The Fan-fic Ideas and Advice Thread.

[Princess Awinita]

I find them useful. Mostly for the interservice rivalry funnies.

An example is that I have a friend who is in the Marines, and I joked with "USMC = Uncle Sams Misguided Children" he broke down laughing, and showoed the lin to his fellow Marines, they all laujghed and started giving replies that the Navy and Army are the real soldiers, the Marines are misfits, and the Air Force is a government corpration

[BruTak]

Had a brilliant idea a couple of days ago.

"S.H.I.E.L.D. Scotland"

The Scottish division of S.H.I.E.L.D. is just three guys operating out of tiny offices in Glasgow (covering the West of Scotland), Edinburgh (covering the East Coast), and Inverness (covering the Highlands and Islands).

The folks back at the Triskelion in New York have forgotten about them. But what with bureaucracy being what is is, they still get paid every month, the rent, electricity, internet and phone for their offices is still paid.

All their emails and phone calls go through an automated system that nobody checks any more.

Hydra never bothered with S.H.I.E.L.D. Scotland, because they felt that it wasn't worth the time and effort to infiltrate.

The guys meet up every couple of months to try and work out what they're doing wrong.

And it's at one of these meetings in Edinburgh, that things kick off. Big time.

A ruddy great spaceship appears in the night sky, a running battle through the streets and into Waverly Station, and then Captain America shows up in a Quinjet...


I have this mental image of a trio of middle aged Scottish guys running full pelt along Princes Street (a la Trainspotting) desperately trying to get to Waverly Station before the battle ends - but arriving just a few seconds too late, just as the Quinjet takes off ("Come back ya swines!"), leaving our heroes to try and explain things to the cops.

[MonicaL]

Oh, please write that so I can read it!

[planet_tv]

I recently, within the last few months, had trouble coming up with an alien name for character in SGA fan fic sequel I'm writing and when I did a google serach for alien name generator, this is what I found:

http://www.scifiideas.com/alien-name-generator/ - This is the one that helped me come up with a good name and some to use in the future. There are more name generators under Writing Resources > Random generators.

The site these two links are from has lots of name generators that might useful if anyone happens to get stuck at some point while writing.
http://www.fantasynamegenerators.com/alien-names.php
http://www.fantasynamegenerators.com...lien-names.php

[BruTak]

Oh, please write that so I can read it!

Y'know, I think I just might.

I've thought of where the Glasgow office is - somewhere in the bowels of Glasgow Central Station. The Edinburgh office is part of an old decommissioned secret military base under Edinburgh Castle.

But I don't know Inverness that well (only been there a couple of times), so I'm struggling to think of somewhere for the Inverness office.

I'll see if anyone in the Fic Help thread can suggest something.

[MonicaL]

Y'know, I think I just might.

I've thought of where the Glasgow office is - somewhere in the bowels of Glasgow Central Station. The Edinburgh office is part of an old decommissioned secret military base under Edinburgh Castle.

But I don't know Inverness that well (only been there a couple of times), so I'm struggling to think of somewhere for the Inverness office.

I'll see if anyone in the Fic Help thread can suggest something.

I'd help, but never been.

[Princess Awinita]

Have you guys ever tried this ?

Using a movie series, or video games series, or TV series, to influence a certain characters' mannerisms ? In my case I have a character named Prince Talon, and somehow he ended up modeled after Harrison Ford's Indiana Jones in how he details things

[BruTak]

Yeah, I kind of do that was well. I suppose it's a kind of shorthand.

If you're writing an original character, you say to yourself "Maybe they look a bit like such-and-such an actor/actress", or you pick someone's mannerisms and transplant them to your character.


One of my OCs, Lt. Carol Ann McCall, Royal Navy Reserve, goes by the nickname "Callan".

This was inspired by my youngest niece, who had a tiny bit of a speech impediment when she was a toddler (she'll be 20 next birthday) so that her Rs came out as Ds.

So, in the context of the character, when Lt. McCall was very young she couldn't quite pronounce "Carol Ann" properly, it came out as "Callan" and just kind of stuck.

[AleksisMi]

hrrm time for a Bert Reynolds themed comic book or game
or a book whatever

[BruTak]

hrrm time for a Bert Reynolds themed comic book or game
or a book whatever

"Smokey and the Bandit pt. 2" has always been a particular favourite of mine.

[WraithRichard]

If I may interject with my own story (I do not mean to interrupt or step on anyone's toes), I could use some help with my own story. It takes place right about Atlantis ended, but it ignored the books.

Atlantis goes back into space, this time as a headquarters for peace (A Space Untied Nations, sorta). The problem is, the person who was supposed to be in charge died and due to several complicated details, the person who gets the job as ambassador is a 17-year-old girl. A secret organization is after the symbiote she's a host to, and she also has to deal with politics of two different galaxies. Internal politics aren't great either, as she's not military, young, not entirely comfortable with the crew, blamed for lots of things, and she's been explaining modern politics to aliens (things like nationhood and cultural identity and extinction), which messes with them just doing things 'the simple way'.

I've got some basics of some plots, like the war in the Pegasus galaxy and assassins and nanites. I could use some help solidifying the lots (if that makes sense) and some ideas on what to do with canon characters, so my original ones don't seem like they take over the story.

[Falcon Horus]

...(things like nationhood and cultural identity and extinction)...

What 17 year old is capable of explaining that? Even with a symbiote to help out.

What's the background here?

[BruTak]

Oh, I dunno. You get some pretty intelligent teenagers these days. And even younger!

I can remember back in the late 70s/early 80s, there was this young boy who'd appear on chat shows in the UK - he was about 10 years old or so at the time, thin faced, very fair curly blond hair - and he was an expert in antiques.

For the life of me I can't remember his name.

[WraithRichard]

What 17 year old is capable of explaining that? Even with a symbiote to help out.

What's the background here?

I'm not calling myself or my sister a genius, but it was pretty mucht he norm to read King Leopold's Ghost, 1984, The Constitution, The Declaration of Independence, a speech or two about Manifest Destiny, Anne Frank's Diary (or something similar), and pretty much anything on the history of denying black people rights.

And that's without things like watching Stargate or Star Trek or Avatar the Last Airbender (sure, sometimes they don't use those words, but they use the concepts).

These seemed like basic things to me when I graduated (okay, sure, I didn't learnt the names for some of them). I'm pretty sure kids have to write at least one essay about this before college (or to get into college).

[StargateMillennium]

If all the diplomatic knowledge came from the symbiote, then why is it in a 17 year old girl?