#plot bunny free to good home

[kallasilya22]

News headline on the Guardian today:

....... Okay, now who's gonna write this fanfic??

[the-dracologist]

What if Kara was super protective of her baby cousin Kal when he was little and felt like she'd missed her chance to be there for him when she woke up to find him older than her? And then when Kon shows up, it's just

BABY COUSIN... 2!

*check the notes for additional AU thoughts and memes because this is ruining my life

[jtavington]

Plot bunny I won't write but maybe someone else would.

Elphie takes the green bottle to the Emerald City and it falls out of her bag after the Wizard reveals himself. Wizard is all "I've got a kid!" genuinely over the moon. He decides the Grimmerie stuff can wait because he's got twenty years of spoiling to catch up on. Elphaba has everything she always wanted. Her only blood relation adores her. The people cheer for her. Glinda is with her.

And after about a month of that, Elphaba is finally asked to read the Grimmerie and discovers what Dad is really like.

[omnis-hostis-resurrexit]

I can’t be the only person who would love to read a romantic crime thriller with this meet cute.

[oh-dameron]

So it's established that if MB tries to upload itself into ship hardware it has a Bad Time™. And we've also seen that ART can split off an iteration of itself that can run on whatever super high-tech they've managed to fit in a fairly-compact drone. And the kernel that MB restored it from was hidden in the galley "in a data storage area hidden in a layer under the usual space for food production formulas." Which. If I understand correctly, ART isn't doing Star Trek food replication, this is just a recipe database and MB is describing it like a weirdo who doesn't eat human food (which it is). So ART can fit a compressed copy of its kernel into the spare room in its recipe data storage. Even if every recipe had a high-definition video tutorial the storage can't be that big. Not by MB's standards, who was designed to download and process thousands of hours of surveillance footage, copy proprietary client databases, all that jazz.

So: if (for example) something catastrophic were to happen to ART's ship-body (solar flare caused an EMP like in one of MB's shows and it's destroying everything electrical? Got clipped by an asteroid and is now hurtling towards a star? Picked a fight with a bigger gunship?) could ART download a copy of itself to either be kept dormant/safe in MB's onboard storage or to actually run on its hardware?

And later, when they've got ART a new body to inhabit (after there are hijinks on a planet, naturally, and they work out how to share space and ART hilariously eats shit the first time it tries walking, and reassure the humans that ART isn't dead, and Iris super breaches the no-hugging clause but MB lets it go just this once because ART has never had the experience of hugging its sister before but this is one time only, understand? and ART also gets to experience being dumped firmly into the back seat when combat happens (cool) and also gets to experience being shot (markedly less cool) and they fight over the pain sensor like an old married couple with a thermostat), how easy would it be to transfer it back out cleanly if it's gotten all up in MB's organic neural tissue? Especially once ART works out that it's expandable and elastic (almost makes up for these rickety processors! Almost.)?

[fuckyeahisawthat]

I was thinking about an alternate ending to Furiosa that I would have found more narratively satisfying, that dealt with the two third acts problem without radically altering other parts of the movie.

Imagine if you will:

The climactic action sequence is the one at the Bullet Farm and maybe a bit of the chase after. Same setup. Furiosa has the best chance she's ever had to get home, but she can't make herself leave Jack. Goes back to fight for him. He still dies--not in the same horrible drawn-out way, but Dementus kills him. Furiosa gets caught in a wreck or something with her arm pinned. Echoes of Max leaving the guy handcuffed to the burning car in Mad Max 1. He can live if he chops his arm off. And chop she does. Not in time to save Jack, but in time to kill Dementus. That's not long and drawn-out either but he is very clearly dead by her one remaining hand.

Maybe that's when the backup from the Citadel that they called for when everything went to shit arrives. Furiosa gets brought back to the Citadel, probably without much choice at that point because she's barely conscious due to rapid unplanned disassembly of arm. She is welcomed by Joe as a hero for slaying his enemy. Promoted to Imperator and told she will lead the War Rig crew when the rig is rebuilt new and better than ever. She was Jack's second-in-command after all.

Everyone is treating it like a victory for her but we feel it as a defeat, because she still lost the one person she cared about, and in the aftermath of that it seems like she has given up on trying to get home. Accepted that a high-ranking position in Joe's armada is the best she's gonna get. Maybe we even see her planting the peach tree at the Citadel as a sign that she's accepted she is never going home.

(We know she'll try again in Fury Road, but it doesn't look like she knows that.)

In this version of events, I think Joe would gift her the prosthetic arm. You are part of my war machine now. She has proven herself valuable enough to be taken care of, like the History Man advised her. Valuable enough to be repaired instead of discarded.

I am chewing on the parallels. At the beginning of the movie she has a chance to escape, but she can't leave her mom. She goes back and watches her mom die and gets trapped by Dementus. At the end she has another chance but she can't leave Jack. She goes back and watches Jack die and gets trapped by Joe. It's the kind of dark ending that works for a prequel when we know she is going to have her moment of victory in Fury Road.

I'm imagining the image of her being brought back to the Citadel in hollow triumph after killing Dementus. She's half-dead, one-armed, riding on the front of a car like the end of Fury Road but she's being kind of propped up like a trophy. Versus the end of Fury Road and its moment of real triumph--a return she never intended but this time to a place that maybe can be a real home for her at last.

[gracie-b-33]

Obviously Jamie (omega) funnels his deep sexual need (love the word he is looking for is love) for Roy (alpha) into writing IRL smut about them hooking up which he publishes on AO3 under the pen name 💕Jamie_Kent 💕🍆💦🍑.

Which Roy discovers when his sister sends him a screenshot as a laugh only he reads the fic and sees too many breadcrumbs indicating it must be someone inside Richmond.

Cut to weeks of paranoid Roy trying to figure out who it is while simultaneously reading all the smut in order to collect “evidence” only to stumble across a reference only Jamie would know.

Finally culminating in love confessions and re-enactments of favorite scenes from Jamie’s fics (also when Jamie finally retires and starts a second career as a smutty romance novelist he never admits how he got started).

I give this plot bunny freely. Please for the love of BELIEVE someone write this.

Jamie writes a/b/o fanfic about himself

Lmaooo.....in his version of events is he an alpha or an omega 🤔

[spookypanda04]

Plot bunny free to a good home

Lu fic, but the dialogue can only be lyrics from the top ten songs of the decade the games were released. So...

Hyrule - 80's

Legend -90's

Time - 90's

Wind - 2000's

Four - 2000's

Twilight - 2000's

Sky -2010's

Wars - 2010's

Wild -2010's

Y'all can do whatever you want with this, but please tag me if you think of it!

[artist-owl]

So I thought of a new way to make Elrond’s life worse :)

So after the Celebrían debacle, Elladan and Elrohir began attempting to systematically wipe out every orc in Middle Earth, right? Of course, on such a quest, accidents are bound to happen. And as we saw in his Song-battle with Finrod, Sauron just loves pushing people's trauma buttons...

Elrond gets a letter from Mordor saying that his twin sons have been kidnapped, and he can only get them back if he pays the ransom of an Elven ring of power.

[avelera]

I definitely don't need more WIPs right not for Dreamling, but sometimes it is fun to brainstorm a total nonsense fanfic-y premise played totally straight, which is why I'm fondly remembering the Cinderella Dreamling AU I brainstormed on one of the servers.

(Canon Divergence AU, because that's how I roll)

2022 rolls around and Hob and Dream are friends. Just... friends. Hob would love there to be more. He sometimes suspects, more like wishes really hard, that Dream would like more but, as usual, the guy isn't talking if he does. And Hob is too chicken to ruin the friendship they finally achieved to do something so uncouth as proposition his oldest friend.

He comes to the sad and perhaps inevitable conclusion that Dream has had all the chances in the world to say something so the only conclusion is that Hob's just not that interesting to him in that way. Stands to reason. The more Hob learns about the Dreaming and Dream's fantastical realm and all his adventures, the more Hob's almost single-minded dedication to living a normal life despite his immortality seems a bit... dull.

Enter Desire. Or Death. Or both. This is fanfic-y nonsense, after all, the point is there is a device and the device is our fairy god-person who is also sick to death of watching Dream pine from afar but is also a huge fan of chaos.

They (let's go with Desire for now, even if the trope is a bit overplayed, because it seems like their sort of thing) offer Hob a proposal. The chance to go into the Dreaming each night to woo Dream. Best of all, it will be with Desire's protection of his identity and a small amount of magic to create a persona for wooing Dream that won't be immediately obvious.

Oh, also, Dream is throwing a big fuck-off bash for Faerie or some other Dreaming ally so there's gonna be a party for weeks up there. Perfect place to slip in a new stranger. (Hob is a little charmed by the idea that he gets to be the stranger for once.)

Enter: the Knight of Roses.

Basically, Hob creates a persona into which he pours all of charm, wit, and courtier's polish from 600s years of life. If nothing else, he's having the time of his life at what is essentially a fancy magical masquerade ball where he gets to try his damndest to sweep Dream off his feet.

And it seems to be working. Hard to tell with Dream. But each night, Dream seems excited to see the Knight of Roses again.

(It is working. It's working very very well. The Dreaming is awash in flowers. Dream spends every waking moment he's not at the ball pacing his quarters, interrogating his subjects as to how in the world he can't get to the bottom of who this is, and every person who could nominally be considered his friend including his siblings and subjects are tearing their hair out with how sick they are of hearing about the Knight of Roses.

Hob doesn't hear about it though in the waking because Dream is in love with him and doesn't want to ruin any chance they might have together someday by agonizing over a mysterious guest who is probably some trick sent by Desire or Lucifer or someone to mess with Dream. He has no idea how right he is and how wrong he is not to bring it up to Hob.)

Secret Identity shenanigans ensue, of course, until we hit a breaking point with drama, tears, etc etc the usual for the trope because of course (gasp!) Hob is the Knight of Roses and there never was any need to create a separate persona because Dream was also agonizing over whether Hob was interested and Hob was so chill around him he assumed he was misreading all the signs. (Hob was working so, so hard to appear that chill around Dream.) Identities are unmasked and everyone lives happily ever after.

(But Hob is keeping the outfit once they're officially together, because Dream really, really liked the romance of the whole Knight of Roses identity but he likes it even more now that he knows it's Hob and not an evil trap laid by one of his enemies.)

[tuesdayisfordancing]

Daniel in the fly catching scene looks like an insect or an anime girl his eyes are so huge -> Magical Girl Daniel LaRusso AU. He gets his powers and immediately thinks to use them to get a little payback on his bullies but of course they’re really for defeating Kreese and freeing the Cobra Kai students from his evil powers. Mr. Miyagi is a grumpy stray cat and Daniel has to promise to only use his powers for the right reasons before he’ll help him.

[brokensocialscone]

Had an absolutely bonkers thought this morning: Dead Boy Detectives Pink Pony Club AU.

Charles ran away from home and ends up doing drag at the oldest gay nightclub in London. Beaten by a gang of homophobes waiting for him to leave at the end of the night. Escapes back into the club and finds his way into a boarded up attic. Comforted by the ghost of Edwin Payne, a repressed young pianist who could only get work playing in the lounge and was killed in much the same way as Charles (although he believes he was killed by association, as he has not yet come to terms with his own queerness).

The rest of the series can proceed from there, just a little bit more like Priscilla, Queen of the Desert, in that Charles is always saying things like, "reminds me of the costumes we used for "Tainted Love," yeah?"

[neverwalka1one]

Just putting out into the world that while I do want Wicked pt 2 posthaste, I'll also take a movie about Fiyero and Feldspur, please and thank you. Please make sure the snarky Horse is in the second movie, plz plz plz

[idristardis]

Self-soothing post-election with a slew of Hallmark holiday movies and the one I watched last night, 'Tis The Season to be Irish, was very cute...but I kept thinking that it would make a great CS fic (if my mind had the bandwidth for that right now).

The plot was about a closed-off loner who traveled around flipping houses but never really finding a place that felt like home (she was even blonde with a red jacket and originally came from a small town in Maine....and kept most of her worldly possessions in a small, easy-to-carry box....guys, I mean...come ON). She bought a cottage in a small Irish town that she was going to flip but it turned out to be horribly run down and so she had to stay there longer and butted heads with the handsome, charming local historian/preservationist who was a little bit stuck in the past and needed help envisioning a future (again...coooooome ooooooon). Fiona Gubelman and Eoin Macken did a very good job with it....though I did keep mentally picturing that it would've been better with Colin and Jen....but it would really REALLY take flight as a CS fic....

....if anyone wanted to tackle it, feel free....my brain had just enough space to go "oh that would be a cool idea" before remembering I have no tiiiiiiime!!

[3pirouette]

I have a need, but I’m not the one to write it.

I need a Jurassic Park/Jurassic World/The Last of Us mashup or AU.

Joel Miller would be exceedingly good at surviving a dinosaur apocalypse. Ellie would be a fabulous foul mouthed kid who’s too smart for her own good but needs saving.

Maybe throw xReader romance in there for good measure.

Absolutely no plot lives in my head for this, I just know I would like it to exist

[residentcrows]

Annette/William/Mia/Ethan

they'd do anything for their family