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Wheezy @TheCSJones on everything else. from West Philadelphia, but not born or raised. (Elder Troper) Relationship Status: How does it feel to treat me like you do?
@TheCSJones on everything else.
#351: Aug 17th 2018 at 10:21:51 PM

It turns out crop circles really are made by aliens.

...They park the flying saucer nearby, get out, and stomp them down with wooden boards.

Edited by Wheezy on Jan 17th 2020 at 12:09:29 PM

Novel progress: The Adroan, 110k; Yume no Hime, 98k; The Pigeon Witch, on pause at 40k.
DeMarquis (4 Score & 7 Years Ago)
#352: Aug 18th 2018 at 1:14:20 PM

"That means every grocery store, fast food joint, and big box store forces you to get their brain implant to get $2 off a burger."

That would fit perfectly in the world of Snow Crash.

Edited by DeMarquis on Aug 18th 2018 at 4:16:32 AM

I'm done trying to sound smart. "Clear" is the new smart.
Mhazard Since: Mar, 2015 Relationship Status: You cannot grasp the true form
#353: Aug 22nd 2018 at 12:06:17 AM

A story that starts out as a generic slasher story, and the main cast is fleeing from a mysterious serial killer, and everyone being slowly picked off one-by-one by a seemly amoral, merciless killer. However, as the last few survivors of the group tries to confront the killer and manage to inflict a fatal wound on the killer, they find out that the killer isn't killing for hunger or pleasure, but instead, the killer is performing a human sacrifice in a desperate attempt to appease a herd of Eldritch Abominations, trying to prevent those alien creatures from destroying the entire world, and he's the only one who can hold them back.

By killing the killer, the only thing the heroes accomplished is that they have hastened the inevitable destruction of the world, angered the aforementioned otherworldly entities and they have an eyeful view of those gigantic, majestic, and superior creatures decimating cities after cities with laser beams and tentacles at the end of the story.

Edited by Mhazard on Aug 23rd 2018 at 3:14:28 AM

DeMarquis (4 Score & 7 Years Ago)
#354: Aug 22nd 2018 at 8:47:47 AM

Wait, thats very nearly the plot to "The Cabin in the Woods."

I'm done trying to sound smart. "Clear" is the new smart.
ewolf2015 MIA from south Carolina Since: Jan, 2015 Relationship Status: I-It's not like I like you, or anything!
MIA
#355: Aug 23rd 2018 at 1:34:10 PM

High concept: nerd by day, vampire by night

Premise: a horror geek ends up getting possessed by an age old vampire prince and has to deal with an order of vampire hunters out to kill them both.

MIA
GAP Formerly G.G. from Who Knows? Since: May, 2011 Relationship Status: In love with love
Formerly G.G.
#356: Aug 24th 2018 at 10:53:03 AM

For reason I just keep thinking about a genre busting, postmodernist series about Youtube and its culture. I lack the perspective, education or writing chops to make this series but if you want this, it is yours.

"Fan, a Mega Man character."
Demetrios Lucky Seven from Des Plaines, Illinois (unfortunately) Since: Oct, 2009 Relationship Status: And they all lived happily ever after <3
Lucky Seven
#357: Aug 24th 2018 at 2:24:42 PM

Recently, I had a story idea that involved nature going out of control, sort of like an evil version of Life After People or Aftermath: Population Zero, or the Emerald Nightmare quest chain in the Southern Barrens.

Come on! Let's bless them all until we get fershnickered!
DeMarquis (4 Score & 7 Years Ago)
#358: Aug 25th 2018 at 7:50:09 AM

Youtube has a culture?

I'm done trying to sound smart. "Clear" is the new smart.
AwSamWeston Fantasy writer turned Filmmaker. from Minnesota Nice (Elder Troper) Relationship Status: Married to the job
Fantasy writer turned Filmmaker.
#359: Aug 26th 2018 at 7:07:45 AM

YouTube, like any social network, has dozens (if not hundreds) of different circles that may or may not overlap. Each of these circles has its own culture.

but every YouTube community will agree that the website's algorithm is clear as mud and they need to pay creators more fairly

Actual Filmmaker trying to earn a Creator page. Gleahan and the Knaves of Industry — available now on streaming and blu-ray.
GAP Formerly G.G. from Who Knows? Since: May, 2011 Relationship Status: In love with love
Formerly G.G.
#360: Aug 26th 2018 at 3:41:30 PM

[up] I am not a sociologist or any kind of social scientist. If you want to tackle it, it is yours............maybe I should had typed something else.

Edited by GAP on Aug 28th 2018 at 1:37:35 AM

"Fan, a Mega Man character."
Wheezy @TheCSJones on everything else. from West Philadelphia, but not born or raised. (Elder Troper) Relationship Status: How does it feel to treat me like you do?
@TheCSJones on everything else.
#361: Aug 26th 2018 at 8:48:48 PM

That would fit perfectly in the world of Snow Crash.

I only liked the first half of that book, personally, but I can see that.

As someone who listens to a ton of podcasts because I spend most of my free time drawing, I'd really want to see someone roll all the medium's flaws into the worst podcast ever.

First of all, the hosts will never get around to discussing the topic in the episode's title. They'll keep mentioning they will in a minute, but talk about every possible subject except that.

They'll open each episode with a long, winding degression on everything they ate and drank in the last week. They'll keep dropping local references to the most back-ass, end-of-nowhere places imaginable. "So if you're ever thirty miles north-northeast of Heckville Texas, past the Flying J but not quite at the weird bent cactus, make sure to stop into Mama Al's bar!" They'll keep stopping the conversation to tell a story about something that happened thirty years ago, but forget how it ended or why they were telling it. Their humor will often rely on visual gags the listener can't see. They'll keep stopping to argue with an inaudible third member of the production crew on the other side of the room.

Once an Episode, they'll talk to a guest expert via Skype, but the audio quality will be so bad you can't make out a word he says.

You could call it "White Guys on Whatever."

Edited by Wheezy on Aug 27th 2018 at 7:34:43 AM

Novel progress: The Adroan, 110k; Yume no Hime, 98k; The Pigeon Witch, on pause at 40k.
ewolf2015 MIA from south Carolina Since: Jan, 2015 Relationship Status: I-It's not like I like you, or anything!
MIA
#362: Sep 1st 2018 at 8:18:51 AM

4 unlikely tabletop gamers become heroes via 4 mystical weapons.

edit: was too dang long.

Edited by ewolf2015 on Sep 15th 2018 at 9:08:21 AM

MIA
GAP Formerly G.G. from Who Knows? Since: May, 2011 Relationship Status: In love with love
Formerly G.G.
#363: Sep 23rd 2018 at 1:26:58 AM

I just keep thinking about a funny parody MGSV with Mario characters.

"Fan, a Mega Man character."
DeMarquis (4 Score & 7 Years Ago)
#364: Sep 23rd 2018 at 10:50:10 AM

For those who might be interested, I have created a thread on a world-building project of mine centered on Otzi The Iceman (actually a well preserved mummy found in Italy dating back to 3300 BCE. Everyone is free to make use of it in their own works if they wish.

I'm done trying to sound smart. "Clear" is the new smart.
TairaMai rollin' on dubs from El Paso Tx Since: Jul, 2011 Relationship Status: Mu
rollin' on dubs
#365: Sep 23rd 2018 at 10:50:09 PM

A Talking Animal film where a young pup is from a family of police and military working dogs: Action Mom is a police dog, the Papa Wolf is a retired military EOD dog and his younger sister is a police dog in training.

He wants to be an emotional support dog.

Queue the scene where mom is all "That's...um...nice?" Dad's jaw drops and sis is rolling on the floor laughing.

But the young pup works hard at it.

He goes from person to person - a stressed out executive, a Drives Like Crazy uber driver with a crush on the executive, a teacher who has a crippling fear of public speaking (preventing her from being a principal) and a child with an illness.

He makes their lives better. Impresses his family. With some stops at a "bar" for other emotional support animals. His mentor is a cat that used to be a mascot for pet food until it was recalled and the company dropped him. He takes the pup in and teaches him how to be supportive.

Edited by TairaMai on Sep 24th 2018 at 12:49:59 AM

I tried to walk like an Egyptian and now I need to see a Cairo practor....
eagleoftheninth Shop all day, greed is free from a dreamed portrait, imperfect Since: May, 2013 Relationship Status: With my statistically significant other
Shop all day, greed is free
#366: Oct 11th 2018 at 1:02:09 AM

A one-horse town, except the town is the horse.

One day, we will read his name in the news and cheer.
GAP Formerly G.G. from Who Knows? Since: May, 2011 Relationship Status: In love with love
Formerly G.G.
#367: Oct 12th 2018 at 2:57:32 PM

I am thinking about a parody story that features Chuck Norris and dinosaurs in Space. tongue

"Fan, a Mega Man character."
AgentKirin creature Since: Aug, 2017 Relationship Status: Having tea with Cthulhu
Voltron64 Since: Jul, 2016
#369: Oct 16th 2018 at 8:35:25 AM

A story concept about a bunch of Golarion goblins fighting the infamous Goblins from Goblin Slayer.

With the former WRECKING the latter.

Inglorious Basterds-style.

Mhazard Since: Mar, 2015 Relationship Status: You cannot grasp the true form
#370: Oct 22nd 2018 at 6:57:06 PM

A Magical Girl story that starts with a group of cute 4-year-old girls studying in a Wizarding School, spending six years to learn magic and build a bond between their classmates as they overcome the obstacles and help the townsfolk.

Then they graduate at the age of 10 and they all become full-fledged Magical Girls, and they receive their first mission as real Magical Girls: use their newly trained magic spells along with assault rifles and rocket launchers to sabotage another country's water supply and destroy military bases, and it begins with half of the main cast (10-year-old Magical Girls, it must be noted) getting killed by the enemy nation's own group of Magical Girls (who are also around 10-year-old)... WHAT?!

It is that moment, the story starts to show its true color and shifts from a generic Magical Girl story to a war story, where Magical Girls are trained and treated as military weapons. And since an in-universe Deliberate Values Dissonance is in full effect, no one sees the act of raising young girls as military weapons inhumane, some would also proclaim that it's a good alternative for conscription and population control. As the story goes on, it becomes a survival story of a group of child soldiers desperately trying to stay alive in wars after wars, until they're driven to despair and either become traumatized by the battles or become apathetic, war-loving killing machines that the military have always dreamed for.

Edited by Mhazard on Oct 24th 2018 at 10:05:18 PM

Wheezy @TheCSJones on everything else. from West Philadelphia, but not born or raised. (Elder Troper) Relationship Status: How does it feel to treat me like you do?
@TheCSJones on everything else.
#371: Oct 23rd 2018 at 12:34:32 PM

[up] That would be a great idea in the hands of the right writer. (Although, TBH, I feel like I've seen magical girl military fic somewhere before, I just can't remember where.)

Character idea for a comedy:

The Dragon who's ultra-competent, but is not only a Punch-Clock Villain, but one who actively hates his job. He doesn't show it to the Big Bad's face, but takes any opportunity to slack off behind his back.

He's fearsomely good in combat, but will stop and desert the battlefield at exactly 5 PM. He'll tell the heroes that he's only fighting them until he gets a better job.

He pulls all the typical villain dick moves like killing the heroes' families and sneak attacking them, but only when ordered to do so by the big bad—he never takes initiative of his own—and will do it while rolling his eyes and making the jerk off motion behind his boss's back.

As the story goes on, he starts to care even less. He'll sometimes call out sick from his villainous duties, letting the heroes win a battle, so he can go on job interviews.

I'm also picturing a scene where he gets an order to... Say, fire a Weapon of Mass Destruction... Then pulls out his phone and plays with it for a while, takes a twenty-minute bathroom break, eats a bag of chips, stares out a window, then just mumbles "OK, whatever..." Before pushing the button.

Bonus points if the Million Mook March has been called out to watch and has to stand at attention through all of this.

Edited by Wheezy on Oct 23rd 2018 at 3:40:54 PM

Novel progress: The Adroan, 110k; Yume no Hime, 98k; The Pigeon Witch, on pause at 40k.
TairaMai rollin' on dubs from El Paso Tx Since: Jul, 2011 Relationship Status: Mu
rollin' on dubs
#372: Oct 23rd 2018 at 10:42:34 PM

Secret Project Refugee Family - only one of the newest additions to the "family" discovers that they are not really on the run. People may hate them and some scientists and government agencies might want to study them but that's not why they are on the run.

The "leader" of the "family" is exploiting them. By keeping them on the run and dependent on him or her (through coercion or super powers) the leader stays in charge.

The newcomer even learns that the government has offered amnesty to the "family", something the leader doesn't want them to find out.

Or worse, being on the run was the plan all along, and the leader of the family is really working for the conspiracy that created them.

I tried to walk like an Egyptian and now I need to see a Cairo practor....
BattleRaizer from Realm of Khorne Since: Apr, 2016 Relationship Status: THIS CONCEPT OF 'WUV' CONFUSES AND INFURIATES US!
#373: Oct 26th 2018 at 7:04:34 AM

Alien vs Gods. A planet eater crash land on a planet with gods rule over all creation of that world. They fought and end with the planet eater been sealed away but the source of his power fall into the hand of the mortals, combine that with magic the mortal races created devices that unlock and amplify the user true potential but the gods still in control. Million years later, the planet eater escape his prison in a weaken state and plan to use the devices that the mortals have developed to regain his power and become even stronger to overcome the gods and devour the world. The gods and the mortal races all hunted him, some trying to stop him, some try to use him for their own goals.

Edited by BattleRaizer on Oct 26th 2018 at 9:07:12 PM

E.T technically is a Isekai movie
chloso no u Since: Feb, 2015 Relationship Status: Charming Titania with a donkey face
no u
#374: Nov 2nd 2018 at 11:15:13 AM

In the backstory, Alice attempts a Murder-Suicide with Bob, but only half-succeeds and kills herself, but not Bob. The story proper is about Bob being haunted by Alice's ghost because she wants to finish what she started.

This is the end of my post.
SharkToast Since: Mar, 2013
#375: Nov 3rd 2018 at 8:29:30 PM

A guy gets a job as a security guard for an abandoned building. He told not to let anyone into the building. He's given a gun to incapacitate people and a device that can supposedly erase. Soon, a bunch of suspicious people show up at the building and he has to deal with them. As this goes on, he wonders what's so special about the building.


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