Dear Invisible Writer
Feb. 5th, 2014 10:04 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
camwynHi there, author!
First things first: I'm sorry if you're not actually familiar with the fandoms I'm requesting. They're all fictional fandoms within a video game universe, and it's not one of the more popular video game franchises, either. I appreciate the fact that you're even willing to try, though, and I look forward to seeing what you can do.
I like action that's heavy on the humor, the kind that you'd find in a Mel Brooks movie more than, say, Die Hard. I like outrageous premises that everyone involved nonetheless treats like the most normal thing in the world, and material that seems too bizarre for the reader to believe at first but turns out to be grounded in reality or history. I am not especially interested in porn at the moment but if that's what you're good at writing, I'll read it, assuming that it's good (or possibly silly, but it has to be a really entertaining kind of silly).
Okay. The fandoms.
The Adventures of Captain Cosmos - http://fallout.wikia.com/wiki/The_Adventures_of_Captain_Cosmos
The Adventures of Captain Cosmos was a scifi TV program and comic book in the universe of the Fallout video games. It's scifi from the year 2077 in a universe where the 1950s never ended and people had household robots at the same time as black and white TVs with nine-inch screens. (This was the people watching the show. I'm sure the show featured such futuristic technology as color view screens, or at least black and white 3-D holograms.) It featured Captain Cosmos, his second in command Stella Skyfire, and his sidekick Jangles the Moon Monkey. There were silver zap guns, skin tight space suits, fish bowl helmets, sleek silver rocketships with streamlined fins, and the slogan 'Truth, Justice and the Space-American Way'. There was at least one comic issue called 'Invasion of the Black Planet' and another called 'The Radioactive Space-Men from Space!'. The show aired at 8 PM on Thursdays in the Washington, DC area markets. Oddly, the bridge of an alien spaceship crewed entirely by little green men almost exactly resembled the bridge of the Captain's ship; since the aliens had a habit of kidnapping people, there's a good chance one or more of the writers was a returned abductee. I'd love to see that explored, or something set in the actual show or comic itself- there were other characters, because the command bridge had to be operated by at least five people, but they never got named.
Drake Tungsten, Chrono-Cowboy - http://fallout.wikia.com/wiki/Drake_Tungsten:_Chrono_Cowboy
This was a comic book planned for release in 2078 in the Fallout universe, but the nuclear war that gave Fallout its name meant that it never got released. We know pretty much nothing else about it other than the name, which I think originated in an MST3K episode that the Fallout writers liked. I always pictured it as a comic book with the sensibilities of old pulp SF, with Drake bouncing through time and space in a time-traveling Cadillac that happened to crash near him during a cattle drive. (My images of this comic maaaaaaaay also have been influenced by a Youtube vid of the Ninth and Tenth Doctors set to "What Would Brian Boitano Do?".)
Grognak the Barbarian - http://fallout.wikia.com/wiki/Grognak_the_Barbarian
Think Conan, or Kull, only a little more prehistoric and primitive. This was also a comic book from the Fallout universe, with issue titles like "In The Lair of the Virgin Eater" (which appears to have been some kind of winged snake thing, judging by the cover we see in-game), "Grognak And The Ants of Agony", "Revenge of the Man-Saurian" and "An Axe for All Ages". Villains included the manipulative Man-Saurian, the Ant-Agonizer (an orphaned girl raised by ants and instilled with a bitter hatred of humanity, but with a chance at redemption), Femme-Ra (with whom Grognak had a love-hate romance), Skullpocalypse and Mastadonald. There are no indications that this was a humor book other than the fact that they thought 'Mastadonald' was an acceptable name for a major villain. Apparently the melee combat depictions were pretty accurate, since if the player character reads issues of it in-game, their melee skill goes up. There's a letter to the editor you can find in the game that indicates one of the strengths of this comic is the depth of its villains, and that the stories of Grognak's enemies are as fascinating as Grognak's own stories, so I'd love to see something reminiscent of Robert E. Howard or Edgar Rice Burroughs that deals with everybody's favorite axe-slinging barbarian and making somebody who uses a name like 'Skullpocalypse' or 'Man-Saurian' a complex and interesting baddie.
Manta Man - http://fallout.wikia.com/wiki/Manta_Man
Another Fallout universe comic that never got published and about which we only know the title. I always kind of pictured Manta Man as being something on the order of the Golden Age Black Condor character, who was raised by superintelligent condors and learned how to fly or at least glide flying-squirrel style. Maybe with a dash of Silver Age/1960s TV Batman sensibilities.
RALPHIE- http://fallout.wikia.com/wiki/Ralphie
RALPHIE was a Fallout universe TV series about an eyebot (a kind of floating robot that vaguely resembles our world's Sputnik) who was found by the side of the road by a boy named Tommy, taken in and repaired, and pursued for recapture by 'mean ol' General Winters'. It was apparently a pretty popular TV series, with posters and holotape recordings and tie-in toys. The general impression I've gotten of it from the material in Fallout New Vegas is that it was like Lassie or The Littlest Hobo, but with the looming threat of General Winters; it mentioned the robot's 'incredible odyssey'. I'd love to see what RALPHIE had going for him that made the general so intent on pursuing him personally.
Raz Bastion And The Amazons of Xarn - http://fallout.wikia.com/wiki/Movies
The only thing we know about this movie is its title. It was listed on a movie marquee in Seward Square along with a bunch of other movie titles and was probably the kind of B movie you'd send your kids to watch while you were in the next theater over watching I Married A Maoist or Hush Sweet Senator Hush. I can't decide whether it was aimed at eight year old boys or an older audience, such as the people who'd be watching Santo Versus the Martian Invasion; I'd be happy either way!
And that's pretty much it. I'm good with whatever you come up with, though, I promise!
First things first: I'm sorry if you're not actually familiar with the fandoms I'm requesting. They're all fictional fandoms within a video game universe, and it's not one of the more popular video game franchises, either. I appreciate the fact that you're even willing to try, though, and I look forward to seeing what you can do.
I like action that's heavy on the humor, the kind that you'd find in a Mel Brooks movie more than, say, Die Hard. I like outrageous premises that everyone involved nonetheless treats like the most normal thing in the world, and material that seems too bizarre for the reader to believe at first but turns out to be grounded in reality or history. I am not especially interested in porn at the moment but if that's what you're good at writing, I'll read it, assuming that it's good (or possibly silly, but it has to be a really entertaining kind of silly).
Okay. The fandoms.
The Adventures of Captain Cosmos - http://fallout.wikia.com/wiki/The_Adventures_of_Captain_Cosmos
The Adventures of Captain Cosmos was a scifi TV program and comic book in the universe of the Fallout video games. It's scifi from the year 2077 in a universe where the 1950s never ended and people had household robots at the same time as black and white TVs with nine-inch screens. (This was the people watching the show. I'm sure the show featured such futuristic technology as color view screens, or at least black and white 3-D holograms.) It featured Captain Cosmos, his second in command Stella Skyfire, and his sidekick Jangles the Moon Monkey. There were silver zap guns, skin tight space suits, fish bowl helmets, sleek silver rocketships with streamlined fins, and the slogan 'Truth, Justice and the Space-American Way'. There was at least one comic issue called 'Invasion of the Black Planet' and another called 'The Radioactive Space-Men from Space!'. The show aired at 8 PM on Thursdays in the Washington, DC area markets. Oddly, the bridge of an alien spaceship crewed entirely by little green men almost exactly resembled the bridge of the Captain's ship; since the aliens had a habit of kidnapping people, there's a good chance one or more of the writers was a returned abductee. I'd love to see that explored, or something set in the actual show or comic itself- there were other characters, because the command bridge had to be operated by at least five people, but they never got named.
Drake Tungsten, Chrono-Cowboy - http://fallout.wikia.com/wiki/Drake_Tungsten:_Chrono_Cowboy
This was a comic book planned for release in 2078 in the Fallout universe, but the nuclear war that gave Fallout its name meant that it never got released. We know pretty much nothing else about it other than the name, which I think originated in an MST3K episode that the Fallout writers liked. I always pictured it as a comic book with the sensibilities of old pulp SF, with Drake bouncing through time and space in a time-traveling Cadillac that happened to crash near him during a cattle drive. (My images of this comic maaaaaaaay also have been influenced by a Youtube vid of the Ninth and Tenth Doctors set to "What Would Brian Boitano Do?".)
Grognak the Barbarian - http://fallout.wikia.com/wiki/Grognak_the_Barbarian
Think Conan, or Kull, only a little more prehistoric and primitive. This was also a comic book from the Fallout universe, with issue titles like "In The Lair of the Virgin Eater" (which appears to have been some kind of winged snake thing, judging by the cover we see in-game), "Grognak And The Ants of Agony", "Revenge of the Man-Saurian" and "An Axe for All Ages". Villains included the manipulative Man-Saurian, the Ant-Agonizer (an orphaned girl raised by ants and instilled with a bitter hatred of humanity, but with a chance at redemption), Femme-Ra (with whom Grognak had a love-hate romance), Skullpocalypse and Mastadonald. There are no indications that this was a humor book other than the fact that they thought 'Mastadonald' was an acceptable name for a major villain. Apparently the melee combat depictions were pretty accurate, since if the player character reads issues of it in-game, their melee skill goes up. There's a letter to the editor you can find in the game that indicates one of the strengths of this comic is the depth of its villains, and that the stories of Grognak's enemies are as fascinating as Grognak's own stories, so I'd love to see something reminiscent of Robert E. Howard or Edgar Rice Burroughs that deals with everybody's favorite axe-slinging barbarian and making somebody who uses a name like 'Skullpocalypse' or 'Man-Saurian' a complex and interesting baddie.
Manta Man - http://fallout.wikia.com/wiki/Manta_Man
Another Fallout universe comic that never got published and about which we only know the title. I always kind of pictured Manta Man as being something on the order of the Golden Age Black Condor character, who was raised by superintelligent condors and learned how to fly or at least glide flying-squirrel style. Maybe with a dash of Silver Age/1960s TV Batman sensibilities.
RALPHIE- http://fallout.wikia.com/wiki/Ralphie
RALPHIE was a Fallout universe TV series about an eyebot (a kind of floating robot that vaguely resembles our world's Sputnik) who was found by the side of the road by a boy named Tommy, taken in and repaired, and pursued for recapture by 'mean ol' General Winters'. It was apparently a pretty popular TV series, with posters and holotape recordings and tie-in toys. The general impression I've gotten of it from the material in Fallout New Vegas is that it was like Lassie or The Littlest Hobo, but with the looming threat of General Winters; it mentioned the robot's 'incredible odyssey'. I'd love to see what RALPHIE had going for him that made the general so intent on pursuing him personally.
Raz Bastion And The Amazons of Xarn - http://fallout.wikia.com/wiki/Movies
The only thing we know about this movie is its title. It was listed on a movie marquee in Seward Square along with a bunch of other movie titles and was probably the kind of B movie you'd send your kids to watch while you were in the next theater over watching I Married A Maoist or Hush Sweet Senator Hush. I can't decide whether it was aimed at eight year old boys or an older audience, such as the people who'd be watching Santo Versus the Martian Invasion; I'd be happy either way!
And that's pretty much it. I'm good with whatever you come up with, though, I promise!
