the_glow_worm

 I'm so excited to get something from you! Please know that I will love it no matter what. My likes and prompts are optional, so if you have something in mind you feel passionately about, go for it!

DNWs: Mpreg, alpha/omega dynamics, barista/high school/college AUs, second person narrative, unrequested crossovers or fusions, dragons as humans (children or otherwise) or dogs or some other mundane non-sapient creature. Art-specific: please nothing that will trigger my trypophobia!

Laurence/Granby

Dear Creator,

I am SO looking forward to what you create for me! I hope you take my prompts as springboards for your own imagination, and don't feel hemmed in by them. I love to be surprised and to see what a creator has for me that I could never imagine. My prompts are sorted by relationship, below, in no particular order. As a general note, unrequested characters or ships appearing in the background are perfectly okay with me. I like almost every character and I ship almost any pairing. PWPs and smut for any pairing requested would be fantastic too. I'm also generally forgiving with my DNWs - if you're in a situation where you're worrying that a sentence or two is accidentally gonna brush up against a DNW, you're likely fine! As long as you're not making central use of a DNW, don't feel you have to tiptoe.

DNWs: Underage, mpreg, A/B/O, barista/high school/college AUs, arranged marriage, feminization, racial slurs, heavy narrative focus on infidelity, mass-shooter-style gun violence, second person narrative, unrequested crossovers or fusions, dragons as humans (children or otherwise) or dogs or some other mundane non-sapient creature. Art-specific: please nothing that will trigger my trypophobia!

General Likes: hand-kissing, music/singing, dramatic reveals, beautiful clothing, costumes, angst, joy, whump, pining, scars, court politics, flirting, dancing, food, loyalty, kneeling, undressing, competence, service, magic, folklore and fairy tales, fantastic/mythic AUs, extremely specific modern AUs, casefic

Art Likes: I love "cleaned-up sketchiness", strong lines/strong pens, bold strokes, watercolors (or digital equivalent), charcoals and chalks (or digital equivalent), black and white, bright jewel tones, deep saturated tones, a feeling of motion, a painterly style, sketchbook style, Asian scroll painting and calligraphy, art deco style, tarot card style, anime style, Western cartoon style, comic book style, realistic style, unusual or unique art styles, visual puns, fun or dramatic poses; I rarely ever have thoughts on backgrounds but I guess I like them to not be distracting?

Photomanip Likes: This is something I'm going to have a particularly hard time to prompt for, but I honestly think I'll like whatever I get! I love poetry, both western and eastern, I love lines from plays, I love nature, a sense of wildness and freedom, images that tie together to tell a story, interesting or unusual interpretations, subtle editing. I'm not over-attached to any facecast over another.

Smut Likes: creative use of flight harnesses, undressing, biting, comeplay, rough sex, very rough sex, gentle sex, slow emotional sex, sloppy desperate sex, body worship, large cocks, blowjobs, rimming, spanking, doggy-style, crying, begging, all shades of consent or non-consent as long as it is appropriately tagged, desperation, first time/virginity loss, sex pollen and similar

Fic & Art & Photomanips
Laurence/Granby and Laurence & Granby:
I love these two as lovers, and also love them as friends and comrades. Feel free to take any of these prompts for shippiness or platonic feels.

I love the trust and the depth of the bond that has grown up between them throughout the years. Granby followed Laurence all the way around the world, poor man! I would love to know when he realized he was in love with Laurence. I loved the thorniness between Granby and Laurence in the very beginning. I have a lot of feelings about how this relationship started with Granby as Laurence's subordinate, and all the loyalty inherent in that position. I imagine it's especially tangled for lieutenants of dragon captains, because their job is to protect their captain's life at absolutely all costs. Did Granby initially brush off his feelings of love/like as just part of his job, or did he always know Laurence was special?

I love their canon adventures together. I would love something from the early days in the covert--show me Granby teaching Laurence about dragons and having domestic covert happiness. Or on the battlefields of Europe, taking a little comfort in each other's company. I want to read approximately 5 million takes on Granby's coming-out to Laurence. The fact that we know that Granby is a skilled sketch artist absolutely fucking thrills me. Granby drawing Laurence? In bed, maybe? Or maybe from a distance, and Laurence finds out about it. I bet that Granby was treated differently growing up in the covert for being poor, and not being a gentleman--does Laurence find out about it? How does he react?

Canon divergence or full AU would also be incredible. If you've read Golden Age, maybe a continuation of the main story? How does Granby react when Laurence the sea captain shows up in Dover with a prime heavyweight, a flock of lightweight harriers, and five ships full of gold? Oh my god, maybe a role reversal where Laurence is the talented aviator lieutenant and Granby is the random coal merchant/Army captain who somehow got his hands on a fire-breather.


Laurence/Tharkay:
I would like any story about their relationship, and how they kindle it or keep it going. I love how competent both characters are, and would love to see them using their skills together.

I would love to see a story set in an alternate universe. The more alternate the better--like, straight into the highest of high fantasy. Laurence is a brave knight serving the realm, and Tharkay is a half-elf outcast; Laurence is a skilled battlemage, and Tharkay is a foreign witch, looked on with suspicion for using dark magic; Laurence is the Captain of the Palace Guard, and Tharkay is a royal bastard, born of an outlander concubine, legitimized on the king's deathbed, seeking his right to the throne. Other characters can be normal humans or magic-users or selkies or demons or anything else you like as you see fit. I'd like the dragons to still be dragons, or some other type of large magical creature.

Or if you really love the Napoleonic setting--and don't we all--maybe a missing scene from the books. How did Laurence react when Tharkay and Temeraire returned to him in Russia? Or a scene from the crossing of the Taklamakan, or from the Allegiance. Their post-series lives together are a potential goldmine as well! One thing that I always loved about Tharkay was his affinity for falconry, a beautiful and incredible sport with a rich history. Does Laurence go hunting with him? Or help him capture a new bird?

I love canon-divergent AUs! If you've read Golden Age, I wouldn't mind seeing the Laurence/Tharkay continuation of the main story. What if Laurence and Tharkay met earlier in the series? Tharkay is engaged in questionable operations on a privateer and Laurence takes the ship as a prize. Or Tharkay had started working for Napoleon and is engaged as a spy?

Granby/Tharkay:
I actually think they could be a really interesting pair. It seems to me that most of their interaction in the books is through Laurence, but what if they were made to step outside of that dynamic for a moment? Maybe Laurence is indisposed in some way and they have to work together somehow to help him. This would be an amazing casefic, actually, if there's some kind of mystery involved? Or if they have to work together directly in their capacities as spy and dragon captain. I can see them realizing that they have a spark, once they get to know each other better. I love the idea of the friction between Granby's honesty, bravery, and loyalty, and Tharkay's pride, elusiveness, and incisiveness. Are they both inverts, and meet realizing that they have a secret in common? Oh god, what if they slept together way back before the series, and now they have to keep it hidden from Laurence once they meet again? I think Granby and Tharkay both love courage, and they both have heaps of that, in different ways. I'd be really interested in something for this pairing!

Granby & Iskierka:
Me: Poor Granby, he ended up with the brattiest and most unmanageable dragon imaginable
ALSO me: Iskierka is an angel who has never done anything wrong in her life, ever

I would love to know more about Granby and his terrible child. I love how much they love each other, even if Iskierka shows it in...misguided ways. Iskierka's willfulness, immaturity, and selfishness are simultaneously infuriating and endearing to me. Honestly, I love Iskierka. I like her growth throughout the series. It's minimal, yes, but it's there, I swear! Maybe something about Iskierka growing up? Iskierka says something thoughtful and Granby just stares at her for like, four days. Or the other direction, an excerpt from their days of Channel piracy? I thought that moment in Crucible of Gold--where Iskierka is so pleased to have the sailors cheering for her and shows off for them while Granby yells--was so cute. I could be really into seeing more of that. Sailors love seeing Iskierka on the horizon because it means they get their prize for no work, naval captains hate her, Granby has to awkwardly smooth everything over.

I would love to know about her and Granby's adventures as Admiral and flag-dragon at Edinburgh. Or ooh, meeting Granby's family in Newcastle? His coal-miner brothers getting all nervous around her XD. Are there quiet things that Granby and Iskierka like to do together, like how Temeraire and Laurence like to read? I would love to know your take.

Laurence & Emily Roland:
I love the bond between Laurence and Emily. I want to know about them bonding, about Laurence giving Emily lessons in fencing and combat and, ugh, arithmetic, teenage Emily, angry at the world, defending Laurence with her fists when he's convicted of treason, Emily and Laurence fighting the world together, Laurence awkwardly giving Emily advice on boys because Jane's advice is always to drop him when he becomes troublesome, Emily writing letters when she's off and become her own captain, Emily making house calls in London and at Tharkay's estate, acknowledging each other as father and daughter--or never speaking of it and just knowing it in their hearts, Emily and Laurence, still fencing after all these years.

Laurence & Emily Roland/Demane:
Poor Laurence, trying to play chaperone for two teenagers in the Regency period. I imagine his mixture of concern, over-investment, and pride. I imagine Emily and Demane writing to each other between England and Gibraltar, and Laurence writing to both, trying to smooth over their teenage spats and make wise decisions. Epistolary fic could be so much fun for that!

OR! At Emily and Demane's wedding. Laurence in the front row (or walking her down the aisle...oh my god, my heart), just that proud and so, so happy. I love it, give me all of it.

Laurence/Hammond
I might be the only person alive who ships it, but hey, it's worth a shot? Listen, Hammond is thirsty af for Laurence and I will die on this hill, and yes, I want all of it.

Maybe Hammond is the type who grew up reading wild adventure novels but put them away dutifully when he grew up: and now here Laurence appeared, like a lead in one of those Defoe novels. Or maybe you could write about their weird acquaintanceship, and how one day it became something more. I always found the scene in League of Dragons where Hammond is trying to warm Laurence's pistols for him really touching. Actually that entire duel is like catnip! I like that Laurence and Hammond have only a grudging friendship at the best of times, and open bitterness at worst, and how they are constantly side-eyeing each other over their different priorities in life, but when push comes to shove, Hammond will take Laurence's pistols and put his life in danger to defend him. Actually when you think about it, Hammond didn't need to go that hard for Laurence all the time. He got Laurence restored to the list with seniority--can you just imagine him just being extremely annoying at everyone in the Admiralty until someone finally gives in? Fic about Hammond harnessing his superpower of being incredibly irritating in order to help Laurence post-canon would be hilarious. Or maybe a serious take on the duel, and what happened after. That moment in the beginning of Crucible of Gold where Hammond sees Laurence with a beard for the first time is a peak "Oh No He's Hot" moment--I'd love to see an exploration of that.

Wellington & Perscitia
Their interactions were some of the funniest parts of Victory of Eagles. I loved that they were equally brilliant but also equally snippy and irritable. I like to imagine they have a quiet appreciation for each other's intelligence, er, very deep down. I love the idea of being companions or friends, but a lifelong and dedicated frenemyship is honestly just as good.

I would love a slight canon divergence where Perscitia spent the war becoming one of Wellington's top advisors, with her keen eye and head for strategy. Maybe they even go up flying--strictly to scout the enemy lines, of course. What does Wellington think of Perscitia's cowardice? Is he baffled, contemptuous, pitying, surprised? Maybe they're butting heads all the time, but Perscitia's input always improves the line of battle. Maybe Perscitia ends up going with him to Portugal--that would be so interesting to see. I love Napoleonic war history.

Or--Wellington also became a MP after the war (as a Tory), and I just imagine them arguing all the time. Everyone else gets tired of it and they're both still going. "Please, shut up about the corn laws," everyone cries, but they have already moved on to about five different topics. No one is surprised when Perscitia becomes his companion so they can argue full-time.

Anahuarque/William Laurence/Napoleon Bonaparte
Um, I don't have any prompts on this one. I just think they could have a scorching hot threesome.

Art only
Temeraire
Iskierka
Temeraire & Iskierka

I would love to see any type of art for my two favorite dragons, by themselves or together. My list of art likes is above, and believe me, they only represent a small sample of things I like about art! If you have been dying to try out a new or unusual style that you're not sure will land, this is your moment! Seize it! Prompts below are optional--I also like art that's a little abstract, or where the subject isn't doing anything in particular, so if that interests you, or if you want to draw something completely different, that's fine with me.

You know the genre in fantasy art that's basically, "a dragon looks at a landscape looking all majestic and shit"? Yeah, I lap that stuff up. I can't get enough. Temeraire in some field, looking off into the distance: yes. Iskierka in the Scottish Highlands, smoking like a cigar: yes.

I love visual references and jokes. I would be really into seeing dragons in the modern day, interacting with our modern world. I happen to be thinking about art at the moment because I'm prompting this, so dragons with paints and brushes? Dragons at the MOMA? (Temeraire vs Rothko? Does Iskierka have strong ideas on what kind of "art" should be burned down? :P) However, I'm not attached to any particular setting, whether it's in Napoleonic era, some other part of history, or an alternate universe.

I thought the end of League of Dragons, where Temeraire is letting Laurence's little nephews play on him, was so cute. I'd love to have a visual of that. I've also always loved how Novik describes the divine wind, how mythic and unearthly it is, how you can almost see it without seeing it. I'd love to see a way of capturing that in art.

I love how extra Iskierka is, always flaming off. You could show her in action, battling and roasting her enemies, or maybe show a gentler side of her, making campfires and toasting marshmallows for a new generation of cadets.

 

I already know I’m so excited to see what you write or draw, whether it’s closely or loosely inspired by my prompts, or whether you let your imagination run wild! I love seeing how creators take prompts and put their own spin on them.

Hard DNWs: Underage, scat, vore, watersports, extreme humiliation, public humiliation, mpreg, bloodplay, childbirth, body modification, A/B/O, soulmarks/soulmates, mundane AUs, arranged marriage, gun violence, second person narrative. Art specific: I have trypophobia, so please nothing that will trigger that

General Likes: hand-kissing, music/singing, dramatic reveals, beautiful clothing, costumes, angst, joy, whump, pining, court politics, flirting, dancing, food, loyalty, competence, service, magic, folklore and fairy tales, fantastic/mythic AUs

Smut Likes: biting, comeplay, rough sex, slow emotional sex, body worship, large cocks, spanking, doggy-style, crying, begging, all shades of consent or non-consent as long as it is appropriately tagged, desperation, first time/virginity loss, sex pollen and similar

Requests for:

( Crazy Rich Asians )

( Discworld )

( Dragon's Winter )

( The Haunting of Hill House (book) )

( Spinning Silver )

 

( The Hobbit )