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Explaining that the prominent iced coffees and chocolate-glazed Munchkins were essential to director Christopher Nolan’s adaptation of the ancient Greek epic, actor Matt Damon defended Tuesday the placement of Dunkin’ Donuts products in the upcoming film The Odyssey. “Look—for a voyage that long, you’d need 50 sausage, egg, and cheese croissants, at least,” said the actor, who added that he spent countless hours consulting with historians while preparing for the starring role of Odysseus to get a sense of what the hero might have ordered from the Massachusetts-based chain in Greece during the Late Bronze Age.
I absolutely blame Facebook for this shift. Words cannot describe how freaking WEIRD it was in the mid-00s when there was suddenly this popular website where you were required to use your real, brickspace name and encouraged to post photos of yourself. Every single bit of Standard Internet Safety prior to then said that you should never ever ever do either of those.
omg 2005/2006. When all our parents, who had been telling us for YEARS to never use our real names on the internet, suddenly all got facebook accounts and started using their real names on the internet like it was totally normal. Complete mental whiplash. Before then, it was WEIRD to use your real name on the internet. Like, people who did that were weirdos.
listen. if your mutual suddenly starts referring to The Character with different pronouns, you must go along with it. that character is trans now. they’re right.
you cant enjoy a story unless youre prepared to deal with the consequences (seeing a multitude posts by ppl who somehow missed the core themes and details of the very story they supposedly experienced)
sometimes you see Takes™ that make you go "mmmhmmm okay yeah i see we both interpreted that differently based on what the show gave us, but i see how you arrived at your ideas even if they're different from mine," and then sometimes you see Takes™ that make you go "brother what show did you even fucking watch"
August 2026 is AU-gust here at the Prompt Foundry!
Alternate Universe takes on our favorite stories—be they shows or books we love, or tales of our creation—can be a delightfully fun way to explore what makes those stories tick, what makes those characters who they are, and what in them is important to why we enjoy them.
On the other side of the coin, some settings and scenerios are popular for AUs because there's something special about that environment or situation that really tickles our brains, and it can be fun to figure out how to fit different characters and their contexts into that world.
So let's run through the multiverse and play with some AUs!
Feel free to combine different days’ prompts with each other, or combine them with other events, like last year's March of the Blorbos! Draw, paint, sculpt, sing, write fiction, write poetry, write academic analysis—use your OCs, your favorite characters from media, your own experiences, whatever tickles your fancy.
If you use this list, please tag me here @thepromptfoundry, I’d love to see what you create!
Respond to as many prompts as you want or as interest you, don’t worry about missing or skipping any, or posting your work after the day the prompt is assigned to. Remember, this is supposed to be fun!
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Plain text list below the cut:
1 Coffee Shops
2 Superheroes
3 Genderbent Characters
4 High Schoolers
5 Androids and Robots
6 Steampunk
7 Vampires
8 Werewolves
9 Soulmates
10 Professors and Academics
11 Actors Behind the Scenes
12 Professional Sports
13 Cozy Farm Life
14 Rock Stars
15 Pirates and Sailors
16 Merfolk
17 Elemental Powers
18 Faeries
19 Circus Arts
20 Post-Apocalypse
21 Externalized Souls (Daemons)
22 Libraries and Bookshops
23 Mob Bosses
24 Swords and Sorcery Fantasy
25 Hanahaki Disease
26 Arranged Marriages
27 Starships and Space Travel
28 Catpeople
29 Good Guys Gone Bad
30 Bars and Bartenders
31 Time Travel
having a best friend who meets your level of freak is unmatched. you present them with the most unhinged, deeply buried thought from the depths of your psyche and instead of blinking blankly they just go "oh absolutely"—and I think that mutual brain rot like that is the highest form of intimacy actually.
It's fun when the robot character in the sci-fi show gets cut in half because nobody working on this type of media knows anything about robotics and you never know what you're going to find inside. Green printed circuit boards? Meat and viscera, but like in a weird colour? Just a shitload of goo?
i do think it’s funny when you’ve been into a thing long enough that you’ve done all the serious analysis you can do so now you’re mostly just thinking up looney tunes scenarios to put the characters in
i was just looking at that argument or wtv that reblogging was and it was honestly really funny. like. if you don’t want to read it don’t? and all good things take effort? so if you don’t want to put in effort to click a few buttons then i guess ao3 just….isnt for you? i feel like its pretty self explanatory.
My advice on that thread still stands: if you find yourself distressed, upset, furious with people online, speaking poorly of people who write things you don’t like — it’s time to log off. Really. Turn off your phone or laptop and go take a walk. Come back when you’re feeling calmer. If you continue in that spiral of frustration, it will become a cycle that’s hard to break out of.
I think that person was extremely frustrated with the tagging system, and as I said, it’s more of a them problem than an ao3 problem.
I wonder how much of that has to do with the lack of algorithm that younger audiences simply aren’t used to. Nothing is suggested on ao3, you have to find it yourself. You have to bookmark or save certain tags and build a series of searches you like. Depending on how specific your wants are, that could take some effort. Not a lot, but some!
There was someone in the reblogs that offered to sift through that person’s complaints and do the search for them to prove it didn’t need to be so hard. It actually ended up being pretty straightforward, which showed that their issues with inserts / OC’s really felt more like they didn’t ever want to see a single story like that when they search, rather than accepting that it’s much more rare than they claimed and that no tagging system will ever be right 100% of the time.
Which is all to say, ao3 doesn’t have to be the site for you. It feels like the default, but it isn’t necessarily. Wattpad and ffnet still exist. People post fic on tumblr. Some share them only in discord groups. If ao3 isn’t working for you, change how you find the fics you want or change platforms. DO NOT speak poorly of authors who write things you don’t like or imply that they are mistagging something because their fic popped up in your search. That’s a skills issue, not an author issue.
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