For the benefit of friends on the LJ side of the divide:

[capri0mni]

Here's the first prompt I put up for what_if*

What if a person dreamt of their house, and woke to find that their real house had rearranged itself to match its dream-version?

I really don't like the use of "their" with "a person." But using "her or his" in its place made the whole thing sound like a legal notification letter.

I haven't started writing anything, myself, for this prompt... That's what I may do tonight, if the britcoms on PBS are unsatisfactory.

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*I decided to forego starting up an LJ version, for now... I may still do so, later, but with this being my first attempt at being a fic-comm moderator, I'd rater start out with a smaller crowd.

Comments

[meloukhia]

That is an awesome prompt, and something I wish my house would actually do. I may have to put my fiction pants on.

[capri0mni]

something I wish my house would actually do

I'd be more wary, myself, especially since my dreams are quite often a direct reflection of my anxieties. I'd hate to wake up, and find it completely inaccessible.

OTOH, having a house built with nanobots, that could change its interior shapes as I needed (raising and lowering grab bars, shortening the distance to the toilet, etc.)? Now, that would be abso-fricking-lutely awesome!

[rob_t_firefly]

The battle of singular "they"/"their" rages on. I've always liked it, myself.

[capri0mni]

Thanks for the link -- that's one of the more fun articles.

I guess where you find yourself depends, at least in part, on how your fifth grade English teacher felt about it, or, perhaps, your mother.