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Adventures in punctuation!
Oh, how the lack of a comma can put a whole new spin on a sentence...
It starts in the dark, with a beefy yet intelligent man. The antagonist is a savior and motivated because they've always wanted to be a hero, and the plot involves elements like the mythic or archetypal coming alive and dating.
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Some of these really need to be written.
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The protagonist of this story is an orphan who has traumatic mutism. On the way to the story's conclusion the protagonist encounters a bitter person. This person has a self-destructive addiction. Plot elements include wordplay and the breaking of someone's reserved exterior, and at least one character is motivated because their country is not yet free.
It begins with a concubine in a lost civilization. This person meets a madam with a heart of gold and together they encounter one true love and bringing down an empire. The story winds up in a Parisian cafe and features lashes fluttering. The overall narrative concerns not fitting in.
This story is about what happens when an unintentional monster, who is motivated to atone for past misdeeds, and an overeager person, who is motivated to get attention, meet in an all-male or all-female environment. A key element of the conflict is a kiss on the neck from behind.
"So a raffish sidekick and a gentlewoman scholar walk into a bar..." (= 100,000 words from Mary Gentle.)
The story begins in a gentlemen's club staffed by automatons, when a black sheep and a siren meet because of marriage vows. It shows the journey is more important than the destination. The protagonist is not motivated by jealousy. (= 60,000 words from Georgette Heyer.)
The villain of this piece is a little princess, while the hero is someone who doesn't need anyone or anything (until they do). The plot begins with pampering in a sepulchre. The ending includes elements of teleportation and secret tunnels.
Mythdating
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The text starts as an irritable detective encounters a train robbery while in an attic ... .
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A team of adventurers consisting of an officer in Her Majesty's armed service, an underdog, an eccentric recluse, a cynical religious practitioner with a secretly soft heart, and a polite, good-mannered man brought to his breaking point discover trading insults and an aethernaut in Shangri-La.
This is getting pretty damn close to Steampunk Saiyuki ... .
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Article on people crafting steam punk PCs and other lovely artifacts, right here.
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(My bookmark commission from LLNM just got back to me and she wanted a steampunky piece -- and while I've admired that aesthetic for quite a while, this is my first time actively trying to design within it. It's an absolute blast poking through laboratory-supply and woodworking catalogues looking for strange metal bits to combine in unexpected ways.)
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an old woman who longs to travel
an invisible man
a week-end aerial motorist
a despotic governor
a bowdlerizing lexicographer with a pince-nez
a constructed courtesan
a rookery of thieves
a Venetian-glass nephew
an ambassador from a lost civilzation
a diligent engineering student
an evil absent-minded professor
a clockwork acrobat with a broken drive chain
a beautiful woman rocketeer
a high-spirited tourist and her inscrutable chauffeur
a model railway fanatic
a curate whose hobby is chemistry
a blind gemstone-cutter
three little maids from school
an automaton repairman
a traveler with a heavy carpet-bag
a rude mechanical waiter
a frustrated brain in a jar
a temporary assistant who just wants a paycheck
an aviatrix with a downed aeroplane
an escaped laboratory rat who quotes Hegel
an itinerant clock-mender
a quixotic American newspaper editor
the French Foreign Legion
Her Majesty's Postal Service
the Brotherhood of Stage Illusionists
a league of red-headed men
an army of suffragettes
the Sultan's upholsterer
a merchant submariner looking for a ship
a captain of industry who revels in corrupted innocence
a photogrpaher who's always in the wrong place at the wrong time
magnifying eyeglasses
a complex, but utterly ruined, brass machine
a box of compasses, all pointing East
a green ray
an astrolabe
a liquor organ
a stereoscope
a telescope which shows things before they happen
a hand-cranked videograph
an automatic wine dispenser
a mechanical bull
a narghile
a Turkish chiboque which causes strange dreams
a pressure regulator
India-rubber boots
a cypher inscribed on Prince Rupert's drops
a remote-controlled sea serpent
a dangerous fondness for pyrotechnics
bets placed on a dirigible race
a gasogene
a coat which always has something useful in its pockets
a rigged roulette wheel
a gem-studded space-warping orrery
intelligence-enhancing crystals
a transformation-inducing drug
a glass harmonica
a deerstalker hat
an abandoned handcart full of broken equipment
an automated writing-desk
a grappling gun
tentalced statues carved from ice
the Giant White Rat of Sumatra
a peculiarly customized Model A
a Stanley Steamer with surprising capabilities
a steam yacht
a sand yacht
the howdah of an elephant with gilded armor
black ornithopters
a high-stakes game of rounders with cannonballs
spontaneous generation
monumental pastry
forcible abduction [is this already in?]
a potentially profitable proposition
mechanical difficulties
wisecracking
vacillation between good and evil
science in the service of art
the secret of turning lead into gold
art in the service of science
knowledge for its own sake
megalomania, but on a very small scale
a speaking waxwork which lies
an invasion of clockwork mice
a revivified mastodon
a menacing giant octopus in the Thames River
self-powered stilts
a windmill-powered Van de Graaf generator
a high-pressure boiler explosion which opens a portal into another dimension
a rope ladder dangling from a Zeppelin
a glass-domed city of slender towers on Venus
an around-the-world race
a mysterious island [is this already in there?]
the bottom of an asteroid-impact crater
a factory for producing automata
a balloon works
a maelstrom at the South Pole
a tea auction where not all is as it seems
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