The Girl with the misspelled Tattoo - Writing Post

[heavensqueen]

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Plot Bunnies Thread

[(Anonymous)]

For anyone still struggling to get their assignment off the ground

Re: Plot Bunnies Thread

[(Anonymous)]

The canon is set in the early 20th Century in a smallish town. My recip would like something shippy, canon compliant, fluffy, and with no smut. Their prompt is basically just 'banter.'

I'd prefer to have an interesting plot on which to hang the banter. I'd do 'Snowed In', but that's kind of happened before in the canon. I'd like for them to get into some kind of scrape/adventure, but I'm not sure what or how.

Anyone have any ideas?

Re: Plot Bunnies Thread

[(Anonymous)]

Send them off to do something outside of town: pick berries or gather other wild food, go maying, boy scouts reminiscent camping, accidental cave exploration?

Or have them help with something in town: costumes or scenery for a holiday pageant, planning some sort of town festival or fair, something like scrap metal collecting if this is WWII adjacent?

Or memorizing poetry for something, with attendant reciting it endlessly to their love interest...someone started a drawing class and one of them is practice sketching the other...there's important cooking that needs to be done? Basically, anything with the potential for people to mess up in non-completely catastrophic ways...

Re: Plot Bunnies Thread

[(Anonymous)]

Present-day canon, set in large US city. Person wants Character A to get into a relationship with Character B (A's boss). Likes h/c, pining that gets resolved, and first times. Doesn't want AUs, PWP, or power imbalance in the relationship. Both characters are adults, they work closely with law enforcement but aren't law enforcement officers, and they have sort of a teacher/student, mentor/mentee dynamic that's been progressing toward friendship. Also, A thinks B is the coolest person in the history of ever.

I'm having trouble figuring out what makes the relationship change from platonic to romantic, though--especially on B's part. I have a sneaking suspicion that the solution's staring me right in the face, but it hasn't clicked yet.

Re: Plot Bunnies Thread

[(Anonymous)]

Well, the classic under those circumstances is a paradigm shift brought on by some combination of doing a series of things together that are heavily 'couple' things (on a case?), one or both of them mixing up their wardrobe choices and wearing things that highlight their assets more than usual (for a case?), or having actions reveal new sides/depths of the prospective partner that suddenly bring them into the kind of person I date category. Also, there's always the classic having someone else mistake them for a couple...

Re: Plot Bunnies Thread

[(Anonymous)]

One way of dealing with both power imbalances & forcing them to realise feelings could be that A is being transferred to another position that isn't a direct report to B. Cue both of them thinking about how much they rely on each other and wanting to keep connection.