My good friend @brightsun-and-darkmidnight and I wanted to challenge ourselves to think outside the box with our writing ideas. We came up with a fun little challenge for ourselves, and wanted to share it here in case anyone else liked the idea!
We put together a bunch of flash cards that have different writing elements on them to write fics for the Marvel Cinematic Universe - settings, characters, theme/scene type, etc. Each week, we will both pull cards from our categories, write the story, post it, and then write a second story with each other’s cards and post that later in the week.
We both wrote our index cards slightly differently based on what we were comfortable with writing, but the majority are the same. Check out brightsun-and-darkmidnight’s post for her list, but here is mine! If you want to use it, feel free to alter it to things that suit you, but please tag me and brightsun-and-darkmidnight so that we can see what you did! If you have any suggestions of things to add, please let me know. I, however, will not be doing anything that is dub-con/non-con or relationships/sex with minors.
Hit “Keep Reading” to see the list that I made for my cards.
Theme/Scene Type
Fluff
Proposal
First Date
Getting them food
Movie night at home
Picnic in the park
Comfort item/food from period/illness
Comfort from a bad dream
Talking lovingly about their partner to someone else
Cuddling
Getting/receiving gifts
Falling asleep on the other person
Adopting a pet
Wedding day
Angst
Self-sacrifice
Torture
Blood loss
Hospital
Amnesia
Character death
Smut
Mirror sex
First time (virgin)
First time together
Sex pollen
Pregnancy/Breeding Kink
Oral
Exhibitionism
Voyeurism
Orgasm control
Bondage
Humiliation
Overstimulation
Temperature play
Alternate Universe
Vampire AU
Werewolf AU
Mafia AU
Soulmate AU
Dragon AU
Band AU
Reincarnation AU
Arranged Marriage AU
Pornstar AU
Royalty AU
College AU
Coffee Shop AU
A/B/O
On The Run AU
Cannon
Single Parent AU
Relationship (where the relationship in itself is the star of the show, though I may pull again to get more specific about the scene from there)
Shy and Flirt
Grumpy and Sunshine
Enemies to Lovers
Established relationship
Secretly dating
Bodyguard
Unrequited love
Roommates
Mutual pining
Friends with Benefits
Ex-Lovers
Forced proximity
Pretend relationship
Chosen one
Frenemies
Best friends
Wild Card
Characters (First character I pull is the character the point of view of the story is from, and will pull from there as appropriate for the type. There can be background characters without pulling for them, though)
Reader-Insert
Original Character
Thor
Loki
Natasha Romanov
Tony Stark
Clint Barton
Steve Rogers
Bucky Barnes
Bruce Banner
Sam Wilson
Nick Fury
Maria Hill
T’Challa
Okoye
Shuri
Wanda Maximoff
Vision
JARVIS
Rhondey
Setting (If it absolutely does not make sense for the character, I can re-pull, or pull a secondary one to work with)
Wakanda
Avengers Compound
Stark/Avengers Tower
Spaceship
Quinjet
SHIELD Hellicarrier
Wilson Residence
Barton Residence
Unspecified Safehouse
Asgard
Vanaheim
One of the three Sanctums
Car/Travelling
Wild Card
Timeline (Excluded for the AUs)
Pre-Avengers 1
Post-Avengers 1
Post Thor
Post CA: The Winter Soldier
Post The Dark World
Post Age of Ultron
Post Civil War
Post Black Panther
Post Infinity War
Post Endgame
Dealer’s Choice
I would watch a whole sitcom of 'Teal'c's adventures in humanity'. Just let me witness this man encountering coupons for the first time. or Starbucks. or loading a washing machine
If you have a PhD or an MD you can say shit like “Doctor’s orders” and you sound authoritative and powerful but if you’re a step short of those and you say “Master’s orders” you sound cringe as hell and possibly corrupted by the One Ring, this sucks
