Easter Eggs in your stories.

[lovecraft68]

No, not the ones the little kiddies will be looking for tomorrow.(okay not just kids, every year I buy my wife something shiny, put it in a plastic egg and make her look for it) But the kind found in stories.

If anyone isn't familiar with the term its basically placing references to other stories or clues or hints about upcoming things. The term has been popular with the hueg influx of superhero movies and TV shows where they name drop or show brief cameos of other heroes not debuted yet.

Easter eggs are generally for fan boys and geeks or in this case long time readers.

I put them in mine, for instance a piece I just finished lists the names of several taboo porn videos the main character appeared in. The names are all names of other stories I've written here.

I've also referenced old characters from other stories in newer ones and had them guest star, sort of my homage to HP Lovecraft's mythos, this is LC68 pervert mythos.

So curious if you've ever done this and as a part two, do you do it in hopes people see them or are you sort of amusing yourself? Also has any one reached out to you to say they caught it via feedback or in a comment?

 

[Carnevil9]

I tend to set my stories in a common universe, with common names for shops, bars, schools, etc. I don't expect anyone to notice, but if they do, that's just a bonus. I do use a Miskatonic University as the setting for several stories.

 

[lovecraft68]

I tend to set my stories in a common universe, with common names for shops, bars, schools, etc. I don't expect anyone to notice, but if they do, that's just a bonus. I do use a Miskatonic University as the setting for several stories.

Didn't Herbert West go there?

 

[Carnevil9]

Didn't Herbert West go there?

Lots of people have. How many copies of the Necronomicon do you think they have in the Inter-Library-Loan service?

 

[lovecraft68]

Lots of people have. How many copies of the Necronomicon do you think they have in the Inter-Library-Loan service?

For a rare book it seems to get around. Guess they over printed the John Dee translation.

Man, we're nerds.

 

[sr71plt]

I do a fair amount of this. In the literary realm, it was made quite notable by Lawrence Durrell in his Alexandria Quartet, which takes them from one book in the series and drops them in other books to provide an added dimension for close readers and which was quite an influence on me, not least because I wrote a similar sextet (six, not sex) while renting the villa where he wrote some of the Alexandria Quartet.

I was happy that one reader caught that I had a character reading a book in one of my mainstream books that was written by one of my pen name authors.

Perhaps less fortunately, I have dropped enough Easter eggs from my own life into my stories that one user on Literotica was able to pin down who I really am just by recognizing these in my stories and doing some triangulation research.

 

[coldwater1]

Perhaps less fortunately, I have dropped enough Easter eggs from my own life into my stories that one user on Literotica was able to pin down who I really am just by recognizing these in my stories and doing some triangulation research.

This is something I am paranoid about. There are some subjects I have avoided in my stories because in combination, they would be too uniquely me.

I do kind of like the idea of finding clever ways to reference my other stories in a piece. I may try that.

 

[TxRad]

Man, I thought this thread was going to be about real adult Easter Egg hunts and such. I have two such stories under construction for when the April Fools contest goes belly up and Spring stories replace it.

 

[ElectricBlue]

I started doing this in most stories after writing my long shaggy dog EH yarn, and now have several inter-related characters weaving back and forth in time, and in and out of adulterated truth and unadulterated fiction. It's a little self-contained world. You guys are all a part of it - when I close my eyes, you don't exist!

So curious if you've ever done this and as a part two, do you do it in hopes people see them or are you sort of amusing yourself? Also has any one reached out to you to say they caught it via feedback or in a comment?

 

[beachbum1958]

I've been doing that without realising that was what it was called; several of my story series' have no obvious connection with each other, but there are clues I've scattered through them, fmily names, locations, family connections, things like that, usually just a single passing hint, purely for my own amusement, and, maybe, in the hope readers will notice, make the connection, and go 'Of course, now I see it!' So far, no-one has, but it amuses me to know they're there.

 

[PennLady]

I've done it, sometimes just little things I'll get, and other times more obvious. MugsyB and I made a bit of a game of it with our hockey stories. I think it can be kind of fun

 

[lovecraft68]

I've done it, sometimes just little things I'll get, and other times more obvious. MugsyB and I made a bit of a game of it with our hockey stories. I think it can be kind of fun

HP Lovecraft and Robert Bloch each wrote the other into a story and 'killed' them. Bloch's was Shambler from the Stars and HPL's was The Haunter of the Dark.

Right now I have "Abigail" who debuted here five years ago in the Siblings with benefits finale and I brought her back in her own stand alone for the Halloween contest last year and recently brought SWB back and she is co-starring in it.

 

[blin18]

So curious if you've ever done this and as a part two, do you do it in hopes people see them or are you sort of amusing yourself? Also has any one reached out to you to say they caught it via feedback or in a comment?

I do this a lot, but so far only one reader has noticed one of them and chosen to email me. I don't think I'm making them too obtuse, I just don't think readers get the same kick out of it that I do. Or I don't have enough readers.

The best one was unintentional, and it was a reader noticed it instead of me. The story was about a woman who grew up age-wise with the Harry Potter kids, and for whom the book series was significant. In one non erotic flashback scene, she is bullied by two kids: Alan and Rick. (The Harry Potter character Severus Snape was played in the movies by Alan Rickman)

 

[lovecraft68]

I also have a tendency to slip some bad puns in stories and see if anyone remarks. I don't mean the characters telling out right jokes, but just having them there.

For example this was one someone caught, a few weeks after I posted the story it was from

"I swear she was staring at my crotch, nah that was nuts"

 

[Bramblethorn]

I don't think I've thrown in any references to my own stories so far, but I drop in an occasional reference to other fiction or history; John Wren Grammar School and the Redmond Barry Apartment Tower are both named for real people from Melbourne's history.

One of mine has a clergyman named Monty Summers, named for a famous-ish occultist.

 

[49greg]

I've got a multi chapter story that takes place in a small Northern Iowa town. I've got several story ideas and unfinished stories that also take place in the same area. Each has a note about including one of the characters from the first story. Not as part of the main story, just a throwaway, like Alfred doing a walk by in a Hitchcock movie.

 

[KINKYCanada]

Many of my chars and places meld into different stories. I will have a story be all about one person, then in a different story completely I will have another char discuss that person.

KC

 

[SarahsHooters]

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[soflabbwlvr]

I have never referenced my prior stories, but I did drop an Easter Egg in a story that referenced my own past. Gilda Rainer had a character called "Roseanne Rosanna Danna" who started every skit by feeding a letter from a "Mr. Richard Fader." Richard Federal was actually the name of a professor at University of Michigan who failed her in a class. In that same manner I named one of my characters after s middle school teacher who expelled me from the class. Forty years later, I finally got my revenge.

 

[HandsInTheDark]

I do this all the time, both references to other literature and my own stories. I've alluded to "Jane in Chains" as a victorian-style bodice ripper liked by a couple characters in different stories. It doesn't exist, but I might write it someday. (That will be a challenge, because I've already "quoted" from it). I allude in passing to other (existing) stories, usually to make points that only people familiar with those stories would get. I'm sure a lot of that flies past most readers, but the ones who get it, love it.

Four of my stories interrelate in inobvious ways (no characters in common, but connected plot arcs). I have another pair that leaves a mystery at the end of one that the other explains, but they are both standalone stories.

It's probably why I can't write short strokers. I keep seeing glittery, shiny things in the background of either settings or characters and they take over the story. Sex without context is mechanical. Why people are having sex is a lot more interesting.

 

[49greg]

I have never referenced my prior stories, but I did drop an Easter Egg in a story that referenced my own past. Gilda Rainer had a character called "Roseanne Rosanna Danna" who started every skit by feeding a letter from a "Mr. Richard Fader." Richard Federal was actually the name of a professor at University of Michigan who failed her in a class. In that same manner I named one of my characters after s middle school teacher who expelled me from the class. Forty years later, I finally got my revenge.

Oooohhh. That is a great idea. And I quite forgot to mention that I use names from my past. Usually not the first and last names together though. I did use the last name of a teacher I liked in a Halloween story, The old Head Master is also in that story as a business owner, or at least his name is mentioned.

I am using the full names first and last of a couple of people from when I was a pre-teen. They're in a story that I started a year ago and hope to finish in time for the summer loving contest.

 

[PervOtaku]

In a story I just finished writing, I needed a fictional town name. This story's female lead is a cheerleader, so I borrowed from old famous porn. In "Debbie Does Dallas" the titular Debbie Benson was played by a girl using the stage name Bambi Woods. Thus the town became Bensonville, and a reporter who is a minor character became Debbie Woods. She works for KHNT 34 Action News.

The station call letters are a call back to HNT for the university sorority house "Eta Nu Tau" I had in a previous story. They actually stand for the Japanese word hentai, meaning pervert, a common slang denoting Japanese porn.

I also have an easter egg not based around me just needed a name to use. In that previous story, there is a minor character that shows up only a few times. In his final appearance, his military rank has been bumped up couple notches, implying an uneventful time skip between that chapter and the previous one. No attention is drawn to it and I rather expect most readers to never notice it.

 

[lovecraft68]

I just wrapped one up not long ago-well it needs editing which will be a process due to length that featured a character from a previous story in close to the same roll.

In Mom will do anything, a mother so desperate to save her house and pay off bills after her husband passed she approaches her brother in law who is wealthy, but a porn producer who specializes in taboo material.

"Malcolm Stone" had a thing for his mother when he was younger and when his father found out disowned him. His mother was going to let him sleep with her to 'get him over it' but ended up having a stroke and dying so he has a serious unrequited incest fetish.

He offered to give the mother what she needed, but only if she would have sex with her son in front of him.

In the knew story its about a former porn star who returns to porn 20 years alter to support her son after her husband passes away from cancer. I had no intention of it, but then thought, if she is a milf porn star and doing some mom/son type vidoes why not bring Malcolm back? He is a porn producer after all, so hoping some readers will get a kick out of it.

It's planned for being my nude day entry

 

[wabbit_season]

A bit of Bronte...

In one of my stories I named the three objects of my hero's affections Charlie, Milly and Annie.
No one mentioned it, but then I'm not sure anyone expects to find a Bronte reference in between the titty fucking

www.literotica.com/s/can-buy-me-love

 

[sethp]

Depends on the Story and my mood. I'll usually plop my editors in my story somewhere. LOL Also some of my friends on Lit. I've written stories based on Threads here and some of my favorite Literoticans are immortalized in my stories. I also have put references to the Matrix, Mommy Dearest and a few other movies and TV shows as well. Oh, many of my female leads are named after former girlfriends and lovers.