New element prompts

[thisbluespirit]

So, having finally typed up all of When the Lights Go Out (typed up, not edited, though & I still must do Remix next), I thought I would return to my very old list of 100 Element Prompts as a reward but it also seemed like much more fun to get a new set from the new version of the Genremixer, so counted out the no. I hadn't written (probably erroneously, and there were more done in rough that never got typed up).

Anyway, I don't know if I will write many or any, but I had forgotten just how much brilliant it is putting random Elements in the Genremixer. I am a ridiculous person and the results bring GREAT JOY to my heart. Please feel free to admire, make suggestions, or just steal them, I don't mind.

(Non-canonical Elements are either ones I've written before, or ones I found on another list from way back that I was clearly contemplating next. As I am sure I had good reasons for my choices, I threw some of them in, pending investigation in my old notes, bookmarks and print-outs for what I was thinking. If I can't work out what on earth I was thinking, I can always replace those ones.)



1. Iron / Mercury - Pillow/Blanket fort & Long-distance relationship

2. Jet / Iron / Copper - screw the rules I have money! & quick let's get out of here

3. Steel / Mercury - retail therapy & hostile climate

4. Silver / Bronze / Steel - Locked out & boarding school au

5. Bronze / Steel - mermaids & Fight

6. Copper / Cerium - electricity & Holidays

7. Copper / Jet / Tin - woke up in bed together & forbidden romance

8. Sapphire / Diamond / Iron - Early & plot device

9. Copper / Jet - tsundere & mind control

10. Jet / Tin / Copper - Stuck together — literally & Distance

11. Mercury / Diamond / Copper - fire & magical trouble

12. Copper - Intoxication & time bomb

13. Jet / Ruby - Finding home & Catching snowflakes

14. Jet / Antimony / Zinc - hallucinations/visions & mind control

15. Jet / Jasper / Tin - Coffee Shop & Heirloom/Antique

16. Antimony / Zinc - Making someone smile & Matchmaking

17. Copper / Zinc - attacked by a creature & unrequited love

18. Iron - turning to the dark side & seduction

19. Silver / Emerald / Mercury - lost weekend & Being silly

20. Diamond / Ruby / Tin - werewolves & Distance

21. Cerium / Copper - Unicorns & Markings

22. Jasper / Steel / Mercury - Characters as children & Promise

23. Emerald / Copper / Amber - falsely imprisoned & forced to rely on enemy/rival

24. Emerald / Tin - gone undercover & minor illness

25. Emerald / Sapphire - holiday & Sunrise/Sunset

26. Silver / Sapphire - Creative & worst case scenario

27. Cerium / Silver - playing hard to get & Where we don't have to hide

28. Steel - anti-hero & Mary Sue/Marty Stu

29. Iron / Copper / Cerium - Reading & Bachelor/Bachelorette Party

30. Cerium / Lead - Balloons & Playing with hair

31. Sapphire / Jet - don't try this at home & telepathic trauma

32. Lead / Ruby - immobilisation & arranged marriage

33. Lead / Silver / Steel - we're all going to die! & Serenading someone

34. Steel / Sapphire - vampires & minor illness

35. Iron / Copper / Emerald - cursed & Paradise

36. Gold / Iron / Cerium - Friends become lovers & Fire

37. Silver / Gold - highschool au & zombie apocalypse

38. Gold / Emerald - Money & holiday

39. Jet / Lead - Marriage proposal & Mismatch

40. Emerald / Silver - imprisonment & group support

41. Copper / Cerium - Mismatch & telepathy/mindmeld

42. Silver / Emerald - forced soulbonding & arranged marriage

43. Silver / Mercury - Umbrella-sharing & Whisper

44. Lead / Silver / Copper - Movie/Video & doppelganger

45. Jet / Silver / Copper - possession/mind control & beauty in the eye of the beholder

46. Steel / Gold - game night & Bad day

47. Gold / Jet - Mismatch & telepathic trauma

48. Silver / Copper / Sapphire - Money & alien invasion

49. Sapphire / Jet - attacked by a creature & Heirloom/Antique

50. Gold / Silver - werewolves & shipwrecked

51. Copper / Lead - The little things & Compliments

52. Steel / Sapphire / Silver - Coffee Shop & character death

53. Steel / Silver / Sapphire - reincarnation & forced to face fear

54. Steel / Silver / Sapphire - blood loss & woke up in bed together

55. Sapphire / Steel / Silver - Wishes & Night

56. Silver / Steel - vampires & fake relationship

57. Steel / Silver - It's the thought that counts & Dancing

58. Copper / Silver - doppelganger & presumed dead

59. Silver/Copper – witch hunt & family

60. Silver / Copper - huddle for warmth & invisibility


ETA: I've been tweaking them a bit since first posting, as I realised I had none of some of my favourite pairings/combinations.


I laughed the hardest at no. 28 though. And now I must go and rest and then contemplate Remix and important things that must be done, talking of which, damn, I forgot to phone the doctor's while I did this.

Comments

[liadt]

28 is indeed lol! I also like the thought of Steel doing retail therapy and being serenaded!

Bravo for completing the typing stage \o/ I hope the commas will be behaving themselves in the edit.

[thisbluespirit]

28 is indeed lol! I also like the thought of Steel doing retail therapy and being serenaded!

Steel is glowering at both.

And thank you! It's not commas I'm worrying about, it's mainly the plot! I may have to go and lie down again first. ;-)

[sovay]

I also like the thought of Steel doing retail therapy and being serenaded!

I had a lot of sympathy with 3: I certainly consider malls hostile climates!

[thisbluespirit]

Retail therapy is only ever therapy if it involves bookshops! *nods*

Malls probably would count as a hostile climate. That seems fair!

[sovay]

23. Emerald / Copper / Amber - falsely imprisoned & forced to rely on enemy/rival

That one is practically a fic on its own.

[thisbluespirit]

It is! I love this generator a lot and when you combine it with S&S my brain gets all excited. :-D

[ashlyme]

Am I bad for reading 28 as "Disco Stu"? I probably am. You're welcome to that if you're really really desperate!

[thisbluespirit]

Not if I'm not bad for not deleting the prompt in first place but keeping it and laughing at it for five minutes. :-D

[kerk_hiraeth]

Possibly totally OT, but I was just checking my reading page and I was scrolling past this and just saw Sappho and Steel.

Where the EFF did that come from?

Btw, do you remember a 4-part story about a civil servant who gets caught up in spy conpsiracy called Bird of Prey; every once in a while I check to see if anyone's put it in an archive anywhere; another show called Sleepers I had until my system crashed and I lost my only copy. There was another spy thriller set partly in Iceland as well.

Sleepers was a magnificent show; one of the show's cats was David Calder.

kerk

[thisbluespirit]

and just saw Sappho and Steel.

Heh, well, it's an idea! ;-)

I haven't watched either of those shows, but I do sort of remember Sleepers being on, and Bird of Prey sounds vaguely familiar.