/u/CaspianX2's posts in /r/WritingPrompts
[EU] Uncle Ben is never killed, and the lesson Peter Parker learns that night is that he can use his powers for personal gain and stick it to those who cross him. Because of this, Spider-Man becomes one of the most feared villains in the Marvel Universe.
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[CW] Write about a topic you know virtually *nothing* about, and try to appear knowledgeable. Don't look it up - just try to BS your way through it.
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[WP] A man eats what he *thinks* is a pot brownie, but is actually just a regular brownie, and proceeds to have the most bizarre day of his life. He thinks he's having a crazy drug trip, and doesn't realize that everything happening around him is real.
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[EU] The Ghostbusters are called to their latest job only to come face to face with Jesus Christ, making his long-awaited return. It's an extremely awkward meeting for everyone.
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[TT] Classic monsters were social statements on more basic human fears: zombies represented disease, werewolves represented dangerous animals, and vampires represented the aristocracy. Create a story of a new monster to represent a more modern fear: terrorism
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[WP] Ever since people gave control of the government to an AI, everything has been a blissful utopia. Every law it passes makes life better somehow, even though the laws it passes keep getting increasingly bizarre.
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[WP] Every shop on the street pays protection money to the mob, except for one. Despite the mob repeatedly making thinly-veiled threats, the shop's owner remains blissfully oblivious, upbeat, and so friendly that the mobsters don't know what to do.
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[WP] Hell is actually a paradise, free from the endless submission and subjugation to an uncaring God those who go to heaven must endure. We only think otherwise because of a very successful smear campaign.
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[EU] Jack Skellington knows why Christmas decorations appear in stores earlier and earlier each year - Christmas Town is waging war on the other holidays
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