Multifandom: Tool: Prompt Generator

[zoamh]

Title: Genre Mixer Prompt Generator
Fandom: Any
Content notes: Prompts include sex, BDSM, non-con, and disturbing or violent imagery. These are only included by enabling NSFW prompts in the options.
Creator's notes: I've been mulling over creating this prompt generator for a while. It combines the two prompt styles that have proven to be most effective in breaking my writer's block: the first, a ficmeme that takes a list of characters and combines them randomly with cliché fic genres; the second, a bonus round in hs_olympics where prompts were formatted with a ship and two genres to be mashed together.

This generator works by taking a user-supplied list of characters, and choosing from that list and a list of clichés and genres to create a random prompt. I've gotten a lot of really golden prompts while testing this, and I hope that any one of you can get some use out of it as well. The main sources I curated the clichés and genres from are listed on the generator page, although props must go to my lovely moirail kittyfreud who is actually responsible for compiling the majority of the genres, and who helped extensively with testing.

Click here for the prompt generator, and please let me know if anything is broken or if you think of anything I can add!

Comments

[thisbluespirit]

That's brilliant, thanks! I love random generators, and this is a really handy one. \o/

[zoamh]

Thank you :D

Random generator

[thisbluespirit]

I've been meaning to come back and say this - but I wound up accidentally using this to generate a long list of prompts for one of my fandoms, and have since been happily writing my way through the resulting ficlets in a way that just hasn't been possible for at least two years. Part of that's just timing, but then timing's important - and it's a lovely creative tool. (My last two fic efforts for this comm came from that list, too.)

So, thanks again for making and sharing it!