#writing ideas
Opportunity was supposed to run for 90 days, but it ran for 15 years. Is this… is this the origin of Robot Hanukkah?
If it wasn’t before, you can bet your ass it is now. Thank you so much for tagging me in this.
Happy Robonukkah everybody!
Okay, so is this another weeklong thing? What will the traditional foods and observances be?
Iron-rich foods to represent the metal in Oppy’s body. Challah, a symbol of the working class (at least it was in my dad’s Jewish community growing up, IDK about the rest of the world) is had with each meal.
You light a pillar candle to represent the fire used in constructing Opportunity and thank God for the fire of creation, for creating the sun which gives light and warmth to the universe and thus allows life to flourish, and the light and all that represents. It’s a pillar candle because those are absurdly long lasting, as was Oppy.
At the annual Robonukkah family dinner you and your family talk about times you thought you couldn’t go on but did, in spite of how hard it was, and meditate on what got you through that, how to better support each other, etc.
In remembrance of Oppy’s death just before Valentine’s Day, a day of chocolate, the children are given gelt that was put in the fridge (representing the cold vacuum of space) during Hanukkah Proper ™.
But the truest observance is the intra-community argument about whether it’s Robonukkah or Robanukkah.
Holy shit, I was half-joking but this is so beautiful I’m genuinely tearing up and I will be very upset if we don’t make this a thing.
90, the original number of days Oppy was supposed to live, divided by 15, the number of years Oppy did, is 6.
Robonukkah is therefore six days long, which is a holy number also representing how God rested at the end of six days of work, thus showing the connection between the divine and creation is not as far apart as one might think.
- Stay
- Moon
- Noise
- Smile
- Warm
- Run
- Car
- Under the bed
- Lying in the grass
- Covered in feathers
- Caught in the rain
- Lost pet
- Stuck in elevator
- Tripped down stairs
- Fresh picked flowers
- Windy day
- Pillow fight
- Stuck in a tree
- Stolen coat
- Broken glasses
- Back of a library
- At the drive-in movies
- “Care to explain why my bathtub is full of frogs?”
- “Quit asking how I got stuck up here and just catch me.”
- “I swear this isn’t blood, it’s cherries.”
- “I don’t know who put the cat in my shower, but I’m unamused.”
- “Seriously! I just put that pie out, who took it?”
- “Is that a ring box in your pocket, or are you happy to see me?”
- “Keep your flea riddled bird out of my hair or else.”
- “Did you just put a dirty diaper in that car trunk and close it?”
- “Is the lipstick on my cheek really necessary?”
- “Whatever he’s saying, he’s lying!”
- “I play a mean air guitar if that’s what you’re asking.”
- “How about we put on some pants and figure this out?”
- “I’m sorry but swimming in the fountain isn’t allowed.”
- “Can you stop playing connect the dots with my freckles?”
- “Are you seriously stealing flowers off that grave?”
You know how sometimes villainous characters try to corrupt good ones to get them to join their side?
Well, what if you have one of your villainous characters try to do that, and then have it massively backfire on them. Getting the character they were trying to corrupt to now have a very intense personal vendetta against the villain.
I think it’d be neat if you have a character who’s whole vibe seems much cooler than they actually are.
Like, a character could wear black form concealing clothes overlayed with plates of tarnished steel armour who’s metal has been forged into bold and aggressive unnatural shapes.
Their voice could be deep and gravely their every sentence verging on sounding like the roar of an ancient and deadly beast.
And then their job could be a structural engineer who fixes damaged castles well after all the fighting in an area is gone, and even then after they send some workers to begin the repairs they mostly just spend their time snoozing or birdwatching.
If you have any fantasy societies vaguely based on ancient Rome you should give them Italian accents because it’d be funny.
Maybe even learn some Italian and ancient Roman phrases but translate them to be in whatever language you’re writing in.
CW: Swords
Do you know those characters you sometimes see in fantasy stuff who either have dolls for bodies or who use and command dolls in combat?
Well what if a character like that one day decided “These dolls are too weak, I should improve upon them to allow them to be more flexible and durable”
Then to do this they end up creating the features of modern action figures, with stuff like ball joints, mushroom pegs, and ratchets.
All stuff that could probably contribute massively to the field of engineering, but instead it’s used to make a magically powered sword-wielding army of faceless human-sized gi-joes.
CW: Weapon, Ghosts
I think an interesting sort of weapon-item-thing could be the ghost of an animal stuck inside a smallish rock or another similarly sized object, which someone then throws at an enemy while simultaneously unleashing the ghost with magic.
It’d also be a good tool for surprise attacks because by the time the enemy realizes that it’s not a normal rock the angry and confused ghost of a jaguar has been unleashed.
CW: Marriage
I think it’d be an interesting and potentially funny idea for you to have a group of characters be married to each other (or at least claim to be married to each other) entirely for taxation reasons.
And you could also do the whole “Hahaha we’re just doing it for ulterior motives, but are we really?” romance thing.
But it would be much funnier for an entire close-knit adventuring group to just be like “Yep I sure do love my partner for entirely romantic reasons, and we just love taking massive gold hoards from dungeons with our friends who also got married at the same time”
CW: Fighting, Alcohol, Explosions
You should have a fight happen in a warehouse as they house many opportunities for dynamic action.
For example, a character could run at a support beam grabbing onto it and using their momentum to spin around in it kicking whoever gets too close.
Or perhaps the characters could pull a sneak attack on their enemies dropping down from the upper floors of the warehouse onto the unsuspecting adversaries below.
And none of this is even mentioning all the potential box and jar destruction that could go on inside the warehouse.
Perhaps some of those boxes could be full of black powder, some jars full of alcohol, and perhaps the mixing of the two combined with the sparks of combat could cause an unfortunately big boom to occur.
CW: Weapons, Blades, Knives
I think combining swords and wands into the same objects could be a fun idea.
Perhaps the sword portion could have two blades built around a wand core which is left exposed in the middle
Or maybe it could be more knife-like having the wand built into the spine of the blade.
Also, these combination weapons should be called either swands or swans because it is funny
Here’s Idea that’s like a spin off of part of the idea in this post
CW: Weapons
In this one I talked about using crystals and other magical artefacts to power up and energize melee weapons, well why not have some variants of those objects passively absorb power from there surroundings letting them recharge themselves to be used again.
And they don’t have to just be used on weapons, they could also be used in staffs to amp up spells, or in armour to give it an extra magical defense.
You don’t need to totally figure out the logistics of it but if you have some fantasy events occur, it could be pretty neat to figure out what the realistic consequences of them occurring could be.
For example, if a dragon attacks a port town could cause there to be a reduction in the amount of trade, meaning there could also be an economic downturn and a reduction in the amount of items available non-basic items available to people.
Another example could be if an evil necromancer takes up residence near a major city, the people there could all of a sudden have to deal with suddenly not being sure of what to do with anyone who dies because if they bury anyone in the usual location they’ll probably end up being turned into a zombie or skeleton.
Final example, If a state with a state religion manages to manifest its diety into the physical realm and said deity was perhaps some kind of giant monster, they could then use the political leverage of having said giant monster diety to help enforce their own interests on other states and peoples they interact with.
I think it’d be interesting for someone to have magical control over vibrations.
This is because there’s a lotta potential different things that you could do with that power, seeing as lots of stuff is technically just vibrations, such as sound, light, heat, states of matter, radio signals, earthquakes, etc
One thing I thought of could be blasting someone with vibrations that disrupt the liquid in their inner ears causing them to lose balance and fall over.
I want someone to write a book where Mermaids are the women thrown off ships when the sailors got afraid because having a woman on the boat is bad luck. And as they sink to the bottom, legs tied together, they change slowly until they can breathe, until they can use their tied up legs to swim. And they drown sailors in revenge, luring them in by singing in their husky voices still stinging from the salt water they breathed.
Soulmate AU
-Marinette has a ‘tattoo’ on her back resembling angel wings or bird wings and is Soulmates with one of the batkids who have a matching 'tattoo’ on their back.
-Paris media and news was completely blocked off from the rest of the world for the years hawkmoth was active (im talking everything- even if its not related to the miraculousor hawkmothor akumas). And once hawkmoth was caught the media block ended and their was a flood of information now accessible online.
-the JL did know about hawkmoth but had been asked to stay out of it. And they did cause the magic literal wouldn’t let them in Paris, not even as civilians.
-so when the media was flooded with Paris news, advertisements, social media posts, etc. The bats decided to go through all of it to see what’s been going on and put together a whole picture for the rest of the JL as well.
-During this, the bat stumbled across some of Agrests online magazines with Marinette on the cover. Her 'tattoo’ on full display due to the backless top.
-the bats looked into this and found that because of the very few photo shoots and extremely short modeling career, Marinette was know as 'Paris guardian Angel’.
-a deeper look into this showed that Marinette had sued Agrest after finding out that he had only signed her on as a model because of her unique soulmark (since soulmarks are usually small and don’t take up your whole back).
-Marinatte won the lawsuit and a lot of Agrest share holders started pulling out (selling their shares) Marinette and the rest of her team (cause they all rich) buy up the shares and take over Agrest and rebrand it.
-a little while after the rebrand Gabriel was revealed as hawkmotm. He was arrested and had to go to court.
-during this court case Marinette actually steps forward and admit to having found out he was hawkmoth while modeling for him and reported it to LB and CN. Saying that his plan was to get people attached to her like the public was to Adrien or Jagged and then release some fake scandle to upset the public to create enough akumas to over power LB and CN.
-LB, CN, and Adrian also testified, Gabriel, Natalie, and Lila all go to jail (Lila was found out to be an accomplice).
-all of this, especially Marinette being the keep witness to put hawkmoth away, got her name 'Paris guardian angel’
-and this is all just info you could find online now. So the bats are a little frantic to try and get in contact with Marinette to set up a meeting for them (batkid soulmate and her). While also try to make sure Marinette didn’t have any targets on her back and set up a protection detail for her
promptsforthestrugglingauthor:
Writing Prompt #1949
“Well, I mean, you could just marry both of us.”
“You…you guys do that here?”
“You don’t?”
A bunch of different dialogue prompts #57
- “Be forewarned: I’m about to become ten times more insufferable.”
- “Since when do you knit?” “Since when did I give you permission to be all up in my business? Exactly. So shut up.”
- “Get in here, right now!”
- “And I’ve been clear on that since the beginning.”
- “Give me the keys!”
- “There’s no way, there’s just no way.”
- “Since when?”
- “Is this what love is supposed to feel like?”
- “I’m not going to let how I look, dictate the way I live my life.”
- “I feel like I’m gonna throw up.” “It’s cuz you’re always on that phone!”
