Worldbuilding Ex 2026

[desertvixen]

 

My general preferences are here.

My DNW: unrequested mundane AU | female characters in fridges | non-con | violent dub-con | graphic violence | gore | graphic sexual violence | cruelty/death to animals | cruelty/death to children | requested character death | unrelieved grimdark | bigotry by the good guys | first or second POV | reader fic | ABO | soulbonds | wildly OOC in a non-cracky way

My SMUT DNW: creampies | the word “cunt” | anal | hate each other out of bed | underage | incest

MAYBE: no-harm dubcon (sex pollen or “fertility artifact”) | period typical attitudes | infidelity | power dynamic

I love treats.

 

 

Nantucket Trilogy - S.M. Stirling 

WB: Tensions between uptimers and downtimers (Nantucket Trilogy)

WB: Nantucketers are the Sea Peoples (Nantucket Trilogy)

WB: Exploring the 1250 BCE World (Nantucket Trilogy)

WB: Exploring the Americas (Nantucket Trilogy)

WB: Revenge of William Walker's Side (Nantucket Trilogy)

Martha Cofflin (Nantucket Trilogy), Kathryn Hollard (Nantucket Trilogy), Doreen Arnstein (Nantucket Trilogy), Althea Walker (Nantucket Trilogy)

 

Honestly anything would be great for this fandom! I'd love to explore more about the world.

More in letter!

 

Primarily looking for the following:

As the trilogy closes, Althea Walker and Ohotolarix are riding into Central Asia. I don't think Walker's daughter stays down for long. How does she come back? Do they mount any attempts to find her?

It's always hinted that Kathryn is going to find herself more torn between her roles as Queen of Babylon and Nantucketer - show me more of that. I don't want her and Kashtiliash torn apart but I am good with some angst and a compromise. Or, what drives the stake in the alliance's heart? How does Kathryn feel about being on the wrong side?

Tensions go along with alliance with Babylon failing, but this I see as more of the little things that make it difficult for the two groups to get along. Maybe look at the experiences of downtime students who come to Nantucket - everyone can't be happy and welcoming.

Do any of their historians ever realize that the Nantucketers are LITERALLY the Sea Peoples? Are there conspiracy theories? Do they find some group to be the Sea Peoples?

The Nantucket Library - tell me about acquiring new works, or planting new satellite libraries elsewhere or explaining "late fees" to other cultures.

Exploring the Americas – They did the Lewis & Clark style expedtition, but is there MORE?  Also here for exploring eastward from the Near East?  Like is anyone trying to find Althea Walker (who We The Readers know is in the Ferghana Valley) or Vicki Cofflin and her crew (I throught of this AFTER noms, obviously) in the Tarim Basin?

So like, I just want MORE.  What happens next?  I’m never going to stop being salty about 10+ emberverse books and nothing more for this trilogy.

I love Kathryn/Kash and their adaptation to each other’s world.

Sea Peoples.  The Sea Peoples.  I can’t believe I just realized it a few years ago.

I don’t want Althea to win completely, but I wouldn’t be opposed to her carving out a little queendom and causing problems, but interacting with other players.

Martha Cofflin helping smooth things over, providing services through the library?  I feel like she and Kathryn could have some excellent chats.  How does the library get new titles?  Translations?  Late fees in barter?

But I mean honestly I would just love to read some Nantucket fanfic that I didn’t have to write.

 

For the next three requests, please FEEL FREE  to just smash them all together and mix and match if you like!  I will not mind.

He-Man and the Masters of the Universe (1983 Cartoon) 

WB: Earth-Eternia contact (He-Man 1983 Cartoon)

Marlena (He-Man 1983 Cartoon), Man-At-Arms (He-Man 1983 Cartoon), He-Man | Adam (He-Man 1983 Cartoon)

 

It does actually happen in the show but it's not done very well, and I would like more.

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Is there anything to indicate that Adam’s sword is different/special?  Does Marlena being from Earth have anything to do with her children’s special fate? 

Marlena Glenn is an astronaut from Earth who crashes on Eternia, falls for the king, and never goes home. Oh yeah, and her kids are superheroes.

There is an episode where Eternia and Earth make contact, but it's not the best. So give me a better one! Maybe some sort of rover/probe/space machine ends up on Eternia (yes, I would totally love a happy ending for a little space machine whose battery is running low and it's dark) and this leads to them making contact? I'd love to see Marlena at least visit home, or have vistors from home, or somehow open up communications.  This would be great for #6.  I especially like the idea of little space machines. Man-at-Arms could fix and improve it! I would also love the idea that Earth has been looking for Marlena. I'd also love a hint of the two of them sharing mechanical skills?

what constellations do the Eternians see? What are their stories? (Maybe one could be the Tiger? or the Champion? or the Falcon? or Duncan's Hammer?) Is Sol visible from Eternia?  Feel free to compare.

The space corridors, one of the really useful plot devices that...could have been used to send a young astronaut home? Is there one that can reach Earth? Pretty open here.  Or is there a reason the Sorceress never offers that up?

I am a Man-At-Arms/Sorceress shipper, so feel free to include.

I have seen Revelations and Revolution but not the reboot, so if you want to play on that I am in.  Obviously the space machine would be more of a probe than a rover, but that is Opportunity focused.  I'm good with something more introspective/romantic with the constellations one, and I would enjoy seeing Marlena get a message from home or even the chance to visit.

I cannot tell you how much I love this cartoon, and how much of my love centers on Adam and Marlena. I'm down for whatever story you want to tell about these two.

If I had to be on a desert island with only one 80s cartoon, this is the one I’d pick, every time.  And if you look at my fandoms, that’s saying quite a bit. 

I love Adam and He-Man.  I love how he’s conflicted, and how Marlena KNOWS.  The whole Rainbow Warrior episode, and the moment where she tells him that a mother knows what her son is capable of – that’s one of my favorite episodes in the whole series.  (Bonus points if you have jokes about comic book characters being what tips Marlena off). The feels, every time.  Or a fic where they visit Earth and Marlena gets to see her home?

Marlena:  Adapting to Eternia and how she feels?  Missing Earth?  Dreaming about bringing her two worlds together?  Wondering why she is the only one who sees Adam?

 

He-Man (1983)/She-Ra (1985) 

WB: Magical ties between Etheria and Eternia (He-Man/She-Ra)

WB: Castaspella's Pool of Vision (He-Man/She-Ra)

Castaspella (He-Man/She-Ra), Adam | He-Man (He-Man/She-Ra), Marlena (He-Man/She-Ra), Sorceress of Castle Grayskull (He-Man/She-Ra)

I always think of these two as one show, and I love Casta/Adam. Some sort of adventure or straight fluff?

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I prefer to ship Adam with Castaspella, and I love seeing the difference between how Adam acts on Eternia and Etheria.  I’d love to see her figure out his secret.  Or an AU where Adam was taken, not Adora?

So are there magical ties?  Could there be?  Casta and the Sorceress have to work together?

I am here for more use of the pool of vision and YES, Casta pulling him through.  Adam needs a break.  Maybe she sees him changing into He-Man and/or he needs a little help?

I would also be down for Marlena having a visit to Etheria.

Again, feel free to match with either the above/below requests!

 

Masters of the Universe: Revelations/Revolution (Netflix) 

WB: What Happens After Adam's Death (MOTU: R)

WB: Preternia (MOTU: R)

Original Character(s) (Masters of the Universe: Revelations/Revolution (Netflix)), Marlena (MOTU: R), Man-at-Arms (MOTU: R), Adam | He-Man (MOTU: R)Fanfiction

 

So while Adam was "dead" what exactly DID happen? Like we know some of the events but a story in this period would be excellent.

Or tell me more about Preternia.

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I have seen Revelations and Revolution.  I was not crazy about the Adam/Teela part, but it was an outgrowth of the  80s.

So I know a lot of original MOTU fans were not thrilled with this one, but I definitely wanted MORE.

I totally felt like Teela would become the next champion of Eternia.

We get the searing moment where Marlena reveals that she KNOWS Adam is He-Man, the moment where Randor learns (I would be totally down for introspection here).  I’d love to see Marlena interacting with Sorceress or Duncan, before or after – how does she feel about Adam being the Champion?  I’d be interested in how she feels about Duncan KNOWING and keeping it from them – betrayal, maybe?   How are they all dealing with it after Adam’s death?  How is everyone dealing with it, really?

How is Randor seeing Preternia?  Feel free to just expand on Preternia with original characters.

Dungeons and Dragons (Cartoon) 

WB: Portals that don't lead back to the Amusement Park (Dungeons and Dragons Cartoon)

WB: Other Parties in the Realm (Dungeons and Dragons Cartoon)

WB: Characters Forced to Return to The Realm (Dungeons and Dragons Cartoon)

WB: How Long are The Kids in the Realm? (Dungeons and Dragons Cartoon)

Eric | The Cavalier (Dungeons and Dragons Cartoon), Sheila | The Thief (Dungeons and Dragons Cartoon), Varla (Dungeons and Dragons Cartoon), Original Character(s) (Dungeons and Dragons (Cartoon))

 

So how long were they in the Realm vs reality?

DM has clearly brought other parties through - what happened to them?

Portals that take them other places?

Getting pulled back into the Realm?

More in letter!

How do the portals that don't lead home make them feel? Maybe a portal that appears to go home but just takes them elsewhere in the Realm? You can make this one a little darker if you like but eventually save them.  The portals that go elsewhere – I am totally down if you want to do a little time travel or they never existed/have been missing.

 

There have to have been other parties that DM brought through. What happened to them? Are they still trapped in the Realm? Might they join forces?

How long are they in the Realm vs. how long are they gone in the real world? Canon suggests that no one has even noticed they're gone.  I am good for either side of it.

They get home but get pulled back. Why? How do they feel about it?

I’m totally down for 1000+ words of description, scene-setting fluff.  Or a Back to the Realm story.

I’m a huge Eric/Sheila shipper.

I didn’t include Presto but if you use Varla, please feel free to ship those two like fire.