Project Blue Rose settings and situations?

[telophase]

SO rachelmanija and I were batting ideas back and forth for illustrated short stories (i.e. illustrated prose, not comic format) in the Project Blue Rose world, and she asked me what I wanted to draw. There's nothing burning in my head that I really want to draw right now, so she suggested I throw the question open to LJ and see what people want to see.

Oh, I know what would get a big response: post to your LJ that you're looking for images and settings to draw the PBR folk in. Include my suggestion of "fetish club" and "black leather with straps and buckles," and the conversation will be off and running, and then you can feed it into the generator. -- quoth the rachelmanija

So...whaddaya wanna see?

Oh yeah, as an idea-generator I'm going to make a PBR-tailored version of the cool bits generator. I did it for my Yuletide story, and while it wasn't useful, it was, at least, entertaining. ETA: You can find the Yuletide version here. It was tailored to be suitable for a supernatural story set in Heian Japan.

Comments

[vom-marlowe.livejournal.com]

Fennecs! Magical fennecs!

[coraa.livejournal.com]

Oh! Fennecs!

[yhlee.livejournal.com]

...I like maple trees. I KNOW I AM SO LAME but that is what my brain is like.

Games of go. You could probably even Google for matches online so that you wind up with an actual real-looking go game and not a travesty like L5R's A Game of Go (http://www.l5rsearch.com/images/cards/card361.jpg). (Honestly, I don't know what they were smoking.) Although chess or stratego would do in a pinch.

Giant robots. Okay, giant robot figurines? Send them to a Kinokuniya?

Okay, I am a sucker for military uniforms. And trenchcoats. Motorcycles can also be hot when I don't have to face them in real life.

Um, more if I come up with anything, but my brain is really not very visual, so I'm not useful for these things. *sigh*

[telophase.livejournal.com]

:D Thank you!

[mothoc.livejournal.com]

A song and dance number in the manner of Bollywood would be awesome.

Or cat herding. (Big cat herding?)

Or an eating contest.

[telophase.livejournal.com]

Perhaps I should qualify the request to "suggestions we might actually use at some point."

[mothoc.livejournal.com]

oh, *now* you get specific. Psh!

[riot-o-curls.livejournal.com]

undercover as women! so overdone but hey, they can be fashionable at it instead of looking . . . drag-ish. it can be done with the right makeup and such!

dumpster diving as hobos or actually garbage men . . . oooh, jumpsuits . . .

oh! oh! just thought of something. how about a modern cowboy/urban look, lounging around in the middle of nowhere (actually chimney rock looms in the background) in a nicely done up vintage car with nothing to cool 'em off but half empty water (gallon) bottles, a broken dollar store fan, and random pieces of paper.

[telophase.livejournal.com]

:D Thanks!

[chomiji]

Lost in the multi-level basement of a museum complex. Or a lab complex. Strange things in jars on shelves, banks of filing cabinets with weird specimens in them, and tags tied on. Doorways of odd heights, or in odd positions.

Being stalked through a busy shopping mall by a weird opponent only the protagonist can see. Happy, oblivious shoppers, lots of cover for both parties, the danger not apparent at first glance.

Being defended by someone or something really unlikely - a little old lady in a baggy tweed suit and sensible shoes, a fancy puddy tat (a Himalayan, maybe), an obnoxious 7-yr-old urchin with beaded dreds, a skinny 16-yr-old Yeshiva boy with glasses, an adorable preschool girl in Hannah Andersson clothes and clutching a Barbie with matted hair - and the enemy actually looks cowed.

Sharing food on the run - one sitting on the floor eating a battered sandwich and the other looking out the door - could be industrial setting with lots of angles and hostile metallic patterns/textures or a rural, delapidated shack of some kind with aged machinery sitting around.

[telophase.livejournal.com]

Thanks! :D

[lady-ganesh.livejournal.com]

Cheap motels. The tiny pool at the cheap motel. Rivas in swim clothes of some sort. (Jordan would wear loud print trunks, I suspect.)

Rivas gets drugged and Jordan has to fight his way home with his half-drunk, totally not-acting-like-himself partner half-draped over his shoulder.

Rivas cleans his gun.

Rivas' eyes shining in the half-light from a streetlamp a few yards away.

Camera booth photos.

[lady-ganesh.livejournal.com]

Oh! Rivas and Jordan have to go undercover at an SCA/Ren Faire type event.

[telophase.livejournal.com]

Thanks! :D

[rachelmanija.livejournal.com]

Now these are good. I may use some of these.

[lady-ganesh.livejournal.com]

Yay! And I really do encourage fanservicey-costume pages. Maybe with color versions available on telophase's website, so people would go there and hopefully get updates.