While other people are out here dropping Kinktober prompt lists with 9000 stipulations, I bring you this.
It's not a real October event, but it could be if you believe. The prompts are here for anyone to enjoy anyway.
Why "schlock"?
It means trash/junk, and that's the quality of content I'm striving for with these prompts. It's also fun to say.
But, y'know, if you want to take a prompt and turn it into a masterpiece of a whumpy longfic, go for it.
What fandom is this for?
Whatever fandom you want.
What ships can I write/draw?
Any of them.
Even [my fandom's most despised ship]?
Especially [your fandom's most despised ship].
What if I want to combine prompts? What if I want to write or draw things out of order? What if...
Go for it.
Are crossovers okay?
Do. Whatever. You. Want.
What if I want to create something problematic?
Send me the fucking link.
What does [prompt] mean?
You tell me. It's all open to interpretation.
Are there any rules at all?
Sure.
No AI use. If you need an LLM to write your schlock for you, consider a long walk off a short pier. If you need it to do your editing for you, use a beta reader instead. A stick figure drawn on the back of a napkin is better than soulless AI art.
Tag appropriately. 'Creator Chose Not to Use Archive Warnings' means anything goes. 'No Archive Warnings Apply' means your work is guaranteed not to contain any of the major archive warnings (non-con, major character death, graphic violence, or underage sex).
No irl bigotry. Your characters can be problematic as all get out, but if you try to post a weird pro-JK Rowling essay or something you're not going in the collection, bud. Don't kill the vibes.
What are the vibes?
Just have fun.
But other people are having fun wrong!
Shut the fuck up.
Are you going to be doing this?
Probably not.
How do I participate?
There's an ao3 collection right here:
Schlocktober on ao3
Otherwise, just hashtag #schlocktober or something, idk. I don't expect anyone to actually do this.
I'm Still Getting Over You, So Why Won't You Leave?
The Magellan elevator doesn't have room for two. Higgs objects.
Something non spoilery but also kinda spoilers but also is my own au as I cope with DS2. I wrote most of it after Episode 3 if that's any sign to how little the plot affects anything.
An Archive of Our Own, a project of the Organization for Transformative Works
A little doodle I was overcome with the urge to do. For the longfic @jeromesankaraao3 / @jeromesankara are working on. A the Walking Dead Fix-It Fic! Sort of. Toss in a dash of weird time shit, a bit of a groundhog's day experience, a paradox baby and an antagonist who was not there before. No use in overlooking the opportunity to reweave fate, right? At least Hersch seems semi-aware of how strange things are. He sees things... differently.
The fic is String Theory, and it can be found here on AO3.
IDK what I'm doing with my life so here's a list of some things I'm currently working on and brief plot summaries, maybe it'll drum up some interest and I can fish out some motivation.
Dear Fellow Traveler - SamHiggs Shared Beach AU
Repatriates share a beach, and ever since they were children, Sam and Higgs (then Peter) have been meeting on a beach when they die. Sam from injury related to being shot in the stomach as a literal 28 week fetus and Higgs from the abuse he suffers from Daddy.
Mix of coming of age and friends to lovers to enemies
Upon the Wings of Extinction - Wings AU rewrite
People with DOOMS are born with wings. Some believe they're to help them escape Extinction itself by flying above the clouds and the BTs that hover the earth, and others believe that Extinction comes upon their own wings
Sam is a pigeon, Higgs an Egyptian vulture, Amelie a corvid, Fragile a swallow, Heartman a mourning dove, Lockne/Mama tiny hawks, and Deadman a tawny owl (Deadman was born with DOOMS but through the replacement of organs and such overtime, lost the ability much like he believed he was born with no Ka)
Literally it's a reason for Higgs to have huge imposing wings drenched in black tar and decorated with shards of chiralium and I will not apologize for it.
Bridge the Gap - SamHiggs DS1 to DS2
What it says on the tin, the connective tissue between the two games and now that the game is coming out in June I'm wondering if it's even worth finishing but whatever. I'm allowed.
Connect Our Cords - CliffHiggs self indulgence
Porn. Filth. Delicious. Cliff finds Higgs on the beach not long after his defeat and tortures(?) him for information on where to find his son. Of course there's a specific type of torture that will have Higgs singing more than any beating. Yes Higgs will call him Daddy. Yes Cliff will fuck him with his cords. Yes this is for the 3 CliffHiggs fuckers (I'm looking at you LRF with the biggest heart eyes ever)
Our New Tomorrow - The Last of Us AU
This is one of those where I may just write scenes that I like and go from there without much connective tissue between the scenes because we've all played TLoU. We all know what's going to happen. We all know. But I want to have fun with one of my favorite games of all time crossing over with my other favorite game of all time and Troy Baker being in both makes it too easy.
There's fun stuff here, Deadman and Heartman are gay lovers and I love them DEARLY in their little settlement, John is trying to extinguish the last of the Firefly resistance after Amelie's betrayal and rise to power, Higgs' alliance with the Fireflies and past history with Fragile, and Sam who is just trying to go along with everything because the immune girl he's lugging across America named Lou is worming too close to his caged heart. And maybe Higgs is getting under his skin in a way that isn't just annoyance, too. And maybe Tomorrow is in there too.
I might do a couple of these to just kinda either gauge interest or just to spill my brain out a bit and see if it gets my brain to tick around and touch a project.
First full artwork of the year!!! Woo! I hope the heirogyphics read heirophic…al? I was tits deep in the Book of the Dead for a while there.
Anyhow, this one is for a project @jeromesankaraao3 and I are working on! Walking Dead time travel fix it? (I promise they don’t go that far into the past, just two years). It’s been a fucking BLAST to write so far, and I’m devouring Higgs being our villain. Absolute dastardly shit. Hopefully soon we can get the first few chapters up but… here’s a sneak peak of the end. ;)
Inspo (Courage, Anxiety and Despair Watching the Battle by James Sant), comparison and favorite details below!
All Sam really wanted to know is how Higgs came to choose the last name Monaghan. What he gets is a little reminder of legacies and what we put behind them.
Also Lou plays with her blocks along the way.
Read here
After the arrest of Higgs Monaghan and kinda sorta sideways clearing of him due to the effects of Amelie and chiralium, Higgs is released to Sam's care and containment on increased supervisions. One of the conditions is a DOOMS-resistant collar locked around his throat.
It acts in several ways, like locking matter in place so his anti-matter powers are contained as well as leeching out chiralium from his body to both keep him stable and also to negate whatever powers he may still have even after Amelie strips them from him. His DOOMS levels are reduced drastically, maybe more to Sam's levels or negated entirely. Of course, it's also a tracker for his movements, and a very obvious sign of being under the control of Bridges.
Higgs deals with this in various Higgs ways, taking black and gold nail polish to the dull steel and blues into stripes and different design. Sometimes it's hidden under his usual black turtleneck attire.
The unintended consequences are Higgs waking up in a cold sweat in the middle of the night with the grip around his throat just too close to the feeling of Daddy's hands. He's under new ownership now, and he'd almost wish for Sam's cuff links instead.
Death Stranding AU where Higgs and Sam are both working under Amelie for extinction. Both with powers gifted by a god and Sam can finally go apeshit on a world that had denied him happiness.
Sam gets a golden mask that is shaped vaguely like a raging bull and I just think it'd be hot if his DOOMS breath rushed out of the nostrils too.
Also they both get cool BT powers, Higgs controlling timefall and weather and landscape (Higgs particle effects at work) and Sam the one controlling BTs to set loose on the world.
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