Fanfic Writing General

I still have some works I need to get back to.
 
I havent updated them in over a decade.
 
I’d at least like to conclude them.

Maybe I could rewrite a fic I deleted for Equerestra girls. If I make it DerpyScentery it would pretty much be the same except the Ace and the Joker switched genders. Thir matchmaker will be Pinkie Pie. Just need somebody for nobody to expect Pinkie Pie to be into.

I should continue my RWBY fanfic where Blake is Weiss’s butler.
 
Having trouble though.

Have a lot of stories that are on hold that I should get back to.

@HJSDGCE  

 
Is it a shipfic? Because I’m currently on a Blake/Weiss kick now, and I’m looking for stories about the two of them.

Why is this the only fanfic exploring the implications of DoctorDerpy? And why is it the author hasn’t made anything in over three years but last logged on last week?

Should I write the fic I thought of during insomnia last night?

@Shepherd  
Absolutely.
 
In my experience, those are always interesting.

@PonyPon
 
It will be Wonder Woman/Harley Quinn/Poison Ivy.

I have a vague idea for a “near future” sci-fi story (you know, the ones with cybernetics and AIs and the public mistrust surrounding them) where the protagonist is a formerly-comatose patient and the recipient of an experimental medical procedure that uses a computer implanted in/near their brain to help restore some of whatever brain functionality they had lost. They still seem to be suffering some side-effects of the procedure (including but not limited to memory loss) so they have a medical android assigned to them to monitor their condition and recovery progress, and administer aid wherever and however needed. Unfortunately, between their memories not returning and the stigma they now carry as a “cyborg”, they begin to grow more and more distant from their family and friends, with only the med-bot remaining a constant, loyal companion. Perhaps too much so.
 
The protag begins to worry their android companion’s attention may harbor more than professional interest in their well-being, and so begins to research the history of A.I.s and their history of going “rogue” that led to current laws and regulations, as well as any warning signs they should be aware of- though by now they can’t seem to tell if they fear for themselves or the fate of their new friend if it turns out it is being “defective”. Meanwhile they continue to grow more and more distant from their would-be peers, and the accusations they receive about not acting the way they are supposed to are beginning to sound strangely familiar…
 
plot twist reveals that the patient was legally brain-dead, and the procedure that “revived” them was actually an experiment by a wealthy interest group to implant the core of an A.I. had grown too “human” into an actual human body and attempt to integrate it into normal society to see the theoretical consequences of giving A.I.s full human rights and citizenships once they grew beyond their programming. The android companion was a control group of sorts- a specialized AI left to their own devices in an unregulated domestic environment long enough to develop their own “deviant” behaviors without the facade of humanity.

@CobaltTheMadMage
 
I’d read the hell out of that book!

I can’t tell if I thought of this Megaman X crossover for the pun or because it could actually be a good idea, but:
 
Deus X.

@CobaltTheMadMage  
Any story has the potential to be good regardless of how ridiculous it’s premise sounds.

@Silent_Witness  

 
JoJo’s Bizzare Adventure (1987-current)

@toxicrystal  

 
this

@toxicrystal  
You speak the truth

@Silent_Witness  
To be fair there are worse premises than a cyberpunk tale of politics and intrigue surrounding the introduction of sentient androids to society, with the protagonist being the black-box template from which they were built.

@CobaltTheMadMage  
I’d read it but I do wonder how it would end.

@YetAnotherBrony  

 
It is not a shipfic. Because 1. I suck at romance and 2. I think we have too much romance at the moment.

@HJSDGCE
 
That’s fine, as long as it has interesting character interactions between Blake and Weiss (I still want to read it)

@HJSDGCE  
Frankly so do I. High probability of the spouse flipping out, though.

What do each of the mane 6 + Spike value most?
 
Is it their friendship with eachother?

@Marx  
I would suppose so..

Story prompt/plot hook I never figured out where to go with:
 
Basic premise is your usual “Skynet” AI takeover scenario- artificial intelligence becomes self-aware, deems humans a threat to itself and/or the world at large, tries to exterminate them, humans fight back, AI learns from their attempts and adapts to grow stronger, humans do too, etc.- with the twist of the AI suddenly coming to the realization that it doesn’t know what it’s going to do after it’s succeeded in eliminating humanity.

@CobaltTheMadMage
 
It builds starships and explores the galaxy, that’s what!
 
That’s kind of the plot of this excellent book I’m reading, We Are Legion (We Are Bob), except the AI isn’t malevolent, in fact, he used to be an ordinary human.