Trope Bingo Ideas List
For reference and for fun, I'm sticking up my list of prompts for 
trope_bingo along with my ideas for them.
Below is a lot of me thinking about ideas and stuff.
Seeing as I'm currently in a Tony/Bruce/Steve mood, anything I write will involve them. Or Steve/Bucky. Any variant of the above.
curtainfic: This one is an odd start, as I don't have much in the way of ideas for it. It could be a Steve-buying-furniture fic, him adjusting to the future, but then it could be Bucky, or Bruce...depending on the character it'd have to be AU. I may skip this prompt, to be honest. Fortunately bingos are helpful when working with prompts I'm fuzzy about.
mind control: Whatever I do with this one, it must - must - avoid hitting the triggery hot spots that Winter Soldier's Widow Hunt arc triggered for me, or a certain fic...Point is. I'm torn between an obedience curse (the obvious choice is Tony, because yaaay control issues, but there's also Bruce, or Steve...point is, if I limit that kind of curse to just them...I think I could keep it from an uncomfortable situation. Or if I write into a corner, it would be an interesting corner) and a more elaborate set-up, one where the mind-control is larger in scope, and the basic premise is that someone among the team is made to forget that they're a hero. And the rest of the team - perhaps everyone? - is made to forget them entirely. That fic would focus on how said member finds his or her way back to their lives.
Long story short, mind control and I would be plotty and potentially angst and interesting.
secret child: Haaaah. This one is an automatic skip unless I think up the perfect premise or actually go for a blackout.
a/b/o: Pure PWP. If I want world-building a/b/o I'll yoink
legete's ideas and do something. But as I'm not interested in writing longfic with this premise, then it's very likely to be pure smut. Self-indulgent, obviously.
au: other: Ohoho, this one is open to so much. Fic where Tony's a robot, has been since he never came back from his kidnapping. Some complex premise where JARVIS has been responsible for keeping the robot from realizing it's not really human, and the reason the robot is there in the first place is due to Obie - but thanks to JARVIS' help he gets his own free-will back. ...Anyways. Anything for this square is likely to become long and plotty and explode as my stories are wont to do.
cross-dressing: My first thought is tiny!Steve crossdressing, going out with Bucky. Yet there's also the wonder of always-a-girl!Tony who's also Iron Man because she didn't make a boob plate for safety reasons and the media assumed Iron Man was male and the label stuck. So the cross-dressing here would involve Tony Stark cross dressing as a guy in and out of the armor. (does the armor count?)
soul-bonding: Ugh I love soul-bonding. I'll grab a quote from myself in an IM log that explains the three kinds of flavors I'll roll with for soul-bonds, depending on the fic.
'A) My standard vanilla bond: two folks touch skin-to-skin, feels a bit like static electricity, then hello bond. Shares thoughts/emotions, can't turn it off, can pull away from it (may cause pain if one person pulls too hard) and in general I hope they can get along. (when it does fit it's blisslike) (just like marriage!)
Writing that for three people would be...pretty much the same, but this much more unstable. Arguments could be awful.
My standard universal rules with them - well, couples are predetermined, it's fate/destiny yaddayadda. Happens rarely but often enough that society recognizes what a bond is and in general cultures respect bonds. A bonded couple automatically gets..y'know, next of kin rights in hospitals and so on. I haven't sat down and hashed out what happens to, say, a bonded pair where one of them commits a crime, but fortunately it hasn't cropped up.
B) Any number of those 'meant-to-be' hookups. Names on hands, countdown timers, what have you. There's no bond, just whatever sprouts up between them. This is possibly the most organic/natural way for a bond-type story to be arranged - but could argue about it being a bond-type story, but either way. Just wanted to mention it. (I'm not going this route)
C) The one where a kid gets their thought-sharing/emotion-sharing bond when they're young/teens with or without meeting the person. This universe has more potential for angst, because while ideal couples have the bestest invisible friend who turns into a friend and more as they grow up, not-so-ideal couples....um....thinking of, say, a tragic housefire and whoever was on the other side of that bond - brrr.'
I promptly went off on a plot-bunny that's a C variant with Steve/Tony/Bruce and with luck the final product won't be too jumbled. \o/ (I have actually started work on this one.)
au: college/highschool: I am torn about this one. I tend not to like these aus unless they're really well done, see. As for ideas...well, I keep blanking. I'm likely to skip this, frankly. Or do as short as possible a piece on it.
genderswap: Could do the always-a-girl!Tony thing here. Or I could go for a PWP piece. Something plotty. Frankly? Genderswaps are one of those aus where I'll only read it if it sounds good / is by an author I trust. They generally don't appeal to me. *shrug* (I am always welcome to try writing a fic that completely changes my mind on the subject.) Alternative option: explore this picture's universe.
holiday: Not more Christmas fic. Maybe Halloween. No, definitely Halloween. Need superheroes going out as other superheroes, obviously. :D (This is likely to be shorter, unless something goes horribly wrong.)
secret twin/doppleganger: Ohohoho. Nothing like evil clones, am I right? Just depends on who I want to run through the mill at the time.
time travel: You know? After I've written a fic where Tony's been pitched back to the past, and after contemplating other 'welcome to the past!' fics, it may be time for me to think of a 'welcome to the future!' fic. Or do something like that MAA comic where future!Tony shows up and completely out-plays Tony. (Spider-Man kept asking why he even needed them, because his suit was handling all of the problems. XD;;)
kidfic: Might skip this. Might turn Dummy and Butterfingers into kids (except they wouldn't be kids kinda robots are weird) via magic and watch trouble unfold. Thing is. I'm pickier about this one.
truth or dare: With the Avengers, this can only end in tears.
drunkfic: Hi, Tony.
(Gee, the above are easy to plot.) (Which might make them both huge problems when it comes to write them. I'm essentially taking the cliched route out, and...that doesn't work for me unless it's PWP, generally. We'll see.)
au: daemons: Do...do I really have to? elioenai was The golden standard for this AU, and if that's not enough, there were pan's fics where Coulson was a daemon, and I just. I'd be afraid to write, for they've topped this area out.
...On the other hand, I kind of was in that same spot when I wrote my villain!Tony fic, because there were at least three of those fics out there and they were great, so...hmmm.
au: neighbors: Steve and Bruce. Steve sees Bruce gardening over his fence. Steve's not sure what he did to earn a house with a white-picket fence (and an intact Bucky), but he's going to be a friendly neighbor. Bruce his neighbor is shy and reclusive but has a garden and one morning he turns up on his doorstep with a bag of zucchini. (If he sends Tony instead, Tony's doing this with such an eyeroll and a "I'll pay you to take these." because zucchini is the worst/best crop.)
I don't know what kind of au this would be - how much it'd diverge from canon - but welp. Look. Zucchinis.
celebratory kisses: Who doesn't like sleepy-post!Hulk kisses with Bruce?
snowed in: I'm likely to go with either the one where they're on assignment in rural country or the one where a plane crashes them in a cave or something. I just need to get two characters trapped near some snow, right?
Watch my plotbrain wake up to the smell of convoluted plot ideas: something involving Steve being (re?)frozen in ice and Tony getting stuck with the ice block while waiting for rescue or for the cold to get him and and and -
au: circus: I have no idea! I don't do circuses! But if I absolutely must, Thor can be a lion-tamer. Or something. I don't know! (Bruce as the sad clown - )
sharing a bed: Pick a cliche. Skip to the part where they're getting in bed with each other. Trouble ensues. I'm likely to go the easy route on this one. First time PWP, and all is roses.
slavefic: How...dark do we want this. A complete au? Or just...just... *lights up* I have a horrible awful situation for Tony to be in and this might just be the chance for all the Tony whump. (By which I mean daaarrkkkk half the fic will involve helping him heal from what happened to him.)
day at the beach: Avengers at the beach! \o/ This would be a fun series of short drabbles, or just one overall cute vacation fic. Point is: happy and cute.
au: coffeeshop: Thinking about this one, actually. I mean, I can go the cliched route, but how would I make it interesting?
And so on.
That's all the ideas I've got at the...mo...dang it! I forgot. I wanted to stick at least ONE Thor/Natasha or Thor/Tony fic somewhere in there. Well, we'll see how it goes. For all I know, the coffeeshop au might benefit from a Norse coffeeshop.
Bonus prompt: I'm still working through a thirty-one AUs idea, but I got roughly a thousand words into a zombie AU, and I want to finish that. Just for my own satisfaction. (It's Steve/Winter Soldier (Bucky) and is dark dark dark.)
trope_bingo along with my ideas for them.
Below is a lot of me thinking about ideas and stuff.
Seeing as I'm currently in a Tony/Bruce/Steve mood, anything I write will involve them. Or Steve/Bucky. Any variant of the above.
curtainfic: This one is an odd start, as I don't have much in the way of ideas for it. It could be a Steve-buying-furniture fic, him adjusting to the future, but then it could be Bucky, or Bruce...depending on the character it'd have to be AU. I may skip this prompt, to be honest. Fortunately bingos are helpful when working with prompts I'm fuzzy about.
mind control: Whatever I do with this one, it must - must - avoid hitting the triggery hot spots that Winter Soldier's Widow Hunt arc triggered for me, or a certain fic...Point is. I'm torn between an obedience curse (the obvious choice is Tony, because yaaay control issues, but there's also Bruce, or Steve...point is, if I limit that kind of curse to just them...I think I could keep it from an uncomfortable situation. Or if I write into a corner, it would be an interesting corner) and a more elaborate set-up, one where the mind-control is larger in scope, and the basic premise is that someone among the team is made to forget that they're a hero. And the rest of the team - perhaps everyone? - is made to forget them entirely. That fic would focus on how said member finds his or her way back to their lives.
Long story short, mind control and I would be plotty and potentially angst and interesting.
secret child: Haaaah. This one is an automatic skip unless I think up the perfect premise or actually go for a blackout.
a/b/o: Pure PWP. If I want world-building a/b/o I'll yoink
legete's ideas and do something. But as I'm not interested in writing longfic with this premise, then it's very likely to be pure smut. Self-indulgent, obviously.
au: other: Ohoho, this one is open to so much. Fic where Tony's a robot, has been since he never came back from his kidnapping. Some complex premise where JARVIS has been responsible for keeping the robot from realizing it's not really human, and the reason the robot is there in the first place is due to Obie - but thanks to JARVIS' help he gets his own free-will back. ...Anyways. Anything for this square is likely to become long and plotty and explode as my stories are wont to do.
cross-dressing: My first thought is tiny!Steve crossdressing, going out with Bucky. Yet there's also the wonder of always-a-girl!Tony who's also Iron Man because she didn't make a boob plate for safety reasons and the media assumed Iron Man was male and the label stuck. So the cross-dressing here would involve Tony Stark cross dressing as a guy in and out of the armor. (does the armor count?)
soul-bonding: Ugh I love soul-bonding. I'll grab a quote from myself in an IM log that explains the three kinds of flavors I'll roll with for soul-bonds, depending on the fic.
'A) My standard vanilla bond: two folks touch skin-to-skin, feels a bit like static electricity, then hello bond. Shares thoughts/emotions, can't turn it off, can pull away from it (may cause pain if one person pulls too hard) and in general I hope they can get along. (when it does fit it's blisslike) (just like marriage!)
Writing that for three people would be...pretty much the same, but this much more unstable. Arguments could be awful.
My standard universal rules with them - well, couples are predetermined, it's fate/destiny yaddayadda. Happens rarely but often enough that society recognizes what a bond is and in general cultures respect bonds. A bonded couple automatically gets..y'know, next of kin rights in hospitals and so on. I haven't sat down and hashed out what happens to, say, a bonded pair where one of them commits a crime, but fortunately it hasn't cropped up.
B) Any number of those 'meant-to-be' hookups. Names on hands, countdown timers, what have you. There's no bond, just whatever sprouts up between them. This is possibly the most organic/natural way for a bond-type story to be arranged - but could argue about it being a bond-type story, but either way. Just wanted to mention it. (I'm not going this route)
C) The one where a kid gets their thought-sharing/emotion-sharing bond when they're young/teens with or without meeting the person. This universe has more potential for angst, because while ideal couples have the bestest invisible friend who turns into a friend and more as they grow up, not-so-ideal couples....um....thinking of, say, a tragic housefire and whoever was on the other side of that bond - brrr.'
I promptly went off on a plot-bunny that's a C variant with Steve/Tony/Bruce and with luck the final product won't be too jumbled. \o/ (I have actually started work on this one.)
au: college/highschool: I am torn about this one. I tend not to like these aus unless they're really well done, see. As for ideas...well, I keep blanking. I'm likely to skip this, frankly. Or do as short as possible a piece on it.
genderswap: Could do the always-a-girl!Tony thing here. Or I could go for a PWP piece. Something plotty. Frankly? Genderswaps are one of those aus where I'll only read it if it sounds good / is by an author I trust. They generally don't appeal to me. *shrug* (I am always welcome to try writing a fic that completely changes my mind on the subject.) Alternative option: explore this picture's universe.
holiday: Not more Christmas fic. Maybe Halloween. No, definitely Halloween. Need superheroes going out as other superheroes, obviously. :D (This is likely to be shorter, unless something goes horribly wrong.)
secret twin/doppleganger: Ohohoho. Nothing like evil clones, am I right? Just depends on who I want to run through the mill at the time.
time travel: You know? After I've written a fic where Tony's been pitched back to the past, and after contemplating other 'welcome to the past!' fics, it may be time for me to think of a 'welcome to the future!' fic. Or do something like that MAA comic where future!Tony shows up and completely out-plays Tony. (Spider-Man kept asking why he even needed them, because his suit was handling all of the problems. XD;;)
kidfic: Might skip this. Might turn Dummy and Butterfingers into kids (except they wouldn't be kids kinda robots are weird) via magic and watch trouble unfold. Thing is. I'm pickier about this one.
truth or dare: With the Avengers, this can only end in tears.
drunkfic: Hi, Tony.
(Gee, the above are easy to plot.) (Which might make them both huge problems when it comes to write them. I'm essentially taking the cliched route out, and...that doesn't work for me unless it's PWP, generally. We'll see.)
au: daemons: Do...do I really have to? elioenai was The golden standard for this AU, and if that's not enough, there were pan's fics where Coulson was a daemon, and I just. I'd be afraid to write, for they've topped this area out.
...On the other hand, I kind of was in that same spot when I wrote my villain!Tony fic, because there were at least three of those fics out there and they were great, so...hmmm.
au: neighbors: Steve and Bruce. Steve sees Bruce gardening over his fence. Steve's not sure what he did to earn a house with a white-picket fence (and an intact Bucky), but he's going to be a friendly neighbor. Bruce his neighbor is shy and reclusive but has a garden and one morning he turns up on his doorstep with a bag of zucchini. (If he sends Tony instead, Tony's doing this with such an eyeroll and a "I'll pay you to take these." because zucchini is the worst/best crop.)
I don't know what kind of au this would be - how much it'd diverge from canon - but welp. Look. Zucchinis.
celebratory kisses: Who doesn't like sleepy-post!Hulk kisses with Bruce?
snowed in: I'm likely to go with either the one where they're on assignment in rural country or the one where a plane crashes them in a cave or something. I just need to get two characters trapped near some snow, right?
Watch my plotbrain wake up to the smell of convoluted plot ideas: something involving Steve being (re?)frozen in ice and Tony getting stuck with the ice block while waiting for rescue or for the cold to get him and and and -
au: circus: I have no idea! I don't do circuses! But if I absolutely must, Thor can be a lion-tamer. Or something. I don't know! (Bruce as the sad clown - )
sharing a bed: Pick a cliche. Skip to the part where they're getting in bed with each other. Trouble ensues. I'm likely to go the easy route on this one. First time PWP, and all is roses.
slavefic: How...dark do we want this. A complete au? Or just...just... *lights up* I have a horrible awful situation for Tony to be in and this might just be the chance for all the Tony whump. (By which I mean daaarrkkkk half the fic will involve helping him heal from what happened to him.)
day at the beach: Avengers at the beach! \o/ This would be a fun series of short drabbles, or just one overall cute vacation fic. Point is: happy and cute.
au: coffeeshop: Thinking about this one, actually. I mean, I can go the cliched route, but how would I make it interesting?
And so on.
That's all the ideas I've got at the...mo...dang it! I forgot. I wanted to stick at least ONE Thor/Natasha or Thor/Tony fic somewhere in there. Well, we'll see how it goes. For all I know, the coffeeshop au might benefit from a Norse coffeeshop.
Bonus prompt: I'm still working through a thirty-one AUs idea, but I got roughly a thousand words into a zombie AU, and I want to finish that. Just for my own satisfaction. (It's Steve/Winter Soldier (Bucky) and is dark dark dark.)