#adpg asks

[anotherdailypromptgenerator]

Hi, I just wanted to let you know I've been yoinking a couple of these prompts for future Rimmer/Lister fics; I'm particularly interested in the Pediculus cerebri one, do you think the vines will protrude from the victim's scalp, or is that too gruesome? Good prompts tho, thank you for sharing ❤️

Hi! Glad you’re finding some use for them; I’d love to have links to the finished works when you do finish them!

Regarding the Pediculus cerebri: when I first saw the post, I immediately thought of it more like roots than vines. 

Sort of like this:

Because I figured that it was closer to how the nerves on the brain looked. Even though having it as vines would certainly make it look slightly better and relate it more obviously to the other fictional disease involving plants, the Hanahaki disease.

(I thought it fit that it looked like the nerves because the disease is based on insecurities and anxieties. However, I also considered it so be a darkened bloodstream for a moment, because love is so tied to the heart and the head full of insecurities would darken the blood the heart pumps)

I didn’t really think they’d protrude because I wanted to retain the idea that it represented insecurities that are hidden? But now that I think about it, I like the idea of it getting angrier and more obvious, alongside the character’s emotions. I also like to think that it would pulse (just like a splitting headache between the eyes usually feels or like a contracted muscle that will hurt and throb until it relaxes). 

Anyway, thank you for prompting these thoughts!

[anotherdailypromptgenerator]

Could I request a fake dating prompt between person A and person B, where person C thinks that they’re perfect for each other, so the pretend to date then pretend to break up, but they never break up?

Hello, anon! I saw this and immediately got two ideas! I hope they’re somewhat useful and inspiring. Fake Dating AUs are fun. Do keep the requests coming!

1) In which Person C is a mutual friend A and C are childhood best friends, which is why C trusts A to help them pick between B and D who are both courting C. B approaches A, who knows C best, and asks for help. A doesn't like D's reputation and believes B is the lesser of two evils. A doesn't like B much but agrees to help B. B and C have a brief relationship; it didn't last because they fought a lot and wanted different things. Eventually, B and C become good friends and move on from each other. It leads to the inevitable hangout with A, B, and C where C finds out that A and B were way too compatible to not be together and pushes them to get together whenever they all hang out together, especially when C starts to date D. A and B are tricked into a date, which is when they agree to start fake dating and A even pulls up a contract. They decide that 6 months is enough to prove that: 1) A is capable of love; 2) B is over C; and 3) they aren't quite as compatible as C says. They break up publicly, listing all the things they found infuriating about each other. In private, they confess that all that they listed were proof that: 1) B could pay attention to their lover without needing a guide (like with C); and 2) they could work around each other because neither tried to kill the other in that relationship. They announce that they're still together, they just had their biggest fight then made up.

2) In which Person C is their mentor A is the best in their batch, several people who want to mentor them. They choose C, who established their self as a sort of parental figure. One time, C arrives late to a meeting with A with B, who has been A's rival since middle school, in tow. C apologizes and says they got caught up talking to B, B decided to walk them there, and by the way, B is another one of their mentees and they also meet on that day of the week just earlier. B stays a while and C almost immediately decides A and B are perfect for each other. They only fake date because C only listens when they're going on about work progress or going on about each other, everything else is a debate. They write a script and make an excellent acting duo because C believes everything they say and they keep to the story even though they're performing two solo shows. Maybe it's because everything is progressively more genuine. Eventually, they reach the part of the script where the "cozy, warm coffee meetings in the morning" transition to "fights before leaving to a party with friends." C feels genuinely bad that the relationship they encouraged so much began to be “so toxic" and tells them that maybe it can't be fixed anymore and they should take a break or something. A and B meet up the night C tells them that and celebrate like hell. They "break up" the next morning, except they still gravitate towards those meeting places, say some of the scripted lines out of habit, and soon C is congratulating them for getting back together. They are so confused.

[anotherdailypromptgenerator]

hey! do you take requests? if so, could you make some scene prompts for a mind reading au where muse A can read minds and muse B is totally clueless?

Yes, I do take requests! I’m really sorry it took so long, anon, I was finishing school requirements, but no one wants to hear about that so let’ s get on with the prompts! 

Mind Reading AU

 Prompts and Backstory Ideas

+ First meetings

A and B’s mutual friend invited them to drink, and A stayed sober. B was drunk off their ass, which made all their thoughts just seep out and announce itself to A without A wanting to read their mind.

The next time they see each other, A has to pretend they know all those things about B because B told them all while they were drunk. It’s the perfect excuse, but the most guilt-inducing. 

+ B is a genius

B has watched several movies. They don’t have favorite superheroes, but they hate enhanced humans with the abilities to read minds, because their mind is the only thing they find important about their self. 

+ B is a sci-fi/fantasy geek 

It was common for B to just drop pop culture references into every conversation, and sometimes, A wants to let B in on their ability.

+ A is B’s secretary

A gets every report, coffee, memo, and demand exactly how B imagined it. B just assumes the HR gave them really good training.

+ angst backstory for your consideration 

(trigger warning for child abuse)

A’s parent was raised to know the meaning of every hand gesture or even slight body movement and had to comply with it. Like how a raise of an eyebrow should be to refill the glass and a certain look means to stay in your room. This was what A was always told by their parent as the reason why A should do the same; that their parents and every generation before them did it, and they take pride in it. This trauma could have been what forced A to develop the mind reading abilities, because they could never memorize what each gesture or look meant and they couldn’t handle the abuse.