? All of these would be so dang lovely. For typeface design, I am totally fine with the tag only being remotely related to the actual design that gets made. For example, if you decide to create a kind of decompressed loopy handwriting font, because you think that the frog would have to take its time to form the letters as it was chilling in some wet sand/dirt, that would be so rad. I love hearing about font development, so if you make a font, I'd love to hear what part(s) of my OW tags inspired you!

+ Weapon schematic. Garbage tier magical item schematics! Show me which end goes into the enemy (hint: is it the pointy end? It might not be the pointy end). I love schematics that are annotated. I also love schematics that are done in any style that makes senes to you. Blueprint-esque? Lineart-style? Ikea furniture manual but for a weapon?? Fully colored and rendered like you might see in a Dungeons and Dragons manual? It's all rad. I will not lie, I'm getting a big kick out of an "Idiot's Guide to [X]", so if you want to lean into the comedy, please do!



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Original Work: Ships

  • Devout Knight/Fallen Angel He Accidentally Rescues (M/M)
  • Questing Knight/King Cursed to Be Made of Glass (M/M)
  • Horny Artwork in a Haunted Church/Male Exorcist
  • Ronin/Bored Tengu (M/M)
  • Church Painter Who May Be the Devil/Village Priest (M/M)

  • Requesting:
  • Fiction
  • Fanart
  • Card Game Reskin
  • Conspiracy Board
  • Interactive Fiction - Web-based
  • In-Universe r/AmITheAsshole Post
  • Rashomon (1950)-style Conflicting Narratives
  • Ship Manifesto (the relationship kind)
  • Tapestry
  • Tarot Card
  • Bestiary
  • Isometric Rooms/Cityscapes
  • Maps

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You challenge every expectation I had about the world...

General Likes

Adventures & quests • Slice-of-life descriptions & illustrations • Rivalries (professional, personal, and religious) • Identity play • Badass Archery • Enemies-to-lovers • Quick Sexual Intimacy contrasted with Slow Emotional Intimacy • Spoils of War • (friendly-ish) Competitions between characters • Solving Supernatural Cases

Original Work Ships-Specific DNWs

sad/unhappy endings; requested characters dying permanently; miscommunication plots leading to accusations of cheating/infidelity/breakups between requested characters.

General Prompts • • •

+ Confronting an enemy/rival! Someone gets stranded out-of-time, and they have to find their way back home. I enjoy quests to return home, adventures in far-away times or places, and general wonderment (and fear) that such a journey might create.

+ Wainscot Fantasy! The world is more magical and unusual that the one that we come from, and all of this information is kept as secret as possible. No one actually expects to encounter the supernatural/divine/magic creatures until they actually do. That’s when the trouble starts… What I enjoy the most about wainscot settings is when one character thinks they know what the world is like, and then get proven that the world is infinitely more complex, weird, frightening and amazing than they’d thought.

+ Trapped in an castle/magic forest/cave/whatever location is most appropriate for the pairing. I love “trapped in an x” types of fics. Whether the area they’re trapped in is small (like an elevator or cave) or it’s magical (magic forest), or it’s being trapped by obligation (the castle, or a peace talk for a new king)... I like when one half of the ship is forced to contend with the other half, and their relationship maybe grows faster or quicker or more intense than it otherwise would have.

+ Pining! Pining narratives are fantastic, especially when it’s mutual. (And especially when it seems to the perspective character that their affection could never be returned for a host of very good, and very detailed reasons… that are pretty much not true, because the other half of the ship is pining right back.)

+ Miscommunications. I enjoy miscommunications plotlines! I enjoy plotlines when a five minute conversation would clear up a whole host of issues, but characters are too embarrassed/politically compromised/their jobs are too important/their worldview depends on them not asking or saying what they need. Generally the type of miscommunications that I’m into are bad assumptions made about the other person’s emotional state, e.g. “we had sex, and I’m sure he didn’t enjoy it!” I’m here for the full gamut of miscommunication-type foibles, but please avoid the miscommunication DNW I have.

+ Bestiary. So many of these requested pairings have supernatural origins/creatures in them. I love compendiums of creatures, with or without pictures. And I'd love to see a shippy take on the bestiary. The Fallen Angel sending the Knight a document of the denizens of hell, because he keeps rescuing assholes that try to kill him? The Ronin spends his days in the forest making sketches & classifying the tengu, to try to find the one that he remembers from years ago? The Fake Psychic is scribbling down the cosmic horrors that the supernatural being in the tarot desk in showing them? Feel free to include marginalia where the characters talk to each other, if you wish!

Ship-Specific Prompts • • • (click a ship to expand!)


+ Devout Knight/Fallen Angel He Accidentally Rescues. A knight is returning to his home after time away fighting in another realm. He rescues someone who he sees stuck in a fairly mundane problem, and thinks nothing of it… until he sees the enormous incorporeal wings yawning behind them.

Or a more Arthurian twist: a knight prays for salvation (and his soul) on the way to achieve the grail. Before he reaches the grail castle, he comes across a strange tableau of an angel in chains-- which he assumes is a hallucination or a heavenly trial. He unchains the angel … only to discover that whoops, no, that wasn’t a trial. That was a fallen angel he just rescued.

What I love about this pairing is a believer meeting things that they believed was evil, forbidden, wrong… and then having to contend with his worldview being incongruent with what he meets. I also love cosmic entities/angels that are confined in physical bodies that they might not completely understand or like.

I don’t have any expectations about whether the fallen angel is good, bad, evil, chaotic, cranky, a bastard, scheming, friendly, whatever! I have loved all permutations of fallen angels that I’ve encountered. Some fallen angels I’ve enjoyed have been those in Constantine, Supernatural, Lucifer, Gabriel (2007), The Prophecy.

If you’d like tropey prompts, consider:
+ A knight rescues a fallen angel. By angelic custom, they’re now married.
+ The knight is trying to prove himself worthy. He rescues everyone who asks his help. Someone bids for his help, and he agrees before he knows what he’s agreed to. Next thing he knows, he’s in hell/a fantasy realm, having to fight his way to free his charge.
+ Accidental soulbond. After rescuing the fallen angel, the angel departs--only to discover that they now know whenever the knight is in danger, and feel the pull to go rescue him before it's too late.

+ Questing Knight/King Cursed to Be Made of Glass A new king takes the throne, and he’s immediately cursed by a rival (another ruler who he'd offended in his youth? a jealous rival for the throne? a brother who wants the new king's reign to be short?). The king's advisors urge him to respond, but how bad can one little curse be, really?

The dynamic that I'm excited for in this prompt is the knight and the king not being able to touch each other. Whether the king is glass all of the time, some of the time, or progressively becoming glass is up to you. I'd be excited by the king being untouchable, or that the glass curse will kill him when it reaches his heart/head or any number of body horror permutations that you can think up.

I’d love to see a tropey take on this pairing, if you’re game for it!

Some possible prompts:

+ Questing knight arrives at the court, and everyone celebrates because they think he's there to break the curse. The knight already has another quest! He has no such plans to de-curse the king.

+ The king has to set out on a quest to rid himself of the curse. While he's in disguise on the road, he encounters the questing knight. Identity play, Enemies(or rivals)-to-lovers, sharing a bed, touch-starved, or other kinds of dynamics where the knight and king can't touch would be amazing.

+ Exchanging gifts. I love if you borrowed the gift-swapping game from Gawain and the Green Knight. The knight and the king promise to swap gifts for whatever they receive during the day. Does the game go well? Or are the gifts so insulting, it results in weird fallout, and the knight has to marry the new king to compensate for his actions.

+ A slow burn direction would be fantastic too! The questing knight traveling far and wide to break the curse, only to return with the turn of the seasons...before he sets out again. Maybe he only sees the king at major tournaments, or festival days, and the relationship between them grows as the king recognizes that the knight will never give up hope of lifting the curse.

+ A quest but metaphorical. I've been positing the kinds of quests that involve the knight traveling to far-flung places, but what if the curse-breaking (and the questing) are mental? Or on a dreamscape? Or confined to the library? Or other kinds of journies that are more metaphorical and literal. I'd love to have the king and knight under the same roof, and watching their romance spark.

Historical settings, fantasy settings, secondary world settings are all pretty great. A medieval/Arthurian flavor is always appreciated, if you have similar tastes, but I also equally love Renaissance & Early Modern settings. Victorian settings. Fantasy settings that encapsulate what you enjoy about fantasy, and gets rid of that pesky problem of historical research are also very appreciated. For this prompt, I'm not so keen about space/sci-fi settings, but I suppose I could be talked around if there's a lot of flowing robes and pomp & circumstance!

If you have entirely different ideas for why the king is cursed, I'd love to hear your take on this prompt. Please draw from your own interests if you've already gotten some clever ideas.

+ Horny Artwork in a Haunted Church/Male Exorcist

I really, really love exorcists. And I'm extremely down for the Horny Artwork to get some.

I'm thrilled by any backstory you'd like to invent for the horny artwork. Did someone commission the horny artwork in the church, or did the artwork itself become horny having to spend so many years hanging around celibate priests? What kind of shape is the exorcist’s faith in, given these goings on – has he ever dealt with the supernatural (and/or a real demon before)? What's causing the haunting? Is it a ghost, a demon, or is the artwork itself cursed? What are the manifestations of this haunting?

(If the horny artwork is being haunted by a ghost or demon, I wouldn't mind you making this a backdoor into another exorcist/demon ship. I just want any entanglement that happens between the horny artwork (or the being haunting it) to eventually be consensual, even if it starts out rather dubiously so.)

I love all permutations of how this ship could happen: initially fearful/hostile interactions that become respect/affection/sex. Or, the exorcist and the demon don't like or understand each other but have to work together anyway, because they both agree that the demon needs to get back to hell.

I enjoy scenes where something Obviously Supernatural is going down (and the exorcist can tell that something that isn't right is happening), but the person they're reading for is completely obvious to the Supernatural Things happening.

Temporary character death/resurrection is a big YES from me for this prompt, if you want to head in that direction. Here are some short ideas that I'd like to throw out there as prompts:

+ Horny artwork starts sending dire warnings to the exorcist while he is reviewing the church. They've maybe never seen a real haunting before, so usually they barely pay attention to what "supernatural" things are going on. But...it starts to get unsettling enough that the exorcist is paying attention. (Bonus points if it's a priest or paritioner that notices the warnings first!)

+ The exorcist is gung-ho about destroying haunted church because it's HOPELESS and EVIL, and then has no idea what to when he realizes that the horny artwork just seems like him, except its demonic instead of heavenly.

+ The exorcist struggles with an attraction to the entity possessing the horny artwork, after he realizes that the ghost/demon saved him once before.

Some Extra Likes for this pairing:

  • Sympathetic monsters/villains
  • Death wishes or otherwise reckless behaviour
  • Suppression of emotion & shame
  • Characters being assholes because they don't know how to process their own trauma/emotions/feelings
  • Characters that have a great chemistry, whether it's romantic or antagonistic or friendly, so long as they get under each other's skin
  • Bondage; consensual sexual violence and pain; fight-fucking. Fighting that was supposed to be fighting and then became fucking. Choking. Breathplay.
  • Religious kinks about wrestling with desire vs. a vow of chastity that come into play if the exorcist is a priest.
  • The horny artwork manifests physically to the fake psychic as a character from the artwork.
  • The horny artwork manifests physically to the fake psychic as a character from the painting to warn the psychic of another, hostile entity also manifesting. The psychic is worried. (Also, horny artwork, how is this helping if you're just going to be incredibly hot and distracting??)

+ Ronin/Bored Tengu.

I love this pairing mainly based on this woodblock print of Kintaro being thwarted by some Tengu who are hidden up a tree. Tengu are demons that have all kinds of guises. I love the large, monstrous bird version of tengu, but I'm here for any ideas that you may have about their appearance. I am interested in any kind of tengu, or you to borrow any details from popular folk tales. I am most delighted by tengu that are overcome by their curiosity and are easily deceived by people.

In certain folkloric practice, there's a distinction between good vs. bad tengu. I leave it in your hands to decide which to write about. My favorite kinds of characters tend to be anti-heroes, or characters that defy easy classification as good or bad (usually because they do "bad" things towards a good or neutral or selfish purpose). I greatly enjoy redemption arcs. So if you wanted to write about a "bad" tengu who comes around to being less of an asshole, or to trying to be good over the course of your fic, I'd be delighted! I also enjoy arcs where a "good" character is seduced to break their vows, so I'd love to see a "bad" tengu in a plotline where a ronin is being tempted to give up his code of honor.

I'd be delighted if you wanted to set your fic in a historical era of Japan, but I'm also open to modern settings, and fantasy/sci-fi settings that are vaguely inflected by Japanese culture & customs.

Here are some prompts, which you're free to take all or only part of:

+ A tengu decides to (or gets tricked into a barter where he has to) seduce a ronin passing through a nearby village. To win the bet, and thus win an object it desires, a tengu has to do its level best to seduce a ronin into bed. The tengu is really not great at mimicking human courtship rituals, but he'll keep trying until the ronin has passed through the area and out of the tengu's sphere of influence. It would be amazing if the tengu, after being rebuffed, forgets the bet and is now focused on FUCKING THE RONIN. How many different ways does a tengu have to plead to get laid around here?

+ A ronin has been hired to defend a remote village against a tengu's shenanigans. The villagers importune the ronin--and manage to scrape together the money to hire him. The ronin arrives, ready to defending the village from an earthly foe...only to find out that the village's problems are supernatural. The ronin is stumped, but he was hired to do a job and he's not going to go back on his word.

+ In disguise as a priest. A caravan of pilgrims and priests hires a ronin to escort them to a holy site. The ronin agrees... and discovers that night after night, new troubles befall the caravan. The ronin lays a trap, only to discover one night that he's captured one of the priests in it. How much should he trust this priest? If he discovers the priest is a tengu, will the ronin keep his secret? Why does the tengu want to go to this holy site anyway?

+ Possession. Some tengu can possess human bodies, toward what end, remains up to the tengu's knowledge. A nobleman has been possessed, and his worried family has summoned a priest on the sly to try to rid him of this bad influence. A ronin is escorting a buddhist monk to the nobleman's estate...he is there to protect the priest, and nothing more. Except when he arrives at the estate, he finds himself immediately drawn into intrigues with the possessed nobleman. The ronin is torn between leaving (and violating his oath to the priest) and the strange attraction he feels to the tengu.

+ Church Painter Who May Be the Devil/Village Priest

This pairing seems to me to be all about a holy man being tempted either by his own desires or by an external force. I love the idea of a painter being hired by someone (someone in the parish? The Archbishop? The patron of the church?) to create something for the priest's church. Is the work the painter makes so lovely/disturbing/haunting that it leads the priest into sin? For this prompt, I'd enjoy reading about a religious man struggling to reconcile his desire with his faith. He can blame the desire on outside forces (the devil, his own mortal weakness, original sin, the object of his desire) but it's probably not actually the devil whose forcing him to be aroused.

...Or is it? I'm perfectly happy to read your take on this prompt where the church painter clearly isn't the devil but the lust-clouded priest just thinks of him that way--all the way through unreliable narration where we can't be sure the painter isn't the devil, and up to "The Devil vacations from Hell by painting churches into beautiful edifices." We've all got to have hobbies, right?

I'd also be really fascinating by reading the version of this story that's seen from the church painter's perspective! Is he just just a painter who's here to do his job, and finding himself drawn deeper into a strange attraction with the priest? Is the painter the actual!facts Devil that's here for [reasons], and the priest falling for him happens to be a weird, unintended consequence? Is the painter an angel, who's on earth for other reasons, trying to reach out to godliness while he's away from heaven?

There are many different directions to go with this prompt, from light to pretty dark...I'm really curious to see what you'd like to explore!

Specific Likes for this Prompt:

  • Pining, UST, and RST are all fantastic. One-sided pining while the other character is oblivious. Mutual pining because of chastity vows/seeming disinterest
  • Slow burns!
  • Renaissance Italy settings, and historical settings from 1400 onward. I love historical description, and if you'd like to do historical research, awesome! But I'm really just here for you to have fun with my prompts. No extra research is necessary.
  • Temptation narratives (and angst)
  • Chiaroscuro. Tenebrism. Baroque.
  • Technical discussions about art, if you're into the material side of painting/fresco.
  • Surreal, supernatural, and miraculous events. If you want the painter to create a supernatural painting, I am here for that.
  • If the painter really is the devil, I have a lot positive feelings about a version of the devil/Lucifer that isn't unrepentantly evil. Versions of the Devil that don't line up with Christian orthodoxy are some of my favorite takes on the character. The Devil being selfish or hurt/angry about his Fall: awesome! I'm also cool with versions of Lucifer where he's been various other underworld gods in other religions' pantheons and thus has traits or history specific to those deities. Or depictions where the Devil isn't responsible for mortals' sins; he's just their keeper in the afterlife.

Smut Likes for this pairing: Wet dreams; dream/surreal sex; dubcon; religious-based shame, guilt, & humiliation; blasphemy during sex; characters getting off on a the sensuousness of a painting; masturbation; trying to reconcile sin with desire and then just giving in to lust; mutual masturbation; frottage; oral sex; anal sex; rimming; fingering; pain play; impact play; face-slapping; being so overcome with desire that either one or both characters in the ship masturbates in confessionals; sex in confessionals; reading penitentials for sexual inspiration; semi-public sex; sex on altars; ritual sex; crying during sex; interrupted sex; violent/hate sex; gentle sex is also good too!; clothed/unclothed; kinking on priest robes or other holy vestments

Art Likes • • •

+ Stylized landscapes. Evyind Earle and Gris’ art design are amazing aesthetics that I just can’t get enough of.

+ Surreal or emotional journeys depicted in artwork.

+ Kisses. Clinches! Do your best romance-cover-quality artwork or book cover! Passionate, dreamy, very cheating-to-the-camera poses! Shirtless love interests! Everyone shirtless! Streaming tresses. More fabric than a person should probably wear! Someone looking off into the distance in Deep Thought. I am a sucker for all of these things.

+ Characters staring forlornly at each other/in diptychs, separated by time or space.

+ Limited color palettes. Some favs are: gold, black and white; red, white, black. I also love palettes pulled from Julie Dillon paintings.

+ Characters staring into a beautiful sunset.

+ If I’ve put in an art like or request from another prompt that speaks to you, but you’d like to do it for an original work ship instead, I’m here for it!

Some Opt-in Prompts & Likes • • •

+ Card Game Reskin. I'd love to see card game reskins! They'd be lovely for any of my requested ships, especially if there's a strong visual element to the ship (like Ronin/Tengu or Church Painter/Village Priest). Card games that I'm familiar with: Coin Age, Love Letter, Fluxx, Werewolf (and One-Night Ultimate Werewolf), Sushi Go!, Gloom, Selfish, How to Human, Point Salad, Snake Oil.

+ Conspiracy Board. Most of my requested ships have some (potential) supernatural angle to them, and a lot of my prompts focus on some kind of supernatural goings-on that needs to be investigated, or a character that has a secret identity. I love identity shenanigans. I'd love to see a conspiracy board that explores one half of the ship "????" their way towards discovering the other's secret identity. Maybe that church painter IS the devil! I CAN PROVE IT WITH ALL OF THESE WEIRD GOINGS-ON that I have documented meticulously on my corkboard. What? I'm sure this isn't unhinged behavior. NB: conspiracy boards are invited for any ship, even if the idea of a conspiracy board hadn't been invented yet. Conspiracy codexes/rooms are welcome, as are completely ahistorical/4th-wall breaking conspiracy boards.

+ Isometric Rooms/Cityscapes. For my ship requests, you don't have to make these little rooms shippy, if you don't know how to manage both the ship tag & the artwork. I just would love to see some of the rooms that these characters might have. Is it where they live? A place they might stay during their adventuring? A lonely inn room on the road? A snowed-in manor or remote temple? The church or ruins at the end of a long quest? The vestibule where the horny artwork is hung? If you could imagine the scene from a fic you might read about these two, and then make a tiny room about it, I will love it 100% guarenteed. Other things I love: little slices/glimpses of characters' lives, acutaways of historical buildings, imagining what their furnishings and rooms might look like. (NB: I don't expect historical accuracy, if you're concerned about that!)

+ Narrative maps. I’d love a map that details a ship’s development, whether allegorical, or a map of their world, with notes scribbled with the margins. Where do the characters meet? Where do they fall in love? Where do they battle the forces of unimaginable evil?



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Opt-In Medium Spotlights

Hello, and welcome to the medium spotlights! These spotlights are on media that I have a lot to say about, so I decided to put all of that stuff in one place. These media are not the be-all, end-all of what I’m requesting. Spotlights include likes, ideas, and tutorial links. If you are interested in picking up a new medium for this exchange, I hope you will find the tutorial links useful! If you've never made a map, or a crest, or an emoji before, I'm absolutely thrilled by the prospect of you making one for me. :D

Reading these are completely optional! If you already know what you want to make me, feel free to jump right in.



Bestiary


Make tiny monsters come alive in book-format! Collecting all of the things!

Requesting For:

Actual SizeThe KissOriginal Work: ShipsOriginal Work: Solo

Examples of Bestiaries & Styles I love

Bestiaries are rad as hell.

I love the bestiary as a way to “collect” things. Just have a bunch of different things, as though they were assembled together in a book (like Medieval Bestiaries), or someone’s journal (like those monster-hunter manuals that would pop up whenever we got a gander at The Diary in Supernatural). I also love the kinds of bestiary where it’s clear that someone is collecting these creatures, whether they’re taking notes about them, Actually Collecting Them, just drawing them as they spot them, or taking snapshots of the Cool Critters They Have Seen.

While I’ve listed a bunch of bestiaries that are mainly drawn, I enjoy them just as much if they’re written compendiums of creatures, critters, beasts, or EGGS.

Things that I like from bestiaries:
  • Fantastical or surreal creatures. Cute critters!
  • A blatant disregard for anatomy & structure.
  • Medieval or medieval-pastiche book pages.
  • Pastiches of other genres/aesthetics. Ikea furniture manual meets bestiary?
  • EGGS. How I hunger for different colored and textured and styled eggs. Bird eggs. Monster eggs. Supernatural element eggs. Stone eggs. Jeweled eggs.

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Coat of Arms


Pre-Logos for everyone!

Requesting For:

Monument ValleyOriginal Work: Solo

Examples of Coat of Arms styles I love

Coat of arms showcase a character, a house, a corporation, a city or a nation.

I enjoy coat of arms that take inspiration from the historical rules of heraldry, and then adapt them new, fun ways for modern use. Rules of heraldry may vary a bit from tradition to tradition, and I’m not overly fussed about whether you might want to adhere to them or not. Familiarizing yourself with heraldry might give you some ideas about why certain things are done in certain ways, such as shield divisions. Many free guides are available! And some coat of arms generators can give you some ideas, if you’re stuck. But please feel free to ignore all of this historical detail, and to follow your creativity wherever it takes you.

Anatomy of a heraldic grant of arms. From Logo Design 101

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Coloring Page


A restful way to unwind.

Requesting For:

The KissMonument ValleyOriginal Work: Solo

Examples of Coloring Page styles I love

I love designs that I can print out and color to unwind.

I’m a huge fan of small details from patterns, details, and abstract shapes. I’m also a fan of designs with big wide open spaces where I can choose to create my own details. Designs that borrow from abstract styles, geometric tattoos, and other kinds of art that blends realistic details with simple geometric shapes are my jam. So are stars, night skies, and solar system elements. And I will never say no to cute, silly, humorous designs. :D

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Emojis


Emotional shorthand :D If you have an emoji idea, I’d love to see it!

Requesting For:

Actual SizeThe KissOriginal Work: Solo

Examples of Emojis I love


If you need some extra inspiration for creating emojis

Prompt list created for Emojitober.

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Infographics


Organize information with flair and pinache!

Requesting For:

Actual Size by Edward RuschaHis Greatest Adversary Yet

Hello potential infographic creator!

I'd like to encourage anyone to make inforgraphics, even if they've never done it before. I love data visualization, charts, and data that tells a story. I will be thrilled to see what you create!

I've requested Meta Infographics for some fandoms, In-Universe Infographics for others, and just plain ole infographics in certain cases.

There are many types of infographics out there, and you might not know where to start. The Data Viz Project has a huge source of types of data visualization that might spark ideas for the kinds of data that could help create your infographic(s). And you don't have to go nuts about it either! I love simple types of visualizations as well as complex ones.

My favorite thing about infographics is a strong narrative element. For example, an infographic about the number of people that Blue Beacon has saved over his superheroing career--we only realize halfway through the visualization that it's Maxwell Missing disgruntled recitation of facts, and suddenly you realize that the data being presented in the inforgraphic is WAY more suspect than when we first started looking at it. That kind of thing is awesome! The unreliable narrator, but infographics is such a fun trope to play around with.

Because it's legitimately hard for me to pick out a favorite infographic, instead let me just point you to some potential inspiration:



Efficiency. Cover of Visual Storytelling Infographic Design In News.

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Isometric Rooms/Cityscapes


Big spaces in small places.

Requesting For:

The KissHis Greatest Adversary YetMonument ValleyOriginal Work: SoloOriginal Work: Ships

Creating Little Scenes Full of Everyday Details

Isometric rooms are one of my favorite types of art. They're little dioramas of still lifes & interior design all wrapped up in one. You can see some beautiful examples of isometric rooms here: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7. And here are some wonderful isometric cityscapes: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6. I'm also not too fussed about how literally you take the "cityscape" part. Single buildings are rad. As are natural landscapes done in this style: 1, 2, 3, 4.

I honestly don't care about perfect isometric perspective; if you like to draw in a loose style, don't feel like you have to nail the exact perspective. I love the small frames that create a sense of intimacy. I love all of the little details that evoke a sense of place. Any mood or tone that you want to give them is brilliant: cozy, friendly, mystical, mysterious, haunting.

I also love isometric rooms, cities, land and seascapes that are contained inside of a different kind of a frame (drink containers & terrariums are faves).

While I normally love lineart, for this style of art, adding tones or even flat color is greatly appreciated. They help me understand placement & separate individual objects from each other.


Source.

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Mandala


The beauty of radial symmetry & fun with asymmetrical breaks.

Requesting For:

Actual SizeThe KissAssassin's CreedMonument ValleyOriginal Work: Solo

Making and breaking patterns

I love mandala designs that I can enjoy on their own merits, as well as mandala that are meant to be print out and colored.

Black & white mandalas, full colored mandalas. Gold and white on black backgrounds. Yes, yes, and yes.

I’m a huge fan of designs that blend the aesthetic of mandala & other meditative arts with the aesthetics from my requested canons & their aesthetics. I enjoy poring over designs and delighting in their small details. Patterns, intricate shading, and abstract shapes are all wonderful. I’m also a fan of designs with big wide open spaces where I can choose to create my own details. Designs that borrow from abstract styles, geometric tattoos, and other kinds of art that blends realistic details with simple geometric shapes are my jam. So are stars, night skies, and solar system elements. And I will never say no to cute, silly, humorous designs. :D

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Maps


From quick jottings on cocktail napkins to lovingly-recreated lithographs!

Requesting For:

Assassin's CreedAncient Greek Religion & LoreHis Greatest Adversary YetMonument ValleyOriginal Work: ShipsOriginal Work: Solo

Examples of map styles I love

Exploration & A Sense of Place That's Been Lost.

Are you thinking of creating a map? Let me count the ways that I love thee! I would like to encourage you in your mappish-thoughts! The fandoms that I am requesting maps in share an element of exploration or a sense of place that’s been lost. What I’d love to see out of a map, even if that fandom already has a canonical map:

  • Things that struck YOU as being important (that maybe canon did not)
  • Maps that chart a character’s or ship’s journey
  • Colors, palettes, styles, and designs that evokes something from the canon
  • Maps that subvert my expectations. E.g. a tense and moody D & D style map for a canon character’s otherwise warm and welcoming home.
  • Allegorical maps about the [dangers of that canon]. Maps about the pitfalls of pining? Places where You Can Go Wrong when you are an author trapped in an allegory for procrastination.
  • Maps that you wish characters had. E.g. Map of Ancient Greece for Teucer where gods would like to Fuck You (Personally) Over, Pls Avoid.
  • If you are creating humorous maps, please lean into the joke. Don’t feel like you need to be constrained by reality, or the canonical places of things. Geographic accuracy not needed for maps set on Earth!

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Typeface Design


A Typeface For Every Occasion!

Requesting For:

Actual Size by Edward RuschaMonument ValleyOriginal Work: Solo

Examples of Typeface styles I love

Hello potential font creator!

If you’re an old hand at creating typefaces, or you’ve never designed a font before in your life, I promise you that I will be excited to see what you create! I enjoy fonts that capture the aesthetic of the fandom that I’ve requested. Many of the fandoms I’ve requested have fonts embedded in their gameplay. Taking those as a starting point is a wonderful way to explore an aesthetic. I also love everything on my list above, and more beyond that. I deeply enjoy seeing font sketches & fonts in their final presentation form. I fully do not expect finished typefaces. Those take an enormous amount of work. Just some caps or a few letterforms or the lettering of a title is what I’m hoping for! :D

Mocha Script. Monoweight line font that is also a geometric font. Source.

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Created 8/13/2021 for the Fic in a Box exchange.