help me prevent my brain from melting

[v_greyson]

HELLO. i have the final for my summer class (federal rules of evidence, SO EXCITING) in six days, and i have to learn about a billion rules between now and then, which is okay but kind of brainsucking. SO we should play a game for my study breaks, yes? yes! i stole this from tumblr because that's how i roll.

Pick a trope from this list and provide a fandom (pairing optional) and I’ll tell you something about the story I’d write for that combination (i.e., write a snippet from the story or write not!fic or tell you the title and summary for the story I would write).

1. genderswap
2. bodyswap
3. drunk!fic
4. huddling for warmth - SGA (john/rodney)
5. pretending to be married
6. secretly a virgin
7. amnesia
8. cross-dressing - hockey rpf (eberle/hall, RNH)
9. forced to share a bed
10. truth or dare
11. historical AU
12. accidental-baby-acquisition - due south (fraser/ray k)
13. apocalypse fic
14. telepathy - hockey rpf (duncan keith & brent seabrook): 1, 2 (inverted trope)
15. high school/college AU

Bonus Round!
16. aliens-made-them
17. sex worker fic
18. bodyguards
19. PSYCHIC SOULBONDED WOLVES
20. curtainfic

repeats definitely allowed, so do not be shy if i already wrote one of the trope you want! MOAR TROPES. ALL OF THEM.


hockey rpf, inception, SGA, teen wolves (and their torts), i could probably come up with something for MCR or pete/gabe, star trek AOS, parks and rec, due south, lotrips, batfamily, kradam (shut up that's a fandom) (don't look at me), firefly, truuuuuue blooooood.

PROBABLY OTHER THINGS. i will try. COME AT ME, FRIENDS.

Comments

[siegeofangels]

I WANT THEM ALL but will say how about some good old fashioned hockey telepathy?

[v_greyson]

14. telepathy Duncs and Seabs have been telepathically bonded for years and years, ever since Seabs had said - "So I knew this guy who said he could - like - him and his D partner did this thing and then they could hear each other's thoughts?" and it involved a weird-ass ritual with setting shit on fire and mystical knives and ritual bloodletting but Duncs is a weirdo who would do that shit for fun anyway. So they went out in Brent's backyard and each wrote down something they had never told anyone, dropped it in a pot, walked around it counterclockwise, cut each other's left palms and let the blood drip onto the paper, added the dirt from their hometowns (that was a little weird to ask their parents to ship, but Brent had made something up about a new superstition, and Duncs' parents gave up on questions a long time ago), poured the lighter fluid on it, simultaneously lit matches - the hardest part to sync up, but they got it on the fourth try - and threw them in with a satisfying whoosh of flames.

Then came the weird part (lol, the weird part), where they had to stare into each other's eyes until the fire went out, and Brent started to feel awkward and stupid and wanted to look away, but Duncs was committed, hardly even blinking, and fuck if Brent was going to lose a stupid staring contest. Plus Duncs' eyes looked kind of cool in the dark with the fire reflected in them, and then Brent blinked and had this sudden feeling of his lungs expanding, like he'd just gotten a good whiff of smelling salts, and also he knew that Duncs secretly wanted to take ballet as a kid and was still pissed off that he didn't get to, and he doubled over laughing. Duncs tackled him, yelling, "Hey, you don't get to laugh at mine, asshole, yours is pretty fucking stupid too," but Brent was thinking of Duncs in pink tights and a tutu and it was seriously the most amazing mental image, and Duncs started laughing too, and said, "Okay, that's pretty good," and Brent realized Duncs could see that and holy shit, it worked? it worked! And they spent hours laying in the grass, staring up at the few stars making it through Chicago's light pollution, occasionally cracking each other up without saying anything at all, and it is still one of the best nights of Brent's life, up there with winning the Cup or getting married.

[siegeofangels]

Aaaaaaahhhhh they are the best adorable brutal telepathically bonded D-pair. I love that a magic ritual to read each others minds is a perfectly reasonable thing that they would do, even in a verse where they are married to other people.

[v_greyson]

i ALSO really want the inverted trope version, in a soulbonds-are-known verse where it's customary for compatible D pairs to bond, and Duncs and Seabs totally love each other like brothers and are bros for life and live down the street from each other and always room together and are freakishly in sync (AKA HOW THEY ALWAYS ARE, I DIE). everyone ~just assumes~ they're soulbonded, but it's rude to explicitly ask, and duncs gives appropriately savvy/coy answers to the insinuating questions from reporters, so sport journalists just refer to them as "bonded D pair Keith and Seabrook," and kaner calls them "those freaky braintwins," and frankly, the assumption that they're bonded is probably why Seabs gets invited to the Olympics, but THEY NEVER ACTUALLY SOULBOND. it's not like they're opposed to it, but it's never happened and they work well together fine without it, so why try to mess with a good thing by taking those weird bonding-inducement drugs or whatever? meh, not worth it. they know they'll be together forever anyway. (AND THEY ARE. THE END.)

[cinco]

I have no idea who these people are--and I am happy this way--but both ficlets are awesome.

[siegeofangels]

Yes this is a thing that should be. Everybody thinks that they're bonded but Bill Wirtz never wanted to spend that kind of money, so. They work pretty well together anyway, they think.