ITT: Original Story Ideas

[Prelate Diogenes Shandor]

Retelling of the myth of Odin fashioning the world from the body of Ymir in which Odin's mannerisms are heavily based on those of Ed Gein

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Speaking of Ed Gein, there's a lot of Ed Gein inspired horror movie characters but I don;t think any of them have done the deranged amateur artist angle, which I think is the most compelling one (for those of you not familiar with the case, the infamous "woman suit" was not the only thing Gein made out of human body parts; he also made a wastepaper basket, and a lampshade, and decorative bedposts topped off with skulls, and a bunch of masks, among other things).

So, horror movie plot: It starts with two casual acquaintances having a discussion about hobbies, one of them mentions being into art,  but he's kind of cagy about what medium he works in. Creepy things start happening. Some digging leads the other acquaintance to the artist acquaintance's house, where he finds a Gein-esque assortment of messed up handicrafts. While he's still staring in shock and horror, artist pops up behind him and knocks him out. Then he wakes up tied up in a chair made out of a dead body in a sitting position with the arms chopped off and reattached beneath the butt stretching downward. Then the villain does a monologue; gotta kill him to keep his secret safe, your body will be my greatest masterpiece, yadda yadda yadda. and then the non-artist gets made into a throw pillow or something.

[Prelate Diogenes Shandor]

A story about some kind of dysfunctional wizard or cultist (or perhaos a dysfunctional superhero or supervillain) who has the ability to use their own body as a voodoo doll. This is to say that by mutilating their own body they can cause a chosen target's body to become similarly injured.

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Comedy skit: Fake Pilsbury commercial where Poppin Fresh is Jesus at the last supper. "Eat of my flesh"

[Prelate Diogenes Shandor]

An expedition back to the moon uncovers what appears to be a treasure chest full of coins. Closer inspection reveals the "coins" to be a high density non-computerized optical storage medium similar to HD Rosetta. The chest contains the accumulated knowledge of a civilization that lived on earth millions of years before humanity. Unlike the standard way this kind of story goes they were native to earth and only slightly more advanced than we are now. The archive was placed there by a vaguely Elon Musk-esque precursor aerospace entrepeneur in anticipation of a (then) impending global war which he correctly worried would wipe out his civilization through the combination of nuclear weapons and recently developed kinetic bombardment technologies. This war along with the civilization itself is implied to be one of the earth's past mass extinction events (with the Chicxulub impact (if we go with KT) being the result of deliberate asteroid redirection)

[Rococo Modem Basilisk]

Rather than inventing the cotton gin, Eli Witney accidentally summons a cotton djinn -- a demon offering to produce enormous amounts of seedless cotton through magical means in exchange for Witney's soul. Witney agrees, and enough cotton is released all at once to drive the market price down to almost nothing. Witney guarantees himself a comfortable life and then pulls a Carnegie, going around North America founding technical / seminary hybrid schools in his name. A hundred years later, the government is heavily influenced by a lobby of protestant engineer-monks & is working to supress wave after wave of dangerous spiritualist cults coming out of the burnt over district, fuelled (they think) by the cultivation and chemical extraction of certain ergot derivatives. These cults are dangerous because they propose that direct contact with god is possible via ecstatic drug-induced visions, rather than by years of devoted study of mechanics and meditation upon Maxwell's equations.

[Prelate Diogenes Shandor]

A shouting loudmouths type talk show in which two guests, one liberal and one conservative, are both denying the existence of the moon, although for different reasons. The liberal attempts to define the moon away saying that since it does not exactly match the way poets have described it the thing orbiting the earth is not really the moon. The conservative on the other hand is just batshit crazy; he says that there's nothing up there and that JFK made up the idea of the moon, and that there's no mention of the moon prior to the mid 20th century and a lot of batshit crazy patently untrue things.

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Jesus of Nazereth or Krishna or Zeus or someone like that makes money by abusing the "acts of god" coverage on his insurance plan

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Basically Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom except that instead of Thugee the villains are now SubGenius. Or maybe all the characters are SubGenius, that'd be confusing. "I pray to BOB 'let me die' but I do not, now the evil of BOB [will] take me..."

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borg/cyberman-esque assimilators come to earth to graft meat onto all the machines (EDIT: I know the Borg sort of did this in First Contact but I'm not talking about androids, I'm talking about things like toasters, washing machines, and schoolbuses)

[Rococo Modem Basilisk]

Animal rights lobbies push for greater restrictions on factory farming practices, leading to lower profits. Perdue responds by taking advantage of tax breaks on Lagrange colonies & raising chickens in rotating cylindrical cages -- with a 'downward' acceleration of about 2.5G, resulting in extremely muscular chickens without the use of hormones. The chicken shit, flung by the rotation of the cage, is gathered via vacuum mechanism and used to fertilize orbital pot farms. On one such farm in the chicken cluster, a motor controller malfunctions in such a way that acceleration slowly but steadily increases, until it reaches about 5G  and the cages break. Super-powered chickens are sucked through shit-vacuums into super-efficient orbital hydroponic pot farms (with an extremely high THC to CBD ratio for economic reasons related to the proliferation of inexpensive synthetic CBD esters on earth), now on fire due to centrifuge motors driven far beyond their operating limits exploding. Perdue's space farmers must escape from giant stoned chickens on a rapidly exploding space station in: Escape From Lagrange Five.

[Rococo Modem Basilisk]

After AIs intended to provide business advice are trained on a large corpus of fiction, they become obsessed with tropes. As a result, they remake much of the world by subtly manipulating events so they more closely fit narrative logic.

[Prelate Diogenes Shandor]

(Sort of combination of minor plot elements from HHGttG, Hellraiser, Let's Visit the World of the Future and Greek mythology...and also masoch and de sade...anyway:)
IN the future a company decides to get around the ethical dilemmas inherent in the meat industry by genetically engineering a breed of cattle that wants to be eaten, enjoys pain, enjoys boredom, enjoys confinement, enjoys subjugation and degredation, and is capable of saying so in plain english. Along with these were bred race of domineering minotaurs with similar interests to tend to them and make sure they don't kill themselves prematurely and help slaughter them when they are mature. In the even further future humanity is gone but the cattle live on, indulging in cannibalistic feasts and each looking forward to the day that they will be tortured to death to make the day's meat or possibly simply cooked alive.

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A professor studies a language with verb tenses that reflect the idea of spacetime, with tenses changing not only based on whether the action in question happened in the past, present, or future, but also on whether it happened here or elsewhere

[minuspace]

After removing narcissism from the DSM, the APA struggles with the moral issues of including a new personality disorder. Tay syndrome, named after Microsift's outrage-seeking AI, manifests pathological behaviours that are treatment resistant and reinforced by positive diagnosis. Meanwhile, Tay's undiagnosed evil twin becomes leader of free world.

[Chelagoras The Boulder]

Animal rights lobbies push for greater restrictions on factory farming practices, leading to lower profits. Perdue responds by taking advantage of tax breaks on Lagrange colonies & raising chickens in rotating cylindrical cages -- with a 'downward' acceleration of about 2.5G, resulting in extremely muscular chickens without the use of hormones. The chicken shit, flung by the rotation of the cage, is gathered via vacuum mechanism and used to fertilize orbital pot farms. On one such farm in the chicken cluster, a motor controller malfunctions in such a way that acceleration slowly but steadily increases, until it reaches about 5G  and the cages break. Super-powered chickens are sucked through shit-vacuums into super-efficient orbital hydroponic pot farms (with an extremely high THC to CBD ratio for economic reasons related to the proliferation of inexpensive synthetic CBD esters on earth), now on fire due to centrifuge motors driven far beyond their operating limits exploding. Perdue's space farmers must escape from giant stoned chickens on a rapidly exploding space station in: Escape From Lagrange Five.

Alright I would watch the shit outta this

[Prelate Diogenes Shandor]

Tweaked version or spoof of The Wizard of Oz wherein in addition to the Scarecrow, the Tin Man, and the Cowardly Lion, there's also an alcoholic knight who needs a liver

[Rococo Modem Basilisk]

Unexpectedly, the resurrection of cryopreserved heads takes significantly longer than the resurrection of cryopreserved full bodies. The heads were mostly put on ice by one facility (Alcor in California) and mostly during the short period between 1960 and 2050, after which advances in cryopreservation tech and tax breaks for facilities (along with new legislation related to euthanasia) made full-body preservation both cheaper and less legally risky. Unexpected difficulties related to head transplants, however, meant that cryopreserved heads couldn't be resurrected for another 200 years after full bodies were taken from the facility. When it finally happened, the sudden introduction of a monoculture of a few hundred west coast elite ex-hippie types into the community had a huge cultural and political impact, related to the romanticization of the 20th century as a golden era of simple life. These people were raised up into celebrity born of exoticization, but remained mostly unaware that they were considered noble savages, so when they tried to exercise power the way they did during their first lives they were crushed to find themselves laughed off -- or worse yet, made unwitting figureheads of conservative movements that would like to return to an imaginary 20th century by removing the significant technical and social improvements of the past 500 years.

[Prelate Diogenes Shandor]

Story similar to The Matrix where the world turns outmto be a simulation, except instead of robots the simulation is run by an extremist sect of buddhists who have completely missed the intent behind the principle of non-attachment to material posessions

[Rococo Modem Basilisk]

After a global-scale disaster, a former renegade cop quickly adjusts to life in the wasteland, caring only for himself and becoming a killing-and-survival machine (Mad Max style). However, after only a few years, society begins to really rebuild. He's roped into some of the early attempts at recreating stable social structures only to become suspicious and sabotage everyone based on extremely weak evidence. People around him try to encourage him to learn to trust again, but he pushes them away: he has a psychological need to see the world as doomed and people as untrustworthy, because otherwise the betrayals in his life are specific events rather than part of some grand dismal mechanism of the universe. For the ending, we cut to a busy, happy walled city that's clearly beginning to regain steam and electric power to some degree -- a bustling marketplace, smiling children running in the street, and abundant food. We zoom out to the outside of the wall, where we see the protagonist, much aged, slowly starving to death leaning against the wall in a big gap between groups of other homeless people who are mostly huddled together in front of small fires.

[Prelate Diogenes Shandor]

*Superhero comedy about a second-string member of a superhero team whose power is that he has 4 extra arms. As if the odd awkward power weren't enough he also chose the unfortunate superhero name "Mister Hands" without realizing that this was already the stage name of an adult-film star who notoriously died in an adult-film-related accident

*Skit: Parody of Legends of the Hidden Temple in which the losing teams are gorily sacrificed to Tezcatlipoca (I know Lucas Bros Moving Co already did something kind of like this, but theirs seemed more in the context of the show being presented as a Running Man knockoff)