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Stuff I love: Random Generators

While I'm here, let's do the thing:



I love random generators! They are my favourite internet creative toy and responsible for many a fic from me, one way or another.

My favourite was the Genremixer, which sadly died, but thankfully john_amend_all stepped in and made another version, the Ersatz Genremixer. It is the one that most works for actually kick-starting fic for me. It's simple, adjustable to your preferences, allows you to put in your own choice of characters, it's sometimes semi-sentient, and altogether delightful.

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But for hours of amusement, the Unconventional Courtship Generator is probably even more fun. (I think because it gives you summaries, it's like little ridiculous stories in themselves without me having even to write them.) While I've been ill, I have cheered myself up with this more times than I can count, and certainly more times than I have ever written for the results. (Although I have written for the results, including the Steed/Baldrick one that astrogirl said I couldn't do. Few of them are romantic, but romance is most certainly not required.) It was originally made for unconventionalcourtship ficathon (where you write fic based on terrible Mills & Boon type summaries, hence the generator full of them). You can type in your own characters here, too, if you wish to, although it comes pre-populated.

( And then you get things like this.... )

Other generators that I am very fond of and/or find extremely useful:

this Bingo generator, which came via allbingo, which I've used for both of the bingos I've run.

They Fight Crime (Just for the lols mainly: "He's a bookish small-town gentleman spy from a doomed world. She's a violent hip-hop nun from a secret island of warrior women. They fight crime!")

The Doctor Who Random Pairing Generator (the cause of a lot of DW fic from me once upon a time. Although, as with me and the UC generator, very rarely actually romantic, and still a favourite.)

The Cakefic Generator (cakefic is important!)

Probably one I should look at now, for my thingies, an Element Pairing Generator

And I have made an awful lot of use over the years of the random poetry generator for making prompts for memes and comms and things (despite its Emily Dickinson fixation).

Ficlet: Thrice Cursed

A little thing I wrote for halfamoon, and also for genprompt_bingo and 100fandoms. (1 down, 99 to go!)

Thrice Cursed (555 words) by thisbluespirit
Chapters: 1/1
Fandom: Once Upon a Time (TV)
Rating: General Audiences
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Relationships: Alice | Tilly & Gothel | Eloise Gardener, Alice | Tilly/Robin | Margot, Alice | Tilly & Wishverse Captain Hook | Detective Rogers
Characters: Alice | Tilly, Gothel | Eloise Gardener, Wishverse Captain Hook | Detective Rogers, Robin | Margot
Additional Tags: Ficlet, community: 100fandoms, Community: genprompt_bingo, Community: halfamoon, Vignette, Magic, Curses
Summary: Alice is cursed three times.

(Or: I've just been rewatching S7 and basically I still love Alice | Tilly a lot.)