June 7 is here, and with it JeanMarco Month!
Today is the first Prompt Day, and tomorrow the first of the Genre Days. All info about both of these, as well as the full schedule, are on the blog since weeks back. But there’s still one big part to announce.
Friends, interested parties, hyped contributors... we give you our mix and match baby, our nutso creativity booster, our Fun Frankenstein of ideas,
Our AU Generator.
( Link for mobile users: http://orteil.dashnet.org/randomgen/?gen=sPFVrcFw )
It’s easy!
You click a link, you press a button, you get a wacky story. Don’t like your wacky story? Press the button and get another one, get a thousand other ones, it’s your party.
So what can you expect? Well, at the risk of giving you spoilers:
ghost!Jean and robot!Marco are friends who lost contact. They are avoiding spoilers in a yoga class.
time traveller!Jean and exchange student!Marco are forbidden lovers. They are saving each other from aliens in a creepy forest.
scientist!Jean and manga artist!Marco are dating. Marco is playing the saxophone as a way of flirting in the middle of the road and Jean disapproves.
Here are alternate universes you’d never imagined, now brought to you by trusty (and sometimes not so trusty) programming. But, you think, most of these make no sense at all! What can we possibly do with these?
Honestly, if nothing else, you can do like us and have a great laugh reading and sharing some of the odd things you get. Trust us, there’s a fantastic collection.
You can also challenge yourself; try to make stories, short drabbles, headcanons, or art inspired by what you get. They don’t have to make sense; the purpose is to have fun, inspire, and to be inspired! Together we can build a story collection out of things that go from the weird to the outright impossible -- and sometimes you may find that the pieces actually fit together perfectly.
You don’t even have to use the stories you get to participate; just use them as jet fuel to propel your own ideas, if that’s what you prefer.
Who can stop you? Surely not us, and neither do we want to. Go crazy!
And Happy JeanMarcoing!
