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[sholio]

I requested a February amnesty card at hc_bingo -- you get a postage stamp of four prompts (one of them a wildcard space) and have to use them all in one story. It was this, incidentally, that gave me the Peter werewolf 'verse a few years ago.

This one, though:

WILD CARD	mistaken identity
imprisonment	orphans

That's a tricky bunch of prompts. I'm actually very tempted to write this one as non-fanfic, because I can easily think of various ways to do an origfic version ("orphans" and "mistaken identity" go together beautifully) but it just doesn't really seem to fit any of the fandoms I'm currently writing in.

Note to myself: fan_flashworks' current prompt is "Party", and I really want to write something for that! I've been uninspired by their recent prompts, but this one looks fun.

Need to finish my Chocolate Box exchange fic first, though.

Comments

[magistrate]

Man, I feel like that would be the perfect card for an Orphan Black one-fic blackout. Maybe it missed its calling...

Not that you couldn't do any number of excellent things in any number of fics in any number of fandoms. :P

[sholio]

ohhhh man, it is a perfect Orphan Black card, isn't it?? I really wish my fic brain worked that way - my brain uncooperatively decides that it is going to write ALL THE THINGS and think ALL THE THOUGHTS about whatever its current fandom is, and off it goes. As opposed to being able to assign it to a fandom on cue. >__>

Clearly I got someone else's card by mistake. :D

[frith_in_thorns]

Well I've just been watching A Series Of Unfortunate Events on netflix, which would fit this card perfectly *gg*

[brightknightie]

FWIW, in triggering an application for the "orphan" square, while culturally "orphan" generally first implies a child, everyone, of every age, becomes an orphan as soon as both her parents die. So in FK and HL, all the vampires and immortals are orphans, having long outlived their parents. Natalie Lambert and Tessa Noel are usually written as orphans, explaining their parents' absence from their adult lives.

There are also such things as "orphan diseases"...?

Good luck!

[veleda_k]

Maybe something with Michael Carter? I mean, if we decide that Peggy's parents are dead. I don't remember if that was ever established. (I don't normally count one's parents dying when one is an adult as being "orphaned," but you could go with it.)

another "orphan" construction

[brightknightie]

Of the barest tangential relation:

This morning I encountered the quilters' term "orphan square," meaning a finished quilt square leftover, unused, from a completed quilting project, either as a spare unneeded, or as a coloring choice that didn't work out as planned that had to be replaced.

My best friend is organizing an "orphan square swap" for her quilting club. She says that "orphan squares" generally get made into potholders or table runners, but that by the time you finish a large quilting project, you're so sick of looking at your own pattern that you chuck your orphan squares into a bag and never want to see them again, while other people's orphan squares can look full of creative promise.

Any of your fandoms feature potential quilters? :-D

[kore]

....oooh, that looks tempting.