All we wanna do is storm your brains

[thismaskiwear.livejournal.com]

We're not unreasonable. I mean, no one's gonna storm your eyes.

(Lame, I know. Hush, it's Wednesday.)

[[OCD has been achieved, and the cerebral precipitation may commence.]]

Comments

Re: Specific Ideas

[thatsamilkshake]

I didn't think the tree-hugging was literal either, heh. But there's still kind of a disconnect between "The island wants love and respect, so it withdraws magic and makes people think they're crazy" with a followup of "the island straightens things out when the unaffected people give it that love and respect" because that pretty much leaves us with "The island is a passive-aggressive jerkface who's willing to cause serious emotional wounds to its residents in order to make a point."

I could see it being an accidental effect of the island somehow, and that could support both the drama and the crack/warm fuzzies of fixing it by giving the island love and acceptance. AKA the island gets convinced it's crazy somehow and stops believing in its own magic, and that spreads to the characters, who then have to help it and in turn help their friends. That feels like it could be really workable from both ends of the serious/funny spectrum.

Re: Specific Ideas

[justwantsquiet.livejournal.com]

Okay, THAT I kind of love -- it's sort of reminiscent of the island feeling dejected/amorous and spreading it to the characters as well. Because the other way, yes, the island totes look P-A. Or at best like a pouty teenager.

Re: Specific Ideas

[thatsamilkshake]

Which admittedly is funny when it's just "if I can't get any, then neither can you, nyaaaaaaah!" (I think No Sex Week was totally intentional on Fandom's part. *shakes fist*) But yeah, like the sex pollen played as much more "I'm so haaaaaaaappy!" and that spreading everywhere as a by-product, and I think that could work here too, just on a much grander scale.

Re: Specific Ideas

[lovemykilt]

AKA the island gets convinced it's crazy somehow and stops believing in its own magic, and that spreads to the characters, who then have to help it and in turn help their friends.

This is actually what I meant when I first brought the idea up. Not that the island was deliberately acting out against the powered/non-mundane characters, and more that the island is reacting in a certain way, and it causes an unintentional ripple effect upon its residents.

Re: Specific Ideas

[thatsamilkshake]

I do like that!

An external influence on the island that doesn't have to be a tangible enemy causing its condition could be ... sort of the Tinkerbell Effect? Some large group of people somewhere actively doesn't believe in the stuff that supposedly happens on Fandom Island - or a more general Neverending Story setup of 'the whole world is getting too serious and non-believing...'

Re: Specific Ideas

[lovemykilt]

Either one of those could work, though perhaps a slew of worlds getting too serious, since the island is a nexus between worlds. . . .

It also would bring the idea of the island as a sentient being into the general awareness of the residents of the island, which I think could open up a lot of potential. (I've been watching Farscape, so I keep going "On a ship -- a living ship!" as I read over the ideas getting bounced around. . . .)

Re: Specific Ideas

[weetuskenraider]

Ooooh, I love *points up at last few comments* all of this.

Not to mention, if you go off the "nexus of worlds" idea, that opens up the potential for alumni involvement since we've got a lot of people who've gone off to worlds whose acceptance/denial of magical wacky is all over the spectrum.

Not sure exactly how to tie that into it, but it's a thought?

And I've always loved the concept of the island as an entity of its own, with some degree of sentience, and would love to see that factor into things more often.