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writing prompts! vaguer versions of ideas from my stash edition

you are destined to follow the path that your name determines and you have an especially un-fun one

a couple of immortal enemies build champions from scratch and make them fight

what if you went to school and got recruited for a secret society that will literally rewrite your brain

other people's memories are stored in archives and you work there

you and your siblings are personifications and one of them is trying to kill the rest of you

somebody appointed you and some others to write the future of a planet but you're all really bad at collaboration

if you're gonna get the sun to come out of hiding you're gonna have to interrogate the night

you're seemingly the only person in this small town capable of realizing that the world is ending

you and your best friend always spend the summer swimming in this one lake except you begin to suspect one of you is dead

it really sucks that one day you woke up and were immortal and all luster was removed from your life

if this time loop restarts every time your beloved dies, maybe you should be killing someone

this constant music appears to be apathy-ing your town so maybe you should get rid of that

summer really isn't fun when you've just lost the person who meant the most to you

nobody likes a monster killer despite the fact that you are getting rid of the monsters

as if you didn't enough problems, now the weirdest bird wants to be your familiar

sometimes a detective just needs a lot of sidekicks to be the most effective

the fact that you can communicate with animals doesn't save you from family drama

don't trust faeries even if they are handing you a kingdom and are nicer than your school friends

magic is science, and that means you can make magical bombs. oh no!

okay fine, you agree to doing princess things. but also there are just so many shenanigans to be involved in

you can go home just as soon as you unlock self-esteem. well drat.

wait what do you mean we have to go solve this mutual problem that's not even our fault? I don't even know you!

what if you were paid to cure a terrible person but it was like a lot of money?

what if your dad would be so mad that you did a weird thing with your inheritance and then your childhood nemesis got in the way?

what if you worked in a shop but people came in with the weirdest problems that maybe you can actually solve?

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writing prompts! out-of-context discord shenanigans edition

"Buddy this is tumblr. No."

"The gym is playing baby by just in beaver."

"I'm not processing this information but sure."

"Sorry I can't hear him over the wind in the trees."

"I am personally of the opinion that sound is a perceptual experience, while vibrations are the physical phenomena."

"Yeah bad brain time is no fun time."

"Your jokes are getting worse i think it's the endless quest for the tshirt that'll never be yours."

*stabs you 47 times with a dull knife*

"Get baffled, loser."

"I'm perishing like perishable foods past their expiration date."

"You're just gonna try and verbally beat the midwestern out of me."

"I have no bad jokes, only insufficiently good ones."

"I have, oddly enough, decided to close my computer for the night and try to sleep early."

"Maintaining awareness of the process of practice while still enjoying yourself is rather impressive, darling."

"Had to make peppermint honey tea all by myself, like I'm an adult or something."

"It's called "surely I can connect these separate ideas if only I try hard enough."

"Has anyone ever told you your aesthetic is Ferb coded?"

"Hopefully you're going to bed soonish? Hopefully?"

"That doesn't gross me out but also like why?"

"Neither of us are doing a good job of going to bed."

"I'm being gaslit/gatekept/girlbossed."

"There was a pinky sunset for the first time in forever (do not) and it made me very happy."

"I'll just keep killing bees."

"Oh no brain power my nemesis."

"Oh you'd be amazed at the things that are a struggle for me."

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writing prompts! summarizing stuff that happens in fantasy cdramas edition

I've been kinda down lately, so I've been watching cdramas and whether they're good or bad, they are such a good time. and they're great for writers.

I'm summarizing scenes or arcs, not whole dramas.

besties fall into a canyon and fight undead puppet guys controlled by a genius insane child

girl shows guy how to make a proper plane toy and this makes him finally confess his feelings

Trauma! at the detective agency. girl faints whenever she sees a dead person

when you work out that your husband's random new kid is actually his brother's kid and this makes him love you more

girl stabs her newlywed husband over a misunderstanding

guy falls in love with the same girl who looks different now

girl plays an instrument so well that people start to like a song nobody likes

guy's fiancée casually helps him reconcile with the girl he's in love with

when the masked guy who saves your fiancée's life is actually your adopted brother you thought was dead

guy falls in love with his wife because she a) can pick any lock, and b) she took a pill that should've killed her but it just didn't

when you get kidnapped by a guy who's worked out you're an alien and wants your blood that turns into jewels when it falls on the floor

guy is so happy to find the girl he loved has reincarnated but obviously she has no idea who he is! :(

lady climbs danger stairs to ask ambiguous deity to make her immortal and she gets to live the same day over and over forever without realizing it

guy wonders how people keep recognizing him when he's dressed exactly how he always was

girl forces the guy who loves her to make medicine from her blood after she dies to save the guy that she loves

guy is allergic to remembering his tragic past so he pretends he's evil because he likes it

girl cooks up the weirdest scheme to get her untrusting husband to get the lifesaving medicine he needs by fake poisoning herself

after her life is saved by her friend, girl is super disappointed he figured out she wasn't actually a boy

girl who says she untalented in everything surprisingly wins several contests

jumping off a cliff is a great way to prove that somebody loves you enough to jump after and catch you

doctor wants to cut arrowhead out of a solider but a girl finds a way to pull it out instead (and it's romantic?)

girl stabs her friend she grew up with because she was the last one to see her father alive

when you're trying to get on a guy's good side except you keep beating him at this game you're playing

you know how sometimes you sneak away with someone but then get stuck in a cave after a random rockslide and also find out that's where somebody's sneaky gold mine is?

girls fakes being poisoned because she wants to find out why her friend does actually want to poison her

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writing prompts! "young man" situations™️ edition

Young man turned into goat must climb a tall mountain

Flannel shirts have curse blocking abilities apparently, young man reports

Young man can only get one place even if he walks in any direction

Young man discovers all his sisters are witches

Go wester than that, young man, this ain't the edge of the world

Only a young man can enter the cave where people definitely always die

Young man catches what he doesn't know is a bewitched rabbit

Out in the big world, young man discovers the cost of living

Really suspicious items found in young man's trashy apartment

Young man could commit to becoming assassin but no

Young man is but a court jester, or maybe he's just an idiot

After birthday debacle, young man resolves to never age

Maybe young man could find an appropriate wedding present

Young man drives car so badly it becomes sentient

Unicorn herder requests young man stop trying to steal one

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writing prompts! highly specific (horror) vibes edition

there’s an old wall that runs the length of the town and off into the field where it abruptly ends, and the there’s a pocket of air that turns freezing cold if you step past the last stone

twenty-three old coins on a cracking table, spread out like they’re forming a constellation, if you concentrate, you can hear a faint humming from the surface

icicles on a barn roof in July and you’re still sweating out your breath beside the doors, your reflection wavers when you move past the ice to retrieve an implement with spikes

heather grows in unforgiving soil but the grass has always been green, and then one day heather is found creeping around the path, up the walls, beyond the gate, the sky seems to be falling

six pairs of shoes when you left, 5 ½ when you return, and in its place a sprig of oleander wrapped in two black feathers, and you smother your scream

an old song can be sung by new tongues but it starts blackening the lips of the chanters, there is ink bleeding from the snowdrifts and the sun refuses to rise

a ring of gold hanging from a chain of iron, untouched by weather, unmarred by time, a warning, a monument, a curse

there’s a half-full pitcher of water on the table that was empty when you left the room and there are no lemons left in the basket

moss soaks up rain and whatever else it’s given to drink, the moss on your skin is crackling and parched, longing for a respite but you cannot afford to leak any more substance to the greenery

the full moon is beautiful and faint against the noonday sky, when you blink, it changes expression, when you sleep, it carves canyons in the clouds, when you wake, it stands outside your window with casket in its arms

Two people voted for vibes, so you got vibes. Only 10, but my brain doesn’t shut up. I can always do more later. Also I was creeping myself out with these.

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Prompt #400

“You put up with a lot, always have, especially from me. And even now, when we’re both adults, you still have to look after me and deal with the trouble I cause you. But I’ve been trying really hard lately!”

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Prompt #399

“I can’t get warm, so I’ve concluded that I’m dying.”

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Prompt #398

“If you keep going like this I’m going to start believing in angels.”

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Prompt #397

“I don’t mind you being my eclipse, I just want you to also look at me.”

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Prompt #396

“If I don’t tell you now I’ll never tell you and then it’ll be too late.”

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Prompt #395

“I don’t like you but I can behave myself.”

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Prompt #394

“Can you take me somewhere? I just need to be far away from all of this.”

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Prompt #393

“I’m not real right now. Nobody should pay attention to me.”

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Prompt #392

“Almost wish you were stating the obvious. It would at least fill up the silence.”

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Prompt #391

“No, no, I fell for that last time. Not again.”

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writing prompts! things Sleepy has said recently vol.1

“Wow, talk about random bear!”

“I cleaned my room but other than that nothing’s new.”

“He’ll come to get his hug before he leaves so I’ll make him do it then.”

“No, you didn’t wake me up, unfortunately.”

“Hi, sparkles.”

“The cat can’t drag me in. She’s called Tiny Cat for a reason.”

“I exist. How are you?”

“I didn’t anticipate-, no, actually I did. I just was hoping to be wrong. But no, I’m in pain instead.”

“Ahahaha, I don’t sleep.”

“Some of my children are older than me and that’s just how it is.”

“Baby!”

“I am zeroly interested in doing that.”

“Oh no. I have to go on facebook.”

“I don’t have favorites, but if I did, you’d be my favorite.”

“If I did that, you’d mock me for it.”

“Mom, I’m not finding the book.”

“Greek, just for you.”

“You’re happy that I cried?”

“Taking any opportunity to touch you- don’t bite me!”

“Only if we can listen to kpop in the car.”

“I love being here when I’m paid for it.”

“She’s very cool. She’s a hip mom.”

“Yeah, I love listening to you.”

“NOOOOOOO!”

“I have to work on a project, but I can hang out with you while I do it.”

“It’s not worth the effort.”

“It sounds like Thor still hasn’t gotten over his breakup with Jane.”

“I don’t need it, I already stole one from work.”

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Prompt #390

“Why is your search history research about scorpions?”