Ideas thread

In order to prove your ideas are worth protecting and NOT sharing with the public, you must share them with the public.

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Why do you keep trying?

What ideas? Cartoons? Comics? Characters?

The thread accurately describes how gaslighting for ideas works.

But my ideas aren't worth stealing

I finally finished paying off my car which knocks 240$ from my monthly bills. However my rent just went up 50$, my phone died and I needed to upgrade so that added 30$ to my phone bill, and I signed up for 401k at work which started taking 60$ out of each paycheck, so 120$ a month (120$ a month is the minimum for my company to do the "matching" that they do, if you put in at least 5%, they match and put in 5% too so it's hard to turn that down). Pain the fucking ass, I'm really tired of living paycheck to paycheck and I had been hoping with not having the car payment anymore I could start relaxing a little.

The obvious solution is to put less into my 401k but I'm thinking maybe I should just get a second job for a while.

That is my idea.

Some other ideas for you
>downgrading to a more modest phone/phone plan
>moving to a cheaper apartment
>putting in more hours at your main job
Not putting money in your 401k is just stealing from yourself.

A cartoon about monkeys masturbating for 20 minutes straight on every episode.

Title: Magic Tricks
Plot:Three bumbling rival magicans try to get their kids to follow in their footsteps, but the kids refuse.
Characters: The three kids, named Mark, willy, and Emily, are typical kids. They're slightly nerdy, and I'm still trying to make them stand out. It has the typical 2 boys 1 girl trio. The magicians are over the top, bumbling, but not idiots, just overly arrogant. Mark's magician dad is married to his lovely assistant, who would probably be MILF waifu bait if this show was a thing. There's also the mayor's daughter, who actually wants to be a magician, but fails, and has a crush on Mark. She's bubbly, and doesn't let her wealth make her greedy, but she is also over-confident. Mark's family also has a pet rabbit, Willy has a divorced family and a slightly cynical little brother, and Emily's dad is a clown.
Humor: Whenever I've shown people any of my scripts, they tell me it's a hybrid of early Spongebob and Phineas and Ferb. It definitely has a joke focus, with some emotional moments thrown in for good measure.
Tell me what you think?

"Magic"
A con-artist/thief w/magician experience accidentally becomes head of a school for young wizards/witches after using a forged will to inherit the property.

A group of space alien criminals on their way to space prison crash land in the West Indies in 1700s and commandeer a pirate ship
A young boy is granted a pardon from death and given his pale horse to track down and take revenge on the wendigo that posses his father for eating his mother
A wild west story set in a world where vikings settled in the Americas first and instead of Indians it's inhabited by elves, dwarves, frost Giants in Canada, etc. There would be rune magic and names of power.
A retelling of Spartacus set in the Civil War.
A slice of life/vaguely lewd story about a girl that falls in love with a ghost, they start dating and eventually start looking into how to consummate their relationship.

This is painful.

I'll post this one again, may as well. I actually have a few different ideas for cartoons, in case one doesn't work out.

A cartoon set in the Deep south during the 1930s, starring a little hillbilly girl going on folksy adventures. She’s also a witch, with her wand being a piece of straw in her mouth and her familiar being a pig. The show would have quite a bit of slapstick, as the girl tends to accidentally injure herself while casting spells. Rather than a traditional witch’s cauldron, she has a clunky old distillery (sort of like the kind moonshine’s made with), that she tries to brew potions with, but it often ends up blowing up in her face.

She lives alone, except for her pig, in a cluttered old run-down hut full of stuff she found. The hut’s on the outskirts of a dingy old bayou town inhabited by bumpkins.

The main villains would be a trio of rowdy (but smarter than they look) redneck musicians in a bluegrass band. They’re warlocks with enchanted instruments, casting spells based on the songs played on them.

Kinda gets dull if you post the same idea in every thread, try waiting between threads and come up with new ideas to share between threads.

It's been a while since I've posted this one, and I've only posted it a few times.

The story is about a young girl in a world that's kind of a classic fantasy take on early America (think around 1700's). The girl grew up on a farm idolizing her grandfather who was a former Woodsman (basically the adventurers of this world) who told her stories of hunting vicious monsters, surviving off the land, taught her too shoot and survive in the woods, etc. He died later in her life and when she turned 16 she took his flintlock rifle, knife, and set out into the world to become one of the first female Woodsmen, using her wits and the lessons her grandfather taught her to make up for her shortcomings as a woman.
During this time, an event known as the cruel wars is going on, the first war in human history fought with rifles and explosives, the death toll is unlike anything experienced before. This serves as the backdrop to the birth of the series antagonist, the first wendigo to be seen for centuries, extraordinarily powerful and violent monsters that make everything else pale in comparison, a beast that most Woodsmen believe doesn't exist early in the series, but slowly and surely becomes a massive threat as it consumes entire towns and leaves a trail of death within cities, seemingly impossible to kill with normal weapons.
>Why is the main character a girl
Honestly I just think it'd be cute too see a just barely 5' girl carrying around a knife the size of her forearm and a rifle nearly as long as she is (consider most woodsmen are absolutely fuck huge), plus maybe add a little extra challenge to her so she has to learn to fight smarter, not harder; granted the average beast shits all over even the biggest humans in sheer bulk and most woodsmen also have to rely heavily on their wits, they at least have a little more luxury to throw around some weight if things get really desperate.

I'm thinking of tackling a "man vs environment" story, since I play a lot of dungeon crawlers, but I'm having trouble deciding what's going to be the uncharted territory for the cast.
I'm thinking either a continental tree or a megastructure.

>It's been a while since I've posted this one
You posted it five days ago in the last thread

How so?

A simple cartoon where a group of kids are out adventuring in a drab small town. Drawing from how I saw the world during my childhood. The middle school sucks balls, the mayor is a crook, your mom is a nagging tyrant, Dad farts and gambles, friends are worthless, bullies are everywhere, the chicks in the next town are super hot while the ones here are hideous (both inside and out), the list goes on and on. Just with more ominous and mysterious urban legends.

The last thread was two days ago, actually

That sounds boring as shit.

A western magical girl series following the Tuxedo Mask.

Character designs are coming along slowly because it's a cast of eight, even if only maybe four will be the focus.

>Another "comfy SoL"
Pls no

I had a dream my friend's pawpaw described his idea for a cartoon about the "muscular Wright brothers" making inventions in a secret lab (and presumbably fighting crime or something). Also, the confederates had won the Civil War in this universe.

I like this one. I like the setting and the character, but what would be the main conflict? Her survival, her becoming a Woodsman, or the Wendigo storyline?

I think if you narrow the girl's motivation to getting revenge for her grandfather's death you have a clearer connection between the antagonist and the protagonist.

Two siblings who are gods in training, a teenage boy and his younger sister. The boy at first glance seems serious, he’s very brave and deeply protective of his younger sister. The boy has a bow made of light and is training to be a god of courage. The young girl is thoughtful, optimistic and is training to be a goddess of wishes. Their mother is the goddess of purity, she cleanses sinister, toxic things all over the world.

Now the story:
>wish girl trains to grant big wishes, but as for now she grants only small ones (Ex: I wish for happiness for my baby)
>she hears a wish from a young boy
>he wishes to have wings to fly away from his abusive father
>seeing how bad things can be with the father, the girl is troubled
>knowing she can’t grant the boys wish because the strength of her magic isn’t enough and even if she was, it’s against the policy to grant such wishes for humans
>she decides to take matters into her own hands and goes to the human realm in disguise
>older brother eventually finds out about her plan and tries to bring her home
>wish girl is confronted by the abusive father
>older brother steps in, stuns the man and forces his sister to leave
>but before they could the man transforms into a giant black sludge monster
>turns out the man was a pawn in a grand scheme to lure the siblings away from their home
>the perpetrator is the dangerous god of malice
>now the siblings must work together to escape from the monster while in the modern human realm
>but wish girl secretly works to find the boy she heard earlier

>A western magical girl series following the Tuxedo Mask.
This sounds like it could go into wanky territory real fast. Especially since it's focusing on kind of the unimportant character of that genre dynamic.

Is this like one of those "the unimportant character is actually real important" stories?

I figured at the start of the series she would already have camping and general survival down, but had never actually faced down a monster before, so the first few episodes would be her narrowly surviving several encounters and becoming a true woodsman, and then later trying to prove her worth as a Woodsman. Ultimately though these would be secondary motivations, after she discovers the Wendigo she puts all her own desires aside knowing that nothing matters more than killing the beast.

Also, her grandfather simply passed away of natural causes, he was old and she just wanted to follow in his footsteps; not particularly exciting I know but I honestly feel like it would make her motivations a bit more genuine, that she's truly doing this of her own accord rather than just out of anger.

No. He's the main character but in the context of the world he's barely a support character. The girls are stronger and far more important to the plot.
He play an active but subdued role.

a homeless man has possession of a samurai sword and roams America as a ronin, striking down villains and monsters which may or may not be all in his mind.

How about a wedding? Where something happens, and doo-doo-doo-doo-doo

Post-apocalyptic America about one hundred years after the nukes hit. What we call 'America' is now a corrupt elective monarchy dominated by a feuding aristocracy neglecting a suffering caste of peasants. All the while a bloody war with the neighboring Mormons and Mexicans heats up, with the latter in full retreat. Medieval zealotry and divine right stands alongside flame throwers and mustard gas, with horrifying results.

The main character is a farm kid separated from his family after the Latter Day Saints torch his village. He narrowly escapes getting 'saved' and sent to a 'mission', seeking refuge in New Washington. Local lord Obama wants nothing to do with them and the refugees fester in a massive shanty town outside the city walls. Farm kid's first goal is to get into New Washington and out of the plague ridden camp.

tales from an unfinished beastiary

During a period similar to the enlightenment, humanity has finally stopped it's fear of the unknown and has started to archive knowledge and rely on technology over magic, thus leading to a shrinking of trained magic users. They are still a prized class of citizens and still are picky with who they train.

One of them, a wizard who spent all his life archiving and listing rare and mystic organisms across the world, has noticed that his one of a kind beastiary has been destroyed and sends his apprentice, a young lady who loves both technology and magic, to go archive the worlds most mysterious creatures in order to retrieve the lost knowledge as he is too old to go adventuring. Across the soon-to-be wizard's journey, she'll meet mighty war generals, humble hunters, weary travelers and even witness a war leading to the fall of a great empire from the side lines, but mostly she'll be traveling across great expanses of lonely wilderness on her old broom ,across places such as icy tundras, scorched deserts, dense forests and vast oceans. it would be similar to those animal documentaries with a host(the British ones), having an episode of focus on a monster of the week but with a subtle storyline in the background and a lot more organic approach at studying these cryptids.

Other things:
>Mormonism is expanding similar to early Islam. The 'Lost Boys,' similar to Moslem men, need their own harems due to all the women getting claimed by the established Mormons. So they're out conquering, pillage, raping, and burning everything in sight. Expanding the borders of Deseret and 'saving' souls as a nice side effect. See kids, having large families is good for society!
>Native American auxiliaries serve both America and Deseret. Sort of like their 'elite' guerilla troops.
>The Mexicans are in full retreat. The Rio Grande clogged with abandoned artillery, guns, armored cars, wounded, blacks trying to scrounge some extra loot, everything.
>The 'President' however, cannot be bothered. He's more interested in developing 'New Africa.' Perfect for Joseph Smith the II.

>"magic" vs "technology"
Instantly dropped. When will this shit go away already?

that's pokemon

Vampgina: A little girl gets lost walking home one night and accidentally wanders into a district taken over by "friendly" vampire "migrants". She is attacked and bitten on her privates. She makes her way home shocked and disoriented. After several days of fever, she recovers, only to find that her vagina has been infected by vampirism. Her vagina is now sentient, with vampire powers, and wants to get revenge on its attackers. The vampgina begins a one-hole war against the murderous "migrants" flooding into the peaceful land; its only weakness being exposure to direct sunlight.

I might have stolen a few things.

AvPvAoDvDP

>normalpornfornormalpeople.com

will Ash fuck the Dirty Pair?

What do you even do if you have a workable concept? I might just be a loony, but it feels like you'd end up having anyone you pitched it to offer you a shoeshiner's pocket change and cut you loose the moment you protest it, possibly only to switch a couple names around and (backed up by eight quintillion lawyers, no doubt) claim the reason to why they weren't interested was that they'd actually been "working on a very similar concept for a while now". And if it did get through properly, I fear a "spend the whole season trying to make your viewers hate [Washington's enemy of the month] at the expense of your baby or we're booting you off the project and snatching the IP for ourselves". How would you avoid this crap?

All I want is to tell a story in peace, but I might resort to e-books rather than scripts and pitches out of sheer paranoia at this rate..

copyright everything before you go into a meeting. no joke, brian michael bendis has a really good book on how to write comics. one of the chapters is how you can protect yourself in the industry. worth a read and good luck in all your future endeavors, user.

If you're talking about comics it's not so hard.
Get a stable job that pays regularly and go with a publisher that lets you keep your IP rights in exchange for a lower advance.

That's what I did. My collaborator and I own all the rights to our comic and got a livable advance. And a lower advance isn't all bad. It means we're not on the hook for selling as many books. And we have control of everything else from merchandising to adaptation rights.

There are a lot of mid-tier publishers people ignore despite them having the same level of distribution as the bigger houses. On top of that they have more cooperative editorial and won't steal your ideas or rights out from under you.

>lost boys
youtu.be/LpuwcINDHnQ
>currently nigh extinct casino owners with serious drinking problems serving as elite troops in the distant future
Suspension of Disbelief: Molested

Otherwise rad idea.

They'd flirt mercilessly, but Ash is lucky if he gets some "sugar".

I dig it. Sounds like Pokemon with a lot of influence from western YA literature like His Dark Materials.

You'd need a very good art direction and visual style to reallt pull people in, though.

Massive thanks for your input! I came up with "Words for Pictures: The Art and Business of Writing Comics and Graphic Novels"; is that the one?

Since I can't draw (or even write by hand) for shit, I originally struck off comics as a dead end medium despite liking the idea. How hard would it be to find a decent collaborator and what's the best way of going about it? Hopefully I don't sound lazy asking about such a basic thing, but I'd bet my cat has better networking skills than I do.

I see. Yeah, I was reading your pitch as a western-type thing, but that makes more sense than just making it a revenge story.

Furthermore I'd suggest you added some travel companions for her, even temporary ones. I think it would help you get the viewer more invested in the world.

>"Words for Pictures: The Art and Business of Writing Comics and Graphic Novels"; is that the one?
yes

How many lynchings would there be in a season? I'll be forced to condemn your show as ahistorical if it's less than 25.

I have a pretty novel Idea for a DC superhero origin that I can't tell anyone and can't copyright because it heavily involves two of their characters. I literally have to draw the comic and pitch it to DC somehow and even then they could just take the origin of his powers and give me nothing.

Neato, thanks!

Yeah. I'm sort of aiming for something like Thief or AssCreed II. With weird religions and secret societies, maybe some cool Metro/Stalker/Dark Wood inspired supernatural elements to keep the audience on their toes.

Too afraid my idea will be stolen. It's too precious to me and I've been developing it in my head for months

>most woodsmen are absolutely fuck huge
We are talking about 7 foot giants with muscles for centuries right?

As long as you don't go overboard with it, that sounds like a fine addition. If you manage to properly have the audience at a guessing (which obviously also implies caring) if it's truly paranormal or just low sci-fi at work, that tends to do wonders for a healthy suspension of disbelief and creation of an eerie atmosphere. It may or may not still be unpolished, but you're on to something here, user. I believe in you, so don't quit for nothing.

I don't have any original ideas. That's the reason I prefer fanfiction.

I was thinking more Settlers/Fur Trade era than Western

Yes, seven foot tall brick shithouses would could lift a normal sized man into the air with a single hand around their face.

>in my head
Sup Forums doesn't care how long you've been developing an idea "in your head" for, only how long you've been putting it on paper. Unfortunately for me, I had to learn this the hard way.

>tfw you daydreamed entire worlds that you've been slowly developing for years inside your head but will never actually do anything with them
Most I've done is write out a description of what I consider my most """original"""
pastebin.com/R3EATqzY

It's the story about a kid who fell victim to a fiary ring in the middle ages and was sent to the spirit world, he manages to escape after one year but due to fairy time fuckery he returns in the modern times in a small town. At first he befriends one of the siblings of a rich family because their mansion is one of the few landmarks he recognizes, later he meets a japanese delinquent(banchou archetype) and a smart kid who is trying to establish contact with aliens using radios he build. They all band together as a fairy hunting team(fairy meaning anything mystical, not necesseraly pixies) with the help of side characters like a young witch, an gypsy girl, a goblin and many more.
Start off as a monster of the week thing but later turns into a mystery plot as the heros try to track and uncover a changeling posing as another kid with bad luck powers. Basically Jojo's Diamond is Unbreakable in Stardew Valley's Pelican Town
en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fairy_ring
en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Changeling

Yeah, most of my original ideas are thinly-veiled ripoffs of other people's ideas, but in a slightly different context.

Once an episode, of course.