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Started by Cramulus, May 11, 2009, 09:40:54 PM

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Chelagoras The Boulder

Idea for a Captain America storyline. He must face Merka Man, a dumbshit Trump supporting redneck whose abilities have nothing to do with being a super soldier or anything, he's just really good at organizing like-minded Trumpets and generally getting his racist neighbors to do his bidding. He drives around in the Merka Mobile, which is a pickup truck with giant flapping American and Confederate flags trailing on it and big fiercely right wing signs displayed prominently. Captain America doesn't actually NEED to stop him, but he keeps showing up and causing disruption at fairly innocuous Avengers events. So Cap just has to sigh and keep on dedicating a library or whatever while this idiot rolls up in his rascal scooter and starts spouting racial slurs.
"It isn't who you know, it's who you know, if you know what I mean.  And I think you do."

Rococo Modem Basilisk

First contact with a sentient alien race is actually with fully-memetic entities (who have long sense outgrown tight coupling with their hosts & now expect to hop freely between hosts); because hosts on their home planet are physically much different from humans, this first contact manifests as a series of dancing plagues (because the ambassadors are trying to figure out how to control their new alien bodies). Eventually, they realize that we haven't fully uncoupled from our host bodies yet and find that they need to merge with human personalities in order to learn to communicate -- which, for them, is a little like moving from a city into the woods and living with a pack of wolves, because our human personalities are collectives of wild memeplexes instead of single dominant ideas.


I am not "full of hate" as if I were some passive container. I am a generator of hate, and my rage is a renewable resource, like sunshine.

Prelate Diogenes Shandor

A mystery cult is based on the symbolic freebasing of drugs as a representation of the metaphysical planes of the cosmos and to symbolicly become one with god. The lighter is the fires of Hell, the spoon is space, the crack rock (or meth or whatever other drug that people take like this) is the earth, and the crack smoke is the souls of the blessed rising up to Heaven and god, represented by the initiate
Praise NHGH! For the tribulation of all sentient beings.


a plague on both your houses -Mercutio


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zrTGgpWmdZQ
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rVWd7nPjJH8


It is an unfortunate fact that every man who seeks to disseminate knowledge must contend not only against ignorance itself, but against false instruction as well. No sooner do we deem ourselves free from a particularly gross superstition, than we are confronted by some enemy to learning who would plunge us back into the darkness -H.P.Lovecraft


He who fights with monsters must take care lest he thereby become a monster -Nietzsche


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SHhrZgojY1Q


You are a fluke of the universe, and whether you can hear it of not the universe is laughing behind your back -Deteriorata


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Prelate Diogenes Shandor

#1128
Fantasy story about a special taskforce of revenue officers charged with collecting taxes on those mystical shops that magically appear one day where there was nothing before and soon vanish just as mysteriously as they appeared

EDIT:
Another idea:

Film idea. Picture this: An adaptation of the Marquis de Sade's L'ecole du Libertinage (Les Cent Vingt Journees du Sodome) set in the Star Wars universe, with Tarkin as one of the four villain protagonists. It's already the direction his character has been taken (as of Rogue One which depicts him killing large numbers people just to watch them die and commiting various atrocities basically as a hobby), and I want to see it taken there full bore all the way. (I mean hell, in some ways he's already more extreme than De Sade's characters; I mean sure, he didn't whip it out when he ordered the destruction of Jedha City and Scarif Base like a De Sade character would, but on the other hand none of De Sade's characters ever actually went as far as massacreing an entire metropolitan area just because they could)
Praise NHGH! For the tribulation of all sentient beings.


a plague on both your houses -Mercutio


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zrTGgpWmdZQ
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rVWd7nPjJH8


It is an unfortunate fact that every man who seeks to disseminate knowledge must contend not only against ignorance itself, but against false instruction as well. No sooner do we deem ourselves free from a particularly gross superstition, than we are confronted by some enemy to learning who would plunge us back into the darkness -H.P.Lovecraft


He who fights with monsters must take care lest he thereby become a monster -Nietzsche


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SHhrZgojY1Q


You are a fluke of the universe, and whether you can hear it of not the universe is laughing behind your back -Deteriorata


Don't use the email address in my profile, I lost the password years ago

Prelate Diogenes Shandor

Quote from: Roko's Modern Basilisk on June 17, 2017, 12:14:57 AM
First contact with a sentient alien race is actually with fully-memetic entities (who have long sense outgrown tight coupling with their hosts & now expect to hop freely between hosts); because hosts on their home planet are physically much different from humans, this first contact manifests as a series of dancing plagues (because the ambassadors are trying to figure out how to control their new alien bodies). Eventually, they realize that we haven't fully uncoupled from our host bodies yet and find that they need to merge with human personalities in order to learn to communicate -- which, for them, is a little like moving from a city into the woods and living with a pack of wolves, because our human personalities are collectives of wild memeplexes instead of single dominant ideas.

This sounds kind of like a sci-fi version of the Kalashtar from Eberron in D&D
Praise NHGH! For the tribulation of all sentient beings.


a plague on both your houses -Mercutio


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zrTGgpWmdZQ
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rVWd7nPjJH8


It is an unfortunate fact that every man who seeks to disseminate knowledge must contend not only against ignorance itself, but against false instruction as well. No sooner do we deem ourselves free from a particularly gross superstition, than we are confronted by some enemy to learning who would plunge us back into the darkness -H.P.Lovecraft


He who fights with monsters must take care lest he thereby become a monster -Nietzsche


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SHhrZgojY1Q


You are a fluke of the universe, and whether you can hear it of not the universe is laughing behind your back -Deteriorata


Don't use the email address in my profile, I lost the password years ago

Prelate Diogenes Shandor

Humanity's understanding of basic mechanics is upended when a toy designer accidentally andunexpectedly creates an "anti-Weeble" which contains no magnets or moving parts, yet will always first wobble and then fall down into a new position no matter what position it is initially put down in (even if, for example, it is put back down in exactly the position it fell into the first time)
Praise NHGH! For the tribulation of all sentient beings.


a plague on both your houses -Mercutio


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zrTGgpWmdZQ
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rVWd7nPjJH8


It is an unfortunate fact that every man who seeks to disseminate knowledge must contend not only against ignorance itself, but against false instruction as well. No sooner do we deem ourselves free from a particularly gross superstition, than we are confronted by some enemy to learning who would plunge us back into the darkness -H.P.Lovecraft


He who fights with monsters must take care lest he thereby become a monster -Nietzsche


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SHhrZgojY1Q


You are a fluke of the universe, and whether you can hear it of not the universe is laughing behind your back -Deteriorata


Don't use the email address in my profile, I lost the password years ago

Prelate Diogenes Shandor

Quote from: Chelagoras The Boulder on August 31, 2015, 06:23:25 AM
Richard Dawkins dies and goes to heaven. Being greatly incensed by this, he storms off to give God a piece of his mind. He finds a frantically working, chainsmoking Almighty working nonstop at the machinery of the universe. At first being much too busy to speak to Dawkins, he winds up shouting in frustration at God's back about how he could possibly allow for war and death and disease while God is trying to keep everything spinning the way its supposed to, until God finally snaps and shuts the whole mess down for a minute, turns on Dawkins like a child who has asked why he cant have a sweet just one too many times. He then gives Dawkins a detailed rant about how much work it takes to govern a universe that's every bit as infinite as he is, alternate universes and quantum notwithstanding,  how much of his omnipotence goes towards observing corners of space that no human will ever reach in their lifetime, and how none of this got into the major religious texts because all of us stupid monkeys wouldn't even sit down to read a book that didnt center exclusively on us and how great we are, let alone define our actions based on it. He would end by saying that religion was just some shit he threw at us to keep us from killing each other (again, like a child being given a toy to keep it quiet for five minutes), but even that didn't work because is some cases  it just gave us a reason to do so.

Until the last sentence this is a lot like the "foundations of the earth" speech from the Book of Job
Praise NHGH! For the tribulation of all sentient beings.


a plague on both your houses -Mercutio


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zrTGgpWmdZQ
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rVWd7nPjJH8


It is an unfortunate fact that every man who seeks to disseminate knowledge must contend not only against ignorance itself, but against false instruction as well. No sooner do we deem ourselves free from a particularly gross superstition, than we are confronted by some enemy to learning who would plunge us back into the darkness -H.P.Lovecraft


He who fights with monsters must take care lest he thereby become a monster -Nietzsche


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SHhrZgojY1Q


You are a fluke of the universe, and whether you can hear it of not the universe is laughing behind your back -Deteriorata


Don't use the email address in my profile, I lost the password years ago

Chelagoras The Boulder

Huh, never actually read that bit. Should look at it then, I suppose.
"It isn't who you know, it's who you know, if you know what I mean.  And I think you do."

Prelate Diogenes Shandor

#1133
"Fuck Squad" - An action/horror/comedy/possibly soft porn parodying and deconstructig the slasher genre. The protagonists are a team of high school to college age monster hunters who hold orgies to lure out knife weildig zombie ghouls that prey on horny teens

EDIT:
Another idea
Jesus of Nazareth was a time traveler and many of the miracles attributed to him are the result of people misunderstanding his explanations for things he did by . For example, the stories of him exorcising people who were posessed by multiple demons came from him trying to explain, after curing it in a patient, that [pick a brain afflicting bacterial, fungal, or protozoal disease; toxoplasmosis, syphilis, whatever] is caused by many tiny organisms growing in the brain

EDIT:
Another idea:
Ragnarok has blatantly begun, exactly as described in the Eddas. The world's leaders deny it however, in deference to abrahamic special interests that dontrol them.

EDIT:
Another idea:
Hard sci-fi. Scientists create an artificial brain out of giant neurons harvested from squid and crayfish
Praise NHGH! For the tribulation of all sentient beings.


a plague on both your houses -Mercutio


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zrTGgpWmdZQ
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rVWd7nPjJH8


It is an unfortunate fact that every man who seeks to disseminate knowledge must contend not only against ignorance itself, but against false instruction as well. No sooner do we deem ourselves free from a particularly gross superstition, than we are confronted by some enemy to learning who would plunge us back into the darkness -H.P.Lovecraft


He who fights with monsters must take care lest he thereby become a monster -Nietzsche


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SHhrZgojY1Q


You are a fluke of the universe, and whether you can hear it of not the universe is laughing behind your back -Deteriorata


Don't use the email address in my profile, I lost the password years ago

Rococo Modem Basilisk

In a world where only postmenopausal childless women are allowed to be in positions of political power, scandals surround black market adoption fencing rings. A young lady journalist attempts to investigate but this is made difficult by the fact that corruption in this world is largely related to sexual favors between lesbians who prefer older women, and she must ally herself with an older would-be whistleblower with a dark past whose motivations are unclear but who is sixty-five and therefore more attractive.


I am not "full of hate" as if I were some passive container. I am a generator of hate, and my rage is a renewable resource, like sunshine.

Prelate Diogenes Shandor

#1135
Reversed version of The Final Destination. A couple faces an unexpected pregnancy and decides to abort. Shortly afterwards they start experiencing a bizarre series to coincidences and accidents that drain their bank accounts and ruin their careers and sex lives. It becomes apparent that Life is after them and determined to extract from them the full social and financial consequences of having a child.

EDIT:
Another idea:

A commercial for "Mrs.Dash" in which the product is heralded as the fulfillment of Luke 14:34 ("Salt is good; but if even the salt have lost its savor, wherewith shall it be seasoned?"

EDiT:
other stuff:

Not exactly original but I came up with a bunch of ideas and premises for Aqua Teen Hunger Force episodes:

*Crisis of Infinite Shakes- a cloner mishap or other mad science related accident (teleportation?) causes all of Master Shake's various alternate selves (ie. Don Shake, Burger Trench Master Shake, Gorn Lord Shake, Chocolate Shake, Zombie Shake, Captain Pistachio, etc) to appear simultaneously. They form an exclusionist club and kick Frylock and Meatwad out of the house but quickly start to fight amongst themselves
*Gee Whiz 2- The second coming occurs and giant "Gee Whiz" starts destroying Seattle New Jersey, but gets into a fight with a Great Cthulhu expy that Frylock insists that evryone refer to as "Great Googly Moogly"
*Detective- as the worst detectives around the aqua teens are tapped by the white house as the new heads of the russia investigation
*Superheroes- One shot genre shift; like when they were spies in "napkin lad", but this time they're superheroes. They're given yet another contradictory set of origin stories that conflict with the stories from ATHFCMFFT and Chicken & Beans: Meatwad was a steer who gained fantastic shapeshifting powers after an "accident" (we see a card depicting a cartoonishly cruel farm wherein a live steer is being pushed into a giant meat grinder), Frylock was a potato that grew around the crystal of Idahocalese, granting him flight and intelligence, and Master Shake's parents were murdered, granting him emotional maladjustment (the reason why he's a talking milkshake is not explained; the parents in the flashback are human). They try to stop a supervillain (possibly played by Dr.Weird, Markula, or Ignignokt) but accidentally set off his doomsday device instead.
Praise NHGH! For the tribulation of all sentient beings.


a plague on both your houses -Mercutio


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zrTGgpWmdZQ
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rVWd7nPjJH8


It is an unfortunate fact that every man who seeks to disseminate knowledge must contend not only against ignorance itself, but against false instruction as well. No sooner do we deem ourselves free from a particularly gross superstition, than we are confronted by some enemy to learning who would plunge us back into the darkness -H.P.Lovecraft


He who fights with monsters must take care lest he thereby become a monster -Nietzsche


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SHhrZgojY1Q


You are a fluke of the universe, and whether you can hear it of not the universe is laughing behind your back -Deteriorata


Don't use the email address in my profile, I lost the password years ago

Prelate Diogenes Shandor

#1136
The story of Abraham nearly sacrificing Isaac retold in the context of god hosting a hidden camera prank show

EDIT:
Another idea:

A TV talk show where Michael Moore and Rush Limbaugh are co-hosts

EDIT:
Another idea:

Skit: A commercial for committing seppuku done in the style of a campy commercial for cleaning products ("oh no! You've destroyed your honor and he honor of your family! Now what are you going to do!?"
Praise NHGH! For the tribulation of all sentient beings.


a plague on both your houses -Mercutio


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zrTGgpWmdZQ
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rVWd7nPjJH8


It is an unfortunate fact that every man who seeks to disseminate knowledge must contend not only against ignorance itself, but against false instruction as well. No sooner do we deem ourselves free from a particularly gross superstition, than we are confronted by some enemy to learning who would plunge us back into the darkness -H.P.Lovecraft


He who fights with monsters must take care lest he thereby become a monster -Nietzsche


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SHhrZgojY1Q


You are a fluke of the universe, and whether you can hear it of not the universe is laughing behind your back -Deteriorata


Don't use the email address in my profile, I lost the password years ago

Prelate Diogenes Shandor

A Ghostbusters sequel where Zeddemore has died but continues on working for the Ghostbusters, as a ghost. I got the idea from another thread here after misreading:


Quote from: Nephew Twiddleton on July 02, 2017, 01:08:59 PM
I have a Mandela effect thing, that I'm not sure anyone else had. I could have sworn that someone different played Winston Zeddemore in Ghostbusters II, because Ernie Hudson passed on reprising the role.

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Quote from: Nephew Twiddleton on July 02, 2017, 01:08:59 PM
I have a Mandela effect thing, that I'm not sure anyone else had. I could have sworn that someone different played Winston Zeddemore in Ghostbusters II, because Ernie Hudson passed on, reprising the role.
Praise NHGH! For the tribulation of all sentient beings.


a plague on both your houses -Mercutio


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zrTGgpWmdZQ
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rVWd7nPjJH8


It is an unfortunate fact that every man who seeks to disseminate knowledge must contend not only against ignorance itself, but against false instruction as well. No sooner do we deem ourselves free from a particularly gross superstition, than we are confronted by some enemy to learning who would plunge us back into the darkness -H.P.Lovecraft


He who fights with monsters must take care lest he thereby become a monster -Nietzsche


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SHhrZgojY1Q


You are a fluke of the universe, and whether you can hear it of not the universe is laughing behind your back -Deteriorata


Don't use the email address in my profile, I lost the password years ago

Prelate Diogenes Shandor

#1138
I've got a few more assorted ideas:

*A short about a prostitute who through some dubious implausible turn of events somehow winds up delivering a pizza. Like a reversed version of the porn cliche of the pizza delivery person who winds up having sex with a client

*An album of heavy metal covers of songs that have no business being heavy metal (things like Rainbow Connection, I Want It That Way, Pack Up Your Troubles In Your Old Kit Bag, Amazing Grace... not even necessarily a coherent theme to the songs other than they don't belong metal

*A workplace sitcom set somewhere offensive or unpleasant, like a brothel or a slaughterhouse (respectively)

*Skit: The Human Torch becomes a Buddhist monk in Tibet

*Various retellings of the myth of Pandora
---Pandora herself was not as a punishment for humanity (though the stuff in her container still was) but as an additional punishement for Prometheus, whose job of crafting new humans was rendered obsolete
---Pandora represented the introduction of gender roles and identity into a utopian society that, while already male and female, didn't make a big deal of it (and in this sense were not men and women, despite being male and female) until Pandora came along

*Skit about a religious alcoholic who claims he isn't drinking alone because God is with him

EDIT:
Another idea:

*The apocalypse has technically been going on for a very long time but has reached an impasse because when the four horsemen got to sub-saharan africa they liked it so much they decided to stay there forever.
Praise NHGH! For the tribulation of all sentient beings.


a plague on both your houses -Mercutio


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zrTGgpWmdZQ
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rVWd7nPjJH8


It is an unfortunate fact that every man who seeks to disseminate knowledge must contend not only against ignorance itself, but against false instruction as well. No sooner do we deem ourselves free from a particularly gross superstition, than we are confronted by some enemy to learning who would plunge us back into the darkness -H.P.Lovecraft


He who fights with monsters must take care lest he thereby become a monster -Nietzsche


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SHhrZgojY1Q


You are a fluke of the universe, and whether you can hear it of not the universe is laughing behind your back -Deteriorata


Don't use the email address in my profile, I lost the password years ago

Chelagoras The Boulder

less a story idea than a half-baked premise. Years in the future, increased melanin production has become such an important survival trait due to global warming, that most rich old white folks die of either old age or skin cancer, leaving brown people to slowly dominate, leading to a more utopian version of the future that was feared in most racist propaganda.
"It isn't who you know, it's who you know, if you know what I mean.  And I think you do."