Blue Sun Room
Idea for the next group of River hunters. *Spoilers for Serenity*
POSTED BY: Giantevilhead
UPDATED: Sunday, October 30, 2005 08:18
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Sunday, October 30, 2005 8:18 AM
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Originally posted by Giantevilhead:
I understand you perfectly. You have misunderstood me. I have a non-Euclidian, Lovecraftian, Cthulhu, Elder Gods, the Tick type of eccentricity. Not only are many of ideas incoherent, the majority of my coherent ideas would prove to be extremely unpopular. Once I had an idea for a sci-fi story that took place after a nuclear war where the Soviets won. When I was a kid I had an idea for a superhero called the Insomniac, who had the ability to manifest his dreams into reality when he became extremely sleep deprived. Another insane sci-fi idea I had was about a group of people who traveled back in time 6 billion years and discovered that the earth did not exist. Those are some of my least insane ideas; my truly insane ideas would make your brain explode with jelly beans and gummy worms.
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Says a person who hasn't seen my work.
In one story, I have a vegetarian vampire who's afraid of the dark, a germ-phobic immortal demon (who can fly, but is terrified of heights), and a girl who ends up the Chosen Champion for an Uber Special Weapon, which turns out to be a kitchen utensil (a spatula, to be exact). And that's not including the idea I had for a steam-breathing dragon, and the one I still plan to include with the OMG TERRIFYING MONSTER that turns out to be a rabbit that ate lettuce covered in pixie droppings and mutated.
I also have stories about a girl who drowns in a flood trying to protect her friend (who survives, thankfully, and then leaves because the place is too painful to stick around in), and spends ten years as a ghost trying to find her again, occasionally helping out people along the way (because that's just the kind of person she was), and becoming known in that town as the Good Samaritan Ghost. This may not sound all that weird (then again, neither did a couple of yours, either!)... but it's the execution that would be strange. See, she doesn't particularly realize she's dead. Anytime somebody gently tries to tell her she is, it just doesn't get through to her - not until her friend comes along again years later. She also becomes a bit of a tourist attraction, because she comes into the bar every night for a quick meal and a drink before going off in search of her friend again! What's more, she's not the only ghost there, so the whole town over the years bounces back because of a boom in the tourism industry. There's also an amusing point at which her friend, upon discovering her ghost, tries to show her her grave to show her that she's really dead... she brings her to the graveyard, right up to her gravestone, and she gestures towards it. After a long, long pause, the ghost reminds her that she can't read. So, the friend finally just out and tells her she's dead. Ghost!girl is incredibly shocked at this revelation, and says "Why didn't anyone tell me!?"
She then shrugs it off, figuring, "hey, I'm already dead. Why worry about it?", and decides to start following her old friend around again to protect her.
She also disappears when she naps. Which is pretty creepy when you walk into a room and accidentally wake her up...
So yeah. You're not all that weird. No weirder than me, really.
And your post-nuclear war story where the Soviets won? Um, that's called "alternate history" SF.People do that kind of thing all the time, and that particular plotbunny sounds actually rather interesting.
You clearly have some interesting concepts and ideas in your head. I just wish you would stop disparaging yourself. Weird stories won't be bad just because they're weird (sometimes weird is better!), and who the hell cares if it's enormously popular or not? We're Browncoats, you think we care about only sticking with hugely popular, successful stories? :P We wouldn't be here if we did.
I don't mean to be instrusive or anything, but you strike me as a person who has a lot of neat ideas and could be really good writer if they put their mind to it, but who is actually scared of putting anything more than a vague "hey, wouldNOTIFY: Y | REPLY | REPLY WITH QUOTE | PERMALINK | TOP | HOME