SGA plot bunnies are eating my brain
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There is claiming going on for the next round of
rounds_of_kink. That community is a bad thing because their deadlines are so short that I can't ever claim a prompt because I know I can't finish anything that fast... but every time, I look at the prompts, and every time, I get attacked by psycho porn plot-bunnies!
Like, here, try this: "Very few people made him feel small- Ronon / John- Manhandling (picking up / moving John around) during sex"
Ooooh, that would be a really hot PWP.
Or this one: "Even after the worst of days, Jack knows one way to get Ianto to switch off his brain and sleep well. -Jack/Ianto- Well-fucked (being fucked out; fuck-dazed; sated and sleepy; wrecked; softened and debauched)"
GUH.
But it's worse when it's not just a porn bunny, it's a porn PLOT bunny.
Like, I've been debating what to do for a really good Ronon story for awhile, and one prompt is Ronon/John AMTDI and another is Ronon/? "Courting." Which, imagine those two prompts in a story together. There's AMTDI, and Ronon is completely matter of fact about it, because he has an immense amount of trust and respect for Sheppard and this is just something the two military men have to do to protect their team, and there's pretty much nothing Ronon can't handle in a perfectly calm way if that's what needs to happen and Sheppard has his back, right? Though he doesn't like it much, 'cause, straight here. And of course Jennifer knows, because she's their doctor, and she's so worried for him and upset for him, but his complete equanamity throws her off (because she's, in some ways, not very bright) and she kind of becomes convinced that he's gay. You know, that he's so not bothered by the thing because it was a thing already. And in the meantime, Ronon is courting Jennifer just as hard as he can- throwing himself at her, but in Satedan-dating ways, which she doesn't reognize, until John clues him in to the "flowers, dinner, and movie" type ritual. And then Jennifer is all confused. And then there's sweet adorable het porn. (and in the background, barely noticed because this is Ronon's story, John and Rodney are fucking like bunnies. Heh.)
I just really like that idea, because you could create such interesting Satedan anthropology there, and also because I think John and Ronon's relationship is SO firm and SO trusting and SO stable that there's just no type of drama that can shake it, and I'd like to write it. And there isn't enough Ronon-centric non-porn in the fandom. But the damn prompt is due in two weeks, and that story would take me four months. BLEH.
OR- and I can't believe I'm admitting this- but I totally want to do the wingfic prompt. Seriously. "Somehow, I thought this would be cooler. Feathers itch." - McKay/Sheppard - partial animal transformation. So, picture this, right? Sheppard gets himself wings. And his first thought is "COOL" because FLYING. WINGS. Except it turns out that having wings sucks because he doesn't actually have the physiology of a bird, and can't actually fly- he's too heavy. And he can't actually fly at all now, because have you tried folding a six-foot wingspan into a pilot's seat? And they itch and they're heavy and tiring to carry around and the whole business just sucks. Then Rodney manages to unscramble the last of the database from the outpost that zapped him, and they discover a gate address to this super low-gravity world where the puddle jumpers don't work, and John is the only one who can navigate it to get to the ZPM there (or he has to CARRY Rodney up there. Heh. Mental image, much?) and it's the awesomest fucking thing because flying and he just soars on thermal currents for awhile before there's really really weird low gravity sex. Heh. Okay.
I don't want to have SGA plot bunnies. I WANT to be obsessed with the SG1 amnesia story, and actually get it finished, and then do some SPN. But no, all the interesting prompts had to be SGA...
I can't help it. This is just what my mind does! *headdesk*
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Like, here, try this: "Very few people made him feel small- Ronon / John- Manhandling (picking up / moving John around) during sex"
Ooooh, that would be a really hot PWP.
Or this one: "Even after the worst of days, Jack knows one way to get Ianto to switch off his brain and sleep well. -Jack/Ianto- Well-fucked (being fucked out; fuck-dazed; sated and sleepy; wrecked; softened and debauched)"
GUH.
But it's worse when it's not just a porn bunny, it's a porn PLOT bunny.
Like, I've been debating what to do for a really good Ronon story for awhile, and one prompt is Ronon/John AMTDI and another is Ronon/? "Courting." Which, imagine those two prompts in a story together. There's AMTDI, and Ronon is completely matter of fact about it, because he has an immense amount of trust and respect for Sheppard and this is just something the two military men have to do to protect their team, and there's pretty much nothing Ronon can't handle in a perfectly calm way if that's what needs to happen and Sheppard has his back, right? Though he doesn't like it much, 'cause, straight here. And of course Jennifer knows, because she's their doctor, and she's so worried for him and upset for him, but his complete equanamity throws her off (because she's, in some ways, not very bright) and she kind of becomes convinced that he's gay. You know, that he's so not bothered by the thing because it was a thing already. And in the meantime, Ronon is courting Jennifer just as hard as he can- throwing himself at her, but in Satedan-dating ways, which she doesn't reognize, until John clues him in to the "flowers, dinner, and movie" type ritual. And then Jennifer is all confused. And then there's sweet adorable het porn. (and in the background, barely noticed because this is Ronon's story, John and Rodney are fucking like bunnies. Heh.)
I just really like that idea, because you could create such interesting Satedan anthropology there, and also because I think John and Ronon's relationship is SO firm and SO trusting and SO stable that there's just no type of drama that can shake it, and I'd like to write it. And there isn't enough Ronon-centric non-porn in the fandom. But the damn prompt is due in two weeks, and that story would take me four months. BLEH.
OR- and I can't believe I'm admitting this- but I totally want to do the wingfic prompt. Seriously. "Somehow, I thought this would be cooler. Feathers itch." - McKay/Sheppard - partial animal transformation. So, picture this, right? Sheppard gets himself wings. And his first thought is "COOL" because FLYING. WINGS. Except it turns out that having wings sucks because he doesn't actually have the physiology of a bird, and can't actually fly- he's too heavy. And he can't actually fly at all now, because have you tried folding a six-foot wingspan into a pilot's seat? And they itch and they're heavy and tiring to carry around and the whole business just sucks. Then Rodney manages to unscramble the last of the database from the outpost that zapped him, and they discover a gate address to this super low-gravity world where the puddle jumpers don't work, and John is the only one who can navigate it to get to the ZPM there (or he has to CARRY Rodney up there. Heh. Mental image, much?) and it's the awesomest fucking thing because flying and he just soars on thermal currents for awhile before there's really really weird low gravity sex. Heh. Okay.
I don't want to have SGA plot bunnies. I WANT to be obsessed with the SG1 amnesia story, and actually get it finished, and then do some SPN. But no, all the interesting prompts had to be SGA...
I can't help it. This is just what my mind does! *headdesk*
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