Trope bingo brainstorming time!

[osprey_archer]

The time for trope_bingo is upon us! I am posting my card here, in order to beg for your aid and assistance in brainstorming story ideas

Comments

[carmarthen]

Oh my god, words cannot convey how much I want that Cottia story.

(The Eagle AU you're thinking of was one of Seascribe's, iirc.)

[osprey_archer]

I thought you might like that idea. It's hard to go wrong with a story where Aunt Valaria explains her life philosophy.

[carmarthen]

Aha, found seascribe's story: Improving the Silence.

[sineala]

Is this where I tell you I still want the Father Ted story where Dougal has amnesia and no one notices anything different about him?

("Am I a priest?" "Yes, Dougal.")

[osprey_archer]

I'm not sure I can write anything that matches the glory of Father Ted canon! Especially something like amnesia!Dougal, which is so close to something they might have actually done on the show - because you're so right, it would probably take half the episode before anyone noticed anything was wrong! What do you think would finally tip Father Ted off?

Did you read the Father Ted story for Yuletide? The author did a pretty good job on the voices, I thought.

[morbane]

If you like "hurt/comfort" and "language and translation", that right to left diagonal's looking pretty good… I'm not really sure what to recommend for crossovers, though. I'd kind of love a Sally Lockhart/ A Little Princess crossover in which the two Beckys are somehow the same - but something that specific, I'd probably better write it myself. (But any A Little Princess fic with a slightly wider view of London would be interesting. Maybe that could be curtainfic?)

[morbane]

Also, I don't know why I'm stuck on A Little Princess all of a sudden, but it DOES have canonical amnesia.

[osprey_archer]

Yes, but that diagonal doesn't have the one square that I have definite plans for. And I haven't read Sally Lockhart, anyway.

I don't think Tom Carrisford has amnesia, at least not when we meet him? He hasn't forgotten Sara's name, he just never actually committed it to memory.

[isiscolo]

I think amnesia would work with a whole lot of Sutcliff characters.

[osprey_archer]

Were you thinking of anyone in particular? I can imagine reasons why a lot of them might have amnesia (Sutcliff clearly felt head trauma was a good all-purpose plotting tool), but I'm not sure how I would plot with it.

This may be part of the problem. I'm just not sure what to do with amnesia as a trope.

[isiscolo]

Well, usually it's people who have become friends or lovers forget they are friends or lovers, or people who are enemies forget they are enemies. For maximum tropetastic enjoyment.