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This is little more than a dump of my private ideas store, so please excuse any ideas which are junk (they're intended to motivate further creativity) or confusing.

My site keeps an automatic changelog of updates, complete with timestamps, so don't try to borrow these ideas and then claim I got them from your story.

Fanfiction Ideas

This section contains ideas which depend on elements from another story too heavily to be used on their own.

Harry Potter

• The thing so many fanfic authors seem to forget is that the houses reflect your strongest trait. That in no way precludes you being only slightly behind in the other traits.

Plot Ideas

• A Harry Potter fic where Petunia becomes one of the "freaks" she so despises (without just having her hate melt away and jumping for joy). Problem: How to make her sudden acquisition of power believable?
• How about a spamfic involving a prank war between Voldemort and Dumbledore?
• An aborted dementor's kiss could have interesting effects.
• How about a Harry Potter gender-bender where it's voluntary as a means of disguise in order to give Harry some freedom? (will obviously need to start post-GOF during the summer but could extend into the school year if it either gets stuck or incites a lot of thought which takes place post-change-back)
• If only it were feasible, it would be cool to have a new Hogwarts student who changed gender either voluntarily (and stubbornly) every night before bed, or who changed gender on a 24-hour cycle outside of their control. (Yeah, I'm a gender-bender nut. So sue me. :P)
• Story about someone who wanders into a wizarding space (perhaps in an area where wizards are more in tune with the modern world) and ends up deciding to keep as their little secret. (sort of like what Wishweaver's story explained as a possibility)
• How about a silly spamfic where the one Voldemort marked as his equal is actually an animal that's out for revenge after losing some body part to Voldemort's hidden addiction to fine quisine?

One-Shot Jokes

Little one-shot gags that I'd like to see in a decent fic.

• How about having Harry magically alter Tom Riddle's award to say "Tim Doom Lardlover" while polishing it in detention? (Big nod to nonjon's Birth of a Name)

• How about implying that some of the myriad quidditch fouls are person-specific. (eg. turning "Erband Moptree" into a waterfowl)
• "What are you going to do? Angst me to death?"
• Prank Idea: A spell which makes a message appear on the back of someone's robes, but it's cast on them, so it appears on whatever they are wearing, doesn't appear when they aren't wearing anything, and doesn't stay on the clothes when they are removed.
• "What are you going to do? Angst me to death?"

Naruto

• How about a spamfic where it's discovered that everybody and their dog sealed someone or something into Naruto at some point or other?

• A proper Naruto-as-a-Girl fic.

• How about a silly spamfic where Akatsuki are really after Naruto and the other demon hosts to create a group of idol singers and the fact that they are demon hosts is the gimmick?

• (Difficulty: High) A Naruto story similar to the "Naruto: God of the Drow" thread on the Anime Addventure, but with one of the "Divine Kagebunshin" being sent back to Konoha to pretend nothing happened. (following events in Konoha)

• How about a story where Naruto gets turned even more fox-like when a cursed scroll intended to kill him is stopped by Kyuubi's power?
• How about a Naruto crackfic which uses the plague village scene from Monty Python, beginning with "The 4th: I'm not dead yet"
• Is there any way I can think of to have Hinata somehow become a more active character in Naruto's life back before he becomes a Genin?

Neon Genesis Evangelion

• Some of the AU universes touched on in chapters 15 and 16 of Innortal's "True Angel".

• Reification: RDF Term, fallacy, Evangelion plot seed... or all three?

Ranma ½

Plot Ideas

• StoryIdeas/SwappingJusenkyo

• How about writing a pseudo-script for a mental illness awareness commercial involving Tatewaki Kuno?
• Why aren't all the poles at Jusenkyo rotten through? Perhaps Jusenkyo water has anti-septic properties because germs can't survive the transformative magic? It's use as a cure for otherwise terminally virulent diseases could make for a very interesting story.
• What if the ordinary people at Furinkan High are led to believe that Ranma was cursed at a young age (whether or not it's true) and that cursed people are supposed to be equally male and female in mind, but Ranma's father (evil as he is :P) forced Ranma to directly tie his sense of self-worth with his masculinity. (In essence, a story where the girls of Furinkan are out to make Ranma half and half mentally. Doesn't necessarily have to be AU if done properly)
• What if Ranma was a Sohma family member who was raised by Genma? Genma may or may not be Ranma's real father. Ranma didn't really have much contact with girls before Nerima and Ukyo didn't exactly hug him in any of the situations we saw. (Ranma - Fruits Basket crossover)

• In Bonk on The Head, Akane hits her head and begins to think she's Ranma. She manages to duplicate all of Ranma's techniques (except for one trait of the Soul of Ice) thanks to her latent potential and her being around him enough to have subconsciously picked up the techniques. In the end, she gets back to normal but Ranma hits his head and thinks he's Nabiki. Why not write a fic to explore that? It could be funny to see Nabiki's reaction to Ranma's latent genius making "her" a better Nabiki than Nabiki and it could also be fun to see the chaos caused by "Twice the Nabiki". :P

• What if, in the "Genma's Daughter" storyline, Akane hadn't been spared Happosai's (Inherently flawed) Girl-to-Guy spell?

• A continuation for the Curse of Life thread stub at the Anime Addventure.

• Characters who, in my opinion, don't get enough fanfic "screen time":
  • Miss Hinako
  • Natsume and Kurumi (from the anime OAVs)
  • The Musk Dynasty (especially Herb)
  • The Phoenix Tribe
• Spring of Drowned Parrot
• If a story draws from the manga only, is it possible for the Tendos to be secretly rich? I only remember money troubles appearing in the anime.
• How about a Ranma spamfic where Ryoga time-travels by wandering from page to page in a non-linear order?
• What about a Ranma-Tenchi crossover where Ranma is related to Ryoko (eg, "Like Mother Like Son" has Ryoko in place of Nodoka) but it's more canonical? (eg. Whatever special abilities Ranma has have been sealed and the story takes place post-canon)

• A story which explores the lives of the actors from "Scenes from Nerima" could be good for a laugh.

  • Maybe have "Ranma"'s red hair being completely unexpected but real when he jumps into Nyannichuan and make that the excuse for Ranma's female form having red hair in the anime.
  • If we go with the previous idea, we could have "Ranma" threaten to walk out if they don't get a replacement for the scenes where Ranma-onna kisses other boys like Sanzenin... or we could have the actors for guys like Sanzenin refuse to work with "Ranma"-onna because he/she actually enjoys kissing them.
  • In another set of outtakes, Ranma and Ranko (Ranma-onna) are brother and sister who were hired for the two Ranma parts. We could go with that too.

• What about a story with the same basic concept as Michael Fetter's "Not A Dirty Word" but without diverging from canon. (A re-examination of canon events and possibly a continuation)

• How about a fic based on the impression the first two or three chapters of "Ranma: More Than Half" give?

• How about a "the real Ranma is dead" story which is a Ranma-OMG crossover and Ranma is some kind of pre-divine lifeform?
• How about a quick semi-spamfic where a mysterious travelling merchant causes chaos in Nerima by either bribing, tricking, or forcing a Jusenkyo curse on practically everyone, and then getting away scot free... only for the story to end with the revelation that he's the newly appointed avatar of chaos and Jusenkyo.
• Story Idea: Get permission to expand on Joe Fenton's works and then write a "Ranma gets cursed really young" story that explored the possibilities for childhood social interaction if Ranma has to go to school and the other kids find out but Ranma makes them promise not to tell.
• Maybe a Ranma 1/2 - Tenshi na Konamaiki crossover?
• Have you ever encountered a story where somebody tells Kuno that Ranma is really a lesbian who gave herself a male body because she couldn't change her sexual preferences? Could be amusing if done right.

• Perhaps a story where Genma gets a girl curse and likes it? Either part way through the series, replacing the panda curse (see chapter 2 of Anansi42's "Dreamwalk With Me" for how he might think), or at the beginning instead of it. (Worst case scenario, "At least I have hair again.")

• In the 100MiB+ of Ranma fanfiction I've read, I've only once seen anyone use spring of drowned weak/sickly/etc. girl. Unfortunately, the story in question is an Addventure thread stub and throws in too many other changes for me to like it. I made a comment to this extent on the other branch.

One-Shot Jokes

• "There's no way a girl could learn the art!" 
  "Then what *crack* do you call *wham* this? *crunch* Cooking?!" 

• Kuno may be an idiot, but it always surprised me that his ego wasn't big enough to prevent posession in canon. Was that anime-only?

Sailor Moon

• How about a Sailor Moon fanfic where a Senshi (or similar) starts having problems because of something that happened in an even earlier life? (The counter for the Ranma-ish "Previous life as a female with superpowers changes their gender identity" cliche.)
• How about a Ranma-Sailor Moon crossover where Ranma sucessfully refuses to become a senshi? Perhaps eventually using his famously focused genius and some of his ki senses (post-canon?) to tap into the senshi magic without the ridiculous transformation.

Miscellaneous

• Look into possible ways for the concept of "I Was A Teenage Dummy Plug" to be applied to other source series.

• Perhaps an Oh! My Goddess fic where one of the main characters used to be an Yggdrasil system bug before Skuld came along? (Inspired by a tangental thought to chapter 6 of Ryo-Oki's Little Angel Lost and a bit of Gekigengar3's "Ah! My System Bug")

• How about a Futaba-kun Change fic that doesn't cross over with Ranma 1/2? (it would be a first)
• How about a "self insert" where the person admits to being godly but doesn't do anything godly because their preferred method of meddling is to use chaos theory to solve problems?
• "So? I've got an aunt or two who's a choushin megami." (Anything - Tenchi Muyo OAV crossover)
• How about a Serial Experiments Lain fic involving Lain and Alice, either after the final ep., or in an AU where ep. 13 didn't result in Alice's memory being completely wiped of Lain's existence? (Very difficult, but a great story if it can be done successfully)

• If I can't find a decent implementation of the final author note from The Wild Horse Thesis, then I should write it myself.

• How about a Beavis and Butthead gender-bend crackfic? (Inspired by Rei's behaviour in Ringmaster's "Uhhhhh ok")

Original Fiction Ideas

Ideas here are not dependant on any specific story and can be used in original fiction or in fanfiction as is appropriate.

TODO: Add more stuff from my ideas basket.

Plots

• How about: Two worlds, identical in every way including flow of events... Well, one difference: Two characters, identical except for one fact: Throughout their lives, the force of which keeps the worlds synchronized has caused them embarrassment and annoyance because one's male, one's female, and they periodically get treated as the wrong gender, regardless of how I decide they'll look.... Now, they've met.
• A story involving scientists who create artificial intelligence using music as the seed data to spark the neural network, but... nobody has ever been willing to risk music with vocals because they have no idea what it would do to the personality.
• How about a story with Ranma-like persistent gender-transformation but the trigger being seeing one's reflection in the mirror? (and the reflection will always be the target gender, and will only change under certain conditions like perhaps a minimum duration spent as that gender)
• How about a parody where the bad guys realize they're in a "bad guys can't win" situation and go into a new line of work?

Gags and Plot Devices

• "Trouble?" "Nah, we had to go rescue some nut who kept ambushing bandits and calling himself 'deus ex machina'. Bit of a mess, but that's it."
• College/University student who is the (self-proclaimed?) patron saint of drunken frat parties after having performed three things which he considers "miraculous enough".

• "How did you know it was me?" "How many girls go around wearing a fake moustache and a Sherlock Holmes outfit when they think something's up?"