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Yes, I know, it isn't even Halloween, and normally I wouldn't even think to post this call now, BUT... Last year sucked. I got almost no zombie Christmas fics written, and the ones I did I mostly wasn't happy with, so this year, I shall prepare!!
To whit....
Calling All Zombie Fans!
I aim to write 25 zombie fics (winter-festival-theme optional) to be published one a day between December 1 and December 25. But I need your help. Please prompt me here! Anything you want, as long as zombies are involved. Keep in mind that zombie has a lot of meanings, so, you know, go nuts.
If you want to, you can help me fill a whole zombie blackout bingo in my
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hc_bingo card. It's under here, if you want to take a look and see if you have a prompt that fits it. If an hc_bingo prompt is taken, it'll be zombified because I think that's cool.| taking care of somebody | loss of job / income | surgery | secret identity discovered | telepathic trauma |
| arrest | heat exhaustion / heat stroke | theft | hunger / starvation | self-harm |
| dub-con | strapped to a moving vehicle | WILD CARD | brainwashing / deprogramming | heart attack / heart trouble |
| mutation | mistaken identity | eating disorders | poisoning | archaic medical treatment |
| wings | minor illness or injury | depression | drowning | isolation |
SO... Any ideas?
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Date: 2016-10-24 01:59 am (UTC)Taking care of somebody - Rodney having to take care of Badly!Injured!Carson on a planet where no one stays dead.
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Date: 2016-10-27 05:38 am (UTC)-The Losers - the guys go to stop a baddie with a bio weapon. Everything's fine until they're sharing celebratory drinks after the mission and somebody's acting distinctly not okay and it's only getting worse. (Bingo card: Poisoning. Zombie reference: somebody's drink is a "zombie", "a mixed drink made of several kinds of rum, liqueur, and fruit juice")
-Supernatural: Sam held up the needle. "Are you sure you want to do this? Because there’s no turning back."
Dean exhaled. He wished his pale hands would stop shaking. "Y-yeah." (Bingo: archaic medical treatment. Zombie: dealer's choice)
-Agent Carter: Peggy was just supposed to be picking up some files from Howard, not spending 48 hours locked in his panic room with him, avoiding what may or may not be an apocalypse. (Bingo: isolation. Zombie: perhaps some sort of virus, whether caused by something wacky or by Howard himself, causes zombie-esque symptoms.)
-Supernatural: “I just want you to know that you were never alone.” Any, but bonus if this involves John somehow. (Bingo: taking care of someone. Zombie: zombie-like-monster attack goes bad, character A gets stitched up by character B.)
-Quantum Leap: Sam leaps into a guy who's got himself stranded in the desert - no supplies, no map, nothin'. Al can't find info, maybe even blips out for a time because of a severe power outage or some such on his end, but comes back to talk a suuuper dehydrated, delirious Sam to civilization. (Bingo: heat exhaustion/heat stroke. Zombie: a person who moves very slowly and is not aware of what is happening especially because of being very tired)
-Star Trek (reboot movies): McCoy gets mistaken for some scientist who (accidentally?) created a plague that wiped out half a planet. Aliens take him captive for revenge, everything is awful. KIRK TO THE RESCUE... (Bingo: mistaken identity. Zombie: plague thing?)
-MCU: what if HYDRA got a hold of TONY? What if they brainwashed him? What if they sent him back in, programmed to kill the Avengers? (Bingo: brainwashing/programming. Zombie: brainwashed/dead inside)
-Star Wars, Force Awakens: Poe (and/or Finn) introduces Rey to the concept of telling scary ghost stories around the fire. Except then Rey totally has the best one, told with such a straight face they think she's dead serious (even though they laugh it off and are Super Tough guys who Aren't Scared, except then they basically spend the entire night wide awake and unable to sleep. And in the next day's briefing, Leia finds the whole thing hilarious. (Bingo: dealer's choice. Zombie: related in somebody's scary story)
-Supernatural: some ghost or something is invading Bela's mind, and she can't get it out on her own. It wouldn't be so bad if the ghost wasn't just chattering about inane nonsense constantly. She turns to Dean and Sam for help when she simply can't take it anymore. (Bingo: telepathic trauma. Zombie: Bela's run to incomprehensible exhaustion by the end - dangerously so. Bonus points for Dean/Bela shippiness.)
-Castle: somebody at the hospital stumbles in, bitten by what looks suspiciously like a human bite. they go crazy and die less than 24 hours later. Castle is determined the cause of death of ZOMBIE and they need to lock down the corpse. Beckett thinks it's another one of his bonkers theories. Ryan's not sure - especially when the corpse goes missing. (Bingo: mutation. Zombie: ;D)
-Supernatural: Some sort of Pg-13 dub-con sex pollen-esque situation with Dean and Bela. I have no idea how it could possibly relate to zombies but I'm sure you could find a way. XD Lots of snarky banter. Bonus if the solution to the problem is THOUGHT to be sleeping together (double bonus if they go through with it) but turns out not to be in the end. (Bingo: dub con. Zombie: not in control of one's actions?)
-Avengers/MCU: hoard of actual mother-loving zombies beating down the doors of Avengers Tower. The only ones home at that moment are the ones left behind (only 3 or 4 of them, tops), recovering from various injures after a recent mission gone wrong. Bonus if those 3 or 4 include some more unusual combos, ie Bucky + Jane, Clint + Sif, Pepper + Phil, Tony + Sam. (Bingo: minor illness or injury. Zombie: actual literal zombies XD)
-Firefly: Do we know what actually happened to Earth That Was? What if Earth was wiped out by a plague/virus? What if that virus crops up once in a while and is the actual cause of the Reavers? (*in the vein of the movie, with the information from the planet Miranda.) Something possibly immediately in the aftermath, something desolate. Something maybe dealing with the crew of Serenity grimly battling Reavers, knowing what they know post-Miranda. (Bingo: dealer's choice. Zombie: reavers!)
Annnd some more general ones - tweak/combine/whatever as needed:
-The Losers: They didn't know Clay was so afraid of drowning until after Clay almost drowned. The 'why', they found out much later. (Bingo: drowning. Zombie: ?)
-Any: "If you expect me to save the day with a lighter and a pen, you sorely overestimate my skills."
-Supernatural: Having Cas mad at them is one thing. Having Cas trying to kill them is another. Dean's trying not to panic and Sam isn't doing much better. (Bingo: Wings)
-Any: "So this is my three hundred and fifty-eighth Thursday. The SAME Thursday." (Bonus if it's Agent Carter or Castle.)
-Avengers/MCU: "I've never seen an actual zombie before." "Well, now you have. Feel better?" "Um, no."
-Supernatural: "You TOOK it? Why am I not surprised." (Bonus if this is Dean + Bela related, double bonus if it's shippy. ;D)
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Date: 2016-11-22 04:55 pm (UTC)I have picked and chose. Dear Lord, I want to write that TFA fic SO BAD! We'll see how I do on all of this...
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Date: 2016-11-25 10:52 pm (UTC)(YASSS. Do it!! You know, when you have time.)
Ideas from Hope
Date: 2016-11-22 05:01 pm (UTC)Post Winter Soldier
So I don't know if you've ever written for Bucky, but the first one's about him. I immediately thought of what might have happened differently to Bucky once Hydra fell. (All au from here on.) They were always giving him injections and pills and he didn't know that some were actually helping him. My idea is that if he doesn't get those certain injections, he'll revert back to his original age with added mutations. (It basically makes him a zombie.) The reason is that the serum they gave him way back when hadn't been perfected, and they had to do routine resets to it, or it would destroy him from the inside out. (This is Hydra, they probably had tons of failsafes.) So the prompt hits deprogramming and also mutation.
Post Age of Ultron
A super wacky, dreamlike fic about Wanda dealing with Pietro's death. She keeps seeing him every time she tries to use her powers, and it's the zombified version of how he last looked. He tells her it's all her fault, and he's "coming for her" and sometimes he hurts her. She'll wake up/snap out of it with cuts and injuries that she believes him to be causing, but she's actually the one doing it subconsciously. So this hits telepathic trauma and self harm. Eventually, she figures it out, has a talk with one of the team (probably Clint, because they both feel guilty) and it gradually goes away.
Post/Circa Civil War
I super loved Sam's buddy Red Wing in Civil War, and when I saw the wings prompt, this idea sprang forth. Tony wanted to do some upgrades on it, and was tinkering with it in his lab when it flew into the Cradle (thing that created Vision) and accidentally got a body. So the body is a zombie, (cause it's really just a glob of synthetic skin) and moves suuuper slow, tho it can still fly. And Tony could fake heart trouble to escape Sam's wrath when he finds out, knocking out wings and heart trouble. :lol: