Strange Magic Week Would Lofe Your Vote!
‘Reblog and add’ or ‘Reply to’ this post, or send me an Ask, with your Top 5 themes for Strange Magic Week. Get your vote in by 11:59 pm on Friday August 11, 2017.
The themes, in alphabetical order, are as follows:
Arranged Marriage. AU where characters meet because they were arranged to marry each other, or sequel where they find out they’re betrothed to someone else but are already in a relationship? You decide!
Beyond Field and Forest. What other nations or regions neighbour the Dark Forest and the Fairy Kingdom?
Canon Divergence. A point where the timeline splinters, such as what might’ve happened if someone in the Fairy Kingdom had heard Sunny yelling about his plan on the way to the Forest, or the Fairy King took it badly when Roland described himself as “even better” than the king in front of basically everyone.
Chat Room/Texting/Pen Pals. Characters writing to one another. The initial idea lends itself to a Human AU, but correspondence could also happen in the original setting.
Continuation. Write the next chapter of, or a sequel to, something you wrote on a previous Strange Magic Week. If this is your first Strange Magic Week, write the next chapter of one of your works in progress, or a sequel to one of your other stories.
Existing Media AU. Crossover with another movie, book, game, or TV show.
Everyone Picks From The Previous Years’ Prompts. Getting another chance if you missed out on participating then!
Fake Dating. Usually leads to Real Dating, after the obligatory period of Mutual Pining Due To Unawareness That Affection Is Also Mutual. Could also be a way for asexual or aromatic characters to avoid matchmakers.
Fake Exes. They know each other from something they don’t want to admit (like LARPing, or crime, or something), then meet again in a different social context. When asked how they know each other, they claim that they are exes/used to date.
Fill That Plot Hole. Explore something the movie either left unanswered or left ambiguous, such as the Imp’s backstory.
Food. What do fairies and elves and goblins eat? Where does it come from? Cooking, farming, hunting, and foraging stories and pictures. Or make actual food with the movie’s theme and share pictures.
Forbidden Love. This prompt is specifically intended to refer to ‘goblins courting during the Love Ban’, but it can refer to any forbidden love.
Free Space. Like in Bingo. In case someone has an idea that doesn’t make the theme list.
Highlight Reel. Instead of creating new content, share your favourite parts of things that you, or others, have already made.
Historical Fiction. Medieval, 1920s, Aristocratic Comedy of Manners, Jules Verne type adventure … or the sorts of thing that might appear as ‘historical fiction’ in canon, like stories of past fairy royalty.
Hollywood/Rockstar AU. One or more characters are stars or looking to make it big - or maybe they’re all agents commiserating about their demanding clients. (Fun sub-prompt - Marianne manages Roland, an actor/model, AND Bog, a rock star.)
Kids Day. Again, a repeat of what’s gone before, looking back into characters’ childhoods or forward to the next generation - or maybe draw games or toys you think characters would’ve played with as kids.
Masquerade. Magical beings of some variety concealing their nature from a non-magical world, or a costume party, or possibly a Phantom of the Opera AU.
Merchandise. Strange Magic toys or costumes or jewellery or bookmarks.
Mobster AU. This doesn’t even have to be a human AU - there could be organized crime in the Fairy Kingdom or Dark Forest.
Modern Fantasy.Take a modern AU of the story, but keep the characters as fae. Are they still in political power? Are they just regular citizens? Are fae the ones with the modern society, or are they hiding amongst humans?
Music Day. Choose your favorite song from the movie and make a cover. Can be singing, instrumental, collaboration, acapella - or, if you don’t want to sing, fancy calligraphy of the lyrics or suggested choreography.
Proposal. Not just a marriage thing - it could be a business venture, or a diplomatic one, or a thesis proposal in a college AU.
Roland Redemption OR Revenge Upon Roland. Some people want him to turn out to be not so terrible and some people want his head on a stick. He gets a theme day for his fans and anti-fans to express their views. (Could lead to fandom drama so may need to lay some rules of etiquette.)
Role Reversal. It’s been done, but it was on the theme list both times we’ve done this before, which suggests it’s a sustained interest.
Rumpelstiltskin AU. Someone wants something turned to gold and/or demands someone else’s first born.
Soulmate AU. You have a mark that matches your soulmate’s, or their name on you somewhere, or an intangible line linking you to them, or their first words to you printed on your skin (usually in their handwriting), or a countdown to when you will meet, or you don’t see colours until you meet them, or you share injuries, or there’s a telepathic bond, or what you write on your skin shows up on theirs.
Space Aliens AU. Bonus if Bog is from the human faction and Marianne and Dawn are the bizarre aliens.
Star Wars AU. Because it’s Lucasfilm. Maybe the Millennium Falcon lands in the Fairy Kingdom, or there are Ewoks in the Dark Forest, or everyone’s just reimagined as members of the Rebellion and Empire.
Travel. Vacation? Business trip? Diplomacy tour? Who’s going? Where are they going, and why? How do they get there? What if they get lost?
When We Are Old. A look into the characters’ future, in counterpoint to ‘When We Were Young’.
The final list of themes will be announced Saturday August 12fth, giving everyone a week to get ready before the Third Annual Strange Magic Week begins on Sunday August 20, 2017.
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