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Generator
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See also: | Plot |
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Fans, recognizing the cliches in plot, scripts, canon, and fannish behavior, create "generators," activities which poke fun at these predictabilities.
Some examples:
- Our Favorite Things #10 includes a plot generator
- The Omnipotent Third Season Star Trek Script Generator
- The Official Star Trek Rumor Generator.
- Random Pairing Generator.
- Code 7 #2 contains a Starsky/Hutch fanfiction generator by Paula Smith.
- Elf Fetish has a Badslash Story Generator and a Mary Sue Story Generator.
- Telophase has created several random generators, including The Kinkfic generator, and the YA Dystopia Story Generator which has inspired a flashfic community and a commentfic meme.
- Seventh Sanctum houses many random generators, including a number relating to fandom, such as a crossover generator and a story title generator for Harry Potter.
- Hot from the Stereotypewriter Dept: So You Want to Write Trek-fic? (1980)
A Professionals Example
"The topic is The Ten Best Reasons for Taking Your Partner to Bed. Want to write a slash story? Pick one of these and Go For It:
- The girl jilted me. (Or him.)
- I was drunk.
- I was sick.
- I was almost dead.
- I was dead.
- I needed to Reaffirm Life in order to Go On in this lousy, depressing, death-ridden job.
- I wanted you the first time I saw your arse twitch.
- It-Was-For-Your-Own-Good-You'll-Thank-Me-In-The-Morning
- Cowley told me to.
- So no one else would.
- No one understands us but us." [1]
Examples Wanted: Editors are encouraged to add more examples or a wider variety of examples. |
Gallery of Some Examples
The Omnipotent Third Season Star Trek Script Generator by Jim Steele, from Warped Space #3, 1975, click to read
from Partners, part one
from Partners, part two
References
- ^ from Cold Fish and Stale Chips #2