atlantas_finest
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a story where people can stop time is a good one
stopping time
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Svenskaflicka
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Are we talking complete stop of time, or time-travelling as in go back a few hours, fuck like rabbits, and return fresh and clean out of the shower one minute after you disappeared?
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Anything with infinite superpower is boringly easy. You stop time, you take all their clothes off, you suck their naughty bits, you take all their money, you stuff the ballot box, you spend ten years in the library...
Superpowers have to have a downside or a problem. The ring of invisibility has to be vulnerable to sound and smell and shadow, and the fact that you can't just sneak through closed doors without being spotted.
If you stop time, then restart it when you're in a different position, even a slightly different one, people will see something really bizarre, and get scared and watch out for you. That might conceivably be writable.
Superpowers have to have a downside or a problem. The ring of invisibility has to be vulnerable to sound and smell and shadow, and the fact that you can't just sneak through closed doors without being spotted.
If you stop time, then restart it when you're in a different position, even a slightly different one, people will see something really bizarre, and get scared and watch out for you. That might conceivably be writable.
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Try Nicholson Baker's The Fermata to get an idea of this being done well.
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Hmmmmmmmm
Na sod that, you leave time alone pal.
So let's get this straight, some guy invents a machine that stops time, OK.
He presses the button and time stops, everything stands still, frozen in time and space, OK.
So how the shit does he restart it all if he's frozen in time and space and can't press the freekin restart button, OK.
Na leave it out pal.
I agree with rainbow though, you could write a story with a character that reappears from time travel in a slightly different place than he started spooking the shit out of the public at large.
Also on your time stopper guy, not true time stopping, that really would be far fetched, but maybe an illusionist or magician who can make say a whole room freeze for a while, not the whole planet, just a selected area, maybe it's hypnosis, he puts people in a trance making them believe time has stopped, or of course for our pervy sort of minds, so he can screw the fit blonde in the bank without her knowing about it.
pops........
Na sod that, you leave time alone pal.
So let's get this straight, some guy invents a machine that stops time, OK.
He presses the button and time stops, everything stands still, frozen in time and space, OK.
So how the shit does he restart it all if he's frozen in time and space and can't press the freekin restart button, OK.
Na leave it out pal.
I agree with rainbow though, you could write a story with a character that reappears from time travel in a slightly different place than he started spooking the shit out of the public at large.
Also on your time stopper guy, not true time stopping, that really would be far fetched, but maybe an illusionist or magician who can make say a whole room freeze for a while, not the whole planet, just a selected area, maybe it's hypnosis, he puts people in a trance making them believe time has stopped, or of course for our pervy sort of minds, so he can screw the fit blonde in the bank without her knowing about it.
pops........
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life is like a hurricane
Okay, everything's been done before. Hell, everything's been done before by Ducktails. Remember the episode where the nutty inventor guy made that stopwatch and huey duey and luey used it to win the baseball game? Anyways...
I think that a time-stop story would be pretty boring. Things that could make it exciting would be: instead of having the time-stopper fucking women while they were stopped, maybe he and she could BOTH stop time together, and make sweet passionate love in the middle of the street in front of everyone but they really wouldn't be able to see them...get what I'm saying? EXHIBITIONISM without the risk.
-chicklet
Okay, everything's been done before. Hell, everything's been done before by Ducktails. Remember the episode where the nutty inventor guy made that stopwatch and huey duey and luey used it to win the baseball game? Anyways...
I think that a time-stop story would be pretty boring. Things that could make it exciting would be: instead of having the time-stopper fucking women while they were stopped, maybe he and she could BOTH stop time together, and make sweet passionate love in the middle of the street in front of everyone but they really wouldn't be able to see them...get what I'm saying? EXHIBITIONISM without the risk.
-chicklet
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It is a bit of a tough nut to crack, isn't it? Any good story requires a degree of conflict -in other words, a challenge to achieving a goal. The problem with a simple time-stop story is that this kind of effortless rape would make for pretty dull reading. Even a date rape story involing knockout drugs requires a build up and an execution of a plan to achieve the end result (did I use enough drug, how do I get her home, what if she throws up or something worse, what if I get caught, ect.).
If there were some development in terms of the technology or method of this time stopping, or if the main character is involved in some moral conflict in exploiting it, there might be the beggings of something to use.
If there were some development in terms of the technology or method of this time stopping, or if the main character is involved in some moral conflict in exploiting it, there might be the beggings of something to use.
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One of Spider Robinson's books set in Lady Sally's brothel had a stop-time story. Guy had a special gadget watch. Guy used watch to stop (well, slow way down so as to be essentially stopped from his POV but let's not get into the quibbling about physics) time. Guy had his way with people he found in amusing positions.
I don't remember which one exactly it was. Either "Callahan's Lady" or "Lady Slings the Booze," I think.
See also Dean Koontz's "Dragon Tears," though in that case the power wasn't used for sexual purposes.
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I don't remember which one exactly it was. Either "Callahan's Lady" or "Lady Slings the Booze," I think.
See also Dean Koontz's "Dragon Tears," though in that case the power wasn't used for sexual purposes.
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Svenskaflicka said:
How about a prevert with the ability to freeze time.
Stop.
Pull down her panties and write his phone number in the crotch.
Go.
LOL
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life is like a hurricane
Okay, everything's been done before. Hell, everything's been done before by Ducktails. Remember the episode where the nutty inventor guy made that stopwatch and huey duey and luey used it to win the baseball game? Anyways...
I think that a time-stop story would be pretty boring. Things that could make it exciting would be: instead of having the time-stopper fucking women while they were stopped, maybe he and she could BOTH stop time together, and make sweet passionate love in the middle of the street in front of everyone but they really wouldn't be able to see them...get what I'm saying? EXHIBITIONISM without the risk.
Duck tails......awesome You rock babe!
Okay, everything's been done before. Hell, everything's been done before by Ducktails. Remember the episode where the nutty inventor guy made that stopwatch and huey duey and luey used it to win the baseball game? Anyways...
I think that a time-stop story would be pretty boring. Things that could make it exciting would be: instead of having the time-stopper fucking women while they were stopped, maybe he and she could BOTH stop time together, and make sweet passionate love in the middle of the street in front of everyone but they really wouldn't be able to see them...get what I'm saying? EXHIBITIONISM without the risk.
Duck tails......awesome You rock babe!
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Re: life is like a hurricane
PLEASE tell me that you knew that this wasn't the first instance of this. Yeah, you must have done. You knew it was H.G.Wells, way back over a century ago, didn't you? 'Course you did.
As for problems stopping time because you would be stopped too; Wells actually had his protagonist and friend speed up, rather than everyone else slow down. Makes a lot more sense, and the only problem you have is friction, which might be an insurmountable (excuse the pun) one for exhibitionist sex. You'd have to do it reeeeeeeeaaaaaaalllly slowly.
On second thoughts, maybe this would be a good thing.
I had actually been thinking of writing a non-erotic story using this device. I'm now tempted to write an erotic one. If anyone else wants a go too, maybe we could all do one and post the links. An erotic version of the Shelleys/Byron pact. Bags I be Mary.
Chicklet said:
PLEASE tell me that you knew that this wasn't the first instance of this. Yeah, you must have done. You knew it was H.G.Wells, way back over a century ago, didn't you? 'Course you did.
As for problems stopping time because you would be stopped too; Wells actually had his protagonist and friend speed up, rather than everyone else slow down. Makes a lot more sense, and the only problem you have is friction, which might be an insurmountable (excuse the pun) one for exhibitionist sex. You'd have to do it reeeeeeeeaaaaaaalllly slowly.
On second thoughts, maybe this would be a good thing.
I had actually been thinking of writing a non-erotic story using this device. I'm now tempted to write an erotic one. If anyone else wants a go too, maybe we could all do one and post the links. An erotic version of the Shelleys/Byron pact. Bags I be Mary.
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Sabledrake said:
It was "Lady Slings The Booze" and "Dragon tears" is awsome, I have to say. Speaking of twins...
cahab said:
Okay, this more than a little bit insults me. Duh, I know it's been done *before* Ducktails - Ducktails just happens to have done a ton of stuff, whether it was original or not. There are people who say there are only such-and-such a number of stories to be created in the universe, only so many plots, and Ducktails did every one.
Chicklet
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Chicklet said:
It comes before the verticle lift.
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I fancy the idea of time travel with different parameters on past and present ie your'e in medieval times for a week and only a day has passed in the "present" however I have to agree with the others who said being able to stop time would be immensly boring not to mention if only you could stop time you'd be completly alone.
Ps almost all of Jude Deveraux's books deal a bit with themes of time travel.
Ps almost all of Jude Deveraux's books deal a bit with themes of time travel.
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destinie21
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Sorry chicklet it was a bit late or early dependinding on how you look at it but you're (as usual) right maybe about 5 books out of more than 2 dozen are about time travel. but I do enjoy the time travel and para-normal romances. In any case anyone intrested in romance and time travel may enjoy the titles above. They're done very well.
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