WritingPrompts

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[WP] An IRS agent's child demands proof of Santa after his classmates said Santa isn't real. The agent happily slaps Santa's name on some paperwork as proof. This lie gets progressively more elaborate over the years, until eventually Santa shows up and asks the agent for actual help with his taxes.	2998
[WP] Life has evolved on a planet which is on a very elliptical orbit around it's home star. The planet's inhabitants have evolved to spend half the year photosynthesizing and half the year bring carnivorous.	155
[WP] Humans are kept in the dark about the galaxy for a peculiar reason. They are irreplaceable as tune-up mechanics. Despite having no working knowledge of interstellar drives, they have an uncanny ability to, set loose on a ship with the appropriate tools, eventually at least double its power.	81
[WP] Captain Obvious is a real superhero. Whenever someone is about to do something completely moronic, Captain Obvious appears to roast the shit out of them for being stupid.	76
[WP] Queen Victoria II has been dead for years. Her dying wish was that Prince Charles not become king- as such, every time the queen dies, Britain is searched for a new body double. The latest queen just died, and Britain is running very low on old ladies who look like the queen.	57
[WP] Captain Obvious is a real superhero. Whenever someone is about to do something completely moronic, Captain Obvious appears to roast the shit out of them.	37
[CW] Inspired by another thread - in 30 words, create a badass.	26
[WP] Organic life is inherently unsustainable. There is no galactic civilization, only a small community of artificial superintelligences living in the dead ruins of the societies that built them before becoming their own extinction.	23
[CW] In 100 words or less, make me love a character, then hate him/her, then forgive/like them again.	17
[WP] As a baby, Superman crashlands not in Smallville, but in Soviet Russia.	6

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