Innumerable Stars 2019 Letter

[wolffyluna]

Hello, person who has matched with me, or is treating me! No matter what you make,I'm probably going to really like it, but I know it's much easier to come up with an idea if you've got some guidance.

If you have an idea unrelated to these prompts, also go ahead! I’m guaranteed to like what you make. I’ve also got why I like certain ships mixed in with the prompts. While I’ve listed separate art prompts for most of the ships, feel free to use the writing prompts as art prompts (or the art prompts as writing prompts!) Length is not related to how much I like the ships, and more to how many prompts I could come up with off the top of my head. (And lack of art prompts isn’t related to whether I want art for a ship or not, but likewise to whether I could think of one off the top of my head.)

My ao3 account and my tumblr are both wolffyluna, if you want to have a look at them to get ideas.

Things I Like:

• fluff that has a minor conflict. Things like ‘my SO has had a bad day: I'm gonna make it better!’ or ‘oh no, we forgot that [event] is coming up and have to quickly prepare!’
• Hurt/comfort (hurt/comfort > comfort no hurt > hurt no comfort.)
• Angst with a happy ending
• Mutual pining/wanting to get together but not be able because [reason], with [reason] being resolved at the end
• Kissing! Forehead kisses, kisses on the cheek, full on make outs: kissing is great!
• Cuddling! I feel the same way about cuddling as I do about kissing! It’s all good. I especially like characters falling asleep leaning against each other.
• For some ships (they'll be specified in the prompts) I like exploring the messed up dynamics and/or the terrible-idea-ness of the relationship. (Drawing that symbolically is highly encouraged)
• I love characters giving into temptation, for lack of a better description? Like, knowing that a particular relationship is a bad idea, but going into it anyway.
• While I love fluff deeply, with femslash I also love stories where the protagonists are flawed, or the plot ends up dark, or both.
• Politics! I love characters trying to navigate it, the tension between their political persona and they’re actual persona, the ethical dilemmas of power, all of it!
• Loyalty. Intense loyalties, conflicted loyalties: they're all good.
• Dancing, either partner dances or just both people happening to dance at the same time. -Religion, religious discussions and worldbuilding about religion.
• For art, I like coloured lighting and unusual/restricted palettes. For example, things like the palettes in this
• I also like intense colours and contrast in art
• Horses! Whether they're just in the background, or are a major part of the art/plot. I love horses

DNWs:

• Torture being portrayed as good or effective. (Maeglin specific DNW: I do not mind whether Maeglin betrays Gondolin or not, but I would not like him to betray Gondolin because he was tortured.)
• Explicit on-screen rape

Smut Likes:

• People being supernaturally horny, for example sex pollen or A/B/O. Bonus points if it is somehow pre negotiated (eg someone arranging for a particular person to help them through their heat in an A/B/O setting.)
• Rope bondage.
• Oral sex. Of all kinds, though I have a particular soft spot for cunnilingus.
• Explicit negotiation.
• Consentacles
• Intercrural sex
• Praise kink
• Chastity kink
• Sadism and masochism/painplay

Celebrimbor | Telperinquar/Narvi

• Crafting together! I know I’ve suggested that for a lot of ships, but that’s because I like it. Whether it’s drawing them together in the forge, or writing about their creative process, I love it. Especially if there’s an emphasis on how important the working together/making things/the Art is an important part of their relationship.
• Elf-dwarf culture clash is always fun

Celebrimbor | Telperinquar/Sauron | Mairon (Silmarillion)

• One of the reasons I like this ship because there’s points in the timeline where things look like they’re going great! Everything is awesome! This helpful Maia is very awesome! But as a reader you know everything is going to crash and burn. So feel free to lean into that dramatic irony. I also like it because it could have worked, if only Sauron… wasn’t Sauron.
• I’m a big fan of fic set in the Eregion era.
• I like helpful!nice!Celebrimbors as much as the next person, but I’m also a big fan of more ambitious, darker interpretations of Celebrimbor. I like the idea of Celebrimbor initially being jealous of Sauron when he first shows up in Eregion, because Celebrimbor prided himself being the best smith, and where does this Maia get off on being so helpful, anyway? And eventually the rivalry becomes romantic, and Celebrimbor considers that maybe he was judging Annatar too harshly—and then the Rings happen.

Celebrimbor/Maeglin (Silmarillion)

• For this ship, I love both fluff... and absurdly tragic ‘rip the reader’s heart out with a spoon’ stuff
• Does Celebrimbor see Maeglin’s betrayal of Gondolin as a betrayal directly or indirectly of him? Did Maeglin try to warn him... or not? If you want to go dark with ship, go as dark as you like.
• I like characterisation of Maeglin where he gave away Gondolin willingly (mostly because I don’t see that characterisation often.)
• Is Maeglin torn between his love for (unnattainable) Idril and (attainable) Celebrimbor? Is Celebrimbor aware of the torch Maeglin holds for Idril? Does he feel he needs to compete?
• For fluff, working together in the forge would be good.
• Redemption fic is so good!

Eöl/Aredhel & Maeglin (Silmarillion)

• I’d love to see an exploration of their family dynamic. For example, Aredhel secretly teaching Maeglin about the Noldor, about the rest of his family. But any exploration of their mother-son relationship would be great
• Aredhel Lives AUs are also great. I just want her to be able to see her son grow up.
• I'm not a huge fan of sympathetic portrayals of Eöl. (Portrayals where he is-- sympathetic to himself, even if the audience is sympathetic to him

Maeglin & Turgon & Idril

• I'm really interested in the family dynamic between these characters. How do each of them feel about the sudden change in their family composition? How do they deal with? Do how they feel about each other change over time?
• For art: I am so interested in Gondolin (and Maeglin probably either rebellious and/or very Sindar is his style.)

Maeglin/Túrin

• The dark haired cursed grumps, together at last!
• I'd be interested in either a Túrin in Gondolin or a Maeglin in Nargothrod AU to make this ship happen.
• How does Maeglin feel about Túrin having his father's sword?
• For art: Sparring together! Or maybe hanging out in a pretty part of either Gondolin or Nargothrond.

Gwindor, Gwindor/Finduilas

• What was it like for Gwindor to return to Nargothrond? (What was it like for Finduilas when he returned? How did they deal with having to restart their relationship?)
• Missing scenes from Angband would be interesting.
• For art: Gwindor and Finduilas dancing together, or sharing a happy moment? Or for just Gwindor: Gwindor armed for the Nirnaeth Arnoediad.

Beleg Cúthalion

• I quite like Beleg/Túrin as a ship, if you want to go shippy, but character forcused gen is also very good! -“If I remained with thee, love would lead me, not wisdom” is such a beautiful line, I love it. I generally love Beleg’s loyalty to Túrin, even when it’s against his better judgment.
• Missing scene fic, or going into more detail about things that canon glossed over would be really cool.
• What's being a Marchwarden like?
• Beleg Lives or Beleg Dies Later in a Different But Equally Tragic Way AUs are also really cool.

Túrin Túrambar

• As stated above, I quite like Beleg/Túrin as a ship, if you want to go shippy, but character forcused gen is also very good!
• I'm quite interested about fic or art about his time in Doriath, or leading the Gaurwaith. Nargothrond is quite interesting!
• Túrin has a tendency to be the one human among a lot of elves. How does he feel about that?

Finwë & Maedhros

• How does Finwë feel about his first grandson?
• How do those feelings change as Maedhros goes from eldest grandchild to kinslayer?
• I'd be interested in re-embodiment fic, where they meet each other again after they've both been re-embodied.
• For fic or art: Finwe babysitting child!Maedhros.