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eirenicalFirst and foremost, I'd like to offer up a huge "Thank You!!" to you for creating a gift for me. I know how difficult it can be to put any part of your creative process into the hands of another individual, so I will do my best to treat that trust with the care and respect it deserves. ^_^
Gifting is turned on and treats of any variety are welcome. ^_^
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Fic versus Art
Most of the more specific prompts have been written mostly with fic in mind just because I’m a writer and that’s how my brain works, but there are more nonspecific prompts in the “Likes” and “Prompts that work for all canons” sections that I think would make good art prompts? Of course, you are also welcome to delve into the sprawling mass of the other sections as well if you’d like something more specific. ^_^
Notes on rating, kink and general likes and dislikes (DNWs):
Rating and kink:
Rating: Any rating is fine for fic. For art, I would prefer to keep it SFW.
Kinks: I'll specify within specific fandoms and prompts if there are any particular kinks I might be interested in. Though I will say that I have a noncon kink a mile wide, so... that may come up once or twice in this letter. If that is a problem for you, please let the mods know (...full disclosure, in this case that's me), and I'll provide a noncon-prompt-free letter.
When it comes to whump and sexual activities, I generally prefer Wu Xie to be on the receiving end of both, but I am not opposed to Xiaoge being on the receiving end, if you have a strong preference in the other direction. (Or they can BOTH get whumped and do some switching. Both is good! ;D)
Likes: Some general things I like, along with some nonspecific tropes that I'm always up for, in case none of my prompts strike your fancy...
DNWs (do not wants):
Prompts:
(Overall disclaimer: for any of these general prompts that aren’t sexual, Pangzi can absolutely be there, too, because I DO see him as being just as integral a part of the Iron Triangle as Wu Xie and Xiaoge are, but I do not want him as part of the ship or implied to be part of the ship.)
Prompts that work for all requested canons:
Specific Requests:
...I admit, I ran out of energy for talking about specific canons, so there's not much detail here as there would normally be. OTZ If you'd like more specific prompts, please contact the mods (...again me) and I'll be happy to write some specific prompts. I can also direct you to all of my letter from last year, which has SO MUCH DETAIL for the novels, TLT2, and TLTR. I'll write a bit more about the movie in this letter though, as I've never requested it before.
1. Movies: Time Raiders (2016)
Other Characters in the canon I also love: Wang Pangzi, A-Ning
Non-Pingxie ships I like: A-Ning x Wang Pangzi
The more times I watch this movie, the more I legit fall in love with it. It really is almost the steampunk futuristic AU of DMBJ canon. XD I love Xiaoge's almost mystical type origins and the way he and Wu Xie are just drawn to each other from the start. I love his little move where he cuts the cord on Wu Xie's necklace just so he can catch the coin and give it back to him. SMOOTH, XIAOGE. SO SMOOTH. I love his little brooding episode on the roof of the building while he stares at Wu Xie's image on a giant billboard news screen. I love the overall EPICNESS of everything in this canon. The stakes feel so high. Wu Xie and Xiaoge are just ride-or-die for each other in EVERY POSSIBLE WAY from the very beginning. But I love the moments of humor and the way this Xiaoge smiles and laughs so freely. (I also LOVE Pangzi and A-Ning in this so much and the way Pangzi so very clearly would happily follow her around on a leash by the end. XD)
This movie just FEELS like epic fantasy to me, with Xiaoge the fabled warrior returned from the past or waiting for a hundred years to fulfill his destiny, and the rivalry between he and Cox Hendry that ends up extending to the young scholar who's taken his side (Wu Xie) as a foil for the evil genius hiding in his futuristic lair. It's just SO MUCH. It feels grand and unapologetic about it and yet it doesn't take itself too seriously either? I mean... THE DANCE SEQUENCE. And Wu Xie, the pied piper of all things creepy and crawlie. SO MANY HILARIOUS THINGS PLAYED SO STRAIGHT EVEN WITH TONGUES PLANTED FIRMLY IN CHEEKS. XD IT'S A AMAZING. And it's become such a comfort movie for me. ^_^
So anything that leans into that would be wonderful. ^_^ Some kind of mucking about with time and immortality or time travel would work really well for this canon, I think. I'd also really love to see some kind of closure where Wu Xie and Xiaoge get their happy ending. Maybe Wu Xie comes home from telling his tale to the writer/reporter and Xiaoge is waiting for him. Or Wu Xie put that tale out into the world to draw Xiaoge back to him somehow. IDK. I just want them to get to live happily ever after after all of THAT. ^_^
As noted, for the next three, you can look at my letter from last year for much more detail, but I've at least given you characters and background ships I'd be OK with, as well as which novels I've read here. Sorry. Just ran out of steam. OTZ
2. Novels: The Grave Robbers' Chronicles)
Other Characters in the canon I also love: Wang Pangzi, Wu Yiqiong (Wu Xie’s father), Xie Yuchen, Huo Xiuxiu, Wu Erbai, Hei Xiazi, Pan Zi, Li Cu.
Non-Pingxie ships I like:
Books I have read: The main novel series, Chinese New Year’s Special Extras 1 (2009), 2 (2014), 3 (2015), Tibetan Sea Flower, Sand Sea (I have not, however, seen Tomb of the Sea, yet, so if you want to play in this canon era, please keep it to novel canon and novel characters or I’m liable to end up very confused O_o), Ten Years Later, Notes in Rain Village 1, 2. I have started the Restart novels, but have not gotten very far yet. I have read many of the tiny extras like Three Days of Silence, the ice bucket challenge extra, and quite a few others.
Books I haven’t read: any of the Mystic Nine timeline, Southern Archives, DHXS, or WSJY. (Those last two are the ones merebear lists as Restart 3 & 4.)
Last year's novel babble and prompts
3. TV: The Lost Tomb 2 - Explore with the Note
Other Characters in the canon I also love: Wang Pangzi, Xie Yuchen, Zhai Xingyao, Huo Xiuxiu, A-Ning, Pan Zi. (I also LOVE the flashback characters from episode 30-something, but I have no idea how you’d work them into a present day story. Time travel? Xiagoe knew Buxun before Buxun took up with Zhang Gaoyuan and has a flashback? Buxun actually wakes up in the present day? IDEK. It’s getting late and I’m getting a bit punchy. XD)
Non-Pingxie ships I like: Huo Xiuxiu x Xie Yuchen, Dou Cheng x Zhang Buxun, please no HeiHua.
Last year's TLT2 babble and prompts
4. TV: The Lost Tomb Reboot/Reunion: the Sound of Providence
Other Characters in the canon I also love: Wang Pangzi, Wu Erbai, Huo Daofu, Xie Yuchen, Hei Xiazi, Bai Haotian, Li Jiale, Jia Kezi, Wang Meng, Ye Piaopiao, Xiao Mei. (My one request is that if you include Jia Kezi or Ye Piaopiao, please no MCD. I'd prefer them to live.)
Non-Pingxie ships I like: Pangzi x Piaopiao, Jia Kezi x Li Jiale, please no HeiHua
Last year's TLTR babble and prompts
Gifting is turned on and treats of any variety are welcome. ^_^
AO3: eirenical (chibi1723)
tumblr: eirenical
Fic versus Art
Most of the more specific prompts have been written mostly with fic in mind just because I’m a writer and that’s how my brain works, but there are more nonspecific prompts in the “Likes” and “Prompts that work for all canons” sections that I think would make good art prompts? Of course, you are also welcome to delve into the sprawling mass of the other sections as well if you’d like something more specific. ^_^
Notes on rating, kink and general likes and dislikes (DNWs):
Rating and kink:
Rating: Any rating is fine for fic. For art, I would prefer to keep it SFW.
Kinks: I'll specify within specific fandoms and prompts if there are any particular kinks I might be interested in. Though I will say that I have a noncon kink a mile wide, so... that may come up once or twice in this letter. If that is a problem for you, please let the mods know (...full disclosure, in this case that's me), and I'll provide a noncon-prompt-free letter.
When it comes to whump and sexual activities, I generally prefer Wu Xie to be on the receiving end of both, but I am not opposed to Xiaoge being on the receiving end, if you have a strong preference in the other direction. (Or they can BOTH get whumped and do some switching. Both is good! ;D)
Likes: Some general things I like, along with some nonspecific tropes that I'm always up for, in case none of my prompts strike your fancy...
- Hurt/comfort
- Sick!fic
- Blanket scenario
- Caretaking (i.e., hair brushing, drawing a bath for someone/helping wash them, food is love, snuggling, hugging, all the nice nonsexual physical affections, etc.)
- There was only one bed/sleeping bag/cave!
- Huddling for Warmth
- Nightmares/soothing from nightmares
- Dramatic Irony Injury Reveal (Audience Knows About It But Other Characters Do Not)
- Curtain fic/Slice of Life
- PWP
- Canon Divergence
- Competence Porn
- King and Lionheart/fealty
- Found family
- Time Travel fix-its
- Time Loops
- Outsider POV
DNWs (do not wants):
- Entirely changed setting AUs, particularly mundane AUs (i.e. coffeehouse AUs, high school AUs, etc.) but also historical AUs, modern AUs, fantasy AUs, superhero AUs, etc., unless specified. (AUs of the canon divergence variety are fine.)
- Infidelity/cheating/going behind someone's back/etc.
- Embarrassment/secondhand embarrassment/humiliation
- Animal abuse or pet death. Referring to animals with the pronoun "it."
- Derealization: character believes they are in one situation and that turns out not to be true. (The old "it turns out the character is in a mental institution and all of canon was a hallucination" trope is a classic example of this.)
- No unrequested gender or sexuality headcanons or swaps
- The following kinks: Age play/infantilism, scat, watersports, omegaverse. (...basically, if I haven't listed it as something I'd like for a particular prompt/fandom, please err on the side of caution and just don't include it. Thanks!)
- Unrequested background ships. Within each canon, I will list any background ships I might be open to if you want to include them.
Prompts:
(Overall disclaimer: for any of these general prompts that aren’t sexual, Pangzi can absolutely be there, too, because I DO see him as being just as integral a part of the Iron Triangle as Wu Xie and Xiaoge are, but I do not want him as part of the ship or implied to be part of the ship.)
Prompts that work for all requested canons:
- Wu Xie gets injured in a tomb (or anywhere else for that matter XD) and Xiaoge has to take care of him/get him home safely.
- Wu Xie gets sick and Xiaoge has to take care of him. This can be anything from a minor cold with more fussing than is at all necessary to Wu Xie’s canonical cancer in TLTR.
- Getting together/first time fic: who makes the first move? Is it either of their first times? When does this happen? Does either of them think it’s just sex?
- COZY DOMESTIC PINGXIE. Curling up on the couch together, watching movies, reading to each other, soft, gentle caretaking like bathing together or brushing each other’s hair, soft gentle massages and/or hair petting, sitting inside warm and toasty with blankets and hot chocolate while snow falls outside, IDEK, but just… anything soft, cozy and domestic. ^_^
- Wu Xie taking Xiaoge out to have some fun somewhere, maybe? The beach? The movies? An amusement park? An outdoor festival? Fireworks? Or maybe Xiaoge introducing Wu Xie to something HE likes to do?
- Time Loop: one of them gets caught in a time loop and has to get them out of it, maybe falling in love with the other through the process?
- Time travel fix-it: One of them goes back in time and has to decide whether or not they want the course of their time together to change, and if so, what do they decide to change?
- *coughs* As mentioned, I have a noncon kink a mile wide, so… Wu Xie gets raped and Xiaoge has to help him through it/after the fact. (This could be a person or group of people or some creature in a tomb… tentacles could be fun… just saying… ^_^) Bonus: maybe Xiaoge has to watch it happening because he can’t interfere just yet or he’ll get them both killed?
Specific Requests:
- Movies: Time Raiders (2016)
- Novels: The Grave Robbers' Chronicles
- TV: The Lost Tomb 2 - Explore with the Note
- TV: The Lost Tomb Reboot/Reunion: the Sound of Providence
...I admit, I ran out of energy for talking about specific canons, so there's not much detail here as there would normally be. OTZ If you'd like more specific prompts, please contact the mods (...again me) and I'll be happy to write some specific prompts. I can also direct you to all of my letter from last year, which has SO MUCH DETAIL for the novels, TLT2, and TLTR. I'll write a bit more about the movie in this letter though, as I've never requested it before.
1. Movies: Time Raiders (2016)
Other Characters in the canon I also love: Wang Pangzi, A-Ning
Non-Pingxie ships I like: A-Ning x Wang Pangzi
The more times I watch this movie, the more I legit fall in love with it. It really is almost the steampunk futuristic AU of DMBJ canon. XD I love Xiaoge's almost mystical type origins and the way he and Wu Xie are just drawn to each other from the start. I love his little move where he cuts the cord on Wu Xie's necklace just so he can catch the coin and give it back to him. SMOOTH, XIAOGE. SO SMOOTH. I love his little brooding episode on the roof of the building while he stares at Wu Xie's image on a giant billboard news screen. I love the overall EPICNESS of everything in this canon. The stakes feel so high. Wu Xie and Xiaoge are just ride-or-die for each other in EVERY POSSIBLE WAY from the very beginning. But I love the moments of humor and the way this Xiaoge smiles and laughs so freely. (I also LOVE Pangzi and A-Ning in this so much and the way Pangzi so very clearly would happily follow her around on a leash by the end. XD)
This movie just FEELS like epic fantasy to me, with Xiaoge the fabled warrior returned from the past or waiting for a hundred years to fulfill his destiny, and the rivalry between he and Cox Hendry that ends up extending to the young scholar who's taken his side (Wu Xie) as a foil for the evil genius hiding in his futuristic lair. It's just SO MUCH. It feels grand and unapologetic about it and yet it doesn't take itself too seriously either? I mean... THE DANCE SEQUENCE. And Wu Xie, the pied piper of all things creepy and crawlie. SO MANY HILARIOUS THINGS PLAYED SO STRAIGHT EVEN WITH TONGUES PLANTED FIRMLY IN CHEEKS. XD IT'S A AMAZING. And it's become such a comfort movie for me. ^_^
So anything that leans into that would be wonderful. ^_^ Some kind of mucking about with time and immortality or time travel would work really well for this canon, I think. I'd also really love to see some kind of closure where Wu Xie and Xiaoge get their happy ending. Maybe Wu Xie comes home from telling his tale to the writer/reporter and Xiaoge is waiting for him. Or Wu Xie put that tale out into the world to draw Xiaoge back to him somehow. IDK. I just want them to get to live happily ever after after all of THAT. ^_^
As noted, for the next three, you can look at my letter from last year for much more detail, but I've at least given you characters and background ships I'd be OK with, as well as which novels I've read here. Sorry. Just ran out of steam. OTZ
2. Novels: The Grave Robbers' Chronicles)
Other Characters in the canon I also love: Wang Pangzi, Wu Yiqiong (Wu Xie’s father), Xie Yuchen, Huo Xiuxiu, Wu Erbai, Hei Xiazi, Pan Zi, Li Cu.
Non-Pingxie ships I like:
Books I have read: The main novel series, Chinese New Year’s Special Extras 1 (2009), 2 (2014), 3 (2015), Tibetan Sea Flower, Sand Sea (I have not, however, seen Tomb of the Sea, yet, so if you want to play in this canon era, please keep it to novel canon and novel characters or I’m liable to end up very confused O_o), Ten Years Later, Notes in Rain Village 1, 2. I have started the Restart novels, but have not gotten very far yet. I have read many of the tiny extras like Three Days of Silence, the ice bucket challenge extra, and quite a few others.
Books I haven’t read: any of the Mystic Nine timeline, Southern Archives, DHXS, or WSJY. (Those last two are the ones merebear lists as Restart 3 & 4.)
Last year's novel babble and prompts
3. TV: The Lost Tomb 2 - Explore with the Note
Other Characters in the canon I also love: Wang Pangzi, Xie Yuchen, Zhai Xingyao, Huo Xiuxiu, A-Ning, Pan Zi. (I also LOVE the flashback characters from episode 30-something, but I have no idea how you’d work them into a present day story. Time travel? Xiagoe knew Buxun before Buxun took up with Zhang Gaoyuan and has a flashback? Buxun actually wakes up in the present day? IDEK. It’s getting late and I’m getting a bit punchy. XD)
Non-Pingxie ships I like: Huo Xiuxiu x Xie Yuchen, Dou Cheng x Zhang Buxun, please no HeiHua.
Last year's TLT2 babble and prompts
4. TV: The Lost Tomb Reboot/Reunion: the Sound of Providence
Other Characters in the canon I also love: Wang Pangzi, Wu Erbai, Huo Daofu, Xie Yuchen, Hei Xiazi, Bai Haotian, Li Jiale, Jia Kezi, Wang Meng, Ye Piaopiao, Xiao Mei. (My one request is that if you include Jia Kezi or Ye Piaopiao, please no MCD. I'd prefer them to live.)
Non-Pingxie ships I like: Pangzi x Piaopiao, Jia Kezi x Li Jiale, please no HeiHua
Last year's TLTR babble and prompts