There's three ways! The first one is just taking a prompt during one of the fests. It immediately makes me so excited and gives me lots of ideas. The second one is through a song or a video, that I can experience again and again to find this specific spark that got me so excited in the first place! For exemple, the one shot I just finished was born out of Kill Shot by Itzy. Listened to it non-stop while writing hehe
And the third one, which I also use whenever the two other ways dry up, is just talking with my fandom friends! No one knows how to encourage my brainrot better than my beloved degener- colleagues. We all crave something in fics, and sometimes I just need them to word vomit their own ideas for me to get inspired again and get unstuck haha but they also bring me a fresh new perspective!
If everything fails, then there's nothing to do but wait, go outside, and pick it back up later.
I'm always thankful to all my friends working hard to help me fill up the holes left in my wips <3