Castaway Stories

[sirhugs]

Just because |I haven't read a good one (or any) in a long while.

Though honestly, it occurred to me because I was reading about Norfolk Island, a rock north of New Zealand, originally settled as a penal colony (now part of Australia).

So a coed penal colony that civilization forgets is one possibility...

 

[Carnevil9]

Is it a penal colony? Or a penile colony? Or why not both?

A LIT version of Gilligan's Island would be a lot of fun. Either with the original characters, or parodies of the original characters, or all new characters if you want to avoid copyright issues.

 

[Hypoxia]

Something on the close order of Gilligan's Island is too obvious. Modern-day civilized castaways inhabit a universe of GPS, surveillance sats, etc and are thus too easily found. Thus a good castaway story must either obliterate or precede such technology.

If set anywhere near NOW, we need a magnetic island that blanks electronics and fools satellite cams. Otherwise, go back to Gilligan's era or before.

For fun, posit a sneaky current that catches small boats and sends them to a remote atoll. The island's lagoon reef wrecks the many craft trapped there over the decades, and shelters the ever-growing crowd of castaways. Think of a sexual LORD OF THE FLIES trope with competitive vs. cooperative gangs.

 

[sirhugs]

Something on the close order of Gilligan's Island is too obvious. Modern-day civilized castaways inhabit a universe of GPS, surveillance sats, etc and are thus too easily found. Thus a good castaway story must either obliterate or precede such technology.

If set anywhere near NOW, we need a magnetic island that blanks electronics and fools satellite cams. Otherwise, go back to Gilligan's era or before.

For fun, posit a sneaky current that catches small boats and sends them to a remote atoll. The island's lagoon reef wrecks the many craft trapped there over the decades, and shelters the ever-growing crowd of castaways. Think of a sexual LORD OF THE FLIES trope with competitive vs. cooperative gangs.

Is the island sentient?

 

[sirhugs]

Is it a penal colony? Or a penile colony? Or why not both?

A LIT version of Gilligan's Island would be a lot of fun. Either with the original characters, or parodies of the original characters, or all new characters if you want to avoid copyright issues.

That show has tremendous staying power, given that it was made what, 55 years ago and only Tina Louise remains alive(RIP Dawn Wells, I was always a Mary Ann fan, not a Ginger guy).

 

[CuttingEdge]

You could go in a lot of different directions with a Cast Away theme;

1: The two people in a previous situation together HATED each other. Maybe they were co-workers on the same boat/plane, etc and in fierce competition, but they are forced to get along amicably and sexually!

2: One had a crush on another prior to being cast away's, but the other loathed that person with the crush!

3: There is a woman and man cast away'ed together, but without birth control means she is so afraid of having a child on a barren island (pun intended) that she refuses sex for the longest time even though she craves it! (3B: they have a baby on an island! (Yikes))

4: Two same gender couples find their inner-gay side despite being repressed

5: Well lastly, who could not include the lost native tribe who likes cast away gang bangs on the all-you-can-eat cannibal night (joking).

 

[TarnishedPenny]

Something on the close order of Gilligan's Island is too obvious. Modern-day civilized castaways inhabit a universe of GPS, surveillance sats, etc and are thus too easily found. Thus a good castaway story must either obliterate or precede such technology.

If set anywhere near NOW, we need a magnetic island that blanks electronics and fools satellite cams. Otherwise, go back to Gilligan's era or before..

Not necessarily. Here’s a recent clip about three people stranded on an island in the Bahamas for a month before being found. If the GPS fails or is lost and the vessel was well off course or if simply nobody was looking for you, you wouldn’t need any magic island. (Not that that idea doesn’t have a fair bit of potential, of course.)

https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-new...mas-after-surviving-coconuts-33-days-n1257248

 

[CuttingEdge]

Another misconception is that a ship will stop.

That never happens. Ships are under so much pressure to get from point A to Point B that it is doubtful they would stop if they saw cast anyways, and even less likely they would see them in the first place. Maybe if a person fires a flare right in front of their bridge they might, but unless they are picked up on radar, that is were the crew is looking, not out to sea.

I read a story where a man was in a life raft for 6 months, and ships never stopped although he saw many.

Most of the time, the boats EPIRB goes off when the ship sinks, commercial planes pick it up, an the coast guard goes looking for them, but most of the time they just find wreckage and the EPIRB.

Emergency Positioning Indicating Radio Beacon

 

[Carnevil9]

Think of a sexual LORD OF THE FLIES trope with competitive vs. cooperative gangs.

A Co-Ed version of Lord Of The Flies would offer lots of possibilities! The only problem is the ages of the characters.

 

[Scareltt]

Does it have to be terrestrial?

Couldn’t the Castaways be on Mars or another planet?

Depending on where in the universe you put them it could be a very long time, for help to arrive. If help comes at all.

It’s probably more science fiction but it could work.

 

[TarnishedPenny]

Couldn’t the Castaways be on Mars or another planet?

Depending on where in the universe you put them it could be a very long time, for help to arrive. If help comes at all.

It’s probably more science fiction but it could work.

There’s an idea! Hmm...

 

[AvroAnson]

For a 2019 - 2020 version: Simply substitute "Quarantined" for "Castaway."

 

[AvroAnson]

That show has tremendous staying power, given that it was made what, 55 years ago and only Tina Louise remains alive(RIP Dawn Wells, I was always a Mary Ann fan, not a Ginger guy).

Natalie Schafer (Mrs. Howell) in pumps and pearls (just pumps and pearls). Classy.

 

[AvroAnson]

Is the island sentient?

Lava a 2014 Pixar short ...

 

[Hypoxia]

For a 2019 - 2020 version: Simply substitute "Quarantined" for "Castaway."

Wayward tourists are quarantined in a tropical island's famous sex resort FTW. And that'll be 2020-2021 because no COVID 'tines in 2019 AFAIK. For fun, make it 2025 with COVID 'tines officially lifted -- but nobody told this group they could leave, and more keep arriving FTW. Hilarity ensues, especially for families of adult offspring vacationing/transiting with parents.

 

[AvroAnson]

Before the Swan River Colony was founded at the site of present day Perth, a Dutch ship with families on board was en route to Java and traveling off the coast of Australia. There was a mutiny and the soldiers were put off in a small boat. The mutineers set up camp on an island in Shark Bay forcing the civilians off the ship.

While the pirates were having a party, some sailors broke away and sailed the ship to Java. Dutch authorities sent a rescue mission, killed the mutineers, and recovered the families. But they did not find the soldiers who turned up several years later in Java having slowly traveled up the Australian coast in a rowboat.

Add to reality just a bit. After putting off that rowboat of strong young soldiers. The mutineers put some troublesome civilians -- perhaps an entire family -- off the ship. They made it to an island, but not being sailors, they didn't secure the boat and it washed back out to sea. The rescue mission found the boat adrift in open ocean and assumed those on board drowned.

A different ship that had wrecked on Cooke Island wasn't found for 43 years. Perhaps this family was marooned for 43 years. There had been seven survivors but 22 were rescued. Do the math.

 

[Hypoxia]

A different ship that had wrecked on Cooke Island wasn't found for 43 years. Perhaps this family was marooned for 43 years. There had been seven survivors but 22 were rescued. Do the math.

Yes, it's the pre-Gilligan era.

That history is like a Sawney Bean scenario but without cannibalizing passers-by. A small family is isolated for generations. After food-gathering, there's nothing much to do but fuck, and work on good tans.

A number of prehistoric island colonies likely began that way. It's a strong story basis but on LIT we may only report youthful sex, not describe it. So let's stash every underage islander in purdah, gendered seclusion, till their 18th birthday. No, same-sex kids can't diddle each other yet, and we avoid a Lord Of The Flies result by providing them with neutered adult supervision. IMHO that will be tricky to work in an erotic tale.

 

[AvroAnson]

So let's stash every underage islander in purdah, gendered seclusion, till their 18th birthday. No, same-sex kids can't diddle each other yet, and we avoid a Lord Of The Flies result by providing them with neutered adult supervision. IMHO that will be tricky to work in an erotic tale.

I bumped across a story here years ago -- but I cannot recall the name or author -- the author was from the Caribbean and of part Amerindian heritage. Some tribes including those of her ancestors formed single gender communes. A community on shore (I'll call them the "Huts") who were female gardeners, and a male community on the fishing boats (the "Fishers").

These communities had bilateral ties, the dozen Fishers visited the dozen Huts and traded Guava for Fish. They enjoyed a feast and group sex with one another before returning to their respective work. Older people (the "Grands") lived in a third village on land where their contribution to society was to educate the young on practical skills and the history and traditions of the culture.

Changes in latitudes ...

 

[Scareltt]

No kidding!

For a 2019 - 2020 version: Simply substitute "Quarantined" for "Castaway."

That’s a really good point.