Bonus story voting, August '25

All righty, here we have it. Scads of cross-over suggestions this month, plus a variety of individual IB settings and some good old-fashioned original ideas. I have last month's bonus story first-drafted and in the process of editing as we speak, so expect that very soon. I think it turned out super fun. [EDIT: Tonight's live write is unfortunately cancelled for health reasons. Sorry! I'll announce the reschedule along with the release of the story tomorrow.]

And here's our nominations. We ran over by the poll limit by 1 this month, so number 26 is in the comments. Don't forget to scroll all the way.

1. Stephy’s Hole: Part Deux

2. A high school bully discovers an old book that promises the world and any woman in it but fuck he can't read Latin, maybe he can bully his nerdy neighbor into translating it for him. Afterwards though why are every woman in his life now falling head over heels for this nerd? His mom, sister and girlfriend can't get enough of the guy

3. Friendly skies, a friend zone story!

4. Worried about Heather’s future, Connor uses TIOS to make her attend a Lakeview tour with Stephanie and Neveah. Unfortunately, a line about how they must keep an open mind makes everything go off the rails after they run into Ellie and/or some of the other Hotties.

5. A Creeps alternate timeline where Naomi won, only to fuck it up due to her pettiness.

6. After the events of "Grand Prize" Heather complains in Jordan's class about his effectiveness as a teacher, claiming that nothing learned in the class helped her secure Conner's affection. An annoyed Jordan decides to help make her "perfect" for Conner.

7. A man gets zapped by an electrical surge. When he comes to, all the women around him have a box floating over their heads with zodiac symbols and 4 other symbols with numbers next to them. Through experimentation, he figures out that these are levels of attraction to him, desire, domination/submission, and intelligence. The world is a simulation and he just unlocked the cheat codes.

8. A “slippery slope” story where a man uses his MC power to intervene and prevent a woman from self-harm, then finds reasons to keep tweaking her more and more

9. Cassie (THAL) and Lauren (TIOS) attend a senior recruitment volleyball camp/showcase with Jacqui (RA) as an instructor. The campers are housed on Higgins 3 during the week in summer that the camp runs.

10. Femdom story (preferably involving cougars)

11. Old friends from school (Isa, Kristy, and Ramona) catch up over a drink. Alcohol loosens lips and none of them end up keeping secret what they've been up to. Interspersed with short (spicy) flashbacks of earlier that day before they meet up.

12. Janis AU where Ramona discovers her after her rejection and molds her into another slave for Spencer

13. Ellie (The RA) seeks out a Warlock Internship with Knox (RLP)

14. After pressure from investors, TIOS rolls out TiosGPT, an infuriatingly inept TIOS chatbot interface that, despite its best efforts and supposed content guards, manages to monkey's paw every request it gets. Northside winds up in the beta.

15. Somebody makes an off hand comment that Connor can "sometimes be worse than Jordan". Watch an unknown figure input this into the yearbook and witness Connor the hero become Connor the Villain. There will be no more holding back for Connor as he realizes good guys do indeed finish last. The "Evil Ending" looms over the sex ed class now.

16. Naomi from creeps somehow ends up with honest-to-god, actual mind control powers/ a MC gizmo. She uses them to try to enact revenge to the gang. She still fucks it up and ends slaved to Martin (or another of the usual suspects).

17. a Friend Zone story about Todd’s friends throwing him a birthday party

18. Somehow Neveah gets the notion that it would make Connor extremely happy, if herself and Kristy were his sex slaves.

19. a jealous Kristy or Amanda notices how happy Heather's huge sensitive boobs make Connor and tries to give themselves a pair even nicer than Heather's but accidentally phrase it in a way that they don't remember any changes to their bodies and/or an upgrade to the entire female student body.

20. Stacey Reeves makes the mistake of pissing off Abby Stern at a clothing store and becomes a victim of some truly lifechanging Serenex brainwashing

21. Kammie checks in with the various things warlock magic (or as some educated call it, "science") has come up with, allowing her the temporary ability to shapeshift once more. She does this and starts checking on her old projects like this Todd guy she taught hypnosis to, what Serenex is being used for these days, and maybe discovers why yearbooks take incredibly long to be published and given out to the alumni.

22. One Nerd at Canon's school figures out what is happening and instead of going against it or reporting it, uses it to get himself a girlfriend and a very dedicated teacher

23. Martin Manning really hits it off with a new professor and convinces her to get hypnotized for some of the issues she brings up. When it comes time for her appointment she's brought her daughter along as well?! 

24. AU where Kitty was salutatorian at Canon's school and of course was also involved with serenex. Good-natured teasing between Tabitha and her ensues alongside a good helping of Taylor stern bullying

25. A group of people can change reality as long there is majority support from the group 

26. A man comes into possession of a collection of single use items that assign a role to a person. Lover, slave, guardian, patron, parent, etc. The world adapts to make this true.