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Once Upon a Fic Letter 2019
Dearest mythographer,
Thank you for writing or drawing for me! I am looking forward to seeing whatever you create!
I consider all prompts as optional, but I added some ideas below in case you might find them helpful. Some are longer than others, but all are things I would love to receive! If none of my prompts work for you or you’d rather just work with a likes list, please feel free to use my general likes as something you can base your fic/art on, and ignore my prompts entirely.
In fact, feel free to be creative and create what you want as long as it doesn’t cross my DNW. I love everything from G-rated gen fic to E-rated full on smut-bangs, so feel free not to hold back on my account. If you are wondering if you can twist prompts/take them in different directions/etc. the answer is always an enthusiastic yes. Whether it be something sad, scary, fun, or just plain weird, as long as it avoids my DNW I am always down to play.
As far as fairy tales and myths go, I'm super into the way the stories can be changed and modified and told an retold for generations. I love a classical retelling that re-tells these stories (which I all love so much!) from a new point of view or adds ambiance to the traditional tale, but I also love it when they are taken in new and evocative directions, such as re-writing it in a new genre or changing characters in ways the Greeks may not have thought of. I am a fan of pretty much every retelling for what its worth and I can't wait to see what you create. <3
Read it here!
Oh man, I love this story so much. There are so many ways to interpret it: I know this story has a ton of different possibilities and I'm fine with just about all of them, though I prefer all the characters to have at least some redeeming features even if they're the villain (eg if Demeter is overprotective of her daughter, it's not because of a fear of her daughter escaping her abusive control but because she genuinely loves her daughter and doesn't want her to go through what Demeter did; if Hades is holding her captive, it's not because he's a cruel man who just wants to rape her every night). I have a particular love of any exploration of the underworld and any exploration of the politics inherent in this situation, an eternal marriage between gods: what's it like to arrange a royal marriage? How might the characters react to it?
Specific character prompts (mix and match or ignore entirely as you wish!:
Zeus: How does Zeus react to his brother's request for a wife? Does he pick Persephone out, or did Hades? Whose idea was the chariot thing? How does he feel watching Demeter searching for Persephone — does he ever check in with Hades and the girl? Or does he just hope Demeter won't find out? And how does his relationship with his brother/daughter/sister change after the compromise they make in the end?
Persephone: How does she react to being snatched up? Did she know Hades at all before the sudden abduction? Does he grow on her or does she view him as a captor? How does she deal with this much older man telling her he loves her? What sort of ways might he try to woo her - or does she decide she will woo him, deciding it's better to reign in hell than serve in heaven? Did she accept the pomegranate seed willingly, knowing what he was offering, or was it a trick? And if it was a trick, what happened the next time they were together? Does Hades ever visit her during the time she spends with her mother, and if so, how does that go?
Hades: He is so much older than Persephone - does that give him certain anxieties? Do they even share the same language/culture? Hades has been in the underworld for a long time — how much of Persephone's world is alien to him? What made him fall in love with Persephone? How does he prepare for his queen in the underworld? Does any of this go according to plan? What was going through his mind when Hermes came down - and did he really trick her into eating the seed? Does he ever visit Persephone during the time she spends with her mother, and if so, how does that go?
Demeter: Of all the daughters of Kronos, Demeter gets such a bad hand - eaten by her dad (!), raped by her brother Poseidon (!!), used as a side-piece by Zeus...she's bound to have some pretty negative opinions about the men in their line. How does she feel about Hades, once she finds out about him taking her daughter? Does she try to make peace with their marriage? Does he ever reach out to his sister? How do they handle those pass-offs of Perspehone between one another? Does she ever visit Persephone in Hades' domain? Does Hades ever come to Demeter's house to spend time with his wife? How does her relationship with Zeus change - can she ever trust him again after all this? What about her relationship with Persephone? Are they as close as they were at the start of the story, at the end?
Read it here!
This story just breaks my heart, and I'd love to see what happened after the myth's story ends. There's so much heartbreaking detail in this one: Orpheus' desire to power over death, and Eurydice, doomed by his own folly; we know what happened to Orpheus, but we have no idea what happened to Eurydice. I'd love to see something detailing her in the Underworld, especially how the Queen and King of the underworld treat her: did they know Orpheus would fail? Why offer him that test in the first place? Are they sympathetic to their second-time-through arrival Eurydice, or cold?
Specific character prompts (mix and match or ignore entirely as you wish!):
Persephone: Orpheus mentions to Persephone and Hades that "if the story of that rape in ancient times is not a lie, you also were wedded by Amor" — but is that really true for Persephone, who came to Hades so not because she desired it, but because Hades kidnapped her? Does Orpheus' casual assumption about her wedding remind her of what happened, and if so is she angry? Or is she happy to see how far they've come? How does she feel about Eurydice? When the girl comes back down to the Underworld, does the Queen try to help her situate herself? Or is she relatively pitiless, given how the men in her life have treated her?
Hades:It's noted that Hades couldn't refuse Orpheus' request, but little of what made a man well known for being so hard-hearted melted? Do his feelings for Persephone come into his ruling for Orpheus and his bride? Do they ever discuss Orpheus' and what happened — does their relationship change based on Orpheus' words/song? Why does he give Orpheus the test he gives - does he expect him to fail, or does he hope he succeeds? (Either way, Hades somewhat wins: he either gets Eurydice's soul now, and Orpheus' later, or both of them later, but as Orpheus points out, they're all coming to him in the end.) How does he react to seeing the girl in the underworld - does he try to comfort her? Or does he simply view her as a failed experiment and cooly send her to whatever end he was planning to in the first place?
Eurydice: We've got plenty of what happened to Orpheus after he failed — what about Eurydice? What's she up to in the underworld? What is it like being a dead soul wandering in it? Since she was a nymph, the idea of death must be pretty weird to her. Does she ever get used to it? Does she get to drink the waters of Lethe and start over? What does she think of the Queen and King of the realm?
Read it here!
The Titanomachy is one of my favorite events in the mythos and I'd LOVE to see a retelling of it from anyone's point of view who isn't Zeus. It's such a sad family story — Cronus' madness, the war between parents and children, the cosmos torn apart and re-made by a generation of Gods who, save Zeus, have known nothing but war and darkness! It's so sad and so compelling and I'm basically hungry for anything and everything here with the characters I chose. I know the war is a big prompt and I'd be more than happy seeing a tiny piece of it as well!
Specific character prompts (mix and match or ignore entirely as you wish!):
Hestia: Hestia is the firstborn, and first devoured. How did she react to that? Did she grow while she was caged within her father's stomach? Did she have to provide for the other gods and goddesses, and if so, did this play in the development of her powers as the goddess of hearth and home? She is the quietest Olympian, but did she have any role in the war? What made her so quiet? What made her vow not to marry?
Hera: Hera is such a firey woman, and I'd love to see how she handled the war. Was she sweet on Zeus even then? Did she intend on taking power for herself? How does she feel about her father and her mother? Does she ever visit either once she is queen of heaven? How does she feel about taking over Rhea's position?
Rhea: Does Rhea ever feel guilty for supporting her children over her husband? Does she ever visit her husband in Tartarus? Does she still love Cronus, even after he ate all their children? Does she not want anything to do with him? How is her relationship with the five children she allowed to be eaten - do they trust her, or is it only Zeus she's close to? Does she feel guilty? Or does she feel she did what had to be done?
Cronus: I would love to see something based on Cronus toward the end of the war, when it is becoming more and more obvious he'll lose. How does he take this downfall? Is he amused by the way the fates have tricked him, or is he just bitter that the fates have hamstrung him with a fate he tried to beat back but never could? When he's kept in Tartarus, do he and Hades and/or Rhea ever have little chats? Does he ever encourage his eldest son or his wife to loosen his chains? What does he think about the children who he once devoured, and how they rule the cosmos in his stead?
Hades: Hades is the child who came into the war with the most to gain, and wound up being the one who lost the most. The eldest son, he was born to be the king of the Titans but wound up king of the Underworld. His youngest brother gets all the kudos, and he gets stuck babysitting dad and a bunch of Titans who never liked him much. Was he disappointed to draw the underworld, or did he secretly want to go back into the darkness? How does he handle being Chronus' captor — is he cruel to the Titans, or does he pity them? The fate he subjects them to is similar to what Chronos put them through — forcing them to be chained in darkness forever...did he do this on purpose? What's his relationship with his other siblings, after drawing such a fate?
Read it here!
Medea is absolutely a favorite play of mine and a favorite character; she's such a stone-cold woman and I love how crafty she is. Medea fears no man, and can't be contained by them either. I love how when a man does her wrong, she commits to doing what she feels must be done, and she is the only child killer in ancient Greece who isn't shown as doing so under a god's madness. She committed to her path, and she did not blink, and while what she does is reprehensible, I think there's a clarity of mind there that I'd love to see explored.
Specific character prompts (mix and match or ignore entirely as you wish!!):
Medea: Why does she commit to the path she does? Does her god-blood make her more cavalier with human life? She's presented as a god when she confronts Jason at the end of the play when it was staged in ancient times - using the mechane and all! Does she transcend humanity through the blood she's spilled? Or is she allowed to spill it because she is a god, and Jason merely human? How does she get Helios to use his chariot to transport their children - and does he care at all that Medea has just murdered his great-grandchildren, or are mortals even more remote to someone as old as Helios? Does he care at all over this strange grandchild? Does she regret her actions at all, or view Jason as having had this coming for spurning her? Do the gods ever punish her, or view her as the wronged party? Does she bury her children in Hera's grove, and what message did she want to send by doing so? I'd love to see any sort of turn for her, whether it is sympathetic or not.
Thank you for writing or drawing for me! I am looking forward to seeing whatever you create!
I consider all prompts as optional, but I added some ideas below in case you might find them helpful. Some are longer than others, but all are things I would love to receive! If none of my prompts work for you or you’d rather just work with a likes list, please feel free to use my general likes as something you can base your fic/art on, and ignore my prompts entirely.
In fact, feel free to be creative and create what you want as long as it doesn’t cross my DNW. I love everything from G-rated gen fic to E-rated full on smut-bangs, so feel free not to hold back on my account. If you are wondering if you can twist prompts/take them in different directions/etc. the answer is always an enthusiastic yes. Whether it be something sad, scary, fun, or just plain weird, as long as it avoids my DNW I am always down to play.
As far as fairy tales and myths go, I'm super into the way the stories can be changed and modified and told an retold for generations. I love a classical retelling that re-tells these stories (which I all love so much!) from a new point of view or adds ambiance to the traditional tale, but I also love it when they are taken in new and evocative directions, such as re-writing it in a new genre or changing characters in ways the Greeks may not have thought of. I am a fan of pretty much every retelling for what its worth and I can't wait to see what you create. <3
- 5 Times/Five Things
- Canon-Divergent AUs e.g. "What if Character A went left instead of right?"
- Darkfic, including bad-guys-win and character death
- Epistolary/Found Documents Fic
- In-World (fiction or nonfiction) articles/stories
- First time(s)/ Last Time(s)
- Hurt/ Comfort
- Metafiction/ Interactive Fiction
- Past Third, Present Third, Second or First Person Perspective(s)
- Third Person Narration/ "Different Points of View" (e.g. Char A observes Char B & Char C)
- Arranged Marriage
- Bad guys win / Villian Victorious
- Body horror
- Came Back Wrong/resurrection tropes
- Changing Sides
- Character Death
- Characters who say "I love you" in their actions without actually saying/being able to say "I Love you" in their wordsComplicated Relationships
- Conflicted Loyalties
- Desperate kisses and embraces
- Domestic scenes
- Doomed relationships
- Dystopias
- Eldrich/Eerie things
- Experienced/Inexperienced partnerships
- Fake Marriage/dating
- Fluff/moments of happiness
- Forbidden/Star-Crossed Relationships
- Gender fluidity/experimentation
- Generational Divide/complications in may/december relationships
- Ghosts or other spooky/supernatural occurrences
- Gods being inhuman/unusual
- Grey Morality
- Hurt/Comfort in pretty much any form
- Irreconcilable differences leading to conflict between lovers (but not an absense of love)
- Jealousy
- Lovers caught on opposite sides of a conflict
- Loyalty Kink
- Lust/UST/Pining
- Mindfuckery - the more twisted the better
- Mission/Case fic
- Misunderstandings
- Myths/legends/cultural traditions
- Non-Canon exploration of Character's Gender
- Non-Penatrative sex
- Non-verbal communication and quiet intimacy
- Outsider POV
- Penatrative Sex
- Phyrric victories
- Physical recovery from injury
- Playing with danger, eg a character being able to hurt another but not doing so (despite them both knowing they could);I also love this being subverted (e.g. known bad-ass A has to be rescued by not-so-badass B)
- Politics
- Possessiveness
- Power differences
- Powerplay
- Pregnancy, including alien/unusual pregnancy
- Protectiveness
- Redemption being complicated and not easy
- Rule 63/Genderswapping from M to F for one or more requested characters
- Relationships bringing out the worst in one another
- Shows of trust and intimacy
- Snippets of long-term relationships at different points in the relationship
- Trapped in a snowstorm/eathquake/etc
- Trust kink
- Unhappy and/or complicated endings
- Unhealthy Relationships and/or Codependency
- Unreliable narrator
- World-building
- Aftercare
- Anal sex
- Bathing
- Body worship
- BDSM
- Blowjob(s)
- Breathplay/Chokeplay
- Cunnilingus
- Dubcon
- First Time/Losing Virginity
- fail!sex or humorous sex
- Fem-Dom
- M!Dom
- Pegging
- Porn with plot/porn as a character exploration
- PiV sex
- Pregnancy/Impregnation kink
- Quickies/Sex in Public Places/Situations
- Ritual(istic) Sex
- Rough sex
- Sex Pollen
- Sex on tables/desks/chairs/other furniture
- Switching/Reversal of top/bottom dynamic
- Shows of total trust
- Size kink
- Slow and tender sex
- Tending to another's scars/cuts/etc
- Voyeurism
- xeno or other kinds of "unusual" sexual organs (I am up for anything here:tentacles, burrs, cloaca, whatever)
- Atmospheric glimpses of a scene
- Costume Redesigns (especially for characters who are clotheshorses)
- Cuddles, kisses, and other displays of affection
- Family/couples/friends portraits or snapshots
- Limited pallets (black and white, two toned, whatever)
- Unusual viewpoints (e.g. not seeing someone head-on/three-quarters)
- Views that tell a story by what they hide as much as what they reveal - eg, a smut scene illustrated by two characters' hands and nothing else)
- A/B/O
- Aged-Up/Aged-Down characters (setting stories in the future/past is fine, just please don't make A magically the same age as/closer in age to B)
- High School/College/Coffee Shop/Mundane/Everyday Canon-Replacement AUs (Canon Replacement AUs in fantastical settings - Lovecraftian, Sci-Fi, etc - are welcome!)
- Extremely Underage Characters in Sexual Situations (I recognize canon Persephone is probably young, but please let her be post-pubescent)
- Infidelity (mentioning Persephone is the product of such is fine, but I'd prefer not to see a focus on it)
- Scat/Urine/Vomitplay
Likes:
+Genre/Narrative Likes:
+ Favorite Kinks and Tropes:
+ Smut-Specific Likes:
+ Art-Specific Likes:
+ Do Not Want:
Prompts:
Hymn to Demeter - Homer
Read it here!
Oh man, I love this story so much. There are so many ways to interpret it: I know this story has a ton of different possibilities and I'm fine with just about all of them, though I prefer all the characters to have at least some redeeming features even if they're the villain (eg if Demeter is overprotective of her daughter, it's not because of a fear of her daughter escaping her abusive control but because she genuinely loves her daughter and doesn't want her to go through what Demeter did; if Hades is holding her captive, it's not because he's a cruel man who just wants to rape her every night). I have a particular love of any exploration of the underworld and any exploration of the politics inherent in this situation, an eternal marriage between gods: what's it like to arrange a royal marriage? How might the characters react to it?
Specific character prompts (mix and match or ignore entirely as you wish!:
Zeus: How does Zeus react to his brother's request for a wife? Does he pick Persephone out, or did Hades? Whose idea was the chariot thing? How does he feel watching Demeter searching for Persephone — does he ever check in with Hades and the girl? Or does he just hope Demeter won't find out? And how does his relationship with his brother/daughter/sister change after the compromise they make in the end?
Persephone: How does she react to being snatched up? Did she know Hades at all before the sudden abduction? Does he grow on her or does she view him as a captor? How does she deal with this much older man telling her he loves her? What sort of ways might he try to woo her - or does she decide she will woo him, deciding it's better to reign in hell than serve in heaven? Did she accept the pomegranate seed willingly, knowing what he was offering, or was it a trick? And if it was a trick, what happened the next time they were together? Does Hades ever visit her during the time she spends with her mother, and if so, how does that go?
Hades: He is so much older than Persephone - does that give him certain anxieties? Do they even share the same language/culture? Hades has been in the underworld for a long time — how much of Persephone's world is alien to him? What made him fall in love with Persephone? How does he prepare for his queen in the underworld? Does any of this go according to plan? What was going through his mind when Hermes came down - and did he really trick her into eating the seed? Does he ever visit Persephone during the time she spends with her mother, and if so, how does that go?
Demeter: Of all the daughters of Kronos, Demeter gets such a bad hand - eaten by her dad (!), raped by her brother Poseidon (!!), used as a side-piece by Zeus...she's bound to have some pretty negative opinions about the men in their line. How does she feel about Hades, once she finds out about him taking her daughter? Does she try to make peace with their marriage? Does he ever reach out to his sister? How do they handle those pass-offs of Perspehone between one another? Does she ever visit Persephone in Hades' domain? Does Hades ever come to Demeter's house to spend time with his wife? How does her relationship with Zeus change - can she ever trust him again after all this? What about her relationship with Persephone? Are they as close as they were at the start of the story, at the end?
Orpheus and Eurydice (Metamorphoses - Ovid)
Read it here!
This story just breaks my heart, and I'd love to see what happened after the myth's story ends. There's so much heartbreaking detail in this one: Orpheus' desire to power over death, and Eurydice, doomed by his own folly; we know what happened to Orpheus, but we have no idea what happened to Eurydice. I'd love to see something detailing her in the Underworld, especially how the Queen and King of the underworld treat her: did they know Orpheus would fail? Why offer him that test in the first place? Are they sympathetic to their second-time-through arrival Eurydice, or cold?
Specific character prompts (mix and match or ignore entirely as you wish!):
Persephone: Orpheus mentions to Persephone and Hades that "if the story of that rape in ancient times is not a lie, you also were wedded by Amor" — but is that really true for Persephone, who came to Hades so not because she desired it, but because Hades kidnapped her? Does Orpheus' casual assumption about her wedding remind her of what happened, and if so is she angry? Or is she happy to see how far they've come? How does she feel about Eurydice? When the girl comes back down to the Underworld, does the Queen try to help her situate herself? Or is she relatively pitiless, given how the men in her life have treated her?
Hades:It's noted that Hades couldn't refuse Orpheus' request, but little of what made a man well known for being so hard-hearted melted? Do his feelings for Persephone come into his ruling for Orpheus and his bride? Do they ever discuss Orpheus' and what happened — does their relationship change based on Orpheus' words/song? Why does he give Orpheus the test he gives - does he expect him to fail, or does he hope he succeeds? (Either way, Hades somewhat wins: he either gets Eurydice's soul now, and Orpheus' later, or both of them later, but as Orpheus points out, they're all coming to him in the end.) How does he react to seeing the girl in the underworld - does he try to comfort her? Or does he simply view her as a failed experiment and cooly send her to whatever end he was planning to in the first place?
Eurydice: We've got plenty of what happened to Orpheus after he failed — what about Eurydice? What's she up to in the underworld? What is it like being a dead soul wandering in it? Since she was a nymph, the idea of death must be pretty weird to her. Does she ever get used to it? Does she get to drink the waters of Lethe and start over? What does she think of the Queen and King of the realm?
Theogony - Hesiod
Read it here!
The Titanomachy is one of my favorite events in the mythos and I'd LOVE to see a retelling of it from anyone's point of view who isn't Zeus. It's such a sad family story — Cronus' madness, the war between parents and children, the cosmos torn apart and re-made by a generation of Gods who, save Zeus, have known nothing but war and darkness! It's so sad and so compelling and I'm basically hungry for anything and everything here with the characters I chose. I know the war is a big prompt and I'd be more than happy seeing a tiny piece of it as well!
Specific character prompts (mix and match or ignore entirely as you wish!):
Hestia: Hestia is the firstborn, and first devoured. How did she react to that? Did she grow while she was caged within her father's stomach? Did she have to provide for the other gods and goddesses, and if so, did this play in the development of her powers as the goddess of hearth and home? She is the quietest Olympian, but did she have any role in the war? What made her so quiet? What made her vow not to marry?
Hera: Hera is such a firey woman, and I'd love to see how she handled the war. Was she sweet on Zeus even then? Did she intend on taking power for herself? How does she feel about her father and her mother? Does she ever visit either once she is queen of heaven? How does she feel about taking over Rhea's position?
Rhea: Does Rhea ever feel guilty for supporting her children over her husband? Does she ever visit her husband in Tartarus? Does she still love Cronus, even after he ate all their children? Does she not want anything to do with him? How is her relationship with the five children she allowed to be eaten - do they trust her, or is it only Zeus she's close to? Does she feel guilty? Or does she feel she did what had to be done?
Cronus: I would love to see something based on Cronus toward the end of the war, when it is becoming more and more obvious he'll lose. How does he take this downfall? Is he amused by the way the fates have tricked him, or is he just bitter that the fates have hamstrung him with a fate he tried to beat back but never could? When he's kept in Tartarus, do he and Hades and/or Rhea ever have little chats? Does he ever encourage his eldest son or his wife to loosen his chains? What does he think about the children who he once devoured, and how they rule the cosmos in his stead?
Hades: Hades is the child who came into the war with the most to gain, and wound up being the one who lost the most. The eldest son, he was born to be the king of the Titans but wound up king of the Underworld. His youngest brother gets all the kudos, and he gets stuck babysitting dad and a bunch of Titans who never liked him much. Was he disappointed to draw the underworld, or did he secretly want to go back into the darkness? How does he handle being Chronus' captor — is he cruel to the Titans, or does he pity them? The fate he subjects them to is similar to what Chronos put them through — forcing them to be chained in darkness forever...did he do this on purpose? What's his relationship with his other siblings, after drawing such a fate?
Medea (Medea - Euripides)
Read it here!
Medea is absolutely a favorite play of mine and a favorite character; she's such a stone-cold woman and I love how crafty she is. Medea fears no man, and can't be contained by them either. I love how when a man does her wrong, she commits to doing what she feels must be done, and she is the only child killer in ancient Greece who isn't shown as doing so under a god's madness. She committed to her path, and she did not blink, and while what she does is reprehensible, I think there's a clarity of mind there that I'd love to see explored.
Specific character prompts (mix and match or ignore entirely as you wish!!):
Medea: Why does she commit to the path she does? Does her god-blood make her more cavalier with human life? She's presented as a god when she confronts Jason at the end of the play when it was staged in ancient times - using the mechane and all! Does she transcend humanity through the blood she's spilled? Or is she allowed to spill it because she is a god, and Jason merely human? How does she get Helios to use his chariot to transport their children - and does he care at all that Medea has just murdered his great-grandchildren, or are mortals even more remote to someone as old as Helios? Does he care at all over this strange grandchild? Does she regret her actions at all, or view Jason as having had this coming for spurning her? Do the gods ever punish her, or view her as the wronged party? Does she bury her children in Hera's grove, and what message did she want to send by doing so? I'd love to see any sort of turn for her, whether it is sympathetic or not.