story ideas I will never write

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ilzolende:

wirehead-wannabe:

Someone just posted a selfie on my Facebook feed with #werecute.

I know this is supposed to be parsed as “we’re cute,” but at the same time I can’t help imagining what a werecute person would be like. Ugly by day and on most nights, but cute when the moon is full. They would lose control of their rational minds and have an insatiable urge to walk around carrying puppies in their arms in public. Then other people would get infected when they couldn’t help pinching their little cheeks.

I don’t know, #werecute sounds kind of like an acceptance/visibility/[other motive] selfie day for … morphologically fluctuating … tumblr users.

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#now that you mention it #it kind of does

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[The greatest what if that may ever exist from the tng/ds9/voy era to me will always be: what would a war between the Dominion and the Borg be like? I look at any maps that include both and the space just seems small sometimes. The Borg were supposed to have a transwarp conduit that led there, so what would that be like?]

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On a random note

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unseenphil:

After the brief run of Leverage/Incryptid crossovers, I really want Urban Fantasy Heist stories. 

Hiring a retrieval specialist to break into an elf hill to steal back Changeling babies. 

A vampire grifter that specializes in running -really- long cons on succeeding generations of the same family.

Thief who’s so heavily cursed already she can steal cursed artifacts and just ignore the hilarious side-effects.

A wheelman who’s got a the ghost of a famous race car driver bound to his car to help with getaways.

(I realize Shadowrun covers some of this ground. But it doesn’t cover -all- the same ground, (Being kinda more invested in D&D fantasy than a lot of what’d you see in the urban fantasy section of the bookstore)  and sometimes I just  don’t wanna deal with cybernetics or the pages of equipment porn or a vision of the future of the internet based in the nineteen eighties. And also it’s super-invested in ‘magic and tech don’t get along’ which is a trope that bores me to tears.)

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taejira:

bigjaeger:

a support group for vampires who were turned as children or adolescents. a bunch of small, melancholy kid-shaped vampires sitting around in somebody’s living room talking very seriously in tiny voices about current events in the vampire world. a lot of them dress like grandmas because they are as old as a grandma, maybe even ten grandmas. they have a network system where they can call adult-looking vampires to help them get things, drive places, pretend to be parents so child-looking vampires can get into adult movies 

#two vampire friends of the same chronological age #but one was turned at age 11 and the other at age 40 #they pretend to be parent and child but they’re actually more like bickering elderly roommates #bickering elderly roommates who are serial killers

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#vampires #yes

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roachpatrol:

kiddthemaniac:

when-the-reindeer-comes-home:

bolto:

white dude in this horror movie : *translates old arabic text* *somehow it rhymes perfectly in english* 

Now I really wanna see a horrible faltering translation from one of these movies, like “Whomsoever enters this room, they shall… well, this word is like… literally it means ‘unbecome,’ but it was used as a euphemism for death, pooping, and—wait, when was this carved?  was it 15th century? Cuz it was a euphemism for sex too in the 15th century.  This is either a cursed crypt, a bathroom, or a royal bedroom. Who wants to roll the dice?”

“You guys, I’ve gotta be honest, okay? This thing’s written in some kind of weird localized dialect, and I’ve only ever studied the standard form of the language. I mean, this part right here…I can’t even tell if it’s some kind of error, or an obscure slang phrase…whatever it is, I have no idea what the fuck it means.”

‘this is written in ancient sumerian. it’s about… uh… well that word is… uh. okay this is either a poem about farming, or straight-up a nasty sex guide. it might be both. i want a shower.’

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#language

The Food Network Show I Want

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proletavian:

anyoneseenmyhead:

4 chefs complete in a contest to determine who is the best.

But they are not given certain ingredients they must use. They can use whatever they want.

They are given… the name of the dish.

The judge says, “Make me ‘Purple Nirvana’” and we get to watch one chef make au gratin blue potatoes, another make a blueberry shortcake, etc. The worst dish is eliminated until one chef wins.

I would watch the hell out of this omg

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#food #oh my god #yes this #quite possibly this already exists somewhere and I just haven’t heard of it

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cosmictuesdays:

bmouse:

annethecatdetective:

cosmictuesdays:

bmouse:

Ok ok but has anyone considered the relative size of cats compared to dwarves? They must seem huge! A dwarf having a pet cat would be sort of like Katherine Hepburn having that pet leopard in “Bringing Up Baby!” Basically what I’m saying is more dwarves with pet cats (maybe on little gold leashes) please and kthx.

Cats with saddlebags.

Cats raised by hand from kittenhood to facilitate training, and increase bonding and loyalty with their owners.

Cats a better animal for life in underground spaces because they can navigate in minimal levels of light just as well as the dwarves.

Cats doing what cats have always done, which is get rid of small pests by eating them, which makes them so useful the dwarves can’t even say.

Cats dwarves can’t ride, but bond with and care for and snuggle with at the end of the day.

Mostly cats with saddlebags.

I WANT THIS.

Dude, a small wildcat would be a serviceable steed for a dwarf, too.

Domestic cats for guarding food stores and helping to carry things in their little kitty saddlebags, and keeping their dwarves warm with lots of snuggles. Cats for the regular working joes, and for families. And then your warrior dwarves with their stocky, fierce lynx companions. Either works as a companion to hunters, leaving the caves for the forests— the cats always feel at a bit of a loss when stalking prey with dwarven hunters, with how much noise they make… but they make the best of the situation, they do their best to demonstrate proper technique.

Elves shocked that such silent, graceful creatures love the company of dwarves so, when they really do seem an elvish animal. Elves pouting when their own pet cats flock to visiting dwarven dignitaries, purring and chirruping and being very interested in all the smells of the dwarves’ cats that cling to their cloaks.

Yesss <3333333 all of that.

CATS GROOMING DWARVES’ BEARDS.

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cosmictuesdays:

satanstrousers:

You know how in action movies the main guy is always like “Yeah I’ve got a contact here in Uzbekistan that owes me a favor” for no discernible reason but it occurred to me that like that’s basically what internet friends are like if I was in that situation I’d be like “Yeah don’t worry leave it to me. I’ve got a mutual in the Netherlands whose selfie I reblogged one time.”

All in favor of an action movie following this scenario, raise your hand.

*raises hand*

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#proud citizen of The Future