cant stop thinking about an au where grace is just hallucinating rocky and he never actually saves earth just slowly goes insane on the hail mary and starves
There's a whole mini series by Charlie Brooker based on that idea, actually. It's pretty good. A zombie apocalypse breaks out and the Big Brother house is one of the few strongholds left, they don't find out the world has ended until the end of the first episode.
Thinking of ryland getting along with Rocky instantly, but colt and Rocky having some kind of rivalry over rylands attention, so they spend all the time fighting. The scene of Ryland's first videoblog?? Where he says "sooo i met an alien"?? With the both of them would go like
If you want to write without being accused of using AI, you just have to get really into books and movies and comics and get reeeally weird about your faves and suddenly 357 teenagers have watched "All That Jazz" and "Casablanca" to catch the references in your Gravity Falls yaoi
I still sometimes think about this. The pre Eclipse Berserk setting of "On the surface this is just medieval times and pray you never scratch below that surface" holds a special place in my heart.
In general I'm a huge fan of Berserk's brand of creature design/horror.
"fic authors used ai because people wanted updates and felt pressured to deliver" I still get comments on a fic I haven't updated since 2018 like who gaf