Plot Bunny Pens

[NuclearFairy]

A storm maybe, so that it's (ostensibly) a temporary thing? Maybe they're in a city that's generally warm even in the winter, but there's a major freezing blizzard coming and he's worried for her safety?

Or with how freaky the weather's been recently, it could be any sort of extreme weather that's only expected to last a week.

 

[TheExperimentalist]

Or with how freaky the weather's been recently, it could be any sort of extreme weather that's only expected to last a week.

Right, doesn't specifically have to be a blizzard, I suppose.

 

[JohnBJohn]

Hmmmm, I didn't read through every single entry here, but did someone check with Bun-Bun before declaring him a free use BunBun? See, the Sluggy Freelance Bun-Bun is a homicidal mini-lop bunny who usually carries a switch blade knife. If the occasion calls for, he's been known to carry bigger guns. I'd be reluctant to declare him free use...

(Sluggy Freelance is a web comic)

 

[sirhugs]

Free use bun bun

A witch goes to college...

No idea where it goes, what makes it special.
Not even a snippet really.

 

[sirhugs]

Free Use Bun Bun

The tool salesman marries the sex aids saleswoman. Accidentally, they get the addresses of their customers swapped and he ends up demonstrating to a houseful of horny housewives, while she arrives at the independent garage with a group of grease monkeys... they shrug and decide to go ahead with their shows.

what else could go wrong?

 

[sirhugs]

Free Use Bun Bun

I seem to have circuses on the mind, and I'm not even reading John Irving right now...

Is a story about the accidental sex in the Klown Kar caused by the tight quarters too much of a terrible plot bunny? Should it be tossed into the abyss?

of course, for the readers who love consequences, nine months later, there are a lot of extra future circus apprentices born.

 

[anthrodisiac]

Free Use Bun Bun

I seem to have circuses on the mind, and I'm not even reading John Irving right now...

Is a story about the accidental sex in the Klown Kar caused by the tight quarters too much of a terrible plot bunny? Should it be tossed into the abyss?

of course, for the readers who love consequences, nine months later, there are a lot of extra future circus apprentices born.

Clown Car gangbang, just sayin'...

 

[sirhugs]

Clown Car gangbang, just sayin'...

That's what I was picturing, all right...

 

[BeechLeaf]

Just had a glance at a thread 'Writing to popularity', and being me, I wondered how you'd take that to excess. How about a lesbian couple, IVF, so son has two mothers, and does one then is unfaithful with the other. Details can be left as an exercise for the writer. Ticks a few boxes.

I won't be using the idea myself, so this is free for anyone who wants to be really popular and has no scruples.

 

[anthrodisiac]

Just had a glance at a thread 'Writing to popularity', and being me, I wondered how you'd take that to excess. How about a lesbian couple, IVF, so son has two mothers, and does one then is unfaithful with the other. Details can be left as an exercise for the writer. Ticks a few boxes.

I won't be using the idea myself, so this is free for anyone who wants to be really popular and has no scruples.

But what if I have no scruples but don't want to be really popular?

 

[TheExperimentalist]

But what if I have no scruples but don't want to be really popular?

Then figure out everything that's UNpopular and combine it in a similar manner to the one described. Obviously.

 

[sirhugs]

But what if I have no scruples but don't want to be really popular?

Then you have a great future in politics

 

[TheExperimentalist]

Then you have a great future in politics

Okay, yeah, your answer is funnier than mine.

 

[anthrodisiac]

Then figure out everything that's UNpopular and combine it in a similar manner to the one described. Obviously.

I think I already do

 

[ColtonWrites]

I "borrowed" this bunny from a Tumblr writing prompt. Free use. (Original owner said it was fine to take)

This plot bunny struggled in its previous home due to its complex worldbuilding needs and philosophical nature. Tends to wander. Would do well in a pairing or group with other speculative plot bunnies to drive the plot.
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Intelligent alien species based on bugs but specifically those moths that don’t have mouths and only live for a week after they pupate. This species’ whole conscious life is actually in the larval phase; larvae are the ones considered people, larvae are the ones with conscious and complex brains who build society, and each instar of the larva is treated as a different phase of life. Larvae become emotionally and socially and cognitively mature without ever becoming sexually mature. When they pupate, they metamorphose into something different and strange and close to mindless, with no mouth and no digestive system, whose only instincts are to mate and then quickly die. Metamorphosis is treated, functionally, like a person’s death, and the imago phase is a kind of proto-afterlife of majestic flight and the continuation of the species. Birth and death inextricably intertwined. Sex is not something people do during their lives, it’s a thing that is done as an imago after you’ve passed on from your life but before you return to the soil in death. Resultant eggs are collected by family members to raise. I think this would be fun.

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It's an interesting concept, especially when examined through a romance or erotica angle - do these people have a form of romance/non-procreative sex? Or are they fully platonic until their final stage of life?

It also brings up interesting discussions of around consent - if the final stage of life is a mindless being, but that's when sex must happen, what does that mean for things like personal preferences, sexuality, any pre-morph relationships...

I don't have the energy right now to do this justice - maybe it'll find a better home with an author who can give it the attention and time it deserves.

 

[anthrodisiac]

I "borrowed" this bunny from a Tumblr writing prompt. Free use. (Original owner said it was fine to take)

This plot bunny struggled in its previous home due to its complex worldbuilding needs and philosophical nature. Tends to wander. Would do well in a pairing or group with other speculative plot bunnies to drive the plot.
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Intelligent alien species based on bugs but specifically those moths that don’t have mouths and only live for a week after they pupate. This species’ whole conscious life is actually in the larval phase; larvae are the ones considered people, larvae are the ones with conscious and complex brains who build society, and each instar of the larva is treated as a different phase of life. Larvae become emotionally and socially and cognitively mature without ever becoming sexually mature. When they pupate, they metamorphose into something different and strange and close to mindless, with no mouth and no digestive system, whose only instincts are to mate and then quickly die. Metamorphosis is treated, functionally, like a person’s death, and the imago phase is a kind of proto-afterlife of majestic flight and the continuation of the species. Birth and death inextricably intertwined. Sex is not something people do during their lives, it’s a thing that is done as an imago after you’ve passed on from your life but before you return to the soil in death. Resultant eggs are collected by family members to raise. I think this would be fun.

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It's an interesting concept, especially when examined through a romance or erotica angle - do these people have a form of romance/non-procreative sex? Or are they fully platonic until their final stage of life?

It also brings up interesting discussions of around consent - if the final stage of life is a mindless being, but that's when sex must happen, what does that mean for things like personal preferences, sexuality, any pre-morph relationships...

I don't have the energy right now to do this justice - maybe it'll find a better home with an author who can give it the attention and time it deserves.

Damn, this is so interesting

 

[TheExperimentalist]

Damn, this is so interesting

Right?

 

[TheExperimentalist]

Free use bun, do whatever you want with it:

Male Pattern Ballsiness

No, I will not elaborate further.

 

[sirhugs]

Free use bun, do whatever you want with it:

Male Pattern Ballsiness

No, I will not elaborate further.

That one might appease the Dread Goddess over in the terrible bun buns thread.

 

[deathlynx]

This is an idea that's been sitting around for a long time, but I know I'll never get to. Wasn't originally erotic but certainly could be.

The Chrononaut

MC realizes they can peek forward many years in time. They quickly realize that they're inhabiting their future self for brief periods. They have no control over when they see. Unfortunately, understanding doesn't come with the transfer, so there are a lot of confusing moments where they don't recognize people they've known for years (but haven't met in the present), or ask about someone who is no longer in their life. They try to use this ability to improve their quality of life.

Then they experience their own death. After months catatonic, they finally come back to themselves and vow never to use the ability again. Unfortunately, that's when they start losing time. It turns out when they went forward in time, they merely displaced themself rather than swapping, and seeing their own death is what broke their mind enough that the past self could slip in and experience the life.

The overall concept was "what if Alzheimer's is actually a form of time travel?"

 

[sirhugs]

This is an idea that's been sitting around for a long time, but I know I'll never get to. Wasn't originally erotic but certainly could be.

The Chrononaut

MC realizes they can peek forward many years in time. They quickly realize that they're inhabiting their future self for brief periods. They have no control over when they see. Unfortunately, understanding doesn't come with the transfer, so there are a lot of confusing moments where they don't recognize people they've known for years (but haven't met in the present), or ask about someone who is no longer in their life. They try to use this ability to improve their quality of life.

Then they experience their own death. After months catatonic, they finally come back to themselves and vow never to use the ability again. Unfortunately, that's when they start losing time. It turns out when they went forward in time, they merely displaced themself rather than swapping, and seeing their own death is what broke their mind enough that the past self could slip in and experience the life.

The overall concept was "what if Alzheimer's is actually a form of time travel?"

hard to beat that one... it really deserves writing, just not by me.

 

[deathlynx]

hard to beat that one... it really deserves writing, just not by me.

That's exactly why I posted it here. It's been in my head for years but I know I'll never write it. Not even sure why (I know it, or I can't write it). Yet it's a concept that I'm inordinately proud of. If someone out there can do it justice, I don't care about credit.

 

[sirhugs]

That's exactly why I posted it here. It's been in my head for years but I know I'll never write it. Not even sure why (I know it, or I can't write it). Yet it's a concept that I'm inordinately proud of. If someone out there can do it justice, I don't care about credit.

If you want to maximize the odds of the correct potential writer taking up this plot bunny, you might duplicate post it as a standalone thread over in the Story ideas forum. There is some overlap of audience, but it is not an identical readership.

Never plugged the other forum in this thread before, but this time it just seems appropriate.

 

[StillStunned]

Free-use bunny:

A rock band is tired of trying to make a comeback, so they become a tribute band and play their own biggest hits. They turn into a success, with old and new groupies.

 

[deathlynx]

If you want to maximize the odds of the correct potential writer taking up this plot bunny, you might duplicate post it as a standalone thread over in the Story ideas forum. There is some overlap of audience, but it is not an identical readership.

Never plugged the other forum in this thread before, but this time it just seems appropriate.

Took your advice and cross-posted over there. Hanging out in AH is such a habit from days gone by that I tend to forget there are other forums here.