#. plot

muse a and muse b grew up together in a rural area. both were smart enough to get out and make something of themselves, but muse b was always the bright star. valedictorian, apple of their parents' eye. muse a was smart, played sports and had a good group of friends, but they'd rather hang out underneath the bleachers at football games and play video games into the early hours of the morning. their family had grown up and lived in the same town all their life— despite muse b convincing them that they were worth more, muse a knew it was always fictitious longing. they were friends or each other's first loves (probably both), now muse b is back home to visit and muse a feels the weight of everything that could have been

muse a is loser introvert who spends all of their time online, dreaming about the life they want for themselves. it doesn't matter who muse b is, but they are, for lack of a better word, obsessed with muse a. instead of ever talking to muse a in person, technology whiz muse b sets up the perfect scheme: an ai app to communicate with muse a, except it's not really computer generated after all, it's just muse b behind the screen

muse a has every reason not to commit a crime (a spouse, kids, job, school, responsibilities), muse b is a criminal that so happened to get themselves caught in a bind and either takes your muse hostage, has to hide out with your muse until all the noise quiets down or they go on the run together. they were high school sweethearts after all, so how's this for catching up?

give me high school sweethearts reuniting at their twenty-fifth high school reunion

i would love a commune plot. it can be set contemporaryily or in the past century, and we can explore anything— arranged marriage, dissent, rivalries, dilapidated ideologies, the possibilities are endless

a slow burn thread based on the pina colada song? (middle age couple living slice of life starts to practice mutual infidelity before they realize they've both been talking to each other online)

asked you out on a dare six months ago and now i'm in love, you stumbled across the text messages between me and my friends, and you find out just how much i won off the dare