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Dear exchangekon writer,
I don't have very many things I don't like, but you can find my will-not-read list here. Moving on to better things, here are the general things I like to read, and here are a few vague crossover/sidecharacter suggestions.
note about this list: please feel free to mix and mash and blend all these ideas together! You also can write something completely different, or just use these as jumping-off points, or whatever you like. I didn't mention general aus with these prompts, but as a reference (if you haven't checked my things I like list) I really like modern day working people aus, sci fi, space, magical realism, uni etc. and also mash ups of these - like regular everyday uni life on a different planet, or magical realism plus space, or any other combinations, and please feel free to add those aus to any of these prompts or whatever else you like!
1. What I want most is for you to write your own wip! I'd love to be surprised, and I'm sure you'd rather write your own pet project, so as long it doesn't have anything on my will-not-read list, I'm all for this!
2. launch sequence (photograph)
“A philosopher once asked, "Are we human because we gaze at the stars, or do we gaze at them because we are human?" Pointless, really..."Do the stars gaze back?" Now, that's a question.”—quote from Stardust
—open interpretation or person A signs up for the space program because he wants to see the stars. He doesn't expect the stars to be excited about seeing him.
This can be space au/sci fi/aliens/anything you like.
3. ex machina trailer information - there's a new project with person a scientist, person b employee act as a test interactor, and person c the A.I. but what defines human consciousness? what is real? what is false? note: use as much or little of the au as you want; feel free to take it in a horror or romance or sci-fi direction.
4. dennou coil!au - in a future where everyone lives immersed in a digital super-layer of reality viewed via the glasses they always where, a group of children investigate a flaw in the system that might lead to the truth. what is real? what is love? what are feelings? is it real if you can't feel it? note: feel free to change whatever you like and they don't have to be children.
5. something based on the iKON & WINNER project film dimension.
6. TRIGGER WARNING blood death fire how to destroy angels - the space in between mv and song open interpretation
“The treachery of demons is nothing compared to the betrayal of an angel.”—Brenna Yovanoff, The Space Between
7. possession/soul!au - after person a's sister/brother is killed, they start to be taken over by the dead person's spirit in exacting revenge. feel free to change everything/anything and you don't have to watch the drama - getting inspired by the synopsis is fine!
8. inspired by The Magicians (trilogy)
person a gets into a prep school for magic but this doesn't hide the fact that he's running away from his own problems. and when, together with his friends (boys and girls whatever you like), they discover a way to enter a whole new realm of worlds, person a's problems only magnify. feel free to change everything/anything and you don't have to read the book(s) - getting inspired by the synopsis is fine!
9. TRIGGER WARNING war situations, violence, guns
Arcade Fire - The Suburbs music video and song, the video is from scenes taken from the short film "Scenes from the Suburbs"
TRIGGER WARNING implied death off screen - clip from the film the Watchmen
image (solder with gun in city, ambulances)
We knew the world would not be the same. A few people laughed, a few people cried, most people were silent. I remembered the line from the Hindu scripture, the Bhagavad-Gita; Vishnu is trying to persuade the Prince that he should do his duty and, to impress him, takes on his multi-armed form and says, "Now I am become Death, the destroyer of worlds." I suppose we all thought that, one way or another.
— Robert Oppenheimer
10. Rihanna - Stay feat. Mikky Ekko
The Hanahaki Disease is an illness born from one-sided love, where the patient throws up and coughs of flower petals when they suffer from one-sided love. The infection can be removed through surgery, but the feelings disappear along with the petals. It can be cured without side effects only when the feelings are returned.
— source
11. Inspired by GOTH by otsuichi (book, manga, live action film) person a has a habit of meeting murders and getting mixed up in their lives, but person b keeps them in their sight, though person a seems to come out okay. but will person b ever step in if necessary? feel free to change everything/anything and you don't have to read the book or manga or watch the live action film - getting inspired by the synopsis is fine!
bonus: junior high or high school or university would be fun but anything is great!
12. mild trigger warning insinuations of suicide or other death
Nell - 그리고 남겨진 것들
three excerpts from And our faces, my heart, brief as photos by John Berger
13. person a is in a long-term happy relationship with person b. person a also is an avid (your choice or real or invented) MMORPG player and in the course of their game play they end up forming a partnership and getting "virtually married" to an online player, person c, with the knowledge of person b. but after a while, considering the amount of time person a spends interacting with person c, person b gets curious and wants to meet them. what happens next?
14. any ikon mvs (open interpretation)
15. inspired by The invisible circus (book) person a goes on a trip retracing steps to search for what really happened to his older sibling/childhood friend who died/committed suicide a couple of years previously. On the way he meets person b, his sibling/friend's former boyfriend, who seems to knows more than he is letting on. feel free to change everything/anything and you don't have to read the book/watch the movie or follow it at all - getting inspired by the synopsis is fine!
16. inspired by The starboard sea (book)
“I used to believe having a good memory meant being able to remember everything in perfect detail. Now I believe having a good memory means being able to selectively forget. It's not what I'll remember, {name}," he said. "It's what I'll forget that matters.”
person a is sent to a boarding school for wealthy but problem kids after the suicide/accidental death of his childhood friend/secret boyfriend/girlfriend. He meets/falls in love with another person b who has their own problems, and falls in with some others who together from a group of reckless and disruptive teenagers who are maybe delinquent and rampantly destructive, not out of a desire to be so, but to cover up their own internal pain. feel free to change everything/anything and you don't have to read the book at all - getting inspired by the synopsis is fine!
17. Lee Minki - Eternal Summer song & mv (English translation is soft-subbed)
two photos of nature/water (no warnings apply)
Love will draw an elephant through a key-hole. — Samuel Richardson
18. Daughter - Tomorrow (song)
I measure every grief I meet by Emily Dickinson (poem)
19. History - What am I to you? (song & mv)
Interweave (personal poem)
40 days and 40 nights (personal photo)
20. Baths - Lovely Bloodflow (song & mv)
words (personal poem)
Remember us when you go (personal photo)
21. Kendrick Lamar - Swimming Pools (Drank) (song & mv)
The problem of peace (personal poem)
the waves have forgotten your name (personal photo)
22. Gossip - Casualties of war (song)
we were both the kind of thing you don't come home from cr. @blankpoems
if you find a path with no obstacles, it probably doesn't lead anywhere (image)
23. photo
when going through boxes because of moving or redecorating, person a remembers someone he thought he'd forgotten (or could be boxes in a new house that don't belong to him)
24. inspired by the film Beyond the black rainbow
Person A is a disturbed youth (potentially psychic, pick your power) in a place that's supposed to "cure" him.
Note: If you choose to include smut, please be careful to avoid any noncon/dubcon for this prompt as the implications of powerplay/manipulation are intense. feel free to change everything/anything and you don't have to watch the film at all - getting inspired by the synopsis is fine!
25. inspired by the film What dreams may come
person a is an artist (Poet writer painter sculptor dancer whatever), person b is his boyfriend (or agent or childhood friend) who dies somehow (accident/illness) and is in heaven watching person a spiral down into darkness. feel free to change everything/anything and you don't have to watch the movie at all - getting inspired by the synopsis is fine!
26. inspired by the film A.I.
Person A is an android created as a replacement child but gets gets rejected/discarded. He goes on a search to find his creator. Why was he made? Who/what was the inspiration for his creation? feel free to change everything/anything and you don't have to watch the film at all - getting inspired by the synopsis is fine!
27. inspired by the film Real
person a is in a coma and person b travels inside his subconscious to try to wake him up. feel free to change everything/anything and you don't have to watch the film at all - getting inspired by the synopsis is fine!
28. inspired by the anime Casshern SINS
person a is a robot who was inadvertently responsible for the apocalypse when he killed person b. but is person b really dead? (person b can also be the child he collects along the way/companion). feel free to change everything/anything and you don't have to watch the anime at all - getting inspired by the synopsis is fine!
29. Person a is a human and person b is an alien/cyborg/robot on two opposing sides of an intergalactic war
30. Person a, one day, suddenly stops being able to sleep. Person b, a specialist, struggles to figure out why. (Can be science or magical realism, person a can be suffering ill health from this or be strangely okay.)
31. Matthew Good - Garden of knives - open interpretation of this song in terms of perhaps entanglement, a relationship, smut. (pwp is fine or feel free to embroider this however you're inspired)
I don't have very many things I don't like, but you can find my will-not-read list here. Moving on to better things, here are the general things I like to read, and here are a few vague crossover/sidecharacter suggestions.
note about this list: please feel free to mix and mash and blend all these ideas together! You also can write something completely different, or just use these as jumping-off points, or whatever you like. I didn't mention general aus with these prompts, but as a reference (if you haven't checked my things I like list) I really like modern day working people aus, sci fi, space, magical realism, uni etc. and also mash ups of these - like regular everyday uni life on a different planet, or magical realism plus space, or any other combinations, and please feel free to add those aus to any of these prompts or whatever else you like!
1. What I want most is for you to write your own wip! I'd love to be surprised, and I'm sure you'd rather write your own pet project, so as long it doesn't have anything on my will-not-read list, I'm all for this!
2. launch sequence (photograph)
“A philosopher once asked, "Are we human because we gaze at the stars, or do we gaze at them because we are human?" Pointless, really..."Do the stars gaze back?" Now, that's a question.”—quote from Stardust
—open interpretation or person A signs up for the space program because he wants to see the stars. He doesn't expect the stars to be excited about seeing him.
This can be space au/sci fi/aliens/anything you like.
3. ex machina trailer information - there's a new project with person a scientist, person b employee act as a test interactor, and person c the A.I. but what defines human consciousness? what is real? what is false? note: use as much or little of the au as you want; feel free to take it in a horror or romance or sci-fi direction.
4. dennou coil!au - in a future where everyone lives immersed in a digital super-layer of reality viewed via the glasses they always where, a group of children investigate a flaw in the system that might lead to the truth. what is real? what is love? what are feelings? is it real if you can't feel it? note: feel free to change whatever you like and they don't have to be children.
5. something based on the iKON & WINNER project film dimension.
6. TRIGGER WARNING blood death fire how to destroy angels - the space in between mv and song open interpretation
“The treachery of demons is nothing compared to the betrayal of an angel.”—Brenna Yovanoff, The Space Between
7. possession/soul!au - after person a's sister/brother is killed, they start to be taken over by the dead person's spirit in exacting revenge. feel free to change everything/anything and you don't have to watch the drama - getting inspired by the synopsis is fine!
8. inspired by The Magicians (trilogy)
person a gets into a prep school for magic but this doesn't hide the fact that he's running away from his own problems. and when, together with his friends (boys and girls whatever you like), they discover a way to enter a whole new realm of worlds, person a's problems only magnify. feel free to change everything/anything and you don't have to read the book(s) - getting inspired by the synopsis is fine!
9. TRIGGER WARNING war situations, violence, guns
Arcade Fire - The Suburbs music video and song, the video is from scenes taken from the short film "Scenes from the Suburbs"
TRIGGER WARNING implied death off screen - clip from the film the Watchmen
image (solder with gun in city, ambulances)
We knew the world would not be the same. A few people laughed, a few people cried, most people were silent. I remembered the line from the Hindu scripture, the Bhagavad-Gita; Vishnu is trying to persuade the Prince that he should do his duty and, to impress him, takes on his multi-armed form and says, "Now I am become Death, the destroyer of worlds." I suppose we all thought that, one way or another.
— Robert Oppenheimer
10. Rihanna - Stay feat. Mikky Ekko
The Hanahaki Disease is an illness born from one-sided love, where the patient throws up and coughs of flower petals when they suffer from one-sided love. The infection can be removed through surgery, but the feelings disappear along with the petals. It can be cured without side effects only when the feelings are returned.
— source
11. Inspired by GOTH by otsuichi (book, manga, live action film) person a has a habit of meeting murders and getting mixed up in their lives, but person b keeps them in their sight, though person a seems to come out okay. but will person b ever step in if necessary? feel free to change everything/anything and you don't have to read the book or manga or watch the live action film - getting inspired by the synopsis is fine!
bonus: junior high or high school or university would be fun but anything is great!
12. mild trigger warning insinuations of suicide or other death
Nell - 그리고 남겨진 것들
three excerpts from And our faces, my heart, brief as photos by John Berger
13. person a is in a long-term happy relationship with person b. person a also is an avid (your choice or real or invented) MMORPG player and in the course of their game play they end up forming a partnership and getting "virtually married" to an online player, person c, with the knowledge of person b. but after a while, considering the amount of time person a spends interacting with person c, person b gets curious and wants to meet them. what happens next?
14. any ikon mvs (open interpretation)
15. inspired by The invisible circus (book) person a goes on a trip retracing steps to search for what really happened to his older sibling/childhood friend who died/committed suicide a couple of years previously. On the way he meets person b, his sibling/friend's former boyfriend, who seems to knows more than he is letting on. feel free to change everything/anything and you don't have to read the book/watch the movie or follow it at all - getting inspired by the synopsis is fine!
16. inspired by The starboard sea (book)
“I used to believe having a good memory meant being able to remember everything in perfect detail. Now I believe having a good memory means being able to selectively forget. It's not what I'll remember, {name}," he said. "It's what I'll forget that matters.”
person a is sent to a boarding school for wealthy but problem kids after the suicide/accidental death of his childhood friend/secret boyfriend/girlfriend. He meets/falls in love with another person b who has their own problems, and falls in with some others who together from a group of reckless and disruptive teenagers who are maybe delinquent and rampantly destructive, not out of a desire to be so, but to cover up their own internal pain. feel free to change everything/anything and you don't have to read the book at all - getting inspired by the synopsis is fine!
17. Lee Minki - Eternal Summer song & mv (English translation is soft-subbed)
two photos of nature/water (no warnings apply)
Love will draw an elephant through a key-hole. — Samuel Richardson
18. Daughter - Tomorrow (song)
I measure every grief I meet by Emily Dickinson (poem)
19. History - What am I to you? (song & mv)
Interweave (personal poem)
40 days and 40 nights (personal photo)
20. Baths - Lovely Bloodflow (song & mv)
words (personal poem)
Remember us when you go (personal photo)
21. Kendrick Lamar - Swimming Pools (Drank) (song & mv)
The problem of peace (personal poem)
the waves have forgotten your name (personal photo)
22. Gossip - Casualties of war (song)
we were both the kind of thing you don't come home from cr. @blankpoems
if you find a path with no obstacles, it probably doesn't lead anywhere (image)
23. photo
when going through boxes because of moving or redecorating, person a remembers someone he thought he'd forgotten (or could be boxes in a new house that don't belong to him)
24. inspired by the film Beyond the black rainbow
Person A is a disturbed youth (potentially psychic, pick your power) in a place that's supposed to "cure" him.
Note: If you choose to include smut, please be careful to avoid any noncon/dubcon for this prompt as the implications of powerplay/manipulation are intense. feel free to change everything/anything and you don't have to watch the film at all - getting inspired by the synopsis is fine!
25. inspired by the film What dreams may come
person a is an artist (Poet writer painter sculptor dancer whatever), person b is his boyfriend (or agent or childhood friend) who dies somehow (accident/illness) and is in heaven watching person a spiral down into darkness. feel free to change everything/anything and you don't have to watch the movie at all - getting inspired by the synopsis is fine!
26. inspired by the film A.I.
Person A is an android created as a replacement child but gets gets rejected/discarded. He goes on a search to find his creator. Why was he made? Who/what was the inspiration for his creation? feel free to change everything/anything and you don't have to watch the film at all - getting inspired by the synopsis is fine!
27. inspired by the film Real
person a is in a coma and person b travels inside his subconscious to try to wake him up. feel free to change everything/anything and you don't have to watch the film at all - getting inspired by the synopsis is fine!
28. inspired by the anime Casshern SINS
person a is a robot who was inadvertently responsible for the apocalypse when he killed person b. but is person b really dead? (person b can also be the child he collects along the way/companion). feel free to change everything/anything and you don't have to watch the anime at all - getting inspired by the synopsis is fine!
29. Person a is a human and person b is an alien/cyborg/robot on two opposing sides of an intergalactic war
30. Person a, one day, suddenly stops being able to sleep. Person b, a specialist, struggles to figure out why. (Can be science or magical realism, person a can be suffering ill health from this or be strangely okay.)
31. Matthew Good - Garden of knives - open interpretation of this song in terms of perhaps entanglement, a relationship, smut. (pwp is fine or feel free to embroider this however you're inspired)