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Hey folks. This community is great, and I'm very glad that people have chosen to use it.

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[WP] A retiring hero tries to negotiate with their rogues' gallery for less crime in the city

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[WP] Your husband often pretends to be a king. You thought it was just a weird quirk of his, until a whole pilgrimage train shows up at your door

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@ writingprompts@lemmy

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@writingprompts@lemmy.world From a folder of mine labeled "Inspiration":

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[WP] After winning a long winded court dispute with the devil over your soul, you opened a business helping others navigate their infernal contracts.

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[WP] Write the worst intentionally terrible story tagline.

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My spirit animal is a roadkill beluga whale.

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[WP]From birth you've had a strange friend that went wherever you went. The constant company is unbearable, but no matter how many times you kill them, they only stay dead a minute longer than before

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Inspired by this video

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In 2025, the military faces a choice: stand with the people or a growing tyrannical government

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Anticipation story : in 2025 in the USA, the military has to decide whether to side with the people or with a growing tyrannical government.

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@ writingprompts A ghost who can enter other people's bodies to incorporate them, trying to take revenge for its own killing

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@writingprompts A ghost who can enter other people's bodies to incorporate them, trying to take revenge for its own killing.

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[WP] You got lost in a swamp, and stumble upon a creepy sword poking out of a rock in a dank pond

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[WP] You're highly regarded as the world's most forefront expert on a subject; one you have no knowledge about.

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[wp] you’re a time traveler delivering a warning to the past, but the recipient of this information struggles to remember the important bit.

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This requires either multiple trips or a quick view theough your gadget into the new future.

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[WP] Your entire life, you've been able to comprehend the fourth dimension

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[WP] Dolphins invent a new mass fishing technique, soon threatening the world’s fish population with total collapse. Humans must somehow convince dolphins not to repeat our mistakes.

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Inspired by bubble-net feeding among humpback whales.

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[WP] You travel all night across the desert, the car redlining the entire way there. As the sun is coming up, you are out of fuel. You finally make it. You move the rock and pick up the envelope.

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[WP] They warned you that the coasts are haunted by sirens. That's never bothered you though, you sing better than them.

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[WP] An office's entire workplace this world is suddenly swapped with a castle's staff and royalty in another world.

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[WP] All seems lost when the hero's party falls in battle against the dark lord. That is, until the bard that's been playing their background music steps up.

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[WP] You're being hunted by packs of vicious monsters, when a clearly fake human approaches and hands you a cloaking device.

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[WP] A perfect AI would pass the AI-vs-human Turing test 50% of the time. A mysterious new AI can pass it every time—real humans suddenly find themselves on the wrong side of the uncanny valley.

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[WP] A person gets stuck in a groundhog day loop. They find out that every time they kill someone, the loop extends by a day, but it resets if they don't.

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[WP] An evil witch defeats the hero of legend with a curse that turns him into a girl. The next day there's a line of people at her door, waiting to be cursed.

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[WP] In the midst of a vampire attack, one person finds out that if you bite the vampires, they turn into humans

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[WP] A girl and her horse practice for the big race, but then the horse dies. The girl seeks out the dark arts of necromancy to raise the horse and win the race

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[WP] Ancient unknowable horrors scream for your attention. You sigh as you pick up the bag of food, regretting the new job

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[WP] An ancient, millennia old evil finally reawakens. Turns out, morals and ethics have changed a lot; its "evil" is fairly tame by modern standards.

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Stolen from here: https://sh.itjust.works/pictrs/image/eca9e5a6-e00e-4967-a6a5-a9cf170f9a96.png

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[WP] You want to fight your demons, the problem is they're incredibly chill

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Souls are confirmed to exist, but can actually be destroyed with nuclear weapons. Death of the soul is now a new type of true death and has changed the face of war and politics.

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[WP] Oil turns out to be the blood of an unknowable horror hidden beneath the earth, and it's waking up

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[WP] Aliens come to Earth. They completely ignore all attempts at diplomacy as they're only looking for a single person in particular.

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[WP] You find your friend staring at the stars in a field. They whisper "They're coming" before taking a step forward and disappearing.

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[EU] Sauron makes a bid for presidency, and despite being the literal Lord of evil all the polls are swinging in his favor

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[WP] The gods of Olympus have chosen you to be their champion and undertake a dangerous quest. You're 42 and absolutely not dealing with this shit.

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[WP] Super heroes are real, but kept extremely secret from the public. You work as one of the personnel covering up their actions and hiding them away

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[WP] On a night walk with your friend, a goblin springs out of their pocket and steals your ear

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[WP] You work in HR for a super hero organization, doing interviews for potential candidates

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[WP] A super hero goes through some tough times in their alter ego life, and has to start charging for their super services.

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Alternatively, start finding some other way to make ends meet using their super powers.

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[WP] Two lords of evil clash over who gets the right to terrorize a domain

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[WP] In the eye of the storm, a monster wakes

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[WP] Humanity is actually some sort of space cockroach.

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In certain circles, a man might think that things had gone awry

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ok this prompt isn't that interesting, but my dad said it in his sleep once and he doesn't talk like that at all when he's awake, so I've always wondered where he was going with that. 😆

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[WP] An enormous hand appears from nowhere and stops the Earth's orbit.

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[WP] After humanity's extinction, robots revere them as their divine creators, unfathomable and holy. That is, until a living human is discovered in a cryopod

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[WP] Human zoo finally opens

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Our city has dealt with a monster problem for centuries.

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They cause havoc, wreck plans, make life just difficult. They frequently disguise themselves as one of us to get to otherwise inaccessible places to cause chaos. And until now nobody has been able to reliably detect them. But you found all monsters when making a PB & J sandwich put the J on top of the PB instead of on two separate slices of bread before eating.

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[WP] You've been tasked with hunting down dangerous people hiding in ordinary houses. You discover a false cupboard, and when you open it you are shocked to discover something much worse.

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WP] You've been tasked with hunting down dangerous people hiding in ordinary houses. You discover a false cupboard, and when you open it you are shocked to discover something much worse.

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[WP] The evil necromancer turns out to be a herd of cats.

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[WP] Frogs are gathered

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[WP] Strange balloon floats across the Denver sky

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[WP] The hero's identity is revealed: a normal teenage high schooler. His arch nemesis, a middle aged adult, now has to navigate the PR disaster of fighting a little kid for years.

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[WP] You're the strongest person alive. You just haven't realized it yet, because everyone tries their damnedest to hide it from you.

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[WP] You wore a red shirt to Target once; they took you to the back and had you comb the creature that lays the Target balls

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[WP] You like farmer's markets, but your local one is pretty strange; there you can find whole tentacles, pickled eyeballs in a jar, homemade books with unknown leather covers, pig feet, and more.

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[WP] Two juveniles, two adults arrested after multiple fights broke out at County Fair

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[WP] The armies of hell have been pushed back. The infernal gates have been closed. All that is left is to face the Lord of demons in his castle, except the hero lost the only sword that can kill him

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[WP] An immortal is the only survivor of the environmental collapse and the death of humanity. Now, they put their mind to growing and nurturing a whole new civilization from nothing.

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[WP] Your conjoined twin brother is getting married tomorrow. You only just found out, and have no idea how he managed to have a 4 year relationship without you knowing

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I'm running out of ideas

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[WP] A diving expedition finds the lost city of Atlantis, only to discover that it fell to climate change.

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[WP] Your job is to discreetly follow the hero's party around and ensure they succeed on their quest. However, the things you've seen them do leave you deeply unsettled

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[WP] "Please excuse our appearance. Big things are coming."

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[WP] You die, but your spirit remains as a ghost. Coincidentally, at the same time you became a ghost, your corpse became a zombie.

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[WP] indie game developer makes convincing demos, gets funding on Kickstarter then takes off without finishing the games. One day a backer finds and forces them to complete their dream game.

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The developer is talented but lacks the confidence to complete their work. Out of desperation they resort to the 'easy way out' and develop demos to scam supporters with no intention of shipping a finished game. Can one supporter whose belief in them/blackmail be enough to change their ways and finish what will undoubtedly be a smash hit?

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[EU] Phoenix Wright from Ace Attorney has to defend a client in the Salem witch trials.

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[WP] You feel like you're going crazy. No one else seems to notice that one of the hero's party members is a literal talking bear.

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[WP] Aliens have landed on earth, and they are huge. Creatures larger than mountains, their massive bodies foster entire ecosystems of their own, full of even more alien species.

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[WP] An alien civilization on the verge of losing a war reaches out to anyone who will listen for aid. You are its ambassador, desperately trying to convince other societies to your aid.

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[WP] One of the eggs you bought from a local farmer hatches into a baby dinosaur

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[WP] You are the last human left alive, not because everyone else is dead, but because someone needs to maintain the servers they all uploaded themselves to

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[WP] While riding their bike back home from school, a kid notices something strange out of the corner of their eye: Amid the trees, a lone staircase had appeared seemingly out of nowhere.

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[WP] A billionaire loses all their money and assets, and must survive living as one of the common folk

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[WP] RCP8.5 scenario → collapse → CO2 decline → world rebuilding

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in 2300 ? ... the worst global warming scenario does not say what happens after global population has collapsed.

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[WP] It's your first day on the job at the IRS, and they gave you the hardest job of all: collecting taxes from the North American cryptids.

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[WP] You wake up one morning and find a clowder of cats in your living room, all of them staring at you.

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Clowder is a group of cats apparently

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