The Meme Idea Meme

[atyourservices]

So there's this meme you've really wanted to run, but you're afraid no one would be interested. Or maybe you have an idea and no time. All chatter about memes, past, present, and future, is welcome here! Comment here about: memes you'd like to make, memes you'd like to see, suggestions, memes you want reposted, etc. If it makes you more comfortable, you can comment anon. Just don't be a bag of dicks. Have fun!

Comments

[(Anonymous)]

I haven't been around that long so I haven't seen many so ones that sound interesting my head (and clearly, not being around not I have not seen):

* Waking up in Vegas (referring to song by Katy Perry)
* death (someone dying. your character dying. just death. but not something like a pet dying, I mean the angsty character death)
* friendship (there is a lot of shipping memes, which is great, but maybe something just focusing on a friendship? It'd be more particular and say "bromance" or "girlfriends/girl talk" but that will exclude probably half muses)

[(Anonymous)]

I second the friendship meme idea, though we just had a Katy Perry meme and that Last Night meme is a death meme (and I think there was a straight-up death meme not too long ago, check a page back or so).

[(Anonymous)]

We had a friendship meme up a while ago, and we get death things every week or so. Like the Last Words meme and such...

[(Anonymous)]

EXTREME MAKE-OVER MEME. Whether you like it or not you're going to be beautiful (or as beautiful as a buttload of make-up and a fancy dress/suit can make you look). Will your new style make you look like James Bond, Kanye West, Kobe Bryant, Madonna, Katy Perry, or Lady Gaga? Fashion model or flop? YOU decide.

Prompts may or may not be necessary? Maybe just flip a coin to decide if it's a beneficial make-over or an outrageous one.

Person who posts can come up with the make-over if they want, but blank posts will assume that the first poster is either the one performing the makeover or the one responsible for it, and the replier is the victim. Either way, the one who posts text first is the one getting made over.

[(Anonymous)]

summer vacation meme

failget meme

drawing meme (all responses are accompanied by drawings, quality doesn't matter)

some sort of fight meme

dreamviewing meme

[(Anonymous)]

I love the drawing meme idea. I would love just to see the responses.

[(Anonymous)]

More memes where startign with a blank comment is against the rules.

Seriously, that might lower the amount of comments, but it definitely heightens the amount of threads that actually get played out.

[(Anonymous)]

sex meme: some sort of kinky dreams-come-true meme, no matter how dark or wicked your characters' desires are.

I have one written up if anyone wants.

[atyourservices]

not anoning for this

plz do

[(Anonymous)]

Characters literally sing about their feelings, preferably via youtube links although some lyrics to a song would be okay (not the whole song, that would make the meme huuuge). Think Sweets in Buffy or Lorne in Angel.

I do like the horror meme, but I think we need more Eldritch horrors up in here. I know there's the fog meme that goes around, though. Sometimes I think these sorts of things might work better as a 'set-up your own scenario' as opposed to RNG just because some people have different ideas of what constitutes scary? And that way you can look out for someone who's closer to your level of horror.

Goblin Market. Literally a market that looks like something out of Neil Gaiman's 'Stardust' where the character wanders in from their world and comes across all sort of otherworldly goods and creatures. They could know about it from previous visits or be a total newb. It could be really good at getting some cross-canon interaction and RNG or your own set-up could be optional.

Willy Wonkas Chocolate factory? Your character gets a golden ticket and holy shit candy! Only problem: making rpers hungry.

Something similar to the creepy circus meme would be great but non-smut or smut optional? I like smut as much as the next person but I like the option for other stuff.

Masked ball?

I could keep going but I'll shut up now.

[agonies]

I really like the goblin/faerie market idea because then you could start with a comment instead of leaving it blank-- always upping the possibility for cross-canon CR.

MEME TYPES YOU WANT TO SEE MORE OF

[(Anonymous)]

Re: MEME TYPES YOU WANT TO SEE MORE OF

[(Anonymous)]

Rap Battles

MEME TYPES YOU WANT TO SEE LESS OF

[(Anonymous)]

[(Anonymous)]

Less copy and pasted stuff, please. More original content.

[(Anonymous)]

some more crack memes.

I though about a 'stuck in capslock' meme where it's like everyone is yelling at each other. or a forced to netspeak/gamer/l33tspeak meme. get your serious character to try and convey complex thought with net speak. If they're from Homestruck... the reverse happens, they now speak without netspeak.

[(Anonymous)]

Less a meme idea, more a request in that I would love for some of the lengthier memes to be put under cut.

+1

[(Anonymous)]

Especially when they contain squick material.

[(Anonymous)]

Worst Nightmare meme. Wouldn't really have prompts so it might not get replies.

Sorta like the dreamviewing mentioned above but it's whatever the character's worse nightmare is. Played out in vivid detail then others can comment to either help them out of their nightmare or make it worse.

[(Anonymous)]

More memes for cross-canon/crossover interaction. Some of us play from canons where we're lucky if people know them, much less get a castmate. It's kind of intimidating to tag into a thread if everyone is only tagging people from their canon.

+1

[(Anonymous)]

It bums me out that memes have become essentially mini-fandom dressing rooms or museboxes.

[(Anonymous)]

Another therapy meme! It's been long enough since the last one, which i missed out on.

[(Anonymous)]

Hey guys, just a suggestion, but can we start asking people before we repost things? We don't need a repeat of this (http://bakerstreet.dreamwidth.org/300307.html?thread=230711827#cmt230711827).

[(Anonymous)]

Memes are made with the intent of reproduction. I mean, bakerstreet has things reposted all the time and it's fine. But that wasn't a meme, it was an open post that was never intended for Bakerstreet.

So, basically, it's okay to repost memes that have been posted on here millions of times. But please, if you see an open post somewhere else, ask.

[foundparadise]

Are the anons who wanted to do the gen version of the paradise/eden meme still around?

[(Anonymous)]

i know i am.

[(Anonymous)]

How about a meme appreciating and embracing the bbw/bbm lifestyle? I really have no idea how to word it without being off, but the idea of a meme devoted to being bigger has been floating awhile for this anon.

[(Anonymous)]

better for tlh, tbh

yahoo answers meme

[(Anonymous)]

if anons are still interested, i'll be posting it later today

Re: yahoo answers meme

[(Anonymous)]

please please please do i am so looking forward to it

fight meme possibility?

[(Anonymous)]

I've been considering making up a fight-based meme where characters are forced to fight each other in one-on-one matches, with some prompts to mix it up.

Aside from being an opportunity for some fight scenes (AW YEAH), it could also encourage crossovers more than some. Y/N/suggestions?

+1

[(Anonymous)]

[(Anonymous)]

Lost in the woods meme. Gingerbread houses or plain old starvation, wolves and trying to find North.

[(Anonymous)]

how about a meme for finding people to ship with?

not like "i'm looking for a castmate to ship with" but "here's a blurb about my character and what they're into". also it needs a reminder to state the character's gender and age, i've seen people forget that.

a friend finder meme like that would be cool too!

[(Anonymous)]

the story of us meme is a lot like that, but i'm too lazy to find it

[(Anonymous)]

So we had a Enrique Iglesias meme, but what about a Berry White meme?

+1

[(Anonymous)]

[nubsmcshouty]

What about a Craigslist Meme?

Like when you set up your tag you would have to write a little 'ad' in the body, like a personals ad or a for-sale ad for some ridiculous random shit or Craigslist has a whole lot of categories so the sky is pretty much the limit.

Then you just note how the person responding to your ad can contact you ( email/phone/just come in person ) and the thread can kick off from there?

for anyone who actually doesn't know what craigslist IS... it is this.
http://boston.craigslist.org/

...I also recommend looking at the best of section for an idea of how ridiculous this could possibly get...
http://www.craigslist.org/about/best/all/

[antivenger]

This is an AMAZING idea, why did no one reply to it! I would LOVE to see this done!

Memes that encourage people to post something in their lead in comment are awesome and this one has all the opportunities to be ridiculous and fun and interesting!

Memes focused on Original Character CR?

[(Anonymous)]

Well since we have memes dedicated to minor canons getting CR-- could we do the same for OCs? (Who usually never have castmates.) I am an OC player but I rarely tag strange OCs because, quite frankly, I know nothing about them. It would be very helpful to me if either OC players started posting links to bios or we had a meme dedicated to "introducing" OCs.

I would not mind posting such a meme but I do have a few questions:

A.) Do we want it to be all OOC? As in basically a plotting meme? Such as players fill out a form of info for their OC and people can plot out CR?

B.) Make it IC and maybe for OCs only?

C.) Make it IC but open it to canon characters as well? (Maybe only OCs can post but canons can tag?)

D.) Sort of combine it IC/OOC where the OC player fills out a form of info in the first comment but tags afterwards are IC?

[(Anonymous)]

I always keep extensive bio information for my OC on their journal. If you can't be bothered to click through to look at it, then that's your problem.