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Brainstorming Time!

Again? Really? Holy crap, where did that month go?

I am far too sleepy to come up with a witty poem to match TBQ's effort from last month, so I'll just pose the question again of where did that month go?

Hey, maybe you've gotten some nifty new ideas in the meantime. We had some great ones last month.

[[OCDness has been achieved. Go forth and storm thee some brains.]]

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Everything that falls into that broad range otherwise known as "not specific."

That do not fall in quite so broad a range. Because they're specific, and can't be in the "not specific" range.

In case you have those little interesting things that don't make plots on their own but might help with someone else'

For the sake of continued non-world-ending.

Give me virtual caffeine, please? Holy god.

In the spirit of Soap Opera and AU weekends, I was thinking of proposing one slightly similar--a weekend where everyone got stuck in bad fanfic versions of themselves, complete with terrible spelling, implausible relationships, sudden understanding of American pop culture, etc., etc.

What say ye?

*uses Merbiwan as incentive! Incentive? Something!*

Something for a random event: Character trait flip flop day

Basically your favorite trait of your character flips to the complete opposite of what it should be. Chuck Bass is a nice-guy-prude-tee-totaler! Layla Miller is a complete dunce and knows nothing! Merlin's ears are wee and tiny!

I keep thinking on a 'time loop' idea a la Groundhog Day. This is one of those barely formed ideas (as evidenced by my lack of details) but my firs thought was characters being able to go back and relive a particularly vivid moment in their life through some form of Fandom magic. And they'd relive it over and over and over as if they were seeing it for the first time.

It'd be up to character to break the time loop and get themselves back to Fandom. That would, of course, leave it up to the player to decide how to break the time loop. As in how would the character have to play something out in order for things to be right, so to speak.

So, half formed idea but it's been percolating for a few days randomly.

Ha, I have to comment from this account because now I want to watch "Been There, Done That" again -- which is actually my suggestion, since the entire idea of the Groundhog Day concept as it was done in BTDT was that Xena had to solve a problem (in the most insane way possible) in order to stop the time loop, and every time she relived it she had to pick up new clues to put together and find a solution.

So that's one option. :)

I think we've tossed this idea around before on a previous post. I think the idea was that the island got in a loop where it got destroyed by some cataclysm every day for a week and people had to figure out how to do it.

I know SG-1 and ST:TNG had some great episodes along these lines. I'm all for it.

*gives*

My girl...

...has many...

...caffeinated icons. It's a thing.

Oh dear. Leia would be passive and agreeable and Raven would be a slut.

Considering I've just been reading what little fanfic there is of Kate's canon, and fuming about how badly she gets portrayed in them... I am kinda loving this idea.

Don't mind me, I've been daydreaming and coming up with these things. It's been a long day. Anyway.

EVIL ISLAND. Not what it sounds like, probably. Basically, most everyone knows the island is sentient in some way so what if that sentient personality got overtaken or was brainwashed into being something a little more evil and sinister?

Some of the things that could happen could be: the island breaks up with the Isle of Ikea and thus, causes relationship strife around the island, trees and plant life sort of wilt, it's constantly grey and rainy, people are more likely to be pissy and short rather than other emotions, characters that have a penchant for evil might explore that etc etc.

Again, half formed idea but I like the idea of messing about with the island as a sentient thing.

I still really like this. (Summary for people who don't feel like reading the link: Tara attempts a spell to vanish magical supplies during a Magic Reserves meeting, it feeds on her nervousness and goes awry, making the magical *people* invisible. Hijinks ensue until there's a counterspell.)

I basically need someone to hold me down and poke me with sharp sticks until I turn it into a coherent plot proposal.

Edited 2010-04-14 18:25 (UTC)

I'm totally willing to take a look at it if you want. I have no sharp sticks but my FX replica lightsaber makes noise when you poke someone with it.

AWESOME.

I have form phobia. Having a specific person to poke me with a lightsaber makes it way easier for me to fill them out.

Oh lord...fanfic Chuck.

HE'S SO IN LOVE WITH BLAIR THAT IT TORTURES HIM INSIDE. HE. IS. TORTURED.

Dalek invasion!

I'll come up with something new for these at some point, I swear. . . .

So, essentially, Fandom Island starts to shift into its own evil twin, and starts dragging the islanders along for the ride?

I kind of adore the hell out of that premise, right there.

YES! Exactly what I was going for! If the sentient island can fall in love and be happy and cause hormonal shifts galore, it can totes have an evil twin and be meaaaaaaaaan.

It makes for interesting opportunities for people to poke at the darker sides of their characters, too, without necessarily changing who they are. I like poking at darker sides, but I am weird that way.

... Trying to picture Evil-ish!Zack makes my brain short-circuit a little, mind.

This was supposed to happen last month, but got pushed back because of my illness and new job, but in a few weeks Claire & Elle will be needing some help doing a B&E in New York to steal some of Bob's records.

We'd love to have some volunteers to help.

I love it except for the part that it means I need to read terrible fanfic :D

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