Any fic with a lot of OCs.

[[RUNPROGRAM:INQUIRY]] by Maudlin Hart on 2010-07-04 03:12:00 UTC Reply

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We can't feed Mary Sues to Cthulhu anymore because he will get fat if he eats too many, but what about a different eldritch abomination? I'm thinking of Fullmetal Alchemist-verse Gluttony. Since he can literally eat as much as he wants without getting fat, can we feed him Sues?
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When something random inspires one to write fanfic, that's a plotbunny. What is it called when something random inspires one to draw fanart?
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Picbunny, unless there's a plot to the picture. by Wide Eyed Idealist on 2010-07-04 03:19:00 UTC Reply

I think...

(Also, do most people consider plotbunnies to be fanfic-only or do original fiction naggling ideas count as plotbunnies?)

Re: Picbunny, unless there's a plot to the picture. by Miah on 2010-07-05 13:08:00 UTC Reply

Plotbunny is very common with groups focused on original writings. The group I know talks about them all the time. Some of them even have stuffed bunnies that are labeled Plotbunny.

They also talk about their muse a lot, often in terms of trying to drag the drunken sod back from wherever he/she has run off to, to make them get back to work.

That is an AWESOME mental image. (nm) by Wide Eyed Idealist on 2010-07-06 21:23:00 UTC Reply

I've had original-fic plotbunnies. by Eclectus on 2010-07-04 03:28:00 UTC Reply

Although a lot of my original fics come from AU fanfic ideas. Eventually I decide, "Screw it, this is too weird. Original!" Sometimes it's even a not-so-implausible fanfiction idea, and I wind up with something I have to tweak heavily to avoid uncomfortable association with canon. (Or at least, a really common fanfiction idea. There's this one fandom I've written for in which a ghost character is consistently resurrected. I did that, but wound up using an OC, so I switched his history around and made it original. I'm rambling now; I think I'll stop.)

Something similar happens to me. by Wide Eyed Idealist on 2010-07-04 14:25:00 UTC Reply

I wrote an entire book once because I saw the movie version of Howl's Moving Castle and didn't want it to be over. (Not a very good book...) And yes, this was before I read much fanfiction.

Really? by Eclectus on 2010-07-04 19:11:00 UTC Reply

The movie was good. One of the rare cases in which the movie is as good as (if not better than) the original. Miyazaki is a genius.

I think it's an artbunny. by Eclectus on 2010-07-04 03:18:00 UTC Reply

I get them quite often. Sometimes it's as simple as "Hmm, this is an interesting pose I'm standing in right now. I want to draw it."

I don't see why not.
Gluttony? Go for it! by Calista on 2010-07-04 03:13:00 UTC Reply

I think that'd be funny. :)

Hmm... An artistic plot bunny?

That's exactly what I thought! by Maudlin Hart on 2010-07-04 03:23:00 UTC Reply

Why else would I have asked? ^_^
I'm thinking pile of Sue corpses, Agents panicking, no idea how to get rid of them, have completely forgotten about un-neuralysed Homunculi, suddenly hear from behind them "I'm hungry..."
Hmm, we don't know if he likes the taste of glitter or not. That could be a problem.

Where would you get that many Sues? by Eclectus on 2010-07-04 03:30:00 UTC Reply

It'd have to be a really bad one, like the TOS with the female parallel-Fellowship. (Not genderswitch, a whole 'nother basically-the-Fellowship. ARGH mental image... Bleeprin, please?)

Any fic with a lot of OCs. by Calista on 2010-07-04 06:04:00 UTC Reply

The one I'm working with at the moment keeps switching focus onto different secondary characters. They're all heavily OOC, and some of them should be dead; and the high number of OCs has to do with the story being set in a totally implausible three-years-hence future of the canon, in a different setting.

Where you'd be likely to find it is probably a fic with a lot of original characters, period--bits, Sues, doesn't matter, just so the author makes you dizzy with the sheer number of names you're trying to remember.The your agents can go on a killing spree (it'll be cathartic, right?).

Isn't it always? (nm) by Maudlin Hart on 2010-07-05 01:03:00 UTC Reply

Arguably, yes. by Eclectus on 2010-07-05 01:24:00 UTC Reply

I see what you mean... So technically, my fic would count, seeing as it's set in modern times and all the canons have either died or gone to Valinor several millenia ago. On the other hand, I very much hope that my fic doesn't turn out to be full of 'Sues and 'Stus.

Far future AU does not equal Suefic. (nm) by Calista on 2010-07-05 01:49:00 UTC Reply

Point. by Eclectus on 2010-07-05 02:36:00 UTC Reply

I meant if my characters were Sues, it would be the sort of thing you'd be referring to.

I've tested my main on the UMSLT, and he scored fairly low, so I'm pretty sure he's not Stu-ing. Have yet to test my Eagle, though.