WritingPrompts

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[WP] We were warned, more than 400 years ago he tried to tell us. But we didn’t listen, we mocked him, made his name a synonym for fool. But now we know that windmills actually are giants, and it’s too late to stop them.	16
[WP] A bored god is sitting on his throne as his foolish mortal followers tribute to him more useless treasure for which he has no use. But then someone offers something he’s never been given before, something he wants very much.	15
[EU] On the train he murdered one of the student’s pet rats. At the sorting he was placed into Slytherin the moment the hat touched his head. He’s had more quidditch fouls than every other player combined. Dumbledore is starting to regret reintegrating Harry Potter into the magical world.	15
[WP] The Dark Lord of Ultimate Evil rules his Empire of Dread with a cruel hand. Every hundred years or so he writes a new prophecy about himself saying that a teenaged chosen one will defeat him, as a ruse to trick his enemies so they don’t send any actual threats against him.	13
[WP] “Are you just going to sit there while our town is destroyed?” The frantic citizen says. The town bard looks at her, puts his lute down, cracks his knuckles and throws open the tavern door.	13
[WP] You accidentally teach a group of Vikings the high-five gesture during a time travel tour, forgetting that gesture wasn’t invented until the 1970s. This seemingly mild violation of protocol leads to unintended disastrous consequences.	13
[WP] Between the public execution that looked a little too real, the smell of raw sewage in the streets, and the fact that everyone is always in perfect character, there is definitely something a little off about this renaissance fair.	13
[WP] The aliens who have been watching the human race grow and evolve and change for the better over the past ten thousand years give a eulogy for our species after we destroy ourselves.	12
[WP] Unable to watch his queen die at the hands of a lowly pawn, a knight does what no knight has ever done before: move diagonally.	12
[EU] Anakin Skywalker doesn’t die on board the Death Star, instead he and Luke escape. The rebel alliance wants justice and the empire wants revenge, and things are not easy for the newly reunited father and son.	11

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