Dear Author,
Firstly, thank you for writing for me! I am looking forward to reading your story, and I hope you have fun writing it!. This is my AO3 account.
Here are a few more thoughts about the things I've requested; they're to give you some ideas, not to be prescriptive! I most want to read a story you want to tell, however you want to tell it; my only DNW is underage sex.
I saw this image on twitter, captioned "Cookies no longer satisfy his hunger", and was immediately captivated. How has Cookie Monster ended up on the dark side? What does he eat now? Can anything satisfy his hunger now, or are we all doomed?
I have been entertained by the antics of Yelling Bird (and the less-frequent appearances of the Shame Orb); it's not grown-up humour, but it makes me laugh.
Yelling Bird and the Shame Orb clearly have history (see QC 1567). I would be bowled over by some cracky slash between them. Maybe even what happened on June 14th 1987!
...but any QC characters are OK if you're reading this and thinking "Oh God no..."
The Culture is Bank's post-scarcity utopian society, a collection of AIs and post-humans (and some aliens) and a vast canvas for his stories that can be political, funny, dark, scary, philosophical, or all of the above. I love how he manages vast scale and compelling characters, and that his stories of the Culture are somehow fundamentally hopeful.
Most of the Culture series deal with what happens when the Culture (largely through Contact or Special Circumstances) interact with other, often unfriendly, civilisations. But what happens in the Culture when SC isn't getting involved in something messy? What do people like Diziet do when off-duty? Feel free to write porn if you think that's what the answer is!
Similarly, we only see Falling Outside... relatively briefly in Surface Detail, but I'm interested in their back-story - how have they ended up such an outlier even among Abominator-class ships?
Please feel free to write about only one or other of these characters, or even someone else entirely if there's a story you really want to write! Similarly, don't feel to constrained by my questions - they're just ideas :)