If you're familiar with Contextualize/Whamise This Line, then you may know how this will work. However, instead of a line, you must write a plot/synopsis based off a title from a work in a "Poster above you" format. For example...
Troper A: Soul Surfer
Troper B: Soul Surfer is a cyberpunk action film about a man who has the unique ability to go into the bodies of other people, and must do this to clear his name for a crime he hasn't committed.
Something like that. I'm just hoping I'm being concise enough. Alright, let's begin.
edited 5th Feb '13 10:14:18 AM by Psyga315
The staff members of a certain aquarium are baffled by a string of mysterious deaths of their animals whose innards seem to have mysteriously been sucked out.
Andy the otter was only mildly curious about these news until his best friend, a manatee, suffers the same grisly fate. This prompts this small mammal to set off on his own investigation.
As the puzzle pieces slowly fall into place, it becomes increasingly clear that there is something lurking in the aquarium that shouldn’t be there… and for that matter, shouldn’t be on Earth.
The Eminence in Shadow
The story of a German Catholic cardinal who spies on the Nazis during World War II.
Outcast Kingdom
ok boomer
Like reflections in the glass!
Alt-history story about King George I of House Washington, first king of the New Kingdom of America. and how he had alienated all of Europe by...
- Waging a war of secession with Britan
- Turning the American colonies into a Kingdom, challenging Britain's authority in the process
- Pissing off France in the process due to their own revolution.
Leading to an America that is seen as a joke among the nobility and that has no allies in the geopolitical stage. And telling the tal of how it came to be and how it ultimately got itself destroyed as both a laughingstock of the first world, and an bitter eternal rival of both European monarchs and Reign of Terror era France.
Edited by MorningStar1337 on Feb 12th 2023 at 11:04:37 AM
This novel portrays the turmoil following a revolution that topples a monarchy. It takes its name from the passage about the public burning of the royal throne of state, which is made of gilt wood and upholstered in aquamarine, the color associated with royalty.
Where the Crawdads Sing
A history professor, find the memoirs of Colonel Eric von Adler from the SS.
A mysterious secret society follows him to retrieve the notebook, believing it to be the key to find some Nazi Gold stolen in WWII.
The professor has to find the gold first, but the only clue he could decipher is: "Where the Crawdads Sing".
The Horse and His Boy
Edited by jawal on Mar 19th 2023 at 11:27:35 AM
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Fairy tale about young boy & his horse who is actually prince in disguise who help him to fight against corrupted baron
Edited by ohmmy on Mar 19th 2023 at 8:52:52 PM
Like reflections in the glass!
The multiverse is facing a crisis unlike what any has ever seen before, worlds will live, worlds will die! The fate of reality itself hinges on this conflict!
It's about what the residents of a few worlds figuring out how to exploit the rest of the multiverse.
I will now present a multiple choice for this. The next poster shall pick one of the following song titles and write a plot from it:
(I'm not gonna stop anyone from doing more than one if they wanted to)
Edited by MorningStar1337 on Mar 19th 2023 at 10:56:22 AM
Magic Theorem
Magical fantasy, political machination, and The Bridge of San Luis Rey all meet. A scholar tries to develop a simple principle that will unite magic, science, and religion (as they exist in-universe). The members of the Royal Academy of Magic, fearing that he might uncover something inconvenient to them, at first try to buy him off. When that does not work, they have him tried and executed for heresy.
Roses, in the Mouth of a Lion
Like reflections in the glass!
Romance story about a girl who is in the relationship with a powerful elite. It ends up an abusive relationship when the bourgeois dude controlling every aspect of her life and causing her to escape this loveless relationship.
It ends in failure as the girl becomes dead, consumed by her abusive boyfriend's tactics and deceit. She dies a rose, the mouth of a lion.
Project: Revival
Edited by MorningStar1337 on Mar 19th 2023 at 12:36:26 PM
CG for short
A Sci-Fi horror story about a secret government project trying to resurrect a corpse gone horribly wrong. The undead being goes on a killing spree and is difficult to kill due to being granted excellent regeneration abilities thanks to the botched resurrection. The undead being is also super agile, strong and durable. Effectively a slasher work with scientists and military officals as the victims.
The Birth of a Goddess Victor of HGS S320 | "There's rosemary, that's for remembrance. Pray you, love, remember."
A Science fiction story about a female astronaut named Mary, coming back from a voyage to Mars, to discover that she is pregnant with a girl without any recollection of doing sex.
The Wrath of Khan
Every Hero has his own way of eating yogurt
Like reflections in the glass!
Historical fiction focused on the Mongols and the Scourge of God himself.
Revisiting my multiple choice titles from earlier, with a new addition:
Fantasy writer turned Filmmaker.
A trilogy
Part 1:
A husband and wife live underground after a nuclear apocalypse destroyed Earth, they are forced to flee to the surface totally covered by clouds, unaware of an ancient prophecy saying that humans can be back to Earth once Orion is Shining Above the Skies at Noon.
Part 2:
LORELE (The daughter of the couple from part 1) have to deal with the ramifications of humans going back to the surface 30 years after the end of part 1
Part 3:
The heroine of part 2 finally reach the land of those who came before, where she is expecting to find the answers to the origin of the apocalypse. But to do that, she needs to pass the cavern of remembrance.
Arabian Nights (1001 Nights)
Edited by jawal on Mar 19th 2023 at 1:19:47 PM
Every Hero has his own way of eating yogurt
Like reflections in the glass!
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Oh.
A re-imagining of Scheherazade's anthology set in a futuristic cyberpunk Middle East and west Asia.
An Evangelical story about a priest Walking the Earth trying to convince people to accept Jesus as their lord and savior, because it is the end times and the antichrist rule the world.
(It will be a bad story, as most Evangelical ones tend to be).
From Russia with Love
Edited by jawal on Mar 20th 2023 at 8:26:15 AM
Every Hero has his own way of eating yogurt
Like reflections in the glass!
A commentary on Russian warfare, stretching from the Russo-Japanese war to the current Ukraine conflict. The title is ironic.
In the back story, the world changed beyond recognition from climate change, too fast for civilization to adapt. Now, bands of migrants try to find a place, rumored but not confirmed to exist, that is still suited to long-term human existence. They battle one another along the way.
The Night Travelers
Movie follow a nurse working in a night shift, and a taxi driver who drive her to work every night
The entire story happens inside the taxi, as the nurse and the driver talk about their day,and a slow love story grow between them.
Thus Spoke Zarathustra
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That there is a seal.
A journalist (referred to throughout the story only by their pen name, A.M. Zarathustra; their gender is left ambiguous through whatever means are best suited for the medium) begins investigating a businessman (who has appeared in public numerous times, and incidentally also has initials A.M.) under suspicions of fraud, but it becomes increasingly apparent that the businessman does not exist, public appearances notwithstanding, and it's unclear who actually calls the shots in "his" business. Said public appearances are also not the work of a hired actor and seem to be something altogether stranger and more sinister. Things get increasingly surreal and it's unclear by the end how much of it is really happening and how much isn't.
Throughout the story, fire (which the journalist is fascinated with) serves as a motif representing truth, and the number seven shows up a lot. The journalist's continued pursuit of truth long past the point where they could possibly gain from it, and when they are actively suffering from it is also explored.
Marsha, Thankk You for the Dialectics, but I Need You to Leave
Data is imaginary. This burrito is real.
An Iskai about a girl named Marsha who met a strange lady in a library.
The lady, talk in an old-fashioned and archaic English, about destiny, choice and the difference between fate and predestination.
Exasperated, Marsha utter the title line, only to find herself transported to another world.
And Then There Were None
Edited by jawal on Mar 23rd 2023 at 8:43:19 AM
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The last member of the royal family is childless and nearing death. Various factions in the kingdom seek to secure the throne for their preferred pretenders, although their stated aim is simply to avoid a war of succession. Other nations, seeking to use the looming succession crisis to their advantage, covertly aid the factions. When the monarch dies without issue, the war of succession begins, with the other nations overtly participating.
The Year of Magical Thinking
In the year 2051, an unknown physician claim to have discovered the Grand unification theory, only to be found dead in mysterious circumstance, with his research paper, nowhere to be found.
Two years later, various individuals start appearing with abilities, that seem beyond human knowledge, some people call magic.
What follow is a year, when the borders between reality and imagination no longer exist.
The Count of Monte Cristo
Edited by jawal on Mar 23rd 2023 at 4:11:19 PM
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Scooby Doo style Novel Focus on Detective Group who is tried to solved Mysteries of Count Monte Cristo around New York
The story of a musician who tours the world playing exclusively Beethoven's 'Moonlight Sonata'. In her last tour, everywhere she went some important politician is killed during her concert; the police starts to think that they are dealing with a serial killer, probably a stalker of the musician. The truth is way worse: she sold her soul to a demon to become a world-famous player, and now the demon is collecting...
So Long, And Thanks For All The Fish