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Every so often, the local baker must bake something and personally deliver it to the monster in the woods, and in exchange the monster leaves the village alone. What no one knows is, the monster actually has a huge crush on the baker and needs an excuse to see them.

Gods are defined by their worshipers. They are born, completely neutral, from the collective imaginations of humanity. They swiftly develop character traits from the congregation that forms to follow them. A god with worshipers that have used their god as an excuse to make war and oppress is corrupted quickly. The followers may profess that their god is goodness and light but the god is bound to only reflect their deepest desires and true motivations. Whatever they may be.

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I want to read a story that’s like the old superstitions -like the Irish Fae- about mundane people living parallel to the supernatural world. The twist is that toward the end of the story you realize the supernatural world you’ve been getting glimpses of or hearing echos of is actually our world and the characters we’ve been following are similar but are not humans. They’re normal, average beings to themselves and it’s the human world that’s terrifying and strange. I just want to see someone describe seeing a huge, impenetrable carriage moving faster than can be believed with no apparent propellent whipping by someone in the night and disappearing and you, the reader, only realize much later that it was a car

Just imagine what phones, lights, hair dye, and the internet would look like to them!

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Okay, I’m not done apparently!

In Out of the Silent Planet by C. S. Lewis, there’s a scene at the end where the human protagonist sees another human being for the first time after weeks with different alien races and doesn’t recognize him as human. The other man looks alien to him, too short, stumpy, and clumsy to be natural because he’s grown used to the alien races. *That’s* how odd I want the humans to look to the main characters! Like, you as a reader don’t even recognize them until the very end when it suddenly all snaps together.

Also from Out of the Silent Planet - some of the aliens didn’t exist on exactly the same physical plane as the other characters and thus could bathe in light like it was water or walk through walls like they were air. They had their own light and walls, they just weren’t the same as the other characters. So, that! Maybe the “Fae” can pass through stone and not even notice because maybe it’s mist to them. Or they can walk on snow without leaving footprints because it’s hard ground to them

The terrifying and inscrutable Fae was inside us all along 😌

#writing prompt #fic ideas #damn I wish I could write #c s lewis

I want to read a story that’s like the old superstitions -like the Irish Fae- about mundane people living parallel to the supernatural world. The twist is that toward the end of the story you realize the supernatural world you’ve been getting glimpses of or hearing echos of is actually our world and the characters we’ve been following are similar but are not humans. They’re normal, average beings to themselves and it’s the human world that’s terrifying and strange. I just want to see someone describe seeing a huge, impenetrable carriage moving faster than can be believed with no apparent propellent whipping by someone in the night and disappearing and you, the reader, only realize much later that it was a car

Just imagine what phones, lights, hair dye, and the internet would look like to them!

#fic prompts #writing prompt

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fanfic speedrun: write the scene you want to write and skip the rest of the fic

(same goes on the reader side of things)

ao3commentoftheday

I'm seeing people on this post who think that what I'm saying is, "Write out of order, starting with the things you enjoy most." And while that's fine advice, it's not actually what I said.

What I said was, "Only write the thing that's fun, and don't write the rest."

Write one shots. Write drabbles. Write ficlets. If you have 5 interesting scenes but you can't figure out how to tie them together into a fic, then write 5 separate ficlets, post them in a series, and when you get another idea for that series just plop it right in there and rearrange the works into the right order.

You don't have to write longfic to write fanfic.

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some random redemption arcs that aren’t just ‘zuko, but a little to the left’

I’m evil but all my evil friends betrayed me and I’ve decided that the best revenge is to ruin their evil plans. Yes, this means I’m a “good guy” or whatever. No, I don’t like it any more than you do.

I was evil but all my evil friends betrayed me and now I’m going to latch onto the first person who shows me kindness. If that happens to be the protagonist, I am totally fine with realigning my morality to match theirs.

I never wanted to do what I did, and now the biggest obstacle to me switching sides is convincing me that I’m not a living weapon.

Well as long as you’re imprisoning me in this magic amulet I might as well give you pointers on your technique. I mean come on if you all die I might be stuck here for millennia! It’s not because I like you and don’t want you to die. Nuh uh.

Look, I legit thought that being evil was going to be my best option to get this important thing done, but, uh, that didn’t pan out. Help?

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fantasy characters: “Geez”

me: who the fuck spread Christianity there

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this two-years-old shitpost just gained a hundred notes who the snickerdoodles dug it up

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W H A T

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@rogha

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if you’re struggling for AU ideas take a look-see at this list i wrote for my friend who dubbed it “better than the 10 commandments"

1) Coffee shop AU

i) Barista and person who has a ridiculous coffee order

ii) I’m worried about your coffee dependency

iii) you accidentally poured boiling hot coffee over me so you’re responsible for taking me to A&E

iv) you give me a different fake name every time you come into starbucks and I just want to know your real name bc ur cute but here I am scrawling “batman” onto your stupid cappuccino

2) Flower shop AU

i) You buy a weird amount of flowers and I’m concerned as to why

ii) I’m allergic to flowers but I work in a flower shop – you’re a customer who’s very confused as to why I’d do that

iii) (this is also a good way to incorporate flower meanings eg, buying certain colours/types for person to represent feelings etc.)

3) Library AU

i) You’re overdue on this book and I want it so I’m tracking u the fuck down

ii) I work in the library and I’m a little concerned for your health bc you never stop studying

iii) The library’s pretty empty save for you and me and OH that couple making out loudly in the shelves somewhere

4) Awful first time meeting

i) I accidentally punched you in the face when I was too overexcited about something

ii) I thought you were my friend who’s just done something awful to me (read: cut my hair while I slept, dyed all of my clothes pink, etc. etc.) because you look similar from behind so I stormed up to you and shoved you from behind while calling you an asshole

iii) You get the gist to this one

iv) Oooh when you told me your name I thought you were joking because it’s fucking awful and I made a joke about it and things got awkward real fucking fast (perfect for a Hannibal au just saying)

5) Weird places to meet/awkward meetings in general

i) We live in the same block of flats but haven’t ever talked and Sunday morning we were both doing the walk of shame and had to stand in the lift together

ii) “okay I know that being in the woods at 2am is a weird thing to be doing but my friend called me and- wait, why are you in the woods at 2am, fuck I’m going to die aren’t I?”

iii) A personal favourite of mine – first day at a new job and oh fuck my boss is the person I drunkenly hooked up with last weekend/night

iv) We keep accidentally running into each other I’m not a stalker I swear

v) You live across from me in our apartments and we smile when we see each other but we don’t really know each other and oh you’re the stripper at my friend’s stag do/hen night fuck this is really uncomfortable

vi) “My shower’s broken but I’ve got a date tonight could I possibly use your shower please?” “Oh sure (neighbour that I’ve been crushing on for the past six months) of course you can use my shower to get ready for your date (fuck fuck fuck)”

6) Friends to romance – pining and all that wonderful shit

i) You’ve got a date tonight and you asked for advice on what to wear but I’m so in love with you and damn you look good in the outfit I picked out for you

ii) I really like you but you’re my best friend’s ex

iii) You’ve liked me for ages and were really obvious about it and I didn’t like all the attention but now you’re over me I really miss it and fuck I think I like you too?

iv) Somewhere along the way of getting into bar fights together, staying up all night with movie marathons, other friendship things, I’ve fallen in love with you but oh my god this could ruin EVERYTHING

v) Friends with benefits oh wait I like you

7) FAKE DATING HOLY SHIT I LIVE FOR THIS

i) It’s my highschool reunion and I need a hot date so I can rub it in the faces of the people who hated me

ii) My homophobic parents are coming to visit will you pretend to date me as an extra “fuck you”?

iii) There’s a person who won’t stop bugging me will you pretend to be my partner so that they’ll fuck off?

iv) I told my sister I have a boyfriend so she’d stop trying to set me up with people but now she’s coming to visit and I’m in too deep I need a fake boyf ASAP

8) Soulmate aus

i) The first words your true love(s) will say to you are tattooed on you and why the fuck are their first words something really ridiculous like ‘I’ll pay you a tenner to punch me in the face’ or ‘quick what’s your favourite animal’ or ‘fucking shit hell holy fuck wow oh my god jesus h Christ fuck me’ etc. or even worse a really ridiculous song lyric like the opening lines of uptown funk or a high school musical song or smthing did you have to serenade me the first time you saw me asshole?

ii) You get an ‘impression’ of your soulmate when you turn 18 or something but all I got was a strong smell of bananas or an overwhelming feeling that Thatcher was a good prime minister or an image in my mind of a fucking unicorn

iii) The more ridiculous the better actually

iv) Something like whenever your soulmate sings a duet you can’t help but join in and my fucking soulmate is in a goddamn band but I can’t sing for shit

v) Or maybe something like soulmates always sneeze at the same time and I cant be sure but me and this kid in my French class just sneezed at the same time are we soulmates or was it a coincidence (proceed w character trying to make themselves sneeze around said person to see what’s what)

9) Alternate universes for real

i) Mermaids

ii) Siren and asexual pirate who doesn’t understand why all his crew are losing their shit that person has a nice voice sure but what the fuck is happening

iii) Hogwarts

iv) We live in a world where the greek gods are real and you went and got yourself cursed and now I have to go on a fucking quest to sort this shit out why do I love you again?

v) Pacific rim au (either they’re drift compatible or one of them is a ranger and the other stresses constantly bc what if they die yes I have read a fic like this no I didn’t come up with this one but it’s fucking good) (also if you haven’t seen that film go watch it now)

vi) Literally any movie or book universe you like tbh just go for it

10) Other aus that I like

i) I wanted to go on the ferris wheel but there has to be two people to a cart come on random person let’s go oh wait are we stuck at the top? Fuck

ii) We work in the same office and you have a goddamn squeaky chair and you wONT FUCKING STOP SQUEAKING IT BECAUSE YOU KNOW IT ANNOYS ME

iii) Our mutual friend set us up on a blind date and I thought I’d hate it but you’re actually… kind of funny? But because I expected to hate it in no way am I going to let you change my mind just because you’re gorgeous and funny and intelligent oh no my friend is not winning this

iv) It started to snow and I’m the only one of our friends who would go outside with you – I soon found out why none of the others would go out in the snow with you (this works best if they’re new friends who don’t know each other all that well) when you shoved a handful of snow down my back and declared snow war

v) It’s nowhere near Christmas it’s literally still November would you calm down about Christmas wait no why are you getting the tree out no stop please stop (if you do this pre-relationship you can have the grouchy one secretly finding the other’s excitement endearing and falling in love with them actually that works for established relationship too)

vi) Current partner got a new job in America (or other country far away) and we’re getting by on skype calls and emails but it’s not easy and then I met someone new (can be poly or can be finding the OTP person)

vii) You want us both to get in shape and I hate working out/running but your ass looks really good in shorts oh the things I do for my friends and their nice asses

viii) Carrying on from 10.vii. you’ve caught me checking you out in what I thought was a subtle way too many times and now you’re calling me out on it what do I do???

ix) You’re an actor/other famous person that I really admire and I just saw you in the street and as I was debating whether or not to say hi you came up to me and started flirting what do I do??

x) You were waving at your friend behind me but I got confused and waved back at you and now I’m dying of embarrassment but you think it’s cute

xi) I sat down in the wrong class and I’m panicking but don’t want to get up and leave because the class has started and you think it’s hilarious and shut up you dumb fuck you don’t know me aahhh

xii) I’m a waiter at this wedding and you’re a drunk guest who will not stop hitting on me please I’m trying to work no I can’t dance with you omg let me find you some water

xiii) Our best friends are that awful ‘cute’ couple that make-out in public and call each other “sweetie” and “sugar” and “babe” and god they’re awful let’s talk about how awful they are – develops into “shit we’re the awful couple now”

xiv) You pissed me off in class so I threw a book at your head and now I’m in detention and jesus fuck I hate you so much and the teacher made me apologise and wait you’re cuter up close and the way you talk is kind of nice actually oh fuck no

Okay I could go on forever but this is over 1,500 words of auing already I have too many ideas christ

send me some to @theskyis-forever with a pairing for me to write :)

@hartwinorlose

Talk prompy to me

Arranged Marriage Prompts

Royalty AU - Promised at birth

Royalty AU - To end a war

Royalty AU - Marriage Law - every royal must marry a commoner chosen by the advisor to keep the bloodlines clean

Mythology - Foretold by the gods

Mythology - The prophecy said, so Person A and Person B are here to get hitched!

Mythology - Hades and Persephone AU

Regency AU - Either Person A or Person B is in danger of being ruined socially

Regency AU - Person A inheriting Person B’s father’s estate and the only way to keep Person B’s family out of the poor house is for Person B to marry Person A.

Regency AU - One of them compromised the other

Old West AU - Mail Order Spouse(Person A) to keep Person B’s house bc Person B is a dirty single person and a mess alone

Old West AU - Person A needs money to pay off their debtors, Person B needs a spouse for decency’s sake. Also, there are horses.

Old West AU - Person A’s parents sent them out west to marry someone. That someone is Person B and Person B is also the only sheriff round these parts.

It’s the law (Marriage law with chosen partners)

Medieval AU - To unite Person A and Person B’s houses

Medieval AU - Person A’s father chose Person B, also it’s the law

Medieval AU - to End a feud

Viking AU - Person A is traded to the Vikings for safe passage and is subsequently married to the jarl’s oldest child, Person B.

Pirate AU - Person A’s crew raided the village and their cut of the booty is a locked chest. With Person B inside.

Fae AU - Person A’s hapless parents promised them to the Fae King (Person B)

Fae AU - The Fae King (Person A) tricks Person B into eating something in Faerie.

“Don’t worry, I would never touch you.”

“We’re all the other has now, we’d do well to play nice”

“You don’t have to love me.”

“It’s just until we produce an heir…”

“I’m not expecting anything from you.”

Send me a ship and a number to my inbox

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some cute aus

“i promised myself that i would get along with my roommate in college but you like star trek and i like star wars and this is never gonna work” au

“i see you jogging around my block every morning so i guess it’s my fault i accidentally left my curtains open when changing while you passed by” au

“you kissed me on the playground the day before you moved away in the 4th grade and now your dorm is right across the hall from mine” au

“a number i don’t know accidentally texted me an address for a party and i decided to go anyways because, what the hell? but it turns out this is your party and i’ve had a crush on you since the 6th grade” au

“we’ve been best friends for practically our whole lives but you’re a thousand times more popular than me so you dragged me to a big party and now we’re playing spin the bottle and you spin and it lands on me oh crap” au

“you’re the new person working at this department store but you’re stupid and made a mess and now the boss is pissed off so i took the blame for you but that’s okay because now we have sex in the storage room during breaks” au

“my friends forced me to ride this roller coaster but i just ate so now i puked all over the floor and you are an amusement park staff who is rushing over to help me but oh god you’re cute and i have chunks of barf on my lips” au

“i’ve had a crush on you since kindergarten and we’re working on a science project together at my house but when i leave the room you dig through my stuff and find a box dedicated to you under my bed and no those aren’t the valentines day cards you gave me in the 2nd grade” au

“we met at a concert and we’re singing all the lyrics together and having a great time but you lock your gaze with me when my favourite romantic line comes on and i think i’m in love” au

“i used to pick on you in middle school and then we went to separate high schools but now you’re at my college and your hot as hell and really popular” au

“i’m obsessed with a super nerdy online game that i constantly get picked on for liking but then i meet a new person on this game and it turns out to be you, the most popular person in the entire school” au

“i never really knew you until this school year when we coincidentally both dyed our hair the same bright colour and now everyone ships us” au

“i use morse code to talk to my friend during class but it turns out you know morse code too and now you know that i think you have a cute butt” au

How thin is the skin between the worlds? What if the sound of you going about your day whispers over the barrier between realities? What if the sound of you sweeping your kitchen floor in the evening whispers on the edge of hearing for the unfortunate souls living in the mirror of your house? What if the sound of your cleaning your windows squeaks and swishes through the night? What if the out of season Christmas song you hum in the morning echoes eerily through their attic and basement? What if you haunt their house by living in yours? How thin is the skin between the worlds?

#horror #kind of #writing prompt #halloween #fic prompts

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Sooooooo question:

I don't have as many references in my resume regarding my proofreading abilities as the companies I apply to want.

Would anyone be interested in having me proofreading something of theirs (essay, article, a fanfic, or original piece), proofread it, and I could ask for in "payment" is your first and last name and an email. If you are not comfortable with that, no worries! If you are, please feel free to message me asking for more info.

Thank you!!

#beta #proofreader