#idea sharing

[sargentcat]

sometimes i give people ideas for a fic, like the kinds of ideas I share here, if you know you know, and then when there writing thier fic they ask me if they can add something, and i have to tell them that its not my fic its theirs.

[thorgans-guide-to-thedas]

Can you guys re-imagine the culture(s) of the Chasind?

Hey anon!

That's a fantastic suggestion! Our campaigns have been taking place mostly in northern Thedas, so we didn't even have Chasind people/Kocari Wilds on the map yet, but you're so right. I didn't know much about the Chasind before reading up on the Bioware Wiki (BW for short) and.....yooof.

We'll definitely do a more thought-out and 'official' entry, but since a lot of our re-imaginings move at a snail's pace, I'll share some of our immediate thoughts after discussing this:

Geography:

It's giving BIG bayou vibes, and we're taking that and running with it, nodding at inspiration of early Black-American culture that emerges in the southern USA and the greater Caribbean Islands. Visuals of the Florida Everglades and Bayou Bartholomew in Arkansas, with a majority of the villages being built on stilts or the massive trees that are similar to the ones seen in the Frostback Basin (Jaws of Hakkon DLC specifically). There are settlements on more solid land, but most of the population and the 'civilians' live inside the swamp, as the tricky terrain doubles as protection and security.

The People:

Based off the BW, we're seeing patterns of love for nature and the seasons, and the mention of "animalistic goddesses" is making us think....DND druid style. (we took one look at the "barbaric" descriptions and tossed it all out, thank you)

Animal companionship is common among Chasind, whether they are "working animals" that warriors and hunters may keep that help them in their tasks, or companions for your local shopkeep or fisherman. Big or small, smart or.....lovable...animals are all around and children may even receive their companion at very young ages, growing up with their animal friend.

Some more magically gifted Chasind can even transform and take an animal form.

Chasind are bonded by clan systems, not blood or background. Meaning that if someone needs help in the village, people will band together to support that person. Once you settle in the swamp, you're family.

The Chasind have a large population of people with darker skin tones, but people with lighter skin tones are not uncommon either.

The Culture

Being situated on top of it, of course, water is EVERYTHING.

Navigating the bayou is no easy feat, and children are taught from a young age through legends, stories, and all sorts of oral histories how dangerous the water can be.

There are definitely some pretty cool eldritch beings living out in the swamp, and there are definitely stories about them.

Fishing culture is HUGE. Fishermen are taught a very sophisticated type of navigation and tracking, most commonly using the stars as a guide to chart the swamp, because the landscape can be incredibly difficult to navigate, especially after dark.

According to the BW, the Chasind have "developed their own language, but are capable of speaking the King's tongue", so we took this as they've managed to blend an older language like the one spoken by their Alamaari ancestors and merged it with the King's tongue (not unlike real-world languages, such as Haitian Creole, Jamaican Patois, or Michif)

People also traverse the swamp on stilts to keep out of the water and out of the way of other water predators. Whether they are walking across the village or going out to the fishing holes to get a daily catch.

Please feel free to add your own comments or thoughts on this re-imagine! This entire project is a joint effort, and having perspectives from other backgrounds is always helpful to make it more inclusive.

[sinofwriting]

"Raised to Love" did a number on my heart and mind! It is so masterful! This is not a request, could we just share ideas? I read this concept in a fic years ago (that has been deleted and I can't find any remains of it:( ) that men of celebrity/status can claim a women as a wife upon seeing her. Thinking about attending a race as just a normie in the grandstand and suddenly you're being ushered into a garage because you're now a driver's wife. Just a dark inversion of the love at first sight fanfic trope.

I'm jotting this down as a dark fic idea, holy crap. I love it. And please share ideas! (just let me know that it's not a request that way it doesn't sit in my inbox until I finally write it, lol)

I could really see this with Mark Webber or Oscar Piastri (like father like son)

[bobapplesimblr]

topics can be seen as weird bellow (personification of ideas and feelings)

So, I'm genderfluid. And an artist. And I fucking love the movie Inside Out and can't wait to watch the sequel.

That being said, some time after I realized I was genderfluid, somewhere between 2020 and 2021, I started imagining little personas of my genders, some with different names and their own pronouns and personalities and stuff, much like the inside out characters. And I do this for fun!

I haven't drawn them in a very long time, and the ones I did draw that were meant to be representations of the personas and not just me feeling a specific gender are quite old by now, and a lot has changed in this little creative mind of mine.

I'm very tempted to make a blog for these sillies, just to have fun and see what happens. These personas, these different gender experiences I get as the genderfluid person I am, appear through different scenarios in my life, and I would love to introduce them,

But I'm scared people will think I am trying to imitate or emulate or, god forbid, *romanticize* DID (Dissassociative Identity Disorder). **That is NOT what I attent to do or portray with all this,** and I would hope making this clear in an intro post would do the trick to keep people informed, but the fear of being attacked for a misunderstanding like that still haunts me.

Still, I think I might make little Picrew.me images of the little guys floating around in my head, along with a description of who they are and how they came to be. (I only mention picrew because I am somewhat scared of posting new art on tumblr, even with the settings we now have that supposedly avoid our posts being used for ai learning)

Would anybody be interested in that? Perhaps I can even make some sims based off them, if I can find the cc I need

[dingbatnix]

I guess a prompt idea thing...? I dunno

Y'all I gotta rubber snake in my hood for April fools day, and I've just been pullin it out and tossing it at people all day (the snake's name is Noodle (I have another rubber snake at home named Spaghetti)) An their reactions are hilarious. But...It's got me thinking. Or, more specifically, it's got the greater portion of my brain (the g/t portion, of course) thinking.

I can feel the weight of the rubber snake really well. Like, every time I move, I can feel it shift to this side or that side like, right above my shoulderblades.

So, if (giant) person A just has (tiny) person B just chillin in their hood, they'd be able to know what's goin on all the time, cause they'd be able to feel everything.

On a slightly different thread, I forgot I had the snake in my hood, cause it's been there all day, so I leaned my chair back to lean against the wall, and I think of two things: first, Oh My God This Freaking Hurts, My Poor, Poor Spine (apparently rubber snakes aren't that squishy, quite hard in fact), and second: If someone was in my hood, they'd be squished. Like, legitimately mushified Back to the scenario!

So, if person A, again with person B in their hood, leans against the wall, they're gonna have to remember real quick that they still have their tiny friend there, or else they'd have a really horrifying, sad, and nasty mess to clean from their hood.

Just thought this could be an interesting prompt! (Though I might remove how I thought it up later, I dunno. I'll see how I feel about it later.

[firebornamari]

So I've been playing Fe:por again and so I've mustered up my 76th Fe au for whatever pairing I'm into atm and that happens to be mchanzo, SO here's my idea

In a slightly altered tellius, Herons are still few and far between and worth much on markets. Serenes was burned to the ground, but not by beorc nor laguz, but many many lives were lost that day.

Jesse, is one such Heron that has survived, but to stay alive he's put mud on his wings and trained his body as well as dyed his hair to make himself look more like a hawk of Phoenecis.

Hanzo, disguised as a Beorc, is actually not a Laguz either but rather a Manakete, something that should not exist in the land of Tellius, and is the cause of Serenes burning to the ground.

I don't know how they line up, but nasibasically imagine Jesse dressed up as Tibarn and Hanzo as Naesala and you've got an idea

[awkward-fink]

Idea: Dieselpunk or aligned setting. 141 is of the Military or MP, Roach comes from factory worker family. Part of town totally in chemical fog, thats normal, people living there called huffers. Need Meds or Mutation to live prolonged in there. Roach can. Sadly Intel Mission needs one of them to go there (Fog Valley?) and Roach is already on another Mission. So Price has to send Kyle. (Ghosts lungs are too compromised already and Soap is better not be left alone with chemicals) Gives him Meds to take every night to protect him.

Also advice "time your breaths, No excertion, calm"

But Kyle IS still terrified. Because he does not want to get roughened up to fit in, he is going to be posing as a Lamper (those who wait by streetlamps, my description of high price whores Here, im Not sorry -> like, you are pretty enough to stand under the lamps to be seen and not one of the ones lingering in the darkened alleys around)

Maybe He gets found out of smth happens and he loses the Meds? Huffer!Reader to the rescue. (Foreman of factory, took Shine to him, knew something was up? Or something down the line, lets see.) would that be something?