I hope that some folks did read and absorb the inspiration you shared! As mod-me, I should try to encourage more conversation about prompts; just because the prompts themselves need to be a practical size doesn't mean that they need to exist in splendid isolation from context and brainstorming.
Speaking as not-mod-me:
Many scenario prompts of older vintage/style were much more daring (and demanding) than many prompts today. It's strong and stirring to have more of them among the typical quotations and phrases. They widen the window through which we see the story, and by association stretch the potential of even the tamest other prompts.
If I, personally, were tackling "vampire/human status switch," I imagine I would start my brainstorming with a scenario a la "Curiouser & Curiouser" or "Stranger Than Fiction," embedding the scenario inside a frame so that I could have my canon and eat it, too. Another angle might be some kind of "Freaky Friday" situation... or even a bleak dystopian horror where everyone in the world switches for a day/night for Reasons and then switches back and all the vampires are dead because they were slaughtered as humans and the switched-back survivors would block it out of memory entirely for the trauma and have mysteries and mourning (and PTSD) on their hands the next day...
Regarding games, I felt that I saw the D&D game scenario coming from at least a sentence away. ;-) That could be incredibly fun! :-) Does Lacroix insist on being DM (for the power), or does he refuse to be DM (for the real power)? Does Janette have to be DM because she is the only one who can manage? I might personally glom on the Schanke household game night with guest Nick, though, for sheer delight in first-season vibes. Or maybe Natalie starts a game night with her niece because she wants to be close to her but doesn't know how and games are a thing she thinks of and she wants so to do something, and maybe it works and becomes a lifelong thing and is very sweet... Yet the prompt is aiming for the lighter side. We definitely deserve a few "downtime episodes" -- canon never delivered those! And how do you learn who a character really is, if you never see the character left up to her or his own devices? (I mean, except for Nick occasionally mooning around the loft unable to sleep waiting for the sun to set...)
Thank you! :-)
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Date: 3/17/25 02:54 pm (UTC)Speaking as not-mod-me:
Many scenario prompts of older vintage/style were much more daring (and demanding) than many prompts today. It's strong and stirring to have more of them among the typical quotations and phrases. They widen the window through which we see the story, and by association stretch the potential of even the tamest other prompts.
If I, personally, were tackling "vampire/human status switch," I imagine I would start my brainstorming with a scenario a la "Curiouser & Curiouser" or "Stranger Than Fiction," embedding the scenario inside a frame so that I could have my canon and eat it, too. Another angle might be some kind of "Freaky Friday" situation... or even a bleak dystopian horror where everyone in the world switches for a day/night for Reasons and then switches back and all the vampires are dead because they were slaughtered as humans and the switched-back survivors would block it out of memory entirely for the trauma and have mysteries and mourning (and PTSD) on their hands the next day...
Regarding games, I felt that I saw the D&D game scenario coming from at least a sentence away. ;-) That could be incredibly fun! :-) Does Lacroix insist on being DM (for the power), or does he refuse to be DM (for the real power)? Does Janette have to be DM because she is the only one who can manage? I might personally glom on the Schanke household game night with guest Nick, though, for sheer delight in first-season vibes. Or maybe Natalie starts a game night with her niece because she wants to be close to her but doesn't know how and games are a thing she thinks of and she wants so to do something, and maybe it works and becomes a lifelong thing and is very sweet... Yet the prompt is aiming for the lighter side. We definitely deserve a few "downtime episodes" -- canon never delivered those! And how do you learn who a character really is, if you never see the character left up to her or his own devices? (I mean, except for Nick occasionally mooning around the loft unable to sleep waiting for the sun to set...)
Thank you! :-)