One Wank After Another

[coalcube]

A blank assignment is a funny thing, isn't it? When you have it, you don't appreciate it, and when you miss it, it's gone.

Wednesday 10 December: Default deadline (9pm UTC)
Wednesday 17 December: Assignment deadline (9pm UTC)
Wednesday 24 December: Main collection works reveals (9pm UTC)
Thursday 25 December: Madness collection works reveals (9pm UTC)
Thursday 1 January: Author reveals, end of event (9pm UTC)

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Comments

Re: Brainstorming help

[(Anonymous)]

Hey coal, what are fun things to see in a fully tropey royal court AU?

Re: Brainstorming help

[(Anonymous)]

Arranged marriages
Masquerade
Spies
Dastardly men
Honor duels gone ridiculous

Re: Brainstorming help

[(Anonymous)]

Dowager queen/princess who's secretly cool and badass
Going out among the common people in disguise
Ancient family treasures that may or may not actually be magic
Body doubles

Re: Brainstorming help

[(Anonymous)]

Bitchy salons, gossip, competitions to throw lavish and original parties
Extremely fancy clothing
Tournaments and competitions
Courtiers being given sudden whimsical tasks to perform to keep the monarch's favor

Re: Brainstorming help

[(Anonymous)]

Dandy characters having fashion rivalry (one-sided or mutually acknowledged)

The incredibly gossipy great aunt

Jester is the wildcard

Long lost heirs, imposters or not

Re: Brainstorming help

[(Anonymous)]

Hunting excursions (dogs and horses optional, picnic lunch mandatory)
Arranging your liaisons by getting handmaids etc to pass notes
Exchanges of cutting wit
Gambling and games
Formal gardens, maybe a hedge maze
Visiting dignitaries, foreign luminaries, etc
Pattern dances OR a highly formalized system of when and how often it's appropriate for one party to request a dance with another

Re: Brainstorming help

[(Anonymous)]

Kneeling
Pledges of fealty
Loyalty kink in general
Unrevealed lady knights (jousting for the disgraced queen while in disguise)
Revealed lady knights (after kicking everyone's ass jousting for the disgraced queen while in disguise)
Beautiful tapestries
Gorgeous paintings
Priceless books
Giant royal beds
Sapphic learned queen's court while the men are off doing dumb things
Scullery wench is royal spy in disguise
Spying and backstabbing everywhere
Magic
Dire prophecies

Re: Brainstorming help

[(Anonymous)]

Basically anything that Ludwig II got up to!

Re: Brainstorming help

[(Anonymous)]

+1 on the spies thing

intrigue and politics and quid-pro-quo
Succession drama (okay, it's possible I've been playing too much Crusader Kings)