Unlike my usual, more plot-heavy and slightly edgy fare, here I'm looking for something a bit smuttier and more Slice-of-Life-ish. That doesn't have to mean the stories I'm interested in should involve less drama, plot or kinks (On the contrary, give me all the plot, kink and drama!)
But instead of some high-concept, world-building-heavy grand tale, I'd like to try out something a bit more low-stakes and intimate. Personal drama, workplace-romances, messy relationships...Something along the line of Sunstone, your average kinky Erotica/Romance-novel or a particularly raunchy sitcom (although I should mention, that humour isn't really my strong side)
So instead of some complex plots, I'm just going to drop some character-concepts that would fit into a story like that.
If that sounds like something up your alley, feel free to take a look at the characters below, drop me a message and let's see, if we can come up with something fun!
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Some general expectations I'd have:
Patience: My posting schedule can be a bit erratic sometimes. Muses are fickle things and I (like most people, I assume) have a life beyond the screen. I try to aim for a post a week, but it could very well be slower than that. If you've a fixed requirement of a post every 72 hours, I'm afraid we're not a good match. In return, I'll of course offer the same courtesy!
Enthusiasm and Effort: Ideally, I'd like to come up with a story, that we both enjoy and can get excited about. While I do have a wild grab-bag of ideas floating around my brain, this is a collaborative thing, some someone who can contribute a bit to the plot beyond an occasional "Yeah, sounds good." would be nice.
Flexibility: Not a "must-have", but certainly a "nice-to-have". I'm pretty flexible in terms of the characters I play and very much enjoy stories, that involve multiple main(-ish) and side-characters, so people who can keep up with that and can throw in some different dynamics to the front of the line please.
Fun: Most importantly: This is a hobby and something we should both enjoy. Stress, OOC-drama and anything that makes writing feel like chore are things I'd rather avoid.
As for some general information about me as a writer:
(More detailed information can be found here)
I'm a sub-leaning switch, mostly playing female characters
I aim for a post-length of 500-1000+ words and about one post per week(more or less)
I'm kind of a visual person (as apparent by this over-designed thread) and tend to use photographic faceclaims. Fancy formatting is optional, but always welcome!
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𝓕𝓸𝓻 𝓽𝓱𝓮 𝓘𝓶𝓹𝓪𝓽𝓲𝓮𝓷𝓽
Since I'm a big fan of collaborative brainstorming, but know that getting that started can be a little tricky sometimes, here is a little questionnaire of sorts, to make that process a little easier. Feel free to take it as a guideline, when approaching me!
Character-Preferences: What kind of characters do you prefer to play, in terms of gender, sexual orientation and general type? How many? (Personally, I'm a big fan of ensemble-pieces with multiple main-characters, but I know that isn't everybodies cup of tea)
Pairing-Preferences: What kind of characters do you prefer to play opposite of? (I'm pretty flexible and like to step out of my usual comfort zone now and then, thought traditionally manly cis-men aren't quite my strong-side)
Kinks and Limits: Limits are the most important, but feel free to tell me your particular favourites as well, especially where they align with my own!
Themes: What kind of themes/plot-points/dynamics would you like to include? And which ones would you like to avoid?
[While I'm not actively looking for those plots, feel free to take a look for some inspiration]
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About Me
Hello dear reader!
In this thread, I'm going to list my prompts, that are a tad more smut-centered. Now, I usually prefer a nice balance of smut and story, so these prompts will still require some character, atmosphere and some plot to happen, while our characters aren't doing the lewd.
But overal they are a little bit more smut-driven.
~General Information~
I'm a sub-leaning switch, mostly playing female characters
I aim for a post-length of 500-1000+ words and about one post per week(more or less)
I'm kind of a visual person (as apparent by this over-designed thread) and tend to use photographic faceclaims. Fancy formatting is optional, but always welcome!
For more information about my writing, kinks, etc. I'd lazily point towards my journal thread
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Plots
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The plots below, as well as the inspirational images tacked on aren't set in stone and more intended as a jumping-off point for some plotting and to give an idea, what kind of things I like. So please feel free to mix and match themes, kinks, etc.
And again: Please don't approach me with a plain "I'd like to do Plot X". Add your own toughts and ideas in your message. That gives me a much better idea, if we mesh well than a writing sample.
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Smut-Heavier Plots [Note: Faceclaims and plot-details are always up for discussion]
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Game Over [Blackmail, Humiliation, BDSM, (Step)Incest, Filming, Orientation Play(Optional)] YC wasn't too thrilled, when his mother re-married. Being a bit of a brooding, nerdy loner (who might have spent a little bit too much time on the sleazier parts of the web), neither her happiness, nor the nice new house or his stepfather's attempts to bond with him did sweeten the fact, that he had to move, leaving the few friends he had behind. Even his mother's insistence, that he would get along great with his stepsister(MC), since they're both gamers who do that twitch-thing, proved more than a little optimistic. Not only does YC hate her pubbly, outgoing attitude, her clumsy attempts to befriend him and the fact that she gets along infuriatingly well with his mother, no, to add insult to injury, her stream is way more successfull than his. When he gets his hands on some nudes, she sent to her boyfriend (or girlfriend?), YC decides to vent his frustrations and put that thot down a peg or two...
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Sacrifices [Degradation, BDSM, Sexism, Dub-Con, Hatefuck] YC is the polar opposite of MC(NSFW) and everything she despises: A conservative businessman, low-key sexist, with that air of scotch-drinking, cigar-smoking and steak-eating machismo, that MC finds positively revolting. And worst of all, he has moved into MC's hometown, together with a real-estate development (that MC unsuccessfully protested against). To smooth over the bad PR, YC decides to donate to some charitable cause...One that MC, activist that she is, is involved in. And he makes her an offer: He will donate a sizeable amount to her cause...In exchange for a night with her. Despite her protest,the offer is just too good and she decides to make that sacrifice...And to her own shock finds herself wanting more....
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Bad Influences [Age Difference(16+), Incest(Uncle/Niece), Drugs, Rough Sex, Dub-Con?] MC grew up under not the easiest circumstances...After her father left the family, her mother had to work long hours to cling to their lower-middle-class life, leaving her on her own a lot. With a lack of parental supervision, MC spends her days hanging around the local skate park, smoking weed behind the strip-mall and barely passing her classes. This already tense homelife is mad worse, when MC's uncle(YC), is released from prison and moves in with his younger sister...at least temporarily. And over the cause of his stay, the two troublemakers grow concerningly close to each other...
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Field Research [Sexual Awakening, Age-Difference, College Setting, BDSM, Polyamory] MC's classmates know the young psychology student mostly as a workaholic, chronic over-achiever and a bit of a prude, who’s pretty much “all work, no play”.
When the topic of fetishes comes up in one of her classes, she’s pretty sure: People who are into all those whips, chains and collars must have some kind of mental health issues. Her remarks in that direction though, prompt her professor to assign her to interview the owner of a local BDSM-club, so maybe she can get a bit more of an insight...and a less judgemental attitude.
Less than thrilled, but willing to go through for the sake of her grades, MC accepts...And begrudgingly finds herself more than a little intrigued upon meeting the club-owner and his wife/sub, who are more than happy to provide a very in-depth look into their lifestyle...
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Kinky Romance
Plots, that are kinky, but not centered around darker topics (although they can certainly be included). I'd still like to throw in some source of drama, since happy people being happy makes for poor stories
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Field Research
[Sexual Awakening, Age-Difference, College Setting, BDSM, Polyamory]
Fiona’s classmates know the young psychology student mostly as a workaholic, chronic over-achiever and a bit of a prude, who’s pretty much “all work, no play”.
When the topic of fetishes comes up in one of her classes, she’s pretty sure: People who are into all those whips, chains and collars must have some kind of mental health issues. Her remarks in that direction though, prompt her professor to assign her to interview the owner of a local BDSM-club, so maybe she can get a bit more of an insight...and a less judgemental attitude.
Less than thrilled, but willing to go through for the sake of her grades, Fiona accepts...And begrudgingly finds herself more than a little intrigued upon meeting the club-owner and his wife/sub, who are more than happy to provide a very in-depth look into their lifestyle...
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Late Spring
[Age-Difference, Kink-Explortion, Light-Hearted, Multiple Characters?]
YC has had a....rough time lately. For the better part of his life he had been married to his highschool-sweetheart and lived a generally happy middle-class life. Recently-ish though, his wife passed away and through some twist of fate, he found himself inheriting a not-insignificant amount of money.
So now he finds himself a rich widower, slowly getting back into the swing of things and dipping his toes back into the dating-scene...Which is way wilder and kinkier than he remembers it.
Cue kinky shenanigans about a very elligible widower exploring the kinkier side of life and proving to the world that a boomer doesn't have to be conservative and stuffy...as soon as he manages to install the insta-gramms on his new phone....
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The Good Wife
[Sexual Awakening, Marital Life, BDSM, Historical (Victorian), Polyamory/Adultery?]
For all intents and purposes, MC is a happy woman. Married to a good man, with a nice, upper-middle-class home in London....She should just enjoy her marital bliss.
But, after moving from the countryside to the big, decadent city, the freshly married couple slowly begins to realize that something is lacking in their otherwise happy marriage.
And so the two embark on a journey to explore the depths of their passions, desires and all those other icky, degenerate things that a good, christian, victorian couple shouldn't have!
The Muse
[Incest, Age-Difference, Light Corruption, Historical (1950s), BDSM?]
YC has always been the black sheep of his family. A notorious troublemaker in school, with some artistic aspirations. Like his older brother, he served in WWII, but unlike his brother, who returned to his wife, daughter and white-pickett-fenced life, YC returned to a small flat in a large city and a semi-lucrative career as an illustrator for pulp-magazines and seedy paperback novels.
While struggling with some creative roadblocks and a severe lack of inspiration, YC's life gets turned upside down, when his brother and sister-in-law die during a tragic car-accident, leaving behind their 16-year-old daughter in YCs care, since he's her closest living relative.
What follows is a slow-burn and very inappropriate romance between a lightly traumatized girl and a struggling "artist" (if making cover-art for cheap erotica-novels can be called "art")
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A Hot Mess
[Open]
As the middle child of three, Kate had always drawn the short straw. Her older brother was their father’s pride and joy, the type of cheerleader-railing athlete every father dreams of, her younger sister was always the smarter and prettier one, with stellar grades and a bright future...and Kate was....the rest. And thus sought attention in all the wrong places.
And then, shortly after graduating highschool with middling grades, she got pregnant, by a college-student ten years older than her at that, throwing every fuzzy plan for her future out the window. At least her boyfriend did the honorable thing and married her, without any necessity for shotguns.
But unlike her, he managed to get his shit together and soon left.
Now, 17 years later, she’s sitting there, divorced and single, while her ex-husband has a successful career, a new wife and an annoyingly healthy relationship with his daughter, while she’s barely keeping herself together, struggling to juggle a rebellious daughter, a mind-numbing dead-end job, a light drinking-problem and severe self-esteem issues.
Does she stumble into an inappropriate romance with one of her daughter’s (female) friends? Find a therapist with unorthodox ideas?
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Victorian Vices
[Historical, Corruption, Fish-Out-Of-Water, Incest (optional), Loss of Innocence]
Violet spent her childhood somewhat sheltered on her parent’s estate in the countryside. Her quiet, quaint, if occasionally a bit boring life comes to a surprising end, when her uncle, who had spend the last years travelling the world, returns to England and offers to take Violet with him to London.
The prospect to life in the greatest city in the world and be introduced to it’s high-society by her uncle is too much of a temptation though and despite her parent’s concerns, Violet agrees.
Soon after her arrival, she finds herself overwhelmed with the city and it’s manifold temptations...
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Grand Tales
Plots that are slightly more plot-heavy (which doesn't necessarily mean less smut), that probably work best with multiple characters and which require a bit more of plotting and world-building...
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What’s Happening to Soho?
[Historical (1980s), Corruption, Occult/Lightly Supernatural, Mystery/Thriller/Horror]
Unbeknownst to it's inhabitants, dark forces are at work in the streets of London. Even in the 80s, a century after Jack the Ripper, strange cults, secret societies and strange forces are prowling through the city, persuing their (potentially) nefarious goals.
MC1, a pretty religious young constable decided to dedicate her life to uphold the law, protect the innocent and fight the good fight. But what happens, when she stumbles into something that's worse than mundane crime and indecency?
MC2 is a charming, slightly gender-fluid rogue with a heart of gold. A trickster, petty thief and con-artist, who would seduce you, your wife or your husband and disappear into the night with your jewelry and a charming smile....Who has a tendency to fall in the wrong people and get caught up in machinations way over their head.
(These two character concepts are more an And/Or-deal. I'd be fine playing both, either in a GM-ish setting or one with multiple main-characters, or pick one for something with more of a buddy-cop-vibe)
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Noblesse Oblige
[Dystopian, Abuse of Authority, Political Intrigue, Multiple Characters]
Time is a flat circle and after the collapse of society in the not-too-distant future, feudalism makes a comeback.
Now, centuries after the Great Collapse, a new nobility lives a decadent life in the futuristic, luxurious capital, ruling over large provinces inhabited by serfs and getting tangled up in petty intrigues, debauchery and power-struggles....
(I'm more interested in something slice-of-life-ish than a grand "Fight the system"-plot a la Hunger Games although a slightly Hunger-Games-ish vibe would be welcome)
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Misfortunes of Virtue
Darker Plots, that deal with heavier topics and often have a clear Victim/Aggressor-dynamic
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Obsessions
[CW: Underage Characters(16+), Sexual Assault, Manupulation, Abuse of Power, Corruption]
Despite her upper-middle class upbringing, Faith’s homelife is...a bit rough. Her parents marriage is hanging by a thread and that marital strife and her slightly asshole-ish older brother hog most of her parents attention, leaving the 16-year-old starved for attention and struggling with a fair bit of social anxiety, which her parents don’t feel the need to deal with, beyond dropping her off at a therapist every other week.
When she’s groped and molested on a crowded subway one day, she can’t quite bring herself to tell anyone...Mainly because in some dark, dirty corner of her brain, she did enjoy the kind of twisted, predatory attention...
When she finally opens up to her therapist, who is not as trustworthy as he pretends to be, he encourages her newly obsessive desires, sending the poor girl down a steep spiral of corruption, obsession and depravities...
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Snakes in the Garden
[CW: Underage Characters(16+), Corruption, Adultery, Age-Difference, Abusive Relationships]
Joan was never a “nice” person. Lazy, arrogant, self-centered and hedonistic, she managed to fulfill her life-dream of marrying a wealthy man with a very demanding job. But soon she realizes, that the life of a trophy-wife might be comfortable, but also quite boring...
Until the neighbour’s son catches her attention. Good looking, polite and with the trusting innocence of a puppy, he awakens an unusually predatory desire in Joan.
When her husband hires the boy to take care of the garden, while he’s away on a business-trip, Joan takes that as a sign and drags the innocent young man into a rather unhealthy, inappropriate affair...
Sharon, a young transwoman, who just finished her (only somewhat successful) stint at film school, has just returned to her home-town, has, through luck and happenstance, managed to get a job as camera operator at the local TV station. Not quite what she had hoped for, but at least a somewhat stable, only a little bit underpaid job and mostly bearable.
Mostly. To cash in on the conservative viewers, the station signed on a charismatic, right-wing commentator. And so Sharon finds herself daily behind the camera, while the guy rants about the liberals, the feminists and the queers and bemoaning the slow decay of the nation. What’s even worse: She realizes, that she feels weirdly attracted to his brand of aggressive, sexist and arrogant machismo. And despite his wife and his less than charitable on-air opinions, that attraction is mutual and the two stumble into a passionate, if toxic affair...
Optional Happy End: An openly kinky, somewhat playboy-ish, but otherwise surprisingly wholesome porn-producer moves into town and his invited to an interview (to be blamed for the moral decay of the nation, obviously), where Sharon catches his eye...And he offers her not only a much better job, but also shows her, that she can in fact get the rough, degrading sex she so craves, without all the toxicity....
At first glance, Mia had a seemingly perfect life. Her wife was a beautiful, wealthy and successful businesswoman she had met shortly after dropping out of art-school and a combination of rose-tinted glasses and maybe a little bit of mommy-issues had caused Mia to propose on the day gay marriage became legal in their state.
But shortly after, she realized that her wife was more interested in her pretty face, either to present during her dinner-parties or to sit on after a long day at the office and much less in her person, let alone her artistic ambitions. And while being talked down to might be fun in the bedroom, it’s much less fun at the dinner table on a daily basis. So instead of wonderful life Mia had dreamed of, she found herself stuck, like so many trophy-wives, stuck in a luxurious apartment with a condescending spouse of dubious fidelity...
Does she find some solace in the arms of another neglected wife? Discover her bisexual side with one of her wife’s business-partners? Or does her wife callously decide to use her as bargaining-chip in her business-deals?
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But all good things must come to an end. A thousand years ago, the Star League collapsed, leaving behind a galaxy in turmoil. Chaos, lawlessness and violence replaced the lofty ideals and the rule of law holds sway only where local warlords, dictators or more or less corrupt governments care enough to enforce them.
The Known Universe has become a cold, dark and cruel place...
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A pretty straightforward setting: A good old Space Opera, set in a rough and gritty post-civilization galaxy, filled with adventure, danger, sex, drugs and rock'n'roll.
(Any similarities to shows like Gene Roddenberry's Andromeda, Star Trek or Farscape are purely coincidental and not at all caused by me watching way too much of those shows while growing up xD)
As far as the details, plot and pairings go, I'm quite flexible. I did put up A heavily WIP World-Building Thread. And some character-ideas below, but none of those ideas are written in stone.
As for some general information about me as a writer:
I'm a sub-leaning switch, mostly playing female characters
I aim for a post-length of 500-1000+ words and about one post per week(more or less)
I'm kind of a visual person (as apparent by this over-designed thread) and tend to use photographic faceclaims. Fancy formatting is optional, but always welcome!
For more information about my writing, kinks, etc. I'd lazily point towards my journal-thread
If that does sound appealing, feel free to take a look at my character-ideas, the world-building-thread (though neither are mandatory) and feel free to drop me a message! Please throw some ideas of your own in, while you're ad it!
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𝙰𝚗𝚝𝚑𝚎𝚊 𝚅𝚎𝚕𝚊𝚛𝚒𝚊𝚗
𑁍 Name: Anthea Victoria Velarian 𑁍 Species: Human 𑁍 Age: 31 Standard Years 𑁍 Gender: Female 𑁍 Sexuality: Bisexual | Switch
𑁍 Of all the Merchant-Dynasties, that profited from the chaos left behind by the collapse, House Velarian was one of the most successful. With a mix of luck, cunning and a chilling lack of ethics, they build a veritable empire based on shipping, asteroid-mining and a fair amount of slavery.
Anthea had inherited her family's sense for business, but unlike the rest of them had also developed a taste for adventure and sense of morals. Never quite comfortable with her House's business practices, she cut ties with them and set out to seek fortune on her own terms.
𝙲𝚊𝚜𝚜𝚒𝚕𝚍𝚊, 𝙳𝚊𝚞𝚐𝚑𝚝𝚎𝚛 𝚘𝚏 𝙰𝚛𝚝𝚊𝚙𝚑𝚎𝚛𝚗𝚎𝚜
𑁍 Name: Cassilda, Daughter of Artaphernes and Antigone of the Raven-Clan 𑁍 Species: Kin 𑁍 Age: 26 Standard Years 𑁍 Gender: Female 𑁍 Sexuality: Bisexual(?) | Switch
𑁍 Like all children among the Kin, Cassilda's life was shaped by her bloodline. Her grandfather Xerxes had fallen from grace, allegedly because of cowardice, but more likely due to the machinations of his enemies.
Branded as the descendant of a coward, Cassilda grew up at the bottom of her clan's hierarchy. Scorned by her peers and with very little prospect of finding a suitable husband, the young woman decided to set out as a mercenary, in the hopes that her deeds would wash away the stain from her bloodline...
𑁍 Dancer was born on the planet Mourning, one of the few worlds, where Vhyr and humans live mostly peacefully together. Her host had died young, due to a disease and had gifted her body to the Vhyr. As is tradition among the Vhyr on Mourning, Dancer took on the task to fulfill one last dream of her host on her behalf. The young woman had always wanted to travel the stars, so Dancer became a pilot, to see the wonders of the universe...
Dancer quickly realized that most people of the universe do not look kindly on her species and thus tries to keep her nature hidden, unless among those she trusts, like her current employer Anthea.
𝙸𝚗𝚊𝚛𝚊 𝙴𝚕𝚒𝚜𝚑𝚊𝚝
𑁍 Name: Inara Elishat 𑁍 Species: Silka 𑁍 Age: 24 Standard Years 𑁍 Gender: Female [Either cis- or trans] 𑁍 Sexuality: Pansexual | Switch
𑁍 Like so many of her people, Inara was born into slavery. The biggest part of her life, she spent as property, to be bought, sold or gambled away. But her lot was not as bad as some others. Her master was not overly cruel and seemed to have a real fondness for the girl, that became the most priced jewel of his harem.
But all good things must come to an end. Her master fell into debt and found himself forced to sell most of his slaves, including Inara. After all, no matter how fond he was of her, she was still just property...
𝚂𝚙𝚊𝚛𝚔𝚢
𑁍 Name: Stella (called "Sparky") 𑁍 Species: Human 𑁍 Age: 16 Standard Years 𑁍 Gender: Female 𑁍 Sexuality: Bi-Curious | Sub
𑁍 Stella (although she hadn't been called that for years), was born as a slave in the bowels of an asteroid-mining ship. Against all odds, she managed to survive, thanks to the kindness of her fellow slaves, the occasional charity of her masters and a talent fo all kinds of machinery.
The latter one made her an useful asset, but also a valuable commodity and she found herself sold often, to merchants and scavengers, often as part of a ship's inventory.
After the chaos, upheaval and economic and ecologic crises of the latter half of the century, the world seems to take a breath.
Those who profited most from the chaos were the large corporations. While the world burned, they made a sizeable profit and now rival most governments in power and influence.
And now, that the dust has settled and civilization is (somewhat) saved, they can return to their own business-rivalries, feuds and powerplays, fought in board rooms, the web and the streets with lawyers, PR-campaigns, hackers and good old hired thugs.
In these conflicts, it's mostly those unfortunate at the bottom, that get crushed under the wheels of corporate ambition. Or turn to less law-abiding means, trying to profit off the chaos...
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For this thread, I'm looking for an original cyberpunk-setting, though shamelessly stealing taking some inspiration from franchises like Altered Carbon, Shadowrun or Cyberpunk 2077 is more than fine! Nonetheless I'd appreciate someone, who has some interest in a bit (or a lot) of worldbuilding and coming up with our own flavour of neon-lit dystopia.
In terms of plot, I do have some vague prompts/character-ideas listed below, but those are more suggestions and jumping-off points for some brainstorming. Either a small, intimate tale of survival in a gritty, cruel world or a grand tale about corporate politics, crime and betrayal would work just fine. Or maybe a combination thereof?
Some general expectations I'd have:
Patience: My posting schedule can be a bit erratic sometimes. Muses are fickle things and I (like most people, I assume) have a life beyond the screen. I try to aim for a post a week, but it could very well be slower than that. If you've a fixed requirement of a post every 72 hours, I'm afraid we're not a good match. In return, I'll of course offer the same courtesy!
Enthusiasm and Effort: Ideally, I'd like to come up with a story, that we both enjoy and can get excited about. While I do have a wild grab-bag of ideas floating around my brain, this is a collaborative thing, some someone who can contribute a bit to the plot beyond an occasional "Yeah, sounds good." would be nice.
Flexibility: Not a "must-have", but certainly a "nice-to-have". I'm pretty flexible in terms of the characters I play and very much enjoy stories, that involve multiple main(-ish) and side-characters, so people who can keep up with that and can throw in some different dynamics to the front of the line please.
Fun: Most importantly: This is a hobby and something we should both enjoy. Stress, OOC-drama and anything that makes writing feel like chore are things I'd rather avoid.
As for some general information about me as a writer:
I'm a sub-leaning switch, mostly playing female characters
I aim for a post-length of 500-1000+ words and about one post per week(more or less)
I'm kind of a visual person (as apparent by this over-designed thread) and tend to use photographic faceclaims. Fancy formatting is optional, but always welcome!
Since I'm a big fan of collaborative brainstorming, but know that getting that started can be a little tricky sometimes, here is a little questionnaire of sorts, to make that process a little easier. Feel free to take it as a guideline, when approaching me!
Character-Preferences: What kind of characters do you prefer to play, in terms of gender, sexual orientation and general type? How many? (Personally, I'm a big fan of ensemble-pieces with multiple main-characters, but I know that isn't everybodies cup of tea)
Pairing-Preferences: What kind of characters do you prefer to play opposite of? (I'm pretty flexible and like to step out of my usual comfort zone now and then, thought traditionally manly cis-men aren't quite my strong-side)
(Here's a little list of faceclaims I'm particularly fond if, in case you need some inspiration!)
Kinks and Limits: Limits are the most important, but feel free to tell me your particular favourites as well, especially where they align with my own!
Themes: What kind of themes/plot-points/dynamics would you like to include? And which ones would you like to avoid?
Corporate Politics:
Shady backroom-deals, board-meetings, ambitious executives, cold-blooded lawyers, stolen documents and hacked servers
━━━━━━━━━━━━⋅◎⋅━━━━━━━━━━━━ Lifestyle of the Rich and Augmented:
The decadent lives of the insanely rich, fancy parties, arranged marriages, sex, drugs and gold-plated pets
━━━━━━━━━━━━⋅◎⋅━━━━━━━━━━━━ Hostile Takeover:
Corporate Hackers, Mercenaries and Operatives, shady contractors using violence, when negotiations fail
━━━━━━━━━━━━⋅◎⋅━━━━━━━━━━━━ High Tech, Low-Life:
The day-to-day life of corporate wage-slaves, overworked and underfucked, workplace-romance, low-stakes intrigue or stumbling into drama above your paygrade
━━━━━━━━━━━━⋅◎⋅━━━━━━━━━━━━ Gritty Street Life:
The tough life on the streets, gangs, (cheap) drugs and organized crime-syndicates
[(Unknowing) Incest, Estranged Family Drama, Age Gap, Switch Characters, Sugar Daddy-Dynamics]
The dawn of hyper-immersive VR did obviously have an impact on the oldest profession of the world. While not quite the same as sex in the real, VR-prostitution has some advantages. The ability to live out your wildest fantasies, while staying absolutely anonymous has a certain appeal. Especially for the rich and famous, who have a reputation to use. And while still a tough job, meeting clients in VR is much safer, than selling your body on the streets.
MC, a young woman, didn't have an easy life. Growing up without a father in a cramped, run-down working-class apartment, she too ended up working in one of the better VR-brothels, spending long ours hooked into a simulation to fulfill the fantasies of faceless strangers.
YC is one of her regulars, and one of the better ones. An wealthy, powerful CEO with a stressful job and a reputation to lose, it's not surprising that he occasionally likes to hook into VR and discreetly vent some steam. But he's a decent guy, treating MC like a person a tipping generously.
The two are a good match. Their kinks and rather switch-y natures line up well and even on a personal level they vibe extremely well. That relationship takes a sudden turn though, when YC finds out (through some way) that his favourite VR-hooker is actually his daughter, the result of a past romance, he had to sacrifice for his career, which makes their relationship a lot more complicated to say the least...
Boardrooms and Bedrooms
[Arranged Marriages, Corporate Politics, Playboys and Partygirls, Rebellious Heirs and Heiresses
Like the nobility of old, the corporate elites of the neon-lit future have realized, that love and sex can be powerful tools in the field of politics. Setting up the heirs of rival corporations to facilitate a "Merger-by-Marriage", ruining the reputation of a rival by sneaking a recording device into his secret girlfriends apartment, conspiring with a neglected trophy-wife against her husband...
What tales play out in the extravagant world between boardroom-meetings, exclusive clubs, intrigue, infidelity and iron-clad marriage contracts?
Unwanted Secrets
[Cat-and-Mouse, Conspiracies, Exploitation, Gritty Street-Life]
In the cruel, high-tech future, the poor and downtrodden have to resort to all kinds of desperate measures to scrape out a living. Renting out the processing-power of your brain to crypto-mining corporations seems lika decent deal and is certainly advertised as such: "Make money while you sleep!" Only too late many realize, that being put under anesthesia, while your brain is hooked into a server-farm isn't quite the same as "sleep" and the side-effects of insomnia, hallucinations and psychotic breaks might not be worth the scraps one get paid in the end...
The protagonist (either MC or YC) encounters a rarer, stranger risk, though. While hooked into the machine, some nebulous hacker dropped some encrypted files straight into their memory...The unsettling impact that has on their day-to-day life aside, now they find themselves in the middle of a grand conspiracy and hunted by various groups who are willing to go to any lengths, to get their hands on those files.
Let Justice Be Done
[Revenge, Seven Samurai-esque, Gritty, but hopeful?]
Fletcher Industries is one of the biggest, most powerful corporations on the planet....And arguably one of the most morally bankrupt. Over the course of it's meteoric rise to the top, they left quite a few skeletons in closets and stepped on more than a few feet.
YC never particularly cared, given that he was sitting on the board. But then Fletcher needed a fall guy, when the Law got wise of some of their business-practices. And YC was gleefully thrown under the bus.
Years later, freshly released from prison, YC is driven by a single goal: To bring down Fletcher Industries. Maybe he went through a bit of a redemption arc and wants to put right some past wrongs, maybe he just wants revenge on the assholes who pinned their crimes on him. Either way, he gathers some allies, who have their own reasons to hate Fletcher.
A Lakota-girl, whose reservation was turned into a toxic wasteland by an industrial accident, caused by Fletcher Industries A former "cult"-member, whose militant, but not aggressive community was Waco'd for being in the way of the company's expansion The daughter of a journalist, whose father was murdered after digging into Fletcher's crimes.
(Just to name some suggestions)
Making it Personal
[Lovers-to-Enemies(-to Lovers?), Love-Hate-Relationship, Professional and Personal Conflict, Petty Grudges]
House of Memory Cards
[Political and Moral Corruption, Blackmail, Dirty Little Secrets, Intrigue]
Corporate Rehab
[Age-Gaps, Younger Characters (16+), Corruption, Coercion, Mentor-Student Relationships]
On paper, it seemed like such a philanthropic endeavour. Young delinquents could be given a chance to escape their troubled surroundings, get some experience and personal counseling to help them get back on track, becoming productive members of society. All paid for by a corporation in desperate need for some good PR.
In reality, the whole "Corporate-Sponsored Rehabilitation" is little more than a ploy to press troubled youths into indentured servitude, becoming expendable pawns for the corporations less legal and more shady endeavours. But it is still a better choice than prison. And on the rainy streets of [CITY], there's no lack of fresh candidates.
I just started watching "Narcos: Mexico", which has spawned a mighty craving for something cartel-related...Sex, Drugs, Violence, slick drug-lords, dirty DEA-Agents...all that (Latin) Jazz.