A Ridiculous & Epic S&S Prompt list
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thisbluespiritBecause I have one. By accident, but I do. Someone in the last round of ![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-community.gif)
fan_flashworks invented this nice little random generator tool - you type in characters and it supplies combinations and prompts using fanfic cliches or genres. (I stuck to cliches; you know how I like going at cliches from unexpected angles.)
I was playing round with it (as I do when I'm bored), mostly trying my 1980s UNIT peoples. (They are not good with fanfic cliches. Either I've already used them, or they just wouldn't go for it. Or for random pairings.) And then, idly, I typed in a lot of random 'Elements'. And... I fell in love with the results. I mean, utterly in love. I don't know why.
So, now I have an epic prompt list that I am going to play with, which is probably not going to be much fun for anyone else, but for at least this week, I love the idea. And it's me, so there's no deadlines, no words limits, I can do 50 words, drabbles, three sentences, ficlets, or get carried away when I'm able. And I can have ALL THE ELEMENTS. Which, if anyone remembers me rambling about being fannish about the periodic table, was mostly what I wanted all along.
(I still have my lovely post full of prompts, but I got stuck on four at once, which was off-putting. I'll go back to those, though - but I need something to make me write small things, and this hopefully will work.) I don't know why I need excuses and prompts to write the things I want to write... but I do.
1. jet & copper - Hero and sidekick & Turning to the dark side
2. ruby & steel - Mindgames & Snowed in
3. jet - Amnesia & Chromatic recasting
4. sapphire & silver & lead - Crackfic & Physical transformation
5. copper & silver - Confession in desperate situation & Timeloops: Connections
6. jet & sapphire - Telepathic bond & Vigilante justice
7. lead & mercury - Wish-fulfillment & Underdog
8. gold - Meeting alternate-universe counterparts & Clumsiness
9. copper - Vampires & Soulmates
10. mercury & ruby - Closeted & Trapped in a closet
11. ruby & lead - Hot summer day & Summer camp AU
12. silver & mercury & steel - Workplace romance & Magical creatures
13. steel & mercury - Stranded/survival scenario & Soul bond
14. sapphire - High school AU & Ran away to join the circus: Watching the Show
15. lead & ruby & copper - Confession of love & Timeloops
16. gold & diamond - Worst-case scenario & Five things
17. ruby & lead - Telepathy & Beauty in the eye of the beholder
18. jet & ruby - Restrained & Age regression
19. copper & sapphire - Pre-canon & Parallel universes: Reflections
20. mercury & lead - Physical transformation & Tyranny/rebellion
21. gold & lead - Tyranny/rebellion & Breaking the fourth wall
22. sapphire & diamond - Everyone thinks they're doing it & Birthday
23. jet & copper & steel - Trapped in a closet & Bodyswap
24. sapphire - Road trip & Learning to be loved
25. silver & lead & ruby - Truth or dare & Holiday
26. ruby & silver & jet - Unresolved Sexual Tension & We're all going to die!
27. copper - Power reversal & Boarding school AU: Private Ventures
28. sapphire & iron - Jewelry & Anti-hero
29. silver & steel - Tradition & Time travel
30. sapphire & diamond - Odd Couple & Magic AU
31. diamond & jet & gold - Turning to the dark side & Bad girls
32. iron & lead & gold - Didn't know they were dating & Mary Sue/Marty Stu
33. gold - Orphans & Fluff
34. jet & diamond - Mindgames & Animal transformation
35. sapphire & jet & Cerium - Five things & Telepathy
36. gold & jet - Makeover & Forbidden romance
37. silver - Scars & Doppelganger
38. steel & sapphire & diamond - Intimacy & Missing scene
39. silver & lead - Forbidden romance & First kiss
40. gold & silver & jet - Purple Prose & Road trip
41. gold & jet - Masquerade & Pregnancy
42. Cerium & copper - Ran away to join the circus & Vampires: Runaway
43. gold & steel - Soul bond & Original character
44. iron & silver - Confession in desperate situation & Cuddling for warmth
45. copper & steel - Missing scene & Woke up gay
46. lead - Deal with the devil & Birthday
47. gold - Damsel in distress & Androids/robots
48. lead & jet & sapphire - Workplace romance & Accidental marriage
49. copper & sapphire - Tyranny/rebellion & Journeys and quests
50. silver & jet - Wish-fulfillment & Confession of love
51. copper & silver - Stranded/survival scenario & Hurt/Comfort
52. lead & antimony & jet - Chance encounter & Wish-fulfillment
53. lead & gold - May-December relationship & Accidental marriage
54. lead & jet - Supernatural AU & Comfort food
55. antimony & jet - Original character & Playing hard to get
56. steel - Tragic flaw & Fix-it fic
57. lead & jet & diamond - Mirror Universe & Truth or dare
58. lead & jet - Plot device & Rescue
59. jet & silver - Deus Ex Machina & Closeted: Interrupted
60. steel & lead - Public display of affection & Fluff
61. silver & diamond - Schmoop & Confession: Angles of Improbability
62. antimony - Telepathy & Kidnapping
63. diamond & gold - Five things & Bad girls
64. antimony - Telepathy & Exile
65. copper & lead - Time travel & Closeted
66. steel & silver - Bad boys & Jealousy
67. silver & gold - Drabble & Stranded/survival scenario: Trapped
68. sapphire & copper & antimony - Confession under the influence & Journeys and quests
69. copper & steel & antimony - Power inequality & Androids/robots
70. silver & sapphire & copper - Supernatural AU & Fountain of youth
71. antimony & sapphire - Role reversal & Fork in the road AU
72. silver - Confession of love & Tragic past
73. copper & sapphire - Hero and sidekick & Role reversal
74. silver - Angst & Manic pixie dream girl: Persuasion
75. sapphire & copper - Mundane AU & Spooning
76. copper - College AU & Skeletons in the closet
77. steel & jet - Restrained & Tsundere
78. steel & cerium - Spooning & We're all going to die!
79. silver & sapphire - Birthday & Everyone thinks they're doing it: Exhibition
80. copper & silver - Nightmares & Resurrection
81. steel & antimony - Fish out of water & Betting
82. sapphire & steel - Deal with the devil & Presumed dead
83. steel & sapphire - Ghosts & Drabble: Haunting
84. steel & sapphire - Runaways & Pre-canon: Day Trip
85. sapphire & steel - Reincarnation & Mindgames
86. sapphire & steel - Angst & Tyranny/rebellion
87. steel & sapphire - Fix-it fic & Tragic past
88. steel & sapphire - Breaking the fourth wall & Everyone thinks they're doing it
89. silver & sapphire - Confession in desperate situation & Parallel universes
90. steel & silver - Cuddling for warmth & Forbidden romance: Frozen
91. steel & silver & sapphire - Blind date & Zombie apocalypse
92. sapphire & silver - Plot device & Reincarnation
93. steel & silver - Presumed dead & Bad boys: Phantoms
94. sapphire & steel - Ghosts & Courtship ritual
95. silver & steel - Mindgames & Worst-case scenario
96. sapphire & steel - Parallel universes & Fountain of youth
97. silver - Snowed in & Noodle incident
98. silver & steel & sapphire - Comfort food & Soulmates
99. silver & steel - Crying & Accidental marriage: Indissoluable
100. steel & sapphire - Fork in the road AU & Telepathy
Anyway, here for my own reference, but feel free to point out if you like the look of any of them, and maybe I'll try for those first. Since it is a ridiculously epic list, also feel free to snaffle any. (More S&S fic of any kind is a good thing; steal my crazy prompts, please, why not? I'm not really going to manage 100 prompts, am I?)
The thing was amusingly averse to pairing Sapphire & Steel though. After realising it hadn't given me one prompt for them, I cut it down to just Sapphire, Steel and Silver. Still no good. I had to have only Sapphire and Steel before it'd grudgingly give me some. (So those prompts are all at the end.) Some of them, I'd like to add, I kept for pure crackiness, although I'm not entirely sure I can cope with crack!fic in this fandom. (Or have I already written some? Knowing me I probably have.) Anyway, it will be more constructive than moping and playing with screencaps, which is mostly what I seem to do when I'm tired and bored lately.
ETA: And I have (barring editing and the tail end of one) finished the housework meme, and I did type up a 1980s UNIT snippet (which I planned to do in Jan; that needs editing, too.) So, that makes this better, obviously. (Er. Expect some fic soon?)
fan_flashworks invented this nice little random generator tool - you type in characters and it supplies combinations and prompts using fanfic cliches or genres. (I stuck to cliches; you know how I like going at cliches from unexpected angles.)I was playing round with it (as I do when I'm bored), mostly trying my 1980s UNIT peoples. (They are not good with fanfic cliches. Either I've already used them, or they just wouldn't go for it. Or for random pairings.) And then, idly, I typed in a lot of random 'Elements'. And... I fell in love with the results. I mean, utterly in love. I don't know why.
So, now I have an epic prompt list that I am going to play with, which is probably not going to be much fun for anyone else, but for at least this week, I love the idea. And it's me, so there's no deadlines, no words limits, I can do 50 words, drabbles, three sentences, ficlets, or get carried away when I'm able. And I can have ALL THE ELEMENTS. Which, if anyone remembers me rambling about being fannish about the periodic table, was mostly what I wanted all along.
(I still have my lovely post full of prompts, but I got stuck on four at once, which was off-putting. I'll go back to those, though - but I need something to make me write small things, and this hopefully will work.) I don't know why I need excuses and prompts to write the things I want to write... but I do.
1. jet & copper - Hero and sidekick & Turning to the dark side
2. ruby & steel - Mindgames & Snowed in
3. jet - Amnesia & Chromatic recasting
4. sapphire & silver & lead - Crackfic & Physical transformation
5. copper & silver - Confession in desperate situation & Timeloops: Connections
6. jet & sapphire - Telepathic bond & Vigilante justice
7. lead & mercury - Wish-fulfillment & Underdog
8. gold - Meeting alternate-universe counterparts & Clumsiness
9. copper - Vampires & Soulmates
10. mercury & ruby - Closeted & Trapped in a closet
11. ruby & lead - Hot summer day & Summer camp AU
12. silver & mercury & steel - Workplace romance & Magical creatures
13. steel & mercury - Stranded/survival scenario & Soul bond
14. sapphire - High school AU & Ran away to join the circus: Watching the Show
15. lead & ruby & copper - Confession of love & Timeloops
16. gold & diamond - Worst-case scenario & Five things
17. ruby & lead - Telepathy & Beauty in the eye of the beholder
18. jet & ruby - Restrained & Age regression
19. copper & sapphire - Pre-canon & Parallel universes: Reflections
20. mercury & lead - Physical transformation & Tyranny/rebellion
21. gold & lead - Tyranny/rebellion & Breaking the fourth wall
22. sapphire & diamond - Everyone thinks they're doing it & Birthday
23. jet & copper & steel - Trapped in a closet & Bodyswap
24. sapphire - Road trip & Learning to be loved
25. silver & lead & ruby - Truth or dare & Holiday
26. ruby & silver & jet - Unresolved Sexual Tension & We're all going to die!
27. copper - Power reversal & Boarding school AU: Private Ventures
28. sapphire & iron - Jewelry & Anti-hero
29. silver & steel - Tradition & Time travel
30. sapphire & diamond - Odd Couple & Magic AU
31. diamond & jet & gold - Turning to the dark side & Bad girls
32. iron & lead & gold - Didn't know they were dating & Mary Sue/Marty Stu
33. gold - Orphans & Fluff
34. jet & diamond - Mindgames & Animal transformation
35. sapphire & jet & Cerium - Five things & Telepathy
36. gold & jet - Makeover & Forbidden romance
37. silver - Scars & Doppelganger
38. steel & sapphire & diamond - Intimacy & Missing scene
39. silver & lead - Forbidden romance & First kiss
40. gold & silver & jet - Purple Prose & Road trip
41. gold & jet - Masquerade & Pregnancy
42. Cerium & copper - Ran away to join the circus & Vampires: Runaway
43. gold & steel - Soul bond & Original character
44. iron & silver - Confession in desperate situation & Cuddling for warmth
45. copper & steel - Missing scene & Woke up gay
46. lead - Deal with the devil & Birthday
47. gold - Damsel in distress & Androids/robots
48. lead & jet & sapphire - Workplace romance & Accidental marriage
49. copper & sapphire - Tyranny/rebellion & Journeys and quests
50. silver & jet - Wish-fulfillment & Confession of love
51. copper & silver - Stranded/survival scenario & Hurt/Comfort
52. lead & antimony & jet - Chance encounter & Wish-fulfillment
53. lead & gold - May-December relationship & Accidental marriage
54. lead & jet - Supernatural AU & Comfort food
55. antimony & jet - Original character & Playing hard to get
56. steel - Tragic flaw & Fix-it fic
57. lead & jet & diamond - Mirror Universe & Truth or dare
58. lead & jet - Plot device & Rescue
59. jet & silver - Deus Ex Machina & Closeted: Interrupted
60. steel & lead - Public display of affection & Fluff
61. silver & diamond - Schmoop & Confession: Angles of Improbability
62. antimony - Telepathy & Kidnapping
63. diamond & gold - Five things & Bad girls
64. antimony - Telepathy & Exile
65. copper & lead - Time travel & Closeted
66. steel & silver - Bad boys & Jealousy
67. silver & gold - Drabble & Stranded/survival scenario: Trapped
68. sapphire & copper & antimony - Confession under the influence & Journeys and quests
69. copper & steel & antimony - Power inequality & Androids/robots
70. silver & sapphire & copper - Supernatural AU & Fountain of youth
71. antimony & sapphire - Role reversal & Fork in the road AU
72. silver - Confession of love & Tragic past
73. copper & sapphire - Hero and sidekick & Role reversal
74. silver - Angst & Manic pixie dream girl: Persuasion
75. sapphire & copper - Mundane AU & Spooning
76. copper - College AU & Skeletons in the closet
77. steel & jet - Restrained & Tsundere
78. steel & cerium - Spooning & We're all going to die!
79. silver & sapphire - Birthday & Everyone thinks they're doing it: Exhibition
80. copper & silver - Nightmares & Resurrection
81. steel & antimony - Fish out of water & Betting
82. sapphire & steel - Deal with the devil & Presumed dead
83. steel & sapphire - Ghosts & Drabble: Haunting
84. steel & sapphire - Runaways & Pre-canon: Day Trip
85. sapphire & steel - Reincarnation & Mindgames
86. sapphire & steel - Angst & Tyranny/rebellion
87. steel & sapphire - Fix-it fic & Tragic past
88. steel & sapphire - Breaking the fourth wall & Everyone thinks they're doing it
89. silver & sapphire - Confession in desperate situation & Parallel universes
90. steel & silver - Cuddling for warmth & Forbidden romance: Frozen
91. steel & silver & sapphire - Blind date & Zombie apocalypse
92. sapphire & silver - Plot device & Reincarnation
93. steel & silver - Presumed dead & Bad boys: Phantoms
94. sapphire & steel - Ghosts & Courtship ritual
95. silver & steel - Mindgames & Worst-case scenario
96. sapphire & steel - Parallel universes & Fountain of youth
97. silver - Snowed in & Noodle incident
98. silver & steel & sapphire - Comfort food & Soulmates
99. silver & steel - Crying & Accidental marriage: Indissoluable
100. steel & sapphire - Fork in the road AU & Telepathy
Anyway, here for my own reference, but feel free to point out if you like the look of any of them, and maybe I'll try for those first. Since it is a ridiculously epic list, also feel free to snaffle any. (More S&S fic of any kind is a good thing; steal my crazy prompts, please, why not? I'm not really going to manage 100 prompts, am I?)
The thing was amusingly averse to pairing Sapphire & Steel though. After realising it hadn't given me one prompt for them, I cut it down to just Sapphire, Steel and Silver. Still no good. I had to have only Sapphire and Steel before it'd grudgingly give me some. (So those prompts are all at the end.) Some of them, I'd like to add, I kept for pure crackiness, although I'm not entirely sure I can cope with crack!fic in this fandom. (Or have I already written some? Knowing me I probably have.) Anyway, it will be more constructive than moping and playing with screencaps, which is mostly what I seem to do when I'm tired and bored lately.
ETA: And I have (barring editing and the tail end of one) finished the housework meme, and I did type up a 1980s UNIT snippet (which I planned to do in Jan; that needs editing, too.) So, that makes this better, obviously. (Er. Expect some fic soon?)