This is an open entry for prompts, questions, headcanons, etc. If there's anything you want to ask, post it here!

Anonymous comments are enabled and all comments are screened, to best approximate the askbox experience. Anyone can ask me things, and only I will see the comments until I choose to answer them. I'll reply to all questions in the form of public posts so that lurkers and anonymous commenters are able to read the responses.

Apologies in advance for the amount of time it takes to work through questions -- I'm notoriously slow at responses, but I love getting them, and I get to them eventually! Please ask away! :) 

Anonymous on Tumblr asked:

If Lyme in 74 could go back to when she was thirteen and do everything again, would she make any different choices?

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This is a very random assortment of stories I found fun, touching, heartwarming, amusing, emotionally devastating (in a good way), or otherwise a great read. I'm not sure how well they fare without canon knowledge, but there are people who consume entire fandoms without ever picking up the original, so YMMV I guess???

FIRST OFF: MY GIFT
Fandom: Project Hail Mary - Andy Weir
Summary: Ryland gets used to his time on Erid, with Rocky always close by
Words: 1,180

I asked for worldbuilding and/or friendship between Rocky and Ryland and/or Ryland adjusting to life on Erid, and my lovely author gave me all three!! It's wonderful, melancholy without being gloomy or depressing, and carries a tone of hope without undercutting what Ryland is feeling. I love it dearly.

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Hello, and thank you for writing for me! All prompts are suggestions; I want you to have fun more than anything, so if you have an idea that doesn't match any of the ones below, please, go wild! I would much rather read something you enjoyed making than something you forced yourself to create to fulfill some arbitrary conditions and hated the whole time.

I am lorata on AO3 and my sign-up page is here.

FANDOMS:
The Checquy Files - Daniel O'Malley
I Want to Go Home - Gordon Korman
Project Hail Mary - Andy Weir
Teixcalaan Series - Arkady Martine

Things I love:
friendship, loyalty, found family, competence, spaceships, swords, all kinds of relationships (platonic, familial, romantic, hostile, in between), complicated people, aftermath & healing of trauma, what happens After, denouement, missing scenes, backstory, character exploration, characters who know each other ridiculously well

Things to skip: rape, sexual violence/assault, targeted/sexualized/gendered/punitive violence, drowning, humiliation/second-hand embarrassment, first-person pregnancy, body horror, hardcore PWP

For AUs: my rule of thumb is making things MORE fantastic (in space! with magic! add dragons!) is fun, but taking things away (coffeeshop, college, no magic, etc) is less interesting. No Hogwarts, please.

Prompts and optional details under the cut.

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Thank you to mmailliw for pointing out I actually never posted Parts 1-3 of Injured Creed here on LJ. Whoops!

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As promised, Alec's Games (with like ....... 0.2% of the actual Arena, we know the drill by now) -- mostly Creed feelings
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In retrospect, posting a prompt meme immediately before my vacation was not the BEST timing, but oh well! I'll post more later. For now, enjoy part 1!

randomfacter prompted "Calli & Nero friendship moment"
- NOTE: I uh, I did that, but there is trauma in it

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diamondglimmeri asked for Callista with Victor Creed
- NOTE: no warnings on this one!

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Miss May & blessyour_heart prompted Callista and Dexter
- NOTE: okay listen. I know the prompt said "bloodthirsty and comedic" and I promise I CAN read, but this is what happened instead. Warnings for tribute death, gore & torture, and mentions of the Capitol sex trade (not onscreen)

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kawuli prompted Alec getting in a fight about Jake
- NOTE: poor Alec! warnings for ableism, but the guy does get punched for it

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twixt_time asked for Devon being clever and analiza_beta wanted bb Devon in the Centre

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tehrupika asked for midsummer shenanigans at the lake
- NOTE: so the EXACT SAME THING happened as the last time someone asked for summer shenanigans, which is my brain went "well that's not a happy time" and it wasn't until after I'd finished that I went "oh I could have written postwar". TOO LATE! There are like ... hints? of shenanigans? but also, two new kids are dead.

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hallibahar and anastasia010 asked for PK!Volunteer Emory
- NOTE: pre-Arena, so no warnings I don't think

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It's my birthday next week! Let's attempt a prompt meme :)

Those who've been around a while know the drill. For new friends:

• you do not have to be friended or even signed in (anonymous is fine!)


• multiple prompts in one comment for me to choose from is totally cool


• sorry in advance if a cute prompt turns dark (or vice versa), I do not control the brain


• prompt fills are a labour of love and enthusiasm, not a guarantee

Hope to see you around!

This is old but I just realized I forgot to post it. So if you're the type to enjoy crossovers ... here you go!

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Today on things I wrote and never got around to posting -- here's snippets of Nero through the years, age 7-18. I have posted bits of hit here and there (like killing his stepfather) but not the whole thing in one piece.

WARNINGS: child abuse, ableism, mentions of sexual assault/incest, death, Hunger Games-typical violence

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This week had a lot more cognitive load than the last one, so I didn't write as many as I'd like. Still -- enjoy!

If you do read any of the prompts (on this post or the last one), I'd love it if you dropped me a line letting me know. Thanks to those who left comments already; it makes me very happy. :)

For anonymous: Devon & Emory, Victor siblings
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For roguedemon: Creed & Alec (Injured Creed AU)
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For anonymous: Victors playing a White Elephant holiday game
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For seta_suzume: Song and Claudius
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For lilalanor: Nero being looked after (WARNING: mentions of forced prostitution)

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For kawuli: Victors and Alima’s baby

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For tehrupika: Lyme and Emory

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For Miss May: Joseph and Adora, partners (WARNING: mentions of torture, state-sanctioned murder)

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For haneth01: Misha & Callista making cat clothes

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For penfold_x: Panem Rocketry Club

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For sakurallium: Young Callista (WARNING: animal death)

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Hello friends!

It's been a while since I've done one of these, but I've had a few days to recharge, so -- why not! Comment with a prompt and you might see something come from it. Tumblr friends, lurkers and anons are absolutely welcome. :)

(As with any of my prompt memes, I have no idea how many or which prompts I'll write, but it's all in good fun!)

Obviously there is a loooot with them. There could be a whole recovery novel just fixing their relationship. I didn't actually get around to writing that. Instead we have two things: one fight, and one happy scene. Neither directly follow each other but they help give the shape of how they rebuild their friendship, I think.

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The Scouts squad turning when they pick up Brutus in the 3QQ Arena and resuscitate him is the same as with Selene. Here's what changes when Petra's on the squad.

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Continuing from the last, here is Claudius' POV while he's in D13.

Warning: disturbing imagery, child death, blood, the usual Hunger Games stuff but with intent.

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HAHA GUESS WHAT :) I'm posting an AU xanify and I wrote in uhhhh (checks) 2015 where everything in the Canon Divergence AU still happens except that Selene is the 72 Victor and Petra is the Peacekeeper. What happens when this time someone takes it personally that Claudius leaves? OH BOY!

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It's that time again!

I wrote one story this year, despite a grand ambition to write many treats (so many good prompts!), but oh well! I wrote a story! Success and joy to all!

My recipient asked for Horizon Zero Dawn, specifically the relationship between Aloy & Elisabet Sobeck. They were especially interested in the moments when Aloy read Elisabet's journals and her quest to learn more about her mother.

Sunrise (4269 words) by lorata
Chapters: 1/1
Fandom: Horizon: Zero Dawn (Video Game)
Rating: Teen And Up Audiences
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Characters: Elisabet Sobeck, Aloy (Horizon: Zero Dawn), Minor Characters
Additional Tags: Past Character Death, Pre-Canon, During Canon, Missing Scene, Mother-Daughter Relationship, Grief/Mourning
Summary:

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[function: true]
{{When this pine sapling}}
{{grows to flower...}}
{{who'll be here?}}
[function: true]
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--found in the Sacred Land, inside the Ancient Armory

FARO Plague. HADES. Two apocalyptic events nearly a thousand years apart. Two women united by more than genes: in strength, compassion, intensity, the need to know, to see, to learn. Respected, even loved, but always one foot apart.

Aloy has moved mountains and shaken kingdoms in search of her mother, and now she has to save the world. With battle looming, Elisabet Sobeck's corrupted journal entries come online one after another. Even with all the preparations, how can Aloy do anything else but stop to read?

I'm not sure how many of you are HZD people, but here you are! :)

(more to come? who knows)

FIRST OF ALL, MY GIFT:

A Dog and Her Moth (1234 words) by Anonymous
Chapters: 1/1
Fandom: Machineries of Empire Series - Yoon Ha Lee
Rating: General Audiences
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Characters: Jedao Two (Machineries of Empire), Original Dog Character(s)
Additional Tags: Dogs, Fluff
Summary: The Dog's Boy was a Moth.

I asked for Jedao Two to get some therapy and someone who understands him. He got the ULTIMATE answer: a therapy dog. Dog POVs will always punch me in the face with feelings, and this one delivers. It's soft, bittersweet, and gives the poor guy the rest he deserved.

MANY recs under the cut, in absolutely no particular order (though I try to keep fandoms together)

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