Steter Week 2025: Steter at the Cinema Prompts
This year we are trying something new: an overarching theme.
Each day’s prompt is a specific genre of film, complete with a short explanation of the genre, and some more detailed prompts that fit into that genre.
As always these prompts are just suggestions. Take them as literally as you like, use some element in your story, or ignore them all together. The goal is just to get a lot of wonderful Steter work into the world.
ROMANTIC COMEDY: Romantic comedy, (or rom-com), focuses on lighthearted, humorous plot lines centered on romantic ideas, such as how true love is able to surmount all obstacles.
Did one of them just get dumped?
Did they have a meet-cute?
Are they the subject of a will-they-won’t-they bet with all of their friends?
Or are they the two side-characters in someone’s else’s love story?
HORROR: Horror is a genre that seeks to elicit physical or psychological fear by exploring dark subject matter and dealing with transgressive topics or themes. Broad elements include monsters, apocalyptic events, and religious or folk beliefs.
Are they dealing with the never-ending stream of monsters that come into Beacon Hills?
Does Peter live in a haunted house?
Are they being stalked by a killer?
Is one of them the killer?
ACTION: Action is a genre that predominantly features chase sequences, fights, shootouts, explosions, and stunt work.
Is one of them a fugitive?
Are they into fast cars, or fast planes, or martial arts?
Are they on the hunt for megafauna or a rare treasure?
SCIENCE FICTION: Science Fiction (or sci-fi) is a genre that uses speculative, fictional science-based depictions of phenomena that are not fully accepted by mainstream science, such as extraterrestrial lifeforms, spacecraft, robots, cyborgs, mutants, interstellar travel, time travel, or other technologies.
Did someone experiment a little too hard and create something new?
INDIE: Indie movies are not a genre in themselves; rather, they are characterized by a distinctive attitude about telling stories that might not fit within the mainstream studio system, exploring unconventional themes, and embracing the freedom to take artistic risks.
Do they live in a small quirky town?
Does one of them only talk in quotes?
Is Stiles a manic pixie dream boy?
Does Peter have some obscure obsession that is taking over his life?
FANTASY: Fantasy is a genre with fantastic themes, usually magic, supernatural events, mythology, folklore, or exotic fantasy worlds.
Is one of them a mythological creature?
Do they live in the fairy realm?
Does Stiles actually have magic powers?
What if any of the lore on the show actually made sense?
CROSSOVER/FUSION/AU: A work in which two or more fandoms are combined in some way. A Fusion or AU may transplant a given source work's characters to a radically different setting, shift the genre in which their adventures occur, and/or alter one or more of their professions, goals, or backstories.
Write Steter into your favorite film plot.
Are they suddenly fully living out the plot to Point Break with Peter as a criminal/surfer and Stiles as an FBI agent?
What if they met the characters of your favorite film?
Are they now hanging out at Empire Records on Rex Manning Day with everyone else?
Check our our visual prompts here.