/u/Goat_To_Space's posts in /r/WritingPrompts
[WP] You're staring at a shop that's blatantly selling cursed items. Obviously using any of them yourself is a horrible idea, but the holidays are coming up soon and a number of your relatives are on your personal shit list...
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[WP] Earth's first contact with aliens was a ship full of irresponsible time-traveling tourists from 1000 years in the future who wanted to see what the Galactic Union's capitol world was like before first contact.
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[WP] In yet another display of extravagance, the nobility have responded to increased discontent among the peasantry by commissioning an enchanted non-lethal guillotine and using it to hold a headless ball.
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[WP] You're a werewolf dentist, which is to say you're a dentist that specializes in werewolves. Few are willing to risk a bite like that on the job, but the genuine gratitude of your patients makes it all worth it.
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[WP] The local girl scouts troop has started teaching the kids practical skills, like identifying poisonous plants in the wild... and also how to get away with adding said plants to someone's meal.
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[WP] As an April Fools Day joke, your law firm posted an advertisement offering to hold messages or packages from precognitives and time travelers for future recipients. The amount of customers suddenly showing up for that exact purpose was utterly shocking.
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[WP] Turns out that Earth IS in fact Space Australia. Not because of the wildlife, but because one of the big spacefaring powers has decided we're a good place to dump their criminals and political dissidents.
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[WP] Witchcraft has recently been declared illegal. However, with how much good their local witch does for the community, the townsfolk aren't about to simply take this lying down. A cunning plan is soon concocted.
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[WP] A supervillain has been taken hostage in their civilian identity. After several hours of silently fuming at these buffoons' incompetence, they snap and start bellowing orders in their "OBEY ME, MY MINIONS!" voice.
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