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[amgamble]

Prompt

Describe your grandmother’s kitchen.

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Person A comes home to Person B blasting Mariah Carey’s “All I Want for Christmas is You” over a speaker, practically screaming the lyrics at A.

[amgamble]

#writing prompt

[amgamble]

Prompt

Write a scene from the point of view of a child who has been told to be quiet.

[amgamble]

Prompt

Include this line somewhere in the scene: “Chippers make great gifts.”

[amgamble]

Prompt

Activities for the coldest, darkest time of the year, a list:

[amgamble]

Prompt

Describe a relative who’s a little . . . different.

[dankmemeuniversity]

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[red-zeroo-deactivated20210211]

Lmfao

[hardtosaythesethings-deactivate]

[princesstigerbelle]

[randomslasher]

This post honestly keeps getting better

[jehovahhthickness]

[nothing-is-ever--still--on-earth]

Today I learned that occasionally infants will mistakenly think that “You” is just another name that they are called and refer to themselves using “You” in something called pronoun reversal and that is, so fucking adorable

[datasoong47]

What’s even cooler is that that phenomenon even happens in infants learning ASL!  Even though the ASL sign for “you” is pointing at the person, they’ll still point away from themselves to refer to themselves, because they apparently take the sign as an arbitrary word!

[wordfather]

Here have 50 somewhat questionable character trait prompts

Wears a t-shirt with a picture of them doing their worst habit to warn people how shitty they are

Or doing something cool that’s their proudest moment and just wants everybody to know about it

Always carries a picture of a specific meme and is aggressively waiting for the right time to use it

Invented an instrument and only plays that instrument

Has the weirdest saying that makes no sense

Owns 57 different hats

Hates pants

Wears the same jacket 24/7

Repeats every joke 

Calls people by their full names 

Barely talks to people but will go into lengthy passionate discussions with animals

Talks reeeeaaaallly slow

Can only cook pizza

Thinks their protected by the will of God

Doesn’t believe any history because they weren’t there to see it

Owns over a hundred plants

Is always the guinea pig of the group

Biggest idol is Indiana Jones

Eats 5 bananas a day

Wants to be a villain but is too lazy

Makes questionable fashion choices

Always has a weapon on

Thinks guns are cheating

Wants to be a pirate and is super bummed about being born in modern times

Dances away their problems

Has a secret cooking show

Has a lucky rock

Draws things they think they’ll forget

Got stuck in a well once

Drinks a LOT of milk

Tried to pursue a comedy career for a few years

Likes to find high places to hang at

Powerpoints every problem to make a decision

Becomes unintelligible in action-packed situations

Has a personal agenda against diaries

Invents the crappiest things

Is scared of the rain

Hates sodium

Is a perfectionist but only about completely irrelevant things

Listens to the same 10 songs on repeat and ONLY those 10

Logic > Emotions

Emotions > Logic

Only cares about their dogs

Gets triggered by rubber ducks

Would absolutely hate this list ‘cause what kinda people are these

Thinks Middle Earth is an actual country on earth. Nobody has the heart to tell them the truth

Nobody actually knows whether they’re always drunk or it’s just their personality

Loves musicals more than anything and wants to be in one so bad but can’t sing for shit

Believes anyone can change and has endless hope and is just the purest and healing person okay

Not used to human contact and has no tact or manners at all

[florianpainke-deactivated201907]

oy! this way!

[hound1998]

[clawmarks]

Petland revisited - J. G. Wood - 1890 - via Internet Archive

[solitaire-solidaire]

The Selby

[marci1900]

[psychedelicswamp]

i am SO SICK of unhappy endings. idk about anyone else but the #1 reason i like fiction is because everything can always work out no matter how bad it is. “what if the good guys lost” shut up. you are so fucking boring. give me happy endings or give me nothing

[psychedelicswamp]

“The trouble is that we have a bad habit, encouraged by pedants and sophisticates, of considering happiness as something rather stupid. Only pain is intellectual, only evil interesting. This is the treason of the artist: a refusal to admit the banality of evil and the terrible boredom of pain.”

“But to praise despair is to condemn delight, to embrace violence is to lose hold of everything else. We have almost lost hold; we can no longer describe a happy man, nor make any celebration of joy.”

— Ursula K. Le Guin, “The Ones Who Walk Away From Omelas”

[amgamble]

Prompt

Work these words into a story:

top 

affluent

stupendous

premiere

adore

delight