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necessarian) wrote2018-12-10 10:27 pm
necessarian) wrote2018-12-10 10:27 pm
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dear past imperfect writer...
hi there! i'm ao3 user renaissance and this is my first time taking part in past imperfect. time travel is one of my favourite tropes ever and i'm so excited for this. i'm certain i'll love whatever you write for me, but just in case you're looking for direction (i know i always like having prompts for an exchange!) i've put together a letter going into detail on some of the ideas i've had.
before we begin, please note that my definitive DNWs, as listed on my sign-up, are different for each fandom. i've also been a little more specific in this letter, but what's important to me is staying away from the big ones. thank you for keeping this in mind!
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in general...
[ favourite tropes & themes ]
[ do not want ]
↬ for this i'd love something focused on nightingale; i mean, we already know he's got some strangeness going on with time. please note, as in my DNWs, i don't ship peter/nightingale. in fact if this could be genfic that'd be wicked!
↬ my first idea is something to do with thomas "tiger tank" nightingale reliving the war, some kind of "billy pilgrim has come unstuck in time" scenario. (if you haven't read slaughterhouse five, i would absolutely recommend it as an exploration of time-travel-as-PTSD.) or even just a straight up time loop, that goes some of the way to explain his strange aging process.
↬ also, i'd simply love an entire fic focused on some time travel-y explanation as to why nightingale started aging backwards! worldbuild away!
before we begin, please note that my definitive DNWs, as listed on my sign-up, are different for each fandom. i've also been a little more specific in this letter, but what's important to me is staying away from the big ones. thank you for keeping this in mind!
contents
in general...
[ favourite tropes & themes ]
✔ politics
✔ espionage
✔ sci-fi
✔ fantasy
✔ university
✔ celebrity
✔ different time periods (i.e. modern/historical depending on source material)
✔ character/relationship studies/genfic
✔ canon divergence
✔ fix-it fic
✔ crossovers
✔ getting together
✔ fake dating
✔ espionage
✔ sci-fi
✔ fantasy
✔ university
✔ celebrity
✔ different time periods (i.e. modern/historical depending on source material)
✔ character/relationship studies/genfic
✔ canon divergence
✔ fix-it fic
✔ crossovers
✔ getting together
✔ fake dating
[ do not want ]
✘ underage
✘ noncon/dubcon
✘ mpreg
✘ omegaverse
✘ PWP or anything focusing on sex/kink
✘ terminal illness/medical patients/hospitals
✘ prostitution
✘ strippers
✘ slavery/bondage
✘ mafia
✘ noncon/dubcon
✘ mpreg
✘ omegaverse
✘ PWP or anything focusing on sex/kink
✘ terminal illness/medical patients/hospitals
✘ prostitution
✘ strippers
✘ slavery/bondage
✘ mafia
↬ my two prompt ideas are darcy-centric, but feel free to focus on literally any other character, depending on what takes your fancy.
↬ darcy goes back in time and intervenes in georgiana's elopement with wickham. either this makes things totally different in a good way (lizzie doesn't get predated on), or makes things worse and trickier. up to you how much pain you want to inflict on them but please don't make it too bad!
↬ darcy has a sort of "replay" ability and uses it to do over his first proposal to lizzie until he gets it right. obviously this is not a sleazy sort of getting it right, but a take in which he learns something about propriety, kindness, and how to explain himself in a productive manner. they talk about their feelings. it probably doesn't happen immediately (i really can't imagine lizzie saying yes), but by the end of it, she is certainly more amenable to darcy, and he has learnt a lesson about being a gentleman. condensed time scale character development. i'm thinking entire do-overs but also he maybe says something inadvisable, realises this, and skips back a minute or so? mix-and-match the types of travel involved.
↬ if you want to combine these two ideas or add any other time travel elements, please do!
↬ darcy goes back in time and intervenes in georgiana's elopement with wickham. either this makes things totally different in a good way (lizzie doesn't get predated on), or makes things worse and trickier. up to you how much pain you want to inflict on them but please don't make it too bad!
↬ darcy has a sort of "replay" ability and uses it to do over his first proposal to lizzie until he gets it right. obviously this is not a sleazy sort of getting it right, but a take in which he learns something about propriety, kindness, and how to explain himself in a productive manner. they talk about their feelings. it probably doesn't happen immediately (i really can't imagine lizzie saying yes), but by the end of it, she is certainly more amenable to darcy, and he has learnt a lesson about being a gentleman. condensed time scale character development. i'm thinking entire do-overs but also he maybe says something inadvisable, realises this, and skips back a minute or so? mix-and-match the types of travel involved.
↬ if you want to combine these two ideas or add any other time travel elements, please do!
↬ i have so many ideas for this fandom but if you have any others, go for it. in terms of shipping preference, i'm most partial to gen; ships i like are richard/francis, henry/camilla, and, if you're ok with it, charles/richard/camilla. i do not like henry/julian, and i'm disinclined but not entirely averse to richard/henry. (what happens at hampden, etc...)
↬ one idea i have is that henry shoots himself and gets a second change to go back and do things right. naturally, "doing things right" is subjective, and i would love it if he makes things bad in different, exciting ways. i.e. canon divergence but with more blood, and more time travel.
↬ i was so taken by the final scene, where richard meets henry in his dreamscape of an afterlife. i'd love something set there, with time moving differently around them, a kind of waiting for godot flavour to it.
↬ the gang travel to ancient greece for "research" - of course, there is a bacchanal, things go wrong, etc. (god, can you imagine if they left bunny in the past? imagine explaining that to the corcorans.)
↬ richard goes back in time to be at the bacchanal and sees everyone kill the farmer. how this changes things is up to you, as is whether or not they know that richard joined them from the near future.
↬ they (henry? and others?) go back in time to get rid of bunny before things get bad... but what happens if they go back too far? what are the repercussions of this?
↬ i would also love any characters stuck in a straight up time loop. preferably of the day they kill bunny? but seriously, whenever.
↬ one idea i have is that henry shoots himself and gets a second change to go back and do things right. naturally, "doing things right" is subjective, and i would love it if he makes things bad in different, exciting ways. i.e. canon divergence but with more blood, and more time travel.
↬ i was so taken by the final scene, where richard meets henry in his dreamscape of an afterlife. i'd love something set there, with time moving differently around them, a kind of waiting for godot flavour to it.
↬ the gang travel to ancient greece for "research" - of course, there is a bacchanal, things go wrong, etc. (god, can you imagine if they left bunny in the past? imagine explaining that to the corcorans.)
↬ richard goes back in time to be at the bacchanal and sees everyone kill the farmer. how this changes things is up to you, as is whether or not they know that richard joined them from the near future.
↬ they (henry? and others?) go back in time to get rid of bunny before things get bad... but what happens if they go back too far? what are the repercussions of this?
↬ i would also love any characters stuck in a straight up time loop. preferably of the day they kill bunny? but seriously, whenever.
↬ for this i'd love something focused on nightingale; i mean, we already know he's got some strangeness going on with time. please note, as in my DNWs, i don't ship peter/nightingale. in fact if this could be genfic that'd be wicked!
↬ my first idea is something to do with thomas "tiger tank" nightingale reliving the war, some kind of "billy pilgrim has come unstuck in time" scenario. (if you haven't read slaughterhouse five, i would absolutely recommend it as an exploration of time-travel-as-PTSD.) or even just a straight up time loop, that goes some of the way to explain his strange aging process.
↬ also, i'd simply love an entire fic focused on some time travel-y explanation as to why nightingale started aging backwards! worldbuild away!
↬ my request for this one is short and sweet: napoleon and ilya have to go back in time (for whatever reason) to save gaby, who has somehow ended up on the mission alone and got herself into a pickle. of course our "damsel" never needs saving, and this turns into an awkward comedy as the two rivals try to work together, offset from time. it'd be fun if they're dodging their past selves too.
↬ i know this is only one prompt, so if you have another fun idea, go for it!
↬ napoleon/ilya is good. ilya/gaby is good. ot3 is great.
↬ i know this is only one prompt, so if you have another fun idea, go for it!
↬ napoleon/ilya is good. ilya/gaby is good. ot3 is great.