July Break Bingo - the sequel

[sholio]

I have my cards! I've been really in a fandom slump the last couple of months - details redacted for purposes of not getting gloom all over this post - and I'm hoping the bingo card thing might give me some fun inspiration and break me out of the doldrums a bit.

I requested two cards, a regular 5x5 and a 3x3 mini card. Text lists of prompts are under the details cut beneath each card. And honestly, even though there are a couple I don't think I could write and a few that are much less interesting to me, I think on the whole they're pretty good! A number of them also give you two or more related things to choose from in the same square.

Text prompts for 5x5 card

Break In / Home Invasion / Burglary / Financial Struggles / Unpaid Bills
Location: Restaurant
Location: Shuttlebay
Making a Promise or Breaking a Promise
Sharing a Taxi or Wrong Apartment/House
Two People Stuck in a Time Loop Together or Two People Genderswapped
Thinking with their Head or Thinking with their Heart
Location: Lighthouse
Rivals to Lovers
Location: Computer Lab
Proposal or Wedding
Bound Together or Pinned by a Heavy Object
L.A. Noir AU
Depression / Self-Harm / Suicide Attempt / Healed Scars from Self-Harm
Monster AU
Location: Water Park
Modern AU
Sweet Tooth or Crying into Ice Cream
Character that originally died in canon survives or returns
Role Playing / Suits / Dress Up / Praise Kink / Dirty Talk / Humiliation / Insulting / Condescending
Zombies or Came Back Wrong
Location: Pond
Fooling Around on the Couch or in the Car
Necromancer AU
Reincarnation

ALT PROMPTS
5 times they held hands platonically & 1 time it means something more
5 times A baked for others & 1 time someone baked something for them
5 times they fought back & 1 time they gave in
5 times they pretended to date & 1 time they dated for real
5 times calling their ex while under the influence & 1 time their ex calls them

Text prompts for 3x3 card

Babysitter AU
Betrothed or Shotgun Wedding
Forced Proximity
Firefighter AU
Food Poisoning or Allergic Reaction
Walking in on Sex/Being Walked in On / Overhearing Sex / Loud Sex
Mummification or Temporary Death
Soul Calibur AU
Little Space or Consensual Non-Consent

Thoughts? Any prompts on these that you'd particularly like to see written?

Comments

[lunabee34]

*hugs*

I hope the gloom lifts soon. <3 <3

[sholio]

Thank you! <333

[philomytha]

I love 'Location: Pond', I am going to assume this means actually in the pond, possibly due to a chase going wrong or maybe trying to retrieve evidence or the end of a particularly wild party or an embarrassing airplane crash, I feel like any of those would work well for Biggles. Actually I am now remembering something from a WW1 memoir of someone landing to ask for directions in France, then accidentally starting the airplane before he was in the cockpit, and it taxied away on its own across the field and wound up nose down in a duckpond :-D

ETA: and your alternate '5 times calling their ex under the influence' I feel like could work for Biggles/EvS... perhaps there were more times EvS rang Biggles up out of the blue?

[sheron]

OMG that WW1 story is amazing! (So many amazing stories from those early aviation days)

[sholio]

Location: Pond was honestly the first one that immediately jumped to mind that would make a cute little fic! Landing in a pond (especially upside-down) ABSOLUTELY sounds like something that would happen to them. And that WWI story is also very Biggles-esque ...

ETA: and your alternate '5 times calling their ex under the influence' I feel like could work for Biggles/EvS... perhaps there were more times EvS rang Biggles up out of the blue?

OH EXCELLENT, I love this and may have to write it immediately. <3 (Though if imagination takes you away, go ahead and run with it too!)

[sheron]

These are really good!! I'm so into 'dress up' with this fandom, Erich in particular :D

I wish I had time for a July bingo, but alas.

[sholio]

I didn't think I was into a lot of kinks that all of a sudden I want to write, help.

(Not doing a July bingo is the sensible option, but you could get a July bingo card and make it an August bingo ...)

[sweetsorcery]

I hear the best way to leap out of a slump is to write the sort of thing you haven't written before at all. It's just what I hear. :D

[sweetsorcery]

I'm so into 'dress up' with this fandom, Erich in particular :D

I second this! On top of catering amply to uniform kink, this fandom does provide a lot of other dressing up options too. :D

Good luck and good wishes!

[brightknightie]

I didn't know what "Soul Calibur" was on the mini-card. Now I do; thanks, Wikipedia! ;-) Apparently, a film adaptation has been in "development hell" since 2001. Ouch!


Good luck with all the inspiration you would like, and full escape from the doldrums!

That "bound together -or- pinned by a heavy object" looks like it may have your name on it. :-)

Re: Good luck and good wishes!

[sholio]

I also had to look up Soul Calibur; I vaguely had heard of it but had no idea what it was! (I thought it was an anime, tbh.)

And thank you! Many of these are speaking to me right now <3

[sweetsorcery]

I'm so sorry about the fandom slump! (Though full of envy of what marvellous fics you produce even while in a slump.)

I got myself some cards too, and they ended up in my spam folder. I just found them yesterday. 🙈 I asked for a bunch to choose from, and I'm still assessing their potential.

Your prompts... hmm... the ones I find most intriguing are probably proposal (big surprise), roleplaying/suits/dressup/dirty talk etc., two people stuck in a time loop together, sharing a taxi, making a promise, thinking with their head vs with their heart (I feel like this screams Biggles/EvS); and while I'm not normally a big 5x fan, the hand-holding and pretend dating ones have fun potential. :D

Oh, and the walking in on sex/being walked in on/overhearing sex one, obviously, is Biggles/EvS and Algy. hehe

[sholio]

Oh, and the walking in on sex/being walked in on/overhearing sex one, obviously, is Biggles/EvS and Algy.

That was IMMEDIATELY what I thought of with that prompt, ngl. xD There are also some potentially very nice fluff/romance/smut prompts in here ...

I'm glad you found your cards, and I hope they provide some nice inspiration!

[sweetsorcery]

It's clearly fate for you to write that. :D
Fluff/romance/smut is always a winning combination.

Considering the exchange situation, and the fact that we're already a month into July, I'm thinking I'd better pick one of the smaller cards.