Brainstorming brainstorming brainstorming!

[brat_inslayage]

Yep, it's that time again. No, not the one where we go "holy crap, how is the month half over already?"

Okay, it might be that one too. But it's also brainstorming-post time. Don't forget, all previous ideas are available for you to look over too.

Watch me not even try to one-up willbedone on coming up with a cohesive witty theme for this post.

[[ocd achieved, so go to it!]]

Comments

General Ideas

[brat_inslayage]

Those would be the ones that aren't specific. That's next thread.

Re: General Ideas

[glacial_queen]

I dunno. I had a weird idea the other night where Fandom was suddenly very Edenic. No violence, no anger, no clothing...I think it was a spell so that someone else could take over the island, but as people ate apples, they realized that a) everyone else was naked, and b) hey, maybe we should do something about this not-really-hostile takeover of the island.

It's vague, it's weird, I'm blaming real NyQuil. But there you go.

Re: General Ideas

[ancientbschamp.livejournal.com]

"The Elysian Fields? But only heroes end up here! Dead heroes.

. . . dead, naked heroes."

This is not contributing to your idea at all, but man, I couldn't resist.

Re: General Ideas

[glacial_queen]

OMG! CONTRIBUTE TO MY CRACKED OUT IDEA.

CONTRIBUTE! CONTRIIIIIIIIIIIIIBUTE.

Now I sound like some kind of Den-Mother Dalek. Which would make an awesome band name.

Re: General Ideas

[apples-n-poetry.livejournal.com]

I think that would have to be done very very carefully as that could get incredibly skeevy very fast considering the age range we have even just amongst the students.

IDEK about anyone else but, for instance, a twenty/twenty-one year old seeing a fourteen/fifteen year old naked would creep me out on several levels as a plot/event.

It's not to say that it couldn't be done, of course, but. My two cents, let me show you them.

Re: General Ideas

[glacial_queen]

No, that's toooooooooooooootally a fair crit. Even if it could be handwaved away in the beginning with people not actually noticing, after some folks start waking up, it could get pretty creepy pretty fast.

As kind of a distillation of the original idea, perhaps people are just wrapped in a happy, dream-like state where they don't notice/comprehend the danger until people started waking up out of it? Kind of a cross between the lotus-eaters and (I think, as I've only read synopses) the Jasmine arc from Angel?

Re: General Ideas

[justlike_a_girl]

Since we have this spiffy new community center, I had this idea for a while about Dani holding some sort of business seminar for townies and teachers with some sort of guest speaker. The part where I keep getting stuck is who the guest speaker should be or what they should cover.

Re: General Ideas

[notmyownage]

Maybe open it up like one of the cons for guest speakers? People could bring in a guest star or something. I'd love to get Veronica Palmer on the island, but I reeeeeeeeeally don't think I could keep her up past, like, three days.

Re: General Ideas

[brat_inslayage]

Oh man, I'd love to have a business con sort of thing going on!

I've also got the half-formed notion of combining it with a kind of career fair for the students, if we wanted to flesh it out into a whole weekend event.

Re: General Ideas

[svetocha-blooms.livejournal.com]

Vamp Harmony from AtS. Mostly because I can easily see her and Jessica having a cat fight.

Re: General Ideas

[brat_inslayage]

I kind of love that idea. Though that miiiiiiiiight be one that would have to be run by some of my canonmates; I know she's up to shenanigans in Faith's part of the timeline now, for one.

Re: General Ideas

[notmyownage]

Fandom should totally get hit with the Curse of Babel. I . . . have no idea why, but it'd be, like, a catastrophic failure of verbal communication! Without people actually being mute!

. . . Okay, so admittedly, I mostly just like the phrase "catastrophic failure".

Re: General Ideas

[brat_inslayage]

No lie, the linguistics geek in me is thoroughly gleeful at this prospect.

By and large, even people from different worlds have been able to communicate fairly well with most of the island's population for various reasons (mostly, I think, and correct me if I'm wrong, through the handwavey power of languages just happening to be analogous to English).

If that went wonky somehow? Could totally happen.

Re: General Ideas

[notmyownage]

Plus, there's options. Like, you could go with putting things in brackets ala when people in Marvel comics speak other languages, or you could go with horrible Babelfish translations if you want to have something OOCly less than decipherable. And the potential for the languages! You could end up with all sorts of odd constructed languages like Esparanto or Verudian or Unamunda -- or end up speaking in l33+ or, like, Visual Basic. You could go with everyone having their own language, or divide the island up into language groups who can understand each other but not anyone else -- potential for mixing up characters who don't often interact with each other.

Oh hey, the caffeine kicked in. Good to know.

Specific Ideas

[brat_inslayage]

See, this thread. Where your ideas have details. Or possibly an outline for you more OCD types.

Let it be noted that I would not at all be surprised if one of you came up with a flowchart or a Powerpoint for one of these.

Re: Specific Ideas

[trigons_child]

I need Raven to fall/be pushed off a tall building or something.

....no, really. I want her to find out she can fly. ;)


(And don't you "GOD, RAVEN" me.)

Re: Specific Ideas

[glacial_queen]

...Now I kind of want to toss Clark over, too. It can be a DC-bonding experience.

Re: Specific Ideas

[boywonder03.livejournal.com]

Someone needing a push?

Plot Spare Parts

[brat_inslayage]

Got a little tidbit of something that does not a plot make all by itself, but someone else could maybe use? Toss it in here.

Other Things

[brat_inslayage]

For anything that just has to be difficult and not fit any of the above categories.

I like it when things have to be difficult like that.

OOC

[brat_inslayage]

...I want waffles.

Re: OOC

[willbedone.livejournal.com]

Flowcharts and PowerPoint slides are AWESOME.

Re: OOC

[brat_inslayage]

When they're well-designed! Really awful Powerpoint slides make me weep.

Re: OOC

[boywonder03.livejournal.com]

BATWAFFLES.

Re: OOC

[brat_inslayage]

IT'S BATWAFFLES DAY. I HAVE BEEN WAITING FOR THIS.