ITT: Original Story Ideas

[Rococo Modem Basilisk]

Following a brain injury, a man's autobiographical memory becomes highly context-dependent: he is unable to recall past events that do not smell the same as his current location, and instead confabulates elaborate false memories, which become consolidated. His personality and history begins to change drastically based on scent.

[Prelate Diogenes Shandor]

A combination of The Fast and the Furious and Wacky Races[/i[

[Rococo Modem Basilisk]

Because psilocybin increases sensitivity to scent in mammals, it begins to be used on both truffle pigs and drug-sniffing dogs. This periodic tripping in social situations with clearly-defined expectations causes both these sets of animals to quickly develop the complexity of their language & their ability to conceptualize & express abstract ideas. Truffle pigs and drug-sniffing dogs develop cultures and philosophies. A scientist discovers this new complexity in vocalizations and decodes it -- figures out how to 'speak' trufflepig and how to 'speak' drugdog -- and although these groups are not granted citizenship, they are given a special status as conscious non-human animals. This requires them to be represented in certain matters of international governance. It is during such meetings that the truffle pigs and drug dogs first meet, and their cultures first clash...

[Prelate Diogenes Shandor]

An updated version of The Inferno. Notable additions and changes include that Hitler is made to suffer all the punishments of the seventh circle at once, having commited violence against others, against himself, against art, and against nature. Jack Valenti and William Hays are in the circle of violence against art. Proponents of conversion therapy replace the sodomites in the circle of violence against nature, but this area is now primarily inhabited by land developers and oil barons and the flaming rain is specifically a rain of burning crude oil. Joseph Stalin and Chairman Mao, for instituting totalitarianism and slavery under the false pretense of working towards the exact opposite of these things, are pinned to the ground of the sixth bolgia (hypocricy) by a sickle through their hearts and trod upon by all lesser hypocrites, effectively replacing Caiaphas. Supporters of the confederacy are hacked apart as schismatics, excwpt for the confederate leaders, who are condemned to the ninth circle as traitors against nation.

[Prelate Diogenes Shandor]

A mockumemtary about a religious order who take a vow to live on alms, drink heavily, and wear hats made out of foil (satirizing the fact that many christian and buddhist orders have vows to actually panhandle in the street like a bum; it's one thing to say to quit the rat race but to me it seems like quite another to tell people to go out and be actual beggars. Ideally the mockumentary should subtly mock the irony of the fact that the right wing has a tendency to be really religious and to criticize beggars as lazy)

[Fujikoma]

A story about those times you sleep so long you dream about dreaming, sounds like a story eh? Get off mah lawn motherfucker. An elderly man goes on a rampage with a cane, they call in the national guard, a young colonel insists they trained him but refuses any specifics but smug observations. While all this is going on, nobody notices that Gojira has secured the nuclear waste supplies of the USA, and proceeds to, euuuugh, eat them. Meanwhile, on the other side of the globe, chinese supermen are hired to recreate a certain incident that won't be mentioned if needed, but the truth is found with a small, hungry tribe of ice-dwellers who managed to bond with frankenstein's monster, which means they aren't friendly to intruders. It ends like a Korean revenge flick. God poops and everyone dies.

[Prelate Diogenes Shandor]

An animated sitcom about day to day life in a post-apocalyptic environment. It should be a mix of apocalypses (ie. they dropped the bomb in a war over the little remaining oil and then the fallout from the bomb created all the zombies....)

[Pergamos]

An animated sitcom about day to day life in a post-apocalyptic environment. It should be a mix of apocalypses (ie. they dropped the bomb in a war over the little remaining oil and then the fallout from the bomb created all the zombies....)

That exists, it's called Apocalypse Lane.

[Fujikoma]

I keep having these weird dreams, partially because I sleep way too much.

A recent one goes like this...

I'm just, actually up and doing things, which is a big improvement over dreaming inside dreams, sleeping on top of sleeping, when I hear some news headlines over the radio I'm not really paying attention to, yadda yadda rabid extremist terrorist blah blah. It doesn't concern me, so I go about my business. I file it away for future reference but it does not concern me, something about nazis and proud boys, etcetera. This, was a mistake.

So, I finish buttering my toast and I'm feeling as chipper as I can, which is a lot more than I usually do. I proceed to ignore the toast (another fatal mistake) and go about my business, I take a walk. I meet a young woman, she looks me in the eye and says, "You're Bryce, aren't you?" and I'm, confused for a moment, then I say "Yes, I am. My memory is terrible. Do I know you? What's your name?" and she says, scowling, "I don't tell anyone my name." and tromps off...

Tromps into an alleyway and gunfire goes off, she comes running out along with some hobos and the sound is, not alarming to me, it just strikes me as, yeah, that's a place to not go. I duck into a nearby business, happens to be a hotel, just to get away from this ruckus, after all, if it's just one guy, then it's not something to become overly concerned about anyway, except... I rent a room, and the hotel is a maze, parts of it aren't even, put together, and I keep hearing reports about this terrorist.

Finally, I see him, he tries to point a gun at me but, eh, newb, I just, duck into a hallway and casually walk away. The rest of the time it's like I'm always being stalked by someone trying to kill me, they're shooting, but I'm unconcerned, until...

I'm cornered, by a whole team of them, all armed with assault rifles, and I'm thinking to myself, fuck, this was a lot bigger than I thought it was at first, then one grins, raises their rifle, and...

[Prelate Diogenes Shandor]

A sort of combinationmof Final Destination and terrible books from literature class, maybe with a bit of Scream thrown in. It follows a group of middleschool children.  One of the characters has a prophetic dream that allows them to avoid their poignant untimely death which would have taught their friends about loss. However, Death comes for them again and starys coming for each of their friends in turn. One of them realizes that their deaths would set into motion events similar to ones in books that they've read in english class, and using this informatiom they ultimately manage to beat Death by deliberately becoming less lovable and thus breaking out of the trope.

[Frontside Back]

Group of scientists find a reliable, cheap, D.I.Y. way to destroy the planet while working on a new theory. Now they need to come up with tons of legit sounding fake science to hide this from public.

[Prelate Diogenes Shandor]

*A parody of childrens' books with talking animals. On a farm two friends, Cock and Pussy, get into a lot of doubke-entendre filled hijinks and learn about friendship

*A documentary on the coathanger and how it's shady as fuck (it's used for breaking into cars, back alley abortions, beating whores, etc.)

*A parody of animes like "Pokemon", "Beyblade", and "Yu-Gi-Oh" in which a competition of some sort defines all of society. In this parody the competition is a literal dick measuring contest. The protagonist travels the world seeking pumps and pills and supplements so that he can be the best.

[Rococo Modem Basilisk]

A woman believes that if she doesn't leave flowers at her late husband's grave daily, he will rise, an angry revenant. This gets in the way of her work, social life, & romantic prospects.

[Rococo Modem Basilisk]

 A modern retelling of Frankenstein emphasizing period details lost in most adaptations by use of modern equivalents -- specifically, the fact that Doctor Frankenstein is not actually a medical doctor but somewhere between a med student and a talented amateur, and the role of ressurectionists in medical research. In this version, a bitcoin-rich biohacker with a transhumanist philosophy makes a new & improved human out of black market organs, using home-synthesized anti-rejection drugs, experimental nootropics, stuff for building muscle from the transhumanist side of the bodybuilding community, and sense extension drugs from grinder circles. The brain ends up being from a Chinese doctor who was killed after failing to complete a similar project. After escaping, he uses his familiarity with physical therapy to rebuild his coordination, learns English (difficult because of aphasia caused by mistakes in brain handling and transplant -- he has to sing everything but curse words), and comes back to take revenge on our protagonist not for resurrecting him but for his incompetence -- the 'monster' was awakened in a state where every bone and muscle was broken & needed months to heal, but without anesthesia, & there were no physical therapy plans, rudimentary anatomical mistakes led to tendons being connected up wrong in ways that caused mobility issues, some tissue had improper circulation and necrotized, etc. The 'monster's kills this guy, assumes his identity, recreates his work properly, & takes credit.

[Rococo Modem Basilisk]

When a vampire bites a person, a portion of their personality enters the vampire proprtional to the amount of blood. Each personality has equal control over the vampire's body, and they all feel the cravings for blood equally. Vampires are tortured by the increasing company in their heads.